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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OBEGONIAN, FEIDAT, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. Entered at the Postofflee at Portland. Oregon ( as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Br Mali tpostage prepaid. In advance! "Duly, with Sunday. per montli...... .. JB Dally. Sunday excepted, per year J Sally. T-Ith Sunday, per year - J JJJ Sunday, per year J t The Weekly, per year 1 The ffeif, s month 60 To City Subscribers . Dilly. ptr week, delivered. Sunday flcrct.tM Sally, per week, delivered. Sunday IndudedOo POSTAGE RATES. United 8tates. Canada and Mexico: 30 to 14 -pate paper... 3 to 2S-pare paper ............ao Foreign rates double. Xews or dtacnatlon Intended for publication In The Oreronlan ehould be addressed Invaria bly "Editor The Oregonlan." not to the nam ef any individual. Itter relating to adver tising, subscription or to any business matter hould be addressed simply "The Oregonlan. The Oreronlan does not buy poems or atorlea from Individual!, and cannot undertake to re turn any manuscripts aent to It without solici tation. No stamps should be Inclosed (or this Purpose. Eastern Business OHee. 43. 44. 4S. 4T. 49 Tribune building. New York City: 510-11-1S Tribune building. Chicago; the B. C. Beckwlth Gpeetal Agency. Eastern representative. For sale In San Francisco by L. E. Lee. Pal ce Hotel news eland; Goldsmith Bros.. 130 Butter street: F. W. Pitta. 1008 Market street; J. K. Cooper Co.. 746 Market street, near the rlace Hotel; Foster & Orear. Ferry news stand: Frank Scott. 60 Ellis street, and Is. Wheatley. 813 Mission street. For sale in Los Angeles by B. F. Gardner. S5 Eouth Sprint: street, and Oliver & Haines. SOS South Eprlnc street. For tala In Kansas City. Mo., by Rlckaecker Clear Co.. Ninth and Walnut streetx. For sale In Chicaco by the P. O. News Co.. S3T Searborn street, and Charles MacDcnald. 3 Washington street. For tale In Omaha by Barkalow Bros.. J612 Farnam street: Megeatb Stationery Co. 130S Farnao street. For sale In Halt Lake by the Salt Lake News Co.. 77 'West Second South street. For tale In Washington. B. C.. by the Ebbett House news stand. For sals In Denver. Colo., by Hamilton A Sendrlck. 008-012 Seventeenth street: Louthan & Jackson Book and Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets: A. Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODArs WEATHER Threatening, with light rain or now; easterly winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum ten rcrature. 40; minimum temperature. M; pre cipitation, none. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1003. TlID nTERAATj TEAKS. Whether we construct the Isthmian Canal at Panama or Nicaragua, It may be a question If we shall be disturbed more by earthquakes or by political revolutions. Colombia during the last two years has been In revolutionary turmoil; and now a. general row has broken out among the states of Central America. These states Guatemala, San Salvador and Honduras are mixing up in each other's Presidential elections. with the consequence of war all round, That, however, is normal condition of Spanish-American States. But since neither at Panama nor at Nicaragua are they likely to have the temerity to trouble us very far, we can go on with our plans regardless of their quarrels If. indeed, we can overcome the oppo sition at home to the wish of the coun try to undertake this great National and International work. Here's the rub. The railway powers of the United States thus .far have pre vented any real progress toward con struction of the Isthmian Canal that this country projected more than a half century ago. After so great lapse they are still "holding it up" as effectively as ever. Modification of the Clayton Bulwer treaty was delayed for long years, as a means of holding It back and when at last this old engagement was out of. the way and we were about to proceed, aa we supposed, with con st ruction at Nicaragua, then the Fan ama scheme was thrust in the way, and the two projects now remain balanced against each other, to the complete pres ent satisfaction of the great railway powers. Either at Panama or at Nicaragua it would be an easy Job to clear the path for a canal over all obstructions thrown in the way by the contending factions revolutionists included. But how are we to overcome the influence of the rail roads of our country against the canal, at one place or the other? "Hlc labor. hoc opus est," as the old classic poet put it. By direction and by indirection this railroad power is ceaselessly at work. It will play Panama against Nicaragua and Nicaragua against Pan. ama as long as It can; and when It can do nothing more with this method of ob. structlon, it will invent and employ an. other. The -upshot of it all is that we don' get ahead an inch with an Isthmian Ca nalthough we have been hammering at it more than fifty years. The great railway systems in this particular, like the great trusts la some others, claim to know what Is best for the country, and are able thus far to Impress Con gress with a sense of their disinterested. ness and superior knowledge of what is best for the country's welfare. The project of a canal at the Isthmus of America seems destined to be the unful illled longing of centuries. Perhaps It may be so long balked and thwarted as to have the fate after some further ages to be utterly forgotten. But we suppose we ought to keep on. In the nope that "the eternal years" will yet bring it round. Perhaps earthquakes and political revolutions will have ceased long before we get at it, and sav us a lot of trouble. THE LAMENTATIONS OP HILL. Incidentally Mr. J. J. Hill reflects that his sort of trusts are all right, but oth ers are bad. The evils of railroad- com binations and of secret rebates have never occurred to him; but he feels the necessity of publicity for Standard Oil, and is oppressed with the overcapital ization of the industrials. This is the familiar story of trust magnates. Each one is painfully moved at the sight of the others' enormities. But Mr. Hill's main contention is in antagonism to organized labor. Our workmen ore paid too much, he says. They work too short hours, and they are incompetent anyway. This is .the rea son for our inferior position among manufacturing nations. The only way to rise is to cut down wages to the Con tinental level. So keen a mind as Mr. Hill's should by this time have discovered theallacy of a view which was widespread ten years ago, but which has been uni formly discredited not only by experi ence, but by American observers, and Investigating committees from abroad. The fallacy lies in the assumption that cheap labor Is economical labor; that the longer a man works and the less'he rets and the nearer In general he ap proaches a state of slavery the more effective he is as an Industrial quantity Cheap labor. Mr.) Hill. Is not the sine qua non of Industrial eminence. If It were. Englishmen ana Germans would send their Inquiring experts to China or India, Instead of to the United States, as they now doc Labor Is not the su preme factor, as once It was, la manu factures. We have to reckon with cap ital's enterprise or timidity, with Inter est rates, with supply and coet of raw material, with transportation charges. -and with labor-saving machinery. And as for labor Itself, the highly ekllled aod well-paid American operative, with Improved machinery, tuna out goods cheaper than the Continental laborer can with longer hours, less pay and out dated methods. Nor is it possible to accept without question Mr. Hill's invidious comparison of our organized labor with Europe s. So far as Great Britain Is concerned the greater antipathy of British unions to Individual initiative, enterprise and excellence Is universally recognized; and unless the situation has been grossly misrepresented by recent investigators. rthe holiday habit and the devotion to atronir drink both in Enfflaod and on ihe Continent, with employes and employed alike, fear a far more serious menace to productiveness than the more strenuous and abstemious habit or American producers. Passing strange Is Mr. Hill s observa tion that the tariff Is all that enables us to maintain high wages. What sort of a Democrat, and what sort of a free trader. Is he that speaketh on this wise? Certainly so far as the American me chanic Is concerned, the word will fall on heedless ears; for it Is pretty well apprehended at length that the manu facturer makes no allowance whatever to his workmen by reason of his tariff protection. What has raised his pay and what keeps it from going down is sufficiently Indicated by Mr. Hill's own phrase "the wages the unions compel. ItEAL TEST OP TRUST LAWS. It Is useless to pass laws, unless they are enforced; and the demand for strin gent anti-trust legislation must not ob scure the fact that tangible results can only come from fidelity on the part of the President and especially In the new Department of Commerce and the De partment of Justice. We have always had more law than we have had action under It, and unless activity Is greater hereafter than It has been in the past, the trust legislation of the present ses sion of Congress, Inadequate though it may eeem, will still be In advance of our necessities. Herein lies the danger of present dis satisfaction with Congressional lrre- sponslveness to public sentiment, espe cially with Irresponsiveness of the Sen ate: that on the one hand we shall lay too much stress upon the mere matter of statutory enactment and on the other hand we shall underestimate the ulti mate accountability of the Administra tion for results under the laws as they are. The trusts are naturally in oppo sltlon now to the enactment of reme dial legislation. But once Congress has adjourned they will begin to foster the idea that the new laws after all amount to nothing and will be futile in opera, tlon. Censure of the Republican Con. gress for surrender to the trusts will be the programme of trust defenders. They will take this course In the hope of mak ing difficult the execution of the laws. This ground can be cut from under their feet by energetic action at Wash ington and In the Federal Courts throughout the country. T'Vi a. eif ta that frift IfiTC Vina nltrflVH been In advance of our practice. The Sherman anti-trust law of 1S90 forbids combinations in, restraint of trade. In form of trust or otherwise, and empow ers unitea states circuit courts to pre vent and restrain such operations. Prop. erty may be forfeited, trust officials fined and imprisoned, and damages collected by any person injured. Under this act convictions have been had, and others could undoubtedly have been had If prosecutions had bA vigorously made. Funds have been appropriated by the present Congress for facilitating procedure under this act. It is time to cease the clamor for 11m- ltless drastic penalties for trust opera tions beyond what public opinion will Justify the Administration in enforcing. or at any rate to ceaseputtingthe entire anti-trust cause in the position of stand ing or falling by mere act of Congress. A very elementary knowledge of Jurlspru dence should be sufficient to show that a great body of commercial usage and legal tradition Is not to be radically rev olutionized in a day, and that the surest and safest progress Is that which Is made step by step as experience ap- " J I proves the past and points the way. Much as we may condemn the truck ling of Senators to corporation influ ence, much as we may deplore the Sena torial Irresponsiveness to public opinion. it Is nevertheless reasonably certain that the legislation of the present ees-' slon will be abreast of anything that can be wrung from the courts and supported In the average opinion as Just and wise. Popular Indignation always runs to the extreme of rage and fury, and nothing about it is more certain than a reaction. The least financial difficulty our trade and manufactures get Into this year and next will be ascribed to anti-trust agi tation, and that mercurial voice that now raised against the legislators that obeyed it. But the main point is that the real responsibility will lie not so much with Congress as with the Administration. All the progress reasonable to expect in curbing monopoly con be had by the Attorney-General and the new Secre tary of Commerce, If they will move ahead abreast of the Increased powers given them by this Congress. Let us not be beguiled into the notion that the country will be satisfied with a brave show of drastic law made only to be come a dead letter on the statute books. The real test of trust laws will come In their execution. LAST OF A BRILLIANT BAND The death of Sir Charles Gavin Duffy in his S7th year removes from this world the last eminent leader of the famous Young Ireland party" of 1S47-4S. This party of gifted young Irishmen had grown Impatient of O Connell's leader ship and his policy of constitutional agt. tat Ion, and did not subscribe to O'Con- nell'a view, "No political change Is worth a drop of human blood." O'Con nell was old and broken In health, and so the "Young Ireland party" had their will for a brief time. Their ranks in cluded John "Mltchel. Thomas Francis Meagher, Richard O'Gorman, Smith O'Brien, Thomas D'Arcy-'McGee, Thomas Davis, the fine writer of stirring Irish lyrics, and Charles Gavin Duffy, the editor of the Dublin Nation. Mltchel and Duffy were men- of great literary power, and their appeals to the people through the Nation created an immense sensation, supplemented as they were by the eloquent verses of Davis. But the movement had but a short life. Mltchel and Meagher, convicted of trea son felony, were sent to the penal set tlement of Van DIeman's Land. Charles Gavin Duffy emigrated to Australia, but In a few years rose rapidly to the highest distinction; he was knighted by the crown for his very great services to the colony, and he stands at the head of the statesmen of Australia. Richard O'Gorman, the youngest and 1 one of the most eloquent orators of the "Young Ireland party." took refuge In America, where he rose to high distinc tion as a very eloquent orator and able Jurist. He rose to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and at the time of his death he, was regarded as the most accomplished advocate In the bar of New York City. Thomas Davis, the lyric poet of the Nation, died early. buthls best verses still hold a high place jn ail collections of Irish verse. In their gifts and their weakness the "Young Ireland party" were identical In quality with the Girondists; eloquence was a drug, but saving common sense was scarce. GOVERNOR. arnRIDE'S WATERLOO. The closing fight of the two years' war which Governor McBride and his allies have waged against the railroads was perhaps as unedlfying as anything that has happened during that remarkable contest. It Is not an Inspiring spectacle to see men standing high In the ranks of the Republican party on the floor of the State Senate charge the Chief Ex- ecuUve of the state with betrayal of the party, double dealing, and even bribery. The picture is not improved when the friends of the Governor stand up and assert In unqualified language that the men who refuse to vote and think as the Governor does should be "not only im peached, but sent to the Penitentiary." Small wonder Is it that a Democratic member of the Senate felt called upon to remark that this session of the "Washington Legislature had witnessed but little else than a "washing of Re publican dirty linen." When Governor McBride. in his cele. brated anti-railroad manifesto last May, endeavored to read out of the Repub lican party of the state every man who failed to fall In with his views on the railroad commission, he essayed a feat that was impossible. The lines estab lished by him were so sharply drawn that hundreds and thousands of the best Republicans of the state were, by force of circumstances, driven into open an tagonism of the Governor and the great political machine which he was seeking to build up. A more prudent and more thoughtful man would have 'hesitated about Jeopardizing the Interests of his party in time of peace by attempting to force such an unpopular measure on the people, but the Governor, to use the ex pression of a member of his own party on the floor of the House on Wednes day, seemed like "a man gone crazy in his, thirst for power." Abandoning his post of duty at the head of the state government, he went from one end of the state- to the other, stirring up dis sension In the party which years of peace will not entirely eradicate. By the promise of a fish hatchery here, a Judgeship there, a postofllce somewhere else (with the aid of Cushman, that dear friend of the Columbia River), rail road commission delegations were sent to the state convention, and by the nar rowest kind of a margin the commission plank was forced Into the platform. Then, drawing a cloak of morality of his own manufacture around his shoul- ders, the Governor again went forth and throughout the campaign denounced in unmeasured terms every Republican who-dared to oppose him. It was this kind of work that brought on the storm which broke on the Gov ernor's head in both houses of the Leg Islature at Olympia Wednesday. That "terrible railroad lobby" was charged with bribery, and the men not neces sarily friends of the railroad Jobby but driven into a kind of partnership with It by the Governor himself were made to bear what measure or oaium tne Governor could heap on them. They "were Republicans, but not McBride Re publicans, ana wnai, men, was more nat ural than that they should strike bacit7 They admitted In no uncertain language that they preferred to stay In the camp of the men who spent their own money to accomplish certain ends In preference to going into the camp of those who were buying votes with political posi tions for which the state and National Government paid salaries. In other words, the railroad crowd were cam- naitmlne on their own money and the opposition on that of the state and Na- .. tlon. "We are sowing the wind, said Sena tor Warburton, the Governor's chief lieutenant. In his speech Wednesday. "and we will reap the whirlwind." Un questionably Senator Warburton was right, but he failed properly to dlstrlb- ute the blame for this sowing, and when all of the inside history of the last polit ical campaign of the State of Washing ton becomes known It will be found that while the anti-commission men were sowing with an old hand seeder Jhe commission men were using a broad- gauge steam drill, and the whirlwind will be reaped accordingly. The Re publican party of the State of Wash- record for the past year. A SIAN OP SORROWS. Yesterday the anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, was cele brated In all the great cities of the land The orators selected for this occasion ara generally persons of distinguished unfitness, who. through historical ignor ance or lack of intellectual perception, either Idealize Lincoln or give us a wooden shape for a flesh-and-blood fig ure. This kind of perfunctory orator and historian imposed a wooden Wash lngton upon the American, people for many years, until Theodore Parker In his "Historic Americans" eviscerated the Washington myth. The wooden Lincoln will ultimately disappear from popular favor, but that day is not with I us jet- The popular picture of Lincoln as painted by the clumsy brush of polit ical orators is that of a man who was an Irrepressible Jester in season and out of season, and whose excessive benevo lence of temper and tenderness of heart would have wrecked the Union cause If tho executive force of his Government had not been administered by the stern minded Stanton. This Is but the 'most superficial view T WM fV, .mall rvrulnii hf rnilld . rT. ."7 . - ,D.!P.."i..:" " . 7 clpatlon to Sumner In manuscript, that vain man found a sentence which he thf.h ? hul r , , rewrlte it, but Lincoln promptly drew his pen through the whole sentence, but this same Lincoln that tolerated Sum ner's arrogance did not hesitate In an Important public matter to entirely re write Seward's Mason and SUdell note. His correspondence with McClellan, Hooker 'and Meade Is at times exceed ingly stern- and masterful. Ho had a vein of rare humor In him, but this was superficial; he was naturally a very grave man, using his humor to mask his melancholy. His whole appearance toward the close of his life was that of a man of many sorrows. He had been oppressed by responsibility; he had en- countered terrible military defeats: he knew that he was not popular; he knew that he owed his renomlnatlon In 1864 to the conviction that It was a perilous policy "to swap horses crossing a stream." The people on thl9 Coast were so re mote from the battle heart of the Civil War that they probably had a more dispassionate and therefore a higher and Juster estimate of Lincoln's great ness than was felt at the East. Able Republicans at the East did not con ceal their distrust of Lincoln, as a afe rather than a masterful, sagacious man. Sumner, Chase, Greeley, Wade, Winter Davis, could not comprehend the great ness of Lincoln, and did not favor his renomlnatlon. Of course, restlerf mar plots like Fremont and Schurz were his factional foes. The only really strong men of the country who seemed to un- derstand Lincoln at his true worth were Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts Governor Morton, of Indiana; John Sherman and Roscoc Conkllng. .Lincoln was a proud man. a sensitive man, and he deeply felt this manifest distrust of his ability by the leading men of his party. The night of our terrible repulse of Cold Harbor, In June. 1S61. was the blackest hour In Lincoln's life. If thnt repulse had not been bravely endured and its consequences cured, the cause of the Union was lost, and up to the surrender of Atlanta, September 1. there wa3 no. hope, of Lincoln's re-election, but Atlanta was followed by Sheridan s vie. tones In "the valley and the people saw that victory was sure nnd they stood by Lincoln, Lincoln was a humane man, but his Justice in public matters was never sac riflced to his humanity. He hanged the slavetrader Gordon, he hanged all the Confederate officers captured In dUgulse within our lines; he hanged all the fire bugs who tried to burn the hotels of New York City; he was a most mercl lesa man to the guilty whom he deemed fully responsible for their guilt. He pardoned some, deserters who were thoughtless, Inexperienced country boys. but he never pardoned any deserters who were also bounty-Jumpers. His re. peated offer of peace to the South was not so much the act of a humane man as It was the decision of a sound political economist. He was never a very happy man, and he was certainly the man of many sorrows during the Civil War up to the final collapse of the Confederacy Wit he had, and humor In abundance. but his great nature was really bot tomed on austere gravity of temper. Above all men of his time, owing to the Intellectual depth and moral, earnestness of his nature, he was most emphatic ally "the man of many sorrows." He had a brief moment of patriotic Joy and exultation Just befdre the assassin robbed him of his beautiful life, but- with this exception his days had been full of clouds and darkness and trouble. The statement frequently made of a great deficiency In naval officers Is re peated in connection with the naval ap propriation bill that was submitted to the National House of Representatives a few days ago. The committee says that with the present deficiency of 677 officers, together with the number of of ficers that will be required for the ships in process of construction, the defi ciency at the end of the fiscal year will be 1360, unless additional midshipmen are authorized. This Is a matter that calls for prompt action. Naval officers cannot be picked up hurriedly to meet the call of a sudden emergency. They, to this extent, resemble the Navy Itself they must be created by processes In wmcn ume xs an inuispeiuK&uie mtm. To meet these conditions, or In the hope of meeting them, the naval appropria tion bill carries provisions for the selec tion of two midshipmen by each Sena tor, Representative and Delegate, thus doubling the number, while the limit for the cost of building the Naval Acad- emy is raised from $S,000.000 to J10.000 000. The necessity of such provision Is apparent if our splendid Navy Is to be made effective on short notice. The United States Senate stands aa a solid wall against the onset of popular opinion against the constitutional pro- I ..i-nn -..rcht' It Is rvtori nnd ronvnred vlson whereby It is created and renewed. This Is not to say that opposition to an amendment to the Federal Constitution providing for the election of Senators by popular vote Is universal among United States Senators, but opponents of the measure are numerous enough to defeat It by tactics well known to political schemcrn whose first thought is to serve their own Interests. Eventually, no doubt, the voice of the people will be heard upon this proposition, other wise another of the cherished idols of 'noDular government" will be shat tered. RiTmiv's trreat domestic scandal has t-i i i u..Ysin, rin c-ess-' d7e rndysVught retreat In a sanitarium; her French lover has been sent away, and the royal house has patched up Its reputation as best It could by declaring the woman to be demented. The details of the af fair have been sensational to the last degree, and disgusting withal. Decency may well rejoice that it is now a "closed incident." Portland's postal receipts for January showed an increase of 14.9 per cent over those of January, 1002. The postofllce is the business barometer of a commer cial city or center. These figures tell their own story. Senator Marsters Is the humane mem ber of the Legislature. The latest proof of this Is found In his bill to punish persons who set steel traps where they may catch dogs or cats after night. Legal executions in this state will hereafter take place only at the Peni tentiary- This is as It should be. Where Shall the Line Do Drntnit Boston Herald. in Plnl m?Qe Ia.ur "1 .VT"' .osltlon to double the salary oi tne aresi- J- great evil that should not " w 15 umL "iu "."r" 1 I make this rise appropriate. We are moved to inquire in this connection if those who " how much the position they take Im- pefc If thu lncrease la the price of living bears hard upon the President, why not also on tho people? If the state of tho caso calls for so much additional mnai MrtnlnH- It must mean the propriety of substantial addition to i,hnnn- w,i.M TWnr thn leirll.itnni at Washington engage In such projects as this one it may be well for them to reflect upon what they may logically lead to if reasonably carried out. . BOWEN'S SHARP REPLY. Boston Herald. It Is a very interesting: gimo of diplo macy now In progress at Washington. It would be interesting if we had no peculiar National concern with it. But we have such a concern. If for no other reason, because wo are bound to look out that the Monroe Doctrine suffers no wrong. But It la a spectacle for all the worm to observe how the one representative of a weak and assailed nation maintains him self In the negotiation with the selected representatives of three great k.uropean powers in immediate communication with the astute statesmen of their home gov ernments. It would seem to be an un equal contest: but we are bound toeay that up to this writing iir. uowen up neirs to havo scored decidedly the best of it. His prompt and caustic reply to tho proposition that the allies snouia nave preferential terms was like a thunderbolt. Ho told Mr. Herbert as soon as no nn Ished reading tho Joint proposition that it wan trick, to continue the alliance against Venezuela for years, and was In admissible. This Illuminating flash upon the designs of tho allies appears to hive made the representative of Great Britain popping mao, PP" ' It appears also to nave w, . ,,,,,, r.,iv, eoollne an- plication from his home government. whllo tho German and ItalUn diplomats protest that they havo not taken offense. There Is no doubt, however, that Mr. Bo wen curt sentences of characteriza tion produced temporary confusion In the allied camp. It wis an unmasking, a bit rude, perhaps, but effective. As qulcklv as possible) the homo government shifted the form of their proposition to a request for separate, not for preferential, pay ments. Mr. Bowcn, although a young man. with a comniratlvcly brief and hum ble training in diplomacy, seems to be ablo to play tho game with Intelligence and nerve, even single-handed, against the team work of tho European Cabinets. II LOW TO XEWS I'lUATES. Illinois Court KatnlillnlieH, ll Notable Precedent. From The Oreronlan'a news columns, October 2S), 11)02. CHICAGO. Oct. IS. An Important prln clplc of law was established today when Judges Baker. Grosscup and Bunn, of tho United States Court of Appeals, handed down an opinion to the effect that the Western Union Telegraph Company has a right of property In the news which It gathers, and that such right does not cease when the news is published on the tickers rented to its patrons. In laying down this principle, the Court of Appeals affirms two "decisions of the lower court. and forever enjoins the National Tele graph News Company, the Illinois News Company and other defendants, from us ing the quotations In question. The court savsr The business of appellee Is that of a carrier of Information. The gist of Us service to the patron Is that by such car riage the patron acquires knowledge, of the matter communicated earlier than those not thus served. The ticker, with Its printed tape. Is an Implement of means only .to this commercial end which the patron or the patron's patron may utilize to the end Intended, but may not appro priate to some end not Intended and apply if such application result In Injury to or total destruction of the service. In short. the law being clearly Inadequate to that purpose equity should see to it that the one who is served and the one who serves each gets what the engagement between them calls for, and -that neither to the Injury of the other shall appropriate more. The immediate business of appellee brought to our attention cannot arouse any great solicitude. It relates to the. gathering and distributing of news not looked upon perhaps In all quarters as essential to the public welfare. But the questions raised are of much wider sig nificance. They Involve, among others. that modern enterprise one of Hhe dis tinctive achievements of our day which. combining the genius and the accumula tions of men with the forces of electric ity, scours the earth's surface each day for what the day has brought forth; that whatever befalls the zone of man shall come, almost Instantaneously, Into the consciousness of mankind. By such agen cies as these the world Is made to face Itself unceasingly In the glass, and Is put to those tests that bring increasing help fulness and beauty Into the heart of our race. "Is service like this to be outlawed? Is the enterprise of the great news agencies or the great telegraph and cable lines to be denied appeal to the courts, agalnsf the Inroads of the parasite, for no other .,nn thnn that the law fashioned hlth crt0 to flt tne reiattona 0f authors and I . . .. ..... . the public cannot be made to flt the rela Hons of the public and this dissimilar class of servants? Are we to fait our plain duty for mere lack of precedent? We choose rather to make precedent one from which is eliminated as Immaterial th(j taw Erown up around amhority.and we see no better way to start this prece dent upon a career than by affirming tho order appealed from." Tale of Tito Cities). Philadelphia Record. ThiHne the last contest for Mayor In New York the Republican organs In Phll nriVlnhta were lavish In their appliuse of the conservative Democrats ana inucpca-i- i trie Tammany ffi-'S jntenUonSt could escape the Influences of tnn organization electing him. But tho organs can see no Inconsistency between this position and their present support, ni the candidate of the Philadelphia ma chine for Mayor. Such phenomena, how ever, are quite common. In tho present case the plea is tnat mo I'miaaeipnii ma chine Is not quite so bad as Tammany. On this point there may be some room for a difference of opinion, although the overwhelming welKht of evidence Is against the machine. It has bten seen that there Is a civic spirit in iscw lorn which makes it extremely dangerous to apply methods which are practiced upon the Republicans oi rnuaaeipnia wun n lire Impunity. The Senate- Learning a Lesson. Boston Transcript. For almost two months the crowded calleries of the Senate have had .eyes for no Senator but Quay. At peculiar Junctures the temper of the Senate has been at the boiling point, whllo Quay re mained "calm, cool and collected." Great appropriation bills have been taken, up for passage only by Quay's consent. The Sen ate has been taught a leison not only of one Senator's power, but of Its own jpow erlessncss under Its rules to hold oft a hold-up. Unlimited freedom of debate Is a great thing, but the power of one Senator to hold In his hand tho possibll- ,. B,,slon na the iive3 of go long uncorrected Friendly, but Competitors MemDhls Commercial-Appeal, Germany and the United States will never be aught but rivals, no matter how much may bo penned or uttered on the doctrine of the tie that binds or tho other of brotherly love. They have al I ways been competitors, friendly ones. It Is truo, but yet competitors Just the same. I Their Interests He too much along the I samo line ano uieir variuun iiet:u i too. much alike for any stronger tie than that of friendly aspirants to exist I DOtween mem. PRINCELY GIVERS OF LAST YEAR Chicago Inter Ocean. Twentv-three Dersons In the United States contributed by will or gift. In 1KC $S7.396.00O to educational, charitable and ellirlous Institutions. Among tne larger gifts were J1.OOO.O0O to Harvard College, by John D. Rockefeller; n.SOO.OCO to chir- Ity. by John McKee. or rniwaeipma; 11,000,000 to Webb Academy, by W. H. Webb; Jl.000,000 to the Southern educa tional movement, by John D. Rockefeller; Jl.000.000 to charity, by John M. Burke, of New York City: J15.000.000 to charity, by W. S. Stratton, of Colorado Springs; Jl.000,000 to Tulane University, by A. C. Hutchinson, of New Orleans: J1,2W,000 to the University of Chicago, by John D. Rockefeller: J20.470.000 to libraries and col leges, by Andrew Carnegie. Tho gifts of other persons in 190! amounted to JIO.001,067, making a total of J77.337.0fi7 for the year. This does not In clude the J20,000,000 of the Methodist Jubi lee fund, nor any gifts or bequests or less than J10.000. The total Is smaller by J1S.OCO.000 than tho amount given In 1301. but larger by J15.000.0CO thin the gifts of 1900. In 1501 Mr. Carnegie alone gave J12.KS.- 732 to libraries, whereas he gave only K.53S.500 In lSOi In all Mr. Carnegie nas given J13.630.tC0 for the erection of 3 libraries. Of the J77.337.067 given In 130i educa tional institutions received J2S.1j0.S03, chirttlcs JJ6.513.EH. churches J1.S63.7C0, mu seums and art galleries J2.6SS.ci.", ana libraries J4.97O.S00. Two-score nlaln American citizens. eomlnir. most of them, from the ordinary walks or life, gave more lor tne renei ana advancement of men thin all the princely givers of Europe. The FadKCtt BUI. Indianapolis Journal. Whit Is the meaning of the presentation of tho Padgett bill as a substitute for the Fowler bill! Mr; Padgett, the autnor or snonsor. Is a Tennessee uemocrai. wno has not been In Congress long enousn to make a Bryan record. He is a member of the House committee on banking ina cur rency. His bill is said to. have received the sanction of the other Democratic mem bers of tho committee. Its recognition or the National banking syMcm Is as com plete as thit In tho Fowler bill. Only National banks can avail themselves of the advantage of the bill. It Js. therefore, a recognition of the "money power" out side of the Govrnment. If all the Demo crats In the House vote for the Padgett substitute they will practically declare against the Bryan currency system. It is rumored that such Is the purpose of the bill .and that the supporting of It by the Democrats In the House will mean that the Democritlc party, so far as It Is rep resented in the Houw, has left the camp of Bryanlsm and marched over to the support of Wall street. It Is this rumor which lends unusual Interest to the debate and vote on the Fowler bill and the Dem ocratic substitute.- A 11111 to Be rnancd. Philadelphia Inquirer. It Is to be hoped that the Elklns bill to Increase the efficiency of tho interstate commerce law which has Just passed the Senate unonposed may meet with a siml larly favorable consideration In the House. This Is a bill which embodies some sen slblc and valuable recommendations upon the subject to which It relates, lately made bv Attorney-General Knox. It does not undertake to deal" with the whole large and difficult question of how to reg ulate combinations of capital so as to ttrotrct the Individual trader from op pressive discrimination and thaconsumlng public from extortion. It Is addressed to a single phase of the commercial sltua tlon. but that phase Is an Important one, and In the Judgment of those best fitted to form an Intelligent opinion upon the point its regulation would go lar toward affordlm? the reller for wmcn tne com munlty is asking and which Congress Is seeking to afford. Enrope and America. Washington Star. Neither Great Britain, Germany, nor France should lack for clear and definite Information now on matters of Interest on thls side of the water, or as to American sentiment relating thereto. Sir Michael Herbert and Count Speck von Sternburg. while now in office with us. are not strangers in this country, but know It well and also know their business. Mr. Juo serand, who has Just arrived. Is a strang er, but he speaks the language fluently", and has long been a student of our In stitutions and literature and expresses re spect for both. He Is, of course, very welcome. The old order then has given place to new. The Spinlsh War Is behind us, and the bickerings to which It gave rise may safely be burled. The Issues of today are important enough to occupy attentlon. Peace prevails, and .there is no reason why It should not continue. The Ortcjlnol Interviewer. New York Press. It has been said that the father of the newsDarr interview was Henri Georges stfinhano AdolDhe Oppert de Blowltz not to deprive the dead Journalist of any of his nomenclatory ngnts. inia is naruiy true. Mv lmtiresslon Is that his first In terview was with M. Thiers In the early 7f whereas the Brltlsn press naa Deen denouncing American newspapers as early oa 1S6S for their "Brazen enrontery" in in terviewing. Oliver Wendell Holmes pro nounced the Interviewer a product of overclvlllzatlon. Next Xew From Germany. - San Francisco Call. Several German statesmen of promi nence have expressed the opinion that they have a constitutional right to criti cise the Emperor whenever he displays political activity. The almost Inevitable corollary to this proposition Is that we will soon hear that several prominent German statesmen are being prosecuted for talking too much. Do line Awnr With Coroner. New York World. Senator Elsberg's bill abolishing coro ners and providing for medical examiners In their stead seems a sensible effort to bring an Important branch of our legal machinery In line- with modern conditions. TtR iirlnclnle will bo approved ty tne ma jority of lay voters as well as by medico legal specialists. Jnat the Same OM Story. Savannah, Ga., News. Mr. Uncle, head of the Indiana coal operators, says that any Increase In tho pay or coal miners must, corae ouu ul wu consumers, on, or course. isoDony ex pected anything else. Tho consumers al ways "pay the freight." no matter what the controversy Is about. Tbe Gourmet. Baltimore Herald. When Mllly looks In cooklns books I always look tor trouble. And timid scan the frying-pan. Watch chaflnc-dlsh's babble. It seems that she will blnrae on m A. slight If I'm not looking: Yet If I watch, she makes a botch When Mlliya cooking, cooking. I often think 'twould drlTe to drink A man who thus waa mated. Tls best I learn, to kill or burn Than after, to have waited. And so. If Mllly does not kill Me, ruin my digestion. Tbe time she knows, why. I suppose. I'll "pop" the cooking question. He Didn't Know. Houston (Tex.) Post Then pity Kaiser Wllhelm. for how was he to know That an alliance with Britain 'gainst the Doc trine of Monroe Would arouse In Rudyard Kipling such a wild vindictive vim. That he'd sharpen up his pencil and would Jab the thing at him. Now. If the Kaiser foxy he will arbitrate the thing. Before sweet Alfred Austin hops upon his perch to slag. NOTE AKD COMMENT Every crimp has, his sailor. School's not half bad fun, anyway. boys. Mr. Baer Is certainly not trying to bull the labor market. Professor D. Cupid's course Is the most popular at Eugene. Say, little messenger boy, what ara ou going to do now? What tricks the street laddies will show their teachers! We wonder whether Mrs. Sparks will dare give a freshman yelL We know two people who believe co education Is not a failure. They do say the teachers lobbied against the child labor law. A Kansas City wife has sued her hus bandworth tlOO.000 for divorce because he wouldn't buy her postage stamps. May be he thought she'd write and send for mamma. What a strange concldence that tho Mayor and Councllmen of Baker City should arrive in Portland to study munici pal conditions on the day of a prize fight! No child under 14 years of age shall be era- ployed In any factory, store, workshop or mine, or In the telegraph, telephone or public messen ger service. ... No child under IS years of age shall be employed before 6 A. M.. or after I M. Extract from child labor law passed by the Legislature. And with ono fell swoop the Legislature has solved that momentous problem. What shall we do with our college grad uates 7 Much opposition ha3 developed among the students of the University of Wiscon sin against having. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, speak before them. Till man was engaged by the Student Oratori cal Association as a lecturer. Under tho caption: "Do We AVant Tillman?" the Cardinal the university dally, says: "We have no quarrel with Mr. Tillman, and If he came he should havo a respectful hear ing, but the propriety of having the fiery Southerner promulgate under university ausplceo his well-known Ideas of Southern problems la doubtful.' The statue of Liberty, which "enlightens tho world" from a small Island In the up per New York Bay. Is not so popular as she was In the days of her youth. A doien years ago SS.000 visitors made use of the small steam ferry-boat that plies between the Battery and her resting place, while the past year saw but 40.000. The men In charge of the statue and the boat a pri vate corporation have become weary of their task and have requested the War Department to take it over. Secretary Root has taken the matter Into considera tion. The Government will doubtlcra take care hereafter of the lady from France, while' the excursion lines will be run by seme private concern. John L. Wilson, defeated candidate for United States Senator, was In Spokane a few days ago, and tho Chronicle published an Interview with him. In which tho fol lowing surj5ris!ng statement occurred: "In my estimation." said ex-Senator Wilson, "a better man than Levi Ankeny could not have been chosen to represent the citizens of Washington In the Senate. He la a man of unblemished reputation, a cltiren of undisputed loyalty, a politician of great merit., and astates- i i. ,K,n,.hlif nniihla nf directing th lUdH MUU un..J 1 - , train at tils treat state. We will learn that .(I no mistake has been made In electing him as ( our fjenatrlal representative, and the Repob- ii-. n niriT raneelallv will be nroua 10 nav i such a man In Its ranks." ) It la almost needless to say tnai air. Wilson lost no time in denying the Inter view. Robert W. Chambers, the well-known author, tells a good Joke on a certain em inent ornithologist with whom he spent some time In Florida. Mr. Chambers has a pretty good knowledge 'of birds himself. but he had no pretense to equaling nis scientific friend, -except In native powers of observation. There was a friendly rivalry between the two as to which saw ; the most bird specimens. One day Mr. Chambers announced having seen a crest ed grebe. The eminent ornithologist was Immediately filled with envy. They took dally tramps by separate routes, and. though they walked over each others tracks day after day. Mr. Chambers re Dorted the crested grebe, while the or nltholorfst confessed his failure. It flnaK ly transpired that Mr. Chambers had seen the bird under the very piazza where tney took their dally smoke, and which was sit uated near the water's edge. Every day th crebo had come from the water to the (I nlazza. and Mr. Chambers, chuckling over I his find, had allowed his scientific friend II to follow a- wlll-o'-the-wisp over miles or Florldlan land and water. Dtatnrhance on Mount Ilood. 11 Salmon P. O.. Feb. 10.-(To the Editor.) As I wuz walking UP the Barlow Road today In serch of a Vmt Lamb I see a strange Dlsturb ence on Mt. Hood. I see three streaks of moke a-comln' down the Mountains side ex fast as greased Llghtun. Sez I to myself. Wofa that? I looks again and sees thrre furrers cut In the Mountain. Can you explain this Fhu nuirenun? Wuz It a Landslide or wuz these i.. Mountain caused by a Volcanoe? If you wuz me. would you move? Turs In hast, 1 v V n c t m tie. disturbance was not caused by a volcano. The three streaks II were Messrs. Hawkins. White and Gor-jl man on their skis. Yes. II we saw tnose three streaks coming our way we would ,1 surely move. If you find a tree nanay next time, climb It- A Sailor' Lament. O'ow we love the boundln" sea. 1 . . .. . . . i An off we ate me uwiuui auu. n. Mn we live a life so free. But In town the crimps don't do a thing but land blows to neat me Dana. lLKASANntIES OF PAUAGOArHEnS White Horse I hate to eat dry hayi Brown '! . . ..I Thlnlr nf Ti nnm ma-Ia that- I have to eat health food. Chicago Dally News. II Mr. Bacon When all the fools are dead. I don't want to be alive. Mrs. Bacon Well, don't worry: you won't be. Yonkers Statesman. "Swtngly. the actor." la a great believer In higher criticism." "I didn't know that." "He Is though. He says he'd rather get a glad hand from the peanut gallery than a box any old time." Baltimore News. Daughter He says ray eyes are like limpid pools, pa. Father Who does? Daughter I That' young man who was In the front room I with me last evening, pa. Father Well, you, I tell him If he stays so late again 1 11 raid tho ! poolroom. J udge. "Do you think that Shakespeare wrote hill own clays?" " Of course. I aa," answered tni I man -who Is always positive, however 111-In-1 formed he may be. "If Shakespeare didn't I write his own plays, whose plays did he write? Washington Star. "Let me see, wasn't It Longfellow who wrote I about that old mill at Newport?" said the! long-haired man. "Say, you're mixed, old I man." replied the gent In the loud suit. "Long fellow was the horse that won the handicap I once. Anyway. I never Hears of & mill beln" pulled on at Newport. Philadelphia Press. "My dear sir." wrote the editor to the per-l slstent young author. "In order to simplify I matters somawhat. we are Inclosing a bunch I Of our 'declined with thanks notices. If you will out one of tnese in an envelope with you manuscript, and mall it to yourself It will make It easier for all of us, ana you will be saving something In postage aa well." Chicago Evea Ing Post.