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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1003
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
The Oregonian believes it certain that
If the referendum were Invoked on the
appropriation for the Lewis and Clark
Centennial the act would be sustained
by a very large majority of the people.
The main objection to the proposal to
call for a vote on it is the delay that
would be caused by such action. If this
Exposition is to be made successful.
every day should be employed in push
mg me preparatlona To invoke the
referendum would be to hold everything
oacK tin the vote could be taken and
counted, which would be no small loss
of time that ought to be utilized to the
utmost. Besides, it would throw a
doubt on the sincerity of Oregon and
on the disposition of the people to
wards the Exposition, which would do
us incalculable Injury in the sight of
the many other states th'at have made
appropriations.
Even as it is, since the act, even if
tne referendum shall not be Invoked,
cannot go into effect till May 21, there
is Joss of time that causes great hin
drance and embarrassment. The plans
are delayed;, neither the directors of
the corporation nor the commissioners
of the state can tell or advise what
should be done, as to plan or scope.
None of the necessary engagements or
contracts, on an Important scale, can be
effected till the appropriation made by
the state shall become available, and
the best months of the present year for
this Work are now being lost To invoke
the referendum will occasion still fur
ther delay, and will add distrust to de
lay. It is gratifying to note that the
press of Oregon, with practical unanim
ity, is discouraging the proposal to call
the referendum on this act. It is urged
by almost every newspaper of the state
that the credit and honor of Oregon .are
involved, since other states have re
sponded to our .call; and, moreover,
that, even if the appropriation should
be sustained by an overwhelming vote,
doubt would be thrown for the time on
our sincerity, and valuable time would
be lost By the press of Oregon, there
fore, the people are urged not to sign the
petitions when presented. On this sub
ject the country press generally is act
ing with Judgment and liberality. The
Oregonian believes that the appropria
tion would certainly be approved by the
electorate, and by a very heavy ma
jority; but it begs the electors not to
cause this additional delay, when the
time already is too short The Exposi
tion is to be had and held. To make it
the best possible, let us go heartily into
It, push it and oppose to it no hin
drances or obstructions even of tem
porary kind. Think of the honor and
welfare of Oregon when those petitions
are passed round!
SUBMARINE BOATS.
According to a late report from Eng
I&nc a submarine boat has been de
vised by British naval constructors
which possesses all the advantages, of
foreign boats of this type. The Ad
miralty has built a number of these and
submitted them to perfectly satisfactory
testa It was added that the Admiralty
had already in stock many submarine
boats, both, of American and French de
vlsement, and, though these are highly
esteemed, the English model shows a
decided improvement over them.
This Is possible, of course, but
this ie not the point Just now in
regard to the question of submar
ine boats for our own Navy. The
statement first of all calls attention
to the fact that while the greatest
navies of the world are supplying them
selves with submarine boats, the Amer
ican Navy is not being strengthened on
this prodigious fighting line; that our
Navy-builders are cot constructing sub
marine boats of any model American
or foreign. Yet these vessels have given
extraordinary performances in a num
ber of severe tests.
It may be well to remember that,
though capable of making a prodigious
showing, our Navy is not built for show.
If it Is not built strictly for purposes
of National defenso and to uphold Na
tional power and honor In the event of
war, the money used in Its construction
is wasted. It is true that the modern
navy (except as its power has been test
ed in the Spanish-American and In the
Japan-China wars, in neither of which
the great navies of the world took part)
is largely an experiment But so far as
experiments in times of peace have ex
tended, the submarine boat is the most
wonderful safeguard of ports that has
yet been invented
This being: true, why is it that in
making suggestions and estimates for
naval construction, our Navy Depart
ment Ignores the submark boat? It
has been surrested that th faa.r nf hcv. 3
Ing ordered to duty on one of them on
the part of officers of the "Navy under
lies uus siuaiea neglect while, no
doubt such duty would be highly dis
agreeable and relatively dangerous, we
can hardly accept the intimatioa that
American naval officers are less brav
and daring than those of England and
France, both of which, nations are mak
ing these formidable engines of destruc
tion prominent features of their navies.
It is said that the young riaval officers
or these countries eagerly seek service
on the submarine boats as furnishing
the greatest hope of distinction. It is an
unwarranted impeachment of the patrl
otlsm and ambition of the young offi-
cers, of the American Navy to say that
they would not be equally ready to put
fame and fortune to the touch "by seek
ing service on submarine boats if per
muted to do so. They have had, how
ever, no chance in this line, and thus far
nopreparatlons are being made whereby
they may get such opportunities. This
aside, however, it is a shortsighted' pol
icy that neglects to provide the United
States with this necessary and Import
ant adjunct of naval power and Na
tional defense.
SURE TO MAKE TROUBLE.
As a matter of pure sentiment it Is
not easy to enact Justice, but, under
the pressure of economic and political
self-interest public injustice is sure to
oe reformed at last As a matter of
pure sentiment, the appeal for the abo
lition or even the gradual eroancipa
wn ol me negro made small prog
ress; but when the Republican party
was formed upon the conservative plat
form of the nonertenslon of slavery as
an economic and Industrial evil, the
forces of self-interest on the part of
free labor were soon" strong enough to
upset the party of slave labor. It was
a sectional political light in which the
victory was obtained by the free white
vote of the North, fighting, not for the
freedom of the negro, but for its own
hand.
On the score of mere sentiment, the
war Democracy of the North would
never have helped to swell greatly the
ranks of the Union Army seeking to
free the negro. The "War Democracy
and the great majority of the Repub
llcan party fought the war to conclu
sion because of enlightened selfishness,
They could not afford the Industrial
loss and confusion that would follow
the success of the Southern Confeder
acy. The men of the West, were deter
mined that the waters of the Ohio and
the Mississippi should never be dl
viaea between two hostile states. Self
interest, rather than sentiment, carried
tne flag back in victory from the Po
tomac and the Ohio to the Gulf.
In the Civil "War every Important step
was prompted by the force of enlight
ened selfishness. The first few months
of the war find us returning fugitive
slaves to their masters, but the pinch
of war grew tighter, and when the
shrewd Yankee lawyer, General Ben
Butler, ejaculates "contraband of war"
when runaway slaves flock to his camp.
the people say "Amen." When military
emancipation is first proposed it Is
promptly disapproved; but the next
year, when defeat and increasing debt
depress us, our President Issues his
proclamation amid public approval. For
two years the proposition to organize
negro regiments is rejected, but when
white men are hard to obtain and the
draft stares us in the face, our Presi
dent authorizes and Congress approves
the recruitment of 180,000 black soldiera
The mere force of moral sentiment Is
soon spent except when It is supported
by the economic and political forces of
National self-Interest
The basis of public morality is en
lightened self-interest; human experi
ence reports to us that vice and immo
rality and crime do not pay, viewed
merely from the standpoint of economic
and industrial self-interest, and public
opinion holds the dangerous classes In
check as far as possible, not because
of philanthropic concern about their
fate in this world or the next, but be
cause the body politic cannot afford to
be worried to death by its own mad
dogs; and because of this dominant
power of human self-interest, the ques
tion of negro suffrage at the South has
not been and will not be quieted in the
near future by almost universal dis
franchisement of the blacks. It will
continue to be a burning question, not
because of the blacks, but because of
the whites of the North, who are sure
ultimately to became violently discon
tented -with a situation in which the
vote of one white MississJppIan is not
only equal to his own vote and the vote
of a black Misslssippian, but is equal
to the votes of sixteen whites In New
York City, for, while the average vote
for a Congressman in a Congressional
district In New York State Is 37,000, the
average vote polled in Mississippi at the
last election in a Congressional district
was 2200. The other Southern States
enjoy great advantage over New York
and other Northern States in the value
of the voting capacity of the individual.
The average vote for Congressmen in
South Carolina Is 4549; in Louisiana,
4000; in Florida, 5443; in Georgia, 791S;
in Alabama, 10,342. As a matter of ab
stract Justice, neither of the great po
litical parties at the North cares a but
ton about the disfranchisement of the
black voters at the South, but the fact
that the suffrage of the white men at
the North is rendered less effective by
the smaller number of voters at the
South is bound to breed trouble in the
future if it Is not righted by compensa
tory reduction of representation. The
North does not care today because the
South thus wields an undue power in
the National Legislature which does not
rightfully belong to it but In the vicis
situdes of future politics the North Is
sure to care some day and insist that
the wrong shall be righted. Suppose the
contest was so close between the parties
that the Democratic party regularly ob
tained and held a majority in the House
of Representatives by the undue power
wielded today by the South in the Na
tional Legislature how long would it
be before the Republican party would
insist on the correction of the wrong,
not because of the negro, but because
of the white Republican partv of the
North excluded from control of Con
gress by the system of "graveyard"
suffrage at the South, which disfran
chises the negro and yet obtains- rep
resentation for him as completely as
if the black man. was a free and unter
rifled voter? As a matter of pure senti
ment, the Republican party does not
worry over the disfranchised negro at
the South, but as a matter of loss, of
power In the National Legislature the
Republican party will be sure ulti
mately to worry over the disfranchised
negro until the South Is forced to sub
mit to a reduction of representation.
The South Is free to "eat her cake" by
disfranchising the negro, but she will
fiad out that sfce cannot also "hare her
.1
cake" in the shape- of undiminished
representation. Today the question is
merely academic, but in a close strag
gle between the great parties It would
Inevitably become a burning Issue.
THE PANAMA OAXAL.
The United States will receive but
little of value in the way of canal
building machinery for the $40,MO,000
which, is to be paid the New Panama
Canal Company for Its possessions on
the isthmus. For years the vast quan
tities of dredging and excavating 'ma
chinery which have been lying In heaps
across the Isthmus have been the source
of much comment on the prodigal waste
of money by the original projectors of
the canal, it has always been sup
posed that when the United States took
hold of the project some use could be
mad of this machinery- Now that the
United States is almost In possession of
the assets of the successor of the orig
inal company, expert engineers state
that the machinery Is so far out of date
as to be worthless. The magnitude of
the undertaking Is so vast that the dif
ference In cost of excavating with old
style machinery as compared with a
modem equipment will run into mil
lions. In a paper presented at the last meet
ing of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, George S. Morison, consult-,
ing engineer and late member of the
Isthmian Canal Commission, gives some
Interesting facts as to the work ahead
of the canal-builders. The great cut be
tween the Chagres Valley and the point
where tidewater is first reached on the
Pacific side covers a total distance of
nearly eight miles. For five miles this
cut Is through a mountain, the maxi
mum original height on the center line
of the canal being 330 feet above mean
tide. The canal plans provide for a
width on the bottom of 150 feet, and
on this basis the cut necessary in this
five-mile stretch alone is estimated at
43,237,000 cubic yards. The excavation
of so large an amount from such a com
paratively short distance is said to b
without precedent, and the possibilities
for a vast savlnir or a hnw lnna
through economical or careless engi
neering operations are wonderful. The
isthmian Canal Commission estimated
the cost of this particular excavation
at SO cents per cubic yard, but Mr
Morison states that bad management
or the use of anything but the ven-
latest macninery might run the cost up
to $1 per yard. On the other hand, he
believes that It is not Impossible, with
carefully selected equipment and eco
nomical operation", to reduce the cost to
w cents per yard.
The demands of commerce have un
dergone a radical change Eince the orig
inal canal company began operations
on tne isthmus. At that time the di
mensions of the Suez Canal were sun
posea to De ample for th Pannmn
ditch, and no provision was made for
anything of greater draft than twenty-
ieeu xne width at the bottom was
eeventy-two feet The new French com
pany which succeeded the orlsrinal nrn.
jeciors or the enterprise made arrance
menis ior a Dottom width of about nn
nunared feet The plans which will hA
adopted by the pFesent builders call for
a Donom width of 150 feet and a depth
sufficient to float vessels of thlrtv-flve
feet draft The largest steamers plying
on the Atlantic cannot pass through the
ouez uanai, out the Panama Canal will
afford a sufficient depth for any vessels
anoau wmie a vessel can tnkon
through a canal with very little leewav
on euner side, yet her progress when
cramped for room will be slow, and
delays would result in waitlne at wash
ing points, xnese troubles will be oh
vlated in the Panama Canal which wilt
be of sufficient width to enable vessels
to move at fairly good speed and also
io pass eacn otner m the canal Thii
is an Important matter when it is con
sidered that the distance from deep
water to deep water is forty-five miles.
i.ne American engineers have Im
proved on the French plan of making
a vast iaKe out or the turgid waters of
me cnagres River by enlarging this
iaite to nearly three times Its former
area, thus diminishing the risks en
countered during the periods of floods.
With the waters of the lake at a normal
elevation of eighty-five feet, there will
be a descent of fifty-eight feet to the
Intermediate level on the ocean sides
or the Isthmus. Each descent is ac
companied by two loclrs. the av era ire
lift of which Is twenty-nine feet These
locks are to be eighty-four feet wide
and 730 feet long between gates. The
Benefits which the Pacific Coast Is ex
pected to reap from the construction of
tne canal are still a matter of aueatlon.
but there Is no question about the un
dertaking being one of the greatest en
gineering reais ever attempted. For
this reason alone, a trip by the Panama
route when the canal is completed will
be very attractive for tourists.
Our citizens are to be congratulated.
first, that President Roosevelt is com
ing; next, that he does not want a ban
quet as a feature of his entertainment
in this city, and finally that the omis
sion of a banquet will give him time to
see more of the city and meet a larger
number of people than would be possi
ble If from two to four hours of his
short stay were to be spent at table.
The act of feeding people who are not
"hungry is one of the absurd customs of
the past that cling to a higher civiliza
tion. It originated, no doubt, in the
fact that the average human being in
the savage state, or Just emerging there
from, was In a condition of chronic hun
ger, to appease which was the first duty
of the chance host, and the paramount -I
desire of the perhaps unbidden guest
Handshaking as a token of amity is an
other custom that as a wholesale dis
pensation, might be honored in the
breach, rather than in the observance.
The President is said, however, to be
an intelligent handshaker; that is to
say, he gets through a tremendous vol
ume of It with relatively slight fatigue,
and does not particularly object to it
Speechmaklng on a public tour cannot
of course, be dispensed with, and he is
able to get through with a great deal
of this also, without excessive fatigue.
To accomplish these two latter feats
with comparative ease, he eschews as
much as possible banqueting as a feat
ure of a long and hurried trip. Our
people will enjoy seeing and heang
and shaking hands with President
Roosevelt They would enjoy feeding
him if he were hungry, too, but know
ing that he will not be, and that he does
not desire to give time to an elaborate
feature of eating and drinking, they
will be glad to entertain him in a more
fitting and withal a more complimentary
manner.
With a good appropriation in sight
and bright prospects for an early start
on the work of improving the channel
at the mouth of the Columbia River,
Portland has safely passed a crisis in
her commercial hlstoryv The Winter
season Just ending and its predecessor
witnessed mere expensive delays than
ships have been subjected to in any pre
vious' seasons since the work of Im
proving the channel at the mouth o
the river was begun. With this ex
perience still fresh In the sainds of
shipowners, It was feared that the old
differential In rates -against the port
would be again demanded. The fact
that chartering for the new season has
already begun with rates exactly the
same for either Portland or Puget
Sound loading assures us of another
season of cheap rates, and long before
all of the wheat fleet of 1903-&4 is out
of the river the dredge now being
equipped for the work will have cut
out a -channel sufficient to prevent any
more such vexatious delays as have
threatened the good name of the port
for the past two years. By the time
the operations of the dredge are com
pleted, the Jetty extension will be well
under way, and all danger of delays at
the mouth of the river will be ended.
The Interior Department has finally
decided that, under the Joint resolution
of July L 1902, soldiers who served in
the Union and who had previously
served in the Confederate army are
legal claimants for pension. This con
clusion Is so Just that it is not easy to
understand why there should have been
any dispute about it The next great
change in the pension laws will be the
establishment of a service pension sys
tem for all veterans of the Civil War.
This will not probably be delayed many
years from enactment The Mexican
War veterans now receive $12 a month
service pension. Under the law, a serv
ice pension is now paid to the survivors
of all Indian conflicts prior to the Civil
War and their widows. In 1900 there
were 7600 beneficiaries 1618 soldiers and
2903 widows and that the cosfwould be
$730,000 a year. This is precedent enough
for service pensions, and brings them up
to J861. The next step will be a service
pension for the Civil War veterans.
The act of July, 1890, Is practically so
near to a service pension that the roll
could not be greatly enlarged by a
service pension unless $8 a month of
service pension were given in addition
to existing disability pensions.
A- Tacoma attorney is out with the
statement that he can defeat the law
which makes gambling a felony at a
cost of only $500. In order to get action
on the question, it will be necessary
first to secure a victim. This may not
be so easy. So long as the maximum
punishment for gambling was a few
dpllars fine, it was not a difficult mat
ter to induce the gamblers to give up
some of their ill-gotten gains for any
kind of a test case where their nefarious
traffic was concerned. The prospect for
a term in the penitentiary In case the
attorney may have everestlmated his
ability in breaking new laws is a more
serious matter. The gambler, through
the nature of his profession, 1b a moral
coward, and will not readily accept the
chances of a term in the penitentiary
.so long as there are states adjacent to
Washington where he can gamble to his
heart's content without fear of molesta
tion except of a mild character. The
same Legislature that passed the antl-
gamoiing law In Washington also
passed a law for the punishment of law
yers who needlessly stir up litigation.
The-Tacoma .lawyer might to advantage
first determine whether that law is con
stitutional The story of the finding of the wreck
of the steamship Golden Gate, as
printed in yesterday's telegraphic news
column, has a' familiar appearance
Next to the perennial yarn about the
finding of the wreck of the Brother
Jonathan, that of the Golden Gate, like
the poor, Is "always with us." This
latest finder of the wreck brings with
his story? sea-corroded and partly
melted coins to substantiate the yarn.
This is even less convincing than the
last report of the finding of the Brother-
Jonathan wreck. On that occasion the
finder was reported in the San Fran
cisco papers as bringing back with him
a deck bucket with the name of the
steamer engraved on its brass hoons.
-Perhaps the most Improbable feature
or this latest finding of the Golden Gate
wreck is the statement that she was
resting in eight feet of water. The
Golden Gate was an "old wooden steamer,
and forty years of battering by the sea
in eight feet of water off the Mexican
Coast would hardly leave enough of
ner intact to hold many "sea-corroded
and partjy melted coins."
The sympathy of all humane people
must be with the monster eleDhant
Jingo, that died In his cage at sea re
cently after trumpeting his sore dis
tress for sixty consecutive hours. The
captivity of a wild creature may not be
burdensome in proportion to Its size.
but its resistance to such captivity Is
In proportion to Its strength, and in the
case of Jingo this was tremendous.
Human curiosity or greed gratified at
the expense of such heroic resistance
and suffering makes a pitiful spectacle
of human littleness. "Securely chained
in the aft hatchway so that escape was
Impossible, squirming in his narrow
cage in a futile effort to get out" this
mammoth sufferer was kept under the
influence of whisky for three days with
out avail, in the effort to subdue him..
It must have been a relief to all on
shipboard when the cessation of his
trumpetlngs told that he was dead.
A Democratic paper (of Oregon) be
fore us is very indignant about "the
shameless waste of funds" by the recent
Congress, and It makes a bitter on
slaught on the Republican party for
the extravagance. And it tells us that
If the next Congress shall be Repub
lican the "waste" undoubtedly will be
greater still Well; then, how would It
do to cut out these millions which Ore
gon gets, and the millions more which
Oregon wants next time? Of course
Oregon will have no right to insist on
reduction of the appropriations unless
she is willing to give up the share of
them that comes to her. But Imagine
the Senators and Representatives of
Oregon making such renunciation! Ore
gon would honor most the men who
could get most from the National
Treasury- for the benefit of the state.
And 'the other states the same.
The President has been invited to
stop off at Billings, Mont, for an elk
hunt The quarry is to be provided
from a band of elk held In captivity
near that place. It Is not probable
that this will appeal to the sportsman
like Instincts of Mr. Roosevelt Shoot
ing wild game after first penning it up
and partially taming it reflects very
little .glory upon the sportsman. It Is,
plainly speaking, a butcher's Job; It Is
of a piece with live pigeon shooting,
and Is sport for cowards, rather than
for hHatera.
ACTIVITY OF CLEVELAND.
Seme Facts Concerning an Important
Oecarrcnce ef Recent Sate.
New York Sua.
The exact facts abeut Mr. Cleveland's
retura to politics aad, his renewed asso
ciation with polltlciaas seem to be these:
Ho came over from Princeton to speak
at the Beecher memorial service In
Brooklyn, He spoke there In excellent
ta3te, confining ate remarks strictly to
the particular subject before the meeting.
He was lodged aad fed at the home of
his personal friend. Oscar S. Straus,
formerly our Minister to Turkey. He went
to the theater twice, and on each occasion
apparently enjoyed the performance: He
rods downtown, shook hands with John
G. Carlisle and a few other friends, and
ate a luncheon cooked In the neighborhood
of Trinity Church. When approached by
reporters with the customary question
about his views on the state of the coun
try, he replied briefly but consistently, the
substance of his-manifesto being that he
was out of politics but .In good health.
Yesterday he took a train back to Prince
ton. When last, observed, Mr. Cleveland's
physiognomic expression was not that of
a statesman who had recently acquired a
new burden of black care, but rather that
of a comfortable Jerseyman partly glad
and partly sorry to depart from the most
interesting metropolis on earth. -The
cost of a ticket from Princeton to
New York-and return is $2.15 by the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
Feeling, perhaps, that the only living
ex-President of the United States was .not
getting the worth of his money in the
performance of the pious dutyand the
enjoyment of the simple, every-day pleas
ures above recorded, certain chroniclers
of highly productive genius have already
provided him with the following additional
dividends upon hte modest Investment at
the Princeton station:
Ho held here in New York secret' con
ferences, prolonged for hours, with other
eminent Democrats now engaged in reor
ganizing their party.
He formulated new issues and elaborated
In minute detail a specific plan of cam
paign for the Democracy in the next Na
tional election.
On the strength of his unique position
In the Democracy he assumed personal
charge of its affairs.
He revised the speech which Edward M.
Shepard expects to deliver tomorrow
night at Tulano University, and likewise
another speech which the same orator
has prepared for next Monday night at
the Iroquois Club in Chicago; and he gave
Shepard careful Instructions and much
wise advice as to the policy to be. observed
in his casual intercourse with the South
ern and Western Democrats.
He devoted hours In co-operation with
his associates and disciples to an ex
haustive review of President Roosevelt's
record during the past 18 months, particu
larly with reference to the trust Issue, the
race question and the question of the ade
quate propagation of the human species;
and with unerring Instinct and ripe -wisdom
he pointed out such mistakes of Mr.
Roosevelt's as may be turned to good
account by the Democracy In the coming
campaign.
Incidentally, while in the Wall-street
region, he arranged for a restoration of
the confidence of the financial and com
mercial interests temporarily alienated
from the Democracy during the period
when Bryanlsm was flagrant.
Although unable to see Mr. Whitney,
who was unavoidably detained from all
the several conferences, Mr. Cleveland
sent by a trusty messenger tht? nlnn nf
campaign and the working drawings and
uaiuo maps, ana secured for the same
the O. K. of the great Foolklller.
He declined six times the Democratic
nomination for President; but accepted
four times the post of advisorv
of the party.
This la certainly a generous return for
Mr. Cleveland's J2.15. Knowing his temper
under molestation in his dnmMtix nmi
demic pursuits, we fear it is a trifle too
oviiv.uua. xu win .nmse me ex-.f resident
warn to aisguise himself as a traveling
Wallachian Count the next time he comes
tu -"w io aine witn a frierfd and
go io ine ineater.
A Matter of Honor.
North Yamhill Record.
An effort Is being made to apply the
referendum to the legislative appropriation
ior tne iewls and Clark 19C5 ExDosition
An thinking people must regret this. Not
that there Is any probability of the ap
propriation Being defeated, because It can
hardly be conceived that the people woald
perpetrate such an abominable breach of
faith as to step in and kill this appropria
tion, alter having used it as an Induce
ment to slater states to make appropria
tions to tne Exposition. Not for these
reasons, but because, this move on the
face of if looks bad In Its relationship
to the eood faith, and savors strongly of
an outburst of that spirit of discontent,
which prevails everywhere, and seeks to
pull down and destroy most everything
that Is good, offering nothing in particular
in its stead. Nothing could be proposed
which would inure greater good for the
state than this Exposition. Every laborer,
every farmer, every mechanic and every
other business man in the state will reap
benefits resulting from this Fair, which
will far exceed the additional taxation
which each will have to meet If this
matter comes to a vote of the people let us
appeal to the better instincts of our people
not to defeat it and bring a blight of
shame upon the good name of our beloved
state.
Mr. Hoar and Mr. Qaay.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Unlike Mr. Hoar. Mr. Quay has not
been obliged to live, in Washington boarding-houses
during his Congressional life;
nor has he been compelled by circum
stances to content himself with one
small, simple house in the capital. Mr.
vjuay nas a magnificent mansion there:
he has another in Beaver, another in
Marietta, Va., and a noble pleasure
house in Florida, the land of sunshlno
and flowers, to which he resorts when
the stormy winds of Winter do blow too
roughly and coldly, when he relaxes
from his arduous Senatorial labors to
practice amid the palms and orange
groves the gentle art of fishing.
Mr. Hoar has explained in bis address
to the Armour students this difference of
these Senatorial conditions. He has had
no time to make money, but who shall
say that he has not made a man whose
useful, honorable life, whose wise, pa
triotic services to his country are not
parts and parcels of the treasured history
of his country, the pride of his admiring,
grateful countrymen?
BmbarraismeBt of Patronage.
Hartford (Conn.) Times.
The President has thought it advisable
to make a public statement In regard to
his appointments in the Southern States
in the form of a letter to the editor of a
Democratic newspaper in Atlanta. He
evidently has no desire to displease the
Southern people In naming a few colored
men for Important office, and we can be
sure tha If he had his own way he would
gladly turn over all the "patronage" In
the Southern States to his most ambitious
opponent for the next 12 months. His
chances of obtaining a renominatlOn and
re-election would be better than they are
if he could do this.
Sot Parltanlm.
New York Mail and Express.
The fiction that the saloon Is the victim
of the survival of "Puritanism" in the
community, or the victim of anything, is
neither tenable nor plausible. While
there are any laws to break that inter
fere with its freedom of action it will
try to break them. It Is not in its nature
to submit to any restriction in the in
terest of the public welfare. That Is -no
reason why the public welfare should be
made subservient to its Interest Itfi the
last business that should receive favors.
CITIES WITHOUT THE GRAFTERS
Skewlags Xade ly Mayers ef Detroit
. aad Baltimore.
Baltimore American.
- A magazine article recently written by
Mayor Hayes Jh which he extols Balti
more as "a city .without graft" has at
tracted the special attention of Mayor
Maybury, of Detroit To one paragraph
he takes exception, and, using it as a text
preaches a sermon In tho columns of the
Detroit Free Press on the superior virtues
pi. tno city. This Is the passage:
.v i banished Bralt and grafters from
the city government, and we- have made com
missions and rake-offa
I am told that Baltimore Is the only city which
can boast of these conditions, and that is the
"""a way mis article Is desired.
The Mayor of Detroit challenges none
use ssatements of the Mayor of Balti
more except the claim that Baltimore is
the only city not in the clutches of the
grafters. He makes out a good case, we
inuit comess, ior his own city; so good.
In fact that it was unfortunate fan should
make such a bad blunder in comparing
our respective nnanclal conditions. He pre
sents we xoiiowing comparative table:
, Baltimore. Detroit
iii rate zor au pur-
Dumoses no sk io m
Net debt 30,S13,TO5 CO 4,555,024 00
Per capita debt 59 32 16 2S
Mayor Maybury is so pleased by his
deadly parallel that he cannot refrain
from crowing Just a little. Says he: "The
existence .of the grafter and his contem
poraries would appear to be confirmed
by these significant figures. That the
grafter and his. kind have not performed
their delicate work In Detroit Is mado
manifest by a comparison of the figures
stated above."
The argument wouldn't be so bad if tho
premises were correct In the first place,
let it be understood that a city's "net
debt" Is arrived at by deducting from the
total obligations of all kinds the sinking
runds and productive assets, in wnich
must be Included the waterworks. Mr.
Mayburys figures are for 190L Our sink
ing funds have increased since then by
over $3,000,000 chiefly from the sale of the
Western Maryland Railroad and now
amount to 517,592,373.33. When this sum
and the productive assets of over 513,000,000
are credited against our total indebtedness,
it leaves a net debt of only JS,75590.4t
By the same methods of accounting the
net debt of Detroit Is $3,938,736.
As a matter of fact the percentage of
net debt of total taxable basis Is nearly
equally low In both cases. For Detroit It
Is 1 2-5 per cent; for Baltimore 1 per
cent The cities run neck and neck in this
respect, and are not very far apart in
their per capita debt, which Is about 514
for Detroit and 517 for Baltimore. Balti
more has nearly double the population,
double the amount of taxable property;
consequently, a due proportion 13 pre
served by having double the amount of
debt.
In vindicating Baltimore we compliment
Detroit on her ability to make as good a
showing as ourselves. An alibi could easily
be proved for grafters In both citle3.
No Referendum Wanted
Mcdford Success.
Nearly all states west of the Rocky
Mountains have made a liberal appro
priatlon for the Lewis and Glark Fair,
and for Oregon to repudiate her own
Fair would 'be to discredit the state and
do it an almost irreparable injury. To
drop this Fair after so much has been
done toward making it a success would
bo to place Oregon in the position of be
ing the most out-and-out mossback state
in the Union. Two months ago a popular
vote might have defeated the appropria
tion, but public sentiment has changed.
and If submitted to a vote now It would
carry by a big majority, for the business
Interests and the progressive element of
the state would rally to Its support In
such strength that all opposition would
be overcome. Now that the Fair propo
sition is more fully understood, people
are beginning to realize that it will be
of very great benefit in many different
ways to the building up and prosperity
of the whole state. In addition to the
great Immigration and investment of cap
ital in various industries that it will
bring to Oregon it will leave no less than
52,000.000 in the state, money spent by
the various states and by the General
Government In connection with their ex
hibits, and by the thousands of visitors
who will attend the Fair from the East
The 5300.000 that Oregon will spend upon
the Lewis and Clark Fair will bring
greater returns to the state than most
of the other appropriations made by the
Legislature.
Taking' Liberties Witn Seven-Cp.
Baltimore Sun.
The statesmen of Oklahoma Territory
are, according to a Guthrie dispatch, con
sidering the advisability of amending the
rules governing that fascinating pastime,
"seven-up." The Representative of Pot
tawattomie County in the Territorial Leg
islature Introduced a bill a day or two
ago making revolutionary changes in this
time-honored game. The committee on
games and gaming promptly submitted a
report recommending the passage of the
bill.
Ordinarily the members of legislative
bodies do not concern themselves with
such matters as tho rules of card playing.
Oklahoma statesmen, it appears, regard
such things as entirely within their Juris
diction. It is an interesting question,
however, whether the Territorial Legisla
ture has the constitutional power to tin
ker with the games of our forefathers,
and whether the proposed law will be
obeyed by those who Indulge in card play
ing. If the Oklahoma solons are permitted
to tamper-with the rules of "seven-up"
it may not be long before they will de
cree changes in that noble American in
stitution, poker. It Is time to call a halt
on revolutionary statesmen.
Facts vs. Prejudice.
Hartford -Courant
The Boston Herald remarks:
In the Filipino language a ladrone means a
robber. In the anti-Imperialist dictionary, on
the other hand, it means a patriot. It's fanny
how language gets queered by one's prejudices.
True enough. But prejudice cannot alter
facts. And It is the fact that the ladrone
is a robber. The Filipinos say so, and
they know the ladrone as the anti-Imperialist
does not The attempt to gal
vanize the ladrones of the Philippines into
the semblance of patriots Is of a .piece
with the attempt to show up American
soldiers as murderers and barbarous tor-
turers- ( UJdJU
A Touching: TrfbHte.
A. proud woman must be Mrs. Holmes, the
wife of the editor of the Kiowa County Signal.
Her husband printed these verses In his paper,
under the tlUe, "Why I Wed Her":
. It was not because she's handsome,
"Tho she Is,
So they say;
And I guess It most be true, 'cause
I hear It
Every day.
Neither was It that she's gracious,
Tho she Is,
To my mind;
And as gentle as an angel.
And as pure.
Sweet and kind.
Nor was it because she's wealthy.
For she's rot
Not In gold
And that counts tor very little,
Anyway,
Wo are told.
t But it was because I loved her,
"With a love
Most-Intense;
And because I had discovered
Her good, hard,
ComEioR seas a.
NOTE ANIV COMMENT.
The ball season hasn't opened -yet but
our baseball brethren are doing consid
erable knocking.
The gang in Delaware howled for "Ad
dicks or nobody," and it seems to have
got what it howled for.
The way the Burdick murder case ha3
been handled proves Buffalo to be about
our yellowest city. Even San Francisco
will have to get up early in the forenoon
to beat It
Maine went heavily for prohibition the
other day because, it is said, the Prohibi
tionists voted against liquor on principle
and the liquor people voted that way in
order to avoid the necessity of paving
licenses.
William Ordway Partridge, the sculptor,
recently said:
Phillips Brooks said to me once: "Partridge,
I may not live to see the day, but you probably
will, when the church will have passed Into
that larger brotherhood which I may term the
Resultant church." He then mentioned the
various denominations, and made special refer
ence to the Unitarians and their contribution to
the desired result.
At Boston Wednesday General Miles
located the 51 deposited by him in a bank
near the City Hall In 1S60. Ho had often
recalled the deposit he said, but had for
gotten the name of the bank. No Interest
had accumulated, as no sum under 52
has earning power. , The bank treasurer
said that he would consider It a favor if
the General would come and get his dollar
and close the account
The way the Southern papers are prais
ing Judge Parker shows what they think
of Bryan. The wordy Nebraskan's tether
will probably grow shorter hereafter every
time he ambles around the circle. The
fight for principle has had its run. The
Democrats are pining to get out and yell
for real old bourbonism. Bother these
academic issues and boy orators. Parker
and Hill are the stuff.
A recent special dispatch from Che Fo&
to the Shanghai Times makes the follow
ing record of a distressing situation:
Last week an official of the Custom-House
was bitten by a pet dog. and ever since hydro
phobia has been the prevalent topic A public
meeting was held to take "precautionary meas
ures," consequent upon which there has been a
veritable craze for dog-shooting. Dogmeat has
gone down 3 cents per catty In the market. It
is said, and brigands are hoping for a rich and
early harvest, as there is scarcely a watchdog
left In the place. '
By a variety of employments, ranging
from teaching and technical works to
sweeping rooms and washing dishes, 164
Columbia University students earned in
three months last year 515,000 an aver
age of about 530 for each man. One stu
dent earned more than 3100 a week during
the three months by advanced tutoring,
and another gained $1050 during the 12
weeks. Several students earned 5300 each.
Of the women students 17 gained 52434.69,
an average of 5143, or 550 above the men's
average.
The legislative chaplains are having
their innings in these degenerate days. A
Utah parson recently prayed specially
for the Democratic minority, thereby get
ting a broadside In the way of a spiteful
resolution, which was not passed, how
ever. In the Missouri House the other
day the members gave scant attention to
the morning prayer and Chaplain Kus3el
got back at them by closing his invocation
in this wise:
.0 Lord, I ask that those in this house who
rise to their feet tor prayer may not, continue
to read their papers while the chaplain prays.
urant that they may have some respect for
God, tt they have not for the chaplain.
General Chaffee tells a story about an
Itinerant American he met in "the Philip
pines. He was from Texas and was
known as "Volcano" Marshall. He had
become "stranded" in Manila and asked
the General to send him home on a trans
port ,
"Are you in the United States service?"
asked the General.
"Not by a blamed sight," was the ex
plosive reply; "I am a free-born Amer
ican citizen, and no confounded satrap."
"My orders," said the General, "are to
send back only those who are In the mil
itary or civil service."
Marshall thought a moment "General.
you could send me If you wanted to,", ha
ventured, persuasively.
"See here, Mr. Marshall," replied the
General, sternly, "If you were In my place
and had my orders, and I were In your
place, would you give me transporta
tion?"
"You bet I would," returned Marshall,
quickly, "and be darned glad to get rid
of you."
During the late Besslon of Congress pro
vision was made for the erection of four
new monuments to revolutionary heroes
Count Pulaski, Baron von Steuben, Brig-
adler-General Francl3 Nash and Brigadier-
General: William Lee Davidson, of North
Carolina. It appears that laws were passed
in 1777 and 1781 for honoring the two heroes
last named, but for some reason or an
other they were never fulfilled. Section
third of the new law provides that the se
lection of the site and designs and the
work of erection shall be under the direc
tion of the Secretary of War, acting
Jointly with the Governor of North Car
olina, by which one would infer that they
are to be located somewhere In that state
instead of in Washington. Fifty thou
sand dollars has been appropriated for
each of the statues of Pulaski and Steu
ben. It is understood that they will occupy
the northeastern and northwestern cor
ners of La Fayette Square In Washington
and be of 'designs corresponding to those
of La Fayette and Bochambeau which oc
cupy the other corners.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS
It's a wise railroad stock that knows its own
par. Harvard lampoon-
"I am told that her nance Is wealthy quite
one of the 'landed gentry,' In fact." "Yes!
It was her mother who 'landed' him." Brook
lyn Life.
Miss Meadows I suppose I can match this
silk at the big dry goods store? Miss Street
Mercy, no! All they sell there is groceries and
liquors. Judge.
In South America. Pedro What think you
of the proposed law? Miguel "What Is it?
Pedro It is to the effect that after a man has
taken part In 10 insurrections he shall be ex
empt from further military service. Puck.
"I see that two-thirds of the world's cor
respondence is conducted In the English lan
guage," said the blonde typewriter. "Too bad
your work couldn't be counted in that two
thirds," said the busy man, drawing his pen
through many words la the letter before him.
Yonkers Statesman.
"Well, they decided that they would have to
operate by taking stitches In the man's heart
between beats," said the eminent physician,
"so "Dr. Slashum made an Incision In the stom
ach 'and" "For heaven's sake, why did ha
make an Incision in the stomach?" "Why,
Isn't that the shortest cut to a man's heart ?"-
Baltimore News.
"Who was that poor cuss that the mob tarred
and feathered, rode on a rail, horsewhipped
and threatened to lynch?" "Why," said the
leader of the mob, "that's the fellow" who
wrote to the papers that the citizens ot this
town bad no respect for law and order. Wa
showed the cusa that we were law-abiding citi
zen, you bet!" Baltimore Herald.