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PORTLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 30.
"STRENUOUS" AND "EFFETE."
The Grant County News professes, or
pretends, to think that Portland and
.Western Oregon have been endeavoring
to "monopolize" the President, on his
journey hither, and to keep him away
from the eastern part of the state. It
says:
The political Insignificance of Eastern Oregon
Is sufficiently apparent and painful without
being continually emphasised; yet that is pre
cisely what la twine done in every new ap
pointment. In the selection of a committee to
receive President Roosevelt this section got
1U usual recognition that Is, Just nothing.
Does the effete valley think the representa
tive men from Eastern Oregon are uncouth
cowboys, only able to conduct tbo President
as they would a steer, by means of roping
blm? The President, himself a plainsman,
has shown no disposition to avoid strenuous
men for oily politicians. The logic of events
will finally prove that recognition of the whole
of the great State of Oregon Is not only just,
but good policy as well.
The President has laid out his own
programme and itinerary. "The effete
valley" has done just nothing about it
The President can stay but one hour in
the capital of the state; he will stay in
Portland from 2 P. M., May 21, till 9
A, ML. May 22. Nothing would delight
us more than to have him visit all parts
of Oregon and spend at least two weeks
in the state. But he decides that he
can give no more time to Oregon than
he has laid down in his itinerary. After
going into "Washington he will come
into Oregon again at Pendleton. Thus
he has yielded to intercession of the
Senators of Oregon, both of whom be
long to the "effete" western part of the
state.
Are there "strenuous" men in Eastern
Oregon? "We ore glad to hear it. 3own
here wo are somewhat strenuous, too,
though we don't care to brag much
about it. However, we are not so
strenuous as to Insist that the Presi
dent shall cancel his engagements
throughout the United. States for our
gratification though we know that If
we could induce him to take the stage
coach to Grant County he would And
there a most hearty welcome, and some
of the best beor-ehooting in the world.
EXPULSION OP THE SIONASTIC OR
DERS. The determination of the French gov
ernment to refuso the religious orders
permission to remain in France is de
fended on the plea that an education ex
clusively secular is indispensable to the
stability, of free lnstitutiona These re
ligious orders have been long engaged
In teaching, and it is charged by the
authors of the law against religious as
sociations that those orders which have
exercised educational functions have
educated their pupils in hostility toward
the republic It is certainly true that a
large majority of the reactionists are
graduates of schools and colleges that
were conducted by religious societies.
The army officers who were responsible
for the Dreyfus conspiracy, and who
nearly succeeded in wrecking the re
public, were all graduates of these
hools. Under-the law, the daughters
of Catholics may still receive instruction
at the hands of certain monastic orders,
"but if boys and young men seek educa
tion at home they must obtain it in
6tate institutions, from which religious
teaching of any kind will be -rigorously
excluded.
France is pro-Catholic by a very large
majority. Under the Concordat the
clergy are paid by the state, and the
foreign policy of France has always
been pro-Catholic, save in the terrible
upheavel of the great French Revolu
tion. But while France is devoted, to
the Church of Rome, it is nevertheless
devoted to the republic "Without the
support of many Roman Catholics, the
law against these teaching religious as
sociations could never have been enact
ed by the French Parliament, and the
enforcement of this law by the govern
ment 1b not regarded as war upon the
Catholic Church by anybody of intelli
gence, save in certain, districts of
France where the people have always
been, old-time royalists, who are today
enemies of the republic
Pope Leo has repeatedly urged the
French Catholics to accept the repub
lican regime and the enforcement of the
law against religious associations has
not provoked him to assume an un
friendly attitude toward the French
government. It Pope Leo had consid
ered the law an act of war upon the
Catholic Church, he would have protest
ed against it. In the history of the pa
pacy we find the pope more then once
refusing- to interfere when monastic or
ders like tho Jesuits have been expelled
for political reasons by Roman Catholic
powers like France and Austria. The
pope firmly declines to authorize Ital-
iac CetboUca to recognize the Italian
monarchy "by taking part .In the Parlia
mentary elections, but he does not re
gard the expulsion of the. monastic or
ders, which have beea exercising educa
tional functions, as an act of war upon
the churchy
WHY RECIPROCITY FAILS.
There is. "unfortunately, every reason
to accept as definite and final this semi
official announcement from "Washington
that the Republican reciprocity pro
gramme is to be abandoned as hopeless.
It is possible something may be saved
from the wreck of the Cuban treaty; but
the Kaeson conventions of 1899, some
ten in. number, will unceremoniously go
by the board. Chief of these is the well
known undertaking with France; next
that with the Argentine; others are with
the British colonies of .Bermuda, Ja
maica, Barbadoes, Turks and Calcos'
Islands and British Guiana; with the
Danish Island of St Croix; with Nica
ragua and Santo Domingo; and the new
one with Newfoundland.
"We say the certainty of this failure is
unfortunate, for so it 1b, notwithstand
ing the utter inadequacy of reciprocity
on either moral or economic grounds;
for the truth about reciprocity in prac
tice is the seeming paradox that while
it Is a fraud, honesty requires Its ful
fillment. "Whether a bad promise Is bet
ter broken than kept is usually open to
argument; but the manner of this
breach of faith, and especially its dem
onstrated subservience to protected in
terests, 16 more discreditable to the Re
publican party than would have been
the ratification of the treaties, with all
their imperfections and perils.
The Republican party had committed
Itself to reciprocity as a policy in the
strongest possible way. The St. Louis
convention of 1896 condemned the Demo
cratic repeal of the reciprocity measures
of 1892-3 as "a National calamity," de
manded "their renewal and extension,"
and declared that "protection and reci
procity are twin measures of Republi
can policy and go hand in hand." A
considerableportlon of the Dingley tariff
law, passed at the first session of the
Republican. Congress that went in with
McKlnley, was devoted to specific and
detailed authorizations of reciprocity,
in obedience to which the Kasson treat-,
ies were negotiated, and urged upon
Congress by President McKlnley and
subsequently also by President Roose
velt. In repudiating these agreements,
therefore, the Republican party is in
similar case with Its broken pledge of
statehood to three territories. It has
Invited, as it will doubtless receive, the
eager attention of the Democratic Na
tional platform-makers of next year.
The failure of reciprocity lies in about
equal parts at thethree doors of its ene
mies, its friends and its own Inherent
weakness. Its enemies are the protect
ed interests whose products are selected
to bear the reductions of duty; their at
titude needs no explanation but selfish
ness. The mistake of its friends has
been the selection of certain Industries
that need protection, for sacrifice, and
the selection of certain other industries
that need no protection, for benefits.
"We have so often and so fully set forth
the nature of the Kasson sacrifices on
agricultural products and the Kasson
undertakings in favor of iron and steel,
implements, boots and shoes, etc, that
we shall forbear to go over them again
here. To a considerable extent these
artificial benefits and damages are In
herent In any reciprocity legislation em
bodied In specific treaties. On general
and on peculiar grounds, therefore, the
wonder is not so much the failure of
reclprocltyas its long lease Qf consider
ation. The explanation must probably
be sought in the fact that the realm
where tariff rules gives longest life and
most ponderous dignity to the most stu
pendous humbug and most transparent
fraud.
Providence has kindly disposed, how
ever, a silver lining to this cloud. The
abandonment of reciprocity will right
eously hurl back upon the Republican
party the duty it so much dreads of cor
recting the iniquitous and surplus
breeding enormities of the tariff. But
little longer will it be able to give the
stone of a pretended reciprocity for the
bread of honest tariffs. But little longer
will It be able to roll the eye and prate
hypocritically o treaties it never In
tends to ratify and of Internal revenue
reductions it can at length hardly have
the hardihood to pursue as an escape
from customs reform.
Rather than rectify the tariff, we have
put up faithless reciprocity pledges and
scattered the surplus with lavish hand
and lowered the tax on liquors and to
bacco in order to maintain high-priced
sugar and iron for the benefit of the
trusts at the expense of the millions.
Every time one of these doors Is closed
is a great day for common honesty. It
is not a question now as to whether the
tariff will be reformed. The only ques
tion is as to whether it will be reformed
by the Republican party or the Demo
cratic party. The trusts are a majority
in the Senate; but not at the polls.
THE OREGON STRAWBERRY.
It Is said that the strawberry crop this
coming season promises to be the larg
est in the history of the state. The area
planted to vines is 20 per cent greater
than at any former time, and all indi
cations point to a fine yield. The con
ditions of frost and moisture have been
just right, and berry fields everywhere,
especially in he Hood River district
the chief source of export supply are in
prime condition.
The strawberry is one of the fruits in
which we are able to compete success
fully with California In remote markets,
in spite of the fact that the California
product ripens earlier and that the sea
son "holds on much later. In many other
fruits California has the advantage In a
greater relative hardiness under con
ditions of transportation. California
peaches, for example, will reach the
Eastern markets In marketable condi
tion after a railroad journey through
varying temperatures of ten days or
more, while Oregon peaches subjected
to the same conditions "go to pieces."
The essential difference Is that the Cali
fornia fruit is the product of a dry soil
and atmosphere, while the Oregon fruit
is the product of a molster soil and a
softer air.
But with the strawberry the condi
tions are reversed. In California the
berry grows on lowlands In which a
half-swampy condition is maintained
either by natural or artificial irrigation,
and the result is that while the season
is long and the supply abundant, the
quality is flavorless, "mushy" and gen
erally poor. The Hood River berry, on
the other hand, is grown upon high
ground in an essentially mountain and
nonbacterial air. It is firm, of fine color
and flavor, stands up well under ship
ment, and wherever it comes into com
petition with the California or Southern
berry it takes the market at relatlvely
better prices.
Last year the export of Hood River
strawberries to the "East aggregated
thirty carloads, and this coming season
is expected to Increase the shipments
very largely. A good authority .esti
mates that from this one district alone
the season's export will aggregate in
value upward of $50,000.
A NEW AND SETTER POLICY.
It is announced that the railroad com
panies operating in the State of Wash
ington are about to change their policy
that instead of fighting for their
rights or demands in the State Legis
lature and before the public they Will
undertake to Vwln the people" by con
ferences, reductions, concessions, etc
Conciliation Is to be the policy of the
future, with dependence upon the jus
tice and good-will of the public
All this sounds well, and the only sur
prising thing about it is the fact that
it was not thought of fifteen years ago.
There has never been a time In Wash-
-ington or any other state when a course
of absolute fair play and open-handed
Integrity on the part of the railroads
would not have won respect and com
manded Just treatment in return.
There is here and there in Washington,
as everywhere else, a crankwho holds
to an unreasoning prejudice and malice
against property in all forms, and espe
cially in those forms which make direct
demands upon his purse for any pur
pose; but they are relatively few. It
would be difficult, we imagine, to find
ten men of character and responsibility
in any state who would not agree that
property in the form of railroads ought
to have the same protection and the
same rights as property In the form of
farm lands, houses or merchandise.
Practically nobody wants to do injus
tice to the railroads, but on the other
hand they want the railroads to. do Jus
tice in return. Fair understanding,
with assurance t)f Justice all round, will
cut the ground from under a chronic
"railroad fight" anywhere. It has done
It wherever the attempt has been made
with mutual good faith; it will do it in
Washington if the railroads will really
play fair.
In most states where anti-railroad
agitation fills the air there are two
forms of grievance first, a system of
excessive, discriminating or arbitrary
charges; second, a system of political
Interference by which the will of the
people In their political life la. thwarted
and denied. The first hurts the public
pocket, the second wounds its self-respect
and decent pride. "We shall not
here undertake to say how seriously the
people of Washington have suffered If
at all from the traffic policy of Its rail
roads; that Is a matter not to be deter
mined offhand and without evidence;
but we do know that in times past the
political course of the railroads has
been a public shame and scandal. That
to a very great extent It has "dominated
the organs of public opinion in the
state; that it has "set up" conventions;
that it has elected and defeated, ad
vanced and degraded public officials;
that it has made a house of merchandise
of the State Legislature these things
ore of universal belief. No citizen of
Washington doubts they are true; no
worthy man anywhere but feels their
reproach. Attorneys and apologists of
the railroads make no pretense of denial
as to the general facts; their whole plea
is the unwritten law of self-defense and
necessity. ,
Now, if the Washington railroads will
wash their hands of the whole dirty
business of political corruption, If they
will deal fairly and above-board with
the public, if they will put themselves
without reserve in the hands of the peo
ple, there will be no trouble about fair
treatment. The mind of the state Is in
stinctively cordial toward the railroads,
because there is hardly an ' Interest ln
the elate which is not dependent upon
railroad co-operation. Whoever will
study the situation and condition of the
several Washington communities will
fall not to see that each has everything
to gain through railroad enterprise, Se
attle wants foreign commerce and her
dependence for it is the energy, the in
itiative and the resource of her rail
roads; Tacoma wants manufactures
and hopes to get them through the
agency of her railroads; Spokane wants
jobbing trade and she seeks it through
arrangement of interior transport rates.
Everywhere in the state it is the same
every town, every interest, is seeking
to engage the attention and favor of the
railroads.
How this universal dependence upon
transportation policy raises up friend
ship for the railroads In a crisis was
strikingly Illustrated at Olympla only
a few weeks ago. As soon as it was
fully understood that the proposals of
Governor McBride were actuated by un
friendly motives as soon as it became
a fight directly against the roads
champions of fair play appeared in
every quarter. The City of Seattle rose
up almost en masse to the defense of
an Interest which It was felt ought not
to be crippled in its resources or its
energies. The hastily .made and incon
slderate pledges of 'party conventions
were with universal approval disregard
ed, for It was felt that Washington
could not afford, in the present condi
tion of her affairs, to antagonize capl
tol, to put brakes upon the wheels of her
material progress. That the best thing
was done no man. of judgment ques
tions; and upon some accounts it was
hardly deserved by the railroads. But
the result speaks for Itself, and it should
convince those who make the railroad
policy in Washington that the public
sense of justice and good-will is for
them a safe reliance if they will only
meet the people half way and abandon
the political courses which in times past
have done so much to corrupt and de
grade the life of the state and involve
its name in political and moral re
proach.
President John H. Scott, of the Ore
gon Good-Roads Association, is certain
ly right when he says that good drain
age Is a prerequisite to the construction
of a highway with a firm foundation.
Water left standing in ditches will, dur
ing the rainy season, keep the earth
foundation of a road soft, no difference
how hard and firm the surface may be.
Too many Road Supervisors get the
idea that ditches are made for the pur
pose of collecting the water that runs
off the surface of the road. That Is
only one of their proper purposes.
Every ditch should be constructed in
such a manner that water will run out
of it, and this means that the bottom of
the ditch must present a gradual decline
from the highest point to the outlet In
the rolling lands of the Willamette Val
ley natural outlets for dltbhes are so
close together that there is little reason
why all roads should not be well drained.
The important problem is to get the
water off the road, and it would seem
that this can be done more thoroughly
and with less expense by drainage than
by building up a grade. The time has
perhaps not yet come when tile can be
used tor carrying off the surplus water;
but there is no reason why Road Super
visors should not, during the Winter
months, mark the. high places In the
ditches and remove the obstnictke
when the weather and condition of the
soli will permit. Doubtless there are
some places that cannot be drained, but
the opportunities are many for improve
ment along the lines suggested by Judge
Scott
The authorities at the State Insane
Asylum have--found it necessary to re
adjust the payroll in order to raise some
of the salaries. The most efficient of
the attendants found that they could
make more money or secure pleasanter
work at the same compensation in other
employments, and as a consequence the
asylum force was frequently short of
suitable attendants. This was to be
expected. .During the hard times men
were glad to get a place on the asylum
payroll, but now that therels a strong
demand for active men In almost every
line of business, the moderate salary
paid by the state Is not sufficient Com
pensation ranging from 525 to $40 per
month and board will attract men who
cannot do better, but the state often has
need of the men who can do better.
Doubtless the state has many times
kept men upon he payroll who were
not worth hear the salary paid to them.
Friendship or political Influence made
them secure in their positions. But
whenever the state Is paying a man less
than he is worth and can earn elsewhere
he does not remain long In the state's
employ. As a rule, however, a man
who can hold his own In the open field
of competition must be a man so con
stituted that he .will work ably and'eon
sclentously, even though In the employ
of the state. The state can well afford
to pay a reasonable salary to a worthy
employe, and it should have no other
kind upon Its payroll. &
The United States consumes less dis
tilled spirits per capita now than it dd
thirty years ago, but In malt liquors
consumption advanced from 6.66 gallons
per capita In 18T2 to 17.49 gallons in 1902.
The quantity of tea used has Increased
10 per cent in the thirty years, while
the consumption of coffee, which was
7.28 pounds per head In 1872, was last
year 13.37 pounds. The Yankee drinker
of tea and rum is losing ground, and
the Teutonic beer and coffee-drinker Is
advancing rapidly. This does not mean
that Germans are overrunning the
United States and crowding the Anglo
Saxon out, but It does mean a change of
beverage habit. The Anglo-Saxon stock
is not drinking less, but it Is running
more to beer and coffee In what It does
drink. It is not strange that this Is so,
because Britain is the greatest consumer
of malt beverage on the face of the
earth, and her vices and virtues are
coming across the water In Increasing
profusion.
The riotous attack of an Irish mob
upon the new Star Theater, In New
York City, because of the performance
of a play offensive to their racial sym
pathies, was indefensible, for the New
England Yankee for years has been ca
ricatured on the American stage In the
disgusting and repulsive character of
Solon Shingle; the negro is a favorite
subject of burlesque; so is the dude
Englishman; so Is the Polish Jew; so Is
the German and the Scandinavian. The
most offensive and repulsive caricatures
of Irishmen, Jews, negroes and Popu
lists are not found on the stage, but In
comic publications like Judge and
Puck. There are caricatures In these
publications that are utterly coarse and
vulgar, without a particle of humor to
redeem them from the .contempt of a
well-bred reader, but because this is
true would be no justification for mob
bing the publication offices of these pa
pers. How would It do to adapt to new uses
the old adage that he is a public bene
factor who causes two blades of grass
to grow where only one grew before?
Can we not speak thus approvingly of
the farmer who raises two litters of
pigs this year where he raised only one
last year, and who has a herd of twenty
cows this year where he had only fifteen
last year? Large packing establish
ments are afraid to come to this state
because the supply of stock Is too lim
ited. Every farmer who is Increasing
hs flocks and herds and droves is not
only enriching the soil of his farm, but
Is hastening the time when an immense
packing-house will be In operation here.
He should indeed be reckoned a public
benefactor who thus helps to create and
build up the Industries which will make
this a more prosperous commonwealth.
Mr. John Barrett speaks truly when
he says-that In spite of all our expecta
tions from St Louis exhibits, the Lewis
and Clark Fair must succeed upon Its
own unique features North. Pacific
products and Oriental exhibits. Nobody
will cross the Rocky Mountains to see
warmed-over exhibits he has already
seen at St Louis. We must make the
most of the things St. Louis will not
have.
The apparent shrinkage in the value
of the estate of the late C. P. Hunting
ton may possibly be explained on the
theory that dropping those figures will
calm the fellows who seek reimburse
ment for the Central Pacific diversion
that created the Southern Pacific and
made Huntington fabulously rich. With
less money In sight, the scramble for 'it
will be less strenuous.
The reported determination of Joseph
Chamberlain to refuse a peerage and
live and die a commoner is not excep
tional in the political annals of Great
Britain, for Pitt, Canning, Peel and
Gladstone never accepted the tender of
a peerage, and men like Bright and
Cobden would certainly have declined
one had it been offered to them.
The recent attempt In Philadelphia to
enforce the obsolete Sunday law against
the Sunday newspapers was sure to fail
of success. Sir William P. Treloar re
cently said in London: "I do not know
of any act of Parliament which has
done so much good as the act which led
to the opening of museums and art -galleries
on Sundays."
Mrs. Judge-Cole, of Salubria, Idaho,
having tried and acquitted Mrs. Eva
Ladds for assault and battery on the
tatter's unequal masculine antagonist in
a mix-up, it is in order to congratulate
the new woman on the growing equality
of the sexes.
Simple, honest, old George Dewey, of
Vermont, Is accused of conceit and van
ity by the nation, of William and Diet
rich! When you corae to vanity, the
real thing never suspects itself.
SPIRIT OF THE SORTHWESTTRESS
Ne OppertHHlty te Be Rldlcalosa.
La Grand Chronicle.
Well, if he President cannot extead Ms
visit through Eastern Oregon, " there is
the consolation that the localities in this
part of the state will have no opportunity
of making themselves ridiculous a Seattle
and Tacoma are doing to see which place
will get the biggest share of his time.
New Chaace far Persians.
' 1 Ashland Tidings.
The discussion raised by the President
on the subject of "race suicide" has made
parents of triplets very chesty all over the
country. In ohe place it Is proposed to
present the mother of the three olive
branches with a medal. If this sort of
thing goes on these people will be asking
pensions from Congress.
ShoBld Not and. Will Not.
Tillamook Herald.
The effort to defeat the state appropria
tion for the Lewie and Clark Exposition
through the initiative and referendum pro
vision is a contemptible piece of business
that could originate in the brain of only
some disgruntled crank who feels piqued
at Portland. Sensible men should give it
no encouragement and they wont.
Punishment Should Fit the Crime.
OlymDia Recorder.
The white bride of a Chinaman secured
a divorce the other day at North Taklraa
on the grounds that her 'Mongolian hus
band insisted that her regular aiet con
sist of "rats. To the average mind It would
-have been more reasonable to have com
pelled the woman to live the rest of her
days with the aforesaid Chinaman. Any
woman who agreed to marry a Chinaman
ought to suffer the consequences of her
act
What Harney .Needs Most.
Harney County News.
Harney County has 10,000 square miles
of territory and a population of about 3000
people. It has vacant lands lying In the
mountains, in valleys and on deserts. But
It has no general Irrigation system, no
railroad, none of the factors that In
vite speedy settlement Therefore It can
have no part in development that will re
sult from the heavy Immigration that Is
pouring into other parts of Oregon and
the West
Ills Guiding Principle.
Aberdeen Bulletin.
The expected has happened, and to a
long list of remarkable vetos, the Gov
ernor has added perhaps the most remark
able of all in his disapproval of the tax
commission measure, the veto of which
was filed Tuesday. It will be a veto very
hard to explain, excepting upon the the
ory that the merits or demerits of a meas
ure "are with the Governor secondary con
sideration in comparison with the purpose
to punish those who differ from him.
Linn's Double Ambition.
Brownsville Times.
The Republicans of Linn County will
present a candidate for the Congressional
nomination at Eugene in the person of
Hon. Percy It. Kelly, of Albany. The can
didacy of Mr. Kelly has been decided upon.
Although he has entered the race re
luctantly he nevertheless has entered with
a determination to win the nomination.
This is the latest in the political field. It
would not at all surprise the Tlmps if
both the Republican and Democratic can
didates for the Congressional nomination
should be residents of Linn County. It is
very probable.
Twenty Years in Office.
Pilot Rock Record.
While Blnger Hermann has not an
nounced his candidacy for Congress from
the First District. It Is well known that
his. friends are doing good work In hrs
behalf. No man in Oregon today stands
higher in the estimation of the people
than Mr. Hermann. In every public posi
tion he has filled, covering a period of
nearly 20 years, he, has proven a faithful
servant and his popularity has increased
as years have passed. By reason of his
long and honorable career In this state,
Mr. Hermann is thoroughly Identified with
its interests and his election to Congress
will greatly strengthen the already formid
able delesatlon from Oregon.
)
A Friend in Need.
Hoquiam Washlngtonlan.
The editorials of the big papers on the
Sound, the Ledger, News, Post-Intelll-gencer
and Times, commenting on the
acts of the State Legislature, show the
venom of Senatorial defeat They are
unfair. The Legislature is not the worst
ever seen in the state, but one of the
best We will not say that no mistakes
were made, for there were, but we do
say that there were more wholesome and
wise laws enacted by the Legislature which
adjourned last Thursday than any one
which has met since Washington became
a state. Of 700 bills Introduced in the
Legislature, 150 became laws, most of
them are good laws. Along the line of
moral reformation Washington laws are
now in advance of most states .of the
Union, and they will be of Immense good
to us as- a state. Temporary embarrass
ment will give place to a moral level
soon, which will be welcomed by those
now In opposition. The new road law
will soon be giving good roads throughout
the state. The forest protection law will
be worth millions to the state, and so
there are many other laws which will
work great good to the state.
Spare Oreffon'si Good Name.
Bohemia! Nugget
The referendum Is undoubtedly a good
agency when properly and wisely admin
istered; but, like "painting, poetry and
eloquence," it may prove to be a very
dangerous agency when improperly ap
plied and under certain conditions. It
should not be resorted to in the matter of
the Lewis and Clark appropriation. There
is little probability that the action of the
last Legislature will be repudiated at the
hands of the voters of the etate. Outside
of a few "soreheads" and a few more
"sinkers" on the lifeline of state pride
and progress, the Exposition meets with
favor throughout Oregon. No matter if the
attempt to annul the action of the Legis
lature was snowed under by hundreds of
thousands of votes, the act of employing
such an agency at this stage of the game
would be a burning shame, and the re
flection on the fair State of Oregon would
be of longer life than many of those in
strumental in bringing It about
Sentiment That's Vying Oat.
Dallas Observer.
The sentiment In favor of Invoking the
referendum on the Lewis and Clark Fair
appropriation seems to be dying out This
is as It should be. The Fair must be car
ried through to a successful finish. The
honor of the State of Oregon demands it
While we regret as much as any one can
that the Legislature failed to pass the
"corporation tax bill," and while It Is
true that the corporations will be greatly
benefited by the Fair, the old saying that
It is poor policy to cut off one's nose to
spite one's face still holds good, and now
that the state is committed to the Fair,
it would be worse than a calamity to turn
the enterprise down at this time. The
people should remember that the law that
provides for the referendum also provides
for the initiative, and If they wish, to em
ploy their time profitably they will drop
all talk of the referendum and begin at
the other end of the line. If they will
reframe the corporation tax bill and be
gin a campaign of education on the same.
and at the proper time invoke the aid of
the Initiative,' no Legislature that ever
will be created will dare to turn the
measure down when it comes before that
body for consideration. It Js true that
the measure cannot be brought before the
Legislature again until two years from
now, but if the people do their duty in the
meantime, it will become a law as -sure
as night follows day.
A BLOT OX MISSOURI.
St Louis Globe Democrat
A paper published in an adjoining state
remarks that when Jesse James' old
home is fid&ted down, from St Joe to St
Louis this Summer the people on the Mis
souri .side of the river will get on their
knees as the sacred relic goes by; and a
Kansas paper adds that the scheme to
put the James house on exhibition will
result m a great deal of unfavorable
advertising for Missouri. That unpleas
ant notoriety has already set In. Ex
changee la all quarters of the country
are taking up the text and inquire why It
is that' a certain class of Missouriaus
find a peculiar enjoyment in lionizing a
bank robber or train wrecker, especially
when he is also a sensational assassin.
Hardly had the buzs of censure in 10,000
newspapers subsided in regard to the
Cole Younger show than the Jesse James
enterprise is sprung, and the rest of the
country again speaks with scorn and
contempt of the character of Mlssourians
who take their pleasure in this strange
fashion. Why, it is asked, is this mani
festation confined to Missouri? The
question is a hard one. and with Cole
Younger shows and Jesse James exhi
bitions crowding each other the Impeach
ment can not be denied. There are. It
must be admitted, Mlssourians who dear
ly love a brigand if his record is tough
enough and bloody enough. Tho phe
nomenon invites attention. It is a cu
riosity in the sociological field.
It Is observed that when the James
house takes up Its river journey the Mis
souri shore will be crowded with a throng
of eager and grinning spectators, while
nobody will be seen on the Kansas side
but a few farmers plowing their fields
and utterly Indifferent to the regatta, of
brutal assassination raising such a fu
rore on the soil of Missouri. Is it a case
of heredity from the days of border ruf
fianism and murderous bushwhacking?
Is there a wild microbe at work in the
system of certain Mlssourians Impelling
them when a pair of Jesse James' old
trousers are held aloft on a pole to fall
down in adoration? There are Mlssouri
ans who walk 40 miles to see a Jesse
James or Cole Younger Jackknlfe, and
yet they seem to be respectable citizens,
go to church, pay their taxes and con
sistently "vote one ticket all their lives.
If they move out of the state they lose
this appetite, or at least prudently con
ceal it; but let them revisit old haunts
and their first act' Is to rush somewhere
where they lean get a sniff of a bloody
rag or other souvenir said to be asso
ciated with the career of St Jesse James
or St Cole Younger. A passion so over
mastering must be due to some astound
ing Missouri idiosyncrasy, but what it
Is has defied analysis up to this time.
Whatever may be the cause, the result
Is a constant squlbblng and disparage
ment of the state. The Jesse James and
Cole Younger taint is one reason why the
farming lands of Missouri are much low
er than those of Illinois and Iowa, and
Why a man who avows that he is a Mis
sourian is expected to add: "Don't laugh."
Yet not more than one Mlssourian in
six, or say a total of 500.000 would drop
his tools and gallop off to hooray over
the spectacle of Cole Younger as ticket
seller and star attraction of a measly
traveling show, or ga2e entranced at a
small frame house In which Jesse James
once took his meals and planned his
deeds of robbery and carnage. In Min
nesota Cole Younger found it extremely
difficult to get out of prison on a per
sonal pledge ox future conduct. No
sooner does ho strike the soil of Mis
souri than he becomes a center of in
tense interest and takes the road with a
show In violation of his promise. Relics
of Jesse James are collected for a similar
exhibition. When certain Mlssourians
cease to smear themselves up with Cole
Youngeri3m and Jesse Jamesism the state
will be vastly the gainer.
Washington's English Ancestors
St James' Gazette, London.
In the chancel floor of Brington Parish
Church, five miles northwest of North
ampton, carefully preserved, is a . stone,
with arms, to Laurence Washington (1616)
and his wife. Laurence came of a good
old stock,, (says "Young England" of
which one scion, in 1532, and again in
354, was elected Mayor of Northampton.
This member of the family was named
Laurence, and he had two great-grand
sons, named John and Laurence, who
lived on the family estates of Sulgave In
Northamptonshire. For some consider
able time, indeed until quite recent years,
(Ikh) it was accepted that It was these
two brothers who had emigrated to Vir
ginia, but in that year it was conclusively
proved that it was the children of Lau
rence who were the emigrants. The pious
Inscription reads thus: "The Lord gir-
eth, the Lord takcth away, blessed be the
name of the Lord. Constructa 1606." In
1610 the Sulgrave estates were sold, and
shortly afterward Laurence Washington
left Brington for London, and his younger
brother Robert became the tenant of the
cottage. The two erandsons of Laurence.
John and Laurence, emigrated to Amer
ica in 1657, and the great-grandson of the
two former was the first President of the
United States, George Washington.
Causes of Defalcations.
Philadelphia Press.
Nothing is more ominous than the
steady Increase in the number of defal
cations and breaches of trust These al
ways come with changes and alterations
In the conditions of business. When ex
penses increase faster than gross re
celpts and the margin of profits shrink
owners and managers Inevitably begin
to investigate leaks, to look into the cor
ners, to examine books and accounts and
to find Just how things are. When this
is done, irregularities are sure to be un
covered, dubious practices are laid bare
and defaulters find themselves suddenly
discovered or so near discovery that they
flee. A falling market plays its part also
at such a time. Speculation ceases to be
profitable. Losses replace past profits.
men who have risked their employers
money lose it or are tempted to pilfer on
a large scale or small to save some ven
ture near collapse. These various causes
are all now operative.
"Sometime."
May Riley Smith.
Sometime, when all life's lessons have, been
learned, .
And sun and stars forevermore have set,
The things which our weak Judgment here has
spurned,
The things o'er which we grieved with lashes
wet.
Will flash before us out of life's dark night.
As stars shine most In deeper tints of blue.
And we shall see how all God's plans are right.
And how what seemed reproof was love most
true.
And we shall see how, while we frown and
sigh.
God's plan goes on as best for you and me;
How, when we called He heeded not our cry.
Because His wisdom to the end could see,
So, even as wise parents disallow.
Too much of sweets to craving babyhood.
So, God, perhaps. Is keeping from us now
Life's sweetest things because It seemeth
good.
And If sometimes commingled with life's wine
We find the wormwood and rebel and shrink,
Be sure a wiser hand than yours or mine
Fours out this potion for our Hps to drink.
And If some one you love Is lying low
Where human kisses cannot reach his face,
Oht do not blame the loving Father so.
But wear your sorrow with obedient grace.
And you shall shortly see that lengthened
breath
Is sot the sweetest gift God sends his friend,
And that sometimes the sable pall of death.
Conceals the falrsit boon His love can. send.
If we could push aside the gates of life
And stand within, and all God's workings
see.
We could interpret all this doubt and strife.
And for each mystery could find a key.
But not today: then be content, sad heart.
God's plans, like lilies, pure and white unfold
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold.
And If through patient toll we reach the land
Where tired feet with sandals loose may rest
When we shall clearly see and understand,
I think that we shall say, "God knows the
best."
, NOTE, AND COMMENT :
Hermann can be- 'defeated, if 'thjeppo-
sition unites, ajso if tho otherffellow
gets more votes. - - ?
If voti see a hammer blnheqjnto a
man's back that means he Is for ie refer
endum on ine x air.
Simpfe Simon met a pieman.
Asked him. for a pie;
Said the plernan-unto Simon:'
Your turn lias son by!
Thcv knew Brownell in "Clacks
What he says he don't want,"tnatxthly
know they must give him.
Your Uncle George is not talking to Ger
many through his hat, either. H caito
the job. if it has to be done. . A
Go brine to ma a keg- of boos. : V
And brlns it In a -wooden parcel:
That I may drink before I go
A Tvllllevraucht to old Jack Marshall.'
O. Jack! O. Jack! go take a brace.
Or all our hones will scon be dampened; .
Jt's getting tiresome to be told "
We'd -won If something hadn t happened.
Thirty-seven per cent of the population
of the United States is to be found In,
the drainage area of the Atlantic sea
board, 15 per cent in that of the Great
Lakes, and 53 per cent in the Mexican
Gulf area or 96 per cent for the area whose
waters find their way finally into tho
Atlantic Ocean. The remaining 4 per cent
resides In the Pacific area. Such is" the
finding of the last United States census.
The recently published letters of the
great Italian patriot Mazzini, Includes
the following judgment of Lady Byron,
written immediately after her death;
I saw Lady Byron twice, and she looked to
me a good, sharp, positive, somewhat puritan
ical woman, sad from the past, conscious ot
not havlnp been altogether right, and doing
good half for good-doing's sake. half, for for
getfulness sake. But I am so' thoroughly,
Byronlan, so deeply convinced that he has
been wronged by everybody, that my Impres
sion cannot be trusted.
Returns from the various logging sec
tions of Maine show that the season's
cut will be approximately SOO.OOOJOOO feet,.
over half of which Is spruce. About 300,-
000;000 feet will be ground up in the pulp
mills, and the rest will be used for lum
ber. This vast harvest has called for the
employment of about 16,000 men, mhny of
whom went Into the woods early In tha
Fall to make the camps ready for tha
lumber jacks, and nearly $4,000,00 has been
paid to them in wages. '
rra in favor of reform all down the line.
Sot the limit as to height at six feet nine;
Yvth policemen. energeUc.
And the firemen all athletic.
We shall have a force that's elegant and fine.
I believe In getting Just the best we .can.
So put the sawed-offs out except my man.
I will go the limit with you for reform.
If we don't make good, there'll bo an awful
storm.
This grafting has to stop.
Or something's sure to drop.
Everything must work In Just the .proper form.
We must handle vice as honest as we sin.
So put boodlers out except my man.
Georsre Washington had the foresight
of a statesman. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell
points out that when La Fayette, assured'
of success, desired to enter Canada wltn
a French column, Washington declined
to encourage the enterprise. Success,
he thought, would enable France to
claim all Canada as her share of the
spoils of victory. "With Louisiana in her
oower. and her posts on the Mississippi,
we should forever be cut oft from the
fertile West At another time he re
grets that Canada did not join us; for
now, be writes, "she will be always a,
trouble and sometimes a danger.
In another of his letters 13 expressed his.
dislike ot slavery: "Were it not that I am
principled against selling negroes as you
would cattle at a market, I would not in
12 months from this date be possessed ot
one as a slave. I shall be happily mis
taken If they are not found to be a very
troublesome species of property ere many
years pass over our heads."
Twenty-five acres are said to comprise
the commercial gingseng-growlng area of
the United States, most of it being in two
counties of New York, In North Caro
lina and in Missouri. George Vanderbllt
has planted a fine garden of the root at
Biltmore. Two farmers In Ohio raised on
one-third of an acre a crop that brought
$15,000. A New York farmer who had been
raising cabbage at $2 a ton drove into
town with a small buggyload of ginseng
for which he got $1200. There are 400.000.
000 Chinese, and all who can afford It use
ginseng. The mystery of the root is its
wide variation In price. While some sells
readily at $1 a pound, there are species
that bring $100 an ounce. Consul Wild
man says he has seen Mandarin ginseng
that was worth 135 times Its own weight
In silver. The regular price is from $50
to $250 an ounce. The craze has advanced
so far in this country that a monthly
magazine called the Ginseng Garden has
been started in Missouri in advocacy, of
the culture.
Onr Trade With. Canada.
Philadelphia. Record.
Canada gives England preferential tar
iff rates, and yet our exports to the Do
minion are large and growing, and may
easily and with no Injury to any interest
of our own. be much lncreasea. common
sense dictates that we should reduce the
obstructions to our trade with so large
and profitable a customer as the country
north of us,
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHERS.
"That automobile manufacturer did a proper
thing." "What was it?" "He endowed a
hospital." Detroit Free Press.
Upton Parke Is your wife's new girl a fix
ture? Cyril Downs Seems to be. I don't sea
her moving around any. Tbwn and Country.
Gladys She has named her auto after her
ex-husband, the count! Ethel And ' why?
Gladys Well! It is very fast and usually
broke. Puck.
We read of an Eastern author who wrote
three stories In one night, and then walked
out of an open window and fell four. Atlanta
Constitution.
Kitty Theodore tells me all his- thoughts
are of me. Blanche Tes; that's very pretty.
But they do say that Theodore never thinks.
Boston Transcript
"He's publishing a paper now, I hear."
"Tes; It's th official organ of the dental pro
fession." "Ah! sort of a mouth-organ, eh?" -Philadelphia
Press.
Master (gently to new boy) Smlthers, my
boy, can you tell me what a noun Is? New
Boy (anxious to please) No, sir; but .7m. sura
my father could. Punch.
The lakes are Just right for fishing now,
and the fishing brigade is active. Butall tha
fish-liars will have their portion, later on, la
another lake. Atlanta Constitution.
"You say your playing created a great deal
of talk?" said the friend. "Tes,?' answered
the pianist, "but, unfortunately. It wag most
ly during my performance." Washington
Star.
Mrs. Upson Tour grandfather is an octo
genarian, la he not? Mrs. Neurich Indeed, ho
Isn't anything ot the sort. He Is the most
truthful man I ever bumped up against. Chi
cago Dally News.
She Ho'w long have you been living In New
York? He Oh, I came here about tha time
they began digging up the streets for the sub
way. "Have you been here as long as that?"
Tonkers Statesman.
"J. sent to you for a detective the other day,
for some Important work " "I know you
did, sir; but I had none to spare; .every one
of them was investigating the career of soma
college athlete." Puck.
mas