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TODAY'S WEATHER Cloudy to partly
cloudy, with occasional squalls of rain, prob
ably part anow or sleet; variable winds, mostly
westerly.
TESTERDAT'S WEATHER Maximum tem
perature, t4 deg.; minim nm temperature, 37
dec-; precipitation, 0.02 Inch.
POR1XJUCD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL IS.
a form op aiminAix.
The cattle disease known as "lumpy
jaw," now affecting the herds of Baker
I County, Is one of the forms of murrain,
Jon;; known and so-called In modern
times; In ancient times named various
ly, but always presenting1 the same
general features or characteristics.
This form of murrain Is usually
known under the name of anthrax lit
erally, a coal, or burning coal, from the
malignity oT the tumor. A form of It
affects horses, and Is very fatal. It la
analagous to the bubonic plague, so
called, that has always been a scourge
of man; but perhaps not directly com
municable between man and beast
though this has been a subject of con
troversy. Anthrax probably is the
same cattle plague mentioned In Ex
odus, and certainly the same described
In the Georglcs of Virgil. It has been
known in England from early Saxon
times, and Is believed to be a product
largely of physical conditions of climate
and soil.
Usually the progress of the disease Is
very rapid. In the animals affected the
tumors have affinities for certain parts
In particular the lower Jaw of the
bovine species, though by no means
confined to this locality. Almost as soon
as attacked the tissues mortify; high
fever accompanies the disease, and, of
course, the distress during- the invasion
or progress is extreme. Often the ani
mal perishes in a few hours. If the
flesh of animals Infected be eaten by
man there Is grave danger. In various
countries there are records of great
mortality in the human race, ascribed
with more or less confidence to this
cause.
It would be interesting to inquire
what the physical conditions are In
those localities In Baker County where
this disease Is prevalent. It has always
been observed that In marshy districts,
in basins with no drainage, where there
are impervious subsoils, this murrain
has been most common. This would
carry the Idea that the disease may be
developed or generated from the phys
ical conditions of particular localities;
and yet observation seems to prove
that if it is generated In such way. It is
propagated only through contagion.
The only sure way to check It is to kill
and bury all animals affected with it,
and completely to isolate the herd
wherein It has appeared. At different
periods of history, during many centu
ries, there has been prodigious mortal
ity among cattle from this disease; and
that Its prevalence In Eurofe Is now
less than formerly Is due wholly to the
energetic measures employed to extir
pate it wherever It may appear.
T1M12 TO ACT.
ilr. Olmstead's visit Is suggestive of
no very pleasing reflections upon the
local situation and outlook as to park
matters. In our half century and more
occupation of one of the most beautiful
natural sites In the whole world, we
have almost nothing to show a visitor
like Mr. Olmstead, excepting what we
have dono to mar the beauty of Nature.
Our "City Park" on the hill is. indeed,
fine in a way; but Its way is too limited
both as to size and to the extent of its
development. The old "plaza blocks"
are excellent as breathing spaces, but
nothing has been done to beautify them
excepting to plant a few rows of trees.
Our so-called "park blocks" are mere
open tracts "calf pastures," as they
have been called with some point.
With a beautiful natural situation,
variety In elevation, native forest,
water in abundance, a prolific soil and
a climate which makes everything
grow, we have no park system which
does not need to be apologized for. We
have nothing absolutely nothing out
Flde of a few private places, which
speaks of taste and liberality. This,
too, in the face of the most extraordi
nary opportunities. And it is not due
to meanness or the lack of public spirit.
There has never been a time when
Portland has failed to put its hands
Into Its pockets liberally In support of
any meritorious public purpose when
proper appeal has been made; and the
reason we have no parks worthy the
name is not because we are either poor
or mean, as a stranger might well be
lieve, but because no digested, concrete
and satisfactory plan for a park system
has ever been proposed. There has
been a lot of talk about parks trom
time to time no end of talk but It has
for tho most part been along negative
lines, and Its general effect has been
rather to Irritate tho public mind than
to help it to the practical end of get'
ting some good thing done.
Now while Mr. Olrastcad is here,
end while the public mind, through the
interests connected with the Lewis. and
Clark Fair Is drawn to the betterment
of the cityis a good time to take up
the park question in 'earnest- By all
means, we ought to get ilr. Olmstead
to make a careful study of our situa
tion and conditions and give us a plan.
tell us what to do. It is not neces
sary, indeed. It is not desirable, that we
should go at the actual work of park
making after the wholesale method.
But we ought to have a general scheme.
a plan to work to something- to hang
the swivel on, as Llsh Applegate used
to say. And if. Mr. Olmstead Is the
man he is reputed to be, he is Just the
man for the work.
The tune must come and soon, we
fear when opportunities for beautify
ing the city will not be so fortunate as
they are now. Already the current
price of $3 per cord for firewood has
robbed the hillsides to the west of half
their beauty and distinction; and un
less something shall be done to pre
serve what remains, we sliall troon have
lost for all time the foreit trees which
so glorify our landscape. It Is, indeed,
time we should know what we want
and what we must preserve in the way
of natural features, time we had a
fixed Ideal In mind and a definite plan
to work to.
TUB GREAT PARADOX.
Senator Hoar observes the variety In
Jefferson, but perceives not the con
trariety. He calls him an oracle; he
should call him a paradox. It Is not
that Jefferson's multitudinous outgiv
ings supply materials for every political
creed, after the fashion of Holy Writ,
for this is a mere matter of form. Jef
ferson's contradictions are not of mere
form, but of substance. His was not
the infinite variety of the versatile; it
was the incompatible divergence be
tween East and West. Jefferson was
our great American paradox.
He was In practice an aristocrat, but
democratic in theories. He bought and
sold negroes, yet announced the equal
ity of man. He interpreted the Consti
tution to forbid extension of the
Union, yet he annexed Louisiana. His
theory led to free trade, his practice to
protection.
Though Jefferson was gifted with In
sight as to the political Importance of
Louisiana and Oregon, he had no con
ception of the Inevitable development
of our Industrial civilization. The
United States of the twentieth century
was to him a Nation of planters. He
could conceive no emergency that
would require the services of a po
liceman. He saw the froth upon the
stream of time. Its bubbles of political
and social dreams, but the current of
economics, as history revealed It, was
to him a closed book.
To this day it Is a question whether
Jefferson contributed to his country
more good than harm. He was our
greatest expansionist, yet he was the
father of secession and' the author of
the Civil War. Abolition took its texts
from his writings, yet In 1S61 the sec od
ors offered no other Justification, pre
tended no other, than his Kentucky
resolutions. Greatest of expansionists
he was; yet on his principles no nation
could hold together.
TUB TROLLEY A 51 CANS OF GRACE.
The application of steam to railway
and water transportation revolution
ized the social and business life of the
nineteenth century, and the astonish
ing spread of the electric trolley car
promise to be only second to steam
In the working of social changes In our
life today. We do not a: predate the
enormous Influence of the extension of
electric railway travel In Oregon, for
outside of Portland the object lessons
are few, but In the small, thickly pop
ulated states of the North Atlantic sea
board, the electric trolley has become
so largely extended that It has seri
ously reduced the business of the steam
railways, and forced them to lower
their suburban fares to meet Its com
petition. Twenty years ago there was
not a trolley line In the United States;
ten years' ago electric cars had not yet
replaced the old city horse-car lines,
but today thousands of miles of trolley
tracks traverse the hills and dales of
the Eastern States. In Western Mas
sachusetts alone there are more than
600 miles of rails. The out-of-the-way
hill towns have been Invaded and
waked out of their long sleep Into new
and vigorous life. Electric cars now
carry milk and fruit Into market. The
City of Springfield, Mass., by means of
its trolley lines, has become the trad
ing center for 250.000 people living
within a radius of fifteen miles.
Trolley excursions on Sunday and
holidays form one of the strong sup
ports of the trolley companies. The
dally newspaper, through the trolley,
baa supplanted weekly papers In hun
dreds of the small hill towns. Hun
dreds of people last Summer made the
trip to Boston by electric lines from
Springfield and Worcester. A ride of
160 to 170 miles Is taken from Spring
field to Greenfield, via Worcester and
Fltchburg; and back again. Western
Massachusetts will add to its present
600 miles of electric lines an additional
150 miles, traversing a section of the
state that Is remote from the steam
railroads, whose people now reach the
outside world with difficulty. There
are residents of these small, quiet
towns who never rode on steam rail
ways, and the trolley will make these
beautiful, quiet hill towns the Summer
homes of city people. A trolley line
from Hartford, Conn., to Worcester,
Mass., will be in operation by next
year.
The trolley In the old states of the
East is taking the place of the public
carriage and the bicycle, and Is
supplanting the parcel delivery and
the regular passenger train. The cars
are clean, there are no cinders, no
smoke, and the pleasant trip is through
country inaccessible to the steam rail
road. From Boston a ride of seventy
five miles can be taken by trolley.
It is impossible to exaggerate the so
cial change that has been and will be
accomplished by the extension of tfie
trolley. In Boston It has transplanted
the occupants of crowded, noisome
lodging-houses to suburban cottage
homes, where the children see grass
and trees, and the parents have that
privacy that Is' essential, not only to
domestic happiness, but to morality.
Crowded tenement houses always pro
mote quarrels and vicious habits, and
the trolley, like the steam railway. Is
a Christian missionary wherever it
goes. The Influence of the trolley upon
the mental, moral and industrial con
dition of dull, isolated hill towns re
mote from the steam railway Is awak
entng, uplifting and energizing- In every
respect. The dull, sleepy little towns.
through this Invasion of then Isolation,
can no longer avoid observation. The
coming of S Unimex boarders brings a
largo Increase of business and fur
nish ea the backward village with a
standard of comparison that is-at once
a reproach and an Inspiration to a
lethargic community hitherto wedded
to the idols of the Indolent Ephralras
of rustic life.
This social revolution that is hems
wrought br the trolley all over New
England, the Middle States and the
West is not yet visible to our great
state of magnificent distances to any
great extent outside of Portland and
its vicinity, but it Is sure to come.
Within fifty years the trolley lines wlU
t greatly multiplied in Oregon. If
it pays to invade the little, dull hill
towns of New England with trolley
lines. It will pay at no very distant
day to tap our small towns that are
remote from the great steam railroads.
and the -wretched character of our
country roads win hasten the extension
of the trolley.
In fact, the rapid extension of the
trolley has greatly retarded the Im
provement of the public highways
mrougnout the country. The farmer
who can send his milk, his fruit and
light produce to market by the trollev
is less disposed to move strongly for
me construction of improved high
ways, and by the trolley much that the
farmer buys In the city can be deliv
ered. The wretched condition of the
country roads in Winter in our climate
will promote the extension of the trol
ley to the small towns at present In
accessible to the steam railways. When
our half million of population has be
come a million, we shall see the rapid
extension of the trolley cars, and when
this takes place we shall see the same
social changes that are evident at the
East and Middle West, The trolley
car will be as effective a Christian mis
sionary and Industrial reformer to our
dull little towns as It has been to those
of New England.
BRYA"C TO THE BOOTH.
It is with something of a shock and
no little pain that we observe in Mr.
Bryan's Jeff ersonlan remarks at Wash
ington a most pointed rebuke to a sec
tion of the country which has been
most loyal and .devoted. In his support.
His undisguised reference to negro dis
franchisement Is as follows:
Jefferson recognized that tho Christian re
ligion rested upon love, and thai love Is the
very antithesis et brute force. It Is weU re
membered that the Declaration of Independence
It-elf rests upon the same foundation which
supports our religion, love, and those who deny
the doctrine of human brotherhood ar not apt
to respect the creed of lnallenabla rights and
natural equality embodied In the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution of ths
United 8lates.
At the outset the eulogist is .apparent
ly thinking of lynching. He lands ef
fectively on the time-honored Institu
tion of stake-burning In his invocation
of the Christian religion and his un
qualified censure of brute force. He
clearly leaves us to infer that negro
massacres, with such accompaniments
as kerosene oil and fights for relics, are
Incompatible with either our religious
or our political Ideals. His remarks
are unobjectionable, perhaps, in the ab
stract, but in the South, where' these
things are taken seriously and person
ally, they are certain to raise a storm
of protest.
But Mr. Bryan's chief concern Is not
so much humanity as politics; and on
the general subject of political equality
he emits no uncertain sound. "Those
who deny the doctrine of human broth
erhood" (an obvious euphemism for
"white supremacy" and "nigger rule"),
he says, "are not apt to respect the
creed of Inalienable rights and natural
equality embodied In the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of
the United States." The expression
"Inalienable rights," of course, can only
refer to the elective franchise, which
has been taken from the negro by force
and fraud throughout the South. As
for the reference to the Constitution, we
understand Mr. Bryan to refer to the.
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments,
to whose enforcement he thus unflinch
ingly adheres.
Opinions must necessarily differ as
to the correctness of Mr. Bryan's views
and as to the wisdom of their precipita
tion Into the already agitated mael
strom of the Southern question. With
out undertaking to declare positively
for or against either side in this some
what delicate controversy, we venture
a few figures which may throw light
upon the general bearing of the Ne
braskan's speech. It appears that the
Democratic party Is under present ob
ligation to the South about as follows:
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Republicans 57
Democrats from the North s
Democrats from the Sooth 27
HOUSE OF ItEPRES EXTATTVES.
Republicans ...... ..................... ...2A&
Democrata from the North... M
Democrats from the South 122
GOVERNORS.
Republicans .......27
Democrats In the North .....- -4
Democrats In the South , 14
With all due regard for the peril In
which Mr. Bryan places himself, there
fore, by offering to do without all but
thirteen of the electoral votes he re
ceived In 1900. we can but commend his
general Indictment of Southern politics.
It Is only there that the dread menace
of Bryanlsm acquires any seriousness.
WAS HE I5DISPEXSABLET
This day thirty-eight years ago Abra
ham Lincoln died. He was a very great
man, and through patience and tact,
supported by moral faith, he did a very
great work. Whether he was the one
man who could have carried the coun
try safely through Its great crisis has
been debated. He did it, certainly, and
certainly many another would have
failed. But probably it Is too much to
say that he was the one-indispensable
man.
The North had superior resources, but
the South had a tremendous energy.
No people ever struck harder for Inde
pendence. Lincoln's chief merit lay In
the skill with which he kept the North
practically united for the work. Herein
Is where many another man would have
failed. Lincoln had a balance of Judg
ment, between extremes, that never
failed. He keDt the moral asrects of
the struggle at the front, yet did not
fall Into mere moral theories and set
policies. Again, his Inflexible public In
tegrity was perhaps the source of his
greatest support. Had he ever been
suspected of selfish ambition or polit
ical duplicity or partisan trickery, there
would have been a. revolution at the
North before the war had obtained
three years of life. All the people of
the North were not sure that Lincoln
was a great statesman, but all were
absolutely sure that he was an utterly
unselfish, pure-minded patriot, who was
incapable of using his position or his
opportunity to play the part of an im
perious .dictator or a corrupt tyrant.
So not only the Republicans, but the
War Democrats, of the North trusted
him though there was much In his
' policy that the latter did not approve.
At no time, in no place, is it wise to
aseert-ttat any ra&a la "tn-aieueSBftMe."
Tet certainly It was remarkable fortune
that placed Lincoln at the head of the
country and kept him there, during the
period of the Civil War.
The Gypsy camp that has been estab
lished la the northeastern part ot the
city presents an aggregation of- filth
and squalor that is very seldom found
In proximity with decent civilized life.
It. Is, besides, big- with the possibilities
of crime and shadowed by vice of the
most disgusting order. It presents a
company of human animals men,
women and children of alien race and
language, densely Ignorant, of vagrant
habits and wolfish appetites, unclean,
superstitious, impudent and unques
tionably thievish propensities. Being
so utterly repulsive to every sense of
decency, the creatures of this camp
would be as harmless as any other
equal number of vagrants but for a
subtle curiosity that they excite and
to which they pander In the role of
"fortune-tellers." Strange as It may
seem, there are those In every com
munity who believe In the pre
posterous pretensions ot these mal
odorous vagrants, place In the
dirty palms outstretched the maglo
piece of silver and listen to
preposterous prophecies. It Is Impos
sible to protect foolish people from in
dulging in folly of this type as long
as the temptation is within .reach. In
the interest of such persons, therefore,
as well as for the protection of the
community from the predatory pro
pensities of these nomadic creatures,
they should be kepi on the move. It Is
not neighborly, perhaps, to push them
on, but it Is In accordance with selfish
ness, the ruling Instinct In human na
ture, and In such cases a protective In
stinct as well. In the meantime, since
they are said to be holding large recep
tions, with children as their curious
guests, it would be a matter of pru
dence lor parents to be on the alert lest
perchance mischief may follow not only
the presence, but the departure, or this
wandering band.
The statement of Dr. Titus Munson
Coan that "the average stature of men
eminent for Intellectual achievements
in modern times is p feet 106 inches"
needs verification, and In our Judgment
it cannot be substantiated. Borne men
of' supreme intellectual power, like Na
poleon, were of very short stature, and
so few of the Intellectual men of mod
ern times have been tall men that the
claim of an average of 5 feet 106 Inches
seems to us extravagant. Outside of
Washington. Jefferson and Lincoln,
few of our public men eminent for high
Intellectual achievements have been tall
men. John Adams, John Qutncy Adams,
Hamilton, Burr, van Buren, Stephen
A. Douglas, Stanton, Grant, John A,
Andrew and Sheridan were short men,
and Webster, while a finely propor
tioned man, did not exceed 5 feet 10H
in stature. In the Old World Welling
ton was,, like Napoleon, of low stature;
so were- Nelson, Voltaire, Gibbon,
Burke, G rattan and Curran. William
III, Luxemburg. Frederick the Great,
Conde. Prince Eugene, Alexander Asr
nese, Suwarrow, Turenne, Cltve and
Moltke were of short stature and incon
spicuous for superior bodily develop
ment. Peel, Fox, Gladstone, Macaulay
and Thiers were all short men. Wash
ington was tall and muscular, but bad
a weak voice and weak lungs. Dr.
Coan needs to print a list of his men
of modern times eminent for Intellect
ual achievement before the Intelligent
reading public will believe that their
average stature was S feet 10H inches.
The Indictment for malfeasance in of
fice against Mayor Humes, of Seattle,
as lodged, after Infinite labor and
pains, by the grand Jury, has been de
clared worthless by Superior Judge
BelL The order for a call of the grand
Jury to Investigate rumors of munici
pal corruption was issued by the court
thai finds nothing In the returns. The
charge upon which the indictment was
based was the failure of Mayor Humes
to perform his sworn duty In enforcing
the laws against gambling and other
vices that ran riot In the city. Thus
ends another farce In municipal reform.
The spasms of assumed virtue are usu
ally violent while they last, but they
are seldom fatal to the vice which in
spires them or to the political regime
under which they take place. The Se
attle reform programme has .been long
drawn out. The taxpayers will pay,
first and last, a pretty sum for its pre
sentment. No doubt, however; they
will be relieved to find that municipal
corruption has not found lodgment In
their beloved city, and that "gambling
and other vices" have only existed
there In the minds of would-be reform
ers, certain official busy bodies and mu
nicipal and conscienceless scandal
mongers. Having been properly re
buked, these persons will now hide
their diminished heads. On with the
dance!
The wretched creature, John de Falco,
who committed a most brutal crime in
this city some weeks ago, and was
upon trial sent up for life for man
slaughter, succeeded, with the aid ot
a dull knife. In making his term of lm
prisonment exceedingly, short. Utterly
bereft of responsibility, and of suicidal
as well as homicidal bent, he would
have made an end to his own life when
he killed his wife, had not a well-meaning
but mistaken person rescued him
for trial, conviction and subsequent
self-murder. There Is little cause for
regret in the death of such a man,
though the manner of It may be shock
ing. When any human being reduces
life to a mere condition of existence
dominated by Vicious Impulses, the
sooner he abandons the pretense of llv
Ing the better for all concerned.
What-sort of tipple do they brew on
Bam field Creek, In the vicinity of Bar
ley Sound! Nothing "that fables, yet
have feigned or fear conceived, gor-
gons .and hydras and chimeras, dire,
have surpassed In horror ot Imagina
tion the sea serpent with "the head of
a horse and -a. body sixty feet Ion?.'
which Is said t5 disport In the waters
of that region. " Even the fierce fire
water of civilization, distilled and
mixed for the purposes of trade with
the Indians ot Barley Sound, and drunk
to excess, could scarcely conjure from
out the deep so Incredible, a .monster.
The officers of the. Barafleld'.cable sta
tion should bo . induced Vat once to
change their tipple.
When a debt of" $17,560 on a church
building In' this city can Te wiped out.
with an Easter contribution as the re
sult of, a quiet canvass of ten days, no
further evidence of the return of pros
perity Is needed. Contribution of this
kind are sot made when people are in
financial straits.
VIEWS OF TARIFF REVISION
Ab IndeAatte Postponement,
Peoria- -Journal.
Secretary Root la sxttlar worse and
worse. He says that the tariff should, be
revised. -only by a Coaxresa that Is not
playing politics, This .would ts. puitteg oft
revision until tne amveu ot is tauiwunm.
and that Is a Utile farther than any oae
else has gone.
Let-Alone Better Than Kevlaloiw
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The second rule laid down by Mr. Root
Is that the tariff most be revised by its
friends. By that he means the friends of
trusts and monopolies. The. country has
already had far too' much ot this sort of
reviaiori. which always " means- another
turn of the screw m the direction of shel
ter for mononolles. It would be a great
deal better for the tariff to be left as It
Is than to have It revised by the sort or
friendo represented "by Mr. Root. They
would be certain to make it worse.
President la All Rlsht.
Philadelphia Press
It Is plain from his discussion that the
President haa eqmo to the view that a
cenerel revision ot the tariff before the
Presidential election it Inadvisable, lie
would not precipitate the uncertainty
which such a movement would create. He
would not 1st tha tariff become the foot
ball of a. political contest. But be w6uld
make the American poople feel that they
can rely on the friends of tne tana to
make such modifications' as may be
shown to be wise and required in the
general interests. Hi speecn outlines a
policy on which his party can agree,
and on which it can safely enter on the
Presidential campaign.
Be nosesVat Any "Rate.
Chicago Record-Herald.
But the party and Administration to
which Secretary Root belongs are com
mitted to a revision of the taxi ft schedules
to adaDt-.them to present Industrial and.
economic conditions.. The "Iowa- Idea"
was triumDhant m the Western ana
Northwestern States In the last Con-
eresilonal election. The people are dis
posed, to take the party at Its word in
characterizing the tartff as' a business and
economic proposition, to De cnangeu ac
cording to the needs or our changing in
dustrial conditions. Do the Republican
leaders mean to abandon this position?
Are the apprehensions ot Secretary Root
aa voiced before tbe Home Aiarxei jjud
to be taken as an intimation that the
present administration does not favor a
buslnoes-IIke readjustment of the tariff
schedule! If so. the party should be hon
est with the people in its forthcoming
Natlonalplatform.
President and Secretary.
New York Evening Post.
In the same breath with his Intimation
that he means to make a very polite and
lady-like use of tlx weapon' against
trusts which Congress gave him. Mr.
Roosevelt announces that he win not
touch the really deadly- weapon of -tariff
revision. As tan as he is concerned, the
tariff-protected trusts may continue to
hide behind the Dlagley law and Utilize
lta aid in rjrevlns: mon the consumer. The
President is not willing to go even as far
as Secretary Root, and admit the pos
sible need of legislation to prevent the
tariff from being abused trusts, and to
compel them to sell their "goods at homo
as cheaply aa acroaaor, at any rate, at.
a "fair" price. Mr. "Roosevelt pushes all,
this away, with schoolboy eock-suranesa.
as a plan for "putting an end to the
prosperity of the country." As for Mr.,
Root, he -assumes the prophetic air In
tariff marKrs with singular ill grace. Con
gress threw back his Cuban tariff bill
in his face and mangled his Philippine
schedules out of all recognition. Had he
followed his own teachings, he would
have 'realised that the Immutability of
the Dlagley schedules Is hard fact, and
would have- saved his official' shins.
The Forgotten Tariff Commission.
, New York Times.
If Mr. Roosevelt's proposition ot last
year had been adopted In good faith.- and
It there were In session today a commis
sion ot competent investigators who
should take up the question ' of exact
amount paid for the labor In a yard of
doth, a ton of ore. a pound ot metal, a
pound of hides, or in any usual unit ot
commodities that are taxed when Import
ed, there Is not a particle ot reason to
suppose that, this amount would not be
found In the great body of Instances
lower In this country than In any from
which we import. Had he carried out the
sensible notion he brought forward last
year he could easily have tested the mat
ter In the most convincing manner. That
would have involved no surrender of the
"principle" be lays down as the funda
mental ground of the protective tariff. On
the contrary It would have secured Its
honest application or the proof of what
Its honest application required, wny aia
ho not carry out that Idea? Why is he
this year talking with tedious emphasis
about the danger ot disturbing the tar
iff T The way to avoid a violent disturb
ance of the tariff is to reform it gradu
ally and In time. This he saw a year ago,
and he wished to dd It- Why Is he now
echoing the foolish sophistries of the
petted monopolists? Is It that the conven
tion of next year casts Its baleful shadow
-before, dims his Intellect, cools his cour
age, and turns a wise. Intrepid, faithful
statesman into an anxious aspirant for a
nomination?
Bearing; on the Trusts.
New Tork Journal of Commerce.
Excessive duties which exclude all
chance ot foreign competition unquestion
ably make Inordinate prices -possible in
the domestic markets It combinations are
formed to keep them up by suppressing.
domestic competition. Tnat is exactly
what "trusts" are created for, and it Is
exactly what they are accomplishing. It
Is high protection and consequent high
prices, with the potency of enormous
profits, that has Induced these combina
tions with their innatea capital, ana it is
what maintains them- in pushing: more
and more to a monopoly control ot even
the 1 arc est of the "protected Industries.'
It Is this that enables them to effect their
boasted economies and efficiencies of pro
duction without giving anybody the bene
fit but the sharers In their profits, and
to spread the proceeds thick over their
exnanaeu securities, xnia neing tne case.
tho removal of duties, or their, reduction
to a legitimate level where complete re
moval might allow some frail structures
to collapse which are worth saving, would
bet a most effectual remedy for the evils
which tho excessive duties have borne
and fostered, and would destroy nothing
but the power of a few to extract ex
cessive gains from the substance of tha
many. It might wring the water out of
some diluted stocks and let the wind from
inflated "securities." but it would de
stroy no actual capital; It would not Inv
poverlsh our soil, exhaust our mines, dry
up our lakes and rivers, paralyze our
enerdea or leave our people Impoverished
In the midst of an abundance that it only
required Intelligence and Industry to
grasp.
A Troublesome Dispatch.
London Express.
A Genoa paper tells this delightful
story, at Americas expense.
When the Duke of Veragua the descend
ant of Christopher Columbus, visited Chi
cago,, he inquired at a telepragh office
the charge for a telegram, to the City of
Columbus of ten words. Fifteen cents.
answered, the official, "not Including- the
signature, which is wired free.'
Whereupon the Duke- wired-. "Mayor.
Columbus: Bhall visit your city next
Monday oc Tuesday."
And he cacned it: "Cristobal Colon de
Toledo y Larreategul de la Cerda Ramirez
da Baquedanoy Ganta Almlrante y Ale-
dantado Mayor de las Judlas, Marques de
Jamaica. Duque-de Veragua y de la Vera.
Grande de spana. Senator del llelno. Ca
bellero da la Inslgne orden del Tolsen
'Oro Gran Cruz de la Conception de Vlla-
Tlclosa, oentli HcEcbre de C&saara .del
Key de. Ifiopana."
THE IESS0S OF SitFISSXESS.
Reflections, on -the Manner In Which
Hermann's Opponents Throw
Thelr,Opportnnlty. Away.
Salem Journal.
Judge' .Eddy, of Tillamook County.
voiced arereat truth In his speech with
drawing the five 'votes ot Tillamook
io.uniy irons tne majority mat was in
control of the 'Eugene Republican Con
gressional convention.
He said that owing to too great sel
fishness, the various candidates bad been
unable to agree on any bne. ot their
number as the candidate to be nomin
ated In place of Blazer Hermann.
For three hours Hermann lacked ten
votes of enough to nominate. The field
contained three candidates, any one 01
whom would have been a splendid rep
resentative of the RepuBllcan party as
the nominee of the convention.
The convention wanted a .new man for
Congress. The majority did nof want
Hermann, but were compelled to laxe
him because there was not enough un
selfishness In the field to harmonize the
majority.
Either Marlon. Linn or Jackson couia
and should have had thit nomination,
for Congress, and therq Is -no good rea
son why -they did not get it, but the
central cause of failure was as Judge
Eddy said, unreasonable selfishness of the
aspirants.
This Is a bard thine; to say. and The
JournaUwould not say It but for the pur
pose of impressing our younger poll
ticlms with the lesson for their benefit
and-Improvement on future occasions.
The result of the convention showed
that when Mr." -Hermann was defeated
even his own sunuorters Jumped In and
became candidates.- Harris, Eddy and
Browneli entered the field, and divided bis
support.
But-as the selfishness of tne various
as d rants kept them from winning the
golden prize, the astute managers ot
the old politician, (probably wisely Di
rected by his own experience and .politi
cal acumen), revived ms lauen nopes, ana
snatched victory that belonged" to others
out of the very Jaws of defeat.
A Kansas Wall.
Atchison Globe.
There are some shoppers In this town
who think they know it alU But they
never buy In Atchison O, not this town's
too small. They shop, and shop, and snap.
and on clerks here have no pity. But when
they have a cent to spend, they go to
Kansas City. In Atchison they're treated
the most respectful way. While down in
Kansas Cltv the. Clerks all call inera -say.
And to each other, when they're gone. In
most sarcastic manner, Remark, 'There
goes a farmer ru bet her name Is Han
ner.' But human nature's much the same
no matter where you go. And while -our
dear friends here think our stores so very
slow In Kansas Clty her sister or cousin,
to sav the least Can't find a- thing to
suit her there, and so goes farther East.
In Chicago, that big city tnat is ruled Dy
men from Cork, Her sister's sister fails
to'jlnd anvthlns- this side New Tork.
Whlle In New Tork another sister and
there are many more man tnree tan 1
find a thing to suit her there, snd she goes
across the sea. In London ana in fans,
where still other sisters dwell, I really
don't know where they go. I hope they, go
to bL" Original poem by an Atchison
dry goods merchant, who was warm under
the collar.
The Parlcer Legend.
Indianapolis Journal.
m.. ..w 4hltttf wMM ,nflV JnrteA Par.
iUC UlllJ ...... O .. .......... . .
ker. of New Tork. the most popular man
lor inej imaDcrsiiu auiuiuou
dent Is that he is supposed to hav oe-
1 n , wnnAAetil tfAnAritv to attract
votes. He was elected Chief Justice of
the Supreme "jourt. ot new xor m u.
1 . v. ..1. TlaTmrwtt vim hn twen
mo uiuj ... -
elected on a state ticket for years. It has
been assumed that he Is a great vote
getter: He was elected in 1S97, which was
an" oft year, when the 'Chief Justice was
the only candidate voted for. By some
blunder the Low ticket for Mayor of New
Tork that year contained no name for
Judge, consequently thousands of voters.
chiefly Kepuoucans, uiu. uui ,un
Chief Justice, wmcn save auuso .nt
. 1 than Ma nluralitv. Taklmr
the off years in New Tork. Judge Parker
naa votes in aoi,
707 In lias and Odell 665.150 In 1301. That
Is, Judge Parker .ran 107,000 votes below
Roosevelt and 11Q.0OO fewer than Odell In
off years. If level-headed Democrats can
find In such figures evidence that Judge
Parker is a marvelous vote-getter they
must possess supernatural power.
Hotel at Seattle.
Seattle Times. '
That
"all things come to him who
Is especially Illustrated In the
which has come to the Denny
, vatHnt, fnr veara to be
waits"
honor
HoteL
opened
and put to use, the hotel will be-
gin Its
of the
.. 1. 1 1 , nr. t n ,n(a prmnjunmcuL
President of the United States.
Mr. Banna Lacks Experience.
Detroit Free Press.
Mr. Hanna admits that he was griev
ously disappointed over the result of the
rr t Atw.tn Afr. Hanna. has not
been In politics long enough to pretend
that ne lutes to De run uuwu mc wm.
man's road-roller.
Abraham Lincoln.
James Russell Lowell.
Life may be riven In many ways,
. 1 . 1 ... tn TmHl tUI S&led
AilU 1U J w .
Aa bravely In the closet as the Held,
So bountiful la Fate;
But then to stand beside her,
t.-v. .... ..... ri-rtds her. '
To front a lie In arms and not to yield.
This shows, metnmxs. uoa s pum
And measure of a stalwart man.
Limbed like the old heroic breeds.
Who stand self-poised on manhood's solid
earth.
Not forced to frame excuses for his birth.
Fed from within with all the strength h needs.
Kature. they say. doth dote.
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan.
Repeating- us- by rote:
For him her Old World molds aside she threw.
And, choosing sweet day from the breast
Of the unexhausted West,
With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,
Wise, steadfast la the strength of God, and
true.
How beauUful to see
Once more a shepherd of mankind Indeed.
Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead;
One whose meek flock the people Joyed to be,
Jfot lured by any cheat of birth.
But by his clear-grained human worth.
And brave old wisdom of sincerity!
They knew that outward grace la dust:
They could not choose but trust
la that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill.
t .4 ...nflklfflnrAl win
v&uu -.. .
That bent like perfect steel to sprlne again.
ana to rust.
Bis was' eo lonely mountain peak of mind.
Trusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,
A seartnark now, now lost In vapors blind:
Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined.
Fruitful and friendly for all human kind.
Tet also nigh to. heaven and loved of lof Uest
stars.
Nothing of Europe here.
Or. then, ot Europe fronting mornward still.
Ere any names ot serf and peer
Could nature's enual scheme deface;
Here was a type of the true elder race.
And one of Plutarch's men talked with ua face
to face.
I praise him not: It were too late;
And some Innatlve weakness there must be
In him who condescends to victory
Such as the present gives, and cannot wait.
Safe In himself as in a fate.
So alwaya firmly he: .
Ha knew to bide his time. .
And can Ms fame abide.
EttlV patient In his simple faith sublime.
Jill the wise years decide.
Great captains with their guns and drums.
Disturb our Judgment for the hour.
But. at last silence comes;
These all are zone. and. standing like a
towei1.
Our children shall behold his tame.
A uc Muuy-n .. ... . . w .
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not
mame,
New birth et our new soil, the first Aaer
- leas.
X0TE AND COMMENT.
Did 'you make it In 15 seconds?
The Browns seem to be still in the 'hands
ot their friends.
right, anyhow, when he gets back.
Did the master nalnters sur Cmtmrlnr
Burns because he made warm remarks?
A firebug has struck- Monlmmfrr Al
Let us hope that he Is "late ot Portland."
The baseball editors will soon be styling
themselves as "special war correspondents
at the front" (of the grandstand).
Bud No, dear: rink "tea Is never sen-rf
in a brown study. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Tea, It might give one the blues.
Will the. Democrats celebrate William J.
Bryan's birthday a hundred years from
now as they did Jefferson's Monday!
The' latestMhlmr Is the roffin trmt ?
seems we cannot get out of the clutches of
the combinations, even after death.
The "price of marriage licenses Is ta be
raised. Most ot us are thankful that we
do not have to enjoy the luxury often.
A big sea serpent GO feet long, with a
head like a horse. Is the story from Vic
toria, B. C. That's nothing. Some peo
ple see 'em worse than that right here in
Portland every day.
Those are excellent commercial maxims
that the late Guctavus F. Swift left be
hind him even if they carry with, them a
somewhat selfish flavor. One of the lot,
however. Is Quite good enough for general
use. "The best a man. ever did." he
says, "shouldn't be his standard for the
rest of his life." In other words, never
have so much respect for your own record
that you are afraid to break It.
A Chlcagoan. Just returned from abroad,
while touring In Wales came upon a pret
ty little village with a name whose por
tentous dimensions are ridiculously out
of proportion to the size of the place- The
Chicago man has made many attempts to
pronounce the name, but never succeeded
In getting half-way through. It is as fol
lows: Lanfatrpwyllswyngyllsogerychym-droblvIl-LIantystllogogocb,
"However."
says the Chlcagoan, "the natives do not
usually pronounce It In full. They call It
Llantalrpwyllwyngyll for short. The
British1 government charges 10 cents' extra
on telegrams bearing the complete name.
It Is said by experts that the finest an
tique, colonial furniture in this country
comes from the South, says the Hartford
Times. Much of It has been discovered
In the cabins of aged negroes who were
formerly slaves. When these rare, carved
old pieces of mahogany were discarded by
their masters they were- often given to
the negroes, not understanding the valua
tion of them that would come later. A
richly carved mahogany sideboard was
found recently In a chicken roost In one
of the Southern States. The chickens
roosted on It every night, and It was
worn and battered. This was bought by
a dealer for a small sum. and after it was
restored sold to a customer tor C50.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General
Joseph L. Brlstow, who unearthed the
frauds In the Postofflce Department lead
ing, to the suspension of Mr. Tyner, Is an
expert In such matters. It was Mr. Brls
tow whowent to Cuba to report on the
postal frauds " there, and "ha Is -"usually
chosen when there are any unpleasant In
vestigations to be done. The excuse tor
giving him the assignment is the tact
that he has under him a division of In
spection which practically amounts to- a
secret service. The real reason for his
selection is that the President considers
him absolutely honest. No social, polit
ical or other considerations have any
weight with him, official Influence and
position count for naught. Mr. Brlstow Is
a Kansas politician and editor. He is cor
dially hated by Senator Burton, the Junior
from. Kansas. He Is a Kentucky product,
a relation of the late Benjamin H. Brls
tow, Secretary of the Treasury during
General Grant's last term.
The gallery boy in Dublin Is always a
source of terror to the actors who visit
the Irish city, and many are the stories
told of the remarkable suggestions hurled
to the actors by the youthful patrons.
It Is narrated of Charles Fechter that
on one occasion when be was playing in
a melodrama ho was slowly counting; over
a sum of money to the villain. Every
thing depended on whether or not he had
enough for the purpose, and the paying
and counting was very deliberate, so de
liberate. Indeed, that a gallery god wearied
of the scene, and greatly enlivened the
proceedings by shouting:
"Say, Mr. Fechter, give him a check."
On another occasion, when the' play
was "Monte Crista" the hour 12:30 and
the end not yet in sight tho curtain rose
ana discovered Fechter in a contemplative
attitude. Not a movement, not a sound.
Suddenly a small but clear voice in the;
gallery remarked with gentle anxiety:
"I hope we are not keeping you up, sir."
Abraham Lincoln.
Mary Livingston. Burdiek, In Llpplneott'a.
Safe In Fame's gallery through all the years.
Our dearest picture bangs, your steadfast
face,
Whose eyes hold all the pathos of the race
Redeemed by you from servitude's sad tears.
And how redeemed? With agony of grief;
With ceaseless labor In war's lurid light;
"With such deep anguish In each lonely night.
Tour soul sweat very blood ere came relief.
What crown have you who bore that cross be
low t
Oh, faithful one. what is your life above?
Is there a higher gift In God's pure love
Than to have lived on earth aa Maq C? "Woe?
PLEASANTRIES OF PAItAGItAPIIERS
The Youthful, but Persistent Suitor Tou will
get tired ot refusing me some- day I "Tea. All
pleasures end." Life.
Tenant What repairs can I expect on the
flat this Spring? Agent I have told the Jan
itor to mend his way. Chicago Dally News.
Patience I hear you are breaking In a new
girl? Patrice Well, we've got a new girl, but
she seems to be doing the breaking. Tonken
Statesman.
"I don't believe you hold the public In very
high esteem. '"My dear air." rejoined the
billionaire, "you wrong roe. If It weren't for
the public, where would we look for our prof
its r Washington Star.
"1 don't see why you should say they treat
their chauffeur shabbily, when they pay 1400' a
month wages." "But you forget that the poor"
chap has to pay all the fines out of that,"
Brooklyn Life.
A young darkey was asked by hts school
teacher to give her a. sentence with the word
"delight" In It, to show that Ao understood
the use of the word. He quickly replied. "1
opened de do' an" de light went out' Judge.
Huhr snorted Bubbubs; over his evening
paper, that proverb always makes me tired."
"What's that, dear?" asked his wife. "Too
many cooks spoil the broth. I don't believe
there ever was a time when there were 'too
many cooks. "Philadelphia Press.
1 felt as If I was going to be side this week,
but now I And that I realty cannot," said Mrs
Tocue. "Whyt' "Well, the horrid dressl
maker disappointed ax In some perfectly beat,
enly Invalid towns, and now I simply' can't
get sick and let my friends see' .me, la m- pit
gown," BaJUiaort Herald, ' '