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STIUKB AJSD IiOCICOTJT.
The plainest fact with reference to
Portland's present labor difficulties is
the altered attitude of public opinion
toward the unions, compared with a
year ago. Then sympathy with the
strikers was. almost universal; now it
Is almost nonexistent. Business Is Im
peded more or less by the controversy;
but there is a widespread disposition.
even among the retail merchants most
affected, to endure cheerfully a period
of slack business and possible loss. In
the hope of a "settlement." It may be
well enough to explore the causey of
this change In public sentiment. If hap
ly some light may be shed on the situa
tion. Incidental reasons for the general
sympathy with the masters are: The
absence of a political campaign, as we
had last year and shall have next; the
conviction that a contest must come
now or in 1904. and it is better met now
than when the Centennial buildings are
under way; the feeling that the build
ing trades had a fair trial of strength
last year, and should have been con
tented with stable conditions for a
longer period than one year; Interest in
the progress of the city, and belief that
the unions are the aggressors in the
stoppage of work; and, undoubtedly,
also a certain psychological condition
which impels the mind to one side of
the question because it Is tired of
dwelling so long on the other.
But these are Incidental. The speci
fic and principal reasons why the strik
ers have not the support of the people
more largely in this struggle are (1)
fear at the incessant encroaches of
union demands,, as frankly outlined by
Mr. Gompers on his last visit to Port
land, and (2) belief that the minimum
scale of $3.50 per day for second-class
carpenters and painters Is too high. It
Is no secret that these proposed mini
mum scales are viewed with misgiving
by many union men themselves, who
fpl thnt 13 wrtnlfl Ha nn nmnl mini
mum for Inexperienced workmen In
such simple trades, especially in view
of the fact that fully competent me
chanics in either trade have no diffi
culty In getting 5150, or H, or as much
as they can really earn. It has also
been hoped by some union men, as
well as by the general public, that the
unions affected would yet find some
way of weeding out the second-class
men, for whom they have been asking
the "scale," or else of modifying the
demand from $150 to it a day.
It is perfectly clear that In every
contest of this sort the nonessentials
are quickly brushed aside and attention
is centered upon the vital point in the
struggle. There Is no more popular
concern about unionism as such than
there Is as to whether the contractors
are In a trust or the mills in a conspir
acy. Sympathy with the anthracite
miners arose from belief that they were
underpaid, and not because they were
in a union or because the coal roads
were in a trust. So in Portland now
large numbers who favor unionism are
anxious to see the strikers brought to
terms. The fact that contests of this
tort depend for popular approval and,
therefore for their success, upon the
specific merits of the case, affords a
warning to labor leaders that they
should be very sure of their ground be
fore they take an overt step. Constant
agitation for mere assertion of union
Ism, without a real grievance, will tend
powerfully to destroy the high esteem
into which organized labor has been
raising Itself In recent years. Neither
side in this controversy can hope to
cloud the public mind as to the respon
sibility for the trouble that'hangs over
the community. The blame will be
saddled upon whoever is wrong, and
the Injury will not soon be forgotten.
HRTAXS IVrCSlPKRATE SPECCTI.
Wlth the state conventions that will
name delegates to the next Democratic 1
National Convention, only one year
away, Bryan Is doing his level best to
widen the breach between the honest
and the dishonest factions of the old
Jeffersoiilan party. It seemed reason
able to lis time that In recent public ut
terances concerning Gold Democrats he
had reached the outermost limit of In
temperate speech. This assumption
was erroneous. At Kansas City yester
day the Nebraska Statesman said, "The
Democratic bed Is wide enough for all
who want to come In, but we do not
want to have to sit up nights to keep
certain pretenders from picking our
pockets," and slams the door In the face
of the sound-money men with. We
have had enough of Oevelandlsm In the
Democratic party."
What alls Bryan? Is be so thick
skulled as to Imagine, his- p&rtY. caa
Si
carry the. coon try with New Tork as
certainly counted in advance against
as Texas is counted in advance for" It?
Has he abandoned hope of a third-time
nomination for himself, and does he
propose to expend all his energies for
the next year to "knocking" Cleveland,
and Incidentally any man who ever
lined up with the honest wing of the
party? Is it his Intention to drive the
patriotic Democrats Into the Republi
can army once more? Doesn't he know
that tariff-reformers who preferred Mc-Klnley-and
protection to Bryan ism In
18S will not regard Roosevelt as so bjt
ter an alternative in 1904?
Cleveland typifies the conscience of
the old Democratic party, and the
Democrat who attacks Cleveland and
what Cleveland stands for commits po
litical suicide. If such a roan has the
command, he will Inevitably lead his
party to destruction. Bryan seems to
be Intent on making a total wreck of
the organization founded by Jefferson.
A FIGHT AXD ITS DEMONSTRATION.
It Is "Inside" information at San
Francisco that, the electric railway war
which has been agitating Los Angeles
In particular and California In general
during the past month Is In the way of
being compromised. For several rea
sons the matter Is one of more than
local Interest. Two or three years ago.
It will be remembered, H. E. Bunting
ton, nephew and heir of Collls P. Hunt
ington, was practically crowded out of
the Southern Pacific by the Harrlman
interest. He bad become a Californlan
In sentiment, and wished to retain his
home there, and, finding himself In
command of almost unlimited money,
he busied himself with the creation of
a great electric railroad system at Los
Angeles. How this system, with its
branches reaching like a spider's web
in all directions for a distance of
twenty-five miles, affected the Interests
of the Southern Pacific Railroad has al
ready been told in these columns. It
literally took the whole passenger traf
fic of the Los Angeles suburban district,
indicting a very great loss upon the
Southern Pacific, which had formerly
all but monopolized this traffic with its
standard lines.
A month ago application was made
at Los Angeles. In the name of attor
neys, for an interest not named In the
blanket franchise for. electric roads,
practically duplicating the Huntington
lines, the application stipulating that
the passenger rate on the proposed
lines should be 3 cents, as against the
now universal S-cent rate. It was dis
covered or believed from the start that
the, responsible Interest back of the
3-cent proposal was the Southern Pa
cific Company, and the theory has been
that Harrlman Intended to force Hunt
ington out of business. The contest
during the past month has been furi
ous so furious that hardly anything
else has been talked about south of the
Tehachlpl Mountain.
Within a week the agitation has
somewhat calmed down, and it Is In
side Information that Huntington and
Harrlman have about come to on un
derstanding. Harrlman, It Is. said, has
not only been a good deal injured by
Huntington's operations at Los An
geles, but a good deal alarmed by re
ports that Huntington was planning to
extend these operations to San Fran
cisco and other northern cities now
served almost exclusively by the
Southern Pacific in their suburban traf
fic. The move at Los Angeles against
Huntington, it is explained, was intend
ed to put a stop to the business of elec
tric railroad-building in the field of the
Southern Pacific The application for
franchises at Los Angeles, It is sold,
will be dropped, and Mr. Huntington
will confine himself to the field in which
he Is already operating.
The .general interest of this matter is
its demonstration of the superiority of
electric over standard roads under com
petitive conditions. To an extent it has
been found to be so everywhere, but it
is especially so on the Pacific Coast,
where steam-power is relatively costly,
owing to the .high price of coal, and
where electric power is relatively cheap.
The demonstration is complete that
where an electric road runs in competi
tion with a standard road It will not
only attract the business, but will carry
It at less cost. It will be well to bear
this general fact In mind In the develop
ment of the railroad system In this
state.
Tlin LEE BTATX'E.
The bill providing that a statue of
General R. E. Lee shall be placed In
Statuary Hall at the National Capitol
has become a law In Virginia without
the signature of Governor Montague,
who personally disapproved of the ac
tion of the Legislature on the ground
that It was unwise to try to force
such a statue upon Congress In the face
of a hostile sentiment at the North. Of
course, when the question of the accept
ance of the statue comes before the
House and the Senate a debate will
ensue that will not be advantageous to
the country.
Should a debate on General Lee arise
In Congress, It will be argued that as
a West Point graduate and a United
States Army officer his duty was to be
loyal to the flag under all circum
stances. But Charles Francis Adams,
In a footnote to his address on "The
Constitutional Ethics of Secession."
shows that Lee, as a cadet at West Point,
was Instructed that secession by a state
was constitutional and lawful. Before
1S40 secession was taught at the United
States Military Academy as an admit
ted doctrine of constitutional law. Lee
was graduated in 1S29. Prior to IS(0
the academy text-book was Rawle's
"View of the Constitution." William
Rawle. the author, was an eminent law
yer of Philadelphia, a Northern man,
but In his constitutional treatise he in
culcated the doctrine of secession. We
quote:
The atatet. then, may wholly withdraw trom
the Union: but while they continue they must
retain the character of representative repub
lics. (Paxe SW
The aeceesloa ot a state tram the tTsioa de-
penda on tlx will ot the pecpia of such state.
(Page 233.)
The people ot a state may hare some rea
sons to- complain In .jeepect io acts ot the
General Government: they may in such cases
tnreit some ot their own odcer with the
pover ot negotiation, and may declare an
absolute soresston la cam ot their failure. Bull,
howerer. the recession must la such case be
distinctly and eetemptoruy declared to take
plaoe on that. rent: and In such case, aa In
the case o: an cnoonsitlonal secession, the
previous ligament with the Union would be
legitimately and fairly destroyed. But In either
ens (conditional or tinconcitlxial secession)
the people la the only moTing power. (Page
This was the doctrine taught Lee at
West Point under the administration
of John Qulncy Adams. In the prob
able debate over the acceptance of the
statue the South will say that Lee
merely put into practice In 1S61 the
principles ot constitutional law which
had been taught to him as on officer of
tho C&lte&-6tatea Army. Nevertheless
the Incongruity of a statue of Lee in
the capital he sought to capture at
the head of an insurgent army is so
extravagant that Its acrline la ltVo-
ly to be refused after a debate that will
uo no good, but probably much harm.
LIQCOR LEGISLATION.
New Hampshire' has followed Ver
moat in substituting for prohibition a
license-option method of dealing with
the liquor traffic, and "Maine is now the
only state east of the Mississippi River
that retains the prohibition policy. The
New Hampshire law, which has been
repealed, was enacted In lSSSand re
sembled the. Maine law, except that
prohibition was, applied only against
the sale and not the 1 manufacture of
Intoxicating liquors. For many years
open saloons have been tolerated in the
larger towns and cities, and received
public recognition in a system of fines
regularly imposed, which cost the or
dinary saloonkeepers about $1000 a year.
About 1C00 Federf.l liquor. licenses were
annually taken cut in the state, which
clearly pointed to the existence of
nearly half a dozen drtnklng-places
for each 1000 of the population. It Is
reported that-In the coming popular
vote on the question of license or no
license In the cities of the state
the hotel men, the druggists and the
small rum dealers will oppose license,
because they are now doing a. liquor
business under prohibition at less cost
than would be the case under the new
law.
Twenty years ago the advocates of
prohibition thought that they were des
tined to Increase so rapidly that they
would Impose their creed upon one or
both of the great parties and obtain
control of the Government Today
there is but one prohibition state east
ot the Mississippi, and two west of that
river Kansas and North Dakota. Kan
sas has had prohibition for twenty
years, and North Dakota since its ad
mission to the Union. The steady de
cline of prohibition is due to the grow
ing popular conviction that It Is not the
most effective method of dealing with
the liquor traffic; that the policy of high
license and local option gives better re
sults. The Raines law, which has been
in force In New York state since 1E96,
places the granting of licenses in the
hands of a State Commissioner of Ex
cise, and so removes the business from
all local or political Influences. During
the six years the law has been In opera
tion it has raised about $70,000,000 In
revenue, one-third of which has gone
to the state and the other two-thirds to
the cities and towns.
Governor Odell has had prepared and
Introduced -Into the Legislature a bill
to increase the public revenue, one of
whose principal features is a rise of SO
per cent in the cost of a license to sell
intoxicating liquors. The highest price
now paid under the Raines Jaw for a
license Is $SO0 in the Borough of Man
hattan, In Greater New Tork City. In
Brooklyn $650 Is charged. In the other
cities of the state with a population
above 50,000 a license costs $500, and in
places with a smaller population than
that the price of a license ranges from
$350 to $100. Last year the revenue
raised from liquor licenses In the State
of New York amounted to $12,450,000, of
which $0,300,000 went to the cities and
towns, and $,150,000 to the state.
If Governor Odell's bill should become
a law, the State of New York would ob
tain an income from liquor licenses of
$18,600,000. A license in. New York City
which now costs $SO0 would cost $1300,
a $500 license would cost $750; but this
increased cost is exceeded by the cost
of a license to sell liquor in many other
large cities. Boston charges $2000 for
an Innkeeper's license, Worcester $1500,
Fall River and Lawrence $2500, Phila
delphia and Pittsburg $1100, and Chi
cago, Omaha, Minneapolis and many
Western cities $1000. In all these clUes
there is never any lack of applicants
ready to pay the price of a high license,
and Governor Odell is sound In his con
clusion that the privilege of a liquor
license ought surely to be worth the in
creased price proposed In New York
State.
An Institution that appeals tenderly
to the humane and charitably disposed
people of a much wider community than
that comprehended under the name of
Portland Is the Baby Home, In the
southeastern portion of this city. Its
wards ore infants under 3 years of age.
who are deprived by death, thrlftless
ness or misfortune of their birthright
of home and parental care. The ma
jority of these, says the president ot
the Home in her annual report, "are
of respectable but poor parentage
children of 'widowed mothers .depend
ent upon themselves for support, or of
fathers desolate and helpless when left
with motherless babes." She adds;
"There are some ot Illegitimate birth;
but where- Is there more need of sym
pathy and kindness than toward those
born with a stigma that makes an
additional burden for after lifer
How does this simple Inquiry put to
shame the self-righteous spirit that re
fuses support or sympathy for the work
of the Baby Home because forsooth
a nameless waif Is occasionally left at
Its doors, or a young mother, betrayed
and deserted, places her babe within Its
sheltering waits while' she goes out to
battle against poverty and disgrace?
There are degraded mothers, to be sure,
but these are comparatively few, and it
is folly to suppose that they are made
worse or more reckless by placing their
offspring In homes where they are
watched over -and brought up to lives
of Integrity and usefulness. However
closely the ordinary avenues of phil
anthropy and charity are guarded
against the unworthy, it is not always
possible to shut this class out- But of
the hundreds ot babes that have been
sheltered and fed and clothed In the
Baby Home during the twelve or more
years of Its existence, and passed on
from Its retreat Into homes where a
continuation of love ana care Is as
sured, each has come with the seal of
Innocence upon Its brow (though a few,
alas! have been the offspring of shame,
fortunately not transmutable to them).
and has passed on and out under the
promise of a life of respectability and
usefulness. The dimmest charity can
show no whiter record than this.
The movement looking to the estab
lishment of a retreat for consumptives
In connection with the Good Samaritan
Hospital of this city is one worthy of
the support of an intelligent and hu
mane people. The time is close at hand
when each state will be expected to
make suitable provision for this class
of sufferers In sanitariums provided for
their care, treatment, and eventually
for their cure. Science will not long
rest under the Imputation of having
met any enemy to human life and been
worsted In the encounter. Victory over
this scourge may not be yet In sight.
but Jt is believed to be hiding behind .
the theory which eschews medication
and prescribes living in the ojjeE air,
rest and nourishment as the treatment
necessary to restore its -victims to
health. Whether the curative power Is
found k open-air sanitariums,, in con
junction with tissue-building foods and
complete rest, or In some remedy that,
taken Into the body, will kill the germs
or tuberculosis without' being fatal to
the patient. Is yet to be determined.
Physicians Incline Just now to the' for
mer means, and the community only
discharges-its duty to humanity when
It comes up to the help of science in the
attempt to demonstrate this theory.
The an U -oleomargarine law passed
by the fifty-seventh Congress has
proved a failure from the dairymen's
point of view, according to the figures
just issued by the Commissioner ot In
ternal Revenue, which show that a
total of 50,000,000 pounds of oleomar
garine has been sold In the eight
months ended February 28, a decrease
of only 30 per cent from the corre
sponding period of the previous year.
Out of the total of 50,000,000 pounds
sold, only 16,000 pourtds was artificially
colored, and thus subjected to the tax
of 10 cents a . pound. The remainder
was technically uncolored, and paid the
tax of U cent a pound in lieu of a 5
cents a pound tax provided by the old
laws; but this does not mean that It
was whlte the manufacturers .having
so adjusted the proportion of lawful In
gredients as to give their product a
reasonably rich color without the use
of "artificial coloring matter," this
being accomplished by an increase in
the amount of cottonseed oil and of
genuine colored butter entering into the
composition of the oleomargarine.
Again we are pained to observe that
Mr. Bryan persists In attacking the
South. At the Kansas City banquet he
spoke pointedly thus:
There are people today who think that the
educated man should be separated from the
common rabble. Jefferson bellered that the
man who was too good to take part la poli
tics waa not good enough to lira In a land
like this. ... Kerolutlon Is not a remedy
In a country where people can Tote. People
can rote themselves free In this country and.
It they could not do that they could not fight
themselres free.
Jefferson Is here brought forward
most pertinently to rebuke those who
think that the common rabble (Interior
negro) should be separated from the
educated man (dominant white) The
further- assertion that people can vote
themselves free In this country Is a re
flection which, applied to the disfran
chised blacks ot the South, carries its
own irony. It would be kinder of Mr:
Bryan to nay less about liberty and
equality in this country, unless he
really wants to drive the South to
Cleveland.
The figures of the .Interstate Com
merce Commission, by a table giving
the railroad accidents in the United
States from 1SSS to 1902, show that In
1SS6 the railroad employes who met.
death while coupling or uncoupling
cars constituted 13.1 per cent of the
whole number killed, while those in
jured while engaged In this work con
stituted 46.8, or nearly half .ot those
who received Injuries from all causes.
In 1902, with the automatic-coupler act
In operation, those killed in coupling
operations constituted 5.6 per cent of
the whole number of deaths, and the
Injured only 6.3 per cent of the total
number of casualties. The'percentages'
given above are all the more remark
able in view of the fact that in JSSS.
the mileage of railroads lit the United
States was only 125,185, as compared
with 197.257 In 1902, while the railroad
employes numbered about 700,000 In
1SS6, as compared with more than 1,000,
000 last year.
The creditable service ot any number
of years does not excuse' military men
for indulgence in the talking habit. It
is well known that this habit, once ac
quired, is most difficult to break, but
there Is proof In at least one notable
example of recent years that a check
can be placed upon It, even if it takes
the President 'of the United States to
do It. An explanation from General
Baldwin as to what he meant by cer
tain remarks lately attributed to him
In condemnation of the negroes and
Filipinos is now awaited by Secretary
Root, who, as becomes the head of the
War Department, is a thorough disci
plinarian. General Baldwin has forty
years of honorable service to his credit,
and it may be hoped that It will not be
necessary to dlsdlpllne him for garru
lousness, a foible that Is supposed to
be peculiar to feminine senility.
During the Summer vacation last
year 615 students of the Carlisle Indian
School were employed on farms. The
school has now existed twenty-five
years, and of Its graduates since 1889,
296 ore now living. Most of these are
now farming; there is one in the Army,
another practicing law, and several
are clerks In banks and stores. Last
year the entire student body, number
ing 1000, earned $31.61.9, and In the sav
ings bank conducted by the school the
Indian boys have $20,000'.. and the girls
$14,000, which Is drawing 6 per cent Interest-
Only three of the graduates
have turned out .a discredit to Carlisle.
Last year 40,401 Immigrants from Ire
land left their country, and half of
them were between 20 and 25 years of
age. Of these 40,000 young Irishmen,
the United States received 3349, Great
Britain 471S. Canada 732, and Australia
496. If the land-purchase bill becomes
a law, we shall no Jonger see the Irish
youth by thousands-every year expatri
ating themselves In obedience to the in
stlnct of self-preservation. When Ire
land's best young blood ceases to go
Into voluntary exile In America, surely
it will be "a great day for Ireland."
In Russia strikes are dealt with In the
same despotic way with which they
were once suppressed In Great Britain
during the early part' of the last cen
tury, when it was a violation of law for
a workingman to strike. In Russia
thirty persons were killed and"-100
wounded as the result of a strike in a
large factory near Nljnl Novgorod. The
Russian troops fired with artillery upon
the strikers.
Henry Clay's birthday was celebrated
on Easter Sunday In Hanover, Va.,
where he was born 126 years ago. He
has been thus honored since his death
in May, 1852. The .memory of Clay is
still publicly honored, by Kentucky.
The great, orator aniistaEesman was
the son of a poor Baptist country cler
gyman. .
The Oregon lan cannot undertake to
say what wages workmen in various
employments ought to ask or receive,
or what wages employees ought to pay.
It is beyond The Oregonian's province
or power: therefore The Oregon lan can
not undertake to settle the labor question.
IS HYDROPHOBIA &H ILtDSYOSt
Chleaxo Inter-Ocean.
Professor Leonard Pearson, dejin ot the
department ot Veterinary medicine at the
University of JPennaTtvanla, recently re
ported to the Department of Agriculture In
Washington that rabies was undoubtedly
a disease to be reckoned -with, and that a's
many as five persona had been known to
die of It In one year.
Dr. Charles W. Dulles, lecturer on the
history ot medicine at the tame institu
tion, asserts that Professor Pearson is
wrong, and that teething and measles
are more dangerous than hydrophobia.
Professor Pearson said: 'It Is most as
tonishing to find la this day anyone who
is willing to go on record as denying the
existence of this widespread and terrible
disease" (hydrophobia). Iff answer to this
Dr. Dulles writes to the" New York
Herald:
I have come to tcllcro that the common tear
ot dog bites 'a utterly unreasonable, and. that
the anfortnnaia results that sometimes follow
dog bites are largely the result not of the
bites, but ot the seasettss tear which Is felt
by most persona In ctrUlxed countries ot the
eo-ealled "mad doc."
Dr. Dulles considers it a curious and
unfortunate fact that even, the youngest
children have distinct notions of the
popular belief in resard to hydrophobia,
and that these notions rarely become
more sensible as they grow older. Then
be adds:
In the first place, a belief In a necessarily
casual relation between the-btte ot an animal
supposed ta be rabid and what la called hy
drophobia In a man la a relic of ancient and
medieval anperstltton. It ta true that illness
and death have followed the bites of such
animals, but thla haa been In such aa Irregu
lar and uncertain fashion that It Is an almost
unknown thing tor hydrophobia to seise those
who have- constantly to do with what would
be supposed to be tho most dangerous dogs.
After long years of Investigation. Dr.
Dulles declares that he finds no person so
Indifferent to dog bites, or so free from
the fear of hydrophobia, as those who
have most to do with really vicious ani
mals. On the other hand, he asserts, as
It replying to the medical scientists, who
have only lately raised the alarming cry
of "Mad dog!" in this city, he has found
"no persons more Impressed with the
imagined dangers of so-called hydropho
bia than physicians who. as a class, know
no more about the disorder than the
laity, and equally little how to treat It."
Dr. Dulles holds that the actual In fre
quency of so-called hydrophobia Is such
that its dangers to life- does not compare
with that of diseases which are common
among children. More deaths, be says,
are caused in the country yearly by
scratches of pins, by the bits or stings
of small Insects, or by the Irritation of
Innocent eruptlona on the skin than by
all the dog' bites, sound or mad." And
this despite the excitement stirred up by
the statements and comments of the pub
lic prints whenever a case occurs, the
errors of the medical profession in re
gard to preventive treatment, "and the
absolute impotence of the profession
whenever It Is susoected. that a rieraon
has acquired the dreaded disorder."
vnen doctors disagree In this fashion,
who shall decide! But most of us will
be readier to accept the Dulles than the
Pearson theory, partly because It Is the
more reasonable, out principally because
it is the more comforting.
Sot Justice But License. ,
New York Evening Post.
Under the caption. "Innocent Negro
Lynched." we read this morning that the
poor black man who was' killed and
burned at Shreveport. La., for the murder
of Miss Alice Matthews, was as guiltless
as a babe unborn. This' is the "unerring
Justice" ot Judge Lynch, of which we
hear so much! Yet the news should as
tonish no one. It is in a sense not "news" J
at all, for this wronging ot the Innocent
goes on all the time. When the blood of
the mob Is up, It seeks merely the victim,
never the proof. Its contempt for law
and order had a fresh illustration in yes
terday's horror at- Joplin. Mo. Here the
crowd hanged a negro while the Mayor
and City Attorney pleaded for his life,
and assured their fellow-cltlzens that Jus
tice would take Its course. But the mob
desired not Justice, but license. It ob
tained the freedom of a desperado, who
had assaulted a negro, thereby serving
notice that the negro Is fair game to any
one. Charging the negro section; thd
crowd showed the -moral and Intellectual
superiority of the .white race by burning
elx or seven houses, firing others, break
ing in windows and doors right and left.
"At 1105 o'clock the whole city was In
uproar," the account concludes. Whit
abuse of the colored race would have
been heard If this saturnalia had been
the work of black men! Would It not have
proved that the entire negro race Is be
yond the pale of law. that it is bestial
and bloodthirsty, and that it must be
kept down by blood-letting, as Tillman
recommends?
HlKher-Deef.
The Kansas City Journal predicts' higher
beef. The Journal says: Receipts of cat
tle in the five principal markets are get
ting down closCto what they were last
year, when prices were $1 per 100 pounds
higher than how. The buyers from the
Pacific Coast and the mountains are com
ing farther East' for beef cattle than ever
before. They have already taken or con
tracted for all the alfalfa-fed cattle in
Arizona, New Mexico. Colorado and Utah.
Also, they are now buying largely of cot
tonseed meal-fed cattle In Texas, many
of which heretofore found a market in
"Kansas City. Again, the number of large
3- and 4-year-old steers, such as were held
back In 1901 and fattened on grass last
year, are not in the country to come In
competition this Spring and Summer with
cattle now held near the markets. The
advance In price ot corn, coupled with the
prices fat cattle have been bringing, will
deter many-fanners from preparing cat
tle for market, The Winter has been un
usually bard on Western range cattle, and
but few will get In good beef condition
until late In the season; therefore we
believe that those who will have beef cat
tle for the Spring and Summer market
will realize very satisfactory prices we
think 50 cents or more per 100 pounds
higher than the same quality cattle
brought In January and up to this time.
Postal Sleuths Found Simon.
St. Louts Star.
When the New York Postoffice received
a letter a month ago addressed like this
They did not send it back to the llttlo
Russian town It came from marked "re
turned for better directions," "but went to
work-to find F. Simon, who lived in Amer
ica. The letter traveled 5370 miles to reach
the New York Postofflce." F. Simon was
not known "here. The letter was for
warded to Washington. Washington sent
it to North Dakota, where there are Fin
nish settlers. Somebody up- in North Da
kota knew an F. Simon living la James
town. N. Y. It was forwarded.
The letter belonged to F. P. Simon, who
is manager ot tbe Milwaukee Bottling
Works at Jamestown. N. Y.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
New York Press.
A woman can hate what a man does,
yet love him for doing It
There Is nothing so humiliating to .a
woman as to faint when she Isn't dressed
for it.
A girl gets as much excitement out of
an engagement as a man does out of a
stock market panic
Any woman would cheerfully, wear
shoes with holes In the soles to be able
to print a fashionable street number on
her visiting card.
Every wife has an Idea that if she
could induce her husband to sleep with
a stocking around bis throat It would be
a sore cure for his cold.
F. SIMON. :
: America, :
THE ARGENTINE PROPOSALS.
- London Tunea. .
We are not concerned today to discuss
the morality of Dr, Drago's. thesis, nor to
niu&unate It by references to the finan
cial history ot various South and Central
American Republics. Bat, In view ot
Mr. Roosevelt's, utterances In support of
-the Monroe Doctrine, It is satisfactory to
Know that the United States Government
promptly discouraged, the; extension which
Dr. Drago would .apparently have wished
to-see given to It. We have not got the
text ot Mr. Hay's -reply, but the extracts
from It which our New York correspon
dent' sent us, when the existence and pur
port ot Dr. Drago's application first be
came known, seem conclusive as to Its
nature. Mr. Hay referred the Argentine
Minister to the statement made by Mr.
Roosevelt in his first -message to Con
gress, la which the President observed
that the United States does not guarantee
any state which misconducts itself against
punishment, provided that punishment
aces not taxe the form of the acoulsiuon
-of American territory by non-American
power, air. Hay added, naturally enough,
that his Government would always be glad
to see claims by one state against an
other, whether ther arise from wromrs
to individuals or from national' obllga-
uons. ana guarantees for the execution
of any award In relation thereto, left to
the decision ot an impartial arbitral tri
bunal. This answer was generally ap
proved of by public opinion, both here
and in the United States, when it was
first beard of. It Is. Indeed, by no means
improbable that In the future, if the Mon
roe Doctrine Is to become, as Mr. Roose
velt hope, a canon of international law,
the United States will recognize the ex
pediency of Inculcating, more forcibly
than it has hitherto eared to do. upon
some ot the sister republics of the Ameri
can continent the punctual discharge of
their International obligations and the
observance of the ordinary laws of Inter
national comity.
WORD FROM THE ABSBXT BOY.
Some Postals from n. none-Made Son
to a. Self-Made Father.
Life.
Dear Father: I arrived on the college
green this morning. Something is wrong
with my clothes, as I was made consid
erable fun of. Am -going to get a new
suit. Will send you bllL Yours-JIm.
Dear Pa: Cut chapel this morning. All
they boys do it. I am keeping away from
whisky as you suggest. Have you ever
tasted creme de menther It settles your
dinner. Yours. Jim. '
Dear Pop: You are way off on tem
perance question. Beer is the greit lev
eler. It we all drank beer there would be
no drunkards. I got away with ten bot
tles last night. Dead easy. Yours. Jim.
Dear Dad: Would you care if I got mar
ried? I was introduced to a lovely girl
last night. She Is older thin- I, but a
few years don't matter. What allowance
can we count on from you? Wire answer.
Jim.
Dear Father: If you have not yet an
swered my last postal, don't bother. Af
fair all off. She went back on me in most
shameful manner. After all. she was
only a college widow. I send bill for new
waistcoats. Had to have 'em. Yours.
Jim.
Dear Governor: Can you "let me have
my next month's allowance? By the way,
hove you ever played poker? Great game.
Isn't it? Jim.
Dear Dad: How Is everything around
the old homestead? How's Dobbin, and
are the calves taking notice yet? I love
the old place dearly. Send me a hundred,
will you? I'm raising a crop of peaches
myself. Jim.
Dear Pop: I've just got an Invite from
a chum to spend tbe vacation with him.
so don't expect me. Say, can't you get
a second mortgage on the farm, and send
me enough to buy an automobile? Yours.
Jim.
Dear Old Boy: It was handsome of you
to stand by me. I -send you a registered
package by this mall containing $10,000,
being part of the royalties on my new
book. "Seeing Life." More to come. This
week marry a millionairess. But, don't
you mind. She's respectable. Yours.
Jim.
Reflections of n Rejected Manuscript
London Bpeaker.
A MS. in tbe publisher's band is worth
two in the author's; '
An editor Is known by the MS. he keeps
and the stamps.
Desperate authors require desperate
remedies.
A poet and his poem are soon parted.
Jn submitting a MS. he who hesitates
is a wonder.
All Is not gold that glitters ... on
book covers.
Faint purse never won fair publisher.
A true friend Is one who laughs at our
Jokes.
It Is a wise author who knows Ms own
MS. after ... it has been blue penciled.
An author's royalties are often far from
royal.
No satirist is hero to his own epigram.
"Many Happ- Returns of the Day" ap
plies to the unsuccessful writer all the
year round.
A Perpetual Ueht.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Government maintains one "per
petual light." It shines in one ot the
dreariest places In the world, out in tbe
Mississippi swamps, and has not failed
to shine for many years. It is located
between Lake Borgne and the Mississippi
Sound, and Is seldom n eared by any ma
riner or wayfarer. It stands out In the
marsh and is visible from some of the
railroads. Without- any cheerful pros
pects, overhung with miasmatic mist,
compassed by filthy arms ot the sea,
among matted weeds and rank mud. the
light goes on perpetually. The winds do
not blow it out. and It never explodes.
Every three months James Young, a Gov
ernment employe, goes out in a small
boat and fights his way to the lighthouse
and loads up the lone sentinel with OIL
It3 name Is "Perpetual Light."
The Other Side of the Shield.
Chicago Chronicle.
According to orators at the New Or
leans convention of the Manufacturers'
Association, employers as well as work
men have a right to combine for self-protection
and that Is true, indisputably
true.
If we may judge from the speeches at
New Orleans, moreover, tbe inanufactur
ers mean to compete with tbe wildest and
most radical of labor agitators In extrav
agance of speech.
The oratory of the manufacturers la al
most without exception red-mouthed, bla
tant and exaggerated.
This Girl.
Translated by Mrs. Loulee Chandler Moulton.
This girl, she ta dead -"mid her light lores
dead
They have borne her. at break ot day, to the
moond.
Where they laid her alone. In her bright robes
claa.
And left her alone, all alone. In the ground.
They have gone bade gayly glad with the
dawn
And gayly they chanted, each one la his
place.
"This girl, she is dead, but her lovers live
onr'
Then turned to their pleasures with radiant
face.
Translated by Professor .York PowelL-
The) pretty. maid she died, she died, in love-
bed as she lay:
They took hrr to tho churchyard, all at the
break of day:
They laid- ber all alone there, aft In her
white array:
They laid ber all alone, there, a -coffined In the
clay;
And they came back so merrily, all at the
dan-n of day;
A-slnzlng. all .so merrily, "The dog must have
his day!."
. The pretty mall Is-dead. is dead. In love-bed
aa -ehe. lay;
And they went tX aStll to work, as they 'do
very dor.
JfOTE ANB COHMEXT.
More "hard luck la the shape ot'roln.
Colonel Bryan has broken &i gag again.
G rover has been Invited to "go 'way
back and sit down."
The only thing that could ever put tho
editor of the Commoner out ot the race
would be a combination ot lockjaw and
writers' cramp.
Another disappointment like yesterday
and the fans will all have nervous pros
tration. The Turks have losTanother battle. Ab.
dul Hamld is learning that It Is na fun
being the "sick man of 'Europe." There
la too much bitter medicine to swallow.
If tho lumber mills refuse to supply
lumber, where will the local -politicians
get their platform planks?
From recent postal investigations it
woujd seem" that the department Is filled
up with a good deal of t econd-class mat
ter. If the present weather holds out. the
city will save a. few dollars on the stre'etr
sprinkling bill, anyway.
3fy Love,
James- Knesel IxnrelL
Not as Oil other women are - -
la she that to-my soul la dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star:
And yet her breast Is. ever near.-
Great feeUnxa hath she of her own.
Which lesser scolsimay never know;
Ood gtveth them to her alone.
And sweet they are as any tone.
Wherewith the wind may choose to blow.
Yet In herself she dwelleta not.
Although no home were half so lair;
Jo simplest duty Is forgot;
Ute both no dim and lowly spot
That doth not in her sunshine share.
She doeth little kindnesses.
Which most leave undoie or despise;
For naught that, sets one heart at ease.
And gtveth happiness or peace.
Is low-esteemed In her eyes.
6he hath no scorn of common things;
And. though ahe aeems of other birth,
Round her heart entwines and clings
And patiently she folds her wings
To tread the humble paths ot earth.
Blesitnr she Is; Ood made her so;
And deeds of weekday holiness
Fall from her noiseless as the snow;
Nor hath she ever chanca to know.
That aught were easier than to bless.
Ehe Is most fair, and thereunto
Her life dqth rightly harmonise;
Feeling or thought that waa not true
Ne'er mad lees beautiful the blna
Unclouded heaven of her eyes.
She Is a woman one In whom
The Springtime of ber chtldLsh years
Hath never lost Its fresh perfume.
Though knowing well that life hath room
Tor many blights and many tears.
I love her with a love as still
As a broad river's peaceful might.
Which, by high tower and lowly mill.
Goes wandering at Its' own will.
And yet doth ever now aright.
And. on Ita full, deep breast sersne,
LUe quiet Isles, my duties- lie;
It flows around them and between.
And makes them fresh and fair and green-
Sweet homes wherein to live and die.
Compulsory Devotion..
Harper's Weekly.
The recent complaint ot Mrs. Newdlcle,
ot Kokomo, Ind.. made In the Mayor's
Court, of that city, was that her husband
had assaulted her. She was making
bread, she said, and had her hands In the
dough, when her husband called her to
family prayers. She excused herself, but
unsuccessfully, for her husband with a
man's disinclination to take no for an
answer, knocked her down. The magis
trate felt that Mr.' Newdick bad shown
excess of zeal, and fined him $30. Family
prayers, which used to be common In
this country, are a rare observance now
adays. The reason tor the. lapseof the
custom la not so much the decline of
piety as that as life became fuller and
Individual engagements, and preferences
were more and more respected. It became
harder to get families together for wor
ship. Family prayers belong to a time
when the head of a family ruled It, not
by general consent, but by authority. It
was a time, too, when religious observ
ances were more regarded than now,
though probably not religion Itself; when
there were fewer trains to be caught,
fewer factory bells, fewer school bells,
fewer letters, fewer engagments and du
ties outside the household. It Is like .old
times to read ot family prayers, and of
some one who found it inconvenient to
be present. The institution Is not dead,
but it Is rare now, and only prevails In
exceptional households, whose members
are not In a hurry. And even in .such
families it only prevails nowadays by
consent. Compulsion as a stimulant to
devotion Is pretty much obsolete, and Mr.
NeVdlck, of Kokomo, should have known
it.
The Farmer and the Lawyer,
Puck.
An honest farmer, so the story goes,
went to a lawyer for some advice. He
was in no particular need of advice, but ha
thought It would be a good thing to have
In the house.
The lawyer wrote a few words on a bit
of .paper, which he gave to the farmer,
charging him 110.
When the farmer got home It was pretty
late, and his boys and hired man had
about decided not to haul In the hay.
"We'll haul It In," said the farmer. "I
have consulted a lawyer, and while I
haven't read his advice, I have no doubt
he tells me never to put off till tomorrow
what I can do today."
Accordingly they all pretty nearly broke
their back and hauled In tbelr hay. But It
did not rain that night. Instead, the barn
took fire and burned to the ground.
The next morning the farmer thought ho
would read the lawyer's advice, just for
a cod.
It ran so-netting like this:
"Keep up your Insurance."
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAF1IERS
He Indeed, she boa s face that would torn
any man's head. She What way? Tonkers
Statesman.
Judge (sarcastically) Did you ever earn a
dollar In your Ufet Vagrant-Oh, yes: I
voted for your honor once. Puck.
Biggs (smoking) This Is something like a
cigar, old man. Dlggs (retting a wblO Tes.
er something like What Is it. any way?
Chicago Dally News. -
Mrs. Gabber Did 70a attend church Easter
morning1' Mrs. Clabber No, I didn't. She said
she couldn't possibly have It done before
Tuesday, and I'm going to have another mil
liner next year eo there! Baltimore Ameri
can. Mother (to son who has been growing rather
free of " speech) Tommy, if you promise not
to say "hang It" again. I'll give you six
pence. Tommy AH right, ma. But I know an
other word that's worth half-a-crown! Punch.
"So this Is to be a farewell tour!" "It Is."
answered the prima donna. "Ton mean to cease
singing in publlcr- "Not at all. Merely that
people are to have another opportunity to say
farewell to their money." Washington Star.
Doubtful Mr. Softleigh Tommy, do yon
reoily think your sister likes to see roe better
than she does Mr. Brown? Tommy Vm sure
of It. for evenings when he's la the parlor she
turns the light down so low she, can't sea
him at alt Plck-Me-tJp.
"I hear." said tho toe a. "that you've been
kicking because you've got so much to do."
"Well er yes." replied the clerk. "I did
think " "Well, well have to give you so
much more to do that you won't have time
to kick." Philadelphia Press.
"Why did you abuse jour husband,
malamr "I Just couldn't help it. Judge. Be
said fomethlng perfectly awful about me."
"What did ho say?" "He laid 1 wasn't any
eandromcr- than tho new 2-eett postag
stamjs," CUvsltcii Plain &ealsrt