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PORTLAXD, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1003.
PROFIT-SirAHIXG ACCORDING TO
CARNEGIE.
Mr. Carnegie, In his recent address
before the British Iron and Steel Insti
tute, spoke in behalf of profit-sharing
for worklngmen without loss-sharing.
He believes that unJer such -a system
the capitalist vould get better, more at
tentive, more Interested and more earn
est work from the employes. He would
have the corporation guarantee the
stock to employes who have been In
vited to invest in it. He would admit
the workingman as far as possible to a
share In the prosperity and shield him
from the adversity that may beset all
business. The main difficulty In pre
vious experiments in profit-sharing has
been when years came when there was
not a profit, but a loss, and the result
was not one thaf promoted either effi
ciency or permanency. Mr. Carnegie,
In his address, dwells upon the fact that
the officers of the United States Steel
Corporation or steel trust believe that
In time, under Its present system of di
vision of profits to all wage-earners, the
shares of the company will all be owned
by" those who work for it. Mr. Carne
gie, In his address, pleads that the de
velopment of this principle of profit
sharing upon which this, great indus
trial trust Is formed will tend on a great
scale to make the poor richer and more
secure.
Theoretically, this plan stands for
payment by results and a bonus for ef
ficiency, and is directly opposed to the
English plan of a minimum wage and
limits on individual effort.
-This is Mr. Carnegie's argument for
his system of profit-sharing. But the
ablest champions of the cause of labor
say that while all this is excellent in
'theory, it promises no permanent solu
tion of the labor problem. John Gra
ham Brooke, In "The Social Unrest,"
from which The Oregonlan quoted in a
recent editorial, objects to schemes of
proflt-without-loss-sharlng, on the
ground that they deepen class lines in
industry and cultivate a dependent
spirit among worklngmen. Among
other things, Mr. Brooke says:
Benevolent schemes that hear the slightest
taint of charity have at last got the con
tempt of the intelligent wage-earners. Impor
tunate and never again to be silenced, their
demand Is that they get their benefits, not as
Sifts or favors, but as . recognized rights.
Philanthropies are a dangerous substitute for
honest wage payment, shorter working time
and Increased Influence over the conditions of
the labor contract. What may be called the.
"great bluff" or our time Is to put gratuities
and benefactions In tho place of Justice.
The Springfield Republican, a very
able independent paper, published In the
heart of the great manufacturing State
of Massachusetts, supports this view of
Mr. Brooke and describes Mr. Carne
gie's scheme of profit-sharing offered
without loss-sharing as "pretty close to
tendering a gratuity in place of Jus
tice." This criticism Is sound. All
schemes akin to the town of Pullman,
which undertake to deal with the work
ingman as a class by himself, under the
philanthropic patronage of capital, have
Tailed to make him contented with his
Sot, and it is a hopeful sign for the
workingman in the future that they do
Jail. A slave, a serf. Is not seldom con
tented with his lot, but a free working
man is not content so long as there is
room for improvement In his social and
spiritual welfare. The Republican puts
its finger on the weakness of Mr. Car
negie's scheme of profit-sharing when it
says that when capital offers the work
ingman a share of stock in the company
at a certain price, and guarantees It to
him at that price, while capital must
partake of the loss as well as the profit,
it puts the laborer off in a distinct clas
and stimulates the spirit of depend
ence. This Is sharp but sound criticism.
Profit-sharing of .this sort, the Republi
can fairly pleads, is not genuine co
operation; It resembles the state of the
slave who is assured of a living exist
ence in adversity whether he has been
forehanded or not. If the present wage
system is to be replaced by something
better, there is no satisfactory stopping-place
in tho long run short of a
genuine co-operation in Industry. Under
our present fixed wage system the
worker receives a rate of wages which
is "generally lower than it should be in
times of prosperity, and often higher
than it should be in times of adversity."
Between .the present system of fixed
wages and the co-operation principle
there is no solid ground upon which to
stand.
The trouble with Mr. Carnegie is
the trouble with nearly all the indus
trial doctrinaires rjyhq jindertakeio .playi
social reformer and philanthropist; he
thinks of the workingman as something
a little better than his best-bred dog or
horse; he is a thing to be well housed,
well fed; neither whipped nor starved by
his keepers. If Mr. Carnegie kept a
mocking bird, we may be" sure that the
bird's health would be well cared for;
that its cage would be clean; that it
would be so securely, housed that no
wandering minstrel in shape of a tom
cat would be permitted to devour the
Carnegie bird; but Mr. Carnegie would
never open the door of the cage and
encourage the captive to spread its
wings in fullest freedom. His mocking
bird would have everything that a bird
could desire except the one thing that
it longed for most full freedom to
spread its wings in unrestricted flight.
The workingman does not want a
gilded cage of capital; he does not want
charity, patronage In shape of philan
thropy; he wants nothing but justice. If
he cannot get equal justice from our
present wage system, the only thing he
can accept without loss of self-respect
is genuine co-operation, which means
loss-sharing as well as profit-sharing..
The self-respecting workingman feels
that it Is right and just that those who
share in the profits shall also share In
the losses of a business, and when he
must help pay the losses as well as
share In the profits he will become more
attentive and efficient; he will not be
as likely through negligence to make a
loss, to whose payment he must con
tribute, as he would be under a system
which makes labor say to capital:
"Heads I win, talis you lose."
SUBSIDIES AND IDLE SHIPS.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer con
tinues to expose to public notice rare
density of ignorance regarding deep
water shipping in general and that of
Puget Sound in particular. For calling
the attention of the Seattle paper to a
few of its most glaring inaccuracies.
The Oregonlan Is alluded to as the "per
sistent and consistent enemy of Ameri
can shipping and of all suggested leg
islation to restore to the United States
some slight share of Its own ocean-carrying
trade." The Seattle paper last
week printed a list of ancient wooden
lumber droghers whose days of useful
ess are over, and stated that they were
unable tp secure profitable employment
because they had been driven from the
ocean by subsidized foreign vessels.
Recognizing that the statement had
been made through ignorance of the
class of ships, The Oregonlan called
attention to the fact that every first
class metal American ship afloat was
under engagement and holding its own
with foreign vessels of the same class,
and that the present depression in
freights was affecting tha foreigners as
much as it was the Americans, when
the same class of vessels was consid
ered. Corroborative of this statement,
the news columns of the Post-Intelll-gencer
on Monday printed the follow
ing: . The big British bark Southesk, Captain Go
man, will be towed over to Eagle Harbor to
morrow to tie up there Indefinitely. The pres
ent charter rates do not suit the Southesk's
owners, and she will probably wait for wheat.
The Southesk came to this port several weeks
ago with a cargo of Antwerp cement, and has
been lying at Galbralth, Bacon & Co.'s North
Seattle dock.
The able seaman who controls the
editorial destinies of the Post-Intelll-gencer
apparently does not "keep in
touch with his news columns, for In his
tirade against The Oregonlan on Tues
day he says:
Here on Puget Sound, with a total of 33 deep
water ships in port, every foreign vessel is
under charter and loading, and but three out
of 11 American ships have employment. Tho
only reason whj- the American ships are not
employed Is that there Is no profit In sending
them on voyages at the present rate of freights.
The loss would be greater than that Involved
In keeping them unemployed. Foreign ships
accept the present rates of charter because
they can make some money by so doing.
Now, If there vyas money to be made
by the foreigners, why did the South
esk go over to Eagle Harbor to tie up
"Indefinitely"? Why do not the Isla
mount and the Glenalvon, on Puget
Sound, get busy? Why Is It that forty
one foreign ships are laid up in San
Francisco waiting for a freight rate
that will at least keep them moving
without a loss? The facts are simply
as stated In The Oregonlan last week
that the class of American ships allud
ed to by the Post-Intelligencer are out
of date, and in periods of depression in
freights are the first to be retired, as in
periods of prosperity they are the last
to be pressed Into service. Last Mon
day the Post-Intelligencer printed a list
of vessels loading at Puget Sound ports.
Among the deep-water craft or those
going on "off-coast" voyages was the
schooner Alpena, loading at "Whatcom
for Sydney; the schooner George E. Bil
lings, for Manila; the schooner Matthew
Turner, for Sydney, and the schooners
Gamble, H. K. Hall and Mildred, for
Honolulu. These vessels are all modern-built
carriers, and their work com
pared with that of the fleet of "has
beens" which the Post-Intelllgehcer se
lected as a text for Its ship-subsidy edi
torial is Interesting.
The American ship Great Admiral
headed the list of neglected disengaged
and unsubsldlzed vessels In the Post-In-telllgencer's
editorial columns last week.
About a year ago she loaded lumber at
Port Blakeley for Melbourne, her cargo
consisting of 1.114.922 feet, which Is a
very good cargo for a vessel of that
class. Being an old-style square-rigger,
she required twenty men to handle her
and was eighty-three days making the
run to Melbourne. About the same time
the schooner Alpena, which Is now load
ing at Whatcom for Sydney, sailed from
Everett for Melbourne. She had a crew
of eleven men all told, carried 1,177,9GG
feet of lumber and made the run In
seventy-two days. The net tonnage of
the Great Admiral, on which pilotage,
towage and tonnage dues must be paid
in foreign ports, is 1402; that of the Al
pena is S33. Under such a showing, It
does not require a mathematical prod
igy to figure out why the Alpena Is in
the foreign trade at a profit, while the
Great Admiral is laid up. The same
conditions that apply in the foreign
trade have shut the old-style square
riggers out of the coasting business,
and there are at the present time six
teen of these modern-built schooners
loading on Puget Sound for California
ports, while nearly half that number
are loading in Portland.
These are the craft that are driving
both American and foreign square-riggers
out of the lumber trade, coastwise
and foreign, the saving on crew ex
penses alone, as compared with a
square-rigger, being enormous. In an
other column appears a list of the re
cent addltionse to this fleet, all built
on the Pacific Coast. This list shows
that last year the Coast lumber fleet
was Increased by thirty-four of these
modern carriers, their combined ca
pacity amounting to over 33,000,000 feet
of lumber. In the past four years over
100 of them have been launched at Pa-plfic-jCoast
.xards-ana. the; combined
carrying capacity is over 9S.090.000 feet
Estimating that half of them go coast
wise and half remain In the coasting
trade, they will handle in a single year
500,000,000 feet ef lumber. The Pacific
Coast producers have more tonnage and
lower freight rates than ever before in
the history of the country, and a sub
sidy would not Increase the number of
ships or lower the rates.
"THE SUCCESSFUL RASCAL."
In a brief address from a car platform
at one of the minor points on his route
soon after his present trip began. Presi
dent Roosevelt said: "We shall not
make of this great Republic what It
must be made until we join together
to hunt down the successful rascal just
as surely as we hunt down the unsuc
cessful rascal."
This sentence, says a Kansas City
paper, "strikes at the heart of one of
the causes of discontent in the coun
try." In other words, the feeling that
justice is not dispensed with even hand,
that money can secure Immunity for
the offender, is at the bottom of a part,
at least, of the bitter class feeling that
occasionally manifests itself, and which
political demagogues of the Bryan type
seek to divert to their own profit during
political campaigns.
This feeling is intensified every time
a wealthy rascal buys -Immunity from
punishment by means of the heavy at
torney fees that he is able to pay, or
escapes prosecution through "Influence"
of which either money or political fa
voritism is the basis. In emphasizing
the fact that equality before the law
is an essential element in a republican
form of government, if this Is to attain
to its highest possibilities In stability,
patriotism and prosperity, the Presi
dent stated a plain fact plainly. Nu
merous , incidents showing that the
"successful rascal" is not in favor with
the present Administration have proved
the sincerity of this estimate. This.
Indeed," Is one of the strongest ele
ments In Mr. Roosevelt's popularity.
He does not prate of the "plain people"
as does Mr. Bryan, but he believes In
giving every man a chance; he does not
decry wealth, but he is outspoken
against trusts that render the power of
wealth practically invincible and a
menace to the rights of .the people.
Sincerity that soorns the quibbles of
pretense characterizes his utterances
upon these points.
The "successful rascal" does not con
fine his operations to Wall street nor to
bank embezzlement nor to the shady
methods of the bank receiver so boldly
exploited within the past few years in
this city and elsewhere. He Is not in
frequently met In the guise of a keen
business man, who, observing the let
ter of the law, violates Its spirit by cir
cumventing legal obstacles which he
cannot override,, thus making of him
self a law-abiding scoundrel, a "suc
cessful rascal," whom justice may and
often does pursue, but seldom over
takes. By the remark quoted at the be
ginning of this article President Roose
velt stands by the principle that the
law should be no respecter of persons.
By Its utterance he has increased the
Ire-of the exponents of trusts and re
proclalmed himself a champion of jus
tice of the type that stands blindfold
In court holding evenly balanced scales.
DEWEY AND MANILA BAY.
The dedication of the monument at
San Francisco In commemoration of the
victory of the American Navy in Manila
Bay recalls the name of Admiral Dewey,
whose professional ability made that
memorable exploit possible. The vic
tory of Manila Bay was not an exploit
of the order of the great naval triumphs
of Blake, Rodney and Nelson. It was
not an open sea fight between great
fleets of nearly equal strength In men
and guns. It was nevertheless a great
victory, fraught with momentous, far-
reaching consequences of the quality of
Farragut's passage of the forts which
defended New Orleans and the mouth
of Mobile Bay. Farragut knew that If
he could carry his fleet of gunboats past
the fire of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
New Orleans was practically won,
for he knew that the Confederate gun
boats were no match for his superior
force of men and metal. So after a
useless bombardment of the forts by
the mortar schooners he boldly ran the
fire of the forts in the darkness. He did
the same thing subsequently at Mobile
Bay.
Admiral Dewey, who served under
Farragut when the Mississippi was lost
In the passage of the batteries at Port
Hudson, did not, forget the lesson taught
him by his great commander. He knew
that if he could safely carry his fleet
through the batteries at the entrance
of Manila Bay the battle was won, for
he knew that the Spanish gunboats
were In guns and men no match for his
splendid little squadron. So, like Far
ragut, he dared all, staked all, on the
passage of the batteries, at the entrance
to Manila Bay, and he won. His subse
quent sinking of the Spanish squadron
was nothing but gathering In the spoils
of victory. The Spanish fleet was
armed with guns so inferior to ours in
range that it was a mere question of a
few hours' firing before they would be
obliged to choose between destruction
and surrender. Dewey shot the Spanish
ships at his leisure as full of holes as a
rifleman does a stationary target at
short range when he has a rest for his
weapon. Nevertheless, the victory of
Dewey as a test of professional charac
ter was as severe as that undergone by
Farragut at New Orleans.
The decision to dare the passage of
the forts decided the fate of New Or
leans; the decision to dare the passage
of the batteries at the entrance of Ma
nila Bay decided the fate of the Span
ish fleet.
WHY D8ES THE TEAM LOSE?
The baseball situation has reached
an acute state in Portland, and with
the two losing teams there seems to be
no chance of either league furnishing
the city with anything like an aggrega
tion that will become a factor In the
race for the pennant. The Brown di
rectors, when they entered the Pacific
Coast League, culled the stars, or what
they thought to be stars, of the old Pa
cific Northwest League. On paper the
lineup of the Browns looked1' the best In
the business, but the fast aggregation
that has been playing ball under the
guiding hand of Henry Harris demon
strated at the start that the local mag
nates had not a correct line on the com
pany they had entered.
The opening weeks with San Fran
cisco and the week pitted against that
fast crew from Los Angeles should have
roused the management of the Browns
Into quick and prompt action. But it is
not on record that they rose to the oc
casion. Clear baseball knowledge was
lacking in the management, real finesse
was woefully, wanting, and when the
team became tangled at critical times
jUie-baseball brain. 4hat ahojild realizeJLla the wjork.
just where and how to obtain results
became clogged with inability.
There has always been complaint
about playing managers. There will be
this complaint as long as the game Is
played, but In the East, and. In fact, all
over .the country, playing managers
fiave been successful, and there Is no
reason whya playing manager on the
Browns should not be. Had the man
agers of the Browns roused themselves
and It cannot be said that they were
handicapped by .the directors and lack
of funds they would have started a
weeding process two months ago. It
was not until they returned home that
they bestirred themselves. It was like
locking the barn door after the horse
had been stolen. They started to
strengthen the team after almost every
good player worthy of drawing the sal
ary paid by the Brown management had
been signed to play elsewhere. Within
the last two weeks the managers,
spurred by the directors and the weep
ing and walling of the fans, have
scoured the country for players. And
while they are after players they might
bear in mind that what is needed most
of all Is a player who knows the game
from the beglnning.to the end, one who
Is aggressive, one who, If he Is not
made manager, should be made' captain
and Invested with full and complete au
thority. He should be a player of "suf
ficient reputation and force to compel
the players on the team to respect him
and to look to him for their instruc
tions, and one who will at all times
hold the whip hand over the members of
the team. At present the team has a
field captain, but It would take a micro
scope to find him. His voice Is never
heard In the game, and when he does
speak. If he ever does, the players give
no more attention than they would to a
child yelling from the bleachers.
It Is a long cry from now until the
closing date, September 27, and while
there Is no chance for the Browns to
be a factor In the pennant race, with
proper material and the right kind of
management the Browns can at least
fight their way to the first division.
This can only be accomplished by the
best kind of baseball and a management
that will take every advantage possible.
If it is necessary to change the man
agement, then let that be done, and If
it is necessary to get an entire new In
field, let; this be done also. The fact
that the Pacific National League team
Is In the same boat should not deter this
action.
American surgeons do not wholly In
dorse Dr. Lorenz' method of reducing
congenital dislocation of the hip joint.
These operations, It Is said, are not gen
erally successful, that which was per
formed upon little Lolita Armour being
only partially so, while at least one In
stance Is cited In which the patient died
later from spinal meningitis. Judged
by this standard, operations for appen
dicitis would have to be condemned,
since many of these are followed by
death due to the resultant shock. And
yet the most able doctors approve of
this operation, and, indeed, urge it In
many cases as a quick and relatively
safe road out of a very distressing and
dangerous situation. All will agree,
however, that Dr. Lorenz methods
ought to be employed with great care,
and all operations for appendicitis as
well. People generally, are of the opin
ion that surgery, while a great and
wonderful science, Is somewhat over
worked and Is to become meddlesome,
and that "operations" of various kinds
are much more numerous than is con
sistent with the Individual rights of pa
tients and the necessary . requirements
of aid In many cases. Surgeons quite
naturally demur to this opinion, and the
work goes on.
The wheatgrowers of the Willamette
Valley will read with pride the state
ment of Dr. Withycombe, of the Ore
gon Experiment Station at Corvallis,
that Oregon white Winter wheat con
tinues to give an excellent account of
Itself after more than sixty years' cul
tivation In Western Oregon. Intro
duced Into this country by the Hud
son's Bay Company nearly two-thirds
of a century ago, this wheat is dear to
the hearts of pioneers and has won for
Itself the Indorsement of their descend
ants who have sown and garnered It for
two generations. "While we have no
data relative to the quality and 'general
character of this wheat fifty years ago."
says Dr. Withycombe, "it Is altogether
probable that it is fully as good at the
present time as it was then." Good for
the staying qualities of Oregon white -
Winter wheat!
Colonel Charles A. Woodruff, United
States Army, senior Colonel of the Com
missary Department, Is to be appointed
a Brigadier-General and retired In July.
Colonel Woodruff, who Is now Commissary-General
at San Francisco, has
many friends in Portland,, as he was
stationed for Ave years at Vancouver
Barracks when he was Captain and
Commissary on the staff of the late
Brigadier-General John Gibbon, United
States Army, who commanded the De
partment of the Columbia from 1885 to
1891. Colonel Woodruff Is a graduate
of the Army of the Potomac and a
graduate of West Point; he was with
General Gibbon at the battle of the Big
Hole in August, 1877, and served three
years as Chief Commissary of the De
partment of the Philippines, returning
last year.
Mr. Corea, the NIcaraguan Minister at
Washington, has submitted to his gov
ernment an exhaustive report on the
financial system of the United States,
and his country Is now contemplating a
change from silver to the gold standard.
The change will be made gradually, so
as not to disturb existing trade condi
tions, but as rapidly as possible the
land of revolutions will be placed on a
gold basis. If these conversions con
tinue much longer, the whole world will
soon be on a 16-to-l basis that Is, six
teen gold-standard countries to one
with the pot-metal standard.
The authorities of Lake County are,
of course, justified in taking such meas
ures as' seem necessary and proper for
the protection of the people of that
county from smallpox. It Is doubtful,
however, whether the shotgun method
of quarantine Is either wise or effective.
We are fond of believing that such
measures as this have given place to
the more enlightened method which in
cludes the vaccination of all within the
menaced area and the prompt isolation
of all suspects until the period of in
cubation has passed.
Happy is the worker who has passed'
middle life and is verging upon old age
whether he be preacher, teacher, rail
road engineer or what not who Is able
from a financial point of view to step
down and out In response to a hint from
those who furnish the salary that "a.
younger man." wcruia be more effective
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Still Maay Are Called, Few CiescH.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
The vote of the presbyteries of the
Presbyterian Church In America indicates
that the entrance examinations to para
dise have heretofore been made a little
too severe.
Law Ha Little te Do With. It.
Fairhaven Herald.
Social equality is a matter that can
never be effected by legislation nor by
the conferring of any kind of civil rights.
The social position of men and women
depends entirely upon themselves.
Portland Sealers Sheald Help.
Burns Times-Herald.
Portland jobbers have again lost a big
deal In this section through lack of di
rect transportation facilities, which should
help to hasten a railroad from that di
rection into the interior of Oregon.
Bad Xeni for Mr. Rearaea.
Eugene Register.
You can find plenty of substantial Dem
ocrats in Eugene and Lane County who
will not only support Binrger Hermann for
Congress, but are working to secure his
election and wear Hermann buttons to
baok up their position.
Mrs. Cleveland Needn't Worry.
Tacoma News.
Mrs. Cleveland, It seems, does not want
her husband to be President again. Wise
woman! She and her little daughters
have a chance to enjoy the companion
ship of a kind husband and father now,
and they prefer him in the home at
Princeton to a return to the White House.
However, there is no danger of his recall
to the Presidency.
What
the General Was Up to.
Olympla Recorder.
It now transpires that the trip of Gen
eral Miles to the Philippines was care
fully planned by the commander of the
Army with a view of securing ammuni
tion with which to bolster up the wan
ing fortunes of the anti-Imperialists. Gen
eral Miles needs a shrewd maanger to
devise something more potent to keep him
promineptly before the public
Value of a Good Head.
Albany Democrat.
Itpays to keep cool In this world and
not fly off on every tangent. When men
keep the best they havo in their heads at
their command, they have none too much
for this world's needs. It doesn't pay
from a selfish standpoint to go to pieces
on little things and threaten to slap the
face of men with whom you come at
cross roads. It does pay to be broad
minded and well-rounded In one's daily
living, making the best of situations and
acting with judgment.
Call
Oat the National Guard.
Eugene Register.
Down at Gallatin. Tenn., a colored rural
mallcarrier was held up by masked men
and ordered to quit the job under pain'
of death. The carrier was one of three
colored men who won the place on his
merits as a scholar, passing higher than
did the white applicants. Here is a case
that should stir the country from one end
to the other In favor of the colored citi
zen who prizes education sufficiently in
making .it serve the ends of making for
him an honest and honorable living. He
should be continued on the route and
protected by armed guards If necessary.
Serenely 3Ilndin(r His Own Easiness.
Walla Walla Union.
So it goes all along the line. Every
one Is clamoring' for recognition of one
kind or another. And in the meantime
Theodore Roosevelt is letting local com
mittees wash their own linen, while he
gives advice on the settlement of strikes,
the Monroe doctrine, irrigation and the
raising of large families. He does not dis
turb himself much . abqut local matters.
He is watching the big game, and In the
meantime his baggage car fills up with
novelties, the majority of which will find
their way to the storeroom of the White
House or become playthings for the
Roosevelt children, who, by the way,
take naturally to tho very things which
Interest their Illustrious father when he
has time for other things but public busi
ness. Colored Men Are Treated WelL
Walla Walla Statesman.
If Chaplain Prloleau. colored chaplain
of the Ninth Cavalry, has suffered Indig
nities In Walla Walla because of his color
it is something exceptional here. In no
place In the United States are colored
people treated with more consideration
than in Walla Walla, Colored children In
the public schools are treated apparently
as eocial equals by their schoolmates, and
colored families in the city number among
their friends some of the best families of
the city.
The colored baseball nine from the gar
rison plays with the Walla Walla league
team and the Whitman College team, and
they are treated much better than some
white teams that have visited Walla
Walla. In fact. Walla Walla Is a. para
dise for colored people and It Is indeed
surprising to hear such a complaint as
that made by Chaplain Prloleau. It Is
Just possible that he Is oversensitive.
Even white people have been stopped and
rudely shoved by drunken hoodlums on
the street, and even white people have
overheard uncomplimentary remarks made
about themselves by persons who had no
better manners.
Central Oresron Journalism.
Bend Bulletin.
The Chewauean Post, owned by J. Pier
pont Holder, of the Central Oregon news
paper trust, soliloquizes thusly upon the
extension of the Columiba Southern from
Shaniko to Bend: "Portland has got Its
eyes open, and are smiling upon a. pano
rama of Oregon traffic." The Post dilates
in grammar nearly as bad as the above
upon the shortsightedness of Portland's
business men, and says that the extension
to Bend will not corral the trade of South
eastern Oregon to any great extent. We
have an Idea that the Portland business
men are not so keen after the south
eastern trade as they are for the Cen
tral Oregon business; and the road to
Bend will open up a country whose pros
pects and future are as far beyond those
In Southeastern Oregon as heaven is
above hell. And It will be a godsend to
some of the people who, like the Post
man, have been In one place so long that
tney have completely fossilized and are
afraid that they will be unable to get up
and run away to hide when they hear the
whistle of a locomotive.
One Little Box Will Hold Them.
New York Evening Post.
"The appeal now lies to the ballot
box." So affirms gravely the chief news
paper mourner over the Northern Secur
ities decision. It will be extremely Inter
esting to observe the process. First It
would be necessary to catch a political
nartv willing to attack the anti-trust
law in its platform and on the stump,
Then It would ba neceseary to find e
great body of voters who believe them
selves aggrieved by tnc decision against
tho Northern Securities Company. There
is no use in "appealing" to the ballot
box, unless you have some prospect of
getting, a majority of the ballots. Every
Indication today, however, is that one
small ballot box, stationed, say, at the
cornet' of Broadway and Wall street,
would suffice to hold all the votes that
might be cast in favor of abolishing the
anti-trust act. The same newspapers
that aro going to Induce the people to
vote down a highly popular law, are also,
we observe, desirous of bringing about.
In a similar way, the repeal of the 15th
amendment. Thus they would "appeal to
the ballot box" in order to shut off that
appeal in the case, of a million .-or, moro
Jlegal yotersv.
THE OTHER THIRD TERM CAMPAIGN
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The steadily increasing momentum of
the movement in favor of a third term
for ex-President Cleveland makes It
timely to recall the Incidents of a similar
mo-ement in behalf of General Grant In
the Fall and Spring of 1S79 and 1SS0. Soon
after the close of his second term General
Grant went abroad on a tour of the world,
receiving the highest honors from all the
chief rulers of the world in every country
that he visited. He returned to the United
States in September, 1S79, landing at San
Francisco. He was received there with a
great demonstration of popular admira
tion, and started thence across the coun
try on what proved to be a veritable tri
umphal march. Every city in which, he
stopped greeted him with tumultuous en
thusiasm, with great crowds, banquets
and receptions. Nothing surpassing this
demonstration of popular enthusiasm has
ever been witnessed In this country.
Even after" he had reached his home
in Galena the enthusiasm continued un
abated. When he went a few weeks later
to attend a reunion of the Army o'f the
Cumberland in Chicago more than 100,000
people poured into that city from the sur
rounding country to greet him- Again,
when late In the year he started on a
tour from Chicago across Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania to complete the circuit
of the world at Philadelphia, his biog
raphers record that "it was the same old
story in every city In Logansport, In In
dianapolis, in Columbus, " In Cincinnati
one continuous blaze of boundless enthus
iasm." It was then generally recognized
that he was a candidate for a third term.
The press of the country was absorbed in
the discussion of the question, and con
stant efforts were made in the early part
of 1SS0 to get an expression from him of
his attitude in the matter. The most that
he would say was this:
I -will neither accept nor decline an imag
inary thine I shall not gratify my enemies
by declining what has not been offered me.
I am not a candidate for anything-. and it
the Chicago convention nominates & candi
date who can be elected I shall be glad. All
my life I hate made my decision when tho
time for the decision has arrived. I shall not
depart from my usual course of action.
He went on a visit to Cuba and Mexico
in March, and from the Mexican border
wrote to his friend Washburne:
In regard to- your suggestion that I should
authorize some one to say that In no event
I would consent to ever becoming a candidate
after 1SS0. I think any statement from me
would De misconstrued and would only serve
as a handle for my enemies. Such a statement
might well be made after the nomination. If
I am nominated in such a way as to accept.
It is a matter of supreme indifference to me
whether I am or not. There are many per
sons I should prefer to have the office than
myeelf. I owe so much to the Union men of
the country that If they think my chances
are better for election than for other prob
able candidates In case I should decline. I
cannot decline if the nomination is tendered
without seeking on my part.
He came back to the United States in
April, landing at New Orleans and Jour
neying north through Southern cities
amid scenes identical with those that
marked his journey across the continent
from San Francisco a few months earlier.
When he reached Chicago he was greeted
with an immense meeting, at which ho
was openly proclaimed as a candidate for
a mird term, the announcement being for
mally made that he would accept the
nomination if it came In the right way.
He then went to his home in Galena and
did not leave there again till after the
Chicago convention had completed its
work. The convention met on June 2,
and when the time to make .nominations
arrived. Senator Roscoe Conkllng placed
General Grant In nomination in his fam
ous phrase: "And when they ask whence
comes our candidate, we say, from Ap
pomattox and Its apple tree." Then Colo
nel Ingersoll nominated Mr. Blaine in a
speech which is no less famous, and oth
ers put forward Senator Sherman, Ellhu
B. Washburne and Senator Edmunds.
General Grant led on the first ballot with
S01 votes; Blaine came next with 281, Sher
man next with 93, Washburne next with
31 and Edmunds next with SO. The num
ber necessary for a choice was 373. For
36 ballots the struggle was continued.
Grant's highest number being 313 on the
33th, and Blaine's being the highest on
the first, falling to 257 on the 35th and to.
42 on the final ballot. Grant's vote stood
at 306 on the final ballot when Garfield
was nominated.
A graphic picture of General Grant's
demeanor while receiving news of the
balloting is given in Hamlin Garland's
"Life of Grant." He made his headquar
ters at the office of his .old staff officer,
Rowley, In Galena, where the bulletins
were received. When a bulletin came an
nouncing the presentation of his name by
Conkllng, and saying that after the Ap
pomattox passage the applause had lasted
for several minutes, the "General be
trayed no excitement, scarcely interest.
A thoughtful look was on his face."
When a second bulletin wa3 read saying
the "applause .continues," and a third,
saying "all order is lost; the hall is one
surging mass of humanity," the General's
friends assured him that it was settled
that he would be nominated on the first
ballot. He "moved uneasily in his chair,
and his face darkened a little." Then he
rose abruptly, saying to his son: "Come,
Buck, let's go home," When he got Into
the street he walked some distance in
silence, then drew a deep sigh and said:
"I am afraid I am going to be nominat
ed.' When several days later the news
of Garfield's nomination came. General
Grant said: "Garfield Is a good man. I
am glad of it- Good-night, gentlemen."
To his Intimate friends later he made this
complaint: VMy friends have not been
honest with me. I can't afford to be de
feated. They should not have placed me
In nomination, unless they felt perfectly
sure of my success."
Mayor Low's Bnsy Day.
New York Evening Post.
After acting, favorably or unfavorably,
on 175 New York City- bills sent to him
by the Legislature, besides attending to
the other trying routlrle of the Mayor's
office, Mr. Low is certainly entitled to the
brief vacation which he begins today.
He accepted 83 bills, rejected SO, reserved
two for further consideration, and re
turned eight which did not properly re
quire his sanction. Glancing through the
list of rejected bills, it is evident tre
Mayor has a keen eye for the detection
of bills granting special or unwarranted
privileges. He made short work of the
small army of private bills which came
before him. Borough presidents who were
glad t& get their offices at present sal
aries, but who had Influence enough to
secure the passage of a bill through the
Legislature carrying liberal Increases, are
rather sharply rounded up by the Mayor
In his veto memorandum, and so are the
Municipal Court Justices. .
Something: Nevr la an Officeholder.
Baltimore American.
The Police Commissioner of New York'
Is a very remarkable man. He declined
an invitation to address a political meet
ing on the ground that, as he had Issued
orders to the force under his command
to keep out of politics, it was his duty to
set them the example. Such consistency
Is novel enough to touch on the revolu
tionary.
la Missouri.
Kansas City Star.
I've brushed that -swallertall o' mine
Untet It looks like new;
I've sllckened up my Sunday boots-
Jes' 'Ike a dude- 'ud do;
I've went and got my derby hat
Prom out the storage chest; .
Yer Uncle Si's a-goln to shine
When Teddy hits the "West.
I'm goin to drop In at the store
An buy a dime seegar;
An." light It with a crackla'., match
Tbefa scratched on Teddy's car;
Yer Uncle SI Xer Jest one day
Is goln.' to look his best.
An be credit ta the town .. ;
SVlm T$J4i, kit H 'jreaU,
NOTE AJfD COMMENT.
Two hours in Seattle ought J to- satfe
the most exacting President.
The Browns; first baseman has jumped.
We look hopefully for the next.
Representative Humphrey seems to
have made a regular Tom Guinean of
himself. .
Mr. Tom Tracey might be a trifle hap
pier today If Mr. Joe Gans had drawn the
color line.
Democrats needn't hesitate to give
Grover Cleveland the nomination on ac
count of the third-term precedent. He
won't be elected.
We trust the committee will be able to
call the President's attention to the
bright and beautiful sky overhead when
approaching the park entrance.
Senator "Mitchell visits the prizefight.
Surely the gentleman from Oregon does
not Intend to do the Tillman act when hJ
gets back to Washington.
A number of the New York river patrol
had a mimic battle last week with river.
pirates, for the benefit of a moving plo
ture machine. The residents of Gotham
probably desire a little mora real battles
and less picture making on the part of
the patrolmen.
The Bible publications of the Oxford
University Press have been Issued for
300 years, and can be published in lad
languages and dialects. Every year fully
600 tons of paper are used for this pur
pose alone. Orders for 100,000 Bibles are
quite common, and the supply of printed
sheets is so great that an order for 500,009
copies can be readily filled. On an aver
age from 30 to 40 Bibles are furnished
every minute.
Governor Bailey, of Kansas, takes the
stand that as a rule one ought not to as
pire to office until he has made soma
headway In the world's material prosper
ity and baa something laid away for a
rainy day. He points to the Impossi
bility of one's saving money when hold
ing office and pictures the hardships that
fall upon a multitude who must inevitably
yield their places in the public service .to
somebody else.
This frolicsome matrimonial advertise
ment appears in the Kobe Chronicle:
"California: Well, boys, here I am, a
sweet little maid of 17 Summers; can sing
ragtime and dance Ja(;time; can cook, and
am an all-round glrL I have bright blue
eyes, light hair, inclined, to be curly;
height, 5 feet 4, weight 120, and have light
complexion. Would like to correspond with
some nice young man of good habits who
Intends to marry."
Senator Blackburn tells a story of a con
stituent of his who holds the office of
"trial Justice" In the Blue Grass State.
His own son was brought before him on
a charge of drVmkenness and disorderly
conduct- His Honor listened gravely to
the evidence, which established a clear
case against the young man. and said:
"The couht will now render sentence.
You're fined 1 cent and costs. The couht
will remit the costs, and you may go
home and thank God that your father is
the Judge."
New York is laughing over a rebuke
that Bishop Potter is said to have admin
istered to a young and presumptlous
clerygman. This clergyman's charge is
a small rural church, and the bishop vis
ited it one Sunday to confirm some boys
and girls. The clergyman preached and
at the end of the service complained to
the bishop about the smallness of his sal
ary. "Do you know, sir," he ended, "what
I get for my sermon of this morning?
Six dollars, sir; only $8." "Six dollars! Is
that all?" the bishop exclaimed, "why,
I wouldn't have preached that sermon for
$600."
The Stillwater (Okla.) Advance refers to
the alleged danger of kissing, and de
nounces it as an unmitigated slander on
the women. "There can be no more dan
ger in kissing a beautiful woman," says
the paper, "than in kissing the sunlight
or a new-blown rose, and for the purpose
of demonstrating our position we stand
ready to kiss any white woman (who does
not wear store teeth) from Cape Cod to
Kalamazoo. We are not afraid of this
diabolical kissing microbe; and the man
who would recommend the abolition of
the health-giving kiss is fit only for trea
son, stratagem and spoils, and is clearly
unconstitutional and should be abolished
himself."
A Philadelphia man who has a Chinese
cook is reported by the Philadelphia Press
as much puzzled by the "pidgin" English
used by the Celestial. "He says 'topside
for upstairs, and 'no had got" for 'I have
not or 'they are not, and 'one piece for
a single Individual, and all sorts of other
funny things," explained, the employer.
"For Instance, the other day I got home
and told him to go upstairs and tell my
two daughters I wanted to talk to them.
This was the answer he gave me when ha
came down: 'Two plecee gall topside no
hab got; one plecee gall drivee-drlvee; one
plecee gall walkee-walkee.' From which
I eventually made out that neither of my
daughters was at home, one being out
driving, the other out walking but he's a
great cook, anyhow."
Horrors; of JoBraallam.
Chicago Tribune.
"What Is the difference," said the In
formation editor, "between a dissatisfied
third baseman and "
"And "the owner of a collection of curi
osities," broke In the exchange editor.
"One plays for his discharge and tha
other charges for his display. That's easy.
What is the dltxerence between tha cap
tain of a leaky ship "
"And a lawyer cross-examining a wit
ness? Shucks! That's like falling off a
log. One mans the pump and the other
pumps the man. Why is an impecunious
actor "
"Boneless ham. Why is "
(To be continued.)"
PLEASANTRIES OF FASAGRAFHE8S
"How is your daughter getting oa with
her music T" "Splendidly," answered Mrs.
Cumrox. "She can go to & classical concert
and tell exactly where to applaud without
watching the rest of the audience." Washing
ton Star.
Mrs. CRUey Th top av th morula te yez,
Mrs. McNulty. An how Is yer ould man. this
foln moroln? Mrs. McNulty Shure, an it's
terrible bad be do be, Mrs. O'Rlley. Sorrs, a
bite can he ate exclpt phwat he drinks. Chi
cago Daily News.
"I don't see," remarked the woman who
was willing to be convlriced, "how you can aejl
this sideboard for Just a quarter of what Pay
& Go sell It for." "WeH," replied the sales
man confidentially, "you see, madam, this Is
quartered oak.' 'Cincinnati Comsjacclal-Tri-bune.
Skribbler There's little hope for this world
of ours so long as it is ruled by the commer
cial class. Fosse ttEy the way, Skribbler,
wonder what kfaid of a world It would be It
the management of our railroads, steamsbips.
mines etc., were entrusted entirely to tte
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