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POItTLAXTJ, MONDAY, AUGUST 3. lOO.l
OUH MODEILY COUXUCOPIAE.
The opinion of county authorities that
damages will not lie against the county
for Injuries sustained in the recent Morrison-street
bridge fatality will be a snd
Jolt to that considerable body of the
public which rejoices in the prospect of
some thousands or hundreds of thou
sands In damages, as in the creation of
copious financial blessings -without any
corresponding sacrifice. A snug $100,000,
more or less, disbursed among those
who have little or nothing as the result
of their own achievement. Is, we must
understand, a clear gain of wealth to
the community. It costs nobody any
thing. It simply comes from "the
county."
So it is with that other modern cornu
copia, "the city." If only the citywlll
furnish us light, water, lovely sF$ets,
delectable sidewalks, free bridges, rest
ful parks, band concerts, well-stocked
libraries, finely equipped schools, free
bathhouses, etc., etc., why, then, society
Is by that much clear gainer. It is all
velvet, as the gamblers say. Nobody
should provide anything for himself.
"The city" should provide all. It is so
easy. It costs nothing. It comes, like
reading and writing, by nature. All
that is necessary Is to pass a law, and
the thing is done. If the taxpayer has
any mission In life or excuse for his ex
istence, other than to be means for
those who have none, power for the
nerveless and provider for the thriftless,
It would seem high time for him to show
cause why he should not be confiscate
with all his goods to the populace.
Now It Is a curious concomitant of this
most admirable and equitable arrange
ment, that those who must eari enough
for themselves and the unproductive as
well, are substantially without service
from their public donations, and if they
want anything done have to do it for"
themselves. While "the city" and "the
county" are dispensing joy for the
doless, what are they doing for the
doers? If you want a pavement, build
it yourself; if a sidewalk, lay it; If
water, buy It. If you want to go any
where, keep a carriage or pay car fare.
If your house Is robbed, hire a detec
tive. If you are alarmed at footpads,
carry a revolver. If boys molest your
r remises, take a club and get after
them and their parents. There are no
taxes available for any such purpose.
They are busy paying official salaries.
Keeping up public buildings and "Insti
tutions," looking after the support, con
duct and comfort of the Immense army
of Incapables and unwlllings. The man
that won't work must be clothed, fed,
amused and tended, in Jail or out of It.
The end of this thing is an increasing
disposition of the beneficiary to be ben
efited, and an increasing demand upon
the cornucopias. The producer must
tighten up his belt another notch or
two and go to work a little harder. In
the City of Chicago, for example, where
some $30,000,000 a year are contributed
by "the city" to the edification of the
multitude, officialism and general de
pendence have reached so high a state
of development that the citizen, or
rather taxpayer (for the leech Is also a
citizen), Is organizing himself Into a
supplementary Instrument of govern
ment, that is to say. of dividing his
earnings with the non-earning. Chicago
r.Jw has Its small-park associations.
alley-cleaning associations, street-repair
associations, garbage-removal associa
tions, sldewalk-buildlngassociatlons, and
clty-beautlful associations by the score.
Thus far no sewer-bulldlng, bridge
building, or viaduct-building associa
tions have come into existence, but they
are next in order, and the Chicago Trib-
une, in an interesting summary of the
situation, suggests that since the city
government is confessedly and chron
ically bankrupt, the functions of the
city government must eventually be
performed by private associations op-
crating upon a subscription basis.
It is not a violent assumption, per
haps, that sooner or later, the provider
of everything for the provider of noth
ing will weary of his Job. There Is a
possibility that the Interior of the cor
nucopia will some time be exhausted
and cease its uninterrupted flow of bles
sings upon all applicants. It Is only
good-natured forbearance that suffers
the unprofitable to ride In the saddle
while the energetic carries him along;
for power is to the strong the moment
they care to put forth the hand and
seize it. The flotsam and jetsam of hu
inanity are as nothing to the forceful
few, once they are aroused. Some day
perhaps there will be a reaction from
this artificial arrangement under which
the no-account ride in a wagon that is
pulled by the industrious and the fru
gal. Mature make so such pitiful mis
take. In her economy every tub stands
oh its own bottom. In her model realm
the failures do not sit at the head of the
feast, the drones do not lord it over the
workers, the parasite is taken at nis
true valuation, and not at nis own. u.ne
cornucoDia is a pretty thing in myth
ology; but it is not a good working
model for men of sense and spirit,
HILL. DID, DDT HILL DIDN'T.
Under what color of right does Mr.
J. J. Hill felicitate himself upon the
decision rendered at St. Paul Saturday
by Judge Lochren, of the United States
Circuit Court? If the court is to be be
lieved, Mr. Hill and his railroad, the
Great Northern, had nothing to do with
the acquisition of the Northern Pacific.
The job wag done, if we admit that It
was done at all, by Northern Securi
ties. Therefore, Mr. Hill had no part
in it Therefore there Is no acquisition
of one road by Its competitor. There
fore nothing has been done in restraint
of trade.
Ordinarily, when the court announces
the law. It Is the province of all good
citizens to acquiesce, without trying to
go behind yie returns. But when Judges
Caldwell, Sanborn, Thayer and vande-
venter, sitting In the United States
Court of Appeals on April 9, say one
thing, and Judcre Lochren. sitting In the
United States Circuit Court on August
1, says an entirely opposite thing, then
reason declines to abdicate; then the
question Is pertinent, "Which will stand?
We understand Judge Lochren to
affirm that it would have been in re
straint of trade and in suppression of
competition if J. J. Hill, through the
Great Northern, had acquired the
Northern Pacific; but that Inasmuch as
Mr. Hill accomplished this end through
the device of Northern Securities, the
law is effectually, evaded and the act Is
legal. This Is a very fine point, ob
viously, and while It may be law, it Is
most transparently not fact. The law
of Minnesota forbids the consolidation
of parallel or competing lines of .rail
ways. It 13 a rather far-fetched theory
that this act Is forbidden to the com
peting road but not to a common own
ership of both roads; and that what
would be unlawful for President Hill
of the Great Northern is lawful for
President Hill of the Northern Securi
ties. This is the first occasion we can recall
when a court of such standing has for
mulated an avowed defense and justifi
cation of sharp practice, confessedly
aimed to violate the spirit of the law by
getting around the letter. Judge Loch
ren's reasoning is precisely that ad
vanced by Mr. Hill's lawyers at the
time Northern Securities was formed.
Let us not say that Judge Lochren had
part in the Hill councils. Let us simply
say that Mr. Hill is a person of great
Influence In Minnesota, in the press and
In the legal profession of greater In
fluence, perhaps, than he has In some
other places In the old Senate Chamber
at Washington, for example, where nine
modest men, on a day of the October
term, will impart to Mr. Hill some In
formation that it is desirable for him
to know.
A MISTAKEN POLICY.
The labor unions that have at vari
ous times In New Tork. in Indiana and
very recently In Texas been forcing
their members to resign from the mili
tia have acted with a most plentiful
lack of wisdom. Such action Is sure to
rob the labor unions of popular sym
pathy and support, for It will be taken
by the public as laying down the doc
trine that a man cannot be both a
unionist and a militiaman, If the peo
ple should once be confronted with a
situation of affairs when all labor
unions would make war on the National
Guard In every state, with a view to
dfssgjvlng It, the people would have
small Sympathy or support henceforth
for an organization which holds Itself
above the law and confesses that Its
own purpose Is so lawless that no Na
tional Guardsman Is eligible to its
ranks. A few months ago In Schenec
tady, N. Y., a labor union tried to boy
cott one of its own members who as a
militiaman had .served with his com
pany while preserving order during a
strike. The Watexbury (Conn.) street
car strike was followed by an effort to
Injure the militia company that put
down the rioting, and the attempt to
boycott the citizen soldiery of Evans
vllle, Ind., Is of the same quality of dan
gerous purpose.
Another illustration of unwisdom on
part of a labor union was forcing a con
flict with a very able) Influential and
sincere friend of labor, the President of
the United States. The President was
entirely fair when he said that labor
was free to unite or not, as It pleases;
that the Government will not discrimi
nate against union men, neither will It
discriminate in their favor. It will not
discharge a competent, satisfactory
man simply because he is obnoxious to
the union, and it will not employ an In
competent or unworthy man solely be
cause he Is backed by a labor union.
The President said, "No rules or reso
lutions of the union can be permitted
to override the laws of the United
States, which it is my sworn duty to
enforce," and then he quoted from the
Judgment and award by the Anthracite
Coal-Strike Commission of March 18
last, approved by him, as follows:
It is adjudged and awarded that no person
shall be refused employment or in any way
discriminated acalnst on account of member
Bhlp or nonsiembershlp in any labor organi
zation, and that there shall be no discrimina
tion acalnst, or interference with, any em
ploye who is not a member of any labor or
ganization by members of such organization.
The President fairly said that this
commission, appointed by him. includ
ed a member of a labor union; that In
common decency all the Government
departments must be handled In ac
cordance with this principle, clearly
and fearlessly enunciated by the com
mission. Trade unions, of course, have
a right In equity to ask of emnlovers a
fair and open field for organization
among employes, and no favors either
way. The free action of the individual
worklngman cannot be legally inter
fered with under our form of trovern
ment. The principle of personal liberty
is fundamental under our institutions
The individual employer, as a matter
of expediency or business Interest, has
a right to employ nobody but union
men, or to refuse employment to other
than nonunion men, but the Govern
ment. as an employer, cannot take i
position either way. The best friends
of organized labor will agree with The
Oregonlan that it is extravagant for the
unions to expect absolute control, not
only over private Industry, but over the
Government Itself, in Its capacity as an
employer. The dancer that confronts
organized labor in this country is that
it sometimes presses its demands too
far.
It is an idle dream to expect to union
ize our Government and terrorize the
President by threatening to embarrass
the Government by strike if the law
of a local labor union cannot prevail
over the law of the land which it Is the
President's sworn duty to execute.
There is no "higher law" in this coun
try that is permitted to prevail above
the enacted law of the land. President
Roosevelt is the friend of organized
labor; a year ago at Chattanooga he
said, "I believe emphatically in organ
ized labor,"' but if organized labor
should ever force the President to
choose between Its extravagant de
mands and enforcement of the laws of
the land, the President would do his
duty and the people would rally to his
support at the polls because of It.
MORE DOG-1 X-TII K-M G ER TAC
TICS. The reply of the O. R, & N. Co. to the
application for right of way for the
proposed portage railroad Is fully up
to expectations. In effect It is: "We
have the country bottled up, and will
neither withdraw the cork nor lend
you the corkscrew." Under certain
conditions, the arguments presented by
the corporation might be accepted with
out much demur. But in their pres
ent temper the people will not re
ceive them with the best grace in the
world. The conditions under which
Mr. Harriman's objections would be re
ceived in respectful submission are
these: That he should make some move
toward opening up a vast region east
of the Cascade Mountains, on which the
Northern Pacific is steadily increasing
and strengthening its hold. We do not
ask for much, and we do not require it
all at once, but the slightest kind of a
movement would give us reasons for
still trying to be friendly with the men
who show so much Indifference to our
industrial and commercial needs.
First on the list is Central Oregon.
The building of this portage road will
give the Columbia Southern an outlet
to Portland independent of the O. R.
& N. Portland merchants are desirous
of getting In on the trade of that rich
country before Mellen and HU1 decide
that- they will make It tributary to
Puget Sound, or before It can be
drained south to San Francisco. The
experience of the past teaches us that
air. Harrlman Is what the street would
term an "easy mark" when Mellen and
Hill care to assert themselves. He can
be bluffed out of any territory that the
other fellows decide they need them
selves. With a portage road, matters
would be different. Portlanders are
slow to anger. They meekly submit to
being knocked down, dragged out and
cuffed around in a commercial way, but
when It comes to being commercially
butchered to make a holiday for rail
road boomers operating on Puget
Sound, they will yet enter a, protest,
and Mr. Harrlman eventually will find
it unnecessary to keep his ear to the
ground to hear that protest.
Then there is the Ifewiston extension.
Another immense grain and fruit crop
Is now starting for market by way of
that fearful grade up Potlatch Canyon,
and thence on over the Cascade Moun
tains. It Is lifted nearly a mile In the
air, dropped down, and lifted another
mile and dropped again before it is at
tidewater. The completion of the Snake
River extension, which has long been
promised, would permit all of the
produce of that vast region to reach
tidewater by a down-hill haul, and
much shorter mileage, and Portland
would do (he business that Is now all
forced to Puget Sound by an unnatural
route. The Wallowa country Is another
field for trade of which Portland has
for years been fondly dreaming. And
dreaming Is as far as we ever get or
will get so long as Mr. Harrlman is
kept bullied into submissive silence and'
Inactivity by more enterprising railroad
men.
This exasperating Inactivity has
wrought the people of this state up to
a pitch which bodes no good for rail
roads or railroad property when the
next Legislature meets. The Harrlman
Interests have secured $20,000,000 recent
ly, and, according; to statements In the
public prints, will use it in construction
and betterment work. There is a
strange silence as to where they will
use the money, but there Is nothing to
indicate that any of it will be spent in
this vicinity except in the employment
of Cowgllls and similar people who care
to undertake the work of attempting to
thwart the will of the people. Until he
does make some such move, any ex.
cuses that Mr. Harrlman can make for
his failure to assist enterprises that will
aid In the development of Oregon will
not be received with a good grace. The
dog-in-the-manger policy was never
popular In this state, and the Harrlman
manner of carrying It out is not only
unpopular, but it is offensive.
EXCELLENT TRADE CONDITIONS.
Portland bank clearings for the week
ending last Saturday showed a larger
percentage of Increase than those of any
other city on the Pacific Coast. That
they accurately reflected the condition
of trade was corroborated by the busl
ness of local wholesalers. Almost with
out exception they report a larger dis
tributive trade than at any correspond
ing period in the history of their busi
ness. The money stringency of which
so much is heard in the East, as yet
has not made Its presence felt on the
Pacific Coast, or at least not in Port
land and Oregon. There is the usual
demand for money with which to move
the crop, but it Is being met with no
inconvenience to the bankers, and for
legitimate business enterprises of any
nature funds are In good supply.
The wheat crop is later than usual.
and there is considerable disposition on
the part of the farmers to hold their
grain. In this they have been encour
aged by the sharp advance In the East.
and the great scarcity of old wheat, which
has forced millers to pay a handsome
premium over export values in order to
secure stocks for grinding. Flour ad
vanced during the week in response to
the strength of the wheat markets, and
an Improved demand from the Orient.
Late advices report the Hong Kong
market pretty well cleaned up again.
the demands of Japan and Russia being
so great in anticipation of trouble that
the big stocks at the Chinese metrop
olis were sent north to meet the de
mand. In the local produce markets
Oregon fruit and vegetables were re
celved in such liberal quantities that
the California stock was almost driven
from the market. Receipts, however,
were insufficient to cause any weakness
in prices, the close Saturday in most
lines being slightly above the opening
on Monday. Hops were firm, and the
few transactions reported were at high
figures. The outlook for the crop con
tinues excellent, and the quality prom
lses to be very fine. There was one or
two sales of wool reported during the
week, a lot of pretty good proportions
changing hands in ths Wallowa coun
try.
An interesting feature of trade in this
city last week was the clearance on the
first day of the month of wheat and
flour to the' amount of over 325,000 bush-
els, the largest shipment that has been
cleared in any single day this year. The
month's shipping business was given a
further start by the clearing of one of
the largest cargoes of lumber ever dis
patched from this city. The principal
feature of Interest in the trade situa
tion Nationally was the sharp advance
In wheat prices, the Chicago market
scoring a net gain of 3 cents per bushel.
Contrary to expectations, this advance,
which was based on bad crop reports
and attendant reduction in traffic for
the railroads, did not seriously affect
the stock market. To be sure, there
was nothing like activity In the mar
ket, but it closed the week In a, little
better shape than it was In seven days
earlier.
Harvest Is on at full blast In Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, .and while the
yield In most sections will show a slight
falling off from that of a year ago, the
Improvement in prices will more than
offset the shrinkage In the out-turn.
Barley promises to turn off fully as
large a crop as that of 1902. although it
will come from a much" larger acreage.
the yield per acre being smaller than
that of last year. In the Willamette
Valley the grain crop Is fully as large
as that of last year, and the quality is
much better.
A VOYAGE AND A LESSOX.
While the recent vovace of the United
States steamship Kearsarge did not
marK any considerable advance in the
speed of battleships. It points clearly
to a notable advance In our tuiva! not-
icy. It Is only necessary to contrast
the voyage of the monitor Monterev to
Manila with the trans-Atlantic passage
of the Kearsarge to have an object les
son In the development of America's
perception of the proper functions of a
navy.
The building of monitors was the out
come of a rooted belief that a navy-
was no more than a collection of float
ing forts for the defense of the coast.
The building of a Kearsarge, whose
ramus or action overlaps an ocean. Is
the outcome of the true doctrine that a
navy's function is to seek out and de
stroy the ships of the enemy. As Ra-
leign declared, and as Drake practiced,
tne uuty or a fleet with rerard to ene
mies Is to "take them with their own
beef In the bellies, before they have
tasted of our good Kentish canons."
The principle was for a: time obscured,
out now it Is once again the mainspring
of naval policy, and to- build "coast-
defense" ships Is regarded as a con-
lession of weakness. Captain Mahan,
a prophet whose honor is not. nerhans.
so great In his own country as in some
others. Is an able exponent of this car
dinal rule, and his works havp dnn
much to gain It the consideration Its
merits deserve.
The Kearsarge did more than show-
that an American battleshlo could
steam across an ocean at thirteen knots;
she proclaimed to the world that, when
the need arose, our sea sword would
flash in the farthest corner of the earth.
Deliver us from sentimental notions of
pity for convicts! Deliver us from the
silliness o "scientific oenolotrv." Ex
cess of this stuff produces results like
that of Tracy last year, and that of the
present affair In California. "Prison
reform" has gone far and away beyond
tne bounds of common sense. A nrlson
should be a hard place. The harder the
better: the more rigorous the dlsclnllnp
the better. Theoretically, "prison re-
iorm ana "scientific penology" may-
serve ror a sentimental exercise, to
those who have nothing better to do;
DUt tney would better be hoeing cab
bage or cutting cordwood. Meantime,
let us pray for deliverance from nrlson
reform and scientific penology, and de
vote ourselves to the work of maklne
tne penitentiary an undesirable nlace of
residence, by keeping the inmates un
der restraint strict and severe. In this
country no one goes to the nenltentlarv
unless he elects the way of life that
leads to It. When he reaches the result
to which his life has led he should have
what he has earned. The countrv has
had enough for the present of "prison
reform and of scientific penology."
The time has come to enforce the nen-
altles. It Is up to the judges, juries and
executives, and to that public opinion or
sentiment wnich controls all.
The centennial of the establishment
of tne first Catholic church In Boston
and New England Is to be celebrated
next month. Boston Is now very large
ly a Catholic city. This is mainly due
to foreign immigration. In early colo
nial days, under Governor Belcher, the
Catholics were bitterly persecuted at
a time when the Puritans persecuted
everybody outside their own pale, and
in later days of Native Americanism
the Roman Catholics suffered gross
outrages. The mob that burned the
Catholic orphan asylum in Charlestown
was composed chiefly of "rowdies,"
who had been stimulated to fury- by- the
inflammatory speech of a Methodist
preacher. This outrage was promptly
resented by the decent, law-abiding
people of Boston of all parties and re
llglous denominations. The Unitarian
Dr. Channlng denounced the crime
from his pulpit and was a conspicuous
actor at the great public meeting which
was called because of the burning of
this Catholic school.
Lleutenant-General A. P. Stewart, the
most famous surviving Confederate sol
dler save General Longstreet, is re
ported to be dangerously 111. He was
graduated from West Point In 1S42, and
ranked number 12 in a class of fifty-
six members, which included the Union
Generals Rosecrans, Pope, Sykes, New
ton and Doubleday, and the Confed
erate Generals M. L. Smith, McLaws,
Longstreet and D. H. Hill. General
Stewart is over SO years of age. He
commanded a brigade at Shiloh, a divi
sion at Chickamauga and Chattanooga.
He commanded a division under Gen
eral Joe Johnston In the Atlanta cam
palgn, was a corps commander under
Hood at Franklin and Nashville, and
bore a leading part in the battle of
Bentonville, N. C, in March, 1S65. He
was a very able, scientific soldier, and
a man of high scholarly attainments,
The treaty- of alliance concluded with
the Mikado does not bind Great Britain
to assist Japan in event of that nation
becoming engaged in a single-handed
contest with the Czar. Great Britain's
support cannot be claimed until Japan
finds herself assailed by two powers at
once. France would be reluctant to
grant aid to Russia If she asked for It,
and Russia would hardly ask for aid
at the cost of making England an en
emy. -The Russian Generals are confi
dent of their ability to beat the Jap
anese on the mainland, while, on the
other hand, the Japanese feel sure of
victory if they have to deal with Rus
sia alone.
WOMEN'S CLUB AXD THE FAIR.
EUGENE. Or., Aug. L The promptness
and heartiness with which the women of
the different towns of Oregon responded
a few monlhs ago io the call for organ
ization Into Lewis and Clark clubs was
really a remarkable exhibition of civic
spirit. Their response was a most grati
fying sign of the popular hold the idea of
a centennial observance had. ana it in
dicated an absolutely unselfish Interest in
the success of the proposed fair, and a
genuine love of Oregon. In joining these
clubs, the women knew that they were
assuming heavy burdens In untried fields.
The mere possibility of such a whole
hearted movement In Oregon, as' tnese
clubs augur, therefore, a glorious ftuture
for the state. Because so spontaneous
and patriotic In their origin, these clubs
have the largest promise for lasting good
of any agency In the Exposition organ
ization. But a note of warning was sent In from
the Eugene Club. a few days ago Indicat
ing that the existence of these clubs Is
threatened. They are pining for some
thing to do. It Is reported that "they do
not feel that they can Initiate any work,
because they believe that part should be
done by the officers vpf the Exposition
or by some general organization."
It would seem that they should discrim
inate In their deference to the Exposition
authorities and use the sphere In which
they are necessarily free In contributing
to the higher needs of the Exposition.
The energies of the Lewis and Clark Fair
Association directorate at Portland have
been taxed In devising a satisfactory or
ganization, and plans In the expense-Incurring
part of the Exposition. The
women must, of course, wait to get the
sanction of the officials for any activity
that is to be supported by the Exposition
funds. They know full well that the
greator part of the higher Exposition
services are unpaid that is why they re
sponded so heartily but they have In a
measure failed to realize that these high
er services cannot even be prescribed.
These must be spontaneous and volunteer
services.
The financial core of the Exposition is
an essential, still only a minor part. The
whole machinery of the organization or.
the Lewis and Clark Exposition can be
little more than an instrumentality.
through which and around which the peo
ple of Oregon are to manifest their spirit,
purpose and power. The women of Ore
gon in jolnlrfg the Lewis and Clark clubs
showed their disposition. It Is up to them
now to take the initiative In constructive
activity In harmony with a celebration of
the Lewis and Clark expedition. That
exploration was great and worthy of
commemoration because it was the har
binger of a progressive civilization, where
there had been only stagnant barbarism.
An observance of the centennial of that
event will be befitting only as It inaugu
rates a new epoch In which progress In
Oregon will ride on an electric car in
stead of on on ox-team wagon.
Why should not the Oregon people, and
largely through the agency of these clubs.
realize Just such an Impetus from the
Centennial? Why attempt anything less?
Oregon has a united people. They are In
earnest and ready for an enthusiastic pro
motion of a movement for the common
good. They have a rich environment, and
they have faith in it. Why not have faith
in themselves?
The determination to make the Exposi
tion result in a large influx of people Into
the Pacific Northwest as permanent set
tlers Is creditable. It is wise, however.
not because It will enable real estate own
ers to sell a part of their holdings at an
advantage, but because it will make
available all the higher goods of life In
greatly Increased measure. Yet to make
the Inflow of a great Immigration the
chief motive of the Exposition and to
subordinate everything else in the Cen
tennlal to that end would be unwise and
discreditable to the Oregon people.
An Exposition policy that placed the
main emphasis on attracting people to
Oregon would be a virtual confession that
we- feel It necessary to hand over the
making of Oregon to the outsider and the
stranger. Of course, we wont all the help
we can get, but we shall get It most free
ly, and of the best kind by showing that
we can make something desirable out of
Oregon ourselves. Why turn the making
of Oregon over to others? for that is
what a consuming and an almost exclu
sive desire for newcomers amounts to.
We naturally want to be a part of, some
people. Is there a better land and people
to turn our hand to than Oregon and her
people? Why not think of Oregon as
ours to be made wholesome, beautiful and
great? Why not look upon the Oregon
woods, rivers, fields and towns as ours,
whose beauty and utility are to be con
served and enhanced? Most of us wish
our ashes to rest here, our posterity to
have the best of human environment here
and our names to be handed down with
those of Oregon. I submit then that the
keynote of the Exposition activity should
be not primarily "a more populous and
richer Oregon," but "a better and more
beautiful Oregon" an Oregon trans
formed into the best home for the best
people. A lower aim would be unworthy
of the Oregon people and of the Centen
nlal occasion.
In the light of such a conception of the
function and purpose of the Exposition.
the field of labor open to the Lewis and
Clark clubs is large and Inviting. The
endeavor to get premium-winning prod
ucts from the farm, orchard and mine is
creditable "and necessary, but there is a
higher work; and this Is the work of the
Lewis and Clark clubs. It Is to develop
the ideal home-rural and urban, the ideal
town, the Ideal school, the Ideal factory,
store and farm, with regard to higher
social utilities. The ideals of older com
munltles must be adapted to Oregon con
ditions. A home or town or school to ap
proach perfection must be adapted to pe
culiar local traditions, local necessities,
local relations to the outside world and
the limitations and advantages of local
climate. Model town and country resi
dences of the Willamette valley and of
Eastern Oregon would be on very differ
ent plans. If the Lewis and Clark clubs
were not organized for the development
of community sympathy and co-operation
In the promotion of progress on these
fundamental problems of social and civic
life, what were they organized for? Re
serving the right or way for work in ac
cordance with the Instructions from head
quarters, why should not these clubs or
ganize as follows:
First A local history department for
a serious study of the development and
tendencies of their localities. They could
Identify and mark historic sites, trails,
highways, ferries; gather the reminis
cences of prominent pioneers; make up
files of old newspapers, maps; locate im
portant Journals, correspondence and
other records. The Oregon Historical So
ciety would gladly furnish syllabi for
guides In this work.
Second A department of civic improve
ment should engross a large part of the
energies of these clubs. Such books as
Ely's "The Coming City," Robinson's
"Modern Civic Art, or the City Made
Beautiful": Zueblln's "Municipal Prog
ress" would give Inspiration and sugges
tion. Mr. Baxter's papers in recent num
bers of the Century and Professor John
Qulncy Adams' article in last Sunday's
Oregonlan would be helpful.
Third A department of home economics
and Industrial art would find, la the flies
of the Craftsman and In the reports of
recent National conferences on these lines
of work, exceedingly Interesting material
and a practical line of study.
Fourth No other work has been found
eo effective la the East as that which has
In view the getting of all the educational
forces of a community Into working rela
tlons and making the school the center of
community life. Nothing else" Is so effec
tive In promoting "a finer public spirit
and a better social order." With the help
of the Lewis and Clark clubs, the Oregon
schools could develop such efficiency and
place such an educational exhibit at Port
land in 1905 as would do Incomparable
good for Oregon and make her name the
brightest among the states. Dutton's
-'Social Phases of Education" would be
of great help in beginning this line of
work. F. G. xOTJNG.
"THE MYSTERY OF LIFE.
Kansas City Star.
Standing on a bridge that spans the
Blue River at Leeds, last evening, a
young wife Mrs. Nora. Winfrey sudden
ly sprang into the water on the approach
of her husband, for whom she had been
waiting. He hastened to the rescue, and
both were drowned within a short dis
tance of the river's bank. It is related
that, as young Winfrey reached the
bridge, he said to his wife: "Are you
going to jump Into the river?" "Why.
yes; I would Just as soon as not," she
answered, and leaped over the railing
Into the stream below.
Here was a brief tragedy involving the
swift destruction of two lives, which
seemed to reveal no cause save a sudden
and unaccountable impulse. It may be
supposed that the first thought of suicide
was conveyed-'to the young wife by the
idle question of her husband. To think
was to act, and to act was to perish.
Such are the attenuated threads on
which the concerns of life and death often
hang. Mankind Is admonished every day
of "the Impenetrable mystery of the things
by which It Is constantly surrounded.
The drama of human existence becomes
no clearer or more Intelligible by its eter
nal re-enactment. More puzzling than all
things beside are the processes of the
mind with its hidden springs of action.
Every man 13 a riddle even to himself,
for he cannot know the day of the hour
when he may be seized by some uncon
trollable Impulse that may change tne
whole current of his being or wipe It out
altogether.
Men and women talk of the Inscrutable
ways of Providence and they doubt the
existence of a Creator whose plans and
purposes they cannot comprehend. But
the great universe, with its stately pro
cession of the sun and the moon and the
planets, and the distant stars, Is no more
unfathomable to the mortal who beholds
and contemplates it than the operations
of the mind within himself, and the mo
tives and Impulses by which he Is or
dained cither to happiness and successs
or to failure and destruction.
PLAIX TALK IS BEST.
And That la the Reason TV-ny Tlie
Oregonlan Talks Plainly.
Lewlston (Idaho) Tribune.
The Oreeonlan has lone been a foremost
and powerful supporter of the Harriman
Railway Interests In Oregon, and has
rendered Invaluable service to the com
pany In creating a friendly public senti
ment toward It, In shielding It from po
litical attacks. In procuring it rights and
concessions and in turning business Its
way against the rival Northern Pacific
Company. Tho Oreganlan's chief editor
is a director in the Harriman company
and an Intimate friend of its higher of
ficials. Now, however, this is the way
The Oregonlan editorially considers the
Harriman Company and Is doubtless also
the way the City of Portland feels:
(A recent article from The Oregonlan
is reprinted here by the Lewiston paper,
which then comments:)
For a great and friendly newspaper like
The Oregonlan to criticise the Harriman
Company in this manner means some
thing. It means that tho policy of this
company is offensive and ruinous to the
best Interests of the country It pretends
to serve and that the country Is entitled
to, and will, defend Itself by retaliatory if
not coercive measures. If The Oregonlan,
with its papitalistic interests aha affilia
tions, feels and talfts this way, is it any
wonder if the plain people, who are born
and bred with prejudices against corpora
tions and plutocrats, feel and talk sim
ilarly and are eager to vent their animos
ities through penalizing and confiscatory
measures? How can a large corporation.
goverened by Intelligent and broad-minded
men, afford to Incur the open and wide
spread anltnosltles and Just reproaches
that the O. R. & N. Co. is incurring, and
what possible gain can It be to that com
pany to defy and harass and retard the
people who furnish it its Income, even
though It may seem to make or save a
few dollars by the transaction? Sir. Har
riman while he Is In Europe may feel
Immunity In defying public sentiment and
in wasting the country's resources, but,
as The Oregonlan says, this "dog-ln-the-mannger
policy will not long be borne."
This policy Is that while asserting juris
diction over the transporatlon business of
this country-, his company will neither
build needed and necessary extensions.
nor let any other company do so. It
forces the country to make long, difficult
and expensive hauls of its products to
unnatural markets snd thus repress its
energies, its growth and Its development.
This policy is one of falsification and bad
faith. Mr. Harriman on repeated occa
sions, and with the utmost publicity has
announced certain extension work to be
completed as soon as the material could
be assembled upon the ground. The ma
terial has been assembled at two different
times and then hauled away again. Many
enterprises and improvements were In
augurated by virtue of these announce
ments and no thanks are due Mr. Harri
man that great losses and disturbances
have not followed his treacherous and
misleading proceedings. This country
now has an opportunity to get to market
by the river route, but it Is understood
that the Harrlman Company, which owns
some of the land necessary to the portage,
will delay and block the work by requir
ing condemnation proceedings and then
taking interminable appeals. With a
record like this It will be Impossible to
create and maintain a healthy public sent
iment toward this company, much as there
may be an inclination and a purpose to
do so on broad principles.
A New Mm. Malaprop.
Philadelphia Record. 3
A young Phlladelphlan who has just re
turned from abroad traveled on the same
steamer with MolUe Elliot Seawell, the
novelist, and found her to be a woman
with a keen appreciation of humor. She
told of a very rich, but rather vulgar
American woman, whose daughter had
married Into- the nobility, and who was a
veritable Mrs. Malaprop. "The old lady
spends considerable of her time with this
married daughter," said Miss Seawell,
"and when I met her in London she gave
me a very pressing Invitation to come out
and see her at her daughter's country
house. Then she started to describe
what evidently had been an old baronial
castle remodeled, only she referred to
it as a baronlcal castle, whatever that
may be. 'In the hall they have the love
liest pair of antler's horns you ever saw.'
she said. 'And the hall has been entirely
ruminated.' I suppose she meant reno
vated. I ventured to express the hope that
the stairs had not been altered, for I have
a sort of veneration for the stairways and
balconies that are characteristic of the
old English houses. 'Oh, goodness me!
yes,' she said. "They have a spinal stair
way now. That was the final straw, and
I cut the old barbarian during the rest of
my stay In London."
The Facts In the Case.
Chicago Dally News.
It turned her head The gown was not
By any means a perfect fit.
Some ugly wrinkles it had got
And down the back the seams were split.
The sleeves were short and all too tlzbt.
And showed lone lines of basting: thread.
But, though it was "a. perfect sight,"
It turned her bead.
The colors fairly seemed to shriek
A purple, trimmed with blue and green.
With salmon bows a gaudy freak:
A gaudier was never seen.
No tint but did the other kill;
One looked upon the thing with dread.
I shuddered at the sight, but sUU
It turned her head. ,
It fairly turned her head, and yet
Tha woman's taste was reckoned good.
Among a most exclusive set
A leader she unchallenged stood.
But then, she did not wear the dress;
She saw It. Though 'twas not well-bred.
Just as It passed ber, I confess.
It turned nercead
NOTE AND COMMENT
A reporter's lire must be even mora
exciting in China than In Baker City.
Crop- reports are generally favqrable.
An unusually heavy yield of the Oregon
grape vine is reported.
Jim Corbett has appeqred as Charles
the Wrestler in "As You Like It." and
Shakespeare Is famjous at last.
An Indiana woman sueo for divorce be
cause her husband insists upon sleeping
with his boots on. Such roughshod
trampling over a woman's susceptibilities
shows that hubby is but half-eouled.
Great Is Wisconsin! says the Eau Clalro
Leader. Its streams produce pearls an
Inch in diameter. ' It3 hens fay eggs nlno
inches in circumference, and Its fields pro
duce strawberries weighing an ounce and
a half each. Where else in these United
States can these prodigies be duplicated?
Kansas school boards are Inserting
clauses in their contracts with employes
prohibiting courting or marrying by
teachers during the school term. What
trouble the directors are laying up for
themselves. Who Is to define courting?
Shall It be Infringement of contract for a
teacher to go on a moonlight buggy ride,
or to dance more than ten round dances
with tho same partner?
What's in n. Xante?
Cleveland, O. A fire escape was tho
modern setting of a Romeo and Juliet
balcony scene. The final curtain fell in
tho Police Court today. Lizzio Joblotsky,
aged 17, was tho Juliet, and John Hay
duck was her own Romeo. He was seen
on the fire escape In sweet converse with
Juliet by a policeman, and .was arrested
as a burglar. In the Police Court, on a
charge of disorderly conduct, ho was
fined $1. Richmond Times-Dispatch.
O Hayduck, Hayduck, -wherefore art thou
Hayduck?
Deny thy father, and refuse tny namj;
Or It thou wlit not, be but sworn, my love.
And I'll no longer be a Joblotsky.
A Brntal Crime.
Bill Fake, who is In Portland for tho
purpose of establishing a yarn factory,
was the victim of a brutal assault at tho
corner of Third and Morrison streets
yesterday at noon. Twelve men, heavily
armed with rapid-fire Maxims, told Fako
to throw up his hands, and to emphasize
their commands fired 17 shells Into his
unprotected body. Seeing the folly of
further resistance, Fake submitted to bo
searched. Luckily he had only 5476,000 in
gold on his person, the poke he usually
carries having been left In a cigar box In
his room at a lodging-house somewhere in
Portland. Fake's place of business is un
der his hat, through which he talked
quite freely yesterday. The matter was
not reported to the police, as Mr. Fake
said fie well knew he would be thrown
Into jail, and In- addition be held up to
scorn by the Portland papers, which have,
he declared, far too much regard for mere
truth and accuracy.
Life in Shnnsrlinl.
Some Interesting items are contained In
the latest Issues of the Shanghai Times.
Concerning the repair of ono of tho
train gates of Pekln, damaged In IDOO by
the allies, it Is said 570,000 taels have been
collected for the purpose. "The Imperial
College of Cestronomers," says the Pekln
dispatch, "has chosen tho 7th day of this
moon as being a day of good fortune to
start tho work." This Is much better
than starting In any old day of any old
moon.
An aged ex-pollco sergeant of Shanghai,
who had served no less than 23 years on
the municipal force, has been sentenced
by the mixed court, British Assessor
Giles and Magistrate Sun, to three years
imprisonment and to receive 500 blows, on
a charge of receiving petty bribes.
Two Chinese, who made spurious cash,
obtaining a tiny fraction of a cent profit,
were sentenced by the same court to 500
blows, three months In the Cangue and
three years Imprisonment.
"Does the Health Officer," seriously
asks the Times, "Know where the Pok
chuangpang is?"
The sporting editor of the Times is de
scribed as being "farmer, poet, author,
follower of Walton and the best authority
on sports on the Pacific.
That the sporting editor's job Is no sine
cure Is readily seen from the description
of a "battle royal." This was an affair
In which five men got Into the ring to
gether and soaked one another for all
they were worth. The two men last on
their feet fought three rounds for tho
purse.
PLEASANTRIES OF PAUAGRAPIIEItS
A Narrow Vista. "Boston's horse show this
year promises to ba the finest that tho horses
ever saw." Boston Globe.
"What you swine do w'en you gits ter
Glory?" "Xuthln" 'tall but des crawl In en
rest!" Atlanta Constitution.
In Kansas "A Phllllpsburg church has elect
ed a deacon for two years, or durlne good
behavior." Topeka Journal.
"When a man gits a thlnkln' he's smahter
dan anybody else," said Uncle Eben, "you kin
look foh a bran' new set o hahd luck stories
befo' long." Washington Star.
Mrs. Brownovltch I understand your hus
band Is seriously III. Mrs. Smithlnsky Yes,
he's too ill to do anything except make good
resolutions. Cincinnati Enquirer.
"He's certainly a good Christian." "Not
much, he Isn't." "What? You've said so your
self." "Nothing of the sort; I merely said he
was a church member." Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Browne You don't mean to say you use
ammonia for headache. Mrs. Malaprop O! Not
the kind you mean. You get It at a drug store;
Just ask for "acrobatic spirits of ammonia."
Philadelphia Press.
Hanson (to the man with suit case) Not
much fun lugging that thing around, eh? Man
with, suit case Oh, I den't know. You'd ought
to see how folks act when I bumb the case- up
against them. Boston Transcript.
And Then the Ax Fell. "How do you account
for the rotation of the earth on its axis'"
asked the professor. "Well." answered the
young man who Is always at a loss, "I sup
pose the earth had to rotate on something."
Washington Star.
"Yes," related the tattered wayfarer. "I
told de lady in de wayside cottage dat I was a
street-car conductor out of a Job, but she
wouldn't believe me." "Why was dat?" asked
his companion of the Ues. "She said I was too.
polite." Chicago News.
"I am proud to say," remarked Mr. Meek
ton, "that my wife Is not what could be called
a quarrelsome woman." "Indeed?" "I never
knew her to quarrel In my life. She merely an
nounces what the wants and that's an end of
the matter." Washington Star.
Subtle. Husband There was a perfectly
lovely woman In the theater tontidit. my
dear. I couldn't keep my eyes off her. Wife
Indeed! How kind of you to tell me J Hus
bandKeep calm, my love, keep calm; It was
yourself. Sydney (N. S. W.) Bulletin.
Wise parent So you have made up your mind
to marry young Parsons, have you? Miss
Kallowgal Yes, papa. I love Frederick. Wise
parent Well, I don't know as that should
prevent your union. It Is not Impossible you
may learn to respect him In time. Boston
Transcript.
"I don't care to marry at least not yet,"
said the flirt. "Why not?" asked the matron.
"Because as matters are now I have the atten
tion of "half a dozen men. while If married I
would have the attention of only one." "Huh!"
exclaimed the matron, "you wouldn't have even
that." Kansas Independent.