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ELECTION OE-SEXATORS.
There is no objection. to the pictures,
-cartoons, theatrical gossip and other
r'balts with which Harpen's Weekly
lis moving upon the masses. It may do
iall these things and still retain Its hold
on thoughtful men who have found in
rit a lifelong cbunsellor and friend. But
if It is to run after the yellows and at
the same, time abrogate its reasoning
-.faculties, then its several' pages of os
"rensible discussion will be a waste of
time and trouble.
The Weekly's assumption of the
'cause of the trusts in their flght with
3jabor Is explained, of course, by its res
cue from ruin by Sir. J. p. Morgan, and
dan be condoned. But this explanation
aloes not cover its advocacy of complete
egro disfranchisement as a cure for
-jrape and lynching; its leaning to the
emocratic party, including a weekly
ouquet in the direction of Mr. Bryan,
lir Iks auri5 .sotlnn that Judrre Gray's
Somttnent to the Supreme Court
would not affect his availability for the
VDemocrfctlc nomination fbr the Presi
dency. What we have specially in
fcinind to notice, however, is its doctrine
that the way to elect Senators by the
people is to nominate them at state
conventions or primaries without the
formality of a constitutional amend
ment Harper's Weekly says:
All that It is needful to do Is to nominate
-C. party's candidate for L'nlted States Sen
ator at a state convention; or, if it be
'feared that a stato convention might prove
too subservient to the manipulators or
"political machine, then a party's nominee
tor United States Senator could be deslg
nated ureclsolv as a party's nominee for
Governor Is now designated In some of the
Southern states. . . . There is no doubt
'that tho popular will, thus proclaimed,
would be ratified by the Stato Legislature,
thus It would come to pass that the
islon of the Federal Constitution pre
lng the modo of choosing United States
Snators would practically bo set at naught.
Harper's Weekly should know that
the process It so Jauntily pronounces a
complete settlement of the difficulty is
-no settlement at all. It is used in some
Southern States, but not in others. It
has been tried repeatedly in Northern
States, but can retain no foothold,
Xaws enacted on- the subject are of no
vitality because the Constitution itself
puts the last responsibility on the Leg
islature and there will always be those
to take advantage of their constitu
tional right to apply to the Legislature
lor election.
Some men are strorfg before the peo
pie -and would like the choice made at
j, primaries; others are strong before
tate conventions and would like the
cholce made there; but these cannot so
easily dispossess the man of power who
is also the man of unpopularity. Many
jo. man could sweep a state by popular
Vote who would be helpless before
"Legislature. The change would be In
Ills interests; but the present member
ship in the Senate is largely composed
X3f the other sort The constitutional
inethod Is their salvation, and they will
hold on to it until it is abrogated.
Harper's Weekly is deceived as most
-superficial examiners of this question
We deceived, by the analogy of the
electoral college. We have reduced the
electoral college to an automaton
,therefore, the argument runs, we can
similarly reduce the Legislature to an
automaton, registering the party will
for Senator precisely as the electoral
college registers the party will for
president The ansfilogy is deceptive
Presidential electors vote for their
-Dartr's convention nominee, because
ibis is absolutely essential to the main
tenance of the National .organization
Jlf electors exercised the Independent
judgment vouchsafed them by the Con
gtitutionj the National Conventlos
twould be a farce. There is no -such
pressure upon the Legislature to sup
port a state nomination for Senator.
IThe state political organizations are
not affected. Popular votes for Sena.
tor will have significance when under
the law they elect but not before.
The principal point to be kept in
sinlnd here, and it is so Important as to
-justify repetition, is that no responsl
Jbillty or authority, party or otherwise,
inheres in any quarter concerning the
election of Senator except In the indi
vidual member of the Legislature. If
the state convention binds a member of
the Legislature to vote for a certain
man for Senator, it has no power to
enforce obedience or discipline him- if
he votes otherwise. If a popular vote
of the whole state instructs him, it Is
te sam He does not hold his office
H
by virtue either of his state conven
tion or of the people of the whole state.
He is responsible to his own district.
and to that alone; and in the- last re
sort he will repudiate that responsibil
ity. He will take his present reward.
vote as his present interest requires,
and never go back to the Legislature;
or at least take his chances.
Tt lc nrccVlo that an Infirmnl un
derstanding or practice of this sort
might grow up in isolated communities
by a sort of unanimous, consent, as, for
example, in a case where the several
aspirants for the Senate chanced each
to fancy that his strength lay in an
ap'peal to the people. This has acci
dentally grown into a habit in some
Southern States. It has been ,tried
three times in forty-live years In Illi
nois; but there is no guarantee of Its
repetition even at the next Senatorial
election there. A law was passed in
Oregon in 1901 looking to the arrange
ment which Harper's Weekly suggests;
but it jyas ignored by the Legislature,
as everybody knew it- would be. The
only way to make the feenate elective
by popular vote is to make it so by the
Federal Constitution. All effort ex
pended in makeshifts is labor lost.
RESTRICTIVE MEASURES IS TRADE.
As all know, England is the one coun
try in which free trade has most nearly
approached realization. Need of rev
enue makes free trade impossible in
any country; but England attempts to
'protect' nothing. Her tariffs, many
years, have been .framed for revenue;
and those commodities "have been se
lected which would bearthe tax with
least Inconvenience to the people and
best results to the treasury. In these
matters no nation can be an absolute
guide for any other, through dissim
ilarity of conditions among them.
England has been pursuing the course
best for her. She will not change it in
Its fundamental principles. Chamber
lain's new proposition would not It
is a scheme for political results that
he proposes, rather than for industrial
and economic change. His idea is to
establish a new bond of empire, be
tween the colonies and the parent
country, by securing to the colonies the
advantages of preferential trade with
the head and heart of the empire. It is
the conception of a statesman, for it
bas originality and breadth; but how it
would work out in its results, expert
ence alone could tell.
The entire world is still entangled in
the old and erroneous Ideas of that time
when wealth was supposed to lie not In
labor and -in the intelligent employment
of capital, but in the accumulation of
specie, the export of which was pro
hibited by draconlan laws. Though
this error is no longer avowed or de
fended, it prevails to no small extent in
every modern nation. It is true that
no enlightened man any longer be
lieves in the marvels of the balance of
trade; but the grave complications to
which the system has given rise cannot
be resolved without clashing with nu
merous interests with which an over
scrupulous prudence refuses to inter
fere. Being Intimately connected, be
sides, with the fiscal receipts, the doc
trine of high tariffs finds protectors in
the statesmen who fear lest they may
compromise at the same time public
revenues and private enterprises. This
is urged on every occasion in our own
country; and Chamberlain is confront
ed with it on his presentation of the
very modeYate change he proposes in
the policy of Great Britain.
It is the fundamental error .that it is
necessary foe us to legislate so as to
enable us to sell more of our own pro
ductions to foreigners than w will al
low them to sell us of theirs as If
there were profit merely in hoarding
money, or in buying the commodities
one does not produce for himself, and
yet in keeping the money that would
serve to pay for them It Is this error.
joined with the natural hesitation of
dealing with a subje6t in which public
revenue and private enterprise are con
cerned at so many points, that makes
all rational change of tArlff policy so
difficult or hopeless. Four- centuries
have not sufficed to eliminate errors
that came Into the economic system in
the days when Spain was supreme
among the nations. Those pernicious
errors wrecked Spain utterly; and other
nations, though holding on to them in
many ways, have made such progress
as they have gained mainly by reduc
ing or modifying them. '
RETROGRESSION MAY FDLLOAV RE
TRENCHMENT. The announcement Is made that Mr.
Harriman, having completed a vast
amount of betterment equipment and
-extension work on the great railway
system of which he Is the head, will
now abandon all further expenditures
of this nature and devote the earnings
of the lines to dividends. This dec
laration will not surprise the people of
the Pacific Northwest whose Interests
are to such a large extent wrapped up
in those of the Harriman railroad sys
tem. While occasioning no surprise,
the announcement is still a matter of
deep regret
Never since the advent of the first
railroad in Oregon has there been more
pressing need for railroad extension In
the state than at the present time.
Thousands of new settlers have
swarmed into the rich farming and
timbered districts of Central Oregon
and Into the Nehalem and the Wallowa
country, and await only the coming of
the railroad to create enoVmous traffic,
build cities and towns and add to the
wealth and prosperity of city and coun
try alike.
This spirit of conquest has ever been
missing from the policy of the Harri
man lines; yet It has been one of the
most pronounced features of the policy
of the Northern lines. The Harriman
policy is to supply the steamships and
trains to handle the traffic only when It
has been demonstrated beyond a doubt
that the traffic has already been devel
oped. The Hill policy Is to supply the
transportation facilities as early as pos
sible in order that development may
be hastened. It was this policy that
diverted p. large share of Oregon's flour
trade with the Orient to Puget Sound,
where the facilities have always been
in excess of the. requirements, and it
was this policy that quadrupled the
grain output of the Clearwater Valley,
in Idaho, within three years after the
building of the Northern Pacific branch
line.
The Northern Pacific Is reported to be
surveying a line to the headwaters of
the Palouse River, in Washington, for
the purpose of reaching a belt of white
pine and incidentally opening the inter
lying farming and dairying country.
This white pine belt Is decidedly small
In comparison with the yellow pine belt
In Central Oregon, or the vast flr dis
tricts of the Nehalem, and the country
tapped by the road is insignificant com
pared with that capable of producing
traffic on either of the Oregon . lines i
mentioned; and yet if we are to judge
the future-by the past, it is practically
a certainty that the Palouse road will
be built and more millions added Im
mediately to Washington's wealth.
Reasoning from the same standpoint It
is -equally certain that Central Oregon
and the Nehalem will continue In the
present undeveloped state until the ag
gressiveness of the Hill forces in their
fight for business brings, them over into
the State of Oregon.
It is perhaps unfortunate for Oregon
that Mr. Harriman's chief lieutenant
J. C Stubbs. spent so many years of
his life in California. With no compe
tition and a tariff that called for "all
that the traffic would bear," the late
C. P. Huntington controlled a little
railroad world of his own, and he, and
not the people, at all times decreed
whether or not development should be
hastened by the aid of better transpor
tation facilities. With Huntington in
full control and with no competition
anywhere, California increased in
wealth and prominence even under such
a handicap, and in the absence of any
near rival with which comparisons
could be made the railroad men as
sumed more than a. proper share of the
credit
The Harriman system, which includes
most of the Huntington properties and
many of the Huntington employes, Is
confronted with entirely different con
ditions in Oregon from those which
prevailed in California. This state is in
direct competition with Washington In
nearly all lines of trade. To meet this
competition It is necessifry that we
have at least equal facilities for the
development of our resources and the
marketing of our products. Hunting
ton methods will never be popular in
Oregon, and the money spent in bet
terments and equipment of the lines In
this state will not yield as good returns
as new lines which will develop new
business and Infuse life Into a thousand
arteries of trade. The truth of this
has been demonstrated in Washington,
and an application of the same tactics
which have proven so successful there
will improve all lines of business in
Oregon, not excepting that of the rail
roads. THE IRRITATION' OF CANADA.
The Irritation of Canada at the
Alaska decision is natural enough; but
it Is at the same time unreasonable be
cause it Is always unreasonable to ex
pect more than Justice from a theoret
ically impartial tribunal. The Canadi
ans of intelligence and candor before
the commission assembled admitted
that the case of the United States was
too strong to be overcome. When the
commission met in London, fearing
that Lord Alverstone, the British mem
ber, would not support their absurd
claim, the Canadians had threats con
veyed to him and intimations were
printed in the London newspapers,
coming from Canada, that an adverse
decision would endanger the connection
of the Dominion and the British gov
ernment Before the decision was rendered the
Canadians anticipated that they had
lost Mr. Gourlay, a member of the
Canadian Parliament stated publicly
In the House that he believed Canada
would always have trouble about
Alaska "until it is strong enough to ask
the United States to hand over that
country to Canada, as it certainly will
do." Mr. Gourlay further said that If
the United States will not sell Canada
that territory for a decent sum of
money, the ' day will come when Can
ada will take it in spite of all the re
sources that the United States can con
centrate in its defense. This absurd
outcry obtained no rebuke, and may be
accepted as a fair expression of the
dominant mood of the present hour
among Canadians. It Is very natural:
Canada 13 growing rapidly, Is Inhabited
by a fine population of as Intelligent"
vigorous English-speaking people as
there Is in the world. Canada does not
today feel very friendly to the United
States, beqause since 1SG6, whenever
Canada- asked us for a reclnrocltv
treaty, we have answered with a high
tariff. At the Montreal banquet of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
panles of Boston and London, Sir Fred
erlck Borden, the Canadian Minister of
Militia, alluding to the desire of the
United States for freer trade relations
with Canada, said:
There was a time when Canada wanted tho
trade friendship of the United States, but
it was not proffered, and I am glad of it.
for It has taught Canada.self-rellance, and
today we do not want that friendship. We
are In a position to fully protect ourselves.
Young, vigorous, enterprising, pro
gresslve, .the Dominion of Canada nat
urally grows restive whenever she sus
pects that England for diplomatic rea
sons does not always feel disposed to
sacrifice the ' Interests of the English
people by playing the part of a thick
and-thin Canadian partisan in all dls
putes with the United States. Canada
has never been entirely satisfied with
any settlement of British and American
affairs in which her own interests were
more or less directly Involved. As a
matter of history, however, Canada had
the best of It In the settlement of the
Maine boundary in the- Webster and
Asbburton treaty of 1S42; and Canada
again had the best of it In the settle
ment of the Oregon boundary, for she
obtained the great Island of Vancouver
and was altogether better off than she
would have been had the popular
American warcry of "fifty-four-forty
or flght" been vindicated by an appeal
to arms. In the matter of the treaty of
Washington of 1870 Canada had the
best of It; and In the Behrlng Sea ar
bitration Canada had no reason to com
plain of its practical results; that Is,
considering the weakness of her case,
Canada has always obtained at least
all that was justly "coming to her,'
and generally more, too. The refusal
of the Canadian members of the com
mission to sign the decision shows the
depth of their Indignation and dlsap
pointment, and Mr. Gourlay, whom we
have quoted, is probably right In his
view that this settlement of the Alaska
dispute will not end the discord and
embarrassment between the two coun
tries. After the Alaska boundarj has
been adjusted there will be other dlffi
cultles sure to arise which will pre
vent completely harmonious relations
between the United States and Canada.
There are those who predict that dur
lng the next twenty years more Amer
cans will seek residence In the Cana
dlan .Northwest than Canadians will
emigrate to the United States. Amer
lean observers, farmer-bred in aiinne
sota and North Dakota, point to the fact
that it has taken Northern Dakota
twenty years to become settled and
able to assert with confidence Its per
manent prosperity. That state has but
threa months of warm weather, whjle
this Canadian "banana belt" lies S00
miles north of the international bound
an'. It will take ten years at least to
determlnewhether the Canadian North
west Is a success, but whether that
region is settled chiefly by Americans
or English immigrants will not change
the political fate of the Dominion; the
Dominion is sure to grow rapidly and
vigorously, and In that event Canada is
likely before the end of the twentieth
century to ask and obtain absolute In
dependence of England, and, after a
comparatively brief period of lndepend
ence, will surely seek annexation to the
United States as the only logical and
final solution of the troubles and dif
ferences that will otherwise be sure to
plague both countries as unceasingly
in the future as they have in the past.
This prediction sounds extravagant
today, when Canadian popular senti
ment is hostile to the United States,
but time is not only the great avenger
of wrongs, but the great reconciler of
those who have no Just cause of deep
seated hate, and time will teach the
Canadian Dominion that when her
statesmen talk of her growing to be
"the greater half of the continent" they
ignore the teachings of history and the
object-lessons of geography. Of course
Canada will come to the United States
by the free wish of its inhabitants when
they have become tired of giving the
glad hand at Intervals to the mother
country, become weary of masquerad
ing in the robes of independence. Sen
timent will hold Great Britain and Can
ada together so long as there Is any
large commercial and financial advan
tage In it, but when that is exhausted
Canada will try Independence and then
annexation, which will finally settle the
Alaskan boundary dispute.
The case of Pleasant Armstrong, who
shot and killed Miss Minnie Ensmlnger
at North Powder, on Christmas eve of
last year, has run the usual course In
and out of the courts. At first strong
public Indignation was aroused by the
wanton murder. This was followed by
reaction In the way of public sympa
thy, even someof the close friends of
the young, woman expressing a hope
that her slayer would escape the ex
treme penalty of the law. Trial be
fore the Circuit Court at Baker Clty
resulted In Armstrong's conviction of
murder In the first degree. The usual
appeal was taken, and now the Su
preme Court has affirmed the judgment
of the lower court which means that
he must suffer the extreme penalty un
less executive olemency shall Intervene
to save his life. In this aa In all slml
lar cases, there Is probably cause for
the deed In the fickle manner In which
the victim treated her slayer. But this
cause, however disquieting, cannot be
urged as an excuse for murder. The
case Is a not uncommon one, and there
can be no reason either In real sympa
thy or wise public policy for further
delaying its legitimate termination.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, has decided that
the arbitration agreement arrived at
last July by the Employers' Association
and. representatives of the unions of
the building trades Is In all essentials
fair. Accordingly, he advises all unions
of New York City still on strike to
come In under the arbitration plan, and
recommends that the new unions which
have been formed, owing to difference
of opinion on the plan, should be con
solidated with the older bodies. This
plan accepts the union but prohibits
sympathetic strikes, forbids stopping
work on demand, excludes the walking
delegate, permltB the employment of
nonunion men and provides that when
differences arise they shall be settled
first by conciliation and then by arbi
tration. This plan has grown out of
jthe long struggle In the building trades
In New York. Like struggles brought
building to a standstill in Chicago and
they have checked it in New York and
Philadelphia. It Is believed that this
action of President Gompers will dis
pose of Sam Parks, the blackmailing
walking delegate of New York City.
The growing Importance of rivers as
arteries of traffic continues to attract
attention, more especially In Europe,
where the valleys are so thickly settled.
Engineering developments have ren
dered practicable schemes that a few
years ago were sneered at as vision
ary, and the present Importance of
river traffic Is thus viewed as a trifle to
what it will eventually become. The
volume of shipping on the Rhine was
recently alluded to in The Oregonlan
and now the figures for the Spree,
German river but 220 mlle3 in length
are available. Exclusive of the large
excursion traffic, there were employed
last year 34,271 towing steamers, 1710
goods steamers with the total capacity
of 107,895 tons and 70.26G sailing ves
sels, Including the large river boats
Timber In 4172 rafts was also floated
down the river, so that tho total good
traffic amounted In one year to 5,500,00V
tons. AndJ Is constantly Increasing.
The tale of Shipwreck that comes
from the Southern Oregon coast Is full
of harrowing details that differ only In
the names of the victims and survivors
from like tales of the sea that are as
old as the history of navigation. This
vessel, the South Portland, was old, but
was supposed to be stanch and sea
worthy. Her skipper Is said to be
Bklllful and careful navigator. In de
fiance, of these alleged facts, however,
he ran his vessel upon a well-known
reef, vtnd It almoBt immediately sank.
Adequate provision for saving the lives
of those on board seems to have been
wanting. The disaster was evidently
due to the navigator's blunder or his
Ignorance. The result is a stereotyped
tale of the relentless power of the
treacherous sea.
Bryan announces that he does not
favor Olney as the Democratic candl
date for President In 1904. Bryan say
In the Commoner that he has never dl
rectly or Indirectly suggested or ad
vised the nomination of Olney or any
other person who did not openly and
actively Indorse the platform and the
ticket In both 1836 and 1900. No lead
lng Democrat east of the Mississippi
and north of the Ohio and tne Potomac
has therefore any right to expect the
support of Mr. Bryan. In fact, the only
conspicuous Democrat In the United
States outside of the solid South who
did support Bryan In 1896 and 1900 was
ex-United States Senator Vest, of Mis
sourl, unless William B, Hearst
counted among conspicuous Democrats,
A young fox was, after great exer
tlon and the firing of many shots, killed
near Oregon City a few days ago,
Foxes are very scarce In the Wlllam
ette Valley, and are likely to become
extinct If their extinction Is deslra
ble, or will serve any good purpose, the.
feat of this hunter Is pralseworihy
Otherwise It Is reprehensible.
Fog and reef have deceived many
mariner, and have ground to pieces
many a stout shir
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Pomologlcally, She In Perfect.
Astoria Astorlan.
Marie Ware, says a dispatch, will not
"peach" when she comes to testify In
tho alleged land fraud case In the United
States Court But she Is a "peach,"
"Sweet Marie."
Joe Simon's Able Recruit.
Woodburn Independent
Thev do say that Joe Simon will cap
ture Multnomah next Spring. His most
enthusiastic backers are soreheads from
the other faction, and ftiey constitute a
factor not to be despised.
Don't Be n. Clam, Mr. Hume-.
Eueene Register.
Tha lurv in the Hume $10,000 libel case
against Editor Chausse, of the Grant's
Pass Observer, brought in a verdict of n a pumic scmimeni in isiana wmcn pro
for Hume. Thev seemed to understand voked a resentment In this country as
the financial status of the average journal-
1st. Mr. Hume Should nOW tone tne 1
and treat Chausse to the oysters.
7i Cent Per .Foot Too 3Inch.
Oregon City Enterprise.
An effort is belngftnade In Portland to
Increase from. 10 to 15 cents the price, of
shine. It has been the experience of
many visitors to that city that consid
ering the quality of the service generally
rendered, the price of 10 cents that now
prevails is an excessive charge to make.
Editor Pays a. Tribute to Xatnre.
Eugene Register.
No city in Oregon wears a more gorge
ous raiment than does Eugene at this sea
son of the year. Climb Skinner's Butte
and you look down upon nature In all Its
variegated glory. It is a picture that
can never bo effaced from the memory of
those who love the sublime and beau
tiful in nature.
Too aiach Energry In One Direction.
La Grande Chronicle.
Baker City is the hotbed of corruption
She has been all of the Winter driving
OBl c""u"rM wl Z rvinr the
accounts, she ; wuld have been saving the.
uixpujera u. iui ui mu,. ,,.b
some of their officials. It takes fires and
libel suits and all kinds of roaring things
to drown out the appeals of Justice.
Chief Hunt's Unhappy Time,
The Chfef of Police of the City of Port
land Is evidently living a very strenuous
life these days. With the criticisms of
the press of the city, together with the
charges of favoritism which the Chinese
and small fry white Ramblers are making.
and a number of the best patrolmen on
the force resigning Chief Hunt must have
plentyto think about at present
Grave Respectv of Water Problem.
Toledo Leader.
Considerable discussion is going on rela
tive to the quality of the Salem water.
Some contend that It Is perfectly pure,
while others assert that It is full of wing
less microbes and other dangerous ani
mals. There are certain citizens In every
community who are always ready to
slander the water. Now thd water of To
ledo, for Instance. Is good enough for
anybody, yet we recently heard an old-
time citizen declare that It Is bad, very
bad. He said he knew what he was talk
ing about for he tasted it once several
years ago. We remember, also, tnat wtuie
we were la Salem last Winter Stato
Printer Joe Whitney warned us to be
ware of the water, informing us on the
quiet that he never drank it While we
thus briefly touch upon the important
subject, we do not wish to be understood
as taking sides in the heated and learned
discussion.
Which In Simply Silly.
Prineville Review-
Tho Oregonlan is a very busy paper
Just now. Supplied with a liberal quan
tity of lampblack and- oil and a bucket of
whitewash and a brush a foot wide, its
artists are deeply engaged In dispensing
the two colors. Mr. Hermann Is getting
a good coat of white and black alternate'
ly, with the whitewash predominating,
while Chief Hunt and Mr. Williamson,
formerly white as snow In The Oregonlan,
are now being treated to a liberal dose
of lampblack and oil. Verily, tho ways
of the strenuous Oregonlan to "give the
news" are devious in the extreme. In
other words., Hermann promises to be use
ful to The Oregonlan and he Is, therefore,
in good standing now. It is safe enough
to assert that the other two gentlemen
are losing little or no sleenover some of
tho statements In the "news" columns
and which editorially the paper Is silent
upon does not dare be otherwise. Tho
people look into these statements and
smile Indulgently as they . realize that
other objects figure In the management,
oi a great newspaper Desiaes merely gxv
lng the "news." Politics, in fact cut tho
widest swath of all, and anything of a
political nature Is scanned with a largo
mental reservation as to Its entirety.
OurGeorjfe'i Hard Game.
Klamath Falls Express.
Governor Chamberlain will go to Wash
ington for a talk with Department of the
Interior Hitchcock, and will endeavor to
bring that worthy around to a correct
understanding as regards Oregon land
matters. But Mr. Hitchcock's Information
concerning the status of such matters
hero In Oregon Is amplo. Even his son.
It 13 said, spent four months the past
Summer cruising timber lands along the
Deschutes and In Klamath and Lake
Counties. Governor Chamberlain can add
nothing to the knowledge of this public
domain official at Washington who cares
to hear nothing concerning a settler's In
terests or a section's progress and de
velopment The unlawful fencing of pub
lic lands by individuals was bad enough,
but the Hitchcock regime Is the biggest
handicap to growth and settlement the
Pacific Northwest has ever had. All Ore
gon Is pleased with the good Intent of
the Governor. "Mind your own business
and I'll mind mine," occur to us as words
used once by a one-time Governor of Ore
gon, to which our present Governor may
bo referred when ho has a sitting with
this man Hitchcock. Mr. Hitchcock
knows his business as regards Interior
Department affairs, and that business is
supposed to be handled in the Interests
of the settler and a section's progress and
development But the intent of things Is
sometimes perverted, and It Is quite evi
dent tnat tne .facinc xsortnwest is up
against a Hitchcock perversion.
O' a the Airln the Wind Can Blnvr.
Robert Burns.
O a' tho airts the wind can blaw,
I dearly like the west.
For there the bonnle lassie lives,
Th lassie I lo'e best;
There wild woods grow and rivers row.
And monle a hill between: "
By day and night my fancy's flight
Is ever wl my Jean.
I see her In the dewy flowers,
I eee her sweet and fair;
I hear her In the tunefu birds,
I hear her charm the air;
There's not a bonnle flower that springs
By fountain, shaw or green;
There's not a bonnle bird that sings
But minds me of my Jean.
O blaw. ye western winds, blaw Baft
Among the leafy trees,
Wl balmy gale, frae hill and dalo
Bring hame the laden bees;
And bring the lassie back to me
That's aye sae neat and clean;
Ae smile o' her wad banish care,
Sae charmlng-is my Jean.
What sighs and vows arnang the knowes
Ilae passed between us twat
How fond to meet, how wac to part.
That night she gaed awa!
The powers aboon can only ken,
To whom the heart Is seen.
That nane can be sae deaf to mo
As my sweet, levcly Jean
NO CHOICE BETWEEN THEM.
Chlcaso Inter Ocean.
Thi .ivmnathv of the United btates
nnwmmnnt." savs a Washington q:s-
natch on the nrobablllt? of war between
Japan and Russia. "Is with Japan. While
the stminrle will find the united btates
observlntr a Dcsitlon of neutrality, this
Government's rnrdifll eood wishes will
follow the fortunes of the Japanese.
This Is Imnolltic and undiplomatic It
will be as offensive to the Russian govern
ment as were the unofficial utterances of
Lord Russell In 1S61 to President Lincoln
and his Cabinet In 1S61 England and the
United States were friendly powers. When
the secessionists made war on the Govern
ment Lord Russell, England's Foreign
Minister, made no secret of his ympathy
with the rebels or of his hostility to the
Government of the united States,
He carried the English Cabinet with
him and contributed to the formation of
laating as It was deep, and which has to
u: fcaiuum wim huyv,
Looking back over the events of the last
40 years, every student of politics must
admit that Lord Palmerston and Lord
Russell placed their country at a great
disadvantage by Indiscreet expressions of
sympathy during the War of the Re
bellion. Why should the Administration
at Washington commit a similar mistake
how In regard to a possible war between
two powers both friendly to the United
States? Under the circumstances, any in
timation or expression of sympathy for
Japan Is necessarily offensive to Russia.
On the record. Russia Is more friendly
to the United States than any other Euro
pean or Asiatic power. In case of war
between Russia and Japan, the United
States would be interested only in pro
tecting our commerce and In guarding
our rights in China, A treaty between
the United States and China has Just been
signed under which these rignts are pro
tected, and that treaty was signed by the
Chinese Commissioners with the approval
Russia. In It the United States was
granted all that .was asked.
Surely this Is not Indication or evi
dence of hostility to American Interests
on the part of Russia. We have no prom
ises from Japan covering the same points
The national policy of Japan is no more
favoraWo tQ tnan that of
. rp,.- ,a nn rpnROn ,n thft world
why. the United States Government should
In any contest between Russia and Japan
express sympathy for the latter.
The mere declaration of neutrality. In
case of war between Russia and Japan,
with an unofficial expression of sympathy
for Japan, would be regarded by the Rus
sian government in 1903 Just as the pre
tense of neutrality and the openly ex
pressed hostility of England were re
garded by the American people In 1S61.
Russia and Japan are Oriental powers.
They are engaged In settling by negotia
tion certain questions of great interest to
both. They are endeavoring to agree upon
A sort of Monroe Doctrine for the Far
East The European powers seem to bo
Inclined to permit them to settle these
questions 'in their own way. Tho United
States Government should be as diplo
matic certainly as tho governments of
Europe.
The "Sojerlns" System.
New York Mall and JPxpress.
The wrecking of the Morse Iron Works
in Brooklyn is so evident an effect of
trades unionism gone mad that Its lesson
Is bound to be pointed out to the whole
country. It is to be hoped that the lesson
will sink deep into the consciousness of
those whos are most directly interested,
the worklngmen.
Their representatives, their walking del
egates, evidently organized "sojerlng"
Into a system In these works. The Morse
Company was a new and prosperous con
cern, which was building up a large busi
ness. It could afford no long siege of re
sistance to union demands. This fact
seems to have been fully taken advantage
of by Ill-advised labor organizations,
whose officers multiplied and magnified
their demands until they were practically
Insisting on the right of tho men to go to
sleep on their jobs.
They took out, the men because one man
among them had not paid hh dues to his
union. They took them out because they
were not allowed to work les3 than eight
hours a day. They took them out, on one
pretext or another, 20 times in one year.
They made It impossible at last for the
company to keep Its contracts.
The walking delegate system, thu3 ap
plied and illustrated, creates a desperate
situation. It Is a desperate situation for
the capitalists who have Invested their all
In important enterprises. It Is still more
desperate for the" wives and children of
misguided and misled worklngmen who
are deprived of the support to which they
have a right such wives and children,
for Instance, as those who today are
watching the smokeless works of the
Morse Company from the slopes of Bay
Ridge, and wondering where their rent,
their coal and their bread are to come
from in the Winter now approaching.
Roosevelt Fiercely Availed.
Springfield Republican.
As "steel common" sags down toward
10, the New York Sun delivers Itself of
this terrific "curse :
The head of the Nation has seen fit to
create this condition. Ho has arrayed one
class against tho other. lie has promoted
discontent on the part of labor with the best
conditions that labor ever enjoyed In Its
history. Ho has fomented the most danger
ous passions against all forms of wealth
and he haa himself assailed It with a hatred
almost fanatic In Us Intensity. And he has
allied himself openly with the elements of
lawlcssne.13, turbulcnca and defiance of the
social status which we Inherit from the
founders of our government.
You can only imagine what crimes the
Sun would charge upon tho President if
'steel common" should slump down to 5.
It would then surely class Mr. Roosevelt
with John Most, the dynamiter. With
such atrocious assaults upon tho Chief
Magistrate to contemplate, one can only
wonder what the "morganlzatlon of In
dustry" will do next It Is certain that
the Sun now needs an underwriting syn
dicate to keep it sane. Its hiss Is already
that of the madhouse.
Water In the Court-Room.
New York Sun.
In a moment of emotion, somo time
ago, the Hon. James H. Tillman, of South
Carolina, killed an editor. Through the
failure of the officers of the law to make
allowance for the exuberance of a poetical
temperament and a chivalrous heart Mr.
Tillman has been forced to submit to the
Indignity of a trial for murder.
Monday this trial gave occasion to an
affecting scene. The defendant's counsel
was setting forth the early struggles, the
beautiful character, the Sprlng-Iarab-Hke
nature of that much-wronged man. As
Mr. Tillman heard the tale of his own
virtues and sorrows, his tears gushed
forth In a freshet. Ho wept till his feet
were wet "Half the women In the court
room wept" Several jurymen sobbed.
Storn and rugged Constables blubbered.
These were gracious drops. No wonder
Mr. Tillman wept The bravest are the
tendcrest. Why wasn't a verdict of ac
quittal ordered? Mr. Tillman shoots as
easily as he weeps. A lovely man, but
so Impulsive.
Dim Face of Beauty.
Fiona Macleod.
Dim face of Beauty haunting all the world,
Fair .face of Beauty all too fair to see.
Where the lost stars adown the heavcn3 are
hurled,
There, there alone for thee
May white peaco be.
For here where all the dreams of men are
whirled
Like sere torn leaves of Autumn to and fro.
There Is no place for thee la all the world.
.Who drlftest aa a star.
Beyond, afar. .
Beauty, sad face of Beauty, mystery, wonder,
"What are these dreams to foolish babbling
men
Who cry with little noises 'neath the thunder
Of ages ground to sand.
To a little sand.
NOTE AND. COMMENT;
In ShangbRl.
My money is exhausted;
I've only got two bits.
And every bar Is choked with
My accumulated chits.
I've got to raise some money,
' And by the same old plan
J
So I'll write a red-hot special v
Cn the war-craze In Japan. .if
I will flu the Screeching Eagle
And the hourly Yellow Rag )
With the story of the Hussions J
And tho cat that Jumped the bag.
I'll describe the secret treaty ' v
That gives Russia all she seeks,
And I'll hint at still another
Will raise hades when it lealjs.
Then, to sweetly shock tho reader,
Of a massacre I'll tell, " rf
When the heads of half an army -
Into baskets neatly fell. ,
Oh. the Joyous gift of fancy.
That of fact so little recks.
Ob, tho pleasures it engenders.
And the necessary checks.
UnregrettlngT.
Could I retrace the primrose path
To where it leaves, the highway,
I would not fare upon the road.
But chooco again) the byway.
Aberdeen's cloud had a brick lining.
Nothing drj about tho Prince, of Pilsexv
I don't believe Ann is telling tho truth.
Colombia may hold out but she can't
hold up.
Japan has apparently tired of talking
to the Bear.
Trust companies may bust but the
prune crop has forgoten how to fall.
Whltaker Wright more than Mr.
Clergue, of the Soo, seems to-have fallen
on evil days.
Soon a trotter will bo distinguished
becauso he has not gone a mile In less
than two minutes.
ueattle business men headed for the
Walla Walla races are doing a little Jock
eying of their own.
Tho New York newspaper men havo
consolation In. remembering that nothing
could damn them like pralso from Dowle.
Governor Chamberlain, like Daniel. Is
In tho lion's den, but there is no one
capable of sealing a political llon'3 mouth.
From the yarns told by tho gypsies, 'It
Is presumably true that a poetic license
goes with the fojtune-telllng license 'is
sued by the city.
It's a wise man that hesitates to leave
a load of lumber out overnight Things
aro dono in the green tree, and things
are dono with tho dry.
Without wishing Newberg any harm.
Portland cannot help being sorry that tho
bank robbers were unsuccessful, slnco
they have attempted to assuage their
grief with forced contributions from our
citizens.
British Columbia has three Chinese nc
cused of murder. By offering money to '
tho oldest the two younger men havo
Induced him to assume all tho guilt If
Machen and the postofflce gang had only
taken tho precaution to let an old China
man In on their deals!
It must have been a spectacle for gods
and men when Carnegie's Irish laborers
heartily proclaimed their liking for the
"little boss." They must have done so,
for Carnegie Himself has said it And
then Waterford presented him with the
freedom of the city, and another library
was founded, and tho Irish are more than
ever indebted to tho "llttlo boss."
"All this talk about inventing airships
makes one tired." said the grouchy man
of business. "There's nothing to 'em.
Why, a locomotive's practically an air
ship the only place It touches tho ground
Is on the rails."
"In that case," remarked the satirist,
"you're an airship yourself tho only
piaco you toucn tne grouna is on your
feet"
If It is possible for a man to show
sense by committing suicide, a Colfax
farmer has dono so. When jilted he
scorned to follow the growing custom
of perforating with a bullet the heart
that turned the darts of love, and quietly
filled himself with oarbollc acid. Thus ho
removed himself from a world of disap
pointment and left his dulclnea to marry
somo one that may take to beating her
when the mush is burned.
Gratified at procuring licenses from the
city, tho gypsy women yesterday told sev
eral fortunes, free, gratis, and for nothing.
M-y-r W-11-ms: Look out for a 'fierce ani
mal with stripes. It is bard to buck.
Ch-f H-nt: There will bo something about
you in the papers.
G-n-r-1 B-b: Beware of mooting a tall man
with white gloves on a dark corner. He may
swat you.
R-ub-n H-ys-d: You will meet a bleached
blonde with fake diamonds. She will touch
you. Stay- at homo to avoid trouble.
WEX J.
PLEASANTRIES OF PARAGRAPHEHS
"Has Halorvltch always shown a talent
for music?" "Yes; even as a child he cried
every time his hair was cut." Life.
Farmer (to lady) Have you seen my bull?
And if you should seo him, will you. pleaso
keep on that there red coat and run this
way? Life.
"What did yon do this Summer?" "After
our holiday Majorie went to a sanitarium.
I was quietly ill at home, and Charles is
still on tho other side, recuperating." Brook
lyn Life.
"What are they going to do when they
get through tearing up the streets?" "Lay
'em down again, of course I How else would
anybody bo able to tear 'em up later on,
silly?" Baltimore News.
Upgardson I give it up. I'm no good at
conundrums. Tell me the answer yourself.
Atom Well, this hot weather is like the
life-insurance game because you'd havo to
die to beat It," Chicago Tribune.
"Strange. Isn't It," remarked tho talka
tive man, "that oil should be used to calm
troubled waters?" "Huh!" snorted tho Ken
tucklan. "It's stranger still that anyone
should trouble water." Philadelphia Led
ger. "And now," whispered the lover as ho
caught her In his arms, "what shall we do
about the rope ladder7 We shouldn't leave
It hanging there." "Don't worry about It."
replied the eloping damsel. "Papa said ho
would pull It up again so we couldn't get
back." Philadelphia Press.
Miss Elder- Thoy havo a deal to say
abouc the advancement of women, but do
you know. I don't think we women have
the opportunities that there used to be.
iliss Pert No; we haven't had a leap year
for almost eight years. Boston Transcript.
"Shouldn't wonder ef that boy gits to be
President some day." "What makes you
think so?" "Got all the qualifications; kin
ride the wildest hoss In the country, an'
hit the bull's eye on a barn door, with a
shotgun, nlno times out o ten." Atlanta
Constitution.
"Mike," said Plodding Pete, "what would
you do if you was to wake up an' find
yourself a railway president?" "I dunno,"
answered Meandering Mike. "Human na
ture is human nature. 1 s'poso I'd git mer
cenary an' begin to worry about all de rides
I've been bcatla de company out Of."
Washington Star.