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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1903. .Entered at the Postofflce at Portland, Oregon, as eecond-clasR matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By Mall (postage prepaid In advance) pally, with Sunday, per month.' f0.83 pally. Sunday excepted, per year...... 7.50 pally, with Sunday, per year 0.00 Sunday, per year -.00 The "Weekly, 'per year l.j0 The "Weekly, 3 months. - -50 Eally, per week, delivered. Sunday excepted..lBc ally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded..20o POSTAGE BATES. United States. Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper v. -1 IC to 20-page paper. -. Jjc 2 to 44-page paper. . . ia Foreign rates double News Xor discussion Intended for publica tion In The Oregonian should bo addressed Invariably "Editor The bregonian," not to the namo of any Individual. Letters relating to advertising, subscription, or to any busi ness matter should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." 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Nearly everything in Dowie's favor arises from the adroit appeals made by his enemies to the execration of all fair-minded, people. Unreasoning hos tility is certain of nothing more than of, cre'atihg sympathy for the object of its attack. New York was evidently de termined in advance to make Dowie's life there a burden, principally, of j course, because he was not of New York and it is New York's abominable ! provincialism to think that everything outside New' York is provincial. We ex pect this from the P. R V.s of Virginia and the cultured circles of Boston; from' our great cosmopolitan metropolis we" had the right to expect something dlf ferent,but -we don't get it. All New York required to know of Dowie was that he came out of Chicago, just as New York's savants speak sneeringly of the admirable Modern. Reader's Bible because its editor lives at. Mr.. Rocke feller's university. It .stands to reason that the same type of persons who were interested and possibly benefited in Chicago by Dowie's crude methods, somewhat un like those of the uncouth but for givable Salvation Army, would be reached by him in New York. The human nature of one city is about like the human, nature of another. But New York resolved that Dowie should not have a-show. It crowded Into Madison-Square Garden, not to hear him and his so-called "message," but like a pert boy to show itself off its bad manners, its smart sayings, its sang frold in the presence of all seriousness. Dowie's attacks upon the preachers and reporters were in -wretched taste; but he does not pose as a Chesterfield or a Beau Brummel; and he had prov ocation. We make not the slightest doubt that the spirit in which -the reporters ap proached Mr. Dowie and- his mission .was very far removed 'from fair play or the desire to make their columns an accurate reflection of Just what went on. They went out to do him up, with the various weapons of ridicule, manip ulation of his words and' ingenious playing upon the prejudices of their .readers. But, however this may be, the limit of decent approval was passed when they went to the extreme of drag ging his melancholy private history before the gaze of the world. The ex posure served no good purpose. It did, Indeed, inflict pain upon the object of their displeasure, but it unnecessarily darkened the lives of Innocent living persons and blackened the name of a wronged and helpless woman whose sorrows and errors have long since been made sacred by the grave .that has closed over them. It Is bootless to speculate upon the Bin or the judgment of the principal actors In this painful tragedy. Dowie's mother, if she had possessed wisdom and decision,. might better have assert ed her marriage with the British ofil cer and braved the British public opln ion which so jealously guards Its way- .ward men, than to have, been rushed into a wedding with her second hus band, as pusillanimous as the first. In cldentally, It Is comforting to reflect that In the United States as in Scotland injustice of this sort to trusting women no longer has the Sanction of the courts. Meanwhile Dowie's enemies have taken the best possible course to give him the sympathy which his own course was last repemng. This is a free country,, where one religion, In the eye of the law, Is as good as another. The miracles of 4000 years ago stand on the same footing as the miracles of W02. family troubles are not so rare in this country as to disbar a man from the pulpit or any other occupa tion. There are few houses, humble or grand, without their skeleton in some closet or other. There are chapters -in almost every life that are forgotten as quickly as possible. There are unwrlt ten episodes in almost every biography And there are ghouls who take delight In opening them up. While the Columbia River has not fared very well In the recommendations made for the river and harbor bill at the next session of Congress-, it Is to be hoped that emergency appropria tions may help out the amounts asked for the various projects. There is a 14,000-ton steamship loading at the Portland docks today, and. a., regujar line of 9000-ton vessels is plying here. This Is the result of the beginning made in river improvement a few years ago, when 2000-ton vessels reached Portland with extreme difficulty. Every foot or fraction of a foot that is added to the depth tof the great system of -rivers that drain the Columbia Basin will eventually increase the value of all products grown in that vast territory. Improvement of the Columbia River is not an Oregon project or a "Washington project, but one 4n -which the entire Pacific Northwest is vitally interested. As such, any measure. for the improve ment of the wonderful waterway Is en titled to the support of every one dwell ing -within -the- borders of ''the Pacific Northwest. THE OXE-MAX POWER. Mujch ls said of the one-man power in government, in- business, in war, mean ing by that the one-man power of "en trenched imperious will, , impregnable military despotism, the , plutocratic tyranny wielded by the owner of many millions. But there Is a far higher and far rarer one-man power that Is repre sented by the power of one man to stimulate thenoral forces of society by spiritual -appeal into vigorous insurrec tion against civic, corruption and Inde cency. This kind of one-man power Is represented by men who have unflinch ing -moral courage behind the guns of their remarkable powers of public speech. Many men have the gift of effective public speech; few men- have perennial moral courage, while men who have moral courage associated with superior powers of public speech are very rare. District Attorney Jer ome, the "whirlwind" orator of the anti-Tammany Fuslonlst party of New York City, is the latest illustration of this one-man power we have described, i He is a lifelong Democrat, but he is an entirely sincere and absolutely honest man. He is afraid of nobody. Threats of personal violence never affect him. Men of exceptional civic power and so cial consequence, supported by vast wealth, obtain no Immunity from his trenchant tongue, if he has satisfied himself that he Is speaking the truth and its utterance is demanded by the public weal. He is "the terrible child" of the fight between Tammany and Fusion. In 1901 the victory of the Fusionists was due to Jerome, and if fusion wins November 3 next the victory Willi be due to Jerome. He alone of all the leaders of '.the Fusion party has the power to rouse the masses. The first two days' registration gave Tammany the .best of it; then Jerome took the field and the registration among the forces of good government was so uni versal that the downcast Fusionists have become hopeful of victory. The secret of Jerome's power Is not alone that he is a magnetic speaker; it is due chiefly to the fact that he is a man of moral audacity on the platform. He knows the secret of effective de bate before an audience composed not of political philosophers, grave mer chants and cold-blooded financiers, but of every-day working people whose ac quired Intelligence may be limited, but whose hearts are in the right place. He knows that the masses do not care about, abstract discussion of, principles; they want to hear about things; they want men named and denounced as ob ject-lessons of corruption or political perfidy. Jerome steps forward and without a moment's hesitation says: "Edward M. Grout, the Tammany can- didate'for Controller, is a political pros titute." The professional politicians shudder, but Jerome proceeds relent lessly to prove that the actions of Grout show him to be worthy of this stigma, and he has his audience to a man with him. The rank and file of the working vote" of the city is composed of plain, blunt men, who can be reached only by just such talk as that of Jerome, but what makes this kind of direct denunciation and appeal effective is that Jerome is universally recognized to be an abso lutely sincere, honest man who is al ways sure of his facts and is not seek ing for personal advancement. He is Just -a man of unflinching, ugly hon esty, who is formidable because he has had a legal training and is endowed with the rarest quality of a public leader, whether in peace or war, that of unquenchable moral courage In sun shine or storm, in victory or defeat. He has the high, public. spirit and. daring that dates back to superior stock on both .sides of his family, and he has in herited too much humor to ever be come an impracticable crank, disposed to flock by himself when he cannot have his own way. He is a man of ner vous energy, as all orators who carry an audience by storm need .to be, and his power lies largely in his personal ity. He is not an eloquent .orator in the popular understanding of that word, but he is a man of matchless force on the platform.- The energy of his manner, his moral courage, his sin cerity, . his unblemished integrity, his unselfish devotion to the cause of mu nicipal reform, explain Jerome's power. He is a man who in his manner im presses his audiende with the belief that he .respects every man for what he really is, divested of all fortuitous ad vantages of inherited wealth, social po sition and business 'influence. He es teems the man for" what he is rather than for what he owns. He always calls a spade a spade, JHe convinces a worklngman by the intense sincerity of his argument and -by his utter freedom from all condescension or patronizing manner; he possesses In this the most effective quality of a successful Jury advocate; he believes that right and justice He with his cause, and he com muhlcates his convictions and belief to his audience' because he has made them believe in the entire sincerity of the man, Jerome. This capacity was rec ognlzed by James Russell Lowell when, writing of the great Boston preacher. Theodore Parker, he said: Each word has been fiercely furnaced ' In the. blast of a life that has struggled in earnest. Of pulpit eloquence Parker had noth ing In wolce" or presence, but his speech was so instinct with moral courage and Intense earnestness that he was sure of an audience of 3000 persons every Sun day7 Jerome has" mastered the secret of effective discussion in the newspa per press. The paper that is the most formidable as an antagonist is not a "yellow" sheet that is reckless of truth and decency; nor Is it an absolutely re spectable, intelligent newspaper that with absolute impersonality pleads for its cause and seeks to disseminate Its opinions. The newspaper that Is most effective is the newspaper that, when it is sure of its facts, never hesitates to make personal warfare upon the leading evangelists of a bad cause, never hesitates to talk plainly about the particular men who have wrought the public weal wrong, or to name the particular wrong thing that has been done,. The general public fniersdJaccet begthjarael forur frontlqrhiflcani.-aad order was -restored at once. the orator or the newspaper that, with out ambiguity, calls down a particular public man and reads out loud at the top of its voice a true bill of particulars concerning the public ruin he has wrought Jerome does not say "I de plore the municipal corruption and mis government of the past; I hope for bet ter things In future; I am a Democrat, but I do not approve of Tammany HalL" Oh, no; he says "Controller Grout is a political prostitute; here Is a record; look at his picture." And so he goes down the list, saying: "I mean you; I name you; I name time and place." He deals In men and their deeds as object-lessons; .calls names that stick; he fights for just principles by exposing bad men. This makes a platform orator or a newspaper formid able, but It takes character and moral courage behind the guns. TRUST LIMITATIONS. Unless there Is a change in some carefully formulated plans, there will be several new salmon canneries In op eration on the Dower Columbia next year. The cannery trust, which came Into existence along with. the rest of the industrial combinations, has proven no more successful than some of the more pretentious monopolies. The ar guments used by the promoters of the salmon cannery trust were that great economy of production and also of dis tribution would follow the- consolida tion of the various plants under one management. It was set forth In plausible phrase that the profits per case would be larger if all of the salmon in the river were packed, sold and distributed by the same concern. This prospective increase in profits was theoretically sufficient to warrant an extravagant capitalization, on which it later became necessary to earn a profit in order to keep the stock In good standing. Actual experience demonstrated that the scattered location of the plants pre cluded any economies In production be yond those which had previously been effected. It was also demonstrated dur ing the big run of salmon for the past two seasons that some of the canneries which were dismantled for the purpose of centralizing the operations of the trust were badly needed to handle the surplus of fi$h which the canneries in operation could not take care of. If further evidence of the failure of the trust to "make good," as applied to the salmon canneries, were needed, it is found in the fact that some of the best men who sold out or were elbowed out of the cannery' trust have since been highly successful with Independent canneries. It is their success that is inducing others to invest in new plants on the lower river, and with artificial propagation showing such good results the Industry will shortly get back to the legitimate basis from which it was jarred by the trust earthquake. The pack of the Columbia River would have been larger by a great many thousand cases had there been a sufficient number of canneries to take care of all of the fish last year when the run near the close of the season was at its height. The same was true of the preceding season, and in both years there was a heavy loss through enormous catches made by the traps, seines and gillnets being unsalable even for fertilizer. It is frequently said that there is no sentiment in business. and there is considerable truth in the statement, but of the men in the can nery or any other line of trade "some will follow and some command," and there Is enough sentiment In the make up of some of the "ex-commanders" of industrial armies or business enter prises to prevent their becoming "fol lowers" in a calllngwhere they have been commanders. This sentiment Is driving some of them back Into small business of their own in preference to remaining- under the domination of trust management. Certain It is .that there is nothing in the trust idea that appeals to the fish ermen themselves. The system of the trust would never admit of such easy familiarity and overdrawing of ac counts as has been rendered possible for them by long years of acquaint ance with and dependence on "Joe" Megler, "Colonel" Harrington, the late "Bill" Hume, or a number of others who have become famous and occa sionally wealthy by operating inde pendent canneries. This brawn and muscle is more picturesque than sentl mentalt but such good-will and co-operation form a valuable asset of a can nery, and the trust never gained It. BOUNDARY DISPUTES. The history of boundary disputes which have been hitherto settled be tween Great Britain and, the United States does not show on England's part any neglect of the Interests of Canada. When the treaty of Paris was negoti ated, in 1782, Lord Shelburne at first demanded all of Maine for the King, but finally yielded so far as to take the St. Croix River as the eastern line, but the northern boundary of Maine was not settled until Secretary Daniel Web ster negotiated the treaty of 1S42 with Lord Ashburton. Under this treaty the United States yielded a strip of Maine as originally claimed, while England ceded strips to Vermont and New York, but on the whole Canada fared the best under this treaty. On the Pacific Coast the region In controversy embraced the whole basin of the Columbia River and the Ameri can claim extended from the northern boundary of California, then a Mexican province, to Russian America. Had the United States obtained what it then claimed, our Pacific Coast line would extend today from Southern California to Behrlng Straits and Canada would have no access to the Pacific Ocean. At that time Russia by treaty had rec ognized this American claim to the full est extent. The Democratic National Convention of 1844 had declared that the entire American claim must "be maintained, and President Polk was elected with the war cry of "fifty-four- forty or fight." If it had not been for the outbreak of the Mexican War, we might have had war with Great Britain over this American claim tc the Pacific Coast as far as Russian America, but Secretary of State James Buchanan made the conquest of Mexico easier by signing a boundary treaty with Great Britain, June 15, 1S46, fixing the fron tier at the 49th parallel. To -England's stand for Canada's in terests in 1846 the Dominion owes to day Its possession of the finest part of the Province of British Columbia, with Vancouver Island and the smaller islands in the adjacent waters. The United States but for England's stand would have full control of the straits at the mouth of Puget Sound, of the whole water route from the Straits of Georgia to Alaska. Great Britain won a great prize for the future Dominion of Canada when we were persuaded to But for the Mexican "War we .should probably have gone to war with Eng land over the Oregon boundary dispute, but we preferred to conquer Mexico and annex some of her territory- Ex cept In her omission to buy Alaska, whose prospective value was not appre ciated then by Canada or the mother country, England In a century of boundary controversies has taken good care, o'f Canada. - THE ECLIPSE OF PRIDE. "I need the money," says the saloon keeper, as he rakes over his bar the last dollar of the drunken worklngman and turns him into, the street. "Busi ness Is business." "I need the money," says the young woman who sells' her soul for a paltry sum to whoever will buy. "I am forced to do this by the unfortunate position I am in." "I need the money," says the gam bler, as he pockets the coin he. knows full well the. poor clerk has taken from his employer's till. "My family can't starve." "I need the money," says the high wayman, as he raises his bludgeon or pistol to shed Innocent blood and wrong those who have never wronged him. "The world owes every man a living." "I need the money," says the thief, who lives off others by his wits, through cards, dice, gold bricks or con fidence games. "A man must live." Yes, we all need the money. But we need something else much more. We need self-respect, we need an approv ing conscience, we need the confidence and companionship of our fellow men. Dowie parades himself before gaping thousands and drags the sacred things of religion into the mire. He needs the money for "Zlon." Bryan defies good taste and imperils his good name for the sake of a paltry $50,000. He needs the money for his family. Perhaps it is that we lack pride the pride of family, the pride of reputation. These things were once most powerful deterrents from wrongdoing. They in here in society where money Is ap praised at its. true value. Perhaps an aristocracy of birth and breeding is, after all, better than an aristocracy of mere money. Perhaps our commercial civilization needs an Infusion of gentility. Is the race, of Tom Newcome and Bertie Cecil and John Halifax extinct? P. S. BENNETT, GOOD THING. Philo S. Bennett, of New Haven, is dead, but this fact need not detract from the homage that -Is due him for being obviously one of the best things on redord, one of the easiest, one of the mest fruitful. It appears from the testimony of W. J. Bryan .that Mr. Bennett was in the habit of diverting frequent 'and not Inconsiderable sums of money Bryanwards. Whenever he saw Bryan he gave him a roll of bills. If he couldn't leave New Haven, he sent a draft. If Bryan called on him, he gave him 5500 or ?looo as a slight token of affection. Mr. Bennett was evidently a nice person to know. Mr. Bryan says that on each succeed ing March preceding his death for three years Mr. Bennett had sent him 51000 in cash. When Bryan- was in New York In the campaign of 1900, Mr..Ben nett called at his hotel and gave him $500. At another time Mr. Bennett wrote him: "The betting against you is 3 to 1. Notwithstanding this, I think you will win. -Sf-you-are defeated; I will give you $3000. You must know my feeling of gratitude for what you have done for the cause of humanity When Mr. Bennett was in Lincoln and Bryan and his wife had worked up the will giving them the $50,000 In question in the pending lawsuit, Bennett pressed upon him the sum of $300 for legal ser vices upon the aforesaid document. When Bryan was defeated last time Mr. Bennett wrote him: "I do hope you will accept the $50,000 and give $10,000 to your wife and $5000 to each of your children. If you don't accept it, use It for charitable and educational purposes." Would there were more Bennettsl Life -would be more enjoyable. Doubt less one reason for their scarcity is the fewness and unco-operativeness of Bryans. Many a man could not com mand the magnetism to draw tributes Of $500 to $50,000 from the exchequer of their owner. Or the gall. The demobilization of the Bulgarian reserves does not mean. the end of the Macedonian insurrection. It only means that during the Winter months it is impossible to conduct warlike opera tions In the region of the Balkans. Last year military operations closed In Macedonia In November, but hostilities were resumed in the .Spring, and this is the situation today. There will be trouble again next Spring and Summer in Macedonia, unless.thls Winter Rus sla and Austria should force Turkey to a final settlement by accepting the re cent proposals -of reform in the govern ment of the -insurgent province. Miss Annie S. Peck, the renowned mountain climber, had to abandon the attempt to ascend Mount Sorata, the highest peak of the Bolivian Andes. vigorous effort was made to carry out the plan outlined by Miss Peck early In the Summer, but, owing to the In clemency of the weather, sickness in the party ajid the refusal of the natives to carry provisions beyond a certain height, it was unsuccessful. It is not at all probable that MIbs Peck has per manently abandoned the purpose to stand upon the highest mountain peak on this side of the globe, but for the present it is "off." Substantial Increase In attendance upon the suburban schools of this dis trict gives conclusive evidence of that best ot all Indications of the prosperity of a city the Increase in its homes and in the number of its families. The growth ofa city that does not show this Is most unsatisfactory, since at best It is but the ephemeral growth of the mining town or the logging region. In his first general encyclical letter Pope Plus X declares that it is "a vain hope to attract souls to God by a bitter zeal." John Alexander Dowie, please take notice. Havlnrr seen the "flood" edltionsi of the New York Illustrated papers, Port land people areiow more content than ever. .All hotted. ! Philadelphia Inquirer. The latest story about Admiral .Cotton Is that, when he arrived at Beirut and the Vail sent 'to ask his Intentions, he re piled that he had no intentions, no policy. and "no blank cartridges." The last clause struck the Vail as - oecuUarlv sic- TBI EVES AND FOREST DESTRUCTION Chicago Inter Ocean. Tho public will await with interest, the report of the Government agents on al leged land and timber frauds In Oregon and Washington. Three years ago the California Board of Forestry reported that the. mountain lands with merchantable timber on them in that state were mostly in private hands. Those who made ln- estlgatlons in the interest of forest pres ervation reported that there- was little or no timber of merchantable quality and accessibility in California not In private hands. Now It is charged the timber thieves are concentrating In Oregon and Washington, organized to capture the timber supply In almost the only states having great forests. Lumbermen have been active in both states for years, the product in Oregon in 1902 having a value of $10,000,000. While the lumbermen have been widen ing their fields of operations, the National and state governments have been taking steps looking to forest preservation. Much nas oeen accompnsnea on mi? line m setting apart reservations, and in closer supervision of entries under the timber and stone act. In Montana and Idaho extensive frauds under the latter act were discovered In 1901, and hundreds of persons were prose cuted. The timber and stone act provides that any citizen may file on 160 acres, of timber land by paying $2.50 an acre, but in proving up his claim he must make affidavit that he is not taking the, land for speculative purposes, and that he has made no arrangement as to its future holding with a second party. In Montana, however, agents of large proprietors Induced numbers of persons to take lands under the act, ana, on proving up, transfer the lands to the agents on payment of $100 above the .cost of land and other expenses. The suits to recover tho lands caused great irritation. but they were pushed by the Govern ment. In Oregon and Washington, it Is charged, this method of fraudulent entry has been only one of the means employed by speculators to secure control of tim ber lands and to profit by the laws in tended to preserve forests. In the face or this charge the Government has held a largo number of land entries In both states for Investigation, and has carried the Inquiry Into the operations of an or ganization, which. It is said, Is aiming to control every well-timbered area on tho Pacifio slope. The worst enemies of our forests are the speculators and the timber thieves. Op eratlng together, these two elements have stripped the State of Texas of her most valuable timber lands. In Texas the work of destruction was carried on so quietly that exposure came only a few weeks ago, Then the state found It had been robbed of its last forest reserve. In -Montana tho work of devastating forests has been checked. California is virtually In the condition of Texas. Her forests arc In private hands. In washing- ton and Oregon the exposure of the plans of the timber. ring has come In time to save the forests If the National and state, governments appreciate tho gravity of the situation and act together resolutely In restraint of speculators and thieves. Dangers in Circumstantial Evidence. Kansas City Star. What might have happened under slightly modified conditions will be inter esting to contemplate by students of cir cumstantial evidence, in reading the true story of a sSmnambulIst, who lodged at the Victoria Hotel In this city on Tues day night. The men occupied the same bed in room 103. Two other guests, a man and his wife, strangers to the occupants of 109, had room 111, Immediately adjoining. The somnambulist was one of tho men in 109. About 3 o'clock In the morning he arose In his sleep, went to a window and fell out and down to a gravel roof somo six feet below. Without waking ho walked along until he reached a window in room 111, crawled In, and got into the lied oc cupied by the man and his wife, without waking them. His roommate missed him about three hours liter. The clerks were called and a. search was made. The door of 111 was . opened and the three occu pants of the bed were found still sound asleep. The two men were awakened and the intruder taken out without . disturb ing the woman. There are three very unusual things about this story. First that the sleep walker was not awakaned by the fall; second, that the occupants of 111 were not aroused when he joined them, and third, that the woman was not disturbed by the searchers. But no one need dis credit the particulars as here given. The unusual features are accepted as a mat ter of course, Just as other extraordinary happenings are when there are no conse quences of import. But to emphasize the fallibility of clr- cumstantial evidence, suppose that the -woman in the case had not been ac companied by her husband, but had been alone in her room. How many persons would have believed the story? The man's plea of somnambulism would have excited only laughter and the woman's . protests of innocence would have been generally discredited. It seems to be the natural impulse of the public mind to jump to the baser conclusion in cases of this kind. But It should be a good lesson to reflect how unjust the natural lnferencejln this pos-. slble case so near the actual occur renceswould have been to two Innocent persons. Why Banks Fail. ' Chicago Inter Ocean. "The recent failures," declares T. F. Woodlock, of the Wall Street Journal, "cannot be laid at tho door of Sir. Roose velt. They are due to the fact that the market for months has been glutted with securities." The other day two Baltimore banks, and on Wednesday a Pittsburg bank, had .to close their doors because they could not meet the demands of their depositors. Yet, one of the Baltimore banks had as Eots which enabled It to resume business at once, and when the Pittsburg bank was closed it held against $1,900,000 de mandable deposits $4,600,000 of good securi ties, but It could not get cash. Why? Because men who for Beveral years had tho confldonco of investors and used that confidence to issue millions upon millions of securities have been shown of late undeserving of the trust reposed in them. So confidence departed. It Is unnecessary to go into details here to Bhow step by step how confidence de parted. Every man who reads from day to day the inner history of the last shlp bulldng combine, with its mazes of mis representation, duplicity, and secret plun der, understands why every security with which such men are associated is regarded with distrust. Not because of any public policy ad vocated by the President not because of any attitude on his part toward finance and industry but because of the course of action shown to have been taken by financial leaders, is the market glutted with securities. Is confidence gone, and are banks failing. This is as plain as the sun at midday. One- Result. Chicago Tribune. "My' brethren." said the preacher, "I feel inclined to say -A word or two concerning . v- A most Immoral play. -v. "This -wicked, awful drama . Each night attracts a crowd. If I but had the' say so It should not be allowed! "The costumes are too dreadful For any one to see; The songs and speeches, also, . Are full of deviltry. "The theater where this is At Blank and Blunkthum streets" But half his hearers ran out SOUTHERN VIEWS OF TILLMAN. Tillman, the South Carolina murderer, misjudges . the American people If he thinks they wish, any "statement" from him. Louisville Courier-Journal Q3em.). The "verdict is no credit to South Caro lina and none to Lexington County, but Is one of the features of society as or ganized In tho South. Spartenburg oJur nal (Dem.). The acquittal of Jim Tillman for the as sassination of Editor Gonzales is another of those cases that mock justice, jar our institutions, and beget lynch law. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph (Dem.). How do you escape hanging? You sim ply say that John Doe had his hands In his pockets, and when he got near you he moved his right thumb from outside to Inside his pocket. Arkansas Gazette. (Dem.). Wo aro very slow to criticise the verdict of a sworn jury. In law It may have been technically right. But from- thl3 distance It seems an outrageous miscarriage of Jus tice, it is certainly not the verdict of the people. Richmond Times-Dispatch (Dem.). The acquittal of James H. Tillman, the brutal murderer of N. G. Gonzales, Is a disgrace to South Carolina; it Is more, it Is a reflection, unjust as it may be, upon the whole South. No more cowardly "mur der has ever been committed in the South, and the verdict is license to other blood thlrstly men to do as Tillman has done. Nashville American (Dem.). It is an invitation to evil-disposed peo ple to take life, and It will be many ,a year before the stain of this miscarriage of justice shall be wiped from the escutch eon of the Palmetto state. South Caro lina must hang her head in shame. She has gone .on record as condoning crime, and must pay the penalty in humiliation. Memphis Commercial Appeal .(Dem.). Was there provocation In aught Gon zales had said to justify resort to blood vengeance? Many people will say there was. But the provocation was given five months before the vengeance was taken. The intervening period of vengeance brings murder. But the State of South Carolina says Tillman did no murder; and -wo are all South Carolinians. Charleston Evening Post (Dem.). Tillman goes free. The jury has failed to find him guilty In any degree whatso ever. But the people of the country, who have had before them the same evidence with which the jury was possessed, havo already passed their, verdict, upon Till man. It Is most unfortunate that those men who sat in the box at ' Lexington should not have realized that they had in their hands the power to draw upon their state a great deal of criticism In which a great deal of Injustice will be mixed. Atlanta Journal. But what use is there in commenting on this miscarriage of justice, this setting of the stamp of the court's approval upon assassination in revenge for political op position and the public exposure of an unsavory record? The deed, is done and Tillman is at liberty to go and come with his blood-stained hands as freely as any law-respecting and guiltless citizen of the state. We can but express our horror at and condemnation of so brazen a dlsre gard of law and right and Justice. Sum ter (S. C.) Item. How in God's name any 12 men, pretend ing to represent the people of South Car olinaclaiming to be fair and honest to the living and the dead can brazenly come forth and declare that James H. Tillman Is not guilty of his crime. 13 more than any good citizen can answer, It is too merciful to use that old hack neyed phrase about a miscarriage of Jus tice, for it Is greater than that. The ver dict is an outrage and will forever stand as the scarlet letter of shame on tho record of our state. Greenville (S. C.) ryews. This is a sad result for SouthCarolina, for, notwltstandlng what the Jury say, the people of the state, as thoroughly fa miliar with all the evidence,, say Till man's deed was murder and should have been punished as such. The result of this case, we fear, will mean Increased blood shed over South Carolina, for why should men who have money or Influence fear to kill when they know they will so easily be "got off?" South Carolina should turn her face to the wall. The only things she hangs are Justice and occasionally a friendless negro. Aiken Recorder (Dem.). The Constitution ls as ready as any rea sonable person could ask to make proper allowance for the histology of Southern ideals of honor, the jealousy of its guar dianship, and the Impulsiveness of self-defense approved by tradition. But this newspaper does not approve of high of ficials of state, representative men of a community, exemplars of social and intel lectual life, going about loaded with pis tols and ready to kill on sight for of fenses that law can punish, and on the plea of fears for llfo that no man with a grain of courage could reasonably en tertain. Atlanta Constitution (Dem.). The Lexington jurors knew that be fore the trial began the Inclinations of almost every man on the panel had been secured, and that when the case was en-, tered upon a majority of the twelve men whff swore they were impartial and had never expressed an opinion were parti sans for the defense. That the Jury would not convict under any circumstances was a forgone conclusion; it would not have found the defendant guilty had no testi mony been offered or no arguments been made in his behalf. And the County of Lexington must forever bear the shame of a monstrous crime committed against our system of government. Columbia State (Dem.). Wo shall not attempt any review of the case It would not change the result. There Is no appeal from the verdict of the Jury except to public opinion, and that tribunal, while awaiting the Judgment of the court at Lexington, made up Its own verdict upon the evidence submitted to tho jury in the case, and to the people through the press. It Is so much the -worse for the law that the verdict of public opinion is not the verdict of the jury. Mr. Tillman has been released from the custody of tho law, and walks tho earth a free man, and Is entltle'd to the" protection qt the law. We do not envy him his freedom the dead man Is far happier than the living. Charleston News and Courier (Dem.). Unruly Children Don't Signify. Minneapolis Tribune. It i3 a common experlenco with great empires that the colonies and dependen cies are for mare cocky and aggressive than the great central government. Ir responsible dependencies, untroubled by burdens of war or finance, are much bold er and moro difficult In dealing with their neighbors than the great power that has to raise money to protect them and armies to enforce their demands. Canada, for example, would hax-e plunged Great Bri tain into war with the united States a dozen times, if it could have dictated lm- perlal policy. It appears that this rule holds for the crown possessions of an au tocracy, as well as for the autonomous members of a great, free, federal empire. There Is a very familiar sound in the furious protest that comes from 'Port Arthur against the American treaty with China, by which tho port of 31oukden Is opened to trade. The Imperial govern ment was aware of this treaty, and agreed to assume Its obligations if Manchuria should become Russian. Nevertheless, co lonial officials declare that the treaty In -fringes the right of Russia, and that It shall never go Into effect. The next thing we shall be arbitrating our commercial rights In Russian Manchuria, by a joint commission, In which s.ome great Russian jurist will maintain our rights against jolonl&l agjSBaloiJLlkeJQ Alversone. NOTE. AND COMMENT Topsy-Turvy. " rwith. Joy I pen an'sode to Springr, Or sins a sons of falling leavev I dream the words melodious ring. Whate'er the skeptic mind believes. But when I glance the column down My smile becomes a puckered frown, There's sure to ba a line like thU UAvop epjsdn s.juqi The pleasures of the creaming cup- I sing with Bacchanalian srlee. Adjure the drinkers with an "Upt" w e ii totist each man hla fairest she." Next day I read the column down, And smile la lost In puckered frown. They've got the cup turned bottom up jUAiop apjsda s.-jj Perhaps I Dolly's eyebrows hymn. And praise their sweetly-curving swelL Or laud the eyes below, that brim With love the lips can never telL But when I glance the column down. My smile becomes a puckered, frown. They've got poor Dolly Just like this jujiop opiBdn B.ati'g Evergreen. The lucky iceman Joke, and that t "Which gives the deacon a black, ere. The ruddy "Galways" worn by Pat These are the things that never die. Tho messenger that walks asleep. The cop who s never near or by, The Joke that's just a bit too "steep" JXhese are the things that never die. The Dutchman, fat and fond' of beer. The dear soubrette so- sweet and shy. The cat that splits the midnight ear xnese are the things that never die. Others ot equal, wit there be. Jokes that elicit tear and sigh. And sad old world with this for fee 1 These aro the things that never die. Montana's . cloud has .a copper lining. Milk having gone up, less will go down. Falling leaves here; falling snow- in tha East. Japan is discovering that 'alliances, do not ally. Sheridan's ride Is matched by the ride from Sheridan. So tho theater-ticket business scalping just hair raising. isn't As the lieu land ring story goes East It expands to equatorial size. It's a dull night that somo public build ing In Baker City isn't broken Into. The matrimonial bureau at least seems? . to give people a run for their money. "Hearts Aflame" seems to mean a slap In the face for some of tho company. Life is a merry-go-round. Hera we have) men taking to high heels and women to high-balls. Dominicans uso rebellion to spice their politics as they use red pepper to splco their food. Tho entrance halls of Portland build ings will now be congested with sleeping newsglrls. There's something" poetic about falling leaves, so long as they fall on. your neigh bor's lawn. The Chinese have separate Devils for the rich and the poor; tho Americans different Gods. Dowie says Christian Science Is bosh. He certainly should know what consti tutes the latter. Dowie should remember-that people In this c-iuntry do- not visit the- sins' of tho fathacupon" th&chlld, ! . It always seems to make the bride mad when the best man's name Is published by mistake as the groom's. The Polish Countess who pretended she had a baby when sho hadn't was .re- I'ersing the usual order of affairs. "Bioscope" was the word that ap peared upon the screen, but the wag In the crowd pronounced it "buy-a-scoop." A Cuban Congressman has been con victed of manslaughter for killing an edi tor. It was a mistake to grant Cubs- autonomy before sho was fit for It. The girls at tho Northwestern Univer sity are to have, a coach of their own, and we may now expect disputes as to the amateur status of the basket-ball play ers. Because tho Corean Prince. Tee, was too popular among the girls of Delaware, O., .Joseph Stout punched his head. Why didn't Mr. Stout revengo himself, by winning the hearts of the maidens- oC Seoul? Dear, sweet Seattle. The bold, bad Clan cys havo been charged by the righteous, impartial Prosecuting Attorney with run nlng a faro game. It is Incredible- that a pure-minded official should be So led. astray by wicked persons as to honestly believe that other pure-minded people would do anything in contravention of the law. Seven cars, numerous wagons' and a crowd of pedestrians waited on the steel bridge while a little sternwheeler wen through. Then another puffing little stem wheeler, with two men and a boy aboard, whistled imperiously for the- draw. Tho crowd groaned, but sorrow changed to incredulous joy as the bridge slowly closed again. The crowd poured across, and the puffing little sternwheeler had to waiH three minutes. Yet people say there I? nothing new under the sun. WEX J. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. Wife If you stay out another night aftei 0 I'll leave you! Hubby Can I consldet that as a promise? Chicago New3. "Do you have , any trouble supporting youi family. Sambo?" "No, indeedy; why, bos3, I's got one ob de best wives In dls 'er town." Tonkers Statesman. v Doctor "Want to get up, eh? Ah, I thought my medicine would fetch you out of bed. Tommy Yes, an" then, besides. J seen a circus poster. Philadelphia Bulletin, Ifeil So the engagement Is broken off? Belle Tes. It seems she told him one even ing that she wasn't half beautiful enough to be his wife, and he didn't deny, her state ment quick enough to suit her. Philadel phia Press. "Why don't you try to earn your living?" "Well, answered Meandering Mike, "It's dl way. When I eats dls way I gits cold tur key an' mince pie. If I depends on me earnin' capacity I'm liable to git sinkers an weak coffee." -Washington Star. Mls3 Cutts He's an awfully inquisitive bore. Isn't he ? Miss Ann Teek Oh, awful ly! He was trying to And out my ago tha other day, so I Just up and told him I was 50. That settled, him. MIsS Cutts Well, I guess It is best to be perfectly candid with that sort of fellow. Philadelphia Press. Miller What do you think of all this-staff In the paper telling women how to be bca"u tlful? Walker Oh, -well, don't know. 3 suppose It's all right. My wife reads hardly anything else; she has been at It Ave years or more. I don't see as she Improves any In beauty, but then it Is comforting, to her ts read how easy it la to bo beautlfuL Boston JLlranscripw