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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1903. to v&$ovdcax v. . Entered at the Postofflce at PoWand, Oregon, as second-class matter. REVISED SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By xnatl (posta.ee prepaid In advance Dally, with Sunday, per month -.?0.S6 Dally, Sunday excepted, per year. 7.50 Dally, with Sunday, per year -00 Sunday, per year 2.00 The weekly, per year 1-W The weekly, 3 month 50 Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday cxcepted..lOc Dally, per week, delivered. Sunday lncluded.20o POSTAGE HATES. United States, Canada and Mexico 10 to 14-page paper .................. .....lc 10 to 30-page paper . .-2c 82 to 44-pase paper ............ ...... .......Sc Foreign rates double. News for discussion Intended for publication In The Orcgonl&n should he addressed Invari ably "Editor The Oregonlnn." not to the name of any Individual. Letters relating to atlver tUlnc, subscription, or to any business matter, should be addressed simply "The Oregonian." 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It is very noticeable how exceedingly cautious the Democrats of the Senate have become In their treatment of the imbroglio at Panama. Partisan im pulse would have moved them at once to denunciation of the Administration, on the allegation that it had Instigated and promoted -the Panama revolution; and the rhetoric would have proclaimed that our nation had by this action been disgraced in the eyes of the world. Some of the wanner Democratic politicians did, Indeed, start off on this line, but they were soon called back by the cooler heads. The country, you see, wants an isthmian canal, and it is not going to be popular to obstruct it fur ther. Again, there is general indigna tion in the United States at the per fidious conduct of the Colombian gov ernment in its rejection of the Hay Herran treaty, that the United States might be "held up" for, more money. Consideration of these facts has had an effect on the minds of the wiser ones of the Democratic party; and the caucus at "Washington cannot now see its way to opposition to the Administration on the turn affairs have taken at Panama. This growing caution is noticeable too in the Democratic press of the countrv. At first there was an outburst of fury and of rage, simulated indeed, but as hot as they could make It. Latterly it has been cooling down. In many jour nals the editorials on"the subject have become a sedative to the "spirited" "Washington specials with which their columns teemed but a while ago. Just here The Oregonian would call atten tion to an editorial from the Cincinnati Enquirer, of Friday last, reprinted on this page. The position of this great Democratic newspaper, In politics as .well as in Journalism, is well known. No clearer or stronger statement in jus tification of our policy at Panama has been made, or Is likely to be made. There is another sort of newspapers. Thelr "conscience" Is so tender that they are always against their country. They are true representatives of the old idea of New England, which, how ever, has never come very far "West, that expansion of the United States was a thing to be dreaded always, and op posed. There was nothing west of the Allegheny Mountains. Acquisition of Louisiana and of the great territory of the Mississippi Valley was opposed. Oregon wasn't worth having, and it was wrong and folly to annex Texas and to gain California. It was an outrage to accept the Hawaiian Islands, and ac quisition of the Philippines was "flat burglary as ever was committed." We ought to have rejected Porto Rico and kicked her further into the sea. It Would be "infamous" to accept Cuba, even If she offered herself. So now, to bring the Isthmus of Darien and the State of Panama under the Influence and protection of the United States, so we build between the oceans a highway of nations, Is an awful crime. These persons should move out of Bos ton and let It be called Shawmut again, and out of New York and leave it to the aboriginal Manhattans. The main fear of their lives and that of their an cestors for five generations has been that the United States would grow and expand, would acquire new territory und get extension of Influence and power. But they are a small lot now, and their note, which has died into a feeble echo through some half dozen newspapers, is observed only as a jar, now and then, In the general movement of the music During a long period the Democratic party of the United States was the party of expansion. It goes mighty hard with it to become the party of a cabined, cribbed and confined national ity. Read also the article from the Brooklyn Eagle, printed today one of the great independent Democratic jour nals of the country. From this you will see further why the Democratic party cannot afford to antagonize the Pan ama policy of the National Administra tion. The Oregonian has always thought that the canal should be constructed at Nicaragua, But since we are commit ted to Panama, and since the robber State of Colombia has attempted to hold us up and wring our nose besides, The Oregonian holds that we should stay at Panama and build the canal. The American trade to be affected by the preference of 25 per cent to Brit ish goods recently granted by the leg islative bodies of Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Rho desia, Basutoland and Bechuanaland amounted last year to nearly $34,000, 000, and the new burden may prove to be very considerable. The expenditure made by England in the recent war was held to Justify a discrimination in favor of the British producer. British colonies will share with the mother country the benefit of this preference, the scheme being founded on the pref erential tariff of Canada. It 15 worth noting that all classes of foodstuffs, tobacco, spirits ,and certain manufac tures coming from the United King dom will be given a rebate of 25 per cent of the regular Tate, while all other manufactures have the rate entirely removed. Exports .sent from the United States by way of England will be sub ject to the discrimination. Since the development of South Africa in the next few years promises to be rapid, our trade with that part of the world merits attention. THE STRANGE CASE OF DIETRICH. "When a United States Senator is in dicted for a crime committed in con nection with some measly business de tail in his home town, he very natur ally casts about for some way to get even. That is why we find Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska, accompanied by Editor Rosewater, of the Omaha Bee, in Washington at the time he is in dicted at Omaha, seeking to compass the removal of the District Attorney who procured the indictment. Both the Senator and the editor know the Presi dent well, and they undertake to move upon the enemy at a vital point. No District Attorney wants to lose his Job; but some of them occasionally make miscalculations as to the proper course to win favor with the appointing power at Washington. The strange case of Senator Dietrich is instructive in another point of view and that Is his deduction, shared by Editor Rosewater, that the indictment is fae direct work of the District Attoi ney, though the Indirect work of busi ness and political enemies. The man would be a tyro in legal procedure who was ignorant of the fact that on a ques tion of the technical guilt or Innocence of a mail against whom some trifling irregularity under Federal statutes Is charged the average grand Jury will follow implicitly the guidance of the District Attorney. They will not re turn an Indictment against his advice and Judgment. He cannot shoulder the responsibility off on his assistant or screen himself behind conspirators who have industriously plied the grand jury with interested testimony. We have never thought very much of Senator Dietrich. Nearly everything he has said or done so far in the Sen ate has been criticised unfavorably in these columns. But if the only alterna tive to his domination in Nebraska is the ascendancy of such dirty conspira tors as those that have apparently en gineered the indictment against him, we are for him without reserve. Politics is a strenuous game; but men who respect themselves and merit the respect of others will do their political fighting without trying to beggar an opponent or rob him of his reputation. RELIEF FOR THE PHILIPPINES. When Justice is done Cuba by ren dering operative the reciprocity treaty ratified by the United State Senate, Congress ought to enact measures of legislative relief for the Filipinos. We have practically excluded sugar and tobacco, two of the staples of the Phil ippines, from the United States by im posing on them duties amounting to 75 per cent of those levied by the Dingley law. On hemp we impose no duty, but we have forbidden the Insular govern ment to levy an export duty on such hemp as is sent for consumption to the United States. The net result of this legislation of Congress, which became operative in March, 1902, is that for the sixteen months ended June 30, 1303, the Insular treasury was actually worse oft by $400,000 than It would have been had no relief act been passed. The Philippine Commission asked Congress for reduction of 75 per cent of the Dingley rates In the case of commodities imported from the Philip pines into the United States. This rec ommendation was approved by Presi dent Roosevelt and urged by Secretary Root, but the sugar and tobacco lobby assumed that the reduction proposed would flood our market with Filipino sugar and tobacco, so they prevailed upon Congress to limit the reduction so that 75 per cent of the Dingley rates should be levied on Filipino commodi ties, with the proviso that the duties thus collected should be returned to the Insular treasury to be expended for the benefit of the Islands. The result Is that from March, 1902, to August 30, 1903, the amount of duties collected in our ports upon Filipino products and paid over to the insular government was $258,602. This small contribution to the in sular treasury was more than counter balanced by a provision of the act of March 8,' 1902, that no export duty should be levied by the Filipino gov ernment on products shipped to and consumed In this country. From ex ports of hemp the insular government derives a large part of its Income, the export duty being $7.50 a ton. From March, 1902, until June 30, 1903, some 86,044 tons of hemp were shipped to the United States, from which, had an ex port tax been levied, the Insular treas ury would have received $645,830; so that the net loss to the Insular govern ment under an act Intended to benefit the Filipinos In about sixteen months Is $400,000. The assumption that If the Dingley rates were reduced by 75 per cent our market would be flooded with sugar and tobacco from the Philippines is dis credited by the fact that the total amount of sugar exports from the Philippines to all countries for the three years ended June 30, 1903, was but $9,000,000, while the value of the sugar Imported Into the United States was in excess of $217,000,000. If the Philippine product had been free of duty, it could have made no impres sion on our market, and the same la true of tobacco, for the tobacco exports of the Philippines to all countries were only $8,000,000, while the total value of the tobacco Imported Into the United States exceeded $57,000,000. These very Interesting statistics are fully set forth by the New York Sun, and are made the text for the following appeal to Congress for legislative relief for the insular government: What Congress ought to do without delay Is to cut down the duties on products com ing from the Philippines to 25 per cent of tho Dingley rate's, and to allow the Insular government to levy an export duty on the hemp sent to the United States, until the imports Into the Island hall Jiave undergone, such expansion as largely to .Increase the revenue derived from the Insular custorrjs duties. But If Congress is unwilling to do this at the extra session. It should at least recognize the plain, 'duty of repealing the j protision of tho act of March J. 1002, which forbids the insular government to levy an export duty on hemp. sent to the "United States. A HARD MATTER TO DECIDE. Our good Governor is having a good deal of trouble over the extra session. One day he is all probability and smiles, the next all immovability and gloom. Now you see it and now you don't Weather thick, wind eighty miles, breaking over bar, or else weather fair and bar smooth, seven ships passed out. Do not misunderstand us. These variations are not the mere expression of a mercurial temperament In our good Governor, but the logical resultant of certain causes in operation. There are reasons for this alternate gayety and gloom, abandon of consent or coyness of retreat. Let us explore them. It is well worth while. I am quite In accord, writes onemem ber of the Legislature, with our wise and good Governor in his asking a pledge I did not say pledge, did I? not pledge, but proposal, understanding or whatever It is. The Governor is right, whatever he said. I stand by him. I favor an extra session. It is easy to see how powerful and convincing to the Governor's mind is such an answer as that. He Is moved to call the session. He Intimates as much to those who call upon him. The extra session Is imperative. But the matter has an entirely different face when next day another member writes that the Governor is playing politics; that he knows very well an extra ses sion is necessary; that he intends to call It, but wants first to arrange a Jeffer. sonlan pose for himself. This Is a stun ning argument against the call. Slump of eight points In extra session. Perhaps the weightiest reason against an extra session, and the one which the Governor finds It the hardest to over come is the fact that Mayor Williams has so far neglected to make some offi cial presentation to His Excellency on the alleged emergency In the City of Portland. The Mayor Is probably act ing on the theory that If Chamberlain wants Information he should be pretty well stocked up with It by this time in view of the prodigious activity of Tax payers' Leagues and such like. This Is wrong. Recognition Is the real thing, facts are negligible. If the Governor's complaint that the Mayor has so far compelled him to "rely entirely upon the newspapers for my Information" can be found fault with at all. It would only be a suspicion of weakness. Why doesn't he take the manly, unequivocal stand of Senator Hunt and say point blank that he has no information what ever, because all he knows Is what the papers have printed? The backing and filling, sparring for openings and cautious undertakings of the Governor and his Republican antag onists to put each other In a hole very pointedly suggest the deep solicitude for the public weal which prompted them all to Investigate the Phelps bill so carefully last Winter. The Interests and property of the state are safe in such hands. What they get hold of they'll never lose. It does not appear that the school law which requires teachers In the public schools to attend Institute for three days at the close of the school year can work any special hardship. At most, or at worst, it only means three short days' extra wors for them, the mini mum attendance required being sixteen hours. There are very few vocations, whether of business or the professions, that do not exact more extra time than this In a year for those who pursue them. This is certainly true of com mercial life. It looks to disinterested persons, at least, as if the fuss that is made by teachers about attending the Institute is due to lack of Interest in a vocation In which, from a financial point of view, those who pursue It are very anxious to engage. The annual Institute may be a bore and each teacher may know as much as all of the other teachers not to mention Im ported educators and hence the In struction that the institute is supposed to furnish may be unnecessary. But it is childish to whimper about it, and since the law requires teachers to put in sixteen hours In this way, it would be the wisest and certainly the cheap est plan to come up to the requirement with the cheerfulness and promptness that are exacted of pupils who are tired of the routine of school work and are eager to get off on-their vacation. True, there Is great temptation to "play hookey" In June, but It Is hardly to be expected that teachers will yield to it. Having done so, however, it is un becoming for them to howl When tho penalty Is applied. Lord Penrhyn, the Welsh peer, who has been engaged In a contest with a labor union for over three years, has at last won, and the strike has ended in the unconditional surrender of the men. The great wealth of Lord Penrhyn en abled him to hold out until he won. The issue was not a question of wages, but of union management. Lord Pen rhyn inherited the famous slate quar ries at Bethesda, North Wales, from his father, and employed 3000 miners. In 1900 he refused to deal any further with union committees and discharged a number of men, which led to the last strike. Since then he has employed a number of nonunion men, but has never had as large a force as before the strike. He has been bitterly de nounced in .debate in the British Par liament because he refused to settle the strike upon any other terms than un conditional surrender without the men obtaining a single concession. The length of the strike and its terrible cost to both sides Is a lesson as to what could have been gained by resorting to arbitration. james xt. iiiumore, whose literary lite nom de plume was "Edmund Klrke," Is dead at 80 years of age. His death re calls the fact that in company with Colonel Jaques, of the Seventy-third Illinois Volunteers, he was authorized by President Lincoln to obtain permis sion to visit Richmond, Va., from the Confederate authorities and ascertain their temper on the subject of peace after Gettysburg. Mr. Lincoln thought that public sentiment after the reverse of Gettysburg might favor peace on the basis of the restoration of the Union, amnesty and payment for their slaves. Colonel Jaques was a Methodist clergy man of large acquaintance through the South before the war. He knew Gen eral Longstreet and a number of the leading men of the Confederacy, and It was hoped that this unofficial assur ance through Colonel Jaques and his associate, Mr. Glllmore, might bear good fruit and save both South and North from another year of terrible war. Jaques and Glllmore were allowed- to visit Richmond. They talked with a number of the leading officers of Lee's army, who confessed that they believed the struggle ought to end on the terms that Lincoln had ofTered, but said that President Davis would accept of no terms of peace short of absolute Inde pendence of the Confederacy, and they were bound In honor loyally to support him. Mr. Glllmore's best-known work was "Among the Pines." The full story of the peace mission of Colonel Jaques and Mr. Glllmore following the cam paign of Gettysburg in 1853 was ulti mately told by Glllmore In the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, but for several months Us details were not known to the public Wayne MacVeagh is reported in the Philadelphia Press as saying that he found the best thought of England op posed to Chamberlain and his policy and aa-refusing to adopt his view that the same policy which makes the United States prosperous would make Great Britain also prosperous. A lead ing Englishman said to Mr. MacVeagh: Mr. Chamberlain's argument seems to me absolutely childish, so far as drawing a les son from the United States In favor of pro tection for, Great Britain. Tou have abso lute free trade over one of the richest ahd most extensive portions of the earth, with almost every variety of climate, production and mineral resources, so that you can pro duce In yourselves everything you need. On the other hand, we aro a small country with almost a stationary population, princlpally engaged In buying raw materials In tho cheapest market and manufacturing them here and exporting our surplus of manufac tures to tho rest of the world. Food Is for us as much a raw material as any other, and we need to get it at the lowest possible price just as much as our other raw materials. The Chicago wheat market, after a protracted sinking. spell, made a sharp recovery yesterday, closing 1 cents per bushel above the last quotation of the previous day. The expert manipu lators of the Windy City will need to make the most of their opportunity for bulling or bearing the market within a very short time, for it will not be long before the dimensions of the American crop will be pretty accurately known and the effect of the Argentine crop on the market will have been fully dis counted. Then the old law of supply and demand will have a.llttle better op portunity for doing business than It has had during the recent speculative "era. The helplessness of the Chinese Em pire In the face of Western aggression becomes more apparent with each move and checkmate of the powers that are playing a great game In Manchuria. China is not only unprepared to defend herself, but she does not know how to prepare herself for defense, and would not now be permitted to do so if she could. In this stress she Is, it is said, actually looking to Japan, her late con queror, and for ages regarded with utter disdain, for succor. Time and change have worked many changes in the map of the world without taking heed of "far Cathay." Her turn seems to have come at last. The annual report of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, just issued, covers the best year in its history. This state ment applies both to the gross and net earnings of the road, as well as to Its freedom from disaster, relatively speak ing, during the year. An important and suggestive feature of the report is that which deals with the wage3 of Its employes. The pay In all departments of Its service was Increased In-accordance with the prevailing conditions throughout the country. One of the most substantial evidences of prosper ity Is shown In a report of this kind, since it applies to conditions all along the line. Seventeen vessels with a capacity of over 35,000 tons and carrying cargoes valued at $S50,000 have crossed out of the Columbia within the past threeN days. There still remain in port load ing or under charter to load thirty-three vessels with a carrying capacity of over 50,000 tons. The show4ng that Is being made on the Columbia River during a dull season In the wheat trade Is cer tainly sufficient to justify all of the as sistance that we have ever received from the Government, and much more. John Bassett Moore, of Columbia University, and secretary of the Paris Peace Commission of 1898, is said to be the special adviser of the Administra tion in the lnterpretationof the treaty of 1846 with Colombia. There Is no bet ter diplomatic authority in America. Doing Our Plain Duty. New York Sun. The agreement to respect the sovereign ty of New Granada, which was inserted in the treaty of 1846, was a self-denying ordinance. It bound us to refrahyfrom establishing our own sovereignty on the isthmus and to resist aggression on the part of foreign powers, but it did not bind us to uphold the territorial integrity of New Granada, or any definite political re lation of tho several provinces composing the republic of that name. Had any such covenant been expressed or implied in the treaty. It would have been our duty to defend tho Republic of New Granada, and to oppose the substitution of the Co lombian Confederation. We rightly de clined to recognize any, such obligation, but promptly acknowledged each ephem eral de facto government as the succes sor In International law to the treaty rights and duties of New Granada. This is precisely what we have done In the case of the de facto government which, with practical unanimity, has now been created on the isthmus. The sole differ ence between the present action of our State Department and the course pur sued by it on several former occasions is that we will no longer permit soldiers despatched from Bogota to prevent us from, discharging our primary obligation, which is to maintain peace and order along the line of the Panama Railroad. We never ought to have suffered such In terference in the past, and it was high time that we should announce our de termination to suffer it no longer. To Become a Rockefeller Deer Park. New York Times. It is generally understood, though no deeds have passed, that William Rocke feller has added 37 acres to his large pos sessions at Greenwich, Conn., adjoining his deer park and his son's Summer resi dence, having purchased It from Davis S. Husted for 525,000. Greenwich people generally deplore the sale, for It is another farm to lose its in dividuality In the large estate, as many others have done before- Mr. Husted has lived alone on it all his life In a build ing which served as cowshed in the base ment, carriage and living rooms above, and a hay loft on top. He is noted because of his skin, which has gradually turned from white to that like a negro. His farm. 13 so rocky that t was said one could jump from one stone to another all over it without touch ing the ground, barring a few acres. Before Mr. Rockefeller would purchase the land Mr. Hu3ted had to move the bones of his ancestors, which were burled In a family cemetery on the farm DEMOCRATIC OPINION. Justification of the Panama Policy of the Administration. Cincinnati Enquirer, Nov. 13. We are most of us Americans first and party men afterward. It would be hard to cite an instance in which political cap ital has been accumulated, or party pres tige and success promoted, by assailing the foreign policy of any Administration, and the people arc sure to resent Its be ing needlessly or heedle33ly done. Looked at from this point of view, it is hard to discover any good or sufficient ground for the violent assaults which ore being made, mostly In quarters where any real politi cal allegiance Is scorned and scouted at, on tho action taken by the Govenrment in regard to Panama. The first objection made Is, that it was so sudden. These hypercritical gentlemen are so accustomed to weigh and balance and consider and above all to talk that anything like prompt vlsorous action in any sphere Is shocking and repellant to them. Not so with the average man. If a thing Is to bo done he likes to see it done at once, without pre liminary fuss. What would they? The Government had In Its possession Informa .tidn which led it to conclude and no one denies that the President is the sole judge that the de fecto Government of Panama should be recognized, and it recognized it without waiting for formalities or asking the advice of the critics, and It has since simply taken such steps to protect Amer ican property and keep open the transit across the Isthmus, as It Is plainly en titled to take under the treaty and the circumstances of the case. That incidentally it has promoted and will unquestionably insure the construc tion of a canal Is undoubtedly true, but the, American people as a whole will not only not resent or object to that result, but will repolce in it They have become well Instructed In the necessity for such a waterway and ardently desire It- They know It will give them new markets and open the way to commercial supremacy for this country. They have repeatedly in their nominating conventions put their maidate upon the respective parties to go ahead and moke a canal; they have be come satisfied that the Nicaragua route is impracticable, and havejgrown impatient at the delays which under various pre texts have prevented anything being done, and when the President, acting as the Executive of a great Government ought In such an undertaking, finds a legitimate and honorable means of forwarding It, and unhesitatingly avails himself of it, they are going to say pretty unanimously, "That's right; that's what we wantJt is time to stop talking and get something done." The great heroes and favorites of mankind have always been the men who have done things, and human nature is the same today. Colombia has no ground of complaint. "We offered her a most liberal treaty, by which she was to be paid heavily for the privilege on our part of bestowing an enormous benefit uoon her. Sh wnj peatedly warned as to what Panama would ao, Dut rejected the treaty, demanding terms so .exorbitant as to admit of but one characterization. "We refused to be held up. and Panama, realizing that the great crisis in her history had come, with out instigation, suggestion or help fromms, quietly resumed her sovereignty and se cured to herself, to us and to the world a benefit too great to estimate or com pute. NOW let US StOD dtscusslnir and rn ahead and build the canal. That Is what the people want. We need fear no compli cations. The Great Powers are all recog nizing Panama with tho same "indecent basto" that we made use of. In Panama. The Outlook. What of the future? Probably this: A new treaty will be negotiated with the Re public of Panama along the lines, of the treaty proposed to Colombia. That Re public will come under he protection of the United States. And the canal will bo built, owned, policed and controlled by the United States, in a republic which will be under the protection of the United States. The canal will bo open to the commerce of the world on the same terms on which it is open to our commerce. We shall have saved French stockholders in the Panama Canal from being despoiled by robber politicians In Colombia; we shall have saved the Republic of Panama from having been sacrificed by the robber poli ticians of Colombia; we shall have co operated with that Republic In preventing the robber politicians of Colombia, from thwarting the completion of a world's waterway; we shall have added nothing to our territory, nothing directly to our wealth; but wo shall have won the good will and the thanks of the civilized world for the promptitude of our action; and in ten years' time the present critics will suf fer the same fate of fortretfulness which has long since befallen tho men who condemned the purchase of Louisiana. t Bought Them Twice. World's Work. A story Is told of a Louisiana merchant who came to New York determined to secure a bargain. He wanted cheap cloaks. and after trying in vain to suit himself at the wholesale houses he, bought a job lot at auction. He examined the goods hurriedly and had them shipped home. In due time he was confronted by an ex cited head salesman who said the gar ments were out of style. "They didn't look that way," said the merchant. "But they are," replied the clerk. Tho merchant persisted that, tho cloak? would sell, but they didn't. In despera tion he returned them to New York, to be disposed of to the best advantage. On his next trip to New York he again visited an auction house and bought a lot of cloaks. When he returned home and ex amined his purchase he saw ho had bought the same lot as before. Four Typical Cities. New Orleans Picayune. It has been said that there aro four cit ies In the United States that are types. These are first, New York, a creation of enterprise and unlimited money, an up-to-date city above all others; second. Chica go, an astonishing evidence of what the daring of the pioneer and the money of civilization can accomplish conjoined. It represents the audacious and indomitable West. Third Is New Orleans, where the Anglo-Saxon, the Frenchman and the Spaniard have combined Inf the land of the cypress and myrtle on the shores of the Mexican sea to build a city that tells of the South. Fourth Is San Francisco, where the New World and the Oid, Amer ica and Asia, meet on the margin of the vastest of our globe's oceans. These are the four cities of the great republic, and ours alone of all the others has been styled "Delightful." General Wood in Cuba. New York Sun. General Wood gave no attention to Cuba's economic needs. His specialties were street sweeping and school estab lishment, which would be seen of men and therefore would redound to his great honor and glory. The stomachs and the pockets and the bank accounts of the Cuban people, from fieldhand to landed proprietory were not available material for a spectacular administration. They were therefore left to work out their own salvation, until General Wood became panic stricken over the increasing propor tions of the menacing cloud of Industrial distress and plunged vigorously Into the struggle for concessions which would avert tho danger which threatened his. reputation as an administrator. SPIRIT 0? THE NORTE WEST PRESS Twin Republican Policies. Lewiston Teller. Irrigation and river improvement are two parts of one progressive idea. And Always Welcome. Pendleton Guide. Since the Government changed the name of the dredge from Grant to Chi nook, "Columbia River Chinook" will have a new meaning. Wants His Old Place Back. Woodburn Independent. We do not suppose for a moment that ex-Governor Geer will be a candidate for Rnn.tnT- In 19(TT hut he no dntiht Is hiln2- I groomed as the Simon candidate for Gov ernor. How They Love Each Other! Falrhaven Herald. Another attempt has been made to wreck Seattle with dynamite. It was probably the effort of some one who had been robbed or swindled by the enterpris ing citizens of that burg. Hard to Apprecaite. Albany Herald. It is fairly a matter of pride to Port land and the whole Northwest that the largest flour cargo ever cleared recently, left the Columbia. Even in a bread-eating country it is hard to appreciate the mag nitude of a cargo of 80,000 barrels of flour. More Where It Came From. Spokane Spokesman-Review. The steamship Algoa cleared from Port land last week with 85,270 barrels of flour for Oriental ports. It was a big ship ment, but the people In the Orient should be made to understand that there Is still more available, and Just as good, when ever they want It. Full Description of Session Laws. Lewiston Tribune. Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon, when asked If he would call the Legislature to gether to remedy the worthless revenue law replied: "I question if an exhausted treasury is as much to be dreaded as a special session of the Legislature." The experience Is the same everywhere the curse of the country Is crude, chimerical, multitudinous and unstable legislation. Strenuous Day in School. Malheur Gazette. A mad dog invaded the public school Monday. It entered .the bulldinir by Jumping through the window Into Mrs. Grace's room. Unlike Mary's little Iamb it did not make the children laugh and play, but created a panic among the little ones. However, Johnnie Vines, Charley and Verne Diven came to the rescue, lassoed the canine, took It to Bully Creek and disposed of it according to the military code. Where's the Mayor? Pendleton "Guide. A boy yesterday came out of one of the Chinese houses on Alta street so much under; the influence of opium that he was erftirely lost. Notwithstanding a great many saw him In that condition, even the police, they let him go without endeavor ing to get information as to where he ob tained it. All the boy could say was: "Smoke," "smoke." It is astonishing how many boys in Pendleton are going to ruin through these Chinese dope joints. Why the House Is Republican. Boise Statesman. The President contributed largely to ward Republican majorities in all parts of the country and thus aided In se curing a Republican majority in Con gress. It Is likewise true that his poli cies are going to have a mighty Influence in the elections next year. The people believe In him; they are In harmony with his policies, and they are going to elect him to succeed himself. No man can measure tho strength that will be given the party In the next campaign through its having this man to lead it in. the contest. Borrowing Is Easy. Eugene Register. Oregon needs plenty of new legislation but gets little of It. What we do get we should bind to us with bands of steel lest ifc get away. The new tax law Is a wholesome measure that needs only one small clause enacted to put It Into effec tive operation. If a special session Is to be called to knock the new law out we shall be opposed, absolutely, to any spe cial session whatever, preferring that the state and counties borrow money for operating expenses rather than to undo a good piece of legislation enacted for the benefit of the farmers and small tax payers who will find It much easier to pay taxes in the Fall than In the Spring. Very Disrespectful. Roseburg Plaindealer. If the state condemns the land for the use of a state railroad, the state, af ter condemning the land, would not have power by the condemnation proceedings to turn over the land to the Federal Gov ernment for canal purposes. In other words, the state has not the power to condemn real estate for a stated pur pose and then use the real estate con demned for a different purpose, for in such a case the state would obtain prop erty by false pretenses and practicing fraud upon the owners of the land. It begins to appear that our politicians have entered into a conspiracy to defeat both the railroad and canal projects, or arc a lot of lenorant chumps, destitute of the first principle of law, namely, common sense. Dangers in Restoration. Deschutes Echo. The Oregonian, which can now be safely called the Hitchcock organ of Oregon, al lays much doubt as to timber reserves by stating that the withdrawals have been made for the purpose of keeping specu lators from getting the land until Con gress can pass a bill depriving all but homesteaders and scrip men from getting Government lands. The law gives all ctl zens of the United States the right to ac quire land under the timber and stone act, and If any land was withdrawn under the pretense of forming a reserve, but really to prevent persons from taking advantage of that law. It is a fraud upon citizens and a violation of the laws of the country: all the more reprehensible since it Is done by an officer who has sworn to enforce those laws. Musical Comedy. Denver News. Frills and flounces and furbelows. Prettiest sextet of her-belows, Flutterinc arms. Shimmering- charms, "" Blisses of kisses all under the rose, He and she. Sights to see. That Is musical comedy. Kicks and curves and pompadours. Chorus girls gliding' by twos and fours. Petticoats whirling. Swishing twirling. Toes which skyrocket their way to encores, Danclnsr free. Sights to see. That Is musical comedy. Lifting lyrics, tuneful fancies. Prima donnas, melting glances. Trickles of sons:, Rippling alonz. Till the merry chorus swirl entrances. Giggles and glee. Sights to see. That Is musical comedy. PUHe and Patter and tra-la-la, Mystery, muddle, and ha-ha-bat Everythinjr in It, Straight in a minute, "Just at the orchestra's final Mr. Fiddle-dee-dee, Sights to see, .JThat is musical comedy. NOTE AND COMMENT. Admiral Evans probably does after he speaks. think Chief Hunt should remember that Dog berry made some pretty good speechs, too. A elrl in Bremen has just been awak ened from a sleep that began in 1SSS. Ter rible thing for a girl to wake up and find all her clothes out of fashion. The New York Evening Post suggests that In future weddings among the mil lionaires be conducted with Dubllc cere monies so that the commonalty may see the bride without having to conceal them selves In coal cellars. This Is an admir able idea. The billion and umptyillionalres should recognize the fact that they owe the public something. The trusts will be safe so long as the young trustesses are married with publicity enough to keep the crowd amused. Mrs. Frances Stirling, of Washington. D. C, and of Devonshire, England, trav eled through New York with jewels valued at $35,000 stowed away In her right hand right foot, rather stocking. The jewels were In an angular case and the stocking was made chiefly of lace, so presently a hole appeared In the stocking and the jewel case disappeared in the street. Now there is a reward of $1000 offered for the return of the jewels, and Mrs. Stirling Is ready to swear by banks. Corporal punishment is supposed to be a thing of the past In most schools, but the truth I3 somewhat otherwise. It re mained for a female teacher In West Barre, N. Y to Invent a new scheme for the confounding of the forward. A 10-year-old boy offended her In some way. She ordered him to put out his tongue, and then caught hold of it, giving it a Jerk that wrenched it loose at the roots. The boy fainted and the teacher was ar rested. Even an unruly member has some rights. Miss Clement, of Wellesley, has reduced the ICO-yard record for women to 133-3 seconds. .Why not get up contests whereof the winners would be heralded to fame in this manner? Miss Amanda Piecrust, of Podunk, has reduced tho record for washing 100 dishes to 25 minutes. Miss Myllycent Mae Progglns, of Skam okawa, has broken all Pacific Coast rec ords by sweeping a room in 3 1-5 seconds. Miss Ermentrude Socksberger yesterday mended 43 pairs of socks in 21 minutes. This Is the athlete whose record of mak ing 29 pies in 15 minutes has never been equalled. Suicide is hardly common enough yet to be Included In the deportment lessons of American youth, but the time is coming when our Turveydrops will teach the most graceful method of removing one'self from the world. If the manner of leaving a room be worthy of thought, shall no consideration be given the manner of leaving a planet? And If there is a mode In bidding adieus to an acquaintance, shall we be rude in our bidding adieu to life? It is naturally to woman that we must look for an improvement in the con ventions of suicide. Man, In America I3 too busy speculating with the bank's money to devote any consideration to his exit from the scene. When the crash comes, he buys a gun and with a bullet In his head reels off the stage. Woman has more time to think. When her lover's ardor begins to cool she can think dlmly of suicide, so that when she is finally convinced that love has flown she 13 ready to give her own spirit its freedom in a becoming way. It Is the case of Bessie Conteau that suggests these remarks. Miss Conteau is French. It might have been foreseen. The French have an eye for artistic effect even on their deathbeds. Furthermore Miss Conteau is an actress. That also might have been foreseen. Tho stage is the great upholder of deportment. Anyway Miss Conteau went to her rooms In the Lincoln Hotel, New York. Here wo might suggest that a more public place would have been preferable, but the lady will undoubtedly improve with practice. Stage business is not a mushroom growth. Having reached the seclusion of her room. Miss Conteau stabbed herself. That is good. Stabbing 13 an ancient form of suicide and has the countenance of many distinguished shades. But here Is the crown of the Incident. Miss Conteau, re lates the reporter, stabbed herself with "a small silver dagger." No vulgar razor, such as a base mechanic might use to cut his throat; no butcher carving knife; no common hatpin; none of these things, but a small silver dagger. Nothing could have been better. If we except a richly inlaid stiletto. We look for an artistic treat when Miss Conteau makes her next attempt for, fortunately, she was un successful with the small sliver dagger, although enough blood was drawn tD make an effective gory stain on the car pet. , WEX. J. a ' OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. Soph Do you think kleptomania la catch ing? Fresh No. It's taking. Yalo Rec ord. "Tou seem to bo sorry that you ever mar ried me." "Tou are so observing, my dear." Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. He Did you ever notice what small feet Fctcham has? She No, but I've observed what small shoes she wears. Cincinnati Tribune. Storekeeper I found the gold links that I thought I'd lost. Inspector That's a pity. I've Just found, a clew to the thief. Boa ton Globe. The Great Actor So you saw me play last night? The Kid Tea, sir. "Willie sez you died in de last act. an' I sez you only trew a fit. Which Is right? Exchange. "De man dat makes a business of findin' fault," said Uncle Eben, "gits mo' occupa tion an' le3s results dan anybody else In de community." '"Washington Star.- "I really must send the cook away, George; she uses such dreadful language sometimes." "What kind of language, dear?" "Well oh! the same as you use, you know!" Brooklyn Life. "Wife I have been thinking I ought to give you. a birthday present. Harold. Husband Oh, -very well. Just write down what It shall be and I'll buy it on my way up town. Town Topics. "Do you know the wages of sin?" asked the dominie sternly of Johnnie, who was busily tyinjr a can to a dog's tall. "Is dls a sin?" queried John, without looking up. "It .certainly is." "Well. I don't want no wages fer dls; I'm doln' It fer fun." Hous ton Post. "Don't you think," asked Mrs. Oldcastle, "that Mrs. Scaddsleigh'a embonpoint is rather getting the better of her lately?" "Is It?"' her hostess asked. "I knew she was a steady golf player, but I didn't know she'd took up any of these other games. Josiah thinks it would be more to her credit if she looked after her children a little now and then." Chicago Record-Herald. Mrs. Newllwed Bridget, we'll have fried eggs for breakfast, and Bridget We can't mum, there's not an esjc In the house. Mrs. Newllwed Well, then Just make an omelet. I like that better anyway. Philadelphia Press. Butler I know that butcher acts rather queerly at times, but the doctors say he Is In full control of hU mental faculties. Baker Yes, but that cannot call for much of on I effort, you know. Boston Transcript.