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rOKTLANn, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1903
GOOD WORK, GOOD LUCK. GOOD CAUSE
Perhaps the Impulse of thankfulness
most prevalent among- the people of
Oregon yesterday was In connection
with the Lewis and Clark Centennial
and the extremely encouraging show
ing that Is being made for It in Con
gress, where Senator Mitchell's bill car
rying J2,126,W Is already pending. The
vers general and apparently enthusi
astic interest expressed by -influential
members of both houses is cause for
the utmost rejoicing. The battle' seems
almost as good as won.
It Is fitting at this time to recall that
the effective labors now making In Con
gress are only a. cap sheaf, as it were,
to years of hard work here at home.
Many men of great private Interests,
responsibilities and cares have given
freely of their time and money to get
the Centennial enterprise in the shape
where aid from Congress could be
asked upon reasonable and prepossess
ing grounds. Indeed, it is not too much
to say that the opposition now neces
sary to overcome In Congress is no
greater than the opposition that had to
be met and allayed at home here in
Portland among conservative business
men and taxpayers, at Salem before the
Oregon legislature, and at other "West
ern capitals before other Legislatures
and state officials.
For the brilliant success of Senator
Mitchell's banquet the way had been
paved by the efforts of Oregon men in
Interesting the public men of other
states and In securing in the Far West
from California to British Columbia
and from Montana to Utah and Colo
rado promises of help and expressions
of Interest which indirectly had reached
many members of Congress. It is prob
able that the humblest effort to Interest
Eastern visitors In our Fair, whether
Senators, traveling men or passenger
agents, has not been lost, but In -the
end will have its own due share of glory
and reward.
And after all the appeal to Congress
lies vers much- in the Justice of the
cause It is noticeable that the mem
ber of Congress who declares himself in
our favor is very likely to say that he
Is for the appropriation because of the
Nations interest In celebrating the
great work of Lewis and Clark. Their
entrprlse was. Indeed, eminently de
serving of Governmental recognition,
for few events In our National history
have been more epoch-making. ThenJ
there is the incidental opportunity for
th Government to draw attention to
the greatness of its development here
on the Pacific Coast and its purpose to
participate largely in the future of the
Pacific Ocean and the commerce of the
Orient. All these things appeal to the
mind of true statesmanship.
Another element of strength in the
Lew is and Clark celebration is the rela
tions borne by many of our states to
the achievements of that early time.
It is Impressive, Indeed, how many
Elates were closely bound by many ties
to Old Oregon. From New England
rxzne Captain Gray, discoverer of tho
Colombia, and many of the early set
tlers of Oregon. From New York came
Astor and the beginnings of our fur
Irade. Front Missouri came many of
our pioneer missionaries and settlers;
thither went Clark himself, and Mis
souri statesmen like Benton and. Linn
were prominent In advocacy of Ore
gon's welfare. Kentucky is Interested
through Captain Clark's connection
w.th his famous brother, George Rog
ers Clark. The other day the Governor
of Virginia sent word out here that
there would be no trouble about sup
port from Virginia's delegation in Con
gress, which is not strange in view of
the fact that Virginia was the home of
President Jefferson and Captain Lewis.
It Is a comfort to reflect that at bottom
the good luck of our celebration is
largely based upon the merits of the
cause.
right of access. As the interests of
commerce greatly concern the present
ministry, it has been decided to pene-(
trate the trade barriers north of India'
and make an opening for British goods
in that direction. Russia has been cul
tivating the Lama' at Lhasa, and this
circumstance perhaps quickens the In
dian government's interest in Thibet,
which is the only state north of India
which has not been tacitly or expressly
allotted to one of the great powers.
The 40tpedltion now in progress con
sists of a couple of regiments, with sev
eral companies of sappers. It is to
traverse an exceedingly difficult moun
tain region, leading to the "Roof of the
World." The. military obstacles will
probably be slight, as the Thibetans are
a poor militia. As Lhasa contains
many treasures of Buddhist literature,
the capture of the hidden city will be
awaited with Interest by Oriental schol
ars. PUBLIC HONORS TO CHINESE.
A week ago four members of the Chi
nese Empire Reform Club, of New Tork
City, gave a banquet at a Chinese res
taurant in Pell street to representative
Jews of the East Side. The guests made
the banquet the occasion for present
ing to their Chinese hosts gold medals
as tokens of the esteem in which the
Jews of New York City regard them
for the assistance they gave in raising
the fund for the relief of the victims of
the Kishinef massacre. A benefit en
tertainment was given In one of the
Chinese theaters, and the Chinese Em
pire Reform Club also contributed lib
erally to the fund. The medals pre
sented by the Jews to these philan-'
throplc Chinamen are of gold, almost
eight Inches long, and are embossed
with the Chinese and American flags
set with diamonds. The banquet was
the largest and most elaborate ever held
In Chinatown. Among the guests of
honor were Justice Foster, of the Gen
eral Court of Sessions; Judge McKean,
Representative Goldfogle, General
James R. O'Belrne, William C. Beecher,
a son of Henry Ward Beecher; Emer
son McMillan, Philip Berolzhelmer,
president of the Eagle Pencil Company;
Samuel Dorf, grand master of the B'nal
B'rlth. Miss Florence Celtland, the Jew
ish actress, delivered a toast in Chinese.
Congressman Goldfogle, in his speech
of presentation, said he would welcome
the day when this Government would
recognize a Chinaman as a citizen with
full rights of suffrage, and closed by
saying that the action of the Chinese in
promptly offering a helping hand to
the sufferers by the Kishinef massacre
had made the Jews realize more than
ever before that one touch of nature
makes- the whole world kin.
The story of this banquet end the po
litical views expressed will read
strangely to the people of the Pacific
Coast, but early In the history of San
Francisco the Chinese were made wel
come on their first arrival by a public
banquet at which the Mayor presided
and General H. W. Halleck delivered
an eloquent speech. Chinese cheap la
bor was Indispensable then, and the ar
rival of shiploads of Chinese immi
grants "filled a long-felt want." Proba
bly if San Francisco had remained to
this day as completely isolated from
the rest of the United States as she was
in the first years following the discov
ery of gold, Chinese cheap labor would
not have lost Its popularity, but the
building of transcontinental railways
and the establishment of swift lines
of steamers from 'New York connect
ing with the Panama Railway settled
California up so rapidly that California
no longer clamored for Chinese immi
gration. The banquet of welcome to
the Chinese 'with General Halleck as
speechmaker, more than fifty years
ago, has a queer sound today, and yet
in New York CJity the Chinese Empire
Reform Club is able to s.ecure the at
tendance at Its banquet of men of dis
tinction of both political parties, men
who in religion are Jews, Protestants
and Roman Catholics.
croft, then a student In a German uni
versity, and he accepted civilities from
American naval officers.
The poet Shelley doubtless shared
Byron's sympathy lor our republican
Institutions. Sydney Smith, while he
felt deeply the loss of hjs Investment in
Pennsylvania bonds, on the whole wrote
respectfully and sometimes admiringly
of our country and its people. John
Bright was always our warm friend,
and in the most eloquent speech of his
life predicted that the time would come
when the Government of the United
States would be extended from the Arc
tic Ocean to Patagonia. Green, in his
"History of the English People," pays
a splendid tribute to Washington and
to the American people, and says in
substance that the highest hopes of
civilization for the future rest in the
hands of Great Britain and that
f'greater England beyond the seas," and
Tennyson, in some of the noblest verses
he ever wrote, most eloquently apostro
phizes America as the "strong daugh
ter" of the mother land, but Macaulay
anticipated Green and Tennyson. He
read Dickens "American Notes" with
deep disgust, and expressed great re
gret and disappointment that so bright
a man should stoop to write a book
which was at once "frivolous and dull."
Writing as early as 1830, Macaulay
denounces without stint certain con
spicuous Tories whose pitiful affecta
tion of contempt for America "has
done more than wars or tariffs can do
to excite mutual enmity between two
countries formed for mutual friendship,
who look without pleasure or national
pride on the vigorous and splendid
youth of a, great people whose veins are
filled with our blood, whose minds are
nourished with our literature, and on
whom is entailed the rich inheritance
of our civilization, our freedom and our
glory." Macaulay, as heir to the Whig
-principles of Fox, Burke and Lord
Shelburne, did not need to visit Amer
ica to appreciate our people, but hide
bound Tories by hereditary prejudice
and political training badly need a visit
to our 6ountry to clear their vision, and
If Lord Salisbury had made as long a
visit to this country as did James Bryce,
he. would have corrected his statesman
ship toward this country at an earlier
date than 1895.
Colonel Younghusband's expedition to
Thibet has for Its alleged purpose the
enforcement of certain commercial
treaty rights which, the spiritual poten
tate at Lhasa has been Ignoring, and
which the representative of China, the
suzerain power, is unable or unwilling
to get observed. The policy of the gov
ernment of Thibet has been to exclude
all foreigners, but the government of
India says that this policy is not im
partially applied. Hindoo and British
goods are, excluded, while other goods
are admitted, and British merchants
-are expelled, with cruelties, from local
ities to which treaties give them the
OUK ENGLISH CRITICS.
All the sketches of the late Lord Salis
bury describe him as a man who by
social and political prejudice was for
many years bitterly hostile to the
United States. He viewed without re
gret the threatened disruption of the
American Union, and was open in his
expression of sympathy for the Confed
erate cause. He saw nothing beneficent
In the abolition of slavery and the res
toration of our Union. For many years
after the Civil War he regarded our In
stitutions with aversion, and during the
debate over the enactment of the sec
ond reform bill he cited the United
States as a sinister example of the dan
gers of democracy. He was a bitter
Tory, but he had too large a brain to
remain Impervious to evidence, and be
cause he had a mind open to conviction
he was able at 65 years of age to rise
above his Tory prejudices and perceive
that it would be an act of madness for
England to quarrel with America over
the Venezuela boundary affair. Not
only did he accept arbitration, but he
publicly expressed regret for his first
peremptory refusal to arbitrate. He
did not seek afterward to retaliate
upon us In 189S by giving Austria and
France a free hand to help Spain, but
reversed the English foreign policy of
1873 because he was satisfied that Eng
land could not afford to perpetuate the
distrust and aversion with which the
American people had come to regard
the British gO'Rerning class after the
Civil War.
The trouble with Lord Salisbury, in
our Judgment, until his strong brains
converted his Tory heart, was that he
had never visited America, and this
was the trouble with Gladstone, too, in
his hasty Judgment of America. Men
of strong brains and honest Intellects
are always taught by travel. Carlyle
hated us most cordially; he never vis
ited our shoreB, but Lord Ashburton,
Thackeray, Cobden, Herbert Spencer,
Goldwln Smith, James Bryce, Lord
Coleridge, Thomas Hughes, Chief Jus
tice Russell, Huxley, Tyndall, Froude.J
Justin McCarthy, Lord Kelvin and the
Duke of Argyll did not hate us, because
they visited us and had too much brains
not to be Instructed and Illuminated by
actual acquaintance with our country
and its people. The seeming exceptions
have been persons like Mrs. Trollope,
Captain Marryatt, Captain Basil Hall
and Dickens, who were bookmakers,
and when they returned to England
knew that it would be necessary to
"make game" of our country and Its
people in order to make the book sell
rapidly with the untraveled and unin
formed British public. English Radi
cals and English Whigs, however, from
an early day had always resented this
flippant estimate of America. Byron
had written noble lines In praise of
Washington, of Boone and of our pio
neers, and always went out of his way
in Italy to seek the acquaintance of
American tourists, like Georco Ban-
Tins JEWS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
The fifth volume of the Jewish Ency
clopedia includes a very Interesting ar
ticle on "The Jews of England," by
Mr. Joseph Jacobs, formerly president
of the Jewish Historical Society of
England. There were no Jews residing
in England before the Norman con
quest, but William the Conqueror
brought some from Rouen to England.
They were protected and fairly well
treated up to "the close of the reign of
Henry II. They lived on good terms
with their neighbors. Including the
clergy; entered churches freely, dwelt
In palatial houses built of stone, and
helped to build a large number of ab
beys and monasteries. The Jews ex
iled from France by Philip Augustus
found a refuge in England under Rich
ard I. There were anti-Jewish mobs
led by nobles who were deeply In debt
to the Jews, but on the whole down to
the close of the twelfth century the
Jew had a fair measure of protection
from the English Kings, who received
10 per cent of all sums recovered by
the Jews with the aid of the royal
courts.
But in 1205 Pope Innocent HI laid
down the principle that the Jews were
doomed to perpetual servitude because
they had crucified Jesus, and from that
time forward the Jews began-to suffer
In England the persecution of the
church. The charge of ritual murder
was brought against a number of chief
Jews at Lincoln In August, 1255, and
eighteen of the ninety-one arrested and
imprisoned were executed. Edward I,
who had already expelled the Jews
from Gascony, forced all Jews to quit
England to the number of 16,000 in 1290,
after having lived there for 220 years.
Some of these exiles went to Flanders,
some to Paris. Between 1290, the date
of the expulsion, and their formal re
turn In 1655, there Is no official trace of
Jews as such on English soil. Occa
sionally, however, foreigners believed
oath, with covered head, substituting
"So help me Jehovah" for the ordinary
formula, and took his seat as the first
Jewish member of the House of Com
mons. In 1870 legislation removed all
difficulties in the way of a Jew's becom
ing a scholar or fellow In an English
university. In 18S5 Sir Nathaniel de
Rothschild entered the House of Lords
as Lord Rothschild, and within a few
years was followed to the upper house
by Baron Henry de Worms as Lord
Pirbrlght and Mr. Sydney Stern as
Lord Wandsworth. It had taken nearly
thirty years of debate after the eman
cipation of the Catholics to obtain
emancipation for the Jews. Indeed, it
was full forty yeara after Macaulay's
eloquent plea of 1831 before a Jew was
free to enter Oxford or Cambridge with
out taking the oath "on the faith of a
true Christian." The story Is Interest
ing and instructive as showing the
tenacity of race jfrejudice and religious
superstition. (
The recent bank failures in Baltimore
do not seem to have Impaired at all the
financial strength of that rich and con
servative old city. We learn from the
Baltimore Sun that in the last ten years
the city's banking institutions have
greatly Increased their capacity and the
extent of their business. A comparison
of 1903 with 1893 shows great progress.
In the year last mentioned the total
of the capital, surplus, undivided prof
Its and deposits in Baltimore's National
and state banks and trust companies
was $56,690,564, against $127,919,541 in
1903, an Increase of over 125 per cent.
The capital of these institutions has
grown in the ten years by $12,905,14S,
or over 74.5 per cent, while undivided
profits and surplus have grown by $21,
412,455, or over 283 per cent. If to the
resources thus indicated be added the
large capital and business of the pri
vate banks, It will be perceived that the
city's role in the financial operations
of that section and the South is very
considerable. The savings banks help
largely in the accumulation of the capi
tal available for profitable enterprise.
The total of deposits In Baltimore's sav
ings banks is now $66,928,028, against
$41,877,622 in 1S93, a gain of 59.8 per
cent The Sun thinks that if these
deposits be added to the banking and
trust resources enumerated above it
will be found that Baltimore's financial
strength of this character aggregates
at present some $200,000,000.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Tribute to Kindness and Fidelity.
Deschutes Echo.
Tho editorial writers of The Oregonlan
ought to wear skirts and crimped grand
mother caps so that their garb would
gibe with their opinions. ,
Morgan a Safe Copper.
Salem Statesman.
Senator Morgan predicts that Senator
Gorman will be tho next President of the
United States. But canals and Presiden
cies do not always go Senator Morgan's
way.
The Incubation of Panama.
Tillamook Herald.
Having killed the goose that was about
to lay the golden egg, our Colombian
friends may now sit on the fence and see
the new Republic of Panama carry off the
coin.
Pearl Before Swine.
Whatcom Reveille.
Sam White, an Oregon Democrat, ad
vises his party that It needs less senti
ment and more horse-sense; that it needs
no more "issues" of the fault-finding kind.
Mr. White delivered his party some excel
lent advice that it will neither appreci
ate nor heed.
Its Unerring Erroneousness.
Olympla Olympian.
In taking a stand against a canal treaty
with Panama, and Joining in the Morgan
demand for a canal that won't do, the
Democracy again Indicates its determina
tion to be the tall of the procession until
the last bitter pill Is swallowed 'and a new
box opened.
Shouldn't Be So Critical.
Albany Democrat.
W. D. Fenton, the well-known Southern
Pacific lawyer, of" Portland, whose road
has so many Sunday excursions during
tho Summer, is first vice-president of the
Northwest Sabbath Association, an or
ganization established to secure better
Sabbath observance and to prevent the
desecration of the day.
Tom Horn, the cowboy who went to
the gallows at Cheyenne a week ago,
scorning sympathy and defying death,
had, after all. It appears, the divine
spark that is said to exist in every
human heart. His mother, 85 years old,
lives in Missouri. Though called the
worst man In the history of the West,
Horn- always held his mother in rever
ent affection. In all the years of his
absence from home he wrote a long
letter to her every month, keeping up
the practice during his Imprisonment,
but without letting her know of his
situation. He left ten Tetters to be sent
to her at intervals of a month to keep
up, possibly while she lives, the fiction
that he is still alive. His brother and
sister Joined him in the pious decep
tion, and will try to keep It up, to the
end that the aged mother may go to her
grave in the belief that her oldest boy
Is one of the most dutiful of sons and
one of the best citizens of Wyoming.
While in the name of Justice and in the
interest of public safety all good citi
zens may be glad that Tom Horn met
the penalty due his crime, the opinion
that he was utterly depraved must be
revised in accordance with this scrap of
evidence.
Mr. Galloway's Iridescent Dream.
McMinnville Telephone Register.
Representative Galloway is to be com
mended on the position he has taken in
regard to the extra session. If, as he sug
gests in his letter to The Oregonlan, the
members should meet at their own ex
pense, there would be no occasion to mako
the pledge required by the Governor be
fore calling the special session.
' A Loss to Caricature.
Pendleton Tribune.
Homer Davenport has given up $10,000
a year to take the platform. He first
showed the world that he could draw
cartoons well, and now what he talks
about will be taken as law and gospel.
A bad feature of the change Is that wo
shall seo very few of his sketches until
he tires of the public plaudits.
NO OCCASION FOR ALARM.
Chicago Tribune.
Representative Fordney, of Michigan, Is
alarmed and angry. He calls the bill to
carry out the reciprocity treaty with Cuba
an "Infernal bill" and says It will wipe out
the beet-sugar industry in his state. The
existing duty on sugar gives the Michigan
producers of that article abundant protection-
If It were wholly removed they
doubtless would Buffer. That will not bo
done. There will merely be a reduction of
20 per cent In the duty on Cuban sugar.
If Cuba supplied all the Imported sugar
the Michigan beet-sugar men would lose
one-fifth of their protection, but out of tho
4,100,000,000 pounds of sugar Imported last
year Cuba supplied only 2,395.000,000 pounds.
While Cuba furnishes. less than 60 per cent
of the sugar Imported there will be no ma
terial decline In the price of sugar none
which will harm the beet-sugar manufac
turers. The effect of the 20 per cent reduc
tion will be that the Cubans will get moro
for their sugar and will spend most of the
Increased sums they receive in buying
American agricultural and manufactured
products. The customs revenues of the
United States will be diminished by the
concession made to Cuba, and hence tho
Treasury will be the only loser by reel
proclty. No doubt the production of sugar
in Cuba will be stimulated by the reciproc
ity treaty, but no gain In production can
do more than keep pace with the Increas
ing consumption In this country. As Cuba
will not be able to supply all the sugar it
needs the beet-sugar manufacturers will
contlnuo to have all the protection their
Industry really requires.
t
Beware of Trusts.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr. James Creelman, the well-known
newspaper man, elves In the New York
World, In very succinct form, the follow
ing history of the United States Steel
Corporation:
Mr. Carnegie offered to sell out for $100,
000,000 a year before tho United States Steel
Corporation was formed. "RThen that organ
ization took over his properties. Mr. Car
negie received more than $300,000,000 in
gold bonds, which are celling at more than
par. Now take 100.000.000 as the real
value of Mr. Carnegie's plants, add another
$100,000,000 for the subsidiary companies
and for ore fields acquired, $100,000,000 for
good -will and $50,000,000 for the cash sur
plus In hand, and you have $330,000,000 as
a fair price of all that the United States
Steel Corporation) possesses or controls.
On that showing of assets. $1,322,583,200
nt ntnoltii and bonds were Issued. At tho.
prices which were touched In the markot
yesterday, the selling value of all these se
curities had shrunk to $650,004,244. De
duct $350,000,000 from that sum and you
will seo that the water whloh remains In
the steel stocks and bonds amounts to $300,
004.244. These are to some extent merely
approximate figures, but they represent tho
actual situation so far as stock speculation
goes.
The value of this Information consists
in tho fact that it illustrates the process
by which all the great combinations
known as trusts have been organized, nd
also shows about the rates of value of
the holdings of the best of them to the
nominal capitalization.
If the Kentucky Democrats In the
Legislature enact laws Imposing a
stringent educational qualification for
the suffrage, It will make that state
Democratic without question, for the
illiterate white vote of Kentucky is
largely Republican and is confined to
the eastern or mountain section of the
state, which has been Republican since
the Civil War. About 16 per cent of the
white populatlonof Kentucky over 10
years of age Is illiterate, while over
one-half of the negro population Is un
lettered. Where one white Democrat in
Kentucky would be disfranchised by a
to be Jews found refuge in EnglandJ literacy test, probably two Republicans
Would They, Really?
Roseburg Plaindcaler.
The Portland newspapers. Democratic
and Republican, if they are Republican,
are now hard at work extricating or at
tempting to extricate the Governor out
of tho labyrinth of political perfidy, bun
comb, ignorance and demagogy. Oregon
would have a better opinion of George
Chamberlain if ho came out openly and
acknowledged that he only wanted to
pull the wool over the taxpayers eyes
or that he wanted to flop and Jbray.
has
WJiat the Canal Will Do.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
What water competition may do
been recently shown In the shipment of a
quantity of whisky from the Atlantic
coast to Spokane at a saving of 25 per
cent on the cost of rail transportation.
If this saving may be effected by ship
ping by water around the Horn, It Is easy
to see how the cost of shipping goods
from the East will be reduced when the
isthmian canal is constructed. With the
long trip around the continent of South
America eliminated the water mileage
will be cut down more than one-half and
the time of transit shortened correspond
ingly. This should result In a notable re
duction In transportation over the water
route.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Woo i rig Canada.
Representative Thomas of North Car
olina has introduced a bill looking to a
reciprocal tariff arrangement with Can
ada, whereby that country will remove
her duty of 2 cents a pound on strawber
ries. Canada, dear Canada, "-
Forget about Alaska,
And make merry
Athabasca,
"With the Carolina berry.
We will lift some customs bar, 12
You'liust amend the tariff
Such Is the attractive promise
Made by Lerlslator Thomas.
In Halifax, Regina,
Vancouver and Quebec,
Fruit from Carolina
Shall slither down, your neck;
Display no hesitation
O'er so charming annexation.
Abandon all ferocity,
Canada, dear Canada,
Give play to reciprocity.
And forget your animosity;
We'll be lenient with you, very,
If you buy our Southern berry;
We may even enter free
All Canadian-planted tea. ;
So New Brunswick and Ontario,
Scova Notla and Quebec,
Deem not Thomas a Lothario,
. Buy his berries by the peck.
Who knows but. our two nations
May forget their past vexations "
And for one another root.
Sweetened by the luscious fruit,
Berry that perhaps was sent
To unify a continent.
Fort Clatsop at St. Louis.
O sage down-Easter, when you leave
The webs that Midway spielers weave,
And wish to educate your mind
Concerning- others of your kind.
Be sure to seek the sturdy fort
"Where sturdy Oregonlans sport.
Look for the Clatsop fort of logs.
Brought from a land of rain and fogs.
And learn how life goes on today
In Clatsop County far away.
The people there all live In forts.
Built of big logs of various sorts;
It Is not safe to wander there,
So savage Is the grizzly bear;
And Indians roam the river shore.
Thirsting to drink the paleface gore.
Down-Easter, this will be your view.
So other eights and scenes eschew;
And with delighted horror thrill.
Seeing of Clatsop fort your fill.
Lee-Metfords and Krags Don't Count.
The red triangle on the Bass's ale label used
to be called the "enterinc wedge of civiliza
tion," but today the baseball bat Is civiliza
tion's club to smash barbarism. Mall and Ex
press. Happy days- In Colorado.
Pneumonia is stronger than Imagina
tion. ;
Portland appears to be a crackerjack
place for crackers.
Rodrlgo Lopez, physician to Queen
Elizabeth, isisaid to have been the orig
inal of Shylock. Certain secret Jews
in London gave Cromwell important in
formation concerning the plans of
Charles Stuart in Holland and of the
plots of Spain.
The commercial policy which had led
to the famous navigation act of 1651
made Cromwell desirous of attracting
the rich Jews from Amsterdam to Lon
don; so, treating the opposition 'of
clergy and merchants with indifference,
the great protector gave permission to
Jews to dwell and trade in England on
condition that they did not obtrude
their worship on public notice. Under
this permission land for a Jewish cem
etery was purchased in 1657, and a lead
ing Jew of Amsterdam was admitted to
the Royal Exchange as a duly licensed
broker, without taking the usual oaths
involving a profession of faith in Chris
tianity. Charles II refused to act on
the petition of the merchants of Lon
don saklng him to revoke Cromwell's
concession, for he was grateful for as
sistance given him in his exile by Jews
of royalist sympathies. William III
also refused a petition to expel the
Jews, for he, too, had been assisted
with a loan of money by rich Israel
ites of Holland. Under Queen Anne,
Marlborough's Influence protected the
Jews, from whom he received an an
nual subvention.
As early as 1723 a special act of Par
liament was passed which permitted
Jews to hold land on condition of their
taking the oath of allegiance, omitting
the words "upon the faith of a Chris
tian," and in 1753 a bill became a law
allowing Jews to become naturalized
by application to Parliament. This bill
was repealed In 1754, and the effect of
its repeal was to persuade the leading
Jew families to bring up their children
as Christians, allowing their children to
grow up either without any religion or
In the established church, which opened
to them a career in any profession. In
1829, when the Roman Catholics of Eng
land were freed from their disabilities,
the hopes of the Jews rose high that
they would obtain equal rights with
other Englishmen. Macaulay cham
pioned their cause most eloquently on
the floor of the House of Commons, and
In the pages of the Edinburgh Review
in 1831, but bill after bill In their be
half was defeated, and it was not until
1S46 that a number of minor disabilities
were removed which had affected Jews
and other dissenters from the estab
lished church.
In 1858 Parliament reached a compro
mise by which either House might ad
mit Jews by resolution allowing them
to omit the words "on the true faith
of a Christian," In July of that year
Baron Lionel de Rothschild took the
would be deprived of the ballot, and
of course the disfranchisement of the
illiterate negro would tell even more
heavily against the Republican vote.
Under such a law Kentucky would be
come a reliably Democratic state.
The Supreme Court of Nebraska on
the 20th Inst. Issued a writ of manda
mus commanding the discontinuance of
the reading of the'BIble In the schools
of District 21, Gage County. It was a
test case. The court said that there Is
nothing in the law, Constitution or his
tory of the people upon which to
ground the claim that it is the duty of
the Government to teach religion. It is
immaterial whether the objections of a
parent are unreasonable." The right to
be unreasonable Is guaranteed by the
Constitution. The trustees affected say
that they will refuse to obey the man
date, and will subject themselves to
contempt of -court and Its penalties be
fore discontinuing the reading of the
Bible.
A Vision of Greatness.
Lewlston Teller.
With the.ppen river to the sea Lewlston
will have terminal rates and be placed on
an equality with Portland and the Sound
cities as a commercial center. The whole
territory tributary to Lewioton will be
served from here. The wholesale busi
ness of the whole Inland Empire will be
held at the command of the business men
of Lewlston. This will be the Jobbing
center for all Interior points and all
points' In Eastern Washington. Eastern
Oregon and Northern Idaho will be In
terior points for Lewlston's trade when
terminal rates are given, as they will be,
when the river Is opened to free naviga
tion. With the open river Lewlston holds
an advantage In the commercial devel
opment of the Interior country that no
city in the Northwest can hope to obtain.
Increase of Bills In Congress.
Walter H. French, file clerk of tho House
of Representatives, has compiled an In
teresting table to show how enormously
the business of his office has grown. It
shows tho number of bills Introduced in
each of the last 22 Congresses, as follows:
House
Senate.
Thlrty-sl.xth 560
Thirty-seventh 577
Thirty-eighth 4S5
Thirty-ninth 634
Fortieth SS0
Forty-first 1,375
Forty-second 1,652
Forty-third 1.361
Forty-fourth 1,293
Forty-fifth 1,865
Forty-sixth 2.224
Forty-seventh 2.503
Forty-eighth 2.671
Forty-ninth 3.358
Fiftieth 4,000
Fifty-first - 5.130
Fifty-second 3,"SS5
1-i.ty-third 2.SC0
Fifty-fourth 3.736
Kirty-ntth o.kh
Fifty-sixth 6.070
Fifty-seventh 7,445
This compilation, moreover, takes no ac
count of Joint and concurrent resolutions
or single resolutions, of which there aroA
oavaral VmnrAf? In n cf5fnn- I
of Reps.
1,020
793
813
1.234
2.023
3.091
4.073
4.S91
4.70?
6.54S
7,257
7.635
8.290
11.260
12,664.
14,033
10.623
8,987
10.378
12.223
14.327
17,560
The outflow of cotton Is the cause of
the increase of our exports in October
to $160,370,005, against $144,327,428 in Oc
tober, 1902. Cotton to the value of $60,
283,412 was exported, against $42,133,141
in October of last year. The present
high price accounts in part for the
larger figures. Breadstuff fell oft
nearly $3,000,000. Imports, instead of
expanding, show a decrease to $81,931,
005, against $87,424,070 in October, 1902.
The decrease Is due in part, it is be
lieved, to the diminished importation of
materials used In industries which have
restricted their operations and in part
to the Impaired ability of many con
sumers to buy imported luxuries.
That Kansas is a prosperous agricul
tural state is shown from the records at
the University of Kansas. Of 856 stu
dents who gave the occupation of par
ents, 280 came from the farm and 162
'are the children of merchants In the
smaller towns. Then In order follow:
Real estate and Insurance agents, 52;
lawyers, 47; physicians, 43; clerks, 43;
carpenters, 36; bankers, 34; commercial
travelers, 29; manufacturers, 20; rail
road employes. 19; public officers, 18;
laborers, 17; teachers, 17; ministers, H;
editors, 7; teamster, 7; blacksmiths, 4;
mechanics, 3; .barbers, 3; undertakers,
2; laundrymen, 1; artist, 1; photogra
pher, L
The British monarchy seems to be on
a pretty sound basis. The Boy Orator
of the Platte is over there, but appar
ently does not shake It. Yet why should
he, making happy, cheek by Jowl, with
a lot of goldbugs? It is a sad world,
and the bravest and the best fall by the
way. v
Newspaper Influence Not Lost.
Whatcom Reveille.
In the main, The Oregonlan Is right in
the position as regards the decline of Jour
nalistic influence. It is true that the
press Is not able to bulldoze the public
into any certain views. The wise Jour
nalist, who can read the signs of the
times, makes no effort to influence his
readers in that way. His aim is to show
his readers to give them facts and fig
uresto reason with them; and those
whom he cannot reach In this way he
should make no effort to reaclu The
press Itself has been the most powerful
factor In emancipating the people from
subserviency from yielding to tho "bull-
dozor." If the people have been educated
to a point where they can be reached only
bv a rasonable presentation of fact
where prejudice and baser motives can
avail but little the credit Is In great part
duo to, the enlightening Influence, of the
newspaper and tho magazine; to the uni
versity and the pulpit in some degree, but
far more so to the press. It Is hard to
repress the Impulse to state In this con
nection that The Oregonlan Itself has
been one of the very greatest Influences
in the country for the enlightenment of
the people. The Oregonlan, with its abje.
scholarly editorial page, has certainly not
lost Its Influence. True, it Is not a "bull
dozing" Influence not a driving, but it
Is a leading toward the truth an educa
tion of the popular mind. The Oregonlan's
position against tho dicta and dogmatic
Instruction Is what wo would expect
from so enlightened a Journal.
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In High Finance. '
Chicago Tribune.
In high flnanco Rockefeller Is the rising
and Morgan the setting sun. The "deadly"
parallel tells why:
Rockefeller Morgan
companies. companies.
Capital stock ...$ C58.542.300 $2,153,001,600
Market value... 1.041.521,582 - 1,020.110.812
"Water None. 1,132,841,788
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The Flight of Youth.
Richard Henry Stoddard.
There are gains for all our losees.
There are balms for all our pain;
But when youth, the dream, departs.
It takes something from our hearts.
And It never comes again.
We are stronger, and are better.
Under manhood's sterner reign.
Still we feel that something sweet
Followed youth, with flying feet.
And will never come, again.
Something beautiful Is vanished.
And we sigh for It In vain;
We behold It everywhere.
On the earth, and In the ti(r,
But It never comes again.
A Composite Work.
Smart Set.
"I would like," said the youth, "to write
a great book. How shall I go about it?"
"Don't, I beg of you," said the novelist,
"Write one that pays, as I do, or else
study law."
"I do not care to write a book for the
sake of the pay," said the youth. Ho was
very young, and must be forgiven for this.
"Perhaps, after all, I had better be a
lawyer."
So ho became a lawyer. But the old am
bition to write a great book came over
him again.
"Anything but that," said a friend to
whom he told his wish. "If you don't like
the law, be a doctor."
So he studied medicine.
In time, however, this palled upon him.
Ho still thought of that book. Ho felt that
he had a mission.
"You could do much more in tha pulpit,"
said another.
So he preached until tho hollowness of It
came over him.
And he left the pulpit.
One day he woke up and found that the
great book was written. And he laughed
at the thought.
"It was not I it wa3 tho lawyer, the
doctor, the clergyman and the other man
who did it."
MIssourlans Smoke Up.
New York Sun.
The Missouri Society of the City of
New York held its fourth annual meet
ing and smoker at Delmonlco's Monday
night. These officers were elected:
President, Joseph C. Hendrlx; vice-president,
the Rev. Dr. R. P. Johnston, of
tho Fifth-Avenue Baptist Church; secre
tary. Samuel H.'Ragland, of Smart Set;
treasurer, Maurice J. Downer; directors, 1
Henry Wollman, John W. Harrington,
M. D. Hunton and William A. Edwards.
As soon as a man was elected he was
escorted from the small round table at
which he had been sitting to the head of
tho table. The Rev. Dr. Johnston had no
sooner left his table than two waiters
appeared from behind a portiere with two
quarts of whisky for the five table com
panions with whom the clergyman had
been drinking water.
'
A Calendar Thanksgiving.
Aloysius Coll In the Ladles' "World.
1402.
Thanks to the Master Mariner of Fate.
For men of wander-wish and purpose brave
To man tho shallops of discovery.
And chart a waiting world beyond the
wave.
1020.
Thanks to the Staff of Heaven's Pilgrimage
For these that land, of stern and sturdy
8tocb , ,. ,.
To plant their scallop-shells on hallowed
sand.
And found a proud dominion on the rock.
1775.
Thanks to tho Mighty Arbiter of War
For hosts to battle, cannon to defend.
Armies to strike and dauntless blood to
shed.
A cause to fight and Freedom In the end.
1SG5.
Thanks to the God of Morcy and of Love
For hands that close the great divide of
Hate,
In friendship leal, and union olive-twined,
Forgiving and forgetting, state for state.
100a.
For groves of pine and. barn3 that bulge
with grain.
Contentment of a people glad; and free,
For every good of hand and heart and
soul
Thanks to the Father of Prosperity.
Cubans are already apportioning tha
patronage consequent on their admission
to the Union.
De Wolf Hopper says he aspires to be
come a tragedian, probably in a Pick
wickian sense.
Strange that the theatrical star whom
Frohman is to marry should give up her
name of Light.
Since his marriage Senator Piatt Is so
subdued that he Is ready to hitch with
Governor Odell.
The "original sideshow" man is reported
to have died in Ohio. Possibly the first
sideshows were original; there are none
of that kind now.
Dice decided which of two young men
should run for Councilman In Sumpter.
So If things go wrong chance can bev
blamed Instead of the voters.
Do Witt Is now famous. His kick that
won the game for Princeton against Yale
has been used as the text of a sermon by
Dr. Burrell at the theological seminary.
Even In old Hungary graft is becoming
an agitating question. It seems strange
a country so long experienced In govern
mental Institutions should not long ago
hav.e recognized the fact that graft Is
Inevitable and necessary to the existence
of the machine.
Bryan must have sympathized with hi3
fellow silver-tongue. Lord Rosebery, in
his "viewing with alarm" the course of
the government. If the peer had never
been successful In leading his party to
victorj', with what understanding, could.
Bryan clasp his hand.
A Sound paper takes Solomon to tsk
(although he has been dead a long time)
for being so foolish as to have had 600
wives. Solomon, at that, was no chump. He
knew 600 women could never act unani
mously, and it would only be necessary
for one crowd to knock him to have tho
rest as his warm defenders.
The good old game of football, played
by America's youth for the love of the
sport! Manager Nathan of the Nevada
team says:
I shall recommend all football managers
whom I meet to steer clear of the University
of Washington, even If they have an absolute
guarantee by which they can clear $500 a
game.
Money would be appreciated, but Mr.
Nathon loves honor, or something, more.
Parisians were so universally affected
by the walking craze that even the poet3
held a contest. They had to walk ten kilo
meters, and before reaching the winning
post compose a poem on a subject to bo
announced at the start. On this occasion
the subject given was "The Inconvenience
of Having Corns on the Feet," the Judge
humorously declaring that it might be
treated either In a serious or In a Jocular
way. Unfortunately for the world tho
winner's flight of imagination, possibly
helped out by sad experience, has not been
published.
The newly married are apparently fair
game for all their acquaintances. The
old and tame delights of pelting them
Iwith rice and old shoes hav.e fallen Into
disuse, for even a bombardment of rice
and old shoes did not cause the bride and
bridegroom the annoyance desired by
their friends. For one thing It did not
last long enough. So some people In Cin
cinnati thought up a new plan. As their
doomed friend was on his way to the train
for Cleveland they rushed up and hand
cuffed him to his wife, a wrist of each In
the "darbies." Then they told the victims
the key had been sent to Cleveland by
mail,' and that it would be found at the
hotel.
The craze for "associations" and "so
cieties" and "clubs," especially among
women, is becoming fierce. The latest in
this line is the "Society of Ship Spon
sors," membership therein being limited
to women that have christened United
States men-of-war. Next will be the
"Nieces of Men That Are Not Sons of
Any Revolution" and "Aunties of the
Panama Republic", "A Society of Women
That Have Kept House" would be a good
thing, or a "Club of Non-Club-Belonging
Spinsters." WEX. J.