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Wbeatley, 83 Stevenson. Washington, D. C. Ed Brlnkman, Fourth and Pacific Ave N. W.; Ebbltt House News Stand. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 4S deg.: minimum, 38. Precipita tion. 0.93 inch. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain; southerly winds. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1904 FRIENDS AT COURT. The salvation Of the Army post at "Walla Walla Is not tmly a triumph for the diplomacy and resolution of Senator Ankeny, but will be accepted every where in the Par West as an indication that the War Department under Sec retary Taft will give more considera tion to the desires of people in this part of the country. Secretary Root cared no more for Walla Walla than he did for Portland. A man of pre-eminent ability In some respects, he was Incapa ble of the kindly Impulses that animate Secretary Taft, whose career in the Philippines has won the affectionate devotion of the entire archipelago. It was of no concern to Secretary Root what Walla Walla wanted or Portland wanted. It was easier for him to yield to clamor than to stand for the Interests assailed. There was noth ing in the agitation of Walla Walla for its post xr of Portland for transports and forage contracts that appealed to him. It Is different with Taft. He has awarded contracts to i'ortland ever since he took hold of the office; and now he has yielded to Senator Ankeny's solicitations on Walla Walla's behalf handsomely. The post will be retained and not only that, but infantry bar racks will be added to the cavalry equipment. The post will be rebuilt and enlarged. It may not be a popular gospel in a commercial age, but It is a fact that sympathy may lead a man into the course of justice as well as Into error. In this case Secretary Taft has been led by sympathy into simple justice. There never was any reason for the abandonment of Fort Walla Walla but the insatiable and selfish clamor of its enemies. It Is a sightly and healthful place, convenient to transportation fa cilities, and the only military post in a region thickly settled with busy and growing cities. It was so with Port land's demand for fair treatment with Government contnvcts. All we asked was what was right; all we needed was a man with nerve enough to withstand the "pull" of San Francisco and Puget Sound. "What was really needed In the War Department was not "friends at court" so much as a just Judge on the bench. INTANGIBLE EVIDENCE. The Smoot investigation now in prog ress before a grave and dignified com mlttee of United States Senators Is likely to prove conspicuous, by the lack of tangible evidence against the Sena tor from "Utah that will lead to his com pulsory retirement from the Senate. President Joseph F. Smith, of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, has been too thoroughly schooled in the tenets of his church either to deny or affirm any thing, however adroitly he may be questioned, that will have direct bear Ing upon the matter at issue. He is a Mormon born and bred; he believes in the principles of divine revelation upon which the Mormon Church is founded He believes in polygamy, in the story literally rendered of the "visit of an an gel in black" to his uncle, Joseph W. Smith, and in the authenticity of the report of this visit by his redoubtable kinsman. All of this and much more to the same effect President Smith steadfastly believes, or says he does, and there Is no reason to doubt the sincerity of his statements. And what of It? Are not religious zealots and emotional ecclesl astics under the protection of our Gov ernment? If not specially protected, are they not covered, along with other citizens, by the "free and equal" spec! flcations of our Constitution and laws Who shall dispute the right or deny to this gray-bearded apostle of a patri archai creed the privilege of believing the story or "revealed religion" accord ing to the Book of Mormon? And com lng closer to the subject in hand, who shall say "nay" to Senator Smoot yea" when interrogated upon the same points? Senator Reed Smoot, though an ad herent of the Morman faith and member in good standing of the Mor mon Church, is the self-proclaimed husband of one wife and otherwise law-abiding citizen of the State of Utah. He has never been a polygamist in practice, whatever he has been or Is In theory. He has never sought to evade the law that forbids plural mar riage. It will possibly be difficult to find what hl3 private opinion is upon this question. Or if he admits that he , believes in polygamy, it will be difficult to unseat him by means of this passive, inoperative belief. The blind beliefs of the Morman faith, and the Inapplicabll Ity of some of them to modern com munlty life, are no greater than are those of many others. It la granted that the practice of polygamy has been prohibited by wise and -wholesome leg islation. Civilized society has made a demand in this matter that Is generally accepted as necessary to secure stabil ity of its Institutions the basis of which is the orderly, harmonious home. If a man respects this law in ordering his personal conduct, it i3 not easy to see how he can be pursued into the domain of private opinion and made to revise his beliefs In accordance with the statute, on penalty of enforced retire ment from public life. President Jo seph W. Smith knows a good many things that he can "hardly be expected to tell that it may safely be assumed he will not tell. In this he does not differ from men in other walks of life political leaders, for example, who are charged with the duty of levying upon the salaries of the faithful for campaign funds. Adroitness in presenting a case or In meeting criticism is reckoned a necessary and valuable accomplish ment. President Joseph W, Smith Is adroit. And there are others. CAUTION OPPOSING UNREADINESS. When the first battle of Bull Run sent the Union soldiers flying in a panic toward Washington, the Confederacy regarded its ultimate triumph a fore gone conclusion. When the Boers won their first signal victories over the British in South Africa, there were plenty to take oath the British could never conquer tnem. Tnese illustra tions show the per?l of jumping to oon- clusions from the promptness with which an alert and agile foe springs Into action against a greater and more unwieldy power. Large bodied move slowly. Especially In wars that Involve land operations over considerable dis tances, time and, endurance must be reckoned with in the long run. If we look at the present conflict In the Orient dispassionately; If we con template it as a military problem in volving something more than the fact that Irishmen were executed In 179S and Jews were massacred at Kishinef, we shall see that each of the parties to this great struggle is moving on the lines made necessary to it by Its cir cumstances. By both Russia and Japan the science of war has been made a careful study. They are grappling witn conditions the best they can. The game is being carefully played; and the ob server must bear In mind, not only the fact that each side Is informed as to the other's capabilities and Intentions, but also the multitudinous exaggera tions and misrepresentations that spring from Russian sources on the one hand and from pro-Japanese sources, mostly in London, on the other hand. It is now announced that the Japan ese assault on Port Arthur, bulletined dally and described by fanciful and desperate correspondents almost dally as having occurred. Is hardly to be looked for before two weeks. This is in keeping with the Japanese policy throughout. Japan has so much to lose In this war that she must avpld taking desperate chances. Even In the naval engagements her policy has been to strike quickly and get away. She can not afford to lose any considerable por tion of her navy. Control of the sea Is everything to her, for onie it Is lost she Is hopelessly shut qut of the mainland. This" Is why she wisely forbears" to risk her ships In a .general engagement. Russia konws this, and therefore she Is patiently waiting for a set "battle wherein her losses may be offset to some extent by damage to the Japan ese. Some of her best warships have not yet been under fire. She has no idea of letting them be harried by Jap ariese craft that will throw a few shells and run away. On land the fundamental Japanese caution is magnified by the difficulties of disembarkation and transport. How nard it is to put troops ashore on Summer seas and favorable coasts our own operations in Cuba bear witness but the Corean shores are difficult of access at best, and at this time of year are frozen, sometimes well out to sea. From the coast to the Yalu River, which must be reached before an engagement can take place, is a journey of hundreds of miles over almost impassable roads, It is hard 'to get troops and supplies ashore; it is harder yet to get them inland; and all this time the greatest caution must be observed lest op'era tions be attacked by Russian ships or Cossack riders. Admirably as the Japanese operations are being conducted, we do not see how the Russians, either, could do much bet ter than they are doing. It is proposed to depose Alexieff because he has not evacuated Port Arthur promptly and retired to the natural and more readily defended base at Harbin; and yet if the merit of Alexleff's plan comes to trial its wisdom may be shown In the labor that will be imposed upon Japan in dislodging the Russians from their line of defense along the Yalu. It would be hard for the Russians to win back Corea from Intrenched Japanese; but the same advantage which accrued to the defensive Boers from British at tacks will now accrue to the defensiv Russians along the Yalu from Japanese attacks. Time, in any event, is an ob ject for Russia, enabling her to bring a steady stream of reinforcements from home. It will soon be a month since Japan severed diplomatic relations at St. Petersburg. It may be another month before there will be any decisive fighting on the Yalu. An excess of water one year and dearth for from three to five years rep resent conditions in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys with which the residents of those sections have to con tend. We can forgive them the sneer expressed In the stereotyped statement so common among them that "It rains thirteen months a year in Oregon,' when we hear of them, now choked with dust and scorched by hot winds and again looking ruefully at the top most twigs of their orchards as these appear above a flood of waters. vPeo pie who have to contend with such ex tremes of wet and dry cannot be ex pected to understand climatic condi tlons that insure enough and not too much moisture for the purposes of ag- riculture year after year, with unvary ing certainty. At present some 60,000 acres of farm and orchard lands are submerged by the Sacramento. Amgxl can and Mokelumne Rivers. The situ ation is distressing, and calls for relief In a system of drainage and the storage of surplus waters that will equalize to some extent at least the distribution of moisture in the valleys over which flood and drouth hold sway by turns at ir regular Interval If March will only enter upon his lamb-like period with unusual celerity we may hope that by the end of the month the river may be sufficiently free of Ice to allow the San Francisco and Oriental liners to resume their traffic, Possibly it will be May before the rail ways will be able to clear their tracks of snow so as to permit the uninter rupted service that will be necessary to cleaa up the accumulation of goods caused by our Winter blockade. We all hope for an early Summer, and our frost-bitten cheeks grow warm with pleasure when we read such expres sions of sympathy as this from the American Lumberman, of Chicago, February 27: Is the climate going' back on the Pacific Coast? Late reports go to show that Janu ary roses of the Willamette Valley have been snowed under and frozen out by a right down, old-fashioned Eastern. Winter. The cold has been so intense and the snow so deep at Portland that the harbor has been blockaded, with Ice and the railroads were unable to handle the traffic urgently otfered. On the Washlneton Coast hurricanes have been so severe as to destroy numerous build ings and wreck several vessels. Gales of unusual ferocity have delayed shipments of lumber all the way down the Coast from Puget Sound to San Francisco. What's the use of chasing climate anyway, .when " the glorious one of California and the whole Western Coast goes back on Itself in such way? The flowers we see blowing In every garden must be unreal dream flowers optical illusions. FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES, The new Secretary of War ought to be able to guide our Government wisely in regard to its policy toward the Phil lppines, for.as Governor of that group he came into Intimate touch with the Filipinos. An able lawyer, a man of mature age, the personal official experi ence of Secretary Taft in the Philip pines clothes with authority his views regarding the best governmental policy for those islands. The judgment of ex Governor Taft Is that by the middle of 1906 the natives may be able to conduct their own Assembly as part -of the civil government. He reports that English and Belgian capitalists are ready to, invest their money In railway and in dustnal enterprises in the islands. But it is the opinion of the majority of the Philippine Commission that our Gov ernment is amply warranted In creat lng railways In the Philippines by guar anties or subsidies as a military meas ures Great Britain built railways in India and placed steamers on her great rivers, and until this was done civiliza tion moved at a snail's pace compared with Its present nro.s'ress. The con structlon of railroads, telegraphs and a splendid postal system have done more for India than a thousand years of na tive rule would have accomplished Ex-Secretary of War Root held that an adequate system of railroads would greatly reduce the Cost of maintaining law and order and protecting life and property in those Islands. He believed that the difference between the cost of a government with an adequate system of railroads and the cost of a govern ment of equal efficiency without rail roads would be greater than the inter est on the money necessary to build and operate the roads. Legislation author izing the Philippine government to exe cute a guarantee of 4 per cent per an num on 540,000,000 of bonds for railroad construction is likely to be enacted by Congress, and will have the support of the Administration. The antl-imperlal- lsts continue to rage and reproach the Republican party with.beginnlng to ad mit that the Filipinos must in time be given their independence. Whatever Individuals may have said, the United States Government has never commit ted Itself to the declaration that there was no prpspect or ultimate independ ence for those islands. The United States took these islands and has thus lar governed them because in honor and consideration for the safety of the civilized world it could not decently re mit the islands to the tender mercy of Spain .or abandon them to become a nest of Oriental pirates until some for eign naval power snapped them up to our disadvantage. To have returned Manila to Spain or to have left the Filipinos to their own devices would have insured a state of Oriental anarchy and savagery that would have made these Islands a public enemy and outlaw In the eyes of the civilized world. The altruistic political cranks who maundered about "the con sent of the governed" seemed to think that the Philippines left to themselves were as sure of harmonious and peace ful life as a rabbit warren or -a dove cote, but a group of islands that were largely a nest of Mclay pirates even under the government of Spain would De sure to eat up each other and all aliens the moment they were abandoned to their own intuitions of "self-government." The future of these islands will be settled solely upon practical consld eratjons. We' left Cuba to her own do vices tne moment that we deemed it safe to allow her to exercise home rule. and yet we hold Cuba by a string today long enough and strong enough to hold her people In leash, if they should at tempt to play into the hands of any for eign government without our approval We shall probably do the same with the Philippines. We shall give them self-government whenever we think It is safe for them, for us and for the civilized world that they should become independent, but when we grant the Filipinos independence It will doubtless be Independence with a string to It long enough and strong enough so that we shall retain a naval station in Manila Bay or its vicinity, and we shall forbid the government of the islands making any treaty with any great naval power of Europe which will subvert or .reduce the present supreme political influence of the United States over those Islands. That Is, even as Cuba, nominally Inde pendent, is held by a string to the United States, so the Phlllnnlnes nr4 not likely to obtain a irlft of lndenonrt- ence so absolute that they will not be' held by a string which goes back to the strong hand of .the United States. No- body can ee so far into the future as to know what will happen In China. The united States cannot dodge her destiny, if she would. She is cei-taln to be a strong naval power and sure to have a strong naval squadron on the Pacific Coast of Asia. With this outlook It is as absurd to assume that wo shall soon entirely let so -of the Philippines as it is to assume that we shall soon entirely cut loose' from Cuba. We cannot possibly gov ern these islands by exactly the same methods under which our various states live and move and have their being, any more than Great Britain can- gov ern India according to the constitu tional methods by which the United Kingdom is .ruled. Great Britain gov erns India justly humanely and hon estly; but Its scheme is largely that of a benevolent despotism. We shall give the Filipinos independence and home rule whenever we think It Is the best thing we can do. for them, but we shall never entirely cut loose from the Phil ippines any more than we are entirely cut loose from Cuba. We do not mean to let Cuba surrender to the blandish ments of any foreign naval power la the future, and we do not mean to leave the Philippines free to be occupied or controlled by any of the great powers of Europe. The United States Is-not a pirate civilization on sea or land; but at the same time the United States does not consider the altruistic imbecility of anti - imperialism sound American statesmanship. The French have been singularly successful In their administration of Madagascar In the less than nine years that have elapsed since September 30, 1895, when the French army marched Into Antananarivo, the capital, and pro claimed the protectorate of France over the fourth largest Island in the world. Its area is 240,000 square miles and Its population nearly 4,000,000. The Island has been so completely pacified that a white man Is safe in every part of It. The military rule has been sup planted by local police. Hospitals for the natives have been established at all the larger 'centers of population. The white father of a child by a native mother Is compelled .to support it if he can be found. If not, It is supported by the government. A maternity hospital has been opened at the capital. Excel lent wagon roads have been extended across the island, and a railroad Is now under construction from the east coast to Antananarivo. Postal services ex tend into the interior, and a special postal steamer piles up and down, touching all the east coast ports. The telegraph and telephone systems have been extended over a considerable por tion of the island. Colonists who have .51000 each to give them a start receive free transportation from France to the island, and under certain conditions ths government gives assistance to French colonists during the first two or three years, cattieralsing for export is De- coming an Important business, while sugar-making and salt production offer good opportunities. Madagascar Is very rich in natural resources of forest. mining and agricultural wealth, and France knows that ultimately Its de veloDment will make the country a source of wealth. France, whether In Africa or Asia, manifests a superior talent for winning the regard and con fidence of the native population. In In dia the French were originally more in fluential than the English, but the mill tary genius of Cllve defeated the French in battle and expelled them from India. Had the home government given Duplelx the military support he deserved, the English might have been compelled to divide the dominion of India with France, for In the start the French had the better of It In winning Influence with the native states and their rulers. Brigadier-General George B. Davis, Judge-Advocate-General of the Army, supports In his "Elements of Interna tional Law" the view that a declaration of war before the opening of hostilities by any nation is unnecessary. General Davis. In his book which is used as a text-book, says: "In former times war was declared with great formalities. This Is no longer the case, the formal declaration having ceased when the ne cessity for Its existence had passed away." This disposes of the Russian contention that Japan should have for mally declared war before attacking the Russian fleet. General Davis further says in his book: When the relations of two, states become strained tho fact Is at once known . through out the civilized world and the subjects of .the unfriendly powers have sufficient time .'to arrange their business affairs and to ac commodate their legal relations to the changed conditions. When all attempts at peaceable adjustment have failed, diplo matic Intercourse ceases, Ministers are with drawn and the military and naval forces of the belligerents are mobilized and placed upon a war footing. So far as the opposing nations are concerned, no further declara tion is now necessary. As to neutrality, General Davis holds that the opening of hostilities is alone sufficient to make a state of war and place other nations in a neutral posi tion. The man who becomes engaged to a young woman of the changeable order Is to be congratulated when the damsel changes her mind before marriage. There Is, of course, some embarrass ment consequent upon being supplanted In the affections of a young woman by another man, but this is trifling when compared with the condition of mind In which a man pursues his errant wife In the hope of inducing her to abandon the other man and return to his home "for the children's sake." The loss in the first instance is summed up in the value of the few trinkets, including perhaps a diamond ring, which he has given her. If the superseded lover Is a prudent man he will let these thing3 go without protest that will bring his name before the public, and account himself as having gotten rid of a bad bargain cheaply and in good season. It Is wise for a man to keep some things to himself, and the fact that he has come into good fortune in this way is one of them. Let him g to his own room, iock tne door and snaKe nanus with himself at havinsr thus early come to a settlement with! a woman whose affections are of the wandering order. La grippe and kindred ailments In cident to the sudden changes of tem perature and the .general severity of the weather in New York caused the death list for the last week in February to reach 179V. This mortality, appalling as it isL does not complete the tale of suffering of the week covered. The hospitals were crowded and the tene ments were full of people In various stages of pulmonary troubles, ranglnj -from the "bad cold" to pneumonia. ainny of tnese cases have already gone upon the list of the dead for thefirst week in March and new ones have taken their places, and still Winter loosens his icy grip on the great me tropolis only, to take a new hold. While there is a general impression that Feb ruary did not treat the people of Oregon with the consideration that they had from long acquaintance a right to ex pect, comparison with- the February weather dealt out on the Atlantic Coast in nearly the same latitude -should make even the chronic growler dismiss the Indictment for "wretched weather" against our February as not warranted by the facts.. On February 22,-,two weeks after the complete destruction of Its former es tablishment, the Baltimore . News re sumed publication on Its own plant, without having mls3ed a .single Issue. The new plant includes all the machin ery and supplies fornierjy used by the Philadelphia Times, and -it Is installed In what wa3 a few days ago a foundry. which was rapidly converted into a fully equipped n.ewspaper office. If all the citizens set about repairing the damage done by the fire In the same energetic manner as the News, Balti more should soon replace the over worked phoenix as a simile. THE VOICE 0F NEW YORK.. New York Times. The Honorable John H. Clarke, of Cleveland, who was named by the Dem ocrats of the Ohio Legislature as their candidate for the United States Senate against Senator Hanna last month, tells the New York correspondent of The Cleveland Plain Dealer that the Demo crats of bis state are waiting for some sign from New York. At the same time he describes a condition of the Demo cratic mind that exists generally through out the country, as current reports show. We quote from our Cleveland contem porary's report: It Is recognized everywhere that, without New Tork we cannot succeed, and the con clusion Is general that the New Tork Demo crats ought to know better than any other men In the country who would make the strongest candidate In their state. It would clarify the political atmosphere greatly It the New Tork leaders could hold an early convention and Instruct for some candi date. If they do not do bo the delegates of other states are likely to meet with extremely indefinite notions as to what Bhould be done, and then, acting in haste or under the In fluence of momentary enthusiasm, make an other of those mistakes' so common In the po litical history of our country, by nominating some man who cannot command the conserva tive vote of the Eastern States, which will decide the election. If the question. Who would be the strongest candidate? were asked of a multitude of New York Democrats to day, we think a very large majority of them would answer Grover Cleveland. Not all of the Democrats who express this opinion would say that they thought Mr. Cleveland could be nominated; they would not agree that It would be wise or considerate to forco the ex-President to reconsider his expressed determination not to run for the office. The prevailing belief to which we refer Is that If Mr. Cleveland were nominated he would get a larger vote than any other candidate who could be named. He i3 not merely the type of man, but Is himself the very man a great part, probably a majority of the American people would be well content to have In the White House dur ing the next Presidential term. He Is the embodiment of the political virtues for which a country somewhat weary of dis quieting adventures, is yearning. Demoralizing Newspapers. C. W. Post, president Association of American Advertisers. In an address to the Buckeye Press Association. I have in mind a certain yellow Jour nal whose owner is a demagogue and grandstand player of the most danger ous type. He panders to the lower ele ments in humanity. If a labor union striked he immediately arraigns all em ployers so villainously that his partly educated readers begin to hate em ployers, good and bad. His first act is to villlfy the man who pays out the money to work people and flatter the workman, even after he becomes a vio lent lawbreaker and criminal. Thus, for his own supposed gain, he arrays employe agaihst employer a direct tendency toward anarchy, and he does this for the purpose of gaining sub scribers, so that he can charge heavy prices to the advertisers. The penny that he gets for the paper does not yield a profit. The support of his en terprise comes from the advertiser, yet he Is using every means In his power to create a sentiment against the em ploying class, that will, if continued to its ultimatum, breaK down every form of law and order in this country. It is time the advertiser ceased pay ing money out to an anarchist to use for the destruction of business and of law. I wish to protest most earnestly against the continued payment of money by employers to this class ot publishers. One great aim of the hon est press is to bring into closer har mony the workman and the employe who should both act as a unit and not as opposing forces, each seeking the other's destruction. Let the editorial columns of the newspapers ring with fair, Just utterances that will make clear to employer and employe alike the need of continued and steady one ration of our Industrial enterprises. It is not a true policy for the editorial end of a newspaper to condemn uni versally employers and pander to em ployes, simply In an effort to build up circulation. That sort of policy Is sure to bring ruin as sin is sure to bring its reward. Just In porportlon as a news paper lowers Its character and repu tation for fairness and integrity, Just in that proportion it lowers Its stand lng and value to the readers. Why He Was Not Promoted. Success. ' He watched the clock. He was always grumbling. He was always behindhand. He had no Iron In his blood. He was willing, but unfitted. He didn't believe himself. He asked too many questions. He was stung by a bad look. His stock excuse was, "I forgot," He wasn't ready for the next step. He learned nothing from his blun ders. He felt that he was above his posi tion. He chose his friends among his in feriors. He was content to be a second-rate man. He never dared act on his own judg ment. He did not think it worth while to learn how. He tried to make his "bluff" take the place of ability. He thought he must take amusement- every evening. Familiarity with slipshod methods paralyzed his ideal. He thought it was very clever to use coarse and profane language. He was ashamed of his parents be cause they were old-fashioned. He imitated the habit of men who could stand more than he could. He did not learn that the best part of his salary was. not in his pay en velope. California Will Make Good. Los Angeles Herald. Los Angeles County should do herself justice in the Lewis and Clark Centen nial to be held next year at Portland, Or. This section never falls in be stirring itself when it means the win ning of more homeseekers. Probably Intended as a Joke. Kansas City Star. General Frederick Funston has be lieved all along that the abbreviated stature of the Japs would enhance rather than impair their efficiency as fighters. The Light of Other Days. Thomas Moore. Oft in the stilly night . Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the- tears ' Of boyhood's years. The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dlmm'd and gone. The cheerful hearts now broken! - -s. : Thns in the stilly nleht Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Ead Memory brings the light Of other days around me. When I remember all . - TPe friends so linked togetsr Pve seen around me fall f Like leaves In wintry weather, I feel llko one , Who treads alone - Some banquet-haH deserted. Whose lights are fled. Whose xarlanus dead, ' -S And all but he departed! - . j Thus In the stilly night Ere slumbers chain baa boend ice, - Sad Memory brings the i'.s'ai Ot other days around me. . WHERE SYMPATHY BELONGS. W. D. Howells In Harper's Weekly. . We must think more than twice whether we side with Japan or Russia In the actual contest; our sympathies may have a con seauence which we shall always regret unless we apply them with the greatest J Dosslble caution. I The situation seems to be that Russia, which has already swallowed Manchuria, has been turning her surfeit-strained eyes toward Corea, which Japan has long been preparing for deglutition. The fact Is that Corea no more belongs to Japan than Manchuria belongs to Russia: but It may be said that Japan needs Corea more than Russia needs Manchuria. This Is the view lirfro Hv ttinaA wrhn cvmnffthlfe with a hungry robber rather than a glutted rob- ber, and they have naturally a good aeai 1 to say for themselves. In spite of all they have to say for themselves, however. It does not appear that the Coreans nave any irreater wish to be eaten by tne jap anese than the Manchurians bad to oe eaten by Russia; but we may safely leave those unreasonable populations out ot the count. Our affair is solely with I the two aggressors, how we shall choose between them, and how we shall apply our all but all-powerful sympathies. The fact that the Coreans are said to hate the Japanese with the hate of a helpless na tion for a strong one may be admitted without affecting the fact that Japan sus- I pects Russia ot ultimate designs upon Corea: and still less can It sway us in view of the brilliant victory ior'the Jap anese following the surprise of the Rus sian warshlDs In Port Arthur. On whom, then, shall -we turn our DacK3? On the plucky little Japs, whom we our selves liberated to International seir-con- sclousness, and who have just struck a deadly blow at an enemy Ignorant of the existence of war, or on our ancient and faithful allies, the Russians, who are sup posed to have stood our tacit friends in the midst of explicit foes, and who would, for all we know, have come to our defense If we had needed them? We have here a duty to fulfil as well as a pleasure to in dulge. It would be delightful to give loose rein to our emotions In either dlrec-1 U?,'.bUt lt berifh; public which has added to Its responsl-1 billtles the despotic government of a peo. pie, bought at?2a head, who bate us; It I is a union which has Just hastened to profit by the dismemberment of a union in South America, and its citizens cannot be too careful In casting their sympathies for one side or the other in all pending difficulties. Upon the whole, would not it be best to wait for the end of tne war. and then give our sympathy to the victor? That is what other world powers do, and It must be allowed that there Is a logic I in tne accompusnea loci wiiiuai tumco mtu almost the authority ot Inspiration. But If we cannot wait, If we must do something with sympathies which, if we bottle them up in our bosoms may threat en us with explosive violence, why Bhould not we give them where they are certain to do no harm if they do no good? Why should not we offer then? In what seems to be a war of statesmen to the poor com mon men on both sides who must fight the statesmen's war for them, to be torn with shot and shell, transfixed with bay onets, hewn down with sabers, drowned in sinking ships, blown into the air by bursting magazines, or scalded to death in the steam of the torpedo cruisers? I do not find myself, after all, so greatly concerned In behalf of the knot of able aristocrats who hold the destinies of Japan In their grasp, as In behalf of the peasants snatched from their rice fields, to feed the fires ot a ruthless ambition not different in auallty from any lust of em pire that the sad earth has known. The spectacle of the Czar Imploring the aid of heaven and invoking the patriotism of his slavish subjects for the defense of Rus sian honor has no majesty for me; though I think that of all living men his case Is most pitiable In that he must look from the bloody gulf of war yawning before him, back to that heavenly beight wpere lately he stood for universal peace. More impressive to me are the hordes Ot muzhiks torn from their villages In the snows, and sent, blind and dumb, to die in battles of which they cannot even Im agine the cause. More even than to the ooor common men on either side, I think our all but all-powerful sympathies should be offered to the poor common wives and poor common children whom they leave behind them in the swamps or in the shows, to continue alone the hard strug gle for life for which tne nusDanas- ana fathers' strength hardly sufflcled. To them no victory can give back their dead In battles, or undo their widowhood and or phanhood. What will it matter to the Jaoanese private whether the Mikado and hla cabinet secure Corea or not? What can it profit the muzhik that tho Czar kpens Manchuria? Yet to these only, It seems to me that in the very delicate balance of the Eastern question can we safely offer our sympathies. An Old Friend of Ours. Brooklyn Kagle. An advertisement was printed yester day upon one of the financial pages of this paper announcing future pun- lications ot a series ot articles in the New York Commercial reflecting upon F. Augustus Heinze. This advertise ment was inserted without reference to the editorial supervision of this paper and was inadvertantly admitted into the advertising columns. While the advertisement appears to contain ex- nresslons of opinion upon certain ar ticles which the Commercial asserts It proposes to print, the Eagle has no knowledge on the subject. The Eagle had no Intention whatever of charging Mr. Heinze with any of the offenses specified in the advertisement of tho New York Commercial. Furthermore, we understand that Mr. Heinze is tak ing active steps to have the parties re sponsible for the objectionable publi cation in the New York Commercial prosecuted criminally. Well, What of It? New York Evening Post. NEW YORK. Feb. 25. To the Edi tor.) On November 9, 1857, the fol lowing three questions were submitted to a vote of the people of Oregon, and received the following vote: "Do you vote for the Constitution?" Vps. 7195: no. 3195. . "Do you vote for slavery in Oregon?" Yes. 2645: no. 7727. "Do you vote for free negroes In Or- etron?" Yes, 1081; no. 8040. Bv the negative vote on the last question, section 35, of Article I (bill of rights) of the Constitution was adonted. It expressly denies to free TiptrrnM or mulattoes the right to "come, reside, or be within this state. or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain any suit there in." This section remains in the Oregon Constitution, though abrogated by the -14th amendment, kobekt jk. tiuuu. Contentment. Joshua Sylvester. I weigh not fortune's frown or smile; I Joy not much in earthly Joys; I seek not state, I reck not style; I am not fond of fancy's toys; I Test so pleased with what-Z have I wish no more, no more I crave. 1 quake not at the thunder's crack; I tremble not at noise of war; X swound-'not at the news of wrack; I shrink not at a hlazlngs star; I fear not loss, I hope not gain, I envy none, I none disdain. I-see ambition never pleased; I see tome Tantals starved .In store;. ""I see gold's dropsy seldom eased; I see -even Midas gape for more; I neither want nor yet abound ' Eaough'a a feaat, content is crowned. I feign nofc friendship where I hate; r I fawn- not on the 4reat (in. show); V I prit praise mean estate Keitner too lorty nor too low: Thl, this Is 11 my choice, my cher X mine .contest, a cosacieBce clear. NOTE AND COMMENT. ; A fashion paper predicts a red Summer. So far as the Orient Is concerned,- the pa per is probably right. Mr. Ham, treasurer of a Boston churchx home, got away with $14,000, He wasn't: sucn a nam after alL Albany Is to have a brass band this "- Summer, and her citizens will do more blowing about the town than ever. t In yesterday's paper situations are ad-1 - vertlsed for by "tray arm waitresses." . Here 13 a chance for the beauty doctor, " surety. Gambling I3 a thing of the past In Sa lem, Dut residents of that city should cheer up. The trip to Portland is not a long one. The New York World remarks that Perry Heath had two friends Senator Hanna and the statute of limitations. And Hanna Is dead. The guna go a-boomlng. bln-ban-. - Round the city that's known as Ping Tang. aney re nring as last As the raindrops slip past. Or as fast as a girl can sling slang. Carnegie meets with great obstacles In his attempts to Impoverish himself. The civil engineers have refused to accept the gift of a million-dollar building. Haughty body of men! So poor Andy has to bear the burden of his million unaided by the engineering associations. Two Seattle boys, aged 10, recently held up and robbed another boy, aged 6. To be gin training at a tender age is good, both for the majority and the minority. The majority will learn to be accomplished robbers and the minority will learn tc 'give up without squealing." Courtland, which Is situated, approprt- ale!y enouS ln Kansas, has a basket- . v . . - ba club. of ch the members are all women, .ttow awKwaru it win De ior ono or tne piayere to get a black: eye In the course of a game with the Wichita Wingless Angels or the Topeka Trilbies. She will never be able to persuade her friends that she can lick her husband with Impunity. It la a pleasure to pay a laggard trib- ute to the fancies of soma of tha -writer who described our blaze, says the Balti more Herald. It was an opportunity and we are glad to say that at least a few ' rose to It well. We shall leave out of the list the artist who had the waves of fire sweeping up Washington's monument and blistering the feet of the immortal George. We prefer to thank those gentlemen who wrote on burning paper. The first of these was a Philadelphia man, who telegraphed to the North American that the sheet on which he was performing was being scorched, but now we find that David Graham Phillips, who came down -to de scribe the fire for Collier's Weekly, was just as enterprising as the gentleman from the City of Scrapple, for Mr. Phillips wrote: - "The newspaper men, with the fire still ten blocks away, were toiling with the windows wide, with the sweat streaming from their faces as If It were midsummer under the equator. And sparks in showers borne on that fiery hot wind came in and descended upon the very paper on which they were writing, again and again set ting It on fire.' - , t the equator and .the open- Windows - and. even the scorched paper but that "again and again" la a trlflle too much. Still, we must remember that Mr. Phil- Hps is a novelist. In Brooklyn young women are employed. during the Summer afternoons to 'teach the school children how to play games. The girls have to pass an examination be fore they can obtain a license, and a tax payer, in a letter to the Eagle, refers to the last list of questions as apparently "intended for applicants for positions as dealers at Canfield's." Here are the ques tions: QUIET GAMES. Time, V& hours. Candidate's number 1. (a) Mention all the pieces used In -a jrame of chess. (b) State how they may be moved. (c) Draw a diagram and- Indicate the Dleces of two players in a game, and make two open ing moves on each side. (20.) 2. In chess, when is a kins said to be "in check" ? When a klnir Is In daiurer. what mav player do? If the things mentioned br you are all impossible, what happens? (16.) 3. (a) Describe briefly four card games suit able for use In a playground. (20.) (b) What things are to be inia.rr'or? nrafnaf . "In the play Ins of such games In a playground? to.) 4. How would you organize game clubs in' your playground? What Is the value ot prog eny organizea game clubs? (15.) " - - 5. What plans would you make for (a) The distribution of games, (b) The playing of games, , (c) Inciting an Interest for games, (dr The collection of games, (c) The record of games played during one session? (25.) It will be seen that no mention is made of oraps, one of the most oooular and- one of the quietest games for children of from 6 to 8. And then imagine the ring-around-a-rosy players having to stop - every now and then to enter their scores in some record, which would be used at. the end of the season as the basis of a statistical report by the teacher. ' - . OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. He I think I am a fool! She Well. "dear. you told me It was a wife's duty to agree with her husband. Yonkers Statesman. ! jtrana ie jaoeiea that box "dry" goodsr juimns wnat was in 11 : MlGlns A bound volume of the Congressional Record. Balti more News. "What Is wit, anyway?" "Well, a good' many people seem to have the idea that wit is the knack of making- one person uncom fortable in the presence of others." Chi cago Post. "Have you ever been in South Dakota?'1 he asked. "No, sir," she indignantly re-" plied. "My husband was killed by being mistaken for a deer In Michigan." Chicago- - Record-Herald. 'Judging from the price of eggs, every :hen must thing she Is laying golden ones," said Snooper. "And I am one of the geesa thai-' buys the golden eggs," answered Swaybaclc -Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Gushlngton-Newrox (examining por-, trait) Why, it's Just like out Mrs.-Rouge-Potter I'm so glad you think, so. Mrs. Gushlngton-Newrox Oh, yes; why Just see how naturally the face Is painted: Puck. . v- Mra. Nurltch I want to get a pair of swell-white gloves to wear to a ball. Clerk. Ye3'm. How Ions do you want them? -Mrs. Nurltch See here, young man,-' Taln't talkln about rentm" "em. want to. buy em. Philadelphia Press. ' Mrs. JStrongmind I really believe, that I am at last beginning to make air . impres sion upon the public Mr. S. Have 'the 'Papers praised your last lecture? Mrs. S. N-o; bat today I heard you mentioned as "the husband of Mrs. Strongmlnd." Notv- -Tork Weekly. . The woman was doing her shopping. The counterjumper handed her a package and she slowly turned, away "Ha-S seed. any-. .-'thing:, else? she absentm!n4edly aked. "You have Just bought some laws," ven tured the clerk. - "Doa'ljyou tMafc-yo will need some hose?" Prlacetoa Tlr,