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PATENT MTOTENCE OF CniNA.
Cold-blooded as the announcement
seems that China's denunciation of her
treaty with us will make no difference
with the operations of the exclusion
law, it is nevertheless an unexception
able recognition of the patent negligi
bility of the Chinese government's de
sires. It Is all very well, when there
is no stress of actual circumstances, to
preach about courtesy to China and the
necessity of following the golden rule
in our treatment of her; but the fact
remains that we shall continue to do
with her about as we will; just as the
other powers do.
This was definitely apparent when a
little while ago we sent a hurry-up
order to her to sign a commercial
treaty with us concerning Mukden and
Antung. Imagine our bearing down
like this upon Germany or Russia; yet'
China made haste to comply, just as
she did when the allies marched to
Pekin, carried off everything they could
lay their hands on, and levied an in
demnity which was limited only by the
ability to collect. Nothing could more
clearly demonstrate the fact that China
is living on sufferance, just as Turkey
is. Treaty or no treaty, law or no law,
we shall keep the Chinese out precisely
as suits our.purposes, without even the
formality of asking China how it suits
her.
The reason is that China has no force
to compel recognition. All that keeps
her from being parceled out tomorrow
among the hungry powers is the same
mutual jealousy that keeps poor old
Turkey from falling to pieces. It is a
tremendous warning to our Little
Americans who groan every time they
see an army or pension appropriation
bill or hear of a new naval programme.
"We are under obligations to treat Rus
sia civilly, for Russia can make re
prisals. But when it comes to China
we take what we want and give her
what we choose, simply because she Is
a, nation only in name and as a power
is a false alarm. Just such shall we
become when Army and Navy are no
longer able to enforce our will.
TATT ON ANTI-nHTERIAIJSJI.
Secretary Taft's recent utterances
have stamped him with the unmistak
able hallmark of greatness. His testi
mony before the Philippine committees
in Congress was dominated by a candor
which belongs to only the highest na
tures. He said that he had to wink at
infractions of the law In order to afford
the Philippines their necessary shipping
facilities. He said that while he viewed
government ownership of the Philip
pine railroads with misgivings, it had
no terrors for him if it came to a choice
between Government roads and no
roads at all.
Now this wise and brave man has
spoken the exact truth about anti-imperialism
with a precision that should
clear up the subject In any mind until
now- In undecided attitude toward the
problem of Philippine independence. "It
will require much time," he says, "per
haps several generations, before the
people of the Philippine Islands are
going to be able to govern themselves
as we of this country understand the
proposition; the only method to pursue
is by education and example." And
he avers that it is the duty of the Gov
ernment of the United States to retain
the islands in its possession, believing
that with wise control by this country
they will become prosperous and self
supporting. But why do the antis continue to agi
tate for Independence of the archipel
ago? Secretary Taft tells us why. It
is not because they have any desire to
help the Filipinos, but because they are
consumed with a desire "to exhibit
what they maintain is a political con
sistency on the part of this country."
This tenet, academic and wholly un
related to actual conditions and needs
in the islands, they advocate "in an
assumption of virtue." Professing to
follow the only righteous path, they
nevertheless urge an abandonment
which means nothing else than "cer
tain anarchy, tyranny and. chaos."
There Is no escape from these con
clusions, because they are the conclu
sions of every competent American
judge that has studied the question on
the ground. Secretary Taft himself
went to the Philippines a believer In
Philippine Independence. So did Presi
dent Schurman, of Cornell; so did
Bishop Potter, of New York. But they
all came away with the opposite idea.
The reason was that when once inter
ested in the Filipinos themselves, they
became converts to Judge Taft's princi
ple of "The Philippines for the Fili
pinos," Instead of demanding the Phil
ippines for the Pharisaical and irrecon
cilable antls.
There is no tyranny like the tyranny
of intellectual pride and selfishness.
Their own theories are so dear to them
that the antis will not relax their hold
on their preconceived notions, no, not
to save the entire archipelago from fall
ing into misery and ruin. It is so with
purse-proud employers, who would
rather see their men and their fami
lies starve than yield one jot or tittle
of their right to conduct their business
in their own way. It Is so with too
many union leaders, who are oblivious
to the sufferings of strikers' families
and idle nonunion men, so long as they
can carry their point. One may hope
that Judge Taft's authoritative utter
ance on the question of Philippine Inde
pendence may abate somewhat the con
tinued gibes of the antis at every diffi
culty encountered "by our American
civil and military forces in the Islands.
TWO SORTS OF MERGERS.
Mr. Hill's long-deferred outgiving on
the Harrlman application bears the
same note of insincerity that has char
acterized all the attempts to justify his
distribution of Northern Securities
holdings. "When he says that the plan
"Is made for the sole purpose of meet
ing the demands of the law," he states
what every one knows Is not true.
What the plan is specifically aimed at
Is to give the Harrlman Interests less
Northern Pacific than they had before.
Mr. Hill himself virtually concedes this
when he says that If Harrlman wins
the Hill control of Northern Pacific and
Burlington will be menaced. Here we
come to the uniform plea of the Hill
Interests In this matter, thus:
The vital Importance of this contention to
the Northwest Is manifest. Union Pacific
control of the Northern Pacific means the
control of that road by menwho have only
a secondary Interest In the Northern Pacific
country, who have no especially large busi
ness Interests in the Northwest and who
would naturally run the road as an adjunct
to the enterprises and the sections In which
they are primarily Interested. St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Though the complaint avers In one place
that the purpose of the ratable distribution
of stock Is to give the Areat Northern con
trol of the Northern Pacific, contrary to the
pplrlt of the Circuit Court deotalon. evidence
Is furnished in another place that the return
of Northern Pacific stock asked for will not
take this control away from the Great North
ern. If It did, and gave control to the Union
Pacific, the spirit of the decision would be
equally violated, since the Union and North
ern Pacific are also parallel and competing
lines. Minneapolis Tribune.
It appears, therefore, that Harrlman
control of the Northern Pacific is re
sented because It would be contrary to
the spirit of the Supreme Court deci
sion, and because Harrlman's prime In
terest is in the Union Pacific rather
than in the Great Northern or Northern
Pacific. Whether this plea Is true or
false we shall not now discuss; we shall
merely ask where were these fine scru
ples when Mr. Hill was acquiring the
Northern Pacific, a competing line, and
the Burlington, a property in which his
Interest was secondary and subordinate
to his desire to make the Great North
ern pay. If the Hill people are com
pelled to- simulate a righteous horror of
a proceeding now which they them
selves carried out a little while ago
with every assumption of self-denying
and disinterested service to the people,
then Indeed Is their cause In sore ex
tremity. Wall street professes to believe that
the Northern Securities decision pro
scribes only the method and not the
principle of Hill's consolidation of the
three roads he merged into one. How
true this may develop in time Is un
certain; but what Is certain Is that jus
tice requires a distinction between ac
quisition of the Burlington by Great
Northern or Northern Pacific and ac
quisition of either Great Northern or
Northern Pacific by the other. To ac
quire a connecting line for greater fa
cility In commerce is morally legitimate
and tends to conserve If not to stimu
late the competitive principle; but to
acquire a parallel and competing line
Is morally illegitimate, In view of the
laws, and Is in restraint of trade as
we understand the Supreme Court dis
tinctly to affirm.
If Mr. Harrlman seeks control of the
Northern Pacific, his action is no more
defensible than the action of Hill in
seeking control of the same road. No
body has ever complained on grounds
of public policy of Hill's acquisition of
the Burlington. No one has complained
of Harrlman's acquisition of the South
ern Pacjjjolas a connecting line for
Union Pacific. No one could have com
plained QjJpHiU's acquisition of the Erie
for an Eastern connection, If It had
been a genuine proceeding Instead of
the stockjobbing enterprise It was af
terward avowed to have been. We hope
to see the courts some day sustain the
distinction we have here outlined;
whether they do or not, we shall never
expect to see that pronounced a crime
in Harrlman which Is a virtue in Hill.
Where was the sympathy of the Pio
neer Press for the downtrodden people
when Mr. Hill was so sanctimoniously
gathering in the Northern Pacific?
What is sauce for the goose Is sauce for
the gander.
BOODLING DOESN'T PAY.
The impulse to kick a man when he
is down is accredited as strictly human.
The lofty prescience that, when a man
gets into trouble, "always knew there
was something wrong with him" is a
generally accepted attribute of human
nature; the man arraigned before the
courts as a murderer has a face that
according to the popular verdict Is
stamped with brutality, though all his
lifelong the accused may have been'
considered "fine looking."
In view of these facts the revelations
concerning Senator Burton's character
boy and man before he came into
prominence as United States Senator
from Kansas, and later as a boodler,
may be taken with at least a grain of
allowance. It must be admitted that
the proofs of his guilt, as submitted at
his recent trial, were conclusive. Nor
was the Judge who rendered sentence
able to find any mitigating circum
stances. But this will hardly justify
the statement, widely published, that
the man has been throughout the great
er part of his life notably unscrupulous
in his dealings with men and In his
conduct of affairs. He Is charged, for
example, with having been, years ago,
when a resident of an Indiana city, "a
sharp and unscrupulous man," and
with having, upon one of his return
visits to that place, "engineered a fake
footrace by which his friends lost many
hundreds of dollars." Nor are there
wanting men who "knew him best" who
wonder that he has kept out of the
clutches of the law as long as he has.
Truly, Mr. Burton stands before the
American public in a very unenviable
light. As before said, there Is prac
tically no doubt of his guilt. The re
marks of the Judge before passing sen-
-!
tence must have seared him as with
hot Icon. His career ought to be val
uable as a warning; It is worth study
lng, not with malevolent purpose or
subtle satisfaction, but with the hope
that It will clearly demonstrate the fact
that It does not pay In any sense. In
tho long run, to yield to the temptations
that beset men In public life.
This man has cast position, honor,
good name, the possibility of contin
ued usefulness, to the winds. He is
reaping the whirlwind. His crime was
great enough and its penalty is heavy
enough without raking the catalogue
of misdeeds, from misdemeanor to
crime, and piling up Indictments
against him all along'the way. Because
he prostituted the opportunities of his
high office to his "need of money," it
Is hardly fair to assume that he was
In his boyhood a hatrack thief; or be
cause he closed with a tempting offer
to put money in his purse In his hon
ored manhood, that he engineered a
"fake footrace" In his obscure youth.
The truth in his case Is bad enough. Let
it suffice.
MORE STREET-CARS NEEDED.
The street-car accident at Santa Bar
bara Sunday, in which five persons
were killed outright and a much larger
number were more or less seriously In
jured, while belonging to the class of
preventable disasters, Is one that may
happen and doubtless In this Instance
did happen In spite of ordinary vigi
lance. A very large proportion of the
people of all Pacific Coast cities are
abroad on the street-cars on Sunday
afternoon at this season of the year.
Much more than ordinary attention to
details is necessary to Insure the safety
of the tens of thousands who crowd the
cars and hang on wherever it is possi
ble to obtain a foothold on these out
ing days. The railway companies gen
erally realize this fact and assume the
added responsibility seriously. Those
who ride are often less careful than are
those who carry them, and In thelrV
eager haste to "get there" or to get
home, often exercise very little pru
dence, or, as It seems to an observer
from the street, as an overcrowded car
passes, none at all. While the re
sponsibility for the proper equipment
of the track and rolling stock and Its
careful supervision Is upon the man
agers of street railways. Individuals are
naturally expected to look out for
themselves In matters of boarding and
alighting from the cars, riding upon the
steps with precarious foothold, etc., as
supplemental precautions necessary to
secure their safety in transit.
Portland has been spared, thus far,
serious accidont as a result of over
crowding the street-cars, though. In
common with other cities, it hfs faced
disaster and fatality on street-car
lines from other causes. The crowded
and. It may be added, overcrowded con
dition of the street-cars last Sunday
Indicated a recklessness In this matter
which might easily contribute to grave
disaster.
It is plain, however, that there are
not cars enough properly to accommo
date the traffic on our street railways,
either in Winter or Summer. The com
panies probably had out their full
equipment last Sunday. The men who
handled the cars were alert and care
ful. All that could be done with this
equipment to accommodate the traffic
that was offered was done. But the
fact remains that the cars were, for
manj hours of the day, crowded be
yond the limit of comfort by people
seemingly reckless of their own safety.
The reasonable deduction is that more
cars are needed, and that until they
are provided people would do well to
curb their Impatience and seek recrea
tion, fresh air and sunlight by fre
quenting parks and 'places adjacent to
the city to which, by giving themselves
a little more time, they can, with ab
solute safety, walk with less discomfort
than Is experienced in riding on an
overcrowded car.
Suburban traffic should be made as
comfortable and safe as possible to
those who make it profitable by their
patronage. Judging from the over
crowded cars that were moving In all
directions In and out of the city last
Sunday, it will require at least a third
more cars than are now available for
our suburban traffic to meet these sim
ple requirements. They should be
forthcoming at the earliest possible
date.
ARREST OF JAPAN'S ADVANCE.
Much Is said about the Japanese plan
of campaign, but, whatever that, plan
may be, it looks as if It must wait upon
the reduction of Port Arthur or the
permanent bottling up of the Russian
fleet In that harbor. The Japanese
plan. It Is reported, will be to operate
three armies, each nominally number
ing 100,000 men. The entire first army
has been landed and has established
itself in Northeastern Corea, with Its
main base at Chinnampo. The second
army will land west of the Talu River
and the third army east of NIu
Chwang. The landing of an army west
of the Yalu River, the Japanese expect,
will force the Russians to abandon the
fortifications which they have been
erecting north of the Yalu River to op
pose the crossing of the first army of
Japan from Corea. The three great
Japanese forces will operate la con
junction, the third army swinging east
ward from Niu Chwang, seizing or cut
ting the railroad and then joining Jn
the turning movement against the Rus
sian position.
The Japanese military authorities be
lieve that Russia cannot transport sup
plies sufficient to maintain In Man
churia a force larger than 300,000 men.
The Niu Chwang plan, which involved
the landing of an army on the west
coast of the Xiiao Tung Gulf and
marching It northeast far enough to
cut the Russian communications with
Port Arthur, will hardly be attempted
until Port Arthur has been captured or
sealed up. There Is no concealing the
fact that the failure of the Japanese
Admiral to dispose effectually of the
Russian fleet at Port Arthur has stulti
fied the Japanese plan of campaign.
Admiral Togo cannot destroy the Rus
sian fleet at Port Arthur, and until it
is destroyed It would be perilous to send
a great fleet of . transports full of sol
diers up the Gulf of Pechili. The Jap
anese delay Is helping Russia. Her
forces have grown about 1000 men a
day. It Is reported that the Japanese
horses are small and weak, and are
dying so rapidly of disease that- the
field batteries cannot be moved. This
may be true. The mortality among the
horses of the British army in South Af
rica was so" great that, had It not been
that Great Britain was able to buy all
the horses she needed In the United
States, her cavalry and artillery would
have been seriously crippled.
During the great campaign of October
and November, 1863, fought by Grant
and Bragg for the permanent posses
sion of Chattanooga, the artillery of
the Army of the Cumberland was seri
ously crippled by the great mortality
among the horses. Bragg had block
aded the Tennessee River, and the
horses and mules died of starvation.
When Sherman's corps arrived he lent
Thomas all his extra horses, otherwise
the artillery of the Army of the Cum
berland could not have been moved.
The blockade of the river had been
broken, but It did not restore the dead
artillery horses tollfe. The failure to
provide for his cavalry horses in the
Russian expedition of Napoleon is
named by General Marbot as one of the
reasons why Napoleon's victories were
always barren of results. The Japan
ese have no horses at home of any
value, while the Russians can obtain
excellent horses from the plains of
Mongolia. If the Japanese attempt a
movement far from a sea base without
transportation animals, they are likely
to come to grief.
A St Louis Judge, In granting a di
vorce to the American wife of a Euro
pean nobleman, said, as reported In the
dispatches a day or two ago: "It is al
ways the way these foreigners treat
their American wives. Ambitious moth
ers and cultivated daughters traveling
abroad are constantly falling into such
traps as these. The courts are full
of such cases. It seems to me that
mothers ought to wake up some time."
In this particular case the wife's for
tune had been squandered by her titled
husband. He had also treated her cru
elly. The Judge was justified in warn
ing American mothers against encour
aging their daughters to marry titles.
Many of these alliances have an un
happy ending. As a rule the "noble"
fortune-hunter possesses few of the
qualities which entitle him to the re
spect and affection of a refined Ameri
can woman. Judging from the Increas
ing number of divorces granted In the
courts of the United States, American
mothers at least a large number of
them are not as careful as they should
be In cautioning their daughters
against .marriages with unworthy
American suitors. It is not an uncom
mon occurrence nowadays for courts of
justice In -the Old World to comment
scathingly upon the lax divorce laws of
the United States and the frequency
with which marriage tles'are severed In
this land of moral Ideas and happy
homes. The Baltimore Sun sagely sug
gests that while American mothers
should take to heart the counsel of the
St. Louis Judge, they should not be
blind to the fact that there are perils at
home as well as abroad against which
their daughters should be guarded.
War against tuberculosis has been
begun In St. Louis under the auspices
of the Board of Health In the most sys
tematic and practical way. Sufferers
from this scourge are to be diligently
sought out, their sanitary conditions
Improved as much as possible, and
those connected with them or waiting
upon them are to be supplied with full
Instructions that, if followed, will ren
der them Immune from the disease.
This is the first step. It Is necessary
to relieve, if possible, and to the ex
tent possible, the sufferings of those
who have contracted tuberculosis,
while putting the forces of prevention
in active operation to stop recruiting
for the pale host that is steadily march
ing on to death. Sanitariums for the
curable, or those who have not passed
beyond the first stage of the disease,
established upon the open-air principle;
retreats for the hopelessly afflicted,
where their passing can be soothed by
kindly ministrations and Intelligent
care, and education for the large class
who, lacking competent Instruction In
regard to threatened danger, will most
likely contract the disease from those
with whom they assolcate In family or
neighborly relations. These are the
measures dictated by prudence and In
dorsed by science as necessary steps in
the campaign against tuberculosis.
The Grange, as shown by the efforts
of Its organizing officers In Multnomah
County, was never more active in the
development of rural Interests than
now. The "get together" spirit seems
to have taken renewed life throughout
the country, and Isolation as it was
known among farmers a few years ago
is a thing of the past. This is well.
The neighborly spirit represents one of
the most valuable forces -for keeping
the boys and girls on the farm and for
brightening the lives of the gentle, pa
tient, hardworked class known to com
munity history as "farmers' wives."
The Grange is a great promoter of this
spirit, and It should be encouraged In
Its efforts, and, Indeed, Is being encour
aged throughout Multnomah County by
the indorsement of many public-spirited
citizens.
The antics of emotional religionists
have again been varied. This time the
"Holy Jumpers" have created a dis
turbance, choosing Salt Lake City as
the base of their operations. Perhaps
Creffleld, of the "Holy Rollers," has
found his way to the Mormon city, in
the hope that the side Issues Incident
to his religious enthusiasm will be tol
erated where apostles continue the
plural-wife system In defiance of the
law. If so, he has shown wisdom In
substituting jumping for rolling as a
feature of his ecstatic religious pro
gramme. This, however, is a conces
sion to decency which, slight as It is,
the boss holy roller, late of Benton
County, would not be likely to make.
It Is probable, therefore, that we have
not gotten rid of him so easily.
Devout subjects of "holy Russia"
have been to the extremes of joy and
woe within a few days in connection
with the Easter celebration. Truth to
say, they seemed to enjoy one extreme
as much as the other, celebrating both
with great pomp and magnificence.
Now prostrate before the spectacle of
the crucified Jesus, and how feasting
and making merry over the resurrec
tion scene, the people have passed from
one "extreme to another and are ready
to make war with all their might In
the name of peace on earth, good will
to men. Human nature In its most ex
travagant mood Is an Interesting study,
and the presentment at St. Petersburg
has been unusually fine.
Senator Quay Is said to be seriously
111 at Atlantic City. He Is an old but
not an aged man, having lived seventy
one years. His strenuous political life
has told heavily upon his vital forces,
and physicians see as the only basis of
hope for his' recovery the necessity of
keeping all news from the political
world away from him. The spectacle
presented by years and Infirmity ba.t
tllng against science with human life
as the stake Is one to humble pride In
human power to achievement and give
new meaning to the query so often
upon the lips of Abraham Lincoln, "Oh,
why should the spirit of mortal be
proud?"
DO WE EAT TOO MUCH?
Philadelphia Record.
Because Mr. Edison has succeeded In
Inventing electric lamps and other Impor
tant appliances. It does not follow that he
is an authority on matters of hygiene. Hi3
personal experience is of some Importance,
as is that of every other observing person,
that that he has maintained what he re
gards as a fair degree of health under
stress of hard work and irregular hours
while subjecting himself rigidly and sys
tematically to a very limited dietary is
evidence that he, at least, does not require
the quantity and variety of food consumed
by the average man. It does not, how
ever, prove, as he assumes, that every
other person could flourish on the same
measure of nourishment and that all who
exceed It Impair their health.
It Is probably true that most persons eat
more food and of greater variety than la
actually required to sustain the body.
How far this Is a positive injury to health
can be determined only In Individual cases.
It is perhaps true that habit regulates the
demand for food; that one feels the need
of a considerable quantity mainly because
ho has Indulged his appetite until it has
become abnormal and ceases to be a trust
worthy guide. Yet if It be true that peo
ple eat too much because eating Is a
pleasure, and at some risk to tho health
even If it be true, as Mr. Edison asserts,
that excessive eating shortens life It
would be rash to urgo on all a material
diminution of food. For It 13 to be con
sidered that for the great majority of men
and women eating I3 the chief pleasure of
life. Only a comparative few persons,
some of them self-centered hypochon
driacs, would sacrifice the pleasures of
the table In order to maintain a robust
health and to prolong life for a few years.
People go to the theater and breathe an
Impure air for hours, though knowing It
to be prejudicial to health; young people,
and some not so young, dance to weari
ness through the night at the cost of lost
sleep, adventurous men undergo great
hardships at the price of Impaired vigor,
because of their liking for novel experi
ences. In short, although the gods make
of our pleasant vices Instruments to
scourge us, we do not, therefore, choose
to live In hygienic virtue. Why, then,
should we expect tho world to surrender
the most constant and, on the whole, the
most general and satisfactory of pleasures
that of eating in order to escape some
pains and to linger a few years longer In
solf-denlal? But for the pleasures of the
table, life would be tame to weariness to
tho great body of mankind. As age ad
vances and tho delights of love and the
common round of amusements lose their
zest, we depend more and more on gastro
nomic entertainment. If a man have a
more absorbing passion he can afford to
consider only his health and a bare living
in order to prolong his life, but to the
majority life would not be worth the trou
ble If eating should become a mere mat
ter of replacing waste tissue.
It Is still to be established, however,
that great eaters are. not capable of great
labor and endurance. Christopher North
affirmed thaf'great men have always been
great feeders."
The Democratic Colossus.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Struggle as it may, the Democratic
party cannot get away from Grover Cleve
land. He Is by so much the blygost and
strongest man In the party that he will
not stay on the shelf, even when put
there by his own consent. Moreover, he
Is so singularly strong and popular out
yide the party that the shrewdest poli
ticians In it think they can afford to
Ignore Democratic opposition to him. The
votes for Bryan make it pretty clear
that nearly all Domocrats can be de
pended on to vote the party ticket Why,
then, say the shrewd New York poli
ticians, should not the party nominate
the man for whom the Democrats must
vote, whether they like It or not, if he
will attract a fair show of the great free
vote among Republicans and between the
two parties.
The Democrats have broken away from
this logic over and over again; but they
are dragged back to It by an Irresistible
force. We believe that all the soberer ele
ments of the party, which have gotten
the organization and expect to control the
convention, are secretly for Cleveland.
Every effort for Parker, for Olney, for
Gray, Is half paralyzed by the reservation
that tho movers would rather have Cleve
land. Only small potato politicians like
Hill and Gorman are serious in the effort
to make any other man the party's can
didate. We believe that even Tammany,
under the leadership of Murphy, is sin
cere in its belief that Mr. Cleveland should
be nominated.
Under the influence of tho Hearst scare.
Hill brought the New York Democracy
into a reluctant and half-hearted union
upon Parker. Mr. Cleveland gave this
movement his hearty and earnest support
Gorman threw his waning Influence In its
favor, and the whole National Democratic
machine rallied about it But the move
ment had no vitality, and it broke down
In two or three days. The New York
Domocrats, outside of Hill's personal fol
lowers, have no real faith in Parker.
They came so powerfully to the support
of Murphy that he was able to force
abandonment of the plan to Instruct for
Parker. Now the decision is to send an
Instructed delegation from New York, like
that from New Jersey. If this means
anything, it means Cleveland.
Roosevelt and the Supreme Court.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
It was said by the Democrats at the
time of the appointment of Justice Holmes
on the Supreme Bench that he was se
lected because he promised to take the
President's side In the trust coses then
pending. He took the opposite side, how
ever, in the Northern Securities case, and
will. It may be presumed, hold that side
In all the other suits coming before the
court In which the same principle Is in
volved. The Democrats charged after the
case was decided that the President was
angry at the Judge for his position, and
that he had removed him from his cir
cle of acquaintances. The circumstance
that the Judge has Just been entertained
at the White Houso shows that this story
Is just as erroneous as wa3 the other.
Tho Democrats who started the tale about
Roosevelt's "packing" of the Supreme
Court In the trust case are just as far
astray as those were who declared that
Grant did this on a critical occasion a
third of a century ago in the greenback
Instance. The Democrats are having bad
luck In their attempts tc discredit Presi
dent Roosevelt
South Might Not Be Solid.
Nashville (Tenn.) American.
We believe it lsan Injustice to the South
to say that It would give such a man as
Hearst its solid electoral vote.
The Battlefield.
(Tudor Jenks In the April Century.)
A desert place whore grew no kindly herb;
A waste of sand whero splintered rocks lay
dead.
Where rivulets flowed not nor flowers swayed
And smiting rays fell from the sun o'erhead.
One lonely figure', robed In ashen gray,
Whose patient eyes saw nothing, seeing all;
Nor marked the shadows slow-revolving
course.
The flush of dawn, the purple darkness' fall.
There rode no hosts led on by warrior kings;
No trumpets sang; there waved no banners
tray;
No fierce assaults nor routed quick retreats.
But silent hours wore out the night, the day.
Alone against a world tho leader stood
Alone where ages met the parting ways.
To guide aright whoever seeks the light.
To shame from wrong with level, loving gaze.
There was the battle waged, the victory won.
That conquered conquerors, that high above
All greatness, glory, power, and all law
Forever fixed the empery of love.
There triumphed he, our conqueror and King,
Who won for us, and made all earth his
prize;
Who gave his life for victory over death.
Who fell that mankind evermore should rise.'
SAXE VIEW OF KISHINEF.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Too much weight should not be attached
to the publication in Russia of "proclama
tions" calling upon the orthodox subjects
of the Czar to destroy tho Jews. These
proclamations are the work of fanatics,
who are well aware that the government
has made ample provision to prevent a
repetition of the violence that resulted
last year In the massacre at Kishinef.
Whatever may have been the responsibili
ty of the authorities at St Petersburg
for that outrage, and we must assume
that it was an indirect and not a direct
responsibility, there can be no doubt that
the government Is now alive to the danger
of any domestic disturbance that would
create abroad popular opinion adverse to
Russia. The demand for further massa
cre has been promptly met by the govern
ment with a warning to the newspapers
that nothing calculated to inflame re
ligious prejudices must be published any
where In the empire. This will have the
effect of localizing the efforts of the agi
tators who are endeavoring in Injure the
administration by driving the Anti-Semites
to extremes. It Is a mistake to suppose
that the military system of Russia is so
taxed by the demands of the Eastern
situation that the suppression of internal
disorder would be a difficult task. The
Provincial authorities In Bessarabia and
In other sections where feeling against
the Jews is strongest are abundantly
equipped with all the physical force re
quired to control any turbulence that Is
likely to arise. The government at St
Petersburg is entitled to fair treatment
at the hands of American newspapers
which are discussing its present relation
to the Jewish question. The civil disa
bilities of the Jews are numerous, grevl
ous, and, we think, not likely to be re
moved In the immediate future. But to
charge that the Russian government,
which continues to Inflict these disabilities.
Is in leaguo or sympathy with the anarchs
who are striving to complicate matter
by. slaughtering Jews Is to charge that
the government Is lacking In common
sense as well as in common humanity.
Voting Machine Gains Favor.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The test of a voting machine In the 14th
precinct of the Twenty-fifth Ward proved
a great success. One hundred and sixty
six voters entered the booth, but as there
was no effective contest for the Aldercnan
Ic office some of them neglected to vote
for Alderman at all. Of the 142 who did
so vote 11 cast blank ballots. Five of
these 11 moved the Democratic "party"
knob, although no Democratic candidate
was running, and six voted blanks, ap
parently with deliberate purpose. At least,
If their eyes were'open, they cannot have
failed to know what they were doing.
The total vote for each candidate and
for each referendum proposition was
known within 3 minutes of the time the
polls closed. The totals were accurate and
sure beyond any need of a recount. If
machines had been In use in every vot
ing precinct of the city the results for
the whole city would have been known
much earlier than they were, and the fig
ures for the two or three wards In which
the voting was very close would now be
settled so definitely that the candidates In
those wards would be certain today of
their fate, without the suspense of wait
ing for the official returns, or possibly for
the outcome of a contest
No criticism can be made of the machine
except that it permitted the blank votes to
to bo cast. The makers of tho machine
will doubtless know how to remedy this
defect. If defect It can bo called, so that
hereafter the columns that are not in use
can be locked off from the rest of the ma
chine. That Is a mere detail.
Tho State Board of Voting Machine Com
missioners has already certified three
.kinds of machines as meeting all require
ments of the law. Chicago can adopt any
one of them, or possibly still others, when
ever the proposition is approved by the
voters on referendum.
The cash saving In the expenses of hold
ing elections Is not the least of the argu
ments for the innovation.
Russia in Manchuria.
Review of Reviews.
In short Russia is a highly civilized
and Christian nation. Her expansion into
Siberia and Turkestan has been for the
good of those countries. Her mission has
been to establish order, to develop the re
sources of tho country, and to look after
tho general well-being of both the native
population and of the new settlers that
have crowded in. It should be noted, also,
that tho Asiatic provinces of Russia have
been acquired by less bloodshed than those
of almost any other European power, and
that In their subsequent relations with
tho natives the Russians have been pecu
liarly fbrtunato in establishing good feel
ing. . . . Our own opinion, frequently
expressed In these pages, has long been
that Russia Is in Manchuria for purposes
of upbuilding and civilization, and will
permanently remain. It is true that cer
tain gentlemen holding civil and mllltary
ofllces under the United States Govern
ment were recently quoted as expressing
strong predilections In favor of the Jap
anese cause. Such remarks were not In
compatible with the strictest observance
of neutrality by our Government; but they
were irritating and inappropriate.
Paradox of the Russian Empire."
Springfield, (Mass.) Republican.
Russia In the past has never been the
equal of some of the Western countries
in wealth, finance, Industry, agriculture,
education and culture. Yet, somehow,
she has come up. Somewhow, with her
crude organization and general poverty,
sho has borne the successive economic
and political shocks of great wars. Some
how, as her territorial march to the Pa
cific has proved, she has shown an in
contestable superiority in force to the
Asiatics with whom she has .come in con
tactexcept possibly the Japanese. Even
the warlike Turk has succumbed before
her. If wars are the drastic tests of a
nation's economic soundness and political
coherency and national fiber, then has
not Russia successfully met them from
tho time of Ivan the Terrible to the pres
ent day?
a
Facts About Japan.
The World's Work.
The empire includes 3000 islands, stretch
ing nearly 2000 miles.
Area, 151,153 square miles as largo as
the North Atlantic States.
Coal the chief wealth 9,000,000 tons
mined in 1001.
Textile production increased from ?9,
000,000 worth In 1SS6 to JS6.O00.00O worth in
10O1.
The population In 1900, 44,S05,jd7.
Day laborers receive 20 cents a day,
women servants 84 cents a month; men
servants, 51.36 a month; women farm la
borers, 53.50; men farm laborers, $15.96.
Four hundred and eighty daily papers.
War.
(Florence Earle Coates, In April Llpplncott'a
Magazine.)
In the beginning was I bom,
With man, from out the dust;
And presently, from Earth uptorn,
Came Cruelty and Lust.
Alway, tho vassals of my will.
They twain go with me still.
Where'er my flashing sword they see.
Where'er they scent my breath.
Quickly they follow after me,
Bringing despair and death;
Tet still the mighty wear, with pride,
My liveries, crimson-dyed.
Once long ago, in ages gone.
When man seemed as the brute,
I looked with dread to wisdom's dawn,
And virtue's ripening fruit;
Now sages wreathe my brow with bays.
And poets chant my praise.
And once. In little Bethlehem
Once only, not again
Peace Wore a royal diadem;
But I could trust to men,
And crucified upon a tree,
Peace is a memory I
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Ye Wily Editor.
If we cannot get ads in New Denver we
are sure of fresh eggs. The hens fly over
the fence to roll on our lawn, and we have
a nest set out back of the water barrel.
New Denver (B. C.) Ledge.
Yakima undertakers will bury you for 1
cent Send a stamp.
This time Davenport won't be drawing
on the old barn door.
Pretty soon we shall be envying those
Russians frozen in Lake Baikal.
Even in their Summer gauziness women
seem to measure the same around.
Now and then a man gets so badly rat
tled that his brains never stop jingling.
Judge Parker says nothing, but the rasp
of a'saw seems to echo from his vicinity.
With President Parker in view, the Dem
ocratic party Is minding its p's and pos
sibly Its q's.
Thirty handsome, buxom, well-to-do wid
ows In Mllwaukle! Enough to make one
turn Mormon.
Even the crooks must smile to learn that
a bunch of cockfighters were pulled In
PInkerton's barn.
Soon tho Manchurians will experience
the last horrors of war: Russia Is about
to Introduce military automobiles.
The American Bishop of Hush I3 under
arrest, but he need expect no sympathy
from this Nation of breakfast-food eaters.
The cocktails In the Kootenay Saloon, San
don, do not carry any lead or zinc New
Denver (B. C.) Ledge.
Is this a knock or a boost?
A Brooklyn family was recently In
creased by twins. The landlord raised
the rent 51 for each child. It looks as If
popper has been whipsawed.
A woman In Oregon City ha3 applied for
a divorce because her husband compelled
her to grub stumps. The reluctance of
the modern woman to support her hus
band is one of the most ominous signs of
the times.
It Is cheering to observe that the Rus
sians have already selected the place
where they will "deliver their crushing
blow" to the Japanese. All we arc wait
ing for now Is the announcement of excur
sion rates on the Siberian Railway.
The Board of Geographic Names should
confine Its attention to new names and let
the old ones go. What possible benefit
could there be in changing Cle Elum to
Clealum, as has been attempted? It would
be better to change Seattle to Sealth, or
some of the wild ways in which that old
city's name Is spelled.
Within a week or so
The Americans have killed a "large"
number of Cottas.
The British have killed 300 Thibetans.
The Dutch have killed 500 Achlnese.
The Germans have killed 300 Herreros.
Pretty soon the whole world will bo civ
ilized. That is an apt suggestion made by the
Brooklyn Eagle that falling Judge Par
ker, the Democrats should nominate Ar
thur Brisbane, the man behind the Hearst
boom. If Hearst be considered worthy,
much more should Brisbane. The only
troublo Is that Brisbane seems to have
brains, whatever may be thought of the
way he uses them.
Suppose a Japanese traveler should have
witnessed Alderman Reinberg's campaign
in Chicago, and have seen that candidate
give flowers to all the churches In his
ward, as well as a buttonhole to every res
ident? Wouldn't he have thought Chicago
tho home of a custom prettier even than
any in his own Flowery Kingdom! The
stranger might even have gone so far a3
to commend tho custom of America to his
own countrymen at election time, little
knowing that flowers took the place of
beer on this occasion merely becauso Al
derman Reinberg Is a florist by trade.
The only good poetry is one-sided poetry.
The poet must be hopelessly prejudiced, or
he cannot write dope that Is worth read
ing. Milton on the Piedmontese and Will
lam Watson on the Boers or the Ameri
cans are examples. Occasionally, however,
tho result is comical. Edith Thomas
comes out flat-footed in favor of Russia,
saying, among other things:
For lol thou hadst Peace In thy heart; her
altar with honors had drest;
Thy Prince, as her servant, had sought In
her name through the East and the West;
The Nations responded, confirming their faith
with pledges and prayers.
Thine was the sword In aheath thy bo3om
no knowledge of perfidy bears;
Covertly struck thy foe, ere yet was the
watchword, "War!"
Shame upon Japan for striking a coun
try with Peace in her heart and less than
half a million soldiers on her debatablo
borders!
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Tom Are you on the water wagon now?
Dick No; but my milkman I3. Town Topics.
"Weren't you happier when you were poor?"
"Yes; but I'd rather be envied than snubbed."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tommy-When was the Reign of Terror, Pa?
Pa Last week, when the cook acted as If she
was going to leave. Detroit Tribune.
Mrs. Wlggs Cook has only broken one dls'i
today, dear. Mr. Wlggs That'a better. Haw
did that happen? Mrs. WIgss It was the hut
one. Scraps.
Office Boy I've got th toothache. Bookkeep
erPooh! I've got rheumatism In both knees,
a stiff neck and a headache. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
Lady Caller But I thought children were net
tolerated In these apartments? Hostess Ah,
but you see, we named the baby after the
Janitor. Town Topics.
Larry I eent Maude a snake In alcohol fcr a
Joke. Harry What did she do? Larry Ofc.
she returned It In the same spirit In which It
waa sent. Princeton Tiger.
"Burroughs seems to consider himself tha
'glass of fashion.' " "Now that you mention
It, there must be something glass about him.
He's 00 easily broke." Philadelphia Ledger.
"So you object to your colleague quotlns
Shakespeare?" "Certainly," answered Scnatcr
Sorghum. "Why should he advertise Shake
speare? It ain't business." Washington Star.
Mr. Sloman It's so strange that wo have
no national flower. We certainly should havo
one. Miss Walto (significantly) Yes; I think,
the orange blossom would be nice. Philadel
phia Press.
Mistress We might have some spaghetti
for lunch. Cook We have none in the houso.
Mistress I thought I ordered some only last
week. Cook You did, but tho coachman
used 'em to clean his pipe. Cleveland Lead
er. The Lady Dear me! How Is It when you big
boys start fighting that poor little quiet fellow
always gets hit? Tommy Tough Why, mum.
we aro playing de Russians an' de Japs, an
we make believe he's a Corean. Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Vacation? No, Indeed!" exclaimed Dr.
Price-Price. "I can't afford to take one now.
There are quite a number of ray patients
who require constant nursing." "Oh! come
now," replied the hard-headed man, "you'ro
rich enough to let them get well." Phila
delphia Public Ledger,