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PORTLAND, HODAY, APRIL 29, 1004.
OREGON'S POLITICS.
Two years ago the plurality for Judge
Bean was 17,146. That for Judge Moore
should be at least 20,000 now. By such
majority the Republicans of Oregon
should open the Presidential campaign.
In recognition of his own character,
and for what he has done for the state,
President Roosevelt is entitled to it.
Such majority will have its effect upon
every part of the country. In the First
District Representative Hermann de
serves and will command the full Re
publican majority. It Is not true that
there is any Republican opposition to
him. Nor is it true that he does not
stand well at "Washington. He did not
agree with the Secretary of the In
terior, in matters of administration,
and therefore was retired from the Gen
eral I,and Office; but no charges affect
ing his integrity in that office or any
other have ever been made. In his
work at "Washington, as Representa
tive, he Is painstaking and laborious,
and his familiarity with the methods of
Congress gives him great advantage.
No man did more for the Lewis and
Clark bill. His plurality In the district
can hardly fall below 7000, and may be
much larger. That for "Williamson will
reach 10,000, certainly. It was nearly
that two years ago. Oregon's obliga
tion to the Republican party of the
United States, and to President Roose
velt, Is to make these majorities as big
as possible, so they will tell upon the
fortunes of the Presidential campaign.
ZEAL MISDIRECTED.
The Oregonlan cannot but fear, and
Indeed it believes, that exceeding In
justice and terrible wrong have been
done by those persons who have made
attack upon the honor, decency, purity
and behavior of members of the Port
land High School. It simply does not
believe the accusations; but would
rather believe the accusations came
from scandal-mongers, who in the name
of "reform," delight to work up pruri
ent sensations. It comes from the
holier-than-thou disposition of ecclesl
astlcism, which lacking the spiritual
quality that should interest the sober
mind of the community in efforts for
support of virtue, takes up this mere
tricious work for sensational effects
and for use in politics. It certainly is
not born of the charity that thinketh
no evil. If a community have any pest
greater than the sensational scandal
monger. The Oregonlan confesses ig
norance of it. In this case It believes
a terrible Injustice has been done.
Moreover, If there be ground, even for
suspicion, in such a matter, quiet ac
tion about it is better. It is horrible to
push such things into notoriety un
less the necessity be Imperative. In
cases of this kind the charge of pruri
ency and lubricity would often He just
ly against the accuser, rather than the
accused. The notoriety In this case
has been exceedingly painful, and was
unnecessary; nor has It been favorable
to decency and virtue, but the contrary.
And what is worse than all, it Is open
to the suspicion of a terrible Injustice.
SAME OLD QUESTION.
"Local option" is simply attempted
prohibition by municipal subdivisions.
In past times The Oregonlan has writ
ten its opinion of prohibition as a pol
icy. It has since seen no reason to
change or retract that opinion. It
never has been able to think that it is
necessary to put the people under leading-strings
of the law. In the matter
of their personal and private conduct.
If there Is a demand and a market for
any commodity, let it be sold; but of
course in the case of certain classes of
commodities, as liquors, under such re
strictions as to taxation or otherwise as
the circumstances may require. "When
prohibition as a state policy was before
the people of Oregon some years ago It
was rejected, on principle, by an Im
mense majority. The principle is the
same when it comes as a proposal for
prohibition by subdivisions of the state,
or within the state. It may become
necessary yet to present and to discuss
once more the whole question, In the
light of the principles brought out and
passed upon by the people of Oregon
some years ago. The entire principle of
public and of private liberty, and of the
proper function of the state, is Involved
in It.
It Is not to be argued that because
government successfully manages the
postal system though there Is always a
deficit It could therefore certainly con
duct the railway transportation system
of the country. Government has no
property, worth mention in the postal
business. It hires the transportation
of the malls. The difference between
this simple proposition and that of the
ownership and administration of the
railways, worth thousands of millions
of dollars, cuts out comparison alto
gether. In our country government
will not own and operate the railways.
Such undertaking would change Its
whole nature, and transform it Into a
politico-socialistic despotism.
'0 SENSE OF HISTORICAL PROPORTION.
Grant's birthday, like the birthday of
Lincoln, is a worthy subject of univer
sal National commemoration, but since
Grant, like Lincoln, was a man of sim
plicity of character,, a man of veracity,
free from personal arrogance, a man
who detested exaggerated praise, is it
not about time that the orators on
Grant's birthday manifest a decent
sense of historical proportion when they
attempt to assign him his Just place In
the temple of fame? Mayor "Williams,
who knew Grant personally, correctly
described him on a previous occasion as
a large man in large affairs and a small
man in small affairs, meaning by this
doubtless that the strong sense which
served him in the settlement of the Ala
bama claims, In his veto of the infla
tion bill, In his desire to annex Santo
Domingo, In his veto of the equaliza
tion of bounties bill, in his advice to
Hayes to withdraw the Federal troops
from the South, failed him In petty
politics, where cheap professional poli
ticians found It not difficult to Impose
upon his credulity. But the indelible
mark of Grant In history is that made
not by his civic statesmanship, but by
his military career. There Is no dispute
that Grant was a very able soldier, but
there is little, .If any, historical justifi
cation for the assertion made by Major
R. H. Evans, TJ. S. A., that "Grant has
taken his place as one of the great
commanders of history, the peer of
Hannibal, Caesar and Napoleon."
Major Evans could fairly answer that
he had heard this estimate of Grant
pronounced before by a great many
men who were old enough to know bet
ter; but that such extravagant state
ments have obtained a certain popular
currency Is a sound reason why they
should be challenged to proof. This
view of Grant Indicates a total absence
of all sense of historical proportion.
Suppose an able lawyer, like ex-Senator
Edmunds, should die tomorrow.
would it not seem rather extravagant
to class him with John Marshall as a
great jurist or "Webster as a great law
yer? And yet It would be no more
gross violation of a just sense of his
torical prportlon than this naming of
Grant as the peer of Hannibal, Caesar
and Napoleon. Surely the time has
come, forty years after the close of the
Civil War, to treat both Grant and Lee,
not as Union and Confederate parti
sans, not even as Americaji soldiers,
but as historical captains In the mili
tary history of the modern world. The
test of generalship was carefully con
sidered by Napoleon at St Helena and
fairly set forth by him. Napoleon's mili
tary career is accepted by the educated
English, French, German and American
military commanders of today as estab
lishing his fame beyond cavil as the
greatest soldier that ever lived, of
whose career we. have full and au
thentic details. The military campaigns
of his prime are considered models of
the military art today, and his military
maxims delivered at St. Helena are ac
cepted today as authority in strategy
and grand battle tactics.
At St. Helena Napoleon's political and
military career had closed beyond all
hope of further expansion. He could"
afford to express his sincere judgment
concerning the great soldiers of the
world. His own fame as a matchless
soldier was beyond cavil; there was no
living soldier whose fame troubled him,
for even "Wellington, whose few per
sonal virtues included veracity, always
confessed with blunt frankness that
Bonaparte completely outgeneraled
both him and Blucher In the "Waterloo
campaign, thrashed Blucher out of his
boots at LIgny and would have beaten
him if Blucher had not come by 4 P. M.
"Wellington never claimed any credit
for beating Napoleon at "Waterloo. He
said? "There was no strategy or grand
tactics about It; It was just a bitter
pounding match; I held out until Blu
cher came, and that was all there was
to it." "We may accept Napoleon at St.
Helena, therefore, as a sound military
critic in his estimate of what consti
tutes the highest type of generalship.
Napolean said that while Caesar was
a great soldier and the greatest "all
around" man of antiquity, Hannibal
was the greatest military genius of an
tiquity.' Alexander was tr great soldier,
but he conquered the Persian barbarian
hordes with the trained and disciplined
troops of all Greece. His father was a
great soldier who had created a veteran
army. The Macedonian phalanx was
supported by clouds of Thessallan
cavalry, and altogether Alexander led
the finest army of the most formidable
military people of his time against an
undisciplined barbarian horde; that is,
he repeated the -triumphs of Mlltiades
because he led a disciplined army of
veterans against mere valiant numbers.
Napoleon, therefore, gave the first
place to Hannibal, who, out of the
mixed raw material of mercenaries of
all sorts, organized, disciplined and led
an army against the Romans, who were
the model soldiers of the ancient world,
so victoriously that they could not keep
the field. Caesar, a great soldier, con
quered the barbarian Gauls, with Ro
man veterans, so Napoleon gives Han
nibal the place of the greatest military
genius of the ancient world. Coming
down to modern times, Napoleon gives
the palm to Frederick the Great, of
Prussia, because for seven years he
held out against the shock of the ar
mies of Austria, Russia, France and
Sweden, and also because he was pit
ted against not only superior numbers
of valiant, disciplined soldiers, but
Austrian antagonists. Marshals Daun
and Laudohn, who were Generals of
great military talents and experience.
Napoleon said the test of ax General Is
not only the numbers that are opposed
to him, but their disciplined quality and
the military brains and capacity of
their leadership. For this reason, said
Napoleon, Frederick of Prussia Is In
the first rank of modern Generals, be
cause at Leuthen he not only with 40,
000 men beat 80,000 Austrians, but he
beat Marshal Daun, who was a very
able and experienced soldier. Then
Napoleon said In the second rank of
great soldiers of modern Europe he
would place Turenne high, as great not
only In battle but great when It was
necessary to make a well-ordered re
treat. Now, If we accept Napoleon's test of
supreme generalship as authority, it Is
clear that no General of our Civil "War
on either side met it. Grant did not
meet it, nor Jackson, nor even Lee.
Grant's "Vlcksburg campaign was his
greatest performance. Sherman pro
tested against it; all his few "West Point
officers save, we believe. General Fred
erick Steele, protested against it Sher
man filed his written protest, and Sher
man's confession on this point shows
that Grant was a greater soldier than
Sherman, for Sherman was tied to his
text-books, while Grant's hard mil
itary common sense persuaded him
that "some things could be done under
some circumstances that could not un
der others," which was practlcally
Lee's answer to his officers when Un
protested against his division of his
army before Antletam "He knew Mc
Clellan." So he did, but he lost an or
der that told McClellan all his plans.
Grant's Vlcksburg campaign was suc
cessful because Grant, a very daring
and energetic soldier, was pitted
against Pemberton, a brave and reso
lute soldier, but an incompetent Gen
eral. Jackson easily beat Shields,
Banks and Fremont In Virginia, be
cause they were mere political Generals
who did not know enough to handle a
brigade. In the "Wilderness and Pe
tersburg campaign Grant had Meade,
a very able, intellectual soldier, in com
mand of the Army of the Potomac as
executive officer. Meade had a very
able soldier. General Humphreys, as
chief of staff. "What did Grant furnish?
He furnished the moral courage that
can stand punishment, that Is not
elated by success or depressed by de
feat. If anybody but Grant had com
manded at the "Wilderness, the Union
Army would have retreated, for Lee
had blacked Grant's eyes and split his
lip and smashed his nose, but he was
not afraid of Lee, and Meade, with all
the rest of the Army of the Potomac,
were afraid of Lee. Grant was n6t a
man of military genius, but he belonged
to the "Wellington class; a grim, reso
lute. Indomitable, energetic, agile, en
terprising General, whose moral grit
was more conspicuous than his high
military genius. This was the judg
ment of his Confederate antagonist and
old comrade, Longstreet; the judgment
of Gordon and of Lee. Exceptional
moral courage rather than military
genius spells Grant
CONFIDENCE HAS ITS DANGERS.
In the collection 6f poems recently
published by a prisoner at the Oregon
Penitentiary there is one entitled
"Trust Him," written by a man who
will be known to his readers only as
"Convict No. 3692." The burden of this
man's song Is that if men would trust
their fellows more there would be less
evil in the world. He presents the mat
ter from the viewpoint of the man be
hind the bars, and doubtless thinks
that his own crime would not have been
committed if some one had trusted him
more. "While this excuse is probably
satisfying to the convict the sugges
tion forces itself upon one's mind that
perhaps his crime would not have been
committed if some one had trusted him
les3: But No. 3692 Is not alone In his
way of thinking. There are a great
many good people outside the prison
walls who believe in the efficacy of
faith in encouraging men to do right
Our friend in stripes thus expresses his
views:
Wc trust In man to save him;
Make him think he is a man;
Then the good that is within him
Strives to do the best it can.
Distrust never yet has gathered
One poor soul to God and Life,
But has often further forced him
On to hatred and to strife.
"We are all familiar with the people
who believe that it Is best to trust
others in order to make them good.
There are the fond mammas who leave
the cookie jar where Johnny can reach
it, relying upon his honor to conquer
his appetite. There is the schoolteacher
who places confidence in her pupils and
never watches to see whether they se
cure assistance at examination time.
There are the proud parents who let
their boys and girls run around at all
hours of the day and night in such
company as please them best, believing
that a character cannot be strong un
less it has learned to resist temptation.
There is the merchant who trusts his
clerk for everything and never counts
the cash. There Is the board of bank
directors which has absolute confidence
in the integrity of the cashier and
never experts his accounts. No further
enumeration is necessary we know
them all.
There are others, just as good, and
perhaps more practical, who pursue a
different policy. There Is the mother
who trusts Johnny not to eat the cook
ies stored on the top shelf In the pan
try, the teacher whose eagle eye never
loses sight of her class, the parents
who tnow that In an unguarded hour a
daughter's life may be wrecked, the
merchant who trusts his clerk but
keeps a cash register, the bank direct
ors who believe that an honest cashier
should be willing to have his books ex
amined. Good people, these, and gen
erally successful in training their chil
dren, conducting their schools or man
aging their business.
The same mall which brought a copy
of the prison poems also brought the
April number of the Atlantic Monthly,
in which is an admirable article by
George "W. Alger upon "Moral Over
strain." The writer reflects upon the
fact that an architect. In planning a
structure, Is always careful In estimat
ing the strength of the different por
tions of the building to be sure that no
part will have too great a burden
placed upon It The architect knows
that there is a limit to the strength of
each stick of timber or piece of steel,
and that If the burden exceed that limit
disaster will result The writer won
ders that men often forget that there
is a limit to the strength of human
character, and go on increasing the
burden of temptation until the crash
comes, when their surprise Is equaled
only by their condemnation of the man
whose character has been wrecked.
"While It is undoubtedly true that men
have been led into lives of usefulness
and honor because they were trusted to
do what was right. It is no less certain
that many have been started on a
downward career by being trusted too
much. It Is not the trust which the
bishop placed in Jean Valjean that
brought about that criminal's reforma
tion. Jean Valjean stole the good
man's silver, and would not have re
turned from his flight had he not been
captured. It was the bishop's kindness
in forgiving him and securing his free
dom that touched his heart and brought
him to repentance. But for his capture
and return by the officers, the bishop's
course in givlngj him an opportunity to
steal would bavo encouraged his career
of crime.
How much lesB guilty Is the tempter
than the tempted? How can the par
ent justly criticise his child or the mer
chant his clerk if the act complained
of was due to the willful or careless
placing of a temptation which might be
expected to prove too great? How long
would we have need for a prison super
intendent If he should throw open the
gates and trust the prisoners not to run
away? Even the "trusties" must be
J counted twice a day and locked up at
night Faith in our fellow-men is
necessary and proper, but it should be
exercised within reasonable limitations".
A constant display of suspicion doubt
less works Injury, but so also does an
excess of faith In the strength of hu
man character. As Mr. Alger well
says: "The duty of not putting on the
character of another a greater burden
than It can safely bear Is as Important
as any duty in the realm of morals."
THE LAND BOARD'S CAUTION.
"While there Is no apparent reason to
expect that there will be any trouble
whatever in securing patents from the
Government for the land that has been
segregated In this state under the terms
of the Carey act, it was nevertheless
well for the State Land Board to make
It clear that deeds from the state de
pend upon patents from the Govern
ment In calling attention to this con
dition the Board Is not trying to dis
suade any person from applying at
once for arid land if he wishes to do so.
The purpose of the Board evidently Is
to prevent any misunderstanding, so
that the state may not be accused of
bad faith In the future.
There was no reason to believe that
patents would be refused in the lieu
land cases, where the state's selctlons
had been approved by the local Land
Office and the General Land Office and
clear-listed to the Secretary of the In
terior. There was every reason to be
lieve that patents would issue, for they
had been granted in cases exactly sim
ilar. But the unexpected happened and
the men who held conveyances from
the state for more than five years have
found themselves without title. Many
of the lieu-land selections resulted In
good titles, but some of them did not
The lesson is plain, that a man who
takes land with an Imperfect title as
sumes the risk of losing possession.
So far as appears, the Irrigation com
panies are proceeding In good faith to
carry out their contracts of reclama
tion, and no reason appears why the
Department of the Interior should not
eventually approve the reclamation
work and issue patents conveying the
reclaimed land to the state, whereupon
the State Land Board can issue deeds
to settlers. In criticising the literature
of the Irrigation company wherein it
was stated that deeds will be Issued by
the state as soon as water has been
turned on the land and the Hen of the
company has been paid, the members
of the Land Board desired to have it
further expressly understood that the
issuance of these deeds will depend
upon the granting of patents from the
Government.
A LONG-FELT WANT.
"Writing us from Philanthropy, Kan
sas, Mr. A, G. Lee submits to the people
of Portland this attractive proposal:
If you will give an acceptable site for the
purpose, wo will locate a branch of the Inter
national Political Specialists' School and the
World's Diathetic Institute at Portland. The
parents of these Institutions have been lo
cated In the exact geographical center of the
United States of America (In Kansas), the
place to bo named Philanthropy. But the
branch that wo would establish at Portland,
as far as tho buildings, curriculum, manage
ment, etc.. would be concerned, would be
exactly the same as the parent Institutions
at Philanthropy. While one site at Portland
would suffice for "both, they are two separate
and distinct Institutions, and would require,
and have separate buildings. Although both
distinctly educational Institutions, the Inter
national Political Specialists' School Is as
different from the World's Diathetic Institute
as a theological seminary is from a medical
college.
Long and certainly as we have known
that something is lacking in Portland,
It has been left for Mr. Lee to point out
exactly what that something Is. The
crying need Is for the International Po
litical Specialists' School, and the
World's Diathetic Institute. Ever
ready as Portland Is to subscribe liber
ally for every old thing that comes
along, hat In hand, we feel sure that
the double-headed outfit represented by
Mr. Lee will cause such an outpour
ing of sites, subsidies, etc., that there
will not be room enough to receive
them all.
"We are made the more certain In this
matter by reference to "Webster's dic
tionary, wherein it is affirmed that dia
thetic means "pertaining-to or depend
ent on a diathesis," and that diathesis
Itself is "a morbid habit which predis
poses to a particular disease or class
of diseases." That is just what we
need an institution for the classifica
tion and culture of bughouse citizens,
newspaper correspondents and others.
"We need a few more diathetics to round
out our present limited supply Into a
comprehensive and harmonious whole.
How does It happen that Mr. Lee has so
long escaped us?
REGISTER NOW!
Tou haven't registered yet, some of
you, many of you; yet you can't vote in
the June election, nor in the Presiden
tial election In November, unless you
register before May 16 without an In
finite amount of trouble in securing the
six necessary householders as witnesses
on election day. It Is easy now to reg
ister. After May 16 there will be no
registration, for the books will be
closed, not to be opened again. Regis
ter nowl There are many thousands o'
electors not yet registered.
No trouble now to register; but you
can't vote either In the state election in
June, or In the Presidential election in
November, without a great deal of
trouble, unless you register before May
16, but little more than two weeks
hence. Therefore register now. In
Multnomah County alone there are
from 4000 to 5000 electors still unregis
tered. Is the electoral franchise of
value to you? Then register.
The Servians, or that portion of them
who considered King Alexander and
Queen Draga the head and front of all
of their troubles and thought that these
would be abated by the assassination
that took place in the palace at Bel
grade last June, have not realized upon
this bloody Investment. The disposal
of Alexander and the elevation of Peter
to the throne has resulted In no prac
tical benefit to the turbulent, ungov
erned country. Its finances are In as
bad a state as they were a year ago,
and life and property are no more safe
now than then. The press Is stringent
ly muzzled, and leaders In the assas
sination still contrary to the expecta
tions of the civilized nations of the
world occupy positions dose to the
throne. The Servian government has,
In fact, been practically boycotted by
the powers of Europe, most of the em
bassies having been withdrawn or al
lowed to lapse. King Peter appears to
be In the unenviable position of the
man that. has a dog by the ears. To
J let go or hold on Is equally dangerous.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Printed on Wall Paper.
Granite Gem.
This issue of the Gem is something un
usual and out of the ordinary in the way
of newspapers, but as the roads are Jn
such a bad way it was Impossible for the
stage to bring the paper stock from
Sumpter; indeed. It is a wonder wo get
any mall now. However, we hope to
Issue the regular edition next week. No
apologies offered.
A Roar for the Enemy.
Gold Hill News.
A unanimous resolution was passed with
a roar, thanking the News' representa
tive for his attendance, for which we
cheerfully return said thanks; and let us
say right here, while personally differing
in political belief, we honor any man
that 13 out and out for what he Is, but
detest a mugwump. "We are not so narrow-minded
as to close our columns to
any party political or otherwise, unless
personally arranged for, and should that
be the case, we'll tell you so in plain
print
A Musical Typewriter.
College Grovo Leader.
Clarence Morss Is not only a young
musical genius, but he has recently dem
onstrated the fact that he has somewhat
of a mechanical head on his shoulders.
Feeling the need of a more rapid means
of copying and writing music than by use
of a pen he secured an old typewriter, re
modeled It and fitted the bars up with
notes and musical characters, and is now
able to reproduce or write music with
accuracy and considerable rapidity with
this slightly altered and remodeled type
writer. This young man will no doubt
be heard from la the future.
His Multitudinous Enemies.
The Dalles Chronicle,
a newspaper man knew how many
If
knocks are received behind his back he
would adopt another calling, remarked a
citizen the other day. The citizen is mis
taken. The newspaper man who has the
elements that make success it him ex
pects to be maligned by every law-breaker,
swindler, hypocrite, carping critic
who loves notoriety, and is ignored, and
in fact by all who do not agree with him
on public and private matters. The news
paper men who expect to go throush life
without being misrepresented and unjoat
ly censured should make arrangements to
die young.
New Use for Crutches.
Weston Leader.
Newt Morgan recently hobbled In on
crutches from across Snake River, which
he swam, using them as floats on either
side. Although a cripple he is as happy
as a trilling meadow lark at being in the
old home town once more, and also at the
fine crop outlook in the county of his
adoption. Franklin County soil, ho says,
Is wet to a depth of four feet and the
rapidly-growing, grain promises fruitful
abundance. Hot winds only will spoil the
prospect Newt has a badly-poisoned foot
resulting from a wound for which he could
not get proper treatment He will be under
D. Best's care for several weeks.
Sermon From the Proof-Press.
"Wilson Creek Chief.
Frequently the editor places a piece of
molstensd white paper on the inked type
and runs a little roller over it then with
draws tho paper. He thus makes a proof
of the article written. The world Is con
stantly making proof of you, reader, your
associates and companions take Impress
ions of you, and these impressions are
read, cither to your advantage or hurt,
and often to the good or evil of others.
Every person who talks with you makes
a little proof-page while he talks and files
It away In his memory. Thus you . are
being known and read of all men, "and
thus, for happiness or sorrow, your life
is going out Into circulation.
Gambling Doesn't Make Business.
Tillamook Headlight
Not one word of logic Is contained in
the assertion that Tillamook City will
become a dead town now that gambling
is stopped. The money that went into
the coffers of the gamblers, loafers and
hangers-on will now go into the legiti
mate channels of trade and a number of
business men will reap the benefit In hav
ing back accounts paid up and less book
accounts In future, and, besides, they will
do more business. It is all tommy rot to
say that gambling makes good times In
a city like Tillamook, for, on the con
trary, wo make the assertion, that It has
an opposite effect, and every business
man is injured, more or less, by "wide
open" gambling.
Short Campaigns Best.
Olympia Tribune.
The Republicans of Oregon named a
candidate for Supremo Judge, a Food
Commissioner, Presidential Electors, del
egates to the National Convention, and
fixed up routine matters all at one con
vention, and there Is no yawning demand
for another convention, unless it may be
from the professional grafter, who Is out
in the dry pasture unless he can work
candidates, the politicians, and the dear
people ho loves so well while all aro
anxious and uncertain about what is go
ing to happen. Now the people of Oregon
can go about their business until Fall,
when a short, sharp campaign will elect
their ticket and give Roosevelt the solid
electoral vote of the state.
Oregon's Marriage Law.
North Yakima Farm and Home.
Over In Oregon there is an antediluvian
law that prohibits a County Clerk from
Issuing a marriage license unless the
groom and his witness swear the proposed
bride Is a resident of that particular
county. And then the Clerk and all par
ties construe the statute to mean that one
day's residence is sufficient -all of which
tends to the commission of perjury. And
moreover If the bride has a homestead
claim elsewhere, such oath vitiates It and
causes her to lose It Not long ago one
of our staff was requested to act as wit
ness in such a case and. declined on tho
grounds that the lady was on the train
coming from the East had not seen Ore
gon, had no Intention of residing there,
but would, as soon as the ceremony was
performed proceed to her new homo in the
State of Washington. That old moss-back
law should be repealed.
No Need to Lose Courage.
Grant's Pass Observer.
The flnel passage by the House of Rep
resentatives of the Lewis and Clark Ex
hibition appropriation bill, was no doubt
a great relief to Oregonlans In general,
and to the active promulgators of the ex
hibition In particular. After the bill
had safely run the gauntlet of the House,
there was still good hope that arrange
ments could bo made for somewhat of an
Increase in the grant, but a little Investi
gation showed that the best thing to do
was to take what was offered and "saw
wood." The amount of the appropriation
is $475,000. As a further aid $250,000 sou
venir gold dollars will be coined, which
the Fair managers expect to sell at $2
each, thus realizing $250,000. This sum
added to the appropriation amounts to
$723,000. It is a very modest sum in view
of recent grants for similar purposes, and
not all the members who opposed the bill
have any reason to be proud of the rec
ord. However, there will not be wanting
a substantial fund to make the pregon
Fair a success In a thorough-going way.
A great spread after the St Louis pattern
was not contemplated, and notwithstand
ing somewhat unexpected coolness in Con
gress, the managers of the Lewis and
Clark anniversary exhibition have no
need to lose courage. The total amount In
sight for the Fair is new $1,734,000, and this
may reasonably be expected to be in-
I creased, to $2,000,000,
DIRTY DRAMAIX BERLIN-
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
A theater -of a certain class in Berlin
has recently been regaling its audiences
with a farce In which President Roose
velt and hl3 daughter, a girl In her teens,
figure among the leading characters. The
President Is represented as a rough
rider, while his daughter appears appar
ently as a somewhat exaggerated "Daisy
Miller," with a "decided American
twang." The performance, according to
the cabled report "excited much amuse
ment" Apparently, too, it excited something
more, for the authorities stepped in and
forbade the appearance on the bills of
the names of the President and his daugh
ter. Thereafter they figured as "Mr. and
Miss Washington," a not overwhelming
concession to propriety or common de
cency. Whether from the cosmopolitan charac
ter of our population or for a less easily
definable reason such apresentation as
that originally made in Berlin would
have been Impossible In any city of the
United States. It would have been re
sented by native and foreign-born citizens
alike. American farce and caricature are
none too refined, but any one reasonably
familiar with the cheaper publications,
especially periodicals, of Continental
Europe, is aware that gross-iess of an
offensive type is often regarded as essen
tial to humor. American papers of a k nd
often insult a nationality, or at times an
entire race, but to see Emperor William
or King Edward portrayed on the stage
as offensively as President Roosevelt
was pictured In Berlin one would have
to go beyond American borders.
And if an American farce writer or
caricaturist would spare the ruler of a
great nation, still more would he be de
terred from insulting a young girl who
could havo no political Importance or pos
sibility of such. The latter aspect of the
matter is made even more ugly by reason
of the fact that not long ago Emperor
William paid a kind and exceptionally
high compliment to the young woman
who was so shamefully affronted in a low
theater in his capital.
It is gratifying to reflect that should
Emperor William and his little daughter
be thus pictured, even as "Herr and Frau
leln Hohenzollern," In an American the
ater the women in the audience would
leave, and If the men remained it would
be only to "start something" for the en
lightenment of the management
A Union .Novelty.
Cnicago Chronicle.
Things new and strange are always
happening in large cities, and the latest
in Chicago Is the action of the Carriage
and Wagonworkers' Union in punishing
by fine and by prosecution in a Police
Court one of its members for slugging
a nonunion workman.
This action on the part of a union is
said not to bo absolutely without prece
dent and yet nothing like it has been
known for such a long time that It must
bo regarded as highly significant of re
turning reason In organized labor circles.
If IL should be extensively imitated It Is
not too much to predict that labor unions
may become as respectable as any other
human societies.
There is need of trades unions, but not
of .iuch bands of sluggers and criminals
as now go by that name. A trades
union ought to be able to say to an em
ployer: "We have no members except
superior workmen of clean moral char
acter and Industrious habits. We will
work for a fair price and fair hours, we
will guarantee the fidelity of every one
of our members whom you may employ
and we will give you any security you
may ask for the strict fulfillment of our
contracts."
Roosevelt's Probable Running-Mate.
E. G. Dunnell, In Leslie's Weekly.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana,
now regarded by many Republicans as al
most certain to be nominated for Vice
President on tho Roosevelt ticket to be
made at Chicago, is in more ways than
one a conspicuous member of the Senate
of the United States. To the pilgrim to
Washington who first sees him from the
Senate gallery his figure naturally arrests
attention by reason of his superior stat
ure. He stands six feet of substantial,
well-nourished, vigorous manhood, a dig
nified realization of the best Ideas of what
a Senator should be. The dignity that
hedges this Senator, however, Is without
pomposity or affectation; the composure
of a man of serious life and habit of
thought but a cheerful man who finds it
not incompatible with devotion to public
duties to get along amicably with all per
sons with whom he may be brought In
contact.
The Japanese Paradox.
New York Globe.
The Western mind finds it difficult to
understand the Japanese temperament
Thero is such a mixture of modernity
and medievalism, such a combination of
the Occident and the Orient such an In
tertwining of superstition and science,
that it Is not easy for U3 to unravel Its
qualities. Tho Japanese aro able to unite
enthusiasm with quiet behavior, lmpetu
ousness with a high degree of craft, the
mo3t ardent militarism with a spirit
which leads to giving war vessels the
names of flowers. Probably no other
people In the world Is at once so warlike
and so pacific, so masculine and so fem
inine, so childlike and so mature, so fierce
and so polite. What to us seem the most
contradictory traits exist side by side.
Our Occidental Imaginations thus find It
practically Impossible" either to analyze
or to synthesize the Japanese, although
forced to recognize the formidableness of
tho resultant of the national traits.
A Gloucester Skipper's Song.
Jomea B. Connolly In Scrlbner's.
Oh, Newfoundland and Capo Shore men, and
men of Gloucester town.
With ye I've trawled o'er many banks and
sailed the compass roun';
I've ate with ye. and watched with ye, and
bunked with ye, all three.
And better shipmates than ye were I never
hope to see.
I've seen ye In the wild typhoon beneath a
Southern sky,
I'vo seen ye when the Northern gales drove
seas to masthead high;
Bat Summer breeze or Winter blow, from
Hatt'ras to Cape Race,
I've yet to see ye with the sign of fear upon
your face.
There's a galo upon the waters and there's
foam upon the sea.
And looking out the window Is a dark-eyed
girl for me
And driving- her for Gloucester, maybe we
don't know
What tho little ones are thinking when the
mother looks out so.
Oh, the children In the cradle and the father
out to sea.
The husband at the helm and looking
westerly
When you get to thinking that way, don't it
make your heart's blood foam?
Be sure it does so here's a health to those
we lovo at home I
Oh, the roar of shoaling waters, and the
awful, awful sea.
Busted shrouds and parting cables, and the
white death on our lee!
Oh, the black, black night on Georges, when
eight score men were lost!
Were ye there, ye men of Gloucester? Aye.
ye were; and tossed
Like chlp3 upon tho water were your little
craft that night
Driving, swearing, calling out, but ne'er a
call of fright:
So knowing ye for what ye are, ye masters
of the sea. N
Here's to ye. Gloucester fishermen, a health
to ye from me!
And here's to It that once again
Weil trawl and seine and raco again;
Here's to us that's living and to them that's
gone before!
And when to us the Lord says "Come,"
Weil bow our heads, "His will be done."
And all together we shall go beneath the
ocean's roar.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Gas almost ended Field's end men.
Evidently Knox knows thero are trusts.
A criminal libel in those Japanese char
acters must be a terrible affair.
Owen Wister must have made money
out of "The Virginian," as he is now able
to have appendicitis.
No doubt the cock in General Stoesell's
poultry yard at Port Arthur feels flat
tered at having his leg broken by a 12
inch shell.
The Japanese aboard the Kinshiu Maru
should have reflected that it would em
barrass the enemy more to take them as
prisoners than to sink them.
Pleasant state of affairs at "Wardner,
where a Justice of the Peace Is arrested
on a vagrancy charge, preferred by a man
he had just sentenced under the same law.
Commenting upon the fact that it took
the champion walker of Morrow County
56 seconds to walk from one lone saloon
to the other, the West Side Enterprise
says that no such distance is allowed be
tween saloons In that part of the state.
They were on the way to India, says
the Sporting Times, and as they were
crossing the restless Bay of Biscay, one
innocent young lady, speaking to an
other, said:
"Why do the stewards come in and
open or shut the portholes at odd times
during the day and night?"
Second and better informed lady:
"My dear, they shut or open them when
the tide rises or falls."
An American of hitherto undoubted ve
racity tells this story of a restaurant in
Berlin to which he and a friend went one
evening, according to the Youths' Com
panion: The fare and the music were so good
and the. people about them so amusing
that they lingered on and on. When at
last they rose to go the American's hat
was not to be found.
"What sort of hat was It mein Herr?"
Inquired the stolid person In charge.
"It was a new top hat," said the Amer
ican, briskly.
"Ach, but, mein Herr, all the new hats
have been gone for halt an hour," said
the German, placidly.
"It Is embarrassing sometimes to pur
sue a direct line of questioning," said
President Eliot, of Harvard, in telling
about a recent visit to New York, says the
Press. He Just had dined at a hotel In
Fifth avenue where the man who takes
care of the hats at the dining-room door
Is celebrated for his memory about the
ownership of headgear.
"How do you know that Is my hat?"
the collegian asked as his silk tile was
presented to him.
"I don't know It, sun," said the door
man. "Then why do you give it to me?" in
sisted President Eliot.
"Because you gave it to me, suh," re
plied the darkey.
He was a curly-headed boy with life be
fore him. says the Philadelphia Tele
graph. She wag a little girl with a saucy
pug nose, but wise, it would seem, beyond
her years. The fact that she was nursing
a doll with eyes that opened and shut
with a click may have been his inspira
tion. "Say, sister, I t'ink I'd get married if
I knew how."
"Oh, that's easy," replied the owner of
the pug nose. "First you buy a diamond
ring and give It to her; then you buy a
gold ring, like mamma's got, and give
that to her. And then you must buy her
a watch for her birthday."
"An' what she give me?" expectantly
asked the little chap.
"Why, nuthln', of course," smartly re
plied his little companion.
"Say, sister," he added, "I guess I
won't marry."
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Resorts enable those who can afford It to
suffer either with heat or with cold, as they
choose. Puck.
"The silence," she said, "was something ap
palling." "Silence!" he repeated. "1'es."
"But weren't you there?" Exchange.
"She Is one of the best-Informed women In
town." "No wonder; she's got the snoopiest
servant girl In the whole place." Boston
Globe.
Thespls How did tho star come to discon
tinue her divorce suit? Foyer Why, the
Judgo said he would give It a private bear
ing. Puck.
How Ho Felt. "Didn't you feel like killing
the waiter when he stood you up for a tip?"
"Yes, I felt like giving him no quarter." Cor
nell Widow.
"Whatever are you children doing?" "Oh.
we've found pa's false teeth, and we're try
ing to fit them to tho baby, 'cos he hasn't got
any!" Punch.
Thought. Thought Is the most wonderful
thing in the world. No man ever kicked a
bulldog after stopping to think twice. Chicago
Record-Herald.
"Moving cost me over $400 this year." "Rent
higher?" "No, my wife has been trying to
outdreas a rich woman who lives next door to
us." Chicago Journal.
"Ah, there, my Japonlca!" cried the Russian
picket to his rival across the stream. "Ah,
there, my czardlne!" cried the picket on the
other side. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pete Sure! I made 75 cents de odder day In
a crap game! Pearl An ain't you ascared de
police might run you la? Pete Naw! It's all
bluff 'bout keepin de lid on. Puck.
Tramp I'd like to borry a medical almanac,
mum. Housekeeper What for? Tramp I wants
to see 'not th' doctors recommend fer an empty
feelln In th' stummlck. New York Weekly.
"You said you would send the coal up within
21 hours." complained the Irate householder.
"We did." replied the coal dealer. "We seat
It up another dollar a ton." Chicago Post
Miss Hunter Weren't you surprised when you
heard about my horse running away with me?
Mr. Jollier Not very. I'd do the same thine
myself If I got the chance. Chicago Chronicle.
Walkerlong What kind of a show have you
got this season? Tletredder Oh. It's a prob
lem play. Walkerlong What's the problem?
Tletredder As to whether we get our salaries
or not. Pittsburg Post.
Census Taker To what religious denomination
do you belong, young man? Young Man
Well, I dunno. The church that had the best
Christmas tree ain't goln' ter have no picnic
this Summer. Boston Post.
"I wasn't always in this condition," Bald the
ossified man in the dime museum. "How did
It happen?" asked the obese lady. "A girl
once gave me the marble heart, and It spread,"
explained the hardened freak. Chicago News.
"Why do men never gossip?" asked the
woman who regards her husband as a great
and good man. "Because." answered Mtea
Cayenne, "they are too indolent. Then Insist
on pending their wives out to get the news
for them." Washington Star.
"That was a great sermon you preached thia
morning," said the old deacon, "and it was
well-timed, too." "Yes," rejoined the parson,
with a deep sigh. "I noticed that." "Noticed
what?" asked the puzzled deacon. "That sev
eral of the congregation looked at their watches
frequently," answered the good man, with an
other deep sigh. Chicago Dally News.
"Dear me!" exclaimed the beautiful young
actress, as she went behind the scenes after
doing her turn in the first act'in one reepect
the auditorium of this theater Is absolutely the
worst ever! It's perfectly terrible!" "What's
the matter with It?" asked one of the stage
hands. "Its acoustics." "There!" he grumbled;
"I told the old man not to turn It on tonight,
1 but ho Just would do It." Chicago Tribune.