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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1904.
"TIIE WEAL PUBLIC."
This quaint phrase occurs many times
In old English. The modern usage is
not In that form, but the meaning is
unmistakable. The public weal may be
supposed the object of all parties. But
as one party or the other Republican
or Democratic is to win this year, and
the policy of one or the other is to con
trol the country, it is a legitimate in
quiry which of them would be the more
likely to control It so as to minister
the better to "the weal public."
There has been a good deal of experi
ence with political parties in our coun
try; so that there are now materials
enough to form a basis of comparison
between them. Parties are to be
Judged not so much by their profes
sions as by the general tenor and course
of their history. Comparison or con
trast of the records of the two main
parties does not, it must be said, afford
any real ground for expectation that
the Democratic party, now again about
to contest for the helm of the country,
would be a useful substitution for the
Republican.
Looking to the common welfare and
general prosperity, what is offered
through the Democratic party.? It is
unable to formulate any definite policy.
It was a rampant Bryan party in 1896,
and again In 1900; on the assumption
that maintenance of the gold standard
would sell the country to plutocracy.
But now Its tendency is towards Par
ker, or some similar man, who would
bring the plutocrats forward with a
great campaign fund. Very probably
the swing will be from one extreme to
the other. It is not likely soon to" be
forgotten how deplorable was the
business condition of the country when
the Democratic party was last in
power; or how, as soon as it was eject
ved, business and Industry righted them
selves and prosperity was resumed.
"We shall be told, of course, that fur
ther ascendancy of the Republican
party will be a menace to liberty and
will threaten the Ideals of the country
with destruction. But such claptraps
can get no serious attention. The ad
ministration of the affairs of the coun
try is on a sound basis, and prosper
ity is very general. What more can be
desired? Hardly a new experience
with the Democratic party, so long as
conditions from 1S93 to 1897 shall be re
membered. HAS RUSSIA LEARNED ANYTHING?
The most favorable view that can be
taken of the events on the Yalu is in
accordance with the premeditated re
treat of the Russian forces toward Har
bin; but if we grant them this view of
their withdrawal, the fact remains that
the retreat Is marked by losses and by
obvious inferiority to the Japanese In
tactics and strategy, which go far to
offset whatever moral advantage Rus
sia hopes eventually to gain by in
creasing nearness to her own base, and
Increasing distance of the Japanese
from their base.
The most intelligent discussion of the
military situation In Southern- Man
churl, that we have seen Is the long
Interview with Baron Hayashi at Lon
don. "With engaging frankness, the
baron admits that the victory Is not
as decisive as. he could have wished,
and points out that in any event it is
only a question of time when these Jap
anese victories will cut but little figure,
in view of the inevitable day when Rus
sia assumes the offensive and Japan
must find ways to resist the onset of
superior Russian force. It seems to us
that if Baron Hayashi errs at all It is
on the side of conservatism. In an ex
cess of caution he may undervalue the
significance of the Yalu operations.
Military critics will be powerfully Im
pressed with the fact that Kuroki out
played Kuropatkln at every point in the
game. The Russian losses were sus
tained in a wise effort to cover the re
treat of other parts of the army; but
adequate strategy would have prevent
ed the Japs from putting the Russian
forces In that extremity. The Japanese
have carried out their crossing of the
Yalu on precisely the lines followed by
them ten years ago, and the Russians
have enacted the 'part of helpless China
a3 faithfully as If It had been laid out
for them. In view of this comparison
in military acumen, the official Russian
observation that it is Important to
know where the Japanese army is all
the time would appear a superfluous
bait for sarcastic replies.
Ail the world knows that the Russian
soldier will cheerfully endure to stand
in his tracks and be slaughtered until
whole divisions have been swept away.
But that does not spell victory, nor Is It
a subject orf which the world is await
ing information. What wins battles in
these days is not fortitude, but brains.
Russia cannot reconquer Manchuria in
the old way by dogged advance of im
mense columns, which will only serve
as food for modern magazine guns with
open formation in skillful hands. What
is required to know now is whether
Russia has learned anything, for Japan
has evidently learned everything. It
Is hard to see how the military caliber
that put up Sunday's blundering de
fense can organize successfully the
more difficult task of offense.
A DEMOCRATIC GALAXY.
The Democratic dilemma is diversi
fied by two diverse and coincident ap
pearances one the Hearst victory in
Chicago, the other the Cleveland lecture
at Princeton. In view of the previous
strength of Mr. Carter Harrison, the
signal victory scored over him by the
Bryan-Hearst combination is certain to
revive the drooping spirits of the anti
Parker agitators, albeit Chicago may
not and probably will not dominate the
Illinois State Convention. No one need
suppose that the Bryan-Hearst people
will be without power at St. Louis, if
not to name their flrstcholce, at least
to defeat the first choice of the reor
ganizers. Cynical though it may seem, we can
only interpret Mr. Cleveland's revival
of his wholly commendable undertak
ings in the labor difficulties of 1891 as
a modest but insistent reminder of his
worth. It is not to be supposed that
Mr. Cleveland's suggestion that he es
tablished a binding precedent at Chi
cago and Sacramento will be taken seri
ously by the country at large. It is in
conceivable that he himself supposes
any such thing. One can only feel,
therefore, that his deliberate calling at
tention to his record in that affair Is to
set people to thinking about himself at
an opportune moment.
That Mr. Cleveland's indorsement of
Parker has injured the latter's chances
no sincere observer can doubt. That
indorsement was Instantly seized upon
by Democrats in House and Senate
who have prided themselves upon their
"regularity," as a casus belli against
Parker, and it has given great aid and
comfort to the Bryan-Hearst opera
tions. As things stand, however, we
are- unable to see any practical issue of
Mr. Cleveland's enterprise. What Bryan
man, hating Parker because Cleveland
commends him, can be induced as an
escape from Parker to take Cleveland
himself? Harrison, probably, is elimi
nated; but Olney and McClellan. are
left, and, in a pinch, Francis of St.
Louis.
LET US EXTEND THE HOSPrrALITIES.
Much of the immigration that is now
coming to Oregon Is of a class greatly
needed. Farmers accompanied by their
wives and children, and having the ap
pearance of men and families of the In
dustrious, thrifty type, should receive
cordial welcome and all the assistance
In the way of Information which our
people or those among us to whom ap
plication is made in this line can give.
In a general way these people know
where they are going; specifically they
know what they want A little intelli
gent and kindly interest in them, shown
upon their arrival by people who are to
become their neighbors and fellow-cltl-zens,
will do much toward giving them
a pleasant first impression of the coun
try, so essential in warding off home
sickness and so conducive to a cheerful
spirit and to a right start in a strange
location.
Some people In our rural districts
who are known as "old settlers" and
are proud of the title have been at
times censured for a lack of hospitality
and friendliness toward newcomers.
Little effort, it has been said, has been
made to make the stranger setting up
his habitation In some of the more
sparsely settled neighborhoods "feel at
home." Discouraging accounts have
been given of the rainy season; bad
roads have been dilated upon; school
facilities and social conditions have
been criticised. In short, Instead of
putting the best of all that Is good be
fore the newcomers, the disagreeable
things of life that are common to all
new locations, but as the intelligent
and loyal Oregonlan believes are found
here in less proportion than in any
other place, are exploited and made
much of.
It is, difficult to believe that these
charges have any basis beyond that
provided by the dismal notes of the
croaker, who expected to find In Ore
gon a chance to live without work, and,
through his disappointment and failure
to get on In the world from causes In
herent in his own makeup, has "turned
sour." Industrious, thrifty farmers of
Oregon are almost without exception
contented with thejr conditions and
surroundings. The slipshod ne'er do
well charges his nonsuccess In life to
the climate, to Industrial conditions, to
low prices for agricultural products, to
lack of a market to anything, Indeed,
except the right thing. There are peo
ple of this class in Oregon, of course;
they are to be found everywhere. But
even these "get along," to use their
own phrase so comprehensive and yet
so narrow much better in the Pacific
Northwest than It would be possible
for them where the climate is rigorous
and crops fluctuate In yield and occa
sionally fall altogether.
Immigrants arriving in Portland and
proceeding on up the Willamette Valley
or out Into the Umpqua or Rogue River
Valleys at this time are to be most
cordially congratulated. The country,
even from the car windows and viewed
by tired, anxious eyes, presents a grand
panorama of vernal beauty. This first
Impression of the land, with its promise
of abundance, with proof on every hand
and still descending in occasional
showers that It is well watered, with
villages, their church spires and com
modious schoolhouses passing at fre
quent Intervals before the car win
dows; with lush meadows and luxuri
ant grain fields and orchards over
which the "snowflakes of the apple and
cherry blossoms" dance and shimmer
surely these delights of Spring and of
Nature, together with the promise of
harvest abundance, must appeal pleas
antly and hopefully to farmers and
their wives and children who are com
ing now by the trainload to make their
homes in Oregon. Let somebody
everybody with whom these strangers
come in contact make it a point of
conscience to welcome them and to an
swer fully, cheerfully and truly all
questions asked by the homeseekers.
Welcome is their due; to extend It Is
our duty.
There has seldom been a more pa
thetic spectacle before any court than
that presented when James N. Tyner
was borne In an Invalid's chair into a
Washington courtroom last Monday to
answer to the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the Government in connection
with the postal frauds lately discov
ered. General Tyner Is 76 years old,
and much more feeble than even this
length of years alone would justify.
He had been In the service of the Gov
ernment in the Postal Department for
half a lifetime. A competent man In
his prime, and honest and public-spirited
as well, he has, as recent events
indicate, in late years become the sport
and prey of younger spirits. Feeble,
emaciated, worn with anxiety, appre
hensive of conviction, cowering under
humiliation, his aspect as he was car
ried before the bar of Justice to make
answer to a criminal charge was an
arraignment of the act of placing and
keeping burdens upon the aged which
should oe borne by younger men as a
grave political blunder. It is not prob
able that this old man was an arch
conspirator in the postal frauds with
which his name is connected. He was
most likely the tool, or unwittingly
the confederate, of the venal crew that
schemed and planned and defrauded
the Government. It Is a matter of sin
cere regret that he did not retire from
the official swimming pool while yet
his strength was sufficient to battle
against the undertow that finally drew
him down.
A TERRIBLE STORY.
Under the caption of "The Reign of
Lawlessness, Anarchy and Despotism,"
Ray Stannard Baker, in the current
number of McClure's Magazine, tells
the story of the Colorado mining situa
tion, which has small promise yet of an
early settlement, although it is over a
year ago since the troops were called
out and 3000 are still in service to keep
the strikers quiet. Governor Peabody
calls it an insurrection against the state
authorities, while Judge Stevens, of the
District Court at Ouray, says that the
Governor is responsible. The original
trouble grew out of a strike of the
Western Federation of Miners, who
sought to enforce an eight-hour day
law. The miners succeeded in getting
an eight-hour law passed In 1899, but
It was declared by the courts to be un
constitutional. A constitutional amend
ment was then submitted to the people,
making it imperative upon the Legisla
ture to pass such an act, and the
amendment was adopted, but the Legis
lature has not complied with the
amendment. The failure of the Legis
lature to act led the Federation of Min
ers to order a strike.
The mining operators complained of
the destruction of their property by the
strikers and the Governor ordered out
the troops a year ago. Charles H.
Moyer, president of the Western Feder
ation of Miners, was arrested a few
weeks ago and Judge Stevens' ordered
that he be produced before him. This
demand was refused, but the State Su
preme Court issued a similar writ and
Governor Peabody decided to respect it.
The end Is not yet. These are the fun
damental facts of the story that is re
cited with a wealth of detail in Mc
Clure's. Governor Peabody is a banker,
closely identified with tho conservative
business interests of the state, who de
clared martial law in the Cripple Creek
district and Telluride, proclaiming that
anarchy existed, civil government had
become abortive, life was in peril and
property unsafe. In the exercise of
martial law that followed the Governor
suspended in one case the writ of hab
eas corpus, established and enforced
military censorship of the press, made
arrests without warrants and without
charges, suppressed free speech and
free press as imperiously as It is ever
done In Russia. The whole force of the
Victor Record was arrested and placed
in the bullpen without warrant and
without formal charges, although it
was understood that the editor had crit
icised the methods of the soldiery.
Small boys and even women were ar
rested and Bent to the bullpen for
speaking disrespectfully of the soldiers.
Private homes were entered and
searched without warrant for arms.
Ex-Congressman Glover, for standing
upon his constitutional right to own
and keep arms, was attacked in his
law office, shot through the arm and
forced to surrender himself a prisoner
to the soldiery. Twenty-six leaders of
the Western Federation of Miners were
arrested, placed under military guard
and deported to the boundary line of
the county and ordered not to return.
These men had long been citizens of
Telluride, owned property there, had
their wives and families there. The de
fense of the mlneowners and prominent
citizens of Colorado for these acjs of
military usurpation, which Include the
expulsion of citizens from their homes
and refusal to allow them to return,
is that these expatriated citizens be
long to "the Western Federation of
Miners," which is defined to be "a so
cialistic organization of lawless and
violent men that had its birth in Butte
City during the lawless copper war be
tween Marcus Daly and Senator Clark;
that practiced rebellion In the Coeur
d'Alene confllot of Idaho; that in places
where its members are striking life and
property are not safe."
So cordially hated Is this miners' or
ganization that citizens' alliances have
sprung up all over Colorado and have
worked with the associations of mine
owners in fighting this Western Fed
eration of Miners. In August, 1903, the
Western Federation of Miners ordered
a strike In the Cripple Creek" district
and the Telluride district; In both
places It was a sympathetic strike, be
cause the miners In both places were
absolutely contented with the excellent
conditions of their work. But the strike
was ordered to bring recalcitrant mill
and smelter-owners in Colorado City
and Denver to terms by cutting oft
their supplies of ore. The contented
miners were not consulted as to wheth
er they wished to go out or not, be
cause the Western Federation of Min
ers at Its last convention passed a reso
lution placing the extraordinary power
of calling strikes In the hands of Presi
dent Moyer, Secretary Heywood and
the executive committee. Heywood Is
described as pre-eminently the man of
force in the Federation. He Is a man
of exceptionally powerful physique, a
large brain and an Imperious will. He
was bred a miner from his youth, and
socialism is his religion; he Is a notable
type of the leader of Industrial law
lessness In every land; a man who Is,
like Danton In the French Revolution,
endowed at once wlth.the vigorous body
of a fighter and the brain of a practi
cal thinker. Such a man, when he or
dered out 3000 contented, prosperous
workingmen in Cripple Creek and some
2000 in Telluride, never cared a button
about the fact that by his action he
rendered unproductive millions of dol
lars' worth of property, disorganized
one of the greatest Industries of the
West and threatened the prosperity of
a state.
Of course Heywood did not care, be
cause he is a socialistic zealot, and,
feeling deeply the wrongs of his class,
he never cares about consequences; he
thinks only of his cause, or rather his
religion of socialism. The sympathetic
strike was answered by the mlneown
ers resorting to the same appeal. The
mlneowners prevailed upon the Gover
nor to order troops to Cripple Creek
and Telluride, and even advanced
money to pay the troops, so that under
their protection they could work thelr
mlnes on a nonunion basis. The Gov
ernor sided with the mlneowners, and
evidently sent his troops not merely to
prevent violence, but to break the
strike, or, as General Sherman Bell ex
pressed it, "to da up this anarchistic
federation." The mineowners had a
friendly Governor and they used him
for their own purposes, exactly asthe
miners in 1894 used Governor Waite,
their friend, to accomplish their ends.
Mr. Baker, however, admits that no
body who knows the history of the min
ers' union In Colorado can doubt there
would have been violence and assas
sination If the operators had attempted
to open their mines without military
protection. The conclusion of Mr. Ba
ker is that strike victories obtained by
violence and bloodshed In 1894 finally
brought on the catastrophe of 1903,
which is likely to wipe out the West
ern Federation of Miners in Colorado
and give unionism a setback for years
to come. This Western Federation of
Miners Is not affiliated with the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, nor do its
leaders agree with Mr. Gompers, Mr.
Mitchell or other prominent leaders.
Lawlessness by bludgeon and lawless
ness by finesse Is the battle In Colo
rado between the Western Mining Fed
eration and the mlneowners and oper
ators. The announcement is made that an
Ironclad Federal law against crimping
will go into effect May 13. A $50 fine
and three months' Imprisonment can
be meted out to any one soliciting sail
ors to desert the ship o'r removing their
effects except "under the personal di
rection of the seaman, and with the
permission of the master." This "ex
ception'1 'is all of the leeway that the
enterprising boarding-house men de
sire, and the average sailor will give
"personal directions" for the removal of
his effects as soon as he gets a whiff of
boarding-house whisky. As for the
master, he can keep his men aboard or
he can Invite them over the rail, just
as he has been doing since the first
sailor boarding-house was established.
If they have a good, round sum coming
to them as wages, the "permission" of
the master will not be difficult to ob
tain. It has only been a few weeks
since one of the British shipmasters not
only gave his permission to have the
men removed from" his ship, but accom
panied it with a bonus of 520 per head.
The crimp will never be reformed by
statute or petition until his associates
In business, the skipper and the sailor,
develop a higher regard for right and
decency.
The steamship Indrasamha, the last
vessel of the old fleet of the Portland
& Asiatic Steamship Company, leaves
port this morning, and will join the In
dravelll and Indrapura on the route be
tween the Orient and New York. The
coming of the "Indras" on the Portland-Oriental
route three years ago
marked a new epoch in the foreign
trade of the Columbia River. They are
strictly first-class modern steamers of
a size and type that adapted them to
any route in the world, and wherever
they go their masters will have a kind
word for Portland and her facilities for
handling big ships. Captain Craven, of
the Indrasamha, the commodore of the
fleet, was the first man to bring an
8000-ton steamship to Portland, and
since his first visit has become a pretty
good Portlander. The best wishes of
the business community will go with
him on the new" route to which he has
been assigned with his fine ship.
The accident which resulted in the
death In this city of the 12-year-old
son of I. J. Thompson, of Kalamav was
one of those very distressing and en
tirely unforeseen occurrences which It
seems to be impossible to forestall by
prudence. The death was due to In
juries received from the explosion of
a cylinder of chemicals at a stereoptl
con entertainment, the boy's skull be
ing fractured by a flying fragment of
the cylinder. So far as has been devel
oped, no one was to blame for the ex
plosion, and, though everything possi
ble was done to relieve the child, death
ensued after three days of unconscious
ness. Sympathy is due to and has been
freely expressed for all who are affected
by the distressing accident.
The war In the Far East has had the
effect of retiring the subsidized Japan
ese steamship lines from the trans-Pacific
routes. As the business has also
exhibited signs of retiring, there will be
no scarcity of transportation facilities,
as the vessels still on the route can
handle all that Is offering and much
more. The sudden slackening in freight
offerings, however, cannot all be attrib
uted to the war trouble, for, as will be
remembered, the business which was
handled In anticipation of the conflict
reached such abnormal proportions
that It could not be expected to hold up
indefinitely. The present change is
more in the nature of a readjustment
than a decrease in business.
A story comes from Astoria charg
ing that our fellow-townsman, the en
thusiastic and indefatigable secretary
of the Oregon Pioneer Association, has
"made off with a monument" that
marked the grave of McTavlsh, one of
the old fur-traders, who was drowned
in the Columbia River in 1818. Of
course there Is some mistake or mis
understanding about the matter. Other
wise the charge, which Ishow simply
amusing, or at most annoying, would
be a serious one, that could only find
excuse in the zeal of the historical relic
gatherer.
Now it is asserted that Congress has
adjourned too soon, because in years
of Presidential elections hitherto the
average time of adjournment has been
later. But there was nothing more for
Congress to do why shouldn't It quit?
Heretofore there have been troubled
conditions. Now there are none for
which the country Is Indebted to the
success of the policy of the Republican
party on the one hand, and to the
weakness of that of the Democratic
party on the other.
The reported occupation of Niu
Chwang is startling, but not incredi
ble. If it should be confirmed, it
means nothing short of the long-expected
isolation of Port Arthur, with its
apparent choice between assault and
starvation. This, maybe, explains the
whereabouts of that missing Japanese
army.
Kuropatkln assures his imperial mas
ter that he is glad the Japanese army
has crossed the Yalu. No extenuation
is offered of the tremendous effort that
the Russians made to prevent this very
desirable result.
BOURSE COCKRAN'S KAGE.
New York Tribune.'
(From Mr. Cockran'a Speech In the House
last Saturday.)
I challenge the gentleman now, as I
challenged Mr. Hanna while he was living,
as I challenged the New York Tribune last
Fall in New York, while Mr. Hanna was
still living, and as I now challenge every
one on any side, to show where, In the
last 20 years, I have not been a subscriber
to, instead of a recipient from, campaign
funds.
Denial Accepted With Specifications.
(From the Tribune October 20. 1003.)
Mr. Cockran has evidently been deeply
incensed by the charge that he was will
ing to sell his oratory to the fusion cause
in this campaign and had actually been
hired for a large price by Tammany. We
give him the full benefit of his indignant
denial that he has received money for his
speeches In behalf of Tammany. But he
should have refrained from utterances
calculated to create an Impression that
the Tribune Invented that story and gave
it all Its circulation. What we did In the
article printed last Saturday morning, to
which he has angrily referred, was to
publish a current report, which we ex
pressly described as such, and which, as
a matter of fact, had appeared In print
the afternoon before and was repeated
by several morning newspapers simulta
neously with its publication in the Tri
bune. It was a report, moreover, which
was pretty generally credited, for rea
sons which Mr. Cockran, in his calmer
moments, surely has discernment enough
to appreciate. When his present exces
sive heat has passed oft he should be will
ing to confess to himself that it wa3 ut
terly natural to suppose that he must
have accepted a pecuniary compensation
for adopting a course so amazing and so
abhorrent. There was no process of logic
by which to account for unpaid devotion
on his part to Tammany this year. If by
a long series of political somersaults Mr.
Cockran had not accustomed the public
to associate him with the class of men
whose services In the line of campaign
speaking are procurable on a cash basis,
the circumstances of the present cam
paign were such as almost of necessity
to suggest the Idea which he resents.
Mr. Cockran's as'-xults on Bryan in
1896 were unbridled, and he voted for Mc
Klnley. In 1900 he flopped over and gave
Bryan hl3 support For years after Tam
many had raised him from obscurity, or
something worse, he was its darling, but
at length, owing to causes of which Mr.
Jerome seems to have knowledge, he in
curred Crokers disdain and became an
enemy of the organization. In 1897 ho
cheerfully voted for General Tracy, but
two years ago he had got far enough
back to support Mr. Shepard, with whom
Tammany was trying to mask its in
famies. Until within a few weeks, as he'
now acknowledges, he disapproved every
single thing that Murphy was doing, but
In obedience to his creed that nonpartl
sanship in local politics Is a heresy, he
suddenly embraced Murphy and all that
Murphy stands for. The fervor with
which Mr. Cockran attempted on Tues
day night to give an appearance of moral
consistency to this harlequin record jus
tifies us in crediting his assurance that
now, as always, his speeches are gratui
tous; but It would be a piece of monstrous
audacity for anybody to pretend that
there was no excuse for the contrary Im
pression commonly entertained last week.
(It may be fitting now, in spite of Mr.
Cockran's protestations, to ask whether
his sudden conversion and renewed serv
ice to Tammany can be regarded as in any
sense gratuitous. The success of Tam
many last Fill made a vacancy in Mc
Clellan's district; whereupon Tammany,
which had driven Mr. Cockran out of
Congress, promptly put him back. Verily
he has his reward.)
Not Local Option, but Prohibition.
Salem Capital Journal.
Anyono who will read carefully the
proposed local option law must realize
that it is a prohibition law that he is
dealing with.
That Is why the Prohibitionists are all
supporting the measure when, as a mat
ter of principle they have always called
local option Infamous.
It Is prohibition, when they win or
lose at any election after this law Is
adopted.
Oregon now has a local option law
that is about as strong as possible to
get public sentiment to sustain.'
In many localities now the people vote
not to license saloons when the local
sentiment of the community is such
that unlicensed saloons are the result.
The continual litigation resulting, and
the prosecutions In the court for selling
liquor without a license in such com
munities Is a constant bill for the tax
payer to settle In court costs.
The multiplicity of unlicensed salons
If the local option (prohibition) law is
adopted by the voters at the June elec
tion will be immense.
It is the unlicensed, unregulated liquor
shop that Is the curse of the community
today. It is sales in brothels and other
unlicensed places that fill the police
courts.
Warfare on the Modern Plan.
Indianapolis News.
The particulars of the recent brilliant
Japanese naval victory show that Admiral
Togo waited thirty miles out at sea
that Is, below the horizon while his
decoy fleet of small vessels tempted the
Russians out of the harbor; then the
commander of the decoy fleet sent Togo
a wireless message to come In and he
did, with the result aforesaid. Here Is
a statement of a fact that the people
of the last generation would not under
stand. A participant In our civil war
reading that description would not know
what it meant And to think that this
mysterious force and means of communi
cation existed while our blockading
squadrons were scanning the horizon with
glasses during the long watch of the
civil war! How many more forced, how
many more means of communication and
sources of knowledge and power exist
that we do not now dream of?
Labor's Truest Friend.
New York Times.
The real friend of labor is not the
forerunner of prosperity nor the vendor
of social patent medicines, but simply
the man who will stand for equal laws
and the abolishing of special privileges.
There would bo more practical social
justice for this nation In repealing the
iron and steel duties than In all the
visions of Karl Marx. There would be
substantial relief for the poor In the re
duction of the tariff, free shipping and
the consequent enlargement of foreign
trade. All that would close a thousand
channels through which the workingman
Is mulcted today and would put palpable
money in his savings bank account
No Thought of Public Interest.
Minneapolis Journal.
The merger people are trying hard to
save the pieces. A more prudent and far
sighted policy would be to try to obey
the spirit as well as the letter of the
law. The latter the general public does
not care much about; they may not be
so patient if they find the spirit of the
law is still defied. The strange thing is
that men of such large Interests are not
more solicitous about the favor of the
public when It Is manifest that it is so
important to 4he security of property
rights and preservation of vested rights.
Terrors of Reform.
St. Paul Globe.
The star-eyed goddess of reform has
so impressed Chicago with the merit of
her cause that it is hardly safe for a
copper to come out of a saloon wiping
his lips in that town.
DEGENERATE OR DUNCE?
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Chicago Chronicle.
Students of morbid psychology should
by no means neglect the opportunity for
Investigation which is presented by the
readers of "yellow" newspapers nowa
days. The field is promising of interest
ing resulta
We havo here the spectacle of several
thousand people, presumably sane, read
ing day after day the most obvious a&d
brazen fabrications under 'the guise of
war news. We have them, reading two
or three or half a dozen conflicting or
contradictory accounts of the same event
in the same newspaper.
We have them perusing enormous head
lines whose purport is flatly negatived by
the text of the article below. We have
them gazing at horribly blurred pictures
"drawn from telegraphic description."
We have them, In short, buying and pay
Ing for publications which are a mere
combination of literary and artistic de
lirlum tremens masquerading as news
papers.
What can be the mental processes of
such people? It is assumed that the per
son who buys a dally paper does so with
the Idea of reading the news, yet anyone
wno buys a "yellow" journal knows very
well that he will find no news in it- He
knows that he will find suggestive stories.
red Ink, incendiary editorials, slang, bad
pictures, nut no news.
Is such a person really deluded Into
believing that he Is buying a newspaper.
or does he buy it under the pretense that
he wants a newspaper when he really de
sires nothing but the suggestive stories,
the incendiary editorials, the bad pictures
and the slang?
The problem Is worthy of the attention
of investigators Is the reader of the
"yellow" Journal a degenerate1 or a mere
dunce?
Real News Now at Hand.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Again the voice of the turtle and the
swish of the pigskin are heard In the
land. East and West of the two base
ball leagues yesterday opened the sea
son and thousands shivered through the
games. The ball careening in. air shat
tered icicles into fragments, but the
frosty shower could not dismay the de
votees. Like In village lightning sched
ules the lamps are doused if it be "official
moonlight," the national game defied real
conditions and "opened." Relaxation
from too nervous watching of the long
falling of Port Arthur comes happily and
that crisis that worries the party orators
Is delayed for the majority of the peo
ple until the game that decides the pen
nant. This long, hard winter will drive
many a victim through the turnstile of
the ball parks, but still many will wait
to ask over the 'phone, "What's the
score?"
Business Men and Politics.
Washington Post.
It Is apparent that no amount of
preaching will induce business men to
take an active part In municipal politics.
They -will not attend the primaries and
conventions or abandon their money
making pursuits for the purpose of puri
fying politics, particularly when the at
tempt is made to do so through opposi
tion to political machines that control
existing administrations and are in posi
tion to "hold up" the business Interests
through franchise taxes, license regula
tions and other schemes well known to
the professional politician. While the
business man will not give his time to
the work of purifying municipal politics,
experience shows that his purse Is always
open to aid the cause when the reform
movement Is carried on by competent,
honest enthusiastic fighters.
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Smoke Means Wasted-Fuel.
Boston Transcript
Smoko means waste. The science of
smoke prevention and the science of
perfect combustion are equivalent terms.
Once make a factory owner realize this
and ho la won over to the cause, for
if ho has Intelligence enough to man
age a business he must know that per
fect combustion of fuel means no waste.
Consider the analogy of a coal oil lamp.
Turn up the wick and the lamp smokes.
You are using too much oil and get
ting less light The same Is precisely
true of a furnace. A smoking chimney
stack means too much fuel and less heat.
Once get the factory owner to under
stand this to know that "those belching
clouds of black smoke mean wasted
money gone up In the chimney and less
power for hl3 machinery and you have
converted him.
Correction in Public Schools.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The effort to Introduce more strenuous
discipline In the schools has resulted in
a compromise proposition in Chicago. The
Central Teachers' Council there has
asked not for the restriction of the full
grown rod, but for the power of spank
ing. Moreover, this primary and domestic
correction is further hedged about with
the promise that the consent of parents
must first be obtained. This reservation
Is apt to reduce the disciplinary effect
to zero. We cannot conceive the Ameri
can Juvenile particularly of the turbulent
stripe to be so docile as to bring to the
teacher the written consent of the parent
for his own paddling, or, if he docs so,
to be neglectful of the precaution of pad
ding the part of his anatomy set apart
for chastisement
Soldiers Who Do Not Forage.
Washington Times.
The Japanese army seems determined
to present a refreshing contrast to other
armies in regard to the question of loot
ing. The troops, though limited In ra
tions and marching through a country
rich in poultry, fruits and grain, have
not yet been known to give offense by
lawless acts, and It will be remembered
that they established a similar record
of self-restraint at the time of the march
on Pekln.
The Wee Brown Man
Harper's Weekly.
Great Czar, good Czar, white Christian Czar.
Tho white world loves this brown 9ea wraith,
Brown brother, bared of hope, of faith
Brown child, new born to blood and war.
The art child loves him for his art;
The heart world loves him for hU heart.
His dauntless heart, home or abroad,
His love of flowers, Nature, God. '
It loves this sudden, Orient star,
This lithe Venetian, lover true,
This Isie-born elf, so old, so new"
Wee neighbor Of the stalwart Czar
His thousand isles; his million flowers,
His terraced steeps, his cloud-topt towers
And It would have you love him, too.
And track hla warm, seas through and through.
Great Czar, brave Czar, so far, so far,
In your proud capital from these
New nadirs of your nether seas
Why, know you what these brown bees are?
Their length, their strength Is scarce a span!
They rarely eat, drink not at all.
The one man this, from pole to pole,
That never knows the flowing bowl!
And brownie, sprite, or baby-man.
He scarce may stand your waistband tall!
And yet hi3 hands are Iron, steel.
The arrow's flight 13 In his feet.
He comes, he goes, whirls by, can wheel
As winds that whistle down your street!
He scarce seems human save that be
Loves truly, bravely, humanly.
Great Czar, wise Czar, peace-loving Czar.
Tour strength is as a cyclone's strength.
You hold a world In your arm's length
Ten million ministers In war!
Tour gold, the mines of Solomon
The North Pole yours to lean upon!
Can you. be greater? Aye, the hour
Tou reach these water-wralths a hand
Across your shoreless, gold-strown land
The grateful world will glad proclaim
How greater far your place, your power.
And sing your Christian deed and name!
As. elre. hear us! Great white Czar.
So brave, so strong, bo wise in war.
Can you who scotched" the Corslcan
Turn now to bait this wee brown man?
X0TE ANDC0MMENT.
A New York Theater's Ad.
COMING! COMING t COMING!
The
TORPEDOED "RETVIZAN."
As the appalling center of the first great battle
at Port Arthur. Is the most startling and stu
pendous scene ot the four great acts la the
tremendous military drama:
THE SIGNAL LIGHTS OF PORT ARTHUR.
Brandon & Manser's wonderfully realiaUe
representation of the dramaUc Incidents of thd
opening of the present Russo-Japanese War.
THIRD-AVENUE THEATER,
Beginning May 2.
RAPID-FIRE
GATLING GUNS IN ACTION. DISCHARG
ING 000 SHOTS A MINUTE.
The destruction ot the "Retvizan" by the
Japanese Torpedo-Boat "Amantl," and thft
Heroic Rescue of the Hero.
Hear VIOLET STALEY SING
"MY KANGAROO."
Republicans Win Soliphone.
J. R. Taylor, editor of the Paragould Soil
phone, the original Hearst boomer of Arkansas.
Is a candidate for district delegate to the Re
publican National Convention. Arkansas Gazette.
A Fishing Episode.
Bill stopped to watch Tom,
Who was casting a tly.
And Bill, for his pains.
Got a cast la his eye.
The Russians and Japaueso have to fight
over a hard map.
According to report, a cracker war Is
raging. Fire-crackers?
The defeat of Carter Harrison is almost
like the ending of a dynasty.
Th bill of fare at the pen does sound
a bit monotonous, but then the guests ara
getting their grub cheap.
A man is trundling a wheelbarrow from
Cleveland, O., to San Francisco. He prob
ably has more wheels than the barrow.
The Kansas City Journal points out that
it requires but 60 hours for the average
person to read the entire Mew Testa
ment It seems pretty tough luck on a man to
bo forced into the Vice-Presidency. Soma
men are born to oblivion, some achieve It,
but aro forced into it.
Just to show the Russian sailors In Port
Arthur that they don't own the only bat
tleships on the beach, their confreres In
the Baltic ran the Orel aground In the
Neva.
The Russians do not look upm the loss
of the guns at tho Yalu as a loss, as by
having removed the breech-blocks, they
have rendered the weapons useless to tho
Japanese. This Is logic of a peculiarly
Russian type.
Angus M. Cannon, Jr., has a queer Idea
of what constitutes a joke. To tell a
Gentile that a polygamous marriage had
been performed, and then to deny his own
statement may possess elements of humor
discernible only to the Mormon eye.
General Kuropatkln Is said to be quite
pleased that tho Japanese were success
ful in their attempt to cross the Yalu. He
should send General Kuroki a congratula
tory message. Soon we may have the Czar
and the Mikado applauding one another
by cable. x
The missionary society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has refused a bequest
of $75,000. made to it by the late Willis W.
Cooper. Mr. Cooper was a victim of the
Iroquois Theater fire, and the refusal to
accept his money was due to hl3 notori
ously bad character, as shown by his at
tendance at an extravaganza.
He Is ten years old, and the son of a
physician at Enterprise. The other day
In school the teacher was explaining the
effects of alcohol upon the body, when
10-year-old burst out with, "Well, when
my father goes fishln' he takes along a
demijohn of whisky, an' he says It keeps
him warm and makes the fish bite better,
an he ain't no drunkard, neither."
The New York Press recently published
extracts from a private letter written by
a New Yorker in Manila. Part of the
writer's description of the Phlllpplnes,was
epigrammatic. "The chief exports," said
he "are hemp and dead American soldiers.
The chief Imports are coffins for dead
soldiers and ammunition to kill more of
them." So long as a people has money
enough to buy rifles, a supply will be
forthcoming, even from the factories of
the country the race may be fighting
against
It is curious how in common speech one
word Is given greater and another less
effect than it had In its original meeting.
The word peer, for instance, is frequently
misused In the sense of the superior.
When rJavenport was lecturing here he
was described in advance notices as "the
peer of living cartoonists." On the other
hand one of the Holy Roller perverts was
lately described as being "more than pass
ing fair," "passing fair" evidently being
looked upon as but a lukewarm compli
ment to the girl's appearance.
"What a very curious person the China
man seems to us," says the London Dally
News, and then goes on to point out these
differences.
When he meets a friend, ho shakes his own
hand, not his friend's.
He keepe out of step when walking with
any one.
He puts his hat on. Instead ot taking it off,
when he wants to be polite.
He whitens his boots. Instead of blacking
them.
He rides with hi3 heels. Instead of his toes
In the etlrrups.
Ills compass points south.
Often he throws away the fruit of the melon
and eats the seed.
And his idea of a good time does not
seem to include making himself drunk.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Billy How does a fellow catch the grip?
Joe That's easy; how does he let go of it?
Cincinnati Tribune.
Student Doctor, what do you think of prob
lem novels? Doctor I am recommending them,
lnsfad of the city directory for Insomnia pa
tients. Cleveland Leader.
Patience What reason had she for mar
rying him? Patrice Why. he had money.
Patience That is not a reason; that Is an.
excuse. Tonkers Statesman.
Wigg (at the races) I'm going to put my
money on this horso named "Death."- Wags
Well, death is about the only sure thing
I know of. Philadelphia Record.
"Some men." said Uncle Eben, "regards
honesty as a principle, an' some as a lux
ury to be indulged in only after dey has
cleaned up a good safe profit." Washing
ton Star.
The Major (not so young as he feela) Ah,
Miss Muriel. In the Spring a young man's
fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . Miss
Muriel (who wishes to avoid a proposal)
What a memory you have. Major! Punch.
Lizzie Aw, say, me Bister Mag's got Pad-
erewskl skinned ter death as a pianist
an she never took a lesson. Chlmmle Hully
gee! Me big brudder, Mike, her got 'em all
fried to a crisp 'on de violin an' he made
his own violin, too. onten a. soap box an'
some leather shoestrings. Judge.