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PORTLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1904.
THE DRAMA IN THE ORIENT.
Pressure of Japan ,on Manchuria dis
covers the weakness of Russia; not the
weakness of Russia as a world power.
Taut her weakness upon her long
extended line from the Baltic to the
6ea of Japan. Russia took advantage
of the situation, upon conclusion of
peace between Japan and China, in
1895, to force Japan out of Manchuria.
Germany and France, to their dishonor,
had co-operated with Russia in this
endeavor. It had been the purpose of
Japan, in her war with China, to rescue
Corea from Chinese domination; and to
make it secure, Japan insisted on in
clusion of the southern shoreline of
Manchuria. But Russia here stepped
in, and getting Germany and France
to back her, she Insisted that Japan
should abandon her claim; and then
arrangement was made with China for
Russian possession pt the Llao Tung
Peninsula, including Port Arthur. In
such conditions Japan was compelled
to submit for the present and to bide
her time. But she was aware that
Russian ascendancy in Manchuria
would mean, in a few years, complete
g absorption of Manchuria by Russia,
and subjugation moreover of Corea to
Russian designs; which further would
mean exclusion of Japan from the con
tinent, and within a few years would
fc complete the Russian purpose of stran
gling the island empire.
It is for nothing less than her life,
therefore, that Japan Is fighting now.
In course of time, after her advent
Into Manchuria, Russia virtually set
up claim of title to the country and
began to fortify Port Arthur and other
places in It. The Boxer troubles In
China gave excuse for further Russian
aggression, and pressure upon China
extorted consent for construction of a
branch of the Russian-Siberian Rail
road from north to south through Man
churia to Port Arthur. These aggres
sions were veiled as far as possible
with the duplicity characteristic of
Russian diplomacy; but they did not
deceive Japan. The object of Russia
was to establish herself there, for con
trol of the countries on the Yellow Sea
end on the Sea of Japan. Japan could
not but keenly realize that such policy
threatened her with virtual extinction;
and when Russia refused to give as
surances or guarantees that she would
retire, Japan resolved to strike before
Russia could have time to build up her
power and to concentrate her great re
sources upon the theater of action.
A single line of new railroad, many
thousands of miles in length, and poorly
constructed. Is the sole connection of
the head and heart of Russia with this
distant field of her operations in East
ern Asia. Japan, having command of
the sea, has been able to throw heavy
bodies of troops Into Corea and Man
churia, while the forces of Russia, so
far from their base, are too small to
cope with those which Japan is rapidly
bringing to the theater of the war. At
sea the Russian squadrons cannot meet
those of Japan, and the little Island
empire Is everywhere gaining advant
age over an adversary which, powerful
as undoubtedly she is in the tamily of
European nations, has no means of
bringing her power to bear upon the
situation to which she is committed In
Eastern Asia. Her forces, therefore,
tire compelled to retire before those of
Japan. Her warships are cooped up;
her soldiers, though brave, are too few
to meet the enthusiasm and greater
numbers of the Japanese; the Siberian
Railroad Is wholly unequal to the de
mands upon it and cannot carry men
and supplies fast enough to meet the
emergency; the Japanese display both
skill and valor In combat which give
lessons to nations which have supposed
themselves to possess a racial superi
ority; Port Arthur is isolated com
pletely, will be taken in the rear by
the Japanese armies, and must soon
fall; the principal bodies of the Rus
sian troops are retreating northward,
and to all appearance Japan will soon
be in undisputed possession of all South
ern Manchuria, as she Is already of all
Corea. Once in possession, it will
probably be Impossible to dislodge her.
It looks now as if Russia would be un
able to get her forces up to the scene
of conflict In time to obtain the re
sult she requires. The object of Japan
Is not aggression on her own part, but
prevention of the absorption of Man
churia and Corea by Russia; and it
must be admitted that her way to suc
cess now seems very sure. The Rus
sians are fighters, as of old; no doubt of
that But the smallness of their fight
ing force in Manchuria has been shown
to the world; as doubtless it was known
from the beginning to Japan.
Should Japan prove completely suc
cessful, as it now seems probable she
may. there will be opened to the world
new themes of speculation as to the
future of the countries of Eastern Asia.
"Who can guess what It may be -under
the direction of an ambitious and virile
power like Japan? The material In
those countries upon which the leader
ship of Japan might work with effect
is limitless. A new force may be com
ing Into the world which may largely
transform it. "Lux ex Oriente" may
yet be more than a phrase, a senti
ment, or a product of the Imaginative
mind.
It astonishes the world what Japan
has done and is doing. The general
sympathy of the world is with her,
because she is a small power, strug
gling against one of the greatest. It is
apparent, moreover, to all who study
the situation that ner only alternatives
were war, or national extinction and
virtual effacement, in the Orient.
THE RANCOR OF THE RENEGADE.
When the unbeliever turns convert
he is the most strenuous mourner on
the bench. "When the class leader turns
infidel he la the ne plus ultra of im
piety. And so in politics there is no
man quite so abandoned in his denun
ciation of old companions in arms as
he who has lately transferred his alle?
glance from lifelong friends to inveter
ate foes. How vehement'y Teller at
tacks his old home in the Republican
party! How unsleeplngly did false Sex
tus conspire for the subjugation of
Rome! How acute the cunning and
bold the prowess of George Monk, once
he had been fired with the resolve to
betray Parliament Into the hands of
Charles TJ! All which reflections are
suggested by the platform adopted by
the Democratic State Convention at
Olympia. It reflects the views of George
Turner, once Republican, then Silver
Republican, then Fuslonist, and now
Democrat. It breathes In every line
the rancor of the renegade. It is more
violently and unreasonlngly abusive
than any old-line Democrat: would
have Invented. For example:
The Nation Is administered with extrava
gance, and its departments are honey
combed with corruption; it Is being embroiled
in the contentions and controversies of the
Old World; "Its domestic affairs are controlled
by the oligarchy of wealth, which Insists on
laying contributions on all other classes,
while exempting Itself from the Just burdens
of government, and It has been made to fol
low In the footsteps of the tyrannical gov
ernments of Europe In the attempt to estab
lish an unrepubllcan colonial system abroad.
In all these wild and whirling gener
alities there are two specific charges.
One Is that we are "embroiled in the
contentions and controversies of the
Old "World." "We are not embroiled in
the contentions and controversies of the
Old "World, but that we are not Is no
credit to the Democratic party. That
party forced President McKlnley into
the war with Spain and then hampered
its successful prosecution and grum
bled at the territory it left on our
hands. That we were not embroiled
with Great Britain in 1894 over Venezu
ela, or In 1900 over South Africa, is no
fault of the Democratic party. But we
have stood by the Jews of Kishinef and
the Armenians In Turkey and the open
door in China, and the isthmian canal
in Panama, without any embroilment or
difficulty, whether with Russia, France,
Turkey, Great Britain or any other
power. "We are on friendly terms with
every foreign power, even with Co
lombia, whose Minister has just been
accredited to us again. This condition
has been maintained through the able
diplomacy of our State Department,
and often against the unwise agitation
of the Democrats in both houses of
Congress.
The other specific charge In this plat
form Is that we have been "ma.de to
follow In the footsteps of the tyranni
cal governments of Europe in the at
tempt to establish an unrepublican
colonial system abroad." In another
plank there Is a demand for the "cessa
tion of militarism, imperialism and
colonialism as presented by the Philip
pine policy of the Republican party."
"What do the Democrats of "Washing
ton mean by an abandonment of our
unrepubllcan colonial system? They
can only mean to echo. In disguised
form, the demand of "arfti-imperiailsm."
for our withdrawal from the Philip
pines. Then why don't they say so In a
manly way? Because they know that
the proudest hopes of the State of
"Washington for commercial advance
ment lie In the direction of Pacific
Ocean commerce, In which our posses
sion of the Philippines is the principal
component factor. "What the Demo
crats of "Washington propose is so dis
tasteful to the voters of their state that
they have to disguise It with the sugar
coated phrases of anti-Imperialism. It
Is a vain resort; for the voters are not
so easily beguiled.
MELLEN ON LABOR UNIONISM.
A man who has risen from the ranks
of railroad brakemen to be president
of two such great railroads as the
Northern Pacific and the New York,
New Haven, & Hartford, is certainly
remarkably well qualified by actual ex
perience as employe and employer to
speak Intelligently on the labor ques
tion. Such a man Is Charles S. Mellen,
formerly president of the Northern Pa
cific, one of the greatest roads In the
"West, from which he resigned to accept
the presidency of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford, an Eastern prop
erty of similar importance. Mr. Mellen
had been In charge of his new office
but a short time when a strike was
called by the boiler-makers, machin
ists and car-workers. The demands
made were for a reduction In the hours
from ten to nine per day, and an in
crease in the pay. As the East is less
prosperous at this time than the "West,
the latter part of the demand was re
fused, although the men were prom
ised a nine-hour day.
The offer was refused, and In conse
quence the railroad company has been
compelled to fight an expensive strike.
One of the features of the strike was an
address made by Mr. Mellen to the
"Workingmen's Free"Readlng-Room As
sociation of New Haven. Discussing
the matter from the standpoint of a
man who was at that moment very
much embarrassed by the action of the
labor unions, Mr. Mellen wa? naturally
disinclined to praise those organizations
very highly, but he expressed the belief
that they had come to stay, and
thought they were capable of much
good, providing they were rightly di
rected. He contended that they were
not rightly directed, and that under the
present system they "tend to the dis
couragement of individual effort and
reduce men to a part of a machine."
Mr. Mellen told the men that the la
bor unions had done more than any
other force to drive capital into pow
erful combinations and the formation
of trusts, and that by their submission
to hot-headed leaders ultimate disaster
would result He advised those who
had families and a slight reserve fund
to Join the unions, but to take a hand
In their management. To this class he
said: "Your apathy is the opportunity
of the demagogue, the anarchist, the
floater who Has nothing to lose." Un
der present management he asserted
that labor unions "help the lame, the
incompetent and the weary at the ex
pense of the really competent, thus pre
venting the best men from getting on
and up." While labor' unionism as now
handled was the particular grievance'
against which Mr. Mellen argued, he
was fair enough to tell his audience
that some of the blame for labor trou
bles in many cases should be charged
against the employers themselves,
where men in authority were not infre
quently unreasonable and ar&Itrary. He
told them that the effort to get for a
thing more than it Is worth is not con
fined to workingmen, but it could
never succeed, except temporarily, be
cause '"the cost of maintaining an ar
tificial market is greater than the profit
in it" It is not improbable that Mr.
Mellen might have had his ancient en
emy, James J. Hill, In mind when he
closed the foregoing admirable com
mercial maxim with the statement that'
"some gentlemen interested in high
finance are Just beginning to realize
this." The address throughout was an
earnest, unaffected appeal to the inde
pendence and manhood of the working
man, and will do vastly more good than
the violent abuse that 13 heaped on la
bor unionism by some employers.
STRIFE IN PEACEFUL BAYONNE.
Toil and trouble must be accounted
man's natural lot; and yet there are
spots whence one could fondly trust
no sounds of strife might ever swell.
Siich a spot Is Bayonne, a moment's
ride, more or less, from the crush and
noise of lower Manhattan Island.
Thither, if one should fare forth on a
midsummer Sunday, he would take no
memories of the babel he left behind;
but there by the. peaceful flowing
Hackensack and Passaic, under droop
ing trees and cheered by garden flow
ers, he should find, among sweet-voiced
women and lovely children, a restora
tion of his lost youth and a balm for
the ills of six strenuous days ahead.
Yet as the serpent entered Eden, so
strife has found lodgings at Bayonne;
for the dispatches say that certain
married men of that charming suburb's
high society have formed an antl
eucher club, whose avowed purpose Is
nothing less than the eradication of the
progressive euchre habit among their
better halves of the 'gentler sex. The
programme of the new and militant
and unchivalrlc organization includes,
we are Informed, a campaign of hostile
operations against enchre clubs; en
forced by harrowing tales of the ex
periences of husbands who have to stay
up till all hours, tending baby while
mamma contests for prizes at the
euchre club.
We could support the antl-euchre
club with some enthusiasm if it had
confiped Its purview to the legitimate
and praiseworthy endeavor to supplant
enchre by some study more worthy the
attention of reasoning beings as, for
example, coon-can or seven-up. The
evil of cards is not in the cards them
selves, but in the base uses to which
they are sometimes put, as, for exam
ple, the dispiriting solemnity of whist
the ear-splitting concomitants of pit
or the, nerve-racking suspense of cinch.
Among all these abominations nothing
is perhaps more reprehensible than the
monstrosity called euchre, which Is fit
ted to the acumen of the kindergarten,
and in its possibilities of cheating posi
tively Immoral. The facility with which
a skillful dealer can provide herself
with two red bowers preliminary to
turning up a red trump constitutes one
of the most seductive menaces to do
mestic sanctity. On moral and relig
ious grounds, therefore, euchre is to be
viewed with alarms but the Bayonne
proposals are of a different order and
Indefensible.
Why should not a man walk the
floor with the baby till 2 A. M.,
while mamma is winning the
booby prize at a euchre party, with
as good grace as she walks the floor
while he is banqueting a visiting rail
road magnate or playing poker at the
club? What is sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander. Whoso is with
out sin, cast the first stone, etc. Have
the twenty-one members of the Bay
onne married men's club established a
clear record In this matter, entitling
them to speak In tones of censure? We
trow not We doubt not that all of
them enjoy very delectable lunch hours
over on Manhattan Island, or that some
of them are unavoidably detained all
night In New York more often than
necessary, thus becoming accessories
before the fact to the offense of the
euchre party. When a man chooses to
live ten miles from his work he takes
terrible chances that there will be
something doing in his long absences.
Perhaps euchre Is the least of the evils
he Is entitled to look for on his nightly
return. At any rate, we must maintain
the equality of the sexes. The next
thing we shall hear of Bayonne bene
dicks objecting to wifey's enjoying a
small cold bottle and a large hot bird
with a male admirer not themselves.
WHERE CIVILIZATION IS NEEDED.
President Charles W. Dabney, of the
"University of Tennessee, in an address
before the Educational Conference, re
cently held in Birmingham, Ala., pre
sented ably and specifically the educa
tional needs of the white mountaineers
who inhabit Eastern Tennessee and
Kentucky, West Virginia and North
Carolina, Northern Georgia and some
districts of Alabama.
In the earnest consideration of the
negro problem from an educational
standpoint, the condition of the ignor
ant whites of the sections noted has
been practically ignored. To the Illit
eracy that prevails among this class
President Dabney attributes in a large
degree the family feuds which have
left a trail of blood on many mountain
passes and unnumbered graves upon
ntany lonely hillsides. In his view the
schoolhouse and the teacher are anti
dotes for the shooting habit which has
long maintained a very high death rate
in what is otherwise a section specially
conducive to the longevity of its In
habitants. He declares that these peo
ple are generous and hospitable and
quite as well worth educating and re
claiming to civilization as any class of
illiterates In the country.
These views coincide with those of
General Howard as lately expressed
after a tour of observation through
these mountainous regions. They are
also in consonance with those of the
leaders of the Salvation Army those
advance guards of civilization among
the Ignorant and the lowly and are en
titled to more than the passing notice
of educators and humanitarians.
These people, though densely ig
norant in everything but mountain lore
and neighborhood happenings, are not
In any sense aliens. On the contrary,
they are American to the core though
born and bred in, Isolation. Their an
cestors were soldiers and heroes in the
War of the Revolution, and some of
them, at least were loyal to the -Union
In the Civil War. Primitive conditions,
Including Isolation, intermarriage and
lack of Industrial development, have
made them clannish; Ignorance of the
world beyond their line of vision bas
unduly exalted in their minds the im
portance of neighborhood events and of
their individual relation thereto. Brief
ly, these people possess qualities in the
way of loyalty,, independence, generos
ity and hospitality thai, with a widened
view, would count immensely for good
citizenship.
In general terms they need to be edu
cated. This does not apply exclusively
to what is taught in schools, but" ex
tends over the various phases of indus
trial life. They are unaccustomed to
work with their hands, except in the
rudest forms of labor. They know lit
tle or nothing of accumulative effort
Their needs, as viewed from the stand
point of life which they occupy, are few
and easily supplied; the want habit has
not been cultivated. A little suffices,
and that little is readily compassed.
Where the educational process should
begin and just how it should be pur
sued does not appear with the first pre
sentment of their conditions and envi
ronment But that suitable step3
should be taken at once to rectify the
conditions of semi-barbarism In which
a considerable number of citizens of
the United States dwell, In a wide, ro
mantic and delightful section of the
country, is a fact that Is beyond dis
pute. When witnesses like General O.
O. Howard and President Charles W.
Dabney bear testimony to conditions of
ignorance and savage unrest that pre
vail in these, mountain regions of th6
South, and earnestly declare that edu
cation is the only remedy for them, the
case may well be regarded as closed for
the affirmative, since all of the evidence
that Intelligence demands has been
given. It Is a disgrace to our civiliza
tion that a majority of the white peo
ple over so large an area of the Re
public should not only be densely Ig
norant, but that they should habitually
Indulge in private vengeance as exem
plified In the continual recurrence of
feuds that are marked by hatred and
savagery as unreasoning as that with
which the Indians met the vanguard of
civilization when It first entered these
mountain wilds. Missionary effort, , of
the industrial and educational rather
than the ecclesiastical type, is, accord
ing to competent judges of prevailing
conditions, what Is needed to reclaim
these native-born sons and daughters
of America to civilization.
Major G. E. Caukln found the other
day among his Army relics the photo
graph of two bullets that had met each
other in midair during the Incessant
firing before Petersburg, Va., In No
vember, 1864, and become completely
swedged Into a single missile. This
swedged Union and Confederate bullet
was picked up In the Federal lines near
Fort Stedman by Brevet Major J. C.
Farwell commanding the First Minne
sota Volunteer Infantry, and given by
'him to the officer of a Massachusetts
regiment who afterwards sent photo
graphs of the bullet to Major Farwell
ana Major Caukin. This blending of bullets-
in midair Is a very rare occurrence.
Another bullet of Identical character
was found by a soldier of a New Hamp
shire regiment in Griffin's brigade of
General Potter's diyislon, Ninth Army
Corps, before Petersburg In 1864. Major
Peck, of the Seventeenth Vermont, of
fered the soldier $5 for the curiosity, but
he refused to part with it for that price.
In the military museum at Dresden
there is preserved as a precious relic
two cannon balls that met in midair
during one of Napoleon's battles of 1813
and became sw.edged Into one by con
tact When we remember that the bul
lets thus meeting must strike at Just
the right angle and proper velocity and
the metal must be of the right consist
ency to permit of the bullets becoming
welded into one, it is easy to see that
Major Caukln holds the picture of. a
rare curiosity of warfare.
It may be hoped that the complaints
made against the superintendent of the
county poor farm will be taken up
speedily by the proper authorities and
sifted to the bottom. The public has
been for some time vexed by tales, in
termittently told, of mismanagement,
abuse and oppression out there, and it
will be well to make an end of them In
the only just and satisfactory way. The
taxpayers of Multnomah County do not
want to feed paupers upon luxuries or
maintain those who are able to work In
utter Idleness. Neither do they wish
paupers to be Insufficiently fed or made
to work when sick or physically unable
to do so. There is a way to adjust
these matters, but first it Is necessary
to get at the facts In the premises. It
may be assumed that these are not
likely to be gleaned from ex parte
statements. Let th,e tryout be made
before the County Court, In order that
the unseemly and tiresome rumble
"over the hills from the poorhouse"
may cease.
Lane County is well advertised In an
anniversary edition issued by the Eu
gene Register. Sixty-four pages of letter-press
and illustrations are devoted
to the history, the resources and the
Industries of the county, the edition
being in fact a valuable record of prog
ress from the founding of Eugene. The
illustrations are numerous and are of
unusual historical Interest.
If you wish to vote for Roosevelt,
vote in June the ticket of the party
which stands for him and for which he
stands. This is the way jto support him,
in an effective way. Make the majority
big in June. Oregon should start it
with twenty thousand. Such report
will be heard and felt all over the
United States.
Political economists who have urged
from the first that the trust problem
would solve Itself find comfort In the
fact that within a month more than
twenty large commercial trusts have
quit paying dividends and gone into
bankruptcy.
Russia, in fighting Japan, Is too far
from her "base," as Napoleon was In
1812. In such conditions the battle is
not to the strong. It Is to those who
are on the field of action at the critical
time.
A favorite trick In jiu Jltsu Is to be
numb an opponent by pressing on an
artery. The Japanese army has now
got its thumb on the railway, Port Ar
thur's sole artery.
Had Japan waited ten years, Russia
would bave swallowed her. But Japan
didn't wait; and In emergent conditions
time 13 everything.
SPLRIT0F THE NORTHWEST PRESS?
The News, So-Called.
Mora Observer.
The Wasco News always quotes its
name when referring to Itself. That's
proper punctuation which its able and
distinguished attorney editors understand,
as its pages never contain news.
Zounds,- Man, Brace Up!
A Lebanon man took two shots at some
pigeons bothering the wheat on his place,
but missed everything. A woman, Mrs.
L. M. Hale, took the gun and killed
three at the first shot and two at the
second. The man can vote, the woman
nit
Unlucky In Politics, Lucky in Love.
Albany Democrat
L. T. Harris, who was defeated for
nomination on the Republican ticket In
this district and J. E. Lathrop defeated
for the Democratic nomination in the
Second District Immediately got married.
One way to drown one's sorrow.
Alaska Democrats for Parker.
Juneau (Alaska) Record-Miner.
Parker buttons are already being worri
by a number of the leading Democrats.
It is a foregone conclusion that he will
receive the Democratic nomination, and
the contest 4s now between "his honor"
and "the rough rider."
Should Heartily Join.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Portland has dedicated the sites of the
most prominent buildings of the Lewis
and Clark Exposition with fitting and im
pressive ceremonies. From now until
the opening day the whole Paclfio North
west should Join In hearty efforts to as
sure the unqualified success of the un
dertaking. They Don't Seem To.
Astoria Astorian.
If the contending Interests In the Far
East experience as much difficulty in
crossing the Yalu as the Portland base
ball players experience, ha crossing the
home plate, there will bo mighty little
doing on the banks of the placid stream
which has been set down as one soon to
flow red with blood.
Trials of Rural Journalism.
Paisley Post
A fine large table used to write on and
to fold papers on was stolen out of the
office of the Post one day this week. As
the table did not belong to us, and as we
had never paid any rent for It and as the
owner came and took It right from un
der our eyes, we suppose nothing can be
done about It
Yaqulna's Strong Alliance.
Elk City Vim.
The C. & E. scores one more knock-out
on Yaqulna Bay. But gentlemen, the
Almighty has set limitations beyond which
you cannot go. You cannot pull up our
splendid bay and harbor. You cannot ball
out the great Pacific Ocean. With them
left the future of Lincoln County Is as
sured. The good time coming may be long
postponed, but It will surely come.
What Beer Owes to Woman.
Independence Enterprise.
Women, always ready for an emergency,
have taken to the hop-fields, and In large
measure are making up for the shortage
of men In training hops. Besides the
diversion and remuneration afforded, it ls
a healthful exercise and when the pros
pective good crop Is harvested the wo
men may have the satisfaction of feeling
their labor contributed to Its production.
Kicked a Wildcat to Death.
Nyssa Progress.
Jack Glasscock was prowling around
through his sagebrush forest the other
Hay, when he encountered a wild and
ferocious bobcat He vociferously yelled
for a gun, but being unable to attract the
attention of any of his neighbors, and
being -etermlned to have the scalp of that
cat by fair means or foul, he finally con
ceived tne plan of tying a loaded quirt to
the end of a hitch-rope. A judicious swing
of the rope gave a solar-plexus blow to
the animal, and then Jack got mad and
closed In and kicked It to death. -
Should Fall Flat.
Lebanon Criterion.
Remember it was the desire of the peo
pje that the Lewis and Clark appropria
tion bill was passed by the Legislature
and the belief was then, and is now, that
the Fair would be a big advertisement
for the" state and that as an Investment
It would repay the state for every dpllar
expended. Governor Chamberlain was an
enthusiastic supporter of the bill, as was
all of the leading men of the state, both
Democrats and Republicans. Any attempt
on the part of the Democrats to make
campaign thunder out of the Fair appro
priation should fall fiat
How to Kill Hawks.
Roseburg Review.
L. C. Hill, of Wardton, who was in
town today, tells us of a novel means of
destroying chicken hawks which Is being
employed there. In the feed prepared for
40 or 50 chickens is mixed one-half a tea
spoonful of tincture of nux vomica. This
poison does not affect the chickens, so it
is asserted, but in turn does kill the
hawk which makes a meal of one. Such
food carried by the parent bird to young
hawks while still In the nest also kills
them. Hawks have been causing great
havoc among the young chickens in that
neighborhood, but are now being ma
terially thinned out by this method.
An Untiring Worker.
'J. he Dalles Chronicle.
The record of Mr. Williamson for his
five months in Congress is very encourag
ing. He has introduced 11 public bills and
five private ones. Among the former are
some very important measures, such as
the relief bill for the Sherman County set
tlers, the Lewis and Clark appropriation,
increasing pensions of Indian War vet
erans and other desirable legislation, It
will be difficult to show a better record
than this by any member Oregon ever
had In the lower house of Congress, dur
ing the first few months of his Incum
bency. Mr. Williamson is an untiring
worker, and Is developing strength as a
legislator. His success is not measured
by the pets he has rewarded with Federal
appointments, but by the passage of acts
for the enefit of the state and his con
stituents in general.
Sure Road to Unpopularity.
Enterprise Democrat
A Staytoh man named Trotter is in
serious trouble for assaulting and other
wise abusing his wife, and for this and
other reasons nearly all his neighbors are
"down on him." The only excuse made
for him is that he has been rendered in a
measure Insane In consequence of litiga
tion with the City ofStayton. Looking
into local papera for a further explana
tion, a common story is found. This man
did a good business in a little town and
prospered, but when the city wanted to
open a street and to do so required six
inches off one of his lots, he "kicked" and
"bucked" and "went to law," although the
town offered him an equal lot He car
ried the case to the Supreme Court has
spent several hundred dollars, got the ill
will of nearly all his neighbors, took his
spite out on his wife, who left him, and
the prospects are good for Trotter trot
ting to a jail or the asylum. And all be
cause the town in which he lived and had
prospered wanted a little of his land, the
taking of which would have probably done
him no harm whatever. -There are such
men in every town; 'tis pity they can't all
tall
s, or
be kept out in the woods or mountains.
on the ranee.
v TSE CODE NAPOLEON.
New York Tribune.
"I shall go down to posterity," said Na
poleon Bonaparte, "with my code in my
hand." He believed that prophecy would
be fulfilled, and he well deserved, that it
should be. He esteemed his code above
all his victories, from Toulon to Llgny,
and we are not sure that he overesti
mated it It easily outranks all othe?
modern codes, even the Lahdrecht of
Frederick the Great We were reviewing
not long ago a history of the Napoleonic
reform of civil administration in parts ot
Germany, and showed how great and ben
eficent was his work there, largely
through the imposition of his civil code.
Such, too, was the effect of the code In
France, and in Belgium, Italy. Greece and
elsewhere, where it was adopted. That
one work entitles him to a rank in con
structive statesmanship comparable witli
that which the world has long accorded
to him a3 a military conqueror.
Yet through the unjust irony of fate his
prophecy has been unfulfilled. He is re.
membered for almost everything else
more than for hl3 code. When the "Na
poleonic revival" sprang up a few years
ago, In society, in dress, in literature and
on the stage, every other feature of his
life and works was recalled, exploited, eu
logized, but the great code was all but
ignored. Even this year men are speak
ing more of the centenary of his as
sumption of the Imperial crown than of
the centenary of the code; though his
crown, and his nephew's, and all crowns
In France, have long since been thrown
down forever, while the code, despite all
changes, still endures as the foundation
of French jurisprudence, of French civil
rights and organization, and, in a larger
measure than we often think, of the
French state Itself.
For the supreme service of the code was
the unification of France on the-basis of
a common system of law and administra
tion of Justice. Before It even with the
ordonnances" of Louis XIV and XV
multiplicity rivaling chaos prevailed.
There were "droits ecrits" and "droits
costumes" in endless variety according to
place and interpretation. Legal pro
cedure was uncertain and expensive ev
erywhere, and there was no pretense at
uniformity. That which was legal In
one province was illegal In another. But
Napoleon changed all this. He made his
coda uniform, for all parts and places,
and he made the procedure comparatively
simple and inexpensive; so that for the
first time in the history of France Jus
tice was obtainable by all men on equal
terms. The service thus rendered the
cause of national unity was and Is simply
Inestimable.
There have, of course, been changes in
the code. For more than 40 years it
Stood SUbStantlallV linnUorwl nnn v
adoption of universal suffrage In 1S4&
ueairoyea me monopoly of power which
the property-owning classes had enjoyed
under the codo, and made the proletariat
for the first time a power in the state.
11864 another change occurred, when the
right of workingmen to strike was rec
ognized. The third came 20 years later.
In the legalizing of workingmen's unions
and "collective contracts;" and this was
followed by others, giving women civil
rights comparable with those of men.
Doubtless other changes will be made;
some for good and perhaps some for evil.
Nevertheless, the framework and founda
tion of the civil code still remain largely
as Napoleon designed them. Above all,
the uniformity and unity of law and prac
tice, and consequent unification of the
French people, remain unimpaired. In
these things is Napoleon's not least
worthy If not most recognized memorial.
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An Ideal Candidate.
Baltimore Herald.
. In the Saturday Evening Post the Hon.
Champ Clark launches the Presidential
boom of his old friend and neighbor, the
Rt Hon. Francis Marlon Cockrell, of Mis
souri. Thi3 is a time of wholesale boom
ing, and every favorite son, from Roose
velt and Parker down to Hearst and Hon.
Tom L. Johnson, has bis boom3 and boom
ers. But the Hon. Clark Insists that the
claims of the Hon. Cockrell overshadaw
those of all other candidates, great and
small; and certainly when they aro set
forth in cold type it seems so.
Stripped of verbiage, these are tha rea
sons advanced by the Hon. Clark to prove
that the sturdy old Mlssourlan should fol
low in the footsteps of Washington, Lin
coln and the Hon. Grover Cleveland.
LL. D.
' He looks like Undo Sam.
He fit all through the war and never did
surrender.
He shamed and routed the military oli
garchy by proving that a shotgun Is more
effective in battle than a magazine rifle.
He is the champion apple-eater of the
United States.
He never casts mud upon his enemies.
He doe3 not patronize the Senate can
vasback duck and turtle-soup bar.
He has an eagle-beak nose.
He remembers faces 19 years.
He has a campaign, warwhoop so loud
that on one occasion it scared the catfish
in the Missouri River.
He is a Southerner and a gentleman.
In sober truth, the Hon. Clark seems to
have made out a good case. Judge Parker
may be more polished and Mr. Gorman
may be more subtle than this rugged old
Missourlan, but where, in either party.
Is there a more thoroughgoing American?
And where. In all the earth, is there a
more honest upright conscientious and
lovable old man? He is 69 years young,
says the Hon. Clark a child in virtue, a
Lee In war, a Lincoln in peace and a John
Hancock in patriotism. If the Democratic
National Convention should happen to
give ear to the South, let It consider well
the claims of tho Hon. Francis Marlon
Cockrell.
Mr. Hill's Services.
New York Times.
' David B. Hill does not suiter very acute
ly, we imagine, because of any unfairness
of political opponents. It is not for his
ease and comfort of mind, therefore, but
in simple justice that we again point out
his very great service to the Democratic
party in tills year 1904. While other lead
ers were ruminating or conferring, he set
up a flagpole and raised a banner with a
name on it He saw the dominant Im
portance of New York, not only In the
actual campaign, but In the preliminary
canvass for a candidate. He determined
in his own mind that New York dught to
present the name of Judge Parker, that
he had strength and availability above
any other New York Democrat upon
whom, attention could be , concentrated.
Does anybody dispute the soundness of
his Judgment as to that? His judgment
has been vindicated and his acts Justified
by the course of events. The Democracy
of New York has sanctioned his proced
ures. Nor is that alL By his early be
ginning of the work ot organization and
by his presentation of the name of a can
didate, the party not only in New York,
but throughout the Union, has been kept
together, encouraged and confirmed in Its
resolutions of safety and sanity. The
progress of the Bryan-Hearst conspiracy
against a return to wisdom has been
checked. Nothing else would bo effectu
ally have put a stop to that dreadful
march back into the realms of death.
Calm After the Storm.
Louisville Times.
Judge Parker's reputation for conserva
tism and his undoubted "possesslon'of a
high order of ability will command for
him the respect and report of the inde
pendent voter in the country at large, as
will the regularity of his party record
that of the Democrat who insists on a
candidate who voted straight in 1896 and
1900. His Judicial temperament offers a
welcome relief from the strenuous irre
sponsibility and self-centered ambition of
Mr, Roosevelt He is to the party and
the country the hope and prospect of a
calm after the storm.
NOTE ANDjC0MMkl
After the Yalu.
It was a Summer evening;
Old One Lung's work was done.
And. he before his. hovel's door
Was sitting in the sun;
And by him sported on the eod
His little granchlld Hop Sin? Tod.
She saw her brother Suey Chop
Roll something hard and found.
Which he Tjeside the Yalu stream
In play ins tnere had found;
He came to ask what he had found
That was so heavy, smooth and rouni,
Old One Lung- took It from the boy,
Who stdod expectant by;
And then the old man shook his head.
And with, a natural eigh,
"A Russian breech-block tls," said ie,
"Was lost In their great, victory."
"It was the Russians." One ,Luns cried,
"Who put the Japs to rout;
But why they left their guns behind
I could not well make out.
But Kuropatkln said." quoth he,
That 'twas a Russian lctory.
"They say it, was a shocking sight
After the field was -won;
For many thousand Russians there
Lay rotting In the sun;
But things like that, you know, must b
After a Russian victory.
"Great praise brave Kuropatkln won.
His fame was spread abroad."
"Why, 'twas a very bad defeat!"
Said little Hop Sing Tod.
"Nay, nay, my little girl," quoth he,
"It was a Russian victory.
, "And everybody praised the r"n
Who left the Japs on top."
"But what did Russia gala by ltT
Quoth little Suey Chop.
"Why, that X cannot tell," quoth be,
"But 'twas a .Russian victory."
Wifey sits for a photograph, but hubby;
has to stand for it
On one thing both Russia and Japan
agree, and that Is the necessity for rais
lng a loan.
Man's most important dress concessions
to Summer are such that you can't see
them, but woman seems an entirely dif
ferent creature at different seasons.
Tho Russian admiral at Port Arthur
has been ordered not to take his ships
outside on any account That Is an order
that is certain to be carried out to tha
letter.
Tied Up a Font.
Kawalhaunuiokahoupookane, aa 18-year-old
Hawaiian boy, died yesterday. Honolulu Com
mercial. Poor fellow, he didn't even live a year
for each letter in his name.
The Dowager Empress of China will sit
for a photograph, so that the teeming
millions may worship her picture. For
tunately, in posing for aa image it is
not necessary to look pleasant
The story of women disguised as men
fighting in the Japanese army is so
threadbare that some enterprising resident
of Shanghai should send out a story that
half the Russian troops are men dis
guised a3 women.
But however effectual tha sample bottle,
the sample joke, and the sample shudder,
I can show you a yet more excellent de
vice, says the Atlantic Monthly. De
preciate your wares. Learn from the
Tennessee Innkeeper who described his
establishment as "not the largest hotel
In the burg; not newly furnished through
out; no free 'bus to trains; not tho best
grub the market affords; but simply clean
beds and good food; 25 cents a sleep, 25
cents an eat Toothpicks and ice water
thrown in. Try us! Pay up! And it
not satisfied keep mum." Or emulate the
New Jersey husbandman who declared:
"Owing to ill-health, I will sell one blush
raspberry cow, aged eight years. She Is
of undaunted courage and gives milk
freely. To a man who does not fear
death in any form, she would be a great
boon. I would rather sell her to a non
resident of the county."
It is the season of fish stories, and the
sea serpent is stretching himself in his
oozy bed as the Summer resorts begin to
rub the winter sleep out of their eyes.
A few days ago we alluded to this daring
Southern fisherman who beat a whale with
a boathook. Now comes a different sort
of story from East Belvidere (N. J.
This story tells of shooting shad on. tho
wing. Henry Brint is the name of the
gunner. Ho went out fishing when the
trout season opened, but returned without
a fish. As he was entering his house,
he saw a large hawk flying close to the
ground and coming in his direction. Brint
rushed Into the house, got his shotgun,
and gave the hawk both barrels. On
reaching the dead bird, Brint saw some
thing flopping about on the ground. It
was a five-pound shad, just brought from
the Delaware River, four miles off. Can't
Oregon produce a story that will eclipse
these Eastern tales as effectually as a
royal chinook eclipses a codfish?
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Cora She didn't tell him that she has been
engaged before? Dora Oh, no. She's keeping
that quiet for strategic reasons. Judge.
"How's your daughter getting on now?"
"Oh, fine. She's busy at Beethoven'e worke."
"Where's that at? What do they make?"
Cleveland Leader.
Manager How long have you been on
the stage? Applicant Seventeen years.
Manager And do you still hope to become
an actor? Chicago Dally News.
Husband-ln-Waltlng I must take you to
see the woman lightning-change artist at tho
Halls. Wife Is she good? Husband Great!
She puts on her hat In less than 15 minutes.
Punch.
Jorkins Drugged and robbed! Why don't
you ha-ve soma action taken in the matter?
Jobson I can't. I suppose the fellow had my
permifelon. You sec, he was my doctor. New
Yorker.
How's the race problem in your neighbor
hood, Br"er Williams?" "Well, suh, at las'
accounts some er de awil'-footed niggers wuz
still ten miles ahead er de shlrfC." Atlanta
Constitution.
Kind Friend Did you tell the girl that you
were willing to die for her? Rejected Suitor
Tes. Kind Friend What did she say? Re
jected Suitor Told me to consider myself a
dead one. Philadelphia Telegraph.
"Tes." he said, "I studied In a college of
pharmacy and now I am reading The Bar
tender's Guide.' " "What's your object?"
"Why, I expect to get a Job as drug cleric
In a prohibition district." Chicago Kven
Ing Post.
"My old man threatens to cut down my al
lowance if I don't study more." "What a
silly idea!" "Yes, Isn't It? He doesn't seem
to appreciate the fact that my text-books
last me twice as long as anybody else's."
Harper's Bazar.
O'Rourke (who Is being lowered down a, well)
Hold on, Ol want to come up agin. Flnne
gan An" what phor? O'Rourke None av your
blzness. If you don't stop littln' me down
Ol'll cut th rope. Columbus Despatch.
Naggus What are you going to do with
the hero and heroine of that magazine story
you're running now? Marry them? Bonis
Certainly. They'll be married In. the last
chapter. Naggus I'm glad of it! It will
serve them right! Chicago Tribune.
Young Mr. Freshly (to his tutor) Will you
tell me something of the Reign of Terror?
You know all about It, I believe. Absent
Minded Professor Reign of terror? Know all
about It? I should say I did. Six children at
house oldest 0. youngest 3 and all down with,
the whooping cough. Tit-Bits.