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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1904.
A RELIC OF KBACT.
Russia asserts the right to hold food
stuffs destined to ports In Japan con
traband of war. A nation at war with
another may, of course, push this doc
trine of contraband as far as she has
power to maintain it, vi et armls.
This whole business of capture of
property at sea is a relic of the days of
piracy, and ought to be condemned by
civilization. Private property, even of
an enemy, is respected on land.
Russia is acting now no otherwise
than other nations have acted hitherto.
She makes her own doctrine of contra
band, as other nations have done, from
early times. But she Is not likely to
push it to the extent of bringing upon
herself at this time the hostility of any
powerful nation. She will go, however.
In this direction the seizure of vessels,
upon one pretext or another as far as
other nations will allow her.
These principles were laid down by
the principal nations of Europe at the
close of the Crimean "War, viz: (1) The
neutral flag covers the goods of neu
tral traders and even enemy's goods
with the exception of contraband of
war. (2) Neutral goods, with the ex
ception of contraband of war, are not
liable to capture, even under the en
emy's flag.
Tet these principles come to little or
nothing; for each nation reserves the
right to decide for itself what is contra
band of war. It suits Russia now to
hold that flour and meat and other
foodstuffs destined to Japanese ports
are contraband. She will still hold that
doctrine unless or until she is bluffed
out of it The United 'States, though
largely interested, may not want to
take a high tone on the subject. Great
Britain, however, has compelled Russia
to withdraw from the Red Sea and from
the Mediterranean her cruisers sta
tioned there to Intercept British and
other commerce.
That is the good of being powerful at
sea, and having the spirit, moreover, to
insist upon and to enforce a national
demand.
Russia, we may suppose, unless
pressed by the United States, will con
tinue to hold our trade of every de
scription with Japan contraband of
war, and will enforce the claim to
right of search of all vessels in our Ori
ental trade. One can see from this sit
uation how well it would be for the
United States to be strong enough at
sea to enforce an interpretation of In
ternational law in accord with her own
interests, as Great Britain Is doing;
and abo'e all, to have the spirit to
do It
Piracy, in the name of contraband oM-
war, has gone too far. Say rather it is
a relic of the days of universal piracy,
which the world ought to tolerate no
further. Contraband of war should
cover only materials of actual and ex
clusive use in war; not the ordinary
goods of mercantile trade.
Reviewing the late Democratic Na
tional Convention, Harper's Weekly
says: ''Except war, there is hardly any
test of physical endurance so searching
as a hot political convention. The
strain on the leaders is prodigious."
Attesting the truth of this assertion
was the exhaustion, well nigh complete,
of William J. Bryan after three days'
fight, with scarcely a short intervalfor
sleep. It was said of him that he arose
from a sickbed to make his last stand
before the convention against the gold
standard, and that he seemed to put
the very last ounce of his physical
strength into the speech that followed
his reappearance a whispering, stag
gering ghost in what he deemed a
great emergency. He took to his bed
after the fight was over, and is recuper
ating slowly, but the strain was one
that a man who desires length of years
should hesitate to undergo twice. It is
recalled that the Chicago Convention of
183D "killed William E. Russell, and that
the Minneapolis Convention of 1892 fin
ished Emmons Blaine. Horace Greeley
survived the bitter strife of the con
vention that nominated him for the
Presidency in opposition to General
Grant In 1S72, went through the labors
of ihe campaign and the excitement
and the bitterness of defeat, but suc
cumbed soon after to brain disease
brought on by exhaustion and worry.
If the late convention at St Louis
passes into history without claiming an
ultimate victim, It will be remarkable,
glnce the physical strain upon the lead-
ers was Intense, and, added to the
stifling heat of midsummer In St. Louis,
made the situation a menacing: one.
ADVERTISING THE PAIR.
How shall we reconcile the fact that
the St. Louis Exposition is universally
known with the complaint of the Na
tional Commission that the attendance
is light? As Director-General Goode,
of Portland, points out, some of the
apathy Is due to unfavorable weather.
A while ago it was rainy and now there
is dread of the heat. It is expected to
make this up from now on, and an im
provement in attendance is, of course,
to be expected; but so far there has
been something radically wrong in the
St Louis method of advertising, and so
far there is nothing In the new plan
of campaign to indicate its remedy.
It is now proposed to Utilize 1,000,000
miles of billboards which the billboard
trust has placed at the Exposition's dis
posal; but whoever has made the trip
to St Louis and farther East this Sum
mer knows that the Middle "West,
whence St Louis must draw its crowds,
is thoroughly plastered with posters ad
vertising the Exposition. But the post
ers do not fill the bill. Neither do the
newspaper articles that have been scat
tered broadcast through a generous and
co-operating press. "What, then, is the
trouble?
It Is The Oregonlan's opinion that
the way to draw people to an Exposi
tion is to depict its scenes In such terms
as will arouse an unsatisfied sense of
curiosity In the reader. It Is true that
the St Louis Fair occupies over 1200
acres, or twice the area of the one at
Chicago in 1S93. 1 is true that the Ag
ricultural buildjng is the largest edifice
pf itskindon the surface of the globe.
It Is true that the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition exceeds in magnitude and In
comprehensiveness of detail every for
mer World's Fair, and probably will
exceed every succeeding one, at least
for a generation.
IBut we are unable to see why these
incontrovertible and in a way import
ant facts would move a single human
being to travel fifty miles to see the
Fair. People do not take time and suf
fer Inconvenience and spend money
merely to be overwhelmed by an array
of figures or dimensions. "What they go
to such places for, If they go at all, Is
to be Instructed and edified, and pri
marily to be amused. Twenty lines of
captivating description of some unique
scene or exhibit full of human interest
would be worth more than a whole page
of entreaty addressed to the sense of
duty.
At St Louis you can see the wild
Moros and Igorrotes of the Philippine
Islands, clad in the slightest possible
excuses for raiment performing their
native dances to discordant minor
strains and weaving their primitive
rugs from native reeds. At St Louis
you will see the vehicles of all nations,
from the English compartment-car to
the jlnrlksha of Japan, and their water
craft, from the Kaiser Wllhelm to the
rude canoe of Luzon, all grouped in one
massive building. At St. Louis you can
climb the Tyrolean Alps or ride in an
Irish jaunting-car, or watch a repro
duction of Parisian comedy, or spend
an hour among the sculptural triumphs
of Florentine marbles, or wander for
hours among the richest canvases of
the world's great painters, or float
through winding canals In Venetian
gondolas past waterfalls whose rain
bow hues will stand forever In memory.
These are the things the traveler recalls
with pleasure, and they are the pictures
fit to draw others there.
It must be so with our Oregon Fair.
"We must study to set before the news
paper readers of the country such rep
resentations of interesting objects here
as will arouse the curiosity and stimu
late pleasurable anticipation. On July
10 an Oregonian, en route to the East,
picked up this in the Salt Lake Trib
une: Salt Lake City, Utah, July 7. Would you
please answer In your worthy columns of ques
tions and answers next Sunday aa follows: 1.
Is it a decided fact the coming Fair Exposi
tion at Portland, Or? 2. Will It be as largo
as the Chicago or St. Louis Exposition, or
Rill it be Just a Ksountry fair? 3. In what
Summer will It be? A Subscriber.
1. It is a fact. 2. It will be em&ller than
cither the Chicago or the St. Louis Exposition,
but still a great deal more than a country fair.
3. In 1905.
And sends It to The Oregonian with
this indorsement: "Astonishing lack of
knowledge of the 1905 Fair in Utah
generally." It seems to us, however,
that the most obvious and necessary
comment on the item is one of satisfac
tion that the Tribune answered the In
quiry and answered it correctly. Large
numbers of persons in Utah know
about the Lewis and Clark Centennial,
though other numbers undoubtedly do
not; but the same might be truthfully
said of Oregon. The attractions of the
I Fair will be made known in time by the
Fair authorities, the railroads and oth
ers, and the most effective time to do
this is In the Spring and Summer of
1905, when Intentions to come here can
be carried out at once. Few persons
are now making plans for their next
Summer's outing.
CONDITIONS IN NEED OF A CIIANGE.
The July number of that Interesting
publication the Crop Reporter, Issued
by the Department of Agriculture, has
made its appearance, and is alleged to
be corrected up to July L The Govern
ment annually spends a great many
thousand dollars on this little pamph
let, which is neat in appearance and
presents no glaring errors In spelling or
grammatical construction. After this
much has been said in favor of the pub
lication, however, the limit of its merits
has been reached. Attention has fre
quently been called to the mysterious
system of percentages by which the de
partment keeps the constant readers of
the Crop Reporter In touch with the
situation For example, we find that
the Winter wheat crop of Oregon on
July 1 showed a condition of 91 compared-
with 72 on the same date last
year, while the crop of Washington was
placed at a 9S condition compared with
76 for the same time last year.
This cannot mean 91 per cent of the
best conditions ever recorded, for the
conditions this year are 50 per cent bet
ter than they were July 1 last year, In
stead of this mythical 91 per cent The
Government has never yet given a sat
isfactory explanation of the meaning of
these figures, and the grain trade and
the trade papers have ceased trying to
solve the mystery. The particular feat
ure of this last report that will excite
comment in Oregon and Washington is
the discrepancy between the figures for
the two states. Neither the Oregonlans
nor the Washlngtonlans understand the
location of the base from which these
mysterious percentages are figured, but
when they give a condition of 9S per
cent for Washington and only 91 for
Oregon, the services of a second-sight
artist are unnecessary to enable us to
get the Impression that Washington's
crop is regarded as in better condition
than that of Oregon.
Herein the Department of Agriculture
displays the weakness which has made
it famous for Its Inaccuracy. There is
not a county in "Washington in which
the condition were better on July 1
than they were on that date in Uma
tilla and Morrow Conultes, in Oregon.
The poorest conditions to be found any
where in Oregon were In the "Willamette
Valley, but taking the crop on the
same-sized area in the poorest sections
of the Big Bend, in Washington, the
showing by comparison would have
been as good for Oregon on the date
mentioned as it was for Washington.
The department does not stop with
wheat in these disparaging compari
sons. Oats in Oregon are reported 22
"points" or per cent lower than In
Washington, barley 2 per cent lower,
rye 8 per cent, potatoes 7 per cent, and
all fruit, with the exception of apples,
from 5 to 9 per cent lower. A review of
this nature is perhaps all that can be
expected when the information, or
rather misinformation, is compiled 3000
miles away from the field it Is intended
to cover, but it is of no more value or
usefulness than the fifth wheel on a
wagon.
No other portion of the United States
is so sadly neglected by the Agricul
tural Department as the Pacific North
west The neglect becomes all the more
glaring when It Is considered that even
In a short-crop year like that just
closed, the three states Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho sent foreign more
than one-eighth of all the wheat (flour
Included) that was exported from the
United. States. The farmer who buys
or sells wheat on information present
ed by the Agricultural Department
would not be,at a greater disadvantage
If he took all of his tips from a sure
thing bucket shop.
THE PARKER NUMERICAL PROBLEM.
If we were to banish from conscious
ness the Democratic record of 189S and
1900; if we were to forget everything
sinister and unsatisfactory In thi3
month's queer operations at St. Louis;
if we were to assume that the Gold
Democrats will Ignore the spirited ef
forts of the regulars to make their
homecoming frosty and will hurry back
to the fold; If we reduce the November
problem, for sake of argument to the
extremely low terms of finding out, as
Mr. Dooley puts It, whether there are
more Republicans in the country or
more Democrats why, then, it Is diffi
cult to see wherein the Democratic
cause can justify reasonable assurance
of success.
The truth is that the Democratic task
consists in the almost miraculous
chance of carrying a large number of
states which are pretty certain to go
Republican. Lightning might strike in
one or more of them, but to Imagine
that the entire bunch of Republican
states needed by Parker will suddenly
turn around from one party to another,
without any reason of dissatisfaction
with the effects of Republican policies,
Imposes a severe task on credulity. The
electoral college consists of 476, of
which a majority Is 239. The Solid
South, strictly speaking, means the 138
electoral votes of Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Missis
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vir
ginia. The Democrats are now adding
to that list, as a matter of course, the
thirteen votes of Kentucky and the
eight of Maryland, giving a total of 159.
It becomes necessary for Parker to
get eighty votes In the North and West
It Is easy to claim New York, which
gives Parker 198; and West Virginia,
which gives him 205; and Delaware,
which gives him 208; and New Jersey,
which makes 220; and Connecticut,
bringing him up to 227; and even Rhode
Island, making 23L There is no good
reason for including a number of these
states, except the Democratic impulse,
something as the enthusiastic house
planner marks an extra bay window
fondly on his plans by a simple twist
of the pencil. But here we have given
Parker all the South and East with the
exception of Massachusetts, Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont and Penn
sylvania, yet he is still eight votes
short
We all know that the money question
determined the votes of the Eastern
States in 1896 and to a less degree In
1900; but it cannot be pretended that
this question determined the number of
Republicans and Democrats In those
states In the local elections on local
issues in 1902. Now Connecticut elected
a Republican Governor in 1902 by about
16,000 plurality; Illinois a Republican
State Treasurer by 89,000; Indiana a Re
publican Secretary of State by 35,000;
Nebraska a Republican Governor by
6000; New Jersey a Republican Gov
ernor by 17,000; New York a Republican
Governor by nearly 10,000; West Vir
ginia a complete Republican delegation
to Congress by a total plurality of 12,
000. Is It not asking a great deal to believe
that if Parker were conceded to be as
desirable a man as Roosevelt and the
Democratic party as safe as a National
force as the Republican party, yet the
seven or more states needed by Parker
will all simultaneously reverse their
Republican verdict of last election to a
Democratic verdict this election? Even
In New York the Democratic claim of
Parker's boasted strength becomes
somewhat exaggerated when we com
pare his vote in 1897 wit'h other elec
tions, before and after. The truth
Beems to be that he was elected, not by
virtue of his own strength, but because
of a Republican defection. Here Is the
record:
REPUBLICAN VOTES CAST.
1002 Odell 065,150
1900 McKlnley 821,002
1898 Roosevelt 001,707
1S90 McKlnley 819.838
18 W Morton 073.818
1862 Harrison 009,350
1887 Parker 554,080
DEMOCRATIC VOTES CAST.
1902 Coler 055.398
1900 Bryan C78.3SG
1898 Van Wyck 043,921
1890 Stanchfleld 093,733
1800 Bryan 551.309
1894 Hill 517.710
1892 Cleveland A 054,803
1897 Parker 554,680
That Is to say: In 1897 Parker polled
only 554,680 votes, yet the year before
Mr. Bryan had received 551,369, in spite
of the enormous Democratic defection
which rolled up a McKlnley plurality of
269,000; and the year after, 1898, Van
Wyck, bearing all the burdens of Cro
kerlsm, against Roosevelt, aided by all
the war enthusiasm, received 643,921
and was still beaten. Judge Parker
owed his election not to his own pop
ularity, but to the defection of no fewer
than 75,000 Republicans from the reg
ular party ticket in New York City
He showed no personal strength; but
the supporters of Seth Low for Mayor
could not vote for Judge Wallace with
out splitting a ticket, so Wallace re
ceived only 493,791 votes, while the Re
publican ticket In the off year of 1895
received 601,205, and 661,715 to 1898. In
the light of these figures. It may easily
develop that Hill has "gold-bricked"
the party on Parker's running powers,
even as he "gold-bricked" the conven
tion with platform and the Parker telegram.
General Humphrey, chief of the
Quartermaster's Department of the
Army, was in Seattle last week, and
while there was called to account for
turning down bids presented by Seattle,
Tacoma and Portland bidders for for
age and awarding the contract at
higher figures to San 'Francisco deal
ers. His excuse for the discrimination
was that a great many of the details
of the contracts were left to subordi
nates, and for this reason mistakes
sometimes happened. This Is the con
tetion that Portland has always made.
Our grain dealers have not been in
clined to accuse the head of the depart
ment of awarding contracts to the
highest bidder or of shifting the speci
fications In order to admit the Callfor
nlans, but they have contended and still
contend that the exercise of a little
more business sense on the part of the
department from top to bottom might
be productive of more satisfactory re
sults and less talk about discrimina
tion. The San Francisco dealers who
secured the last oats contract by bid
ding on part old crop and part new
crop, while Portland and Puget Sound
dealers were held down to old-crop
oats, are now filling a portion of the
order with oats purchased in Portland
at higher prices than were demanded
from the Government The loss, It Is
perhaps needless to state, will be made
up on the cheap new-crop oats, whlch
Portlanders had no chance to bid on.
As often as a great National political
campaign is opened the memory of the
hotly contested campaign of 18S4 with
Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine
as leaders casts its significant shadow
across the years. The keen and bitter
disappointment of Blaine at the loss of
New York, and with It the long-coveted
Presidency of the United States, by the
"maddening trifle of 1000 votes," rises
as a haunting ghost of vain expecta
tions and desires, causing a shudder of
regret in the ranks of his friends and a
feeling of exultation In the ranks of his
political enemies. The wrath of the
former pursued Dr. Burchard, the un
fortunate author of the deadly alliterat
ive, "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,"
that was used with such fatal effect
against Mr. Blaine during the last few
days of that memorable campaign, until
he resigned his once powerful pulpit,
quit the ministry and lived in seclusion
to the end of his days, doing bitter pen
ance for his unwise mingling of relig
ious prejudice and political zeal. It Is
said, however, that during hl3 later
years he was consoled with the belief
that he may have been in this instance
"a humble Instrument In the hands of a
greater power." Be that as It may, the
deciding incidents of the last days of
the campaign of 1884 are recalled, coun
seling leaders to vigilance and pru
dence. There can be no doubt that disaffec
tion and unrest are on the Increase In
Russia. The causes that are contribut
ing to this growth are scheduled as,
firsp; the heavy financial burdens laid
upon the people by the Russian occu
pation of Manchuria; second, the fall
ute of crops In many of the Baltic prov
inces and the falling off In trade and
manufacture, and finally the Ineffi
ciency and Incapacity shown In Rus
sian military operation. Tolstoi may
exaggerate the unwillingness of the
Russian peasant to be sent to the war,
but it can hardly be doubted, says the
Independent, "that It Is his spirit of
loyalty and custom of obedience which
sent him to the front rather than any
enthusiasm for the cause." The cus
tom of obedience ingrained In the very
life of a people Is difficult to overcome.
Injustice and tyranny have battled
against It for generations In Russia,
but It Is still dumb, except now and
then a protest from Tolstoi or a cry,
suppressed In terror and smothered In
hate, from the oppressed of Finland.
Woe will be the portion of Russia when
this gathered hate of centuries finds
vent in popular uprising.
The meat-packers' strike, of ' which
Chicago Is the storm center, is rapidly
extending Its boundaries. Like the
great coalmlners' strike, It menaces one
of the greatest and most Indispensable
of the every-day supplies of the people
of a vast section, puts a serious handi
cap upon transportation and a clog
upon commerce, and works untold In
convenience and hardship upon tens of
thousands who are but puppets In the
hands of circumstance. As usual in
such cases, both sides are confident and
both are obstinate. It is a fight on one
side for independence; upon the other
for dominion. Strange that in all of
the strife of past years business men
have not learned that there is no such
thing as absolute independence in trade
and that laboring men have not learned
that they do not own more than one
half of the world and all that Is In It
With all of their getting, It seems that
neither labor nor capital has got un
derstanding in the matter at Issue the
dependence of one upon the other.
The drowning of Miss Anita Thurs
ton, a young woman of Eugene, while
-bathing at Gardiner, Douglas County,
is one of the distressing Incidents that
mar the pleasures of the vacation sea
son. For .fhe risks taken, such occur
rences are few. They belong strictly
to the preventable class of accidents,
and could not happen if proper caution
was exercised by persons who, not hav
ing learned to swim, are helpless in
water beyond their depth. The young
woman drowned at Gardiner was teach
ing school at that place. She was a
graduate of the Eugene High School.
The community suffers a loss from her
untimely death just as she was
equipped for and had entered upon a
life of usefulness.
Judge Hogue yesterday sentenced a
boy t'o receive a spanking at the hands
of an able-bodied policeman. The ef
fect of this Innovation will be watched
with Interest In the good old days
gone by unruly boys frequently re
ceived punishment of this nature with
out going into the courts to get it
There is- a possibility that, had the
spanking been administered In the fam
ily circle at proper intervals earlier in
the life of the urchin, he might have
been saved the humiliation of a public
punishment
Now the Oregon Democracy have, a
new cause of lamentation. If they
could have succeeded In making the
state "close1' In the June election, they
would have a chance for a "pull" at
iTJncle Henry Gassaway's bar!. As it is
they are "out" , ,.
DEMOCRACY AND THE TRDSTS
New York Press.
Judge Parker's gold-plated telegram to
the Democratic convention has occupied
the attention of the country and the news
paper edlctorlal pages so constantly as to
rob the "anti-trust" plank of the St Louis
platform of the consideration It deserves.
This Is a matter with which we shall con
cern ourselves more when the public shall
have settled the question of Judge Par
ker's cowardice on the money question to
Its full satisfaction. s
Meanwhile we can do no better than
to republlsn from the New York World,
one of the principal Parker organs, the
semi-oSlclal Parker view. In the absence
of any declaration on the subject by
Judge Parker himself about the question
of trust control:
FACTS. '
1. The anti-trust law was framed by a Repub
lican, was passed by a Republican Houso and
a Republican Senate, was signed by a Repub
lican President.
2. The law remained a dead letter on the
statute books during the entire second term of
Grover Cleveland, a Democratic President.
Through those four jears of Democratic admin
istration all anneals and all effort of the
World to have the law enforced were met with
sneers. Jeers and open contempt from a Demo
cratic Attorney-General, Richard Olney, who
pretended that the law waa unconstitutional,
and who would do nothing toward prosecuting
violators of It. .
3. The first effort to enforce the law was
made by Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican
President. The first Attorney-General to prose
cuto vigorously offenders and to teat the law
was a Republican Attorney -General, Philander
C. Knox.
4. The decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, given as a finality from which
there Is no appeal, upholding the law as per
fectly constitutional and absolutely impregnable
In every respect, as the World for 12 years
constantly insisted, was due to five Judges,
every ono of whom is a Republican.
B. The dissenting minority of the court In
cluded every Democratic Judge of that tribu
nal, to wit: Chief Justice Fuller, of Illinois;
Mr. Justice White, of Louisiana, and Mr.
Justice Pcckham, of New York. All these dis
tinguished Democrats not only voted against
the constitutionality -of the law, but denounced
It aB a danger to the Republic.
0. Under these circumstances It does not
cen probable that the Democrats can make
great capital in seeking to monopolize the anti
trust Issue and charging the Republican party
with the crime of being owned body and eoul
by the trusts.
It Is Just as well to record some plain truths,
however unpleasant or surprising.
Judge Parker and Gold.
New Yark Sun.
AMAGANSETT, L. I., July 16. (To the
Editor.) Some persons are quick thoifght
ed and see through an intricate problem
at once; others are slow of study. I am
inclined to believe that my mind is
one of the slowest; for, while I find many
journals, edited by bright men, heaping
praise upon Judge Parker for his tele
gram concerning the gold standard, I am
not able to discover any reason for such
a proceeding. The letter Is undoubtedly
right in Itself, and we may take the offi
cial Democratic word for it that the
question of the gold standard Is settled
and out of politics.
But where was Judge Parker when that
Issue was in politics? Where was this
valiant gentleman when the fight waa
on, when we needed his assistance In
that vital contest? He was with the
enemies of sound money, voting for Bryan
and 16 to 1 "not one, but twice. In thl3
our strenuous story." Are we to make
allowance for him on the ground that he
was too young and unsophisticated to
know any better four and eight years
ago, but has since arrived at maturity and
acquired a sound judgment?
After reading many glowing eulogies of
that suddenly famous telegram, I took
down my copy of Shakespeare and turned
to the "First Part of King Henry IV.,"
act V., scene 4, and beginning at the
speech that opens with the word "Em
bowelled," I read to the end of the scene.
Then I said (unaer my breath, for I am
art American, and all good Americans, of
whatever party, are my brethren): "Must
we be compelled to say, 'Here comes Fal
staff Parker lugging in the corpse of
Hotspur Bryan?' Alas, and so young!"
ROSS1TBR JOHNSON.
Religion and the Campaign.
New York Evening Post
The Scriptures deprecate hiding one's
light under a bushel, but that advice
waa given before the days of Presiden
tial candidates and personal reporting.
Little Samuel's visions of the Lord were
not used to promote the fortunes of the
High Priest; whereas there Is an un
pleasant suspicion that the Bible class
of Theodore the Younger and Judge Par
ker's Sunday services a3 a vestryman
are being exploited for political purposes.
Vote for Parker and Personal Piety, for
Roosevelt and Revealed Religion, are
evidently campaign "cries not without ap
peal to a large and respectable class of
Americana. But before the campaign
managers one of whom has already
"opened with prayer" decide to make
this a religious campaign, we trust they
will consider the feelings of the candi
dates. To President Roosevelt and Judge
Parker alike this advertising of their
neighborhood life must be very distaste
ful. To be assured that thoy both fear
God and support the church, we need
neither photographs nor Sunday bulle
tins. In fact this placarding of activi
ties common to all rellgiou3ly-bred fam
ilies Is humiliating to the candidates for
whom, In default of a bushel, an occa
sional mysterious disappearance on Sun
day may yet prove the only escape from
the prying impertinence of the press.
8
Sumpter's Smelter.
Blue Mountain American.
The opening to regular business of the
Sumpter Smelter, for which active prep
arations are well under way, will be an
event of Importance second to nothing
that could happen In the district It will
be of marked advantage not alone to tho
miners and mlneowncrs themselves, but -It
will have a most decided influence for
good on the entire business community
an influence that will measureably ex
tend throughout Eastern Oregon and even
into Idaho.
With the only smelter in operation In
the wide extent of territory between the
Pacific Ocean and Great Salt Lake, Sump
ter District ought to advance by leaps
and bounds, for considerable more than
half the returns from the ore shipments
will. It Is estimated, be devoted to push
ing development Sumpter District is cer
tainly In a fair way to realize the fond
est hopes of Its most optimistic enthus
iasts and to call for early congratulations
from all of Its neighboring districts on
the advent of a new era of prosperity for
its mining Interests.
I'll Never Love Thee More.
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
My dear and only Love, I pray
That little world of thee
Be govern'd by no other sway
Than purest monarchy;
For If confusion have a part
(Which virtuous souls abhor),
And hold a synod in thins heart.
Til never lovo thee more.
Like Alexander I will reign.
And I will reign alone;
My thoughts did evermore disdain
A rival on my throna.
Ho either fears his fate too much.
Or his deserts ars small.
That dares not put it to the touch,
To gain or lose it alt
And in the empire of thine heart,
Where I should solely be,
If others do pretend a port
Qr daro to vie with me, a
Or if Committees thou erect.
And go on such a score,
I'll laugh and sing at thy neglect,
And never lovo thee more.
Bnt if thou wilt prove faithful then,
And constant of thy word,
I'll make thee glorious by thy pen
And famous by my sword;
I'll serve thee in such noble ways
Was never heard befora;
Til cown and deck thee all with bar".
Ana love tneo more and xnprev
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GOOD WORDS FOR OUR FAIR.
Pueblo Chieftain.
By an official act of the United States
Congress, followed by an invitation- issued
by the Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State
of the United States, there will be held
during lSOo, in the State of Oregon, at
Portland, one of the prominent cities of
America, an Important international exhi
bition, known as the "Lewis and Clark
Centennial and Oriental Fair."
This Centennial will extend through a
period of 4& months, commonclng June 1,
1905, and ending October 15, 1S05. It will
commemorate the exploration of the great
Pacific Northwest Territory to the shores
of the Pacific In 1S05. It Is the first Inter
national exhibition held west of the Rocky
Mountains and is designed fitly to mark
an epoch of. growth and development
which, gisat as It has been. Is destined to
be greater still as "Westward the course
of empire takes Its way."
The "Oregon Country" (as that section
of America was then called) shortly after
became a part of the United States and
was subsequently divided Into the present
States of Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
as well as extensive parts of Montana and
Wyoming, adding over 300,000 square miles
of rich mineral and fertile agricultural
lands to the National domain, and Its set
tlement and development have contributed
much to the National wealth and pros
perity. The expedition which explored this "No
Man's Land" was sent out under the lead
ership of Captains Meriweather Lewis and
William Clark, by President Thomas Jef
ferson, In 1E03, and reached the mouth of
the Columbia River in 1S05. The perilous
journey, some 3000 miles overland, was ac
complished under most trying circum
stances. It has been aptly called "a new
Xenophon march to an unknown sea."
The expedition was composed of 33 men.
Their way through the wilderness was
beset with obstacles and dangers that
gave pause to the hardiest It is the epic
of national explorations.
Captains Lewis and Clark were the first
Americans who reached the Pacific Coast
overland, and It Is the centenary of thjo.
momentous event that will be Celebrated
at Portland In 1905; for the subsequent ac
quisition of this vast region gave the
United States its first footing on the Pa
cific's shores and opened the way to our
great continental development
As this acquisition was one of the most
Important events In American history, be
cause of Its influence exerted toward mak
ing the United States a great nation in
territorial extent the American people in
general, and those of the Pacific Coast In
particular, supported by the Government,
have determined that this Contennial shall
bo fittingly celebrated. When Its gates are
officially opened, It will represent an ex
penditure approximating $5,000,000, and will
occupy some 400 picturesque acres In the
beautiful suburbs of Portland, overlooking
Guild's Lake and the Willamette River.
The City of Portland, numbering 125,000
Inhabitants, Is an Ideal Western American
city. It Is situated 110 miles from Ihe Pa
cific Ocean, on the Willamette River, at
practically it3 confluence with the famous
Columbia. It is a common sight to behold
the heaviest draught vessels of all nation
alities moored in the city's magnificent
harbor. Portland holds extensive commer
cial Intercourse with the whole world, her
chief export commodities being lumber,
flour, grain and the products of Innumer
able salmon canneries located on the Co
lumbia. Portland does a wholesale busi
ness of 5175,000,000 annually. Its factories
produced 549,500.000 in value last year, and
It is the first wheat port of the Pacific
Coast and the oly fresh-water harbor.
The Centennial will provide ten commo
dious exhibit palaces and thereby furnish
ample space, free of charge, for all dis
plays, governmental and otherwise, that
are offered. Desirable building sites will
be allotted, gr-tls, to those countries wish
ing to erect special pavilions of their own,
The main palaces will be: Foreign Exhib
its, Liberal Arts and Industrial Palace,
Horticultural Palace, Agricultural Palace,
Electricity and Machinery Hall, Mining
Palace, Alaskan building, Government
Exhibits Palace, Hawaiian building and
pceanlc building. Arrangements have been
made with the transportation companies
so that exhibits at St. Louis in 1S04 may
be displayed at Portland in 1905 with little
or no extra cost of transportation, through
the opportunity offered by the free return
freight rates established on goods sent to
the World's Fair for exhibit purposes. As
Portland Is the terminal of four great
transcontinental railways, and as the Wil
lamette River is one of the boundaries of
the Centennial site, thus enabling ocean
steamers to discharge cargoes directly on
the grounds, it Is manifest that the facili
ties for expeditiously and economically
conveying, installing and maintaining ex
hibits at Portland are unparalleled.
The United States Government officially
participates In the Centennial with com
plete exhlb.t3 representative of every
division of Governmental function and re
source. The following states have pre
pared by making appropriations for the
purpose, to participate: New York, Mas
sachusetts, Virginia, Minnesota, North
Dakota, TVyomlng, Washington, Montana,
Idaho, Utah, California, Oregon, Missouri,
and, provisionally, Colorado, Nevada, Ar
izona and other states and territories with
which negotiations are pending.
No Basis for Judgment.
Boston Herald.
On the whole, then, the policy of delib
eration and -waiting is the policy of
safety. Not all the documents necessary
for forming a safe judgment are yet filed
and accessible. A party that has chal
lenged tho public favor for a candidate
of undeclared opinions and untested pow
ers must not be impatient with people
who decline to Invest their fortunes and
happiness In a blind pool.
Jim Bludsoe of the Prairie Belle.
John Hay.
Wall, no! I can't tell wba' he live-, - .
Because he don't live, you see;.
Leastways he's got out of the habit &
Of llln like you and me.
Whar have you been for the -Inst three year
That you haven't heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed In his checks
The night of the Prairie Belle?
He weren't no saint them engineers
Is all pretty much alike
One wife In Natchcz-under-tbe-Hill.
Another one here In Pike.
A keerless man In his talk was Jim,
And an awkward hand in a row.
But ho never funked, and ha never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
And this was all tho religion he had,
To treat his engina well,
Never be passed on the river.
To mind the pilot's bell;
And If ever the Prairie Belle took Are
A thousand times he swore
He'd hold her nozzle agin the bank
Till the last soul got ashore.
All boats has their day on the Misslsslp,
And her day come at last;
The Movastar was a better boat.
But the Belle, she wouldn't be passed;
'And so she come tarln' along that night
The oldest craft on the line
With a nigger squat on her safety valve.
And her furnaco crammed, rosin and pine.
The fire bust out as she cleared the bar,
And burnt a hole in the night;
And, quick as a flash, she turned and mado
For that wilier bank on the right.
There was runnln' and cursln. but Jim yelled
out
Over all the Infernal roar
"I'll hold her noazle agiiw'the bank.
Till the last galoot's ashore.-" ,.
Through the hot, black breath of thejburnln
boat
Jlra Bludso's voice was heard.
And they afi had trust In his cussedness.
And Jsnowed ho would keep, his word;
And, sura's you're born, they all got off
Afore the smokestacks fell
And Bludso's ghost went up alone
In the smoke of the Prairie Belle.
He weren't no saint but at Judgment
I'd run my chance with Jim
'Longslde of some pToua gentlemen
That wouldn't shake hands with him.
Ho seen his duty, a dead sure thing
And -went for it there and then;
And Christ ain't a-goln to bo too hard
On & man that died, for mea,
. ' NOTE aKDJOMMENT. .
The Gentle and Joyous Game, of
Lacrosse.
Seattle. (Special to Note and Comment;
by Flying Fish.) After ono of the beat
lacrosse games ever seen In the North
west Seattle today beat Portland by a
score of 3 killed and a wounded to 6 wound
ed. Promptly at 3 o'clock the ball was
faced, and two seconds later Smith, of
Portland, waa defaced. This encouraged
Seattle, an,d Tomkins, by a magnificent
piece of play, smashed his check's collar
bone, accidentally shootmg a goal as he
made a plucky effort to brain Portland's
coverpolnt After a series of give-and-take
Injuries. Portland, by a combined ef
fort, succeeded in wounding five Seattle
men at once, but the effect of the play
was largely centralized by great team
work on the part .of Seattle's ambulance
corps. The first decisive score was made
when Biff Biffkins, the Seattle center,
killed Doughboy with one blow on the
head. The death of Portland's first home
from injuries received at the start left the
Webfeet hopelessly In the rear, and tho
Seattle men did not exert themselves, be
ing content with sending Juffkms to the
morgue with a fractured skull. The game
was the best and fastest ever seen in
Seattle. Dr. Chopsticks, who took a spe
cial course In McGill Lacrosse Hospital!
declared that few Canadian surgeons
could have kept pace with the Seattle
bunch under Field Captain Dr.Slicemqulcki
The rumor that the Seattle team had been
Invited by Armour & Co. to take the place
of the striking butchers Is confirmed, but
few players are likely to accept, as work
in the stockyards would be too slow.
The Whirligig of Anecdote.
Mrs. Doughboy What's this fuss in tho
papers over the packing strike?
'Mr. Doughboj The people can't got
beef. y.
Mrs. Doughboy Why don't
chlcken then?
they
eat
Before and After.
During the wooing
'Twas billing and cooing;
Now the grocer Is doing
The billing and suing-.
No chips in the old block just now.
It requires but little mazuma to bo a'
Mazama.
The mercury appears desirous of test
ing the saying that there's always room
at the toD.
Prussia had better watch out If her
cruisers meddle with any more Portland
liners we shall have to send the fireboat
after them.
Apropos of "Frenzied Finance," Thomas
W. Lawson Is like one of those orators
who work themselves into such a frenzy
telling what they are going to say that
they're too exhausted to say It
"Headkerchlef" is a word used In tho
current number of the Independent As
kerchief means literally a head-covering,
headkerchlef probably means a head-covering
worn on the head Instead of on the
feet
Perhaps man did have monkeys In his
genealogical tree. A chimpanzee has just
died at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and
its aliment was appendicitis. Did the
monkey copy man In having such a dis
ease, or is man an unconscious imitator
of the monkey?
The London Sketch reproduces the pho
tograph of a very charming young woman
as the champion of the Ladles' Bath Club.
The name of this organization seemed to
promise something novel In the way ot
a competition. Did the restless women
of London society practice soaping thom
selves in the hope of being one day hailed
as champion tubbers? But no; the, text
discloses that the Ladies' Bath Club is
merely a frivolous swimming association.
O waly, waly, but Love be bonny,
A little time while it is new;
But when 'tis auld. It waxeth cauld.
And fades an ay like the morning dew.
There Is a Dtore on Washington street
where a specialty is made of framing fam
ily pictures. It happens now and then
that some young man comes in with a
portrait of his mother-in-law or some
other relative, and orders a nice frame
for it The frame is made and the dealer
waits for the customer to return, but
the flight of time or more intimate
acquaintance deadens the anxiety of the
young man to have his mother-in-law's
portrait staring from the wall, so an un
saleable picture Is added to the stock of
the store. A variation of this misfor
tune was recorded the other day. A
young man, full of blushing pride, en
tered the store, and, producing his mar
riage certificate, ordered an ornate frame
therefor. He hasn't been back to claim
it, and all sorts of theories suggest them
selves. Is the young man already think-
lng fondly of the divorce courts, or does
he find a wife a superfluity of so expen
sive a nature that no money Is left to
blow in for gilt frames? These theories
are tenable, but there is another that we
prefer to entertain. The young man may
b$ so much In love that he has forgotten
alNmundane matters. Yes, that must be
the true reason, and in a year or two,
when Love ceases to bo a despot and
rules as a constitutional monarch, the
frame will be redeemed. And here a sug
gestion to the plcture-framers appears in
order. Why not manufacture a number of
neat frames with spaces for two docu
ments. In one the marriage license could
ba placed, and In the other the decree of
divorce.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Parson White MIstah Johnslng's vehy pe
culiar. Brudder Jones Yas, indeedy. He'd
radder work dan git married. Life. ,
"Our bookkeeper hates hot weather."
"Why?" "His rheumatism lets up, and ho
hasn't anything to brag about." Cincinnati
Commercial-Tribune.
Kate She asked that question Just out of
Idle curiosity, don't you think? Laura No;
busy curiosity. Her curiosity is never idle.
Somerville Journal.
"Why did you ever name your daughter Cly
temnestra?" "Oh, I dunno; except that my
wife seemed to think It would go well with
Snlggs." Chicago Record-Herald.
"Before we were married," she complained,
"you swore you would go to tho ends of the
earth for me, and now" "And now," he in
terrupted, "there are no ends of the earth any
more than there were then" Philadelphia
Press.
Doctor As you llTe in the city I wouldn't
advise the sea level for a vacation. You need
a change of altitude, eo go to the mountains.
Patient But doctor, you seem to forget that
I've been living in a skycraper hoteL Town
Topics.
"We want a man for our information bu
reau." eald the manager; "but he must be one
who can. answer all sorts ot questions and not
lose bis head." "That's me," replied the ap
plicant. "I'm. the father of eight children-"
New Yorker.
"Here, here, caddie, what are you doing
with that football suit on? Don't you know
I'm going to play golf?" "Sure I do; but I
caddled for you lost Summer, an.' I knowi how
it feels when, a golf ball hits me Uurtead o da
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