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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1904.
IS JAPAN IN EXTREMITY?
"Writers begin to speculate on the
probable exhaustion of Japan by the
war. Some who profess knowledge say
it Is impossible for her to sustain Very
long the financial strain to which she is
subjected. But many nations, very
poor, have fought long wars, victori
ously; and there seems no good reason
to suppose that Japan is not at least as
well provided with the sinews of war as
Russia. From all accounts her finances
are in better condition, and the distance
of the material resources of Russia
from the seat of war, is among the
heaviest of handicaps. More than In
former times, however, money is first
of the nerves of war; and Russian
credit thus far is weaker than Japan-
But though the war thus far has been
a series of almost uninterrupted suc
cesses for Japan, a writer in the Chi
cago Tribune, - who professes special
knowledge he calls himself "An exv-
Attache" predicts that the efforts of
Japan must soon come to an end, from
want of money to support them. Japan
is forcing the fighting at a terrible rate;
and this writer says that she is doing
so because her resources are greatly
reduced and she is making every ef
fort, at whatever cost of men, to bring
the Russians to their knees and get
peace at an early date. For if she
doesn't force an end of the war soon, he
says, she will have to quit fighting for
the reason that she will not have
wherewithal to keep her armies in the
field and her ships afloat.
This, however, may be a conjectural
assertion, and an exaggerated one.
But it is supported by the statement
that Japan has mortgaged her customs
as security for past loans, that the
money now is used up, and that her
people cannot carry the added weight
of another mite of taxation. She has
the men, their spirit is high, and they
are ready for any sacrifice, as their
constancy and valor abundantly prove.
If Japan had money she would surely
win; or if they were fighting, at home
in resistance to invasion, it would be
another sort of contest But to main
tain armies, at some distance, in of
fensive war, by communication at sea.
is a different problem.
Japan is putting up such a gallant
fight for existence, against a mighty
and aggressive adversary, that the
'sympathy of the world is largely with
her. Her fighting is splendid; her sac
rifices have been great, and it would ba
a pity to see such pluck forced to sue
cumb to bankruptcy; especially when
resistance to the aggressions of a co
lossal and despotic power is the cause
. and stake of the war.
Mr. Robert Herrlck's novel "The Com
mon Lot" in its latest Installment in
the August Atlantic. The story is
painfully circumstantial in some of its
details, ' suggestive of Ida Tarbell and
Lincoln -Steff ens, but it is' a good story
for all that
The heroine of this story is the wife
of an architect who basely altered the
specifications of an ostensibly fireproof
hotel so as to bring its cost within the
desired limit of a grasping owner, and
who subsequently became a quasi mur
derer by reason of a conflagration
which wiped out the mantrap hotel and
in it a number of lives. After the
storm consequent upon the architect s
manly confession in court had blown
over, he proposed to' move to another
city and begin all over again. But his
wife protested, partly because she
thought they ought to suffer something
for his sin, partly because she preferred
to build up right there rather than
sneak away, and partly also because
-she--wanted her husband to be con
tented with the common lot and not
strive so desperately for eminence.
Some of the pleadings of this high-
minded and great-souled woman ought
to get a good many women to thinking,
and men, too. She realizes what a ter
rific strain the modern passion for emi
nence imposes on an ambitious man.
He wants to see his wife in high social
position and his children given every
advantage of education and accom
plishments. The heroine of Mr. Her
rlck's novel thinks the price of all this
is too high. She would rather have less
of worldly position and more of her
husband's companionship. She would
rather have her boys quietly and fru
gaily brought up by father and mother
in the home than on the expensive and
showy scale approved by convention.
And. when her husband tries to justify
himself by appealing to maternal pride
she says: "I' am willing to see them
start' In life poor, with just what we
could do for them. Perhaps, In the
world to which they will grow up,
things will be different, anyway."
Perhaps It will be different! Certain
ly it should be different There must
come a time when true worth will not
seem to consist in the abundance of
material things that one possesses, but
somewhat more than now in what one
is and has done to help men and women
along towards character rather than
toward wealth or mere bodily comfort;
when the breakneck pace that sends
many a man to suicide because he can
not keep up his desperate undertakings
on behalf of wife and children will be
viewed with less favor and the quiet.
happy life with more. For the great
objection which Mr. Herrlck's heroine
had to the strife for success was that
It tempted a man from the straight
path of perfect rectitude.
Let us acknowledge a debt to the At
lantlc for putting these ideas into its
pages, and also for another article In
the same issue whose moral is some
thing similar. "We allude to George
W. Alger's piece on "Unpunished Com
mercial jnme, in wnicn mere is a
serious study of the pursuit of wealth
on a larger scaie DUt ny the same
crooked means, not so sensational as
the Tarbell and Steffens undertakings.
but safer and perhaps truer, and con
eluded with these trenchant words
"It is high time the criminal courts
should recognize the present duty.
which the conditions of the times make
daily more Imperative, of drawing defi
nitely the line which shall distinguish
before the eyes of all men the finance
which is finance from the finance which
is crime." There is no service the At
lantlc could undertake, it seems to us,
more worthy of its high traditions and
more necessary to our National life,
than this call of American Ideals iack
from the worship of wealth and show
to the serene and high simplicity of
other days and calmer times.
a thing of beauty, exclusively, but as
the ready Instrument of progress tney
give of their power to light cities, move
machinery and furnish employment to
hundreds of sober, industrious men.
The old has given place to themew, and
the hoDe of the pioneer in regard to the
future of Oregon City is in the way of
fulfillment The falls have given much
of their wild beauty to this fulfillment,
but it may be added that with scenic
beauty of a type that human hands
can never deface, and upon which Hu
man needs will never lay tribute, the
old pioneer town is still bountifully
supplied. In the words of George Croly,
the Irish author md minister, whose
flights of fancy delighted the imag
inative and the emotional of a past
generation: "There stands magnitude
giving the instant impression or a
power above man; grandeur that defies
decay: antiquity that tells of ages un
numbered; beauty that the toucn or
time makes only more beautiful;
strength imperishable as the globe."
The beauty-of this picture may have
been marred somewhat by the tribute
which utility has laid upon the falls,
but the general effect Is still as charm
ing as when Nature in her wildest
mood dominated the sc2ne.
OPENING UP CENTRAL OREGON.
Through the enterprise of the O. R, &
N. another rich agricultural district is
soon to be brought in touch with Port
land. Construction of the branch line
to Condon will tap one of the finest
farming sections in the state, and will
place in direct communication with
Portland a territory susceptible of sus
taining a very large population. The
long wagon haul to market has pre
vented the development of the coun
try, and the big wheat crop, which is
promised in that portion of Gilliam
County now tributary to the O'. R. & N.
will be small In comparison with that
which will be harvested as soon as the
building of the railroad makes it possi
ble for farm products to be marketed.
Manager Calvin has been with us but a
short time, but he Is making a good
start in opening up a new trade field
so close at hand that both Portland and
Gilliam. County cannot do otherwise
than profit greatly by its development
The statement that the road from Ar
lington to Condon will be speedily
rushed to completion is the most Im
portant commercial announcement that
has been made this year. As the line
from Arlington to Condon was under
consideration when Mr. Harrlman de
elded to extend the Columbia Southern,
and was a part of the Harrlman plan
for the general development of the en
tire Central Oregon country, it is now
a certainty that the latter road will be
speedily pushed south from its present
terminus at Shaniko. The resources of
this new country, now about to be
opened, are eo many and varied that
their development will offer great op
portunitles to thousands of settlers.
New cities and towns will spring up
along these branch lines, and will pros
per as the resources of the country are
turned to practical use. All of this
new traffic, like that which was ere
ated when the railroads first offered an
outlet for the products of the Inland
Empire, will find its way to market
through Portland.
The results of diversified farming In
the "Willamette "Valley show conclu
sively that even that locality, from an
agricultural standpoint the oldest in
Oregon, has not yet reached its limit as
a wealth producer. In Central Oregon
we have a field for exploitation in many
United States by growing other crops
with which ,the pauper labor of India
and' the Argentine cannot compete, and
there is no Incentive to continue grow
ing wheat simply for the purpose of
maintaining a. prestige that once was
ours. Similar conditions confront us
in the shlpowning business. Before the
vast possibilities for internal develop
ment and Industrial exploitation . on
land were fully understood, the ship
owners of the United States were as
prominent In the shipping trade of the
world as our wheatgrowers were In the
grain trade. The shipowner in a meas
ure abandoned the field. not as a bank
rupt or to starve, but because he could
make more money out of something else
while the cheap sailors of foreign, coun
tries, less fortunately situated, were
forced to remain in the business.
The farmer, quick to, discover that re
turns of $50 per acre from diversified
farming were preferable to $25 per acre
from wheat, left to the growers of the
Argentine and India the business of
supplying the world with cheap wheat.
This country has not been a loser by
abandoning wheatgrowlng for some-'
thing better, or by turning its freight
over to ships that could handle It at the
least possible cost However, if It is
necessary that our prestige in either of
these Industries should be maintained,
the wheat industry In which thousands
are interested, should be given prefer
ence over the shlpowning business in
which but comparatively few are en
gaged. If the wealthy shipowners are
to be subsidized to enable them to com
pete with the foreigners, by all means
subsidize the less-fortunate farmer in
order that he can compete with the
cheap labor of the Old "World In grow
ing wheat
W. R; HEARST'S DOOM IS SEALED EFFORT TO CONVICT BENSON.
The old town of "La Fayette,- for
many years the center of pioneer life
of the West Side counties, has of lata
years been in the clutch of chronic dull
ness. Recently a fire broke out in the
night in the business district, and.
being without equipment of any sort
for fighting flames, this part of the old
town was practically destroyed. Now
arose the croak of superstition hinting
of yet darker things In store. Some
years ago a 'worthless fellow was exe
cuted for a most atrocious murder
committed In the town. The evidence
of his guilt was conclusive to the jury,
though it was purely circumstantial
His mother, as mothers will and do, be
lieved in his innocence. Perhaps in her
youth she had been a reader of Mrs. ID
D. E. N. Southworth's novels, the plot
In more thanone of which turned upon
a mother's curse In cases like that In
which her son was Involved. Be this as
It may, this distracted mother cursed
the town wherein her son was tried,
convicted and executed, and added in
her wrath a prophecy that it would be
three times burned and would perish
from the earth. The fires have materl
alized. But now to discredit the omen
of disaster, so formidable to the timid
and the superstitious, energy and en
terprise have come to the fore and
buildings under construction and in
contemplation show that the town has
taken a new lease of life. This Is grat
ifying. The site of La Fayette is one of
great ; beauty, and the farming region
round about is unsurpassed in fertility.
The sons and daughters of "old Yam
hill," native and adopted, are widely
scattered, but wherever they are they
will hear with pleasure the announce
ment that La Fayette has been infused
with new life, and that the late fire that
was lamented as a calamity is likely to
prove the index to a new prosperity.
The Siberian Railroad is not yet com
pleted around Lake Baikal, and steamer
transport through the lake Is necessary.
It is a severe Interruption of business
making transfers necessary from cars
to boats and from boats to cars; and,
Tammany Will Defeat Editor's Ambi
tion to Remain in Congress.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Aug. L Tammany has marked
William R. Hearst for slaughter. The
young New York editor, undismayed by
his defeat at St. Louis', etill regards him
self as a Presidential possibility and
hopes to retain his position in Congress
until 190S, believing it will , tend to keep
him before the public
Hearst however, through his New
York paper, has been severely criticising
Leader Murphy, of Tammany Hall, and
Mayor McClellan, of New York, and Tam
many will not permit this. Therefore
the decree has gone forth that Hearst
must not be renominated- and if Tam
many can prevent it he will be snowed
under.
To save himself Hearst Is making a
combination with Bill Devery, but Tam
many has heretofore controlled Hearst's
district, ana wiui mat organization
against him, Hearst Is probably lost
Roosevelt' Better Understood.
Congressman Hull, of Iowa, vice-chair
man or tne KepuDiican -congressional
Committee, after a conference with the
President today, was asked what he
thought of the attempt of the Democratic
papers to make the personality of Pres
ident Roosevelt ' the real Issue of the
campaign.
"The Republicans welcome that Issue,"
said he. "An lesue of that kind will be
the best thing we can have in, the West,
while in the East nothing can be lost
by pointing out the abilities, courage and
wisdom of the President The fact is
that -many men who did not like him a
year or two years ago have changed their
minds about him upon closer Investiga
tion.
I speak more particularly of Wall
street and the money centers of the
East These men have found that the
President did his duty and did it fearless
ly, and that his action has been for the
best intersets of the . country. The shak
ing out of watered stock has tended to
business conservatism and that is be
ginning to be more appreciated each
day."
INVITES CERTAIN GUESTS.
OIney, Mr. and Mrs. Wall and ex-
President Cleveland Favored.
ESOPUS, N. Y., August 1. Judge-
Parker's Invitation to Richard Olney, of
Massachusetts, to visit Rosemount has
been accepted, and Mr. Olney Is expected
within a fortnight
Thursday has been fixed for the visit of
Edward C. "Wall, of Wisconsin, and Mrs.
Wall. They are on the way to Europe.
It is understood here that ex-President
Grover Cleveland has been Invited to
spend day at Rosemount on his way
home from New Hampshire, where .he Is
spending the Summer.
The large number of letters received at
Rosemount from gold and silver Demo
crats are very gratifying to Judge Par
ker. He has also received many letters
from Republicans who declare they will
support him.
Judge Parker says that he has so little
experience in receiving political letters
that he cannot say whether the mail he
gets indicates any great political realign
ment but he thinks not A great pro
portion of the mail of this character
comes from the South, but the letters
from Indiana are numerous.
National Democratic Chairman Tag-
gart Is keeping In constant communica
tion with Judge Parker, but it was stated
tonight that, if he has decided on the
personnel of the executive and finance
committees of the National committee, he
has not advised Judge Parker of his se
lections. Until after the notification cere
monies, Judge Parker will receive very
few visitors.
Department of the Interior Sends
Special Agent to San Francisco.
OREGONLAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Aug., L The Government Is go
ing to make a determined stand In Its
attempt to prosecute the principals in
the Benson-Hyde-DImpnd land ring in
San Francisco, when the case comes up
the middle of this month. Notwithstand
ing the set-back which the prosecution
received by the decision of Judge La
combe, of New York, who held the In
dictment failed to charge Benson with
any crime against the United States, the
Government will insist before the San
Francisco court that crime against the
General Government is charged and suffi
ciently shown In the several counts of
the indictment
To strengthen the Government's case,
Assistant Attorney-General A B. Pugh,
who worked up the evidence against Ben
son and others, Is to leave for San Fran
cisco In a few days to be present at the
hearing. He will carry with him a copy
of Judge Lacombe's decision and a mass
of evidence and authorities to show the
fallacy of that ruling.
Secretary Hitchcock, it is understood,
has instructed the department authori
ties to use the utmost efforts to have
Benson and his associates held for trial,
and It Is under his Instructions that Pugh
goes to San Francisco to make what may
be the last stand against the land ring.
Pugh refuses to discuss his mission or
to. comment in any way upon Judge La
combe's decision.
V
DEBT OF THE NATION.
Report for July Shows a Notable In
crease The Figures.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. The monthly
statement of the public debt shows
that at the close of business July 31, vm.
the debt, less cash In the Treasury,
amounted to $9S0,7S1,413, which is an in
crease for the month of $13,549,639. This
increase Is accounted for by the decrease
of $14,945,662 in the amount of cash bal
ance in the Treasury as comparea witn
last month. The debt is recapitulated as
follows:
Interest-bearing debt $ 895,157,540
Dftht nn -which interest has
ceased 1.SS1.120
Debt bearing no interest 3S7.S24.321
Total $1,284,862,992
This amount does not Include $1,103,578,-
968 in certificates and Treasury notes out
standing, which are offset by an equal
amount of cash on hand-held for their re
demption. The cash in the Treasury Is
classified as follows:
Reserve fund $ 150.000.000
Trust fund 1,003,728,969
General fund
In' National bank depositories- 112,642,766
In treasury of Philippine
Islands 7,316.937
Total $1,393,829,075
Asrainst which there are demand liabil
ties outstanding amounting to $1,094,747,945,
which leaves a cash balance on hand of
$304,051,579.
BIG GOVERNMENT DEFICIT.
mnrdnvpr thp lnk is frnpn nr more
rcBpCuLa Ui "ie "lu"et"-e "than half the year. This lake, a moun-
Valley, and this new country is today
as near a virgin field as the Valley was
forty years ago. What Its development
will mean for Portland and for the
State of Oregon can be estimated by
comparing the progress that has been
made in the Willamette Valley. The
comparison will fall only from the fact
that Central Oregon will show a much
more rapid growth than was made in
the Willamette Valley when it was first
supplied with transportation facilities.
tain basin, Is one of the large fresh
water bodies of the world. It is 360.
miles long, from southwest to north
east, and from twenty to fifty-five miles
In breadth. Its shores everywhere are
precipitous mountain walls. To build
a railroad around It Is a heavy under-
taking. But till the railroad around Its
shores shall be completed, the interrup
tion of the traffic over the Siberian
Railroad will offer very serious ob
struction. In an emergency like the
present, under the pressure of war in
Manchuria, it Is one of Russia's most
difficult problems.
THE PITY OF IT.
Mdst pitiful is the death, or the man
ner of the death of Mrs. Xiucinda Bry
ant, an aged and honored woman' of
Albany, at her home In the suburbs of
that city recently. Since the death of
her husband, more than a year ago, she
had been oppressed with loneliness the
bitterness of which it .is difficult for
younger persons and those less depend
ent to comprehend, and finally she
ended all by self-destruction.
Regret is for the manner, not the
fact, of her death. There are many in
stances on record in which the death of
one person is hastened by that of an
other with whom he or she has walked
closely for many years. Almost any
one of our older communities has fur
nished an example of this kind. In the
wider community a familiar example is
that of Phoebe Cary, who followed her
sister Alice, "sweet singer of the Great
West," to the grave in a few months
As explained by the biographer and
close friend of the sisters, Mary Clem
mer Ames, "Through nearly all their
lives Phoebe had materially, intellect
ually and spiritually depended upon
Alice. She sank and died because she
could not live on in a world where her
sister was not"
If this could be true and was true of a
woman who was resourceful and philo
sophical and but 47 years of age, who
can wonder at the going out In, utter
loneliness that obscured all other feel
ings of an "aged woman who found, life
not worth living when deprived of the
companionship upon which she had de
fended absolutely for more than fifty
years? The pity of such a condition
appeals to us and forbids discourse
WnXAMETTE FAIXS.
The falls "of the Willamette" at Ore
gon City are not as they appeared to
the eyes of a past generation. Har
nessed .to the car of progress, the wild
monotone of waters has taken on the
subdued tone of industry. Curbed and
turned aside on the west shore to make
room for a channel through which the
products of the Valley may pass un-
vexed to the sea; cribbed on the east
bank by similar devices of commerce
and Industry, the falls have paid trlb
ute of their scenic beauty and wild
grandeur to stern, uncompromising
utility. "The beauty of the falls is
gone," it is said, but In its place stands
usefulness, the full scope of which can
scarcely as yet be more than conjec
tured. True, the waters of the Willam
ette as they go tumbling and swirling
and sweeping over the rocks, still keep
up a show of boisterous, untamed glee,
but it is only a show, since much of the
tremendous power in which of old they
reveled has been harnessed and is being
driven like any slave to do the bidding
of man.
Years ago pioneers, with a long, wist
ful glance into the future, proudly des
ignated Oregon City, then quiet even
to dullness and devoid of enterprise, the.
"Lowell of the Pacific" A vainglorious
title this seemed to be, when but one
or two modest flouring mills and a sin
gle gristmill alone made good its as
sumption. And when a Winter flood
came and swept even these prestiges of
future greatness away, the title seemed
an empty one indeed. A generation has
passed on, and now another note Is
heard. It is not of wailing, though it
has a faintly plaintive sound. The
scenic beauty of the falls has been de
stroyed by the unsightly harness that
industry and enterprise have laid upon
them. Thus runs the half plaintive,
half boastful story.
A. familiar adage declares senten
tlously: "You cannot eat your cake
and have it, too." The falls of the Wil
lamette were beautiful in the untamed
grandeur with which Nature had in
vested them In a far-off formative era
of the world. They were useful, also.
though only a suggestion of usefulness
lay in their wild uproar. Beauty and
utility met upon their brink one day
and the former surrendered much of
her heritage. The falls are no longer
MORE LOST PRESTIGE.
American crop experts have been
shading their estimates on the dimen
sions of the wheat crop of 1904 until
they now place it at approximately 600,-
000,000 bushels, or 37,000,000 bushels less
than the estimated yield last year.
From last year's crop this country
shipped but 120,000,000 bushels, the
smallest amount that has been sent for
eign since 1890. That year, with a crop
of but 399,000,000 bushels, we shipped
102,000,000 bushels, and a year later with
a crop of 611,000,000 bushels we shipped
225,605,000 bushels. If our crop of 637,-
000,000 bushels admitted of shipments of
only 120,000,000 bushels, it Is obvious
that the 600,000,000-bushel crop of 1904
will have a surplus of but 83.000.000
A great deal Is s"ald these days about
the Immense subsidies through which
Great Britain has built up her mer
chant marine. -This talk, however, like
all the talk about shipping subsidies. Is,
when It Is not selfishly Inspired by de
signs on the Treasury, put forth by
those who have no knowledge whatever
of what they are talking about On
another page of today's Issue we print
the latest report on aids to British ship
ping, made to the House of Commons
by a commission appointed for the pur
pose. The report shows that the only
aid extended by Great Britain to ships
consists of the payments made for car
rying malls In mall steamers. There is
no precedent In British practice for the
bushels for export, the smallest amount I Government benefactions to sailing
that has been exported in thirty years.
For more than a quarter of a century
this country has been one of the great
est factors in regulating the wheat
trade of the world. It has been more
than twenty years since dur wheat crop
exceeded. 500,000,000 bushels, and as far
back as 1881 -we exported more wheat
than was sent out last year. As a steadily-increasing
amount of new land has
been put to wneat-grpwmg every year
since the railroads got west of the Mis
sissippi. It Is apparent that each year
has also .witnessed the withdrawal of
former wheat lands and the substitution
of more profitable crops. This fact, to
gether with the Increasing demands of
home consumption, Is responsible for
the shrinkage in the exportable surplus,
which in a very short time will disap
pear entirely. The Indifference of the
foreign countries formerly so dependent
on us for wheat Is reflected In market
Quotations in Liverpool, several cents
per bushel lower than In .some of the
Amerioan markets. This is easily ex
plained by the official figures on weekly
shipments which show India to be send
ing out an average of more than 2,000,000
bushels per week, with the Argentine
and Russia shipping about the same.
These are the countries that are respon
sible for low-priced wheat, and until
they reach the limit of their production
or suffer a period of bad crops, they will
be trade antagonists in this branch of
business with which the United States
cannot cope to very good advantage.
In this gradual withdrawal of the
United. States from her prominent place
in the wheat-exporting countries of the
world, there are points of resemblance
to our abandonment of the business of
shlpowning. We are making more
money out of the rich lands, of the
vessels which our subsidy grafters are
so anxious to see adopted in this coun
try.
The storm king is not more a re
specter of shrines than of persons. The
most sacred emblem in Russia, the
'Iversky Mother Goddess," was the
sport and prey of a hurricane at Mos
cow the other day, and the priests In
charge of it were pitched about the
streets regardless of their frantic
struggles and Invocations. The Image
Is supposed by the Ignorant, creed-rid
den peasantry to possess supernatural
powers, and the manner In which if was
knocked about is regarded as an omen
of evil to the empire. The Image was
recovered, but the dread of disaster still
remains to haunt and harass the masses
already tired of the war and depressed
by the repeated reverses of the army.
Notification of Candidate Davis.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Secretary Wood
son, of the Democratic National Commit
tee, today sent a telegram to jnairman
John S. Williams, and other members of
the committee to notify Henry G. Davis
of his nomination as Vice-President to
meet at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
Autrust 17. The arrangements for the
notification are in charge of John T. Mc-
Graw, member of the National Commit
tee, for that state.
Coolidge at National Headquarters.
NEW YORK, Aug. L National Repub
lican headquarters In the Metropolitan
Life building will be ready for formal
opening Wednesday, when Chairman
Cortelyou is expected to return here. Tne
quarters were today occupied by Assist
ant Secretary Coolidge.
ATTITUDE TOWARD RUSSIA.
Finnish Alliance Grieves Over De
struction of Rights.
NEW YORK, Aug. L The Finnish Na
tional Alliance of the United States has
issued a public declaration concerning
Finland's attitude toward Russia, In
which they say:
"We regard it as our duty to assure the
American people and the entire civilized
world that there is not a respectable
man or woman in Finland, excepting for
tune-seekers, who does not grieve In de
spair over the downtearing of her most
sacred human and cix'll rights, the ruin
of her educational institutions, and the de
struction of her peaceable system of civil
government, for which has been substi
tuted a state of lawlessness and despotism.
'We are aware that the Finnish people,
in spite of all means of -compulsion, still
regard, in accordance with the declaration
of their representative oody, tne nussian
military ordinance, enacted through force
ful methods, as Illegal and unlawful. And,
even though some sort of representative
body might be convened by compulsory
ways and means, as is the intention at
present, for the purpose of approving all
these violations or tnera, we sua Know
that the Finnish people, as long as tne
present conditions prevail, can neither be
nor are they In such a condition as to be
come responsible in any manner ror tne
actions of this prospective congress."
Falling Off in Receipts From Customs
and Internal Revenue.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. The com
paratlve statement of the Government
receipts and expenditures ior tne
month of July, 1904, shows a deticit or
$17,407,728, as against a dencit or $,-
776,613 for July last year. The large
deficit is accounted for by a falling off
in the receipts from customs and In
ternal revenue and Increased expendi
tures on civil and miscellaneous and
war and NaVy accounts. The total col
lections for the month of July were
$46,786,387, as follows:
Customs, $19,453,749; decrease, as
compared with July 1903, $3,662,755.
Internal revenues, $20,234,004; de
crease, $725,739.- Miscellaneous, $7,
06S.632; Increase. $3,563,367.
The expenditures for July, i04, ag
gregated $64,194,115, and included:
War, $18,484,284; increase, $530,000.
Naval. $12,163,653; increase. $4,6S4,C00.
There was an increase in the Inter
est payment of $901,000 accounted for
hy the fact that last year the July in
terest was anticipated to a .large
extent
NOTE AND COMMENT,
The Roosevelt kids are at the Fair.
Parker had better put nis grana-
daughter to work right away.
The full name o'f Joseph Conrad,, the
author of "Talk,"1 "Romance and otner
books, Is Joseph Conrad Korzenlowski.
He has always- been a man of letters-
Long after the "great battle of tho
campaign" has been fought in .Man
churia, the correspondents, from sheer
force of habit, will be describing It -as
imminent
The Japanese have occupied. Nlu-
chwang, also New - Chwang. and
Nlu-Chwang. xNow If they will passman
ordinance giving the city one name In?
stead of half a dozen, their victory will'
not have been In vain.
What with "1905" in letters of fire
in one direction and in the other the.
renovated Perkins cow glowing in the
radiance of its own electric light, the
old burg begins to look ready for the
Fair.
Ernest Thompson Seton owns some
land around his Connecticut home at
Cos -Cob. It is not cultivated land, nor
Is it- civilized. In the language of the
apostle of woodgraft, it is "untamed
land." How dangerous.
This is how Judge Parker became
famous, according to the Illustrated
London . News :
"When he learned that the gold standard -was
not in the party "platform," he telegraphed
In the most Incisive terms that, if he were
elected President, he would put It there.
Too bad of Fate to make Kipling,
the ideal campaign poet, an English-
man. He would have enjoyed himself
far more working for the Republican
committee than in trying to arouse his
countrymen from their Indifference to
protection.
Admiral Sterling, who commands the
squadron In Asiatic waters, recently
received telegraphic orders signed
Morton." In acknowledging their
receipt by cable Admiral Sterling
added "Who is Morton?" Cabinet
changes are not instantly known in
the Far East
Sir Alfred Harmsworth, who pub
lishes the 1-cent Daily Mail, has been
assured by a competitor that the Dalai
Lama is a 1-cent Thibetan morning
paper, and the British mission is being
opposed by its staff of reporters, as
the owners fear Harmsworth's entry
on the same field. This is a good ex
ample of British humor. It shows,
however, that Harmsworth, who is a.
sort of soft-pedal Hearst, is becoming
a very prominent figure, and that in"
the course of time he may be found in
the running for party leadership.
Here is an old one dished up in new
form by the Sporting Times, more fre
quently called the Pink 'Un:
The high-born dame was breaking in a new
footman stupid, but honest.
In her brougham, about to make a round of
visits, she found she had forgotten her bits of
pasteboard. So she sent tho lout back with
orders to bring some of her cards that were
on the mantlepiece in her boudoir, and put
them in his pocket.
Here and there she dropped one, and some
times a couple, until at last she told Jeames
to leave three.
"Can't do it, mum."
"How's that?"
"I've only got two left the ace of spades
and the seven of clubs!'
INSURGENTS FOR THE SOUTH.
Cotton-Raising States Are in Need of
Laborers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Frank P.
Sargent, Commissioner-General of Im
migration, had a conference today wiui
the representatives of a big transpor
tation company regarding the coming
to this country of emigrants to take
up lands in the South, particularly In
Texas. A scarcity of labor, in the
South, particularly in the cotton-rais-
lntr states, has Induced some or tne
trans-Atlantic lines to Investigate the
matter of diverting a part or the emi
gration to the cotton-growing states.
Mr. Sarsrent said mat tne imnugra.
tlon Bureau had nothing to- do with the
n.art of the country Into which immi
grants should go, but said he had
heard of the proposal to estaousn a.
stftamshin line between Italy and New
Orleans, the Idea being to supply Ital
ian Immigrants for the agricultural re
gions of the South. The conference he
had today relates to the establishment
in Texas of colonies of Italian farmers.
Matters sartorial are always treated
In an interesting manner by the Tailor
and Cutter, a London publication that
annually tears to tatters the clothing
of members of Parliament and the
pictured clothing in the Royal Acad
emy portraits. Having just got over
the spasm brought on by the ignorance
of Academicians on its pet subject, the
Tailor and Cutter proceeds to discuss
the new fad of creasing trouers down
the seams instead of back and front
What does it matter?" asks the Tailor
and Cutter. "London is not liKe Aus
tin, Texas, where a shop displays this
sign:
No town ever Is built up by offer of
subsidies. Still less can a state or na
tion be built up that way. The keys
to development and progress are in
dustry and production. To tax one In
dustry, or line of Industries, to build
up another, Is socialism at Its rankest,
without any of the redeeming features.
If it will not pay us to build and sail
ships, let us do something else that
will pay; and In time we shall come to
marine industry, too.
Judge Parker evidently thinks the
Democratic platform is like the plat
form of a railroad car-rmade to "get
in" on, and not to stand on. Pretty
soon the familiar sign "Passengers not
allowed to stand on this platform" will
have Its counterpart "JJemocrats not
expected to stand on this platform."
Panama Has a Protest.
WASHINGTON. August 1. Senor Obal
Mn tho PiHinraa Minister, called at tne
State Department today and made a for
mal protest against the construction
Klven the canal treaty by tne executive
officers of the Isthmian Canal Commis
sion. There is trouble growing out of the
location of the PostofHces In the canal
strip, under tho commission's orders, but
the most serious matter or discoro De-
tween the people or ranama ana tne
commission Is the hitter's location of a
new customs port near the t-ity or
Panama.
The people of Panama contend that the
commission s assertion of a claim to cus
toms jurisdiction over outlying Islands
and harbors will surely result In the
total diversion of trade from Panama and
will impoverish that government through
the loss of customs revenues.
The agitation In Panama started with
the retail shopkeepers, who feared that
they would lose the lucrative business or
supplying the vast army or laoorers ana
officers who are to construct tne canai.
The controversy has extended rapidly and
the situation in Panama now Is stated to
be really precarious from a political point
of view.
Actlner Secretary of State Loomls takes
the view that the matter Is not one for
treatment by the State Department, ex
cept as an Intermediary, and will reserve
action until the commission returns to
Washington. , .
Controller of Treasury's Report.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. The month-
iv comparative circulation statement
Issued by the Controller or tne xreas
rv shows that at the close of bus!
ness Julye 30, 1904, the total outstand
ing circulation of National bank-notes
was $450,206,888. an increase for the
vear of $32,860,401, and tor tne montn
of $971,793. The amount of circulation
hnsed on United Staes bonds was $415,
025.156. an increase for the year or
$37,418,330, and for the month of $2,-
265,707. The circulation securea Dy
lawful money amounted to $35,181,732,
a decrease for the year of $4,557,929,
and for the month of $1,293,914.
The amount of United States bonds
on deposit to secure circulating note3
was $417,958,690. and tho amount of
United States and other bonds on de
posit to secure public deposits at ffa
tlonal banks was jiia.tn ,oau.
Falling Off in Mintage.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. The monthly
statement Issued by the Director of the
Mint shows that the only coinage ex
ecuted at the United States Mints during
July was $455,519 in subsidiary coins and
$1,284,000 In Philippine pesos. Tnis railing-
off Is due to the annual settlements and
recounts which occur at the close of each
fiscal year.
Governor's Name Was Refused.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Postmaster
General Payne said today that an ap
plication to give the name "Vardman
to a postomco in Mississippi, in honor
of the Governor of that state, had been
received through the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster-General, and that the ap
plication had been refused.
Succeeds Admiral Converse.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Commander
N. B. Mason has been appointed Chief of
the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Depart
ment. to succeed Rear-Admiral Converse,
who today assumed the duties of Chief of
the Bureau of Navigation.
Wants to Be Retired.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. Captain A
B. Speyers, U. S. N., has applied for .re
tlreme
STAND IN OUR BARREL WHILE WE
PRESS YOUR TROUSERS FOR 15
CENTS.
And with that the Tailor and Cutter
dismisses the matter from its overbur
dened mind.
Kuropatkin is not the only Russian
humorist. Sakharoff has a style tnat
is wasted on official dispatches. The
world sh6uld have the benefit of tal
ents that are now devoted to the pleas
ing of a blase oligarchy. What could
be more delightful than tnis toucn
from Sakharoff's report on the fighting
at Ta Tche Klao, "The evacuation or
our position was a complete surprise
to the Japanese." Seldom is the abil
ity to devise and execute a practical
joke combined with the power to de
scribe It, as in the case of Sakharoff.
How he must have chuckled when he
abandoned a strong position and
thought of the unnecesaary prepara
tions being made by the Japanese for
its capture. And then the comical cli
max the Japanese dashing up the
heights to find nothing. 'What a sur
prise for them! Hoaxed again, b'gosh!
PLAN OF REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
Nine Men Will Have Entire Charge
East and West.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1. The Republican
campaign, which Is to be opened on Sep
tember 15, is to be centralized, full charge
west of the Allegheny Mountains being
In the hands of five men. while four will
attend to the work In the East The plan
of centralizing Supervision was agreed on
today at the National headquarters in a
conference between Chairman Cortelyou.
Secretary Dover, Frank O. Lowden, of
Illinois; Harry S. New, of Indiana; D. W.
Vulvane, of Kansas, and R. B. Schneider,
of Nebraska.
It wag decided to divide the country
west of the Alleghanies Into five sections,
each of which will be in charge of one
member of the executive committee. Hith
erto there have been bureaus of labor,
nationalities and clubs, but these now will
be looked after by the executive commit
tee. Represent Interior Department.
DENVER, Aug. l.-Charles F. Martin,
secretary of the National Livestock As
sociation, today received a telegram from
Washington announcing that Secretary
James Wilson, of the Department of the
Interior; Glfford H. Pinchot and F H.
Vewell would arrive In Denver Wednes
day morning, to attend the conference of
the Government Special Land Commis
sion, and the stockmen of the West, on
August 3, 4 and 5.
President F. G. Hagenbarth, of the as
sociation; Governor Heber M. Wells and
Jesse M Smith, president of the Utah
Woolgrowors" Association, will arrive
Tuesday night California and Arizona
delegations are also expected.
Senator Vest Losing Strength.
SWEET SPRINGS, Mo., Aug. 1. Ex
Senator Vest's condition today is not
quite so good as yesterday. He is losing
strength perceptibly, although he still
takes nourishment