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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.
ANOTHER BACKWARD STEP?
The political contest of the Presiden
tial year is now fairly begun. It will
he the leading topic during the next
seventy days. Between a party that
has distinct purposes and a party that
has none the people of the United States
are to make choice.
One party stands for well-defined pol
icies and for distinct purposes. The
other party has no policy except that
of negation, objection, obstruction and
opposition.
The party of positive action stands on
its history of fifty years, and points to
that history with the assurance of con
viction and achievement The party of
negation or objection contents Itself
with effort to mass opposition of all
kinds and from all directions on points
and incidents in the general policy of
the party of affirmation and of action
without committing itself to any poli
cies or purposes of Its own.
In other words, the Democratlc"ap
peal is to protectionists and to anti
protectionists; to gold-standard, men
and free-silver men; to socialists and to
anti-socialists; to sans-culottlsm and to
plutocracy; to imperialists and to anti
imperialists; to those who would retain
our island possessions and to those who
would abandon them. A party in
power, most of the time, for fifty years,
as the Hepublican party has been, must
have a policy, with a general trend or
tendency. Now nothing Is so easy as
to assail such policy on minor points
or consequences, and if one line of ob
jection seems unavailable another may
be taken. To pick flaws, to make fac
titious objection, is the method of such
a parly, the prerogative it assumes and
its stock In trade. At the same time it
is careful not to assert itself In oppo
sition on any point or policy of real
importance.
Protectionists are assured that the
Democratic party would not injure
them; for the "legitimate" Interests and
industries of the country have always
been the object of the extreme solici
tude of the Democratic party. They
who have had to fight during many
years past for the monetary standard
as for their lives are told thatthe party
which forced this fight on them and
continued it through so long a period
6hould not therefore be distrusted
since its present candidate, under com
pulsion and in distress, threw out the
flag ofsurrender and said that he con
sidered' the gold standard "irrevocably
established."
Many, many things have been irrevo
cably established in this country,
against the protest and over the opposi
tion of the Democratic party, without
restoring that party to favor; such as
the abolition of slavery, security for the
National .debt against greenback repu
diation, sovereignty over Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands, acqui
sition of territorial rights for the Pan
ama Canal No measure of National
importance, from the check given to the
spread of slavery in 1854 to the final es
tablishment of the gold standard in our
own recent day, that has not been
achieved "Irrevocably established"
through successive defeats of the Dem
ocratic party. It seems, then, that the
country must continue its policy of re
jecting the Democratic party, in order
to get necessary things "irrevocably es
tablished." After all, the matter comes to a very
simple; issue. Judged from the history
and experience of fifty years, the suc
cess of which of these parties -svould be
most conducive to the welfare and
prosperity of the country? Consider,
as it specially becomes lis in these Pa
cific States to consider, where our own
Interests lie. Let us ask, that is to say,
which of these parties, at the head of
the National Government, would'do the
more ftr that policy which is to pro
mote our growth and welfare by push
ing our commerce with the Orient and
with the island world into which we
have entered and "making the old Pa
cific Ocean an American sea!"
And in general as a National policy,
why not have a party that does things
rather than a party that objects, as this
one has objected during fifty years, to
everything that has been done by
which the country has become great
as great in soul and spirit as In ma
terial achievement? During fifty years
the Democratic party has refused to
take any step forward. It opposes, It
objects, It obstructs. It is In that at
titude now. At times though not often
in these fifty years It has been per
.tnjted to. cirrest jaeyelopinen and. jto,
turn it backward. "We think the coun
try, on consideration, will not allow an
other backward step now.
SIGNS OF DISINTEGRATION.
It is practically impossible for any
considerable activity to be manifested
in Judge Parker's interests by one set
of his followers without rousing another
set to fury. The deepest schism of ail
that between the Cleveland or gold
wing and the Bryan or popullstic wing
has been miraculously Jbept in abey
ance; but the difficulty now Is quite as
irreconcilable and springs out of an
tagonistic types of human character. It
is going to be almost as difficult for
the mugwump doctrinaires of the Dem
ocratic party to get along amicably
with its unprincipled practical politi
cians as it was in 1896 for gold-standard
men to mix with silver lunatics.
It Is not strange that Judge Parker's
managers should have enlisted in his
support In committees and on the stump
the experienced and able politicians that
were found handy. These worthies con
tributed to his nomination, and they
cannot remain -idle in their tent while
thebattleis on. It would not do for them
to court the suspicion of being luke
warm or treacherous. One such is D.
B. Hill, on the stump now; another is
Patrick McCarren, who has just cleaned
up all Brooklyn at the primaries. These
men are doing the best they can, but
the more they do the wilder grows the
rage of the Democratic newspapers.
For example:
New York World: There are sfgns of a
revival of David B. Hill's Incurably baneful
spirit in the party management. His coarse
denunciation of President Roosevelt as "a
fraud" was a most inauspicious opening of
the state campaign. In opposing the nomi
nation of Judge Cullen for the vacancy in
the Court of Appeals caused by Judge
Parker's resignation, Mr. Hill invites a re
vival of the incidents of his attempt to alter
the result of an election through a theft of
the returns. . . . Another sign of the
same sort of blind stupidity Is the talk of
renominating Stanchfleld, the beaten candi
date of 1900, for Governor. No man known
as Hill's man, or any boss' man, or a notori
ous agent of the corporations, an bo elected
Governor this year. Not oven Judge Parker
could pull him through. ... These are
matters that will affect deeply and disas
trously, if wrongly decided, the Democratic
prospect of carrying the state.
New York Evening PoBt: "He touched
nothing that he did not befoul." should be
the epitaph of David B. Hill. There may
be communities where Hill will be useful
on the stump, but we doubt whether there
is a place In New York State where his
public appearance will not mako votes for
Roosevelt. . . . The fatal defect In Hill
as a campaign orator Is his lack of political
principle. He has been the leader In so
many disreputable forays that nothing which
he can say or do will retrieve his reputa
tion. In the West one of the common forms
of attack upon Judgo Parker i3 the accusa
tion "that he -is a friend and admiror of Hill.
The more completely, therefore, that Hill is
kept in the background, the better for tho
Democratic ticket, for it has been shown
more than once that Hill's curse, like Ba
laam's, is turned into a blessing.
Although this bitter talk about Hill
was rife a week ago, here he Is going
about making votes for Koosevelt by
this same policy of abuse. His reckless
charge that "William Allen "White's re
cent article was dictated or Inspired at
the "White House Is now set aside by a
positive statement to the contrary from
Mr. "White himself. These operations of
Hill are very dangerous to the Parker
cause. They are already bearing fruit
of discontent In the Democratic ranks.
They are likely to bring forth more
serious consequences In November.
WOSIAN'S WORK IX THE FAIR.
Washington County women have re
newed their efforts In behalf of the
Lewis and Clark Fair. Bival clubs, if
they may be so called, have been
united, the work has been placed on a
systematic basis, and, as already out
lined, promises to be of distinct advan
tage when the sum of the great exhibit
comes to be made up. Especially com
mendable -and in direct line with wom
an's experience and ability is the work
of civic improvement that has been
planned. The purpose announced in
this line is to have all the county towns
present a clean and attractive appear
ance to visitors. Washington County
has Its share of pretty sylvan tovn
sltes and thrifty townspeople. This Is
said without disparagement of the
farming sections of the county and Its
energetic farmers, and without insti
tuting invidious comparisons between
that and other sections of the state.
But the women of that county, and es
pecially, as It appears, of the beautiful
pioneer university town of Forest
Grove, and of Hlllsboro, the county
seat, seem, so far as recently reported,
to be more active at present than those
of most other sections in the work of
the Lewis and Clark Centennial Fair.
Hence this specification, which is mere
ly a text or prelude to what may bo
said of -woman's place In this great
work.
Some months ago, when the Lewis
and Clark Fair idea was yet young and
its scope and plan had not been settled
upon, an effort was made to define the
place of woman In this work and to
organize women .who were willing to
undertake the work into clubs having
clearly defined objects and methods.
Unfortunately, some differences, mainly
of a personal nature, arose between
leaders in regard to precedence, author
ity, etc., and the effort so promisingly
begun suddenly and almost entirely
ceased. This was regretted, but at the
same time It was felt that if these dif
ferences had to come, they came at a
fortunate stage of the work, which, be
ing early and scarcely as yet even
formative, gave ample time for adjust
ment of differences and readjustment
of plans for active, systematic en
deavor. It has been earnestly and plausibly
held that the co-operation and indeed
the initiative of woman's intelligent
thought and abounding energies Is in
valuable in work of this kind; that in
order to place this at the best advan
tage and secure therefrom the best re
sults suitable and competent women
should be placed upon the general
board of management to the extent,
perhaps, of one-third of Its membership!
In this way the best work of the most
competent and active women could be
secured both In "initiative and referen
dum," without the ever-present possi
bility of a clash in authority that the
regulation "woman's board" seems to
invite. If a mistake was made in this
matter, it Is probably too late to correct
it now. If not too late. It would be well
to correct it, and thus get rid of the
"lady manager" feature, that has
proved a source of more or less annoy
ance in at least some other great fairs.
It Is clear that to be fully successful
In some of the departments of the Lewis
and Clark Fair woman's endeavor,
woman's Ingenuity, woman's taste and
woman's personal supervision will be
necessary. If this is not advisable in
connection with the general governing
body, it will be invoked in other ways.
Whether the. active effort of women is
to be ecur.ed by, one means oc another.
the assistance of the women of Port
land and of the entire Northwest will
be essential to the success of the Fair!
As stated in jerky hexameter by Long
fellow: As unto the pew the cord is
Bd 'Jr. to vie man is "nomas.
Though she bends him rhe obeys him.
Though shs leads h.m yet ehf follows.
Use-trs each without the other.
THE VICTIM OF BAD LOGIC.
For a space of six or eight squares In
the South End Is a region apparently
marked by melancholy for Its own. In
the North End there Is greater display
of wickedness, -but the benighted deni
zens of that strenuous quarter do not
seem to realize that they are misera
ble, If they are, but assume -a levity of
demeanor which Is a very good imita
tion of the genuine art.cle. With the
saloons and lodging-houses of the South
End, however, it Is nut- so. In the
North End the hilarious drunk. In the
South End the morose. Maybe there Is
something depressing in the funereal
air of the South End's more lofty and
forbidding style of architecture, for
happiness should be more at home in a
one-story shack than in a stone or ce
ment structure, of the considerable
height affected bythe South End lodging-house.
Whatever the cause, let it
pass. It Is not important.
On the periphery of this region of
despair stands the late abode of Mr.
George Smith, whose body lies at the
morgue, the victim of disappointed af
fection, and also stands the saloon of
Mrs. Marie Hammerllnck, whose un
sympathetic breast drove the unhappy
Smith to his doom. Now suicide for
rejected love is not uncommon enough
to call for special notice; but this one
has peculiar if not unprecedented trag
edy; for it appears that the grounds
upon which Mrs. Hammerllnck based
her unrelenting refusal grew altogether
out of her admirer's too faithful adher
ence to the labors and pleasures of the
flowing bowl.
Is it right for a saloonkeeper, male
or female, to visit displeasure upon the
vigorous consumption of the wares by
which the saloon thrives? If It is de
sirable and praiseworthy in a man to
spend a moiety of his week's or month's
wages guzzling at the bar, is it not
more desirable and praiseworthy In pro
portion for him to spend half of it there
or even all? It must impress the can
did observer as unjust that Mrs. Ham
merllnck should send Smith off about
his business merely because he was so
very diligent In the consumption of her
own line of merchandise, and it Is a
particularly bitter fate that all the
while Smith was guzzling at Mrs.
Hammerllnck's bar he was forging the
chain that was to bind him to Inconso
late despair; or as the' poet has fittingly
put it:
So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain.
No more through soaring clouds to soar again.
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart.
That winged the shaft that quivered In his
heart;
Though keen his pangs, yet keener far to
feel.
He'd nursed the pinion that Impelled the
steel.
The- saloonkeeper who objects to a
man for drinking too heavily is capa
ble of that other shocking offense, the
insistence upon total abstinence in bar
tenders while on duty.
USE VS. BEAOTT.
Hero" the wild Indian took hl3 delight.
Flsht, fit and bled.
Now most of the inhabitants Is white.
WIUT nary red.
Poet of Canemah.
The state, on commercial and Indus
trial thoughts Intent, some time ago
authorized the construction of fish lad
ders at the falls of the Willamette
whereby the festive salmon might, with
ease and safety, reach secure spawning
grounds in the upper sources of the
river, Following out the idea, twelve
pools have been formed by blasting in
the solid rock, forming, as it were, steps
in the fish ladder, whereby the truly
heroic leap of the salmon, which con
stituted one of the wonders of pioneer
days, will be reduced to a schoolboy
jump of three feet Thus assisted and
protected by a law that prohibits the
taking of fish within 600 feet of the new
ladder, it may reasonably be expected
that large numbers of salmon will reach
In safety the spawning grounds of the
Molalla, Santlam and McKenzie, and
assist materially, and strictly in ac
cordance with Nature and instinct, the
hatcheries of the Clackamas to keep
the salmon supply up to the growing
demand of commerce.
The wild beauty of Willamette Falls
has been destroyed by the harness that
civilization has placed upon its back,
and one of its most romantic features,
as witnessed in former years by tho
persistent efforts of salmon to jump the
falls, on the brink of which Indians
awaited them with ready speajps, ha3
now In Its turn passed away, thus com
pleting the triumph of use over the
simplicity of Nature.
The Indian got all the fishe needed
In the old way, and enough "eluded his
keen-eyed vigilance to keep up the sup
ply. But the great maw of commerce
opened and the scene changed. Tho
supply of salmon -will be kept up, but
the old conditions of Nature have van
ished, and Willamette Falls, as known
to the courtly chief factor of the Hud
eon's Bay Company, to Joe Meek, to
Governor Abernethy and to others of
their era, belong to the early records
of the country "where flows the Ore
gon." An obscure pamphlet of limited cir
culation and still more limited standing
in the trade it pretends to Berve Is out
with a statement that the wheat crop of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho will be
from 55.000,000 to 60,000,000 bushels.
Prattle of this kind over figures which
are cooked up in a two-by-four office
some distance from the wheat fields is
not harmful where the source Is under
stood. Where It is not understood,
trouble sometimes results. The San
Francisco bears who are endeavoring to
break the price of wheat In the belief
that there Is within 10,000,000 bushels
of a 60,000,000-bushel crop; the Eastern
buyers who also think our wheat Is too
high priced, and the grain-bag dealers
would all like to push the 60,000,000
bushel crop story along. The publica
tion of the truth is sometimes hurtful
to certain interests, but In the long run
it pays. When the California and East
ern buyers discover that 10,000,000 to
15,000,000 bushels of "our 60,000,000
bushel crop" will not grade better than
"hot air," they will be more inclined to
advance their limits. Incidentally It
might be remarked that The Oregonian
spends more money every August in as
certaining the size of the Oregon,
Washington and Idaho wheat crop than
would pay the entire expense of "edit
ing and publishing" the afore-men-tloned
pamphlet for six months. The
information on which The Oregonian
bases its estimates Is gathered by
trained correspondents, who visit the
fields where $he wheat is threshed and
the warehouses where it is received.
An experience of many years .in making
these estimates has demonstrated that
Information of this nature Is more ac
curate than that given out by. mep in
terested in bearing the wheat market or
selling gralnbags.
The" sudden death of William E.
Brady is a distinct loss to the com
munity, .not so much perhaps on ac
count of the active part he was begins
nlng to take in its business affairs, but
for the example of his business ajid
social life. Not yet far enough past
boyhood days tp be other than, "Billy"
Brady to sl wide circle -of friends who
had known him from childhood, he had
risen by his own efforts to a position of
prominence In the business life of the
city. Success of this kind usually
comes much later In life, and when It
comes early it is a much more power
ful Incentive for. earnest effort on the
part of the young men who witness it.
The experience of older men who
achieve success only after a long life of
endeavor cannot touch the tender mind
of youth with the same feeling that is
awakened by the success of one nearer
youth himself. The "men who a few
years hence will handle all of the in
tricate machinery of the business world,
of church and state, who will be our
Presidents, Senators, financiers, rail
road and other Industrial kings, are all
boys -now. In them the clean, honest,
successful life of William E. Brady will
awaken a spirit of emulation that can
not be otherwise than beneficial. Just
turned 30 years of age, "Billy" Brady
is sleeping his last sleep; butHln those
few short years, by act and example,
he accomplished more gpod than, thou
sands of men who live twice or thrice
as long.
Next Monday Is Labor day. That is
to say, air banks and other commer
cial institutions will be closed and
worklngmeji who desire to do so will
abstain from labor and congregate to
gether for social enjoyment. Labor day
has come to be one of the institutions
of the, country. It was Instituted at the
demand and in deference to the wishes
of the great labor element as voiced by
its representatives. If there is a day
which has been raised by statute to a
condition free from care, that day Is the
first Monday in September of each re
curring year. Let those In whose in
terests the day was dedicated to free
dom fronv care and toil enjoy its privi
leges to the fullest extent, happy if in
so doing they return to their tasks on
the morrow invigorated bodily and in
a state of mental repose. Tho day is
theirs to use and to enjoy. Only those
who abuse its privileges will have rea
son to regret its coming or its passing.
The announcement that John D.
Spreckels will establish a steamship
service between Portland and Coos Bay
for the purpose of bringing Coos Bay
coal to this city Is a pleasing one. With
coal all around us, fuel oil coming in by
the shipload and timber growing right
down to our back yards, the price of
fuel steadily advances, and an Increased
supply from any source will be wel
comed. Portland has never had very
much Coos Bay coal, but it seems to
giye satisfaction In California, and as
almost anything with the Oregon brand
on It Is all right, it will probably meet
with a good reception here. In addition
to offering us a cheaper fuel supply, the
establishment of this line will also give
Portland business men increased facili
ties for shipping goods Into a section
of the state which has in a measure
been isolated from the metropolis for
many years.
The stress of battle at Liao Tang is
terrific. The loss of human life is
enormous; the suffering, even when
contemplated from afar, is appalling.
Tho only consolation Is that it cannot
last long. The limit to the available
forces of the fierce combatants will In
a short time be reached, when each
day's dead numbers many thousands.
Humanity looks 6n with bated breath
at the terrible execution of the modern
enginery of. war, and hopes each day
that the conflict of the next will be de
cisive. Whether or not the enormous
loss of life will prove a waste will be
determined by the results that grow out
of the war.
The careless gunner vies with the ex
cited hunter In tho capacity for mis
chief. The latter Is in evidence through
out the sporting season in the number
of men that are mistaken for deer and
killed or maimed. The former claims
all seasons as his own, and is more or
less active through all. A late achieve
ment of one of these was recorded
through a random shot from an unseen
source near Redding, Cal., which struck
a girl of 10 years in the face, destroy
ing her eyesight. One feels like voicing
a pity that catching Is before hanging
In the case of such a careless person,
and that he usually evades capture.
Occasionally a man, given over to his
cups.-makes a mistake in defying the
power of water. This was the case
with Frank Ml Ford, of Oregon City,
who, while Intoxicated, attempted to
walk upon' the waters of the Willam
ette at that place a day or two ago and
was drowned.
The Russians find themselves so much
more advantageously situated north of
the Taltz River, It Is a wonder they
didn't go there in the first place and
avoid considerable loss and pains. If
they can once get to Harbin, their cup
of joy and success will quite overflow.
The nomination of Peck for Governor
of Wisconsin will deal another cruel
blow to the Cleveland Democrats, who
have been banking heavily on Vilas.
The New York World and Evening
Post are accumulating a large stock of
disgust.
Maybe if the Civil Service Commission
keeps up Its lick .there are numbers of
other deputies at the City Hall that can
be spared without causing their chiefs
serious Inconvenience.
It would be interesting to know" who
first started the curious notion that
modern implements and methods would
reduce the fatality of war.
THE RECORD IS THE GUARANTEE.
During the seven years that have Just
passed there Is no duty, domestic or for
eign, which wo have shirked; no necessary
task which we have feared to undertake, or
which we have not performed with reason
able efllclency. We have never pleaded im
potence. Wo have never sought refuge in
criticism and complaint instead of action.
We face tho future with' our past and our
present as guarantors of our promises, and
we are content to stand or to fall by the
record which wo have made and aro making.
President Roosevelt. -
THE FALL0? TAGGART.
Now York Press.
An imperial ukase from the Democratic
Czar, Mr. August Belmont, - has put
"Chairman" Tom Taggart incomunicado.
Tho nominal head of the Democratic
campaign owes his degradation undoubt
edly to the circular letter marked -"confidential"
and circulated, In the strict
est confidence, among several thousands
of editors throughout the country. Possi
bly the "confidential" communication was
advisedly addressed to some editors only
suspected of having Democratic tenden
cies, but who resented the coarse man
ner in which they were approached by
the French Lick Springs hotelkeeper.
The scheme was to have a grand National
gathering here of the untrammeled lead
ers ot Democratic National thought. There
were to be "keynote speeches," a ban
quet, and finally a trip to Esopus. If
these were not attractions enough to
crowd the town with Democratic editors,
what of this promise (we quote the Tag
gart circular) :
"The finances will be taken care of
here."
The Evening Post mentions "the silent
Influences" that are at work for Parker.
This, then, was one of them? But the
candid and precipitate. Tom Taggart
botched the whole" business. The Chairman-In-Name-Only
did not know the first
principles of a campaign managed under
Wall-street methods. The wonder Is that
he did not give everything away when
the canvass for Judge Parker's nomina
tion was in the delicate early stages in
which delegates were springing up all
over the South and East in a sudden
fever of enthusiasm for the Belmont can-
didate.
The Intention of the National Commit
tee, we feel sure, was to organize the
Democratic editors of tho country, es
pecially those Inclined to be cool in their
advocacy of tho Jefferaonian principles.
In a subtle and undemonstrative fashion.
Superficial methods are not adapted to
such a movement. It thrives best under
cover. The announcement that the Stcu
benvllle True Patriot, which refused to
support Bryan in 1896, has come out for
Parker loses its force if it is anticipated
by the revelation that on the fearless
editor's trip to New York and Esopus
"the finances will be taken care of here"
The uprising of the Independent Demo
cratic press against the "Big Stick" policy
was meant to be spontaneous. How can
it be made to appear so now? Every edi
tor who accepts the Taggart invitation
will go home only to have his inquisitive
townsmen propel embarrassing questions
at him. How much of the finances were
taken care of here? Just the railroad fare
and the hotel bills? Was the item of
"time and trouble" taken into account?
Only those editors whose characters are
like those of Caesar's wife and Mr. Henry
Watterson can afford to come, and for
these it will be very little pleasure. The
Taggart letter will rise up to- confuse
them at every turn of a period of Parker
praise.
We need look no further for a reason
to account for the tragic and forcible sup
pression of the man who promised tha.
"tne nnances win be taken caro ot here.
It is a melancholy duty, this that we have,
to record the passing of Tom Taggart.
He was a genial soul; an open-faced,
free-mannered, candid creature; a boon
to the Inquisitive seeker after tho truth
in an atmosphere dank with the humors
of tho subway, sordid with the cold finan
cial aspect of the Wall-street counting
room. At the door of his living tomb we
take leave of him, not without a tear.
Parker's Filipino Straddle.
New York Press.
In place of a government by Filipinos as
sisted by Americans. Judge Parker favors a
government by Filipinos assisted by Filipinos.
Parker Organ.
How do you know he does? You could
not know from anything he said In his
speech of acceptance. Therein he said
tho best thing to do with the Filipinos
was to prepare them "as rapidly as possi
ble for self-government and give to them
assurances that It will come as soon as
they are reasonably prepared for It." Nor
could you know from his equally evasive
letter to Mr. Milburn, which you prodded
him into writing with your taunts that
his position as to the Philippines was tho
same a3 Mr. Roosevelt's. In that let
ter he did not say, as the Democratic
platform says, ho is In favor of Immedi
ate freedom and independence for the
Filipinos. If he were "In hearty accord"
with tho St. Louis platform promise to
scuttle the Islands he would have ap
proved and adopted the whole language
of the platform's Philippines plank. He
adopted only a part of it. And he qual
ified that part of It by saying he was In
favor of making the promise of setting
tho Filipinos freo and independent "as
soon as it can be prudently done."
There Is as much virtue, or vice, as the
case may be It all depends on tho point
of view in this straddling phrase as there
Is in an If. We challenge Mr. Parker
to say, in his letter of acceptance, that
he is in favor of "a government by Fili
pinos assisted by Filipinos," or some
thing equally unequivocal, as the antl
imperalist organs would have him Bay,
but which, so far, he has not dared
to say for fear of driving away the votes
of Democrats who believe in the Repub
lican policy set forth by Mr. Roosevelt.
A Popular Error.
Ida M. Tarbell In McClure's.
Tho most curious feature perhaps of
this question ot the Standard Oil Com
pany and the price of oil Is that there
are still people who believe that the
Standard has made oil cheap! Men look
at this chart and recall that back In the
late '60s and '70s they paid 50 and 60
cents a gallon for oil which now they
pay 32 and 15 cents for. This, then, they
say. Is the result of the combination.
They do not know the meaning of the va
riation of the price line, that it was forced
down from 1S66 to 1876, when Mr. Rocke
feller's first effective combination was
secured by competition, and driven up in
1876 and 1877 by the stopping of compete
tion; that it was driven down from 1877
to 1879 by the union of .all sorts of com
petitive forces producers, independent
refiners, the developing of an independ
ent' seaboard pipeline to a point lower
than it had ever been before. They for
get that when these opposing forces
were overcome and the Standard Oil Com
pany was at last supreme, for 10 years
oil never fell a point below the margin
reached by competition in 1S79, though
frequently it rose. They forget that in
18S9, when for the first time In 10 years
the margin between crude and refined
oil began to fall, It was the rise of Ameri
can independent interests that did it.
The Days Gone By.
James Whltcomb Riley.
O the dayo gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples in the orchard, and tho pathway
" through tho rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of
the quail
As he piped across the meadows sweet as any
nightingale;
When the bloom was on the clover, and the
blue was In the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over in the
days gone by.
In the days gone by, when my naked feet
were tripped .
By tho honeysuckle tangleo where the -water
lilies dipped,
And the ripples of tho river lipped the moss
along the brink,
Where the placld-eyed and lazy-footed cattle
came to drink,
And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the
truant's wayward cry.
And the splashing of the swimmer. In the
days gone by.
O the dayo gone by! O the days gone by!
The music of the -laughing lip, the luster of
the eye; s
The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin's
magic ring
The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in
everything.
For life was like a story, holding neither sob
nor sigh,
jIn tho golden, olden glory, of the-days gone by.
IMMORTALITY OF DEtUSION.
Letter in New Xork; Sun
. There appeared the other day in tho
London Times an account by Rider
Haggard of a telepathic communication
between him and his favorite dog
which he evidently considered of great
Importance. It seems he had a night
mare in which he dreamed that his dog
was being killed and cried to him for
help, it turned out that the dog had
been killed about that hour. It does
not seem that the coincidence of time
was exact, while as to the manner of
the dog's death the dream gave no sjgn,
or nono that could be deemed a coinci
dence. The narrative, I confess, seemed
to me less Important as a proof of
mysterious agency than as a proof of
the extent io which fancy can operate
on very slight materials, even in a
strong mind. Mr. Haggard designates
his dream as a nightmare; the cause of
nightmare is Indigestion; and it Is dif
ficult to believe that Indigestion is a
factor in tho operations of the spirit
world.
All the cases of telepathy of which I
have read seemed to mo to resolve
themselves either "into fulfillments of
natural expectations, as In the case' of
warnings that a person known to be
sick is dead, or Into accidental coin
cidences, of which in the chapter of ac
cidents there are sure to be many, some
of them curious and striking, the oc
currence being afterward dressed up by
the retroactive imagination of which
we are all apt to be the unconscious
dupes. It has been remarked that there
has often been a letter in tho case arid
that the letters have not been pro
duced. I may mention an Instance of acci
dental coincidence which fell within
my own knowledge. A person living at
Oxford was staying at a house at some
distance from- that city. Crossing a
heath, ho was attacked by faintness
and lay for some time prostrate on tho
heath. When he got back to the house
in which he was staying he found that
at the very moment when he was lying
on the heath a telegram had been re-
ceived from his servant at Oxford ask
ing whether it was true that he had
died suddenly. Another person of the
same name had died suddenly. This was
the explanation. Had the fainting fit
ended differently, here would have
been a telepathic warning, and if
not with a letter, with a telegram as 'its
proof.
As to spiritualism, one can only
wonder that the Imposture should have
survived such a series of exposures. It
in fact exposes itself, since the spirits
must materialize before we can be
made sensible of their presence. The
planchette has produced nothing but
absurdities. Such a mode of communi
cation adopted by spirits is a flagrant
absurdity .in itself. Tho delusion is
probably kept alive by the craving for
intercourse with the lost objects of af
fection. I believe I once told you my
own experience. The premier medium
of the day. Illumined by a spirit which
had entered him, recounted to mo the
misfortunes of my nephew, when a
nephew I never had. In this case I
rather suspected that the spirit was
trading on a hint given her by a
friend who was himself misinformed.
When I asked whether I was married,
the answer was that I seemed to be
alone in the material world and yet not
alone.
It Is needless to say that there has
always been a craving for the super
natural, which has shown itself in the
eclipses of religion. With the collapse
of Roman religion came the mysteries
of Isis; with tho collapse of mediaeval
Catholicism came the prevalence of as
trology, which captured minds so pow
erful in different ways as those of
Wallensteln and Kepler. Such fancies
as spiritualism, telepathy, planchette,
seom -to be -the offspring of a similar
void in tho soul, created by the depart
ure of traditional religion. They will
not help us to save or revive our spir
itual life. They will act in the opposite
way. They will seduce uje into grovel
ling superstition. They arc physical
mysteries still to bo solved by physi
ology, no doubt. The creative action of
the Imagination In dreams is one of
them, linked no doubt with the general
mystery, still profound, of memory.
But there is no place for the super
natural. Let us put that away forever,
GOLD WIN SMITH.
A Japanese War Charm.
Leslie's Monthly.
The custom of tho Sen NIn Riki js one
that has risen in Japan during the pres
ent war. Ever since the war began, at all
times of the day, and even night, small
groups of women can bo seen gathering
in tho streets; one or more of tho women
will have a piece of cotton cloth with one
thousand marks or dots stamped upon it.
"Sen" is the Japanese word for one thou
sand. "Nln" is the word for human being
either man or woman. "Rlkl" Is, in tho
Japanese language, strength. In combina
tion tho words mean "the strength ot 1000
people."
Each of these 1000 dots or mark3 in
the cloth are to indicate the place where
a stitch or knot is to bo mado by a
woman, who, while making this knot,
gives her best thought, wish or prayer for
the safety and protection of the soldier
who will wear this piece of cotton cloth
as an "obi" or belt while fighting for his
country. Tho prayers of 1000 women for
ono man aro believed to protect him from
all dangers and to give him strength to
overcome and conquer tho enemies of his
beloved Japan.
Our Onfy Nonentity, .
Leslie's Monthly.
The Vice-President is the only official
nonentity in our system of government.
He is elected for four years to loaf around
the throne and wonder what is going to
happen. Incidentally, he presides over tho
Senate when in session, if ho feels like
it, but is not a member of that body, and
has no speaking acquaintance with any
subject before it. The Senate makes its
own rules, and tho "Vice-President is pre
sumed to commit this fact to memory.
Ho has no patronage, no voice In public
affairs, no seat at the council table no
push or pull anywhere In tho scheme of
government but Is like a second husband
agreed on in advance and held In suspense"
and suspicion, who as a matter of taste
must not obtrude himself upon the mar
riage feast nor tho bridal tour. His busi
ness Is to keep still. He Is the great
American clam, and is held In escrow
pending conditions which it is hoped will
never occur to make him shuck himself
and come out Into tho open. Though he
be a man of parts, his political position is
a triumph of nonentity.
The Inelastic Dollar and the Invited
Gue3t.
Life.
Tenn sense fore lemmenade fore ehec and.l.
tenn sense fore peenutts wlch He haff-too bi.
tenn xnse apeace for sidesho ann thatt maiks
Allmoast a baffa dollar thatt Itt talks
befoar we gett In the bigg tent a tall,
a eirkus maiks a dollar offle smal.
Ann wenn i pay anuther flflty sense .
too gett us boatli Inside uv theo bigg tents
thatt leevs tenn senso ann Iff she wants too
stay
too sea thee consurt part wot wil I ray.
weel hafftoo have thee lemmenade 1 no
becuz thee day 1 ast hur iff ahecd go
shee sedd shee alwuz liked too go ann-bl
redd lemmenade wenn shee Is hott ann dri.
Uv kors u koodunt watch thee ellyfunts
ann nott hav peenutts, too sax fore tenn sense.
I gees Ive gott Itt nggered down uz lo
uz posslbul ann talk in the hoal sho
exscpt thee consurt. iff shee want3 too stay
fore thatt I wunder wot on urth He say.
Ive gott too talk hur cuz ive ast hur too.
I wisht too goodness I noo wot too do.
Too kepe hur from thee consurt ann nott no
lme tenn senso short uv haven enut doe.
butt like uz nott sheel stay rite thare ann I
wil hafftoo start too go ann tel hur wl.
Wot wil shco think uv me. I alwus thott
a dollur wuz an offle offle lott
Uv munney butt Itt seams so turtle smal
on slrkus day itts hardly nnnn a toiUj
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Jones-.Henry.
A Greenville, Wis., editor a few days
ago published the following enthusiastic
account of a wedding In that town:
"Miss Jennie Jones and Bob Henry were
married at the Jones mansion last night.
The bride Is a daughter of our Constable.
Jones, .who is a good officer and will
undoubtedly be Te-elected next Spring.
He offers a fine horse for sale in an
other column. The groom runs a grocery
store on Main street and is a good pat
ron of our ad columns and has a fine
lot of bargains this week. All Summer
he paid Z cents more for butter than any
store in town. The happy couple left
on the 10 o'clock to visit the bride's uncle
In Milwaukee, who Is reported to have
lots of money and Brlght's disease. Bob
certainly has an eye for business."
Hard Lot of a Wyoming Editor.
Editing a newspaper Is a nice thing.
If we publish jokes people say we are
rattle-brained. If we don't we are fos
sils. If we publish original matter they
say we don't give' them enough selec
tions. If we give them selections they
say we are too lazy to write. If We don't
go to church we are heathens. If we do
go we are hypocrites. If we remain at
tho office we. ought to be out looking
for news items. If we go out then wo are
not attending to business. If we wear old
clothes they laugh at us. If we wear
good clothes they say we have a pull.
Now, what aro we to do? Just as likely
as not some one will say that we stole
this from an exchange. So we did. It's
from the Wyoming Derrick. Dillon
(Wyo.) Doublejack.
The Russians are still luring 'em on.
We guess maybe the Japs will stop
when they get to the Baltic.
The iublic's interest in the street rail
way merger is just a common, ordinary
nickel.
We might as well hand over our elect
oral vote to Mr. Shaw now and let him
take It back.
The Russians, as usual, are holding the
enemy fast by Inserting their nose be
tween the Japs teeth.
Mr. Jim Hill is kind enough to admit
that he owns a few million shares of
Northern Pacific stock.
Princess Louise also ran away with
Lieutenant Count Vicht In 1S97. Long
time between elopements.
If Henry Cashaway Davis ever becomes
President he. will be 86 before his term
expires. The bother isn't worth the'
money.
Weather item: Prospects at Port Ar
thur are for
J An early Fall. ...
I A lato Fall.
We view the troubles between the State
Barber Commission and the barber col
lege with great equanimity. Our safety
is working very well, thank you.
If Murderer Oakman will kindly lay
down his arms, he will contribute much
to the ease of mind of various pursuers
who think more of a whole hide than
they do of any paltry reward.
As wo understand it, the more arrests
the police make tho more efficient the
department. Just study that proposition
awhile and see what a fine advertisement
it is for a peace-loving community.
Bill Chance, of Astoria, put up a foolish
talk about all the ladies being after him.
and they're going to send him to the asy
lum. A number of wise men in Portland
have saved themselves from Bill's fate
by keeping their mouths shut. It Isn't
always prudent to say what you think.
Governor Herrick, of Ohio, is accus
tomed to taking a spin in his automobllo
every morning when in Cleveland. A park
policeman reported him as having ex
ceeded the speed limit, and Chief of Park
Police Goldsall "went to see the Governor
about It. The latter owned up that he
had been going at a lively gait, where
upon the Chief said that a repetition of
the offenso would mean arrest. "That"3
right. Chief," said tho Governor, "always
do your duty. But If you put me in jail.
Joe, I'll pardon myself out."
Eckley B. Coxe, one of the wealthiest
mine operators In the anthracite region,
has declined to accept tho Democratic
nomination to the State Senate. He is
a nephew of tho lato Eckley B. Coxe.
who, after being elected to the State
Senate In 1870, refused to take the oath
of office, because he was required to
swear that no money had been used
to bring about his election. Subse
quently ho was induced again to be a
candidato for the same office, and was
elected by an overwhelming majority.
It was thought that young Coxe would
follow In his uncle's footsteps, but his
love for political purity is so great that
he does not care to take any part in
the game as it is played in Pennsyl
vania. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Insurance Agent What are the proofs of
your husband's death, madam? The Widow
Well, he has been homo for tho last threo
nights Smart Set.
"How long have you been here?" asked tho
girl who had just arrived at the Summer re
sort. "Oh, only threo rings." replied the othr
girl, holding up her hand. Chicago Record
Herald. Polico Magistrate Tou are charged with
fighting. What have you to say for yourself?
Prisoner Well, your honor, I am a professional
pugilist. ani . Police Magistrate Case dis
missedColumbus Dispatch.
"I like to hear your wife talk." said Gads
by to' Sadsby "Her speech i3 so precise and
measured." "les." mused Sadsby, "espe
cially measured in bushel measures." Cleve
land Leader.
Dora (the millionaire's daughter) How
miserable Arthur looks since I rejected him.
Clara No wonder, poor fellow. Now he'll
have to work for a living and pay oft a few
of his debts. Boston Globe.
Little Clarence (who has an inquiring mind)
Pa, when a man Is too lazy to work, too
proud to beg, and too honest to steal, what
can he do? Mr. Callipers Oh, marry money
or organize a new fraternal order. Puck.
FHrst Burglar We might as well light de
gas. Bill; dere ain't a soul in de house. Sec
ond Burglar Don't git so bcnevorlent, Kid;
we'll do all de robbln dat's ter be did ter
nlght an' give de gas comp'ny a night off.
Puck.
Angelina Manayunk Don't you think It
was dreadful of the photographer to flatter
me like that? Her Dear Friend Oh, I don't
know: you might want to use the picture
to send In reply to a matrimonial advertise
ment. Boston Traveller.
Hodge (who has just had a tooth drawn)
Well, guv'nor, how much do you ax for the
job? You did do it quick. Dentist My charge
la two-ond six. Hodge Two-and-six? Why. a
doctor down at our place drawed a tooth for
me enco and It took" him two hours; he hauled
me round and round the room I never see'd
such hard work and he only charged mo a
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