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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1904.
PORTLAND'S LATEST MONUMENT.
It is needless to multiply words In
praise of the Thompson monument, un
veiled yesterday In the City Park, or
In recognition of the public spirit which
has prompted its donation to public
use. It is a work of art that would
confer distinction upon any city In the
land. Supremely fortunate in its in
spiration, in the rude pedestal in splen
did keeping- with its theme, In Its mar
velous execution and In its ideal setting
of forest and sublime eminence, Mr.
MacNeil's creation will take its place
among the really notable statues of the
world. Portland may Justly be prouder
of her beauty and grandeur today than
ever before.
"What a multitude of thoughts crowd
upon the mind In the presence of such
a scene as that unveiling! There is
the artist's theme striking home upon
consciousness the glory and the tragedy
of civilization's onward march. There
is the sacred realization of what art, in
all Its beauty and holiness, means to
the awakened mind. There is the emo
tion of civic pride, rejoicing In the con
course of earnest and active minds, all
moved with a common Impulse, and in
the added dignity and grace thus im
parted to the community life. There Is
the secret Joy that wells in the heart at
the sight of any supremely beautiful
objector at the cadences of all beautiful
sounds. There Is the recollection of the
donor's desire to do something for his
city a desire which Is so often, as in
this present instance, bequeathed to
those who can better bring It to
fruition. It often befalls that the tem
ple which David plans must be left for
Bolomon to build.
Portland is ornamented, from the
Bkidmore fountain to the City Park and
the Library to the Plaza blocks, with
the artistic flowering of the early
struggles of her pioneers. The founda
tions of these fortunes which are now
enlisted in statues and monuments
were laid In the hardest and homeliest
kind of tolL There was no art In the
rude beginnings of those early years.
Stephen Skidmore came to Portland a
poor and almost a friendless boy. H.
W. Corbett slept on the counter in the
country store where he began as a clerk
his mercantile career. TV. B. Ladd was
up at i o'clock in the morning to begin
his hard day's work. D. P. Thompson
tramped day after day and year after
year, carrying his transit over all these
Oregon, "Washington and Idaho hills.
It seems like a far cry from that hard
and homely toll to these Images of
beauty which they and those they left
behind have reared for the delight and
the uplifting of thousands yet to be;
and yet not so; for labor and love are
near akin.
There Is no beauty like that of duty
well done. There Is no art so supreme
as the art of living true and facing
the difficult task with manly resolu
tion. The noblest use of a great monu
ment is Its reminder of a great life.
The hardest granite is ephemeral com
pared with a grand achievement Cit
ies fall into ruins, columns crumble
to decay; but character Is eternal.
The gifts of the great are mere Inci
dents and ornaments upon careers that
were built up through poverty, pa
tience and resolution. They are as fres
coes on the walls whose foundations
are laid deep In the solid rock of toll
and sacrifice. The memory of heroic
deeds and generous self-denial will be
fresh and potent for Inspiration of the
race when our children's children shall
have spent their earthly day and monu
ments of bronze and marble have mold
ered into dust
CIVIC CO-OPERATION.
The meeting at Appleton, Wis., re
cently, of 150 officials of the cities of
that state In eighth annual convention
to consider questions of Importance to
the municipalities represented is re
garded by the Outlook as an event that
Is at once striking and encouraging.
The questions presented and discussed
took a wide range. They Included the
abolition of the contract system, the
improvement of the educational system,
charter reform and uniform municipal
accounting.
The Important feature of this meet
ing and others of like character that
have preceded it is not in the present
ment of those new-old questions, bat
in the fact that the league of "Wisconsin
cities, when it has agreed upon meas
ures necessary for Improvement In
municipal government, set to work in
earnest, methodical way to have their
programme carried out Looking to
this end, arrangements were made upon
this occasion, as in former years, to se
cure the legislation agreed upon as
necessary to the attainment of the ob-
XJects in view at the next sitting of the
Legislature at Madison.
Wis pons In is by no means alone In
supporting "a league of cities," formed
for the purpose of municipal improve
ment Iowa has a similar league, as
also has California. The power of or
ganization of this character is noted In
the fact that of twelve measures pre
sented by the Iowa League to the Leg
Islture or that state- last Winter eleven
became laws. The Mayors and Coun
cllmen who combined In this effort were
practical men; many of them were
practical politicians as well, and knew
how to go about the work that they
.set themselves to do. Equally consci
entious effort, urged upon a sentimental
basis or along Impracticable lines,
would have failed to secure results.
But here were men of knowledge and
power who were willing to use these
forces to bring about conditions that
experience and observation had con
vinced them would conserve the general
welfare.
There Is a rebuke In this of the high
and mighty and consequently Impracti
cable methods by which sentimentalists
approach the subject of municipal re
form. "Keep municipal elections out of
politics," say the sentimental ones.
"Make political elements serve our pur
poses," say the practical men of the
civic reform leagues. The wisdom of
the latter course Is witnessed in the
enactment of laws that It would have
baen Impossible to secure had legislat
ors been antagonized by impolitic de
mands or disgusted by the sentimental
efforts of would-be reformers.
HOW TO AVERT A DANGER.
-Ex-Premler Mellne, of France, der
nounces the American peril. He says it
Is in thej direction of the Far East that
America is evidently turning Its com
mercial ambition. England, he says,
will prefer to throw Itself Into the arms
of the great American Republic, which
is close to her and may render her ser
vice. After having seized a portion of
the trade of South America, the giant Is
now preparing to deprive her of that
of the yellow races', which Is the mo3t
Important In the world. "The Issue,"
says M. Mellne, "promises Xo leave to
Europe the negroes of the Soudan and
the vast regions of Africa, but until
that proves profitable poor Europe will
have time to stew In her own Juice."
All of which depends. There will be
no decline in European commerce with
Asia unless there Is Increase In the
trade of Asia with the United States;
and there will be no Increase In our
trade with Asia unless our commercial
rights and privileges there are looked
after with acute discernment and firm
resolution here. Any demand we make
on China or Russia, Germany, Great
Britain or Japan, for treaty rights In
China and for the maintenance of
treaty rights we already have, or for
equal opportunities there for American
trade, will not be worth the paper It Is
written on unless we have the men and
ships and the naval bases necessary to
back it up.
Speak softly but carry a big stick.
That is how you will get the trade of
Asia. "We know how the Democrats
would do It First, abandon the Phil
ippines, Guam and Hawaii, and fix it
so we can't operate a fleet In the Pa
cific if It comes to a showdown. Next
abandon the Panama Canal because we
are on the Isthmus only through fraud
ulent tenure. Then cut down the Army
and Navy so that even poor old China
will feel free to defy us with impunity.
Pull up the Pacific cable because it
costs money, and to spend money is ex
travagant Pardon us, says President Parker, for
being on earth. In a moment I shall
conduct the Nation out of your way. I
shall not butt In on the Isthmus, as I
recognize it may suit France better to
own the canal herself. I shall retire
from the Pacific, as I could not as a
gentleman stand In Germany's or
Great Britain's light I must renounce
Hawaii, as I have conscientious scru
ples against the possession of non-contiguous
territory not Immediately avail
able for states. Independence must be
given to the Filipinos, in keeping with
my party's attitude toward the negro
in the South. In this way, I trust, men
of Europe, you will find no further
cause of complaint If you don't see
what you want, ask for it.
There will be no American peril If the
antls get Into power. M. Mellne should
vote for Parker.
TURNER'S RAILROAD RECORD.
On September 2G The Oregonian print
ed some extracts from the official rec
ord of the "Washington Constitutional
Convention showing the attitude of
Geoge Turner on matters pertaining to
railroad legislation. The extracts print
ed in The Oregonian quoted the page
in the "Proceedings "Washington Con
stitutional Convention" in which Tur
ner's votes and motions, etc, were re
corded, and the Information was strictly
official and susceptible of proof by the
official records. These extracts showed
that Turner voted against the adoption
of the anti-pass provisions now Incor
porated in the state constitution, and
moved to strike out the provision after
wards adopted which declares that the
right of eminent domain shall never be
abridged so that the property of cor
porations may not be subjected to pub
lic use the same as that of individuals.
In the face of this official record a
Vancouver correspondent of the Spo
kane Review states that Judge Turner
"denounced as maliciously false the
statement In The Portland Oregonian
that he worked for the railroads in the
constitutional convention," and that
"he denounced Tfie Oregonian and the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer as printing
maliciously false statements which they
well knew to be false." The Spokane
Review, which Is nearly as shifty on its
political feet as Judge Turner, heads
the story of the Vancouver correspond
ent "Judge Turner Exposes a Lie
Falsity of Oregonian Story Is Proven at
Vancouver." Now will the Spokane Re
view, or Candidate Turner, or some, of
the rest of the political turncoats and
Jumping Jacks of the State of Wash
ington, be good enough to point out
wherein The Oregonian "lied" in print
ing the official record showing that
Turner was working In the Interest of
the railroads at the constitutional con
vention? All of the "denouncing" that Mr. Tur
ner can do between now and the time
he tumbles into his political grave In
November will not explain away that
official record, which is "ton file at the
office of the Secretary of State in Olym
pla. In the days of the territorial con
vention it was no secret that George
Turner was a railroad man. It was
unnecessary for him to offer an apology
for voting down a bill for the abolish
ment of the pass evil, one of the best
weapons the railroad lobbies have In
their fights. His friends and colleagues
expected him to stand In and vote it
down. That was what he was there
for. For the same reason his action in
moving to strike out the provision ena
bling the state to subject the property
and franchise of Incorporated compa
nies to public use the same as prop
erty of Individuals was not even criti
cised at that time, nor would It have
been today had Mr. Turner retained
possession of that Jewel of consistency.
"I am a railroad man and I am proud
of It" defiantly shouted the late Sen
ator Ed Hamilton on the floor of the
Senate at Olympla two years ago. "I
am a railroad man, but don't give It
away," seems to be the policy of "Wash
ington's Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. Perhaps this is the reason that
even the anti-railroad men admired
and respected Hamilton while many of
them have nothing but contempt for
Turner. Before Judge Turner and the
Spokane Review "expose" any more
"lies," it might be well for them to re
fresh their memory, regarding' the Tur
ner record at more than one session of
the State Legislature. That record
possesses the. two chief characteristics
of the deceased mackerel.
LAUNCH OF THE NEBRASKA.
The thrill of pride which Seattle and
Washington will feel over the launch
ing of the battleship N.ebraska today
will not end with the state lines. Wash
ington and her metropolis were a por
tion of that "Old Oregon" whose fame
In history grows brighter as the years
roll by, and commercial rivalry has
never been so great as to eliminate a
feeling of pride whenever the rustlers
of the new state carved from Oregon
accomplish something of special merit.
And the building of one of the finest
battleships afloat out on the shores of
the paciflo Puget Sound 13 an accom
plishment of which the entire Pacific
Northwest may well be proud. Despite
all of the advertising, that has been
given the North Pacific States, the
effete East still ha3 much to learn of
the wonderful country lying out here
almost at the gates of the Orient The
products of our fields, forests and farms
shipped beyond the Rocky Mountains
In such enormous quantities have called
attention to the prodigality of Nature
In this land, but have not entirely re
moved the old impression that much of
this portion of the Far West Is still
practically uncivilized.
The building of the Nebraska will do
more to remove this Impression than
anything else that has happened In re
cent years, for $4,000,000 battleships are
not built in ports that are not pretty
well advanced In the ranks of modern
civilization and enterprise. The Ne
braska should, and it is to be hoped
will, carry the American flag around
the world, and will not Infrequently line
up for grand review along with other
ships of our new Navy that have been
built In ports that were old In civiliza
tion and Its methods when the region
bordering on Elliott Bay was a howl
ing wilderness. The completion of this
magnificent fighting machine is a high
tribute to the enterprise and public
spirit of Seattle, and it is doubtful If
there Is another city on the American
continent where the builders could have
received the financial as well as the
moral support that has been given the
Moran Bros., In this mammoth under
taking. In contributing 5100,000 Seattle paid
handsomely for the world-wide adver
tising which she will receive through
the Nebraska. Her returns on that
large sum cannot however, be reckoned
by the direct benefits throush advertis
ing the city, for in addition to the good
thus accruing she has made it possible
for the Morans to build and equip a
plant which would be a credit to any
port in the United States, and which
will yet bih-e powerful factor in the
shipbuilding Interests of the entire
country. Portland would be proud to
have such a shipbuilding plant on her
list of taxable property, but because we
are not so fortunate as Seattle In that
respect It will not lessen our admira
tion for the swift young city that has
it and the -congratulations which the
Oregonlans will today extend to our
neighbors on the north will all bear the
stamp of sincerity.
The manager of the enormous plant
where the Nebraska wa3 constructed
appeared before a legislative committee
two years ago and testified that money
to the extent of hundreds of thousands
of dollars had been supplied him by a
Seattle bank, and the bank he named
is today, and has for many years been,
controlled by Portland capital. It will
thus be seen that Portland has a finan
cial as well as a sentimental reason for
rejoicing with Seattle in the big event
that is to reach a climax today. The
children of "Old Oregon" and the
money of "New Oregon" are both as
sisting the newcomers of more recent
years in making Seattle a wonderful
city, and Portland and Oregon are cer
tain to shine at least a little In the re
flected glory.
NEW TELEPHONE RULES.
In the Interests of better service, the
telephone company has established sev
eral new rules for "central" In Its em
ploy. Some of them must be observed
by subscribers as' well. The sooner the
better; far the telephone nowadays has
come to play so Important a part In the
business, professional and social life of
a community that nothing should be
disregarded which tends to save time
and minimize the annoying delays due
in part to the agency that makes con
nection and in part to those at the other
end of the line; for it must be remem
bered that -he who originally calls "cen
tral" Is never at fault
If to each of the 100,000 persons In
Portland who use the telephone there
was given the opportunity of making a
suggestion for more expeditious service,
a valuable list of "dos" and "don'ts"
would be forthcoming that every one
would read and forget At the risk of
meeting a similar fate. The Oregonian
ventures to offer two hints, which, If
adopted, will eliminate from every con
versation at least one question and one
answer. Thf wonder is that they have
not been in universal use these twenty
five years past
When you call up any one, whether
you are personally acquainted or not,
open the conversation with your name:
"This is John Smith," and if it is neces
sary, add your address and vocation.
Speak slowly. It takes far less time to
say something once" eo that it may not
be misunderstood than to say it twice,
not counting the time occupied by your
listener's request to repeat When you
are called up, open your end of the talk
not with "Hello," but with "This is
Mr. Smith," or "The Black Coal Com
pany," and state specifically the de
partment If there are several. Here Is
the saving of one question and one an
swer. If your maid answers your tele
phone, Instruct her to say: "This is Mrs.
Smith's residence" on second thought,
perhaps she should eay "house."
Remember when "central" fells you
"line's busy" that one cause for it being
busy is waste of words by those who
are using It So don't waste words.
Every one else Is going to heed this
bint and thus each will contribute to
the other's comfort and equanimity. Of
course after-dinner "visits" over the
telephone have come to stay, and no
one can put you In Jail for holding the
line half an hour or three-quarters until
you and Gladys have talked It all over
three or four times, and It doesn't mat
ter If his lawyer Is waiting to talk to
father or the president of her club Is
anxious to get a message to mother be
fort she starts down town in the morn
ing. Don't let go for anybody.
Every telephone Is a part of a public
utility. Selfish disregard of the privi
lege and convenience of others works,
In the end, Its own punishment House
wives who have occasion to call up the
grocer and the meat market six morn
ings in the week ought to remember
that there are neighbors doing the same
thing at the same hour. A written list
slow speech and clear enunciation serve
the mutual good purpose of saving time
and temper, very necessary to domestic
peace when the day's duties begin. Re
form can be worked by Individual re
solve, though telephone - Improvement
clubs may expedite It
While the average man and woman
is not inconsiderate, there Is a tend
ency toward "roasting" the impersonal
servant "central." When ten tele
phones signal at the same Instant, nine
must wait We take our place "patient
ly in line at the theater box-office, at
the paying teller's desk, at the glove
counter on bargain days, and In the
harber shop, but we can't see "cen
tral's" switchboard, therefore we chafe
because we must wait our turn and
blame "central." A very large share of
annoyance can be permanently elim
inated by putting Into practice the
theory that the telephone Is a com
munity Institution. "Don't waste
words" Is a good motto to hang over
every transmitter, and today Is a good
time to begin.
Bavaria seems at last to be In a way
rid without violence or unseemly ac
tionof a line of Insane rulers whose
latest representatives were King Lud
wlg, who drowned himself with his phy
sician in his arms some years ago. In a
lake near the royal castle. In which he
was detained a prisoner, and his
brother, Otto, who has. spent many
years In a retreat for the Insane, care
fully and affectionately guarded. The
kingdom Is peaceful and united, and
strong in its slmpllicty. It is governed
by a regency, the present ruler being
Prince Lultpold, now in his 85th year.
It is reported that he is soon to resign,
in which event he will be succeeded by
his son, Prince Ludwlg, a man of sim
ple habits and plain exterior, who i3
past 60 and has a family of sons of
great mental and physical vigor. This
branch of the family Is entirely free
from the taint that has written tragedy
upon the records of so many European
courts, and Its full accession to the
throne" Is only delayed "by the whimper
ing life of the mad King. The Bavari
ans are too loyal to wish for the demise
of their Insane, Imprisoned King, but
they will hall the day that ends the
regency and seats upon the throne a
monarch worthy of their fealty.
Lou Dillon will do well to keep In
condition, for the star of a new Queen
of the turf Is rapidly rising. Sweet
Marie, the California mare, won the big
Transylvania stakes at Lexington yes
terday In the fastest five-heat race ever
trotted. After making Tiverton break
all previous race records for the first
two heats, the wonderful daughter of
the great McKInney took the last three
heats In an average of 2:07. It has
been less than ten years since Altao, a
Portland horse, won the fastest heat
of the famous Transylvania race in
2:10, but yesterday Tiverton set the
mark at 2:04. A year ago Sweet
Marie was racing on Oregon and Wash
ington tracks with nothing that looked
like world's records coming her way.
Shades of Maud S., Goldsmith Maid,
Flora Temple and all of the rest of the
lateral-galted equine wonders 1 Where
Is this record-breaking going to cease?
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
whose noble career has just closed,
said:
There is left on the statute book no trace
of any Democratic legislation during the
whole period of 32 years except the repeal
of the laws Intended to secure honest elec
tions. The two administrations of Presi
dent Cleveland are remembered by the busi
ness men and the laboring men of the coun
try only as terrible nightmares. Whatever
has been accomplished In this period, which
seems to mo the most brilliant period in
legislative history of any country In the
world, has been accomplished by the Re
publican party over Democratic opposition.
The failure to secure honest National elec
tions and the political and civil rights of
the colored people Is tho failure of the Re
publican party and the success of Its Dem
ocratic antagonist.
And yet Judge Parker, In his letter
of acceptance, asks: "Shall our Gov
ernment stand for equal opportunity or
for special privileges?
The efforts of vandals to damage the
battleship Connectlcut,under construc
tion at the New York navy-yard, are
as Inexplicable as they have been per
sistent That the perpetrators are men
skilled in working steel and thoroughly
acquainted with the vital spots of the
vessel's keel Is apparent The payroll
of the Government at the iavy-yard
contains many such men, but It is In
conceivable that any one of these
should thus turn against the hand that
feeds him. It Is clear, however, that
the holes so artfully drilled In the bat
tleship's steel keel and the bolt placed
to obstruct her launching were not the
work of a novice. It Is hoped that the
miscreant will yet be detected and suit
ably punished.
Recent measurements of depressions
In the floor of the Pacific Ocean have
disclosed one which is at least 29,000
feet deep. In this great submarine val
ley the highest mountain on the sur
face of the earth would be completely
submerged.
NO EVASION HERE.
It Is difficult to find tmt tram the Btter
ances of ocr oppoaeata what are the real
Issues upon which they repose to wage
this campaign. It Is Hot safair to say that,
bavin? abandoned most of the principles
upon which they hava Insisted daring the
last eight yers, they bow seem at a loss,
both aa-to what It Is that they really be
lieve aa3 ae to how flnaly they shall
assert their belief la aaythlag. We do set
have to guess at er ows eesvietieas, cad
then correct the raess If tt seems tiapepu
lar. The principles whkh we prefew are
those la which we believe with hert suad
onl and stresgth. ... The policies we
have panned are, these wWeh we earnestly
hold as essential to the Nsttloaal welfare
and repute. . . . We latesd la the latere
to carry ea the freveraaeat 1b the asteway
that ws have carried It sa la the pak.
THE WEST AND TflE.OPEX DOOR.
Chicago TribUse.
The people of the Pacific slope fully
realize tho Importance of the "open
door" in China and the development of
Oriental trade. They realize its im
portance in their Industrial future.
Their business men form associations
whoso objects are the study of Orient
al trade, and one of the leading uni
versities has lately established a col
lege devoted to Oriental languages,
sea transportation. International law,
and cognate studies. ' There is the
American-Asiatic Association, com
posed of men who direct a large com
merce with, the Orient, and there is the
Manufacturers and Producers' Asso
ciation of California, which has sent a
special commissioner to Asia to In
vestigate trade conditions.
The reason for this intense interest
in the Orient is not far to seek. There
are already 16 lines of steamships
operating between the eastern and
wostern shores of the Pacific. New
lines are being added and larger ves
sels engaged. Among the vessels now
under construction for the Oriental
trade are the two largest ships ever
built in the United States displacing
38,000 tons apiece. Each vessel will
carry a cargo equal, to that of a train
seven miles long.
These fleets are being built because
the trans-Pacific trade is increasing
by leaps and bounds. From July to
October, 1903, Seattle shipped 135 per
cent more flour to the Orient than It
did the four months of the preceding
year. From San Francisco, Tacoma,
Portland and Seattle the Increase In
the shipments of the same commodity
was 76 per cent
But It is not tho present but the
future trade with the Orient which In
terests the Western States most" deep
ly. When irrigation ha3 developed
them and brought increased wealth and
population, their industries are going
to Decome diversified. They will pro
duce commodities of all kinds for ex
port The Panama Canal will bring
the European markets nearer to them,
but their most natural market will be
tho other side of the Pacific, for they
will have the advantage of a location
nearer to that market by several thou
sand miles from their European com
petitors. Without the Oriental market it Is
doubtful If tho Industries of the West
ern States can ever become greatly di
versified, for they do not have the
proximity to the European markets
which the Eastern States enjoy. More
over, new industries to compete with
older ones need some natural advant
ages. The West has' these advantages
In the Orient but nowhere else.
The open door, like the Monroe Doc
trine, should be taken out of politics
and made a fundament of the foreign
policy of each party and every Admin
istration. When its importance Is
more fully realized this will happen.
But at present while the Republicans
are outspokenly for. the principle, the
Democrat's seem to regard It as a mat
ter of minor importance which it
most emphatically Is not
A PREMIUM ON TEMPERANCE.
Chicago Journal.
The practical application of temperance
work is shown in a recent statement by
Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright
that 75 per cent of the employers of skilled
labor and 60 per cent of the employers of
unskilled labor in the United States re
quire total abstinence on the part of their
employes.
Tho attitude of the railway managers of
the country has given abstinence It3 great
est impetus. Nerly all of the railroads
have adopted rules giving preference to
men who abstain from the use of Intoxi
cating liquors. In addition to this, the
American Railway Association, which cov
ers 100.000 miles of the 200,000 miles of rail
roads in the country, and which has ap
proximately 1,200,000 men within its sphere
of Influence, has adopted a rule prohibiting
the use of Intoxicants by its employes
while on duty.
The falling oft in numbers of some of the
leading temperance organizations and the
cessation of the old-fashioned appeal to
sentiment In temperance reform possess
a peculiar significance in view of these
facts, as showing that theory has given
way to practice in the treatment of the
drink habit.
Thus by placing a premium on absti
nence, the business and industrial inter
ests of the country appear to have ac
complished more In a decade for the cause
of temperance than the moral crusaders
Have been able to accomplish in 50 years.
Democrats on tho Trusts.
The National Democratic platform of
1501 offers nothing new nothing helpful or
even suggestive. It denounces "rebates
and discrimination by transportation com
panies," but fails to state that the Elklns
law was passed by a Republican Congress
for the very purpose of preventing re
bates and discriminations. It declares
that "a private monopoly Is Indefensible
and Intolerable," but falls to state that
under the Republican administration such
monopolies have been brought before the
courts and suppressed. It demands an
enlargement of the powers of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, but fails to
state that a Republican Congress has ex
tended the powers of such Commission
for the production of testimony, and that
a Republican Attorney-General has acted
under such law. It demands "a strict en
forcement of the existing civil and crim
inal statutes against all such trusts, com
binations, and monopolies." but It fails
to set forth the many Instances where
Republican administrations have enforced
the existing laws. It demands the -enactment
of further legislation to effectu
ally suppress trusts, but falls to state
that a Republican Congress has enacted
a law under which all information neces
sary for such legislation can be and is
being obtained.
The Democratic candidate for the Pres
idency has said that trusts have multi
plied in number and increased in power
because "of the failure of officials charged
with the duty of enforcing the law to take
the necessary procedure to procure the
Judgments of the courts in the appropri
ate Jurisdictions," thus wilfully Ignoring
the long list of successful prosecutions
which have been conducted by the ex
ecutive officers of this Administration.
Wisdom's Goal.
By the Emperor of Japan.
The water placed in goblet bowl or
cup, changes its form to its receptacle.
And so our plastic souls take various
shapes and characters of good or ill, to
fit the good or evil in the friends we
choose. Therefore, let your special love
be given to those whose strength of char
acter may prove the whip that drives you
ever to fair Wisdom's goaL Translated
from the Japanese.
Might Be Specific.
San Francisco CalL
Judge Parker has cxpressd his trust
In a "navy of respectable, but not men
acing proportions." Let .him confer
with tlje Russian Admiralty it he would,
be more specific.
Fairbanks a Vote-Getter.
New Tork Tribune.
Senator Fairbanks Is now" demon
strating to the Nation what Indlaniana
have known for" a long time that he
is a great campaigner and vote-getter.
Tagg art's Famous Siege.
1 Sioux City Journal.
Taggart's operations in the vicinity
of the Davis bar! may eventually be
included in the "Famous Sieges of His
tory." A Frank Admission.
Springfield Union.
The Democratic party may be "safe,
and sane," but on Its own admission It
hasn't "been out of the asylttta long.
THE DECADENT NATION AND' THE
MUSICAL NEIGHBOR.
New Tork Sun.
Judge Parker's letter of acceptance has
been received patiently or apathetically
by the general public It has made no Re
publican gooseflesh. It hasn't stung or
quickened the poor old Democratic cor
pus. Yet not in vain was that letter writ
ten. It has kindled ecstasy In one fond
bosom. From the music-room of our
neighbor the Times come songs and chants
and anthems, hymning reverently that
grand, sweet song. Here are some pas
sage's from Monday's service:
It is a letter to be read not once, but many
time, The Toter will be repaid.
It stirs. It moves. It Inspires, It gives the
needed forward Impulse.
Only a nation with a pronifcate carelesaneis
jof the future, a nation already decadent, could
ran to give heed to these words of magistral
wisdom.
It he (Roosevelt) Is elected. Judge Parker's
lctttr ought to be the Bible of his faith, his
dally guide and counsellor throughout his
term of ofnee.
Tuesday the high lyric rapture contin
ues, but it is blended with a note of pain
and rage, a sound of sobbing, a bitterness
against the Infidels. A voice oracular has
pealed; a hero's banner Is unfurled, and
nobody cares a rap, a continental, a cam
paign text-book. The Tuesday service
celebrates the letter as "a warning, a
strong voice through the darkness and
storm, telling of peril and how to escape
it" It Is also "a first-class test of the
people." Yet some, many or most people
are dull and unequal to the test:
"W'e pity the dullness that dos not see that
It Is a great paper, an eloquent, sobering and
saving appeal to the American people no
longer to permit themselves to be fooled and
misled.
Will the people get sober? Will the peo
ple consent to be saved? Will the people
stop being fooled and misled?
Judge Parker would be elected President by
a hundred majority in the Electoral College.
If every voter In the United States would read
with close -attention and openmindednesa his
letter of acceptance.
It is all very well to say that tho voters
"will be repaid" for reading the stirring.
moving and inspiring letter not once, but
many times. Why not pay the voters to
read it once? Could the uemocratlc cam
paign moneys be expended more fruit
fully?
Even then the people may be dull, un
worthy, unsobered and unsaved. They
seem to care little for strong voices in the
darkness and storm. Ephralm is op
pressed and broken in Judgment, and he
seems to be glad of it The Nation is
profligately careless and already deca
dent But no matter what may be the
popular deafriess to the grand, sweet
song, the music-room will not cease to
vibrate with the Intellectual motion and
emotion stirred, moved, inspired.
ORIENTAL INFLUENCE ON AMERICA
Chicago Chronicle.
A great deal has been said of the
growing power of Japan and of the pos
sibilities that may follow if Its suc
cess shall continue until the close of
the war. The subject is looked at
chiefly from political and commercial
points of view, but there are other
things to be considered which are of no
less Importance.
The last three year3 , have brought
the East and West into very close rela
tion. America especially has been act
ively Interested In every movement,
whether in India, In China, or Japan,
that has taken place in the Far East
It is but reasonable' to suppose that in
the changes that are to come she will
reap advantages in many ways, and not
the least perhaps by the infusion of
new thought and new ideals.
William R. Alger said years ago:
"America, in her hasty and incompetent
contempt for the dotage, fails to appro
priate the wisdom of the Orient More
of their humanity, leisure, meditation,
reverence, aspiration, mystic depth of
Intuition, will do us as much good as
more of our science, Ingenuity, Inde
pendence and enterprise will do them."
Rev. Heber Newton has Btrong faith
that the East is to bo an enormous help
to the Western world. The qualities
which the Western world lacks, he
says, "the Eastern world holds in cx
cess. What we may reasonably expect
Is that the .East will help us in many
ways to better conditions for the rell
gious life. Our occupation amid externa1
activities keeps us aloof from the deep
Inner life of tho spirit"
Dr. Hillls, who seems to wish to get
us near to the Far East as he can with
out leaving the American coast, says
the West has become the gateway of
the Orient, and "the next great revival,
ethical and religious, may begin on the
Pacific Slope." He might also have add
ed that the revival would probably
prove as advantageous to us as to for
eigners. We who have sent missionaries
to the East for so long may yet reap
oenent to ourselves from the Orientals.
We may find they have as much, even
In the matter of religion, to give us as
we to give them, not in the form of
tenets and doctrines, but that which
makes for spirituality, reverence and
aspiration.
Overabundance of Qualifying Phrases
New York Sun.
Truth bids us sav that there is lttMi
more spunk In Judge Parker's letter of
acceptance tnan in any preceedlng doc
ument of his composition since the
campaign begun. A little more, but not
much. It is easier to read than its nro-
decessors, because Mr. Parker himself
or some useful friend, has edited away
the overabundance of qualifying
phrases and modifying words with
which the excellent gentleman has been
accustomed in his political manifestoes
to ballast both sides so impartially
that when you get to the end of one of
his complicated sentences you do not
know whether tweedledum or tweedle
dee has the plurality.
Caught With the Goods.
Johnstown Republican.
JJn the second Cleveland Administra
tion the farmers could not sell their
products because the idle wageworkers
had no money to buy. The savings
bank deposits were $1,748,000,000 in
1894, but now are $3,000,000,000. The
savings bank deposits in New York
State increased $55,000,000 from June
30, 1903, to June 30, 1904. There are
more savings bank deposits In New
York and New England than there
were In the whole country In 1894. If
protection is "a robbery," as the Dem
ocratic platform says, the goods are
found on the people.
A Second Hague Conference.
New Yorlc Evening Post
In acceding to" the request of the
Interparliamentary Union that he in
vite the nations to a second Hague
conference, President Roosevelt has
taken a step worthy of all jjralse. It
may be Impossible to reassemble the
peace congress soon Russia and Jap
an could scarcely send representatives
at present and the unsettled questions
may not be disposed of even when
tho delegates do .find themselvM at Tho
Hague: but the President has, at arty
rate, snown nis nearty good will, and.
by so much, officially committed the
United States to disapproval of war.
t
AH In the Family. '
Chicago News.
"Oh. of course you know it all," sneered
old Roxly. ''When I was your age I
thought I knew it all, too; but now I
have reached the conclusion that I know
nothing."
"Right you are, dad," replied Roxly, Jr.,-
I reached the same conclusion about you
a. long time ago."
Will Telegraph.
Chicago News.
Judge Parker will not make speeches.
If he has anything to say he will telegraph.
NOTE ANDC0MMENT. r
It's a case of "O Central."
A lucky Friday to the Nebraska!
A merchant in Vancouver, B. C, Is ad
vertising "frostproof nightshirts."
We hope the statue of Chief Multnomah
comesylthln the W. C T. U. drapery reg
ulations.
Cows have now been barred from the
streets in s Chehalis. Probably In too
much danger from automobiles.
For the sake of the comnoslnsr-rooms
of the United States, we hope the Japs
will push on from Bentsiaputze.
After a man loses E00O on n. mi-A-thtnsr
footrace, It must be hard for even him
to sympathize fully with himself.
The most melancholy thing about this
season of the year is that the Jokes
about cold drafts from the radiator are
due.
California Chinese have now a society
of Native Sons of the Golden West and
golden complexion, they might have
added.
It gives one a distinct shock to read
that Max Heinrich is to marry Anna Held,
"the German philanthropist student and
musician." However, it Is another Anna
Held.
The tourist who wrote to the Newport
(R. I.) Herald about the view from Port
land, with Rainier, Hood, St Helens and
the sublime Shasta In sight, is the kind
we want out here.
A Texas paper says: As sovereign-remedy
for boll weevil a Corpus Christ! man
Is seeking some liquid In which cigarette
suckers may be dissolved. He hopes by
this means to create a demand for other
wise useless persons.
One strange result of the war In Man
churia is that it has made the London
skeleton market slump. A trade paper
notes that the Boer war sent first-class
skeletons down to 517.50, and a further
decrease In jrlce Is now regarded as in
evitable. We hope the Peace Congress
will pause to consider the feelings of skel
eton bears should war be abolished or
even the present war ended prematurely.
La Grande points with Rooseveltian
pride to a 15-year-old cat which has added
300 kittens to the Nation. Supposing a
fair percentage of the kittens have emu
lated their mother In bornlng four litters
of five kittens each a year, the La Grande
cat's descendants must be up In the mil
lions, more cats", indeed, than there are
in tne country, and as for the mice and
rats destroyed by them, they are as the
sands of the seashore.
Commenting upon the advice given to
Radcllffe College girls by the dean, the
Baltimore Herald offers an explanation
of the point which puzzled us yesterday,
-lie dean's advice, it may be recalled, was
to "stand up straight, don't look at the.
boys, and keep your shoes tied." Tho
Herald sees In the part relating to shoes
an ingenious hint not to have any strings
out Take care of the shoestrings, in
other words, and the others will take care
of themselves.
One of Simeon Ford's latest stories is
about a Pennsylvania school, says the
Boston Record. A young lady with phil
anthropic motives was teaching a dozen or
two little ones In the mining district.
"Now, where did I tell you the Savior
was born?" she asked one morning.
"Allentown," shrieked a grimy 12-year-old.
'Why, what do you mean, Johnnie? I
told you he was born in Bethlehem."
"Well," replied Johnnie, "I knowed 'twus
some place on de Lehigh Valley Rail
road." The ."ice-cream social" In the "church
parlors" may not be absolutely the best
form of entertainment devised by an in-'
ventive people, but it has Its good points,
and they are brought Into unusual relief
by comparison with the amusement de
scribed In the following paragraph from
the New York Press:
The "gosling gatherium" means a midnight
mipper served by a hlgh-prlcod caterer, who
will arrange a table In ellpUcal form, so that
CO diners may be seated comfortably. The
inner part of the ellipse will be a shallow
pool of water. In which 00 downy little geese
hatched about two weeks will swim about.
Each bird will have a allken necklace in a
combination of colors, which will correspond
with the colors worn In the corsages of the
women at ithe table. The fun will be for each
woman to catch the gosling wearing her
colors, and to use lta fluffy back in lieu of a
napkin. She may wipe the drops of mayon
naise from her cherry Hps, or fleck off the dew
of the champagne from her chin, and then set
the little goose free. The first Instinct of the
bird, laden even .with the most Infinitesimal
burden, will be to dive, flap the webbed feet
and plunge the flat bill Into the young feath
ers, and so restore, them to their prlsUne
freshness. Nothjas more shockingly funny
could be Imagined. There Is quite a serious
.difference of opinion as to whether the "gos
'llng gatherium" Is quite .as appropriate as
Ihe "awlmmlng napkin." At all events, the
grabbing of the little goosles was to have
been kept a profound secret, but when the
Lehra let the public. In on their dinner to
Mighty Atom, and other dogs of high degree,
the story of the gooseleta was bound to leak
out. Oh, the poor geese wo mean goslings.
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
"Is dey any mention of 'possum la de Bible!"
"Go 'long, man! You do'n't s'poee dey bad all
de good things In dem days, docs you?" At
lanta Constitution.
Small Margie What is a glacial period.
Uncle Bob? Uncle Bob It's the kind Boston
girls use In punctuating their love-letters.
Chicago Dally News.
Mrs. Nodd The cook refuses to get up ear
lier than 7. Todd Ask her if she won't do It
for a couple of days, until I can rearrange my
business. Brooklyn Lite.
Buxley Wu- aeronauts tell us that a wom
an's voice can be distinctly heard at an altitude
of 3520 yards. Trimble Great Caesar! It must
have, been my wife! Town and Country.
Madge In what way is she such a clever
glrli Marjorie Well, she always knows how
many times she can safely refuse' a fellow's
proposal without losing him altogether. Judge.
He Is It true that you are engaged to the
angel? The Actress No, Indeed. If I were,
you can bet your last dollar I wouldn't allow
blm to waste his money cn this o'A show,
Puck.
Cholly I did think of going In for politico,
but I was afwald I wouldn't know Just- how to
treat my Infewiaha, don't y know. Peppery
Your Inferiors? Oh, you wouldn't be likely to
meet any of them. Philadelphia Press.
Burly Party Are yoa aware, sir, that you
deliberately placed your umbrella In my ear
last evening? Little Blfterton Very careless of
me. I'm sure! I -wondered what became of It,
and Would It be too much trouble to asJc you
to return it? TIt-BtU.
Instructor (at night school) What are the
chief curses of American civilization? Shaggy
Haired Pupil 'Boat the same as the Xagllsh,
only we use 'em more freely in our common
talk than they do. You don't expect me. to
blurt 'em out do yoa? Chicago Trlbuae.
"I've had dealings with a good many show
people." said the mistress of. the theatrical
boardlng-hocee, "bst I never met a sae?e Im
pudent man than that acrobat who caaae yes
terday.'" "Yes;" said the eosseeHaa, "sosae
acrobats are freek. asd seseja.iiit.' ' PkiIH
phia Ledger.