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PCRTXANT), THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18.
THE BASIS OF MORALS.
A Democratic paper of Oregon, -whose
chief resource Is to see what The Ore
gonian says and then conclude that
something different should have been
said, professes displeasure at a recent
utterance in these columns which se
verely censured some girls who had
gone astray and said little or, nothing
about the men in the case. All of
which is not Important, but may serve
as a timely text for some things that
need to be said today as they needed
to be said forty years ago and will
need to be said forty years hence.
Thebasls of morals must lie in the
fiber of the Individual soul planted
there by superior heredity, trained by
Intelligent environment Punishment
for men who lead girls astray is well
enough, is. Indeed, necessary.: but no
advance in morals can be made by pun
ishment of criminals. The only advance
possible Is by so fortifying the Individ
ual life that it will withstand tempta-
vsiiinoi cairn me ocean or
abate Its destructive agencies; but jou
can build your craft so as to outride
the Btorm.
No one understood this better than
the founder of Christianity. The king
dom or heaven, he said, is within you.
That Is to say, it Is not without you.
in laws and peace officers and repres
sive agencies of any sort Moral char
acter does not consist in the attain
ment of an absence of sin because all
opportunity for sin has been removed.
j.nat is not character at all. It is sim
ply emptiness. Character consists in
the continuous and successful struggle
against the powers of evil. This is the
philosophy of Nature, and it was em
bodied with fine discernment in the an
cient allegory of Eden. There will
never be any Paradise on this earth
without the snake. "We shall never
produce sober men by the elimination
or ail intoxicating liquors. We shall
never produce virtuous women by the
elimination of all Irregular sexual de
sire In men. All the liquor In the world
Is of no avail to tempt the man who
doesn't want to drink. All the liber
tines in the world make -no difference to
the truly virtuous woman.
It Is the most immoral thing in the
world to teach the young that their sal
vatlon Is to be worked out by the law
and the courts and that the blame for
their wrongdoing Is to be laid upon the
saloon or the, gambling-house or the
libertine. That is why The Oregonian
has so little patience with all these
visionary and mischievous proposals to
elevate humanity by making it impos
slble for it to go astray. The doctrine
of Individual accountability embodies a
very high standard of morality, so high
xnat it is to the weak a stumbllnir
block and to the ignorant foolishness.
But it must be substituted for a cheap
and pernicious sentimentality which
parades itself as morality, before we
can expect any mitigation of current
social evils. The soul that slnneth. It
snail aie. it need not plead in extenua
tion that so many opportunities of sin
abound.
DAUGHTERS OF ECHO.
Vox. et praeterea nihil such, to the
puDiic at least, is the unseen being
known by the generic name of
"Central"; Just a voice, tinkling
like silver cymbals when connec
tion is made quickly, but rasping like
a. file when announcing "Line's busy."
i.eho, who pined away for love of Nar
clssus, that example to modern youths
of the folly of being too much stuck on
one's self, was the "Central" of myth
ology, heard but never seen, and many
longed lor a glimpse of the invisible.
So today the viewless "Central" at
tracts many a swain who falls In love
with a voice, as Washington living's
hero did with a face at a window. And
despite a natural desire to behold the
owner of a sympathetic voice which
leads one to Relieve that the prompt
"raising" of Main 4-0-4 don't forget
the "oh" sound for naught, please Is
the one desire of "Central's" life, de
spite this natural desire we hold that
it Is better not to have the veil drawn
aside. Romance thrives on mystery.
The yashmak lends allurement to Grl
enal women that, seen face to face.
were worse than unprepossessing.
Therefore we hold that Mr. Fowler's
"vision box" will be a blow to one of
the few romances these, busy days re
tain. Not that "Central" couldn't bear
the test of sight. Par from It- "Heard
melodies axe sweet," says Keats, "but
those unheard are sweeter." So seen
"Centrals" are fair, but those unseen
are fairer.
To the public, as we have said, "Cen
tral" Is but a voice. "Central" herself,
however, knows that she is something
more. She has troubles of her own.
Cranky subscribers put her into as near
an approach to a bad temper as she
ever reaches, rules and regulations
chafe her spirit, and life at times be-
. comes a sorry affair. It Is when a cul
mination is reached that "Central" dcef
something' desperate, and the public is
astonished to learn that she Is not a
disembodied voice, an ethereal gramo
phone, as it were, but a girl with a
kick coming. Just now "Central,"
three hundred or so of her, is In strik
ing mood. She has rights, she declares
in her weightiest tones, and- she will
see that they are respected. She has
formed a union, even, and Is ready to
come to grips with Capital, which Is al
ways an ogre when one Isn't feeling
very well. And It may be that here
after "Central" will pay no heed to our
plaintive appeals for Main 4-0-4 unless
our voices bear the union label.
JfOT PRECINCT PROHIBITION.
No intelligent person in the State of
Oregon has the right to complain that
he voted for prohibition last June
through misunderstanding or ignorance.
Over and over again in these columns
It was set out distinctly and with infi
nite pains that the aim of the proposed
law was county prohibition, that this
was the purport of Its provisions, and
that this was the end it would reach
in practice. If any were deceived, they
deceived themselves.
It was given out In the Spring cam
paign that the object of the proposed
law was to enable residents of a pre
cinct to call an election and decide
whether they would have a saloon
within the precinct or not. Such was
not the aim of the authors of the law.
such was not Its provision, such is not
now its effect. Nothing o,f the sort was
Intended, from first to last. The Orego
nian exposed th humbug and that Is
why it was denounced by those who
hoped to hoodwink the people and suc
ceeded. But now it is said that those who fa
vored local option but not prohibition
were Inveigled Into the matter by a
promise that the law would not be In
voked for county prohibition. This is
a very slim excuse. Nobody has the
authority to promise how a law shall
be enforced. Nobody has the right to
accept such a promise as of any bind
ing effect If you want to know what
a law will be in practice, read It Then
you will know. Then you will not be
deceived.
As It is, if a man at Mount Tabor
doesn't want a saloon at Mount Tabor
but does want one, or at least doesn't
object to one, at Third and Burnside,
he cannot vote his wishes. If he votes
against the saloon at Mount Tabor, his
vote Is counted against a saloon at
Third and Burnside. It is counted
against a saloon anywhere in Multno
mah County. Not only that, but a pre
cinct may vote itself "-dry" without any
election for that precinct having been
called by the residents of that precinct;
for in any county where the question
is up, the precinct that casts a major
ity for "dry" 1b thereby enacted to be
dry." All this was known by the pro
moters of the local option law. They
were told of It, and their answer was
that the law was unfair and was In
tended to be unfair, because the liquor
business was not entitled to fair treat
ment And yet persons say they were
deceived!
We think that the State of Oregon
would approve an honest law enabling
precincts to enact precinct prohibition.
but the present outcry shows plainly
enough that the state will not enjoy the
operation of a law, falsely called pre
cinct prohibition and in reality county
prohibition. Why, then, was the law
approved at the polls? Shall we strip
this question of all makeshifts and pre
tenses wnaieverr unen let us say
frankly, as all men know, that the
reason prohibition carried was not be
cause its self-deceived victims wanted
prohibition, but because they were act
ing for revenge. Some were mad be
cause they couldn't run Mayor Will
iams. Some were mad because they
didn't like the nominations for Sheriff
and District Attorney. They took their
revenge. They got what they voted for.
And now they are not happy. Nor
should they be. When a man gets
staving blind mad and tears around like
a wild man, it is right and proper that
when he comes to himself he should sit
down and say, I was a fool! It is nat
ural, perhaps, that he should say he
was deceived. If so, he deceived him
self. WANTED: TWO WORDS.
Will some kind reader of The Orego
nian coin and put Into circulation
through the columnB of this paper for
immediate use a noun which shall clear
ly indicate that particular class of
highwaymen- who hold up persons and
street-cars for the purpose of robbery?
We have a new word defining the crime.
Though it was drafted into the lan
guage from the street, it has come to
stay. Xo doubt It will be recognized
In the next edition of some one's dic
tionary, perhaps branded as colloquial,
and subsequently come In for full adop
tion. No one can mistake the mean
ing of "hold-up." Perhaps "highway
man" is rejected because it carries the
Idea of a country road and something
of personal bravery. Occasionally we
read of a reporter referring to a rob
ber as "one of the hold-ups," and were
it not for the resulting confusion the
same word for the crime and the crim
inal might have currency.
There is almost equal need for - a
short word for "automoblllst" The
wonder Is that some headline writer
has not hit on a short word for the ve
hide Itself that fellow-writers could
adoptand spread over the United States
within twenty-four hours, but it hap
pens that automobile has not been su
perseded by an abbreviation. The first
New York: elevated railroad was re
duced to "L" before trains were run
nlng. Five syllables are too many In
one word for the. average American,
and some one must coin a word to ex
press a man given to riding regularly
In a devil-wagon. "Autolst" was tried
the other day without response.
Amateur philologists who have ambi
tion to enrich the English language by
creating the two words suggested need
have no fear of corrupting it The
words may be born of slang or dialect
or raised from the dead past Nor is It
a matter of grave concern in this case
If the author goes counter to the basic
principles which underlie all right
usage of words, provided he makes
Identical the writer's wish and the
reader's want
Unfortunately, the linguist able to
manufacture the needed -words cannot
copyright them and draw down a roy
alty for their use; else long before this
time Rudyard Kipling, or Sir Gilbert
Parker, or Richard Harding Davis, or-
Flnley Peter Dunne, or George Ade,
might have had them In the patent of
fice with Ade's chances for popular suc
cess the brightest of all.
BOTH EAGER TO CLINCH.
Ever since Tatcheklao each stage of
the snarling march northwards along
the railroad by the retreating Russians
and the advancing Japanese has been
hailed as the scene of "the decisive bat
tle of the campaign." Time and again
the "inevitable" has been avoided
through the measured retreat of Kuro
patkln, and the necessity under which
the Japanese have labored of going
warily. Now affairs have assumed a
different aspect Kuropatkln has
turned to bay; has. Indeed, gone back
upon his tracks; and, if all reports are
not erroneous, is about to come to grips
with Oyama. As Oyama has not Kuro-
patkin's reasons for retreating, and has
been doing his best to get on close
terms with the enemy, the most skep
tical must now recognize the fact that
a great battle is imminent around Llao
Yang.
As to Kuropatkin's reasons for as
suming the offensive, there Is a wide di
vergence of views. London seems to
believe that pressure from St Peters
burg has forced the Russian leader Into
a movement he believes to be inexpedi
ent The Russian newspapers express
the view that Kuropatkln now believes
himself strong enough to advance
against the Japanese with success. To
klo, as usual, has little to say, but there
are indications that the sudden change
in the situation has caused hitherto un
moved hearts to flutter. Looking at the
matter impartially. It appears most
probable that Kuropatkln is acting
upon his own Initiative, for the reason
that he Is not a man to be shaken by
the winds of court or even of imperial
influence. For nine months he has pur
sued his own plan of campaign, un
moved by hostile criticism. It is not
likely that he would at this time en
danger his great work, the Russian
army and his professional reputation
from a desire to remain popular with
the curled, darlings of St Petersburg.
Reinforcements have been arriving
steadily, and Kuropatkln has evidently
come to the conclusion that he Is now
able to strike back with effect
In view of the present situation, as
revealed by the press dispatches,
bloody fighting is to be expected, and a
more than usually Interesting display of
generalship. The country around the
Yental mines and to the southeastward
of Llao Yang Is very rough. Frederick
Palmer, describing 'similar ground
around Motien Pass, likens it to a
crumpled cloth, so numerous are the
peaks and valleys. Both sides know
the ground, and this will render the
artillery duels even more interesting
than usual. Contrary to the general
idea, Palmer says that the Russian
guns are greatly superior to the Japan
ese, and that the Russian artillery has
most of the nation's few devoted and
Intelligent officers. The Japanese, how
ever, make up the deficiency by more
daring handling of their weapons and
by more practical strategy, as opposed
to the 'book strategy" of the Russians.
So far as can be predicated of
Kuropatkin's movement from the
dispatches, it appears to be along
the railroad and likely to result In
a frontal attack, despite the reported
attempts to gain a foothold on the
Japanese right, with the obvious design
of Interrupting their communications
with Feng Wang Cheng and Takushan.
These movements might have Indicated
a purpose of falling upon Kurokl's
army In force and crushing It com
pletely, but the rapid retirement of the
Japanese divisions from their eastward
positions has forestalled such an at
tempt Beyond the certitude of heavy
fighting in the Yentai Hills, not enough
information has been made public to
disclose Kuropatkin's broad .strategic
idea.
AN INJUSTICE TO WOMEN.
Whatever views one may hold on the
ethics of divorce, or on ecclesiastical in
terposltion to prevent It or priestly
punishment for those who have ob
talned it under due process of law, one
cannot help but respect and admire the
clear-cut, direct presentation of the
matter to the convention of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church now in session
at Boston. In Its. report on revision of
the canon relating to divorce and mar
rlage, the committee recommends the
enactment of the following law:
If any minister of this church shall have
reasonable cause to doubt wnether a person
deslroutt of being; admitted to holy baptism, or
to confirmation, or to the holy communion.
has been married- otherwise than as the word
of God and discipline of this church allow,
euch minister, before receiving such person
to these ordinances, shall refer the case to
the bishop for his Godly jurgmcnt thereupon;
provided, however, that no minister ehall, in
any case, refuse eacramect. to a penitent per
son in Immediate danger of death, nor to any
person who shall solemnly aver that he
she was the Innocent party In a divorce for
the cause of adultery.
No minister shall solemnize a marriage be
tween any two persons unless, by Inquiry, he
shall have satisfied himself that neither per
son has been, or la, the husband or the wife
of any person then living from whom he or
she has. been divorced for any cause arising
after marriage.
The Issue is squarely put In com
mon with leaders of thought throughout
Christendom this church recognizes dl
vorce as one of the great social ques
tlons. Delegates representing the clergy
and the laity are brave enough to meet
It They know that the best clvlilza
tlon on earth Is based on one wife and
one home. If the world Is not to move
backward, the home must be preserved"
with all that Its fullness stands for.
They propose not only to declare di
vorce a sin, but to fix an outrageous
penalty on those who commit that sin.
Under the present canon, remarriage
of the innocent person In a divorce suit
where infidelity Is alleged is permitted.
It Is proposed now to punish alike the
Innocent and the guilty. And there Is
no referendum. Unlike a political con'
vention, the platform need not be rati
fied at the polls. Its edicts are auto
cratlc. No relief can come from legls
latlve or Judicial appeal. If the report
shall be adopted, women will surfer
most, and they have had small voice in
selecting delegates to represent a high
ly Intelligent and influential democracy
suddenly transformed, so far as women
are concerned, into an Implacable hier
archy. No wonder that Dr. Van Wat
ers, representing the more enlightened
and sympathetic "West exclaimed: "I
am ashamed and chagrined at the
speeches from this platform that show
a feeling that the church should be
more requiring than Christ demands."
Is it possible that these delegates
from the pulpit and the body of the
Protestant Episcopal Church realize
what they are doing when they propose
to rob a suffering, spiritually hungry
woman of the blessed comfortof com
munion with the Master? Shall the
pure, unhappy wife who, having en
dured social degradation, humiliation
and mental agony in Its most excruci
ating form, be denied fellowship In
Christ because she sought and obtained,
legally , and honorably, escape from a
situation that might lead to Insanity or
drive to suicide, and later finds con
jugal happiness?
It may be that the delegates from the
Atlantic States, more familiar with the
Inner life of New York's 400, seek; thus
to check the scandalous matrimonial
irregularities among the Idle rich whom
Henry Watterson takes such delight In
lampooning without mercy. These are
only the nasty scum; the great lake of
the church Is pure and clear. The con
vention merits approval for every ra
tional effort put forth to" lessen a grow
ing evit but there Is certain to be re
volt against the Injustice of fixing like
penalty for the pure ana the -impure.
For Justice all places a temple and all sea
sons Summer.
Dr. Van Waters is certainly a true
prophet when he declares: "If we are
more requiring than Christ, I am sure
they will go elsewhere for marriage.
elsewhere for the blessed sacrament"
Many a woman cannot 'feel spiritual
fellowship except In the church to
which she was baptized and perhaps
her mother and grandmother before her'
and her children after her. But the
sacrament may be administered In the
home as well, and'the Episcopal pulpit
Is full of men who in answer to appeal
and ignoring their bishop will discard
their priestly robes and do the work of
Christ in the spirit of Christ
A NOTABLE CONGRESS.
The Trana - Mississippi Commercial
Congress, an organization that has been
a great factor in the commercial ad
vancement of the states and territories
of the Middle West, will hold its flf-
Lteenth annual convention at the St
Louis fair grounds during the last week
In October.. The effort represented , by
this organization has been largely-
along legislative lines. It has inter
ested itself In securing National legis
lation for the deepening and Improve
ment of harbors; for the equalization of
transportation rates in interstate com-
merce; for the reclamation of the semi
arid regions by irrigation; for the con
struction of public works; for the en
couragement of reciprocity in the com
merclal relations between this country
and Canada, Mexico and South Amer
lean republics; for Improved .consular
service and for many other objects for
the betterment of commercial condl
tlons in what is known "as the trans
Mississippi region.
The tasks to which this body has
addressed Itself, In the fifteen years of
Its existence, haVe taken a wide range,
yet au nave convergea toward one
point, and so systematically has Its
work been carried on that room and
time for the consideration of the great
questions Involved in the development
of a vast region have been found. Con
spicuous among the achievements ac
credited to this body are the passage
of the Irrigation act, the establishment
of the Department of Commerce, deep
water for Galveston, Houston and New
Orleans, and, Improved harbor facilities
for other large cities of the Mississippi
Valley. The reputation of the congress
for unselfish devotion to public inter
ests is well established, and general at
tention Is called to its sessions, not
only In the Great West, which it spe
-clfically serves, but throughout the en
tire country.
It Is one of the provinces of a great
fair to give wide audience to the pro
ceedings of commercial and industrial
bodies. Such bodies rise at the call of
public needs. Great undertakings, which
no Individual can assume or carry for
ward, are presented and assured of
success through co-operative action
Composed of practical men, they do not
indorse vllsonary schemes. While the
local view, or the sectional view, may
narrow somewhat the opinions of even
wide-minded men, this body has not
been criticised on this score, for the
reason, perhaps, that the questions with
which it deals apply to a realm so wide
as to be Incompatible with any thought
or narrow or restricted enort With a
delegation composed of perhaps, 2000
earnest and more or less Influential
men, -and an audience drawn from all
sections of the country, and especially
from the wide and teeming West and
with such men "as'Charles Jerome Bona
parte, F. H. Newell, chief of the recla
mation service of the Department of the
Interior; Gilford Pinchot, chief of the
Bureau of Forestry, and others of equal
note as speakers; with such topics as
road Improvement Irrigation in India,
the great range Interests, expositions
and their Influence upon the country's
advancement. National municipal re
form, etc., attractively presented and
intelligently discussed, we may well
suppose that the Trans-Mississippi
Commercial Congress will fully estab
lish the claim that It exists for the bet
terment of public conditions and the
extension of public utilities.
The creditable manner In which Sen
ator Fulton has acquitted himself on
his recent speaking tour with Senator
Fairbanks will be the occasion of just
pride to every citizen -of Oregon. How
good a campaigner Senator Fulton Is
Oregon already knows; and he has
broadened and strengthened notably
since his election to the Senate. His in
quiring mind, aptitude for study and'
genial personality are combining to
give him a useful and commanding po
sition among the country's public men.
His services to the National ticket and
his growing acquaintance with Influen
tial leaders of both parties should stand
Oregon in good stead at Washington,
and we believe they wjll.
At last we have what the Democratic
managers have been praying for some
thing to wake the boys up. Old Hank
Davis making an even dozen speeches
In one. day from the rear end of a train
In West Virginia, and William Jennings
Bryan doing the same stunt In Mis
souri. Whirlwind tours are the thing
to put ginger into the campaign.
In the Oregon official ballot for No
vember the Republican Presidential
Electors come on the first four lines.
Below them are four other sets of
names, and It makes no difference -
which set Is marked: all of them will
be returned under the head of "scatter
ing." f
Facts About Our Immigrants.
World's Work.
A sum approximating- $50,000,000 Is
sent from the United States In small
sums each year to assist those left
behind in the. Old World, to enatile
them to emigrate. It has been predict
ed that the number of emigrants would
soon decrease by reason of the exhaus
tion of the supply: but no such prom
ise Is warranted by the facts. Last
'year 230.622 Italians, 206,011 Austrians
and . 136,093 Russians successfully
passed the immigration barriers of the
United States.
SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS
Choose Your Opportunity.
Pilot Rock Records
The drubbing the Eugene Guard got
at the hands of The Oregonian was de
served. It Is always best when you meet
a skunk to pass it by unnoticed unless
you are sure of your aim and feel satls-
nea that oy one weu-airectea mow you
can effectively silence It
State Won't Stand It.
Brownsville Tunes.
The Portland Daners keen harping on
the state buying the Lewis and Clark. Ex
position grounds and presenting them to
the City of Portland for a public park.
Better stop it The people of "Oregon,
outside 'of Portland, won't stand It and
the sooner' this fact Is understood the
better It will be for Portland.
An Indispensable Equipment.
Eunene Register.
Will the individual who carried off the
Register's office Bible please return the
same? We are certain that none or tne
Methodist ministers now assembled In
Eugene are guilty of the overt act No
well-regulated printing office can ho with
out a copy of the Bible and or snaues-
peare.
Thanks, Honest Friend.
Ashland Tribune.
The Eugene Guard was properly roasted
in last Saturday's Oregonian for misrep
resenting that journal's report of the
Eastern press comment on Parker's let
ter of acceptance. No paper published in
this country Is more Impartial In print-
Ins political news than The Oregonian,
and when the Guard or any other paper
charges It with unfairness In its new3
service, it Invites and "richly deserves the
severest censure.
A Good Thing Promptly Spotted
McMlnnville Reporter.
Portland papers and some of her Influ
ential men are again airing the proposl
tion that the state purchase the Lewl3
and Clark Fair grounds after the Expo
sition, and donate the tract to tho city
for a park. And the Legislature will
come pretty near to appropriating the
public funds for this purpose if the mem
bers from Multnomah county asK it. xne
taxpayer miserable 'worm has no legis
lative right to exist outside the zone of
the Lewis and Clark showgrounds, ana u
he Is foolish enough to own property else
where, confiscate it When the state
Koes Into the park-purchasing business
for tho benefit of Portland, tho beneficent
work will be carried further. There are
other cities that might be supplied 'with
parks, and the good thing might be passed
around.
Tillamcok's Dairy Facilities.
Tillamook Herald.
Even our esteemed contemporary. The
Oregonian. with all its precise informa
tion aBout different narts of Oregon, does
not fully realize the climatic conditions In
Tillamook In connection with dairying.
for it says, "The grass Is green nearly an
Summer." To be correct, Tne uregonian
should have said, "The grass Is green all
Summer and nearly all Winter. in
proof of this, we will state that though
Tillamook has passed through one of tho
dryest Summers in tho history of the
county, meadows nave Kept green, pas
turage has been good, and today the
county is. covered with a green verdure
and looklns: as brlcht and fresh as though
it was the Spring of the year, ana witn
indications that the dairy herds win con
tinue to find pastures long into next year
hefore It will be necessary for dairymen
to feed their stock with hay from their
well-filled barns they raised on their
farms. Climatic conditions and being
able to raise all their feed on their farms
are features which have encouraged the
thrifty and industrious farmers and
brought about a prosperous state of af
fairs in dairying that cannot oe surpassea
anywhere in Oregon.
"Comparatively Innocent."
Bend Bulletin.
Tho Portland Oresonian. which began
th pruaade aeainst fraudulent lana trans-
nrtlnns In Orecon and was largely Instru
mental In Instigating the omciai investi
gation that has taken place, now arcects
to believe that the promng nas gone iu.r
enough. There is no doubt tnat it nas
reached uncomfortably near the seat of
i large capital and when $10,000 is offered for
destruction of a single piece oi eviaence
something of the power that has profited
from the gigantic timber land swmaies
mav be cu eased. The magnitude of the
task of bringing such men to justice may
also be jruessed. If it were merely tne
conviction of the McXWuey-ware-watson-
Puter outfit It might be easy. But their
conviction would be likely to expose their
principals, and that must be prevented at
all hazards. Hence tne powerrui mnuences
enlisted to shield them. The Oregonian
wants Special Agent Greene to show re
sults before pursuing land frauds further.
If The Oregonian will use Its influence for
the appointment of a District Attorney
who will do his duty In the premises it
will have no cause" to complain of lack of
results. At present nothing Is secure from
the knowledge of the sleeK thieves wno
have made fortunes plundering the public
fdomaln. The field operations of this gang
In Oregon centered at jsugene. n ail tnat
work were laid bare the purification ot
Oregon's land record would be largely ac
complished. The work In Eastern Oregon
was comparatively innocent. .
Well, Well, Well!
Boise News.
The interview in today's Capital News
with Hon. J. H. Brady, vice-president of
the National Irrigation Congress, and the
largest individual ditch owner in Idaho,
calls attention to the importance of secur
ing the next meeting of the congress lor
Boise. There should be little difficulty In
dolnjr this because practically every one
directly Interested In the subject of irriga
tion feels that it should come here, where
can be seen the best object lessons In Ir
rigation. The great irrigation works
owned by Mr. Brady's companies and
other corporations In the southeast the
Government work at Minindoka, Just be
ginning, the big enterprise at Twin Falls
now nearly completed, the splendid canal
systems of the Boise and Payette Val
leys, several of them under co-operative
ownership, and last but greatest of all
the vast Boise-Payette Government pro
ject which will no doubt be well begun
by the date of next years meeting all
these are arguments in favor of bringing
the congress to Boise. . It is quite prob
able that Portland. Or., will alone oppose
the claims of Boise, and under ordinary
circumstances the Idaho delegates would
be glad to favor our sister state we have
only the kindest of feelings for her people
and take a natural pride In the achieve
ments of the Northwest metropolis. But
Portland and Western Oregon have no
real Interest In Irrigation nor ever will
have, owing to natural climatic conditions.
The irrigation congress Is a business as
sociation, not a mere junketing aggrega
tion out for pleasure and sightseeing, and
to be useful must meet among the neople
wno are in sympamy witn lis ooiects. it
was truly said at Ogden last year by one
advocate of Boise that an Irrigation con
gress could never be successfully held
j among those who are strangers to the
smell of sago brush.
The Rosary.
Robert Cameron Rogers.
The hours I spent with thee, dear heart.
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, every one apart.
My rosary.
Each hour a pearL each pearl a prayer
To still a heart in. absence wrung;
I tell each bead unto the end. and there
A cross Is hung.
Ob. memories that bless and burnt
Oh. barren gain and bitter lossl
I kiss each bead and strive, at last to.learav
To kiss the cross.
Sweetheart. .
To kls the crosa.
DANGERS IN 0VERC0NFIDENCE.
Leslie's Weekly.-
Oregon's and Vermont's elections in 1901
gave the Republicans a confidence in their
assumed Invincibility of which Maine.
happily, furnishes a corrective. Oregon's
Republican lead in the election for state
officers and Congressmen in June, 1901.
was longer than in any previous election,
leaving the plurality for McKlnley in 100.
which had -broken all records up to that
time, far In the rear. Vermont followed
early in September by a vlctpry for the
Republicans by a larger plurality than
ever -before In a Presidential year, ex
cept in 1S95. All this was calculated to
give tho Republicans that contempt for
the strength of the Democracy which they
held during the Civil War and reconstruc
tion days, and which very nearly proved
fatal to the Republicans in the Hayes
canvass.
Maine, tells the Republicans that it will
be perilous to underestimate the Democ
racy's strength in the country at large.
The Republicans have carried Maine by
a longer lead, 27,000, than they ever gained
in a September election in a Presidential
year except In 1SS6 and 1900. It is 5000 longer
than the lead they won In 1202, when the
Republicans rolled up a large majority In
the country for Congress. But the fact
that the plurality was smaller than it was
In 1900 tells the Republicans that they must
work hard and intelligently from this tune
to November 3 if they are to win by a
majority which shall Impress the coun
try.
Grant's overwhelming victory over
Greeley in 1ST? made the Republicans de
spise the Democrats In the canvass of
1S76, and tho consequence was that Tilden
came so near victory that one vote turned
In the Electoral College would have made
him. Instead of Hayes, President But
even with the 1S7S warning, the Repub
licans fell Into the same dangerous feel
ing of security In 18S0. Then Maine went
to tho rescue with Its 1S9 majority for the
Governorship candidate of tho Democrat
ic-Greenback fusion. That was a nomb in
the Republican camp. It showed that Re
publican, overconfldence had allowed the
Democrats to gain the advantage through
out the country, and that the tide was In
favor of Hancock. That alarm-bell in the
Pine Tree State In September. 18S0, saved
tne Hepublicans. It compelled Grant and
Conkling, who were alienated by Grant's
defeat for the third-term nomination In
the convention to quit their sulking and.
take t'ae stump for the ticket These lead
ers worked so effectively for the next few
weeks in Ohio, Indiana and New York that
they turned the tide in the Republican di
rection, and elected Garfield and Arthur,
mougn Dy such a narrow marein that If
11,000 of Garfield'3 votes in the decisive
State of New York and New York polled
a total vote oi ljoo.OCO in that year had
been turned In the other direction, Han
cock would have been elected.
unhappily. Maine did not sound a warn
ing In the Blaine canvass of 18S4, for under
me innuence or local nrlde she rolled nn
a 20,000 plurality in September for the
.KapuDJican candidate for Governor. De
spite the Blalne-Conkling feud In New
York In that year, Republican confidence
was great but the Burchard Incident and
tne Kepubllcan defection in Conkling's
county turnea the scale.
It was overconfldence which ftetenieA
the Republicans In 1S92, when the drop
In Maine's Republican lead to 12,000 In
September was unable to rouse th -Har
rison leaders from their lethargy, and
uievetana carnea the country a fie.rnnrf
time. In 1901 Maine issues its sharp sum
mons to the Republicans to shake oft all
Inertia, and to work as If every Northern
and Western State were in doubt and
couia not be won without bringing every
Republican voter to the polls. The situa
tion is immeasurably better for thp Re
publicans in 1901 .than It was In 1SS4 or
1S32. but It is only by making sum
that every Republican ballot is rant nn
November 8 that Roosevelt's vletorv win
be rendered as decisive and overwhelming
u iL uugni io oe.
When HIgglns Went Down Broadway.
Earle Hooker Eaton in Harper's Weekly.
iicuciiot xj. jvuDurn. btato Superin
tendent of Banks, and quite a wag, tell3
an amusing anecdote concerning Mr! Hlg
gins. According to Kilburri, he and quite a
party of Albany politicians met the Lieu
tenant-Governor at Forty-second street
ana uroaaway one day, and Kilburn of
fered the following resolution and moved
mat it De adopted:
"Whereas. Kind Providence has seen fit tn
bring- about this pleasant meetlntr at TVirtv-
eecond street and Broadway in the jrreat elis
or New York; and
whereas. One of our number, Hon. Frank
"Wayland HIgglns. of Olean. Cattaraujrus
County, New York, has recently been, elevated
to the high office of Lieutenant-Governor of
said state; now. therefore, be It
Resolved, That the Lieutenant-Governor has
a plain duty In the premises, and that we
rormwitn proceed down Broadway, graciously
permitting the said Lieutenant-Governor to
settle all the bills that may be Incurred.
Some one seconded the motion., and it
was adopted, with but a single dlssentinc'
vote, that of the victim. The conspirators
at once decided that the first thing on the
programme was a dinner at the Lieutenant-Governor's
expense. They had the
very Jbest the hotel afforded, and then
moved on down Broadway. At Thirty
eighth street they played billiards and
pool for an hour, after which Mr. Hoggins
paia we cnecs. At xmruetn street tney
took a violent fancy to a line of $3.50
neckties In a window and were speedily
ntted out Mr. HIgglns didn't care for
a 53.50 necktie Mmse. but he squared
things with the cashier.' At Twenty-fifth
street the Albanians ran out of smoking
material, flro rrM "Mr TT!cplni ?ntr o n
bacconist's, and purchased the very best
cigars in the place. Once more the Lieu
tenant-Governor saw the cashier.
The Albany men were having the time
of their lives, but at the Flatiron building
Mr. HIgglns called a halt
"I had a $100 bill at Forty-second street
and now I have only $37 left," be said
ruefully, according to the veracious Kil
burn. "If it cost a, man $63 to come down
from Forty-second street to Twenty-third.
what under heavens would it cost him
if he went all the way down to the Bat
tery?"
REASON'S TOR GRATITUDE.
The discission of tho tariff, the money
question and the pros and cons of other
policies of government are purely partisan.
and members of this orgaalxation may not
agree npoa such questions. These matters,
therefore, may well bo left to so-called "reg
ular organizations." Even the very Interest
ing fact that Roosevelt, as a friend of ex
pansion and the present governmental policy
regarding our possessions in the Pacific, so
vitally advantageous to Oregon and this
Gjfest, may be passed as a selfish reason for
giving him support We must be grateful
to him for his nctlve interest in Oregon, and
hia great work for our Fair, in which ho
became for the time almost the greatest
OregoaisB, bat all of-these matters, so far
as the league is concerned, are of trifling
iraportafico as compared to tk"k duty we owe
our country as patriotic ciusens, to "render
all possible support at the present moment to
Presidest Roosevelt, because we believe In
as a man honest, courageous, competent
and always strenuous for his country's good.
Bulletin of Oregon Roosevelt League.
A Quiet Failure.
Boston Advertiser.
An honest man, handicapped by years
of conscientious attempt to be absolutely
Impartial, Is the only Kind or man wno
could have written Judge Parker's letter
of acceatance. Such men do not can
not succeed in National politics, where
whole-souled belief in policies, absolute
surrender to party lines of action, are de
manded of necessity. As a patriot Judge
Parker's standing cannot be questioned.
As a party leader, he is a quiet failure.
Why She Laughed.
Kansas City Times. i
The- insects gave a party.
Joe Llghtnlngbug was there;
Hiss Guatemalan Ant had never
Seen Joe anywhere. .
She started In a-laughlng,
Said she: "Prhaps I!m unkind, ,
jBu,he Jooks like an auto with
Its headlight on behind." ' .
NOTE AND COMMENT,
ALONE IX AFRICA. V
A Story of Trae Xeve, Western Grit, and
the Power of Classified AdTcrtislBff.
Surmmary of previous rounds Sullivan
Gulch wishes to marry Clementina Carp, hut
Is kicked out by her guardian, SelVxood
Ferry, who tells Gulch that he may claim
Clementina when he 'becomes a King. Gulch
accordingly Inserts an advertisement In the
"Situation Wanted" column of The Oregonian.
ROUND HI No results came from the
ad. for several months, but eventually
young Gulch was aroused from his slum
bers early one morning, at 3:15 P. II.. to
be exact Much to his surprise, a large
man. black as ebony, clad In a stovepipe
hat tan shoes and a sort of striped por
tiere, stood by his bedside.
"You Sullivan Gulch." said thC'vIsitor.
"That's me." replied Sullivan.
"Catchum Job King for you." -said the
Zulu, producing a tattered copy' of The
Oregonian and pointing to the ad. Gulch
jumped out of bed and looked for his
pants. They were not to be found. In
their place was an outfit similar to that
of the Zulu, who now produced a bottle
of blacking and a shoebrush, with which
he gave Gulch a coat of shiny black, mut
tering as he applied the brush. "Shine-'em-up,
ahine-'em-up." Gulch then don
ned the hat shoes and got behind the
portiere. In the street he found 50 other
Zulus, similarly attired. Around them
was an Immense crowd, the people evi-(
dently taking Gulch's escort for a min
strel company about to parade.
This gave Gulch an idea. He hired the
Armory and announced that the Sene
gambla Minstrels, 50 performots, 50
count them, 50 would give a perform
ance. By this means he cleared up $31,
although the make-up of his endmen was
roasted as making too much use of burnt
cork. By giving shows of this kind, Gulch
made his way as far as Newport
(To be continued.
Kokomo Is agin Bryan.
Kankakee?
How stands
"God's Good Man" appears to be Cor
elll's good seller.
Lord Mllner is about to retire,
a sort of sweetened Kruger.
He Is
The Breuer murder is on the way to
become an issue in city politics.
9 - .
Hitherto the telephone girl3 have been
principally interested In matrimonial
unions.
H. Gassoway Davis is said to have
set out on a whirlwind campaign. More
wind than whirl to it probably.
No, Constant Reader, the statue of
Fredericjc the Great presented to the
Nation y the Kaiser, is not in honor of
the conjuror.
As a matter of curiosity, one would like
to know why It Is so rarely that a So
cialist can spell correctly? Is it care
lessness or a symbol of revolt against an
arbitrary system of expressing speech?
From a money-making point of view
it was bad business for that New York
saloonkeeper to make his whisky so
fierce that it killed off most of his cus
tomers. A less fiery solution would have
been better, for then the purchasers could
have returned for more when they came
out of the hospital.
"Mamma, is Kuropatkln an angel?"
asked a Platte, City little girl Wednesday,
according to the Kansas City Star. "No,
child, why do you ask?" queried tho
mother. "Because this paper says Kuro
patkin's right wing is demolished. ' 13
Kuropatkln a bird, then?" asked the
child.
The Seattle Evening News ,which has
reached the 25th day of existence in this
troublous world, thinks that General Cor
bln talked vainly on the marriage ques
tion. Army officers, like other men, thinks
the News, have really -very little . to say
about whether or not they shall marry.
It's the girls that usually decide the
question t or us.
According to a Henry County paper,
.quoted by. the Kansas City Star, an end
man in a minstrel company down that
way recently Informed his audience that
a pug dog has a curl in his tail so that the
fleas may loop the loop.
Since this Item was clipped researches
in Portland reveal tho fact that the same
gag Is being used here, so Missouri has
none the best or worst of it
Tough luck In Mecklenburg-Schwerin
As the people are rejoicing over the en
gagement of the Duchess Cecile to tie
Crown Prince and the women are think
ing of the trousseaushe would have,, the
Grand Duke digs up a 16th Century law
enabling him to levy a special tax on the
whole people to provide a trousseau vhen
a Princess of the grand ducal house mar- 4
ries. The tax Is now to be collectel and
the people are kicking. Such is the 'Ijppu
lar rejoicing" that is always reported
when a royal personage is betroined or
married. The amount of rejoiclig can
be easily ascertained by trying q levy a
tax on the strength of it
Written on paper of robinseggblue and
in a delicate, feminine hand, ome3 the
following communication from, "A Near
Neighbor" to solve a vexatious problem:
A lady la Upper Alblna (wlo aoes noi
desire- publicity) has at last dispvered a use
for wornout and discarded corsfts. She had
a henhouse, the roof of. which leaked badly
where the six-Inch planks Jotted, sne airo
had about sir pairs of old coraita. Each pair
of these, when properly cut out In strips
lengthwise, formed four fairly good "shin
gles," good enough anyhow for her roofing
Altogether, she got 24 of these
strips out ot her old cozseta. .She nailed
these over the leaky seam In regular shin
gle fashion, and now the nens rejoice wun
her In a water-tight root against mo
six months of "Oregon roiat." It has re
mained then for an Albln. woman to solve a
long and vexed problem: "What can we do
with our old corsets?" Good for Mr; if
of the Potato Patch! She fiUa a long-reit
want."
WEX. J.
OUT'OF THE GINGER JAR.
He-Some one started the story that 1 have a
big head. TVhat do you think of It? She
There's nothing in It. Detroit Tree Press.
Johnny Papa, what does It mean .when you
say a man io good at repartee? "It means he
hasn't many friends." Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune. He (apologetically, as .clock strikes) why, 1
am late In leaving tonight! She (with best In
tentions) "Well, better late, than never, you
know. Judge.
Hawkins That pickpocket they caught Is
really a very Intelligent fellow. Sampson No
doubt of It He proved that by his ability to
locate a lady's pocket. Puck.
"Don't be too hard on the boy- You must re
member that he hasn't reached the age ot rea
son." "I know that. He's reached the age of
excuses." Kansas City World.
timt-itiw naif the Sultan of Turkey scares
his wives nearly to death. Joax Tea; I've al
ways heard tnat ne was a aarciu-ci.
of fellow. Philadelphia Kecora.
"He's employed by the railway company now,
I understand." "Yes; he has charge ot the
puzsle department." "The what?" He makes
out the tune-tables!" ciueago jouuhu-Tt-
waj!-cnlv two years ago that Mrs. Weddln
took her B.-A. at Vasaar, wasn't ItT" "Yes:
whyT" "She has Just talten a aigaer oecree ui
jUL In the school of life." Phllaelil Press.