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jgOKTLAXD, TTilDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1804.
"SAFETX" AND "SANITX."
It is probable that many of the Gold
Democrats In the Eastern States who
voted for McKlnley will now vote for
Parker though not nearly all of them.
The claim that the party has become
"safe and sane" reconciles such as
have been Democrats through heredity
or instinct and wish to act with their
party again. Yet there are others who
think that the claim of "safety and
sanity" for a party whose sponsors of
fer their felicitations that It has "re
covered," after eight years' confinement
for lunacy, is not very well founded;
or at least that a party subject to these
long fits of "insanity" would better not
be trusted just yet, but watched for a
further time against the recurrence of
the malady.
And in truth there is small evidence
of sanity regained in the course the
party is now taking. Its talk of the al
leged dangers of "imperialism" and
"militarism" insults public Intelligence,
and is contemptible, to the last degree.
So is- the clamor for abandonment of
the Philippine Islands. So is the attack
on the Administration for its course of
action which has secured construction
of the Panama Canal. So Is the at
tempt to couple the Administration
with the trusts; when it is known that
the resources of the law have been ex
hausted by the Administration in pur
suing the trusts, and that the greatest
of the trusts, sugar, coal, railroads, are
opposing Roosevelt and supporting Par
ker. High place in these syndicates is
held by the coal and railway magnate
of West "Virginia, who is candidate for
Vice-President, and by the bank syn
dicate of New York, led by Belmont,
whose efforts brought about the nomi
nation of Parker.
"When the advocates of this party say
it has "regained its sanity," of course
they acknowledge that it was insane.
SChey profess to have recovered it from
Its insanity by casting out the ele
ment that bad controlled from 1898, and
by putting the Belmont-Hill crowd in
control, over the masses led by Bryan.
But these masses still constitute the
party. The St Louis Convention was
"set up" by the New York managers,
and their programme was carried by
the arts of deception. Mr. Bryan, writ
ing in his paper after the convention,
said that the management of the can
didacy of Judge Parker was "a plain
and deliberate attempt to deceive the
party," and that "he and his managers
.adroitly and purposely concealed his
position until the delegates had been
oorraled and his nomination assured."
Though Mr. Bryan, now is speaking for
Judge Parker, he gives notice every
where that Immediately after the elec
tion he will push for reorganization of
the party on former lines. Bryan is the
party's real leader. He represents its
purposes. The syndicate of financiers
and politicians who nominated Parker
have no real control over itr though by
"setting up" a convention under the
lead of New York they nominated the
candidate. They call this "safety and
sanity," but it doesn't represent the
party.
Has this Tarty, then, after all, recov
ered its canity? Through trickery, as
Bryan has shown, and against the
strongest element In the party, the
managers nominated Parker; but the
forces that dominate and will dominate
the party are unchanged, and Parker
will be no master of them, if elected.
The Democratic party stands for a dis
tinct tendency in our public life. Parker
doesn't represent it Bryan does; and
he says in his Commoner that "the
contest for economic and political re
form will begin again as soon as the
polls close." No question that the party
will go with Bryan. Parker is not
never can be, its leader" or representa
tive. A HOMEBUILDING -ERA.
A most impressive thing it is that the
dominant note of periodical literature
Is architecture. Magazines devoted to
housebuilding and decoration have
sprung into prosperous prominence.
There must be nearly a dozen admira
bly printed and illustrated monthly
publications devoted to this class of
subjects, and the distinction of their
mechanical and artistic effects affords
unmistakahle ovldenro of nwoi not
ronage. Meanwhile newspapers and
ma6cu.uica tfciierajiy ieem witn articles
on building and decoration. One can
hardly open a Sunday paper without
finding either floor plans or else ex
terior or Interior views.
, Perhaps the most striking thing about
siveness. They'are confined to no class
of structures. About once a month
some costly marble pile like Lawson's
or Jttogers' or McCalrs Is completed and
photographed, but -on the next page to
a view of a palace costing a million or
more will be some little worklngman's
cottage to be built complete for maybe
$1800. All classes of people seem to be
interested In homebuidlng. The archi
tectural and decorative displays at St
Louis are constantly thronged with
people who are evidently Investigating
with a view to actual needs. The whole
country is busy building and planning
homes.
V" aresuggesieo. oy mis
architectural era. One Is that the day
nt Ua. fomllv v.o. -J a i
Two thoughts are suggested by this
of the family has not passed. A home
building craze is incompatible with
"race suicide." Rich and poor alike are
straining every nerve to possess a
home, and obviously a home without
children is only a feeble imitation of. the
real thing. The other thought is that
the people must be doine well to sus
tain such a great body of architectural
investigation and achievement. There
was no homebullding craze in the pain
ful Democratic years from 1893 to 1897.
NEW POLITICAL METHODS.
The -wise administrator is he who
adapts his methods to the changing
spirit of the times. Chairman Baker, of
the Republican State Central Commit
tee, is spending his money in letters
written and sent to the Individual vot
ers. This is a new scheme in fJrpcnn
politics. It will "take." doubtless, be
cause it 1b something new and because
it comports with the popular mood of
the hour, which is one of calm reflec
tion rather than partisan frenzy.
Those who can remember Portland
politics in 1856 will recall without effort
(he lively Buchanan-Fremont cam
paign. Other memories will run back
to the Hayes-Tilden fight of 1876 and
the Blalne-CIeveland battle of 1884.
Those were the days of marching bands
ana naming torches. The ReDubliean
spellbinder wouldget up on his stump
and all the Republicans would yell
themselves hoarse, and then the Demo
cratic spellbinder wpuld get up on his
stump and all. the Democrats would
yell themselves hoarse.
Great were the sacrifices and the sen
sations of those days. Many a boy of IS
went without a Winter overcoat iif
order to get a marching suit How
often did a member of the Tllden Tigers
or the Blaine Invlnclbles blow out the
torch of the man In front of him In
rage because it had been Inadvertently
thrust in his face! How many times,
did rival processions fall afoul of each
other and shed blood.'each man In his
own party's noble .cause! Great was
the anxiety of each side to outstrin th.
other In display, and when the resuft on
election night was ascertained, every
man who had carried a torch on the
winning Bide felt a personal nrlde In the
fact that again the country had been
saved.
Perhaps it would be unsafe to sav
that that day has gone never to return;
for It may come back. When we look
at the devotion with which men of
sound mind even In this day and age of
the world will get out In the street all
red silk and feathers to march with
their noble order on some fool occasion
or other, it would be rash to predict
the doom of marching clubs and cam
paign bonfires. Yet It Is true that for
the present these boyish operations are
consigned to Innocuous desuetude. " It Is
more complimentary to our people that
they are more moved by solid facts ad
dressed to their calm judgment than by
the smell of a kerosene torch or the
time occupied by a parade In passing a
given point Whoever's cause Is just
should be glad of dispassionate exam
ination into the grounds of the issue.
We shall see in November, as we saw
in June, whether a quiet campaign Is
necessarily a feeble one.
DESIGNEDLY DEFECTIVE AND UNFAIR.
The dilemma In which County Clerk
Roland, of Marlon County, finds him
self is one that will perplex the Clerks
of several counties. In preparing for
the election next month Mr. Roland
must place the prohibition question
upon the official ballot He finds, how
ever, that If he follows the form pre
scribed by law, many people cannot
vote their opinions, while if he puts the
question on the ballot in such a form
that the people may all express their
wishes, he must violate the law.
It is not a very pleasant position
in which to tilac a. mihiio official
It is just such a situation as was pre
dicted by those who studied the local
option law and saw Its unfairness. The
difficulty in Marlon County Is plain. A
vote upon the liquor question has been
ordered for the whole county, and for
a subdivision composed of three Salem
precincts.
Under the provisions of the local op
tion law a petition for the submission
of the question in the entire county is
In effect a petition for the submission
of the question in each individual pre
cinct of the county. In each of the Sa
lem precincts referred to the voter finds
himself confronted with three separate
questions: "Do you want prohibition
for your own precinct?" "Do you want
it for the subdivision composed of three
precincts?" "Do you want It for the
entire county?" But in answering these
three questions a man must make a
single mark for or against prohibition
for the entire county" and for the subdi
vision composed of the three precincts.
If a man votes for prohibition for his
own precinct he must also vote for pro
hibition for the entire county, and vice
versa. If he votes against prohibition
for the countyv he cannot vote In favor
of prohibition for his home precinct
This Inconsistency In what was paraded
as a "local option" law arises from the
fact that the liquor question can be
placed upon the ballot in only one form,
though there may really be a number of
questions Involved. Mr. Roland intends
to follow the forms prescribed by law,
thus relieving himself of responsibility
for unsatisfactory results.
WHAT WILL THE WOMEN DO?
It is high time for a man who can
stand, barefaced, before an audience of
Intelligent Christian women with the
declaration on his lips that half of the
women of a great commonwealth and
half the women of a city of 100,000 peo
ple are "bad women," to place his hand
upon his mouth and his mouth in the
dust Jt is also high time for a great
church,, composed largely of women
and supported to a considerable extent
by woman's self-eacriflclnsr enfleavnr.
to force his relinquishment of the edi
torial control of one of its denomlna-
Ltional newspapers, and for self-respect-
I " uiuea turn wyjuen Tvno nave
sublime and just confidence in the vir
tue and true womanliness of a vast
majority of their sex In this civilise
and enlightened city to spurn from their
homes a journal that under such con-
and is likely at any time to make
shameful allegations against womanhood.
A man who could so abuse the cour
tesy of a woman' convention, as D. L.
Rader, preacher and editor of the Pa
cific Christian Advocate, is said to have
done before the convention of the State
W. C. T. U., whose invited guest he
was Wednesday evening, is unworthy of
public confidence. The only explana
tion of his conduct that suggests itself
at this time Is that he is a man of nar
row, illiberal. Illogical mind, who was
Incited to Jealousy the controlling- ele
ment of such minds during his resi
dence In Colorado whence he came re
cently, by finding there many women
who were his superiors, in Intellect as
well as In energetic and disinterested
effort looking to the public weal.
A man has a perfect right to doubt
the expediency of granting the suffrage
to women. Many broad-minded, gener
ous and manly men conscientiously op
pose the extension of the ballot to
women upon this ground. But no man
worthy of the respect of self-respecting
people would come Into a community
and boldly declare that half of Its
women were Immoral women, or In ef
fect that womanly virtue would be sub
ject to bargain-counter barter If women
became voters. Out upon such indecent
assertion, and shame, shame, to the
man who thus uncovers .his own moral
nakedness before the public without
being ashamed of the disgusting dis
play!
CONSTRUCTIVE STATESMANSHIP.
In the dispatch of Secretary Taft to
the Isthmus of Panama the President
discovers himself In a characteristic
phase. For seeing through the most
complicated problem, for apprehending
the sound and safe way out of a multi
tude of perplexities, Mr. Taft Is perhaps
the marvel of the day. He has so fine
and true a nature, wherein noble im
pulses are .deftly blended with acute
discernment that he picks out as with
intuition the happy solution of difficul
ties arising between a nation like this
and a distant community of unfamiliar
people. What he did In the.Phlllpplnes
he will do at Panama.
It might seem strange at first sight
that so great a man as Taft should be
sent on an errand of conciliation to so
small a people; and It would be strange,
except for one thing, and that Is' the
President's sense of responsibility. If
George Vanderbllt had a petty dispute
with one of his poor neighbors In North
Carolina, we should be surprised to see
him get the greatest and kindest lawyer
in New York City to go down there and
fix the thing up to the neighbor's satis
faction. But Theodore Roosevelt means
to be even more particular with poor,
weak Panama than he would be with
Germany or Great Britain. So he sends
Taft
Now Taft Is a man who will speak
softly but never carries a big stick. He
will promise the Panama people every
thing he thinks Is right, maybe a little
more, and whatever he promises will
be fulfilled by the Administration at
Washington. For Taft is a man of
peace. A lawyer and a Judge, he has
been trained In the ways of peace. He
went to the Philippines an "antl-lm-perlallst"
He changed his views as he
grew acquainted with the facts, but his
sympathies with the people there re
mained. He became their advocate and
champion at the White House. He
stood between them and Congress. In
a political sense he was father and
mother to them. They love him for his
superior brains, his generous heart his
steadfast devotion to their welfare, and
the force and shrewdness he has mani
fested In securing benefits for them at
the hands of President and Congress.
Nothing could more clearly reveal the
attitude ofthe President's mind toward
hte people of the Isthmus. Just what
Taft is certain to say and do there is
foreshadowed in his letter of instruc
tions. He is to be just and even gen
erous. He is to promise the isthmian
population no wrong or harm, but only
good and help. And Taft Is just the
man to inspire confidence there and
then to secure the redemption of his,
promises here. This Is constructive
statesmanship of the highest kind. It
is significant also to see two men of
the marvelous mental and moral caliber
of Root and Taft working steadily and
enthusiastically as subordinates under
Theodore Roosevelt and looking up to
him with loyalty and confidence as an
able and trustworthy administrator.
It was one of Lincoln's marks of great
ness that he got the greatest men that
he could get as his assistants and main
tained his ascendency over them by the
sheer force of his dominating person
ality. It seems to be so with President
Roosevelt
IKIUGATION" STATUTES NEEDED.
The Oregon Legislature will probably
hesitate to pass an act creating a
department of state government with
as many officials as contemplated
by the proposed Irrigation- code;
and if such a law is . passed,
as it probably will be, an ef
fort will doubtless be made to reduce
the number of officers to the minimum.
In order to do this and to secure the
most efficient service,- use 6hould be
made, so far as possible, of the pres
ent official system. While Irrigation is
of great importance to Oregon, it is not
yet practiced to such an extent as to
necessitate expensive -supervision. In its
general plan the irrigation code seems
to be practical and, if enacted into law,
will doubtless accomplish the ends de
sired the encouragement of irrigation
and the economical use of water. At
the same time It would seem that per
haps some Improvements could be made
In the details of the law by fitting Its
provisions to existing conditions.
The proposed law provides for the ap
pointment of a State Engineer st a sal
ary of $3000 a year and expenses, with
one or more assistants at salaries of
1800 a year and expenses, the appoint
ment of the engineer to be made by the
Governor, and the term of office to be
six years. Now, as everyone knows,
there has already been started in this
state t a system of Irrigation under the
provisions of the Carey Act and the
state law passed in accordance with
that act and the proceedings under this
system are largely under the direction
and control of the State Land Board,
composed of the Governor, Secretary of
State and State Treasurer. Several
times the State Land Board has found
it necessary to employ an engineer, and
In the next ten years or more while the
irrigation systems are under construc
tion the services of an engineer will be
needed in order to see that the irriga
tion companles'a.re fulfilling their con
tracts m a proper manner. In view of
this situation it will be readily apparent
to all that the State Engineer should
be appointed by the State Land Board
and be under its direction and control
at all times.
. .Tii3u sJtxpdsixcsi tejiijc
years, when the State bad, far all prac
tical purposes, two land departments
which were running independent of
each other, shows the folly of such a.
course. One department knew little or
nothing of what the other had done,
and the result was confusion and con
flict which brought the honor of the
state In question. The possibility of a
recurrence of such a condition should
be scrupulously avoided, and to this end
another suggestion may be made. The
proposed law provides that the water
right records of the state shall be kept
In the office of the State Engineer,
while under present laws and contracts,
the records relating to irrigation under
the Carey Act are kept In the office of
the clerk of the State Land Board. The
nature of the State Engineer's work will
make It necessary for him to be away
from ,hls office a great portion of the
time, and for that reason It would not
be convenient to the public to have
the records kept In his office. These
considerations indicate very strongly
that it would not be best to create and
maintain an Irrigation Department sep
arate ann distinct from departments al
ready in existence.
The best plan would be to make the
State Engineer an attache of the State
Land Office and have all his records
kept there, where they will be accessi
ble to the public at all times. This ar
rangement will make it unnecessary to
employ a clerk to attend the office dur
ing the absence of the State Engineer.
Under that arrangement, all Irrigation
records and proceedings would be con
trolled by one body instead of having
one system Under the management
of the. State Land Board and an
other governed by the State Engi
neer. At such times as the State Land
Board needed the -services of the engi
neer .In looking after the Irrigation
work under the Carey Act, he would be
subject to their directions. At all other
times his attention could be given to
other irrigation matters. It does not
seem that irrigation has yet become so
extensive or so complicated In Oregon
as to make It necessary to have both
an engineer and an assistant engineer.
If the State Engineer be charged wlthno
office duties as he would not be If he be
made an attache of the State Land Of
fice, he would be free to attend to out
side work and an. assistant would not
be necessary for several years at least
Oregon has never been burdened with
an expensive official system, and one
should be avoided as long as possible.
The proposed law also provides for
the election of a Board of Water Com
missioners, probably about six In num
ber, one for each Water Division. The
Commissioners are to have supervision
of the apportionment of water under
I the licenses Issued by the State Engi
neer ana have power to appoint Water
Masters In the several Water Districts
(subdivisions of Water Divisions). The
Water Masters are to have Immediate
charge of the apportionment of water
under the general supervision of the
Water Commissioners. Water Commis
sioners are to receive 510 per day and
expenses and Water Masters i per day
and expenses. At first Impression this
arrangement suggests too much super
vision and not enough actual and ef
fective work. If practicable, the appor
tionment of water made by the State
Engineer should be sufficient so far as
general supervision is concerned and
the actual charge of distribution should
then be left to the Water Masters, ap
pointed by the State Land Board, "upon
recommendation of the State Engineer.
In this way one set of officers who have
only supervisory duties could be dis
pensed with and the work of managing
the irrigation affairs greatly simplified.
A complicated system results In a di
vision of responsibility and seldom im
proves the service.
The ghost of the old Portland Savings
Bank seems to be one of those haunting
specters that will not down. A week or
so ago a certificate of deposit calling
for $4000 on that Institution of unhal
lowed memory was found amid the
charred remains of a shanty in which,
some years ago, the aged holder had
taken refuge with his wife for lack of
other shelter, and in which both were
burned to death one stormy night when
it went up In flame and smoke, leaving
this mockery of wealth unconsumed.
Nowwehave notice of a meager "balance
left from the manipulation of the bank's
assets, aggregating about one-tenth of
1 per cent of the "claims, which will be
distributed pro rata upon presentation
of certificates by the holders. Ther i
no Intention of adding Insult to Injury
in proclaiming this last dividend. The
County Court has merely, for once, a
small sum of money on hand that It
does not know what to do with, and Is
not anxious, for obvious reasons, to
carry. Hence the final rally of this
gaunt and attenuated ghost of the
wrecked hopes and fortunes of many
hopeless victims of a notable bank fail
ure of a past decade.
George Taylor, for brutally beating a
boy in this city recently, has been
given a year In the County Jail. He
will thus find opportunity to exercise
his muscle on the county rockplle.
which is -much better use than he seems
to be able to make of It without special
airection. (Breaking rock 13 an excel
lent avenue for th escape of surplus
energy that men of his (Jlass when left
to their own devices are apt to expend
in oeating women, children and crln
pies. The employment of a coward who
makes boast of his strength In this
manner Is In the Interest of good roads
as well as of necessary discipline.
The police has been called upon to
take In a gang, of boys and girls who
make night hideous In the vicinity of
East Eighth and Everett streets. What
of the parents who sit serenely In their
homes that being a respectable resi
dence district of the city while the
racket goes on? Are they ready to
delegate the simplest form of parental
authority to the police? Have they lost
the old-fashioned art of putting chil
dren to bed in season? Let us hope
that these questions will be promptly
answered In the negative by the proper
housing of these boisterous youngsters
at the curfew hour.
"About half the women of Portland
are bad women," says Mr. Rader, mln
ister and newly appointed editor of the
Pacific Christian Advocate. It must be
conceded that he has been Indefatigable
In his efforts along certain lines if he
makes this statement on a basis of
personal knowledge of the subject
Sir Thomas Llptbn certainly has what
sportsmen proudly characterize as
"good stuff" in him. This is fully con
ceded, whether he again enters the race
for the America's cup or not He has
proved, his quality, both in effort and
the good crace with which he taVfa dt.
THE GOLD AND THE TARIFF.
Philadelphia North American.
At the present moment we have in cir
culation in. this country of money of all
kinds about $2,600,000,000. The paper and
silver currency rests upon and obtains Its
value and effectiveness from the store of
gold that we possess. The gold In the
National Treasury and in circulation in
September. 1904. was J84I.000.0&0. Thus
Lthere was about $1 of gold for every $3
of general currency. But the gold has
another burden to carry and to Impart
value to bank credit The precise fig
ures -representing this bank credit are not
available, but beyond question they
amount upward far into thousands of
millions of dollars. To retain in the
country the stock of gold is, therefore,
manifestly a matter of first importance.
No well-informed man need to be told
that if the metal should go abroad in
large quantities the- American people
would encounter financial distress and
industrial prostration.
If oast experience has any lesson xor
this Nation, it Is that the, one thing that
will send gold away in great sums Is
lanre reductions of the duties upon im-
ports In other words, the kind of tariff
reformation to which the Democratic
party is solemnly pledged.
What Is the experience referred to?
In 186 and 1857 this same Democratic
party, in control of National legislation
put into operation tariffs which went as
far as the party dared to go in the airec
tion of outright free trade. The first or
these tariffs was enacted almost simul
taneously with the discovery of gold in
California tlw gold that was needed
more than any one thing to promote and
expand the industrial forces of a Nation
that had never possessed anything like a
sufficient quantity of real money.
If the protective system as the Nation
knows It now had been at that time In ex
istence, there can be no doubt that all,
or nearly all, the gold unearthed In Cali
fornia would-have remained here to bene
fit our own people. But, with our ports
wide open to European manufactures, the
country was flooded with European goods.
which we might have made at home, ana
practically the entire mass of California
gold was hurried across the Atlantic to
pay for them.
In the meantime, the American people.
Instead of employing gold for currency.
as they might have done, were compelled
to use sag money of such nlthlness ana
variableness of value as men of the pres
ent generation can hardly understand. In
the meantime, also, the revenues of the
Federal Government deprived of customs
duties in sufficient measure, fell so far
below the necessary expenditures that the
Treasurv was obliged to borrow money,
for which (so low had the National credit
fallen) It was compelled to pay 12 per
cent
The inevitable result of all this blunder
ing and folly was that In 1857, with the
Democrats still In power, the Nation was
involved in one of the worst panics re
corded In Its history a panic In which
private business and public credit were
shaken to their foundations.
In a different degree, but in precisely
the same manner, the same thing nap
pened during Grover Cleveland's second
administration. In 1892, the year before
he came Into office, our total exports were
41,016,000,000. In 1895, two years after
ward, with the Wilson tariff In operation,
the exDorts fell to $793,000,000. Thus we,
sold less material to. foreigners and for
what we bought we must pay more gold.
instead of Daylnjr In produce.
Gold began again to flow to Europe in
a groat stream. In 1895, for the first
time In many years, the expenses of the
Government acaln exceeded the income,
thn nubile debt was increased from $585,-
000,000 in 1892 to 3847,000,000 in 1896, and
before Mr. Cleveland had been in office
two years there was a panic and prostra
tion of Industry precisely like that which
brought misery and ruin to-the .Nation
in 1857.
The number is small of the persons who
ran remember the disasters of 1857. Mil
lions of living men know from observation
what happened in 1893. The younger men,
who have come into adult years since
1893. will do well to study the complete
history of that time of destruction and
distress and the causes or trie trouoie.
It is hard to believe that Intelligent
Americans who know the facts will con
sent to make a third experiment along the
line of the- Democratic theories and in the
direction of another exodus of gold, an
other panic and another period of busi
ness disaster.
The DIngley tariff went Into operation
In 1897, and in the six years following Its
adoption we sold to foreign countries of
our products $3.6H,000,000 worth more
than we bought from them. This enorm
ous (and still increasing) balance of trade
in our favor and this alone, keeps the
gold here, and adds continually to the
dimensions of our stock. There will never
be another gold drain from our shores to
Europe while we have a good protective
tariff; no man can safely assert in the
light of the facts presented above, that
such a tariff as Judge Parker and his
friends are pledged to will not leave us
without enough gold for the safety of our
financial situation. y
Generally an Even Trade.
Chicago Evening Post.
In proof of what Is called the "intelli
gence and enterprise 'of American girls,"
It isrelated that "no young man who is
heir to a fine title starts in Jife in Lon
don without his presence being Immedi
ately discovered by some heiress or heir
esses in the States or the American col
ony In London." Now this may be taken
as an evidence of enterprise, but we can
not see that it indicates intelligence to
any remarkable degree. On the contrary,
It would appear to argue a rather dis
tressing lack of Intelligence, unless the
"heiress" is heir to nothing more than
pretension, ambition and vulgarity. But
it all depends on how you look at It and
the way of looking at It on the part of
silly Americans Is never changed by the
dire failures of such ventures save as a
purely mercenary Investment The wo
man buys the man and the man buys the
woman. The trade is supposed to be
equal, and neither Is quite impudent
enough to think that the sanctity of mar
riage is to be taken into account Happily
both parties can always fall back on the
saving power of divorce and usually for
grounds tbat even the. Church of England
is compelled to recognize.
The President Would Do. .
Boston Herald.
While James Jeffrey Roche was having
a chat with President Roosevelt In the
White House last week the telephone bell-
was ringing somewhat persistently. There
being no attendant at hand, the President
excused himself and went to answer the
repeated call. This is the conversation
that took plica on .the line, according to
the testimony of the distinguished gen
tleman at the President's end of it:
"Well, what is ltr
"Hello, Is Archie there?"
"No, he's not' s
"Who's this I'm talking to?"
"The President"
"Well, you'll do. Tell Archie to come
over and play ball."
- And the President proceeded to execute
the order, as directed.
In the Paddock.,
Puck.
Friend Why do you call your new
horse "War Correspondent?"
Owner Well, he's deuced expensive
and never at the front
Diminishing Scale.
McLandbursh Wilson.
Grandma had an. open hearth
Equipped, -with crane aad spit.
And there the turned, her basQsets out
For kings and princes flt.
Mother had a cookatova his
To satisfy your wish.
And Stella feeds the tnner mzn
Upon a chafing dish!
And so w thlnlc,vif this keeps
A toothsome mesa to hatcfc,
Iho feneration yet to cobs
THE ISSUE OF-"ECONOMY,"
Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the
Treasury, speaking at Saratoga. N. T.,
October 17, 1904, said in part:
In a talk to a delegation of editors.
and in his letter of acceptance. Judge
Parker invites comparisons between Dem
ocratic administrations and Republican
administrations. Comparisons he shall
have.
During Mr. Cleveland's last administra
tion the interest-bearing debt of the
United States was increased $262,000,000,
and the interest charge' was Increased
$11,600,000 per annum. During the last
seven yeara a great International war has
been successfully prosecuted. $20,009,000
paid to Spain for insular possessions,
550,000,000 paid for an isthmian right of
way, the "public debt less In cash In the
Treasury" actually decreased. $20,000,000,
and the annual Interest charge reduced
510,000,000 per annum, and there Is now In
the Treasury, after adding $50,000,000 to the
gold reserve, nearly $150,000,000 available
as a working balance, and for public
buildings, dredging rivers, deepening har
bors, and other" internal Improvements.
During Mr. Cleveland's last adminis
tration there was expended for public
buildings $15,000,000; but during the last
four years there has been expended for
public buildings, in 134 cities and towns
In' 37 states, the princely sum of $30,000,000.
During -Mr. Cleveland's last administra
tion there was expended for increase of
the Navy $54,000,000; during the last four
years more than $101,000,000 has been thus
expended. There was expended on navy-
yards during that administration $4,500,000,
while during the last four years the out
lay, therefor has been $22,000,000.
During Mr. Cleveland's last admlnlstra
tlon there was expended for public bum!
Ings, for Increase of the Navy and for
construction of Navy-yards, $74,000,000.
During the last four years there has been
expended for the same permanent pur
poses, and in the Interest of all the peo
ple and for all time, the sum of $153,000,000.
During the fiscal year 1896, immediately
nrecedlnK the election of Mr. Cleveland's
successor, there was expended for public
fbulldings. Increase of the Isavy and
navy-yards, $14,000,000. During the fiscal
year 1S04, immediately preceding tho elec
tion, of Theodore Roosevelt there was
expended for the same purposes $57,000,000,
or four times as much, besides an add!
tlonal $50,000,XK for the Isthmian right of
way.
During Mr. Cleveland's last administra
tion the minimum of public improvements
was made, yet the per capita Interest
bearing debt Increased $3 and over; the
.interest charge 13 cents per capita; while
during the last seven years, in addition
to the expense of the Spanish War, the
acquisition of territory, the purchase of
the Isthmian right of way,- $340,000,000 ex
pended on public buildings, river and
harbor Improvements, Navy and navy
yards, the per capita interest-bearing debt
has been decreased S3 cents, and the in
terest charge 21 cents per capita.
In an unguarded moment Judge Parker
invited comparisans between an admin
istration which borrowed more money
than it made betterments, and had noth
ing to bequeath but a bankrupted coun
try and a disrupted party, with an ad
ministration which made the maximum of
public Improvements, reduced the inter-,
est-bearlng debt, and had a handsome
balance In the bank as a guaranty of.
future progress. Ah, Judge Parker, do
you not know and will you not learn that
the test of statesmanship Is not the little
that Is accomplished amidst severest
travail, but the much that Is achieved
with no Inconvenience and amid uni
versal rejoicings?
During Mr. Harrison's administration
It cost 3.30 per cent to collect the customs
revenues. Under Mr. Cleveland's admin
istration this was increased to 4.53 per
cent, at a loss to the country of $10,000,000;
but during the last four years it has cost
only 3.16 per cent a saving of $14,000,000
from what it would have cost at the rate i
established during the last period of 1
Democratic control. For Instance, not
withstanding a reduction of revenues, .the
annual payroll at tho New Tork Custom-
been a "saving to the Government during
Mr. Cleveland's second term.
During Mr. Cleveland's last administra-'
tlon it cost 2.65 per cent to collect tho
internal revenue. This has been reduced
during the last four years to 1.73 per
cent, a saving to the Government of
$8,700,000 from what it would have cost
at the rate established during Mr. Cleve
land's administration. Thus there has
been a saving ta the Government during
the last four years, in the, relative ex
pense of collecting its revenues, of
$22,000,000.
The 51st Congress was Republican, and
it appropriated $968,000,000. Thereupon the
Democratic party went into contortions
over -what it denominated the "Billion
Dollar Congress." The lower House
(which originates all appropriations) of
the 52d Congress was Democratic, but In
stead of stopping $12,000,000 short of the
much denounced billion-dollar limit, it ex
ceeded It by $25,000,000 and appropriated
$1,028,000,000. It was elected on a platform
of economy, but it exceeded all precedent,
and its mark was not again reached until
the Spanish War. The Democratic party
never falls ,to make economy a much
featured plank in its platform, but its
appropriations, like its other legislation,
are never affected by its promises.
It Is a conceded fact that both our Army
and Navy have been increased within the
last few years. It Is likewise true that
the people of the United States are doing
much more business and therefore sending
much more mall, and they are also writ
ing many more letters of congratulation
than during Mr. Cleveland's administra
tion. In addition free delivery has been
established in many cities, and rural free
delivery Inaugurated over a considerable
portion of every state. Let those who
would reduce our Army and Navy to their
former size and condition, and those who
would abolish tho free delivery in the
towns where it has been established, and
rural free delivery altogether, accept the
figures given by Judge Parker, but those
who do not wish this can find the real
test of economy In comparing expendi
tures other than those of the Army, the
Navy, and the Postoffice. Eliminating
these three Items from consideration, the
annual expense of administration dur
ing Mr. Cleveland's last term averaged
$3.73 per capita; but during the last four
years this has been reduced to $3.69 per
capita, showing a greater economy in the
last four years in administrative matters,
including outlay for public buildings, of
nearly 10 per cent per capita.
Take tho PostoSlce Department as an
other illustration of greater economy
during tho last four years. During Mr.
Cleveland's administration it cost over
71 cents per capita in excess of postal
Tecelpts to conduct the business of that
department, but during the last four
years it has cost less than 31 cents in
excess of postal receipts, notwithstanding
the improved service and the inauguration
of 27,000 rural free-delivery routes, taking
me man 10 j.jxo.wu lammes.
I submit it is unfair to charge, as Judge
Parker does, to administrative extrava
gance the cost of public buildings, battle
ships, navy-yards, mall routes, and the
expense of transporting last year over
260.000 tons more mall than was carried
during a lute period of Mr. Cleveland's
administration.
Postal receipts have increased three
fold since the first date with which Judge
Parker seeks- to establish an unfavorable
comparison, but his comparison Is seem
ingly unfavorable only because he In
cludes among the expenditures the cost
of postoffice administration and omits to
give credit ior the Increased receipts.
Annual postal receipts have Increased $1
per capita since the first year of Mr.
Cleveland's administration, with which, in
another place, he seeks comparison, but
fails to give credit therefor.
Economy is a good thlgg to preach, and
it Is a better thing to practice, but econo
my aad statesmanship arc riot synony
mous terns 8- The. issue ought never to be
-who spends the least money, but rather
who has the most, to shpw for money
NOTE' AND COMMENT.
AXONE IX AF5UCA.
A Story of True IxsTe, Westera Grit "aad
the Power of Classified AaverttslBg.
(Summary of orevious round Snillvan
Gulch obtains a Job as Kins of Zululand to
compiy witn tne conditions on which he may
marry Clementina Carp. With a band of
trusty, followers, ha marches tkm.ic.Vi th a fH.
can Jungle, and after various adventures he
reucnes nis Kingdom.)
LAST ROUND-Shinnlns: un the neek
of the loftiest giraffe. Gulch eagerly
scanned the horizon for signs of his re
turning envoys. '"Sdeath!" he muttprwi
for he had now adopted royal cuss words,
mey are as slow as election returns
from Klamath." Just then h
sight of a sail that looked strangely fa-
muiar. A second look convinced him that
it was Clementina's kimono. Gulch was
about to wave his hand, when the giraffe
""" lo ck its too and precipitate?
him tO the eroimt! Tiafnr. Vi. ..l
w ..wtg luuiu oo
cend again to his lofty perch he beheld
uie wa Willamette scowboat come sail
lng up the river, Clementina at the prow
and Sellwood Ferry at the helm.
"Twenty-one cays out from Portland,"
cried Ferry with an air of pride.
"How did you comer asked Gulch; for.
getting his royal dignity.
"By the Columbia to Astoria, from
there to Cape Horn C. O. D from there
to Cairo by the O. R. & n., and as for
the rest of the way, why, we did it on our
heads."
Before the old man finished speaking
Clementina Carp had planked herself In
Gulch's arms, amid the waitings of the
Zulus,. who consider a wedding a doleful
occasion, and reserve their merrymaking
for funerals. Sullivan and Clementina
were married that day by the Bishop ot
Matabeleland, who was in town to" open
a new saloon. Next day Clementina said,
Tm tired of the King business, Sullivan!
and besides I want to get back to Port
land to begin work on my Christmas pres
ents." So Sullivan abdicated, and published a
card of thanka to his subjects In The
Oregonlan. a ropy of which is preserved
in the Zululand Safe Deposit "Vaults.
What It Is.
"Pa,- what's tho Constltutidn?"
rrhe Constitution, my boy, la some
thing the politicians discover every fourth
year."
Save Your PIn-Money.
(From "I Done It Myself; a Hands
Guide to Making Nothing Out of Some
thing.") Don't marry, and you won't have to
supply a wife with pin-money. '
Lipton Is still in lifting mood.
Now for the sure things once mors.
Oyama and Kuropatkln are halting. Sa
are most of their men.
Taft goes to Panama to say: "We can
spank you, but we won't at least not Just
now."
When we read that Tom Burrows has
Increased his clubswinging record to 43
hours and 6 minutes, we realize that some
people are hopelessly Insane.
Some persons may find pleasure in see
ing a model United States mint in work
ing order at the Lewis and Clark Fair;
others will find It merely aggravating.
Visitors to the Lewla and Clark Exposition
in Portland next year will not "take In tho
Midway." , They will "hit tha Trail." New
Yorlc Evening Sun.
Don't be nervous, tenderfoot brother;
'twill be a blazed trail.
CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (Special dispatch to tha
Philadelphia North American.) Ministers who
know the Bible- well but never read novels
cannot he of value to congregations, according
to Bishop McDowell, of the Methodist Episco
pal Church. lnwa lecture to students.
Sure. They wouldn't be understood.
This Is a story that Is new again:
One of the governesses in a kindergarten
and preparatory school was giving: aa interest
ing lesson otl "Worms, grubs and caterpillars,
and their uses to man." Presently she turned
to a little six-year-old girl and asked:
"Now, my dear, what worm was it that gave
your mother her beautiful silk dressT"
"Papa, ma'am," promptly replied the child.
Delegates to the Peace Congress, on
visiting Brooklyn, it is said, were greeted
with this war-whoop:
Boom-chick! Boom!
Boom-chick 1 Boom I -Boom-Jig!
A-rig-a-JIg!
A-rig-a-Jlg-a! Boom!
Boo in! Get a rattrap
Bigger than sl cat trap!
Boom! Boom! Bobmt
Cannibal! Cannibal!
Siss! Boom! Ah!
Brooklyn High School!
Rah! Rah! Rah!
They must have felt that they had
stumbled upon a field white unto the har
vest '
'Older authors have' fallen upon evil
days. Their works have scant respect
Cyrus Townsend Brady recently paused
long enbugh In his dictation to hash up
"Ten Thousand aYear,1' and have It pub
lished under the title of "Tittlebat Tit
mouse," and now a New York house an
nounces a series of "condensed classics."
"Clarissa" Harlowe" has been condensed,
and "Tom Jones" haB ' been condensed.
If some of the moderns would condense
their own stories before publication, the
public would be more the gainers. "Tom
Jones" has flourished long enough with
out pruning it to Justify Fielding's art
WEX. J.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.
Borroughs Fine, bracing .weather, isn't it?
Wiseman Not with me. I haven't a cent.
So long! Philadelphia Ledger.
"X believe that little Chumiey is pretty sura
to get aheadln time." "Well, he needs one
right away." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"A fool and his freedom are soon parted,"
remarked the bachelor, upon bearing of the
marriage of another friend. Yonkers States
man. Grade Maud made a hit as a beauty
while in London, Lucy Well, it is so foggy
there that they couldn't see what she really
looked like. Chicago Dally News.
Mrs. Jones I suppose Sarah feels pretty bad
over the. loss of her husband. Mrs. Brown
Naturally, for she thought tbe world of him.
But then, you know, ehe is awfully fond of
crape. Bostot Transcript.
"They have no pennies out in California at
all," said the man who was noted, for being
close. Just home from a. trip "What la
the world did you do when the' collection
plate came around?" asked the parson.
Tonkers Statesman.
"Say, old fellow, I'm in a big rush with
this. Won't you take. the girl's place- at the
typewriter while she goes to lunch?" "But
I don't know the keyboard." "Oh, that'll be
all right. This is an Illinois-French Can
adian dialect poem I'm working oa" Judge.
JRoxley Tcoldly) And what are" your pros
pects, may I ask? Jack Hansom Pardon
me, sir. I merely love your daughter. I
have not been so mercenary as to look you
up in Bradstreet's, and therefore,- I can
not answer your questioa." Philadelphia Press.
Mamma Johnny. I am ashamed of. you
for keeping at the bottom of yssr class
In school. Johnny I keep there for th ad
vantages ot the place, mamma. It's, my lat
guess at a question, you know. Wken. all the
others have failed. It's alamt impaibla tor
Jjm sot to fN riht.'' SjtOA'TsyariK,