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It cannot be said that Vice-Presidentelect Fairbanks has by his Boston speech committed the Republican party to a definite policy of tariff revision. The tariff has been revised in, the past, he cays in effect, and it may be Jn future. Maybe it needs revision; maybe It does not "We'll see about it. But if any revising is to be done, I guess the Kepublican party is the proper party to do it No others need apply. It must be remembered -that Mr. Fair banks was in the very center of the tariff-reform hubbub, although he "was addressing the Home Market Club, whose sole mission on earth Is to foster the protective principle. But it is cur rently understood tha't the clamor for tariff revision has been dinned so con stantly and so vociferously into the ears of the Home Marketers that one half their membership has abandoned the "stand-pat" notion that the Ding ley act is a divine revelation, and that it will be sacrilege to touch II No wonder,' then, that Senator Fairbanks -was just a trifle Delphic in hiB discus sion of a question that deeply con cerns Boston and Massachusetts. "Whenever change of schedules is es sential In the public interest 'the alter ation will be made," he said. "It will be made advisedly; it will be made agreeably to sound economic neces sity." Certainly. But the Senator did not say when it will be made, or that it will be made at all. Truth Is, he did not know. Nor does anybody. Even the .President, who never hesitates to attack any abuse boldly and. promptly, is obviously not sure what is to be done, nor Just how to do It; but he Is un doubtedly of the opinion that some thing should be done, and he intends to do it t The agitation for tariff revision and the common Republican agreement that changes and alterations are proper, grows out of knowledge gained by long and costly experience that no rigid cus toms tariff is suitable for all conditions. The Dingley act has been In operation since 1897. The entire history of the American tariff Is a history of amend ment, revision and substitution. From 1789, the date of the first American tariff, there have been nineteen specific tariff acts. Inequalities appear in the operation of any act, and the Repub lican party, except the rabid stand patters, wants to discover and correct them. So far as we .have been able to observe, not a single important Re publican newspaper has expressed It self as opposed, to a policy of revision, but strangely enough, not one has un dertaken to specify in what particulars there should be new schedules. Here is a partial list of newspapers, most of them advocates of a protective tariff, that have directly advised amendment to the Dingley act, or acknowledged that the Republican administration will be justified in making changes: New York Tribune. New York Sun. New York Press. New York Globe. Chicago Tribusc. Chicago Record-Herald. Chicago Inter Ocean. Chicago Chronicle. Detroit Free Press. - Cleveland Leader. ' Philadelphia Prees. Philadelphia North American. Providence (It. I.) Journal. There seems to be a fear that Indis criminate slashing away at the tariff will lead to general business unrest if not to disastrous disturbance. No doubt; but n& one proposes that there shall be a new tariff, or a tariff for rev enue, or any adoption of the Demo cratic programme to break a protect ive tariff head wherever it can be reached with a free-trade club. The way to revise is to revise; and revision Involves no abandonment whatever of the protective principle.. HOW TO PREVENT DIPHTHERIA. The State Board of Health of Mon tana has found it prudent to issue a bulletin on the restriction and preven tion of diphtheria. Owing to the fact that the disease is prevalent in many parts of the state, it is urged that the rules set forth In the bulletin be read In every household. Stress is placed upon the danger of allowing children in in fected districts to play with cats and dogs, especially the former, as they are nocturnal ramblers against whom no quarantine can be enforced. This Is a good rule to observe anywhere, and as a protection from scarlet fever as well as from diphtheria. The fur of the cat and the hair of the dog offer vehicles for the transit of the germs of these diseases superior to that offered by the clothing of nurses or others In attend ance In the sickroom. A dispatch from Lebanon, in this state, tells of the closing of the public spools -iqprevent a possible epiden3j pf- scarlet fever, 'of wbich tthereare -a. number of cases in the village The"1 hint of the Montana Board of Health in regard , to the. danger of infection, from cats and 'dogs that have access to t&e sickroom, the -jtreet and sometimes to" other homes. Is timely. Let these do mestic pets be banished from the sick roqm, and let children be Instructed not '. to play with them while either of these dreaded scourges of childhood diph theria or scarlet fever Is prevalent in the neighborhood. y CLASS DISTINCTIONS XN POLITICS.. It vfas ttie same in most Northern States 'as.', in Oregon. The enormous pluralities for-, Roosevelt were due very largely fto'the fact that the Democrats did not vote. The Republican vote in most states showed some Increase; but the Democratic-vote fell. off enormously. To what was the" "slump" due? i Undoubtedly to the fact that the vio lent change of the direction and control of the Democratic party from the hands ; of its radical to those f its conserva tive element could not carry the party .with it It means, further, that control of the party for future efforts must revert to Its radical elements. -And this means strenuous contests hereafter. It will mean, further, a rnoreJ decided tendency than heretofore to class alignments . in politics, which is much to be regretted. The Democratic party will go back to the ground on which It stood in its Bryan campaigns asserting, 'moreover, new and perhaps Btill more advanced positions in ttftT direction of socialism. The basis of the movement will be the disposition to at tack property and capital. Then it will lose another big section of its conserva tive forces, but will gain from Repub licans more or less affined with it This will tend continually to accentu ate class distinctions In politics. And the Democratic party will, In all prob ability, be much stronger as a, party of radicalism than of conservatism. AN UNEMBKACED OPPORTUNITY. More than ten years have passed since the Washington State Grain Com mission was established, and in that tenth of a century it has' supplied sub stantial rewards for a large number of active political wirepullers who other wise would have been obliged to work for a living. During all that period the practical usefulness of the commission has never exceeded that of the fifth wheel on a wagon, and among grain men It has been regarded as a standing joke. The law was so weak and in operative that the first commission ap pointed was unable to enforce Its pro visions as applying to grain grown in the vicinity of Puget Sound, and the best legal talent in the state advised the Commissioner not to take the mat ter into the courts or it would be de clared unconstitutional, leaving the Commissioner and his numerous depu ties in the position of the late Othello. The absurdities of the law which brought the commission into existence have frequently been shown up by The Oregonlan, not because The Oregonian had any particular concern as to the methods adopted by the State of Wash ington In rewarding Its political favor ites, but because at every session of the Legislature in Oregon some states man out of a Job wanders down to Salem and makes an attempt to force a similar place-providing measure on the people of this state. Through all of the years In which the Washington Grain Commission has flourished practically all of the exportable surplus of wheat from Oregon, Washington and Idaho has been sold In Europe. The foreign buyer has purchased this wheat, not on the standard established by the Wash ington Grain Commission, but on that standard established by the grain com mittee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. In making up this standard this com mittee Is aided by the Washington dealers, who long ago abandoned all attempts to make the Liverpool buyers accept the grading of the Washington political organization. The inspection service offered no protection and no benefits to the wheatgrower. If a man had 60-pound wheat to sell. It still com manded a larger price per bushel than would be secured for that which weighed but 56 to 58 pounds per bushel, and all of the grading that could be done would not depreciate Its -value. Thus, offering no protection to the grower and being of no value to the buyer, the only apparent reason for the existence of the commission was the necessity for the 75 cents per car which was levied against the wheat to meet the expense of the service. This toll amounts to many thousands of dollars per year, but has nearly always been Insufficient to meet the requirements of the commission, and each Legisla ture is asked for an appropriation to make up the deficiency. All of these shortcomings and many more have been brought to the atten tion of the public in the past few years, but whenever The Oregonian has allud ed to them a few Washington news papers have come forward with the ex cuse that millers and consumers in this country would recognize the grading of the commission on wheat that was used in this country. The opportunity for testing this belief and incidentally proving the utter worthlessness of the inspection law was not available so long as practically all of the wheat was being bought and sold on the standard recognized in the foreign markets. The abnormal condition of the world's grain markets this year resulted in, nearly all of the available surplus from the State of Washington going East by rail. The Eastern buyers, unlike the foreigners, who by long years of experience had become familiar with the' Portland grading, have endeavored to depreci ate the value of much of the wheat that has been shipped by Washington deal ers; and, as the Inspection service Is available only at tidewater points and at' Spokane, it is impossible to make use of it for the Eastern business. As a -result, nearly every bjg dealer on the Pacific Coast has been forced to send a man across the continent to straighten out disagreements over the rade of Washington wheat Here was an op portunity, the first In ten years, for the Washington State Grain Commission to show that it might be of value, but of course it failed. The Washington state institutions are " - ,- -w wiivivnuuu Alii III- I mates, and at the coming session of thej Legislature appropriations will be asked for the purpose of enlarging the quarters. Simultaneously with this an nouncement comes the news of the con viction of a Colfax man under the law which makes gambling a felony. If every man who gambles in the Ever green State were convicted under this law, but a small percentage of the total number would have the opportunity of servlntr their spnteneps In -a nanlran. tiary, even though all of the moneyin ..- - -ir- -w- - the State, Treasury, were -used in btSlil Ing annexes and extensions to "the "Walla Walla reformatory. At the same .time, the Impossibility of taking care of all these parasites in case they 'were convicted does not argue that" they should .go unpunished. XSOTO-XANfA; -The public is Informed through .a dis patch from Ashland that- a young woman of that city writes. letters and eends flowers by express to Adolph ?Weber, the young man wW: is being held in jail at Auburn, Cab; upon the charge of having murdered- his father, mother, sister and little brother, t The 'sahe and decent mind is stag gered by a disclosure oti this kind. What, t may be- askd; can tbis.Tyoung" woman be looking for? What attrac tion can a man whose bands are .red. or presumed to be, with the blood djt' those nearest to 'him, possess for any woman? His own mother, had she been 'spared in the family butchery, would doubtless have looked upon Adolph Weber with horror, and perhaps, notwithstanding the subtle, all-conquering graciousness and "tenderness of motherhood, with feelings of utter repulsion. Yet here Is a young . woman a? stranger writing slush to him and sending him flowers; Could human folly5, farther go? ' What does this person seek? An opportunity as -bis wife, to travel the bloody road over which this disnatured criminal sent his nearest kin? Or dyes she, in the egotism of eroto-mania, fancy that she would be safe" from his propensity to murder? Or,all of this a6lde, why should she wish -to extend- sympathy and encouragement to a man In such a situation? r . These are questions that can only be answered by the charitable assumption -that the young woman in question- is not a sane person- or by the cold-and critical belief that 6he Is what crim inologists. call a "pervert" or a. "degen erate." r. It would : be well for those . Inher own home father, mother, ' brothers and sisters to sleep with their cham ber doors securely fastened' lest mtply her admiration ' for cXhe man who is charged 'with having depopulated his paternal home by violence might cul minate in a desire to emulate him in his grand specialty as a homicide. Sj-mpathy, as expressed in letters and flowers, for a murderer. Is at a distance disgusting; at close range It might easily prove dangerous, while, far or near, it is unaccountable upon any other hypothesis than that compre hended in .the term eroto-mania, the victim of which may be described as a lovesick fool with pronounced criminal tendencies. OREGON APPLES In these columns some, time .ago the assertion was made that the Willam ette Valley can. still produce apples of the kind that made Oregon apples fa mous, and now comes abundant proof of the truth of the statement. On a single orchard near Salem there were produced and packed this season 10,000 boxes of choice Spltzenberg apples that ranked with the highest in all respects. But apples of this kind were not pro duced by chance. The proprietors of the Wallace orchard did not set out the trees and leave the climate and the cod Hn moth to do the rest The trees were properly pruned and thoroughly sprayed, and after the small apples had formed two-thirds of them were removed from the trees, so that those remaining could receive sufficient nour ishment The result was a heavy yield of large apples, well colored. and with out blemish. This is the kind of work that pays. This Is the kind of fruit that helps build up a reputation for the commu nity that produces them. If all the fruit had been left on the trees the yield in quantity would have been prac tically the same, but the apples would have been small in size. A tree can mature only a certain 'amount of fruit, and any increase in number beyond a reasonable limit must be at the loss of size. But by reducing the number of apples and thereby increasing the size, an advanced price. Is secured, while tre quantity remains the 'same. . ' - In the experience of the Wallace or chard, as given in the news dispatches Wednesday, there Is a needed Isson for owners of apple trees in the Willamette Valley. The lesson Involves a reitera tion of the old adage that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. This is applicable not only to the .grow ing of apples, but also to their packing and shipment No- apples should be packed and shipped except the very best, for one shipment containing de fective fruit does more harm than sev eral shipments of perfect fruit 'can re pair. There is Toom in the cider mill and vinegar factory for the apples that are not suited for shipping! The trouble Is that too large a proportion of the apples grown in recent -years are of the elder-mill class. This Winter is the time for Valley orchardlsts to begin putting their apple trees in condition for next year's crop. A MOST BENEFICENT SERVICE. As often as the annual report of the Superintendent of the United States Llfesaving Service is filed the American people are constrained to admire the efficiency with which the work is car ried on and to feej grateful for the heroic acts of that most intrepid band of Government employes whose mission it is to pluck tempest-tossed lives from "the dread sweep of the down-streaming seas." Navigation, one of the oldest of arts, has charted the ocean and worked out thereon safe roads for commerce. But these are subject to Influences over which man has not yet extended his dominion, and which, when near the coast line, are not infrequently obliter ated by gales. The luckless navigator whose vessel In stress of weather Is In danger of being thrown upon the rocks finds his art useless and his chart meaningless. It Is to distress of this kind that the" llfesaving service brings relief, and to the details comprehended in this relief that the annual report of the superintendent of the service Is de voted. ' Scanning this report, we find that as sistance was rendered during the year covered to 1061 vessels of all kinds; that thcjlves of nearly 3400 people were in jeopardy on these vessels; that prop erty to the value of nearly $7,000,000 was in danger of becoming a total loss, and that the warnings of the beach pa trols saved from possible disaster 161 vessels In danger of stranding. Of the property imperiled, a very large proportion was saved, and of the total of 3328 lives in Jeopardy but 34 were lost The net expenditure of the service for the fiscal year was but 51,766,446, or about one-third of the value of the property saved. This showing challenges admiration from a financial point of view and un- tintdcemm-eiif rem ;jhes view point of hunianit Though the inci dents of. the year's strenuous endeavor may be given. in detail, its realhtetory must remain forever unwritten; " JThe patrol, of Jtonely keache on, moonless nights; the battler waged acalnst jvind and, ways In glvinc . saccoci, the ex hausting labor Incident to Tiandlinr the l!feavlnr'; euipmeiri in storms; .the risk c-life , to save life; the, worX" of restoring the half drowsed, thoroughly chilled and pitifully exbaWed victims of shipwreck; - the tenderness Jwlth which shivering,-'drenched andvexish ing human bodies were wrapped. In rude coverings, and when all efforts to save or restore life failed, the reverent burial of the dead these are features ltuevilTIerir-Ice"?r'rwhl(:ii : only 'the merest outlines caf be gVven.' ; Hu man appreciation and the subtle element-in human, imagination that glows andexpands, .IrTlhe presence of heroic deeds must supply the rest '. ? T ' An; order or 150 locomotives has been placed by the Santa Fe road with an Eastern firm, and. , numerous smaller orders' have been received from a. num ber of other roads. Orders for cars are being booked by thousands, and the demand for steel rails for use on.' Amer ican roads Is greater than It has been Tor years. This remurkable aotivity re flects in a striking manner the. won derful .prosperity of' -the country- Or ders of such magnitude for railroad material and equipment are not placed until the railroads have positive assure ance that the country will supply addi tional traffic in keeping with the in creased facilities, and there is nothing in trie 'present tsltuatlon that leads to the 'belief that they have overesti mated their requirements. ; - The -Philippine Islands exhiblt,at. the St Louis Exposition might have", been wasting in splendor when compared with (some - of the others, but , in the matter of cotft it ran well up among the topliners. The total disbursements' for the exhibit amounted to- $119,024, and as the receipts were but little; more than $500,000, the net expense1 or the exhibit was approximately $900,000. Of this amount the exposition furid-j?ald. about $190,000, leaving the taxpayers of our .comparatively new dependency with a bill of about $700,000 a very re spectable sum to be contributed- for advertising purposes. ; Consul Boyle, who has good opportu nities of studying trans-Atlantic travel in his Liverpool post reports that in creasing numbers of Immigrants to this country return for visits to their for mer homes In Europe, and adds that British tourists are- turning towards the United States more and more, to the neglect of the Continental resorts they have previously patronized. It seems only fair that there should be recipro city in the matter of tourist : travel. Americans spend millions In Europe, so why should not Europeans spend something on this side? The din raised Thursday nlgijt by fighting sailors on board- the sphooner Annie Larson, suggested the. possibility that the seat of war had. been" trans ferred from Port Arthur to thlsiharbor. The "bad man" fa the fray was pro nounced in. his hntrprf And imM In yta -denunciation of all Russians. Perhaps mere is a place In the sadly depleted Japanese army for this brawny Slav hater He Is certainly out of place on a peaceful coasting schooner. . '"'' -!-------- Undoubtedly the sympathies ., of the United States are for the' most part with Japan, as RuBsia supposes; but Russia is right when it says that Presi dent Roosevelt will make an impartial selection for the Dogger Bank inquiry. Thediffictilty confronting Rear-Admiral Davis will be to attach any weight at all to a- contention that on its face seems incredible' and absurd. Itis hard sometimes to be as fair as one Is.asked to be.. Says an engineer' who" has just re turned from Colon: "We oughtf to fln jshrthe Panaina "CdAal 'In '.four years after we "get startedahd in1-the fifth year ships ought to be sailing through from ocean ; to ocean." ,He teli3 that nearly, all the work by - the De Lesseps Company must be done (over, and that the problem. of labor is'-far fromsplved. His interesting talk willj-be nifbiished in The Sunday Oregonlan.tonnorrow. The Citvi Eninr's' Tna-friionf .seems-to have learned somethinsrtf'rom experience or from investigation! -A; .... wt ivjuuo t.vr WC au- Gulch bridge at Union avenue -was not let because it was Impossible '?to tell how 'much work there was to be done. To fence .against "extras," wbicfemake a rrenenooji"shovsing in brldge-bulld-ing, the" city '"will do 'the work. Score one." A new feature in .the work of" the University of Oregon that commends Itself to the favor of practical men is the field work which has been allotted to students in the engineering class. For obvious reasons students must reach the sophomore class before they are eligible to field work, and, to these and those of the higher classes s"uch work cannot. fail to prove of special, value. In response to a request Governor Chamberlain was permitted to make a copy of the original muster rolls of the Indian war of 1855 and 1856, which rolls are in the possession of a private citi zen Jn Seattle. Is it not a little strange, that these rolls'' are in private' hands instead of In the archives of the state? A fool started in a' fool boat across Lake ; Michigan in a 'storm.. v He got across all right, but the funeral takes place- today. The fools may not all be" dead yet but they help things along occasionally fo that desirable end. The reported Russian' desire- for a binding commercial and' military alli ance with Japan may well be existent, but seems as likely of fulfillment as a child's cry for the moon. General Sherman Bell ought to have known better than to fall, out with his biographer. Just think what the ordi nary biographer knows .about his sub ject that he never tells. Even the war In Colorado is likely to be fought again in the magazines", es peclally If many of the heroes hire biographers. ( His father having accumulated the price of a passage, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., will make the trip to Europe. The Roosevelt plurality In Wisconsin is' 116,055. And thls-was looked upon as a doubtful state" 1 NOTE AND COMMENT; r Magazine Stories a la Mode. . v Pierre jRisdereau smiled at sne -contemptuously, I. was i but -5 foot high and weighed 91 pounds I had never before been absent from my -desk for more than 24 hours at a stretch, ..and re I .was In Alaska. J ' SacrrrT mumbled Pierre'. Then -he" 'laugheu. The crackling of his huge muscles sounded like volleys of mus ketry. The dogs moved uneasily,, and Pierre kicked the nearest 14 feat into the air. Tou go wif me to the Pass,' he cried. "You laugh; my big" friend' I an-, swered. ' "You are big. You thing you do not" know fear. But I tell you It is .soul that .(-packs, loads -and soul that en ables a man to walk, or mush,- as you call It" - Pierre laughed again. "Sacr!V he swore. Like all French-Canadians he knew no other cussword. We started. . - -. . At the end of half a mile "I was intol erably weary.3 My feet seemed like lead. I thought of lying down for a nap in the snow, but the mocking smile of Pierre and the low echo of "SacrrV!"1 stung me into fresh effort Finally r mountain came iato view. A wisp of cloud' hung from it "Sacrrr'!" exclaimed Pierre. "It will snow." His face grew white. "That will cool the air," said I,' assum ing a bravado 1 did not feet Pierre bit his lip. Then the snow came: Blindly we stag gered on, on, in the darkness. At the end of 80 miles Pierre lay. down. I was alone. It was 93 miles to the nearest roadhouse. Giving the dogs the last plug of dried flan from my pocket I pushed on alone. Seven days later I staggered Into Kel ly's cabin. "'Pierre down road," I mur mured and knew no more. They found Pierre. Kind hands shook him gently. "Sacrrr'!" he muttered, drowsily, "eet ain't time geet up yet" It may be that all these assaults on Lona.-Tree Hill-are caused by. the desire to have a Christmas tree. 'The'Blble of Bobby Burns Is to be3 sold in London.' It should' bring a big price, for it can't be much soiled.' John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is -going to Europe. It's up to papa to oilJ the steamship route to Liverpool. v Lots of people consider that the en forcement of a law transfers it from tho category of law to that of nuisance. Numbers of chorus girls are said to be aboard the ships of the Baltic fleet Pity they don't eat the lobsters In com mand. S.. B. Ormsby writes to say that he has not disappeared from the ken of the public And" he dates his letter from Salem! New York Is to have an "always open" bank. The metropolis finds that it can't get the dough away from visitors too quickly. A bag containing Jlf.OQO in gold is run ning loose around some Wells-Fargo of fice. It's hard to keep tab on all these footling little packages. There may be some reason for tele graphing abroad the news that Venezuela Is in a -state of unrest but the reason is by no means apparent If Venezuela- were in a Btate of rest, now . General Sherman Bell and his official biographer are said to have fallen out 'over 'a mere question of dollars. What a miserable specimen the biographer must be, wanting, money for giving to the .Nation a . faithful .picture of one. of its heroes. Such a chance would be jumped Lat by any historian worthy of the name. and the sense of duty done would have been reward enough. Yet, -since hero and biographer have quarreled, we feel that the battle to the death, threatened by the hero, should have been allowed to proceed, merely In the Interests of the National gayety. Hero and biographer, armed with broadswords and bucklers, would have provided a great spectacle. WEX. J. . HARD ON- OFFICE-SEEKERS. President Makes Selection on Ground . of Fitness. Olympla Olympian. Some United States officers In Olym pla who- - desire reappointment may get comfort out of the action of President Roosevelt who has disregarded tho wishes of Congressmen and Senators In two recent selections. (r.WIthln two- days after Indlun Com-, mission or Jones tendered his resigna tion,, the President announced the ap pointment, of Francis E. Lcupp as his successor. Mr. Leupp has long been a newspaper correspondent In Washington, and "pad not sought the appointment The -President, however, knew Mr. Leupp to be well informed on Indian affairs, and also knew him as a trustworthy man,"of sound" judgment .He therefore appoint ed him, before any of the politicians had .time to come in. with recommendations of favorites. L . day or two later the President reap pointed John G. Brady as Governor of Alaska. Brady had no Congressional backing; On the contrary, quite a number of Senators had indorsed other men for this office, and many- of tho Chambers of Commerce of Alaska had asked for a new Governor. The President satisfied him self that Brady, during the .seven years that he had been Governor, had been a perfectly honest official, and one who could be relied upon. This is a great thing. In any roan's favor, .but doubly so in Alaska. It was enough for the Presi dent and Governor Brady was reappoint ed, absolutely on his record. , Another instance of the President's In dependence was the reappointment of United States District Attorney. Hall. In Oregon. The Senators had long been clamoring for the appointment of other men. The President found that Hall was an exceptionally good man; that his rec-J ord was clean; so he disregarded the wishes of the Senators and proceeded on the fheorr that It Is better to hold on to "a man tried and proved good than to ac cept a new one. even though he be vouched for. The South's "Great Issue." Beaumont (Tex.) Enterprise. The South is magnanimous enough to forgive' Teddy for that. brutal lambasting he gave Judge Parker lately, but It will be a Ion time before it forgives him for eating dinner with a "nigger." . . . What is Democracy? . . . Augusta (Ga.). Chronicle. "There Is but one Grpver Cleveland.'' shouts the Brooklyn Eagle. If there were as many as three or four Grover Clevelands the chances are we could never get as many as two Democrats to agree acout anymmv - 'SURE EflQiiGH! " Y t Remarks on the Greatest of the Land - Frauds. alem Statesman. , The Oregonian strikes at the very root of the land fraud business when it calls attention to the forms of law by which the railroad companies have secured many taonsnnds of acres of lieu- land, the scheme Itself being little better than, robbery, and then deliberately refuse to pay taxes on them because a patent has not yet been issued. The law by which railroad companies, or other corporations, or individuals, have been permitted to exchange utterly value less lands for the bestthat could be found In Oregon, or any other state, is one of the grossest legal outrages ever perpe trated, but the act being done, the state should take some steps, if any are pos sible, to collect the annual taxes on these lands at a reasonable estimate of their value. The Injustice that has been permitted and the outrages perpetrated in the dis position of the public lands constitute one of the darkest features of our legislative history. One of the most pressing duties now confronting Congress is a revision of tho land laws In a manner that will as nearly as possible remove the opportunity for the further indulgence of this species of robbery. It Is almost certain that the trials now In progress In Portland will result in a vast amount of good, not only In punish ing those who may be found guilty of swindling-, the Government-by? long-continued and systematic perjury, but ''m. staying the schemes of others who have been encouraged to. engage in', the same nefarious Ibuslness by the'apparent dispo sition of tho Government to "pay no atten tion to them and the temporary success of the participants. But the efforts of the Government ahould not stop with these. The matter should be probgd to the bottom and no gnilty man be permitted to escape, regardless of his station In either public or private life. TACOMA AND THE FAIR. Washington Expects a Full Share in the Benefits. Tacoma Ledcer The attractions of the Portland Fair together with the widespread interest wnich has been aroused In the Dhenom enal resources, wonderful climate and extraordinary growth of tha Paolfla Northwest and the natural desire to visit this section, coupled with the uu usually low rates offered by the rail roads, will certainly bring a great num ber of visitors to Portland, Tacoma and Seattle nest year. -Those who at tend the Fair Will naturallv Rvall thurn selves of the opportunity to se Puget ouuna ana its cities. The privilefie of coming and going by different routes will glye every visitor to tho Fab- tha option of stopping over at Tacoma and Seattle en route or returnlnc. All th "cities of the Pacific Nortbwst -mm ii thronged with visitors while tha Port- iana jj'air is in progress. The Fair deserves hearty ment and support in. this section. Thera is, unfortunately, a disposition In soma quarters to -knock" the Portland en terprise. The Spokesman-Review re marks that the neoDla are "tlrsA" of fairs. As an expositor not only of tb worm's progress, but particularly of the wonderful resources and opportuni ties or tne Pacific Northwest the Port land Fair of 1905 will be a graat edu cator and an effective advertiser. No one city will monopolize the benefits of the Fair. Portland bears the irraftt- est burden in connection with it Ta coma, by enterprise and effort, may reap the maximum of advantage through the Fair at a minimum of cost Tacoma should make a special effort to be effectively represented on tha grounds by exhibits, capable repreaea tatives and an abundance of ndvnrtlB ing matter, and to show this city at its best to tne thousands of visitor who may be induced to stop over at Tacoma. Such an opportunity as b .Lewis and Clark Exposition affords to Tacoma will not occur again for many years. The Missouri Result. New York Globe. Colonel Howard Butler, the Demo cratic boss of St Louis, says he knows why Missouri went Republican. It 13 not that the Bryan Democrats were dissatisfied, or that the people of the state have been converted to "Repub lican doctrine, or that the Missouri Democracy has fallen into popular disrepute through Its Stones, its Lees, and Its Phelpses.. The explanation Is more simple. It is merely that Colonel Butler, discouraged by the un feeling attempts to place him In the penitentiary, did not steal the stato this, time for the Democrats. He re moved hlg pressure, allowed the Re publican votes to be counted, and the result was necessarily a Republican victory. "I have been stealing elec tions from the Republicans of this city for 30 years," he says. The dominant quality of political bosses, usually exceeding in power the lovo of money, Is vanity. The million aire ex-blacksmith of St Louis, of per verted mind and collapsed morals, would rather have the people believe that for a lifetime he has been an election stealer than that his political Influence is gone. To prevent being considered "a dead one," and again to have the flattery of public notice, ho would confess to anything. Strange Is It that creatures of such childish con ceit should exercise, over long pe riods of time, great power in American cttiesl Senator Burton's Defense. Kansas City Times. The brief filed by the attorneys for Senator J. Ralph Burton in the Supreme Court of the United States this week is a remarkable document. It contends: I That Burton didn't do it; . H That be did it In Washington and not in St Louis; III That if he did do it he isn't guilty; IV Thnt the United States Govern ment is not an interested party.. Maybe It Won't Be Much of an Ode. Chicago Record-Herald. The Lewis and , Clark Expostlon at Portland promises to be a fine show, but the managers are foolishly talking of having it opened with an ode. Ballad of Two Saints. Thecdcsla Garrison In 'Century. There are two mints In paradim "WTjo spake of little earth. And wonderful limy are and vine. And know their wisdom's worth. Though the years they lived are cold and blown Like ashes from a hearth. And one: "Within a market-place I spake 3. certain word. And hatred shone on everr face. And they reviled who heard; Tet spake I but on earth today, How earth were thrilled and etlrred!" And one: "Unto a crowned King I spake a word of fear. : And I was broken for this thing- Yea, scourged -with acom and Jeer; Yet spake I upon earth today.1 . How men would weep to heart" There are two saints in paradise Jow if they came again To walk before the carelesa eyes And listless heed of men, I wonder If myeelf would to To kneel before Uiuo, thea,. OUR BUSYi- HAPEY PRESIDENT. Mr. Roosevelt Says He Has Never Known What It Is to Get Tired. "Walter Wellman. in Chicago Record-Herald. It is safe to say that $Ir. Roosevelt is tho busiest and the happiest man in the country. He Is as strong as a horse and as eager for work as a youngster who has just taken hl3 first Job and Is earning his first salary. The President said to a friend the other day that he never knew what it was to get tired. He has learned to econ omize his time. He wastes much less time than he did three years ago in useless and pointless conversation with chance call ers out of courtesy. He is as cordial and frank as ever, but he has been made to realize that his time Is valuable and that he must preserve it in every possible way. He has really become quite an adept at "handling people" with tact and skill, and now almost rivals Mr. McKlnley in that respect. President Roosevelt is the most versa tile man we have had In the White House In recent years. The wide range of his knowledge is simply amazing. There i3 hardly any field of human endeavor, whether It be political, literary, mechani cal, military, scientific, commercial, naval or historical that he is not fully conver sent with. He knows the old things and the new things. He is up to date. Prob ably he Is the best-Informed man in the United States concerning the details of the Russo-Japanese "War. He has followed every move or that conflict with keenest interest Every day tho Military Infor mation Bureau of the "War Department and the Naval Intelligence Bureau place sheets on his desk, and upon them are in dicated by colored pins the present loca tion of all the troops' and ships of the combatants. The President follows every movement of the war with understanding and eagerness. A story illustrative of the President's versatility, especially of the wide range of his little fads. Is told by a gentleman who was a guest at dinner at tho White House. The President's guest of honor was Sir Martin Conway, of England, the well known mountalncllmber and traveler Sir Martin was delighted to discover that Mr. Roosevelt knew almost as much about mountaincllmbing- as he did. Then the conversation took another turn, and for an hour the other guest3 were virtually left to themselves while the President and the Englishman engaged In a mo3t ani mated and prolonged conversation. It eventually turned, out that Sir Martin, in addition to being a mountalncllmber. Is an Inveterate Orientalist and lo well up as to tha ancient dynasties of the kingdoms which centered about the head of tho Mediterranean. The President has always had a fondness for that sort of study, too, and was dellgnted to find a man-who could talk with him as a brother. For one mortal hour Mr. Roosevelt and his guest had been discussing the military methods of the Assyrian Kings. Great Traffic of the 8ubway. New York Times. Nov. S. At 7 o'clock last evening t6e Subway completed the first month of Its operation by the Interborough Company. During that time it has. carried 3,843,233 passen gers who have purchased tickets, not counting the -policemen and firemen, who travel free, or the few people who travel on .passes. Nor do these figures Include the traffic over th5 Lenox-avenue branch, which was opened to traffic on Wednes day last Official figures given out by the com pany for the first five hours of traffic, the proceeds of which were given to charities, showed 111.881 passengers. This was an average of 22.376 an hour, a rate which, if maintained for Zi hours, would have given an aggregate of 537,034. Of course the traffic on no one day reached such a figure, as the hours between midnight and 7 in the morning fell away below the average travel during the middle of the day. Since the official announcement of the figures for the first five hours the traffic department has made no an nouncement of the actual travel over the road. The actual dally average traffic, not counting the Lenox-avenue branch, which has been open only a few days. Is 134.941. showing daily average receipts of J9747.C5. Why The Astors Are Not Interested. William E. Curtis, in Chicago Record Herald. The people of Portland have tried in vain to interest the Astor family in the Lewis and Clark Exposition which is to be held out there next .Summer. " They have written to William Waldorf Astor In London and John Jacob Astor in New York, and have sent them all kinds of printed Information, but have not been able to get a reply. Nor 13 it strange, because the experience of the Astor fam ily in that part of the country was any thing but pleasant and profitable, and since 1S13 they have had no interests there but disagreeable recollections, and the name of the ancient town of Astoria, which marks the spot where the original John Jacob was betrayed and sold out anT lost a large sum of money. Some years ago, along about 1838 or 1899. Wil liam Waldorf Astor wrote an account of his great-grandfather's enterprise in Ore gon for the Pall Mall Magazine, and as serted on the authority of the family ac count book that it cost the old gentle man more than K 000,000. The only re turn he got was to have a town named after him. It was probably the most ex pensive investment of tho kind on record. The President's Southern Ancestry. Brooklyn Eaglc. The mother of President Roosevelt was a- member of the Bullock family of Georgia. Her brothers and sisters remained South, and sided with that section In our Civil War. The Presi dent's mother, marrying a Northerner and settling in New York, had no po litical history. Her husband, the Pres ident's father, was a leading Republi can, in old New York CIty and was nominated by President Hayes to bo Collector of the Port, In place of Ches ter A. Arthur, afterward Vice-President and President Mr. Hayes nomina tion of Mr. Roosevelt was rejected by tht Senate, on the demand of Roscoe Conkling. But tho subsequent nomina tion of General Edwin A. Merrlt, to be Collector, In place of Mr. Arthur, was confirmed. Mr. Roosevelt himself did not become of age until several yeara after his father's rejection by the Senate, but bis Republican lineage through his father, however well es tablished, 13 not better established than thla Southern descent from the Bullocks of Georgia. OUT OF THE GINGER JAR. "Yes. she's pretty, but a poor conversation alist; ehe seldom says a word. I can't under stand whyso many men propose to her." "I can." sighed Henpeck.Houston Post. Td It's easier to ppeak to a man than to a woman. ?i red I sness you ve never oeen in love with a jrlrl and tried to screw up courage, to ask her father's consent. Town Topics. 7 City Niece What kind of a chicken is that, Cncle Jcsh? Uncle Josh That Is a leghorn. City Niece How stupid of met Of course, I ought to have noticed- the horns on his legs. Chicago News. Young VYonder why it Is they call the man who stands up with the groom the bst man at a wedding? Elder It means' that he is the best off he's the one who Isn't married, you know. Boston Transcript. Stout Old Gent In Streetcar Now then, sir. what are you going to do with your hands In my pocket? Henry the Hustler 'Sort right. boas I I thought as 'ow the conductor 'ad give yer a nickel short. Toltdo Blade. "You'll take a couple of tickets, of course. We're getting up a raffle for a poor cripple In our neighborhood" "None for me. thank you. I wouldn t know what to do with a poor crippla If I won him." Philadelphia Press. "Now, try to remember," eald the teacher. "that Horatius won hia glory by his perform- ance at the bridge. Always keep that thought In mind and it wilt help you to b-j brave and noble." "Huh!" snered Johnny, "that ain't nothln You see my pa and ma at bridge al most every night In the -week." New York Herald.