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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. DEC. 14, 1004.
THE MIDDLE WAY WITH THE TARIFF.
Between the free-trade theorists and
the protection theorists there Is a mid
dle way which the common sense of
the country has determined to follow.
The error of the free-traders is in their
declaration that protection is robbery;
of the protectionists, that protection
6hould mean exclusion. which in many
instances would signify domestic mo
nopoly. The truth for the present time,
or at least the safe way, as our people
believe, lies between these extremes.
It Is a debate, therefore, not between
free trade and protection, but between
personal, and local views and interests,
as to what should be objects of protec
tion and the limits of protection. The
academic view that all protection is
robbery contributes nothing to the so
lution. In a country so great as our own,
with every variety of Interests and in
dustries, varying in magnitude and im
portance, there will always be dispute
over the problem of framing tariff
schedules. But hitherto the idea of
protection has "been in the ascendant, in
our country; and so it will continue for
an indefinite period. Our people an
enormous majority of them believe
that free trade would be ruinous, alike
to labor and to capital. But they hold
there is room,. nevertheless, lor revision
and readjustment of tariff schedules,
within the limits of protective policy.
Some interests have too much advan
tage through protection; others not
enough.
Here. Is the basis and ground of the
demand for tariff revision. It will not
be attempted at the present session,
which is too short for the debate. But
it will be taken up by the new Con
gress; and The Oregonian looks for a
special session, possibly at once after
the expiration of the present Congress
in March, or at all events in the early
Autumn before the regular meeting In
December next called to take the sub
ject under consideration. The Injunc
tion "stand pat," on a subject so con
tinually liable to change of the point of
view, is not wise. No tariff schedules
can stand forever; and there is present
reason to change some of the present
ones.
But, while free trade is the ideal posi
tion, and has the support of the aca
demic argument, no one now living will
see free trade adopted by the United
States.
THE NEGRO'S DIFFICULTY.
William Garrott Brown, a native of
Alabama, educated at Harvard, where
he has teon a lecturer on history, has
recently made a tour of the South, from
Virginia to Texas, for the special pur
pose of studying the life of the negro
population. He gives the results of his
observations in an article in the North
American Review, of which the follow
ing is a summary:
Mr. Brown "notes especially three
facts, the movement of the negroes into
the towns, a movement toward the
North, a steady replacement of negroes
by whites In the occupations which the
former almost wholly held twenty or
thirty years ago, the whites being, in
the northern parts of the South, from
the hill districts and in the southern
parts of the South being immigrants,
chiefly from Italy and Bohemia. In the
new Industrial life of the South, due to
the manufacture of cotton, the negroes
have absolutely no share; the only
manufacturing in which Mr. Brown
finds them engaged is that of tobacco.
In other industries there is a distinct
falling away of the proportion of ne
groes. Thus, in New Orleans in 1870
the city directory showed 3460 negroes
working as mechanics, clerks and foun
dry hands; there are not today 10 per
cent of that number in the same trades,
some of which have been wholly lost,
though the negro population has In
creased more than 50 per cent But the
most significant feature of Mr. Brown's
observations is the beginning of Italian
and other European immigration Into
the South and its displacement of negro
labor In farming, in the coarser forms
of manual labor, in the minor indus
tries. Gradually the Italians especially
are taking up rented land and ultimate
ly buying it, especially in the low re
gions, not excepting the black belts of
Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama,
Mr. Brown is impressed with the fact
that in the meantime the negroes not
only possess a very small percentage
of the land in proportion to their num
bers, but that they have ceased the
progress they made previous to 1S90,
and now barely hold their own."
This review shows great Industrial
and social change in the Southern
States, to the disadvantage of the ne
gro, making his 'life more difficult. It
is the natural change or growth, pro
duced by the- steady development of a
more and more complex industrial civ
ilization. In all except field employ
ments and the lower forms of common
I h.i"i - . . , i , I Ut i, ,,,,.,,, , 2 -
labor, the wfcites especially those of
iQreign. uirth pressing into the coun
try tend steadily toward a monopoly
of employment and the exclusion of ne
gro competition. In the mills and fac
tprles the "whites fcave Jt all their own
way and will not work with negroes.
Industrial and sooial .pressure therefore
tens heavily against the negro race, in
the matter of occupation and employ
ment even more so than ten or twenty
years ago. For as the industries reach
higher organization or "become more
complex, the negro is pushed to the
lowest. It Is a natural law, and the
situation It produces is not an encour
aging one for the future of the colored
race.
"HEADS, I DRINK'
A few days ago the New York Sun
told of a man who was. seen to pause
outside the Subway Tavern, toss a coin
Into the air twice without resultant ac
tion, make a third flip, and then to dls
appear through the swinging doors of
tne saloon. There could hardly be
found a simpler story than this, and
yet it illumines a human weakness
that has manifested itself in all aires.
Man has always hankered for an Indi
cation of the divine disposition towards
an enterprise from which he has re
solved to embark, and he has always
done his best to convince himself that
the divine disposition was favorable
In the Smoot investigation, which drags
its length along before a crowd of
women, there are occasional flashes of
light upon various phases of human na
ture. Take this hrief fllnlntnio roimrfl
.ing the "Woodruff manifesto between
Senator Burrows and George Reynolds,
an official of the Mormon Church:
"I believe the manifesto la said to have been
lnsplred7" asked Chairman Burrow.
"It was a revelation from tho Almighty."
"And you changed It?"
"Not the meaning."
"You. Just changed the phraseology?"
"Yes. lr."
"Then, as I understand it," said Senator
Burrows, "when this revelation came from lha
Almighty, the grammar was bad, and you cor
rected It."
In other words, the Mormon officials
flipped the coin until it came right-sido
up. In making a definite revelation.
however, they showed less wisdom than
the oracles of old. who made their rev
elations so ambiguous that any mean
ing might be read into them. Pyrrhus
was told that "you the Greeks can con
quer," as it would be a rash oracle
that would dare to prophesy definitely
a disaster. Mankind must have its
prophecies sugar-coated. The prophet,
to be regarded, must make his revela
tions children to the ljeonle's wish.
Cassandrawould have been honored had
she pictured Troy impregnable. When
a Roman General was about to leave
for the wars, his luck was foretold by
the appetite of the official chickens. If
they rushed out to the food when
reieasea irora tneir coops, It was a
highly favorable sign. Can we doubt
that the augurs, as a. mere matter of
precaution, kept the chickens on short
rations the day before? It was hu
man nature for them to stint their
charges, and it is human nature for the
Mormon officials to brine the divine
phraseology Into accordance with their
own ideas.
While on the subject of the Smoot in
vestigation, some remarks attributed to
President Smith by one of the witnesses
are -worthy of note:
President Smith drew himself to hl full
height and spoke on the subject of divorce,'
eaia tne witness. "He said that the mothera
of his children had been riven him bv God.
and were saint of God. He drnloird th
mother-in-law Jokes, and mid that his moth-
ew-in-iaw were tho beat friends he had; that
they were true women, worthy at their daugh
ters." It is possible that in a multitude of
mothers-in-law President Smith found
safety. The ordinary man has to face
his mother-in-law alone. President
Smith was able to confront mother-in-
law No. 1 with mother-in-law No. 2,
and leave Greek to fight It out with
Greek.
CANAL OPrOSmON NOT FEARED.
With the construction of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Railway assured and a
semiofficial announcement that the
Gould interests would extend their sys
tem from Salt Lake to San Francisco.
it becomes quite apparent that the Pan-.
ama canal will encounter much more
rail competition than was expected when
It was first proposed. The greatest In
ducement held out to the commercial
interests of the Atlantic Slone In seek
ing support for the canal project was
the possibilities it offered for a chean
steamship route to the Orient When
the canal agitation began to show signs
of tangible results, transcontinental
freight rates were very high and the
steamship rates across the Pacific were
still higher, with a very unsatisfactory
service. This situation necessitated tho
routing of practically all of the busi
ness with the Orient by way of the
Suez Canal, or by the old sailing rpute
around the Cape of Good Hope.
As the number of transcontinental
railroad lines and trans-Pacific steam
ers increased there has been an attend
ant reduction in freight rates and a
heavy proportionate gain in the rail
and steamer route over the old all
water routes. That the railroads ex
pect to hold at least a portion of this
traffic after the canal is completed is
plainly shown by the building of one
new line from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific and the extensjon of another
which Is not yet an ocean-to-ocean
route. At the same time it Is by no
means certain that thQy can ever com
pete with the proposed waterway on
through west-bound traffic originating
near the Atlantic Coast, or on east
bound freight for distribution near At
lantic ports. Only by a wild stretch of
the imagination can we expect any dis
crimination to be shown in favor of
certain flags which will engage in the
carrying trade through the canal, to the
Far East, and unless there Is discrim
ination we shall have the carriers of
the world competing for our business,
and the attendant rates will be so Jow
that the railroads will have difficulty in
meeting them.
In time there may be a demand for
an express service for passengers and
fast freight by rail and steamer be
tween this country and the Orient
which will be sufficient to add materi
ally to the revenues of the many trans
continental lines which will be in the
field for business, but there Is not
enough of this business at this time to
pay any of the lines engaged. The
building of two additional transconti
nental lines in the face of certain com
petition by water would indicate that
the promoters expect to depend more
on the Internal development of the ter
ritory traversed than on through busi
ness. This, of course, is an abandon
ment of the old theory of builders of
original transcontinental roads", which
was that business was possible only on
the extreme edge of the Pacific Coast
All Of the lines HOW In nnonMnn nn
Steadily adding to their revenues by the
development of territory that in the
first rush to reach the Pacific- was
passed over with but scant considera
tion. Of the two new lines projected
the Grand Trunk lis reported to pass
through a. country susceptible of pro
ducing great wealth. It is rich In tim
ber and agricultural resources, and
when the line strikes the Pacific Ocean
it will be nearer by several hundred
miles than the terminus of any other
line now in operation. The Gould ex
tension from Salt Lake to San Fran
clgcq has no 4uch possibilities for the
creation of new business. So far as de
velopment Is concerned, the greater
part of the country traversed by- the
proposed Western Pacific will be
through a country that is -"finished."
The Western Pacific ,1s too far south
to develop any new territory on the
western end of the route, and some
day it will have another competitor on
the north tapping the Oregon and
Washington region of undeveloped
wealth.
IN JIM BRIDGER'S MEMORY.
Over the grave of Jim Bridger a. mon
ument was unveiled at Kansas City
last Sunday as a mark to a typical and
famous character in frontier annals.
Bridger has been called "the ablest
hunter, mountaineer and guide of the
West" He deserves the title.
At the agq of 18 years Bridger began
his career In the western wilds as-a
furhunter. That was in 1822, and for
twenty-one years, until 1843, he was ac
tive in the fur trade. In 1843 near the
site of Granger, Wyo., he founded Fort
Bridger, which was a supply post on
the Oregon trail, midway between In
dependence, Mo., and Fort "Vancouver,
and which was a famous harbor for the
"prairie schooners" of pioneer emi
grants. In the years following he was
employed" as guide, frequently by the
Government
Bridger's knowledge of Rocky Moun
tain topography was probably never
equaled and certainly never surpassed.
He was a, true representative of that
American society, which bartered and
warred and consorted with savages for
furs, before settlement began. The
transition was well started when his
life was half spent He succeeded In
adapting himself to the change. But
the period that followed pioneer settle
ment and "built cities was not of his
type; their "canyons," as he called, their
streets, were too narrow for his "ro
bust freedom." And when death took
him off In 1881 he had been out of tune
with the new order many years.
The first white man, authoritatively
recorded as having discovered Great
Salt Lake, is Bridger. In 1824 he de
scended Bear River to determine for a
wager the outlet of that stream. At
that time his party, led by Andrew
Henry, was camped in Cache Valley.
The sheet of selt water he and the
party supposed to be an arm of th
Pacific Ocean. Evidently Bridger did
not observe the absence of tides.
Though Bridger is called the discov
erer of Great Salt Lake, he was prob
ably not the first o visit it Spanish
annals of 150 years before mention such
a lake. The Astor party Is known to
have passed near the lake In 1811-12
on the way to the Columbia. In 1812
Stuart and Crooks, returning from As
torla, were close to It. Furhunters of
Hudson's Bay Company a.nd the North
west Fur Company often roamed
through the region before Bridger.
Etlenne Provost, a well-known trapper
of William Henry Ashley's Rocky
Mountain Fur Company, Is said to have
hunted near the lake in 1820. General
Ashley is said, to have been in the same
vicinity ahead of Bridger; likewise a
trapper named "Vasquez.
It has been said that Bridger was the
discoverer of the wonders in Yellow
stone Park and the man -who opened
the Oregon trail. He was neither.
John Colter, a member of Lewis and
Clark's party in 1S04-6, passed through
Yellowstone Park In 1807, and undoubt
edly was the first white man in that re
glon.
In opening the Oregon trail Bridger
played a part, but only that The trajl
followed Indian routes which had been
used, since time immemorial. Members
of the Astor party traveled nearly the
whole course of the trail. South Pass,
Wyo., through the Rockies, was discov
ered In 1823 by a party of which Bridger
was probably a member. Next year
the route up Sweetwater River to that
pass from the Platte came into use. Be
tween 1832 and 1836 the parties of
Bonneville and Wyeth went over the
trail repeatedly- And the route from
Independence to Grand Island was used
from so early a day that nobody knows
who opened it first'
In many respects Brldger's career
was like that ox Oregon's Joe Meek.
Both were Virginians, stanch Ameri
cans. Both were trappers, furtraders,
explorers and husbands of Indian
women. Both were courageous in peril
and suffering, quick in resolution and
action. Both explored the same Rocky
Mountain regions. Bridger was "talf.
thin and wiry, with a complexion well
bronzed with toil and exposure, with an
independent, generous, open cast of
countenance, indicative of brave and
no"ble Impulses." So was Meek.
Bridger receives a merited tribute
twenty-three years after his death.
Meek has been dead nearly thirty years,
but his. grave on Tualatin Plains is not
so marked.
A STRONG PLEA.
The appeal made toy the Orejron Pris
oners' Aid Society for funds with which
to carry on the work designated by its
name Is the strong and earnest plea of
practical men and Avomen for aid to
enable discharged prisoners to help
themselves and steer clear of the mael
strom of crime upon the brink of which
they stand when asain facing the outr
side world.
There are convicts and convicts, of
course, and not all who .have worked
out this title in the state's prison can
be reached by the efforts of practical
philanthropists and turned Into ways
of Industry and orderly living. But
experience has proved that a jrreat
majority of those thus anoroached niri
put in the way of self-help become
law-abiding men, while the prisoner left
to face a "world from the endeavor of
which he has been several years shut
away Is more likely than not to drift
again Into ways of lawlessness.
As stated in the appeal- to which ref
erence is above made, the Prisoners'
Aid Society helps the man to retrain r
place in the world by finding a place for
him to stay until he car get work, sup
plying him with tools, if a tradesman,
transportation when necessary in order
to secure work, and. last but not least
with counsel and; encouragement.
The purpose and the endeavor that
follows It commend themselves to the
practical mind as worthy of indorse
ment. Results speak for it mqra
strongly than words. And when it 'is
stated that out of forty-three dis
charged prisoners who have been helped
I I - -
to help themselves by this society only
iour, so xar as Known, have returned
to lives of crime, the assumption that
the work Is of a-practlcal and prevent
ive nature may be regarded as proven.
Criminologists, In presenting a state
ment of accounts between the criminal
and the state, estimate that it costs
55000 to arrest, bring to "trial, convict
and carry the average criminal through
a term of Imprisonment, This sum. it
is stated. Is about four times as much
as It costs to maintain the Oregon Pris
oners Aid Society for a year. A princi
ple in political economy Is here pre
sented that gives vigor to the plea for
funds to maintain this society in work
ing order. To recapitulate: Without
timely aid and. suitable direction there
is no place In the world, of industry for
the released prisoner. With such aid
and direction a large majority of the
class that he represents becomes or
derly, self-supporting citizens. This Is
the testimony of those who have had
experience in the" work and whose esti
mate of its value It Is presumptuous
for the Inexperienced to question. The
ounce of prevention that is conceded op
all hands to be worth a pound of cure
Is conspicuous in this readjustment of
the relations between the discharged
prisoner and the state. The point Is
one upon which prudence and humanity
meet
Some trusts are worse than others.
There has been a prolonged howl from
certain wholesale grocers over an al
leged railroad trust which was said to
interfere with the proper distribution of
groceries in the Pacific Northwest A
number of these same grocers, however,
take more klnrtli' tn th Riiiar true
An Independent refinery 4n Honolulu Is
preparing to do business on the Pacific
Coast, and, In order to prevent its se
curing a foothold, thus reducing the
present outrageous prices for sugar, the
Portland "trust-busters" are standing
in with the sugar trust. In the prog
ress of the Havemeyer-Arbuckle (sugar
war Jt was brought out In the testi
mony that there was a fairlv irood
profit In the sugar business if the prod
uct could be sold at 3 cents per pound.
As the trust Is now exacting $6.15 per
100 pounds from the Pacific Coast han
dlers of the product, it would seem
that even the wholesalers, with their
-cent rebate from the trust, were not
receiving a very large share of the
graft. As for the consumers well, they
should continue to put up, and also
shut up.
State Grain Inspector Arrasmith. has
issued a detailed statement showing
the wheat crop of the State of Wash
ington for 1904 to be 23,489,330 bushels.
This is 10,000,000 bushels less than the
amount estimated by the foreign ship
brokers, who last October endeavored
to boost ocean freights by printing in
an obscure weekly paper in this city the
wild statement that the crop would ex
ceed 33,000,000 bushels. The Qregonian
believes that the Arrasmith estimate is
too low by about 2,500,000 bushels. At
the same time it was honestly made,
and not put forth for the purpose of
aiding the plans of the foreign ship
owners, as was the case of the. 33,000,-000-bushel
estimate which, was cooked
up in Portland last Fall. The fakirs
who make a practice of juggling crop
figures for the exclusive purpose of af
fecting ocean freights have had a bad
season, and, with no available dumping
ground for the mythical 10,000,000 to
12,000,000 bushels of wheat which never
existed, exposure of their misrepresen
tation is a certainty at the close of this
season.
The story that the Governor of Ore
gon, or the Secretary of State, or some
body else with a strange notion of law
and his authority, had refused to give
one Oregon Republican Elector a cer
tlficate of election, continues to have
wide currency in the Eastern Dress: and
we find also that the Seattle Times
has likewise given some of it3 valuable
editorial space thereto. The allesred
basis of this surprising action is that
the Elector was not registered, and
was not a voter, and therefore not a
qualified elector; so he cannot sit in the
Electoral College. It so hannens that
failure to register cannot and does not
In this state disqualify an elector other
wise qualified. Nobody ever attempted
to withhold, a certificate from a Re
publican candidate after the late elec
tlon, on this or any other ground. The
story is untrue from beginning to end.
Another skeleton has been dragged
out for at least standing room at the
forthcoming King County Senatorial
feast Collector Ide is at the National
Capital again urging the removal of
the Custom-House from Port Townsenri
to Seattle. Of course Seattle does not
really need the Custom-House to make
her happy, but, having gathered in
about everything else worth having in
the Puget Sound country, it seemed
only a matter of policy to relieve Port
Townsend of her principal institution.
The revival of this question just at a
time when King County is engaged in a
strenuous effort to elect a Senator will
of course, draw great support from the
Northwestern counties. The opinion of
the Jefferson County delegation on this
latest move of what they usually term
the "Seattle hog" would be particularly
picturesque, even though it were un
printable. '
Harry Egbert, who fought the flsrht
of a desperado and killed the officera
Who attempted his capture on the plains
of Harney County, walked bravely to
the scaffold a year ago and paid the
penalty for his crime. There now occu
pies Egbert's cell a man who fnniiv
murdered a defenseless woman a, few
months ago in Clackamas County, and,
unless the uncertainties of the law give
him a new lease on life, he will be exe
cuted just a year from the time Egbert
was hanged. Knowing him to be not
only a heartless criminal but also a
coward, no one will expect George
Lauth to meet his fate without begging
for the mercy he does not deserve.
Attorneys for the defendants in the
land-fraud cases are still laboring val
iantly with their voices to make the
noise appear the better reason in these
cases. The recital has become to the
public as "a thrice-told tale vexing the
dull ears of the drowsy man."
Letter-Carrier Kellar and Rural Mail-
Carrier Cunningham know now that
the President of the United State?,
when he makes an order, expects it to
be obeyed.
Possibly Mr. Addioks mieht h tr..
duced to make a few trenchant remarks
about his versatile biographer. Mr
Lawscn.
Mr. Lawson's magazine battle 'for
financial purity, it must b understood.
Is conducted entirely after business
hours.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
"Bear with me," says Lawaon.
Let us hope that Captain Clado won't
succeed In becoming a Russian Mar
chand. Lawson should soon have enough to
Join the library or university founders
association.
Cutcllffe Hyne, of Captain Kettle
fame. Is 6 foot 3. Even. sol he's notas
tall as some of his stories. .
Dowie has paid up the ZIon . City
debts. Any hundred-cents-on-the-dollar
religion will find toleration.
About this tme of year the- Man
Without a "Parcel is about as. happy as
the Man Without a Country.
It is significant that the Filipinos go
ing home -from St. Louis are carried in
a steamer with Maru after its namp.
A crack in the moon is reported by
the Lick Observatory. The man in the
moon may have rubbered too hard at
Nan Patterson. .
Mormons, it appears from testimony
In the Smoot investigation, expect to
meet all their wives in heavon. This
should lead to more favorable consider
ation of tho other place.
Michael Plertier was accustomed to
sleep among open kegs of powder. It
is Intelligible that, with such a 'reck
ies3 cparactor, even an old bachelor
shouldn't quail at the thought of
marriage.
In New York an Inspector found
girl of 13 working more than 11 hours
a day in a candy factory for the wages
or ?3 a week. For talking during work
ins nours uio cnild had been fined 10
cents, more than she earned by two
hours' work. But the candy tastes just
as sweet
A plumber was sent to the house or a
wealthy stockbroker to make repairs
says Tit-Bits. He was taken by the
butler to the dining-room, and was be
ginning his work when the lady of the
house entered.
Jonn, said she, with a suspicious
glance toward the plumber, "remove
tho silver from tho sideboard at once
and lock It up."
But the man of lead- was In nowise
disconcerted-
"Tom," said ho to his assistant, who
accompanied him, "take my watch and
chain and these few coppers homo to
ray missus at once."
Deaths are pot nearly so attractive
as weddings to the writers of the coun
try press, but now and then a corre
spondent spreads himself on an ohitu
ary notice for the paper. The follow
ing piece of lofty Imagery wa3 pub
lished In a Kansas paper, where it at
tracted the attention of the Kansas
City Journal: "About 5 o'clock ye;
terday afternoon the death angel noise
lessly entered the M. E. parsonage
touched gently the emaciated form of
the parson's daughter, left a picqo of
inanimate clay to tho tender care of
weeping loved ones, and bore back to
the bosom of tho Master a human soul."
Mrs. Chadwlck appears to be unjust
ly monopolizing, the credit for ability
to manage men. All the skill of the
sex does not center in her by any
means. It is easier to delude a man In
matters of money than of the heart
We think less of Mrs. Chadwick's man
agement, tncrerore, on reading that
"while in the hospital It developed that
Miss Rudolph had admirers from nearly
every olty in the Northwest and sev
eral of them imagined that they were
engaged to her." It requires far more
tact, wo maintain, to keep admirers
tip-toe with hope Qn no security at all
than to borrow money on notes bearing
the name of Andrew Carnegie.
The Chinaman has been condemned
for an alleged lack of adaptability. He
has been censured for striving to keep
up In this country tho habits of his
native land, and he has been proscribed
as a danger to tho Nation with tho cus
toms of which his can never bo assimi
lated. Tho whole fabric of these accu
sations Is built upon error. The China
man is not slow to learn American cus
toms. Is not Toy Ho at this moment
under police protection to escape the
beatings her husband was accustomed
"to give her? To be sure, this is but
one instance of a Chinaman's becoming
a wife-beater, yet greater publicity
might show that tho Occidental custom
has been quite generally adopted by
the race.
They manage some things, better in
Europe. Take the opening of the Hun
garlan Parliament, ror instance. What
a lively, interesting scene. ' compared
with tho absurdly dull opening of Con
gress. A few flowers on the desks of
tho members, a few women in the gal
leries, a few formal proceedings and
routine was resumed. Dead as ditch
water the whole thing. But In Hun
gary .There we have animation, ac
tion, excitement. Parliament onens
The Deputies jump in, smash the fur
niture, tear to pieces the papers, chase
the guards out of the Chamber. Every
man enters Into the spirit of tho thing.
There is friendly rivalry as to who
shall destroy the most property. Lot
our representatives take a lesson from
tho Hungarians. Let us have more vim
in Congress. Shall we be less strenu
ous than Europeans? WEX. J.
To an Indian Skull.
(Found in. a Broadvay excavation.)
Wallace Irwin In Life.
Gaunt relic with the vacant smile.
What think yqu of Manhattan isle
Your tribesmen sold in trustfulness
For thirty dollars, more or les3?
My! if your less were with you yet,
Ygu'd kick. I am disposed ta bet, -Bpeause
you sold out in a slump
Before your stocks began to Jump.
Step lively, please! this hallowed ground .
Ill fults your jnoldering rest profound: . -Since
these God's acres have been, sold .
For very near their weight in gold.
Vhere once your wlgniim fluttered, see
Yon million-dollar stoel tepee
"Where once your war-dance gave its thrill,
Now flings the nightly vaudeville.
Here sat your god of wood and stone '
Ah. howhls pegact time is gone!
Xow through th twed-clad tribes, is borne
The Calf of glided boof and horn.
TVhere once "your tribesmen tread the trail
Behold the napscm mart2y call,' '
Wherein the Johnnie site tione,
"With eku!l as hollow as your own.
Well may you hear, with loosening teeth. .
Uha "I' aboye, the "Sub' 'beneath,'
The auto's toot, the rumbling van
Sleep op, poor rellc-rlf you can?
BITS OF LIPE IN OREGON.
Who -Furnished the Red Paint?
Lakevicw Herald.
Joe Ambrose i3 in from his desert
sheep camp after supplies and getting
in touch with the world.
Zamzamlaps Import a . Journalistip
Jlmjamian.
Roseburg Review.
Colonel E. Hofer, of the Salem Journal,
will give a lecture here on the evening of
D.ecember 16, under the auspices of the
Zamzamian Society.
Settling Down Early to a Happy Mar
ried Life.
Albany Democrat.
A Portland couple were married at 3
o'clock In the afternoon, and at 10 o'clock
he had given her the firat whipping. In
the meantime they had had several drinks
together. An easy example In arithmetic.
Amputated Flngsr Does Nicely.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
Elmer H. Turner, the well-known
drayman, in unloading a heavy barrel
from his wagon this afternoon, mashed
the little finger on his right hand so
badly that it had tq be ambutated near
tho hand. It Is doing nicely this
evening.
And He's Candidate for Re-EIection.
Tillamook Independent.
Some people are peculiarly fortunate
their good luck coming In chunks, as It
wore. On last Monday, for instance, Ralph
Ackley was elocted Treasurer of the best
little city In Oregon, and on Friday he
became the father of a bouncing baby
boy. Hurrah for Ralph!
Outrageous Mistreatment of an
Editor.
Lakeview Examiner.
The editor of the New Era, Brother
Sloss. is one of the lucky editors. He way
recently "let in" on a rich find. Whan the
largo ledge was uncovered it was found
to the delight of the owners that tha vein
was a large one and was pure, frae lava.
Mr. Pace Makes a Call, and His Hog
Gets a Puff.
Wallowa Nows.
John Pace made a business call at this
office this week- Ho has recently received
another valuable thoroughbred hog from
Importers at Spokane. Mr. Pace's efforts
in producing thoroughbred hogs is fceing
appreciatea nere. Purchasers of hogs de
rived from his stock sav thev can tell tho
difference at once in the amount of fat
they carry and in their improved appear
ance over tne common run.
Whooping It for the Husking Bee.
Eugene Guard.
Some of the young men are engaged
in painting red ears. These farmers
have been told that they can aot New
music, jokelets and other Instrumonts
ui lonqre are in the course of con
struction at the opera. The Weather
.Bureau will furnish wind and frost.
-ine gentlemanly ushers will supply
ou wun song dooks containing the
words, You. can get the air as you go
npme. lou must not miss it, even if
i-uu iinvu io uorram tne money.
Lo! the Drunken Slwash.
The Dalles Chronicle.
A regular "rip-snorter," enlivened by an
occasional war whoop, was what "Lo"
was having this afternoon, and it Is safe
to -say residents on Second street, between
Federal and Laughllq, have never seen a
drunker Indian. He waa glad, he was
mad; but mostly ho was drunk. Several
tried to manage him, but gave up and. In
the absence of an officer, ho was soon
given his own sweet will, which was to
wallow in the mud. tear up the middle of
the street and whoop. Whither he went
rre know not; but yre do know he was
anything but paralyzed.
THE PORTLAND EXPOSITION.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
One world's rair almost treads upon
another's heels. The wrecking crows
will scarcely ha-e finished work at St
Louis before the Lewis and Clark Ejct
position is on at Portland. Or.
This World's Fair,, while not of the
extent of the Louisiana Purchase' Exr
position, will he a notable one in that
it will be the-first held in the great re
gion west of tho Rockies. It will prob
ably constitute the most striking ob
ject lesson of American development
over afforded by an enterprise of the
kind, locuteif, as it will be,
"Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound
cave ns own aasmngs yet the dead reign
there; r
. . . th? dead reign there alone.
The fertile mind of Brjant could con
ceive of no word picture which would
more strikingly express the superlative
of solitude than this, and yet it lacks
several years of a century slhcp he in-
corporated it Into his Immprtal poem.
In 1905 a great exposition will show to
visitors from all parts of the world the
magnificent resources, the mighty in
dustries, and the wonderful develop
ment of this region which in the mem
ory of men yet living stood for all that
was unknown, unpeopled, and undevel
oped in the Western world.
Many thousands will go to this Ex
position, not so much to see Its won
ders, for there is not much left to ex
cite expectation in that direction, but
to see tho more remarkable things of
both man's and Nature's handiwork on
the Pacific Coast that are not for a duy
or a season, but for all time. The pa
geant of the far West's greatness, tho
counterieit presentment, as it were.
will not be half so wonderful as the real
thing.
No American can go to the Portland
Fair and fail to be stirred by the evi
dences of his country's greatness nJ
vastness which the trip and visit will
afford. More than 3900 miles away
from the teeming East, with its mighty
citles, its censeloss ebb and flow of life,
and its almost limitless resources, he
will find himself still in the midst of
the marvels of American enterprise, in
dustry and skill. And this, too, after
days of continuous juorneying at ex
press train rates of speed through re
gions none the less remarkable as-ob
ject lessons of American development
The Beaten Wife.
Kansas City Star.
Nearly very wife-beater has a soft
hearted ninny of a wife who pleads with
the court not to Imprison her husband;
but In a case of cruelty to animate, if it
were left to the horse to decide, its op
pressor would cool his heels In jail for an
indefinite time the contrast being a
strong argument in favor of horse sense.
Consolation for the Patient.
Chicago Tribune.
Patient "Great Scott! Doctor, that's an
awful bill for one week's treatment!"
Physician "My dear fellow, If you knew
what' an Interesting case yourg was and
hov strongly I was tempted to let It go
to a post-mortem you wouldn't grumble at
a bill three times as big as this."
His "Occupation Gone.
Atlanta Constitution.
"Here's a story of the devil being dead."
some one said to Br'er Williams.
"My, my!" he exclaimed, "Ef dntfs de
case, what In de roun' won will We
preachers do fer a livin'?"
Paper Says So.
Atchison Globe.
Do you know, girls, that the fuzz on
your face Is as necessary' to the softening
of yoiir'features as down Is to the perfec
tion of a peach? That Is what a woman's
paper 3ays. and if any one else said it
he would get the hoot-hcot
i POLITICIAN LET OUT,
Prominent Maitcarriers Are Removed
by Postmaster-General.
XV'ASHINGTON. Dec. 13. Postmaeter
General Wynne today removed rronr of
fice Frank H. Cunningham the South.
Omaha. Neb., rural mall carrier, who Is
president of the National Association of
Rural Mail Carriers, and James C. Keelar,
of Clevofahd, O.. who is at the head of
the National Association of Letter Car
riers. The dismissal Is the result of in
vestigation of charges of insubordination,
beipg absent from dMtV without leave, and
violation of the President's order Qf . Janu
ary 31, 1002, prohibiting Individual or or
ganized attempts of Government employes
to influence legislation or to solicit in
crease of pay.
Mr. Cunningham applied to the Postmaster-General
last October for leave of
absence. The PostpfHca Department de
clined to approve the application. Mr.
Cunningham, however, ignored this action
and came East From that time, it is
announced at the Postoffice Department
he devoted his entire time to efforts to
secure pledses from candidates for elec
tion or re-election to Congress to support
the bill' approved by the carriers for an
increase of their pay. His methods, it is
charged, vere in distinct violation of the
executive order, which explicitly forbid
all Government offices' employes, either
directly or Indirectly, individually or In
associations, to solicit an increase of pay'
or to influence or attempt to influence In
their own lnter?3t. any other legislation
whatever, either before Congress or its
committee, or in any way save through
the headquarters, In or under which they
are serving, on penalty of dismissal from
the Government service.
The association sent out circular let
ters ta Congressmen In an effort to se
cure pledges. These letters, It Is stated,
were signed by Secretary Tumber, of the
Association,, who also is a rural mall car
rier at Rockport, N. Y. and his case is
under investigation.
Mr. Cunningham submitted his resigna
tion yesterday, but the department de
clined to accept it
The cae of James C. Keelar, of Cleve
land, O.. postoffice, wno is head of the
National Association of Letter Carriers,
also reached a climax today. ,
For several weeks his pernicious activity
in the recent campaign 'has been under
investigation by the officials of the Post
office Department. Since the election he
has spent some tipae in this. city. On the
5th instant Fourth Assistant Pqstmaster
General Bristow notified him by letter
that he was absent from his post in
Cleveland without leave, apd directing
him to report at once to the postmaster at
Cleveland for duty. The following day ho
wrote Mr. Bristow:
"It will be impossible lor me to comply
with your order at this time."
To this letter Mr. Bristow replied on
the 7th instant by calling upon Koeler to
s'how cause within three days why ho
should not be removed from the service,
for insubordination in refusing to com
ply with an order to resume his duties.
Keeler paid no heed to thi3 notice. At the
expiration of four days, E. p. Thprpe,
superintendent of tho free delivery ser
vice, recommended to Mr. Bristow that
Keelar be removed. The recommendation
was approvd by Mr. Bristow apd trans
mitted to Po3tmaster-General Wynpe, who
today ordered Keelar's removal from the
service.
At the Cabinet meeting today Postmaster-General
Wynne reported to the Presi
dent of the action ho had taken In the case
of Cunningham and Keelar, and explained
the nature of the charges against them.
President Roosevelt Indorsed the Postmaster-General's
action.
Postmaster-General Wynpe informed tho
President that when Cunningham present
ed to Mr. Bristow his resignation from
the ssrvjee he told him that he proposed
to remain in Washington to promote leg
islation in the Interest of the letter
carriers. Mr. Bristow asked who was to
pay for his time and supply his expenses,
and was informed the letter-carriers
would do that.
Mr. Bristow then flatly told Cunningham
that any letter-carrier found by the de;
partment to be contributing to a fund to
support a lobbyist in Washington would
be removed Instantly from the service.
MACHEN IS SENTENCED.
With Groffs and Lorenz He Must
Serve Two years and Pay a Fjne.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The District
of Columbia Court of Appeals today af
firmed the decision of the Criminal Court
in the postal conspiracy cases of August
W. Maehen, George F. Lorenz, Samuel A.
Qroff and Diller B. Groff, who were sen
tenced to two years' Imprisonment in the
West Virginia Penitentiary and to pay a
fine of HO.0QO.
Marines for Panama.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 13. The United
States cruiser Yankee, with 4S0 marines on
hoard, sailed today from the League Isl
and Navy Yard for Panama. The marines
Will do polioe duty in the isthmus, re
lieving a battalion which will return on
the Yankee.
Panama Agreement in Effect.
PANAJ.IA. Dec. 13. A decree reducing
the import duties, rates of postage, etc..
in accordance with the agreement reached
between the government of Panama and
the Ignited States for the Canal Zone,
went into effect today.
To Discuss Reciprocity With Canada.
WASHINGTON. Dec 13. Negotiations
are now pending looking to the reconven
ing for a discussion of Canadian reciproc
ity of the joint high commission repre
senting the United States and Great Bri
tain. MORGAN TO EXTEND ROAD,
Canadian Nortiern Will Be Built to
Pacific Coast at Once.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 13. A special
from Winnipeg today announces ihat a
confidential agent of Plerpont Morgan Is
there. He has just made a trip over the
Manitoba lines of the Canadian Northern
Railway. As a result a high official pf
the company hae stated that Morgan will
buy a large black of the company's stock
and will make arrangements for the ex
tension of the line to the Pacific Coast
at the earliest possible moment This
means to say that Morjran and the Cana
dian Northern will beat the Grand Trunk
Pacific through the Rockies by several
years.
Lucin Cutoff Saves $250Q Per Day.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13. The South
ern Pacific's Ogdea-Lucin cutoff across
Great Salt Lake has now "Deen In opera
tion long enough to permit the operating
department to gather figures justifying
the exoenditure of the many millions
which the Big improvement cost The cut
off Is saving the company on an average
of $2500 a day In operating expenses, or a
little over J90O.COO a year, and this amount
will steadily grow as the traffic over the
Ogden line Increases. Interest "charges
growing out of the construction of the
cutoff are 5340,000 a year.
The operating officials of the Southern
Pacific are watching ycith much Interest
certain experiments now being conducted
on the Union Pacific wltn tne use of gas
oline motor cars. The gasoline motors
are designed for use on spur lines, and it
is said that If they come up to expecta
tions they will be employed on the South
ern Paclfip as well as the other Harrlraan
lines.
New Route to Mining District.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec 13. The San
Pedro. Los Angeles and' Salt Lake Rail
road Company has about completed ar
rangement's for opening a new route to
the Goldfield and Tohopah mining 'coun
try. A stage line will be established from
Los Vegas, Nov., the present terminus
of the Salt Lake end of the railroad, the
distance from Lbs Vegas to Goldfield be
ing about 13) miles.