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Railroading fifty years ago lacked uch of the Importance It now enjoys as an Industrial enterprise. The mile age was small, the equipment light, and th territory served quite restricted. And yet the railroad, question half a century ago was such a complex affair that Lord Campbell, Chief Justice of ihe English Court of Common Bench, ra d in Parliament that he felt himself frvompetent to try a railway case which Involved the question of railway charges. Lord Campbell was a man e-sinent In his profession, and his ad mission of lack of expert knowledge on hn railroad question at a period when l!:e acquisition of such knowledge was s.mple and easy compared with that of the present day illustrates quite clearly thr stupendous task involved in making, n equltaWe adjustment of differences erasing at this time between the people and the vast railway systems by which 'hey are served. Contrary to general belief, It is not always the. rapacity and .retentional discrimination of the rail v ay companies that is blamable for the OTr.mercial hardships which ' are suf ?Td by individuals and firms which patronize these common carriers. This fact was recognized and commented on b the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in the following language: n the fixing of rates by carriers upon all c-n modules for transportation In all dlrec- ns and between all points reached by rail ed It Is inevitable that much injustice, r fairness, unreasonableness, preference and discrimination will be practiced, notwith standing the greatest care and ripest Judc rreat may bo exercised by Xhe railway offi .aia These orrors of judgment on the part ol the railway officials constitute the -eaton for Federal regulation and the basis l f the present widespread demand for an amendment of the existing statute which will enable their speedy correction. Lord Campbell fifty years ago de . lared his inability to try a case where railway charges were involved, and there are probably hundreds of very able jurists in our land today who are similarly handicapped. It does not fol d's from this, however, that it will be ..impossible to secure a governing board r.: h the ability to regulate rates in a manner that will be fair to both ship per and railroad company. It was nearly tweiuy years after Lord Camp bell admitted his incompetency in rail load matters before a determined effort as made by the British government o settle amicably the differences cdn star.tly arising between the railroads .nd their patrons. The earlier clvlliza on and more thorough development of .England made the necessity for govern ntcnt Interference in the matter at that Time greater than it was in this coun tT, and in IS72 a Parliamentary, com ttee was appointed to investigate the . ,road matter thoroughly and make i'-.ommendations for correcting exist ing evils. The committee, after exhaustive re search, made a report which included Kith it & number of recommendations, most important of which was one some what similar to that now proposed by Chairman Eiklns, of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In effect It rec emmended the creation of a special tri bunal possessing knowledge of railway sranagement, to which was to be given fu.J control over all railway traffic leg islation. In accordance with these rec ommendatlons, a commission consisting ! three members was appointed. The requirements were that one of the com irJssioner should be a lawyer, one a ractlcal railroad -man, and the third a statesman." The powers of this com -:ssion have not been changed in any v.ay since Us organization, and its acrklngs have been so satisfactory for both shippers and carriers that its bus! ness has been exceedingly light, the fact of Its existence and its- tremendous power being sufficient to ston many of Jie evils which it was created to cure. Railroad men who have been de bouncing the attitude of President Roosevelt on this matter are exposing undue weakness In their cause, or f-ar that they will not be given fair tatment. This latter assumption Is r't warranted, for In spite of the pres -r.ee In all walks of life of a large number of grafters and blackmailers, t.e American Nation as a whole is still honest, and It will no more permit the onfiscation or depreciation of railroad property than that of the humble owner cf a one-horse dray. The Elkins plan, previously alluded to, -provides "for an InlerstateCommerce Commission Court, to be composed of 'nine members one Ireni oach judicial district. These Judges are to have Jurisdiction over all s.ss arising la their respective dis ti. is, and, in case of appeal, the mat lev Is to be brought before a court con- aistinc of the entire nine members. It is proposed to make f life positions far the members and provide liberal ralaries. With this body it Ishoped to attain the same degree of success that iias followed the creation of the Brit ish Board, now holding a pood record -of more than thirty years" standing. The size oC this American commission Is much more unwieldj than that of Great Britain, but the country Is much larger, and It Is accordingly Impossible for three members to familiarize them selves -with conditions in the entire ter ritory involved. PeThaps the worst feature of the, Elkins plan, as com pared with that of Great Britain, is the fact that it d6es' not provide for any railroad men on the board. Technical knowledge of the railroad business would be invaluable in rendering a fair decision on any Intricate point which may arise for solution. The Elkins bill proposition may not be the proper one to adopt, but it approaches closer to the British method, which has proved satisfactory, than anything that has yet been suggested. RUSSIA'S WEAKNESS AT SEA. Just for what purpose the Russian fleet from the Baltic is making its way towards the Orient Is not apparent, for there Is, no probability that It desires to encounter the fleet of Japan. It Is only a feint, perhaps. An English or American fleet, equal in size to that which the Russians had In Eastern waters at the beginning of the war, would not have hidden Itself away from an enemy no stronger at sea than Japan Is. At the beginning of the war Russia's Oriental fleet was almost as powerful, nominally, as that of Japan, yet It never would risk an encounter. The Russians, Indeed, though not quite so strong in cruisers, had one more battleship. Of battleships Russia had seven; she had four armored cruisers, seven protected cruisers, eight unpro tected cruisers and dispatch-boats, sev eral gunboats, twenty-four torpedo boat destroyers and twelve torpedo boats. This fleet the Japanese have practically . annihilated; and It has struck no blowm return. For ihough the Japanese haveost six vessels, In cluding one battleship, not one of thc-se has been destroyed by Russian gun Are. All have succumbed to mines or torpedoes, at port defenses. A Russian naval armament seems to have no ex cuse for existence, no reason to be. For it doesn't fight. It Is evident that the Russian fleet from the Baltic not only Is In no hurry to get into the vicinity of the Japanese fleet in Eastern waters, but really has no such Intention. If It had. It would be putting on steam as the Ore gon did, at the beginning of our war with Spain. Russia is powerful on land, but the ocean Js not her element. That she doesn't expect anything from her fleet, so lazily creeping towards the seat of war. Is apparent from the slow ness and Indecision of the movement. No naval force could dd her any good, unless It could destroy the fleet of Japan; and from the beginning Russia has acted as If she realized that such result was Impossible. On her side, Japan has everything at stake on maintaining her ascendancy at sea. Should she lose It her armies on the continent, cut off from succor and support at home, would be lost, and the island empire would soon be at Russia's mercy. No war in recent times has been so clear a test of the value of sea power. Russia may indeed yet become strong at sea, but not for an indeterminate period. Her genius doesn't lie that way, and it will take long time to develop It. TWO VALUABLE INDUSTItrES. Two industries of general and sub stantial value to -the state the dairy and the poultry industries have been intelligently and entertainingly pre sented in this city -within the nast few days. It is gratifying to know that tlrese Industries no longer represent methods of carelessness and ignorance, but that each has attained a standard that calls for knowledge of the subject In hand. The former has attained to a high standard of Intelligence, which has put the scrub cow and the old-fashioned churn out of commission, while the latter has relegated the dunghill fowl to a past era. It may be said, however, that neither dairying nor poultry-raising In Oregon is -yet sufficiently productive to meet the home demand for their products. It may be said that there has been a great improvement In poultry stock In recent years. In quality the fowls that are shown leave nothing to be desired. The quantity Is, however, still deficient. The specimens shown in this city are really In their way admirable. Their pride of ancestry is unquestionably well grounded. It may be feared, however, that It will be long before the demand for poultry and poultry products will be supplied from this source. As show birds the Minorcas and Leghorns, barred, black and white; the Wyandottes aii Cochins and the re?, are attractive. More than that, they are clean, handsome, large and stately. But the question that Is of paramount interest in vjew of the grosser and more insistent demands of the market is, "Are they productive? Are the hens, with' their Jine feathers and substantial bulk, generous egg-producers? Are they good mothers?" We are proud of these fine- fowls. They are good to look aL No doubt they are good to eat, but they are rather high-priced for the table. What we need Is not a few hundreds or thou sands, more or less, of fancy fowls, though these, of course, we are glad to see, but many thousands of ordinary chlckens that can be depended upon to supply the demand without having to bring eggs by the carload across the continent and depend upon the sad looking corpses of fowls that have been slaughtered and crated for this market In far-away poultry yards for the Christmas table. Let us have the blooded fowls. They are good to look upon, and In number, appearance and variety they bespeak the enterprise of our poultry-fanciers. But let our farmers each and all "keep chickens" and learn, If they do not know already, how to kepe them with profit. OUR PRIVILEGED CLASS. The fact that we have a privileged class in this country is demonstrated as often as upper-class men In any one of our colleges start out for a "high old' time." The demonstration furnished by the riotous sophomores of Columbia College In their attempt to secure the son of George Gould, a freshman in the College of Mines of that university, to make merry for them at a banquet in a Broadway restaurant Wednesday even ing, and, falling to secure their prey, capturing the vice-presldejit of the freshman class for the purpose, inci dentally wrecking the ornahiental work of the great Broadway substation. Is the latest proof of this fact. Unfortu nately there is no reason to suppose that it. will be the last, since by some means the toughs of the sophomore class In an American college are given to understand that they are a smart set whose conduct upon these occasions Is not measured by the rules that govern orderly, decent society" for the protec tion of the person from assault and In dignity and property from wanton de struction. "Mr. Dooley" defines a di ploma as a license to wear a "Mother Hubbard on the street without Interfer ence of the police. The license to raise "rough house" on the street with such trifling Incidents as the destruction of valuable property and the infliction of more or less personal Injury represents the special privilege which 1st carried by the term upper-class men, or, more specifically, the college sophomore. The universities disclaim all responsibility for the personal conduct of the stu dents, the civil authorities look the other way when the riot 13 In progress, and those injured In person or property have no redress. Specifying In support of this statement, recently, the .New York Independent said: In New Tork City, last Summer, a mob of men drove through the streets In the daytime catching and kjdnaplns; pedestrians, binding and sagging them. In spite of tbelr struggles and throwing them into a furniture van like 60 many sticks of cord wood. Policemen watching the affair from the sidewalk refuued to interfere. This eounds Incredible until we add the further, tbough unessential, detail that the captors and their victims were university students, who by virtue of thia fact are ex empt alike from protection and punishment by the law. Of couree. it would have been dif ferent if auch acta had been attempted in the slums, for the police are expected to keep or der there. But the Princeton boys can sack a Fall River steamboat, van d the Columbia students can gut a restaurant, and other students can break up public entertainments and indulge In street fights and parade In Indecent costumes with comparative impugnlty, because they know enough to pass an entrance examination and are rich enough to pay a tuition fee. This Is not said for the purpose of criticising college fun and high spirits. The writer does not object to horse play, nor even to the tricks of don keys. He has not a word to say against those Greek-letter societies to which a man Is not considered eligible until he has publicly made a fool of himself by standing on the street corner In fan tastic costume. It is conceded that members of such societies have a right to say what qualifications are neces sary in their associates. The objection lies In the fact that the gown that is supposed to confer dignity and honor 13 used as a cloak for privileged lawbreak lng. And It Is added, logically and conclusively, that we have no reason to expect any lessening of our National vice the lack of respect for law as long as our picked and trained leaders of thought and action are during early manhood regarded as irresponsible, privileged and above the law. . THE FIGHT IN NEW YORK. "Whoever is chosen -by the Republi can organization will be elected United States Senator for New York," says Governor Odell; and as the Governor is chairman of the state committee, and In absolute control of the organization, It would appear certain that the choice of that body will be the personal selec tion of the Governor. The New York press Is practically united in the opln ion that Odell Is the whole thing. The Sun, which Is bitterly hostile to him, practically concedes Black's election, adding this characteristic comment: The Governor-Chairman has little or no per sonal feeling against Senator Depew, but he l described as determined to measure out to Senator Piatt the last dregs of humiliation. and hopes by his attitude In the Joint caucus in Albany no to contrive that not a vestige of power or Influence ahall be left at Washington to theman who gave him every political ad vantage he ever had, and who, aa the request of Governor-Chairman Hlgglns' friends, wrote 38.0U0 letters In the last campaign begging friends to come to the support of HIgglns. The New York Press (Rep.) says "it has been known for weeks that Mr. Black was to take the post now filled by Mr. Depew," saying also after the Odell-Black conference of Republican leaders last week that "Mr. Black's In dorsement by the Republican legisla tive caucus at Albany and his' election on January 17 will follow In their proper order." The New York Times (Dem.) halls the prospect of a bitter political tow, but apparently sees little hope for Depew. The New York World (Dem.) trains Its editorial guns on Black and Odell. So does the independ ent press generally. The most refresh lng comment Is to be found In the Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.), which encour ages a plan disclosed by .the New York Times for the Democrats to unite with the Depew men and elect him. Says the Eagle: As a sincere friend of political discord, and as unhesitatingly In favor of the next war, tho Eagle hojH that the Republican party will go to pieces in the next Legislature, and will give to the Democrats, who have so little that any favor will be thankfully received, the sincere pleasure and the Incidental advan tage of holding whet la mysteriously every where called and nowheie perfectly understood. when It la described as "the balance of power." If the Democrats can break up the Republicans by bringing about Mr. Depew's re-election, well and good. If the Republican should go all to pieces, even after electing Mr. Black, no one would more 'considerably Inter anjl praise the fragments 'than this d la in teres tea ana canaia newspaper. In the New York Legislature are 200 members, 150 Representatives and 60 Senators. There are 140 Republicans and In caucus a majority of 71 will con trol. The Odell-Black combination now claims 90 and says It will have 100 be fore the Legislature meets In January Probably It will have them. The decay of the Piatt influence, the growing dis satisfaction with Depew, the ascend ancy of Governor Odell, have for some time been obvious to all. Depew is In a special sense the representative in the United States Senate of privilege and great corporate wealth. He has become a load for the party to" carry. He has accumulated during his long life a large fund of jokes which he Is eminently fitted during his remaining years to retail among his fellow-clubmen in New York. The building of the Condon branch of the O. R, & N. Co. has naturally re sulted In land values showing a decided Increase. Attendant on this change In conditions is the usual rush of land grabbers who endeavor to elbow the legitimate setuers out or. tneir hold ings. This semi-legal form of robbery has resulted In a large number of con tests, and there Is a very bitter feeling engendered among the settlers who have been for years awaiting an oppor tunity to develop their farms, and are now In danger of losing them. What ever the law may hold In many of these cases, public sentiment will be sure to favor the original settlers as against the Jumper. The story of Southern competition with New England in cotton manufac ture that has been in process of telling ton years is fitly called "a labor-4 , . ... ,.,, .. ei-t,. a,, let without -violence. Simplj and ly stated, there were in the South for ton conflict brief! In 1901 5,513,000'splndles; today, there are 7,973,000 spindles. During the past twelve months the Increase in spindles has been 924,000: in looms, 30,000. Thisl explains why ten thousand workpeople have left the mill centers In New Eng land since last July for the Province of Quebec, for the Azores and for Lan cashire; why there are hundreds of empty tenements and stores In Fall River and other cities of the old cotton manufacturing district. It explains fur ther the somber Thanksgiving which was the lot of the mlllworkers there. and the poorer Christmas that awaits them. The center, of. the great manu facturing district has shifted and left them without work, . The movement was a natural one. Its results will be absorbed In time by the necessities that find relief in change of location and occupation. The report that the Japanese have lost 203-Meter Hill lacks confirmation. If It proves to be true, however, the primary object for which the hill was sapped, stormed and taken has been achieved in the destruction or disable ment of the Russian fleet In the harbor at Port Arthur. Among these were the battleships Pobleda, Retvlzan, Peres vlet, Sevastopol and Poltava; the cruis ers Bayan and Pallada, and the gun boats Gillak and Amur. Some of these helpless targets of the sure aim of Jap anese gunners were hit over and over again, and to all appearapce will not be able to put to sea, no matter what the stress. It now seems certain that un less Admiral Rojestvensky can elude the vigilance of the Japanese Admiral and reach Vladivostok, or meet and conquer the Japanese fleet at sea, the opening of the second year of the" war will find Russia's sa force In the East crippled and powerless. Bend, Or., the thriving new metrop olis on the Deschutes River, has reached the incorporation stage, and will blossom out as a full-fledged city in a few days. Rend is pne of the many new settlements In Central Ore gon which require only railroad con nection with the outside world to make them active, rustling cities capable of supporting a large population. There Is vast wealth In the forests along the Deschutes River tributary to Bend, and k is in the heart of the district which la now attracting great numbers of lrrlgatlonlsts. The opportunities- for great commercial development as soon as transportation facilities are avail able are so great that it will not be possible to withhold those facilities much longer. This applies with equal force to a large number of isolated lo calities in that vast and comparatively unknown region, termed Central Ore son. The energetic speculators who have been exploiting numerous townsite3 which they have announced as the "western terminus of. the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway" now have another guess coming. President Hays has publicly stated that his company has not yet decided on a definite location for its Pacific seaport, and that It may be anywhere within fifty miles of Port Simpson. When the land boomer was at his best, ten or twenty years ago, a latitude of fifty miles was, not too great to hamper his plans for ex tractlng money from victims, who were then much more plentiful than they are at this- time. This "easy money" has all been spent, however, and the buy ers who are looking for a chance to in vest In Pacific Ocean seaports must know within less than fifty miles of where their Investments are located. Over 1,500,000 pounds of wool of the 1905 clip have already been sold In the Wallowa country at about 16 cents per pound, a figure which makes the sheep business a highly remunerative Indus try. These prices and the willingness of buyers to bind themselves to take the wool In practically unlimited quan tities positively assures a prosperous year in at least one of Oregon's great Industries. The livestock business is also showing indications of improve ment, and the outlook for a continua tion of good times throughout Oregon was never better. An Immense acre age has been sown to Fall wheat, and, while the weather has. not been altogether satisfactory, there will be an opportunity for reseeding this land In the Spring, and the wheat acreage of the state will be larger than ever be fore. The ("Independent" press in New York and other Eastern States, which has been fighting Thomas C. Piatt for years, holding him up to reprobation, denouncing the Republican party of New York for yielding to his leader ship, and alleging this state of things as a reason why the party should be overthrown, has changed Its tone and tune, and now stands by Piatt and bitterly opposes the effort maklngjn Republican: circles in New York to di minish his power and to supersede his candidate lor the Senate. Piatt, as an Idol of the "Independent" press, is a now feature In kaleidoscopic politics. Nan Patterson, breezy, smiling and bold, awaits the decision of the, jury. She is not.an obje'et of sympathy, nor yet of utter condemnation. The man who was murdered deserved his fate, though perhaps not at her hands. The widow is -the only one of the trio who Is worthy of consideration In the case, and she may be said to have reached the stage at which congratulations .are in order. The vealy young man of 21 who be came so desperate over his second un dying love episode as to make, an at tempt upon his own life Is of a nature too dlstractlngly emotional for this cold, cruel and changeful world. It Is a pity to thwart his despairing attempt at suicide and bring him back to a re alization of his troubles. Admiral Kamimura has gone south to meet the advancing second Pacific division of the . Baltic fleet. He will doubtless propound terms of peace to the Russian commander In tones so loud that all the world w-111 hear. The Russians may have retaken 203 Meter Hill. But they are tooiate. The Japanese have wrought all possible damage already to the Russian fleet from that point v The Czar is still autocrat of all the Russlas. An Offer for His Share. Chicago Tribune. Raynor Think of It! Our Navy has cost every man, woman and child in the United States at least a -dollar! Shyne Well. If the burden is bear and vou wan out Q TO0Ve away rom thft co greater 'ant to sell out and move away from the country to get rid of it I'll give you a dollar for your share in the United States Navy-" NOTE AND! COMMENT. An Austrian officer of the balloon section wishes to marry a lady who will have the courage to make her honeymoon voyage with ilro in a balloon. Advt. In Gazette de Zurich. If the officer succeeds In finding a cour ageous bride, it will only be to experience the fate- of all other married people and come down to earth after the honeymoon. Nature's marvelous power of adapting things is shown by the way an arm fits round a waist that's clad in Summer silks or Winter furs. A trust in cut flowers is the latest to afflict New York, and it shows no sign of withering like its stock-in-trade. Chefoo's conversion appears to be list ing. Yesterday was the second occasion on which that home for inebriate Ana- nlases Informed the world that it had no news. If this Is the work of an American missionary, it is only just that his name should be known. He is a greater man than than Sheriff Word. Miss Marguerite Leitcr is to marry the Earl of Suffolk. Lucky thing for English girls that the Letter family Is now out of unmarried daughters. Panama has been disturbed by a vol canic shock. If the railroad enemies of the canal had any savvy they would dig a tunnel from the channel Into the near est volcano, admit the water, and the sud den generation of steam would leave the whole Isthmus in ruins. Attorney Levy all the same Judge O'Day has been quoting the Bible to the ian Patterson jury. Do lawyers really spend their time out of court "in reading the Bible until its phrases flow naturally from their Hps? Perhaps they do. It is suspicious, however, that the New York lawyer and the Portland lawyer should both have quoted the passage about cast ing the first stone. We therefore Incline to the belief that lawyers in general have heard this particular quotation used with good effect and are In consequence always ready to spring it upon jurors, who can hardly 'fail to be impressed by counsel's knowledge of the Scriptures and evident belief that the Lord Is on his client's side Christmas trees the woods are full of them. Quotations Up to Date. And beauty draws us with a single stare. Philadelphia must almost "enjoy having a blizzard to read in the Press that "Gen tle Fall of Fleecy Flakes Remantle Qua ker City in White." An Irishman in his will made a limita tion in favor of his "next eldest brother," and it's up to the Court of Appeals tc decide which brother he meant- One side held that the testator referred to a broth er younger than himself, and the other side held that he must have referred to a brother older than himself. It's a hard nut to crack, even fof a legal mind. Have you been mentioned yet In one of Lawson's ads? Is the minister's wife a failure? ask sev eral Eastern exchanges. Not half so often as the minister. We hope j"ou won't find anindlctment In your stockin Morocco is chasing all foreigners out of her territory. This Js hard luck on tho foreigners, as It will compel them to come back with a lot of guns and""3oldlers and shoot a little civilization into the Moro.c cans. Mrs. Chadwick's jailer probably leaves his money at homo when he has occasion to visit her cell Lawson tells Denis Donohue that his first name will be description enough. "Mr. BIttle Cox spent Saturday night and Sunday at Frank Whitley's. He says he believes in staying a long while when you go to see your girl, and she won't for. get you," says the Rural Retreat (Va.) Times. Besides, you can test her cooking better on an extended visit. Presents make the heart grow fonder. Men often find themselves up a- tree as the result of putting Christmas gifts there. Santa Claus is buying his ticket. From a cabled report of the London cat 8how: One small white Persian had maid in constant attendance." We hope she pulled the brute's tail every time its owner looked the other way You may have lost track of your grand father and yet have a family tree athis time of yean Girls attending the Chicago publti schools are hereafter to be uniformly clad if Superintendent Cooley's plans are car ried Into execution. If that worthy has his way the school glrl3 under his charge will each have a "plain white dress of inexpensive material for class sradua tlons and other public functions, a "shirt waist suiC for Summer and a "dress of plain dark material for Winter." Just think of the resyfjt .should this movement spread beyond the limits of Chicago! Isn' the world grayly uniform enough now without making it duller yet? Shall there no longer be a glory of the moon and an other of the stars and another of the school girln? Must every flower be white, and the rose cease to blush? Not by a darned sight, and the American girl, at school or in any other place, will continue to be as much like a golden pheasant as she pleases. WEX. J The Last Recourse. Philadelphia Public Ledger. "No work," said the man, gloomily, "and not a thing in the house to eat. What shall we do?" "There is nothing for us to do," replied his wife, but to take in boarders. Ballade of Buckwheat Cakes. Chicago Chronicle... Let winds blow high, blow low, blow chill. And snows descend and wrap in white The upland. lowland, meadow, hill. And all the birds take sudden flight And yet the world will seem as bright. For as the russet year grows late We find that everything's all right The buckwheat cakes are on the plate. It matters not how loud and shrill The winds may blow by day or night. So let them wreak their futile will. 'They can not fill our souls with fright. No matter how they nip and bite, While wo can sit and masticate Those precious disks so crisp and light The buckwheat cakes are on the plate. Let roaring tempests rave their fill And wintry winds In fury smite. Let lec form thick on brook and rill And rivers freeze up fast and tight. Let Mgns of Summer fade from sight. And- wc will laugh at any fate While sirup and hot cakes unite The buckwheat cakes are on the plate. L ENVOI. O prince of foods, supreme delight. To thee we humbly dedicate A 'great and gTowlng appetite The buckwheat cakes are on the plate. ENGLISH ATTACKS ON THE KAISER Periodicals Hold Him Repoaile for Grave Ks5li3h Xisasdexstaad iaspi With Russia. (Berlin dispatches published In The Orego- nlan yesterday state that the Kaiser's govern ment has protested agalnet the attack upon German policy led by the- Xatlonal Review ana the Army and Navy Gazette. An Idea of the chauvinistic British attitude toward Germany may be gained from the following leading ar ticles taken from the latest number of the Na tional Review, which Is one of the most bril liantly edited London periodicals. Its tone be ing strongly imperialistic. pro-Chamberlain and anti-German.) w S cannot resist offering our most humble but none the less hearty and sincere congratulations to His Imperial Majesty, he German Em peror, on the amazing events of the past month. The Bismarckian record ha3 been completely eclipsed. Twice within one week Russia and England were on the very verge of war. As every competent diplomatist on the Continent credits the crisis in large measure to the skillful manipulation of the German Foreign Office, and as Kaiser Wilhelm is the active director of Itp operations, we feel that it is neither offensive nor extravagant to carry our congratulations to Potsdam, all the more as matters were so skill fully managed that Germany has been able to cover up her tracks. That sho doos not fear detection Is evident from the valiant and virtuous demand of the semi-official organ of the German For eign-Office, the North German Gazette, for a full and searching inquiry as to the origin of thp information which reached the Russian Admiralty con cerning the presence of Japanese tor pedo-boats in the North Sea. The fact remains that the legend that the North Sea was sown with Japanese mines and was being: paraded by Japanese torpedo-boats on the lookout for the Baltic fleet was the invention of some master mind in the Wilholmstrasse, and the means which were taken to give It currency were even more Ingenious than the conception itself. The Ger mans alone realize the potentialities of British simplicity and Russian sus piciousness. Hence the circulation of the falsehood that every British port from Wcihaiwel to Hull was a Jumplng off place for the Japanese by German agents in easy-goirig English newspa pers Innocent of the use to which such "news" would be put: then the repro duction of the information as "on Eng lish authority" In official quarters In St. Petersburg. We have It on Russian au thority that during the weeks prior to the departure of tle Baltic fleet the Admiralty was bombarded with "warn nings" possibly conveyed through the semi-official German steamship com panies, which have obligingly under taken to coal the remnant of the Rus sian navy out to the Far East and lUsmlssing - those Idle fantasies as groundless and grotesque, proceeded to investigate them with the utmost gravity. As to whether there is any truth in the positive allegation appearing In responsible newspapers that the Ger man Emperor took an active hand in the game of scaring Russia by address ing a personal warning to the Emperor Nicholas on the eve of the departure of tho Baltic fleet, with the result of His Majesty's sending stringent Instruc tions for redoubled vigilance to his Admiral we cannot say. That some one has convinced the Czar of the truth of the legend la beyond a doubt. Nor can we answer for the accuracy of the allegation current In well-informed French quarters that directly he heard of the outrage on the Dogger Bank which can scarcely have beon alto gether a surprise Kaiser Wilhelm telegraphed to the Emperor Nicholas that "in the event of a war with Eng land, Russia might count on German support." There would be nothing sur prising in such a message, as the Ger man Emperor has shown himself to be the deadly and determined enemy of this country at every crisis which has arisen, both Before, during and since the South African War. The Kruger telegram and the subsequent effort to form a diplomatic combination against this country Is on record to give us a measure of His Majesty's hostility, while we learnt from the revelations of President Faure of that "friendly duplicity" to adopt the happy phrase of the well-informed writer of the ar ticle we publish this month on the Ger man press which loaded France with promises of German moral support at the time of the Fashoda crisis, at tho very moment that similar assurances were being lavished upon British statesmen. We are not acquainted with the precise role which Germany has played in London during the last few weeks, but it would be no surprise to learn that while Russia was egged T. W. LAWSON DESCRIBED. Most Talked-Of Man in the Country Leading Facts in His Career. Boston Traveler. Thomas W. Lawson was born in the. city of Charlestown 45 years ago, being" the son of a carpenter from Nova Scotia. He ran away from school at the ago of 12 years to get a Job on State street, and got it. Made a small fortune when 16 in a "pool" with other State-street office boys. Lost it all later in a squeeze in stocks. Married at 21, and has had a delight ful home life. Is the father of six chil dren. Made his debut in State street about 17 years ago in a fight against a store service company, he being Interested in a rival patent. Won the light and engineered a "reorganization," with himself on the Inside. About this time was also managet of a large railroad supply printing house in Boston. In 1893 he engineered a stock cam paign for the Westinghouse Electric Company against the General Electric Company. Cleaned up $2,63 4.000 In oS days for himself and his backers. Plunged In Sugar stock and "dropped his pile." Promoted a "boom" town in Ken tucky and losL Became interested in the Butte & Boston Copper Mining Company's stock, which he bought at from 75 cents to $2 a share and bulled at $io or better. Accumulated stock' of the Boston & Montana Company in the same way, and did the same thing with it. Jnterester Henry H. Rogers and other Standard Oil men in coppers, and in the organization of the Amalgamated Com pany cleaned up millions. - Took an active part in gas affairs in Boston. Fell out with the Standard OH in 1301 and lost about $10,000,000 in a few dys In -a sensational drop In Amalgamated stock. Vowed vengeance, and lay low. Began a campaign of publicity look ing to a rehabilitation of his fortunes and to "getting square"- with Standard Oil. Acquired a copper mino of his own in California. Began promoting a com bination of Lake Superior mines as riv als' to the Amalgamated. In 1001 he built a racing yacht at a cost of $250,000 and offered her as a defender of the America's cup, but without being admitted to the trial races. Broke the vessel up at the end of three months, and at a cost of $40. 000 published a book telling all about it, the entire edition of which he gave away. Acquired fame as buyer of a pink for $30,000 and naming it for his wife. Built a stock farm among the rocks on to "stand no nonsense rrom- t,cg land." we on our side were being, ex horted to take advantage of the golden , opportunity to "crush the hereditary enemy. The German press, certainiy dld Its utmost to fan British resentment when excitement was running highest against the "unspeakable outrage" upon our Hull fishermen, wnicn. was represented as an offence which could only be wiped out in blood, while the same organs were deaf and dumb re garding the kindred outrage to Ger tany. viz.. the shooting at the Sonntag by the Baltic fleet Moreover, the Ger mans could not contain their chagrin when, largely owing to the friendly in tervention of France, who is as anx ious to prevent a war between Eng land and Russia as Germany is to bring off suclu a catastrophe, the incident eventually took a peaceful turn. The annoyance of Berlin has Indeed been some consolation to the people of thi3 country for what most of us recognize as a serious miscarriage of British diplomacy. For our own part we freely confess that If the conduct of Germany has finally opened the eyes of our pur blind politicians as to the hostility of the German Emperor, who is the Ger man government, the incident, howex-ef painful, will not have been wholly in vain. As we are almost weary Of point ing out. German diplomacy is engaged in a world-wide war against the Brit ish Empire In every capital of the world from Pckin to Washington, with one notable exception London. It is, we believe, no longer necessary to adduce evidence of Teutonic ill-will elsewhere. But the gushing good-will of the Ger man diplomatists in London is no less marked than the Anglophobe activity of the German Embassies in St. Peters burg, Paris, Pekln, Washington and other places. At the anniversary din dcr of the St. George's German and English Schools the chair was taken by Count John Bernstorff. Councillor to the German Embassy, and a delight ful paragraph duly appeared In every newspaper entitled "Anglo-German Amenities." which may conceivably have made innocent English people ask "How can Germany be represented as a hostile power, seeing- that1 her rep resentatives are overflowing with friendship?" We are ignorant as to Count Bernstorft's private opinions, and for ought we know to the contrary ho may have Bpoken from the fullness of his heart, or he may be one of the handful of Germans who regret the policy of their government. There is another form of "Anglo German amenity" to which the German Emperor presumably attaches even more Importance than to the honeyed words of his representatives In Lon don. A recent number of the Scots man contains, under the heading of "Shetland Notes," a detailed and au thentic account of the visit of the Ger man fleet to Scotland last Summer, which managed to elude the vigilance of the London press, though it seems to have been a considerable event. Ac cording to the Scotsman, which is the Times of - Scotland, the whole German active fleet, numbering over 30 vessels, under Admiral von Koester, spent near ly a week in and around Lerwick har bour towards the end of July, during which they do not seem to have wasted their time. In fact, with "that intel ligent anticipation of events before they have occurred" which characterizes Teutonic proceedings. Admiral von Koester's squadron temporarily annex ed a portion of the Sheflands. For almost a week the Germans sounded, re connoltered. maneuvered, drilled and prac ticed round the Shetland shores. They hovered round and glided here and there.. They stole Into voes. Startled Islanders, abroad in the night-time, met bands of Germans traversing the country silently and swiftly like companies of the dead. v And then follows this pertinent in quiry, "Now why." Shetlanders ask, "should Germany And it worth while to pay us so much attention while our own country ignores us?" It Is 46 years since the Channel fleet had anchored in the Shetlands, but the German dem onstration appears to have inspired the British Admiralty with a desire to show the flag, and accordingly there ensued a somewhat short and shabby visit from a small detachment of Lord Charles Beresford's squadron. We would ven ture respectfully to ask the Admiralty to explain to the British taxpayer why the most hostile of all foreign naval powers is allowed the free run of our home waters? Can it be that British self-complacency thinks that a naval contest between England and Germany would be so unequal that fair play de mands that we should at any rate give the other side the advantage of know ing the ground? of Scituatc at a cost of $2,000,000 be cause his wife liked the site. He accumulated the finest kennel of bulldogs in the country. Bought a triangle of land in the: Back Bay for nearly $300,000 and inada It into a park for the benefit of his neighbors, most of whom did not like him. , , Does not belong to any city club. Spends all his evenings at home. Dispenses large sums in charity. 13 superstitious. BITS OF OREGON LIFE. ' Anxiety in Linn County. - Albany Democrat, The doinss of the grand jury at Portland will be watched through a telescope. Having Fun. Pilot Rock Record. Tying tin cans to horses' tails is a di version enjoyed by someone living on Stewart Creek. is This a Personal Experience? Coast Mall. No matter how drunk a man Is, or how dark It Is; he never tries to take two steps more after he reaches the top step. One is sufficient. Modern Chivalry Heard From. Big Bend Empire. It is always bad policy for a man to talk about a woman, as a gentleman of this city can testify It sometimes causes en largement of the jaw. Misplaced Sympathy. Marshfield Mail. They were passing under the elevated road and the roar above was deafening "This bustle makes my head ache." said she. "Probably." observed he, "if you were to wear a smaller one" "Sir," she indignantly cried. "I mean the noise con fuses me." "I beg your pardon," he stam mered. Brigham Wants Only One Wife. Independent Enterprise. Brigham Young, of the Airlle neighbor hood, was in town the latter part of the week. It probably Is not too late lnlLeap Tear to announce to maidens of Polls County that Brigham is etill an ungath ored rose on the bush of lonely bachelor hood. Brigham has a place four miles from Alrlie and is prepared to care for a wife in nrst-clasa rural style. Their Stand-By. Chicago News. "The tramp Is ever bcfqre us," said the sociological student.' "Who la responsible for this?" "The comic artist," chuckled the buffoon boarder.