THE HORSING OSEGOXIA&,. Wt&ISWIBD&X:, trAflAkr llj IWfcr:
would work. But it remain's with many
Uiitsf fifr(fiYtytt a fascinating: dream, -which they ob-
VrV Vi-''V-frVVT trude upon the -world to its annoyance
but since it runs so violent against the
Entered at the Postoffice at "Portland. Or., principles of human nature and of Te
as secot-ciass matter. sponsible human action. It never will
REVISED SUBSCRIPTION RATES. make progress, except, among those
By malt (postage prepaid In advance)- wno are Trilling to exchange In
:SSSA!3ffc5"S dividual hope ad activity and pur-
Daily, wijh Sunday. Pr year .00 post and ambition for a state of servi-
ThWaJkTJ De?rear :::::.::: I&o "re not exactly described by any of
The WetSy 3 minSi:!" the ordinary terms serfdom, helotry.
Daily, per week, delivered. Sunday ex- peonage or common slavery, but a con-
j?y?W"wes"ceuVer dltion which would be a commixture
eluded -20" of them- and -worse lhan them all.
POSTAGE bates. - But-perhaps The Oregonian is deal
United States, Canada and Mexico ing too seriously with a matter that
10 to H-page paper, i really is chimerical; for no people Is
pwr::;::::::::.:: " eoing into the socialistic state. Least
Foreign rates, -double. and last of all would the people of the
EASTERN" BUSINESS OFTICE. 1 United States,
The- S. C eckwlUi Special Ageacy New
Tort- -Rami 43-so. Trlfaua fculhSinc. Chi
cago: Rooms 510-512 Tribune building. Jtmniajt vuaJUBtiaii buuuus.
Tk Orege does not buy poems or sto- During the current week WO gather
rle. from individual, an cannoi ihg-S of considerable importance to the
to return any manuscript sent to it witnoui i . ,
-JT .hoid b. inclosed City of Portland will take place. The
tor this purpose. 1 annual meeting of the Chamber of Com
tmr nv ctt- merce will be held this evening, and
..., .,.. Po.tr.fBre the annual banquet of the Board of
NewTTL its Dearborn street. Trade on Friday evening. Though dlf-
Dearer Julius Black, Hamilton & Kend- "ferlng slightly in the classes of our
rick. Seventeenth street, and I"ru- citizens who are enrolled, in these two
sw Bros.. 605 ieth st, bodies, yet their alms have much in
R,claeclMr CT " common. Their growth and prosperity.
rHaVry Drapkin. and above all -the unselflsfi interest of
nVln-rt. ' OaL W. H. Johnston. Four- their members and officers In ajl that
teenth and Franklin streets. concerns the solid development of the
mwnwipoMs m. J. KavanauEh, w sontn city these things concern US alL Al
Thttd; L. xegeistmrger. M -fcirsi avenue wayjJ c,ty ,B judsed,t,y its representa
vw t-v- rr. t.. Mr ro Ator tive bodies. It is indeed Important at
House. this Juncture that the Chamber of
Ogdea T. k. Godard and Myers & Harrop. Commerce, Board of Trade and Com-
Omsfrn Barkaiow Bros 1612 Farnam: merclal Club should stand on behalf of
Maeath Stationery Co.. isos Farnam. the City of PorUand for whatever in
BenduVeet UfeS t0 tDe al reatnMS ot our cU?
cu . t v- Coooer Co.. 748 Mar- and state. The Chamber of Commerce
fcet -stcpet; roster Crear, Ferry News j and the Board of Trade seem to be the
'Btaad; Goldsmith Bros., ,286 Sutter; I. E. I only modern representatives of 'the
Ie. Palace HoUl News-m; F. w. , wtts. nds and companies with which the
ttO08 Market; Frank Scott, SO Ellis; N. nistorJc eAtn of lh- ci.im of the
wheatley. 88 Stevenson; Hotel St. Francis 10 ?J,? ?ll
fitV-a. . Old World Is forever associated. If one
Tfiimrrrn. D. C Ebbltt House News I askB whence the funds come for those
etaad. I old endowments, to erect the stately
halls and furnish them, to amass those
pictures which adorn them, to support
the schools and classes and care for
the aged and sick members of the so
ciety, the reply is that the guild or
company made it a continuing duty to
select their best men to office, to man
age affairs so that the prosperity of the
Individual merchants and traders of
the guild was reflected' in Its growth
and Influence. But it was not less that
the sense of civic pride was so strong
in these men of trade and commerce
of the past that they stood ready to put
time, name,-Energy and fortune Into
the affairs of their guild and of the city
which was its home and their own. In
our days the goldsmiths and fishmong
ers, merchant tailors, cordwainers,
vintners and the rest have the common
meeting grounds of the Chamber of
Commerce and Board of Trade. Le
them, then, stand in the future as in
the past, animated by these same con
tlnuing motives, tending to growth.
stability, improvement. This year.
above all past years, when the eyes
of the world are turned to the Pacific
Northwest and to the Exposition which
will draw men of all nations and lan
guages to our city, it behooves these
great commercial bodies to set their
very best men in the front. For what
objects, then, should they strive?
In the first place, no man holding so
representative a position, can .allow
anything but the public good to inspire
his action. If the claims of the city are
to be pressed towards better transpo'r
tatlon methods and opportunities, if
more and better ships are to be invited
to share In our growing commerce, if
our river channels, estuaries and har
bors need improvement, if our dormant
resources In mines and minerals are to
be opened out, if our railroad communi
cations are to be developed, if the pow
erg of our waterfalls and cataracts are
to be made available. If the solitary
places of our dry plains are 4)y water
to be made, to bloom,, if our population
16 to grow by the addition of the en
ergetic and successful folks from other
that the caifish. like "the carp, is" in- adds. Should cieW ttSierttani that
creasinsr in numbers until trout and the Hit School 'fraf .mean 'an early
salmon are feeing crowded out ot cer- a'ad Hfceral eici,Ui siMfefeWftfteM,
tain haunts where they were formerly in loafing, in miscsier ana in we ma
round, xne carp, Deing less aggressive i nipuinuuu ui p
in its pursuit of Its own family, does
not materially- reduce the supply of
other fish, but, throughout the length
and breadth of the Columbia Basin,
wherever water has 6verfl6wed from or
led away from the Columbia River, this
nuisance has grown, thrived and raised
large families. Before the mysterious
crank who Introduced them got his
deadly work In on us, these streams
and sloughs made flne breeding grounds
for millions of wild f owl. Ducks, geese.
PO&TIAND, TVXDXESDAY, JAN. 11, 1M.
socialism: again.
Mr. C. W. Saunders, Portland, ad
t&reeees the following letter to The Ore
Ionian: Isn't it a fact, and doesn't it show a bad
condition of thine, especially hard on those
co situated, that thousands and hundreds ot
thousands of men and women are dependent
upon some one for work, whereby they can
-earn the wxe they live on? And Isn't It a
fact that eye it capitalist Industry, as now
run. Is hut the mill of their grinding1 into dol
tlar and cents for those for whom they must
tfperforce work? They are- not given work be
cause they are men and women of nt3. but
use. And, after serving they are as ruthless
ly thrown aside as any machine or part of
mechanism of steeling material. Are they
not as helplessly bound, bonded and sold to
the dollar ot their employer as ever Blive to
master? Is It, can It be right, that any
can, by any means, have the power to make
suoh -virtual enslavement?
Now Socialism would do away with this by
Abolishing private ownership of public needs
and make It possible tor every -one to work
that wanted to. through all having an equal
right of access to and use of the means and
tools of Industry, through their public owner
chip; a necessary sequence of production hav
ing outgrown lndlvldua capacity and power
and become communal In numbers and In
terest. Let the world'a people own the world.
The purpose here is rather ob
scure; but in Its results it would
mean a change in the entire struc
ture of society," the virtual abo
lition of private property, complete
destruction of initiative on the part of
the individual man. It would set the
tate over every man as his master:
and, under the plea of deliverance of
man from "enslavement" to an , em
ployer binder conditions where the
worker has at least some quantity of
choice, his portion would be actual and
complete enslavement to the state.
"Iet the world's people own the
world." They own It now, but not all
in the same proportions. It Is the na
ture of property to be unequal. Under
the notion of equality -of property no
conception of progress is possible. The
object of socialism is to equalize con
' KOTE AKD COS MINT.
It was a cruel ctMpbsitfrr ha 'tttrfle
the play ef "The Bauble Shop" into "The
Barber Shop."
Attorney-General Moody holds that.cat-
tld are goods Jn the original package, but
ness believe la them as a safeguard of j preteiaably has different 'tws concern-
American liberty, and the cradle of re ing sausages.
sponsible American citizenship, ex
claim:. "From this desecration of our
educatlosat Ideals may- our school au
thorities deliver u!"
"Well may the American people, who
with surpassing generosity maintain
these schools; who with 'loyal earnest- !
THIRTY NEW G O V E K N'0
CfcaK Occur im Unwary la Matty Slsei Tfcre 'beiifer -crats
ScceI KeWleasw, Ome Repwfelleaa a Democrat.
American Jokes are too- Much for Ten
don papers. The New York Eveaing Sua
flads the St -James Qaaette solemnly
publishing the following product of the
Representative Smith, of Josephine. I American Jbkettaker as an interesting
is another XemBcrat who wants to I Item of newti "Ah Trlh schoolmaster on
brant and swan, pausing in their flight j know how much the Republicans get a visit to New Tpr'k a week or two age
for their campaign funds, and where was discovered by a policeman in a sewer,
they come from, die has Introduced a At the Dolice court he' explained that he
bill at Salem with tfeat Interesting pur- j thought it was the entrance to the now
pose In view, nobody knows (except underground railway.'
the campaign officers) just jiow touch
tbe two .National committees receiveo 0fte o the lctters written by Bishop
last year; but independent newspapers Talbot was marked, "Bend this back to
which claimed to know and had In a inc. But letters o tt,e kmd that are
measure tne confluence oi soia com
mittees said there was no. great differ
ence in the sums total. This Is prob
ably the truth. Jl better law at least
one more likely to be observed than
the measure proposed by Mr. Smith
from the Far North or South, rested
over these rich beds Of wepato and
wild rice, ate their fill and passed on.
leaving the beds of these waters In flne
shape.
Vrtf ask with thu Bwftil earn. His
work is systematic, and he flits not
from flotaer to flower, or. to be more
accurate, from wapato to wapato. He
makes a clean sweep. Root, stalk and
bulb are all -devoured, and when the
carp satisfy their appetite In a pond
there Is nothing left for ducks to feed
on. The worst of it is, witn tnese pests
wanted back again seldom c6rae
they are not wanted.
until
there Is no method for exterminating woul& be to require candidates to sub-
them. Unlike the coyote, the wolf or
some of our land pests, we cannot elim
inate them by paying a bounty. Per
haps all that remains to be done is to
offer a reward for the crank who
brought them Into the country, and,
having found him ,make an example
such as will serve to prevent any other
crank from ever again alTBKpUng- io
introduce such nuisances into the
peaceful fish life of the Columbia River.
mlt fdr public Inspection an Inventory
bt their expenses. Everybody would
like to learn, for example, how much It
cost for even so good a man as Repre
sentative Smith, a Democrat, to be
elected in the strong Republican
County of Josephine.
HIOK SCHOOL "mATS" AM) SORORI
TIES.
A movement which has assumed
grave proportions in connection with
the High Schools of many cities, and
is even invading the grammar schools
of the free-school system, is presented
under the above head in a late num
ber of the Saturday Evening Post l?y
Professor E. G. Cooley, Superintendent
of the Chicago Schools. It is sad to
say a timely topic in this city at pres
ent, the fad with which it deals, with
many of its more Irlvolous features, at
least, having Invaded our High School
to its detriment
At the present time, in the view of
Pressor Cooley, few problems con
front the public school authorities that
are more vexatious and significant of
evil than that presented by this move
ment. A thing of sudden growth, so
far as the common schools are con
cerned It has already gained the 1m
petus and the Insidious power of pro
pulsion that characterizes the fully de
veloped fad, whether in fashionable so
ciety or in the world of school children.
Only a few years ago the Greek-letter
fraternity was- regarded as purely a
collegiate institution, and was not
thought of in connection with High
School life. Within the last two years,
however, as stated by Professor Cooley,
"frats" and sororities have multiplied
like microbes in the public school sys
tem of Chicago, for example, until their
influence upon scholarship and disci
pline has forced the problem of their
existence upon the educational author
ities as a Imrnlng question which must
be faced squarely.
It Is not toormuch to sayi and' Pro
feasor Cooley says It boldly, -that when
a leaiure oi scnooi uie oecomes so
common, so nearly universal. It Is
bound to prove itself a powerful influ
ence Tor "good, or eviL Touching the
common schools of this country, with
their millions of pupils, this develop
ment should be subjected to a keen
and searching scrutiny. Are secret so
cietles, fraternities and sororities to be
come fastened upon our public schools?
Are they, so far as evidence has shown.
helpful or detrimental to the purpose of
the schools?
Investigation, as far as It h&s pro
ceeded. has shown that they are detri
mental, first, to the etiual opportunity
that the public schoolB are pledged to
us understand exactly what has
occurred at Salem. The Portland ma
chine put up Mr. Mills as its candidate
for SpeaRw and elected him. The
Portland machine combined with the
state machine to elect Mr. Kuykendall Africa,
A Plea for "Natives."
Great Britain has established a vast
game preserve In Central Africa, where
such gentle beasts as the rhinoceros and
the lioa are free from the murderous
hunter. All over the world there is a
disposition to prevent the extinction of
any species of animals, except, curiously
enoUgh, the one that affords civilised
hunters the beat run for their money.
We refer, of course, to the Epecies com
monly described, as oysters are, by the
term "natives." There is no close season
for natives, nor la there sanctuary for
them in any part of the world. They
are potted in the Orient, Tibet, all over
THIRTT states inaugurate new Gov
ernors during the present month of
January. They were, with the ex
cebtiea of the Governor of Maine, elected
at the last'geheral election on November
8. The Governor ot Wyoming Bryant B.
Brooks, Republican, who was elected on
the same date, took his seat in Novem
ber. The full list of new stato execu
tives who lake their portions during the
present Months is as follows:
Arkansas Jeff Dav!?. Dem.
Colorado Alva Adams. Dm.
Connecticut Henry Roberts, ifep.
Delaware Preston Lea. Rep.
Florida Napoleon B. Broward. Dtm. -
Idaho Frank R Goodlnr. Ren.
XUlnolA-Ctsarlts S. Dtneen. Rep.
Indiana J. Frank Hnly, Rep.
Kansas Edward W. Koch. Rep.
Maine William Cobb. Rep.
Massachusetts-W. L. Dougta. Dem.
Michigan Frtd M. "YVarner, Rep.
Minnesota J. A. Johnson. Dem.
Missouri Joseph W. Folk, Dem.
Montana Joseph K. Toole.. Dem.
Nebraska J. 11. Mickey, Rep.
New Hampshire John McLane. Rep.
New Jersey Edward C BtoXest, Rep.
New York Frank W. HIggins. Rep.
North Carolina Robert B. Glenn. Dem.
North Dakota E. T. Searles. Rep.
Rhode Island, le6rge P. Utter. Ren.
South Carolina D. C Hayward, Dem.
South Dakota Samuel H. El rod. Rep.
Ttecas S. "V. T. Lanham. Dem.
Tennessee James B. Frailer, Dem.
Utah John C. Culler. Rep.
"Washington Albert K. Mead. Rep.
"West Virginia W. M. Dawson. Rep.
Wisconsin R, M. LaFoUette. Rep.
It is an interesting fact that in only two
Tsorthem states were Republican Gov
ernors re-elected, while similar honors
were conferred on the Democratic Gov
ernors of Montana, South Carolina, Flor
as President of the Senate. Y161eht op
position to Uils latter project arose.
and It all but failed. Great effort nas
been made to have it appear that while
the Portland "ring" was behind Kuy
kendall. the Mills candidacy stood
on its own bottom. Not true. Mr.
Mills was brought out by the machine,
his campaign was conducted by the
machine, and his success is distinctly
a machine triumph. Mr. Kuykendall
appears to have projected his own can
didacy, but the machine fell m. Tnese
things are set down, jiot in malice or
in the spirit of complaint, but solely
In the Interest of. truth.
in the islands of the Paolc, In. a, Arkansas and Texas. The two Re-
Consul-General Steinhart, of Havana,
In his annual report on Cuban trade,
finds caUee for believing that the reci
procity treaty will eventually result in
irreat benefit to both Cuba and the
United States. Trade between the two
countries continues to Increase stead
ily, and Americans are beginning to
show increased Interest in the island
as a Winter resort Cuban exports to
the United Slates for eleven months
of 1904 were valued at 572,581,332, as
compared with ?57,22S,291 for the twelve
months of 1903. Imports into Cuba
from this country for the corresponding
periods were $28,895,763 in 1904 and ?23,
504,417 In 1903. Fifteen hundred miles
of railroad are in use, and Cpnsul-Gen-
eral-.Steinhart reports that the repub
lic Is advancing steadily in matters of
sanitation and peace preservation.
conditions individual property would
quickly disappear. What would this
mean? Look a little at the facts.
No social organization has been able
ever to thrive or make progress with
out individual property. Man is capa
ble of -civilization because he can pro
duce wealth. The socialistic state
would soon absorb the bulk or Individ
ual property, and there would be no
way of renewing it. If the state is to
take possession of the means of pro
duction the time would not be distant
when one person could have no more
than another. Then would ensue a
common level of poverty. "Man," says
Thlers,-"has a first property in his per
son and his faculties; he has a second,
less intimately connected with his be
ing but-not less sacred, in the products
of his faculties, which Includes all that
are called worldly possessions, and
which .society Is in the highest degree
Interested In guaranteeing to him; for
these public bodies of our state that
the state must find its voice.
These associations of our business
men are to be congratulated on what
ever success has so far attended them.
The number ot their members should
be "increased. The public should be
ever kept informed as to their almB.
They should be made to feel that it is
for them to suggest and to open up the
paths of public Improvement, confident
that the citizens will follow their lead
ership when plainly inspired by their
care for the good of the city and state
with which their own fortunes are in-
dlssolubly bound.
A residence of twenty-seven years In
Alaska has convinced Governor John
G. Brady that but for rum and a belief
In witchcraft the Far Northwest coast
of America, would teem with a native
population even as does the Empire of
Japan. The Esquimaux stock is, he
says, probably the purest type of the
Turanian race In existence, and the
food supply of Alaska Is sufficient to
maintain a largTpopulatl6n. yet all told
there are not more than 35.000 natives
in all that vast region. Truly, between
the gentle and exalted teachings of
Buddha and the devilish system of
witchcraft there Is a margin sufficient
fact, wherever they ire found, and. there
Is no limit to the bag that may be made
by any power. Such reckless destruction
of game cannot be justified 6n. any
grounds, and if some restrictive measures
are not adopted a few generations will
witness the extermination ot natives in
every" continent. In such event a great
number of gunners will have little sport
left them, and the coming peace confer
ence might fittingly take steps to prevent;
such a disaster. The great powers might
fix upon the maximum number of natives
which might be destroyed in any one year,
and thus preserve an exciting sport for
posterity.
With pleasure we observe that Jadam
Bede shows no intention of effacing him
self from the jocular paragraphs. When
Adams. 6f Pennsylvania, spoke in favor
of his bill for establishing a whipping
post for wlfe-beaters, the Minnesota hu
morist inquired If Adams had reported the
bill because he was a bachelor and there
fore immune. The question appears to
disclose a weakness In the bill. Why
should married men be favored with a
whlpplng-post when bachelors can't have
one? If that isn't class legislation, what
is?
Bunnlng to a fire- is far less tiring to
most boys than walking to Sunday school.
It beats all fury how a woman can maintain
her equilibrium on an icy pavement, when a
man is standing on his heau every few min
utes. New Tork Press.
Woman probably knows how foolish
she looks Upside down.
The Time for Speeches.
At a recent banquet in London the
after-dinner speeches were "taken as
read." printed copies being passed
around the table. Is it possible that
mankind Is at last being aroused
against the after-dinner speech, that
arch-disturber of digestion. It has al
ways been a source of wonder to us
that before-dinner speeches were not
the rule. Besides sharpening the appe
tite by the interval, the speakers would
publican Governors who succeeded thent-
selves were La Follette. of Wisconsin, arid
Mickey, of Nebraska; and it is to be
noted that they won only after most
strenuous battles, first for renomination
Try their own party, and then for elec
tion. Mickey barely escaped defeat; but
Lra Follette had a majority of 50.CO0.
though he was far behind President
Roosevelt. It Is curious, too, to observe
that In the Republican list of Governors
many familiar names have disappeared
many of them because they failed to get
the renomination. J. H. Peabody. Repub
lican, in Colorado, and John L- Bates, Re
publican. Massachusetts. Were renomin
ated, but were defeated by Democrats.
John T, Morrison. Republican Idaho
Richard Yates, Republican. Illinois; W
J. Bailey, Republican. Kansas; Heber M
Wells. Republican. Utah, and Henrv Mc
Bride, Republican. Washington, were all
defeated for renomination. In one in
stance only. Rhode Island, has a Repub
llcan Governor succeeded a Democrat. On
the contrary, three Democrats Adams. In
Colorado; Douglas, In Massachusetts, and
Johnson, in Minnesota have succeeded Re
publicans. In the United States today
there are 28 Republican Governors and
19 Democrats.
Perhaps the most remarkable victory
won by any nominee for Governor was
achieved in Minnesota by John A. John
son, who was the Democratic candidate
against Mr. Dunn, Republican. Roose
velt carried the state by the great plural
ity of out of a total vote ot less
than 300,000, receiving four votes to Par
ker's one. Yet in face of these tremen
dous odds, Mr. Johnson carried the state
by more than p.000. Mr. Johnson was
born-45 years ago in the city of SL Peter,
Minn., where he still resides. His parents
had come to Minnesota from Sweden.
H(s-8Choollng ended when he was 12 years
old. because it bec&me necessary for him
to assist his mother. Two yeara later
he had become the sole' support of ths,
ramuy his. mother and her five -children.
Fc 12 years he Was a Clerk. At We age
of 3d he bought a half-interest In a nejws- '
paper at St. Peter and in the following
ear ne was elected td tBe State Senate.
where he made A fine records For ftUtro
ears after leaving school he sought dili
gently to complete his education, and
with excellent results. He has a wide
knowledge of history and literature and
is a man of broad views. In the recent
campaign, some Ot his partisan opponents
unwisely sought to defeat him by distrib
uting circulars asserting that for a tirna
his father had been a pauper and his
mother had taken in washing. Mr. John
son is a forcible,, earnest and convincing
speaker, and a roan of very attractive
personality. His addresses in all parts
of the state 'were a most striking feature
of tue Minnesota campaign.
Another extremely Interesting cam-
nabm was waited by Joseph W. Folk.
Democrat, in Missouri- Of his campaign
the Review ot Kevlews says;
Mr. Folk won tils nomination at the hands
of the Democrats of Missouri against, the
desperate efforts of the controlling- machine ot
his party. He has within a few months oc
cupied a series df paradoxical sltaatldas. Seek
ing the nomination for Governor as h detet
mined enemy of the ring, he was In the end ac
cepted by the ring, but was obliged to run on
the ticket with men whose names he himself
had publicly listed with those of the boodlers
and corruptlonlsts. He was obliged, thereupon.
to take the stump and work for a Democratic
succe9 that might have meant bis own polit
ical undoing, elnce the election Of the fuu
state ticket and a Democratic Lfislalura
would probably have tied him hand and toot
in his proposals for particular legislative and
administrative reforms. His canvass Was
pushed vigorously throughout the state on the
plea made constantly by his supporters, if not
by himself, that President Roosevelt desired
his election. Yet, meanwhile, the Parker man
agers were basing their serene confidence ot
success In Missouri upon the certainty that
Mr. Folk would pull through with him tire
Parker Electoral Uckt- Finally, to complete
the series ot paradoxes, Mr. Folk undoubtedly
owed his victory to Republican votes; and the
ablest and most vigorous of all th efforts
that Drought Missouri Republicans into the -field
ind carried the day for President Roosevelt
were the efforts of lr Folk's honest and ablB
opponent. Cyrus P. Walbrtdge. Republican cai- w
dldate for Governor, backed by Mr. Jfledring
haus. the chairman of the Republican state
committee. Although Mr. "W'albrldge was him.
self defeated through conditions that gave Mr.
Folk so large a nonpartisan vote In SU Louis,
he succeeded In securing the electldn of the
jst of the Republican state ticket and Ot a
majority la the Legislature his efforts Being
united with President Roosevelt's personal pop
ularity. And It Is to this general Republican
success alone that Mr. Folk will owe htf best
opportunities fdr giving the state a reform ad
ministration. Already the Democrati are lut
ing him for Presidential honors in 19C8.
.
Governor LaFollette. In Wlfconsln, also
overcame great obstacles In attaining the
Governor's chair for the third time. He
was very vigorously opposed for renom
ination, but triumphed over the So-called
Stalwart faction, who finally put up an
Independent candidate of their own, but
they did not vote for him. iney seemea
to have gone over practically in a body
to the support ot Mr. Peck, Democratic
candidate. While the Republican defec
tion from lAFollette was considerable,
he seems to have obtained support from a
large number of Democrats who believed
that their own candidate was in the con
trol of railroads. Mr. LaFollette Is pe
culiarly a reform Governor. Be 'has bat
tled for ytarB for the direct primary sys
tem of political -nominations, and It is
now upon the statute books of Wisconsin.
He has always been the deadly foe of the
railroad Influence in politics. On that ac
count he has Incurred their permanent
hostility, but he seems alwayB to win.
THE PECULIAR GRAND JURY.
Hoqulam Washlngtonian.
A few more breaks ot the grand Jury now
sitting at Portland, in Indicting such mn
as Mayor WHUams, will bring the grand
jury system into contempt The Mayor is
one ot the ablest and cleanest men in the
State ot Oregon. Just because he would not
attempt the Impossible demand of over
sealous reformers, he was brought into this
unPItasant natorletv. Reform nn h mart
ly wide to absorb the possibilities of a be less likely to ramble on for a dreary jut Aa rapIdiy a8 tne mora. sentiment of
teeming empire. numoer ot minutes, ana incy wouia i the community supports the sentiment, and
nave to get some new joxes, ior not to attempt to go taster results in defeat of
the very ends desired.
-n . i uvnJ mn- I pvpn Dfoow would dare to hand out
aiuons among men; out under such states, it is uy tne puDnc ecuon i-uf" yn. 'thoroughly than was generally believed chestnuts to a lot of nungrr and tnere-
DIRK WORK OF TWO CRANKS.
Somewhere In this world, or the next,
are two individuals whose names
should be held up to scorn 5y Oregonl
ans until the end of time. These indi
viduals were cranks, and, as an indl
without this guarantee there would be vidua! could not be a crank without a
no labop. without labor no civilization, hobby, they had hobbies. With one of
not even necessaries; but instead, des
titution, brigandage and barbarism."
The relation of master and slave If
government is to be the masters-Is
strangely attractive to a class of minds,
them the hobby was German carp, and
with the other It was catfish. Just
what peculiar perverted strain in
man's nature caused him to think of
Introducing Into the undeflled waters
unless he can do the work his employer
needs, in which case' he is sure to be
much wanted imagines that if gov
ernment were his master he would be
assuredof his livelihood anyhow, and he
thinks it would be obtained with the
least possible amount of -effort, care or
labor. He will be relieved, he thinks,
of ''slavery," if he can once be en
rolled In the service of a paternal gov
ernment; and he thinks no further. It
does not occur tb-Thlm. that the system
would cut off all men of higher purpose
from hope and ambition, and effect a
complete transformation of society, by
degradation of it to a low. common,
monotonous level Yet nothing Is more
certain than these results would fol
low. Still, the number Is not sm.all
who wish to be slaves of the state, who
would abandon Independence, hope and
ambition, merely or promise of oppor
tunity, through government, ot the
means to "keep 'base life afoot." Ordi
nary servitudeor slavery, such as the
negroes formerly were subjected to In
our Southern States, was a beatitude
compared with this condition. But the
socialist doesn't think it out In his
passion for equality he wants to make
conditions in which superior ambition
and superior ability will have no chance
to rise to their actual worth. Govern
ment is to take possession of lands and
machinery and aj.1 means and instru
ments of production; it is to direct la
bor and distribute the proceed. The
idea- is to make the able and willing
work for support of the Inefficient and
worthies-which, were it possible,
-frould wreck civilized society; for when
that -condition was reached nobody
The individual who can't rely on the of , Oregon where the royal Chinook
private employer for work or wages J and the famous trout waxen rat ana
great tne musny, naooy, tasteless,
dirty carp will always be a mystery
Some of the carp's friends, in pallia
tion of the offense, used to tell us that
the worthless destroyer of the-wapato
and other marine plants was a food
fish In some parts of the world. Per
haps It was this argument that won
our consent to Introduction of the fish
In the flrst place. If It was, we were
weak and failed to reason carefully.
vHad we done so we would have re
membered that there are localities on
earth where, the dwellers eat rats, oats
and dogs, and even one another. Hence
It was not a proper deduction from
analogy, that we should eat carp be
cause somebody else did. Then there
was the catfish. Under certain condi
tions and for a very brief period when
no other fish Is on the market, we
might use him for a food fish. He can
be made partly palatable, which Is more
than can be said In favor of the carp;
but, as an agency of destruction of
something 'more valuable than he will
ever be, the catfish Is a pretty close sec
ond to the carp. The catfish Is a
prowler along the river bottom and
scoops up the pawn of trout and
salmon, and hangs around and- preys
on the young fish. And in his preda
tory habits he is amply protected.
Small or large, he is exempt from the
attacks oi- other fish which would not
hesitate to gobble up any other fish of
similar size, and If ever a, tender trout
attempts to take in a catfish, it is the
trout, and not the catfish, that dies.
Being thus immune from attack by
other fish and detested gesertvlly as a
food fish. It is no to be wtadered
with maturity; second. In their bearing
upon scholarship; and, third, in the in
culcatlon of a spirit of snobbishness
that is of all things to be shunned In
the education of American youth.
Upon the first point proof is present
ed in the fact that In one Chicago -High
School having 1330 pupils there are
twenty-five elective positions flUed by
students from their ranks. The -fraternity
members number ISO as -against
1200 pupils not members of any secret
drfier. Twenty of these twenty-five po
sitions were, at the time the investi
gation was made, held by fraternity
and sorority members, disclosing the
Dolltlcal power of the "frat ring." The
conclusion is that It High Schools are
to be operated for the training of po
litical bosses, the "frat" Is a good thing,
but not otherwise.
On the second point, the fifteen prin
clpals and 375 teachers of the High
Schools of Chicago, without a dissent
lng voice, characterize the Influence of
the fraternities and sororities as
"harmful to scholarship and discipline
un-American and undemocratic.'
The Indictment in the third count
the Inculcation of the spirit of snob
bishness Is. thus supported by a promt
nent lawyer of Chicago, himself a
product of its public' schools, who holds
representative opinions upon the sub
Ject:
In some of these fraternities the dues and
fees aro beyond the means of the children
of poorer parents who are stinting them
reives to give their children a high school
course. In other, the societies In their in
nate arrogance set themselves up as the
elect ot the school class or institution and bar
out otherworthy pupils on account of their
race, their creed or their social or financial
standi.
There can scarcely be a doubt of the
correctness of these estimates In regard
to the influence, of the "frat movement"
in our High -Schools. That it has in
vaded the High School In this city, with
at least an aping of the snobbishness,
the bosslsm and the frivolity that
characterize its influence in the schools
ot larger cities. Is a matter of common
knowledge. It may as well be said In
the beginning that here as elsewhere
"the general Influence upon the school
Is harmful. Time and effort are given
to these organizations that should be
given to school work; boys sit up late,
smoking and chatting and have little
enthusiasm for study next day; cliques
are formed, and any question of disci
pline or scholarship, small In itself, is
resented by the whole club."
"How is this matter to be dealt
with?" asks Professor Cooley In con
cluding his strong arraignment of the
"frat movement" In our common
schools. This question he answers
briefly and pointedly, saying: "Mainly
by arousing parents to a sensible,
hearty co-operation with teachers, who,
seeing the drift ot this movement.
W9uli.fa.ln check it." "Pareatt," he
during the siege, or General Stoessel
would have had more accurate Infor
mation concerning the movements ot
Kuropatkln. It is hardly possible that
the Russian government would have
deliberately deceived Stoessel on the
fore hypercritical men. Let us hope
that the before-dinner speech will suc
ceed the moribund after-dinner boVe.
It is a relief in these days when the
germ Is a terror In the land to come
subject ot relief, and the closeness of across something reminiscent ot the
theblockade must therefore have forced nays wnen man ana an tne otner ani-
hlm to rely on Chinese spies, whose mala used to eat germs alive and thrive
renorts that Kuropatkln was on his mightily upon them. The Atchison
way down the L-iaotung Peninsula were Globe says that "a North Second-street
believed by the garrison. pig which is scrubbed every day oy its
owner is morose and sullen, and refuses
Everybody must sympathize wljh the to get fat because of Its sanitary sur
Army oflicer In the Philippines who
was In such doubt as- to his conjugal
affairs that he could only answer the
JFar Department's question, "Married
r single?" with an interrogation mark.
The only state ot doubt comparable
with this would be uncertainty as to
whether one was dead or alive.
Thomas Cader Powell has been ap
pointed United States Marshal at
Korae. It would seem that the Oregon
delegation still has Influence. And
there are those in Oregon who will be j found In the city, that is to say, a popu-
roundlngs." The Atchison pig takes
a very proper stand. Let me have dirt
and plenty ot it, it says, or I'll stay
thin as a lath. The time is ripofor a
revolt against the rule of the 'scrubbing-brush
and carbolic acid, antisep
tics and disinfectants. Man, llko the
pig, cannot flourish In soapsuds.
Portland is recognized at last as a
"stovepipe-hal town.'1 We ard- avenged
for the slight offered by Miss Rives,
who said there wasn't a hero to be
able to reconcile themselves to the pain
of parting with Mr. Powell.
Business before pleasure Now that
Congress appears to have 'settled the
business of where the Inaugural ball
shall be held, the Nation's legislators
may amuse themselves with matters of
statehood and merchant marine subsidies.
"Compensation of Defeat" was the
title ot an address delivered before the
Jacksonlan banqueters. Perhaps Kuro
patkln is optimistic enough t6 make
speeches on the same subject.
lar ncsel hero. Here Is how William
Elroy Curtis boosts Portland in the
Chicago Record-Herald, and it is ex
ceedingly gratifying to find that even
Seattle so far takes after us that
"scarcely an evening passes (in Seattle)
without the appearance of several gen
tlemen, either strangers of townmen,
With low-cut vests, white tjes and swal-
Bellingham Reviells,
The indictment against Mayor George H.
Williams has been dismissed by the county
grind Jury at Portland, and the District At
torney has recommended, in view of the
lack of foundation for the case, that the
Mayor be completely exonerated. In the
face of this showing, It must make the mem
bers of the grand jury feel somewhat small
to have Indicted the Mayor in the first place.
It Is just such instances as this that have
caused the elimination of the grand jury
system, as far as the states are concerned In
Minnesota, Michigan and other states, the
former quite recently. The danger In the
grand jury, system lies in this damage that
results to men's reputations through ground
less Indictments that are sometimes returned.
The fact that they are subsequently quashed
or never brought to trial, or that they often
fall when a trial is had, in many cases
falls to leave the reputation as It was before
the reflection was cast upon It. It may be
that there will he a general movement for
the elimination ot the system, but It Is
doubtful If It will be successful. It was
adopted in the first place both as a means of
bringing to trial Influential men whom an
individual might be slow to charge with a
crime, but who. through a grand jury in
dictment, might be brought to Justice, and of
protecting men who might otherwise be un
justly accused. With all its faults, the sys
tem has been of service In Convicting many
guilty men. whom It wovld otherwise have
been hard to reach. It Will probably stand
In most places.
What the Hand Symbolizes
Helen Keller in Century.
Look whero we will, we find the
low-tail coats." Hitherto wo had been hand in time and history, working.
under the Impression that In Portland
A Republican Legislature In Montana
Is tamely balloting for a United- States
Senator. Things never get Interesting
at Helena until Bonanza Clark is a
candidate.
King County at Olympla Is at great
pains to Inform everybody that It is
King County. That's what's the mat
ter with King County.
Speaker Mills hoped to shorten the
Legislative session from forty to thirty
days. The optimist we have always
with us.
Nasal Inaccuracy.
Cleveland Leader.
A Scotchman; and an American were
one day conversing In a railway carriage,
and in the course of the conversation the
subject turned upon the relative truth
fulness -of the two n&uoas. "Do you
know, sir," said the American, "that a
lie has never passed my llpr "Whit's
thatr said the astonished ScetsmaK, his
f aca expressing .the greatest surprise and
or Seattle a man in evening dress would
bo taken for part of a minstrel show.
The silk hat and dress suit of civilization
has reached the Pacific Coast at bot! Portland
and Los Angeles, and you see them In the win
dows of the shops on the main street ot Seat
tle, but nobody ever wears top hats on week
days. On Sundays many gentlemen appear In
them, and at funera they are quite numer
ous al Seattle and Tacoma and other Coast
towns. The habit has not yet reached Spo
kane. Helena or Salt Lake City. Sometimes
strangers unfamiliar with the customs ot the
country appear In public with "stovepipe"
hats, but always provoke remarks and ridi
cule. Only clergymen and eweriy gentlemen
can wear them on week days at Seattle or
Tacoma. But th example of Portland wilt
soon be relt all along the Coast, for that city
is recognised as a "awelV'town.
Conventions! evening dresp is now commonly
worn at balls and recelpUons. evening .wed
dings and banquets in Seattle, Tacoma and
even In Spokane and Helena-, drees suits and
,tuxedoes are advertised oy reaay-to-wear
clothiers in au oi mcse piacvs; dbi it is nui
customary for gentlemen to dresa for ordinary
social occasions, and they never think of do
ing so In their own homes. In Portjaad. how
ever, ihla is quite common. At the Portland
Hotel dinner , served at the fashionable
Eastern hour front T to 9 -o'clock when most
of the ladles appear In light gowns and more
than half the genUemA In tuxedoes or even
ing clothes. The Washington Hotel, at Se
attle, Is beginning to show the same signs ot
culture," and scarcely an evening passes
building. Inventing, bringing clvlllza
tion out of barbarism. The hand sym
bolizes power and the excellence of
work. .The mechanic's hand, that min
ister of elemental forces, the hand that
hews, saws, cuts, builds, is useful in
the world equally with the delicate
hand that paints .a wild flowei; or molds
a Grecian urn; or the hand of a states
man that writes a law. The eye can
not say to the hand, "I have no need -of
thee." Blessed be the hand! Thrice
blessed the hands that work!
"Tears, Idle Tears."
Tennyson.
Tear, idle tears. I know not what they mean.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise In the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields.
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail.
That brings our friends up from the under
world,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love, below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark Summer
dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering
square;
So sad. so Strang, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered' kUses after death.
bewiMenoeat; Which gave pC to a lsak without the appesranc ot several gentlemea. j Ani awM!t u those by hopeless fancy feigned
i
Oh! I understand now, sir; yea sak j vests, white tie aad swallow-tali coats,
thrtoefc. jrr JM-" t - A WBX. J.
Dee as first lore, and wild with all regret;
O XaUI in Life, the days int are no more.
THIS WESTERN SITUATION.
New York Evening Post,
The reports that there have been extensive
frauds In the Government Land Offices of
Oregon and Idaho will surprise no one who
has even a casual acquaintance with the
Commerce and politics of the Pacific North
west. Thr astonishing thing is that opera
tions in which prominent politicians and.
in all probability, large corporations are In
volved should be Investigated by 6mCers of
justice. Putting In the probe his demand
ed more energy and courage than men
Eastern men suppose; and praise for fear
lessness should be hearuly accorded both
Secretary Hitchcock and President Roose
velt. In removing a United 8tates District
Attorney and pressing for an indictment
against Senator Mitchell and Representative
Hermann, they have encountered the bitter
hostility and dared the wrath of strong
sdcial, political and financial Interests. For
In that part of the country the land question,
as It is sometimes called, is one phase of tha
eternal struggle between the corporations
and the people.
But vulgar bribery Is not the only method
of swindling Uncle Sam. The more Im
portant companies, with hundreds of em
ployes, have intimate connections with
banks and mercantile houses of all kinds.
They are socially and politically an norni
ous power. In any campaign they can make "
it clear to a candidate for either branch
of Congress that he wilt alienate them and
their friends unless he guarantees men Of
the right sort In the Land Offices. The
appointees, who can always have the en
thusiastic Indorsement of the leading men
of their region, bankers, lawyers, and even
clergymen, understand In advance that they
are not to run amuck. The Dig lumber op
erators are pillars of state, and as suoh
can do no wrong. To "question them or d6ubt
their good faith is to Interfere with the di
vine order of the universe. The United
States District Attorneys are early taught
the Important lesson that they must not
ruin local Industries and plunge the com
munity Into woe. Ther Is. in fact a tacit
understanding among high and low that -a,
patriot will let steeping dogs He.
Into this Garden ot Eden, a paradise of
corruption, the strenuous President has-rUde-ly
broken with the naming sword of jus
tice. Oregon. "Washington and Idaho are
almost as much shocked as Kew Tork would
be were men of the unquestioned Standing
of Senator Chauncey M. Depew and the of- .
fleers of the .New Tork Central Indicted Mr
granting rebates to favored shippers.
OUT OF THE GINGER JAR.-
Bank President We're ruined: The cash
ier has absconded with $100,000. Director
Don't get excited. He has left a note offer
ing to take us into partnership. Puck.
"Just on kiss before I go," he pleaded,
"And will you be satisfied with one?" she
asked. "I should say not," he replied!
"Then get busy." she said. Chicago News.
Mrs. Benham The paper says that a. man
has left $50,000 to establish a school of cook
ery. Benham-How true It is that the evil
that men do lives after them. New Tork Her
ald. "Is this true about Silas gettln swindled in
a horse trade?" "Well, he says so." "He's a
darn fool not to keep It quiet, then. How
does he expect to work oft the horse?"
Puck.
Ernie So Helen is married at last! Did
her father make any demonstration T Eva
I should say so. Tou could hear him
whooping and dancing for a block Chicago
News.
,Star Why should r marry you? Theat
rical Manager Well er I discovered you.
you know. Star But who ever heard ot a
new star taking the name of Its discoverer?
Judge.
Briggs I aee that wbUe young Flddlsbatk
was eloping with Miss Redbud her father
overtook them. Grlgs D!d't he we hit au
tomobile? BrigssOh. yea. -Sut the old
man could walk faster. Cantor's Weealy.