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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1905)
THE MOBXISG OREC30KIAX. WEDNESDAY, JOSE 14," 1005. Entered at the PoRtoffice t Portland. Or., aa cecona-clwa matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. By Mall or Expreea.) Dally and Sunday, per year 53-pjj Dally and Sunday, six month Dally and Sunday, three month S3 Dally and Sunday, per month - Dally without Sunday, per year Dally -without Sunday, tlx month.... 3.JJ0 Dally without Sunday, three month... 1.M Dally without Sunday, per month n-C3 Sunday, per year -J Sunday, six months. J-JJjj Sunday, three month. -60 BT CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week .15 Dally, per week, Sunday Included 0 THE WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year.... Weekly, elr month Weekly, three months HOW TO IiKMJT Send poetofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C. Beckwltb Special Atecy New York; rooms 43-0 Tribune bulldlnr. Chi cago, rooms C10-B12 Tribune bulldlne. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postolfice News Co., 178 Dearborn street. Dallas, Tex. Globe News Depot. 260 Main street. Baa. Antonio, Tex. Louis Book and Clear Co., C21 East Houston street. Denver Julius Black, Hamilton ft Kend rlck. D03-&12 Seventeenth street; Harry D. Ott, 1663 Broadway; Pratt Book Store, 121i Fifteenth etreet Colorado Springs, Colo. Howard H. Bell. Des Moines, la. Moses Jacobe, 808 Fifth street. Dnluih, la G. Blackburn. 215 West Su perior street. Ooldfleld, Nerv C Malone. Kansas City, Mo. Rickaecker Clear Co.. Ninth and Walnut. Los Anceles-Harry Drapkln; B. E. Amos, CI 4 Weet Seventh street. Minneapolis M. j. Kavanaush. CO South Third; L. Reselaburcer, 217 First avenue South. Cleveland, O. James Pushaw, 307 Superior street New York City L. Jonea & Co., Ator House. Oakland. Cot W. II. Johnaton. Four teenth and Franklin atreets. Oafden F. R. Godard and Meyers it Har top. D. L. Boyle. 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The Oregonlan believes the object it had in view -when It called attention to the proposed sale of the Portland Consolidated Hallway franchlfes has been accomplished. Certainly it Is in the way of accomplishment. That ob ject was to apprise the people of Port land and of Oregon that here was a property, selling for the prodigious sum of six millions of dollars, for which not a dollar had been paid. From proceeds of the sale of bonds the lines had been built; but the right to use the streets had been capitalized and was selling for three times what it had cost to ere ale the material property. Here was "high Jlnancc," right at home exactly a counterpart of operations that the country has been complaining of, through which so many colossal for tunes have been made. The people's own resources have beeli capitalized lor immense sums, all over the country, and sold out as at Portland, or held as at other places, for perennial divi dends. It was not the object of The Oregonlan to "kill" this particular sale. but. by presentation of a concrete ex ample, to notify the people of their rights. It believes it has succeeded. It Could not Tiave succeeded so well, had not the sale been effected; for the sale has established beyond cavil the value of this and other municipal and state franchises, for the purposes of taxaflon. Consequently the principal purpose of The Oregonlan has been accomplished. That purpose was to drive the main facts as to these franchises, the man ner In which .they were obtained, their actual value, and their liability to taxa tlon on such value. In upon the public mind. This illustration of the subject will now have wjde application. For the franchises of the Portland Consolidated, tnus sold, are by no means the only franchises In Portland that have a great cash value. For the right to occupy and use the growing streets of a city Is the basis of all the values which these "public utility cor poratlons" possess. Portland already has still another street railway system. and a third Is Just now to begin oper atlons. And here are gas and electric light and telephone companies, using the streets, and more to come. "What The Oregonlan has done has been to bring to the fore the whole subject and situation as to the status of these fran chises, their value, the policy of deal lng with them, and the public right of taxation and control. Even in their present state these public franchises, now in private hands, have a cash value of not less than ten millions of dollars. It is proved by the one recent sale. This valuation is to be added to the taxable property of Portland, and as the city grows It will be Increased "Likewise as other cities and towns of the state shall grow, the subject will be of increasing local Interest to them also. Should it be found Uiat the statutes of the state are net now sufficient for taxation of a species of property with which the state and its cities hitherto have had little experience, the Legisla ture certainly will provide an adequate remedy. The Slate of New York has shown the way. and its act has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the "United States. Municipal ownership may not for a. long time yet come to the front in Ore gon, and may never, if the Just de mauds- of the people are not resisted and turned down by intermeddling of these corporations with legislative arid judicial powers. The Northwestern Miller has these remarks, worth quot ing: "The principle of municipal own crahip is prominent only because of the outrageous debauching of municipal bodies by public service corporations, The agitation for Government owner ship of railroads Is merely a phase of the real trouble, which Is that the pres ent statute-book Is totally -unfitted to deal with present conditions. The d mand for destruction of large corpora Uaps has little support; the real de mand is that the corporations fiha.il only obey the law and shall keep their lobby ists from .the "Legislatures.' KILLING OCR ORIENTAL TRADE. Within the past five- months more than sixty steamships have departed from Pacific Coast ports for the Orient. They have carried cargoes aggregating more than 500,000 tons of American products, valued at more than $30,008, 000. The flow of this golden stream has suddenly swollen into such great pro portions that from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Lakes to the Gulf our commercial and financial leaders are pointing with pride to our rapidly increasing Oriental trade. But trade requires two parties buyers and sell ers. And the buyers who have enabled us to make this" tine showing arc on the verge Of a. strike. They are threat ening to boycott American goods and destroy in a few months a business which it has required years of commer cial effort to establish. The worst feat ure of the situation lies In the fact that the Oriental buj-ers have a grievance that warrants them In taking the most drastic possible methods to remedy It. The protest made to President Roose velt by members of the American- Asiatic Association Is one that demands immediate consideration and action. It was formulated largely by the repre sentatives of the cotton. Iron and steel Industries, but every stumbling-block placed In the way of those commodities will also hamper the movement of flour, lumber fruit, fish and other articles which the Pacific Coast Is now selling to the Orient in Increasing quantities. Chinese students, literary men, mer chants and travelers are welcomed to all other countries except the 'United States. In this country they are re pelled by severe administration of an cient law which is so humiliating that no eelf-respectlng Chinaman will ever again set foot on our shores unless com pelled to do so. An ovorzealous immi gration department has enforced' the exclusion laws so rigidly that large numbers of Chinamen have been de ported without being permitted a hear ing. "We have denied to cultured, well- educated Chinamen the privileges which we have freely extended to thou sands of low-bred, swarthy Ignoram uses from Europe. Having been guilty of such offenses against a friendly nar- tion. oan we for a moment expect any thing else but retaliation from the in jured people? Wilt they continue to send us millions of dollars for American products If we continue to Insult and deport without a hearing the innocent Chinese who only by the straining of a technicality can be guilty of any- of fense against our laws? All that the Chinese government has asked is that the Immigration department cease classing all Chinamen as coolies, and that they admit all other classes of Chinamen on a certificate given by their own government and counter signed by officers of our Government. By our unfair attitude regarding the Chinese we have stirred up an antag onism that will cost our exporters mil lions, unless amends are speedily made. But trade with China is not all of the commercial Interest we have In the Orient, for Japan, which has come into prominence as a world power with greater rapidity than any other nation that ever emerged from obscurity. Is also a target for Insult. An organlza tlon known as the Japanese and Corean League has been formed In California for the purpose of securing legislation that will bar from our shores the "Yan kees of the Orient" One of the prln clpal resolutions of the platform of this organization reads as follows: ReeJved. That the terms i the CMtieee exclusion act sheW tbe riarced and ex tended so as t permanently exelttfe frem the Vnlted States and Kf Itwtitar territories alt claRM ef Japanefx and Ooreas ether than these exempted by the preet terms of that act. It may not be possible for this newly suggested method for killing trade with the Orient to be molded Into a law, but. If It ever does, the United States will lose the trade of Japan so suddenly that a panic will strike every big concern now reaping large profits In that rapidly growing trade. Not only will our trade be cut off. but the cocky little Japanese will hustle every American out of their country In short order. The question involves! is not a political one. but it is one which must be settled on a business basis in such a manner that our rapidly growing trade In the Far East will not be ham pered and destroyed. No more Im portant question has yet come before the President for consideration, and speedy action Is a necessity. DOCTORS WHO DISAGREE. We have been greatly interested In the current Issue of our luminous con temporary, the Medical Sentinel, be cause of the broad and fearless manner" in which it discusses many subjects -of vital concern to the profession and to all laymen. For example, we find a brief but admirable article on "Pros tatectomy," In which the Important and Interesting announcement Is made that "perineal prostatectomy Is of unlimited applicability," but this satisfying dls covery Is tempered somewhat by the qualification that "partial supraprosta tectomles have not on the whole proved successful," which Is much to be re gretted, indeed. Details are lacking, but we confidently look forward to a subsequent issue to supply much-desired light as to whnt became of the patient though we realize that It is a somewhat unprofessional Inquiry, and possibly Impertinent But we do get exact if superfluous knowledge in another highly Intelligible discussion on "Bronchoscopy for Re moval of Collar Button From the Lung." After fourteen months of pain ful experience with the button on the inside of his neck instead of the out side, "the patient made an uneventful recovery." Passing over a somewhat trifling dissertation -on "The Treatment of Epidemic Cerebro-Splnal Meningitis "vVUh Injections (chiefly Intrasponous) or Diphtheria Antitoxin," we come to the real flesh and bones of the number, which Is an address "To Our Seattle Brethren." The controversy which re cently arose between the Portland doe tors and the SeAttle doctors over cer tain funds for the entertainment of the American Medical Association is dis cussed in most diplomatic terms. "For their displeasure (L e.. Seattle's), we are genuinely sorry," remarks the Sentinel. "Whatever has been said, however, forms but a ripple on the surface of the placid waters. . . . The time is not far distant when Seattle, with its push and progress, will want to make a bid Itself for the annual meeting of the A. M. A., and it will find that Its suc cess in Its aspirations will be largely promoted by the success and brilliancy of the entertainment that the visltingjjnoet liberal contributor to tho fund is doctors .will receive at the hands of Portland." That sort of language Is plain enough for anybody but a doc tor to understand, so we cheerfully In terpret it for- the benefit of the Seattle profession. If Seattle don't help Port land now, Portland will not help Se attle later. We might hot be moved to take so deep and friendly an Interest in this little affair, but for the objurga tions of the Sentinel on the "Philistine press." which it accuses of having ex tensively aired the little differences of the medical brethren. Softly denying the harsh impeachment, we turn the other cheek, and de our level best to promote a better understanding all around. OREGON AND RAILROADS. Oregon seems to have found her voice at last. Trie report of the transporta tion committee of the Willamette Val ley Development League, presented at the Independence meeting on Monday last, is to the point While dealing with genera! propositions, the committee Is on solid ground. When figures are I specified, giving earnings of the O. R. & X. at $5,000,000. and the Blggs-Shan- Iko, or Columbia Southern, Railroad as paying over 20 per cent annually on its capitalization to Mr. E. H. Harriman. a door is opened for reply from the rail roads In question denying the accuracy of the statement The committee might rejoin that 11 had made a strong effort te secure exact and official figures, and had been foiled and was therefore Justified in using' the best Information it could obtain, and that It bad guarded Itself by specifying Its figures as esti mates only. In passing. It may be noted that the mystery Invariably maintained by the big corporations as to their earnings and profits reacts al ready on" them, and will surely. In the future, be an effective weapon In the hands of the advocates of public owner ship. The old proverbt "Whatever is vague and mysterious Is magnified," Is true as ever. Let note be taken also that It Is far harder to remove a belief formed by assertion than to prevent Its formation by open truth-telling in ad vance. So long as the corporations pre serve silence and secrecy. Jut so long will an interested public lend an ear to every tale that Is told of their profits. And the Legislatures of the future will be very apt to do things based oil com mon beliefs, even now being formed. The firm ground of the committee Is the unquestionable fact that railroad construction In Oregon Is far. very far, behind the needs of the state, the ad vance of its population, the develop ment of its Industries. Except in so far as past experience foretells future action, this calling up of broken promises and falsified expec tations docs no good. The immediate question Is not what the people of Ore gon, rightly or wrongly, demanded of Mr. Harriman. and his great system. In the past The history of the last few years, since Colli? P. Huntington died, and E. H Harriman succeeded to his throne, and extended the bounds of his empire, is an open book. Every move on the great board standing for the in terests of the Pacific Slope, past and present so -far as Oregon is concerned, demonstrates the fact that our wagon m stucK in tne mire ami tnat our prayers to Jupiter to haul It out are vain. Therefore, let us take stock of the situation as it is. and see what courses are open to be followed. First, we may offer a Jew more prayers, a few more statements of what Oregon has done, or has refrained from doing, to and f6r her railroads in the past "Peradventure he sleepeth. let us awaken him." Second, there may be other deities in the railroad Olympus appeal to them. Possibly they will give ear. Never has there been greater Inducement and opening for an invasion of this Oregon, which, after all, is ours, and is neither the domain nor the 'preserve of one group of New York capitalists. Let us invite and make easy the way. Third. Mr. J. J. Hill has shown how a great railroad can be built opened, op erated and mad, profitable without land grants, and In the face of opposi tion as hard as can possibly follow In dependent "action by Oregon people. But, it Oregon people are to do this work, united and harmonious co-operation will be needed. The results will tell as much for Portland as for outside counties first to be reached. But jeal- ousy between Portland and the .great country outside of It must be burled for good and all. Fourth, we can drift, as we have drifted, grumble, as we have grumbled, and. for want of action, slide back In the race of states. WORK FOR r,IIB TAX COMMISSION. Questions of grave responsibility. In- voivmg me ngnts ana amies or prop- erty-owners. large and small, will come before the State TaxCommlsslon. That j body effected an organization st Salem Monday, and will for the present hold its meetings In this city. If the work of this commission Is faithfully and In telligently done, justice and equity will In a large measure succeed Injustice and favoritism that have so long com pelled the relatively small property owners and farmers to pay an undue proportion of taxes throughout the state. In wiles more Inexpert, the man with the small home which he maintains by his labor; the farmer, who literally earns his bread in the sweat of his face: the small tradesman, who pros pers In a moderate way through serv ing himself and practicing strict econ omy, pay taxes upon their modest pos sessions and equipment, while the own ers or large utilities "manage" their holdings and escape their Just burden of taxation. An "evening up" in this matter is hoped for from the labors of the Tax Commission. Every effort will be made by tax-dodgers of high degree to evade processes looking to an equal ization of the tax burden. It remains to be seen whether the State Tax Com mission will b'e able to match the sa gacity of the tax-dodger In covering his property with the alertness of the tax regulator In uncovering it for purposes of assessment The tax code that the commission will prepare will be looked for with miich interest by all classes of property-holders. Every year, prior to completion of the free swimming baths in this city, a number of- boys lost their lives In the river. Since these baths were complet ed, three years ago, not a life has been lost Boys will go in swimming wher ever there Is Water, and. unless some safeguards are thrown around them, distressing fatalities will be frequent A comparatively small sum is needed to place the baths in good condition. and public subscriptions are solicited. for that tntrDOs. The fact that tfi the father of a boy who was drowned.! before the baths were established ought I to be a most persuasive factor with those whose boys are still with them and can enjoy the pleasures of the river without courting Its dangers. Good, old-fashioned hospitality will reign at. the Armory in this city next Thursday. The statebullders men and women will be there In force as guests of the city; and with flowers and mu sic, with cordial welcome and sympa thetic greeting, with tender reminis cence and with a renewal of old friend ships, the long June afternoon will pass away. At Its close a banquet will be served, to which every pioneer who oame to or was born in Oregon prior to 1S39 is bidden, and each and all will be bountifully served. "Old Settlers day." they hall such an occasion In the Middle West "Pioneer day" it Is proudly and affectionately called in Ore gon. What It means to a slowly pass ing multitude will be attested again, as it has been attested many times before. by the smiling faces and appreciative words of the grayhalred guests of the city, as they share Its welcome and partake of Its good ;heer. Seattle has many active young men who have had much to do with making it a prosperous and growing city; but it Is not wholly a young man's town., H. G. Struve, who has Just died In New York, was long time a resident of that city, and yet longer of the territory and state.' He had much to do in earlier days with territorial affairs, both as citizen and public official. He Was for years at the Head of Seattle's lead ing law firm, and was widely known through his active participation In gen eral affairs and his prominent connec tion with Important industrial interests. Judge Struve was trusted by his cli ents as few men are trusted, and his advice, always careful and sound, was Implicitly followed. He was a man of much personal dignity, wide Informa tion, exceptional Industry and simple and straightforward character. His work, now done, was well done. Life has no longer any charms for Norman Williams, murderer of Alma Nesbllt-Wllllams. his wife. He says so. and. though not a man of veracity, there Is no reason to doubt him. It is mistaken kindness If. It Is intended as kindness that allows any considera ble length of time to Intervene be tween penalty and Its execution In the case of a condemned murderer. Will iams expressed this view when he said, on receiving sentence, that his execu tion had been set a week farther off than was necessary of desirable. It Is the play of the fisherman with his game before he lands it. of the cat with the- mouse before he finishes It The motive Is different In the case of the condemned murderer, but the effect Is only to prolong suffering without af fecting the final issue. Up from the peppery Central Amer ican land has drifted a party of Guate malans who are formulating plans for another revolution. The periodical di version Is slightly delayed at this time on account of the illness of ex-Presl-dent Barillas, who Is desirous of at taching the prefix which he now bears to the title of President Calvera. The revolutionary gentlemen from the trop ics are making a rendezvous in San Francisco, and. when their warm Southern blood becomes heated to the proper temperature, they will swoop down on Calvera and there will be more opera bouffe war down where the chile con carnc and tortilla thrive. One striking feature of these affairs is the lack of fatalities In connection there with. The Farmers Packing Company, un dismayed by the report of Mr. Garfield. who stated that there Was a profit of but $1 per head for the beef trust in handling cattle, has organized with a capitalization of 51.500.000. and will go I into the packing business on an ex tenslve scale. The farmers may not be come enormously wealthy In fighting the trust, but they will at least discover why dressed meat advances lit price simultaneously with a decline in the price of livestock. The trust managed J to pay some very respectable-sized I dividends on the dollar-a-head profit which It exhibited to Mr. Garfield, and by close attention to business the farm ers may do equally welL "God help them." said the Govern ment Indian Superintendent when re porting to Washington the fact that the assembled country editors were be ing fed on buffalo meat. No reason to appeal to Divine Providence The av erage country editor has to wrestle so j mucn tt-llh tne wcddlnf; and such . fha. ,,frnin mM ., v Mm i great dainty. The country editors six hundred of them are now on their way to Portland, having been lured thither by rumors about the beauties of the Exposition and visions of Hood River strawberries and June roses. They are going to see such things and eat such things as they have never before seen or eaten. The great subway in New York was turned last Monday into a channel through which the released floods of a large water main rushed and surged madly for many hours. This was a contingency not reckoned with by the constructors of the great tunnel. It is one with which, as a matter of fact. It Is practically Impossible to reckon. There is no quicker way to kill base ball than Jo put the sport into book makers' hands. In the interests of the National game, it is earnestly to be hoped that San FrancJsco "sports." tarred with horseraclng. may be throt tled In their attempt to get In on the Pacific Coast League. Vaudeville managers of the Pacific Coast are organizing, to prevent extor tion by "artists" whom the public really wish to see. Whether $25 or J250 a week, the laborer is worthy of his hire. The country Will do Well t6 heed G ro ver Cleveland's latest utterance: "We can better afford to slacken our pace than to abandon our old. simple Amer ican standards of honesty." Roogevelt must be having a hard time dodging the bouquets from London, St Petersburg and Tokio. We cannot re member when we had a President so internationally popular. Umpire Bray., -of the Pacific Coast League, has already achieved well merittd unpopularity. Hfs stupidity show that he ail not been incorrectly .named. ' 0REG0N0Z0NE J If Norway and Sweden get Jhto ' a war. on which side will the Norsk Nightingale sing? William F. Klrk wlll please answer. William Allen White, in a speech to the National Editorial Association, asks what President Roosevelt would da If he were editor of the Oyster Bay Tri bune. It Js quite probable that he would take oysters on subscription, but would turn down lobsters, just as ho does now. A Call Upon Cnrncgle. "Who Is Victor Murdockr inquires the High and Mighty Nobs. Ltd.. who has charge of the Carnegie hero fund. What? Not know who Victor Murdock is! Mr. Carnegie must have Imported a most uncanny Scotchman to serve as disbursing officer for his hero fund. Victor Murdock is a Ufesaver. It boots him nothing that he is Congresman from the Seventh Kansas. Jerry Simp son's old district and that he was elected by the biggest majority ever given a winner in that district His fame has become worldwide at a single bound. He made the bound himself. At Ocean Park, Cat. a few days ago he bounded Into the briny Pacific and saved two young females from a wa tery mausoleum. In a letter home the Congressman's bright young cousin, a vivacious Kansas maiden, thus Immor talizes Victor Murdock. after describ ing In detail his daring, desperate, darling deed: "Uncle Marsh rallied round the flag, ran to the house and got some Thompson's rye, and In a few minutes the two ladles were able to walk, to their cottages. Victor's rheu matism Is better. He lost his hat" Perhaps here we And the secret of tha Carnegie henchman's scorn. Of course. he knows who Victor Murdock Is, but he docs not propose to reward a man who already .has been rewarded for his brave deed by having his rheumatism helped. But the fact remains that Mr. Murdock lost his hat. Is he not en- tltled to some reparation for this? Is Victor Murdock. tho redheaded comet from Kansas, to flare through the fiery Armament of Washington politics un roofed, undomed. his dazzling glow un shaded? If so. the world will behold a light, that never was -on sea or land, for not Aurora, rising from her maiden plungo In ambrosial baths of gold hath locks to rival those of the gallant Kansan. not the aurora borealls Itself can hold a candle to the unhattcd head of Victor Murdock. We plead to the end that other Congressmen may have a chance to shine, that the Carnegie hero-fund custodian bestow at least $2.30 upon the rescuer of two helpless females for the purchase of a hat Uncle .Robert's Essays. No. 3 The Pipe. Ther are many kinds of pipes. Gas pipes, perhaps, arc the most unpopular, because they are family connections of .meters that run Ananias a close race for the championship. Sewer pipes are usually very low-down pipes, and. therefore, not to be mentioned in po lite society. Water pipes are the dread of householders and the delight of plumbers, for when they freeze up nnd , morcov6n d0Pfl not accornpl!sh the ends about cruel punishments when the sub burst they demand 0 cents an hour for J of justice. It merely adds sin to sin. ject of a whipping post Is brought up. but repairs and the plumber takes his own j In this generation, when so many how about the cruelty of permitting a big time. means of discipline that are both brute to beat, abuse ahd desert a woman But It Is not any of these kinds of pipes that Is now under discussion. The subject of this sketch, as the obltu arlan would say. Is the smoke-pipe. Smoke-pipes arc of many varieties, but In one respect they are all alike; they SO out If no attention is paid to them. In this respect the pipe Is the most sen sitive object In the universe. Some pipes are meerschaums, while others are mere shams. Mark Twain once became possessed of a mere sham. It was when he was working "as a newspaper man. He smoked a pipe whloh had been handed down since the time of Ptolemies; current report ha'd it that the pipe 'was taken Trom the ( dames, arrayed In silks and satins, who tomb of a mummy. Perhap's this was pasSod her by with mincing step and dis why" It was known In that particular j Gainful glance. newspaper office as 'The Remains."! Some weeks "ago. as Mrs. W. A. Clark, The other Journalists on the staff ' h. T(..,,rTIPrt to Rntte after an absence of thought to play a trick upon Mark. Twain and get rid of The Remains" at the same time. They made up a purse of 30 cents-r-and spent 20 cents of It for beer and the remainder for a Pipe. It was a pipe that presented a respectable appearance on the surface. Dut. it was a mere snam. iney pre sented it to Mark Twain with a flourish of oratory, and the recipient responded feelingly, at the same time tossing 'The Remains" Into the back yard. The other men were happy, but Mark wasn't. He discovered thai his gift was a mere sham, and the next night they found him In the office smoking the odoriferous "Remains," which he had picked up out of the back yard. A year or two ago I asked Mark Twain If this story was true, and that was the only time I ever saw him mad. He gave me this characteristic defini tion of a practical joker: "A pradtlcal joker Is a coward; his head is full of stewed oysters Instead of brains." From which I gathered that the pipe story must have been true. When My Ship Comes In. (With apologies to everybody.) When my ship Monies In, When my ship comes In. I'll be loaded down with ducats. I'll be lousy with the tin! I'll be Rockefeller mingled With Carnegie, don't you know,. And I'll quit my dally labors; And go out and blow and blow! Oh. I'll blow the merry millions. And I'll scatter scads like sin When my ship comes In. When. my ship comes In! When my ship comes In. When my ship comes In, I'll no longer be the lobster That i guess I've always been; But I'll be the big leviathan. The loud and lordly whale. That controls the seven oceans And ker-swats them with his tall; ril Indorse the billion checklet With my own end-dorsal fin When my ship comes in. When my ship comes In! But alas ahd lack-a-daisy! I'm afraid my ship has sunk In the maddened wastes of fortune. . Going bottom wards ker-plunk! I'm afraid that little rowboat That' I sent to breast the seas Took a plunger for the bottom When it felt the ocean sneeze; So I guess I'd better hustle. If I ever hope td win, 'Stead Of sitting d&wn to stagnate Till my ship" onvs ini - JtOBERTUS LOVX. A SYMPOSIUM ON WIPE-BEAtERS CerreseaaBt Exares Vljcsrou Oplatoas an the Whlpplaje Post "Lay oa fce Kaeat," Saya One "No," Say Another The Unhappy Wile's Eiperleaee llovr fiey Do in Iadlaaa. OAK POINT. Wash.. June 13. (To the Editor.) Anent the communication of Bandmaster Innes In The Oregonlan of June 9. asserting that the "whipping post" as a means of punishment Is de grading and disgustingly brutalizing, allow mo to say that none but degraded, disgusting, brutalized, brutes need have the least apprehension, of being brought within the pale of this salutary Influence. Instead of the next Legislature repealing this law let them be sure to give It fur ther scope! Let the law Include all foot pads and hold-up men. Let It also include all those demoralized brutes who do not hesitate to touch off dynamite to avenge their real or supposed wrongs upon the community, or upon the indlvlduat Let the law also bring under Its ban those lecherous brutes who live oft the earnings of fallen women. Let It also include that other class of moral lepers, both men and women, who, while living vicious and de-i moralized lives, masquerade under a thin cloak of pretended decency. Let the wo men of this class be put In the pillory and send the men to the whipplrtg-pOst Do not be alarmed about a "dark cloud being thrown on the fair fame of the great State of Oregon." A few Judicious applications oT the "cat" upon the above named gentry will do more to clear the fair famo of the great State of Oregon than all the mawkish, sentimental ser mons ever preached. As to "fifteenth century barbarism." If It requires a fif teenth century medicine to cure a nine teenth century ill. then let tho doctors prescribe the fifteenth century medtcino and purse the moral atmosphere and rid decent seclety of the above vicious, class. And I hope that every true man and wo man throughout the great State of Ore gon will lend the courts and the Legis lature their whole moral support In this matter. Please do not throw this into the waste basket as too radical for sentimental ears. W. NEWELL. INJURIOUS AND DISGUSTING. This Correspondent Makes Vigorous Protest Against Whipping. MORO. Or.. June 13. (To-the Editor.) In my opinion the flogging of Wife-beater McGinty by Jailer Grafton, June 6. was as Injurious to the people of this state as It was disgusting. Certainly it has done any thing but hasten In the least the cause of decency and righteousness. McGinty him self It has not bettered, but made w'orse. His unhappy wife must now And herself In a condition more distressful than ever, and Upon the children of the ill-mated coUple. If there be any. has .been cast the most mortifying sort of dls- grace and humiliation. The Judge who appointed the punishment, the Jailer who Inflicted It and the multitude that have read of It In the Portland papers, all by It have been either degraded or pain- i fully shocked. And whatever of good the affair may have contained as an example 1 and a warning for other wlfe-beaters. was much more than counterbalanced by the sorry and disgraceful spectacle of a great state employing a form of punishment As our Iftw stands, the wife who Is beaten which has for a century been generally I or otherwise abused has but two alterna consldered most barbaric and outrageous. tlves either she must bear it as best sho "This whipping." said Jailer Grafton. ' can for the sake of'the children, or she "is going to hurt me more than you." must find some way of earning a living The sympathetic officer might haVe said for herself and the little ones, and then more. He might have added with perfect i ask the divorce court for relief. The only truth that It would hurt countless others i punishment the law permits Is lmprison ln the State of Oregon, yea, and the state ment. and this means no support while also, even as much as himself. I the husband Is In prison. eneciuni ana accent are at tne commana of all civilized peoples. It Is neither ncces sftry nor proper to tie a man's hands to a cell door and beat his bare back with 20 stripes of wilh one. By any humane method punish the wife-beater. Imprison bim for a while, if you will, in the peni tentiary, but don't fioK him. The state cannot afford to do that. A witness of A SWEET REVENGE IN BUTTE From the Boston Herald. The young wife of Senator Clark of Montana lived not long ago In poverty with her parents In Butte. . As Miss La Chapclle she had friends, warm and firm: but there were. It appears, high-born several years. Some of .the most prom inent women of the city, leaders of the first circle and there ore circles in so ciety as Dante found them In his In ferno nrom-otlv called at Mr. Clark's housc ..pa,atlal mansion." or "stately resldcnce The buUer took the cards. and while they Waited they heard a "gentle, familiar voice" instructing the servant to tell the callers that Mrs. Clark was not at home. Other women were turned down In like manner, women de scribed by the passionate correspondent as "stately dames, many of whom have been leaders In Butte society for many years." but the women who had been friendly to Mrs. Clark In her humble days were welcomed cordially. There are details In the story that ntlght require explanation. The correct Englishman wilt smile at the thought of a butler reviving cards at the hall door, but too often In this country a butler is a genteel name for a man of ail work, who blacks boots, runs errands. looks after the furnace fire; nnd why should he not wait on the door If he has nothing else to do? The visiting foreigner might also Inquire curiously into the age of Butte's "bist society." not knowing that Butte was a social place from the very start, and that leading etymologists aro Inclined to trace the brlglrt of the phrase "to butt in" to the ease with which strangers entered society in Butte In the earlv days. But these details are. after all. of slight Importance. The great lesson to be learned by women from the entertaining episode Is this: Treat kindly every Poor and good-looking girl, shop girl, telephone girl, stenographer, for at any moment she may become the wife of a muUt-mll-llomlre and a society queen. This or dinary bread thrown on the waters will return to you as pumpernickel. Tou will be bidden to pompous feasts, you will sit in opera boxes. yoU will be driven In parks, esteemed and envied; nay, more, you will be Invited to aUtotaoblle parties In France.. England and Italy, and pre sented at foreign courts. What boy In a small town has not longed for the day when, returning as a man enormously rich and powerful, as a pirate king or the discoverer of Solomon's mines, he can wreak vengeance on his op pressors school teachers. constables, sexton and the boy that rubbed his face tn th nnw In the wesence of his adored i Arabella-i-and raise to a proud eminence the playmates that stood by 7 uniy yes terday we heard a man of 53 say. "I have at last got to e position where I can say what I rtally think to whom I please." And he chuckled and he rubbed his hands together, and he ordered an other Scotch and soda. This speech IS merely a variation of the old wish of the vuvff ttft'er-do-well. who dreamed of the years when he should have money enodgh to sit on the tavern steps, hire a Band and tell the neighbors what he th&ught of them. Mrs. Clark how tastes thelft delights. As a result the sOdal at fosphere of Butte may be cleared. Tuesday's affair was right when he said that It was worse than ten hangings. A month ago The Oregonlan observe that the best way to bring about the repeal of a bad law Is rigorously to enforce it It Is my earnest hope that In order for the very bad law against wlfe-beaters to be repealed no further enforcement will be necessary. JAMES H. BLACK. KNOWS WHEREOF SHE SPEAKS A Woman Who Has- Suffered From a Brute Husband. PORTLAND. June 13.-(To the Edltor.1 T tv-rmM tn ka.v a. f tv wnrHs In an- awer to F x. ln"nes reCcnt statement concerning the whipping post. Has Mr. Ines ever been thrown In the company of wlfebeaters? If he has he would S3y there is ho punishment too severe or de grading for one. ' There are many poor, unfortunate wives, who. I am sure, will agree with me. Mr. Innes speaks of refined people pro testing against It Do you find wife beating amongst the refined class? It is not very common. Somo refined peopln do not quite understand what it really means. I speak from experience. I. myself, have had the misfortune to have a brut? for a husband. If there had been such a law at that time I would have been one of the first to have him punished. I am not a manhater. but I think there is no punishment too great for wlfebeaters. MRS. G. MILLER. OREGON AS AN EXAMPLE. Unhappy "Wife in Indiana Must Enrn Her Own Living. Indianapolis Star, dregon has a law for punishing wlfe beaters by whlpplnpr. and the first to feel the smart of the last was one McGinty. The McGinty family has been In hard luck ever since the original went to the bottom of the sea dressed in his best suit of clothes, and the Oregon branch seems to. be no exception. At any rate the McGinty who was officially whipped at Portland writhed and groaned as the lash fell upon his bare back and promised to be Rood. It is to be hoped that he will keep his promise, and the chances are that he will either do so or remove his family to some such enlightened state as Indiana, where he can beat hl3 wife at will, safe In the assurance that she will not have him punished, since the. only way he could be punished would be by imprisonment, which would deprive hs family of his earnings, ana thus cause ' more hardship to hi wife than to him. in accordance with our enlightened Ideas of humanity, we feed and clothe the brute that abuses his family, while he is In dur ance, and leave the wire and little ones who have suffered from his brutality to starve. And thus it happens that there Is so much wife beating by brutal husband" ahd so little complaint about it in Police Court, while there Is a great deal of complaint about It In the divorce court. I ai wiiij wnen a man unacriaKes me rr sponslbllltles of marriage and fatherhood the law should -give him to understand that these responsibilities are real ones, not things to be taken up lightly and thrown away at will. And the only way the law can do this Is to provide adequate physical punishment for the crimes of wifebeating and desertion. i JAPAN MIGRATES WESTWARD New York Sun. Along with the Russian ships. Admiral Togo's torpedoes blew out of the Pacific last Saturday an American bugbear. Ex cept as it exists in the imagination of- the fanatical, there Is probably no more "Jap anese immigration problem." Whatever the terms of peace, now that Russia Is beaten. Corea will fall absolute ly to Japan. Further, a big piece of Man churia will probably yfall Under her direct or Indirect control. The new territory should nearly double the area of the em pire. These new lands are thinly populat ed, as oriental countries go. and very rich in possibilities. Corea, for example. Is said to have resources as great acre for acre, as those of New York State and big mineral bodies In addition. The adjoin ing district of Manchuria, as the Russians knew when they staked It OUt. Is hardly less valuable For the next generation Japan will be Improving, expanding, build ing. Her contractors and her promoters will need laborers, mechanics, farmers and settlers. They will prefer, of course, their own people, by virtue of both principle and merit. That is just why Japan fought this war to find an outlet for her surplus popula tion, a tiny fraction of which is sifting through San Francisco, causing the dem agog to roar, The arrivals at the port of San Francisco are about 300 a month. Including both coolies and students. This Is no great number when set alongside the arrivals of Lithuanians, say, or POles or Italians in the port of New York. Tfiesa countries. With smaller populations than Japan, are less crowded. Why haven't there been more Japanese? The fact Is that the coolie of Nippon emigrates with the greatest reluctance. No emigrant to the United States leaves more fun behind him when he leaves home. Tho pretty ceremonies of Japan, tle art In lit tle things, which appeals to the poorest and most stupid of a nation of artists, all these things the coolie loves. He would take a cut In wages at any time for a chance to be near Nippon. Arid When Corea, run by- the Japanese, becomes hot only a new Japan, but a land of oppor tunity, the coolie will waste little time In making choice between that peninsula and the United States. Japanese coolies em ployed on western railroads and Irriga tion works are as well paid as unskilled Italians. It is paradoxical that the students, riot the coolies, are the greatest present dan ger to American labor. These ambitious young men land In the United States at ages ratiging from 12 to 18, and take Jobs at any wages so long as they get a chance to learn English and go to the public schools. Many of them plug their way, in this fashion, clear through the Pacific Coast universities. Boys who wllldo all the drudgery of housework for $6 a month or so are a boon to the housewife: In mod erate circumstances, but the labor leaders, not altogether foolishly, ask, "How about the American servant girl?" The Japanese victory will tend to check this stream also. The Island people are building their own schools, colleges, tech nical institutes. Every year there Is smaller reason for a student, wanting a thorough education In any line, to leave Japan. In this war the Japanese hav measured themselves with their occidental teachers and found how little they have to learn. Home education will probably come to be ad popular ltt a few, years as foreign education Is now. In Kansas. Puck. 'You propose to run this state Oil re-, finery by convict labor?" "Yes. l we cOuld only put tho Standard Oil peWSplft ill jail arid make them hlp to irun it; we'd be aarfectly satiated."