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PORTLAND. FRIDAY, JUNE 2S. 1S05.
DISCRIMINATION IK NECESSARY.
We cannot have Chinese coming to
this country as laborers. It is true that
there is large demand for such work as
they could do. It Is true that their la
bor, in clearing land, growing fruit and
working in fisheries, would be of great
use and advantage to the country. But
we cannot have them, nevertheless. In
certain ways, though to a less extent
than many imagine, they would come
into competition with our own working
people. Race animosity would Intensify
this conflict. Many of our own people
would have a sense of injurs'. The pro
test would get into politics. We can
not have renewal of the opportunity to
Chinese to enter our country as labor
ers. Twenty years ago, or thereabout, fur
ther entrance of this class of Chinese
was forbidden by law. The prohibition
never will be removed. Something
doubtless will be lost, or delayed, in the
way of our material advancement.
They who have work to be done In'
particular upon the land cannot get it
done at rateH which they can afford to
pay. Consequently it will go undone,
or be postponed. But we cannot have
among our working people the
sense of injustice and Injury which
they would feel if renewal of Chi
nese immigration were permitted.
"We cannot have the political, in
dustrial and social tumult which
would be the sure consequence. No
one who has any position or authority
or Influence among us will ever advo
cate removal of the restrictions to Chi
nese immigration. As a consequence of
the policy of exclusion which we have
pursued during twenty years, few Chi
nese remain in the United States. Most
of those who were here are dead. The
few who remain are old, mostly de
crepit and unable to perform any real
labor, while the number born in the
country and entitled to citizenship Is
extremely small.
But we wish to trade with China, and
ought not to repel, or to treat with in
dignity, those who wish to enter our
country for observation or for travel,
or to acquaint themselves with condi
tions of Industry and trade among our
people. To repel such Is not .to favor
any class of our own working people,
hut rather to do every class Teal In
jury; for a certain amount of Inter
course must be maintained with every
people whom we trade with. It is an
Indispensable condition. Of course if
we cannot maintain trade relations Avith
China without opening the door to the
introduction of her working people, to
compete with our own, then we must
give up the hope of trading with China.
But the Chinese are not anxious to part
with their working people, and the
tendency of her policy is to discourage
their emigration. But. contemptuously
as some of our people may think of
China, she is a proud nation, neverthe
less. The United States and China may
trade with each other, to their mutual
advantage; but not if we do not treat
her merchants, traders and travelers
with respect.
It is probable, however, that much
mischief has been done already.
by our superservlceable officials, in
"holding up" at our ports Chinese
merchants., travelers and others, who
were really entitled to enter, and whose
entrance would not be objected to even
by our own working people, in whose
interest, real or supposed, the drastic
restriction has been enforced.
Disclosures of forgery by Benjamin
H. GkiskilL. of Philadelphia, who died
four weeks ago. have far more than
local Interest. It will tend to shake
public confidence all over the country.
Raising the number of shares on s
stock certificate Is a novel sort of fraud
that banks and trust companies are
not prepared to meet. Exposure of
GaskiU's methods may lead to closer
inspection ot collateral, even to the
point of Inquiring from secretaries of
corporations a6 to the genuineness of
stock issues. There never was a time
when extreme vigilance by officers of
financial institutions is so necessary as
right new.
THE WAIL OF A GAMBLER.
Thomas "W. Lawson is out with an
other chapter of the "Crime of Amalga
mated." He continues to grill H. H.
Rogers and his Standard Oil associates
in a manner that is both terrific and
graphic. Out of all evil some good is
said to come, and the dlstfuEt created
by Lawson has undoubtedly had a
beneficial effect on some rather care
lessly conducted financial enterprises.
But Lawson's lifelong profession as a
stock gambler has given him false ideas
about what is right and what is wrong
In this world. The assumption that all
stock gambling Is legitimate is an un
warranted one. "Come on, boys, this
money lg all yours if you guess the
cards right," cries the faro banker, arid
the roulette man makes the same prom
ise with his plea for an 'investment"
on the black or the red. Here is the
language of Lawson in his latest In
stallment ot "Frenzied Finance":
In Wall etreet the beat brains of all the
Western world center. Fortes are there
waiting for brains to carve and take; stacked
up there are mliHons. which he who has
bralM can pocket without a "by-your-leave."
The only real difference In the opera
tions of Rogers. Lawson and the rest
of the "Wall-street crowd and the faro
banker Is In the amount involved and
the methods employed. The results are
the same In both branches of brigand
age, for the end sought Is securing
from a confiding public large sums of
money for which no equivalent Is given.
Lawson credits himself with having
been the bellwether which led the rest
of the flock into the shearing pens of
the Standard Oil crowd and In his lat
est chapter he paints a graphic picture
of the visions which trooped through
his mind when he heard the gates of the
pen shut behind him and his followers.
He saw "lines upon lines of men in
striped suits with cropped heads and
faces branded by despair," and another
procession of men bearing stretchers on
which lay shrouded figures, which his
conscience told him were "suicides be
cause of you."
The crime of Amalgamated undoubt
edly ruined so many men that among
their ranks were a large number of dis
honest ones who landed in the peniten
tiary or In suicides' graves.. These" men
in following Lawson into the trap de
parted from the rules governing legit
imate business, and made gamblers'
wagers that the Amalgamated stock
would sell at high prices. To be sure,
the margin demanded was somewhat
higher than Is exacted for ordinary
stock gambling, but the method and
principle involved were the same.
The men who buy stocks on a mar
gin do so with no intention of putting
up the remainder of the purchase price
and. keeping them, and the men who
bought Amalgamated took the word of
Lawson and his associates and believed
that the first 25 per cent payment was
all that they would need to put up. In
all gambling games the percentage In
favor of the dealer is so great that the
victims on the wrong side of the table
sooner or later lose all of their money.
In the case of Amalgamated it hap
pened sooner instead of later. "Fren
zied Finance" is interesting and It has
made some Important disclosures re
garding the crooked gamblers who use
loaded dice and marked cards, but even
at its climax It becomes only a recital
of a row among gamblers over the di
vision of the spoils. To the investor
whose operations are confined to the le
gitimate and whose money is never on
the high card or In the dog-eat-dog
game of high finance. Mr. Lawson's
warnings are only ravings devoid of
any special value.
KOWKX AND LOOMIS.
The President's letter reviewing the
facts regarding the efforts of Mr.
Bowen to discredit Mr. Loomls, his pre
decessor at Caracas, but now Assistant
Secretary of State, is unpleasant read
ing. The whole affair might be allowed
to pass without further notice, were it
not for several matters of general in
terest which are involved. The origin
of bitterness between those two officials
Is not disclosed. It must have ante
dated the correspondence between Mr.
Bowen and the Secretary of State, com
mencing in the Spring of 1904. Evi
dently a personal -grievance was inten
sified by belief, on -Mr. Bowen's part,
that Mr. Loomis had taken advantage
of Mr. Hay's absence to Interfere In the
settlement pending between the govern
ments of Venezuela and of the United
States, in which Mr. Bowen was then
prominent The President's letter clear
ly shows the lack of foundation for that
Idea, as Mr. Hay was conducting the
negotiation In person, Mr. Loomls' sig
nature being appended merely as Mr.
Hay's temporary representative. This
conviction that Mr. Loomis was at
tempting to "throw him down" (if this
Western expression may be permitted)
plainly colored, and then perverted.
Mc. Bowen's mind. Thus a ready ear
was lent by him to every miserable
scandal pervading the air of that pestl
lential city; and bad led to worse.
Mr. Loomls had been Indiscreet
enough to have personal dealings with
the asphalt company. In these matters.
which Secretary Taft, after full Invest!
gation. found to be free from the taint
of corruption, the opportunity for the
enemies of Mr. Loomis was at hand
Reading this after-history, it seems
most probable that Mr. Bowen was
made a tool of by undisclosed operators
seeking advantage in muddying these
waters. What is clear Is that to gain
his point of discrediting Mr. Loomis
both in Caracas and in Washington,
Mr. Bowen descended to the use of
means of perverting opinion which no
decent man. surely no representative of
the United States Government, could
touch without pollulion. Relying on
personal acquaintance with Secretary
Taft (disclosed in the "Dear Bill.'
signed "Herbert," letter), it was sought
to prejudice him in advance by the
"terrible scandal In the situation here"
allegation. Then. In the easy descent,
comes the Intrigue with the press rep
resentatives, while striving to avoid
being personally quoted. And at last,
as the situation became clearer and
ruin stared him In the face, if accusa
tlons courfi not be supported, comes the
effort to secure evidence, by what Pres
ldent Roosevelt calls, in plain words.
attempting to have it stolen.
It is a pitiful story- The President's
letter is eminently characteristic. His
mind works too clearly to obscure the
facts. He is prompt to denounce. He
hesitates at the sequence of punishment
after grievous fault He recognises
the previous good service of the of
fender, and seeks for a way out, in
which justice might be done, the eil
effects in the public service stopped
and yet that the roan's life and career
might be saved. Plainly, to him it Is a
very grievous duty to order Mr. Bow
en's dismissal from the service. Tet It
Is done. The reasons for it are demon
strated. To recede from it would be
weakness, not mercy. So the blow
falls, and there Is no appeal.
AUTOS IN THE COOTKY.
"What was said In these columns a
few-days ago relative to the care -that
should be taken by drivers of automo
biles In turning street corners applies
with no less force to those who operate
automobiles In the country- In the city
the "chief danger Is from collision. In
the country there Is the added danger
of frightening horses that are not ac
customed to the appearance, noise and
speed of these new vehicles. The care
less driver of an auto, swiftly rounding
a bend In the road; where brush-cov
ered fences shut off the view, may
plunge In front of an approaching team
and cause a runaway with fatal results.
Under circumstances such as these
even the most reliable horses will be
come frightened.
"While It Is true that the automobile
Is a vehicle andhas a right to run on
the public highways, it Is also true that
horses existed before autos and are In
the vast majority. The auto can be
kept under control, while the team of
horses sometimes cannot. In a narrow
road with steep banks on either side
the auto can back out, even though the
way be too narrow for the team to turn
without upsetting ithe vehicle. It re
quires no stretch of the imagination to
picture a score of places where the
meeting of an auto and an excitable
team means certain accident unless the
driver of the auto yields the right of
way. What can be expected except ca
lamity if a chugging auto meets a ner
vous horse on one of the narrow roads
built high up on the steep hillsides
along the rivers in Clackamas County?
"Who need be surprised if loss of life re
sults when an automobile driver Insists
on meeting and passing a frightened
team on a narrow, high bridge, such
as may be found at Oregon City, Salem
and Albany? Every person who has
traveled over the roads of the Willam
ette Valley can recollect Innumerable
places where the driver of an auto must
exercise the utmost caution and yield
the road to the driver of a team or
jeopardize life and property.
The advent of the automobile should
bring about many changes In the man
ner of caring for publkf highways. Ex
tremely narrow grades should be elimi
nated as far as possible, so that auto
and team may pass with the least dan
ger of accident. At short turns In
roads, especially where the turn comes
on a hillside, trees and brush should
be removed so that the occupant of a
vehicle may see far enough ahead to
avoid danger. It is certain that the
automobile has come to stay, but no
less certain that a few fatal accidents
will result in legislation placing re
strictions upon the use of these ma
chines on the public highways.
RAILROAD BUILDING.
A table published in a recent issue
of the Railway Age furnishes interest
ing data concerning the railroad mile
age In the United States now under
construction, and the mileage which
will be under construction possibly
within the year. As shown by this ta
ble, an extraordinary proportion of this
roadbullding Is In the South Atlantic
and Gulf States. In North and South
Carolina, Virginia and Goergla, there
Is at present a total of 1156 miles of rail
road in course of construction; in the
Gulf States and the Mississippi Valley
States the total Is 1110 miles, and in
the Southwestern States 2500 miles are
being built.
Turning north, we find that in New
England there are but 37 miles of new
road under construction; in the Middle
States only 465 miles; In the Central
Northern States 6S1 miles; In the North
western States 62S miles, and in the
Pacific Coast States 923 miles. Summed
up. there are 4776 miles of railway un
der construction In the South and
Southwest, as compared with 2734 miles
being built In the remainder of the
country.
This shows activity and progress in
the South and Southwest, certainly.
But it Is indicative also of a delayed
activity, and Is not at all prejudicial to
the record of prosperity In the vast sec
tlons In which there Is now, relatively
speaking, a lull In railroad construction.
The South Is Just coming up abreast of
the times; the sections of the country
that are not now adding any consider
able amount of mileage to their rail
roads have kept up with conditions
from year to year, and their transpor
tation needs are. in the main, well sup
plied.
Activity in railroad construction In
the South and Southwest Indicate pros
perity and development in those re
gions that are- both interesting and
gratifying; the activity in the transpor
tation business In the other sections is
equally Interesting and gratifying, since
It shows a great volume of traffic on
completed lines In sections where de
mand has long been steady and supply
has kept up with it.
That the South is entering an era of
wonderful Industrial and trade expan
sion cannot be doubted. Every Indi
cation points that way. In agriculture
this development has In recent years
been remarkable. Cotton, as In the old
days. Is king In. the sunny Tealm. The
crop of this gerat staple In 1904 aggre
gated 14.000,000 bales, as against 7,000,000
bales in 1SSG and 3.S00.W0 bales In 1S75.
This, though the greatest Item in the
development ot the South. Is but one In.
the grand total of Its prosperity. Scores
of factories have been built In the part
decade: Iron and coal territories have
been developed, and one extensive oil
field has been tapped and worked with
large returns.
This growth Is not remarkable, ex
cept that It has been so long delayed.
It Is Interesting and gratifying, how
ever, and Instructive withal, as show
ing the false basis upon which the In
dustrial policy of the Old South rested
and the grand possibilities that there
awaited the touch of individual enter
prise. Railroad construction follows
and serves this spirit of enterprise. It
does not create it. except through the
influence of one activity upon another.
It is a powerful spoke In the wheel of
prosperity, the center of which Is the
natural wealth of the country.
Doubtless the O. R. & N. delegation,
when they reach Shaniko, In Crook
County, will receive full details of the
paragraph In the dispatches of June 20.
"The aggregate for the season's ship
ments of about 250 cars, or at least
125.000 sheep. The sheep bringing an
average price of $2 per head, by which,
with the 4.000.000 pounds of wool mar
keted at this place at an average of 20
cents, the sheep farmers of this section
will realize over $1,000,000 for this year's
harvest." No small Item In a railroad s
burin ess. 200 carloads of wool and. 350
carloads of sheep. It Is not an estimate
of what this undeveloped region will
hereafter produce, but facts of today.
No d I pom at. however faraeelng and
astute, can prepare to meet every
emergency. In London, tomorrow, the
Pilgrims are going to give a record-
breaking dinner to Whltelaw Reld.
Among other things, they are going- to
inflict a poem by Alfred Austin on the
American Ambassador. Maybe we lack
knowledge of international courtesy
and perhaps we may be justly accused
of wanting respect for tradition and we
don't know how to wear court clothes;
but we defy the whole army of carping
critics to point out when and where an
American poet ever thrust a collection
of rhymes on Queen Victoria's personal
representative at our seat of govern
ment.
It goes without saying that the elec
tion of ex-President Cleveland as -president
of the Equitable will be accepted
by policy-holders and the public as a
complete guaranty that the graft will
be stopped and an honest and rigid
regime inaugurated. President Cleve
land would be no figurehead. He would
run things; or at least neither Chair
man Morton nor anybody else would
run him. The great need of the Equita
ble and of some other Insurance con
cerns Just now Is a revival of public
confidence. When Mr. Cleveland goes
Into the Insurance business we may ex
pect that It will be conducted on Its
merits.
The log raft Is extendhur its field for
operations. When It first appeared on
the Pacific the builders were unable tor-
get It safely over the course from Coos
Bay to San Francisco. But the route
was lengthened to the Columbia River
and then to Puget Sound, and now a
oan rancisco firm Is 3ald to be arrang
ing to tow one of the unwieldy masses
of logs across the Pacific to Japan. The
first rafts towed on the Pacific were
not very successful, but. since A. B.
Hammond began operations with them.
not a raft has been lost and it is highly
probable that the trans-Pacific tow
could be successfully accomplished.
Those former residents of Nebraska
who read the account given by Dwlght
B. Huss of his automobile ride through,
not over, the "gumbo" roads of that
state, must have experienced a feeling
of gratitude that they are living In Ore
gon. There Is mud In this state, but
not of the sticky kind which will ac
cumulate until it blocks wagon wheels.
Nebraska Is a good state and has given
Oregon many good citizens whose pres
ence here Is evidence that this com
monwealth Is the better place In which
to live.
Thirty law students were admitted to
the bar last Monday after passing an
examination before the Supreme Court.
Probably not half of them will enter
Into permanent practice of the profes
sion, but all. If guided by high moral
principles, will be broader and better
men for the time they have spent study
ing the history and present status of
the laws of the land In which they live.
May they never get away from the first
rule that law Is the perfection of reason
and that which is not reason is not law.
A woman who committed murder in
Vermont Is under sentence to hansr to
morrow. Captain Lloyd Clark, brother
of the man whose fame Is linked with
the battleship Oregon, sends an emo
tional telegram to the Governor protest
ing against the hanging. He has the
right to do this, but when he asks. In
case the law's sentence is enforced, that
his brother's picture, hanging In the
Green Mountain Capitol, be turned
toward the wall, he sets himself down
as a meddling ass.
Sol Simpson, the Puget Sound logger,
bought the steamer Oregon from the
O. R. & N. Co. after she was sunnosed
to be old and useless. He repaired her
and made a fortune In the Alaska trade.
Now comes J. H. Peterson, the logger.
and buys the tJld O. R. & N. steamer
Geo. . Elder, abandoned by her own
ers. If history repeats Itself in this
case, another lucky logger, will speedily
develop Into a lucky steamship man.
Portland will receive today a large
number of members of the California
Press Association. Thev will remain
until next Tuesday. As a rule, they
are a fine lot of men and women who
travel with their eyes open and write
to their papers without restraint They
will find much to praise here and here
about, and It goes without saying that
tney wm be generous. The best Port
land has is not too good for them.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron. Steel and Tlnworkers has notified
the TInplate Trust that a readjustment
of the wage schedule Is due-July L and.
unless It Is forthcoming, there will be a
strike. An advance of from 18 to 22 per
cent will be demanded. If there Is a
corresponding advance In the amount
required to bribe walking delegates and
strike managers, the strike will not be
settled very easily.
Carpenter Peak, of Welser Idaho,
who fell Into the river while Intoxl
cated and was saved from death by
drowning and exposure, by the whisky
he carried, has afforded an opportunity
for wholesale speculation as- to where
the 'moral should be placed. His ex
perience has proved beyond question
that whisky is both good and bad for
man.
Many deaths are reported from sun
stroke in the East and along the Mis
sissippi River lowlands there has been
a vast property loss from floods. The
glorious climate of Oregon has not been
showing to its best advantage this sea
son, but there have been no sunstroke
fatalities and no floods of serious con
sequence.
The movement of East Side residents
to secure from the Southern Pacific
Company such simple passenger accom
modations as every station is entitled
to Is not' unreasonable No sufficient
reason can be given for-turning dowp
i ne request.
Wonder whether Alfred Austin, the
official rhymester of Great Britain, who
has Indited a poem to Whltelaw Reld,
hasn't got his checks mixed. .It was
John Hay, not his successor, who used
to work at Austin's trade.
It would be not a little Interesting to
see some of the first-place men In the
college athletic contest? engaged In a
test of haypltchlng ability in the sun
scorched fields of the Willamette Val
ley early next month.- -
' 0REG0N0Z0NE
The Times, of Chena. Alaska, has
learned that ice Chicago strike has beexr
settled. but tho news has not yet reached
Chicago.
In the Boston Post a young woman
named Mildred Champagne talks on love
and sentiment every day. giving advice to
the lovesick. Her talks fairly bubble
with good cheer.
Upon William Dean Howells has been
conferred the degree of doctor of litera
ture, by Columbia University. Doctors do
not always agree, but most of the ob
servant laymen will agree with Dr.
Howells in his diagnosis of novelicltls a
few days ago: "I do not believe that
anyone can write a novel, with rare ex
ceptions, until bo has lived at least 33
years In experience of the world." Ac
cepting this as authoritative, we must
conclude that most of the Six Best Sellers
are merely Pale Provender for Petty Peo
ple.
SteoanofT. the Russian painter, has ap
pealed to the American consul-general at
St. Petersburg to assist In the recovery
of certain Russian paintings which, he
avers, disappeared Immediately after the
closa of the St Louis World's Fair, where
they had been on exhibition. Secretary
Walter B. Stevens of the Exposition, de
nies any knowledge of their disappear
ance. It Is possible that tho Japs cap
tured them and carried them oft as
souvenirs?
Poets who set stalled on rhymes for
"heavens" should put "Fighting Bob"
Evans In their repertoires.
Who dares arise to Tdeny that republics
aro ungrateful? American newspapers
gave page after page of space, day after
day, to a naval affair that took place
on the other side of the world, between
two races ot people entirely alien to us.
whose respective languages mean no more
to us than a mob of consonants engaged
In a riot In the one case, and a series
of hen tracks, in tho other. And yet when.
last week, a long-drawn-out naval en
gagement was fought in the vicinity of
Baltimore. U. S. A., between fleets of
American warships, officers and manned
by men of our own tongue and blood.
our newspapers accorded it no more space
than was given to a reunion of volunteer
firemen, a pink tea In high society, or an
artistic dog fight The great ship grap
pled and some went down presumably;
land batteries engaged the attacking
squadrons and filled Davy Jones' locker
with theoretical thousands; It wa3 a fight
to a finish, a most destructive battle-
constructively. Was this niggard notice
duo to tho fact that It was a theory.
and not. a condition, that confronted us?
George Fitch of the Council Bluffs Non
pareil charges the Lewis and Clark Ex
position officials with having made an
electric light tower out of Mount Hood
in order to surpass Buffalo's Pan-American
electric tower and make tho memory
of the glorious Cascades at St Louts
resemble a counterfeit thirty-cent piece
that has been run over by a mule cart.
Does Mr. Fitch imagine that Mount Hood
arises from the Oregon scenery in the
shape of a barber's pole? Does he sup
pose that linemen can go up Mount Hood
with the aid of pole-climbers? But let us
be crfarltable. Mr. Fitch lives In a state
where the only object of natural scenery
that remotely suggests a mountain is
Council Bluffs, the rest of Iowa being
strictly horizontal. It is mora than prob
able that the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
man got his notions of mountain scenery
from the Tyrolean Alps on the St Louis
Pike, which blazed with bulbs.
The Language of Diplomats.
When Minister Herbert W. Bowen ad
dressed Secretary Taft as "My Dear
Bill." he should have added a postscript
to this effect: "Say, Bill, old boy, be
sure to burn this letter; otherwise Teddy
may get It if you don't watch out Tours
as usual. Bert"
Munscy's Many Monthlies.
Mr. Frank A. Munsey Interrupted his
European trip last week to cross back
to New York and start another magazine.
Mr. Munsey starts a new magazine every
new moon. It Is stated that he has not
selected a name for his latest this thing
of naming the babies has become a mighty
task for Munsey but of one thing we
may be sure, namely, that when the
magazine comes out it will carry on the
front cover an original poem about like
this:
"This is the brightest magazine
You ever seen."
North Pole Notes.
Last Year. The Zlegler expedition
sailed today for Franz Josef Land and
will push on and discover the North Pole.
This Year. The Zlegler relief expedi
tion sailed from Tromsoe. Norway, today,
to go to the relief of the Zlegler expedl
tion that sailed last year.
Next Year. The Zlegler relief-relief ex
pedition will sail next week .to relieve
the relief expedition that sailed last year
to relieve the Zlegler expedition that
sailed two years ago.
Year Later. The North Pole, like the
star-spangled banner. Is still there.
ROBERTUS LOVE.
Thorny "Way of Germany.
Boston Transerlnt
Emperor William of Germany has a big
army and a' big navy, and he wants to
mak each bigger and more powerful. His
sword, like Cyrano's, has cramps as It
lies Idle in tho scabbard. Hk wnnt m
Diovment for his amw and nnw fni- tvim.
aro his. and he can launch them against
any other country at his own caprice.
The slaughter of a few thousand Herre
ros. mere naked bushmen, In Africa. Is
not enough oS a task for the imperial
arms. The Kaiser, therefore, hastens to
chastise Venezuela, to menace France in
a blustering speech in Morocco, to Inspire
arucies snowing now easily he could con
quer me unitea states or England, to an
net Chinese terrltorv bemtiM nf th vm
Ing of two German missionaries and
n train tn thrpatftl th wal-rnrn nt -..
Chinese territory the Lord knows for
what He has become an international
danger, a maker of mischief, a provoker
ol a true, n mc ucrmans naa oeen wise,
thv Tcnnlil havn rnn nn tlulp .ltrfmu
way in commerce. In literature", in thought
and not permitted a pugnacious young
tsnperor to sport witn such dangerous
tovs as a mishtr and restless armv nn o
great navy eager to prove itself. As long
as ne nas ims puissant army ana navy,
the Kaiser will feel secure, ruffle the
feelings of his neighbors, and keep the
worm on tne verge or war.
More Terrible Than AVar.
Troy (N. Y.) Times.
War Is terrible, but the plague in
India is worse in the matter of loss of
life than even the most sanguinary
strife in tha Far East The deaths av
erage oO.OOO weekly, and there seems
no present prospect of checking- the
dread disease, which no doubt finds
conditions favorable to its spread in
the habits of the natives and the neg
lect of sanitary nrecautloas so typical
in that region.
RULER OP EQUITABLE
TBmm F. Ryaa, 54 Yean Old, Worth Over SZ0,MQQe Bmtjr&t BalJt
of Hrde'a Stock His Pet Hobby Is Rats la z: Helatria Cattle.
Baltimore News.
Thomas F. Ryan, who becomes the
dominating influence in the Equitable Life
Arsurance Society of New York through
the purchase of the bulk of the stock of
James Hasen Hyde, began his business
career In Baltimore, and It was here that
he laid the foundation for his great for
tune, which Is estimated anywhere from
50 to 100 million dollars. He Is now prob
ably the leading figure in Wall street
He has been at the head of nearly every
financial deal of consequence that has
been consummated In Wall street In the
last decade. No one identified with that
powerful and resourceful group of capital
lists and financiers known as the Whitney
syndicate, has gained a wider measure of
success than Mr. Ryan, though the pub
lic nas never been acquainted with his
methods, nor has it ever known of any
big transaction contemplated by him until
official announcement of It was made.
Mr. Ryan Is 34 years old. His career
has been remarkable in many ways. Its
most amazing feature is this that he
worked his way from absolute poverty to
power and almost unlimited wealth. He
was born In Nel3on Cbunty, Virginia, on
October 17. 1S31. his maternal ancestors
having been Scotch-Irish and his father's
ancestors having come from the North of
Ireland to Virginia before tho Revolution.
His mother died when he was o years old.
and he went to live with his grandmother.
Young Ryan left the homestead and
went to Baltimore to seek his fortune.
Without money or friends he had a hard
row to hoe. By perseverance he finally
secured a small commission with John D.
Barry's dry goods commission house. Two
years later he struck out for New York.
In this city he obtained a position with
a banking house in which Barry was in
terested. Ryan was thenlS. In two years
he had gained, by close attention, a won
derful insight of finance.
This early training has stood him well
in hand. At it he formed a stock ex
change partnership and became his own
boss. That was what he had been striv
ing for all his life. He prospered so well
that In 1S74 he was able to purchase a
seat on the stock exchange. There he con
tinued in active business for 10 years.
In this short period. Mr. Ryan, by his
great capacity for work, original ideas.
ability for execution, together with his
quiet, unostentatious demeanor, attracted
RAILROADS ASJAXDODGERS.
3Ianagcrs File False Reports for
"Taxation Purposes."
Chicago Record-Herald.
What are Illinois railroads worth a
mile?
That questtbn Interests the State Board
of Railroad and Warehouse Commission
ers, which Is meeting at Springfield to
decide on the general level of freight rates
in the state. Rates must allow a reason
able profit, and one of tho factors in de
termining reasonableness 13 the value of
the property on which profits must be
earned.
Ex-Attorney-General Hamlin has been
unkind enough to Introduce In evidence on
this point tho railroad companies' own
figures of the. value of their property per
mllo a3 they presented them last Winter
to the State Board of Equalization.
The railroad lawyers were astounded at
his simplicity. What had those figures to
do with the case? They had only been
prepared for "taxation purposes." As for
"reasonable rate3 purposes" the values
were ever so many times bigger.
There used to be a saying that the power
of taxation Involved the power of confisca
tion. o one would guess it today. It
would be truer now to say that the power
of escaping taxation and the power of
confiscating a nice little percentage of tho
value of all traffic go hand in band.
How long will the railroad be permitted
to play both ends against the unfortunate
public In the middle?
Japanese Surgery.
American Medical Journal.
Sir Frederick Treves in a speech at tho
dinner of the Japan Society in London,
spoke enthusiastically of the medical and
surgical skill of the Japanese. He said
that anybody desirous of seeing the last
thing, the most ingenious thing, and yet
the simplest thing in the equipment for
war. must go to Japan. Many of tha
problems which concern European armies,
and have been, to a large extent, a ter
ror of wa In European countries, the
Japanese were solving or had solved.
British troops, he said, enter a war with
many determinations. One is ten per cent
of sick. It is what they aro accustomed
to expect to get and they get it The
Japanese are qulto content with 1 per
cent of sick, and they get it It was a
question of ambition, perhaps, he said,
but one which might well bo Imitated.
He was convinced that Japan not many
years hence would provide one of the
most remarkable schools of surgery that
tho world has ever seen. "You will un
derstand why," he continued; "there is
tho Infinite patience of the people, their
infinite tenderness. Kinder, more sympa
thetic people do not exist Then comes
one very Important factor, at least in the
making of a surgeon; they have no nerv
ous system. Nerves Is an untranslatable
term in the Japanese language. I am
confident that we shall find In the is
lands of Japan not many years hence
one of the most curious, interesting and
progressive schools of medicine that this
world has seen."
Didn't See Their Blushes. -
New York Press.
A fine-looking girl In a tailor-made
suit, white vest, and one of those polo
turbans (Jap style), yielded her seat In
a crowded car to an old woman In
gloomy spectacles. As the almost blind
creature took the seat she remarked
gratefully: "Oh, thank you, sir. You
aro the only gentleman In the car." I
did not see any blushes mantling the
brazen cheeks of several males who
heard her.
Beasts Confer on Ills of Men.
Garret Smith. la New York Tribune.
Now. the owl rose np and poko owl wise,
-To-whlt-to-wtooo aad alas!
If men could only acquire mr eyes.
What a. drop there'd be in saal
They'd pack their currents away- on lea
And hold them for a rise.
And the pipe llne'd hunt for a brand-new Job
If men only had my eyes."
Then the polar bear aid, with a bearish
shrug-.
"Garrrrali! Bless my eoul: -If
men only srew some heavy furs.
To the deuce rrlth clothes and coal!
They'd sell their heaters for Bowery Junk
And He on the ice to sleep.
And the entire State of William Penn
Might to to ratlins' sheep."
Then the goat gulped down a casteff shirt,
"Ba-a-ai You make me emile.
The cost of HvinR not all in gas.
And coal and kerosene He.
Now. wouldn't the beef trust get thin quick
And lanquish, In chronic blues
If the waste from any old boiler shop
Could be made into Irish stews T'
Then the eagle said. "With all these things
They'd do away witn rreicnt
And would only need a cair o xay wings
To settle the railroad rate.
There'd be a state of steady declln
In the home of the blr Ship Trant;
They'd turn their Pullmans out to grass
And leave the rails to rust.
Then the monkey spoke, with a knowing
wink
In the monk-like way he had.
Tou feUows would make up a patchwork
man
And you'd make It a muss, be gad!
You'd make It so easy for hint Jo live
Tiat you'd fooxle. the- whole blamed plan,
"With sotbinsr on earth to scrap about
J "What's the fun o being a manX'
LIFE, OE, NEW YORK
the attention of such heavyweights In tho
financial world n J.iv finuid R.-Tmii t
Tllden. William R. Travers. John B. Tra
vor and William C. Whitney. Mr. Whit
ney was especially impressed by the young
man. and in 1SSS took hold of him and to
gether they began the work ot consolidat
es me various railway and railroad lines
in this city. Since then Mr. Ryan has ex
tended his operations until he and his as
sociates have consolidated about every
thing in sight. Including steam railroads,
electric light properties, gas companies
and almost every known branch of Indus
try and finance.
Mr. Ryan wa3 tha original promoter of
the Metropolitan Street Railway Company,
which by degrees absorbed practically
cvery line In Manhattan. He was one of
the organizers of the Consolidated Trac
tion Company of Jersey City, which con
nected that city with neighboring 'towns
and cities. He also Is largely interested
in the Atlantic Coast electric line, which
runs along the Jersey coast, taking In
Long Branch.
Several years ago Mr. Ryan acquired tho
horse car lines on Staten Island and
changed the power to electricity. Inci
dentally he took in the electric lighting
plants on Staten Island. He was tho pro
moter and builder of tho Union Elevated
Railroad of Chicago, and was a member
of the syndicate which purchased from
Charles T. Yerkes the North and West
Chicago surface roads. Ho developed tha
present system of electric railways and
electric lighting plants In Milwaukee.
One, of his strongest qualities Is par
severance. Once ho makes up hi3 mind
to accomplish a thing he will bido his
time, and a matter of a few years ap
parently does not bother him. Tho gas
trust In New York is a sample of Mr.
Ryan's handiwork. In this he was as
sisted by William C. Whitney and An
thony N. Brady, with the backing of tha
Standard Oil Company. It would take a
good deal of space of enumerate all tha
companies ot which Mr. Ryan Is a di
rector. November 23, 1S73, Mr. Ryan married
Miss Ida M. Barry, daughter of his first
employer. His hobby Is raising Holsteln
cattle, of which ho has several hundred
head. His kennels contain some of the
finest dogs in the world. He Is a member
of many clubs, though he does not de
vote much time to them.
ODD BITS 0F0REG0N LIFE.
Come Again, Mr. King.
Powder Valley Echo.
The editor of tho Echo desires to ac
knowledge the receipt of a fine mess of
lettuce. brought to this office by Georga
King.
Ye Editor Takes a Back Seat.
Tukanon Corr. Dayton Chronicle.
T. E. Gentry called on Miss M.. Sun
day, so we had to take a biscuit and wait
We don't think It fair for him to try
and do us, simply because he 13 bos3 of
the road.
Bad Error ot a Discriminating Dog.
Freewatcr Times.
Over at Touchet a dog bit a woman
on the leg and the dog was Immedi
ately shot. Some of the people out that
way say it wasn't right to kill a dog
with such a fine taste.
Why tho Boys Are Grieving.
Riverside Corr. Burns News.
Dan Jordan came down to this part
and took away one of our fair ones Con
sequently, us boys are not feeling Very
welL, Ben Jordan better look out, for
we don't like to have the Lawen boys
take our girls.
Phil's Effective Device.
Raymond Corr. South Bend Journal.
Some of our boys who are fond of danc
ing, walked to Wlllapa Saturday night
to attend the dance at that place and
walked back Sunday morning. They say
Phil Batson was very anxious to get
homo before daylight as he didn't want
anyone to know that he came homo with
his shoes in hand, and not on his feet
No Big FairCompares With It.
The Dalles Chronicle.
"I attended the Chicago Fair and also
the Exposition In Paris, and can truth
fully say that while our Lewis and
Clark Fair Is small, for beauty of ap
pointment and grandeur of scenery,
these big fairs couldn't touch ours. I
could never grow weary of wandering"
about the grounds, particularly after
the illumination." So spoke Dr. Slddall,
who returned from Portland last night
The Husband Beater.
London Chronicle.
A man appeared with his eyes black
ed at Tottenham the other day com
plaining that he had been beaten by
his wife. He had been married for six
years, and had been continually
thrashed for five, he said. He obtained
a summons.
Patriots to the Front.
Kansas City Star.
"I would not accept this job for an
other three years," said the Mayor of
Pittsburg recently, "If the salary wore
Increased to $50,000 a year." Now, why
can't Kansas City land a Mayor of that
kind, once in a while, Just for a
change?
It's Up to Luther Bnrbank.
Topeka State Journal. '
If' Luther Burbank really wants to
do something Important for tho hu
man race, why doesn't ha invent a
cucumber without any colic concealed
about its person, and an onion that Is
breathless?
Refuge In Distress.
J. "W. Foley, in Xew York Times.
A fellow's father knows a lot
Ot office work and such.
But when It comes to "things like what
A bor wants, he ain't much.
For when it comes to cuts or warts
Or stone bruiso on your toes,
A fellow's father don't know, but
A, fellow's mother knows.
A fellow's father, he looks wise
And says: "A-hem! A-heml"
But when it comes to cakes and pies,
"What does he know of themT
He knows the price of wheat and rye
And corn and oats, it's true.
But if you cot the leg ache, why.
He den't know what to do.
And if you buraeC your back the tine
That you went in to swim.
And want some stuff to heal it why.
You never go to him.
Because he doesn't know a thing
About such things as those.
But you Just bet. and don't forget
A fellow's mother knows. , ,
And if your nose is sunburned, till
It's all peeled oJT. and you
.Go to him.- for some healin etuff,
He don't know what to do. 1 r
He's Just as helpless as can be.
But when a fellow goes
And asks his mother, why, you see,
Jl fellow's mother knows.
A fellow's father knows a lot?
But It ain't any use. "",
So if a fellow's really got
The leff ache or a bruise.
Or if there's anything he wants
He gets right up and goes .
And asks his mother, for, yoa-se-'t v
A fellow's mother ksows.