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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1905)
(5 TEUEL MQRNIXG- OREGOIAX, 3IOXDAY, JTE J26, 1905. Entered at 'the Postofflce at Portland. Or., ax second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. IXYARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mail or Express.) Daily and Sunday, per year $3.00 Dally and Sunday, alx months 3.00 Daily as& Sunday, three month-...... 2.55 Dally-and Sunday, per month.......... &5 Dallr without Sunday? per year 7.50 Dally without Sunday," sir months 3.&0 Dallr without Sunday, three months.. - 1.05 Dally without Sunday, per month...... .65 Sunday, -per year 2.00 Sunday, six months 1-08 Sunday, three months 60 BY CARRIER, ally without Sunday, per week. ....... .13 Dally, per week. Sunday Included....... -20 THE WEEKLY OREQONIAK. (Issued Every Thursday.) "Weekly, per year.... - 1.50 Weekly, elx months .75 Weekly, three months 50 HOW XO R KM IT Send postolnee money vrder, express order or personal cheek on Jour local bank. Stamps; coin or currency f.r at the tender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 6. C. 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Talk of truce, with view to peace, comes to no definite statement. Japan is not disposed to forego any advan tage which the military situation seems to offer her; Russia Ls governed by an aristocracy, merely a class of privilege, to whom the sacrifice of armies recruit ed from the common people is nothing. They care -not. as Hamlet says, for "the imminent death of twenty thousand jrien. that for a fantasy or trick of fame go-to their graves like beds. Russia, therefore, is in no haste to make peace. But Russia misunderstands her posi tion. It is due to her ignorance. Her climate, her vast distances, his own daring, which tempted the fate that overwhelmed him, gave her victory over the greatest man of the modern world. The ruling 'lasses in Russia believe that since Napoleon could not overcome her. fhe is invincible in all circum stances. They do not allow for the changes in the modern world. Japan keeps abreast of this move ment; Russia lags behind It. At every priint Japan has command of all the fa cilities afforded by the highest Intelli gence of the modern world. Russia sticks in the old.ftits. it "because she has no support-frCm democratic Intelli gence 'and ambition. She tram pi as all these energies down. She expends her energies in. massacre of the population of Lodz, whose crime Is that they seek freedom. Russia hold? down with her armed legions the forces of democracy that would make her the greatest state of the Eastern World. And the pitiful appeal of her states men, like the groat De Wltte, to the sympathy and support of the progress ive world., on the assumption that the Japanese are an "inferior race." and their triunmph "would endanger mod ern civilization! "In the first place. If this inferior race can whip the world. It is entitled to the "victory and the world will be the hotter for it. Next observa tion I that RussIr doesn't represent the modern world, but the mediaeval world. This is the reason why Japan Is win ding her victories. Assumption of the inferiority of the Japanese and her belief in it have been the bane of Russia -from the beginning of thlj conflict. It was on that assump tion that Russia pushed into Manchuria and occupied Port Arthur. Agatn, when Japan protested, when Japan insisted that Russia must not continue her mili tary occupation. Russia, under the de lusion that she was dealing with an In terior race, treated the remonstrances of Japan with contempt. So. the armies and- rravler of Russia, believing that they were engaging with aw inferior people, have gone to their 'doom; and there ls more to follow. The greatest of misconceptions is in the -underrating of one's adversary' ., Russia cannot meet modern armies and the modern spirit with antiquated armies and the 'mediaeval spirit. She has yet to learn the lesson that all real strength for a nation is- in the spirit of lis people. This, of all facts the great est in the - modern world. Russian oli garchy ignores". Before she can make any foreign war with hope of suocose. Russia must make concession? to the democratic spirit at home. That Mill Je: a kt. of hereditary aristocrats out of a job. 'But it win be the salvation of Russia. It may take a century v two to effect the transformation. But it will come. We may have reason to suspect that old-line life Insurance is too high: but w e are also beginning to learn that fra ternal insurance is or has been too low. Thus twents years ago a man at a cer tain age could secure insurance in the Royal Arcanum at a yearly rate of ?6.4 the 51000. plus a rcnalt sum for "council dues." That was vers' cheap. Seven years ago. however, his assessments were increased te stilt leaving the cost low. Now it Is proposed w in crease his charger to JIT. 16. which ap proximates t the companies .rates. If "Ha sheuld, live seventeen years kacr. moreover, he would find his- assess ments amounting- to 161.32 a year, or much more than they would be If he had Insured In a "regular" company. Naturally, the man who carries Insur ance both in the companies and In a fraternal order Is In a quandary- Shall he quit the companies beoause they are too high, or the orders because they are , too low? Perhaps he will be lucky to j die before he has to settle the question, i ' J FItANCinSEb AND NO FRANCHISES. You will never find the organ of the "plutocratic combine" of Portland ar- j guing for taxation of the great muni cipal franchises- under control of its owners.- They didn't start and don't ' maintain their organ for any such pur pose as that. About the only thing It can think of that ought to be taxed is the alleged franchise of one of the news associations of the country. Only one of them, for itself is interested In an other. There are several. The Oregonlan takes the report of two. In connection with other newspapers In various places it has s peel I combination service, of groat extent; and besides. It operates a special service of ka own and for It pelf alone, amounting to thousands of words dally. This service, whether for The Ore gonlan alone, by its private special ef fort, for The Oregonlan in connection with one other or more newspapers, or for The Oregonlan through press asso ciations that serve many journals, has nothing whatever In It 111 the nature of "franchise." Individuals and asso ciations collect news and hire the tele graphs and telephones and mails to carry it. All other persons have pre cisely the same opportunities, the same rightB, the same rates. Hence no news paper can be a monopoly, no presp as sociation can be a monopoly. None is, none ever war. The industry of gathering and send ing news, by methods open to all on equal terms. Is no "franchise," Is no "property." There is nothing of that nature In it. It is a fleM free for all. "Undoubtedly they who enter It may be required to pay an occupation tax. But that is all. If The Oregonlan should construct telegraph arid telephone line?, they would be subject to taxation, of course; but it is not The Oregonlan's present intention to do so. To call the right to collect and to write news and to hire its transmission, a "-franchise" Is extreme absurdity. It is a "fetch," merely, to divert attention from the taxation of real franchises, got by con cessions' from the state, and worth mil lions, even in so small a city as Port land. The Oregonlan expects ao pay tax on all Its property, and ever has done so. But it has no franchises, and l doesn't expect to pay tax on the industry It employs In collection of news, whether done singly and for itself alone, or in connection with others, for mutual ex change. We tax property, in this coun try, and franchises are property; and municipal franchises in particular are to be taxed, because they are the most valuable kind of property, created by concessions or grants made by state or city, and In the nature of thing? usually are monopolies. But to capitalize the Industry of the newspaper In gathering news, call It a property, pretend It a "franchise" and set a valuation upon It for taxation an industry open to every person and one that has no concession of any kind from the public Is ridicu lous. But It Is not ridiculous to pro pose to tax a municipal franchise, granted without compensation to the city, which occupies the leading public streets and has just been sold for .lx millions of dollars. That is a fran chise, and It Is a taxable property. IGNORANCE REGARDING FOREIGN TRADE. With so many other magazines mak ing a specialty of romance and fiction, the Booklovers has heretofore printed but little of this light reading. In the June number, however, Harold Bolce has a number of Interview with some distinguished Government officials which savor so strongly of both ro mance and fiction that they might not inappropriately be classed with those subjects, although they are on the topic of foreign trade. Secretary Shaw has much to ay about our neglect of for eign trade opportunities, and drags in his ship-eubsidy hobby in the following style: If w ever set r lefittlmaie vtoare t the tra of South America. Oeeontca an4 SMrtci Africa, we will fcave tm tjo after ft and se ta American pMp. We need never expect ' 3m4 tw ware M market in ovr neighbor?' conveyance and fare h well ai te w)w onus the coftve"&ac and has rtmMar ware to ell. This bit of fiction is amusing, following so closely as it does the report of a spe cial representative of the British gov ernment on the same topic. The Britisher proved by verified figures, which were primed in all of the loading trade pa pers and also in American Consular re ports, tnat American snippers were sending their wares to "South America. Oceanica and South Africa" in British vessels for lower freight rates than were granted European exporters to the same countrier. There Is no sentiment in business, and! the man who owns the ship very seldom has any interest in the cargo. Just at present, and in fact for the past five years, there has been such a surplus- of tonnage available at American ports and such close compe tition for our freight, that rates to the countries mentioned have been much lower than from Europe. The eager ness of the foreign shipowner to han dle the American business even at cut rates, is . reflected in the advertising column? of the New Tork Journal of Commerce. These advertisements show no less than sixteen different steamship lines from New York for South 'America, South Africa and Australia. The equip ment of these lines includes some of j the finest freighter? afloat, and a large J number of passenger steamers. So far j as Australia te concerned, there is an j American Hne running out of San Fran-, j jelsco. and It is never obliged to refuse freight for want of room. Pacific Coast shlppers have lese business with South American poris than is Handled from " New Tork. but there is plenty of ton nage available for carrsing it at low rates. If Secretary Shaw knows any- ! thing about foreign trade, he failed to make It clear in his interview with Mr. Bolce. Another eminent foreign-trade expert who contributed to the Booklovers ar ticle was Dr. John Franklin Crowell. secretary of the economic division of the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science. Something great might be expected from puch an Impos ing title, but about all that the emi nent doctor has bo offar Is that "we have no foreign trade poMcy" and that Germany ls afraid to "put the United LStatcs at a permanent disadvantage." There is a smattering of truth In the statement that we have no foreign trade policy, but Dr. John Franklin Crowell will not have long to wait to learn that there will be no fear on the part of Germany to enforx a retaliatory tariff J discrimination against American trad ers. This we have invited, and, until the Invitation is withdrawn, and we sue for commercial peace, our German trade will shrink. Mr. Bolce also interviewed the prin- cipal disturber of foreign trade. Mr. Victor H. Metcalf. head of the De partment of Commerce and Labor, whose administration of the Immigra tion laws has brought us into very serious commercial difficulty with China. Some explanation of the atti tude of Mr. Metcalf at a time when ! we are In the gravest danger of losing our Oriental trade. Is found in his state- rs thai "r anufac- tared goods to distant countries are really very, rmall." jand that "Amerl- cans have failed to advise themselves as to the vast onDOrtunltv abroad." and : that "the popular conception of our foreign trade status abroad is an erro neous one." The latter statement is open to question, but there is no ques tion as to what will happen unless the Government officials learn more about foreign trade than is disclosed In such Interviews. THE RURAL POST SERVICE. There is a growing money deficit in the work of the PostoJSce Department, due mainly to the rapid extension of ru ral delivery. It should be said that there could be no deficit In any branch of the public service from better cause. Our people In the rural districts are entitled to a service so essential to their posi tion;, for directly and indirectly they hav.e ever borne a large part of the burdens of National administration, but have not hitherto been able to get their proper share of the conveniences and general benefits from It that the cities have obtained. Nor Indeed will they yet. But the rural mail service supplies to them some part of the deficiency and to an extent restores a balance that has been heavily against them. Rapid as has been the growth, of the rural mall service, it is by no means yet fully established. In almost every state there are localities yet unsupplied. This Is especially ro In the West and South. Doubtless there are sparse, set tlements, scattered and remote, which will yet have to wait a long time for this service. There must be one hun dred heads of families for a standard route of 21 miles. But It Is only a question of time when house-to-house delivers of mail will .be universal; for it is an accommodation in line with our general system of education, and such deficit as may arise wilt be charged to a cause which citizens believe entitled to .support of the country. By latest reports there are 3S.9S2 rural routes, serving about 2.17.00 families. The report of the present fiscal year, soon to appear, will undoubtedly show a very considerable Increase over this number. Illinois leads the country, with nearly 3000 routes. The service began in 1S37. with an experimental appropria tion of $10,009. For the next fiscal year to end June 3. IMS the appropriation Is ?25.S2S.W0. But could money be ex pended for better purpose? It should be observed, however, that there is In come as well as outlay; for the serv ice largely increases the revenues of the department. The whole deficit of the department last year was JS.SM.OOO-' a sum only about one-third the total J cost of he rural service. There has been astonishing growth of the business of the Poftofilcc during re cent years. Free deliver' and rural delivers greatly stimulate the use of the malls. Every function of society and of business adds increasing tribute. The growth of the revenues is at the rate of about 10. per cent per annum, and of expenditure In recent years rather more. But it may safely be said that It Is one branch of the public, service that never wHl be curtailed and will be Increased always, from year to year. THE BRIBEGIVER. The professional lobbyist has taken a prominent place on the Index Expur gatorious of the American people. He must go. He has been driven out of Missouri hy Governor Folk; he has had an unpleasant time in Illinois with Gov ernor Deneen; and he is not wanted in Wisconsin, where Governor-Senator La Follette rules with a dictator's power. Now Governor Herrick. of Ohio, who is not a reformer, joins the movement. At Cedar Point, O.. several days since, he had this to say: Lobbying ls a deadly ftoiron ta the well prlRt; of legislation. It is rfsiMe. ! Use nvita. for the tow estimate In which oar law making; bodies ar held hf many throughout the entire cooMry. The srfelenal tobhy irt i a criminal. By that I mean the man who ofTtrs a fixed brute to promote or restrict legislation. Hln sreat crime Hes m the de strwctlo at the lank ta the koneity of our cftlxeaa and the boeraUy of mankind. We. must do more than arreK: we must exter minate the proteiolOMl tohfcy. There Is a species of lobbying to which no objection can be offered, and that is the open and straight forward advocacy of or opposition to any given legislation by the rep resentatives of any interest that mas be affected. But the lobbyists upon whom mans influential and experienced aubltc men now make war are those who bs Improper influences, by corrup tion, bs bribery, direct or indirect, or by ans other questionable or subtle means, seek to promote legislation for their friends and employers, or to de feat other legislation aimed at tqem. Every Legislature has Its lobby. It Is safe always to say that one-half Its, members have no proper business at the state capital. But why stop at the lobbyist? Whs not get at his empkser? If the Repub lic has an enemy R Is the corporation or individual who hires the lobbjist to buy. debauch, cajole or coerce a legis lator Into dotng that which he should not do and would nor otherwise do. The bribegiver Is as bad or worse than the bribetaker. The mischief begins with him. He should first of all be held ac- ; countable. He is usually too smooth ' and cowardly and respectable to work in the open. He works through agents, some in and others out of the Legisla ture, and whenever there Is an explo sion he Ls safe under cover. He rarely is seen by a Legislature. His hirelings must stand the brunt of ans exposure. Yet his hands are as dirty as his crea ture's, and his character worse, for he incite? others to wrongdoing, and em ploys ans means he can except such means as would bring him Into the light to play on the weaknesses and vanities and need?, and wreck the char acter of the men who make' our laws, and who if let alone would go home with clear conscience and good name Perhaps we shall some day go to the fnnntain-head'of all this rottenness, and drag its authors forth into the glare of publicity for the contempt which they deserve. 3ut we seem not yet to be ready, for we have not yet got to that point where we refuse to respect and honor the successful bribegiver. That there ls a public sentiment In Philadelphia has been lately well es tablished. The city has been emanci pated. But the so-called reformers did not do it. The Mayor, a Republican machine Mayor, was- the chief Instru ment. The 'political bosses have uncon ditionally surrendered. The Councils will do the people's bidding. The gas lease has been withdrawn, and the corrupt trolley franchises will be repeaed. Of the results accomplished the Public Ledger says: j The city ha emerged from darkness la ' d has taken iu place la the lead Ksra ;vl?i xr , rxareple la civic patrtotura. Integrity ' and persistence in the right. The municipal I severnwent has been recovered to the centre! ,ne ciuxec. The corrupt cenrHmtora are I ejected. The reign of graft Is at aa end. Tae emancipated Councils gladly consent M re Vcl the popular will. The highways have been rescued from the rrasp f speculator and w be made .accessible to honest and prefltable enterprise. The pubrtc service will be redeemed, and thoee who have prMtKuted It te their own creed will not only be cast out. but will be made to pay the Just penalty f their crime. Above all. the people win be enfranchised, and never air a In will they b brought into subjectlen te the corrupt tyranny they have shaken off. Mr. Joe Dlener. ex-commercial trav eler and prospective convict, can bear testimony to the oft-repeated state ment that this ls a pretty small world after all. He sold his line of hardware samples to a second-hand dealer in Portland, twenty months ago, and de parted for British Columbia. From there the detectives traced him across the Pacific, through Japan. China. In dia. Those far-away -lands failed to shelter him. and .he worked his way back through the Suez to Paris, to Ger many and London. Even among the teeming millions of the European capi tals he could not shake off the Ameri can detectives, so he crossed the Atlan tic to Boston, leaving there as soon as discovered for Savannah, where he was taken ill and captured while in the hos pital. If Mr. Diener ever repeats the offense for which he was .arrested, he will probably surrender as soon as he learns that detectives are on his trail, as he must fully realize that it Is a loss of time endeavoring to dodge them. The belief that Uncle Sam desires plenty of waterfront with his real es tate purchases is spreading. Having taken In the Island of Cuba, the Phil ippines. Hawaii. Guam, and others of minor Importance, we are credited with dickering for the Saghallens In the Far North. Now comes the confidential agent of Colombia with an offer to sell the Gallpagos Islands to the United States. There is no apparent reason why the United States should buy up these Islands that arc lying on the In ternational bargain-counter, but their respective owners need the money, and apparently think this is the best mar ket In the world for the disposition of island property. The Colombians expect a premium for the Gallpagos Islands, because the United States gobbled up Panama without placating all of the Colombian soreheads. In this a disap pointment awaits the sellers. The Government has chartered the American steamship City of Savannah to run between New Tork and Panama for three months, with the option of purchase at the expiration of that period. A New York paper, in noting the transaction, says: "Being an ex pensive boat to run because of her con- sumption of coal and comparatively small cargo space, she has been laid up most of the time since her purchase four s'cara ago." These qualifications for Government service will be recog nized Immediately. If Uncfe Sam ever purchased a craft that was not too ex pensive to run or otherwise unqualified for straight commercial purposes, it has escaped the attention of the maritime world. The Government fleet of steam er?, exclusive of. those built to order. Is. with a few exceptions, a rare old col lection of gold bricks. And now comes the report that the CorvallLs & Eastern Railroad will ex tend its line through Central Oregon by the cast and west route. Out of all this "smoke that is being raised over the Central Oregon railroad proposition there should come some fire. We now have, according to rumor, four different lines the Northern Pacific, O. R. &. N.. the Gould line and the Hammond lln all contemplating entering the new field. Mr. Hammond, who has been vers successful with both the Corvallls & Eastern and the Astoria & Colum bia River Railroad, has vers compre henslve data regarding the field which it is reported he will next invade, and the extension across the state would be a very Important link in his system. The electric cars have no advantage over the trains pulled bs steam loco motives when two attempt to pass each other on the same track. The feat was attempted near Connellsville, Pa.. Sat urcay afternoon, and two men were killed and fifteen Injured. The electric block signal ss'stem was In use where the disaster occurred, proving that there are times when all of the safeguards which thelngenults of man can throw around rapid transit are futile. Some one was to blame for the accident, just as there is for nearly all of the acd dents which take place on railroads or electric lines, but the fixing of respon sibllits Is generalls a most difficult matter. It Is certain that the excess of Gov ernment expenditures over Income for the current fiscal year will aggregate about $30,000,000. Secretary Shaw's op tlmlstic prediction that the deficit would melt awas with the warm weather Is pot to.be justified. The next Congress will find that it must take fiscal legis lation seriously In hand. There seems no way. at least there is no present In clination. to cut down expenditures. What. then, is to be done? It is evi dent that we must revise the tariff or Impose Internal revenue tax on some things not now taxed. The problem is simple enough when we decide that It must be solved. Some rortiana automomusts report that they went from Lebanon to Salem forty-three miles. In a little over two hours. The report of the same Journey from the farmers along the road is yet to come In. Eastern papers just at hand are full of sweltering accounts of Summer heat. The maximum temperature in Portland Saturdas was. 64; minimum 55. There is nothing more to aas. - 0REG0NOZONE "Wassles." Waggles? Whs, just a deg a common cur; ' Came to our house, nobody knew from .where. And settled down; he seemed to take to. us. We took him In an onery-looklng cuss As ever yeu beheld; his hair unkempt. His hide from baths no doubt since birth exempt; And s'et he was a cheerful sort of brute .-he Was gentle, which 'made up for lack of beauts. Wife said she wouldn't keep him: but the kid Begged, -Mamma, let him stay!" and mamma did. "But s'ou must keep him out of doors," she said; So Waggles get a pallet III the shed. The neighbors called, and when they spted the cur They grinned and Joked, ha-had, and asked us. "Where On earth did yeu folks find a dog ao ugly?" But Waggles wagged his tall and lay there snusly. Snapping at files that came his way; and thus We grew to love 'that onery-looklng cuss. Yes. grew to love him, 'most aa much aa some Love children, for you couldn't call him dumb; His bark was tike a voice now mild and .merry. Now sharp and shrill, and his vocabulary We learned to kno. particularly did That pride and promise of our house the kid. When Waggles had been ours about a Sear, The laughing stock of strangers far and near Who chanced to see him. but the pride and pard Of little Bobble monarch of the yard He found a chance to vindicate his name And show us that a beaatle can be game Without a pedigree The house that das . Caught fire, with all the family away But Waggles and his chum the little chap Upstairs asleep his after-dinner nap. After awhile a hell of smoke and flame Burst through the roof and then the fire men came. With trucks a-clatter and the engine's kud Whl3tle and puff; and while the eurious crowd Gathered across the street to watch the scene. The gallant firemen handled the machine And turned the water on. "No use to try , Saving the house." the Chief said; "It's goodbye To this one no one in it. anyhow; But keep the flames confined so, lively. now!" Then suddenly from out the shed there cam? An ugly dog and Waggles was his name! He whined and whimpered at the fire men's feet. And barked Hke mad. The crowd across the street Laughed, when the foreman, Blake, of No. 2. Yelled "Scoot, you brute! we'll turn the hose en yeu! But wqen thes- broke a window to turn in The water. Waggles, with a ghastly grin. Showing his shins teeth. leaped through and ran Straight up the stairs, braver than ans roan! Two minutes later, through the smoke and flame. f . i brave Down the .doomed stairway old Waggles oame. A glorious marts'r In a fiery sheath. Dragging the bos the frock caught in his teeth! The boy? Well. I'm the bos or was. at least. Seme years ago, before my size increased: And Waggles? Whs (there's something in my throat!) Old Waggles, whs, yeu see. his woolly coat Caught fire and while the doctors worked with me ' He slunk awas and died. So now yeu see Why I'm in love with dogs; and If I had A poet's pen I tell sou I'd be glad To write a glorious, living epitaph For Waggles and I'm sure you wouldn't laugh! ROBERTUS LOVEL THE HIGHEST BUILDING. It ls to Be Erected on Madison Sqnarc, New York. Ftt SletrofMHtan Lite Insurance Company.... JfV tVafthiiiston monument 555 City Halt. Philadelphia 537 Celeme cathedral..... 312 PyramM of Chepa 479 St. NVebota" CtMirch. Hamburr 473 Straibarg cathedral Rosen cathedral rew lorK. Tne Metropolitan Life In surance Company will erect on the site of Dr. Parkhurst's church, at Madison avenue and Twents'-fourth street, the tall est building in the world. It will be 3 feet In height five feet higher than the Washington Monument. The site of the -Metropolitan's tall tower has a frontage of T5 feet on Madison avenue and 130 feet on Twenty-fourth street. Preliminary sketches have already been drawn for the tower by the architects of the building. Napoleon Le Brun & Son. although the company will not take pos session of the site until Dr. Parkhurst's congregation Is ready to move Into Its new edifice. Mr. Edison's Watch. World's Work. To Mr. Edison time Is so valuable that he does not waste It even by taking account of It. Time to him Is only the chance to get things done; and no mat ter how long It takes, they must be got done. In his office safe there is care fully locked awas a J2TC0 Swiss watch, given him bs a European scientific society. It Is never used. He buys stem-winder costing a dollar and a half, breaks the chain ring off. squirts oil under the cap of the stem, thrusts it- Into his trousers pocket and never looks at it. When It gets too clogged with dirt to run. he lays It on a labo ratory table, hits it with a hammer and buys another. Shocking. Puck. Mre. Gramercy. You look awfully worried, my dear girl. Mrs. Pa,rk. It's all on account of my stupid maid. She let me go out witn Fldo. when I was wearing the gown that harmonizes with Babette. - JEWISH RACE IN THE UNITED STATES Next ThaaVajctvUgr Day, the SSOth Anniversary ef Arrtvnl la Canatry of First Jewish Refuse e Will Be Celebrated. Sacramento Union. A committee of 17 has beea appointed in New Terk to arrange for the proper com memoratie? of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of the Jews In the United States. The annlversars of their actual landing will occur September 24. 190a. The first official grant from the Dutch West India Company permitting them te live la ahe New Nether toads was signed April 25 ICoo. and this event was celebrated by a banquet on the evening of April 23 last. - It is proposed to arrange a National celebration next Thanksgiving day, aad all the Jews of the United States wllV be asked to participate. The plan is to hold religious services simultaneously la every synagogue in. the country, to give thanks to God for the blessings enjoyed In this country by the Jewish people, and to erect , some appropriate memorial as an ac knowledgment of these blessings. The money to ay tor it Is to be raised by public subscription among the Jews ot the United States, aad committees will be appointed in every cits, town and village where Jews are living. The form of this memorial has not as yet been decided upon. Numerous suggestions have been made and are now under consideration bs the committee of IT. It Is desired to make it a perpetual token of gratitude and thanksgiving from the Jewish people to the American Republic. It may be a monument; it may be an educational fund. or some institution of charity may be founded for the benefit of the entire world. The committee consists of Jacob H. 'Schiff. chairman; Dr. Cyrus Adler. Sam uel Grcenbaum, David Guggenheim. Pro fessor Jacob H. Hollander. Max J. Koh- ler. Edward . Lauterbach. Adolph Lew- lsohn. Lewis Marshall. Dr. Perelra Mendes. N. Taylor Phillips. Simon W. Rosendale. William Solamon. Isaae N. Sel- igman. Louis Stem. Oscar S. Strauss and Mayer Sulzberger. According to Philip Cowen. editor of the American Hebrew, there are altogeth er 1C0,0X Jews In the United States, of whom nearly SW.OCO mas be found wtthtn the limits of Greater New York, and that number has Increased from 1CO.00O during the last 20 years. In the southern part of New York Clt on the East Side, between the Bowery and the river, are not less than 400.C0O Jews; In another In the northern part of the cits, west of Eighth avenue and above Ninetieth street, are 125.000; In a settle ment in the Bronx are S0.O0O; In Williams burg. 6O.0CO. and on Long Island, in East New York, there Is a community of T9.&0O people known as Brownvllle, of whom' 50 per cent are Jew. For a mile in, one direction and a half-mile in the other every building Is occupied by Jews, mostly of Russian origin. The first Jews to arrive in New York were refugees from religious oppression In Portugal, and thes came by way of Brazil and the West Indies, where thes had sought an asylum in vain. The par ty numbered 2X As some of them had no money to pas their passage their baggage was seized and sold at auction, and two of the leaders were imprisoned as host ages pending the payment. They behaved well and prospered, and rapidly attracted others of their race, but they were sub jected to much humiliation. They were not permitted to own land; they were prohibited from selling goods at retail; thes were not allowed to build a syna gogue, and were refused the privileges of the cemeteries. However, when one of WHAT WE SPEND ABROAD. Every year Americans spend abroad a constantly increasing sum of mones", sass Henry C. Nicholas in Public Opinion. Be fore leaving for Europe the tourist pur chases a letter ot credit covering the sam which he expects to spend while abroad. These letters of credit are purchased main's from Wall-street bankers, and give a foundation to work upon In esti mating the amount of money annually spent abroad on vacations. Experts on foreign exchange agree that for the last five sears an average of more than $100.- C00.O a s'car has been spent bs American tourists abroad. Present indications are that fullj 1SO.O00 cabin passengers will cross the Atlantic eastward this year, and the cost of the vacations of these 150.000 tourists will amount to not less than $150.- CCO.00O, or an average of about J100O apiece. It Is an amount equal to the whole as sessed value of propert- In Oregon. Of this amount J37.500.CO0 represents pas sage mones paid Into the treasuries of the various steamship lines. This figure Is based on an estimated average of $250 a. round trip for each cabin passenger. Ac cording to well-informed steamship offi cial?, this estimate is. if anything, too conservative. Fulls one-half ot the pas sengers crossing the Atlantic in the first cabin pas more than that one way. while many pas many times that amount. The average, however, would be about $250 for each cabin passenger, or a total of $3T.50O. Cf for the laO.OPO passengers who will go to Europe this year. According to foreign exchange experts, the average tourist spends abroad three times the cost of his round-trip ticket across the Atlantic. This would give an average expenditure abroad per tourist of $T50. which Is declared to be well within the mark. This would indi cate that the IsO.OCo tourists who will go to Europe this Summer will spend abroad a total of $112,300,000. Add the passenger fares across the Atlantic, and you have a grand total of $150,000,000. representing what the annual European vacation of Uncle Sam's citizens will cost this country thls year. He Was "Fresh." When the President alighted at Red Hill. Va., the other das, when he went over to see his wife's new cottage, he noticed that an elderlj- woman was about to board the train, and. with his usual courtess. he rushed forward to assist her. That done, he grasped her hand and gave It an "executive shake." This was going too far. and the woman, snatching her hand away and eying him wrathfulls. exclaimed: "Young roan. I don't know who you are. and I don't care a cent; but I must say you are the freshest somebody I've ever seen In these parts." The President tells this as a good Joke on himself. The Virginia country people, however, will soon get used to his breeziness of manner. The Grandstand Fan at Sea. Chicago Tribune. The wind blew a gale from the north east, and the ship rolled dlsmaMy In the waves. You'll feel better when you get used to It." remarked the sympathetic friend to the pale young woman In the steamer chair. "I wouldn't mind It if It were just plain pitching." ahe said, with a wan smile. "Its the the curves that knock me out." The Same Effect and Cheaper. Washington Star. "Aren't you going to the seashore?" "No." answered the busy man. "I hire three handorgan grinders and a popcorn man to assemble under my window aach evening, and I And that the Impression ia much the same." This their number died, Gaveraor. Stusvesant laid out a separate burial ground in a district then outside the elty limits, but sow la the center of the lower East Side. The refusal of the Dutch to permit the i Jews to engage ia retail trade has baa a powerful influence upon the commercial development of New York City because It drove them into the Importing, export ing and wholesale busines; which they have practically monopolized for the last centurj- It you win take a streetcar up or down Broadway you will notice that nearly alt the signa In the wholesale dis trict bear Jewish names, and thes also control a large number of the big depart ment stores. Altman. Saks. Stern Broth ers and Blumesdale are all Jews; Arnold, of Arnold & Constable, comes of Jewlsa stock; Macys' great store Is owned by Straus Brothers: Simpson, Crawford & am1 '. ";Ttn)I ,w T might mention are all Jews. Although the members of the first colony had their baggage seized to pay their passage, the properts holdings of the Jews of New- York are now estimated to SSTO.COO.OCO. and their wholesale trade test year was esti mated at J55O.O0O.CCO In New York Clty alane. N It is an Interesting fact that John. Jacob Astor learned his trade from Hayman Levy, a Jewish fur dealer, who employed him In 1T35 to beat furs for a dollar a day, and. as Louis Marshall has observed, "this constitutes no blot on the Astor family escutcheon!" Until 1SI2 nearly all the Jews In New York were of Spanish and Portuguese origin. Then Jews of German origin be gan to come In. having been driven oat by the Napoleonic wars. As late as 1SS2 the majority In the ghettos were Jews of Ger man origin, but the restrictive edicts of Alexander III banished from Russia a great army, which took refuge ia New York. Now it Is estimated that two thirds or more of the Jewish population of this cits are ot Russian origin. Jews have held many Important posi tions ia our National, state and munici pal governments. Several Jews have been president ot the Board of Aldermen of New York; there are always three or four in the State Legislature and in the Congressional delegation from this city Julias M- Meyer, the present Attorney General of New York, is a Jew. They "have been as successful In the profes sions as In trade, and' it is asserted in Jewish publications that at lease 33 per cent of the lawyers of the City of New Yerk belong to that race. They have been equalls prominent In education. You would be Interested to look over the list of teachers In the public schools in New York, and the catalogue of students In the Normal Schools, which show a large proportion of Jewish names. Tie Irish only surpass them In this respect. Joseph Pulitzer and Adolph Lewisohn have given large sums to Columbia Uni versity, and Annie Nathan Meyer was one of the tounaer? ot Barnard College, the woman's department of that Institu tion. The assessed valuation of Jewish educational and charitable institutions irt New York is $6,516,500. A majority of the New York theaters are owned or controlled by Jews. Hein rlch CoareW. manager of the Metropoli tan Opera Houee, and his predecessors. Maurice Grau and Strakoseh. were Jews. Opera was Introduced Into New York by Lorenzo da Ponte. a Jew. Walter JJam rssch and his brother Frank, the lead ing Instructors, and the majority of the piano and singing teachers In the city belong to the Jewish race and several of the most successful composers. The mother of John Howard Payne, author pf "Home, Sweet Home." wao a Jewess. 1 have frequently ' heard it asserted thai Theodore Roosevelt and even George Washington had a strain ot Jewish blood In their veins. ODD BITS OF NORTHWEST LIFE Strange Diversion of Two Misses. Tower Cor. Castle Rock Advocate. Miss Huntington and Miss Shafer went horseback riding for pleasure the other das. Takin-r His Ease Over Rubber. Tires. Siimrnervllle Cor. Elgin Recorder. John Tuttle rs uow riding around In a new rubber-tired buggy. That Is what we call enjoying life, which is quite right, for John has worked hard the greater part of his life. Chance to Annex Slasher and Milker Ctoverdale Cor. Tillamook Herald. Fred Brlords is a ruslter. At present he is milking cows for Jack Jenkins and slashing for Charles Raj. Some young lady would do well to launch out upon life's sea with Fred. Don t you think so. Fred? Journalism's Heavs Fall. Echo News. Our Bunghole correspondent has taken to the tall timber. We have a short note from Him in waich he states that he has moved from where he used to live for reasons best known to him self, tnat he has rented a well and that Barkus Is on watch. Why Vol Take Sure Remedya Wife Toledo Cor. Chehalis Bee-Nugget. Jchn Scales, of Washougal. was here over Sunday visiting his best girl. John makes frequent trips here and judging from apearances the proposition is a serious case with him. and he must soon take something to kill the love germ or he will be beyond all hopes. Two of a Kind. Birmingham (Ala.) News Thes are going to have an airship con test at the Portland Exposition. On the Trail the hot-air contest Is a continuous performance. ' " Leuis and Clark Exposition. Minna Irvin?. In Leslie's Weekly. When Clark and Lewis first beheld The rlpplln-f Willamette. The virgin forest round them lay With, many a snare beset. Before them roso Mount Helen's mows. Untrodden, cold and pale. -The only path was her and there ' A narrow Indian traiL Still aeaward rolls the Willamette With water bright and clear.'" SUI1 folded In eternal, snows The mountain peaks appear; But now a splendid city rears Its roofo to meet the mom. , And writes Its name around the world ' In timber, wheat and corn. But Otexon does not forget The pair who biased the war. . And mapped her future greatness out She honprs them today. In sleamlnr copper, too. ahe. casta The forest queen of old . Who guided through the wilderness Those men of Iron mould. In memory of the cabin heme. tnth floor of beaten earth. And walls of rudely plastered clay. " Where Portland had Its birth. . . She builds a palace of the iczs. ,. t From leafy ,giants hewn. Great trees that for a thousand 'years Hare swelled the tempest's tuns. A century of patient toll 1 Has realized tne dreams That led the eturdy pioneers O'er .mountains, woods aad streams; And Oregon, the opulent, . .. The wonder ot the Weyt.- . .On this, her natal day. Invites 'The world to ba har guest. 1 1 . -. . -