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"and the jnarck. began. Russia Is a hollow shell, but the hollow is pretty well filled with powder the hercules powder q revo lution A little damp it seems to be. Fire. w,ill not run in it. It flashes up in Itataad and dies out. It flares waver ingly in SI. Pet6rsburg- and Moscow. It smoulders among the farmers of the "rich and starving southern plain. But it burns steadily In the Caucasus and among the Black Sea fleet It has be come a conflagration. The smouldering heat is drying out the powder of revo lution that fills Russia. The explosion is nearly due. Where Is the Russian Sherman to march through this land of blood and prove Its hollowness to the world? We hear plenty about "arms"; nothing ; about the "man." Where is the Rus sian Mirabeau? Danton, Marat, Robes pierre, do they bide their time In some lonesome Mir? There are Hampdens and Cromwells in Russia; perhaps even a Washington; but the people cannot see them. They are too far apart to hear. When the National Assembly meets, if it ever does, with the whole nation looking on, then the leaders will show themselves. Some farmer from the Ukraine, some boatman from the Volga, it may be, will speak, the words that will echo round the world and shake down the tottering throne of the Romanoffs. The man of destiny In Russia today Is he who shall get together by whatever means a representative National As sembly. Perhaps that man now sails on the rebel ship, the Kniaz Potemkin, on the Black Sea. The world watches that portentous vessel, wonders and waits. "Who directs her course? Why did she, pi all that fleet, rebel? The other sail ors have wrongs, too; wrongs so great that Admiral Kruger knows they are all in secret rebellion. Why is this ship in open rebellion? There Is a man on board. Man with a capital. He has the genius for publicity which is indispensable just now, if he means to succeed. The funeral of the mur dered sailor from the Kniaz Potemkin was celebrated in Odessa -with riot. In cendiarism and human slaughter. In this way the leader not only caught the attention of the world, that is easy, but he caught also the difficult, bovine at tention of Russia. The authorities tried to suppress the news; it ran like Are along underground fuses up the Dnelper through the hungry provinces of Kief and Poltava, where every peasant mourns a son slain wickedly in Man churia. It crossed, the uplands of the "Valdai and followed the Volga to the Caspian. The peasants of the dreary MIrs of Little Russia -whisper it over their poor vodka; the boatmen of the Volga send it on Into Perm and Oren burg. Dumb, driven Russia Is watch ing the man on the Kniaz Potemkin, and maybe the peasants know who he Is. From Odesso he sailed to Kus tlndje, in Roumania, for supplies; but here he was disappointed. Roumania was freed by Russia from the Turks, who had made the country half a des ert Russian influence predominates at the court, as at all the petty courts in the Balkan Peninsula. The shadow of Russian greatness dominates the land. Roumania fears Russia and is her friend; she will aid no Russian rebels. A fool would have fired upon the in hospitable city, or upon the shipping in the harbor. The leader on the Kniaz Potemkin kept the international peace and sailed away to the little town of Theodosia. in the Crimea, an ancient city, famous for learning and well for tified, where he obtained his supplies by threats, and now, unless all signs fail, he is headed for the Caucasus. Here rebellion is raging- on the land and he is almost pure of a welcome. He can anchor safely either at Poti or j Batoum, with the country behind him actively friendly. "What can Russia do against the Kniaz Potemkin? The Cossacks cannot reach her; the fleet will not attack her. "When she makes herself secure In some port she will almost certainly be joined by other ships. The powers are not likely to Interfere. There Is no reason for it. The Kniaz Potemkin has for mally declared war against the autoc racy; she Is, ludicrous as It mas seem, almost a belligerent not a pirate. Eng- lanH ivlll not titlark her because any foe to Russia Is by that fact her ally. No other power dare send warship? r : . ; 'through the Bosphorus If England dis sents. Let the commander of the ves sel, whoever the man may be that Is ruling through the "commission." hold to his present wise course of conduct; let him -accumulate power a? he may and steadily hold to his demand for a National Assembly, and he will decide the destiny of his country. SECRETARY ROOT. The penalties of National greatness fall heaviest on the Secretary of State. As America expands in territory, power and influence, the responsibilities of his office multiply. Every point of contact with a foreign nation introduces a pos sibility of diplomatic complications. Every new duty undertaken by the United States In its broadening career as a world-power may raise new ques tions of International law or domestic policy; and all these questions the Sec retary of State must" solve. Happy would this Nation be were It certain that the faultless tact, the unfailing in telligence, the philosophic breadth of in tellect, the profound strategy, of John Hay would unite again In his successor, Mr. Root. If It is asking too much even of the beneficent Providence that metes out the destinies of America to give us the equal of that great minister of state In his successor, still the problems that confront Mr. Root are of a nature that will exercise ability of the highest or der; and possibly his solutions of them may prove that he possesses 1L His record Is not against him. If not of surpassing merit, his public services have been respectable. His Integrity Is above question, which Is no mean com pliment to a public man in these days. And the friendship and confidence of President Roosevelt, which Mr. Root enjoy?, arc sufficient warranty to the great body of Americans that he merits this great trust and dignity. Let us hope that neither the President nor those who loyally follow his judgment are mistaken. It is useless now to speculate whether Secretary Hay's diplomacy in Santo Domingo would have ended In annexing that troublesome Island, where the ne gro race has demonstrated Its Incapa city for government In a century of an archy. The problem stands much as it did when Grant undertook, and failed, to solve it. Will Mr. Root succeed? The administrative Integrity of China, for which Mr. Hay wielded the weapons of dlplomacy,.Japan will now take care of; but through our approaching tariff dlf Acuities with Germans', and other na tions of Europe. Mr. Root must find his way. with no sympathy abroad and not too much at home. The United States Senate has never been helpful to any Secretary's efforts to make our trade relations with foreign nations either just or reasonable. If Japan should declare an Asiatic Monroe Doctrine, would Mr. Root favor or oppose it? Concerning the American Monroe Doctrine, he is known to hold the President's views. In proportion as -we make ourselves protectors of the South American States, we make our selves responsible for their misdeeds: If we forbid other nations to coerce them, we must coerce them ourselves, when Justice requires It. If we warn oft trespassers, we must build a Navy to make good our threats or the world will laugh at them. There are plenty of difficulties await ing Mr. RooL The Nation has all con fidence In his good Intentions; reason able confidence In his abilities, and abundance of good wishes, partly on his own account, more because he Is the President's friend. WHO OWNB THE CHILD? At the Suffrage Association meeting Rabbi Emll Hlrsch made a suggestive speech about the public schools. Speak ing from the point of view of the dweller In the great city, he said: "The question of the day for the child too often lies between the streets and the factory. It should be between the pub He school and the factory." The orator went on to dwell on the right of the state to dictate how the child should be taught and trained. The number of young breadwinners was given, and the picture brought before the audience of the child workers, aged before their time, taking on their weakly shoulders the premature burden of toll and re sponsibility. Who. then, owns this child? was the suggested question the parents who have brought Into the world, fed and nurtured it (poorly It may be. but probably with the; best they had), or the state, among whose future citizenship It is by the fact of birth enrolled? Compulsory education Is the easiest remedy to prescribe, with enforced presence of the child In public schools, and enforced absence until a given age Is reached, from factory and store, from newspaper route and shop. But. speaking generally, there is no such thing as a universal remedy for all Ills. Such prescriptions savor of the quack. Families there are In the great cities of all lands where the hard and constant labor of all members barely keeps the wolf from the door. Death and sickness have entered the circle. and the pitiful earnings of the children may keep mother and family from pub lic charity the coldest and scantiest of all foods. What tales of courage, pa tience, and industry, may be told by the settlement-worker or city missionary who has free aiid welcome entrance Into the cellar and garret of the poor. Such lessons may tell more on the fast forming character of boy or girl than many an hour In the schoolroom, with hungry bodies, and minds turning ever to the starving home. While the mind may grow, and does develop. In the school, the home Is the gathering ground and seeding place of Impres sions that make the future man and woman. Let us widen the scope and deepen the teaching of the public school. Adapt it, by all means, to the hand as well as to the head of all the scholars. Enthuse the teaching with the lessons of morality. Enliven It with simple sci ence lessons, and with stories from the past, and pictures of the present life of this and other lands. To make the school attract as well as Instruct the children is the duty and privilege o the state. But consider long before the strong arm of the state enters the homes of the poor, except to protect the personality and safeguard the health of the child. An elastic rule Is the strong est because it raises less resistance. Ex perience teaches that In all lands, and In America before all other lands, save In desperate cases, parents are alive enough to the need of sending the chil dren to school. By raising the stand ard of the teaching and Influence of the school this magnet draws more strongly all within Its reach. When the children, after all is done, are not there. In most cases It will be because the con ditions of their home life forbid It. Then let us study such conditions and see If by wise legislation. Informed by the spirit of Christian consideration. something to better them may not be done. But, above all, this call should be heard by each one for himself to try to secure for all families that chance for decent and wholesome life which the abundant prosperity of the Nation can surely, somewhere and somehow. provide. OREGON TRADE FOR CALIFORNIA. The California Northeastern Railway has been Incorporated in San Francisco for the purpose of building a railroad from Klamath Falls. Or., to a connec tion with the Southern Pacific at Weed. This connecting link will enable the Southern Pacific to drain away to Cali fornia the rich and rapidly growing traffic of the Klamath country, and will offer another excellent excuse for Mr. Harrlman not to extend the Columbia Southern through to that country, so that Portland may be given opportunity to do business there. Portland's appeal for transportation facilities Into the Klamath country has been met with the statement that the business that could be developed for a railroad would be Insufficient to make it profitable. But the appearance of the Gould Interests In Southeastern Oregon has apparently placed a different construction on the matter. While Harrlman's Wall-street connec tions were unable to discover any prof itable business for a line from Portland to the Central and Southeastern Oregon country, they have at last determined to open It up for California. This latest projected road will drain out to San Francisco large quantities of grain, livestock and lumber for local consump tion in the California cities, and the Ne vada. California &. Oregon Railroad, which Is already built nearly up to the boundary line between Oregon and Cal ifornia, will carry the remainder of the traffic out to the east. Mr. Gould was a little too late in reaching the Coast to enable Portland to secure that to which she was entitled In the way of railroad facilities through her own ter ritory, but his coming has caused the Harrlman lines to bestir themselves. and In so doing they have revealed the policy which has so long dominated their movements to the great detriment of Oregon. This was a policy of Inactivity and restriction. Nothing was to be devel oped so long as it could be kept under cover. The lines already built and In operation were returning handsome div idends on the Investment and the field was. to all appearances, so well bottled up that there was but little fear of any outsiders coming in. This ancient method of extracting wealth from a country Is now somewhat out of date. No individual miner ever discovered a rich gold field and kept the secret to himself for very many years, and no railroad company ever paid enormous dividends without attracting the atten tion of other railroad-owners. The earnings of the O. R. & N. Co.. except for brief periods of mismanagement, have been the wonder of the flnanclaj world, and It Is little short of marvelous that other roads besides the Northern Pacific did not come into the field long ago. Now the roads are coming. The Gould Interests will share the rich California traffic with Mr. Harrlman. and will probably push on to Oregon, and the Northern Pacific Is making still further encroachments from the north. These Invasions of the Harrlman field can have but one result, and that is an awakening that will force the Harrl man Interest to build the necessary feeders for self-protection. The trade of the Lakevlew district will, with the completion of this latest proposed line, be out of our grasp, but there is still a portion of Central Oregon that can be saved for Portland If action Is not too long deferred. And the action must necessarily go a step farther than sur veying and reconnolterlng parties. Of these. Central Oregon and the Nehnlem haVe liad a surplus. SACAJAWEA. There are those who believe and stoutly maintain that we have too many monuments In this country. It Is not necessary to discuss this question here. Whether this assumption Is right or wrong, there are few who will assert that the statue of Sacajawea. unveiled upon the Lakevlew Terrace, Lewis and Clark Exposition grounds, yesterday, added another to the list of monuments "too many." The statue Itself Is a work of art. The Indian mother lowly and uncom plaining burden-bearer has not yet be come entirely a tradition. She stands out through the centuries that have passed since the New World "was dis covered, bearing upon her back the man-child who Is to become the war rior, literally with the "emptiness of ages in her face." In appearance a bent and withered hag at two-score, she was the embodiment of the princi ple of superiority of sex the grim, si lent, all-enduring victim of the compel ling force of physical might. "Untidy, loveless, old before her time"; cruel, uncompromising, withal obedient, she is seldom given the title of "woman." That of "squaw," linking at once sex and servitude, low-grade misery' an personal unattractlveness, ia her fitting and accepted appellation. "Sacajawea" was born to this heri tage, but -when at the command of her worthless and degenerate French Cana dian master, who had purchased a hus band's right to dispose of her services, she started to the Farthest West as guide and Interpreter of Lewis and Clark, she had not come Into full pos session of this heritage. She was still young and not uncomely. Though a slave, ready to do her master's bidding, the command in this case was not dis tasteful to her. Westward far beyond the land of the Mandans lay the home of her childhood. "The savage was a woman still," and she yearned for the sight of her early home and of her peo ple. She was ready, even eager, for the journey, and reckoned not of its hard ships. This vision of Sacajawea the artist caught and has happily perpetuated it iJa bronze. A younx woman, full of hope and energy; a young mother with her infant son strapped upon her back; alert, confident, yearning again to see her own. Sacajawea. whose very name was for nearly a century lost to sound i of the human voice, stands before us, mutely attesting the truth of the words of the great explorers, which declare that but for the courage, tact and coun sel of this "bird-woman" they would never have been able to reach the Pa cific Coast. Of the succeeding years In which, like any squaw, she became bent, wrinkled j aim gray, me motner oi many sons wno each In turn oppressed her, the with ered creature, unknown to history dim even to tradition this monument has nothing to do. Its purpose Is to present to future generations Sacajawea as she was when, as guide and interpreter, she made It possible for Lewis and Clark to penetrate the trackless wilderness of the North American continent, even to the Pacific Ocean. In the days when the nineteenth century was young. Pugilist Ross was killed at Aberdeen. Wash..i July 3. by Pugilist Donnelly. with whom he was engaged In a prize fight contrary to law. Donnelly was arrested, and Is said to feel very sorry over the termination of the affair, al though sorrow among brutes Is not common. It Is somewhat uncertain why Mr. Donnelly should suffer the pangs of regret over the termination of the ficht. It Is nothlnsr hut the hrute Instinct In man that makes the fight- Ing game Interesting, and. when one of the brutes proves himself so far su perior to the other brute that he kills him. the victory would seem to be much more glorious than where he only half killed his man. It is not at all clear that the world has lost anything by the death of Mr. Ross, and If Mr. Donnelly could only be hanged without entailing too much expense on the county, there would not be very much regret. The Washington State Fish Commis sioner Is quoted by the Bellingham Her ald as holding the opinion that" most of the Puget Sound trapmen will break the law passed at the last session re qulrlngthc traps to shut down for 36 hours each week. The Commissioner also says that he believes that only a nominal fine will be imposed on the men who violate the law. This Is quite a cheering tip for the fishermen, and the reason for the Commissioner's opin ion Is that. If they are not permitted to fish right along, without Interruption, they will attack the constitutionality of the law. It is somewhat unusual to find a state official anticipating lawbreaking with the announcement that the law breakers will be leniently dealt with. The Department of Agriculture has never yet succeeded In impressing the people with its reliability or intelligence on anything directly connected with its specialties, but It has earned some praise from all humane individuals by Its efforts to enforce the law compelling railroads to feed, water and rest stock en route from one state to another. The law has been regarded as a dead letter for so long that Its enforcement wHl come as a surprise to the railroads that have been disregarding It. Thousands of dumb brutes have undergone fright ful suffering by being kept In cars for days. The law provides that after stock has been In the cars for twenty-eight hours It shall be unloaded, watered and rested for five hours. The hop market is 10 cents per pound lower than it was a few months ago. and there are still several thousand bales remaining on hand In the state. It Is extremely doubtful If the stocks on hand would have been any smaller had the price been 51 per pound instead of 30 cents. The man who holds 30-cent hops for higher prices Is the kind of a gambler that should be plunging on the cotton market when It shows a 100 polnt rise. No legitimate profit on a transaction Is sufficient to meet the re quirements of the Oregon speculators .vho passed up the golden opportunity to reap heavy returns on their hop crop. Wireless telegraphy Is used in Chi cago to flash the returns on the races to a gambling outfit that Is doing busi ness on a boat out in the lake. This is undoubtedly a pretty quick method for securing the results on the races. If we are to believe the reports regarding some race meetings held out In the boundless West, wireless telegraphy Is distanced badly In spreading the news, for the results are sent to the gamblers by letter or personal messenger the day before the race Is run. There Is. of course, always a chance that a horse may drop dead, but It Is the gambler's business to take chances, The Russian Navy, but now accredit ed third In effectiveness among the great powers of the world, has literally dwindled into nothingness. Its few loyal ships that remain in home waters have drawn their fires and practically disarmed, and mutineers on ships In the Black Sea have everything their own way. Unable to control Its ships at home, or win victories with them In hostile waters, the Russian Admir alty stands dazed and helpless before the world. The spectacle would be a pitiful one but for the fact that It rep resents an Incident In the great march of human liberty. New York City will have several big postofilce buildings In the near future. One of the biggest of them will be prac tically a part of the new Pennsylvania Railroad station. The Government has bought from the rallrond company a site on Eighth avenue, between Thirty first and Thirty-third streets, paying $1,700,000 therefor. A building to cost J5.000.000 Is projected. Another post office building will be erected later bearing a similar relation to the termi nus of the New York Central" road. In or near Forty-second street. Mr. Harrlman Is reported to be con sidering a proposition with H. E. Hunt ington to establish a steamship line be tween San Pedro and the Orient. If the experience of the Harrlman steamship lines out of Portland holds good farther south. It Is a certainty that what the railroad wizard requires more than ports is ships to run In and out of them. Submarine boats are a valuable de vice In naval warfare; but they have an unfortunate trick of sinking and stay ing sunk with all on board. Not Ipng ago an English submarine went down to remain, and now a French vessel has done the same thing. The submarine is yet far from being, a manageable ma chine. The total number of casualties for the Fourth of July, so far as heard from, 59 deaths. 3169 Injured. We had a high ly successful Fourth. 0REG0N OZONE Last month St. Urban's Church, at Troyes, France, was completed, the foun dation having been laid 1S0O years ago. In the time of Pope Urbanus. It required 16 centuries time to build this church, but If It were located In Oklahoma a cyclone could unbuild It In less than 15 seconds. Which goes to show that there Is much more than orthographical differ ence between raising and razing. Heliograph Signals From Mt. Hood Is It hot down there In the good old Summer time? What's the latest news from the Rus sian mutineers? How would you like to have some of our snowball frappe? Say. send us up a package of bearskin overcoats and a stove. Shut on that "Watch Tacoma Grow" sign. It makes our mirrors look like second-hand goods. Can't you people ship us a few copies of The Oregonian on board an airship? Back numbers will do. As the Governor of Enn See said to the Governor of Ess See. It's a long time between drinks. Our bait has run out. Who Is the Secretary of War now? We want to apply to him for transfer to a warmer climate. The Philippines will do, Beer Being Exempt. A Portland man. whose name Is with- ncia IOr Iam,l a?on- recently sorc off. He discovered that he had been drinking too much. His tongue had ac quired that habitual dark brown taste o mornings, and his pocketbook had begun to feel like the stomach of an ocean ten derfoot after three days of seasickness. So he took the pledge but this Is how he did It. the document being duly signed and witnessed: Know all men by ths presents: Whereas, the undersigned for sundry nr esters hath been a cheerful Idiot, looking frequently upon the wine when It Is red. whm It glveth Its color In the goblet: and Whereas, the aforesaid undersigned hath dallied from Mm to time with the whisky. straight, the Ionic toddy, the cocktalt and th highball, each and several of which- hath netl's fire skinned for devllIshneAs; and Whereas1, the Identical aforesaid undersigned lj of opinion that whoso l deceived thereby Is not wise, but should be consigned to the house inhabited by the bug: therefore, be It Resolved. That from this day forward the same identical aforesaid undersigned shall ab stain from all intoxicating beverages; and be it Resolved. That lager beer is not an intoxi cating bverage in the sense and meaning of this Instrument. Let Us Cnrneglzc Arkansas. usnire s .Magazine publishes a, map showing the Cameglzatlon of the United States In the matter of public libraries, The number of dots on the map of each state represents the number of Carnegie free libraries in the state. Beginning with Plymouth Rock, at the eastern shore of Massachusetts, the dots make almost a solid black streak clear to the western edge of Iowa and the full depth of the states of Massachusetts, New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and Iowa. Missouri looks considerably whiter, and most of the black belt in the solid South Is nearly white so far as the dots go. Kansas Is pockmarked and Colorado looks as I though It has the measles, but Is get ting over the attack. There Is just one dot in Utah, though from the nature of things It would seem that there should be a plurality. Nevada shares single blessedness with Utah, but California, seems to have married as many as Brig ham Young did. Oregon has just two Carnegie dots. Rhode Island apparently Isn't big enough, on the map. to put a j dot In. and Arkansas Is the only other state that shows a clean slate. Why Is It that there are no Carnegie libraries In Arkansas? Is It because the people down there read nothing except that eternal and ubiquitous train butcher's book, con cering a slow train traveling through Arkansas? Or Is It because Jeff Davis regards Andrew Carnegie as the Only and Original Octopus and will have hone of him? The world stands still while Arkansas prepares her reply. Uncle Robert's Kssnj-s. NO. 6 MEASLES. Measles are a mighty pesky thing to have in the family. Some linguistic pur ists maintain that measles are singular, but I never heard of a person having only one measle. Usually they are ex ceedingly plural. When they take pos session of a household there Is always enough of them to go around, with plen ty left over to give to the. neighbors. Al most anybody will take measles; though, paradoxical as It seems, nobody seem? to want them. But when you once get them, the more measles you have the better It Is for your health, according to the doctors. It Is the business of the doctors' to bring the measles out of the owner and distribute them as evenly as possible over the surface. If the measles refuse to come out you are liable to be come a mighty sick man. When you take measles It Is the best plan to take all of them that you can accommodate. If you don't happen to have enough of them .to suit your case, the doctors will give you something to make them come out on the palms of your feet and the sjlcs of your hands, and if you take your medicine according to directions, you will Imagine that the measles have broken out on your Immortal soul. You will feel very measly for a few days, but you will be all right If you don't take cold. Then, after you have enjoyed your measles for a while, you can give them to your brother, when he comes to see you. and he can take them and give them to his wife and children. Most' children have a very taking way about them when it comes Jo measles. If the children take the measles to school they are apt to be very generous, giving them to all their playmates. There Is nothing In this world that makes people so gen erous in giving as measles. No matter how stingy and grouchy a person may be In other things, he Is always gener ous with his measles. In 'the matter of measles It Is better to give than to re ceive. ROBERTUS LOVE. A Few rallndromcs. Philadelphia Bulletin. "It Is a fascinating occupation." said a philologist, "to search the language for palindromes. A palindrome Is a word that reads the same backward as forward. Rotator, for instance, is a palindrome. Several hundred of these strange words are tabulated, and new ones are continually turning up in the English tongue. If you can find one send It to the Palindrome Society of New York. "I can rattle off extempore a dozen or two palindromes. Thus: "Bab. refer, bib. Anna, tot, bob, peep, civic, toot, dad. madam, deed, pup, dei fied sees dewed tat did, shahs, eve, reviver, ewe. rotator, gog pop gig, gas, redder, level, noon. Otto, sexes." THE VERDICT IN THE MITCHELL CASE Variety of Comment From the NortBTret Xeivapapem or the Trial of the Oregon Senator. Srmpathy Did Not Connt. Albany Democrat Mr. Heney In his closing remarks ripped the silly, sympathetic pleas of Bennett and Thurston Into shreds. The defense In the Mitchell case from the beginning. In stead of depending upon the merits of their case, resorted to childish tecnnicau- tles and sympathetic dodges that should be beneath men of their reputation. In Accord With the Testimony. Baker City Democrat. Senator Mitchell's conviction came like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky to thou sands of people In Oregon who could not see It possible that a Jury could bring in such a verdlcct against the aged senator. notwithstanding the evidence clearly indi cated that such a result would follow If the jury cast aside sentiment. AH must concede that the verdict was in accord ance with the testimony, however much all regret the embarrassing and humiliat ing situation. There Is not a citizen or Oregon but feels the blow that has come to lt3 senior representative In Congress. 'The Only Verdict Possible. Grant's Pass Observer. The trial was thi most Important one that has ever come before the courts of Oregon, owing to the high position held by the defendant. The evidence sub mitted by the prosecution was thorough and ImDOssIble to get away from, tne defense made no attempt to refuse, or even to weaken, the evidence against the defendant, and depended entirely upon elahorate anneals to the sympathy or tne lury In behalf of an old man represented to have dona great service for tne state. The Jury of Intelligent farmers was not carried away by the sophistry of counsel tnr the defense, and. under oalti to oe guided by the evidence, brought in the only verdict that was possmie unaer me circumstances. "Whitewashing" Theory Exploded. Belllncham American. The rumor, which seemed to gain a great deal of credence in Portland, that the trial of Senator Mitchell was nothing more or less than a farce for the purpose of "whitewashing" the aged Senator, has been exploded. In view of the testimony offered by the prosecution without any at tempt on Mitchell's part to make a de fense. It could hardly be expected that the jury. If It meant to find a verdict In ac cordance with the evidence, could return anything; but a verdict of guilty. It Is evident that Mitchell's great hope of es- caDlne- nunlshment lay In the sympathies of the Judge and jury, for the venerable politician, who has. spent so many years in nubile service, surely presents a piti able spectacle, as a convicted prisoner at the bar of justice at the very time In life when tranquillity and repose are most dear to any man. Impartial Administration of Law. Boise Statesman. Three years ago It would have been de rlared imnossible to convict such a man as Mitchell for breaking such a law as that under which he has been tried. It would have been felt that no jury would bring In a verdict against a man occupying such an Influential position, even If the case were proven. But the camcaign that has been con ducted by the Government has Inspired the neoDle everywhere with nope tor im partial administration of the law In all cases. In all walks of life people have pondered the problem deeply: they have seen the necessity for enforcing the law against high and low alike', and so it has come about that juries are ready to con vlct a United States Senator if the case be nroven to their satisfaction. There fore, howsoever much we may deplore the fall of a man like Senator Mitchell. It Is a source of encouragement to find that a sentiment has been aroused which renders It possible to secure a verdict against a man occupying a high position as well as to convict a humble offender. 31 r. Heney a Great Lawyer. Spokane Spokesman-Review. The conviction of United States Senator John H- Mitchell for his part In the Ore gon kind frauds Is a victory for good gov ernment. The Importance of It to the Northwest. If the jury's verdict is sus tained on the appeal that will doubtless he taken, can hardly be overestimated. It means the end of the thieving that has robbed the people of this country of mil lions of acres of valuable public lands. It means the doom of many others even more guilty than the aged and Infirm Sen ator from Oregon. It means a greet ad vance in the enforcement of law and In public honesty all over the country. This first conviction in a long series of trials now about to open will nerve the Government's arm and make easier the conviction of the men who have fattened on th thefts. Great credit Is due to the 1 prosecutor chosen by President Roosevelt for the work. Mr. Heney nas snown nim self In the Mitchell case a great lawyer. He knows how to conduct a criminal trial without belittling his case by personal vituperation and rancor. The Cloe, a Crown of Disgrace. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The verdict In the case of Senator Mitchell, of. Oregon, will surprise no one who has followed from the begin ning the history of the case and the evidence. It Is true that the aged Senator has had a strong hold on the people of nls state. Doubtless this indl?ates the in ner ffuoue sirenB mat quality oi minu : r makes popularity. Senator Mitchell has represented Oregon In the Inlle l ataies ncnaie iui n pci.uu . j-.... Some of It has been valuable In a ma terial way to his commonwealth. He has grown old. gray and bent with years In political service. The close Is a crown of disgrace and infamy. Of the Justice of It few can entertain a shadow of a doubt. A grafter has been caught and convicted. That the grafter has arrived at years that should be crowned with honers Instead of dis grace Is pitiable. But It cannot be helped. All men are equal before the j law. Senator Mitchell must account? before the law for his own acts. The In cident will have a wholesome effect on public morals. Principles Greater Than Any Man. Bellingham Reveille. The conviction of Senator Mitchell for accepting fees for services per formed, while Senator, before the Land Office of the Department of the In terior. Is another strong Indication that these are evil days for the grafters, htgn or low. There will be sympathy for the aged man. in his terrible fall, from a position of the highest respect among men, to the very door of the prison. There may be a general desire for clemency, owing to age and his long and useful public service. But there are none to condone the offensej he knew the law. The verdict will tend to give the skeptical more faith In the efficacy of American courts as dispen sers of justice: will tend to show that, after all. evidence counts with a Jury even though opposed by the strongest, most artful and emotional appeals to sympathy. The recommendation of clemency Is simply a recognition of the fact that Mitchell's disgrace will be almost a sufficient punishment and also a concession to his gray hairs. The fall of Senator Mitchell is sad to contem plate; but the principles involved are greater than any man. Few Thought Conviction Probable. La Grande Observer. The people of the state who have kent posted on the evidence In the Mitchell case know full well that he is guilty, yet In view of the strong partisan feeling, few mousnt a conviction probable. The re sult Is certainly complimentary to- our state, for when the people reach so low a plane that those in high authority can escape pumsnmeni although guilty. It Is dangerous ground. This conviction will do more to raise the standard of morals in this state among the present generation tnan anything that has happened for many years. His Disgrace Complete. ( Bellingham Herald. Poor old Senator Mitchell! What tvthn in the dramatic ending of his useful pub lic career! But a few months ago he was regaratd as one of the first statesmen of America. And now! Not all of mi. Ilant usccesses. not all of the favors he has done for the pecole of Oregon ran atone for one act of his declining years. which ougnt to have been crowned with honor. If not with great works. He will probably not be given a penitentiary sen- icnce no one hopes that he will but without It his disgrace is comnletc Th ore In public life today many men of less udiiuj man he who commit crimes much more grave than his. and who escape un punished, but his punishment is none the less deserved. Trial W ill Have Good Results. Astoria Daily News. However, despite the sorrow that at: will feel at the termination of Spnatnr Mitchell's public career, the verdict of the jury will be regarded with satis faction for ihe reason that it Indicates tnat proper punishment Is in store for the persons who have been implicated in the extensive land frauds in the West. Of all the criminals, the thief Is worst, and the man who steals from the public is more deserving of censure than the ordinary burglar. If the outcome of the Mitchell case will have the effect of. con victing the land thieves, the trial will not have been without Its beneficial re sults. The people of Oregon want to see the whole of the pack, of thieves landed behind the bars, where they belong. Tears for Mitchell. Pendleton Tribune. While the jury has found Senator Mitchell guilty and the verdict has gone out to the Nation that one of Its biggest men has been convicted, there yet lin gers In the hearts of most Oregonlans a tendency to forgive the misdemeanor which the Government has persisted so In punishing. Though a new trial has been asked for. the case. In the opinion of the Government. Is probably settled, and though It may be In the courts until the expiration of his term of office 21 months hence. Senator Mitchell will doubtless never be cleared of his guilt In the Federal courts and will never be permitted to hold a Federal office again. But. as In the case of Lord Bacon, used so effectively by Mr. Heney, the so-called crime will be forgotten by the people of Oregon. Case of Pathetic Interest. Pacific Baptist. The prosecution by the Government of Senator J. H. Mitchell, of Portland, for complicity In such frauds has been of much pathetic interest. The trial has been devoid of dramatic incidents, but it has been most tragic In its wider Im plications. The only evIJence adduced in the aged Senator's favor seems to bo the Irrelevant instances where he re fused remuneration for services ren dered constituents in Washington. No one who has read, the stenographic re ports of the case can doubt the rotten ness of much In some places nearer home than Denmark. One who has had some experience In court reporting can not refrain from unqualified praise for the work of the stenographer who has reported this case for The Portland Oregonian. Other Senators Said to Be Guiltj. Salem Capital Journal. There Is profound sympathy for Sen ator Mitchell all over Oregon, now that he has been found guilty by a Jury at Portland. For two years the Government secret service men have followed on his trail and pursued the methods of the Rus sian spies and detectives. The old man. In his simplicity trusted his partner and private secre tary to protect him in his hour of greatest danger. What law partnership, or even busi ness partnership, does not contain transactions that could be construed Into guilt with such witnesses, under threats of conviction and promises of reward and Immunity? The charge of practicing before the departments for pay is one that can b brought against many Senators. What would become of men like De pew and Piatt, of New York. If that law is enforced? And scores of other Senators? The Journal does not believe in the methods that are being employed by the Government in some of these cases. It believes the jurors are terrorized by the press and the Government. It is with profound sympathy and re gret that we behold a Senator of the United States under conviction in nis TOth year, and we hope he may still get a new trial and show that he is not , as enacted. . S i .t,i &tlnn on that lt the best we of Oregon can hope an! pray for. Jury Was Human. Baker City Herald. Out of a mass of testimony, sharp legal rounds and conflicting: arguments, the Jury In the Senator Mitchell case remained un moved by appeals to their passions or prejudices and. keeping their minds con verged on the bare facts in the case, brought in a verdict of guilty as charged. The jury was human, it was composed of men who had long stood for the best that there Is in Oregon, and who had helped to build up the state to a thriving empire from sagebrush plains and timber forests, but they were human. And in the mo ment of great power which a wise gov ernment had conferred upon them they remained human and forgot not their brother man nor their God. Many of them, perhaps, would have done different, ly had It been a personal score which thev were settling, but they diverged not from the right as they saw It. and realiz ing that they were representing the en tire population of the State of Oregon, they hewed direct to the line. But still they were human and not a machine. When they found the verdict of guilty they knew that within the touch of the telegraph wires of the state and Nation were patiently waiting thousands of peo ple ready to cry out In delight at the re sult. The jury would gratify, perhaps, more Insane delights by this verdict than they could hope to accomplish again In a lifetime. The jury was human, and as the spirit of the minister goes out In sym pathy to the saddened spirit of the rela tive as he says the last sad rites over the lifeless body, so the jury went out to the people of Oregon and to Senator Mitchell, and Instead of writing "rest in peace," they recommended him to the mercy of the court, the Justice which we know is blind and will pass sentence only after the scales are carefully balanced. i