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The Chamber of Commerce of Port land, in Us address to President Roope velt. in favor of the admission of a lim ited number of Chinese laborers during the next ten years, puts forth a number of statements and arguments which may not be disputed namely, that in our Pacific States there is work that ought to he done which our own work ing people will not do; that develop ment of the country lagp because there is lack of people to do this work, and that white labor would not be injured, but benefited rather, by the Introduc tion of Chinese labor that would do it. But while these arguments contain much that Is sound and true, exceptions may be taken to them, nevertheless. For it is true that Chinese would to some extent push our own workers out of employment, or cause here and there reduction of wages. Chinese would swarm into innumerable occupations in which white workers now to some extent engage, and white workers would feel that they were being crowd ed out. It would be useless to tell them that development of the country through labor in Its lower forms, sup plied by Chinese, would certainly open new opportunities for white labor in higher forms and with better pay. They would not believe it. To reopen the gates to the Chinese would, beyond doubt or question, give rise .quickly to renewal of the war upon the Chinese which convulsed our Pacific States twenty to twenty-five years ago. Our working people will not have the gates reopened, or even partially re opened: and it is useless to talk about it. . They will not have it. And they have votes enough to prevent it. or to retire from Congress or other positions In public life, all persons who would advocate it. Undoubtedly., if we should let half a million Chinese laborers into our Pa cific States, wc should get a deal of useful work out of them, that will long go undone. But we should have stormy protest from our own working people, political and social turmoil, anti-Chinese meetings, renewal in intensified forms of all the features of the former war upon the Chinese and upon their employers. Xo matter whether the pro test were altogether rational or not we should have it. But we shall not have it, for the law which excludes Chinese laborers will not be repealed, nor modified even to the extent suggested by the Portland Chamber of Commerce. The address to the President is a mistake. There can be no valid objection to admission of merchants, travelers and students; but laborers will not be admitted, even though the country might find them of great service in many ways. We would better let development go slow than in troduce this source of trouble Into the country. NEW PENNSYLVANIA BOSS. Senator Knox has just made a visit at Oyster Bay of "profound personal and political concern to President Roosevelt." So the news accounts say. The exact purpose of the Pennsjivania Senator's visit may easily be Imagined. It was to discuss the great political upheaval in Pennsylvania. Events of moment have happened in that rich, corrupt and discontented state during the past three months. The remarka ble revolt of Mayor Weaver against the powerful Republican organization started it all. Israel W. Durham, the Philadelphia boss, has been overthrown. Senator Penrose, the weak and ineffi cient successor of Boss Quay, has gone into eclipse. The Republican machine, ooth state and city, has gone to pieces, and the party is looking for a new leader. Senator Knox expects to step into the shoes occupied in succession by Simon Cameron. Tom Scott. Don Cameron, Matthew Quay and Boies Penrose. He will assemble. If he can, the fragments of the disorganized and discomfited ring, and himself dominate hereafter the Republican party of that state. Senator Knox has the special friendship of H. C. Frick.' and he undoubtedly has the moral support of the President. If he is able to gain control of the party in Pennsylvania, it is tobe sup posed that he will elevate politics there to a plane never yet attained. Knox is an honest man. He has been a corporation lawyer, but he is known to be Independent, resourceful, aggres sive and fair. The corporations will not fight him. The people as a whole like him. He will find, no enemies in Pennsylvania except the adherents of the old Quay-Penrose gang, who are in politics for all there is In it and who purpose not to be driven out if they can help it. But they are badly on the defensive, and their power is gone. Bet ter days are In store for Pennsylvania. CIIAUNCEY DEPEW. Yale is shocked. It takes a good deal to shock j'our up-to-date 'university. The twentieth century alma mater. In her tough benignity, can overlook amazing obliquities in a rich alumnus and more amazing ones in an alumnus who is not only rich but filially benefi cent; but Mr. Depew is a little too much' even for Yale. In the throes of digest ing her recent putrescent million from Rockefeller. Yale does not feel -quite equal to keeping Mr. Depew under her ancient and respectable skirts any longer. He must hie him forth from the dignified shelter of her corporation chamber, and face, not a frowning, but a smiling, world. For the world cannot frown at Mr. Depew; it cannot take even his sins seriously. There Is some thing gently ludicrous about his graft of 125.000 a year upon the forlorn Equi table Life which disarms the critic It Is very much as if some cherub had been caught safecracking. "We read his confession of getting a swindling loan from the Equitable of a quarter of a million upon property worth only half as much, and try hard to burn with righteous indignation. It is In. vain. No one can burn with indignation against Mr. Depew. He Is a sort of flabby moral prism which dissolves the hottest wrath into smiles. He is a promontory of spiritual mush and mo lasses from which the loftiest ethical billows return In sweetened wavelets. It Is not credible that Yale is half as angry at him as she pretends. Can it be possible that she is making a scape goat of her venerable son? Mr. Depew is 70 years old; and pretty nearly all those years have been filled with activities which he thinks enor mously important. Readers of his speeches know what a delight It is to him to tell what he has done and how exemplarlly he has done it. Above all things, he loves to pose as a type of the successful American before a Young Men's Christian Association. And his joy In himself is not ill-grounded. Mr. Depew has achieved what In any other man would be called brilliant suc cess. He Is an orator, and, queer as the statement undoubtedly sounds, his speeches are not silly. A very careful reader may even, here and there, come across a sentence which sounds as If a statesman had thought it out. Further research will generally show that Mr. Depew was not the statesman, but the speech sounds Just as well as if he. were. His style is what Elizabeth, of the German Garden, calls stodgy a sort of literary pork and beans; his discourse Is singula rlr barren pf Any thing like vivacity or humor; but tljere arc opinions which do not lack sense. Mr. Depew thinks, for example, that the President . of the United States should be ineligible for a pecond term and should have a pension for life. These views arc sound, and none the less so because Mr. Depew only echoes them. In 18S8 he remarked In an ora tion that "the political mission of the United States Is purely Internal." If he changed his mind about this Inter, he was one of a numerous company, and he had the advantage of having less to change than most of the others. Mr. Depew began his political career in the Assembly of New York. He ends it in the United States Senate, and there are few dignities between those extremes which he has not enjoyed. He was even though of for President In 1888. and received ninety-nine votes in the Chicago Republican Convention. There is no record of any useful act which Mr. Depew has done as a politi cian or any measure for the public good which he has advocated; but, on the other hand, he has kept out of Jail. "Whether this Is to be taken as evi dence of luck or ability need not be de cided: it is not evidence of patriotism, for Mr. Depew has never made the least pretense of holding his offices for any other purpose than to promote the in terests of his railroads. His betrayal of the public has been bland, ingenuous and consistent. Through all these oratorical and po litical adventures and throughout his remarkable career as a railroad presi dentbetrayer of the people, violator of official oaths, grafter, manipulator of shady deals no one has ever dared to question Mr. Depew's fervent and in trepid piety. "I believe in the Old Testament and the New Testament precisely as they are presented by Christianity." says this admirable confessor. Surely here is one man. in a backsliding age, not ashamed to own his Lord; and what a comfort and inspiration he is to all the rest of us! Not only of his Lord is Mr. Depew not ashamed; he glories also in a good, old-fashioned devil. "Some people don't believe in a personal devil," he says in one of his most comforting discourses; "I do. He Is one of the most agreeable fellows I know." Doubtless the esteem is mutual. Such are the character, the achieve ments and the religious convictions of the man whom the corporation of Yale University threatens to disown. A won dering world asks why. Not long after entering upon his high office. President Hadley remarked, touching dishonesty in public life, that the way to end it was to treat those thieves like other thieves. The remark was so wise and so obviously true that no one believed he could mean it. Nor has he since done anything to show that he did mean it. The acceptance of Rockefel ler's million seemed to indicate that President Hadley had forgotten -what he said in the early freshness of his great position. It was suggested by a chuckling admirer of President Harper, of Chicago University, that that distin guished and foxy pedagogue had taken advantage of his rival's lapse of mem ory to effect a neat bit of strategy. The odor of kerosene is very strong, as everybody knows, around Chicago University. So strong that students have gone to Yale rather than breathe jL Suppose one should manage to pour a little kerosene over Yale, then? Would it not beautifully advance the cause of education? President Harper thought so. He whispered his thought to the great source of all good; and behold the golden rain descending upon Yale, which put up no umbrella. In deed Yale set out every one of her tubs and caught the million, smell and all. The deodorizing could come later. Pres ident Harper smiled. Yale was now as bad as Chicago. But he smiled too soon. Yale had a Depew to fumigate with; an oily, combustible, useless De pew. not very rich, no longer very influential, and very, very shocking; Just the lamb for an effectual but not too expensive sacrifice. So up goes the voluble Chauncey In smoke, and when the fumes of the offering have cleared away, not "Araby the blest" will smell sweeter than she. Tally one for Yale. pure rooD. It was a kindly philosopher who em bodied his wisdom In the aphorism "Keep away from the kitchen." What Is to be seen and learned there is far from lovely. Ignorance of it is more appetizing than knowledge. Still, great men have not been wanting who made much of the delectable art of nourish ing the human body. The younger Du mas valued his cabbage soup above his novels. Cookerj". as commonly prac ticed, is the art of spoiling food. The art of poisoning It Is applied before It comes to the Wtchen. The stuff that is put into our baking powder, vinegar, coffee, sugar.- butter, milk, pretty near ly everything we eat or drink, we dof not call poison. It kills us just the same, but we elegantly name It "adul teration." It Is curious to think how many peo ple there are engaged in the dally oc cupation of slowly poisoning their fellow-citizens and making money enough by It to support their families decently and contribute something for the con version of the heathen In foreign lands. Slow murder may now be classed among the refined vocations, perhaps, and still the Pure Food Commission finds It objectionable. R. M. Allen, secretary of the convention, thinks he has found a way to stop it altogether, and his way is very easy to follow. A label, so he thinks, stating exactly what was Inside the package labeled, would solve the problem. Very likely It would. If labels could be induced to dis play so much frankness. Nobody would put poison into food, if he had to an nounce the fact to the public. Nobody would buy poisoned food If he knew IL The difficulty would be to maintain the veracity of the label: but a law to confiscate and destroy all food In the market falsely labeled might accom plish something. Such a law would re quire an elaborate and expensive sys tem of Inspection, but no more so than any other pure-food law; while Its en forcement would be exceedingly simple. The food Itself would furnish all the evidence required; no question of own ership or personal responsibility would come in to complicate the case. The application of the law would begin and end with the guilty parcel. Such a law. decently administered, ought to work well. It Is worth a fair trial, but the political Influence which has blighted all really effective legisla tion for pure food In the past Is not likely to admit this If it can be pre vented. OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. The change from BIgelow the banker, living in a luxury that requires millions to purchase, to BIgelow the convict, tottering tVhls grave in convict stripes, is nota pleasant spectacle. It should serve as a warning to the many Indi viduals who regard too lightly other people's money. This Is a, swift age we .are living In. and the disciples of high finance are turning their tricks with such alarming frequency that new rec ords for swindling are continually be ing 1 made. For that reason BIgelow might have passed out of public mind had hiv embezzlement not been on such a colossal scale that the shock did not wea: off before Banker Devlin trailed In with another violent breach of public confidence, and was In turn closely fol io wed by Banker Lewis, of St. Louis and other points throughout the coun try, a So far as appears by advices to date, neither of these two latest candidates for public notice Is liable to meet the punishment laid on the shoulders of BIgelow. but In a degree their crime does not materially differ from that which made the Milwaukee banker ramous for his Infamy." It will never be known whether Devlin was lucky or unlucky in having his methods exposed before it was too late. Had the gigan tic enterprises which he was financing with other people's money been carried through to a successful termination, the world might never have been aware of the close call that the owners of that money experienced. On the other hand, had Mr. Devlin kept his unlawful pro ceeding under cover until reverses forced him into the same financial depths sounded by BIgelow, he also would in all probability have ended his days in a convict's cell. For this reason, paradoxical as It mas seem. Devlin was lucky In reaching the end of his tether without doing any more damage than has alreadj been charged up against- him. The light re gard in which he held the law or the rights of other people is reflected in the details of his assets and liabilities. Overshadowing all other items Is a loan of 51.200.000 which he secured from his First National Bank of Topeka. As the capital stock of that bank was but $300,000 and the National banking act says quite explicitly that "the total liabilities to any association of anv ner- son or of any company, corporation or firm for money borrowed, shall at no time exceed one-tenth part of the amount of the -capital stock of such as sociation actually pnid in." this was most flagrant violation of the Federal law. In thus breaking the law- placed in jeopardy practically all of the deposits held by the bank, as those de posits amounted to but little more than $1,300,000. These depositors placed their funds in the keeping of Mr. Devlin's bank be cause they regarded it as a safe insti tution. and had any other individual o number of individuals appealed to the bank for the use of twelve-thirteenths of all of the money on deposit in the bank, the appeal would have been turned down immediately. But Mr. Devlin, with no more regard for the rights of the depositors of his bank than that held by the man who takes his employer's money to the racetrack Instead of the depositors to which he has been sent, loaned himself this vast sum on such insufficient security that the moment a breath of suspicion struck his financial cardhouse it tum bled in ruins. . Lewis, the St. Louis high financier now in the tolls, seems to have had a similar contempt for the rights of the nfortunate dupes who supplied him 1th money for financing his private schemes. Among the items on his list loans is one of $797,758 to a real es tate company of which he was n resi dent and principal owner, and $380,000 tne Lewis Publishing Comnany. Mans of the remaining loan items were directly and indirectly traceable to Lewis, and to all intents and purposes the Peope's United States Bank was merely a trap for catching funds to be used by Lewis in carrying on his wild cat schemes. The highwayman who holds up his ictlms at the point of a gun is only mild sort of a nuisance In comnarl- son with these financial highwaymen c the Blgelow-Devlln-Lewls stripe, ho rob. or attemnt to rob. hundred of people with their "frenzied finance" schemes. The most unfortunate feat ure of the evil lies In the distinction that seems to be made between thA hlghwas-man with a gun and his fellow- craftsman with the bank. The former nearly alwas's sent to the nenlten- tlary. the latter nearly always escapes the punishment he so richly deserves. The discussion of a site for the new High School building on the East Side immered down comes to a Question of ways and means. The district owns the site in close proximity to the Haw thorne School. It does not own the 51te which Is urged in place of this one. and the owner, holding to the not uncom mon Idea that the close Droxlmltv of a school building damages residence property, will demand what is nractl- cally a prohibitive price for the cov eted blocks. As plainly stated by Di rector Beach: The School Board has no authority to spend money in excess of that provided by the taxpayers." The sum of $100,000 was voted for a new High School bulldlnsr. the site to whfrh objection Is made being already an asset of the district. It would require an additional $30,000 to procure the site urged as an ideal one for the purpose. Where Is this money to come from at tnis time? Neither Director Wltten beg. Miss Florence Kelley, of New York, nor Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, of the State Child Labor Commis sion, offers a solution, to this question. It is clear that the construction of the much-needed building must either be delayed, practically another year, until the taxpayers can be heard from In due course of law and time, or construction must proceed upon the site alreadv designated. These are facts which the ories will not answer. A young man and young woman of Eugene scouted the wisdom that coun sels first cousins, for the sake of pos terity, not to Intermarry. Eluding par ental vigilance, they hied them to San Francisco and thence out to sea, where the captain of the vessel performed the marriage ceremony for them. So end eth the first chapter. Let us hope that one later on In their life history will not verify the fears of those who. when such a marriage is contemplated, seek to prevent It In the interest of offspring. Not all consanguineous marriages prove disastrous In this way, but statis tics show that many of them do, and in the common estimate the menace hangs over all. Many states, for rea sons presented by the history of the de fective in their charitable Institutions, prohibit the marriages of first cousins. Vers brave or vers Inconsiderate must be those who defs these warnings of prudence and experience. Official life In Russia carries with It grave responsibilities and dangers. The ever-present knowledge that the bomb of the assassin mas cut short the life of the official Is not conducive to peace of mind, and an even greater disturber is the apparent hopelessness and Impos slbilits of placating the bombthrowers. The Grand Duke Sergius fell a victim to the avengers, because he would have no audience with them. Now Count Shuvaloff has been assassinated be cause he was too free in granting audi ences and v hearing petitions from all classes of people. Russian hlstors has been written in blood for generations, but the partlcmM:ehapter that are now being made wnTlive as the blood iest of ans in the stbrj. If there is truth in the saying that "the darkest hour is Just before dawn.", there is cer tain's a dawning for Bvissla near at hand. Dr. John Welch. who5eIeath occurred at his home on jthe East Side a few dass ago. had been for many s'ears one of the substantial, dependable citizens of the state. He Jca"me to Oregon In 1863. a poor man. but carefully trained In the profession of dentlstrs. Through application to his work, and bs open, honest but correct business methods he acquired a modest fortune. In addition to this he brought up a large famlls and gave the reads hand of phllan throps to mans who were struggling against adverse circumstances and who were not so well equipped bs nature as himself to overcome obstacles unaided. His record of over forts S'ears In Ore gon Is one of good citizenship and of honorable endeavor along lines earls chosen and perslstentls followed. A star pitcher suing a league presi dent for damages to his reputation Is a real novelts in a much-advertised sport. If "Skel" Roach gets a verdict against Lucas, he will establish the precedent that players have some rights a manager Is bound to respect. A sear ago no small number of knockers declared that Portland lacked hotel accommodations. We are now taking care of about 15,000 visitors a das. Has ans one heard of people walking the streets at night because thes can't find beds? Mrs. Oelrichs. of the Newport col ons, has lost bs theft a diamond tiara worth $10,000. Is it poyslble that for the sake of publlclts the 400 have taken up methods discarded bs actresses s'ears ago? While Masor Lane is about it. let him order boxes removed from sidewalks also. Just now we need all the nat ural room we have for our own pedes trians and for visitors. In view of the disclosures connecting Chaunces M. Depew with certain trans actions of the Equitable, it mas be said once more that no man's fame Is safe until after he Is dead. Portland today has- as a guest the dis tinguished Ohloan who declined a $100. 000 job in order to run for Governor again. Perhaps it was all one of Senator Depew's little Jokes. Then perhaps not. OREGON OZONE The Queen of Coos. The dispenser of Oregon Ozone Is not much of a ladles' man. If the reader will pardon a personal allusion, but he surely wants to meet the remarkable young woman described bs the Coos Bas Har bor, of North Bend. Or., as the top-notch- er in the Harbors recent contest ror the purpose of sending a few star beauties to the Lewis and Clark Exposition. She Is coming, we understand, next Saturday, the 15th Inst. Speed the day! If this Is the sort they have in Coos Bas. let them send us such Hebes and Helens, Penelopes and any other sort 'of Greek goddesses that mas appear In the back of the dlc tlonars and In Coos. County, Or., bs the bunch: Miss has a (treat reputation for beauty and richly deserves it. She Is only a slip of a girl as yet. well entered In her teens. She is tall for one so alender (truly?), five feet three and one-half lhcht and weighs IIS round. Her hair Is brown-black and her eyes a warm brown. She looks at you with drooping head from under Ions lashes and ber eyes are soft as a young fawn's. Her cheeks are like red roees and in either one Is a little dimple. Her chin and nose and mouth are finely chlled. beautiful as a eculptors model. The sweetness of her charm is her simplicity. Miss a visit to the World's Fair wilt be the tint time she has ever been away from Coos County. She haa a simple, trusting disposition. She la a child of nature, wholly unspoiled xsyet. She is not fluent in her converse, but honest and straightforward. She knows none of th arts by which people In society conceal their true feelings. (Pleasa God. may she never learn.) Miss l unschooled, but she is young: and her life iar before her. She can make It what she will. She has not that fault so common to the young-, a doubting- cynicism and a cruel sarcasm. She has a charming manner, and her air Is one of confidence. The writer never saw Mlsa but twice, once at a distance, and again last May. when he called at her home near Sumner. On that last occasion she was out In the barnyard helping with the evening' milking. She Is a pretty little milkmaid, and that is about the turn of her existence. Ah-h-h-h! There Is something truly catching about that description. It sails Into the Harbor In double-leaded, triple plated, quadruple glors like the triumphal barge of Cleopatra under full sail, sweep ing across the front page like the aurora borcalls In the land of the midnight sun. The man who could write that sort of thing after having seen the sub Ject but twice and once at a distance Is an artist, and we bow before him, we kowtow, we salaam, we kiss the grassy sward of Coos. Let us but behold her once, even at a distance. Let us stand afar off and be Immersed, soused, drowned In the madness of that melting vision! We doubt not that the girl who got 42,120 votes deserved a million. Let her come to the Fair on Saturdas. which Is Joaquin Miller das, and let the Poet of the Sierras be presented to the Queen of Coos. Then will he cease to celebrate In his song the glories of Oregon mountains, cease to sing of the Sierras and the sundown seas, and tune his lyre to loftier lllto In praise of this glorious girl, who would have given Homer Inspiration for Iliads, made John Keats Impervious to the darts of early denth. and caused Swinburne to flash from the flerj summits of immortal song a more sclntillaht message to the ages. Queen of Coos. Come! A Happy Thought. "The other das." said the Morrison street man. "I put a handful of matches In mj- pocket, from a match-holder hang ing bj the door, and was happy In the thought that for once I would have enough matches to run me for the das. You know I'm a constant smoker." "YesT "And when I got to my offlce. up on the "Ighth floor. I found that those confound ed matches were the kind that won't strike unless you scratch them on the side of the box In which thes come. Now wouldn't that smoke S'ou out?" "You would have been all right If s'ou had known that you can strike matches of that kind on a pane of glass," said the Washington-street man. "Is that so?" the constant smoker ejac ulated, eagerly. "Good! Hereafter I'll just carry a window pane along with me." The Funston family Is keeping up lt reputation for fighting qualities. The father of General Fred was arrested In Kansas, the other das, for expressing his opinions, and he resisted the policeman so forcibly that he had to be strapped to his buggy and hauled to the station. The offi cer averred that Mr. Funston came to town armed with a Winchester and a re volver, and bought cartridges enough to carpet the bottom of his buggs. The sort of spirit that swims rivers with swords In Its teeth, under 'a galling Are, seems to be retroactive. A bronze factory in Butte, owned by Senator W. A. Clark, has the contract for turning out a monument to Marcus Dalj. who was Clark's most bitter opponent. Fortune's wheel makes strange turns, but none stranger than this. Down In Southern California man who makes a living by having himself burled alive for two days and charging 10 cents admission to see his grave, has commit-, ted a sad breach of decorum. It appears that he took a flask of whisky with him Into the solemn tomb. Imbibed too freely thereof, got drunk and tried to paint the inside, of his coffin a carmine hue. and In his efforts disconnected the tube which furnished air for his lungs. When dug up he was Just about to breathe his last. One should not Indulge in such hilarity In such a grave situation. "An effort is being made." sas's the Los Angeles" Times, "to have a time-ball erected at the harbor of San Pedro. At the present time there are only two time balls on the Pacific Coast." We do not know what a time-ball is, but we venture the opinion that It Is high time that. the number of highballs on the Pacific Coast be diminished. Down with the highballs! ROBERTUS LOVE. THE STORK'S AID -DE-CAMP. Reprinted by request from The Oregonlan of Oct. 1. 1000. SOMEBODY Sept. 27. to the wife of A. B. Somebody, on the something farm in Pat ton Valley, a daughter, the parents of - whom are the beat pleased couple In that section. Dt. C. L. Large attending. Clas elfled d&wtf In Patten Valley when the stork: From Heaven Is near arriving, Yon see the farmer hitch his team And see him madly drivinc; He's off post haste to catch the Doc. Whoe woric is never ending. And soon we read a child Is born. With Dr. Large attending. The people think no child of theirs. A xn or eke a daughter. Can enter in th! vale of team. Exactly as it oughter. Unless the little notice reads: "The mother is duly mending. And pop is glad he got his kid, With Dr. Large attending." And when the great mllienlum comes. To bring us Joy Unending. Til bet the world is born again, "With Dr. Large attending. LETTERS ON IMPORTANT TOPICS. Fraternal InanrsHce- and the Necessity of Legislative Action Direct Primaries aad the Vote? Sunday aad the Fair, KLAMATH FALLS, Or., July 9.-(To the Editor.) About four years ago I wrote an article for your columns calling attention to the inadequacy of the rates for life insurance then In force among the fraternal Insurance societies, and predict ing that the das "was at hand when the older societies would be compelled to ad vance rates or go to the wall. Since that writing, which attracted con siderable attention, nearly all the older orders have advanced rates materlalls. and some of the j-oungor. wiser than the rest, have done the same. The eldest In this country, the A. O. U. W.. put Itself on rates prepared by one of the first actuaries In the countrs: the K. O. T. M a younger order, made a de cided advance, and now the Roal Ar canum has followed the lead of the A. O. U. W. very closels. aria" the Woodmen of the" World have authorized their head consul to emplos actuaries to report to their next head camp session adequate rates. The Importance of these moves In the right direction cannot be overestimated, for fraternal insurance has grown to pro portions onls sllghtls short of regular life Insurance. The month's payments and the low expense ratio, possible bs the lodge system. ha3 placed Insurance within the reach of the classes who need It the most, the men who toll In the shops, in stores and on the farms. The change noted above has not been brought about without much discord, and large loss of the less thoughtful members. who cannot understand that societies, or ganized with only comparative" soung men. must have a constantls Increasing death rate, as the number of o"ld men In the ranks Increases. Happily, the num ber of men who have seen the necessity for the change has been large enough to prevent the failure of any of the larger orders. The trouble In the old-line companies have emphasized the necessity for the fraternals to guard their reserves with a Jealous care. From reports Just at hand. I note that the A. O. U. W., with only half their membership on the new rates, accumulated over Jl.OOO.OOO In a sear. be sides paying off about that amount of ac crued Indebtedness. It Is true that a vers considerable proportion of this was loaned to the members on their policies, and the provisions for the safeguarding of the funds seem perfect. yet forewarned by the experience of others. If there are any loopholes, thej should be closed promptly. In the letter referred to, I suggested the necessity for state legislation ror frater nal Insurance. Sucft a law was passed at the last session of the Legislature, and while It was far from being perfect. It seemed to mo to be a step In the right direction. In that It prevented the organi zation of new societies on manifestly- In adequate rates. Its verbiage was not clear, and was capable of double interpre tation, as was clear to all who heard the discussion on Its passage. The Governpr, In vetoing It. placed a different construc tion on some of Its provisions from those who secured Its passage. By the next ses sion a law should be prepared and fully discussed beforehand, which shall at least safeguard the following points: Minimum rates for mortuary proportion; filing com plete reports, annually, with the state, showing membership statistics: rates, changes in rates, valuation on a 4 per cent basis, amounts of receipts and disburse ments. Investments and their nature, and the State Commission should have author ity to proceed against any society fall ing to comply with the provisions of the law. You will note that I have not made val uation a basis for permission to do busi ness. As these are mutual associations and as their plans "vary materially, solv ency cannot be determined on the same lines that are used for old-line companies. Again, the enormous surpluses and reserve accumulations of the old-line companies Indicate that the rules used In their gov ernment need revision. The publication of the statistics will have a beneficial effect, for a soclets shown to have a great and growing de ficiency of funds for future needs will bo open to suspicion, and will soon be unable to compete with those showing a better financial condition. Already the change In sentiment among every-das people In regard to Insurance Is becoming apparent. The only question for S'ears seemed to be. "How cheap are the MR. ROCKEFELLER'S JOKE Makes College President Swallow His Own Plan. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. It was while speaking at Denver in January. 1900. that President Hadley, of Yule, brought forward his famous remedy of social ostracism for trust abuses. He did not think much of legislative remedies. He believed that a proper and healthy public sentiment, acting by itself, would be more effec tive, and said: "When It Is understood that a man who does certain things cannot associate with his fellow-men. It will penetnitc deeply Into the social organism." Later on he said, by way of explanation: "Social ostracism will serve as a remedy for any public evil. It Is. In fact, the only effective remedy. It applies to evils connected with trusts In the same way that it does to any other, form of commercial wrong." President Hadley was evidently still holding the same views when, a few weeks later, he npoke In Boston, say ing, among other things: "We shall have an emperor in Washington within 25 years unless we can create a public sentiment which, regardless of legisla tion, will regulate the trusts." This utterance also underwent explanation later on. but without changing the sense as it was understood by most readers. Truth compels the statement that few people regarded the Hadley rem edy for trust evils as practicable or en titled to serious consideration as a finality. But no one anticipated that Professor Hadley himself would be the one most conspicuously to cover his remedy- with ridicule. Accounts of the Yale almuni meeting of Wednesdas say that four times In the course of President Hadley's an nouncement of the Rockefeller gift of Jl. 000.000 did the entire audience "cheer" and "yell" and "roar' Its ap proving enthusiasm. Had Mr. Rocke feller himself been present, what would have happened? Refusal of a seat on the platform? The cold shoulder ev erywhere? Yet if his methods may properly be condoned what are the methods related, to the aggrandize ment of the syndicated wealth which call for social ostracism, of the author? One Is almost forced to the belief that Mr. Rockefeller deliberately laid a trap for President Hadley. which he proceeded straightway to fall into. He is a man. we believe, not wholly devoid of a sense of humor, and It might easlly be worth a million In his case to see Dr. Hadles publlcls swallow his own plan of meeting the menace of the trusts. It was a great joke and worked to a charm. The Jumping-Jack Soldier. Toledo Blade. General Weyler has been made Secre tary of War In the Spanish Cabinet, Re member Weyler? He Is the man who. once upon a time was going to lick Uncle Sam. Vnin Hope Rudely Dispelled. Chicago Tribune. The landgrabbers" hope that Secretary Hitchcock would be a good fellow has been rudely dispelled. rates?" This Is -being replaced with "How safe is the order?" C. C. HQGUE. WHY NOT A CONVENTION? Suggestion! for Guidance of the Pri marj Voter. PORTLAND. July 11. (To the Edi tor.) Our next general election will be held under the new primary law and evers person who aspires to offlce will have the privilege of circulating a peti tion and getting his name on the prim ars ballot. The Utopian dreams of the reformers will have come to pass. Per haps. The man who Is best known will have a long lead In the primary race though a better qualified and better man may be In the running. A plurality will nominate, and the unfortunate person, who receives a plurality of the vote cast, which may be but a small proportion of the party vote, will be entitled to go on the official ballot as the party standard bearer. It occurs to me that there is .danger of naming the wrong man and some measure should be taken to give di rection to the parts. Why would It not be advisable to call a convention In the good old-fashioned way and recommend candidates for the consideration of the voters, and a candidate required to re ceive a majority of the convention. Of course it will be urged that such a convention Is likely to be dominated by the bosses. That Is true, but the primary law will give the mass of the voters the right to appeal from the ac tion of the convention and confirm, or set It aside before the general election. If the last state convention had been mere ly a recommending convention the result In the parts would have centered on pome other man than the nominee for Governor when the primaries occurred, and we should not now have a Democratic! Governor. After all the candidates be fore a convention are good men whom the members could cordially support even If -they lost their favorite, but when a nominee Is forced upon the party in the face of a large and determined protest there la going to be trouble. A convention Is necessary to frame a platform and declaration of pdlnclples. Why may not that convention recommend for the consideration of the members of the party a list of candidates? Parties are maintained for the further ance of policies of Government believed to be for the best Interests of alf the people. How Is the party organization to be preserved without representative party councils? VIDL WHY NOT A HALF HOLIDAY? How the W. C. T. U Would Solve One Sunday Problem. HEADQUARTERS W. C. T. TJ.. Port land. July 13. (To the Editor.) Having read with deepest Interest all that har been said pro and con on the question of "open amusements at the Fair," we beg leave to offer a suggestion. It would seem that the chief argumenf In favor of an open Trail Is that the la-J boring class cannot otherwise have th pleasure of attending these places. ThI WQ3 the main argument In asking for th open gate. Now. of course, the worklr? man or woman desiring to visit the Fal surely want to go when all Is in actll operation. They all wish to see all "tl j wheels go round." In face of this fact, why not united' j work to bring this about, not on tl Lord's day. commonly called the Sabbat but to appeal to employers, busing houses, etc.. for a Saturday half-hoUdal then appeal to the Exposition irenag ment for a lower rate of admission (" Saturday: then the laboring men ail women could "do the Fair" when the ma chlnery and all was in active operation. Saturday half-holidays are now almosq universally observed In Eastern cities Shall the great and beautiful Rose City "where rolls the Oregon." be behind. Ir this progressive step? This half-hollHa'i innovation Is a well-established custom And would tiof the half-holidav plan 9t the most sane and delightful vxlv out ofl the much-debated question of an open Sabbath? Let us set about educating pub-" lie sentiment to bring this about. L. H. ADDITON. PAUL JONES' BODY. Henry Watterson In the Louisvillj Courier-Journal. It was certain, when the quest foj the body of John Paul Jones. Institute by General Horace Porter, was reward! ed with success, that doubt would bl cast upon the genuineness of the flncj Human nature is whimsical alike iil Its credulity and in Its skeptlcisnl Sometimes it will pursue a fake, some times resist a fact, with a pertlnacltl little short of ridiculous. There ari people who believe that John Wilkfi Booth was not killed by Boston Col bet. but that he made good his escar and lived many years after; yet til surmise In the very nature of the cad to say nothing about the proof the contrary does not admit of real onable conjecture, even of Intelligel dldcussion. That the body of a man dead lj years and exhumed from an unmark grave no matter what the Identlflil tlon should be received without que Hon by a public 3000 miles away w not to be expected. In the first plad the sensation newspapers, commltti with each issue to as many surpriH as may be found or fabricated, woil not permit it, and outside the net! papers, of course. the "doubtll Thomas is perennial and alwa around. It Is fortunate, therefore, tl General Porter has his evidence such perfect shape and that It Is abundant and absolute. Only a of his orderly method, his trained liberation and skill, his tenacity sincerity of purpose, could have wort to such a conclusion a task so arc ous and Intricate. Editor Patterson's Venture. Independence Enterprise. The Oregonlan Is a little unkind to I. L. Patterson, a recent acquisition to journalistic fraternity. Mr. Patter i holding down the position of Collector vu.Ti.uiua iui rort oi .roruana, Jl uraliy felt a little timidity toward pit Ing suddenly- Into the field of newsnz endeavor, to be assigned a place ami the more experienced. Mr. Patterson tempted once before to embark In newspaper business with others by acc lng stock In the Salem Capital Jour The venture was unsuccessful. Assc ted with such veterans as EL Hofer George W. Davis. Brother Pattel never had a fair show, and failed. time. Brother Patterson chose the Sa Statesman as a medium through whlc express hlmslef. and profiting by e rience with the Journal, did not buy s outright. Another method of acqul control was adopted, and The Oregc should have known It was not Intel that the names of the publishers si j be announced at this time. Profitable Use of a Great Xai Milwaukee Sentinel. There Is a disposition to moralize fact that the son of the author "Scarlet Letter" Is writing physic ture articles for a yellow journal. If It comes to "mere lucre." the chl are that Hearst pays Julian much than the public paid Nathaniel.