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THE CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
One perukes the autobiographies In
this weird volume with feelings like a
little boy's running pact a graveyard In
the night. He expects a ghost to pop
out from under every bush. Some
times the ghost does pop out to scare
the boy; but from these- tombs in the
Congressional Directory -where rot the
festering facts of so many noted careers
under the grass and daisies of smooth,
commonplace statements, no ghost ever
peeps. The reader may skim along se
curely, like Daphne over the flowers.
He will see nothing uncanny: he will
read nothing to shock. All is secure,
conventional, discreet. It might be a
collection of lives of honest men and
patriots for all the volume itself shows.
For some reason divers of these auto
biographies are extremely brief; so
brief that it almost seems the writer
was afraid to say anything lest he say
too much. If he opened his mouth at all,
out would Jump the toads and frogs in
spite of him. as they did from the bad
little girl's in the fairy story. The
American people ought, to be thankful
for this reticence. How it would look if
Senator Dietrich, for example, had told
all about himself in a book which is
referred to. more or less, in foreign
lands! But he does not. He tells when
he was born and when he Joined the
glorious choir of grayhaired Senators
but over the rest he draws a veil. Ad
mirable reticence! Senator Burton tells
even less than his colleague from Ne
braska; and for the best of reasons
there was a great deal more to keep
silent about. With so much and such
Interesting matter to write. Senator
Burton contents himself with barely
mentioning the date of his election:
he does not even add the date of
his conviction, for which one now looks,
quite as a matter of habit, in a sketch
of a Senator's life. "Senator X was
born In 1835 (most of them were born
In that decade); graduated at Yale in
1855; elected to the Senate in 1901; con
victed in the United States District
Court in 1905." Thus a typical biogra
phy would run. but Senator Burton is a
'iolet. He dreads to lose his virgin
bloom in the glare of publicity. He
says in the directory: "Elected to the
Senate in 1901": only that, and nothing
more. When the prize is awarded for
brevity it will go to him. He does not
even tell whether he graduated at Yale
or not, but the presumption is he did.
Depew graduated there; Piatt and Dry
den studied there: why not Burton?
Could the odorous million be put to a
more natural use than to equip men
of that stamp for their life work? If
Yale only had Burton on her board of
trustees, what a halo she could achieve
by expelling him; still, Depew does very
well. Will the universities of the future
keep a few decayed Senators among
their trustees to use in emergencies, as
Yale is using Depew? Should Harvard
desire somebody else besides her illus
trious son Penrose for a purpose like
this. Gumshoe Bill, the noted Senator
from Missouri, is recommended. She
can adopt him by bestowing an LL. D.
When a balloon begins to sink'the aero
naut casts overboard a bag of sand.
Thus might the alma mater, when her
reputation sinks a little, throw out a
superfluous Senator, as Yale Is now
doing.
Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, might
have seized the opportunity, when writ
ing his autobiography, to impart a
great deal of instruction in the -theory
and art of vote-buying. Nothing could
have been more useful to the young
politician: nothing more Interesting to
a man like Addicks, with whose un
successful practice of the art Mr. Aid
rich must sympathize. But he is -silent
where he might be so improving. He
does not even try to Illuminate the pos
sible influence which a son-in-law of
Standard Oil may have on legislation
through a Senatorial father. Mr. Aid
rich, theoretically representing the la'-,
significant State of Rhode Island, actu
ally representing Standard Oil, in the
United States Senate, is said to out
weigh in that body the whole trans
Mlssisslppl region. Were he an Im
provement upon Dietrich, Burton,
Clark. Mitchell and the rest In states
manship or character, this would not
be very regrettable: but he is not. Mr.
Aldrich omits the really Important facts
of his career from the Congressional
Directory for the same reason that Bur
ton does. He omits them because he
is ashamed to tell them; and for this
shame he Is to be commended 'above
men like Alger and Clark, who omit
nothing but slaver everything over with
falsehood.
Alger boasts of his 1S7 votes in the
Chicago Convention of 1SSS as proudly
as if he had not bought some negro
delegations and failed in an attempt to
buy the rest. He says nothing of the
3500 soldiers who died of preventable
disease In the Spanish War, to about
250 killed on the battlefield; and of
course his silence is wise. To the read
er's great regret. Mr. Clark, of Mon
tana, barely mentions the Senatorial
investigation in 1899 which he headed
off by resigning. Why does he not tell
what the Investigation was about and
vindicate his Innocence of anything like
purchasing a Legislature? Why does
not Senator Foraker disprove the com
mon report that he received $100,000,
more or less, to get a franchise for the
Cincinnati Traction Company from the
same Legislature that made him Sena
tor; that he is still counsel for that
company, and uses his power as Sena
tor to subject Cincinnati to its unbri
dled greed? Mr. Foraker aspires to be
President of the United States. The
poet Milton tells of a personage, not
unlike Mr. Foraker in character, who
aspired to reign in heaven with much
the same prospect of success.
Newspapers like the New York
World discuss whether or not the Sen
ate is degenerating and decide one way
or the other according to evidence or
prejudice. The question is -without in
terest. The Important fact is that the
Senate is bad. It may have been worse
some time In the past; it may be bet
ter some time In the future. But clear
ly and indisputably It is bad now.
What is the hope of the railroads In
their controversy with the President
over a just regulation of rates?
Through the connivance of the Senate,
where they, and not the people, are rep
resented, these corporations hope to
continue their lawless, freebootlng ca
reer. Every trust which looks for profit
in lawbreaklng or evasion has Its repre
sentation in the Senate: if he Is not a
member of the trust, he is In Its pay.
The tariff cannot be equitably adjusted
because the Interests which profit by Its
Iniquities are strong In the Senate. The
parcels post, of immeasurable value in
promoting the civilization of the coun
try, cannot be established because Sen
ator Piatt is retained' by the express
companies. Senator Elkins is not half
so much chairman of the Senate's in
terstate commerce committee as he Is
attorney for the Interstate railroads.
Mr. Hay's arbitration treaties, the
greatest achievement of a great states
man. Infringed upon the prerogative
of the Senate; they were destros'ed.
Greedy, grasping.. Insatiable of power;
allied with predatory, lawbreaklng cor
porations; constantly encroaching upon
the functions of the President; the indi
vidual Senators shelter themselves be
hind their corporate body and defy both
public sentiment and the law. But
sometimes the shelter falls them. Yale
casts her Chauncey as a sop to public
opinion. A Dietrich, a Burton, a Mitch
ell, trips and the law catches him.' The
Nation moves toward the belief that
Legislative election of Senators is a
mistake: it results In the degradation
of legislators and Senators both; but
how to replace it with some better
method is one of those problems whose
solution must grow out of many ex
periments and many failures.
AN UNCERTAIN WHEAT MARKET.
The energetic bears In the Chicago
wheat market have succeeded in reduc
ing prices about 6 cents per bushel In
the past three or four days. and. unless
the Hessian fly. the chlnchbug or some
other friend of the bull operator comes
to the rescue, there will be a further re
cession in prices. One of the principal
factors in the decline of the past few
days has been the report that the Ca
nadian Northwest would this year pro
duce from 60,000.000 to 70.000,000 bush
els more wheat than last year. It Is,
of course, rather early to Indulge in any
quantitative statements of the Canadian
crop. but. taking into consideration the
enormous number of new settlers that
have been pouring into the wheat dis
tricts of the Canadian Northwest for
the past Ave years, there Is no reason
to doubt that under favorable circum
stances there should be a very heavy
Increase over the output of former sea
sons. High prices for wheat have a tend
ency to increase production, and at the
same time restrict consumption. The
latter feature of the matter Is less no
ticeable In this country In times of gen
eral prosperity like the present than
when limes are hard and the purchas
ing powers of the people are much cur
tailed. But the most bullish reports
that have yet appeared credit the
United States with a probable yield at
least 100.000.000 bushels greater "than
that of a year ago. This additional
amotint, making the most liberal pos
sible allowances for feed and home con
sumption, will result in this country
again lining up with the exporting na
tions of the earth, and we shall be
forced to sell at least a portion of the
surplus in competition with the wheat
of other countries.
It was the light crop and great pros
perity in the United States that has for
more than a year kept the price of
wheat the world over at figures consid
erably above the average of recent
years. The effect of these prices has
been a vastly Increased output from In
dia, the Argentine and Russia. The
latter country, in particular, has
been making phenomenal shipments
throughout the season, and. although
they are trailing well Into another crop,
the average weekly exports from the
Russian ports are still hanging around
5,000,000 bushels, with the Argentine
showing larger shipments than are
usually noted In the height of the sea
son. These are the disturbing factors
which argue for lower prices unless our
1905 wheat crop In the United States
turns out to be as near a failure as
that of a year ago.
Natural, and to a great degree un
changeable, are these conditions which
must be met by the American wheat
grower, and eventually there must pre
vail a scale of prices based on them.
It does not follow from this that there
will be an immediate return to such
natural conditions. The Chicago mar
ket, which to all Intents and purposes is
the American market, has for months
been in the hands of a speculative ele
ment, which, with the equipment of
practically unlimited funds, has been
enabled to Juggle it up or down accord
ingly as Its wishes were best suited.
With this element of uncertainty in
jected into the situation, violent
changes are not to be wondered at,. and
thl-y will probably be very much In evi
dence until the new wheat begins to
move In such volume that it will not
be a difficult matter to get a fairly ac
curate line on the dimensions of the
crop.
THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW.
Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Mis
souri, has In a recent Issue of the Inde
pendent a brief and timely article on
the above topic. The keynote of his
presentment Is: "No official has a right
to Ignore any law. It Is not for him to
say whether the law is good or bad, but
to enforce it as he finds It upon the
books." It is suggestive of things out
of Joint that any official finds it neces
sary to exploit this theory .in words.
His acts should be sufficient evidence
that he understands this simple fact
that he understood and subscribed to It
in taking hls official oath. Good or
rbad. the laws should be enforced with
out regard to wealth or title or posi
tion. If bad, the way to prove them so
and to secure their modification or re
peal Is to enforce them rigorously and
persistently.
This Is a trite saying, but it is true.
An example In proof thereof Is to be
made In this city by the enforcement
of an ordinance restricting the sale of
liquors in public eating-houses and
abolishing boxes or private apartments
therein. That the terms of this ordi
nance are too sweepmg is possible. If
so. a test rigorously applied will cause
them to be modified. It Is said that
the law infringes upon personal liberty
and places the decent, orderly citizen
who desires and has a right to dine m
seclusion with his family or friends
upon a level with Immoral and design
ing men. who seek through the seclu
sion of the restaurant box an oppor
tunity to lead Inconsiderate and unso
phisticated girls into paths of shame.
This may be true. but. If unjust, the
enforcement of the law will demon
strate It. It may, however, prove to be
merely the price that orderly citizens
should and must pay for the protection
of the weak and the defeat of the de
signs of libidinous men. who. without
conscience, prey upon weakness and
folly. Furthermore, it may be the price
that men whose pride In the good name
of the city is not all of a commercial
quality are required to pay for the
honor of Portland upon the basis of
common decency.
It is not necessary to go Into detail
to prove that the "box ordinance"
strikes at an evil of vast proportions
and far-reaching possibilities In the
dark domain -wherein are ruined homes,
young women lost to virtue, and despic
able men who feed, unashamed, upon
the wages of sin. Enough Is known of
these facts to brand the little dark side
box In an ordinary restaurant as the
vestibule of the place whose steps lead
to moral degradation and literally "take
hold on hell." If It !p possible to segre
gate from these places those whose
patrons demand seclusion at meal time.
In a legitimate way, let It be done.
Men well read In the lore of human
nature think it will be difficult, not to
say Impossible, to do this and still at
tain the object sought. "It has been
my experience," says Governor Folk,
"that any law looks blue to a man who
wants to break It."
THE COTTON REPORT SCANDAL.
Mr. Holmes, assistant statistician of
the Agricultural Department, created
much commotion in the market for that
great staple by selling to brokers ad
vance information which enabled them
to "rig" the market to suit their pur
poses. For this an effort Is being made
to prosecute the statistician who vio
lated his trust, and the department Is
making a strenuous effort to square
matters with the public Fortunately,
or unfortunately, as the case may be,
the legitimate cotton dealers do not.
place any more confidence in the Gov
ernment cotton report than the wheat
men place In the same department's
report on the wheat crop. The price of
cotton advanced more than J2 per bale
on Monday, and the controlling factor
in the advance was the belief that the
June report of the Government had
failed to reflect even approximately the
true condition of the crop.
It Is. of course, a matter of record
that will not soon be forgotten that the
appearance of the June report was fol
lowed by a violent disturbance: but it
very shortly afterward developed that
much of this disturbance was caused
by the "leakage" which had equipped a
few men with information that they
used to the best possible advantage.
Men who are surprised act quickly, es
pecially the gamblers of the Price and
Sully type, who are credited with brib
ing the statistician, and it was the ra
pidity with which the Price coup was
put through that made it successful and
provoked the "roar" which resulted In
the Investigation of the department's
methods. Quite naturally, it is useless
to expect perfect accuracy In forecast
ing any crop, but the Government has
been at fault not only in Its cotton re
ports, but in wheat, corn and about
every other product that comes within
the province of the Agricultural De
partment. It Is unable to secure the
same degree of accuracy In Its reports
that Is secured by private operators.
When any difference exists between
the estimates made by the Government
and those made by private parties, it
would be quite natural to expect that
the former, having all of the advantage
of unlimited funds and a large corns of
statisticians, would be the nearer cor
rect; but the experience of years has
demonstrated that such is not the case.
The legitimate trade Is still forced to
throw aside the Government report and
depend on statistics of its own gather
ing, and at the same time must fight
the pernicious effect of the Government
report, which Is used by gamblers to
further their own ends. The weekly re
ports on the cotton crop which had pre
ceded the monthly report giving the
condition at the end of June, were all
quite favorable, and were viewed with
less suspicion than usual, because they
coincided to a greater extent than usual
with the private advices received by
the trade.
But the monthly report was so
strangely at variance with the reports
received each week- that Its appearance
created a decided surprise. It was dis
trusted and discredited by the trade;
but the enormous speculative following
which never yet bought or sold a bab?
of cotton for legitimate use worked It
to the limit, shearing the shorts out of
fabulous sums and throwing the entire
market, legitimate and illegitimate
Into hysterics. It Is not at all compli
mentary to the Judgment or Intelli
gence of Secretary Wilson that he feels
called on to keep his associates under
lock and key, with telephonic communi
cation cut. and the wndows watched,
for hours before the report Is Issued
This fact. If no other, .would indicate
quite clearly that reform was sadly
needed In the Agricultural Department.
A week has passed since the cele
bration of the Fourth of July and the
usual harvest of death and suffering as
the result, of firecrackers injudiciously
exploded has been and Is yet to be
gathered. From statistics so far as ob
tained at least 100 children will die and
about 4000 have been injured, one
fourth of this number seriously. That
is to say, 1000 children at least have
lost a hand, a foot or an eye. or have
received some facial Injury that will
be a lifelong blemish. What of It?
There was plenty of noise and march
ing, music and speaking, eating and
drinking. These things have come to
constitute a vgood time." and for the
Fourth of July they are exponents of
patriotism. To moralize about It Is a
waste of words; to compile accident
statistics is a waste of time and brain
power. The American people want a
noisy Fourths They will have It.
Death and accident are minor consider
ations that have little weight when the
programme for a "celebration" Is being
made out.
The American flag Is not a banner
that can be trailed In the dust with im
punity when the trailing Is done for
the purpose of dishonoring the, flag and
what it stands for. The London (On
tario) Incident, however, will not be
seriously regarded. A drunken Ameri
can boor offered a very grievous Insult
to the Canadians, and the trampling of
the flag followed not because the men
who trailed it In the dust were enemies
of the country that is proud of the
Stars and Stripes, nor as an affront to
the American people; but simply as a
hasty method of resenting nn uncalled
for insult. Canada to the- Canadians is
as good a country as is America for
the Americans. When an American so
far forgets himself as to insult the
Canadians on their own ground, he may
expect retaliation.
The Governor of Wyoming, the Gov
ernor of Ohio and the Governor of Cal
ifornia were entertained at the Expo
sition grounds Wednesday not by the
Chief Executive of the great State of
Oregon, who had more Important busi
ness (marching in an Elks parade in
an Eastefn city), but by our .business
men. The Exposition Is the greatest
event that the state has ever witnessed,
and. with the exception of the Gov
ernor, all of the prominent officials of
the state and city, and our representa
tive business men. have remained at
home to greet the distinguished visit
ors. Our Governor, however, seems to
And more congenial pleasure elsewhere
than he could get out of the mere for
mality of greeting the distinguished
visitors who have honored us with their
presence.
Officers of the State Penitentiary and
of Marlon County are to be congratu
lated upon their success in securing
evidence sufficient to convict the man
who furnished the rifles used by the
desperadoes Tracy and Merrill. in mak
ing their escape hi 1902. This Is a more
satisfactory outcome of that unfortu
nate affair than anyone had hoped to
see accomplished. Tracy and Merrill
are dead, and when Charles Monte and
his accomplice. Harry Wright, have
met their punishment, the majesty of
the law will have been maintained as
well as possible under the circum
stances. The success of crime Is a dis
organizing force in any government.
Punlshnymt. swift and sure, creates re
spect for law and lessens crime.
The programme of the Methodist
Congress, now being held In this city,
at which five states are represented. Is
a suggestive document. Subjects han
dled touch nearly every side of per
sonal and social life. One exception is
noticeable. The relations of the Meth
odist Church to organized, federated or
co-operative labor do not appear to be
treated. In view of the action taken
by other prominent religious bodies In
face of these great problems at this
time, the omission seems strange. It
would be Interesting to have this Co
operative Christian Federation, Just
setting to work in Oregon, discussed
before a representative body of that
church of which its founder is stated to
be a minister.
There are a great many poetic gems
drifting around the literary work! with
out known sponsors, and accident only
occasionally reveals the source from
which they sprung. On of these "un
knowns" reads thusly:
The whole world loves the modest man.
Who Is silent all day as the owls;
But It's needless to mention It gives Its at
tention To the fellow who Rets up and howls.
Unless he can prove an alibi and keep
out of the limelight for six months at a
stretch, the authorship of this verselet
will be quite generally attributed to
the new Corporation Counsel of the City
of Chicago, the pink whiskered Jay
Ham Lewi?.
Emperor Nicholas appears to want to
send to Washington commissioners who
cannot, or will not, make peace. He
has Generals In Manchuria who cannot
make war. and altogether he Is In posi
tion of the dog who couldn't eat hay,
but wouldn't let any one else eat It.
However. Japan can make war If she
cannot conclude a peace.
Senator Depew says he wants to re
tire. Retire from what? He has just
begun a new term In the Senate, to
which he pleaded plteously that the
Legislature of the State of New York
elect him. Why didn't he think about
retiring then?
In M. Wltte Russia has named her
best-equipped and most liberal-minded
commoner as head of the peace com
mission. If he had remained clothed
with high powers. Russia would have
fewer troubles now.
Manager McCredle, of the Giants,
temporarily laid up for repairs, came
back to Portland for surgical treatment
at a time when experts were never so
plentiful.
Among other things worth, boasting
of Is Portland's good behavior since the
Fair opened. The city has been nota
bly free from disorder and petty crimes.
Portland's many Eastern visitors,
after they read the weather reports this
week from home, will make compari
sons not to our disadvantage.
OREGON OZONE
Rah! Hah! Rah! Yale!
Great is the belly of Father Yale!
More of a marvel than Jonah's whale!
Listen, my children, and hear the tale:
It swallowed a million of tainted money,
A cargo of Rockefeller's rocks.
All at a gulp, and then, by gunny!
Suffered a series of shuddering shocks.
Began to splutter and retch and spew.
And puked up Chauncey M. Depew!
Walter Scott, the Death Valley Croesus,
has started for New York, "to buy out the ,
whole works." as he expresses It, "with
a bank roll that a dog couldn't jump
over." Great Scott!
O Mr. Scott. Mr. Walter Scott,
If more than you need are the scads
you've got.
Pray do not blow them.
Please do not throw them
Wildly away n your Innocent glee!
Please don't, now. Scotty think of me!
The Belllngham Herald describes Butte.
Mont., as "a town famous for Clark,
copper and cussedness." Why should
Mary MacLane be thus slighted? Or
perish the thought! does the Herald In
tend the third count In Its Indictment to
stand for Mary? '
Along about the Fourth of July we
prate about our patriotism. But If we
were asked to recite the "Star-Spangled
Banner." or "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic," or even that old beloved
"America," the chances are ten . to one
that we would stumble and fall down
over the first bump on the second line of
either. If we are patriots, why don't we
learn our National hymns of patriotism?
As our old friend Hiram Hayneld. of
Grass Valley, . would say, we pause for
reply.
Hiram Hnyfleld's Views.
Grass Valley, Or., July 13, 1905.
Dere .Eddytur: r sea thet the boJJy
of the alt J. P. Jones. E. S. Q., hex bin
dugg upp and Iz now beln transported
too hlz native land, sew too speke,
awltho Mister J. wuz born and brung
upp Inn bonny Scotland. John P. Jones
was our first Admirable, butt thay
dlddent kawl hlmm thet when hee wuz
skyhootln around the seven sees. They
kawle.l nlm a PIrut. Thet is, the Brit
ish dldd. The slttlzens of thlss grate
and glorious Republlck dlddent think
enny mower or John P. than wee now
think of wun of our sekond-hand poits.
Thay waited till hee wuz ded and thy
wuz awl ded 2. bee they rekognlzed
hlmm a-tall. Even then they hed a
moughty hard time a-reckognlzln J.
P.. for hee newer set fur no foty
grafs nur hed hlz plcter painted by
Gilbert Stuart nur Charles Dana Gib
son. Hee newer even gott his phiz
karrykachured by Homer Davenport,
the grate karrykartoonlst of Sllverton,
Oregon.
1 rekkon Iff J. Paul hed set fur his
plcter the Poleeze Gazoot wud hev
printed Itt and then Mister J. wud hev
bin runn Inn by the Scotland Yard
slooths and strung upp at the Sine of
the Dubbel Cross, or summers else in
bonny Ingland.
But J. P. Jones manalgcd to eskape
the klutches of the British bulldozer
and dyed In piece att the village of
Paree, Frants, whare hee wuz berried
with a lott of uther folks hoo hed bin
nlglektcd by thayr native land or the
place wharo thay hed tuck out nacher
llznshun papers.
Fur 117 years, or thareabouts, P.
Jones reposed In piece and kumfurt,
till Gincral Horse Porter beckame min
ister penitentiary .and ongvoy extra
and ordinary to Frants. GIneral Por
ter wun day sez too hlsself. "Ilo dlgg
upp ths bones of J. P. Jones and thare
by malk my nalm awlmost as Immortal
az thet of I-ferglt-who att the pres
sunt rltln."
Sew hee dugg upp J. P., butt hee hed
a moughty hard time n-findin the sub
jlck of tnlss sketch, hoo wuz nalmeJ
Jones. Awl Joneses looked alike to
Glncrul Porter, and sew manny Joneses
wuz berried In that thare French
graveyard thet Itt wuz awlmost az
mutch az a man's reppytashun wuz
worth too aware thet eney pcrtlkler
Jones wuz the wun devoutly too bee
wished.
Howsumevver. aflter sum ekspert
testlnvinny thay desided thet thay
hed the rite Jones, an now thay air
brin gin hlmm over too berry hlmm Inn
the land thet forgot hlz nalm and ped-
dygree sum yeres bee4 hee dyed.
Itt's a grand thing, thlss reserrektln
the grate and mlty. but inn my umbel
oplnyuh wee ort too pay sum atten
ahun too the salm while thay air llvin,
and then mebbe wee cud Identyfy the
corps 117 yeres affter the sadd and
sollem okkashun, without resortln too
komparytlve annatomy. Yores till my
necks' Hiram Hayneld.
P. S. I nearby puppose thet thlss
grate and gloryus Republlck putt a
tagg onto Admirable Jorge Dewey fur
Identynkashun pupposes. H. H.
ROBERTUS LOVE.
Is This a Guide to Old Age?
Another pointer for old age Is given by
Joseph Zeltlln, who celebrated his 100th
birthday In Brooklyn Monday, and while
smoking his cigar and sipping his toddy,
laid down these rules:
Never have a doctor and don't go into a
drugstore. Don't worry. Never be In a hur
ry. Don't eat "quick luncheons." Take little
meat, especially In early life. Sleep eight
hours a day. When you reach the age of
GO do as you pleaie.
And Mr. Zeltlln. who is a native of
Poland, and became wealthy as a mer
chant there, is still active in habit and a
great reader, never having had to use
glasses, and he follows his own rule about
doing as one pleases at his age. He In
tends to revisit his home In the old coun
try, presently, and enjoying life Immense
ly, he hopes to enjoy it for 25 years more.
But one may venture to say that he won't
if he keeps on his present fashion, and
that he wouldn't have reached his cen
tury If he had even approached the pro
gramme thus described:
He rises every mornlnK at 5 o'clock and
has a cup of tea. At 8 he drink a glass of
beer, smokes a cigar and a Russian cigarette.
Then be Is ready for a light breakfast and
another smoke. Two whliklea are due at
S o'clock, and another at 10. At noon the
centenarian has two sandwiches and two
glaues of beer. During the afternoon b
reads, smokca and drinks, pipping toddles and
beer. He has his principal meal of the day
at 0 o'clock, when he has a large bowl of
beef tea. a steak or a generous cut of roast
beef, plenty of vegetables, some fruit and
beer. Then there Is more fceer during- the
evening, and finally, at 0 o'clock, his bedtime,
the day Is cltid with a Miff little nightcap.
What strikes-one here Is the poor pen
nyworth of bread to an Intolerable deal
of sack.
Incomplete.
Tales.
"Lucy, how would you define a 'frag
ment'?" "A love story In which the lovers don't
quarrel."
LETTERS ON CURRENT TOPICS
General Aaderaoa DiacBsne UBltariaBlntn Direct Primaries and tae
People Eat Side IHjch Sckool The NHlsance of Tobacco.
PORTLAND, July 13. (To the Editor.)
We have recently had In Portland an
assembly officially designated "The Pa
cific Coast Conference of Unitarian and
Other Christian Churches." Is the Uni
tarian church a Christian church? In
what sense Is It Christian in dogma?
Evidently, its ministers wish to have it
considered in the Christian fold, for the
first address In the conference was on
the Bible from, a liberal Christian stand
point. Then followed one on liberal Chris
tianity, and then another on liberal or
thodoxy as distinguished from strict or
thodoxy. The purpose of these and other
discourses seemed to be to assert that
Unitarians are Christians In esthetics,
but not in theology. As one of the speak
ears said: "We are followers of Christ
In all except his assumption of divinity."
Any religion Is better than no religion.
The moral teachings of Christ are the
best, plainest and most practical ever
given to men. The regular churches de
serve all reverence and respect. Yet with
all deference, be It said that Unitarians
should not claim to be Christian if they
do not believe In the divinity of Christ.
Compromises are proper in politics, but
not In religion. Our accepted moral dog
mas arc true, not because Christ taught
them, but Christ taught them because
they were true.
It Is claimed by many that the Prophet
of Nazareth did not claim to be God.
The statements of the New Testament are
too positive to Justify this assumption.
He states too emphatically that "I and
the Father are one." His claim to a per
sonal loyalty was what secured him a fol
lowing never given to such abstract mor
alists as Socrates. Epictetus and Marcus
Aurelius. Buddha, Moses. Christ and Mo
hammed all claimed to speak by divine
authority, and demanded obedience and
received It. The trouble with Christian
Unitarianlsm Is that It has no prophet.
As a consequence. It has no clearly defined
faith.
Mohammed, gross. Ignorant and sensual,
yet taught two great truths, the unity
of God and the Immortality of the soul.
One hundred and eighty millions bf men
still believe that Allah is God, and Mo
hammed is his prophet. For 13C0 years
men have gone- to their graves like beds
for Islam. Who has ever died at the
stake or fought in the field for Christian
Unitarianlsm?
I have never yet seen a working man
or woman in a Unitarian church. Yet It
is this class that most needs the support
and consolation of religion. Why are they
not with us? The less fortunate people
of the world used to be consoled with the
assurance that the pains, privations and
Inequalities of this life would find compen
sation In a future life. The regular
churches made these promises on the
strength of revelations. But recently a
very large proportion of working people
have given up church-going. They have
lost faith In revelation, hope In a future
life as a compensation for earthly ills,
and resent proffers of charity. They de
mand justice and equal opportunity.
Can Unitarianlsm give to the doubtful
a rational hope and to the discontented
an assurance of justice? The most prac
tical faith we can have in this world is
faith In each other. That Is the basis of
a moral socialism: a brotherhood of man
with no primogeniture In It. That would
be the touch of nature that would make
the world akin, as the grsed of gain Is the
touch of nature which makes the whole
world sin. THOMAS M. ANDERSON.
SITE OF NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Shall the City Make Change In
Location?
PORTLAND. July-13. To the- Editor.)
in regard to the present agitation con
cerning the location of the new East Side
High School. I desire to say that not only
do I feel convinced that a serious mis
take has been made In selecting the site
at present proposed, but that a rapidly
Increasing number of taxpayers realize
that the action was hasty and Ill-advised
and would be glad to be given an oppor
tunity for reconsideration.
During the coming week the National
Conference of Charities and Correction
will be In session In our .city, and there
will be In attendance delegates from all
parts of the United States, from older
cities than ours, both large and small
cities where this same problem either has
been fought out or Is pressing for solu
tion. I would therefore suggest that during
this time a meeting of the taxpayers be
held, which will give opportunity not
only to our own people for a fuller and
more mature expression of opinion, but
will also give us the benefit of the ex
perience of these distinguished visitors.
In the purchase of a new site the per
caplta share of the necessary tax would
be too Insignificant to deserve considera
tion, especially when one reflects upon
the seriousness of the question involved.
MITCHELL AND FACTION.
Responsibility for the Present Low
Estate of the Republican Party
in Oregon.
Grant's Pass Observer.
Mitchell has been the bane of the Re
publican party in Oregon and he is likely
to continue so to the last. If. knowing,
as he did. the Invincible chain of evi
dence that would be produced against
hlra he had voluntarily resigned office
about the time he made that brazen
speech In the Senate. It would probably
have been much better for him. and cer
tainly would have been more In accord
with his duty to the Republican party,
to which he owes so much. His successor
would then have been named by the
Republican majority of the Legislature.
But in all his career Mitchell cared little
for the Republican party in comparison
with the concern he felt for Mitchell.
And even yet he hold3 people and news
papers In an unholy alliance that has
no regard for party Interests, as may be
Judged from the following extract from
tho Salem Statesman:
Some newspapers act on the assumption
that those Republicans who have been
friendly to Senator Mitchell In the past, are
on trial In the United States courts at Fort
land. It Is mildly suggested that such
assumption Is not apt to bring those Repub
licans any nearer In touch with the other
wing of the party. The sooner, therefore,
such rot Is cut out of these papers, the soon
er will there be hopes of reuniting the two
wings of the Republican party.
Mitchell Is the man who brokeUhe Re
publican party with faction, and who
with his abettors, has made It a carica
ture of what it should be. With the end
of the political career of Mitchell we
may hope for an end of party debauchery
also, and Republicans need no reunion on
the lines suggested by the Salem States
man. The Republican party must purify
Itself or else give the state over to the
Democrats, and If it can only be purified
by the latter means, then that means
will be acceptable to all good Republic
ans. It Is a clear case that the party,
under the pernicious influence of Mitchell
and others of his kind is fast losing the
confidence of the people of this state,
and Its hope is not In vicious alliances,
but In return to the sound principles and
good government that it stands for.
Dr. Depew's Profitable Grafts.
New York Sun.
The latest published statistics of the
Hon. Chauncey M. Depew'a activities ex
hibit him as director of not less than 74
corporations. If every corporation with
which he Is connected in this capacity
had been as appreciative of his geniality
and his legal learning as the Equitable.
Dr. Depew would enjoy an Income, from
this 60urce alone, of J1,4S0,000 a year.
The city is growing rapidly, and at no
future time will It be possible for our
School Board to .secure playground space
at a more reasonable price than now.
Playgrounds, are pleasanter and cheaper
than reform schools. The warning con
tained In Mrs. Kelley's letter In yester
day's Issue should be considered serious
ly. Let us profit by it.
CATHERINE C. CHAPMAN.
FAVORS DIRECT PRIMARY.
This Correspondent Thinks Senator
Should Be So Elected.
LEBANON, Or.. July 13. (To the Ed
itor.) The trouble with your Salem cor
respondent's theory of the direct-primary
law and the United States Senatorship
Is that it would entirely vitiate the ob
ject of its promoters the people. No
Multnomah or other representative would
make a campaign for his own nomina
tion on the theory that he was opposed
to the direct election of United States
Senators by the people, and yet. to say
that he would be governed in the elec
tion of a Senator, not by the vote of tho
entire state, but by that of his county
only, would be to say, first, that he Is
only a county officer, when he Is' a part
of the state government; second, that la
his judgment a Senator In Congress Is to
represent merely a county and not the
state, and that he prefers a factional
fight, anyway, rather than to let tho
people decide the matter in accordance
with their expressed wish.
Everybody knows the object of this fea
ture of the direct-primary law. It was to
take the election of United States Sena
tors out of the hands of the Legislature,
where it always drags tWrough tho entlro
40 days, giving the utmost latitude to tho
application of schemes and logrolling of
every description, including the promises
of offices, afterwards delivered, for tho
purpose of changing a legislator's vote
In a direction where It would not other
wise go, and those who care for a refor
mation of this system and for securing
an expression from the people themselves,
will offer no technical theories by which
some representative can prolong the ago
nies of "factional lines" which the .direct-primary
law Is specifically intended
to obliterate.
There will be no more excuse for a rep
resentative confining the expression of
the people of the entire state to that oC
his own county In the matter of support
ing a Senator of the United States than
there would be for a delegate to a state
convention to continue supporting at the
polls the man his county had favored
for the nomination for Attorney-General,
though the rest of the state had support
ed another man.
Let us not begin to hunt for hypotheses
by which the expressed will of the people
may be thwarted. This spirit Is at the
bottom of all the political troubles which
are besetting our country at every turn.
The direct-primary law Is Intended to
give the legislators, servants of the peo
ple of the entire state in the matter of
United States Senators, and not of coun
ties, an expression of their preference.
That Is all. It Is fair and sensible, and
no rational objection can be found with
it as a means of obliterating factional
lines, and who does not pray for such a
consummation? REPUBLICAN.
ONE KIND OF SMOKE NUISANCE
Is There No Way to Keep Him Off
the Streets?
PORTLAND, July 13. (To the Editor.)-
I was much interested in your article or:'
pure food In this morning's issue. We
cannot do too much to hasten the hour
when all who engage in the adulteration
of foods or drugs shall be driven out of
"business: Surely- they have no rjjht- to
exist.
But how about having only- pure air
to breathe? There is a large class of
men (no women) who go about render
ing the air we all have to breathe unfit
to be taken Into our lungs. And they
act as If they were blissfully Ignorant
that they were doing anything out of tho
way. They do not seem to care how
much they may add to the discomfort of
others: and even when admonished of
their wrong, think to excuse themselves
by saying: "Well. It is a habit." The
vitiation of the air In the streets, public
offices, depotg. steamboats and railway
cars Is becoming perfectly- abominable
and unbearable. Who ha? the right to do
anything which renders the air unfit to
breathe, or sickening and poisonous?
Much Is said about the "smoke nuisance."
meaning the black smoke coming front
the chimneys of our factories. But one
can avoid these places. They are not
peripatetic. But no one can avoid those
chimneys which walk about everywhere,
vomiting out volumes of tobacco smoke
Into the faces of other people. It is time
that there was called a halt to the" use
of smoking tobacco and the habit of
spitting In our streets and all other pub
lic places. E. F. MUNDY.
A GREAT AFRICAN REPUBLIC?
Norman Notwood, In Leslie's Weekly.
Already the cblorcd man Is a formidable
force In the game of party politics in one
and the oldest South African colony.
The native vote In this colony has becomo
so large, and the natives are pressing
their numerical advantage so strongly,
that the whites have already raised the
question of a suffrage limitation to save
themselves from political annihilation.
But It Is clear enough that this eaiwdlent
will not save them. The population I of
Cape Colony, including the territories. Is,
In round numbers. 1.200.000, and the white
population 277,000. Day by day the power
of the native grows. The gate of tho po
litical arena stands wide open to him. and
he. Is not slow to enter. Tie negroes
everywhere are a remarkably fecund race,
and they are increasing, relatively, much'
faster than the whites. Africa Is first of
all the black man's country, and all that
climatic conditions and the congenial en
vironments a native habitat can do to
help him In his struggle upward are there
present.
To all other influences now tending to
the development of the negro to a higher
social and political rank must be added
the force- of education. For in South
Africa, as in this "country, the negroes
"take" to education with remarkable
readiness and success. According to the
Cape Government educational report, pub
lished three months ago. the actual num
ber of children receiving education In the
public schools of the colony at the end of
last year was 91.313 colored and 60.S49
white. The natives are awakening from
the slumber of centuries, and there is no
more remarkable feature of this awaken
ing than their almost Insatiable thirst for
knowledge. Cape Colony and the territo
ries are literally covered with native
schools, the territories alone having sev
eral hundreds. These schools are manned
very largely by native teachers who have
passed one or other of the Cape Univer
sity qualifying examinations, and who
display no lack of Intelligence In their
work.
All this means, in brief and in plain
language, that South Africa Is surely des
tined at no distant day to come under
native rule, to be governed by negroes
for negroes. Attempts at disenfranchise
ment and limitations of the suffrage will
only hasten the day of negro supremacy,
A Natural Question.
Puck.
Mr. Corrlgan How much d yes
charge fer pullln teet'?
Dentist With gas, one dollar.
Mr. Corrlgan An how much w!d
electric loight?