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It is only very lately that any Judge of an American court would have dared to side so openly with plain, old-fashioned honesty as Judge Dill does In his interview wfth an Oregonian reporter. The bench, so ran our code of judicial ethics, must show no preference for virtue over vice, or for honesty over dishonesty. Its only function was to make rulings on points of law, solely viith reference to their technical cor rections, and absolutely ignoring -what the effect might be on the morals or the material -welfare of the country Nor was the judge at liberty to decide a question of technical law on its mer its; his decision must go to the lawyer making the better argument. His own professional knowledge, as well as his conscience, -was ruled out. He became a mere machine to register degrees of expertness In .chicancery and cunning. Occasionally, in that period now al most past, some judge -would weary of the part of automatic counter in a game of rascality and try to reassert something of the historic power and majesty of the Anglo-Saxon Judiciary. Instantly the domineering autocracy of greed was upon him with all Its weap ons of malignant attack. He was an anarchist, a socialist, a foe to society; and, worst of all, he was an enemy to business, For under this vanishing regime, business on the large scale was often such that every man pretending to conscience or honor was of neces sity its enemy. The bench cowered and submitted. "The public welfare is the highest law," the ancient and whole some maxim of courts of justice, was replaced by another. "The welfare of the suitor able to employ the sharpest lawyer Is the highest law." Anglo-Saxon law has been largely created by judges seeking .the public welfare through in tricacies of precedents and forms; American Judges began to abdicate this Imperial function. There was a notable lapse in our courts .toward sterile scho lasticism. The technical point, the hair-splitting, the infinitesimal prepon derance of cunning logic was every thing; the broad, human justice of the case was nothing. Even equity lost its meaning. In American history this -period may come to be known as that of the abase ment of the courts a period when they were manifestly unequal to their duties. A time of mobs, audacious criminality, and frequent failures of justice. It is passing, but it is not yet gone. Our old Ideal of the Judge as one who prefers a sharp rascal to a dull saint is so per sistent that Mr. Dill's pronounced par tisanship for right. Justice and the pub lic welfare strikes one as something almost improper. He has taken sides. He is going to exercise tils common sense and follow his own conscience. What an extraordinary; figure he will make upon the bench! The "coolie mil lionaires" whom he speaks of will not be likely to lose much time In making him sensible of his singularity. BUt Judge Dill has . Internal satisfac tions which will outweigh any con ceivable burden of abuse. He belongs to that noble band, celebrated in Im mortal sermons by President Roosev'elt, who heroically prefer to serve their country rather than to keep on growing richer and richer in private business. Mr. Dill modestly belittles his sacri fice. He says "After a competence is reached, great wealth -doesn't mean very much." But this is the language of magnanimous humility. We all know that great wealth does mean much. It means a white robe and a harp of gold; It means the adulation of college presi dents; it means monkey dinners and paragraphs in "Town Topics." All this Mr. Dill, like Mr. Root, has foregone, and for no reward except the honor of public service. In former times men have esteemed this honor above all riches as the highest reward of ambi tion. "Washington served his country many hard years for ho salary at all. Pitt wasted his fortune tor the- public good. "To die for your native land is a fine and noble deed," wrote the an cient poet Why Is it that we Ameri cans wonder so at a man who thinks it nobler to be Judge over us than to make money? Judge Dili explains why. "Dollar worship is making us a race of coolies. Coolie lawyers, coolie preach ers, coolie millionaires, all money slaves." In our surprise that any man, like Dill or Root, should give up a great Income for public office, we beautifully, but unconsciously, express a very be coming sense of our own unworthlness. "What a queer man he is," we say, to give up a big business for the sake of any honor we can confer, we miserable creatures." Then we laud him as a martyr for his self-sacrifice. I any other nation in the world so truly humble? THE HARRIMAN BANQUET. We may as well be frank with Mr. Harriman and say to him that his banquet last night did not at all serve to bring him In closer touch with the business community of Portland. The fault did not He with his guests; nor can it be said that Mr. Harriman was not a gracious and pleasing host. The trouble was wholly in the obvious fact that there was a purpose on the part of the railroad orators. Including Mr. Harriman, to make the people of Ore gon partners in the uniform policy of neglect and indifference which has marked the course of the' Harriman system In this state, and to hold them primarily responsible for the railroad failure to open up vast areas of pro ductive territory. The Oregonian will not say that this effort wa impudent; but it will say that It was, under the circumstances, and in view of facts, rash and astonishing. The failure of the United States government to ex pend immediately In Oregon the 54,200. 008 It has received from Oregon does not at all excuse the Harriman system from extending its lines into Central Oregon, or the Klamath country or into Coos Bay; nor does downright mis representation of what is to be found in our undeveloped territory warrant the Union Pacific in diverting into channels foreign to Oregon the millions taken In profits from the producers and shippers of this state. Central Oregon is being slowly developed by private capital in great irrigation works, and the railroad has heretofore declined to build because, forsooth, nothing is there! IJow it says it will make the extension, but "the railroad" adds Mr. Harriman, "will be there before the settler!" Mr. Harriman and Mr. Cotton, his able apologist, will, we trust, par don us for saying that they talk as If they do not know what they are talk ing about. But, being well acquainted with both, we may be quite sure that they do know. Mr. Harriman is laboring under the Impression that his railroad system has built 400 miles of .railroad under hlB management In the "territory tribu tary to Portland. Where? One short line was built from Biggs to Shanlko' by Independent promoters and taken over when It was found to be profit able; and one or two other little branches are being constructed in Ore gon; no more. But now, we are in formed, the Southern Pacific will con struct a line from Drain to Coos Bay, -and another from Elgin to the Wallowa country: and we have high hopes that they are about to cross Oregon to the south by laying rails from Shanlko to Bend. We think so, at least; but we haven't' heard yet of the contract be ing let. If Mr. Cotton prepared his speech with the sole Idea of making things a little smoother for his patron. Mr. Har riman, he succeeded, we may hope, in making a good Impression in that quar ter; but if he thought that he had thus shifted the blame for the railroad's sins to the shoulders of the citizens of Oregon, whose business is not to build railroads, though they pay for them many times over, we take the liberty of informing him that he was mistaken. GERMANY'S PLAY FOR CHINESE TRADE. Those who are In a position to know whereof they speak say that, while the United States government, with Its Chinese exclusion laws, has been Ir ritating and alienating the officials of China, who alone In all that vast em pire are worth taking Into International account. Germany, through its Em peror, has been sedulously cultivating Chinese favor. Having first obtained an important and secure foothold in China through a lease for" 99 years of all the territory within a seml-clrcle drawn fifteen miles from Klao-Chau Bay, in recompense for the murder of a number of German missionaries, and having later, under the most plausible pretense extended this lease and Juris diction over a zone thirty miles from all points In he territory first occu pied, the German ruler began to take measures, whereby German trade In China would be fostered and secured. Fredrick Courtland-Penfleld. details in an exhaustive article in a late number of the Saturday Evening Post the suc cessive steps of this admirable, care fully guarded play for the commercial Interests of Germany In the Orient. He shows that the sphere of German "In fluence" so called, dominates 2750 square miles of Chinese territory. The lease of this area, barely seven years old, carries with It the equiva lent of sovereignty over the harbor of Klao-Chau, enormous mining and rail road rights and other valuable priv ileges. The harbor is one of the most spacious and best protected on the coast of China. It has been dredged and two miles of the best wharves in Asia have been constructed In antici pation of the business that was to be cautiously and diplomatically bidden for. All the belongings of a military and naval station have been estab lished. Retaining the small native town of Tsing-Tau as the seat of gov ernment, pretentious and permanent official buildings were erected. Admin istrative buildings, hospitals, ware houses, barracks and coalsheds are all there, built to withstand the erosions of time for hundreds of years. As a compliment to China the name Tslng-Tau was retained for the capital. but, says the writer quoted, "that is all about the place that is Chinese, save the coolies executing the white man's behest." There are -2500 Europeans, almost ex clusively Germans, In William's cap kal in China. Missionaries teach the German language in numerous schools and lpcomotlvea "made in Germany" screech warnings to Chinese yokels to tlear the way for trains heavy with German merchandise. 'Enbrmous coal fields worked by stipulated agreement with German capital, are connected with the German harbor by railroads built with German money. And what, asks Mr. Penfleld, 1b back of It? What is the purpose of the ap propriation of 14,000,000 marks for Klao Chau in this year's official budget of the German government? Answering he says: "Trade little else, and trade spelled best with a large T.' " In pursuance of this object a great steamer entered Klao-Chau Bay last April and, with great pomp, an Imperial envoy, led by Prince Fredrlch Leopold of Russia, landed at Tsing-Tau wharf. The German-Chinese capital was In gala dress; the imperial banner floated everywhere and the princely brother-in-law" of the Kaiser debarked amid oheers from German throats, the music of German brass bands and the boom ing of guns on warships. The entire function was German impressively so. Of the vessel's cargo were twenty or thirty packing cases with the imperial cipher on their lids. These contained presents from the German Emperor to the Emperor and Empress Dowager of China wholly "made In Germany." A subtle move In the coquetry going on between Berlin and Peking was this landing of a carload of gifts at Ger many's seaport In China to be conveyed thence to the Chinese capital by a prin cely messenger almost of the Kaiser's household. Its significance? Trade, again with a large T. And while ail of this and much more of like amicable Import has been going on between Germany and China the United States has been talking open door at that end of the line and shutting the door with a resounding bang at this end. Human nature is human nature whether put to the touch in China, in Germany, in America or anywhere else. There is an old saying that vinegar never catches flies, and it is true in Its broadest, application to the affairs of men and nations. Is It any wonder that China turns from American vinegar to sip appreciatively at German sweets? And will It be surprising if, when It comes to spelling Chinese trade with a big T. that the word will be written In German characters? The Kaiser talks of the "yellow peril" and then, while Russia blindly assaults and the United S&tes obtusely antago nizes the forces that control It. pro ceeds to turn It to a yellow harvest In the gathering of which Germany holds exclusive rights and privileges. The door of Chinese trade may stand open at the behest of America, but Germany seems likely to win by pubtlety the golden favors that pass In and out over the broad threshold, leaving its great rival the boycott to overcome if she can to yield to If she must. DR. LANE AND THE BOARD OF HEALTH Conduct which no one would be sur prised at In an ordinary sinner would be extremely shocking In St Simeon Stylitls, say, or In Dr. Lane. It Is not absolute but relative depravity that one laments in the mayor's sad behavior toward the late Board of Health. Our sorrow comes from comparing what Is with what might have been what would have been. In fact, had Illusions been realities. The mayor Is little bet ter, to speak plainly, than a fallen idol. Had some dissolute politician, boosted into the mayor's chair by his hench men and heelers, done this deed, noth ing would have seemed more natural. The gentlemen and lady of the board would have expected to be lifted out of office by his honor's toe. But Dr. Lane is not a dissolute politician. He has attained to moral altitudes where even Dr. C. M. Sheldon can conscien tiously fellowship him. Nor had the base tribes of henchmen and heelers anything to do with his election. Not one unhallowed vote was cast for Dr. Lane. Only the pure, only the chaste, supported him. And now Just see how he is acting. One can scarcely dis tinguish his conduct from that of the worldly. He uses his toe with all the dexterity of a brutal partisan poli tician. The late Board of Health must do its own weeping. At present all the tears in this bit of territory are flow ing for the lost illusion, the shattered Ideal for Dr. Lane, In short. We took him for the equal in moral purity of the good men who elected him. He is turning'-out little better than a Dem ocrat. BLOT ON ORGANIZED LABOR. Dispatches of the last few days have thrown a lurid light on the warring elements in the Chicago labor federa tion. If crime, violence, riot, can be Invoked without effective opposition to prevent a duly called meeting from resolving on action, and eleotlng of ficers, the strongest remedies, most drastic and thorough going, must plainly be called Into play. These events, let It be noted, take place In the Inmost shrine of organized labor, with, its high priests In attend ance, and with the very continuance of its life at stake. The meeting is -supposed to be of delegates only, repre sentatives of the many branches of the Labor Federation. But, according to the chairman's protest, unauthorized men break In, attack and half murder the officers, and obstruct all efforts at restoring peace,' and getting at re sults. But these rioters have free course, it is said, because they are the same gang employed In the recent strike to maim, mutilate or murder the nonunion workers. They know too much, they have been too prominent for the labor leaders, now returned Into the paths of law and order, to invoke the common forces of society, and prosecute and punish them. If this be so, it Is a strong illustra tion of the sacred word "They that take the sword shall 'perish by the eword." With the measure they meted it is measured 'to them again." When .the teamsters took up the cause of the garment workers, and in sisted on stopping the current of the trade life of Chicago, drawing one group after another into their army of misrule. It was In truth the letting out of water. The saner and wiser workers, and their organizations, are having the lesson brought close home to them. When they see one president nearly slugged to death, and his suc cessor in office admitting that, for in stant fear pf his-life, he dare not pro ceed with the Intended business of the meeting, it seems that three courses, and three only, are open to the decent and orderly workers the legitimate union men. They can meet force by force, organize for an Internal police of their own, and cow the rioters Into submission. They can call on the po lice to do their duty, and take chances on what will follow the arrest and pros ecution of these criminals for labor unions have as much right to hold their meetings In peace, as have the Republican or Democratic parties. Or, they can secede from, and break up this Federation of Labor. Then each union, carpenters, steel-workers, typo graphers, cigar-makers, and the rest, would be free to attend to their own affairs, and organized labor would be purged of many of Its blots and defacements. OREGON HOPS. The hopgrowers meeting at Inde pendence on August 7. works a new de parture in the Oregon hop industry. As In so many other lines of production Nature has been so kind to Oregon, to grow hops has been so easy, the plant has been so vigorous, careful cul tivation, and neat and uniform prep aration for market so seemingly need less, that the standard of the product In the world's market has suffered. The point of Interest Is, however, that com munity In suffering has brought about common effort for effective remedy. And this action Is conservative and sensible. The market Is the test. Oregon hops, say the buyers, are arsenic laden, from Impurity In the sulphur used In bleach ing the hops while drying. If so, say the growers, we will use no sulphur unless guaranteed to be free from the poison. The Oregon hops are not as clean In the picking, or as uniform In weight, or as carefully sewed In the bales as they should be. So say the buyers. Then, say the growers, all this can and shall be remedied. So will the clean and bright and vigorous Oregon hops meet competitors in the open market, free from the drawbacks which carelessness and ignorance have entailed. These injurious agencies, be It re marked, are Incident to preparation for market only not to poor quality In the essential features of the product. Others beside hopgrowers can, from these experiences, learn a needed les sonand that Is to make the best, not the poorest, of what this climate and soil of ours can yield. A- most hopeful feature Is that one third of all the growers were present or represented at the Independence meeting. So action, prompt and de cisive, may be expected to follow on the resolutions. Whether John Hay was the author of "The Breadwinners" has been the subject of a recent newspaper contro versy In New York. It Is claimed by descendants of Dr. Samuel J. Parker, who was one of the earliest mission aries to Oregon, that he wrote the book. One of his nephews living at Ithaca, N. Y., makes this assertion pos itively. The latest contribution to the discussion Is from James T. White & Co., publishers of the National Cyclo pedia of American Biography. In that work. Hay Is credited with the author ship of "The Breadwinners." White & Co. write to the New York Times say ing that a typewritten copy and gal ley proof of their article on Hay were submitted to him for correcting any errors of fact, and while he made some changes relating to family history, he allowed the statement concerning the authorship to stand. Dr. Parker's heirs must offer very strong testimony in rebuttal to overcome the direct and unprejudiced statement of the pub lishers. Peculiarly pathetic was the death by drowning of Fred and Madeline Stef fensen Sunday evening. It Is not only that the event was preventable and should have been prevented. The mother of these young people, past middle age, dependent upon their earn ings for support, and entitled to their care In her fast-coming age, weeps, re fusing to be comforted, for the lives that have been taken from her life, and a young man and woman, well equipped for usefulness are lost to the community. The event can only be de plored as far as these victims are con cerned, but It's recurrence can be pre vented by requiring the equipment of all river craft with life-preservers, and by Individual responsibility on the part of those In control of such craft In dis playing lights. In tills case the hapless victims neglected td light the lantern with which the boat was supplied and the larger craft carried no life-preservers. Cause and effect are here closely related and the Influence of the one upon the other Is easily traced. It may be one thing for ihe chief of police to order his detectives to drive bunco men and "touts" from the city, and another for them to do it. We have their own sworn testimony or what amounts to as much that they do not know a confidence man when they see him; so it will not be wise for the chief- to expect too much from that quarter. It ought to be plain to the chief, as It Is to every one else, who knows anything about Portland police methods that the only way for him to expect results from his detec tives Is to reorganize the force; and the only way to reorganize Is to reor ganize. No less than 72 sunken war vessels represent the losses by sea of Russia and Japan In the present war. A Ca nadian engineer has been employed to float these ships, but, even If restored to the navy of Japan, they will still In dicate an enormous waste of war. In their present condition these vessels represent In aggregate a value of $26, 000,000. The expense of raising them has not been computed. It will, of course, leave a margin of profit to Japan, but the loss to Russia is ab solute. Portsmouth, N. H., is getting as much publicity these dog days as if It were the scene of War, not peace proceed ings. After the big advertisement the town got through Roosevelt's selection, it will be strange If some enterprising real estate men do not start to build up a fashionable Summer resort. Ticket scalping In Portland has been pulled up by the roots. So much for vigorous enforcement of a special law directed against a business that is about 89 per cent dishonest. The promise made by Portland commercial bodies a year ago to the transcontinental rail roads has been redeemed. Inland cities have their advantages. An excursion steamer plying the wat ers of White River which flows through Indianapolis sunk with a hundred pas sengers and no one was drowned. The bottom was too close to the surface. For every death that resulted from the collapse of the Meyers building at Albany, N. Y somebody Js Indictable for manslaughter. Common prudence was absent. News of a flood -along the Tanana and consequent loss to settlers, is a reminder that pastoral civilization is making its way in Southern Alaska. OREGON OZONE Back tb the Club. This is about the Season of the Year When City Men are apt to say, "Look. here," This walled-up Life may suit you women Folks, But I'll cut loose a month or so, my Dear." Then hies thaHusband to the dear old Farm. Which hath. It seems, an endless Power to charm. Though twenty years have passed since last he worked So hard that Bunches grew upon his Arm. First night upon the farm Is very Fine; He smokes upon the Porch and sees the shine Of Sliver stars through Leafy lattice sent. And says, "Hereafter it's the Farm for mine!" Next day he thinks to Exercise himself By plowing- corn for love, and not for Pelf; He plows three Rows or so, and then he goes Back to the Barn he's laid upon the Shelf. Next morn he Limbers up, and Stacking wheat He tackles. "My! but this is such a Treat!" He cries; but after Stacking seven Stacks He finds he can't Stack Up against the heat. And then at Night upon the porch he Sits. The while the Beetle bums and flop's and flits And fireflies Flash and Katydids do things So Lonesome In their sound they give him Fits. And sitting Silent in the eerie dark He thinks about the gaysome Club on Park Street, and the Boys who now are gathered there To stack the Chips and have a little lark. Next morn he rises early, scrubs the Dirt From neck and ears, puts on his extra Shirt. And flags the Milk Train as it moseys past. Hoping the slow old train will take a spurt. At Eve he sits within his Club and sips The Julep, 'mid the Dealer's Jests and quips. And says, "I've had my fling at Stacking Wheat, But truly I prefer to Stack tho Chips." Prattle of the Innocent. "Who is this Lewis and Clark, any how?" Innocently Inquired tho fresh young man from Chicago, who didn't see anything in Portland that suited him. "Why, they were the fellows who came along here a hundred years ago and discovered this country," volun teered tho tender-hearted gentleman. "Gee!" said the Innocent, "how old men are thoy, anyhow?" Gillllan Got There First. All the dally bards have been Intend ing to do It, when they got time, for the opportunity was quite too precious to pass by. But one thing and another Intervened; the yellow fevor broke out In New Orleans, -and there was tho yellow peril to write about; the "Fads and Fancies" episode became a fad and had to be humored; then there was tho hot weather, which could not be ig nored. Still that precious opportunity presented Itself and Insisted upon being grasped; and now Strickland W. Gllll lan has scored he got to It first, and sang In the Baltimore American an ode to Jimmy Hyde, with the inevitable refrain, "Hide, Jimmy, hide!" Go to the head of the class, Mr. Gillllan. Oregon Items. Of course the hopgrowers at Needy are short of pickers. That tho hopes of farmers in Powder Valley for good crops havo exploded i3 denied by the local paper. A man at Gresham has just killed a chicken in which he found 70 cents worth of gold. A chicken that doesn't- know enough to know that fractional gold currency is out of date ought to be killed. A grocer at Liberal has been charted with making short measure in selling potatoes. That man should move to somo other town. "Butter advances In Front street " says an esteemed contemporary. It shows remarkable strength for such hot weather. He Ought to Scorch. The chauffeur scorched along the street lth speed the lightning scarce could beat; So hot his pace that with the heat His tires were almost scorching. Before him men and women fell And children as he scorched pell-mell. Nor heeded he the victim's yell, But still he kept on scorching. He scorched into the country road. Ran over dog and cat and toad. The farmer's poultry down he mowed. And still he kept on scorching. But one day righteous fate befell: He scorched Into an open well And scorched a passage clean to China, Where still he keeps on scorching! ROBERTUS LOVE. Magoon Installed, as Minister. PANAMA Aug. S. Charles A Ma goon, governor of the Canal Zone, yes terday presented his credentials as American Minister Plenipotentiary. A reception then was held at President Amador's palace, which gave an oppor tunity for the Panama officials to dem onstrate their friendship and esteem for Governor Magoon. The speech of the American Minis ter was very gratifying to those pres ent. He said among other things, that excepting the American flag there is no flag upon which the United States looks with such pride and favor as that of Panama. The prompt recog nition by the United States, he said, of Panama's independence was largely Instrumental in establishing Its sov ereignty. President Amador, In replying, paid high compliments to the United States. President Roosevelt and Minister Ma goon. He declared that Panama was loyal, and that the frank policy Initiated in Roosevelt's name and the affectionate brotherly conduct of Secre tary Taf t would undoubtedly increase American influence In Latin America. BUY BACK CONCESSION. Chinese Minister Confers With President on Hankow Railroad. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug. S. Sir Chentuns Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister, arrived here tonight and was driven to Sagamore Hill. He took din ner with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt- Sir Liang made an engagement by telegraph this afternoon to see the President tonight, particularly to talk over matters relating to the Hankow Railroad, concerning which J. P. Mor gan had a conference yesterday with the President. Sir Liansr desired to obtain some information about that conference, and to present also a state ment of the situation from the stand point of the Chinese government. Sir Liang remained at Sagamore Hill about two hours. The President authorized the state ment that the conference related en tirely to the negotiations pending in regard to the Hankow Railroad. Sir Liang, before he departed for New York, said he simply desired to discuss the railroad question with the Presi dent, but regretted that he could not at this time talk about the subject for publication. , "China wants to purchase the rail road and its concessions," said he, "and has made an offer for it. What that offer is, I cannot discuss just now. We are trying to patch up an arrange ment that will be satisfactory, and I think an entirely friendly settlement will be reached." 'Has the Chinese government at any time threatened to seize the Hankow Railroad?" "Oh. no." replied the Minister; "not at alL We have merely offered to pur chase it." The property, he explained, was 850 miles of railroad on paper, but only 2S mlles In actual operation. "The com pany." said he, "has concessions for SaO miles of line, but in seven years it has built only 2S miles." The Minister Indicated that many Chinese were opposed to any railroad, but said expressly that objection was not due to foreign control of the line. MAY INTERCEDE FOR CHINESE American Long Resident In China Favors Relaxing Exclusion Law. SEATTLE. Wash.. Aug. S. Dr. W. P. Martin, who gave the Chipese their first books on chemistry ,and -International law and for about 40 years has been preach ing and teaching In that country, is in this city on his way to New York Clty and Washington. In the latter city he will call upon President Roosevelt and Secretary Root relative to the Chinese exclusion laws. He will do so at the bequest of Chang Chih Tung. Viceroy of two central Drovinees niar Hanltow tnr whom he acted as Instructor for the last three years. Before Dr. Martin left China the Vice roy asked him to Intercede with Presi dent Roosevelt relative tn thn of Chinese. He refused to do this, but said ho would personally lay before the rresiaent. ana Secretary Root the advisa bility of removing- all causa for frlnMnn now Invited by the suspicion cast by American officials upon Chinese subjects not included In the treaty, and the harsh treatment of those persons at landing. Dr. Martin does not onnosA th lanrlins- nf reputable officials, travelers, students ana merchants. THEER WIVES WERE EXCLUDED Chinese Merchants Started Boycott Movement In Chicago. CHICAGO, Aug 8. The Dally News ays toaay: disclosures made In con nection with frequent meetings held at secret rendezvous in this city has Drougnt to light that Chicago has played an initial part in instituting the boycott now raging In China asralnst American manufactures. Chin Pak Sun, a leading Chinese merchant, out lined the situation today. Rigid en forcement of the provisions of the ex clusion act stirred the Chinese to dab bling in economic studies. Three Chi cago Chinese of wealth were barred from bringing their wives into the United States. These examples, and others. Incensed the Chinese, and It now develops, made possible the rapid growth and success ful development of the association that Is now coaching- Chinese all over the world. The first assessments made to meet the expenses of bringing conditions to the at tention of the Pekln government were levied in Chicago. From this center the movement spread in all directions. Before the expiration of the Geary exclusion law last December, the Chinese Association made known its purpose In Chicago. Upon the invitation of a committee from a number of Federated Women's Clubs Chin Pak Sun, as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Association, delivered an address, in which he declared if fairness was not shown in readjustment of the Immigration laws, a boycott would follow on American goods such a3 would startle the world. Tho force of the threat was not realized nor was the part Chicago Chinese played in its execution until progress of the boycott and its echoes In American Government circles brought It out. Says Wu Did Not Begin It. PEKIN, Aug. S. The correspondent of the Associated Press Is Informed that there is no foundation for the statement circulated In. the United States that Wu Ting Fang, former Min ister at Washington, is responsible for the Chinese anti-American boycott. The agitation against dealing in American goods and shipping on Ame clean steam ers Is spreading. FRENCH FLEET IS WELCOME Admitted to England's Most Jeal ously Guarded Harbor. LONDON. Aug. 9. King Edward will today review the combined French and British squadrons oft Cowes and with the French squadron will enter Ports mouth harbor- With the exception of the visit of an American squadron two years ago. this will be the only foreign fleet that has ever entered Great Britain's most jealously guarded naval arsenal, and for this reason the event will be the most significant feature of the French squadron's visit. It was stated on good authority at Portsmouth yesterday that a tentative proposition Is under consideration for the visit of a Japanese fleet to British waters as soon as the situation In the Far East will permit and that possibly the date may coincide with Cowes week, 1905. In this case American. French and Japanese war squadrons will each have occupied the same berths Inside the great har bor. WILL LOOK FOR MORE GRAFT Wilson Appointed Man to Investigate Animal Industry Bureau. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. George K. Mc Cabe, solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, has been placed at the head of the Investigation of the Bureau of Animal Industry by Secretary Wilson, with full authority to probe matters there to the bottom. Intcrmountain Tennis Champion. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Aug. 8. Reuben Hunt, of California, today won his match In the first round of the tourna ment being held here- by the Intermoun taln Tennis Association for the tennis championship of Utah, Idaho and Colorado. SHAW TALKS0N TARIFF. Doctrine of Protection Expounded to Virginia Republican Convention. ROANOKE. Va., Aug. S. One of the largest Republican conventions in the M- tory of Virginia met here today to imks- lnate a full state ticket. Between 1200 and 13C0 delegates wero present. It is almost exclusively a white man s meeting, there being very few negroes in the hall. Campbell Slemp, the only Republican Representative from Virginia, was intro duced tonight, and he in turn introduced Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. who had been Invited to come to Roe he to address the convention. Mr. Shaw was greeted with a storm of cheers. Ho sooko In part as follows: Shaw Talks on TarlC. The spirit of the last half ce alary wis He- publican. It was progressive. The spirit f the twentieth century will be Republican. It will be progressive. Judging the future by the put. thsre 1a reason to doubt tunc the communities most In harmony with the spirit of the century will gather meetly a rich harvest of progress. I come to preach the Gospel of American progress and o teach these principles and spirits which have made us what we are and which will carry us ta yet higher places and grander achtcvainaota whenever, under God. the brain of the South, and the. brain of the North, the brata of the East and the brain of the West. shah be allied for affirmative acclamation and so por tion of our common country shall be looser held to Its negative traditions, which tend only to retard. And now what are these principles that di vide parties? The parties separate primarily on questions of political economy. Every in dustrious citizen te both a producer nod. a consumer. The dominant party- appeals e the producer. It tells bltn that th ituus tton of greatest Importance to htm Is the price at which he disposes of his product. whether thoae products be labor or the results oC labor. The opposition party prom tees the American consumer the best market in tfet world In which to buy. The Republican party promises the producer the best market la the world in which to sell. Cheapness All Around. Gentlemen, we cannot have both. Oer po litical opponents may promise high-priced ta bor and cheap products, high-priced when aoH cheap bread, high-priced cattle and cheap meat, but they make these promisee without possibility of fulfillment. Whenever tfcoy have put their policies In operation, we have had the cheap products of labor, for the products of cheaper foreign labor have found our markets In superabundance. Bat cheap products of labor mean ?heap labor. Choin factory product carries as a concomitant came low wages for the artisan, aod low wasoa tee the artisan means curtailed coneiiHiprtow oC fnrm products, results In a reduction m the price thereof, while a reduction la prtoM means loss to the producer of clothes, of fur niture, of cars, of bag material and every other article of rural consumption. AH tbhf Is but a name for stagnation and panic: -which haa masked every experiment with tarte hr revenue only from the beginning of our his tory until now. Result of Diamond Duty. The disastrous results of fre trade- boHe not followed each and every experiment wtoh free trade, because they were desired by ha men who advocated the measures who pro duced them, but because the measures' were unwise, however learned, however patriotic and however honest the men who ennctmt them. A few years ago some diamond mw chants In TCew York suggested that, it uncut diamond were put on the free list and ts duty retained on cut diamonds they would employ diamond-cutters to cut them m this country. Uncut diamonds were therefor pmced on the free lift and. lO per cnt ad valor mm. duty was placed on diamonds untat and 40 per cent placed on set atones. What Is tho result? There are now 200 dmtaond-cuttern In this country getting big wages, and thojr earned in the aggregate eeveral uiHHeu nht- lara. What becomes of this H Is all most of It wisely. "We are a co-deDendent people. 'When perlty blesses our shores the laborer, the em ployer of labor, the farmer and the eoaounwr of farm product?, the merchant and the banker all prosner. At the conclusion of Mr. Shaw's ad dress the convention adjourned vntH to morrow. When shown a lisp.teh from ?Sw York, in which it was stated that he hag quit President Roooeveit's Cabinet to ox ter the field as a Presidential eaa4Mu.c Mr. Shaw said the statement wan tha "merest rot." SHAW NOT TO RESIGX YBT Will Quit Cabinet Next Winter to Make Canvass for Presidency. OYSTER BAY. N. Y.. Aug. S. It can be sard by authority of the ProeWent that the visit of Secretary Shaw, of the Treasury Department, to Sagamore HM yesterday had no relation to the Secre tary's retirement from the Cabinet. The matter upon which he particularly talkod to the President was personal entirely to them. His regisnation In the future was not mentioned. Mr. Shaw has let it be known that he expects to resign from the Cabinet se time next Winter, but no definite date has been fixed. It Is accepted generaMy in political circles that he expect to be come a. candidate for the Presidential nomination In 1903, and that him rH Quishment of his Cabinet duties te to free him from any embarrassment in the ee duct of his campaign for the nombuLitoa. Coldwater Candidate for Judge. LINCOLN", Neb., Aug. S. Nebraska Pro hibitionists held their state convention here today and nominated for Assteiauet Justice of the Supreme Court. F. B. Eeall. of Harlan County. WILL BE GIVENSQUARE DEAL Governor Wright's Fledge to Philip pines at Taft Banquet. MANILA, Aug. S. Secretary Taft was the guest of honor tonight at a banquet given by the combined Chambers of Com merce at the Grand Opera House. Covers were laid for 500 guests. The addrese of welcome was ma3e by Governor-General Wright who said In part: It may eem somewhat inappropriate for me to say so tonight, but I think, that I have a right to ask you for what our Prmlnent calls "a square deal." "Whether we are right fully or wrongfully here le not to be dk ctueed at this time, but when the Amecioaa people takes over the Mvereignty o a peo ple without their consent tlscy will get "& scuare deal." A toast to "The President" was respond ed to by Representative Foster. Repre sentative Payne, In speaking of the bene fits of the trip, took occasion to propose Secretary Taft as the next President. In responding to a toast to the Navy, R resentatlve Foss. chairman of the House committee on naval affairs declared that its strength should be increased. Representative Cooper, chairman of the committee on Insular affairs, spoke on "Congress and the Philippines" and Seo retary Taft discussed "The Philippines In 1900 and 1506." On entering the Opera House and tak ing a box. Miss Alice Roosevelt received a great ovation. On Wednesday afternoon, there will be a hearing of the tobacco Industries. Major-General Corbln's dinner tb Miss Roosevelt tonight was a brilliant func tion. Steamer on Lake Chelnn. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Aug. S. The Lake Chelan Steam boat Transportation Company of Chelan. Wash., hao been granted permission by the Forest Service to operate the 3teamer Belle of Chelan on Lake Chelan In the Washington forest reserve. Father of Engineers' Brotherhood. DICKINSON, N. D., Aug. SJared C. Thompson, at whose home In Marshall. Mich., the Brotherhood pf Locomotive' Engineers had Its blrtlt, died here today, aged 7S years. A