Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, September 07, 1905, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Textrwnwfr aggags.-iTF5itiaa gtwKteMCAjr.iite x:-?-. ? nwi isf ' r-"riffr' ifi-iMiai ninri t i mwm m m if n i in n m j hmii i i i iiiumr m umii 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 inn i n i mi i hhmmi iii'n ii w imhiii in ir im i pi i f i 1 1 rtn fTT b n p it hi i irnf rTiTHi Tiromi ill i i i nfciirm i riff Tim TMTrriM'wmTriiririBmMTMrM stMSMfWisifjsK - N THIS MORNING O-EEGONliuNV THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1905. "Entered at the Poitotflee at Portland, Or., a second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION' KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCJL fBr Mail or ETfirtM.ll Datly and. Sunday, per year ...$0.00 Dallr nd Sunday, clx montha. ........ fJ.00 Dally &nd Sunday, three month 2-55 Dally nd Sunday, per Ixnontn. ......... - Sally without Sunday, per year 7.30 Dally -without Sunday, six months -&0 Sally without Sunday, three montha... 1.D5 Dally without Sunday, per month...... -03 Sunday, er year..., 2.50 SundAV zf X months. . . . - - t25 Sunday! three montha tit cAimiER. Dally without 8unday. per week . .15 Dally, per week. Sunday included..... 20 THE WEEKLY OltEGONIAN. (Issued Everv Thursday.) Weekly, per year 1-50 Weekly, six months..... -T5 Weeklr. three montha..... 50 HOW TO BE1IIT Send postotfice money crder. express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency at the sender's risk. EASTERN' BUSINESS OFFICE. The- S. C Beckwlth Special AjreHcy New xorlc. rooms 43-50 Tribune building, cni caro, rooms C10-512 Tribune bulldlnt:. KE1T ON BALE. CMcaco Auditorium Annex, Poatofflee 2ews Co.. 178 Dearborn street. Dallaa, Tex. Glob. News Depot, 200 Main rttreet. Saa Antonio, Tex- Louis Book and Clrar Co.. 221 Eaut Houston street. Denver Julius Black. Hamilton & Xend Mck, 806-912 Seventeenth atreet; Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street. Colorado Springs, Colo. Howard H. BelL Des Moines, la. Moaea Jacobs. 203 Fifth atreet. Goldfleld, Xrr. F. Sands trom; Guy Marsn. 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Wbeathy Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, terry News Stand. SU Louis. Mo. E. T. Jett Book & News Campaa)'. son Olive street Washington. D. C Ebbltt House, Pennsyl vania, avenue. k PORTLAND, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. WHAT THE MATTER WAS. There was general upset in our coun try In 1S82-93 political, economic, financial. Few understood the real oaiaee. The resJ cause lay far back of the olectlott of Grover Cleveland over Ben jamin Harrison, in 1892. It lay tar back of any dispute over tariff rates ftfd schedules. The conditions of 1892 ST were the culmination of Irrational treatment of the money question, tbat is. of an effort to hold sliver on a fixed ratio of 1G to 1, up to par with gold, the measure of values through out the world. This fatuous effort -destroyed credit. Aawi credit is the basis of business. Credit was all but annihilated when men who talked of dollars could not know what the dollar meant, what the value of the dollar was, or might be. This produced the panic of 1893. The tariff was much discussed at the beginning of the campaign of 1892. Both parties for a time Ignored the money question which, as things then were, was the main question. The Wilson tariff biH had followed the elec tion of Mr. Cleveland. It was not a free-trade bill, but a protective tariff bill. It, however, shifted somewhat the incidence of protection; but it left pro tection so strongly intrenched that President Cleveland refused to sign the bill and wrote a bitter (protest against it. But whether certain articles or com modities of our own country had more .protection or less, whether more pro tection were accorded to some commod ities, while others were put on the free Ust could not account for the tre mendous industrial and financial cata clysm of 1SS2-97. "What, then, was the chief cause of that upset? It was the Irrational way in which the country was dealing with Its money. The two parties were oqually, or almost equal ly, to be blamed. On the whole the Republican -party of the country was stronger than the Democratic. But in every state it had temporizers, like Mitchell and Hermann in Oregon. And men like Hanna and McKlnley of Ohio were temporizers, o; because they didn't understand the ewbject, and were afraid to declare di rectly for the gold standard. McKIn Jey. indeed, never declared positively for it till long after his election. But the United States had been pur chasing stiver for mans' years at the rate of 4,500,000 ounces a month, and coining it into alleged dollars. The saint, therefore, by -direction of Con gress, was making, and had been mak ing, during many years, 54,000,000 (al leged) dollars out of sliver and putting them into the circulation of the coun try. It was a false ratio between gold and liver; no ratio ever can be a fixed one. Silver, overvalued, expelled Gold, as rapidly as silver Itself was coined and put into circulation, or as paper based on silver was forced as anoney on the country. Gold took flight to foreign countries or was bidden at home. There waa universal panic, be cause .no one knew what the value of the dollar was, or "was to be. Credit therefore was destroyed; Industry was all but suspended; investments ceased. 2Cot yet. nor till long afterward, had the Wilson tariff bill been formulated. That bill, "when it came, bad no appre ciable effect on the situation. The country was suffering from a money panic, from annihilation of credit, due to the fact that we had been pumping Into the money circulation of the coun--try fifty-four millions of half-value dollars annually, for a long series of years. It was like pumping ditch water, into the human veins, to give strength and force and vitality to the human . system. Both parties were to blame ifor this Sangrado treatment tout In omewhat different degrees. About two-thirds of the Democratic party, about one-third of the Republican party, insisted on free coinage of silver, at sixteen to one. As a compromise measure the RepubHc&n managers forced the Sher man act so-called, which.required purr cease of 4,500,000 ounces of silver month, and introduction of 54,000.000 of (alleged) dollars per annum Into the money circulation ot the country. Of course this didn't cure the evil, couldn't cure it; the effect merely was to feed the disease. What the tariff was or might be, meantime, was a negligible factor. The money question was the whole ques tion. Purblind politicians, like Hanna, McK3nley, Mitchell and Hermann they were in every state attempted to make the campaign of 1896 on the tariff question; but the real issue of the time soon overbore them; and the campaign of 1896 was fought out on the Issue of standard money showing that the country knew What was the matter, what the real issue -was. And imme diately, when it waa known that the gold standard was to be maintained, credit was re-established and busjness recovered its equilibrium, which it has maintained ever since. Why this long recital? The occasion of it is an article in the Salem States man which contains this statement, viz: If th editor of The Ores;on!ari were honest ho would recognize what the protective tariff has aoeomplUbed. He alro knows thnt when an effort waa made to reduce .the tariff to a revenue baala some years apo, the country fell Into a state of absolute financial ruin. He knewa that an effort to rertee the tariff law today along the same lines would lead to the fame results. If he does not know this. It Is only necessary for him to ko downstairs into the business office of The Oregonlan and look over the books of that concern during- the years 1S82-3-4. Even The Oregonlan felt the stress of bard times consonant on an effort to adopt the policies of Its editor. Ita business office ehould profit by Its former experience. "Let us leave out the question whether this editor or the other one Is "honest." That is unprofitable. It is merely a question of Intelligence. To what was the Incomparable disaster of 1892-97 due? Chiefly to the effort to maintain silver at a par with gold, on a false ratio. It discredited every operation and all transactions. It annihilated credit, everywhere. "Even The Orego nlan" knows by experience. It had made extensive Improvements, and had "sold gold short." That is. It was promising to pay gold, but a time came when there was doubt on every hand both whether gold was to be had and whether those who were promising to pay it would be able to do so. The Oregonlan's position was not different from that of everybody else In active business. "Little or nothing the iarlff had to do with it. There are degrees of tariff, from extreme protection to tariff for revenue and absolute free trade, any of which the country could have borne; but itwas sick, elck unto death, with this poison of debased money in its vitals; -while men like ur Oregon statesmen were Insisting con stantly on increasing the dose, and men like the statesmen of 01Io telling the patient he was sick of anything or everything else but the real disease. This great country would flourish and prosper, though perhaps in somewhat different degrees, under any tariff schedule under a McKInlsy bill, a Wil son bill or a Dlngley bill; but it could have a right to expect nothing but dis aster, unmerciful disaster, from a .pol icy that would have changed Its money basis from gold to silver and made men talk of unknown quantities when they talked about the dollar. THE TCBLIC PRINTED O GRAFT. The Augean stable of the classical tale accommodated 2000 oxen and had not been cleaned for thirty years when Hercules undertook the Job. He fin ished it in one day, bow well the story does not inform us. President Roose velt, who has undertaken a similar Job In the Government departments at Washington, is probably a (good deal more thorough than the ancient hero, for he is not getting along anywhere near so fast. He has, up to date, only finished one stall and begun on two others. From the finished stall, the Postoflice Department, he forked out so many loads and the, odor was so pervasive that it must look now like a Dutch housewife's best parlor and smell like a rose garden; but from the Agricultural Department and the Gov ernment Printing Office the fumes of the filth disturbed In Its long and fetid repose are Just beginning to rise. The first fork load from the printing office is Public Printer F. W. Palmer, who seems to have been the same sort of a convenience to certain Senators that the lamented Beaver, now in Jail, was to eome members of the lower House. His motto, at least to Piatt, EH kins and Gorman, the Senate com mittee on printing, was "Always room for one more heeler." He was ready at the word of command to oust his most faithful and competent subordi nate to make a place for any grafting hanger-on of these brilliant and patri otic statesmen. What could be more congruous with the well-known ways of the United States Senate than to make the committee on printing con sist of Piatt, Elk Ins and Gorman? That committee controls more "patron age" than any other, while its three members are the patron saints and past masters of graft. The country will shriek with laughter to learn that these three exemplars of Senatorial in tegrity are going to "Investigate" the Government Printing Office by and by, when they get around to It Angelo condemning Claudius incontinence would be consistency itself compared with this trio condemning graft. The printing office needs investiga tion badly enough, but not exactly the kind it would get from this absurd committee. It reeks with folly, extrav agance and waste. In 1903 the sum of $16,699.12 was spent printing eulogies on Senators and Representatives who had gone to their reward, or punish ment. Doubtless the eulogies were merited in every case, but what on earth would each Senator do with 2000 copies in every case? Or each. Repre sentative with 4000 copies? Could Idiocy go farther? This is a very small item, but It is typical. Millions of cop ies of documents which nobody ever read, and which few could be hired to Tead, are printed every year In the Government establishment on expen sive paper with costly illustrations and franked broadcast over the country by Congressmen. They are used to kindle fires. "Government document" is a phrase of contempt and ridicule all over the Nation. Of course the con tempt is often undeserved, many of these publications being learned and valuable treatises, but the chaff far outmeasures the wheat: while the free transmission of this enormous and comparatively worthless mass of litera ture is largely responsible for the an nual deficit in the postoflice budget. Such of the trash as Congressmen do not unload on their constituents Is of fered for sale by the Government, and the Public Printer tells us in his report what a market it finds-." Of by far the greater number of documents one copy is .om annually. x is not Action. Anybody may read the report for him self. In 1903 the best-selling publica tion was a forestry bulletin. Of this, 1002 copies found purchasers. What would become of a private business conducted with so. little sense? The Itemized statement of the binding done free for members of Congress In 1903 fills thirteen pages of the report. In the Atlantic for September, Will lam S. Rossiter. chief clerk of the Cen sus Bureau, gives an interesting ac count of this gigantic graft. For the year 1904 its cost to the people of the country was almost exactly 9 cents ner capita, the total being $7,080,906.73. L,ike a .Hindoo Idol in a. gorgeous temple, It is magnificently housed. The seven story building where it flourishes cost $2,500,000; the whole plant is worth $10, 000.000. The employes number 4000 or 4500, according to need, 1200 being com positors, who are paid 50 cents per hour for an eight-hour day. At the same time the wages established by the Typographical Union are only 36 cents per hour in New York and 31 cents in Boston. In general compositors' work costs the Government from one and a half to ten times as much as private parties pay for the same grade. Mr. Rossdter, whose article Is exceedingly moderate in expression, sums up the faults of Government publications by suggesting that they are too wordy, too many copies printed, and the ilhistra tions too costly: He might have added that the worst fault of many of them is the fact of their existence. Such as they are, valuable and use less, each Senator had in 1904, as a free Sift, $1754 worth, and each Representa Ive $816 worth. The President's tilt against a graft so Intrenched in Con gressional greed seems like a forlorn enterprise, but there are cases where one man Is a majority. Perhaps this is such a case. SPOIL THE EGYPTIANS. The case of the Rev. Mr. Haynes, some time of Chicago, now of Seattle, Is one of those sad Instances where- the Lord Inscrutably .permits a man's good deeds to be turned to his own harm through the devices of the Adversary. Mr. Haynes, being a minister, had ex torted from a greedy corporation,' the Rock Island Railroad Company, per mission foi himself and family to ride over its lines at half rates. The thoughtless may look upon such a. con cession to the clergy as a favor, but It Is not. It is the grudging, half-way performance of a duty. The presence of a minister upon a train, with his Influence and example, to say nothing of the possibility that he may expound the Scriptures or even exhort his fellow-passengers to forsake their sins as he rides, ought to compensate many times over for his fare. Indeed, as we ponder the matter. Is it not evident that a railroad company with a proper sense of its obligations would pay him for thus advancing Its feeble hopes of a franchise in Paradise? This Is the view that 'Mr. Haynes took of the matter, and It Is the true view. He kept an account with the courteous Rock Island and every time he rode he scored up a. balance against the corporation. Just as the Israelites did when they made bricks for the godless Pharaoh. The more he rode the more this balance increased, until It became something awful to think of. Mr. Haynes was being robbed of his spiritual treasures by this soulless cor poration. Had the greedy octopus seized his worldly wealth he wo&d have cared little. The Lord has given unto him abundantly of silver and trold. but to him It is dross. When the Se attle church called him, his only ques tion was, "Can I serve my blessed Master better in that latter-day Sodom than in Chicago?" He never thought to ask what the salary was, and when some fleshly cqunsellor told him It was $5500 he replied: "Get thee behind me, Satan." To a man of lofty, self-denying char acter it must have been Inexpressi bly painful to be robbed of his priest ly potency by a railroad company. The thought that every time he rode he was giving treasures not of this wbrld and getting only a paltry, unsplrituai half fare rebate in return, was torture to his sensitive soul. Naturally he sought some way to get even. Like the Israel ites of old again, he determined to spoil the Egyptians. He determined to over come the wicked corporation with holy guile. The railroad company had ex tended the half-fare privilege to his L ramlly; Mr. Haynes, In a truly Chris tion spirit, extended ft to all hfe neigh bors. "Are we not all one family In the Lord, dear sister?" he argued to Mrs. Gray. Thus he succeeded, par tially at least, in squaring his account with the unregenerate corporation, and for this he is being persecuted. Surely the Lord will not permit the minions of Apollyon In the Seattle church to make their prey of a man so conse crated to his service. If they are al lowed to triumph In their wicked con tention that It is a sin to steal from a railroad, we shall be hearing next that It is a sin to steal from the Govern ment We never can tell where Satan will draw the line. THE HOP SITUATION. The Oregonlan, prints bull news and bear news regarding the hop market. It prints all the news obtainable that will in any manner serve to throw light on the true conditions which gov ern prices. It is not In position to state what the price of hops will be when the market opens up after the crop is In the bale. The oldest oper ators in the business, with the best fa cilities for keeping in touch with the situation, are not Infrequently farther wrong on the price question than those who "just guess" at the -result Every man, whether he is a producer, buyer or seller, has a right to his opinion on this matter of prices. When, however, a clique of sure-thing artists begin the manufacture of bogus telegrams and flood the country with fake circulars, containing misleading Information re garding conditions which govern hop prices, they forfeit the right to expect consideration from honest men. When hops soared up to 30 cents per pound last year The Oregonlan advised its readers to sell not because this paper was In possession of any private information which Indicated a decline, but because the figure was so highly profitable for the growers that it seemed like tempting fate to take chances on a farther advance. The prices at the present time are about 50 per cent lower than those which pre vailed last year. For that reason there is less cause for haste in dumping them on the market than there was a year ago, when prices were abnormally high. The Oregonlan regrets that it has incurred the hostility of a dozen or eo "short sellers" who are endeavor ing to bear the market Regret, would be more keen, however, If I t had aroused the hostility of the thousands of producers by printing only one side of the hop question. JLVNAGEMENT OF TOREST RESERVES. Judging from the report from Boise in yesterday's Oregonlan, it would seem that the term "forest reserve" is to be reasonably construed by the for estry department While Governor Gooding is stated to be perfectly satis fied with Mr. Plnchofs explanation. It does not appear that Senator Heyburn has yet Joined the happy family. It Is to be hoped that the Senator may see his way to becoming a party to this new treaty of peace, and that the time of the United States Senate may be spared for full consideration of the proposed railroad rate bill. The Sen ate may need it all. Mr. PInchot seems to have frankly admitted that a forest reserve should consist of forest. That is, in effect, all there is In the new regulations on which -eo much stress la laid. The only ground of probable dispute that re mains is Jn the ascertainment of what is forest land. A reasonable test would be to Include all land actually valuable for growing timber, and to exclude such as a settler would think himself Justified in clearing of such brush and young stuff as would not make the land too costly for agricul tural purposes after the clearing was accomplished and paid for. To include in the reserve brush land only because with the brush young conifers were growing would be to limit seriously lands open to' claim and settlement The words Mr. PInchot uses, "more suitable for agricultural purposes," would seem to be open to elastic con struction. Still it seems that the for estry department, under Its present head, at least, may be trusted to be reasonable In the matter. The expres sion finally used that the settlers ny have the privilege of not being "obliged to take any land unsuitable for their purposes" Is a delightful euphemism on Mr. Plnchofs part Under it the door appears to be open for excluding from possible claim any small subdi vision on which timber may be grow inglimiting the claimant to take up only land now plainly agricultural. It must be remembered that with the gain to the Nation of the conservation of the remnant of still unclaimed tim ber, there must necessarily be some sacrifice. The settler and intending homesteader Is the victim. Between the former system of absorption of every stick of timber on which corpo ration cruisers might cast their greedy eyes and the setting apart of gigantic reserves far outstretching the limits of actual forest the new regulations seem to be framed on fairly righteous lines. Much,, naturally, depends on the ad ministration. On this line the Govern ment officers must have a fair show. Some dissatisfaction there Is bound to be; many a man will be shut off from wb&t he think-3 Is desirable land. But the public must wait for facts enough to be established before absolutely ac cepting or condemning the new sys tem. Fairly carried out, the forest grabber's chance Is gone for good. It remains to be seen how much elastic ity of administration may be allowed for the benefit of the settler. All who saw and heard Mr. Pinchot at the re cent Irrigation CQngress in this city will be disposed in favor of any plans to which he shall set his hand. Mr. Broshey made a mistake and it cost him $40 in the Municipal Court yesterday. He thought the public owned the Morrison-street bridge. It doesn't Of course It doesn't The city paid for It. to be sure, and there are parts of It the wayfarer is graciously permitted to use: but the Portland Con solidated Railway built It and with rare forethought saw to It that Its ex clusive right of way was protected from one end to the other. The other day the reckless Mr. Broshey drove his wagon along the section of the bridge the street railway company had re served for itself, and he was, of course, called to account by a bridge-tender. Mr. Broshey's education on the para mount virtue of street railway fran chises had been neglected, and he as saulted the bridge-tender. The record is silent as to whether he finished his drive along the street-car tracks, but If he did, he should be severely pun ished for lese majeste. The fact of rioting In Toklo because of general dissatisfaction with the peace terms Is not surprising; but R Is surprising that news of It has trans pired. Japan has during the entire, war exercised a complete censorship on all matters sent out by cable. Not In any Instance has anything been an nounced or reported until Japan was ready, and even then It had to be phrased as Japan wanted it to be. U happens that there has been little news of momfcnt that was not uniform ly favorable to Japan; so the world has not had serious occasion to com plain of the characteristic and Invari able Japanese secrecy. If the Russians had defeated the Japanese, we should have been a long time hearing about it from Tokio. A Seattle minister, drawing a salary of $5500 per year and possessing a suf ficient amount of tangible assets to necessitate the employment of a lawyer at an annua.1 salary to look after them, is In trouble. He is accused of using his ministerial half-fare permit for the benefit of two people who were not members of his family. The congrega tion by a somewhat divided vote, "vin dicated" the action, and a division of the church may result There Is a sus picion that the congregation must number among its members some anti scalping railroad men. The action of the Seattle divine shows that the be lief that It is not a crime to steal rides from a railroad company Is not con fined to tramps. At last there have got Into print seri ous doubts from experts over the in tegrity of purpose on the part of Mr. Brltt in an athletic congest of National Importance soon to take place at Colma, Cal. With this shadow spread ing Itself over the arena, there is only one waj- to avoid the hazard of getting on the wrong side. Don't bet Jacob Riis has been urged to run for Mayor of New York, but declines on the ground that he Is hot fitted to be an executive of a great city. Mr. Riis Is either not yet thoroughly American ized or else stands in a class by him self. . One the one side we are shown a shortage of 25,000 bales of hops as the net result of this year's harvest; on the other, a surplus of 5,000 bales. Here Is a chance for Mr. Lawson to contrib ute something on frenzied fifurinr. OREGON OZONE - The Class In Literature. Teacher Our lesson today, 'children, is about the creat and good Walter Scott How many of you can tell mo his title, where he made his home, and what con stitutes his greatest claim to recognition? Chlmmy I know, teacher. His title's de Creases o' Deaf Valley, an he lives in Loss Anglers, an his whopplnest deed wuz breakin de railroad record from dare to Noo Yoik. "yew York numbers 4,000.000 souls," says an estimator of population. -How many of them are saved? The Village Improvement Association of Norfolk. Conn., recently issued a pamph let giving the fancy names of many local residences. Here axe some of them: "Grey Mount" "Glen Aye." "Glen Dune," "Tam arack Lodge." "WHdacre." "Wlldwood," "Valley View, "Woodbine Cottage," "Eaglohurst." An emulative genius in a Montana town has conferred names upon local houses as follows. "Wild and Wooley Roost" "Mud Shack." "Toughtop." "Stable View," 'Tater Terrace," "Shingle Shanty," "Mike's Mansion." Who, now, will tell, us that the West does not ap preciate the East? A boy stole a pie at New Britain, Conn, the other day and escaped to the woods. The Sheriff was about to wire the Gover nor a request to call out the state mi litia, when the desperate criminal volun tarily returned and gave himself up. The boy was a new arrival In that part of the United States. Had he been a bom New Englander he would havTT known that to steal a pie in that region is to strike at the very foundation of society. Why should William T. Stead and the rest of us grow pessimistic over the pros pects of the stage, when "Happyland" and "The Merry Millenium" are the titles of new operas to be. produced this sea son? Wireless Poetic Tributes. (The American Presa Humorists, In session at Cleveland, visited the home of John V. Rockefeller yesterday and were shown through the grounds by Mr. Rockefeller himself. Be fore departing, norae of the well-known news paper poey eompoed complimentary stanzas, which ther recited to their host. Theoo Im promptu poems were caught as ther flew over Portland br wireless telegraphy, and If they were not composed exactly as given below the poets most ascribe it to a mix-up In trans mission.) By Strickland W. Gillllan, author of "Off Agin, On Agin, Finnlgin," President A P. II.: Ol'm plazed to se yes, Jawn, agin. Though Ol must soon be gone agin; But whin Oi git the tin agin, Bedadl Ol'm comln In agin; And now Ol'm goin off agin OI promise -not to scoff agin; So good to me ye've been agin, OI swear 0111 nlver sin agin. By Wilbur D. Nosbit. author of "The Trail to Boyland," Chicago Tribune staff: When you and I were boys, John, When you and I were boys. We had delicious Joys, John, We had delicious Joys; We paddled in the creek, John, We paddled in the creek. And then we took a sneak, John. And then we took a sneak. For, oh. our hair was wet, John, Our hair was dripping. wet: We knew what' we would get John, Knew well what we would get If we' meandered home, Without a brush and 'comb, John, . Without a brush and comb. But now you needn't mind, John, Oh, now you needn't mind; For (think me not unkind, John, Oh, thfok me not unkind!) You haven't hair enough. John, You haven't hair enough To make you work the bluff, John. To make It worth a bluff. . By S. E. Kiser, author of "Love-Sonnets of an Office Boy," Chicago Record Herald staff: Say, Mister J. D. R., I want a Job! Gimme a swell posiah. At writin'? Naw! Make me yer oflls boy, fer I can saw Wood an say nothln' while we're playin hob WIf folkses fortunes. I ain't any slob! Put me In charge, an I'll lay down de law To Jays wot comes around an' works dolr Jaw 'Bout tainted money; I'll vamoose de mobr Gimme about ten thousand plunks a nour. An ortymobile, run wif Standard Oil, A prlvut car, an I'll become a power I'll run yer ranch accordin', sir, to Hoyle. I'll save me money, too, fer weddin dower, Fer rm in love wif your typewriter soil! By William F. Kirk. "The Norsk Nightin gale," Secretary A. P. H.: Yu ban a gude ole taller, Yack, And muchTabused, Ay tenk; De tengs Ay wrote Ay taking back Let's go and getting drenk. (Per) ROBERTUS LOVE. View of a Japanese Authority. (By Dr. Asakowa. professor of Oriental his tory at Dartmouth Collage and author of The Russo-Japanese Conflict.) I am frank to say that I am disap pointed. All of the unofficial Japanese feel as I do. Perhaps I am more hope ful than the rest. I realize that Japan has won everything which she went to war to gain. While we were en titled to indemnity and Sakhalin, a continuance of the war would bave meant only a fight for territory and trtasurc. In addition to all that we have won prestige. The world seems to have forgotten that before the war "Japan was hardly reckoned with as a power, ana inat nc comes out of it a first-class power. As for the money, we will get it back In Increased trade. There will be a great era of national expansion. Nevertheless, I fear the re sult at home. If we are disappointed here, who havo followed the negotia tions and known how hardly our points have been won. what will be the effect when this is suddenly sprung on the nation? It may mean the downfall of the elder statesmen. It will certainly mean a grave upheaval In Japanese politics. But the fact remains that Japan has not only saved her national existence, but has leaped from obscur ity Into national power. And this war will not have to be' fought over again, as was the Chlno-Japanese war. A Slaughter-Houso Victim. Echanjte. A dispatch recently reported the1 a earn ai urippie ureoK, oio., ot & woman who, three years ago, while visiting the slaughterhouses of a pack ing company In Chicago, was complet ely paralysed on one side as a result of the shock produced by the sight of the terrible tragedies which are con stantly being enacted in that great killing establishment HOW PUBLIC PRINTING IS DONE " Great Scope of tn'e Federal Establishment Vast Army of Espleyet, aaci Great Variety of Work. Fom the Atlantic Monthly (September). In 1904 the expenditures of the United States -Government for all classes of print ing amounted to 57,060.906.73. This heavy expedlture reflects the amount and variety of printed matter now used In the conduct of the Feaeral Government and also sug gests the possibility of over-llberallty. Nearly half a century has elapsed since the last radical change in the printing pol icy of the Government Twice President Roosevelt, in annual messages to Congress, has sounded a note of warning. Partly as a. result of this, near the close of the last sessipn of Con gress, a Joint committee was appointed to investigate the whole subject of official printing. This committee confronts prob lems ot greater magnitude than have ever existed before in connection with Federal printing. , The necessity for Federal printing began with the First Congress, which assembled in New York in 17SS. The early require ments In New York and Philadelphia, and later in Washington, to which place the Government was removed In 1S0O. were, however, ver insignificant The statutes relating to Federal printing have been completely made over or amended in im portant particulars five times during the past century. By the Joint resolution of 1S19 a scale of prices was established, and each body balloted for Its printer. Under the law of ISIS the clerks of the Senate and House were directed to secure bids annually for the printing needed. These bids were opened in the presence of the Vice-President and the Speaker. This plan remained In operation for six years. It was expensive and unsatisfactory to the Government and ruinous to the con tractors. In 1532 the contract system was abol ished and the office of Superintendent of Public Printing was created, to be filled through appointment by the President The superintendent was to take charge of all public printing and advertise annually for bids for paper. The next and Inevi table chanze came in 1S50, when. Congress, by Joint resolution, authorized the pur chase ot the principal plant in the city, building and all, for S135.C00. Operation of the plant thus acquired be gan in the following March, but although new types and machinery were added at frequent Intervals, It was necessary fox the Congressional printer to invite the as sistance of private concerns until 1S66. a The Government Printing Office as now operated is, therefore, the. result of slow and continuous growth. It Is doubtful whether the present building and contents could be duplicated for less than $10,000. 000. The entire plant. Including the old building, contains nearly 16 acres of floor space. The equipment Includes 300 tons of type, 60 typesetting machines, nearly 1J0 printing presses ot all kinds, 600 indi vidual electric motors, and ruling, folding and binding machinery of bewildering va riety and vast capacity. The total number of persons employed varies from 4000 to 450, and the fortnightly disbursement of wages now amounts to nearly 5100.000. The compositors alone number about 1200. The Jobwork of the office requires a separate department employing about 150 compos itors and Including nearly 40 presses. During the last fiscal year there wore purchased 6.365.95S pounds of machine book paper, costing J215.4S6.93; 41,000 reams of super calendered paper of varying sizes, and 50CO reams of coated or "cut" paper, together costing about 5150,000; 57,660 reams of writing and ledger paper, costing ap proximately 5106,000, together .with many other large Items, while the lithographs, engravings and cuts purchased by . the Public Printer from private contractors, for use In publications printed and bound In the Government plant, cost 5272,313.06. The United States Government has al ways been liberal in Its use of printed matter. The expenditure from 1800 to 1S89, inclusive, was 243 times a3 great as that for the corresponding decade 100 years earlier. If the present rate of Increase in outlay for printing continues during the A PIONEER JEWSPAPEIl Huntington Herald. Among the pioneers who deserve great credit for the building of the Northwest commonwealth is the vanguard of the newspaper craft, those sturdy pioneer Journalists who are equally ready with pen or 3word to defend their principles. Their faith in the new country and their zeal in exploiting its advantages as the land of homes induced many settlers to try their fortunes in the West When the veteran newspapers and their achievements form the topic of conversa tion the sons and daughters of Oregon turn Instinctively to The Oregonlan. Ore gon owes much of her steady growth to this outspoken, loyal sheet Perhaps no other paper has played so prominent a part In the history of a state. The Oregonlan is pre-eminently a pioneer: founded in the early days it passed through all the vicissitudes of the times, chronicling the events of prosperity and depression In the dark days of the. war and Indian troubles. The old Oregonlan was a welcome guest to the homes of our forefathers, becom ing their' personal friend, aiding and cheering them with its bright predictions for the future. It carried news of the absent soldier, telling of victory or de feat: sometimes It contained a warning of threatened danger, or a message of the approach of peace. The news columns often formed the sole link between the former life In the far Eastern home and the new life of the frontier and when some old settler passed on to the new frqn tler it paid him tribute In word3 that soothed aching hearts as only the words of a trusted friend can do. Built on such a 'foundation The Ore gonlan has grown In strength with the great state It has helped to build, until today It stands foremost In the ranks of successful Journalism. English ana American Lawyers. From the London Saturday' Bevlew. I have seen something of legal prac tice on both sides of the Atlantic, and my opinion Is that our profession would gain Immensely by combining the two branches, barristers and so licitors, pretty much as they are com bined In the United States and Canada. It Is obvious that the solicitors would profit by such an arrangement; they would have the right of audience In all courts and the opportunity to qualify themselves for promotion to the bench. Barristers would gain by securing early opportunities of mas tering the detail of their work, and they would be freed, at least to some extent, from their present humiliating dependence on solicitors: In America, the young lawyer goes Into an office, where he makes his merit known by steady attention to business. There will always be two kinds of lawyers those who stay in their offices, dealing directly with clients and attending to matters of routine, and those who advise on points of law and argue cases In court. These two ordors of men are clearly distinguished In America, but they work together as partners, to the great advantage of the client In England ithey are divided by a pretentious etl quet which does not answer the pur pose for which it was devised. It is supposed to preserve the dignity of the bar, whereas, the attitude of success ful barristers to the other branch of the profession is often anything but dignified. The history of our bar Is formed by many famous names, but Webster and Benjamin and Choate rank with the greatest of our advo cate and are as good as the best current decade, the total for the ten years from 1200 to 1909 will exceed ;6O.O0O.0OO, a greater sum than was .expended for all Federal printing from 1790 to 1SS0. The increase shown for the Federal Government cannot be regarded as ab normal, since high ratios of Increase occur In the Eastern and Middle At lantic States. Indeed in the 20-year period eight states show a percentage of Increase as large as, or larger than that shown by the Federal Government xIt is evident, however, that the cost of official printing has been increasing during the past 20 years much more rapidly In the Federal Government than it has in most of the states. Should the increase continue at the present rate during- the remainder of this decade, the annual expenditure for Federal printing will reach 510,000, 000 by 1910. Because of high wages and other conditions, some of which are within and some beyond the control of the public printer, the cost of public print ing and binding has long been decid edly higher than the charge for similar commercial work. It is 'practically Im possible to secure from Government employes the work, clerical or manual, that la expected or exacted from em ployes of private concerns. Many fac tors contribute to this result: It Is quite apart from administration and politics and probably never will be eradicated. The, climate of Washington and the lack of commercial excitement contribute also to lessened product and thus to proportionately increased expense. Within his field the public printer has a complete monopoly, for the law compels every official who requires printing, and has an appropriation to pay for it, to patronize him. He sup plies estimates on work as a matter of information but finally charges for each Job whatever his records show It to have cost It Is doubtful If there can be found in the United States a manufacturing plant employing one-tenth the number ot persons employed in the Govern ment printing office, in which, the two highest officials are paid as little as the Government pays the public print er and his chief clerk. The salary of the public printer (unchanged for 20 years) Is 54500, or 534.54" per week. That of the chief clerk is $2750 or 552.28 per wjjek. They are, therefore, probably the poorest paid manufacturers in the country. A commercial enterprise of magnitude which thus neglected its president and general manager would Invite failure. With the exception of compositors and binding operators, the wage-earners employed in the Govern printing office- receive In actual com pensation little more than the average wages puid in commercial offices. In mechanical excellence the Government should be the leader, not the tardy fol lower of private enterprise, for the United States it perhaps- the most ex tensive publisher In the world. In 1904 It issued 14 periodicals, three dally, three weekly, one bi-monthly and seven monthly. It published volumnes and pamphlets discussing almost 1000 different topics. The waste in Federal printing may be summed up as comprised in two general classes: That occurring from various causes in the conduct of the printing plant Itself; that resulting from the publication of pamphlets and volumes either really not needed at all, or, If needed, issued too expen sively or in too large numbers. Close supervision of the most expert char acter could effect large saving, but obviously that is a difficult matter; therefore retrenchment Is likely to take the form of horizontal cutting, certain to cause inconvenience, and after a peritrd of Interruption and agi tation the upward movement will be resumed. PASSING OF POTTER'S SALOON New York Sun, Sept 1. There remains of the Subway Tavern little more than a beautiful dream. Bill Skidmore, of Brooklyn, took it over yes terday from Beautiful Joe Johnson, who tamed the demon rum a year and 30 days and gave up exhausted. Mr. Skidmore, whose motto is "Business is business," met the president of the Subway Tavern Company at 11 o'clock yesterday morning, and at 11:03 wag boss of the Potter experimental station for the spiritual refreshment of the poor man. Mr. Skidmore Issued orders concerning the future policy of the place. The lone bartender digested Mr. Skidmore's in structions, and to the questioning of the curious he remarked, shooting his chin over the bar: "Went away, went away! Wewe cut out the Doxology and the lollapaldozahs. We're on the level, and we stand for no klddln. See?" Some time afterwards Johnson was sit ting In the office of the Order of Acorns. To a caller who asked If it were true that the Subway Tavern had cashed in If there were no hope, Mr. Johnson said sadly that there was none. To the low music of the Johnson patented grapho phone (for the encouragement of the lovo of harmony in the homes of the lowly) the Great Oak sang his swan song. It was true, said he. that the venture had been a losing game from the start There were numerous reasons for the failure. First of all. New York Is full of sinful ginmills that play hide and seek with tho excise law andget the goods 24 hours out of every seven days. Never, raid Mr. Johnson, did the tavern sell in forbidden hours. Most potent of all causes of failure, the Great Oak thought, was the disinclina tion of the plain man dallying with a. mug of ale to being rubbered at by dele gations of W. C. T. U. Too much pub licity ha'd helped to put a crimp in the tavern's business. Mr. Johnson thought that Inexperience In the management might have had some thing to do with the passing of the great idea. Ag for himself, he bad always fh high Ideal set by Bishop Potter in front of him, but It was hard to Inject that Ideal Into the lowbrowed ones that tapped the kegs and did the sweeping out Bar tenders became peevish when they were told that a Job in the tavern meant the simple life for them, and that if caught taking a sly hooker they would be bounced. Porters who found they couldn't go throughsaday mildly soused resigned on the spot " Mr. Johnson seriously in jured his eyesight keeping cases on the cash register. Mr. Johnson said that about 516,000 had been dropped in the experiment of mixing pure rum and religion. At the outset 51O.C00 was put up by R. Fulton Cutting. K. Bayard Cutting. Herbert Parsons. Acosta Nichols, J. J. Farnsworth. E. R. L. Gould. Harvey J. Luce and Albert M. Hirshfeldt When that went Johnson secured about 56000 more to keep the tavern running. It wasn't any use. Highest Rented Spot. Indianapolis News. The widening of Piccadilly has been the means of showing the enormous value of land In the center of London, the sum paid by the London County Council for a small area which, of course, was built upon, working out at $170 a square foot This Is believed to be" the record, but as It included compensation for disturb ance, it cannot be compared with the prices paid In Comnlll, which is the high est rented spot on earth, a single room having been let recently at between 510.06 and 515,000 a year.