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If they have not received so much attention for the last few weeks titer did in the earlier Summer magawtnea. it is because other subjects more sinister aspect were pressing poa rbe American people. What a Stimmei tfcte hat; been for the sinister, when one pause. to think of it. There was tae fearful increase In foreign emigration for one thing, and wibh it exodus of our own farmers to Can ada. Tnen we were horrilied by the falling Wrth-rate among those who re main. We have been shocked by the steady atop! a cement of men by women In the manual and Intellectual indus tries; the hmreee of divorces ; the de cay of family life; the intrltiplf cation of Juvenile crimes; the incompetence of the courts to deal with wealthy and powerful offenders; the growing num bers, power and Insolence of such of fenders; the general decadence of com mercial morals evidenced by dishonest competition, unscrupulous evasion and deUanoe of the law, predatory combi nations of capitalists among them selves and -with common carriers, and boles ie theft and fraud in the,man "ujpemeut of insurance companies; an utter corruption of city governments unknown elsewhere in the world; and Anally, having fed full upon the sinis ter, we return to the'invaslon of school and college ltfe by some of the worst of these symptoms of National disease. Theee evils are not enumerated here to teach a gospel of despair. Some of them we have fallen into because we are still learners of the art of self Kovemment. not masters of it. As our knowledgevand skUi Increase In this highest of all arts, the evils will pass. Most of the evils in college athletics are mere perversions of tendencies Jn them selves good. The development and edu cation of the bod Is no leas necessary than that of the mind; but the charge against football a It is played is that on account of its excesses it neither develops tfbr educates the body in a desirable way. while It perniciously affeets the months, it is no sound ob jection to a game for young men to say that It is rough or even brutal. If they break bones playing It, or get killed now 4uad then, no matter, so long as It 1 an tn fun. Broken bones are dam num absque injuria for manly youth if only they are broken in play. .The charge against football is that the bones are broken, not in play, but to win the game; that teams are In structed by coaches to maim their op ponents as early in the fight as they can. witfc deliberate intent; the object being to win by fair means' or foul always and evermore to win, by trick ery, dishonor and cruelty. If necessary, but by all means and in any case to win. There is no fun about it. no play, but hajrd. cruel, avaricious business.' "Its fttfcJos," says President Eliot, "are the e&Wtcs of war. not of ho'nbrable sport. It Is a game not fit for gentle men, nor conducive to the growth of good citizenship." Rough sport is a good thing for young men. but deliber ately planned trickery and cruelty are not good things for men. either young or jkL ompetltlon in play is a good thing for college youth, or any youth, but competition with the intent of win r.lng " at all odds and by whatever means is pot a good thing. ' To be good it must be manly, frank and fain Hid eous m, mature 'men, the unscrupulous greek fQr applause, prestige and money in young men and boys has something of the horror of the unnatural, and it Is preotsely such greed that has degrad ed football from a fine, wholesome game with bi;ave risks and noble vic tories to a tricky and cruel contest with the .ethics of the prlzering and the motives of the racetrack. The col lege athlete ought to be a young man who iXays the games that all play; he should play somewhat better, but not tto much better than the other fellows. He la fairly entitled to what glory he may got from' winning games with oth'er cirtleges. but he must-win in the grandrkto eas$v oaroless, gentlemanly way. As he exists, the 'college athlete Is a highly trained expert. His exccsslv skill discourages his fellows from the thought of playing with him. His game is the eolemn, weighty business of hii life. He never thinks of it as play. His contests with other collegians are serl ous matters Involving long, and expen slve preparation. The Interest of his college, his own reputation as an ath lete, large sums of money, depend upon his winning. This is all wrong. There should be no gate money taken at cdl lege games. Gentlemen do not exhibit their athletic expertness for pay. They want no Adonis to "pat their brawn' and spend "his sesterces upon their blood." If the training table cannot be maintained without gate money, let it gb. Its value Jn college' economy is more than doubtfuL If the Coach can not be paid without it, so much the better. The paid coach. Is an unmiti gated evil With his reputation to take care of, his low Ideals, his lack of con science, his professionalism, he is re sponsible for the greater parfof the evils of college athletics. Left to them selves, the boys would keep their games clean If there was no gate money: The paid coach and the .gate money make them tricky and cruel. Tn college ath letlcs as elsewhere, the love of "money is the root of evil. What faculty will have the courage first to lay the ax to the root? - TARIFF. REVISION IN J'lTTSBORG. An editorial In the Pittsburg Gazette calling for revision of the tariff has attracted very wlQe attention, the Ga zette being a consistent protectionist organ and Pittsburg the cradle of nu merous tariff-pampered industries. The principal paragraphs of this remarka ble editorial are reprinted elsewhere In The Oregonian. It recognizes the fact that there is a strong popular demand for revision, and suggests that if the friends of protection do not comply with the demand the task may bb In trusted to its enemies before a .great while. "Senseless though It be,' It is oarnest," says the Gazette concerning the call for revision, and with delight ful consistency goes on to admit that certain schedules ''might be cut in hair without doing ans' harm. Is It really senseless to wish to revise a tariff whose best friends admit that some of its rates are double what they ought to be? The eccentric belief of the Gazette that the present prosperity of the eoun try flows from the Dlngley tariff "we 6hall not quarrel with now. So long as It is willing to have that venerated fetich shorn of its excesses, the Gazette is welcome to believe anything it pleases. Even the partial, conversion of that stanch newspaper to partial eco nomic sanity excites unmingied joy. THE PASSENGER AGENTS. Portland Is now entertaining the thirty-third annual . convention of the American Association of Traveling Passenger Agents, .and everybody seems pleased to acknowledge that to the men who compose this organization and come dfrectly In touch with the traveling public throughout all portions of the United States. Canada and Mex ico is due in great part the marvelous success of the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion. For thirty-three .years the Traveling Passenger Agents of the United States have met in annual convention, and their aseociatlonb&s grown until it has in, excels of 1000 members. The men who have their millions invested In the transportation companies of the United States feel that the passenger officials are more effeotive after they once be oome personally acquainted with all sections of the country, and a special train is at the service of this parts', which Includes, of course, the wives and mothers of the members of the as sociation. ,Two years ago It was determined that the thirty-third annual convention of this association would be held in Port ana ine traveling passenger agents of the three countries have fa miliarized themselves with the re sources of this section of the country and have read up so thoroughly re-cardtmr- the Lewln and nis tlon that they knew how to talk it before they got here. On this visit they will have. seen Butte, Spokane, the Co lumbia River, many farming sections and important mining districts, and their trip, after spending four days In Portland, will give them a splendid per sonal notion of the resources of this great nortnwestern section of the United States and Canada, and enable them to go home and .talk from knowl edge, to the hundreds of thousands who buy tickets. The passenger agents and other officials of the passenger depart ments of the different railroe-ds unite Kit giving .Portland credit for having Kepi mem better informed regarding the Exposition and the resources of the country than was the case at St. Louis, Chk-Kgb or anywhere else that exposi tions have, been held. MISSOURI DAY. One of the most enjoyable days at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, during three months thickly set with days of special interest and enjoyment, was yesterday Missouri day. As if to pay loyal tribute to the memory of the sons of old Missouri who In the oarlv days followed the trail blazed by Lewis and Clark across the continent, and give bright and breezy welcome to those whcTcame especially upon this occasjon to honor the achievement of the great explorer's, the rain clouds that had hung low for several days were with drawn and the blues't of September skies bent1 from horizon to horizon over the scene. "A beautiful country, a climate that leaves nothing to be desired," wrote the first Mlssourians who made their way oy slow and toilsome Journeyings to Oregon Territory in the early- days. The letters bearing this testimony were weeks In reaching thPse who waited for them in St. Louis, in- Independence and in St. Joseph, the rallying points of im migration in "Old Missouri" in the pio neer era. Governor Joseph W Folk and his staff, making in a few, days the distance that literally swallowed the early travelers up for months, found the conditions as to climate and beauty of landscape the same that their predecessors described. There was a plaint of homesickness In these old let ters, -for who could Jeave fair Missouri without hope of -return and not yearn at times for what they had left "be hind? But the busy years passed on and. on, and in the awakened Interests of new homes and life under conditions condu cive to health and prpsperity and hap piness the homesickness passed away and Missouri was remembered, still loyally, but no longer with a. longing return. Among the early settlers of Oregon- the "Missourlan held an lmtor. tant-and not Infrequently a prominent place. He- laid his hand to the plow and the land "laughed into plenty' he entered the professions, and law an medicine made note of his power; he engaged In politics, sent delegates to Congress from 0regon Territory, and supplanted them by Representatives and Senators of his choosing when the territory became a state. His numer ical strength was attested In the result that sent General Joseph Lane to Con gress for many successive years and made Delazon Smith anil James W. v .... i . , . trbiuiLJi seiaivra. ror me ean 'jm sourlans. rank and file, were of the po lltlcal faith of Governor Folk, and ruled Oregon at the hustings. " It is not necessary to Indorse their political views in order to proclaim, the early Mlssourians good citizens. Good citizens they were. In spite of these views, and when In later yeara'lhe po litical tide ofthe state turned and Its vote was' cast for General Grant and J3. TU Baker arid M. C. George yartd iticnara wiiuams, tney were goou cm zens stlH, accepting the Inevitable phll osophlcally if not always cheerfully. And so they "are today good and loyal citizens of Oregon, though loyal In memory to old Missouri and delight ing to honor those whom the mother state has honored. MARVELOUS INTERNA!. DEVELOPMENT. The tonnage figures on the traffic of the Gry&t Lakes for the current year afford interesting reading, especially for those who have the erroneous Im pression that the United States Is un familiar with the handling of water trafllc. Every time a shlp-subsldy- aeeker makes a plea for alms for deep- water shipping he rings in a glowing tribute to the prowess of England, Ger many and other maritime po veers wnicn nave been forced to the sea through lack of opportunities on land We know that Great Britain Is mis tress of the seas, and we also know that Germany is crowding her for the title, and that the flags of these two great nations can be seen in aU the principal harbors of the World. The bulk of the world's deep-water com merce is still carried through the Suez Canal, the fleets of the world making use of that great route between the two greatest oceans. Over that great highway In 1M4 was carried ie.tv0.008 tons of freight, an av erage of more than 10 tons per hour lor the ontire year. This trafllc. of course. Is Immense In comparison with that which Is handled on other ocean routes, but It loses much of its -im mensity when compared with that which passes through the Soo Canal. Out of the Great Lake resrton and through this canal, during the "first seven months of 1905, came a traffic which reached the enormous total oi 2O,M,O0 tons, or double the amount handled by the ocean canal in an entire year. At the various Lake ports where this traffic originated there was re ceived in the first seven months of the year a total of 29,127.418 tons of freight. This freight was handled at a lower cost per ton per mile "than Is pos sible on any other water route In the world, and the earnings on the capital invested are not lnrrequentiy more than twice as large as hose of the "ocean carriers. There is nothing In the statistics of the past,"ot- in the outlook for the fu ture.' to warrant -the belief that the limits of this marvelous business have been reached. The lakes and the canal are fed by rnlT lines whVch for months have been congested with freight, and th,e roads In turn are clamoring for equipment which the overworked fac tories are unable to supply. This won derful prosperity is nof a local coadi tion in that lake region. It is notice able throughout- the West, where every car that can carry a load and every' engine that can turn a wheel Is being worked up to lis capacity. The Hani man system alone has orders In various shops for engines and equipment which. if strung out on a straight track, would reach from Portland to Salem. Includ ed In this equipment are 136 locomo tives and 5000 cars, and, were, they ob tainable at this time, every ong would be In use. Such are the conditions which exist at a time when ship-subsidy-seekers re proach us for lack of patriotism in not entering the deep-water trade in com petition with the ancient and loss-pros perous countries which have no more room for railroads and no further op portunities for development on land. and are perforce obliged to turn to the sea. for a livelihood, even though theJ returns irom me aeep-waier carrying trade are. less than half as great as those which the Americans receive for their Investments in Internal enter prises. It is not on the high seas that the restless energy of the American, the king of all business men. has found Its greafest opportunities, but in the In ternal -development of the greatest country on earth. It is needless to state that when the opportunities for expansion in this big field of lake and rail trafllc are no longer in evidence the American will turn again to the sea and will beat the foreigner at his own same. It Is not lack of enterprise or patriotism that Is keeping the Ameri cans out of the ocean carryins trade of the world. It is a surplus of common sense which tells a' man not to Invest his money which would earn 6 per cent at home In an undertaking which would bring him Into competition with those who, in absence of a better op portunity, are satisfied with half that amount on the sea. GREAT WATER 2ROJECT. The City of Los Angeles has resolved to undertake the project of bringing water from Owens River, a distance of about 240 mllesr Thls-wlll be one of the greatest feats of engineering yet at tempted In the world. Initiative has been taken by voting bonds to the amount of $1,&00,000, and actual work will begin. A first estimate of the cost of the whole work is 21.600,000. There was little opposition to the proposal, on the part of the voters. It carried by about 15 to 1. From the vigor of the opposition made by Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner it might have been supposed she negative vote w nild be greater.. But such a vote shows that the city has embarked on this great scheme with practical unan imity. What so great a supply of water will do for Southern California almost transcends Imagination. The Los Angeles Times explains that the water rights secured by the city will afford a flow of 390,000,000 gallons a day, which would amply supply a population of three millions. Such sup-J piy or water, in addition to other ources near by, H Is said, will put at rest all question as to 'sufficiency of water ;for the City of Los Angeles and for a wide district adjacent. Probably the 'water rates will' not, for a consid erable time, carry the loans necessary for completion of the work, but it is conuaently believed they ultimately Will. xne project Includes great storage reservoirs, for reinforcement of Irriga tIon supply over,a wide extent of couh try. The sources of Owens River are far up In the Sierras, most of them In Mount Whitney, the highest peak m the United Sfates. where the outflow Is greatest at the time of the year when me country is dryest in the lower val leys. T" r. . x-rom jaiem comes the report that me capital City Is about to be connect. ed with Portland by an electric lino This will be a convenience not only to me people or. Salem and Portland, but io-a large and rapidly growing; popula tion along the route which will be fol lowed by the road. The experience of inter-uroan lines wherever constructed in tne west has been highly satlsfae; tory to the promoters, and also to the cities and towns afforded quicker and more frequent transportation service than Is possible with the big steam roaas. Cheap and frequent service en ables the smalj farmers of the suburbs to reach a good market with their nrod ucts. and thus Increases the value of their landholdings, as well as making easier tneir eirorts to get a living out oi tne sou. That the electric line can not build up pne city at the expense of anotner Is demonstrated by the expert ence of Vancouver and Oregon City, ciues ivnich have enjoyed their greatest growth since the completion of the electric lines from this city. Telr growth, it Is needless to mention, is the result oL the growth of the surrounding country. Treasurer Cromwell, of the Mutual L.ire, made only J26.371 out of his svn dlcate operations In connection with his company in tne last five yeart. That nis profits were so moderate when his opportunities were so Immense seems to be regarded by Mr. Cromwell as an evidence of great virtue. But It Is not ii snows simply that Mr. Cromwell knew it was wrong, and so he just helped himself to a little because he was afraid to try for more. If anv nm cer for any fraternal organization had aone wnat Treasurer Cromwell qheer- iuny owns up to. tie would be lnstantlv dismissed because he would be rlght- iuuy considered to have violated his trustv"' Treasurer Cromwell Is oald salary a large one, no doubt to be the custodian of the funds of 660.000 noliev- noioers. He violates the essential nrln dple of his trusteeshkp when he makes one penny of profit out of his- nosltlon The Insurance managers may luirsrle wun words and phrases all thev nlease but their first and bnly duty Is to the policy-holders: and there Is no real moral difference between what 'CAim- weil did and what Depew did. .cx-uovernor ueer comments with much Justifiable Indignation on the re marks of a Dallas paper which intl mated that he does not want to be Sen ator because there Is nothing In It. and mat be does want the Governorship because there Is something more In It man the "constitutional salary of The ex-Governor is surarised and pained that everybody In Oregon doesn't know that the Governor i oat- ary is 5M00, just the same as a Sena tors. But It is obvious that all. even country editors, do not keep the same close track of such Interesting matter as me- ex-Governor. Everybody hmild Nearly everybody did, w?- m the Gover- mw taiary was only SI5W. but, it didn't seem to do any good, for there was somehow a great deal of AonUt anout just how much the State Exeeu live actually did get. Let us hone that the light now thrown on the snhwt irvm an autnoritatlve source will be suincient for all time. Responsibility for the terrible dlsn ter on the gunboat Bennington has not yet oeen nxed. Jt has apparently been passed on from some of-the dead water- tenders and assistant engineers to higher authorities. Commander Young is now neia responsible, and he threat ens to make some Interesting disclos ures If he Is punished for the dLiastor. If, as 13 claimed, he had frequently, or even once, reported to higher officials mat me Bennington's boilers wer in bad shape, he would seem to be ab solved from any serious blame "in the matter, and In clearing himself of this bhtme he is certain to throw some in teresting Hgbt on the lax methods which permitted an ancient death tran hv -the Bennington to go limping around me ocean with leaky boilers, which might, at any moment send her entire crew into eternity. A Tacoma dispatch says that Wash ington wheatgrowers are happy over me announcement by the State Grain Inspection Department that there win be no change In the present system of grading smutty wheat, which will con wnue 10 pass as rso. 1 smuttd3. The smut evil has been steadily Increasing in Washington, and It will continue to increase until the growers are penalized so neaviiy that they will properly vit rioiize and clean the seed wheat before sowing It. The Washington Commis sion can term wheat Xo. 1 smutted, but it win not help the Inferior cereal to command o. 1 prices. This is perhaps tortunate. ror, were It otherwise, next year would show a still greater Increase In the amount of smutty wheat nro- duced. The Republicans of Nebraska are very much down on railroad nasses. and also very much In favor of a two- cent-per-mlle railroad fare. If posses are abolished, it will help things out all around for passenger rates to be low ered. Politicians can go and come Just the seme, if they can get the two cents. David E. Sherrick, Auditor' of the State of Indiana, has been summarily removed from office for "gross qetrayal of public trust In the Investment of trus,t funds belonging to the state in private interests of his own." We shall next hear,' no doubt, that Sherrick has gone Into the life Insurance business. On Dairymen's day at the Fair les sons will be given on the subject of buying cows. What thls-communlty needs is lessons on buying beef so that one-third of a wage-earner's salary will not be absorbed In that one article of food. The Congregational discussion on tainted money ought to be of Interest In Seattle; .for Seattle has never before heard that there Is such a thine- tainted money. And we reckon there Isn't. - t Governor Folk has not vet reached the polntwhere he wants to teir what Tie w'ould do if he were President. : OREGQNJ)ZQNE ' Good-morning, Mr. Reader! ' , u Have yon watched Tacoma grow? And, by the way, on yesterday Dld you see Missouri show? A polite story of smutty wheat comes irom Tacoma. - , A complete .history oC Portsmouth. X H.. "downyto and Including the peace treaty of 1005," i3the next successful1 lit erary venture. . "So narrow was their escape that th& nair on the tail of Mr. Engle's dog was scorched." says a Washington state re porter. In describing" the thmilnjr escape of a man and a dog from a'burnlng hotel. This ' Is getting things down to '& flnf point. Let us pause and contemplate thd lught of Mr. Engle and his1 dotr.' Mr. Englo doubtless, was In front of the dog. The faithful animal stayed till the last and refused to precede his master to safe: i. iak6 tasabiancn. he stood on the burning deck whence all but him had fled. na. inougn tne flames rolled on. he would not go until his master went first. Then the dog fled, with the flames pur suing so closely that tljey scorched the on ns tan. Noble animal! Lonjj wave, ana may the Igorrotes never get him! mis same nre. we are Informed, fur- nisned anotbor unsual Incident. In the hotel was a lodger who refused to vacate ms room, although when awakened hv the bellboy In the awesome hours of night me names already had reached the ad- Joining room and the wall was beginning 10 cracK. I have paid for this bed." said the guest, "and I object to being disturbed at this unseemlv hour. I am going to occupy tais rooih until my time Is un The protest seems reasonable enough, and It suggests a reform which Is sorely need ed. When hotel guests are aroused from their beds In the middle of the night' be cause the house Is burning down, and they are required to vacate the premises without getting the fdll benefit of thefr money. should they not receive a rebate? Common Justice seems to demand a re bate. Who will arise to dispute It? These too frequent outrages against helpless hotel guests call for a public Indignation meeting. Simple Enough. Simple Simon, noted pieman. Lives the simple life; . Goes to fairs and sells his wares' and Has a simple wife. With a simple little dimple Underneath her chin; A simoieton he has his fun . And grins his simple grin. A county fair In an Eastern state ad- vertlsos that It will give a prize for the best whiskers." Here Is a golden oppor tunlty for Jim Ham Lewis, ex-Senator Peffer. of Kansas, Elijah Dowle and oth er celebrities to compete for superiority or course, the problem of deciding Just what good whiskers are Is a matter or some delicacy, for what is alfalfa to one man may be common bunchgrass to an other. The hue of the whiskers also Is a consideration. Red whiskers that ripple sllkenly, like pink pajamas, should not be clR3d with stubbly black beards without some allowance on points. Then, again. mere is iineiy to be some hitch In the proceedings If the county fair means that the whiskers receiving the prize must be given up. No man who takes prldo In his whiskers, whose whiskers are as much a part of his personality as are his eyas and nose, can be expected to part with mem lor a mere prize such as a new kind of bay-rake or a talking machine with a bad cold. The honor that goes with the prize Is not sufficient tq pay for the sacrifice Truly sad hi the predicament in which yowng Mr. Hamilton, nophew of a British baronet, finds himself at Seattle. This selon of nobility. It appears, lives on a semi-annual remittance of $103 from nunky." and some days ago he disap peared, thereby greatly alarming his friends. The strain of anxiety Is now re lieved by the news that the yountr man had been keeping himself In seclusion In a cheap lodging-house because his remit tance had run oat and the date of the next Installment. was some weeks ahead. Is It not a burning shame, lords and mas ters, that In this land of. the free and home of the graft an unprotected young Britisher of noble family should be com pelled thus to go in hiding until his half- yearly remittance gets to him? Will the hard-working, horny-handed young men of America, who earn their livings by the sweat of their neckbands, tamely submit to having a member of their sex placed In such a distressing situation? It's a blawstcd, bloody shame, don't you know. There Is a man down In California who gets up an hour earlier than his usual time every morning now, in order to go out behind the woodshed and kick himself for five minutes before breakfast. Then In the evening he takes a few minutes of the same sort of exercise, and- when he happens to awaken In the middle of the night he kicks himself again. Not long ago he received a telegram from a 'total stranger, reading: "Telegraph quick your exact height to thirty-seconds of an inch. Verify later In a letter certified before a lnotary public." The recipient of the wire at first -thought that some of his friends were trying to play a Joke on him. Fur ther reflection, however, caused him to reach the conclusion that somebody want ed to use him in connection with an ad vertisement of some sort. At any rate. he grew irritable aftor cogitating over the peculiar telegraphic request, and-this Is the reply he sent, collect: "Go, chase yourself." About a week later he read In a newspaper that a New Jersey man had won 533 as first prize In a certain magazine contest, the offer being to send to the winner a stack of silver dollars cquajl to hb own height. The silver sent to the Jersey man. so the paper sold. filled six quart measures. The paper stated further that a California man was the real wlnnor of 'the prize, but for some reason he had refused to furnish bis exact height The man then recalled that he had entered the contest. "And I'm six foet thrcel" he said. The moral of this little tale Is this: It doesn't pay to jump at conclusions, nor does It pay to Jump the other way. ROBERTUS SjOVB. Particular About His Critics. New York Weekly. Scribbler I always make It a point to submit my poems to .friends for sugges tions and criticisms before publication, and I nave brought some pages for you to look over. Blbbler Um yes, of course; but why not take It to Nlbbler? - Scrlbblerii-Hub! He's a born Idiot The lasf time I.showcd him a poem, he found fault with it. REVISE THE TARIFF. PITTSBURG, Pa.. Sept S. The leading editorial In twlay's Issue of the Pittsburg Gazette, published under the caption, "Revise the Tariff," will undoubtedly be read-wlth Interest and other emotions, mixed and mingled. In the" North, the South, the East and the West -It will, of course, delight the revisionists t& flhd that this stalwart Republican newspaper, pub lished In the chief city of the great sate of tariff-fostered Industries, demanding that the tariff wall be lowered, and It will to the same degree hurl confusion in the camps' Of the standpatters. And yet the Gazette's editorial on Its face has not a savor of heresy to the doctrine of protec tion, nor does it smack of Insincerity. In the lost few months the coming ses sion of Congress looming large In the dis tancemany of the fading Republican papers of the country have gone on record on tho tariff question. ""The pros and cons or the restless question have, been gone over once more and the shadlncs of the diversified arguments have depended for their strength largely upon the geograph ical location from which they Emanate But Interest and astonishment, consterna tion and delight, and a host of jotbererao tions besides, will undoubtedly follow the cry of the Gazette for revision of the tar iff by the Fiftyininth Congress. . There Is no apologetic, preface to the demand for revision. "In this broad country" with its abounding prosperity," says tho editorial, "there are unmistaka ble signs of unrest The common people, grown rotund with fatness, have forgot ten the lean years and are demanding a change in the tariff laws. There is no better time than the present to undertake revision. This Fifty-ninth Congress of the United States is p'ecullarlyfitted for the task and ought to perform the duty. Revise the tariff now and then, let It alone for tho next ten years." Thatx demand Is certainly brief and to the point In explaining Its position the Gazette says: "In advocating present revision of tho tariff schedules the Gazette does not be lieve the existing- tariff to be injurious to many Interests It knows of none that is harmed. The Gazette abates none of its faith In the protectU-e principle. It stands, as It has always stood, for protection te American labor and American capital. There fcj no room to doubt thaj a pro tective tariff is the basis of National prosperity. The student of, history cannot avoid that conclusion If he follow the lines with an open mind. Revision of the tariff at this time must be on sound pro tective lines and no other. "The FIfty-fiinth Congress Is a Republi can Congress. It is economically sound. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon fa a protection ist: Sfereno E. Payne. John Dalzell. Charles H. Grosvenor, ranking members of the committee on ways and means; these are among the most ardent protec tionists In this country. With these men to lead and a solid phalanx of Republi cans behind them, when the tariff Is .taken up for revision it will be In the .hands -of Its friends. It will bo revised right No Industry, no material Interest will suffer. There ought not to be any fear about revising the tariff while these men. good and true, are there to do It There ought not to be any delay to a lesa opportune time. "There "are many schedules that may be reduced without exposing American Industries to foreign competition. Some of them might be cut In half. There are a few schedules that should be raised tn .give better protection. Never has there Deen a more favorable time to do this. ieemlng prosperity greets the observer on every hand. Mills and factories- are overwhelmed with orders, labor is fully employed, the fecund earth Is yielding crops almoHt without parallel In agri cultural annate. If tariff adjustment Is a shock to business there will never come a moment when business will be In bet ter condition to bear It. This prosperity, practically continuous, began with the enactment of the Dlngley law. That law was the foundation on which It was "built Tho 59th Congress can be trusted to frame a new act without abandonment of the Dlngley principle; In the 60th Congress It may not be so." The editorial takes a fling at the standpatters as follows: " 'Stand pat' Grand advice from a sturdy statesman who has passed to the other lite. Stand pat always when there Is no- reasonable chance to draw any thing better. When the Hon. M. A. Hanna gave to a poker term a National significance, his party stood pat on a hand that could not have been Improved. That hand has been played for five years of unexampled prosperity and there is clamoring for a new deal." A solemn warning Is contained In the final paragraph of the editorial, phrased as follows: "In a. decade the bitter lessons of 1893- 4-5-6 have been forgotten. The full stomach feels no pangs' of the past hunger. Satiety Is longing for a change. Shall it be a new diet, or no food? By all means a new diet Something nourish ing and some beans. If the 59th Con gress does Its duty and readjusts the tariff on a protective basis, with due re gard to the protection of all classes, the Republican party can 'stand pat' for an- otherten years. Prosperity will abide In the land? If the 59th Congress does not do this, no nan may say who Will be enjieu. w uo iu 11 is loousn 10 preiena not to hear the call. It has been given voice so often, from the West to New England. Senseless though It be. It is earnest There must be tariff revision and It should be right revision on pro tection lines made by the able ways and means committee of the present and indorsed by tho Congress that Is soundy Republlcan." Probably few papers have a better claim to' consistent adherence to party principles with emphasis on that of protection than the Gazette. At the first National Republican Convention in Pittsburg in- the 50s. Deacon White, who then owned the paper, was one of the principal figures. Additional strength is given to today's tariff editorial by the fact that Mr. Oliver, the present owner of the paper, has been for years in the steel business as an associate of Andrew Carnegie, and has practical as well1 as theoretical knowledge of the numbor of stones in. the tariff wall. , "A New Cult Foreshadowed. London Chronicle. The cult of (he feminine walking stick which will probably follow from the spec tacle of a Princess taking her walks abroad armed with a stick will doubtlera give a fillip to a somewhat mysterious In dustry- Of late years the masculine walk ing stick has lost favor, and the example of the actor, who, as you may have no ticed, nearly always swings his army free ly in order to cultivate the easy gait, has been followed. But there are still men who roam the countryside 'in search of suitable material for sticks, and the de mands of the feminine world will stimu late their curiosity. ' Boston Still Has the Crimp. London, Chronicle. The' crimp still flourishes, and, above all places, at Boston, the ."Hub of the Uni verse." Here, according to a, Consular report, he exacts 2 2s per head "blood money" from masters of sailing craft engaging- men for South American ports. He apparently- flnds scope for his operations in the fact that Boston Is a good port for the seaman desertor. No less than -iSl desertion's, from British ships took place last year, thoseunaways who escaped' belng "shanghaied"' for South America being able to secure high pay In the coasting and West Indian trades firemen S 5s. and A. B.'s. 5 3s Id per month. Adnm, and tho Apple. Saturday Evening. Post ,Itt a fact "every man would be glad to dtfpate, But" there- erns no Rood way" to defeat It. Adam, hadn't tne'eourage to gather the fruit. But seemed perfectly wtltlnc to eat.lt! 'POLICY-HOLDERS CONTROL. Chicago Tribune. The leading life Insurance companies of New York, except the Equitable, have professed to be "mutual" companies. They belong to tho policy-holders. It has been assexted In advertisements and by agents. and are run exclusively. In their interest The degree of control the own ers have been given a chance to exercise over their property Is shown by the tes timony at the investigation of insurance methods bya committee of the New York Leglsjature which Is now In prog ress. The New' York Life has SOOtOOO policy-holders Supposedly It Is (ther right to elect the. company's trustees. As a matter -of fact, however, the policy-holders never have been sent advance no tices of an election, and 2,323 of them Is .the most that have voted at any annual meeting in ten years. The New York Mutual has 65O.0QO policy-holders. They never have been sent notices of the an nual meetings, and .an average of about 200 have voted at the elections of trus tees. The trustees of a mutual com pany choose its officers. ,The officers have In tho past selected the policy-holders who were to be given a chance to vote for trustees, and In many Instances have hold their proxies. Practically, therefore, the officers have elected the trustees. With the trustees choosing the officers and tho officers electing the trustees It is plain that the accountability of tho managements of the mutual companies to their policy-holders has been purely fic titious. For tho use they, have made of the millions of other people's money turned over to them to hold as a sacred trust In practice they have been respon sible to nobody. The public knows hpw the management of the Equitable, which, although a stock company, purported to be run mainly in the Interest of the policy-holders, abused a similar trust The opportunities for bad methods of management fraud and plunder have been fully as gopd In the mutual com panies as in the JEquitable. and the testi mony thus far introduced shows they have not been allowed to pass unim proved. The exact extent to which they have been Improved perhaps will be bet ter known when 'the present Investigation ends. Sato Tells Japanese Story. Philadelphia Bulletin. Mr. Sato, of the Japanese Peace Com mission, praised in Portsmouth the pleas ant and stimulating coolness of the American Summer In New England. "Oh, yes. In Portsmouth our Augusts are pleasant enough." a correspondent said, "but .you should visit Philadelphia or St. Louis at this season. Then your Idea of our Summers would be different" "We have hot Summers In Japan," said Mr. Sato. "We have hot weather stories there, too. For Instance: A philanthropic Japanese rode through the streets one scorching day. when a beggar womtrmiccosted him, holding a baby In her arms. "Kind sir." she said, "will you not give a copper coin to your- servant, who Is In sore need? "Yes. gladly," said the gentleman, and he took out a handful of small chango. "But Just as ho was about to give this to the, woman he chanced to look closely at her baby, and behold, it was only a great doll. " 'Why. he cried, 'that baby Is a fraud, a shaml . "'Yes. your honor, said the woman, humbly. 'It was so hot I left the real one home today. " Colonel Wntterson to His Tarty. Louisville Courier-Journal. We would strip the Democratic party of all surplusage and hold It ready for the fray. We would keep It aloof from "Isms" of every sort, equally from red lights and quack nostrums. Government ownership, for example, with which wo are now threatened. Is a cure for none of the evils of which we Justly complain. It is a red light to mislead us, a quack nostrum to discredit us. To adopt It were vory like. the burning of a house to Temove a stench. As little as frea silver. as anti-expansion, and as anti-trustlsm. will It avail Us. After the manner of the Irishman's horse, which wa3 hard to eatch and worthless after he was caught, the transfer of the public utilities from private and diversified ownership to the control of the government would create such an oligarchy as has not been seen since the days of the East India Company in England and the close corporation calling Itself the Republic of Venice. Old ways are best, gentlemen. The surgeon's knife Is responsible for many a life that might have been saved by simpler ap pliances. Let us enforce the laws we have before .we fly to laws we wot not of. Speaker .Cannon Pricks a Bubble. Success. Speaker Joseph Cannon, In response to a toast at a recent dinner, began his re marks so as to create the Initial laugh which Is so much desired by orators as a preparation for weightier matter to follow. "Astronomers tell us," ho began, "ac cording to the gentleman who has Just sat down, that an express train moving a hundred miles a second would consume several million years In reaching a cer tain star." He paused and looked toward the guest to whom he referred. "That was the statement" said tha speaker's neighbor, nodding. "I was just thinking." pursued Mr. Cannon, "what a predicament a man would be In if he should mls3 the last train and have to walk." . Some of New York's "Features." New York Press. We have 5C0O cabs in use. There are 75 cemeteries to. take care of our dead, and to prepare oiir souls fpr salvation there are 1010 churches. We have 175 pawn brokers and 47 courts. Of social and po litical clubs there are 4C0. About 250.000 persons cross the Brooklyn Bridge dally. Our floating population Is about 175.C00. ane subway carries 330,000 unhappy pas sengers a day, and the elevated, manages to .crawl along with about 1.0CO.000. We have over 18.000 street railway employes. A Municipal Newspaper. Chicago Journal. Dresden 13 one of the few cities possessing a municipal newspaper, and this was bequeathed to the city by tlie late Dr. Gunt The bequest Is a very valuable property, and consists Qf a dally newspaper which, in consequence of its extensive circulation is the principal advertising medium In the neighborhood. The profits are applied to the beautifying and improvement of the city and to charity. Back to Town. From the mountain Rlen and the Halt sea fen. By trail and eke by train, A cry rings" up to the Autumn skyy ' - It's "Hey. for the town again!" We have had enough of things In the rough. Of the rural moon and star; "We'll be glad to hear, though It may sound queer, - The gong of the trolley-car! We have t routed and trolled, we hava bar ca roled. Where the long lake's rlpplerf gleam;' Wc have ecaled the' height of youth's dellsht Dreaming the olden dream'; Now the echoes come,' with their liauntln? hum, From the opera and the play From the gray frou-frou of the avenue And the deep din o Broadway. That wte long to march la' the grip of starch. All proper, precise and prim. T "With a "howd'ye do!" and a "how are your" Is true, though it's somewhat grlmi Back, from the free of the open, sea, - f From the green of garth and lane. To the round and sack of the-treadmill track Yes, 'tis back, to the town again t Clinton. Scollard. m 'A