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THE HOKXIXG OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1905. Entered et the Fostoflice at Portland. Or., &js eecond-claaa natter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) Dally and Sunday. .per year.., $3.00 Dally and .Sunday, bIx months 0.00 Dahy and Sunday, three months......... Dally and Sunday, per month Dally without Sunday, per year Dally -without Sunday, six months .w Dally without Sunday, three month. Dally without Sunday, per month.. -J Sunday, per year.. Sunday, six months..,. ....... Sunday, three month BV CARRIER. Dally without Sunday, per week Dally, per week. Sunday Included - -20 THE 'WEEKLY OREGONIAN. (Issued Every Thursday.) Weekly, per year - ""2 Weekly, six months .- -ir Weekly, three months :. HOW TO REMIT Send postoffice 0Jf order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, cola or currency ar " the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S. C. Jlw-kivltli Special A55BCjTST York, rooms 43-60 Tribune building. 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Pitts, 1008 Market; FranK Soott. 80 Ellis; N. Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear. Ferry News Stand. Washington. 1). C Ebbltt House. Pennsyl vania avenue. PORTLAND. THURSDAY, DEC. 7. 1005. IS HAKMONV NEAR? All (persons who feel that -the Repub lican party of Oregon ought to be united, to the end that the principles and policies of the Republican party of the United States may have that rea sonable and efficient support from the State of Oregon to which it is entitled, must be gratified with every manifesta tion of disposition, in any quarter, for suppression of faction, by elimination of the causes that have produced it. To do this ought not to be difficult: for alternate reverses have made the odds between both the principal fac tions, and all minor factions too. fairly even. Pride of prowess ought o be sat isfied, on all sides, by this time; or at least revenge ought by. this time to have been satiated. Republicans surely will concede that there is in politics something more important than -personal ambition, individual spite or fac tional revenge. But the bosses of the olden time those who have been In politics for mo tives of mercenury sort are not to be rehabilitated or restored. The Orego- 11 Ian could malce a list of them, but it. -w 111 not. In all localities, in every part of the state, it is known who they are. It is not intended to put them under ban or proscription, but simply to retire them to the position In the ranks that others hold llowing no consideration to their special pretensions. If the Re publican party of Oregon is to live. It is 110 longer to be under the manipulation of any clique or ring. Selfish politics must give way to unselfis-h iolltics. No doubt some of the old bosses are even ii'jw forming their plans and making their combinations for control of party action, -with a view to holding then "influence" at Salem or Washington. It Is vain effort. The next Legislature of Oregon will not be controlledand di rected by boss, at a telephone, in a Pederal office at Portland. NO one can tell how the direct pri mary will work. In all its consequences. Its plurality system may dissolve the majority party. But its first conse quence will be the supersedure of the Varty boss. For, even If he should be jib'e. through his- personal faction, to nominate the ticket by the -plurality he might command, he would lose It la the election. Men selected for their fair ness, their 'breadth and unselfishness, their representative standing as citi zens, might be elected, though their plurality vote for the nomination might b a small one; but no ring ticket, on such basis, -would have any chance at all. It all comes to this, that those who have made a profession of politics, and have followed the profession for what there wus in it, are down and out. Are there not in Oregon enough disinterest ed Republicans to save the fortunes of the party? For party does not exist for etlice and spoils of office. It exists for general principles and large policies: and as to these, party Is but a means to an end. The Indispensable condition to harmony is to reject the "old stag ers" of politics. The warhorses are to go to grass. Men whose leadership has meant only their own emolument can't load the Republican party of Oregon further. They can have the same con sideration as other privates in the ranks; no more. On this' basis, no otVer, harmony will pass from dream ti r realization. But hnrmony will come In best form -when it Is not court ed. Cut out selfishness, and harmony take care of Itself. Perhaps one danger is that the bosses of the olden time will try to teach the party that It can't succeed without them. Knowing what sort of things the Business Men's League of Prlneville approves. The Oregonian cannot very deeply regret having incurred their cen sure. At the meeting yesterday, where it Is said resolutions of censure were approved, how many were present of those men who stood by and watched Harrington club Craln nearly to death without a thought of censuring his "brutal assailant? Prlneville, it is said. bolls over with Indignation because The Oregonian has published the facts about this affair. But If Prlneville would expend as much indignation and energy in trying to prevent such as saults as she do.es In trying to mislead the public about the facts, her Business Men would have no occasion to censure The Oregonian. Meanwhile, until the withering resolutions .are repealed, we shall do our best to survive. Of course our existence is blighted by them, the sun darkened and the moon turned to green cheese but we shall drag wearily on. Some day the Business Men of Prlnevllle may take pity ,on our sad state and revoke their anathema. We live in hope. "THE MENACE OF SOCIALISM. In his speech on Tuesday night at the Republican dinner at the Commercial Club. Mr. Wallace McCamant said; Socialism Is a worse menace to the Nation than was Ire silver ten years 0. because It Is spread over the extreme Eastern part of the country, where free ullver w weakest. The Republican party Is the only hulwark of safety. Mr. McCamant is a strong speaker and undoubtedly a man of firm political convictions. He is an earnest Republi can, and he .believes firmly that the best results for the country are to be had through the ascendancy of the Repub lican party. But The Oregonian must take the liberty to say that In Its opin ion Mr. McCamant and men like him are too reluctant to give sufficient play to the democratic spirit and would hold the party too much to the capital istic spirit. Now the protest against capitalistic rapacity and plutocratic greed Is not Socialism. It is simply a protest against Injustice on the one hand, and it is a demand for Justice on the other. The people of the United States are not naturally Inclined to So cialism. But they do want and they intend to have .protection against capi talistic oppression whether by arbi trary methods or by forms of law. Properly this determination cannot be called the spirit of Socialism; nor can men be deterred, by use of this word against them, from demanding the Jus tice which Is their due. Robbery under the forms of law is even more galling than robbery absolutely lawless; and It is necessary that justice rule the law. If the tendency towards Socialism is to be arrested. By a single act like that by which Marquam was deprived of his property, under legal forms, greater Im pulse is given to the socialistic spirit in Oregon than Socialists themselves could give It In a decade. The Repub lican party Is not to be made "a bul wark of safety" behind which acts like this can toe done; nor is protest ito be arrested by saying that the only way to hold down the doctrines of Socialism Is to allow the monopolistic and capi talistic and plutocratic spirit the greed and rapacity of wealth full sway in the land. On the contrary, that Is the direct road to Socialism, which means. in effect, the abolition of private prop erty. THE NOTION OF "VINDICATION." Says The Dalles Chronicle; "Repre sentative Williamson, like benator Mitchell, can't see his way clear to step down and out to please the dear people so long as he has a fighting chance in the United States Supreme Court." The misfortnue is that neither Representa tive Williamson nor Senator Mitchell has a fighting chance in the Supreme Court." The Supreme Court, on some technical point of practice, may. Indeed, arrest the judgment of the trial court; but that would be nothing. Mr. Mitch ell will not again sit In the Senate, nor Mr. Williamson in the House of Rep resentatives. Senators and Represent atives come and go; and Senator Mitch ell and Representative Williamson have gone out under cloud and into thick darkness. not to be lifted. But the State of Oregon lives, and it is entitled to representation In Senate and House, which it never will have again through Senator Mitchell and Representatives Williamson and Hermann. These men. as public men, are dead as they ever will be. The notion that they may yet be "vindicated" by action of the Su preme Court, widely prevalent though It seems in Oregon, is fatuous, to last degree. Neither of these men may "do time" In prison; but neither will ever again stand In position of representa tive of Oregon at the capital of the United States. Yet Oregon is entitled to representation there. It seems there are partisans more devoted to the per sonal fortunes of these great men than to the state of which they are them selves citizens. It Is really deplorable that there are those who actually believe the Supreme Court may yet "acquit" and restore Mitchell and Williamson, and Hermann (should a jury find him also guilty), to the status they held before. Yet this strange notion Is widely prevalent, and the delinquents are to "hold on, for vin dication." The stain couldn't be washed out by "all great Neptune's ocean.' It is, however, asserted in extenua tion, that the lands, unlawfully dealt In, "had little or no value." One news paper says: The editor of this paper has seen some of the land that is al leged to have been appropriated to their own use by Williamson, Biggs. Gesner. et al.. and if we were offered this land for nothing we would think we were getting the worst of It by ac cepting." The editor therefore con cludes that the whole business, relating to the prosecution of our statesmen, "Is nothing but a game of politics; there fore, they shouldn't throw up the sponge." Oregon would be hopeless If this really represented the moral status of her people on questions relating to public and political morals. RAILKOAD LEGISLATION. The Eseh-Townsend bill to regulate railroad rates has been again intro duced in the lower House. This bill, as it passed the lower House at the last session of Congress, differed somewhat from its present form", but not material ly. It now Includes all the Important recommendations in the President's message, and if it can be enacted into law, will determine once for all whether or not it is possible for the Government to regulate the railroads without tak ing possession of them. There is some prospect that the bill may pass both houses. Nobody doubts its success In the lower House. What will happen in the Senate is less cer tain, -but the opposition seems not likely to 3e so bitter as many expected. Sen ator Elklns, if the reports are correct, has outlined a -bill substantially in har mony with the President's wishes. If the opposition in the Senate to rate reg ulation has abated, there is some rea son for 1L Perhaps such a reason may be found In the wish to avoid a conflict with the President; perhaps It may lie in Senator Knox's very important re mark about the inherent power of the courts of equity. These courts, the Senator says, can enjoin any order the Interstate Com merce Commission may make in regard to rates, and he adds that Congress cannot take away this power. The Esch-Townsend bill is silent upon the matter; but It Is conceivable that the hope of securing an injunction against every order the Commission may make has lulled the opposition of the railroad Senators to the President's scheme, and that they, or rather their masters, will allow the bill to pass. If Senator Knox is right, the passage of the Esch-Town-send bill, good as it is. will not essen tially better the relations between the railroads and the public, and the Na tion may be forced to resort to more radical measures. IDAHO AND OREGON. The Boise (Idaho) Statesman com ments at length on a recent article In The Oregonian discussing Senator Ful ton's position and pointing out the dif ficulties under which the Senator rests. The Statesman remarks that the Sena tor ought to have had no trouble in de termining his course, which was to break with his friends and allies and take his stand with -The President. Says the Statesman: Glo. It ever as you wlH. It remains true that the Senator stlutHy failed la bis duty when he declined to strike hand n-Rh the Administration in thU matter. It was Ms duty; hW courne was marked out by the rule f food morale as dearly ax tbocgh It were fenced and had nlgnboa'rds every kundred yards pointing the direction for him t take. It was embArraftflns. yes. but there was esty one thing to do. It wis the Senator dety to dlsmlrs all other conMderatlons and do right. He could not do right by cmbarraMlflg the Administration with machine recommenda tions, by uggt-Ftlng men for ofllce who were more or lp In sympathy with the being prosecuted. Put yourself in his place. AH of us know what our duty is In the abstract- And everybody is well qualified to tell a public officer what his duty is under any conceivable circumstances. It is easy enough to say to Senator ulton that it was and Is his duty to put crim inals in prison when he knows they are criminals. It would still be his dear duty if the criminal were a mem ber of his own family; and if he did not strike hands with the Government, and If he were not active in. delivering the recalcitrant relative up to Justice, no doubt we should have the Statesman and other high moralists reproaching him. It would b,e reproaching him for something that - few In Oregon now reproach him for; and Ore gon Is the state that Itself con victed two of Its Congressional delega tion. So we should say that there is here a fairly respectable citizenship with a fairly definite purpose to do Its whole duty. Let us see If Idaho do as well. . . mm. LS WHEAT CONSUMPTION INCREASING? May wheat sold at 90 cents in Chicago yesterday, and a strong demand was reported for cash wheat at prices In keeping with the high price of the May option. The Chicago markeC which to all intents and purposes is the Amer ican market? has wobbled around con siderably since the opening of the new crop season, but it has been what may truthfully be termed a strong market throughout, in the face of a foreign sit uation locking In most of the elements which Infuse strength Into a markeL Throughout all 'bulges" and "breaks" In the American market, Liverpool has displayed a degree of indifference never before noticeable at this season of the year. Walla Walla cargoes were quiet at 32 shillings sixty days ago, and they were quiet at the same figure yester day, but the Chicago market yesterday was 5 cents per bushel higher than It was sixty days ago. This remarkable strength in the American market, and the indifference of the foreign market, is not explicable by any -of the usual statistical informa tion available, and suggests the thought that perhaps readjustment of the fig ures on supply and demand may be overdue. There is a possibility that the increased prosperity of this country, with a greater available gold supply than ever, may have Increased the con sumption of wheat to a greater extent than has been generally realized. Either this must be the case or the crop of 1905 has been greatly overestimated Were It otherwise, there would be s fairly large surplus of wheat .which the Americans could not use, and which would be obliged to seek a market In Europe. The Europeans will not take this surplus at figures on a parity with prices paid In Chicago and other Amer ican markets, and the fact that their refusal does not cause weakness offers strong proof that the strength is all of home production and due to causes within our own country. This view is corroborated by the weekly figures on shipments and the American visible. According to the Government estimates, the crop of 196 was more than 100.000,000 bushels great er than its predecessor, and yet the American visible on December 4. 1905, showed a total of but S3.OO0 bushels more than for the corresponding date last year. Meanwhile Europe, which formerly was so largely dependent on the United States for wheat supplies that in most seasons she secured at prices averaging 20 cents per bushel un der the present Chicago standard, has found new sources of supply. Both Ar gentina and Russia have been Increas ing 'their acreage at a remarkable rate. and the out-turn from those two coun tries alone has reached such tremen dous proportions that all the deficit in American shipments has been easily made up without causing the slightest advance in European prices. Canada has. of course, contributed somewhat to the Increased supplies, but as yet her shipments are Insignificant in comparison with those that come out of Russia and the Argentine. If It should develop that the increased pur chasing power of the American people has been responsible for disappearance of a much larger amount of wheat than could be accounted for by the time honored per capita-consumption rule of 44 bushels per head, the United States I has reached and passed high-water mark as a wheat-exporting country, and from now on the market for the premier cereal will be made by the de mand .in this country, and not by the demand In Europe, 'except in cases where some of the big exporting coun tries experience years of abnormally short crops. The master of the Klrklee complains that he was delayed thirty hours off the Columbia bar waiting for a pllot This presumptuous shipmaster must be unfamiliar with Columbia bar pilotage. Undoubtedly the weather was bad when he arrived off the river, and it was more comfortable around the ofllce stove than chasing around outside look ing tor ships. The captain Is unreason able, and will surely be reprimanded by the pilots" Pilot Commission. In President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft the Columbia River seems to have two very good friends at Washington. General Mackenzie, of the Bureau of Engineers, is also reported to be so firm ly impressed "with the merits of the work at the mouth of the river that he will recommend an appropriation of $1,009. 0CO for continuing the Jetty. We naall all feel grateful to know that the great work has such good friends at the cap- itaL but for all that the fate or ap propriation rests almost entirely with Chairman Burton, of the rivers and harbors committee, and the official an nouncement that Mr. Burton la In favor of immediate relief being granted the project will be far and away the most gratifying and valuable news that the Northwest will receive from "Wash ington this season. "Mr. Burton Is only one Congressman, but he wields a power on river and harbor matters that Is not approached by any other man In Washington. The ten-story "institutional church" which, according to reports. John D. Rockefeller is to help furnish funds to Mjulld In Cleveland, promises to be about the most complete affair of Its kind In the country, if the views of Its project ors are carried out. In fact, the main auditorium, where religious services are to be held, will form a relatively small part of the edifice. A gymnasium, a library and various halls for special meetings and entertainments are de scribed as Important parts of the plan. The tendency on the part of many churches to afford instruction and wholesome recreation, social and other wise, directly under their own auspices, is, of course, no new thing. But the combination which is thus planned un der a single roof In a building whose outward features will closely resemble a business structure is something of a novelty. The official statement regarding Union Pacific finances for the year end ing June 38 appeared Tuesday, and shows an increase of JI.0i5.71S In gross and $G50,4i7 in net earnings. After a payment of fixed charges and divi dends, and $1,479.16. for betterments, etc., there remained a surplus for the year of 57.219.2S:, an Increase of J2.503. 26 over the previous year. These fig ures certainly Indicate that Vice-President and General Manager A. L. Moh ler who Is at present duckshooting in Oregon, has earned the vacation which he Is now enjoying. They also show that he Is making as great a success of his management of one of the big roads of the countryas he made with the 6. R. & N., from which he was promoted tq his present high position. Washington dispatches yesterday stated that Mr. Brown, of Portland, had called on the President and as sured him that the boycott was not interfering with American trade in China. San Francisco advices of the same date quote Captain Baker, of the United States cruiser Raleigh, as stat ing that the commercial situation In the south of China Is absolutely at the mercy of the boycotters. and that ware houses are piled full of American goods which the Chinese refuse to handle. The difference In the testimony may be due to the fact that Captain Baker had Just arrived from China, where he had been making a study of commercial and po litical conditions, while Mr. Brown had apparently Just arrived from Portland. The Washington State Fish Commis sioner has filed his annual report, show ing the value of the product for the state this year to be more than $10, 000.000. Of this amount $1,454,629.55 Is credited to the Columbia River. Ex treme difficulty is encountered in con vincing the Puget Sound people that the Washlngtonlans have any interest in the Columbia River. For this rea son the figures of Commissioner Ker shaw will be of exceptional value for future reference. The hatchery figures In the report are far from flattering to Oregon. They show an output from the "Washington hatcheries of 73.000.000 fry and from British Columbia hatch erles 114.000.000 fry. while Oregon Is credited with but 7,700.000 fry. A case of whisky and a pall of oya ters are credited with saving the lives of a number of passengers on a stalled train in Dakota. The train was snow bound for four days, and the only nour ishment obtainable was the Demon Rum and the oysters. Men who look lovingly on the distilled Juice of the com and the rye are prone to credit It with almost supernatural powers as a life preserver, and It undoubtedly is a stimulant of unusual merit. In the case mentioned, however, old John Bar leycorn will hardly receive his Just dues from the prohibitionists, for they will in all probability, give the oysters all the credit for saving the lives of the snowbound passengers. Senator Mitchell has telegraphed to Washington his resignation "as chair man of the committee on Interoceanlc canals. It Is not announced that he has resigned his position as a member of the United States Senate for Oregon. although Governor Chamberlain, from whom this paper did not hear yester day, may have received such resigna tion. Yet. If the Governor has received Mitchell's resignation, he may be keep ing it quiet In order to spare himself the importunities of applicants for the position. But perhaps these are all idle conjectures. The famous dollar dinners didn't help to'reunlte the Democracy to any extent. But we have high hopes of the efficacy of fifty-cent dinners for Republicans. If the fifty-cent dinner fails, we know several places where a Republican car. get some dinner and a great deal of harmony for twenty-five cents. Boston naturally objects to making the Constitution a target, so that she may be "sunk by the fire of the North Atlantic fleet." as Secretary Bonaparte says. Old Ironsides was not made to be sunk. - We really do not see how Senator Fulton Is helping himself, either with the President or the people of Oregon, by, trying to prevent the confirmation of Jack Matthews successor. It might be well, too. to interest Speaker Cannon In the Columbia. He at least knows where it is. ISpoch Making or DlsRraccfal. New York Tribune. District Attorney Jerome's speech was either epoch-making or it was disgrace ful. It is the time for a general Judicial boMsecleanlng. But, unless he knows that of which he- speaks and is prepared to follow up his charge. Mr. Jerome ha done a great wrong. He has not only weakened th people's faith In their trib unals, but he has subjected honorable mea f suspicion. He says there are a few exceptions to his condemnation of the Judges as unworthy of respect. Who are the exceptions? They are entitled to Immunity from damaging reflections. Who also are the Judges who cannot be trusted to give an unbiased decision whsre particular financial or political In terests are Involved? TUr. Jerome speaks as if he were prepared to continue this wtirk which he has begun. We await, therefore, his spedAc charges. SILHOUETTES Now it would appear that the poor In surance companies nave oeen preyeo. upon by officials of the various states. A fight between insurance crooks and politi cal crooks should bo worth the watching-. Meanwhile, however, the complaisant policy-holder will continue to put up the stakes for both sides. Big Bill" Taft has finally consented to throw his weight on the side of the Co lumbia River Jetty. The secretary s weight Is a matter of common knowledge and should fetch something, even if it la only the underpinning of the jetty. Since the long-sought Northwest Pass age has at last been discovered 'It may not be necessary to dig the Panama, Canal. If It is available for the purposes of com merce, what a snap it will be for the dressed -beef shippers. That amour between Alaska and Seattle seems to be all off. This would seem a good time for Portland to step In and win a happy home. 'All in favor ef the confirmation of Charlie Reed as United States Marshal raise the right band." announced the chairman and then so many good citizens of Oregon put up their ballot hooks that the Senate took the hint and cinched the matter. The Pennsylvania Railroad has decided to abolish casses after the first of the year. The lost incentive for men to enter politics will then be removed In communi ties along its lines, life Is becoming less attractive every day. Let's sec Wasn't It about this time of year that that gosh-awful business slump was due to overtake Portland? Mark Twain at 70 should be a happy mart. The good cheer he has brought Into the world is more precious than the for tune of Rockefeller and the millions who love him for "Huckleberry Finn" make up a more enviable constituency than that enjoyed by any statesman in the world. Dear old boy. May his years yet be many.. ... Admiral Togo seems determined to get himself disliked. He's going to make a tour of the world. a Now watch Governor-Senator La Follete skate Into an airhole when be goes down to Washington. Rats! Who wants, to cater to Chinamen, anyhow. a lot of A tralnload of Deonle that was snow bound on the North Dakota prairies was kept alive for several days on a case of whisky aad when the passengers arrived safely at Fargo they were highly elated at their timely rescue. A life on the ocean wave Isn't a very tempting prospect Just now. If Marshal Harrington, of Prlneville. looks like his picture, he will probably be convicted ex parte. Social life in Aberdeen will be very dull this Winter. All the dancehalls and combination saloons are to be closed. Secretary Bonaparte will find himself listed In the champion ass class If he persists In his determination to destro'y "Old Ironsides." More than that. Fight ing Bob Evans will drop around to the Navy Department some fine morning and tweak his nose. Chauncey Depew has resigned but suppress your enthusiasm not from the Senate. Senator Mitchell has resigned but likewise. The horse that died on tho street yes terday as the result of a shock must have caught sight of one of those Winter automobile coats the motor-women are wearing. General Chaffee says this country will go to war again. Yes. that is quite pos sible. We may have to lick Steve Elklns. Senator Piatt refused the post of chair man of the committee on Interoceanlc canals. Naturally. Piatt's specialty Is the treasury. Mae Wood says but that Is another story. Moscow. Nspoleos 1812. Vainglory and the lust of sway Marched from the warring West. Where sound of clashing arms Had long since drowned the songs Of concord, and the fealty-call Of them who serve In ways of peace And them who rule beneath the fear of God. The spirit of this right of might. Incarnate In Gaul's master anarchist. Led boastfully his Iron regiments Into the still unconquered East. There to complete his fell dominion Over all tho earth. Across the wide sterility of plain. League after league the monster moved. Drunken with the glut of conquest; Ever his fearful purpose ct upon The overthrow of them that dared to brook His bloody-handed wardcnshlp of men. At length he came upon the end. Reaching the capital where he had sought T find a feast of carnage And hurl another conquered throne be neath bis feet Here then his triumph found rebuke: The elements, unconquered allies of a hundred gods. Prevailed against him. And the object of his wicked quest He found but ashes. So was the stern decree again fulfilled: "Thus far no farther shalt thou go." . He reeled back from naming Moscow, Seeking some poor refuge In defeat; The mightiest warrior coming back again Had failed at last to gain dominion of the work!. The Ki IfrftS. A century .between Napoleon And these new avengers of oppression lies. Once more the flames of Moscow Light the world. The purpose of the Great Invasion was as far Removed as all the years from that Displayed by this" new-risen power; But even now the Muscovite once more To thwart the tyrant of our later day. Gives to the elements this ancient seat of might. And of Its embers seeks to make a funeral pyre For all the bated' pomp of this last scourge of men. ARTHUR A! GREENE. JEROME AND JUDGES VIEWED Loss of Confidence Unfortunate. New York Sun. Mr. Jerome says that he not only has no reverence for the Supreme Court Judges of this department but that he has not common ordinary respect for them. We are not la accord with this senti ment. A general condemnation, based on some special instance or some special Instances, may endanger the confidence of the whole community In our judiciary and In our judicial system, and the loss of such confidence would be most unfortu nate. Let the corrupt Judge bo pointed out. ostracized and exiled, but for the Just Judge let there be only honor and esteem and a care lest his reputation be injured by unguarded speech. . In this period of taking moral stock, to use a trade expression, and dividing the sheep from the goats, any stricture, how ever severe, will find believers, and some of them will believe more than the scourger Intended they should believe. Mr. Jerome's remarks about sordid Judses will do some good, but they will also do harm. Revelations of strabismus In busi ness and of graft In politics have thrown the people into a morbid and hysterical state. They suspect any corporation offi cer of helping himself to the surplus, any man active In politics of being a boss, most professional men of dishon esty, tradesmen of scheming to cheat and defraud, and even the clergy of working for their pockets and not for their faith. They wonder whether the, Republic Is not going 'down in fetid moral ruin. Judges Can't Ignore Charge. New York World. That District-Attorney Jerome, in crit icising the Justices of the Supreme Court In this. city, was actuated by conscien tious motives, the world believes. That there is some truth In the statements he makes In Justification of. criticism there is little doubt. Yet he Is wrong, hasty ami Intemperate In speaking as he has done. These very grave charges are sweeping, indiscriminate, unspeciflc. They Join In common and unmerited condemna tion the best with the worst In the local Judiciary. The Judges should take some notice of his remarks for the sake of the honor of the Judiciary, which Is the sheet- anchor of the people against corrupt bosses, corrupt financiers and corrupt Legislatures. They must defend them selves. They cannot ignore the charge. Picture of a "Rotten Judiciary. New York Press. For nearly a whole generation the State of New York has been Imploring heaven to send' a man with the courage to lead the fight against pollution of the judiciary. That man is here and has flung aloft the standard to which shall repair a reso lute and aroused multitude. The legend on that banner Is "A Free and Honest Judiciary" and the man who has the splendid daring to raise It Is William T ravers Jerome. The long-smoldering fires of Indignation against judiciary graft have burst Into a raging and. we hope. a purifying blaze. The ugly programme of Socialism is not more hideous than the aspect presented by this Jerome picture of a rotten Judiciary. Jerome Can't Do It All. Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle. Even Mr. Jerome fights shy behind a bold front. He does not name those mem bers of the elective Judiciary, whom he condemns, and he cannot expect others to do so. The conditions which made his triumph possible wore first created by newspaper agitation. The independent press win persist In the work of judicial reform. Mr. Jerome cannot be depended on to do that. He is more remarkable for a kaleidoscopic success of sensations. on the side of virtue, than for patient perseverance In any single field of public effort, affected by a relation to any re form. He Is more remarkable for his panoramic .effects than for those of any other sort. e are heartily "glad he was reelected. Such Talk Is Reckless. New York Times. Mr. Jerome makes no exceptions. The entire Supreme bench of the department. all the Judges, fall under his condemna tion. Now the general opinion, we think, will be that such talk Is reckless. The Supreme Court Judges are pretty well known In this community, and many of them, most of them, are deserving of re spect and confidence. They have both. Mr. Jerome sets himself against the common knowledge and the general opin ion. If he knows of Judges who are un deserving of respect he ought to specify. To denounce the whole bench is mere slangwhanglng. Can Jerome Make Good? New York Mall. Mr. Jerome Is morally bound, to use his own expressive Idiom, to "make good," and he avouches a willingness to do so. But whether he docs so or not. there charges cannot be suffered to lapse. Things like that have been said be fore, although never In the same 'authorl tatlve form that Mr. Jerome's high posi lion gives them now. The public has a duty In the premises, as well as the Dis trict Attorney. So has the bench itself, which for lis own reputation should seek to demonstrate that It is impossible for him to "make good." Assault Is Justified. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Mr. Jerome's daring In expressing his opinions was never disputed, but he has now quite surpassed his record In his public assault upon the Judges of the Supreme Court who serve In New York County. Yet the assault must be consid ered Justified In large measure. ' Some years ago It was shown that a Supremo Court Judge of New York had to pay many thousands of dollars for his nomi nation by a political party, the payment being Justified as a contribution toward campaign expenses. Iconoclast of Extremest Type. Baltimore (Md.) Sun. Mr. Jerome may find that he has under taken an Impossible task, however. If he conceives- that It Is his duty to prosecute Supreme Court Judges as well as to make war upon crime. He presents an inter esting spectacle as prosecutor of the Ju diciary, but his vehemence must give his brother lawyers a case of shivers. He has violated every tradition of his pro fession and proved himself an iconoclast of the extremest type. Name the Guilty Judges. New York Globe and Advertiser. The question that sprang to the minds of Mr. Jerome's hearers as It does to those of his readers was. "Why not name the guilty?" The number of Supreme Court Justices W not large. Why not be specific and identify at least the worst? Both for the protection of the Innocent as well as for the punishment of the guilty. Mr. Jerome having gone as far as he did. should have gone yet further. Bagpipes and Funerals. Scotch Paper. ' There are no undertakers in the Interior of the Scotch Highlands. A carpenter makes the simple coffin, relative and friends carry It. hip high, to Its last resting place, which Is dug when the end of the Journey Is reached, and. having walked perhaps six miles to the chosen klrkyard. they take a refreshment of sandwiches and whisky and walk home again. The rigorous absence of. pomp Is maintained, but there Is the added em bellistuneat of pipe music NAVAL GENERAL STAFF. Admiral "Converse Says It .Is Neces sary for Prompt Action. WASHINGTON. Dec 6. Necessary to the efficiency of the American Navy ia the opinion of Rear-Admiral George A. Converse, Chief of the Bureau of Navi gation. Is the introduction into tho Navy Departroent of some "military adminis trative authority" to co-ordinate the tech nical work of the bureaus, to be responsi ble to the Secretary for the organization and preparedness of the fleet and to ad vise in all military matters: that is. the creation by law of a Navy board or staff. The pronouncement In favor of the gen eral staff idea is based upon Admiral Converse's experience of 44 years in the service, and It forms the feature of his annual report made public at the Navy Department today. In this, his last annual report, as he retires next May for age. the Admiral discusses naval administration frankly, and his recommendations gain an espe cial Importance In the fact that they probably will form the basis of whatever legislation Congress may enact to remedy alleged defects in the department. He says: Must Play Game of Greatness. WlllliMcly or unwillingly, the Nation has a numed responsibilities, the burden of which we may not evade. We raut play the Rime. These responsibilities and the expandlns of our commerce of Increasing volume, reaching farther and farther from our shores, our lonjr coasts fronting two oceans and a great sea. bordered with numerous wealthy cities, each a center of ocean-borne trade, demand acute National provision and the earnest study of pemtbte and probable international nltuatlons. The nature of these clearly Indicate the ne cessity for a powerful and efficient Navy, the possession of which Is not the end. but the means to the al!-deslrablc end. their peace ful rotation. He says the lesson of greatest moment for the Navy taught by the Russo-Japanese War Is the Importance of the per sonnel, the use of which word he applies not only to the active fleet, but to the department- Although prominence is ac corded to the General Board in the new Navy regulations recently issued. Ad miral Converse asserts that, while this Is proper. It Is not enough. The board's status and duties should, 'he thinks, be defined by law. He continues: Organization Not the Best. The keynote of all enort In the Navy should be efficiency. This must start at the top. The chief duty of the Navy Is to tight. Ad ministrations may change, but the Navy'a chief does not. The question U then. Is our departmental organization the best we can have for efficiently providing, orsanlxtn'g. pre paring and directing the fleet? In the opin ion of the bureau. It Is not. A fair efficiency can be created under almost any form" of or ganization where earnest efforts are made to administer, but now common sense dictates that the hlRbest Naval efficiency Is demanded as never before for National success In war, and this must come from knowledge born of study, training and experience. The Admiral finds that the Naval War College, the Office of Naval Intelligence and the General Board each perform their respective duties satisfactorily. He con-" tinues: Naval Staff Corps Needed. It has become more evident, as the Navy increas. that some military administrative authority should be introduced into the depart ment, sueh authority to co-ordinate the work of technical bureaus and be responsible to tho Secretary for the organization and prepared ness of the fleet for war and to advise in all military matters: It should be Its duty to initiate the "Steps necessary to carry out the policy of the department, as formulated and directed by the Secretary, and under hla com mand to direct the forces in carrying out that policy. The effect of a continued policy of military administration cannot be otherwise than beneficial to efficiency. It Is not claimed that It wlH prove a cure for all evils. Changes will no doubt be required from time to time to perfect the organization, but the bureau is convinced from a study of the conditions now existing in the service that It la neces sary for the efficiency of the Navy. Its ne cessity was. recognized In our last war In the formation of a board which occupied a place In the department Itself, where the .latest' ln formatlea from, all points could be laid, before It promptly and Its advice sought and acted upon with dispatch. In a really serious war, the demands oX ne cessity will ceraser trie rurmatlon of some erxKoization fo rthe administrative features, by whatever name It may be called- Its cre ation and organization should not be delayed until war forces action. Chaffee Says "Be Heady for War." CHICAGO. Dec. 6. A dispatch to the Chronicle from Los Angeles says: At a reception In his honor last night, Lieutenant-General and Chief of Staff Adna R. Chaffee, of the United States Army, pre dicted that the United States will again go to war. This prediction was made In General Chaffee's address regarding the work of the Army. He said: "Gentlemen, war will come again. There are plenty of men in this room who will see our country at war again. Not on our own soil, perhaps; youmust remember that we have now become one of the nations of the earth. We have great Interests to defend. When that war comes we must be Intelligently prepared for It. Modem war Is not what war used to bi. No one Is now fitted to com mand troops who Is not a scientific and well-trained man. Modern war must be scientlflcully treated to save human life. The Japanese are a military people, but we are not. We do not get on with mili tary preparations as they do, but we should be ready for conflicts." Earthquakes Keep Guam Awake. AGANA. Guam. Oct. 31. via San Fran cisco, Dec. 6.) On October 27 the Navy collier Nanshan, Captain Predeaux. ar rived from Manila to replace the Supply during the tatter's absence. Several Japanese schooners of the Hlkl & Muriama Trading Company have vis ited the port during the month. ' A number of earthquakes, the first for several months, have shaken the Island recently. Npne. however, was sufficient ly Intense to do damage. Progress on the wireless telegraph sta tion at this place has been very slow, due to the difficulty of transporting the heavy masts and building materials dur ing tho rainy season. Tho Susanna Hospital for women and children has been formally opened. The opening marks a step In the progress of Guam, and was made the occasion of a popular demonstration National Incorporation of Railroads. WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. Senator New lands today introduced a resolution pro viding for the National incorporation of railroads. It asks that the Interstate Commerce Commission be directed to frame a bill and report to Congress, which will prescribe the form of all matters re lating to capitalization, dividends, taxa tion and pension system of railroads. The purpose Is to avoid the conflicting laws of the different states In regard to Incor porating. Senator Newlands asks that the railroad companies be compelled to deposit In the Treasury of the United States all sums collected In excess of rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission, pending the determination of suits arising from rate reduction. Campaign Donations by Banks. WASHINGTON. Dec, 6. Senator Till man Introduced two resolutions Intended to bring out the facts as to whether any of the National banks of the country have made campaign contributions in re cent years. Stevens Comes to Give Opinion- WASHINGTON, Dec 6. Chief Engi neer Stevens, of the Panama Canal, will sail from Colon for the United States on December 13. He comes to give his views on the type of canal to be adopted. 4 J 3