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1 8 THE rfouXJLXG- OKlfiGOXlAX, THURSDAY, tfEBRTTARY 1, 1906. Entered at the Pestofflce at Portland. Or., ,as Sece-ad-Class Matter. subsckiphojv rates. ' CT I2C VAItlAB LT IX -ADVANCE. X3 (By Mall or Express.) DAILT. SUNDAY -INCLUDED. Twelve months .;: i.. ?6-09 Six months i"'4 425 Three anofiths ....:.V,. ......... 2.25 Xtoe month : ...... ... .75 Delivered 3y carrier, per year 9.00 Delivered , carrrer."er month. -75 icssUipc, per week.,. . ...v .v....... -30 HOW TO REMIT Send postotflce money order, express order or personal check or. your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency arc at the sender's risk. EASTESN BUSINESS OFFICE. ' 'The S. C. Beckwllh Special Agency New York, rooms 43-30. Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SAVE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postotflce News Co., 178 Dearborn street. St. raul, Mian. N. St. Marie, Commercial Station. DeHver Hamilton & Kcndrlck, 906-912 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, 1214 JTtfteenth street. 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Wheatley Movable News Stand, corner Mar "ket and Kearney streets; Foster & Orear, Terry News Stand. Wasblagtoa, D. C Ebbitt House, Penasyl A&nia avenue.' PORTLAND, THURSDAY. TEBBUARTf 1. THE SHIP-BOUNTY SCHEME. There can he no doubt tbJat the United States, by legislation, could build up a great merchant marine. It could pay direct subsidies out of the Treasury, or it could enact discriminat fng duties, in favor ot American ships. But either method would gain support for our shipping at the cost of other industries of the country; for all that one industry can gain for itself in this -way, other industries must toe taxed to pay for. Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire, urges his subsidy bill; -and It is de bated in the Senate day by day. But where is the -money to come from, for payment of the subsidies? From the Treasury. And how does the Treasury get Its money? From taxation of the people. There are no magic or miracu lous sources of revenue. We can build up any Industry In the United States If -we tax every other industry to build it up. Without directly shutting out foreign ships from our ports -we could offer such profits to American ship owners as to make It . impossible for foreigners la compete "with them. But then carriage of pur goods would cost us much more than now. The method of discriminating duties, in favor of commodities carried in American vessels, is another method of subsidy; but it -will raise the price of the imported goods. Besides, it would entangle us In lall our treaty-trade reg ulations and provoke retaliatory leg islation of similar kind, by other na tions. Replying to those ovbo advocate this method, the Boston Herald says preg nantly: "If, for example, Congress were lo vote to impose a duty of 20 per cent ad valorem upon all merchandise now upon the free list that did not come Into the United States in vessels sailing un der the American flag, it would quickly cause a great American merchant ma-xine-to be Jbullt up. Such a tariff law would, in . the fiscal yetar ending June 30, 1905, provide a bounty equal to more than $100,000,000 a year, and one may be sure that this would be quite sufficient to produce the wlshed-for result. But, unfortunately, a method such as this would seriously Interfere "with other in dustries. We have arpon our free list a large variety of commodities that arc not produced in this country, such as dyewoods, gums, .chemicals, coffee, fer tilizers, vegetable fibers, goat skins, gutta percha, India rubber, manganese, -plumbago, spices, sulphur and tin. The carrying of these crude commodities, upon which duties are not exacted by the United States Custom-House, forms much of the larger part of the ocean arrying trade which has its destina tion in the United States. If all of these commodities were brought in American vessels, as, indeed, they might be if that were the only way in which a considerable duty payment could be avoided, one may be sure that, in eight or ten years time, a large proportion, certainly more than half, In bulk of the goods brought from foreign countries to the United States would come In vessels sailing under the Amer ican flag." Truly said, no doubt; yet the ultimate consequence would be thtet under such conditions we should be paying too high a price for the advantage gained. A multitude of our own Industries would be burdened by the higher prices they would be forced to pay for materials and commodities not produced in our own country, which, nevertheless, they would be compelled to have. The ship building industry therefore would be forced at expense of other Industries. Government, ought never to use its power to tax one class for support of another. Yet subsidy, in whatever wmy ' you take it, would do just this thing. For bounty, direct or Indirect, paid to anybody, somebody else has to pay. .As a result-of bounty lor ships, more over; we should soon have another "great trust',' and another crop or group -.or multi-millionaires, produced by tax ation of" the .many for the benefit of the few. "A little learning Is a dangerous .thine;" If a man desires to keep within rue bounds of truth. Senator Ixdge has learned that there is a combination of. foreign sailing ship owners, and, apparently reasoning, from analogy, and not from actual. knowledge of cir cumstances; -he concludes hat this combination has advanced rates from 5 shillings' to 10 shillings per ton. Ac cepting this statement as the truth, he makes It the basis for ta plea for a ship subsidy. As a matter of fact well .known and understood by every ship per on- thePacific . Ce-ast, the rates made "fey the 'combination are abnor mally low, eo low that there Is no profit In the business for -any but the subsi dized French ships. It Is beyond the power of this combination to advance rates so long as shipping Is as plentiful as -'it now Is all over the world, The only thing accomplished by tills combi nation of owners is the setxfclishment of a differential on grain rates between the three Pacific Coast ports. On lum ber and other freight It Is unable even to maintain a differential. t ' "WRITE ME DOWN AN ASS." The machinery of the law as It stand seems inadequate to deal with combi nations like Standard Oil and the Beef Trust. ' Several Teasons may be imag ined which partly account for the im potence of the law to restrain or control these dangerous and unscrupulous com binations. Their enormous wealth makes them masters of the best law yers in the country, for one thing, while the small .salaries paid by the public naturally secure only second or third class ability; though to this rule there are notable exceptions. Mr. Hadley, Attorney-General of Missouri, for ex ample, seems both- able and loyal. Courts are swayed in the long run to the opinion of the ablest ,,lawyers who practice before them. This may not happen in one year or Ave, but Ifta long line of very powerful attorneys consistently and unremittingly argue that a certain thing is law. In the end they will win over the court nd make it law.. This has been the case with the trusts. They have succeeded finally in gaining an Interpretation favorable to themselves of almost every existing statute -and legial principle. They have even reversed the plain Intent of legis lation directed against them and made It tell In their favor. One la almost driven to believe that It makes little difference what legislation may be en acted regarding the trusts; they will obtain court decisions in their own in terest, no matter what laws may pass. The Impotence of the courts to deal with the great corporation magnates Is Illustrated by Attorney-General Had leys experience with -H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil trust. No one has forgotten Rogers contemptuous and flippiant refusal to answer the ques tions put to him In the suit to oust the trust from Missouri. His cynical impertinence surpassed the ordinary limits of millionaire scorn for the law and became for a day or two the won der of the Nation. Mr. Hadley ap pealed to the Supreme Court of New York to compel Rogers to answer, since the proceedings were held in that state. The result of his apptsal surprises no body, for the way of a court with a trust magnate Is always easy to pre dict. An excuse was found for declin ing to compel Rogers to answer the question. No matter what the excuse was, it served its purpose. Any other would have done -as well. The Import ant point, is that the Supreme Court of New York sustains the Standard Oil man in his contempt for the law. Contempt Is contagious. Mr. Rogers thinks the courts are unworthy of re spect. The courts themselves seem to confirm his opinion. What is left for the rest of us but to agree with them? And when we all feel for the law the same contempt that Rogers docs, what will become of the Standard Oil divi dends? MR. CIXVEIAND AND THE DOCTORS. Besides his important duties as trus tee and rebate referee for the Equitable Society, ex-President Cleveland has as sumed another still more delicate and difficult. He has, In fact, undertaken to advise the State Medical Society of New York how the doctors mav Im prove their general relations with their patients. These relations, Mr. Cleve land believes, fall short of a certain warm and confidential Intimacy which would be, as balm to the sick and finan cially beneficial to the nhvslclan: and he finds the reason for it in the haughty aioorness of the doctors, or, as he puts the matter. In their "Inclination to re mind us of their stately superiority." This spiritual pride misleads the doc tors to veil their professional business In mystery, to conceal from the oatient. for example, what there is inside the pui ne nas to swallow, and to demand of the wretched sufferer a blind and abject faith in the healing power of something whose very name he is for bidden to know. Not only that, but they dress up common, every-day mal adies like rheumatism and wind colic In Latin and Greek names of learned length and solemn sound to amaze the rest of the world and Inflate their own vain pomp. Thus Mr. Cleveland indicts the doc tors, and, before undertaking to defend them, one may as well admit that his charges tare not groundless The med ical proiession has its paraphernalia of vanity a certain tone in conversation. a style of coat, a cut of whiskers, a cast of countenance but so have min isters and lawyers. The clertrvrmanv vest is an offering to vanity as unmls- taKaoie as the physician's polysyllables, and pray what else is the Judre's vect or the college president's cap and gown as long as common men, whether sick or well, are Impressed by pomp ana pretentious display, the pro fessions must and will use these means to success. Doctors retain in .their de meanor the Tellcs of medieval mwt which Mr. Cleveland denounces, not be cause they love charlatanrv. hut lo calise their patients demand it. Th physician Is as frank as he dares to De; out the fact is that most people still believe sickness and health to be mat ters of magic, sorcery and incantation. They believe that their bodilv wii a. pehds upon mysterious and arbitrary iorces oeyona uie control of science. They have little confidence In the laws of chemistry and physiology. Multi tudes of people still nut faith in Hti- ogy. Cheiromancy has thousands of devout disciples. The "human, race is inclined to humbuggery by its very nature, some deep. Inborn quality makes us love to be fooled, .m even recover frdm malignant diseases under the Influence of magic ceremonies wnen au the resources of science have failed. Holtzmann recounts in his Hf of Jesus that in 1891 the steht of th famous Holy Coat of Treves cured eleven cases of disease, and he adds the .testimony of German nhrK!Hnn that no other explanation bfthese cures is possible. Since the Holy Coat is not widely available, who can blame the doctors for doing their best to replace Its influence with a veil of mystery? Mystery is a valuable theraneutJe agent, but it has other uses also. Sup-, nose every nail en t knew what mlHn' he was taking. If it happened to cure him, then forthwith, In five cases out f ten, he would go about among his neighbors prescrlblBg the same remedy for every complaint which had Uw least resenAiaBce- to-hts w, aad, eack is human nature, the wosld galp It down with unhesitating faith. It would make no difference to the apostle -or his victims whether the doce were ar senic or bread pills; "he would prcecrl.be It with the same hilarious recklessness and' they would swallow It with the same confidence. Fer tils reseoa, if-for no other. It is best to take what the. doctor prescribes and ask no Besueee; Our ignorance of the dose Is the only thing that keeps us from murdering own ...frknds with it. There is something to be said, too, in palliation of the doctors offense of giv ing .. Jong Greek names to diseases. These names are. repellant to ordinary people, and shocking to classical taste, but, for all that, they serve a useful purpose. They are part of the Interna tional language of science, understood by learned men everywhere The peri odicals wiiich doctors must read to keep up with their profession are print ed In many languages. The labor of perusing them is enormous at best, but it is appreciably diminished by a nom enclature common to the whole learned world. The barbarous Greek deriva tives which Mr. Cleveland so dislikes are a long step toward the universal language which is the dream of scien tific men. This alone would justify their use, faut they have a value greater still. No science can become exact without an exact nomenclature. Its language must -be definite and fixed In meaning. Popular names of diseases have no scientific value because their meanings vary with time and locality. Moreover, medical terms are construct ed to show the relations between dis eases; each of them Is the condensed statement of the results of Investiga tion and thought. The language of sci ence Is one of the penalties we must pay for the benefits of exact knowledge Should the doctors follow Mr. Cleve land's advice and cease to use their jargon, the result would not be that abolishment of mystery for which he pleads, but a reversion- to ignorant charlatanry. JOINT RATES AND DIFFERENTIALS. Our Tacoma friends have become un duly excited over the recent announce ment of a Portland exporter that his firm would move to Tacoma "If the joint rate on wheat is granted and the present differential In export rates con tinues." The Ledger has much to say about alleged "discrimination" which It asserts the O. R. & N. has made In favor of Portland. That paper con tends that Portland exporters '-'have en joyed a Joint rate for years over the Northern Pacific and O. R. & X., but they are unwilling to permit Tacoma to have the same privilege." All of -rchlch, of course, is so grotesquely erroneous as to be hardly worthy of serious con tradiction. Mr. Thomas Kerr, of this city, who created such a furore with his announcement -of what he would do "If the present differential in export rates continues," Js not going to Tacoma be cause the market price of wheat Is higher at Tacoma than it Is ot Port land. He Is going there because Institution of a joint rate will make eo much more territory tributary to Puget Sound that the price of wheat in Puget Sound's im mediate and exclusive territory will be depreciated to the great advantage of the foreign buyer, to whom Mr. Kerr's firm sells the wheat. Herein lies the Injustice of the joint rate. It does not increase the prico of wheat to the farmer In O. II & N. territory, it de preciates the price In territory contig uous to Puget Sound, and It penalizes a road which had sufficient enterprise to build Into the Palouse country by forcing It to turn its business over to roads lacking In such enterprise. If the Ledger believes that Mr. Kerr is about to transfer his business to Puget Sound because he will have to pay more for his wheat than It Is now costing him, It might as well revise its -Iews on the matter. A comparatively insignificant portion of the wheat shipped from the Pacific Northwest" now goes out In the form of wheat to Europe (the only des tination affected by the Is 3d differen tial laguinst Portland). The comparative insignificance of that business Is shown by the figures for the season to date, which show wheat shipments (flour Included) to Eu rope of 7,98,000 bushels; to all other ports, 1S.S07.000 bushels. Portland ex porters can charter steamers today at exactly the same figures that are de manded of the Puget Sound shippers. The steamship Is an up-to-date carrier, and the up-to-date owners recognize the superior advantage of Portland and send their vessels here without hinting at a differential. The ancient sailing ship, whose ancient owners have put in effect this Is 3d differential, as will be seen by the figures above. Is practically out of the business. Even these relics of a bygone age, who ms.Cc the differ ential, are showing signs of returning reason, and It is almost a certainty that, before another shipping season opens, vessels can be chartered at the same rate at any of the three ports Portland, Puget Sound and San Fran cisco. While on the subject of differentials it is noted that the Ledger terms th'is. is 3d as "Incontestable evidence -of the superiority of this port" (Tacoma). If the Ledger is sincere In its faith In this evidence, it cannot escape from admit ting that San Francisco Is vastly su perior to Tacoma as a seaport. The same Ancieyit Order of Fossilized Sail ing Ship Owners that levied & dlfferea.-. tlal of is 3d on grain rates against Portland in favor of Puget Sound have also made a differential of 3s 9d per ton against Puget Sound In favor of San Francisco. Reduced to mathematics, and accepting the "Ledger's line of rea soning as correct, this would show quite clearly that San Francisco is su perior to Tacoma to the extent of M cents per ton, while all the advantage Tacoma claims over Portland is 30 cents per ton. If nothing else were available to -show the ridiculous, unfair and unjust nature of this differential fixed by the foreign sailing ship owners, that heavy Ss Sd differential against Puget Sound In favor of San Francisco would be sufficient. Other and even more striking proof Is available, however, for Kerr, Glfford & Co., who supply the text for the Ta coma psalms of rapture, have an asso ciation ship ut Portland, to which port she came with cargo. That ship could secure a charter at Portland, where she Is now lying, at s 3d, the association rate for Puget Sound. Her port ex penses have, with the exception of load ing outward ballast to make the trip to Puget Sound, all been paid, and yet her owners will send her to Puget Sotmd at an added expense of from J12W te to load at Tacoma at 2Ss 3d. This transaction, If conducted by escaped lu natics temporarily enjoying freedom, might be all right, but waea It clear ly the work f foreign shipowners pre sumably i yessessloa of .sue- faculties as were given them by tHe Afenfgfety, it is difficult to uaderstand. Cooftmerehl idiocy of this-type, how ever, Ss abort-lived, and the Is 3d dlf- ferenUal will fade away Just as the ls-$d differential against Paget Sound iat fever of San Francisco will vanish. Tfce Tacoma 'News' in "congratulatory vein touches an another phase of the matter, as foUews: Erea Is Um fice of tn fact that nixh msttstala raaces sbk be creeaed. the trxa. costlaeatal zailr&iAa are fcaytec tiselr tens! J xre.tR Taeeat ax set hi Portland a dty tfeat ay W reac&e W "water-iraa rwKe. . It might be well for the editor of the News to read the papers even his own paper. If he will do so, he will learn that the Xerthera Pacific and Great Northern jointly are building a railroad 'down that "water grade" to Portland at an expense for construction, bridges and, terminal grounds of approximately 15,69,tt$. Thousands of men are rush ing work on this line, and fabulous prices have been paid for right of way at disputed points and for terminal grounds in this city. Of course Mr. mil. the controlling force in this great work, is just throwing away his mil lions for the fun of It. He has not yet been advised that the Washington Rail road Commiseloa and a few foreign shipowners who carry less than 25 per cent of Portland's grain trade have re moved this city- from the commercial map. And yet there are people who be lieve that Mr. HUl is rushing that line down the Columbia River with the In tention of using It for hauling freight to Portland. The steel trust has completed its financial statement for the year 1905, and the net earnings arc 5120.000.C-00. This Is very close to the record year of 1M2. when 3133.000.000 went Into the pockets of the thrifty gentlemen who are nursing this feeble Infant Industry on much-needed protective tariff pap. Business picked up remarkably at the close oflnrear, and. after allowing the usual deductions, including the div idend oa preferred stock, there was a surplus of 51S.fl6.5S3r, compared with a surplus of but &S33.G0O for the corre sponding quarter in 1504. This material Increase Is a hopeful sign, and warrants the belief that the "infant" may In crease In strength In the next 30 or 300 yeirs so that It can hustle for Its own sustenance, and give wheatgrowing, slockralslng, dairying and some other infant industry a. chance at the pro tective tariff teat. Mr. Wanzer, who enters the employ of the Union Pacific, may have been woefully short on experience In the game of politics of the peculiar ftlnd that ousted him from office In this city, but hts talent as an engineer is not of the kind that is dependent on political favor'of the reform brund. The "Inter ests of the city" (political, interests) are alleged to have demanded his removal from an office which he filled to the satisfaction ot the taxpayers, who foot the bills, but his merit and ability re mained unquestioned by men who em ploy engineering talent without regard to political ability. They seem to think they can do some thing to restore law and order In Chi cago by holding great indignation meet ings. Absurd. ' What Is the use to worry about trifling crimes like mur der, assault and robbery when the only real, problem to be solved by Chicago Is .public ownership of street railways? When they have public ownership everybody will be happy and there will be no crime. That Is the theory on which Mayor Dunne and the city adr ministration are proceeding. And we know bow it is in Portland. The Victoria sealing fleet, which is hunting off Cape Horn, Is making much larger catches this year than were made last year. The season for the hunters In the Antarctic last year was. highly remunerative and herds were en countered of nearly as great dimensions as those which roamed the North Pa cific before the Priblloff Island monop oly and Dr. Jordan's theories drove them to new fields. Mr. Longworth. and Miss Roosevelt went down New York Bay to meet a truns-Atlantlc steamer, and, says the account, "an attempt was made to lower a companion ladder for Miss Roosevelt, but the delay In doing this was too great, and she boarded the steamer by the pilot ladder." It's none of our business., but we'd like to know what became of Longworth. "The Oregonian says business is bet ter In Portland since the Fair. That is as It should be, for did not the state rise up as one man and pass over all the coin It had?" remarks the Salem Capital Journal. If It did. It was a brief Interruption only of Its historic policy of passing it all over to Salem. But business has now been resumed at the old stand. "Be neat In appearance and gentle manly In dealing with the public," Is Captain Bruints latest Injunction to his subordinates in the police department. Yes, by all means; and If any unlucky crossing-sweeper happens to soil your immaculate raiment, club him to death oh the spot. The crusade against San Jose scale should ot be limited to ceuntry or chards. Nowhere is the pest more plen tiful than on fruit trees In the towns and cities. The spray pump or the ax should destroy the pest In city as well as country. The move to exclude vaudeville from the city schools Is a good one. It wouldn't do any harm to extend the crusade to the police department, also. Yoa Can't Beat Tm. Philadelphia Record. An attractive and altogether "bonny" young business wera&n of this city came here irflh a. larce stock tt nmnHtv a small amount of practical knowledge oi uic worm to carve out tier rortunc. after sajsalnr her rirlhrwvl risva In min. burgh and London. Although without any unaue amount oz seu-consaousness or egotism, she Is some Urn ex annoyed by the very evident admiration she attracts in public places. The other day. while dining in a restaurant, she fancied that the man ABSoeite -rcas nrenarlnr in to her, as he jclanced her way, and seemed to ie raaxing up nis mind to open a con versation. The Tounr woman unimMi most frigid air and looked as unapproach able as mc Arctic poie. xnt man as he left the table made one more half-fioa rf attempt to speak, etuafced red to his cars. ranee away. r sen ittc young wo max nnlafced bee Isaeheea asd called for her check, the waitress amased her by exclaiming: "Why, I thought you were with that xrntlcraan. -1 -omt msr and his togstfcer." The bin bad manfully THE -SILVER LINING. ' Thought fee the Bay. Life is real, life is vivid. And the grave Is cot its goal; If the gas nan turns you livid. And 'tis hard to pay for coal, -Think how Winter turns to Summer,' Think of when your wife's away; Show your dukes to any comer. Fight the battle and be gay. A HBALLARD. . This blooming fog 'is like home, don't ye know." Tho Englishman within .our gates is thriving, and bubbling over with Joy. So the Swifts are going to kill meat for tho entire Northwest at St. Johns. Several men made a b!g killing down there In real estate, and the turn of the beef butchers comes In correct rotation. Keep .your money In Oregon Is good advice. When It Is possible, do a little better than" that ktep it in your own pocket. It Is said that considerable progress Is being made in England in the movement for restoring the use of knee breeches. .Some fellows In town like the prospect and some don't. A friend of mine who says he has never been able to find a man who Is older or who weighs more than himself, is watching with special Interest the spread of the knlckerbocker fashion Into this country. It Is up to Mr. Harry Lehr to make the first move. Definitions. (Tips on the race of life.) ' WOMAN An absorbent for taking the color out of men's hair and making male heads bald. MOTHER-IN-LAW Oh. help! help! OFFICE-BOY The root of all evil. STENOGRAPHER A restaurant cele brated for its lunches. CHORUS GIRL An invention to make men ask questions. DEAD-HEAD The man who advertised In a theater programme five years ago and has been asking for free tickets ever since. THEATER HOG A kind of meaningless cerebral activity called oscillation. DRESS A dangerous and partially un derstood element which, like electricity, ha? killed many people and sent others to he Insane asylum. WIFE The heroine who shares little of your pleasure and bears all your woes. Appendicitis has been successfully treat ed In Germany by the use of a silver so lution called collanjtol. What will the fashionable surgeons do now? There arc slot machines Iri Stockholm which give a glass of warm milk for a copper cent. The slot machine Is reform ing by degrees. If the acreage of the large cities in tho United State Is as follows: New York. 3.21S:JChIcago. 122.C03; Philadelphia. S2. S33; Boston. 27.231: St. Louis. 33.377: Cleve land. 22,422. and Cincinnati. 2S.JS0. what's the size of Governor Chamberlain's hat? Last year the railroads of the United States placed orders for 23CO passenger cars, n 7.000 freight cars. 1120 locomotives and one hospital car. The last named ar rived In Tortland yesterday. It Is good, and, of course, lonely. mam A Symphony' In Black and White. TIME lOOd. FLACE Island of Manhattan, in the Northern Sa. near Hell Gate. SCENE A Baptist Church filled with the uiual belllserent. DRAMATIS PERSONAE Rev. Thomas Dixon. author-lecturer-playwrlsht: Rev. Madison C Peter, pastor of the church in flamed: several other nexro religious cour iers; choir ot male and female voices. (Whites and black mingle In the body Of the church. An anjnr murmur rumble around araonjr the mob threateningly.) (Hymn chanted by choir softly from orsan ,ery' HYMN. Only a little- stocking. A medley In black and white: But the clash was simply shocking,' And It kept me awake all night. (Enter Mr. Peters. R. U. E. Dixon and stacks of blues, whites and reds discov ered In various attitudes and places near the pulpit.) REV. MR. PETERS Virtue in negro women Is so rare that any consideration of It Is futile. (Chews soap and foams.) (Clash between whites and blacks so great that the police arc called In.) REV. MR.'- DIXON The only solution of the .negro problem by which a race war within this century can be avoided Is by a peaceful and friendly colonization of the African. This has never been tried se riously. President Lincoln would have accomplished this great task had he lived out his year. The man who freed the negro was, at the time of his death, pre paring a scheme for removing him from this country. When Mr. Ogden and Mr. Choate enter taln.knegnes In their homes as social equals' It Is humbug. They arc fooling themselves and the public. Let the negro they seat at their tables dare to make love to their daughters and see how quick ly they would kick him downstairs. Yet the right to love and wed one's love Is the badge of human fellowship. We must remove the negro or we will have to tight him. And this thins:, half devil and half child." Is supposed to be your equal, and actually claims that equality. He does not get It now, but 0 years from now 60.0CO.0CO negroes will claim those equal rights, and will take them If they are re fused. (Hunt butts In from the O. P. side.) REV. GRANVILLE HUNT Brother Dixon seems possessed of the fear that the negro man would beat the whites In the battle of life. REV. E. EL JACKSON. REV. M. W. GILBERT, REV. C. E. MORRIS, MR. THOMAS FORTUNE (In chorus) Yes, yes. yes. yes. yes. YES! (Some Southerners In the rear of the audience vigorously sound the "rebel yell." Wild pandemonium ensues.) (Exeunt omnes.) And there's your problem. Love the 31agiclaa. Philadelphia Bclletls. When first he met sweet Mandy Let. althoasa her face waa fair He thought her grasunar was enough to drive one to desaalr. Asd when he nw her with a swala It rare hi nervee a turn. Oa beutx asked whose beau it wa to hear Jser aay 'twas "hern." Bat Cupid ha most wendreaa ways, as every i crac must know: . He fell In !ot with Saandy I- asd wee her from her baa. Now when he aska whose girl she la asd data i " her form IracrVcs It does not jar hi serve a felt to hear ber aay ass's "kkra." - - I : KING-LEOPOLD'S SOLILOQUY; (Note. "Slas Leopold's Soliloquy: A De fease of Bis Cob so Kule." 13 the title of a beeJc written by Mark Twain, otherwlaa knew as Sasavel L. Cleiaens, and Just pub HeJted by tb R. P. Warren Company, Boa t "With, all that satire and cattlEe sar easas far whteh Mark Twain Is noted, he ex pesee the takiaftles of the rule of King Leo PM II. of Belgium, in tho region of the Caage State, Africa. In 1SS5, at a confer eae held la Berlla. Germany, of representa tive of 14 governments. Including that o talc eeaatry. k was agreed that an. assocla tla jmder the leadership of Leopold II should rale tbe Casgs. with Leopold as sovereign. The sew state pledged Itself to "seek the iBeral and material regeneration and welfare" of tie- Coego natives. It Is now charged that soldiers acting under Leopold's orders force natives to bring India rubber from tho Interior, have murdered and maimed eo many of these natives that In 20 years of King Leopold's administration the Congo popula tion has fceen reduced from 25.000.000 to 13. 090,60a. 3ark Twata's book contains photo sraoha ahawlnr natives whose feet and hands have been cut off by Leopold's soldiers: In hi seilloquy. King Leopold represented reading" various pamphlets in which his ruth less policy Is attacked by missionaries and others. Extracts from his soliloquy follow.); "In these 20 years I have spent mil lions to keep the press of tho two hem ispheres quiet, and still these leaks keep on occurring. I have spent other millions on religion and art, and what do I get for it? Nothing. Not a com pliment. These generosities are studledly Isrnored, In print- Grant them true, what of it? They are slanders all the same, when uttered against a King. Thoy prefer to work up what they call 'ghastly statistics' Into offensive kindergarten object lessons, whose pur pose is to make sentimental people shudder, and prejudice them against me. They remark that if the innocent blood ?hed in the Congo State by King Leopold wore -put in buckets und the buckets placed side by side, the Una would stretch 2000 miles; If the skel etons of his ia.030,000 of starved and butchered dead could rise up and march In aingle file, It would take them seven montfis and four days to pass a given point; if compacted together In a body, they would occupy more ground than St. Louis covers. World's Fair and all; if they should all clap their bony hands at once, tho grisly crash would bo heard at a distance of D n. It makes me tired. And they do similar miracles with the money I have distilled from that blood and put into my pocket. They pllo it into Egyptian pyramids: they carpet Saharaa with It; they 'spread It across the sky, and tho shadow It casts makes twilight In the earth. And the tears I have caused, the hearts I have broken oh, nothing can persuade them to let them aloneP (Reads a passage from a diary:) Bach time the Corporal goes out to get rub ber, cartridges are given him. He must brlnr hack all not uwd. and for every one used he must bring back a right hand. M. P. told me that sometimes they shot a cart ridge at an animal In hunting; they then cut off a hand from a living man. As to the ex tent to which thta Is carried on. he Informed me that In six months the State on tho Mam bo go River had used 6000 cartridges, which means that 6000 people are killed or mutilated. It means more than 6000. for the pcopl hae told nae repeatedly that the soldiers kill the children with the butt of their guns. "As to the mutilations. You can't head off a Congo critic and make him stay headed-off; he dodges, and straightway comes hack at you from another direction. They are full of slippery arts. When the mutilations (severing hands, etc.j began to stir Europe, we hit upon the Idea of ex cusing them with a retort which we Judged would ' knock them dizzy on that subject for good and - all, and leave them nothing more to say; to wit, we boldly laid the custom on the natives, and said wo did not Invent it, but only followed it. Did it knock them dizzy? did it shut their mouths? Not for an hour. They dodged, and came straight back at us with the re mark that. If a Christian King can perceive a. serving moral difference be tween Inventing bloody barbarities, and imltjfting them from savages, for charity's sake let him get what com fort he can out of his confession!' "They have called me 'The King with ten thousand murders on his souL They Imagine Death coming with his scythe and hour-glass, and begging- me to marry his daughter and reorganize his plant and run the busi ness. For the whole world, you seel By this time their diseased minds are under full steam, and they get down their hooks and expand their labors, with mo for text. They hunt through all biography for my match, working Attlla. Torquemada. Ghengits Khan, Ivan the Terrible, and the rest of that crowd for all they are worth, and evilly exulting- when they cannot And it. Then they examine the historical earthquakes and cyclones and bliz zards and cataclysms and volcanic eruptions: verdict, none of them in If with me. At last they do really hit it (as they think), and they close their labors with conceding reluctantly that I have one match in history, but only one the Flood. This Is intem perate. "One Englishman offers to give me the odds of three to one and bet me anything- I like, up to 20.000 guineas, that or 2.000,099 years 1 am going to be tho most conspicuous foreigner In hell. The man Is so beside himself with anger that he does not perceive that the idea Is foolish. Another mad man wants to construct a memorial for the perpetuation of my name, out of my 13,080,000 skulls and skeletons, and Is full of vindictive enthusiasm over his strange project. He has It all ciphered out and drawn, to scale. Out of the skulls he will build a com bined monument and mausoleum to me which shall exactly duplicate the Great Pyramid of Cheops, whoso base covers 13 acre3, and whose apex, Is 451 feet above ground. He desires to Btuff me and stand me up In the sky on that apex, robed and crowned, with my p!rzte flag in one hand and a hutcher-knlfe and pendant handcuffs In the other. It 13 remarked further that my output is 530,000 corpses a. year when my plant la running full time, and that If I am spared ten years longer there will be fresh skulls enough to add 175 feet to the pyramid, making It by a long way the loftiest architectural construction on earth." (Beads) Htn Intimidated by torture ot their -wives and daughters. (To make the men furnish rubber and supplies and so get their captared women released from chains and detention.) The sentry explained to me that he caught the women and brought them In (chained together neck to neck) by direc tion of hla employer. An agent explained that he was forced to catch women In preference to men. as then the men brought ta. supplies quicker; but he did not explain bow the children .deprived of their pareats obtained their own food supplies. A tile of 15 (captured) women. Allowing womca and children to die ot starvation In prison. (Musing) "Death from hunger. A lingering:. long misery that must be. Days and days, and still days and days, the forces of the body falling, dribbling- s.way, little by little yes. it "must be the hardest death of all. And to see fsod carried by, every day, and you can have none ef It Of course the little children cry for It, and that wrings the mother's heart. ... (A sigh) Ah. well. It cannot be helped; circumstances make this '-discipline, accessary- : HOW THE BOYCOTT SPREAD. Thomas F. Millard in Scribners- The chief agency employed in the extea- sion of the Chinese boycott agitation was. naturally, publicity. Several channels were used; newspapers, placards, and cartoons being the principal ones. In the course ot several months hundreds of thousands of placards, pamphlets and pictorial caricatures were circulated throughout the empire. I have se a large number of these publications. Soma were amusing, some Interesting, and some alarming. The cartoons usually repre sented a Chinese being maltreated by a white man, presumably an American, al though no particular pains were taken to preserve national Identities In many of them. How these posters were circu lated was at first hard to discover. Nat urally, tho provincial and local officials were anxious to keep their skirts clear, fearing retribution in some form, and pre tended to, and In many instances did pro hibit the' distribution ot boycott- circulars and cartoons. But a convenient agency was found. Within the last few years thousands of Japanese, many of them Buddhist priests, have gone to China and are now scat tered to tho remotest parts of the coun try, where other foreigners are seldom. If ever, seen. Some estimates place tha number of these Japanese now in China as high as 50.000. although this Is prob ably a mere guess. However, It I? cer tain that thousands of Japeneso trades men and commercial agents have settled v In various remote parts of the empire, adopting the life of the people and often their dress. Since other foreigners arc not permitted to live or engage In business outside the treaty ports. It will be per ceived that considerable present and pros pective commercial advantage promises to accrue through this condition, which will not be shared by other nations. Dis missing this phase of the matter, thero Is good reason to believe that these Japa nese were Instrumental In furthering tho circulation of the boycott propaganda. In fact, many instances where they did so are positively known. As time passed, and reports ot tha spread of the movement In the Interior began to reach the foreign population centers, it became known that many of the placards and cartoons circu lated outside the established sphere of foreign contact were of an absolutely in cendiary character, couched in the same general anti-foreign spirit that the "box er" movement took root in, Turning to purely internal evidences of tho awakening of China, they- may bo found on every side. And while foreign and quasi-foreign Influence will be deeply felt in the forthcoming transformation, the fundamental factors are to be found In the people and country: for whatever political manifestations attend the evolu tion, these will always remain the chief elements with which they must be worked out- After several visits to China, and observation of and association with them in peace, internal disorder and war. C confess to a sincere liking and admira tion of the Chinese people. This Is no sudden or sentimental impression, but rather one which has evolved gradually from an originally adverse predisposition.. In so far as any general characteristics can be associated with a race it seems to me that the Chinese are industrious, re liable, law-abiding, good-humored, capa ble, and tolerant. These are good quali ties, and Intelligently directed In the path ot modern progress cannot fail to accom plish great results. In the prevalent Western conception of tho Chinese there are. I think, several radical errors. One Is that they are ad verso to modern Improvements: another that they have no military capacity: an other that they are incapable of playing a. significant part In the political regener ation of the nation, owing to absence of a national 3plrlt- Without pausing to dis cuss these propositions In detail. I will ask If these things could not have been said, with a considerable- semblance of .truth, about Japan, half a century ago? And they were no. more true of the Jap anese people then than they arc of tho Chlness people today. The Chinese as a people have never been averse to modern progress, except as their government has incited them to be, and used its authority and Influence to keep them as they were. And this Is true. I think, of the history of all peoples. Take tho matter of rail roads in China. Far many years, or so long as the official classes circulated among the people fantastic reports about the foreign steam monsters, so long as they were taught to believe that the pas sage of a railway would be a desecration of the graves of their ancestors, the peo ple were bitterly hostile to the building of such roade and were easily Incited to attack surveying parties and the like. Senator Heyburn's Speech. Bolso Statesman. His long-promised arraignment of th forest service and the newspapers was made by Senator Heyburn In the Senate yesterday. The public will agree that the Senator has not done himself credit by making this attack. What appears to be his purpose Is so indefensible tha,t any thing he might say would be regarded with suspicion, and what ha did say seems to have been so far removed from candid consideration of the governing facts that It is to be regretted he spoke at all. The unfortunate animus ot Senator Hey burn's attack upon the forest service, and indirectly upon the President, was empha sized by the manner in which he criticised Governor Gooding. In his speech he at tacked the latter for having entered Into an understanding with Mr. Plnchot rela tive to the relations between the state and the forest service, and he stated the Gov ernor had taken 3teps In pursuance ot that agreement that were contrary to law. What the Governor has done in connec tion with these land matters has been done with an eye single to the best In terests of the state, and it does not sound well for a Senator from the state to at tack his acts on the ground that they ara illegal. If the good accomplished is to bo attacked, the assault should come from some other quarter. The Woman Who Talks. Exchange. A woman came to my house and said she couldn't stay. Remarked that she was hurried and would have to haste away; And so, as I'm sagacious. I took my rod and line And opined that I'd go Cshlnr. as the day was looking flno. And I stayed and I stayed till the sun begaa to eet -. And I stayed and I stayed till the aky had turned to jet. Then I took my rod and line and I sought my home once more Do you think the woman'd flitted? She was standing by the door. Just to talk and to talk and to talk and .to talk. And to talk and to talk. Then 2 took a little walk. And when I sousht my couch at last, the rest of sleep to get. She was standing by the door and waa talk ing, talking yet. I love the tribe of women, and have loved It since a child, But when one says that she's In haate I want to be exiled Jfot very far, but far enough: somewhere In foreign lands; 'Perhaps to Madagascar or the hot Sahara's sands And when she llfta her alto voice to aay, "1 cannot stay," I woader where I'd better go to pass the buj day. Of course abe goes I know ahedoea exactly to the door; , But there she stops to talk a bit. and thea ta talk some more; To talk and talk and talk and talk asd, 'talk and talk and talk There's not a thing beneath the sua that caa Oh, yea. I love tha women, and r ever, evar f But I hope for some approval when I say I love theaa a till.