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IDRTUIXD. 1U1DAV. 31 ARCH in. 100G. SENATORIAL MADNESS. It Js the fashion in certain quarters lo speak or the Republican Senators he oppose President Roosevelt as conservative." while those who .up !Mrt his measures are called "radical. Thi nomenclature is not wholly unjust. It has as much fairness as could he ex vected from those who use It: perhaps wore. A "conservative" is properly one who tries to "conserve" something from destruction or decay, as salt does meat or formaldehyde does stale fish. When the thins: to be conserved is already bad'.v decomposed, the task of savins t naturally becomes difficult. This 1b the case with our conservative Sena tors who have undertaken to do for the special privileges of the railroad cor porations what creosote does for a rot ten ham. Some of these conservative Senators, like Elkins. are members of lawless railroad companies: some depend upon the corporations for their places, like Dryden: some, like Foraker, aspire to higher honors through corporation in fluence: but all of thm are zealous in performing their antineptic function, and they bulk at no means which they think will serve their purpose. Their plan of campaign in thcpresent ses sion of Congress has been to work sys tematically to discredit President Roosevelt, and they have done this be cause they Justly regard him an the principal menace to the monstrous and intolerable tyranny which the corpora tions exercise over the Nation. If they ji discredit the President and destroy his Influence, as they reason, corpor ate plutocratic rule, with all Its iniqui ties, will be safe Indefinitely. Their reasoning te wrong, for the struggle against the oligarchy of spe cial privilege is a deep and resistless National movement. If It loses one leader it will find, another: and. the cor Itorations -would learn to their sorrow, should Mr. Roosevelt be displaced, that his successor, as- an exponent of the people's determination, would not be lew radical than he is, but more so. The President is the best friend the cor oratloits have in public life, because he wishes to be absolutely fair. To break down his influence would not in trench the plutocracy in its iniquitous priviloge.; it would, on the contrary, dear the way for t?ome demagogue whose mandate from the people would be to execute wrath instead of justice, la resisting justice the corporations invite the whirlwind, as Mr. Rayner and others have warned them. But Ihey are deaf to warning. Tlfey fatu ously style themseles a "bulwark against popular passion"; they are nothing more than pebbles on the sea shore which the -evolutionary tide that makes for justice will presently over whelm. The one -effectual bulwark be tween the Indignation of the people and the corporations is the National confi dence in the unbending Integrity of the President; and this confidence the cor poration Senators are trying to destroy. Their conspiracy involves two steps: the first, to thwart all those measures which the 'President recommends: the Fecond, to. vilify him because those measures have failed. This method of ruining a man has often been applied before, botli in public and private life, and -has frequently succeeded. It is based upon the belief that the plain people are too ignorant to learn the truth for themselves and too stupid to penetrate even a shallow artifice. The tyranny of the plutocrats, like all other tyrannies, makes contempt for popular intelligence the first article of its creed. The first part of the Sena torial .conspiracy against the President has been fairly successful. All his fa vorite measures but one have been killed. Revision of the Philippine tariff, Uie Santo Domingo treaty,, the joint statehood bill, are all dead; and the corporation Senators are glib with fair and specious excuses for the slaughter. The Philippine tariff as it stands protects the beetgrower; the treaty Invades the sacred prerogatives of the Senate; the joint statehood bill deprived the people of Arizona of the right to vote upon the question of ad misskm to the Union. These reasons Hnd well, but they are all dislngcnu- The bills -were killed to discredit the President "Lok at your Roosevelt," AJdrlch and the other corporation Sen ators say to the people, "he is the man who tts going to do things. What has fce 4a?" This seeend move in the conspiracy they are now making with syreat parade and pomp. The President 4 a httmbttg; a false alarm, hecanse he fee accomplished aethtec. They go so far as to say that nothing has been done toward digging the Isthmian Ca nal. Mr. Roosevelt, it Is shrieked, has brought nothing but confusion and cor ruption to Panama. This Is not true, but the Senate .has done its best by meddling and obstruction to make It true. It Is a malignant lie. but the cor poration Interests think nothing of lies to gain their ends. Witness the brazen perjuries of the beef-trust retainers in the Chicago trial. Witness the compla cent mendacity of the railroad presi dents before the Senate committee last April. The corporation Senators know, and everybody else knows, that the denial of tariff reform and rate regulation will probably make the next Congress Dem ocratic. They are now shamelessly taking measures to throw the blame for this also upon the President. It will come about, they say, on account of popular disgust with his radicalism. They are quite willing to ruin the Re publican party to save the special priv ileges of the corporations which they represent. Party means no more to them than honor or patriotism. "What they really hope for Is to build up a plutocratic party from both Republi can and Democratic malcontents and carry the next Presidential election by wholesale bribery. "What they dread most keenly Is to see Mr. Roosevelt nominated for a second elective term. It may be, however, that their own safety as well as the safety of the coun try depends upon . that very contin gency which they are working so hard to forestall. TOO KAKLY FOU HARD TIMKS. The period of unrest and financial uneasiness that always reaches its height at a Presidential election has become so distinctly a feature of our National life that it is regarded as per fectly natural and unavoidable. Rea soning from the experience of the past, timid people are already commencing to croak mildly over possible trouble two years hence. A prosperous, well-fed Eastern financier who rode into Port land in a private car a few'days ago, In an interview printed in The'Orego nian expressed the belief that the coun try was about to take another plunge Into a period of hard times. His rea sons for such a belief were the usual ones given the approaching Presiden tial election, excess of speculation, a general feeling of unrest among the working classes. Fortunately for . the people, the prpsperity of the country Is too pronounced, and new wealth Is be ing created too rapidly, to admit of an accurate comparison of this ytr with any of its predecessors. There will, of course, be some dis agreement at the coming Presidential election as to whether the trusts or the people own the country, and there Is a possibility that a change in National sentiment may switch to the consumers and producers some of the millions that have in the past been absorbed by our "infant" Industries. But the million aires who are thus deprived of their colossal tariff graft will be the only ones who will feel any bad effects from the change. The country as a whole has added to Its stock of wis dom as well as wealth. The last pre vious era of hard times is not so far in the remote past that the memory of what happened then has become a blur. A great many thousand people who were submerged by that wave of financial depression still remember the sensation, and in the years of pros perity that lmve followed they have been continually on their guard against a. repetition of their unpleasant finan cial experience. These people will not be caught nap ping again, and, being on their guard, will be prepared not only to weather any financial gale that may blow, but also to help others less fortunately sit uated. Several years of good cro;s and high prices have placed the fan.- f the country in excellent condll".. for meeting a period "of adversity. i-vi-:i if It should come. So far as the Pacific Northwest is concerned, there Is an ex tremely remote possibility of any im mediate change in present conditions. Our prosperity is founded on the ever increasing output of farms, forests, fisheries and mines, and for all of these products there is an ever-increasing demand. They are staples and will' sell in times when luxuries must be reject ed. It is not only the people and mnll corporations that have been guarding against hard times by preparing for them, but the railroads have also been getting out anchors lo the windward. An item in yesterday's Oregonlan mentioned the appropriation by the O. R. &. N. Co. of $600,000 for the purpose of straightening out the curves and re ducing grades on a fewf miles of track between Portland and The Dalles. An enormous expenditure more than the original cost of the track involved had already been made for a portion of the distance, and with the money now available the track will be in perfect condition by the end of the year aud the cost per ton per mile of handling freight will be very much lower than it was when 4he last previous financial panic forced the road into the hands of a receiver. Not only will the main line of the road be in the best possible shape for economical operation, but a number of fee!Ters will be contributing to the revenues. The West may feel a breath of the storm which the Eastern finan ciers are predicting, but it is a certainty that we are better prepared for it than we have ever ben before, and can suf fer -but little, so long as we continue to produce in such large quantities sta plesin which the whole world stands In need, in bad times as well as good times. WAR ON MOSQUITOES. Consul-General Guenther. Qf Frank fort, reports that the director of the Breslau hygienic institute, having made a systematic war upon anosqul toes, Ib satisfied with the results. The first object -was to destroy egg-bearing females, which were found in large numbers in the damp cellars of Breslau. These places were fumigated and the number falling- on papers placed on the floors was enormous, often running up to 2000 in a single celilr. For destroy ing the larvae in pools of water, fifty grains of "lavelclde" were put Into a cubic meter of water and poured into the pool. This was found to kill all the larvae within half an hour, while it did not harm frogs or fish. Breslau is the first city In Europe to wage systematic war upon mosquitoes. Other German cities, that suffer from the plague of. these insects, -will follow the example of Breslau, since, even Where 's contagious disease prevails of which they are likely to be carriers, they are veritable pests in many low lying cities of the empire. The time baa gene fey when Intelligent people sniffer patiently the assaults of the Hwect wrld. Ia is not so long ago that house flies were acctptc &e a feature of the Summer time, that had to be endured; now a simple wire screen keeps them out of the house. Fleas, as many will remember, were the veritable pests of the home fifty years ago; now they are little known, owing to Intelligent methods of exterminating them. The farmer who is pestered with rats and the housekeeper whose prem ises are overrun with mice, cockroaches and other psta are reckoned by their more thrifty neighbors as too slothful or too ignorant to protect themselves, as they might and should, against these vexatious and unclean tenants. It is the-aggressive, progressive indi vidual who wages war upon the pests of rural peace. The war against the mosquito, however, has assumed na tional and international proportions for the reason that the scheme of exter minating or even of holding this pest in check is too large for private enterprise to grapple successfully. Carriers of germs originators and breeders of pes tilence, sanitary science has been forced to take note of their mischief-making proclivities, and governments have been called upon to aid in exterminating them. The campaign against them has been partially successful at many points in our own country, and it has, as above noted, made progress In at least one European city. Dims ai'I'Kal to hatk. These be wild and whirling words, Mr. Debs. Things are not done in that way in America. If Moyer and Hay wood are guilty, they must die for It. and whether they are guilty or not the courts must decide. No million men will rise to save them from the gallows; not one map will rise; for If they are convicted it will be after a fair trial and upon evidence which will convince every sane person of their guilt. The courts are fair; the law favors the ac cused; the presumption of his Innocence holds until It is overthrown by compe tent evidence. Such a thing as a "'Ju dicial elfins murder" has never been known in America; It would be as ab horrent to the capitalists as to the so cialists. The Judge who will try Hay wood and Moyer Is not a Jeffries. He has no wish to stain his ermine with innocent blood. Their, attorneys are leurned and shrewd, versed in all the intricacies of the law, courageous, alert and of long experience. If there -should be an atom of unfairness In the trial they would know It, all the country would learn of It from them and would execrate the Judge who permitted It. If there is a conspiracy against them, these lawj-ers will unravel and expose it. Nothing about 'the trial will be se cret, nothing -will be hurried. It will be deliberate, impartial and fair. Mr. Debs and those who rave like him are worse enemies to worklngmen than Standard Oil Is. His appeal Is not to reason, but to hate, and its effect. If it has any. will be not to help, but to hinder justice. A GOOD-ROADS (COUNTV". Marion County farmers have made agreements with the County Court to Improve permanently over sixteen miles of public road this coming Summer by throwing up a good grade and putting on a surface of three coats of crushed rock, thereby making a highway that will be solid and smooth at all sea sons of the year. This work Is to be done undfr the provisions of the Tuttle law.- passed by the last Legislature, and with aid froin the County Court. Just now it looks as though Marion is the banner' good-rpada county of the slate. Thai county has already gained a very enviable reputation by means -of the five or six miles of macadam road south of Salem, and with sixteen miles more added to this. Marion will begin to look dowri- upon the rest of the state. The Tuttle law provide that the peo ple residing and owning property within two miles of a road may petition the County Court to have It Improved by contract, and when a majority of the resident owners have so petitioned, the court must make plans and speclfica tions and appoint viewers and survey ors to lay out the road and estimate the cost of making the ImprovcmenL A day Is set for the hearing on the report of viewers and surveyors, and unless the owners of property that would bear two-thirds of the burden remonstrate. the Improvement shall be ordered. At the hearing, however, the petition for improvement may be dismissed upon renxmstrance by any number of prop crty-owners If the court finds that the proceedings have been Irregular or thai It Is not practical to accomplish the proposed work without an expense ex-r cecding the aggregate benefits or that the proposed work will not be of public utility or convenience. If the petition be approved, the County Court must call for bids, and If these be found reasonable, the work must be let to the lowest bidder, a bond required, and the work, when per formed, paid for by certificates issued by the County Treasurer, payable In ten annual installments, and secured by liens upon the land within the two-mile limit, the amount of the Hen upon each tract of land having "been determined by the benefits derived and damages suffered. A property-owner may pay the installments before due if he so de sires. The certificates are transferable. The contractor must perform the work under the supervision of the County Roadmaster. This Is, in brief, the law under which the Marlon County farmers arc pro ceeding. The county has offered to do nate 5500 toward the cost of each mile of macadam, and it is estimated that the Improvement will cost. In the ag gregate, 52500 a mile. There are about 2500 acres of land within the two-mile limit for every mile of road, so that the assessment will be about 51 per acre, or 10 cents per acre per year for ten years. If a roan owns land lying within the two-mile limit of two roads that are being Improved, the County Court must take this into consideration in making the assessment. Although tills law provides for the letting of a contract, it Is believed that In practice the farmers will do most of the work, for the contractors must hire men and teams and the farmers resid ing near can afford to work for a little less money than a man who resides at a distance. A man owning a ISO-acre farm near the road would have an as sessment of ?ise, and could probably work out most of this if he so desired. The advantage over the old system of working "tout taxes Is that tinder the old system no one In particular was respon sible and farmers put in their time without getting muck result in the way of roadbullding. Under this system the contractor has something at stake, and must perform the work according to contract. When the work has been completed there will be a rock-sarfaced read to show for the expenditure of time arid money. The eagerness with which the -Marten Cowtty farmers have taken u the effer of the County Otirt MtVN 2K 4enbt that they are con vinced, after usixu? the rock road south j of Salem, that permanent highways are l worth ail they cost. The accumulation of wealth In a. country where a few cents per day are considered good vages Is necessarily slow, hut when there are many millions of workers and the accumulation has been In process for many thousands of years, the results are astonisntng. it is not surprising to learn that there are Chinese millionaires able to finance undertakings which would not appear small in America, the land of big finan cial operations. Canton Chinese have bought out the foreign owners of the projected Canton-Hankow Railway, paying nearly 57.000,000. and will com plete the road to Pekin with Chinese capital. The rush of applicants for stock was so great when It wa,s issued that the soldiers were called out to maintain order In the streets of Can ton. After the Chinese have built and watered the stock In a few railroads there maj- be less of a rush for it, but It is beyond question that they are financially equipped for greater Indus trial development than can now be put through by any other Far Eastern countries. "We know," said Senator Rayner, In discussing the rate bill, "that It costs less to ship goods the entire distance across the continent than It does to ship the same goods one-third the dis tance, and that when goods are des tined from Boston to Salt Lake they are carried to California jand back to Salt Lake In order to obtain the cheap rate." That Is a statement or fact that cannot be refuted, but it will be ex tremely difficult for any rate regulation to change iL Last year steel rails were shipped from New York to Liverpool, discharged and reloaded, and then for warded to Vancouver. B. C, at ajower through rate than the rail rate from New York to Vancouver. Water trans portation Is the only transportation that cannot be governed by a fixed schedule of distance tariffs, and. wher ever it is available, there will be in existence lower rates than can be made by the railroads operating on a fixed mileage basis. Editor Hofer. of the Salem Capital Journal, intimates that The Oregonlan published "a part of certain corre spondence with Candidate Tooze for the purpose of defeating that gentleman for Congress. Not at all. The Orego nlan has no candidates for Congress in the First or any other district. It is willing that Mr. Tooze shall run on his merits, but It Insists that neither he nor any candidate shall Involve The Orego nlan. To that end It cheerfully agrees to publish the remainder of the corre-. spondence that led to the disclosure, or explanation, or exposure whatever it may be fairly called about the $50 check. If Mr. Tooze or Editor Hofer will furnish IL It will do more. It will publish similar correspondence be tween Candidate Tooze or any other candidate, and Pdltor Hofer himself. We play no favorites. The City of Seattle is demanding 5341,000 for a piece of property which it admit: has a maximum value of but 5200.000. and for which Mr. Harrlman is unwilling to pay more than 5250,000. If Mr. Harrlman was familiar with the inflation system in use in Seattle, he would understand that 5311.000 for a $200,000 lot was extremely reasonable In Seattle. The Councilmen who are engi neering the deal for the Queen City have undoubtedly applied the same system used by the farmer at an Iso lated station in Texas, who charged the late Jay Gould 550 per dozen for eggs needed for the table of hi? delayed pri vate car. "Eggs must be scarce down here," said Mr. Gould. "Not very," re torted the farmer, "but men who can pay 550 per dozen for them are dam scarce." Whore did the people who are com plaining about the slaughter of the murderous Moros get their ideas of what American soldiers are for? It Is of course terrible that -women and chil dren should be slnta; but thciy Joined in the fighting, and there was no chance to discriminate. No capital was ever made for any cause by criticising the acts of the valiant and victorious Amer ican Army. There are many thing we may regret about war, but we sel dom have lo "regret to report" a defeat Fighting blood still surges m the veins of. the doughty Spaniards, and two of them are to fight a duel be cause one of the number criticised the acts of the Spanish Generals in Cuba and the Philippines. Colonel Prlmo Rivera Js the avenger, and. If he fights a duel with every man who was guilty of the offen-e to which he takes ex ception, his time will be occupied for an indefinite period. It will undoubtedly be somewhat se vere on the pride of the lady to be known as "Madame Gould" instead of Countess de Castellane. but. now that she has exhibited signs of rcturnnig reason, there will be plenty of sympa thetic Americans who will have for her immeasurably more respect than they could have for the wife of the little French scalawag who married her for her money. Judge Parker says Roosevelt didn't mean what he said when he declined in advance a third term. In other words, he thinks the President trifled with the truth. What the Judge has always needed is an official muzzier. We are finding out more every day about the great luck that befell the country November S, IftM. No doubt a Joint debate on "Tern perance" between Rev. F. E. Billing ton and ex-Rev. Homer, M. Street would be interesting, profitable, and strenuous. Since the Rev. Mr. Homer has left the orthodox pulpit, however, it should take place elsewhere. We suggest Erlckeon's. A "strike" where the gold runs from 5f&9 to 56M to the pan Irf reported from Nome. As the Nome boats are all well booked up for passage for the early tripe. It would seem that the announce ment waa a little premature. It should have been reserved until the interest began to wane. Senator Gearin has been Senator long enough to look and act like a Senator; yet perhaps that doesn't mean much. We have people in Oregon who can do as much without ever going to Wash ington. We really ion'l know ivhat there is for Mr. Bryan to do no persuade Mr. Hearst to mentiea him once more In his newspapers. Perhaps he'd -setter ekaBge-fefe samt. To Hearst, y. THE SILra LINING. Br A. H. Battartl. Thought for the Day. When overwhelming seem life's ttls. Resolve tho right to do: Lift up your eyes unto tho hills. God will reach" down to you. Don't give up. whate'er It be That stops your forward tread; The future's filled inimitably With hope and God's o'crhead. Did you ever try to read, character by the way people laugh? Watch an audi ence during a comedy. Clothes don't make the man or woman. but they are an indication of cleanly hab its or the opposite. A well-groomed per son usually means a clean mind. There arc two classes of people In this world; those who bathe every day, and those who don't. If we could abandon traditions and think out our own acts we would make a better success of It. "What -will they say?" Is the biggest bugbear we have to contend with. It really makes little difference what "they say." Do your best, and obey your own tasto and conscience and let the re mainder of the responsibility slide to everlasting kingdom come. One of thi evor-nresent traslc facts is I the unfortunate oualltv of human nature I pwhlch guarantees everybody to be mis- j understood at every stage ot the game. Only true, tried friends and long-experl-enced companions can understand one another's actions. And, even then, a sep aration and changed environments may alter the character of these friends and companions. It you want anyone to un derstand you permanently, keep right noar together, and never part. a There is only one right way to do any thing. You don't have to look far to find, that way. ' Thore Is such a thing as necessary lyinjr. but gratuitous and malicious fabrications arc vulgar. Be anything but vulgar. A single look may mean volumes, or nothing. Have an oxpreslve face. Marry for character, not for beauty. Never stop except to sleep, the pace. You'll get there. Keep up It Is better to be earnest than wise. The wisdom will come. In every evil there Is a good asleep. Definitions. (Tips on the Race of Life.) TEMPER Your worst enomy. KNOCKING An alarming epidemic in the United States. LIFE At birth you are a bunch of po tentialities: at middle age you are half bad. half good: when you shuffle off you are generally better In consequence of the schooling you havo received, and ready for another reincarnation a step higher In the nobility than you have just been. A life Is a day's schooling In the soul cducatlon we all receive. PLEASURE Anything ephemeral which carries a Joyful thrill and an after effect kof gloom. CONTRAST-Lovo-llght In a woman's ye followed by a flash 'of aner. Llght illns: Isn't as quick as those flashes. WORSHIP Standing in front or the teller window and looking upon the trays of gold. FOLLO'tVER-Onc who bolicvcs he can work you. SMILE An indication that you are be ing flattered. PRESSING May be pleasant and un pleasant. A debt, when pressing, is un pleasant. A girl's face and form, when they arc pressing well, that's very dif ferent. The Little End of it. " Tit Bits. There are many storios told or the Queen of Italy's aots of kindness to iior poor subjects. The rollowlng. how ever, shows that even tno good inten tions of Queens are not alwavs mi ni lod. Her Majesty recently noticed a pleasant-faced little girl, and spoke to her. Thoro was n short conversation, and the Quoon asked the child what she could do In the way of needlework. "1 can knit stockings, slgnora," re plied the girl. "Do you know who I am?" con tinued the Queen. "Yes. slgnora; you are the Queen." "Well, then, make me a pair of stockings and send them to the palace." " A few days afterward the articles arrive!, and the Queen. In return for the gift, sent the child a beautiful pair or silk stockings, one Tilled with sweets, the other containing money. Next duy the Queen received a letter from her Utile friend, as follows: "Slgnora. your gift has caused me many toars. My fathor took the money, my big- brother took the sweets, and as for ithe stockings, why, mother took them for herself." Football Prohibition. New York Globe. There Is nothing new about the pres ent outcry against football. The game was prohibited in Scotland by James II and James IV. and the English Ed ward IT held out pains and penalties for "hustling over large balls." It was also declared illegal In tho time of Henry VIII, and strenuous efforts were made by Elizabethan statesmen to sup press the game, but without success. But where Kings and Queens failed Puritans succeeded. College Training. Richmond Tlme?-Di.patch. Five ou had ilr. Wllbcrforc. And. belnjr ken on lcnowWse. lie look It as a thlnjr of eours To nd them all to college. (Poor man. who'd so one to proclaim 1IU quite misinformation! lie thouxht mere wUdom wax the almV Of higher education.) John Jasper was the oldeat son lie made' the school eleven via- Now (thxnk to dutr nobly. dene) John Jasper la In' heaven. The aophomorea caught William Prltx, Old Wllberforco'a "next 'on. They kicked him playfully to hltx. And passed him to the sexton. George James waa bound upon the track (Sins college frits m merry!) And what they found of him. alack! Waa scarce enough to bury. Sam Jack excelled at FtotlcuC (One higher branch they taught 'em) What though tho sport were somewhat roagh Jack passed a tine post-mortem. The fifth son. Tom. atlll Tlvea of course He did not go to college (By this tune Mr. Wllberforce Had got enough of knowledge.) And Tom. unlearned, stints hard and saves The money that Jje'a earning To place this tablet o'er four grave: "They Died of Too Much Iicarafeg.' - DEBS PREACHkS ANARCHY. (Eugene V. Debs la the Appeal to Reason.) The latest and boldest stroke of the plutocracy, but for the blindness of the people, would have startled the Nation. Murder has been plotted and is about to be executed in the name and under the forms of law. Men who will not yield to corruption and browbeating must be ambushed, spirited away and murdered. This Is the edict of the Mlneowners Association of the "Western States and their Standard Oil backers and pals In Wall street. New York. These gory-bcaked vultures are to pluck out the heart of resistance to their tyran ny and robbery, that labor may be stark naked at their mercy. Charles Moyer and William D. Haywood, of the Western Federation ot Miners, and their official colleagues men. all ot them, and every Inch of them are charged with the assassination of ex-Governor Frank Steunenbcrg, of Idaho, who simply reaped what he had sown, as a mere subterfuge to pounce upon them In secret, rush them out of the state by special train, under heavy guard, clap them into the peniten tiary, convict them upon the purchased, perjured testimony of villains, and then strangle them to death with the hane man's noose. c a It is a foul plot; a damnable conspiracy; a hellish outrage. j The Governors of Idaho and Colorado ! say they have the proof to convict. They arc brazen falsifiers and venal villains, the miserable tools of the mlneowners. who, themselves. If anybody does, deserve tho gibbet. Moyer. Haywood and their comrades had no more to do with the assassination of Stcunenberg than I had; the charge Is a ghastly lie. a criminal calumny, and Is only an excuse to murder men who are too rigidly honest to betray their trust and too courageous to succumb to threat and Intimidation. Labor leaders that cringe before the plu tocracy and do its bidding are apotheo sized; those that refuse must be foully murdercd. Personally and intimately do I know Moyer. Haywood. Pettlbone, St, John and their official coworkers, and I will stake my life on their honor and integrity; and that is precisely the crime for whlch. according to the words of tho slimy "sleuth" who "worked up the case" against them, "they shall never leave Idaho alive." Well, by the gods. If they don't, the Governors oC Idaho and Colorado and their masters from Wall street. New York, to the Rocky Mountains had better prepare to follow them. Nearly 20 years ago the capitalist tyrants put some Innocent men to death for standing up for labor. They are now going- to try it again. Let them darcl There have been 20 years of revolution ary education, agitation and organization since the Haymarkot tragedy, and if an attempt Is made to repeat it, there will be a revolution, and I will do all In my power to precipitate it. a The crisis has come and we have got to meet It. Upon the Issue Involved the whole body of organized labor can unite and every enemy of plutocracy will join us. From the farms, the factories and stores will pour the workers to meet the red-handed destroyers of freedom, the murderers of Innocent men and the arch enemies of, the people. Moyer and Haywood are our comrades, stanch and true, and If wo do not stand by them to the shedding of the lost drop of blood In our veins we are disgraced forever and deserve tho fate of cringing coward"-. Wo are not responsible for the issue. It Is not of our seeking. It has been forced upon us: and for the very reason that we deprecate violence and abhor bloodshed we cannot desert our comrades and allow them to be put to death. If thoy can be murdered without cause, so can we. and so will we be dealt with at the pleasure of these tyrants. , They have driven us to the wall, and now let us rally our forces and face them and fight. c If they attempt to murder Moyer, Hay wood and their brothers, a million revo lutionists, at least, will meet them with guns. They have done their best and their worst to crush and enslave us. Their politicians have betrayed us, their courts have thrown us Into jail without trial and their soldiers have shot our com rades dead in their tracks. The worm turns at last, and so does the worker. Let them dare to execute their devil ish plot and every state in this, Union will resound with the tramp of revolution. Get ready, comrades, for action! No other course is left to the working class. Their courts are closed to us except to pronounce our doom. To enter their courts Is simply to be mulcted of our meager means and bound hand and foot to have our eyes plucked out by tho vul tures that fatten upon our misery. Capitalist courts- never have done, and never will do. anything for the working clas.?. Whatever Is dons we must do our selves, and If wc stand up like men from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Can ada to the gulf, we will strike terror to their cowardly hearts and they will be but too eager to relax their grip upon our throats and beat a swift retreat. We will watch every move they make and In the meantime prepare for action A special revolutionary convention of the proletariat at Chicago, or some other central point, would be In order, and. If extreme, measures are required, a general strike could bo ordered and industry par alyzed as a preliminary to a general uprising. If tho plutocrats begin the programme, we will end it. Ilcaltlifulness of a Sneeze. Boston Herald. According to the eminent physician and surgeon. Sir Frederic Treves, we ought not to complain of sneezing, catarrh, coughing, and the general discomfort that ordinarily accompany a common cold. They are not symptoms of disease, but proofs that the system is defending itself. The efforts of the sufferer, says tho dis tinguished authority, should not bo di rected to stopping them directly, but to aiding nature, which is putting up a brave fight against dangerous bacteria. Indeed, a cold would In the majority ot cases prove fatal if these symptoms of resistance were not present. The -presence of infection would not be discovered until the bacteria were so numerous that a fight would, be hopeless. A medicine which merely stops coughing or allays In flammation may be thwarting" nature's efforts to cure. What a Boss Cost Cincinnati. Collier's. A committee of the Ohio Legislature which has been investigating the charges of corruption in Cincinnati and Hamilton County during the Cox regime has made the startling discovery that Cox collect ed on an average about 57.000,000 a year an income which, capitalized on tho or dinary merger basis, would have enabled him to Incorporate himself as a boodle trust with a capital of something like 51eO,C0O.OO. The estimate of Cox's Illicit revenue was made by County Treasurer R. K. Hynlcks. formerly his principal lieutenant. Several bankers testified that they had been In the habit of giving "gratuities' to officials of the County Treasury In return for deposits of pub lic funds without interest. - Sympathy and Money. Atchison Globe. Sympathy is like money in a poor man's family: The demaad Is greater tain the wptly. WHY WAS THE BILL KILLED? New York Globe. It la high time for the people of the United States, without regard to party, to make effective appeal from the de cision of the Senate committee against the Philippine tariff bill. It is high time to shake off the notion that noth ing further can be -accomplished at this session or Congress. It is. high time so to organize and emphatically express the overwhelming sentiment or the country that either the Senate committee will be" led to reverse Its ac tion or such action will be taken on the floor of the Senate as will bring the "bill to an open vote. "What arc the motives that havo brought about the garrotlng- of the bill? Many such motives can be Im agined, and every one Is bad. Is the adverse action due to the prejudice certain Senators have against the President of the United States a prej udice so deep-seated and unreasonable that they are ready to oppose a good measure merely because he is for it? Is It due as has been commonly charged, to a trade between advocates of the railroad rate bill and opponents of tho Philippine bill? or is it due to the narrowness of the so-called sugar and tobacco Senators, who would keep S.000.000 of dependents in material misery rather than to consent to tariff modification that no man has been able to show would In any way Injure either the sugar or tobacco industries? What ever the Interpretation adopted, the re sult Is equally discreditable, equally indefensible, equally dishonoring. ThUr country Is a great country and a strong country, but It is neither great enough nor strong enough to do Injus tice. The Filipinos reach their hand across the sea to us for relief, and un less we admit that we arc incapable ot carrying out a just colonial policy, or unless we are willing- to say that the Revolutionary fathers were wrong when they fought against KIngr George's government, we must grant that relief. We have taken away from the Filipinos their old markets; we must provide them with new ones equally good. "We nave said that they are incapable of self-government and placed them In the status of wards; we ire under moral compulsion to be true to the obligations of this trusteeshlp The Philippine question as it is now prcsented Is essentially a moral one. and the Issue Is a plain one ot right and wrong. Every person, in propor tion as he has influence, should exert himself to compel the Senate to lay aside its jealousy, its log-rolling, its narrowness, to the end that a disgrace resting on the country shall be r. moveU. The Power of the Press. Walla Walla Bulletin. The Oregonlan's campaign against the Portland Gas Company has brought re sults. The charges have been Investigat ed. The truth has been made public It appears that one-half of the stock Issued by the company was watered, that Inter est had to be gotten for a million and a half, where there was but an investment of $730,000. This condition produced un reasonable methods. There has been ar bitrary reading of gas mctersl Insolent treatment of consumers, a poor quality of Illumination. All ot this has been sus pected for some time and vigorously dis cussed in individual cases. But such searching notoriety as The Oregonlan has given to the matter, the stirring up and concentrating ot public sentiment on the subject Is almost entirely due to the fearless attitude of The Oregonian. ' Here we have a plausible Illustration of the power; of the press. Whenever a community encourages freedom of dis cussion it will reap a rich reward. The editorial pen which is chained to the purse-strings of an arbitrary boss can accomplish no good. What Uttle Influence It can exert will be -toward corruption, and prejudice. But where every institution and public office is subjected to the un biased tribunal of a free press, vice must halt perplexed and account for its exist ence. In the case of the Portland Gas Company much has been gained by The Oregonlan's stirring editorials. The pub lic will have better service, better rates. And while the defiant attitude- of The Oregonlan has. no doubt, been severely censurcd in certain quarters and drawn upon itself the "hammer" epithet, it has done vastly more and Is entitled to a great deal more credit than the current "let good enough alone" policy. Discus sion is the soul of progress. The Whole Valley Interested, j Lebanon Criterion. It is not for the people outside of Port land to tell that city what to do in such matters (Front-street franchise) when they primarily and principally affect Portland. The whole Willamette Valley Is much. concerned and deeply interested, for. as many believe, the rapid develop ment of this valley depends more on the construction of these new transportation lines than from any other source. Not only that, but while the valley is growing Portland will advance even faster than these parts by the building of these new roads. This leads us to believe that the City of Portland should find some way to allow these companies to get into that city by way of Front street, either by the city owning the road or by a franchise to them. Skulls for Paving-. New York Globe. While municipal authorities are deciding upon the relative value of asphalt, Bel gian blocks, vitrified bricks and wood squares as paving material, the inhabi- tants of Gwandu in Africa, have settled the problem to their entire satisfaction by using the skulls of their enemies for paving approaches to their town. More tVir,.. TWK1 ctrnTIc Vin T'r hoan itcoil rrt Y.ri roads leading to the various gates. Poll Ished to the whiteness of Ivory by th friction of countless feet, they present quite an attractive appearance. When new pavement Is" needed there is no scanj dal about the contract. War is declared upon .ome neighboring tribe, and the worn-out pavement Is replaced. NEWSPAPER WAIFS. "Well, tio doubt the Legislature will enact remedial laws." "Good Lord! Can't they let "bad enough- alone V Puck. ' "Ha your son arrived at years of dis cretion?" "Oh. yes. He's about to be mar ried." "How you contradict yourself!" Cleveland Leader. "Ia this; place highly correct In its atmos phere?" "Couldn't be more so. "Why even the foss are soldom dissipated." Baltimore American. Mrs. Xuwed Here's the bread 1 started to make today. Isn't It too annoying:? Mr. JTuwed Why. It Isn't baked at all. Mrs. JJu--wed I know It Isn't: that's ust It. I put plenty of Iwiklng powder In It. hut It doesn't seem to havo worked. Philadelphia Ledger. "Don't you think It would b a good Idea for you to make another speech?" "What for?" asked Senator Sorghum. "If I don't make a. speech people will think I know more than I care to say. If I do they are liable to think I want to talk, whether I know any. thing or not." Washington Star. Just oace, after he had been on the stand continuously tor many hours, the great financier lost his temper, and retorted with an angry answer. "I'm afraid you forget that you are a gentleman."" observed coun sel." The rebuke struck home. The wltneai winced visibly. But he was not unwilling to Justify himself. "Where one la called on to forget so many- things, all at once, ouo becomes coafttecd, you know," he stasaraered. 'Life. I: IK