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acted. Legally, the Portland Gas Com
pany does not exist. It Is a dream, a
chimera, a figment or the Imagination,
a beckoning shadow 'djre. It is a- bBd
dream, ive admit, almost a nightmare:
but actual, legal existence It has not.
Quo -warranto proceeding would prob
ably show that Its pretended franchise
Is a pure usurpation. The physical
property of this so-called corporation Is.
of course, sacred, but In dealing with
Jts charter the Legislature need not be
hampered by any consideration of
vested rights, for that which has no ex
istence cannot acquire vested rights.
roKTT.AND. rrtnAV. Arnn, is, isos,
charged by the Indian, cat off their I xe -eKorts or tae amBtwoaa ewe e
long black braid, Indian pride saffered exect in uieir wnaies are tie sirca-
rERPETrAL CHAHTEKS.
Mr. C. B. Watson, of Ashland, has
presented in The Oregonian a striking
argument to sustain the proposition
that, under the constitution of Oregon,
"a perpetual franchise cannot be cre
ated," Hip meaning is that the charter
nf every corporation existing in this
state may bp repealed by the Legisla
ture, Mr. Watson's argument is based
upon the second article o section XI
of the state constitution, which declares
that all corporations, except those for
municipal purposes, must be formed
under general laws, and that all such
laws "may be amended, altered or re
pealed." It Is provided, however, that
such amendment, alteration or repeal
must not "Impair or destroy any vest
ed corporate rights."
Several cases are cited by Mr. Watson
-which seem to uphold his view. The
first arose under a section of the con
stitution of Michigan whose language
is almost word for word the same sis
section 2, article XI, of our own, ex
cept that it omits the clause about im
pairing vested corporate rights. This
clause plainly means nothing more than
the ordinary rule that private property
,must not be taken for public use with
out compensation and does Jiot modify
or restrict the right to repeal charters.
The court said in the Michigan case
that an Irropealable privilege could not
be conferred by the Legislature under
the section cited, and, since our constl
tutlon contains the same section, the
decision is valid here. In fact, in the
second decision which Mr. Watson
quotes, the Supreme Court of the
United States uses language which
clearly implies that the constitutions of
PROTECTION FOR THE DEPOSITOR.
Mr. McLeod, candidate for the Legis
lature from Union County, has strange
notions as to our state and private
banks. He is opposed to a law, he says.
which "shall give state and private
banks authority to issue bills to circu
late as money." Of coarse he i. So Is
every other person of sense. Judgment
and experience. No one who has read
the history of our country has failed to
be profoundly Impressed by the lessons
of ruin and disaster taught by the
"wildcat" banking methods of early
days. Since the Oregon Constitution
expressly forbids the creation of state
banks with power to issue bills to circu
late as money, and no one had ever
proposed a change In that particular.
Mr. McLeod's declaration has-no appli
cation to present Issues. "We shall
never go -back to the old style of fren
zied finance. We have Improved meth
ods, easier and more skillful, but
none the less effective. We have lately
found out much, too. about modern
finance, and we have learned that there
Is room for Improvement.
The public is beginning to think and
to demand that the depositor in any
bank shall have the fullest possible
knowledge of Its resources, responsibil
ity and methods. The time has gone by
when information of this kind can be
denied without exciting suspicion In the
public mind that there Is something to
conceal, and that, therefore, such an In
stitution is not worthy of complete and
unreserved public confidence. Mr. Mc
Leod declares that "it Is hard for me to
conceive of a better .system than our
present banking system." We have no
present banking system. Our state and
private banks are under no restraint of
law whatever except the common lia
bility under our statutes. You can put
a banker In jail In Oregon If he steals;
but that is not enough. He should be
prevented from stealing, so far as pos
sible. There should be most explicit
and complete safeguards 'around him to
prevent any misfeasance or misconduct
whatever.
If we had a slate banking lav.- in this
state, we should have had a better
banking record. Most serious disasters
have occurred among private banks,
Some of them, having failed, paid noth
ing to the depositors. One paid 19 per
cent; another 33 per cent; another S6
per cent, and another, the Portland
Savings Bank, the most disastrous fail
ure in the history of the state, about 50
per cent. Xatlonal banks have failed
In Oregon. In some of them the de
positors got all their money back. In
others a great part of It: but In none,
so far as the recollection of The Orego
nian goes, has the experience of the
depositors been so disastrous as In the
majority of ruined private banks.
On Xovember 27, 1903, In course of an
Interview in The Oregonian. Mr. Benja
min I. Cohen, president of the Portland
Trust Company of Oregon, an Institu
tion that believes - In publicity, and
practices what it preaches, made the
following statement:
In nine, out of ten bank dloaMers. the peo
ple are deceived by the bank manager, who
will not tell them the condition or the bank's
finances. Honet banks are not afraid to
make statements. DihoneK banks are. The
fafe and solvent bank has nothing to fecr
from publicity.
Plain -word?, but true. They describe
precisely the situation in Oregon. Op-
the same kind ef a shock and developed
the same feeling of k&tred and resent
ment that would be expressed by the
little white child whose carls were sud
denly removed by her guardian and
-teacher as a punishment for an alleged
offense.
The Indian dog is an Important fix
ture of the Indian home, and. It 3dajor
Edwards, as alleged, "wounded, crip
pled and killed a number of dogs be
longing to Indian -families," the Insult
and injustice would rankle Just as deep
ly as similar treatment to the petted
and beloi'ed dog of some white child.
Perhaps the system of treating the In
dian as a child and a dependent Is
wrong. It might be well to cut him
oas, bat are subject to control and In
recent years have bee a checked to some
extent. It is found, however, that the
health of the Cornell girl at graduation
is as good, on the average, ax that of
the Vassar or the Smith girl, and quite
as good as that of the Toang Ladies
Seminary girl, whose name is legion. A
young woman of from IS to 2. who Is
driven in so-called educational work.
whether In Latin, 'mathematics, danc
ing., late hours, unsanitary dressing and
high-keyed functions of various sorts.
Is yaore than apt to come through the
ordeal in a fagged, nervous condition
that Eavites disease or presages decline.
It' is the province of the educator.
whether president of a coeducational or
adrift and let him take his chances with IT?1' 'e or the preceptress of a
his -white or black brother, without as--W" ntehlng school, to control sucn
slstance from the Government. So tters- and insist upon a normal de
lone. however, an wp stick to the ays- I velent of mind and body that Is
tern which they have been taught to rthy of the name of education. That
regard as the proper one. It should bel te tere is In this matter, but It Is
carried out without bulldoxlng methods I K to make thoughtful parents In
such as have been charged against Ma
jor-Edwards.
As an Indian rebellion the affair Is in
consequential, hut the charges made by
the Indians of misconduct are of suffi
cient gravity to demand an Investiga
tion. We have for years acknowledged
certain rights of the Indians, and any
abrogation of those rights or unneces
sarily harsh treatment of the Indians
will provoke trouble.
stst upon a college curriculum what
eVerthe college that will give their
daughters, "though educated," a chance
for life, health and the pursuit of hap
praess.
Oregon and Michigan mean exactly the
same thing with regard to the right of posltJon to an efficient state banking
me legislature to repeat corporate ,aw comes only from those banks which
have their own reasons to dread publlc-
thnrters
The reason for reserving this right by
constitutional provision is, of course,
evident. The United States Supreme
Court had decided In the famous Dart
mouth College case that a charter
where no right of repeal was reserved
was irrevocable. The repeal clause was
inserted in our constitution to avert the
pernicious consequences of that decis
ion, whose effect war? to free corpora
tions from the control of the law; and
In the Sinking Fund cases, cited by Mr.
Wat6on, the court says that such a re
peal clause is special warning to all
wrporatlons that their charters are not
Irrevocable; "Under such a clause." a
'great authority remarks, "there can be
no intention" to make charters perpet
ual, and whatever power the corpora
tion derives from Its charter Is lost by
the repeal of the law granting Jt.
The Supreme Court remarks In an
other case that charters held under a
repeal clause like that In the Oregon,
constitution are "subject to be changed,
modified or destroyed at the will" of
the Legislature. The repeal provision,
nys the court, is a part of every char
. ter, whether granted directly Ty the
Legislature or by a city under legis
lative authority. It is hardly possible
10 believe, therefore, that any corpora
Hon In Oregon formed alnce the constl
tutlon was adopted holds an lrrepeal
able charter. But how about the gas
company? This corporation obtained
its charter from the Territorial Legfe
lature Just before the state constitu
tion was adopted. Is It exempt from
' the repeal provision? Is it an irrevoca
ble and everlasting monument to the
folly of our territorial legislators?
Certainly not. When the territorial
government expired, all Its laws ex
i plred. Xot one of them was valid until
it was re-enacted. Every corporate
charter granted' by the territory expired
w 1th Us creator. "A corporation:" says
the United States Supreme Court, "can
only have an existence under the cx
press law of the state or sovereignty
under -which it is created." How, then.
can a corporation continue to exist
-when the law and the sovereignty
-which created it exist no longer? It
cannot. Such a supposition Is little
short of madness. We cannot, there
fore, escape the conclusion that the gas
company's charter expired with the ter
a rltorial government which granted it.
t LBut perhaps It was re-enacted.
Let us sec. Section 7. Article XVIII.
of the constitution re-enacts all the ter
ritorial laws except such as are lncon
slstent with the, constitution. Thegas
company's charter -was inconsistent
with the constitution in two particulars,
First, it -was granted by a special law
which is expressly forbidden. Second
it contains no provision for repeal
whereas the constitution permits no
charters to be granted without such
provision. The gas company's charter.
being thus flagrantly and doubly lncon
slstent with the constitution, having
exblred with the territorial govern
x mcnU was not and could not be re-en
uy.
UMATIM-jA INDIAN TROUBLE.
Indian troubles of a serious nature
came to an end In Oregon when "Cap
tain Jack, of the red Modocs." was offi
cially dispatched to the happy hunting
grounds. It has been so long since Ore-
gonians regarded their red brethren in
any other -light than harmless nuisances
that it will be difficult to awaken much
excitement over the threatened trouble
on the Umatilla reservation. If the al
leged twentieth-century Indian Insur
rection involved other tribes than the
Umatlllas, Walla Wallas and Cayuses.
there might be more occasion for alarm.
but the tribes named are about as near
to being "good Indians" as any spec!
mens of the race that can be found
anywhere In the West. If any one of
the numerous charges made against
Jklajor Edwards, Indian agent on the
Umatilla reservation, can be proven. It
is quite clear that the service would
be Improved by substituting another
agent as soon a possible.
Truthfulness has never been one of
the predominating virtues of the In
dian race, but the charges filed by the
Indians have a straightforward Ting to
them which will hardly fall to cause the
general public to connect the calling
out of troops in some way with the
local trouble between' the Indians and
Major Edwards. Stock has been driven
across the reservation for a good many
years, and there have been In the past
slight disputes over the matter; but It
has never before been deemed neces
sary to .call out the troops In order to
prevent -manslaughter. When Major
Lee Moorhouse, In the position of In
dian agent, looked after the welfare of
these same tribes, every Individual
member, from the chiefs down to the
wildest young bucks.
handled a? the Junior class In a kinder
garten. Major -Moorhouse not only
managed them to perfection during his
administration as Indian agent, but
since his retirement from the govern
ment service still retains their Implicit
confidence, and could undoubtedly, sin
gle-handed and alone, put down any re
bellion among them fully as satisfactor
ily and expeditiously as It could be
quelled by the Government troops.
The Umatlllas are a fat. lazy, good
natured tribe, and have always seemed
to be well contented with their lot.
With their gaudy blankets, feathers
and long black hair, they have for
years added a picturesque hue to the
streets of Pendleton, which lies -on the
edge of the reservation; but, aside from
absorbing large quantities of firewater
whenever the occasion presented Itself,
they have always conducted themselves
in keeping -with the demands of the
Government. The Indian, laspiteof the
efforts of the Government to educate
him and lift him up to a. higher plane
of civilization, etill remains a simple
child of Nature, and as a child he mast
be regarded. When Major Edwards, as
WORTHY MISSIONARY EFFORT.
Martha S. Gielow. -president-general
of the Southern Industrial Association,
has undertaken to increase the mem
berehlp of that organization to 100,000
at 51 a year? in order to establish and
maintain schools for the poor white
children of the Appalachian region.
The mountaineers of that region, cut
off for several generations from" the
influences of civilization, are mentally
slow and Industrially sluggish a type
of non-vicious degenerates who live as
close to Nature as the very hills them
selves. The ancestors of these people
were the first pioneers of the idea of
constitutional liberty In this country.
and the tendency of Nature to follow Its
environment and return to flrst princi
ples when this environment Is one of
Isolation Is apparent in these densely
ignorant, exceedingly poor, but In the
main kind-hearted, men and -women of
the Appalachian district. It was from
the sturdy Scotch-French stock from
wmcn these mountaineers sprung
that Andrew Jackson and Andrew
Johnson also sprang, while another
man, born In a cabin so poor that
It had no windows, and of a family so
poor that only two of Its members could
read or write, came up through a boy
hood of privation and toll and a stren
uous young manhood to be known as
Abraham Lincoln.
Examples like these show the -quality
of these people now dormant through
lack of even the simplest opportunity
for education. The mountaIn-ers, ac
cording to Mies Gielow. are quickly re
sponsh'e to efforts made through
schools for the benefit of their children.
Wherever education goes, she says, the
mountaineers soon cut a window In
their cabins and in a little time they
find that two room? are necessary
where one had before sufficed. "All
they need," she continues. "Is a little
enlightenment.' adding: "Schoolhouses
can be built for from n00 to ISOO, and
5300 a year will support a missionary
teacher."
Herein is outlined briefly and simply
a missionary effort that is so far In ad
vance of tfiat which sends the repre
sentatlves- of religious creeds across the
seas to labor among the so-called "hea
then" that it must appeal forcefully to
enlightened minds. Thousands of dol
lars are squandered annually through
religious zeal In the foreign missionary
cause, while hundreds of 'dollars are
asked in valn wherewith to build
schoolhouses and introduce through
them to civilization the children of
fathers honored in the early struggle
for liberty on the American Continent,
but who, at the close of the war of the
Revolution, drifted In their poverty Into
the mountains and there degenerated
from simplicity to ignorance. These
people, though living within a few hun
dred miles of the National capital, have
long beea out of touch with the world
beyond their skyline. They have, liter
ally speaking, gone back to Nature.
Their rescue from further recession de
pends upon carrying schools to them.
Hence the appeal that is made from
time to time by the Southern Indus
trial Association for this purpose Is a
missionary plea of the most practical
kind.
Common decency is In sickening re
volt at the tales that tell of white
women or girls in this city on terms of
vile Intimacy with Chinamen. Imag
Inatlon Is staggered for an explanation
of the intimacy of Clara Brown, an at
tractive looking young white woman
of 22 years, and Tee Chow, a Chinese.
laborer of the very lowest type. Ex
cuse. of course, there is none. It Is In
evidence cven that this young woman
sought the Chinaman In his basement
home, and was not pursued by him, but
herself the pursuer. A solution .of
such a case on any ordinary social by
potbesls is impossible. It can only be
dismissed from the public mind as one
of the Inexplicable freaks of perverted
human nature. The young woman In
this case is at least equally culpable
with the Chinaman, since she was cvi
dently his willing slave at first and
could at any time have escaped what
ever bondage she was In by simply
keeping away from his vile abode. Any
penally 'that can be inflicted In the
case would prove inadequate to so vile
and monstrous an offense against de
cency.
It was but natural that the Jetty ap
propriation bill should be placed
Jeopardy by an endless number
amendments which Interested parties
ought to attach to it. Such a large
proportion of the river and harbor bills
of the East and Middle West are made
up of graft, pure and simple, that It Is
very difficult for a legitimate project to
get a hearing on Its merits. The treat
ment threatened toward this bill only
serves to confirm the views of Lincoln
Sleffcns, David Graham Phillips and
other writers who -have made a study
of legislative methods at Washington.
The showing made by Major Langfltt
and other friends of the Jetty bill was
so conclusive that it must have been
apparent to all that a serious loss con
fronted the Government unless the tern
porary appropriation was made. No
such showing could be made for any of
the other projects which an attempt
was made to saddle on the Columbia
Jetty bllli
By A.lH. BaHard.
Plate.
(Suggested by Mr. Murphy's Cartoon.)
The -world turns rouad and 'round
Each man his horn will toot;
Each tries to own a piece of grouad
Everybody works but "Piute.
Frew house and home and taxes high
The poof man ne'er can scoot.
There's no rest till he comes to die
Everybody works but "Plate."
'Piute sits up and makes Us sore.
Receives from all tribute. . -
Everybody adds to his great store
Everybody works but "Piute."
The worker cannot pay for gai.
It does no good to hoot.
lie can only toil and sass
Everybody works but "Flute.
Perhaps this Mr. Piute O. CraU
The people some day '11 shoot.
He's really growing much too fat
The mean andjgrasplng brute;
Perhaps, some day, the people will
Get very next to "Flute."
And. with their numbers, keep him still
Also give him the hoot.
Throw out your chest and look up.
Whoso stoops In body stoops In 'mind.
Be fair and you'll win the fair.
Be courajteous and you'll gain things
worth while.
Go to It. Stick to it. Never gUfe up.
Watch' a bull pup. He can teach you
something. He may be ugly to look at.
but be gets there.
- Life Is much like a newspaper assign
ment you have to dig up the news before
you can make a Kood use of It.
Among the Socially Annolnted
The Wouldy-If-You-Couldlcs arc going
to buy aft automobile when the price gets
down to fKO.
A beautiful Persian tomcat on Portland
Heights can tell cads on sight. He shuns
his mistress and spits at most of her ac
quaintances.
Several, new brands of gum have super
aeded the good old spruce In fashionable
circle. Thu manners hereabout have
passed beyond the pine-tree stage.
The Has-Beens have married off an
other daughter. Officers guarded the
door, so that the Kroorn could not run
away.
Members of the Tart Set still sit through
a theatrical performance without crack
ing a smile.
Mrs. Dennis Muggins will give a re
cherche corned-becf-and-cabbage party at
her residence In Slabtown Saturdaynight.
Guests will arrive at S o'clock; the police
at II.
Mrs. One Lung and little Misses Haif
and Quarter Lung took an airing Wednes
day on the St. Johns electric car.
Mr. E. Edgerton Spongs received an-
Ca'cage Tribane.
The failure of a yrlratc baaTc at Pe
kin illustrates the need of state su
pervision, of such banks. This was one
ef the eldest concerns of Us kind in
Central Illinois It bad long done a
good business and was considered per
fectly sound. The business saen of
Pekla and the farmers of Tazewell
CoUaty trusted' it Implicitly. Its meth
ods of business, as often happens In
sach cases, turn out to have been much
less trustworthy than they were con
sidered. The bank was cloielyconnected with
a wagon factory, and. wishing to help
the factory broaden out. made it ex
cessive loans oh bad security. It also
made other poor Investments. A time
carae when t,he bank needed cash. Un
able to get it fro na the factory er its
other bad Investments. It went to the
wall, causing heavy loss to stockhold
ers and depositors. Its liabilities are
put at 3400,300, Its assets , as scarcely
$250,000.
If the baaU had Tteea ttatler atate mn-
yerrlnfeBi there rreiald Tsave Tseem
nek lam. It would have been visited
at Intervals by an official examiner. He
would have called attention to Its risky
investments as soon as they began and
ordered them stopped. They pronaoiy
would have been stopped and the fail
ure prevented. If they nad not been
the bank -would haver been forced to
close before Its liabilities had grown
much If any bigger than its assets.
Official regulation Is necessary to
prevent both dishonest banking and
incompetent banking. There usually
has been some of each when, a failure
takes place In a time of prosperity. In
some cases more of one. in others more
of the other. Supervision Is needed
In large cities, where nobody knows
his neighbor, chiefly to prevent roguery.
When a private bank breaks In Chicago
It usually Is because people have trust
ed with their money some man with
whom thev are .unacaualnted and he
has stolen It. Supervision Is needed In
smaller places, where everyone knows
everyone else, matnly as a safeguard
against rashness and Incapacity. The
bank at Pckln seems to have taiieu not.
because its proprietors were deliber
ately dishonest but because they, vio
lated the Immutable principles or sate
banking.
Several attempts have been made to
get a law passed subjecting private
banks to proper public control. They
bare failed because of the opposition
of country legislators. The failure of
the bank at Pekln should open the eyes
of the people of Tazewell County and
other rural districts to the dcslrabll
itv of such a measure and cause them
to elect legislators who will vote for
It. Every coaeera Tfhlch zecelves the
meaey of the public la traat aTseald be
repaired, -nhen called .upom By iae
proper effcla. to aho-rr what It la dolag
with that aseaey.
- Port Townscnd Leader.
Don't let' the people from thc outside
come Into your town and find you cursing
your luclc
The Only Drawback. . .
East Oregonian.
This age of big farms must pa
before" Umatilla County will enjoy her
best fruition.
Philosophy Up in Polk.
West Side Enterprise.
The man who cannot trust -himself
should not, expect the grocer or butch
er' to trust nlrii.
Much of the Navy Ashore.
Cleveland Leader.
"Not enough officers" has of late
been the constant complaint or tne
Xivr Department. So much Is the want
felt that It had a great influence In the
Naval Academy hazing Investigation.
Mih officials feared the result or se
othir remittance from home last week. I verltv In dealing with the cadets. Con-
He will abandon the Bull Run cocktail grcss has been appealed to tor react.
The Chicago wheat market scored a
sensational advance of- l'i cents per
bushel yesterday, with a very heavy
volume of trading. ' There is nothing in
the statistical position of wheat that
warrants much of an advance at this
time, but with so much "easy money"
in the country the time is ripe for a
good speculative bulge. The Chicago
market. In the bands of a strong oper
ator like Armour, and with decreasing
stocks and uncertain crop reports. Is
good for an advance of several cents
per bushel, regardless of what the Eu
ropean market might do. Up to the
.present time the market has lacked a
leader, and It Is not clear that this most
necessary factor In an artificial boom
in prices has appeared. Saturday's
marketafter the Good Friday holiday.
may show as much weakness a; there
was strength In the slluatlon.yesterday.
COEDUCATION.
Andrew D. White Is authority on
many things, among them being the
matter of coeducation. He was former
ly president of-Cornell University, and,
while occupying this position, he had
ample opportunity to study this system
and note its advantages and defects.
In a talk to a large number of the
graduates of that institution in New
York recently, Mr. White expressed his
gratification over what he termed the
"preternatural foresight of Ezra Cor
nell, which led him to found a coeduca
tional Institution." and declared that
much of the success and honor that had
come to Cornell had been due to its
women students.
This Is more than an empty or arbi
trary opinion: It Is the view of a man
with a mind well equipped both by ex
perience and obecrvatlon to speak upon
the subject. Mr. White at flrst had
grave doubts as to the advisability of
placing young men and women In col
lege together, giving -them the same
studies and subjecting them to the
same mental drill. To use his own
was as easily j words, he was not so sanguine as was
Mr. Corne'l concerning the advisability
of establishing a coeducational institu
tion. One of the chief arguments used
by the opponents of this Idea was that
It would make the men students effem
inate. Another, of course, was that It
-would make the young women students
"mannish." Not wishing to make a
mistake In a matter so vital, Mr. White
went to Oberlln to observe the effects
of coeducation there. Among the flrst
things that he learned in those rela
tively far-away years was that Oberlln
had sent a greater proportion of Its
students to the Army In time of the
Civil War than any other college. This
refuted the statement that coeducation
made men students "effeminate," while
further testimony in regard to the
quiet, orderly lives that many women
who had graduated from Oberlln Col
lege were leading disposed of the argu
ment that coeducation made women
students un womanly." s
The dangers that shadow young
women In a coeducational Institution
are of a Dhrslcal nature, and in this
respect they are "hot unlike those that
hoer over "finishing" schools for girls.
Had the late James A. Bailey swept
over the civilized world at the head of
an army destroying cities, blighting
fields and slaying men, be would have
been held In perpetual remembrance as
a hero. Instead of sorrow and desola
tion he brought innocent pleasure to
millions of people In every civilized
land, but no historian will mention bis
name. The cursory record of his death
In the newspapers excited little Inter
est and no regret, yet there are few
men called "great" who have contrib
uted more to the happiness of their gen
erallon. Some day we shall have a
Hall of Fame for those who have made
life pleasant, and Bamum and Bailey's
names will be the flrst ones written on
Its walls.
Cannibals on the Admiralty group. In
the South Pacific, have Just eaten
German trader, and a warship has been
down there shelling the village. Per
haps If Germany would pursue a more
liberal policy regarding admission of
American meats Into her territory, her
subjects would not be compelled to re
sort to such extreme measures as can
nlballsm in order to escape a vegetarian
diet.
for a while.
Mr. Percy Tightstrinss was tendered a
stag breakfast Tuesday by his intellectual
employes, In honor of the successful year
of his regime as manager of the whole
sale house his late father absorbed. He
has authorized an advertising appropria
tion of 323 for the coming year.
He who . criticises
turned down.
a woman hath been
If you don't want to grow old. butt In
some fight and get killed, or hang your
self.
The under dog who looks for sympathy
Is posing.
A man who announces
gentleman Isn't.
that he is a
Conscious sanclty Is always hypocrisy.
New Rich Men.
President Eliot In- World's Work.
Since the Civil War a new kind of rich
man has come Into existence In the United
States. He Is very much richer than any
body ever was before, and his riches are.
in the main, of a new kind. They are not
great areas of land, or numerous palaces.
or flocks and herds, or thousands of
slaves, or masses of chattels. The5- are
In part city rents, but chiefly stocks and
bonds of corporations, and bonds of
states, counties, cities and towns. These
riches carry wun them or necessity no
visible or tangible responsibility, and
bring upon their possessor no public or
seml-publlc functions. It Is quite unnec
essary, however, in this country to feel
alarm about the rise of a permanent
class of very rich people. To transmit
great estates Is hard. They get divided
or dispersed. The heirs are often unable
to keep their Inherited treasures, or If.
by the help of lawyers and other hired
agents, they manage to keep them, they
cease to accumulate, and only spend.
This Is one of the natural effects on his
children of the very rich man's mode of
life. With rarest exceptions the very
rich men of today arc not the sons of the
very rich men of 30 years ago. but are
new men.
Gold has been discovered on the Ta-
coma tldeflats. and assays are now be-.
ing made. Dispatches conveying the
Information do not contain any refer
ence to the expected value of the as
says, but If the returns are any higher
per ton than the prices that have been
paid for some of the Tacoma and Seat
tle tldelands, the owners have a bonanza.
Life and baseball are uncertain
games. No one can zee Into the future
as far as next October, but be it re
membered that the Portland Grants at
the opening of the season scored three
successive victories.
Bamum's name endured, for business
purposes, nearly twenty years after his
death. Will the firm name, now that
the Junior partner also is gone, go down
to the American youth of the next gen
eration?
Gorky says Mark Twain Is the best
known American In Russia. Does this
mean that he is our greatest living
writer, or that the Russians have bad
taste?
If the "Dowle family must wash their
soiled linen, let the laundering be doae
in the kitchen and the clothes hang in
the back yard.
The fleet of Europe can how take a
vacation. Castro 'has resigned.
Experimenting With Alfalfa.
Eugene Register.
F. S. Smith, who has a farm north of
9?rtngfleld. was In Eugene Monday on
business regarding a shipment of Inocu
lated soil from the experiment station at
the Oregon Agricultural College.- at Cor-
vallis. He Is to receive it0 pounds of
the soil, which will be used In preparing a
two-acre tract on his farm for the
growing of alfalfa. He already has a one
acre -tract In alfalfa, which was planted
last Fall. It came through the Winter
welt, and Is looking nicely.
Mr. Smith Is experimenting with the
forage, wishing to find out whether Fait
or Spring Is the best season for planting.
The soil in his alfalfa field Is what may
Be termed "nfga river bottom land or
"No. 1 wheat so!l.
CURRENT C03I3LEXT CLIPPINGS
Andrr Carnejcl rent the chars that
he Is a drone, and declares that he ha pa
pera to prove that he Is a Scot. Culcaro
itecora-Heraid.
Tenax now threatens to ro atter th
Standard Oil Company. If this thine keepa
up tnere a no teiuns; vnere tne price oc oil
win aiopc -OJitacooEa. utaea.
There Is one compensation to the ignorant
in this new speHlag reform, axd It Is that
arttr awhile it will be itnao-isibie to tell
educated from an uneducated man by his
tpeuinx;. rnuaaeipnia fresa.
It Is said -that the old crulsef New Tork Is
to be renamed becanse It Is no tourer a. rood
enough ship to represent the metropolis of
toe nation in tne iSTivj". o one aaa beard
anjrthler. however, about renatnlnr the
cruiser Buffalo, Buffalo Express.
It has been arreed br the Carnecle spell
era that the ujch can. should and must be
left oft the words thoura and "throaah.
Bet how about thoarhl and ourht"T
How 'about "fourtn." "taujcht" and
"canxhl"? How abot "daughter" aad
"tlaarhter? Ia short, how far caa we wade
Into this business without rolns; over our
bead7 Syracuse roit-Miansaro.
Perhaps it will be a rood thing- all around
for the labor salens to form a party, stand
en aad Ve coasted, at the pells and asaamr.
far as their -rates will carry theas. the
raceailMHUu of xorernsaeat. Bat It la
great mistake to think that labor has ot
the past. Buffalo Commercial (Rep).
Rut Congressman Loudenslager. of the
House naval committee, has mjectea
new Idea Into the discussion, we
takes the ground that too many com
missioner officers are kept on snore
duty at tasks which civilians couta
perform fully as well as they. He asked
for a list of officers on snore amy. ana
was hown 14 solidlv printed pages of
the Naval Register, containing their
names. There are lSu officers on duty
In the Nival Department In Washing
ton alone, and 12 In the ew iorK
Navy-Yard. This affords some idea
of the diverse duties that are per
formed by officers on shore. Mr. Lou-
tenlnerer"s nfODOSal Is that all of
these not required for technical work
be released for seaduty and their
places filled by civilians. He already
has a bill pending to bring about a re
organization for this purpose. The sug
gestion, to a landsman, seems exceed
ingly sensible and to promise the re
lief the department needs. Naval meth
ods, when they are of long standing,
seem to acquire a sanctity. That does
not necessarily mean that they are the
best. The officers would not lose dig
nity or prestige by turning" routine
work they have been doing for years
over to civilians. The service appar
ently would be the gainer by the
change, and it could be made quickly.
The Murderous Trout.
Country Life In America.
Of all the creatures, the angler Is the
least offender In the crime of killing.
The very game he seeks, though beauti
ful and gentle to the eye, and. at times,
noble In deed and purpose. Is the most
brutal killer of all the races the lovely
tmiit in Its attacks upon gaudy files.
the valiant bass and pike Jn devouring
their -.mailer brethren, and tne muiuiuai
nous sea fishes not alone In their feeding
upon one another, but In their wanton
murder of the millions upon millions of
victims of their pure love of slaughter.
How the Wind Blows
Eugene Register.
Straws show which way the wind blows.
The Oresonlan's letters from prospective
legislators Indicate a strong breeze will
upset franchise-grabbers who get In the
way of the next legislature.
"Paral'leloplpetlHnneian."
i in a recent controversy a Chicago re
former called Mayor Dunne a parilleloplpe-
don.1 ,
When I discuss affairs of state I do it with
formality
Yar Instance, when I talk about our srea-
munldpallty
1 do not deal In terms 10 mark, me
enerclopedlan;
I do not say the city ouxnt ia me lorce
Archimedean
Tn .t.rt the care tnat if. io aei. a. Tasi.
xlcanttc hereraze;
Pierian drafts haTe never been my chler and
dalbr beverage
But when rro short and sharp of speech, and
reailr rather snippy, uunse.
t raise -mr brows and say: "Tou
paralleloplpedonr
I'm not content to live my life In what you
mlcht call fossil eas,
And vet. observe. I do not say that you
are an Isosceles:
I do not net you on the phone or dash you
off a telegram
Informing- you that you are but a common
aaralleloaTam.
Nor that you're what might he described by
the unthinking: rabble a
Troncated cone, or trapezoid, or even
narahla
I'll not descend to gibe or Jest, or let myself
be grlppy. Dunne:
t inalr state: "I think you are a par-
allelopipedBanean.
-Heroes All. .
i - -
Walla Walla Union.
.The terrible Chamber of Commerce tire
at Portland Friday developed cnouch he
roism to win a hundred battles.
Tom Richardson's Rescue.
Boise Statesman.
The City of Portland should give each of
those men a gold medal in recognition of
the demonstration of their manhood In
that trying hour.
A Fair Judge.
East Oregonian.
Evidently. Judge Hunt, who - tried the
last of the land-fraud cases, doe not re
spect either wealth or poverty. In his ad
ministration of the law.
Tony Blnaghi.
Albany Democrat.
-When men unselfishly demanded that
others. zo first to safety It warms one for
them In a selfish world in which mo3,t
people are looking out for No. 1.
Pat All the Eggs In One Basket.
Baker City Democrat.
Tfhere is room for the apple-grower, for
the walnut-grower, for the chicken-grower,
for the dairyman. In the economy of
this state Where success already rc3ts
special interests hav'e received special at
tention. Preening His Feathers.
Walla Walla Bultc,tln.
A newspaper is a seml-publlc institution,
privately owned. Its first loyalty Is -to
the people. Its first duty to defend th"
people's Interests. So It appears as an
advocate, and In that sense the. forum be
longs to the newspaper.
I'ace to the Front. .
Walla Walla Union.
The happiest man. the greatest man and
the safest one is he who meets faithfully,
cheerfully and honorably all the obliga
tions of life as they come, be they great
or small. And the truest man 1s he who
carries good-fellowship with him In meet
ing his duties. The man who can snills
In ad'verslty Is greater than a war Hero.
Taxing; the Red Man.
Spokane Chronicle .
It dots not look unjust to ask the In
dians to pay taxes. To sentimentalist
there mhtht apaear to be an outrage in
asking the former owners of the land to
pay an assessment upon It now. but thl
need not appeal to those who know that
the Government has given the red man
every chance and has assisted him 1 1
every way.
Your Boy.
AIbany Democrat.
Eoys do a good many things they
should not do. but they arc boys, and
cannot be looked at through exactly
the seme glasses as are used In look
ing at the doings of men. With. the boy
hls treatment should be more with a view
of making him better, with a spirit of
reformation- The boy is a great study,
and he need3 to be viewed comprehen
sively and with the right spirit.'
Old Eaclld. lists a lot of names, that tell
what every biped !. i
But I would not aasert you're what
lur&iieloolsed ia:
v we(.hedren. irfwl How would It sound
le har amid
The city's rash I called you that, or said
yea were a myraM?
Or lsahedroB? What if thus-my Intellect
detected to a.
-- if -Tea Rhemboldr flashed out and
came pretlr sear bleeetlnsyaa?
Vo. rm contest- TH oaly sr. from Maiae
to Mlssissispt. Daaat.
Xke country kaews that I called you
paraKeleptpedea.
Song of Joy.
, Astorian.
Astoria' has lots to be glad about.. Th
dull season Is past: the fisheries are about
to open. With tip-top prospects tor a year,
there will be hundreds more of busy peo
ple around here, earning ana spenuuiy:
money: the pufillc health Is excellent: tho
banks are In flourishing condition: the
Jail is empty: the milling business is on
the increase; and there is sun .wwj in
the Courthouse fund.
The Pitiless Truth. '
Olympla Recorder.
What need to chase the smile from th-
dimpling maid by criticising the ugly
mouth rather than praising the lovely
eyes; to pluck away the hard-earned lau
rels of age by their too critical reduction
to mediocrity, or to deauen tne amoiuun
of youth by doleful deductions. And. as
we Idealize the hllnd goaaess as jusuv
tempered with mercy, so we find the need
of the world and fullest meed of happi
ness to be truth .tempered with charity.
That Maddening Sign.
Baker City Democrat.
The maddening thing about a red
nose- Is not that It Is red. but that It
Is assumed everywhere, even amuu.
your Intimate friends, that you got it
In the pursuit or a set purpose i u
pose of all the Intoxicating liquors ex
tant. There are any iiumuci
who havo red noses wno never uran.v
anything more deadly tnan city mil,
but It 'would be futile for them to in
timate that their trouble is- constitu
tional. The red nose is .tne mar, aiw
brand of Inebriety.
Paint Their Names in Red Letters.
Corvalli3 Times;
nn R F.'D. route No. 4. a dozen of
the split-log road drags are In use Farm
ers along the route nave duui mem. ami
Ti..h.n'er it seems to be necessary they
send out the drag and work the road for
an hour or two. with tne result tnat mc
smoothest highways in the county an
said to be In the neighborhoods where thl
practice is touowea. Amuu " -who
are following the plan are Rich M--Bee,
Jesse Porter. R. S. Irwin. J. S. Wat
kins. E. Dinger. S. S. Henkle. M. S. .Dar
by. Jesse Porter. Peter Rlckard. J. VN.
Jones. W. W. Starr. Ed Buchanan anil J.
G. Buchanan.
NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
Do vou think eatinir late at night' hurw
tou'" "Well. It rather depends on the sue
of the check." Town, and Country.
"Sar Dick, what Is this new fad they
call Phonetic spelling?" "It-, the kind
Jim. they used to flog you and me at school
for using." Baltimore American.
' "Tou say that Faro Jim cam to his end
through contributory negligence?" "Se.
answered Broncho Bob. "He showed down
four aces In a poker game, an' two of em
was the. ace of diamonds." Washington
Star.
"So you used some of the liniment I Ic t
here yesterday." said the agenU "Didn't
you find that It worked well?" "I should
Say so'." cried the lady. "I mistook it fr
the furniture polish and It took alt tne skid
off the piano legs In one application:" De
troit Free Prese. ,
"As I watched you dancing, he sa!d.."t'ie.
thought suddenly came to me that you were
a poem set to -music." With a .hopeless sign
aise turned her back on -him. for she knew
something about poetry, and had made a
study of the kinds that, are usaally set to
music. Chicago Record-Herald.
Toung Lawyer "If yea wish to get off
with the minimum punishment. I'd advlsr
you to confess everything and throw your
self oa the mercy of the court." The Ac
CEied "But if I doa't coafesa?" Tounz
Lawyer' "Oh. la that case you will very
likely be acquitted far want of evidence."
Chicago Dally News.