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' - THE MENACE OF PLUTOCRACY, ' The most striking proof of the growth of plutocracy In the United States la the disposition, generally manifest, on the part of. those who have accumu lated great estates, to make conditions Under which they will remain undivid ed, and increase or roll up to greater and ever greater proportions. In for mer times. In our country, the estate,' on the death of the person who had created It, was divided among his heirs. It is seldom that any considerable es tate is now so divided. The testator so orders it that the estate shall remain intact, and be used for further accu mulation. The immediate members of the family are to be taken care of, in some sort, out of the protlts, but the estate Itself is erected' into a trust, to be wielded for Its own further aggran dizement and for perpetuation of the power of the family that controls it. This Is lawful, as our laws stand; but it destroys equality, establishes plutoc racy, and is rapidly becoming subver sive of the conditions necessary to the maintenance of our democratic system. This country will not much longer allow the owner of vast property to use his power In this way, for the oppres sion of society, long after he is gone. The inheritance tax is the firs step. . But it does not go far enough. Limi tation of the power of perpetuating great estates by will Is another step, . sore to be taken, as a remedy against an evil that is growing with . the growth of wealth and with-growth of the power of wealth among us. ... ;. Our country Is, or was, a republic, of equality. It was a new society; It did not inherit the system of classes and of property which feudalism es tablished In Europe. The people by which the United States were settled was not a class with feudal habits and ideas. Entailment of estates, or the idea of it, was unknown. But now, as a substitute for entailment of a great estate to the eldest son, or to a particular member of the family, the practice is substituted of creating a trust for the estate, or the entailment of the estate to a trust; which is a more deadly form of plutocracy than the other. A nobility, founded on primo geniture, has the sense of responsibil ity that belongs to its class. The trust estate has a body but no soul in this respect resembling the corporation fa miliar to Us all, but even less, and in finitely less, responsible and human. An aristocracy, founded on pretensions to nobility, is better every way than a sordid plutocracy. Property is created by law or under the law, and maintained by the law. Legal society creates for the common good the right of property; and for the common good that right is by legal so ciety limitable. That property should exist, and that it should be held with a sense of security and with a power of disposal, is taken, by us here at any rate, as a settled matter of expediency. ' But the right of bequest should be, and must be, if this country is not to be come the seat of a fixed plutocracy, to a greater extent than ever known else where in the world, subjected also to the like rule of expediency, and limited as the judgment of the state may deter mine. The French Revolution broke up an old abuse, similar to that to which we are tending, but less grievous, perhaps, because It was modified to an extent by some of the checks of feudalism. The Code Napoleon, which since- the Revo lution has been the actual law of France, forbids entails altogether, and leaves a man free to dispose of but one fourth of his property of any kind, if he have three children or more; of one third if he have two children, and of one-half If he have but one child. If there are two children, therefore, two thirds of the property must be equally divided between them; If there are more than two, three-fourths. In this way has France, desiring equality, sought to, bring equality about Our families, in possession of great estates, will not break" them tip if they can help it. Such owners will do all. they can by entail and settlement and the ue of the trustee, to prevent their successors from breaking them up. They will preserve inequality. Free dom of bequest, then, the power of con verting estates into trusts, in such a country as ours, is sure to establish inequality and to maintain it; and it will be an ever-increasing force. A country like ours wishing to prevent inequality or to abate it, wishing to avoid plutocracy or to prevent it, can do so only by Interfering with the free dom of bequest. This was what Tur got. the wisest of French statesmen, pronounced before the Revolution to be necessary, and it was what was done in France at the great Revolution. The example of England, from which we have most of our customs and laws, is not good for us on this- subject, at this day, because the temper ,and as pirations of our people are different. ' So are our situation, our institutions, our destiny. The demand of the people of England is not certainly hitherto has not been for equality, in the sense in which the idea and the word are em ployed in America. Here we can scarce ly conceive how a people can love lib erty and yet willingly accept inequal ity; but the English people have had no trouble with that enigma or paradox. In Morley's "Life of Gladstone" we find the great Liberal statesman quoted as saying: "There is' no broad political idea which has entered less Into the formation of the political system of this country than the love of equality." Further: "It is not the love of equal ity which has carried into every corner of the country the distinct, undeniable popular preference, wherever other things are equal, for a man who Is a lord over a man who ia not The love of freedom Itself is hardly stronger in England than the love of aristocracy." Sir William Molesworth said: "With our people the love of aristocracy Is a religion"; and every one will' recall Thackeray's sneer at the multitude who "dearly love a lord." But an aristocracy Is not necessarily a plutocracy; so with, our plutocracy we show even to less advantage. At the end of every excursion or discus sion the question recurs. How Is our country to avoid falling completely into the power of a plutocracy? We believe it can be done only by limitation of the power of testament or bequest, of the right of the owner so to dispose of his property by will that it may be held in solidarity, not only for the present, but for future Increment and growth. En forcement of the division of estates, on the death of owners, will prove the only effectual remedy. Otherwise the already enormous and rapidly-growing aggregations of wealth will change and destroy our political and social system. WATERLOO. Yesterday, June 18, was the anniver sary of the battle of Waterloo. It was an immense catastrophe to mankind; for It was the beginning of the enslave ment of the world to our modern plu tocracy. It cast down by one final blow the aspirations of the people of Europe for rule of the people as against the 1 ale of the kings and nobles and parasites of the old regime. The reaction against freedom throughout Europe set the clock of the world back six ages. It is useless to rail against the despotism of Napoleon. His despotism was that of a leader of the people against their op pressors. Waterloo ended the aspirations of the people of Europe for control or even participation in their governments. Un der the Holy Alliance, which followed Waterloo, they were told that . they were to revert to their original condi tion of beasts of burden, and be con tent with It. To hold them down na tional debts and armaments on im mense scale were employed; and the prejudices of one nation were played against those of another, while the po tentates of each and all had fair under standing and played the game of tyr anny and oppression. It Is going on to day; and the money kings of the world have direction and profit of the game. Of modern plutocracy Waterloo there fore was the beginning. Every kind of oppression follows In its train. It gave peace indeed for many years, but that peace was and Is the unspeakable ca lamity of the human race. It is easy, of course, to denounce the ambition of Bonaparte. But he was the embodi ment of the aspirations of the people, and he marched as the leader of the opinions and purposes of millions of men striving for freedom making mis takes, of course, but still striving for freedom. The situation today in Europe, organ ized against freedom, is a consequence of Waterloo; and the money kings have the usufruct. "IMPAIRED RISKS." The temperance lesson and. lecture have long ago been applied to men who would find and maintain responsible and therefore well-paid positions in the great system of modern transportation. It has been found, to the cost of rail road companies, that the drinking man is not a safe man at the throttle of the locomotive, the train dispatcher's desk, the conductor's beat through the costly, crowded train of cars, or at the switchman's station. High rates of speed in traffic can only be maintained by careful handling trains, and high rates of speed are demanded by a pub lic, impatient of delay and fired with the desire to "get there" in the shortest possible space of time. Hence it Is that modern transportation methods, and their basic principle and governing force self-interest have done what neither the eloquence of Gough nor the interdiction of law could accomplish in applying the principle of self-government to men of ungoverned appetite. And now come the life insurance companies and add the force of self interest to the great temperance lesson of a moving age. In sending a check in payment of a loss resulting from the premature death of a man "who had been a heavy drinker within five years," the lesson was given in this wise: "It is necessary for us to decline, or limit to very high-premium plans, applicants who have been intemperate in the use of liquor and are for a period of years apparently temperate." The explanation of this position is that, while these risks do not often die as the direct cause of drink, their consti tutions seem to be undermined, and what to an ordinary person in good health and habits would be a trivial aliment ends seriously with them. It is scarcely necessary to. add that cases of this kind are "impaired risks," the best of which, on the principle of self-preservation of company interests, . should be limited to high risks If not .declined outright. Here endeth the second lesson. The first teaches that if a man desires to hold a responsible position in the great est of modern Industries the transpor tation business he must preserve him self from the befuddling effects of the drink habit. The second teaches the in security of life from a commercial standpoint in the case not only of the present drinker, but of the man whose tissues have been impaired and whose constitution has been undermined by excessive drinking in the past. Dropped by .transportation and shunned by life Insurance companies, and unable to make headway in life, what chance has a drinking man to acquire a position or a competency for himself during life, or make provision for those dependent upon him after his death? In the first instance the chanee lies in the control of appetite before it gats beyond con trol; in the second, in pot forming the drink habit in the earlier years of life. The result in the one case is remedial. In the other preventive, and in this as in every other example of cause and ef fect, as illustrated by Individual respon sibility and accountability, the latter Is the wiser method of procedure. - "The man who is or has been addicted to the excessive use of drink is at best an "im paired risk", in the commercial, finan cial and industrial world, though in thousands of Instances the "has been," assisted by the determination of em ploying forces to cut drinking men from their list of helpers, has broken away from the drink habit. But, according to this latest estimate of great life in surance companies, such a man is still an "impaired risk," and prudence coun sels the rejeetion of his application for an Insurance policy. . These lessons in their saddest signifi cance apply most disastrously to the families of. the impaired industrial or financial risk, but the rules governing them are so soundly based in the princi ple that governs commercial life that their wisdom must be conceded. 1$ is manifest, therefore, that if men for their own sakes and the sake of their families would not be scheduled as "Im paired risks" In the industrial and financial world, they must apply the power of self-government that is the boast of a free country to their own lives, and thus eliminate the "risk" to which commercial interest Is keenly alive in dealing with all applicants for its favors. WHY NOT RESTITUTION The argument or apology now is that those who took the franchises of Port land years ago did It when nobody was looking, and they themselves didn't know the value of the franchises they stole. But they sold the franchises and put millions in their pockets; and to effect this they got expired franchises renewed, and then, intending to sell them, went to the Legislature, con trolled the organization of that body, put their man in for Speaker, appointed the committees to do their work, and put through their scheme to authorize the projected sale. The argument now is that all this was honest, because nobody detected the scheme or cried stop thief, when they were carrying off the stolen goods. But we may suppose that they who se cretly and stealthily walked off with the plunder, who had "worked" the Common Council and the Legislature to get It, knew what they were about; In particular, since as soon as they suc ceeded they sold out the booty for an immense sum; of which, If the city had the income, its taxes now wouldn't trouble It. Perhaps now, since these operators are so very explanatory and apologetic, through their organ, they will make restitution to the city. Yet, perhaps not. Fortunes are made these times by the secret methods of public and pri vate plunder; and who expects any one of the plunderers to turn child of conscience and make restitution? The proper penalty, since it is the only pen alty for such acts, is public condemna tion and withdrawal of all confidence. POLITICS IN PENNSYLVANIA. The political situation in Pennsyl vania is interesting and instructive. The regular Republican party, with Senator Penrose at its head in the ca pacity of boss, has control of the ma chine. Penrose never has displayed many of the qualities of the Ideal boss. He is a sad falling off from the con summate Quay, whom'he succeeded but by no means replaces. For one thing, he Is not a good "mixer." He main tains a haughty aloofness and in aus tere seclusion issues his commands to his followers like a Philip II from the depths of the Escurlal. Of course they obey, but not with that cheerful alac rity which met the behests of Quay. A boss Is a despot from the nature of the case, but for a successful relgn he must mitigate the rigor of his rule with kindly familiarities. Penrose Is never familiar. He is reserved and gla cial. He never slaps a man on the shoulder. "Hello, Bill," is a greeting that would freeze on his tongue. His voice Is a deep orotund whose waves thunder with dignity. In his manner he lives up to the chaste Ideals of his alma mater, which Is Harvard Univer sity. Penrose might be forgiven his chill aversion from those who serve him if he were a successful boss; but he is not successful. His failures have been a, direful spring of woes unnumbered to the Republican party In Pennsylvania. First and most tragic was his failure to put down Mayor Weaver's rebellion at Philadelphia. Weaver, like .Folk, is an instance of base ingratitude. He was put into office to serve the machine; he lapsed from his duty and served the people. He was elected to protect a gang of thieves; he exposed and ruined them. Worst of all, he has divided the party, which up to his time had been the complacent instrument of the most cynical clique of grafters in the coun try, into two irreconcilable factions. Like the more famous traitor whom Milton tells of, he has drawn after himself a third part of heaven's cons conjured against their boss. Less poet ically, he and his fellow-reformers, in their determined fight against the ma chine, have carried with them a good third of the Pennsylvania Republicans and formed them into a new party known as Lincoln Republicans. Per haps it should be called a faction rather than a party. At any rate It is fight ing Penrose and the machine for con trol of the state, and should victory perch upon its banners it would claim the title "regular" by right of con quest. La Follette created a somewhat simi lar situation in Wisconsin in the course of his war upon the railroads. His op ponents in the Republican party were "stalwarts," his followers were "half- breeds." Each faction sent a delega tion to the Chicago convention which nominated Roosevelt, and La Follette's men were rejected by the National committee. Nevertheless they con trolled the state, conducted the cam paign and elected their leader Governor and Senator in succession. They owed their success in part to the co-operation of the Democrats, who ignored party lines for the sake of a great eco nomic issue. Similarly, if. the Lincoln Republicans carry Pennsylvania it will be through the co-operation not only of the Democrats, but also of the prohibi tionists, who may perhaps be persuaded to lend their aid to the revolt against the machine and the boss. Each- Republican faction has nomi nated a state ticket for the Fall elec tion. That of the regulars was dic tated by Penrose, who lacked the wis dom to keep out of sight during the moral tempest. On the contrary, he showed his hand openly and seemed al most to defy the moral sentiment of the state. The Lincoln Republicans nomi nated an excellent ticket with Mr. Lewis Emery, Jr., a man of unbending Integrity and tried independence of character, heading It as candidate for Governor. Still, they are outnumbered by the regulars in all probability,, and can hope for success only if the Demo crats, whose state, convention will be held in a few days, should indorse their ticket. This they would undoubtedly do if they were free to follow their bet ter natures, for even a Democrat is not absolutely Insensible to the appeal of moral enthusiasm; but, unhappily, they have a boss as well as the Republicans, and in order to Indorse the Lincoln ticket they must first defy and de throne him. This would be peculiarly difficult, not to say painful and heart less, since the reigning Democratic boss, Colonel Jim Guffey, has furnished the sinews of war for many a gallant but hopeless campaign, and stands ready to do the like again. Should the ' Democratic convention yield to the boss and nominate a full ticket, sufficient potential support will be withdrawn from the Emery faction to Insure their defeat. Boss Guffey of course desires this from that fellow feeling which prevails between two of a kind. No monarch beholds a revolu tion with indifference, be it where it may; for revolt is ' contagious. The downfall of the Republican potentate, Penrose, brings a step nearer the fatal moment for Guffey and all his class. There is some hope, however, that the Democratic convention will declare Its independence and Indorse the Lincoln ticket Even should it fall to do so, de feat for the reformers is by no means certain, for the masses In Pennsylvania are roused as they never were before and are disposed to vote for their ideas without much regard to party names. When amoral issue is squarely drawn, the calculations of routine politicians generally fail to forecast the vote. The people take matters Into their own hands, and, without making much ado over It, effect great transformations and change the course of history In a single day. Holgar Borgesen, Andrew Hansen, John Peterson and Andrew Kellner, ac tive members of the Sailors' Union, were less successful than the men who boarded the steamer Johan Poulsen and "shot up" the crew at Portland. Hol gar and his companions with the good American names went out In a launch in San Francisco presumably to extend some of the Johan Poulsen brand of persuasion to the crew of the National City. They were met with a well-directed volley from men on the steamer, who apparently shot to kill. Mr. Kell ner"s life was snuffed out by a bullet through the heart, and Borgesen, Han sen and Peterson were each "pinked" in the legs. Holgar and the other sur vivors of the affray undoubtedly feel aggrieved over the matter, but It Is extremely doubtful about the grief pen etrating far enough to cause them to go back to the land from which they emigrated to this free country. In that land men of their caliber earn about $45 per year. In this country they strike be cause they can only earn from $75 to $100 per month and "found," and at tempt to kill those who are satisfied with the "going wages." Pleasing Indeed is the news from the bar regarding the soundings that are now being made under direction of the United States Engineers' Department. Mr. Bagnall, who has bad charge of the work since the retirement of Mr. He gardt, states that the channel is now only about one-third as wide as it was when the last survey was made. There is such an immense volume of water sweeping seaward that there has never been any doubt about securing a good depth of water, providing It could be confined In a narrow channel. If the soundings now being made are correct, the work under way on the jetty Is at last showing results. With so good a showing at this time, a much greater depth will probably be in evidence a month hence. If it is not, a few weeks' work on the bar with the big dredge Chinook will loosen up the sand so that there will be no question about the Fall shipping having more water than has been In evidence on the bar for several years. In requesting the several Prosecuting Attorneys of the state to submit to him such suggestions for the amendment of the criminal laws as their experience convinces them should be made, Attorney-General Crawford has begun at the right place to Eecure remedial legisla tion. Too many laws are enacted with too little previous consideration and too little knowledge of the effects the laws will have. The Prosecuting Attorneys of the state and the Attorney-General will be able to draft amendments which, If passed by the Legislature, will remove defects which have enabled the guilty to escape punishment In the past. If all the laws that are passed by the Legislature were drafted before the Legislature meets, the statute-books would contain a smaller number of laws that have vague meaning and uncertain application. The steamship Dulwlch crossed out of the Columbia yesterday for Australia with a cargo of 2,200,000 feet of lumber and 250 tons of wood pipe loaded at Portland. Her exact time in the river from the hour she crossed the bar In ward until she crossed outward was 11 days and .1 hour. If this record- has ever beerr beaten on the Pacific Coast with a cargo of this size, it has escaped the attention of our Puget Sound friends. For quick dispatch, big car goes and light port expenses, Portland is in the front rank among seaports. The original founders of the Repub lican party are meeting in Philadelphia to point once more with pride and also to view -with alarm. They are two hundred In number only two hundred. But their numbers will Increase as the years roll on. Up in Lane County the saloon men have resorted to the courts in an effort to defeat the "dry" vote cast at the recent election. What effect do they think a victory in the courts would have upon a prohibition vote In 1908? Of course we shall always beware of foreign entanglements, but America will nevertheless be well represented at King Haakon's coronation. Why not? Ay tank he ban one good fellar. The State Fair Board has let the pool selling privilege for the races at the Fair next Fall. Didn't the Supreme Court say something recently on the subject of poolseHing? The 2-cents-a-mile fare on the South ern Pacific looks like the beginning of a rate war between the steam and elec tric lines, with steam getting in the first stroke. Now If the sun would only shine, Willamette Valley farmers would while away a few days making hay. The Czar plays at tennis while Rus sia seethes. We hope he's at least a good tennis player. No doubt the Jimmy Hyde of the six bit fire insurance situation will appear in due time. ENGLISH AND GERMAN. Carl churl on. the Relative Uses of the Two Lsngaages, The late Carl Schurz, who added to a remarkable command of his native German such a mastery of English that "he appeared to have penetrated the very spirit of the alien speech," and could in either tongue "be playful or powerfully argue, soar or thunder, and do it with the facility and grace of one to the vernacular born," not long before his death indicated (in an in terview recently published in the Mil waukee Germania) some Interesting points of comparison between English and German. Mr. Schuri carried his achievement into the field of literature as well as of oratory, his "Life of Henry Clay" and his various contribu tions to periodicals having secured him, according to the Evening Post, "a high rank . as a man of letters." When asked in which language he pre ferred to think and write, he always answered that his preference depended upon the purpose and the occasion. We quote: For public speeches I should, ax a rule, prefer the English partly because of the greater simplicity of lta syntactic construc tions, and partly because the articulation is mechanically easier and less tiring to the speaker. 1 should also give it the preference for political and commercial discussions. In asmuch ae lta terminology la more complete and more exact. But for philosophy or poetry, and for the more intimate expressions of fam ily life, the German la superior. Occasionally I have had to translate my own speeches from one language Into the other; and I always found that my German vocabulary supplied me far more readily with equivalents for what I had aaid in English than conversely. I find more untranslatable words and phrases In my German than In my English. HUNG BY A HORSE HAIR. An Oriole Meets Death While Building; v Her Neat. Canyon City Eagle. James H. WatBOn, who resides near Marysvllle, brought to this office Sat urday a poplar limb to which was suspended by a horse hair an oriole, that from all appearances had acci dentally hung herself while she was building her nest. Mr. Watson in formed the Blue Mountain Eagle that the oriole nest with the bird suspended by it, was found in the top of one of the small poplar trees at the ranch on which he resides. The accidental hanging of a bird un der such circumstances is very rare, and has been observed by but few people. However, the examination of an oriole's nest and the manner in Which hair from a horse's, tail or mane is woven and interwoven, it is surpris ing that such accidents as the one re ferred to are not more common. Bridge Whist for Hla Tombstone. Congressman "Bertie" Adams, of Phila delphia, who recently took his life, was more notable for his social position than for his standing as a legislator. He wag a member of several exclusive organiza tions, and for years had been present at practically every social event of note oc curring in Washington. D. C. Hla position depended on generous ex penditure, such being Washington's so cial sesame. His income, once a gener ous one, dwindled under the strain, and he entered the stock market to recoup. Occasionally he had successes, but for months fortune had gone against him. not only In the fight for dollars in the "Street," but in Washington's exclusive parlors. A colleague, familiar in a meas ure with his recent embarrassments, said, on receiving news of his tragic end: "Bridge whist ought to be graven on his tombstone." Preaervinar Objects of Interest. Boston Transcript. Americans are slowly awakening to the commercial value of preserving natural wonders and objects of historic Interest. An important factor in the prosperity of Italy and other nations of the old world is the tourist trade. It has been esti mated that the money spent by tourists in Italy constitutes a third income of that country. Entry of the United States into the galaxy of world powers has greatly increased its value from the standpoint of the tourist, and steamship companies report a marked increase In the last few years in the number of for eign visitors to this country. Hitherto Americans have not been quick to realize the necessity of preserving and marking the points of interest in the various parts of the country which will attract visitors. George Eliot's House Sold. London Daily Mail. Bird Grove, the house at Coventry where George Eliot lived with her father, was sold at auction yesterday for 1600. It was at this house that the famous novelist formed her friendship with the Brays, through whom she was Intro duced to literature. . Her father died in 1849, and the home at Bird Grove was then broken up. Mr. Roosevelt a Symphony In White. Washington, D. C, Dispatch. President Roosevelt appeared yesterday clad in white except as to his shoes, which were of tan. He wore a short coat of white linen and trousers of the same material and a white shirt of some soft stuff. He did not wear a waistcoat, and his trousers were held up by a leather belt. He looked cool, comfortable and the picture of health. s m Uncle Allen's Helpfnl Suggestion. Chicago Tribune. "Speaking of that girl who broke her arm while trying to fasten the middle button at the back of her shirt waist," said Uncle Allen Sparks, "there isn't the slightest excuse for such an accident. Let an even num ber of buttons always be sewed on the back of a shirtwaist, and there won't . be any middle button." Profits of Street Begging;. Macmlllan's Magazine. It is estimated that In the London po lice area 312,000 goes into the pockets of street beggars every year. Mr Soldier Boy. New Tork Times. . My soldier boy to the war has dashed B-r-r-r ump dump dump, b-r-r-r umo dump dump Ha won't come back till the foe's all smashed B-r-r-r rumpety dumpety dump dump dump. He'll sound the charge and beat the tatoo, . And he'll be the foot and the cavalry, too. Oh, he'll slay the foe by corps of ten. . Foaming steeds and iron-legged men. Slay them and stand them up again B-r-r-r rumpety dumpety dump dump dump. His sword Is girt on his chunky thigh B-r-r-r ump dump dump, b-r-r-r ump dump dump His rations of sweets are handy by B-r-r-r rumpety dumpety dump dump dump. He'll storm the fort with a mighty shout. He'll plant his flag on the riddled redoubt. Oh, nothing will limit his martial scope. He'll couch his lance In the forlorn hope. So long as a headless nag can lope B-r-r-r rumpety dumpety dump dump dump. But. generous foe. when the victory's won B-r-r-r ump dump dump, b-r-r-r ump dump dump He'll pick up and putty each son of a gun B-r-r-r .rumpety dumpety dump dump dump. And war is mean, he'll say, quite sad, As he thinks of the indemnity and his dad. And he'll bivouac at night with hla flags all furled. In a little cot. near his mamma, curled, . And dream he has conquered a pagan world B-r-r-r rumpety dumpety dump dump dump. ON GOOD TERMS WITH VALET. ' Rockefeller's Man Knows When' To Jest and When Not To. Complegne Cable Dispatch In N. Y. World John D. Rockefeller paid a formal re turn visit to Mayor Fournier de Sar loveze, who presented to hint the keys and the freedom of the city. Mr. Rockefeller went In as much "state" as he ever assumes. He rode in a two-horse village cab from the chateau to the Mayoralty. Just as a reigning sovereign is accompained on such occa sions by his aides-de-camp, so the "Pe troleum King" was surrounded by his physician, his secretary and all the rest of his personal staff. Unluckily, the Mayor was absent and Mr. Rockefeller and his suite left their cards. In the hotel hall yesterday Mr. Rocke feller paid an old-fashioned compliment on her good housekeeping to the pro prietress, who was delighted, knowing from his expression that he was saying something pleasant, but who, smiling, blushing and curtseying, explained that she does not understand English. He passed almost the whole morning cycling in the park of the Strong chateau with his valet, John. This inestimable man Is really the Intimate friend of the "Petroleum King," who respects him profoundly, not the least because John knows, as if by intuition, when to be grave and respectful; when gay, talk ative and familiar; when even he may poke respectful fun at his master. Mr. Rockefeller's manners are those of an Eighteenth Century marquis. He takes off his hat to a woman as does the courtier-tenor in the opera, with a long sweep of the arm and a profound incli nation of the head and shoulders. He has a pleasant smile which surprisingly transforms his steelly blue eyes and his grim, pensive face. His secretaries salute him with no more than a casual nod; they display no awestruck deference for him. But when he takes snuff they sneeze; greet his frequent pleasantries with louder and more prolonged laughter than their quality deserves. Mr. Rockefeller enjoys being chaffed, and even Valet John ventures to joke with him once in a while. Wealth of Nations. New York World. The latest estimate of national wealth by a competent authority was recently given before the British income tax com mittee by Mr. Mallet, one of the com missioners of inland revenue. Mr. Mallet placed the national Income at $!),000,000.000, against the $3,500,000,000 of Prussia. The capital of the United Kingdom he esti mated as $42,500,000,000, which was double that of France and four times that of Italy. According to his estimate, the number of persons possessed of fortunes of over $300,000 was In the United Kingdom 30,000, In France 15,000, In Prussia 11,000 and in Italy 1500. An Englishman with an Income of $3000 pays $250 income tax; a Prussian pays $212.50 on $5000 of unearned Income and $150 in case of earned Income. The wealth of United States cannot be estimated from any official source, but at the observed ratio of increase noted in 1000 it cannot well be less than $110,000. 000,000, and is probably considerably greater. Fourth of July Folly. The Chicago Tribune has been long in collecting and tabulating figures which throw some light on our nearly-due an nual barbaric outbreak which we pretend to justify by terming a manifestation of patriotic spirit. Here are some of the statistics: Fourth of July Casualties. Dead. Injured. ISOfl i.... 33 1.740 1(100 5!l 2.77 lftoi 25 l.S0:t 1002 31 2.7HU H03 52 100-4 : S3 8.049 1003... I S3 3.157 The figures in the "dead" column refer to sudden deaths only. Deaths from tetanus caused by toy pistols, etc.; reach something like five hundred annually, and other deaths, due to shock from noise, etc., can not be estimated. Is the cele bration worth the price ? Senator Mitchell's Death. The Philistine. Some time ago I made the statement that cancer was often the direct result of persistent wrong thinking, and it brought down on me through the malls a fine as sortment of epithets from people who were confident they knew better. But now comes Dr. Tllden and not only de clares that hate, worry, excess, fear and midnight meals may cause cancer, but hernia also. And that the conditions named may so thin your blood and re lieve it of its fibrin, that if you have a tooth pulled there is not sufficient coagu lating substance in the blood to stop hemorrhage, and you bleed to death, this with the help of a fool doctor who stimu lates your heart's action Instead of dimin ishing It. He's a Winner. Fossil (Wheeler County) Journal. If Jonathan Bourne works as hard for Oregon when he goes to Washington as United States Senator as he has for "Statement No. 1" and his own election, he will he by long odds the most useful Senator that Oregon has ever had. And there Is no reason to doubt that he will. He has the energy of a human dynamo, the sticktoitlveness of a bulldog, winning ways among men (we know naught of his standing with the other sex), and heaps of good gray matter in his top piece. An Idle Cariosity. Medford Mail. It Is evident that there were a whole lot of "nonpartisan" votes cast on elec tion day. The people will now be consid erably interested in seeing whether "non partisanship" will appeal so strongly to the Governor as It did before election. Great Expectations. i Springfield, Mass., Union. Oregon Republicans have elected a num ber of congressmen who will be expected to represent the State in the national House Instead of in Jail. WAITING HOW DOES IT SOUXDt Colonel Watterson Proposed as Bryan's Banning Mate. New Tork Sun. While Col. Henry Watterson Is chant ing hymns In honor of Mr. Bryan, the imminent lightning plays over his own head. The Richmond Times-Dispatch named him as the fittest candidate for Vice-President on the ticket with the greatest conservative force in American public life, the peerless leader, the great est American citizen. ' The nomination will be received with rapturous applause wherever there are Democratic hands, hearts and lungs. Colonel Watterson is a Great American Traveler, too.- He has exported himself frequently. He has seen the hotels and porters of many citlea He Is a conserv ative and a preservative force. He has given much of his life and most of his parts of speech to the Democratic party. He has advised, remonstrated with and supplicated several Presidents. He has been aa steady in his convictions as a weather vane. He has the Star-Eyed . Goddess in his cellar at this moment. She needs to wait no longer. The time is come. Bryan and Watterson; the Peerless and the Fearless; wise youth and youthful age; two tongues and pens of fire; two editors, travelers, lecturers, statesmen. The only possible objection to this twin star is that it might seem dark with ex cessive bright. Thrift Thnt Makes Wealth. Washington Post. The public debt of France Is $6,000,000,000. all held at home. In addition the French people own foreign securities to the stu pendous aggregate of $15,000,000,000 and it Is further estimated that an equal amount is placed in home securities. These figures may be exaggerated all but those repre senting the publio debt but they Illus trate the virtue there Is In thrift, which is also a German usage. There is no Rockefeller, no Carnegie, in France, though there may be a lesser Russell Sage. The French people do not speculate; they save. They do not get rich at a hop. skip and Jump; they accumulate by slow degrees they economize. The crime of crimes In rural France is waste, and France would subsist on what America throws away. Within the past year there have rotted on American farms enough machinery and utensils to supply agri cultural France the next quarter of a century. Hopes to. Fool the Doctor. N. Y. Cor.. Pittsburg Despatch. Franklin Murphy, the famous Irish ath lete, who has been denied admission into this Land of the Free because certain doctors said he would be a dead man In two years, was hot under the collar to day. Vaulting over a five-foot fence on Ellis island directly after he was told he would have to return to Ireland he said with a snort of disgust: "I'll bet there Isn't one of those doctors who have condemned me to death in two years who could do that." Murphy Is 28 years old and comes from Belfast. He has muscles as hard as whipcords, in addition to ruddy cheeks. He can take an apple or potato In one hand and grind it Into pulp. The doctors said muscular degeneration had set in, following his devotion to athletics. "Look down there." said Murphy, after his five-foot vault. "See the puny doctors. They say I will be a dead man In two years. Well, I'll fool them." 'Only Monopoly in the United State." Washington, D. C. Despatch. Congressman Prince of Illinois In the House to-day, during the consideration of the sundry civil bill, spoke of the anti pass amendment to the railroad rate hill and of the bill Itself, and Insisted that the country "would hold the House primarily responsible for depriving 1,2!W. 121 railway employes, as welt as members of their families, from receiving free transportation. "The people .this fall." he said, "will want to know the occasion why we prop erly Included 13 express companies under the law, and excluded the only monopoly in the United States, the Pullman com pany, from the provisions of the law." Room for Women Smokers. London Cable Dispatch. The latest thing in ladies' clubs In Lon don Is the Imperial Club, and is Intended to give women an opportunity to grain a more extended knowledge of National af fairs and politics. The founders have rig idly declared against female suffrage. The vice-presidents include six Duchesses, among them the Duchess of Marlborough, six Marchionesses and 31 Countesses. Leading politicians will speak at the club on one afternoon in each week. The clubhouse contains a billiard table, a card room, a smoking-room and a mani cure department, with a special massaging machine. What Lnnar Athletes Conld Do. Springfield, Mass., Republican. . The "man in the moon" must surely re gard with amused contempt our much vaunted athletic records. A good ter restrial athlete could cover about 120 feet on the moon in a running broad jump, while leaping over a barn would be a very commonplace feat. He would find no difficulty in carrying six times as much and running' six times as fast as he could on earth, all because the moon attracts bodies with only one-sixth of the force of me earth. Protection Guaranteed. Philadelphia Public Ledger. "I suppose It's always hog-kllllng time In your town. Miss Packer?" sneered the New Yorker. "Oh. yes," replied the fair visitor from Cincinnati, "but don't let that keep you from visiting us. We always protect our guests." Soft Sawder. . Tillamook Headlight. It does beat the band- how Oregon vot ers fall all over themselves when being flattered by political flattery. George' is a dabster at flattery, and knows exactly how to rub it in when he has an audience before him. From the New York World.