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PORTLAND, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1900.
THE SOLID SOUTH.
The pollltcal break-up of the solid
South, Mr. Taft acutely remarked In
his speech at Oreenboro, N. C, would
not necessarily. Inure wholly to the
benefit of the Republican party. He
also suggested with equal truth that
It would not necessarily injure the
Democratic party. The gain of certain
Southern States by the Republicans
would, in all probability, be offset,
wholly or in part, by the loss of one
or more Northern States; for just as
the fear of negro domination makes
3emocratlc voters of men whose nat
ural ways of thinking would rank them
with the Republicans, so the menace of
the solid South tends to hold Northern
men in the Republican party, In spite
of a preference in some capes for Jef
fersonian ideas. This is particularly
the case in Northern States where the
rural vote predominates heavily. While
Republican victories are desirable, still
It must be admitted that excessively
large Republican majorities coming
with unvarying monotony in a tier of
Northern States promise little more for
the welfare of the country than a solid
Democratic South. The ideal political
condition is that of two parties ap
proximately equal in numbers with the
chances of victory Inclining one way or
the other according to merit, and with
no Mate bo secure to either party that
civic morality may be safely neglect
ed. It is to Mr. Taft's credit that he
advocated the break-up of the solid
South, although he discerned clearly
that Its effect might not be wholly to
the advantage of his own party. There
is a kind of politics which rises above
partisanship, and Mr. Taft proved his
mastery of it at Greensboro, as he also
did in the late election in Ohio.
Of course if the negroes were not un
lawfully deprived of the right to vote
there would be no solid South. The Re
publican League, which recently met at
Philadelphia, adopted a resolution to
punish the states which unconstitu
tionally disfranchised the negroes by
dimlnlshtng their representation in
Congress proportionately. But, how
ever Just this measure might be, it
would certainly not promote the growth
of the Republican party in the South.
It would tend, on the contrary, to stim
ulate a dogged persistence in maintain
ing white Democratic rule at all costs.
There is nothing in Mr. Taft's speech
to indicate that he agrees with the
opinion of the Republican League upon
this point. Much as he deplores the Il
legality of negro disfranchisement, he
expects to see it cured through eco
nomic processes rather than by a rigid
enforcement of constitutional penalties,
and In this he agrees with the greatest
man the South has produced since the
war and one of the greatest of his gen
eration. Booker Washington believes
and teaches that the political rights of
the negro will flow necessarily and
smoothly from his economic independ
ence. Make him a man to whom the
denial of the suffrage Is not only tech
nically illegal, but also a manifest out
rage against merit and it will not long
be denied.
Thus Booker Washington reasons and
Mr. Taft agrees with him. As the ne
gro acquires a stake in civilization he
ceases to be a menace, and the dread of
black rule passes away with the reason
for it; or, as Mr. Taft puts it, "the ef
fect of the changes in Industrial con
ditions w-hich Is eliminating the cry of
negro domination from the politics of
the former slave-owning states has
manifested itself first in the border
states'." He hopes with reason to see
others follow the good example, and
believes that the distribution of the
white voters of the Southern States
between the two great parties will en
hance "their political Importance as
communities and the significance of
their views upon measures and men."
As a simple matter of fact, the edu
cational and economic development of
the blacks will of itself nullify those
laws which now exclude them from the
right to vote by educational and eco
nomic tests.
Mr. Taft's strong argument for the
break-up of the solid South had direct
relation to the condition of affairs in
North Carolina, for there is good hope,
it is said, that the state may give a
Republican majority at the Fall elec
tion. His citation of the fact that
West Virginia, Maryland and Missouri
have ventured into the Republican col
umn without disaster to civilization was
notably apt and would probably win
votes where threat of the Republican
League would drive them away. Cer
tainly In the points which he made
there was a powerful appeal to the in
telligence of his hearers. The division
of the solid South between the parties
would probably leave their relative
strength in the country unaltered; it
would increase the political influence of
the South; It would induce the habit of
political thought Instead of blind sub
servience to tradition; it could not bring
back the evils of reconstruction days
these were his principal arguments of
a theoretical nature. H reinforced
them with a temperate statement ' of
what the Republican party may be ex
pected to stand for in the future.
The Republican party, he said In ef
fect, may be expected to continue the
work which it has so well begun under
the leadership of Mr. Roosevelt. In the
future as in the past, it will pursue
the two-fold purpose of enacting just
laws and seeing to their fair and equal
enforcement. On both heads the Demo
crats have only promises to offer In
stead of achievements, and even their
promises leave much to toe desired. Had
Judge Parker been elected President,
we should have had no rate bill, for, as
Mr. Taft recalls, he believed that all
the evils of rebates, discriminations and
so on. could be remedied by the com
mon law. Mr. Bryan again says that
the trusts must be destroyed, not regu
lated; while Mr. Taft holds the Repub
lican doctrine to be that the advantages
of combination ought to be distributed
among all the people by Judicious reg
ulation. Practically, it is idle to think
of destroying the corporations. Theor
etically, their perpetuation and develop
ment are wholly in harmony with the
deepest tendencies of the age, and will
probably work out automatically, al
most, those ameliorations of the human
lot for which all parties seem to be
striving.
MORAL STANDARDS.
They have some strange moral stand
ards up at Eugene. Says the Eugene
Guard: "So Judge Tanner has been re
warded by a full pardon for betraying
his lifelong friend and business asso
ciate, the late Senator Mitchell. A man
made of the right stuff 'would have
gone to prison himself rather than se
cure immunity by sending his oldest
friend there."
Though the Guard makes a false
statement, it shows its Idea of what is
right. In the first place, it is not true
that Tanner betrayed Mitchell. On the
contrary, he stood by him as long as
possible, even to the extreme of com
mitting perjury to save his friend.
Tanner confessed only after the perjury
had been discovered, and when it would
be folly to persist in false swearing.
The Guard also says what is untrue
when it implies that Tanner confessed
to save himself. The fact is that he
confessed to save his son, who had as
much claim upon his consideration, It
would seem, as Senator Mitchell had.
Another falsehood is contained in the
assertion that Tanner was sending his
old friend to prison. It is not possible
in this land of justice for one man to
send another to prison. If any man
goes to prison he sends himself there,
by his own deliberate acts, and no man
who commits a crime has a right to ex
pect his friends to commit perjury to
save him.
But the falsity of the assertidns
made by the Guard are of minor im
portance. The more noteworthy feat
ure of the Guard's comment is the
standard of morals held up before the
young people of Eugene and Lane
County who read that paper. Virtually
the Guard says to the young men and
women whom It addresses: "If a friend
of yours commits a crime and thus ren
ders himself liable to Imprisonment, It
is your duty to swear falsely to save
him and persist in the perjury until you
go to prison yourself. This must be
your code of honor. It is a disgrace to
uphold the law and to aid the courts in
the execution of justice. Your first
duty is to your friend who has commit
ted a crime, and in order to save him
you must overthrow the laws of your
country. To do otherwise is dishonor.
Tou must be a liar to save your friend,
and in turn your friends must perjure
themselves to save you, and your
friends' friends in turn must commit
perjury to save them."
Tanner merited ail the disgrace and
trouble that fell upon him, but It was
due him for swearing falsely in the first
instance, and not for finally telling the
truth. If the Guard voices the Lane
County Idea of honor, which is not be
lievable, it Is to be hoped that some
sort of moral quarantine can be estab
lished, so that the malady will not
spread to the rest of the state.
PROSPERITY'S FLOOD TIDE.
Evidence accumulates that the hys
terical Thomas W. Lawson offered his
predictions of dire disaster a year or
two earlier than was good for his rep
utation as a prophet. Commercial and
financial history from the earliest days
is replete with examples of the evils
of overspeculatlon and extravagance.
Time has repeatedly demonstrated that
at intervals the pendulum of prosper
ity is checked on its upward swing,
and then drops back, carrying with it
the fortunes of thousands who, to use
a gambler's expression, had "pressed
the limit" a little too hard. When
Lawson began sounding - his note of
warning this country had been boom
ing along on the high road to prosper
ity for several years. New wealth was
being created more rapidly than ever
before. In all great industries of the
country there was a record-breaking
output and prices were soaring around
the top notch. This pleasing situation
had been in effect for so long that it
seemed difficult to believe that It could
continue, and, reasoning from the ex
perience of the past, Mr. Lawson bold
ly predicted a universal smash in
nearly all of the heavily capitalized
mining companies, as well as in a num
ber of other industrial stocks.
The Lawson prediction is still unful
filled, and the pendulum is still on the
upward swing, with no apparent indica
tion of immediate reversal. For the
first six months of the year, more than
J827,00O,0O0 in new stocks and bonds
has been Issued, and the new incorpora
tions in the States of New York, New
Jersey, Maine and Massachusetts sinco
January 1 have reached a grand total
of 1, 340.000,000, compared with 11,069,
000,000 for the same period last year,
when the Lawsonian philippics were
being launched. Not only does this
business break all existing records,
with the single exception of 1901, when
the billion-dollar steel trust was organ
ized, but that the movement is still at
full swing is shown by new incorpora
tions in those states for June of more
than 1350.000,000.
It will be remembered that most of
the Lawson campaign was waged
against copper stocks, but Amalgamat
ed, which was charged with the
"crime," is today selling at higher fig
ures than before the Lawson attack,
and of the June incorporations more
than 140.000.000 capitalization was of
copper stocks. The banks of the coun
try seem to e fairly bursting with
money awaiting investment, and even
the flotation of 140.000,000 worth of
stock in ft mail-order house was speed
ily taken in by the public. The amount
of these new stocks and bonds actually
issued during the six months ending
June 30 was but 142,000.000 less than for
the entire year 1905. But it Is not alone
in the exploitation of aew enterprises
that we find a reflection of a plentiful
supply of money. The customs receipts
at the port of New York for the fiscal
year just ended reached the enormous
total of 1200,689,000, an increase of more
than 120,000.000 over the previous year.
The July dividend account of the prin
cipal Wall-street securities amounted
to 1168,000,000, and in all lines of busi
ness there Is much evidence of abun
dance of money. It is especially fortu
nate for the West that the East is en
joying so much prosperity just at this
time, as it has admitted of the financ
ing of a great many large projects in
this country.
More millions have been secured for
railroad work in the West than in any
previous period in the history of the
country- These new railroads and ex
tensions are being closely followed by
capital seeking investment in other in
dustries. In fact, there seems to be no
limit to the amount of funds available
for any legitimate undertaking that
shows promise of gaining profit to the
Investors. This tide of prosperity will,
of course, cease flooding some time, and
when the ebb sets in there will be trou
ble; but there is nothing in the present
commercial and financial situation that
indicates Immediate danger, and If the
people heed the experience of the past
the,y will have good, strong anchors out
in readiness for the ebb when it begins
running.
PROTECT THE TOLLER'S SAVINGS'.
A man is not permitted to open a
dentist's office without a license, nor a
physician's office. There Is a law even
for Inspection and regulation of bar
bers and of plumbers. The work of
such persons concerns vitally the health
of the community.
Almost equally important as the care
of the people's health is the care of
the people's savings. The money
which a man stores up by patient labor
is like the honey store of the bee; both
toilers depend on their hoard to save
them from starvation when they can
not work. The little hoards of the
thousands of humble workers in Oregon
are almost as precious as life itself,
for without them life is hunger and
cold and misery.
Bankers are the custodians of these
savings. They may speculate with
them to make sudden riches, or lend
them out on precarious security under
temptation of high interest. They may
play with their sacred trust as care
lessly as a Thaw does with inherited
millions, unmindrul of the sweat shed
by toilers in gathering together the
little mites of wealth.
Many a man wastes his life and
health collecting a little store of money
to keep him alive in his workless days
of age. His lawmakers pretend to have
made statutes to protect his health
from medical quacks, and "unsanitary
barbers; but they have done nothing in
Oregon or Washington to protect his
life fund from reckless or rascally
bankers.
A correspondent of The Oregonian,
several days ago, wrote of this evil as
follows:
These banks may speculate in many kinds
of doubtful securities and thereby jeopardize
the interests of their depositors, and such de
positors, or any other person, have no means
of obtaining any knowledge of how the busi
ness of the banks is conducted. These bank
people may speculate In flour, ' wheat or In
loans upon overvalued real property. Some of
them show such a glad hand to obtain new
business that one would almost suppose that
money could be had for .the asking. I think
It quite possible that some of these bank
people are now lending money on mortgages
In the suburbs or in outlying sections of the
county, and that In case of a financial strin
gency the money on loan could not be convert
ed into cash soon enough to relieve the bank.
The next Legislature should act promptly In
the matter.
Bills for bank laws undoubtedly will
come up before the Legislatures of Ore
gon and Washington next Winter. The
demand for a rigorous act in each state
Is so strong that it can be thwarted
with difficulty. These prosperous days
of lively business and money plenty
give wide license to banks. That
many depositories use the people's
savings lavishly and recklessly is not
denied. Their cash reserve often runs
dangerously low and they frequently
lend money on property that could not
be realized on, for depositors, in case of
stringency. Of their transactions and
their solvency, depositors have no
means of learning, unless they be Na
tional banks or unless they make vol
untary statements, .and even in the lat
ter case depositors do not know that
the reports are true.
The Bankers' Association of each
state has urged the enactment of a
law. That of Washington presented a
bill to the Legislature of that state
last session, but it was marred and
defeated by hostile influences. A com
mittee of the Oregon Bankers' Asso
ciation, which assembled in Portland
three weeks ago, is drafting a similar
bill.
These bills, if enacted, will compel
publicity of the finances of state 'banks
and trust companies and put limits on
their loans. The public will then know
just what banks are safe. Banks will
find it unlawful to speculate in pre
carious securities with the funds of de
positors. Bank quacks; like medicine
quacks, will find it impossible to prey
on the public uncurbed. A get-rich-quick
scamp, in spotless linen and
creased trousers, will not be able to In
vade a town, hypnotize It with his pre
tensions, establish a bank with gilt
doors, gather In deposits of trusting
toilers and flee with the accumulated
sweets of their labor.
The need of bank laws in Oregon and
Washington was thus ably set forth by
Miles C. Moore, of Walla Walla, in an
address before the Oregon Bankers'
Association in Portland last month.:
Both states are now an inviting field, for the
operation of unscrupulous adventurers. A
safe, a counter, the magic word "bank"
painted on a window, a display "ad" In the
newspaper explaining how a deposit of a dol
lar a month, drawing 4 per cent per annum,
will make the depositor suddenly rich, and
the enterprise is fully launched. A confiding
public Is easily persuaded that It la good
policy to assist the new bank In "breaking
the trust." Disaster ensuee. The receiver
takes charge of the empty vault and the sor
rowing depositors line up In mournful pro
cession. Banks have a common interest in good)
banking laws 'and in preserving high stand
ards to the end that they may enjoy and
deserve .the confidence of the communities
they serve. Incapacity and dishonesty both
lead to disaster; one Is as fatal aa the other,
and how Is It possible, under our loose sys
tem of state regulation, or. rather, our total
lack of adequate banking law. for a depositor
: to determine whether a given bank Is a safe
custodian of his fund? Public statements and
the frequent examination required of Na
tional banks afford some degree of protec
tion. The failure of one or more unsound
concerns often precipitates a panic that In
volves In the general ruin the good ar.a the
bad.
Unrequited love has been the cause
omany of the most pitiful tragedies
that the annals of crime have recorded.
The saddest feature in connection with
these terrible affairs lies in the fact
that the victims in nearly all cases are
innocent persons. The Seattle tragedy
in which a love-crazed youth murdered
the uncle of the girl with whom he
was infatuated, differs but little from
hundreds of similar crimes. The life of
Judge' Emory was a sacrifice which un
doubtedly saved the girl whom young
Thompson, crazed with love and blind
with rage, was seeking. Sympathy for
the unfortunate families of the mur
derer and his victim will be sincere and
widespread. The prominence of all the
parties was such that the public will
express an equal degree of sorrow for
the family of the murdered Jurist
and that of the young murderer
who has cast a lifelong shadow in
two homes. Will Thompson's poems
and his wonderful oratory reveal a
kindly, sympathetic nature which will
with difficulty bear up under this crush
ing blow dealt by his own flesh and
blood. The mental agony which Mrs.
Emory is now suffering over the loss of
her husband may equal but It- cannot
exceed that which is tearing the heart
strings of the murderer's parents.
There is absolutely no crime commit
ted from j-ear's end to year's end in
Labrador. A lonely people in a lonely
land, where there is no incentive to do
anything but get enough to eat If possible,-
these people live at peace with
themselves and each other and are as
non-progressive as were the Boers in
South Africa before the time of Cecil
Rhodes. They are said, however, to be
contented. If they have miseries they
do not know It, and for the world be
yond their line of vision they have
neither desire nor curiosity. Let us not
waste pity upon these people, but con
gratulate them rather in that they are
far removed from the strenuous life,
except as it applies to an effort to keep
warm during ten months of the year.
Simple, unspoiled, contented, it would
be a pity to precipitate them into the
strife known as civilization and to add
10,000 more to the surging, discontent
ed throng of laborers in a country
where "enough" is an unknown quan
tity, where haste makes waste and
waste periodically turns to want.
Great Britain is guarding the con
struction secrets of her famous battle
ship Dreadnaught so carefully that the
officers of the American Navy are un
able to secure any of the details re
garding the big fighting machine. A
Washington dispatch says that "such
information as the United States Navy
possesses of the Dreadnaught is of no
service in designing the new ship pro
vided in the last appropriation act."
This is not so serious a matter as might
be supposed. American designers and
builders have in the past built all kinds
of seagoing craft that could outsail,
outsteam and outfight anything that
John Bull ever launched. It is hardly
probable that the Yankees have lost
their cunning in this direction, and,
without any of the specifications of the
Dreadnaught, we can build a fighting
maclfine that, if the emergency arises,
can make scrap out of some of the
Dreadnaughts, Powerfuls, Terribles and
other "skeerful"-named British craft.
The Dreyfus case is still occupying
the attention of the French Supreme
Court. A Paris dispatch says that the
court Is divided upon the question of
quashing the verdict entirely or order
ing a new trial. With the warm sea
son approaching and the Castellane
family row about settled, there is a pos
sibility of Gay Paree running short of
sensations; so a new trial of the Inno
cent but unfortunate Dreyfus would be
a godsend. That great interest Is be
ing awakened In the matter is shown
by the statement that Colonel Picquart,
one of Dreyfus' warmest supporters,
has already been forced to fight a duel
with General Gonse, who is one of the
enemies of Dreyfus.
The cherries shown at the late fruit
exhibit in Salem astonished, in size,
variety, color and flavor even the old
stagers of the Oregon Horticultural
Society. And with the show was filed
a report that it pays to raise cherries,
providing enough are grown to secure
special shipping rates and refrigerator
cars, and that the market for cherries
is improving and the price satisfactory.
The woman suffragists are going to
try It again, being greatly encouraged
by the fact that, by intelligent work
and systematic agitation, they in
creased their vote from 1900 to 1906 by
11,000. The opposition in the same
period increased its vote by something
like 20,000 votes; and naturally both
sides look forward with great confi
dence to 1908.
"I do not want another nomination,"
says Mr. Bryan, "unless conditions seem
to demand it." As an Interpreter of
conditions, Mr. Bryan will be prepared
to give himself some good advice when
the time comes. No man, not even a
Democrat, needs to be gold-bricked
with a worthless Presidential nomina
tion more than twice.
It seems that something more than
water is required to float log rafts in
Lane County. Lane went dry at the
late election, and many loggers have
quit work. Steady work and good
wages are not alluring to men who are
"dry" with a thirst that all the waters
of the Willamette and McKenzJe will
not quench.
The coming of a genius who will In
vent an automatic explosive torpedo, to
be attached' by the police to automo
biles and to go off when the speed
limit of twelve miles an hour is ex
ceeded, is anxiously waited by the
world that w alks, and also jumps when
chauffeur honks.
Salem took away the screens from
its saloon doors July 4, with Buch good
effect that many people there think
the saloon problem has been solved.
Possibly that is the way Salem learned
that nothing worth getting excited
about was going on behind the screens.
San Francisco remained dry for three
months and is greatly astonished at
the benefits and delights of continued
sobriety. But all the same, the real
new San Francisco history begins with
the epochal date when the saloons re
opened. Judge Emory was the Innocent by
stander in the latest Seattle love affair.
He is dead, and the lover faces a charge
of murder. He may learn that his
method of making love has its disad
vantages. Senator La Follette apparently hasn't
made up his mind on what ticket to
run for the Presidency; meanwhile he
stands boldly and firmly on the Chau
tauqua platform.
The Gaekwar of Baroda is here, and
all the newspapers sent their profes
sional humorists to meet hjm. No won
der the Gaekwar takes life so seriously.
POOR LOSERS AT INSURANCE.
Kire Companies lllipl"; ed Now They
Want to Get Even.
Spokane Chronicle.
The Insurance companies are poor
losers. They have been playing what
looked to be a pretty sure game, and
lost. Now they-nre trying to get a game
a little bit surer, bo they can make up
their losses.
If fire insurance business is gambling,
the insurance companies are short sports.
If it is a business proposition, they may
be classed as poor mathematicians, or
they want to get rich a little faster than
Is good for the common people.
The people of Spokane, of the State
of Washington and of the entire country,
for that matter, paid these insurance
companies for protection from fire. They
paid the companies all that was asked
paid It because they could not get out
of paying and then expected the protec
tion they paid. for.
A big fire came along and devastated
San Francisco. Some of the insurance
companies try to settle with, the flre
sufferers -or what they can make them
take, and then ask the policyholders to
dig down and pay for the loss.
Is this ordinary business, or is It
brigandage ?
Life Saved by a Tall Hold.
Prineville Journal.
Charles Campbell, the Prineville
stage driver, arrived at Bridge Creek
Just as the advancing high water was
coming down, and attempted to cross
despite the entreaties of Miss Emma
Specht, a passenger, who wanted to get
out of the stage. This act he came
very near paying for with his life, as
well as that of his passenger. He
reached he north bank of the creek
when he discovered that the water had
quickly cut a deep channel next the
bank in the sandy soil and that his'
team could not get out. One of his
horbes, by persistent struggling got out
on the bank, which was the means of
Miss Specht escaping from the water.
She seized the horse by the tail and
assisted herself to safety. By this
time the water had risen rapidly and
was coming with such force that the
rig, horses and driver were quickly
carried down stream by the muddy
current. The stage driver was carried
down stream about a quarter of a mile
before he succeeded in reaching safety.
The horses were drowned, the rig
smashed to pieces and the malt sack
was observed floating away in the swift
muddy current, but could not be
rescued.
A Soother for Warm Weather.
Washington Coir. New York World.
It has been reasonably hot, even for
Washington, since last Thursday. That
is to say, the thermometer on the street
has been ranging along between 95 and
100, and once or twice has hopped above
the 100 mark for a short time.
The town has laughed the heat to
scorn, however, and all through the In
ventive genius of Quartermaster-General
Humphrey, of the Army. The Quartermaster-General
does not like to see peo
ple suffer. He is a specialist in the
amelioration of woes and troubles, and
he considers thirst one of the greatest
curses known to man, unless it can be
assuaged. He has perfected an amelior
ator, which is known as the "Humphrey
Soother."
This Is how,: Take a long glass and
squeeze a whole lime into it. Put in a
chunk of ice, pour ' in a hooker of rum
Santa Cruz or Jamaica, as you prefer.
Then fill the glass with the best ginger
ale obtainable, and after It Is mixed and
cold, drink and be soothed.
Kicked by a Hen.
Athena Press.
We have heard of men being kicked
by horses, mules and cows, but seldom
if ever does a newspaper have the op
portunity to chronicle the event where
a man is kicked by a hen. However,
here Is an instance. P. E. Colbern, of
this city, has a refractory hen, and
the other day when he went to take
eggs from the nest, the hen actually
rose up in wrath and kicked him on
the hand. The hand became seriously
swollen and the prompt attention of a
physician prevented a case of blood
poison.
CURRENT COMMENT CLIPPINGS.
If we could only get Roosevelt to go after
the smoke makers, the nuisance would be
ended quickly. Chicago Record-Herald.
Later developments seem to Indicate that
the heavy trans-Atlantic travel this year is
not due so much to foreign attractions as to
home detractions. Indianapolis News.
Even while President Roosevelt was advis
ing the girl graduates to keep their eyes on
the stars he was preparing to make some
other people see a few. Washington Post.
Airships, it Is now promised, will soon be
on the market at 1000 each. Why fritter
away your Installments on an automobile
when you can get an even more dangerous
machine for the same price? Indianapolis
News.
The fastest train in the country at the end.
of its first year reports that it made time,
with few exceptions, in its run between New
York and Chicago. It has also demonstrated
that swift travel over a good track Is as safe
as any. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
President Roosevelt has earned his Summer
vacation, and should be allowed aa much
privacy as he desires at his Oyster Bay home;
but It is fairly discreet gambling that he
will keep in touch with important public
affairs. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The President Is represented as being worn
out by the stress of work of the Winter and
Spring. He has earned the right to go down
to Oyster Bay and do nothing all Summer
long except fight mosquitoes and talk crops
to the neighbors. Syracuse Herald.
By conceding considerable to Argentine
opinion relative to the Calvo doctrine, and then
by making his voyage of observation and In
tercourse around the Horn, notable as a com
pliment to Latin America. Mr. Root may lay
the foundation for a new era In Pan-Ameiican
relations. Springfield Republican.
The Populists are opposed to "delegating
the governmental prerogative to Issue money,"
which means that they are opposed to a bank
currency and as they Insist on more currency
rather than less, this opposition to a bank
currency can only mean more greenbacks,
irredeemable paper money issued by the Gov
ernment. Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
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RAILROAD LAWS RESULTS.
More In What It Prevents Than In
What It Corrects.
Charles A. Prouty, in the American
Monthly Review of Reviews.
The benefit of the new railroad law
will consist more in what It prevents
than in what it corrects. Assuming
that the courts sustain Its main pro
visions, and that its enforcement la
reasonably effective, It may be ex
pected :
For the last few years railway rates
have been advancing; from now on the
tendency will be the other way. This
will pa due, not to any extensive or
sweeping reductions ordered by the
commission, but rather to the fact
that the railways themselves, having
knowldge that the reasonableness of
their action may be challenged, will
hesitate to make the advances which
they otherwise would, and will grant
the demands of shippers for reductions,
which they otherwise would not.
The payment of rebate and the
granting of similar concessions from
the published tariff will, in the main,
cease. Rebates will never entirely
stop sc long as competition continues,
but they will become rapidly less, and
in ten years from now that sort of
discrimination will be as rare as it
was universal ten years ago.
Discriminations between localities
will largely continue and this will bo
the most fruitful source of complaint
in time to come. It Is difficult to see,
however, how much discriminations
can be altogether avoided, unless our
waterways are to be shut up and the
benefit of geographical position en
tirely ignored.
This bill is more significant in its
passage than In Its provisions. While
President Roosevelt deserves the en
tire credit for Initiating the move
ment, he would have been powerless
but for the people s support. The en
actment of the rate bill is the people's
declaration that railways must submit
to governmental control, and that cer
tain abuses must stop. If the railways
recognize this, If they cooperate, as
there is every reason to believe they
will, to obtain a compliance with the
spirit of this law, conditions will be
fairly satisfactory; otherwise, there
will be renewed agitation, followed by
more drastic legislation.
Way to Fame Via Trolley Car.
(Chicago Record Herald.)
James Hamilton Lewis was waiting on
a downtown corner the other day for a
cab. When he hailed one, the cabman
drove up in a singularly uninterested way
and stopped. "I Jumped into his cab,"
said Mr. Lewis, "and told him to drive
over to the Criminal Court building. He
started off at a pretty lively gait and
recklesly cut across right In front of
an electric car going at full speed. It
came near catching us, and I called to
the fellow. 'O, my good man, I said
'that won't do at all, you know. You
must be more careful. I might be killed
'Aw,' he said, 'what of It? If you're run
over by a street car and killed, you get
two columns in the newspapers, but if
you Just die, you don t get nothin .' "
Seventy-Seven Years Old on Retired
List.
London Tribune.
By the recent death in Tasmania of
Captain Edward Dumaresq. late Eighth
Bombay Native Infantry, the oldest of
ficer in the British army passed away.
He was bom in 1802, and was consequent
ly 104 years of age at the time of his
death. He joined the Indian army as
Lieutenant In 1818, and was promoted to
Captain In 1826 ,and retired on half pay
in 1829.
Where Baby Girls Are Scarce.
(Hazleton Cor. Philadelphia Press.)
. The arrival of a girl baby in what is
known as the Cook block, in this city,
almost caused a riot, so jubilant were
the people.- For 12 years every arrival
in the block has been a boy .
The youngster has already been over
whelmed with presents, and a day will
be set apart for a general celebration.
The new arrival is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Bonny White.
Poser for President Roosevelt.
(Exchange.)
A farmer in Hungary named Szekely
recently became the father of quad
ruplets. As 44 children had already been
born to him and there is no room in his
home for any more, he is at a loss what
to do. The London Globe suggests that
he write to President Roosevelt about It.
With the Meaning- Twisted.
(London Tribune.)
A shop in the East End of London has
lately been turned into a kind of wax
work shop. The showman was heard at
the entrance the other evening shouting:
"Step In, gents; step in! Take my word
for It, you will be highly delighted when
you come out!"
NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
"L sir." began Bragg, "am a self-made
man." "Yes," replied Wise, "but why apolo
gize now? That won't help matters. " Phila
delphia Press.
Alugglns "That boy of mine was born to
rule." Buggins "Think he'll make a states
man?" Muggins "Yes. or a Janitor." Phila
delphia Record.
"I hear you went swimming this morning."
"Yes. I did." "How did you find the water?"
"Why, you can't miss it. silly! Go north till
you strike the lake." Cleveland Leader.
He "I believe you are ready to marry ths
first fool who comes along." She "You have
no right to say so." And she threw a strong
accent on the "you." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Flip "I have just been talking to a
specialist, and he says my brain vitality has
all gone to my long hair. Do you believe
It?" Flip "Well, er I knew it had gone!"
Detroit Free Press.
"In the struggle for liberty." shouted the
long-haired anarchist, "you will always find
me, brothers, in the van." "Sure," said the
doughty policeman as h pulled him Into the
patrol. Baltimore American.
Green "I can't understand why De Short
wants a divorce. His wife had nearly half a
million when he married her." Brown "Yes,
and she has every dollar of It yet. That's the
trouble." Chicago Dally News.
-From the Chicago Record-Herald.
RECIPROCITY THE NEXT ISSUE
Congress Will Be Asked to Enlarge
President's Powers.
WASHINGTON. July . Tariff reciproc
ity as the beginning of tariff revision may
be made the chief Issue of the short ses
sion of the 69th Congress. . It is more
than likely that after the election in No
vember .steps will be taken in the direc
tion of the passage of a general reciproc
ity law. Whatever reciprocity there Is
must be by a new law, because the reci
procity feature of the Dingley act expired
two years after its passage, and none of
the treaties negotiated under its provis
ions succeeded in securing ratification by
the Senate.
The reciprocity of the future must be
statutory, that 1s to say, the President
must be authorized in some way, either
by the separation of a maximum and
minimum tariff or by a horizontal reduc
tion, to promote trade relations with oth
er countries. This would not mean re
vision of the tariff if reciprocity could be
accomplished on a percentage basis, that
is to say, by the application of a more
general principle of the present law with
out disturbing the rates themselves, thus
provoRing a general tariff discussion. It
practically is certain that a 1olnt com
mittee of the two houses of Congress will
oe, appointed to draft something in the
way of a reciprocity law which will meet
the demand.
STOP CITIZENSHIP ABUSES.
Inquiry Begins Into Case of Foreign-
ers Who Cause Trouble.
WASHINGTON. July s.-Carrylng out a
suggestion made by the House committee
on foreign affairs, a board assembled at
the Stato Department today to Inquire
into the laws and practices regarding cit
izenship of the United States, expatria
tion and DrOtertinn ahrnnH onA ,..
recommendations for legislation to be laid
Deiore congress next session.
The primary purpose Is to devise means
of checking the abuses of American nat
uralization by persons who take out pa
pers with the deliberate purpose of re
turning Immediately to their native coun
tries, where they have given much trou
ble to the State Department by claiming
immunity from all the obligations of the
natives of their own government, and
thereby causing great discontent abroad
and leading to much diplomatic corre
spondence. PROTJD OF HAVING CHAXGEl)
Joseph Chamberlain Speaks to Ad
mirers, Quoting Gladstone.
BIRMINGHAM, England, July 9.
The celebration in honor of Joseph
Chamberlain's attainment of TO years
was continued tonight, when 10,000
persons assembled In Blngley Hall to
witness the presentation of 120 ad
dresses of appreciation of Mr. Cham
berlain's 'political services. The ad
dresses came from various parts of the
United Kingdom.
Replying to the speeches of presenta
tion, Mr. Chamberlain entered a polit
ical retrospect. Alluding to the charge
that he had often changed his opinion,
Mr. Chamberlain quoted William E.
Gladstone, who once said that change
was a sign of life, and that it was only
the dead who remained the same.
EXTEND CIVIL SERVICE RULES
Commission May Recommend Inclu
sion it f Intjipnnl I i fi-t n hp Cinrvlfn
rtevenue ctervice iu me ciassuieu serv
ice, and it Is expected that an order
carrying the plan Into effect will be
Issued within the next few weeks.
This branch of the public service is
one of the few remaining in which the
civil service regulations do not apply.
If the change is made it will affect sev
eral thousand persons.
SERVIA IS Fl'I.IiY FORGIVEN
King Edward Receives Minister
After Three Years' Boycott
LONDON, July 9. Diplomatic rela
tions between Great Britain and Ser
via, which were terminated by Great
Britain three years ago following the
assassination of King Alexander and
Queen Draga, were formally resumed
this evening, when icing rjawara re
ceived in audience Michael MUipche
vltch, the Servian Minister.
Plans of Dreadnaught Secret.
WASHINGTON, July 9. The construct
ing officers of the Navy will not be aided
In preparing plans for the monster 20,000
ton battleship by the plans of the Eng
lish ship Dreadnaught. So far the Brit
ish Admiralty has been absolutely suc
cessful in preventing any part of the de
signs or plans from falling into the hands
of other nations. Such Information as
the United States Navy possesses Is of no
service in designing the new ship provided
In the last appropriation act.
The fact that the plans of the Dread
naught are so closely guarded is given
as a reason why the plans of the big
ship for the United States should not be
made public, as will be the case when tha
terms of the act are complied with, as
It expressly says that the plans and speci
catlons must be submitted to Congress
before contracts for the new ship are
made.
Earle to Succeed Simms.
OYSTER BAY, July 9. President Roose
velt today appointed Charles Earle as
solicitor for the Department of Commerce
and Labor, to succeed Edwin W. Simms,
recently appointed United States District
Attorney in Chicago. Charles Earlr was
at one time an employe of the Bureau of
Corporations and is now an assistant at
torney in the Department of Justice. It
was also announced that Richard K.
Campbell, formerly solicitor of the Bureau
of Immigration of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, had been made
chief of the Bureau of Naturalization in
that department.
Great Demand for Small Bills.
WASHINGTON. July . Secretary
Shaw has Issued an appeal to National
banks to assist the Government in sup
plying a pressing demand for notes of
small denomination. He has sent to all
banks a letter requesting them to Issue
as much of the aggregate of their circu
lating notes' in $5 bills as is possible, Indi
cating to them that there Is more profit
In the issuance of such notes than in
putting out notes of larger denomination.
Atlantic Squadron at Azores.
HORTA, Azores Islands, July 9. The
United States cruisers Minneapolis (flag
ship), Des Moines, Cleveland and Colorado,
belonging to the third squadron of the
North Atlantic fleet. Rear-Admiral Brad
ford commanding, have arrived here from
Funchal, Madeira, July 6, and reports all
well on board.
Roosevelt Body Guard Fined.
OYSTER BAY. L. I., July 9. J. B.
Sloan, Jr., chief of the President's Secret
Service corps, pleaded guilty and was fined
tlO today on a charge of assault in the
third degree, preferred by Clarence Le
Gendre. a New York photographer. Sloan
paid the fine. The trouble occurred at the
time of the President's arrival in Oyster
Bay a ween ago. The photographer
charged that after he had taken a picture
of the President Sloan struck him.