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THE NEW SPIRIT AGAINST THE OLD. "A new spirit animates the citizen ship of Oregon," says the Baker City Democrat. It does, indeed. Oregon doesn't expect to rid itself of the first families, but intend to subdue them to her purposes. Their long; reign of more than fifty years is at an end. The old selfish mossbackism of Oregon, typified in our first families, in their cent-ppr-cont methods, in their dispo sition to "hog" everything, to repress all business not controlled by "them selves and to allow the country to grow only so fast as they couid absorb the growth; is giving way rapidly to "the new spirit that animates the citizenship of Oregon." All business, all effort in Oregon, these long years, has been forced through particular channels in Port land. Toll has been taken relentlessly; and everybody coming from abroad, who might be supposed to be strong enough to do business independently, has been discouraged and turned away. It has been the steady purpose and pol icy of the financial magnates of Port land never to allow anybody to come into Oregon who might be strong enough to do business on his own ac count, without paying tribute to them. Millioneof dollars have been turned away from Investment in Oregon by these methods of our local pluto-aris- tocracy. Portland was their bailiwick: or province; Oregon was their oyster. Every man who wanted to come and do business has been sandbagged, as far as these people could do it. Ask Hammond. Jlarkie's fate tells its own story. To control the exchanges of Oregon and to absorb the profits and the estates of all who had the temerity to try to do business without paying tribute to them, has been the policy of these people, this half century. Sale of Portland's franchises has been boasted by these people, as an invitation by them to outside investors'; but that was only the consummation of an lm mense steal from the public, effected by sharpers who were afraid to keep the goods, plundered from the people, lest they 'be called to account. It was a skurry to a port, on an approaching storm, with the booty that had been acquired. Oregon can grow only as it escapes the control of this repressive system. The growth now begins; It is notice - able; it Is marked on all sides. But it Is Independent, wholly, of this old mo nopollstic and repressive spirit and purpose. The thaw has set in. It is a debacle. The frost that has bound Oregon In fetters so long loosens. This Is the "new spirit that animates the citizenship of Oregon." It is due partly to the newcomers; partly to the awak ened independence of the older resi dents. Oregon is not to be bound in chains any longer. They who, for so long, were masters, and maintained their mastery by methods of oppression and repression, are no , longer "the whole thing." Soon they will be but a small part of it. OUR CATTLE INDUSTRY. James "Wilson, Secretary of Agricul ture, recently visited the Middle North west on a tour of inspection of the packing plants and packing-house con ditions generally in that section. He expressed himself as well pleased with what he saw and found. Among other things upon which his opinion will carry weight Is his estimate of the con dition of the cattle produced Upon the great ranges. Our cattle, he declares. are the healthiest in the world, and lees subject to disease than those of any other country. This Is a reasonable conclusion from the facts presented. The plains of the Northwest and the uplands of the Rocky Mountain section are rapidly changing, from ranches into farms. The passing of the old system of the range will not curtail the beef supply, but will increase and improve it, rather. The farmers will raise cattle in con Junction with agriculture and will give the smaller herds the personal super vision that it was impossible to give to the vast bands of former years, in suring improvement In their breeding and care. There is no reason to doubt the truth of this estimate. The Rocky Moun tain region produced and supported for centuries vast herds of buffalo, the sturdiest and healthiest of beasts. The same conditions under which these creatures throve and multiplied devel oped an enormous cattle Industry in their place. The cattle are healthy when they leave the ranges, unless the herdsmen are extremely careless in handling and treating them. If the American beef product, as placed upon the market, is unwholesome, it Is due to the methods of the packers, and not to the conditions that prevail upon the ranges. These things being true, the American people can heartily Join the Secretary of Agriculture in the declaration that "there Is no reason why we cannot have the best meat in the world." And when he adds, "We have the best cattle, hogs and sheep in the world, and can have the best fresh meat and canned products for our own consumption and for the markets of Europe," he leaves only one thing more to be said. And that is expressed in the supplementary statement: "All that is necessary Is to be careful and clean." THE MESS THEY HAVE MADE OF IT. The double purpose of those who in terested themselves in making the present charter of the City of Portland to "work the (franchises and to establish a political machine. In both directions it was a work worthy of a Pharisaical and sniveling hypocrisy, that was looking out all round for the main chance. Certain crass theories of civil service, making great pretensions to purity and holiness, had been read by Teal, Mills and Ladd; and, wishing' to make a political machine to support their franchise and other schemes, they wrought the ill-digested materials into charter, so incongruous and absurd that it can't stand any examination be fore a court of law; and chaos is the consequence, in the municipal govern ment. This holier-than-thou civil service or snivel .. service scheme, intended and designed to create and establish a new political machine, under control of "our best people," the Pharisees, goes to pieces under any examination or analy sis, by competent authority. .No inter pretation can make the theory, as ap plied, harmonize with itself. Conse quence is that there is in .fact no mu nicipal government. Clash of author ity nullifies or defeats practical admin istration. But these excellent people, professing to be- so much better than everybody else, and making a political machine (as they supposed and intended) to es tablish and perpetuate their own rule. on pretensions of superior civic virtue though they have made a mess of it on this side nevertheless were successful in filching from the city all its property, in the shape of franchises, that had any value; and to prevent the city from recovering its own, they have sold out the property, cashed the proceeds and buttoned up their pockets. It will be some time before or until the people of Portland will again listen to the voice of these charmers, charm ing never so wisely. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DOWTEISM. - Toward the close of his decision in the Dowie case Judge Landis, of Chi cago, animadverts with some severity upon the vow which the prophet re quired his followers to take. He calls the vow an "obligation of disloyalty" and plainly hints his contempt both for him who could exact and those who could submit to It.. The formula recog nizes Dowie as the prophet foretold by Moses and Elijah, and contains a prom ise to obey all his orders and subordi nate to "this vow" all other human relations. Judge Landis understands it to express one's readiness "at all times to abandon his family and betray his country." Persona whose acquaint ance with religious phenomena is lim ited to the lukewarm zeal and hazy obedience which prevail in many of the older denominations will be likely to say that the Judge takes this matter a little too seriously. A religious vow, they will reason, is always to be dis counted. It is never worth its face value. They will recall in what un compromising language we. Christians renounce the -world, the flesh and the devil, promising to forsake all worldly pleasure and advantage and devote ourselves wholly to laying up treasures in heaven; and with what complacent facility we forget all about it the next day. Remembering the cool and flaccid compliance of the ordinary believer with his vows, they may think that Judge Landis ought to have expected similar conduct from TnwiA follow. ers. He should have understood the obligation in a Pickwickian sense. Many people have felt much in the same way about Senator Smoot's relig ious vows, which, it is said, bind him to disloyalty when the interests of his church and country conflict. They are meaningless forms of words, we are told. The advance of scientific thought and the progress of civilization have taken the sting from religious zeal. The fires of controversy have gone out. The ashes of the martyrs are forever cold. The time has passed, never to return, when a man can be made to believe that religious duty requires him to betray hie country for the sake of his church or murder his neighbor for God's glory. Thus most of us believe and the conviction is comfortable, but there is nothing in either history or human nature to Justify it. Our age la not the first one when religious con victions have sat lightly upon the con science and universal tolerance was the rule. There have been similar periods before, and they seem to have preceded outbursts of fanatical intolerance which swept away reason and deluged the world in blood. Much the same In difference to creeds and abstract the ology w-hich Is now our boast existed about the time of the birth of Jesus, All religions were - tolerated. Perseeu tlon was unknown. Skepticism was the rule. Reason and science guided the conduct of men. Had any one pre dieted to Cicero or Augustus that the world was on the eve of a religious transformation which was to regener- ate the race and rebuild society from the foundation, those great men would have smiled incredulously and won dered whether the prophet was crazy or merely Jesting. So we should smile and wonder at a similar prediction. That age was remarkably like our own, even in minute particulars of socio logical phenomena. Bulwer relates in the "Last Days of Pompeii" how easily new religions emerged from the turbulent souls of impostors and fanatics, and how indul gently Roman . life received them. Fashionable women ran after novelties In piety exactly as they do now. Egyp tian priests imported mysterious doc trines of the same sort as the elect bring now "from India. There was universal sense of the Inadequacy of the old faiths and a hunger for some thing new. To satisfy this cosmic hun ger Christianity was born. Dr. Buck ley, of New York, Is reported to have said that two-fifths of the human race still believes in witchcraft. His figures are probably under the mark. Few men are entirely free from superstition, and no women. Stored in the souls of all of us like gunpowder waiting for the fuse and match lie vast accumula tlons of ancestral beliefs In ghosts, in witches, in miracles. In beings of more than human power. We may not know of them, though most people are not without an inkling, but when the right man appears. o"r the right voman, then comes the explosion. Luckily, so far we have not all exploded at the same time, but who can say that we never will? Our new religions have gone off hitherto like firecrackers lighted one by one. Byand by may appear some super-eminent genius who. will set the whole bunch oft at once. The old creeds are dying; some say they are dead. An orthodox preacher has remarked that this generation stands at the bedside of an expiring faith. We must remember, though, that it is the creeds which die, not re ligion. The surface cools and hardens, but within the heat is as fervent as ever. Day by day there are fresh erup tions, Mormonism, Dowielsm, the New Thought, Holy Rollerism, breaking forth like isolated volcanoes. Some time, perhaps the subterranean ener gies will combine in one mighty Out burst and we shall witness a spiritual cataclysm and the birth of a new re ligious world. All things pass. Nothing remains as was. Vain 'babble is, the talk of those who speak of our creeds,- our in stitutions, our laws, our system of work and wages, as if they -were some thing fixed and everlasting. They are doomed like all things human to pass away and -become as if they had never been. What is there in our' present ways to Justify the thought that they deserve perpetuity? In the face of our fallen women and starving children, who dare say that the salvation of the world has come? Is it not something still to be sought? Possibly religious phenomena like Dowielsm, repulsive as they appear to the normal and logical mind .of Judge Landis, may be the pre- monitors of some new revelation which shall do for us what primitive Chris tianity did for the world of aRome. WASHINGTON'S COLUMBIA RIVER SEAPORT. A 7000-ton steamship, with a carrying capacity of 3,000,000 feet of lumber, has been chartered to load at Vancouver, Wash., early in August. This . vessel will ibe the largest craft that ever as cended the Columiba above the mouth of the Willamette River. That a chan nel of sufficient depth to float such a large carrier is in existence is due largely to the effective work of the en terprising citizens of Vancouver. The liberal expenditures of the Port of Portland resulted several years ago in a good channel for deep-draft vessels as far up the Columbia as the mouth of the Willamette. This channel, of course, indirectly benefited the shippers of the entire Columbia Basin, as It re sulted in cheaper ocean freight rates and more plentiful. supplies of tonnage. For this reason it has always seemed that Portland should have received little more assistance from the neigh boring states and from the General Government. Failure to secure this assistance, however, did not retard the work of improvement, and it was through the example set by this city that Vancou ver became interested in the matter of continuing a deep-water channel in the Columbia between the mouth of the Willamette and the docks of the city. Vancouver declared her independence and her faith in the future by taxing her own citizens for the funds neces sary to deepen an additional six miles of channel which changed her class from a river port to a seaport. Port land is today the greatest lumber man ufacturing port in the world, and has shipped more record-breaking cargoes of lumber than any other port. But with a deep-water channel maintained between Vancouver and the mouth of the .Willamette there is absolutely no reason wny the Washington city should not develop a shipping business fully great proportionately as that of Portland. The matter is one of consid erable importance for Portland, for if it is regarded in the proper light by the washingtonians, there will in the fu ture be less difficulty in securing needed assistance for Improving the river. The loading of this big steamship at Washington port on the Columbia River will dispel that overworked Pu- get Sound argument that the Columbia River is not a Washington stream and that Puget Sound is the only seaport in the state. Portland and Oregon, even with the generous aid of a por tion- of Washington's Congressional delegation, have always encountered great difficulty in obtaining the assist ance which the importance of Colum bia River improvement warranted. Un fortunately, the outlook for any change in mis niggardly policy is not the brightest, and it is not improbable that in the near future the people of the territory affected by this great stream will be obliged to assist in carrying on tnese Improvements themselves. For this reason it Is pleasing to witness the growing importance of Vancouver. Her citizens will hardly permit the work tney nave undertaken to lag. anv more than Portland will abandon the work of our Port of Portland Commission. : Where the channel divides at the mouth of the Willamette, Portland and Vancouver have a separate Interest in the respective branches leading to the! wharves. Below the mouth of the Co lumbia and on out over the bar, both the Oregon port and the Washington port nave a mutual interest. Incident ally every freight-producer in the vast Columbia Basin also has an interest in maintenance of this great highway, over which the traffic of an empire floats to the ocean and thence on to the world's markets. Vancouver is one of the oldest cities in Washington, and is DacKea oy a country of enormous rich ness. She was contributing liberally to me support or the territorial and state government many years before some of the modern Washington cities were lo cated. The city and county have al ways Deen prominentin the state com mercially and politically, and. it is now only Justly due that the rest of -the State of Washington Join with Vancou ver and aid in keeping her on the list of first-class seaports in the State of Washington. s If it proves to be true, as stated by Dr. c. w. saieeny, of Edinburgh. Scot land, in McClure's Magazine, that the conquest 01 cancer is now an lmmedl ate possibility, then indeed the climax of medical research and scientific in vestigation into the cause and cure of disease has been reached. As a boon to the human race, many of whom are waging silent and practically hopeless warfare against this most insidious disease, a discovery for the cure cancer would be beyond all price. The despair of science for ages, this mallg nant foe, intrenched in the delicate tissues of the human body, has defied control. If now it has -been found that "trypsin," a substance that has been known to physiologists for many years, is able to vanquish this Justly dreaded foe, a shout of triumph should be raised that will echo round the world. The stronghold of what was for nearly a century known as the Cum berland Presbyterian Church was in the South, notably In Tennessee an other border slave states. While for the most part the members of this church" have outgrown the bitterness of belief that was distilled through long years of controversy with the mother church, there are still those- ' among them who contend stoutly for the sep arate "organization that was set up by their leaders in the heat of the dissen sion upon the slavery question. It Is thus that Judge Childress, of the Cir cuit Court of Nashville, Tenn., found it expedient to grant an injunction a few days ago restraining all who still claim to be Cumberland Presbyterians from interfering in any way with the ser vices, property or Judicatories of the Presbyterian churches in that Jurisdic tion, formerly known a9 Cumberland Presbyterian. "This is not strange. There always have been those in the church militant who- feel constrained to "hate each other for the love ot God," and history based upon human nature has a habit of repeating itself through the ages. Henceforward, as far as Belgium is concerned, absinthe, under all and any circumstances, is contraband. .Efforts have been made from time to time for many years to suppress its use in that country, but until now without success. Recently, in spite of the opposition of manufacturers and retailers, the pro hibitory bill passed both houses, the Senate by a vote of 92 to 2. The act is very far-reaching, not only in a com mercial but in a social and Individual sense. The penalties attached are sub stantial, and the prohibition extends to the importation, manufacture, trans portation, sale or storing for sale of this deleterious drug, or of any substi tute for it. The law is unique as a measure designed to protect man from himself and from the conscienceless vender, who grows rich at the expense of brain power urged to unnatural ac tivity by it, as the . Jaded horse is urged by spur and whip to make over draft upon his waning strength. Such a law applied to opium and its prod ucts would be beneficial to any nation, but commercialism would be able to prevent its enactment, even as it aids to the full extent, of its subtle power the evasion of such restrictive laws as apply to its importation 'and sale in most countries. The old, old story of bare hands against steel of the unorganized masses against organized power, of iron rule against pleas for Justice and mercy, ot armed tyranny against un armed liberty, is being told with deadly effect in Russia. The peasants are afraid to Vave the worst, yet the worst has come upon them. The wretched Jews, ostracized, persecuted, torment ed, tortured, are writing in blood one of the most horrible chapters in their' history. The end is not in sight, though the beginning is centuries old. Humanity turns away sick at the re cltal of the woes of these people, and civilization is forced to acknowledge her ina.blllty to uphold her standard in the vast empire of the Tsar. In his fable of the viper, Aesop says that "this little animal, chancing to meet with a file, began to lick it with her tongue till the blood came, which gave her a very silly satisfaction, as Imagining the blood came from the file, notwithstanding all the smart was In her own tongue." And perhaps some of the trust magnates who are waging war upon President Roosevelt get some silly satisfaction out of the now of blood, imagining that it tomes from a wound other than that from which they feel the smart. An acilcle in the Saturday Evening Post declares that, Mr. Roosevelt ough to have nothing to say about the ques tion of a second elective term. If the people order him to accept one, it is his duty to obey, and his promises or wishes in the premises are of no conse quence. This strikes one as fairly sen sible. What right has a President more than another man to leave a Job nalt done when his boss orders him to fin ish it? If the proportion between the United States census of 1900 and the" state school census of Multnomah County for the same year 4.15 is correct for the present time, the population of Multno mah County now is 136,950. There are 32,867 school children now in the county. of whom Just 29,980 are in the City of Portland. The ratio would make the population of the city 124,400. This must be near the very figure. "Edward D. Baker was the most elo quent man I ever heard speak," says Judge George H. Williams in his recol lections, a new chapter of which will be published in The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow. No man, woman or child can read unmoved this contribution to Oregon's history, and Judge Williams' tribute to the stout soldier and great orator. There were no marriage licenses is sued in Multnomah County Thursday; but the Circuit Court preserved the eternal balance by granting no di vorces. All this was on the same- day, however, that the Tennessee woman gave birth to sextuplets. It may be confidently expected that Judge Parker's $50 contribution of course it will te $50; watch it to the Bryan reception fund will be accompa nied by a letter expressing pain and regret that the rules of the same pre vent it being larger. It may transpire. In the course of hu man events, that the companies belong ing to the six-bit class will constitute the insurance legion of honor. At least they didn't fall back on the earthquake to shake off their obligations. However, Mr. Bryan Is willing to have it understood that his views on the financial question have never been procured from those eminent Demo crats who have paved Wall street with their good intentions. If Mr. Gourdain, who can't get in the Illinois penitentiary, will only come to Oregon, he will find a useful and prof itable career opening up to him as Grand Advlser-in-Chief of the U. I.s. Judge Landis knocks the last prop from under Dowie by taking the Zlon property away from him. There is nothing left for Elijah but to feed him self to the legal ravens. The Portland ball team has won fourteen games, almost In succession, and the Seattle team has lost fourteen games ditto. That's what comes from not letting the Seattle statistical ex perts keep score. This is the hop liar season. The hop liar season always precedes the bop season; hut It lasts longer. Mrs. Sage will get $90,000,000 Just for being Russell's wife. It was worth it. PILLING A TIGER'S TOOTH. Ferocious Bengal la Roped and Dea- tiirt Ymnka Oat Task. New York Evening World. Carmen, a ferocious royal Bengal tiger. the largest and most beautiful animal ever imported, had an ulcerated broken tooth pulled yesterday at Colonel Ferari's Animal Kingdom at Brlghtoa Beach. Seven animal men assisted the dentist. Dr. Benjamin Freeman. After considerable maneuvering, a noose made of 1-inch rope was drawn tightly back of the big beast's head, while he fought to get out of the noose as a cat at a collar. A smaller rope was fastened about the right forepaw. This was pulled between two Iron bars and fastened down, throw ing the huge cat on his side, and his other feet were roped and bound in suc cession. 'We're ready for you, now," said the Colonel, who had gone inside the cage and forced the tiger's mouth open with a piece of 2x4 scantling. After spraying the mouth with cocaine the dentist got his forceps on the big tusk, but they slipped. He made two other attempts, and each time brought away a small piece of the tusk. The tiger lay remarkably still. He pulled on the ropes that held hlmt but most of his strength was espent on the piece of scantling 'between his massive Jaws. Every few seconcb he crushed splinters off it. Finally, with a three-foot iron bar as a brace, two blows of a hammer loosened -the tusk. It was broken and taken out in pieces. When the ropes were taken off the tiger he Jumped to his feet, shook himself and growled. He didn't seem to be any the worse for his experience. Carmen is 10 years old, and measures 14 feet from tip to tip. He weighs more than GOO pounds. The "Dotage Microbe. Oregon City Courier. Oregon has been the storm center of land frauds. One of her Republican Senators , and both of her Republican Representatives in Congress, besides a United States Surveyor-General - and many other Federal officials have been implicated and have either met their Just deserts or are. in a fair way to do so. Now comes the only member of Congress from this state that the law has not entangled Senator Fulton, who declares that Secretary Hitch cock, who to his credit has relentless ly prosecuted the land thieves, "is in his dotage." If Secretary Wilson had shown the same efficient "dotage" there would have been no beef, cotton and seed scandals. If Secretary Taft had exhibited a similar brand of "dotage" there would have been no Panama scandal and matters in the Philippines and Porto Rico would be In better condition instead of being a disgrace to American , management. If Secretary Root had shown the same patriotic "dotage" the Santo Domingo and Ven ezuela scandals would never have oc curred. If Secretary Moody had ex hibited the intense "dotage" that his elder associate has exhibited, there 'would be a large bunch of tr.ust mag nates in Jail and the trust question would not loom up so alarmingly to the American people. ' The President is to be congratulated on having one member of his Cabinet in his "dotage" for that seems to be the only way to efficiently follow up fraud without fear or favor and dog iredlv determine to inforce the law. The Btrenuosity of the President has has had no effect upon Secretary Hitchcock. He has gone along without blow of trumpet, or partisan speech makintr. on his plain old "dotage" plan and it is a pity that the other members of the Cabinet have not been inoculated with the same disease, instead of the microbe of strenuous ness that has evidently had a disas trous effect on their efficiency. Farmer Roosevelt and His Hay. Ovster Bay Dispatch in New York World. "It looks like rain," said President Roosevelt to the head farmer at 2 o'clock P. M. "Very like rain,"' said the head farmer. "And that hay will get wet If we don't get it under cover," continued the Presi dent. "Hav In ricks In the field is liable to a wettin' when It rains," said the head farmer. In 15 minutes the President was In the field with a handkerchief knotted loosely around the band of hfs collarless shirt and a pitchfork In his hand. A big wagon was run out of the barn, and he went to work with energy, aided by the head fanner and his assistants. The hay was pitched up on the wheeled cradle and driven to the barn. The President got on top of the load and pitched the first forkful Into the mow. He worked valorously for 40 min utes, tossing up big bundles as fast as the men in the second story of the barn could take them and stow them away. Then, with the perspiration streaming from every pore, he returned to the house. Jumped Into a. cold plunge, and by the time the storm came up was dressed and in his library reading a book. First the Soger Then the Medicine, Springfield, Mass., Republican. Secretary Taft refers to the Philippine tariff bill as having passed "the House by a large majority "and Is pending in the Senate." "Pending" is good. So is the man "pending" who has been - shot through the gallows with a rope around his neck. Pitch Inl Aldis Dunbar in "Spare Moments." If "things" are what you're after. Just reason. In advance: They're very much like "humans." You must give them half a chance. They like good easy going- A pleasant place to stay; So promise cheerful welcome To "things" that look your way. Though growling, nagging, whining. Will always turn them back; And every hour o' loafing Piles boulders in the track Tet Luck a ilka running water: Don't heed what grumblers aay; Pitch in and clear a channel. And "things" will come your wayl CAN EE WEATHER THIS STORM ?. lfaft-'re "-- : SsZTIjr WHAT THE STATE PRESS IS SAYING Meantime, the Convictions Multiply. The Spokesman, Roseburg. That Oregon stands. In the eyes of the world, a disgraced state. Is a fact patent to all. That this condition is an injustice anyone of intelligence knows. That there has been, and perhaps are, officers who do not serve the state, or the Government, with that degree of fidelity they should, is also undisputed. But because there are those who are derelict in the per formance of their public duty, or who have been recreant to the trust reposed in them, is no reason why the whole state should be condemned, and its citizens classed as- criminals and blacklegs. 1 Yet, if the statements alleged to have been made by Senator Fulton, on his return from Washington, are true, the Secretary of the Interior "has it In for Oregon." and "has no use for any of its citizens, official or otherwise." Yet the press of the state is silent on so serious a matter. Not a word of condemnation of the senti ments of Grandma Hitchcock is uttered, and not a word in defense of the honor and manhood and integrity of its citizens is written. Well may it be asked. Why is this? . For one year the Land Office at Rose burg was closed contrary to all law and rules of Justice, and though honest and caoable men In the district were sug gested, all were turned down and men sent from" a distant part of the state to perform duties that of right belonged to our own citizens. Lest thev lose a land notice, or offend some one, not a word of protest was raised against this Insult to the citizens of this district. Dozens of men were suggested as United States Dis trict Attorney men known to De aDie, honest and fair yet against the expressed wish of the people, against a protest, ne, a man whose integrity has been ques tioned, is retained, simply because an in terloping meddler desires It. Again me Intelligent and respectable citizens are given a slap, but the press of the state hies no protest. - Citizens of our state, whom we have de. lighted to honor, and whom we have looked upon as our- most honorable and trustworthy, are Indicted and disgraced and the papers are sile.it. They seem to be afraid to say a W'jrd. Fie on such policy. Be men, honest, fearless men. Speak out firmly and positively and let the world know you resent the unjust Imputation cast upon the state. There are nowhere to be found a more honorable class of people than in Oregon. Where we have had grafters that nlch from the public dollars there are those of other localities who filch thousands of dollars. Think of the insurance scandals, the Panama steals, the rate-bill sells and buys, the sugar trusts, steel trusts, coal trusts and -thousands of others. Judge Hunt comes from Montana to wash out the dirty linen of Oregon, leav ing the most corrupt trust-ridden state in the Union. Its Senatorship is a mere article of barter and sale, aiid is regularly put up at public auction and sold to the highest bidder. Yet he comes to Oregon to cleanse this state of the small amount of corruption, leaving the most gigantic mass of monumental corruption in the whole country. It would look much better if he would spend a little of his latent energies in cleansing the coprolltic condi tions at home. In the meantime will the press of Ore gon sit still and see the fair name and fame' of Oregon clouded and the state scandalized and say nothing? If so, then shame on you. The Ways of Our First Families. Oregon City Enterprise. Portland prides Itself on its wealth, on the large number of wealthy citi zens. It is reported to be one of the richest cities per capita In all the world. But it takes something more than wealth to Insure a city's future. If Portland's rich men would get half the hustle, on them for Portland, that Seattle's citizens, rich and poor, do for Seattle, Oregon s metropoii would be so far ahead of the Sound city in five years that there would be no more rivalry between them than there was between Chicago and St. Louis after the census figures of 1880 were made public. Portland wants everything done for it. Self-help is the tonic needed. How much larger would Portland have been, and how much more trade would the merchants have had. If lo cal capital had taken the initiative for a north shore road to Spokane 15 o even ten years ago, instead of waiting until "Jim" Hill had built up Seattle all he could with "Inland Empire trade and then started to build th water grade route- simply to forestall Harriman? And now Portland Is waiting for Harriman to furnish trade routes to Central and South Central Oregon, and Coast Oregon. Waiting for Harriman, whose every move will be made with the interests of 9an Francisco first in view If Portland was a live town, it would have had railway connection -with Coos Bav rears ago, and would be even now promoting and backing with every ounce of energy ana no ntue money a compet ing line to Central and South Central Oreeon. Here's a prediction: San Francisco will have railway connection by comparatively easy grades, with the Klamath country for vears. while fortiano. win sun De ae pendent on the Siskiyou mountain climb via the Southern racinc. Encasement Button' Is la Vogme, Evening Wisconsin. A pretty way of sealing an engagement has been invented by the inhabitants of the East End of London. Every man, immediately he Is engaged, is expected by his fiancee to wear a but ton brooch with her photograph in his button-hole for as long as the engage ment lasts, and she in turn wears his photograph on her breast near her heart. These are called "love buttons, and discarded any day by either of the par ties It is a Blgn that the engagement at an end. This novel idea has been in existence about a week, and during that time GOO of these buttons have been sold. Still Boosting for Ike." Salem Statesman. It will be noted Senator Fulton un derstands the Custom-House in Port land is being carefully administered. Even the candidates for the positio realize this. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. SOME FEATURES OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN First and foremost, all the world's new by Associated Press, special correspondents snd members of The Oregonlan staff, making the fullest and moat complete record ot any Pacific Coast newspaper. JUDGE WILLIAMS ON COL. E. D. BAKER Patriotic emotions and historic in terest are always aroused on the Paclflc Coast by mention of the name of Oregon's Union Senator. Judge George H. Williams takes Colonel Baker as a subject for eu logy and pays a splendid tribute to this brilliant orator and brave warrior. ONE YEAR'S WORK OF THE JUVENILE COURT What Judge Frazer and his asso ciates have done to reform Port land youth. It is hard to conceive of a story with more human in terest than this recital of the In telligent and sympathetic effort put forth to turn the steps of im mature youth from the highway of sin into paths of right living. MOUNT BAKER IS AN ACTIVE VOLCANO The. snow-covered peak that the Mazamas are now ascending is not an extinct volcano. It steadily emits sulphurous fumes. A clear idea of the task assumed by the Portland mountain-climbers may be gathered from this article and the pictures accompanying it. ELIZABETH TELLS OF A PERFECT SUMMER'S DAY Writing from the Eanch of the Pointed Firs, this favorite hill . dweller unfolds to Nell the beauty of Oregon at her best, and inci dentally illustrates the comfort to be extracted from a calendar of quotations. RUSSELL SAGE, A CHARACTER SKETCH A. H. Ballard, who knew the pawnbroker of Wall street" per sonally, throws some bright side lights on the character of this re markable money-getter, his meth ods, his distinct humor and his extraordinary sordidness. TEMPTATIONS AND PERILS THAT BESET THE MODEL A New York correspondent raises the curtain of artists' studios and shows that the Evelyn Nesbtts of America have small chance of go ing through the ordeal unscathed. TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS IN COUNTRY ESTATES New York men of wealth have sur rounded the big city with a zone of enormously costly homes. These are beautifully Illustrated with half-tone photographs and well de scribed with pen. SUSAN CLEGG AND HER NEIGHBOR, MRS. LATHROP Elijah, the new boarder, takes sick in the night. Next morning Susan tells what she did to relieve the patient. Including the application ot a plaster that didn't come off. WHERE YOUR FINEST - COFFEE DOESN'T COME FROM The Island of Java. It has the most fertile soil, the largest num ber of volcanoes and the best roads In the whole world. Its people give the cold shoulder to tourists and wear peek-a-boo clothing the year round. THEOSOPHY'S LATEST BIG ACCESSION An Interesting Illustrated article tejllng- why Lyman J. Gage, for merly Secretary of the Treasury, resigned a $60,000 a year position to join Mrs. Tingley's colony at Point Loma, California; its weird doctrines and strange ceremonials. BOOK REVIEWS AND NEWS OF LITERARY FIELD A dip Is taken Into the Summer magazines and there's comment concerning men and women nota ble in the field of letters. Books reviewed are: "The Sands of Pleasure," by Fllson Young, and "Success in Letter-Writing," by Sherwin Cody. PUBUC PLAYGROUND FOR PORTLAND CHILDREN The Park Commission has set aside two of the park blocks In the neighborhood of the Custonf-House and appropriated money to equip them for public playgrounds. The Institute Club and Men's Resort have become interested in the project ,and are superintending the arrangement of the grounds. De tails of the improvements which will be made for the pleasure of the children are' set forth In photo graphic illustrations and a complete description of the grounds is given in an interesting article. GOSSIP AND NEWS IN THE SPORTING WORLD Baseball, swimming, rowing, racing and every other branch of Summer athletics is thoroughly covered. No newspaper in the Northwest ap proaches The Sunday Oregonian in the thoroughness of its sporting news. The Associated Press ser vice, special dispatches and letters . give the sporting news from all sources in readable form. Columns of local articles supplement this service. A letter from Harry B. Smith contains the latest from the Bay City. SUMMER SEASON IS N EARING ITS HEIGHT The leading theatrical stars of the Washington beaches have been growing rapidly, and the activities at the various resorts are now In full swing. More than a page is given to chronicling .the arrivals and the events of the week at . North Beach, Seaside and Newport, and to pictures showing the diver sions of the Summer folk. NEWS OF SOCIETY AND THE DRAMA The leading theatrical stars of the country and their plans for the coming season will be the theme of the dramatic department tomor row. While most of the playhouses are dark, the stars who are to shine when they open again are busy getting ready tbelr new pro ductions. There win aso De a re sume of the local field and all the news of local society. These pages are abundantly illustrated. LATEST CHAT OF WASH INGTON AND NEW YORK Letters from special correspondents give newsy items of social life In the National capital and the great metropolis. Emilie Frances Bauer writes from New York this week concerning the organization of op eratic stars by Henry W. Savage for the coming season. The Choice of the People. Silverton Appeal. That Jonathan Bourne will be elected United States Senator in the Legislature next Winter on the first ballot Is beyond all question of doubt, and how else could it be? He has been elected by the voice of the people, and the Representative who does not heed this, voice is forever cast out. With the United States Senator graft wiped out of the Legislature, thj boys ought to get down to business early and give us better legislation than ever before.