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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 190C. Entered at the Fostofflce at Portland. Or., aa Second-Class Matter. 6UBSCRIPTIOX BATES. tT INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall or Express.) DAILT. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months.. 5'S Bix months ;? Three months One month Delivered by carrier, per year - Delivered by carrier, per month Less time, per week o'-n Bunday, one year ?'2 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.B0 Sunday and Weekly, one year 3.5U HOW TO REMIT Send postoffice money erder, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at toe sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 43-50. Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-112 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postoffica News Co.. ITS Dearborn street. 8t. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. , - Denver Hamilton & Kendrlck. 806-012 Seventeenth street: Pratt Book Store, lil Fifteenth street; I. "Welnsteln. 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If. as Mr. Whitney Boise assured tie In his letter, printed yesterday, that Improvement of East Third street from Hawth&rne to Pine, would add a mill ion dollars to the values of the city, why shouldn't the property along the street, which Is to receive the greater share of thia added value, pay for the fill? Why should the franchise, that belongs to the city, be confiscated to make the fill and Increase the value of the property of the private owners? The Oregonian eald the franchise would add at least 10,000 to the value of every block. Some say $30,000 to $40, 000. The entire fill probably wouldn't cost more than $60,000. Why shouldn't the adjacent property be required to make it, leaving to the city the posses sion of the franchise and the revenue from it? Observe that these tiera of blocks lie in the very heart and center of the city. Fill of the street ought to have been required long ago. But the own ers have objected, have postponed, have held on, knowing that with the growth of the city the land would become im mensely valuable; and It has become Immensely valuable. The owners could well afford to fill the street, and make great money by doing It. It is not right for them to ask the city to make It. This, hpwever, is what they do, when they ask confiscation of the city's franchise for the purpose. ' Observe, further, that the blocks are in no such situation as those that lie In deep gulches, away from the heart of the city, over which steel bridges have been built, or street fills are to be made; since their position in the very center of the city gives them an excep tional value, to which the cost of filling the streets about them bears no visible proportion. The viaducts across Mar quam's gulch would have confiscated the adjacent and subjacent property; and even then there would not have been money enough to build the bridges. But on East Third the value of a single lot to the block would make the fill, and the cash value of the 6even other lots In the block would be en hanced three to five fold. Besides, the principle of "common user" for East Third should not be lost sight of. Other railroads will want access to Portland, and Portland will be wofully blind to Its own Interest If it do not provide it. Great contention there was over application of this prin ciple on Front street, for the West Side. It is as important for Third street, on the East Side; for Water, First and Second are already occupied; and Third is practically the only remaining chance for heavy railway traffic, since Fourth will be wanted for street cars, for accommodation of the people, and even now Is partly so occupied. If it be said that the whole East Side "bot tom" district will be wanted for a warehouse locality, so let It be. But that will in no wise weaken, but rather will corroborate, the argument that the city should require Insertion of the principle of "common use" in the fran chise grant. For all railroads should be on equal terms or footing there; and to all should be reserved and secured the right to send cars through the city, on equal terms. The franchise on East Third Is one of the most important in the' whole city, and with development of the city will probably become most important of all. No adequate provision hae yet been made in Portland for accommoda tion of the railroads. Herein the au thority of the city must bear an im portant part, and railroads now here should not be allowed advantages that will enable them to shut out others, ' either from transit through the city or from suitable terminal grounds. This terminal question In Portland is one yet to be solved. It presents difficulties already, and will present Increasing difficulties, as the city shall grow and traffic increase. The city itself may have to take hold of the problem and find solution of it, through its authority over a great pub lic utility. Meantime it should not augment or multiply Its difficulties by granting exclusive franchises at such vital points ae East Third street, nor give away its franchise there or else where, to - secure Improvement of streets for private owners and en hancement of the value of adjacent property. These owners should be required to pay the cost, or large part of the cost, of the fill: the city ehould receive fair compensation for its franchise from the railroads that use it, and ouch use should be reserved for all, on equal terms. Above all. In dealing with this case It should never be forgotten that it is only an incident of a much larger mu nicipal and franchise question. This year's wheat crop will be the first that the portage road has been ready to handle. The people of the state will expect the Open River Asso ciation to ahow next m- inter that the construction and operation of that road has effected a saving In freight rates sufficient to warrant the investment the state has made. Last month the expenses were more than $800 and the receipts only a little more than $30. Some taxpayer may wish to know why such heavy expenses are necessary when there is so little business. AN IDYL FOR THE DOG DATS. Just for the sake or purpose of mak ing a little contribution to the mild entertainment or innocent amusement that may befit the dull dog-days. The Oregonian reprints the following from The Astorian: The Oregonian, In conformity with lt utterly selfish policy of never saying a word that might be construed as aiding the City of Astoria In any of Its enterprises, was silent as the grave yesterday In the matter of the early prosecution of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad extension from Seaside to Tillamook City, although Its even ing edition of Friday had an extended ac count of the project and Its bearing on the coastwise trade. It was peculiarly notice able, because the citizens of this city who daily read The Oregonian looked to its col umns for confirmation and comment anent the Important news. There can be no doubt that The Oregonian Is In possession of a larger Metall on the Bubject than any news paper In the state: It is its business to know such, things, and Its further and better busi ness to publish them; but It will transgress any and all lta rules, as a great Journal, rather than say or do a thing that might contribute a morsel of encouragement to this community. 'Tls the same old fear of Astoria the dread, and disfavor, with which H contemplates anything that will raise Astoria toward commercial supremacy in Oregon, for it realizes that such an im petus, once given this city and port, means grave detriment to the metropolis; and the mania begotten of this ceaseless dread has made it as nearly silly as such Influential papers ever get to be. Well, If The Ore gonian can stand It, we can; only there Is something pitiful about It that one hates to couple with such & paper as that. O, the heavens! What contemptible notion the Astorian must have of its town, if it supposes anything a news paper might say, or anything a news paper might omit, could nave so pro digious effect upon its fortunes! The Evening Telegram doubtless caught a rumor and published it. It was very well; but The Oregonian had no other knowledge about the matter, and couldn't get any. It would, how ever.'be mighty glad to see Mr. Ham mond push his railroad on to Tilla mook; both for what it would mean for Astoria and for Portland and Tilla mook and all Oregon. And It would mean much more for Portland than for Astoria, Douhtless the railroad will be extended, some time, from As toria or Necanicum to Tillamook; but The Oregonian doesn't know when, and can't find out. But wihen it shall find out It will tell, and it will be triad to tell. No other newspaper in the state has or 'can have, so much interest in railway ex tension throughout the Oregon coun try, as The Oregonian. For, as' every body now who can get The Oregonian wants it and gets It, so with extension of the railroads, everybody who may be brought within reach .of The Ore gonian 'will want it and get It. As to "fear" in Portland, and "fear" on the part of The Oregonian, of "the commercial supremacy of Astoria:" Witness, O, Heaven, and give ear, O, Earth, that Portland and The Oregon ian are not only devoid of fear on this subject, but would be glad to see As toria get a powerful move on her! Yet, if we may take her newspapers for it, we fear she is disposed to rest too much on grumbling and whining, and is too little disposed to do things for herself. When The Oregonian shall find that Mr. Hammond purposes to extend his road from Necanicum to Tillamook it will be mighty glad to announce the intention. It has, indeed, several times published reports or ru mors to that effect; but it has no cer tain information. When it gets that information it will gladly impart it to the Astorian. Meantime, when Mr. Hammond gets ready to build the road he will build it, even if The Oregonian 6hould say never a word about it. Our friend of the Astorian is not cool, as he should be. His town is not on the ocean, but on a river, just the same as Portland. We of Portland make occasional trips to the seaside, to cool off. Will not "our brother of Astoria go down to the beach, pull oft his shoes and socks and hat, walk tip and down on the strand, let the ocean breeze play through his anatomy, and cool off? Never will he be happy, or relieve him self from wretchedness, so long as he suffers paralysis from the thought that Portland dreads the commercial su premacy of Astoria. PORTLAND'S NATURAL PROSPERITY. With July building permits showing an increase of 164 per cent over the corresponding month one year ago, Portland for the second time this year leads all other American cities In 'the monthly percentage of gain. The show ing is all the more remarkable when it Is remembered that through the sys tem of issuing building permits In this city, the figures are very conservative, and, in many cases, do not approach the actual amount involved in the transaction. The detailed figures print ed in yesterday's Oregonian showing the gains in bank clearings, postofHce receipts and real estate transfers, told a remarkable story of the unparalleled growth of Portland since the close of the Lewis & Clark fair. Taking the phenomenal growth of either one of these indicators of our financial and commercial situation, a person un familiar with the true situation might conjure up theories tending to discredit the showing. , But where the enormous monthly gains in bank clearings, building per mits, postal receipts, real estate trans fers, and other factors, which reflect the city's growth, are so uniform month after month, they present un questionable evidence of the solidity of the growth. The Lewis & Clark Fair was in the height of its glory in July, 1905. The city was crowded with visitors from all over the world. Bank clearings, postal receipts, real estate sales and all similar transactions at tained a volume never before ap proached. On every hand, prosperity was so much in evidence that it hardly seemed possible such rapid growth could be maintained after the big show was over and matters were settled back to a normal basis. But not only has all of that enormous gain been retained, but there has actu ally been a heavy Increase all along the line. When, the stimulation of the Fair had worked business up to high water mark in July, 1905, bank clear ings broke existing records for the month by approximately $5,000,000, and now, a year later, when, according to the pessimists, we should be suffering from the predicted relapse, the month of July shows clearings $4,300,000 in ex cess of those for the record-breaking July, 1905. Even more surprising Is the gain in postal receipts. With the city thronged with out-of-town strangers there was, quite naturally, large sale of stamps a year ago, but the receipts for July, 1906, show an average of nearly $60 per day in excess of the sales for July. 1905. And so it goes throughout the list of commercial and financial Institu tions. In every line of business f r Industry, there is in evidence substantial and phenomenal gains, which were scored in spite of the disastrous effect of the San Francisco calamity. All of this has been accomplished without any blare of trumpets or any artificial forc ing. The growth has been so steady and uniform that hundreds of new business and residence structures have been built and scores of new business enterprises have been launched, with out attracting more than passing no tice. The willingness of Portlanders to permit business to drift along at self regulating speed was never better illus trated than in the matter of postal re ceipts. Unaided by manipulation and without anything savoring in the slightest degree of artificial forcing, these receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30 approached to within a few thousand dollars of a sum which would have elevated Portland to the same rank as San Francisco. Half an hour's hustling among a few of the big firms of Portland would have resulted In stamp sales sufficient to swell the to tals to the figure needed to advance the city to first place among the coast cities. But Portland has never gained or maintained its prestige by "hot house forcing" methods. A limited amount of hustling might have swelled postal receipts this year. Next year the figure 'will have been reached and passed without the aid of any artificial pressure. Similar conditions prevail in all branches of commercial and financial effort, Portland has a reputation, all over the United States, for stability and conservatlveness, and while these pronounced characteristics at times re sult in charges of slowness and lack of enterprise, they have given investors as well as homeseekers' a confidence In, the city that is now reflected in a growth greater than in any other city in the West. This' growth, being in response to perfectly natural conditions which de manded It, can never be headed off so long as the entire Northwest continues to create new wealth as rapidly as it has in the past twelve months. BRYAN'S DEBT TO ROOSEYELT. There are Eastern Democrats who make wry faces at the mention of the name of the "peerless statesman," and try the force of sarcastic or cynical expression, by saying that Bryan would be the most available candidate for the Republicans, provided' Roose velt will not take a renomination. These good old-fashioned Democrats say "there is no essential difference between the attitude of Roosevelt and Bryan towards the "business interests' leaving out silver, which former holy principle Bryan recently somewhat contemptuously alluded to- as 'a dead horse.' " In the Eastern states there are many Democrats, as well as Republicans, with whom regard for the "business interests" Is paramount: They have investments all over the country, and they fear that regulation of corpora tions by public authority will diminish their dividends. They note the revival of Bryan's popularity, apparently exceeding even what it as in the days when he talked about the crown of thorns and the cross of gold; and they grumblingly say that it i3 to Roosevelt, chiefly, that Bryan owes the remarkable recrudes cence of a popularity that once seemed to be withered hopelessly Roosevelt's career, it is complained, has broken down what conservatism there was remaining in the Democratic party, and to an extent in the Repub lican party; and Bryan gets the ad vantage of it. But some of these ancient conserv atives, of Democratic antecedents, say that if Roosevelt shall still . refuse, Bryan ought to be nominated by the Republicans.. THE TRIP TO EUROPE. The -amount of money spent annually In European travel by American tour ists is enormous. Thomas Cook & Sons, who have wide experience In the tourist business, place the amount for the current year at $S5,000,000. This es timate is not driven in a lump sum, but details are furniehed, including the number of passengers, first and second class, already booked, the cost per capita of the round-trip ticket, and tips and the cost per diem, first and second class, for from four to twelve weeks' travel and stay in Great Britain and on the Continent. Mr. A. Barton Hepburn, formerly Controller of the Treasury, and now president of the Chase National Bank, whose sources of Information Include the largest bankers, American and for eign, in New York, places these ex penditures much higher, asserting that they reach the enormous aggregate of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000 an nually. This vast sum, says Mr. Hep burn, about offsets the great trade bal ance in favor of the United States each year. To approach this subject from any standpoint is to encounter expenditures so large as to impress one first of all with the tremendous resources of the country, and again with what seems the reckless extravagance of the Amer ican people. These diebursers of Amer ican revenue are not by any means all persons of vast wealth. On the contrary, many are persons of moderate means and simple habits of life, whose "trip to Europe" represents the savings from salaries and other sources of small In come for a number of years. They come from all parts of the country and from all professional and many indus trial classes. It is indeed a fact well attested in every community that "a trip to Europe" is the dream of almost every cultivated American. The snobs and the suddenly rich go, too, but from motives that differ greatly from those to whom the trip is the fulfillment of carefully devised economic purpose. We all know, or know of, teachers who have saved of their salaries for years to make this journey; of minis ters who have put by a little as they could from small pay for the same purpose and have finally been' helped to the fulfillment of the dream of Europe by a purse made up by their congrega tions; of merchants and professional men in small towns who have carefully-husbanded their means for years that they might take their families to England, to France or to Italy for a few weeks. All of these people calcu late closely the necessary expenditures of the trip and do not waste their money on non-essentials. They travel with their eyee open and get value re ceived for their money culture that only travel brings and pleasure that is" the fulfillment of a long dream. The business man who takes his family over has naturally an eye to business and is likely to gain points that he can use to his own advantage. If saga clous, he sees chances to increase his business by selling to Europe; lf'crit ical, he notes points in narrow methods that he sedulously avoids in conducting his own business. This is the practical outcome of many a trip to Europe. The ethical side to found in the statement that money spent for culture, for broader views and general enlightenment Is not wasted, even though it is spent in an other country. There is, of course, a class of tourists who go to Europe simply because they have the money to spend lavishly and who spend It with vulgar, ostentatious extravagance. This class, we believe, is not large, but, unfortunately. Its members keep themselves in the fore ground and stand, even to cultivated foreigners, as representative Americans loud, pursy, uncultivated and vulgar. For the rest the vast number who go to Europe with a modest, well-defined purpose of adding to their stock of knowledge and supplying their lack of experience by travel the money that they spend in carrying out this purpose is not wasted, nor is its expenditure in a foreign land a reproach. 'Whether, therefore, the sum of $85,000,000 or the greater sum of $400,000,000 is spent by Americans in Europe this year, let us not fall into the error of thinking it money wasted, as in one way or an other much of it is likely to return to us. Puget Sound ports are growing in importance. A Port Townsend special to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer an nounces the arrival of the British steamship Ardmount with a full cargo of cement. It is explained in the dis patch that "The vessel carries the first complete load of this product ever brought to Puget Sound." The arrival of a full cargo of cement at Portland Is so common an event as to cause no special mention, but It seems that a similar occurrence on Puget Sound ' is a novelty. No announcement is made as to the disposition of this "complete load," but by distribution at Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Port Townsend and the Bellingham Bay ports, it ought to be placed almost as rapidly as Portland disposes of the many full cargoes of cement which are received here every year. Esther Mitchell, the young murder ess who has w6n a lasting place In the annals of crime. Is said to be critically 111 with typhoid in Jail at Seattle. The crime for which this girl was incar cerated, together with the terrible events that led up to it, will make her acts- remembered long . after accused and accusers have passed from earth. No punishment which the Jaw could inflict on this phlegmatic and seem ingly heartless creature is adequate for the crime. And yet so monstrous was that crime, that its enormity alone has raised a question as to the mental re sponsibility of the murderess. Under the circumstances, death by natural causes might be the easiest solution of a problem abounding in complexities. The young men and women who took the teachers' examination last week had as anxious arid care-worn, a look on their faces as the candidates in the direct primaries did last Spring. And the result is as important to the teach er as to the candidate. The teacher who has "studied -up" during two months of hot weather, in preparation for the test, can appreciate the weight of care that rests upon the candidate, who has spent a similar length of time campaigning for a nomination. But in either case the unsuccessful need not be entirely discouraged. The Los Angeles Times puts a boast about its town in this fashion: "The census men who are looking up divorce statistics are coming to Los Angeles. It seems that when statisticians want big figures on any subject the first thing they do is to make a bee line for this town." And there is reason for the boast. Los Angeles is certainly a wonderful city. Its population exceeds 200,000, and the city is making every year more and more wonderful growth. Oregon, in due time, will have a banking law and a bank examiner. Quite likely it will also have a-bank failure due to the carelessness of an examiner. In such a case it is to be hoped that the depositors will not seek to avenge themselves upon the bank wreckers, as they are dong In Chicago. To aim their clubs and brickbats at the bank examiner would be a more effect ive and JUst as appropriate a remedy. This country consumes an amazing quantity of salt. The statistical bureau at Washington informs us that the amount is 23,872,700 barrels per an num. But human beings don't consume all of it. And eome who do perhaps consume their share are said not to be worth their salt. In whatever estimation the barber may ie held, it must be acknowledged that he Is the most consistent exponent of social equality. His "Next" recog nizes neither wealth nor fame nor power, but rich and poor must alike await their turn. Well, there is business up the Valley, or will be In a few years, for two trolly lines, so why shouldn't they be built? Those 400 to 600-acre farms that now support one family should and will support a dozen or more families. The Russians announce an Interna tional exhibition of leather in St. Pe tersburg next November. At the pres ent rate of activity, enough hides ought to be tanned by that time. If the, women, who are now squab bling, had the ballot, the fight between the W. C. T. U. and the Equal Suffrage Association might singe somebody's whiskers. An esteemed contemporary, that sports a picturesque vocabulary, says that "modern Pittsburg has ancient Sodom and Gomorrah skinned a mile." Saturday was "Made in Seattle" day, and the greatest city north of the Co lumbia showed its "spirit" in every thing from battleships to babies. Part of the Johnson estate went Into the collection plate yesterday; also part of the Marquam estate. There is warm welcome awaiting the father who ends his day's labor by car rying a watermelon home. The W. C. T. U. has condemned the peek-a-boo waist, but nothing has been heard from the Y. M. C. A. IIFi; IX THE OREGON COUNTRY How's This' St. John's Review. It is rather strange but one never sees the name of the Review In. a Portland paper. What are they afraid of? Oasis in the I. Inn Deaert. Albany Democrat. It's a dull day when a batch of whisky circulars are not received from Portland, telling where the best $3.25 articles can be seosired and shipped without marks to indicate the contents. Col fa Tall Win Loaded, Kent Recorder. John Bell "didn't know it was loaded" when he undertook to show how gentle a colt was, one day last week, and as a consequence he got his nose nearly kicked oft his countenance. Next time he pulls a colt's tail we would advise him to stand at the other end. Put "Dad" on the Run. Echo Register. "Dad" Fay found a yellow jackets' nest In a government rain guage In town the other day. and he also found a way to fly over the fence and get hold df a very restless mule team that had carried a motion to adjourn without form. The way Dad pushed on the lines suited the mules. Rarities in Women. Sheridan News-Sun. Yesterday we were asked if we ever saw a bald-headed "woman. We answered "No," we never did, nor did we ever see a woman waltzing around town In her shirt sleeves with a cigar in her teeth and running into every saloon she saw. We have never seen a woman go fishing with a bottle in her pocket, sit on the damp ground all day and come home drunk at night. Nor have we ever seen a woman yank off he coat and say she could lick any man in town. God bless her, she's not built that way. Old Day In Webfoot. Moro Observer. Ah, there. Portland Is on the brink of an awakening. The Telegram has dis covered that in the Rose City "at the present moment there is nothing of so much importance as Portland-owned ships. Well do we remember. In rood old Webfoot days, the Astoria-owned ships of Captain Flavel. the welcome that Allen & Lewis gave them, and the big sacks of coin they piled up. But, alas, Flavel is gone, the ships are gone too; and so also good Mr. Allen, and the brighter days of webfoot have departed to new deals; graft, get-rich-quick meth ods, etc. The "reform" regime is not so good. With, the Old Folks. Eugene Guard. Cyrus Hedden, one of the last survivors of the famous fight with the Indians at Battle Rock, at Port Orford, on June 10, 1851, is still living at Scottsburg on the Umpqua. He is now 86 years old and en Joying good health. The Drain Nonparlel publishes the fol lowing list of some of Its "youths" with their ages: James Harlan, 90; I. M. Gard ner, 87; John Ostertag, 85; J. W. Krew son, 74; William Buck, 75; W. A. Perkins, 71; Jack Swearingen, 76; J. H. Akers, 79; B. D. Boswell, 70; J. H. Stocker, 72; M. L. Dickson,' 72; Jacob RItchey, 73; James Burnett, 76; Simeon Harlan, 72; Abe Mat toon, 70; John T. Miller,"70; George 'W. Sanders, 66; W. H. Gray, 67; C. H. Rem ington, 76; W. G. Hill, 71; Clark Fegles, 70; H. Cary, 76; A. L. Moon, 65; A. W. Cox, 76; W. C. Miller, 74; Benton Mires, 90. PRAISE FOR HITCHCOCK'S REFORM Ncrr York: Sun Pay a Him Tribute (or Conviction of Land Sharps. New York Sun. Another "wealthy and influential" citizen of Oregon has been sentenced to Jail for conspiracy to defraud the Government in timber land deals. He is a victim of the Hon. Ethan Allen Hitch cock's habit of enforcing the laws, a habit that has caused the utmost un easiness among high-placed rascals who for years have been robbing the Government without giving a thought to the possibility that they might be punished for their crimes. In prosecuting the timber and land thieves the Secretary of the' Interior has not been willing to catch the little fellows and let the principals escape. He has struck at the men best equipped to defend themselves, the men whose money and place made them powerful In the community. - When he began his investigation the Secretary was smiled at Indulgently. It was predicted that he would accomplish nothing, execept perhaps to jail a few employes and clerks. Mr. Hitchcock did not talk about his plans. He went ahead In the most commonplace manner, promising nothing. threatening nothing. The greater part of the United States knew very little of what he was about. Many of the men under suspicion were equal ly Ignorant of what was going for ward. When the time came for criminal prosecutions the completeness and strength of the evidence that had been gathered surprised the accused as much as it did the public. Secretary Hitchcock's method of en forcing: the laws lacks noise and sensa tion, but it produces results. It puts lawbreakers in jail. It teaches men who have considered the statutes a Joke that they are mistaken. Mr. Hitch cock continues to be a valuable public official. Hadn't the Clothes. Catholic Standard and Times. "Really," said the up-to-date carpenter. "I can't do any night work for you not after 6 o'clock." "But," protested Mr. Swellman, "the work must be finished by tomorrow morn ing. I expect to pay you double for your night's work.'' "Oh, it isn't that; but, you see, my dreSB suit is at the scourer's." Importance. Washington Star. "What makes you regard your money as a thing of so much Importance?" asked the somewhat cynical man. "The eagerness of so many people to get some of it away from me," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. POINTS BY PARAGRAPHERS. No on has ever succeeded In defining; art; not even, Anthony Comstock. New York American. Mr. Thomas Piatt always seems to be re freshed after a retirement from politics. Washington Eta. When it comes to a show-down, the peek-a-boo stocking also has its supporters. Washington Post. Mr. Croker has been, speaking about "un earned wealth." Possibly he thinks that ha earned his. Philadelphia Ledger. Mr. Bockefeller says "I never despair." Brave man! In the midst of ' adversity he bears a smiling face. Cleveland Leader. The Indeterminate sentence to which De mocracy most objects Is the one pronounced at the polls In 1S9H. Detroit News. There's only the difference of an "" be tween speculation nd peculation hut both Include the almighty . New York Com mercial. Speaking ot family troubles, oughtn't Dame Democracy really to get a divorce from Bryan before she marries Hearst? New York Mall. San Francisco la hunting for missing 130. 000 contributed by Standard Oil. Maybe it got-tangled up In some of those tentacles. New York Herald. , Pittsburg leads the country In the output of Iron, steel and perjury. Her rolling mills and divorce mills are alike unique. Phila delphia Record. A woman delegate stampeded the Repub lican state convention In Idaho. It must have been that her hat was not on straight. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The more the faithful respond to the hurry call for dollars the more the Republican party Is likely to die disgracefully rich la ItHjS Baltimore Sun. LASH AND DEATITFOR ANARCHISTS Secretary Bonaparte, in Chautauqua Address, Say They Are Closely Related to Socialists, and That the Two Isms Spring From the Same Root False Idea of the Equality of Men CUMBERLAND. Md., Aug. 12. Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, de livered an address this evening at the Allegheny Chautauqua, near Cumberland, before a large gathering, his subject be ing "Anarchism and Its Remedy." Sec retary Bonaparte said in part: "Anarchism is the product of two con ditions, which prevail to a greater or less extent everywhere among the less en lightened classes of modern civilized so ciety, namely, the decay of religious faith and measure of superficial, and there fore unsound, popular education. "I am not here to discuss the problems of theology or metaphysics: if, for any one among those who hear me all believe In God, or a hereafter, in a life for man beyond that of sense and in ends for man wherewith time and space and ma terial things have no portion, are mere empty dreams, I have no quarrel with him for my present purpose. I pause only to say that, if he be right and such beliefs belong to dreamland, then for me. In the words of a well-known writer, it is only for the sake of the dreams that visit it that the world of reality has a'ny certain value.' Grow From Same Root. "It Is sometimes said that anarchism .and Socialism, as systems, are mutually antipodal and destructive; I should be very sorry to diminish whatever hostility the adherents of either 'system' may feel for the other, for the, old adage as to the consequences of such strife to hon est men embodies no small measure of truth;, but to my mind, this view of their relations is altogether superficial. They are two divergent stems growing from the same root. That root is the doctrine that all men of right ought to be, and should therefore be made and kept, pre cisely equal. "A Socialist Is essentially, although not always avowedly, or even consciously, orfe who sees that the equality demanded by this doctrine can be fully, or even ap proximately, secured only among slaves. A Southern plantation, before the war constituted, so far as the negroes were concerned, very nearly a socialistic com munity, and they were probably as near ly equal as human beings can be perma nently kept. "In this community a Socialist merely substitutes for the omnipotent, omniscient master an omnipotent, omniscient cor poration made up of the slaves them selves, enslaved each one of them as an Individual, to all. In their corporate ca pacity, and named this corporation, TTie States.' New Source of Inequality. "An anarchist differs from him by see ing that he has, in fact, introduced a new source of inequality. For the cor poration he creates can exercise its au thority only through agents, and these agents must be ex necessitate armed with powers which make them no longer the equals of their fellows; Just as I the master of the plantation made oni of his slaves his overseer. "The anarchists therefore demand that there be no such agents, or, in other words, no government at all; It was a sin against equality that any one should be President while Czolgosz was not, and knew he never would be. It but add ed bitterness to this wrong that so many around him should deem the President worthy of his great office, while the few who knew Czolgosz at all knew him as an obscure, unattractive -agrant. "So much of the evil. How can It be cured? If we mean cured In a day, a month, a year, a decade, I answer un hesitatingly not at all. Anarchism will not be removed within a given time or through a special measure or set of meas ures; perhaps it will not be wholly re moved In any time or by any means. It will be for years, perhaps for genera tions, a source of some peril to our pub lic men. a source of some annoyance and some anxiety, possibly at times, of some alarm, to the American people. No Panacea to Recommend. "It Is the product of causes which can not be eradicated by legislation, how ever drastic of causes which lie deep in the scheme of modern civilization. But CRANK SEEKS ROOSEVELT) Woman Disturbs Oyster Bay Church Where President Attends, NEW TORK, Aug. 12. Miss Asl L. Esac, who is Summering in Oyster Bay for the purpose of Interviewing the Presi dent or Mrs. Roosevelt on what she de clares to be "a matter of life and death." created a scene during the service in Christ's Episcopal Church there today. Miss Esac, or Miss Case, as her name is supposed to be, had been at every church service the President has at tended since his arrival here in July. She has climbed Sagamore Hill on foot several times, only to be turned away by the secret service men. She pre sented herself early at the church today and took a seat directly behind the pew usually occupied by the Roosevelt fam ily. When Usher James Duffy requested her to relinquish this seat, she refused. Duffy forcibly removed her to the rear of the church, and Miss Esac says he tore her gown In so doing. For this act she later applied for a warrant for Duffy's arrest, but it was refused. In the rear of the church Mis Efao refused to sit down. A secret service agent stood beside her, and during the service she made no less than a dozen attempts to get past him. As the President was leaving the church the secret service men surrounded Miss Esac, but she shouted: "Mr. President, Mr. President, President Roosevelt, won't you upeak to me amoment?" The President turned his head as he passed, but he did not pause. Miss Esac says her watch chain was bro ken In this scrimmage, and her watch fell to the floor. The President was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and his son Quentln, and Representative and Mrs. Longworth. Miss Esac has stated to acquaintances she has made while here that she was to have been married in three weeks at the time Miss Roosevelt became Mrs. Longworth: that she was to have mar ried a high Government official, and that it was this wrong that she seeks to redress. When the President's carriage had de parted Miss Esac was allowed to go. It was then she sought a warrant for Duffy. She says she will stay in Oyster Bay until she accomplishes her pur pose. Representative and Mrs. Longworth ex pect to leave for Washington and Cin cinnati tomorrow. Menelik Signs Railway Treaty. ROME, Aug. 12. Abyssinian dispatches received here say that King Menelik has signed the - Franco-Itallan-Brltish convention relative to railways to be constructed there, and that the conven tion will be communicated to the par liaments of the interested states as soon as they meet. The main feature of the treaty re ferred to are a guarantee of the Integ rity of the Abyssinian Empire, the open door and commercial equality for all countries, and the continuation by the French of the construction of railway connecting Addis Abebe, the capital of Abyssinia, with the coast. Great Britain and Italy named representatives on the railway directorate. because I have no panacea to recommend it must not be supposed that I would have nothing done. "I believe that anarchism has been al ready made less, and can be made much less dangerous and harmful by beinfr dealt with seriously and rationally. In other words. I would see ourselves and our public servants in earnest and will ing to be guided by the common sense and experience in seeking a remedy, with out regard to a little doctrinaire preju dice and a little pseudo-humanitarian claptrap. "In the first place, the unlawful acts prompted by anarchism should be made crimes, in so far as they are not, strictly speaking, crimes already, and as crimes they should be visited with such penalties as are particularly distasteful to the criminals, and therefore the most effec tive deterrents to crime. In dealing with a convicted anarchist two facts nifty well be remembered, the chances of his real reformation are so small that they may be safely neglected, and we can appeal, for practical purposes, to but one motivo on his part to discourage a repetition of his offense namely, the fear of physical pain and death. "To keep him for years in a peniten tiary merely burdens the community with the support of an irreconcilable enrmy. with the constant risk of his escape or pardon, and the certainty that, when ever he leaves he will be. It possible, a worse man than when he entered. Death for Anarchists. "On anarchists, the death penalty should be unequivocally imposed by law and in flexibly executed whenever the prisoner has sought, directly or indirectly, to take life. For offenses of less gravity. I ad vise a comparatively brief but very rig orous imprisonment, characterized by complete seclusion, deprivation of all comfort and denial of any form of dis traction, and which could be to my mind advantageously supplied by a severe, but not a public, whipping; the lash, of all punishments, most clearly shows the cul prit that he suffers for what his fellow men hold odious and disgraceful, and not merely for reasons of public policy. "Any abridgement from fear, of the anarchists, of that freedom of speech of the press guaranteed Us by our State and Federal legislations would be neither a wise nor a worthy policy; but these privileges In no wise shield councilors of crime nor Instigators of disorder and rebellion. Any changes, however sweep ing, in our law and government may be urged, and any arguments, however wild or grotesque, advanced to Justify them, provided the method of change be orderly and lawful; but a- published writing recommending the murder of a chief magistrate and violent overthrow of the Government Is a seditious libel at common law, and there is no good reason why public utterances or spoken words of the same purport should not be made a like offense by the statute. "It Is already a crime to advise a felony or grave misdemeanor If the ad vice leads to the crime suggested, and there 1s again no good reason why this should not become a substantlatlve of fense without regard to its consequences, as it is a criminal conspiracy. Inherent JFoIIy of Theory. "The final and most truly vital con dition of success In ridding this country of anarchism In practice is that Ameri can public opinion should recognize the utter emptiness, the inherent folly of its theory and all the kindred ready made, f urnlshed-whlle-you-wait schemes for the social regeneration of mankind. Civilized society, as it exists today, if It be nothing more, is the outcome of nil the strivings for Justice and happiness of the human race during thousands of yearsi What monstrous presumption, what preposterous conceit for any man, were he the wisest, the most learned, the most Justly famed of his own age or of all ages, to Imagine that, with but the dim. flickering lights of his own dull, feeble mind, with but the few im perfect lessons of his own short, Ulspent life to guide his hand, he could cast down and build up again this Incredibly vast, thia Infinitely complex fabric and improve on its structure." HONOR SECRETARY ROOT Citizens ' of Montevideo Give Bril liant Entertainments. MONTEVIDEO, Aug. 12. With a general desire to make the entertainments in honor of Secretary Root as numerous and as varied as possible during his brief visit here, there was an Incessant round of functions today,- at each of which cordial speeches) were exchanged. The entertainments were brought to a close tonight by a banquet given by Mr. O'Brien, the American Minister, and a grand ball at the Uruguay Club, both ot which were highly successful. The guests at the banquet, which was on a magnifi cent scale, included President Ordonez and all the Cabinet Ministers and their wives, the leading citizens' of Montevideo and officials. Mr. Root's speeches here 'have won the sympathies of the people and the princi pal newspapers express their gratifica tion at the eloquent and frank declara tion of the true policy of the United States toward the Latin American repub lics. I.anghs at Germany's Fears. RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug. 12. President elect Penna, who Is touring Southern Brazil, in a speech at Santa Catarlna today, declared that the alleged German peril was imaginary, and said that no where were there better citizens than German Brazilians. He cited the case of Dr. Lsuro Miller. Minister of Indus tries and Public Works, as an illustration of a patriotic Brazilian, though the son of German parents. FIGHT F0R8-H0UR DAY Printers Meet to Consider Matter at Colorado Springs. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. Aug. 12. The 52d annual convention of the Inter national Typographical Union opens in Colorado Springs tomorrow. Three hun dred delegates and several hundred mem bers of the Woman's Auxiliary are here to attend the sessions. Consideration of the fight for the eight-hour day now being waged will be one of the chief top ics before the convention. President J. M. Lynch expresses satis faction with the progress already made by the printers, and says there is no doubt that they will be victorious. Offices-Cost In Kentucky. FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 12. The Democratic executive committee in ar ranging details of the State primary election, called for November ' 6 next, placed the estimate of costs which can didates must pay at $32,310, grading the assessment down from $6500 for the Sen atorial race to $1000 for the Lieutenant Governorship contest. One Killed In Auto Wreck. HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 12. An automo bile turned over today near here, George Meiklejohn, a passenger, being killed. J. Campden and a Mr. Drake were hurt, but will recover.