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PORTLAND. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER S.
"DON'T GOT NO CONFIDENCE."
Several contemporaries, . more or
less esteemed, censure The Oregonian
lor not taking Mr. Bryan at his word
and expressing approval, when he said
In his New York epeech that one of
the great purposee of his party, should
It obtain power, would be "tariff re
form." Why, it is asked, doesn't The
Oregonian declare its intention to eup
port Mr. Bryan on that platform or
programme?
The reaaoa Is a pretty reason. No
confidence is to be placed In Demo
cratic - professions of tariff reform.
When that party last had power it
made a tariff far more objectionable
and unjust than the one it repealed.
It made a tariff, loaded with so many
jobs that President Cleveland called it
a measure of "perfidy and dishonor,"
and refused to sign it. It made a tariff
so odious to the country that hardly a
Democrat was elected to the next suc
ceeding Congress from any Northern
state.
Any democratic Congress will be
composed of men largely from protec
tion districts, who will not allow fair
tariff revision. They will wish, as
heretofore, to make such changes as
will assure more protection to certain
interests, while depriving others of it.
There will be no gain for tariff re
form through the Democratic party.
In the Republican party there is a
large element that would always favor
it. But the Democratic members will
not help them because they hope
themselves to get into power through
Republican divisions of the ques
tion. Then, if they do win, they will
enact a worse protection monstrosity
than the one they displace. No, no. As
to Democratic professions of tariff re
form, the country" has had experience;
and, as the old German said, it "don't
got no confidence." If you want the
tariff Juggled with and made more un
fair and lopsided than ever, look to a
Democratic Congress to do it.
WHY NOT PRACTICABLE.
A great many persons and newspa
pers are making merry over President
Roosevelt's excursion into the field of
spelling reform. It is his propensity to
"butt In," they say; and, in this case,
he certainly has not given the subject
serious consideration.
Since printing became universal it
has become practically impossible to
change the form of words though the
meanings of many words are still un
dergoing changes. Such changes, how
ever, always bear some relation to the
original or earlier meanings. But
printing has arrested, practically
stopped, the former tendency to spell
words according to their sound. It is
well, too. For in "fonetik" spelling
the true meanings of multitudes of
words would soon be obscured, or lost
altogether. So many of- our words '
carry their history in their form, and
all their suggestlveness, that we could
not afford the loss.
Yet undoubtedly there are words that
could be simplified, by abbreviation or
otherwise, without loss of anything es
sential to their significance. Anybody
can make a list of awkward forms
mostly short words which might be
amended, without loss of anything es
sential to their intelligibility, yet with
saving of time and space in writing
and printing. Certain journals, in
England as well as in America, are at
tempting it, but on a narrow scale. The
largest list used thus far would contain
but few dozen words.
Richard Grant White, in one of his
, chapters on "Every-Day English," de
votes his attention to the doings of a
convention of British spelling reform
ers, held some forty years ago. This
convention went at its work with an
apparent enthusiasm. It seemed to sup
pose it was attempting something new
and easy. White proved that what
this convention was trying to do had
been attempted many times and long
before, tout had "always failed, abso
lutely, wholly, utterly." He added:
"Even a moderate acquaintance with
what has been endeavored in this re
spect, in regard to the English lan
guage, and with what degree of suc
cess, would seem to be enough to check
the self-sufficiency with which they
propose to reform our written language
by deliberately whereas-ing and resolv.
ing."
We shall transcribe a further pass
age, of some length, which goes right
to the heart of the matter, viz:
"To be read, books must be printed
and letters written in the spelling
whMi their Intended readers have
learned. Phonologists may elaborate a
system of spelling which shall be a
marvel of symmetry and precision; and
they may use it among themselves as
soy little association of men may use
any other cipher. But whoever would
Address English-sneaking folk must
write English as English-speaking folk
write it; and the mass of any people,
ninety-nine in a hundred of them, or
rather nine hundred and ninety-nine in
a thousand, are, and must ever be.
those who have no' time for the acquire
ment of new habits of speech, and of
spelling above all other things. They
must use the words and the letters of
their language as they have been
brought up to use them."
Nor can the schools make the change,
or assist in it; for the schools are or
ganized and enforced to do very practi
cal work. The children must learn the
language as they are to use it. From
every point of view the conclusion is
clear that there is nothing practica
ble in any of these efforts for "reform"
of spelling.
A MATTER OF DEFINITIONS.
Though Mr. C. E. S. Wood calls him
self an anarchist, he doubtless makes
his own definition of the term, as ap
plied to himself. Indeed he partly ex
plains, by saying that he is "of an
archistic that is to say, of individual
istic tendencies, rather than social
istic." It may be inferred that he
would not set aside all government and
allow each and every individual to "do
what might seem right In his own eyes,"
but rather that he would have govern
ment do or attempt as little as possi
ble, leaving all undertakings open to
Individual effort, under closely pre
scribed legal regulations.
This, indeed, is what the movement
against privilege and monopoly Is try
ing to reach, or at least to approach.
It is not, however, what is commonly
understood by the term anarchy, or the
softened form, "anarchistic tendency."
It makes law and government, on the
contrary, more and more necessary, to
check the individualistic tendency, or
to hold it under restraint.
That is not what the anarchist
means. He doesn't refine on verbal
meanings. The creed of socialism re
quires the highest and most complete
organization of society, under law and
government. It is the negation of the
individualistic principle; but we should
say that the antithesis of it was an
archistic However, it is only a matter
of Judgment in the use of terms; for we
cannot suppose Mr. Wood has in mind
the possibility of a state of society
where there is no efficient or authori
tative supreme power.
We should not think Mr. Wood a
pessimist; and pessimism Is the root of
that determined anarchistic feeling
which wishes and strives to destroy all
government. Socialism and anarchism
are, indeed, in direct contrast; for so
cialism is optimism at the highest,
.while anarchism is based on despair
of beneficent change, and seeks there
fore to destroy. Anarchy, therefore, is
nihilism. Its practical effort suits the
definition. We could not call the man
"anarchistic" who seeks help from or
expects to find remedies in construc
tive ideas in social politics leaving
men under law and government, and
yet free; as little as possible under
coercion of law, yet restrained by law
from doing injury to others. Etymo
logically, the word 'anarchlstlc" might
take a definition that would suit the
"individualistic tendency"; that is, no
public law or government, but every
one conforming to the golden rule,
without compulsion, or even monition.
But who expects so complete renova
tion, or regeneration, of human na
ture? Fap off, we may fear, is the time
when. In this world, a man may be a
law unto himself, and yet do right by
others. Utopia means "no place"; and
the search is as vain as for Crusoe's
inland.
THE LABOR MAGNET.
California, at present, represents the
magnet that draws labor, although op
portunity, highly charged w4th the
power Of good wages, appeals through
out the Northwest to the man and
woman willing to work. In the early
years, following the discovery of gold
in California, labor was scarce and the
wages paid were out of all proportion
to the service rendered. Gold was the
magnet then and it possessed both the
drawing and the compensating power,
but the supply of labor, owing to the
great distance and lack of transporta
tion facilities, did not respond in full
measure to the demand. San Fran
cisco, then a village, but ambitious to
become the city that it was a year ago
and that it will be again a few years
hence, contributed rather to the sup-,
ply than to the demand for labor.
Conditions are now reversed. The de
mand, though widespread, has Its cen--
ter in the city and the appeal for sup
ply is loud and insistent. For the ser
vices required, wages out of all pro
portion to the earning capacity and
skill of many men and the hours that
by arbitrary decree constitute the mod
ern "day's work," are paid.
California, through the great stress
that prevails dn San Francisco, has set
the pace, so to speak, in this matter,
and good wages are the rule through
out the entire Pacific Northwest. Yet
the supply, In many lines of labor, is
Inadequate to the demand. The an
nual anxiety of the hopgrower, . the
frultralser. and the grain producer has
grown into something like real alarm.
as the inability to secure "hands" in
adequate supply to garner his crops is
forced upon him.
The Western railroads require an
army of men. The class of labor em
ployed in this work is of very little use
in agricultural pursuits, it is true, but
with much worry and close supervision
it may be made useful in a time of
stress. In its utter absence the farmer
and horticulturist knows not where to
turn. Already in California, and to a
less extent in Oregon, he laments the
possible fate of his prunes, his grapes,
his hops and his late-sown grain.
Labor of the floating class is of the
vexatious rather than the dependable
type. Here today and there tomorrow,
its only anxiety, next to keeping its
cob pipe aglow, seems to be to get
away from the "Job." It Is entirely
distinct from the union labor, that
works steadily enough, albeit with one
eye out for "scabs" and ready to throw
Its hands up and (ts tools down at the
leader's behest. Between the two, en
terprise and capital are worn as be
tween the upper and. nether millstone.
In the meantime, the regular supply,
though Insufficient to meet the present
demand, is early astir, dinner pail in
hand, ready and willing to turn oppor
tunity Into wages that mean a multi
plicity of homes, an increase in the
comforts of life, education for children,
outings for wives, and, when depres
sion follows industrial activity, as ft
has done and may do again, an answer
to the important question, "What 6hall
we eat, what 6hall we drink and where
withal shall we be clothed?"
And just here, another question
arises. Wages are high in San Fran
cisco, and food is high. The higher
wages go, upon one pretext or another,
the higher goes the price of food.
Wages take another advance, up again
goes the price of food, of rente, of all
that the wage of labor buys. This is
not prosperity, except in a sense purely
technical. It is frenzied industry, abus
ing opportunity, and frenzied business.
striking back in its own defense in or
der to strike an economic balance.
True prosperity is exemplified in a
living wage, with a rainy-day margin;
in rents that make a fair return upon
the landlord's investment; in food sup
plies at a cost to the consumer that
leaves the producer a fair margin of
profit, and in merchandise at prices
that return fair profits to the manufac
turer and dealer andi permit the chil
dren of the laborer to go to school de
cently and comfortably clad. If, un
derlying a prosperity of this type, there
is a cheerful spirit and an element of
thrift, there is no reason to fear a re
turn of hard times.
SHIPOWNERS COMING TO REASON.
The International Association of Sail-ing-Shtp
Owners, which for the past
three years has sought to maintain an
unfair, unwarranted and unnatural
differential in rates against Portland,
is now meeting with trouble in another
direction: Since the establishment of
the 27s 6d rate for Portland and the 26s
3d rate for Puget Sound, the only period
at which the union owners were
enabled to fix vessels at the maximum
rates was when a temporary scarcity
of ships made them actually "worth 27s
6d to the shippers. During such peri
ods no difficulty whatever would have
been met in securing 27s 6d from Puget
Sound. The effect . of the idiotic dif
ferential was, accordingly, a loss of Is
3d on the Tacoma business, instead of
a gain of Is 3d on that from Portland.
To avoid the payment of the arbitrary
and unjust differential, Portland ex
porters chartered steamers and non
union 6hlps at lower rates than were
permitted by the union. Practically all
of the Oriental wheat shipments from
the Northwest last season were made
by steamers from 'Portland which were
ready and willing to accept charters
from Portland at the same rate as from
Puget Bound.
The business handled by .these steam
ers, together with that taken care of
by the nonunion ships, left Portland
shippers at the mercy of the combine
for only a small portion of the tonnage
actually needed to handle the business
of the port. As a result, vessels of the
combine have been lying idle not only
in the Pacific Coast ports, but in other
parts of the world, while steamers and
nonunion ships have been taking care
of the business. The sailing-ship own
ers' combine controls 1,413,917 tons
net register of shipping. Through
the. policy 'of repression and sti
fling trade With unwarranted dif
ferentials and rates, enough of
this shipping, has 'been kept off the
market to improve vastly the business
of the steamers and nonunion ships,
which are governed in their operations
by law of supply and demand. No less
than three of these steamers, all new,
modern-built craft, more desirable from
the standpoint of speed than the anti
quated sailing vessels, have already
been chartered to load wheat at Port
land within the next sixty days at 26s
3d, the rate refused by the union from
Portland, but accepted from Puget
Sound.
But it is not alone in the Pacific
Coast grain trade that the ancient sailing-ship
owners are encountering diffi
culty in overturning the law of supply
and demand. When they last met in
Liverpool and apportioned the earth
and its possibilities for exploitation in
the freight-carrying line among them
selves, they, fixed the rate on nitrate
from the west coast of South America
at, 21 shillings per ton to Europe. To
day it is Impossible for a union ship to
secure a cargo anywhere on the west
coast of South America. Steamers,
which are much more desirable for the
nitrate trade, are carrying cargoes to
Europe at 13 shillings and 1 shillings
per ton, a rate so far below the mini
mum fixed by the association that it
has practically driven the sailors out of
the business. This, quite naturally,
was a result not anticipated by the
men who organized the union, but it
will undoubtedly hasten the return of
reason, and with it should come aboli
tion of the schedule of rates, which
was intended to place Portland at a
disadvantage with other ports. Not
even by the most extravagant padding
of figures is it possible for a shipowner
to show grounds for exacting Is 3d" per
ton more from Portland than from Pu
get Sound, or 3s 6d more from Puget
Sound than from San Francisco. AH
three of these ports have been on even
terms in the .past, and all three will
again have the same rates. While the
natural readjustment is taking 'place
the members of the combine will find
the earnings of considerable of their
ship property on the red ink side of
the ledger.
THE FASTING FAD.
Physicians, who may or may not be
impartial judges, have expressed, in
many instances, the opinion that many
of the so-called nervous maladies, of
which Insomnia is a type or expression,
are due to fasting fads. Here a man
goes without his (breakfast with the
idea that his stomach should rest
while he gets his day's work especial
ly if It is " brain work well in hand.
There a woman makes it a point to go
to bed hungry, on the hypothesis that
an empty stomach conduces to refresh
ing sleep. Another systematically
omits the noonday meal or satisfies the
insistent demand for it with a cold bite
hurriedly swallowed.
It is manifest that, where persons
are physically below par, thds system
of fasting will keep them so. Thin,
anaemic, nervous persons show, in
every symptom, the need of nourish
ing food. Such food should be taken at
all proper times when the person IB
hungry, and ir hunger calls at bed
time, that Is a proper time to eat.
This, of course, does not apply to gorg
ing on mince pie, potted meats or rich
pastry. A bowl of bread and milk, a
lice of bread and butter eaten with
fruit, or a cheese sandwich, at bedtime,
by a hungry person, would supply the
waste of the body during sleep, in a
natural, wholesome way. In other
words, the body would be making more
tissue than it destroyed, during the
period of suspended activity.
This suggestion is to the pale, thin
woman, who is "all run down"; to the
man who rises unrefreshed from a
night of semi-wakefulness; and to the
parents of pale, anaemic children, who
go languidly to school without break
fast, or mope about the house without
sufficient energy to go to school.
The New York bank statement,
which appeared Saturday, showed a
very small reserve of cash, the lowest
that has been noted for several weeks.
There are many contributing causes to
this unfavorable exhibit. The 'Middle
West and Northwest have made the
usual heavy drains on the East for
money for moving the crops, and the
export movement of agricultural prod
ucts has, thus far, been very light, cut
ting down possible receipts from Eu
rope. There has also been considera
ble hoarding of money in anticipation
of -expected, heavy movements and
flurries in railroad stocks. The money
stringency has not yet assumed serious
proportions, nor is it likely to do 60 in
the near future, although the .approach
of a political campaign always infuses
an air of uncertainty into dealings of
all kinds. Fortunately for the Pacific
Northwest, financial and commercial
interests are better supplied with funds
than ever before at such a time, and if
money . becomes too scarce in New
York we might ship East a few mil
lions to help ease the strain.
I
In English there are many spoken
words that have exactly the same
sound though the meanings are widely
different. How is spelling reform to
deal with such words as "wrlght,"
"right," "write" and "rite"? A corre
spondent of the New York Sun fur
nishes this list, which might be greatly
extended:
'ale (n.)
all (n.)
ail (v.)
awl (n.)
eight (a.)
bawl (v.)
(lane (n.) lain (v.)
mite (n.) might (n.)
male (n.) mail(n.srv.)
yneat n.) meet (v.)
ate (v.)
ball m.
beer (n.)
bier (n.)
mist (n.) missed (v.)
pear n.) pare (v.)
rail (n.) pals (a.)
peek (v.) peak (n.)
call (v.n.)caul (n.)
ceti jn.j . eeu i v. j
rent' ( n.l
scenttv.An.
phii (n.) nzz(v.&n.)
creek fn.l
creaK (v.)
dear(a.&n.)
Iroam (v.) Rome(p.n-)
trap (v.&n.) wrap (v&n)
deer (n.)
do (v.
steel (n.) eteal(v&n)
stake( v&n steak (n.)
shear (n.) sheer(aAv)
tear (v.) tare (v&n)
tlme(v&n)thyme 4n.l
doe (n.)
dough (n.)
eye (n.&v.) aye (ad.)
leet in.) leat (n.)
All (v t
Phil (p.n.)
fore (a.)
hauHv.&n.
here (a.)
hymn (n.)
aisle (n.)
four (a.l
through(a'threw (v.)
hall in.)
vale (n.) veil (n&v)
hear (v.)
week (n.) weak (a.)
him (pr.)
wood (n. ) would v.
Isle (n.)
wave (n.) waive (v.)
leak v.&n.)leek (n.)
lyou (pr.) ewe (n.)
The severity with which some ofthe
Washington papers are attacking Sen
ator Ankeny would indicate that he
has a much firmer grip on his seat in
the Senate than was generally sup
posed. It Is more than two years until
his term expires, and if he were not a
formidable candidate to succeed him
self the batteries which have been un
limbered against him would have re
mained silent for a few months longer.
Their attacks, however, are almost too
bitter to retain their power, if they
have any, for more than two years.
Senator Ankeny has undoubtedly
proved unsatisfactory to the men who
endeavored to beat him at Olympia,
but the present outlook in the State of
Washington seems favorable to his re
election. Unless there shall be a radi
cal change in political conditions in the
Evergreen State, there will be no
change in the Washington delegation
in either the upper or lower houses of
Congress after the coming election.
Contracts for three more large steam
schooners, to be built at Pacific Coast
yards, have been let within the past
month. One of these is for San Fran
cisco individuals, another1 for Gray's
Harbor men, and the third is to be
owned in Seattle. In addition to these
three there are ten others, either con'
tracted for or in varying stages of
completion, at Pacific Coast yards.
This big fleet means a great deal to
the ports to which the vessels will be
long, and where supplies, etc., are to
be purchased. It is singular to note
that, while none of the vessels will hall
from Portland, this port will supply
more cargo for them than any other
port on the .Pacific Coast. As these
steam schooners now have an earning
power sufficient to pay for their cost
in Jess than a year, it is to be inferred
that Portlanders are indifferent to ab
normal profits when making invest
ments.
Mr. Bryan is ready to enter Into an
alliance with England, for the purpose
of preserving peace throughout the
world. We may fear the great Eng
lish-American alliance would at times
be forced to fight for this peace. Be
sides, if there was one thing more than
another that moved the great Jefferson
to indignation and wrath, is was the
suggestion, or even the thought, of an
alliance with England, for any purpose.
He always wrote and spoke of England
in terms of detestation and abhorrence.
It was a country "totally without mor
ality," "lost in corruption" and "hostile
to liberty wherever it endeavors to
show its head." We fear Mr. Bryan is
departing from the faith that was de
livered to the saints.
Noting a paragraph in The Oregonian
on the probability that Mr. Bryan on
his return home would declare for gov
ernmental ownership of the railroads
which he has since done the Louisville
Courier-Journal (August 29) said:,
The issue of the Governmental ownership
of the railways would embody a revolution
quite aa sweeping as was wrought by the
abolition of slavery, or as would be Involved
by a proposal to elect the Chief Magistrate
of the Nation for life. To inject such an
issue into the next Presidential campaign
would be in advance to sacrifice it.
No, no. Brother Scott: your wish is father
to your thought: Mr. Bryan has not gone
daft, as he would be If he proposed to turn
the world of America downside up!
Able as Brother Watterson is, he
doesn't always make a good guess.
The local plutocratic organ, though it
has been singing tumultuously the
praises of Bryan, is forced by the "in
fluences" that control it to oppose his
railroad policy. Nothing like "inde
pendence" in an organ. To run a Bryan-Democratic
organ under direction of
Republican plutocrats who supply the
money has its embarrassments at
times.
Almost certainly it will become neces
sary for the United States to interpose
in Cuba, to settle the difficulty between
the rebels and the government. And
this begets the prophecy in many quar
ters that the end will be the annexa
tion of Cuba by the United States.
Everybody acknowledges that Mr.
Bryan possesses an amiable disposition
and honorable character. It is his
Judgment as a statesman for he as
sumes that character that is ques
tioned. Mr. A. E. Ream and Senator Milt
Miller, who have gone to greet Bryan,
wilT explain that Oregon's Democratic
zeal is not to be measured by its con
tribution to the Democratic campaign
fund.
Well, Bryan seems to have succeed
ed In scaring up an issue. Was any
Democrat afraid that he would be un
able to find one that would set the
country by the ears?
Tacoma finds that its water short
age comes from leaking faucets. Un
doubtedly much of the water waste in
Portland Is due to this same cause.
( Uncle oam can onng peace to uuoa,
but of course Democrats will howl, Just
as tney aaoj suuui uie xyimpyines.
Are the Cubans revolting at this par
ticular time to give Bryan a non-intervention
issue?
OREGOX EDITORS IX BAD HUMOR-
Keeps Him Busy.
Philomath Review.
So much fresh fruit has come into
this office lately that we have had to
work day and night shifts to keep the
supply under control. Not since the
colicky " green-apple period or youtn
have we had such constitutional de
mands for a surcease from toil. A "T
Deum" to the Oregon plum: Whoever
ean thrive on the little purple "belly
acher" will never see want sneaking
near his door.
Adds Insult to Injury.
Milwaukie Bee.
We venture the assertion that there
is not another city in the state that
has a Mayor find Council and a news
paper but what print their ordinances
in their city paper, but we have a
Mayor and Council who have so little
business about them as to ignore the
city paper in the publication of the
ordinances, but to add to that, they
have the gall to typewrite the ordi
nances and bring one of them to the
printing office and nail it on our walls.
Skunks and Skunkesaea.
Corvallis Times.
. One of the most glaring exhibitions
of cussedness that ever -transpired in
this town Is the removal of flowers
and plants from the gardens at the
City Hall. In most instances hey are
pulled up by the roots and carried
away. They were put there by public
spirited persons for the beautification
of the town, and, after the dilapida
tion that had surrounded the hall for
years. It would seem that there would
have been none mean enough to undo
what had been done. Heil Isn't hot
enough for the skunks or skunkesse3
that do it.
Retribution for Rascals.
Grant's Pass Observer.
The bold and deliberate character of
the infamous fraud now being tried
may well cause Oregon to blush. It
would be hard to find anywhere a more
rascally set of men than these repre
sentatives of an afflicted state. Hap
pily, the "political machine" is now
abolished, and that means of forcing
scoundrelly representatives upon the
people Is at an end. The people now
have control, and though they may
choose bad men occasionally, they will
not knowingly do so. Under the ma
chine rule, bad men who had money
were courted, and honor was sold at
a price.
A Greater Grafter.
Cottage Grove Western Oregon.
The trial of F. P. Mays and associ
ates goes far to confirm the suspicion
long maintained that the creation of
forest reserves was in the interest of
the grafters. One of the greatest of
these criminals is the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company, that had the
boundaries of a Washington forest re
serve extended so as to include a great
area of that company's worthless land.
The company received lieu land script
for those acres and brought it to Ore
gon for location. A lot of this script
was placed on Lane County timber.
The public is hurt by this alien pro
prietorship. BIG THIXGS FROM THE! FARM.
Way J.
Brownsville Times.
W. D. Washburn's wheat, grown near
the city limits, yielded 42 bushels to the
acre. How is that for high?
Corn In Sherman.
Moro Observer. '
Hundreds of people have stopped at the
Observer office this week to admire a
stalk of corn 12 feet high, with ears
higher up than a man's head. It grew on
a farm of Horace Strong, near Moro, one
of the best and most thrifty of Sherman
County farmers.
Of Course Not.
McMinnville News Reporter.
W. P. Frazier sold to E. S. Talbott this
week one of his last Spring Cotswold
lambs. The lamb weighs 192 pounds, and
the wool on his ribs measures at this
time 13 Inches in length. The owner will
get 25 pounds of wool from the lamb next
May, at his first shearing. It is unneces
sary to state this lamb was born and
raised in Yamhill County.
Record Yield of Wheat.
Athena Press.
Perhaps the largest yield of wheat re
ported in Whitman County, Washington,
comes from the Nathaniel King farm at
the west end of Kamiac Butte, six miles
west of Palouse City. From 60 acres the
average yield is 57 bushels. The grain
Is of the forty-fold variety. Red Russian
in the same neighborhood Is yielding
about 40 bushels per acre..
SPELLING REFORM.
Sample of a Newspaper Heading-.
New York Press.
PRESIDENT QCITTES
YE OLD SPEIXINGE.
Puttee Falthe Tune Methods Yclept
"Reforms."
JOYNES CARNEGIE CLASSE.
Roosevelt Hys Publlck Wrytyngri Wyl
Bears Ye Sygnes Of I onclick
Freshness.
Watterson on Rucevelt.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Nothing escapes Mr. Rucevelt. No sub
ject is tu hi fr him to takl, nor tu lo for
him to notis. He makes tretls without
the -"consent of the Senit. He inforces
such laws as meet his approval, and tales
to se those that du not soot him. He now
assales the English langgwidg, constitutes
himself a sort of French Academy, and
wil reform the speling in a way tu soot
himself.
We have ventured to spell the name of
the President, Rucevelt. It is quite like
ly that meny will say that is not his
name. But the majority of the people
pronounce it thus, the first silabel riming
with goose. There are others, of course,
who pronounce it differently, but If we
unsettle the speling already establisht pe
pel wil spel according to their ideas of
sound, and the name of the President,
which it appears fu pepul no how to pro
nounce, must take its chances with the
rest. Still ft Is a safe guess (or gess) that
he will continue to sine Roosevelt. Per
haps Theodore Rucevelt would not be
recognized in forin lands.
Spelling Revision.
New York Sun.
Tu the Edetur ov the Sun Sur: The
informashun tu efekt that Presedunt
Rusefelt syned the Fonetik Bpellng bill
cheres mi hart. The fakt es I never
went tu skule and peepul wur always
making fun ov ml bad speling, tha want
du that neow anl more wil tha. P. H.
A FEW fttlPS.
In the Business. "Do you believe in mar
rying lor money
I do. I'm a clergy-
How on earth did you get Into this aw
ful state?" "Don't tell the railroad authori
ties, ma'am; but I came on a freight train."
Judge.
"We have come." said Mr. Gayman. enter
ing the employment agency with his wife,
"to secure a cook.'"
"Plain or fancy? asked the agent.
"Plain." put in Mrs. Gayman, promptly,
"the plainest one you have." Philadelphia
Frees.
Gotrox What are your lowest terms as a
son-in-law? Count One million. "All right;
I'll sign a check tomorrow." "And how aeon
shall I marry your daughter?" "Oh, you
won't marry her: I'm going to hold you for
a rise, and sell you to somebody else." Life.
"Dear Doctor: Inclosed find check for pro
fessional services rendered by you to my late
uncle. I thank you for your zeal in the mat
ter and shall not fall to recommend you to
all my other wealthy relatives." Megges-
44urfw lfM,
EDITOR ROSEWATER'S FIGHTING CAREER
Omaha Publisher Battled With Enemies All His Life, Created a Great News
paper and Was a Power in His State Without Attaining Political Office
(By "W. J. Cuddy, formerly a member of
Mr. Rosewater's staff, now of The Orego
nian.) In this Oregon Country are many who
soma time lived in Nebraska. They
knew Edward Rosewater, or knew of
him, and learn of his death with more
or less concern. All will admit he was a
remarkable man, who hewed out his
career after his own plans. Of the
thousands who were acquainted with him
but few learned to know the real man.
Those who did are the persons who
worked with him and for him.
, Edward Rosewater was 12 years old
when the family "landed" at Cleveland
from Bohemia. He had received a fair
schooling in the old country, and when
he was 18 he took what was then held
to be an educational finish a commer
cial college course. The next year he
studied, telegraphy in Cincinnati, to
which place his people had moved, and
there began his life work.
The outbreak of the war found him In
the employ of the Southwestern Tele
graph Company in Alabama, and he was
absorbed with it into the Confederacy.
There was no getting away, and he wa
transferred to Nashville, Tenn., where,
with the rest of the city, he was cap
tured by the Federals. He at once
joined the United States Military Tele
graph' Corps, soon being sent, to Wash
ington for service in the War Depart
ment. During this period he met Ed
ward Creighton, who built the first tele
graph line across the plains, and it was
at Mr. Creighton's solicitation that he
went to Omaha and became manager of
the old Pacific Telegraph Company's of
fice In 1S65. In the next five years he
cultivated that Bplrit of opposition that
developed his life.
In 1870, the Pacific having been cap
tured by the Western Union, Mr. Rose
water promptly became manager of the
office of the rival line. The innate rest
lessness and chafing at restraint of the
young man put him into politics and In
1870 he was chosen a member of the Leg
islature. Three years before the state
had been admitted. John M. Thayer
and Thomas W. Tipton were elected
Senators, the former for the short term.
Mr. Rosewater was chosen as a Thayer
man, and worked for his re-election. In
this campaign he got a taste of news
paper life. The pioneer paper, the Re
publican, was against Thayer, and his
faction started the Tribune, a daily, Mr.
Rosewater being a stockholder, and even
at that early age a sharp writer. Thayer
was defeated and P. W. Hitchcock elect
ed, and a political war was begun that
did not end even with Mr, Hitchcock's
death, ten years later.
Mr. Rosewater's ideas of news-getting,
later in life, were not of his earlier kind.
One of the first "Rosewater stories" I
heard was about how he got the news
of a big event for the Tribune one night.
In those days there were no typewriters
and the Western Union man on press
report manifolded It on "flimsy" with a
stylus. One copy went on the Republi
can hook and another on that of the
Herald. . the Democratic paper. The
composing-room apprentice went after It
every hour. On this particular night the
Republican boy "Kid" Kelly (he is now
Superintendent of Money Orders in the
Omaha Postofflce, and we laughed over
the story last year when he was out
here at the Fair), was waylaid and all
his copy taken from him by a highway
man; the description he gave was of Mr.
Rosewater, and it was confirmed when
the stolen telegraph appeared in the
Tribune next morning.
The defeat of Thayer brought about
consolidation of the Tribune and Re
publican, and the only way Mr. Rose
water could get into print was -by start
ing a paper. It was about the middle
of June, 1871, If my' memory is right,
that he bought a theater programme, the
Figaro, and made It the Evening Bee.
He put his individuality into it and
made people buy it. Then, too, he made
it the best local paper by hiring Al Sor
enson, well known in Portland, for city
editor. Mr. Sorenson was then a young
printer with a nose for news. If, in the
general conduct of the Bee, Mr. Rose
water had any pattern, it was the San
Francisco Chronicle. Like the Bay City
paper, the Bee was strongly anti-monopoly.
In those days political power in
Nebraska lay In the Union Pacific. It
dominated all north of the Platte and
much south of the river, for the Bur
lington & Missouri River was then hardly
more than an unballasted 200-mile streak
of rust from Plattsmouth to Kearney
Junction. What the paper lacked In
news it made up in denunciation of the
railroad.
Mr. Rosewater was honest In his fight
on monopoly. Running a daily was fierce
work. He had to look out for every
thing. Money came in slowly, and many
a time the pay-checks were dated ahead,
anticipating the carriers' collections, so
that one day in the middle '70s, when the
tempter came. It was mighty hard to
say "No!" Yet he did. The offer was
made to put him on the railway payroll
for JoOO a month if he would let up. He
never let up, yet he never told of the
incident in print, and seldom spoke of it.
One day when the Bee was young, per
haps but a year old, Mr. Rosewater was
set upon in the Fostoffice by the Assist
ant Postmaster and a horde of clerks
for criticising the conduct of affairs. The
assailants were arrested, and one of them
paid his fine by a check which ordered
his banker "to pay fifteen dollars to
WILL IT COME TO THIS?
(TBA "TJNCtB, TJNCTJE! WtLUCE
WON'T XOC 2IAK-E 1U31 QUIT ITT"
school fund or order for assault on a
Christ-killer." The memory of that
vicious wording gave "bite" to many an
article for years afterward.
One day in the Winter of "75 Mr. Rose
water came near to death. He had criti
cised a Douglas-street dive kept by eca
Dick Curry, a burly negro, not naming
him, yet speaking so all knew. Under
the caption. "What Did You Mean?" a
letter, written by a man who afterward
quaked when the grand jury was in ses
sion, and signed for Curry, and printed
in the Republican, made a demand on
Mr. Rosewater that he could not Ignore.
His- reply led the negro to waylay the
editor the next noon, and he was so
cruelly beaten with a billy that for days
his life hung In the balance. Nothing
but the finest bodily health and a vigor
ous constitution saved him. Curry got a
long term in the penitentiary and an
effort was made to make a conspiracy of
the affair, but it failed.
In the campaign of 1874, the Bee was
yet too new to cut much of a figure, and
Tipton was succeeded by A. S. Paddock.
Rosewater was after other game. Hitch
cock had made the writer of the school
fund check Postmaster. When Hitch
cock came up for re-election in 1876 the
Bee had so thoroughly di.sorganiz,d the
Republican party In Douglas County that
there were fonr Legislative tickets In the
running, and the anti-Hitchcock faction
won. Ex-Governor Saunders was elected
Senator and General Demoralization sat
In the Republican saddle. But the Fed
eral offices soon began to fill with men
friendly to the Bee, and money came
easier. The plant was gradually enlarged
and better machinery bought.
The Bee's great handicap in those days
was its lack of news facilities. It was
getting a pony press report and the
Chronicle report was "dropped" to it.
AH this made a great financial drain. At
every annual session of the old Asso
ciated Press Mr. Rosewater was on hand
with an application for membership,
backed by Edward Russell, of the Dav
enport Gazette, or some other outsider,
always to be met either by Mr. Yost, of
the Republican, or Lyman Richardson,
of the Herald, with the customary ob
jection. One day. In a spirit of bravado
it must have been, yet I never knew
him for much of a bluffer, Casper Yost
met Mr. Rosewater and said:
"See here. Rosey; Lyman and I are
getting tired of all this. Now, you pro
duce a check for $10,000, payable to us.
at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, and we'll
consent to your coming in."
"Put that in writing," said Mr. Rose
water, a bit startled, but not. feazed.
He didn't have 10,000 cents to the
credit of the Bee just then, but he
thought he knew wiere he could get it.
All he had was mortgaged out of sight,
yet he knew this would be collateral.
The richest man In the State of Ne
braska died in the Fall of 1875. He
had always been Mr. Rosewater's
friend and counsellor. He left a widow,
but the couple were childless. He whs
a kindly. Christian gentleman. God
fearing and just. Imagine, then, the
consternation when the Republican
came out one morning with the news
that an illegitimate son of the dead
man had been discovered in Chicago.
That paper, of (ourse, promptly took It
back the next morning, but not before
the slandered man's brother and ad
ministrator had declared before high
heaven he "would ruin that sheet!'"
Six years afterward Mr. Rosewater
got a certified check for $10,000 late
one night, and next morning at 10
o'clock the bluffers took It, for they
couldn't crawl. Mr. Rosewater's pros
perity dated from that day. To begin
with, telegraph tolls dropped 60 per
cent and there was a faultless report.
I was editing It, hence I know. Seven
years later the Bee moved away from
the bugs and roaches at the foot of
Farnam street to the stately pile on
the hlU at Seventeenth, and but a few
years later the Republican was dead,
having given up the ghost. Mr. Rose
water's revenge was complete.
The past 20 years of Mr. Rosewater's
life belonged to the political history
of his state. He aspired to the Sena
torshlp, but it was not for him. For
S5 years he had been putting the knife
into Republican leaders, great and
small, and theirs was the revenge. And
when the state convention, two weeks
ago, turned him down, it is more than
likely he began to realize the game
was not worth the effort. A quarter
of a century ago he would pull wires
all day and work all night on the
paper, moving from one room to the
other, finally sleeping on a lounge
until daylight. The habit seemed to
have stayed with him, for he died In
the building that was his pride.
With children grown and well pro
vided for, with his paper a fixture of
the state, realizing that he never could
reach the height of his political ambi
tion, he sat on the bench last Thurs
day night and leaned his head against
the back and thought and thought, and
then something snapped and the Old
Man was gathered to his fathers. The
tired, tempestuous soul was at rest.
All over the Union there are hun
dreds of newspapermen who, when all
was In and the paper about up, got
reminiscent and began: "Some time,
when I'm back on the Bee "
But they'll say it no more.
From the Denver Republican.
HAS JABBED ME IX THE SLATS AGAIN I