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PORTLAND, MONDAY OCT. 15, 1906.
democratic orrosmoN 10 hearst.
It is noticeable that the most confi
dent of Heanet's opponents, those who
are surest he will be beaten, are the
Democrats who oppose him. What the
basis of their confidence is cannot be
ascertained till the votes shall have
been cast and counted. Democrats op
posing Hearst declare that he is no rep
resentative, of the. Democratic party,
and aseert that the party cannot exist
on the principles to which the Hearst
campaign plainly tends. All this may
be true; and yet Hearst still might be
elected. Of course the business and
property classes of . the state of New
York are not with Hearst. But these
are not a majority of the voters; and
it remains to be seen whether they can
persuade a majority of the voters to
turn Hearst down. It is urged that the
Democratic party really has no candi
date;' for Hearst first obtained an in
dependent . .nomination, and then ap
pealed to Democrats for support on the
ground that in the Interest of the peo
ple, party should be set aside. Yet he
ought and Obtained, through Murphy,
Hie Tammany boss, the form of a Dem
ocratic nomination, trusting there
might be votes in it. The weak points
of his position are the alliance with
Murphy, and the virtual supersedure of
the Democratic party of the. state by
the organization known as the Inde
pendence League. Yet this last may
be the means of drawing to Hearst a
body of Republicans, who, on the sup
position that the Democratio party is
now down and out, may- vote the
Hearst ticket.
Whatever the result may prove to
be, the greater number of the repre
sentative 'Democratic' journals of the
state are, however, opposing Hearst;
some with a dignified seriousness;
others with vitriolic arguments. Neither
sort may have much influence on the
result; for now and then the masses
of the people ignore the ad-rice of ora- t
tors and newspapers and indulge them
selves in wayward voting. However,
it awakens Interest to observe the con
fidence of such Democratic papers as
the Bropklyn Eagle, and the Worldand
Times 'of New York. Evidently they
do not believe Hear6t has any chance
at all.
The Times, however, tells what would
happen if he should be elected.' "There
would be a sorry disillusionment," it
6ays, in store for those who had voted
for him, "for he promises much that is
beyond his power and much that would
work harm;" and a writer in the
World's Work says that what would
be expected of him would be so impos
sible that "the Hearst myth" worked
up by his hired writers, would explode
soon after his election. Which is prob
ebly true;
XiEAKXING ABOUT FRUIT.
According to the comments made by
visitors to the Hood River fruit fair, Its
Is evident that fruit-growers from
other parts of the 6tate who spent a
day or two in this famous fruit-grow
ing community feel -that they- have
uearnea mucn tnat will be of aid to
them In Improving their own methods
of caring for fruit and fruit trees. That
much is to be expected. No man of
Intelligence and a willingness to iearn
can mingle with other men engaged
in the same line of work without gath
ering some ideas that will be of use
to 'him in his own activities. Even
the most successful of men fall short
of perfection. They learn by their own
experience, and, if they are wise, by
the experience of others. Rogue Rive
growers learned something by visiting
Hood River. The growers whose or
chards are In this Northern fruit-growing
region would, beyond doubt, find a
trip to Rogue River a great benefit
to them, for there' are a number of
progressive and successful orchardists
In that part of the state.
. But it is needless for farmers or hor
ticulturists to go several hundred miles
to learn something new and useful con
cerning the branch of agriculture in
which they are particularly Interested.
Frequent visits among the farmers of
any community will not only cultivate a
better neighborhood feeling but will
enable all to improve themselves in
their methods of cultivating, gathering
and marketing crops. If a neighbor
has raised a particularly large crop or
one of unusually good quality, it is
worth while to find .out how he did
It and there is no better Way than to
pay" him a friendly call. This would be
a farmers' congressmen a small scale
but one unsurpassed in value as com-
pared with, the cost of attendance.
Thus far It has been found Impossible
to organize the farmers as the mer
chants, manufacturers, and skilled la
borers are organized, but it should be
possible to bring them into closer rela
tions which will encourage them to
work together for the common welfare.
Oregon apple-growers' and shippers
will be interested in the outcome of
extensive experiments that are to be
conducted during the next twelve
months by the Iowa Agricultural -Experiment
Station for the purpose of
learning the beet methods of keeping
apples in cold storage. The experi
ments will be made with all the Im
portant varieties of apples and will
show the varying results obtained with
fruit from trees of different 'ages,
growing on different soils, cultivated
and uncultivated, and picked at dif
ferent stages of maturity. It is also
intended to ascertain whether apples
will keep best in email barrels or large,
wrapped or unwrapped, and what ad
vantage, if any.-early storage has over
late storage. These experiments will
require considerable attention and con
sequent expense. Trie results will not
be entirely applicable as a guide to
Oregon growers and packers', for we
have here a different cl'mate and dif
ferent class of fruit. Still, the facts
gleaned by the Iowa Station should be
of some aid to Oregon horticulturists.
ASTORIA-SEASIDE CANAL PROJECT.
The Oregonian pretends to no special
knowledge of harbor engineering, but
believes the Astoria-Seaside canal pro
ject of Eugene Semple's for an arti
ficial waterway in and out of the Co
lumbia1 river, as described by him In
yesterday's paper, is worth serious
consideration by those who would have
the state of Oregon, or a port district
aid in overcoming the bar obstacle. A
number of artificial harbors have been
created in various parts of the world
under conditions possibly as difficult
as at the mouth of the Columbia.
Mr. Semple has recognized engineer
ing ability; he designed the present
project for building the Lake Washing
ton canal at Seattle and the tide-land
fills at that city. His proposed canal
is entirely feasible, as authorities will
generally admit, for its construction is
only "a matter of digging, at a cost
which can be very closely estimated.
But his plans Include a breakwater,
attached to Tillamook Head, necessary
to maintain a quiet-water entrance to
the canal. That a breakwater could
be constructed is quite probable in
view of similar achievements else
where, one, notably at Cherbourg,
France, where a breakwater costing
$13,500,000 has made a great port. But
It is not known whether the break
water at Tillamook head could be con
structed for the money that would be
within the resources of a port district
to pay. Mr. Semple maintains that
the cost would not be large and that
together with that of the canal, the
whole sum would amount to $2,175,300.
Dredging at the canal entrance, he ad
mits, would be necessary, bat he con
tends that tnis is required at other
artificial harbors, whether jetties or
breakwaters are used.
The impracticability of Oregon's ap
propriating money for jetty work, ow
ing to the great cost and Inter-etate
character of that improvement, places
on the National Government the duty
of deepening the bar by that means.
The Semple canal project, if feasible,
could be carried out apart from the
government jetty project, by private
enterprise or other Independent effort.
The prospect, almost amounting to
certainty, that the Government will not
complete the Jetties for a long term of
years, makes Imperative that shipping
interests do ail that they possibly can
by independent effort to . open the
mouth of the Columbia River to deep
draft vessels.
The Semple project is worth study
and 6hould not be rejected for preju
dice. If feasible, it should be examined
as to whether its cost could be con
fined to practicable figures. It is not
a novelty in engineering science, though
the suggestion of it for the mouth of
the Columfcia River Is startling.
WOMEV IN EDUCATIONAL OFFICES. .
The State of Montana, though per
sistently refusing to consider the ques
tion of full suffrage for women, very
liberal when It comes to placing women
in authority in educational matters.
Lewis and Clark County has, for
example, repeatedly elected a woman
to the office of County School Superin
tendent with advantage to the educa
tional interests of the county, including
the Capital City, and again the nom
inee of the Republican party for that
position is a young woman. This nom
inee is a native of Montana, a compe
tent educator, a graduate of the State
Normal, and a student for some time
at the Chicago University.. She is said
to be "in love with her work," a con
dition of mind that Insures success,
whatever the undertaking, when joined
to special preparation for It.
Whatever views men hold upon the
question of full political rights for
women and upon this question, as is
well known, intelligent men differ radi
cally in opinion no man who is en
titled to be placed in this category
doubts the special fitness of educated,
practical women for the highest educa
tional positions. Our own state, though
granting school suffrage to duly quali
fied, women, and admitting them to
places on district school boards, denies
to. them the position of Superintendent
of Schools. In the two instances, so
far as now recalled, in which women
were elected to this position in this
state, the choice of the voters was not
sustained by constitutional law as In
terpreted, and men were made figure
heads In the office while the regularly
elected superintendents did the work.
One of these. Miss Ella C. Sabin, was
elected County Superintendent of Lane
County in the early seventies, making
a very efficient Superintendent of
Schools In spite of her handicap, and
a decade or more later Mrs. Alice C
Gove, a competent educator, was made
Superintendent of Schools of Multno
mah County. She was the regular
nominee of the Republican party and
received a substantial- majority of the
votes cast at the regular election, but
the question of her incompetency, on
the ground that she was not a duly
qualified elector of the state, was
raised. She was forced to resign, and
her husband, who did not possess the
educational qualifications, nor a tithe
of the executive ability that made her
management of the school affairs of the
county full of promise of excellent re
sults, was made the official figurehead
of the office. Of course this, was silly,
albeit it was and is In accordance with
constitutional law.
For some reason, possibly known to
themselves, or perhaps merely through
oversight, "the advocates of woman
suffrage In the state have not bent
their energies toward the removal of
this constitutional provision which ren
ders women ineligible to the office, of
County and State Superintendent of
Schools. Perhaps, being in eager pur
suit of the whole loaf, they scorn to
ask for this crumb of political equality.
Be this as it may, it cannot be doubted
that the educational Interests of the
state have suffered in times past
through this absurd provision. Mon
tana, as above noted, is in advance of
Oregon in this respect, and has found
It to her advantage to- push this ad
vance not offensively but energetically
and intelligently at the hustings.
, GOOD READING. -1
One of those jeremaids over the decay
of the love of good literature which so
frighten all genuine admirers of Milton,
Shakespeare andi the Bible, has just ap
peared in the New York Evening Post.
The writer begins with a gloomy state
ment that the "Pilgrim's Progress" is
not read as much nowadays as in the
good old times; but he does not stop
with this harrowing thought. He grad
ually extends the shadow of his doubt
over all the great authors and ends
with the conclusion that we are a gen
eration wholly given up to newspapers
and cheap magazines. It may seem,
odd that a writer for the newspapers
should class the habit of reading them
among the vices, but this one does so,
and he does it, doubtless, in a lofty
spirit of self-sacrifice. Still, if we all
lhad followed his advice, none of us
would have read his article, and what
a store of wisdom would have been
wasted.
Emerson once advised his readers
never to read a book that was not at
least a year Old. Suppose the public had'
taken him at his word and allowed his
books to lie untouched on the counters
for- a twelvemonth after they were
published. Would, the great philoso
pher have been pleased?
It may be surmised that the Evening
Post admits, at least, one exception to
its anathema upon newspapers, though
modestly orbids- its mention in the
article to which .we have referred. It
was once the habit of novelists to give
distinction to their work by making
their silliest characters great novel
readers. Miss Corelli does so still; but
most novelists have come to the prac
tical conclusion that there la not much
to be gained by decrying their own art,
or trade, and newspaper writers may
sometime learn the same lesson. News
papers, magazines and cheap novels do
not displace good literature. They have
entered an area in the world where
formerly nothing at all was read. The
man who reads a paper on his way to
business would not read Milton if he
could not get a paper. He would read
morning, and It may be questioned
whether his mind would not be occu
pied with matters less wholesome than
the reports of the baseball game and
the political speeches which the paper
gives him.
Good literature in general is not less
read than formerly, but more. And
one principal reason for its greater
vogue is the habit of reading news
papers. This may seem like a paradox,
but it is nothing of the kind.. Reading
Is a difficult art which It taks a long
time and much practice to acquire. It
is never learned In school. Pupils ac
quire these, at best, a small number
of word forms; never enough to make
reading easy and pleasant. And to this
meager store they would, commonly add
nothing afterward if they were not en
ticed to the effort by their desire to
learn from tffe papers what is going
on in the world. We speak now of
the ordinary person; of course, there
always have been exceptional indi
viduals whose eagerness for informa
tion has made them expert readers. For
ordinary people, -however, the news
papers are the great teachers of read
ing. Through them the masses acquire
their acquaintance with our word
forms, and thus fit themselves to at
tack the literature of the language.
Some of them never do so, but, on the
other hand, some pass on through the
gates and explore the world of light.-
That "The Pilgrim's Progress" is not
so much read now, as formerly may be
admitted; but the reasons assigned by
the Post for the neglect are wholly
mistaken. These reasons are, first, the
decay of good reading in general, and
secondly, the disappearance of the dis
tinction between Sunday and secular
reading. Neither of these has much
weight. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is
an intensely Interesting book which
would hold its own without difficulty
but for one thing. And -this thing ap
plies to all the great classics. Children
are not longer permitted to have these
books as they were written, but only
after they have been diluted, emas
culated, turned into a thin, watery,
gruelly substance "nauseating to the
taste and poisonous to the soul. It is
related by a citizen of some preten
sions to literary taste that he sought
through the bookstores of Portland the
other day for a copy of "Water
Babies," to give to a child. The best
Ihe could find was a caricature of
Kingsley's beautiful work "adapted1'
for children. Who could wonder if
good literature were actually hated by
men and women whose introduction to
it comes through such monstrosities?
These adaptations for children resem
ble nothing so much as the calves one
sees, in the butcher shops with their
heads cut off and their hearts tied in
with a string-
In one lamentable Instance it must
be admitted that a great book has
failed to hold its own in the reading
world. That book is the Bible. All
observers are agreed 'that popular
knowledge- of the Bible is a thing of
the past. College students no longer
understand an allusion to the prophets.
A quotation from the Psalms in a.
newspaper article Is not recognized. All
this is bad, for the Bible is the very
source and fountain head of English lit
erature. It is the great store house, of
style. In the Bible -we learn the force
and flexibleness of ' our words; we
learn how to express time, purpose and
consequence. Ignorance of the Bible
accounts for much of the flatulent
quality of recent literature, and for
it the Sunday Schools are almost
wholly to blame. Since, for commer
cial reasons, they began to teach the
Bible in little fragments out of here
and there, interest in the greatest of
all literature has 6teadily decayed. The
Bible is a collection of masterpieces;
each, of its books is a work of art.
One might as well try to study the
Sistine "Madonna by cutting the can
vas into square inches and minutely
analyzing the pieces week after week
as to study the Bible by the modern
Sunday School method. The system is
false pedagogy. It has produced a
generation of men and women to whom
the English Bible is an unknown book.
Could there be a greater tragedy in
the world of literature? .
Probably San Francisco will not re
vive her vigilance committee. The times
are different. Yet the complaint of the
law's delay In punishment of crim
inals is well founded. Francis J. Heney
justly throws much of the blame on
judges of the courts, who permit
trumped up legal obstacles to Interfere
with the course of justice. Special and
speedy attention ought to. be given to
prosecution of thugs and assassins that
infest the stricken city. No technical
pleas should be permitted to obstruct
trials.. This class of wretches ought
literally to be railroaded through. If
the. proofs can be made certain, the
quicker and faster the better. The
methods that would do for the leisurely
and orderly city of old are not for
present emergencies. The thugs ought
to be put through, and those pests of
the legal profession, and of society,
who try to protect them by technical
quibbles and dilatory pleas, , should be
required to answer without delay and
go to trial at once on the charges
against the accused. Heney is right
in scoring the Judges and the state's
attorneys for delays that encourage
repetition of assaults, robberies and
murders. "May it please the court, my
client is not ready for trial." When is
the thug, thief, robber or murderer
ever ready far trial?
What with Jim Tompkins' prophecy
of a hard winter, backed by the irre
futable argument of an enormous
acorn "crop in the mountains, and a
fuel dealers' combine that makes coal
a luxury and cordwood an Impossi
bility, the thoughtful householder ap
proaches winter ' with some anxiety.
Fuel dealers cannot be blamed for
sharing the fever of gain of which
prosperity 'is the germ, that is general
throughout the business world, . but it
is hard on those who are called upon
to assuage it, or feed it, as the case
may be. But then we all know that
high prices are an accompaniment of
prosperity and nobody wants a return
of business depression. The burden
of hard times is somewhat, more easily
carried when prosperity is abroad in
the land than when financial depres
sion prevails, though why high wages
and high prices should be preferred
to moderate wages and moderate prices
is not quite clear.
"Our duty in regard to attendance at
church service" was one of the topics
discussed at the meeting of the Oregon
Christian Endeavor League. As long
as church attendance is looked upon as
a duty and not ae a privilege, the at
tendance will be comparatively small.
The best feature of the Christian En
deavor work is that the young people
enjoy the meetings and need no urging
to secure their presence. The Endeavor
Societies are today the main reliance
of the church.
Mr. Heney says that certain San Fran
cisco judges are "supported for re-election
by every gambler and every pro
fessional crook and keeper of dives" in
San Francisco. He doesn't indulge in
glittering generalities about it, but
names names. That is a way Mr.
Heney has, and it looks very much like
contempt of court. Undoubtedly it is
contempt of court. Who wouldn't have
contempt for such a court?
Having taken possession of the
streets of Portland and made enor
mous profits out of them, our feudal
families now appear to have similar
designs on the river flowing through
the city. Quite in accord with the
thrifty methods of our local plutocracy.
Weren't they, or their ancestors, "here
first?" What, therefore, can there be
that Is not rightfully theirs?
Colonel Mann put Tom Watson out
of Watson's Magazine . because he. in
sisted on .saying unpleasant things
about some of the Colonel's friends.
The Colonel didn't build up the delecta
ble Town Topics by doing business on
that system. He confined his un
pleasant sayings only to "those un
friendly persons who wouldn't come up
to the sanctum and settle. - '
The Chicago Americans have already
won the baseball championship of the
world and . there will be no seventh
game; therefore it cannot be played at
Seattle, or Spokane, or Fresno, or
Pasco, or Puyallup, or Mukilteo, or
any other of the enterprising places
that offered large purees (of hot air)
for the event.
"Cold snap in the Northwest" is in
recent headlines of many newspapers.
Now the only Northwest is the Pacific
Northwest. But they meant the upper
Mississippi country. It were to be
wished that our Eastern, newspaper
friends would place the Northwest cor
rectly and not locate these "cold snaps"
in it. ' " -
When farmers bid against each other
for the services of laborers, as they
are now doing at Hood River, wages
are pretty certain to go high enough o
make the farmer's profits look small.
But if farmers anywhere can afford to
pay high wages, the apple-growers of
Hood River certainly can.
Emperor Wilhelm strenuously objects
to the publication of Prince Hohen
lohe'e "Recollections," "while your sov
ereign Is living." Why didn't they
wait till he was dead and then every
body would have been satisfied?
It is said to be a pity, and pity 'tis
'tis true, that one. can't vote In New
York against Hearst . without voting
also against the anti-plutocratic move
ment, that ought to have a better
representative.
Arizona wants to come into the
Union but doesn't like the shotgun
feature of its proposed nuptials with
New Mexico. . Yet Seattle and Tacoma
came in together, all in one state.
Another result of the "year after, the
fair" is that the croakers and kickers
are all, or nearly all, dead, or other
wise silenced. Who would have thought
it, two yeaTS ago? '
Bertha Krupp has $100,000,000 and is
the happy bride of Lieutenant Gustav
von Bohlen und Halbach. Is it worth
while to give up all that money for a
name like that?
Chief of Detectives Bruin is argus
eyed. He describes a woman doing a
small grocery, swindle as "cross-eyed
and bowlegged." This is "out of
sight."
A man died at Easton, Pa., who had
received 1800 paralytic strokes, but
Editor Hofer at Salem still has the
record for fits.
We didn't notice ex-President Palma
in the listof "among those present"
at the farewell to Secretaries Taft and
Bacon.
They are calling Moran -of Mas
sachusetts the "Little Hearst." Not
mor'a that?
Cubans have not yet intervened in
the South to stop race n-iots.
TO REGULATE SWOLLEX FORTUNES
Next Cosgrets May Pass Laws Limiting?
Accumulations of Wealth.
Morrill A. Teague in Rldgeways.
President " Roosevelt's annual message
to Congress, to be submitted December
3. will contain his arguments in favor
of and his demand for the enactment
of laws" comprehending thesa two prop
ositions: Federal regulation of the active agents
of interstate commerce) money in the
hands of Its owners.
Federal limitation by taxation of the
amount of money that may be inherited
by any one individual.
These two propositions are the quint
essence of the most revolutionary eco
nomic propaganda ever sponsered by an
American in a position of power or in
fluence. In the agitation which he ha3 started,
and to the success of which he prepares
to devote his energies, the President
contemplates such an investigation of
the ancient doctrine of "private property
rights as will, should it pass the courts,
leave that doctrine in shreds and tatters;
bringing the individual wealth of the
country under Government supervision
and control. As to the "swqllen fortunes
of today," the President will demand full
Federal regulation. With the manner
which these fortunes may be handed on
he is agitating for a limit upon wealth.
What the fathers have, they may keep
under the Government supervision; but
the sums heirs may inherit shall be
taxed down to a healthy size.
To date the President has gone no
farther than to emphasize the fact that
the operations of swollen fortunes in
connection with interstate trade present
a problem so grave that the states can
not be trusted to deal with it. It goes
beyond all state boundaries. It is a
thing in which the Federal Government
must deal, and advances the contention
that Congress has now under considera
'tion ample authority to regulate the
business use of such fortunes.
The system in France is simple and con
cise. No exemptions are admitted. Against
collateral heirs the assessment is from
3 to IShi per cent; from 1 to 2V4
per cent against direct heirs, and from 15
to lSVi per cent against nonrelatlves.
The operation of this law produced in
France In 1900 9 per cent of the gross
revenues of the republic. It is in Great
Britain, however, that the scheme of
taxing the devolution of property has
been most, highly perfected. Against the
corpus of an estate there is levied
"estate duty," ranging from 1 per cent
on values of $500 to $2500 up to 2S per
cent for those of $5,000,000 and upwards.
This tax produces 19 per cent of the tax
revenues of the United Kingdom and 8
per cent of the gross income. In 1896-97
more than 67 estates of a value of more
than $2,000,000,000 paid $91,000,000 in in
heritance taxes. In our own country.
New York in 1900 derived 19 per cent of
all tax revenue from the inheritance tax;
Pennsylvania 13 per cent, and Illinois,
where exemption of up to $20,000 is al
lowed, 84. per cent.
In these days of swollen fortunes, of
gigantic trusts and of the capitalistic
menace, it would be strange, would it not,
to see the Federal Government assessing
Andrew Carnegie, for example, la cent
per cent tax for the privilege now un
restrainedly enjoyed of permitting the
employment of his hundreds of millions
in interstate commerce; and it would be
stranger still to see the Federal powers
saying to the . handful of Rockefeller
heirs: "Out of John D. Rockefeller's
$800,000,000 you may each have, (say) $10,
000,000. The remainder goes to the Gov
ernment." "Wairner's ImpresHlon of Roosevelt.
From "My Impressions of America," by Chas.
Wagner, author of "The Simple Life."
My impression of Mr. Roosevelt was
the same first and last, whether I looked
at him with my own eyes or felt his In
fluence abroad in his country.
The people love their President. There
is not a royal house even among the old
est and those' most worthy of the affec
tion of their . subjects which receives so
deep and general sympathy as dor- the
young Presiaent of the United Stages and
his family. He is respected by all ages
and all classes; you might think that he
was the chief friend of every household.
His word has an unprecedented author
ity throughout the country; nor is this
the effect of a showy and superficial pop
ularity, but of a calm and legitimate as
cendancy. In the last Presidential cam
paign every effort made against him
turned to the hurt of his enemies, and
since his .triumphant election the justice
of his Judgment and his freedom- from
all political rancor have won even his op
ponents. Everybody knows that he stands
for the best of America; that he has
sometnmg better than a political policy;
that he has an ideal, and that this ideal
conforms to the noblest traditions of the
Republic, as well as to Its most weighty
future interests. The coutnry's destinies
are in good hands.
Gibson's Definition of "Lady."
Philadelphia Bulletin.
"I dined with Charles Dana Gibson at
Princess' restaurant In London during
the season," said a Chicagoan.
"The lofty, spacious dining-room was
filled with women in pale gowns, their
hair uncovered and their arms and necks
bare, and though these wqmen were fash
ionable, aristocratic, thej smoked cigar
ettes with their Coffee as they watched
the bioscope pictures that went on at one
end of the big room, and as they listened
to the singing that went on at the other.
"Amid all this feminine smoking we
Americans began to discuss and to define
the word 'lady.' Was it ladylike to
smoke? we asked. Would a lady ever
smoke? What was a lady?
"I think Mr. Gibson's definition of a
lady was the best that was given.
" 'A lady,' he said, ignoring the smoke
question altogether, 'is a woman who al
ways remembers others and never forgets
herself.' "
A Little Unearned increment.
Springfield (Mass.)' Republican.
How much the cost was to the present
owners of the Hill ore lands, which are
now to yield hundreds of millions In roy
alties. Is a question Mr. Hill does not
answer. "Probably a dollar or so per
acre," suggested the Chicago Interviewer,
and a vacant look spread over the face
of the great business man.
RBWSPAPEB WAIFS.
Most things -would go -without saying If w
would only let them go that way. Philadel
phia Record.
Conscience, -which makes cowards of -us all.
Is being abolished, but the dress coat, which
makes waiters of us all, persists. Puck.
Wlndig Miggles formerly opposed my views,
hut now he agrees with me in everything.
Marks How do you account for it? "Windlg
Give it up. I'm not sure whether I con
vince him or only make him tired. Chicago
Daily News.
"The early bird catches the worm," said the
aphorlst. "Yes," answered the Iconoclast.
"But look at the owl. He stays up all night,
gets a reputation for wisdom, and never gets
shot 'at." Washington Star.
"That man Insists on ' tryinsr to be bigger
than his party." "Well," answered genator
Sorghum, "if he keeps on trying he will prob
ably succeed in at least being bigger than what
is left of it." Washington Star.
Chance Now that your Summer vacation is
over, I suppose the principal thlnjr you'll have
to save money for is your girl's Christmas
present. Bendick Oh, I'll have to buy two
this year. Chance Ah! Two girls, eh? Ben
dick No: two presents: hers to nie and mine
to her. I married her last week. PhiladelDhls,
iPreu.
rooskVelt will keep chandler
Ex-Senator To Hold Office for Six
Months Despite Their Dispute.
"Washington Dispatch in New York Times.
President Roosevelt has Issued an or
der continuing the life of the Spanish
Treaty Claims Commission to March 2.
1907. He ' thus will retain . in - office for
six months ex-Senator William E. Chand
ler, whom he accused last Spring of be
ing a malicious liar.
The commission was created for two
years, with authority in the President to
extend its - lif0 six months at a time.
Mr. Chandler was placed at the- head
of it. The President kept on extending
its life every six months, the last ex
tension before this one having been given
last March.
In May Mr. Chandler embarked on his
celebrated battle of veracity over the
rate bill with the President. It was
generally understood at the 'time that
Mr. Chandler was taking his official life
in his hands, and that the commission's
life would probably not be prolonged
another six months. The President, how
ever, has decided not to visit on Mr.
Chandler's official head any wrath he
may still cherish against the combative.
ex-Senator, and Chandler will keep ric;ht
on deciding on such claims as find their
way into his placid and musty office.
Chandler and the President had been
the warmest of personal friends for many
years before' the issue of veracity arose
between them. Mr. Roosevelt has al
ways entertained the highest regard for
the ex-Senator and it was always recipro
cated. The affair of last May was tile
first interruption of their intimacy.
Peril ' of Swollen Fortunes.
Wall Street Journal
"It is our clear duty to see, in the in
terests of the people, that there is ade
quate supervision and control over the
business use of the swollen fortunes of
today." President Roosevelt is not the
only one who has discovered in great in
dividual fortunes a possible peril to
American liberties. As long ago as 1S49
Horace Mann, one of the most patriotic
and unsellish servants of the people this
country has ever produced and to whom
It owes in largest measure its present
great system of public school education,
said:
Vast fortunes are misfortunes to the state.
They confer irresponsible power; and human
naturv except In the rarest instances, has
proved incapable of wielding irresponsible
power without abuse. The feudalism of capi
tal Is not a whit less formidable than the
feudalism of force. The millionaire of our (lay
is no ' less dangerous to the welfare of the
community than was the baronial lord of the
Middle Ate.
These words are better than anything
that has been sai I on the same subject
in our own day, l.nd yet many, as they
look back upon' the history of the past
57 years, will be apt to regard the fears
of Horace Mann as absurd. How small
seem the vast fortunes of 1S49 as com
pared with the vast fortunes of 1906.
Yet the individual fortunes of today are
not much greater in proportion to the
aggregate wealth of the country than
those of 1S49 were to the aggregate
wealth of that day. But formidable as
appeared to- Mr. Mann the Individual
fortunes of 1849, the course of history
shows that they did not retard the
growth of the country either in liberty
or prosperity. In spite of Mr. Mann's
assertion that vast fortunes are misfor
tunes to the state, the country has made
important progress.
Jfe Cannon Vs. - Sleep.
W. Loifls Post-Dispatch.
Uncle Joe Cannon has been telling his
Missouri admirers that late to bed and
early to rise has been the rule of his
life. Uncle Joe scoffs at the old couplet:
Early to bed. early to rise.
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
He believes with George Ade that
"Early to bed, early to rise, and one
meets .few prominent people." He in
dorses the theory of Rogers Brothers
that "Early to bed, early to rise, makes
a good milkman."
Uncle Joe has slept little. Like Na-.
poleoh, he gets along without it.. Like
Casius', he is lean hungry and wakeful,
the type of man feared by good politicians
like Julius Caesar. He has exploded
the Glandstonian theory that eight hours
of sleep a day are essential to greatness.
For is Uncle Joe not truly great, and
is he not the one man in this country
for whom' the newspapers waive their
strict rules against the printing of those
impolite words and ?
A Challenge to Millionaires.
New York World.
Mr. Byran declared in a recent speech
that "when a man accepts a position in
any great corporation he should be made
to know that he will not be permitted
to serve in any capacity with the Demo
cratic organization or as a Democratic
candidate for any public office."
Considering what answer might be
made to this challenge by the men to
whom it applies. Leslie's Weekly finds
from the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion that about 6,000.000 wage-earners are
employed by telephone and telegraph
companies, railways of all kinds, light
and power concerns, mines and quarries
and great manufacturies.
If the voters among these should con
sider themselves read out of it, what
would they do to the Democratic party?
If under an acceptance of the public
ownership creed they should be formed
into a force of political despotism, what
would they do to democracy in general?
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Z.IFE IJT THE OREGON COCXTRY.
With a Distinction.
Hood River niacier.
The difference between New York i
sprayed apples and Hood River sprayed 1
Saturday Night in Aurora.
Borealis.
" Borne of the young fellows who came 1
in from the country and other places to
attend the dance last Saturday nish- J
tanked up on conversation water ana
felt so good that they tried to holler
holes in the air.
Some Condensed Colic.
Condon Tirnes.
A cucumber 40 inches loner, grown by
Mrs. Lud Smith, of Traillork, is on ex
hibition this week at Edgar Moore's store.
It was grown from seed sent from South
America by George Hardie, and shows tha
kind that are grown in that country.
Clever AVork' of Seattle Man.
Olympia Record. i
A elevpr pickpocket robbed a man of
$500 while riding In an elevator in Seattle
the other day. A thief swift enough to
go through a man between jerks in an
elevator could come pretty near to stem
Ing the dollar signs from a wireless tele
gram. Evidently Slander.
Eugene Guard.
Th mornine- ampr ran a free bread
rnnnnn t lr..nl holtarv nnrl flfilmn i
that 87 of them were cashed In at tho J
bflVerv nevt rinv. Tvidpntlv tho Gil-
strap family took advantage of an op
portunity that is not likely to be re
peated for a long time.
Drytovrn Humor.
Albany Democrat.
One prominent old farmer-this mornins;
winked to another prominent old farmer,
pointed over his shoulder, and they went
down a side street into a barn, back be
hind a stall, where farmer number ono
took out a flask of whisky, which wna
duly sampled with a grin, as they con
templated the Joke on a dry town perpe
trated after so much trouble.
lilaklng Yoni'ulln Grow.
Courier.
William Helllwell & Son dried SO.O'V)
pounds of Tetite and 25.000 pounds of
Italian prunes: Harry Richards dried 50,
000 pounds of Italians and 113.000 pounds of
Petites; McW. Daugherty dried about 90.
000 pounds, and John J. Davis about 100, f)
pounds. This foots up more than M tons
of this one product alone, to say notmns
of the 50O0 or 6000 boxes of apples that
will be shipped within the next montru
Figure this out and you find a wonder-
fully large income for a community that
is yet, in fact, undeveloped.
Gettina; It Und.
Wallowa Chieftain.
Everybody in Enterprise is catching
the roller-skate craze. As wo go to
press the doctors have been unable to
discover any remedy for the rapidly
spreading malady, which seizes old and
young alike, and is even more con
tagious than tho smallpox or the
mumps or scarlet fever or the measles
or the chicken pox or graybacks. Bare
ly enough people of tho city have,
escaped the craze to carry on the busi
ness of the town, by working short
handed, and it is feared that the re-i
maining few will fall victims to tho
fever before it passes over. -
Typical Wentcrn Woman.
Pinevllle Journal.
Mrs. Lee Wlgle, who lives with her hus-(
band, a prosperous cattleman, at the head
of Camp Creek, Is deserving of special
mention, sav her friends, for the cas
with which she can turn from household
cares to the hard work of hired men. Mr.
Wiprle being away, it devolved upon hi:
better half to run the ranch, and she did
it, too. The hired men, who perhaps did
not take kindly to the change of bosses.'
objected to some orders given in regard I
to Fall plowing and refused to carry them
out. They were promptly llred and thei
work finished by Mrs. Wigle herself. Slio!
plowed fourteen acres in live days. Desuiesi
taking care of her teams and doing the
rest of the farm work. Mrs. Wlgle is also ,
as handy with the rifle as she is skilled!
in music and kindred accomplishments.
Twenty-two coyotes this Fall testifytoi
her unerrine aim. Her varied aecompnsii-J
ments do not in the. least detract froir.
her many charming womanly qualities.
Oregon Country Newspaper.
The Hermiston Herald Is the newest,
Oregon newspaper kid, printed in the
newest town in the Umatilla project. Ir
rigation, which does wonders, will mako
the Herald grow.
Last Tuesday's issue of the West Sida
Enterprise, at Independence, was the last
by Walter Lyon. Mr. E. Ralston droppec"
in from South Dakota, liked the country
lax does everv Easterner), asked the prices
and closed the bargain. Mr. Lyon made
the Enterprise an excellent local paper.
Garbed In Gold and Silver. '-:
The women of Sumatra wear costly-
dresses, many of them being made of
pure gold and silver. After tlie metal is
mined andsmelted it is formed into a fine
wire, which is woven into cloth and after
ward used for dresses.
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