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rORTLAXD, THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 1906.
SCHOOL. BOOKS.
Doubtless the question of "free
books" for the public schools of Oregon
will he brought forward in the Legis
lature the coming Winter. Such meas
ure would not have passed heretofore.
but may pass now. The tendency of
the time is in the direction of measures
of this description that is, of supplying-
public wants through the state.
For, of course, the school books would
not be "free." The state would pay
for them out of the proceeds of taxa
tion. It is a question of some difficulty,
but The Oregonian is not prepared to
say that it would oppose the plan of
requiring purchase of school books by
the state and free distribution of them
in the public schools. The plan would
have its advantages. Uniform books
would bo in the hands of all pupils at
the opening of the echools; the poorer
children would be supplied without hu
miliation to themselves or their par
ents; and perhaps the state, buying in
bulk, might get somewhat better prices
than could be had under the present
method. The objection is that the cost
would fall upon the revenues of the
state instead of on the parents whose
children will be supplied with books
and, further, that, inasmuch as the
state supports the schools, the state
is doing enough, and that the disposi
tion to depend on the state ought not
to be encouraged by such concessions.
To this last objection it is a proper
answer that the state has taught its
citizens already, througlu the policy of
many years, to depend on the 6tate
for the education of its children; and
school-book supply would be as legiti
mate a part of the system as erection
of schoolhouses and payment of teach
era. But it is not probable that there
would be much reduction in the price
of books, or "saving" that way, if the
state bought them. The books are rea
sonably cheap now the statesman of
Linn to the contrary notwithstanding.
For there are books and books, school
books and school books. We doubt
whether our people would wish to ex
change such books as are now in use
in Oregon for such as are said to be
furnished in certain other states, at
perhaps no more than one-half the
price. It costs money to make good
school books, and we should think poor
school books dear at any price. Inci
dentally, let us say that we have little
confidence in schemes undertaken by
different states to publish their own
school books, for we never have heard
-of any satisfactory effort of the kind,
It is not found, in experience, that pub
lishers combine to hold up prices of
school books; for there is as keen com
petition among publishers of school
books as among publishers of newspa
pers or magazines.
How much it would cost the state for
annual supply of school books is a point
upon which testimonies do not agree
for there has not yet been very much
experience on the subject, and the con
ditlons or circumstances in each case
where it has been tried have varied so
much from others that no sure esti
mate can be made. But say there are
lod.000 children of school age In Oregon
Twenty per cent of them will not at
tend. But say the number now requir
ing books would be 140,000. The cost.
perhaps, would somewhat exceed $1
each per annum, which would be added
to the school taxes, and would increase
with growth of school population. It
would be necessary to adopt means as
efficient as possible to prevent waste or
loss, and to enforce proper accounting
for books distributed among families
or pupils each year.
Heretofore there has been little or no
call for "free"schooI books in this state;
but the subject now is brought for
ward, and it is not easy to see that
since it is presented as a corollary of
the argument for the free-school sys
tem, there can be any really sufficient
objection to it, on logical grounds. Be
sides, as said above, it falls in with a
distinct tendency of the times.
Tread on the tail of the dog and he
will yelp. Now, the dog is the mouth
piece of his master. Say that Ladd
buildings, here nnd there, have no fire
escapes, no proper sanitary conditions.
Then the Ladd organ will snap, or yelp
and howl. You can't mistnke. ' Kick
the master and the dog will utter a
yelp. Tread on the dog's tail, and
you'll start the master. You've seen
the master, by the twirl of his finger.
cause the dog to perform fantastical
gyrations, and even make the dog bark
at his own tail, as he whirled round
and round. One of the most striking
things in life is the fellowship you often
see between the master and the dog
that follows him. There you see fidel
ity on the part of the dog often Ul
recompensed. So commend us to the
fidelity of the dog. But let us have
the fire-escapes, and other necessary
improvements, upon the old tumble
down property of the first families, who
have pulled millions out of the fran
chises of Portland, yet obstruct im
provements, and keep a dog to bark or
snarl at all who travel the road.
WHAT HARRIMAX IS TRYING TO DO.
The Chicago conference between the
Hill railroad representatives and the
Harriman railroad representatives has
come to nothing, and the war between
them is to go on. Mr. Hill has no right
to cross the Columbia River south and
Invade the exclusive Harriman terri
tory, and Mr. Harriman has no right
to cross the Columbia north and enter
the exclusive Puget Sound territory.
So each says in effect of the other, and
acts accordingly. Harriman pursues
his obstructive tactics to prevent con
struction of the Hill road down the
north bank of the Columbia, and ma
nipulates his Portland terminal com
pany so that Hill, forced to acquire in
dependent terminal properties, is still
at a great disadvantage to do busi
ness in this city. Hill operates through
the various dominant Seattle agencies,
which he controls, to make it impossi
ble for Harriman to get franchises and
adequate terminals in that city; and
Harriman has the same trouble at Ta
coma. Hill' regards Seattle, Tacoma
and all Puget Sound as his own, and
will make no terms with Harriman.
Harriman looks upon Portland and
Oregon as his own, and will make no
terms with Hill unless Puget Sound shall
be opened to him. The Harriman peo
ple say Hill may do business in Port
land if Harriman shall be permitted
to enter Seattle and Tacoma. Of
course, the people of Portland them
selves, who are not Harriman chat
tels, have- said that the Hill roads
are welcome here, and must have
all necessary facilities for carrying on
their business; but It Is nevertheless
true, as has been abundantly shown,
that Mr. Harriman, who is entrenched
here, has immense power to embarrass
his competitor and to obstruct his oper
ations; and he is using that power
largely, if not wholly, as a club to force
his way into the Puget Sound cities.
The Chicago meeting maje clear the
Harriman strategy; and if made clear,
too, that it will be pursued until the
Hill forces yield.
It must be said that the sympathy of
Portland and Oregon ought to be, and
will be, with Mr. Harriman in his ultl
mate purposes, even if there is lit
tie sympathy with his tactics. Of
course, few here have hoped that he
would succeed in keeping the Hill roads
out of Portland and Oregon, and his
labors in that direction have not been
should not be, and will not be,
successful. Undoubtedly the Harriman
lieutenants themselves ddd not expect
to exclude Mr. Hill from this territory,
because the public here would not con
sent to it. Neither should the Seattle
and Tacoma public indorse the Hill pol
icy of bottling up those cities ai
against the Harriman road. If they
will but follow the example of Port
land, they will have a great competitive
railroad system on Puget Sound. Why
shoudn't they want it, and make all
possible effort, and grant every reason
able concession, to get it?
PRUNES.
The Oregon prune crop of 1906, though
not more than half as large as was ex
pected up to picking time, will add its
contribution to the commercial wealth
of the state and aid in maintaining and
promoting the reputation of Oregon as
a fruit-producing region. The prunes
are going upon a ready market. Ac
cording to Eastern dispatches, the New
York trade is anxiously awaiting deliv
eries of Oregon prunes, for the market
Is bare and the fruit is needed for early
deliveries. Last year's crop has Tjeen
cleaned up and this year's crop was
practically all 6old before picking
began.
The fruit is carefully packed by firms
which have learned, by several years1
experience, to put the fruit up in at
tractive form. These circumstances,
together with the fact that the fruit is
being offered at reasonably low prices,
give assurance that the fruit will find
ready sale to appreciative consumers.
There will be no holdover crop of im
paired quality with which to compete,
the present crop will be consumed
while in best condition, and next sea
son will find a clear market again for
the crop of 1907. Though this crop has
been a disappointment to the growers,
because they had counted upon saving
more pounds of ' fruit, averaging in
somewhat larger sizes, yet the situation
is far from discouraging. Oregon
prunegrowers have reason to expect a
good market for their crop next year.
This year's crop has not paid as well as
some others, but it has been far from a
failure.
Prunes have been a factor in the hor
ticultural output of the United States
but a few years, relatively speaking.
Prior to 1SS6 the prunes consumed in
this country came almost entirely from
France and the Danubian provinces.
The consumption was small and the
fruit was considered a delicacy. Now
more than 100,000,000 pounds of dried
prynes are eaten yearly in the United
States, and, needless to say, the prod
uct is no longer considered & luxury.
In the year above mentioned Ameri
can prunes first appeared on the mar
ket and each succeeding year the sup
ply has increased until the importation
of foreign prunes has been reduced to
very small proportions. Most of the
enormous supply that finds its way to
boarding-house tables is grown in Call
fornla. The large output of the prune
orchards there may be Judged from the
fact that in Santa Clara County alone
there are 3,700,000 trees growing on 37,
000 acres, 100 trees to the acre. The
quantity of prunes cured there this
year will exceed 110,000,000 pounds
more than enough to meet the require
ments of home consumption for the en
tire country. But there is a large ex
port trade to take care of, and this ab
sorbs the surplus.
In our own state there was great In
terest in prune-tree planting a few years
ago, and a great many farmers turned
wheat fields into prune orchards. As
in all other new agricultural enter
prises, many mistakes were made in
the selection of soil, drainage, slope,
etc., with the result that there were
many failures. A few orchards were
grabbed out and others neglected, but
the new acreage coming into bearing
has kept the producing area up to its
highest point. The industry is now
represented by a body of intelligent,
careful, progressive orchardists who
cultivate, trim and spray their trees,
cure their fruit properly and place it
upon the market in good condition.
The Oregon prune.'aa the Italian vari
ety has come to be known, has created
a steady market for Itself. Because of
its large size and tart flavor, it fills a
demand which neither the imported nor
the California prune can meet. While
the market for Oregon prunes will al
ways be affected by the supply of other
prunes, just as the market for navel or
anges is affected by the supply of other
oranges, yet there will always be a de
mand for a limited quantity of the Ore
gon fruit which other varieties cannot
supplant. The problem for the grower
is to widen the demand for the Oregon
prune by making its superior qualities
more widely known. Wherever this.
prune becomes known as a distinct va
riety it will always have a steady de
mand at prices which will vary with
the supply, as crops may be large or
small, ffom year to year.
The crop may or may not be a profit
able one, according to the conditions
that temporarily affect the market, but
this does not alter the fact that Oregon
prunes, when properly grown and care
fully cured, are superior in size and fla
vor to those of any other land under
the sun. The yield this year was unex
pectedly light, yet a full crop would
have found a glutted market, so that
it is doubtful -whether the industry has
suffered because of the conditions
which limited the quantity harvested.
The fruit properly packed, as it will be.
will stand the test of quality in any
market, and, In the agregate, will make
a substantial showing in the crop re
ports and agricultural returns of the
state.
A SOUTHERN' CANDIDATE.
The idea of choosing the next Demo
cratic Presidential nominee from the
South seems to have a certain vitality
among the party leaders. It was first
advanced to lure the Southern Demo
crats from their loyalty to Bryan by
the hope of the spoils of office. Now it
is probably looked upon as the last
refuge from both Bryan and Hearst,
though it is not taken very seriously
by anybody. The reviving predilection
for negro slavery which may be dis
cerned in Mississippi, Arkansas and
some other sections of the South would
not win votes in the North for a South
ern candidate; but there are much
stronger reasons against nominating a
man from that part of the country.
The strongest is the fact that no
Southern man has yet appeared who
has the proper qualifications for the
Presidency. Mr. Bailey is able enough,
but his affiliations with Standard Oil
make him an impossible candidate.
Many men of the old school, such as
Carlisle and Blackburn, have dropped
out of the stream of National life. Th
people have forgotten who they are.
Men like Tillman and Vardaman and
Jeff Davis of Arkansas cannot hope
for the Presidency until our standards
of morals and manners have fallen
great deal lower than they now are.
The next President, whatever else he
may be, will be a man who is up with
the times. It is fairly certain that no
fossil will be nominated by either party;
and if one is nominated he will be de
feated. The talk about a third term
for Mr. Roosevelt shows plainly enough
that the Republican leaders are alive
to this condition. They will nominate
a man who combines in himself as
many elements of Mr. Roosevelt's char
acter as possible. Unless the Demo
crats wish to invite defeat, they will
pursue a similar course. If they do not
nominate Bryan, who is at present their
strongest man, they will select some
one with his best traits and without his
faults, if they can find such a person
From present indications, they will not
find him in the South.
GIVING THANKS.
In his Thanksgiving proclamation
the President gives no comfort to those
doctrinaires who teach that material
prosperity is the end for which nations
exist, and that when they have become
prosperous there is nothing more to
hope or wish for. It is a doctrine com
monly taught from the stump, and
sometimes from the pulpit. "Let there
be no faultfinding with the trusts or the
tariff or the railroads; be careful how
you speak of the bosses and the graft
ers; deal gently with the insurance
thieves and the bank wreckers; and,
above all, touch lightly upon the iniqui
ties of the tariff; for, in spite of all
these evils, we are still prosperous, and
so long as we are prosperous what more
have we to ask?"
Mr. Roosevelt thinks there is a great
deal more to ask. Prosperity is, in his
opinion, only the material foundation
for more excellent things without which
eating and drinking are but vanity, and
fine clothes vexation of spirit. Moral
ityt our homiletical President declares,
is the only worthy superstructure to
rear upon this broad, foundation of
prosperity which we have builded
through the grace of the Almighty and
the Dingley tariff; and without moral
ity our material blessings will prove,
in the end, not a blessing, but a curse.
Mr. Roosevelt's thought seems to be
that a prosperous nation should pres
ently evolve into a great and happy na
tion. Without prosperity, neither great
ness nor happiness is attainable, per
haps; but assuredly, unless prosperity
and greatness result in happiness, they
are not worth while.
Happiness is what we all live for in
this world, and what we expect in the
next as the reward of our strivings.
We urge one another to do unpleasant
duties by insisting that virtue brings
happiness. We believe with the apostle
that our afflictions on earth are but
trifling things compared with the eter
nal weight of glory which we shall find
in heaven. If we endure present pain,
it is in the hope of compensating pleas
ure hereafter. If we submit to tribula
tion on earth, it is in the expectation of
an infinite recompense or reward in a
better world. Happiness is the end and
aim of human existence. This Mr.
Roosevelt recognizes, and, in counting
prosperity and greatness but as dross
unless they lead to happiness, he voices
the universal sentiment of mankind. A
nation whose individual citizens are not
happy is the worst kind of a failure;
and in so far as we have classes of
men and women who cannot be happy
under our actual conditions, to that ex
tent, in spite of all our prosperity, we
have failed. Mr. Roosevelt intimates
that the next step on the road to hap
piness, after prosperity and greatness,
is virtue; and he is undeniably right.
If the fruits of our prosperity flow into
a few hands and are spent upon mon
key dinners and champagne suppers for
nude actresses, there is no especial rea
son why we should trouble the Al
mighty with expressions of thankful
ness for them. We may be quite cer
tain that he himself will look upon
them as grounds for fasting and hu
miliation rather than joy.
Unless we can show substantial prog
ress in National virtue as well as Na
tional wealth and greatness, we ought
to clothe ourselves in sackcloth on No
vember 29 and cast ashes on our heads.
Fortunately, we can show precisely
this thing. Mr. Roosevelt's great mod
esty forbids him to mention it explicitly
in his proclamation, for our progress in
virtue during the last year has been
largely on account of his resolute ef
forts; nevertheless, that progress is the
most notable phenomenon of the times.
and the most legitimate of all the rea
sons why we should make November 29
day of rejoicing Instead of lamenta
tion. There is no such thing as uni
form progress in human history. It
goes by enormous leaps, if it goes at
all. In the last year this Nation has
learned more of the spirit and practice
of genuine morality than in the preced
ing half century.
We are not perfect yet, by any
means, but we are not nearly so oaa
we were. We have discerned the
iniquity of allowing the trusts to sell
us decayed meat and poisonous food.
We have learned the wrong of permit
ting the common carriers to build up
one man and ruin another by favors
and discriminations. We have been
taught by sad experience that the duty
of a trustee is to deal honestly with his
trust funds no matter whether he is an
insurance president or a banker. We
have come to a "realizing sense" of
the utter wickedness of the boss in poli
tics and have made a happy beginning
of his extinction. We have learned, too,
why the boss exists. We know that he
is the logical outgrowth of privilege in
politics. The boss is the tool that
privilege works with. Of course, in
striking at the boss we merely doctor
symptoms. The real cause of the dis
ease remains untouched. But medicine
began in that way. From doctoring
symptoms we shall proceed to the robt
of the matter, perhaps in the course
of another year.
The greater part of this growth in
virtue and common sense we owe to
Mr. Roosevelt. He has been the in
strument under Providence of our con
viction and partial conversion. Among
the many causes for thankfulness
which we must all acknowledge, there
fore, none should forget the President
whose courage and resolute integrity
have shown us the pathway out of the
slough of self-satisfied fraud to the
flowery fields of National virtue.
As a relief from the bitterness of the
campaign, New York is talking about
the recrudescence of Richard Croker,
who is booked to return Christmas
time. One view is that he sees Repub
lican success next month, in which case
there will be a call for a successor to
Murphy, who must go down If Hearst
fails. Evidence that Croker is not fa
vorable to Hearst is offered in the fact
that Andrew .Freedman, one of his
closest friends, who returned from Eu
rope the other day, promptly put on a
Hughes button. Croker is outspoken
for Bryan, having so declared himself
when he entertained the distinguished
Nebraskan in his Irish home. If he
should get control of Tammany, it may
be expected that he will set the ma
chinery going for Bryan's benefit. With
Croker at the head of the old organiza
tion, and Hearst, whether elected or
defeated, working his self-created In
dependence League, New. York the next
two years will give the country some
thing new to talk about.
It is given out by the Department of J
Agriculture that the beet-sugar output
of- the country for the campaign of
1906-7 (the period of manufacture is
called a campaign) will for the first
time in our history exceed the cane
sugar output. The coming season's
product Is estimated at 463,000 tons, as
against 283,717 for 1905-6. Cane-sugar
production last season was 342,000 tons.
Our total was 1,205,717 tons, of which
370,000 tons came from Hawaii and
210,000 tons from Porto Rico. Sugar
was first made from beets in this coun
try seventy-five years ago. The Indus
try has advanced slowly, but now seems
to have on Its seven-league boots. Its
further growth depends almost entirely
on the individual farmer who Is satis
fled with $5 a ton for his crop, together
with the dairy food which the pulp fur
nishes. Recommendation to Congress by the
Postal Department of a substantial in
crease of clerks' salaries and a paving
of the way to higher pay for letter-carriers
is likely to meet with little oppo
sition. In' no branch of the public
service is work so faithfully done as by
these employes. For them the cost of
living has advanced quite as fast as for
other wage-earners, with no compen
sating increase in earning capacity and
no opportunity to enforce a righteous
demand. As a matter o fact, the pos
tal employes are worse off than they
were five years ago. No one will be
grudge them the promised increase of
pay.
The Burnslde bridge is still standing,
despite the efforts of yellow journalism
to wreck it and throw the over-river
traveling public into a panic. It is good
for some years without repairs, and
good forever, or nearly so, if repaired
from time to time. But what is a
bridge or two and an alarmed public
to the exigencies of scare-head Jour
nalism? The Santa Fe Railroad doesn't want
to produce its books in court, because
"a corporation, like an individual, is en
titled to immunity, and cannot be com
pelled to furnish evidence against it
self." But how can the immunity bath
make white the soul of the soulless
corporation?
Citizens of Staten Island, New York,
are scared mightily over a new and
strange disease that covers the body
with red blotches. Probably some of
the campaign lies they have been ab
sorbing are coming out on them.
An ex-Minister to Turkey and a Min
ister to Russia and a former stenog
rapher are to fill portfolios in the
President's Cabinet. The President is
evidently surrounding himself with men
who have seen everything.
Those strenuous London women may
not be able to vote; but they are cer
tainly enjoying all the privileges of a
high old time popularly supposed to be
reserved for the other sex.
The new original-package grocery
scheme has a great deal to commend it.
There are times when it is better not
to know what you are buying.
The fuel trust says it isn't a trust;
but the Methodist preachers long ago
learned that where there is smoke there
must be fire.
The impartial New York citizen who
listens to all sides may make up his
mind that nobody is fit to be elected.
Voters will jdse their brains this year,
we are told, and therefore Hughes will
be elected. Off year?
HEARST.
a Newspaper
Sample
Article From
Flighting Him.
New York World.
Writing to The World from Northamp
ton, Mass., one of Mr. Hearst's admirers
makes this complaint:
In Monday's issue I noticed an editorial
headed "An Incorporated Boss, wnicn
would be a very strong point against Hearst
It he were dishonest and insincere. But
is he? I have yet to hear or read of one
Instance of Mr. Hearafa dishonesty or -insincerity.
A man who has never heard of an In
stance of Mr. Hearst's Insincerity, has
heard little about Mr. Hearst.
Mr. Hearst claims to oppose boss rule.
Yet he accepted the Democratic nomina
tion from Charles F. Murphy, whom Mr.
Hearst's newspapers have described as
"as evil a specimen of the criminal boss
as we have had since the days of Tweed."
Mr. Hearst professes to favor honest
nominations and honest elections. Yet his
Democratic nomination was stolen for
him at Buffalo by Murhpy and Grady,
who threw out 60 regularly elected ant.
Hearst delegates In order to make
Hearst's nomination possible.
Mr. Hearst professes to encourage poli
tical independence. Yet he has "incor
porated his Independence League ana
made it impossible for the rank and file
of the league to nominate a single candi
date for office anywhere in the State of
New York without his consent.
Mr. Hearst professes to favor an in
dependent Judiciary. Yet he has entered
into a deal with Murphy by which he and
Murphy have named 13 candidates for the
bench in New York County, making
judgeships the personal perquisites of the
Tammany boss and the Independence
League incorporated boss. Less than a
year ago Mr. Hearst's newspaper was
offering a reward of $10,000 for evidence
that would lead to Murphy's convic
tion and Imprisonment.
Mr. Hearst denounced law-evading cor
porations. Mr. Hughes has proved from
the court records that Mr. Hearst's own
corporations are organized to enable him
and them to evade the law, and Mr.
Hearst's corporation lawyer was caught
in a flat falsehood while trying to ex
plain Mr. Hughes' charges.
Mr. Hearst denounces New Jersey
trusts. Mr. Hughes has proved from the
records that Mr. Hearst's own Star Com
pany is a New Jersey trust, organized
on the plan of the Standard Oil Com
pany and Northern Securities Company,
and for similar purposes. He has also
proved that Mr. Hearst, like Mr. Rocke
feller, dodges process-servers when an at
tempt Is made to bring him Into court.
Mr. Hearst denounces tax-dodging cor
porations. Mr. Hughes has proved from
the records that Mr. Hearst's own news
paper corporations dodge their taxes by
the familiar method of making-affidavit
that their liabilities exceed thein assets.
Mr. Hearst professes to be an ardent
friend of labor. Yet Mr. Hearst selects
for chairman of the Democratic State
Committee Flngy Conners, of Buffalo, a
notorious strike-breaker who used to pay
off his employes In brass checks redeem
able only at his saloon.
Mr. Hearst vehemently denounces the
bare proposition to employ Chinese labor
in Panama. Yet it is shown that for
years Chinese labor has been employed
on the Hearst estate In California.
Mr. Hearst professes to oppose the use
of money in politics. Yet he has probably
spent more money already for his two
nominations and his campaign than all
the other candidates for Governor of New
York spent In the last 30 years.
Mr. Hearst professes to believe that Mr.
Hughes Is a corporation lawyer and
charges that Thomas F. Ryan made him
insurance investigator. Only a few
months ago Mr. Hearst's newspapers
were enthusiastically commending Mr.
Hughes' work as an insurance Investiga
tor, and declaring that he had done
everything that could have been done in
the time at his disposal.
The record of Mr. Hearst's hollow in
sincerity might be continued Indefinitely.
He is now on the stump making a multi
tude of promises as to the reforms he
will institute if he Is elected Governor.
But what value attaches to them?
Mr. Hearst professes to be unalterably
opposed to corporation government, to
Ryan and Belmont and to everything they
represent in politics. But he is denounc
ing them no more savagely than he was
denouncing Murphy a year ago and he Is
now Murphy's ally. Less than three years
ago Mr. Hearst made an alliance with
Roger Sullivan and John P. Hopkins, who
represent in Illinois politics what Ryan
and Belmont represent in New York poli
tics. Sullivan and Hopkins agreed to
give Hearst the delegates to the Demo
cratic National convention If he would
help them gain control of the Democratic
state organization. The deal was carried
out, and Mr. Bryan is still fighting to
rid the Democratic party 1n Illinois of
the Sullivan-Hopkins corporation machine
which was fastened upon it by Mr.
Hearst.
Greeley's Handwrttlnjr,
Exchange.
Probably the very worst handwriting
ever known was that of Horace Greeley,
the founder of the New York Tribune.
Greeley's manuscript was so bad and so
little like English in its characters that
the printers called it "Koran." The con
sequence was that when he was unable
to correct his proofs the most ludicrous
mistakes were made. For example, a
celebrated speech by Secretary W. H.
Seward in 1858 drew a leader from Greeley
in the Tribune, which he headed "Sew
ard W. H." Circumstances prevented
his seeing a proof, and you may imagine
the feelings of Horace when the next
morning he saw his leader headed "Rich
ard III," and upon reading further down
finding the quotation, " 'Tis true, 'tis
pity; and pity 'tis, 'tis true," rendered
" 'Tis two, 'tis fifty, and 'tis fifty-two."
Upon another occasion Greeley wrote,
"Women now manage most of the public
libraries in Massachusetts"; but the
compositor got it, "Women now worry
most of their puny babies by mastica
tion." Cowardice lit Cong-res.
New York Herald.
There never was a more pitiable
instance of cowardice than that fur
nished by many of the Senators and
Representatives who voted for the abo
lition of the Army canteen. Protest
against the bill was made by experi
enced officers commanding the enlisted
men and knowing just what the effect
would be. But many men in Congress,
against their own judgment, voted for
the bill because the petitions for it
were signed by such a host of women
women who meant well but roost of
whom had never seen any Army post
and all of them necessarily ignorant
of the nature and needs of the enlisted
men. It is now announced that a bill
to restore the canteen will be Intro
duced when Congress assembles. It
should be promptly passed.
Sore to Be n Bnay Man,
x Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mr. Roosevelt does not seem to be
worrying as to what ex-Presidents
shall do. He knows one man wtio, if
he lives to be an ex-President, will be
sure to do something;.
FIRING AWAY AT
GLAD HAND FOR HENEY AND BURNS
Both Are Cordially Welcomed by Two
San Francises) Newspaper.
. San Francisco Call.
San Franlcsco will welcome the under
taking by Francis J. Heney of the duty
to search out and bring to justice the
official boodlers and their brokers that
afflict the body politic. Public opinion is
unanimous in the belief that Supervisors
have been bribed and that administrative
functions such as those of the Board of
Works and the Health Board have been
peddled in secret market. Even the
Board of Education is not exempted from
suspicion. The sale of permits and fran
chises, the working of real estate jobs
and the market for privileges of every
variety have been brisk and incessant.
Officials have grown rich. Some of them
are spending money like a drunken sailor.
It is time for housecleaning and a day
of reckoning. Heney and Burns will put
the question:
"Where did they get it?"
San Francisco Bulletin.
The Tweed disclosures in New York
startled the Nation by the variety and
significance of their perfidy, but the
revelations about to be made in San
Francisco will out-Herod Herod. Mayor
Schmitz and Abe Ruef are the principal
felons. They will both be sent to the
penitentiary. Both are guilty of stabbing
San Francisco while prostrate under the
stunning blow of a great calamity.
Mayor Schmitz Is touring Europe, spend
ing the money stolen from the city of
which he is Mayor. Abo Ruef, his com;
panion in crime, remains in this city,
assuming the attitude of innocence and
expressing a sympathetic interest In the
investigations now going on. Mr. Heney
and Mr. Burns, representatives of the
Federal and Municipal Government, will
stand as the official defenders of the
people. They need only the reinforce
ment of the public's good will. San Fran
cisco has been in the grip of scoundrels
long enough. It Is now time that the
scoundrels be in the iron grip of San
Francisco. The tightening hold of the
mighty law will be the sensation of the
Nation, and the glory of a city too long
indifferent to the machinations of a vil
lainous political boss and a Mayor an
ordinary looter who has been in a posi
tion to take other people's money.
TRIBUTE TO ENSIGN MONAGHAN
Claasniale Telia of Dead Hero'a Manly
Trait.
PORTLAND, Oct. 23. (To the Edi
tor.) Recently I received an invita
tion to attend the unveiling of a mon
ument to John R. Monaghan, United
States Navy, In Spokane, Wash., Octo
ber 25. Apropos this event would you
kindly allow me space to pay a small
tribute to the heroic dead? For sev
eral years John R. Monaghan was a
classmate of mine at St. Michael's Col
lege, in this city, and I knew him in
timately. In his conduct toward his
teachers and schoolmates he displayed
that manly bearing which afterwards
made him famous. His application to
study and his 'zeal for knowledge were
only secondary to his love for truth.
He endeared himself to us all and be
sides he had the happy faculty of al
ways doing the proper thing at tha
right time. Some years later he at
tended the Naval Academy at Annap
olis, Md., and then became an ensign
In the United States Navy. Such a life
as his had but a fitting climax in be
ing voluntarily offered in the rescue
of a brother officer in the Islands of
Samoa. He was indeed one of nature's
noblemen, a type, too, infrequently
met in this age of commercialism.
The fair State of Washington may
well be proud of one so true and brave.
Long may his memory be cherished
and his life held up as a model for
rising generations. May the sun flash
its beams of love around the blessed
memorial, and may the moon and stars
keep watch in the silent hours of
night and may the gentle breezes sing
the praises of . the beloved John R.
Monaghan, United States Navr.
JOHN G. HEITKEMPER.
Bis and Little Potatoes.
Harper's Weekly.
"It's dreadful queer," said the house
wife, "that the potatoes you bring me
should be so much bigger at the top
of the sack than they are at the bot
tom." "Not at all," said the honest farmer;
"it's Jest this a-way. Potatoes is grow
In' so fast jest now thet by the time
I dig a sackful the last ones dug is
ever so much bigger'n the fust ones."
In Better Shape Now,
Fliegende Blaetter.
"I hear that the baron wants to get a
divorce from his wealthy wife."
"Yes, he was only temporarily em
barrassed when he marired her."
The Cash That Went.
Nebraska State Journal.
When the nights grow long
And the daya get short.
And the cold grows strong
When it hadn't ort.
And the dead loaves all
Have unloosed their hold
And the snow-flakes fall
And the wind blows cold;
When the trees are bare
That were clothed in green,
And the frosty air
Of the morn nips keen.
Then you'll think. I think.
Of the cash that went
For the Summer drink
And the money spent
On that swell trip.
And you'll say once more
"Well, we'll let 'er rip;
What is money for?"
THE STARS AND STRIPES
THE CRAZE FOR BRIDGE WHIST
The Wife of a Noted London Barrister
Says Ita (ifunblina;.
H. C, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Here is one of the leaders of London
society, the wife of a noted barrister
who ought to know what she is talk
ing about when she says that the game,
f bridge has absorbed English society'
body and soul; in fact, that it is be
coming a curse.
Father Vaughan, the popular Lon
don priest, and other famous preach
ers have sounded the alarm, and now
there is to be introduced a rigorous
anti-gambling act in Parliament.
But here is the rub. How will the
authorities be able to suppress the so
ciable little games in the parlors of
the elite, since the proverbial rule that
there can be no invasion of private
homes for anything but real crimes
also prevails in England? The only
way out of it, say the legislators, is
to make playing bridge a crime, and
this will be a difficult thing to do, as
there are thousands in all classes of
society who play for insignificant
stakes. Just as penny-ante is popular
in this country.
The Kins; himself likes a game of
bridge, but he plays for very small
stakes, and he frowns down every ef
fort to raise the limit.
Husbands and fathers find them
selves often in financial embarrass
ment through the reckless gambling of
their wives and daughters.
A few quotations from Mrs. Twee-
die, who, by the way. is a prolific news
paper ana masrazine writer, will not
prove amiss. She says:
People nowadays stake their last
cent on a game of chance. There are
bridge coats, bridge purses, one might
even say bridge manners, and it is
no uncommon thing nowadays for a
hostess to meet a friend and invito her
to dinner, adding, 'You play bridge,
don't you?' and if the answer by some
wild chance should be in the negative,
the lady sweetly continues:
'"Oh, then, you must come another
night, please, because Tuesday Is en
tirely a bridge party.'
"But the friend is never asked on
that 'other night.'
"At bridge houses they seem to have
forgotten how to talk or be amusing
or to find pleasure in one another's
society, so they dare not face an eve
ning unless dragged through by the
excitement of bridge. Bridge is an
excellent game as long as it remains
a game and is played for amusement,
but bridge really becomes a curse when '
it is played solely for the excitement
of gambling and with the object of
money making.
"One bridge maniac came under my
notice on an Atlantic liner, a beauti
ful American woman married to a well
born Englishman. She had been across
to pay a visit, and came on board with
three friends. They started bridge be
fore we left the Hudson, and they fin
ished as we drew up at the Mersey
docks. Seven and eight hours a day
those four people played bridge, bare
ly allowing the stewards time to lay
the tables for meals. She was a wo
man of 40, and old enough to look
after herself and know what she could
afford.
"Bridge is not the only curse of so
ciety; the gambling spirit Is In the air.
and at race meetings the number of
women who bet Ib increasing year by
year. At places like Sandown or As
cot men are constantly complaining of
the way they are pestered for tips by
their sporting lady friends, or asked
to run about and lay sovereigns on
horses.
"Gambling Is a queer lure. Men
gamble in stocks and shares; they ruin
their homes: they destroy the love and
respect of '?ife and children, yet they
still gamble. But women work just
as much havoc in a smaller degree."
Those "Good Old Times."
Arlington (Or.) Record.
"Good old times" are a delusion and
a snare, and the man who sighs for them ,
has little conception of what they were.
Return to them, would you? Then rise
on a cold morning and wash at the pump,
pull on a pair of rawhide boots that
rival a tin can in stiffness, pull on a
woolen shirt over your back and sit
down to a bare meal with your three
legged stool dancing around on a slip
shop floor, eat corn pone and bacon for
a steady diet and labor 14 hours out of
24. Go without a daily paper, a fly
screen, a mosquito bar, a spring mattress,
a kerosene lamp, gee-haw your oxen to
market and sit on the floor of an ox
cart as you wend your way to church
or a frolic. Parch corn and peas for
coffee and sassafras -for tea, and see how
you like it.
NEWSPAPER WAIFS.
"In what form of literary work do ynu
indulge?" "I am an inventor of reminis
cences." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mrs. Hoyle "I hear that your son had
to leave college." Mrs. Ioyle "Yes; he
studied too hard, learning the football sig
nals." Puck.
She "So you are a war veteran. Did you
face the music like a soldier? He '-'Well,
yes. During an engagement the bands stay
In the rear." Harvard Lampoon.
"I hear there's talk q some Councllmcn
framing a new gas lease bill." "Yes? By
the way, how is a gas lease bill generally
framed,- anyway?" "In guilt, usually.".
Chicago Dally News.
"Who does you reckon Is de lazies'," said
one colored woman, "yoh husband or mine?'
"I atn" gwlntu guess," answered the other.
"It's had enough now, wifout stahtin' no
competition." Washington Star.
Dick (looking at picture-book) "I won
der what the Noahs did with themselves,
all day long in the Ark?" Mabel "Fished,
I should think." Bobble "They didn't flf h
for long." Dick and Mabel "Why not?"
Bobble "Well, you see, there were only
two worms!" Punch.
OF HEARST'S AMERICANISM
From the New York Globe,