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THE 2IORXIXG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906.
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.PORTLAND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906.
JAMESTOWN-SEATTLE. . '
Some of our people, here and there
throughout the Mate, seem to be
startled by publication of the list of
undertakings that will demand atten
tion and money from the Legislature
at the coming session. It is, they say,
and nay truly, a surprising list. The
specifications call for a vast sum of
money, and that means mighty taxa
tion. Opening of the rivers and har
bors of the state, free school books,
erection of jute mills for employment
of convicts and reduction of the price
of grain bags, new buildings for every
institution of the state, appropriation
of money for the Seattle and James
town Expositions, are among the speci
fications, but by no means exhaust the
liist. For of couree there will be more
offices and more officials, and higher
salaries all round; for hat?n't the cost
of living increased? That is, do not of
ficials desire and expect greater emolu
ments, r?o as to live more luxuriously
than formerly? Strange how anxiouG
so many are to serve the state, when
they know how much more it coste to
live, and how inadequate the ealaries
are.
Host that can be done, in spite of all
pruning, and all growls by watchdogs
of the treasury, there will be an un
paralleled appropriation bill. Some
tilings, however, it will be necessary to
omit. All demands cannot be met; all
claims cannot be granted. It may be
feared that the appropriations by the
estate never can be equal to the wants
of the people.
Just here, however, The Oregonian
has a suggestion to make. It knows
that all demands cannot be met, that
a'.l claimants can't get all they want.
But it wishes to say that whatever else
may be granted, or whatever elee re
fused, appropriations should be made
for suitable and suflicicnt representa
tion of the State of Oregon at the
Jamestown Kxposition of li07. and at
the Seattle Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific In
'ternational Kxposition of 1009.
We think J.W.OOO lioukl be appropri
ated for representation of Oregon at
Jamestown. That is the least sum that
would or could represent Oregon there.
Twice the sum would-be better. But
Oregon could make a creditable exhibit
from J50.000. The Virginian helped us
to get the Government appropriation
for the Lewis and Clark Kxposition.
They took an interest that exceeded
ordinary generosity. We ought to re
ciprocate. We ought to help, at the
Jamestown Fair. Not merely for reci-v
procity, either. For Oregon ought to
lio represented at Jamestown, that the
people who go there may have proofs
that Oregon exists, that it has attrac
tions and resources and productions pe
culiarly its own, by which the world
will be bettered when it knows them.
In the year 1909 Seattle is to have an
exposition which will be a notable
event and occasion in the history of the
1'acitic Northwest. It will be rich,
various, elaborate. Its main purpose
will be to emphasize the importance of
Alaska, the relations of Seattle to the
Steat country that is pouring its wealth
Into her lap. and the progress of Pa
cific Northwest commerce, in which Sc
uttle holds so important a place. It
"will be a groat exposition. Oregon must
lie reprecK-nted there represented gen
erously, fully, adequately. The State
of Washington did the handsome thing
by the Lewis and Clark Kxposition. It
did not stint its effort. Oregon must
not stint her effort for the Seattle Fair.
It is demanded by neighborliness on
the one hand ami by our own interest
ui the other. Nothing less than $100,
000 can pay for the honor that Oregon
is M render the State of Washington
on the one hand and herself on the
other. There will be need of a building
nd it mut be no mean affair. There
must be an exhibit, and it must ade
quatcly represent the State of Oregon.
AVe should not stop with J100.000. if
more should be needed. And probably
it will be.
Though the Kxposition at Seattle is
not to he held till 1909. the Legislature
of Oregon, to meet in January next.
must make provision for the participa
tion of Oregon, because there will be no
sufficient time, if it be put off till the
meeting of the Iegislature two years
further. The Oregon building should
he undertaken a sufficient time in ad
vance to assure its completion and per
fection of the arrangements for the ex
hibit. Provision should be made also
for the social side of the work, so that
Oregonians may have suitable quarters
for their own use and for entertainment
of friends. In short, Oregon should
prepare to keep "open house" at Seat
tle during the Summer of 1909.
The Oregonian has no doubt that all
Oregon will respond to this undertak
ing; or that the Legislature, answering
the wishes of the peopIe: will make the
full provision required for proper repre
sentation of Oregon at the Seattle Exposition.
GAS IN Fl'EL TRUST.
The Portland ministers who are in
vestigating the fuel "trust" of course
will not omit one of the largest sellers
of fuel in this city, the gae company,
which charges a high gas price for a
low-grade gas.
Some day gas in Portland will cost,
instead of 95 cents, 75 and 80 and 85
cents, as in cities where the public,
through obedient Councils, has forced
down prices. That time will come in
Portland when the city, through the aid
of its Council, shall have asserted He
power to regulate price and quality of
gas. The Portland Council has had a
chance to aid' the public in this regard
for eight months past. How soon will
it answer the public demand?
Is the public ever to regain the pres
ent gas franchise, which stands in the
way of regulating gas quality and gas
price? If so, how soon? Should not
Portland have this power, as well as
other cities?
One way to foil the fuel trust is to get
cheaper gas. Cord wood may be kept
up in price by the cordwood "trust,"
slabwood prices by the slabwood
"trust," and coal by the coal "trust"
all acting together, not through actual
agreement, but by tacit understanding
not to cut prices. Allied with them is
the gas "trust," which, because mo
nopolizing the field, cannot be accused
of conspiracy, as a lot of poor wood
dealers can. But is not the effect on
the purses of consumers the same?'
The fuel situation in Portland seems
to be this: Taking advantage of
scarcity of cars and high price of la
bor, the dealers are charging as much
as the traffic will bear. They are not,
perhaps, actually conspiring to extort
from the public, but are abstaining by
mutual consent from price-cutting. The
gas company, which controls a large
fuel supply, maintains a high price,
charging up to the public dividends on
w atered stock and expenses of misman
agement, among them the Velguth
thefts and the dredging of refuse from
the harbor.
The ministers have a big job on their
hands. Let us all wish them success in
uncovering the fuel graft, even though
they may not pull down prices.
THE FI'TCRE OF THE HOME.
The debate in the Independent for Oc
tober 4 between Charlotte Perkins Gil
man and Mrs. L. H. Harris, a Southern
woman, on '.'The Future of the Home,"
was followed in the issue for October 18
by "Another View of the Home." The
latter article was written from the
point of view of a man who had mar
ried an intellectual woman, a physician
in fact, and had lived happily with her,
rearing a family. Mrs. Harris, though
she writes with vJvaclty and wit, takes
a characteristically Southern view of
the question, and is therefore amusing
without being very instructive. It is
curious, indeed, how persistently the
reactionary spirit of the South runs not
only through its politics, but also
through its religion, education and so
cial thought.
On the other hand, if Mrs. Gilman
errs at all, it is by way of being too
advanced. She is probably ahead of
the age. though by no means out of the
line of very apparent evolutionary ten
dencies. Originally, according to her
view, all those interests of mankind
which were not purely selfish were cen
tered in the family. There was no na
tion to begin with, but only families
scattered here and there over a wide
territory like that of Jacob. The chil
dren, the cattle and the women were
the property of the patriarchal head,
who was an independent potentate. He
waged war. concluded peace and
formed alliances at his own pleasure.
The outcome of the patriarchal wars
and treaties was the ultimate union of
several families under a common rule.
Thus tribes were formed which some
times developed into nations. Mrs. Gil
man makes the point that just as the
family is a more valuable social factor
than the individual, so the nation is
more valuable than the family. To be
long worthily to a nation calls for
higher powers and nobler activities
than to belong to a patriarchal family.
The development of the nation has
withdrawn a certain part of the loyalty
of men and women from the family and
directed it toward their fellow-country
men, and this Mrs. Gilman believes to
be a gain.
She believes also that the process of
evolution is not yet complete. It will
not cease until w-e feel the same affec
tion for the whole human race as for
our countrymen. Our first and largest
obligation will, be to the human race,
our second to the country where we
live, our third to the family, and the
last and least to ourselves. This is un
doubtedly visionary; but it is that sort
of a visionary opinion which Washing
ton Irving attributes to Columbus. It
Is the impracticableiiess of the prophet
who takes note of tendencies that have
escaped the common view and an
nounces their goal too early to find cre
dence. Mrs. Gilman may, in fact, be a
modern Cassandra. Though we are
doomed not to believe her, still she per
haps foretells what is fated to come
true. What are some of the tendencies
which more or less strongly confirm her
predictions?
The most notable is the loss of power
by the male head of the family and the
advance of the female toward equality
with him. Originally the wife was ac
quired by rapine or purchase and the
husband owned her among his other
chattels. The Roman father could sell
his children or put them to death. The
British husband up to very recent times
owned his wife's earnings. Her per
sonal property acquired before or after
marriage was his. She could not tes
tify against him in court: nor could she
make a contract without his consent.
Economically, though not legally, she
was his slave. Now women have be
come almost completely emancipated.
A married woman can carry on busi
ness independently of her husband, con
tract as she pleases, hold and dispose
of separate property, and the law gives
her half of all that her husband ac
quires, to say nothing of the freedom
of divorce.
Likewise the power of the male over
his offspring has been abridged. He
can no longer sell or put them to death.
Society . deprives him of their custody
w hen he is flagrantly cruel or improvi
dent. It compels him to send them to
school. It even begins to interfere when
his discipline is defective and tries
through juvenile courts and charity or
ganizations to fu:fill his, neglected du
ties. Thus the ancient bond which
held the family together has been sadly
loosened.
This bond was the patriajha6 become worse. With eteers quoted
potestas, the ownership by the male of I
his wives and offspring. Plainly the 1
trend of evolution has been toward the
destruction of the family as originally
constituted and the substitution for it
of a group united by affection and mu
tual interest rather than the power of
the male head. In the same way the
ancient idea of the nation has been
transformed. The bond of union among
its members is no longer the power of
the monarch, but their patriotic senti
ment and commercial interest.
Moreover, it cannot be disputed that
the animosity between nations is less
intense than formerly. Among great
capitalists and noble families national
lines have disappeared. . Money has no
country. Neither has blood. Trade
tends to obliterate boundaries. The la
bor unions and socialist organizations
more and more ignore differences of
race and language. World-wide duties
and .even sentiments are no longer
purely imaginative. All civilized na
tions, our own not less than others, ac
knowledge obligations which are not
limited by geography or blood. The
expansion of the paesion which we call
patriotism to include the whole world
is something more than a mere dream
at the present day, and this generation
may live to see it a potent factor in
advancing civilization.
THE MONAGHAN MONUMENT.
The monument to John R. Monaghan,
which was unveiled at Spokane yester
day, is a tribute to the memory of a
young man w ho died nobly in the effort
to save a brother officer's life in Samoa".
His character, his record at school and
his brief service in the Navy gave
promise of a career of great distinc
tion. His untimely but heroic death
was mourned as a loss to his country.
The monument at Spokane is a testi
monial, not .only to the worth of a de
parted officer, but also to the patriotism
of those who have erected it.
The noblest treasure of any state is
the memory of its heroic dead. Record
ed in books, their deeds soon fail from
the common memory and are recollect
ed only by students. But a monument
erected in a great city which meets the
eye and holds the attention of every
passer-by is a perpetual reminder and
an unfailing incentive to emulation.
Such monuments manifest both civic
patriotism and genuine appreciation of
great deeds. They beautify the city
where they stand and educate its citi
zens to love their country and value
the renown of its heroes.
It is not inconceivable that the statue
of Ensign Monaghan, standing forever
from this day before the eyes of the
youth of Spokane, may kindle in more
than one soul the ambition to equal his
fame and deserve "a similar tribute.
The aspiration to live nobly and die a
soldier's death ig more to be desired in
the young than the thirst for wealth.
For the latter incentives abound on
every side. The palaces of the million
aires, their equipages and pompous dis
plays of luxury stimulate and too often
pervert the desires of generous youth.
But to lofty sacrifice and patriotic de
votion the incentives in our commercial
age are few and often insignificant.
Small wonder, then, that in the race for
wealth there are many rivals while the
nobler prize is almost unsought. The
time will come, undoubtedly, when the
parks and squares of our cities will be
peopled with the statues of heroes and
dignified with their monuments. The
cities themselves will become worthy
both in architecture and civic spirit of
the memories which they enshrine, and
our entire public life will rise to a
higher plane. On our dead selves and
the memories of our dead heroes we
must build the future of the human
race. z
THE WHIP HANI) IN TRANSPORTATION.
Coal dealers in the cities of the Rocky
Mountain States have a grievance
against the railroads which they urge
in extenuation of their inability to sup
ply their clamorous customers with
fuel. One of these complainants in a
Montana town declares that the rail
roads have confiscated his coal for
weeks past and that he has been unable
to get more than two or three cars
through to his bins in as many weeks.
His consignments were inadequate to
the demands of his trade in the first
place, and he is entirely unable to say
when the railroads will let him have
any more carloads of his own coal. It
seems that there is an unwritten law,
to which coal dealers are compelled to
submit, by which the railroads may
take a car or a score of privately con
signed cars of coal in transit over trieir
lines for their own use, providing their
own bins are empty, for which settle
ment is eventually made on a more or
less equitable basis. While they chafe
under this highwayman-like proceeding,
dealers have no .redress, but are com
pelled to lose the profits of tl'eir retail
trade while the public suffers and
clamors at their empty bins.
This is indeed a grievance before
which that suffered by the consumer
who does not have more than two or
three sacks out of a ton of coal confis
cated by the driver of the company's
fuel wagon is insignificant. StiH it is
some hardship, when coal is at its pres
ent price, to find a delivery of coal in
the bin short by actual count two or
three sacks to the ton, the driver pro
ducing enough empty sacks from under
the seat to prove that the full sacks
under . the pile do not contain your coal.
But then this is not as bad as to have
the whole load confiscated by the man
who holds the whip hand in transporta
tion. A readable story is attached to one
award in the Carnegie hero fund that
did not come by telegraph. It is the
case of Rufus K. Combs, of Midway,
Ky., who received a medal and $1500
for saving the life of Robert Godson, a
bitter rival and political enemy. God
son had entered a vault to test a gas
making apparatus and was overcome
by the fumes. Friends and relatives
were afraid to enter the vault. Combs,
against the protests of bystanders who
declared that he would be sacrificing
his life uselessly sfnd tried to hold him
back by force, broke away, went into
the vault, rescued Godson and fell un
conscious as he reached the door. They
are now the best of friends. When
asked why he had risked his life for his
bitterest enemy. Combs replied: "Be
cause I loe a fighter that fights fair,
and Godson always fought fair."
Meat-eaters tell only half the story
of meat-trust extortion; meat-producers
tell the other half. Consumers re
cite high prices for steak and produc
ers low prices for steers and cows. Be
tween the two stands the trust, bear
ing down the price on the hoof and
boosting up tho price on the block and
grabbing in between with both hands.
For many yeans there has been a big
discrepancy, between these two prices
in Portland, and since the Swifts got
control of the business here the graft
at 3 to 3i cents a pound on the hoof in
the local market and cows at 2 to 24
cents (these prices dictated by the
trust), producers know that they are
not receiving the value of their cattle.
And consumers know that steaks and
roast beef at the retail market are very
high in price. It may be some satisfac
tion to consumers to be informed that
if growers of cattle should receive
higher prices on the hoof, retail prices
would be boosted up still further, in or
der to afford the trust its accustomed
increment. What is needed is some
force to squeeze down this increment.
Senator W. A. Clark, of Montana, has
consented to "retire" from the United
States Senate. Since hie term of office,
mostly spent in New York and Europe,
will expire next March, and it is by no
means certain that he can again buy
his way in, this consent is exceedingly
gracious. His confidence that the next
Legislature of Montana will be Demo
cratic (the inference being that he
could be returned to the Senate if he
chose) is not by any means shared by
the Republicans of that state. It is
something, however, to be rid of Clark,
even if another of the venal crew that
has long dominated Montana's politics
succeeds him, since there are degrees
even in venality and political corrup
tion in Montana as elsewhere.
To the Los Angeles Times Postmaster-General
Cortelyou has supplied a
statement which shows that the poetaT
business of Arizona has doubled within
eight years. Receipts from sale of
stamps for 1905 were $249,017.20, in com
parison with $119,524.93 in 1897. Money
order business was as great as that
of South Dakota or Utah, and greater
than that of Idaho, New Hampshire,
South Carolina or Vermont. It is ar
gued from these figures that Arizona
will contribute her share to the stabil
ity necessary to make a new state
though her population is lees than that
of New Mexico. It is believed that the
population of the two territories now
exceeds 400,000, and some think it is
probably near 500,000.
A jury in 1894 awarded Mr. L. A.
Lewis, Mr. J. C. Flanders and others
$19,200 for damages to their wharves at
Burnside bridge, and said that other
damages were compensated for by the
"special benefits and advantages to ac
crue from the building of said bridge."
Now they want the public to compen
sate them further, by allowing them to
extend their wharves out to deep water.
They could have well afforded to give
the city a bounty to put the bridge at
Burnside street, on account of the spe
cial benefits and advantages. This is
one of the many phases of high finance
and grab attempted and practiced in
Portland by scions of first families.
Every rascal, found out, denies. You
are not to expect admissions or confes
sions, at least till they know they are
in a corner. Our land thieves and cor
ruptionists in Oregon denied every one
of, them. The rascals of San Francisco
begin their defense with a storm of de
nials, and with threats of libel suits. If
there had not been so much experi
ence with patriots of this kidney you
couldn't tell their simulated indigna
tion from the real article. Mayor
Schmitz and Abe Ruef should hire a
hall and deliver a speech studied from
that final pathetic effort of denial made
by a Senator from Oregon.
In many another place than Crook
County that fiend Shepherd would have
been lynched. No punishment can fit
the foul crime he committed. The death
sentence hanging over him, set for No
vember 30, may afflict him with horror
by day and nightmare in sleep and be
a more terrible retribution than death
at the hands of a band of lynchers.
If so, the result will be better for the
community than lynching and a more
terrible penalty for the crime. It calls
for self-restraint from men of a com
munity when the law is taking its slow
course in such a revolting case.
"Grover Cleveland may find it hard
at his age to vote for a Republican for
Governor of New York," sapiently re
marks the Seattle Post-Intlligeneer.
He will find it harder at his age to go
to Jail for trying to vote for any one
for Governor of New York, when he has
for ten years been a resident of New-
Jersey.
Three hundred chauffeurs in New
York are on strike for more pay and
shorter hours. It wrll be a surprise to
some people to learn that the chauffeur
doesn't get more money than anybody
else and that he exists at any hours
other than 12 P. M. to 6 A. M.
Of course when The Oregonian says
anything that has a tendency to ques
tion the ancient pretensions and vested
rights of the first families, it expects
them to set its yellow dog yelping on
its trail. But it's the yelp of the yellow
dog; nothing more.
Oregon coal consumers cannot get the
cheap Washington coals that used to be
abundant at $7 and $7.50 a ton. It's
good time for Oregon to turn to its own
undeveloped supplies. What has be
come of the "mines" near Heppner and
St. Helens?
There seems to be good reason this
time for some persons to worry them
selves about what an ex-President
ought to do, especially those who have
their eye on Piatt's job in the United
States Senate.
Our own John Barrett, if elected Di
rector of the Bureau of American Re
publics, will restore to the bureau its
former dignity, thinks the State De
partment. No doubt about it.
Oregon has two Supreme Courts, One
sitting at Salem, the other at Oregon
City. A third, at Pendleton, may re
sume activity in time for the next cam
paign for Governor.
Ex-Boss Croker, having won his libel
suit, vindicates Tammany in a glowing
interview. Boss Murphy would do well
to cover that convict suit with a libel
suit of hit? own.
Instead of trying to prove himself
good material for Governor of New
York, each candidate seems to be try
ing to prove the other worse than him
self. J. Pierpont Morgan paid? $20,000 for a
real Bible. There are some things in it
that ought to interest him particularly.
What they need in New York, evi
dently, is somebody else for Governor.
Luckily the weather man is holding:
out against the fuel trust.
HEARSTS LIGHT AND DARK SIDES
Good and Bod Methods laed Alike, to
Reach Goal of His Ambition.
North American Review.
Certain ambitions are common to the
great majority of men. One likes to be
well regarded by his fellows, and to reap
the oenents of social recognition by his
equals and superiors. The spirit of caste
is still strong in the breasts of inheritors
of good names and great riches. That
Mr Hearst should have deliberately set
aside these advantages, we consider to
have been of itself distinctly creditable.
That he should have hazarded his large
fortune upon an attempt to develop his
aims is sufficient evidence of his daring,
if not, indeed, of his moral courage. That
he should now glory in the fact that his
associations are practically confined to
those who are in a large measure de
pendent upon him, indicates an innate
power of peculiar intensity. That he
should have driven his adventurous en
terprises to a consummation successful
from the viewpoints of both commercial
ism and desired notoriety speaks well for
his indefatigability. That, without pro
test, he should have permitted the public
to infer that his achievements rest chiefly
upon the mental activities of his asso
ciates indicates his breadth and freedom
from the curse of jealousy. That, he
should never have forfeited the loyalty
of a single one of his capable associates
evinces a praiseworthy kindliness of dis
position. That he should have held,
throughout his adventures, the, essential
and unswerving support of a proud, high-
minded and conservative mother is a
fact of which any man might well be
proud. Herein we have touched upon evi
dence of the possession by Mr. Hearst,
the individual, of admirable qualities
which make a pleasing impress upon a
fair mind.
But there is another and a very dark
side of Hearst the force, which literally
engulfs these manifestations. Desire of
accomplishment, courage, generosity to
one's helpers, industry, persistence, kind
ness all fade into insignificance in the
absence of the one supreme element of
true manhood. The closest scrutiny of
Mr. Brisbane's enthusiastic eulogy does
not reveal a solitary reference to charac
ter or methods. A single note runs
through the entire eulogium success, for
whatever motive, good or base, by what
ever means, right or wrong success! Mr.
Brisbane has caught and set down, we
believe with precision, the actuating
spirit. There is no reason tc doubt that
an intelligent force, such as Hearst has
proven himself to be, should be able to
comprehend moral responsibility. We
must assume, therefore, that he deliber
ately spurns to recognize it. The keynote
of his journalism is assault. At times the
object richly deserves stern rebuke; at
times, not. It matters not to Hearst.
Guilty and innocent, right and wrong,
suffer alike. Brutality is the solo require
ment of the onslaught. Apology, retrac
tion, correction are words unknown to
the Hearst school of journalism. Is it
surprising that Mr. Brisbane could find no
more to say of the character of the en
ergy? Hearst," says his eulogist, is "the
greatest creator of intelligent dissatslfac-
tion that this -country has seen." This
may or may not be correct. There was
another journalist, of the name of Wil
liam Lloyd Garrison, who instigated re
volt against oppression, but nobody ever
questioned the purity of his motives, the
disinterestedness of his action, or the no
bility of his soul. Could Mr. Brisbane
say as much of Hearst? Surely he must
perceive the distinction between appealing
to the latent good and the smouldering
evil in human breasts. "Hearst is in
tensely practical.' Indeed, yes. He rails
at trusts, and tries to build one; he de
nounces political corruption, while squan
dering money for delegates; he objects to
bosslsm, yet aspires to autocracy; he be
seeches favors from a great political par
ty, and then betrays it; -he shamelessly
trades with the very men whom he has
denounced as political and personal crim
inals; he abruptly ceases to attack one
whom he has branded a scoundrel In the
hope of winning that one's evil influence
to gratify his own ambition; he professes
with his lips individualism and American
ism, while in his newspapers he preaches
confusion and communism.
Such a condition surely would ustify a
severe arraignment of any offender, but
for reasons frankly noted we feel no call
to indulge in harsh treatment of Mr.
Hearst, the individual. Nevertheless it
is fitting and indeed a manifest duty, in
connection with the publication of Mr.
Brisbane's eulogy, to set down calmly
and dispassionately the simple facts re
specting Hearst, the force. They are sub
stantially as follows: As a journalist,
though keen, enterprising and resourceful,
he is a burning disgrace to the craft; as
a politician, .though shrewd and at tlme3
even sagacious, he is no more scrupulous
than the basest of those whom he has
stigmatized as criminals; as a partisan,
though earnest and efficient in appealing
to the masses, he is a traitor; as an
office-holder, he is pre-eminent iri shame
ful neglect of his duties;, as an agitator,
his delight consists in reveling in the
incitement of evil passions: as a dual
personality, though possessed of many
engaging qualities, he is so utterly de
void of character, so unsteady in even
his own recklessness, so faithless to his
professed ideals, so scornfully disregard
ful of moral responsibility, so addicted to
detestable practices in efforts to gratify
his ambitions, so sinfully persistent in
stirring the caldron of discontent, envy
and hatred, as to be a living and glaring
reproach to American civilization.
Gould Bays An Enellant Yacht,
New York Commercial.
George J. Gould has purchased the English-built
turbine yacht Lorena, and will
soon bring it to these waters. Commo
dore Gould formerly owned the steam
yacht Atalanta. which was sold to Vene
zuela, and has owned many other vessels
among them being the Vigilant, which he
raced In Brilisn waters ana aiterwara
fitted out as a trial boat for the Defender
when that yacht was built to defend the
America's cup.
The Lorena was built In 1903 for Amzl
L. Barber, and is the largest yacht afloat
with turbine engines. She is 300 feet over
all. 269 feet on the water line. 33 feet 5
inches beam, 20 feet deep and 15 feet
draft. ' '
A Children's Song.
Rudyard Kipllnsr.
Land of our birth, we please to thee
Our love and toll In the years to be.
"When we are grown and take our place
Aa men and women wth our race.
' 2
Father in heaven, who lovest ali.
Oh, help thy children when they call:
That they may build from age to age
An undented heritage.
Teaf-h us to bear the yoke in youth-
With steadfastness and careful truth;
That, In our time, thy grace may giva
The truth whereby the nations live.
THINGS THAT WENT WRONG.
No. 1 The -Faithful W ife.
. There was. no -doubt of the besotted
prisoner's guilt. The red-nosed, watery
eyed, repulsive wrelch had beaten his
wife, a frail-looking, undersized woman
whose hands bore the marks of toil. The
case had been proved against him clearly.
Prisoner." said the police justice, stern
ly, "you have committed one of the worst
and most brutal offenses that disgrace
our civilization. I shall fine you $50 and
send you to the workhouse, where you
will stay until it Is paid."
"Your Honor." sobbed the wife, in
pleading tones, "make it $200! You needn't
be afraid. I'll take in washing to raise
the money to get him out!"
No. 2 The. fine of VOuoj Millaap.
The story of Christopher Millsap. a
young bookkeeper in the employ of a
wholesale house, affords a striking illus
tration of the way in which the wind is
often tempered to the shorn lamb.
Not on account of any fault of his, but
because the business would not justify
keeping him On the salary list any longer,
Christopher had lost his situation.
Day after day he tried to secure an
other, but without success. One morning,
when he found himself reduced to his last
cent and was thinking gloomily of suicide
as the only way out of his troubles, the
postman handed him a letter. It was
from Ketcham & Fleecem. attorneys-at-law.
Brattleboro, Vt., and read as fol
lows: "Dear Sir: Your uncle, Orville Stinjay
Millsap. died last week. As administra
tors of his estate, we have been looking
over his papers, and we find that you
owe him $."0 for money borrowed Feb
ruary 27. 1902. with interest at 6 per cent
from that date. An early settlement will
oblige." Chicago Tribune.
And One Came From Oregon.
Springfield Republican.
It Is singular how three states, Penn
sylvania. Massachusetts and Maryland,
continue in our own time to furnish the
bulk of the Attorney-Generals of the
United States. When Mr. Moody came to
the office, he succeeded Mr. Knox of
Pennsylvania, and when Mr. Moody re
tires next Winter he will be followed by
Mr. Bonaparte of Maryland. Since the
foundation of the Government in 17S9.
these three states have furnished 20 of
the 48 Attorney-Generals. Pennsylvania
supplying eight Massachusetts seven and
Maryland five. Maryland's number will
be increased to six when Mr. Bonaparte
arrives. States like New York and Ohio
have furnished only three each. The
hold which the three slates referred to
have upon this office, . and have had
always, seems inexplicable. True, the
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Mary
land bars have ever been distinguished,
but their record in the Attorney-General's
office can scarcely be said to be due to
professional superiority. It must be
reckoned merely one of .the curious ac
cidents of Government.
One
Centenarian In 1:
",000.
Hospital.
The labors of Sir George Murray Hum
phry proved that there is about one cen
tenarian to every 127.000 people, and that
of 70 authenticated cases no one reached
110 years, three only are said to have been
108 and one 106.
The full exercise of the various powers.
mental and bodily, is conducive to great
age. so that there need be no fear of en
tering heartily, actively and with full in
terest and energy into the assigned work
of life, physical or mental.
The inhabitants of any countryside, as
in Delabole, in North Cornwall, point
with pride to the number of hale and
hearty octogenarians, nonagenarians and
centenarians living among them as an
evidence of their healthy environment
and hygienic lives. So in Paris, with its
10,509 octogenarians and 620 nonagenarians,-
S9 of whom are approaching their
100th year. Six inhabitants of Paris are
more than 102 years of age.
A Seedleaa Pear.
Ashland Tidings.
Something new in choice fruit has been
on exhibition at the office of C. H. Gil
lette in Ashland this week a seedless
pear, of fine appearance and choice qual
ity. It is from a tree about eight or
ten years old. For several years it has
borne seedless pears, this year yielding
three or four boxes of the fruit. A few
of the very largest pears on the tree
each year have seeds. The rest are all
seedless and when cut in half show a
smooth surface .from skin to center.
where the seeel cells are usually found.
The seedless pears on this tree are a
trifle smaller than the average Bartlett.
but probably contain more clean fruit
substance and in taste they are superior
to a Bartlett. having a marked flavor
resembling somewhat that of the little
sekel pear. It Is believed this seedless
pear may be propagated to the extent of
producing a practical nursery stock of
trees of the same character, and exper
imentation will be begun at once with
that end in view.
"Mrs. Brj-nn, Flrat Lady In tbe Land."
Boston Globe.
Good for Mr. Bryan! Wrhen an enthu
siastic Georgian said to him: "Mr. Bryan,
I hope to see you our next President, and
your wife the 'first lady or tne land.
"Thank you," answered Mr. Bryan, with
a laugh; "I never may be President, but
Mrs. Bryan is already the first lady in
the'land."
Out For tne Sweepatakea,
Medford Tribune.
On Friday morning a fine hoy made his
appearace at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Hazleton. In addition to raising
premium onions, this enterprising couple
is bringing up a fine large family.
FROM THE OFFENSIVE
The Attitude of the Trust Jrour
Years Ago.
Jf"Tn Public .
FOR A HOME TECHERS TRUST
Halcyon Daya Recalled When Papers
Were Granted Normal Gradnatea.
PORTLAND, Oct. 25. (To the Editor.)
In Sunday's Oregonian there is- an
article entitled, "Why Oregon Loses Her
Pest Teachers." I should like to object
to some of the statements made.
The assertion Is made that there is a
deplorable deficiency of teachers from a
numerical standpoint. According to an
issue of The Oregonian last June triere
w-ere fully twice as many applicants for
positions in the Portland schools as there
were positions. In Marion County, a
county standing with l.ane. Douglas and
Clackamas, 'next to Multnomah, in point
of number of teachers employed. Super
intendent Moores said hist August that
he had enough competent teachers to
place one in every district of his county,
provided the Boards of Directors wouid
pay a living wage. I have talked with
a number of the County Superintendents
of Oregon, and each one has told me.
In substance, the same thing.
Those who are familiar with the school
history of Oregon know that when Ore
gon had a law granting state papers to
normal graduates, the supply of teach
ers far exceeded the demand. Teachers
would bid against each other for posi
tions, and many district schools em
ployed the lowest bidder. As to why tho
supply was so great, it may be said that
there were several causes. I wish to
speak only of one. Many persons can
cram, work and worry through a normal
course ana gain barely a passing mark
but who canont retain enough of what
they have studied to pass an examina
tion six months or a year afterward.
Everyone is in sympathy with any
movement intended to raise the standard
of our norma! schools, but such changes
cannot come In a day. Before any good
measure may become an effective law.
public opinion must be turned in that
direction. At the present time both the
newspapers and the body of leading edu
cators of Oregon are working along cer
tain lines to that end, and criticism of
the whole system of Oregon's schools
will not be of much benelit. But when
our normal schools do reach the position
that we all expect them soon to reach,
will it be the earnest, conscientious
teacher who will seek to avoid the state
examinations? Rather, I think, it will
be this teacher who in the full confi
dence of her ability, education and train
ing, will say to the state: "Give me
your most difficult text. I am prepared."
This is the attitude of the medical stu
dent after finishing a four years' course.
The state requires the medical test, and
we do not hear physicians objecting to it.
Why is the writer of the editorial so
anxious that the supply of teachers bo
increased? The teachers of Oregon have
been carrying on a fairly successful fight
to get teachers' salaries (wages, more
correctly) increased to a fair amount.
It has been my experience that the
teachers of Oregon do not object to the
examination, but that graduates of small
normal schools of other states, who hav
ing failed in their work come to this
state hoping to have a state paper grant
ed on their normal diplomas, do object.
From this class we hear a great deal ot
criticism, and it is my belief that The
Oregonian has honestly mistaken this
criticism for that of Oregon teachers.
Allow the graduates of the normal
schools of this and of every other state
to teach here without an examination
by the state, and what would be tho
effect? What is always the effect when
supply exceeds the demand? Or, why
should a teacher wish the requirements
made easy?
. PORTLAND TEACHER.
What' In a Name, Anvwayt
Kscanaba (Mich.) Dispatch.
If a name counts for anything, Mitchell
Jasper, an Indian, living in Delta County,
took a flyer directly in the face of fate
when he appeared before the County
Clerk In Escanaba and got a license to
marry Mary Kick-a-Hole-in-thn-Sky.
Jasper's prospects are further endan
gered by the fact that the name of his
future mother-in-law is Afraid-of-No-Man.
Flip Flop. " " :
Astoria Herald.
The Herald this week announces
change of policy. Henceforth it will be
Democratic in politics. Not the Dolly
Varden-Citizens Democracy, but the pure,
unadulterated Democracy which laid the
foundation for this grand Government and
its institutions. This change of policy i.s
the result of the Republican party's at
titude on the tariff question, and that
alone.
Whew! Only One Lefts'
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
C. E. S. Wood, of Portland, Or., says
social troubles have their origin in fool
laws enacted by fool politicians elected by
a fool people. It is refreshing to learn
that Oregon has one man left, among all
its fools, who is competent to point out
these fundamental sociological shortcom
ings. Help! No Way To Treat a Friend.
New York Tribune.
A -Hearst Buffalo paper, perhaps by ac
cident, printed a very poor likeness of
William Sulzer, and over it they got a
wrong heading, as follows: "New York's
Latest Murder Mystery. A Ghastly Find."
Mr. Sulzer said: "That is no sort of a
way to treat a friend of the plain people."
C. D. Gibson Wants Paria Studio.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Charles Dana Gibson is seeking a studio
in Paris after a tour of the great art gal
leries of Italy and Spain. Ho acknowl
edges being a sufferer from homesickness
and would have returned to America but
for the persuasion of friends.
TO THE DEFENSIVE
I'D Mf To I
Explain our.
company 5
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The Attitude of the Trust Today.
From the Chicago Tribune.