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The truth is that the Italians who come to America are not, in the ma , an "undesirable pop ulation." On the contrary, they are the heirs of all the ages of culture, art and civilization. Most of them quickly fall in with the new duties of citizenship in our country; and their children, edu cated in the public schools, rapidly be come an important factor of the vari ous racial strains and nationalities that are making up our composite Ameri can life. "The Italian in America" is the title of an important book owning the joint authorship of Kliot Lord, of the Census Bureau; of John J. D. Trenor, of the National Board of Trade, and of Sam uel J. Barrows, secretary of the Prison Association of New York. It is a very complete review of the position of the Italian race in the United States, and an exposition of its contribution to the mini of our composite nationality. It is shown that Italians are engaged in nearly every possible industry in every one of our states; that they are more free than many other elements of our population from pauperism, disease and crime; that they are making equal progrer with others in accumu lation of properly, and that their chil dren, among the very brightest of those who attend the public school?, catch with an eager intuition the epirlt of the institutions and life of America. Many indeed remain in the large cit ies; but distribution of the Italian pop ulation throughout the country is go ing on rapidly, and they bring to each and every industry the special addi tional knowledge which in many capes among our own people has been lacking. Their adaptability is immense. Hardly a single one of our induntrlep, especially the minor ones, to which they are not able to bring valuable experience. In promo tion of variety of agriculture, in fruit growing and small farming, they are unrivalled. There is, no mechanical trade, especially in the higher arts. In which they have not their representa tives. And no wonder: because their country is. and for more than twenty centuries has been, the world's store house of art and of mechanical design. In reply to the assertion that they crowd into the large eitieo and create noisome districts within them, these writers show that the sections com plained of are better today materially belter thi they were at the time of their original occupation by Italian im migrants. In New York City they have literally cleaned up and transformed many old and malodorous localities. Much of the property has long been held by old estates firt families who there as here have been backward in selling or improving. Italians, taking leases, or buying when they could, 'have made In such localities great changes for the better, which former residents or landlords never could be induced to make. The thrift of the Italian is e-o exceptional that barbers, groeerymen and tailors, and even bootblacks and common laborers, often save enough to figure as tenement landlords. Particu lar localities in New York are described where these changes are in steady prosre.-r. The like is seen also in other cities, but it is more conspicuous in the metropolis, where the population is so greatly congested. To sanitary re quirements the Italians yie'd more readily than the people of several o:her nationalities. including our own. Among the Italians there are some paupers, of course, but proportionate ly not many. A reason why it is sup posed by many that this race is ad dicted to criminal acts, more perhaps than others, is attributed to the fact that crimes committed by Italians are of more sensational character than the average, or are more readily inflated into popular sensations. Statistics in fact show that in proportion of all crimes to population the Italians do not suffer in any comparison. Crimes in which lethal weapons are used are i:i a great majority of instances con fined to their own nationality. Often the Inciting cause is covered by trivial pretenses and a quarrel flames up for no reason apparent to ordinary ob servers. It Is in the nature of the race, no doubt, and much due to customs that will undergo changes in the new circumstances of American life. Now while the Italian, judged by our standards, has many faults, he sup plies a strain of blood, an intellectual quickness, an inventive" or acquired in dustry, and various hereditary quali ties, fusible into the composite life of our own country. He supplies one of the elements useful in making this na tion a great, complete, homogeneous, economic entity. We want new blood everywhere to keep the old blood from stagnation or take it out of the ruts. The Italian is one of the factors of this movement in America. MAYOR LANE AND THE SCHOOLS. We think Mayor Lane exaggerates the dangers of the public school build ings of Portland. To every public building there is some danger from fire; but Portland's school buildings are safe as those of other cities. You may call any building a fire trap, if you please; for any building may be burnt, and no s-jhoolhouse can be con structed that fire may not consume. The Mayor's speech strikes us as a panicky note, spoken large, without practical object. Whatever additional safeguards experience here or else where can suggest should be adopted; but the school buildings of Portland are in general a type of those through out the cities of the United States, and sufcT rhan many because not so tall. That some are built of wood makes them no more dangerous than if they were of ordinary brick construction; for such buildings, when burnt, usually take fire from within. Ample passageways and stairways, and wide steps, ought always to be provided; and the construction should be such that a fire starting in the basement would not quickly find openings to ruh through, to rooms above. We believe these precautions, and others, are now well observed. Our school architecture, there can be no doubt, will still adhere, substantially, to pres ent plans. IMPROVING THE RACE. The news dispatches contain the pleasing Intelligence that the American Stockbreeders' Association has decided to divert a fraction of Its energies from the improvement of stock to the eleva tion of the human race. It will try to effect its purpose by preventing the marriage of defectives like idiots, in sane people and congenital criminals. A committee composed of men, sonie of w hom are practical and some merely learned, has been appointed to take up the subject, and before a great while an illuminating report may be expected. The human race certainly needs im provement. Men are not so handsome after their kind as horses and are far less healthy than the swine, to which psychologically they are often so closely akin. A finely proportioned man Is the exception on the street. Most humans whom one meets are either too short or too tall, too thin or too rotund. Their noses are out of joint: their chins re treat disastrously; their beards are scraggly; their eyes are a-squint. The average human as a piece of physical workmanship is a failure. He needs improvement and he needs it badly. Nor is he much better off mentally. His general ineptitude has won him many contemptuous epithets from his spiritual and political guides, and he deserves mest of them. To the com mittee of the Stoclfbreeders' Associa tion, which has undertaken his Im provement, he owes 'both gratitude for its benevolence and admiration for its courage. Assuredly it is a courageous committee which dares to undertake the restriction of marriage. The privi lege of the idiot, the thief and the mur derer to unite himself to a. partner of his own sort and multiply his precious type Is usually numbered among the inherent and inalienable human rights. Whoever would take it away has a sorious task before him. Superstition, sentimentality and hysterical sympathy are all against the committee. Work ing with it is nothing but common sense, which plays but a pitiful part in controlling the affairs of men. With no hope that the committee will accom plish anything, one may wish them well. In the full expectation of their utter failure, as other similar commit tees have failed before, me bid them godspeed in their beneficent but futile undertaking. MIST A3 GOOD" AS HOOD RIVER. The assertion made in these columns recently that the Willamette Valley and Rogue River Valley can and should produce as good apples as Hood River has aroused the ire of the Hood River News Letter. The editor of the paper published in Oregon's best known apple region says he is tired of seeing the declaration that other por tions of the state can and do produce apples "just as good" as those grown in Hood River Valley. That other, ap ples are as good in some particulars he is w illing to admit, but he asserts that the general superiority of Hood River apples is shown by the tiigher price re ceived and by the fact that the apples keep until midsummer. Just what - bais the Hood River writer has for his complaint is diffi cult to understand. No applegrowing section has ever claimed that it can or does excel Hood River. No other dis trict has manifested the least desire to detract one iota from the splendid rep utation Hood River has gained for its fruit. In fact, every portion of the state is proud of the achievements of this far-famed apple region, and every loyal citizen of Oregon will do all in his power to extend and increase the good nane that has been worthily won. Is it detraction from Hood River's reputation to say that other sections can raise apples just as good? Is it not rather an admission that Hood River sets the standard of excellence in the markets of the world? Hood River has grown apples of the varieties that find favor for shipment, has kept the trees free from pests, has closely sorted the fruit for shipment, has packed it in the most approved manner, and has -not lost an opportunity to advertise. It may be. admitted that in the percent age of first-class apples. Hood River surpasses other sections, for in the Wil lamette Valley, for example, orchards have been neglected until a great per centage of the. fruit is small . and wormy. The few well-kept orchards have had to suffer the evil conse quences of proximity to neglected or chards. But it is true, and when Wil lamette Valley applegrowens have wakened to their opportunities it will be proven that other sections of the state can produce apples "just as good" as those grown at Hood River. The product of a few well-attended or chards shows this. What The Orego nian d-esires, and what it is trying to do by its frequent mention of the sub ject, is to arouse the Willamette Valley applegrow'ers from their lethargy and Induce thetu to prune, cultivate and spray their trees, thin the fruit, harvest it carefully, sort it closely, pack it honestly and then advertise it until it will sell "Just as well" as Hood River fruit. HO, FOR TILLAMOOK! Breaking ground for the Tillamook railroad the other day was an event long anticipated by the citizens of that pent-up section the realization of a hope long- deferred. The people of Til lamook County had treason for rejoicing when, after all these yeans of waiting, the first sod was turned certifying that this long-delayed enterprise had at length taken definite shape,-and that in a year or two, or three at the utmost, Tillamook County would have railway connection with the outside world. The shut-in condition of the people of this coast county of Oregbn has long ( been a just cause of grievance to them. Yet, in the face of the handicap that it has imposed, they have gone for ward in developing such resources and industries as they could, growing in prosperity, if not in contentment, year by year. While lack of transportation facilities has prevented development of the vast timber resources of the county, left its magnificent coal deposits undisturbed and made man ufactures .practically Impossible, much progress has been made in home building, in dairying and in lum bering. The history of Tillamook County in the last twenty-five years is the record of a people who, in spite of Isolation, in spite of discouragement, have kept their courage, been loyal to their country and made the most of their circumstances. That rapid de velopment will follow completion of the railroad cannot 'be doubted. The nat ural resources of the section are those that make for contentment and pros perity. The development of these will give work and wages and homes to a multitude. While other sections are wrestling with problems of irrigation, Tillamook rejoices In an annual rain fall that insures" an abundance of growing thing: other sections have been "logged off" while thousands of acres of her forest primeval are un touched; other fields have paid tribute to agriculture until they aire partially exhausted; hers are waiting to welcome the husbandman. An old-new region is Tillamook County old in that patient settlers have waited for a generation for soil to be broken for her first railroad; new because completion of the railroad will be the beginning of wide industrial, manufacturing and agricultural activi ties within her borders. OBSOLETE DOCTRINES. The Emperor William's "great idea," as Professor Burgess calls it, that American and German college lecturers should exchange pulpits occasionally, had among itfs first fruits the establish ment of the Roosevelt chair of Ameri can history at the University of Berlin. Upon this foundation Professor Bur gess, of Columbia, has begun the ini tial course of lectures, and he has con trived to attract the attention of the civilized world 'by his preliminary re marks. The gist of the paragraph which all the European papers are re printing with varied comment is that both the high protective tariff idea and the Monroe Doctrine "are almost obso lete, and that the reconstruction of Eu ropean 6tates and their constitutions and the acceptance by the United States itself of its position as. a world power have made them appear nearly senseless." Professor Burgess admits that Amer can politicians and, what is worse, the American people in general, are not yet ready to take this view, but he con gratulates himself that his position as a lecturer on an international founda tion is so secure that he can utter the truth as he finds it without fear of making political enemies or losing of fice. It may be admitted tat the outset that if the Monroe Doctrine were un derstood one-half as much as it is dis cussed it would become very much less of a National fetich. It originated with Canning, the English statesman, who put it into the mind of Mr. Rush, the American Minister to Great Britain at that time, to counteract the schemes of the "Holy Alliance." This unhoJy com bination of European tyrants had among its objects the destruction of the republican governments which had just been formed in South America and the restoration of the power of Spain over that continent. To this Canning was opposed, and he desired the co operation of America against it. Rush communicated the idea to President Monroe, who declined to co-operate with Canning, tout made, as an inde pendent doctrine of his own, the famous declaration in his mess-age that the American Continent must not thence forth be considered ground for Euro pean colonies. The purpose of the "Holy Alliance" was to destroy republican institutions throughout the world and subject the entire human race to the rule of "le gitimate" monarchs. Their South American project was a direct menace to the United States: and because it was a direct menace. President Monroe was justified by the principles of in ternational law in promulgating his "doctrine." Professor Burgess now says that the changes in the constftu tions of European governments have been so extensive that the Monroe Doc trine is obsolete and nearly senseless. In this must concede him a meas ure of correctness. The absolute mon archical principle which was upheld by the "Holy Alliance" has completely disappeared from European polity, ex cept in Russia, and there it is impo tent. All the important European na tions now .live under constitutions, most of them quite as liberal as our own and some of them more so. They, are no longer united in an attempt to de stroy republican institutions and never will be again. The marked trend of their current history is toward democ racy. No menace to the United States is discernible in any colonies which they are likely to establish in South America or elsewhere. Thus the reason for the Monroe Doc trine has been completely eliminated by the progress of history. It has no longer much significance except in the shallow" mouthings of politicians. So far as mere financial and Industrial ad vantage is concerned, it would be much better for us were South America popu- i lated with steady-going, peaceful Ger mans than with the excitable Latins; but the fact of the matter is that the greater portion of South America is not populated at. all. Its enormous re sources are unexploited, and are likely to remain so indefinitely, unless the im pulse to progress comes from an influx of more energetic people. This seems to be the thought of Professor Burgees. But there is another point also. So long as the United States confined its activity to this continent and did not mingle in the concerns of the larcer world, the Monroe Doctrine seemed logical enough. It was some what surly and un-neighborly. It was much like Mr. Pennoyer's message to the President, that he would mind hte business if Mr. Cleveland would do the same. But since we have definitely abandoned our policy of exclusiveness and have actively taken hold of world wide affairs and begun to acquire colo nies in both hemispheres, the Monroe Doctrine tbecomes blankly inconsistent. We cannot hope that in these circum stances other nations will continue to tolerate it. What we claim for our selves we must concede to others. If we colonize in the Eastern Hemisphere we must not deny to other nations the previlege of colonizing vacant lands in the Western. So long as we stayed at honfe in parocnial solitude the Monroe Doctrine did absolve us from the ne cessity of maintaining a great Navy and a numerous Army. To that extent it was an advantage. But this advan tage we have abandoned of our own choice or through necessity. By un dertaking foreign conquests we have compelled ourselves to assume military burdens. Hence even this purely do mestic reason for upholding the Monroe Doctrine has now vanished. The more one examines the matter the more he will be disposed' to grant that Professor Burgess speaks with information and w isdpm. Senator Bailey, of Texas, flays Hearst. Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, says Bryan's policy of Government ownership of railroads must be repudiated. It is hard to tell where anybody is "at." Williams further expresses the belief that "the country is on the verge 'of a break-up of the old party alignments, and that in five years there will be two great parties, one paternalistic, com posed of men who, having lost all con fidence in the capacity of the people to do anything for themselves, would in trust everything to the Government. The other party will be composed of men who still believe in the initiative of the individual and in the principles enunciated by Thomas Jefferson".' " But every person who appeals to Jefferson interprets Jefferson's principles to suit himself. The paternalists also do it. Thomas F. Millard, 'who has had much opportunity for observation in the Orient, thinks that it will be a long time before the Japanese can compete to any important extent with the man ufacturers of other nations. "The av erage Japanese," he says, "is not only- a rather poor workman, indifferent to his own incompetence and destitute of ambition to remedy it, but he has little notion of the value of time a vital de ficiency in the modern struggle for su premacy." Also that "there is not in Japan today anything that approxi mates the skilled labor of other coun tries, although the minute perfection of certain artistic products conveys a superficial impression to the contrary." Ex-United States Senator Burton, of Kansas, is supposed to be serving time in a prison in Missouri, but according to press dispatches he is permitted to leave the prison and visit his wife's apartments. His wife cooks his meals and takes them to him 60 that he need not live on prison fare. Serving a term in prison under a Federal sentence is not so bad after all. This ought to give great consolation in Oregon. Our far-famed citizen, H. H. Turner, of Salem, is having his full share of trouble. After having acknowledged his guilt of state land frauds, he has been made defendant in disbarment proceedings and now the Supreme Court has ruled against him in a suit brought by an old man of feeble mind to cancel a deed obtained by deception and fraud. Surely the way of the transgressor is :hard. Almost every week brings a report of the awful death of a. small child who has fallen into a tub of scalding water or played too close to a fire and burned to death. These are accidents that a little forethought and care would pre vent, and parents who have small chil dren should take warning from the sad calamities that thave befallen others. The vote on Representative in Con gress in Cannon's district, the eight eenth Illinois, two years ago stood thus: Cannon, 30,520; McClenathan, Dem., 15,168; Jones, Pro,, 2456; Rogers, Soc., 1099. The "dead set" made against Cannon by the labor unions will cut his majority down; and this probably is all his opponents, hope for. The police of Cleveland, O., have finally agreed to toelieve Anna Held's story that she was robbed of $161,000 worth of jewels and $106,000 in money while riding on a railroad train a few days ago.- We'd like to see the Chief of Police who could tell Anna that he believed she fibbed. Mr. Timothy Woodruff appears to be greatly excited because President Roosevelt said one thing and Hearst says another about rich men and wealth. What does he want or expect? Hearst to advocate and stand for the same things as the President? The Supreme Court says that an at torney is entitled to a fee commen surate with his education, integrity, ability and tact. Sometimes his fee also depends upon the official position he holds and not infrequently upon his nerve. A Hood River paper indignantly de clares that Hood River apples are "better" than Willamette Valley or Southern Oregon applee. They may not be better, but everybody will agree that they are best. And higher. Mr. Hearst is a Lincoln Republican and a Jefferson Democrat. Great chance for some enterprising- medium to find out what Lincoln and Jefferson have to say to that. Mrs. Eddy is surely alive. Every Christian Scientist knows it because he believes it: artd he believes it be cause Mrs. Eddy told him so. She ougtit to know. The labor leaders exercise rare judg ment in picking out for immolation a candidate like Joe Cannon, -whom they have no possible chance of defecating. J-uet to quiet a rumor said to be going the rounds, we feel authorized to say that Yelguth. hasn't been released from prison yet. Mrs. Russell Sage has given $1000 fo a church and $200 to a family servant. There is '$1 00,000,000 left. She'll have to hurry. Well all agree, now. that Mrs. Eddy is alive, and paiis on to the next sensa tion. . OTES FROM A 'HOT CAMPAIGN Wlat the w York Papers Are Sty lus About Hearst. The Morning After. New York Times. Probably from the New York American, Nov. 7, 1906. "Who wins Hughes Elected Governor. But the Ananias HEARST WINS The Ananias Cup. GREAT VICTORY Cup? The Elec tion is over. AND EX A C T L. Y ONE paper 1 v a s c o n - vinced that HEARST WOULD BE ELECTED. EXACTLY ONE PAPER in this gTeat metropolis said that the PEO PLE WOULD WIN; that the Government OF THE BELMONT3 BY THE RYANS FOR THE MORGANS- would perish from the earth. It said that on Nov. 6 Hughes would be BURIED UNDER AN AVALANCHE OF VOTES-or votes CAST BY AN INDIG NANT PEOPLE. It said that WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST would be elected GOVERNOR of New York by those votes. Well. THOSE VOTES were NOT CAST for him! They were not cast, so they were NOT COUNTED!! They were not counted, so they were NOT RECOUNTED!!! Corporation Charlie was elected. All the other papers said THAT HE WOULD BE. Who wins the ANANIAS CUP? Who fooled the people and the other newspa pers ? v Who's a LIAR, anyway?. I Did It, Snys Mr. Hearst. ' New Ytrfa; Tribune. Who was it who exposed the Star Route frauds but the head of the Star Company (incorporated)? Who was it who smashed the Tweed ring but Will iam Randolph Hearst? Who was it that issued the Emancipation Procla mation and spoke freedom to 4,000,000 slaves but the supreme exponent of Demagogracy? who was it that draft ed the Constitution of the United States, iramed the Ordinance of 1787, wrote the Declaration of Independence, with his own right hand heaved over board that tea in Boston Harbor? The muse of history draws a long breath and fairly yells, "Our Willie!" "Alone I did it!" And if anyone ven tures to think otherwise, why What's the matter, you dissentious rogues. That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, , Make yourself scabs? Shall we not put upon our coins the motto, "In Hearst we trust?'' The Faker and His Cures. New York Globe. At Madison Square Garden Hearst 'the Promiser took a night off and yielded the center of the stage to Hearst the Braggart. He took as his theme "My self and My Newspapers" with his lips to his own horn he tooted advertising blasts for some twenty minutes. One can imagine him saying to himself. "I may not be elected Governor, but I at least have made the most of my oppor tunity to drum up future business for my business enterprises." The language was practically that of the medicine faker who boasts of his cures, the while denouncing as enemies of health all who doubt the genuineness of the perform ances he proclaims. - The I, I, ls Have It. New York Mail. Through that Garden speech flash the I, I. I's "as telegraph poles slide by the traveler," to use-the phrase of Kipling. "I reduced the price of ice one-half;" "I in stituted criminal proceedings;" "I fought the New York Central;" "I fought the Seventh National Bank and had the de positors paid in full." So it goes through some sixty-four repetitions of the "I." It seems that agitation, impeachment and punishment in American life were all the work of Hearst. Nothing was left any where in the country for President or Governors, or prosecutors or Legislatures or grand or petit juries. "I" did it all. "I" am "the bos'un tight and the mid shipmite and the crew of the captain's gig." What Millions of Money Can Bo. .New York Times. Than Mr. Hearst there has been none more evil, none more dangerous, none; more repulsive to the moral sense in our whole political history. Our poll tics have never known such a man, a man of boundless ambition, a man re gardless of decency and honor, who was able and willing to spend millions if need be in lifting himself to place and power. Demagogues equally reck less have appeared in our politics, but they did not have Hearst's millions. It is his money that makes him dan gerous. Flocy and His FiiEHgers. New York Herald. Don't vote for candidates who wear the Murphy or the Hearst collar and who would be subject to the orders of the bosses who have nominated them. Be true to the best traditions of the people of New York City and New York State. Smash the infamous judiciary deal and elect the able and independent non-partisan ticket selected by the judiciary nominators. "Fingy" predicts 150,000 plu rality for "riot and rottenness" in this state, but in Buffalo "Fingy" is looked upon as a poor hand with "Aggers.' Hearst and Hughes. Hartford (Conn.) Times. There is a young fellow named Hearst Who, many declare, "is the wearst" He owns eight newspapers. And several skyscrapers. And says "I'll be Governor or bearst. Another bright fellow named Hughes, "Who gave all the grafters the blushes. Says, "I'll see about that I'll a new hat That I'll step into Higglns shughes." The Teal With Murphy. Kew York Sun. I have made no deal with any human being on ear.-h. William R. Hearst. Alurpny certainly did not look hu man in the Hearst cartoons. The Mystic. Spectator. Through all the day our loads we bear By common highways we must go. But when at night we rest, we hear Tho Voice again, whereby we know Through all the rush of hurrying feei One walked beside "u In the street. Then wide your fpirifs casement fling Tour censer All and lift it high: Behoid, its tiame Is flickering Be. au? a AVind is blowing nigh; Look forth and see a Snadow fall Upon the common roadside wall. "Polly" the world may say. "We name Tour vision empty phantasy. What is the flicker of a name, A wandering shadow passing by?" But we. we know Who went unseen Our censer and the world between. O ye that walk this dusty place. Whose spirit in the clamor reels. Whose ears are filed wit:i nothingness,. Unmeaning drone of endless wheels. Come walk with us. and you shall learn Whose Hands their mighty axles turn. 'Ti but our nichtly way we tread With dizzy brain and brulcd feet. While clouls of dust all tiery red Sweep to the sunset up the street. Yet the gloom quivers. Hush r and nark! Who was it called us from the dark? MISSION OF DR. STEPHEN S. WISE He Hones to Carry Reform Into the Camp of Present Reformers. New York Tribune (Kditorial). The return of the Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise to New York injects a now element into the largest Jewish community in the world, and his efforts to establish a new form of Judaism will be watched with interest, not only by the people of his persuasion, but by all others, irrespective of. creed, who give thought to religious changes and evolution. In outlining his plans in the Tribune Dr. Wise shows that he is not like some of the men who are dissatisfied with Judaism as they found it; he is not a destructionist, but a builder. He hopes to point a way, "not out of Judaism, but a way forward with Judaism: out of the Judaism that never was, into the Juda ism that never ceases to be." llis is evidently a scheme to carry reform into the camp of the present reformers, and in order to accomplish his purpose he probably thinks that some truths mut be brought home to the people which will be unpleasant to hear, some measures must be adopted with which the majority would not be tif accord and some forms of ceremony should be introduced "which might not be approved by a board of trustees. - Hence his refusal to subscribe to the supremacy of a board over its rabbi and his assertion that ho would preach only where he would not be "muzzled." The great reformers in American Juda ismIsaac M. Wise. Einhorn, Lilienthalfc Hirsch and Marzbacher fought their battles 60 years ago. They aimed to re move Orientalism, to banish forms and ceremonies which were incongruous with American institutions, to substitute Eng lish for Hebrew in the ritual, to make the house of worship attractive by the introduction of choir music and to keep a hold on the young people, whom thoy feared to lose If the old-time methods were continued. It was a hard struggle, and while many of the congregations remained true to ancient ceremony, a great many threw off the yoke, and re formed Judaism in America, with organ ized bodies in every city, was the result. The movement was continued by able men like Adlcr, Gottheil, Falk, Cohn. Schlessingor an d a host of other learned rabbis. In the meantime thousands upon thousands of Jews came pouring into the country from a land where reform was unknown, where ritual and ceremonial had undergone little change. They es tablished houses of worship here after their old honje plan, and looked with horror upon their American reformed neighbors. The leaders of the reform movement had not pone far enough to satisy some of their followers. To them even the house of worship was a super fluity, and they seceded, under the leader ship of Felix Adler, who had been looked upon by many as the successor to his father in the pulpit of the Temple Kmanu-Kl. Thus the Jews became divided Into three classes, the orthodox, the reformed and the secessionists, and the older peo ple began to ask themselves." "Where will our children go?" There was ndth ing attractive in the ancient houses of worship for the American, and as to the uptown congregations. Dr. Wise may be right when he says that these bodies are little larger today than they were when New York's Jewish population was only one-quarter what it is at present. If we can judge by what he has said, it is the rabbi's- intention to re-establish interest where apathy now rrevails, with out leading his followers "cut of Juda ism," but into the faith, in the stability of which he firmly believes. When he says he stands for "progress and pro phetic Judaism," he sets for himself the mission of vitalizing the faith and wor ship of his people, a task which mission aries and evangelists have often under taken in the Christian Church, and his succession, like theirs, must depend on the extent of the reformer's own pro phetic power and capacity to give in spiration, rather than on any reformatory prescription. The Countercheck Quarrelsome. Boston Herald. Perhaps the most notable event In the Parliamentary career of the late Colonel Saunderson, the pugnacious Orangeman from Belfast, was his tilt with the late Dr. Tanner, who, during an exciting de bate very late one night in the Commons, denounced Colonel Saunderson as a fool. Colonel Saunderson thereupon arose and remarked that Tanner was drunk. "I may be drunk," said Tanner, "but I'll be sober in the morning, while the member from Armagh will be a fool all his natural life." Strange to relate, that closed the inci dent. Here Is "Sarkasm. Governor Cummins of Iowa, at Dan ville Friday, declared for reform of the tariff and control of corporate wealth. Indianapolis News. The tariff is to be reformed, some April 31, by its friends; wealth. Immediately by its enemies. New York Sun. Making Money. Yonkers Statesman. He was a counterfeiter. And was clever at the game; Be tried to make a living. But they stopped him just the same. The secret service agent Gave attention to his tale. But they baid it wouldn't answer. So they clapped him into jail. But when he got his freedom He wrote a stirring play About some counterfeiters. And the thing began to pay. He's making lots of money. For his drama Is the rage. Now they really cannot stop him Making money on the stage. WORSE THAN AN Zf? 1 WHAT THE ORKGOX PRESS SAYS Sent It Bark, Rut Told About It. Union Republican. An exceedingly conscientious legislator from Clackamas Countv has sent hack hU railroad pass. Nearly every legisla ture in every state has one of these curiosities, who seek to impress the con stituency as to his integrity by this method. - The Busy. Busy Knocker. Medford Mail. The knocker always works cheap. He will exert himself harder for less com pensation than any other creature on earth and his unbounded Energy and enthusiasm in opposition to progress would earn him a laurel wreath if It could be directed in opposite channels. Old System All Wrong. Heppner Gazette. It is better to put up the office of Sen ator at public auction, where all of the people hayo a show, than to return to tlie tdd system of private sale, where the people have nothing to say. The people were emphatic when they tpoke in favor of the law that places us untWr the present pysiem. What the Veonle Expect. Heppner Times. The Dalles Optimist is not likely to ac complish much in its advocacy of the de feat of Bourne ai the coming session or the Legislature. No one seems to get enthused over the proposition but Brother Bennett. The truth of tho matter is the people of Oregon will be satisfied if the Legislature will ratify their verdict ren dered at the polls last June. One Letter Not Really Missed. Albany Democrat. The Democrat yesterday intended to use the word Good when it said "God for Heney," but perhaps, the error was a good one to make. for there are many things which make It look as if God was with Heney in his prosecution of grafters and political shysters. His success has certainly been marvelous, and ho has done a work for better conditions that can leave no doubt that God is In It. Drain Puts lu a Word For Itself. Drain Nonpareil. The State Normal School at Drain is now the largest in tho state. Heretofore the Monmouth School was in the lead, but, strange as it may seem, it is now the smallest of the four State Normal Schools. Drain is in the lead. Ashland second, Weston third and Monmouth fourth. Much of this splendid success is due to the untiring energy of President Briggs, Vice-President Brown und the careful management of the Board of Regents. The completion of tho new railroad to Coos and Curry Counties will result in giving this school a tremendous impetus, and no doubt it will always remain the leading Normal School of Oregon. State Will ot Be Taxed. Ashland Times. There is no indication that the people of Oregon will consent to he taxed for an appropriation to wand Columbia itiver improvement in the matter of jetties, dredging Celilo Canal or otherwise. This newspuier has always taken the ground that Columbia River improvement Is of the lirst importance In the state's needs, but Washington and Ida-ho have as much interest in the great river, generally viewed, as Oregon. It is not to be seri ously considered that the three states will get together to help Columbia River improvement projects. The United States Government should do the work, and must do it if it is done. Hence the need of direct appeal to headquarters and the shaping of every Influence possible to ward the accomplishment of those good commercial purposes in connection with navigation of the Columbia. Timber Meltlna; Awny, Chicago Chronicle. The National Hardwood Xuniber Asso ciation, recently in session in Memphis, Tenn., accepted the committee report that, from the best estimates possible to . be had, "there now stood in the United States approximately 1.475.000,000,000 feet of lumber, but that 4:,000,000.000 feet were being cut every year." At this rate the forests would last nearly 31 years, at which time the production of commercial lumber must cease altogether. But there are several other contingencies which must be considered In such calculations. The annual tires in forests destroy an in credible quantity of standing timber, in cluding ail the younger growths which have started and the seed as well, and seed trees from which future forests must be produced. Including the consumption of wood for pulp and paper, lumber cut for export and for domestic use, telegraph poles, crossties, piling and fuel, of which much is still used in many locations, the timber used in mining operations and that destroyed by forest tires, there are 75.000,000,000 feet of lumber consumed each year, with an increased quantity yearly. It is evident, therefore, that there Is not enough timber standing to continue com mercially for more than 20 years in all the United States, including the Pacific Coast forests. , : The Slat-Hunter's Song. New York Evening Mail. Kathleen Mavourneen! the gray dawn Is breaking, The voice of tho hunter is heard on the Hill. Out !n the Bronx and in Harlem it's making A similar noise to a ten-dollar bill. Oh! hast thou forgotten that w must endeavor To locate a flat? Come, Mavourneen, let's start. We may hunt for years and we may hunt forever. Oh! when shall we And It, thou voice of my heart? EARTHQUAKE From the Tacoma Ne