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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. NOV. 21. 1908.
HIGHER LICENSE.
Higher license Is, we believe, a proper
demand on liquor selling In Portland;
but what the higher license rate ought
to 'be is matter of opinion. The Orego
nian believes the tax could be raised
to $800 with advantage to the city. It
Is a trade that will bear taxation, more
than any other, without injustice or
oppression. Liquors, indeed, are a
product of manufacture; the Industry
usee materials and employs labor; but
the distribution, though many are em
ployed In It, can scarcely be called la
bor. The distribution, therefore, can
pay higher tax than It has hitherto
paid in Portland, and the higher tax
would tend to enforcement of better
conditions, on the whole, than have
heretofore prevailed. The experience of
other cities, and notably the recent ex
perience of Chicago, shows that a tax
of $1000 a year has not much reduced
the number of saloons.
A city must have revenue, and It Is
good policy to raise that revenue with
least imposition of burden on business.
Such Is the nature of the liquor traffic
that it Is marked out everywhere as a
subject of special taxation. It is a
traffic that must exist In every con
siderable city or town. Prohibition,
through local option, could have no
chance at all in Portland. In Con
necticut, though no-llcene has a ma
jority of the towns taking the state at
large yet a vast majority of the popu
lation of the commonwealth dwells in
the license communities. Says the
Hartford Times: "Practically all of
the little republics that are under the
no-license system are rural towns. No
really large town may be found in the
no-license list. In a small community
where the population Is of a homogene
ous character, no-license, if backed by
public sentiment, is the ideal policy. In
a populous center, whose inhabitants
are gathered from the four auarters of
the globe and whose tastes and appe
tites are a study in variation, local pro
hibition is an iridescent dream."
Yet many cities are taking up the
policy of requiring higher license than
formerly; and The Oregonian believes
that a tax of $800 a year would be
about the proper thing in Portland. In
some places, however, a distinction is
made between licenses to sell all liquors
and to sell beer alone. But this is said
to be difficult of enforcement. We be
lieve higher license will be required In
Portland if not now, at no distant day;
and those engaged in the trade must
always see the importance of conform
ing to the requirements of a reasonable
publio opinion.
OCR IMPORTED I.CXUR1ES.
Figures furnished by the Bureau of
Statistics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor show that over $100,
000,000 was sent out of the United
States in the fiscal year ending June
SO, 1906, for the purchase of luxuries.
This grand total includes diamonds and
other precious stones to the value of
$40,000,000; a like sum for laces, em
broideries and ribbons; about $7,000,000
4ul icauiuia uaiuidi tiiiu. u.1 initial; over
$6,000,000 for champagne, and the re-'
mainder In miscellaneous articles, such
as perfumeries, toilet and smokers' ar
ticles and opium for smoking. If im
ported cigars, tobacco and cigarettes
were Included it would mean the addi
tion of $25,000,000 more to the sum total
of imported luxuries.
As an evidence of the complete rally
of the people from the financial depres
sion of the early '90s. these Imported
luxuries amount to more than double
the sum sent abroad for such articles
In 1S96, the total of that year being
$51,000,000, a sum scarcely more than
that expended In 1906 for diamonds and
feathers alone.
Of this great bulk of luxuries to
which the American people treated
themselves In the year covered, practi
cally all except tobacco came from Eu
rope. Of- the $35,000,000 worth of dia
monds imported over $11,000,000 worth
came from the United Kingdom, a sim
ilar amount from the Netherlands,
$6,500,000 worth from Belgium and
$3,500,000 worth from ' France. These
countries are, however, not producers
of diamonds, but merely dealers in
them, and their value, especially those
from France and the Netherlands, is
considerably enhanced by the labor of
cutting, in which the lapidaries of those
countries are expert. From Switzer
land, land of tireless and busy fingers
mrl nltifullv small waees. came $11,214.-
France follows with $10391,147
worth of these articles; Germany with
$6,044,151, and the United Kingdom with
$5,735,027 worth. From Switzerland,
France and Germany chiefly come rib
bons aggregating a value of $2,000,000.
Feathers aggregating a value of $4,000,
000 do not imply the merciless slaugh
ter of birds that our friends of the
Audubon Societies protest so strongly
against, being chiefly ostrich feathers
from the great ostrich farms of South
Africa, and finding market to this coun
try through British trade channels.
The slaughter of birds, to meet a
thoughtless or cruel demand of fash
ion, however. Is well attested In the
breasts, wings, heads and claws of
these creatures of the sea and air that
form so large a stock in trade of Amer
ican milliners.
The presentment of these Hems and
values attests the prosperity of a peo
ple schooled but now 5n adversity and
wailing of "hard times." But for the
fact that the homes of the land have
so greatly multiplied; that educational
facilities have kept full pace with them
and that many things once considered
luxuries have now become the comforts
of life in the homes of labor, the Amer
ican people might well stand aghast
before this table of Imported luxuries
as the forerunner of that pride which is
said to go before destruction. Putting
this aside, however, it is merely reck
oned as an expression of the legitimate
growth of the American people in
wealth and the capacity to enjoy it.
A STATEMENT CONFIRMED.
On the morning after the recent elec
tion In New York The Oregonian said
that Hearst's vote was actually lees
than that cast for Herrlck. the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor two
years before; while the vote for Hughes
had fallen still further 'behind that cast
for the Republican candidate against
Herrlck. Several persons protested the
statement as to Hearst's vote. They
were sure, they said, that The Orego
nian was wrong.
It Is a matter of little Importance
now. Yet the full returns show that
Hearst received 684,722 votes, while
Herrlck, the Democratic candidate for
the same office In 1904, received 732,704.
Hearst's loss on the Democratic vote
was 47,982; much of which, undoubtedly,
went to Hughes.
Some gains, Indeed, were made for
Hearst in several up-etate cities; but
they were made mostly through non
appearance of Republicans at the
polls. In the manufacturing cities there
was a considerable drift of wage-earners,
to Hearst, but he suffered looses
from other quarters. The old Repub
lican ring, dethroned, disgruntled, and
"using the knife" for revenge, was the
heaviest factor against Hughes, who re
ceived in the state 746,334 votes, while
the vote cast for the Republican candi
date for Governor two years before was
813,264.
The figures support and confirm The
Oregonian'e statement the morning af-.
ter the election; and they have, be
sides, a good deal of interest to many
readers.
TUB USEFUL PRUNE.
The prune market of the world Is now
controlled by the annual output of
prunes in our Pacific States. It is but
a few years since all the prunes we
consumed were brought from abroad.
Prices (were high, end as soon as it was
discovered that In our Pacific States we
could grow prunes "to beat the world,"
there was a rush to plant prune or
chards, and great calculations were
based on expected profits, which were
realized for but a short time, because
our states proved so prolific that they
broke the market.
"The prune," says the Hartford
Courant, "rarely gets the credit to
which it is entitled. .The American
Press Humorists' Association makes
the prune the subject of as many jokes
as if it were a mother-in-law. Efforts
to ridicule this particular type of plum
have frequently been made. Th prune
has been called a raisin with an attack
of the dropsy. But no amount of scof
fing on the part of the ungodly will
stay the advance of the prune.
"It is. In sooth, true that the prune
doesn't figure extensively in swell soci
ety. It is rarely found on the table of
the four hundred. It doesn't wear seal
skins, or rido in an automobile, or
carry a lorgnette when it goes to the
playhouse.
"But the prune is a dish for the plain
people. It is palatable, healthful, nu
tritious. It makes excellent sauce and
first-class pies. It appeals to persons
of normal tastes, of simple gastro
nomic virtues, and of moderate pocket
books. The greater the part which is
played "by the prune in the United
States the greater the security of
American Institutions."
WHAT IS THE MATTER?
Industrial conditions and conditions
of business and traffic in every section
of the country seem to indicate that
demand and supply are not pulling
evenly on the yoke. Everywhere there
were bountiful crops and everywhere
there was a scarcity of men to handle
them. There is great building activity
served by contractors who are con
stantly fuming because of their inabil
ity to get material, in every line, on
time. Clamoring at, the door of the
hardware merchant for relief, builders
have been met by the plea of "busy,
so busy; we will serve you as soon as
we can." Calling hotly upon the mill
men for the flooring, the siding, the
doors or the shingles that were to have
been delivered a week or more ago, the
same answer has 'been shortly returned
and the receiver of the telephone hung
up with a bang. Urging the plasterer,
the painter, the plumber, the brick ma
son, to come to time, as his tardiness is
working vexation, delay and expense,
the response is the same.
Business in one line is not able to
haftdle business in another and auxil
iary line. Prunes have rotted by tons
in Oregon orchards because pickers
avere not to be had. The hops in many
yards were left on the vines for the
same reason. . "It is impossible to get
help," is the cry, beginning In the
kitchen and pulsing through every line
where capable, cheerful workers are In
demand.
What Is the matter? Is this Nation,
this community, liKe a great family
that has outgrown its quarters without
developing the ability to take care of
itself in individual lines? Is prosper
ity to be served is it being served by
energetic, willing, eager men, ready and
anxious to do each his part, or are men
in the role of great hulkingunwilling
boys hanging on to its skirts and im
peding as far as possible Its move
ments? Why is it that it is so difficult
and even impossible to get prompt and
intelligent service In ell lines of indus
try? Why is it that the man who two
years ago took care of the lawn about
the house for 20 cents for each hour em
ployed, and proved a cheerful laborer
in his yocaUoDj now baa to be run after
I
and coaxed and cajoled Into doing the
same work for 30 cents? He does not
need money less now than he did then,
but the more rather, since, as he ag
grievedly observes, "everything is so
high," and the advance in his wage is
not questioned. Why is he less willing
to work now than he was then? Is it
because he, in common with others who
form the great rank and file of labor,
fails to recognize his opportunity?
And this is not all. Business in un
precedented volume clamors at the door
of railroad offices and is met with the
words "no cars"; householders call
upon fuel companies for needed sup
plies and "no coal" is the answer;
builders clamor at the mills only to
hear the words "no lumber." And so
all along the line. Is It possible that the
desires of the American people have
outgrown, their ability to meet them?
Or is our system of supply and demand
crankyxand out of gear, its operative
forces hindering where they should help
each other?
PURITANISM.
In some recent observations upon the
English drama Mr. Henry Arthur Jones
ascribed the imbecility of our modern
plays to "the insane rage of Puritan
iem."JIr. Beerbohm Tree stated in re
ply that this was "arrant nonsense,"
but we cannot agree with him. The
spirit of Puritanism always has been
hostile, not only to the drama, but also
to every other form of art. ' Gibbon
notes that the rage of the early Chris
tians against "heathen" art was more
destructive to the monuments of an
tiquity than the fury of the Goths. And
this rage was precisely the same as
that of the English Puritansi It was' a
deep and dire hatred of everything
that tended t'o make life bright, joyous
and beautiful. Whatever contributed
to make earth a desirable dwelling
place was supposed to withdraw the
mind from the delights of heaven and
was therefore sinful. This baleful
"other-worldliness" finally degenerated
into a positive enmity to pleasure and
beauty in themselves.
The same spirit showed itself in .Hol
land, where the fanatical Puritan spirit
wrecked the interiors'of the cathedrals.
It made English . painting cold and
spiritless, and for many years reduced
the church music of the Anglo-Saxon
peoples to nasal psalmody. The sim
pering imaginative literature of -the'
United States owes some of its defi
ciencies to our Puritanical inheritance.
We tolerate only colorless writing and
have decided that passion in a literary
work is "improper." By degrading the
stage to the sole purpose of amuse
ment and condemning it as Immoral
Puritanism has made the modern Eng
lish and American drama a miracle of
idiocy. This prevents nobody from at
tending the theater, but It effectually
hinders the stage from performing its
true duty of purifying the passions and
elevating the imagination. In most
great civilizations except our own the
drama has been the highest literary,
form. Perhaps its degradation in this
country and England shows that our
civilization lacks at least one essential
element of greatness. It Is only in
those modern nations which have es
caped the blight of Puritanism that art
hs played its proper part in softening
manners and modulating competition.
If we Americans are a cruel people, as
Mr. H. G. Wells strongly hints, possi
bly the frigid Puritanism in our blood
accounts for it. At any rate, this
dreadful inheritance tends to make us
greedily Pharisaical. Men necessarily
seek relaxation, and if they are taught
to believe that art is only a form of
vice, they will naturally prefer gross
pleasure to that which engages the
higher faculties.
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RATLROAD CRITICISM.
Anything which affords us a glimpse
of the inner thought of a man like Mr.
Harrinmn is interesting and important,
for he is one of the rulers of this coun
try. Perhaps, so far as actual power
over the happiness and fortunes of
many citizens is concerned, not even
the President of the United States can
rival him. In his recent speech at the
Commercial Club banquet in Kansas
City he made one or two remarks which
throw a curious light upon the work
ings of his mind, and they are therefore
worth a little study. Mr. Harriman re
ferred to the President's wish for more
power In the Government to control the
corporations, and added the significant
comment that ,"lf more power were
given the Government he hoped more
would be given to the railroads also."
Plainly, to his mind, the railroads are
at least as important as the government
of the Nation. He does not admit that
they are or ought to be subject to the
law. They stand on a footing of equal
ity with the President and Congress,
and all efforts to reduce them under
control savor of usurpation.
In short, Mr. Harriman's words
amount to the statement that the coun
try is governed by the railroads, in part
at least, and if he has his Way their
rule will not be interfered with. He
evidently believes also that the cor
porations rule by divine right, for he
strongly hints that some way must be
found to make the people cease criti
cising them. A government that is
above criticism must, of course, be di
vinely inspired. Perhaps Mr. Harriman
and his allies at 26 Broadway will in
troduce a bill into Congress at the next
session to make criticism of the cor
porations a criminal offense. This is
much simpler than to still complaint
by removing causes for it, and much
more satisfactory to the predatory in
terests which Mr. Harriman represents.
That there are ample grounds for
criticism of the railroads Mr. Root
showed in his brief reply to the cor
poration chief. Their unfairness to
patrons, their rebates, their arbitrary
use of their enormous power, their
bad management, their exorbitant
rates, their contempt for the rights of
the public, their systematic debauch
ment of public officials, are a few
among the many grounds for criticism
which one might mention without
searching either long or far. That the
management of the railroads is unen
durably bad is suggested by the "car
famines" which so often prevail. These
famines occur periodically in every sec
tion of the country, and they always
come on "just at the season when cars
are most needed. The cars seem never
to be in the right place. Of course, ex
cuses for this fault are forthcoming in
great abundance, but the Nation would,
prefer cars to excuses. This deficiency
alone would condemn our present rail
road organization, hilt there are others
which are worse. . '
The slaughter of human beings which
proceeds day after day upon the rail
roads proves that there is a striking
lack of executive ability or common
humanity, or both, in those who con
duct their affairs. A system which
thus endangers the lives of its patrons
is crude in the extreme, to say nothing
of its barbarity. Even if freight and
passenger rates were lower In America
than elsewhere in the world, this would
not atone for the bad management of
the railroads in other directions. But
the rates are not lower. A fair com
parison between American and German
freight tariffs proves that the Germans
have the advantage of us, though in all
equity American rates ought to be the
lowest In the world. Most of our roads
were built with a very small outlay for
the right of way. In some cases they
received it as a free gift, together with
large donations of cash. The transcon
tinental lines received enough land
from he Government to pay for their
cost twice over. Thus the actual in
vestment in the roads is comparatively
light, much lighter than in European
countries, where land is expensive, and
rates ought to be correspondingly low.
They are not, however. .
Mr. Wharton Barker estimates in the
North American Review that our
freight rates are more than double
what they ought to be. They could be
reduced by a full half and still leave
the roads a fair profit on their actual
investment. The stock of the railroads
has been watered until their apparent
value exceeds their true value by more
than 100 per cent. Upon this dishonest
valuation the patrons of the roads are
compelled to pay dividends. Hence
rates are more than twice as high as
they would be under equitable regula
tion. With facts like these staring them in
the face, how can people be expected
not to criticise the railroads? Mr. Har
riman must hasten the enactment of
his lese majeete statute. There is no
other way to escape the complaints of
the vulgar herd. His sentence that
."The people' are coming to believe iD
Americanism, and that means fair
play," is probably a great deal nearer
the truth than he believes or wishes.
The people do believe in fair play, and
they purpose to have it. There is no
wide belief, however, that fair play
would be promoted by giving more
power to the railroads. Their method
of using the power they have does not
encourage such an expectation. The
era of criticism is not likely to . pass un
til Mr. Harriman and others of his
genus are shorn of their power to dic
tate to the country and the control of
the law is as complete over them as'
over the humblest citizen.
The early, coming of Winter in the
Rocky Mountain region has caught
many ranchers, fruitgrowers and beet
farmers unprepared. Early in Novem
ber the manager of the beet-sugar fac
tory at Billings, Mont., sent out a cir
cular letter to beetgrowens urging them
to use all speed in getting their beets
out of the ground and in the dumps at
the various receiving stations, where
they might be protected from freezing,
until such time as there were ears
availa-ble for delivering them at the
factory. It is manifest that all beet
growers, not only in Montana, but in
the Eastern Oregin sugar-beet district,
where Winter has set in much earlier
than usual, will suffer loss if this ad
vice has been disregarded, or if for any
reason it was not possible to heed it.
These are chili days and dreary
nights in which to be lost in the soli
tudes of an Oregon forest. Perhaps a
woodsman could manage to keep
alive and even to keep relative
ly comfortable under such circum
stances, provided his supply of ammu
nition and matches held out. but then a
woodsman is not likely to get lost. It
is doubtful whether the man Henry Go
ers, who strayed into the woods of Co
lumbia County with his gun several
days ago, will live to tell the story of
his sufferings and wanderings. His
plight is one to excite pity, and as
manifested by a cordon of drenched,
weary and shivering searchers, to en
list the sympathies of humanity.
rThe one expression of dignity, of re
nerve, of satisfaction, in the career of
Mrs. Creffield after her name came to
stand for a religious mania of a strange
type was that which decreed the ex
clusion of the morbidly curious public
from the little mortuary chapel in
which her obsequies were held. Quietly,
decently, sorrowfully, thiis smitten
daughter of a reputable family was
borne to her grave, followed only by
those whose love was her birthright
and whose grief over her sad death and
sadder life was sincere.
Mr. Broetje may comfort himself by
comparing his woes with those of the
beef trust. The trust is forbidden to
sell embalmed beef; a tyrannical judge
will not allow Mr. Broetje to sell
wormy apples. What is business com
ing to? We expect to hear next that
the grocers have been compelled to sell
sixteen ounces for a pound.
Old Yamhill and other Valley coun
ties will today make an apple exhibit
just to show that there are others be
sides Hood River apples. If it can be
demonstrated that Valley apples are
"just as good" as Hood River, then
Valley apples are the best in the world.
Dr. C. T. Wilson may not know much
about criminal law, but when it comes
to justice he is a whole library. When
the law upholds the wrongdoer and
flouts his victim, it is time, as the doc
tor suggests, for a little gunplay.
One timid restaurant-keeper who per
jured himself in San Francisco to shield
Abe Ruef now wants to tell all he
knows. That's the beginning of the end.
The San Francisco lawbreakers are
being thoroughly Heneyized.
Mr. Harriman thinks we have rail
roads enough; but the railroads haven't
6idings and terminals enough. Central
Oregon will be interested to know that
It has railroads enough, but not side
tracks enough.
The sulphur used to drive the officials
out of the French churches smells like
old times. A whiff of the fumes re
minds one of -those happy days, alas!
forever gone, when there used to be a
hell.
An article is just about due from
Walter Wellman, who is going to find
the North Pole some time on the mis
takes of Peary, who has been too busy
fighting ice floes and blizzards to write.
The President is thru at Panama and
he will return to find that pretty much
the whole American people Is still thor
oly addicted to the habit of spelling In
the same old way.
The plutocratic river front grabbers
failed to get any more of the river; but
there is still some chance for opera
tions on dry land. Hold on to your
land, everybody.
Tom "Cooper, the famous ex-bicyclist,
who was killed in an automobile mix
up, leaves $80,000. He certainly died
like a millionaire.
SOCIALISTS IJT THE- ELECTIOX.
The Movement Makes No ,Hendvray
Bnt Distinctly Loses,
New York Times.
The election ought not to pass into
forgetfulness without a glance at how
the Socialists fared. We have been
told now and again that the Socialists
were the seven lean kine who were
,to swallow up all other parties, but
the signs are rather more obscure now
than before last week. The misadven
ture of Mr. Hearst's candidacy is not
one of those signs. He himself has
said it. He did not stand for Social
ism, but for "Americanism" alone pure
and simple. It therefore was Mr.
Hearst's sort of Americanism, not So
cialism, which was rejected in his
person by Republicans and Democrats
alike. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Hillquit
were the most conspicuous Socialist
candidates in this neighborhood. Mr.
Sinclair received about 2000 votes,
which sufficed to place him in the
"also ran" class, but did not give him
a look at the money. Mr. Hillquit suc
cumbed also to a mere Tammanyite
with the unromantic name of Gold
fogle. And yet it is but a few days
since he sat down to a banquet in the
company of such statesmen as Lincoln
Steffens, Peter Dunne, Edwin Mark
ham, Professor Giddings, of Columbia,
and others. The election returns make
this seem a strange collection of talent
which perhaps it would be hard to re
assemble. A'hs far from exhausts the misad
ventures of the Socialists which rival
Mr. Hearst'a. Why was it, for exam
ple, that the Socialist candidate ' for
Llcutenant-Goverr received nearly
1003 more votes than the Governor, the
head of the ticket? Can it be possible
that so many Socialists thought Mr.
Hearst, the other peerless American,
was a better Socialist than Chase and
that they cut Chase in order that
Hearst, although pledged to American
ism, might give them Socialism the
day after election? It is a curious
misunderstanding which should so con
fuse Hearstism and Socialism. The
same hard fate pursued this all con
quering party throughout the country.
In New Hampshire McFall polled 88S.
.or fewer than Debs in 1004. probably
forfeiting the party's column upon the
ballot. There was for a time a report
that the Fourth Illinois district had
sent a Socialist to Cognress, but it
was untrue. There have been Social
ist members of several Statg Legisla
tures, but the first of that ilk has yet
to go to Washington in a representa
tive capacity. If we make no mistake
there are Socialists in every National
Legislature in the world except ours,
even in Japan. But Americans this
year were even colder toward Social
ism than towards "Americanism," that
is, Mr. Hearst's brand.
Chicago Tribune.
In the West, as in the East, the So
cialists have been proclaiming that
theirs was the party of the immediate
future, that recruits were hurrying to
join its ranks, and that It would soon
outvote the old parties and establish
the social millennium. The future is
less immediate than it was before elec
tion. In Idaho the Socialists and anarch
ists tried to defeat a Governor whose
offense was that he had taken steps
required by law to bring to trial an
archists accused of the assassination
Of one of his predecessors. They
failed. In Colorado, where the Social
ists said they had made numerous
converts, they ran a state ticket, but
it got only a trifling vote. In Chica
go they drummed up ovef 20,000 votes,
but they elected no candidates. They
fired their ballots in the air and
brought down nothing. Before the
votes were cast they said they would
elect six or seven members of the Leg
islature. When the votes were counted
it was found they had not, even under
the cumulative voting system, elected
one. In the last General Assembly
they had two members. The party
has lost ground instead of gaining it.
It was not able to give its candidates
so many votes as were given thoso of
the Independence League, which came
into existence only this year.
There are parts of the country where
the Socialist vote may be expected to
increase slowly, especially in times of
discontent and depression, but there
will be a greater increase In the vot
ing power of the old parties. No mat
ter how the Socialists strive, they will
not be able to catch up. They will
not be able to elect candidates to
offices of any consequence. A party
which cannot elect candidates any
where commands little respect and ex
cites no alarm.
Mr. Watteraont "Hnghes For l!08r
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If the Republican party is to remain
in power and to address its experience
and trained abilities to the disposition of
the great questions of foreign and do
mestic policy which press upon us. it
will havo largely to follow the lead of
Theodore Roosevelt. To the threshold
of a third term it can safely follow him.
If in Its blind confidence and enthusi
asm, or In its mistaken selfishness and
perverted greed, it should get the notion
that it must follow him farther, that no
one but he can be elected and can carry
out these policies, then we are lost; be
cause, in the state of division and demor
alization which marks the Democratic
party, even he might be elected, and his
election would not only proclaim to man
kind the failure of Republican government
but would actually Mexicanize the Gov
ernment of the United States.
Let Mr. Hughes use his freedom along
with his wits to do his duty, and maybe
when the Republican cohorts in 1908 get
together in National convention maybe
they will wisely conclude that there is
another New Yorker besides Theodore
Roosevelt good man and true as they
must conceive and proclaim Theodore
Roosevelt to be who can carry the coun
try and work out the destiny of the
people.
We Have Been Friends Together.
Caroline E. Norton.
We have been friends together.
In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut trees
In infancy we play'd.
But coldness dwells within thy heart
A cloud is on thy brow;
We have been friends together
Shall a light word part us now?
We have been gay together;
We have laugh'd at little Jests;
For the fount of hope was gushing.
Warm and Joyous, in our breasts.
But laughter now oath fled thy lip.
And sullen glooms thy brow;
We have been gay together
Shall a light word part us nowT
We have been sad together
We have wept, with bitter tears.
O'er the grass-grown graves, where slumber
The hopes' of early years.
The voices which are silent, there
Would bid thee clear thy brow;
We have been sad together -
O! what shall part us nowt.
HAS MRS. SAGE INTENTIONS
All m Mistake About Her Desire to
Scatter Her Millions.
New York World.
One of the New York morning papers
published what purported to be an in
terview with Mrs. Russell Sage, wherein
she is represented as saying that she
Intended to give away all of the
$SO,000.000 left by the late Russell Sage,
to worthy and unobtrusive persons who
need the money.
The first train to Lawrence, L. I., car
ried an even dozen men and women, all
worthy and unobtrusive, who anxiously
Inquired of the depot master the way to
the Sage residence. An hour later a
dozen gloomy men and women assembled
upon the station awaiting the first train
for New York. They unanimously agreed
that Mrs. Sage had been incorrectly re
ported, for one and all had been brusque
ly denied access to the widow with mil
lions at her disposal. They had even
been shooed off the grounds by a mili
tant maid who weighed 200. .
All day long men and women of the
shabby genteel sort in vain made Law
rence the Mecca of their pilgrimage, but
someone had blundered. . Someone to
whom Mrs. Sage had Imparted her con
fidences had repeated them to a reporter,
who had printed the confidences in the
shape of a chatty interview, wherein
Mrs. Sage was made to say that she
pined to give away all she possessed,
save a few odd thousands to provide for
her declining years, to persons whom
she herself might ferret out among the
teeming millions of indigent throughout
the land.
Among the early afternoon arrivals
was Colonel J. J. Slocum. a brother of
Mrs. Sage, who is one of her financial ad
visers. There came also Dr. John Bry
son Delavan, Mrs. Sage's New York phy
sician. Mrs. Sage's residence was at once
declared in a state of siege. No person
was permitted to get farther than the
top step of the porch to the venerable
mistress of the palace. Some ludicrous
scenes occurred. One elderly woman,
well known in New York's most exclu
sive set. drove to the door and handed
her card to the buxom servantwoman
on guard at the portal. The maid scru
tinized the pasteboard and pursed up
her lips.
"Mrs. Sage ain't glvin' away any
money." said she. "It's all a mistake.
She hasn't a penny to give away."
"But I do not want any of Mrs. Sage's
money, my good woman," said the caller.
"T have come to make Mrs. Sago an
offer for a house which sfie owns in New
York. Pray take my card to her."
"Not much," returned the guardian of
the dor. "They be coming to beg in all
sorts of ways, and I'll not carry any
cards to the missus."
And she maintained her position. In
snite of the wrath of the visitor, who
was finally constrained to depart, filled J
There called also the president of a
great college, who thought that his dig
nity and the eminence of his office might
surely carry him safely past butlers and
doormaids. He had read the account of
what Mrs. Sage proposed to do with her
millions, and he thought that his experi
ence and the needs of his institution of
learning would appeal to the generous
prospective donor. But he found out
that even college presidents command no
respect at the Sage villa.
Dr. Delavan, 1 East Thirty-third street,
said:
"I have consulted Mrs. Sage and, she
informs me that she was not correctly
reported: that the story was unauthor
ized, misleading and in absolute misrep
resentation of her Intentions. What her
intentions may he no one is authorized
to say. Mrs. Sage will not make any
statement."
The Ships That Sink.
Baltimore Sun.
What becomes of the ship that sinks
in midocean? If it is of wood it takes.
In the first place, considerable time for
1t to reach the bottom. In 100 or more
fathoms of water a quarter of an hour
will elapse before the ship reaches bot
tom. It sinks slowly and when the bottom
Is reached it falls gently into the soft,
cozv bed. with no crash or breaking.
Of course if, it 1 laden with pig iron
or corresponding substances, or if It is
an iron ship, It sinks rapidly and some
times strikes the bottom with such force
as to smash it to -pieces.
Finally the ship is so laden with heavy
incrustations, cgrals, sponges and bar
nacles that, If wood, the creaking timbers
fall apart and slowly but surely are ab
sorbed. Iron vessels are demolished more quick
ly than thoso of wood, which may last
for centuries. The only metals that with
stand the chemical action of the waves
arc gold and platinum, and glass also
seems unaffected.
British Horsewomen Itide Astride.
London Dispatch.
In a few years, if the present movement
continues. It is probable that all women
will ride astride during the daily outings
in Hyde Park. Among the society wo
men who at the beginning of the present
season have discarded the side-saddle
and are seen riding astride are the
Duchess of Westminster; Viscountess Cas
tlereagh, who Is daughter of Henry
Chaplin, and I-idy Stewart Richardson,
sister of the Countess Cromartie. There
is a growing number of girls following
their example. Including the daughter of
the DucheBS of Sutherland.
One of the best known physicians says
that the ordinary saddlo used in riding
astride is as safe as the side-saddle for
women and less liable to serious acci
dents. Rides Her Blrycle at 7- Years.
Chicago Chronicle.
Mrs. Caroline Baohe Barnes, a great
granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, Is
72 years old, but never fails to take a
daily spin on her bicycle, sometimes mak
ing a 20-mlle Jaunt. Mrs. Barnes is a
professional nurse and Is regarded as the
youngest old woman In Vineland, N. J.,
where she resides.
PUZZLE:
FIND THE MAN
TARIFF
AO GRAFT OX RELIEF FUXT
Devine Tells Red Cross About Work
in San Francisco.
NEW YORK. Nov. 20. Dr. Edward T.
Devine. who, as special representative of
the Red Cross, had supervision of the re
lief work as secretary at San Francisco
following the earthquake disaster, de
clared before the NeV York state branch
of the Red Cross that, while mistakes
might have been made in the distribution
of the relief funds, there was no "graft;'
there. Dr. Devine took occasion to refer
to the Indictments recently returned by
a grand jury against Mayor Schmltz. of
San Francisco, growing out-of the investi.
gation of municipal affairs, saying:
"There Is one person, at least, who has
had every opportunity to know the truth,
who does not believe that the Mayor of
San Francisco has stolen a single penny
of the relief fund."
It was at the annual meeting of the
New York Red Cross that Dr. Devine
reviewed the work done by the national
organization in behalf of the sufferers
from the earthquake and fire.
The relief fund, he said, reached the
total of $13,000,000, of which J9.0u0.000 was
contributed in cash to the general relief
fund, $2,500,000 by the Federal government
and the rest by independent organizations
and Individuals who expended the money
independently. He referred to the incor
poration of the California Relief and Red
Cross funds for the expenditure of the
$4,000,000 balance, which will be used In
rehabilitation. Of this amount it was
agreed that the following expenditures
should be made; $600,000 for the relief of
refugees, $500,000 for the establishment of
homeless In new homes, $300,000 for the
aid of small enterprises, tradesmen and
mechanics, this being the balance for
warded by the New York Chamber of
Commerce; $500,000 for the erection of
small cottages for refugees still living in
tents, and $1,000,000 to aid suferer3 In
building new homes, the last one-third of
the cost being paid out of the fund. It
is said that 17,000 persons were still prac
tically living ins tents or temporary shel
ters, while 23.000 additional people were
unsatisfactorily housed, 40,000 in all to be
looked after. '
Dr. Devine. referring to the final amal
gamation of the various relief commit
tees, said:
In laying aside their bitter factional dif
ficulties, they gave an example of forbear
ance that should last as long as the story
of the Han Francisco disaster.
We do not claim that all the refugees
were treated alike or that some of them
may not have suffered at the expense of
others. But I can say to you that none of
the people suffered for the necessities of
lite. There was none who was not supplied
with food, clothing, bedding and shelter, all
that was absolutely necessary. You have
read the contrary, but It was not true.
I challenge any one to prove that they
were not supplied with the necessities of
lite. They did not die of exposure, starva
tion and neglect, but they got well, and
these things could not have been If they
'nad suffered as some one represented that
they had. There was no stealing or graft
that could be prevented. I do not say that
some shoes or clothing or other things may
not have gone astray, that some one may
not have gotten them other than those who
should have, but there was no waste or
graft due to Incompetence or neglect.
Jacob Schiff, the treasurer, reported
that the receipts for the year, including
dues and a small balance, amounted to
$l,028,4i4. Of thi3 amount $10,121 was con
tributed to the Japanese famine fund.
William Carr Sanger, who presided, was
re-elected president; Elihu Root, first
vice-president; J. M. Adams, second vice
president; Mrs. W. K. Draper, secretary;
Jacob Schiff, treasurer.
1TRAXCE BARS AMERICAN PORK
New Meat Inspection Rules Violate
Old Agreement.
PARIS. Nov. 20. The elimination of
the microscopic examination of pork
from the new American meat inspection
regulations has resulted in a prelimi
nary decision on the part of the French
customs authorities, barring American
ham, bacon, canned pork. etc. After
long diplomatic negotiations several
years ago, France agreed to admit
American pork upon a Government cer
tificate that it had been microscopically
examined and found sound. When,
therefore, the new regulations Insti
tuted after the packing disclosures and
under which the first shipments are
now on their way to French ports
were submitted to the authorities here,
they ruled that they did not comply
with, the old agreement, and prompt
measures were instituted to secure
thoir reversal, and if possible avoid
prolonged unpleasant diplomatic nego
tiations. Ambassador McCormlck, un
der instructions from Washington,
made energetic representations to the
Foreign Office, pointing out that while
the microscopic examination had been
eliminated, the new meat Inspection
was more rigorous and more efficient.
Foreign Minister Plchon promised to
give the matter immediate attention.
A slight delay will not cause great ma
terial loss, as the pork importations to
France are comparatively small, tho
trade never having recovered from the
blow It received when American pork
was originally excluded from France.
John Bull Jealous of Kaiser.
LONDON. Nov. 20. The Westminster
Gazette today urges the Government to
select a man of supreme ability for Brit
ish Ambassador at Washington. The pa
per declares that Great Britain's former
Influence and prestige at Washington
have been usurped by the German Em
bassy, adding that Mr. Roosevelt is in
more close and more confidential com
munication with Emperor William than
with any other ruler or statesman In Eu
rope. WHO DOESN'T WANT THE
REVISED.
From the Chlcag-o Tribune.