Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, January 08, 1907, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text8 Tllti MORXLVO .OKEUOXUV. TUESDAY. JAXUAUV ft. loo:. eiWRinios rates, tT UIVJLR1ABIV IN ADVANCE. tty Mail Zmily. Bunrtnr lncludd. ons yer. .... -- Dlly, Sunday Included, ml x rr onths. . . . - 5 laUyf Sunday included, threo montua., 2.sa l)Mly, Sunday Included, one month TS Dftlly, without Sunday, ona year ...... Hl !-. without Sunday. 1 month. - X 1 1 y . without Sunday, thrre nionthi. . Daily, without bunduy, one month today, one year w Weekly; on year (Issued Thursaay;.. 1.50 Sunday and Wkly. . 3. SO Xally, Sunday included, ono year. tally. Sunday Included, end month 11 ROW TO KKM1T Bend pootoftlce mon-y rrter, xprea order or x-r. xl checlc on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency trt at th Pender's risk.. Glve-potoaic ad- HKinmiiiincliiulM county awl m rOSTAGK RATES. Cntarad M Portland, Ores on. looffl a" Seoad-Clua Ad.attr. 30 to 14 Faces 1 cent 1 to 1H tun 2 cents 0 to 44 cents 3 to eo Pnm-m - . . ... rorrlitn I'dhIbkp. doubla rate IMPORTANT The postal laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage is not luuy Dr.pald r not luraarded to destination. BUTEKM Ub(IK8S OFFICE. Tha I. C SSMkwltlx Hpwtal riH-y Iew TorK, roomi 4,3-00 Tribune builUlng. cm Uto. roonii M6-M2 Trlbuna bulldlnf. Auditorium Anne FoatoSica S LXikrborn aireet. bt, I'aul, MtUil a. .1 N. tit. Mario, Commercial Colorado Sprinsra, Colo. Western New Alvir HamlltOB A Hrnflrtck. 908-012 Seventeenth street: PraM Book. Store, XS14 Fifteenth street: I. Welratein: H. P. Hail en. Kan Ninth Mini MIL Kantas City. : Ninth and Warm Klckecker Clear Co.. Kavanaugb, SO South Mlnneapoi ClrTcland. O. Jama, Puhaw. SOT 8u- perior street. Atlantic City. If. J. Ell Taylor. enr York City L.- Jones & Co.. Astor House; Broadway Theater News Btand. Oakland. Cat "V. II. Johnson, Four tnth and Franklin streets. N. Wheat ley; Oakland IVew Stand. Osdrn Li. 1 13 c y la ; W. O. Kind. H HorFpVuiji, Arh. C, K "Weaver & (To. OmaUtt llarkalow Bros.. lt12 Jamam: a:h Stationery Co.. lHOS Farnam: liAO South Fourl rrnth. Sarramrnto, Csl. Sacramento Nawa Co.. 3 K. street. Silt Lake-Moon Book & Stationery Co., Rottenfeld & Hansen. Ixia AnrlM H. IS. Amoi, manatr aaven tret vi-aKons. dan Die-go li. E. Amos. Long Beach, Cl B. E. Aiuon. I'atadeiui, (al. A. P. Horning. San FrancUou Foatar A Orear. Kerry XCwb Stand; Hotel St. Francla Newa Stana; a-. l'ari-ni, N. Wheat ley. F.iireka, C'al. Call -Chronicle Agrency. Musliinjton, D. C-EbllH Houss, rena- yhnrtla avenue. orfolk. ncKtown UewH Co. W. A. Cons rove. Kyan'l Theater Xlcltst I'lne Utrh, 1 lh lindolpnia. Office. PORTLAND. TIEH11AV, JANVAKV 8, 107. YtVISETIOS. The perennial controversy over vivi- Bectlon hap been transferred for tlio moment to Chlrago. By ordinance the City Council has turned stray dogs over to certain collopro professors, nc- cording to the report, for experiments in flparrh of -a Kixtli sense. Anainst this ordinance Mrs. Thomas, widow of th late Theodore Thomas, makes pub lic protest. Her description of the cru- elties which animals suffer under vlvl- eectlon is poignant. Her appeals to the sympathetic imaginations of. hor readers are affeetinff In th-e extreme The dop which hs been tilmont a. mem ber of the -family will be subjected1 to excruciating torments. The eyes that looked at ono with constant love will be put out : tie tons-tie tha t 1 1 eked the hand of its master will be amputated. The nerves will be dissected from the Jiving flesh. And all this will be done for the trifling1 purpose of dicoveripie whether or not the dog can find its food hy some yet undiscovered sense with. out eigrht or smell or taste. At least Mrs. Thomas thl nka this purpose is comparatively -unimportant. But this is not the worst of tho mat- ter. Sho hints very strongly thai? ex periments upon do?t will not satisfy the scientists. After demonstrating their theories upon these, hapless vie- time they will proceed, in those secret rferys where they confine their pa tients, to repeat and verify th-e same experiments upon human beings. "Per haps, even a child or two, if the profes- ons have luck, must be experimented upon." So writes Mrs. Thomas, urid - ing somewhat later in her letter that tho cruelty and barbarity which the scientists inflict upon miserable beaets ought to be e topped, not only for the sake of the dumb animals, but also oc- rause it debases the scientists thom- sHvcs and because the experiment which besrin with the "torture of dogs end cats are continued on the bodies of helpless patients, often little children, who come Into tbeir powr in the ooune of their professional work. " Sympathy for dumb brutea' ie dls- linctly modern. There are humane reg- illations in the Mosaic laws, but in gen era one searches ancient li tera tyre In vain for any trace of that kindly emo- tion toward our fellow-beings of the lower tribes which in so strongly ex pressed by Mrs. Thomas. The Egyp tians worshipped many animals, xnd those were, ol course, treated with su- pftrfluouB tenderness. Among the many ad m i ra We traits of Hindoo philosoph y. or religion, Is ite ban upon cruelty and slaughter. Of cource all, tills is well enough, but what we are speaking of 1h considerate treatment of the lower animals based -upon kindly feelinjr in stead" of superstition. This, we relter- hic'. is a now thing in. the world. Des- vartps, for example, taught thstt th IuTrtt bafits -were mere, automatons -without sensation. It made no differ- one? how they were maltreated, be- cause they could feel neither pain nor pleasure. ' For many years the influ ence of - Descartes uioti European thought was profound, and we may in- for that the lower animals owe to his doctrine Incalculable ufreriiiR-. To this day horses are habitually misused upon the continent ot Europe. English fr-ntlment, however. Is much like our own upon the subject. - Still, It rather miwepreoents the mat- ter to ppeaK of vivisection as cruelty, barbarity, and so on. The experiments which nre summed up In the word" vfcectlon" a re seldom, almost never, conducted w ith the intent to cause suf- ferliifr, but 'for the sole purpose of in- ereaiiiR - knowledge and through knowledKR ! tmina 1 1 UK suffering from the world, or these McperimenM? It la possible, to draw pictures which bar row up the soul;, but, considering the end in view, they are. after - nil, -deeds of mercy -instead of cruelty. Through Biich: experiment tho actual misery of living beinjrs. both men and heaets. haa -bfi, lm measura ol y mi t Ipa t !.- The only1 rational' question which can be at'tod concerning vivisection Is this: Does not the ultimate ?ood outweigh t he temporary sacrifice?" The pa.iii is inflicted, upon a few animals, and Is brief. The, good is universal and inv perishable. The price its perhaps a lit tie blgn. To the sensitive imuginatiotts of women it undoubtedly seems to out- meaeure all possible benefit. But the fact are not with them. In her esti mate of vivisection, in her etatement of ita proceseea and her estimate of its effects - upon doctors arid scientists, Mrs. Thomas i simply mistaken. In lier lallufions to experiments upon hu man beings she ctates the thing which is not ?Q. Doctors are the last poople in the world to risk experiments upon their pMticnts. Profewlonal reputation is always at stalte when such a. thinff te proposou, Malpractice suits loom up terribly. The envious vigilance of rivals d-eters. Kvorythimr in the wa y o self-Interest com bines to rn the" doctor not to experiment, but to follow the ancient, well-trodden way. Those physicians who have rl sited all upon some Kri' jt-t experiment, such, us -vac miiuion, m:m or mum tliciapy, merit the rin u,d it of thefr kind, but for the mow pa.rt- ihi-y. huve rect-ivod In st e;iJ exactly s uc h Igno f' n t vitu pc ra- tion 'as Mrs, T'r.omus virits upon the vivlsectionists. The- m;in who first dis sected it- human corpse and wrote an ceo u n t of it was -c i t ! bo Tore th e Spanish " Inquisition, Ttie nwlPrn FCn- nment against srientilie experimontt? upon animals is no more r;T ion-H t ri . n the medieval prcjudk-e. against anat- oni)-, , J- OTt A C ftA j I)I R f-:T 1'lt I f A K V. The politicians of the State of Wash- inatull are. confronted -by a dilemma. They unilerstand perfectly that the I . ojjIc ix re ftir 1 i rec t primary law, but they lo not eo well understand how to jrivo them fa farm and not the reality. If there .shall bo a bona fid primary law. t he polit i-i;i n i nd the boss . will find their occupation gone. If they etwet a bogus law. tha people h re 1 i ke.I y to fl n d it nu t very sno n, an d the poMtiefa-n and the boss will be out of bu?inccj5 just the same. It is a hard problem. Hero in Ore-son the direct primary Ihw watt passed under the initiative, and it the real thing. In "VVjirshinp.- ton tlio Wil must run tlio gauntlet of the legrislative fire of about ir0 differ ent statcsmon, and the prospects are that. vh en it e iwrpea f ro m t he rd ea !, it will have. 150 different amendments. and it will not look very much !ike a primary law. or anythlriK eise. But it will be sorry businci-rf lor the poll ti- clans t they trifle with tho genuine sentiment of the people for such a law. There are ome politlolii nsa. even in the State of Washington, who cannot fool all of the people even some of the time, The Orpfron l;iv Is a first-rate model for the people of VV'awhinplon to follow. There are no palliative expedients like 'secoiKi-clioiof" or p;trty conventions to be found there. It ia the- bui3ineis of the primary la.v ' to provide it way by which w. political party may nominate by popular vote or its members candi dates for ofliee, and that is jut wh:it tho OrefTon law doer. If the Washing ton people go into the "second-Hiotce" scheme, they will get into trouble. A party convention to adopt a platform,. and otherwise to keep nlive part y spirit and to harmonize party -difterenees. is doubtless a good thing; and it it poissi- blc that soma provision might fa made In the law to elect deles-atce to such a eon veil tion anrj to authorize it to make declaration of party principles. Rut it should have no othor function; it should have nothing- to 'do with the nornitia 1 ion of candidates. The people of Washington should require that nominations for all offices be made by the direct primary, .and nowhere else. JKALOl'SY OR RESENTMENT? The tragedy of-Sunday gfternoon in this city involving: in sorrow, grief and humiliation two reputable and worthy families of long residence in Oregon, paa nir.t;t deplorable. It is idle to dis- cus the caiitse or ea uses nea r. or re mote, that led to the murder of one woman, the attempt 10 murder another and the suicide of the murderer. Whether unreasoning' .lenlousy. which is itself a type of - insanity, or unbridled resentment, which may suddenly develop another and tem porary phase of mental unbal ance, it boots not now to surmise. The appalling facts or the tragedy and the bitter sorrow that has" followed in its train are euflicient to nrou sym pathy for the living- and pity for the dead. The losson is -to ttiose who pull unevenly in the marriage yoke, aro prone to magnify the faults of each other, and in so doiner are leading up to i separation that, with Its possibilities of tragedy, might in many eues be avoided by the exercise of forbearance. There are oust', and perhapf this was one, wherein a woman is justified in leaving her husband. Non-support is one of the most material reasons, for suth a eourse, nnd, when linked witli rtrunkennetG nd other viceri, it be comes a sound ( and indeed imperative reason, for so doing. Whatever tho cause, the effect in this case was ap pal tins', the only redeeming- feature netng mat no children were burn to this mismatod piiir. A WHOLKSOM K RIVAI.KV. The State Board of Horticulture will ipet in annual session in tliis city to- ay. Thla nieetinp will be oinethins iore than an exchange of views by fruitgrowers. Nor win the reading. of papore upon the various phkses of hor- tioulturp, thouBh an IiitercstinK- him profitable feature of the convention,' be the most entertaining, presentment, Exhibits will re made of apples from many sections of the strfite and of wal nuts from the several sections in which these are grown, that will be self-ex- plaiWtory and of general interpft. What may be eaUed "'applied horticul ture" will thus bo presented. and through thte exhibit Oreg-oh horticiii- ture and the climate and soil of Oregon will each, literally, speaking, be known by its fruits. The Oregon State Board of Horticul- ture is composed of men alert in the interests of fruitgrowing throughout the state and the Pacific Northwest. JO Hood River, the Willamette Val icy, the- valley o: the Rogue River and of the ITmpqua, nor the irrigated fruit lands of eastern Oregon, will encb or either be specifically exploited by and at tty meeting, but nlLwlll come to gethcr in friend!' rivalry, each with the proor of vhat it can ltv in tho line of fruitirrowlng properly displayed and ijrouuiy submitted. Jiaiion and. ClacK- amaS CountlM will ho there with ap pies that fitly advertise the odaptabil ity of the soils of those counties t the purpose of the intelligent fruit grower; Yamhill will not be behind with its apple display, and will add to it nuts from the walimt proves of Dundee; Hood IUver, with its proud boast of "only food fruit," will be there to verify the truth of it motto; Siuthfi-n Orepron will preraent indubita ble evidence that the fruit grown theTe is uiwuTpa?sed in size, variety, color aiul flavor, while Ka stern. Orciron wii give - lct iinouy in regard to the possi- bilities of all that is excellent for the production of fruit in its soil and cli- mate, when aided by rrriga.1 ion. in conjunction with this exhibit, for which, a total of seventeen cups are offered ns premiums to competitors, tho subject of horticulture will be pre sented and ditcus.sed from wide a.nd various points of view. PJanXing, cul- Mating-, pruning, spraying, gathering packing- and ehipplnsr in connection with the fruit industry will- he present ed by men who Know what they are talking about, and if any one tlilnKs that successful fruitgrowing consifius in rlaiiti!iR orchard trees and- leaving the rest to the Kind, devices of Nature until picRlns, pacKlns ana (fhlpplnj time, let him attend the sessions of thie. con vention and rrf unrjpoplved. HtWlLV AVb DtMAVb AfiAlV. The folly of the lntorntionul Sailinjr Shi r Owner I Tti Jon in endeavorinfr to maintain grain freights out of Portland at a figure in excess of that warrantorl by the law of supply and. -demand and hy .xrHtmK' and urKrhaniinK economic conditions finds frequent illustration this eoaeon. This fixed rato. oslab- llahed by men 7000 miles away from the porta wtak.ii It afreets. ca.ll for 27s 6d per ton on grain from Portland and 26s 3d for Pugrot Sound loading. Early In the season, when the frraln mov-ernent wa free, a few union ships were taken at these rates, but the percentage of tho European shipments handled by these carriers was the smallest on rec ord. JSTow, with the Jreo movement over and non-union chips and steam- ers ohtainabla, tho union ships are forced to lie idle or accept lumber charters at rates batiod on the law of supply and demand. The impossibility of tho union, main- tabling its unwarranted rates against Portland is shown by the experience- of the French bark. Turgot, now in port, The Turgot, a non-union ship, was chartered prior to arrival at 25 shil- 1 J t i fz a rate 2s 6d under the unbending rate of the union, and is 3d undtcr the union rate from Fuget Sound; but even this rate wan so much above the mar- Ket value of rreishta that the oba rter was thrown up and the vessel left on the market, where stie is vainly sock- ins- an offer. Failure of the shipown ers to meet the chantring conditions a t Portland, and Puget Sound has offered an excellent opening for the tramp steamers, and a larprer proportion of the exportable' purplus of wheat has moved out In this class of carriers than in any former ecaon, The Brit ish steamship VVanklyn, the latest stea mor to clear from Port land for Kurope, carried es much cargo as three average-Fized union sailing ships and received but 24s 9d per ton. the export ers who shipped the cargo paying near ly $5000 lef-r than It would have cost them to ehip the same amount in a union sailing: vessel, while' there was an additional eavlnp of nearly $20O0 In the interest charges while the grain was afloat. If the union ships continue to lose busiuesa in the eame, ratio that they have been losi nj? it for the past, three years, about one more season will leave them such a .pitifully 'email factor in the freight situation that it will be a matter ol" indi ff erencw to the North Pa cific ports whether union rates are maintained or abolished. THE IMMIGRATION MKNACE. The- invading horde's of European la borers, now pouring- into this, country, apparently have a higher opinion of itt possibilities than i held by some of their fellow-countrymen who preceded them. 1 It is not probable that they would-be taxing the capacity of the trans-Atiuntlc steamers if tbey "viewed with alarm" the economic conditions which were making the 'rich richer and the poor poorer" in the XJni ted SutCK. Jn their reekless haste to eret over here they seem indifferent to the possibilities of .their becoming "broth er to the ox"' or the "man with the hoe." They have apparently accepted the practice instead of the preaching of so many of their countrymen who have come over "here and endeavored to show the original Americans what a terrible country this is for a lover of freedom. They hsve reasoned out that, if the old country, which ha-a contrib uted such a lttrgre quota of professional jawtiinlths'to the United States, wag so much superior to that over which the Stars and Stripes is floating, the afore mentioned jawsmiths would all be purchasing- return tickets Instead of con- tinuing to instruct tho free-born Amer- loans as to the meaning- of freedom. Official returns for tho fiscal year ending June SO show that this country has been called on to assimilate U6fi,. 3"3 aliens during the twelv-e months. X Tnofficia.1 but accurate returns for tho calendar year ending December 31 show an even heavier gain for the six months following the end of the last fiscal year, the arrivals at the port of New York alone during- 1906 reaching- a. total of 1,186,108 immigrants or more than 20.000 in excels of the total re ceived at all ports during the last fiscal year. Intimating- on the same percent- ago as for the fiscal year, tho total' number entering at all American ports in 190 would be 1.250.000. Thord is Komothing menacing in the magnitude of these figures, but the danger lies loss in the number than in the character of the Immigrants.. If the newcomers have left the old coun try with a deeiro to seek, honest em- ployment and become desirable citi- zene in this country, they will be -welcomed. We have not yet reached, a Rtage of development where th ore is an ovcreuppiy of labor which is willing to render a day's work for a day's pay in almost any branch of industrial en deavor. We have, h o-w ever, a large surplus of foreign-born trouble-breeders, who. befora thy have acquired more thn an iAiperfect knoniedge of the English. lELnpuafire. esiy to make rules and regulations intended to gov ern the actions of real American citi- zens. We also have a. large oversupply of that element which squats In the congested labor centers of the East, miking: the Struggle "for existence much more difficult for thooe a.lready there, and at the same time withhold ing from other parts of th country a supply of labOR which k eadly needed. We are threatened with a Japanese and Hindoo Invasion of the PaclHc Coast, and neither of these races can ever become good. American Citizens. Their presence here is due to the in ability of the Pacific .Coast to secure more than the smallest fraction of the better ciaes or European labor, which pTts west of the Mississippi only in limited numbers, and the bulk of which itiukes ideal conditions for "Jungle" books in the congested cities Of tllC At lantic Slope. If there were a larger supply of white labor to perform the work on the Pacific Coast, there would be less opportunity Tor the "biwn.9 and blacks" of the Far Eastto pet a 1 foothold. Their number is - small yet; but the year 1UU7 will undoubtedly witness a larger percentage, in the in- crease of immigrant!? from Japan than from any other eountry on earth. As before stated, the iminlRjation rrir? n;ii-e Is in quality, not rimbers. The announced abandon ment of Liv erpool as a lan'dins-place for the White Star linens will be a severe blow to the maritime prestige of the 'port. When the American line became aweary of the poor facilities of the port and fixed on Southampton as a terminal, Liverpool awoke to tho ne- cesslty f or improving i r-- harbor and spent money on a ma Kiiiri-ent wale in getting greater depth of water and building the largest landiiie-slagc in the world. The port also bafi the finest dofks In the world. All thee I rn r ro v-- ments came too late, however, to sttiy h Of tPa.de Which had Pot asalnsi Liverpool. The port will still jcrow be cause he reet of the world grows, hut there will be some shrinkage in Liver- pool's importance as compared with other ports, especially if the old relia ble Cuuard line would be forced to fol low the lead of its competitors and seek a more convenient port for l.md- Ing- and receiving the vast anoun.t of travel that now flows in uiid out of th-j European ports. The number of people who j-wterda.V affiured themselves that they knew :all the time that the CMty of Panama, was safe was only eMod&I by tho number who on the day previous were certu in that tho vessel was lost with on board. The saft arrivHl of the vessel at, Mazatlan Was a fortunate ending of a -trip which formiro than forty-clg-ht hours wnt3 fraught with possibil ities of a great ocean trajredy. The fa- miliarity with tmv which breeds contempt is diselosed ,n the failure of the master of the City of Panama to notify the oii steamer which spoke him of hls w of rafts in the storm. Had this been done, a j?r-e-at 1oh! of anguish wou 1 d h ave bee n Kpn red the h u n d red of friends and rv!'i t i vi.yi of thiw on Dtiard, The incident Mould impress upon ;eamship officials the neceMity of - 1-eo.uiring their shipmasters to be a little more careful in reporting- at the first opportunity the lrcs of fupIi ini- portant equipment an a number of life rafts. There was a time when the floral section of the State Horticultural Soci ety made a most delightful exhibit in connection with the annual meeting. but for reasons -chiefly of utility and of convenience to fruitgrowers this ex hibit has been discon tinut-J. The back wh rd look diijc loses a nu m ber of very delightful exhibits of the "floral tion," to which the rose, the chrysan- t henunn or the pansy kh ve its name. and over which the leading Mower of the occasion .rc'Uled as ffSioon, With numerous vassals from tho fragrant and KorRPoue? realm of Flora 1 n her train. Hut, partTy owlnf? to . the fart that they became the exhibits of rival florists rather than of amateur grow ers, and partly because of the lor-n by death of Mrs. J. O. Curd, the lo?.dlns spirit and presiding- genius of the flower chow, three exhibits unier the BUcpices of tho State Horticultural So ciety 'have been illsi nnj Jnued. Coos County shipped 91.000.000 fret of lumber during the yen r j u closed. This one item for" an undeveloped, sparsely-settled county is sufficient, to give UiS some iJa of what we may ex pect from that rich land when the com pletion of the railroad and tn improved steamer service will admit of the rx panslon which tho' sources of tho coun try will make cerca in as soon as traiisportat ion facili tiee a ro fort b com ing. Despite the transportation hmdi- eap which Coos County has suffered, her output of valuable products hiis not been limited to lumber, for (ho has aio sent to the outtUI markets a VHft amoUllt of coal fruit, fish,-dairy and other products. The notorious Emma GoUlnwi was arrested again in New York. Piindny, on the old. charge of makinje: incondi ary speeches. Along with hor was taken into custody Alexander Bcrkman, the anarchist who attempted to asssicsin- ate Henry C. Krick. a number of years agro. The GnldiTnan woman hH Iwn nearly as great a nuisance as Horr Most, and all good citterns will feel rr- lioved when fhe follows that worthy over to the land where the equality for which elio Is so insistent in tliir coun- try is said to prevail at all times. Me-ws of the safety of the steamer City of Panama was received with joy by the public and thanksgiving in tho homes in this city that were for many hours under the ethadovv of dire calam ity. Invid'entally, when Or. and Mrs. Coc aVd the JlrPhersons f at hor and son j?et newspapers from home' they will learn to their dismay of the Awful fate from which they escaped, a:id to their delight or tho esteem in which they were held ly their fellow-citizens. All's well that ends well. Let no patriotic Portia iidcr ipnoro the All Oregon Apple Show, ' starting: to day under the auspices the State Hort icultural Society. "W"hi le every one may not be vitally intercptdj in the practical paper to bo read there, he cannot be unmindful of the final result in the way of ripened fruit. "Wall street, it i reported, will hence forth open business with morning prayr in front of the Stock Kxi-Iih njre. "tls well. We know of no place where prayer is more needed. "vCIth the current, issue. Harper's "Weekly celebrates its fiftieth anniver- ssry. Very properly. .to. Thomas Nust is accorded the first place anions' tho men. who made it. Xo one will be hunting the Santa Cruz beach next Summer for bo t tion con taininfr mcssajfes from dyings' piie- ruz be; in tainit ?ngere sengere on. the wreck of the City of Panama. Will General Holnian and Killfeather. Frederick Governor Chamberlain please explain why Andrew Jackson not honored in Portland this day? Mr. Corey and. Aiiss Oilman will not offend , tneir countrymen if they seek seclusion in some European crossroads far .way from news i gencies. Goofl news mv travels fast, as wit" n-?ss yesterday's news from Mazatlan. Suspense over t he City of Panama -w wa short. in Vo Fear of a coal famine in Portland is tempered, by the reflection that the slabwood iixiu at r y iis boom I n g. Whore is the old Democracy of Ore gon that never allowed. January S to past) by. unnoticed ? 8ITUATIO.V Pontery, He Say, prbis;tleld (M When DflniBKlnir prbis;tleld (Mass.) Republican. The Senator from Texas is lighting In the very boldest style. If ho is an abused nl In nooc ti t man . the vlcti m of sln;ijlar grouping of circumstances, then he Is magnificont In his hour of trial. If he is merely putting up a brazen front In tho fndi'iivor to ovrrawe the opposi tion, then it is necessary to hold another opinion concerninu the distinguished Texan. One of the pticular questions that rt-tri t i-t i Texans In tliis matter 1m a certain bank draft known as the Henry k fctriblinfr draft. Acoordine to (fa al- l--ped documentary evidence in the po wsfl'on of tln Attornpy-Gncm 1 of Tcxn Mr. Bailey In June, iimx, drew a $1500 banK l--pec Mr. U draft Utvon H. 0. PJoroe, tho oil mono- polist.i to r"" Mr. Slrihlinc of Waco. On Juno 1C of that year I'iereo een t . tele gram from AVisconsin to "Mr. Finlay of Si. Louis, as follows: lf Johnson approves, authorize Bailoy to loan .trilrllnjt on hi note ir. Bulley siumid quiet nil Texs parties. Tell him I will pee him soon." The bank draft with iSailey's name on It. for SlfKK'. was: dated. June IT.. , The Senator presents a remarkable, rte- fonse. Ill the first place, he admits tliHt h helped Mr. PteriTj-'v-oil company to p?t back Into Tt-xsis, not teno wing at the t i me that the V a t e rs -n r r'ce e 'Comrjuiy whs allied with the Standard nil. lfo old it for nothing. th.t is to tv. without re ceiving It'Kal fees, and he was in no se n ho an attorney or the oil monopoly. He was not employed to "tiuiet" anybody. A. the Senator hits M.i'l he practlod Inw, hut ""never practiced influence.' Knt tills Henry ft striding draft looks as if Mr. B'liley had been rather depp In the game. How 1 oes he explain the evidence? Mr.. Bf.iley ways that his aipnature to that draft Is a forgery. The whole draft is a forjrerv. he claims. How this came about, thi' Senator appa ren t.l.v fails to ex plain, a net probably he rejiiiircis it as a mywry wnich" ills riicmlps on elucidate better thnn he One point In favor of the ffrf?ery hypothesis he makes with much efYcct- Jo one seems to have been able to trace this alicsoil draft in th-? records of any bank. yet. if the draft were genu ine, there should he banK indorsement and rcronls embody ing its histo r y . This point serins st strong that tlic forgery charge would look very plausible even If the great weight of Senator Bailey's own word were not con.si dered. Hut tliore is Hie Uiegrmn from Pierce in Wisconsin to Finlay in St. Iuia authorizing the alleced Ptriblinsr trans action, i lie telegram being dated three days before the draft. Mr. IJailoy dispnso3 of the telcaram by char sin p that it l also it fni-Kfry. Rut- he admits that he does not know thi.;; he merely Infers it from the fact that. k signature to the draft is a' forgery. "They forced the telegram." he declared in his recent spec-h at l-nblhi, Tex., "to lay the pre- tlieate for forzins the draft, but I have CHiie:ht them by calling upon them to show the bank's Indorsement, or the hank record." An opponent in the aurtienre stood up. in response to an Invitation, and questioned- theSenator at this point. The opponent wmh a keen- witted mn named l-'aust. A duel Ptllowed in the form of question find answer,, which is interesin because it shows bow they proceed in electing their United States Senators down in Tex a.s ; Mr. Faust I ajn.nne of the mrh you rp- fen to In repaid to that tolopram from V. lsionsin. I"il you - thot thai, ttlocram 1- - n foT-fjc-rj ? 1? t h:i t risrhl "- Pen ill or rliille.v Ve. Well, of course, I cannot &ay positively, liocause tlutr. telosram (lid not ro?n to nio. H does not purport to have c m e to me. T can say Itively that tlic; rtrji Tt In a f orgrry bi-oousn it 1b salrl to 1 hi nod hv mc. I know that the draft, which is supposed to le basket on tlic trie- irram. is a forcery. Hnco f l'fliovG that tha t- lf-srarn 1 rnrnory. i Applause. 1 Mr. l-'ii 11 Ht T want to a"k IT you hnvr- rv.'r oon rerrrd with Mr. pircr and asked him If tlic flvijram i a fnrgery? Senator liailey Xo. sir, I have nn con- Mtilted with Mr. Ptrrco about nny thins in this connfrtlon. ... Ai r. Faimt rId you know wliothT ho wan In that yilare in "VVisfjntn at the time? Sonatnr !?;iloy No. sir, I don't krop up with hi- movement!) eii'iier in the Summer or in tlie Winter time Mr. Faust Da you k now- w lit re you were on ,lun 1",, the d-.ij- this draft was pur- portorl to hnvo loon signed? Seratnr HaiUy Xo ; hut I do know that the man who pays I ntpned that draft is a, llur. ( - pjlnvie anti confusion). it r. I"auji 1 am not. making that charge. Senator Hal ley I Know you are not. Mr. Faust Well, you -arc Rotting pretty f!is'i t. mc. Son :i I or It alloy Tljr-n you Bliould not Krt o Iojo to tlio 11c. ( Applnn f . Mr. .Kniim itut. Mr. JSaiicy, I am pf-ttinR pretty close to you. I think you said you would Rive me a civil answer. I'l'iiaior Ratify l km id I was Kolnj? to be clll to yo. n ni I n - Mr. FaTist Ue wo, tlien close to nif. you are shooting nator Bailey Well, T am polnp: to h civil to yon now. but I would not like for any ma n to nay t fin t to my face -hn I so ilo -.v n h tn ii'w. i A pplaune. t Mr. Kaust no you know where ypu were nn tlvif limn r1 , I Senator Rally No; do you ? ( Cheers. ) M r. Fausi Xo. hut I roulrt rind o .1 1 . Senator Uwilt-y 1 cuuld, too. If it wcr Senator Bailey M r. Fausi Xo. S.-nator Uwilt-y i portant. ' important. Mr. Faust This seems important enough to take yon out of th halis of onKre.s. Srrator I"ily V .. sir; but none of tlii mlscm hie v. i it(.'h'B linn the cournso to run sK-Tinnt mo. Applause. ) It Is evident that in the exclude with Mr. F'iut, the Senator was dl.sap point ins. rierce could testify whether the tele gram wus a. forgery. Mr. Bailey hits never asked litm to testify. M for the day, July in. r.MX), upon which Mr. Bailey'.s fiirnature Is nlleged to have been placed upon the Henry & tritalin draft, it might be a gain to the Senator's cause .If bo could throw light upon th question of rj whereabouts. The Senator's brow beating manner in answering! Mr. T?a.fj&t-M- question on this point doeg-'wt""Jir0U8e sympathy for him at ttys distance, al- t hoti eh the audience annjears to have been cupt ivalcd by the UsjIny of agjirPssive- nes, which Porfi'N'otilcl- call 'bravado. The Senator's ease has singular features which rail for more in ventilation. If his i?rnature was forged some one committed a crime and should be punished. Mr. 'Iiley himself should desire this phase of the business to be gone into with the utmost thoroughness. His future influence at Washington, in case of hU re-election, would be much impaired if he succeeds merely In riding- rouerhshoc over his en emiw. -without clearinjf up to the utter- most the charges against him. Didn't Want otorlHy. " Argonaut. The Knlish Winston Churchill spoke in London recently to a party of Journalists. saying" it w;u astonlshinj? how keenly sensitive "to newspaper critfelsm the or dinary - person was. and Quoted what .ho said was a letter received by an editor in the. United States, .is follows: "Dear Sir I regret to inform you -that on my way home from the ssloon this cvonln 1 fell into a political altercation with Colonel Jonas r, walker,- or tuts town, in the course of which a .slight misunderstand ing arose, and I am very sorry to think tha.t In the end I- jhot him. t p tutu Id add also that, carried away by the oxcUc- ment of the moment, I also scalped him. Hut I earnestly hope that no exaggerated account of this pain fu! episode will ap pear In the columns of your paper." BAILEY'S M'f RKA, OF THK PBANSVLVASIA. Xew Railroad KIbit I Over 9tx Feet Pittsburg Dispatch in New York World. Any person who saw James McCrca, the new president of the Pennsylvania, Railroad Company, would never forRt him; He has a etriKing personality. He is big In everything. He stands over six feet in height and weifrbs probably 2&0 pounds. He has a brlrttlinn beard. Just turning p-ay, and parted In the center. When h likes, he likes with all his heart and soul. - When he dlslllces the can mo of it may Ft si well kcp out of his sight, for he never forgets. Of all tilA officials About ifa Pennsyl- vania depo In this city there is none so po)iiiliir an J mes M?r'a. nrt. .lone witli the buxinees men- and officials, but Fiiti tii? mmi n lias twn ms treatment of the latter that has made htm aiuoh A aurccsHful ra.il rrH.tj man. AlonK t ho line they call him -Ilttl Father." little because or his great size, hilt father heoausfi of his caro of tho workmen. It is in the ears of M-C"rea that the workmen whisper their troubles and griofancen. And If they have a real pieyaiire lie corrects it, The men Know that am! depend on him. In pitc . f lils higrli o fl' i -- Mr. McOva 1 moHC wccpyslblft. No man is too poor ly dressed for l:tm to talk to. He Is a SM'crc (llsclullnnrlan, yoi no one Is Je- icd ravor if It 1s In his power to crant it. V hen SI cC rca. was made pen- era! manngcr ami fourth viec-prcsHlent of tile Pennsyl vania lines, lie found a. whlto elep?in t on lit. hands in the shape 4r the Panhandle Railroad. It had al ways been the one lino that . wouldn't pay dividends and was a joke among the railroad men. - ono of the officials would have any thing to do with Its managfnifnt If they could net out of it. It was looked upon as a mangy puppy. Mc(ra (rave it much of his attention. Today tho Fanhandle Is one of t he finest railroads in the United States and paj'3 bigr dividends. . The late A. llrst to rwiig The manner The late A. J. C'assatt was one of the rut to ri-coRtilsn Mr. Mel'rca's nbllltles. he manner in which the latter Btarted i to infill new iifo mto the Panhandle pleased Mr. Oassatt nnd he gave him rte hlHTiolio In every t hiiif?. He f on od that he was one railroad man who had ideas of iiis own, and good ones at that. Mr. CWatt allowed him to carry them out as he saw tit. There Is one thins that Mofrea 1 M said to special! v abhor that is graft of every description, It was he Who broke Up. tho practice of employes accepting ChriHttmis presents from shippers and mamif acturcra. He .lately discovered graft in the publication of the x'cnnyl- vania tinio-tablo, finding tlmt certain minor officlrilw and chief clerks made more money from that than from sal n.ric. The new time-table will appear without advertising, One of .Mr. MeCrea'a most ardent ad mirers in Hen ry Olay lriclt. They b eame .acquainted throuftli the unusual amount of shipping done by Air. Krlck. The col;e king tonX a strong fancy to McfVea anil has watched him advance In the railroad world for years. From ad miration for his ex eel Ion t business qualities there alto sprung up a strong liwsonal liking. M cC'rea is not a wealt hy man. He haa been h railroader all his life, nml most of that time lias had a good salary. But lie has had nothing more than his sal- ary. He lias waved sonic money and put it nil in Pennsylvania Railroad stock:, of wli ich lie has probably enotigrh to keep him in comfort, but not in luxury, for the remainder of his life. He lives in a comfortable home at r220 Ellsworth avenue, this city, and is domestic In his tastes. One of bis sons. James. Jr.. is a railroader, while another is engaged in' tli manufacture of railroad steel Kpriniers. Mr. MrCrca is r8 y r. of ace. Like tlio late President Cassatt. he began his career as a rodnian, assisting civil on- gincors. The (liming Notional StruRalr. George T. Angell. There can Ve no doubt that one of the Greatest dangers to our country comes from foolish displays of wealth In our cities and at our places of fashionable resort, which tend to constantly embit ter the poor against the rich, and to leal eventually to the danger of placing the power of our country In the hands of those who will make property and lifo a nd the continuance of republican insti tutions in jrren t peril. The great remedy for the perpetuation of our fre govern ment find tile safety of our institutions lies in a general, wide humane educa tion which shall make the rich kinder to the poor and the poor kinder to the rich, and the sooner this education can be car ried Into all our colleges and schools the easier it will be to silence a spirit of anarchy whii-h Is fast growing. l.'Knvol, f ( Apolosrfon. Mllwaultfo Sontin1!. Whi-n' Earth'B lawt SlmppliiK is rinisrted and tho crowd has dwindled away, . When the last wild scramble js over, sub- lfH-tl tlie cry and Iray, We shall rost. and. Cop. we shall nrd it, C r tho frt-o- that vi r puld wii w 1 i-.r-. And tlie r-.- t so iw -t-t who'll regret It? None that I know that's clear. Then nil. yes, all, shall be happy; we shall sit fy our nrsi(iA. And furcwt tin- akTuI havoc wrought In the , KlaU Yultld. we shall munch our nuts and candy and drown the harro-tving thnuplit Of the coin we hlowed for useless things of the Junk we. cnt and bouitlit. But no one slialt whimper of it. for each one shall fee! the sliame( We Khali kr.nw that each went dippy, and dippy fotkH ain't to hlatne! And all of the bunch shall ponder, chafed hy the they spnt. And en eh hall swear by tho many gods that It wasn't their real Intent. r NO WATERS TO POUR fa W$WS&&t0M NOTHING k!f 4 I . 1 S PATH O j - j DErECIIVB EYESIGHT AMD CRIME Tv La.ir. CraiMrml AVIth Rrlatiu o . m. tf m Rff0maMor7-- Literary Dtyest. Four hundred Inmates of the Elmirt T. Y.) State Reformatory have been found by Che opthalmolofclet of that institution to possess some defective vision Only the most glaring: defects were brought out. under the conditions Imposed by the state, and such errors as a difference in the vision of both eyes were Ignored. Jn a recent issue. of the Buffalo Medical Journal Tr. Oeorire M . Gould of Philadelphia points out trie handicap under wnicli tlie?ft young criminals aro tailoring when they attempt almost any work of civi -llzatlon. n l contend, that:. lni.tCHd of punisliing them, they should he given accurate and scientific srlassrs. to ph. able them to make their living. He "The state, in lt Infinite stupidity. doubly punishes them both by Impris onment and hy Improper glasses. tm-h is govern men ta I wisdom. ... Fut upon 1 0 8 out of any 400 mors I and we 1 1 -raised hoys of 13 years of f&e fpmarles whim correct the amc- tropla abnormal refraction of the eye of any one of these lOS boys of th re formatory, a nd they will either gee Into the reformatory, a hospital or their graves within a few years." TJr. Gould states emph at trail y that 1 f IrKinlatnrK or o IT Ireri of the Govern - ment were treated In a- RlmUa ner. "there would be different laws en acted at the next legislative session. n 1 the administrators -would see that: they were executed." He charges the state with "amazinar blundering." and saya that the atate wul not only not pay the oculist, but It will not let him do his work: scientifically, it will not buy the places and It will not taRft rare to have the glasses fitted by an expert optician. The author asserts that 1 1 would h m a money-making business if a private oculist and optician would take tlift Job of reducing the state appropria tions for criminal institutions SO or 75 per cent. and Insists that this could be easily done by preventing" tho ftoulftr (lisr-ases and reflexes which dl- rectly cause crime- in the young. Wliat tlio state does. or. rather, neglects to do, was brought out by an inquiry wlilch Dr, Case, optfialniologlut of the Elmira Reformatory, directed to 1 23 penal Institutions. Yr. Oase asked if -visual acuteness was tested when the boy or prisoner waa received; what tli e results were: whether glairs wen prescribed : the effect on conduct, etc. : whether oculists were employed; whether appropriations were made for Hiich work, and so on. Sixty-three In stitutions failed to answer; of those who did reply, 62 per cent had no ocu list m rid only 5 per cent even had n optician. Moreover. It came out that only 15 per cent had any appropriation for such work whatsoever. In some of these institutions. Ir. Oase. avers, bas kets of all kinds of lenses are placed before the boys, and they are ordered to1 ehoofir any pair they plonsp. "Th entire affair.' says Or. Gould, "in a faroo, an absurd bit of opera houffe at nt t n f dhnnlil he Inuchorl and buried out of the eight of Pc1f-refpeet- Ing or of businesslike people." Wherever there was any attempt to go at the subject In even an Inadequate way, tnc results on demeanor, con- dm't. school or handwork, promptly n 1 1 o w t' irreftt ImprovtmMit th !"""- rentafEcs of such i mprovomont ranidni? from 15 to 54 and averaging about 40. Ill conclusion the author says: "Kven under these ruinous condition nature responds a little, and there is a. degree of betterment gained. "What would be the gam li accurate and thoroughgoing work were permitted if It were demanded ? At the same time the Oovernment prides itself on being a democracy, the medical profession prides Itself upon being scientific, and the people pride themselves on know ing how to conduct an. enterprise in a businesslike manner." Vacation SurroundlnffA to Suit. Chicago Journal. A college professor, who last year spent lils vacation on a farm, wrote this season to tho owner, saying: "Thore are several little matters that T desire changed should I decide to pass my holidays st your house. We don't like the ma Hi Mary; moreover, we do not think a pip pen so near the house Is sanitary.' The farmer replied: "Mary is went nnd we haven't had no hogs since you went away last August. Scotch Caution on Guard. Glasgow Oltizen. Andrew Carnegie tells a story of an old Dumfriesshire farmer who was th guest of a woman In that Scottish country. When the tea was served the hostess ol served that his was gone before she had poured out tea for the other. He passed his cup up frequently, and at the nintii cup the hostess, becoming uneasy as to the supply on hand, ventured to ask: "Mow many cups of tea do you take. John: "How many do ye gie?" asked John, warily. A Gllmpar Into th- Pwui-?. Mel... W.. 'in the New Torts Sun- rerhapB in WO, Though foffles sneer and aeoff. The nations will tmccredii Atnbawartorm to OvI ?. Ambassadors to Tennis In Waslu'ngion will tf nt, An1 Minlntrra to Footbull Credentials will present. WMie hiffli Envoys to Poxingr Will show the nations how. AmhliMs'lnni to Runnlne In li Ik h flow n term will iosh: And all will b located Af near the Court of Squash. ON THE TROUBLED OIL -From the Ctilraco Rcord-Hlr.