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Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oak land News Stand; Hale News Co. (loldtleld, Kev. Louie Pollln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency. ', Norfolk, Vs. Potts & Roeder; American News Co. j Pine Beach, Va. W. A. Co'grov. PORTLAND, MONDAY. JVLY tt, 1B07. I THE LIQUOR PROBLEM AGAIN. The liquor trade, on account of its liability to abuse or misuse. Is held under closer regulations ajjd restric tions than any other. It Is also re quired to pay more tax than any other. Yet manufacture andi sale of liquors has always been held a legitimate branch of industry and trade, and doubtless always will be. In old countries, and In the older parts of our own. It Is held under closer restraints than In our newer states and territories, yet In these newer parts there has been, dur ing recent years, steady advance towards closer control. Hours of sale are defined and restricted, Sunday clos ing Is enforced, women are excluded, and -dancehalls. In connection with liquor establishments, disallowed. Ex perience has found these to be neces sary precautions and regulations. But the people do not want the liquor trade totally prohibited or suppressed. If they did It -would be abandoned, be cause there would be no demand. ' On the nerves of the person who urges prohibition by law it grates harshly to be told that there Is a legit imate demand for alcoholic liquors, which will always find means of supply. It is, however, a fact, or a truism, and ttere Is no use to argue It. Govern ment national, state and municipal recognizes it. It is a matter that must be dealt with In a practical way. Taxation, with various regulations and restrictions, is the system every where in use except In rural communi ties, where there is little or no demand, and where, therefore, local prohibition enforces itself. The argument that al coholic liquors are altogether Injurious, that they can do no one any good, that the world would be better without them, and that society and government ought therefore to prohibit them, how ever conclusive with those who advo cate prohibition by law, doesn't con vince everybody, nor even the great majority. Probably it never will; be cause there are multitudes who feel and Insist whether it Is true or not that they can use liquors without abus ing them; and they insist on- being Judges for themselves. There is, however, a constant and in creasing movement of forces against the liquor . abuse. It is seen every where. Prohibition, or abstinence, Which is prohibition for oneself, makes progress more through the forces of In dustry than in any other way though other forces are useful. The fact that the man who uses alcoholic liquors can not get or hold positions of importance and responsibility enforces abstinence more and more, in an industrial society so! complicate as ours has become, wherein the forces of nature are har nessed to machinery as never before, making ceaseless vigilance necessary; and wherein great operation of finance and all sorts of business require unre mitting care, skill and fidelity. "The Legality of the Saloon" is the toplo of Judge Samuel R. Artman, of Indiana, who is lecturing In Oregon. His theory Is that the authorities, state of national, are precluded by the Con stitution, which has superseded the common law, from granting the right to manufacture or sell alcoholic liquors. Decisions of the Supreme Court of In diana, which declare that no one has an Inherent right to manufacture or sell alcoholic liquors for drink, are adduced to sustain the contention. Among the objects for which the Constitution was enacted was promotion of the public welfare; and the public welfare requires prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors This is assumpton of the whole point In controversy. There is - no general conviction .that the public welfare re quires prohibition. Nor did the mak ers of the Constitution think so. Here, It may be remarked that regulation of the liquor trade is much closer and severe now than It. was then. What is meant by "inherent right" wiil depend on definition. It is a term that may be very loosely used, and one's own mental make-up largely de termines the use of such terms as these. Another and., greater factor is the changeful mood of large bodies of peo ple. We think the Supreme Court of Indiana has not tried to define what it means by the term "inherent right." The natural right to manufacture alco hol is the same as the natural right to manufacture sugar. Government may, If it chooses, regulate or restrict the manufacture and sale of either, or both. Popular government wiH take notice of the use of either or both, and of the desire to use them. It will Impose such taxes as the people think are proper, or the commodities can be made to pay. In Italy you can't take a barrel of water out of the sea; for the government rigidly enforces Its salt monopoly, and the people stand it. Yet we suppose, if there are any inherent rights, the taking of water from the sea might be one of them. Possibly the people of the United States may, some time or other, deal with, the liquor question without regard to inherent right, or any other right, as Italy deals with sea water; but it seems very unlikely. Judge Artmen, however, finds - the Supreme Court of Indiana inconsistent, because, though it has said, three times over, that no citizen, has an inherent right to manufacture alcoholic liquors for drink, it has said also that license is a prohibition of the traffic. All this comes from further loose use of words. The term - "inherent right" is loosely used, and the terra "prohibition" is loosely used. This method of dealing with words has been censured by every thinker from Aristotle to Bacon, and on down to our own time. The word "license" is also loosely used. It prop erly means permission to sell upon pay ment of the tax and compliance with the regulations required. But it is taken to mean, by the prohibitionists, that it grants a right to sell which otherwise would not exist, and by the liquor seller to mean that since he has paid for the right to sell, he oughtxto be permitted to sell as he pleases. . License, in common usage and effect, means a tax. You pay your tax and you get your license. You have an "Inherent right" to marry if you have any inherent right but you can't marry lawfully unless you take out your license and pay the required tax for it. Have the proprietors of The Oregonlan an Inherent right to publish a newspaper? Perhaps they have, but they have not been able to exercise that right, without paying to the City of Portland a quarterly occupation tax, which payment has given them license to publish. The Indiana Judge , was half right when he said that license was prohibi tion. It is in the nature of prohibition, certainly, or on that line; for if you make the tax very high, or too high for business, nobody will take out the "li cense, and this will be prohibition. "To misuse of the word license, or to mis understanding of it, large part of the confusion that arises In treatment of this subject is due. In rural or village communities pro hibition will make its way, because so cial life is different from that In the cities, and the people, or most of them, think the liquor shop a nuisance. In the cities and larger towns the condi tions are different, and prohibition la not enforceable by law. But even in the cities and larger towns, liquors can be sold only under Increasing restric tions and exactions. Portland has re cently increased the tax, made regula tions for sale only within certain hours and enforced closure on Sundays. All this Is right and it is practicable. To tal prohibition is not. Why? Because there are very large numbers of people who, while voting steadily for enforce ment of the restrictions and Insisting on it, find the business an Important part of the industry and tradS of the country, do not think prohibition could possibly be successful, and, moreover, do not intend to deny themselves all use or .opportunity for the use of liquors. Many hold that there is lees abuse In recognition of the traffic, with taxa tion and regulation of lt,; than In at tempts to prohibit, which must be fu tile, especially in the cities and larger towns. This middle course in- the treat ment of the liquor problem is the one pursued generally throughout the United States. Under the influence and example of other states, and through our progress into con ditions that, prevail in older and larger communities, the practice of this method is rapidly growing In our Northwest Pacific States. Possibly it may lead to total prohibition by statu tory or constitutional enactment. The Oregonlan does not think it will. Nor does It think anything will be gained for prohibition or for its claims, by car rying up to the Supreme Court of the United States a petition for a decision against the manufacture or sale of liquors, on the plea that the business Is contrary to the welfare of the people. If the Supreme Court shall pass upon It at all, that authority is likely to hold that it is the province of the people themselves to decide whether the busi ness Is against the public welfare, or not, and to act accordingly. Judge Art man, however, delivers a good temper ance lecture, and many hear him glad ly. Let him proceed. f "BUNCO" KELLY'S RETCRX. "Bunco" Kelly, after thirteen years confinement In the Penitentiary, is again a free man, but the city to which he returns no more resembles the Port land he left thirteen years ago than does the broken down old man Kelly resemble the alert, vigorous, middle aged crimp who gave Portland an un enviable reputation in every large sea port on earth. The crime for which Kelly was sent to the Penitentiary for life was the culmination of a long series of shanghai-ing, smuggling and gener ally lawless proceedings along the Port land waterfront. Most of the men en gaged in this unlawful work had served time behind the bars, and it was luck, instead of reverence for the law, that had kept the others outside the Jail doors. Then, as now, only a very small pro portion of the -people of Portland showed the slightest Interest In the shipping business of the port, but in those days we had not yet encountered the competition of rival ports sufficient ly to create a general demand for re form. A few of the exporters and for eign Consuls, who were In closest touch with the men that were footing the ex travagant tribute levied by the crimps, protested. But their protests received 6cant consideration from the rest of the business community, which was en grossed with other matters. The shock ing brutality of the murder for which Kelly -was convicted and sentenced set In motion an influence for reform. This reform movement, like some of its pre decessors, might have been doomed to an early. death but for the fact that shipowners had begun to learn that the Indignities practiced on shipping by the Portland crimps were not yet in gen eral use at Puget Sound. The abuses were not easily stamped out, but when It was finally demon strated that a few sailor boarding-house men were ruining the shipping busi ness of the port, remedial legislation was secured, and today the business is conducted here In a more satisfactory manner than at any other port on the Pacific Coast. Thirteen years is a long time in a rapidly growing new country like Oregon, but It is not long enough for the shipowners who suffered at the hands of ."Bunco" Kelly, "Jim" Turk and a long list of lesser lights to forget- The freight differential against Portland, which has Just been removed, was due in no small degree to the long past iniquities of crimps, some of whom are dead and some in the Penitentiary. But their business never will thrive again as it throve in their heyday of outrage and crime. ' THE HAGUE CONFERENCE KITTLE. War never will be abolished till the aspirations and energies of nations shall have been exhausted. Captain A. T. Maban, of the United States Navy, known throughout the world as an au thority on sea power, has an article in the National 'Review on "The Hague Conference and War." He writes: It is in ignoring such considerations as those cited in this paper the general ques tion of the Pacific, the need of Russia for the sea, the requirements of expansion by Germany and Japan, the case of Cuba, the Monro Doctrine that rests much of the fallaoy of th unconditional advocates of arbitration. The language here Is guarded inten tionally, even expressly, so as to avoid offense. But Its meaning is plain. Its meaning Is that war will arise and -must arise out of the competition of nations with each other. And not merely out of'competltlon of interests but antagonism of ideas, as Burke set forth In his immortal "Reflections on the Revolution in France," and in his "Letters on a Regicide Peace." The idea of Burke and the presenta tion of the idea are higher than any thing required by the conditions of the present time.' We turn, therefore, to another author, Thomas De Qulncey, who, in his "Essay on War," has stated the case or the conditions in terms pre cisely applicable to the present time. He writes: . - Where do the permanent causes of war, as distinguished from its proximate excite ments, find their lodgment and abiding ground? They 11 In the system of National competitions; in the common political sys tem .. to which all Individual nations are unavoidably parties; In th system of publlo forces distributed amongst a number of adjacent nations, with no internal princi ple for adjusting th equilibrium of these forces, and no supreme Areopagus, or court of appeal, for- deciding -disputes.- - Here lies the matrix of war; because an eternal matrix of disputes lies In a system of Interests that are continually the same, and therefore th parents of xivalshlps too clos that are con tinually different, and so far the parents of alienation too wide. . All wars are an in stinctive "nisus" for th redressing of the errors of equilibrium In the relative posi tions of nations amongst nations. Every nation's duty, first, midst and last. Is to itself. On this principle each and every na tion must and will Judge for itself. It cannot allow any other nation, or com bination of nations, to Judge for it, un less it has lost or never possessed power of resistance or aggression. In the necessary competition of nations there always has been, always must be, chance and even probability of war. Is the world under a divine economy? Then under the divine economy of the world man's place in the world seems Inseparable from the danger, and even the necessity, of war. International peace conferences can do nothing, ex cept merely in such matters as agree ment for care of the wounded and pro hibition of poisoned missiles. Causes of war, provocations of war, are always present, in the competition of " nations, as Captain Mahan has pointed out. OREGON MONEY IN WASHINGTON. The great stringency in the money market and the scarcity of labor, cited by Mr Kruttschnltt, of the Harriman lines, as a reason for inactivity in rail road, work in Oregon, has not yet af fected Mr. Harrlman's proposed Puget Sound extension. The visit of Mr. Kruttschnltt to Tacoma was followed by the announcement that all buildings on the Union Pacific right of way In Tacoma must.be removed within seventy-Jive days, and that actual con struction work would begin immediate ly. The Tacoma Ledger, in noting the call for bids, says: Heavily loaded cars of frogs and switches to be used-in the construction of the line are arriving In Tacoma dally. Ten car loads of this material have been unloaded at the Tacoma Biscuit & Candy Company's buildlrfg on Jefferson avenue, and three car loads will arrive in th city from the East today. In building this line to Puget Sound Mr. (Harriman is not opening up any new territory. He will not be serving a single city, town or individual that is not already enjoying the advantages of railroad facilities. His right to take the money, earned In one state where railroad facilities are sadly needed, and spend It in another state where they are not needed, may stand unques tioned In law, but it will be accepted by the long-neglected people of Oregon with bad grace. Such short-sighted policy may yet react with costly effect on the men responsible for it. Portland and the State of Oregon for years have remained passive under this studied neglect of the transportation require ments. But it may have been a case of "nursing their wrath to keep It warm," and a penalty of no small magnitude may be exacted some day for the injus tice. Mr. Harrlman would probably resent the inference that Mr.HUl had superior financial or mental equipment for han dling transportation matters or provid ing railroad or steamship facilities. And yet facts speak for themselves. It Is not yet two years since Mr. Hill promised to build the North Bank road and admit Portland into territory from which it has long been barred, and now the road Is nearlng completion. It is more than three years since Mr. Harri man promised to build a road into Cen tral Oregon, and work has not yet be gun. It is more than two years since the Harriman system lost the steamships Geo. W. Elder and St. Paul. Since that time the Hill system has built two new, strictly up-to-date steamers for the Puget Sound-San Francisco run. " In order to travel by water to San Fran cisco on a first-class ; modern steamer it is necessary for Portlanders to first go to Puget Sound to secure passage on a, steamer answering that descrip tion. It now seems almost a certainty that the-flrst modern passenger steam ship sailing out of Portland will fly the house flag of the Hill system. In a communication printed elsewhere J. W. Knowles calls attention to a seeming jatal defect in jour gamg .flaws, so far as they affect the Eastern and Southeastern Oregon counties. That the indiscriminate slaughter of deer should be permitted throughout the year was certainly not intended by the lawmakers who voted on the bill, and the defect should be remedied at the earliest opportunity. THE FIVE-CENT FARE. In a refusal to grant a live-cent fare on some of the suburban routes out of Portland the management of the street car line states that there would be no money in It for the streetcar company with a five-cent rate. Without raising the point as to the accuracy of the statement, it would be Interesting for the public to know the exact system of mathematics used in figuring out a loss on the suburban business which seeks a live-cent fare. That good-natured and long-suffering crowd which hangs on the straps, clings td the steps or stands up In the crow'ded aisles of any of the cars on the West Side of the river might endure these discomforts with a little, better grace If It were gen erally known that the money saved by running one car for two carloads of people is devoted to maintaining a sub urban service where people are pro vided with seats. This is a point on which enlightenment is neoessary be fore the ex-par,te railroad statements can be given the fullest credence. Another and perhaps an even more Important point is- the relation of the five-cent fare to the water in the stock. There is a possibility that the effort of making a $2,000,000 plant pay dividends on $6,000,000 of capitalization is too great to admit of a profit in a five-cent fare to the suburbs. But surely this is not the fault of the people, who, had It been left to them, would have pre ferred that the stock remain unwatered. If Nthe management had issued more cars instead of more stock as the pop ulation increased, the resultant satis faction of the patrons might have in duced them to refrain from greeting with derision the statement that a five cent fare to some of the outlying pre cincts Is not feasible or profitable. The average citizen, however, who finds it necessary to patronize a car anywhere on the West Side of the river, cannot fail to observe that very often the seat to which his nickel should en title hlni is occupied by from one to three others, or else it is on a suburban car across the river. In any event, tlie company gets the nickel and the pas senger does not get the service for which he pays. The story that comes from Pittsburg that ownership of an automobile is the test or hallmark of respectability, and the way, moreover, to the consideration of high society there, reminds one of Carlyle's quaint and grotesque defini tion of that commonplace respectabil ity which bases its claims on posses sion of small exterior advantages, by the contemptuous term "gigmanlty." The respectable citizen was defined by a witness in a noted trial as "one who kept a gig." For Carlyle this was a rare opportunity. He rang the changes on "glgman," "glgmaness," "gig mania," "gigmanlty" and "glgmanic," without end. "The gig and gigmania," said Carlyle, "must rot, or start into a thousand shivers; and bury itself in the ditch, that Man may have clean road way towards the goal whither through all ages he 1s tending." He worked this into the expression that "gigman lty must be disgigged." At Pittsburg, evidently, "automanlty" ought to be "dlsautoed." The Grand Duke Cyril, oldest son of the Grand Duke Vladimir, of Russia, is said to "be arranging for a divorce from his wife, who was formerly the Duchess of Hssse. The differences of the royal pair are said , to have begun Immediately after the wedding. Just why a divorce should be necessary in a royal family is somewhat difficult to understand. Practically - all of the royal marriages are arranged without any regard to the feelings or affec tions of the high contracting parties, anf, having "Joined hands" simply for the purpose of keeping a title from be ing tinged with some good red blood of the common people. It would seem that no difference of opinion between the pair would occasion any grounds for a divorce. Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, says that it would be suicidal to the Republican party to undertake a revision of the tariff before the next Presidential elec tion. Senator Hopkins should not for get that there Is a possibility that its revision after the next Presidential election imlght to a degree be in the hands of a Democratic President. If the tariff is not revised before the next President is elected the Democrats will be left in possession of the most-powerful .weapon they can use In the fight. In the new instructions to patrolmen regarding personal appearance, Chief of Police Grltzmacher neglected to men tion the daily use of a safety razor. With the price raised to 35 cents per cutK the public will probably be content if the men keep their hair well brushed. A monopoly organ, desiring to be sarcastic, says next thing we hear of will probably be a call on the Attorney General to bring suit against men who shave themselves, on the ground that such conduct is in restraint of trade. Since appointment of the editor of the Salem evening paper on the Normal board there has been a wonderful shrinkage in the iniquity of appropria tions. Some of Chamberlain's "reme dies" are effective. For the present the country will shed few tears at the sight of Bryan remov ing the white wreath from the resting place of free silver and laying it on Government ownership of railroads. ' Two lyrics, a lively march and press dispatches the past three days from Seoul, can be strung; together by Sousa or George Ade for a profitable J1.60 show next season. . It niuct have been a sad blow to Plerpont Morgan when the interna tional vaudeville syndicate was organ ized without his aid as underwriter. Brachlnus crepitans has got into the asylum at Salem. Down here he - is called the bombardier beetle and when too sociable Just plain "stink bug." Recent news from the Ean Francisco criminal courts savors of Incomplete ness. Abe Ruef's name has been miss ing for nearly "a week. Then why doesn't Bryan launch tariff reform? Is he afraid that Roosevelt "jy fill steal this thunder?. - A WORD OS NEWSPAPERS. A Truer View Than That of On Soared Friend. C. E. S. Wood. Washington Herald. A contributor to the New York Times writes a letter complaining of the misuse by Richard Harding Davis of the term "bar sinister," and says: "Mr. Davis should bear in mind that he is no longer a newspaper man, and, therefore, cannot be excused on the grounds of Journallstlo haste and carelessness." This protest voices a feeling that is, for some inscru table reason, pretty firmly fixed in the publlo mind a feeling that writers on newspapers are careless simply because they write for newspapers. ' With full knowledge of the errors, of grammar and otherwise, which are inev itable in the hasty preparation and han dling of the large amount of matter which appears in the average newspaper each day, we venture to say that as much care Is exercised In the making of a well regulated dally newspaper as In the keep ing of the accounts of many commercial houses. The one unpardonable sin in a writer for a newspaper is carelessness. Never before has the better element of the press felt eo keenly its responsibility to the public. There are certain Irrespon sible Journals which live by exaggeration and by the dally cry of "Wolf! wolf!" when there Is no wolf; but their character Is sb well-known that, though they are read too widely- for the public good their Influence on the public mind Is practically nil. , More and more It is coming to be that a newspaper depends for Its very life on its accuracy, Its good faith, its power to resist temptation. Primarily, the news paper is the servant of the people, and es It serves faithfully and honestly and efficiently it is rewarded. It Is the busi ness of the newspaper to discover the truth and present It clearly, neither ex tenuating nor setting down aught in malice. Anything less than this means death to the journal that attempts It. The recent failure of the Topeka Herald Is an example. Other Western news papers say It was a bright and well edited newspaper, but It was supposed rightly or not, we do not pretend to know to be allied with railroad Interests, and so the pubUo persistently refused it sup port. It is now In the hands of a receiver. If another instance Is desired, there is the Chicago Chronicle, which, liberally backed and strongly boomed, could not overcome the general feeling that It was on the side of the corporations, against the people, and that Its functions as a newspaper were prostitute!. The general publlo is not easily de ceived. Newspapers that have special in terests which are diametrically opposed to the interests of the people may not hope for that large and substantial per manent success which comes with fair dealing and rigid honesty. We heartily agree with the Nebraska State Journal in its declaration that "the most en couraging promise we have of the suc cess of popular government is the refusal of the public in recent years to pay for insincere newspapers or to give credence to tainted news." The Colonel's Honest Race. Kansas City Star. "It's odd how one's sense of humor will assert Itself, even in the face of danger," observed John D. Cruise, a veteran rail road telegrapher, In the West Side the other day. "Now there was Colonel M B. Glllett, a mining promoter In New Mexico in the '80s, when the Santa Fe was Just opened. The Colonel had a fine sense of humor, of which our appreciation was heightened by an impediment in his speech that caused him to stutter. One day he had a party of Eastern investors out to see some mines near Kingston. They were all mounted on burros, and when they were on the way back to Kingston a band of bloodthirsty Indians took after them. It was a funny thing to see those burros galloping along the trail, and it reminded one of a Jockey race at a country fair. Colonel Glllett, unfortunately, had a poor mount, and for a mile or two while the chase was going on he trailed along behind. At last one of the men from down East yelled: " 'Come on, Colonel, 'or they'll get your scalp.1 " Then the answer was yelled back to the party by Colonel Glllett: " 'W-w-w-what d-d-do you t-t-take m-m-me for? T-t-thlnk I'm t-t-trying to t-t-throw this race? "It is needless to say none of the party was scalped. And most of all, the Col onel enjoyed the humor of the situation after the danger was past." Blondes In Doll Land. New York Times. "They say," remarked the young sales woman at the doll counter, as she smoothed her own dark locks absent mindedly, "that extremely blonde hair Is going out of fashion, but It certainly isn't true, so far as dolls are concerned. The little girls stick to their old liking for yellow hair just as firmly as ever. Why, brunette dolls are a perfect drug on the market. It seems hardly worth while for the manufacturers to turn them out. Dolls with blue eyes have the preference, but you can sell the brown-eyed ones all right If they have the golden curls. The hair Is what counts. No matter how pretty a face she has, a doll will, be passed over if her hair is brown, almost every time. Only once Jn a great while we find an exception, when a doll is de sired that looks just like its mo'ther, who happens to be a little brunette herself." Scotland Yard. Old Scotland Yard, which is to make way for a new thoroughfare, occupies the site of a splendid palace built for the-reception of the Scottish monarchs when they visited London to do homage to the Kings of England for their fiefs In Cum berland and Westmoreland, says the London Chronicle. The last of the royal family to reside there was Margaret, Queen of 'Scotland, and sister of Henry VIII. Milton lived there while acting as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell, also Inlgo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, and Sir John Vanbrugft, the designer of Blenheim. It was not until 1829 that Scotland Yard became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police which super seded the old "Charlies." His Respectful Plata, Philadelphia Press. "Now then, prisoner," said the magis trate, "what have, you to say for your self?" "Well, suh, I done admittance de trufe ob all dat's been testlcated agin me, Jedge, but I des natch'ly hope, suh, dat yo' is gwlne be easy wlf me, 'kase I hyar yo' Is a mercenary gem'man." - Now This la "Real Mean." - Aberdeen OVash.) Bulletin. The Oregonlan tells what "Japan might do but will not" In the way of landing troops and demanding tribute of the City of Portland. The city could give them Its baseball team without much sacrifice. Possible Explanation. Kansas City Times. The burglar-who got away with some of Mr. Bryan's knives and forks, among other things, may have taken them for free sliver. Faith. With weary soul I often stray. Beside the heaving sea. While thoughts of crushed, and youthful dreams Again com back to me. Oh. all things seem so desolate. And life so sad and long. Yet. when I think of him who love. That love. It makes m strong.. The greatest thing in this vast world - Is to endure the strife The tears of bitter grief, and still FUd happiness In life. C - - elaaiurisajaMIlA-PorJgand, 11 ELLEN TERRY MEMOIRS TEMPEST Warring; Publishers Insist They Have Authoress Under Contract. 1 New York Times. Four publishers are claiming the ex clusive right to bring out the as yet unwritten memoirs of Ellen Terry. In yelterday's Times there appeared a signed statement from S. S. McClure, head of the S. S. McClure Company, . announcing that the slight difficulties which had arisen between Miss Terry and McClure's Magazine had been adjusted and that the publication of the famous actress's me moirs, which had been temporarily inter rupted, would be resumed in the October number. This statement from Mr. McClure caused a sensation among the publishers, and It now seems probable that Miss Terry is destined to figure In a sort of quadrilateral contest until It can be defi nitely decided who the rightful claimant to her unwritten memoirs really is. The three claimants besides the Mc Clure Company are D. Appleton & Co., of this city, and Heinemann & Co. and Arthur J. Pearson, of London. The two English companies each asserts that It has the exclusive right to publish the expected memoirs in Europe. In this oountry the honor is contested by the Appletons and the McClure Company. Meanwhile, three articles by Miss Terry, covering the first 18 years of her life, have appeared in the last three numbers of McClure's Magazine. On the com pletion of the third article it was found that the bulk of the autobiographical ma terial had been published In an English periodical. The New Review, 15 years ago. On making this discovery. Mr. MoClure announced- that there would be no more articles embodying the Terry memoirs In future numbers of his magazine. This was followed by the statement, made In yesterday's Times, to the effect that everything was amicably arranged with Miss Terry and that the publication of her autobiography -yfould be resumed in McClure's. i CHAT OF NORTHWEST EDITORS. Welcome Brain Food. Condon Times. We have to thank Mike Summers for a bucket of spuds this week. Come again, Mike; you are always welcome; so are the spuds. -Flans of Oregon Politicians, St. Helen's Mist. There Is a rumor that Christopher Schuebel. of Oregon City, is to succeed W. C. Bristol as United States District Attorney, and that W. R. Ellis, Congress man from this district. Is to be appointed United States District Judge, for the new district In Eastern Oregon. As Schuebel Is U'Ren's law partner. It is supposed U'Ren will not He a .candidate for United States Senator, thus removing one of C. W. Fulton's strongest competitors. The appointment of Ellis Is supposed to leave the field clear for H. M. Cake's candidacy for Congress. The politicians propose, but It may be, under the direct primary sys tem, the people will dispose. Like College Donations. ' Grass Valley Journal. It is to be hoped for the sake of the general publio that Judge Landls will not make the fine of the Standard OU Com pany too heavy. Kerosene costs enough as it is, and it will be certain to go up enough to cover the amount of the fine. A Happy View. Boise Statesman. And then, suppose everyone who has told a lie on the stand In the Haywood Moyer case should be sent to the peni tentiary. What a lovely big prison Idaho might have. Resentment In Seattle. Yakima Republic. A great many people in Seattle want "Honest John" Rlplinger brought back. There Is a feeling that not all the rob bers In Seattle had a fair chance at the loot he got away with. Odd News Men In Portland. Aberdeen Bulletin. The newspaper men at Portland left wine out of their menu at their banquet tendered to Vice-President Fairbanks out of deference to the distinguished guest. It must have been like eating sawdust to the newsies. Hood Rtvev Challenged. Toledo Leader. Some of the apples grown in Lincoln County this season will be "Just as good as Hood River's." Administration. The Ohio State Journal recalls the saying of a statesman that "adminis tration Is two-thirds of liberty," and elucidates it thus: It Is not what we profess and deolare that makes us a free Nation; it la what we do. Here is a man, say, who pays heavy taxes to the city, county, state and Nation. In proportion to the lack of return for this outlay, his liberty Is reduced. And so, if something of this expenditure does not com back to him, in adding to home comfort and making life pleasanter. he is In fact compelled to work tor nothing, which is the fate of a slave. But one answers, he gets th protection of th Government. He can get that In China, Turkey, or Austria. He pays for something more. He pays for an efficient administration. He pays tor civic duties that protect his homo from noise and dirt and amell and rubbish, and eyesores and whatever Infringes upon th true liberty of th individual. Constitutions and Legis latures do not do this. Courts do not do It except at great cost and severe 'struggle. The dependence of the citizen for the preser vation of his liberties, is the administra tion. There Is tha law and th duty Is it faithful to them? If it la not, tyranny results. Where the publlo welfare is limit ed to the convenience of the publlo service, two-thlrda of liberty disappears. WHICH SHALL, IT BE? ik l - - e . NOT RIPE FOR DEVELOPMENT Recent Object Lessons In Practice of Munlcipnl Ownership Idea. Chicago Journal. The adverse report on municipal -ownership of public utilities made la the National Civic Federation shoul cause believers in that delightful bui impracticable theory to think. Bui facts heap themselves up almost daily In discredit of municipal ownership. ' For example, here is Baltimort, which has Just abandoned Its munici pal lighting piant because a private company offered to supply the same illumination, at one-fourth the citj's cost. Of the same sort, though this affects' government Instead of munici pal ownership. Is the fact that private bidders have just obtained the two American Dreadnaught contracts be cause they underbid the navy yards, though the private bidders naturally reckoned In a profit to themselves while the navy-yards figured at cost. The truth seems to be that human nature is not sufficiently developed to make municipal or government owner ship desirable. The Postoffice Depart ment is held up as the answer to this reflection, ' but everybody who knows anything about that Institution is aware that private enterprise could run it much more cheaply than It is run at present, and get the same re sults. It Is axlomatlo that government work Is always more costly and gen erally slower and -less efficient than private work. The Chicago postoffice Is an example. If that had been con structed by a private corporation for its own business It would have been erected in one-fifth the time and at' very much less cost, and would . un questionably have been better designed for the purposes it was Intended to) serve. The new Cook County Courthouse) seems to be an exception to this rule, but it will be necessary to wait for several years to be sure of that. At any rate, if it is an exception, It Is the only bne known to this city. Municipal ownership shouters are not so noisy now as they were two or three years. ago, but occasionally we hear one making the welkin ring. But before long their cries will be as in frequent as those of the free silver en thusiasts, who at one time filled the country with their tumult and now are speechless on that subject. Exchange of Civilities. Cleveland Leader. "Senator Beverldge." said a young phy sician, "addressed the class I was gradu ated from on our commencement day. He advised us in this address to be broad and generous in our views. "He said he once saw two famous phy sicians introduced at a reception. They were deservedly famous, but they were of opposing schools; and the regular, as he shook the other by the hand, said softly: " T am glad to meet you as a gentle man, sir, though I can't admit that you are a physician." 'And I.' said the homeopathist, smiling faintly, 'am glad to meet you as a phy sician, though I can't admit you are a gentleman." " Poetlo Thought, Youths' Companion. In a recent lecture on Victor Hugo. Jean Rlchepln declared that when a lyrlo poet thinks of a word there comes into his mind together with the crowd of as sociations that the word awakens for other people, a great number of word. that rhyme with the one first thought of. Each of these brings its own association of Ideas, and thus the poet's mental vision of words Is vastly richer than that of persons who think of them only in their ordinary individual meaning. M. Riohepln, himself a poet, believes also that the sound and accent on words are always vividly present in the poet's mind. A Good Opening;. -Kansas City Independent. Ian Maclaren was talking to a group of literary beginners In New York. "Begin your stories well," he said emphatically. "There's nothing like a good beginning. Indeed, it's half the battle." Then with a smile this excellent beginner of stories added: "Always bear in mind the case of the young man who, desiring to marrv, secured a favorable hearing from his sweetheart's irascible father by opening the interview with the words: "I know a way, sir, whereby you can save money.' " The Nature Eaters. New York Evening Post. Our next President should continue the Roosevelt policies regarding wild animals. The battle over them is again raging between John Bur roughs and Long, the Connecticut Aesop. Why not have a Commission, on Wild Animals ana their Habits? There are good and bad wild animal stories. Just as there are good and bad Trusts. Merely Variant New York Evening Post. The story of the millionaire who has Just bought the old barn door on. which, as a poor lad, he had carved hl3 initials. 50 years ago. Is, of course, only a variant on the shoemaker's apron, which has become the royal standard of Persia. Ultimately both stories may. be traced back to the sun myth. A Dwindling; Army. Los Angeles Times. The New York World's 80,000 Japanese veterans on the other side of the Mexican border appear to have dwindled down ta one lame corporal and 18 coolies who are dead crazy to ,como to the United States and get Jobs as chambermaids. The Stolen Goods. Baltimore News. Mr. Bryan's complaint that President Roosevelt has stolen his thunder may be answered by the charge that Mr. Bryan stole a lot of It from the Populists and Socialists. From the Philadelphia Record.