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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1907. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall.) Pally, Sunday Included, on year 98.00 Dally.-Sunday Included, six mnnthf. . .3 Dally. Sunday Included, thre montbl. 2-25 Dally, Sunday Included, pn month. ... .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year UOO Dally, without Sunday, tlx month!.... 8 23 Dally, without Sunday, threa montbl.. L75 Dally, without Sunday... op month... . . -00 Sunday, one year ...'8.60 Weekly, ona year (issued Thursday).... Sunday and Weekly, ona year Bk CAfcJUER. ' Dally, Sunday Included, ona year...... 900 ' Dally, Sunday included, on month.... HOW TO REMIT Bend postofflc money , Order. tXnrMi orri.p nr- n.riflnftl ChCK OB ' your local bank. Stamps, coin or currancy ara at the tender risk. Give postolflc ad dreaa in full, Including county and state. POSTAGE RATES.' Entered at Portland, Oregon. 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Oakland, lal. w. tt. jonmun, ......... and Franklin streets: N. wneatiey Oak- land News Stand; Hale News Co. Golrifield, t. Louie Pollln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agenoy. Norfolk, Vs. Potts St Roeder; Ami News Co. Fine Beach, Ta W. A. CoegroT. FORTLAN1), TUESDAY, JiM SO. NOTABLE CIRCULAR. Copies of a printed circular dated "Portland, Oregon, July bearing tbo headline, "To connect Puget Sound with the Harrlman Roads," have been re ceived at Portland, from the Harrl man publicity bureau at New Tork. The circular Informs those whom It may concern that the new Union Pa cific or Harriman railway line from Portland to Puget Sound will be es tablished and soon finished on a grade that will defy competition. Tunnels lit necessary points are to take the place of grades; splendid depots and terminal stations are 'to toe reached at Tacoma and Seattle through under ground levelB. We are told that "the effect of the extension of the Harrl man lines to Seattle will be practi cally to double the shipping outlet of the Puget Sound region." It seems to The Oregonian that this Is a subject that should get attention at Portland. The Harrlman scheme Is not to develop Oregon; It Is not to supply Oregon with a necessary rail road system; It Is not to build up Port land and Oregon for shipping and commerce,' but "to double the shipping outlet of Puget Sound." Is it for this ultimate purpose or object that no railroad has been con structed across Central Oregon; that nothing, or practically nothing, has been done or is being done for neces sary branch lines within this state; that steamers for Coast and Oriental traffic have been refused; that Ore gon has been left with more limited and poorer railroad service than any other state In the Union after hav ing beenx so' closely bottled up as pos sible to keep competitors out of It? Harrlman Is not building his road to Puget Bound, closely paralleling the Northern Pacific, to supply any urgent present need there. He Is building simply as part of his war against Hill and the Northern roads. In the circu lar Issued by his bureau he says. In effect, that, Portland and Oregon will not be needed or "wanted further. He will "double the shipping outlet of the Puget Sound region" creating, we may suppose, facilities there -which he has denied here; not because they are needed there, but 'because that Is his way tonight Hill. From all of which two conclusions would appear. First, that Portland would do well to study the Harrlman circular and get busy about It; second, " that the North Bank road, connecting us with the Northern Pacific and Great Northern In the Upper Columbia region and towards 'the East, Is not being completed at all too soon. The suggestion comes, however, that the criticism and censure should not fall on Harriman, but on his mana gers of the California school, who are doing the business. But In the admin istration of great affairs the man at the head is charged with the respon sibility. There is a man one Roose veltwho doesn't shirk that rule. LOAFERS 'AMID WORK. The scarcity of labor is a constant theme, yet the county, and especially the city, is full of Idle men. It is im- possible, say the fruit-growers of the Inland Empire, to get men to pick the fruit; it Is impossible, say fuel dealers, to get men to . cut cord-wood; it Is Impossible, say railroad contractors, .to get a full supply of graders. The same plaint Is heard all along the line. With harvest just at hand, followed by hop picking and fruit-gathering and the varied demands that the Fall season makes upon labor, the situation Is seri ous. The conclusion Is Irresistible that a large class of labor has been catered to and coaxed and coddled in order to keep it In the harness at all, or, per haps, for political reasons, that It has become so big with self-conceit as to be, for all practical purposes, worth less. This does not refer to the Intel llgent. conscientious working man, who -goes to his daily labor cheerfully and receives Its wage (and a good wage It Is or prosperity would be a misleading term) thankful for the strength and opportunity to earn It. It refers to the Idle class, aggrieved at, they know not what, who plod along the highways taking toll from orchards, gardens and poultry yards, ostensibly looking for work; or who hang In squads., around headquarters in the city, where labor agitators rail at capital and Its . enterprises and in cites to strikes and violence. These men are idle, first, because they do not want to work and, second, be cause when, by chance one Is coaxed into the acceptance of a job, at fruit picking or other employment for which there is a pressing demand, he proves so utterly worthless that his- employer is glad to pay him off and let him go, after brief trial. It is this phase of the labor problem, more than any and all others, that makes its solution, upon any known hypothesis, so hopeless. STATISTICAL, POSITION OF WHEAT. The announcement that the Ameri can Society of Equity would advance wheat prices for the 1907 crop to $1.26 per bushel, was followed yesterday by a decline of over one cent per bushel in the Chicago market. The course of that market which, in spite of its vagaries and eccentricities, still re mains the dominant factor in the mak ing of world's prices, has been so erratic of late, that it Is difficult to understand whether the decline of yes terday was any more justifiable by the natural conditions than was the sen sational advance Saturday. The Am erican " Society of Equity bases its 11.25 per bushel figure on an alleged shortage of alarming proportions 'in the American crop. This shortage, even though It be as great as the most alarming reports have made It, must, of necessity, be re-inforced by something more than an American crop shortage. And there is re-inforce-ment to the strength in the Ameri can situation In the foreign statistics. But whenever the price of wheat gets above $1 per bushel, new factors are brought into the situation. High prices curtail consumption, especially In the old world, where the great bulk of the world's wheat crop finds a market. For that reason, wheat can be forced with difficulty to abnormal figures in this country, so long as there is a surplus which must seek a market across the seas. With the posible exception of actual famine conditions in this country. It Is Impos sible to create a situation, which will permit the American market to be manipulated Independently of the rest' of the world. Broomhall's figures on the world's wheat crop, have been, from the beginning of the season, fully as bullish as any that have eman ated from this side of the water. As his estimates have stood the test of time, for accuracy, they are entitled to credence. In his final resume of the situation July 1, this eminent author ity placed the world's wheat crop for 1907 at 2,992.800,000 bushels. .That these figures were conservative Is quite evident from his American estimate, which credits the United States with a crop of but 660,000.000 bushels, a figure low enough to satisfy the most 'bullishly inclined operators. Compared with the crop of last year, these figures for the world show a de crease of 288,320.000 bushels; but they are 12.000.000 bushels greater than the average for the past .ten years. In anticipating J1.25 per bushel for wheat. It must not be forgotten that the carry-over from the 1906 crop was one of the largest on record, and we must go back to 1896, to find as large an American visible or a corresponding date, as Is now In evidence. The "vis ible" yesterday was 48,828,000 bushels an Increase of nearly 20,000,000 bushels over the same date last year and 83,000. 000 bushels greater than in 1905 when the market hovered around $1 per bush el. This large visible and the stocks In farmers' hands will go a long way toward offsetting any shortage in the American crop, and the decreased con sumption, which Is a natural accom paniment of dollar wheat in the old world, will assist in carrying the con sumers along until the new crop in the Argentine appears four or five months hence. There Is Btill time for further damage to the Spring wheat in the United States, and In Russia, Roumania and other European countries. If it should occur, wheat will go, undoubtedly, to $1.25 per bushel In this country. A continuation of present conditions, nowever. will make it very difficult for the Society of Equity to corner the market with success. Dollar wheat will be quite alluring to the great mass or American farmers, and they will hardly care to gamble with it after it reaches that figure. THE NORTH CAROLINA TROUBLE. In the set-to over the North Carolina rate law. Governor Glenn and the State Courts have, thus far, decidedly the best cf the matter. Their main contention was that the State law ought not to be suspended by Judge Pritchard's lnlunetion. hut ahnnM re main in force until its constitutionality naa Deen passed -upon finally. This has now been conceded by the rail roads. They have agreed to obey the statute and sell tickets at 2 1-4 cents a mile, hereafter, until the courts have decided -whether that rate is confis catory or not. There will be no more prosecution, therefore, for the present, and Judge Prltchard will not be called upon to release any more ticket agents from the. ravening paw of the state. This agreement by the railroads looks sadly like contempt of court, admitting that it Is possible for a rail road to commit that prevalent but elusive offense. Judge Prltchard has forbidden North Carolina to enforce its law. In the face of this prohibi tion, the Southern Rallroad'now con spires with the rebellious common wealth to obey It. Such conduct Is shockingly ungrateful, even If It is not contemptuous. Nobody could blame Judge Prltchard In the least, If he told the railroad to whistle for it the next time It needs an Injunction to cover an Intended defiance of the law. But one feels a certain assurance that, the Judge will not deal harshly with the company, though it has put him in a rather ludicrous plight. That the charitable tenderness for corporate shortcomings, which he may have cul tivated when he was attorney for the Southern Railroad, is doubtless not entirely past resurrection. Perhaps Governor Glenn hastily imagined that he discerned a revival of the former relation of master and servant, when the Federal Judge made such burning haste to obey the demand of the com pany for an injunction against the In convenient rate law. This mistaken belief may, possibly, have fortified the Governor's determination to fight for the rights of his State. Some Eastern papers The New York Times and Sun, for example assert with bland assurance, that In resist ing Judge Pritchard's Injunction, Gov ernor Glenn was "defying the courts." This Is by no means a fair statement. He defied an inferior Federal Court, to be sure, but he was supported by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, which Is. fully as learned, august and free from bias as Judge Prltchard. The organs of corporate anarchy love to exalt the Inferior Federal Judges aboye the highest state tribunals. Why they do so they themselves know best. The fact that the Federal Judges are. In some cases, corporation lawyers, raised to the bench for brilliant success in evading the law, while the State Judi ciary is strictly responsible to the peo ple, may have something to do with It. To the Supreme Court of the United States all our other tribunals are ad mittedly Inferior; but what reason can anybody assign for holding a Federal District Court superior in dignity and authority to the highest State Court? The Jurisdiction of the former Is often limited to a fraction of a State and one man presides over it; while the latter interprets the law for an entire commonwealth and always has several Judges. Moreover, it would be absurd to say that the State Judges are in ferior In ability and learning, for the very brightest ornaments of the Fed eral bench have been chosen from their ranks. In all reason, therefore, the State Supreme Courts should take precedence over the Inferior Federal Courts. But, for all that, when they differ about the law the corporation organs always set up a clamor that the State Court should give way. Why should It give way? The ibeauty of it all is that the news papers which belaud Judge Prltchard with his facile injunction and deride Governor Glenn with the State Court sustaining him, are the very ones which have been shrieking themselves hoarse for "state rights." The trou bles of a paper, which is compelled to sing anthems to corporate piracy and keep it constantly disguised under some decent alias, are very serious. FROM CAMP FIRE TO ELECTRIC LIGHTS The opinion of Frances E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in re gard to the Indian educational policy of the Government, carries the weight of experience, observation and author ity. Mr. Leupp knows whereof he speaks upon this matter and his words are well worthy of consideration. Be tween the three kinds of Indian schools, maintained by the Govern ment, vli.: The reservation day achool. the reservation boarding-school and the non-reservation industrial school, he finds the latter the least de sirable.'. The reason for this is not far to seek. In the reservation schools, the pupils are kept in touch with the local situation and are taught to solve Its plain every-day 'problems. The les sons of the home, the farm, the range and the shop are learned in conjunc tion with conditions that are insepar able from, the daily life of the Indian. It Is not deemed wise to take the hoy from his environment, of such home life and conditions as he knows, and place him in a situation that is entirely foreign to his traditions, his knowledge and his untrained capacity, and "begin the process of coddling him with a view to his enlightenment. The transition is too sudden and the change, reinforced by years of train ing, is too radical. In the words of Mr. Leupp: "The transition from campflre to electric lights, from hard rustling to free board, clothes, laundry and all that" renders him unfit, after a term of years, to return and take up the conditions of life as he left them and as he will find them. Even more discouraging and unsat isfactory is the position in which the Indian girl finds herself, upon her re turn from a training school, where she has spent the allotted term of years. The Indian Industrial School at Chemawa will graduate a class of four teen pupils this week. These pupils were drawn from tribes as far 'north as Alaska, as far south as Shasta and from Klamath to Colville in the great interior of the Pacific Northwest They are said to represent the best that is in Indian character and capability, under careful development and train ing. Where In the wide world will they find a place? Not on the reser vations, from whence they were drawn many years ago. Their school life has unfitted them for that. Not on farms nor in the homes of the land. Their training 'has, in effect, taken them from the one life, without mak ing a place foe them In the other. No argument is needed in support of this statement. The transition from the tepee to the cottage; from thrift to unthrift; from idleness to Industry; from irresponsibility to responsibility; from dependence to independence; from "the campflre to electric lights"; must, in accordance with the great law of evolution, he gradual. For the life to which these Indian youths and maidens are soon to return, they are wholly unfit. Had they spent these years in reservation schools, among their own people, the change in them would not have been so radical tut it would have been much more natural, and much more promising for the fu ture. Mr. Leupp says truly, that to coddle the Indian Is to ruin him; and when he adds "It will ruin any man or race" he merely affirms the verdict of family and natural experience. We may well believe that the non-reservation Indian schools maintained by the Government, of - which there are now twenty-five, will, in view of these facts, be done away with, in a few years, since the Indians of the future are to be, if the policy of the Government Is carried to Its logical conclusion, - "neither wards nor warriors but Just men and citizens." Great disasters are soon forgotten, ex cept by those .who suffer, by them. One .of the experts, who blames the inspection service for the loss of -the Columbia, tells another expert that if he will go back to the Atlantic he will learn something about navigation. He also states that the Columbia could not have run on the -Coast of Maine or in the ylcinity of New Tork 15 hours. And yet no marine disaster in recent years has. showed such crimi nal negligence or lax enforcement of laws as the General Slocum disaster in New Tork harbor, where a thousand lives were lost. . Then there was the Larchmont a few months ago on Long Island Soumf, and a rotten old Portland-New Tork liner that fell to pieces In a storm while enroute from the Maine Coast to New. York drowning nearly 100 persons. As marine ex perts, these critics of poor Doran are woefully shy on facts, or at least they make tout scanty use of them. Looking for unearned increment, to find examples for denunciation, why doesn't the Ladd newspaper mention the most conspicuous example, the Ladd estate, which has not less than 40, 000,000 of unearned increment in Port land alone to become within the next thirty years $500,000,000? The Ladd or gan might mention in connection with this estate the Corbett estate also, now one through marriage and descent with the Ladd estate the two already possessing multitudinous millions, to be multiplied through the labor of others and by exactions upon others, during infinite time? These overgrown es tates are not to be divided among heirs, but are working Into a per petual trust, for further and . endless accumulation. It's all right, of course, for it's lawful now, but when the avenging angel cones he will come in the form that revolutions have written in history he never will pass over the chief offenders In this State of Oregon, but will lay his mark right on their doorsteps. President Roosevelt is now taunted with his reference to Haywood and Moyer as "undesirable citizens." He answered on that point for himself, with force and effect. But in what way does the acquittal of Haywood alter the case? The Jury that passed on the charge against him could not see that the circumstantial evidence presented by the State was sufficient to warrant conviction. It was a con scientious Judgment. Orchard's state ments, unless strongly confirmed, of course were nothing. The probabili ties were not enough, in a case where the penalty was death.! But do these probabilities which undeniably do show that certain relations existed between the defendant and the murderer, leave the defendant with the reputation of a "desirable citizen?" That' is the question to be answered 'by tfcose who censure the President. The question: "What would you have done had you been In Captain Doran's place?", while interesting on account of the replies, is an Idle one. Very few persons, even of more than ordinary intelligence, have any conception what ever of the responsibilities, the duties and the exactions of a sea-captain's position. f No man can tell what he would or would not do under the sud den and awful stress of circumstance. Talk. Is cheap and. words are plenty. Hence the redundancy of opinion con cerning the act of a brave man and an accomplished seaman, who "went down with his ship." An attempt is being made to secure pardon of the "Pink Domino" a youth who is doing time In the Oregon Peni tentiary for a .series of burglaries com mitted in this city, a few months ago. In- the Judgment of practical persons the Penitentiary Is a good place for this young crook, whose success as a burglar would" have been phenomenal for a man twice his years and experi ence. Why not let well enough alone? His mother is probably worrying about him less than she would do, if he were outside, plying his chosen vo cation. Sorrow comes to all. Not one es capes. A disaster like that of the Co lumbia involves many at once, and therefore Is striking. But sorrow comes, in one way or another, to every one born Into the world. So the solemn poet asks? But why complain? or why complain for one ? Hangs out the sun his luster but for me. The single man? Ar angels all besides? I mourn for millions; 'tis the common lot. In this way or in that has fate entailed The mother's throes on all of woman born; . Not more the children than sure heirs of pain! When Dr. Myron W. Haynes, pas tor of tho First Baptist Church in Seattle, told his congregation that a place had been prepared for those who lie, he probably had In mind a bustling city on Elliott Bay, about thirty miles north of Tacoma. Major Lemair, of the Belgian Army, who was on the spot, tells of awful outrages in the Congo Free State au thorized by King Leopold. Wherein the soldier of eighteen years' experi ence differs from visiting college professors. Detonations faintly heard In Portland yesterday, from across the Peninsula were neither thunder out of the sky nor cannon at Fort "Vancouver. They sounded the near approach of the North Bank Railroad. Despite his popularity in the close states, including New York, and his unblemished record, it is doubtful .whether Mark Twain will consent to be a candld-ate to succeed Roosevelt. New York City is bragging It has a year's supply of water stored behind: the new Croton dam. And the report solemnly designates it as fresh water for drinking purposes. In addition to other honors, Eugene is the headquarters of the Fourth Regiment, Oregon Infantry. Will Mr. Harrlman now dare deny the petition for a new passenger station? While Rockefeller proclaimed boast fully that he had joined the Sunday school fifty-four years ago, he did not herald the information that he had become a Christian. Already Haywood Is named as the Socialist candidate for President of the United States. Should he be elected he will be relieved of the title of "un desirable citizen.". . Only 117 In the shad, but 179 In the sun, at McGregor, in the Lone Star State, yesterday. We can now soften the old ejaculation by saying "Hot as Texas." Just why the dentists of Albany com bined to close their shops at noon dur ing August Is not clear. They don't play baseball there every afternoon. Now that the running time between Portland and Tillamook by automobile has been fixed at seven hours, won't some one please announce the fare? The biggest hall in Portland won't hold the people who want to get a look at the Secretary of War. Not If he is there. In changing administrations, Seoul had one distinct advantage over San Francisco the suspense was shorter. TROUBLES OP ECCLESIASTICS. We Are Afraid Christian Do Not Love One Another. Editorial in Pacific Christian Advocate (Methodist.) The American Citizen, a weekly pub lication of Boston, Mass., has secured a wide circulation and .important influ ence. It is an organ of the American sentiment, as against the domination of Roman Catholicism or any other foreign power which undertakes to dic tate to our people. This paper has gained its Importance and extensive in fluence not so much because of any superior Intelligence or force connect ed with its management, but because of the justification given its contention by the Roman Catholic Church Itself. At first glance, a patriotic American citizen who believes in the most ex tensive liberty of worship is rather shocked by the, idea suggested by this paper when it calls upon the Demo cratic party to abandon Its name and assume the name of the "American party," under the assurance that the entire Roman Catholic Church has gone over to the Republican party, and that this element in the Republican party is dominating Mr. Roosevelt. It states several astounding facts in sup port of its contention, which Indicates there is great danger in America from the domination of the Republican party by the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Among these statements, we find the following, which are quoted by The American Citizen from the Boston Pi lot, which was for 70 years a Demo cratic organ, and one of the leading church papers In the United States. In the Pilot for September 10. 1904. these reasons were given why Roman ists should support Mr. Roosevelt: "Because, first, the appointment of a majority of Catholics on the Supreme Court in the Philippines; second, the appointment of a Catholic secretary of education in the Philippines, and . 3700 Roman Catholic teachers out of a total of 4500; third, the appointment of 20 Roman Cathollo Governors of the prov inces of the Philipipnes, out of a total of 26; fourth, the appointment of Arch bishop' Ryan, of Philadelphia, and Mr Bonaparte, of Baltimore, on the Indian Commission." These statements of facts are unquestioned, but that Mr. Roose velt had appointed these men because they were Roman Catholics had not been supposed to be the case until they were brought forward by the Roman Catholic Church itself. It is a serious situation we are con fronting. We should regret beyond expression any agitation that has for lt object the discrediting of any denomination or the appeal to the prejudices of any of our people against the tenets or policy of any organization of religious people. As Methodists or Baptists, Presbyte rians, Jews or Gentiles, we have no claim on this Government, and the Government has no claim upon us, and should have none. We have claims upon the Government as citizens, but not as religionists. If the Roman Catholic Church persists in Its efforts to run this Government, we are going to very soon find ourselves plunged into a conflict which will re sult in a sad condition for the Roman Catholic Church. Its assumptions are Intolerable and impudent beyond ex pression,, and It would as well under stand now as ever that if it forces this conflict by demanding positions for its members and recognition of Its claims, it will be driven to the wall if not driven out of the Government entirely. It was during the 17th century driven out of Japan and its people massacred by the multiplied thousands, all be cause of its intolerance and its Im pudent pretensions. No Roman Catholic layman, priest, bishop or archbishop, as such, has any business interfering with the interests of this Government. As citizens any and all of them have rights and privileges belonging to a citizen, .and they should be content with these. It will be a sad day for us when any denomination shall de mand recognition for its members be cause of their church membership and because of the attachment of such members to an organization But It Is well for all of us, as American citi zens, and as Christians, to keep our eyes open to the fact that Romanism Is exerting an influence over the American Government which bodes no good for this Government, and which promises only disquietude and distress for our people. How would It do to forget or abandon the idea of "religion," which produces these animosities and disorders, and keep to the idea of "salvation," as urged by Rev. Dr. Ford, of the Sunny aide Methodist Church, last Sunday? INSISTS ON LIFE PRESERVERS. Call for Better Federal .Protection Around Marine Passengers. PORTLAND. July 27. (To the Editor) In an able editorial In yesterday's Ore gonian, under the apt heading of "some body Blundered," It is appropriately said: "We cannot call back the dead, but there Is a duty owing the living." The Columbia steamer disaster whose wings of gloom throw shadows of heart breaking sorrow In homes of nearly every state in the Union, shows clearly that effective steps could be taken by the De partment of the United States Inspection Service, to minimize the loss of life in such emergencies. The meager reports of the sinking of the Columbia, tell of wom en and children searching, crying, plead ing I for life preservers; of those not ac customed to the use of life preservers having them on wrong so that these articles became life destroyers rather than life preservers. The United States Inspection Service should detail Inspec tors to see that each berth and stateroom Is provided with life preservers Just be fore any vessels start on their voyages, and it should be a further duty of this In spector to show each passenger how to put on and fasten a life preserver. This would not only familiarize the passenger with the place where the life preserver may be found, but would acquaint him with the safe adjustment of it. The steamship magnates would object, because such inspection and instruction would de lay the vessel fon perhaps 30 minutes, but what counts 30 minutes when compared with the horrows of the sinking of the Columbia and the Valencia? The whole system of the United States Inspection Service Is as faulty and as rotten as can be. The burdens are placed upon the small river steamers, while the floating palaces of Hill and Harrlman are left to the control, direction and manage ment of departments which places a great value upon net earnings and small value upon loss of life. This inspection service, like so many other departments of Gov ernment founded and grounded upon civil service, becomes a defender 6T Itself in stead of a defender and protector of the lives of the pople. The man at the bottom of the service, must be upheld by his superior: his superior, upheld and sup ported by his chief; his chief, by the head of his department; the head, by his supervisor; his supervisor," by his super-vlsor-in-chlef. When a subordinate, in spector has been lenient and la caught by his superior, his dereliction of duty Is suppressed, because It would cast some reflection upon the superior, and are not both official tenaciously clinging to a life Job? Why lose the Job because five score of people may be drowned? Plenty of people; but few jobs. There should be an overhauling and im provement . of this department upon the Pacific Coast. Not that it would call back the drowned ones now floating upon the breakers 'of the Pacific, but from a duty we owe to the living. H KXRY B. WKSTBROOK. BOURNE AND ROOSEVELT. Characteristic View of the ' "Second Elective Term" Propagandist. ' Washington Times. Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon, says, without qualification, "that 80 per cent of the voters In Oregon are impregnably determined .... that Roosevelt shall remain four more years in the White House." Mr. Bourne is also of the opinion that -the Oregon believes firmly the President will be J renominated despite himself. I But suppose President Roosevelt de clines to accept the nomination?" the Senator was asked. "He cannot decline. He can no more decline than can a soldier who enlists in the army decline to fight in the face of the enemy. It is a duty which the people put up to Mr. Roosevelt, and a man with his ideas of duty a man who has uttered the sentiments which he has uttered on the subject of duty of a public servant to the people can not escape the responsibility. . . . For him to interpose his personal opinions or feelings in the face of the unmis takable expressoln of the opinion of the people would be for him to exhibit a personal selfishness and vanity of which he Is incapable." More and more this view of the polit ical situation is gaining ground, until with many shrewd politicians It is al most become a settled belief. 'As a matter of fact, not one of the so-called "booms" has gained any real headway. This is as true of Taft's can didacy as of. the more persistent cam paign for the nomination in behalf of Fairbanks. The Republican party in the South, -with a morale heretofore un known, has Roosevelt for Its candidate, and will consider no other. In the Middle West and the Far West, the President is the only choice of the peo ple. What support he may have lost with ultra conservative Republicans, he has more than made up from the ranks of the Democracy. The Republican nominating conven tion Is 11 months away. Political changes are rapid, particularly in the half year preceding the nomination S-w ; U 18 not asgeratton, frfX..1"' t0 ?" this time all P2lnt to the unanimous re nomination of Theodore Roosevelt, 'and theUnhed State". Pre8lde TAFT'S OFFICIALJUGHT-HAJTO MAW General Edward, a Keen Organise no Capable Diplomat. Washington dispatch In New Tork Tribune. er?a,?TnCS Edwards. BrigadierGen eral, U. S. A., and Chief of the Bureau ?ecord8U rKffa;8' h" made a ntable , War department, where, since early In 1900, he has been regarded as the right-hand man of the Secretary 2L. ar',!lavln8r stood ln thls relation 25?,,. lhu Root and more recently to William H. Taft. With an enviable rec ord for gallant service ln the Philippines, where he served as Adjutant-General on the staff of General Lawton during that officer's brilliant campaign, to his credit. General Edwards, then Captain of Infan try, but, with his superior officer's four earnest recommendations for brevet rank of Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel and Brigadier-General of volunteers, was placed ln charge of the disorganized and somewhat chaotic bureau which Secre tary Boot had called Into existence to handle the affairs of the Philippines. The remarkable faculty for organiza tion and administration which he had displayed ln the field General Edwards applied to the problems of his new bu reau, and today the Bureau of Insular Affairs is conceded to be one of the best administered and most effective offices of the Government, as recognized by Congress at the. last session ln raising the rank of its chief from Colonel to Brigadier-General. To its Important du ties ln connection with the Philippines has been added Jurisdiction over Cuban affairs, and in General Edwards Gov ernor Magoon, himself formerly law of ficer of the Bureau, finds able and ear nest co-operation, while the Caan ad ministration profits by the long expe rience of the chief of the Insular Bureau. General Edwards has won the entire confidence of Secretary Taft. and his official advice on insular matters is held in the highest esteem. He also enjoys close personal companionship with the Secretary, and his fine bay Is usually seen alongside the Secretary's gray geld ing when the two men take their after noon outing. General Edwards, who still has 14 years of active service ahead of him, is, moreover, one of the most pop ular officers ln the Army. He'd Rather Be a Chlcaeo Be Chicago Dispatch. Health Commissioner William A. Evans, of Chicago, Is out with a statement that the Government spends more money ln bacteriological labor for the benefit of hogs than for man, and that he would rather be a hog. Consoling;. Los Angeles Times The Portland club can at least claim that it has not lost quite twice as many games as It has won. ' Borne Animals I Have Known. Chicago Record-Herald. I am no hunter, but I know Some animals quite well. And I'm no faker when I say Strange stories I can tell. I've chafed Welsh rabbit down a lane. Till weary stomach quailed. And I have bucked the tiger, too. And had a steer that failed. On groaning horse I've awedall day. With calve I've danced at night. And often I have sailed a cat. And reached my port all right. Tt seen a blind pig lead a man Along a rocky road. And I have seen a donkey try To walk home with a load. A Wall atreet lamb once owned a goat, A young dear loved a hound; ITtt seen a woman hav a rat Above her forehead bound. i But, Strang as all thee things may seem. They do not half compare With that wild monster of the woods. The dreadful Teddy bear. BRYAN "I HOPE THE YOUNGSTER WON'T WAKE UP SOON" S23 OLD HOME WEEK IN BOSTON. Envious Comment of Jeering New York Paper on a Great Event. New York Sun. The money comes in slowly, but the work of preparation for Boston Old Home Week goes madly on. "Twelve automobiles took family parties from South Station on the arrival of the morning express." Twelve automobiles! Think of that! O Boston, Boston, busv, whizzy, dizzy, and until 11 P. M. fizzy, Boston! As we roam through the marts of commerce, the wharves, the stations "depos." the Bostonians calls them beautiful little outdoor Interiors, so to speak, etch themselves upon the de- . lightful retina: Men shake hands and women kiss; and sometimes men and women kirs. Well, I'vum and i'snummy not to say Gosh! The municipal brass band will play on the Common at 3 P. M. The milishy will be out. If no warships are on hand to belch smoke and flame" the Hon. John Ranter Thayer of the Wor cester Fur Club will explode in School street with a world wagging detona rn at,eJ". a terrlhe cannonading of ort Whitney every afternoon and evening The Mayor of Chelsea will positively be present. At the Grouch ' Club on Kilby street the Hon. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn win give remini scences of himself. Thoreau, Emerson. Hawthorne and Erving Winslow. There J'1'.?' a un'on of Mutton Pie ftahilJ-.M1 BeU ln "and' The con stables will have orders not to molest toIa. "ot, Positively rambunctious, w ho get their "licker" in Boston Itself rtrelsranf.a '.the amate" negro min strels and golden weddings ln Suncook. Ct'.."" a1marJ,8coa, Me.. Blind Hole. Mass., Poke Corne-s. Vt.. and Provi dence. R I., will be printed by the Boston Illustrated papers, with their wn TtM enterPrie. Mayor Fitzgerald will preside over everything. There will be water carnivals, flower festivals "PolanPd"1Ir!a-H''8hi "d P"'-'" pnd . P"ties. The quoit links are on Boylston street. Two-old cat ex terWilAbe accmmodated on Beacon street. Greased poles and triumphal arches are going up everywhere. Perpetual Peace Impossible. Lipplncott's Said the little lad: "Papa, why is per petual peace Impossible?" ..i,Hl8u father a'3: "Hush!" .and he trvmt ,?Ut 6V8r slnce 1 have been ny.w-, r d myseIf of the Question by fj Zt T8 "k U la not "Psible. It ih lmp,robabI- " Is not a far reach ahead, unless we make It so by pushing 1.1 7 f.m8t lmmed'ao Possibility thai lies legitimately and reasonably with" our grasp, today n virMmf0rCe vf hablt' even th optimists rented . mUCh; For years " w ac cepted as a scientific fact that a two- would ot Increase Its weight, because r 6 J ,h welshed nothing In the water. Carefully constructed blunders were nM!h0n th?,BirenKth of it. till some JnnnH .w Kted the Per,ent and found that the weight of his tub in creased by the weight of the fish in air. Were some foolish one to try an experl- f"h r"h thls peac Proposition, we might be again surprised. The secret of peace-all peace, perpetual peace-was never a secret. Isaiah ad vertised it when he foretold the advent of one to be called The Prince of Peace because he would "establish It with Judg ment and with Justice." The angels of Bethlehem proclaimed his coming with "Peace on earth to men of good will" (hominibug bonae voluntatis). One of the two all-Important commandments which He left was, "Thou shalt love" thy neighbor as thyself." Kaval Recruit Ara Shy. Washington (D. C.) Herald. All the naval recruiting parties in the Northwest have been withdrawn because of the small number of recruits signed by them. The regular Summer demand for farm laborers has set in rather stronger than usual this year, and the recruiting omeers and their assistants find it quite ' impossible to compete. This feature of the situation aside, however, those ln charge of naval recruiting stations are finding it increasingly difficult to induce young men to enter the service. The attractive colors used in painting the life aboard men-o'-war are not sufficient to compensate for the low pay, and officers in close touch with the situation express the opinion that It will be necessary to offer some extra Inducement ln order to get suitable young men, especially for three-year enlistments. Within the lasf few months enlisted men have been given the privilege of purchasing discharge after one year in the Navy, and while tnis has helped the enlisting officers to some extent, their progress is now slower, perhaps, than ever before. After the rush of men to the Western farms Is ended. It may be that the prospect of Increased pay for enlisted men being provided for next Winter will serve to add to the number of those willing to serve Uncla Sam at sea- One Mercy ln Harry O if hard. Kansas City Journal. About the best that can be said ot Harry Orchard Is that in the course of his gentle career he met people once in a while whom he didn't murder. The Span of Life. Boston Transcript. A stretch of beach before the ocean lying: ' The glistening sands beneath a morning sun: A tiny moth, ln golden eunllght flying; A life begun. Th orb of light his onward course pursu ing A glittering noon beneath a fervent ray; A sylvan bower a space of ardent woo ing A hast'nlng day. A sinking sun with falling vigor shining: A creeping shade within the sylvan bower; A feeble form, upon th sands reclining; The evening hour. The shade of dusk to deeper shadows grow ing: The flickering flare of fast departing light; The ocean grim, with billow overflowing; Then darkeom night. From the Indianapolis Ne