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Wheatley; Oak land News Stand; Hale News Co. Goldfield, Nev. Louie Pollin. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency. Norfolk, V Potts A Roeder; American News Co. Pine Beach, Va. W. A. Cosgrovfc- PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. JULY 8L 1007. OVxUtWHELMJNG LOGIC. Another Jury in San Francisco may convict Glass; may not. Singular con fusion ot moral ideas prevails in San Francisco. Nor in San Francisco alone. There is the State of Colorado, and in the State of Colorado the West ern Federation of Miners, both of which entities amaze us by their con fusion of moral ideas. But San Fran cisco Just now. There was a Jury in the Glass case. But it could not find Glass guilty. It disagreed. No one has the slightest doubt that he paid money corruptly to the Supervisors. But the Jury can not find him guilty. Glass was acting for his corporation. The corporation may be the guilty party; nay. It is the guilty party. But the corporation has neither flesh nor blood nor bones nor moral nature nor soul. That is notor ious. The soulless .corporation is an ancient proverb something musty these times, but still a power. Now Glass didn't do it. He was, in deed, the instrument through which the money of the corporation .passed into the hands of the Supervisors. A man behind him gave him the money for the purpose; but that man again was but an agent of the corporation and won't tell. He is not on trial, but was wanted as a witness. He is no informer, no tale-bearer. He is like some of the witnesses for the defense In the Haywood trial, who knew Or chard was going to kill Steunenberg, but it was none of their business. They hated informers and wouldn't tell, but were not surprised when they heard Steunenberg had been murdered. Indeed, they had expected it. Everybody knows that a corporation having no soul or moral nature, can't sin. A . necessary corollary is that when its agent or facter does any act, lawful or unlawful, by direction .of his soulless principal, or in Its lnter- est, ha is irresponsible and immune, ' too. This nice distinction led to fail- ure of conviction in the charge against Glass, at San Francisco. It is seldom safe to compare great i things with small. But ' illustration ' may be had from the argument put up ;at the end of the great Civil War for Immunity both for the states that had participated in the rebellion and for ' the individual citizens of the states which had Joined the Confederacy. The argument was that' the states couldn't be punished, of course, because they had acted in their corporate and sov ereign capacity; and their Individual citizens couldn't be punished, because they had merely obeyed their states. As to this, however, the broad view prevailed that, in a case where a whole people, of many millions, had entered into an undertaking, there was a difference; and Burke's celebrated plea, made in behalf of our revolution ary forefathers, that he did not know how to draw up an indictment against a whole people, was worked to the ut most, and Indeed did most excellent service; for after such a fight as that, it was high time to quit and let by gones be bygones. To apply that principle, however, to the ease of these private criminal cor . porations and their agents. Is ludi crous. Tet it is the method of the dis. sidents of the San Francisco Jury. We" have a mighty good illustration from a skit flying around in the funny col umns of the newspapers. We clip It from the Ladles Home journal, viz.: A lawyer was defending a man accused f housebreaking, and said to th Court: "Your honor. I submit that my client did not break Into the house at all. Ho found tho parlor window open and merelv inserted his right arm and removed a few trifling ar ticles. Now, my client's arm Is not himself, and I tall to see how you can punish the whole Individual for an offense committed by only one of his limbs." "That argument," said the Judge, "Is very well put. Following It logically, 1 sentence the defendant's arm to on year's imprison ment. He can Accompany It or not, as he chooses." Th defendant smiled, and with his law yer's assistance unscrewed his cork arm. and, leaving it in th dock, walked out. We trust iHeney will read this well reasoned argument to the Jury of San Francisco, on the next trial of Glass. Should he do so, the agreement of the Jury certainly would be complete, on one side or the other. TILLAMOOK OUT OF THE WILDERNESS. The first locomotive in Tillamook County arrived at Bay City on the barge Wallicut last Saturday and its appearance created much excitement, A special dispatch to the Oregonlan says that It was welcomed by a num ber of pioneer residents, who had never before viewed the iron horse .at any closer range than In the pages of magazines or newspapers. The In cident is interesting, but there are fea tures In connection with It that are hardly creditalble to Oregon or at least to those who have had Oregon's trans portation facilities in their hands for so many years. Nearly forty years have elapsed since the first locomotive appeared in Oregon, and for nearly a quarter of a century, we have enjoyed communication with the rest of the United States by transcontinental rail roads. Tillamook is one of the richest re gions in the West, It Is a traffic-producing territory of wonderful value through every mile of the distance be tween Portland and the Ocean. That it should remain so long without rail road facilities is a powerful Indictment of the transportation Influences which have bottled up such a large propor tion of the entire State of Oregon. But even long-neglected Tillamook has possessed transportation advantages over other sections of Oregon where the first locomotive has not yet ap peared. It has an outlet by way of the Pacific Ocean, and although, the ship service has been poor and the rates have been outrageous, it has been possible for the resident of Tillamook to reach Portland in from two to four days and even ship out at a slight pro fit butter, cheese and other products of small farming-r With the dwellers in Central Oregon, nothing of this kind is .possible. They have lands of great richness and vast forests of fine timber. Their flocks and herds roam over thousands of square miles of fine pasture. There are rich mines of precious metals, and great deposits ot coal, but everything in that great empire is so far from a market that the country is forced to stand still and await the coming of the long-overdue transporta tion facilities. Some of those dwellers have been waiting only ten or fifteen years for a sight of the first locomo tive. Others have spent almost their whole lives in that neglected and iso lated land of latent riches. Tillamook has sighted its first loco motive and ere long will have rail road communication with the rest of the world. This happy ending of a long wait would not have been possi ble had it depended on the efforts of the California transportation trinity Stubbs, Schwerln and Kruttschnltt. If it were in their power to keep that country bottled up, as they are keeping the rest of the state,, the great forests lying between Portland and the new Coast outlet would be still unbroken. Fortunately, the- Tillamook line is be ing pushed hy a man who tiullds rail roads with something more than pro mises. Oregon needs a few more Lytles and the removal from power of Schwerln, Stubbs and Kruttschnitt. PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES. The ordinary Presidential candidate with his "boom" is like a man trying to climb to heaven on a ladder. If the Jadder is of sound material and well braced he may ascend to a certain altitude; he may even get so high among the clouds that his eager ad mirers think he has reached the goal and entered in. But they are always deceived. Presently there is a thud, a smash, and behold, the ambitious climber flattened out like a starfish on the ground. Chus it has always been. Thus, most likely, it always will be. Presidential glory "cometh not with observation." Neither men nor angels can foretell whose brow it shall irradiate. It is vouchsafed neither to ability tior cun ning, nor to both combined. Henry Clay had ability, vast stores of it. Doubt less in sheer intellectual power, Dan iel Webster excelled any Presidential aspirant of his generation. But in their day, the race was not to the swift nor the battle to the strefng any more than it is in ours. Weaklings carried away the prize from both these giants. Blaine was an abler man than Grover Cleveland. Cleveland's mind towered above Harrison's. Tet Blaine lacked the subtle essential of character which the people will have in their Presi dents. Perhaps this essential is a certain homeliness or rusticity. At any rate, brilliancy is no help to a candidate. It frightens, or, at least, repels the common man, who loves best the qual ities which he finds deep In his own nature. Both Cleveland and Harrison had those qualities. Neither of them was profound; both had a ponderosity half absurd. But both, on the other hand, had a plausldity of character half bovine, and each was almost por cine in his determination to have his own way. These qualities are whole some, human and safe. The people love them. Therefore they found it hard to choose between Cleveland and Har rison and exalted them alternately. It would be scandalous to say that Mr. .Hughes is porcine. Still, he likes to have his own way. The harder the grafting politicians urge him in one di rection, the harder he pulls in the oth er. He is not to be driven. He will not be led. Not even Grover Cleveland knew his own mind better than Mr. Hughes, and Mr. Cleveland vnever had the wit to express his wishes so clearly or obtain them as deftly as the pres ent Governor of New York. The deft ness of Mr. Hughes, it strikes one, has three aspects, all attractive to the common mind. He wants the right thing; he wants it for the right rea. son; and he attains it in the right way. -The thing that he wants is Justice. He does not. like Mr. Roosevelt, de scribe It In picturesque terms. He does not. like Mr. Hearst, frame it with flaming halo. He calls It by Its own grand name, simply,, clearly and relentlessly, and It Is easy for any hon est man to see that to Mr. Hughes Justice is the all potent remedy for social wrong. Nor is he misled by any delusions as to what Justice" is. The glitter of millions does not dazzle him. The moan of the oppressed does not delude him. He perceives that the sal vation of America lies in equal laws. Intelligently adapted to modern needs and Inflexibly enforced. Tho curse of our time is - special privilege. Mr. Hughes destroys privilege wherever he finds it. The privilege of the politicians, of the millionaires, of the corporations, is all the same to Hughes'. He annihi lates it and substitutes duty In its stead. He is a great moral renovator. Like the evangelist, who decries for mal "religion" and exalts "salvation," Mr. Hughes makes Justice the ideal end of human effort and tells us that the way to reach it Is to forsake our greed, our cunning, our devious poli tical and commercial Iniquities, and do our simple duty. Mr. Hughes has eagerly desired many public measures, but never one for' an unworthy reason. His motives have been uniformly pure and even ex alted. His worst enemies have never accused him of preferring ' private to the public welfare. And, finally, he has Invariably sought the public welfare,- by open and strictly constitu tional methods. He knows of no de vices, he practices no arts. Absolutely straightforward, he presents the mat ter on its merits and trusts the people to decide Justly and compel obedience from their servants. In seeking for a President to succeed Mr. Koosevelt the Nation might do far worse than to Investigate the qualifications of Mr. Hughes. DRAKE'S VOYAGE. Mr. B, M. Brereton, of Woodstock, gives us a pamphlet on the question, "Did Sir Francis Drake Land on Any Part of the Oregon Coast?" He con cludes Drake did not. In this he fol lows best Judgment. The only sugges tion that Drake may have landed at some point on the Oregon Coast comes through an account of Drake's Voyage Round the World, published many years , after the navigator's death. The . contemporary account, given in "Hakulyt's Voyages," . Indicates that Drake came no further north than 42 deg., which was estab lished as the Oregon line a long time after; but he did not land and turned back, from some point at a distance off the Coast, because of fog and cold, and returned to Europe by the Straits of Sunda and the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. Brereton's pamphlet furnishes an outline of all Information available on this subject. It contains copies of original maps and" diagrams, with an alysis of the- statements of the author ities. Drake's vessel, a trifling bark of 120 tons, was the second vessel to circumnavigate the globe. He sailed from England in December, 1577; re fitted his vessel on the California Coast, at or near San Francisco Bay, in June and July, 1579 and returned to England in 1680, with a wonderful plunder taken from the Spaniards, with whom his country was not then at war. Drake simply was a pirate, but Queen Elizabeth got the booty and protected him. He was one of the great sea dogs of England who , de feated and destroyed the Spanish Ar mada, in 1588. The best account we have ever seen of Drake's exploits, on his wonder ful adventure round the globe, is in the eleventh volume of Froude's His tory of England. About twenty-five pages are devoted to the BUbJect; and "in Froude's hands it becomes a rapid, distinct and most fascinating story. Froude had obtained access to some Important Spanish documents, by which his narrative Is much enriched and enlivened. REMEDY FOB "GETTING MARRIED." Richard Malcolm Johnston, a South ern writer, wrote some years ago a sketch entitled, "The Early Maturity of Mr. Thomas Watts." It is commend ed to parents of lads who have a mania for marrying, as suggesting a panacea for this mania, as administered by Mrs. Watts, Tommy's mother; a reso lute woman, who believed that the way to put a stop to such nonsense lay along an old-fashioned ' and tormerly well-beaten track. Of course, asevery one knows. It is useless to reason with a boy bent upon "getting married," especially when a girl, of equal minia ture age and discretion, Is ready and anxious to marry him. Mrs. Watts, early widowed and the mother of six, had no idea of wasting her energies in this vain attempt upon Tommy. "Down with 'em" was her command, referring to the first long trousers of which Tommy was the proud posses sor. Protest was useless and "dow'n they came." "Be you a boy or be you a man?" panted this resolute woman as she paused for breath, after vigor ous exercise in the programme that followed. "A boy, a boy, mamma," gasped Tommy. "Only let me up and I will be a. boy as long as I live." It was recorded, so salutary was the lesson, that Tommy, until long after he had reached man's estate, grew disdainful at the flutter of a petticoat In the distance, treated his practical sister, Susan, who had disclosed his matrimonial Intentions to their mother, with great respect, and turned over his earnings to his mother like a dutiful "boy" of the old school The plan of practical Mrs. Watts, as before said, is recommended for its simplicity and its efficiency to parents, of whom judging from local happen ings of. recent date--there are a num ber in this locality, desperately trying to prevent their sons, 17 years old and less, from "getting married." The remedy is within easy reach of the strong right arm of "the father deter mined to do his duty by his own at this critical stage of adolescent mania and It may be vouched for as efflca- cious. The spanking must be thorough ly applied, however, or It may precipi tate an - event that it Is Intended to prevent. A C H RI STI AXI.I K B ARTICLE. The Pacific Christian Advocate dts courses upon Dr. Day discreetly and sagely. The tempestuous eulogist of trust-thievery is handled rather .se verely by the paper of his denomina tion, but no more severely than he deserves: The article, from which The -Oregonlan quotes today In another col umn, is one of the most hopeful signs we have seen, that the National moral revival is deep and real. When the denomination press 'becomes fired with reformatory seal it is time for Satan to look about him. Sometimes religious papers feel bound to defend pestiferous characters like Dr. Day; merely because of church affiliations. Whenever they do so, both the papers and the church suffer. It is agreeable to see the Pacific Christian Advocate standing on safe ground, A bad man Is not made bet ter by calling himself a Methodist and the church is weakened by his fellow ship. Regret Is often expressed that the churches do not wield their right ful Influence in the world today. The first step toward regaining that Influ ence Is to purge themselves from the fellowship of conspicuous sinners like Dr. Day and the men whose applogist he has made himself. Valley farmers, who have a griev ance of long standing against . the Southern Pacific, will be please! ta learn that the Government Engineers of this district are spending $60,008 for the improvement of the Upper Wil lamette. This money Is provided in the River and Harbor bill as passed by the last Congress, to be used where it will do the most good. The snagpuller Mathloma is pulling snags In the main channel a few miles below' Salem and Dipper dredge No. 2 is dredging to give four feet of water on the shallow bars that are the dread and delay of steam hoating at various points. With steam boats and plenty of water to float them when fully loaded, farmers would be In a position to forgive the railroad company for car shortage. Ir regular service and high freight tar iffs, that have aggravated them al most beyond endurance In years past. Sixty thousand dollars is not a large sum. It is not enough to keep open navigation on the Willamette to Eu gene, but it will be sufficient to clear and deepen' the channel at many points, where such work is needed. To this extent, it will aid the people of the Valley to break the 'Harrlman clutch an accomplishment not to be de spised. The "weather complaint" has become a National disorder, the chief symptom of which Js exaggeration. Taking the reports, that come by .word of mouth from various sections of the country at various seasons one might be led to conclude that the earth Is again trenching on chaos, as described by Milton as a place wherein, Hot, cold, moist and . dry, four champions fierce. Strive for mastery and to battle bring Their embryon atoms. Fortunately, there is nothing In Intel ligent observation which goes to prove that climatic conditions differ greatly, one year with another, from those of the past. Having survived those, the human race will most probably sur vive these, with now and then the loss of an individual from freezing, cloud burst, lightning bolt or sun stroke. It has been hot here, however, for the past two ,days undeniably and sizzingly hot, and the conditions were not a whit more comfortable because there have "been other hot days hot ter, perhaps In other years. Whew! Systematic effort has been made to preserve alive some of the noted elm trees of the Connecticut Valley. Among them are the Jonathan Edwards elm, in Northampton; the General William Shepard elm, in Westfield, and the In dian Home tree in Old Deerfleld. The first of these trees was planted" by the famous preacher more than 175 years ago. To brace Us weakened fiber against the wind, its trunk has been filled with more than three tons of sand and cement. This trunk is about wenty-five-feet In eircum ference and at one time had large spreading branches and was one of the handsomest trees in the state. Its beauty has been sadly Im paired by time and, as a tree, it Is cherished simply In memory of the great preacher who planted It in the early 'years of his strenuous ministry, The theology which' he expounded like the old tree, has suffered sadly from the erosions of time and has been chinked up and filled in, to make it stand the test of the years. The tax this year in the great Man hattan District of New York City is $1,485 per hundred. This is the entire tax and covers all charges. Including the public schools and the municipal debt. New York is, beyond compari son, the most extravagant city in the world; yet the tax rate is lower than in most. It attests the enormous wealth of the city and the improve ment claimed in assessment of values for taxation. In the State of New York, through urgency of Governor Hughes, it is now unlawful for a corporation engaged In the business of conducting litigation and providing counsel to enter Into champertous agreements or to repre. sent the claimant -in the pursuit of any civil remedy for the recovery thereof. The New York Times says: "The three-headed monster of champerty, barratry, and blackmail is stricken by this law." Fire that plays havoc with small business stocks la a calamity to the extent that these are uninsured. For the rest, the razing of old wooden structures, in the heart of the city, in which such stocks are carried, to the great profit in rentals of the owners, has long been overdue and their de. struction is a gain to the city. Publication of a tlm enrt rlvlnr 'the departure of trains from the Union Station fills a long-felt want, but what's the use of announcing a sched ule of arrivals for the trains that never get in on time? Evelyn Ncsbit Thaw denies emohatl cally that She Will return tn tho atnra next season. While w commend her good taste, we can not resist con gratulating the stage. When Mr. Hatfield lavs claim to lng the only professional rainmaker in the world, he Is probably prepared successfully to defend a libel suit by Jupiter iuvius. Clackamas County will hold an agri cultural fair, at Gladstone Park. The State Fair, down to 1S62, was held at Oregon City. It was first held at Sa lem in 1863. Endorsement of Secretary Taft by the Ohio Republican State Central Committee is a start for Ihe Presi dency. Senator Foraker's letter gives addi tional Interest to Secretary Taft's coming visit to Portland. The weather forecast published yes terday: "Fair and cooler" was evi dently a Midsummer Joke. While it will be barren of results, discussion of weather conditions at this time is permissible. For the first time this season does the Ice man loom up as an Important local figure. Will Mr. Hatfield, rainmaker, please get busy in Portland for fifteen min uses? The sluggards In the Plaza will go to the ant next Winter. HAYWOOD VERDICT. ' ' ' Comment of Representative Journal on Result of tne Trial. Boise Statesman. The Statesman, in .common with tho great macs of the people, regrets that the' trial of .William D. Haywood for the murder of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, resulted as it did. The verdict came as a great surprise, as it had not been supposed such a conclu sion would be reached, even the de fense, according to the best informa tion obtainable, hoping for nothing more than a hung Jury. But the case has been decided bv an Idaho Jury under the facts as they found them, and the law as laid down by the court, and it is the duty of all, as in all cases fairly and fully submit ted to our constituted tribunals of Jus tice, to accept the result in that spirit of loyalty to our courts which is a nec essary attitude of mind on the part of citizens of the Republic If our rights are to be protected and peace and or der and good will are to reign. The next duty of the state is to pro ceed at the proper time to bring the other accused men to trial to deter mine whether they are Innocent or guilty under the law. That has been already determined upon, and in due time wa shall know whether Charles H. Moyer and George A Pettibone are to be subjected to punishment or re turned to their homes and friends free of the charge against them. The state thus maintains its dignity and discharges the duty, laid upon it to probe all crimes to the bottom in order that, in so far as it can accom plish such a result, protection of life and property shall be assured to all classes of its citizens. Not Acquitted In Public Mind. Pendleton East Oregonlan. The result expected by perhaps a majority of people who have followed the trial of William D. Haywood for the murder of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, of Idaho, has happened. It has been conceded throughout the latter part or the trial that the state absolutely failed to corroborate Or chard's testimony with even a flimsy bit of evidence upon which an honest Jury could shape a verdict While thinking people everywhere are glad that Haywood was not con victed on Orchard's testimony, yet Hay wood is not entirely acquitted in the public mind. There is evidence that he knew of Orchard's criminal career and that he did not make an effort to stop it. There is evidence that he paid Orchard money and knew that Orchard was a cutthroat, and yet did not com plain to the authorities. These things ' are for Haywood to settle with himself. The Jury has per formed its part honestly. Now will Haywood do as much 7 Will he help stop lawlessness? The fact remains, however, that Frank Steunenberg was murdered in cold blood. Somebody is guilty of that crime. Justice demands an accounting. Will the miserable cutthroat. Or chard, now be tried, convicted and hanged Just as speedily as possible, to stop the expense? Trial Methods Favored Haywood. Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. The verdict of "not guilty" came as a great surprise to most people and a great shock to many. It was gen erally conceded that the testimony did not make a conclusive case In law against the prisoners, and hence an extreme verdict for the state was scarcely expected; but much less was there any expectation of a clear ac quittance. Reference to the Jury pro ceedings shows plainly that the case was, in its opinion, defective, since eight were immediately for acquittal and but two for conviction. The result was not arrived at through influence or incidents in the Jury-room. The court's instructions have been criti cised, but these could have mattered but little If the presentation of the case had carried a sense of complete ness with It. The deficiency was more probably due to our system of Juris prudence, which, while holding a de fendant , innocent until proven guilty, then proceeds t6 exclude and forbid from use the very data necessary, in many oases, to establish guilt. The confession of Steve Adams, on which the state relied in its. original under taking, is an instance in point. It Is a well-understood fact that the laws of all the states contain so many priv ileges and refuges for defendants that it is next tt Impossible to convict a man with money and Influence to back him. Every two years the lawyers amplify the defense and alter the pro cedure so that the state has mirt and more difficulty in making a case if the accused person is able to employ talented advocates to defeat the in troduction of testimony and to confuse and awe the Jury. . The celebrated trial Just closed detracts nothing from the opinion that the state has sadly impaired its ability to administer Jus tice by granting unwise and immod erate immunities in law to those least entitled to them, and to establish a standard of innocence that, the prison records will show, comprises prac tically all offenders except the poor, ignorant,, shabby and weak creatures that is, a status of legal innocence is declared. But the code nor court nor Jury can absolve the guilt for Idaho's slaughtered sons, nor remove the smell of blood from the hands that brought them low. The Tribune congratulates Senator Borah and Mr.. Hawley for the serv ices they have rendered to the state and to the cause of human liberty In their long, faithful and valiant fight to maintain and vindicate popular in stitutions. The Tribune especially greets and commends Governor Good ing for his prompt, decisive, cour ageous and untiring determination to uphold the sovereignty of the state against Its aggressors, and for the disasters that have been averted by his wise course and sturdy conduct. Beyond the misconceptions of the times and the turbid gloom of Ignor ance, other and better days will write his name with Steunenberg's for their loyal services and sacrifices to the state and to the people to all the people, in great and simple public emergencies. Back to the Old Days In Oregon. Roseburg Spokesman. The Misses Lucy, age 77, and Irene, age 68. daughters of the late Charles Apple gate, live at the old homestead, and their memory of the incidents and dangers of the early days in their home at the "Eagles Home," Is acute, and their pleas ure In sitting at a recounting of these days is pleasant to behold. When the Children Are Away. Chicago Record-Herald. When the children are away w forget th noise they made. We forget the sighs for' peace that uscapad us while they played; W forget how much we longed to bo fre to leave it all. And how lonely we become when the night begins to fall! When the children are away, moved to no more murmurlngs, W forgot the piercing shrieks and th marred and broken things. And the clock so loudly ticks as the night falls, still and black. That it seems as if It tried in its grief to call. them. back. When the children are away ghosts of pleas- . ' ures that are fled Seem to hover In th rooms and around each little bed: Horn is but an empty word, and how dis tant seems the day That shall bring them shouting home - when the children are away! METHODISTS AND CHANCELLOR DAY Church Paper Says He Is the Champion of Violator of the Law. From the Pacific Christian Advocate. Probably tho on man who is most bitterly denouncing the methods of the President is a Methodist preacher, a great preacher, the chancellor of a great university, who himself has come up from the people, and who came to man hood not a score of miles from Portland. This man has seriously challenged the President and has lately spoken of him "an engine running wild." Now, an engine running wild is under stood to be one on the track without either fireman or conductor and is run ning without reference to sidetracks, switches, other trains or any regulations of officers or rights 'of passengers. Dr. Day would have us believe our President has these qualities that he is under a full head of steam, is on the track, but has no thought of the rights of others, of what interests may be in his way, how many lives may be im periled or what the terms of the sched ule may require. We are not special pleaders for Presi dent Roosevelt. We have not been retained to advo cate his cause, but it does seem to us that he is running on the governmental track according to scnedule and that schedule was outlined very thoroughly by the framera of our Constitution and by the founders of our Government. The train which he Is commanding should have the right' of way and if any other trains are threatened by the running of the President's train, it is because the others are out of place, have missed their sidetracks and have undertaken to mo nopolize rights which belong to others. It seems to us Dr. Day has lost his bearings, both as a citizen and as a Meth odist. This Government was not found ed to produce a favored class or a few superior men; neither have the leaders of Methodism an idea of espousing the cause of a select few. Both the found ers oi the Methodist Church and, of the United States Government believe in the people, the rights of the people, the wisdom of the people, the integrity of the people. "From all the utterances which we have seen from Dr. Day, he seems to have given himself over to the idea of the dl vine Tight of the favored few, and of the obligation of the masses to serve the few and to bow humbly and submissively to the will of tneir masters. We have never understood that such position was characteristic of a true, loyal American or a faithful follower of th Lord Jesus under the teachings of Mr. Wesley. Mr. Roosevelt, seeing how some of these wealthy men are using their power to override the rights of thetr fellows and to ignore the laws, has taken a bold and fearless stand in the interests of the people. Dr. Day has taken an equally bold and fearless stand as a champion of these violators of the law, not as It appears to us because these men are so saintly, but apparently because they are so powerful. If he were to stand upon the broad ground that these men are Innocent and that Justice should be shown them, there would be no room for criticising his actions. We believe they should have Just treatment and should not be condemned until their cause Is thoroughly heard. We also be lieve that they should not be allowed to. forward their own interests at the ex pense of the rights of others or to the detriment of the citizenship of the coun try. It seems to -us we are coming un der Mr. Roosevelt's leading, to a higher appreciation of the proper dignity of the law; and surely there Is great need of this. Cost of the Elks' Convention. Philadelphia North American. What did the vacation trip of a week to the big convention cost the Elks? This is a mathematical proposition with which the mathematical minds of the order are wrestling for their own infor mation. A summary of the most ob vious expenses, based on the minimum and roost conservative estimates ob tainable, makes the following showing of the cost to the Elks of their vaca tion trip to Philadelphia: Railroad fares $ 50,000 Hotel bills, meals en route and sleeping car fares 1.003,000 Incidental expenses in Phila delphia and on Bide trips ,. 500,303 Sacrifice in salaries and busi ness 500,000 Total cost of trip, excluding badges, costumes, etc. ...$2,250,000 All of this money "Bill Elk" con tributed from his private purse and sent Into the general circulation. Strange Adventures of a Nickel. Trenton Dispatch to Philadelphia Press. Jeweler William H. Williams, of this city, 16 years ago engraved his name and address on the edge of a new nickel and it went Into general circulation. Six years later It was returned to him by a minister at Utlca. N. Y.' Once again Mr. Williams sent it out into the world. The other day Mr. Williams received the nickel back for the second time. This time Is came from Trinidad, Colo. It was returned by J. E. Findlay, auditor of the Trinidad Electric Rail way v Company.- In acknowledging its receipt Mr. Williams sent a handsome stickpin to the cashier of the company. A girl .discovered the address on the coin. BUMPING ROANOKE AND SAN FRANCISCO. Common-Sense Methods and Law to Repress Hoodlum Outrages. Omaha Bee. There would have been no Japanese question, no talk of war between two friendly nations and no necessity for apologizing for the conduct of an "un- whlpped mob" if the .municipal author ities at San Francisco measured up to the Roanoke, Va., standard. When the San Francisco hoodlums destroyed the business places of a number of Japanese merchants, assaulted Inoffensive Japanese and started something like a reign of terror in that city the municipal author ities sat supine, ignoring the violations or the law, if not encouraging them, and allowed a street riot to become an in ternational complication. Contrast this with the way they do things differently In Virginia. When the Frisco-Japanese excitement was at its height a mob at Roanoke took advantage of a quarrel between a citizen and the proprietor of a Greek restaurant, over a 5-cent sandwich, wrecked the place and then started a general crusade against the Greeks. Three restaurants, three shoe shlnlng parlors and two stores were com pletely demolished and their proprietors beaten. The matter never got to the authorities at Washington except through newspaper reports. JIayor Joel Cutchln took the case in hand to restore order, and he did It effectively and promptly. He then caused the arrest of the rioter and induced the City Council to pay dam ages promptly for the losses sustained by the Greeks, who were urged to resume their business, with promise of complete protection. A Bpecial grand Jury indicted 20 of the rioters, some of them rather prominent In city affairs, who will have to pay the penalty of their lawlessness. A damper has been put on the mob spirit and the officials of Roanoke are making a highly creditable showing of their respect for the law and their determination to see that its protection shall be extended to every member of the community.' San Francisco should study the Roa noke lesson. New York City's Enormous Debt. New Broadway Magazine. -The total bonded debt of the United States is only $925,00,000, and that of New York City is already more than half that of the National Government. At the present rate of increase, the metropolis will have the larger In debtedness in five years. The total debts of all the -States in the Union amount only to $234,814,190. less than half that of the single city of New York. The total state, county and city Indebtedness of the entire United States is less than three times that of the city of millionaires. The great military powers of the world are much concerned over China and her debt, and yet China has bor rowed only $613,000,000, against $500, 000,000 for New York. The entire Do minion of Canada owes only $271,000, 000, about equal to New York's in crease in four years. Next to New York the 25 large cities of the United States, in the order of their population, are as follows: Chi cago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Orleans, Detroit. Milwaukee, Washing ton, Newark, Jersey City, Louisville, Minneapolis, Providence, Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Paul, Rochester, Den ver and Toledo. Why Not, Indeed t Salem Statesman. This double train business between Al bany and Portland during the morning and afternoon is ridiculous. Why not have the "stub" train run an hour earlier each way and thereby give tHe Willam ette Valley division still better train ser vice? Have the "stub" reach here about 10 A. M. and returning pass through about 8 or 8:30 P. M., and then require the overland to stop only at the most im portant stations like Salem, Woodburn, Oregon City. There is no use of these trains moving as close as five or ten minutes of each other. Girl Jockey Wins Horae Race. Joplin (Mo.) Dispatch in New York Times. Miss Dorothy Tyler, 14 years old, daughter of Dr. R. B. Tyler, ex-Mayor of Joplin, made her debut as a Jockey at the local racetrack and won her first event, a quarter-mile race, on her own horse, Blackmare, crossing the wire ahead of Dolly Varden, ridden by "Will" Brown, and Annie, with a pro fessional Jockey named McDowell up Miss Tyler's victory was greeted by wild cheers from the crowd, which had "backed her oft the board" before the horses went to the post. Baltimore Justice on Wheel. Philadelphia Press. A Baltimore Justlc recently dis posed of 100 cases In 95 minutes. He must have imagined he was the Na tional Congress passing pension bills. The Poor Railway Man. Boston Transcript. I would not be a railway man In this degenerate day, Whi the pafa has been abolished And the editor must pay; When every Ink-pot In the land . Is working overtime To prove all railway presidents Are steeped in fraud and crim. I would not be a railway man In this exacting age, When the unions are demanding Less hours and higher wage; When every shipper on the line Would put behind the bars That luckless wight, the railway man. Because there are no cars. I would not be a railway man 1 In this disturbing time. When- every hayseed statesman Attempts his nerk to climb; With laws to cut down earnings. And laws to tax them more. With endless complications And persecutions sore. I would not he a railway man At this destructive date, A target for the journals, A football for the state, rd let them take the railways And run them as they'd like; I would not be a railway man, I'd quit my Job and strike. THE BUMPS -From the New York World.