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J-ORTI.ANO. FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 1907.
A MAGIC NUMBER.
There is direful maple in the num
ber thrte. Were we to elect the same
man President three times running,
everybody Is convinced that something
awful would happen. Nobody is quite
sure what the calamity would be, but
there would be a calamity and It
would prove most frightful. Of this
we are all sure. Perhaps the hens
would lay addled eggs. Perhaps the
cows would give bloody milk. The
most common fear is that by electing
anybody three times we should make
a Diaz out of him, who would do for
the 'United States what that flre
breathing dragon has done for Mexico.
Diaz made himself dictator by aid
of the army and retained power as
long as he liked. Everybody knows
that this could not happen here. Our
almost Imperceptible army, which
Congress alone can enlarge; our enor
mous territory inhabited by an armed
and intelligent population; the vigilant
Btate governments jealous of their
rights; these and many other con
siderations show how absurd is the
Idea of a usurpation. And yet this
vague, shadowy, impossible dread con
tinually haunts us. "'Do you believe
in ghosts?" asked somebody of Mad
ame do Stael. "No, but I am afraid
of them," replied the witty French
woman. Our mental attitude toward
executive usurpation is much the
same.
Mr. Roosevelt is the first President
we have had in many years who exer
.cises a respectable fraction of the con
stitutional power of his office. He
does some of t ie things he was elect
ed to do. though not all by any means.
Hut It is enough. It has set a multi
tude of ti d souls, and some who are
not timid but who have felt the un
accustomed lash of the law, shrieking
that "Roosevelt is trying to imitate
Diaz. He wants to found a dynasty."
Whether it is his purpose to make
Kermit his successor, or Mrs. Long
worth, Is not specified. AVe do not
ourselves discern how Mr. Roosevelt
can be a candidate again without self
stultification. We do not believe that
he has the faintest wish to run again.
He has pledged his word not to be a
candidate, and we give him full credit
for knowing his own mind and ex
pressing it honestly. Nor do those
politicians seem to us to pay him
much of a compliment who assume
that he can be induced to break his
solemn promise by the blare of syco
phantic trumpets.
But. omitting these matters, why
should not Roosevelt, or any other
4 President who serves the country well,
j be elected three, or four, or ; dozen
times? The reason why Is not ground
ed in present fact or inference. It is
an inherited superstition. Just as a
horse is scared by a piece of paper
fluttering in the road, so we are afraid
of our Oovernment. Both fears are
perfectly senseless, but both descend
from ancestral times, when they were
necessary in the highest degree. The
revolutionary fathers were saturated
with dread of centralized power be
cause in all modern history up to
'.heir day power had been set over
against the people as a separate, un
?ontrollable. and hostile entity. In all
English, French, German and Spanish
?xperience, centralized power had
been employed to torture, rob and op
press. It was not half so baneful as
:he decentralized powers which it had
replaced, but this the fathers did not
icoow, and if they had known it their
minds would not have altered. One
Df their great bugaboos was a strong
central government, and one of their
many defenses against the monster
was a brief term for the President.
Washington in declining a third term
made their fears a part of the inher
ited mental constitution of the Ameri
can people. We live in a perpetual
passion of hatred for centralization,
although, in spite of ourselves and by
a necessity which we cannot escape,
we are centralizing everything under
the sun. When the process is com
plete and we are experiencing the
beneficent results, we shall all look
back and wonder why we resisted such
a desirable change.
Our dislike of a third term for the
President is, therefore, but part of a
general, hereditary dislike ' of strong
government. In cherishing this senti
ment as If it were something tncon
testably wise and precious, we forget
two important facts. . The first is that
government is no longer a thing apart
from the people, set over against them
in hostility to rob and oppress. It
belongs to the people. It originates
in their consent and exists by their
permission. It is their servant, the
minister of their desires, the executive
agent of their decrees. Consider, then,
the insensate folly of the s-ying that
"the best government governs least."
One might as well say that the best
servant shirks most of his duties.
Who would choose a rheumatic, para
lytic, broken-spirited worKman rather
than a buoyant youth in the glory of
his manhood if he had a weighty task
to accomplis' ? Government has tasks
to accomplish of tremendous weight;
yet there are those who would tie its
hands and sap its strength.
AVe forget also the other important
fact that the most abjectly miserable
periods of history have been when
governments were weak. Impotence
in the central authority is the oppor
tunity of the robber, the commercial
highwayman, the pirate whether by
land or sea; but it means woe to the
common man. There are no excep
tions to this rule. It is only the pred
atory classes in the United States who
desire a weak government. Honest
citizens want all the protection they
can get frrni a strong one.
MASTERY OF THE PACIFIC.
Some unknown philosopher, taking
mild liberties with the generally ac
cepted usages of the English language,
once said that "the way to reach a
man's heart Is through his stomach."
There was more than a modicum of
truth in the observation. A late illus
tration of the potency of an epicurean
spell is noticeable in an article from
the pen of Samuel G. Blythe in the
latest issue of the Philadelphia Satur
day Evening Post. Under the title
"Mastery of the Pacific," Mr. Blythe
writes very entertainingly of the Rose
City, beginning with a tribute, not to
our magnificent scenery, our admirable
trade location or that stream of com
merce which flows through our port
to the uttermost ends of the earth.
Samuel got around to most of this in
the course of his two-page article, but
he apparently received his first im
pressions of the Rose City in a craw
fish parlor, for he starts off with a
tribute to the famous Portland dainty
that is equal to anything printed about
that delicacy since Baron Schlenk
brought in the first catch from John
son Creek a number of years ago.
After Samuel had filled up' on craw
fish he was apparently in condition td
appreciate the roses, for he tells in
glowing language of the beauty and
profusion of the flower that has made
the city famous. He, alludes to the
rose show at the Exposition as the
"most marvelous exhibit of the entire
show. Half a million roses, you love
lorn youths who mortgage your future
to get half a dozen a week." But
while Blythe learned a great deal more"
about Portland crawfish than is known
by the most of the Portlanders, and
received a ood impression of our
roses, he was a little careless in his
comment on the rain, although he ad
mitted that "it is a nice, gentle, friend
ly sort of a rain that drops in casually
just to see that things are going all
right and quits when it is satisfied the
foliage has enough of a bath."
Mr. Blythe paid an eloquent tribute
to the commercial greatness of the
city, told of our record-breaking lum
ber and wheat cargoes, and of the vast
amount of industrial development-that
is under way. He found that we were
"growing more rapidly than any other
city in the United States," and de
clared that "there is no other city that
has the beautiful setting that Portland
has. All in all, with her flowers, her
rose gardens, her green trees and
greener lawns, her mountains and her
sparkling river, the city is as pretty
as a painted one." All this and much
more was told in this highly compli
mentary tribute to the Rose City, and,
taken in part or collectively, it dis
closes Mr. Blythe in a most amiable
frame of mind and with a vivid im
pression of Portland which seemed to
have got its start in a crawfish parlor
and grew brighter .as the memory of
the Baron's famous dish lingered with
him.
Portland people do not eat craw
fish to a serious extent but, now
that we have a practical illustration of
the effect that they have on visitors, a
more intimate acquaintance with them
should be cultivated.
AX EXISTING EMERGENCY.
The eight-hour day on Government
work is proving a most expensive
proposition in connection with the
jetty work at Fort Stevens. The
greatest difficulty with all measures in
which the Government has any con
nection lies in the red tape entangle
ments that can never successfully be
eluded. "A pint's a pound the world
around," declared the ancient com
mercial axiom, and a similar rigid and
idiotic adherence to hard-and-fast
rules is noticeable in all Government
regulations. As a result, we find a
large force of men at Fort Stevens
working eight hours per day, regard
less of emergencies which arise. These
men are employed in unloading rock,
which is dumped around the piling of
which the jetty is constructed. AVhlle
the men are only working eight hours
of the twenty-four lit placing the rock
around the piling, the active teredo is
worki.io the full twenty-four hours in
eating holes in the piling.
The effect of this will be noticeable
when the AVlnter storms begin break
ing off some of the piling around
which it has been Impossible t dump
enough rock for protection. The rock
is brought down to the jetty on barges,
and if . only a few tons remain at the
close of the eight-hou- day, the barge
which is needed for another cargo up
the river is held over until the next
day. This delays the work at the
quarry and leaves the men at the jetty
with plenty of waiting time on hand
after the few remaining tons are un
loaded. The Government has passed
what are known r.s "emergency" ap
propriations for the jetty improve
ment, and what is now needed above
everything else in connection with the
work is an "emergency" amendment
to its eight-hour law which will ad
mit of an enormous saving in expense
and at the same time hasten comple
tion of the Jetty.
It is very doubtful If the men en
gaged would have any objection to
working a few minutes overtime, pro
viding they were paid for if, and it
would certainly be the part of econ
omy for the Government to pay hand
somely for the small amount of over
time which would be needed, rather
than have the expensive plant remain
idle for so much of the time. The
jetty is too important an enterprise to
be subjected to such dilly-dallying
work as results from a rigid enforce
ment of the eight-hour law.
OREGON STOCK.
The races at the State Fair are all
very well. Clean horse racing is a
noble sport, bad for heart disease in
the spectators, as The Oregonian re
porter ; agely observes, but otherwise
altogether delightful. Even a little
betting made on the spur of the mo
ment between neighbors In the heat
and thrill of a grand spurt of speed
is perhaps a venial sin. The racing at
the fair has been clean and it illus
trates again, what was already well
enough known, that there is no neces
sary connection between trotting and
poolselling.
But, after all, the racers with their
excit. ment do not really count for so
much as the kindly, patient, docile
draft horses which do the heavy work
of the world. It is the draft horse
that will replenish the purse of the
Oregon farmer. He is easy , to rear;
our grass and climate are perfectly
adapted to his growth; and he always
sells at a good price. In exceptional
cases a farmer may breed trotters
profitably, but not as a rule. The
common result of experimenting with
them is financial disaster. Leave the
trotters to the plutocrats and cleave
to the staid Percheron, the hardy
CIyde,and the gentle Shire horse.
The records of the fair show, as
The Oregonian has insisted, that our
breeders need not continue to go
abroad for sires. Those of home pro
duction are superior to the foreign
stock. AA'hen we have mastered the
breeders' knack a little better we shall
find that this holds true for both
horses and cattle. If we live up to our
posssibilities the day will come when
France and Great Britain will import
breeding stock from Oregon. Perfec
tion in this matter is difficult, arid it
takes time, but it is worth working
for.
DEFECTIVE SCHOOL "CHILDREN.
A committee of teachers and others
who have investigated the health con
ditions of children in New York, Chi
cago, Boston and other cities estimates
that some 12,000,000 of the pupils in
our public schools are physically de
fective. In New York the defectives
include more than two-thirds of the
whole number.
Some have bad teeth; others abnor
mal breathing. In many the eyes or
ears are defective. Large numbers
are Ill-nourished, and it is, at first
sight, amazing to learn that there are
more cases of mal-nutrition from
wealthy families than from poor ones.
Still, we must remember that children
are treated with little sense in vast
numbers of homes, both rich and poor.
They are fed to tickle the palate and
not to nourish the body; and since
among the rich there are more oppor
tunities for this kind of folly, natur
ally there' are more cases of mal-nutrition.
.
The bad teeth are due to improper
food and lack of care. The food can
be improved by teaching parents what
to buy for the table and how to cook
it if anybody cares to undertake the
task. The care of the teeth requires
chiefly a brush and a cup of cold
water. It is proposed by the commit
tee to deduct some of the time now de
voted to gymnastics and pedagogic
ballet dancing in the schools and use
it to teach the children how to take
care of their teeth, one fancies that
the change might prove beneficial.
Most, teachers know that the sup
posed "stupidity" of many pupils is
caused by defective eyes or ears. The
children cannot hear what is said to
them; or they cannot see the printed
words in their books. ' Hence their
seeming lack of intelligence. To pun
ish such pupils for idleness or per
verseness Is sheer cruelty. Yet it is
often done. The movement to take
measures to cure defective school chil
dren is sensible and humane. Still
more humane would be a movement
to put the schools in such condition
that they would not make pupils de
fective. STRONG WHEAT MARKET.
The British ship Conway Castle Is in
the sjtream ready for sea with the first
cargo of grain to go forward from a
North Pacific port this season,
and, within the next thirty days,
one of the best reasons in the
history of the port will be at
full swing. Despite some damage
by reason of wet weather, it now
seems reasonably certain that Oregon,
AVashington and Idaho will this season
market the largest crop of wheat ever
grown in the Pacific Northwest. Not
only is there more wheat to sell than
ever before, but it is commanding
much higher prices than were ever be
fore realized in a big crop year. With
such a combination of favorable cir
cumstances most of .the people of the
Pacific Northwest can view with equa
nimity the generally accepted esti
mates that the crop of the - United
States will fall short of that of last
year by more than 100,000,000 bush
els. The September crop report, which
was made public last week, did not give
a quantitative statement on cereals,
but, by estimating from the average
condition, acreage, etc., trade experts
figure out a crop of Spring and AA'in
ter wheat ff 631,764.000 bushels, com
pared with 735,260,970 bushels har
vested in 1906. But, while the crop
of the country as a whole is more than
100,000,000 bushels short of last year,
the yield of the Pacific Northwest is
anywhere from 5,000,000 bushels to
10,000,000 bushels greater than that of
last year, and the price is about 20 per
cent higher. In the Middle AVest and
Northwest, where the shortage in
yield is noticeable, the prices are also
enough higher this year to offset the
shortage in the crop. Based on yes
terday's Chicago quotations for De
cember wheat, the present crop has a
value of $625,000,000. Last year's
crop of 735,000,000 bushels, at the
quotations of September 18, 1906,
would yield but 551,443,000, .or ap
proximately $75,000,000 less than that
now coming on the market.
The best feature of the price situa
tion lies in the fact that the strength
, is almost wholly due to the strength
of the foreign mancets. The United !
States, with a very heavy carry-over
from the preceding crop, has an abun
dance of wheat for all home require
ments, and if Europe could this year
secure stocks from the same foreign
sources as were available a year ago
our own short crop would of necessity
sell for much lower prices. But even
the apparent strength of the foreign
market should not be regarded as per
manent, for while low prices for an
other year are practically out of the
question, the top figures may be near
at hand. AA'hen wheat sells above $1
per bushel in Chicago It is costing the
foreign consumer a figure that sug
gests retrenchment and curtailment in
consumption.
This curtailed consumption will in
time be reflected in available supplies,
and, in this age of steam, wheat can
be brought to Europe from almost
any part of the world in a very few
weeks. Despite the short crop in the
United States, this country has sent
out since July 1 35.592,000 bushels,
compared with 28,450,000 "bushels for
the same period last year, and Europe
has received from the principal ex
porting countries of the world nearly
4,000,000 bushels more than she re
ceived in the same period last year.
There Is, of course, nothing especially
bearish in these figures, but it should
be remembered that if the foreign
buyers can tide themselves over a few
weeks longer the first shipments of
the new Argentine crop will begin,
reaching them. As that Is a crop that
moves with a rush, it may prevent the
necessity of further advances in the
price in this country. In the Pacific
Northwest most of the growers are not
inclined to tempt fate by waiting for
excessively high prices, and the move
ment is heavier than usual for so early
In the season.
Studies have been resumed in Pa
cific University, Forest Grove, with a
large enrollment of new students. This
pioneer college has turned many Well
equipped young men and women out
into the wider life of the state and
every note of Its success finds response
in many hearts -loyal to its traditions
and purposes. Inseparably connected
with the name of "Marsh," it is this
year for the first time in Its history
without a member of the faculty that
bears that name. Proressor Joseph AV.
Marsh retired at the close of the last
college year from the chair of Latin,
which he had held for forty years.
He will long be held In affectionate re
membrance as a helpful, .earnest, ca
pable Instructor.
The State Fair was seen in all Its
glory yesterday. No mud, no dust; the
air balmy as the breath of Spring; the
exhibits at their best; the speed con
tests exciting; the blooded stock show
ing off for all that it was worth, and a
multitude treading each other's heels
in. eager procession, full of wonder at
the display and of enjoyment of the
occasion surely nothing more could
be asked in the way of pleasure or at
tractions for "Portland day."
. That Dewey house and lot in AVash
ington, presented to the Manila hero
by sentimental Americans, has been
rented to a millionaire clubman, while
the Admiral has found a larger resi
dence. It is safe to say that heroes of
the Jap war will not receive such gifts
from the American people.
No wonder the "woman in the case"
now on trial before the State Circuit
Court in this city fainted after she had
been confronted by her "love" letters.
Perhaps, in the light of subsequent
events, she herself wonders how she
could have written them.
The fruit exhibit at the State Fair is
fine, with strong emphasis on the ad
jective. It shows what cultivation,
spraying, intelligence and industry are
capable of producing In conjunction
with Oregon soil and climate in the
realm of horticulture.
Bryan having promised to write the
platform and name the candidate, thus
relieves the party of all responsibility
except putting up a man for A'ice
President next June. And that is
hardly worth while calling a conven
tion for.
AVhen we read that the executive
head of the Standard Oil Company
loses $40,000,000 In a railroad venture
and has to sacrifice gilt-edge securities
to make good, we get a searchlight on
the latest bears' raid in AA'all street.
Field Marshal Rogers, of Standard
Oil. separated himself from forty mil
lions trying to build an opposition rail
road. A loss of that size would give
any of us nervous, prostration.
The profits of the Standard Oil
Company surpass the dreams of av
arice. Or they would, were any one
but Rockefeller In the role of dreamer.
If Bryan is the candidate next time,
Mr. Parker's little skit will inject a
rich streak of humor into the cam
paign. Should Japan again need a national
loan, it might do worse than hire Mr.
Lowit, late of the Golden Eagle.
Never mind. Next year we can all
go to the Salem fair by trolley.
Glnd Units for Gnu' Admirers,
Portland Advocate (Colored).
If Joe Gans had failed to win his
fight with Jimmy Britt. very few if any
new raglans and Haymarket overcoats
would have been worn by the colored
gents, as well as a host of white admirers
who had staked their roll upon the cham
pion, but as it is Portland sports may be
seen dressed In the very latest fashion
for some time to come.
AVIplnK Out the "North End."
forest Grove Times.
' A trip to Portland reveals more new
buildings going up on every hand and
more buildings In contemplation. The
general trend of building operations
seems to be drifting northward and we
may sefely predict that, what is now
denominated the "North 4,nd" will In a
few years be one of the best business
districts in the city.
. The Suspicion of a Hint.
London Punch.
A'icar "I am so glad your dear daugh
ter is better. I was greatly pleased to
see her in church this morning, and
shortened the service on purpose for
her."
Mother of dear daughter "Thank you.
Vicar. I shall hope to bring her every
Sunday now!" '
The Little Run-Son.
New York Sun.
We are not all weak or wicked. Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
Perhaps; but what philosopher can view
without alarm the great and increasing
number of malefactors, mollycoddles and
nature fakers?
EFFUSION
Directed at 'the Prohibition Movement
In Kentucky.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The editor of the Courier-Journal had
a dream the other night. He dreamed
that he died and was whisked off to the
regions below. Old Nick met him at the
outer door and extended a most hos
pitable welcome. "We've been looking
and i waiting Impatiently for you,"' says
he. "Some of the boys were -beginning
to be afraid that you were not coming,
but that they would keep you in the shop
above; but I told 'em to cheer up! You
see .1 know that sometimes they take
pity on us and send us a good man. Why!
your frlends'll be truly delighted."
"Who's here?" was timidly asked.
"They are all here," said Satan.
"There's old Grover and 'John G. Car
lisle and Teddy, and "
"Got any Kentucklans?"
"Plenty of 'em! There's Governor
Beckham and Colonel John Whallen and
Aaron Kohn and Richard Knott why.
bless you! when I get tired of whooping:
of 'em up and want a little recreation,
I leave Dick in charge, and feel perfectly
safe the fire won't go out till I get
back."
Then We entered. The place was fitted
up elegant just like Buckingham The
atre, with a Summer garden attach
ment, which they called the Red City.
Lum Simmons stood at the gate taking
tickets, and when he saw the newcomer
he cried "hooray," and said, "You pass
in free."
It was a fine sight inside. All sorts of
people and politics and Tellglons, Demo
crats and Republicans, and Methodists
and Presbyterians and Episcopalians.
From every bough swung a crook 'or a
thief. Some were marked "jouisvllle"
and a few "Fusionlsts."
"Here," says Satan, "we reverse the
earthly rule. We honor perfidy and
Pharisaism above all things, because they
are so energetic and send us so many re
cruits. Common politicians we string up
to dry." ,
"But, your satanic majesty, where is
Mayor Bingham?" was asked.
"Oh," says Satan, "he's a Baptist."
"AA'hat has that to do with It?"
"Don't you know," says he, with a kind
of awe in his tone, "that the Baptists are
a very exclusive congregation and don't
like to be mixed up either in their drinks
or their damnation with other denomina
tions? Come with me and I'll show you."
Then he led his wondering visitor
through a long dark corridor, which he
said was called the Vale of Prohibition,
to a small, well-lighted vestibule hung
round with portraits of Lorenzo Dow and
Tom Watson and Hoke Smith and Carrie
Nation "She's a Kentucky girl," he said
triumphantly as we passed her and then
he lifted up a trap door and pointed to
a pit blazing with light "There are the
Bapists," says he solemnly, "in close
communion."
We looked.' and sure enough it was as
he said; there they were holding a long
run convention, every man of them a red
nosed angel with Dr. M. P. Hunt pre
siding, the Rev. James Van Arsdale in
the act of offering a set of resolutions,
the purpose of which ran. We'll make
Kentucky as dry as hell and Maine."
SO RETREAT WILL EVER BE MADE.
Mr. Roosevelt Haa Placed Republican
Party on High Ground.
Philadelphia Press.
President Roosevelt has landed the Re
publican party upon advanced ground. In
the general regulation of corporations
and in the adjustment of their relations
to the people, six. years have witnessed
an immense forward movement. While
there may be differences of opinion about
details, there ought to be no serious dif
ferences about the cause in which the
President has enlisted his party.
Several truths can be set down about
which there can .be no dispute. 'First,
there were serious abuses to correct. It
is not necessary to recount them, for they
are still fresh in the public mind. Sec
ond, the President, backed by his party
in Congress and elsewhere, inaugurated
the movement to correct those abuses.
Third, many of the evils which existed
to the humiliation and great discredit of
the American people, have been, elimi
nated. In other cases the machinery has
been set in motion which in time must
wipe out the remaining instances of cor
porate abuse.
It is foolish and totally misleading to
term the great trend under Roosevelt as
trust-baiting. AVhen the ordinary of
fender is made to obey the law it is
not a case of citizen-baiting. More
over, when new laws are created to
prevent individuals from doing harmful
things, it Is not citizen-baiting.
Now the people see and know what has
been done. As stated before, while here
and there may be found honest differences
about the methods of procedure or about
the wisdom of this or that detail, it is
still true that the overwhelming mass of
the citizens of the United States approve
what has been done in their behalf. The
result of this wide approval means that
there can be; and will be, no retreat.
The things that have been won are of
too great consequence to be yielded UP
merely to allow the whinings of those
whose profit under the old order of things
has disappeared, or to satisfy the notions
of honest but mistaken adherents of the
President's general policy.
AVIint Mr. llarrlmnn Intend!.
La Grande Star.
The action of Mr. Harriman at the
Sacramento Irrigation Congress, In declar
ing that the 3.000. ono acres of railroad
land donated to the Southern Pacific by
an Indulgent "Uncle Sam" was in the
nature of a gift to be held In reserve
by the company for supplying railroad
ties, shows very plainly this individual
intends to keep the lands out of the hands
of actual settlers. His contention Is
absurd on the face of it.
Prize Corncob Pipe Smoker at 77. .
Baltimore News.
At Indianapolis, smokers of corncob
pipes had a contest, and Samuel Stoop,
aged 77 years, won a $5 prize. Some of
the judges were- women.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
Fay.
Can't you guess ,
What's making a mess
Of everything today?
Politics in a plight.
Morals a sight.
Money tight.
Business getting the blight
Prosperity taking flight.
Crime at Its height.
Courts and trusts in a fight.
The Big Stick showing its might.
And nothing really risht?
No?
Oh.
Take another guess.
Don't confess
You don't know
When the heavens show
Just what it Is
That's handing out the universal pazzlz.
Look uo and see.
What's knocking us so hard
Without regard
To whether It Is coming to us or not.
What ?
It's the comet!
Sure;
And It's got us on its. skewer.
See It US' there
In the nebulous air.
ciwishing its sinuous tail
Through the misty morning's pale
And flickering light?
Ain't it a crewsome. sight?
And Its dull and deadly eye
Like a blister on the sky;
Oh. my.
That's why -
Disasters dire
Are piling up higher
Every day.
And say,
By thunder.
There's no way
For us to stand from under.
It's on top. for fair.
And wll remain thers
Until It is tnrough
With what It cama to do.
See?
And we?
We're all to the comet.
Dom it I
W. J. LAMPION.
A COLONEL, WATTE
AN AXTI-CANTEEN' ROORBACK.
"Why There are Fewer Drunkenness
Courtiuartlal Convictions.
New York Times.
The text, "He that is first in his own
cause seemeth just: . hut his neighbor
cometh and searcheth him," may be laid
to heart by the writer of the letter which
appeared in the Times on Monday, at
tacking its statement about the effects of
the Army anti-canteen law. We repro
duce the communication:
To the Editor of the New York Times:
My attention has been called to your state
ment, under the heading-. "The Army Can
teen Report." that the annual report of the
Judge Advocate-General of the Army snows
how the elimination of the canteen has In
creased llquor-drlnklng and dissipation
among enlisted men.
It shows nothing of the kind, but exactly
the reverse.
Here are the' figures as given by the
Judge Advocate-General:
1111)11 General courts-martial, 6fiS0; drunk
enness, 1645.
tool General courts-martial, 0O65 ; drunk
enness. 14iiS.
mo:: General courts-martial, 3311 ; drunk
enness, OHO.
1IH:i General courts-martial, 527."; drunk
enness. Sll.
11104 general courts-martial. 44B- drunk
enness, 016.
1IHKV General courts-martial, 4S00; drunk
enness, 508.
HMMi General courts-martial. 4506; drunk
enness. ott.
In justice to your readers, will you not
publish them? They tell their own story.
W. P. WHITE.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 11107.
Figures cannot lie, but they can be
manipulated. Inquiry at the office of the
Acting Judge Advocate-General In Wash
ington discloses the fact that the table
of fgures presented by AV. P. White, be
he a male citizen of the prohibitionist
stripe or a female of the AA'. C. T. U.
persuasion, is both inaccurate and dis
ingenuous. The Times' AVashington dis
patches yesterday said:
The fact is that since the passage of
the act of March 2, 1901, by which the
power of inferior courts was extended so
that they could punish by forfeiture of
pay and confinement for three months,
instead of for one month, as formerly,
there have been practically no cases of
drunkenness tried by general court-mar-'
tial.
Furthermore, it is authoritatively esti
mated that "in 90 per cent of the cases
before general courts the defendant
pleads drunkenness as an extenuating
circumstance. If not as a defense," and
drunkenness "is the charge in the great
majority of them." AVhlle full figures
have not been compiled, these are ascer
tained: In 1004. three years after the abolition
of the canteen and the pasasg of the
Summary Court act. the number of con
victions by summary and other inferior
courts was 40,80:1. In 190ft tnere were
45.000. and this does not Include the num
ber In the Department of California, ths
records of which were destroyed at the
time of the earthquake. Thi year the
figures were about the same. 44,:i05. The
figures given by Mr. White, showing only
504 drunkenness courts-martial in 1001. are
so absurdly incorrect that it seems to Army
officers here to show willful misrepresenta
tion of facts to use them In such a way.
They represent, in truth, considerably Icbs
than 2 per cent of the cases of Intoxication
of that year.
TART'S HOMEWARD JOURNEY.
How the Secretory of AA'ar AVIII Travel
as the Guest of the Czar.
Washington Letter to the Brooklyn
' Times.
Royalty. in its traditional purple,
would not bo able to command more
elaborate and elegant accommodations
than have been provided for Secretary
Taft for his trip from Vladivostok to St.
Petersburg In the course of his return
to America from the Philippine Islands
next November. That trip will be one
of the most notable that ever has been
taken by an American citizen. It will
be not only superb in all of its appoint
ments, but because of Secretary Taft's
position as Secretary of War and candi
date for the Presidency, it will focus the
eyes of the world upon him.
It is expected that Secretary Taft and
his party will arrive at A'ladlvostok,
Manchuria, on the 11th of next Novem
ber. The next day they will start on
their long railroad Journey to St. Peters
burg. The trip will occupy practically
10 days, including a stop of two days at
Moscow.
The arrangements for the journey,
which were completed in a tentative way
before Secretary Taft left AVashington.
have been placed In the hands of the
international sleeping-car company of
Paris, which operates the trains de luxe
on the Trans-Siberian railroad. A special
car has been provided for the Secretary
and his family. In it will be every con
venience and comfort of a well-appointed
home. It will be elegantly fitted and
furnished. divided into compartments
and provided with every facility known
to modern travel. There the Secretary
may rest or work, as may suit his fancy.
The other members of the party will be
provided for equally well. The train will
consist of three sleepers, a dining-car
and an observation car. The entire train
will be beautifully and elaborately
equipped. It will be In personal charge
of a prominent official of the company
which operates the line, who will see to
it that the Taft party has every desire
anticipated.
The first important st n on the journey
from A'ladivostok to Moscow in fact,
the only one of consequence will be at
Irkutsk, the finest city in Siberia, not
far from Lake Baikal, across which the
Russian Soldiers marched on the Ice en
route to Manchuria during the Russo
Japanese AVar. and S.v miles from Mos
cow. According to the schedule of the
train, a stop of only two hours will he
made at Irkutsk, but an arrangement
has been made by which Secretary Taft.
may prolong his sojourn there If he de
sires to do so. The city of Irkutsk is
the center of the Russo-Chlnese tea
trade, has a population of 60.000. includ
ing 5000 exiles, and is an admirably ap
pointed town.
, The scenery along the Trans-Siberian
road is wild and interesting and the
views from passing trains are magnifi
cently picturesque and beautiful. At the
various brief stopping points Secretary
Taft's train will be supplied with fresh
fruits', vegetables and other provisions.
Throughout the long journey, the Sec
retary will be the guest of the Czar of
Russia, and every Russian official, at
anv point en route will see to it that
nothing is left undone that would add to
the comfort and convenience and interest
of the trip. On arrival at St. Petersburg
Secretary Taft will continue as the guest
of the Czar and will be accorded tho
most notable distinction.
Pity the Sorrows of the Rich.
Life.
The well-to-do are as yet the chief suf
ferers from the money-pinch. The papers
report very extensive relinquishment of
automobiles by owners who are suffer
ing from fiscal disabilities, and are going
back to roller-skates. Persons addicted
to fashionable life tell of severe embar
rassment among their acquaintances, es
pecially those who have been cut down
from easy circumstances to incomes of
about $50,000 a year and have had to
change their habits. . They are not jok
ing when they say this. To families that
have been ustd to live on $5000, $10,000.
$15,000 or $20,000 a year, a $50,000 income
looks like affluence, but when a house
hold has adjusted Itself to an annual ex
penditure twice or thrice as great as
that, it seems a poor, awkward sum,
overlarge for picturesque simplicity, and
not big enough for real style. Fifty
thousand a year is the income of only
about $1,000,000. When one considers how
moderate a fortune that is considered In
these days to be. the pinch of the $50,000
incomes can be easier understood.
BOOfS
AMERICAN literature received a cold
water bath within the past few
days from which it will emerge
with difficulty.
The husband of Mrs. Mary E. AA'Il-kins-Freem.'in,
the novelist, who has im
mortalized New England life, has been ar
rested at Metuchen, N. J., charged with
backing one Jnme A. Duane against two
negro "sports" in a gambling game
known, as craps. . And. incidentally. Dr.
Freeman has been held in $500 bail to
await the action of the Grand Jury. Poli
tics has been Dr. Freeman's undoing, for
it was in furtherance of his desire to cap
ture the Republican nomination at the
primary election for Mayor of Metuchen
that Dr. Freeman began to hunt for
voters and wandered into the vicinity of
the crap game.
As Mary E. Wilkins, Mrs. Wilkins
Freeman wove the delicate fancy bf her
genius around New England, particularly
so in "A New England Nun," wherein she
painted the peculiar joys of a spinster's
life and the indifference of the spinster to
the doubtful state of matrimony. Indeed,
It was hinted at the time that Miss Wil
kins loaned her own dignified personality
in "A New England Nun." Then she met
Dr. Freeman, and January 1, 1902. site
married him strange to relate at Metu
chen, N. J.
The cold facts In Freeman's case axe:
In his hunt for votes. Dr. Freeman wan
dered into a resort where his supporter,
Mr. Duane, was playing "craps" with
George Hopkins, a negro, and he literally
stuffed Duane's pockets with bills. The
bets arose from 50 cents a corner, until
the limit of $100 was reached. The negro
won all the stakes, and. when Dr. Free
man hinted that the dice were loaded, a
row arose. Next day, Marshal Formett,
one of the Freeman party's political op
ponents, heard of the crap game, and Dr.
Freeman's arrest followed. It is under
stood that Dr. Freeman had difficulty in
explaining matters to the satisfaction of
his wife, and that Mrs. AVilkins-Freeman,
who had intended to immortalize New
Jersey as she had New England, now re
gards her projected New Jersey idea
rather coldly.
Vermont, which Kipling is said to have
called "that great sapphire of a state." is
the scene of "A Turnpike Lady." by Sarah
N. Cleghom, which will be Issued this
month. The author gives a humorous
and pathetic picture of daily life in a Arer
mont village in pre-Revolutionary days.
In his 89th year, the death of William
Crosby," a well-known Boston publisher,
snaps one of the links of tho past bind
ing the public to such literary stars as
Longfellow and Lowell. Mr. Crosby was
head of the publishing house of Crosby &
Nichols, and shortly before his passing
away he told a friend that he remembered
when Lonprfellow and Lowell had diffi
culty in getting publishers. In fact, the
firm refused to publish Longfellow's lit
tle volume entitled "Voices of the Night."
containing these prizes poems: "Hymn to
the Night." "A Psalm of Life." "The
Reaper and the Flowers," "The Light of
Stars," "Footsteps of Angels," "The Be
leaguered City." and Midnight Mass for
the Dying Year." The author offered it
with the stipulation that he bo given a
position In the publishing house. But It
was his partner, Nichols, according to
Mr. Crosby's revelation, who thought
there was no sale for poems: and a Cam
bridge man, John Owen, brought out the
volume, and said Mr. Crosby in a melan
choly tone, "thus we lost Longfellow's
work." Other reminiscenses of Mr.
Crosby are as follows:
Ixwell's books were a kind of drug on the
market until the Uiglow paper gave him his
great fame. When I was with Otis. Broadus
& Co. they brought out a volume of the poems
of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, hut the edi
tion was not rapidly exhausted, and it was
not until more than 15 years later, when J.
T. Fields had begun to push the works of
Holmes, Emerson, Longfellow and others, that
a secon dedltlon was called for.
'
A new biography of Dr. John McLough
lin, from the pen of Frederick V. Holman,
of this city, may be expected within a few
days from a publishing house at Cleve
land. Ohio. The biography will be found
Interesting, both from the standpoint of
student and ordinary reader. Portraits
and illustrative documents complete the
account.
London people are joyful over the rumor
that Rudyard Kipling is to be awarded
the Nobel prize for literature for 1907,
with $40,000 In cash to keep it company.
The Stockholm Tidningen is authority for
the statement that the contest for the
prize lay beween Mary Twain and Kipling,
but it now concedes that Kipling has un
doubtedly won. The most recent English
photograph of Kipling is one in which ha
and Mark Twain are shown, and it Is
noticed that Kipling wears a bored ex
pression and Is vainly stifling a yawn.
Kipling has not been very much In the
literary limelight of late, and has been
in South Africa, searching for color. His
latest work. "Puck of Pook's Hill." pub
lished serially in the Strand Magazine and
issued as a novel this Summer, and his
poem on the "Burdens of Martha." pub
lished by the ljondon Standard, are
the only two things he lias done in some
time. There are occasional rumors as to
his bad health as an excuse for paucity of
output. It is said, however, thnt he has
been hard at work for many months on a
startling novel, the scenes of which are
laid in London and South Africa. This
will not likely be Issued until beginning
the new year. An old schoolfellow of
Kipling's has just unearthed whatv he
calls Kipling's first literary work. In
these days. Kipling was a Browning wor
shiper, and after heading his poem "By
jt t B g." be called It "The Jam
pot." Here are the lines:
The Jampot -tender thought.
I grabbed It: so did you
"What wonder, while we fought
T'fcether. that It Hew
In shivers," you retort.
You should have I'Kise.l your hold
One moment: checked your ftM.
Rut as It was too bold.
You grappled and you missed.
(More curtly, you were sold.)
"But neither of w shared
The dainty" that's your plfa?
I answer i.t me see
How have your trousers fared?
Francis Lynde, the author of iha rail
road novel. "Empire Builders," recently
reviewed in this paper, was. during a con
struction track battle in the Rocky Moun
tains, in charge of the transportation of
helpers. Finding himself at the track
layers' camp one bitter night. 15 miles
above his base of transportation supplies,
he borrowed a construction engine, and
with the Irish camp watchman for a
helper, started down canyon after a
string of empties. The night was black
dark; the un surfaced track was as rough
as a' corduroy road: and tho grades and
curves were heart-breaking. Very early in
the game the substitute fireman lost his
nerve. Staggering across the cab, he
shouted huskily into the ear of the pro
tein poro engineer:
"Arrah! Misther Lynde, 'tis a foine run
ner ve are entoirely. and I'm sorry to bej
throublinn' ye to stop her."
"What's the matter, Mike? Are youi
i
"Divvie a wan bit am l scared, but
think I'll have to be walkin' back along'!
I did be l'avin' me pipe up yonder at till'
camp, and I'm that near dead for a
schmoke!" . .