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Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel Rews Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agents, 114 Kddy street. Oakland, Cul W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News stand; Hale News Co. l.oUltlrlil, Nev. Louis Follln; C. E. Hunter. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 1. 107. 1T.DEHAL CON'TROIj. When the rate bill was under debate in Congress and the railroad Senators and lobby were opposing it with that "rancorous bitterness" which the Pres ident has liitelv recalled . to memorr. The Oregonian remarked in a spirit of prophecy that the time would come when the railroads would beg for Fed eral control. Seldom Is a prophecy fulillled so speedily and completely. At a banquet of railroad men in Chi cago the other day Mr. Robert Mather took the position that Federal control of the most thorough-going character was the refuge open to the car riers from the "tyranny of the states." and all his hearers agreed with him. This sentiment is in amusing con trast with the doctrines put forth by the railroad presidents In their fa mous "campaign of education" a year or two ago. Then there was nothing on earth quite so lovely as the re served rights of the states. No safe guard of human liberty was so sure as these precious reserved rights. Noth ing but the constitutional rights of the states could possibly defend the railroads from the tyranny of Mr. Roosevelt and his subservient party in Congress. But now "the lady of his love, oh, she Is changed." The railroads have had a taste, not much more than, a taste, of the reserved rights of the states in the bloom and beauty of their Virile energy, and that taste seems to suffice. In the dialect of the vulgar, they have had enough. The states, we are told, seem to regard the rail roads "with a peculiar and mysteri ous bitterness," which leads to "weird" and "freak" legislation. The weird legislation is for the most part laws reducing passenger fares to S cents a mile. The freak statutes confer enlarged powers upon railroad commissions. It is quite likely that both species will. In the long run, ben efit the carriers. So far in our his tory, the very worst judges of their own permanent welfare have been the railroad officials. But is the "bitterness" of the states toward the railroads so mysterious? Had these banqueting officials searched their hearts deeply, could they not have discovered a reason for it? Brib ery of legislators is not a particularly effective method of winning the love of the voters of a state. Neither does It compel affection to run a railroad two or three miles on one side of an estab- jisnea city in raer to sell lots in a new site. The popular heart is not much warmed by that process of har rying small merchants and dealers of all sorts which has been going on for years to help build up great monopo lies. Had the railifbad officials at their banquet recalled certain classes of facts like these they might perhaps have discovered why the people of the states do not love them. As for National control of the great corporations of all kinds, it is coming whether they like It or not. The growing disposiiton on their part to accept the Inevitable gracefully shows that they can see a fact when it is made sufficiently plain. Of course National control is for their Interest. It is for everybody's Interest. No body is benefited in the long run by living in anarchy, and anarchy is pre cisely what state control of corpora tions means. The Indian names suggested by George H. Himes for "Bull Run," in case of official change of the name of Portland's water source and supply, are Te-wal-i-kum (crooketl river), or Tal-bo-kum-do (good water or swift water). Either name is appropriate enough, but both are difficult to re member and impossible to pronounce In the guttural tones which alone jnake them significant. Why not dis card, the Indian word for Its transla tion? Why say Te-waM-kum when "crooked river" is meant? And why muffle the voice and mumble "Tal-bo-kum-do" when we wish to apply the words "good water" to our incompara ble water supply? The name Bull Run is good enough for most- people, but if it must be changed to meet the wishes of the esthetic few, why not without more ado rechristen the stream Crooked River? This name, if not euphonious, at least means some thing that the public, untutored In Indian nomenclature, would under stand; it would,- moreover, be easy to pronounce, spell and remember point3 that in this strenuous age are worthy of consideration. ROSE POETRY. If there Is one thing that we love better than another, it is poetry. True poetry is what we mean; not your common, every-day stuff, but the genuine article which displays the gift and faculty divine in every' syllable; nay in every silent letter. To be spe cific, this is the kind for us: Roses fragrant, roses rare. Portland roses everywhere. We guess the muses had to hump themselves a little to get up such a verse as that. It takes a genius to make two lines of poetry out of five words. There are more than five? Well, what are they? Tour Milton or Shakespeare doesn't need a whole pile of mere words to express his burning visions. Neither does this poet of the Rose Festival. Indeed, we almost think he would have gotten along bet ter with no words at all. Observe the delicate harmony of his ideas. The roses are "rare," and at the same time they are "everywhere." Very remark able roses those is. In the Inspired language of Kugene Field: Behold them roses! Holy Moses. Ain't they just the sweetest posies? This rose so rare grows everywhere. If it does, then how can It be rare? Do not ask. Such questions profane the holy mysteries of the muses, who are at liberty to do such things when ever they chooses. Moreover, another sinful inquiry oc curs to us, but we shall suppress it. We shall smother it. Were we base enough to let It see the light, it would be this: If Portland roses are every where, why call them Portland roses rather than Salem roses or Eugene roses or Skamokawa roses? And what particular right has Portland to hold high carnival over roses that are everywhere. When some folks try to talk of roses, their words their lack of sense exposes. The fact is, every rose that grows is ashamed of a poet who so little knows his business as to write such lines as those is. ANOTHER JAPANESE INSULT. The action of the Japanese Govern ment, or rather the Japanese "Jin goes," on the latest San Francisco dis turbance will be awaited with Interest. Drunken men have been pummeling innocent people since the worm of the still first turned. Maltreating China men has for more than fifty years been a favorite diversion with drunken Pa cific Coast hoodlums, and occasionally out In the bounding West our more strenuous outlaws assassinate English men, Russians, or perhaps "a Turk, a Frank or a Prussian." These disa greeable incidents, briefly noted and soon forgotten in the flight of time, have until quite recently failed to heat any international blood to the boiling point, but since the Japanese van quished China and made Russia be lieve that she also was beaten, the sit uation has changed. The first San Francisco "outrage," which produced such a violent attack of "Jingoism" in Nippon land, was but little, if any, worse than that which happened in San Francisco Monday. Between these two "outrages" oc curred something like the real thing in race rioting at "Vancouver, B. C. Did the haughty Jap mount his high horse, crack his heels together, or put forth any mutterings of war? Not so you could notice it. Instead he followed the Scriptural Injunction and turned the other cheek, which the British Co lumbia hoodlum "swatted" with an energy equal to that displayed in the initial offense. And still the blood of Japan remained at a normal tempera ture. Now it remains to be seen whether the United States' latest in cident will be treated by Japan as the trivial affair which it Is, or whether a "fish and fowl" distinction will be made between Great Britain and the United States. In view of the man ner in which Japan accepted past apologies, it is hardly probable that the American Government will be very profuse in explanations of this latest "outrage." TIDE JOINT-RATE 'WOLVES. The Puget Sound flour milling trusti which through the Washington Rail road Commission is fighting for access to O. R. & N. territory, will not have plain sailing on its predatory cruise. The O. R. & N. Co. has asked for a temporary Injunction against enforce ment of the joint-rate order on wheat, and the case will be fought out on its merits. In the petition filed by the railroad company It is properly set forth that the order of the Railroad Commission requiring the O. R. & N. Co. to "short haul" out of its own ter ritory' to junction points with the Pu get Sound roads, which will get the long haul, in effect forces the Oregon road "to devote its Interstate equip ment to wholly lntra-state business, and that it is incompetent on the part of the Commission thus, under the guise of a regulation of lntra-state business, to interfere with the instru mentalities of interstate commerce of the O. R. & N." The attempt of the Railroad Com mission to force the O. R. & N. Co. to relinquish the prestige gained through its enterprise in bulldin? into the wheat territory of Eastern Washing ton would be unfair at any time, but In present circumstances it Is excep tionally reprehensible. With all of the available equipment In constant use night and day, handling the business which the O. R. U N. has worked up between Portland and the wheat dis trict mentioned, withdrawal of a single car to be turned over to a rival road that lacked the enterj riBe or foresight to build into the country would mean definite loss to the company and Its patrons, who are all sore pressed for cars. Through the testimony of wit nesses, some of whom perjured them selves on the stand, the Railroad Com mission pretends to have satisfied Itself that wheat in the interior would com mand higher prices for shipment to Puget Sound than for shipment to Portland, and on such flimsy perjured testimony that body seeks to justify its action in ordering in the joint rate. Perhaps the strongest evidence that could be offered In disproving the Commission's contention la the fact that the ringleaders in the conspiracy for the joint rate are the members of the Puget Sound milling trust-, who are after cheap wheat. If they can, with the aid of a joint rate, succeed in in vading the O. R. & N. territory, they can accumulate stocks in that terri tory at regular market prices gov erned by export values, and, using these stocks as a club, can then, at their leisure, beat down prices In their own territory that cannot be reached by the millers in O. R. & N. territory. There is a further advantage for the Puget Sound milling trust In this raid on Portland territory, through the op portunities it offers for destruction of the business o'f a large number of small mills throughout Eastern Ore gon and Washington. These small mills, which have been located for years in their respective districts, at the present time, with an average crop, are enabled to run for' the greater part of the year. During that period they use from 250,000 bushels to well around 1,000.000 bushels of wheat, for which they almost Invaria bly can, and do, -pay something above the export value of wheat. As their sales of flour must necessarily extend over a period of many" months each year, It is impossible for them to go out at the opening of the season and tie upUrom $250,000 to $500,000 In wheat in order to protect their plants and keep them in operation. "Herein lies the opportunity for the Puget Sound milling trust. With a joint rate in effect, the trust, with Its capacity of many thousand barrels per day, can, at the opening of the sea son, pass by the territory In which it has a "cinch" and buy up the avail able supplies on which the small miller has been dependent. The joint-rate order thus becomes a two-edged sword by removing numerous small competi tors in the flour business and at the same time cheapening the wheat in Puget Sound territory, which is closed to the small miller operating on the O. R. & N. line. It Is hardly probable that the courts will permit this Injus tice, but, if such a Joint-rate order should ever become effective, the Little Red Riding Hoods of the wheat belt, who assisted in bringing It about, would not be long In doubt as to the true character or motives of the Puget Sound wolf. SHUNNING THE TARIFF. It is a singular thing that neither Mr. Bryan nor Mr. Roosevelt has anything particularly definite to say about the tariff. In that vague, matter-of-course way which we all have when we con fess that we are miserable sinners, Mr. Bryan admits that the tariff ought to be revised in the interest of the con sumer; but his heart is set on other things. He seems to care infinitely more about the initiative and refer endum and matters of that kind which the factions of his party are ready to rend each other to pieces over than he does about the tariff, on which they are all agreed. A contemporary calls attention to the remarkable fact that Folk, Johnson, Cleveland, Whitney and Governor Glenn, of North Caro lina, can lie down together on the question of revision while there is nothing else under the shining heav ens that they agree about. One would suppose, therefore, that a great statesman like Mr. Bryan would talk tariff revision from morn till dewy eve; but he does nothing of the so.rt. He seems to shun the subject. Why does l.e shun it? Perhaps he thinks it dull. Perhaps to his agile intellect it lacks romantic interest. Very likely he believes that the voters of the country care nothing about it. But this is a sad mistake. They care a great deal about it. They are read ing about it, and the more they read the more they care. They are inter ested to learn how they have been plundered to enrich the trusts and make goods cheap for the European patrons of our Infant industries. Tariff reform is orthodox Democratic doc trine. A tariff for revenue with rea sonable protection Is orthodox Repub lican doctrine. The clamor for pro hibitive duties Is neither Democratic nor Republican. It is simply the voice of greed trying to make itself respect able under the cloak first of one party then of the other. The Wilson Demo cratic tariff was not less exorbitant than the Republican Dlngley perform ance. And yet, though a reasonable, not an extortionate, tariff is the genuine doctrine of both parties, neither Mr. Bryan nor Mr. Roosevelt seems to want to make a text of It. The ef forts of the President to curb the mo nopolies are approved by all patriotic citizens.- They are certainly efforts in the right direction. Still, as long as the tariff remains unchanged they are merely palliatives. They do not touch the mainstay and bulwark of the mo nopolies. Is it not rather futile to en act laws to limit swollen fortunes and never touch the tariff, which does more than any other thing, perhaps more than all other things, to swell them ? The probability is that Mr. Roose velt is wailing for a decided mandate from the Nation before he moves upon the iniquitous tariff exorbltancles. He will not have long to wait. Americans being intelligent people, capable, of correct thinking, it follows as a matter of course that the moment their at tention is directed to the real charac ter of the tariff they will demand re vision in no uncertain tone. They have already beun to see It as it is. They cannot be hoodwinked much longer. Trying to check monopoly with the tariff standing as it does is like baling out the ocean with all the rivers in full flood, and this truth the people are coming rapidly to com prehend. PUBLICITY FOR THE HOP. , The hop crop of Oregon, while fur nishing' each year a considerable amount of coin of the realm that finds circulation in the Willamette Valley, is ,only moderately important In com parison with wheat, fruit, stock and lumber as a means of getting the money. When it comes to publicity, however, the humble hop has all of its competitors distanced. Black rust, the hop louse and the prohibitionist are not the only enemies that are for ever camping on the trail, or, perhaps more accurately speaking, on the vine of the hop. We find by reference to the daily papers and to skillfully worded circulars that there is a spe cies of being known as the hop bear, who gaily trips from field ti field, ac companied by , his press agent and stenographer. By the aid of skillfully constructed eyeglasses he can see from three to a dozen hops where only one gets In focus of the grower's eye. Then there is the hop bull, who also visits the fields, usually accompanied by a Kropkiller skilled In the con struction of fables. If the hop bull happens to be "long" on the market, he has extreme difficulty in finding much of anything in the hop fields except the poles and interlacing twine. The wonderful stories told by these hop bulls and bears are responsible for the Chinese appropriating the name "hop" for the stuff of which dreams are made. If we are to be lieve the testimony of some workers in the good cause of religion, even a short sojourn in a hop field is suffi cient to ' cause other workers in the same cause to take most hilarious lib-, erties with the truth. There was one item of hop news in yesterday's Ore gonian, however, which brought with it a ray of light for those who are tired of the twaddle of the hop bulls and bears and of the awful stories of iniquity among the pickers. This gladsome item was under a London dateline, and it conveyed the news that in England there are 1784 acres less in hop cultivation than there were last year, and that, while thirty-one years ago the hop acreage was 72,000, now there are only 44,938 acres. Accompanying these distressing fig ures Is the statement that as far back as 1819, when the consumption of beer was not more than one-fifth of what it is today, the acreage was 61, 014. To any one who has ever drunk not the beer that made England famous, but the beer that makes Eng land drunk It can eaBily be under stood why there can Be an increased output of beer on a decreasing yield of hops, without necessarily importing hops from the United States. If . our brewers ever learn the secret of mak ing the "penny dreadful" beer of the English, there will be no more charges of immorality among the hop-pickers, the veracity of the hop bulls and bears will improve and the hop louse must seek -a new diet, for the Oregon hop, like the Ireland snake, will have de parted for the land of Nowhere. The revocation of the franchise held by the People's Market Association will meet with general approval from every one except the favored Individ uals who have been profiting by the laxity of city- officials in permitting the graft to continue. The object for which, the franchise was granted was to provide a general market in which vegetable and fruit vendors could gather to dispose of their produce, with advantage alike to themselves and the buying public. It was also stipulated in the franchise that exten sive Improvements should be made on the market block. Instead of com plying with the requirements of the frarchise, the association proceeded to rent the block for any purpose which would bring in the most money. The Council has properly decided that. If there is any money to be made by renting the premises to millinery and blacksmith shops, the profits should accrue to the city. Representative Hall of South Dakota says the state is for Roosevelt for another term. He thus improves, or at least amplifies. Senator Bourne's statement about a "second elective term," to wit: Roosevelt Is now serving the first term to which he has been nominated and elected by the people as President. When he ex-offlclo completed the term of President McKlnley it is a matter of common knowledge that lie pursued the policies of the deceased president and did not lnaugurayj policies of his own until after his election and Inaug uration. March 4. 1805. The Roosevelt Stato Republican League adopted resolu tions at Huron on the 11th lnst. strongly recommending the selection of delegates to the National Convention favoring the re nominatlon of Rooeeve.lt. Gresham's great day, and Multno mah County's great day, agriculturally speaking, has dawned. The festival and fair, given under the auspices of the granges of Eastern Multnomah, will open this morning. Indefatigable industry, personal enthusiasm and civic pride have held counsel together to make this display. The result is before the public a great fair in miniature and an entertainment that will be enjoyed by all the country side and only to a less extent by hun dreds of visitors from the city.- The occasion is one of interest to every citizen of Multnomah County. A new figure has broken into the spot light on the Moroccan war stage, and Raisuli is likely to be crowded back Into the wings. Mulal Hang is the latest candidate for the headline in th-3 daily story from the land of Othello, and he has captured a Cus-tom-House and added four wives to his string. A Tangier dispatch says that he has appointed El Gullloully Governor of Haha. There are great opportunities for comic opera, even to the names of the cast, down in that land of trouble. Through a blunder of his attorney, ex-Mayor Schmltz, of San Francisco, has lost his last chance to postpone by appeal his Imprisonment, and he will now begin serving his term in the Penitentiary. This is hard lines for the man whom Samuel Gompers de scribed as "the noblest American since Abraham Lincoln," but the effect on the San Francisco standard of moral ity will be lasting, and It may also cause Mr. Gompers to be less careless with his figures of speech. In view of the unpresentable delay that attaches to the construction of public buildings, the demand from Highland, Sellwood, Mount Tabor and other rapidly growing suburbs for more schoolhouses Is made none too early. The building committee of the School Board must needs get busy at once. With a family increasing at the rate of 2000 'annually, Portland must have more house-room, and keep on getting more every year. Effort of the State Railroad Com mission to sound the depth of water in the Corvallls & Eastern capitalization reminds old-timers of the $14,000,000 which the late Colonel T. Egenton Hogg raised on Oregon Paoific "secur ities" long before the present high finance system came Into vogue. The New York Tribune calls the proposed arrangement between the local Republican organization of New Tork City, under direction of Parsons, and the Hearst Independence League, "an unholy alliance," and says Repub licans will not have it. There can be no truth In the state ment that Jack Slmpkins has been recognized in Spokane, and that he de livered a statement there. It is an invention, proclaimed for the sake of cheap notoriety. Eugene having decided on a water supply to equal Portland's in quality, It will be well for the city fathers to give its source a name that their chil dren will not wish to change. OREGON'S CELEBRITIES, How Washington Regards Oar Contest for the United States Senatorshlp. . Washington Post. The populace in Oregon are to' be ex cited by the Hon. Fred W. Mulkey, some time United States Senator, and re nowned because he was considered by many persons to be the handsomest man who ever sat in that august chamber. Mr. Mulkey has not been so prominent since he retired from the Senate. He was there only a short time, being one of the trio of lightning-change Senators who succeeded to the seat of the late John H. Mitchell. Mulkey followed Gearin, and will be followed by Bourne Jonathan Bourne, the only man in the United States who dares to tell Theodore Roose velt to hts face that he must serve a "second elective term." Mr. Mulkey en joyed the fierce white light of the Sen ate, as his successor does. There is a greater opportunity for the exercise of a certain kind of statesmanship in Wash ington than In Oregon, and Mr. Mulkey is anxious to shine again. He does not intend, in other words, to permit his personal beauty to interfere with his duty to the good people of Oregon. Other men endowed with the fatal gift , have been successful in the Senate "why not Mulkey? The Oregon Adonis has, therefore, started upon the trail of the Hon. Charles W. Fulton. Oregon's other Senator. Sen ator Fulton suffers one or two handi caps, of course. For one thing, he has been in the Senate long enough to have made a record, and that is usually dis astrous to Senators from the Far West. The states out there do not believe in long terms and personal distinction of Senatprs. They think it Is good policy to pass the fat things around, and a lit tle Independence on a Senator's part is sure to furnish an excuse for turning him out. Senator Fulton has had the hardi hood to suggest that members of the Ore gon Legislature should not be pledged In advance of their election to vote for any man selected by the people for United States Senator. He bases his reasons on constitutional grounds another bad mis take In the extreme West. What Is the Constitution between the people and their desire? ' Nothing but a stumbling-block, to be kicked aside. Another flaw in Senator Fulton, possibly. Is the scurvy trick played upon him by the gods when they were passing around the gift of beauty. They must have overlooked him. So, if such things count in Oregon, the matchless Mulkey may cut a wide swath in the affections of the people. It is too bad that Oregon can have only two Senators at a time. The variety that has come from that state is attractive, and Washington would like more of them. Six-year terms are all too long. Unless changes can be made more rapidly, the country at large, as well as the people of Oregon, Is likely to howl. Senator Fulton is an able, patriotic, and popular Senator, who is doing good work for Oregon. He should stay. So should Brother Jonathan Bourne, Roosevelt's Nemesis. And Fred Mulkey should come back in all the radiance of his youth and beauty. It Is a hard task that confronts the people of Oregon. Washington cannot help them. They must make the eventful choice themselves. All we ask at this end of the line is the variety to which we have become accustomed. PROHIBITION IX WASHINGTON. Except In the Homes and Clubs of the "Respectable" Classes. New York Sun. Why not? Washington is under the control of Congress, and Congress has admitted on at least one memorable oc casion that it is subject to the so-called "temperance" agitators. Some years ago Congress astounded Washington by abolishing the army can teen. The members of the House of Rep resentatives had on various previous oc casions yielded to the more or less op pressive solicitations of the W. C. T. U., intending thereby to saVe themselves from persecution and depending on the Senate to rescue them from the conse quences of their cowardice. But at last the Senators grew weary of the role of scapegoat; and the next time the Repre sentatives steered the good ladies and the parsons up against them they assented to the bill and stocked their committee rooms in anticipation of the coming dearth. Now the Prohibitionists are gathering for a move of special import. They pro pose to themselves to secure an act of Congress forbidding the sale of liquor throughout the District of Columbia, and they count with much reason it must be said upon the same craven hypocrisy which stood them in such good stead be fore. The idea is to make Washington "dry" all over. This means that the favored classes can drink at will in their homes and clubs, while the multitude must resort to cellars, "blind tigers," and hidden places generally, the difference being that drinking will go on with un abated fervor, though under mean, fur tive and demoralizing circumstances. We have little doubt that the crusade will reach triumphant consummation. The result to Washington, to morality, to civilization and to human liberty is quite another matter. Governor Hushes as Ohio Sees Him. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Governor Hughes has no popular qualities," remarks The Indianapolis News. "He is not impulsive nor mag netic, and, of course. Is without any of the arts of the demagogue." But it begins to look as if there la a pop ular element In the lack of such qual ities In a strong man. There can be no doubt that Hughes is a sincere reformer.' His work in the insurance investigation first re vealed his integrity and sense of pub lic responsibility. In epite of his sup posed lack of personal charm as a gu bernatorial candidate, he proved to be the strongest man on the ticket. His sternness and integrity found a re sponse in the hearts of New Yorkers that politicians had not foreseen. His record, as Governor has shown him to be in line with the present irresistible demand for a more rigid morality in politics and business. The impression is growing that he is the sort of re former who represents the dominant tendency in American life. Swagger Canes for New York: Girls. New York Dispatch. Canes and swagger sticks for young women are the latest fad here. Several of the feminine exponents of the idea have recently been seen In Fifth avenue carrying the slender sort. The new walking sticks are not more than half an inch in diameter, well polished and without much adorn ment. It is considered proper to carry such canes as these with severely tailor-made suits and short skirts, and those who have them are not supposed to bear even a purse or a pocketbook. Sales of canes to women at Broadway stores have been slowly increasing for the last two or three weeks. Pleads for Kindness to Horses. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 15. (To the Ed itor.) I wish to complain about the man ner in which drivers In this city use their horses. Take a stand at a busy corner and see how many drivers tug and Jerk all the time at the horses. The poor horses don't know what Is meant. They want to go faster Instead of slowing up, but can't, because they are toeing sav agely held back with tight reins. It's a shams SUBSCRIBER. ROTHSCHILD OX ROOSEVELT. Says Ills Speeches Against the Rail ways Greatly Disturb the Market. London cable to New York Times. "Stocks are low," said Lord Roth schild In an interview today, "because Governments all over the world are hissing at capital." Lord Rothschild demurred at the suggestion that the condition of the money market is due to a boom In trade, which leaves little cash free for investment. He referred to the social istic denunciations of capital and to various questions such as old age pen sions, the Scottish land tenure projects and the proposed licensing bill, as having an unsettling influence on the British money market, and in reply to a suggestion that the. trouble was not particularly British, but was interna tional, said: "Of course, President Roosevelt's speeches against the conduct of' the American railways are greatly disturb ing that market. We must all admit that the manipulation of railroad stock in the United States has not always been quite what it should have been, but this does not distract from the serious character of ' the President's campaign. It is difficult, nay, almost Impossible, as things stand, for us to furnish from this country fresh capi tal for railway development across the water." "Speaking generally, would you say that the' prices of leading securities are likely to improve as the Autumn progresses?" was asked. "Ah." replied Lord Rothschild, as he shook his head, laughing, "It 1b the truest, wisdom never to prophesy. I am told that Investors in New York are hoarding money until they see how events turn and that they may display greater confidence when the Spring comes, but, after ail, none of us is in a position to indulge In forecasts." "Do you consider our gold reserve) in London adequate?" "It is acknowledged that we work on a narrow margin. This is why we in London get the business. The free cir culation of gold enables us to collect what we want on the very day we want It. For Instance, .we ourselves found some millions for dividends last January 1. In Paris we should have to accumulate this gold, say, a fortnight beforehand. In London it is a matter not of weeks, but of hours, ana we save Interest." "Then you see no reason for the im position of special measures In respect to the gold reserve?" "It is a problem whioh can hardly be attacked by artificial arrangements." A BISINESS TEW OF ROOSEVELT, Real Benefits Derived Krom. Attack on Inflated Values, American Carpet and Upholstery Journal. To become convinced that a wealthy financier is likewise a wealthy malefactor, and then to so pillory him before the eyes of the world, requires bravery foreign to the breast of a time-serving ruler. Timor ous men would rather havo the friendship of the malefactor and enjoy the aid of his predatory wealth than to engender his dislike. To know that a "great railroad magnate" is "great" because of his plun der obtained through sleight-of-hand methods and then to throw the calcium on him so that all the world may see, re quires what is vulgarly termed "nerve." In reality it is moral courage of the high est type. . If in his fights with blasts at Ephesus, Theodore Roosevelt has tapped their water-pouches (many are thus marked), the sensible, plodding people of America need feel no alarm. The basic structure of business, whether of finance, manufac ture, mining or railroading, is not in the least hurt by the onslaught of the Presi dent and his advisers. Stock selling at lfiO, worth In reality but 100. Is better sold at 100, because it has no need of filching from its income In order to pay interest on wind. The same principle runs like a hot steel wire through all departments of corporate endeavor. In his crusade against the stock and bond thief, the railroad rebnter, the bloat ed monopolist, the political liar and grafter and the commercial crook of whatever type and kind. President Roose velt deserves the high acclaim of the peo ple. This he will have even to the extent, if found necessary, of forcing him Into an additional term of office. A Decline In British Drink Bill. North American. F. W. Mahln, American Consul at Nottingham, England, states that the British inland revenue commissioners' report for the last fiscal year shows a continued decline in the consumption of alcoholic beverages in England. The Consul adds: "A decrease appeared in the several dull business years preceding 1906, and was attributed by those skepti cal as to the "temperance wave' to lack of purchasing power, but the decrease during the most prosperous period 1906-7 disturbs the theory. "The consumption of beer in this country reached the maximum In 1900, being 32.29 gallons per head of the pop latlon. It has steadily declined each year since, last year being only 27.81 gallons per head. "In 1900 the average per head of spirits consumed was 1.18 gallons; last year, after a steady per annum de cline, 0.91 gallon. "In ten years the number of brew ers' licenses has declined from 8305 to 4985, and the number of vendors of intoxicating liquors from 233,702 to 2,22,394. "In the same time the population of the country has Increased about 10 per cent. The present statistics do not refer to wine, but other official figures show decreasing Imports." "Thou Shalt Not Steal" .Yewa" In Wall Street. Wall-Street Journal. On the bulletin-board of a Wall-street broker's office the following was posted last week: Five thousand years ago Moses came down from the mount and brought with him a tablet on which was written: "Thou shalt not steal." Today President Roosevelt is giving the same advice, and Wall street thinks it ia news. This of course is a plagiarism from Thomas B. Reed, who a number of years ago described Roosevelt as a statesman who had "discovered the Ten Command ments." It was witty, it was true, and it, was also a compliment to Roosevelt. The Ten Commandments cannot be preached too much, and certainly no gen eration has needed more than this to have "Thou shalt not steal" preached to it. This commandment in its application to the conduct of great competitive busi ness was in 'the nature of news. Th9 country is now at last learning that un fair competition, market manipulation and rate discriminations are stealing. Julia's House, Herculaneum. Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Smart Bet. Not great Vesuvius, In all his Ire, Nor all the centuries, could hide your ename; There is the little window, where you came With eyes that woke the demon of desire! And lips like rose leaves, fashioned out of Are; And from the lava leaps the molten flame Of your old sins. The walls cry oift your name Your faco seems rising from the funeral pyre. There must have dwelt, within your fated town. Full many a. virtuous dame, and noble wife Before whose blooms yours was as star to sun; How strange the centuries have handed down Your name, fair Julia, of Immoral life, And left the others to oblivion. POTPOURI BY NANCY LEE. "7T LOCAL Catholic dignitary tells a J story of a friend in Scotland. In the "land of mountain dew," when playing golf, the caddie Is frequently a man of mature years. On a severely cold Winter day, a golfplayer, who had been on the links for some hours, finally noticed that the venerable caddy was apparently suf fering from cold, being without earmuffs and attired in the shiver-producing "hoot mon" clothes. The kindly disposed golfer asked the caddie if he would have a drink of Scotch whisky? "I dlnno care if I dae. I'have na had a drink since before the awksident." "Why, what accident?" "The awksident? Weel, ye see, Dougall Macdougall ses tae me, ses he: 'Hoot mon, will ye hae a drink wi' me?' I hnd on ma earmuffs, and I didna hoar what Dougall Macdougall was sayin." Ashton Stevens, whose fame as a dra amtlc critic on the Examiner is second only to that of Alan Dale, has resigned his position on the San Francisco paper and will shortly write dramatic criticisms for two New York Hearst papers, trying his skill at epigrams and "roasts" against Alan Dale. Stevens' individuality and the apostolic tone of his criticisms, while often Irritating to thespians are refresh ing to readers who appreciate his under current of humor. Ha also intends, whilo in the East, to write a play for Mrs. Fiske, who has the utmost confidence in his ability. Stevens is an ardent admirer of Barnard Shaw and his contemplated efforts will no doubt abound with Shaw isms. Stevens' one ambition, it is said, is to become the "Shaw" of America. To write a play for America's greatest emotional actress, to compete with Alan Dale and to cherish ambitions to become the American Shaw, Is certainly a case of a modern Daniel. And it Is to be hoped that the lion will not swallow him. It is gratifying to think that the. effete East should admit that there is latent talent In the West, A prominent Portland matron allowed her maid to go to a Saturday matinee, presuming that she would return in the neighborhood of 5:30 o'clock, but to her surprise the servant reappeared before 4 o'clock. When asked why she had re turned, the girl hastened to reply: "I did not see any sense in staying, as the programme said that Act IV was the same as Act I." A near-marble drinking fountain has recently been Installed in the composing room of The Oregonian, where Bull Run water Is on tap. Following the day of the acquisition, a mischievous llnotyper scribbled this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of John Manning!" The suggestion of an epitaph recalls an other story told by a well known woman on her recent visit hero. Mr. I,arry Je rome, of New York City, a well known clubman and reconteur. was elected as a member of the New York Cemetery com mittee. The question arose at the meet ing as to the advisability of enclosing the cemetery with a fence, hut the matter was promptly vetoed by Mr. Jerome, who contended: "Those who are in it can't get out, and those who are out don't want to get in." Greer Harrison told recently of an amusing epitaph: A man on the death of his wife ordered that the following in scription be placed on the tombstone: "Oh Lord, to my sorrow she was thine." Ow ing to lack of space, the entire Inscrip tion appeared with the exception of "e." the final letter of the last word. Obvious ly, the sentiment was somewhat changed. A woman who is constantly finding fault with thn sterner sex, in general, peevishly remarked to her amiable hus band: "Mr. B. has sent his entire family to the beach and hasn't even provided enough money to pay her hotel bills. What sort of kindness do you call that?" "Why, unremitting, my dear." The following conversation was over heard recently at Blank's Cigar Store, between the proprietor and ex-Detective "Joe" Day. The latter who recently returned from Europe, was Interviewed in a local paper, the article being accompa nied by a most unprepossessing cartoon. About that time the detective entered the cigar store and was ironically greeted by the proprietor: "I always thought you were an awful sight, but that cartoon is the limit." "Yes," answered Day, "I said to myself when I saw it this morning. 'I must have been smoking an awful blank cigar," " naming the particular brand sold in the store. One of the Ann Arbor men who lately returned from here to college told of a certain cafe patronized by the "boys," where the maids were more or less slov enly in their attire. When soup was served, the Portland man discovered that the waitress had carelessly allowed her thumb to repose In the beverage. Where upon he sharply remarked: "Maggie, your thumb Is in the soup." Her Innocent reply was somewhat dis concerting: "It aint hot." The Jamestown Failure. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The National Government is likely to lose most of the 1,000,000 put into the ! Jamestown Exposition, but this was fair ly to be expected, and it cannot reason ably complain. Only about $100,000 has so far been paid back, and as the exposition receipts altogether average only some $10,000 a day, and the exposition closes on November 30, it is evident that if the Government were to step in at once and appropriate to itself all of the receipts, it could not cor... out whole. It is much the old story, yet the exposition craze will no doubt continue and the Government will go on being successfully "touched" for gifts In the guise of loans. Cotton Worth More Than Gold. Southern Farm Magazine. There Is much actual gold still to b? discovered in the South, but the cotton grown annually by that section is worth far more than all the gold and silver produced in the world in the same time. Between 1901 and 1906, for instance, the total value of the world's gold and sli ver output was $2,606,686,400, and the total value of the cotton crop of the South. Including seed, in the same period was $3,609,000,000, a difference in favor of cot ton in the six years of $1,W2,313,C00. The Calling of Allah. W. T. McCormack in New York Sun. From the gray ancestral mountains Crowned with purple and with gold, Where tha tombs are of my fathers And the sacred shrines of old. Comes the voice of Allah calling. As the prophecies have told. From the white dust of the highway. From the saffron evening haze. From the depthless skies of miFlnlght Wherft the ruby planets blaze. Comes the voice of Allah calling As It did in olden days. Now the gardens are a-blossom. Lotus bloom and damask rose. Vineyards bourgeon with the Summer And the bitter almond blows But the voice of Allah's calling And the faithful servant goes. For I hear the muezzin chanting "Allah Akiibar" from afar; Allah, fill me with the spirit Of my father's burning star, Allah, 1 obey your railing. Calling to the holy war. Night comes down on Casablanca, Where the desert silence lies. On the plain a lifeless heathen. With a pair of rigid eyss (Allah's voice has ceased Its calling), Gaies on the silent skies.