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l'OKTLAND. MONDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1B07.
OCR POOR MILLIONAIRES.
They say no less a sum than three
thousand millions of dollars has been
"dropped" during the last six months
by persons speculating In stocks and
bonds In the "exchanges" of Eastern
cities three thousand millions of dol
lars milked out of "securities" by the
dizzy operations of the last half year,.
Yet the country is three thousand
millions better off than before; and
that's no paradox either.
The stuff was pumped In, and it was
necessary that it be milked out. It
represented no actual value, but it
vitiated . actual values. Stocks and
bonds, manufactured to sell, costing
the manufacturers nothing, some of
them put on the speculative market,
others held by the manufacturers and
marked up daily and hourly to meet
the holder's views of his Increasing
wealth; older stocks and bonds that
did have actual or representative
value, but thrown into the gambling
market, were carried in successive
cyclonic whirls up to heights far
above earth and clouds, but now are
settling back, after the exhalation of
the hot air, which must fly off some
where as the balloon descends thy
; say these "values" to the amount of
three thousand millions of dollars
have gone fluttering and glimmering
and out of sight. But real values
don't disappear In this way, taking
their flight into fleecy clouds and fine
ciuu an. iicaivu ui tueir vapors, me
real values are better, much better,
on... I ' 1 J a ,1 I . 1
than before.
For the real value of securities,
based on solid property and its earn
ing power, never was so substantial
In this country or in any other coun
try, as in our country today. The
productive power of the country.
shown in the output of all branches
of industry, has enormously outrun
all expectation, yet obviously has not
approached its limit, since we see un
appropriated resources on every hand.
The railroads have more business
than they can carry; the manufactur
ers are behind with orders; the de
mand for labor exceeds the supply, at
wages above those ever paid before
anywhere; the markets for actual
products of all kinds are active and,
booming. Wheat and corn and all
cereals are making a new record of
prices, and the supply is not scant.
but full. So of the cotton, the to
bacco and other crops; the building
industry everywhere is so active that
producers of materials are overrun
with orders, and the animal indus
tries, with their products of meats,
butter and cheese, wool, poultry, eggs
and fish, are in the stream and rush of
prosperity. Fruit and lumber are the
came. The only complaint is cost of
living queer complaint for a people
who produce so much of everything
as we do, and who still have immeas
urable resources of production to draw
upon.
Now the fact that three thousand
millions of fictitious values have been
squeezed out of certain of the agen
cies through which the work of pro
duction and distribution (chiefly dis-
trlbutlon) is carried on is a fact that
signalizes and attests the soundness of
the general prosperity. The produc
ers of the country do not have to sup
port longer these fictitious values, on
which the lords of Inflation wanted in
terest and profits. As the country in
creases in real wealth, as It gains
higher standards of morality and
comes to Itself and into its own, it is
repressing these swindling schemes
and means to prevent them hereafter.
Control of the issue of stocks and
bonds is to be regulated by law and
guarded by strict supervision. Indl
vlduals, singly or in association, are
not to be permitted to continue the
manufacture of "securities" as they
have been doing, to be "unloaded on
the market," for the working people
of the country to pay interest and div
idends upon. Knowledge of this truth
is what has let the gas to the tune of
three thousand millions out of the bal
loon. The gas is not all set free yet.
But the country is in splendid conn
dition, and especially our Pacific
States.- There is no reason for panic,
except among those who have been
burning their fingers by handling fic
titious securities during the processes
of inflation and combustion. The
country has lots of stuff to sell, and
the market demands it all. It can put
up without much suffering with the
poverty that reigns in the vicinity of
Wall and Broad streets.
PTBLIC SERVICE TOO COSTLY.
The Herald, making an exhibit of
the yearly expenditures of the City of
New York, shows that the. total is as
great as the annual disbursements of
Denmark, Switzerland and Austria-
Hungary all put together. Probably
the expenditures of New York do not
much exceed the proportion for other
cities of the country, great and small.
Here Is one of the causes of the high
cost of living. Municipal administra
tion, and indeed all government, with
us, runs to excessive and extravagant
cost. The system is not organized for
the good of the service so much as for
the benefit of placeholders, and of
those who administer it.
The taxpayers get little service for
their money; the placeholders and
other beneficiaries, of whom there is
an excessive, number, cost much
money and render little- service. The
whole system is organized for expense.
Half the pay in private service
everywhere produces more results.
The system forces all municipal con
tracts to high cost. In municipal
service everywhere nothing is got for
the money in proportion to what is
obtained for equal money under pri
vate direction. One excess becomes a
precedent for another, and the cost is
continually increased by setting up the
customs prevailing in one city as ex
amples for others. Every other city,
therefore, must be as extravagant.
proportionally, as New York, and the
tax-consumers play the smaller cities
against each other, on the like system.
Why shouldn't Portland raise and
spend as much money as Los Angeles
or Seattle?
AUSTRIA AND GERMANY.
There are ten millions of Germans
in the Austrian Empire, and reports
are persistently published in the Eng
lish press that there Is desire in Ger
many to absorb the German states of
Austria, after the death of Emperor
Francis Joseph.
But at Berlin this is vigorously de
nied; and reasons are offered to show
and to prove that the present German
Empire, under the lead of Prussia,
cannot possibly desire the absorption
of the German states of Austria.
The argument reviews the relations
existing in former times between
Prussia and Austria, recites the con
troversies in the old German confed
eration, which brought on the war of
1866, and sets forth how Prussia since
then has maintained the hegemony of
the German states. But a new en
trance of Austrian influence into the
German imperial system would, ac
cording to the Prussian view, tend to
revive the old antagonism which had
cojne to an end with the entire ex
clusion of Austria from German coun
cils. It Is argued further that a
strong Austrian Empire is a distinct
advantage to Germany, because it is a
support to the present equilibrium of
Europe.
Again, it is remarked that the pro
cess of German unification is not so
far advanced that the German states
of Austria could be taken In with
safety to interests not yet' too firmly
established. It is known also that the
Hohenzollern dynastic Influences are
against a course of action which might
increase the numbers and strength of
the Catholic party in Germany. This
party already is powerful, comprising
about one-third of the total popula
tion, and should Austria . come in with
an immense addition of Catholics It
would rekindle religious controversies
and make the problems of govern
ment more difficult.
These things indeed are possible,
though the Catholic party in Germany
Is now, for the time, the chief con
servative protector and defender of
the government against the Socialists
and other revolutionary classes. The
Catholic Center supports the govern
ment because it fears the ascendancy
of the classes of unrest, agitation and
revolution. But the. Imperial Govern
ment, on its side, entertains the fear
that the great increase -of the Catholic
party which would follow the annexa
tion of the German states of Austria
would place it very much at the mercy
of that party, and destroy the balance
through which it exists, by play of the
various parties against each other.
MULTNOMAH COUNTY FAIR.
It is regrettable that the inadequate
transportation facilities between Port
land and Gresham prevented more of
the peopl i of this city from visiting
the Multnomah County Fair held at
Gresham last week. To those who
were so fortunate as to find standing
room on the cars, the display of Mult
nomah County agricultural products
was a revelation. All products on ex
hibltlon at Gresham were grown
within an hour's ride of Portland, and
between this city and the place where
they were exhibited there are a num
ber of remarkably well-tilled farms,
gardens and orchards. Portland is
bringing in celery by the carload from
California, Colorado and even from
Washington, but nothing in the celery
line that has ever been brought to this
city from outside the state equals that
which W. W. Cotton exhibited at the
Gresham Fair and which :b growing
in wholesale quantities on his farm
near Gresham.
The Winter Banana apples which
sell for $8 per box when grown on
JlOOO-an-acre land at Hood River
are no finer than those grown near
Gresham, and the Yellow Newtowns,
Spltzenbergs and other varieties of
fruit exhibited at the fair were also
the equal of any that could be pro
duced elsewhere. There were the
same marks of superiority on all the
vegetables and fruits, poultry and live
stock exhibited. But, while the show
lng made as to what has been done
in the development of our natural re
sources which lie at the gates of the
city is remarkable, it is no more sur
prising than the possibilities for fur
ther development along similar lines.
Between the cl'.y limits of Gresham
and the City of Portland, in fact Jor
miles in any direction out of Portland,
lie thousands of Acres of rich land
capable of producing enormous quan
tities of fruit and garden truck which
lwe are now obliged to bring Into the
city from beyond the state line.
The success' that has attended poultry-raising
in the vicinity of Gresham
is a guarantee that the industry can
be expanded to proportions which
may some day be sufficient to supply
the Portland demand and even leave
Knmpthlnp for- shinmpnt Fni- tVt
small farmer of limited means perhaps
the best feature of the matter is the
comparatively small cost of the land.
Five and ten-acre tracts can be se
cured at but little more than the cost
of a single lot in the suburbs imme
diately adjacent to the city. Construc
tion of the Mount Hood road and es
tablishment of an adequate service on
the electric line now in operation to
Gresham will enable hundreds of small
farmers to put into use the land now
lying idle in that vicinity, and not only
the country, but Portland as well, will
profit by the change that is bound to
come about as the possibilities of the
region become better known. As an
exposition of the resources of the
eastern part of" Multnomah County
the Gresham Fair was a success, and
sufficient interest was aroused to make
the 1908 fair equally successful on a
larger scale.
DEADLY SUNSHINE.
Although they are pretty nearly for
gotten now by everybody except pro
fessional record makers, the victories
of the American team in the Olympic
games at Athens in 1906 caused at
the time great jubilation in this coun
try. They were supposed to establish
once and for all the superiority of
American physical- stamina. A writer
in the North American Review for
October, Mr. Chas. E. Woodruff, seri
ously questions this inference. He
points out two or three facts which
distressingly mar one's complacency
over the results of the Olympic games.
In the first place, while our team cer
tainly won many victories, a large
proportion of them were accredited
to athletes who are Americans only
by courtesy, being foreign born. Of
the other points a major fraction be
longs to men whose parents were for
eign born. This leaves but a slender
total for Americans cl the older stock.
and Mr. Woodruff remarks that the
events which were won by genuine
Americans were of the sort which re
quires a sudden burst of energy rather
than prolonged endurance.
Thus our team won the 100-meter
sprint, which requires but little stay
ing power, while it lost the flve-mile
run. It won the 400-meter run but
lost the long Marathon race; and so
on through the list of events. For
those which require a sudden and in
tense output of energy the prizes came
to America; for those requiring great
stamina they went elsewhere. Where
did they go? To Canadians and na
tives of North Europe, where there is
more cold, fog and cloud and less of
sunlight than in the United States.
Mr. Woodruff agrees with numerous
other writers In the belief that too
much sunlight Is not a good thing for
the human race. While It is abso
lutely necessary to keep water pure,
to make houses inhabitable and to
destroy the germs of disease, never
theless too much of it excites a fever
ish output of energy which is wasteful
and in the long run destructive. The
natives of Italy, Greece and Spain are
protected from the sun's rays by the
pigmentation of their skins, but even
thus they fall below the Scandinavians
and Germans in physical stamina.
Their bodies are smaller and their en
durance less.
The original American colonists
came from Northern Europe, where
the human race is at its best physic
ally. Being protected there from the
lethal sunlight by fogs and cold, by
the shade of forests and the shelter of
houses which must be used night and
day, man has attained a bodily devel
opment which no other part of the
world can equal. From this stock the
American colonies were populated in
the beginning. But our climate, even
in the northern part of the country,
is noted for clear skies and intense
sunlight. Our earlier writers were
wont to boast that the sunny skies of
Italy could scarcely compare with
ours in brilliance. Mr. Howells has
some delightful paragraphs describing
the crystalline atmosphere of New
York city. Of us, as of the ancient
Athenians, it may be said that we are
"ever delicately marching through
most pellucid air." But it may also be
said that, like the Athenians, .we must
beware lest our too stimulating clim
ate ends with ruining us.
Its first effect on the British, Dutch
and Scandinavian stock which settled
the country was to set free an enor
mous amount of nervous, energy so
that we acquired great fame for a
"strenuous life," which had forgot
ten how to rest; , but this period of
excessive activity seems to be followed
In our older families by both physical
and mental deterioration. They cease
to breed, which is the worst possible
sign of racial decay, and their bodies
become spare, thin and delicate. Their
futility seems to show itself In two
ways, of which it is difficult to say
which is the more exasperating to the
normal mind. There Is the intellectual
or "Harvard" type, which displays its
futility by a systematic contempt for
everything that is worth living for.
And there is the monkey dinner type,
which wallows in sensuality. Both
are. degenerate, and perhaps equally
so. ' These are the forms which our
racial decay takes among the com
fortable classes. Among the poor the
sterile New England men Illustrate the
same discomforting state of facts. The
old American blood does not hold its
own.
Mr. Woodruff thinks our only hope
Is in renewed immigration from
Northern Europe. This is certainly
the way that the Mediterranean coun
tries have kept up their vitality; but
it occurs to us that America carries
her physical salvation within her own
bosom, so to speak. There are sec
tlons of this country, as yet only thitily
populated and which the hand of man
has scarcely touched, where almost
those ' precise climatic conditions pre
vail which have made for the physical
perfection of the human race in
Northern Europe. Here in Oregon, as
well as in Washington, we have the
long season of fogs and rains with
tempered sunlight and low tempera
ture which has nurtured the massive
frames of the Scandinavians, Germans
and English. ' Why should not the
same cause produce the same effect?
If it is true that the Intense Bunlight.
of other parts of America excessively
stimulates nervous energy and pro
duces untimely exhaustion both of
mind and body, why may we not ex
pect that before many years Oregon
and Washington will become the great
breeding grounds of the human race,
from which new and vigorous stock
will go forth to restore the decayed
physical and mental energies of New
England, Virginia and California?
With this prospect before us, it 111
becomes any Oregonlan to grumble
over the rains and fogs of our benefi
cent Winter. They may be a little
sloppy, but if they give us big bodies
and sound brains they are quite likely
to make us the ruling element in the
coming American race.
The Committee of One Hundred,
not the "Goats," as an irreverent
name-changer suggests they be
termed, need not sigh for more worlds
to conquer after they get through with
Bull Run. There will still be plenty
of opportunity to make this a more
esthetic world in which to live. There
is the papal bull, which has been do
ing business since 1296. The religious
doctrines set forth in the "Harmonia
Apostolica" in 1669 will be read with
deeper interest after the late Bishop
George Bull becomes Bishop George
Somebody Else. Ole Bull has been
dead for many years, but we can now
understand how much more enchant
ing his music would have been had he
borne a less offensive name. . Coming
back from the Bulls who are not here
to defend their names from the
Goats," we find Charles L. Bull, the
famous artist; Dr. Charles Stedman
Bull, the eminent physician; Congress
man Bull, of Rhode Island; W. L. Bull,
the millionaire railroad man, and a
host of lesser lights who have never
sought the aid of the courts or the
referendum to change their names.
Joaquin Miller's ascertainment of
the origin of the name Oregon would
do him credit if we were looking for
a purely fanciful derivation or ety
mology. This one is sufficiently far
fetched to entertain the most inven
tive philologer. But It cannot be the
origin of the name which Jonathan
Carver, of Connecticut, got, or said he
got, among the Indians of the Minne
sota country in 1768; of which an ac
count appeared in his book published
In 1778 in London. Carver, so far as
men know, or probably can ever
know, first wrote the name Oregon
and printed it in his book. How did
he get it on the Minnesota River he,
a sole traveler among the Indians?
Did he invent the name? Did he hear
something that sounded like it? There
is room for any conjecture; but It Is
not likely that he got it from Indians
who were using the sounds that at
tended a forced Spanish derivation.
Yet he says he got it from the In
dians.
Steamships coming west from Eu
rope this Fall are bringing full
crowds in the steerage as well as the
cabins, the Fall rush of immigrants
being nearly equal . to that of the
Spring months. Fourteen steamships
arriving at New York on October 10,
11 and 12 brought a total of 10,760
steerage and 66 90 cabin passengers.
The fleet Included the Lusitania, Cel
tic, America, La Touralne and Phila
delphia, the best representatives of
the British, German, French and
American lines, but the largest crowd
was brought In by a very, ordinary
German steamer, the Main, which car
ried 611 cabin and 1671 steerage pas
sengers. This influx, if it continues,
will in time solve the labor problem.
Practically all of the steerage passen
gers are coming here to work, and not
a few of the cabin passengers will be
obliged to go to work again to make
up for the time and money they have
spent abroad.
When the Oregon Trust & Savings
Bank closed its doors the assertion
was made that the assets would nearly
pay the deposits, and later, when W.
H. Moore turned over his individual
property to the receiver, It was con
sidered certain that the depositors
would be paid. Now it Is declared
that the depositors will get from noth
ing to 6, per cent. Some discrepancy
Bomewhere. Perhaps some of the en
ergy that has been expended in the
effort to Induce depositors to take tele
phone bonds might better be directed
to the collection of all kinds or assets.
Those who owe the bank should be
compelled to pay promptly.
Much is expected, in certain quar
ters, of the candidate this year. The
country press has to be reckoned with,
all along the line. Here's a hint from
a Polk County paper:
Fred Mulkey Is announcing his candidacy
for United States Senator on a calendar.
Not a last year's calendar, but for all tho
good It will do him It might as well be. Mr.
Mulkey has a host of friends who would like
to see him land the nomination, but they
do not take kindly to the almanac idea.
If you want to advertise, get down to mod
ern methods and leave Ayer's means of
reaching the public to the patent medicine
fiends.
When George H. Hlmes, of the Ore
gon Historical Society, wrote the arti
cle on the life of George Collier Rob
bins, Mayor of Portland in 1860-62
the letter which was published in The
Oregonian of yesterday he had riot
noticed the recent announcement of
the death of Mr, Robblns at San Di
ego, Cal., nor had the person who
passed to the printer the letter sent
by Mr. Hlmes to The Oregonian.
This will explain an apparent incon
gruity or error. Mr. Robblns died
about two weeks ago.
With wheat advancing 4 cents per
bushel in a single day, it would seem
an opportune time for the American
Society of Equity to Issue another
proclamation fixing the price at not
less than $1.50 per bushel. If the
society can make a failure of the Ar
gentine crop, it is difficult to estimate
the heights to which the market will
climb.
Three weeks In October having fur
nished exceptionally pleasant weather,
the famed Missouri prophet may as
well shut up shop for the remainder of
the season. Perhaps he was predict
ing only for Wall street.
Dr. Wilson and Brother Paget
have enjoyed the advantage of many
times more listeners in the columns of
The Oregonian than they could have
gathered if they had undertaken a
Joint debate.
While he is at it, Mayor Lane may
as well collect years of unpaid back
rent from predatory corporations oc
cupying city property.
With a seven-billion crop the har
vest is sure thi3 country is certain
of at least one more year's prosper
Ity. n
Stocks are down, but the trouble
with the plain people is" that they can't
eat or wear them.
Bishop Potter needn't be scared be
cause he dined with a black man; he
Isn't looking for votes In the South.
GLEANINGS) FROM THE STATE
PRESS.
Doing Well, for Seattle.
Albany Democrat.
Seattle is growing, it ships about as
much wheat in a montn as Portland
does in a day. ,
Pretty Bin; for Plain Squash.
Harrlsburg Bulletin.
R. C Ballard, living on Ingram
Island, had raised a squash weighing
113 pounds.
Just So.
Pendleton Tribune.
The man who wants to change Port
land's name is sadly In need of some
sane employment.
Farewell Soon to Upland Birds.
Corvallls Times. .
A famine of pheasants Is the plaint
of every hunter. Reports of those who
come back from a trip almost empty
handed are of discouraging character.
Of five bird3 killed by two sportsmen
yesterday, four were last year's crop,
but a single young one being secured.
There Is much talk to the effect that
the law will have to close all hunting
for a few years or the pheasants will
disappear altogether. There is no ques
tion but they are far less abundant
than in former years.
Bad Judgment of the President.
Oregon City Enterprise.
Mr. President, why fool away your
time in the canebrakes of the South
when there are hundreds of bears in
Oregon just aching to dance attendance
on Your Highness?
We Feel Relieved.
Santlam News.
The News assures The Oregonian that
cannibalism was not Indulged in at
our late fair, but that everyone enjoyed
himself or herself so well that he prom
ised to come back next year.
A Villain, Sure Enough.
Drain Nonpareil.
Show us the villain who predicted the
worst October weather in the history
of this country this month. So far, it
has been the finest weather here the
"oldest settler" ever saw.
Settled, bat Howl
Port Orford Tribune.
"Will the nuts from one side of a
buggy fit the axle on the other side,"
was the subject for considerable dis
cussion in town the first of the week)
find was at last settled by visiting
John R. Miller's new rig by moonlight.
Versatile Dr. Large.
Forest Grove News.
Dr. C L. Large says that the post
office boxes will soon be here, as they
were shipped from the East October 5.
They are the latest design combina
tion, 60 In number, and will be installed
on the right side of the postofflce.
If Doc Large keeps on the way he
has for the past two weeks he will
soon be an expert cement man. He
noticed a little flaw the other day In
the walk that had Just been laid and
had a hole drilled out so he could refill
it with cement. The walk Is getting
along nicely with Dr. C. L, Large at
tending. Pointers for True Sportsmen.
Drain Nonpareil.
When crossing a wire fence pull your
gun through after you by the muzzle
This Is the surest way to get a dis
charge from both barrels at the same
time. When hunting on a farm where
there is' livestock always . shut your
eyes when you pull the trigger. You
can then swear you did not Bee the
horse before you shot. If you score a
miss, kick the dog. It was his fault
without a doubt. In lieu of something
better, shoot a few chickens. The
farmers have nothing else to do but
raise them, anyway. If your gun
misses fire, blow in the muzzle. This
will tell you whether or not it is load
ed. If you want to make a reputation
as a great hunter buy your game from
jGome one else. It will taste good to
your friends.
Judging; Baby Show.
Rabbitville Cor. Tho Dalles Optimist.
Well, I bin up to the Pendleton fair
J and Judged the baby show, and It was a
easy joo, ior i naa to juago about forty
2 kids, and they was all so pretty
that all I had to do was to find out
about the fathers, and I found one kid
that had a father what keeps a Jewelry
store, ana i give his kid the first prize
Then later Mr. Geer, what runs the
Tribune, a man what use to be gov
ernor and wood like to be some more,
and mebbe will be, or sennator when
he gets the Statement No. l properly
chewed and digested; well "Tall Tim
ber" and me went around to the jewel
ler's and saw the Jeweller. And he
"saw" us, and if you see sumthlng
shiny on the middle finger of the off
side hand of T. T. you can credit It up
to the baby show.
CENSOR FOR STREET MANNERS
Propowil to Elevate Initiative One
Hundred to That Proud Position.
PORTLAND, Oct. 20. (To the Editor.)
It would seem to an outsider that the
Initiative One Hundred could find some
thing better to devote its time to than
the impossible issues it has raised.
For instance, its name would be im
mortalized if it could succeed In teaching
the people using the sidewalks to keep
to the right. Such a custom doeB prevail
In some places, but not In Portland. One
can't travel "with the tide" on a Port
land sidewalk, for the simple reason that
the tide travels in all directions.
Again, the "100" could become famous
by showing the women of the town how
to carry an umbrella. It would seem
that Portland people should know how
to carry an , umbrella, but anyone who
bas been in the downtown districts on a
rainy day. knows that eyes, face, hats
and shower-sticks are constantly endan
gered by the recklessness of our women
with their umbrellas. They use them as
a weapon of offense with which to clear
the' track ahead.
Portlanders learn street manners.
A. J. C.
The Passing of the Locomotive.
Philadelphia Press.
It has been estimated that it would
take five years of time and $2,500,000,000
of money to substitute electric power on
all the railroads of the United States.
That is equal to a sixth of their present
capitalization. While such an expenditure
may seem appalling. It will not deter the
railroad managers when convinced that
the change will aid in the more econo
mical operation of their properties and
when they can get the necessary capital.
Whatever else is true, it is certain that
in a very few years no obnoxious smoke
puffing locomotive will be permitted to
enter any large city. Some towns have al
ready placed a ban- upon them as a nui
sance since electric power has been made
feasible. When economy, cleanliness and
speed all unite In favor of electrification,
the locomotive will have to give up its
work after three-quarters of a century,
in which the world's material develop
ment has exceeded that In the thousand
years preceding.
Kind of Doga Some People Want.
Antelope Herald.
A good dog is worth paying taxes on
any time, but a worthless dog never. It
seems that the more "cultus" a dog is
the more determined its owner is to keep
it. even to the extent of paying a, tax on
Lit.
BROADSIDE FOR THE CHURCHES.
Paid Ministers and Other Cansea Lead
to Decay, Says Thla Novel.
New York Evening Post.
Weican Imagine that "the situation" be
ing discussed by the deacons of the May-neld-avenue
Union Church in the opening
of Dr. W. J. Dawson's new novel, "A
Prophet of Babylon" (Fleming H. Revell
Company), is a not unfamiliar one In
many metropolitan churches today. The
congregation has gradually migrated "up
town" and to the suburbs, taking its
money bags along. There are more peo
ple than ever in the neighborhood, but
they are not of the kind that will "mix"
with the aristocratic remnants, nor of
the kind that can afford to pay for in
cense and fine music and oratory. "Look
at New York. Where do you find the
most churches?"-
In the localities where wealth la most
evident Christianity has openly become the
church of the rich. It is the inevitable Te
sult of a paid ministry; how can It be other
wise under a system which encourages all
those elements of social rivalry and display
which are found in the world of commerce.
Yes. you can find churches enough In Fifth
avenue, but as you travel eastward the
chureh spires become fewer, and always
fewer. Isn't it evident that the church has
practically given up trying to reach the
poor? And in every American city the story
Is tne same. The cburcn constantly retreats
before the invasion of poverty. Down town
churches are- constantly sold for immense
sums of money, and the wealth so gained Is
employed to buna gorgeous religious ciud-
houses in the suburbs among the comfort
able and wealthy classes.
It is set forth In the story that "the
situation" can't be remedied by cutting
the minister's salary, or substituting pop
ular evening lectures. Illustrated by mov
ing pictures, for the "piffling vesper ser
vice," or by moving the church "uptown"
after Its runaway congregation. The
church can't be reformed from within.
Jesus tried It, Luther tried it, . Wesley
tried it. "The story is always the same.
Tho reason is that every new truth must
grow by its own roots." The church, as
it exists today, is on its deathbed, and
should . be permitted to die without any
deathbed mourners.' "For my part," says
Gordon in the story, "I would gladly vote
for the total abolition of the church in
all its existing forms, and begin right
over again from the foundation.
For the church In its present form is on
Its deathbed, with llgh's and Incense and
moving music and all that kind of. thing,
but the odor of corruption and decomposi
tion is in the air. The world knows per
fectly well what is going on. I know noth
ing more pathetic than the angry wonder so
often expressed by all kinds of ecclesiastical
people over the fact that the mass of the
people won't go to church. Surely the In
ference should be plain; It is to every one
save the ecclesiastic. It is that life has
gone out of the churches.
The Auto Trade Marvel.
New York World.
On the first day of the present month
the amount of capital employed di
rectly by the manufacturers of auto
mobiles in the United States was ap
proximately $77,250,000. The employes
the automobile factories this year num
ber about 68,000. The value of the fac
tory product for 1907, as estimated by
the Licensed Dealer, a trade bulletin,
from which the preceding figures are
quoted, will reach $100,000,000.
Reckoning in the labor and funds
employed Indirectly in the automobile
trade, the amount of capital is swelled
to $171,500,000; the nutnber of employes
ranges up to 108.500. And the makers
of motorcycles are not counted.
In 1904 the output of American auto
factories was valued at $26,645,000. In
January, 1903, there were but 14,000
automobiles in the United States.
Tho American automobile Industry
had its beginning in 1896, when a first
offering of 13 machines, with four
cycle motors, was put on the market.
More than 220 different manufacturers
of motor carriages are now listed in
this country.
There are few tales of Industrial
growth to match this one. It Is a pity
that along with the bright pages In au
tomobile history are so many dark ones
filled In with the misdeeds of irre
sponsible drivers.
Admirals Must Dive and Swim.
Washington, D. C, Dispatch.
Great consternation is felt in the
Navy over an announcement made by
Assistant Secretary Newberry that
Rear-Admirals must shortly undergo
a test to show whether they can swim
or not. In the Army a test of whether
Colonels can ride horseback has al
ready been ordered. Mr. Newberry's
declaration in favor of a swimming
test for Admirals, however, is con
sidcred far worse, although the aver
age Colonel weighs several times more
than his horse. The Assistant Secre
tary's plan is to have Rear-Admirals
dive from shore and swim to their
ships. Many Admirals who have not
moved a wheel for years except from
the Navy Department to the club, are
indignant. It Is felt that what th
Assistant Secretary is really proposing
is a general harlkarl among the most
eminent Naval heroes of the age.
Two Bults in Place of Teddy Bears.
Washington, D. C, Herald.
In the absence of the President In
the wilds of Louisiana in quest of
bears, two bulls have taken possession
of the White House grounds. Early
Sunday morning two such animals
were at large on those grounds . and
for a time terrorized belated citizens
who chanced to pass in that direction.
A Rude Western Comment.
Kansas City Star.
In Massachusetts the Democratic
convention split and each taction
nominated a candidate for Governor
H. M. Whitney and Charles W. Bart-
lett. Whitney is. a member of the
Ananias society, but who's Bartlett?
Hot Puerile or Uncritical.
TjnHnn f)u tl rtsl,-
TTierA in one esrtectflllv snnrl nnlnf ,..-...
Mr. Roosevelt: he Is not afraid of the
constitution. unlike most American
statesmen, he denlinen fn'oilnnt if
an attitude of puerile and uncritical ac
ceptation. FAITHLESS TOMORROW.
Oh, faithless Tomorrow
Thou promised me bliss;
Dost see that I sorrow?
There's something amiss!
A-ha! now I know thee
For the mocker thou ait
Thy crimes at last, show thee;
'Tls time we should part.
Thou said'st thou would'st 'quaint me
With pleasures ' untold
What a view did'st thou paint me
In colors of gold!
But when I would seize them.
These promises fair
Ah, then. It did please them
To vanish In air.
Thou promised me hours
Of joy, but I mourn;
Thou offered me flowers
How sharp was the thorn!
Thou promised me riches;Y
Thou promised me lam' - -I've
a patch on my breeches;
Who's heard of my name?
Oh. the way thou hast fooled me.
Thou false smiling Jade!
As thy slave thou has ruled me
In grief am I paid.
Henceforth we are partd!
Tls TODAY that I II woo.
With thee, O! hard-hearted!
Believe me, I'm through.
HARRY MURPHY,
WHAT JAMES J. HILL GAVE AWAY.
Gift of Ore Lands to Stockholders of
Great Xorthern Railway.
W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald.
One of the largest business transactions
that ever occurred between human beinns
and one of the most profitable contracts
that was ever made in the history of man
kind, was when James J. Hill leased the
55,000 acres of Iron ore lands belonging to
the Great Northern Railroad to the
United States Steel Corporation. Mr.
Hill bought these lands for, about $5,000,-
000. He sold the mineral rights for a
royalty on all the ore that is taken out,
starting at 75 cents a ton, and advancing
each year at the rate of 2i cents a ton
until it finally reaches $1 a ton after ten
years. The lowest estimate of the ore in
the property covered by this lease 13
500,000.000 tons, and some experts have put
the total as high as 1,000,000.000 tons. The
royalties upon the products of these
mines, which are a part of the present
and future income of the stockholders of
the Great Northern Railway, will there
fore amount to not less than $500. 000,000,
and may reach as high as- $l,000.000,CuO,
without the slightest cost or rlsK. AU
the stockholders have to do Is to stand
still and take the money.
Mr. KellocB, who is conducting the
prosecution of the Standard Oil Company
for the Administration, drew all the pa
pers In the case and acted as Mr. Hill's
legal adviser, so that he is perhaps more
familiar than anv other man with the
facts; and If the President or any muck
raker will take the trouble to question
Mr. Kellogg he can learn the particulars
of this extraordln-.ry transaction.
1. That Mr. Hill purchased the lands in
his own name, with his own money and
assumed all the risk.
!. That he carried them in his -twn
name and at his own risk until it was
demonstrated that the investment was
safe and would be profitable, and
3. When the enormous value of the
purchase was demonstrated he conveyed
the entire property and tne prospective
profits to the stockholders of the Great
Northern Railway.
Such transactions should not be ig
nored, particularly at this time, when the
selfishness and dishonesty of railway
management are made so much of.
Here la Truth.
The Financial World.
Like Mr. J. J. Hill, of the Great North
ern, Mr. E. P. Ripley, the president of
the Atchison Railroad, declares that rail
road building in this country has re
ceived a severe shock, and that there
will not be much of it so long as the
attitude of the public remains as it la
today..
The last ten years have probably been
the best years of prosperity in the his
tory of the country. How much railroad
building has been going on during this
time? Probably less than in any former
decade in the history of our railroads.
They, raised during tho last ten years
millions and millions. What have they
done with it? Little has gone Into build
ing new lines and terminals, and moat
has been UBed to acquire stocks.
The conditions under which railroads
are suffering Just now are of their own
creation. A number of fair-minded rail
road presidents themselves have conced
ed this. The shortcomings of the rail
roads have Blmply begun to hear fruit.
The people have not been guilty of over
capitalization of the railroads. The peo
ple have not encouraged the railroads to
borrow money to buy stocks of other
railroads with it. Over a billion dollars'
worth of railroad stocks have been
bought by railroads which liioy don't
need at all. They have bought them for
speculation Instead of borrowing that bil
lion for improvements and extensions.
Where Horse Bit George Washington.
Philadelphia Record.
"Now, please show me the spot where
the horse bit George Washington," was
the astonishing requeBt made by a
country visitor of his host, a down
town publisher. The latter had escort
ed him about and shown him the Stato
House, the Liberty Bell, Carpenter's
Hall, old Christ Church, the grave of
Benjamin Franklin, and the site of
the house in which Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence. The pub
lisher . had never heard of the spot
where the horse bit the Father of His
Country, but, equal to the emergency,
he took his guest to Washington
Square, and said that it was in one
of the corners of that space (which
one he did not know) that the horse
aid the biting, in commendation of
which event the square was named
after the General. The gentleman from
Down Yonder Somewhere was fully
satisfied and has now gone home full
of good, ready-made history to tell
his neighbors. It would be interest
ing to ascertain the Identity of the
wag who sprung this new one on
George AVashlngton.
Are Hard Times the Remedy? !
PrlnevIUe Hevlew.
If the prevailing high prices for cat
tle and sheep continue much longer.
Crook County will soon be practically
destitute of both. Five years ago ther
were at least 150,000 sheep in the
county, which number has steadily
dwindled to about 65,000. Cattle have
fared somewhat better, not command
ing the exorbitant prlco thiit mutton
brings. Still, cattle are steadily de
creasing also, and each year buyers
experience more difficulty in gathering
large bunches for shipment. The county
simply cannot turn out the stock fast
enough to supply the hungry markets,
and It would seem that we need a pe
riod of depression to allow the flocks
and herds to resume their normal
standard of numbers. This is true not
only of Crook County, but of the wholo
state east of the Cascades.
"The Empty Shell."
Sonnet In the Forum.
This body that we love, tfcfc cherished clay.
Through which for seventy years we gather
pain
And call It life, how cold It doth remain
When the ethereal Are burns away
And leaves It like the clouds at close of day
When the red sun descends behind the chain
Of distant mountains and his purple train
Of vapors suddenly grows chill and gray!
That form a moment since Instinct with
power,
With beauty's smile and youth's impas
sioned glow.
Now withered lleB like a November flower.
While we with pompous step sedate and slow
Escort It to the grave and grudge the houi
We spare for It from the world's gaud)
ehow.
' Subtle, bnt Good.
Boston Herald.
Lately we descanted on limited liberal
ism. It is now in order to narrate an
adventure of a fair delegate who came
from the West to the recent Congress In
Boston. Entering an attractive em
porium, the lady said to the floor-walker:
"I wish to see the automobile hats which
you advertised in the Sunday papers."
"Impossible, Madam!" exclaimed the
shocked shopman, "we do not advertise
In the Sunday papers!" "Indeed," re
piled the deeply Impressed liberalfst "but
I read your advertisement on Monday."
"In that case, madam,," the appeased
merchant answered, "you may take the
elevator to the first floor."
Pessimism.
Arthur Schopenhauer.
A very noble character we always im
agine with a certain trace of quiet sad
ness, which Is anything but a constant
fretfulneBS at daily annoyances (this
would be an Ignoble trait ana lead us to
fear a bad disposition), but Is a con- .
sciousness derived from knowledge of the
vanity, of all possessions of the suffer
ing of all life, sot merely of his own.