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Amo, manager live wagons. Goldneld, Not. Louie Follln; C. E. Hunter. Eureka, CaL Oall-Chronlcl Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. SATURDAY. JAN. 4, 1308. A GREAT POLITICAL, SOLVENT. There will be no need of nominat ing Republicans for the) Legislature this year; no need of electing any. Statement No. 1, which we learn is to be a prime favorite, will require every one of them to vote for a Democrat for Senator, if the Democratic candi date should get a plurality on the pop ular vote, wnat s me use, men, or having Republican members in the Legislature? They will be Blmply absurd. For if the Republican candi date for the Senate should obtain a plurality on the popular vote, the Democrats of the Legislature will elect him just as well. (Though some may doubt.) There can be no poli tics in the Legislature except the elec tion of the Senator. Democrats, just as well as Republicans, can vote for laws to prevent hogs from running at large. We see no reason why Repub licans should bother to send any members to the Legislature. Perhaps on reflection they will see it is not necessary. Great progress has been made in Oregon within the past few years in political science. It has been discovered that "there is no politics" in the election of Governor; "no politics" in the election of Mayor of Portland, or of any other town; no politics In the election of Sheriff, or of any other county officer. And now, through the simple expedient of State ment No. 1, there is no politics in the election of United States Senator. Consequently no politics in the elec tion of members of the Legislature. A great hlg bunch of us therefore is relieved from all political effort or worry. The object is to be rid of party, and if there is to be a Repub lican Senator, why we may depend on the Democrats in the Legislature to elect him. Statement No. 1, taken in connec tion with the primary law, is a polit ical revelation. It relieves us of all party effort. THE MIDDLEMAN. That the producer and consumer ought to be brought together, so they may deal directly with each other and cut out the middleman, is an old story. The producer gets little, the consumer Is heavily overcharged, and the long line of middlemen that stand between make profits in most cases exceeding by far the first values of the commodities. It is especially so with many, perhaps most, articles of food. The New Tork World says that the milkmen in that city receive eight to ten cents a quart for milk, which the farmer produces for two cents a quart in Summer and four cents a quart in Winter. Also that an increase of a few cents a ton in the mining cost of coal, which was won by the working men only by the hardships of a great strike, is made the excuse for putting three to five times the added Cost on the retail price of coal, which goes through the hands' of a succession of middlemen each of whom puts on the original added cost, till the poor little "pail" of coal sold to the poor con sumer costs many times the original price. Fruits, meats and vegetables of most kinds pass from producer to consumer with similar added charges. The revolt of tenants in New York against rents owes no small part of Its force to the speculative middleman, who leases houses from their owners at prices satisfactory to them, and then sub-lets to tenants, at extortion ate rates. The foreign-born are the worst robbers in this way of their own countrymen. It is easier to complain about all these things than to find remedies for them. Indeed they seem remediless. Nor is the great city alone subject to them. Everywhere it is much the same. The producer who seeks the market gets little. The consumer, who must be supplied from day to day, pays much. At both ends the people get little for their money. We may suppose if there could be any better machinery of distribution it would have been created and em ployed long ago. Host of the real evil is due to the hand-to-mouth man ner in which the greater number of the people live. They buy only : today, or at most for tomorrow. There are multitudes who cannot do other wise; yet may who might do other wise that is, might buy most articles in quantities will not take the, trou ble. The middleman is little to be blamed. His services are In dec .-d, and he makes all he can; and it sh uld be remembered that there is Intense competition among the middlemen themselves, which is no small guaran tee against extor on. REAPING THE WHIRLWIND. Another town has been attacked by the night riders and partially burned. This time it Is Russellville, Ky. A lit tle while ago it was Hopkinsville, in the same state. A few days hence it will be some other town. The night riders are an organization of tobacco farmers who take these extreme meas ures to rescue themselves from the extortion and tyranny of the tobacco trust. The trust has robbed them of the entire profit of their Industry, and has destroyed 'the market value of their land. Driven to desperation, they are trying to recoup themselves and extirpate the influence of the trust by violence. Their deeds are to be condemned by every person who wishes well to the country. Nothing can excuse ar son and murder. Still, It Is to be re membered that arson, murder and all the horrors of anarchy are precisely what we must expect in this country if the piracy of the trusts goes on un checked. It is not In the nature of men of our race to submit to tyranny and extortion without - resistance. When the law fails to protect them they have always united to protect themselves, and beyond a doubt they always will. We may blame them. We do blame them unqualifiedly; but at the same time we recognize that they are obeying the primary Instincts of human nature. The justice which the law fails to give them they are seeking by wild and savage methods. This is only a beginning. Unless the power of the trusts Is broken we shall see similar outrages all over the- coun try. Wrong- begets wrong. Injustice under the forms of law begets riot and murder in defiance of law. Commenting on the deeds of the night riders, a Southern paper says: The one remedy for their outrages is to strike with greater force; to strike hard and strike home. No organiza tion is as strong as the state. The state will vindloate Its authority against all who defy It." This seems to ring true. ' It has a manly, courage ous sound. And yet there is a better remedy than to shoot down these wronged and plundered farmers. It is to do them justice by putting the law into effect against the trust. Why should there be law to slaughter the wronged, but l one to protect him from the spoiler? It sounds bold to say "there is no organization as strong as the state," but in fact the tobacco trust is stronger than the State of Kentucky. It is stronger than the United States Government. At any rate, it controls both governments as far as its purposes r- auire. If these Kentucky farmers had not been har ried and plundered to the last extrem ity that human nature can endure, does anybody imagine for a moment that they would be banded together to burn and murder? When men are desperate they will do desperate deeds. Th3 remedy for the troubles is to remove the causes that have driven the peaceful Kentucky farmers to de spair. Those who have committed crimes should, of course, be punished; but to seek to repress their raids by force while the maddening Injustice continues will 1. ve a smoldering fire in their hearts which is certain to break out again and again, and al ways with greater destruction. MTXX, COMPETITION BE RESTORED? The Government is about to pro ceed against the Union Pacific and. Southern Pacific for dissolution of the merger under which they are being operated, an for restoration of the competition which prevailed before the Union Pacific bought Southern Pacific stock. It is also stated t:.at the courts will be asked to break up the combine under which the two rail roads are alleged to operate their steamships. The proceedings will -be watched with much interest through out the United States, for, if the Har riman system is found to be in conflict with the law by merging its proper ties, a precedent will be established which might logically result in di vorce of connecting or "merged" lines all over the United States. The Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific are parallel lines, although they, are several hundred miles apart; and each road serves many hundreds of miles of territory that cannot be Berved by the other. This is not the case with some of the paralleling roads that are merged in other parts of the country, the most notable case being the Michigan Central and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, both of which are controlled by the New York Central, which owns large blocks of stock in both roads. These roads have an eastern - terminus at Buffalo, and, coming west, parallel each other on opposite sides of Lake Erie, and, after passing that body of water, cross the states of Michigan and Indiana into Illinois never more than sixty miles ap:.rt, and at Elkhart, Ind. and Niles, Mich., coming within less than twenty miles of each other. The rates on these two roads are not fixed by any healthy competition between them.but by the New York Central, which owns more than $60, 000,000 worth of stock in both roads. The Pacific Coast, and especially Ore gon, has suffered much at the hands of the Harriman -system, but it is not at all clear where relief is coming from dissolution of the merger. If Mr. Harriman is compelled to sell his holdings in one or the other - the roads, he will nt rurally dispose of them to people whom he can trust. There will be more officials to support and the . economies of consolidation will be lost. The steamship service of the Harri man lines out of Portland is about as bad as it well ould be, but there is no assurance that it would be im proved by Harriman's maintaining separate organization for the union Pacific and th i Southern Pacific. From this distance it would seem that the Government might have tried out the parallel line issua nearer home with better chances of success. The dear public that pays the bills will hardly profit by a change which at tjie best will only make Mr. Harriman proprietor of the -Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific as separate prop erties, instead of proprietor of the Union Pacific, which owns the South ern Pacific. NATIONAL, BANK CONDITIONS. The Controller of the Currency, in the statement of the condition of Na tional banks, makes a sensible, un biased explanation of last year's troubles. He says that "the conditions which made this crisis possible are the accumulated . composite results of many years of business. The whole world has been overtrading and ex panding, and nowhere has it been more rampant than in the United States." That this condition has given way to a condition radically Im proved Is quite clearly set forth in the Controller's detailed statement. which shows that in no state In the Union do the National banks fail to return an excess tf reserves above the 15 per cent requirements. The figures for the country as a whole are so ex ceedingly flattering that they are In clined to cause surprise that there could have been so much excitement a few weeks ago with so little cause for it The statement shows that the re sources of 6625 National banks in the country were $194,109,924 greater on December 3, 1907,' than they were on November 12, 1906, with an increase of $219,291,798 in loans and discounts for the same period. , These - banks held on December 3 deposits reaching the enormous total of $4,176,878,717, and their resources, including more than $1,400,00,000 in cash and Gov ernment bonds, reached a grand total of $8,408,000,000. The report is a flattering one and it will Co much to hasten restoration of confidence. The public has been pretty well informed regarding the causes of the recent up heaval, and the effect was so far reaching that there is small likelihood of a recurrence of the trouble for many years. Portland and Oregon have been criticised for the size of the reserves held by the banks of this state, but our banks hold - nothing but Oregon money and our bankers of the legiti mate type simply sought to protect their own . depositors. Portland was the first city on the Pacific Coast to resume cash payments, and as a re sult we are again on the up grade, with most of our troubles behind us. The Controller's statement shows that the individual deposits in four' Na tional banks at Seattle, December 3, were $19,866,652, compared with $18,- 100,569 in two Portland banks. The fact that Seattle is net yet on' a cash basis is not the only indication that the strain was more severely felt there than in Portland, for, while her four National banks showed a decrease of $200,000 in loans and discounts be tween August 22 and December 3, the two National .banks in this city In creased their loans nearly $400,000. The strength of the country banks was, of course, of material assistance to Portland, and this city and state emerged from the cloud with flying colors, and .are once more ready for anything which the future has in store for them. A USE FOR HYPN OTISM. The almost supernatural wisdom of our police forces in this part of the world Is evinced by nothing more de cisively than by their treatment of the vagrants who chance to wander within the limits of their authority. The ap proved method is for the police of each city to pass all their vagrants on to the next city. Thus the unsavory horde Is kept moving in an unbroken stream which constantly increases in volume. The beauty of the method is admirable. It Is also effective. Con stant motion, as everybody knows, keeps water sweet and pure. Why should it not have the same effect upon hobos? Take any hobo you please and keep him moving fast enough and far enough and he will' become an exemplary citizen. This is the theory the police act upon, and beyond question It Is true. If it is not true it ought to be, for it naves our guardians both trouble and thought. To ask them to take trouble for the public good were too cruel. To ask them to think were absurd; for nobody can think without a bram. Excellent as the plan of the police for dealing with hobos appears, never theless Mayor Lane does not like it. He has an incendiary notion that each city ought to deal with its own va grants instead of sending them on to the next neighbor. He even goes so far as to suggest that it would b a good idea to put them to work, not merely at the classical rockplle, but upon a big farm, or perhaps in a workhouse. One may conjecture that possibly the thought has entered his mind of constructing a concrete dock with cheap vagrant labor, or of using it to lay out the parkways which th j city may some time build. In place of these vain Imaginations, The Ore gonlan has a more practicable sugges tion to make, which It is hoped will receive due consideration at the con vention of Mayors which Mr. Lane has ponvoked. The reader will recall the fact that in India the Yogis are conversant with the art of hypnotizing a man so thor oughly that he can be buried and thr revived again after he has lain in the ground for centuries. Knowledge -of this most useful art is confined in the Western world to Mrs. Besanc, and possibly to Mrs. Catherine Tingley, but no doubt they would Impart it to oth ers for a -proper consideration. Armed with this secret, think how promptly, effectively and -cheaply our police could deal with the superfluous work man who had been so indiscreet as to lose his Job. They would simply hypnotize him and lay him away on a shelf, there to pass the -"ays and months in sweet repose until . the trusts were ready to employ him again. This plan is commended to Mayor Lane and his colleagues. : We venture the -assertion that, deliberate as they may, they will light upon nothing half so effectual, facile and inexpensive. The world has known about hypnotism in a vague way for a long time. Why not make the knowl edge definite and put it to practical use? . "Would any citizen reduce the tariff in a manner to reduce the wage of this great army of wage-earners?" in quired Congressman Fordney in a speech in which he mentioned the beneficence of the steel tnisftn giving employment to 200,000 men. Cer tainly not, Mr. Fordney. What this country demands is a reduction of the tariff that w!"' prevent the Carnegies, Coreys, Schwabs, and all of the rest of the enormously rich beneficiaries of the tariff from securing such great sums of money to be wasted on Euro pean castles, American libraries, chorus ladles and other luxuries. The wages of the great army of wage- earners would I e unaffected by a re duction in the tariff if a few score of the tariff barons were limited to re muneration of $l,0t",000 per year. This, of course, would be insufficient to buy many castles and chorus ladies, but both such investments are un American and should not be encour aged. Sometime "when all life's lessons have been learned," the quartermas ter's department of the United States Government may be conducted on something ' approaching a business basis, and there will be stoppage of the wasteful expenditures which are apparently necessary to satisfy the exactions of red tape.- The latest sac rifice to this revered system of paying the expenses of a sortie all round Robin Hood's barn, instead of econ omizing by taking advantage of the short cut and light cost, is the dis patch of the Fourteenth Infantry to the Philippines .by way of San Fran cisco, Instead of by transport from Portland. This ridiculous practice will be continued as long as San Fran cisco maintains her grip on the quar termaster's department, and that grip will not be loosened until" Portland enters a protest of sufficient force to rattle some of the departmental dry bones. During the calendar year. 1907 there were built In the United States 1066 vessels of 502,608 tons register, an increase of more than 25 per cent in tonnage over the record for 1906. Most of this building was done on the Great Lakes, and some of the craft have already found their way round the Horn into profitable trades on the Pacific Coast. The Lake-built boats are less desirable for deep-sea traffic than those built expressly for that purpose, but until the Government permits our shipowners to buy the best we " can get for the money, we shall be obliged to worry along with 25 per cent annual increases to our home-built fleet. John D. Rockefeller has applied an other poultice to his "swollen fortune" and an additional $2,196,000 of his "predatory wealth" has passed into the hands of Chicago University. It is positively distressing to witness the manner In which Morgan, Rockefeller et al. are suffering for their sins, as rents advance and wages decline. Last year Rockefeller contributed $3,000,000 to his pet luxury, and to be obliged to reduce the figure to a beg garly $2,196,000 is an open confession that the blow of the big stick went home. - There can be no Philippine tariff legislation because the sugar trust ob jects; no parcels post legislation be cause the express trust objects, and no tariff revision because all the trusts object. The outlook for a ship sub sidy bill Is bright, however, because the trusts do not object. The powers that be in Washington are sowing the wind and they will reap the whirlwind in due season unless they "about face" on some of the greatest questions be fore the American people today. Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, who died this week, was regarded by his fellows as the most skillful surgeon In the land. It is a question now in the profession whether first' place shall be accorded to Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, who began his career in Portland as marine surgeon, or to Dr. John B. Murphy, Inventor of the anastomosis button, familiarly called the "Mur phy" button, so usefr! In abdominal surgery. The astonishing doctrine comes from Judge Hunt, of Montana, that the right to labor is a God-given right and can't be taken away from any man by a labor union. The man who proclaims this revolutionary doctrine is a Federal Judge and may air his In solence, since the voters can't get at him. To be rolled in the gutter and spat upon was insufficient insult to warrant Castellane's cousin issuing a challenge to fight a duel, and it accordingly be came necessary to appeal to the law for satisfaction. Some of the antics of the French are puzzling to civilized people. i There are some parents in Portland and elsewhere who might well re solve this year not to spare the rod and spoil the child. Such a resolution faithfully kept would diminish the number of cases before the' Juvenile Court. After two years' marriage to Eng lish Earl Yarmouth, the Countess, his wife, formerly Miss Thaw, wants a divorce. She "will appeal to the writ ten law, on the ground of insanity, no doubt. Who, one week ago, so optimistic as to conceive- of the sudden change from shadow to sunshine in two local banks and with it a most cheering view of the future? In the Earl of Yarmouth's case the excuse was accidental. Following the rule In these marriages with rich American girls, separation or divorce was inevitable. Congress won't remove the Philip pine tariff because the sugar trust won't let 'em. That doesn't appear to be a very good reason, yet it is. Now that the courts are running again, no duped depositor would ex change places with the men who wrongfully used their money. Ex-Governor Geer was not chair man of the reception committee to meet Congressman Kl'' when he came to Pendleton. The curious part of it all is that everybody believes Orchard's story is true, yet no Jury (in Idaho) will con vict. " Individual women are numerous enough now to found an American Society of Divorced Noblemen's Wives. . Puter will soon be out of Jail, with the rest of the land-fraud defendants. WHAT CARES FOR EX-PRESIDEXTSf Suitable and Adequate Provision Should Be Made, Say Cleveland. Referring to the poverty of Jefferson when he left the Presidency as a blow to National pride, Grover Cleveland, writ ing in the Youth's Companion of January 2, under the title "Our People and Their ex-Presidents," , argues that definite and generous provision should be made for the maintenance of Chief Magistrates at the expiration of their terms. He deals with the subject at length and explains that he feels he can do so without his sincerity being questioned, since he is beyond the need of aid from the public reasury. "The condition is by no means met," Mr. Cleveland writes, "by the meager and spasmodic relief occasionally furnished under the guise of a military pension or some other pretext, nor would it be best met by making compensation dependent upon the discharge of senatorial or other official duty. Our people ought to make definite and decorous provision for all cases alike, based on motives of justice and fairness, and adequate to the situa tion." . Mr. Cleveland describes the limitations that hie former high office place on a re tired President in his choice of occupa tions and means of livelihood, and how popular conception of him as a repository of National dignity enforce, a scale of living that may not be within his private meAns. "There is a sort of vague, but none the less Imperative, feeling abroad in the land that one who has occupied the great of fice of President holds in trust for his fel low citizens a certain dignity which, in his conduct and manner of life, he is bound to protect against loss or deterioration. Obedience to this obligation prescribes for him only such work as in popular judg ment Is not undignified. This suggests without argument a reciprocal connection between the curtailment of opportunities and a reasonable obligation of indemnifi cation." - One division of the Cleveland article is devoted to the "Occupations of an ex President'1 and in It the former President reveals the multiplicity of things which persons endeavor to bring to the atten tion of the retired statesman and the class of affairs he is asked to engage in. - "He is deluged with books," the writer says, . "most of them Indifferent or posi tively worthless, and these he "Is ex pected to read ana commend for adver tising purposes. He is made a target for all sorts of pecuniary solicitation, em bracing all sorts of objects, ranging from large endowment funds and disinterested offers of fabulously profitable investment to pathetic and depressing appeals for the relief of individual distress. "He is almost daily Importuned to join In the management of public or semi public enterprises which profess to be useful or beneficent or charitable. He is persistently urged to make addresses on topics and for purposes that are bewilder ing, and at times and places that are im possible. His daily mail furnishes con clusive evidence that he Is not overlooked by any class or conation of our people In any corner of our land, and the visitors he receives forbid the reflection that he is only a "melancholy product' of our Gov ernmental system. "It is most gratifying to note how the lives of our ex-Presidents are made grate ful and bright by the generous attach ment and spontaneous kindness mani fested toward them by their fellow countrymen." TUB EXTRAVAGANCE OF WOMEN And the Relation of It to Financial Stringency. . Chicago Evening Journal. That women were the chief suffer ers from the late financial stringency Is shown by the fact that the decrease in American demand for diamonds has caused the De Beers Company to pass the deferred dividend and to reduce work in the mines to five days a week. Very few men wear diamonds. Near ly all the stones that are purchased are . Intended for the adornment of women. If purchases have fallen off, then women must have procured fewer Jewels. This bearing of the temporary hard times on women is demonstrated by other things. Shopping in the big stores, which are all almost exclusive ly for. women, was reduced for some weeks. Milliners and dressmakers felt the effects of the stringency.- Furriers and even candy stores reported re duced vbusiness. Man's wants, even if the man is a millionaire, are comparatively few. Even the most extravagant of men can not spend on his wardrobe any thing like the, sum his wife thinks necessary for hers. If it were not for women, most men would live simply. There would be . no great establish ments such as now line WTe boulevards. Not nearly so many horses, carriages and automobiles would be purchased. Jewels would be almost unsalable, and costly furs would be a drug on the market. Woman is the source of most of the activities of the world. Without her, life would be much simpler than it Is, and how much less enjoyable! Drummer to Lord Mayor. London Strand. When Lord Mayor of London Sir Wil liam Treloar, president of the London branch of the United Kingdom Com mercial Travelers' Association, attend ed the annual dinner of that organiza tion, he told a atory of his early trav eling life. "Forty years ago," he said, "I called on an upholsterer in Southampton, whose daughter, a very nice-looking girl, rang the bell for her father. As soon, however, as she recognized the visitor she. gently called up the stairs: " You needn't come down, pa; it's only a commercial.' " "When she returned to- the shop the girl remarked, with a pleasant smile: 'I took you for a gentleman.' "I apologized," added the story-teller, "and expressed my regret that my appearance should have deceived her. And so we became excellent friends." Jeff Davis Mo. 2. New York World. After Jeff Davis has delivered his maiden speech in the- Senate he met Senator Lodge in the cloak-room. - "I wish to congratulate you upon your speech," said Lodge. "I enjoyed it im mensely." "Thank you," replied Davis. "I only wish. Senator Aldrich, that you all thought as I think." "You are mistaken in your man. I am Senator Lodge." "Oh, I, beg your pardon," retorted Davis; "but you and Aldrich belong in the same kettle of catfish." Let Something; Good Be Bald. James Whltoonub Riley. -When over the fame- of friend or foe The ahadow of the grave shall fall; ln stead Of -word of blame, or proof of thus and so. Let comethlng good be eaid. Forget" not that no reuow-bemg yet May fall o low but love may lift til head; ; Even the cheek of shame with tear is wet. If something good b said. No generous heart may vainly turn aside . In way of sympathy; no soul o dead But' may awaken strong and glorified. If something good b said. And so I charge ye. try the thorny crown. And by the crocs on which the Saviour bled,- And by your own soul's hope of ranown, Lt something good be said. - HEARST AD THE lo.VDOJi TIMES. YeUow Editor I near Wrath of -the Great English Journal. Chicago Inter-Ocean. In some way W. R. Hearst and hie frisky ways have incurred the ponder ous wrath of the London Times. Just how is not very clear to persons who have more important occupations than observing Mr. Hearsfs journalistic gyrations; it, would appear, however, to have been by accusing England of egging on Japan to make war on the United States. At all events, Mr. Hearst managed in some way to incur the displeasure of the London newspaper, and it thun dered at him in its familiar style. And strangely enough, instead of placidly welcoming the thundering, Mr. Hearst was visibly hurt and angry. What seems to have angered him especially was the quotation by the Times, from a book published six years ago, of a telegram therein alleged to have been sent by Mr. Hearst over nine years ago. "You provide the pictures and I'll provide the war" is the telegram al leged to have been sent by Mr. Hearst to the artist Remington, whom Mr. Hearst had dispatched to Cuba immed diately after the destruction of the Maine. That such a telegram was sent from the New York Journal of fice was current gossip at the time. The story was told with ample circum stance by James Creelman in a mag azine article, republished in book form over six years ago. It cannot be re called that Mr. Hearst ever attempted a denial before. However, Mr. Hearst has now chosen to be angry over the imputation. In a letter to the Times he characterizes the tale of the telegram as being "as ab surd and outrageous as the famous Plgott forgeries," and avers that none of the efforts of the "lineal descendant of Ananias," who is the Times' corres pondent in New York, "have been more frankly false and more ingeniously Idiotic" than "this clotted nonsense." The Times retaliates by quoting Sec retary Root's speech describing Mr. Hearst as "a dangerous demagogue," whose journalistic mud-throwing was largely responsible for the assassina tion of William McKinley. It is a very pretty and amusing quarrel, whose detail need not detain us further. WHO CAJf SUPPLANT BRYANT N Use (or Any Other Democrat to Try for the Nomination. Chicago Tribune. Jacob supplanted Esau, but who shall supplant Bryan? There are many Dem ocrats who who would like to find a man who could do it, but he is not to be dis covered this year or next. Four years hence he may make his appearance. The Washington Post shudders at the prospect of another dose1 of Bryan. It cannot endure the thought that the Dem ocratic party shall go into the next cam paign with "Bryan and defeat" on its flag. Therefore it dilates on the "grow ing popularity" of Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, and points out wherein his candidacy would appeal to '.he voters. It describes his many virtues and( tells en thusiastically the story of his useful life. All these pathetic appeals to "intelli gent Democrats" to choose a live man as a candidate instead of a dead duck will be of no avail. It would be better for the Post and for the thousands of Dem ocrats who feel as it does to accept the inevitable with becoming meekness. Mr. Bryan has the nomination in his hands, and he will not let it be taken from him. There are men in his party who would like to get it, but they do not make an effort, for they think it would be of no use. It appears to them as if Mr. Bryan, in spite of his two defeats, has a lien on the nomination. Dem ocratic papers may appeal to these men to come out and make a fight to free the party from Its bondage to Bryan, but they will not budge. The Democratic party is stolid and lethargic. It is prepared to "drift dark ling down the torrent of its fate." It cannot free itself of the Bryan habit. If Governor Johnson or any other man who would make a good candidate were to dispute Mr. Bryan's claim to the nomi nation a sudden extinguisher would be clapped on his ambition by Mr. Bryan's followers. The gentleman' from Nebraska haB made up his mind to run again and nobody can stop him. He looks on the nomination as his birthright, and nobody dares to attempt to supplant him. The Other Wm. J. Bryan. New York World. MA Bryan was born October 10, 1876, and has not long passed the age of 30, at which a citizen is entitled to a seat in the Senate, but in the eight years since he began hie public and profes sional career he has attained a success that rarely comes to men before middle age. He is tall and athletic, of the Christy type, with strength of charac ter written, in his face. Mr. Bryan first became prominent in public affairs as solicitor of Duval County, enforcing jrtrictly the laws re quiring the saloons to be closed on Sundays, also the license laws. His prosecution of the beef and the ice trusts in Jacksonville made' him very popular. He ,was euccessful in the management of Napoleon B. Broward's campaign in 1904, resulting in the elec tion of Mr. Broward as Governor. He is an able lawyer, an eloquent speaker and fearless) In the performance of duty. Of ancient Southern ancestry, he inherits the Democratic faith. Editor Geer Prediction. Pendleton Tribune. Whatever else may happen in Oregon politics next year. Chamberlain will not come within 10.000 votes of carrying the state for United States Senator. Oblivion. Iaj the jest about the Julep in the Camphor Balls at last. For the Miracle has happened and the olden days are past: That which makes Milwaukee thirsty doe not foam In Tennessee. And the lid In old Missouri 1 aa tight locked aa can be; Oh, the comic paper Colonel and hi cronies well may sigh. For the mint Is waving gayly. but th South is Going PHY. By the Stlllsirte on the hillside, in Kentucky, all Is still; For the only damp refreshment must b dip ped up from the rill. No'th Ca'lina's stately ruler gives hi soda glass a shove And discusses local option with the South Ca'llna Gov. It 1 useless at the fountain to be winkful of the eye: For- the Cocktail glass la dusty. and th South Is Going DRY. It i Water, Water everywhere, and not a Drop to drink. We no longer hear the music of the mellow crystal clink. When the Colonel and the Major and the General and the Jedge Meat to have a little nip to give their appetite an edge. For the Egirnog now is nogles and the rye - has srone awry And the Punch Bowl holds Carnation, and , the South is Going DRY. All the nightcaps now have tassel and' are worn upon the head. Not the nightcaps that were taken when noboUy went to bed; And the breeae above the bluegras I aa solemn as I death. For it bears no pungent clove-tag on it odorlflc breath," For each man can walk a chalk-llne when the stars are in the sky For the fizz-glass now is fizzles and the South 1 Going DRY. Lay the- jest about th Julep 'neath the chestnut tree at last. There is but one kind of moonshine and the olden cfeys are past; For the Water-wagon rumbles thro' th Southland on Its trip. And it helps no one to drop off to pick up the driver's whip. For the mint bed make a pastur and the corkscrew hangeth high. All I sUU along the Stlllslde and the South 1 Going DRY. Charlotte Observer. THE. PESSIMIST It is cheaper to shove than to pay pew rent. Should one desire to become immortal, should he wish to leave his footprints on the sands of time, let him walk on a freshly laid walk before the cement has had time to. set, and he will never be for gotten. There are times when 4 pet cent is bet ter than 50 per cent, particularly when the smaller percentage is per annum and the larger 50 per cent on the dollar. Nevertheless, depositors in one of our late Institutions of finance found It diffi cult at times to participate in the general rejoicing that the state's funds were am ply protected. A prescription for financial prostration: Rent a store, a safe, a Receiving Teller sign, and open a bank. A Paying Teller sign can be added later if practicable. Speaking of suckers, there is an old saying td the effect that, like the poor, they are always with us. One reproach that has been leveled, or rather hurled at all iconoclasts by de vout believers In orthodox Christian the ology is: "You take from ais our re ligion and give us nothing instead." Not withstanding that iconoclasts have their uses, their silence in the face of this grave accusation is reprehensible, indeed. For example, what would we do these days without that good old injunction: "Thou shalt not steal?" The Buddhist phrase, "I observe the precept to refrain front taking that which is not mine." might work in an ordinary pinch, but not in a financial pinch, so what can common people ao out stick to the good old reli gion of our fathers? While we have this on our minds, there are our friends, the Japs, in Vancouver, B.- C a Jap in Canada Is worth two la the United States. The Jap is well sup plied in the matter of religions. He has two. They vary sufficiently in certain re gards so that he is never at loss how to proceed. When he jumps on his white brother, kicks him in the face, or spills his heart's blood, he is a Shintolst snd does it in the name of and for the glory of his honorable ancestors. At other times he is a Buddhist and meekly re cites: "I observe the precept to refrain from taking life." The correspondent in Vancouver who reported the fracas must have been ex cited, or behind a tree, where he couldn't see straight, or perhaps he was hit in the head with a brick and saw stars. "Their knives flashed in the darkness," he wrote. Now, if he had said also, "My blood congealed in the heat of the con flict," we could easily forgive him. Anyway, all thoughtful Americans are glad that it Is John Bull who will have to settle this muss. John isn't much on the fight any more, but he Is older than Uncle Sam and can put up a much showier bluff. Upton Sinclair has started a new novel. The opening Installment may be found in the current Issue of the American Maga zine. Allen Montague (the hero, presum ably) goes to New York to engage In the practice of law; also to Invest his modest fortune, and live a life of comparative ease. His brother Oliver is already there and seems to be in touch "with people of the right sort." He meets the unsophisti cated Allen at the ferry, escorts him to a suite of apartments costing $600 a week,' fills him with meals that range in' price from tlo to J50 and advises him that, in New York, to be economical is to he poor, because one would lose touch with "peo pie of the right sort." To enable him to get acquainted with a few of the right sort, Oliver takes him to a modest hunting lodge which cost a million or so, and gives him a touch of the real thing, as New Yorkers have It. The discerning reader who follows Sin clair's latest effort will probably get a fair idea why people outside of New York are obliged to pay for ostrich feathers $20 a feather, and for hen fea thers XI apiece. Certain officials in charge of our county marriage license department allowed themselves to be quietly humorous when a colored gentleman from Vancouver, Wash., made the first? application for . a license in this present new year. " Had either of these genial individuals been present a number of years ago when William threw 17 Swedes and one bar tender out of a North End saloon int the street, one at a time, without assist ance. It is probable that neither of them would have felt at all Jocular when the dusky candidate for matrimony loomed up before them. About 15 years ago a gentleman of color whose name was also Bill arrived in Portland from New York, Michigan and way landings. He was six feet four In his stockings, had two hands, each the size of a sugar-cured. Government-in spected ham fastened onto arms a loot longer than ordinary mortals are favored with. He was sure-footed and could side step a swift punch for the solar plexus easily and gracefully. He didn't attract much attention in this peaceful and law abiding burg, because he was peaceable and law-abiding himself. However, one night he displeased a barkeep very much. That autocrat dispenser of liquids, In a hasty manner peculiar to barkeeps, reached over the bar and landed on Bill's head (when Bill wasn't looking) with a bottle of wine. "He didn't hurt ma head." said Bill a day or two later, when telling about It. "but the bottle broke, an' the wine ran down into ma eyes an' made me mad, so I Jes reached over the bar and got him a-comln' ma way, and then those Swedes got too close, an " ' "You didn't hurt those Swedes, did you. Bill?" someone asked. "Not much, unless' it was that first one that was comin' back for more Jes as I was a throwin' the last one out." . M. B. WELLS. . TO TIME. BT HARRY MURPHY. Thou universal Womb and Tomb. O Time! Thou ever-living, ever-dying Time! A Power inexplicable and dread Art thou. For but a day thou givest us To gaze upon the unaccustomed light And blink onr eyes, and then thou snatchest back The breath thou gavest. Viewless arms stretch forth. With life's first feeble moan, and beckon to The husht, unbreathing realms of death. A vast Eternal boat hath crossed the gulf of night And left no trace. The sovereign and the Oppressor and oppressed, . the parricide, The sinless saint, the harnessed soldier, sage. And seer, the beautiful, the just, worth, wrong. Deified error, excellence unknown. The glory and the guilt of ages gone Yea! Gods and creeds, forsaken and for got; With myriads who did them homage once All. all are there. Bourne of almighty Empires! Sepulcher of vanished worlds! Gigantic desolation! Universe Of ruin! O Time, is this the end? The dream. The vision rapt are they a lie? The face Recalled through wavering tears affec tion's smile The silenced voice meet we no more with these? Love's severed ties be ne'er again united? The centuries listen. Time! Thou answerest not!
