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NO HARD TIATKS.
The panic in New York is certainly
at an end. Banks are full of money
again. People will be more cautious
than hitherto, and plungers will not
be able soon again to get the money
and credit upon which they have run
riot for five years past. But indus
try will soon return to a sound basis.
and the apprehension entertained by
many that the country was In for an
other long period of depression and
hard times has no actual foundation.
This deliverance is due" to a sound
' money standard that is, to sure
maintenance of the gold basis and to
the vast productive energies of the
country, whose activities have been
scarcely Interrupted. Some manufac
turing establishments stilt are running
on shortened time or with fewer
workmen, biit most of these are grad
ually recovering. The great agricul
tural interest, which is the basis of
everything, is at the very top of pros
perity.
It, is noticeable in exports. It' Is
almost beyond credence that our agrl
cultural exports for the year 1907
reached the prodigious total of $967
338,447 nearly one thousand million
dollars. During December the exports
reached a value of $126,851.097 an
excess of more than $2,000,000 over
the exports of December, 1906. The
gold recently Imported to restore our
money market was paid for by the
exports of December alone,
The great exports are wheat, corn,
cotton, meats and tobacco. There are
many others, but these hold the
lead. We shall not only continue
general production on the vast scale
of last year, but shall increase it. The
world wants the commodities: its mar
kets will take all we produce, and con
sumption is so large, so steady and
sure, that there can be no apprehen
sion of serious fall of prices. ,
It is impossible to find any just
ground for the pessimistic belief ex
pressed a whilo ago that another ex
tended period of depression was ahead
of us. It was only a plungers' or
gamblers' panic.
FORECASTS POSSIBILITIES.
Two nations are making vast sacri
flees to patriotic desire Germany and
Japan. The inspiration to it is. the
memory of their past and Its hard
ships, and the consciousness that their
future depends wholly on conserva
tion and increase of present strength
Inspired by this knowledge, the whole
' people of either nation bear their bur
dens cheerfully. Poor as Japan is, she
Is ..maintaining and Increasing her
armaments to the utmost. Germany,
not poor, but remembering past op
pressions, and providing against future
contingencies, she is doing the same
thing.
The National Review (London) says
that foreigners unversed in German
affairs are surprised to . find
country that is struggling with
heavy deficits and suffering from
increased cost of living, yet is able
and even willing to face the pros
. pect of further unlimited burdens
opened up by the Insatiable Kaiser.
Put the. Berlin correspondent of the
London Times says that "the memory
of what was endured by their fathers
and grandfathers makes the men of
this generation in Germany prepared
to contemplate hardships and sacri
fices which in other countries would
only be regarded as justified in the
imminence of soma great national
peril." Again, "the Germans seem
ready to incur these hardships and
. sacrifices on behalf of national ambi
tions, such as the desire to make the
voice of Germany .as powerful in the
decisions of transoceanic questions as
that of older and mightier world em
pires." It is curious to note that
Japan, which has so recently come
into the world of nations, is actuated
by a similar motive.
But the National Review says there is
"a sort of semi-conscious understand
ing' between the German government
and the German people, that the pro
digious cost of these portentous pro
grammes, which will, all told, proba
bly aggregate 500,000,000 sterling be
fore they are finished, shall ultimately
come out of the pockets of the British,
just as the cost of Germany's war with
France was paid by the latter." This
betrays an uneasiness in England, as
to the results of Germany's rivalry in
commercial, industrial and naval
power. Emphasis is added by the re
mark:. "German citizenship, be it re
membered, is founded on duty, obliga
tion and sacrifice, while British citi
zenship consists of rights, privileges
and perquisites, and the result of a
conflict between such unequaL-forces
is regarded as a certainty by the Ger
mans. Hence their gigantic gamble
in sea power."
If British patriotism is below this
level, so, it must be admitted, is Amer
ican patriotism. If Japan, therefore,
shall be able to organize the mighty
forces of the Orient, we of America
may have as much difficulty in meet
ing it as foreseeing Englishmen find
or dread for their country, in the
growing power of Germany.
THE CONSPIRACY OF ORGANIZATION.
Why is there no Republican party
in Oregon? Because the fundamental
principle of party organization has
been lost.
Without organtzation there can be
no party. Somebody, if there is to be
party organization, must take the lead
Even the flock of sheep has a bell
wether.
But In Oregon we have arrived at
that height of idealistic conception
and Imagination, have reached that
region of rarefied idealogy, that nir
vana of politics, which forbids us to
stoop to anything so gross, so materi
alistic, as party organization. If two
or three, or any half dozen, get to
gether for party organization, they
are a ring, a machine; they are con
spirators against the rights and privi
leges of the people if their work is
attempted in the name of the Republi
can party. Of course Democrats may
do this, all right, and Mr. U'Ren
may; but the rest of us are out ofit
This teaches that it is well to belong
to the privileged class.
But there never is room in the priv
ileged class for more than a few. Else
it wouldn't be a privileged class. II
you allow free organization you take
the multitude, which, as Bishop
Butler's logic stated it, "is contrary to
the supposition."
If you attempt a Republican organi
zation in Multnomah you are making
ring. If you attempt it in Yamhill
you are making a ring. In Wasco or
Baker the same. In Clackamas per
liaps you might not be open to the
accusation.
Yet if any one imagines that the
Republican party of Oregon is going
to do anything without organization
and leadership, he is mistaken. Per
haps it isn't necessary that the Repub
lican, party of Oregon should do any
thing. That seems to be the idea of
those (so-called) Republicans who
have been electing Democrats to the
principal offices during all these
years, and now are in mortal fear lest
some body of citizens may unite in
the name of the Republican party and
do something. For that would make
a machine; and it is an argument
against organization, for it is clear
that if we forbid organization we shall
have no machine. Clearly that way
safety lies. No organization no ma
chine. When you see the beginning
of a formation, the head of an organ
ization, hit it! Down with every con
spiracy of organization!
DON QUIXOTE LAWSON.
In the February number of Every
body's Magazine Thomas W. Lawson
makes an interesting and elaborate
explanation as to "Why I Gave Up the
Fight." The article, which is in the
form of a letter to the editor of Every
body's Magazine, covers several pages
of the magazine, and is Lawsonian in
the highest degree. The editor had
mildly reproached Lawson for his an
nouncement that he was "going back
to stock gambling," intimating in his
reproach that Lawson still owed some
thing to the people whom he had
duped into believing that he could
lead them out of the wilderness of
high finance. To this the Bostonlan
retorts: "You talk of what I owe the
people. What do I owe to the gela-tine-splned
shrlaeps?. What have the
saffron-blooded apes done for me or
mine?" etc.
In one column Lawson writes of
stock gambling as "sapping the life
from the American people and rapid
ly driving them to slavery." In the
next column, in apologizing for his re-
turn to the game, where he will "skin
pickle and crucify the system,"- he as
serts that "money-making in stocks is
gambling pure and simple," but, "if
this is done according to the rules of
the game, the money gained is as
honest' as that made in other busi
ness." The Lawson mind was in a
"fine frenzy rolling" when he penned
this explanation. He mentions "Blowzy
-crimes and Pecksnlffian thuggeries
untold," committed while "the Amer
ican people, like megaphone-footed
centipedes, have chased themselves
around In a circle," etc. The people
are accused of bowing "their much-bump-watted
foreheads to the pave
ments in their abject gratitude" to the
System "because they refrained from
skinning the people after they had
black-jacked them to a we'll-follow-thee-O-masters
submission.
The frenzied Bostonlan fairly revels
in a wealth of language about
"Heinze's Jerry-built structure" which
"went down like a punk palace," and
also has considerable to say about
"the doughnut-brained press that acts
as powder monkeys in the System's
fights" and the "Simon-Smudge guides
of the people, the dollar-lapping ink-
Usquirters of the System press." Law-
son has been mercirui. " lime ana
again during my fight, as you know,"
says he, "I could have blown the Sys
tem into the center sulphur heaps of
hell, but only at great risk to the peo
ple and only by employing System
methods, and I refrained." But now
the "gelatine-splned shrimps" are left
to their fate, and his proposed stock
gambling fight will be "according to
the code the Ssstem has adopted;
scratch, purr or bite, pitch, sugar or
slush will be as good for my purpose
as theirs."
In his letter Mr. Lawson admits that
he failed to apply his much-advertised
"remedy" because of a lack of $50,
000,000. and the intimation conveyed
by his language is that the failure re
sulted because the "saffron-blooded
apes" would not put up the money.
There is still a gleam of hope for the
American people. Like the storied
Kentuckian who drank up the visible
supply of whisky in order to promote
the cause of temperance among his
associates, Lawson is now determined
to make a "good dog" out of the Sys
tem by entering Wall street and tak
ing all the money away from the Sys
tem pirates. In this manner he will
get the $50,000,000 which the
"shrimps" failed to subscribe, and will
also make Henry H. and John D. feel
real sorry. Mr. Lawson of Boston is
what the late Artemus Ward would
term "an amusin' cuss" and so was
Don Quixote.
THE STATE TO DO IT ALL.
It seems that we are to take up in
dustrial education in . the public
schools of Portland. It is a tendency
of the times, against which protest is
useless. But it -is an advanced step
towards the socialistic state; of which,
however, those who are pushing it are
little aware.
In The Atlantic for January there is
a strong article that favors the idea- of
industrial education through the pub
lic schools. It is based on the ac
knowledged fact that there is need of
Industrial education for the large
masses. But the idea that the public
schools should undertake it would cut
out Individual Initiative and parental
responsibility, and go far towards es
tablishment of the socialistic doctrine
that the state should take charge and
direction of all industry, see to it that
every one shall have employment and
pay the wages. This will be the logi
cal consequence the socialistic doc
trine that government Is to take
charge and control of processes of
production and distribution. It may
be started in the public schools;, for it
is an easy and logical transition from
the teaching of trades by the state,
that the state is to direct and control
the industry.
Parents, then, are to have no re
sponsibility, and are not to teach any
doctrine of self-dependence and per
sonal responsibility to their children.
The state Is to become the sole reli
ance. There is no possibility of stop-
ping "short of this result.
BIO SURPLUS OF MONET.
'The question with borrowers is no
longer that of monetary supplies and
low rates; the question which con
fronts lenders is how to employ re
muneratively -the vast accumulations
of loanable funds." In such language
the New York Financier comments on
the remarkable recovery in the money
market in New. York. The clearing
house banks of that city increased
treir reserves more than $26,000,000
list week, and there was an increase
of more than $38,500,000 in deposits,
The full meaning of these big figures
can best be understood when we re
call that less than sixty days ago our
financiers were scouring the world for
gold with which to patch up the shat
tered reserves. It should also be re
membered that with France, Germany
and England sending us gold in rec
ord-breaking quantities, the total for
any three weeks during the movement
fell considerably short of what is now
pouring into New York from our
own hoards in a single week.
With confidence unshattered and
most of our Institutions able to main
tain their credit, there was plenty of
motley in the United States for all le
gitimate requirements when the recent
financial storm broke. As we are now
doing less business than we were be
fore the trouble began, it is quite clear
that with confidence restored the same
amount of money available before .the
panic would be more than sufficient
to .carry on the business at this time
We have all of the money that was
then in our possession, and in addi
tion more than $100,000,000 which
was, at enormous expense, rushed into
the country to alleviate a crisis which
should never have existed. We paid
a heavy premium to get that gold
into the country, and with money pil
ing up in the banks as it will do, now
that confidence is restored, there will
be such a slackening in the demand
that it is not improbable that gold
exports will soon set in.
The satisfactory condition of the
New York banks is reflected all over
the country. The hoarders who drew
unnumbered millions from the banks
of the country are now beginning to
realize that it has no earning power In
stockings or teapots, and they are now
returning their hoards to the banks or
seeking investment. It is too late to
repair the damage done to the small
tradesmen, merchants and banks that
were swept off their feet by the wave
of hysteria following the row between
rival sets of Wall-street gamblers, but
it is encouraging in the extreme to
note that the trouble is practically
over. The lesson has been a severe
one; thousands of innocent persons
have been ruined along with a hand
ful of guilty Wall-street thieves, but
the people have been awakened and
it is hardly probable that the present
generation will witness a parallel case
of commercial folly.
AGAIN OUR FLEET.
The heart of every loyal American
must swell with patriotic pride at the
presentment made by the Nation's
magnificent battle fleet riding at an
chor in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro.
Fully equipped, fully manned, com
manded by an Admiral with a record
for naval ability and by officers well
trained in the maneuvers of modern
naval vessels, the sixteen big battle
ships of the United States Navy and
their , grim convoy of torpedovboats
tell, though their guns are silent, of
the power upon which the liberties of
the American people rests. Never be
fore did a great Nation in time of pro
found peace send on a long voyage
such a magnificent and so formidable
a fleet. Such. perils as lie in wait for
such a -fleet on so long a voyage are
yet in advance of the ships. But the
American people, serene in their con
fidence in the strength of the battle
ships and the ability of those who
command and man them, have con
jured up no tales of possible disaster
as a supplement to the brilliant prog
ress of the fleet thus far.
The voyage was carefully planned
the ships were splendidly equipped;
the possibilities of disaster were not
ignored, but taken into careful ac
count and intelligently provided
against. And while without doubt a
strong tension will be relieved when
the news comes that the fleet is riding
as securely at anchor in the waters
of Magdalena Bay as It Is now riding
in the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, that
which is confidently expected will have
happened and the transference of a
mighty fleet from the waters of the
Atlantic to those of the Pacific will
have been completed.
The sacredness of Government red
tape is still being recognized at Wash-
ington. A dispatch in yesterday's,
Oregbnian announced that a lightship
built in the East for service at Blunt's
Reef, Cal., had started on her journey
to the Pacific Coast. The cost of
bringing the vessel out, aside from the
risk of losing her. will exceed $15,000,
and she could have been built on this
Coast for about $5000 more than on
the Atlantic This case, however,
shows improvement over that of the
big Philippine drydock. In that case
the Government saved $10,000 by hav
ing her built at Newport News In
stead of at a. Pacific Coast yard, and
then paid $100,000 more to get the
craft to her station than it would have
cost ' to get her from a Pacific Coast
yard, to Manila.
State Senator Harry Rosenhaupt, of
Spokane, in announcing his candidacy
for Congress, declares himself in favor
of co-operation' of the state and Gov
ernment in opening the Columbia to
the sea. This sentiment for an open
river has become so strong in Wash
ington that every candidate for any
office of importance has something to
say on the subject. And yet when
Portland began the work of improving
the river so that ships could come
here and carry both Washington and
Oregon products to market at low
rates of freight, it encountered severe
opposition from many Washington
newspapers and no aspirant for office
thought he was enhancing his pros
pects for election bV promising to
work for an open river.
It is not likely to cease to be thought
a strange thing that the Appellate Court
of California held in the case of
Mayor Schmitz that his act in black
mailing certain restaurants in San
Francisco by withholding their li
censes toi sell wines, until they had
paid a specified price to the Mayor's
graft collector did not constitute ex
tortion under the law. But the de
cision, as Judge Dunne, of the trial
court, has since re'marked, came from
a tribunal whose members have rela
tives and intimate' personal friends
under indictment by the same grand
jury that had found against Schmitz.
This is more severe criticism than has
been employed by any newspaper.
The revenue cutters sent- out from
Puget Sound to look for the missing
ship Hartfleld are said to have re
turned because the wreckage which
was found was not necessarily from
a vital part of the'ship, and there wje
accordingly some doubt about the ves
sel being lost. Perhaps if some dead
bodies of members of the crew, are
washed ashore in a condition to be
identified, It might be worth while
sending a cutter out again. It would
be, of course, everlastingly too late to
save any one from the wreck, but it
would show that the lifesavlng branch
of our revenue service was up and
doing. ,
A ship canal between the Clyde and
the Forth is the next great canal
scheme. It will form a connecting
link between the cities of Glasgow
and Edinburgh, and will connect the
North Sea with the Irish Sea and with
the Atlantic. The construction would
be no great matter. In comparison
withother inter-maritime canals, for
the topography favors it. But, since
Glasgow is already so great a city, the
result might belittle Edinburgh. Yet
possibly not.. At Edinburgh there are
forces of many kinds that may be able
to maintain their' place, even against
the tendencies of a commercial age.
Union glassworkers In the East have
accepted a 25 per cent reduction in
wages In the belief that lower prices
will Increase the demand for the out
put of the factories. The theory is an
excellent one and it works out to
nicety In most lines. Here in Oregon
a reduction In the cost of woodcutting
and landclearing has resulted in an in
cleased demand for labor which could
have found no employment at former
wages.
Sam Hall, who was picked up by
the police on a charge of vagrancy,
says he Is a brother of Maxlne Elliott-
As Captain Dermit, of San Francisco
is the father of Maxine Elliott, whose
name before she began getting mar
ried was Jessie Dermit, it would seem
that Brother Sam was also cruising
around the world under a nom de
plume.
Portland was the first large city in
the country to resume cash payments
after the recent financial trouble. It
is also the financial headquarters of
the Pacific Northwest and the first re
serve city north of San Francisco,
For, these as well as many other good
sound business reasons, a Subtreasury
should be established In this city.
The welfare of Oregon will be pro
moted if individual residents make
known to their Eastern friends the
colonist rate effective March 1. While
the boisterous month is far from at
tractive in point of weather, it serves
well to demonstrate the mildness of
our Winter climate.
The rumor was floating round last
night, and was handed in over our
wires, that Japan had "declared war.
But on whom, or for what, was not
stated. At a later hour the rumor
had not been confirmed. Probably
Japan doesn't desire war.
The Falrview Dairy ' Association in
Tillamook paid its patrons $33,394.18
last year for, milk and butter-fat, the
price of the latter ranging from 29.4
cents in January to 36 cents in April.
No comment or advice is needed to go
With these figures.
If being Irrational is evidence of in
sanity, as Thaw's attorneys contend.
there are a whole lot of people ready
for the asylum.- But not all irrational
people are Incapable of distinguish
ing between right and wrong.
It is asserted with confidence that
the Milwaukee & St. Paul will be com
pleted as far West as Butte by the end
of June. Its grade for many hun
dreds of miles almost touches the
Northern Pacific
General restoration of confidence
and revival of business throughout the
country is certain to give a new and
active start to the lumber business of
Oregon and the Northwest.
Cumulative evidence of rapid return
to normal conditions is offered in the
increase of $26,000,000 in the cash- re
serve of New York banks.
If Foraker should be nominated it is
altogether probable that Bryan would
refuse to run. He would be ashamed
to take the votes.
UNFETTERED DELEGATIONS. .
States That Have No Candidates Should
Not Commit Themselves.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It is understood that an uninstructed
delegation will be sent by Iowa to the
Republican National Convention. Thus
one of the great Republican states has
decided that it Is best not to tie up its
representatives at a time when the can
didates are many and none in the lead as
far as positive facts are known. In New
Hampshire similar action has been taken,
a resolution having been passed that the
delegation of the state shall go unin
structed. Iowa itself has Republican
leaders of National reputation, yet will
not urge any one of them as a candidate.
Its Republican delegation will be left
ires to act according to the situation as
it exists when the convention assembles
on June 18 next. There will be more
light then on the coming campaign. Con
gress expects to complete the session be
fore that date. Its work will be before
the country, making up issues not yet in
sight. The course of state conventions
and districts in selecting National dele
gates will be known. It is possible that
the popular tide may then be seen to run
strongly, even decisively, for one candi
date, but it lB--the merest guessing now to
pick the man or to assume that the con
vention will not have to rely entirely
upon its own judgment.
In cases where the Republicans in any
state have a candidate of their own, it
is natural yiat, if his support is practi
cally unanimous, he should toe backed
by an instructed delegation. But he
must gain largely in the convention when
it meets to forge to the front. New
York has 78 delegates, but would have to
obtain 413 more to reach the nomination.
The states that have no candidates of
their own should not commit themselves.
Navigators take their reckoning for the
current day and direct their ships accord
ing to what they know unerringly. The
ticket to be nominated next June can not
be foreseen now. It is quite beyond the
bounds of conjecture. Nor are the politi
cal conditions of five months hence dis
cernible at present. New Issues and cir
cumstances knock at the door without
advance notice. Unexpected develop
ments may occur within the lines of both
parties. - A prudent general goes into
battle with reserves to -be placed where
the stress is greatest. If he w.. heed no
plans except the one he originally, ar
ranged for himself the probability is that
the difference between the theoretical
and the real will be painfully impressed
upon him.
In this matter the Interests of the peo
ple and of the party are not always iden
tical with those of the politicians. The
latter like a certainty along the line of
their own preferences and approve of
pledged action ii it is what they want.
But popular requirements are another
thing. Why should Missouri's delegation
be placed under s. vow for the National
Convention that will not meet until mid
summer? The outlook as far as a choice
of candidates is concerned is decidedly in
doubt. The political feeling that will
prevail in June Is unknown and unknow
able at this time. The 36 votes of Mis
souri In the convention might, if un
pledged, turn the scale in behalf of the
wisest course and the best ticket- An in
structed delegation is in effect a claim
that now, instead of June, is the time to
tell what the convention ought to do, and
that its business is to register perfunctor
ily as a whole what has been predeter
mined for it In piecemeal fashion, and
blindly as to future conditions. Iowa and
New Hampshire will not put their dele
gations in such a strattjacket. Nor
should Missouri.
We Quit. Rltrht Here!
Astorlan.
We have never, for a moment, cher
ished the notion of interfering with
Portland In any of lier cherished plans
for commercial up-lift, save in the case
of the Port of Portland bill, last Win
ter, when we opposed her teeth and
nail" on the simple ground of self-
defense and made good in the fight.
We know the futility of contending
single-handed against her, and the
hopelessness of her ever doing aught
for this city or this end of the river.
We are in her way here; she wants
to maintain supreme control of the
maritime commerce of the state, and
will probably do so until the for
tuitous turn shall be made that shall
give us our share of it, as the nearest,
most, natural, most feasible, of all the
cities and harbors in Oregon.
We quit, right here! It's up 'to
Astoria and Astorians to save their
own faces. If this city has the snap,
the gumption, the money, and the busi
ness . nerve to go after things, to do
things, to gain things and to profit
by them, now is her chance to do some
thing: if she has no qualities of this
sort she may simmer into "innocuous
desuetude" and make the best of her
inanition. We are here to fight for
her when it is necessary, but we want
a shoulder-mate, a cause, and the
backing that goes with honest cham
pionship. This man's town has no re
course save her own pluck and spirit
and power, and she need not look else
where for aid or comfort!
The Single Tax.
St. Helens Mist.
The single tax advocates are endeavor
ing by initiative petition to secure the
adoption of the Henry George system of
taxation in Oregon. They offer to the
farmers a bribe in the shape of exemp
tion for their buildings and improve
ments, but propose to place all taxes
upon the land.. It is claimed that the
adoption of this system of taxation will
induce all the manufacturing plants here
after located on the Pacific Coast to
come to Oregon, but, of course, if such
an inducement were offered California
and Washington would probably bid a
little higher, and our temporary advan
tage would be lost. No system of taxa
tion that gives one class of property
exemption can fail to be burdensome to
all other classes. We are engaged in a
struggle for equal taxation of all classes
of property, and, despite many burdens
and setbacks, we are making progress.
Instead of exempting all property ex
cept the land, we want to see to it that
every class of property, without excep
tion, bears its full share of the public
burden. Every amendment to the pres
ent law should be in this direction.
Would Tax Foreign Marriages.
Washington CD. C.) Dispatch in New
Tork Sun.
Representative Sabath, of Chicago, does
not believe that good, nam, American
made dollars should be expended in the
purchase of empty foreign titles for
American heiresses unless Uncle Sam
also gets his rakeoff. He has according
ly Introduced a bill to Impose a tax of
26 per coot upon such marriages. His
measure provides tnat ait girts, dowries
settlements or advances of money or
nroDertv made In consideration or in con
temolatlon of marriage by any citizen
of the United States to any person other
than a citizen of the United States shall
be subject to a tax of 25 per cent and
paid into the Treasury. Under the terms
of the bill the Treasury Department is
empowered to formulate rules and reg
ulations.
Four Millions In Pictures.
Baltimore . News.
M. Groult. the owner of one of the
finest art collections in the world, is
dead in Paris. The pictures In his gal
lerv. which are valued at $4,000,000. In
elude masterpieces by Turner, Constable
and Gainsborough, and examples of the
French painters of tne ugnteenth Cen
tury, such as Watteau.. The bulk of the
collection has been bequeathed to the
Louvre-
VISIT OF ADJUTANTS-GENERAL
TO IMPROVE COAST DEFENSES
0
REGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, Jan. 14. The visit ot the
Adjutants - General -of Oregon,
Washington and California to the Na
tional Capital, and their conference with
the War Department and with members
of Congress, will probably result In leg
islation making it possible to organize
in all three states special companies of
militia for duty at sea-coast defenses..
General -Flnzer, of Oregon, who was very
active, as well as General Hamilton, of
Washington, left the city well pleased
with tireir reception, and confident that
their project will be indorsed.
Members of the militia companies of
the Pacific Coast states do not care for
duty at the Coast fortifications. They
did not enlist for such service, and pre
fer to go into the field. But in view of
the sadly depleted ranks of the regular
Coast Artillery it was deemed advisable
last Summer to send a number of militia
infantry companies to the Coast for
artillery drill. The men who went did
not want to go again, and yet there are
men, eligible for militia duty, who would
gladly enter the Coast Artillery if they
could be placed on the same footing as
the men in the regular militia companies.
. The first thing which the Adjutants
General asked was that the militia
companies, instead of attending maneu
vers at Coast fortifications this Summer,
be sent to the general field maneuvers at
American Lake. This was agreed to by
the War Department, and none of the in
fantry companies in Oregon and Wash
ington will have artillery drill this Sum
mer. At the same time the Department
announced its purpose to modify its plans
for the American Lake encampment this
year, and instead of maneuvering on
such a grand scale as last season and
the Summer previous, the maneuvers will
be more confined. That is to say, more
attention will be given to the individual
companies and to the men comprising
those companies, and less to the general
officers in command. The maneuvers of
the past two seasons have been excellent
practice for the commanders of regiments
and larger bodies of troops; this year
the Majors, Captains and Lieutenants
will have more individual work, and so
will their men.
That much disposed of. General Flnzer
and the other two Adjutants-General
from the Coast had a conference with
Assistant Secretary of War Oliver in re
gard to the organization of militia com
panies, especially recruited for Coast Ar
tillery duty. They assured General
Oliver that such companies could be
readily organized if the War Department
would furnish uniforms and all equip
ment. That much is done by the gen
eral Government for all other -militia or
ganizations, including the artillery com
panies. But the appropriations for uni
forms &nd equipment are restricted to
organizations now in existence, and the
METHODISTS NOT FOR FAIRBANKS
Church Newspaper Saya He Would Be
Effaced at the Polls.
Zion's Herald.
The intimation that the Methodist Epis
copal Church at large would support Mr.
Fairbanks because he is a Methodist, is
wholly erroneous. We do not, at this
writing, intend to give an estimate of Mr.
Fairbanks or his general popularity.
That, for the present, is' waived. He has
been prominently before the public for
many years, and here in New England he
is intelligently understood. But tne in
ference that he would carry the support
of Methodises generally because he is a
Methodist, was emphatically contradicted
a few months ago. At the laymen's meet
ing held in connection with the session
of the annual dbnference in his own ter
ritory, last Fall, at which lay delegates
were elected to the general conference,
though his personal friends made a loyal
and earnest effort to elect him, he Was
defeated. If Mr. Fairbanks cannot secure
the support of Methodists in nis own
state, how can he be expected to- have
any hold upon the denomination at
large?
Unfortunately, Mr. Fairbanks is charged
with violating, at his own table, prohibi
tion principles and practices, which the
universal conscience of our denomination
holds sacred and inviolable. The Meth
odist Episcopal Church is so sensitive in
the matter of prohibition that it does not,
and will not, condone the chayre against
him, nor accept any of the proffered ex
planations which have been made to re
lieve him from censure. Whether our
people are acting wisely or unwisely in
the case we do not say, but merely state
the simple fact Instead of supporting
him for the Presidency because he is
-a.i tiv ifaiiIiI lnrs-elv vote
a. iviemvjuiDw .. o . .
against him. This matter has been thor
oughly thresneo out in puouc aiscusaiuua
and in our church press, and it is only
cold truth to affirm that probably no
public man in our denomination would
be so unmercifully effaced at the polls
if he 'were a candidate for President
by Methodists, as i-. Fairbanks.
It Was Only the Third. '
Current Literature.
A clergyman, having performed the
marriage ceremony for a couple,
undertook to write out the usual cer
tificate, but, being In doubt as to the
day of the month, he asked, "This is
the ninth, is it not?"
"Why, parson," said the blushing
bride, "you do all my marrying, and
you ought to remember that this is
only the third."
Her Unruly Children.
New Tork World.
Australia follows British Columbia in
throwing a fit about the Tellow Peril and
the Japanese Invasion. Great Britain
has a lot of trouble keeping her unly
children from "sassing" the visitors.
Where the Wars End.
Atlanta Constitution.
What is the sorrow? A little space
The cry of the fallen In the race
The dying cry which the world heeds not
111 remembered, or eoon forgot.
Joy or sorrow will end In rest
Iust, and a rose .on a dreamless breast.
What Is the sighing? It Is not long;
One In the end are the sigh and song:
One the faith, and one the doubt
The cry of the vanquished the victors
shout.
Victor and vanquished must creep for rest
When the dust la blown o'er the dreamless
breast.
And what In the transient gloom and glow
Is the beautiful love that we cling to so.
The rose red lip. and the sparkling eye?
A gracious greeting a sad good-bye!
With pallid faces and lips grief prest
The lovers creep to the rose for rest.
So' we smile at the dark on the pathway
rough:
There shall be sunshine and rest enough
After the stormy ways are past.
Rest shall be sweeter at last at last!
Joy and sorrow will end in rest
Dust, and a rose on a dreamless breast.
Had the Grip?
- Louisville Courier-Journal.
Kerchool Kerchee?
His red eyes drip.
But silent be!
It is the grip.
His nose is red.
Kerchug! Kerchoo! '
He feels half dead.
And so would you
In such a plight,
A woeful case. '
His skin Is tight
And flushed his face.
Kerchoo! Kerchee!
Just hear him rip!
But silent -be
It Is the grip.
Department cannot divert any of this
money towards equipping Coast Artillery
companies on the Pacific Coast.
It was therefore decided that General
Oliver, through Secretary Taft, should
recommend te Congress that the appro
priation for uniforms and equipment be
sufficiently increased to provide for Coast
Artillery companies in the three Paciiic
Coast states, and arrangements wens
made to have such bills presented to both
Houses of Congress. The three Adjutants-General
saw the various members
of the Congressional delegations from
their respective states, as well as mem
bers of the militia committees, and found
universal sentiment in favor of the con
templated legislation. With such fa
vorable assurances, they left Washington,
satisfied that their visit had not been in
vain. Of course, however, no Coast Ar
tillery companies will be recruited until
the desired legislation has been enactea,
though preliminary steps will be token
if the legislation progresses favorably as
the session grows.
Adjutant-General Flnzer. of the Oregon
puard, speaking of the project, said:
There will be no difficulty in recruiting
these companies if Congress will make the.
necessary appropriation. Similar compa
nies have been organized in Massachusetts
and other Atlantic Coast states, and ai e
doing very efficient work. This particular
line or duty appeals to many good mtn
who do not enter the National Guard at the
present time because they do not want
to place themselves in a position where
they might be ordered out of the country.
I refer particularly to married men. There .
are plenty of good men of family In our
Coast -states who would readily enlist in
the Coast Artlliery branch of the Ouard If
the Government would provide the equip
ment. They are men of hlsh character:
good staunch fellows of Intelligence an-l
ability; the kind of men who, under prop.'r
training-, could readily learn to handle the
Intricate guns that are mounted in our
Coast defenses. It retiuires men of excep
tional intelligence for this duty, and us
lllustrntins the ty?e of men who compri--!
our National Guard on the Coast I no-l
only say that the Infantry companies wh'.rli
were assigned to Coast Artillery duty la-t
Summer Droved, in their short stay, thnt
they could efficiently aid the reeulars if
called upon to do so. They quickly graspe.l
the principles on which the sea-coast def rnos
are ODerated. If those men were etual t-i.
the duty, certainly there are others n"t "
now in the Guard who would be equally
competent.
The Coast Artillery companies of the Mas-,
eachussetts Guard, recruited largely fn Bos
ton, have their annual maneuvers or drill
in the fortifications protecting Boston H;ir-V
bor. and several times durlns the year
thev go down to the fortifications for spe
cial drill and Instruction. On the Coast,
by recruiting companies in the cities alonr
the coast, we could carry out the same
programme with as great success. 1 re
gard this as a very important move towaris
strengthening the Coast defenses of tho
Pacllic Coast, and have strong hones thut
our project will succeed. We can recruit
the companies gradually i.ntil we get them
up to the desired strength, the number nf
companies to be governed by the number of
fortifications.
COR PRESERVATION .OP FORESTS
The President's Efforts in This Cause
1 a Sure Title to Fame.
Life.
It is an interesting house party that the
President has planned to have at the
White House on the 13th, ltth and 15th of
next May. He has invited the Governors
of all the states and territories and a'.l
the members of Congress to meet hrm on
those days to confer with him, and with
one another, upon the conservation of the
natural resources of the United States.
That means chiefly timber and coal, and
especially timber, because more can be
done by Government to protect the forests
that are left than can be done as yet for
the conservation of coal, iron, oil or any
thing that is under ground.
We hope the Governors will accept t'.ie
President's invitation, so far as they can
and that the meeting may lead to harmo
nious and intelligent action. Nothing that
President Roosevelt has done will stand
more conspicuously to his credit in com
ing years than the support he has given,
to efforts to save the American forests.!
The effort began in President Benjamin.
Harrison's time, was helped along earn-i
estly by Mr. Cleveland and Mr. McKinley. ;
and has been carried forward with great
zeal by the present administration, work
ing with Mr. Glfford Pinchot, the forester
of the Agricultural Department.
The labors of the last 15 years have re
sulted in the reservation toy the Govern
ment of 162,000,000 acres of forest lands
(one-fifth of the wooded area of the coun
try), all in states west of the Mississippi.
The next Congress will be asked to pro
vide for a great hardwood forest reserve
of about 11,000,000 acres in the Eastern
states, in the White Mountains and Ap
palachian Mountains. Some of this land
is owned by states, some by individuals.
Some must be bought: much can be pro
tected hy the co-operation of state and
Federal authorities.
What is necessary is to provide im
mense tracts of woodlands which will be
systematically protected from fire and
waste, and made by intelligent use and
supervision to yield an annual supply of
timber in perpetuity. Incidentally, these
great forest tracts are the reservoirs that
hold back water, diminish floods, and help
the streams and rivers flowing.
Nothing In sight is more important to
the future welfare of the country than
tnese great plans of forest reservation.
Lumber is very dear now, and the Presi
dent points out that at the present rate
of use and waste our present forests
will last not more than 25 years. The
measures necessary to provide our chil
dren and grandchildren with wood and
waterpower are comparable in importance
with those we take to provide them with
education.
Railroad Magnate Cuts His Salary.
Washington (D. C.) Dispatch in New
Tork Times.
President Finley of the Southern Rail
way announces that a reduction of 10
per cent in the pay of the president,
vice-presidents and all other general
officers and their office forces will go
Into effect on February 1. The reason
assigned Is "in view of the falling off in
business and the decrease in revenues."
The announcement affects very few em
ployes of the road outside of Washington,
D. C, as the general officers have their
main offices here. It is not expected that
at any early date there will be a reduc
tion of the salaries of the agents, train
men and other employes along the lines.
Origin of "The Thunderer." '
London Correspondence of New Tork
Herald.
It is not perhaps generally known under
what circumstance the name of "Thun
derer" was applied to the Times. Two
ladles of Kew were splashed with mud by
an ill-behaved horseman, and the Times
taking the matter up in a leading article
vigorously denounced the rudeness of the
rider, alleged to be the Duke of Cumber
land. On the allegation proving false, an
other article appealed by way of apology,
in which occurred the phrase "we thun
dered out." This grandiloquence caught
the public fancy and the name "Thun
derer" followed as a matter of course.
Laylnr Hen Chews Tobacco.
Indianapolis News.
A hen owned by "Bert" Miller, a law
yer, of Toungstown, O., refuses to lay
unless she gets her daily cupply of chew
ing tobacco.
Eastern Potatoes In January.
Philadelphia Recrd.
William Wild, a farmer, near Plains
vllle, Pa., gathered new potatoes the first
week in January from a croj planted last
August.
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