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PORTLAND, MONDAY, FEB. 8, 1908.
THE LATIN RACES.
Assassination of the King and
Crown Prince of Portugal is a start
ling occurrence, and doubtless will set
the tongues of many wiseacres
ii broach, on the low state of the civili
zation of the oountry, the hopeless de
generacy of the people, and their in
curable habit of using the weapons of
assassination : but no country of the
civilized world, none in which Teu
tonic or English elements predomi
nate, has any advantage to brag of
in this regard, over the countries of
the Latin races. Jt doesn't become us
io forget that wo have lost three Pres
idents by assassination.
No one who considers the place of
I he Latin races in the world, who ob
serves their present vigor and notes
the place they, hold in science, litera
ture, industry and art, can suppose
thorn to be dying out. In the Iberian
IVninsula they do, indeed, show com
parative decadence; but there are
those who believe that Spain and
Portugul have yet within them pow
ers of rejuvenation and recuperation,
tiinl will revive some time, as Italy
h:s revived within the last fifty years.
France, maugre all prediction, is not
yet approaching a moribund condi
tion. In spite of the misfortunes
drawn upon her by her spirit of con
quest, which now happily has subsid
ed, under adversity, France remains
the richest and in many ways the
most progressive "country in Europe.
In the countries of. the New World,
where the Latin races predominate,
there is general progress in civil gov
ernment and industrial life. .Mexico,
ISrazil and Chile are among the pro
gressive countries of the world.
"Of late," says the New Tork Even
ing Post. "Southern Europe has been
turning its attention more and more
to South America, where it professes
to discover the promising develop
ment of a new Latin civilization."
This we believe is no figment.. Room
exists in South America for a vast
new population, which may reinforce
the old Latin element, modify and im
prove it. The process indeed is in
operation. From Southern Europe to
South America the stream of migra
tion is large, and constant in its flow
The movement and the prospect
awaken the forecast of the most dis
criminating and philosophical histor
bin of our day, Gugliemo Ferrera, of
Turin, whose recent "History of the
Greatness and Decline of Rome" is
the best book also of moCern history
ever written, because of the clear
light it throws on t.11 the problems
with which modern nations are en
guged.
This great Italian writer has re
cently been expounding the doctrine
of an international Lai" i unity, but
not with Rome as the center of it.
He condenses in one paragraph mat
ter enough, if digested by the reader.
for ample illustration of the present
and future of the Latin, races
in the affairs of the world.-
"The dream." he says, "which Italy
cherished in the first days of its
reconquered liberty, the dream of a
Rome regaining her ancient her.e
mony in the modern, world, cannot be
realized, at least not under actual his
toric conditions. Rome will grow and
beautify herself. She will continue to
be increasingly, what she is already,
the wonder-working capital of a civ
ilized nation. But she cannot hope
this old mother city, to contend in
magnificence, in ppulence, in power.
with the children whom she has sent
to the four quarters of the earth, and
to whom she has given the best of her
blood. It is Paris that now blazes
forth like a light-tower dominating
Kurope. Paris, the magnificent syn
thesis of modern civilization. Rio de
Janeiro and Buenos Ayres are her two
younger sisters guarding Rome's heri
tage in the New World. Rome will
continue to bind the Latin world by
her traditions. Paris in the marvel
ous maturity of an elder brother,
and you of America, in your exuber
ant and impatient youth, drawn close
about Rome In her august old age;
such ought to be the future j--pect of
the Latin world."
A ISPt"TE ABOl'T NOTHING.
There Is some contention among
Republicans, or so-called Republic
ans, about Statement No. 1. Some
insist on it; others oppose.
It is but a new source of party di
vision, but we're all used to that, and
one more source of division can't mat
ter much. Great numbers of the Re
publicans long ago ceased to have any
principle of action except to wield the
knife against each other and "get
even."
Question Is whether Republican
candidates for the Legislature shall
pledge to Statement No. 1, or. not.
Every one will do as he pleases, of
course. But why should those Re
publicans who insist on Statement
No. 1 wish to send any Republican
to the Legislature? Long since we
were assured that there could be no
politics in the Legislature, or in the
state, except in election of Senators
and Representatives in Congress and
choice of Presidential electors. There
could be no politics in election of
any state, county or municipal offi
cer; and Republicans have practical-
y relinquished, under this argument.
control of the state and of the City
of Portland to the Democrats who,
the argument requires us to believe,
have no . politics.
Through commitment to Statement
No. 1 there can be no politics at all
in the Legislature. Then let Repub-
Icans who insist on the statement ask
themselves what's the use of sending
Republicans there? The Democrats
will elect your Senator, just as well.
(Only you know they will not.
A Statement-No.-l Republican may
just as, well vote for a Democrat as
for a Republican for the Legislature.
There need be no Republican . nomi
nees for the Legislature at all. Why
contend over nothing?- Why bother
about the nomination and election of
Rt-publicans to the Legislature? As
Republicans they will have nothing to
do in that body. Just leave the whole
business to the Democrats. You will
save yours'elves a big bunch of
trouble.
The point to be emphasized is this:
You, who are Statement-No.-l Re
publicans, shouldn't care- at all about
the election of any Republican to the
Legislature. Yon can vote for Statement-No.-l
Democrats, who tell you
they will perform that political func
tion in the Legislature the election
of the man to the Senate who may
get the popular vote. . Have, you a
doubt? Do you itot knew in fact they
will not? Of course the whole busi
ness is farce and humbug.
To The Oregonian It doesn't matter
at all. It is wi.jlly indifferent
whether any candidate shall take
Statement No. 1 or refuse it. Nor
does it concern itself whether one
party or the other shall be successful.
It does, however, take some satisfac
tion in exposure of humbugs and
puncture of absurdities.
STATE AID FOB RIVKR.
In an interesting communication .in
The Oregonian yesterday Mr. F. A.
Seufert displayed an exceptionally
fair and broad-minded statement re
garding Columbia River improve
ment. There is merit In his sugges-:
tion that the state should own or ex
ercise jurisdiction over docks and ter
minals necessary in the handling of
products en route to over-sea mar
kets, and his perfect understanding of
the economic phase of the matter is
reflected in the statement that "the
producer and the consumer pay for
all extra handling and marketing. So
it is to the Interest of every county to
stand its just dues to make the port
of Portland the safeest and cheapest
for shipowners." Mr. Seufert does
not believe that the City- of Portland
and the County of Multnomah should
be forced to handle the river channel
problem alone. In his language.
what should be done is to take the
whole state into the port district,"
and "we want our products to pass
through with as little obstruction and
expense as is practicable. We want
to call it our port, not yours." We do
not want to have it said we did not
contribute anything toward our own
upbuilding."
It is gratifying in the extreme to
receive such" a frank admission of an
obligation which not -only the State of
Oregon, but the entire Columbia Ba
sin, owes to Portland. Had such a
sentiment ' prevailed in numerous
State Legislatures of the past, the
river channel problem would have
been settled long ago. When the
Port of Portland, unaided by any
other portion of the state, began the
work of improving the channel to the
sea, the cost of shipping wheat from
the Columbia River to Europe was
$2.50 per ton greater than from San
Francisco to Europe. The improve
ment of the Columbia River gradually
brought about reductions in this dif
ferential until about six years ago it
was wiped out entirely.
In effect, the expenditure of Port
land money, unaided by contributions
from other parts of the state, has
added $2.50 per ton to the value of all
the wheat grown in the vast region
tributary to the Columbia River. It
will, of course, be said that Portland
had a selfish motive, for we improved
the river channel in order that our
prestige a3 a seaport might be main
tained. This is true, but the benefits
reaped by.Portfand from this expend
iture are no greater proportionately
than are those which are enjoyed by
the producers of the interior who
have received Increased, prices for
the output of their farms and mills
without increased expense. Portland
has not gone on through choice from
year to year, carrying the burden of
this river improvement alone. It has
always been shouldered by our tax
payers as a last resort, after even the
slightest aid has been refused from
the remainder of the state. Not only
have the river improvement projects
of this city been denied support by
other portions of the state, but we
have had open antagonism in some
parts of Washington, although that
state has fully as much at stake in
an open river as Portland.
Mr. Seufert's expressions of good
will and a disposition to aid in a work
in which the entire Columbia Basin
is interested will be gratefully . re
ceived. It is so much different from
the kind of interest that some other
portions of the state are taking in
improving the river that it awakens
hopes that the new feeling may
spread. When the Port of Columbia
bill was before the last Legislature
the greater part of the opposition
Jcame from counties which were in no
possible manner -involved in any ex
penditure attached, and which actual
ly stood in a p.osition to gain by its
passage. If that anti-Portland feel
ing, displayed there and. at previous
sessions, is still nurtured, it will be
difficult to carry out Mr. Seufert's
suggestion. We trust, however, that
a sense of fairness and Justice as well
as a full understanding of the impor
tance of the work will prevail, and
the project become one in which the
united efforts of all Oregonians can
be centered.
DECEPTIVE LAWMAKING.
Law says no man shall lobby among
the ninety legislators at Salem for a
bill "without first truly and com
pletely disclosing his Interest therein,"
on pain of being deemed a criminal.
Why not a penalty also for the man
who, without disclosing his interest,
lobbies for an initiative measure
among the "100,000 lawmaking voters
throughout the state?
Several proposed laws of doubtful
parentage have been pressed on vot
ers for initiative signatures, in the
last two months, and will . be urged
upon them for enactment, in the June
election. One of these measures aims
to thwart the state's ban on Sunday
saloons and on racetrack gambling by
giving towns complete home rule in
such matters. - Another aims to take
from the District Attorney the power
of indictment. -A. third seeks to abol
ish salmon wheels of the Upper Co
lumbia, and a- fourth proposes to
check salmon appliances of the Lower
Columbia.
Whence came these bills? From
self-seeking cliques, who wish to use
the lawmaking power of the state for
their own advantage. J. F. Reddy,
Mayor of Medford, who : led the
liquor and gambling bill, would not
tell whence it came. Ld '. .osenberg,
who headed the signature-getting for
the bill to abolish fishwheels, con
cealed the fact that his bill originated
with gillnetters of Astoria. H. A.
Webster, who filed tho retaliatory bill
to "get even" with the gillnetters, did
not ' reveal that his measure came
from wheelmen. And the element
that fears the Indictment power In
the hands of the District Attorney
(evidently from experience) hides be
hind an anonymous initiative petition.
This evil should not be tolerated by
the people of this state. The voters
have a right to know the persons who
are boosting every bill that appears
on the ballots. The very reason for
the concealment make; this public
knowledge necessary, for in each case
some designing group of persons is
trying to hoodwink the public by cov
ering up the real purpose of the
measure.
The law should compel r.Ir. Reddy
to explain that his bill was framed
in the interest of the liquor and gam
bling forces; Mr. Rosenberg that his
bill was framed in the interest of the
fishermen, particularly gillnetters.
and that affiliated unions have made
heavy contributions to his campaign
fund; Mr. Webster, that his bill was
framed in the interest of the retali
ating wheelmen. Electors then would
know better how to vote next June.
Quite as important as publicity of
campaign lunds of candidates for of
fice is publicity of campaign funds
of initiated laws. The people of Ore
gon should know whence comes the
nfoney that pays for printing the bills
and the petitions anJ for circulating
them for signatures. Every bill that
has-been filed under the initiative in
the Capitol represents an expenditure
of between $500 and $1000. The men
who put up this money do it for a
purpose. Their purpose may be good
or bad. t If good, they will not con
ceal it. 'if bad, they will wish it hid
den. And in any case it will be bad
if deceplive.
Every signature solicitor should
have been asked, 'Who pays you?"
"Who gave you this petition?" "What
is Ms interest?" The solicitors -were
lobbyists. The law would have for
bidden their lobbying in Salem with
out disclosing their interest to the
ninety lawmakers in the Capitol. The
law should be amended to forbid their
lobbying without disclosing tHeir in
terest to the people. '
CHEAP MONEY IN SIGHT .(
The surplus reserve in excess of the
25 per cent legal requirements in the
New York banks on Saturday reached
a total of $40,526,725, the highest fig
ure Bince September, 1904. The gain
for the week was not equal to the nn
precedented figures for the two pre
ceding weeks, but, making allowance
for a reduction of $8,584,400 in Gov
ernment deposits, a great plentitude
of money is shown. The remarkable
recovery of the banks of the country
from the severe stroke of financial
paralysis is a most effectual denial of
the oft-repeated contention that there
was an insufficient amount of money
in the country. Heavy increases in
reserves and deposits, declining inter
est rates and liberal offerings by
banks and private individuals, quite
clearly prove that there Js ample
money for all legitimate purposes.
The increasing ease of the money
market and the rapidly accumulating
surplus in New York are of more
than passing interest to the Pacific
Northwest and to Oregon in particu
lar. The immense grain crop, which
has been marketed at the best aver
age price ever paid throughout a' sea
son, has brought many millions into
the country, and nearly every other
product of this part of the world has
commanded big prices. This has re
sulted in a plentiful supply of local
money that is now seeking Investment
in real estate and small industrial en
terprises. But it is from the big
financial centers of the East that we
will receive the money for complet
ing the many railroad projects which
were under way, or' about to get un
der way, when the panic struck the
market last Fall. It was announced
yesterday that work would be recom
menced on the Lewiston branch of the
O. J. & N. Co., and with a declining
money market it is quite probable
that in the near future there will be
a resumption of activity on a number
of other projects in this state and
Washington.
The outlook now' is not only favor
able for cheap money, but there is
also a surplus of labor which is ob
tainable at much lower wages than
were paid last Summer. Nearly, if
not quite, all of the railroads in the
Pacific Northwest are directly . con
nected with transcontinental systems,
and the numerous feeders and exten
sions planned for these roads will all
be needed to work up new traffic to
take the place of that which has gone
glimmering from the main lines.
Cheap money means much to the
J railroads, and it means much to the
Pacific Northwest. For that reason
we hope to see the reserve In the !
New York banks pile up to such co
lossal figures that it will be hunting
borrowers who will build railroads
with it.
There will be a great-crop of fruit
In Oregon this year. The misguided
buds" that began to swell a week ago
and the sap that had not lain dor
mant through the Winter for there
had been no Winter and had begun
to push its way up the tree, received
a gentle reminder Friday that there
was such a thing as pushing the sea
son, and concluded to await develop
ments. , They came yesterday, and
served notice on all things horticul
tural to bide a bit,' say until the mid
dle of March, before putting on
Spring attire. For that reliable
prophet of weather, who has the offi
cial bureau beaten in its forecast
about five weeks and five days, came
out of his hole .yesterday morning,
saw his shadow and hopped back
into it to resume hibernation for six
weeks. People may scoff, but he
m,akes good. Just wait and see.
Great is the groundhog!
The dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria
on Saturday night, iven by the
Standard Oil Company to its para
sites and political claquers, was a
highly interesting affair. Two ob
jects there were; one of them, -denunciation
of the Roosevelt Adminis
tration; the- other, laudation of the
virtues of the Standard Oil magnates
and other shining suns in the con
stellation of predatory wealth. Why,
you see there would have been no in
terruption of prosperity, had not the
thrifty methods of the robber barons
of the country been interrupted.
These "philanthropists," as they were
called at the dinner, have received
contumely, where they were entitled
to honor, immunity and worship.'
Theirs has been the hard lot of men
going about in the world doing good.
It's an awful thing to plunge a coun
try into distress by cutting off the
license of good men to rob it.
Walla Walla farmers have just pur
chased 1,400,000 Calcutta grain bags
at 7 cents each, which is 3 cents
less than the prevailing price last
year. A news dispatch says that by
this large purchase - the farmers of
Walla Wala County have saved $30,
000. There is a possibility that it
might be full early to determine
whether they have saved this amount
or lost something. Calcutta grain
bags have sold as low as 4 M cents,
and. while there is not much prospect
that the market will sink to that fig
ure the coming season, failure f the
California barley crop and a light
wheat crop in the Pacific Northwest
would work surprising changes in the
market.
Answer to an inquiry by several
persons: The author of the lines, fa
miliar in the schoolboy days Of past
generations, beginning
You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage.
Was David Everett, a native of
Princeton, Mass.; born in 1770; died
at Marietta, O., in 1813. He was a
journajist, playwriter and verse
maker of note, and for several years
was a writer on Bosten newspapers.
He wrote the lines on which his fame
rests, as an exercise for the spokes
man of a juvenile class, while a
schoolteacher at North Ipswich, Mars.
The plutocrats of the Waldorf-Astoria
dinner and their satellites show
a striking obliquity of mind and judg
ment when they say "the reaeti n
against Roosevelt, has set In." That
was seen through glasses of "sweet
ened rainwater," of Widow Clicquot's
vintage, many times filled and
drained, to the confusion of T.
Roosevelt. That's the medium through
which these brethren of predatory
wealth so clearly see the thing that is
not. 5
In response to, proposals by the
War Department, forty-one bids were
received for flying machines heavier
than air. Navigating the atmosphere
is no longer a dream. With so many
scientific men engaged in mechanical
application of principles that have
been laid down the past three years,
it cannot be long before an airship
as an aid to military operations will
be perfected.
Denunciation of C. W. Hodson ; e
cause he sald he wouldn't vote for
any Republican candidate . for the
Legislature who might take State
ment No. 1 seems needless. Why
should he or anybody so vote? A
Democrat in the Legislature will ren
der the same service that a Repub
lican could render including the
vote for Senator.
No need of anybody voting for a
Republican for the Legislature who
pledges to Statement No. 1. As a
Republican he will be wholly unnec
essary in that body.- Now is the time
for perfectly independent and non
partisan voting for members of the
Legislature. A party candidate for a
seat in that body is an absurdity.
The North Bank road is now offi
cially known as the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle Railway Company. As it
will reach-neither Seattle n6r Spo
kane over its own rails, and begins
and ends on the north bank of the
Columbia River, the original name
will undoubtedly find greatest favor
with its patrons.
It is not probable that the members
of the Thaw Jury were able to put it
out of their minds that Stanford
White was a most villainous scoundrel
who, though it was a crime to kill
him, got his deserts.
Judges in the Commercial Club's
prize essay contest who are to exam
ine 300 productions must be prepared
to- have their literary judgment ques
tioned, if not condemned, by 299 con
tributors.
In the absence of midwinter out
door sports, an expectant and respon
sive community would welcome a
group picture of Portland pennant
winners for the season of 1908.
The picture of Mrs. Eddy's $100,000
home in Boston provokes suspicion
that some one has made a handsome
profit on the new owner.
It is just as well, however, for the
man who makes garden to begin to
plan on planting a few rows of peas
and take a chance.
Lawyer Dolmas, also, cannot help
but be pleased over the verdict.
THE! BRYAN
CAMPAIGN FUND
Bow the Sllrerltrs Financed Bryan aad
Sidetracked the TarlftT Question.
New York World.
, The World has given to the public the
names of the principal contributors to the
Democratic National campaign fund in
18S6. . Nearly 90 per cent of the money
came from silver mine owners. Marcus
Daly raised $139,000 and Senator William
A. Clark, of Montana, than whom there
has been no more audacious corruptionlst
in politics, made a personal contribution
of J43.C00.
Tlie contributions made to the Demo
cratic National committee represented
hardly half of the fund raised by the
silver mine owners to elect Mr. Bryan.
The rest was contributed directly to state
committees and to Populists and culver
Republican committees. Thus Mr. Bryan's
campaign of 1896 was financed almost
wholly by mine owners, who wanted the
United States Government to double the
market value of their silver. This was one
of the few instances in Ame.ric.an history
in which a great party voluntarily made
Itself the special agent of a slngfe predatory-Interest.
Mr. Bryan, like Mr. Roosevelt. Is now an
ardent advocate of publicity of campaign
contributions. Yet it has been nearly 12
years since the silver mine owners
financed his 1836 campaign, and not one
ray of light has Mr. Bryan ever thrown
upon. the sources of the money spent by
his committees.
It has remained for the World to print
the list of contributors to Mr. Bryan's
18P6 campaign fund, precisely as it was If ft
to The World to print the Harriman list
of contributions to Mr. Roosevelt's 1904
campaign fund.
We observe likewise that Mr. Bryan has
reached a new stage of his "warfare on
special interests." In the Commoner he
warns his followers not to be deceived
by Democrats who reg-:.l tariff revision
as the paramount issue of the campaign,
and says:
Lest this demand shall deceive 'some of
the rank and file of the party It. may be
well to recall a bit of history. The men
who are so zealous now In their consider
ation of tariff reform above all other ques
tions had a chance In 1896 to show their
interest In this subject: yet some of those
who are new posing as the special guardians
of tariff reform did not hesitate to support
the Republican ticket.
The Chicago convention of 1S96 subordin
ated the tariff question at i.,e desire of
the silver interests. The World pleaded
with Mr. Bryan to meet' this issue of a
McKinley tariff and thus enable Eastern
Democrats to support the ticket in spite
of the 16 to 1 heresy. Mr. Bryan refused
on the ground that he would thereby
alienate the Populists and Silver Republi
cans who were high protectionists.
It was William J. Bryan, not the Gold
Democrats, who buried .the tariff issue
in 1S96, and he did it 'for the benefit ot
the silver mine owners who financed his
campaign for President. Why Mr. Bryan
should be seeking to sacrifice the tariff
Issue again this year The World has no
means of knowing. It, therefore, respect
fully presents the list of silver con
tributors to Mr. Bryan's campaign fund;
It presents his 1836 record on the question
of tariff revision, and It will bo glad to
print any explanations he may have to
offer.
The Harriman Operation.
New York Evening Post.
In the Union Pacific's scheme of finance,
during the -past decade, control of South
ern Pacific was only a single factor. Mr.
Harriman has used the credit and sur
plus of his railway to buy stocks of other
railways on a scale of unexampled reck
lessness. Purchase of stocks, with a view
to getting a voice in the management, if
not complete control, has been carried to
an extent which left the public mind
in absolute dismay as to the possible
limitations of the movement.
For the time, a very decided limit has
!been set by the panic of 1907, for the se
verity of which the Union Pacific's Stock
Exchange operations were very largely re
sponsiblea fact virtually admitted by
Harriman himself, at the crisis of the
panic, by his promise to consider the
matter of ridding his company of its
holdings' of other railways. With panic
past, nothing further has been heard of
this spasm of repentance, and the Gov
ernment's purpose now appears to be to
find how far the pressure of the law
can be applied.
"Half Hydraphobj."
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I was down in a little Southern town
the other day," said a commercial trav
eler, "where a new system of water works
had just been iimtalled. All the drinking
water for the" town was pumped In from
an artesian well on the outskirts of the
town. The inhabitants were immensely
proud of their new water, and at every
place I stopped I was urged to take a
drink of it, being assured at the same
time with great impresslveness that it
had been 'analyzed and found to be half
hydrogen.' This mystic expression seemed1
to have a strange fascination for most of
the citizens.
"Finally I stopped at the town pump
in the middle of the square in front of
the county courthouse, and as I worked
the pump handle I thought I would find
out what an old negro leaning against a
tree near by would say.
' 'Uncle,' I said, 'is this good water?'
" 'Sho!' he replied with enthusiasm.
'W'y, sah, dat water is done been
scan'lyzed an' foun' ter be ha'f hydra
phoby, sah.' "
And the Cat Cornea Bark.
Catskill Dispatch to the New York"
Herald.
The Reed & Powell Transportation
Company, of. Coxsackle, N. Y., keeps
cats in its storehouse as a protection
aKalnst rats and mice
December 7 a barge loaded with hay
left the pier for Jersey "-lty. when
the barge reached there It was found
that Nick, one .of the storehouse cats,
was on the barge, which was to be
laid up for the Winter when unloaded.
Rather than leave Nick on the boat
the cat was given to a truckman who
carried it In a bag two miles back
in Jersey. One recent morrijig, when
the dock master at Coxsackie opened
the storehouse and called the cats for
their morning meal Nick appeared with
the others.
It. is positive that the cat had' made
its way irom jersey Lity to uoxsackie,
3 20 miles, on foot. Except being some
what thin, Nick is as good as ever.
Millionaire Starts aa Measensrer.
Topeka, . Kan., Dispatch in New York
World.
Charles D. Davol. 22 years old, a
graduate of Harvard and son of a Fall
River (Mass.) millionaire mill owner,
has begun work here as night mes
senger boy at the Rock Island depot.
His pay is $15 a month. He started
out to learn the railroad business.
When he was transferred from the su
perintendent's office, in Chicago, "he
brought an expensive saddle horse,
which he rides every evening before
work. He lives at Topeka' s best hotel.
It Would Amuse Him.
Springfield, Mass.. Republican.
Another aged woman who refused an
offer of marriage in her girlhood from
Abraham Lincoln has died. The nuin
ber of fair ones who rejected Lincoln
is becoming abnormally large. It's a
pity he, cannot enjoy the humor of it.
GLEANINGS FROM STATE PHESS
Bneollc Enthetlelsm.
Salem Journal.
Spare-ribs, spuds and kraut are now in
season. For some reasons we prefer them
to mince pies and turtle soup.
Jim Kyle Just Looking Around.
Echo Register.
James Kyle is in Portland looking
around and feeling about in the political
world. James is a good man and would
make a good County Commissiom;r.
Where Che Divorce Come Front.
Oregon City Enterprise..
Comments of the Portland newspapers
on the multiplicity of divorces in the
Clackamas County Circuit Court are lost
on us. More than 75 per cent of them
come from Portland.
Domestic Disturbance.
Irrigon Irrigator.
Mrs. Kicker returned from her Pull
man trip last Friday. We believe the
break made by the professor in last
week's Irrigator caused some little fric
tion at home, and he is now sleeping in
the doghouse.
Propheay.
Baker City Democrat.
Before we know it Springtime will he
here, the fields and the flowers will be
gathering their new clothes of - the
brightest colors, buds will be swelling,
leaves will be opening up, flowers will
be peeping from their Winter beds and
telling us the Springtime is here.
Invincible.
The Dalles Optimist.
We have been waiting for several
weeks, ever since It became a cinch that
Roosevelt would not again run, to an
nounce our ticket for the Presidential
cup, to be run off next November. Ajid
here it is:
For Vice-President:
Jonathan Bourne, of Anywhere.
For President:
Lew Dockstader. of Everywhere.
Brother Davey'a I.onar-neferrcd Reward
Harney County News.
Thirty-one j'ears ago last October the
editor of the News began an active fisht
for the success and continuation of Re
publican principles, and he has kept It
up ever since by voice and pen and action,
with no pecuniary reward. Men like Bert
Huffman, of the Pendleton East Ore
gonian. who have been lighting the party
dttrlng all of their short existence, are
scarcely in a position to find fault he
cause a .small plum has fallen in our
front yard- at this late day.
Dnlnar Array With the Saloon.-
.Pilot Rock Record.
If the Record were to publish the names
of the. prominent sheep men. farmers and
farm hands, men who are now and have
for many years been patrons of tho saloon,
who have positively asserted' It was their
intention to vote for local option in June
it would require a full page in the Record.
These men give no reason for their In
tended action except that they cannot
see wherein the saloon is of any benefit
to society. The only effective means of
doing away with tho "deadfalls" and
"dumps"- Is to do away with the saloon
business.
When Trout Are at Their next.
Klamath Falls Horald.
Klamath people are permitted to eat
Link River trout at this season of the
year without laying themselves liable to
prosecution. This is entirely due to an
oversight on the part of the last Legis
lature, but the oversight in providing fish
protection is fully appreciated by the
Waltonians who dily line the banks of
the river and usually succeed in landing
a few large trout which are exceptionally
fine during the Winter months. The next
Legislature in enacting fish laws should
make provision for an open Winter Rea
son in Link River and the Klamath lakes,
as this is the time when the fish are at
their best.
Tronblra of a Chief of Police.
Corvallis Gazette.
Chief Wells had a thrilling experience
Sunday and as a result is nursing two
or three maimed Ingers on Iris right
hand. It was a tussle with a brimllc calf
Chief Wells found the animal strolling
about the street, and thinking It was
gentle he approached and twisted a piece
of telephone wire around its neck with
which to lead it away. Hut after taking
a turn in the wire with his hand the
policeman turned seasick, for he dis
covered that tlie calf wasn't "broke."
For a time things moved so lively in
that vicinity that it . was hard to toll
policeman from calf, and when the smoke
of battle cleared away It was easily seen
that the "cop" had come out second best.
- Time to Call a Unit.
Cottage Grove leader.
The Leader has heretofore looked with
some favor upon the initiative and refer
endum, but when it comes to tacking on
the state election ballot from IS to 20
measures to be voted' on besides tiie
various candidates, making the ballot
about three feet long and containing
enough matter to kep the ordinary cit
izen busy six months in trying to .di
gest mentally that he may vote rea
sonably Intelligently,' we think it tirrte to
call a halt. Why should the citizens of
this part of the country be called upon
to vote on a county division scheme over
in Wasco County? What do wo know
about the wishes of the people over in
Wasco? Why bother ourself about fish
wheels on the Columbia and a score of
other matters foreign to our Interests? A
government for the people and by the peo
ple may be all right, but this Initiative
propostlon seems to be a little too much
of a good thing.
A FEW SU IBS.
Miss De Playne "Papa declares T am his
greatest treasure." Mr. Blunt "Indeed!
Then he Isn't as wealthy as I supposed."
Chk-agd D..
It !s easier to be gooA than Rreat." re
morked the momlizer. "Yes." rejoined the
demoralizer, "one has less opposition."
Chicago Daily News.
BrljfKS - "I hear you'vfl been speculating
In Wall street." OriKKS "There was no
speculation about It. 1 was a dead sure
thins; from the start." L'lfe.
Bacon "That cow over there has ben
chewimc something for three hours." Kjt
bert -ProlmbIy got hold of a Dlece of
wife's rubber plant." Tonkers Statesman.
"Why do you set your alarm clonk? You
never net up when it rings!" "No. But I
have the patlpfaction of knowing: I am sleep
ing late of my own free ' will, and not by
accident." Washington Ktar.
Mr. Jones "Would you support my
daughter in the style to which she has been
accustomed ?" Cholly "Yes. sir." Mr.
Jones "Then you're an Idiot, and you can't
have her!" Judge.
Farmer Bent over "I've Just hneo-d that
the widder Diggs has married ber hired
man." Farmer Hornbeak "Then, by Jolly,
he'll have to climb down from the fence
and go to work.," Puck.
"I want to get some salad." said Mrs.
Youngwife. "Yes'm." said the dealer. "How
many heads?" "O gracious! I thought
you took the heads on. I Just want plain
chicken salad." Philadelphia Press.
"If Groucher ever comes around your place
borrowing anything." said Wise, "don't let
him have it." "You've spoken too late." said
Huskic; "he was around yesterday." "You're
ea,sy. What was he borrowing?" "Trouhle.
He's In tho hospital today." Philadelphia
Press.
Mother (examining school reports "How
did you come to have such good marks In
arithmetic this week?" Tommy "Weil,
you fep. it was this wny: we had ten ex
amples a dav. and I got the teacher to h' lp
me to do five, and Kric Jones got her to
help him on the other five. Then we swapped
helps, eeo?" Harper's Bazar.
NATIONAL 0lARD
WHILB the National Guard law
shortly to be placed before Con
gress docs not provide any change ot
name for the state troops, yet In effect
it creates of tlie organized militia a Na
tional reserve, liable for any kind of
service at nny hour. With the passage
of this enactment the Guard will be
come supplementary to the regular ser
vice and a part of the fust line of de
fense. This bill marks the fust stage in a
climax that saw its beginning in the
Spanish-American War when tlie Na
tional Guard turned otit for foreign
service and did tlie lion's share of tlie
fighting. It makes sweeping changes so
that hereafter the State troops must be
looked upon essentially as a part of
the system of National defense rather
than as an organization for suppression
of strikes and internal troubles.
. The most Important part of the new
enactment is that all Guardsmen must
answer tlie cnll to arms whether for
home or foreign service. Not only may
they be called on for foreign service, but
may be kept on active duty during the
full term of enlistment. This term is
three ytars, or a year lunger than is
customarily required of volunteer "troops.
With the passage of the new law (and
its passage is already conceded) men
who do not mean business will have no
business in tlie Guam. In event of trou
ble there will be no reniiistering. as of
old. The Guardsman will not be abte
to debate with himself the problem of
taking tlie fivid. He will either report
at his organization rendezvous ready for
the field or be arrested a3 a deserter.
It will then remain for a court-martial
to determine how long a term in tlie
County Jail or Federal prison he is en
titled to.
Section 6 of the proposed law provides:
"That whenever the President calls forth
the organized militia of any state, terri
tory or of the nistriet of Columbia, to
be employed in the service of the UnUd
States, he may specify in his call the
period for which such service is required,
and the militia so called shall continue
to serve during the term so spccilierl,
either within or without the territory
of the United States, unless sooner re
lieved by order of the President: Provided.-
That no commissioned officer or
enlisted man of the organized militia
shall bo held to service beyond the term
of his existlne: commission r enlistment:
Provided further. That when tho mill-'
tary needs of the Federal Government
arising from the necessity to execute the
laws of the Union, suppress Insurrection
or repress invasion. Cannot be met by the
regular Army, tlio organized militia shall
be called into the service of the United
States in advance of any volunteer force
which it may be determined to raise. '
Section 7 provides that all members of
the Guard, shall be mustered for service
In time of war without further enlist
ment and without further medical exam
ination, "und that any officer or enlisted
man who shall refuse or neglect to pre
sent himself for such muster for ser
vice, upon being called forth as herein
prescribed, shall be subject to trial by
court-martial and sIihII be punished as
such court-martial may direct."
Another highly important provision au
thorizes the tjuartnrmastcr's department
to issue all stores and equipments need
ed by the Guard without charging them
aga-inst the annual appropriation. This
is equivalent to a large increase of ap
propriation and insures full equipment in
every line. Oregon troops will profit im
mediately upon pas-aK(i of tho act to tlie
extent of new olive drab uniforms and
overcoats to replace tho worn khaki
service uniforms, now used by the en
listed men. The, Guard throughout the
country is to be equipped and modeled
after tho regular service, and regular
Army discipline is to brt required: dur
ing encampments and periods of service.
Tlie bill appropriates p.000.000 fur the
purchase of arms, equipments and ord
nance stores.
Oregon infantrymen are to have the
new Springfield rifles for use this year.
The lirst consignment of 10D rilles Is now
en route to Portland. Tim entire Issue
of guns will be at hand by April 1.
Credit fur the fact that Oregon is get
ting these rilles ahead of any other slate
in the Union Is due Adjutant-General
Finzer. At the recent con fereni-c of
coast- Adjutant-Generals on coast de
fenses General Kinzer pot to the Na
tional capital two days ahead of tlia
representatives from California and
WasMneton. His first call was on tho
Quarterma-ster-Gencral and Chief of
Ordnance. These officers said they
would be able to issue the new Spring
fields to some of tlie State troops at
once. General Finzer suggested that it
would be a good plan to lake lip the
States farthest away first. Tlie officials
agreed, called in an attache and save
orders that Oregon should top the list.
.
Organization of three companies of
Coast artillery, to supplement tlie troops
of the regular Army in the hea y artillery
garrisons at tlie mouth of the Columbia
River, will be taken up immediately, upon
passage of the bill already referred to.
Until passage of the bill there is no
fund available for uniforming such a
la'vgo force of troops. It Is believed tho
three companies can be speedily recruit
ed from llie ranks of married men and
business men who have a liking for mili
tary service, and yet would not care to
leave the country for foreign service in
event of trouble. It will not be possible
to get the new companies in shape for
participation In coast defense maneuvers
this year, hence no State troops will be
sent to Fort Stevens. All the State in
fantry goes to American Lake, where
big joint maneuvers will be held.
The time for reorganization of the X.
tlonal Guard to conform with the regu
lar' Army has been extended two years.
The increase was authorized lately by
Congress. Accordingly the Fourth Ore
gon Infantry will be able to again re
sumo regimental formation and to par
ticipate in tho American Iake maneu
vers as a- regiment. By when the
new law governing reorganization be
comes effective the regiment will have
been recruited up to the regulation
12-company requirements, according to
present plans.
Typhoid Fever Turn Hnir Red.
Canal Dover Dispatch to the New York
Herald.
Following his recovery from an at
tack of typhoid fever, Calvin Myers. 8
years old, is flaunting a crop of vivid
red hair. where once raven locks
adorned his head. Myers recovered two
weks, ago from a long siege of ty
phoid, in which lie was close to deatli
for a time. Soon his hair, remark
ably black, began to show tinges of
red. Now it is brilliant red, and seems
to assume a more vivid hue each day
Physicians who have examined Myers
admit the change baffles them, and
that they are at a loss to explain the
hirsute modifications in connection
witli the attack of typhoid fever.
Healthy Appetites of Mntne Yoodiurn.
Kennebec Journal.
Here are some figures from a lumber
camp up in Greenwood which give an
idea as to the appetite of husky woods
men. There are 35 men in this crew,
and the cook reports that ho make
each day 300 large biscuits, 150 dough,
nuts. 36 pies, bakes sl quarts of dry
beans, w-ith potatoes, vegetables, etc.,
in proportion. A large beef creatine is
eaten every five days. There js some
thing to be explained in. that item of
36 pieg daily for 35 men. Probably the
boss gets the extra one
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