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Newspaper Page TextTHE 3IOTINIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1903. (flcepntan SUBSCRIPTION RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year .?S 00 Uaily. Sunday Included, six months.... 4:45 L'ally, Sunday Included, three months. . Pally. Sunday Included, one month.. Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.00 loftily, without Sunday, six months 3 '-- Dally, without Sunday, three months.. 1.73 Dally, without Sunday, one month Sunday, one year 2.o0 Waekly. one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.S0 Sunday and weekly, cne year 8.50 BY CAKKIKK. rally. Sunday Included, one year 90J Dallv. Sundav Included, one month HOW TO REMIT Send postoftice money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency aro at the sendees risk. Give postoftice Ad dress In full. Including county and state. " POSTAGE KATES. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postoftice as Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Pases 1 cent 38 to 2S Pases 2 cents S to 44 Tages 8 cents 46 to 60 Pages 4 cents Forelpn postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage Is not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8, C. B.eckn-ltb Special Agency New Tork. rooms 48-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 610-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON BALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex; Postofftcs News Co.. 178 Dearborn fctreet. St. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie, Commercial Etallon. Colorado Springs. Colo. Bell. H. H. Denver Hamilton ana Kendrlck. 906-B1J Feveufenth street; Pratt Book Store. 1-14 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. S. Rice. George Carson.- Kansas City, Mo. Rleksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut; Yoma News Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. 60 South Third. Cleveland. O. James Pushaw. SOT Su perior Btreet. Washington. D. C. Ebbitt House. Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia. Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office; Penn News Co. New York ity. L. Jones & Co.. Astor House; Broadway Theater News Stand: Ar thur Hotallng Wagons; Empire News Stand. Ogden D. L. Boyle; Lowe Bros.. 114 Twenty-titth street. Omaha Barkalow Bros.. Union Station; &lageath Stationery Co. Des Moines, la. Mose Jacobs. Sacramento. Cal. Sacramento News Co.. 430 K street; Amos News Co. Salt Lake Moon Book ft Stationery Co.; Fosenfeld & Hansen; G. W. Jewett, P. O. corner. Los Angeles B. E. Amos, manager ten street wagons. Pasadena, Cal Amos News Co. Snn Diego H. E. Amos. San Jose, Cal. St. James Hotel News Gtand. Itallas. Tex. Southwestern News Agent. 844 Main street; also two street wagons. Aiiiarllla, Tex. Tlmmons & Pope. San Francisco Forster & Orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Franrls News Stand; I.. Parent; N. Wheatley; Fairmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agency. . 14 Eddy street; 13. E. Amos, man ager three wagons. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets N. Wheatley: Oakland . News Stand; B. K. Amos, manager nve wagons. t.oldtlcld, Nev. Louie Follin: C E. Hunter. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka .News Co. PORTLAND, MONDAY. FEB. 10, 1008. THE HARR1MAN SUIT. The Issue to bo pushed by Attorney General Bonaparte against the Harri man transportation system is an in quiry into the legality of stock holding by some corrfmon carriers in other common carriers, when the result of the ownership or community of interest is restraint of competition and maintenance of mo nopoly, with the result of oppression of large sections of the country. Two or three days ago The Oregonian pre sented an outline showing the vast operations and enormous profits of the U. P.-S. P. combination. Both groups of roads that constitute the system .have been wholly built out of the trafhe of the country, which, besides, has furnished prodigious sums in profits for operations in the stocks and bonds of distant roads, and for the various private schemes of vast extent, in promotion of which the managers for years have been en gaged. Since the combination the profits have been increased by fabu lous amounts, at the expense of the people of the vast territory in which the combination operates. The suit now to be pressed by the Attorney General will go to the fundamental question of ownership by different common carriers In the securities of each other, for the purpose of work ing a whole vast scheme and all its. parts together, thereby making im mense regions pay such tribute to the combination as its managers may choose, or find it possible, to exact. Of course such community of stock holding is not confined to the so called Harriman combinations; "but the Government," says the Chicago Record-Herald, "apparently believes that the evidence of restraint and de struction of trade is so strong in the Harriman case 'that public opinion will construe the suit as an attack on injurious and undesirable combina tions rather than on the very principle of railroad combination." But the most interesting point, saj-s another reviewer, is the law one, Does the fact that the Unfbn Pacific owns the stock of other railroads cre ate the inference that the Union Pa cific is seeking to establish a monop oly within the meaning of the Sher man anti-trust law? Will the Su preme Court hold that such an own ership is a device in restraint of trade such as the Northern Securities Com pany was held to be? In its essen tlals this point has never been passed on by the Supreme Court, and he would be a bold person who should attempt to predict what the decision of the court will be. It is by no means impossible, after two or three years' rumination, the court will an nounce another inconclusive four-to five decision. Or. by that time, some new device may have been elaborated by which escape may be effected from an anticipated adverse decision. Our method of government and law is so chained down by division of author ity, under an inflexible constitutional system, that a weary time is required for changes demanded by conditions that have arisen since the system was established. Secretary Root has recommended to Congress that provision be made for "commercial attaches" in foreign countries, whose duties shall be to keep this country fully advised as to business opportunitle in other parts of the world. Trade experts of this, kind are maintained in America by a num ber of foreign countries, and their re ports aro of great value. The chief difficulty that will be encountered in this country lies in the time-honored practice of distributing such positions more as rewards for political service than with a view, to securing the best men. The fact that Cy Prime, of Ho hokus, was of invaluable assistance in the election of Congressman Smith brown does not necessarily qualify him for the position of foreign con- sul or trade expert abroad, but he generally secures the position, and the men who are really interested in foreign trade send their own employes abroad to do what the Government believes Cy Prime was appointed to attend to. XEW RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT. The Columbia & Great Southern Railroad, which two years ago began in a modest way to build a railroad from The Dalles to the rich wheat country lying to the south of that city, has, announced its Intention of extending the line from its present terminus at Dufur farther into Cen tral Oregon. Building of the road has resulted in development of new territory that is now producing a large traffic, and It also greatly increased the profits of the old producers who for many years were obliged to spend about all of the profits of their work n getting their crop to market. This new line was financed by local capi talists of Seattle and Portland, and for that reason its resources have never been exploited or pawned for funds with which to buck the "Wall- street tiger, or to buy up lines in ter ritory far removed from Oregon. In the actual work completed by the new road to Central Oregon, there is ground for hope that the long-neg- ected and wonderfully rich regions of Southeastern and Central Oregon are at last to be opened up by transpor tation facilities which will permit de velopment of the great resources of the country. Ever since control of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company passed out of the hands of- Portland men, it has been impossible to induce ts management to open up any new territory until the approach of a pos sible competitor forced it to act. As there seems to bo small hope of any immediate change in this policy, the enterprise of such men as are baek- ng the new road south from The Dalles is all the more commendable. The undeveloped country for which the road is .heading can easily produce more wheat than the maximum crop yet produced in the Columbia River counties In Oregon, and it will also supply a big traffic in lumber and other .commodities. With the Hill nes on the north bank of the Co lumbia and easily accessible by a comparatively inexpensive bridge, an independent line into Central Oregon would no longer be at the mercy of the Harriman lines for an outlet to market. Central Oregon is not the only rich region that Is about to be liberated from its commercial bondage by means of an indeperdent system of transportation. A Lewiston dispatch in yesterday's Oregonian announced the probable absorption by the Spo kane & Inland Electric Railway Com pany of the proposed electric line from Lewisotn, Idaho, to Grangeville. This line, which was projected by in terests friendly to the O. R. & N., shortly after the Northern Pacific built Into the Clearwater " country, should have been a natural feeder to the O. R. & N. Co.'s Lewiston-Riparia branch, and it would have tapped a region which for traffic-producing purposes was unsurpassed even by the rich fields invaded by the Northern Pacific. But, here as elsewhere, Har riman has been too slow. The Spo kane & Inland has made tremendous inroads in the O. R. & N. business In the Palouse country, turning the traffic over to the Hill lines, and it will probably do likewise with the traffic from the Grangeville country. Fortunately for Portland, comple tion of the North Bank road will bring the business from the new field to this city, but it is not at all cred itable to Mr. Harriman that his policy of neglect has prevailed until we are dependent solely on private enter prise or the Hill lines to supply facil ities for reaching trade fields which should have been opened by the Har riman lines years ago. Conducted on business principles, the Wall-street magnate might find railroading In Oregon more profitable than thimble rigging elsewhere. TOPIC OF INCREASING INTEREST. The temperance question is becom ing an issue of importance. So long as it was dependent on the efforts of high - minded but impracticable dreamers who could see only the moral status of the situation, progress was slow except in dead and buried communities, like those in sleepy old Maine, where prohibition established Its first stronghold. But now the question has been taken up on a purely business basis and large em ployers of labor are insisting on total abstinence on the part of their em ployes. The spread of the temper ance movement, thus traceable to strictly economic Influences, has en couraged the old-line prohibitionists to come in for some of the credit for bringing about the change, and they are now endeavoring to interest Con gress in drastic legislation. Temperance news in yesterday's Oregonian covered a wide range of country as well as varying phases of the question. At Washington the Anti-Saloon League was urging the adoption of the Littlefleld bill, prohib iting shipment of liquor into prohibi tion territory, and a representative of. the California winegrowers was op posing it. At New Orleans Cardinal Gibbons gave out an Interview oppos ing prohibition and favoring local op tion. A Charleston (W. Va.) dis patch brings a report that the liquor interests have raised $150,000 to be used in defeat of the pending prohibi tion amendment.. Here in Oregon Conrad Krebs, who has been attempt ing to organize a Hopgrower3' Union, tells a Salem correspondent that he has abandoned the fight and gives as one of the reasons for the unsatisfac tory condition of the market the spread of prohibition. Along with all of this news on the great topic comes a statement from a prominent Milwaukee brewer showing that the "brewers, maltsters and dis tillers" of the United States annually consume in their products corn, bar ley, rye, hops, sugar, fuel, lumber, advertising, transportation and other commodities to the amount of $354, 851,097. He also says that they pay state and Government licenses to the amount of $68,875,465, and city K censes and other taxes to the amount of $70,000,000. This brewer asserts that "the continued spread of prohi bltion and the destruction of the brewing and distilling industries will result in the allied trades in all lines of manufacture being made to suffer great losses through 'jthe destroyed market for their product." . The pro hibitionists will, of course, take excep tion to some of these statements, and will tell the brewer that the business ought to be destroyed. But neither brewer nor prohibition ist, cardinal or grafter, hopgrower or wine merchant, can do very much for or against the issue. It is at the mercy of hard-headed business in terests that desire sober men for no other reason' than that there is a sav ing to be effected as compared with the work of men with brains muddled by alcohol. Much was accomplished along these strictly economic lines while times were good in the country. Even more may be expected if the present dullness continues, for be tween the drinking man and the tee totaler the employer of labor will not hesitate long, when the labor market is as well supplied as it is now. MIST MAINTAIN NAVAL PRESTIGE. The United States Is rapidly forg ing to the front as a world power. Territorial acquisitions of the past decade, together with, our increasing prominence in- foreign trade fields now being exploited by American capital, have made it imperative that our naval equipment show a corre sponding ratio of increase. For -this reason it may be questionable econ omy for Congress to turn down the request of the Secretary of the Navy for four new battleships. Washing ton dispatches indicate that the ap propriations committee is willing to make provision for construction of two battleships, but, on the plea of in sufficient funds, will not increase the number. There is no great desire on the part of the American people for a Navy for "show" purposes, but events of the past few months have demon strated that our ships are hardly suf ficient in number to maintain an ef fective police service in all parts of the world in which we have interests. We, of course, have no such "far flung empire" to protect, as Great Britain or Germany, but it is an ex cellent guarantee for peace if our naval strength is maintained in keep ing with that of other countries. The German navy bill for 1908 provides for the laying down of three battle ships of the English Dreadnought class, and the burden will fall on a. population of not quite 60,000,000 people, compared with about 100,000, 000 in the United States. It is need less to say that this country will never attempt any such task as the "two power standard," under which Great Britain is groaning. It is not even necessary that we have a naval force approaching in strength that of Great Britain, for, with her widespread pos sessions, that country is even now obliged to spread her naval protection a little thin in spots. But the importance of our over-sea interests, as well as our possessions which may need guarding at home, is such that there would hardly be any great complaint of extravagance if our Navy maintained its position well in second place with that of. Great Britain. The British naval estimates for 1908 called for the building of but one battleship of the Dreadnought class, and when the German pro gramme was announced there was no ticeable excitement in England. Even so strenuous an advocate of peace as Mr. Stead so far forgot his disarma ment preachings as to insist that "when the Kaiser lays down one keel we lay down two. That is the form ula of safety." But, even in that statement, Mr. Stead ignores the time honored "two-power standard" which has always called for the maintenance of a navy with strength equal to the combined navies of any two' powers. The changing conditions through out the world have thus destroyed for ever Great Britain's pretended monop oly of naval defense, for, with the progress made by both Germany and the United States, the former mistress of the seas will be doing fairly well if she lays one keel while the United States and Germany are laying two. She can no longer maintain a "two power standard" against the rest of the world, for the simple reason that other countries are gaining sea pres tige so rapidly that the limited popu lation" of Great Britain will be finan cially unable to stand the enormous expense involved. A country like ours, which pays more than $140,000, 000 a year for pensions, can hardly with a good grace balk at a $38,000,- 000 appropriation for four battleships which may in the near future be the direct means of preventing a war which will Increase the pension list to another $140,000,000 per year. HOW NOT TO CATCH COLD. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, well known in this city and prominently connected with the establishment of the Open- Air Sanitarium, near Milwaukie, has an article In a late number of the Saturday Evening Post on "Colds and How.to Catch Them," which is worthy of careful reading at any season of the year, and especially so in the "be tween season" that connects Winter with Spring. The author of this arti cle is known as an enthusiast upon this subject a radical advocate of fresh air and wholesome living, as op posed to the old method of living in superheated rooms, sleeping in rooms from which fresh air and especially "night air" is rigorously excluded, and dosing with everything, from cal omel and jalap to castor oil, from opium to boneset tea, and from qui nine to catnip, in order to, counteract the ills thus engendered. Fresh air, cleanliness, exercise and nutritious food are the substitutes provided by the new method of dealing with dis ease, of which the "common cold" is a symptom. These agents are both preventive and remedial. Further more, they are economical, being Within the reach of all except the dwellers in crowded tenements in large cities, and do not compel the loathing stomach and the outraged sense of taste to succumb to the dic tates of a misguided and arbitrary will. ' Dr. Hutchinson submits evidence that is practical proof of the assump tion that colds are not caught from exposure in the open air, nor .from currents of air Known and dreaded as "drafts" in the house. In fact, he as serts that colds are infectious and are not "caught" when infectious materi als are absent. He cites that that typical cold of colds, influenza or the grip, is now known to be a pure infec tion and one of the most contagious diseases. Each of the several epidem ics of this malady can be traced in its' march across the civilized world be ginning in China and traveling via India or Turkestan to Russia, Ber lin, London, New York and Chicago. Whereas the earlier epidemic of this disease required two years to com plete its round, the later ones made the trip in forty to sixty days, owing of course to the increased facilities of modern travel. The "cold" that runs through the family, school and neighborhood is a visitant well known and greatly dreaded. It is not the result of sud den atmospheric change, of exposure in the open air, or of sitting in a draft, but of a dissemination of germs the progress of which should be and could be checked by isolation of those first attacked. 'Says Dr. Hutch inson : If a child comes to school heavy-eyed, hoarse and suffering, he should be sent home at once. He will only waste his time in attempting to study In that time nd he may infect a Jjcore of others; if your own child develops a. cold, if mild, keep him out of doors play ing by himself; or if severe keep him in bed in a well-ventilated room three or four days. He will get well twice as quick as If sent to school and the rest of the family will escape. When you wake with a stuffed head and aching bones stay at home a few days if possible, out of regard for your customers, your fellow clerks or your office force, as well as yourself; if one of your employes comes home shivering give him three day.' vacation on full pay. If it runs through the force you'll lose five times as much in en forced sick leaves, slowness ahd mistakes. Above all don't go to any public gatherings when you are snuffling and coughing. You are not exactly a Joy to your beholders, even if you don't Infect them. Sensible advice, truly, and in the main easily followed. And there is a great deal more of it in Dr. Hutchin son's article which it would be wise, especially for "flabby, underfed people who are always catching cold," to read and ponder. Immigrants coming into the United States last year brought money with them amounting to $25,599,893, or nearly $20 for each person. The race or people furnishing the largest num ber of immigrants in 1907 were the Italians, 294,022 strong. The South ern Italians brought $13.84 a head, the Northern Italians, $2 4. There came 149,182 Hebrews, bringing $13,18 each. The race ranking next in number of immigrants was the Pol ish 138,033. with $11.14 per capita; from Germany came 92,936, averag ing $36.11 each. French immigrants brought $64.57 each, -but their num ber was only 9392. Since 1820 the United Kingdom has given us 30 per cent of our immigrants, and Germany 21 per cent. Till recently the immi gration from Italy had not been large. Seven per cent of all, since 1S20, have come from Scandinavia. An old man with a comfortable for tune of $60,000 has just been sent to the penitentiary for horse-stealing, and is about to be followed by an ac complice also well along in years and well supplied with thiy world's goods. There are mitigating circumstances when the horsethief of the plains takes his neighbor's animal for the purpose of making a quick "get away ; and when a stray equine wan ders across the path of a penniless refugee who needs the money, the crime is comparatively easy of expla nation. But our local case of horse stealing wherein the crimes were committed In a systematic manner by men already sufficiently well supplied with money to meet all of their legit imate wants in this world, offers a new study in criminology. Portland bank clearings for the week ending last Saturday were only about $400,000 smaller than for the corresponding week In 1907. The clearings for Seattle for the same period showed a decrease of $1,424, 000 compared with the same week in 1907. Tacoma,- with a decrease of $620,000, made a much better show ing than Seattle, but was far behind Portland. The figures are an inter esting reflection of the pronounced Improvement in the financial situation in thispart of the country, and with wheat still going forward In record breaking quantities, and a revival in the demand for lumber, the figures will in the near future show an in crease over those which a year ago broke all existing records. Nova Scotia, with a population about equaling that of Oregon, but with an area less than one-fourth as large, produced last year, according to the Halifax Morning Chronicle, prod ucts of the value of $107,235,000. The old "Blue Nose" country is a good country still. It turned out staple manufactures exceeding $50,000,000 In value. A waiter In a San Francisco French restaurant has just died leav ing a fortune of $20,000, which he had accumulated through the tipping evil. From this it would seem that the San Francisco French restaurant was pro ductive property all the way up from the waiters to Schmitz. All the detectives In England are unable to fathom the mystery con nected with the dlsapearance of crown Jewels from Dublin Castle. As was remarked at the time, ' Sherlock Holmes' retirement from the profes sion was a colossal mistake. Students at the University of Ore gon have learned to erect a three stury railroad trestle. Which is vast ly more Important than the modern science of building a three-story bonded debt on a railroad stock foun dation. If J. Ham Lewis hasn't changed character since he deserted Seattle for Chicago, he will welcome the adver tisement that comes from such a lam pooning as he received at the hands of opposing counsel In the Macdonald case. , Whlle-the remainder of the country may properly begin deadly assault on the New Tork Stock Exchange, Chi cago, with its ' Board of Trade, shouldn't make undue haste to shy the first brick. Optimistic James J. Hill reflects the buoyant, restless, self-confident spirit of the great Northwest. Wherein he differs from his business associate, Czar J. Pierpont Morgan. When Uncle Sam pays $55,000 hi hard coin for three airships submit ted in competition, it don't do to treat aerial navigation as an iridescent dream. A better investment for the Van derbllt millions would be stock in Larry Sullivan's Goldfield mines. Though Mrs. Vanderbilt has taken the count, as the sporting reporter wculd say, she is not down and out. VARIED VIEWS OX HEXEY-Fl'LTOX. Smith's Word Not Sufficient. Oakland Owl. If Senator Fulton is guilty of bribery he Is unfit to serve in the Senate, but the people want more proof than the affidavit of J. S. Smith, an acknowledged bribe-taker. Terrible Accusations:. Silvertonian Appeal. Senator Fulton is having troubles of his own and if he is successful in his campaign for nomination before the Re publican primaries it will be necessary to get considerable outBlde help while he is defending himself against those terrible accusations. The Nnll Hit on the Head. Canyon City Eagle. Senator Fulton, In replying to the sen sational charges made against him by one F. J. Heney in Portland recently, says that Heney is a malicious liar, and nine-tenths of the people of Oregon be lieve that the Senator hit the nail on the head. Rarly Retirement Insnred. Gresham Herald. United States Senator Fulton may not be guilty of all he is accused of. but the fact that he was even cognizant of and did not make known the fact or try to stop the bribery in evidence during the election of Senator 'Mitchell is sufficient to brand him as a traitor to good gov ernment In the eyes of every law-abiding citizen. This fact alone insures his early retirement from public office. Erlasrutlnr Conditions. Jefferson Review. In the trial of John Hail is being re vealed a condition of rottenness in Oregon politics that lays the wildest howls of the erstwhile political reform cranks a mile in the shade. It can well be a sur prise to all that men of such undoubted ability as Mitchell, Fulton and others should allow themselves to be drawn into such a. raw web of corruption. Am bition to be in high places regardless of the methods of advance, has wrought disgusting conditions in our Sate poli tics,' but the lesson has been taught in a way that we will not forget. A Call for Proofs. lone Proclaimer. This paper is Republican so far as many tenets of the word goes, hut not of the kind that gulps down everything masquerading under the name and in dorsing every action of so-named Re publican officers, and at present we cannot see why it is necessary for Mr. Heney to make a grandstand play against Senator Fulton, nor why the Govern ment at Washington indorses such the atrical performances. If Mr. Fulton has done any wrong and If Mr. Heney has proof of such why docs he not, in a dignified manner, present such proofs to the courts and proceed in the manner re quired under law. All Comes to Nothing. Grants Pass Observer. There are two sides to every story. Mr. Heney has made the most of every thing he could produce against Fulton, he has put his case as fiercely as he could find language to state It, and it all comes down to nothing more serious than a bitter political attack. He has terribly disappointed the opponents of Senator Fulton who were anticipating something sensational and who have to be content with an ordinary political campaign speech. All Heney's insinua tions and covert threats have failed to materialize and he stands discredited as a malign er. Why Did Chamberlain "Butt Inf" Woodburn Independent. Governor Chamberlain is generally an astute politician, but he made a grave error in butting in on the Hemy-Fulton controversy. Heney charged Fulton with bribing Representative Smith and Cham berlain has practically corroborated Heney after Fulton refutation. In view of the fact that Chamberlain will be the Democratic Senatorial candidate, he should encourage the nomination of Ful ton with the Heney charges hanging over him. As it is, Fulton will now be prob ably defeated at the primary by an op ponent strong enough to defeat Cham berlain In June. Heney, we believe, is a Democrat. Hard Words for Heney. Oregon City Enterprise. Heney, a bird of passage, a hired prosecutor, lias brought no credit to Oregon. He has done his best to drag her name in the mire, and has not failed altogether. He blows his own horn, and with a loud blast of his trumpet, he draws up an indictment, tries and con victs his man, hikes to another scene of action, repeats the performance, talks publicly and incessantly on "good citizen ship, keeps reputable men under the shadow of indictment for three years, presumably having no evidence to give them a trial, and bathes four men until they are immune in order to convict the fifth, who is no more guilty thai the four. -Charley Fulton has many friends here in Oregon. He has made a good record in the Senate of the United States. He lias played politics, it is "true, but how far he has stepped out of the beat en track is for Mr. Heney to prove, and not simply to mouth his utterances from the public platform to win the plaudits of a curiosity-seeking multitude. THE SEX RELATION IN SOCIALISM The Family the Great Obstacle to the Propaganda. London Spectator. Instinctively most Socialist theorizers have realized that the family is inimi cal to Socialism, owing to the desire which it creates for the possession of private property, private life and an existence based on individualism. Therefore, the family must be de stroyed. But the family cannot be de stroyed without also the destruction of marriage, for once let a man and wom an bind themselves for life and bring ufc their children In a home and you have an institution which is bound to shatter the Socialistic ideal. The easy talk about the state being nothing but a great family is based on the falsest of false analogies. But though this instinctive dread of the family as bound to oppose Socialism, if it is al lowed scope, may be the chief reason why Socialism has always resulted In the advocacy of some form of promis cuity, open or covert. It is not the only reason why sexual communism has been advocated and is advocated. Though the fact is not admitted or real ized by most Socialists, the demand for Socialism Is in reality a throwback to primitive Ideas and primitive instincts. The organization of the savage tribe Is largely socialistic and communistic. It is true that we also find in the primitive community the beginnings of very strong family institutions, but these are the growing instruments destined to emancipate mankind from the savagery of socialism. The family was primitive man's path of escape from communism. When, however, man wearies of the struggle toward the light of true civilization, as he does periodically, the idea surges up in his mind that be must retrace his steps. Though he gilds it with the name of progress, what he really means and de sires is to get back to his old savagery in which all things were common and nothing unclean. Oh, Bat It Did Hart! New Tork World. Publication of the President's special message was followed Immediately in New York by a call for a mass-meeting to protest against vivisection. VIEWS OF THE ST-4tE PRESS. The AntoimiMle in Gilliam. Condon Times. A "honk, honk" like this gives Con don quite a metropilitan air, and we expect to soe quite a number of our farmers buying machines next Summer now that Cook Brothers have broken the ice. Do Republicans Want Harmony? Tillamook Headlight. A number of Republican newspapers, including The Oregonian, have gone into the independent column because of the factional tights and the knif ing of candidates in the Republican party in Oregon. It is discouraging, especially to the Republican press, to see so many Republicans who will not play fair in politics. We are glad to know, however, that' in Tillamook County a large number of Republicans want harmony and united effort and lovalty and support of Republican can didates. The only thing that is likely to bring about another factional ngitt is the action of the candidates who may be defeated in the primary elec tion in working against the candidate who- defeated them. "Reform hy Default." Irrtgon Irrigator. The Oregon Tax Reform Association ha sent the Irrigator a circular re lating to a billi proposed to be sub mitted to the voters at the coming election hv the Initiative, which will make great changes in the tax laws of the state, and place us far on the way to the single tax position. This is another so-called "reform, ana may become a, law. Let the good work go on. Let us have a dose of "reform" that will place us on a par with New Zealand, and other highly favored countries, where there are no evils, no inequalities, no irregularities. Ore gon Is to be plunged Into a mass of legislation that will make us all sit up and take notice. There Is so much bad In the best of this "reform" legis lation, and so little good in the worst of it, that the average voter will prob ably not try to pick out the good from the bad. and the result will be that many of these "reforms" will carry practically by default. Rule of the Oregon City Machine. The Dalles Optimist. When the voter goes to the poll in June he will find some 18 or 20 bills to vote upon, aside from the various candidates. Of course the average" voter will not know about all of the bills, as some of them are pretty long, but that 'is just what the law factory at Oregon City wants. They do not ex pect voters generally to know what they are voting for, but expect thorn to vote as said law factory instructs, and we will see a lot of laws enacted which nobody but these "loyal" Re publicans want. Talk about machines! Talk about boss rule! There never was a time when Oregon was domi nated so completely by a set of scala wags as at the present day. Never. "The boss is dead; long live the boss!" WHO IS RESPONSIBLE t Interesting Statement By an Origan of the Liquor Trade. Philadelphia Liquor-Dealers' Journal. Who is responsible? It does not do to blame the hatred against the liquor trade on the anti liquor fanatics. The fanatic crusaders are no strong er than the public sentiment' behind them. Public sentiment is not created by fanatics alone. The liquor trade has something to do with creating public sentiment, and if It goes against the trade, the trade is at least partly to blame. When the trade permits itself to be represented by men who do not hesi tate to attack the highest authorities In the land, it must expect trouble. When the trade allows Itself to be represented by men who attack pure food laws enacted for the protection of the public, then the trade must not count on popular support. When the trade tamely submits to utujcrupul6us traders, who place the entire industry in the false light of being opposed to good laws, then the trade cannot blame the public for turning against it. The unwise, indefensible, arrogant and offensive attitude assumed by some wholesalers against the National pure food laws and decisions will Injure the trade throughout the land unless theee wholesalers are promptly repudiated by the rest of the trade. The public will not bestow its favor and patronage on men who set them selves up against purity, honesty and square dealing. The public will not bestow its favor and confidence on men who dare ques tion the integrity of the most popular President of these United States that ever rendered a decision in behalf of the people. The people will stand by the Presi dent and annihilate those wholesalers who defy the honesty of the President and his Cabinet officials. It behooves the trade to read the signs of the times. It behooves the trade to pay less at tention to the fanatics, the enemi-s without the trade, and pay more atten tion to the enemies within the trade. When the trade onco honestly finds its own answer to the question,, "Who is responsible?" then better times may be in store for the trade. Whosoever is responsible must be disowned by the trade or the trade will suffer annihilation with them at the hands of a wrathful people.. In Time Past. Chicago Tribune. Julius Caesar was making a few changes in the calendar. "I could get along with the old one well enough," he said; "but the life-insurance companies have begun to kick for something new in the way of advertising matter." Then, ostensibly to please the women, he decreed that every fourth year should be leap year. A FEWSQITBS. In a cemetery at Middlebury, Vt., is a stone, erected by a widow to her loving husband, bearing this inscription: "Rest in peace until we meet again." The Jewish Ledger Doris Mamma, why Is your hair turn ing gray? Majnma Because you are such a bad little girl sometimes. Doris What a bad child you must have been, mamma. Grandma's hair is almost white. Judge. "I am looKing for an honest man," said Diogenes, with all the sarcasm at his com mand. Ah," replied an Athenian cut-up, "then that's the reason why you are car rying a lantern instead of a looking-glass." Chicago Record-Herald. "What was the worst money panic you ever saw, colonel?" asked the interviewer. "The worst . money panic I ever saw." replied the great financier, "was when a nickel rolled under the seats of a street car and seven women claimed It." -Chicago Daily News. f The prosecuting witness In the damage suit against the city was giving in his tes timony. "Now, then. Mr. Bleedem," said his lawyer, "you will please tell the Jury where you were injured." "On my knee, in my feelings and right in front of the city hall." rapidly answered the witness, fearing an objection on the part of the other attorney. Chicago Tribune. "Don't I cut wages." said Mr. Gompers. Nor the price of stocks, the cost of living, nor the length of after-dinner speeches. This Is too big a country to cut anything, even Us eye teeth. New York Mail. Prom Washington comes a report of an earthquake "3.HOO miles away from the capital." Why not wire Vice-President Fairbanks for details? He Is about that far from the White House. Chicago Post. POTPOURRI BY NANCY LEE. Raisull the Mighty. A Tangier cable says that Raisuli, the bandit, is to receive a $100,000 ransom and a guarantee of protection for the safe delivery of Caid Sir Harry MacLean. Oh the pirates bold, in the days of old From shore to shore, through seas of gore Sailed their ships with treasure full. But Captain Kidd, who most wickedly did. Wasn't one, two, three with this Raisulee Who has held up old John Bull. There was Francis Drake,- who for Eng- lands' sake, Shot many a pain through the heart of Spain And sajled back home with a good strong pull. At the hold-up game old Morgan won tame. But no pirate at sea could out-class Raisulee, Who has held up old John Bull. Old Robin Hood, from his home in the wood. Held up the Bquiis, and a few fat friars And never was shorn when he went for wool. While our Pat Crowe got a little dough. There's no other band, on sea or land Who has held up old John Bull. With Harvard, Yale, West Point and other institutions of higher education be ing featured in recent plays an eager public as awaiting expectantly for a dramatization of tho International Cor respondence School. . Mr. I. Bustum Trusts They say its no disgrace to be poor, there was a time when U was no disgrace to bo rich. Teacher Johnny, what is the plural of child? .Johnny (with promptness) Twins. The society editor of one of the small burgs gives tho following description of a costume in her gush column: "Mrs. John Smith, wife of the prominent milk dealer, was appropriately dressed in watered Bilk." Every ship that leaves our harbors Sailing for a foreign shore. Bears a load "of missionaries Filled with Scriptural lore. Every year a goodly portion Of our coin and folk we send To help our heathen brother His idol ways to mend. But when emancipation Does its deadly work begin, He wants to come to this fair land Where there's no crime or sin. He's told no poverty enters; Prosperity's on every hand; Do you wonder much that heathen Want to view, our promised land? Then out comes our little hatchets "Drive them back," our people roar. "We must stop this immigration Of foreigners to our shore." "Send tho missionaries to them, Give them hymnals, food and cheer; But let the good work end there, We don't want them over here." Here's a maxim, true and terse. From observing life's great school; In' the matter of men and missions. Consistency, thou art a mule. An old darkey janitor of a colored church in a small town in the South was sweeping the sidewalk one Saturday morning, getting things in shape for the Sunday service, when along rode a young negro on a horse, who said: "What are you doin' thah. Uncle Billy?" Uncle Billy replied: ' "Oh, I'm cleaniu' up a little bit for Sunday, Nathan; you'd better get down off er dat hoss and hely me." "Who pays, Uncle Billy?" asked Na than. "The Lawd'Il pay you, Nathan; the Lawd'll pay you." "Well, you jus go 'long. Uncle Billy, and finish up the job yoself, now you's begun it; they ain't no use in the Lawd openin' up a new set er books fcr me." Spring Is coming and tlie season for grafting in the horticultural districts is near at hand. Mr. Heney's exposures in Portland and San Francisco would indi cate that other kinds of grafting have been in season throughout the entire year. Speaking of Bonds, did anyone ever record the fact that for small, loans the Vagabond is probably the most successful in the market? A couple of slap stick comedians were billed for a small California town, and on the first night of their engagement the patrons, of whom there were very few, were obviously bored over the jokes and the sup posedly funny stunts After the show one of the comedy team addressed the proprietor of the house as follows: "Say, cull, who played dis burg last?" "Why?" asked the manager. "Well, the people don't get our stuff at all. See." "Let me see," replied tho manager, "I think Warde and James played here last week." "Dat's it," assured the player, "I bet dem guys have swiped our lines." THB BBN'CHWAKMEB. He sat on the lounge From morning till night Just sat and sat and sat; He smoked and talked with ail his might And rested and chewed and spat. His trousers wore out in a place they should not. But he set and set and set; The lounge gave down at that particular spot He moved, but it made him fret. To the other end. Where the lounge was good. He moved without delay; He talked and chewed as a sitter could That end wore out one day. Toward the middle then He started a route. The talo is sad. but well. Ee found that he. too, had worn out In a place I cannot tell. They advised him to walk. Said the place might knit, But ho said he'd rather die; As he couldn't chew and snit and sit. He went to his home In the sky. DAISY WELLS STBFFNBJR. 'Grammar bad, but sentiment good.