THE 3IOTINIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1903.
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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.