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Uoldneld. Ner. Louie Folltn: C E. Hunter. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND, TUESDAY, FEB. JS, 1908. REFERENDUM IN OREGON. That both Initiative and referen dum, within proper limits, might be useful, was the belief of large num bers who Joined In voting for their adoption, yet who did not foresee that they would fall Into the hands of faddists, sophisters, schemers, doc trinaires of all sorts, who would ap peal to them against representative government and methods of ordinary legislation. They were adopted under the impression that they were to be the medicine of the Constitution, cau tiously administered when occasion might require; not its dally bread. Of course they are revolutionary. They violate the very principles upon which and for which organized soci ety forms a constitution. Yet they are good, if there is sense, intelligence, virtue enough in a community to use them judiciously. But when there is not they make trouble; they upset society; they put into the hands of revolutionary dreamers weapons of a most dangerous kind. They encourage every group of hob byists, every lot of people burning with whimsical notions, to propose initiative measures, or to Interpose objections through referendum ap peals. They have the effect practi cally, of abolishing constitution and laws altogether; or at least of keeping people who would defend the stability and orderly progress of society, al ways on guard, always under arms, for their defense. All this ia bringing Oregon under observation from every part of the United States. And not to her credit, either. ' The Eugene Register reprints from the Minneapolis Journal an article which comments on the "hold up," by the referendum, of the appropriation for the University of Oregon with the statement that the said article has been sent as a clipping to residents of Eugene from their friends in Minne sota and elsewhere, accompanied by a sarcastic Invitation to "move back into the United States." "These," the Eugene paper remarks, "are the Jolts Oregon is getting from all over the Union, especially from those states that would stop immigration from their localities to Oregon. The refer endum on the university appropria tion is the best and most effective club other states can wield in substantia tion of their claim that Oregon Is non-progressive and a country to stay away from." The whole of this modern scheme of setting aside constitution and laws, and of forcing legislation without de bate, or opportunity of amendment, turns out badly, because it gives the cranks of the country an opportunity which they have not self-restraint enough to forego. Careless people, or people who don't like to be bothered with Importunity, sign the petitions to get rid of the solicitors; and when the election comes on the proposal is likely to be neglected by the body of voters, and carried by the votes of the comparatively few enthusiasts who favor it, reinforced by the votes of those who may mark their ballots ignorantly or mechanically, without understanding the matter at all. -Quite in accord with the whole scheme is the proposal to set aside the (Constitution of the United States by Statement No. 1. The best refuta tion of this folly yet presented ap peared in a letter from Mr. J. K. Philips, published yesterday. "It is asserted," says this letter, "that there is an effort afoot to rob the people of I he right to elect United States Sen ators. Did the people ever have such a right? Never. It follows that they cannot be robbed of it. Do they de sire to have such right? They may obtain It in the constitutional man ner. Is there a reason why United States Senators shall be chosen by a legislature and Representatives by the people? The Federal Constitu tion gives the reason." This leaves not a word to be said. OPEN DOOR MUST NOT CLOSE. The belief that has always been up permost In the minds of the American people since our naval parade began forming for the Pacific cruise is that the trip was being made for the pur pose of checking any possible disturb ance which might ari9e between this country and Japan. On the surface, and possibly for some distance be neath, there may have been no occa sion for anything more than the pro verbial "stitch In time," but for many months there has been a vague feeling that our affairs with Japan were far from being on a permanent basis. Washington advices which announce the real object of the presence of the fleet in the Pacific to be maintenance of the integrity of China do not ma terially change the original theory of the American people, for it is from Japan alone that China is in danger. It is accordingly the duty of the United States to protect her Interests in the Far East by assisting in the preservation of Chinese territorial and administrative entity. At the settle ment of the Boxer troubles, eight years ago. Secretary Hay secured an agreement with the world's greatest powers. Including Japan, to safe guard for the world's people equal and Impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire." That this open-door" policy has been violated by the Japanese in Manchuria has been the cause of general complaint since the recent war with Russia. The termination of that conflict left the Japanese in possession of certain ter ritory Immediately adjacent to the Chinese possessions In Manchuria, and they have since maintained a very elastic boundary line. The ' aggres sion of the Japanese traders In Man churia has been such as to bring forth complaint not alone from the Chi nese, but also from Great Britain and Germany, which have larger commer cial Interests in the Far East than those of the United States. China has recently been making long strides toward civilization, and with the development of her. indus tries and the construction of railroads and other Industrial improvements, there has come a widening of the trade field. Under this new regime there has developed on the part of the Chinese a desire as far as possible to annul all foreign concessions and to manage as well as construct their own railroads and other public utili ties Instead of leaving them in the hands of the foreigners. This policy is eminently satisfactory to the Amer icans. Germany, Great Britain and Japan all have large territorial pos sessions adjacent to China, and to, them have fallen the best of the con cessions that have been given foreign ers. The hold of- Germany was so strong that, a few years ago, a Chi nese syndicate, organized by Yung Wing, an Americanized Chinaman, was prevented from building a road from Tientsin to Chlng-klang through the most thickly populated portion of the empire, the German Minister at Pekin making the successful protest on the grounds that Germany alone was entitled to the exclusive right to build railroads in the Province of Shantung, the latter having fallen to Germany as one of the spoils of the Japan-Chinese war. 4 This difficulty has since been settled and the road will be completed with German and British capital, subject to ultimate redemption by China. It is not to the interest of the United States to have the exploitation of Manchuria carried forward on similar lines. Brit ish, German and Japanese capitalists will In this exploitation favor the flag under which they flourish, and the United States will have no opportu nity to supply either materials or technical skill or capital. This coun try regards the "open door" In Man churia, as well as other portions of China, as something more than a fig ure of speech, and will insist on its being kept open, even though It be necessary to push a few warships Into place to keep It from closing. THE INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE. The report that Mr. Hearst's Inde pendence League will take an active part in the Presidential campaign is interesting and may be important. The league draws the majority of Its votes from the Democratic-party, but it Is by no means destitute of Repub licans. In the last campaign In New York It made Inroads upon both par ties, and would have swept the state and elected its entire ticket had any other man than, Mr. Hearst been the nominee for Governor. With a Na tional ticket In the field, nobody knows what its strength might be. It is fundamentally a party of protest, and the number of persons In the country at present who are disposed to protest against various things - is large. Should the league be judicious and at the same time lucky in nam ing a National ticket, it might poll an array of votes that would surprise the prophets. The original radical policy of the league was Its strength and weakness at the same time. This policy re pelled all the respectable, contented elements In the country, but It power fully attracted all the discontented. who were very numerous two or three years , ago and- are more numerous now. But recently Mr. Hearst's wa vering policy has probably weakened the confidence of the revolutionary voters in his sincerity and caused them to distrust his leadership. In his speech at the Jamestown Exposi tion he declared for more conserva tive policies than most of his follow ers relished, and since the league is only a form of expression for Mr. Hearst, one may imagine that it will stand in the coming campaign, not for anything very radical, but rather for safe and sane ideas. This policy will, of course, cost it multi tudes of supporters. What can the league do but adopt a conservative platform ? It is cer tain that both the Republican and Democratic parties will declare for radical policies. The advanced ele ment in both parties will demand such policies because they believe In them, the reactionary element because they hope to catch votes by them and afterward discard them. Mr. Hearst might go a step farther than either the Bryan or Roosevelt ideas will lead, but if he did he could not avoid risky ground. Short of sheer social ism, there is little left for him. He could advocate municipal ownership, to be sure, but it is well known that, although the Democrats will not em body that idea In their platform, still j It has been pre-empted by Mr. Bryan and he will push It to the front as soon as he dares. If, again, the league turns to the National Initiative and referendum, that also has been bespoken by .the alert Nebraskan and not by any means abandoned. It really seems as if Mr. Bryan's tenta tive pronouncements In favor of these measures were made not solely to test the temper of the public, but also to forestall Mr. Hearst. That the latter potentate does not love the perennial Nebraskan goes without saying. What aspirant to despotic rule does love those who stand between him and the throne he desires? Moreover, if Mr. Bryan Is elected President next Fall there is a chance at least that he will be re elected four years later, and the chance is much better than any that Mr. Hearst .would have. If Bryan's administration were a failure, then good-bye to Democratic hopes for In definite ages to come. If It were a success, then good-by to Mr. Hearst for eight years at least, and eight years is a tidy bit of time to spend in waiting and longing. Bit a . Re publican success next Fall would leave Mr. Hearst about where he now is, or it might even advance his prospects should the trusts succeed in nominat ing and electing one of their favor ites. In that case there would cer tainly be a wholesale turning of the electorate to the Democratic party be fore another election came round and there would stand Mr. Hearst In all his glorious readiness to take advan tage of the flood. , Upon the whole, it is easy to per ceive, whatever Mr. Hearst may say, that his interests all lie on the side of a third defeat of Mr. Bryan. Since Mr. Hearst has never been known to follow the guidance of anything else except his interests, or what he con ceived as such, we may safely con clude that that is what he is doing now, and we may Infer that the activ ity of the Independence League is to compass the defeat of Mr. Bryan, eliminate him at all costs from future Presidential contests and prepare the way for the greater, prophet who Is predestined to surpass his triumphs. At least he thinks he is so predesti nated, and he will never cease to scheme and plot until he has discov ered his mistake. MEDICAL ADVERTISEMENTS. It Is the intention of The Oregonian to avoid publication of all Improper advertisements. The order at the desks where advertisements are re ceived is to scan them all closely, and to refuse such as may have question able appearance. Large numbers are rejected; yet it cannot always be told whether evil things may not be done under cover , of an advertisement which, on Its face, cannot be ques tioned. Physicians of the "regular" degree set their faces resolutely 'against ad vertisements that relate to their pro fession. It is a point of ethics with them. But one may venture to say that they are not absolutely disinter ested in their denunciations of all who advertise as physicians. Persons who advertise as physicians "hurt busi ness." While it is the intention of The Ore gonian to avoid publication of all im moral and otherwise improper ad vertisements, it does not feel bound to reject those that are not clearly so, at the behest of the doctors either of medicine or theology, whose virtue is their assumption of "regularity." Brother Whitcomb Brougher is to call on the newspapers of the city-and re quest them "to suppress the further publication of all fraudulent medical advertisements. But what is fraud ulent and what Is not, either in medi cine or in theology, Is largely matter of opinion. We shall continue the publication of such medical advertise ments as appear to be decent and le gitimate, and certainly do not wish to publish any other sort of advertise ments. In any line. But of course we shall not expect any one school of doctors, either of theology or medi cine, to ' allow tha any other than their own can be orthodox, or other than "fraudulent." There is an .abominable class of criminal practitioners who ought to be hunted down. But is the practi tioner who advertises necessarily of this class? And are all those who make it a virtue not to advertise free from blame and absolutely to be trusted? RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENT. The speech of Senator Knox at the Lincoln's birthday banquet at Pitts burg was one of the most exhaustive and convincing arguments that have yet been ma3e in the cause of river and harbor improvement. While Sen ator Knox discussed the matter from a broad-National standpoint, his re marks are particularly appropriate to the river and harbor situation in the Pacific Northwest, especially the fol lowing: The stage has been reached when local Jealousies should be cast aside, and these limited and partial vlewa enlarged to the perception that whatever expenditure is neces sary to bring to its utmost economic capaclty every harbor capable of commercial utility and every river able to furnish a route tor In dustrial or agricultural producta and material. lj9 the most remunerative Investment that can be made with National funds. Had sucha policy as here outlined been followed by the people of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho for the past twenty years, steamboats would today have been carrying unbroken cargoes from the Clearwater to tide water ana tne uoiumDia .ttiver Dar would be easy of access for ships drawing forty feet of water, unfoir tunately for the internal development of the Pacific Northwest, until a very short time ago Portland has been the victim of "local jealousies" to such an extent that it was almost impossible to secure any outside assistance for carrying on the much-needed work of improving the river channels. The Puget Sound press for years fought any appropriation sought for the im provement of the mouth of the Co lumbia, although that stream has a much greater shore line In the State of Washington than in Oregon. This element of antagonism at times would withdraw Its outward show of hostility and Jocularly ap prove a scheme for improving the river above the Cascades, and simul taneously oppose providing a safe en trance to the river. But the growth of the Inland Empire has brought a change of sentiment on both sides of the Cascade Mountains, and there is now -a general disposition to do every thing possible for the Improvement of the entire river and its navigable trib utaries. Senator Knox demonstrated by actual figures that river and har bor improvements at many river and lake ports in the East had always shown 'returns in Increased population and development far in excess of the cost of the improvement. A similar demonstration with a much more flat tering showing from an economic standpoint has been made by the peo ple of Portland with the money spent by the Government and by the Port of Portland in deepening the channel of the .Columbia River. AVhen this work was commenced the difficulty experienced by vessels coming to the port were so great that owners forced the traffic entering and leaving this port to carry a freight rate from $1.50 to $2.60 per ton greater than from San Francisco, and from that port it was frequently the custom to send Oregon products for reshlpment to the foreign markets. This handicap of an excessive rate was removed solely by means-of river Improvements, and every producer in the Columbia Basin today is sharing in the advantages resultant from money spent on the Columbia River by the Port of- Portland and the Gov ernment. It is undoubtedly true, as stated by Senator Knox, that there is incongru ityin spending such a vast sum on the Panama Canal if we are going to neglect the interior waterways that must act as feeders for that great highway between the two oceans. So far as the Pacific Northwest is con cerned, there are excellent prospects for our being ready. Never again will there be the opposition to river im provement that has existed in the past. A united effort of the people of the' three states will bring much aid from the Government, and if there re mains anything lacking, It will be sup plied by those who have. In a little more than twenty years, increased the depth of water in the Columbia River more than ten feet. There will be at least one piece- of river improvement completed in time for the canal, and It will bring with it benefits equal to any that we have experienced from the work already done. Great Is the value of the ship sub sidy to the country which does not pay it. Out of a fleet of twenty-one vessels now In port under charter to load wheat, thirteen are French sub sidy earners. Every one of these ves sels brought cargo from a British, Belgian er German port to the Amer ican importers In this city. Every one of them will return to an English port with wheat from an American shipper, consigned to a British im porter. This is a spectacle of com mercial enterprise well calculated to make the patriotic Frenchman get up and howl for "the old flag and an appropriation" to subsidize more ships to carry more merchandise and wheat for foreigners who do not care a rap what flag flies from the ship's mast head so long aS she delivers the cargo in good shape and at a low freight rate. This little lesson in subsidies will bear the scrutiny of some of our American subsidy-hunters, who are at present using theory Instead of fact In their arguments. . - Financial crumbs of comfort are not so plentiful in Seattle as they were when the tideland boom was at its height. It is accordingly not sur prising to find in the Seattle Times the following item: The bank clearings of Seattle on Friday reached- $i,3CO,000 and Spokane exceeded $1, 000,000. Both Portland and Tacoma were de cidedly low. This was all right as far as it goes, but why not take the business for the week? Bradstreet's report, for the week ending Friday shows Seattle clearings with a decrease of 26.4 per cent as compared with the same period last year, while Portland's de crease was but 8.2 per cent. For the week ending Saturday Seattle's clear ings were $1,924,532 less than for the corresponding week last year.- Port land's clearings for the same period showed a decrease of but $950,083. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Forest Service, will, it is said, retire from office at the close of the present Pres idential term, and move out West with the purpose of engaging in poll- tics. He is one of the few men in official life who has pursued the work assigned to him for the love of the work not for the salary. He is a lover of the forests and has engaged enthusiastically in the work of their preservation. It will be a pity should this occur to mar his record by be coming a political place-seeker a juggler with politicians for a seat in the United States Senate. - A report comes from Seattle that a committee has been appointed to con fer with Mr. Swift with a view to -having him reconsider his decision and locate his packing plant at Seattle. If Mr. Swift is offered the same kind of encouragement to get Into Seattle that was extended to Mr. Harriman when he selected his depot site, it will cost him about $300,000,000 to se cure as much land as he has already purchased in this city. A mere baga telle of this kind, however, would not stand in the way, provided the Seatfle spirit took the form of a subsidy. Recent attacks on swollen fortunes, predatory wealth, etc., have had the effect of increasing the size of the bread-line and the soup-kitchen bri gade, but the Standard Oil yesterday announced its regular quarterly divi dend of $15 per share, so that the gaunt features of hunger will not be noticeable at the Rockefeller fireside. If Austria and Russia can't get to gether on the proposition of building a railroad Into virgin territory, why don't they follow this Nation'3 wise plan of submitting all disputes to a board of disinterested arbitrators like E. H. Harriman, John D. Rockefeller, J.' Pierpont Morgan and Jacob H. Schiff? For the remainder of the season the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club will permit ladies to witness, boxing contests. Spokane's claim to being the most progressive city in the Pa cific Northwest cannot now be dis puted, t ' New York City offered $50,000,000 worth of bonds; subscriptions were $300,000,000. In seasons of strin gency a3 well as flush times, the abil ity to borrow money depends on the quality of the collateral. i - When he used it twenty-nine times in his first public Interview, Ambas sador Takahira may be said to have overworked the personal pronoun. In the list of big railroads willing to comply with the Federal laws, the Harriman lines are conspicuous by their absence. - v REFERENDUM IN OREGON. It la Pointed at la Other States na "The Dreadful Example." Minneapolis Journal. The beauties of the referendum as ap plied to a whole state are beginning to dawn on Oregon. The last Legislature appropriated $125,000 for the support of the state university. After the Legisla ture had adjourned, some of the farmers of the Willamette Valley, who have con- j scientlous scruples against -higher educa tion, and scruples still more conscientious against paying taxes In so unrighteous a cause, invoked the power of the referen dum to set aside the appropriation. They mustered the necessary percentage of the electorate to secure the referendum vote. As a consequence the appropriations for the state university are hung up as high as Haman until the next state election In June. No matter how large a majority of the voters of Oregon are in favor of liberal treatment for their young and growing university, the hands of the state officials are tied until next June. The appropriation of $125,000 in one year for a state university seems niggardly enough to us of Minnesota, whose great university requires and receives far more than that. But the sum heretofore al lowed in Oregon had been but $47,500 an nually, and the Institution had been strug gling for Its very life on that meager sum. The Increase was the signal for violent objection in somo of the agricultural dis tricts, with the partlzana of sectarian schools Joining in the chorus. There seems to be little doubt, however, that the campaign the friends of the university have been compelled to make will be com pletely successful and that the approval of the voters will be given to the bill, which passed the Legislature by an al most unanimous vote. In behalf of the University of Oregon It is set forth that it has over 400 students, most of whom come from the homes of the common people, and over 60 per cent of whom are working their way through college. The professors receive the small est salaries paid to state university facul ties anywhere, and the equipment is en tirely inadequate. As a result Oregon now sends more students to Institutions of outside states, in proportion to its population, than any other state in the Union. The interesting point about the whole affair, however, for those outside the state IS the fact that the referendum, which Is so beautiful in theory, in prac tice often degenerates into a measure of merely obstinate obstruction. Of what use is it to elect Legislators and give them a mandate to legislate, if their every act may be aborted or postponed by ap peal to the Referendum? In the republican form of government it is necessary for the people to delegate their powers to trusted representatives. The referendum is a foolish and doctrinaire attempt to- graft a democratic institution on the republican system. Pope Opposes Prohibition. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That Pope Pius X. is not in sympathy with the prohibition idea was publicly stated in a lecture Sunday evening on "The Holy Father," by Monsignore Franz Goller, pastor of SS. Peter and Paul's Church, to the Catholic Union of Mis souri, at Goller's Hall, Eighth street and Allen avenue. The sentiment was loudly applauded. Monsignore Goller had been following the career. of the Pope from his young priesthood to his present eminence, stat ing that he knew the needs of the people as probably none other. Picking up a glass of water to take a drink, Monsignore Goller said: "I am reminded of our old friend, An ton Roeslein, who was formerly so well known in St. Louis, but now living abroad, by this glass of water. Mr. Roeslein's motto, when water was re ferred to, was, 'Inside never, outside with caution." "This brings to me the thought that his Holiness, while he believes in every thing temperate, has no sympathy what ever with the prohibition movement. "He drinks a glass of wine himself and believes that men should use their own judgment in what they should eat and what they, should drink, and not have other men decide such matters for them. That is not the spirit of freedom, but of autocratic government. In "this country of boasted freedom, especially, prohibi tion has no place. The Pope is the apos tle of all things in moderation, but not of prohibition." Monsignore Goller's remarks about the Pope's views on the prohibition question were received with acclamation, and, at the Instance of the speaker, three cheers were given for his Holiness. Dec-line of Bible Quotations. New York World. Cardinal Gibbons' charge that American public men auote less from the Bible than their predecessors did, less than Webster did, admits of some exceptions. Mr. Bryan is greatly given to biblical quotations. In a atieech to a Tammany leader's following In this city last June he cited the story of Joseph to support his argument. President Roosevelt quotes with eaual facility from the Bible, Bun yan and Btshoq Hooker. In his Washing ton address the limitation of large fortune's- he referred to the crackling of thorns under a pot and to sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. Gov ernor Stokes, of New Jersey, introduced Governor Fort, when the latter took of fice, with a scriptural quotation. But if the custom of Bible quotation and allusion is falling into disuse, is not one reason of It the decline of the old household familiarity with the scriptures? To how many hearers1 does a reference to Naboth's vineyard convey the immediate recognition it did to past generations' of Bible readers? There has been a revival of the literary study of the Bible. There re college courses in it and various literary men's Bibles" have been pub lished within recent years. But boys no longer form thler English style from the Bible, as Ruskin did. What a Manl Denver Post. What a man Theodore Roosevelt Is! What a stark courage of clear Puri tanism inspires him on great occasions to face his enemies and the enemies of the Republic, tmpregnable In his unfear ing faith! How he outflanks defeat and rides it down to death as cavalry charges through a scattering foe! What a trick he has, at the moment that most men think of him as wearied, of striding into the battle once again and shouting his challenge to his astounded foes! There Is something about him that is mediaeval in Its uncouth simplicity; something of that terrific quality of love of men and faith in an everlasting God that made Cromwell's Ironsides irresistible. Instrumental Music. Brooklyn Life. Hogan Hov ye hear-rd me daughter Mona sing lately? Dugan Both lately an'earller, bedad! 'Tis th' fine insthrumlntal music she do make. Hogan Ye ignoramus. Shure, slngln" ain't insthrumlntal music! Dugan Begorry, thin, Keegan towld me It wuz insthrumlntal In causln' him t'move two blocks away frum yer house! Rain or Shine. Atlanta Constitution. I don't care for a rainy sDell. I take It thankful, too; All 'roun' we're doln' 'bout as well As we deserve to do. We never count our blessln's sweet In Summer time or Fall. No matter for the good we meet, We Just forget It all! An' If in heaven we. take our stand With all the saints connected. We'll tell 'em In the promlped land: ' 'Taint good as we exiiectedl" SEW YORK YAWNS OVER BRYAN. Hint Given That Peerless Ose la Disil lusion at C'loae Range. New York Globe. In 1S96 Bryan defiantly stigmatized New York as "the enemy's country." But despite his bravado and his pretenses that he didn't care- what New York thought be has been feverishly anxious to secure New York's good opinion. As a selfish professional politician he at all times rec ognized how helpful to his ambition that good opinion was, and as a man of vanity his self-love has been wounded by its lack. Thus It is not surprising that this persistent wooer is again in the metropolis, seizing every opportunity to make a speech, and graciously receiv ing every reporter who wants an inter view. But this latest visit, like its predeces sors, seems to have an effect exactly contrary to Bryan's fond expectations. It is a curious fact that Bryan is al ways stronger In New York when he has been away for a long time and weaker when present or when a new output of Svords has reraised inquiries as to his character. He has experimented a fourth time, and the result was the dismal, tiresome, and shallow speech delivered at Carnegie Hall. He pumped along for an hour or more, but enthusiasm could not find a rallying point. Imagine what even the discredited Bourke Cockran could have done if he bad had Bryan's opportunity. As it was there was nothing either intellectually or morally stimulating merely schoolboy presentation of shelf-worn discourse a tepid, unenergetlc warming over of Presi dent Roosevelt's ideas. Bryan's home town of Lincoln, although freely recognizing the merits of Its best kirown citizen as a neighbor, year by year increases its majority against him. His own State of Nebraska he carried when first a candidate, but lost it the second time. Lincoln and Nebraska have had Intimate acquaintance forced on them, and the Intimacy has not made for a growth of admiration. Bryan Is stronger the further away. Distance lends an en chantment that personal contact dis sipates. Thus his home town has found and thus New York finds. If Bryan has any notion of garnering New York's electoral votes, let him scrupulously keep New York, from his itineraries. DULL TIMES AND THE ARMY. Idle Men Find Now an Ocenpatloa and a Home. Chicago Tribune. In the East many of the unemployed are finding employment In the ranks of the Army. There are vacancies there, while there are none In mills or shops. The pay is small, but It is certain, and while the work may be hard it Is not so wearing as vainly tramping the streets in search of a Job. Hence it is that millmen, clerks and mechanics men fitted In every respect to make good soldiers are besieging the recruiting stations In the East. War Department officials in their re cent reports dilated on the dwindling rmy on the difficulty of getting good recruits and the Impossibility of keep ing them. If they were writing now they would not do It in so melancholy a strain. The industrial depression which followed the financial panic has changed the situation materially. The ranks of the Army are being filled. The same thing happened in 1893. Thousands of men who preferred a cer tainty to an uncertainty enlisted and were none the worse oft for doing so. It may be that at this season the move ment toward ' the recruiting offices .Is greater because of the belief that Con gress will raise the pay. There would be many enlistments, however, even if no such belief was entertained. It should be possible now to fill up the depleted companies, but it Is cer tain that when conditions Improve In the industrial world enlistments will fall off. Men who find in the military service a temporary harbor of refuge will get out of It. Congress should not reject the proposition to raise the sol diers' pay because momentary hard times have stimulated enlistments and secured for the Army a number of re cruits who are both physically and mentally acceptable. Bonaparte Deadhead. Westminster Gazette. Frederic Febvre publishes in the Gaulols an interesting document preserved in the archives of the Theater Francals. It runs as follows: "Pass the citizen Bonaparte to this eve ning's performance of 'Manllus.' Talma." This shows, of course, that the Emperor Napoleon, when he was only a Lieuten ant of artillery, was very glad of "orders" for the theaters. M. Febvre adds a story which he heard from Talma's son to the effect that the future ruler of France used to lie In wait for the tragedian In the galleries of the Palais Royal, and that the tragedian used often to whisper to his companion: "The other way, if you don't mind. I see Bonaparte coming, and I'm afraid he'll ask me for seats." Keep Your Weather Eye Out. Eugene Register. Let us see, was Jonathan Bourne ever mixed up as a prime factor In an Ore gon Senatorial deadlock? How defective our memories become sometimes. How many Republicans in Oregon can think of Salem, the capital city without some how, irresistibly coupling Bourne's name with some of the most stirring scenes that ever happened there during a Senatorial election. Keep your weather eye on Ore gon politicians who are pawing the air and howling Statement No. 1. Crumbles Great Wealth Interests. Philadelphia North American, Rep. By the time that the malefactors of great wealth get through the President's message they will have another panic this one all to themselves. THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE. Seems perfectly silly this fuss they are making, A-seeklng somebody to take Teddy's place. When the logical nominee there's no mistaking Is plain as well, plain as the nose on your face. There Isn't a schoolboy, from ocean to ocean. Whose back to the schoolmaster's bam boo has bent. But knows he was taught the particular notion Of being someday a live President. Remember those school marms who patted our shoulders And coaxed us to stick to our books and our slates, And when we grew up we would be surely soldiers. And rule all the unum-e-pluribus states? And where are the boys of those old fashioned mothers. Whose futures were carved with as siduous care. Appointed by Destiny 'bove all the others To grace in their manhood the Presi dent's chair? And all and each one of us knows every son of us Is a dark horse for conventions to choose. As a ripe, up-to-date, ne-plus-ult candi date Ready to step in the President's shoes. This fuss they are making seenos per fectly silly. And if they had come In the first place to me. I'd a told them without all this willy and niliy. Tbat President I was quite willing to be! GRANT W1LLIAM3. SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR A. GRBI3NB. Misunderstood truth is the easiest road to error. Our alleged policemen permit young rowdies to play ball In the business streets. Sometimes I'm almost convinced that this is a Jay town after all. A local girl spells her name Gussye. Now wouldn't that make you bite your left elbow? A preacher in Cleveland advises people not to marry unless they feel that they will die if they don't. Well, that might be some excuse. Dicky Dingbat's Essays. Series A., No. 3. WIMMEN. Wimmen are the other Half of the trubie Sketch. They ete more than a horse when it is Alia cart. They alco talk to much. Many of them Isn' Obnoxus enuf so they chew Gum. gents always calls them Ladles so the Rite kind claims they are just wimmen. They are as lmportent as men and some of them More so. but they oughtent to be. when they are young they nre mostly society Bells or stennogerfers. Not all of them aro stennogerfers tho for i heard pop tell a nother man he new One that was a burd. I didn't no they were ever like That but pop reads thomp son Seeton's stories and he ot to Kno. besides Pop has had a grate deel of Ex perience. He has bin married. What's the I'sef "Did you ever notice that when a man Conceives an especially clever plan For getting rich quick He is sure to find Some one else has a scheme of the self same kind? Did you ever observe That no matter how bold Every notion you have Will turn out to be old? You may seek all In vain an original one There Is nothing new under the shining sun e e A man of 60 has Just entered an East ern school for the purpose of completing his education. He probably begins to re alize that there's no fool like an old fool. A Practical Utility. Willie Papa, what is an insulator? Papa An attorney for a corporation, my son. e With two society' weddings In prospect, the Jewelers are commencing to dust up their out-of-date cut glass and silverware. e Every prosperous man looks like a grafter to the thriftless. e An expectant public is still waiting for the announcement of Evelyn Thaw'a star ring engagement. see Circus men say that elephants are a drug on the market and can be had very cheaply. Now is a good time to lay in your Spring supply for the children, see General Stewart L. Woodford emerges from the misty long ago to become pres ident of the National Hughes League. Another evidence of immortality. see" A Bloody Dissertation. The United States needs a great war and, argue as the peace advocates may, we are going to have one within the ad jacent future. War is an heroic remedy but an efficacious one. Physicians do not give castoria to those suffering with apoplexy. Destiny knows Its business and goes about It in a practical way. As a nation we are in need of blood-letting and plenty of it. It may be brutally frank to say it but the loss of a half million men in battle would be a disguised blessing to the country. The primordial law of the survival of the fittest has not been repealed nor can It be abrogated by peace societies nor smug well-fed business Interests. Physi cal conflict makes men virile physically and mentally. When a people forget the use of arms dry rot commences. This particular government is showing symp toms of that malady. War purges a na tion. It chastens. The evils that follow In its red wake are lesser ones than those which flourish during prolonged eras of military Inactivity. The Spanish-Ameri can difficulty was not a real war. It was simply a case of disorderly conduct. We need a renaissance of national spirit. We need a race of rugged Americans who will value and treasure the benefits they enjoy because, remembering the feel of blows and the rigors of struggle, they will appreciate them. A big war would stir up the nation's circulation and arouse the nation's torpid liver. War has its bene fits no less to be chosen than peace and we've had altogether too much ot the lat ter In these 43 years since Appomattox. Silk nightshirts and welsh rarebits, pousss cafe and eau de cologne, free soup and virtual peonage do not build strong men. It is not e. pretty thought that the flesh of thousands must be fed to the war-dogs, but at certain periods In history that sort of thing Is necessary from a sanitary standpoint. War means a big butcher's bill, to pay but better that than paresis or even chills and ague. Napoleon once said: "You can't have an omelet without breaking some eggs." In which remark the Corsican Inadvertently 6tumbled upon a great truth. Uses -."i-Ycar-Old Railroad Ticket. St. Louis (Mo.) Dispatch. An old woman in Hannibal, Mo., re cently used a railroad ticket bought 2Z years ago. The Mnle Skinners. Denver Republican. In readln' the story of early days. It's cause of much personal pain At the way the author men leave out us in charge of the wagon train; Granted the rest of 'em worked and fit in the best way that they could do If it wasn't far us that skinned the mules, how would the bunch have come through ? We have frosted ourselves on the pralrl sweeps, a-bringln' the Sioux to bock. And the aojtr men never had no kirk thai the front rank had been forsook; They cussed warm holes in the blizzard's teeth when waltin' for grub and tent?. But the comforts of home we alius brung. though at times at our own expe-nse. We have sweated and swore in the deport land, where the white sand glares like snow, A-rompin' around, forty rods from hell, playln tag with Geronlmo; We larruped the Jacks when the bullet flew, and then, when 'twas gettin' too hot. W'e used fer our breastworks mules, dead mules, and we give 'em back shot for shot. We never was rijcKed up purty. of course, and we didn't talk too perlite. But we brung up the Jolttn' waxnn train to the tall end of every flEht: W'e made, a trail through the hostile lands, and our whip waa the victory's key. So why In the name of all that's fair e-vt we rigger in history? I
