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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?
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