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Newspaper Page Text6 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, 3IARCH 2, I90S. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. By MalL Pally, Sunday Included. one year 55 Daily. Bundav included six month!.. .. Daily. Sunday Included, three montha. . S-2o Daily, Sunday Included, ona month.. .7 Xally. without Sunday. . one year Dally, without Sunday, alx monthi Dallyr without Sunday1, threa month.. i-?B Dally, without Sunday, ona month J Sunday, on vur ... .DV Weekly, one year (taaued Thuraday) 6unday and weekly, cn year..... 1.50 S.S0 BY CABBIES. Dally. Sunday Included, ona year...... "-J Dally. Sunday Included, ona month 4 HOW TO REMIT Send poatofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamp, coin or currency ar at the sender's risk. Olva postofflce ad dress la lull. Including county and state. , POSTAGE KATES. ' Entered at Portland. Oregon. PoftomM as Second-Class Matter. . . 10 to 14 Pagea J 18 to 28 Pagea J cen,t SO to 44 Pages ? "Ots as to 60 Pages nt Foreign postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws ar strict. Newspapers on which pontage la not fully prepaid ere not forwarded to destlnatlon. E ASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Keclcwtth Special Agrnoy New Tork. rooma 48-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooma 510-612 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago. Auditorium Annex; Poston-tce News Co., 178 'Dearborn street: Empire News Stand. ft. Paul, Minn. N. Bt. Marie, Commercial Station. Colorado Spring. Colo. Bell. H. H. Denver. Hamilton and Kendrlck. .aofl-913 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. -l Fifteenth afreet; H. P. Hansen, 6. Rice, Georer Car eon. Kansas City, Mo. RIckaecker Cigar Co, Ninth and "Walnut; Torn News Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. 60 South Third. C'lneinnmtl. O. Yoma News Co. Cleveland, O. James Pushaw. 307 8a- Ierior street. Washington, D. C. Ebbitt House. Penn-. aylvania avenue; Columbia News Co. Pittsburg. Pa, Fort Pitt News Co. Philadelphia. Pa. 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Wheatley; Fairmount Hotel News 6iand; Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14 Vs Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager three wagons: Worlds N. S.. 2625 A. Sutter street. Oakland. OL W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager Ave uagons: Welllngham. E. CI. (ioldHeld, Xev. Uoule Folllm Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu 'reka News Co. PORTLAND, MONDAY, MARCH S. 1008. PORTENTS OF POLITICS. An extraordinary thing has oc curred in Kentucky. A Legislature which contains a Democratic majority though the majority Is but six has elected a Republican Senator. The event is not much in Itself, but in its suggestions it is almost astounding. Four Democratic members of the fjeg islature voted for Bradley, Republican, for the United States Senate. It was after many weeks of resistance to Beckham, former Governor of the state and master of the machine. It is in part a revolt against ma chine politics, and In part a protest by a very powerful body of voters, who hitherto have acted with the Demo cratic party, against the attempt of the Beckham machine to convert the opposition to the liquor Interest into a political and partisan agency for its own purposes. The present result raises the question at once whether Kentucky Is to be a prohibition state, or not. Jefferson County, in which the City of Louisville is situated, is naturally a Democratic county. It was Confed erate in sentiment during the war, and gave no vote to Lincoln at all. Through the whole period of recon struction and for many years after ward it was almost solidly Democratic. Later, the Republican party began to build up, and the gold standard In 1396 furnished an issue on which the vote of the city for the first time was Republican. But,-this issue settled, the city and state dropped back Into the Democratic column. Bryan car ried the state In 1900; Parker carried it In 1904. Jefferson County (includ ing the City of Louisville) gave Par ker a strong majority; but In the elec tion of last November the Republican candidate for Governor carried the county by nearly 10,000. Tet the Democratic candidates : for the Legislature. or most of them, were elected. Three of these have now voted for Bradley, Repub lican, for Senator. One Democratic member from another county joined them. Only a profoundly disturbing force or cause could produce such results as these. In a city hitherto Demo cratic the Republican candidate for the office of Governor receives nearly 10,000 majority; yet Democratic candi dates for the Legislature are elected. But they are elected in opposition to the Democratic machine, and after long effort to beat the boss or master of the machine, they unite with the Republican members and elect a Re publican Senator. The cause, or mov ing force, lying behind this result and bringing it to pass was the effort of the Democratic machine to use the anti liquor or prohibition forces of the state for its purposes. A machine, ar bitrary and odious, formed an alliance with the prohibitionists. Kentucky Is not ripe for this sort of politics. County local option will be accepted, but general prohibition will not. Kentucky, on Its northern border, lying opposite Ohio and Indiana, has a very powerful element composed of Germans and others of foreign extrac tion. The mistake has been made by the managers of the Democratic ma chine of supposing these people, in the turns of party, would stand for the Violent restrictions of prohibition. Among the native element there also is wide revolt. Note the protest from the Louisville Courier-Journal, pub lished In The Oregonlan of yesterday. The effort has been, says Watterson, '"to get the prohibition question into religion, then Into politics, and Anally to make It an agent of universal cor ruption." 'The red-nosed angel who plays prohibition six days in the week and gets drunk on Sunday, a familiar figure in those states where the Issue has got Into politics," has appeared, he says, in Kentucky. Ona may well suppose that the like. of this is pretty serious for such a state. For Kentucky, though it hasn't been consuming more liquor in pro portion to its population than Its neighbors has been, rather open and free In the use of liquors, and has been accustomed to a great deal of "personal liberty" in sale and con sumption. Besides, the state has an enormous industry in the manufacture, and in various adjuncts of it. The ex cise paid to the United States upon liquors produced In Kentucky amounts to the prodigious sum of 130,000,000 a year. Enormous Interests are corre lated with such an Industry. "Prohi bition in Kentucky," says the Courier Journal,' "means the confiscation of a hundred millions of property values and increase of taxation everywhere." - It Is not to.be supposed that prohi bition will carry in Kentucky. But the political quarrel over the question may become a matter of National Im portance. The signs are that it will take Kentucky out of the Democratic column in the coming Presidential election, and become a factor in break ing up Democratic rule in the Solid South. Likewise it may have similar effect on some , of the Republican states of the North; but perhaps not now. Exceedingly subtle and strange, and beyond power of forecast or divination, are the action, Interaction and reaction of the multifarious forces of human society on each other. A political boss attempts to use and convert the anti-liquor sentiment of his state to his ambitious purposes, and loses the very thing ha-is striving for; while the effect on parties, and on the liquor question itself, no one can foresee, but probably it will be much wider than his state, and may make changes in the course of National politics. No, others are quicker to see the possible effects and results of this Kentucky Incident, on National politics, than Mr. Bryan and other leaders of the Democratic party. But it Is not the first time a Repub lican Senator has been elected by Democratic votes. Simon Cameron was so elected In Pennsylvania in 1856. Three Democratic - members of the Legislature, declaring themselves un alterably opposed to extension of slav ery, or to measures looking even pos sibly to that end, refused to vote for the candidate of their party, who was committed to the pro-slavery regime, and joined the Republican members in the election of Cameron. Parties and politics are again in flux and tran sition now, but without any line of di vision so clear as that which began to manifest itself when the era that led up to the Civil War began. PORTLAND'S REMARKABLE GROWTH. The Swift Packing Company is still adding to its already large holdings in this city, and the elaborate plans for the big plant are becoming more known. This enterprise Is, in its. line, the most prominent industrial under taking with which Portland . has ever been favored,, but it is only one of a large number of causes which are con tributing to the placing of Portland In an Impregnable trade position for all time. The completion of the North Bank road, and the opening up of the Willamette Valley by electric lines, to gether with the early completion of a number of other transportation proj ects, will draw an increased volume of trade from all directions. The tangible and indisputable evi dence of this development of new trade fields, and of the improvement in business in those already partly de veloped, is shown in bank clearings, customs receipts, building permits, postofflce receipts, exports and im ports and In practically every feature of our economic system. The recent financial trouble was National in its extent, - and with few exceptions all lines of business show some decrease as compared with last year. That Portland has suffered less and recov ered more rapidly than any of its most prominent competitors on the Pacific Coast is easily demonstrated by comparing statistics. The New Tork Financial Chronicle, in its Issue of February 22, gives in detail the bank clearings from all cities In the United States for the second week in Feb ruary. In the group of Pacific Coast cities, the average decrease, as com pared with the corresponding week last year, was S2.B per cent. Port land's decrease was 15.2 per cent, or less than one-half the average de crease for the entire Coast group. The decrease in Seattle was 25.8 per cent, San Francisco 38.1 per cent and Ta coma 19.9 per cent. For all cities In the United States the decrease was 30 per cent. The showing for the first week in February was still more favorable and returns for the last half of the month show-Portland with a decrease of 22.1 per cent, while the average decrease for Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle is 28.S per cent. The final re port of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor has Just been received. In foreign ex ports for the year 1907, Portland is credited with a gain of 78 per cent, Puget Sound 2.8 per cent, and San Francisco with a decrease of 10 per cent. Portland's increased distribu tive trade is reflected in an increase of 36 per cent in foreign imports, the Puget Sound ports showing an in crease of but 17 per cent, while San Francisco is credited with a gain of but 11 per cent. Official returns for February are not In, but January showed an enormous increase over January. 1907, in both Imports and ex ports. Portland building permits for January were 50 per cent larger than those of Los Angeles or Seattle, and for February exceed those of Seattle by more than 30 per cent. This -demonstration by actual fig ures of the superiority of Portland's commercial and financial condition to that of any other city on the Pacific Coast could be continued indefinitely throughout the various features which combine to make up the business of the ports. All this has been accom plished without resort to artificial booming or forcing. It has been a natural, healthy growth, and the city has now attained a momentum which cannot be checked by anything short of widespread disaster throughout the immense territory on which Portland, draws .for trade. As crop failures are unknown in this region, and the lat ent resources are without a parallel anywhere on earth, such a contingency 1 remote. . FTtTTT-PACKING PROJECTS. Reports of the number of fruit can neries to be erected In the Willamette Valley this Spring are gratifying In the extreme. These canneries will provide a market for much fruit that now goes to waste and for the product of new! orchards'and berry patches. All pos sible encouragement should be given to enterprises of this kind, for they help to advance productive resources. At the same time, a word of caution is needed. Those who, are going into a business of this kind, especially if on -the co-operative plan;, should re member that It takes a lot of money to pack a fruit crop. The cost of a building is a small part of the invest ment. The management must buy tin cans, sugar, shipping boxes and other necessaries in advance. Labor must be paid weekly and growers must be .paid for . the raw material. All this ex pense must be met weeks and perhaps months before any cash can be se cured from the sale of the canned fruit. While the financing of an en terprise of this kind does not present an insurmountable obsta cle, the task is difficult enough to call for some thought and planning before the season for active operations ar rives. We want canneries and we don't want any of them to "go broke." PROGRESS Or ENGLISH. Mr. E. H. Babbitt, in a recent maga zine, emphasizes the fact that the Eng lish language, though not spoken by a greater number of people than any other, Is certainly the most widely read language in the world. "The map of the world's literacy," he says, "cor responds closely with the map of Eng lish. ' Three-fourths of the world's mall is addressed in English." Mr Babbitt presents a table of the num bers of people who can actually read, or who, will learn o read, if now too young for the various languages. Dutch and Flemish are at the bottom of European languages, with 9,000, 000; the Scandinavian tongues come next with 11,000,000, and Spanish Is next with 12,000,000. 'Italian counts 18.000.000, but is surpassed by Arabic with 25,000,000. Minor Asiatic and minor African and Polynesian tongues claim 16,000,000 and 2,000,000; France shows 28,000,000, Russia 30,000,000 and other European languages, chief ly Slavonic, 34,000,000. - The written Chinese is .believed to have 70,000,000 readers, and German is credited with 82,000,000. But English overtops them all with 136,000,000 readers, and it is 'believed that the number of readers of English Is growing more rapidly than the numbers of all others put to gether. POINTING THE GUN. There is a law upon the statute book which makes it a misdemeanor for one person to point a gun at an other. While the purpose of the stat ute is a good one, it is manifestly In effective. If the gun is not loaded, the man at whom it is pointed does not think seriously of the offense and has no desire to prosecute. If the gun Is loaded and does not go off, he may reproach the careless ho.lder of the weapon, but since no harm has result ed, he will' not have his "friend" ar rested. If the gun goes off, as usually happens, the victim dies, the criminal almost loses his mind from grief, and the bereaved family is so sorrow- stricken that prosecution -is opposed by them. So we never have prosecu tions under a statute that Is frequently violated with fatal results. Quite likely an unwritten law would be an effective remedy in cases of this kind. If. men at whom guns and re volvers are pointed "just for fun" would give the offender, a good drub bing, perhaps others would take warn ing and cease the idiotic practice. Cer tainly some means should be found for preventing one of the most com mon causes of death by shooting. Cold-blooded murders are scarcely more frequent than the killing of men. women and children by close personal friends who have such a shallow sense of humor that they see a joke In plac ing human life in peril. RCS6IA AND ITS NAVY. The Russian plans for a re-creation of the navy at an expense of $1,078, 000,000 have gone glimmering, and In stead of four battleships as a starter this year, one big fighting machine is about all that can be expected. There are a great many reasons why the an nouncement a few days ago of this billion-dollar programme failed to throw terror Into the hearts of Rus sia's neighbors. One of these reasons appeared in a St. Petersburg cable printed in yesterday's Oregonlan, ex pressing the belief thatMhe American plans for the fortification of Manila "will convert Cavlte Into the most powerful naval base on the Pacific, and enable the United States to insist upon an actual as well as a theoret icalrealization of the open door in Manchuria," Prior to Russia's defeat by the Jap anese, the most powerful argument at the command of the Russian govern ment, when it was seeking appropria tions, was the necessity for strong naval power to guard its Interests In the Pacific and enforce its desire to keep the Manchurian door closed against all comers. The fracas with Japan, which resulted in the loss of Port Arthur and almost everything else that was Russian in the Far East, obviated the necessity, for any further displays of naval strength in the Ori ent, and the admission that the Uni ted States could be depended on to maintain an open door In Manchuria leaves the Czar in no danger of his trade interests suffering, whether he has a fleet or not. Practically the only other locality where a Russian fleet would bear any semblance to anything more than a luxury is in the Persian Gulf, and that is already so thoroughly under British control that it would be useless for Russia to at tempt any aggressive tactics there. The project for a billion-dollar navy is said to have originated with the Czar and a few of his intimate ad visers, whose actions in t,he past have resulted in more bomb-throwing than would otherwise have been In evidence. The Russian fleet went down before the Japs like a row of tenpins before a good bowler, . simply because it was poorly equipped, incompetently manned and officered and wretchedly handled. Discipline was unknown and loyalty was missing. As yet nothing has been done with the remnants of the fleet to eorrect these evils, and un til there are reforms, it would be a sinful waste of money to build any more battleships. The patient Douma, which Js said to be broken to saddle and tame enough to eat from the hand of the Little Father, might be bull dozed into providing the necessary leg islation for paving the way for this billion-dollar navy, but it is very ques tionable whether the project could be financed. The luxury sought Is too expensive, especially at a time when the world is hearing continued reports of fam ine and hunger throughout the land of the Czar. A famine-stricken peo ple can hardly be expected to make heavy contributions in the way of taxes for such a -purpose, and the al ternative of borrowing might not be an easy matter. Viewed from almost any standpoint, there is small likeli hood that the ambitious plans of the Czar and his aristocratic advisers will be carried out. Mr. Bryan says the Republican party Is dying. Perhaps it is. . Par ties do not last forever. For exam ple, the party of Caesar and the party of Pompey, that tried it out on the field of Pharsalia, are dead. And the parties of the Guelphs and of the Ghibellines of the Middle Ages are dead, too. And tother parties since. For example, the party of Jefferson, which made its last stand at Appomat tox. Mr. Bryan still talks about Jef ferson; but Jefferson's notion, or the ory, or idea of our Government and our National system, is dead as Julius Caesar, or as Cneius Pompey, or as both of them. The old soldier who stood up in the meeting on Satur day and said he would vote for no Democrat, because he had been obliged to meet Democrats at the point of the bayonet, put the whole idea of the difference between parties in our coun try during the last fifty years in Its concrete form. It is exceedingly funny to find the New Tork Evening Sun taking with serious gravity the insistence of The Oregonlan that Supreme Court decis ions should be subjected to revision through the referendum, and even the popular initiative .employed in cases at law. The Evening Sun judges from this article that The Oregonlan Is one of the most rabidly revolutionaryand socialistic sheets of the country; and it gravely quotes the following from the article as an exposition of the spirit as it exists today: Whafs the constitution, anyhow? The constitution of Oregon was adopted when there were no more than 60,000 people In the state. There are 600.000 now. Why should 50,000 people, most of whom are dead, 'by ordinance enacted fifty years ago, rule over 600,000 now, all of whom are alive? D the part, anyhowl What has caused this eclipse of hu mor, which of course is but temporary, in the office of the New Tork Evening Sun? Candidates for the Senate are pub lishing their "platforms." But no body pays attention to them. A plat form put forth by a convention of a political party may amount to little; put forth by a candidate on his own account. It Is nothing. Nobody reads it, nobody pays the least attention to it. It is simply the proclamation of an office-seeker, who represents no body but himself. Party representa tion and party responsibility are cut out completely by this system. These persons who proclaim themselves do not represent any party. They repre sent nothing but their own desire to get office. A party's candidate must be representative; and he Is not repre sentative if he nominates himself. 'Mr. U'Ren says that when he paid Mrs. McGrath 3300 out of 31400 due he paid all that he ought to pay. Mr. Kay thinks he should have paid the debt in full. But why should there bo a difference of opinion over so sim ple a matter? What does the contract say? If 3300 is all that Mr. U'Ren should paj', the contract surely shows that fact and it will be a complete defense for him to make the agree ment public. He should pay what he agreed to pay no more and no less. Above and beyond the Statement No. 1 of the direct primary law is the great Statement No. 1 of life to do sim ple justice to all. The spirit of Insubordination seems to be prevalent among college stu dents these days. At Pullman the stu dents are warring with the faculty over athletics; at the University of Washington the students are talking of dropping two members of the faculty from the students' association board of control" because one of the students was "flunked" in English; at Stanford there is a revolt against the interfer ence of the faculty with drunkenness among students; at Willamette the stu dents have offered an affront to the retiring president. Jacksonville has joined the "booster" brigade. It Is an old town, and, like most of the old towns, very conserva tive. It has labored under the disad vantage of being off the main line of the railroad. But it is situated in a productive region, has many capable business men, and has vast and varied resources back of it. While the "booster" movement is on, that town resolves not to be left behind. Wel come to the ranks. Robert Nixon, known generally to newspaper men of the Pacific Coast, died at Yreka a few days ago, at the age of 77 years. He had conducted the Treka Journal forty-six years, and had' lived at Yreka since 1855. He was a native of Quebec. In the days wlien Yreka was an active mining town the Journal was one of the best known weekly papers of the Western country. Mr. Harrlman collected hundreds of thousands of dollars from the shippers of Oregon and spent it on improve ments and extensions elsewhere at the same time that his Yamhill and. Sheri dan line was unsafe and becoming more dangerous every day. Oregon pays the tribute not only in dollars, but in human life and limb. No American citizen, whether a Na tional, state, county or city official, can be properly called a "meddler" when he makes an effort at enforce ment of the law. The man who defies the law and persistently violates it is Uttle better than an anarchist. This is taxpaying time for 1907, but whatever property you possessed im mediately after 12 o'clock last night must be assessed for the next collec tion of taxes, and the Assessor must now begin again. Two things never sleep interest and taxes. Fruit Inspector E. C. Armstrong, of Marlon County, is demonstrating the appropriateness of his name. He is wielding an ax In diseased orchards a feat that requires a strong arm. If we are not to have school chil dren) on parade, let the Carnival com mittee arrange for a parade of defeat ed candidates. What is politics without tion? conven XI- I WOMAN'S STATUS AXD STRENGTH. Obserratloas ea the Recent Opimlom nf X the Sssrae Court. New York Globe. The Supreme Court of the United States recognizes a difference between man and woman which some state courts have been slow.-to comprehend, while others have indeed directly or in directly denied It. In upholding the Oregon law providing! that laundries and other concerns employing females in mechanical labor may not require such employes to work more than 10 hours a day the court places its deci sion clearly and precisely upon the ground that men and women are un like and that public policy justifies different police regulations for the two. Does this not sound like elementary sense? And does not the statement that such limitations upon woman's contractual powers are imposed not solely for her benefit but "also largely for the benefit of all" establish a self evident truth and remove the question so far from the region of contention and debate as to make attempts to drag it there again seemingly impos sible? And yet there has been such con tention and such difference of judicial opinion respecting this matter that a decision even by our highest court is not likely to induce uniformity of opin ion all at once. There will still be those who will declare, and from their benches decide, that men and women are alike, that they should be treated alike, and that it Is an outrage and affront to political and legal theory to attempt by one lota, to make the contractual powers of one inferior to those of the other. But it may be confidently believed tfiat in the course of time the decision will work its perfect work. The court has reached bedrock, and legal struc tures built upon it will endure. This is not to say that every limitation of contractual powers will not be or should not be scrutinized with the ut most care. Those who find a carte blanche in the case', permitting them selves all sorts and kinds of discrimi nations, will be abruptly disillusion ized without doubt. The gates have not been thrown open. The Oregon statute Is treated merely as a proper police regulation, and all police regu lations, to be legal; must be properly limited. But while contractual rights will be duly regarded and protected, perhaps less emphasis emphasis too often disengenuous will be placed upon them In the future, and more no tice will be taken of the fact that laws like the Oregon statute are very seldom conceived with a view to limit freedom of contract. Their primary and usually their exclusive purpose' is the protection and welfare of the in dividual and society. Place the accent there, where It belongs. Modernism. Ooldwin Smith in N. Y. Sun. There can hardly,- It seems to me, be much doubt as to the meaning of the Pope's expression "Modernism." From the - days of -Abelard and Arnold of Brescia to those of Wycliffe, from the days of Wycliffe to those of Luther and Calvin, and from those of Luther and Calvin to the present time,, there has been a constant struggle between- Papal autocracy and free thought. What is the Index Expurgatorlus"? What was- the work of the Inquisition? The Syllabus I have studied. But I do not find in it any renunciation, direct or indirect, of the Papal claims to dominion. They seem to me to be still plainly as serted, though of course not In the Im perious language of Innocent III or Boni face VIII. Political intrigue. If the world is not much mistaken, still goes oh through the Jesuit, on whose agency the Papacy fell back when its direct power over governments had failed. The Influ ence, of the Jesuit was commonly be lieved to have borne a part In bringing on the Franco-German war. Hlldebrand has, except in the person and within the range of. the Jesuit-, hardly succeeded in laying firmly the foundations of his structure here. In his own realm the structure seems nodding to its fall. With it will fall all that has been built on mere antagonism to it. A. happy hour may be coming for unity as well as for freedom of thought. " Once more let me say that I have spoken against ' Papal autocracy, not against the Catholic Church. The Catho lic Church, with its Christian ideal of character embodied in its Anselms, in its Pascals and its Fenelons, with its mis sions. Its charities, Its ritual. Its church art, would, if the Papal usurpation were historically detached from it, be relieved of an unspeakable load of evil memories. Doesn't Rerosrnlze Webster's Speech. New York Sun. Luther B. Little, secretary and treas urer of the Republican State Commit tee, Is now known as Daniel Webster No. 2. Perhaps he hasn't the forensic talents of the great Daniel, but In another way he has earned the name. I At the recent dinner of - the New Hampshire Society the dinner commit tee at the last moment was shy of speakers. W. E. Chandler and others couldn't come, and Mr. Little, a loyal son of the state, was drafted. He made a speech of rounded periods and swell ing eloquence. The 200 New Hampshire feasters were either dazed, dumb, or well, never mind but never a hand did Mr. Little get. Impenetrable silence was his portion from start to finish, and not till the end did he have his revenge. He then announced: "Gentlemen, I have repeated to you word for word the great speech of Daniel Webster, our greatest son, at the New Hampshire festival held in Boston in November, 1849, and not a mother's son of New Hampshire hpre has recognized a wordof it." Then came the yells and shouts of laughter, and from that hour Mr. Lit tle has been known as Daniel Webster No. 2. Some Interesting Facta. The imports to this country of tropical and subtropical products amounted to at least J600.OOO.O00 during 1007. ' The population of Oklahoma is about 1.500,000, and the increase in Oklahoma City, the metropolis, which now has 32, 4S2, has been 232.3 per cent in seven years. No Arctic explorers ever have colds until they return to civilization. Then, nearly all are prostrated by severe in fluenza. The population of Canada, according to the official estimates of that country, was S.504,900 on April 1, an increase of 21 per cent in six years. Tourista complain that Japan is getting to be the most expensive of all countries to travel In. Everybody considers for eigners legitimate prey. Saturday is the busy day of the London firemen. In ten years London had 3,393 Saturday fires, against 3,002 on Monday, the day they were least frequent. Britannia's Liqnor Bill. London Consular Report. With a total population of 43,659.121, the United Kingdom expended for liquors of all kinds during 1908 the sum of 3809.6S1. 829, or an average of 318 per capita. Of this amount 3495,187,316 was . spent for beer, the quantity consumed being 33, 8S1.191 barrels; 3253,201.812 for spirits, or 89.302,402 gallons; 153.992,961 for wine, or 12,328,691 gallons, and 37,299,750 for other liquors, or 15.000,000 gallons. The per capita expenditure for spirits was 35.82, beer $11.35, wine 31.25 and all other liquors 13 cents. The consumption of beer per capita in England, Scotland and Ireland was 31.4. 9.5 and 21 gallons, respectively; of spirits 0.8, 1-6 and 1 gallons; of wine v.- 0.3, 0.3 and 0.1 gallon, and of other liquors 4, 0.001 and 0.1 gallon. OLD AGS PENSIONS IX ENGLAND. Hours of Coal Miners Labor Also Are - to Be Shortened. New York Sun. In the legislative programme which the Bannerman Government has de termined to carry out during the pres ent session of Parliament, so tar, at least, as the House of Commons is concerned, there are two features of worldwide interest. We refer to the bill for shortening the working hours of coal miners, which is expected to lessen England's annual output of the combustible by about one-fifth; and secondly, to the old age pension bill, which, unlike the pension law of Ger many, will apply to every inhabitant above a specified age, and. again un like the German law, will not make the receipt of a pension depend on the preceding payment of contributions by the beneficiary. We may say at once that if the former bill is placed upon the statute book British manufactur ers will be handicapped In their com petition with their American rivals, while If such an old, age pension scheme as we have mentioned shall be sanctioned in the United Kingdom it will be difficult If not impossible to prevent a reproduction of it on this side of the Atlantic. Let us take up these proposed in novations In their order and mark their full significance. It Is computed -by experts that the bill shortening the working hours of coal miners will if it become a law increase the price of coal, already high, by at least 63 cents a ton. It is obvious that such a rise in the price of fuel wilt fall with pecu liar severity upon the very poor, who as it la find it difficult to keep them selves warm In Winter. But that is not all or the worst. If the wages paid by British manufacturers should go up In proportion to the advance in the -.price of coal, workmen, of course, would gain In one direction what they would lose in another. This, however, would not be the case. The cost of a British manufacturer's products would manifestly be heightened by his in creased outlay for coal, and If under such a disability he Is to continue to compete with foreign rivals, American or European, he will surely feel him self constrained to lower wages rather than raise them. The temptation to take such a course will be intensified because the present government has repealed the export duty on British coal which was imposed by its pre decessor. Since the date of the repeal the demand In parts of Europe has been so great that the price of coal in the home market has undergone a re markable advance. Now let us glance at the old age pension bill, which. It Is understood, will differ materially from the German precedent that makes workmen, their employers and the state contribute to a pension fund from which contribu tors alone may derive any benefit. Un der the British projected bill every human being in the United Kingdom who shall have reached a prescribed age this, it is expected, will be 65 will be entitled to draw a certain sum of money weekly from the imperial exchequer. How are the pensions to be paid? Mr. Asqulth, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said a year ago that he should "earmark" or reserve a specified fraction of the national revenue for the purpose, but the sum so set aside would fall very far Bhort of the amount needed to give even so small a stipend as three dollars a week to every man and woman 65 years of age or older. How is the deficit to be made good? Shall great economies be carried out in the mili tary, naval and civil administration, or shall new sources of revenue be tapped? The Labor party insists that the latter course should be followed, and there are Indications that the Lib eral leaders are inclined to acquiesce In the demand. That is to say, they will get the money required for oid age pensions by Increasing the income tax and the death duties, thus making the rich support the poor. We need not point out that if such an old age pension scheme is accepted In England there will be plenty of men in the United States, as well as in France, to clamor for a counterpart of It. There Is no civilized- people which has not cause to watch narrowly the doings of the British Parliament dur ing its present session. Well, Well! Chicago Evening Post. "Mr. Githerly." says the fair young Creature with the heavy pompadour and the permanent marcelle waves, "do you think that a girl Is justified In taking ad vantage of leap year and proposing to a young man?" Mr. Githerly thrills with expectation, hitches his chair closer to that occupied by the beauteous creature arid says: - "I do." "Do you know," she murmurs, "that is just what I thought about you? I had an idea you were the sort of a man who would be afraid to take even the slight est chance of being rejected." And iMr. Githerly did not recover con sciousness until he bumped Into a lamp post eight blocks away from her home. Making Men Vote Against Their Principles. Benton County Republican. There is certainly one bad feature about Statement No. 1. No Republican should be asked to vote for a Democrat for United States Senator, and no Lemo crat should 'be asked to vote for a .re publican for such .office, and should the popular vote be opposed to the majority vote of the Legislature this would need to be done. Let a Legislator hav?a chance to vote for the man in his own party hav ing more votes than any other candidate of his party. The Senators should be elected by the popular vote of the people, but as long as the Legislature elects no member thereof should -be asked to vote against the very principles for which he stands. , A FEW SQUIBS. "Don't you think my new suit Is a per fect m?" "A fit? Why. ifs a perfect con vulsion!" Cleveland Leader. Tommy "Pop', what is oblivion?" Tom my's Pod "Getting married to a famous woman, my son." Philadelphia Record. The Poet "To be a' post one must be poor." The Editor "Congratulations. Tou are the poorest poet I ever met." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wlgg "What errors these novelists make! Here the author of this book sneakB of his heroine aa being unmanned." Wagg "Maybe she was divorced." Philadelphia Record. "In the matter of that property settle ment. Mrs. Jones treated you meanly, didn't she?" "I should say sot Why. she couldn't have treated me any worse IX she had been a member of my own family." Life. The One "I suppose, sir. you think I am a tool?" The Other "I did think so. but now I think you must be a mindreader; therefore you cannot be a fool, and I beg pardon for thinking you were." Chicago Daily Newa "My collection." said the numismatist, proudly, "Is worth $10,000. And every coin genuine." "Mine," said the minister, sadly, 'is worth about- $7.63 a Sunday. And I have to take my chances on the coin's being good." Cleveland Leader. "Some of the greatest classical composers did not make any money," said the guest at the musical. "Tea," answered Mr. Cum roz, "that thought la about the only thing that gives me any comfort when I listen to the things they made up." Washington Star. "Ton-re wasting your own time and mine," said the busy merchant, lmaatlently. "I should think you'd see that." "Why so?" demanded the Insurance man. "I told yon some time ago that I was Insured to the limit' "I know you did. but a man will say most anything to get rid of an lasur- JLace wut-" Phiiadelnata, Pxaaa, T mati)nalgiard 1HE question of a rifle range In the vicinity of Portland has become one of importance, not only to local Guards men, but to commercial organisations and business men. Strong pressure is being brought to bear .for a suitable range, con venient to the city, and the entire Oregon delegation, at Washington, D. C. has taken the matter in hand. The Portland Commercial Club has formally taken hold, of the project, realizes that a modern and suitable range means much to Port land In the development of effective fight ing men. Tha chief aim at this time is to at tract the American fleet here for small arms practice. The men of the fleet must have some place for this practice during the Summer and, of course, will be altogether unable to use an Eastern range. California has nothing to offer at this time, nor has Washington, although both states covet the prize which Oregon stands an excellent chance of winning. The Guard Is Interested only to the ex tent of getting a desirable shooting ground and Is utilizing the other advantages merely as an argument to get substantial aid in securing the range. The expendi ture will be lo-ooo, on a low calculation, bat there possibly will be little trouble In Inducing the Government to spend that amount, or to secure the money locally, provided ths right sort of a tract can be found. Several strips of land are already under consideration, all of them con venient to Portland, but no particular piece has been definitely settled upon. , The local troops will benefit by establish ment of a range near Portland quite as fully as If the range, were a state in stitution; created for the sole use of the Guard, since the state soldiers are able to do their range work only on Sundays, while the regulars confine their ranse practice to weekdays. From, the stand point of the local infantryman a new range Is an urgent necessity since tha strip of land back of the City Park, which has done service in the past, is insuffi cient, affording no long range work: In fact nothing beyond 6(0 yards. The Port land rifleman, therefore, finds himself at a great disadvantage in competing witii marksmen who have ,had the privileges of 1000-yard ranges. With the new Spring field rifles, 1500-yard firing will -also be come a necessity. The outcome of the present movement for a new isnge is being anxiously watched, for the outdoor season is not far distant and the old range Is not greatly better than no range at all. a A movement has been started in the East for the . organization of an "Army League" the purpose of which will be to secure the support of employers of labor In guard work insofar as It relates to their employes. The movement has already assumed National proportions and is to be taken up in Oregon shortly. An Interesting statement of the purposes of the league has been Bent out from ths Massachusetts headquarters. It is as follows: "If the average citizen could know the amount of work performed yearly by his neighbor in the Guard for the amount of compensation received, he would indeed be astonished. "The great stumbling block today In the making for efficiency is the lnclllTer ence of the average employer of labor to the needs of our National Guard, and his attitude when an employe wishes to per form camp duty. This same employer Is generally the first to complain bitterly, m time of trouble, of lack -of protection to his life and property. "The organized militia of this country Is assuredly being welded into such a shape as to become a most important part of the Nation's plan of defense. The tremen dous force behind this movement was a revelation to the citizen who read of the recent deliberations of the Interstate Na tional Guard Association convention, in Faneutl Hall, Boston. The brains, energy and high standing of the representatives of 40 states, coupled with the business like methods employed in preparing anrt Introducing congressional bills, made for an Irresistible movement towards effi ciency. These same men have been called upon to devise a plan to interest citizens who employ Guardsmen. Employers are to be brought to see that training in time of peace is only a premium paid for a large insurance policy when trouble comes. The National Guard Associations throughout the states should not rest un til every employer of labor, large or small, joins the "Army League." thus pledging support to the land forces, which must be relied on as an Important factor in the first line of defense, when trouble occurs." ess . v Officers of the Third Regiment and battery attended the funeral services of Mrs. McCormaek, yesterday afternoon. First Lieutenant MeCormack, who has been in charge of the Portland- Armory for many- years, has the heartfelt sym pathy of the entire Guard in his bereave ment. e s Company K, of the Third Regiment, did itself proud at the annual inspection, Wednesday night, turning out an at tendance of 100 per cent. Not an officer or man was so much as tardy and tha company made an exceptional showing, meeting every requirement with a high percentage. Company K is likely to stand at the head of the list when the comparative statement of. the standing of the companies Is returned by Colonel Jackson, In his forthcoming inspection report. Company E likewise made a good show ing, although its attendance was short, there being only 89 per cent of the mem bership present. Those who were on hand rolled up high percentages in every other requirement, so that company is expected to stand well up towards the front in the Inspection report. The Fourth Oregon Infantry is now back in the ring as a regiment. Colonel George Yoran has resumed command, with Majors "Hammond and Hamlin as battalion commanders. It will participate In the American Lake maneuvers as a regiment. A meeting is- to be called shortly by General Flnzer to formulate and take up a plan of campaign in securing the 3100.00 armory appropriation made by the last Legislature and held up under the Initia tive and referendum. An active fight will be mads to secure this money, which Is an important need. The campaign will be waged with the view of bringing voters derstanding of the matter. It will be"" shown that the purchase of armories wiii the 3100,000 In question is a good Invest ment and that the state will ultimately save several times the amount in rentals, not to mention the Impetus that guard work will receive through construction of suitable quarters for organizations out side Portland. A Half Nelson. From Puck. Englishman (on Atlantic liner) Well, old chap, we'll soon be engaged with those blarsted Yankee custom inspectors. American You bet! And remember,, old man, that the United States expects every man to pay his duty! Man la Fined BO Cents Per Oath. Dover (Del.) Dispatch. Edward George was fined in George town, Del., 50 cents an oath for swear ins. the bill amounting to 315.