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rORTXAND. MONDAY, MARCH 0. IMS.
DRIFTING, WHITHKR?
The contest between Fulton and
Cake Is a useless one. The wrath
raised In the primary tight will not be
' composed, and In the June election the
friends of the defeated candidate, or
large numbers of them, will not vote
for the successful one. Truth is, that
one-half those who say they are Re
publicans have cut loose, or stand
ready to cut loose, from party.
This is the reason why Democrats
have been elected again and again to
the leading offices in Oregon. Party,
in the Judgment of this class of Re
publicans, signifies nothing. The his
tory of parties doesn't appeal to them,
Is no guide to them. To them, in fact,
one party is the same as another. Per
sonal likes and dislikes control their
action.
Of course, however, all men are
judges for themselves, and will act as
they think fit. But there can be. no
party where there Is no attachment to
any clear line of principle or action.
This is the reason why there has
ceased to be a Republican party in
Oregon, that will unite on any candi
date for a leading office. Faction has
done its work though not quite.
Other things of like kind are still in
store. .
Good judges hold the opinion that
there is at least an even chance that
Bryan will carry Oregon against Taft.
The Oregonian Inclines very much to
the same opinion. There Is no Re
publican party in Oregon.
But the Democratic party isn't
much, either. It Is a mere congeries
of opposition elements, without other
bond of unity than that of opposition.
But there are times when such force
becomes a cohesive power, and often
for a single effort a very aggressive
and powerful one. Realization of this
fnct will be witnessed In all the elec
tions of the present year. Victories
won under such circumstances, of
course, are no real victories; for in
their consequences they speedily dis
unite the forces, having no common
principle, that have united to produce
them.
Democratic success this year, which
is among things very probable, would
simply be an Incident of the dissolu
tion of old ideaR and of severance of
the present from the principles of ac
tion In past times. The departure Is
at marked upon other lines of thought
and action as in politics. Theological
dogma Is all but gone; the profound
trust In ecclesiastical creeds, once so
general, now scarcely exists: Ideas as
to social statics, industrial conditions,
taxation and use of public revenues,
are undergoing revolutionary change;
whether for the better or worse
time will show us all.
Meantime The Oregonian feels dis
inclined to support party, or to try to
effect anything through party, In the
midst of the general cjebacle. It is
useless for any one to attempt it. Af
ter while, doubtless, in the general
confusion, or out of it, some nuclei
will begin to form, which will afford
rallying points around which definite
action may begin, for some sure pur
pose. But the dissolution, though far
advanced, is not yet complete enough.
After the agitation has gone a further
length it will he found that the reins
of authority will begin to tighten,
which will increase the disturbance
and confusion; new aggression will
provoke still severer exercise of au
thority, and we shall have the materi
als of Internecine war. familiar to all
who have acquainted themselves with
human history during past ages. But
since It is Inevitable we can only await
It. The strife will be long, though in
termittent; and th country will be
tarried through many vicissitudes be
fore it can settle down to such rest as
it once knew; and then th new rest
will not be like' the old, but still on
bases that will enforce authority and
conoerve property, without which
there can be neither society nor government
PARTIES AND PAJJICS.
Mr. Bryan at Wheeling on Saturday
talked about panics. He referred to
the panic of 1893. which he said was
called a Democratic panic, because the
Democrats then, were in power. "If,"
said he, "It was logic then, why should
It not be logic now to call the present
panic the Republican panic?" Very
good taken as a hit in a stump
speech. But it was "smart," rather
than profound.
It never has been just to call the
panic of 1893 a Democratic panic, for
it was produced by the juggle of both
parties with silver, partly through
Ignorance and partly through dema
gogic strife for partisan advantage.
But more Democrats than Republic
ans were affected by the silver craze.
About two-thirds of the Democratic
party was "off" on that subject, and
about one-quarter to one-third of th
Republican. These formed a combi
nation that controlled Congress for
years each party trying to bid higher
for the silver vote than the other.
The legislation that resulted from this
alternate alliance and competition of
partisanship, of ignorance and of folly,
coined silver for many years on a false
ratio at the rate of 54,000,000 dollars
(so-called) per annum. In the course
of fifteen years this output of pot
metal expelled nearly all the gold
from the country, threatened the fall
of the money standard, from gold to
the market value of silver, threw
everything Into confusion, and was the
chief means of bringing on the finan
cial panic of 1893.
The difficulties were aggravated to
an extent by the success of the Demo
cratic party in the Presidential 'elec
tion of 1892, since that party had been
the chief prop and support of the sil
ver craze. But Mr. Cleveland prompt
ly took the situation In hand, called
Congress together In special session,
and forced repeal of the silverpur
chase act, for which his Rarty has exe
crated him ever since.
The agitation for sliver was vigor
ously continued, and In 1896 Mr.
Bryan became the candidate of his
party for the Presidency, on a plat
form which demanded unconditional
and immediate free coinage of sliver
at 16 to 1: which protracted the panic,
and prolonged the hardest of hard
times till after his defeat. But the
gold standard assured, ' the country
quickly righted itself, and the panic
caused by the silver craze was at an
end.
But, after all, it was not quite fair
to call the panic of 1893 a Democratic
panic, since a section of the Repub
lican party had for "years been sup
porting the fallacies and follies of the
silver propaganda Oregon contribut
ing all the time through her represen
tation both In Senate and House. But
finally the Republican party took a
decisive stand for gold and the Demo
cratic party went over bodily to silver.
A considerable number, however, of
the former adherents of either party
shifted places, from one side of the
party line to the other.
Of the causes of the panic of 1907 it
is useless now to write or speak; for
the causes are so recent that every one
easily recalls them. They were sim
ply the consequences of desperate
financial plunging in New York. In
their origin they had no relation to
party or politics; but in their effects
they may bear heavily on the Repub
lican party, since there are multitudes
who, when hard financial and indus
trial conditions appear, vote against
the party In power if not with ex
pectation of redress, at least to ease
their feelings by throwing the blame
on somebody; and an election affords
the readiest way. Don't blame Mr.
Bryan for trying to make the most he
can out of an opportunity of this kind.
Few politicians are above it.
AN EFFORT TO PRESERVE. THE BISON.
The American Bison Society, of
which Mr. Roosevelt Is president, has
formally called upon Congress,
through a bill Introduced by Senator
Dixon, to establish a National herd of
bison on the Flathead Indian Reserva
tion in Northwestern Montana. The
nucleus of a herd now owned by the
Society will be made a gift to the Gov
ernment, conditioned on Congress
providing land for a range and enclos
ing it with a fence.
The proposed plan has been very
carefully considered by a competent
board of managers men Withal who
see in the threatened extermination of
the North American bison a calamity
of natural history a wasteful and un
appreciatlve attitude of the American
people toward the wild life of the con
tinent that Is a matter of deep regret.
But now, as it seems, the great
table lands of the interior literally
swarmed with bison. Ponderous,
shaggy, formidable looking, gregarious
beasts, they grazed over a wide, range,
and though the chief source of food
supply for the Indian tribes that were
joint possessors with them, without
the formality of title deeds of vast
areas of grazing and mountain lands,
their numbers were not decimated
by the chase. The natural increase of
the animals was a guarantee against
extinction by such instruments of de
struction as the Indians could bring to
bear upon them. They were, more
over, sagacious and alert in their own
defense.
Less than fifty years, however, un
der the occupancy of the white man
have sufficed to clear the great ranges
of buffalo. The bison census, an
Interesting feature of the last an
nual report of the Society, shows
the existence at present of 1722 pure
blood American bison in captivity
throughout the world and 325 head
(estimated) running wild. Of the
latter. 25 are in Yellowstone' Park and
300 in the regions of the Great Slave
Lake. Canada. The net Increase in
captivity since 1903 has been 6X3
head. This shows a degree of thriving
under such restraint as It is necessary
to impose upon these erring creatures
that promises a perpetuation of the
species, providing the Government can
be induced to provide and enclose the
range.
The location of the proposed site is
an Ideal one for the purpose. It con
tains twenty square miles 12.S0O
acres of ridges and hills. unsuitedgto
agriculture and of no value except for
grazing lands. There is an abundance
of water and sufficient timber to af
ford shelter for the animals in the
severest storms. One thousand bison
can be pastured the year round upon
the grounds without feeding them.
Senator Dixon's hill carries an appro
priation of $30,000 for the purchase of
such lands as belong to the Indians
and fencing the entire tract- If this
measure becomes a law, the American
Bison Society will at once engage in
the effort to secure and present to the
Government a small herd of from 15
to 20 bison for the new natural range.
It may be hoped that the effort will
prove successful to the end that the
bison may not within a few years be
added to the list of extinct animals of
North America, the record of whose
existence is found only in fossil beds
and museums.
WHY PORTLAND GROWS.
It is a dull day in Seattle when the
rumor that Swift & Co. will establish
a large plant on the tidelands of the
Sound city is not given ample public
ity. Seattle, having for years enjoyed
a monopoly of the Alaska business.
which brought with it phenomenal
growth and prestige, has never made
a deep study of other factors in com
mercial growth. Swift & Co. will not
build a large plant In Seattle. They
are building In Portland the greatest
packing plant west of the Rocky Moun
tains, and will make this city the
headquarters for their Pacific Coast
business. These statements are repe
titions of what Swift & Co. themselves
have declared, but they are unneces
sary to convince any close student of
economic conditions In Portland and
Seattle at which of the two points the
plant should and would be located.
Any good railroad map of the Pacific
Northwest will show that the newly
completed North Bank road and Its
connections in the Inland Empire have
made tributary to Portland practically
an or the territory that Is now tribu
tary' to Puget Sound.
In other words, Portland and Puget
Sound are on practically even terms in
nearly all. the territory reached by the
Hill lines. Traffic can be drawn out
for Portland and sent in from Port.
land through as great an area as is
reached by Seattle or Taeoma. But
after Portland has annexed her por
tion of this business from the Hill
territory (and the downhill haul will
eventually bring us the lion's share)
there still remains tributary to this
port, and not to Puget Sound, that
garden spot of Oregon, the great Wil
lamette Valley, a territory capable of
such development that It will some day
alone be great enough to support
city of 600.000 people. Swift & Co.
and all of the other investors who are
starting enterprises large and small In
this city, can reach all of this great
valley from Portland. They could
reach none of it from Seattle.
The same Is true of that magnifl
cent undeveloped empire in Central
Oregon which will some day sustain a
population as large as the Willamette
Valley will sustain. Then there is the
great coast region stretching south
from the Columbia River for more
than 250 miles and containing more
standing merchantable timber than can
be found in any similar area in the
world, and having also large numbers
of little valleys of marvelous richness.
All of this is tributary to Portland, and
It is not tributary to Puget Sound.
These are some of the influences which
brought Swift & Co. to Portland, and
they are also bringing to this city
more residents and more Investors
than are today coming Into any other
city on the Pacific Coast. Dilatory
tactics in improving our river, undue
complacency regarding excessive
charges levied against our shipping,
together with other self-imposed han
dicaps, have delayed Portland in com
ing into Its own, but the hour has ar
rived, and recognition of our impreg
nable position is ho longer withheld by
the railroads or the capitalists who in
the past have been dazzled by the
glare of Alaska gold In Seattle.
NOT A HELPLESS NAVY.
An effort is to be made to secure
the presence In Portland of one or
more of the battleships now headed
for San Fraaclsco. The usual objec
tions will, of course, be offered by in
terests which make a specialty of
"knocking" the Columbia River; but
there is no logical reason that can be
offered why these ships should not
come here. We should like to have
one or two of these ships brought to
Portland. Pur people, who assist in
paying taxes to the Government and
tribute to the steel trust. Would like
to see what they are getting for their
money. We should also like to have
the opportunity of demonstrating to
the Government that this port has
been maliciously misrepresented by
men who, by asserting that there is an
Insufficient depth of water on the bar
or in the river, in the past have pre
vented such vessels from coming to
Portland.
The largest of these battleships are
400 feet long and have a maximum
draft of about twenty-six feet; but in
the "trim" In which they would cruise
along the coast, would not draw to ex
ceed 23 feet 6 inches to 24 feet. The
absurdity of a contention that it would
be unsafe for vessels of such length
and draft to enter the river is proved
by the shipping records of the port,
which show that within the past six
months more than a dozen vessels
ranging In length from 400 to 460 feet
and drawing from 2 4 feet to 26 feet
have departed from Portland and
made the run to sea without delay.
The big tank steamers Santa Rita and
Santa Maria, 430 feet in length and
seldom drawing Jess than 24 feet, cross
Into the river at all stages of the tide
and never encounter the slightest diffi
culty. But few of these deep-draft
freighters, some of them fifty feet
longer than the largest battleship,
are as well equipped with steering
gear and handle as easily as the bat
tleships, and there is not a pilot on
the river or bar who would not regard
the task of bringing the largest of
these battleships to Portland as much
easier than taking some of the largest
tramp steamers over the same route.
Yet the deeper draft and less easily
handled freighters, come and go with
out the slightest detention through
out the year, and the battleships, if
they come here, would reach Portland
when the rivers are ten to fifteen feet
above low water. This carefully fos
tered Idea that our Navy is composed
of weak, unmanageable, helpless ves
sels, Vhich excite wonder if they make
a cruise without mishap, is all wrong.
It is the outgrowth of too much stress
having been made on performances
which were not at all out of the ordi
nary. Too much wonderment Is ex
pressed over the feat just performed
by our battleships in steaming from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. Weeks
and months were spent in preparation.
Supply ships, repair ships and hospital
ships accompanied the fleet, and nu
merous Ftops were made en route.
It sounds patriotic to say that the
performance was remarkable, but it
would have been incomparably more
remarkable if the fleet- had failed to
reach the Pacific in as good condition
as it started. It might be well for the
American people to get over thinking
that our Navy is so perilously near to
being unfit for sea that it cannot
safely make a cruise over a route
which is continually traversed by
wheezy tramp steamers with cracked
shafts, soft patches on boilers, ill
manned and otherwise poqrly fitted"
for the voyage. But the tramps make
the trip, and so do the battleships, and
the largest battleship in the squadron
can come to Portland without taking
any more risk than was involved in
the peaceful cruise through two
oceans. Ours- Is not a toy Navy, and
the ships should not be regarded as
helpless playthings.
April 16 has been designated as Ar
bor day. Observance of the custom
west of the Cascades would at first
glance seem like giving sweets to the
sweet; yet there are many spots now
bare that would be beautified if the
advice of the lte J. Sterling Morton
were followed to "Plant a tree." There
Is a sentiment to the' advice and its
practice that appeals to mankind. Mr.
Morton made it his lifework to en
courage forest growth In his prairie
state. In season apd out of season, he
talked to dwellers on the treeless
plains. So well did he succeed that
the custom has crossed rivers and
mountains with, the migration of
youth grown to manhood, and it is
more than a monument' to his memory.
Every owner of a piece of land should
at least "plant a tree" on the chosen
day. ' Some one in years to come will
be benefited, whether in fruit or grate
ful shade It matters not, and hold a
kind regard for the memory of- the
planter.
The Boston Transcript recently
spoke of Harvard as "our oldest uni
versity." A correspondent of that pa
per "ventures to' remind it that Will
iam and Mary, in Williamsburg, .Va.
was founded some years before Har
vard." To this the Transcript an
swers, with the following interesting
details:
In the matter of date mistakes are eaay
and our correspondent Im not the first to
make one. The first butldlrtt; for Harvard
College a-aa erected in W7 and the first
class was graduated In 1R47. This was eight
years before William III. of Enaiand, for
whom and his que.en the Williamsburg- Col
lege was named, was born. It is true that
as far hack as 1M1 grants of land had been
obtained for the establishment of a col
legiate Institution near Richmond, and
such a school was established at Charles
City two years later: hut Indian troubles
ended the enterprise for the time being, and
It was nearly forty years later when the
grants were renewed. It was not until 1SS3
that a charter ,was secured from King Wil
liam and Queen Mary by the Revt James
Blair, Its first president. This makes Wil
liam and Mary College only seven or eight
jeara aiaer tnsn yaie.
Cheap labor on British ships has
attracted attention of the House of
Commons, and a protest is being made
at the action of British shipowners in
replacing British sailors with Lascars
and Chinese. This is- dreadful, and
seems beyond repair. The popular
American argument for ship subsidies
is that they are needed to make up
the difference between the cost of
American labor and foreign labor.
Now we learn tiiat even with a ship
subsidy there Is still "furrin" labor to
contend with. Close inspection of the
subject leads to the belief that in the
business of carrying the world's prod
ucts by wates, as in every other line of
industrial effort, It is a survival ot the
fittest; and if in the end the Lascar
or the Chinaman proves as satlsfac
torjf a sailor as he is a . "hewer of
wood and drawer of water," he will
probably swab the decks and feed the
furnaces on the ships of the world.
Hopgrowers are now getting the
best of the fight in the courts. The
buyers, who determined the wording
of the contracts, had things pretty
much their1 own way for many years.
but a slight modification in the con
tracts and a number of adverse decis
ions from the courts have given the
growers a fair chance. As said a num
ber of times in these columns, one of
the most effective things an organiza
tion of producers can do is to secure
the right to take part in the making
of the contracts between grower and
buyer. The one-sided contract is
never in the Interest of the producer.
A reader of The Oregonian, noting
its remarks on the recent decision of
the Supreme Court in the railroad
cases, writes that he wishes to call the
attention of the paper to the fact that
there Is nothing in the decision which
estops a state from prescribing rail
road rates. Very true, if the rates
prescribed are high enough to please
the railroad. But if the railroad isn't
satisfied it may obtain Injunction, and
take its case to the Supreme Court;
which amounts to virtual estoppel of
state legislation.
Superintendent O'Malley, of the
United States Bureau of Fisheries, an
nounces that he has Just received
100,000 rainbow trout eggs which will
be hatched and liberated at Clackamas
station. He also says that about
2,000,000 steelhead eggs will be se
cured at the Rogue River station. The
figures are disproportionate. One
hundred .thousand rainbow trout
would eat 2.000.000 steelhead fry be
fore breakfast.
Yon Yonson would make a stir, in
deed, as the Democratic candidate for
the. Presidency. He has the right
idea, too. that a man shouldn't be an
active seeker of a great office. But
he'll not get the honor away from the
Peerless and Perennial in that manner.
A son of President Jordan, of Stan
ford, was in the parade which brought
suspension to forty-one students. But
that fact did not prevent the father
from maintaining a firm stand for dis
cipline. Perhaps it helped.
Among astronomers violent dispute
13 still going on about the atmosphere
and supposed canals of the planet
Mars. Why don't they settle It by call
of the Oregon referendum on It?
Trust the people.
Perhaps that earthquake in Mexico
was an effort of the earth to applaud
the splendid marksmanship exhibited
by the gunners of the American bat
tleships off the coast of that country.
Whether he likes it or not, Admiral
Evans must serve the next few weeks
as a high-class advertisement for a
rheumatism cure.
Whatever may be the result in Eu
ropean countries, dynamite never
served the cause of liberty in the
United States; and it never will.
IX SWITZERLAND.
Experiment With Initiative aid Ref
erendum la That Country.
Francis B. James, of Cincinnati, presi
dent of the Ohio State -Board of Uniform
Laws, and member of the law- faculty of
the University of Cincinnati, in Washing
ton City the other day, made the fol
lowing statement, which is reported by
the Post:
The argument has been made that law
making by the initiative and referendum
would be especially successful in small
communities. There is not a single can
ton In Switzerland with more than 500,000
inhabitants, and yet not a single measure
has ever received the approval of a ma
jority in any one canton.
The . referendum in Switzerland has
resulted in the making of law by organ
ised, aggressive minorities, which en
force their measures upon the majority.
An attempt was made to secure popular
approval of a law making it a crime for
an elector to fail to vote. This agitation
forced a much larger percentage of elec
tors to go to the polls, but when they
went there under threat of criminal pun
ishment they put in blank ballots.
They are now attempting to get out
a popular vote by providing for a pay
ment by the state to each elector who
marks and casta his ballot, just as we
pay for Jury duty. The experiment in
Oregon likewise Is worth nothing. At
the coming election 19 separate propo
sitions -win be submitted to popular vote,
and It Is obvious that it will be impos
sible to obtain popular, expression on so
many questions. The referendum tends
to paralyze the Independence of legis
lative bottles, because members of leg
islatures know that no measure Is free
from the attack of 6 per cent of dis
gruntled members of society.
The men really back of the referen
dum desire it merely as an instrument
through which they hope to force upon
the public Henry George's fallacies so
cialism and government ownership of
railroads.
THIS IS SARCASTIC.
But There la a 1t of Truth In It, Just
the- Same.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Enforce the anti-trust law, indeed!
Really, gentlemen, something -depends
upon whose ox Is gored. How curious
that you should have forgotten It. If
labor is to be given a special status under
the conspiracy laws affecting "the re
straint of trade," why be shocked? Labor
already has a special status. What are
strikes? Once a strike was in itself crim
inal because of the palpable conspiracy
In It. But a strike Is no longer criminal
Jn this country. Wage earners were gi-en
the right to strike In order that they
might protect their collective Interests Jy
waging industrial war. In England very
recently labor unions -were granted by law
special immunities from damage suits,
and thus they were made under English
laws a privileged class. The Taft Vale
decision aroused to political action every
trade unionist In the United Kingdom,
and not even the House of Lords dared
to reject the trade disputes bill, which
was driven through the House of Com
mons out of fear of the labor vote.
With President Roosevelt following rap
idly in the footsteps of Sir Henry Camp-bell-Bannerman,
and seeking to counter
act judicial decisions against labor by leg
islation designed to appease the wrath
of unionism, the notion that he would en
force an old law that a Supreme Court
decision had lately sharpened against
unionist methods of warfare is a droll
conceit of the hopelessly reactionary
mind.
Hid Long Reach.
Puck.
"Yassah!" pridefully said the venerable
colored falsifier. "I's a hund'ed and twen-ty-fl'
yeans old dls Fall dis ynh comin
Fall, If I keeps muh heath. T'anky, sah.
for dis seeffyah; it sho smokes fine, and
the 'band around it Is monst'ous purty."
"A hundred and twenty-five years old.
eh T returned the f Hcetiousl'y inclined
tourist from the North. "Then, I sup
pose, you knew George Washington?"
4Well-uh, nussah; not mo dan doss to
howdy wid him nev' was one. sah, to
take up wld newcomers. But I knowed
Christ fur Clumbus consid'able; y as sah,
knowed him right well, comin and
gwine. To isn't got a vial In dem swell
elegant pants dat fits yo' so fine, is yo'
sah?
Case for an Expert.
Youths" Companion.
"Have you fixed up my will just the
way I told you?" asked the sick man,
who was the possessor of many needy
relatives and some well-to-do but
grasping: ones.
"I have," asserted the lawyer.
"Just as strong and tight as you can
make it, eh?" asked his client.
The lawyer nodded.
"All right," said the sick man. "Now
t want to ask you one thing not pro
fessionally who do you think stands
the best chance of getting the prop
erty when I'm gone?"
Wina Thonnands of Dollars on m Joke.
Boston Transcript.
Several years ago the superintendent
of the Rockaway Hunt Club on Long
Island, N. Y., bought, as a joke, a tract
of swamp in Jamaica Bay for $75. He
has since sold the salt hay on it for
$300 annually, and the other day refused
an offer of $25,000 for his purchase from
a dock company. Who says that real
estate as an investment does not pay?
He Felt Hart.
Chicago Tribune.
"No. I haven't anything for you," said
the hard-featured woman of the house.
"Instead of spending your time in loafing
around the saloons and begging, why
don't you try to follow some useful oc
cupation T
"Madam," said Wareham' Long, lifting
his jaded remnant of a hat forward and
eyeing her with a frown, "do I look like
one o' de idle rich?"
Hard Qaewtlon.
Washington Post.
Everybody knows that as 'the head of
the Iemocratic ticket Governor Johnson
can get every vote in the Electoral Col
lege Mr. Bryan can get. Everybody knows
that he can get votes in that college Mr.
Bryan cannot get. Then the question ob
trudesis the Democratic party mentally
responsible enough to be at large?
Congnreoa an a Talking Machine.
Topeka. State Journal.
Congress can keep just about as busy
doing nothing as the average farm hand.
A FEW
H (teaming to waits) Is it very hard to
revr She -Oh, no: just take your foot
off mine, and put it on the other. Life.
Bops I'd like to have my face on all
the ten-dollar bills. Coggs I'd prefer to
hav my hands on them. Harvard Lam
poon. "Sir. I hava come to ask for your daugh
ter's hand." "Take her, dear boy. As I
hav just failed, your proposition is a very
handy one." Baltimore American.
Antresfi Mercy! This paper says I am
inclined to be tout. Do you think I am?
Maria eer I should say not.. You are stout.
b.11 right, but very much against your in
clination Chicago Daily News.
Mrs. Crimson beak Tnu were pretty late
getting in the house last night, weren't you?
Mr. Crimsonbeak Tes. dear; it was very
slippery. "What was itippr-?' "The key
hole, dear."rr-Yonkrs Statesman. -
"Humph!" ejaculated the Japanese offi
cial, "we could land an army in California
within twenty days!" "True." replied an
other dignitary: "but could we keep it there
long I've read that living expenses there
averaged twenty dollars a day." Judge.
Old man (who? thought have been
turned by whisky to conversational topics)
Can e tell me, squoire, the difference be
tween "contract out and "non-provided
schools." Squire Go twy home, me man.
and come to me again when you're sober.
Old Man Pober! Nobody care for them
sort o' things when 'e'a sober! Punch.
NATIONAL GOARD
SS WAS to have been expected, the
recent and entirely unexpected
action of Congress in tacking a
paragraph into the Army appropria
tion bill ruling commissioned officers
out f the National rifle and pistol
matches is meeting with a sweeping
opposition. The War Department has
taken up the objection, as have mili
tary experts on every hand, branding
the amendment as a piece of crass
foolishness based on a narrow under
standing of military affairs. For
tunately the measure is not beyond
the remedy of reconsideration, and it
Is hoped to have the paragraph
stricken out. according to an official
report ieceived dring the week from
Washington. D. C.
In the first place the amendment
would serve to exclude from a third
to a half of the best riflemen in the
service, for officers have long taken
the most active interest In marksman
ship and the great advantage of having
them do so is not hard to understand.
The War Department announces itself
as looking with great favor on the
interest taken by the officers, point
ing out that no officer can properly in
struot his men in that most essential
feature of a soldier's work unless he
is familiar with the exact science of
marksmanship in its practical work
ings. Thus .the enthusiasm aroused
among commissioned officers at Na
tional competitions is no less valuable
than the increased ability to shoot
straight imparted to the enlisted man
who does the actual shooting in war
time.
An inconsistency in the amendment
lies in the fact that it excludes officers
from the National pistol matches. This
shows very clearly that the author of
the .amendment did not devote any too
much thought to his document, for
trie revolver is the officer's weapon in
the field. '
A table lately sent out by the pub
llclty bureau of the National Board for
the Promotion of Rifle Practice, and
just released for publication, indi
cates that In the matches at Camp
Perry last Summer there were 303 en
listed men and 261 officers on the
range. The table, arranged in the or
der of relative standing of each team
of 12 riflemen, shows officers from
the various states, territories and
branches of the service as follows:
Navy. 7: Massachusetts, none: Ohio,
7: United States Cavalry, 10; Washing
ton, 5; United States Naval Academy,
12; Pennsylvania. 5; United States In
fantry, 7; New York, 4; New Jersey.
4; Minnesota, 6; Illinois, 8; Wisconsin,
2; United States Marine Corps, 2; Dis
trict of Columbia, 9; Michigan, 6; Ore
gon. 5; Maryland, 6; Georgia, 6; New
Hampshire, 3; Iowa, 6; Connecticut, 3;
Colorado, 6; California, 5; Montana, 7;
Maine, 5; Florida. 5; Kansas. 9; In
dlana, 6; Texas, 7; Missouri. 7; Okla
homa, 7; Kentucky, 10; Hawaii, 7;
Wyoming. 6; West Virginia. 5; New
Mexico. 5; Arizona, 4; Mississippi. 6
South Carolina, 4 ; Nebraska, 2 ; Ala
bama, 7; Tennessee, 7: North Dakota,
4; Louisiana, none; Vermont, 6; North
Carolina, l; Virginia, 6.
Appended to this table is a state
ment by a member of the National
Board, whose name is not given, of
his views upon the amendment. The
statement follows: "In my opinion it
would have a very injurious effect upon
rifle shooting were the officers pre
vented from competing at the National
matches. The officers shoot alongside
the men elsewhere and work with them
In practice, and should be permitted to
do so In these matches. There is no
other way for the average officer to
get to the National matches except as
member of a teanv the place on which
he wins by superior skill. The good
which comes of their mingling there
with the best shots In the world is in
calculated and it is felt throughout all
branches of the service. The War
Department and the National Board
have always regarded their presence
there as highly beneficial to the cause
of marksmanship and It will be deeply
regretted If they are no longer per
mitted to participate in these contests.'
National legislation is just now
keeping the Guardsmen in the anxious
seat, particularly members of the Ore
gon Guard. The National approprla
tion bill has been tampered with in
many different ways since It was first
submitted to the House. For exampl
the appropriation for maneuvers was
culled out. This aroused a storm, and
it was undertaken to have it reinstated.
Since then nothing definite has been
heard. This leaves the Coast Guards
man in doubt as to whether he Is des
tined for joint maneuvers in the Sum
mer or for only a ten days trip to
a camp of instruction somewhere with
in the boundaries of the state. Then
too, the work of organizing two com
panies of Coast Defense Artillery and
several additional companies of inian
try is held p. The bill provided equip
ment and clothing for all state troops
and its final passage would make the
way for many new organizations of
all branches of the service. Settle
ment of these matters, one way or the
other, will be a distinct relief.
The review and Inspection Friday
night for Governor Chamberlain was a
brilliant military spectacle in every
way. The Third Oregon made an en
viable showing and Colonel McDonell
merited the congratulations he re
ceived on the appearance made by the
troops. The battery and Signal Corps
were splc and span and the turnout
throughout was the best of any quar
terly inspection of the past year.
The campaign for a favorable vote
on the Armory appropriation bill of
$100,000, held up under the initiative
and referendum, is to be taken up
this week. Adjutant-General Finzer
has issued a call for a meeting of the
committee on procedure, which will as
semble today and discuss a modus
operandi.
-
The last part of the first shipment
of new Springfield rifles has been dis
patched to company stations. Every
company in the state should have its
allotment of five guns by this time.
General Flnzer has received word that
a shipment of 1400 of the new rifles
may be looked for shortly. That will
enable equipment of both Oregon regi
ments with the Springfield. The row
obsolete Krag rifles will be returned
to the War Department in exchange
for the better guns.
Japan's Financial Burdens.
Leslie's Weekly.
"Within a few years Japan must raise
$1,000,000,000 to pay off or convert her loans
and to continue the improvements already
begun. and on which the prosperity of the
country depends. Until the great war
debt is paid, that alone will compel the
tax collectors to WTing lm every subject
of the Emperor about $63 a year. The
other day the diet added to the taxes on a
half-dozen of the most used articles in
the country. The end has been reached.
The people of Japan are carrying a bur
den which is almost too heavy for them
now, and a burden that cannot be in
creased. There is where the political dan
ger lies.
Fin for Playing; "Hookey,"' 5.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
In Chicago they flue the parents of
children who play "hookey" 15 and costs.
A good licking, for children, is much
cheaper and more effective.
Advertising Talks
No. 3.
THE PASS OF THERMOPYLAE
By Herbert Kaufman.
XERXES once led a million sol
diers out of Persia in an ef-
- , ...
.Luii i-auiure LTreew, out nis
invasion failed utterly because a
bpartan General had entreni-hed a
hundred men in a narrow mountain '
pass which controlled the road into
Lacedaemon. The man who was tirst
on the ground had the advantage.
Advertising is full of opportunities
for men who are first on the ground.
There are .hundreds of advertising
passes waiting for some one to occu
py them. The tirst man who realize
that his line will be helped by pub
licity has a tremendous opportunity.
He can pain an advantage over his
competitors that they can never pos
sess. Those who follow him must
spend more money to equal his je
turns. They must not only invest as
much , to get as much, but" they must
as well spend an extra sum to coun
teract the influence that he has al
ready established in the community.
Whatever men sell, whether it is
actual merchandise or brain vibra
tions, can be more easily sold with the
aid of advertising. Not one-half of
the businesses which should be ex
ploited are appearing in the newspa
pers. , Trade grows as reputation
grows, and advertising spreads repu
tation. If you are engaged in a line which
is waiting for a newspaper pioneer,
realize what a wonderful chance you
have of being the tirst of your kind
to appeal directly to the public. You
stand a better chance of leadership
than those who have handicapped their
strength by permitting you to get on
the ground before they could outstrip
you. You gain a prestige that those
who follow you must spend mora
money to counteract.
If your particular business is simi
lar to some other trade or business
which has already been introduced to
the reading public, it 's up to-yon to
start in right now and join your com
petitors in contesting for the atten
tion . of the community. The longer
you delay the more you decrease your
chances of surviving. Every man who
outstrips you is " another opponent
who must be met and grappled with
for the right of way.
(Oopyriicht. l&ns.)
I.Iftt OR 1ST SOIlTH CAROLINA.
A Picture of the Farmer Follower of
Tillman.
Will Irwin in Collier-...
'Tillmanism. the revolt of the masses
against the old "aristocratic" rule, was
the great South Carolina tssue in the
early W. Ben Tillman, the- magnetic,
shrewd, intemperate-mouthed tribute of
the plebeians, was the man of the hour.
Feeling; ran so high that South Caro
linians marvel now at the things they did
and believed in those days. In tfce wake
of that radical movement ran aU kinds
of extreme ideas.
Especially was there pronounced pro
hibition feeling in the country districts.
The farmer follower of Tillman, known
contemptuously to the opposition as the
"wool hat and one gallus boy," has his
own peculiar attitude on the liquor ques
tion. He is an ardent and violent church
man: the crossroads meeting-house is his
social diversion as well as spiritual guide.
His church and his pastor are violently
opposed to strong drink; in his own minii
run pa'rellel a purely theological loathing
for the Demon Rum and a purely personal
liking for liquor. A vote for prohibition
places the onus on his sin upon the
liquor dealer -who sold him "the stuff."
His wife is even more violently opposed
to the public sale of liquor.
Locomotive In n Thlmhle.
Kansas City Journal.
Tha smallest locomotive engine in the
world weighs 12 grains, and three drops
of water fills its boiler. This miniature
marvel was constructed by an ingenious
American. Despite the fact that it could
be placed inside a thimble, it is composed
of 140 distinct pieces and is held together
by 63 screws. The stroke of the piston is
onQ-twelfth of an inch, and its diameter
is one-ninth of an Inch, yet when it gets
In motion it works as though it were the
strongest and biggest locomotive that
ever ran on rails.
Oklahoma Asserts One Right.
Terre Haute Star.
When you are counting up Presiden
tial candidates don't forget Jacobs. Ja
cobs? Why, to be sure F. W. Jacobs,
of Kingfisher. Okla., whom the Populists
have nominated. It is tha privilege of
every state to have a candidate for the
highest office, and Oklahoma does not
mean to overlook any of its rights.
The Poor Boy Can Do It.
New York Sun.
The poor boy baa no chanrs unless he run
arouse the people by using- his tongue. Mr.
Bryan.
Mr. Bryan is rich but generous. . Thus
frankly does he lay bare the cause of his
prosperity. But isn't his profession get
ting crowded?
Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorrre.
Charlea Kinpsley.
Are you ready for the atecplc-chase, I.nr-
" rafne. Lorraine, Lorree?
Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum,
Barum, Baree, .
You're booked to ride your capping racp to
day at Coulterlee,
You're booked to ride Vindictive for all the
world to see.
To keep him stralg-ht, to keep him first, and
wp the run trom me.
Barum. Barum. Barum, Barum, Barum,
Barum, Baree.
he clasped her new-born baby, poor Lor
raine. Lorraine. Lorree.
"I cannot ride Vindictive, aa any man might
see.
And I will not ride Vindictive, irith this
baby on my knee;
He's killed a boy, he's killed a man, and
why must he kill me?"
"Unless you ride Vindictive, Lorraine, Lor
raine, Lorree,
Unless you ride Vindictive today at Coul
terlee. And land him safe across the brook, sn-i
win the blank for m:.
It's you may keep your baby, for you'll get
no keep from me."
"That husbands could be cruel," said Lor
raine. Lorraine. Lorree,
"That husbands could be cruel, I have
known for reasons thrpe;
But oh: to ride Vindictive while a bahy
cries for me.
And be killed across a fence at last for a",
the world to see!"
She mastered young Vindictive Oh! the
gallant lass was she.
And kpt him straight and won the race as
near as near could be;
But he killed her at the brook against a
pollard willow tree.
Oh! he killed her nt the brook, the bruta.
for all the world to see.
And no one but the baby cried for poor
Lorraine, Lorree.