TTTK MOTCXTXO- OREGON I AX. FKTTVV. A PR I X. tO. IfXV.
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Ku'.'y tn'-.o.rihs of the votor of
tr1 K'p'.iV.car.s, soom? to
tv. or thtr.sv. or both otio
Ami !o; r.ftnvMy. that ;rif numbers
o Oivv.ivra;? h;v rojristtrM ft Re
iv.:btw.v. r that tho r.ow immffrrA
v 'n. whi.'h h:? boon t. rv hoavy. hrt
broujtln o:i!y Rov'.bio.n votor. There
i pr.sai tri:th'. dovtbt ios. in both viv
posu :or..
in th part of ktrco Tuimho of iho
IVnv.'ow of tl'.o ?::-. thoro h? ben
oa';i:.:ov1 ami oonoorfl purpose, )f
bol-ov in.looi it is we!t Known
rocstor as Kopub'.'oar?. That
: ht r o b v ; h o m : ? h r mow rn o i y jo n
on.' or another of The Roiobhoan fao
ttors m the ;T::varies. foro nomt
ratiot whu'h nv?fht best serve to oro
:;e i-sor,r:? i". tne RepxibMoan
j'-ariy. am! :hus open a way to some
,!fn'o of s-ooe for their own. This
i the "same," ,!oi:o:ionab?v. it s
w o in aooril with :bo Bwork;.r.rs of
m.Mlorn virtv sxvri. T t the iv
.str;';i ooe an.i wo;ir th:xt yo: are
a mt'rr.bor of o:te p.xrtv. and re?ritor
.s s.U'h, tltotiirh in fAot yon aro a
rno.Vr of nnotVirr. fs r'ir.xreti a
vrrv cxouab oery..r. v r;atn".y no
i "o;st sc.r.rvt s.:oh praotioo. whether
e.irr-'M on by :v. embers of -r.e party or
an:h"r. ar.d n- or.ino:at(on vf ;t. can
oft'eot :ir.yth:nc it we1, howev
t o know
? is goi""? on. and to mark
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v.v
A great :v..r.v row voters have com
trt the state. t:ndo;:btdly. The gain
i-i M-'.trotv.:'..! r.:y a!. to is Id 00
t-a year? It can scarcely be sup
p w 1 t hot : a : i of t he m ; re Repn Vs
;ns. et most of them may be. Per
r;r? ore of the stirvr:?-' of tho etoc
w.1'; be f-nd In tbe results pro
vk o I bv the new voters. If they are
p re p v. o r.i r. t y R e pu b tea n they may
pps-'t tt nyt calculations based on past
con . :.t.s. Ft th-y may know
and cre Toss a.v.t the o'.d eontenttor
and o, .larre'.s nVt w-n f Actions in this
s'Afv anv. very gvr.erally may vne
their party t:.Vet. wh.Atver ; may br.
Of ec-?e tvse things nre merely
cor.;eott' ra. WAt i? afp.T.rer.t is the
t'Ao that r.rty V.rtes now are s" ex
trer.ely loos? that CAlcuations based
.rj f.v-rner re;;'.t art god for noth
:"g at a . F.t-pub' caps may mak a
c ! a n we e . a r. d ye : ma y el ect vc ry
few of t h e ;. r c a r. .i d a t e Fro m the
tritriary t the e" ectior. the "kntflrg"
i' :1T be the mst spectacular thing of
:h. k:r,i rv-T seen tn Oregon. About
s-x ye.trs .nf Republicans in great
r :ibcr. in th s state. beg-Aii to aban
d'vn .h- ;r psr :y ar.3 "ply the knife."
T'e.rouch tr.d er.ation. resentment, dis-g.:-t
ar-J or?e of injury rhe example
r ? st re a ?. t .11 mrghty few now. ef
v.it. who have par::cipAte-3 !n this ex-er-
-. ir who have been victims o? it,
can Ne s penned on to ""stand by the
r1-! rty a q ie.t:n is whether the
n-wrorr.-Ts wi.l he a ieadtr.g factor
th s y?tr; ard whrt course they will
tak. It rev-T w.i; he known till the
votes sre counted.
TH T. AMFRICAN TYPKWRITF.R ABROAtX
The An.rcan ty pewriting machine
made :ts way in foreign countries at
art astoa sh:r.g rate in the decade from
S? ;o IV37. Ten years arx having
mad their way siow.y for ten years
previously, the value of thee ma-.
fbnrT in foreign market was $1,500.
Cot la?t year it was $.250,!0. A
r ntarkaMo feature of this demand is
that it has been more rapid in those
countries usir.g a language other
than o.ir own than in the English
speaking countries. In the Spanish
American cur. tries. frr example, the
cf these, exportafons increased
f-e-n $7.4c' in 3?7 to $;av0 in
17. wh!l :n Bran!, whre the Portu-
pijse Isri'jar i us--d. te value of
typewriters er:i from :he
009 !n T7.
tbp er.tr vain? of vprwr!'n
ivni-b'Tur of AmrVan manufacture
.vmiirW in IST !t $t.:tt. nl tn
MOT J? JIT. 450. To oi-r tvrt of
value In the busings transactions of
tha olvlied wor'd. The showing
pavs flatter'ng- tribute to 1henvonti e
e- ' . -
and Mpjic!ty or American manufacture
..
V;Mnt douMlw to vap a n
nniblhtv. tho Sooat oommutoo an
frr'.m art'atrs ba? tvrnod ovrr to tho
FneMlent th di?pnto irh Venernla.
" w ith po r to sot." Thr Pros)Mi?
".r(y wiM bo oa-.'tiou y h( proo
f'r. tho'och 'trotv.iovts. ho not
a tviv, und Venrsueta is antonjr weak-r-t
i nation.
Our c-nnpint of vio'atton of tho
tva of tho fn'.tovl State at a Veno
K'.io'an p.tortU t oIl fTuU '1 Fvtt
atr ha rp'io1 bv what t hey i'M
tn iaw oonfe(on anl avvtnnneo. Ho
jvlmtt '.he oura. but a It was
d-no b. rrvoonsth!e peron. i
tr'io the porson- wore Vonctitan v--oia
is. mnl t hf;r im.-pon,1bthty. then
foro. it ts harviiy i,eorsary to p'o.vV
Heretofore we have prevente other
At tons from snurtlnit this d(rt y. an--xhistTO
bte state ov.t; ntl now we
nv.t:n'; snnY it oit oire!vei (f we
oan ftml any way to avoM U. In
t?S rr''vlont Clerelan! entered .o
v-iroro'.: a protect arainst notion
asi'inst Vonertieta. undertaken by
vitvat Pr'tain on a bonndarv Hnnto
N-fwn Venetue'A n1 Tfrt!h OxH
ann. that the matter was setite1 by nr
bt ration, wit horn projmltoo to the
Spa;sh-A morU'an branrarta. whose
r rhetoric, not loss than their pro
pensity to oonmt ontraev --n fo'en
er. i? a :nrke1 feature of their own
eharaoter. and perfvt!v iHutr;ttve of
: t tc '. r method of d i p 1 o n a t o d o 1 ; 1 1 s .
iv!b!y wa may brin the lUtlo revo
lutionary a"d robber state up with a
round turn, aa we did Colombia in the
Panama business, but we shaH hardTy
th'nk vt worth while, for tho iramo
sr.t worth tho oandle
CYNICAL NVNrNr.
The fvtiow1nir rxtraord-.nary state
ment was latto1 by Senator Aekroyd,
of NV York, whose oonstitviont at
noyed him with petitions to support
Governor Rushes bill ajnilnst race
track nmbmir;
I w-u'l .'.tXt to tt pv- w ho
rx-.n:w t.- r.!V rt tr th ph of nsht
"vt r yM-ii5re- t this is m Rf,uMknn
nifssvre sWr1 fr tr Wrputiu-iin v;v
ernor av.A ihrr nr tn this Sr.;e thtrtv
lo RepcWIr!? sS?r.xior. mid it tk only
twnty-ic'T tf pass bttt. TSlr h--
tprtral tnofr.et hd better b d!ro:d tii
wrvl tf. Rf;iv-!n mT,Wrs ef bi bovly
rtr tttun xc in Demeerm..
If the vioc trine of this statement is
?ound. then the minority in a leubela
ttve body is frte from ail responsibil
ity for legislation and owes no duty
whatever to its constituents. It ha no
duties, no responsibilities. obliga
tions. What. then, is tho use of keep
ing the minority in the l-o?ris!ature ?
As soon as it is a sov r t a i n o d which
party has tho majority, tho minority
may s well jro home. There ft would
at least bo out of misohtVf and miht
jret some useful work done on the
farm.
Since acoVrd'nfi: to Senator Aekroyd
the minority is entirely useless, why
shouM its members receive pay if
they render no service they deserve
ni remuneration. It might quicken
their sense of duty to the public and
lend them to discover that they are
not wholly exempt from responsibility
if the moment one of them professes
the Aekroyd philosophy his salary
were ma vie to cease. The truth is that
every member of a Legislature repre
sents his constituents and is under ob
jurations to do what he can to help
on gvod laws and hinder bad ones. Ir
respective of his party name. The
peopV do no; as a rule send men to
theLeisiauiro to make party capital,
b it to enact measures f'r the general
welfare. Members who ignore this
truth, are traitors to their constituents.
it is seldom one's privilege to read a
more cynical bit of nonsense than
Mr. Aekroyd's statement
lORTfNl STit.I. I.EAlVi.
Building permits and post office re
ceipts continue to break all existing
records" in Portland, and business has
so far regained the ground lost during
the panic of last Fall that bank clear
ings are rapidly approaching the rec
ord figure? of last year. The latest
compilation of bank clearing by the
New York Financial and Commercial
Chronicle gives the figures for the last
week in March, for the month of
March and for the three months end
ing with March. In all three of these
periods Portland makes a far better
showing than either Seattle. San
Francisco or Los Angeles. The statis
tics are especially interesting, showing
as they do that while for the first quar
ter of the year the average decrease in
clearings throughout the United States
was 2s per cent and m New York
alone 35 per cent. Portland's decrease
was but 17 per cent, compared with
per cent decrease in Seattle. 3V9
per cent in Los Angeles and 31.7 per
cent in San Francisco.
The showing for the month of
March was stiii more favorable pro
portionately, for. while Portland clear
ings decreased but 16 per cent, those
of Seattle were 21.3 per cent less than
for March. 1S07, and Los Angeles and
San Francisco showed decreases of 27
and $3.4 per cent, respectively. The
improved showing was progressive, for
In the last week in March Portland's
decrease was but 13.4 per cent, while
that of Seattle was 21.8 per cent, and
Los Angeles and San Francisco had
decreases of 2.2 per cent and 3S.7 per
cent. New York, which was the first
to feel the effects of the panic, seems
to be slower in recovery than any of
the other cities, for the clearings for
the three months show a decrease of
35.4 per cent, and in March they de
creased 42.5 per cent.
Fortunately for the Eastern trade
centers in particular, and the entire
country in general, there sterns to be
a more hopeful feeling, and there are
many signs that the turn of the tide
has set ip- One of the surprising feat
ures of the "aftermath" of the rich
man's panic is the statement of fail
ure for the first quarter of 190.
While this statement shows 430s dis
asters with aggregate liabilities of
1 IISJOS.ISI, and ia a- record Xor tfce
period namett. ft faN far short of the
reoorvls made in when the tnsnr-
atu-e etsurvs aet the flnnnolnl wHd
anre FaHurea1 for the seooud nuartor
of 1?03 reaehed the rooord total of
H 31.000 HabilitWs, For the third
quarter thy were J'iS.SOO iH nd for
the fourth quarter $.5oa,00v. eaoh
or thse quarters fjr exoeedm the
Uabilittes of the quarter jtit otosd.
Fvery tynp s familiar wth the rapid
recovery that was made from the lo
f?ttrry and. aa the damajre wrottirht
bv the one from hloh e ro now ro-
ooTHhJt In htany pepo ts I'jchtor
than that of Us prodeAsr four veara
earner, it is reasonabV to c spool an I
event. Portland Is makinir better
finanolal ahowlnr than any other oity
of its sise in the I'nlted State, and
hv ton odds thr best oily on the Fa
oitio voast.
TttR orrtvrnx t mk. hhtis.
There are ha'T a doven iVmoorntio
papnt in Nw York whose perslstont
!y bitter opposition to Mr Hryan la
one of the most entertaining features
of current politic. Tho Ut of thorn
includes the Hrok?yn :a-U, the
Time, the World, the Kventu Post,
and a few othora. Those papers make
a mistake in dealing with Mr. Bryan
w bch" aM ah)p strategists are careful
to avoid. They willful iy underesti
mate the character, intolHirenoe and
popularity or the man w horn t hey
wsh to defeat. The Timvs. for r
Am pt, says of Mr. Fryan that "his
motives are as plain as dayUght can
make them." meaning that ho is a
candidate only for the monev there ia
in it. Such a statement Is Uttlo short
of madnosa. In the measures which
M r. Hr an advocate? he often exor
cise bad judgment, hut ho is, we
think, not insincere, nor are his mo
tives base. Again, the Times remark
that "the unexplained and' unoxplain
ab'.e thing ts how reasonably intelU
cent men can listen tt his tirosome
prating and his transparent misrepre
sentation of curront event." Such
language shows a strango obliquity of
mind in the person who wrote It.
Thee metropolitan papers underes
timate the popularity of Mr. Bryan.
To follow them one must believe that
the Pomoerat i c n a ss e a a cc opt his
leadership with extreme reluctance. It
almost seems as if tho Times and the
Brooklyn Kao Imagined that he had
some occult power by which he could
make people follow him against their
will. The Times remarks, to quote an
ot her sentence, that "the Democrats
of the Soxtth do not want him; they
will accept and support him only be
cause somebody must be supported
and he Is at present the only man very
much In view." Why Mr. Bryan hap
pens to be the "only man at present
very much in view' the Times dis
creetly refrains from explaining. That
he is not the only Democrat who
would accept Presidential honors if
he could get them is clear enough.
Indeed, the Times mentions Johnson.
O ra y . H a rm on . as a mon g -t hose who
are willing and who are Mr. Bryan's
"superiors tn every quality that consti
tutes ntnes for high political office."
Amazing that the Democratic party,
which Is so weary of Mr. Bryan's lead
ership, does not discover the superla
tive tUness of some of these men. Ts
it because the masse of the party are
irretrievably stupid? Is It because
they do not know what they want ?
Or. after M, is the solution of the
mystery the much simpler fact that
the New York papers do not know
what they are talking about, that the
Democratic voters see in Mr, Bryan
qualities hich no other man of their
party exhibits? To what other politi
cian in recent times has such unswerv
ing fidelity been show-n as to Mr.
Bryan? Is it a reproach to him or a
real tribute that his followers cling to
him in evil fortune more loyally than
those of other men in victory?
Finally, the frequent reproach that
Mr. Bryan has divided his party is
not true any more than it is true that
Mr. Roosevelt has divided the Repub
lican party. Both parties ars divided
because an irreooncilabte difference of
opinion has arisen among their re
spective members. This difference of
opinion goes to the roots of political
philosophy and the science of govern
ment. Tn either party we have on one
side a faction which believes that gov
ernment exists to maintain the privi
leges of a class. On the other, a fac-
tlon which believes that government
exists to promote the common good by
abolishing privilege and making all
j men equal before the law. Between these
I factions there is no hope of real reeon
I ciiiation in either party.
SENSATIONAL PKCIXNK IA" WHTRAT.
The Chicago wheat market yester
day touched S3 4 cents for the July
option, the lowest figure of the season.
The continued weakness in the market
is somewhat surprising, in the face of
continued reports of light storks
throughout the United States. The
American visible, despite a slight in
crease on Monday, is now under 4 0.-
000.000 bushels, and. with two excep
tions, is smaller than at any corre
sponding date in the past ten years.
But the market throughout the sea
son has shown a surprising disregard
for statistics, and. with new-crop
wheat in the far Southwest only about
thirty days in the future, there are at
times signs of weakening in the tired
holders of "long" wheat.
The situation presents some inter
esting features whether it is regarded
from a National or from a world-wide
standpoint. The dependence of the
importing countries of the world on
the United States and the Argentine Is
strikingly hown in the world's ship
ments since the beginning of the sea
son, last July. These shipments, to
April 4. have reached a total of 402.
000.000 bushels, compared with 399.
000.000 bushels for the same period
In the preceding season, and yet the
increase in American shipments for
that period has been 50.000.000 bush
els and from the Argentine there has
been an increase of 20,000,000 bushels,
a gain of 70.000.000 bushels from these
two countries alone, while Russia. Aus
tralia, the Danube and Austria-Hungary
all show decreases in the aggre
gate exceeding the gains of the two
largest wheat producers in the world.
The rapidity with which the Argen
tine's record-breaking crop has moved
is shown in the statement that since
January l more than 75.000.000 bush
els have been shipped. It seems hardly
possible that this enormous average of
weekly shipments can be maintained
much longer, and it will be surprising
if there is not a sudden decrease in
the shipments from the big country
down south. With American ship
ments 50.000.000 bushels greater than
i for a corresponding period in the pre
ceding soason. and with the assurance
I of the. Government figures that liie
trt7 American crop was 100.00a.00a
bushels smaller than ts predecessor It
woud seem that the American farm
ers must be wearing the boUom of the
wheat bins.
The sensational decline In the July
option tn ihioaco eterday would
sem to Indicate that the speculative
element had decided that there Is a
sufficient amount of old-crop wheat to
last the country until the new crop Is
available In Juiw and that the coming
of the new crop will be the signal for
tower prices. This may he good rea
soning, from a theoretical standpoint,
but theories have been known to bn at
fault, and there is still plenty of time
for crop scares and h'gh-priced July
wheat.
The "co-eds' of the FhiverUy of
Oregon denir. it is said, to heoome
better acquainted with one another,
and to this end will give an entertain
ment at the college gvmnasium to
morrow night, from which young men
will Im barred. Any legitimate device
that w ill have a tendency to break up'
the ctamitshues that results from
sororttle in this or any other public
educational Institution should be wel
comed. Fraternities and sororitlesex
chtVivo and snobbish In their nature
and extravagant In their tendencies,
are entirely out of place In any school,
university or college that is main
tained at the public expense, and finds
ns an argument for it existence and
support the democratic principle of
equality ba-ied upon merit, an d not
upon wealth. Beginning with the hgh
schools and carried on through state
universities, these societies destroy the
feeling of friendly competition and
genuine, all-around good-fellowship
among students that tho scheme of
education at the pubMe expense pre
su p poses.
Seualor Fauchor. of Now York, en
tertains tho most lively scruples
against gambling, but he takes a queer
way to express them. When Uovernor
Hughes antUgambMng bill hung In the
balance Mr. Fa nclier was at a wine
upper, where he won $2000 in a po
ker game, and for tack of his vote the
bill was lost. He now declares he was
"kidnaped." If Mr. Faneher Is not a
fool himself ho must have reason to
think that the people of New York
are fools, or he would never tell such
a silly story. He 'don't often play
cards." and yet he won $2000 from his
kidnapers, and would have won more
if he had not lost his glasses. Very
remarkable. One la constrained to
condole with Mr. Faneher over the loss
of his glasses, for his vote was worth
much more than $.000 to tho gam
bling Interests, and no doubt they
would have let him win $10,000 if
the unhappy incident had not blinded
him. By the way. how many glasses
did Mr, Faneher lose before he be
came blind ?
The March parade of certain Stan
ford students who resented the Inter
ference of the faculty of the unive tty
in their drinking bouts on the campus
is now a closed incident, with forty
one undergraduates down and out.
The rtery champions of these rebellious
students who planned to leave the uni
versity and their laurels In a body If
the unruly paraders were not rein
stated have evidently taken counsel of
discretion and decided to remain and
take, the degree to which their credits
entitle them, since the public hears no
more of this proposed flaunt of defi
ance to duly constituted authority.
This is well. It represents tho first
lesson in good citizenship obedience
to rightful authority early learned.
The postponement of such a lesson to
a later period Is very apt to bo fol
lowed by disagreeable and indeed seri
ous consequences, as the number of
young men in states' prisons amply
testified.
The sixty-fifth anniversary of the
organization of the first civil govern
ment in the Oregon country will bo
celebrated, as for several years past.
,by an excursion and suitable exercises
at Champoeg, where the organization
was effected. The anniversary occurs
on May 2. and the names of the or
ganisers were given to a modest gran
ite shaft and placed on the site eight
years ago. There was then and still
is one vacant place among the names
thereon inscribed a place reserved
for the name of F. X. Matthieu. sole
survivor of a patriotic band. The ex
cursion by river and trolley is one of
the most enjoyable of the year, and if
the weather is favorable it will doubt
less be well attended. The occasion is
one upon which patriotism and pleas
ure join hands and make a day of it.
The death of Cornelius Beal at his
home on the East Side recalls an era
tn the history of Portland in which
! Mr. Beal was a familiar factor. It
! was Portland the village not Port
I land the city with which Cornelius
i Beal was identified through his simple,
I unostentatious endeavor. Old citizens
will recall his removal to what is now-
known as Council Crest many years
ago. and his simple life there for a
considerable time. He abandoned the
then lonely hilltop some years ago and
lived in retirement at the home from
which he passed but now at the age
of 7 3 years.
The latest charge against the auto
mobile is that its wheel chains are
rapid disseminators of germs of dis
ease that are dust and alr-bnrne.
These chains, it is asserted, should be
frequently disinfected, and legislation
! for that purpose is suggested. While
j they are about it. let us hope that a
j law will be passed requiring owners of
automobiles to use perfumed gasoline.
While the foreign racing automo
biles have had a taste of mountainous
America, they will have to wait until
they make the Alaska leg bpfore they
really know what rough sledding is.
The Statement No. 1 people claim
the next Legislature by the handsome
majority of nine. They reserve the
right, however, to revise their figures
later.
A scandal in the French army is
announced. This is not surprising.
What. Indeed, would the French army
be without a scandal ?
An expectant and loyal constituency
domiciled on the Pacific Coast takes
comfort in the thought that warships
don't get rheumatism.
Mayor Lane doesn't seem to relish
the annulment of his vetoes by refer
endum to the solid decern.
Eack to Santa Barbara wiin that
Ibaii team I - -
W 4 I IM'OIA A l1ttKlNrt MIM
lweretttK hrHtet am H1 PfrMnl
Meeril f rtHt IVHmi Wtite .
KfFK. Or. ApHl s - iTo the KMt
tor. There baa ho eoMMemh V
en?on in om of the newnttit of
late as to whether er not Abraonm Lin
coln used In lx leant. some aeHm
that he , never u-e them, and othes
that he was a cnl stout dHnker. WhMe
nt jrrvMiv Interested in tht question,
1 wrts stH n dav er two wo considerably
uvpiisfd t, find that in one ef.the t.n
coin -I vmaia dvhairs. tht oeemrhig at
Ottawa in Aucust. t:. he I spoken of
as ee who had a rrtt eanavll y for
Uuuor. I rood the ehatv tht Oouctt
tunde first, and then hastened to find
Lincoln's roply. thinking that I might 1
sob e this question for thoe who deem i
It llal to his fame lVh;tps Iho char
d reply aro worth reprodnelnie. as they
f I, e eouitdei able tnstaht Into the char
acter r-f tm dial incuishod nn-n and
their method In debate.
In hi speech that day pouwlrts spoke
of Lincoln as follows:
"I have known him for neartv 'R years.
There were many points- of sympathv be.
I ween us alien we first not aotpi'ilnted
We were both comparatively boys, and
both strusttMnv with poverty in a stranae
land I was a ehoo! teacher In the town
of Winchester, and hn a flnurWhluR gi"n
cety -keeper in the town of ftalcm lie
was nvv-e successful In hi eeoupnt Ion
than I was in mine, and he nee nnv-e for
tunate In this world's good. Lincoln is
one of those peculiar men who perform
with admirable kHl every I h tug whlll
thev undertake. I made as od a school
teacher I eon hi. and when a cabinet -maker
I made a Rood bedstead and
tables, alt houah my old bos nid I suc
ceeded letter with bureaus and secretaries
than with anything else; but I believe
that Lincoln always wns more successful
in business than I. for his business en
abled him to get into the legislature.
"1 met him tin .- "d had sympathy
with him because of t ne upblll st mural
we both had In life. Ho was then Jut
as good at lelltn1 an anecdoto as now.
Me could heat any of the boys wrest -Hn.
or runninir a fot race. In pitching
uuolts. or to In ir a copper: could ruin
more I fmior than a U of the boy of the
town tog-ether, and in the dignity nnd
hupavtiaUtv with which he presided at a
horse race or a fist fiRht excited the ad
miration and won the praise of everybody
that was present aM participated. . . .
Mr, t.lneolu served with me In the Legis
lature In IVit. when we both retired, and
he subsided, or became submerged, and
was lost to sight ns a public man for
some years.
"In t. when the Wltmot Introduced
his celebrated proviso, and the Abolition
tornado swept over the country. I .incohi
again turned up as a member of Congress
from the Sangamon District. . . . While
In Congress, he distinguished himself bv
his opittlon to i he Mexican War. tak
ing the side of the common enemy
against his own country: and when he re
turned home he found that the indigna
tion of the people followed him every
where, and he was again submerged or
obliged to retire Into private life, for
gotten by his former friend. He came
up again in 1M. iut In time to nvike
an Abolition or Black Republican plat
form. 1n romps. ny with tiiddinss. Love
Jo v. Chase and Fred Douglas, for the Re
publican party lo stand upon."
This would be very Interesting, not
only on the drink question, but as a sum
mary of Lmootns life and political career
prior to tiSs. If It were reliable. Tn his
replv Immediately following. Mr. Lincoln
said":
"When a man hears himself somewhat
misrepresented, it provokes him at least.
1 find it so with myself: but when mts
n' present at ion become very gross, it is
more apt to amuse him. The first thing
I see fit to notice Is the fart that Judge
Douglas alleges, after runnlnc rn rough
the history or too old Whig pric.. that
Judge Trumbull and myself made an ar
rangement by which 1 was to have the
place of General Shields in the United
States Senate." (Here Lincoln denies
certain political charges which I have
omtted from the speech of Douglas.
Coming finally to the personal charges,
he says: "Now I pass on to consider one
or two more of these little follies. The
lodge is woefully at fault about his earlv
friend Lincoln being- a 'grocery -keeper.
I do not know that It would have been a
great sin If I had been: hut he Is mis
taken. Lincoln never kept a grocery
anywhere In the world. It is true Lin -coin
did work the latter part of one
Winter in a little sttllhouse up at the
head of a little hollow. And so I think
my friend the judge Is equally at fault
when he charges me at the time when I
was In Congress of having opposed our
soldiers who were fighting in the Mexi
can War. The judge did not make his
charge very distinctly, but I will tell
you what he can prove by referring to
the records. Yon remember that I was
an old Whig, nnd whenever the Demo
cratic party tried to get me to vote that
the war had been righteously begun by
the President. I would not do it. But
whenever they asked money, or land war
rants, or anything to pay the soldiers
there, during all that time. I gave the
same vote that Judge Douglas did. You
can think as you please whether I was
consistent. Such Is the truth, and the
judge has the right to make all he can
out of it."
And with this the great man goes back
to a discussion of the great principles
Involved in the then pending controversy.
It will be noticed that Mr. Lincoln
took pains to deny that he had been In
his early life the successful groceryman;
also to make It clear that he had
voted funds for the Mexican War. But
so far as these passages throw any light
on the question of whether he used in
toxicants, it is the problem of the lady
and the tiger. He might have omitted all
reference to Irs ability as a drinker be
cause he could not success fully deny the
statement made. Again, he may have
passed it over because it was so notor
iously false as not to need denial. Any
way. I commend the passages to those
who deem it a vital question whether
he did or did not drink.
A.
Bryan's Kloqnence.
Lippenrott's Magazine.
William Jennings Bryan was addressing
a political meeting in Iowa on one oc
casion when. Ir is said, he fairly carried
away his audience by the power of his
oratory.. Among those most impressed by
the Xebraskan's effort was a man known
to be very deaf, but who nevertheless
seemed to be listening with breathless
attention tn Bryan, and who apparently
caueht every word that fell from the
speaker s lips.
Finally, when a particularly fervid pass
age had been delivered by the man from
Nebraska- with the effect of eliciting a
storm of applause from the audience, the
deaf man, as if he could contain himself
no lonzer, yelled in the ear of the man
next to him:
"Who is that speakin?"
"William Jennings Bryan!" shouted the
man aadressed.
""Who?" roared the deaf man. stilt
louder.
"William Jennines Bryan, of Nebras
ka'"' came from the second man in a
piercing shriek.
"Well, well!" exclaimed the deaf man.
excitedly. "It don't make any difference,
after ai!. I can't make out a word he or
you are savin: but, good gracious, don't
he do the motions splendid!'
A Poaer.
Kansas City Journal.
"How long.'" asks the New York
World, "would it take the shopping
women of the country to revise the tariff
if they had the chancer That's a poser.
As a woman ran shop all the forenoon
or afternoon or both without making a
purchase, there seems to be no practical
basis for a calculation.
nueeMfTw ntnt tt WMe Mtftte
X lvrttr la Plaee4.
tndtanapotl Star
The peopb of the Slate of Oregon have
jtone to considerable lengiha In the pop
ulnt!aion or OV moor at (sallon or govern
ment. Tev have Invoked a popular vote
upon decision that our repi-esent stive
v1em hnd referred to etubHes of men
oWted bv the mass of Vetera for their
exceptional abllUv to deal with the prob
lem of siate. All nomination for office,
for etample. are mad bv decet vot
of the peopV. The old oottsMcra t Ion ad
deo'fon bv party conned, under party
tvponih'!t v. have beep superceded bv
proceduec approximating more and more
to tho Vtnattnn of a pur demoeraey.
A m per I o t test of this Oemtv-r a t e
tendency in operation la to be matte In
Oregon at the June election, when numer
ous statute, proposed or alreadv enacted,
will be pushed upon hv the people, under
the velebrated "tnllfatlv. and referendum-'
- the rlnn! flower and fruitage. It appenrs.
of the psthwav from repvesenirti ive gov
ernment, through direct nomination for
office, d'reel election of off tear previous
y appointed or chosen by letstattve a
leotloii, to cotnolete ride bv Hie voice of
the me This test relates to a no les.
important and essential problem for every
aelt-governing penpta that hopes to per
petuate Itself than the matter of public
education. The rxlslonee of the Sltrtte
University is menaced through appeal to
the popular antipathy for taxation, to
proludica against te higher education,
whh-h ts not confined to Oregon, and evl
deetiy to numerous loral lealmis'ea from
Institutions whoso promoter feel that
Hiev nmv receive more If the Stale Uni
versity shonM receive less.
Oregon wn once proud, as It had reason
t be. or its State Universltv. and Its
whole educational ayateM, Member of
t ho I .eg) slain re had a hesitation which
isolated voters do not feel, to cripple the
InstH.itlon and the system. Yet under the
pressure of the direct vote and Its men
ace. I ha support of the University haa
been p-eerlou and declining, until now.
Perhaps, its lot IP moat discredit a his
among tha state. Ono of Its chancel
lors a fier another ha been dra a n to
of her fields. Sometimes It tnatrnctot
have had to serve without pav. and now
It Is proposed that no engagements with
them vnn safely le made for a longer
P-rhd hhan one year. The luatttttl on 1
living from hand to mouth. A referendum
has hern called for and ordered upon the
appropriation made by the legislature
last year. lis result la obviously In
grave doubt, and upon Ha issue depend.
mM onlv the fa Ii h of the state' masse
In the necessity or Importance of popu
lar intelligence and In the anchor af
forded a people In the stinerinr wisdom
and character of II exceptional and rul
ing minds, bul also, we should say, tho
verdict mankind will render upon tha
safety with which grave policies ami im
portant Institution like this can be trans
ferred from representative custody to the
votes of the masses.
What la a Candle Power f
ft Is very Indeterminate. Pretty much
every one think he know what a candle
power l a--the light given by a aingla
candle, of course. A a matter of fact,
candle differ as much la luminosity a
lighthouse, oil lamps or fire file, and a
candle power la not one thing, but half a
dogen, according to t lie countrv wher
tha phrase Is used. In Ureal Britain and
the United State the standard light unit
Is the amount given by a "spermaceti
candle, burning up at the rate of lt!0
grains an hour, with a flame 4ft milli
meter high.' etc. In France the atand
ard candle is made of siearlne. and Oor
many's candle wa. until a few year
ago. paraffin. Now the I at tor country
uses x he so-called Tie f tier unit of light,
the amount given bv a certain form of
lamp burning acetate of amyl. Another
lamp standard, called the parcel, was used
in Frame. In this purified rape seed oil
is burned. Because of this unsatisfac
tory International chaos, ii la now pro
posed that our National Bureau of Stand
ards at Washington take step to estab
lish a standard international candle,
which would be acceptable to at least
nine counries. The Joint committee of
gas and electrical engineers which Is urg
ing this standardisation declare that the
change could be made with very little
disturbance of most of the national stand
ards now In existence.
Senator Ronrne Talk of the Oe-rll.
Washington (D. C Herald.
Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon,
made one of his frequent visit to the
White House the other day. For the
thousandth time he declared that Mr.
Roosevelt will bo nominated and elected
for a second-elective term.
Taft can't he elected, and he won't he
nominated." he said.
ro you expect to be a deleatr-at-largo
from Oregon to the Chicago con
vention?" Mr. Bourne wa asked.
"I shall not refuse, if I am selected.'
he said. '
"Suppose the rielega lion should be in
structed for Taft?"
"1 never hid the devil good morn ins
till I meet him.'
Newspaper Maklnjc.
From I,1fe
Considered a a manufacturing business,
newspaper making Is enormously hazard
ous and absurdly unremunerative. With
other manufacturing concerns the rule is
that if they don't make profit they quit,
but that Is not the rule with newspapers.
They always have moral and political rea
sons for clinging to life long, long after
there has ceased to he any pecuniary
warrant for it. A newspaper In these
days Is about as Pkfly to declare a divi
dend as a church is. Competition be
tween papers is intense, the price of near
ly all of them is too low. the cost of
white paper and manufacture too hlsrh,
and they give a great deal too much for
the price that moat of them now sell for.
Getting; Tired of Jetf Iavla.'
Arkansas Gazette.
Hasn't "Jeff" Davis learned his les,on
yet? Doesn't he know by this time that
the people are sick of his continual abuse,
nauseated with hi billingsgate, weary
of his buncombe and balderdash, con
temptuous of bis Insufferable vanity, nnd
revolted at the presumption that they
must elect the candidates 'who represent
his views, that no man can hold office
whose candidacy "Jeff" Davis has ve
toed, and that tha state must be put in
the hollow of his hand, a hand that is
soiled nnd besmirched by the abuae of
the power that the trusting people of this
stare have confided to It. but yet insati
ably grasps for more power?
A FEW SQUIBS.
Mrs Fann Tont yu think thm phro
jrraph i pltchad too high? Mr. Baren No;
pitch it on the roof! Vonkers Statesman.
fjW!tt T palntM this picture to keep the
wolf from the door. ' Jewett If you hang
ir jvhere the wif can it I guess you
will succeed. Judge.
Tn Patient But leott hers! How An I
know ail the times I'm getting- absent treat
ment ? The Healer Don't worry. I'll send
you an itemized bill. Life.
"Is yea husband voracious In his appe
tite. Tnaf'am?" "T can't say a "he Is. doctor.
He'ii eat everythlnk and everythink as long
as there's any think to eat." Baltimore
American.
"Janet has told me that ynn used a
naughty word, today. Flossie " "Janet
shouid be a little more definite In her
charges, mamma. I use o many." Cleve
land plain Dealer.
Xhe rAnstahle Yes. your worship, the
prisoner ts a most sijsplcou character. The
Accused (indignantly i It's him that's sus
ppecious Aw m no suspecious o' on y body.
Puni-h.
"Cheer up. old man," said the eonsoMng
friend "You Know itoe iHugns at lock
smiths." ' Yes. I know-.' replied the de-j-ted
lover. "But her father ain't & lok
tmltVi; he's i boPermaker." Detroit Fre
Pres.
Why do thev refer to Government ofTiee
as pie?"' Beesuse." answered Senator ?or
Ehum. "it's something that nearly every-b-dv
likes himself, although he thinks it'a
bad' for neaxlx averytoody else." Washing-
AUt'UHU S Incident Illustrating the
want of tact of the father of l.oid
Tennyson, ha lust been mad
public In a newly published beak of
Knallsh literature.
The story relate to the period when
Mr Tennyson visited lmd St. Helena,
the British AmbMsaador l St. peter,
burg. Knssla Ur Paul had noM wi'h
a violent death a short lime previously.
Lord St. Helen gave a dinner parly In
honor of Mr. Tennyson, and among oiii
er guest were pnveral Russian officer,
who did not give ihelr name, the lat
ter bring supposed to be unprononu-
able. Mr, Tennyson Inslelert on Miking
of what liv termed the "murder" of the
Csar Fanl,
'T1eae do not dteus the matter,"
advtard the British Ambassador, hur
riedly "Talk of something? else."
"Tt's an open secret.' affirmed M r.
Tennyson. "Almoat everybody In Knit-
land knows that the Cnr Paul was
murdered . that t'oun I Zobnff knot ked
him down, ami thai Bennlugsen and
Count Pahlen then strangled him.'1
'Mr. Tetvoyson. you will InstsniW
lea v the la hie. aro to m private of
fice and consider yourself a pt isoiirc."
lormed Lord SI. Unions. Mr. Tenny
son left, in high d'plesiire.
Ten minutes afterward. St. Helen
ran Into Tennyson's preseuee, saying:
' I- ly for your life! The man who sat
r.axt to you at table la Count Pahlen.
and your other fellow guest was Count
V.ohoff . M v butler will at tend you."
Knst horse conveyed Mr. Tennvson 1 o
Odes. and. disguised as a waiter. b
managed to reach Fngland. Tim Inci
dent nearly created an in tenia t ion a I
rupture.
On would naturally fancy that if
the gifted author of "in AI em or la in "
had occupied his father' pla-e at tha
memorable dinner table, he would ha
chosen a safer subject for discussion.
a
It wa the personal Iwlirf of "Inn
Maelaren." of "Kail ant d and Bonne
Hrier Bush" rams, that a sense of humpr
is a hlndeanee to practical attercs n lifr.
"Young men can congratulate themselves
If thev lack this dangerous quality," cnun-rllr-d
the observing Hoot, "but If they
have It. they honld hide It behind a sus
tained and impenetrable solemnity until
t hey aehicw a competence. Then, ke-p
humor as a luxury for foolish old age. "
Who would, for Instance, suspect humor
In the dignified composition of such a dis
tinguished American preacher, orator,
and author a Bishop Phltllpa Brooks, of
Massachusetts? once. I r. Courtney.
Bishop of Nova Scotia, asked Bishop
Brook to preach at a consecration serv
ice at a iai hedra I. and being a gieti t
aut horlt v for splendor of c rrmmiht I,
wrote his fallow blshon to be Mire and
bring "a red stole." Bishop Brooks ne -rented
the Invitation tn preach, and added,
this hint In hla letter;
"I am sorry to sav that f have no red
stole, but I have a pair of red suspender.
Will the latter do?"
t
A young author In St. Paul. Minn., who
had become weary of receiving unaccepted
manuscripts from polite magazine edi
tor, wrote to one of Iho. offenders tho
other day: "What I have been sending
you does not seem to stilt. I ha i e de
termined, therefore, to proceed on a new
basis and have every confidence that tha
enclosed will not be ret urned 'unsuit
able for publication. I now beg to en
close my check to pay for a year's sub
scription of your valued magazine."
In a little town In Wisconsin, one of
the first resident, as you enter the su
burb. I a woman who .recently engaged
a new cook who really wa a stieeeas In
her vocation, but It wa noticed that tho
new arrival could neither read nor write.
"Bridget, how can you cook so welt?
asked her employer.
"Shnre. mum. ( t lav it t not bcin
able, t rnde th cook book.'
'
"Literary fame I not very highly re
garded by soma people." complain Wil
liam Denn Howell. remember wlim
I was In San Re mo seeing In a French
newspaper a notice that hears upon this
question. It wa a nollee Inserted by a
rat-trap maker of Lyon, and It an Id:
" 'To Whom it May Concern 1.
Tierre Ixu I of Lyons, Inventor of th
automatic rat-trap, beg to state thnt
he I not the same person, and that ho
has nothing In common with one Plerra
1Otl, a writer." '
"Hypnotic Them petit les." hy John D.
Quarkenhna. which Is permeated with tho
conviction that hypnotism Is the greatest
regenerative force of the age. continues,
to be widely dMcussed. It I praised and
condemned, alternately,
Another secret Is 'nut." Elisabeth
Rtfdand. the author of "Lnfcadlo Fleam's
Life nnd Letters." now confesses to the
authorship of "The Secret Life." a book
which met with much favor here nnd in
England and is to be published shortly
in a new edition.
Victor Herbert, the 'cellist and music,
composer. Is a grandson of Satimel Lover,
the Irirh novelist.
When V. J. Bryan was in Indianapolis
recently he met Meredith Nieholson, tho
novelist, at a mall dinner party. Some
where between soup an salad the au
thor asked the orator if he could, and
would, tell In a sentence the secret of
successful speech making.
"Be sure of your facts and believe I1
you say.' replied the Democratic Idol.
"And now." Mr. Bryan continued, "will
you tell me. In a sentence, how you make,
successful fiction?"
"Forget the facts and make the other
fellow believe all you say," promptly
replied Nieholson. whose "House of a
Thousand Candles" and Rosalind at Red
Gate" would seem to prove his epigram
matic receipt a good ona.
More tha n a decade has elapsed since
Thomas Hardy announced his determi
nation to write no more novels, a reso
lution which he has kept with a faithful
ness rare among other public entertain
ers given to "farewell" appearances. He
will, however, break silence now and
then with a 'little verse. That hip au
dience as a novelist is constantly growing
is shown by the fact that the Harper
find it necessary to continually reprint
ntories so wide apart in date of original
publication as "Under the Greenwood
Tree" and "Jude the Obscure.
Anne Warner was "doing aeroum-'
the other night, and discovered that for
each day spent on "Susan Clegg and a
Man in the House" h had received
about ?200; whereas. If "The Rejuvena
tion of Aunt Mary" runs successfully
through a second season, at the end of
that season she will have received in all
about $50 a day for the time she has
spent on it.
The Century Company announces April
IB as the date" of issue of "Lyrics and
Landscapes." by Harrison S. Morris, and
of two new novels. "My Lost Duchess."
by Jesse Lynch Williams, and "The
Cheerful Smugglers." by Ellis Parker
Butler.
Jesse Lynch Williams "My Lost
Duchess" is a romance, with a mystery,
the scenes set chiefly in Fifth avenue
and Central Park. The book is to have
a lunette on the cover by Wallace Mor
gan and srx fnsets in tint, in two print
ings, from drawings by the same artist.