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DISPOSING OF MR. ROOSEVELT. '
Ever since Mr. Roosevelt began his
second term In the White House our
busyhodies have been distressfully en
gaged in providing for his future. A
personage- of his magnitude seems to
"stump" them. None of the usual
avocations of our ex-Prcsidents fits
htm exactly. Washington could retire
to his princely estate, and, surrounded
by obedient slaves and aristocratic
friends, lose nothing of that majesty
which doth become a retired First
Magistrate. But Mr. Roosevelt, though
by no means poor, has not the means
to-set up an establishment that would
pass as "princely" in these opulent
davs. The best he could do in that
line would be outshone by so many
that it would look mean. Washing
ton, the richest American of his gen
eration, could do what Roosevelt, who
has only a comfortable fortune, can
not Imitate. The chances are that he
has never dreamed of Imitating it. His
Ideal of country life partakes more of
the cowboy type than of tho aristo
i ratio.
Much less can one imagine Mr.
Roosevelt going into the poultry busi
ness, like the estimable Mr. Hayes,
when he quits office. In our visions
and dreams we can behold him roping
a steer without much of a shock, but
neither men nor gods could endure
the spectacle of Theodore Roosevelt
setting a hen. With no perceptible
loss of Presidential prestige Mr. Cleve
lBnd has diverted his post-official years
after several manners. He has reared
a family, delivered homilies and finally
cast the mantle of his vast respectabil
ity over Mr. Ryan's insurance com
pany. Two of these things Mr. Roose
velt has already done with unap
proachable dexterity; the third seems
somewhat incongruous with his moral
and mental habits. When Grant went
out of office nobody bothered much
about finding an occupation for him.
All he had to do to keep his dignity
intact was simply to be himself. Ap
parently that self was so great that
nothing could add to or lessen its maj
esty. Whatever he did or refrained
from doing, he was always Grant, and
that was enough.
But in tho minds of his countrymen
the idea of Roosevelt is inseparably
associated with activity. Repose is no
part of his character, as the people
conceive it. The Nation refuses to
think of him as a dignified idler, a
spectacular sojourner in royal palaces,
a dilettante in literature, or a peripa
tetic lecturer, such as Mr. Harrison
became. We are all determined that
he shall have something to do which
shall keep his tremendous energy fully
employed and at the same time gran
diose enough to save his Presidential
respectability and our pride. We can
not bear to let him do nothing: still
less can we bear to let him do any
thing undignified.
Everything that has been proposed
for him thus for leaves something to
be desired. It is a truly noble office
t(: he President of Harvard Univer
siiy. for instance, but so it is also to
he bishop of Massachusetts or editor
of the Century Magazine. There is
nothing in the nobility of a university
headship to make it exclusively suita
ble to round out Mr. Roosevelt's ca
reer. It is somewhat of a disen
chantment. Indeed, to picture him fac
ing a hostile campus for the sak of a
new set of football rules he who has
faced a hostile plutocracy for the sake
of a nation's liberty.
The suggestion of his becoming a
Senator is not without allurement.
Undoubtedly he could and would make
a great stir among the decrepit shades
of that sepulchral chamber. He would
et the dry bones rattling. But what
could he accomplish? Are his ener
gelc methods well adapted to influ
ence a chamber aa devoted to propri
ety and precedence as the Senate?
Would his uncompromising; frankness
carry far in a body where sinuous In
direction has long been the way to
success? Would not his devotion to
the public welfare look strangely out
of place in an assembly where devo
tion to private interests is so much
the fashion? It is to be feared that
the very virtues which make Mr.
Roosevelt a great President would
make him, not an inconspicuous, but
a continually baffled Senator.
The latest suggestion, that he travel
in lands remote and shoot big game, is
well enough for an interlude, but one
hardly believes that Mr. ' Roosevelt
wishes to hunt bears all the rest of his
life. As a permanent occupation we
fail to find anything entirely suitable
except for him to keep on being Presi
dent. How unlucky for Mr. Roose
velt, and perhaps for everybody else,
that our unwritten law puts this solu
tion out of court.
THE SUN RETRACTS. x
The New York Sun, which beams
brightly on the yellow rich and frowns
dafkly on all other classes, is, in spite
of Its utter lack of policy or principle,
at times very entertaining. A few
weeks ago it devoted a column to
abuse of expositions in general and the
forthcoming Seattle Fair in particular.
The "roast" was In a half-facetious
and half-sneering vein, the predomi
nant chord being that traditional con
tempt which the provincial Manhattan
Islander has for everything that Is not
decorated with the New York hall
mark. The Oregonian commented on
the Injustice of the Sun article, and
pointed out the fact that the attendant
benefits of the Seattle Exposition
would not be confined to Seattle nor
to the West, but could not be other
than advantageous to the entire coun
try. Mr. C. B. Yandell, secretary of. the
Seattle Chamber qf Commerce, also
protested against the narrow-minded
view which the Sun had taken regard
ing the exposition, and supplemented
the protest with an extraot from an
Oregonian editorial and an interesting
array of figures which showed that,
even in Its present raw and undevel
oped state, the Pacific Northwest was
annually purchasing approximately
$30,000,000 worth of goods from New
York. The Sun's attack on the Seat
tle Exposition was uncalled for and
unjust, but Mr. Yandell, with a fine
display of knowledge regarding the
policy of the Sun, made no demand
for an apology on any such old-fash-lcned
reasons as fair play or honest
acknowledgment of a wrong. He would
probably have failed to receive an an
swer had he done so. But the clink of
the dollar made the able New York
"roaster" sit up and take notice, and
the Yandell communication is printed
in full, accompanied by a verbose as
sertion that the Sun article had been
misunderstood. The rather abject ex
planation was followed with the frank
statement, "We have no other wish for
Seattle and its exposition than the best
of good luck, a good time, a big crowd
and no deficit at tho windup." The
sloppy attempt to square matters with
the Seattle people concludes as fol
Vowss r
We stretch across the continent a hand
of friendship with the best of eood will
and a-ood wish, reservlne; the rlrht to be
lust a little bit ruffled because the esteemed
Seattle Chamber of Commerce read Into
our comment so much that was not there
at all. Perhaps the Portland Oregonian has
been lying: again.
It is unnencessary for The Orego
nian to resort to lying for the purpose
of finding an opportunity for criticism
of the Sun or its peculiar policies, or
rather lack of policies or prin
ciples. It has been so many years
since the Sun took to sneezing
whenever Wall street took snuff
that few and far between are the
off days when its editorial columns do
not contain warped, biased and in
spired comment on some subject that
was fully as much, entitled to fair
treatment as was the Seattle Exposi
tion. The Oregonian has not been
"lying again," but on most topics the
Sun is lying yet.
WHEAT IS. STtXI, KINO.
In no other branch of Industry Is
the remarkable growth and develop
ment of the 'Pacific Northwest more
strikingly illustrated than in the enor
mous grain crop which was produced
last year. Final figures on the yield
as printed in yesterday's Oregonian
show a total of 58.000.000 bushels of
wheat, and 22,000,000 bushels of bar
ley and oats. These figures would be
noteworthy Indeed, had the three
states continued In the policy of twenty
years ago and cultivated but little else
than wheat, but when It is remem
bered that this enormous gain in yield
has been made with an annual diver
sion of thousands of acres from wheat
to fruit and diversified farming, the
showing becomes all the more won
derful. Thirty years ago more than
one-half of all the wheat shipped from
the Pacific Northwest was grown In
the Willamette Valley, and a dozen
years ago it was still possible to pick
up enough wheat to supply several
ships a year with cargoes of Valley or
"Oregon" wheat, as it was known In
the foreign markets.
This season not a single shipment of
Willamette Valley wheat has been sent
foreign, apd throughout the Valley are
hundreds of small orchards and farms
which yield greater revenues from a
few acres than were obtained from
quarter sections ane half sections of
wheat land a quarter of a century ago.
The evolution that has taken place in
the Willamette Valley has also begun
in the big wheat districts east of the
Cascade Mountains, fruitgrowing and
diversified farming Increasing quite as
rapidly as in the Willamette Valley
With enormous gain in the wheat
yield, simultaneously with wonderful
increases In the output of Truit, hops,
livestock and dairy products. It Is, of
course, clear that new acreage is an
nually being brought into service for
both grain and diversified farmlng
purposes. The latter, on account of
the larger returns on the investment
is gaining ground more rapidly than
wheatgrowing. but the great North
west still contains such vast areas of
virgin soil that it is by no means im
probable that the three states may yet
produce a grain crop of 100,000,000
bushels.
The important part which the Pa-
cific Northwest now plays in trie
world's grain markets can best be un
derstood when it is noted that the
United States is the greatest wheat
producing country on earth, and that
for the first nine months of the cur
rent cereal year nearly one-fourth of
all the wheat exported from the
United States and Canada was shipped
through the ports of Portland and Pu
get Soynd. There will, of course, be
an increased demand for home con
sumption as the population of the
three states grows, but it will be sev
eral years before this increase will
equal that of the output, and for that
reason the Oregon and Washington
ports will for many years enjoy the
distinction of shipping a larger per
centage of the. crop produced than is
shipped frorfl any other part of the
United States.
REPLY TO BISHOP SCADDINti.
To Bishop Scadding as an authority
upon the status and history of the
church he so ably represents we nat
urally defer, but there are one or two
points in his letter to The Oregonian,
printed last Sunday, upon which one
is constrained to ask for more light.
The bishop says: "There never was a
time when by act of Parliament the
church was established and thus made
a national church." When he wrote
these words the bishop must have for-
l gotten for the moment the Act of Su
premacy, 1 Elizabeth, c. 1, and the Act
of Uniformity, 1- Elizabeth, c. 3., both
acts of Parliament, which declare the
Protestant Church to be "the state
church as by law established." To our
thinking, this comes pretty near to es
tablishing the church by law. But
whether the Anglican Church has been
established by law or by custom, the
fact is indisputable that it is actually
stablished. Its bishops are ex-offlcio
members of Parliament. The King is
Its head. Its rites are laid down by
act of Parliament, and so is Its creed.
Good writers have said of the Book of
Common Prayer that it is "part of the
law of England."
If the church is not "established,"
why so much talk of disestablishing
Would, it not be a little futile for
Englishmen to worry so much over
disestablishing by law something that
by law never has been established? If
he church is entirely disconnected
with the government, why trouble the
government about the matter? Why
try to sever a relation which is non
existent? We cannot concur with
Bishop Scadding, either, in his belief
that the established church has no hold
upon the public revenues. He says
our statement, "that the church main
tains its hold upon the public revenues
is absurd and untrue." Of course If
the church does not maintain its hold
It has no hold. Let us see about it
By the last Education Act. which has
made so much trouble in England, re
liglous education 1s intrusted to the
clergy of the established church, and
it is supported by taxfttion. So much
protest has there been against this
method of forcing everybody to help
support the Anglican theology that
dissenting ministers Jiafe gone to jail
rather than pay the tax. This educa-
tion act is still in force, and to our
minds it constitutes something of a
hold upon the public revenues.
From whatever source the revenues
of the established church were orig
inally derived, they are now settled by
law. The church raJtalns them by vir
tue of its status as part of the British
constitution, and were thaf status al
tered it would lose them. The remark
that the revenues are attached to par
ticular parishes or sees, and not to the
church as a whole, is irrelevant. It
makes no difference whether ecclesias
tical revenues are partitioned before
or after collection. An episcopalian
church in this country could change
Its form of worship entirely if it
wished without forfeiting its prop
erty. If In England a local church -of
the establishment were to vaj-y from
the legal forms and be convicted
thereof, i would be ousted from the
parish property. Even a clergyman
enjoying the income from a private
advowson must conform to the estab
lished rites or he will be ejected from
his freehold.
Nor can it be admitted that "the
statement that the church was en
dowed by the state" is shsurd and
false. When the Church of Rome was
disestablished in England" under Eliza
beth and the Protestant rite estab
lished, much of the property of the
older communion was made over to
the new one. The present Protestant
establishment dates only from Eliza
beth and its property titles run back
no farther. Most of them were be
stowed directly by the state. The ori
gin of this property is another matter,
and we freely concede that a great
deal of it was given by the Thanes to
the primitive parishes, beginning in
the time of Theodore. King Aethel
bert "bestowed his lands and palaces
upon St. Augustine." The Anglo
Saxon records show that "almost
every princely personage bestowed
some such gift" at his death. Persons
entering monasteries not "infrequently
brought their whole fortunes with
them." It was in this way that the
landed property of the church really
arose, not from the gifts of the Thanes
to the parishes, of which Bishop
Scadding makes so much. Compared
with these vast possessions,' "the sin
gle parcels of land belonging to the
parish churches bore about the same
proportion as the small yeoman free
holds of that time bore to the lord
ships of the royal Thanes." More
over, almost immediately after the
parishes were formed they were en
riched by the tithes.-which were "al
most as important for the permanent
and uniform endowment of the ecclesi
astical institutions as the possession of
landed property." Our authority for
these statements Is Dr. Rudolph Gneist,
professor of law in the University of
Berlin, and we think he fully bears us
out in saying that the English Church
is established by law and that it main
tains a very vigorous hold on the pub
lic revenues.
GOOD FOB HARNEY COUNTY.
Advices from Harney County are
gratifying as noting a substantial in
crease in the population of one of the
richest and most resourceful regions
of the state in Industrial, grazing and
agricultural possibilities. When the
weary immigrants of the ox-team
brigade toiled slowly across the sage
and bunchgrass plains and over the
mountains of Eastern Oregon fifty to
sixty years ago and pushed on over the
Oregon trail to the Willamette Val
ley and other coast regions, it was
not without consciousness that they
were leaving behind them on either
side a most delightful, productive and
attractive region, of which, however,
conditions of Isolation and Indian oc
cupancy made settlement then out of
the question. They did not, perhaps,
like Rev. Samuel Parker, who passed
over the wide expanse of unoccupied
territory between the Missouri and Co
lumbia Rivers in 1835. Indulge in
dreams of empire and see with pro
phetic vision this vast domain support
ing a populous and prosperous popula-
tlon. They were fatigued, hurried, '
anxious, and could only note the
beauty of the lovely wilderness and
pass on to a section then more hospita
ble to the settler. Times changed.
conditions shifted, and Parker's dream
had a much speedier awakening than
he himself believed to be possible,
since for more than half of the three
score and three years since his proph
ecy was recorded the Indians have
been gathered upon reservations and
the white man has been in possession
of the land.
Harney is one of the relatively new
counties that Jiave found political, ag
ricultural and Industrial place in the
great expanse known as "Eastern Ore
gon within that period. That it is
entering upon an era of prosperity of
a substantial type is apparent from the
number of homestead entries made in
the land office at Burns during March.
'The stages from the nearest railroad
points come in each day loaded with
passengers, all intent upon taking up
and or buying property and engaging
in business," says our Burns corre
spondent. . It certainly seems that this
inviting and growing section should be
supplied at an early date with trans
portation facilities thKf. would relegate
the stagecoach to' the pas
The attempt of the grainhandlers to
enforce in this city a higher wage
scale than prevails on Puget Sound for
exactly the same class of work, if it
succeeds, can have but one result, and
that is the transfer to Puget Sound of
practically all of the wheat exporting
business. The only alternative is for
the city to raise a fund to pay the dif
ferential demanded, for the exporters
are In an independent position, where
they are not forced to do business in
Portland if any burdens are to be laid
on them which can be escaped by han
dling the wheat at Puget Sound. The
rates from the wheat districts are ex
actly the same to Puget Sound as they
are to Portland. It is not at all clear
where the grainhandlers will profit by
demanding a rate which will drive the
business to other ports, leaving them
with no grain to handle at Portland.
The question is one in which the city
as a whole has much at stake, and the
labor differential must be removed or
the business will leave us.
Patrick Henry Scullin, the apostle
of peace, has been "exposed" again.
this time in San Francisco. Nearly a
decade has elapsed since Mr. Scullin
conceived the idea of enlisting all
mankind under the banner of peace at
about $1 per throw and upwards, and
in that time he has visited practically
every city of importance in the United
States. The chase for peace has been
a long one with the dove ever a few
laps ahead, but Patrick Henry's dis
appointment was always salved by the
application of the few dollars collected
for the good of the cause. As a means
of producing a livelihood, Mr. Scullin's
industrial peace proposition has the
three-shell game and the lock trick
ba41y distanced. Perhaps from the
Scullin standpoint the best feature of
the scheme lies in the lack of oppo
sition encountered, for, although Mr
Scullin does not play the one-night
stands, he has the only industrial
peace show on the road today.
The depth of water at the Columbia
entrance is only an incidental feature
in delaying the sending of a battleship
to Portland. The overshadowing in
fluence, against the proposition is the
depth, length and width of the Califor
nia pull in the hands of Citizen-Secre
tary Metcalf and Citizen-Senator Per
kins. If the fleet was not obliged to
go to Puget Sound for coal, it is ex
tremely doubtful whether a single 6hlp
would be permitted to go north of the
California line. They would certainly
be prevented if the Metcalf-Perkins
pull was strong enough to preven
them going. The matter should not
be dropped until the California Secre
tary of the Navy is forced to give his
true reasons for objecting to sending
the vessels to Portland.
The New York Independent says
that David Graham Phillips, in his lat
est novel, "Old Wives for New," is de
termined to be realistic at any cost,
and that one of his most striking
scenes is based upon "an alleged dis
creditable incident in the life of one of
our prominent men, which has long
been rumored about the city but has
been kept out of the papers." Though
the Independent takes an unfavorabl
view of Phillips' effort, the criticism is
not likely to hurt the sale of the "book
and the author perhaps anticipated as
much.
The present building activity in
Portland Is not in any sense a boom,
It represents, a solid, substantial
growth in business and in homebutld
ing consequent upon its demands. The
most gratifying features of this activ
ity are that the larger structures are
planned not more in accordance with
present requirements than with an in
telligent outlook to future needs, while
the homes under construction and in
contemplation are almost without ex
ception of the better sort.
Young Mr. Cole, it seems, is relying
chiefly on a Democratic paper for sup
port of his candidacy for District At
torney before the Republican primary.
But what of It? Isn't that the new
dispensation in Oregon? Republicans
don't care, certainly. They won't elect
Republicans themselves; why shouldn
Democrats help out? We assume tha
Mr. Cole is a Republican. At least he
is now, as much as many other so
called Republicans.
It is reported that Lake Pamelia,
near the foot of Mount Jefferson, has
gone dry. Fine chance for Tom Law
son to 'stake out a few mining claims
and discover that the bed of the Take
is covered with gold washed down
from the hills in the centuries gone.
Lo, the poor salmon packers of the
Columbia River Packers' Association!
Last season's pack was so light that
only a 4 per cent dividend on a capi
tal stock of 12,000,000 was possible!
This does not fall far short of being
distressing.
April has not thus far been in a
coaxing mood. As' a result, fruit buds
have not blossomed prematurely and
the prospect of a large crop of all or
chard and berry products is excellent.
Several thousand Americans, when
they reach San Diego today, will ex
claim: "This is my own, my native
land."
Campaigning from the pulpit some
pulpits seemed to be in order in this
city last Sunday.
PARTY OPPOS1TIOX TO BRYAN
Some A Bperts of Democratic Strnararle
to Defeat Hla Nomination.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
There are evidently two ways of In
terpreting the opposition to Mr. Bryan's
onilnatlon. which is now finding or
ganized expression In the open cam
paign for Governor Johnson and
uilge Gray. Either the opposition Is
based upon the honest conviction that
Mr. Bryan could not be elected, or It is
based upon the distressing fear that
he might be elected. There is more
ubstance In the latter interpretation
than is c6mmonty conceded. That sec
tion of the conservative Democracy
which has zealously fought Mr. Bryan
for 12 bitter years cannot consistently
iew with serenity the possibility of a
Bryan administration, for the reason
hat It regards him as a dangerous man
who would make the most unsafe of
Presidents. It is to be remembered,
also, that the Democratic politicians
and editors, who have been unrelenting
in their antagonism, could not hope to
exercise Influence upon or receive fa
vors from an administration of which
Mr. Bryan would be the head. Add to
that their humiliation over the final
success of their dearest foe In reaching
the Presidency. In spite of their long
continued hostility, and a motive is
easily found for their present conduct
In making a last-ditch fight for one
third of the delegates to Denver.
Ihe two Interpretations are worth
considering, for the ejake of the light
they may throw upon the general polit
ical situation. Having stated them
plainly and perhaps bluntly, it remains
to he said that the present opposition
to Mr. Bryan s nomination undoubtedly
gathers motive power from both
sources. Unquestionably, there are
many Democrats who seriously doubt
the ability of a twice-defeated candi
date to win the election and who. "rebel
against the doctrine of despair' asso
ciated in their minds with the Bryan
candidacy; but, on the other hand, no
one who is familiar with Democratic
politics during tho past 15 years can
fail to believe that nothing would dis
tress and annoy a certain school of
Democrats more poignantly than Mr;
Bryan's election to the Presidency. If
there were a growing possibility of his
success, their hostility to his nomina
tion . would grow in intensity. It it
were now possible to estimate accur
ately the relative strength of the two
motives, there would be some rich ma
terial for the Republicans to feed upon
and digest in determining the course
wisest for themselves to pursue.
1ven as the case stands. Republi
cans would be wise to interorct the
Democratic situation In the" light least
favorable to themselves. In the late
development of the Johnson and Gray
canniaacies. Kepiiblican politicians are'
abundantly Justified In seeing a grow
ing belief in the Democratic mind that
there Is a prospect of electing a Demo
cratic President, whoever the candidate
may be. As the chances for a minority
increase, it is an axiom of politics that
tna competition for Its nomination
widens and Intensifies. In the present
Instance, Mr. Bryan's own belief that
his party's chances of success this year
are excellent is well known, and it is
that conviction on his part that ex
plains his growing determination to be
the Democratic nominee. There are
conditions everywhere discernible.
moreover, which would load Mr. Bryan's
enemies witnin the Democracy to share
his views as to the party's chances, so
mat it a Republican Interprets the
growing Democratic competition for the
uenver nomination as something
wormy or nis serious consideration, he
win snow nimseir a man of sense.
ASKS FOR STR AIGHT DEAL.
Peter Home Replies to aa Anonymous
letter Writer.
9BLLWOOD, Or.. April 13. (To the Kd
itor.) A screed from "A Doval Renuhii
can" came in my mail recentlv. and wish
ing that others might know the kin of
people wno seem to think thev are eolne
to show us the real thing In honest poli
tics. I will acknowledge its receipt, re-
srrcimng mat its antnor seems to be
afraid to get any closer to me. Pos
sibly he thinks his "loyalty" and purity
might suffer If he should even come out
m tne open. His letter reads:
' Portland. Or.. Am-il !
Mr. Peter Hume: Your letter In today's
Oregonian reveals plainly the character
and disposition of yourself. You prefer
to oe a parry to crime and corruption in
politics than to aid in its overthrow. It
is far better to send an honest, ef
ficient Democrat to the United States
Senate than a Republican who Is a d n
thief, such as we have had. and as you
well know. The loyal citizens of 'the
state of Orejron will not allow It. So you
may just as well draw in your horns
and submit to the will of the honorable
voters of our state.
Yours In sympathv,
LOYAL. REPUBLICAN.
Let me awure "Loyal Republican" and
all others that I count among my best
friends many Democrats In politics, and
will cheerfully see. any one of them go
to the United States Senate from Ore
gon providing the voters of the state send
enough Democrats to the Senate and
Legislature at the ensuing state election
to elect one there the only lawful way he
can be sent without a corrupt deal,
double dealing, and even perjury on the
part of very many.
I am openly for square dealing and
Honestly in politics, as in all other things.
PETER HUME.
A Test of the Party.
New York Evening Post.
Governor Hushes continues to be the
most impracticable of Presidential candi
dates. He has definitely refused-to name
his own delegates-at-large from New
York. If the proposal that he should was
spread before him as a snare he has
avoided it; if as an Invitation to set up
a's a boss, he has spurned it. Let the con
vention and the party in general attend
to their duties, and he will attend to
his. This Is magnificent, but it is not
politics, so many people say with a groan.
Why won't the Governor get out and
hustle for the nomination? Why won't
he forever be flinging himself at the heads
of the voters? This Is like asking why he
does not make himself over. There he
stands, the sort of man God made him.
and he can be no other. If the country
wants him. he will respond: If not, no
sign of disappointment or discontent will
escape him. There is no doubt how he
will stand the test. But it must not be
forgotten that a test of his party also
is involved. It will have to show whether
it has -been so sensationalized in recent
years that it cannot appreciate the virile
qualities of a strong and undemonstrative
man;- whether it has become so enslaved
that It 1s no longer free to choose him
even If it wants to.
s
Yonnar Ta ft Up for Contempt.
From Secretary Taft's Speech Before the
Chicago Press Club.
I have enjoyed myself so much during
the last 20 minutes that the thought of
getting up and saying something myself
comes over me like a cold douche. I was
once a reporter myself. I never reached
the journalistic stage. It was when I
started out to study law. I did court re
porting for the old Cincinnati Times dur
ing the day. Since then I've always dealt
easily with reporters who misquote me.
I thought once I had pulled off a big
story. We used the biggest headlines we
had in those days. The next morning I
was summoned Into court for contempt.
I had reversed the decision exactly. It
is now my duty when in Washington to
hold two receptions daily, for the corre
spondents. With reference to their cross
examinations I am gradually becoming
bullet-proof. Not that I have learned to
He. but I am learning to make answer in
such a way that the truth or nontruth of
the matter cannot be successfully investi
gated. ,
NATIONAL GUARD
DEFINITE; announcement regarding
a new state range for use by the
Infantry troops stationed at Port
land will be made within the next few
days. It can be said with some degree of
certainty that the range will be securetj.
at present there being no apparent
chance of a hitch. Negotiations for an
excellent piece of land have progressed
well towards the final stage of purchase.
As previously stated the proposed new
range is located about 16 "miles from
Portland, communication being afforded
bv electric line, railway and boat. Im
mediately upon closing the deal, should
that end be effected, work of Installing
targets will be taken up. It is planned
to put In the 309 yard range first so that
the men can begin their target season
soon after May 1. The ranges will then
be extended as rapidly as possible, the
whole being completed at a date no
later than June 15. Ranges up to 1000
yards will be provided.
Eleven hundred new Springfield rifles.
occuplng a full car, arrived early In the
week and are now being distributed as
rapidly as possible. With the shipment
of 100, previously received, sufficient rifles
are now at hand to equip substantially
the entire Guard, although the equipment
will not be complete until a third ship
ment of 300 guns is received. These ad
ditional guns are expected daily.
Consignments of new rifles for the en
tire Fourth Infantry aa well aa the out
side companies of the Third Regiment
were sent out Tuesday and Wednesday
and should have been delivered belore
this time.
e
Adjutant-General Finzer issued t,ie
annual order for small arms practice
Saturday. The order contains detailed
instructions governing range work for
the season. In part, the order follows:
"Medical officers. Chaplains, enlisted
men of the Hospital Corps and enlisted
musicians are relieved from small arms
qualifications. All other ofttcers and en
listed men will be required to qualify as
prescribed and will be awarded decora
tions in accordance with their respective
classes. Any member of the National
Guard not required by orders to qualify
may do so and the regulation decora
tions will Be issued.
"Range practice for the rifle in spe
cial course 'C will commence May 1
and continue until October 31. The allow
ance of ball cartridges to each company
for use at home stations during the sea
son of 1908 will be not less than 6000
rounds, provided the instruction of the
company as set out in this order has
been of such a nature as to warrant the
expenditure. Careful record will be kept
of every shot fired, both at the home
station and In the camps. The records
will be placed in the record books and a
report made to the Adjutant-General,
November 1, 190.
"Officers will be held strictly respon
sible for the conduct of the men under
their charge In going to and from the
range. While at the range they will see
to it that every care and precaution is
taksn to prevent accident and the destruc
tion of human life.
"The object of instruction In rifle firing
should be to produce a large number of
uniformly good shots rather than to de
velop expertness. Instructors should
therefore give careful attention to poor
shots and new men, rather than to the
best shots.
"The scores made by the soldier in
record practice, marksman's course, de
termine his fitness to progress to a more
difficult and longer range. Tf be has
fallen short of the totals required to
qualify him as marksman, he. will do
no more individual record practice that
season, but will be qualified according
to the scores he made.
"If. however, he has attained the
record for the marksman, he progresses
to the sharpshooter's course and if suc
cessful in making the requisite record as
sharpshooter in that course, he is en
titled to trial at the next higher course,
which is that of expert, at 800 and 1000
yards."
e e
Advices received from Washington. D,
C during the week indicate the el.000.ooo
appropriation for Joint maneuvers this
Summer may be reearded as quite certain.
Since the appropriation was put back in
the Army bill by the Senate its sup
porters have been concentrating their
forces on Congress and at last ac
counts had most everyone won over ex
cepting Cannon.
The old Krags are being boxed for
shipment to the United States Ordnance
Department at Washington, D. O., the
first shipments having already gone. It
is the purpose of the War Department to
issue the guns to schoolboy rifle clubs
organized for the promotion of small
arms practice.
Officers will not be. debarred from parti
cipation in the National rifle matches.
The section of the Army Bill making that
provision has been stricken out by Con
gress. The argument was made and ac
cepted that the service gets more benefit
out of the participation of officers, by
qualifying them to instruct the men
under them, than in the perfecting of
individual marksmen from the ranks.
But the old rule will continue; that the
best marksman wins place on the team,
whether he is officer or enlisted man.
Nm York In 1f20.
Chicago Record-Herald.
"This seems -to be a most exclusive
district," said the stranger.
''It is," replied the native," and a
curious thing about It is that the ladles
living on the south side of the street
are never received by those who live
on the nor.th side. Caste Is very sharp
ly defined here."
"How does that happen?"
"You see, the mansions on one side
are occupied by ladles who have been
divorced from Dukes. Those who live
.on the other side have separated them
selves from mere Counts and Barons."
Pension Cheeks Go Everywhere.
Boston Transcript.
Probably few persons realize the extent
of the labor which the payment of our
pension charges imposes. To sixty-seven
countries pension checks are sent. There
are pensioners in Japan and Liberia, and
even at St. Helena. Of the JT34.4M paid
to pensioners resident in foreign coun
tries last year, more than one-half went
to Canada: but Germany drew
Ireland, S9..T76; England. $53,918: Mexico?
123.508. 3t. Helena's portion was 180, a
sum which though small, must be appre
ciated in that island of decadent for
tunes. yif Dad.
American Magazine.
Huh! Mebbe I don't know all 'at Is.
An' mebbe I ain't so tall.
An' mebhe I ain't but eie-ht years old
En goin' to be nfix' Fall
But what's tho differnce. I don't see,
Ef rra Jea- but a lad.
A-whJle I'm growln I tov got
My dad.
Ef suthiiV com" 'at I can't do,
Why that don't hafter mean
That it ain't a-oiinr tor b did
Ef it had ongbwr bn.
Ef 1 am Beared, er ef I'm hurt,
Er f I'm feelln' Bad,
I reck'n it's an rls-ht; fer thar'a
My dad.
Why ma's a -s-oraeni, I'm er-boy.
An' ef we was alons
We mi&ht feel sorter scared ter live
Though I ain't aquechin' none.
But now. why mo an ma jes' sings
An" "-miles 'cause- we're so glad
'At God knowed what we'd need, an'
My. -dad.
Advertising Talfcs
No. 9
HOW TO WRITE RETAIL
ADVERTISING COPY
By Herbert Kaufman
A skilled layer of mosaics works
with small fragments of stone they
fit into more places than the larger
chunks.
The skilled advertiser' works with
small words they fit into more mind
than big phrases.
The simpler the lanpuase the great
er eertaintv that it will be understood
by the least intelligent reader.
The construction engineer plans his
roadbed where there is a minimum of
rade he works along the lines of
least resistance.
The advertisement which runs into
mountainous style is badly surveyed
all minds are not built Tor high-
level thinking.
Advertising must be simple. When
it is tricked out with the jewelry and
silks of literary expression it looks as
much out of place as a ball dress at
the breakfast table!
The buying public is only interested
in facts. People read advertisements
to find out what vou have to sell.
The advertiser xvho ran fire the most
facts in the shortest time gets the
most returns. Blank cartridges mak
noise but they do not hit blauk talk
however clever, is only wasted space
You force your salesmen to keep to.
solid facts you don't allow them to
sell muslin with quotations from
Omar or trousers with excerpts from
Marie Corelli. You must, not tolerate
in your printed selling talk anything
that you are not willing to counte
nance in personal salesmanship.
Cut out clever phrases if they am
inserted to the sacrifice of clear ex
planationswrite copy as you talk
Only be more brief. Publicity is cost
lier than conversation ranging in
price downward from $6 a line, talk
is not cheap, but the most expensive
commodity in the world.
Sketch in your ad to tha stenog
rapher. Then you will be so busy
"saying it" that you will not have
time to bother about the gewgaws of
writing. Afterwards take the type
written manuscript and cut out every
word and every line that can be
erased without omitting an important
detail. What remains in the end is
all that really counted in the begin
ning. -
Cultivate brevity and simplicity
"Savon FranCais" may look smarter,
but more people will understand
"French Soap." Sir Isaac Newton's
explanation of gravitation covers six
pages, but the schoolboy's terse and
homely "what goes tip must come
down" clinches the whole thing in
six words. '
(Copyrisrnt, 1!0S )
BOWED DOWS BY BRYAN.
How Southern Pnnrr Fee! Ahont the
Peerless One.
Sotier Democrats, even though thev per
sonally prefer Bryan and bMre in his
theories, should remember that success
should be the chief object in a campaign,
and that the vindication of par icular
policies may well be left to a later day.
Without success at the polls theories and
policies are worse than useless. What the
Democratic party needs in order to make
it strong in order to keep it. alive. In fact
is another victory to follow its long de
feat and exile from power. Macon (Gj.)
Telegraph, Dem.
Mr. Bryan will carry the solid South,
but no claim is made that he can carry
his own state or one of the doubtful
Northern or Western states. We should
nominate a man who can carry some of
the doubtful states. However, put him up
and that, will eliminate him. Kdgefield
(8. C.) News, Dem.
Nobody who wishes the Democracy to
win urges the nomination of Parker. He's
a loser. But Bryan is not only a loser
twice, but a loser and a gres.ter loser
as he grows older. What the Democratic,
party needs is a fr"sh horse. Charleston
(S. C-) News and Courier, Dem.
It is Mr. Bryan's weakness that he can
not refrain from meddling with details
and Is never content to leave well enough
alone, and he has messed up many a sit
uation by his undertaking to boss a job
which is none of his business. He -had
better accept the Souni as it stands with
the chances altogether In favor of it
supporting him for one more candidacy,
rather than try to force a situation which
will stand precious little disturbance.
Charleston (S. C.) Post, Dem.
The Democratic party has been bound
hand and foot by Mr. Bryan, and so far
from his voluntarily loosening the bonds
he is busy drawing t..em tighter every
day. He will go into the convention with
a majority of the delegates. If he does
not receive the nomination on tne first
ballot he will make it so hot for every
body who has opposed him that the con
vention will not dare to nominate any
one who Is not persona grata to the court
of Lincoln. Minneapolis Journal, Ind.
Snipping Xews From Seattle.
SEATTLE, April 12. Arrived Steam
ship Humboldt, from Skagway; steamship
Northwestern, from Valdez: steamer
Montara, from San Francisco.
The steamer Montara, of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company, from San
Francisco, seven days and one hour out.
A foul bottom due to being out of dry
dock for nearly a year, and a three
months' tieup 1n San Francisco Bay was
the prime cause of the long trip while a
steady northwest wind also delayed. Cap
tain Hall hugged the siiore all the way
up which accounts for his not being re
ported by passing ships. He was from
10 to 25 miles inside the regular course
to avoid the wind. The Montara was
about out of coal when she arrived. Shs
carried 1200 tons, largely powder and ex
plosives. Steamship Humboldt brought from
Alaska Professor C. C. Jorgensson, of
the United States Experimental Agricul
tural Station, at Sitka, and Professor H.
J. Nikoloff, a Bulgarian savant from the
University of Vidin, who is making a
walking tour around the world. He went
to Alaska two months ago and from
Seattle will go to Japan.