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Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 45 t0 Tribune building. Chicazo, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. PORTLAND. FRIDAY. JILY 17. 1908. MR. HOBSON'J HORRORS. Little that was done at the National convention at Denver was satisfac tory to Mr. Hearst. It is very doubt ful if a political party so notorious for the blunders it has made could do anything that would satisfy even a less exacting man than Hearst. Of course the greatest "sin of omission" at Denver was failure of the Demo crat to nominate Mr. Hearst, al though his candidacy wa's not even taken out of the cold-storage tanks where it was placed four years ago. But Mr. Hearst is also disturbed and grieved over the "merry ha-ha" that was given Mr. Richmond Pearson Hobson when he was endeavoring, in bursts of oratory, to explain that nothing but the immediate construc tion of about 300 battleships could prevent the Japanese from crossing the Pacific and placing the chain of the conqueror around the necks of the great American people. "These are grave matters," says Mr. Hearst's paper, and their presentation by Mr. Hobson entitled them to something better than "the jeers of politicians." Mr. Hearst also concludes that "until we are ready to maintain a fleet in those waters, and a fleet that no na tion would care to attack, war clouds will continue to gather, and there will be little security for the people of the western coast line." There is, of course, not a single eood reason for withdrawing this fleet from the Pacific and sending It back to the Atlantic, and some time In the future these ships or their suc cessors will be obliged to come romp ing back to the Pacific to guard our Interests. And yet there is much buncombe in the wild statements made by Mr. Hobson regarding any immediate danger of a Japanese inva sion. The "bully of the Far East" is securely anchored on his own side of the Pacific by a debt of such fear ful proportions that it has become the wonder of the financial world. Japan's "budget" Is now more than 1300,000,000 per year, of which more than JiOO.OOO.OOO is required for naval and military purposes. This sum would not seem so enormous to a country in which the population en joyed good incomes, but Japan, ac cording to her own statistics, does not earn more than $1S per year per cap ita, or for the entire nation about $900,000,000. It will thus be seen that the "peril" from which Mr. Hobson is getting ready to flee is already levying on the people for onethird of their total income. The United States has an annual income of $222 per cap?, or for the 80,000,000 people about $17, 760. 000, 000. Before invading the United States Japan will, of course, be obliged greatly to increase this bur den on the people, and there are al ready signs that the breaking point is nearly reached and revolt at home will ensue. Admitting, however, that the patriotic Japanese would devote their entire earnings for a year to the cause of fighting the United States, by levying on our people the same tax per capita in proportion to the earning power which Is now lev ied against the Japanese, we would have the tidy little sum of $1,920,000, 000 per year with which to meet the emergency. Aside from these sinews of war, the Japanese would necessar ily make arrangements for a fight instead of a foot race such as devel oped out of their war with Russia. WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT. A strike of mild proportions was in progress at Fort Stevens for sev eral days, a number of employes on the jetty demanding a half holiday on Saturday afternoon with full pay, or. In lieu thereof, overtime was de manded for work performed on Sat urday afternoon. The Government, In nearly all cases where labor is em ployed, probably gets less remunera tion in labor for the wages paid than would be secured by any private Individual or corporation: but. as there is nothing in the Constitution which provides for the presentation to employes of half a day's pay without some equivalent being rendered, the demands of the strikers at Fort Stevens were reject ed, and the strike was broken by its own weight. . Tho fort Stevens strike 'is quite similar to one Inaugurated a few weeks ago in a Portland shipyard, where the men walked out because the proprietor refused to pay a higher scale of wages for work performed on craft owned by the Port of Portland than was paid for similar , work on vessels owned by private individuals and corporations. As a precedent for their demands, the striking shipyard employes had the fact that in the past the Port of Portland had been paying higher wages for labor on Its vessels than were paid by other repair yards. The sentiment that results in such ex travagant and unreasonable demands is due to a popular belief among the unthinking that the Government na tional, state, county or city is a pa ternal institution. This hallucination has been extensively exploited and commented on by a certain class of political agitators, until in some quar ters It has been accepted as perfectly reasonable and fair. Yet the Government, directly or through it? employing and disbursing officers, has no more- right to pay a laborer for work which he does not perform than a "straw" boss would have to pad the payroll of his em ployer and pay men for a full day when they had worked but half a day. The Port of Portland is supported by taxation on the property of a portion of Multnomah County. Any saving effected in expenditures lessens the amount of taxes to be levied for its support, and accordingly it is the taxpayers who collectively constitute the "government" in this case; and they were being mulcted for wages 50 cents per day higher than would be charged the individual taxpayer for the same class of work. Every thing that is worth having In this world costs something either in cash or in effort. The additional .emolument demand ed by the Port of Portland laborers, and the half day's time demanded by the Government employes, were they granted, would necessarily be paid by the 'people. Indians, lunatics, con victs and paupers are the only mem bers of society on which this toll of labor or cash is not levied, and even among them there is an effort to get some equivalent in the shape of labor for the expense of "keep." Disillu sionment of the belief that a Govern ment job, either local or national, carries with it special privileges, might make the positions less desira ble than they now appear, but it also might secure better workmen. The man who is always looking for "a lit tle the best of it" is seldom worth as much money as the one who prides himself on rendering a full -day's work for a day's pay. OXALLRfA. In the letters of Drs. Ricen and Tilzer, published in The Oregonian yesterday, there is nothing which goes goes to show that oxaluria is not a new disease. These learned and zealous physicians point out that something called oxaluria has been known to medical men ever since 1838, but with that regard for exact fact which distinguishes their profes sion they add that it has always been understood to be "a sympjom. rather than a disease." The language which we venture to borrow is Dr. Tilzer's. A symptom called oxaluria has been known, then, since 1838, but no disease of that name. We understand Dr. Gustav Baar to have said that the late Medical Congress has discovered a disease which has also been desig nated as oxaluria. It may be disa greeable to have a symptom and a disease both called by the same title, but if the Medical Congress has so ordained we do not see how Dr. Baar can be blamed. He merely reports the fact. This does not make him re sponsible for it. It is possible, of course, that the ancient authorities whom Drs. Ricen and Tilzer quote may be mistaken. Such calamities have been known to come to pass. It may be that the good old oxaluria so long and favorably accepted by the doctors may have turned out to be a disease "after all, and not a mere plebeian symptom. In that case it is truly sad to think what must happen to the authorities, Doune and others. We cannot, of course, undertake to decide whether the Medical Congress has given to a new disease the name of an old symptom or transformed a hitherto misunderstood symptom into a disease, but one of the two things seems to have happened, unless Dr. Baar has the facts awry. Since he was present at the congress and Drs. Ricen and Tilzer were not, it Is fair to presume that he knows better than they do what was done there. It really does look as if these two cour ageous champions of the antique had incurred unnecessary risk by disput ing a statement before they could know whether it was true or not, and in discharging toward their colleague an accusation of ignorance which may possibly find its mark in their own vitals. OVERStTPLY OF SHIPPING. The Oregonian Is in receipt of John White's "Seventy-fifth Half-Yearly Shipping Review." Like the seventy fourth, and all of its predecessors, it is the most clear-cut, accurate, con cise statement of world-wide shipping conditions that comes to this office. Mr. White is a London shipbroker who buys, sells and charters seagoing craft with strict impartiality as to the flag under which they were built, have sailed or will sail in future"; As he is not a shipowner and does not buy freight space for his own use, he i? in an independent position for tak ing an unbiased view of the situation. In his report just at hand Mr. White notes with regret that "a record, un fortunately on the down grade, has been established in scarcity of orders, prices of steamers and rates of freight." He also notes that "several large failures of important old-established shipbuilders and owners' have oc curred during the past few months," and that "the depression in employ ment exists with liners as well as with tramp steamers, and is being seri ously felt by foreign lines. Rate wars between liners are always in evidence, and are apparently the sequence of oversupply. They are not confined between German and foreign lines, but have occurred with German lines among themselves." As a result of all this competition, which is giving American shippers and all other ship pers plenty of tonnage for all parts of the world, Mr. White notes that, while freights were abnormally low at the commencement of the year, "they have in former periods been as low or even lower In one direction, but they have never before' been so low at the same time in both direc tions, out and home, and so wide spread to practically every trade." This means that, no matter whether the American citizen wishes to import or export goods, he can now have them carried at the lowest rates on record, without the necessity of pay ing tribute in the shape of a ship sub sidy. Perhaps the most interesting feature of Mr. White's report is an extract from a previous report, dated July 1, 1884, in which he goes into details regarding the dullness that ex isted in the shipping business at that time. The concluding sentence of that report of twenty-four years ago states that "freights generally will not repay expenses, and many owners have preferred to lay up their vessels to running them at a loss." From this it is easy to recall that a quar ter of a century ago, when, to quote a favorite phrase, "the sails of the American ship whitened every sea," It was impossible for the cheap-built, cheap-operated craft of the- foreigners to make expenses. Is it any wonder that the American flag has been re tired from the sea when we consider that for 24 years there has been so little profit in the business that at ever-recurring periods of a few years shipowners and shipbuilders have be come bankrupt because ocean freights were being carried on every trade route In the world below the cost of the service? The present stagnation in rates will, of course, stop construction, and as the annual toll of the sea reduces the size of the fleet, there will again come the equalization which supply and de mand always bring about. When re adjustment is effected there will again be improvement in freight-rates and some of the far-seeing owners who have taken advantage of the present depression to purchase cheap tonnage will be in a position to profit by it. As the American citizens are barred by our silly protection policy from securing any of this cheap ton nage, none of it will find its way un der the American flag, but it will still be useful in supplying Us with cheap freight rates. The present world-wide depression in shipping and shipbuild ing is a powerful argument against the policy of ship subsidies. QUEER NOTIONS OF HOPMEN. Those hopmen who expect to get the prohibitionists to indorse their plan of favoring the sale of beer must be great humorists. A prohibitionist would draw the line on cider more than a week old. There is no doubt that much of the evil xf , liquor drink ing would be eliminated by prohibi tion of the sale of whisky alone, but where, in the experience of the past, is there any evidence that warrants the belief that if saloons were permit ted to sell beer they would not sell whisky also? The prohibition movement did not gain its force from the consequences of lawful sale of liquor. Saloon-keepers sold to minors and to drunken persons. They permitted women around their places and ran gambling games. They linked . their business with almost every kind of vice and defied all laws that they did -not like. A change of attitude on the part of liquor-sellers is an essential pre-requi-site to a change of attitude on the part of the anti-saloon workers. If the people were satisfied that a beer saloon would sell nothing but beer, there might be some chance for the new plan to receive favorable consid eration. But under present condi tions talk of prohibitionists joining with the brewers is folly. ANOTHER "BAFFLING" CASE. The late Godfrey Kunart, of Castle Rock, Wash., according to the re ports, was taken suddenly ill a week ago last Tuesday. He was then .out fishing with his friend Reinhold Greenwald, and the two men returned forthwith to Kunart's home. Arrived there, he partook of some lemonade prepared by his wife and Greenwald, after which he grew worse. He then asked his wife to send for a. doctor. She, in turn, asked Greenwald to do it, but he declined at first, saying a doctor was not needed. Kunart kept on begging, however, and finally they summoned Dr. T. C. Campbell, who prescribed for the sick man and went his way. All this happened on Tues day afternoon, as aforesaid. When the doctor had gone, Greenwald went "up town" and returned with some "wormwood bitters," of which he gave Kunart a dose. Where he pro cured the medicine does not seem to be known. Mrs. Kunart asked for a taste of it, but Greenwald re fused because "it had been fixed pur posely for" her husband. Whether Dr. Campbell visited Kunart again is not stated in the account, but the presumption is that he did not. At any rate, the sick man died on Fri day, some three days after his attack. On Saturday, the next day, the corpse was "hurriedly burled." The neighbors at once suspected that Kunart had been poisoned by his wife and his friend, but it' is doubtful if they would have thought so had they not been prejudiced against Greenwald. He had been liv ing in the Kunart family for three years, and all that time gossip had been busy with his affairs. He was said to be improperly intimate with his host's wife. Such gossip seldom means much. It attacks the innocent and the guilty with equal vlciousness. Usually based entirely on surmise, it is often true, but more often it is false. No rational opinion can be formed of Greenwald's relations with the Kunart family from the mere fact that there was talk in the neighbor hood. Still, the train of events which ended in Kunart's death had a sinis ter aspect, and the suspicion which pursued Greenwald and Mrs. Kunart supplied a motive for the supposed crime. Of course the theory was that he had poisoned his friend in order to get complete possession of the woman. Evidently Dr. Campbell believed that a crime had been committed,' since he joined in a call for an in quest. The Coroner complied, the body was exhumed and a jury was summoned, with the usual results. Nobody ever heard of a Coroner's jury discovering anything except in cases of violent crime. Even then it seldom adds much to the stock of common knowledge. If the dead man was killed by a stab in the heart the jury says so, but nobody is much the wiser. Perhaps- of all obsolete legal devices the Coroner's jury comes nearest to an absurdity. The one which sat upon Kunart's corpse could naturally do nothing more than send his stomach to Portland to be ana lyzed. The chemist made his exam ination and found no trace of poison. This merely proved that Kunart had not been dosed with arsenic or some such drug. There are plenty of oth ers which would have killed him and left no trace. We may therefore dis miss the Coroner and his jury. They were entirely futile. It would be interesting to know what disease Dr. Campbell "pre scribed" for when he was at Kunart's bedside. Did he then think it was a case of poisoning and administer an antidote? If he did not think so then, what drove him tw that conclusion later? Most poisons produce fairly well-marked symptoms which edu cated physicians are able to recognize. Were there any such symptoms visi ble in Kunart's case? There must have been, or else it is impossible to account for Dr. Campbell's final belief that it was a case of poisoning. The fact seems to be that he misinter preted the symptoms at first and only saw their true meaning after reflec tion. This might happen with any physician, no matter how learned and competent. Taking Dr. Campbell's suspicions into account and combin ing them with the black-looking cir cumstances of Kunart's mysterious attack of illness, the lemonade, the reluctance of his wife and Greenwald to send for a doctor, the dose of wormwood bitters which Mrs. Kunart was forbidden to 'taste, the over-hasty burial and the questionable relations between Greenwald and his friend's family for a long tirrje before the end came, it certainly seems strange that the District Attorney should say "We have no evidence" in this case and set the suspected persons free. There is a great "deal of evidence, though it may not be of a nature that would convince a jury, and perhaps there Is little hope that the genuine facts will ever come out. But they may. The woman now accuses the man. Presently he may begin to ac cuse her. An astute official, such as District Attorney Hubbell probably is, will know how to work, and he may perhaps finally learn the whole truth. Those who would like to see human life a little safer than it is will wish him success. Mr. Bryan is said to be very much encouraged over a . telegram from Walla Walla announcing the election of a Democratic Mayor in Senator Ankeny's home city. The Peerless Leader declared that the Walla Walla election was significant in showing the country that the Democrats "have been justified in their forecast of the trend of. political sentiment through out the country." Yet it will not be safe for Mr. Bryan to place too much dependence on these forecasts having permanent value. When he gets his ear to the ground soon after the ap pearance of the bleak November days, he may hear something, from the State of Washington that may cause him to wonder how the "trend of po litical sentiment" in Walla Walla was mistaken for something real and tan gible. A great deal of encouragement was once produced in the East dur ing a former political contest by Ore gon advices to the effect that Scio had gone Democratic. Active construction work on the United Railways line to Hillsboro was commenced again yesterday, and the line to Linnton will be built immedi ately. Portland already has transpor tation facilities between this city and Hillsboro by way of the West Side road, and for a considerable distance south of the city there is fairly good electric car service. The line to Linn ton, however, will open up a new ter ritory, and, as the city has straggled right along after every new car line that has been built here, it will prob ably make a move to the north as soon as the Hillsboro line is in opera tion as far as Linnton. The apple crop of the Hood River Valley this season is estimated at 400 carloads, and among the growers some fear is expressed that it cannot all be marketed at the high range of prices that has prevailed in the past. This would, of course, be un pleasant for the grower, but it might give some of the unfortunate Orego nians who know the Hood River ap ple only by reputation an opportunity to buy a box without creating a large hole in a week's salary. The American athletes, like the American marksman, will bring back from Europe the championship in a number of tests. Sheridan, the American discus-thrower, found it un necessary to equal his own record in order to beat any of the competitors ht encountered at London yesterday. A 13-year-old delinquent girl, held in Spokane as a witness against three or four young men, "divided her time between her father and her mother, who are living apart." The. moral ought to be plain to many a couple whose broils are not limited to the kitchen range. That Oregon is still a good game country is shown by the fact that a number of Portland nlmrods went out at daylight on the first day- of the open season and returned with deer killed within about twenty miles of this city. The police of Pittsburg have re voked permission to the Salvation Army to use the streets. This is equivalent to admission of what peo ple have long held that Pittsburg is beyond redemption. Senator Bourne has issued another of his signed "statements." But for the indulgence of newspapers in print ing his written proclamations, who would ever hear from Mr. Bourne? The open season for deer opened Wednesday. The returns on the hunters who mistake a man for a deer will probably begin coming in today or tomorrow. One of Roosevelt's policies is that of electing a successor who will carry out the policies. Senator Bourne can't see through it. We are sure that other cherries are just as good as Hood River's, and as for apples, we shall consider them an other time. "There is," remarks the Seattle Times, with a rock in each fist, "too much mudslinging in this Senatorial campaign." Mr. Bryan has not yet announced his willingness to share the Presi dent's salary with the Vice-President. Scarcity of red salmon in the Alaska pack will no doubt revive the pink catfish industry in the South. At any rate. Dr. Baar got the free advertising. It is quite "ethical" for brother doctors to be envious. And Steve Adams, too, isv innocent. FurtHer call of the roll can be dis pensed with. Going to Uw In Pennsylvania. - Baltimore American. An Orphans' Court in Pennsylvania gravely settled an estate of $3. of which $1.50 was the cost of the settlement. The six children received portions of six and five cents, and to the widow was given 17 cents, a trustee being appointed to prevent reckless extravagance on her part. It is all well to follow out legal forms, but- such proceedings as these come dangerously near turning the maj esty of the law into a roaring farce. K Us'i Delay la France-. ( Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Paris judge has been suspended for three years for not taking precau tions that would have prevented the diamond faker, Lemoine. from escaping They order some things very well in those French courts. NATIONAL MEMORIAL HIGHWAY Alone Route of Old Oregos Trail, la Sutnceetfon of Professor Young. EUGENE. Or.. July 15. (To the Edi tor.) The coming convention on good roads, to be held in Portland August 11. would seem a most opportune oc casion for initiating a movement for a National memorial highway along the route of the old Oregon trail. This suggestion, if recognized, would mean, it is true, an intrusion of senti ment into the good roads movement. But surely it has not been forgotten that the business interests of Portland and Oregon at large owe their present buoyancy and prosperity more to the sentiment that initiated and virtually secured the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion than to anything else. Moreover, the time is just as ripe now for a Na tional memorial highway movement, emanating from Oregon, as it was for the centennial commemoration a few years ago. Have not both political parties declared for National aid to highways, in their National platforms? The expanding tourist use of the au tomobile, too. is pressing for just such a "see-America-first" route as this high way would afford. And further, the securing of a National memorial high way from Kansas City and from Omaha to Portland, would afford the fittest initial subject for the policy of co-operation among the states and with the National Government. Facility in such a policy of co-operation, the cause of the conservation of resources is wait ing for. and large activity in accord ance with this policy we must have if we are to remain in fact a Federal na tion. But why select the Old Oregon Trail' for the line of the National highway? Because it will best serve the future in bringing the millions of America to their own home Switzerlands and it would commemorate fittingly a heroic past. Read what Captain H. M. Chit tenden, of the United States Army En gineers says of the Oregon Trail in pis "Fur Trade of the west": As a highway of travel the Oregon Trail is the most remarkable known to history. Con sidering the fact that it originated with the spontaneous use of travelers; that no transit ever located a foot of It; that no level estab lished its grades; that no engineer sought out the fords or built any bridges or surveyed the mountain passes: that there was no grading to speak of. nor any attempt at metalling the roadbed, and the general good quality of this 2000 miles of highway will seem most extraordinary. Father De Smet. who was born in Belgium, the home of good roads, pronounced the Oregon Trail one of the finest highways in the world. At the proper season of the year this was undoubt edly true. Before the prairies became too dry the natural turf formed the best roadway for horses to travel on that probably has ever been known. It was amply hard to sustain traffic, yet soft enough to be eaeier to the feet than even the most perfect asphalt. Today tho almost uninterrupted irri gation along the North Platte, the Sweetwater, the Bear, the Snake, the Grand Ronde, the Umatilla and the Hood River makes the long stretch of the trail country a paradise the Summer through. The tourist could command the choicest fresh fruit and viands throughout the 2000-mile trip. The Oregon Trail, then. s"hould be selected for the National Transcontinental high way because it was the natural trans continental route, having been selected because it presented the fewest obsta cles, and because now through irriga tion development it abounds in the richest resources for comfort and pleas ure. It was the natural highway which through an almost exclusive use for American transcontinental travel for nearly 50 years became a National high way. How largely its existence con tributed toward making an American Pacifi'c Coast possible it would, of course, be difficult to say. It is, how ever, not unreasonable to hold that it was the determining factor. A people without enough sentiment in their make-up to be inspired to make a me morial of it, now when such tremendous material advantages would result, are not only fatally prosaic, but also pitia bly myopic. Oregon owes it to grand old Ezra Meeker to follow up his pa triotic achievement in going over the trail and to take the matter up with enthusiastic determination. Sections of a transcontinental highway will soon be built, but located off this route, and then it will be forever too late for the name and fame of Oregon to come to their own. A highway along the line of the old trail would make America's most mag nificent scenic route. None other has such a matchless combination of won ders as Chimney Rock, Independence Rock. Devil's Gate, the valley of the Sweetwater, South Pass, Wind River Mountains. Soda Springs. American Falls. Shoshone Falls all leading to the Columbia and- the snow-clad peaks of the Cascades. "The play-ground of the world." The National Park would be of easiest access through a short detour. With such a memorial highway on the line of the old Oregon Trail, Oregon would be the goal of the National au tomobile Summer traffic. This great "see-America-flrst" route would become the vogue. The froducts of our or chards and fields would in a few years find the largest and an unexcelled home market. The Oregon farmer would soon have means to build local systems of highways. The project of a National memorial highway on the old Oregon Trail would give eclat to road-building. The tremendous undertaking of provid ing Oregon with adequate highways would, under the spell of a noble and wise enthusiasm, be most expeditiously and easily accomplished. An adequate presentation of this proj ect to the commercial bodies of St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha would elicit prompt and powerful co-operation towards securing National aid. Through the Governors of Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming. Utah. Idaho and Washington, these states would be aroused.-and tho matter could be rapidly brought to con summation. Interstate co-operation in the conservation of resources would find in this project a congenial alliance. F. G. YOUNG Secretary Oregon Historical Society. ' The Time-to-Go-Home Tune. PORTLAND, July IS. (To the Ed itor.) I am a stranger in your city, though a native of Oregon, and wish I had come back sooner. One thing I notice on my return, and which rather goes against the grain, as not being exactly patriotic, is the rendering of the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the close of the performance in several of the Portland theaters. I have been taught to stand at "at tention," with bared head, while that beloved piece was played. To see the mad scramble to get out that takes place when the orchestra starts to play "The Star-Spangled Banner," one would Imagine that it was a piece of ragtime. Would it not be possible for the orches tra leaders of the theaters to choose some other piece to signify to the audi ence that it was time to go home? D. HENDERSON. Mrs. Glyn Slaps Padded Shoulders. Boston Herald. "I want no American with padded coat sleeve to play the part of the hero in my new play." exclaims Mrs. Elinor Glyn. taking a fair shot at one of the fpibles of American tailors, the most fashionable of whom still adhere to the pernicious habit of padding the sleeves or shoulders of their coats, whether their customers have good square shoulders or not. The sartorial congress, now re ported in session in New York, might turn their attention to this weakness of their profession. Instead of devoting all their energies to the problems of how to produce graceful lines for bow-legs and for excessively protuberant abdo mens. Padded masculine shoulders are distinctly bad form. THE SEW SECRETARY OF WAR Sketch of General Lake K. Wright, Democrat an Gx-CMledefate, F. Heiskell in the Independent. When President Roosevelt again hon ored Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, this time appointing him Secretary of War. the average American, reviewing the sev eral honors that have fallen to this Southern Democrat and former Confed erate soldier, sought the "why" in the case. General Wright brings to the Cabinet absolute fearlessness), a remarkable mind, a keen perception whioh enables him to strike at the exact psychological moment, a grasp of the details of conditions in the Philippine Islands, and of the needs, the good qualities and the s!-t comings of the natives; a thorough and intimate knowledge of the actual warfare and a good idea of the needs of a modern army, the esteem of every Army officer who knows him and many who only know of him. a sense of justice almost quixotic, a heart as tender as that of a woman, and a backbone of steel. It fell to the lot of General Wright at 15 to-be a soldier, and he was in every engagement of the Army of Tennessee except Shiloh. A delayed train kept him out of this great fight. He thus saw four years of bruising warfare. His record sparkles with gallantry, bot it was after the war that his courage had the mpst severe test. During the yellow fever scourge in Memphis. General Wright led in the fight against the scourge, against famine, and against the brutal marauders who dared God's anger for loot. He was stricken with the fever, but he cut short the long period of con valescence the physicians would have re quired and took up his work again as soon as he was able to leave his bed. In 1870. when a demoralised Memphis was overrun with thugs and with law lessness. Mr. Wright was asked to rtm for Attorney-General for the Criminal Court of Shelby County (Memphis). It was a position requiring fearlessness and good judgment, and both of these the candi date had. He was elected and since has been called General, as is the custom in Tennessee. Early in his service as a member of the second Philippine Commission. Gen eral Wright, arguing that the 'American people would not countenance the reten tion of the Islands if an army of 65.000 men was necessary to hold them, pro posed to organize the Philippine Consta bulary, to be composed of loyal Filipinos and officered by American ex-regulars and ex-volunteers. At first the other members of the Commission did not take kindly to the Idea, but they were soon won over. No so. however, with the Army. There would be an uprising. The commanding General pointed to the Se poy rebellion. And then and there the commanding General and other officers nearby heard a neat, concise and acurate history of the Sepoy rebellion the lesson of which was that the rebellion proved the necessity for proper organization and proper discipline of native troops. Com missioner Wright was the lecturer. In the softest voice and with most genial manner he gave them details of the Se poy rebellion, for. anticipating Just what happened, he had read a bit In order to add to his general knowledge of the great revolt. He chose fotthls reading a critical analysis of the causes leading up to the rebellion. It was written by a British officer, and there were just 32 volumes 6f it. Shortly thereafter tho constabulary, -thoroughly organized, was holding the Islands. When he was acting Governor of the Philippine Islands. General Wright was approached by an editor, the leader of a new political sect named the Katipunan party, latterly organized by. ladrones and murderers. The Katipunans preached edition. After a courteous greeting from the Governor, Senor Editor launched forth into a speech. "We do not repre sent." said he. "the aristocracy of the Philippine Islands, but we. members of the newly organized Katipunan party, represent the brawn and sinew, the J' But his speech ended here. The Goberna dor Civil, who had waited these several days, was talking. The forefinger of his right hand was near the nose of Senod ed itor, and the Senor was backing toward the swinging doors, through which he had entered the chamber. "The Amer icans." said the Governor, "desire in every way to help the Filipinos. But the Filipinos must also help. Katipunan spells murder In the Philippine Islands now, and you know it. The time is not arrived for a Katipunan party. And- an other thing. We have been watching your antics and reading your paper. BI1 ibid prison's doors swing wide for those who spread sedition and you have for some time been dangerously near the line." Shortly after this, the Katipunan party faded away. When Judge Taft was made Secretary of War. General Wright was made Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, the first Governor-General ever appointed by the United States. When he returned to Memphis for a brief rest. after more thantwo years of service in the Islands, the President of the United States came there to welcome home this Democrat and ex-Confederate aniHisr "made good." When Japan asked for an moaasaaor instead of a Minister from America, she also asked that the first Ambassador be one of ao,-i' men. and the appointment was given to v.. .,r,B..i. japan Knew him through his work in the Philippines, as did all the Orient, and the appointment pleased Japan. The latest honor is the Port folio of War. Ere long the North will thank the South for giving the Nation such a man. V Shipa of Reinforced Concrete, Next. Consular and Trade Reports. An Italian correspondent of the London Times predicts that the use of concrete in boat building will largely take the place of iron and steel. He says: "Large boat3 of reinforced concrete have been built .?y ln thiH eountry. and five of these of 120 tons and more were in commission for the Italian Navy. The first of these boats, a 120-ton barge, wss built In 190 on the plans of Mr. Gabelllni. an Italian who has given his whole attention to reinforced concrete, and who for many yt, Jlf" h.een condl,Ung experiments with this class of material. This boat, which was built with double bottom and of the cellular type, was submitted to severe tests in the Spezia arsenal, where a much larger boat built of iron and with an Iron ram wn H i,.. . " - - - -- .. . . . KgaifTigx it with- out producing any considerable damage to ... wmo ana in consequence of the satisfactory results given by this first boat, four more of these barges were ordered on account of the Italian navy." What the Brakeman Says. St. Louis Times. The shades of night -were falling fast As through the railroad car there passed A brakeman with a visage red. Vnd thla Is what he loudly said-"B-r-r git,.- His hair was short, his jaw was long, His lungs were leathery and strong. And as we sped the landscape o'er. Once more he gave this awful roar: "B-r-r gib." "Oh. say." remarked an ancient Miss. "And tell ma. please, what town is this? The brakeman rolled hui honest eye. Likewise his quid, and made reply: B-r-r gib." "I'm bound for Nlles." the drummer said. "Is this the town that lies sihead? The brakeman sighed with weary air. And ones again we heard this blare: B-r-r gib." Then up we rose and madly hurled That brakeman forth into the world. And as he fell, with anger vain. We heard again the wild refrain: B-r-r gib." Next morn they found him as he lay. And planted him without delay. And now-they've got another cuss Who calls the tpwn and calls It thus: Bil-s-sjfcghtx." DEMOCRATIC PRESS ON" BRYAN 1 Many Dissatisfied Wltb Nomination, bot Some Will Support Rim. Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening, Pern, i Democrats now feel that their party has no real Democratic candidate for President. Hopes for Mr. Bryan's Defeat. Washington (D. C.) Post. Ind. The Democratic party certainly can not be wholly Itself until Mr. Bryan is disposed of. If he is elected, he will be the party, and can shape it as he will. If he is defeated the party will have to get along without him. Bryan's Appeal to Radicals and Labor. Baltimore News, Ind. . The most significant thing in the proceedings at Denver Is the evidence that Mr. Bryan Intends to' make his fight by an appeal to the radical vote, especially to the radical labor vote. The real Import of the platform is in the planks directed at labor, and it needs no prophet and no son of a prophet to foretell that the campaign of the Democracy will be pitched in a much more radical key than the plat form. Opportunity of Bryan's Life. . Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. Dem. If the varied and some time diver gent interest of the Democracy will unite ln harmonious effort upon the platform and the man. there Is good reason to believe that National condi tions will favor its success. Its platform builders, while mindful of just property rights, have construct ed a safe, sane and conservative safe guard of the people's interests. It meets conditions and upon it. notwith standing past defeats, the opportunity of Mr. Bryan's life confronts him. Bryan's Confidence Is Justified. Brooklyn Citizen, Dem. With the Democracy solidly on Mr. Bryan's side, with an exceptionally strong claim on the confidence of non partisan reformers, with nothing, as wo have shown, to fear from any honest conservative, and with many indica tions that he will receive much? more than the usual Democratic share of the labor vote, he is abundantly justified in the confidence he has repeatedly ex pressed, t-hat under his leadership the Democratic party will be restored to power in the Nation this year. Democracy Before a Yawning Ditch. Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier, Dem. We do not know, of course, what others may do, but as for us and our house, if the fears which haunt us this morning shall be realized, we. shall take the seats reserved for us in the front row on the right of our Peerless driver, in spite of the prophecy that "if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch," for is it not writtc in the gospel according to St. Luke: "Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit and will not straightaway pull him out on the Sab bath Day. Bryan, an n Dangerous Enemy. New York Evening Post, Ind. . At the very beginning of the Repub lican campaign, it is the part whether of frankness or sound generalship to admit that power of resistance to Bryan has been much broken by four years of yielding to him. President Roosevelt's avowed and deliberate purpose has been to . head off Bryan by stealing his issues. The argument, or threat, which he has constantly used has been: "If you do not go halt way rvlth me, you will have to go the whole way with Bryan." Weil, we see now what comes of the plan of fighting a dangerous enemy by surrendering to him. The Bryan who was to be extinguished is exalted higher than. ever. Bryan Distrusted by Business .Men. Brooklyn Datly Times (Ind.) If Mr. Bryan is distrusted, and justly distrusted, by the business interests of the country, at least he has been able, without any of the aids that are usual ly regarded as essential to the reten- ' tion of political leadership, to maintain his influence in the party and to break down the most powerful and combined opposition. He enters the field with & strong and- compact force behind him, with the assured vote of the Demo cratic states ready to be cast for him without effort on the part of his sup porters and with a fair chance of se curing the electoral votes of some of . the Western states that have usually been regarded as safely Republican. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN REAL CAMPAIGN HEAD QUARTERS OF THE G. 0. P; They will be in the palatial res-, idence of Candidate Taft's broth er in a "passed-up" street in Cin cinnati. CATCHING CRABS AT ILWACO BEACH Full-page illustration in colors, not untimely, from a very fine photograph by George F. Holman. UNCLE SAM'S WILD WEST SHOW Cavalry drill at Fort Meyer, where the men who wear uniforms make Buffalo Bill's performers look like amateurs, with great pic tures. ISHORTY M'CABE'S liU Willi AHT Being a very unusual experi ence in the life of Professor Mc Cabe, wherein he unconsciously became a benefactor. THE MYSTERY OP THE ZINC CASE Another of Carlton Clarke's stories, whose action runs from Chicago to the remotest corner of the State of Washington. . TEACHING NORTHERN NEGROES TO WORK A second Booker Washington has begun the establishment of another Tuskegee Institute in Ohio. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER