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Newspaper Page TextTITE MOKNIXG OREGOXIAX. TIIUKSDAT, NOVEMBER 19, 1903. PORTLAND. PRECOX. Entered t Portland. Oregon, Poatofflce as Sccofid-c.ua Matter. ftubacriplioa Rates Invariably In Adnoem. (Br Mail ) Tally. Sunday Included, ooa year. " ' ttai.y. Sunday Included, ail rnontna.... " ta.ly. .''cndiy Include!, threa mortM. . - r I::y. hunday In. luded. one molUB.... laily. without Kun-lay. r1' Z,! La::y. without Sunday, an montna. a j L.i:r. wltnout tund.iv. three m-ntns. . , . . . . . ....... AnA montD 1 60 ISO eeklir. ooa year. 5undy. one yr Sunday and VIMklr. ona year (Br Carrier.) Pally, Sunday Included, ona year...... Lai.y. Sunday Included, ona montb . How ta -Bmlt Bnd poatoltlca ni a. M a oft it order, ixprfni order "r 1 - . your local bank, btampa com or ad are at ine eemir - - . ilr.ua In full. Including county and stai 1 Fnatare Hutu 1U to ji -. t- 2- pa ;e. J cent.: so w a. I-.."- - -- p.a. 4 cants. Foreign po.taa -onrif r.kre. r -..term Uaaincaa office-Tha 8 C. 4ft 60 Tribune Mm.ung. Chicago, rooms --U- ill Trilune bulidins ruKTLAM), THIICiUAV. OV. 1. -- THX FATE OF THE HOHKNZOU-ERNi From what has happened In Ger many within the last week or two. th. -.-n-i.-.i- William must have learnec come striking and useful lessons. One of them Is that while beyona quwui vi. ...rhoriiv comes directly from th Aimitrhtv. still it Is Invalid against the unanimous feeling of the nation He has learned also that there Is In .-- ,., . i.Nflr-p nnuflr 'than his leel iiiiui j e " - -- - With all the prestige of his ancestral glory, with his mignty army i -.-in h has been compellei to bow to the people and acknowledge .i ,-i- jnri nor he are the true lint. " e iv.. Dmnin. Henceforth, If he keeps the promise he has made William will retain the pomp and pa rade of sovereignty, but not the sub Tht will nhiflo with his min lsters. who are to be responsible to the German people ana tncreiore the people s servants insieau -.l .. Thus the flamboyant Kaiser finds ' himself in the situation wnicn me British monarchs have occupied for many years. He has been transformed . . .tit., who arrogated to him self the grandeur of the deity and a power little short 01 aosoiute w mr... nr le ornamental figurehead .It Is not to be supposed that the trans formation is yet complete or hum. li.r-. fniu- understands what has hap .winoH to him. A mind like his must require a 'certain time to digest the truth that he has to ODey wnen mo nation commands. Old habits of arro gance in the monarch and servility in the subject cannot be eradicated in a day. William will doubtless continue to pose as a terrestrial deity and Ger many will sometimes forget to laugn , when he does so. But the laugh is .r-iie-iin-trrl. The divinity that hedged him has been broken through and all the rest is ea.y. In trie process 01 change from absolute King to adminis trative figurehead there is no perma nent stopping place. If the people can force William to obey them in the plenitude of his power, how can ho resist them now that his power has begun to wane? . The aim of the human reason in )ts struggle with the problem of just gov ernment has been i to fasten upon rulers full and definit t responsibility for their acts. When rulers are Irre sponsible the throne is absolute and the subject a slave. When responsibil ity Is not definite but fugitive and elu sive, the subject may be free In name, but In substance his freedom Is a de ceptive phantom. But the only way to hold a man responsible is to have the right and power to punish him. Na tions, however, have always been loath to punish their kings, and when under extreme provocation they have done so, mankind has been horrified. Europe huddcred when England cut off Charles Stuart's head, and when France guillotined Louis Capet the world took up arms against her. Pun ishment is incompatible with king ship. How then solve the problem of responsible government without abol ishing kings? England, the mother of sensible politics, solved it long ago in the only possible way. She left the monarch his glory but took away his power and gave it to his ministers. Thus the King could do no wrong because theo retically he had no power, and if his conduct failed to chime with theory, his ministers must take the conse quences. In practice the arrangement has worked wonderfully well. It has given Britain one of the freest and not far from the best government in the world, nor does it "work Injustice to the King's responsible ministers. The monarch can only act by commanding them and when his commands are im proper they need not obey. If they do obey, the King's mandate will not excuse them to the law. This is the system of government to ward which William's recent folly has precipitated Germany. His indiscreet babble In the London Telegraph kin dled a fury of wrath among his peo ple which evidently frightened him, and he has given his sacred word to act hereafter only through ministers whom the representatives of the Em pire can punish for malfeasance. Usually the word of a monarch is not avorth much, but the chances are that William will keep his promise, not so much because he feels bound by it as because he cannot break it. When Parliament has once formed the habit of punishing ministers for what the Kaiser does, unless he leaves the pub lic business to them he cannot find anybody who will serve him. He has started on the downward way, and it is difficult to Fee where he can stop. The German people have had a taste of 'power. If they are like other human beings they will relish It so well that presently they will take another taste and the haughty Hoheneollems will walk the road the English morrarchs traveled two hundred years ago. Thus Frovldcnce turns the folly of the great to their destruction and from the van ity of kings evolves the happiness of mankind. A document of some interest, espe cially to pioneers of the Willamette Valley, is published in the current number of the Oregon Historical So ciety quarterly. It is the subscription list "for defraying in part the cost of making a preliminary survey for a railroad route connecting the Pacific Railroad in California with the City of Portland. Oregon." The date is Oc tober. 1563. Among the names are many that belong to the past and siand for early endeavor in the de velopment of the state. The limited means procured by even the leading men In the Industrial life of the state forty-live years ago Is attested by the subscriptions that stand opposite their names In this eld document. Wheat was legal tender in the agricultural community represented by these names, hence most of the pledges were In wheat, ranging from one sub scription of one hundred bushels to' be delivered at Phoenix Mills, to Ave bushels to be delivered at Ashland Mills. There were many pledges of from ten to fifty bushels, while the cash subscriptions ranged from J2 50 to $25. The willingness of pioneers to help themselves and each other In the beginnings of Oregon's industrial and business life is attested In this old document. Of such as they had they gave freely and waited patiently the slow returns which the years finally brought. KESPOXSIBIUTTBS Or CITIZENSHIP. Judge Charles H. Carey's address, delivered yesterday before the Bar Association, on "The Responsibilities of Citizenship." contained . a great amount of excellent matter. The ob servations were based on research and experience, supported by original thought. Today The Oregonlan prints as much of the address as a newspaper which has to cover a multitude of matters, can afford space for. From these portions the general quality of the address may be understood. It la to the last parts of the address, devoted to consideration of special problems in our own state, with the changes in our method of law-making and especially of dealing "with the Constitution itself, that we would di rect earnest attention. It Is scarcely yet understood that in this state we are working under a new and really untried system; and that our citizen ship Is on trial, as well as the system Itself. Judge Carey's observations and suggestions are pertinent to this situ ation, and are delivered with clearness, force and spirit. The discourse, more over, is very timely: for it is not an exposition of a theory, but Is addressed to a condition or situation. KRKE cX'GAR A rOSSIBIMTV. There ta a possibility, faint it is true, but still a possibility, that the coming session of Congress will abolish Lthe rhity on sugar. Some very inter esting testimony was given the ways and means committee of the House at a hearing on the sugar schedule of the tariff, in Washington Tuesday. Mr. Claus Spreckels, who prior to his fall ing out with the sugar trust was one of the chief beneficiaries of the tariff. testified that the independent refineries which he now operates are compelled to buy their sugar in Java, Porto Rico and Cuba, because "the sugar trust had the output of Louisiana and the Hawaiian Islands contracted for." Under the present system of protec tion for the sugar trust two distinct classes, the consumers and the pro ducers, are "milked" in order that the dividends of the sugar trust may retain their vast proportions. Mr. Edward Atkins, of Boston, who Is interested in Cuban sugar planta tions, testified that removal of the duty would result In a reduction to the con sumer of half a cent per pound. The colossal profits of the sugar trust would Indicate that an even greater saving could be effected, but, even at the half cent saving, when the enormous sugar consumption of more than 80,- 000,000 of people is considered. It can be understood why all previous at tempts to remove or reduce the duty are so stubbornly resisted. The Cuban planters will of course profit largely by the widening of the market that will follow removal of the duty on raw sugar, but the greatest benefits will t.e felt in the Philippines, where sugar can be produced to better advantage then any other product. There was a tacit understanding nhen the Philip pines came under the American flag that the new dependency was to en- Joy most of the rights and privileges that were extended to American citi zens, but thus far the Interference of the sugar trust and the tobacco trust, has been such that exploitation of both of these Industries has been seri ously hampered. Ordinarily, with the appearance of Mr. Spreckels as an ally of the Ameri can consumers, or the foreign pro ducers. It might 4e well to exercise the caution that Is advisable regarding the gift-bearing Greeks, but in this par- ticular case, it seems the interest of Mr. Spreckels in free sugar Is mutual with that of the consumer and pro ducer. After removai of the duty on sugar has been accomplished without any serious economic upheaval. It may be possible to carry the reform a little farther, and by removal or reduction in the tariff, give the consumers a por tion of the excessive profits that for many years have supplied the trusts with funds to be used in fighting tariff redaction. Af llSSATLSFACTORY EXPERIMENT. The state of Washington has on hand an unsold stock of 1.000,000 grain bags which it will of necessity be obliged to carry over Into the next season. The bags were made by con vict labor, and their cost is accord ingly reduced materially from that of the bags which are made by the firms regularly engaged in the business out side of penitentiary walls. Aside from the labor cost, there is a large amount of money tied up in a carryover stock of 1,000.000 bags, and, to make mat ters worse for the state. It Is now spending $100,000 in enlarging the ca pacity of the plant at which the bags are made. This addition will of course enable the state to produce a larger number of bags than ever before, but. In view of the unsatisfactory results of the past season's work, it is not im probable that the next Legislature may decide that it is not to the advantage of the state to -continue the work. Everything else being equal, it seems quite natural that with convict labor, which costs the state nothing, bags should be turned out as cheaply as In India, where the grain bag of com merce is manufactured. But, from the results attained. It is tjuite clear hat everything else Is not equal. Per haps the managers of the Walla Walla Jute bag plant, who receive their ap pointment on the strength of a politi cal pull, are not so well versed in the practical side of bag-making as the swarthy men from the Far East who direct the movements of the cheapest labor on earth. Besides, the machinery for the Walla Walla plant Is all im ported from Scotland at a very heavy cost in duties, while the Calcutta bag men are exempt from duty. Lastly, there is the raw material from India, which must stand a freight charge equal to that of the finished product. Some American bag factories are suc cessfully competing in special lines with the Calcutta bag manufacturers, but they are In charge of bag-making experts who are not appointed as a reward for political favors; and even then difficulty is encountered in meet ing the competition of the Far Eastern product. The present predicament of the State of Washington, with 1.000.000 bags unsold, and the machinery for doubling th capacity of the plant al ready purchased, is not without its value as an object lesson In the law of supply and demand. When a short crop of Jute and a big crop of wheat, rice and other commodities which make a market for Jute bags sent bat? prices skyward last year. Pacific Coast bag dealers, iwho have never made any money out of the business, were soundly berated by trie interior press, for the high prices. This year, with a good crop of jute and a small crop of grain in this part of the country, there were naturally more, bags im ported than were needed, and the slump in prices followed- The only reason why the Walla Walla Institu tion is left with its stock unsold Is that, while it maintained top prices and fol lowed the market right along up with the scarcity a year ago, it was not quick enough in- reducing prices to unload before the demand was satis fied. The experiment seemed a suc cess so long as there was a rising mar ket, but at the present time there is nothing attractive in a state-owned jute mill. THE PRESIDENTS DINNER. The President's dinner party to the labor leaders, barring the undesirable Mr. Qompers, was certainly fruitful in discussion. Possibly it may affect legislation. The proposal to urge Congress to pass a bill of rights for workingmen sounds well, at least un til one begins to analyze it. Then Its glamor suffers an eclipse. Would this bill assign to workingmen rights which other people do not enjoy and thus create a privileged class? Or would it assign to them only the rights of other citizens? Presumably they enjoy those rights already. In that case what good would the bill do? If working men are deprived of some of the common rights of citizens, then they suffer under a gross injus tice and the sensible course would seem to be to discover wherein they are wronged, and enact specific legis lation to correct the evil. An ounce of law going directly to the core of a wrong is worth tons of eloquent prat tle about the rights of man. It is a comfort to notice that some of the Supreme Court Judges dined with the union leaders. One may hope perhaps that these reverend dignitaries learned from the frank discussions at the din ner table something about modern economics and social philosophy. A little information upon those subjects would be novel to them as well as useful. THE GENERAL POSTOTTTCK. The postal system of the country does not "pay." Probably it never will be the intention of the country to make It pay In the accounting. Tet it will pay, in usefulness to the people. So It does pay, though the accounting shows that during the fis cal year ended June 30, 1908, its cash deficit was no less a sum than $16, 910,278. It is not the object of government to make its departments pay, in money, all they cost; yet, of course, every department must be conducted on economical principles. There Is loss, as the accounting shows. In the book accounts of the Postoffice; but the people get accommodation through the postoffice that is worth the money they pay for It. All the transactions and economies of government depend, thus, on the distributive system. The postal system of the United States never did "pay," in the ac counting. There always has been some deficit. The percentage of def icit usually has been steady say about ten per cent of the gross vol ume of the business. It is nearly that proportion now. Last year the ex penditures of the Postoffice were $208,351,886; the receipts, $191,478, 633 deficit, $16,873,253 less than eight per cent. Extension of the postal service Is one of the most remarkable incidents and facts of the last twenty years. Free delivery has invited general use, and has revolutionized the system. Use of the postoffice is becoming uni versal in all the affairs of life. No tices of every kind are sent through the mails. Free delivery in city and country makes It easiest and surest means of communication. The Postmaster-General, in a recent statement, said he intended, in his annual report to Congress this Win ter, to call attention to an opinion he has formed, based on his own experi ence and knowledge, that "the estab lishment of a special local parcels post, confined to rural routes, would tend to wipe out the postal deficit and would finally make the rural delivery self sustaining, besides being of conveni ence to the farmer and a boon to the retail country merchant." But the retail country merchant does not yet see his advantage in the system. He entertains natural doubts. The argu ment on the other side is that every additional facility is alwas's advan tageous to every interest of the com munity. The country merchant will increase his trade and his profits by using the system himself, as the agent of his customers. The goods so sup plied would be small specialties, which the country merchant would not carry in any quantities, because he wouldn't know what was wanted. Tet he could get them through the Postoffice. and as agent would make profit by doing the business. The Postmaster-General contends that the Government would make profit also. It might not; but the rural population would be accom- i modated by the service. There are now in operation more than 39,000 routes, serving nearly twenty millions of people. Since the advantage of this service has become so generally known and approved, the service will be increased further; never diminished. It is the branch of the service that comes home most closely to the life of the people in the rural districts. In the city, too, the free delivery is the most useful of all the agencies of the general Govern ment. Its work is done day by day, without intermission. Everybody can depend on It. As an effective cen tralizing and nationalizing force, noth ing can equal it. It is the chief vin dicator, in practice, of the Hamllton ian idea of government. It leaves the Jeffersonian Idea in the woods and in the darkness. The bread and water diet ordered for the striking prisoners at Kelly Butte will serve a double purpose. It will not only. In the end, force the strikers to come to terms, but it will serve still further to reduce the aver age cost of meals, so that the County Court can make an even more wonder ful showing of economy than has ever before been figured out. A very fair meal of bread and water can be sup plied for about two cents, arid using this as a base, the County Court can figure out a saving for a year which will make Sheriff Stevens' whiskers fairly curl with envy. An Eastern newspaper, commenting on the fact that the latest addition to the . German merchest marine has been christened the George Washing tori, - regards the "George" as super fluous, because this country has had but one "Washington" who was really entitled to the honor of having his name perpetuated on a great ocean liner. There was of course a great increase in the cost of placing the ad ditional "George" on all of the .boats, j life preservers, silverware and other equipment, dui tne creriiians cic tn.- 1ns- no chances on being misunaer stood. Had the new liner appeared as the Washington, the patriotic, ever advertising residents of the Evergreen state would have long ago raised a fund for a set of colors or a silver service for the new craft, which has apparently been constructed with a view to catering to the American trade. Roach's shipyard at Chester, Pa, a plant that up to a few weeks ago had been in operation since the close of the Civil War, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The death of John B Roach last June deprived the great ship-building plant of a competent head. The family of Mr. Roach are in the dependent class, as far as run ning that plant goes; the liabilities of the plant are heavy and without a man of business and financial ability to assume charge, a receivership was Inevitable. The ships turned out from Roach's yard have entered every port in the world and the fighting strength of the Navy has been Increased from the same source. The suspension of its activities will be felt In a sentimental as well as in a business sense through out the land. Thirteen passengers killed In train accidents during the quarter ending June 30 is the smallest number re ported since records on these rail tragedies have been kept. For tne lis cal vear the number of accidents on railroads was nearly a third smaller than for the preceding twelve months Much of this improvement is said to be due to the policy of the railroads In giving greater publicity to railroad accidents, thus improving the chances for remedying the evils responsible for wrecks. The progress is encouraging, and, if the good work continues, travel by rail will soon lose some of its terrors. The common garden "worm which, until the present time, has been re garded only as good fish bait, and a plaything for Juveniles of the male sex, has suddenly been elevated to a position of importance. A Buffalo physician has discovered that this supposedly inoffensiwe worm is the source of a parasite which produces cancer. The discoverer, as usual, has the credentials, and the worm sud denly becomes in many respects more dangerous than the rattlesnake, which has always held a position too lofty and reserved to make him easily adaptable for fish bait. The last . conjugal estate of Anna Gould is worse than the first, as of course everybody knew it would be. She should not be permitted to get a divorce again, neither should she be encouraged to separate herself from her latest and most filthy bargain. Some sort of penance should follow her action of a year ago and the pen alty that exactly fits her crime is that of living with the unspeakable crea ture that in defiance of decency and regardless of family solicitude and pride she married. Rockefeller declares that the meth ods of Standard Oil In dealing with competitors have always been "abso lutely fair." That's what the wolf said about his way of dealing with the sheep. "How would you be cooked?" said the cannibal chief to the mission ary. "We wish to be absolutely fair." I wouldn't be cooked at all, said the missionary. "That's no answer to the question," said the big chief. Why can't you be frank and fair, as we are? You are dodging the ques tion." Some highly important testimony was given by John D. Rockefeller in the conspiracy case at Findlay, Ohio. The oil king testified that Standard Oil had never used coercion In dealing with competitors and that all of the methods employed were absolutely fair. It would be much more Impor tant, however, if someone could be found who would believe the remark able statement. Kalama, Wash., has been selected as a meeting place for a good roads convention to be held December 1. Any man who has ever attempted to drive a wagon, automobile, or even a goat, over the Cowlitz County roads, in the vicinity of Kalama, can well understand that there is much that is appropriate in the selection of a meet ing place. What we really want to know about that White House dinner is whether the fortunate labor leaders who were invited, and went and ate, were dressed in the abhorred splketail? And, if so, what is the American Federation of Labor going to do about It? The Oregon woolgrowers want a Senator elected from Oregon who will sympathize with their effort to keep the tariff duty on wool. They will have Chamberlain's sympathy all right. But that's all. Having disposed of the spines on the cactus, Mr. Burbank would eliminate the cob from the corn. Base icono clast! Has he forgotten the days of his youth and the joy of gnawing a roastin' ear? The New York World is industrious ly devoting a column a day to a double-leaded serial "For Senator Roosevelt." In New York, however, the Legislature elects the Senator. "After all," asks the writer of a pos tal card addressed to The Oregonlan, "after all, what was the paramount Issue of the late campaign ?" Distrust of Bryan and of his party. Streetcars of Seattle are to stop two minutes while everybody prays. Here they stop two minutes or more very often, but everybody doesn't pray. In Germany nowadays its the fashion to spell Kaiser with a little K and chanceller with a large C If that's the way to spell it. The taming of the Kaiser by Von Buelow took just three-quarters of an hour. The Kaiser promises hereafter to play a thinking part. Having been allowed $25,000 a year alimony, Mrs. Howard Gould will now be able to drink herself to death like a real lady. BOG IS PRICES OX NEWS PAPER Glaring; Inaccuracies and Misstate ments of Onmin Bureau Shorrn. Herman Ridder, president of the Amer ican Xewsnaner Publishers' Association. has addressed a letter under date of November 14 to President Roosevelt, call ing attention to the gross Inaccuracy of information furnished by Census Director North, to the House committee on ways and means, with respect to the prices of print news paper during the past 10 years. This information was called forth in order to establish a basis for tariff leg islation. Absolute Integrity was the prime necessity. Any departure from strict truth was fatal: yet Mr. Ridder charges Dr. North with grossest igno rance of the subject and proves by quo tations from trade journals and from actual sales of paper the utter wortn lessness of the Census Bureau's figures. Mr Ridder declares that no sane man would dare to vouch for such fakes and frauds and suggests that Dr. North needs a care-taker. President Roosevelt s at tention is called to the fact because Dr. North's worthlRSS and misleading quota tions are so far-reaching in their effect. Dr North, last Winter sent to the ways" and means committee a letter certifying to the accuracy of certain prices for news print paper covering a period of 17 years. He refused, when manifest errors were pointed out. to correct them. Mr. Ridder then speci fies in his letter to the President: In Dr North's letter to which I have re fcrredT there Is a minimum quotation under data of July 1. 1A0O. which la "S4 Ver 1 poundwhicT., Tllr 'cenrr.Pethan the minlnujra price Primed in the Paper Trade Journal nearest to that date. vis.. 2.75. . For October, 1. 1900, th. Ve by Dr. North are wrong to the extent or S per ton or 10 per cant 1M than the minimum and maximum price, primed In the Paper Trade Journal nearest to that daFo"r April 1. 1902. Dr. North vndertakes to give a minimum and a maximum price, though the Paper Trade Journal printed only a minimum price. ..,-, Dr. North'a letter states the maximum price for July 1. in7. as S10. whereas the Paper Trade Journal maximum quo tation was $2.75; a difference of $7 per 'a.ii. trnm iha failure of the head of the Censua Bureau to accurately copy the quo tations of the Paper Trade Journal. I will now demonstrate to you his Incapacity. In ao far as he . failed to note their utte. worthlessness from the figures themselves. He gave figures which purported to show that the price of news print paper was stationary In the following terl"'J,, April 1. 1S90. to Oct. 1. lSdl ? X3 '5 Jan. 1, JS92. to April 1, JRi5..... 3J-0 July 1. 1S5. to Jan 1. ISM" 8 5013.3.00 April 1, llk.3, to Jan. 1. 1!4 a,40fs 2.i.O July 1. 1906, to April 1. 1907 2.00&2.2O Dr. North said (page 1346 of Hearings): "I am assured by men who should know that the quotations given are a safe index to the periodical fluctuations In the price of news paper than any figures based upon private and special contract." May I ask does a uniform quotation for 39 months in an ever-changing commodity Justify that assertion of periodical fluctuation" 7 The veriest tyro In business would know tnat prices of commodities not artificially man ipulated as steel has been, would oscillate and change with all tne variations ui ply and demand, and, with all the econo mies of manufacture and with all the freedom of competition that prevailed for at least eight years of the period under review. Yet. Dr. North, writing upon a schedule which did not show a particle of variation in prices during 39 months, mis led Congress and the Federal authority by saying "you may rely upon these figures as accurate." It Is hardly conceivable that any man outside of a lunatic asylum or the Census Office would make such an assertion after a scrutiny of the quotations. Dr. North went further. When the accu racy of his figures was denied, he appeared before a committee of the House of Rep resentatives and substantially reaffirmed their accuracy, saying (page 1346 of Hear ings), "as thus qualified, the quotations furnished Mr. Dalzell undoubtedly repre sent more accurately than Mr. Ridder'B figures, the prices paid by purchasers In the open market at the dates named by the average customer, having no special contract." Again, the Paper Trade Journal has for years printed so-called quotations for news print paper, purporting to give a general price and the prices In various cities. The general price has been assumed to rep resent the price In New York City where Is the most considerable consumption. The prices appearing in the Paper Trade Jour nal for two cities were as follows. General. Phlladelphia. Per ton. Per ton. April 4. 1907 4O04S !S0$63 January 3, 1907 40(0 45 50 02 October 4, 1906.. 4Clft 45 SO 62 July 5. 1908 40cS 4S BOO 62 April 5, 190B .. 86r 44 R0 62 January 4. 1906 3S 45 50 62 October B. 190S 38 4r. 50Si 62 July 6. 1803 Ofi 47 BO 62 April 6, 1905 44 4. 00 if 6Z I can find very few Instances In all the period of 17 years when the Philadelphia price approached the New York or general price, and the difference In maximum price quotation between the- two cities at times exceeding $17 per ton, though the actual difference 'in freight rata from the mills is only 40 cents. It would seem that the attention given to this matter of quotations, because of the paper investigation, would nave roused the sluggish minds that edit the Paper Trade Journal to correct Its price quota tions and that prodding did have some effect on the figures for New York, but the quotations for Philadelphia continued with out change and without regard to the mar ket, at utterly Impossible and ridiculous figures for a period of five years. Mr. Ridder furnishes from trade-journals numerous other quotations and then gives this specific statement based on an actual contract: Let me also point out the mistakes which the Belect committee of the House of Rep resentatives and the paper makers have been making in comparing news print paper prices, a he average rate Is the price which the paper maker obtains upon the con tracts that he makes during the year. For example. In 1904, the International Paper Company made a en-year contract with the Hearst papers for approximately 90,000 tons per annum for ten years, or yoo.000 tons in all, at $37.60 per ton delivered. That contract for 900.000 tons would be a fac tor In determining the price current in 1904, but it should not be considered In ascertaining the asking or bid price, or tlie current price in 1907. The improper inclu sion of that sale of paper in 1904 as part of the sales of 1907. reduced the apparent selling price of paper by the International Paper Company to the extent of nearly $1 per ton In 1907. The Committee has start ed unon wrong lines for its comparisons. In ascertaining whether the figures furnished by the Census Bureau were inaccurate, mis leading and worthless as a guide to legis lation. "With such a shocking illustration of care lessness and inaccuracy on the part of the Census Bureau, is not the country put upon notice to look with suspicion upon other compilations made by the same authority? Is not the primary requisite of the Census bead accuracy? Are we to spend $14,000.- 000 upon the Census of 1910 for that kind of competency? It Is a sad commentary upon administrative methods and upon the material which misled the last Congress, that the delicate work of the Census com pilation and of the countless records en trusted to the Census Bureau should be subject to the risk of such incapacity as that which Dr.. North's letter on news print paper discloses. WAIX, OF1 FASHIOJPS SLAVE. Tou must wake and call me early. Call me early, hubby dear; In time enough niy hair to puff, For 'tis the craze of the year. Yes. these ar9 my hairpins, hubby Six, dozen, both large and small; Only a few I wore, 'tis true. Till I followed the style this Fall. Maybe I'm losing my head, hubby, Ai.d maybe I'm going mad; But my hew Fall hat must not fit flat. So I've got to foilow the -fad. 1 must puff these hair-rolls, hubby. Although the hour be late; I must make them look like the fashion book. The style of 1908. Tou must wake and call me early. Call me early, hubby dear, , Tho' I'd love to sleep till the shadows creep Away and the day is near. I'll force myself to rise, hubby. When your first faint call I hear; I muBt have time enough my hair to puff. For 'tis the craze of the year. Wilheimina Barck Duniway. ' AS TO PROFESSIONAL PRIDE. Koted Newspaper Men and Their View of Their railing;. Henry Watterson In Louisville Courier Journal. With respect to the American news paper, or rather those who control it and those who write it, two qut'Stions must sometimes press upon thought ful minds; do they take an honest pride In their profession and themselves, and are they in reality loyal to the genius of republican institutions? The Abruzzl-Elklns marriage furn ishes a case in point. The average space-slugger, required to fill his col umn a day, is all agape and aglow, whilst the reportorial tattle-mongers seek to keep up the public Interest and lUncertalnty through their contra dictory statements, as If It were a fantastic prizefight. In the event that it does finally come to pass the whole tribe of newsmen and fustianlzers will revel in royal verbs and regal adverbs, illustrated by sprawling pictures of the duke's palatial hencoop and tho rubber band around the dot supposed to be Imported with the bride. Mean while, the principals are a well-bred young American woman and a repu table young Italian gentleman; the prosperity and happiness of the mar riage which their friends hope for them depending upon themselves, the titular distinction, rather a handicap than an advantage, and of no account at all on this side, of the Atlantic. In expatriating herself. Miss Elklns takes a risk. She takes another In en tering a court circle. But whatever she does is her own affair and does not concern the American public, nor interest sensible people. There is yet another case In point, nearer base, bearing on the point whether the average Journalist re spects his profession. ' Half a dozen newspapers have come to us recently with the surmise that. In case Judge Taft be the President, Colonel William Rockhil Nelson, the founder and owner of The Kansas City Star, will be the Ambassador to France. They troll their conceit as if they thoughc it great. But what does Col onel Nelson think of it? Being a level minded self-respecting man he does not think of It at all. Here Is h'ow he puts It: "The editor of The Star is amply "occupied, sustained and satisfied with his present Job. There never nas neen a time since he took ic up that he would exchange it for, or subordinate it to. or entangle it with, any appoint ive or elective office on earth, and there never will be such a time. He regards himself as holding a place of greater responsibility and usefulness than any within the gift of President or electorate and he never has held any other opinion on the subject. Not only has the editor of The Star never been a candidate, active or receptive, for any office, but he never has asked for' the appointment of anybody else, and he never even has expressed an opinion upon the eligibility of any as pirant for place, unless his opinion was asked for." What could office do for a man like Colonel Nelson except enslave him? He has firmly established a widely circula ting. Independent and influential news paper, which he owns, edits and con trols. He is a rich man, living as a rich man should in the midst of his accretions, the life of a public spirited citizen and the head of a most happy, charming and distinguished household. One fancies with a smile that he sees such a man, capering over European drawing rooms, the prey of the shoddy American women who want to be pre sented at court and the sport of the simpering Johnnies who call them selves noblemen. Where he is he is somebody; a useful somebody; a high ly considered somebody; a potential somebody. In any one of the embassies he would be a ruffle-shirted knee breeched, nobody, lost among the nin compoops who make up our diplomatic service abroad, most of them subscrib ing to Republican campaign funds either out of the pockets of rich wives, or the looted treasuries of predatory wealth. Who can tell offhand who is-Ambassador to France, to Russia, to Aus tria, to Italy? Except for the New York Tribune we would not know who is Ambassador to England, and, in order to be so, Whitelaw Reid has literally, abandoned his profession and his place in the American commonality, and is no more considered by the public than he will be after' he has ceased to exist. Office is both servitude and a badge of slavery, and that any self-sustaining journalist should think It an honor is sure proof that his vanity exceeds his judgment and that the splendid free dom of professional eminence and op portunity is lost upon him. Greeley and Raymond and Forney wrecked their lives upon the ignis fatus of of fice. But they lived in other days. James Gordon Bennett, the eider, set the pace when he declined the French mission, which Lincoln offered him. Reid had better come home and edit the Tribune and let his high-flying English aristocracy and the vulgar throng of American noodles and poodles in and out of petticoats, go hang! Poem on Dog In $100,000 Suit. New York Tribune. Pathetic poetry written by the late Ambrose A. Burbank on the death of 1,(0 Arrr Tvit wn offered as evidence before Judge Ward, in the United States Circuit Court, wnen tne neanng oi me .,- . ...iir.T. sinn (too from the estate of the wealthy recluse on an alleged bill of assignment was resumed. The suit was brought by David B. New comb and Mary Ellen Newcomb, chil dren of a nephew of Burbank. Their claim is that before he died, Ambrose Burbank signed a bill of assignment making over to them $100,000 worth of bonds, which Caleb A. Burbank, exec utor of the estate, now holds. Legatees and relatiVe3 testified to the genuine ness of the bill of assignment, Mrs James A. Disken said the poem was written the day after the dog died. A letter from her husband was intro duced to show that he sent the poem to Caleb A. Burbank, offering it for sale. The poem also identified the date when Mr. Burbank moved away from the rooms he occupied at Mrs Disken's house. Eugene D. Hawkins, counsel for the executor, said: "There Is a charge of forgery here, and I ask that all documents In con nection with the case be impounded by order of the court." The court denied the motion. Death Scepter Froni Forbidden City, New York Tribune. Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus, director of the American Museum of Natural His tory, announces the acquisition by the museum of an exceedingly rare Chinese curio from Klnching, the forbidden city of Pekin. It is called a "judge s staff or scepter," is fashioned of lac quered wood more than a century old, and has on one end an elaborately carved crested .head of the winged dragon, the imperial emblem of China, and the other end is. sharpened to a point. After a judge has heard the evidence in the case of a prisoner charged with a capital offence, he takes up the scenter. If he points the dra gon's head at the prisoner the latter goes free, but If the prisoner is con fronted with the sharpened end he must be beheaded. This is said to be the only specimen of its kind ever ob tained from the Forbidden City and brought to this country. Live Toad at Depth of 25 Feet. Philadelphia Record. While Calvin Winters of Lakemont, Pa., was digging a well he unearthed several large lizards imbedded in the earth ten feet below the surface. At a depth of 25 feet he discovered a toad, which, when brought to the surface, blinked and hoppec about in the sun. THE PEOPLE DO RULE OH, YES But Look at the Snd Fix They Are In Here in Orefron. Washington Post. The State of Oregon has given Its elec toral vote for Taft. It is a Republican state, and a majority of its people stand with the Republican parly on the tariff question. Yet. if the members of the Ix's: islature stick to tlie pledcre they gavo when running for office, they will elect George K. Chamberlain, a Democrat, to the United Slates Senate, for tlie reason that he received more votes than hits Re publican competitor at the June election. There Is embarrassment ahead for Ore gon Republicans und for Mr. Chamber lain. How is it possible for him to rep resent his state and his party too? What if a tariff vote be had in which party lines will be sharply drawn? Will Mr. 7hamberlain, as a Democrat, vote for free wool apalnst the will of his state, or will he favor the stand-pat schedule, thereby sacrificing his party? Suppose the Legislature which elects Mr. Cham berlain should instruct him to vote against his party? Should he heed the instruc tions, or resign his seat? The people do rule, particularly in Ore gon. Their attempt to repeal the Na tional and state constitutions shows what the people can do when they try hard. They dare not trust their legislators to choose a Senator, so they select one for themselves. They are Republicans, and they stoutly support Taft. But they se lect a Senator who is a Democrat, merely I because he is personally popular. A ma- I i p .1. r jorny OI Ilie Ilirmuvia jl iiic Lrt-fi'"!""' are bound by their pledge to elect Mr. Chamberlain, although the Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. So the Re publicans of Oregon have thrown away their best opportunity to support the Re publican Administration, and have dona what they could to destroy the policy upon which their prosperity depends. They may be saved from the conse quences of their folly If It can be shown that the legislators have no risht or power to dodge their constitutional duty of choosing a Senator, even by giving a pre-election pledge. Or, Mr. Chamberlain may be so obliging as to forswear his adherence to the Democratic party, in order to represent tlie real sentiment of his state and its Legislature. In that case the embarrassment will be shoul dered by him, to the great relief of the people. We suspect it will be a long time be fore the Republicans of Oregon make fools of themselves aRain by trying to substitute mobocracy for representative! government. LET EACH DO AS HE PLEASES Then We Can Poison Each 'Other at .Will, and the Law Can Go Hung. PORTLAND, Nov. ID. (To the Editor.) I read the article in this morning's Ore gonlan signed by L Ferdinand Floss, and I do not wonder that he parts his name In the middle, for I am sure he would be top-heavy, if he did not. It must have been "a picnic" for him. from the general tone of his letter, to read that 'there were others who would kick an inspector doing his duty." "Yes. indeed, why should not a fellow let coil lin moth, San Joso scale and other pests exist In his orchard. If he wants to. Doesn't he own his own orchard, and it the other fellow Just over the fence wants to keep his orchard free of these vermin, and raise apples that are noted the world over for their excellence, why, let nim stand out there and keep them off. and it the wolves come out of the woods to eat his children, why should I go to the trouble of trying to save them? Every man should have a ngnt to do as he pleases in these United States of Amer ica Are we not guaranteed "equal rights and privileges?" What do we care for the cfty fellow? He buys only nine-tenths o what we raise; we can better do without him. Don't they get together every after noon and scheme out some way to do us poor farmers? Why. honest. Brother Farmer they actually insist on our not felUng them any more of our old. d.seased m eh cows for beef, and there is no pos sible way of their knowing that that old C0w wi sick when we killed her to save hheidea of a -city fellow- kicking be aSfSewlJn BroTher farmers, let's get together quick o.rt do away with food inspectors, muk to do anything we don twant 1 W vv the ones who raise and ow n, aH or tn fruit, vegetables, beef, game sn, try air, '"ajoin together we thing, and if we a'unon ,n tne world can have the s11 that ..clty fellow" and then we will make that "lyruit, dis take what we give hto-wormy irvr, SKf;ou a Sn the Popular X to raieing chestnut f or from f toVy" THOMAS J. FRENCH. The Wrong Mr. Stone. cauea correspondence, un- i your 05rc4 ,b is stated that der date of October 24, It vanta toorCe?tTntters read by Mr. HeTahrfs Toll Tn'injustice which -ScT iVal, Governor6 S rtonfwVwas at onVti Governor " SmthrLrSr bavfng probably arises ii oftice of &mVS' " Vhat "trie" "c S the title -h'cahkehnaSldbeeretyh occasion of -uh isgken Identity. The Statutes of Limitation- RSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 16.-CT0 the Enoff-ln your reference to the prose Editor.j in ' J frauds you make fre- ject. . Except in capital cases, the Federal statutes of limitation run three years no longer. That is to say. if criminal procrdlngs are 'not begun within three years after the overt act, prosecution i Is barred by the lapse of three years' time. Highest Altitude for Honeymooners. Louisville courier-Journal. The Washington. D. C, monument ii to be brought at last to base uses as a wireless telegraph statKm. Up to now It has been chiefly useful to mark tho highest altitude reached by honey mooning couples from the Provinces, soaring upon .the wings of Re- Kose Broken and Doesn't Know It. Newark (N. J.S Dispatch. Aimer L. Gray, a commuter of Mont clalr N. J., in hurrying to reach tCra,n tor New York, 1 :.U d hi. was broken, but caugui- Cached his of flee on time , Hed.dn t know his now ws formed by a surgeon. Man at 81, Cut Third Set of Teeth. Boston uiiju.". William H. Harrington of Claremont, N H at Vhe age of 81 is cutting a. j .f f teeth He has never had theloothano'W help of a dentist, "Doctor- Title Annoys Mark Twain. Hartford (Conn.) Dispatch. Mark Twain, on the stand as a wit ness In a robbery case at Danbury, Conn was annoyed because the law yers addressed hlru as "Doctor."