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W3TMTE WATERWAY TOLICT
President Roosevelt's speech at the
National Conservation Conference con
tains some very interesting remarks
regarding waterway improvement.
The President was especially compli
mentary to the National Rivers ana
Harbors Congress, referring to u
'the one organization that is advocat-
Ing the "waterway policy, and not a
waterway project." With a keen recog
nition of the shortcomings of our
waterway policies, the President says
that "no work whatever should be un
dertaken that has not been thorough
ly examined and fully approved by
competent experts. Above ail, not one
cent should be expended to satisfy
Fpecial Interests, whether of a busi
ness or locality, or to promote any
man's political fortunes." The River
and Harbor bill, generally known by
the contemptuous term "Pork Barrel
fell into disrepute because it was too
often used to satisfy "special inter
ests" and to promote "political for
tunes."
The money that has been wasted
on insignificant and worthless water
ways in the past fifty years would
have been sufficient, had it been-applied
to meritorious projects, to effect
a great saving In transportation
charges in various parts of the coun
try. Unfortunately for practical river
Improvement, nearly every good proj
ect is expected to carry with it an
equally large or perhaps larger ap
propriation for a scheme of question
able merit that has been put forward
for no other purpose than to secure
the expenditure of a lot of Govern
ment money, w hich, of course does not
cost anything. There are very few men
who have taken an active interest in
securing waterway appropriations even
in the Pacific Northwest who have
not been "held up" for support of
these worthless measures. If an ef
fort is made to Improve a harbor, so
that the economical ocean carriers
of great tonnage can steam far inland,
near to the point where cargoes are
produced, we are met with a demand
that the appropriation must also carry
with It a like sum, or not infrequently
a greater sum, for Podunk Creek, Dry
Rapids or some other locality where
the transportation of freight by wator
can never approach in Importance
the promotion of somebody's political
fortunes.
The plan suggested by the Presi
dent for carrying on this necessary
work with funds provided by a bond
issue possesses much merit. "With
money available for the completion
of some of the important waterway
Improvements now under way or pro
jected, there would not only be pos
sible an economy in construction, but
the expense, instead of being piled on
the tax-payers of the present day,
would be distributed over a number of
years. In other words, . posterity,
while enjoying the benefits of these
waterway improvements, could also
take part In footing the bills. The
bonding plan and the substitution of
none but meritorious projects for
those which are now rung In by special
Interests, and "to promote political
fortunes," will appeal to the people of
Portland, who at present are spending
large sums of money in improving a
portion of the Columbia River, over
which nearly two-thirds of the for
eign and domestic exports for Oregon,
"Washington and Idaho are carried.
Before Portland began this work,
the Oregon. Washington and Idaho ex
porter paid 12.40. per ton more for
ocean freights than was paid by Cali
fornia producers, shipping to the same
markets. Today freights are practi
cally the same at Portland and San
Francisco. This saving to the pro
ducers of the Columbia Basin has been
effected by Portland, without any aid
from the remainder of the territory
Involved, and very little assistance
from the general Government. With
a definite policy of waterway improve
ment where projects were dependent
.upon their merit for recognition, and
ample funds available for completion
of the work, Portland would be re
lieved of this burden, and the work
completed in short order.
ItAKRlMi THE 1'NDE.SIRAttIJW.
Refusal of the Government to ad-
mit Hindus to citizenship has prob
ably averted a lot of trouble in the
future. The Hindu, like ail of the Asi
atic races and not a few of those from
Europe, nearly always regards Ameri
can citizenship rights as a one-sided
arrangement. He seeks this citlzen-
. ship, not with any intention of giving
this country anything in return, or as
proof of his loyalty, but because It
gives him prestige and protection. The
Black Hand villain from sunny Italy,
the Anarchist and Nihilist from Rus
sia, and similar types of outlaws from
other Old-World countries have in the
past found it comparatively easy to
secure the protection of American citi
zenship, and from behind this bulwark
they have continued to carry on their
warfare against the countries from
which they were expelled.
This favorite practice of the foreign
outlaw with American citizenship pa-
pers has caused the United States I
Government a vast amount of trouble
in the way of explanations and apol
ogy for the conduct of such unworthy
citizens, and to this fact Is due the
more stringent measures now being
taken to shut out the undesirables. In
view of the lowering clouds in India,
the danger of admitting Hindus to
American citizenship would undoubt
edly be much greater than In the case
of some Europeans with a similar
strain of general undesirability. Just
over the boundary line, the Hindus in
British Columbia, in spite of their
straitened circumstances, are said to
be forwarding funds to India to be
used in promoting the revolt against
British rule.
JLs British Columbia, and India are
both under the British flag, this row U
at present all In the family circle. It
can easily be imagined, however, that
If some of the "Singh" family on the
American side of the line had secured
American citizenship papers, and
under protection" of the American flag
were carrying on a campaign against
a friendly power like Great Britain,
some embarrassment would be occa
sioned. The United States stretches
forth a welcome hand to the oppressed
of all countries, providing they wish to
cut loose from their previous en
tanglements and become good Ameri
can citizens. There Is a growing ob
jection in this country, however, to
the former practice of the indiscrim
inate granting of American citizen
ship to those who desire to become
citizens In name only.
IAX PARENTHOOD AND CRIME.
Yesterday's Oregonian contained a
letter from a woman asking the cause
of the crime outburst throughout the
land. Right under the article, by
some chance of what printers call
"make-up," appeared a reprint edi
torial from a Pittsburg newspaper, la
menting the decline of parental re
sponsibility and child discipline. The
editorial was a pertinent answer to
the woman's query
Home training is the strongest
power in the world to teach honesty.
sobriety and industry, respect for law,
order and authority and the neigh
bor's rights of life and property. No
other influence can build good citizen
ship so well. The babies' and chil
dren's Liomes, the creche, the Boys'
.
nUe CourC createa M they are to cor-
rect the fallings of parents, and used
as they are by Irresponsible parents to
shirk their duties, can take the place
of rigid home discipline, such as ruled
in this country two generations ago.
Now we have nurse girls, women's
clubs, whist and bridge parties, mati
nees, vaudeville and other distractions
without number to take mothers from
their proper tasks; theaters, pool
rooms, saloons, lighted streets, lodges
and "affinities" to do the same with
the fathers. There are more child
hoodlums Inethis country, In propor
tion to population than ever before.
Many grow up untaught as to author
ity and as to virtues -f best citi
zenship. They multiply their kind and
fill the corrective and the reform insti
tutions full of progeny. They culti
vate the notion that their misfortunes
are the work of somebody else or of
society. Many of them rob, steal,
assault and assassinate. A large num
ber resort to the divorce courts to rid
themselves of irksome burdens. Many
shunt their offspring off on eleemosy
nary Institutions.
Of the twelve murderers in the
Multnomah Jail, it may safely be said
that not one had proper home rear
ing. Good citizenship begins at home.
Lax parenthood multiplies Its kind.
The very agencies created by society
to repress hoodlumism propagate it
the more. All this will reach a limit,
of course; society Is sure to come
through safely. The remedy will be
restoration and enforcement of respon
sibility for one's self and for one's
offspring.
THE MAN FROM OREGON.
"A word fitly spoken is like apples
pf gold." Thus holy writ declares.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise's word about the
New York Judges who attended the
Croker banquet was fitly spoken, but
It would be hard to convince the Tam
many politicians that it is like apples
of gold. To their tearful gaze it looks
more like apples of Sodom. But Tam
many's grief and wrath will not can
cel the effect of what Dr. Wise said.
His courageous utterance has clarified
the atmosphere in New York politics
and stamped certain men Indelibly
with their true values. The storm he
has raised shows what power for good
there is in uncompromising truthful
ness. In New York City Dr. Wise repre
sents, only himself and the good work
he has done there. He stands for no
wealthy clique, speaks for no corpor
ation, has little or no private fortune.
He is simply a man of great gifts and
high ideals speaking for decency
against the complacent adulation of
corrupt power. It speaks well for the
civic intelligence of New York that it
has heeded his rebuke. Here and
there some crassly stupid person may
ask "What business has this young
man from Oregon to meddle In our
affairs?" But really very little of
such folly has appeared. Upon the
whole New York has the good sense
to listen to Dr. Wise and heed what
he has to say.
PETITIONING I "OR PROSPERITY.
The Railway Business Association
Is the title of an organization which 13
now circularizing the country in an
effort to restore confidence, thus mak
ing possible rehabilitation of the pur
chasing power of the railroads. The
association claims a membership rep
resenting an aggregate papital of
,500.000,000. and it urges legislators.
state and National to "discourage all
measures having a tendency to con
tinue or aggravate the agitation
against corporate interests, and sup
port all legislation which, without in
jury to their own constituents, will
tend to allay the hostility toward busi
ness conducted under corporate form.
Including manufacturing, commercial
and transportation companies, while
the new laws on the statute books are
being carried out." That necessity for
restoration of confidence, and immedi
ate investment of not only millions but
billions In railway construction is
pressing, must be apparent to all who
have given the great economic prob
lem even casual study.
it win be remembered that about
eighteen months ago nearly all or the
great Industries of the country were
suffering from car shortage, and ship
pers were losing vast sums daily
through the physical inability of the
railroads to handle the traffic offered.
At that time James J. Hill made a
statement, which was confirmed by a
number of the most prominent rail
road men In the United States, that it
would cost $5,000,000,000 to provide
the railroads with double tracks, sld-
,nss and equipment necessary for the
expeditious handling of traffic in this
country. It,ls the fond hope of every
citizen, and it is unquestionably true.
that this country will In a very short
time work back to the high plane of
prosperity from which it was plunged
by the panic of last year. With this
returning prosperity there have been
some purchases of equipment, and
some construction work.
The amount of this work, and the
equipment purchased In comparison
to that which Is needed to prevent a
recurrence of the expensive car short
age and freight blockades of 1907, is
as yet insignificant. As stated by Mr.
Harrlman, there is plenty of idle capi
tal and plenty of idle labor in the
country, but until there is restoration
of confidence it will be impossible to
get it into the channels where it is.
most needed. The avidity with which
the Panama bond issue was oversub
scribed, and the fact that American
money is going into the forthcoming
Chinese and Russian loans confirm
the statement of the London" Statist,
which, under date of November 21,
said that "there is not only plenty of
money about, but there is plenty of
confidence also, where the investing
public thinks that their investments
will not be affected by the political
surprises which are so frequently
sprung upon them."
The swing of the big stick about a
year ago damaged the reputations of
the best-managed railroads along' with
those of roads which were guilty of
serious offenses. It caused, on the
part of the foreigners, such a general
unloading of American railway securi
ties that it has taken all of the pro
ceeds of our Immensely valuable
grain, cotton and other agricultural
exports to liquidate this balance of
trade. It will be a long time before
we can convince the foreigners that all
of our corporations were not as cor
rupt as we said they were, but If the
Railway Business Association, or any
other, organization, can quiet the un
wonted clamor recently so popular
against ali forms of corporate wealth,
we may expect at least a portion of the
J 5,000,000.000 necessary for railroad
construction to come from the other
side of the Atlantic.
THE INDIGNATION" MEETING.
It Is reported that Senators Hale and
Aldrich and Representative Perkins
among others have held an Indignation
meeting over what the President said
in his message about the secret serv
ice. If Congressmen were afraid of
the secret service men, he said, they
could axempt themselves by statute
This would make their misdeeds
matter of special privilege. Whatever
one may think of the secret service
on general principles, there seems to
be no good reason why Congressmen
should not be watched as well as other
people. Certainly they need watching
quite as much.
senators Hale and Aldrich were
about the kind of men one would have
expected to attend this indignation
meeting. Mr. Hale does not need much
watching, but he. causes others to need
it. He has stood like a rock for
quarter of a century in the way of an
efficient Navy. An honest man him
self, he has probably caused more dis
honesty and graft than any other Sen
ator except Mr. Aldrich. As for the
latter, no wonder he does not wish to
be watched. He has come back from
Europe loaded with manufactured
statistics against postal savings hanks
and the secret service men might tell
how and where he got them. Mr. Al
drlch's indignation is doubtless the
real thing.
ARCHER AND GOVERNOR MEAD.
The case of Elliott A. Archer starts
a number of Interesting questions in
ethics. There seems to be no doubt
that before the year 1904 he had ob
tained some )SO,000 by forgeries at
Newark, New Jersey, and in that year
fled with another man's wife, desert
lng his own family. The detectives,
after a relentless pursuit; have finally
discovered him in Seattle, where.
Governor Mead puts it, he has been
living an upright life "for several
years." The word "several," however,
seems a little out of place, since It is
only four years since Archer com
mitted his crimes, and part of 'the
Interval he has spent In Cape Town.
He cannot have lived in Seattle more
than two or three years at longest.
Of course people, differ as to what
"upright conduct" means. Some
think it is upright for a man to de
sert his family and live with the wife
of another. Some may think it Is
upright to cut a figure in society on
the proceeds of forgery. Others do
not think so, and to this latter class
Governor Mead's reason for refusing
to turn Archer over to the New Jersey
officers will hardly appear sufficient.
To ' them it will be pretty clear that
Archer has not been living an upright
life for one thing; while, even if he
had, two or three years of virtue are
hardly enough to atone for his mis
deeds. Very likely Governor Mead has
some other and better reason for re
fusing to extradite Archer but he pre
fers to keep it from the" public. It he
has such a reason it does not seem ex
actly wise to conceal It. It is of
course inconceivable that it is a worse
reason, and for that account it is wise
to withhold it.
THE THIRTEENTH CENSUS.
Improved methods for taking the
thirteentn census of the United
States will, it Is confidently asserted,
enable the Census Bureau to make
the enumeration for practically the
same sum as that which was ex
pended in taking the twelfth census.
That is to say, the estimate of the
director of the census, S. N. D. North,
that will be presented to Congress
for indorsement in a few days show
an advance of only 410,000 over the
cost of the census of 1900. A few
months ago the sum mentioned as
the least possible amount for which
the work could be performed was
$14,000,000; the estimates now given'
to the public and soon to be given to
Congress show that $12,930,000 will
be sufficient. This, taken in connec
tion with the enormous growth of
the country in population and in its
vast industrial expansion is regarded
as almost phenomenal. Director
North will ask that the appropriation
be made in a lump sum. thus pro
viding for the progress of the work
without Interruption and with the
true economy that follows a cash-in-hand
basis.
This gTeat saving in the expense of
enumeration is made possible, it is
declared, by the existence of a per
manent census bureau and the insti
tution of its tabulatingachines. A
tremendous amount of s'tatistical work
is accomplished from day to day in
the bureau. It now collects, for ex
ample, the cotton ginning statistics
In the South, formerly secured by the
Agricultural Department a work
which costs the bureau about half of
Its annual expenditure. Also, by or
der of Congress, the population of cit
ies is gathered annually at a cost of
more than $50,000. The biennial
compilation of the lists of all Govern
ment employes and their salaries, for
merly looked after by the Department
of the Interior, has become the work
of the census bureau and the savings
effected in these and other lines will,
it is asserted, much more than offset
the expense of maintaining a perma
nent census bureau.
The supreme test of the value and
efficiency of this bureau will, how
ever, not be applied until the aotual
work of enumeration for the thir
teenth census begins. Preparations
for this great count have been under
way for more than a year with the
experienced force that has specialized
for the work In charge, and these will
proceed until the time comes to- put j
the large army of enumerators in the
field early in April, 1910
In all, more than 65,000 enumera
tors will be employed. The organi
zation will comprise 340 districts,
covering the United' States proper,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Panama Ca
nal Zone, Guam and Samoa. It was
at first intended to include the Phil
ippines in this enumeration, but the
census of the Islands was taken about
three years ago under supervision of
the Philippine government, and it is
now intended to let that government
decide when the next census shall be
taken there.
The scope of the work is enormous.
Much of the detail has heretofore.
and especially In the case of the
twelfth census, become practically
useless, being outdated by industrial
and numerical growth before the H
compilation of statistics fell from the
Government printing presses. The
preparatory work of the permanent
census bureau is expected to correct.
In a great measure, this palpable de
fect. Mortuary statistics are fur
nished every year by the permanent
bureau, hence these will not be in
eluded in the decennial enumeration
There will-be a census of agriculture
in compliance with the demand of
farmers' institutes, grangers' socle
ties and agricultural and livestock
associations all ove'r the country.
Manufacturers will also be thoroughly
enumerated; mines and quarries will
be investigated, and their worth esti
mated.
The results of all this labor and
much more will be published in not
more than seven volumes three less
than were required in 1900. The
best facilities for printing, binding and
publishing these volumes will be pro
vided by Congress, so that If delay oc
curs in completing the work it will
not be due to the lack of ways and
means looking to this end, but rather
to the well-known anxiety of the Gov
ernment employe lest ' he should be
overworked and his job terminate too
soon,
Quartermaster - General Aleshire,
who is at present carrying out
the "pint's-a-pound-the-world-around"
policy of the Government in regard
to purchasing supplies, says that Port
land lumber dealers will not be at any
disadvantage in bidding for delivery
at Tacoma or Seattle. Of course not
All that is necessary for them to do is
to pay the cost of shipping the lumber
from Portland to Puget Sound, and
then make their bids on a Puget Sound
basis.. The difficulty lies In the stu
pidlty of the Portland lumbermen who
are so foolish as to regard the cost of
transporting lumber from here to
Puget Sound as a "disadvantage."
Some day the Government may estab
lish a commercial kindergarten for the
men who buy supplies, and, if they
ever get the class far enough along so
that it will adopt the methods of the
men who buy and sell lumber for
profit, Portland, mills will have the
same chance for Government business
that they now have for commercial
lumber business handled at this port
In record-breaking volume in com
petition with Puget Sound mills.
With plenty of sailors out of em
ployment around the city there will be
dux nine aimcuity in picking up crews
for vessels at this time.. The real test
as to the advantages of repealing or
nullifying the present sailor boarding
house law will come when there is a
scarcity of sailors and the employ
ment agencies vanish, leaving the ship
master the alternative of delaying his
ship a day, week or two, or paying that
secret, untraceable emolument of from
$75 to $100 per man. It was to pre
vent return to these conditions that
the present sailor boarding-house law
was passed, and, until something bet
ter is offered in place of it, there will
be some doubt about the advisability
of disturbing it. Since enactment of
the present law, the cost of shipping
sailors from Portland Is about one
half the amount that is exacted at the
Puget Sound ports, a situation which
has caused no complaint from the
shipowners or the men who charter
the ships.
No other legislation took up so much
time of the last Congress, nor pro
voked so much public discussion, as
Aldrlch's emergency currency bill a
measure intended to ameliorate condi
tions brought about by panics. Does
any one recall the compromise result?
Did Uncle Sam issue any emergency
money? Well, he engraved the plates
and printed $500,000,000 In bills. Thus
far none of the currency has been
called for. Its manufacture and stor
age In fireproof steel vaults is told by
Washington correspondent whose
story will be published in the next is
sue of The Sunday Oregonian.
Very good addresses were given at
the State Dairymen's meeting In Sa
lem yesterday, but none on that sub
ject most important to the clean-up
women of Portland: "How to keep
the milk pail clean?" We suggest
that the dairymen hold their next
convention Jointly with the clean-up
women.
In connection with the controversy
whether young physicians nowadays
are numbskulls or wise ones, it may
be said that if the young man seems
to know a whole lot, he generally
makes 'er gd. Thv. chief fault in the
training system, then. Is that all young
men are not taught to put on a good
front.
Sam Elmore, owner of fish canneries
and king of Tillamook and various
salmon havens, has been defeated for
Mayor of Astoria. However, Mr. El
more doesn't have to be Mayor, he can
make a very comfortable living out-
ide of politics.
Great impropriety" is the fore
casted verdict in the Root case over
n Washington. It is to be hoped that
they will make the punishment fit the
rime by condemning the Judge to
receive a slap on the wrist.
No matter how many officers are
appointed to see that shopmen of
Portland sell only pure food, each offi
cer must have, somebody . else .ap-
ointed to round up the shopmen and
nforce the law.
Castro has a disease which he wants
uropean specialists to cure. He needs
remedy often recommended but
ever applied, a foreign battleship or
two rubbed in good and hard.
If citizens on the streets after dark
hould wear police uniforms, they
would never see a hold-up man.
The Statement One legislators are
Just like the old kind they look out
first for their own advantage.
You don't save any money by put
ting off your gift-buying until the day
before Christmas.
VOTES IX kewjork county.
Since, 181)6 Tammany Ham Been In Mi
nority, and Independent Srronsr.
New York Sun.
The completion of the official can
vass of the vote cast In NewvYork
County on November 3 makes possible
a comparison of the total number of
ballots cast then for the two principal
parties with the records of former
years. The Presidential vote since
1895 has keen:
Year.
D.
135.624
181.799
189.J12
160.276
R.
K.6,359
153.033
155.003
154,958
1S96
1900
1904
19CW
In this period there were seven elec
tions for Governor, in which the vote
was distributed between the two par
ties thus:
Tear. " D. R.
1S9S 141.452 146.668
1898 173.476 112. S0
1900 1S5.9S6 147.922
1902 192,735 106.131
1904 202,775 142.640
1905 198.1.13 134.325
1908 181.325 132,091
It will be observed that the Repub
lican vote for. President has remained
practically unchanged since 1896. On
the other hand, the Democratic vote
rose and fell with amazing fluctuations.
The vote of each party for Governor
shows violent changes. It is worthy of
notice that in only three of these seven
years did the Republican vote for Gov
ernor exceed the minimum vote record
ed for the Democratic candidate. An
other table to show the vote cast for
Mayor in New York County since the
present City of New York was estab
lished: Tear. D. R. C. IT.
1897 143.666 B5.R34 77,210
1901 156,631 162,298
1903 188,681 133.178 M. O. L.
1905 140,264 64,280 123,283
These figures prove conclusively that
Tammany is a minority party; that the
voters of New York County are ex
tremely Independent, and that the Re
publican management has been very
stupid. Had it been alert. Intelligent
and resourceful its vote for President
would show a regular and steady in
crease. At present the Republican machin
ists hope to form a Cutting-Hearst-Parsons-McCarren
union against Tam
many In 1909 and carry the city. What
permanent good would any person not
a direct beneficiary of the pact derive
from a victory over Tammany engi
neered by such leaders? What would It
avail the Republican party? And,
though It Is a matter of the smallest
consequence, perhaDS not worth men
tioning, what benefits would the tax
payers obtain from the overthrow of
Charles F. Murphy by these interesting
statesmen?
CALIFORNIA PRIMARY LAW.
Exact Standing;' of a Measure of Far
Reaching; Political Importance.
The following constitutional amend
ment was recently adopted at the last
general election nln California, and it
will be the duty of the next Legisla
ture, under this amendment, to enact
a primary law in California:
"Chapter 19. Assembly constitu
tional amendment No. 3. resolution to
amend section 2 of article 2 of the
constitution, adopted March 6, 1907.
The Legislature of the State of Cali
fornia, at its 37th session, commencing
on the 7th day of January, 1907. two
thirds of all the members elected to
each of the two houses of said Legis
lature voting in favor thereof, hereby
proposes that section 2 of article 2
of the constitution of the State of Cali
fornia, be amended so as to read as
follows:
"Section 2Vi. The Legislature shall
have the power to enact laws relative
to the election of delegates to conven
tions of political parties: and the Leg
islature shall enact laws providing for
the direct nomination of candidates
for public office, by electors, political
parties, or organization of electors
without conventions, at elections to be
known and designated as primary
elections; also to determine the tests
and conditions upon which electors,
political parties, or organizations of
electors may participate in any such
primary election. It shall also be
lawful for the Legislature to prescribe
that any such primary election shall
be mandatory and obligatory. The
Legislature shall also have the power
to establish the rates of compensation
for primary election officers serving
at such primary elections in any city,
or city and county, or countv. or
other subdivision of a designated popu
lation, without making such compen
sation uniform, and for such purpose
such law may declare the population
of any city, city and county, county
or political subdivision. Provided.
however, that until the Legislature
shall enact a direct primary election
law under the provisions of this sec
tion, the present primary election law
shall remain In force and effect."
That Inevitable Letter.
New York Evening Post.
Cook's son or duke's son, father of
17 children or fullback on a victorious
team, if you have done anything to
get your name In the papers, the post
man the next day will bring you a let
ter from the President Cannot he ob
serve how cheap the Roosevltlan en
comium grows with every repetition?
Or cannot he Imagine that here and
there a man has done something he
set out to do who would rather noc
be slapped on the back with a hurrah,
kicked into fame by means of the As
sociated Press, lassoed into the lime
light? There is a theory that the favor
of sovereigns spurs on to noble ef
fort. It may be; but surely not when
sovereign favor is poured out by the
bucketful. We dread quite the oppo-
Ite effect. We fear lest many a poet
should tear up his completed epic, many
a hero hesitate to snatch the helpless
baby from the .flames, many an ath
lete falter just before the finishing
line, at the thought that the President
will send him a letter.
Railroad Slock Owned by Women.
Baltimore American-Star.
In the disclosure that of the 58,739
holders of stock' in the Pennsylvania
Railroad, 28,000, or 47 per cent, are
women. Is food for surprise to the
common idea of the ownership of a
corporation, and for self-congratulation
to the managers of the railroad;
$148,000,000 is given as the aggregate
of these women's holdings.
By nature more cautious than man,
the average woman Inclines to invest
ment rather than to speculation, to
hoard rather than to risk. The list of
Pennsylvania stockholders is proof
of this feminine trait. Investments
m railroad stock and kindred securi
ties indicate that some moneyed wom
en are becoming close financial cal
culators, with an eye open for frac
tional advantages in Income. These
are women who handle their own re
sources of support.
What Public Utilities Owe the People.
Boston Post.
Public franchises are no longer to be
given away at the pleasure of a city Coun
cil. They cost too much for the people
who own them. Public utilities are bene
ficial; they should be encouraged and
supported; but so far as they get their
gain from the privileges which the people
give them, they must make return to the
people.
Pertinent Inquiries.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Are there any other ladies In train
lng to become Mrs. Nat Goodwin?
Chicago Tribune.
To put the question a little different
ly, why do women marry Nat Goodwin?
WORK OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
Catholic - Educational Order That Has
Grown Faat In I'nlted State.
A unique character is C. C. Copeland,
of Forest Spring Farm, 30 miles north
of Chicago, who has recently donated
$100,000 worth of property to the
Brothers of the Christian Schools, com
monly known as the Christian Broth
ers. Before reaching the age of 28
years he had amassed a fortune of
$100,000, in the practice of law in Chi
cago. He then quit the law and a
practice of $20,000 a year and ever
since has devoted most of his effort and
Income to the cause of Christian educa
tion. In Portland, where the educational
work of the Christian Brothers is espe
cially prominent, Mr. Copeland's ad
mirers have been particularly interest
ed in his educational work and in his
recent donation of a large estate at
Forest Spring Farm to Catholic edu
cation. In Portland, the Christian
Brothers have Just finished a new col
lege building on Grand avenue and
Clackamas street, at a total cost of
nearly $50,000.
Mr. Copeland's devotion to Catholic
education is all the more remarkable
in that he came of Puritan stock and
was reared a Protestant. At the age of
25 he became a convert to the Catholic
Church.
Eight years ago Mr. Copeland gave
to the Sisters of Mercy 20 acres of
Forest Spring Farm, on which to erect
a convent school for girls. There, by
the invitation of the Archbishop and
the Reverend Mother, Mr. Copeland at
tends mass.
The Christian Brothers is an order
founded In the 17th century by
French priest, John Baptiste de la Salla,
since canonized as a saint. They now
number 19,000 in the entire world, and
have 400,000 pupils. Fifty years ago
there were only four brothers in the
United States. Today they number more
than 1200, with 35,000 pupils.
While . the Christian Brothers teach
Christian doctrine, religion, morality
and temperance, they are not priests,
none of them ever having been or
dained. They live in strict community
and on Incomes so small as to be sim
ply astonishing. A priest may become
Bishop, Archbishop, Cardinal or even
Pope, and amass worldly riches, but
for these -brothers, bound to perpetual
poverty, there is no hope of advance
ment, their sole ambition being the bet
terment of mankind through the sys
tematic, intelligent and devoted educa
Hon of the young. No set of men on
earth better deserve the commendation
of mankind than the Brothers of the
Christian schools.
The order Is governed by the Superior-General,
who resides in Belgium,
and 12 assistants, drawn from different
parts of the world. One of these,
native of Baltimore, is the representa
tive of this country. The United States
is divided Into four provinces: New
York, Baltimore, St. Louis and San
Francisco. About 200 schools are main
tained in this country, and four large
colleges, located at New York, Rock
Hill, Md., St. Louis and Oakland, Cal.
In this province schools are maintained
in Dulutli. St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chi
cago, St. Louis, Memphis, Santa Fe, Las
Vegas, Bernadillo, Kansas City and St.
Joseph.
Two large schools are maintained In
Chicago the De la Salle Institute,
named in honor of the founder of the
order, at Wabash avenue and Thirty-
fifth street, and St. Patrick's Commer
cial Academy, beside St. Patrick s
Church, on the West Side. The De la
Salle Institute, a large and very hand
some structure, is owned by the order
and was opened in September, 1891. It
is admirably adapted for educational
purposes, containing numerous well
lighted schoolrooms and a fine audi
ence hall. There are about 400 pupils
in attendance. '
The prime object of this, and other
schools conducted by the brothers is to
take poor boys out o the street in
many instances, and give them an edu
cation that will enable them to earn
a livelihood and lay the foundations of
a successful life. Thus religion, moral
ity, temperance and money-making are
most happily blended. By no means
are all the pupils educated by the
Christian Brothers the children of poor
people, those of wealth and standing
largely appreciating the admirable ed
ucational . facilities afforded by their
schools and the fine moral and general
ly elevating Influence they exert upon
the boys under their charge. Many
famous men In this country, in church
and state, business and the professions,
were educated In the schools and col
leges of the order. These schools cor
respond quite closely to the public high
schools, bookkeeping, typewriting, ste
nography and commercial law taking
the place of the classics.
Drives Ilia Team by Conipaa.
Kennebec (Me.) Journal.
A story which almost parallels that told
of Captain Gray, the sailor-farmer, of
Toddy Pond, who is said to carry a com
pass on his plow to run the furrows
straight, comes from Cranberry Isles. One
sea captain, who enjoys the proud dis
tinction of owning one of the very few
horses on the island, got alarmed for
fear that he would lose his bearings in
the recent smoke, and on the veracious
accounts of sober citizens took the bin
nacle from the vessel and strapped It
alongside the seat of his wagon, fearing
that the weather might become so thick
that he would loeo his bearings and have
to navigate in what was worse than a
fog. It is currently reported that he
shouts at his team to turn to starboard
or port, instead of the more conventional
landlubber terms usually employed.
Lumber and Labor.
Minneapolis Journal.
Really, the only vital question in this
matter of reducing or wiping out the
lumber tariff is the question of how It
will affect American labor. That is. or
should be, the paramount question in
all tariff discussion. The proponents
of free lumber seem to have established
beyond cavil that Canadian labor Is as
well paid as American in the lumber in
dustry. That would seem to establish
the assertion that the competition of
Canadian lumber, while increasing our
supplies, now becoming so badly de
pleted, and possibly lowering the price
slightly, would not unfavorably affect
wages on this side of the line.
Destroy All Prisoners9 Firearms.
CENTRA LI A. Wash., Dec. 9. (To the
Editor.) Regarding the sale of firearms
in Portland, is it not a fact that weapons
taken from prisoners are 6old at auction
to pawnshop proprietors? If this is the
case it seems that the police could help a
little by dumping the guns in the river.
The city might loose a few cents, but
not In the long run.
W. B. TEMPLE.
A Twentieth Century .Myth.
Washington Herald.
All hail the sheath, that wondrous gown
And latest find;
The skirt they brought from Paristown
To shock mankind.
All hail the sheath, beyond a doubt
The thing that we
Do dally hear most talked about.
And never see.
Know Enough for That.
New York Times.
No woman need to worry much
About her lack of brains.
Or that man's arrogance is such
That he her wit disdains.
Most husbands will in concert Join
To state this fact they've learned
Their wives know how to get the coin
Their massive brains have earned.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
Commander Peary was talking in New
York about the luck he would have In
reaching the Pole with the Roosevelt.
"They say you are a fatalist." said a
reporter. "They .say that you. believe
you are fated to find the Pole before
you die."
The explorer laughed.
"If I am a fatalist," he said. "I as
sure you my fatalism is of the working
and strenuous kind like that of old Abe
Cruse r.
"Old Abe lived in New England in the
days of Indian warfare. He was a fatal
ist of a pronounced type: nevertheless,
he would not venture forth without his
blunderbuss.
"One day he had an important errand,
hut the blunderbuss, when he came to
get it, was missing from the rack mada
of antlers where it always hung. Some
one of his family had taken it. Abe sat
down to wait till it was brought back.
' 'But, Abe, I thought you were a fa
talist?' said a friend.
" 'So 1 am,' the old man answered.
" 'Then why bother about your blun
derbuss?' taunted the friend. 'You are in
no- danger from the Indians, since you
can't possibly die -till your time comes.'
" "Yes," said the old man. 'But sup
pose I was to meet an Indian and his
time had come. It wouldn't do for me
not to have any blunderbuss, would
it?" "Philadelphia Record.
"Hello, hello! who is this, please?" the
man at the phone Impatiently hurled at
the mouthpiece.
"This Is Whom did you want?"
came back a feminine voice.
"I called for number Confound it,
I've forgotten the number now! Who Is
this, anyway?"
"Sir, I think you might bo a little
mora polite In your manner toward a
lady. You've doubtless got the wrong
number."
"How can I tell whether I've got the
right or wrong number if you won t toll
me who you are? Some women make
me tired!'
"You're a gentleman!"
"You're a lady!"
"You're positively insulting. I "
"Back up! Who are you. anyway?"
"Sir, I'll tell you who I am. I'm the
wife of the biggest stockholder in this
telephone company. I am Mrs. George
Banks, that's who I am, sir!"
"Great Scott. Mary! I've been trying to
get you. This is George, your hus
band!" Judge.
.
Old Gentleman (to newsboy on tho
common) Can you tell me, my lad, why
that bell Is ringing?
Boy Yes, sir: some one's ptillin' the
rope. Boston Transcript.
Winks That fellow Dickson is a deep
one.
Dinks What has he been doing?
Winks Why, he got the new boarder
into a brisk controversy with the land
lady over the reasons for woman's men
tal inferiority, and under cover of it he
sneaked a second helping of pigeon pie.
London Tit Bits.
"Pete," the White House bull dog. had
a habit of going away with a noncha
lant manner and reappearing all
chewed up.- One day last Summer he
returned from one of these trips while
the President was at a tennis game
with the French ambassador. Pete
limped up to the wire netting 'looking
for sympathy. He got It from M.
Jusserand. "Mr. President." Bald
the ambassador, peering through the
netting, "your dog seems to be a poor
fighter."
'No," replied Mr. Roosevelt, looking
thoughtfully at his lacerated pet, "he's
a splendid fighter, but he's a poor judge
of dogs." Success Magazine.
"So your family disapproved of your
going on the stage."
"Yes," answered Miss Gawzy.
"Why?"
"They saw me act!" Washington
D. C. Star.
"How realistic your painting is! It
fairly makes my mouth water?''
A sunset make your mourn water r
Oh. it is a sunset, isn't it? I thought
it was a fried egg." Houston Post.
Little Tim had never enjoyed a
glimpse of the country. All his little
life had been passed among the crooked
courts of a great city. One day the
teacher took him out for a jaunt in tne
woodlands.
"Tim." she said, impressively, as
thev stood on the crest of a hill, "isn't
that a beautiful sunset? Just look at
the great yellow orb surrounded by the
whito fleecy clouds."
Tim eazed at the bcautttui picture
for a few moments and then answered:
Yessum. It looks exactly like a
fried egg." Chicago News.
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
NEW THINGS IN
PORTLAND'S TOYLAND
Not a Christmas catalogue, bat
a human-interest story of what
ingenious inventors have produced
the past year for youngsters' en
joyment the coining holidays.
DEATH ROLL OF THE
FAMOUS DURING 1908
Nearly 300 who answered "Ad
sum" as their names were called,
the world being the loser.
INDOOR FISHING" FOR
OREGON ANGLERS
A back-log study that will be
enjoyed by every man that ever
whipped a stream for trout.
CHRISTMAS ONCE A
YEAR IS ENOUGH
So says the Hotel Clerk, who
indulges in sarcasm over abuses
that have grown around the joy
ous Yuletide.
FOUND! $500,000,000 OF
EMERGENCY MONEY
It is safely stored in a rented
building in Washington, D. C, and
nobody wants any part of it.
MORE COMMENT ON THE
EMMANUEL MOVEMENT
Second article by Alfred Far
low, publication committeeman of
the Christian Science Church, on
the new healing method so widely
discussed.
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