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niKTUM). TUESDAY. JAN. 1. .
TirE LOOK AHEAD.
Chamberlain, they say. will bo elect
ed Senator today. It la as much a
triumph for Bourne and ITRen as for
Chamberlain. For It gives Fourne
and U'lUn. and the vagaries they rep
resent, apparent ascendancy In the
Republican party and politics of the
mate. Thus It .-stablishes a perma
nent division In the Kepublican party
of Oregon; for they who have played
this game will endeavor to play it
again, yet they will be resisted by Im
mense numbers of Republicans in all
parts of the state, who never will sup
port any man for the Senate, or for
the Legislature, on a Republican
ticket, who does not reject "the
pledge" that rroduces this Juggle In
politics and confounds all distinctions
and? efforts of party.
It may be that men will not be so
eager to "take the pledge" in future
as they have been heretofore. This
will be the only hope of preventing
permanent Republican division in the
utate. Of course The Oregonlan, hav
ing no need of parky, can go It alone;
tout this may be taken for certain, that
It will not act with the Republican
party in future, unlcsw this party shall
reject or repudiate the method that
produces such results as this. In
other words. It will support the oppo
sition to all "statement" men of the
Kepublican party who may be candi
dates for nomination or for election.
If we are to elect Democrats to our
highest offices, let us do it in the open
and direct manner; not by indirec
tion or Juggle. The main effort of the
earnest and disinterested Republicans
of the state will not hereafter be di
rected against the Democratic party,
hut against the Bourne-U'Ren faction
which Insists on a "pledge" that elects
Democratic Senators and defeats all
the legitimate objects of party effort
and action.
MERELY HISTORICAL.
A letter to The Oregonian asks
how and from what circumstance the
town of Pendleton, Umatilla County,
got Its name. From George H. Pen
dleton, Democratic candidate for the
Vice-Presldenry in 1864. Pendleton,
a Jeffersonian - Democratic-Secesslon-
f'onfederate statesman of Ohio, one
of the bitterest enemies of Lincoln
and opponents of the war for the
Union, was a member of the House
of Representatives. He represented
an Ohio district that sympathized
largely with the Confederates, and
his abilities made him a formidable
enemy of hie country. His efforts In
Congress against prosecution of the
war, and his attacks on the policy of
the Lincoln Administration, carried
him Into high favor with those who
sympathized with the Southern Con
federate effort. Hence his nomina
tion for the Vice-Presidency at Chi
cago In 1884 by the party that de
clared that year In its platform that
the war was a failure, and demanded
that the effort to prosecute it further
should cease. '
But as the Union arms made ad
vance Into the South a great many
Confederates and their sympathizers,
driven out by the stress of the. war,
came West. They made the whole
Rocky Mountain region Democratic
and overflowed Into Oregon, which
trrey soon made Democratic also.
Numbers of them settled In Umatilla;
and In admiration of George H. Pen
dleton, and as a testimonial to ' his
services to the Confederacy, and,
moreover. In appreciation of his efforts
agalast the Lincoln Administration
and against prosecution of the war
for the Union, they named their town
Pendleton.
This is merely historical. The pres
ent time Is an era of "non-partisanship,"
as existing conditions in Ore
gon, in the matter of election' of
United States Senators, attest. "N'on
pnrtlsanship" now is the favorite role
of the Confederate Democracy, espe
cially in Oregon. It Is different, how
ever. In Mississippi and In South Caro
lina. And yet Tillman and Chamber
lain and John Sharp Williams are
non-partisans of the same type.
WHY IC.NORE PORTLAND?
A Washington dispatch announces
that the Senate committee on agricul
ture has authorized a favorable report
on the McCumber bill providing for
the Inspection and grading of grains.
Under this bill National Inspection
and grading of grains are provided
for and the Department of Agricul
ture is authorized to fix definite
grades. In the dispatch announcing
the favorable report on the bill It is
stated that inspection laboratories will
be organized at Seattle. Tacoma, San
Francisco and other points, no men
tion being made of. Portland. The
advantages of a Government grain in
spection service are not exactly clear,
hut It will be a strange proceeding If
the Government engages in the work
of Inspecting grain at the three ports
mentioned without maintaining head
quarters In Portland, the headquar
ters for the grain business of the Pa
cific Coast.
Portland's pre-eminence In the
grain trade of the Pacitic Const was
never more firmly established than at
th present time. During the year
190$ there was exported from this city
more wheat than was shipped from
he ports of Seattle, Tacoma and San
Francisco combined. San Francisco
has almost ceased to figure aa a grain
exporting port, the total shipments
cf wheat from the California metrop
olis last year totaling but little more
than 300.000 bushels, compared with
more than IS. 000, 000 bushels from
Portland. During the twelve months,
rin addition to the above exports, more
han 1,600,000 bushels of wheat were
shipped from Portland to San Fran
cisco. Last year, with very little as
sistance from the newly completed
North Bank road. Portland led all
other ports in the United States in the
amount of grain exported, although
the crop was fully 10,000,000 bushels
short of the average of recent years.
This year, with a good crop and the
new railroad hauling it down to tide
water at Portland, it is quite proba
ble that this city will lead all Amer
ican ports In the amount of wheat
shipped. This prestige, of course, will
not all be gained at the expense of
less favorably located ports on the
Pacific Coast, but will be in part due
to the decline of some of the Atlan
tic ports and the increased consump
tion of wheat in the United States.
For the Government to establish a
grain inspection service at other Pa
cific Coast ports without including
Portland would be a most ridiculous
proceeding. If the bill becomes a law
and It is useful or otherwise. Portland
will undoubtedly be recognized.
ROOSEVELT AND HI3 ENEMIES.
Yesterday's attack In the House on
President Roosevelt by Representa
tive Willett, of New York, shows the
labor of careful preparation. Evi
dently the Tammany representative
had been studying for It a long time.
Roosevelt himself Is too good a lighter
to care about these pin pricks. Wil
lett evidently has gone through the
whole body of Roosevelt's printed
books and messages and speeches to
select expressions to gibe at. That
is a favorite occupation of little
minds. Caesar had such critics; so
had Washington; so has every earnest
man in high place. More than any
other man in our history Lincoln
was made the butt of It.
Of Willett, one of the class of men
whom Tammany has for Its servants.
It may be said that he is a proper
enough man to act as spokesman or
mouthpiece of men of either party In
Congress who hate Roosevelt for his
distrust of themselves. But as a
Democrat of the Tammany brand
Willett feels that he can afford to do
what no Republican enemy of Roose
velt would attempt. However, there
is a bunch of Republicans no small
bunch, either who relish any attack
on Roosevelt mightily. If. however,
Roosevelt had now to make another
appeal to the people, they would be
taking to cover in a panic, or making
every effort to help themselves by
declaring for him and taking to
themselves the advantage of his pop
ularity. The one paramount force in Amer
ican political life during the last eight
years has been Theodore Roosevelt.
He it is who has set high the stand
ard of our civil and political life.
But for him the now triumphant Re
publican party would be sojourning,
and would have been sojourning these
many years, in the valley of humilia
tion, with Its future all behind it.
. OLD-TIME FLOWER GARDENS.
Since Portland's fame as the Roye
City is established and everybody with
a bit of ground has a bush or two
of the queen of flowers, why not de
vote a little space, even In the fence
corner if need be. to some of the
grandly flowering annu.-als that will
riot in bloom from June tp October?
Children of the present day know lit
tle of them, but children of a larger
growth remember tne nowers oi me
days of their youth. They recall the
glorious aster, with a profusion - of
symmetrical bloom, gracefully poised
on stems with plenty of leaves for a
green setting; the hollyhocks, with
every shade of color to be made of a
combination cf crimson and white;
the fragrant mignonette, that helped
to make the bouquet; the phlox, that
assisted: the pinks before they reached
the aristocratic standing of carna
tions; the sweet alyssum, fragrant like
unto a baby's breath; the poppy, that
came late in the year; the candytuft;
the balsam, with its old familiar dou
ble blossoms; the marigolds, that
bloomed till frost: the lowly portu
laca; the salplglosis, with Its funnel
shaped flower; the stocks, the zin
nias and the scented sweet Williams.
They recall the garden wherein these
grew and blossomed as the Summer
months went by and sigh as the walls
of memory expand for a vision of
days long past.
Let there be a recrudescence of the
old-fashioned flower garden about the
home, where the children have license
to take all they want; where there is
plenty for a daily bouquet for the din
ner table, and where will be found,
when occasion shall come, the bloom
she loved so well to grace tne pass
ing of an aged friend or neighbor.
-AS JESUS WOlU LIVE."
Following the lead of a multitude
of people in Cleveland who have re
solved to "live as Jesus would live."
Dr. J. Whltcomb Brougher announces
in a news dispatch from that city that
he will Inaugurate a similar move
ment here next Sunday. Evidently
he was a close observer of the meet
ings In Cleveland and believes their
success Sim be repeated under the
auspices of the First Baptist Church
of Portland. No one will doubt that
many young men and women will
make such pledge with high purpose
to keep It.
It may be asked, however, who dare
write a code which shall govern, or
even guide, the conduct of the Indi
vidual who In good faith resolves to
pitch his dally life on the lofty plane
of the Master? Consider the times
and the environment. We know fairly
well what Jesus said and did at Pal
estine 1900 years ago in sparsely set
tled communities of farmers, shep
herds and fishermen who lived the
simple life. At best we can only Im
agine the attitude of Jesus toward his
fellow-men in the complex details of
twentieth-century civilization - that
mark the various activities of progres
sive American cities, of which Cleve
land and Portland are types. Changed
conditions must be met with changed
habits. It Is Impossible to live here
and now literally as Jesus did where
his short life was spent.
Can you think of two brothers, or
two sisters, or brother and sister, who
will be able to unite upon an ethical
code that shall specifically declare
proper acts of commission and omis
sion? The strong probability is that
there would be disagreement within
the first twenty-four hours. If per
sona of the same heredity, environ
ment and moral training have diver
gent opinions, what may be expected
from the Incongruous multitude?
There have been experiments of con
ducting business and editing newspa
pers as Jesas would have done It, but
they were impractical and ephemeral.
Is Dr. Brougher'a proposed effort
worth while? Who knows? Each of
us has his own conception of how
TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1909.
Jesua would live today. It is not too
high to aim to live as we imagine ur
believe he wbuld live if he were here.
Mere imitation of what Is supposed to
be Christian conduct is vain; develop
ment of the spirit of Jesus, over which
there is small room for dispute, must
ennoble the Individual and uplift man
kind.. NEW RAILWAYS IN CANADA.
To the New York Sun we are in
debted for a summary of railway
progress and projects in Canada. It
tells us that this year ,90,000,000 will
be expended on railway construction
In the Dominion; that contracts are
already made approximately for that
amount: that 1248 miles last year
were added to Canada's railway sys
tem, and that 4327 miles are now
under construction.
On the new transcontinental line
from Monckton, New Brunswick, to
the Pacific Coast, actual work was
begun four years ago, and up to the
present time the expenditure on it
has been about $47,000,000. A large
part of the 1000-mile stretch from
Winnipeg to the Rocky Mountains has
been practically completed, and a reg
ular service from Winnipeg to' Ed
monton will be In operation in a few
months. This is the most important
section of the whole system, yet the
section most easily constructed, for
the line lies through an open and level
country, capable of immense wheat
production. Work also is proceeding
from the Pacific terminus eastward,
but its progress through one of the
most difficult of mountainous dis
tricts is slow.
The Canadian Pacific will add
somewhat to its mileage this year, but
Its special activities will be in the
direction of improvement and of in
creased equipment. ' The Canadian
Northern is busy with work on branch
lines. It is opening the country west
of Lake Winnipeg and south of the
Saskatchewan River and from that
base Is sending out an arm which
will sooner or later, probably within
a few years, reach Fort Churchill on
the western shore of Hudson Bay.
There is every probability that we
shall soon know by practical tedt
whether the Hudson Strait can be
used as a trade route from the West
to Europe.
Extension of railway lines in Can
ada will within a short time add not
less than one hundred million bushels
per annum to the wheat supply of
the world. Thus the dismal philos
ophy of Malthus Is postponed Tor a
time by increasing facility of trans
portation; but who can say the time
will not come when population will
grow to the full limit of the capacity
of the earth to feed it?
NEW Bin-UrMiS IN SEATTLE.
Details of the Seattle building per
mits for the month of December dis
close the" fact that practically one
half of the building permits Issued
during the month of December were
for alterations, repairs and moves.
These details, which were missing
from the totals previously printed, are
found in the official report of Superin
tendent of Buildings Francis W.
Grant. The remaining' half of the
buildings were apparently of a very
cheap class, for the average cost was
only about one-half the average cost
of the Portland buUdlngs. Portland
permits for the month of December
were 278 in number, with a total val
uation of J9CO.075. Of these, but 48
were for alterations, moves or repairs,
with a valuation of $23.S"0, leaving a
total of 230 buildings valued at $936,
703, an average of $4073 each.
Seattle reported a total of 1059 per
mits with a valuation of $1,503,420,
but of this amount 504 permits were
taken out for alterations, repairs and
moves, the total valuation for these
Items being $319,780. This left for
the actual buildings a total of 555
permits with a valuation of $1,183,
640, an average per building of but
$2182, compared with Portland's av
erage of $4073. By Including all kinds
of permits at both places, an average
value is shown of $1419 for Seattle
and $3560 for Portland. At first
glance these figures wouid seem to
convey the impression that Seattle
was erecting buildings valued at less
than one-half those for which permits
were issued in Portland. Such a con
clusion, however, would be hardly
warranted by the facts as presented
in detail by the Seattle building su
perintendent. These details show that, while a
permit for a doghouse or a chicken
coop counts Just as large numerically
as that of a twelve-story building, It
also pulls down the average of the
better clas3 of buildings. The total
value of building permits for 1908
at Seattle was $13,794,755; for Port
land the value was $10,434,925. Ac
cording to the December returns the
Seattle alteration permits were one
fifth of the total value of all permits
issued. Estimating by the same ratio
for the entire year 1908, it would ap
pear that Seattle has Included in her
regular building permits about $3,000.
000 for repairs, alterations, etc.
Either the Queen City was in a badly
dilapidated condition at the beginning
of the new yeat or these repair an'd
alteration permits were taken out for
new structures of too poor a class to
figure as now "buildings." In the per
mits for new buildings at Seattle the
large total for the year is due to the
construction work at the Alaska-Yukon
exposition grounds.
CONTINGENT FEES.
There is nothing morally wrong in
the agreement by which an attorney
undertakes to bring suit for a plain
tiff upon a contingent fee. In fact,
there are many cases In which the
plaintiff could not get Justice unless
such an agreement could be made and
enforced. There may be something
morally wrong In exacting an exces-
sive contingent fee or in encouraging
baseless litigation by offering to take
a case on a contingent fee. It fre
quently happens that a laboring man
is killed in an accident for which his
employer is responsible. Usually, in
such cases, the man's family is left
practically destitute, and by the time
funeral expenses have been -paid the
family is in debt. The widow of a
man thus killed is unable to employ
an attorney to bring a suit for dam
ages unless she can employ him upon
a contingent fee, and if this right be
withdrawn from her she Is for all
practical purposes denied the right of
appeal to the courts.
Courts should have and exercise
power to limit the fees 'to be col
lected by lawyers in contingent cases,
as in all others. A lawyer is an offi
cer of the court; he has special priv
ileges therein, and he should be re
strained from making extortionate
charges for his 'services. As a rule
attorneys are reasonable in fixing
their' fees, but a few who try to rob
their clients bring the whole proies
sion under more or less suspicion. Be
cause a party to a suit must agree
upon a contingent fee Is no reason
why the attorney should be permit
ted to enforce an unconscionable
agreement. Neither should an attor
ney resort to the contingent fee to stir
up litigation where only a technical
pretext exists. The lawyer who
searches records for flaws In the title
to property and then seeks to secure
employment by offering to bring suit
on a contingent fee is a mischief
maker inspired by no good intentions.
He seeks to offer a remedy to one
who has felt no injury-
It Is true that the practice of taking
cases on contingent fees facilitates the
bringing of suits which have no merit,
but it also provides a remedy for the
poor who have Just cause for suit, but
who have no money with which to
pay either the costs of litigation or
the fees of an attorney. Whenever
the legal profession wishes to do so it
can get rid of the disreputable class
of attorneys without making contin
gent fees unlawful.
The old question whether Road .Su
pervisors should be elected by the
people of a road district or appoint
ed by the County Court is again be
fore the Legislature. Opinions upon
this question will differ in different
years. After two years experience
with one system of selection, every
body wants a change, and then, when
the change has been secured and two
more years have passed, everybody
wants to go back to the old system.
Whatever the system In force, the re
sults are unsatisfactory. The Road
Supervisor loolrs after the roads and
bridges and culverts in his own neigh
borhood and neglects the others. Just
as a City Councilman sees that the
sidewalks on his street are kept in re
pair and that an electric light is
maintained on his -corner. ' Whatever
the system of appointment of Road
Supervisors, the men who work the
road3 do. as little as they can in the
eight hours they are required to work.
Changing from election to appoint
ment or from appointment to election
will make no material difference.
A very fine poultry show has been
playing to crowded houses In this city
for the past few days and the exhib
its included representatives of all the
ultra-select stock in the poultry world.
The inclemency of the weather was,
of course, a slight drawback to the
affair, but it was in another direction
somewhat beneficial. It resulted in
the egg market soaring up to the
usual Winter heights, and with Ore
gon eggs scarce at 60 cents per dozen
and the Eastern case stock of uncer
tain age selling raound 40 and 50
cents per dozen, the opportunities in
poultry-growing could not be much
more forcibly presented. The Pacific
Northwest will never enjoy the fullest
prosperity to which it is entitled until
we can keep for distribution among
our own people the large sums of
money that are now sent East every
month for eggs, poultry and other
products of small farming. '
Senator McCumber, of North Da
kota, has a bill before the Senate pro
viding for more favorable terms for
payment for land by entrymen on
arid lands. Under the present law
these lands, after coming under Irri
gation, are to be paid for in ten an
nual installments. As the cost of ir
rigation has in some cases run up to
nearly $50 per acre, the burden has
fallen rather heavily on. the new set
tler, who, under the present law,
would be called on to pay nearly $5
per acre before his land was In condi
tion to make any returns. The new
law proposes to make the payments
extend over a period of twenty instead
of ten years, and In this way the set
tlers will have a better opportunity
to develop their holdings with money
that otherwise would be needed to
make the payments.
Portland has some minor faults,
but the streetcar hog is not one of
them. Over in New York they have
an anti-spitting ordinance, but no
agency to enforce it. A wealthy busi
ness man has engaged, at his own
expense, a special officer to make
arrests. In the Brooklyn elevated
cars the nuisance is, almost unbear
able to persons of sensibility, and no
relief is in sight. The New York
Tribune voices a vigorous editorial
protest against the law-breaking un
cleanllness and sanitary .danger. Port
land may not be up-to-date in some
things, but her citizens don't expecto
rate in the streetcars. They are not
influenced by ordinance, but by a
decent sense of self-respect.
There was mighty" good sense in
Fulton's remarks in the Senate yes
terday on the proposition to double
the salaries of President, Vice-President,
Speaker and Judges. He said
that so long as the country was too
poor to make appropriations for im
provement of its waterways, increase
of salaries of officials now adequately
paid might well be postponed.
A rise in the American and Sacra
mento Rivers brings disaster to the
farmer, while a rise in the tributaries
of the Ohio releases millions of bush
els of coal and means resumption of
work by thousands of miners. Na
ture has a method of maintaining a
balance In all things. .
T. J. Hains says that by his ac
quittal the jury has placed the unwrit
ten law high above the written law
of the State of New York. Well, per
haps. New York has -done many
strange things and may have done
this. But one Jury does not establish
law. '
Don't postpone action on the most
Important bills until the last week of
the session and then rush them
through with hasty consideration. Let
the unimportant bills do the waiting.
Perhaps Tillman thinks he can get
the best of Roosevelt by abandoning
his pitchfork and going after the
President with his Jawbone. But he
is no Samson.
Forty-flve saloon men were invited
to hear Dr. Wilson Sunday night and
they accepted. True courtesy calls
for a return of the compliment.
Now an Investigation Is to be had
to determine whether Thaw is sane
or insane. There Is prosperity in
sight for the alienists.
Tillman Is another me of those
Senators who are dead and do not
know it.
All eyes on Salem today.
! snH HEAVY PERSOSAL TAIES. -.v..
Ruasell Suite' Widow and Andrew Car
negie Hud,New Torfc'a Llt.
New York Special to Chicago Record
Herald. Mrs. Margaret O. Sage, widow of
Russell Sage, and Andrew Carnegie ap
peared at the head of the personal as
sessment rolls when the tax books for
1909 were opened today. They were
each assessed $5,000,000 on their per
sonal estates.
The Vanderbilt family were put
down for a total of $3,900,000, distri
buted as follows:
William K. Vandorbllt $1,000,000
Gladys Vanderbilt.... 1-40X,SI2
Alice G. Vanderbilt 1-00?'S2
Atfred Gwynne Vanderbilt S.iO.OOO
Cornelias Vanderbilt :50'!!25
Frederick W. Vanderbilt 250.000
Elsie F. Vandorbllt 100.000
George W. Vanderbilt oO.OOO
John D. Rockefeller was assessed at
$2,500,000, William Rockefeller at $300.
000, and William G. Rockefeller at
$10,000.
There are 20 women in the list who
are assessed for $200,000 or more.
Among those not assessed on their
personalty were George J.. Gould, Aug
ust Belmont. Hetty Green. William
Waldorf Astor and Richard Croker.
Others assessed for large sums are:.
Idi A. Flakier. -2
l.llla Gilbert
Florence G. Satterwhite 1':!S'!!xS
Clifford V. Brokaw 1.600,000
Harriet M. Richardson ''SSX
Fanny A. Haven S?X'?2
Matilda Rhlnelander 59?'!, S
Louistna W. Havemeyer
Joseph Pulitzer !??'S?5 .
ThoAias L. Watt
Mary Adelaide Terkea 500'992
J. I'lerpont Montan 400,000
John Jacob Astor s"0' X
Oliver H. Payne 3n?,cJ?2
Aujrusta U. Bliss rO-OnO
Maria De Witt Jcssup 2!'9'"2x
Perry Belmont 250.000
Jessie Belmont SoO.000
Alva E. Belmont 200.000
Cornelius N. Bliss 200.000
Geonr Ehret UOO.OOO
Arabell Huntlneton 200,000
James Gordon Bennett 200.000
Jacob H. Schlff 200.000
Burnett T. Tiffany J00.000
Dorothy T. TlfTuny 100.000
Julia de Forrest Tiffany 100.000
Ioulse C. Tlflany 100. 0"0
Louis C. TilTany- 100.000
Archer M. Huntlnuton 100000
George R. .Sheldon 40.oon
Charles F. Murphy 5.000
At the head of the realty list stands
the Waldorf-Astoria, assessed at $11.
950,000, which is $100,000 less than last
year.
"The second most valuable piece of
real estate In the city, according to
the tax rolls, is the Pennsylvania ter
minal, which by the work done during
the year has increased from $1,000,000
to $11,175,000. The Metropolitan Life
Insurance Building ranks third with an
assessment of $10,485,000.
The total of taxable real estate had
not been figured out today, but Pres
ident Purdy said the Increase was
about $140,000,000 over last year, when
the final figure was $"5,722,000,000, but
appeals would probably cut the in
crease down to under $125,000,000.
Personal assessments of corporations,'
he said, would be about the same as
last year, $89,000,000.
He did not have the figures on spe
cial franchises, which last year were
assessed at $192,000,000.
POLITICAL REMARKS.
Madras (Crook County) Pioneer.
The weather man framed up a nice
little spell of zero weather for Ore
gon's Republican Legislature which
convened' last Monday, as a gentle but
Insistent reminder that Republican
politics which elects only Democratic
officeholders is a "frost" of the frosti
est kind. It w.-fs a nifty little joke,
although a good many Republican
members of the Legislature will re
fuse to see it that way.
Albany Democrat.
Oregon's State Legislature convened
this week, gave out a few plums, in
troduced a few bills, and adjourned,
with prospect of being the worse yet.
It seems impossible for Oregon to have
a decent Legislature. , Most of them
have been disgraces to the state, and
if this isn't a record-breaker it is poor
guessing. With some thinKs that
ought to be done the Senatorship seems
to be the bone of contention.
Pacific Outlook, Grants Pass.
It Is probable that any recommenda
tions we may make to the 25th Assem
bly will receive even less attention than
those of Governor Chamberlain, but
we can't resist the impulse to hand
them In as usual. Our brightest idea
the trump card of the whole pack is
not to pass any new laws at all, but
Just put in the 40 days repealing some
of the laws we already have, and patch
up some of the others so they will hold
water. If they will insist upon pass
ing new laws, we suggest that one
of the most important is a law to re
duce the number of "gun toters about
99 per cent, eliminating among others,
the boozer and the "bad man."
Baker Herald.
Is it not about time to call Tillman
down He has talked Ions enough,
and the poor old chap gets deeper in
the Oregon land deal every time he
opens his mouth. His friends should
urge him to sit down. When he said
his first duty was to pry the land at
Coos Bay looBe from companies that
had gained wrongful possession of it,
and his next duty was to acquire some
of the land for himself, it reminded
one of Mayor Harry Lane's fight
against Mrs. Waymlre which really
reached a point where the Mayor ex
hibited muscles on his arms and told
the woman what fine physique he
had before taking on official duties.
But the Waymlre woman was sen
tenced to prison for blackmailing Lane.
Think of that. That happened in the
State of Oregon. The Tillman Incident
is happening in the United States of
America, which is some different.
Pendleton Tribune.
The affairs of the Oregon Legisla
ture will reach an important crisis
next Tuesday, when the time for elect
ing a United States Senator arrives.
Governor Chamberlain has announced
in his message, to the Legislature that
he expocts the members of the assemb
ly to stand by their pledges. In ex
tremely bad taste he personally criti
cises the Legislature In advance of the
time set for the election of the Senator.
He sends his message as Governor of
the state and asks the members of the
assembly to vote for him and confer
still further honors on him, and he
offers nothing In return. In fact, he
scolds a little in advance. His posi
tion I" to say the least, indelicate.
What does he offer in return for the
honor he asks? He offers nothing.
He assumes the role of a begging poli
tician, not a statesman. Governor
Chambornain did not receive a majority
of the votes cast for Senator at the
last general election. A majority of
the people of this state voted for other
men for this high honor. He presumes
that Insomuch as he received more
votes than any other oandidate, he is
the choice of a majority of the voters
of this state. If this ground is ten
able, then they want him to be United
States Senator. They do not want him
for Governor. If he sees in the result
of the last election that the people of
Oregon want him as United States
Senator, then let him gracefully pre
pare himself for receiving that honor
he so egotistically assumes by reign
ing as Governor and permitting him
self to be elected Senator. If he Is
elected United States Senator next
Tuesday, the officers of the assembly
should withhold their signatures to
the certificate until they shall have
received from Governor Chamberlain
his resignation as Governor, lio poli
tician should be so flagrantly conceited
as to assume that he is a political Idol;
that he is a god among the residents
of Oregon. Sometimes Idols are sha.t-tered.
Remarks by a Keen Obwrrer on the
Proarresa of the Times.
Chicago Evening Post.
"Progr-riss, ma'am, is a tur-rible thing,"
observed Officer Casey to his wife. "Thim
was fine ol' days whin we wlnt f bid by
candle light an' got up with th' lar-rk.
Now we git up by gaslight an" go f bid
by daylight afther our lar-rk. Who prof
Its by th' change? Th' gas comp'ny. th'
bartinders, an' th' headache euro ma-ak-ers.
"Invention is a gr-reat thing whin ye
have a good patliit lawyer, but Is th'
wur-rld anv bether f'r all th' invintlons
an' progr-riss iv th' last hundred years?
Ye have iilicthrie cur-rlln' ir-rons where
yere muthers used bits Iv pa-aper, nn' th"
nit results is Mar-rcell waves an' baklniss.
We min rayjolca in a v'lce in th' affairs iv
sthate an' safety razors. What has come
iv these changes? Tammany an' bar-rbere
ownin' their own motor ca-ars.
"Progr-riss has filled th' wur-rid with a
lot iv things we can't afford t' buy an'
which we can't be happy without, an' a lot
more iv things we buy but can't afford an'
would be bether without. Th' wur-rld
was innoeint iv stontick specialists until
some wan invinted th' cocktail. Before th'
unhappy day whin th' fur-rat lobster was
dragged fr'm its happy home on th'
gr-round floor iv th' eay, late suppers was
as much an unknown evil as nervous
prostr-ration, while until th' comin' iv
th' autymobeel th' streets was public
prop'ty an' human life and lim's belonged
t' thim as had thim an' was not th'
ephort iv th' ma-an behind th' goggles.
"If ye could sum up th' chanses iv th'
last hundred years what would ye learn?
Just tins, Mrs. Casey, that 'tis tin times
easier t' be kilt and tin times liar-rder t'
live an' keep out iv debt now th'n it was
whin George. Wash'nt'n wr-rote in his
fur-rst political platfoorm- th' planks ho
stole fr'm Mr. Bryan's t' th' iffict that all
min should be allowed f pursue happiness
if they have th' time an' th' price.
"Yere muthers an' yere gr-ran'niuthers.
mar'am, got up at five a. lm.. and got th'
mornln' meal over a wood fire iv peat.
Their childern git up at tin minuts f sivin
an' try to fill th' lie stove while 'tis
lighted. What's th' result? Th' wur-rld
is full iv half orphans an" with widowers
that have f git their br-rekfast at a
lunch counter. Th' He stove may be
proKr-riss, but 'tis progr-ris through th
roof. An' thin there's tlllethric light. All
ye have f do is t' priss th' button an' yere
room is filled with th' brilliance iv day.
" 'Tis a gr-reat thing is iilicthrie liKht.
but on'y f'r Its crossed wires th' firemln
could go home f dinner an' th' insurance
comp'nies could afford f contribute a
pr-roper an' adequate amount f th' Ray
public'n campaign fund.
"Th' tillyphone is a gr-reat thing, no
doubt, an' a wonderful discov'ry: hut what
is th' pr-ractlcal iffict iv it t'day? No
woman goes t' markit an' samples th'
cr-rackers f see if they ar're frish, an'
sticks her finger in th' roast iv beef an'
asks th' grocer if he's a judge lv mellons
no; nowadays they keep their wrappers
on till afthemoon, an' tillyphone th' mar
rkit ma-an what they wants. An' how
does it wur-rk out? This way: Th' mar.
rket ma-an unloads on thim all th' yls
terdah's grreen goods an' th' round Iv
beef, while he charges thim f'r por-rtor-house.
"Could we live without railroad tr-rains?
We couldn't or at least we thought we
couldn't till th' anty-pass law was adopt
ed. An' what ar-re th" changes wur-rked
by th' railways? A hundred years ago,
whin a man had a vacation he stayed at
home, where he inj-yed all th' nlcissitles
iv life an' was cur-reed by none lv th'
luxuries. But in tlx year nineteen ought
eight what does he do? Why, he tr-ravels
wan thousan' miles f see that hump on
th' backbone iv th' contynint an' breathe
air as rare as a Dimmycrathlc Prlsidin
tial victhry, an' thin comes back home f
be nur-rsed back f hilth an' a new skin
on his nose by a sarcastic nn' indlff-runt
fam'ly which nlver appreciates th' fact
that little things hur-rt min more th'n
they do wimmin.
"But th' climax iv progr-riss an' invin
tion. Mrs. Casey, is none lv th' things I'v6
mintioned; 'tis th' dlrict prim'ry law.
'Tis called direct because it needs so many
directions befure th' ma-an lv av'rage in
tilligince which Isn't sayin' much c'n
find th' name iv th' la-ad he wants f
vote aginst. Th' new law, ma'am, Is th'
product an' result lv' a conspiracy arming
th' restyrant min. Ivry voter that goes f
the polls must take a lunch with him or
else he will faint fr'm hunger befure he
has mar-rked th' half lv his ticket. So
th' pollln' places will be surrounded by
clamorin' mobs lv famished cit'zins bat
tlin" t' buy a slab lv pie, a ham san-wich
lnhocint iv ham, an' wan har-rd blled
egg thnt they may, without star-rvin t'
dith, exprlss by their ballots their prlfer
ince f'r min that they know nothin"
about."
"An' how ar-re ye goin' f vote, Mike?"
asked Mrs. Casey.
"Shure an' I've made up me mind th'at
this bein' Amur-rlca, we should bo illlctin'
a few Amur-rlcans f offis," replied Casey,
"so I've picked out th' followin' t' vote
f'r among others: Jawn P. MeGoorty, J.
M. Qr.inlan, Jeremia J. O'Rourke. Joseph
E. Flanagan, J. EL Madigan, James VX
Daily, Thomas F. Bur-rns an' II. M.
'Guerin. What do I know lv their fitness
f'r offis? Hiwlns, Mrs. Casey, can't ye
see by th' names iv .thim that they was
bor-rn f rule?"
FAVORITE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN".
Youngster Do Xot Turn, to Fnlae
I.lKhtu In Fiction.
New York World.
In a list of 48 books most popular
amons the children of 11.000 ele
mentary classrooms in New York City,
Louisa M. Alcott's "Little Women" stands
at the head and Hawthorne's "Wonder
Book" at the foot. In the first 25 books on
the list are five of Miss Alcott's works,
including "The Old-Fashioned Girl" and
"Little Men." "Robinson Crusoe" is No.
6 and "Alice in Wonderland" is No. 1L
Mrs. Burnett s "Sara Crewe" Is close to
the leader.
Classics one usually considers as
food for older .minds are scattered
through the list such books as "John
Halifax." "Evangeline," "Ivanhoe" and
"Merchant of Venice," Tales of Dick
ens are narrred, and, of course, the
perennially fresh "Huckleberry Finn"
of Mark Twain.
Altogether the list is delightful and
encouraging. Of the early purity of
taste it offers evidence which is in
no wise weakened by the fact that
the volumes in the school libraries are
carefully selected by the Board of
Education. The children show in lit
tle reviews which they have written
that they read the books not merely
because they are there, but because
they like them. Last year the cumu
lative circulation of the books from
the the classroom shelves approximat
ed 7.000,000.
Not in tender years at least do the
eyes of the average New York child
turn to the false lights of fiction. It is
difficult to understand how minds that
have appreciated the charm of the
Aleott pages can at any after age
find satisfaction In pernicious literary
"shockers."
"The Party of Lincoln."
Los Angeles Times.
When the Oregon Legislature elects
Chamberlain to the United States Sen
ate he will have as his colleague Sen
ator Bourne, who is a Populist That's
a fine condition of affairs for a rock
ribbed Republican state to enjoy.
A Etna; Around the World.
Washington Herald.
Did you ever stop to think that it took
about 24 hours to ring out the old year
and ring in the new from one end of
Uncle Sam's domain to the other?
TO POE!
BY ARTHUR A. GREENE.
Weird child of fate.
Thy storm-tossed soul for many years
Has boon as one with Annabel
Thy spectral lover wlp
TheVnvy of the angcis was. .
Thy ghostly raven long hast flown
Unto the liral rookery
Where, black with morbid passion.
They who seek a last reposo from nn-
apsuaged desire
Find answer to their doubt-beclouded
questionings.
You who dying waited for the ultimate
Decision of the many who have tried
And failed, and dying wait
Discouragi d of long tardy judgment
Kind many who may Justify.
Tliy tales are long since told.
Those strange, wild imageries
Of God-endowed genius seeking for a
chisp
Of some warm, pul.slr.g human sympathy
Have been adjudged; and so
Thy slow-come reckoning has fixed thy
phiee.
Among the great ones of this mortal
state.
Though day or. day und generations came
And still no crown of laurels brought
To one who Ftrove in blindness and in
black despair
And then went out into the dark
To seek an answer that might satisfy
The groping yearnings of a heart
Which sought In vntn the paltry boon of
happiness.
Thif day a century has passed
And we who glimpse adown the long
And misty avenues of Time
Unite to tell thy spirit, son of dreams,
That they who speak a fellow tongue
have learned
And now bequeath the homage that is
thine.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
EORX JAXl'ARY 10, 1809.
IsrnlVl.
"And the angel Israfol, whose heart
strings are a lute, and who has the
sweetest voice of 'all God's creatures."
In heaven a spirit doth dwell
"Whoso hoart-strliiKS are a lute";
None sing no wiMly well
As the angel Israfol,
And the giddy stars (so legends tell.
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spcl.'
Of his voice, all mute.
Tottering above
In her highest noon.
The enamored moon
Blushes with love.
While, to listen, the red levla
(With the rapid Pleiads, even.
Which were seven).
Pauses in heaven.
And they say (the starry rhoir
And the other listening things),
The Israfoli's lire
Is owing to that lyre
By which he sits and sings
The trembling: living wire
Of those unusual strings.
But the skiea that angel trod.
Where deep thoughts are a duty
Where Love's a grown-up God
Where the Houri glances are
Imbued with all the beauty
Which we worship In a star.
Therefore, thou are not wrong,
Israfell, who- despisest
An unimpassioned song;
To thee the laurels belong.
Best bard, because the wisest!
Merrily live and long!
The ecstasies above
With thy burning measures suit
Thy grief, thy Joy, thy hate, thy love,
With the fervor of thy lute
Well may the stare be mute!
Yes, Heaven Is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and souts;
Our flowers are . merely flowers.
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.
If I could dwell
Where Isrnfel
Hath dwelt, and ho where I,
He mlg-ht not sing so wildly well
A mortal melody.
While a bolder note than this might
swoli
From my lyre within the eky.
To Helen.
Holen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nlcean barks of yore.
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bare
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam.
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classlo faoe,
Thy Naiad airs have brought mo home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rom.
Lo! in yon brilliant window nfcha,
How statue-like I see thee stand.
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah. Pscyhu, from tho regions which
Are Holy Land! .
HARVARD'S M5W PRBSIDHST.
Some Aooitint of lrofcfor Lorrll's
Cnreer.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell was born in
Boston on December 13, 1S5S, and was
graduated from Harvard in 1S77. He
then took a law course, receiving his
degree from Harvard Law School In
1SS0.
He is primarily a Bostonian, being
descended from two of the leading
merchants of that city half a century
ago. His father waa Augustus Lowell,
who, having acquired wealth in the
cotton industry, founded the famous
lecture Institute in Boston which boars
his name. His maternal grandfather
was Abbott Lawrence, who was a pio
neer in tho textile industry In Massa
chusetts. Abbott Lawrence Lowell was admit
ted to tho Massachusetts bar lu 1SS9,
and became a partner of his cousin.
Francis C. Lowell, now a Judge of the
United States Circuit Court. For sev
enteeen years the practice of law de
manded the greater part of his atten
tion, but ho continued to pursue his
favorite studv of comparative govern
ment Several books on government
and on polities In Continental Europe,
published during this time, gave him
high standing as an authority on the
science of government, and in 18J7 he
was called to he lecturer in that de
partment at Harvard.
Three years later, on the establish
ment of the Faton Professorship of
the Science of Government, founded by
the late Porman B- Eaton, of New
York, Lowell was appointed to that
chair. The course soon proved un
usually attractive, and I'rofesor Lowell
had large classes every year.
In the last vear he has published
a work on "The Government of EnB
land," which has attracted wide atten
tion and brought to him tho honor
of election as President of the Amer
ican Political Science Association In
succession to Ambassador Bryce, whose
"American Commonwealth," brought
him the same distinction.
Insanity and nad Trrth.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A Cleveland specialist claims that In
sanity is often caused by defective
teeth There Is a strong probability
that he is mistaken if he thinks his
statement la going to give any com
fort to people who happen to be suf
fering with Jumping toothache.
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