THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1909. 3 i IDKTLAKD. OltEGOX. Entered . Portland, Oregon, Postofflce as Second-Class Matter. ttubacripllon Bates Invariably la Advance. Br Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, ons year tally, Sunday included, six months.... 41S lally. Sunday Included, tore months. ...J Dally. Sunday Included, ons month.... Dilly, without Sunday, one year JO" XJally, without Sunday, six months..... I'ally. without Sunday, three months.. l.J Iially. without Sunday, one month..... . Weekly, one year Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, one year Pally. Sunday Included, one year " Daily. Sunday included, one month.... .7 How to Remit Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on our local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's ink. Give postofflce ad dress in full. Including county and state. Foetace Kate 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent: 1 to 23 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 44 pages, t cents: 4 to bo pages. 4 (cents. Foraign postage double rates. , 1. intern uaslni-es Office The S. C. Beck wlih Special Agency New York, rooms 41 10 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms Hu-612 Tribune building. rORTLAT. WEDNESDAY. FEU. S. 1009. "FLEDGES" FROM CANDIDATES. They -who insist that the voters "jiave a right to Instruct their repre sentatives to do certain Important things miss the whole point of objec tion to "pledges." The point is that some of the voters a mere fraction of them have not the light to "in struct." Candidates for Important positions are representatives of parties, of poli cies and of principles. But & small faction arises which insists that ' "pledges" shall be taken, and threat ens the candidate with defeat if he do not take them. Tet no major-it- of tho people want to exact such pledges;, neither do they wish to be driven out of their party and away from lis general purposes by voting for the J6licy of the opposite party, in order to defeat the pledge-takers in their own. This is the remedy of abating the nuisance by pulling down the house. Here, for example, is Senator Not tingham, of Multnomah. He didn't wish to "take the pledge." He de clared at first he wouldn't take it. But, terrorized hv a few factlonists who threatened him with defeat if he continued his refusal, he finally "fell In." Senator Barrett, of "Washington, was another. The "Statement" men Democrats among them frightened him, and he yielded. These, however, and all others who took the pledge, would have been elected Just the . eamo if they hadn't taken it. By taking it they went directly against their party and their own purposes. The Republican candidates who re fused got In the general election about the same vote as those who were .scared into making the promise. The names of Nottingham and Bar rett are used in no- invidious or exclu sive way. They are types of all the rest who didn't see through it all and took pledges to get votes. Once com mitted, they were too weak to break the bond. Once more the point Is this: A small fraction of the people is not the people; a small faction of a party is not a party. The general election in June did not turn on Statement One at all, but on factional differ ences outside of it. One faction, not itself believing It, caught it up, using "the Statement" as a cry against an other faction, as a means of getting recognition In a party or control of it. A lot of them got Into the Legislature by the expedient; then how they did. In the pinch, set up a wail, or emit a squeal, like rats caught in a trap! Again, while it is certain that the . people have a right to expect a par ticular course of action on the part of their representatives in great or Important matters, no small fraction of the people, or faction of a party, has a right to assume to bo the peo ple and to Intimidate or terrorize can didates with the pretense that they are the people. The remedy for the evil is in the courage of candi dates. Moreover, the right of In struction is so liable to abuse that the candidato who has the courage and spirit that would fit him to be a representative of the people will be extremely cautious about mak ing promises and taking pledges that may commit him to a course of action which later he may disapprove, and which may run counter to the whole purposes of his party and the will of a majority of the people. Least wise of all persons are those who mistake the. cry of small factions that seise any notion or expedient that time or circumstance may offer, for the will of the people, and bank on It for their own advantage. They come to grief, always. OIK WASTEFlX GOVERNMENT. The monthly comparative statement Issued by the Government shows that In January there was an increase of 115.543.842 in the deficit. This is a matter of $500,000 per day, and, as the deficit for the seven months ending January 31 is S79.S14.443, it to quite clear that we are starting in the new calendar year with, an extravagance even more pronounced than it was last year. There was in January $17,244, 1S2 in civil and miscellaneous expend itures. 311,030.366 for war purposes, and t9.313.3S6 for the Navy, all of these departments showing heavy in creases. The United States Is a great country and has such a wealth of re sources that, were the expenditure ac tually necessary, w could view with complacency a deficit of 1500.000 per day between income and expense. The most unpleasetnt feature of the growing deficit to the prodigal waste fulness which Is responsible for no small portion of this deficit. Regard less of whether it Is coal for the battle ship fleet, forage for Manila or lumber for Panama, no business-like method for buying where supplies are the cheapest has ever been followed by the Government. The meshes of red tape and the Ignorance of employes of the Government are so much In evi dence In all transactions that economy to Impossible. The Navy offers a good Illustration of this policy of wasteful ness run riot. After noting that the estimates for the current year for the Navy call for the expenditure of 1122.000, 000, a writer in McClure's magazine says that one-third of this amount will be wasted. This writev calls attention to the fact that In ten years the cost of the Navy has doubled, and In fifteen years It has quadrupled. Figures are presented, showing that It Is easily possible to maintain and repair a Navy of twice the fighting strength of our own for t77,000,000 per year. Com menting on these figures, which are presented in detail, the writer says: This navy, personnel belns; equal, could annihilate ours In a couple of hours Ait CghUng. Making every allowance tor de extraordinary expenses of our Navy tn the present year, it can be operated far $10, 000.000 less annually than ours costs at the present time. Whyt Simply because the management of the present Naval establish ment Is not military; It la political. Until we succeed In replacing politi cians In the Government positions with business men who will expect and in sist on Government expenditures show ing results approximating those at tained 'In private business, we shall continue to face unpleasant deficits. LEX THE TIMBER GO. Suggestion is made that logged off lands unfit for agriculture should be taken possession of by the state, or ac "qulred by the state on some equitable principle, and used for the purposes of reforestation. There Is a good idea in this suggestion, but It may be doubted whether it can be put Into execution and . practice under our political system. The politicians and the officials, during the time necessary for the growth of the tim ber, would cost the state many times more than the timber would be worth. It to Impossible under our system to establish and maintain the rules of foreetatlon and reforestation pur sued in various countries of Europe. With us the main object would not be protection and restoration of the forests, but maintenance of a horde of officials,, at the gen eral expense, and "pledges" would be exacted for the purpose, as they have been exacted from great num bers, perhaps most of the members of the Legislature of Oregon, by persons who want salaries raised and the number of offices Increased. Are not "the people" entitled Inquiry Is to get what they want? And who are the people, save or except those who can force members of the Legisla ture, as a condition of their ejection, to take pledges and to make prom ises? The remainder of the people the great body of them are "not In jt" whether It is one "statement" or another. Logged-ofT lands unfit for agricul ture could be made of value for growth of timber as great In value as ever. But our political and offi cial system will never permit It, ex cept at a cost' to the general body of taxpayers for support of politicians and officials, of far greater aggregate sums than the timber would be worth. These results, however, would be but tome addition to the price we pay for submission to "the will of the pee-pul." Tet it would be better to let the timber go. CHEESE INSPECTION AT 'TILLAMOOK. It Is a singular trait of human na ture that many men will not act for their own best Interest unless the law compels them to do it. On the other hand, some are ready to do the most sensible and at the same time most profitable thing without compul sion. The Tillamook cheese makers belong to the latter class. Some cor respondents of The Oregomlan who plead for the right to sell infected milk belong to the former. There have always been at Tillamook a number of men who strove to pro duce and market a superior grade of chese, and they succeeded so well that they made a reputation for their product which had a considerable money value. Then, as .often happens in similar circumstances, a class of men appeared who tried to trade upon the reputation which the honest cheesemakers had earned. They put upon the market an Inferior grade, which they sold under the name of Tillamook cheese. At first they re ceived the same price as the honest men, but presently the fraud was detected. The result was that the reputation of every factory in Tillamook suf fered. The Innocent was punished for the sin of the guilty, as he usually to. If some good and some bad cheese go under the name of Tillamook, of course It will all sell at the price of the bad. To protect themselves from this Injustice, the honest cheesemak ers have formed an association and employed an inspector, who is to look after the sanitary condition of the factories and see that the milk brought in to clean, sweet and wholesome. The natural consequence of this arrange ment will be a higher price for tire goods which the factories put on the market. Probably the price will in crease enough to pay for the inspec tion and return a profit besides. It seems to be fair and right that every business which needs Inspection should pay for it, since it gets the benefit. If the Tillamook cheesemakers admit the need .of inspection and are willing to pay for it, why should not the beef trust do the same thing?. Why not the barbers and the doctors and the milkmen? SKY SAILING. Absorbed with the automobile and Its development; with electric rail ways and wireless telegraph and the increased speed developed on the rails, the people of the United States do not realize to what an extent the aeroplane movement has grown in France. Ac cording to a moderate estimate, there are under construction In Paris and vi cinity at the present time not less than 350 of these machines. These are in most cases experimental, the designer preferring to prosecute his labors in peace and in the end present a per fected machine to the attention of the public. We are told by the Paris cor respondent of the New York Automo bile that there are fifty orders waiting for the Wright aeroplane for the use of American sportsmen next season, while many shops are busy on ma chines for French sportsmen. In ad dition to this, many competent engi neers are quietly building their own machines on various and constantly Improved models. This activity to greatly stimulated. If not largely due to the fact that the sum of something ' like 3250.000 to awaiting to be won for aeroplane per formances. It Is the general opinion that the de velopment of the aeroplane will pro ceed on sporting lines, as did the auto mobile. The use of both of these ma chines will be developed later prob ably In stress of war. Wilbur Wright, a prince in the realm of aerial navi gation, contends that the flying ma chine is eventually a military proposi tion. While he admits that it will nat urally attract the daredevil spirit of adventure and lead for. a while in the realm of sport, its" greatest future is for use with, armies. 'Here, he con ceives. It will take the place of cavalry and furnish an Instrument with which the enemy can be constantly harassed. He foresees that In the Immediate fu ture hundreds of these machines will be attached to every regiment. With the enthusiasm of an Inventor, Mr. Wright further declares that, while there Is a certain amount of danger with a flying machine, it need not be any greater than on an automobile, and he adds: "In my opinion it is more risky to be on the Paris streets than aloft." This to a forcible re minder of the pity expressed by a sailor In a gale at sea for the un happy folk that live on shore when In stress of storm: Foolhardy chaps who live In towns What danger are they all In, "Who now lie quaking In their beds For fear the root will fall In. In view of all these things, proven and foreshadowed the automobile, the wireless telegraph and the aero plane how tame and far outgrown seems the prophecy of Mother Shipton, that once staggered and called forth protest and denial from the world! . PROSPERITY'S PROSPECTS. The short month of February In Portland started off Monday with building permits of more than 3465,000 and with real estate transfers of tllS, 000, including one tlO transaction in which the actual price paid was in excess of $40,000. Despite the push ing of construction work throughout the Winter, there Is more building un der way at this time than at any cor responding period In the history of the city, and the activity In real estate is unprecedented for this season of the year. In view of the unusually se vere weather In January, trade suf fered somewhat, but the strength of the genera,l situation to reflected in a gain of 26 per cent in bank clearings over those of January, 1908. Although the Spring colonist rates of the railroads- have not yet become ef fective, a heavy immigrant travel nas already set In and Portland and other localities in the Pacific .Northwest are dally gaining new people "at an unpre cedented rate. The wheat trade of Portland, which in former years was the all-important factor in our. com mercial prosperity, still contributes many millions to the wealth of the country, but $hat it is no longer a ne cessity is shown by the January export figures, which were more than 1,250, 000 bushels less than for the same month last year. The people in the rich territory tributary to Portland no longer place all of their eggs in one basket, and dairying, fruitgrowing, livestock and lumbering have come to the front so rapidly that the former prestige of wheat has been weakened. For all that, this city is, and for many years will remain, the largest wheat mnriin nort on the Pacific Coast, onH flour milliner and Incidental Indus tries will prosper as the wheat Indus try grows. Portland has started the new year iinrlr most fa.vora.ble ausDlces. and nothing short of a National calamity can check the momentum which is nrvnr rftririiv jrajnlnsr. There is noth ing haphazard or accidental about this prosperity movement now getting un rior wav. It is Rlmnlv due to the dis- nnwrv hv thousands of new neoDle that this city and the territory trib utary offers to all classes opportunities of a nature unobtainable elsewhere. MENDELSSOHN. Persons who like to celebrate- cen tennial anniversaries can gratify their taste abundantly this year, for it fairly swarms with them. There never was another year which brought so many great men Into the world as 1809. Already we have commem orated more of them than any ordi nary year can claim, and the list to only begun. Mendelssohn comes next. He was born on February 3, 1809, nine days before Lincoln and Darwin. Like most musicians he was a preco cious youth, giving successful concerts when he was In his ninth year and composing his greatest work, the overture to the "Midsummer Night's Dream," when he was 17; but, unlike many of them, he was reared in the lap of luxury and educated not only In music, but in everything else which was supposed to adorn and Im prove the mind at the beginning of the last century. Some critics seem to believe that these epicurean privi leges sapped the rugged vigor of Men delssohn's genius and gave to his com positions that somewhat effeminate and languishing cast wjiich to so un like the productions of Bach. At any rate, the music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, to give him his complete name, seldom goes very deep. Its beauty is undeniable, but it lies pretty near the surface and is fairly obvious. There was a time when his songs were thought to be the most lovely things in the world. far superior to those of Schumann and Robert Franz, but nobody thinks so now. As a matter or tact Men delssohn's songs are obsolete. A great deal of his other music has followed them Into oblivion, but not all of It. The comparative neglect of Men delssohn for the last quarter of a century contrasts vividly with the vogue he enjoyed during his brief lifetime. He only lived some 89 years, but from his boyhood until his death he was believed to be the greatest of all composers. His fame complete ly overshadowed Schumann, Chopin, Wagner and all the rest of the demi gods, but as soon as he was safely in the grave there came a reaction. The others took their turn at being famous for a period brief or lasting. and Mendelssohn retired into the shadows. Now his hundredth anniversary brings him out into the light again. Musical societies everywhere are commemorating him and connoisseurs are discovering that there- was some thing, after all, in the reputed genius of the luxury-loving Jew. ' For a lit tle while we shall hear Mendelssohn programmes at all the concerts. Per haps we shall continue to hear them forever more, and perhaps not. There is a suspicion afloat that part of the new enthusiasm for Mendelssohn Is made to order to provide a subtle but stinging rebuke to Richard Strauss and his followers, whose unseemly productions are the scarfdal and shame of your- staid old disciple of the classics. Ten days ago Strauss' new opera, or whatever It Is, called "Elektra," was brought forth in Dres den with a fearful clatter of bass drums and outlandish screeching of horns. The Evening Post relates that Strauss told Schumann-Helnk, who is the prima donna of the monstrosity, that her part "was not singing at all. All she had to do was groan, moan and 6igh." The Post congratulates New Yorkers because "Salome" Is on the stage there, so that they can com pare Strauss and Mendelssohn for themselves and see which they like best. Except his music to the "Midsum mer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn's most enduring music seems to have been his oratorios. These have always been popular. The airs, "The Lord Is Mindful of His Own." from St. Paul, and "Oh, Rest in the Lord," from Eli jah; are known to everybody who can tell one tune from another, and they are Just as beautiful as if nobody knew them but a few artistic exquisites. Mendelssohn composed St. Paul when he was 2 6 years old and put it on the stage in Dusseldorf in 1836. His other great oratorio, Elijah, was given first in August, 1846, at the Birming ham musical festival. Haydn's Crea tion came the day before It, and Han del's Messiah followed on the day after, but from the accounts Men delssohn carried off the laurels of the festival. The people went wild over his dramatic . Interpretation of the prophet's character. The whole of the first part of the oratorio had to be repeated, and Prince Arthur was moved to write the elated composer a lotrpr- of felicitation, in which he called him the restorer of "the wor ship of true art," and called him "the great master who makes us conscious of the unity of his conception through the whole maze of his creation." It q rmoatJonable whether King Edward would display as much enthusiasm over a mere oratorio, whatever ne might do at an exhibition game of bridge. One of Mendelssohn's best pieces, his "Lobgeeang," was written for the celebration of the four hundredth an niversary of the Invention of printing at Lelpslc. Guttenbergs statue was unveiled on June 24, 1840, and Men delssohn's music was played the next Lday. It pleased the people so well that they made a lorcnngni pnrceHmuu in his honor and called him out to Tnnif a. Bnew.h. much as we do In America when one of our great artists or composers achieves a nign tnumpn. M vnr1lHohn died so young that some mo-r think the world lost better music than any he actually produced, but this Is unlikely. The pieces ne wroie when he was 17 were superior to anything he did later in life. The Jewel of consistency seems to be lost in the shuffle at Salem. One of the unfortunates who was obliged to explain his vote for Senator has Just introduced a bill taking the con trol of the prisoners out of the hands of the Sheriff and giving it to the County Court. As the qusetion was passed on by the last Legislature and the people at the election last June, under a referendum vote, decided against the County Court contention by a majority of more than 30,000, it to somewhat peculiar that the present attempt should be made to thwart the general wishes. By what line of rea soning do we reach the conclusion that the wishes of the people must be obeyed In electing a Democratic Sena tor in a Republican state, and dis obeyed in the matter of the care and custody of prisoners?"! Well, this to the arrangement: Bourne is Senator; Gatens is to be Governor till It can be known whether Chamberlain will be seated, and If he shall be seated, then perhaps Ben son will be nominal or putative Gov ernor; and Bob Caples meanwhile is to represent the majesty of the Gov ernor of Oregon, passing into the Sen ate as the colleague of Bourne at Washington. The Oregonian, for the present, refrains from comment. For the citizen's pride in the dignUy and achievement of Oregon, for the pres ent, must be full. The candidates for the Legislature Republicans -who "took the state ment" pledged themselves by it to vote against their political princi ples and all the surest convictions of their lives. How can they expect the Senate of the United States to "go behind the returns?'' The protest against the necessity of voting for Chamberlain, and the protest to the Senate against seating him, are about the limit of the weakness of poor human nature. - You notice that Dr. Owens-Adair's bill for sterilization of Insane crim inals has passed one branch of the Legislature. Now, since there is pros pect that It may become a law, the suggestion may be In order that the commission on Insanity and the com mission on sterilization shall be one and the same. Thus matters will be expedited and there will be good reason In a multitude of cases for quick work by the lunacy end of the commission. The Legislatures .of Iowa, Missouri and Texas have Introduced bills tax ing bachelors, presumably to Incline their hearts toward matrimony. The Oregon Legislature, under the inspira tion of Dr. Owens-Adair, seems dis posed to make matrimony impossible for a large class of men. The fashions in lawmaking depend largely upon longitude, apparently. Search history in vain for a ruler who had greater sympathy for the plain people than Abraham Lincoln, or hlzher Ideals of government by the people. This great American, it will be remembered, did a giant's work In building the Republican party. What, think vou. would be Lincoln's attitude toward Statement No. 1 and Its results? The State Sonate has passed the bill requiring a physician's certificate as preliminary to marriage. Should this become law, It may in effect increase the number of nasty affairs known as trial marriages, that have neltherdl vine nor legal sanction, for the man or woman who cannot secure a certificate will attain the end sought in some way. Tho Minnesota man 7 9 years old who' Vao n ovpr lriMMl. sworn, chewed or smoked should now try them all to see which one It was that would nave killed him. He to old enough to try the experiment for the instruction of the young. TVi j. nrnnnxd increase of salary of a PnrtinnH nonstable seems more im portant than raising the pay of the President. A louse on the eyebrow looks like a large bird to the near sighted hunter. ' Tt In edifvina- to take note of the drastic Sunday legislation proposed by Senator Abraham, our Jewish brother from Douglas. For retaliation on the Christians" it's all right. Tka TTnlterl RrateH has found a r6- miriniifv Simula way to solve the problem of the trusts. If they can't collect the debts due them, how can they exist? v Uncle Ike Stephenson and Mr. Hop kins carried the primaries all right in their respective states; but that's all they did carry. Glad that hatpin bill didn't pass. There would have been the bother (or fun) of the recall on it. "GOVEMiMCTT BY PEOPLE!" Keen Comment on Effort tp Abolish Representative Government. (Extract from an article. "England and the English; From an American Point of View." In , Scribner's Magazine.) In America, as in other democracies, our mistakes and our political troubles have mostly arisen from a wrong In terpretation of "government by the people." It has never meant, and can never be successful wnen it is interpre ted as meaning, that each individual shall take fan active part in govern ment. This is the catch-penny doc trine, preached from the platform by the demagogue. The real spirit ' of "government by the people" is merely that they should at all times have con trol, and keep control, of their Gov ernors as these Saxons have done. No one would dream of harking back to the primitive days when ev ery man sewed together his own skins for clothes and for foot-wear, made his own hut, caught his own fish, killed each for himself his meat, and picked each for himself his berries, and was his own priest, his own phy sician and his own policeman. We now know that this was waste of time and energy. We find it more convenient, and more conductive to a long life, and a comfortable life, to divide ourselves up into bakers, and butchers, and tail ors, and berry-pickers, and priests, and policemen, and physicians. ,It is only in politics that we grope blindly amongst primitive methods , for a so lution of the problem of government. France with her fantastlo theories, and what proved her horrible fiasco, in fluenced our beginnings, and followed by that have come the Irish with their hatred of England and the English; and the mating of the French philos ophy, and the Irish fact, have turned us aside from, and made us hesitating in, our allegiance to the only form of free government c which has ever been successful in" the world, and which is ours by ancestral right. It must be a poor race which cannot throw up from the mass of men a certain number whose wealth, leisure and ability fit them for the work of governing; Just as others amongst us are best fitted to bake or brew, or teach or preach, or make clothes or hats, or to dig in the fields. To say that every man is fitted to govern is to hark back to the days when every man was his own hunts man, fisherman, cook and cailjr. We have millions in America who are Just learning the alphabet of free government and they are still flattered by political parasites with loud voices and leather larynxes. Our parliaments and assemblies are filled not with the brawn and brains that have made America a great Nation in 50 years, but with the semi-successful, the slip pery and resourceful who live on the people, and by the pople, and for them selves. He is but a mean American who be lieves that this will last. The time ap proaches when . Americans will slough off this hampering political clothing, put upon them by Latin and Celtic parasites, and insist upon being gov erned by the best amongst them, by the wisest amongst them, by the suc cessful amongst them, and not by those whose living is derived by governing others, because they cannot govern themselves. It is not because we are fools that the present condition con tinues, It is because we are weighed down with the responsibilities of nation-making'. We have succeeded com mercially and In all material ;ways mar vellously. In 50 years we have become the rival of the strongest, and the com mercial portent to which every finger in Europe points. Let this same energy be turned upon setting our domestic political affairs in order and the change in government will be as complete, and come as quickly, as in other matters. We have allowed our idlers to govern, with a splendid honor-roll of excep tions, we shall ere long insist that our ablest shall take their places in the good old Saxon way. BY ALL MEANS, SAVE THE SALMON. Two State Demand Laws to Protect Our Supply of Fish Food. PORTLAND, Jan. 31. (To the Editor.) In today's Oregonian comes the news that the Commission appointed by the Legislatures of Oregon and Washington to bring about harmony in the fish laws of the two states have met in Seattle and reached an agreement. The terms are these: Closed season from March 1 to May 1; Fall closed season from August 25 to September 10; Sunday closing; ap propriation of $2500 by each state; boun ties of $2.60 and $5 on seals and sea lions; th reneal of both Initiative fish bills. . The sum and substance of the agree ment is to throw the river wide open to any and all, to do his best to get the last fish that swims In the great river between May 1 and August 25 and be tween September 10 and the following March 1, with a Sunday seal. It is the same "old gag" that has been played like a shuttlecock on the people of Oregon and Washington for the past 40 years; with the result that the great food supply of salmon In the Columbia River has been practically annihilated. This play to kill time and get the fish has been carried to the limit. The people of the two states now de mand that their Legislatures take a hand in the matter and do something in their interest and to save the iish as a future food supply. In this matter we ask that they ignore temporarily the ( ano-ocrol tn tnVlnir fish and turn is,u Lit. o 1 . their whole attention to the welfare of the fish themselves. 10 xnis ena rei me entire gear in the river be divided by r. Tnai1rlv three, for a period of three or four years, and let the rejected gear De storea ana piacou ueuuu ijoo ui T.eA. Ha hhatoI with aDnronriations for hatcheries and nurseries, and keep the young till they are ready for sea, and thus save them from their enemies that v .un in the river bv Gov ernment authority; and in four or five years the harvest will be plentiful, pro portioned to tne goon je buwu. Tt.4.1 r- Dimllnr legislation the oeoole of the two states, yea, of the United States, of the world lor mai mailer, ae mand. The farce of protecting the sal- vAaf tn vwir hT thnflA en- luuu uww J gaged in Its destruction has been played to the limit. If the two-Legislatures can not get down 0 Business in mis matter or get out from under the power of the salmon-catchers, memorialize Congress to take charge of the river and possibly rinnnrnmfint TTiaV BOOll leAm B. tllinK or two, and finally save the fish; other wise, in the failure to adopt one oi tne above alternatives, the people must bid goodbye to the Royal Chinook. w. rx&airikn DAUin. Stone Axe In the Men of '08. Baltimore News. a mnK HtH pnETPr anrl morbid 1ov. watched a man nmder the guillotine, In . . i i i i 1 ...... 1 O France. Again, in ruusuuris, ucemj oww Mn TfolfoT. arA o nflFro nnnnrl each other In the squarred circle, while less than 100 attended a great orchestral per formance, given at the same hour. There's plenty of the Stone Age in man, in spite of the etherealists. ONH GUESS AT TAFT9 CABIXET. Most Difficult Problem Is a Good Man for Secretary of the Treasury. Springfield Republican. It is probable that certain places on Mr. Taffs tentative Cabinet slate, talked over with Senator Knox,' may be held open until the last moment. It is now believed that George von L. Meyer, thanks to the earnest insistence of Senator Lodge, will continue to have a seat at the. next Cabinet table. This is evidently to be the reward for the Massachusetts Senator's labors for Mr. Taft prior to the Chicago gathering, and his brilliant work as presiding officer over the Republican National convention, and might properly be looked on as payment in full. This outcome will greatly please Mr. lodge, no matter if his satisfaction does not widely appeal to Massachusetts folks. The most difficult problem which the coming President has is to find a fit Secretary of the Treasury. Much wisdom will be need,ed there, as things are going, as well as the personality least calculated to offend certain pop ular prejudices. The search for Just the right man in Chicago willing to respond to Mr. Taft's appeal appears to be of doubtful Issue. Ex-Governor Herrlck, of Ohio, was early in Mr. Taffs mind, and, in the failure to find a man more free from the possibility from attack on the ground of alliance with corporate interests, ex-Governor Herrlck may ' be taken. As always, the Paciflo Coast demands ..nn1(An an fh.ra ATA thflSA WhO believe that Richard A. Ballinger, of the State of Washington, ex-iana ora ia liiraiv tn Vi the head of the Interior Department. In view of m 1 T .1ta T7" the acquain tance oi xero. " Wright with Philippine matters his re- ment, for a time at least, would not be surprising. It still iookb i w Tvlnlririn.TYi. of New Tork. might be Attorney-General. A slate which some people are betting on reads as follows: Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, of Pennsvlvanla. . Secretary of the Treasury Myron T. Her rlck. of Ohio. , . . - Secretary of War Luke B. Wright, of Tennessee. , . Attorney-General George E. TVlckersnam. of New York. . Postmaster-General Frank H. Hltcnooclt, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy Georg:e von 1.. Meyer, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Interior Richard A. Bal linger, of Washington. Secretary of Agriculture Janws Wilson, of Iowa. . Secretary of Commerce and lAbor Charlea Nagel, of Missouri. But this is only a guess. Mr. Taft Is noc only keeping his own counsel, but there is warning from him of pains and penalties to be applied to anybody who shall tell that whioh he has learned from the President-elect. CATHOLIC POPI."XATIOIV OF IT. S. Outside of Insular Poaseslons, It Num bers 14,235,151. TKere are 14,235,451 Roman Catholics in the United States, according to the ad vance sheets of the 1909 Wiltztus Offi cial Catholic Directory, published In Milwaukee. The statistics are fur nished by the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States after the taking of a census in all dioceses. Adding to the 14.235,461 the number of Roman Catholics in the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaiian Islands, brings the grand total of Catholics under the United States flag to 22,474.440, as compared with 12053,000 Catholic subjects under the Brit ish Hag. The Catholic population of the 20 leading dioceses in -the United States is as follows: v.- Vork 1,219.950 Chicago ' . ....... . ..I. ' 1.1RO.O0O Tloon 860.000 grookVv":::.v::.vj:::::-.:::.... 700,000 New Orleans E26'S52 Philadelphia 62'S?X Pittsburg - St Louis 176,000 Hartford JM.OOO Newark .......................... Sfio.000 Cleveland" Springfield ,. fjl-iji Detroit -22 Scranton JSS'SXS St. Paul ?5'5?S Baltimore Sun Francisco "J'?!!' S ?iwauk.v :: :: v.v:::v::v:::v:::: : : issiooo 'Providence 222.000 The Ripened Fruit. New Tork Sun. Governor Hughes was unfortunate In the moment. of his last allocution in favor of direct nominations. On the same day Senator Davis, of Arkansas, child of the popular primary and Call-ban-Pantalooru of the Senate, was swishing the "red broom" of his rhe toric, smelling blood and seeing revo lution. A tu'penny demagogue and a zany, projected into the Senate by the de vice which Governor Hughes so sin cerely, so courageously, as we think, so unreasonably admires. The "Low Collared Rooster" of Arkansas is one kind of product of that device. On the same day In the Wisconsin Senate charges were made and sup ported not only by Democrats but by Republicans who are partisans of Sen ator La Follette, the father of the Wis consin primary law, that his colleague. Isaac Stephenson, used large sums of money for the bribery and corruption at the primary elections by which he was nominated for re-election. mi. i,., a r ,1 ignoramus "noDU- lar" Senator from Arkansas; the rich suspect in Wisconsin: does Governor Hughes put away from him such un gracious practical and actual mani festations of the "reform" and dream of direct nominations simply as they appear to his own honorable and aus tere spirit? Fairbanks' Quick Retort. Washington Letter to Boston Trans cript. By common consent, the reception tendered annually by Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks to the Senate and other members of Congress is vo ted the most thoroughably enjoyable social function of the - Winter. The Fairbanks mansion at Seventeenth and K streets is spacious, and possesses an elegance of its own, while the re ception is informal, and fortunate guests invariably come away declar ing "I've had a real good time." . . man irhn attended the reception of 1909 shuffled along the line until he reached the Vice-President and then, shaking the cordial hand of the tall Hoosier statesman, said- "Delighted to be here, Mr. Fair banks. This is my first offense. "And my last," responded the retiring Vice-President smilingly. Selling a Washington, D. C, Guide, Washington (D. C.) Herald. A word left out of an act changes the whole sense of it, at times, and a Joker tacked on, when no one is looking, oft times causes infinite trouble. In the ur gent deficiency act there was a real Joke, and Senator Lodge In his infinite wisdom discovered it- A portion of the act read as follows: "That hereafter, no advertisement, or eny kind should be displaved and no ar ticles of any kindt except a 'guide' to the monument, shall be sold in or around the Washington Monument." Senator Lodge discovered at once that the word "book" was omitted after "guide," and, said he, "you could hardly sell a guide, though they frequently sell the visitor." Hungarian's Moner-Dresm False. Pittsburg. Pa, Dispatch. A Hungarian at South Bethlehem, Pa., dreaming that his money had been stolen by two men, awoke and, rushing wildly to a magistrate's office, had the men committed to Jail. Then he went home and discovered his money in a bedtick, where he. had forgotten he had hidden it Life's SunnySide Dr. H. W. Wiley, the conservator of good food, almost broke up a dinner party on a dining car that is run between Washington and New Tork. The car was well, filled when he en tered, and, seeing that roast Spring chieK en was the headliner on the menu, he or dered it- , , When it was brought on he examined it carefully, and then, calling the waiter to his side, said In a voice that carried throughout the car: "This chicken has been in cold storage eight months, threo weeks, four days and five hours. It has Bonassa umbellas. Take it away." The dining-car conductor took Dr. Wiley's name, reported the Incident to the general superintendent of the dining car service, and an order was subse quently issued that no cold-storage fowls should be served on that railroad. Wash ington Star. e e Somebody sent this to the society edi tor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and made affidavit that it really happened: Here it is: They were out at an after noon card party. A stout woman dropped a card to the floor. "Would you be so kind as to pick up that card for me?"' she Inquired of the little woman yat her right "Certainly," said the accommodating woman at the right, picking up the card. "You see," explained the stout woman, apologetically; "I've got on a brand-new 50 corset, and I'm afraid I'll strain It if I lean over." "Hum!" commented the other woman, enviously. "If I had a $60 corset I'd wear it on the outside. I really would." see "Well," observed Old Man Potts, "I've spent a heap of money on irly boy Bill's education, more'n nine hundred dollars jest to see him through Yale. And I ' ain't through yet. It shorely makes me sore to think of the money I'm wastln' on a boy who ain't got as much, sense now as he had before he went to col lege." "What's the matter, father?" asked Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little hard on Bill." "No, I ain't, Mary," answered the old man. "Jest to show you a little while ago I says to him I thinks it was going to rain tomorrow. What fool answer d'ye suppose he made me?" "I'm sure I don't know, father." "He begged my pardon I" Harper's Weekly. see' Caller (on crutches and with a bandage over one eye) I have come, sir, to make application for the amount due on my accident Insurance policy. I fell down a long flight of stairs the other evening and sustained damages that will disable me for a month to come. Manager of Company Young man. I have taken the trouble to Investigate your case, and I find you are not entitled to anything. It could not be called an acci dent. You certainly knew the yourur lady's father was at home. Stray Stories, see "Talk about luck in golf." remarked Aleck Ross, the former National cham pion, at the Brae Burn Country Club a few days ago, "reminds" me of a match I once lost by what I considered the great est piece of hard luck that ever befell a golfer. "It was when I had first Joined the pro fessional ranks and was playing one of my first big matches. My opponent and I were all even going to the last hole and after making a poor drive I made a good approach and my ball landed about a foot from the cup on the last hole. My oppo nent's drive was good and on his second shot the ball was on the rim of the cup. Just then a rooster was crossing the course and he deliberately stepped on my opponent's ball and knocked it Into the hole, thereby winning the mateh for my opponent." Boston Herald. e Office boy The editor is much obliged to you for allowing him to see your draw ings, but much regrets he is unable to use them. Fair artist (eagerly) Did he say thatT Office boy (truthfully) Well, not exact ly. He Just said: "Take 'em away, Joe; they make me 1111" Stray Stories. e "Tommy," eald the visiting uncle, "seems to me that baby sister of yours Is pretty slow. She hasn't any teeth yet, has she?" "She's got plenty of teeth," replied the indignant Tommy. "She's got a wholi mouthful of teeth, only they ain't hatched yet." Woman's Home Companion. With application1 at home. Suppose We Required What Governor Smith Demands of the Filipinos f PORTLAND, Feb. 1. (To the Editor.) Governor-General James F. Smith to the Philippine Assembly on February 1: "My last word to the Filipinos la that until the great majority, and not a small minority, of the citizens are prepared to make intelligent use of the franchise; un til" democratic usages and customs have permeated throughout the population, and become a part of the dally life of the people; until the power of unconscionable agitators and demagogues is broken; un til education has created a Just public sympathy that specious arguments and false doctrines cannot destroy; until a citizen has not only the power to Judge, but also the courage to act for himself, the best future of the islands lies with the land of the free and the home of hot air." If the above were the requirements for the exercise of the full rights of Ameri can citizenship in these states it would be impossible for the Republican party to make a monumental ass of Itself. There would be no Republican party. J. HENNBSSY MTJRPHT. Dob Drags Boy Off Death Track. South Norwalk (Conn.) Dispatch to the rsew xorK worm. Tt.v, in -ha nnth nf ths Pittsfleld ex press little "Buster" Plunkett, the 3-year- i nt T4Jt a nH Ulra. JAmPfl Pllinkfitt. U1U r j ii ui . - .- abandoned by his little friends, sat cry ing and wltnin a lew mcires oi u, when Irish, a large St. Bernard dog. v,k ..mm -tn Knftv tiist as the ex press whizzed past. "Buster" Is a favorite in his neighborhood ana tne cnuaren strive for the opportunity of drawing him around on nis eiea. nig. liiayiui Irish, owned by John Davis, a neighbor, was frisking around the children as light hearted as they, when in crossing the railroad tracks the sled lodged on the bare ground and the children dropped the rope and ran for home. Irish then went to the rescue. The train was stoned and a purse made up for the boy and dog. How to Land 'Em In Kansas. Atchison Globe, After a man has nibbled, it often re quires a shrewd girl to land him. The trouble seems to be that the girls lt them nibble too long. They should be , landed high and dry at the first bite. The First Snow. Boston Transcript. The clouds had gathered far and wide; The wind, unshackled, free. Went whirling through the realm of apace In wild, exultant (lee. The oaks, majestlo In their strength. Upon their trumpets played: The pines, with their weird, measured sou ads. High In tho darkness swayed. Then came a spirit noiselessly. A radiant, snowy form, In dancing, rhythmlo motion to The muslo of the storm. It tfasced above the craggy cliffs; It danced ahove the sea; The sons of Neptune all upsprung- And Joined the revelry. So paired the night; when moraine- came A silence vast and deep Hun over all. and Nature's soul Lay wrapt Is placid sleep. ( .