THE MORNING OREGONIAX. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1900.
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A MIGHTY PISriTK.
Some heat hits developed at the seat
of the University of Oregon, contention
and rixatlon. because a few ecclesias
tical brethren there are taking them
selves and their notions more seriously
than they ought. A I'roi'essor of Lit
erature in the University, not in his
class work, but in private talks, has
been offering historical and rational
istic views on the origin and credi
bility r.f certain doctrine. as predes
tination and the atonement. His views
accord with those of modern scholar
ship and thought, amonsr all literate
men. in all countries. The offending
professor has been a student and a
thinker. But he offends orthodox opin
ion on the atonement and predestina
tion: especially the doctrine held and
preached by a Presbyterian brother
there. This brother believes that since
his "doxy" is disputed, the foundations
of all religion are endangered. Others
participate in the dispute, and the town
or Eugene Is said to be In a ferment.
But we cannot suppose It to be ser
ious. Apart from the disputants there
Is a remainder of . rational common
sense.
There Is smalL need for the people
about the State University at Eugene,
or for orthodox churchmen there, to
work themselves into heat about the
Christian dogma of the atonement.
That dogma, so far as it yet remains.
Is a continuation of the idea of blood
sacrifice, for propitiation of the deities.
It was an idea prevalent In ancient
Greece and in ancient Israel. It passed
on into Christianity, and the doctrine
of "the atonement" Is a survival of it.
The historical development of this Idea
from Its earliest known beglnnlnjs. Is
followed by the students of religion
through a vast range of history, down
to the present time. The Oregonian
has no-wish to wound the faith of
any; but, since occasion arises, it must
say that the conception and doctrine
.,,M .hanfHnw or A I tAn DeaflnZ
now. It is not sudden, either. The
change has been going on, witL accel
erated speed, these many centuries.
Protestantism itself, In its innumerable
variations. Is nothing more nor less
than an expression of it. These doc
trlnen, first and last, are merely human
speculations and opinions; not absolute
truths.
- Again, the doctrine of predestina
tion; question about which seems to the
biother at Eugene nothing less than an
attack on religion itself. Its roots lie
in the oldest notions about the origin
and destiny ot man, when the human
race reasoned from a muoh narrower
basis than now. As a doctrine of
Christlanlt;-, :. springs from disputes
Jn the early church, over scriptural
texts, between the disciples of Augus
tine and those of Pelagius. fifteen cen
turies ago. It involves the fierce fight
between the doctrine of grace and the
doctrine of free will; - the records of
which arte now In the lumber garrets.
of theological literature. Brother
Mount, of the Presbyterian Church at
Kugene, has been educated on one side
of the controversy only. He shuts his
mind against the other. It is merely
a logomachy. This Immensely long
doctrinal dispute involves many of the
differences between Protestant sects;
it distinguishes the Presbyterian from
the Methodist, and inrages past dis
turbed and racked Roman Catholic
cclesiastlci&m. Predestination lay at
the base of the Calvlnlst creed. Abso
lutely it "cuts out human free will and
practically limits even divine power.
Here, also, was the basis of the dis
pute . between the Jesuit doctors at
Paris and the Jansenlsts, which gave
rise to the Provincial Letters of Pascal,
the r.-ost brilliant controversial essays
in the whole history of literature. The
questions ralfd In the dispute are
insoluble. They deal with the mya
ttries of mind and its author; and how
can man, by searching," find out God?
3ut there is a Jtlnd of comfort' in
foreordlnatlon and' predestination and
limitation of the uman will. The sys
tem gives some of us the comfortable
hope that through foreordlnatlon and
predestination we shall be among
. the elect; and the equally or even
more comfortable hope that our ene
mies, or those 'whom we don't
like, will, by the same law, be
. lkAH Annrr. Thus
even the Westminster Catechism may
be a comfort to those who accept it.
Dame carried the Idea so far as to put
into hell many of his enemies even be
fore they were dead.
Milton Imagined that the devils, at
their councils In Pandemonium, were
debating these various questions of
foreknowledge and predestination and
free will and fate. The passage la too
long for quotation, but see "Paradise
Lost," II, 606. seq.; especially 6T55 to
569. - All that has been said on the
subject, or ever can be said on It, Is
presented there. It was perhaps fit
exercise for the "Infernal peers"; and
It Is not worth 'the "while of wiser,mor-
tals to debate It, at the University of
Oregon. "and find no end In wander
ing mazes lost," or for the church
brethren at Eugene to make pother
about it. It la one of the hits that
great literature makes when it pre
sents this sophistry as fit exercise for
the fallen angels.
Four big tramp steamships, the TJt
gard. Christian Bora, Puritan and
Taunton, have arrived at Portland. In
ballast, from Puget Sound -ports with
in the past fortnight, ana two others,
the Tltanla and Walkure, came here
in ballast fromv San Francisco. This
sextette of big' freighters will carry
foreign -more than 40,000 tons of
wheat and lumber. These vessels
steamed away from San Franclago and
Puget Sound In ballast for no other
reason than that they could not obtain
cargo at those points. In response
to the same economic Impulse, they
came to Portland because cargo la
available at this port. ' There is noth
ing new in the commercial principle
that sends the ship to the cargo, in
stead of making an unnecessary land
haul in taking the cargo to the ship.
The principle is as old as trade itself
but it Is overlooked occasionally , by
some other ports which at times dem
onstrate to their own satisfaction that
Portland never can become a great
seaport.
THK "RKrAIA" 11SAiCK.
One of the most abominable nuisan
ces of "the new system" in Oregon is
the invocation of "the recall." It is
proposed by every little group of
crank and malcontents, in every
couruy and town. In Baker there Is
n rnnfrArpmV about the laying of a
pipe line, for water supply. A narrow-
minded person who oDjeets oecauae n
is not laid Just where he wants It, cir
culates a petition for "recall" of the
Major. In Portland, the like thing
i. n-nnnaod hv a small bunch of per
sons whoso criticism Ignores all the
facts in the cape. At. &t. jonn an oi
1..I..T i- t.v Ka rwnllerl hecause some
body doesn't like the V-ourse he has
taken on some kind of village propo7
sltion, vaguely defined.
in te where there are frequent
elections for most officials the term is
,., tmrn vu t ha "recall" established
by Jaw, Is frequent enough. If the peo
ple ore dtssatisnea wnn uw nniwuu
they reed not re-elect him. The "re"
-ii " it is found. Is not a corrective
measure. It is an instrument simply
of mrn malice or Dettv solte. Besides,
the recall never will catch the man
It ought to catch. He will cover nis
tracks; and probably, though a wrong
doer in office, will hear his praises
sounded by a large population at his
heels.
BCSCOMBK TALK ABOUT DISFBAJf-
(HISD1ESI.
"WnnM The Oreironian have a man
disfranchised tetause he claJms non
nfTlllatlon with anv political party In
the State of Washington? Such Is the
argument of that Journal." mis rrom
the Olympia Standard, a Democratic
nnwKnaner. interested, like all Journals
of Democratic politics, or of no poli
tics. In disconcerting, disorganizing and
humiliating the Kepuoncan party.
'. The Oregonian has not offered any
argument that the voter who declines
to affiliate with a political party should
be disfranchised. It has said, and
It says once more, that the voter who
declines to announce his affiliation
with any" political party should not be
privileged to vote at a party primary,
unless indeed 'it might be a primary
mo Ho nn of nolitical nondescripts.
straddlers and eunuchs like himself.
Will the Olympia Standard assert
that the voter who belongs to no
party, or who declines to regls
tar m a. member of any partic
ular party, should be permitted
to vote at a Republican or Demo
cratic, or any other primary, as he
elects? Yet that is precisely what the
Standard would give him the option of
doing. What Is the use or holding a
Republican primary, for example, if
others than" Renubllcans may demand.
rscelvA and vote . Republican, ballots?
It becomes, then, not a Republican prl-
mary, but a political tree-ior-aii, a
promiscuous scramble and variegated
round-up of the members or every
kind and description of party.
Reniihllrans onlv should enter and
participate In a Republican party.
Democrats in a Democratic primary,
and so on. It is disingenuous and die
honest to complain about "disfran
chisement." The voter who belongs
to no party may vote at any general
eloctinn. Ttrovlded ha is a citizen. Does
the Standard o'bjeot to the requirement
of law that all voters snail prove, it
necessary, that they are American citi
zens, and have certain other qualifica
tions as to sex and residence?
CAP. COLUER CP TO DATE.
On August 7, 1909, Collier's Weekly,
In a discussion of Pacific Coast trans
portation faoilltles and rates, made the
unqualified statement that "the American-Hawaiian
. (Steamship) Company
does not touch at any ports which have
Southern Pacific terminals." The state
ment was made for the purpose of sup
porting the Collier theory that there
was no real water competition at Pa
cific Coast ports. Knowing the disin
clination of capital to seek investment
In a region where transportation com
petition was non-existent. The Orego
nian called attention to the falsehood
and showed that the vessels of the
American-Hawaiian line not only touch
at every point on the Paclilc Coast
where the Southern Pacific has termin
als, but that they carry freight from
Neyr York to Portland, Seattle, Ta
eoma, San Francisco, San Dlego;and
San Pedro at less than half the rates
charged by the railroads.
With the evidence, presented any
honest Journal would have corrected
the nisstatement. Correction, how
ever, -would have necessarily developed
the fact that the Pacific Coast has an
excellent water transportation service,
and that we are not at the mercy of
the railroads. It would also have nulli
fied any effect the original falsehood
might have had In frightening capital
away from the Pactfic Coast. Accord
ingly, on September II this juccessor
of the Old Cap Collier series of yellow
backed dime novels by evasion, quibble,
distortion and general misrepresenta
tion, pretended that its language had
been misconstrued, although It care
fully refrained from reprinting the di
rect charge it had. made in the issue
of August 7. Incidentally the yellow
backed fiction publisher accused The
Oregonian of -"concerning itself fre
quently with a defense of the rail
roads." '
As It was in defense of the Paciflo
Coast and our industries that The Ore
gonian objected to the original false
hood, the exact language used by Col
lier's in presenting the damaging state-
, ment was reprinted, and a correction
again requested. But lying, deception
and evasion have become to such a
great extent a part of the fixed policy
of Collier's that it Is useless to expect
It to acknowledge the wrong, for In Its
issue of October 23 it again refers to
the subject, this time shifting its posi
tion by asserting that the original mis
statement was made while "having in
mind the efforts of the Gulf ports to
secure water competition between
these ports and the Paciflo Coast."
Collier's Is so disingenuous in Its lying,
however, that It follows this statement
with the remark that "If The Orego
nian would devote more space to the
complaints of the Pacific Coast ehtp-
' pers, our efforts would gladly be
pared-
The Pacific Coast shippers never use
water competition for freight which
originates hundreds of miles north of
the Gulf ports 'and which could not b
shipped from those ports except after
a long railroad haul to the Gulf. The
Pacific Coast shippers are not interest
ed in the situation at Gulf ports, and
Collier's gave the Gulf ports no consid
eration in Its initial attack on the Pa
cific Coast. They are taken up now
as "cover" toward which Collier's scur
ries In an attempt, to avoid exposure.
The next explanation offered for the
original offense will be that the Collier
writer had in mind Antarctic. Ocean
ports.
CI.KAKING FINANCIAL ATMOSPHERE.
The predicted advance In the Ger
man bank rate faile'd to materialize
yesterday, and American stocks In
London as in New York, opened up
firm and higher. This encouraging
change in the situation was undoubt
edly due to the highly favorable New
York bank statement last Saturday.
While the situation may be'less serious
In this country than England seems to
think it Is, Wall street has at last be
gun to shorten sail, and is now appar
ently pretty well "snugged down" for
any kind of weather that might hap
pen to blow over the ocean. . The sur
plus reserve, which on October 9 had
dwindled to the lowest point reached
since 1907 last week went up with a
rush to the highest point reached since
the last week in August, when money
was a glut on the market at home and
abroad.
Experience Is an expensive teacher,
but her lessons are not soon forgotten,
and the recollection of what happened
in the closing days of 1907 has un
doubtedly been the means of prevent
ing a repetition of that financial cata
clysm. It was more of a shortage of
confidence than a shortage of money
that caused the 1907 panic. The
American financiers, by shortening
thein loans and Increasing the cash
reserves, can inspire confidence. The
timid man who is first to draw his
mqney out of the bank usually has the
least use fof It, and the Inclination to
withdraw. It vanishes with the assur
ance that the money Is actually there
at his command. The extent to which
the clearing-house banks of New York
have guarded against possible trouble
is shown by comparison of loans for
the week ending October 24. This
year the figures .were $1,234,696,700,
and for the same date last year they
were 31,339.168,500.
It Is thus apparent that with in
creased activity In all lines of trade
and an increasing demand for capital
for financing new urHJertakings, the
New York clearing-house banks have"
actually reduced their loans more than
1100, 000, 000- as compared with last
year. Similar precaution has. un
doubtedly been taken by other financial
institutions throughout the country. In
deed, our local banks are no excep
tion to the rules. An officer of one of
these Institutions, In discussing the sit
uation a few days ago,, said: "I am
almost ashamed to Jell you how much
money we have stored away here, for
it is certainly not 'good banking' in
the generally accepted sense of the
term;' but we do not propose to get
caught again as we iwere two years
ago." -
So long as this feeling of caution
prevails there ' is small liability of
financial trouble In this country. With
jthe marketing of our big crops at high
prices there will soon be so much
money available that healthy loan ex
pansion will again be in evidence.
THK TAMMANY SLATE TRADE.
The responsible statements published
in the November McClure's will make
it clearer than it has ever 'been before
why the whole country is interested in
the fight against Tammany. As long
as this vile gang of slum politicians
confined their operations to New York,
other cities looked on with interest and
amazement, but not with" fear. If
New York chose to be governed by its
criminals, we wondered at its taste,
but we apprehended no similar fate
for ourselves. The present campaign
against Tammany arouses a new and
different set of emotions throughout
the country, for the disease which once
seemed to be strictly localized has
spread far and wide. New York is
now far fromi being the only city In
the United States which Is governed
by its criminals. There are others,
many others. Indeed, unless . the
writers In IJcClure's are badly mis
taken, that kind of government Is now
the rule In this country. Every citi
zen, therefore, ho matter where he
lives is deeply concerned to understand
the methods whereby Tammany
thrives and to study the efforts now
making In New York to destroy Its
power.
Wherever government by criminals
exists, it is identical In purpose and
methods. The purpose Is to obtain all
the money possible by theft of public
funds, by waste, extortionate taxation
and neglect of the people's health and
comfort. The method ofi criminal, or
Tammany, government, is to hold and
exercise power by protecting vice and
crime. In every large city of America
this is done to a degree. One city has
little of it, another a great deal. AU.
have too much of it. But in "New
York - criminal government, which is
Tammany, or Democratic, government,
has prevailed so long and with' inter
ruptions y bo rare and brief that its
workings have been systematized fet
ter than anywhere else. Its basic hold
upon power comes from the loyal serv
ices of a gang of toughs who are ready
to do anything Tammany asks of them.
O course they cannot be expected
to work. Money for their daily bread
and to spend on vice is the reward of
their services. How can Tammany
procure it for them without diminish
ing its own revenues? Nay, how can
Tammany manage to pay its Infamous
mercenaries and grow rich in doing it?
This Is a perplexing problem, but
Tammany has solved It. The solution
lies In the white slave traffic. The
most efficient workers Tammany owns
in the underworld are the cadets, as
they are called. It seems a pity to
devote a word which once was decent
to a use so vile, but that fate befalls
words once in a while, as It does men.
The cadet is a -youth, likeythe Parisian
maquereau, who lives upon the wages
of one or more women whom he has
ruined. To add to his income. 'he has
also built up a profitable export trade
In girls. He ships them from New
York to Philadelphia. Pittsburg. Chi
cago arid to fooelgn parts as distant as
Australia and South Africa. His vic
tims are the daughters of 'the poor.
Many of them are Jewish girls from
the East Side. Much the' larger pro
portion seem to 'be domestic servants.
The business" of seduction has Been
thoroughly systematized and reduced
to all the certainty of trust methods.
It is carried on in dance halls, owned
and conducted byTammany magnates.
Here the cadet is given every facility
for' plying his trade. In the dens
known as Raines-law hotels, he Is even
provided with an apartment where the
girl recovers from the effect of her
drugged drink to find herself in his
power. She Is then either let out to
customers or sold to some Tammany
capitalist who conducts a lagnlo. The
average price Is 50.
The cadets could not pursue their
business without political protection.
Tammany gives them that in return for
thefr services as workers. They are
very efficient, both In political .plot
ting and in slugging,, repeating and
hustling at the polls.
With eulogy well befitting the promi
nent part that she had borne in social
and charitable lines, and of her quiet
walk in womanly ways in this com
munity for more than fifty-five years,
the obsequies of the late Caroline Ames
Ladd were observed in the First Pres
byterian Church yesterday. Her span
outran the limit of four-score years
allotted to human life,, but, except as
she was regarded with increased af
fection and veneration year aSter year,
Mrs. Ladd was not regarded as old by
those who were associated with her in
her domestic, social or charitable life.
A woman of fine intuitions, good Judg
ment and excellent executive ability,
she was for many years an active and
efficient worker in the organized chari
ties of the city, and especially with the
missionary policy of the First Presby
terian Church. Favored by fortune,
she was a generous almoner; .favored
by nature, she was a -faithful wife, an
affectionate mother, a loyal friend. She
will be missed.
A Weston, Oregon, dispatch In yes
terday's Oregonian says that Perry
Beathe was shot in the shoulder by.
J. 1ST. Klein at 1:30 Sunday morning.
Further particulars inform us that
"Beathe, who had been drinking,
abused Klein, who ordered him out of
the hotel office." Weston is one of
the most prominent country towns in
Umatilla County, which went "dry"
at the last election. The incident men
tioned, like many others of a similar
nature, would hardly indicate that the
whisky drunk In a "dry" county has
any marked peculiarities over that
which is available in the -"wet" dis
tricts. It seems to have the same ef
fect, whether drunk according to law
or by the "blind-pig, or boot-leg sys
tem. Of Justice Peckham, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, whose sud
den death last Sunday is Justly de
plored, it is said: "His chief distinc
tion was that he devoted his time ex
clusively to the duties of the court. He
accepted np outside appointments, and
undertook no work not connected with
his high office." Truly a record worthy
of emulation, and, under conditions
that prevail throughout our Judicial
system, a record that Is remarkable.
Needless to say, the pasing of Justice
Peckham is a distinct loss to-our Juris
prudence. A fruitgrower in Coos County raises
strawberries for the market the year
round. ' Some of these berries are so
large that three will be enough for one
person for dessert. White this will de
pend somewhat upon the capacity of
the guest and the generosity of the
hostess, it Is a gooTstory, nevertheless,
and true enough to entitle Coos County
to immediate connection with the out
side world by tail. . Moreover, soil and
climate that produce such strawber
ries the year round can furnish prod
acts in other lines in quality and abun
dance, for which the world Is waiting.
President Toft is on his way down
the Mississippi from St. Louis to New
Orleans. Since he Is no way a hasty
or boisterous man, he probably will
have good luck. When . President
Roosevelt was making this Journey
the eagerness of other1 river, craft to
meet his steamer caused one of them
to bump into the boat that carried
the President, and there was a scene
over it. Roosevelt ordered the cap
tains' and pilots' "branches" to be sus
pended. They- may have been re
stored since. But Roosevelt was very
angry.
State School Superintendent Acker
man's report shows that the aver
age monthly salary paid rural teachers
In 1909 was $50.15, compared wjth
349.60 in 1908. Let us hope that the
teachers made proper use of that ad
ditional 65 cents per month. Such
heavy advances might have a tendency
to provoke extravagance.
Tley have found an Ideal husband
In Chicago. There must be another
somewhere. Possibly the testimony of
Mrs. Chljberg, whose husband by mis
take threw away her diamonds, would
be pertinent, f .
Besides starting a run on a rival
bank If credible testimony Is correct
President Moore and cashier Morris
enjoyed a little private inside run. on
their own bank. It was easy money
for a wMle. .
Democrats of Oregon make their
nominations in a closed room, but
want Republicans to make theirs In a
rabble nrlmarv. Hence the Demo
cratic howl against Republican conven
tion.
If, as the State Board of Health,
avers, it has recently Improved Port
land's milk and saved babies' lives,
what Is It going to do, for the babies
that died when it was'doing nothing?
Oregon is the greatest apple country
in the world and has greatest fame;
and yet apples are so high In Oregon
that few can afford to eat them.
Instead of howling at one another's
lax enforcement of milk laws, wouldn't
It be more to the point for each health
official to "get busy" himself 7
A Coos County man, mistaking an
othe for a skunk, shot him. A-man
who thinks that of any .neighbor should
never go gunning for skunks.
The two young men who playfully
held up a friend at the pistol's point
have been fined $200 each. The fun
wasn't worth the money.
- Marjorie Gould wants no nobleman
husband. Shehas learned more of the
tribe than the next rich eligible In line,
Katy Elklns.
President Taft is so hoarse he can
not talk; yet there are men who" weigh
less than 100 whose voices never wear
out.' ' .
Now we. know the real origin of the
celebrated .phrase, "Cook with gas."
Some Plain Facta In Place of Famllrar
Fsisehooda
Chlcagro Inter-Ocean-
A recent addition to the ranks of the
uplift magazines Signalizes Its entrance
into the sphere of superflclalty and
suparfluousness by declaring that the
large newspapers of the country are
owned by the great industrial interests
and hence have .no minds of their own.
The charge is by no means unfamil
iar. The other 10-cent monthlies pro
claimed this long before this new re
cruit to the cause made Its bid for busi
ness. And long after t has faded
away similar publications, equally
eager to make proclamation of their
Own virtue, will doubtles be found do
ing the same thing-
But what of the charge Hself?
Couohed in terms that strike at large
newspapers in general and at no news
paper in particular. It Is a wonderful
compound of the haziness which may
hope to escape contradiction and the
substance which is calculated to do in
Jury. It has the safe generality of the
statement, "All men are liars." Its
constant reiteration is apparently re
lied on as a substitute for specific
charges and evidence.
Now, we hold no brief tV defend
newspaper editors and owners in gen
eral. . .There are good editors and bad
ones, good owners and bad ones just
as there are good and bad in every
other profession. But we do not hesi
tate to say that the general charge that
most or even many large newspapers
are owned outside oftheir offices is a
lie of the first water, and any man in a
large city may readily find that this
is so either by simply looking about
him or by talking with some one who
boasts a reasonable degree of Informa
tion on the subject.
Take Chicago, for instance. It Is ex
tremely easy even for a stranger to find
who owns every newspaper in this city.
And he will find that the owners are
their editors or publishers, that is, the
men who direct their policies. The pol
icy may be wise or unwise selfish or
unselfish, but whatever it may be, it
comes right from the office of that
newspaper. The final word rests with
the editor or publisher, and that final
word is spoken by him alone.
What is true in Chicago is, we be
lieve, substantially true elsewhere. We
know it to be true of New York.' Mr.
Pulitzer owns the World, Mr. Hearst
owns the American, James Gordon Ben
nett owns the Herald, for instance, just
as much as a man owns the house over
his head. There is no mystery about
It. How any of these men discharges
his responsibility Is not the question.
That he has liberty to discharge it as
he will Is the main point.
IS LIVEIUOlS TRADE LESS
Bow ,Will the Tfew Steanmhlp Ports
Effect It?,
From Daily Consular and Trade Reports.
That certain steamers of two great lines
sailing between Liverpool and New York
have within the last few weeks Included
Holyhead and Fishguard, two Welsh
ports, as places of call for landing pas
sengers and malls has provoked no lit
tle comment as to- the effect of such a
departure on the welfare of this port.
Probably no one in Liverpool Is bettef
equippped to offer an opinion on this
question than the chairman (who has
served in' such a capacity for many years)
of the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board,
which controls the workings of the port
Chairman Robert Gladstone sees in the
Increase of facilities for the handling of
the mail and passengers at these two
Welsh ports an attraction that will draw
into them vessels that would otherwise
go to Channel ports, and as the big
steamers that call at Holyhead and Fish
guard come on to Liverpool, thus the fur
ther prosperity ot Liverpool will be con
tributed to, for It is not by the landing
of the passengers who Immediately board
an OHtgoing train that Liverpool derives
advantages, but by the steamers and car
goes. .
Mr. Gladstone states that since the
opening of the Riverside Railway station
at the Liverpool landing stage of the At
lantio lines an accurate account has been
kept of all the passengers o arriving
and of their destination, so as to make
a list of those who go on to London di
rect without staying at, all in Liverpool
and those who remain here for a longer
or shorter time and proceed to other
places. These figures. vshow that about
one-third of the passer i?rs from America
have gone on direct to London and those
are the passengers who will land at Fish
guard and -Holyhead.
Since July 1 there has been an Increase
in the combined Inward and outward
tonnage of this port of 100,000 tons, whii"i
does not indidcate that the trad' of Liv
erpool is diminishing.
The passengers arriving and. departing
in 1308 at the live principal British ports
engaged in this traffic between the United
States. Australia. Africa and India (Con
tinental traffic not Included) show that
at the port of Queenstown there were
25.000 passengers Inward and 19,000 out
ward; at Glasgow, 29,000 inward and, 22.0"10
outward; at London, 43.000 inward and
30,000 outward; at Southampton, 61,000 in
ward and 72,000 'outward, while at Liver
pool there 'were 212,000 inward and 172.000
outward, or greater than the other four
Important ports combined. It Is reason
able to assume that the high prestige of
the port of Liverpool is not in danger.
A Woman, Keeper of n Secret.
s Indianapolis News.
They were discussing that old, old
accusation against woman that she
cannot keep a secret. The late Mary
S. Anthony had listened attentively to
the discussion;, then at last she said:
"A woman caii keep an important se
cret as well as a man. The secrets
she reveals are slight and harmless
ones, such as. any man would reveal.
Where is the woman who ever, tells a
secret, that reflects on her husband or
her own children? I know a man ho
one day refused to tell his wife the
outcome of a business transaction, In
which quite naturally she took a deep
interest. "No,' he sneered when she
asked about it. "I won't tell you. If
I did you would repeat It. You women
make me tired; you cannever keep
a secret!" 'Roger, old fellow,' replied
the wife In quiet, even tones, 'have I
ever told the secret about the solitaire
engagement ring you gave me' 18 years
ago being paste? And then he told
her all about that- business transac
tion, and he did not omit a single, tiny
detail, either."
' The Polite Conductor. -
Manchester Guardian.
I heard a pleasant story today which
was told to Illustrate the softening effects
of a fashionable thoroughfare upon the
manners of bus conductors, or rather
upon their sense of correctness. A lady,
the wife of an eminent surgeon, hap
pened to be the sole occupant of a horse
bus that was slowly climbing the Picca
dilly Hill. A motor bus passed, and the
conductor of it saw tit to indulge in
pointed and Ill-timed pleasantry. The
conductor of the horse bus made no effort
to reply, and the lady, to assuage his
feelings as he rather 'savagely punched
her ticket, said: "He seems to have
the gift of the gab." The reply was:
Yes, ma'am, as you vulgarly puts it, he
do." v
Americans tn Mexico.
Denver Republican.
t In the last decade, ever since the be
ginning of President Porfirlo Diaz' won
derful administration of affairs, Mexico
and the United States have become united
in the firmest of ties. Thousands of
Americans have turned to Mexico as a
field of business, and that country has
felt the impetus of American minds and
American methods. Had not these Ameri
cana felt that stable business conditions
today. ,
DR. COOK'S PLAY FOR DELAY.
Why Doeant He Endeavor Now to Clear
HI Uood nine f
New York Evening Post.
It may seem a little hard-hearted to
be unmoved by Doctor Cook's gallant
offer to make a new ascent of Mount
McKinley, accompajii.ed by as many of
his detractors as choose to gowith him.
and show them the. metal case he de
posited at the summit. When that has
been done, to be sure, there will be noth
ing more to say, except to make profound
apologies to the doctor for the unfounded
suspicions under which he had suffered.
But, 'unfortunately, in this case time is
of the essence of the matter. Many
months must pass before that test is put
into force; and, however simple-minded
and unsuspecting Doctor Cook may him
self be, he must by this time -be perfectly
aware that the world at large has the
strongest kind of suspicion that he is
putting off in every possible way the day
of reckoning, and that therefore this new
move is not an improvement on. but only
a continuation of, the tactics Which have
looked so questionable hitherto. What is
wanted is an immediate production of all
his memoranda before a competent and
impartial committee, and an opportunity
for that committee to make whatever
Inquiries It deems proper of Doctor Cook j
in person. .
And now In a dispatch from Copenhagen
we leaxn that the rector of the University
of Copenhagen, though reaffirming his be
lief in Doctor Cook's Polar achievement,
goes on to say: "Nevertheless, we can
not understand why Doctor Cook -cannot
send us the observations he 'made at the
North Pole before two months." neither
can anybody else. There is one explana
tion, to be sure that he prefers to go
about the country raking in the shekels
instead of clearrng his good name. There
is nothing in the new Mount McKinley
proposal to weaken the hypothesis that
what he Is after is to keep the ball roll
ing long enough 'to make a handsome
"pile" and after that the deluge.
Alaska Still -Behind.
New York Evening Post.
President Taft's decision that Alaska
Is not yet fit for self-government came
simultaneously with a telegraphic ap
peal from the leading editors and
mayors in Alaska begging him to
recommend to Congress an elective leg
islature' for this distant territory. The
President feels, however, that Alaska,
because of the shifting character of its
population, is not entitled to a legis
lature, but Is willing to recommend that
It have the commission form of gov
ernment, similar to that in the Philip
pines. This Is a singular doctrine from
an American President, however wise It
may be. Alaska Is tired of being ruled
by an Indifferent Congress thousands of
miles away. -It believes Us whole de
velopment retarded thereby. It wants
taxation with representation, and ntw
it hears from Mr. Taft that what is
good enough for the Filipino we hate
and despise, is good enough for Its
citizens! This will hardly make Mr.
Taft any more popular in Alaska. Those
who think vsuperficlally about the
Philippines, feel that It is all right for
them to be governed by an upper house
composed of Presidential appointees.
But at Teast the Filipinos have their
lower house. Is Alaska not even to
have that? Mr. Hitchcock had better
look at once to the Republican dele
gates from that territory.
A Don't you think I am fortunate in
having such a talented mother-in-law?
She has written some brilliant songs
Without words.
1 B Incredible. The Fatherland.
A very old negro, rolling the whites
of his eyes at the hurrying business
men, shuffled deferentially Into the
banker's pfflce. It was the farmhand
who had been left In charge of the rich
man's country place.
He reached a place near his employ
er's chair and waited to be noticed, but
owing to the press of business callers
nobody paid the slightest attention to
him. ,
Becoming desperate at last, the
colored man thrust himself boldly- for
ward and said In a stage whisper:
"Miatah Van hey, you Mistah Van I
Please, suh, come out yondah in de hall.
I came clah in 'f'om de" country f oh, to
see you, suh." .
It was very impressive. "
Hesitating a monient. the banker
turned to the line oT emissaries from
various magnates who were besieging
him and asked to be excused for a brief
moment.
Then he hurried to the corridor in
pursuit of the colored man.
"What is this, uncle?" dennded the
banker. "Speak quickly. Anything
happened?"
"Yassuh yassuhl De new cross-bred
pullet at the fahm hab laid a'aig, suh!"
New York Telegraph.
, Back at the (Reach.
Brooklyn Standard Union.
The president df a New Jersey leather
company, who has gone back to the bench
at which he worked 30 years ago In order to
hold his contract, now that the concern,
has been swallowed up by the trust, ought
to be happy. There are three reasons why
he should not be in a troubled state of
mind. The first and foremost one is that
his jfiO.OOO salary, which' was paid him as
chief officer of the company he headed, Is
being continued by the trust, which has
not the power to break the contract so
long as he obeys orders. There are per
haps many men working in the same de
partment who are contented with from
$1000 to S1600 a year.' A second considera
tion that will not be lost upon the man, if
he has the riglit kind fof mind, and he
seems to, is that after all these years of
administrative work he has the health
and strength to pick up the tools of three
decades ago and wield them for eight
hours a day. How many other leather
company presidents, or presidents of . any
kind, could do that? .The third reason
why the depose man should not grieve is
that he .has a trade, and can demonstrate
that merit had a great' deal to do with
his success. No, the deposed president
has much to be thankful for and nothing
to be ashamed of.
Britain's Cry for a Conatlration.
A written constitution is no longer dis
missed in Great Britain as- a "foreign
notion" unworthy of Imitation. The ex
pediency of expressing powers that rest
on "usage" in "an organic law of ha
realm Is seriously discussed. The affirm
ative argument is "typified by the West
minster Gazette, which editorially re
marks, apropos the coming general elec
tion: Whan the question is once raised, there
la but one way of safety which we be
lieve, the public will take, and that is to
decide at once In the moat decisive manner
that they mean - the Commons to be su
preme. 13ut let it not be forsotten that the
rejection of the budget will mean that the
unwritten constitution has broken down,
and from that moment we shall have to
set to work to provide ourselves with a
written constitution which will Rive the ex
isting customs the force o law.
. m i
Farm Work In Moving Pictures.
Ithaca, N. Y.. Dispatch. .
In connection with the New York State
Department ' of Agriculture, the United
States Department of Agriculture is ar
ranging to give a series of moving-picture
demonstrations of how to conduct a
poultry farm. 1
Moving pictures were taken of the poul
try course students at work at the vari
ous poultry houses, feeders. Incubators
and' machines, and a panorama of the
sentire college poultry farm, with Its
thousands of fowls of all kinds, was
made.
It is believed that they will be of es
pecial educational value at county and
state fairs.
Life's SunnySide
l;uv. Danjcl Isaacs once alights at an
inn to stay the night. . On asking for a
bed he was told he could not have one,
as there was to be a ball that evening
and all the beds were engaged. I
"At what time docs the ball break up?"
asked Mr. Isaacs.
"About 3 in the morning, sir."
"Well, then, can 1 have a bed until
that time?"
"Yes, certainly; but if the bod Is asked
for you will have' to remove."
"Very well,' replied Mr. Isaacs, and
away he went to get N-tween the sheets.
About 3 o'clock in the morning he wa
awakened by loud knocking at his cham
ber door.
"What do you want?" he asked.
"How many of you are therein there?"
inquired a voice.' "
"There's me, and Daniel and Mr. Isaacs
and an old Methodist preacher," was the
reply.
"Then there's plenty of you." And the
speaker passed on. .leaving Mr. Isaacs to
enjoy his bed. Cleveland Leader.
When the stritiged band, hidden behind
the roso and carnation .screen in Mrs.
Poole's dining-room, began, tho daughter
of the house turned hopefully to the
young and .apparently dumb stranger,
who had Aeen' told to taJte her in.
Here was a promising opening for con
versation. "Do you like Meyerbeer?" she asked.
"I never drank a glass of those lagers
In my life," the young man replied cold-
ly. Youth's Companion.
,
The new and very stringent prohibitory
law-which goes Into effect in KanFas has
revived an old story on the subject. A
stranger went into a Kansas drugstore
and asked for eome whisky. .
"I can't sell you any whisky," said the
drugfrist.
"But I'm sick," persisted the stranger.
'That won't help any," replied the drug
gist.' "It don't make any difference. 1
can't sell you any whisky for being
sick."
"Well, what can you sell It to me for?"
asked th6 stranger.
'The only thing we can sell whisky for
In this town," said the druggist, "is for
snake bites. Hold up, now, don't ask me
where to get bitten. No use. There Is
only one snake in town, and he is en
gaged for three weeks ahead."
Irvln Brelln, the author of "My Wife's
Gone to the Country," said at a recent
dinner in New York:
' "A true happening was the inspiration
of this song. In July a Brooklyn woman
set out for Ocean Grove, and on her ar
rival discovered that her watch, a small
affair, was missing. She thought it had
probably dropped on the thick, 6oft dining-room
rug, so she wired to the maid
at. Home:
" 'Let me know if you find anything on
rug In .dining-room.'
"A few days later she got frot-q the
maid a letter saying:
" 'Dear Madam: I was to lert you know
if I toimd anything on the dining-room
rug. This Is what I found this morning:
Three cigarette ends, four blue chips, 36
burned matches and one pink satin slip
per." " Washington Star.
. a a
"Haven't you anything to confess-to me
before it Is too late?" she asked. "Re
member that it will be much better for
us to part even now than it will be after
tomorrow. Think. Isn't there In your
past something that you have hidden from
me? Don't be afraid to confess it. I will
forgive you If it is not too terrible, and
thon we can begin our married life with
no shadow to darken the pathway before
us."
"Welh Bessie," he replied, as he avoid
ed looking Into her eyes, "there Is some
thing. I am going to throw myself upon
your mercy. Don't judge me too severe
ly. Have pity. I once carried on a stamp
flirtation with a girl for two months."
Chicago Record-Herald.
.
David H. Lane, the Republican leader
of Philadelphia, was telling stories at a
Republican banquet.
- "And it is always a mistake," said Mr.
Lane, "to mix politics and religion poli
tics and prayer. -
"There was a preacher out, Clnnamln
son way who mixed politics and prayer to
his coat. He prayed on the eve of a gen
eral election:
" 'Grant, O Lord, that the great Reform
party may all hang together.'.
" 'Amen!' cried a scoffer.
" 'Not, O Lord.' resumed the preacher,
'In the sense In which that profane scoff
er would have It understood; but let the
party, hang together In accord and con
cord." " 'If s all one to me,' the scoffer again
interrupted, "what cord it Is, so long as
it's a good, strong one.' "Detroit Free
Press.
a
Rev. F. S. Wicks, of All Souls Unitarian
Church, told a good story the other day
of a young preaoher who eulogized a very
bad lawyer. He said the lawyer was a
bad husband, bad father, bad neighbor
and generally a bad man morally, though
he had been very successful In his pro
fession. For the funeral a new preacher
in the town was selected, so that he
would not know just what kind of a man
the lawyer had been. '
The preacher arrived and asked a man
standing by, who was pretty much of a
wag, what sort of a man the lawyer had
been. The wag lauded the lawyer to the
skies. The preacher believed all he said,
arose and pronounced a poetic eulogy of
the departed barrister. When he had
heard all he could etand to hear without
unburdening himself to some one pres
ent, the Judge of the court In that town
leaned over to a lawyer who sat beside
him and remarked:
"Well, there'jmlghty little Inducement
for a really good man to die' in Smith
ville now." Indianapolis Star.
Woman's Clvlo Pride, a Prised Asset.
Denver Republican'.
When It cornea to the administration
of and improvements within a city the
good women are guides, philosophers and
friends- to follow. Sueh matters come
home to them. Playgroumfs, clean
streets, pretty breathing spaces, the ar
tistio and esthetic in" city life, are mat
ters in which they have Interest direct,
it is good to know that they are work-
ing so enthusiastically and to such good
purpose for the civic center improve
ments proposed for Denver. In this mat
ter, as in others In the past affecting the
welfare of Denver, they are upholding
the arm of the executive most effective
ly. Meetings are being held dally to edu
cate the people who ore to recejve the
benefits.
XEWSPAPFB WAIFS. "
"T attended an up-to-date wedding- yes
terday." "Tell me about It." "The bride's
former husbands acted as usher.sV' Birming
ham Age-Herald.
LokIc." remarked -the visionary Individ
ual, -'either proves or disproves all things "
"Yes." rejoined the practical person, "hut
It doesn't accomplish any of them." Chicago
JJaJly News.
Hirhblower (to prospective v butler)
Seventy-five dollars a month. Why. that's
all I pay ray bookkeeper. Butler But he
don't have to associate every day with
your family, air. Puck.
"I sure sympathise with that man." "Why
so?" "His expenses are about double what,
his Income Is." "Oh, well, ynu cannot' af
ford to sympathize with every man who
owns an auto." Houaton Post.
"BIlRKlns says he can tell whether he will
like a man after ha has talked with him
naif an hour." "Yes He Is one of those
people who try to borrow money on first
acquaintance." Washington Star.
"Were you ever arrested before?" asked
the magistrate whose principal business la
Imposing lines for speeding. "What do you
think I've been doing- all these years?"
asked the chauffeur, "pushing a wheel- t
narrowt' Washington Star. ,