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BIKBCTIOS OF LEOISLAnON.
Whether or not It Is intended that
the new House committee on rules
shall be a sort of "cabinet," -with a
function like that of the Cabinet that
directs the course of legislation and
government in England, such very
nearly would be its practical effect
if the purpose it promises shall be
carried out. In the British govern
ment the Cabinet is practically a com
mittee of Parliament, which must
have the approval of the majority of
the house. Yet the members are not
' directly elected by the Commons.
They are brought into office partly
by their own talents, partly by their
standing or rank as party men, partly
by efficiency whjch they have shown
or may be supposed to possess in the
conduct of the business of the House.
The act of the King in appointment of
the Premier is merely formal. The
"Prime Minister practically elects him
self, by making himself the leader of
his party and winning success at the
polls for it. In like manner other
members of the Cabinet practically
appoint themselves, by commending
themselves to their party by their pre
eminent ability or by making them
selves leaders of important sections of
their party. The British Cabinet then
is a committee on policy and meas
ures. The committee on rules of our
House of Representatives, deciding
what measures may "go," has a func
tion not very different; and the "in
surgents" say that by throwing the
Speaker off the committee they will
bring legislation more directly under
control of the House itself.
Behind the action of the represent
atives, in either country, party life
and party organization are assumed.
It is said, however, that the "insur
gents" in the House at Washington, or
some of them, are proposing a rule
; that the Speaker shall not be chosen
because 'he is a party man, and that
' even he is not necessarily to be a
member of the House. This lnnova
' tion is not likely to be accepted. The
Democrats will not wish to hamper
themselves by the precedent, and the
Republicans of the "old guard" will
find help from them in rejection of it.
Political life in both countries rest3
on the assumption that the voters and
, their representatives will continue to
act mainly In two organic political
parties. This seems to be necessary
consequence In countries where the
representative system is in full control.
In Germany parties split into small
bodies, chiefly because the success of
no one party would carry with it con
trol of the executive head. In Great
Britain twenty-five years ago there
was a situation in close parallel with
that of the present time. In 1885 an
election occurred which gave the
House of Commons 334 Liberals, 250
Conservatives and 86 Home Rule
members, of whom Parnell then was
leader. Thus there were three par
ties, neither of "which commanded a
majority of the votes. The Conserva
tives, -who at that time held the exec
utive offices, resigned them to the
Liberals. Then, as now, the Irish de
manded as a condition of alliance with
either party that a law should be
enacted giving to Ireland a separate
legislature having jurisdiction over
local affairs. Mr. Gladstone and a
portion of the Liberal party, having
decided to accede to the demands of
the Irish members, brought in a bill
for Home Rule In Ireland. All the
Irish members voted with Gladstone,
but nearly an equal number of the
Liberal members deserted him, and
he went to defeat. Evidently now
Asquith finds a difficulty in bringing
his party solidly up to the demand of
the Irish members, and hesitates to
risk the direct effort. As Home Rule
for Ireland in Gladstone's time led to
a division of the Liberal party, it may
again. Finding he could do nothing
on his main issue, Gladstone dissolved
the Parliament, appealed to the coun
try and was badly beaten. The next
House consisted of 316 Conservatives,
193 Liberals, 86 Irish members fol
lowing the leadership of Parnell, and
76 Liberal Unionists, so-called, who
still refused to act with the main body
of their party on the one important
question. These last finally fell in
with the Conservatives, who organ,
ized a government and proceeded with
business. The like may not occur
now again, since the conditions are
quite different; yet it is evident that
the Liberal leaders are not sure of
the adherence of the whole body of
their members on the main issue.
Will our politics soon probably .fall
into a state similar to this, where no
single party can accomplish its will,
or put its policy Into action? The
Democratic party, restored to power,
may come nearer to agreement than
the Republican party now appears
likely to do; for reminder of the
pledges of the party In its platform
of 1908, and the urgency of the Presi
dent, are alike without power, thus
far, to bring about any important re
sult, or even any manifestation of a
disposition to make serious effort.
There are a' great many things in
this world that are easy enough to
accomplish after one knows how. Just
at present aviators are soaring through
the air in all parts of the world in
heavier-than-air machines, while the
Wright brothers are subject to criti
cism because they are endeavoring to
stop such soarers. Yet if there is pro
tection afforded by our patent laws, it
would seem that the Wrights had been
wronged. For many years these gen
iuses plodded along in poverty, work
ing on their airship and ignoring the
scorn and derision of their practical
neighbors who had no faith in their
possible solution of the mystery of tho'.
air. .No sooner had success crowned
their efforts -than from all parts of the
world appeared an army of imitators
who bodily appropriated the plans on
which the Wrights had spent a life
time of hard work and self-denial.
These imitators may be within their
rights in building aeroplanes "not ex
actly like the Wrights," but a fair
minded public would like to see the
original Inventors profit by their skill.
WE CONSERVE.
During the eleven months ended
March 1, 1910, no less than 86,488 cit
izens of the United States settled In
Canada, .where the lands are not shut
up, on pretense of "conservation."
Let us ask, meantime, what greater
conservation or more perfect conser
vation of lands there can be than set
tlement of them by people' who make
homes?
But we have an official class who
think differently. They draw salaries
for driving people to Canada, Great
Is the inward mystery of conservation,
and great, is humbug!
BEFI3CTIVE APTTJ5 PACKING.
President W. K. Newell, of the
State Board of Horticulture, and his
colleagues who went to Washington
to help defeat the Lafean bill, had an
embarrassing experience which they
might have escaped if all our apple
growers were as honest as some of
them are. The Lafean bill, as every
orchardlst knows, is a contrivance of
certain Eastern . fruitgrowers to put
the Pacific Coast at -a disadvantage In
marketing apples. It seeks to compel
the use in interstate shipments of a
larger box than is common here on
the pretense that the Oregon box does
not contain a full bushel and there
fore defrauds the purchaser. Natur
ally Mr. Newell met this accusation
by offering to prove by actual demon
stration that the Oregpn standard box
contains a full bushel. For this pur
pose he took some boxes of apples
with him to Washington. . They had
been properly packed, as apples
should be, and, before the Congres
sional committee the contents were
measured and the bushel was there.
The box was- short not one poor frac
tion of a cubic inch.
So far so good. There was nothing
In this to embarrass Mr. Newell. On
the contrary it was quite a triumph
for him, and no doubt he indulged in
a smile at the seeming discomfiture
of his foes. But he smiled a moment
too soon. The committee sent out
into the open market and bought some
boxes of Oregon apples which had
been packed by persons less conscien
tious than Mr. Newell, and when they
were measured they fell short of a
bushel in every instance. Naturally
the president of the State Board of
Horticulture suppressed his smile of
triumph for the time being.'
This incident does not decide the
matter one way or the other, but it
makes things more difficult for those
who would like to secure justice for
our honest fruitgrowers. If in the
end the Lafean bill passes and the
Coast la put at a disadvantage in the
market. It will be the fault of those
persons who yield to the temptation
of coining a penny at the cost of fu
ture dollars by improper packing of
their apples. The fruitgrowers'
unions all over the state should em
phasize this point and if possible
bring it about that every box of apples
bearing the Oregon label shall be
strictly honest both in quality and
quantity.
SPOKANE'S RATE TROCBLB.
The Oregoniqjn prints today a com
munication from Mr. W. Doland, of
Spokane, on the" terminal rate ques
tion. With the utmost respect for
Mr. Doland, whose friendliness for
Portland has been expressed on more
than one occasion, The Oregonian
must state that it is Spokane, and not
The Oregonian, that does not under
stand the economic conditions which
give Portland a lower freight rate
than interior cities ever can secure.
Mr. Doland admits that "we recognize
that from the Atlantic seaboard to
the Pacific coast there is water com
petition, and we have so stipulated in
our rate case, but we are asking the
same rates to Spokane as Portland
and Seattle receive from Chicago and
all interior points where there Is no
water competition whatever."
If Mr. Doland will refer to the tes
timony given by Manager Jackson, of
the American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company, in the Interstate Commerce
Commission hearing in Spokane, three
years ago, he will note that water
competition actually did extend to
Chicago to such an extent that the
water-carrier absorbed the rate from
Chicago to New York. After adding
the local rate from Portland or Seat
tle to Spokane, the steamship com
pany was still able to quote a lower
rate than could be made by the rail
roads. This was not only true of
freight originating at Chicago, but
also at Cleveland, Detroit and other
manufacturing centers. When asked
the basis for the making of these low
rates. Manager Jackson said that they
were usually fixed by the amount of
space available when the ship was
nearly ready to sail; and, when this
factor was not considered, the rate
was made about 60 per cent of the
rail rate.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has eliminated all rate competi
tion between the railroads, but it is
powerless to Interfere with the rates
on the water portion of the haul be
tween Chicago and Spokane by way
of Portland or Seattle. There is noth
ing theoretical, problematical or un
just in the Portland position regarding
Spokane on this rate matter. Nature
has provided this city and other coast
ports with a water highway over
which freight can be transported at
so low a cost that a heavy rail mile
age charge on both ends of the route
can be absorbed arfd still permit the
water carrier to make lower rates
than can be made by 'the rail carrier
with a much shorter mileage.
To be specifier Grain is carried
between Chicago and New York as
low as $2 per ton. Between Atlantic
ports and Pacific ports, steamers are
now actually engaged In carrying coal
for $2.65 per ton, thus proving by
actual transactions that freight can
be carried from Chicago to the Pa
cific coast by way of Atlantic ports
at less than $5 per ton, although the
minimum rate necessary to take the
business away from 'the railroads Is
about double that figure.
Regardless of its sincerity of pur
pose, Spokane is working on the
wrong end of the route if it expects
to secure better rates for the interior.
The "opposition" of which Mr. Doland
complains is simply an effort on the
part of Portland to protect the rights
which have been conferred here by
nature. Eventually Spokane will rec
ognize the impregnable position of this
city, and the necessity of working with
Portland . for lower distributive rates
out of Coast terminals. The Orego
nian is in full accord with Mr. Doland
in his statement that "the greater the
growth of Spokane and Eastern and
Central .Washington the larger city
you will have In Portland." The Ore
gonian, however, believes that this
growth will be best promoted by util
izing natural trade routes and condi
tions instead of attempting the crea
tion of unnatural conditions and en
deavoring to force the transportation
companies to recognize them.
IT 13 "THE GAME."
In Indiana there is continuous fight
on the form of prohibition known as
local option. Just before the general
election of 1908 the Governor of the
state, J. Frank Hanly, called a special
session of the Legislature for the pur
pose of forcing enactment of a local
option law. Both parties were fight
ing shy of it. The Governor was a
Republican; the Legislature was Re
publican, and the chief Republican
strength was in the local option or
prohibition counties. Governor Hanly
called the Legislature together, in
special session, because he believed.
If the opportunity then presented were
lost, no act to provide for local pro
hibition would or could be passed for
years to come, if ever. In the Legis
lature the Republican majority, though
large, was not disposed to pass the
bill, and there were many dissejiters;
for Indiana has many brewers . and
distillers, and a heavy liquor trade In
princlpalcities, and many correlated
Industries. But Democratic members
from "dry" counties helped to pass
the bill. Of course it alienated from
the Republican party the entire liquor
Interest of the, state; but the Demo
cratic prohibitionists, who had helped
to pass the bill, remained with their
party though the whole liquor trade
had gone over to it; and the result
was that the Democrats elected the
Governor of Indiana, carried the Leg
islature, elected eleven of the thirteen
members of Congress, and won a seat
in - the United States Senate. The
electoral vote of the state was pulled
through for Taft by the skin of the
teeth only, though all other Northern
States were carried for him by over
whelming majorities.
But the Democrats, though win
ning the Legislature and electing the
Governor, on the issue of opposition to
the local option act, were too crafty,
perhaps one should say too cowardly,
to repeal the act, which the voters
who had given them their victory ex
pected them to do. The question is
now at the front again. Republican
prohibitionists insist ofn declaration In
favor of the local option act, and may
be expected to carry It by their vote
In the state convention. The Demo
cratic convention will dodge it; the
entire influence of the liquor trade
will again be. thrown to the Demo
cratic and, against the Republican
party; there will be another Demo
cratic state administration In Indiana;
there will be another Democratic Leg
islature' and a second Democratic Sen
ator, and very probably the Republi
cans will not elect a single member
to the House of Representatives out
of the thirteen.
But all this, and the like of this, is
part of the play or juggle of politics.
In one state or another. In Oregon
the Juggle presents its own varia
tions chief among which are oppo
sition to conference among the 'men
of the majority party before the pri
mary, for suggestion of candidates,
and effort to make -men swallow
"statement one." . There is no. need
of unhappiness about it, perhaps -except
as the indignation will natural
ly arise against false and foolish and
dishonest expedients in politics, em
ployed in the name of reform. There
are two classes or three In this busi
ness one of craft, a second of gulli
bility, a third of a foolish and Imprac
ticable enthusiasm.
Meantime in Indiana everybody
who wants liquor, even in "dry" ter
ritory, gets it. In Oregon practically
the same; and, moreover, in Oregon
the state practically has been turned
over to the Democratic party, against
the political principles and purposes
of the majority, by a system and
series of juggles, pretendedly in ac
cord with the popular will.
Thus, successful politics lies mainly
in the art of thriving on public gulli
bility. It is "the game." Two Sena
tors from Oregon hold their seats by
it, and one from Indiana. Presently
also another from Indiana.
EUGENE AND CORVAXX.IS.
Exceptions may justly be taken to
some of the strictures which the Car
negie Foundation authorities seem to
have made on the curriculum of the
Oregon Agricultural College. Their
regret that the "Agricultural College
and the State University duplicate
each other's courses in several in
stances is shared by evtry intelligent
person. Probably a large' majority of
the reflecting taxpayers of the state
would be glad to see these two indis
pensable institutions united, but at the
same time It is not supposed by any
body that the union is practicable.
For all time to come they will prob
ably remain as they are, in some par
ticulars supplementing each other, in
too many cases competitors -and rivals.
The Carnegie report is disturbed es
pecially over the engineering courses
which are given both at Eugene and
Corvallis, and the statement is made
that they are of lower grade at the
latter school. A correspondent com
menting on the situation suggests that
this Is a proper case for the Interven
tion of the State Board of Higher
Curricula.
Suppose the Board of Higher Cur
ricula should take the subject up,,
what could it accomplish? To abolish
the courses in applied science at Eu
gene would simply break up the insti
tution. Like all state universities,
that of Oregon finds its real strength
in the sciences. Without them It
would jierish of inanition. On the
other hand, the Corvallis institution
is obliged to maintain courses in the
"mechanic arts" by the law which
founded it. The supposition that fhe
Agricultural College was established
solely to teach agriculture is a very
common error, but is an error for all
that. The purpose of the school Is
just as much to teach engineering,
domestic science, architecture and all
the other "mechanic arts" as it is to
teach dairying and horticulture. Our
State Board of Higher Curricula can
not repeal this Federal statute and
therefore it is far from evident how
their intervention could mend matters.
Again a great deal of the talk about
the courses at Corvallis being "of low
grade" is mere nonsense. The col
lege is designed to instruct students in
agriculture and the mechanic arts, as
we have said. If the public schools
gave young people any preparatory
instruction in these subjects, then "the
college might begin higher up than it
does; but as a matter of fact the pub
lic schools give most of their time
to literary branches, so that their
graduates go to Corvallis without even
the rudiments of what they wish to
learn. Itls necessary, therefore, for
the c611ege to do the best it can with
them, and the faculty very sensibly
builds from the; foundation instead of
beginning at the rooftree. An engi
neering student who does not know
the rudiments of his subject must
learn them, no matter whether he is
,at Eugene or Corvallis, and one may
very reasonably guess that the pre
liminary branches taught are about
the same at one school as at the other,
though they may go by different
names. The only way to elevate the
grade of the applied sciences at either
of the -state institutions is to lay the
foundations for them in the public
schools. .
The "American visible" supply of
whea't yesterday for the first time
since the corresponding week in 1902.
showed an Increase. The amount was
822,000 bushels, and it brings the total
up to 27,620,000 bushels, a total which
is still 9,000,000 bushels less than on
the corresponding date a year ago.
The increase at a time when there is
always a steady decrease in supplies
would indicate that the farmers who
have been holding back their grain for
expected higher prices have at last de
cided to let go of some of their stock
before the 1910 crop begins to make
too favorable a showing. The "visi
ble" was not the only bearish feature
yesterday, for there was an increase
of more than 2,000,000 bushels in
quantities on passage, and world's
shipments were 2,000,000 bushels
greater than last week. Unless the
chinchbug gets busy very soon, the
wheat market may become topheavy.
The Siuslaw, Yaqulna and Alsea
Rivers are promised direct communi
cation with Portland by means of the
gasoline schooner Wilhelmina, which
will be placed on the run this week.
With the exception of Yaquina, the
coast ports to be reached by this new
carrier have practically no communi
cation. with the outside world except
by rough trail and an occasional sloop
or small schooner from adjacent ports
better supplied with transportation fa
cilities. Establishment of this serv
ice will he highly advantageous to the
many settlers who have already en
tered the Isolated regions, and It will
also Invite others. In the development
that always follows transportation fa
cilities to any part of Portland's terri
tory this city will naturally come in for
a full share. Every possible encour
agement should be given the new en
terprise. The increased cost of living has apparently-not
yet reached the limits to
which it may soar later. Advices from
New York report formation of a new
syndicate which is to take ' over the
newly-discovered diamond mines In
German Southwest Africa. Formation
of this new syndicate enables three
companies to control all of the world's
production of diamonds, and an effort
will undoubtedly be made "to regulate
the supply so that there will not be a
slump in the market. The promoters
of the new syndicate say that, while
the suply of diamonds Is greater than
ever, there la also a greater demand.
This pleasing economic situation may'
prevent the poor man from buying a
large supply of diamonds until another
1907 panic hits the country. If this
should happen, diamonds and 'auto
mobiles will change owners in large
numbers.
Five automobile drivers were ar
rested last Sunday for exceeding the
speed limit on the city streets. Let
the good work go on and let no guilty
man escape under the cover of the
name of "a prominent citizen,." The
streets are for the use of all not for
the possession of the few.
The death of 250 people by fire at a
ball In a Hungarian village Sunday
night Is simply a twentieth-century ca
lamity to point a moral. That many
people are never killed at a religious
gathering. ' -
The trolley trouble in Philadelphia
is about ended, now that all sympathy
strikers have returned to work. It is
always thus. To be of effect, there
must be results in less than forty-eight
hours.
Roosevelt will be at Cheyenne Fron
tier day with chaps, latigo, sombrero
and bandana, to show how he roped
the rhino and hippo below the Equa
tor. The Richmond postoffice robbers
who took $30,000 in stamps and $100
In money will have a short run of free
dom. Stamps are most undesirable
loot. .
Some persons should be informed
that It is a great deal easier for them
to earn money than to get it out of
John D. Rockefeller.
The aurora borealis was mistaken
for the comet in Chicago. New Year's
resolutions evidently didn't hold in the
Windy City.
A great many persons, mostly Demo
crats, halve discovered how well they
like Roosevelt since he ceased to be
President.
If scientists could agree on the
comet, they might convince ordinary
folks that they know something
about it.
Jack Cudahy has taken refuge on
his father's farm.' A good many live
stock farmers need a hand like Jack
Cudahy.
We should think very much less of
Mounts Etna and Vesuvius If they had
not spouted about the time T. R. hove
in sight.
Maybe Jeffries would go Johnson's
bail, if the colored gentleman could
not get out of jail any other way.
Hot air pays invNew York. Consol
idated Gas netted over $7,000,000 last
year at 80 cents.
Some persons don't even give Dr.
Cook extra credit for being prince of
fakers.
The Lord tempers the weather to
the Easter bonnet.
WHY KEPIXICAXS WERE BEATEN
That MssarhDsctti CoagreniloiiBl Elec
tion Clearly Explained.
Chicago Tribune, Ind. Rep.
Mr. Buchanan, 'he Republican candi
date, was not popular with the Repub
lican voters. He had managed to steal
the nomination away from the man the
majority wanted as a candidate. He
had been campaign manager for Gover
nor Douglas when the latter had de
feated the Republican nominee, a popu
lar citizen of the district. There was a
fear that if he were elected to fill the
vacancy he would demand and get, in
accordance with precedent, the nomina
tion for the next full term. So it seemed
wiser to k.'ll him off at once.
While Buchanan would assuredly
have run again if elected, Koss prom
ised positively that he would not. As
there is a good-sized Republican ma
jority in-the House, It was felt that the
election of Foss could do no harm. In
deed, many considered him a better Re
publican than his opponent.
Usually party men who are disgrun
tled show their displeasure by falling
to vq,te. They did that in 1888 and in
1904, but there fas for a special elec
tion a heavy vote fn the Fourteenth
district. It was larger than It would
otherwise have been because of the
wish of so many Republicans to get rid
of a candidate who was intensely dis
tasteful to them.
New York Sun, Rep.
Many things contributed to the re
markable success of Mr. Foss on Tues
day. Not the least of them was the un
popularity on several counts of William
R. Buchanan among Republican voters.
He gave a liberal sum to William L.
Douglas' ' campaign for Governor, took
an active part in it, and after the elec
tion became his Secretary. The editor
of a Republican paper, Mr. Buchanan
had been weak-kneed in the faith, and
to cap the climax the manner of hla
nomination to Congress had left a bad
taste in the mouth. Influential Repub
licans openly deserted him during, the
brief contest. The landslide began at
once. In a word, Mr. Buchanan was re
garded as more of a Democrat than a
Republican. On the other hand, Eugene
N. Foss was a strong magnet to discon
tented Republicans, for until last Fall,
when he accepted the Democratic nom
ination for Lieutenant-Governor, he
had called himself a Republican all his
life. By many he was regarded as more
of a Republican than a Democrat. So
much for the personality and past of
both candidates.
The spirit of Republican insurgency
is a,ctive under the surface in Massa
chusetts, and the sentiment for reci
procity with Canada is very strong and
by no means new. Of this spirit Mr.
Foss was a vigorous exponent before
he turned Democrat, and reciprocity
has been his hobby for a long time. He
was shrewd enough 'to see that, though
there might be several causes of high
prices, the voters put most of the blame
upon the tariff, and so Mr. Foss talked
further revision 15 times a day in- as
many places. He flooded the district
with "literature" and audaciously prom
ised relief when he got to Congress. A
manufacturer himself, that fact had
weight in a manufacturing district.
Hence, for these various reasons, the
landslide. Credit must be given Mr.
Foss for his perspicacity, boldness and
energy.
"11 N" RULED NOT TO BE BAD.
Surrogate and Jury Agree That Explo
sive la "Harmless Adjective."
New York World.
According to a verdict brought in by
six men sitting as a jury before Justice
of the Peace James H.- Belethe, in Mor
ristown, N. J., "d n" is not an oath or a
"swear word,"' such as is prohibited by
the vice and immorality act of New Jer
sey. Surrogate David Young, who was on
trial for saying that Mrs. Nellie Fitz
herbert, of Dover, "talked like a d n
fool," acknowledged he had used the ex
pression, but his counsel insisted that
such an expression was not swearing.
The Jury agreed with him and acquitted
Young.
Mrs. Fitzherbert testified that she was
in Mr. Young's office in Morristown re
cently to get a copy of a will in which
she was interested. She read the copy,
and told the surrogate that It was not a
true copy. He offered to bet her a dollar
that it was a true copy. She took the bet
and put up her dollar.
The copy was compared with the orig
inal, and it was shown that in the copy
the word "not" was left out, completely
altering one of the provisions of the will.
She won her bet.
-Later Mrs. Fitzherbert visited Mr.
Young's office again and taunted him upon
losing the bet. She told him that he
"was all right, but in the wrong place."
.He became angry and said:
"You talk like a d n fool."
Mr. Young said that he had great provo
cation, an.il merely wished to add em
phasis to an assertion. The expression
was merely an adjective intended to con
vey the id-a that Mrs. Fitzherbert talked
not only like a fool, but like a very big
fool like . very much of a fool. He did
not mean that she was a condemned fool.
New Indiana Star In Literature.
' New York World.
John Stevenson Tarkington Is about to
publish "The Hermit of Capri." He is
the newest member of the Indiana group
of novelists, but he is 70 years old. He
may exchange felicitations with William
de Morgan, who is continuing at 71 a
notable career In fiction that began when
he was 65.
The fruits of genius In literature, in
deed, are very far from being notably to
the young. Chaucer was S3 when he
wrote "Canterbury Tales." Cervantes
finished "Don Quixote" at 68. De Foe
produced "Robinson Crusoe" at 58 and
Swift was a year older than that when
he presented "Gulliver's Travels." Victor
Hugo was capable of "Les Mlserables"
only when he reached the age of 63. and
Dr. Johnson did his "Lives of the Poets"
at 78. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell wrote his
masterpiece, "Hugh Wynne," at 68. The
name is legion of the authors who have
continued their work in brilliancy up to
and beyond the mark of three score and
ten.
From Fine Clothes to Chickens.
New York Dispatch.
Miss Oflulia Morosini. the heiress,
whose fad a few years ago was spend
ing $100,000 annually for clothing, has
a new hobby now. She is raising incu
bator chicks. Miss Morosini is going
in for chicken farming in general be
sides the raising of irfcubator chickens,
which is only a side issue for this par
ticular holiday season. Several hundred
of the finest chickens obtainable have
been purchased for her by Arthur
Werner, the manager of the estate, and
she is becoming learned In the -lore of
hens.
"Passing of tbe Idle Rich."
Baltimore American.
Frederick Townsend Martin has writ
ten a book. He calls it "The Passing of
the Idle Rich." . Mr. Martin believes, in
spite of the arguments of his friends to
the contrary, that the wealthy classes in
this country are going to work more
and more, and that the idle rich tn&x ts
f becoming extinct
AS A SPOKANE MAN SEES IT.
Transcontinental Rat Question From
the Interior Viewpoint.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 24. (To the
Editor.) In reading a late issue of The
Oregonian, I found myself greatly hon
ored by being the subject of an editorial
In your columns. I certainly consider it
an honor for an humble individual like
myself to be In this way recognized by
the foremost newspaper of the North
Pacific Coast.
I admit I am a pioneer in the freight
agitation to get justice for Spokane and
at this date am chairman of the Inter
state Commerce Committee for our
Chamber of Commerce in handling the
Spokane rate case. May I transgress
a little on your apace by stating our
position, which I hardly believe you un
derstand ? '
Spokane is not asking for terminal
freight rates from the Atlantic seaboard
to Spokane. We recognize that from
the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific
Coast there is water competition and
we have so stipulated in our rate case:
but we are asking for the same rates
to Spokane as Portland and Seattle re
ceive from Chicago and all interior
points wher"e there is no water compe
tition whatever. We are 400 miles
nearer the base of supplies. In our
maganimity, characteristic always of
Spokane and her cltjzens, we are will
ing to pay the same freight rate from
Chicago to Spokane that Portland pays,
400 miles away. We are perfectly w'ill
ing on our part, to give your fair city
an equal chance with us for the trade
of the Inland Empire country. We agree
in our rate case to pay the divisions, so
called, from Eastern cities to Chicago
that is. Imposing on us a higher freight
rate from Eastern cities to Spokane
than to Portland on all articles : that
come by rail. You must admit, In fair
play, that we are certainly entitled to
as low freight rates as Portland from
all points where there is no water com
petition. .
I am a frequent visitor to your pros
perous city and a great admirer of
Portland, wera I have a gceat many
personal friends. If r should change my
place of residence from Spokane and
had my option in the matter, I should,
of course, take Heaven as first choice,
being the only place I know of more
desirable than Spokane as a residence.
On this earth I know of no place I
would rather live in than Spokane first,
Portland second. But you will excuse
my criticism and receive my suggestion
in the good will it is given when I say
that for 18 years in our agitation for
just freight i rates in almost every trial
we have encountered opposition from
your city. Spokane is .trying to build up
not only Itself but the whole Inland
Empire country, and why Portland
should try to retard the growth of this
country and throw all the barriers -it can
in the way, I never could understand. The
greater the growth of Spokane and
Eastern and Central Washington, the
larger city you will have in Portland.
Could I suggest that if you would
work with us instead of against us it
would be of great benefit to your city,
I believe. And if this suggestion of a
private citizen would he taken. I believe
the time is not far distant when the
only bar to your progress Is the one at
the mouth of the Columbia River, and
all your well-wishers, of which I am
one, hope this may soon be removed.
There has been no change of heart,
eituer with myself or my associates.
We are still contending for Just rates
for Spokane but we do differ as to the
methods suggested to secure these
rates. Our case is now before the Inter
state Commerce Commission and we ex
pect a decision within 90 days. We are
also trying to secure the passage of
the Mann amendment to the Interstate
commerce bill and do not feel that
these rates can be secured through an
ordinance passed by our Common Coun
cil. That is the one difference of opin
ion here, and we are as united as ever
in the one purpose of securing justice
for Spokane and the Inland Empire
country as regards freight rates.
A. W. DOLAND.
WHERE THE INSURGENTS FAILED.
They Should Have Joined the Demo
crats, Says This Writer.
SPRINGFIELD, Or., March 26. (To
the Editor.) I am a Republican of
some years' standing. I sympathize
somewhat with the insurgent view or
party in Congress, but I believe the
Insurgents have made a miscue in the
late movement regarding Cannon. Half
way measures generally satisfy nobody
and sometimes lead to bad results by
delaying the natural consequences of
party action in a responsible manner.
I believe the insurgents have played
into the hands of the enemy who will
take advantage of them and throw
both the insurgents and regulars when
they get the first chance.
The thing to have done, according
to the way they used to do in the
old country, was for the insurgents to
have gone to the Democrats and made
them a proposition like this: If you
will join with us in electing one of our
leaders (an Insurgent) Speaker, we
will join with you and throw out Can
non; the rules not to be changed ex
cept the appointment of the commit
tees by a central representative com
mittee or party committees, instead
of the Speaker. Then the new com
bination would have been In position
to assume full responsibility.
But the Democrats- possibly would
have refused such a proposition. How
ever, it would have helped the position
of the insurgents before the country,
whereas now there Is a kind of witches'
cauldron from which no telling what
will emanate. GEORGE THOMPSON.
Forests at South Pole.
Chicago Journal.
Professor David, who occupies the chair
of geology in the University of Sydney,
and who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackle
ton to the Antarctic, has been mailing
some interesting remarks on his discover
ies there. The fossil woods he has found
showed that pine forests had flourished
in the vicinity of the South Pole at
a remote geological epoch. The coal
seams he had discovered suggested the
same conclusion. At that time there
was more or less continuous land from
Australia to the South Pole. The clim
ate all over the world was at that
period probably much milder than at
present.
It Iu the System.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If the approaching campaign is to be
fought on lines that will promise
real results it is about time to give up
harping on our Uncle Joseph and get
down to the bedrock of truth. If neither
Mr. Cannon nor Mr. Aldrich had been
born the protective system would have
reached its present logical development
without their aid, and would have
fought for the perpetuation of graft with
other lieutenants. Radical . changes In
forms of government, at least in modem
history, are effected by revolution and
not by assassination. The system and
not the man must be destroyed.
Specialist In Vocation Colletre Work.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Miss Julia H. Guliver, of Rockford.
111., has been elected an officer of the
French Academy. Miss Gulliver is the
president of Rockford College. She was
in the first-class, graduated at Smith Col
lege and has been a pioneer in Introduc
ing vocation courses in women's colleges.
College Professor Turns Laborer.
Boston Globe.
Hugh W. Ransom, professor of mathe
matics and civil engineering at the Har
vard Summer School, and an assistant in
structor of mathematics at the university,
has gone to work ' as a. laborer at $1.60
a day for the construction company that
is building the Cambridge subway.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
Just how naturally some inferences may
be drawn was illustrated by a story, told
the other afternoon by City Clerk Thomas
S. Mooney, of Burlington. One evening
some time ago, Mr. Mooney said, a man
drove up to the residence of a. preacher in
a smajl town over in Jersey, and after
violently ringing the doorbell told the
parson that Bill Bowker's Sally was vio
lently sick and wanted him to come right
out. The good dominie knew Bill Bow
ker, also his wife, Sally, and, thinking
that spiritual advice was wanted, he
picked up a prayer-book and accompa
nied the farmer to the wagon.
"I am sorry to hear that Sally is sick,"
remarked the preacher in a sympathetic
tone as he was about to step into the
vehicle. "Do you think that her condition
is dangerous?"
"Can't tell," replied the farmer; "she
has been layin' down hi ther stable all
ther afternoon."
"Lying down in the stable!" exclaimed
the parson with a look of mingled amaze
ment and horror. "What in the world is
she doing in a place like that?"
"Why, what do you expect?" was the
surprised rejoinder of the farmer. "Where
in ther thunderation else would ye keep
a mule?"
"Oh, I see," smilingly responded tho
parson, as light suddenly dawned upon
him. "You have struck the wrong house;
what you are looking for is the veterinary
surgeon who lives next door." Philadel
phia Telegraph.
'
Miss Mary Garden, at a tea in Philadel
phia, praised the skill of the modern corset-maker.
"It is really wonderful," said
Miss Garden, "what this artist can do.
I have seen fat old "women, who, from
certain aspects, looked like supple girls.
It was the corset-maker. And that re
minds me of an answer that I heard in
Sunday school when I was a little child.
'What is it,' our superintendent asked,
'that binds us together and makes us
better than we are by nature? 'Our cor
sets,' sir,' piped a wise little girl of 8."
Kansas City Star.
They were gliding round the ballroom
to the strains of a soft, dreamy waltz.
Suddenly lie tripped and fell sprawling
to the floor, carrying a goodly portion of
his charming partner's gown.
Roars of derisive laughter greeted his
contortion, and ruefully ho extricated
himself from the masses of chiffon and
lace.
Reaching the side of a gentleman whose
face had not assumed even the ghost of a
smile, he burst out gratefully:
"Sir, you are a gentleman! You are the
only man in the room who did not grin
when I had the misfortune to tear that
lady's dness!"
"Don't thank me, my dear sir!" replied
he of the stony stare. "The lady happens
to be my wife, and 1 paid for that dress!"
Answers.
In speaking of. the time when the King
and Queen of the 1 lawaiian Islands came
here and then went to Kurope, Senator
Depew tells this one:
"An Incident of this trip," said the
Senator, "was one of the rare contribu
tions to the sedate movements of history,
which promotes jcood fellowship by add
ing to the gayety of nations. Chicago
received the King with impressive cere
monies on his arrival. After a neary
day of parades and reviews the then
Mayor of the metropolis of the West
found a King on his hands. Kings were
not in his line, nor was he familiar with
their attributes, the customs of court or
the method of addressing them. To re
lieve himself of embarrassment ho drove
His Majesty to the leading hotel, and,
leaving hrm In the lobby, said, 'Oood
afternoon. King; we have had a hard day,
and I think you had better go up to your
room and wash up.'
"When Their Majesties arrived in Lon
don they were entertained by royalty and
were guests at Windsor," continued the
Senator. "There was a current story at
the time," he said, "that at the dinner
the Hawaiian Queen said to Queen Vic
toria, 'Your Majesty, I am a blood rela
tive." To the astonished inquiry, 'How
so?" the Hawaiian Queen answered. 'My
grandfather ate Captain Cook.' "Wash
ington, D. C, Times.
Mortimer Singer, the millionaire de
scendant of tile sewing-machine inventor,
lies with many broken bones in Cairo,
the victim of an aeroplane accident.
Mr. Singer was a pupil of Henri Far
man, to whose pupils a number of acci
dents have happened. A "bird man,"
apropos of this, said at a recent lunch
eon in New York:
"They tell a story about Farman and
his pupils. It seems that a pupil said to
Farman one morning, as ho turned up
his Gnome motor at Issy:
" 'I had a dream about you last night,
sir.' '
" 'Yes?' said Farman.
" 'Yes. . I dreamed I fell from my bi
plane and died, and descended to tho
Golden Gate. St. Peter said: "Who are
you?" I mentioned my name, and St.
Peter summoned the Recording Angel
with his book. The book was searched a
long time, but in vain.
What did you say your name was?"
the Recording Angel asked,
" 'I repeated it. the place in the book
was found, and St. Peter said:
" ' "Why, you've got no business here.
You're not due here Cor another 15 years."
" ' "Mr. Farman said" 1 stammered.
' ' "Oh," interrupted the Recording An
gel, "you're a pupil of Farman's, are
you?"
" Then he turned to St. Peter and
grumbled: "Better let him In. That
Farman is always upwettirig our arrange
ments, though. Philadelphia Record.
An Idol "Not to Be Fooled With.''
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A remarkable idol was brought from
Central Africa by a missionary. In its
stomach is set a disc-shaped mirror and
Inside of this Is a bunch of herbs of mys
tical potency.
The god Is supposed by the natives to
be a very powerful one. To offend it
would be extremely dangerous. Conse
quently it Is kept at the Smithsonian In
stitution, to which the missionary pre
sented it, in a glaps case, where nobody
can offer it any indignity.
Attached to various parts of its body
are spear and darts, by the aid of which
the god is supposed to inflict injury upon
persons who deserve to get hurt. The
Smithsonian scientists say it would bo
imprudent to handle any of these pplky
thinss too frequently, because, for all
anybody knows to the contrary, they may
be poisoned.
Fashion Booma St. Btrnapl Dogs.
London Dispatch.
Queen Alexandra, whose fondness for
animals is well known, has wavered in
her allegiance to toy dogs of rare breeds,
and has purchased a large St. Bernard.
This means that St. Bernards will become
fashionable pets all over England and
their price will ripe.
An experienced member of the Kennel
Club in London says that the favor of
the St. Bernard will not last long. It is
a questionable woman's, pet, for its tem
per is not certain., and its clumsiness
makes it impossible to have it indoors.
Really a -lf-MnGr Man.
Baltimore American.
The recent prominence in the suffrage
discussion at Albany, M. Y., of Dr. Mary
Walker recalls one of the cleverest re
marks that the lamented "Bill" Nye ever
uttered. He described Dr. Mary as "the
only self-made man in America."
New Golden Stream for Caruso.
New York Press.
Caruso's new contract from 1112 1o
1914, Just signed with the Metropolitan
company, assures him of an income of at
least $160,000 for the season.