.-THE MORXIXG OREGOXtAX ' .-JSAICBDAX APRILl 16,. 191Q. ' ' PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce al Second-Class Matur. Subacriptlun Bates Invariably in Advance. 1- BY MAIL..) I II V. Sundae Inrltided. on reap . . . . .S8.00 T'Slly. Sunday Included, six montns... 4.-5- iJally, Sunday Included, three months. . - 2j Iatly, Sunday., included. - one month.... a '5 I'ally. without Sunday, one year.-.;.. 60 Xally. without Sunday, six months.... 3.25 rUy. without Sunday, three months 1.75 Iaily. without Sunday, one month ? Weekly, one year J-50 Sunday, one year 2.60 Sunday and weekly, one year 3.S0 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year.... Xally, Sunday Included, one. month.-.. 8.00 .75 How to KemJt Send Postofflce. money crder. express order or personal check - on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full. including county and etate. Postage Rates 10 -to 14 tiflgei. 1 cent: 16 to 28 pases. S( cents; 80 to 40 paces. 8 cents; 40 to 60 pases, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. I2eck wlth Special Aaency New York, rooms 48 E0 Trlnune buildina. Chicago, rooms 510-&12 Tribune building.. -,N PORTLAND, SATVliDAV, APRIL 16, 110. MISTAKES POLICY" AJfl) ITS ABVSE. The Oregonian believes that William Hanley is a better man and, more use ful citizen for this country of ours than .Gifford Pinchot. Hanley is an "earnest and practical man, fit for the pioneer work that lies at the basis of elmpire. Pinchot is a student of books and theories. Work of men like Pin chot never would have developed our western empire. " And, since Our far western empire is but little developed yet, their notions and theories are obstructive and run into injustice. Hanley, pioneer, an honest man, who . has been doing more than one man's share of the work this country needs, is : indicted, is to be punished if the coercive power of the United States jan accomplish it because the work he does, the work we all have done or tried to do, the work of our ances'-. tors, not only in Oregon but in all our, states, from the Atlantic to the Pa cific, is not agreeable to the ideas of 3 ; pampered bureaucratic system at Washington, founded in the foppery that goes by the name of Pinchotism. ' There would be no state of Oregon today,- no development .whatever of ie great Oregon country, which now Includes three states and large parts f; two more, if the officious spirit and Jtalignant energy that now pursues jyilliam Hanley and men like him had Been permitted from the' beginning. ftiere would have been no beginning. -that is to say, no beginning for ftates under the United States of America. The settlers that founded ihese states, among whom were the parents of William Hanley, trudged ctoss the plains and laid the foun Satlons here. They were allowed to ijse the land, to cut firewood and himber, and to 'employ the resources tf nature for life and development Tere. William Hanley and his neigh bors, descendants and successors of the first pioneers, have turned back towards the newer country parsed over by. the first pioneers, to reach heir distant goal and have been try (rig to settle it, to reduce the wlidness if nature and make, it habitable for kiviltzed man. As the pioneers came rver the plains, they cut juniper trees, ind other trees wherever they could find them, for their campfires. " The few settlers in the semi-arid region fcave- been doing the like these forty years, and pasturing their cattle, -rtoreover, on the grasses, where they Jould find them. But we now have a ynnosopny oi conservation .xnat ituis ,15 were t-riniiiiaiw, aim ougiit to have kept out of the country. This present writer, in his -boyhood In Ore gon, used to cut grasses on public lands to feed his team of mules, and .Jo cut wood where he could find it ind haul it to Yamhill villages to get means for support of the large family f which he was a member. By the lefinition. of the modern time it ap pears that he must have 'been a oriml lal in the land, as all his fathers were, n their successive migration from ne ocean to the other. The small arrnh tree, of arid mniin- lainsides or rocky wastes, known as (unlper, isn't timber in any proper lense of the term, or within any definition of the statutes. Besides. Jt will be shown that Hanley neither cut it nor caused tne trees to be cut The land on which this scattering scrub tree grows is unsalable for any purpose. Whoever has wanted to cut the juniper has done so; for as a tree it is too meagre for profit, and only the scantiest return can be. made' by cutting it. The facts will all be de veloped and published, at the trial of this peculiar case, and the whole jury of the country then may pass judg ment, as it will. The Eastern Oregon country is still absolutely new. It needs development. It can be developed only by pioneer methods. But it is arrested by a class of government officials,, who swoop down, like harpies, on the tables of all who begin to collect the materials for their support, while trying to sub due the wlidness of nature and to make the country fit to live in. But never will one of this gang of officials soil his dainty fingers, or develop honest callosities,? by laying hold of any part of this pioneer work. Hasn't pioneer life work and struggle enough ,-ithout being annoyed by this para sitism? All the official, theorists on -earth are useless in a pioneer coun 'try, and worse than useless. They retard Its growth, they bedevil its ,citizenship, they annoy it with a mis- fit policy, they devour its substance and in the name of progress and of justice, they grasp without remorse and wield without shame the most (powerful instruments of injustice that an unscrupulous power can invent or employ. . : DKSTBliCTlVE SALMON' FISHING. Salmon hatchery superintendents at Salem last week informed each other that all along the Pacific Coast too many salmon are caught and too few survive to propagate the species.-Th.y blamed fishermen and owners of-gear and. canners for depletion of the seed ; Supply of fish i Doubtless the -superintendents are right . and the destroyers of salmon will concede the fact now just as they have done many years. Every fisher man and every packer believes in con servation of the salmon species. Each knows that the hunt for salmon should be diminished in vigor and each foresees extermination unless adequate remedies shall, be enforced So far, then, destroyers of salmon and breeders are in harmony. But when it comes to selecting rem edies, the generous-minded destroy ers at once split into warring, selfish -factions, -each of which charges its iielglibors- .with, being most damaging to the annual supply of breeding sal mon and calls upon the others to shorten their reach. Sometimes one faction wants another abolished by law, as gillnetters on the Columbia River would treat wheelmen, or wants restrictions lmp,sed that would put a rival out of business, as wheelmen would dispose -f gillnetters., This is an old squabble .arid little or no im provement has been achieved while it hrrs been allowed- to monopolize the field. .If all fishing were prohibited, the propagation of salmon would then go forward as nature originally planned it, and the recurring annual supply would be maintained. If fishing were prohibited for adequate periods of time and hatcheries were maintained to save Jhe waste of nature's methods! then salmon supply could be kept up equally well. On this latter the ory, closed seasons have been enacted and hatcheries established. But .t.e fault is, the closed seasons are not long enough, and the selfish factions have: defeated .adequate enactments as often as they have been proposed. Hatchery men tell truth when they say too few , salmon survive. .Closed -seasons should be prolonged and again lengthened until the bal ance point has been reached between fishing and breeding forces. This ought not to be difficult nor would it be if grasping Interests had less in fluence OH legislation. POR1TAI)'S BECOIID QUARTER, That- the - Pacific Coast cities are the most prosperous in the United States, and that Portland is the most prosperous of the Pacific Coast cities, is strikingly shown in an elaborate table of bank clearings compiled by the Xew York Financial and Com mercial Chronicle covering the first three months of 1910. With the sin gle exception of Atlanta, Ga., in per centage of gain, this city led all other cities in the United States which re ported clearings in excess of $100 000.00.0 for the three months. It was by no small margin of fractions that Portland distanced all the big cities except "Atlanta, for the' gain of 41 per cent was nearly 12 per cent more than was reported by Cleveland, Ohio, and Seattle, the next on . the list, these cities-showing gains of 29.3 and 29.8 per cent. It is not unusual for abnormal lo cal conditions to result in remarkable gains in bank clearings. In the com pilation the city of Austin, Texas, with total clearings only one-sixth as large as those of Portland, has an increase of 15 3.1 per cent. Six other cities of minor Importance also show a slightly greater percentage of gains than are credited to Portland, but, taking large and small together, Portland stands seventh on the list of 117 cities and second on the list of 2 3 large cities. in percentage of gain for tht- three months. In the Chronicle report, a very in teresting grouping is made of the 117 cities for which clearings are reported In this list the Middle Western group maKcs tne poorest snowing, with a gain of 8.3 per cent. The New Eng land cities come next, with 10.8 per cent gain. The Southern cities showed an. increase of . 15.1 per cent, and the Middle State cities 22.1 per cent, while the Pacific cities, like the. name of Abou Ben, "led all the rest" with a gain of 26.8 per cent, which was 7.5 per cent better than the average for the United States. Of the four large Coast cities. Portland's gain of 41 per cent is followed by Seattle, with 29.8 per cent. Los Anereles 2 6.4 nrr ppnt. and San Francisco 24.2 her rent. SOME GEMS FROM S1K. BRYAN. As' specimens of that peculiar type of wisdom which thrives under the banner of Democracy, the utterances at the -.Terferson Day' banquet in In dianapolis were beyond praise.- Mr. Bryan, always famous for his incom parable gems, produced a number on this occasion which will rank with his best. Mr. Taft's belief .that present high prices are in part due to the abundance of gold, which has lately passed into circulation, elicited a par ticularly brilliant bon mot from Mr. Bryan. He interprets the President's opinion as an ' "unexpected indorse ment of our party's position in 1896, when we demanded more money as the only remedy for falling prices," and he goes on to shout jubilantly that "we may now consider the quan titative theory of money established beyond dispute and proceed to the consideration of other questions." As if anybody had ever thought of denying the "quantitative theory" of money. What the Republicans main tained ;in'lS96 was that more money would of necessity raise prices and that at' th'e same time .it would di minish the value of all credits and en able debtors to escape a large frac tion of their obligations. In other words, the Republican contention was that an influx of degraded money would cause the entire body of the currency .to depreciate. High prices and depreciated money are but xe verse views of the same medal. It is exceedingly courageous for Mr. Bryan now to claim that the Republicans advocated in 186 a principle exactly opposite to what they really held. An abundant supply of gold has tended somewhat to make gold cheap, as Mr. Taft very reasonably teaches. uut it is one thing to recognize the undeniable effect of economic causes and another to seek to inject a quan tity of cheap money into the circula tion of the country for the deliberate purpose of giving people an oppor tunity to pay their debts in debased dollars. Only a crazy person would dispute that cheap money. makes dear goods, and worthless credits, but on the other hand, only a statesman of the Bryan species would seek to bring about those consequences by purposely debauching the medium of exchange. Mr. Bryan further illustrates the keenness of his intelligence by what he has to say about the trusts. The popular boycott of the Beef Trust is highly commendable in its purpose he thinks, but it will prove less ef- fectual than the Democratic remedv "I am sure the people will in the end find legislation more satisfactory than aDstinence rrom meat and join the Democrats in declaring a private mo nopoly indefensible and intolerable." Suppose everybody should -join with the Democrats in making that bold declaration, would legislation annihi lating the trusts follow as a matter of necessity? Has Mr. Bryan or any other Democrat the.faintest belief that legislation of any sort could possibly compel men to compete with one an other when they are resolved not to do so? The great Nebraskan in a.i probability never has dreamed how essentially impregnable against legis lation the trust concept is. Slay it under one form and, presto! "it reap- pears, under another.. No prohibitory laws can prevail an atom against these monopolies until every, conceiv able form of private agreement among men has been catalogued and forbid den, and even that will not be enough. After forbidding the combination, you must prove that it exists" before ypu' can dissolve it, and the evidence in this field is' the most subtly elusive in the world. The laws against trusts amount in substance to an attempt to punish men for their secret thoughts. They seek to put intelligence under a ban and make reason an outlaw in the realm, of trade. ' ' .. When Democrats become reasoning beings instead of sheep blfndly fol lowing the beliwether, they will be gin to seek a remedy for the evils of the trusts without trying to destroy the manifest benefits they promote. Mr. Bryan's statesmanship on the subject is much like that of the man who burned his house down to clear it of. rats. Until the leaders of this godforsaken party begin, to use their brains a little as a prelude to the wag ging o-f their tongues, such accidental success as they may . achieve can be only transient and in its brief dura tion it can confer only the most shad owy benefits upon the country. IX THE SHADOW. Mark Twain, on of the most pic turesque figures, and lately, the most pathetic, in American literature", has returned from Bermuda whither he went last "Winter Immediately . after the. sudden "death of his daughter, Jean. His vital forces are apparently almost spent and the fine courage with which he met severe family be reavement in recent years he seems to ' have mustered now for the last struggle. Samuel Clemens is an old man, bro ken in body, but still strong in spirit. He. is not an aged man, according to the present reckoning of science, but when a man is broken, in health and depressed by sorrow at seventy-five there, is no rallying point "ahead of him. Continued length of years under such conditions does not foreshadow a revival of past activities. Revered by many, beloved by the few who stand closest to him in life; deprived by death of the compani jnship of his wife and two of his daughters; his sole remaining daughter married and living In Europe, it'-may well be Imagined that his homecoming after some months of absence will be clouded by the shadow of retrospec tion. ' He was a force to be reckoned with in the literature of his-prime. His books have been, translated into sev eral languages and read throughput the civilized world. ' His quaint humor is certain to live- for-years, ; and it is safe to predict that his works will hold a permanent place in American literature. - . , . ALAS, .H)B POSTERITY! Conservation' rights . of a sovereign state; possibly of a great Nation, have been boldly invaded. According to a dispatch from South Bend, Wash., a Japanese firm of Seattle has secured a. hundred acres of bog land between Westpart and North Cove "and will'at once proceed to reclaim it from the domain of Nature by ditching, plow ing, planting and cultivating. Vege tables are to be grown upon this land to the exclusion of bog grass and other wild- growth; cultivated fruits will usurp the kingdom of the' wild cranberry and ' hyckleberry, and a canal for drainage and the transport ation of the products, of the cultivated tract will in due time be cut through from Grays Harbor to Wlllapa Har bor. This is indeed a high-handed pro ceeding. Did not the early settlers get along without this invasion of the realm of Nature? And what is to become of posterity If the land com prising our eminent domain Is to be drained of its strength by intensive cultivation to supply the gross ma terial needs of the present? For the principles .and methods of intensive cultivation will be applied to this land now that the Japs have gotten hold of it.' There' is no doubt about that. The days of its waiting, uselessness. are over. It will no longer be "wild land," with its possibilities of devel opment left to future years. It will be put to use and made to yield the conserved treasures of a' thousand years to ',the gainful spirit of indus trious aliens and the voracious appe tites of a perverse and unpatriotic generation- For is not Seattle ambitious, greedy and dominated by a selfish desire to subsist here and now upon the good things of this world, to be fed from the fatness of this land, soon .to be wrested from the wild domain of Na ture? Alas, for posterity! Its rights and privileges are slowly but surely being engulfed in the voracious maw of a stiff-necked generation. OPPOSINQ WATERWAY IMPROVEMENT In view of his past services in the cause of waterway improvement, it is somewhat surprising to note that United States Senator Burton, chair man of -the National Waterways Com mission, and a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, is opposing the pending river and harbor bill. This measure carries appropriations of about $52,000,000, an amount suffi cient to build not more than three or four battleships, which -will find their way to the scrap heap as soon as larger and better vessels appear. So earnest is the opposition of Senator Burton to this bill that it is reported that, if he falls in blocking a number of the big projects for which provis ion has been made, he will endeavor to have the bill vetoed'. There are so many projects of de cided merit in the measure that- its veto Would be a most serious matter for the country and incidentally . a very expensive piece of economy on the part of the Government. In sum marizing his report. Senator Burton expresses a willingness to provide for completion of an improvement when ado.pted. This concession in his mi nority report would be sufficient to cover the case of most of the im provements now under way on the Columbia River, but in case Senator Burton, failing to eliminate what he deems the objectionable features of the bill, should make a successful fight for its veto, .both the Govern ment and local Interests would lose heavily by his strange change of feel ing regarding waterway improve ments. Senator Burton's demand that there be "a division of . expenses," when exceptional advantages accrue to pri vate property of specific localities, or when the protection of private prop-v orty is the main object and naviga tion is subordinate, will not affect any project on the Columbia" River-, and its tributaries. , In the improvement of the Columbia River between Port land and Astoria, the Port of Port land has made an actual "division of expenses, by paying vast sums ror deepening and maintaining a channel through which is handled traffic, orig-. inating in af least four states. . ! Strictly speaking, it is unfair that Portland should be obliged to carry so much of the burden of improving this stream in which the producers In more than 250,000 square miles of territory are interested. If, however, Senator Burton is selecting projects in which the policy of "self-help" is an important factor, and in which there has been a "division of expenses" without the advantages' accruing v to "private . property," he should labor mightily for retention In the bill of every Columbia River appropriation. . Mayor Billard, of Topeka, is putting the sin of Sabbath-breaking plain be fore the people of the-capital city of Kansas, who have indorsed a strenu ous Sunday anti-labor law. If it is against the law to work for pay on Sunday then, -in his estimation, preachers who are under pay and church singers and organists on a salary are as clearly breaking the law as are actors in the Sunday - night playhouse. Then there are the. street cars upon which Sabbatarians ride to and from church; these cannot be operated without conductors and mo tormen who are working for pay, even if small pay. Drugstores, peanut stands, cigar-stands, and soda-fountains what -of these? .All. represent gain and gainful occupations, do they not? Citing these things. Mayor Bil lard adds significantly: "The best way to get an obnoxious law repealed is to enforce it to the letter. . This is what I intend to do,'.' which means that Topeka is likely to be the blue est bjue-law town in the country for a while, and the people will have a chance to .tell the outside world how they like the despotism of the Sab batarian. Riotous Chinese are again making" unpleasant demonstrations against the "foreign devils" who ' haye invaded their land and are controlling the rice trade. As a preliminary exercise they have destroyed three foreign missions, and have sent the missionaries and British customs officers scurrying aboard a steamer for protection.- The trouble is in the province of Hunan, and British gunboats are hurrying to the. scene. It Is a noticeable feature of the Chinese riots that as a rule the nrst object of attack selected Is a foreign mission, thu3 .indicating that the religion of the white man is not as well adapted to their needs as that of their own, which had about 2000 years the start on our own. This present squabble, however, like its predecessors, will soon be settled, and the wounded dignity of the nation whose flag Is flying over the mission will be healed by the annexation of a few thousand square miles of terri tory not previously appropriated for similar balm for wounded dignity. "My whole view of the future is one made peaceable by force of arms,' said Lord Kitchener in a brief Inter view in Chicago yesterday. As "force of arms is the. only force" that Kitchener has ever used in his many and -varied peace-restoring lexploits on British territory, it is perhaps nat ural that his whole view of the future is somewhat at variance with that of many good men who hope that the future may still hold something be side war, as a means of settling dis putes. The legal profession will never engage in any concerted demand that lawyers be declared unnecessary and objectionable, and, for the same rea son, aye can hardly expect a mighty warrior like" Kitchener to see any merit in elimination of his' profession from the political or economic system. Hug Point, one of the most pic turesque landmarks on the Oregon coast, has succumbed to the demands of modern, convenience in travel. A road blasted around the face of the rocky point will permit travelers to and from the Nehalem and Arch Cape to reach Elk Creek at any stage of the tide. For some reasons the change will be welcomed, but the news of the passing of the old trail will' be re ceived with regret by the hundreds of daring seasiders who have enjoyed the thrills which were plentiful when the breakers threatened to engulf the- pe destrians who braved the dangers of the trip on the narrow trail which in places required close "hugging" to prevent a tumble' info the surf break ing at their feet. I One does not, have to-listen very in tently to hear, what the delegates to the Open River and Freight Rate Con vention now in session at Albany are saying. "We want the' ten-cent arbi trary rate removed";1 "free locks at Oregon City"; "an open river from Portland south the year round," clamor these delegates. Hear ye, hear ye! . . Democrats who think it unlawful for Republicans to assemble of course are sure their own liberties in that re spect are guaranteed by the Constitu tion. Blunders in census taking are a possible result of the civil service ex amination that provided enumerator.?. Not always does the man who can pass know the most. A boy feels the full effects of patri otism when burned with Fourth of July firecrackers, but the treatment is probably too severe when he loses his fingers. Now they are'trying to shift respon sibility for the Pinchot brand of con servation off on Roosevelt. It- needs somebody like that to shoulder it. The colonel in Europe has given the lie to another 1912 boomer. That ought to teach the ones in America a lesson. President Taft said his feelings were not hurt by the hisses of the women. He has gone through worse than that. Small towns in fertile districts of Oregon should not let fruit go to waste for want of a co-operative cannery. An' Echo man is advertising for 1000 live coyote pups. The town, will be heard from if he gets them. Maybe "ie- foreign -nations think that Roosevelt in. refusing the Presi dency is like Caesar. - " Wezler could not keep away from 'the other woman" -'a-nd was caught. . BILL, HANLEY, THE "CRIMINAL..' What He Una Done and What He Gets for Dolnsr It. The Dalles Optimist William Hanley, of Harney County, is again indicted by a Federal grand jury, this time for buying and using "timber'' cut from Government land. The "tim ber" thus used was the sor-ub Juniper, al ways heretofore considered public prop erty, as it is good only for fence posts and firewood. Had it been unlawful to use this wood in the past, there would be no settlement in Central Oregon worth mentioning, for it and the sagebrush are the only fuel in large sections of that country. Under the present "progressive" policies of the Government it will not be very long until settlers will be arrested, and prosecuted, for using the sagebrush for fuel, for it is practically as valuable as the juniper. Mr. Hanley and his predecessors have been draining the Blitzen Valley, and a canal has been cut for almost its entire length,' 40 ' miles, and thus some 80,000 acres of swamp land has been drained. But when the work is. nearly completed. In steps the Government agents and utop the work. . No consideration is- given to the fact that an immense area of value less land has been clven to th state. no consideration is given to' the fact that over $100,000 has been expended on the work. It is only considered that a few thousand cords of Juniper wood has been used in the operation of the dredge, and the officials will not ' be satisfied until Mr. Hanley is convicted of the "crime." Mr. Hanley received a letter from the officials, stating that If he would pay 2600 the prosecution- would' be. dropped. What would, have been the result had Mr. Hanley. offered 2600 cents to have It dropped? He would have been branded as a, felon, and would perhaps have to serve from five to ten years in prison for the offense. How long are we to submit ,to these petty, biased and un-American proceed ings? How long is the West to be ham pered and held back by such prosecutions? How long are such men as Mr. Hanley to be persecuted for attempting to develop the country? s. ' If Mr. Hanley is a criminal for his acts. then there Is hot a settler in the interior who is innocent. - If he Is not Innocent, we are . band of criminals. Meantime,, four out of five people com ing to the West to take up land go to the provinces north. Alberta. Saskatchewan and British Columbia, where settlers and others have still some rights left and respected. " , - AMERICANS STICK TO SACK COAT. Therefore n Palatial Sm Restaurant Went Into Bankrnptcy. Certain men in New i ork who have been trying the experiment of operat ing what they advertised as the most expensively furnished and decorated restaurant In the world are counting up the cost -of their four months' ex perience. They were incorporated with a capital of $600,000, which has apparently been spent in refitting the old Hotel Rossmore on a somewhat gorgeous scale, and in partly paying the running expense. .Debts to th amount of over half a million of dol lars have already accumulated, there are mechanics' -liens on the establish ment, and an assignment by the com pany for the benefit ot the creditors was inevitable. One of the New York papers, at tempting to explain the failure of what was said to be the most expensive dis pensary - of food and drink in New York both . for its patrons and pro prietors, as now appears says that the rule which was enforced after 9 P. M., requiring all male guests . to come in evening dress, was the prin cipal obstacle to the success of this chief "lobster palace" of the metrop olis. Another, paper comes out a little closer to the fact in mentioning that the English manager who was brought over from the Hotel Savoy in London and his corps of English waiters are all going back to "dear old Lunnon" right away, and that when the place is reopened it will be under the man agement of a New Yorker. Commenting on the big failure, the New York Globe and Commercial Ad vertiser, says: "The sartorial contest has ended as it was predicted it would. The sack coat has won. The swallow-tail has surrendered. New York, while willing to do a fair amount of Imitating, re sists the attempt to make it in all re spects like 'Dear Old London.' The spirit of democracy is not yet dead, and it has vindicated the principle of dress as you please. "When a new and gorgeous lobster palace "requested in Its advertisements that Its patrons should wear evening dress there was trepidation. It looked for a time as if othr restaurants might catch the infection, and that a man might starve to death along upper Broadway if he lacked the proper gar ment. But as the winter went rein forcements came to the free and -easy. The stranger arrived In his usual num bers from the West. The man who calls food 'grub' doesn't like it when Ills clothes are criticised. Has he the price? What business Is it of any res taurateur what he wears? "So the white flag is noisted. In ex plaining why the doors which sought to bar out the sack and the cutaway are now closed a sadder and' wiser manager says: 'The widely circulated statement that this restaurant was ex clusively for persons in evening dress has cost us thousands of dollars. It may be considered one of the principal reasons for the failure of the enter prise.' " ' Advertising by Telegraph. New York Tribune. Acting on the Idea that a business man or. In fact, any one, will open and read a telegram where a circular would be thrown into the waste-basket, many per sons who have heretofore used the malls for reaching prospective customers are now using the new letter-telegram sys tern of the telegraph -companies. One firm recently turned in about four thousand dispatches to be sent in one night for that purpose. Where a form Is used with a number of addresses in the same city, the form Is wired through once, and the addresses are sent with it, to be copied off and delivered by the receiving office. Advertisers say that this method insures a reading of what they have to say. Incidentally, It means work for many more telegraph opera tors, as well as more income for the company. . Jack Says. Life. That economy Is the word used by our neighbor with reference to his stinginess. That a1 wise woman will choose the "slow coach" in preference, to the fast male. That the woman who named her son Romeo did a quite unnecessary thing. That a fool and his advice are soon parted. That someone should urge the gossips to organize in favor of shorter .hours. Congressional Oversight. f" ' Boston Herald. It never seems to have occurred tol Congress to charge extra pay for night sessions. But may that not be expected soop- . BRITISH SCARES OVER ROOSEVELT What "Will Happen if He DIscuaaea Colonial Policies. London Correspondence of New York Evening Post No wonder, then, that old Egyptian officers stand aghast at Mr. Roose velt's faux "pas. I am tpld on good authority that in his club the other day Earl Cromer said, "Thank God, Roosevelt didn't take it Into his head to visit India!" Old bureaucrats here are frightened, also, by a declaration Mr. Roosevelt Is said to have made in the Cairo Club to the effect that when he comes to England he will talk to the imperial government on the neces sity of paying more regard "to the men on the outposts of the empire. Some one should advise the ex-Presi- dent not to do so, as we shall probably be in the throes of a. general election when he visits us. so that anything he says on our policy in Egypt or anywhere else will undoubtedly be used for party purposes. During the last election a letter in praise of tariff reform, falsely Id to have been written by tne American Ambassador here, was circu lated in one constituency by the Union ists, with the result that a severe comment appeared in the Westminster Gazette. ' If Mr. Roosevelt praises the pro- Consuls, he will be taken up and pat ronized by the Standard, the Daily Mail and the other Tory papers. Lord Cur- con will beam on him, tne Kaoicai papers will attack, him, and his at tempts to explain and to set matters right will only make them worse. Even his advice to Young Egypt has already been used by at least two Tory papers as a missile against the Liberals. If the ex-President says anything about looking after the interests of our distant dependencies, it will be taken as a slur on the Liberal government for" its attention to domestic questions. The Times will talk of our Parliament's time being wasted in what Mr. Balfour calls "barren discussions," instead of being devoted to the development of our mighty empire and to preparation against our many foes. One obscure American here wrote a book some time ago, in which he said that the upper house was more really repre sentative of England than the lower that among i the peers you find men fit to do everything, from drafting constitution to darntng a sock, or words to that effect. Now, this phrase has been worked to- death during the last election. .Lord Lansdowhe used it in the first speech he made after the. rejection of the budget, and it has since been used by innumerable Lords, Commoners and leader writers. Then, again, when Lord Rosebery made his speech on the reform of the upper house he asked, in his dramatic way, what America would think of us if we descended to single-chamber rule. waving his hand at the same time (ac cording to the Observer) toward tne American Ambassador- sitting in the distinguished strangers' gallery. So keen, therefore. Is the desire of the Unionists to get American opinion on their side that an American cocka too would be quoted, if it spoke in favor of the upper house. Hence the necessity of caution on the part of our distinguished visitor. WAS MR- WATTERSOS ONLY JOKING! The Constitution of the United States Is Still Intact. Washington Star. What Mr. Watterson has done and was not , that his real purpose? is to "take off"' the "Back-from-Elba" gentry. They bewail the existing order of things. The Constitution, in their eyes. Is a worn- out instrument fit for the Junk pile. They would be glad to return Mr. Roosevelt to the White House and keep him there for life. . As they believe, all is chaos and worse without his guiding hand. But these men. are comparatively few In number, and have tittle Influence. They do not represent any Democrats, and speak only for themselves among Republicans. There Is today no warrant whatever for -the assumption tnat in this matter they are in touch 'With Mr. Roosevelt. The idea that they are prim ing him for a prompt assault on Mr. Taft and the Administration's record, with the object of turning the President out at the end of his term, .and that they will succeed, is unsupported by a single word or act of Mr. Roosevelt, and is an Insult to his manhood and the sin cerity of his friendship. The- old Continentals in their ragged regimentals are still the favorite boys. The old Constitution, with all of its checks and balances, is still intact, and still the best and most substantial thing of its kind in all the world. No better American or better equipped man for the Presidency ever occupied the White House than William H. Taft. Corruption In public affairs exists, but always has existed, and always will exist. .Never De- fore has corruption been more actively nursued. or have corruptlonlsts, when convicted, been more severely punisnea. Long live, and long will live, the Re public! If Mr. Watterson Is not kidding the Elbaltes, what is ne giving tne coun try? - One Inefficient Department. Washington Letter to Boston Transcript. Bv common consent today the Agricul tural Department, which is spending $15,000,000 a year. Is in a state of pa thetic demoralization. Secretary Wilson Is a benevolent old man, of kindliness and of good intentions. He never was strong Intellectually and. never had any stand ing as a scientist. He is a farmer-politician who through a series of accidents has been permitted to hold a place in the cabinet longer than any other man in the history of the country, his record some time ago distancing that of the trreat Gallatin of the formative period of the Republic And yet the waste and misapplication of energies due to Wll- sop's remaining at the head of a depart ment -"which has got entirely away from him runs into tremendous figures. .His real scientists are only marking time un til a new head can come; and he has under him the largest aggregation of scientific talent to be found on the face of the globe. President Taft realizes the need of a change and told his friends so before his Inauguration, but he has felt rjowerless to move, and still hesitates. Not on ,the Schedule, New York Mail. Although there are about 4000 differ ent articles mentioned on the rate tar iffs which the railroads use, a new problem came up In Louisiana the other day when a circus company presemeo. four elephants for shipment by freight from a little town in tne interior xo New Orleans. The traffic managers would not accept them at the livestock rate and the owners refused to pay a general merchandise rate. Finally, the nuestion was submitted to the Railroad Commission, which established a rate of $1.59 per hundred pounds for the four animals. Tho road that secured the business was accused of accepting too low a rate and entered complaint, but the Commission replied that it did not anticipate any rate war on elephants in Louisiana. t Monument to Hanimu. Indianapolis Star. The late Edward H. Harriman is to have a monument. Erected by an ad miring people to a great railroad build er? Well, no. It will be a testimonial of the citizens of Orange County to his services in behalf of good roads and in the breeding of blooded horses'. He was at least not a prophet without honor in his own neighborhood. Complaint Not Confined to- Railroads. Indianapolis News. Well, suppose the railroads are having difficulty In raising money to make needed improvements .' .Most of us are experiencing the same difficulty. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE A traveler in Georela observed a big negro leaning heavily against a fence in the shade of a Cottonwood tree. . Draw ing rein, he Inquired, "Tired, George?" The : negro showed disgust. "'iianeaT Who. me? No. suh, Ah'm not tlahed. Ah'm hoein' this yere patch o co n an Ah'm waitin" fob the sun to git down so's Ah kin go home." Circle. A tourist from Philadelphia who has Just returned from a visit through the South relates this conversation, whicn ne overheard between a farmer's wife and a negro looking for work: "Be there any work around here, missus .' asitea me applicant. "Well, we do need a man." replied the woman. "Do you want work?" 'Yes. 'urn." "Well. I'm looking lor a man to do the chores around the house. always be polite, willing to work and never impudent." "Did you say you was a-lookln' for a hired man, missus?" asked the negro. "Yes; iwhy - do you ask? "Well, it 'pears to me that a hired man ain't what you want. Youi want a nus- band. Philadelphia Times. A Columbus, O.. banker once gave his wife a book of blank checks, all properly signed and ready for filling in. "You are welcome to use these as you see fit." he told her, "but I want you to write on the stub of each Just what that check was used for, then when the book has been used mo I will look over the stubs and see what disposition you have made of them." She handed him the book tne other day, after using all the checks, and he began an inspection of the memoran da on the frtuba. "Here Is check i9 for 175, marked 'church expenses.' What church expenses are these? I have regu larly paid the assessments, he saia. "Oh." replied the wife, "that was ror a new Easter bonnet." Kansas City Star. A Brooklyn minister was recently ap proached on the street by a young wom an who inquired whether lie were not Rev. Dr. Blank. . "Yes," said the minis ter, who seemed at a loss to identify the young person. "Don t you rememoer me.' asked the girl, laughingly. I am atraid I don't, said the good man, apologet ically. "Will you not give me Just a lit tle hint?" "Well." continued the young woman, "I certainly think that you ought to remember me. even if It has been s long a time. Why, Dr. Blank, you bap tized me here in Brooklyn, just before. my rtaronta mrVA1 Wast Ynn Hon t mean ta gay that you've forgotten me entirely? " Argonaut. Into the consulting-room of Sir Chopp- ham Fyne, head of the famous surgica: hospital in Splintshire. the attendant ad mitted the attractive young woman wht had WTitten "urgent" on her card. "And what is the matter with you?" said the great man. "I wish," she answered. 't become a nurse in this institution." The. surgeon tapped a thoughtful tooth with his lancet. "First, one question. Have you had any previous experience?" She dazzled him with a reassuring smue. 'Experience!" she cried. "I should think so. Two of my orotners play iooidhii. another has tried to- cross the English Channel In an aeroplane of his own make, mother is a suffragette, and father keeps a motor-car." Lord Palmerston. expected work to be done well, but of mere peccadilloes he was tolerant. Some young gentle men in the Foreign Office amused them selves by "shining" young ladies' who lived on the other side of the street that is, by catching the ,rays of the sun on a mirror and flashing them over the way. The father of the young ladies com plained to Palmerston, who thereupon Issued this minute: The Secretary of State desires that the gentlemen In this department will not cast disagreeable reflections on the ladles opposite. London Chronicle. Whltewashlnsr the Tariff. Wall Street Journal. The problem of the high cost of liv ing is 6till before us. The ridiculous Senate -Inquiry has continued its efforts to collect party material for the com--lng Congressional campaign. Beyond resentment tha the taxpayers' money should be wasted hi such foolery, the transparent effort to whitewash the. tariff has merely excited contempt. Indiana, through its Republican state convention, has denounced the Payne Aldrich tariff, and the political situa tion all round looks ugly for the Ad ministration, which, after all, has only Itself to thank. Mr. Taft's conceptions of party loyalty have put him in the position of defending the indefensible. He cannot possibly suppose that the woolen and cotton schedules of the tariff law constitute sound or even tol erable taxation. His well-meant ef forts have only resulted in arousing public sentiment on the question of en dowing favored manufacturers out of the public pocket, in a way that it has never been awakened before. Reflections of m Bachelor. New York Press. The only thing a woman can enjoy more than making a man miserable about her is making herself miserable, too. Even when a man knows a girl is Just flirting with him he can act as if he had lost a bet on a horserace when she sends him away. A man always has a clearer conscience when he telegraphs a He home about be ing detained by business than when h telephones It. , The average man proposes to a girl with about the same calmness he would go to his execution, and it's pretty muck the same thing. If a man plays a game of dominoet with the children he tries to give an im pression downtown the next day it was a game of poker I at the club with a $U limit Jnt Holdln On to the Plow. Christian Science Monitor. - The farmer, so they say, is gettin( the best of it; the farmer has the firs! chance; the farmer has the goods, an he makes the price that is the basis o: all the other prices between the origina producer and the ultimate consumer Through It all the farmer has main tained an absolutely dignified attitude He has denied nothing, admitted noth ing. But as the sun has become warm er and the soil has become drier and th'i - chances of an early sowing have be COme brighter, no amount of gossip ot criticism regarding the high cost of Hv ing and his possible or probable relatioi to It has caused him to remov his hand from the plow save to respond to th welcome noonday horn, .between the sil very sunrise and goldtn sunset. But Can They Compete "Springfield (Mass.) Union. The suggestion that Massachusetti farmers observe Arbor Day by settini out apple trees m order that they ma; compete with the orchards of Oregon arw Washington, is one that ought to b , heeded. Successful apple growers of t'ra Northwest say that the New Englaru farms are capable of producing as firs a grade of apples as can be raised any where in the country, yet New Englan is one of the principal markets for tli apples grown in the West. Withhold Loans In April. Indianapolis News-. Remember, too, that this is one o the best months in the year for fol lowing an Invariable policy of no lending your umbrella. Part of the Punishment. Chicago Post. But, then, no President can hope 1 pass four years in the White Hous without hearing from Chancellor Day. 4