.-THE MORXIXG OREGOXtAX ' .-JSAICBDAX APRILl 16,. 191Q.
' ' PORTLAND. OREGON.
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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.
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