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Foreign postaga uouble rate. ,,K,ra Business Office The S. C. Bectc with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 7? Tnbune building. Chicago, rooms 810 012 Tribune building. PORTLAND. MONDAY, MAY 30. 1810. PKIMAJU.ES I" NEW YOBK ASD OREGON. Directprlmarles are the issue of a bitter fight in the New York Legisla ture. But unlike the present squabble in Oregon, no demand is heard in that state for abolition of the recommend ing assembly or the convention; no faction asserts that assembly or con vention will "boss" the people in the subsequent primaries, nor does any body of direct primary advocates in sist upon free-for-all primaries that hitherto have prevailed in Oregon. These contentions are too absurd for credence in the Empire State. The wonder is that any group of citizens in Oregon has the boldness to assert them. ' ; Governor Hughes' measure, the Hin-man-Green bill, providing for a state .committee o( 150 members .to recom mend candidates for nomination in primaries, has been defeated in the lower house of the Legislature. A ri val measure, the Phillips-Meade bill, providing for primary election of dele gates to nominating conventions and allowing direct primary nominations in any county, city or borough, whose central (nmmitt(io tti -.1 r u'l npfi nn that method of nomination, has passed both houses. The Hughes party, holding out threat of ;veto and extra session, was laboring all last week with supporters of the Phillips-Meade bill, on a compromise measure. The com promise retains state, judicial, city, town and village conventions, but re quires nominations in direct primaries. Therefore candidates recommended by conventions must be passed upon by party voters in the primaries, and party voters may accept those candi dates or nominate others. This would.be bringing the proposed System of nominations in the State of New York very close to the plan that was followed last year in Portland in the election of the present city- gov ernment and that will be followed this year through the state in election of officers of state and county govern ment. But the compromise bill is violently assailed by politicians and bosses of both parties and its success is yet doubtful. Governor Hughes' in fluence has been weakened somewhat by his appointment as Justice of the ilupiCUtC V. - Ul L, V 11 1 1. II, nCXL r it 1 1 , Will remove him from activity in the poli tics of his state. The wide-open primary, with its un bidden, go-as-you-please candidates, results in minority nominations and refusal of the affected party to sup port the nominees; in disruption of party and in consequent defeat of the popular will. So clear is this to Gov ernor Hughes, that he insisted .upon a recommending assembly of 150 mem bers, while the framers of the Phillips Meade bill, who were the committee of the Legislature that investigated primary systems of other states, re tained the old-time conventions. Ken find it essential to deliberate together in assembly and convention as to mat ters 01 many amerent Kinds, and poll tics is no exception to this rule. Citi zens are confronted with necessity of conventions in mercantile and com mercial affairs; also in religious and fraternal affairs; and granges, bar as sociations and labor unions have . re cently asserted the assembly practice in this state. The Republican State Convention that will meet in Portland next July will not menace the people nor take from the people any part of their privilege of nominating candidates in primaries in the following September. Between the assembly and the pri maries will be an interval of two months, during - which voters can closely scrutinize the works of the assembly and its recommended candi dates for office. Anybody who asserts that the peo ple will be "driven like cattle" during these two months, by "convention bosses," either insults the intelligence of the electorate or is trying for self ish ends to mislead the people with bogey and buncomre. The people will have a long period of time in which to make up their, minds whether to accept the candidates of the assembly or to nominate others in their places. ' 1 CORN AND HOGS. Experiments in raising corn' have been successful in several locations in the. Willamette Valley, as wen as" in parts of Eastern Oregon and -Washington. We are familiar with the ex cuse given by early settlers of the Pacific Northwest for importing their bacon, hams and lard from the Middle West. Hogs, so they said, could, not be raised without corn, and corn would not mature in this region. Neither assumption in this case is correct: 'in the days of cheap wheat i. e., wheat at 50 cents a bushel fine pork was made by some of the more thrifty farmers from "chaff" made of second grade wheat fed four or six weeks be Tore slaughter to hogs that had been kept in good condition through the Bummer on orchard, garden, field and lairy waste. Then some farmer with jnitiativn (practical, not political) concluded to try a patch of corn, and to his surprise round that it thrived moderately, and , In favorable locations very well, and matured a good crop. Of course, no one will assert that corn is as depend able a forage or food crop in the Wil lamette Valley as it is in the states of the Middle West, where sultry nights tucceed hot days for a number of H-eeks during the growing season. But In ordinary seasons and in sunny loca tions it has produced a good auxiliary forage and fattening crop for many years. Our farmers cannot afford to slight pork raising. There is good money in It. for the local market. It is also an important part or tne ramlly mainte ' nance on the farm. Think of farmers of years' experience all around about buying bacon to feed their families and hired men at 25 and even 28 cents a liound! And this when the culls and windfalls in their orchards, and the small potatoes and surplus root crops of their gardens literally went to waste last year; and when perhaps an acre or half acre of ground grew up to weeds that would have produced a good crop of artichokes! Manifestly the failure to raise at least, a supply of pork for home use irisuch cases was not due to climatic conditions unfavorable to growing corn, but to mismanagement on the part of the farmer himself.x Farmers of the Pacific Northwest cannot expect to compete in pork raising for an ex tended market with the farmers of the great corn belt, but they can raise their own pork, besides a profitable surplus for the home market, if they will utilize the waste products of their orchards, gardens and fields for that purpose and plant special crops to fin ish the process of fattening hogs at the proper time. No farming community can be pros perous to a degree that could readily be reached where all of its energies are bent toward the production of a single staple. The Willamette Valley had its exclusive wheat-producing era. For this there was some excuse in the fact that there was for many years no market here for perishable farm prod ucts. Later prunegrowlng forged to the front, and now apple-growing has taken first rank. It is well to remem ber that the prosperity of a farming community, year in and year out, de pends not on a single crop, but in a diversity that produces something to sell from the farm every month in the year, and the greater variety of products for which there is a demand the better. SPOKANE AND TERMINAL RATES. Some persons of Spokane imagine their City' has grown so great that it can - compel new railroads- to grant "terminal rates" or to stay out. Such citizens are foolhardy. They cannot settle at their own doors a question that involves every other inland city of the country, and that even Congress and the Interstate Commission have practically confessed themselves un able to settle in accordance with the "Spokaneidea"; nor can they exact from new railroads terms that would upset the relations of those roads with other lines the country over. More over, they will not accomplish their purpose by exacting conditions that will compel new roads either to stay out of Spokane or to enter that city on tracks of other transportation com panies. These .ould seem to be primer truths of city-building, but a certain element of the people of Spokane can not learn them. However, most other citizens of Spokane seem to realize the true situation because tl.e Council re cently backed down from its terminal rate demands on the North Coast and the Milwaukee Railroads and it seems likely that voters of that city will up hold the Council, should the question be submitted to referendum. Spokane is a thriving city and is pressing forward to larger greatness. It is well enough for that city to re quire reasonable concessions from railroads for convenience of its citi zens. But this long-and-short-haul question is much too big for Spokane to handle alone. When Spokane at tempts to do this it brings forces in opposition to its progress that are spread all over the Nation. That Is too big a job, even for the energetic City of Spokane. Besides, there are other cities -within Spokane's "trade zone" that are enti tled to equal treatment as t- terminal rates. Those cities are bound to make themselves heard in distribution of terminal-rate benefits. PORTLAND'S RECORD GROWTH. Portland again -led every large city in the United States in the percentage of gain in bank clearings reported by Bradstreet's last week. The gain over the corresponding week last year was 46.6 per cent, the nearest approach to this figure made by any of the cities in Portland's class being Cleveland, O., with 38.8 per cent. Of the large cities on the. Pacific Coast, San Fran cisco showed a gain of 24.7 per cent and Los Angeles 2 3.5 per cent. Seattle suffered a loss of 15 per cent. Oak land, Cat., had a gain of 50.3 per cent; but, as the total clearings for the week were less than one-twelfth as great as for Portland, they w-ere valueless for the purpose of comparison with Port land. It is by thus comparing the trade statistics of Portland with other cities that we are enabled to deter mine more accurately the extent of the record-breaking growth of the city. Even more striking evidence of this growth is noticeable in the returns on building permits and real estate trans fers. The figures for the month of May are, of course, not yet complete; but the building permits have already reached a figure where a single per mit for any one of a dozen large structures which will be under con struction this Summer would send the month's total over the 2,000,000 mark. Seattle building permits, as reported by the Daily Bulletin of that city, are available to May 24. They show a total for that period of $906,805. Portland permits for the same period, as reported by the Daily Abstract of this city, were Jl, 589, 033. Real estate transfers reported by the same publications are: ' Seattle $2 -159,327; Portland, $2,448,672; the lat ter including at least one $300,000 transaction that appears on the rec ords and -in these figures at the nomi nal consideration of $1. It is not alone in the total amount of these building permits that Port land makes an exceptionally strong showing, but it is in the character of the buildings being erected. In Seat tle we find the $906,805 valuation of the permits to May 24 to represent 932 separate permits, an average per build ing of $962. In -Portland there are represented ' in the $1,589,033 valua tion for the same period but 451 struc tures, an average per building of $3523. This is nearly four times as great as the average of the Seattle per mits, and is a fine tribute to the high class of buildings being erected in this city. There were but few large buildings represented in the Portland totals for May, the -great demand for buildings at the present time being for a class that can be used to house the thou sands of newcomers who are pouring in, not only from all parts of the United States, but from Europe. Port land has never-profited very much by the Alaska mines, but in the new North Bank Railroad, the lines to Cen tral Oregon, to Tillamook, and with electric lines branching out in all di rections, the city has struck a pay streak that will never be worked out and will yield steadily through all seasons. INSURGENTS AND THE PARTY. Mr. Brown, in his always interesting and reliable Washington correspond ence, discusses the insurgent move ment and describes the reckless and defiant attitude of the insurgent lead ers. They are fatuously bent on wrecking the Republican party in the astonishing conviction that they may thus save themselves. They put "prin ciples above party." They care not what becomes of the Administration measures or the party pledges. They acknowledge no loyalty to the Repub lican organization, and will not yield to party authority. They are obsessed with the craze against Cannonism and Aldrichism. They insist on paddling their own little canoes, and on letting the old Republican hulk go to the bot tom. Evidently there is just where the Republican ship .is going this Fall. The scuttlers are likely to have their way, and there is to be a Democratic House of Representatives. Very well. But what claim have the men who boastingly put "princi ples above party" upon party to return them to Congress? There is the justly celebrated Poindexter, for example. He has wrought so much mischief upon the Republican party in the House that he loudly demands as his reward that this same Republican party send him to the Senate. Or nominally, he calls upon the Republi can party. Actually he knows that he will not get a majority or plurality of Republican votes. What will happen will be that the InsUrgtmt Republicans '(Republicans with a prefix, who al ways attach an "If to their party loy alty), the Populists, the Democrats and the discontented and dissatisfied ele ments of all parties will unite on Poin dexter at the Republican primary and probably nominate him for Senator. But will the Washington Legislature then elect Poindexter? It will not, unless a majority of the Legislature shall hare foolishly and needlessly signed the equivalent in Washington for the Oregon Statement One. Will they sign it, with their eyes wide open? THE FARMERS' FRANKNESS. The moral issue involved in the temperance question has changed but little since the first drunkard "took the pledge." The economic phase of the problem has appealed to the peo ple with steadily increasing force. The cause of temperance is making great progress in great part because drunk enness has becoml unpopular with the respectable element in society. There are enough sober men for most of the positions which the country has to offer, and it is unnecessary to waste time with the man who drinks whisky. Not all of the people who are support ing the cause of temperance deem it necessary, however, to admit that it is the economic more than the moral side of the question that appeals to them. The-local Farmers' Union at Lind, Washington, makes no false pretense about its reasons for demanding re striction on the sale of liquor. Lind local No. 20 urges "the elimination of intoxicating drinks from our fair land" for the reason that: "We, as farmers, in this immediate community have ex perienced serious and expensive re sults to the loss and damage to our crops from the unreliability of harvest hands on account of a too free use of intoxicating liquors during the har vest season." There is good common sense as well as candor in this resolution. The farmers are aiding the cause of tem perance because they want sober men of good habits to perform their work, just as the railroads are aiding it be cause It is unsafe to trust their prop erty in the hands of" men who dally with the -wine. There is of course much earnest work being done in the cause by enthusiasts who regard only the moral aspects of the case, but the great pressure for restricting or elimi nating the evil is coming from the employers of labor, to whom the eco nomic feature of the question has ap pealed in a forcible manner. SHIFTING THE BURDEN. A New York letter in The Oregonian yesterday offered an interesting side light on the much-discussed higher-cost-of-livlng problem. Many of the Eastern railroads have recently ad vanced wages of their employes, and new laws governing railroad operation, taxation and so forth have greatly in creased the cost of operation. To get even on this increased expense, the railroads have arranged to increase commuters' fares to the extent of $1 per month. This does not seem like a large sum, but as it Is estimated that 400,000 commuters will be affected by the raise, it becomes an affair of conr siderable magnitude. In round num bers it will cost the New York com muters about $5,000,000 per year. In an attempt to avoid paying the increased cost of railroad operation, some of these people will move back to New York. The city is already overcrowded and a return of any con siderable number of commuters would result in an advance in rents not only for the people who were driven back, to the city by the increased rates, but for the unfortunates who stayed in the city. It would be difficult for anyone but the railroad people to de termine the exact relation this increase in fare bears to the increase in cost of wages and other items of opera tion. The incident demonstrates quite effectively, however, that any addi tional burdens .placed on the large employers are quite easily passed on to the small consumers, even when railroad transportation Is the com modity consumed. Not all of this $5,000,000 that is to be wrung from the New York com muter, will go to the railroad em ployes or to increased taxes. The "higher cost of living" has been the lever which many coal miners used to pry advances out of mine owners. The latter "passed the buck" by advancing the price of coal to the railroads. The railroads now get even by caUing on the commuters to pay the bill. In this shifting of the burden from one to another there must of course be an end somewhere, and as usual the small consumer and wage-earner is found on the "end" with no one be yond him to whom he can pass on the increased cost of living. Just at pres ent there is some sunshirjfe for the commuter in the heavy decline in wheat, pork and other farm products. If these staples go much lower, he can in this way recoup for the lost $12 per year. Now that the energetic bears have knocked about 20 cents per bushel off the price of wheat, we may expect to note in the farm journals and on the minutes .of the American Society of Equity meetings resolutions denounc ing Board of Trade gambling in wheat. So long as that high-minded and gen erous philanthropist; Mr. Patten, kept prices well above the dollar level, as he has done for the past two years, there did not really seem to be any thing wrong with the operations of the Board of Trade. It is a serlctus matter, however, when a lot of pfain gamblers, with utter disregard for the feelings or interests of the farmer, de liberately sell so much wheat that the supply of buyers is exhausted. It is now stated that J. P. Morgan is inter ested in the recent- raid on Patten. There's a line-up that promises sport. With the embattled farmers and Pat ten resisting the onslaughts of the money trust, the great army of con sumers are actually threatened with a larger loaf or a smaller price for bread. v Another line of steamers is con tending for Portland business between the Atlantic seaboard and the Pacific Coast ports. The first carrier of this new line, which is to compete with the American-Hawaiian fleet, has se cured 3000 tons of freight for Port land. This freight was taken at a rate so low that the Portland impor ters can unload the cargo at Portland, and, after paying full local rates back from the coast, can deliver it in Spokane territory at lower rates than the railroads can possibly make for the expensive all-rail haul across the continent. Spokane will never have any trouble in forcing the railroads to grant terminal rates, if it will -construct a waterway by which these" -eheap ocean-carriers can reach the warehouses of the Spokane jobbers as easily as they reach Portland. In honoring the soldiers who fought and died for their country, eulogy may fitly be included for the pioneer men and women who first settled the West ern wilderness and who fought and wore their lives away and died to save this land from wilderness and savage. Our early settlers performed deeds of daring and suffering equal to those of our brave soldiers in uniform. Pioneer wives and daughters are especially de serving of a thought and a flower to day. Among those who marched in the front rank of heroism are the men and the women who started the begin nings of present-day fields and cities between Atlantic and Pacific. ' They were courageous flag-bearers. The Spring has blossomed for these, also, of the Nation's honored dead. Ano'ther boy has lost his life with a .22, this time in Lincoln County. He was 12 years old. As the ambition of the country boy, from the time he emerges into pants, is to own a gun, there is no moral in this accident, for some boys of that age, even less, are better fitted to handle a weapon than others much older. This is a fighting Nation, and it appears to be impera tive that the boy who wants a gun should have it. Discretionary meas ures are best left with his parent, who is fitted to judge the age of the youth ful nimrod.' Loss of life is to be de plored, of course, and sympathy ex tended to the family, but the hunting lust is a National disease that always will exist, despite examples and warn ings. ;. Senator Lorlmer, a Republican, was elected by the aid of Democratic votes, and now he hurls back with indigna tion the charge that he bought the Democrats, or anybody. True, true, no doubt. Here in Oregon we know that the Democrats do dearly love to vote for a Republican, whenever there is no Democrat to vote for. There are two Connollys, and Assist ant Attorney-General Lawler got the'm mixed. Connolly didn't act the cow ard on board a sinking ship. What one Connolly did was to write a lot of muckraking articles for a sensational weekly journal. He is merely another kind of coward. The two young women of Lake County, California, who are leading a "strenuous" life in the mountains peel ing tanbark and -wearing men's cloth ing will find the lessons of value in later years when they have to "rustle" the family living. The television is a new device by which you can see what your friend or enemy is doing miles and miles away. Just think what a lot of news paper space might have been saved last year, if some one had been able to keep his eye on Dr. Cook. No one will be sorry except those unselfish patriots who have their own reasons to lament that Colonel Dunne will remain as Collector of Internal Revenue. He is a good officer and a good man. and the Government is wise to retain him in its service. It is time to call a halt in these in ventions, now that a photograph can be taken and transmitted by wire. Next it will be by wireless and the man out late at night will have no place to hide from kodak and phone. Mr. Corbett, through his great love for the white race, is going to show Mr. Jeffries how to lick the "nigger." All fixed now.' There Is no time up to July 4 when the "nigger" need be taken into consideration. Rose Festival too late this year, say the wise ones. Are they able in ad vance to fix a better date? Perhaps we should have the Festival In mid winter, and celebrate with paper roses. Why didn't Senator Lorlmer adopt for his vindication the argument of that great Illinois lawyer that It is no crime to buy a legislator's vote, and let it go at that? Now we shall have an illuminating series of articles in a Salem paper on the mistakes of the Republican Ad ministration. Hofer didn't get the job. Senator Lorimer's supporters seem to be in a stampede to confess. Lori mer's election" was the result of sys tem the Lorimer system. Don't forget the day. Possibly there may be no particular grave on which .you care to place flowers; but some day there will be. Plunger Patten may get out of his demoralized wheat corner all right. He has a nicely padded cotton corner to fall back on. Theft may seem safe and easy to a railway postal clerk in financial disor der, yet the thief never escapes from Uncle Sanv NON-PARTISAN JUDGE FAKERT. Scheme of LBwyera to Control the People's Judiciary. Burns. Harney County. News. The News does not see anything very charming in the insistent demand from certain quarters for a "nonpartisan judiciary" in this state, in the sense in which it is advocated. There Is nothing in the record of the Judiciary of this state for the past 20 years w-hich Justifies a claim that partisan control of the nomination and election of Judges has been harmful, nor have we ever noticed any evidence that the Judges were governed by political bias in their work on the bench. The fact is. the whole thing Is a subterfuge by which to give honors and emolu ments to Democrats at the expense of Republicans and Is not in the true sense a "nonpartisan" move at all. Another false proposition in this connection is the assumption that the lawyers of the state shall have the right to nominate the Judges. This would be wrong in principle and prac tice. Give the lawyers control In this respect and the Judges would be abso lutely at their mercy. Then would be named only the class of men who would "be nice" to the lawyers, allow dila tory motions, wink at technical delays and obstacles, be slow to declare non suits upon carelessly constructed papers, etc., etc., thus making civil litigation costly and tiresome to the litigants and criminal actions exceed ingly expensive to the taxpayers. We have known some excellent Judges who are much desired by the people who would have been long since sacrificed if the lawyers could have dictated. We believe the responsibility of a strong political party . behind a Judge is a good thing and we believe the Judge made exclusively by the in fluence of the lawyers would be a bad thing for the people. We also believe the voters of Oregon will not stand for either the "nonpartisan" or the hand made judiciary. DIRECT LEGISLATION EXCESSES. Voter Are Asked to Pass Judgment on Measures They Do Not Understand. Grants Pass Observer. Direct legislation has run to abuse, and the voters are asked to pass judg ment upon measures that they have no proper understanding of- Not one in a hundred voters had any intelligent con ception of the provisions contained in that Insane measure known as the "Cor rupt Practice Act." Yet the voters passed it, and it is safe to say that there is not a deliberative body, in the world that would have enacted such a bill without extensive amendments. It is making endless trouble, and needs the interpretation of skilled legal training. Then there were the two opposing sal mon bills, which were submitted to the people two years ago, and the people made both of them law. It was a flag rant absurdity. So with the division of Wasco County. The people in this end of the state did not have the remotest idea "Of the rights in the case, but they voted it Just the same. Three or four new counties are up for the approval of the voters next November, and they are pretty sure to be approved, though some of these new counties overlap each other, and 90 per cent of the voters have no knowledge of the rights. Within proper limits, direct legislation by the people is highly desirable, but it is an abuse to ask the people to pass judgment upon measures that they do not understand. The State Grange is acquiring a realiz ing sense of these abuses of direct legis lation, and may be a power to correct them, notwithstanding all the blather of Senator Jonathan Bourne and his faker associates. . . Effects of Plnch'otUm. The Dalles Optimist. What do you think of "Pinehotism" anyhow? One-third of Oregon is locked up in forest reserves three-quarters of all the immigrants coming West from New York are going up into Canada, where there is no Pinehotism." livery Juniper tree in Central Oregon is "Immune" from the touch of the settler, save after the unravelling of a lot of red tape, and at the whim of the Government hireling, hence thousands of intending settlers are hitting the trail for the North. We would rather see all of the junipers in the state used by the present generation and the country settled up than to see them "Pin choted" and "conserved"' for our succes sors and the settlers driven to Canada. What say you? , Land Resources Should Be opened. Albany Citizen. Pinehotism Is not the policy for the West. It may be valuable as a means whereby an Eastern millionaire can in dulge his taste for the aesthetic, but it does not bring us the people we need. Our forests would make beautiful Na tional parks in which tourists from New England would find much pleasiire, but we really need them to build homes for those humbler people who come to abide with us. Our Western streams would fur nish delightful places for rowing and trout fishing if they could only be pro tected from the hands of base men who seek to commercialize them. But we need them for very practical purposes in the development of our resources, of which they form a part. Colonel Dunne, IlepubliCnn. Eugene Register. The re-appointment of David M. Dunne as Collector of Internal Revenue for Ore gon over the recommendation of Colonel E. Hofer for the place by Senator Bourne clearly indicates that President Taft is getting wise to the political situation in this state and is not disposed to aid and abet political mugwumpery in Oregon. Bourne has yet to learn that he cannot pose -as a Republican in Washington and as a Nonpartisan, or Independent, at home. He must be either a man or a mouse or a long-tailed rat, politically as well as otherwise. Mr. Poindexter, Anti-Republican. Yakima Republic. Mr. Poindexter is not only an "in surgent," in the ordinarily accepted sense of the word, but he is apparently in open rebellion against everything the Republican party has been trying to do or expects to do. He has not sup ported the Administration, and if ap pearances count for anything, does not expect to do so if he 13 elected to the Senate. The State of Washington is a Republican state, and It should put none but Republicans on guard. This man Poindexter isn't the right kind. Oratorical Presidents. Washington Herald. "The really great Presidents of the United States never did much talking while in office," observes the New York World. The World, however, has long been Identified with the amen corner of the Ananias Club. Grentest of All Dams. Kansas City Star. Mr. Roosevelt has lately visited Am sterdam, Rotterdam and Potsdam, and can point with pride to the fact that the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona is the biggest in the world. a Down to the Fighting; Edge. Philadelphia Inquirer. Both Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Johnson seem to agree with the Colonel In his remark concerning "the fighting edge." They are, both doing their best in grinding down to it. . Absolutism; Tiidori Theodore. Washington Herald. Absolutism reached its zenith in Eng land under the Tudors. And Tudor, it seems, is merely Welsh for Theodore. Hum I Anybody smell a mouse? "KIXG EDWARD HATED TEST OATH f He Liked His Catholic Subjects and Treated Them With L'tmost Respect. London Letter, New York Post. King Edward endeared himself to his Irish subjects not only by his sympathy with them in their political struggles, but also by his absolute freedom from prejudice against them on the score of their religion. When he was a young officer serving on the Curragh of Kildare, he had shocked Protestant Ireland to the very marrow of its bones by visiting Maynooth College and calling on the Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin. At Cannes, when the famous Jesuit preacher. Father Vaughan. was deliver ing a course of lectures there, the prince was to be seen daily for weeks walking arm-in-arm with that urbane clergyman along the sea-front. He also called on the Pope, and never 'made any objection to a princess of his royal house embrac ing Catholicity on her marriage with a Roman Catholic potentate. King Edward visited Plus IX once and Leo XIII three times. His recommenda tion of the Irish Dominicans at San ClementI In Rome to Sir A. Paget saved them from extinction when the Pope lost his temporal power. On landing in Ire land, in 1903. he condoled with the people on the death of Leo XIII, and wrote a special letter of condolence to Cardinal Logue. His intimacy with his Catholic nobility was very great. He invited the Abbot of Tepl, Marienbad. to stay with him at Buckingham Palace. He was the first British prince to visit the Pope since the time of the Plantagenets. the first British sovereign who went to mass, since the time of James II. He frequently at tended nuptial masses when Catholic friends of his were being married, first in the pro-Cathedral at Kensington, then at the Brompton Oratory, then at St. James. Spanish Place, then at Marienbad. He made the Cistercian Abbot of Tepl (Praelet Helmer) a knight commander of the Victorian Order. Once during a Cowes week he called on the reverend mother at the Convent of Sainte Cecile, and, in Rome, he saw much of Monsignor Stoner. and visited many convents and other places of ecclesiastical interest. When Lord Russell of Killowen, an Irish Roman Catholic, was Lord Chief Justice of England, the King, then Prince of Wales, frequently took advantage of the opportunity which chance meetings on the racecourse or elsewhere afforded "to elicit (says a correspondent, probably Lord Russell's son, of the very restrained and accurate Tablet) his views upon the burn ing question of the situation in Ireland. He knew that the lord chief was an earnest Catholic and a warm supporter of home rule, but these things only seemed to recommend him the more as a man who was capable of introducing him to a view of this delicate subject un eolored by English tradition or anti Catholic prejudices. As a matter of fact, if King Edward hated any section of his subjects, that section Was not the Catholics, but the Orangemen and the Puritan Noncon formists. The only occasion on which he spoke his mind on this point with any approach of violence, heat and indigna tioin was when, after the notorious Tran by Croft case, he wrote to the then Arch bishop (Benson) of Canterbury, speaking bitterly of "the painful subject which brought about such a torrent of abuse on me, not only by the press, but by the Low Church, and especially by the Non conformists." That abuse was poured, it will be remembered, on a man whose position closed his mouth, tied his hands, and forbade him to reply or to defend himself. Ever since that time King Er ward hated the "unco guid" of his own communion, the hypocrites whose fore bears had framed the disgraceful coro nation oath and who raise a howl of protest if their sovereign, while travel ing on the Continent, ventures to look, through a telescope even, at any old ecclesiastical ruin of the Roman Catho lics. That King Edward could be accused, as poor Samuel Pepys was so persistently accused, of being "a Papist or pop'ishly Inclined." is, of course, out of the ques tion. Ho was simply without the faint est tinge of intolerance, that. Is all. . The Prime Minister expressed It exceedingly well last Wednesday in the House when he declared that "the King was wholly free from prejudice and narrow rules of caste. He was at home In all company, he was an enfranchised citizen of the world." PINCHOT'S LAMBS AND GOATS. Array of Saints nnd Sinners Teaches Several Lessons. Tacoma Tribune. The Glavis-Pinchot investigation dragged along through three months, giving the stenographers a chance to make a few thousand dollars, and about all the result 1-. the lining up of a noble array of high-browed pat riots: Pinchot, Kerby, Glavis, Newell, Jones, Hapgood, Connolly, Brandels, Garfield and a few more. Arrayed against this noble bunch of white-robed saints are lined up the hordes of the wicked: John H. Mc Graw, C. J. Smith, R. A. Ballinger, William H. Taft. Charles Sweeney, Miles C. Moore. Frank T. Post, Harry White, John P. Hartman. H. C. Henry, A. G. Avery. Sam Piles. Charles B. Hopkins. John P. Gray, and more of the same stamp, mostly rude, rough-necks of the rowdy West. There is another lesson taught by the investigation: That is that while tha high-browed New England con servationists may work for years, bull dozing and browbeating settlers and driving them out of the public lands, while the "interests" pick up every thing that is worth taking title to, they ran up against the wrong bunch when they undertook to scare them, as they had successfully done with other people for years. Never. Chicago Post. "Sic transit gloria mundf" was never more sic-transity than In the matter of mentioning gentlemen for the Demo cratic nomination for President. No Soliloquy for T. It. Philadelphia Inquirer. Colonel Roosqvelt indulged in no so liloquy at Elsinore, but we feel certain that he hasn't decided "not to be." Where T. R. Shines. Meridian Dispatch. Anyway, Teddy's the first man to have Kings and Queens running down to the depot to meet him. CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS. She: "What was that noise I heard in the hall last night?" He: "I guess, my dear, it was the day breaking." Baltimore Amer ican. "Johnnie, do you understand what is meanjt by a crisis?" "Yes, mum." "Tell us. Johnnie." "Two out an' the bases full,' mum' Buffalo Express. Hank Stubbs: "The ministers are blamin' automobiles 'cuz folks don't come to church." Bige Miller: "Pshaw! Autymobiles don't preach, do they?" Boston Herald. Younglelgh: "Which is the better way to propose, orally or by letter?" Cynlcus ""By letter, certainly. There's a chance that you might forget to mail It." Boston Transcript. .- "Won't you be gald to get back to your native shores once more?" "How do I know." replied the nervous man, "until my family has gotten past the customs Inspec tors?" Washington Star. Borus (struggling author): "Say, Naggus. why did you make such a merciless, cutting analysts of that last book of mine? I tell you, that hurt!" Naggus (literary editor). -"Certainly; . vivisection always hurts. But look at the benefits it confers upon human ity." Chicago Tribune. ; It was down In the market district. "What this country needs is plenty of bone and .sinew." said the tall one. "Yes, and plenty or grit and sand." echoed the short one "By the way, what business are you In'" "Oh, I'm a butcher, and You?" "Why er I distribute strawberries when they a'rrlve from the Southern markets." Chicago Daily Kaciw LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE The late Justice Brewer was noted to: his tolerant and broad-minded views. A Washington diplomat recalled the othei day a story told by Justice - Brewer in illustration of the need for tolerance. "We should respect the views of others" so the story ran "for morality itseli is only a matter of environment. "A missionary in the South seas waf distressed because his dusky parishioners were- nude. He decided to try delicately to get them to wear at lnast a little cloth ing, and to this end he left a great many pieces of scarlet and green and yellow calico lying about his hut. "An elderly dame called one afternoon for . spiritual advice. The missionary noted how enviously her eyes rested on the calico. . and he took up a two-yard piece of the yellow, saying: " 'I'll give you this if you'll wear it." "The female draped the calico about her like a skirt and departed in great glee. "But the next day. nude, as before, she returned with the fabric under her arm. Handing it sadly to the missionary, eh said: " "Me no can wear It. missy. Me too shy.' "Washington (D.) C.) Post. "The train crews of the Southwest, from sheer necessity are made up of men able to take and appreciate a joke," says ex Councilman L C. Carran. "Otherwise, the dreariness and monotony of their lives might kill them. "I was on a train in Arkansas recently, when the brakeman came through the car and bawled out some sort of gibberish as we came to a stop. " 'What place Is this, please?" I asked the conductor. " 'Place? , this ain't no place.' he" sald, and good naturedly, too, at that. "This Is just one of the habits of the engineer. Whenever he goes so many yards, he stops just from force of habit.' " Exchange. A young man of the colored persuasiion. had promised his girl a pair of long white gloves for a gift. Entering a large de partment store, he at last found the coun ter where these goods were displayed, and, approaching rather hesitatingly, re marked, "Ah want a pair ob gloves." "How long do you want them?" in quired the business-like clerk. "Ah doesn't want fo' to rent 'cm: ah wants fo' to buy 'em," replied the other indignantly. Harper's Weekly. Senator Beverldge, discussing a certain monopoly, raid with a smile: "This company reminds me of the old man in the train who said to his neigh bor: " 'Wbuld you mind lending me yowir specs, sir?" " 'Why, certainly,' the neighbor answered, and he took off his spectacles and surrendered them with a courteous gesture. " 'And now,' said the old man, 'since you can no longer see to read your news paper, I'm sure you'll be willing to let me run my eye over the sporting pages.' " Kansas Cily Star. Will Freeman tells a story upon Sydney Hedges, of Clark County, elected road supervisor for Monroe township at the last election. Hedges ran for road super visor the first time the year that the cross of gold speech won William Jen nings Bryan his first Democratic nomi nation for President. Hedges figures that he and Bryan were running mates. At the last election Hedges went into office by one vote, and wrote to Mr. Bryan: "Keep at it, Mr. Bryan; I commenced running the same time you did and I landed this time by one vote." Indian apolis Star. Dr. Wood, the popular head master of Harrow School, once told a capital story of a boy who missed a battalion drill, which is considered a somewhat serious offense at the famous school .The doctor summmoned the lad, an American, to his study and thus addressed him: "Do you know, as the honorary colonel of the cadet corps, I can have you shot and as the head master I can have you birched? Now, which sentence do you prefer?" The humor of the situation overcame the culprit's nervousness and with a smile he replied: "I prefer to be shot, sir, because then you'll be hanged." London Tit-Bits. Need of Political Assembly. Amity Standard. That the state assembly plan of rec ommending candidates for the Republican party nominations is favored by a large majority of the members of the party is apparent, and the call issued Saturday by Chairman George, of the State Central Committee, will undoubtedly meet with a cordial reception from the rank and file of the party. To all appearance such a move Is contemplated by the law to enable parties better to determine who their candidates shall be. While an en dorsement by the assembly will in no was' insure the nomination to the one en dorsed, it will cut out much of the doubt and perplexity that confronts the voter in having a long list of candidates, many of whom are practically unknown to him, to make a wise selection from. THE BLtE AND THE GRAY. By the flow of the inland river. Whence the fleets of iron have fled. Where the blades of the grass-green quiver. Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and the dew Waiting the judgment day: Under the one, the Blue, Under the other, the Gray. These in the robings of glory. Those in the gloom of defeat. All with the battle-blood gory. In the dusk of eternity meet; Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the judgment day; Under the laurel, the Blue, Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners go. Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe; Under the sod and the dew. Watting the Judgment day; Under the roses, the Blue, Under the lilies, the Gray. So, with an equal splendor The morning sun-rays fall, Witli a touch, impartially tender. On the blossoms blooming for all; Under the sod and the dew. Waiting the judgment day; 'Broidered with gold, the Blue, Mellowed with gold, the Gray. So, when the Summer calleth. On forest and field of grain. With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain; Under the sod and the dew. Waiting tha judgment day; Wet with the rain, the Blue. Wet with the rain, the Gray. Sadly, but not with upbraiding. The generous deed was done; In the storm of years that are fading. No braver battle was won; Under the sod and the dew, WRitlnff thP illl0-mon Q -r - - -- o , w Under the blossoms, the Blue, Under the garlands, the Gray. No more shall the war-cry sever. Or the winding river be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead; Under the sod and the dew. vvuiLing- tne juagment aay; Love and tears, for the Blue, Tears and love, for the Gray. e Frances Miles Finch, t