THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1910.
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rly-vAl. EW YORK.
The people of the United States will
receive with placid satisfaction the In
formation that New Tork Is now the
biggest city In the world vith the soli
tary exception of London. Paris. Ber
lin. Pckln are all left far behind. It
contains more human being's than
fourteen of the cities of the country
which reach the 200,000 mark taken
together.
New Tork has perhaps one and a
a!f times as many inhabitants as
there were In the thirteen colonies
when they fired the shot heard round
the world and raised the stars and
stripes In defiance of the British lion.
The City of New Tork could rebel
pgalnst the state with fairer prospects
of success than attended the rash en
terprise of the revolutionary fathers.
Jts rate of growth for the last decade
has exceeded 38 per cent. If the ratio
of increase does not fall off, it will
have more than 15,000.000 inhabi
tants in 1950. It will then be the
biggest city there ever was in the
world. Babylon, ancient Rome In Its
palmiest days, the fabled municipali
ties of Central Asia, will all hide their
diminished heads. During the last
decade Detroit has grown faster than
New Tork. Its rate of Increase has
been 63 per cent. But Detroit's ex
pansion has been attained by system
atic effort. The business men joined
hands to build up the automobile In
dustry. They succeeded, and with the
new manufacture came a great inrush
of population. New York's Increase
has been like the flow of rivers to
the sea. People go there to live as
planets revolve round the sun. Its
immensity creates centripetal forces
which cannot be resisted. Money,
trade, fashion, luxury, literature, the
theater, all Bend out attractive influ
ence to which men and women yield
more and more willingly every year.
With New York's astounding rate of
growth goes an equally astounding
concentration, of the Inhabitants. The
municipality hsa done something in
the way of abating the ancient tene
ment dens of disease, vice and crime,
but not enough. The population Is
still far more compressed than that
of any European city. London's limit
Is 600 people to the acre. New Tork
has 1600. This is one consequence
of the small area which the heart of
the city occupies. Squeezed In be
tween Its rivers It has been compelled
to expand upward Instead of later
ally. Hence Its overcrowded tene
ments and swarming skyscrapers. The
population of a single New Tork of
fice building exceeds that of any town
In Oregon except Portland when the
rush of business Is on. At night, of
course, the cliff dwellings are deserted
and the multitudes reek their dinners
and beds In far-away suburbs or In
Brooklyn. The last census will show
that. In spite of all that has been said
of the "back to the land" movement,
the expansion of our American cities
hits not been checked. Very likely
they have actually grown at the ex
pense of the country- Vermont may
not be the only rural state whose pop
ulation has diminished In the last ten
years. Perhaps the sane is true of
Iowa, though the farmers of the lat
ter state have sought the fertile prai
rie wheat lands of Canada, instead of
the city pavements.
One might take occasion to dilate
upon the evils of this concentration of
our population In the big cities, but It
would be useless. Nothing can stop
1t. As rapid transit develops men will
move out Into the suburbs more and
more, but they will still live in the
city and not in the country. The
problems of the city are the real prob
lems of our future. To solve them
adequately requires more persistence
and ingenuity than we have yet dis
played, but no doubt it will be done
sometime. Meanwhile they will grow
big In squalor, sin and shame, with
here and there a gleam of something
better. The healthy rural topulation
of the United States has hitherto been
the surety of the country against
hasty politics. Farmers are conserva
tive by nature. As their number
falls off in comparison with the urban
throngs, it is likely that we shall cut
loose from many moorings and ven
ture upon untried seas. Great cities
favor the inculcation of radical ideas.
The vast Jewish population on the
Kast Side In New York is Inoculated
with socialism of an extremely un
compromising sort. Milwaukee has
been captured by the Socialists. They
cay they have hopes of getting Chi
cago. No doubt the growth of our
cities Is a brilliant and beautiful thing
to contemplate on one side, but the
other may possiHIy look a little darker.
r.TTSa THE UtrHT.
Attorney-General Wkkersham and
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Na
gel have reached Cordova. Alaska, af
ter an extended trip through that
country. In an interview they said
thRt they were unable to express their
surprise at the wonderful things they
have seen In Alaska. "The one great
need of Alaska." said Mr. Wicker
sham., "is railroad transportation, as
upon It depends the adequate devel
opment of Alaska's mineral and agri
cultural lands. It Is evident that this
transportation cannot be furnished
until the coal lands are opened up,
for cheap coal is required to operate a
railroad." If more Eastern people,
endowed with average Intelligence,
would visit the over-conserved West,
there "would be a heavy decline In the
moral support that 1" now given the
ca-ise of PlnchotLsm In the East.
The natural resource of the West
ars so much at variance with any
thing that the East know or can un
derstand that its Ignorance on the sub
ject make It an easy matter for the
Plnchotsj and Oarflelds and other vis
ionaries to mislead them and secure
their approval of schemes that they
would not countenance if they were
more familiar with the subject. Of
course. Judge Wlckersham and Secre
tary Nagel were surprised at what
they found In Alaska. They have also
learned that under the present policy
of Pinchot the great coal resources of
the country can never be developed
and that the great wealth of the
country must remain locked up for
an indefinite period, unless something
Is done to attract capital and make the
country an attractive place to live In.
While Alaska is the most flagrant ex
ample of what ultra-conservation will
do for a country, the same blight on
a lesser scale is noticed throughout
the West.
Wherever there have been unneces
sary withdrawals of land needed by
bona fide settlers, the growth of tho
surrounding country has been ham
pered and the good citizens seeking
new homes have been obliged to cross
the border Into Canada to secure
them. This is a phase of "the conser
vation problem which will probably
be fully discussed at St. Paul, unless
the Pinchot forces are in full control
of the situation.
rORTXAND'S MATTOin.
The Oregonlan had occasion yester
day to say something about the large
amounts of money reported to have
been spent by candidates for high of
fice in Idaho, Oregon and Washington
and offered the following comment
All will urM that hers Is a grara
detect ot the dlrort primary that ought to
be cured. If there is a cure. It has no'.nmg
to do with any question about assembly or
anti-assembly. If enormous amounts of
money may bs honestly spent, the primary
places a premium on tha csndldscles ox
wealthy men. It they may ba dishonestly
stent and under the corrupt practices ac
there la no other wav the new system o
electlnr Senators Is not better than the old.
What Is to bs dona about It? (
Because the Democratic paper o
Portland, now engaged chiefly In en
deavoring to run the Republican prl
marv and wreck the Republican par
ty, knows that The Oregonlan shares
the general contempt for so common
and universal a liar, and seldom heeds
or hears what it says. It makes bold
to garble this perfectly reasonable
comment Into an unqualified declara-
tion by The Oregonlan that the prl
mary places a premium on the candi
dacies of wealthy men.
No friend of the direct primary will
complain of the criticism made by The
Oregonlan. No person or newspaper
anywhere will have the hardihood to
defend a system that permits the ex
penditure of vast sums in the interest
of anyone's candidacy. All that re
mains for a newspaper without con
science or character or any sense of
accountability to the public Is to pur
sue a system of ingenious and malig
nant misrepresentation of other news
papers, possibly to hide its own infa
mies. Why is this disreputable newspaper
mattoid so sensitive on the subject
of prodigal outlays of slush money
under the direct primary by candi
dates for United States Senator? The
Orfronlan had not accused It of
holding out Its hand for Its dirty mite
from any Senatorial Jackpot made up
by any political gambler, with the
public interest, or will, or welfare as
the stakes. It hadnT seemed worth
hile.
MERELY AN ACCIDENT.
Another steamer has been wrecked
while endeavoring to get out of Puget
Sound, fortunately without loss of life.
As The Oregonlan stated, when the
Seattle Times a few weeks ago made
mighty outcry over a few minor ma
rine mishaps in the Columbia, acci
dents will happen wherever steamers
run. Portland has never claimed Im
munlty from these accidents, and
never will, and we shall also expect to
note their frequent occurrence on Pu
get Sound. This latest disaster. In
which the steel steamship Watson, car
rying nearly 100 passengers and a full
cargo of freight, was Impaled on a reef
on Waddah Islands. Just Inside the
Straits of Fuca, happened at midnight
during a dense fog. These conditions
were what caused the loss of the Va
lencia, when 138 passengers lost their
lives. Fortunately, tho Watson was
Inside the straits In comparatively
smooth water, so that rescue by life
boats was easy. It Is even probable
that thA stMrncr will be saved wlth-
l nut brina- damaged bevond repair.
The Incident does not demonstrate
that Puget Sound is an unsafe port
for steamships. It simply shows that
in a thick fog at midnight even 'the
most careful navigator will sometimes
get into trouble. There is plenty of
water for ships on either Puget bound
or the Columbia River, so long as they
remain In the channel. When they
get out of the channel they encoun
ter trouble In either waters.
ORBOON COL1.EX.es.
Many friends of higher education in
this state have feared that the exten
sion and development of the state and
Nationally-endowed State University
and Agricultural College would Injure
the private Institutions, like the Pa
cific University at Forest Grove and
the Pacific College at Newberg. There
is evidently ample room for both.
Even when the new Reed Institute
opens its doors and students flock to
register, the older institutions will be
able to hold their own so long as the
spirit of faith and energy continues
to animate their conductors. Each
university, college and Institute makes
Its own and its independent appeal.
One may. from Its foundation, claim
special support from one church or
sect. But each year such calls lose,
more and more, their power. It Is
rather to the outcome of the teaching
given, in fitness for the practical,
everyday life, than to the maintenance
of any segregation in religious beliefs
that both parents and children look
today.
One institution may specialize along
certain lines in which tho intending
student sees his future. Another may
rest its claim on the very opposite, the
excellence of its general plans of
work, on what the Morrill Act de
scribes as the lines of a "liberal edu
cation." Again, the economy and fru
gality practiced by the students of yet
another college, and the comparative
ease with which one can make his
own way through, appeal to many.
One need be behind the scenes to
learn how great is the multitude of
young men and women In this young
state, who. earnestly seeking to fol
low on their time of study past the
days of public school and high school,
are hard put to it to find the ways
and means. All honor to them, for
they earn by hard knocks the culture
they obtain.
It is to be hoped that boards of
regents and faculties of all our insti
tutions will earnestly guard against
the ever-encroaching expenses that
make difficult the students' life in
college. Athletics have become a
very necessary and a very attractive
side to college activities. But each
year adds to the contribution that is
asked from the entering student for
their cost. And the students arriving
to register are powerless to protest.
Even If courage be there, pride
forbids.
AH of which leads to congratula
tions that the Pacific College Admin
istration building, long planned, and
diligently worked for, is now in sight.
A brick building, providing, in addi
tion to president's office and class
rooms, an auditorium seating 900 peo
ple. Is no small addition to the equip
ment of one of the worthy colleges
of Oregon, that was born, has lived
and prospered, and is now opening
wider doors to Increasing classes, all
without state or National aid.
- - TILE ALLIES.
Plainly stated, anti-assembly has
for the body of its support these ele
ments: Democrats, ex-Popullsts and
Statement No. 1 Republicans. find
a Democrat and you will see one wno
Is deeply agitated over the holding
of any assembly by Republicans.
Find an ex-Popullst, and you will dis
cover one who Is loud for the peo
ple's will provided It shall not be for
the assembly. Find a Statement Oner
and there will be revealed one who
Joins hands with Democrats and Pop
ulists every time in preference to Re
publicans. The spirit of the entire
movement was most effectually ex
posed in the statement of its chief
backer and sponsor, to wit:
If I am hers at the time of the general
election, and any assembly men have been
nominated, and there nre no anti-assembly
candidates from tho Republican party opposing-
them. I will vote tor the Democratic
candidate, provided he Is opposed to the
assembly and Is a competent man Public
statement by Senator Bourne.
So you see how much interested in
Republican success are these anti
assembly allies. They prate every
where about the "will of the people"
and prepare In advance to repudiate
It. They care nothing about the will
of the people; they are concerned
only about the will of some people.
A WORTHY LIST. THIS.
Here are twelve names that will
appear on the primary ballot for the
consideration of the Republican vot
ers of Multnomah County:
Angel. Homer D. Moores. Charles B.
Reverldge. Joseph W. McCue, John C
Collier. Henry K. Northrup, H. H.
Farrell. Robert S. Ravburn. E. I..
Kobklrk. Peter Stapleton. O. W.
Hume, Peter Wether bee. Dr. J. R.
These men are candidates for rep
resentative for Multnomah in the
State Legislature. It is a group of
well-known names. All, or nearly all,
of them have been Identified promi
nently with the activities and develop
ment of Portland and Oregon. Every
one has, and deserves to have, the re
spect of his neighbors and the confi
dence of the public. No word can or
will be said against the character, or
capability, or life of any of them. If
they shall be elected to the Legisla
ture, it is certain that Multnomah
will have representation in the lower
house worthy of Its best traditions
and able to achieve results of value
and importance.
These are the assembly nominees.
Effort is being made to have It ap
pear that these reputable and worthy
men are enemies of the public Inter
est, have been nominated through the
procurement of a dishonest body for
dishonorable purposes, and that they
will seek to perpetuate the rule of
some corporation ring or political
combine. It Is not true. It has no
basis of truth whatever. It Is known
everywhere and by everybody who
knows these men not to be true. They
ought to be nominated by the primary
on their merits as high-minded. Intel
ligent, efficient and disinterested
citizens.
MR. HUMPHREY'S MISINFORMATION.
Hon. W. E. Humphrey, Congress
man from Washington, has favored
The Oregonlan with a copy of his
speech In which he attempted to show
that foreign shipping rings "control
not only the shipping of the United
States, but Its commerce as well, both
on land and sea." Mr. Humphrey be
lieves that "this condition is costing
our country, directly and Indirectly,
hundreds of millions of. dollars every
year, and adds: T;he writer reels as
if he would like to have you know,
as far as possible, all the facts as they
are likely to be a subject of thought
and discussion In the near future."
The Oregonlan has made more than a
superficial search for facts In connec
tion with the shipping business, and
observes with regret that Mr. Hum
phrey, In an attempt to bolster up his
very weak: cause, is using very light
and gauzy fiction In lieu of fact.
We read in his speech, for example.
that when the International Sailing-
Shipowners' combination was formed
"they were carrying wheat from Seat
tle to Liverpool for $1.25 per ton.
They Immediately raised it to $5.62
per ton and recently to J6.90. As
a matter or Tact, wneat never was
carried from Seattle to Liverpool at
11.25 per ton, and the rate named by I
Mr. Humphrey, J6.62, for carrying a
long ton, 2240 pounds, of wheat 14,- j
000 miles between the two ports. Is so
low that the operation will show a loss
unless cargo is secured on both the in
ward and outward trip. Mr. Hum
phrey presents a numbered list of
what bears in the Congressional Rec
ord the heading "Undisputed Proposi
tions." If they are undisputed. It Is
time that some one disputed them, for
the element of fact Is missing from
nearly all of them. Undisputed prop
osition No. 1 is a fair sample of the
lot. It says "90 per cent of our com
merce Is carried by a giant monopoly
composed of foreign ships, among
which there Is not the slightest com
petition."
Any reliable, well-informed shipping
man In Seattle. Tacoma, Portland or
any other first-class port In the United
States could have given Mr. Hum
phrey Information which would have
prevented him from making so obvi
ous a blunder as that statement.
Nearly all our foreign commerce Is
carried by tramp steamers and sati
ng ships, which cut and slash rates
without the slightest regard for any
other principle than to "get the busi
ness." For example, last month a
line of Norwegian steamers were car
rying wheat and flour from Portland
to the East at $3 per ton, when sud
denly a British line operating out of
Puget Sound sent a steamer to Port
land and took all the cargo she could
get at 2 per ton, or 50 cents per ton
less than American vessels get for car
rying it a few miles down the coast
to California.
Portland ships more lumber by
water than Is shipped from any other
port on earth, but there has never
been a foot of It carried by vessels that
were In a combine. Exporters can
secure tonnage in unlimited quantities
at rates so low that it would be Impos
sible to meet them without a subsidy
so enormous that the American people
would refuse to pay it. Mr. Hum
phrey's entire argument Is so strange
ly at variance with the facts that it Is
not surprising his ship subsidy bill was
defeated. The American people are
not all fools and quite a number of
them know something about the ship
ping question.
According to a compilation by
American Consul Goding, of Monte
video, the population of the Latin-
American countries is now 67,796,072.
This Is a much larger figure than it
was generally supposed could be mus
tered by the countries lying to the
south. The figures suggest great pos
sibilities for trade development as the
wealth of the people increases. We
shall not, however, be able success
fully to compete with England, Ger
many and other Europeans in that
trade until our own population In
creases to a point where it can con
sume all of the wheat, corn, cattle
barley and other great agricultural
staples which we now export to Eu
rope in large quantities. Europe has
the first call on the trade of the
Latin-American countries because she
Is such an enormous purchaser of tho
nroducts which South and Central
America produce. When the Argen
tine can sell return cargoes of wheat
to the United States, this country will
find It easier to sell other commodities
to Argentina.
New crop cotton is now coming on
the market. With prices so near the
20-cent mark, there will undoubtedly
be a rush to get the money out of the
great staple. According to the Gov
ernment report, th6 condition of the
crop on August 25 was about 8.4 per
cent better than on the same date
last year. Climatic conditions have
been quite unfavorable, but with 20
cent cotton an actuality, the incentive
to perfect cultivation and care is very
great, and the final out-turn may
show an even greater gain than is
now expected. High prices not only
stimulate production, but they also
have a tendency to curtail consump
tion. Thl3 appears first in the demand,
for the finished product and is then
passed on to the cotton grower. The
ultimate consumer who has been pay
ing war prices for cotton, corn and a
number of other commodities will not
regret to learn that prospects are fa
vorable for a larger cotton crop than
last year.
Acting Mayor John P. Mitchell, of
New York, estimates that the census
returns for 1940 will show New. York
with a population of 12,700,000, or
nearly 1,000,000 more than London
will be able to muster at that time.
This result In New York will be at
tained by an annual increase of 3.8
per cent, while London is expected to
increase but 1,6 per cent annually. If
Portland makes anything like the
showing it has made for the past five
years, about the time New York
passes London, this city will be pretty
well along in the million class. New
York with 13,000,000 population will
be pretty badly crowded and will
probably show fully as much squalor
and misery to the square Inch as are
now in evidence In London.
The secret of the wonderful pears
which are produced in the Frey or
chard near Placervllle has at last
been discovered. The ground is pep
pered with gold nuggets. No doubt
orchardists whose trees have been
barren will profit by this information.
They need only sow a few bushels of
gold nuggets to the acre and their next
crop of fruit will be satisfactory. We
anticipate great popularity for this
novel method of fertilization.
Temperance orators may be mis
taken as to fact and opinion, but re
turns to United States revenue collec
tors don't He. In the prohibition
States of Alabama and Mississippi,
sales of intoxicating liquor last month,
as shown by the revenue office, were
twice as large as In the corresponding
month of 1909.
Among other prominent citizens,
Ralph R. Dunlway is accused of vio
lating a municipal statute which re
quires property owners to cut tall
weeds on vacant lot9. What better
opportunity could be offered for test
ing the constitutionality of that ordi
nance? While Portland is still behind New
York in population, there Is no reason
to be discouraged. New Tork had 235
years the start of us. We are willing
to make a small bet, payable then,
that in the year 2145 Portland will
have more people than New York has
now. '
The local traction company is cer
tainly doing a I go amount of im
provement work, but it is an invest
ment that will pay, for Portland's
growth keeps ahead of it.
With the finest apple crop In the
world (Hood River's, of course), sold
over our heads, Portland can feel for
people on the cattle ranches who have
to use condensed mux.
Corvallis has let contracts for pav
ing thirty-eight blocks with hard sur
face. This means nearly three miles
of metropolitan streets In the Col
lege City.
Further proof that the. South pro
poses to Inject comedy into National
politics is the Georgia commendation
of Hoke Smith for the presidency.
I-atin America, according to latest
statistics, has nearly 68.000,000 peo
ple, which Is several millions behind
Anglo-Saxon America.
Mr. Roosevelt will note that it cost
a Chicago lawyer 50 yesterday to
use the short, ugly word, and the cam
paign Is yet young.
New York expects to outstrip Lon
don in thirty years, but what do you
suppose Portland will be doing
meantime?
Oyster Bay increased 33 per cent in
the decade, which is very good for
the home of the anti-race suicide
propaganda. '
There is opportunity for some Ore
gon community to emulate Rocky
Ford and become the melon city of the
state.
Those who would "eat 'em alive"
will move from the Vaughn-street
grounds to the Armory tonight.
Young Mr. Clagstone makes a poor
third in the Idaho primary.
ALL A DEMOCRATIC PLAY.
Real Animus of Antl-Asaembly Move
ment Set Forth.
PORTLAND, Sept. 2. (To the Editor.)
It seems to me that this entire anti
assembly movement is nothing more
than an effort of the Democratic party
to defeat the Republican party at the
primaries, before the election arrives.
.Read the Democratic newspaper press.
Do their party papers say anything
about Democratic principles, Demo
cratic issues, or Democratic candidates?
Hardly a word.
If the Democratic party were endeav
oring to make a fight for the election,
their papers would be filled with ap
peals to their constituents in behalf of
Democratic issues and Democratic can
didates for office. They would not have
time or Inclination to enter Into the
fight In the Republican party. They
would be working for Democratic suc
cess. But, amazing as it may seem, their
newspapers are fighting harder in Re
publican party Issues than even the Re
publican newspaper press of the state.
But notice, their efforts are directed
toward stirring up dissension in the
dominant party, hoping thereby to cap
ture the election by defeating- the Re-
nuhllcan nartv in the primaries.
Witness these facts: The i anti
assembly movement is led by a Demo
cratlc newspaper, and the organized
movement Is composed of the Demo
cratic newspaper press In general
"sorehead" Republicans, and a rabble of
followers without party affiliation
Democrats are registering by the thou
sand as Republicans: Senators cnam
berlain and Bourne are Its backers, an
the Democratic leaders are all mixed u
In the anti-assembly fight.
Now, If the Democratic party leaders
reallv believed that the assembly move
ment was a mistake, and contrary to
the primary law, they would either re
main perfectly silent until after tn
primary election, or they would encour
ns-e socretlv the Kepuoncan party i
fall into the assembly trap. The very
fact that the Democratic party is fight
iner the movement is positive proof tha
thev believe it to be the best thing
that could be adopted by the Repub
1 ion ns.
The fact is, they know that the only
linn, of the Democratic party is in
rlefrnt of the assembly movement,
therefore the Democratic leaders hav
organized the anti-assembly movement.
They have hoodwinked "sorehead" Pe
ri. iMienna Into aiding them in their ei
forts. There is quite a following of
voters not affiliated with either party,
and some Republicans who read the
Democratic newspapers Instead oi mei
ntv-n nartv newspapers, have been de
ceived by misrepresentations and false
statements into believing mat ini
"nntl" movement is in the interest o
irood srovernment and reform. In fact
it is the rottenest political trickery that
has ever been perpetrated In tne state
nnrt Is caused by discruntled party
leaders In the Dartv itself and the
enemy of the party from without en
tering clandestinely into the party
rank-j for the purpose of its overthrow.
Let all lovers of pood government
and of clean polities beware o
his anti-assembly trickery and vote
straight for the repular Republican
assembly candidates at the cominer pri
maries, u. A. &,u 1 i i-i.
NAMIXR THE "PKOPLE'S CHOICP:."
How Democrat Will Invade Republican
Prlmnry la Wnnhlnerton.
Aberdeen World.
Approximately lOS.noo Republican and
F.s nnn Democratic votes were cast at
the state election In 1908 a Republican
mnlorltv of 4S.0P0. Of these 58.000
Democratic votes. It is a safe and con
servative estimate that 40,000 will be
cast for Miles Poindexter. Senatoria
candidate, at the primary next month
Democrats throughout the state are
nhantloninsr their party in order to en
ter Republican primaries. The 106.000
Republican votes allowing nothing: for
increaaA made durinor the two years
that have elapsed since the last elec
tion are to be divided among five ran
didates, exclusive of Polndextcr. Foin
dexter will, of course, set a percentaKe
of these votes, but umler conditions as
thev now exist, the Democratic- votes
that will be cast for him will of them
selves be sufficient to give him a plu
rality nomination: and a Republican
Lesislature will be forced to elect
Senator named by Democrats.
And that, we are told, is election by
"partv choice" within the meaning of
the direct primary law. Yet it Isn't
"party choice." it isn't the "people's
choice": it will not even be an "In
gurgent" victory.
There Is no question here of 'in
surgency." There is no question of the
"people's rights." This Is plain trick
ery. Yet Democratic orsrans tell us
that the pledge of the primary law Is
"hiire-er" than any candidate, being:.
they protest, a question of the right of
the people to rule. Hut here is neither
party rule nor popular rule it Is the
imposition of the minority.
How Mr. Harrlman Workn.
New Idea Woman's Magazine.
Mrs. E. H. Harriman s day Is mapped
out with the systematic precision of a
trained business woman. It allows for
no luxurious feminine lapses from
schedule. And she permits herself on
ly the week-end as a season of rest
trom her arduous interests.
When at Arden. for example, she
rises early and motors to the Erie sta
tion. where she catches the train that
reaches New York at 10:45 o'clock. At
the Forty-second-street ferry Fhe takes
a taxicab to her office. This is on the
second floor at 474 Fifth avenue, with
windows overlooking the street.
She reads reports and Issues orders
stendilv until 1:30 o'clock, when she
walks to the St. Regis for luncheon
and then goes back to the office for
two hours more of thorough and pa
tlent work. Her walk and luncheon are
thus the only breaks in tne routine oi
nor labor, for she returns to Arden
onlv in time for dinner.
And this is the average day of the
richest widow In the world!
Perfect Tisaue Builder.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, in Delineator.
There is no known drug that will add
in the slightest degree to the strength
or vigor of the human body, and no "tissue-builder"
on earth except food. The
only universally reliable "bracer" Is ex
exercise in the open air and sleeping
with your windows open, and the only
permanent tonics to the body are fresh
fruit, red meat and green vegetables.
A dollar's worth of cream contains 10
times the "strength" of any dollar bottle
of tonic ever Invented. Eat plenty of real
foods, the best you can raise or buy, and
you'll have little need of either medicinal
foods or patent medicines. Any remedy
which universally, or even In the ma
jority of all cases, produces a sense of
exhilaration and Improvement is pretty
sure to contain a "cheater" of some sort,
usually either alcohol or opium.
No Siftn of It Then.
Chicago News.
It may be true that the average
American eats 82 pounds of sugar a
year, but he does not act the part when
the umpire makes a bad decision.
Tho Old Story.
Kansas City Journal. '
I liked my trip;
Considered fine
My dally dip
Into tho brine.
I liked the beach, the ocean's foam:
But thtng look pretty good at home.
I liked my ot
At the hotel;
The food I got
Was served me well.
I don't complain, like 10m; who roam.
But. still. I'm satisfied with home.
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WHY MEN WEAR TROUSERS.
Women Forced Them Into the Fashion
and Now They Are Afraid.
New Orleans Item.
In pondering the apparently irrecon
cilable inconsistencies of this life, the
vexed question of trousers must inev
itably occur to the speculative philoso
pher, i Why are trousers, and why do
we wear them? are questions which no
man has solved that thought upon them
until the other day.
Unsuspected of the world, there is in
an obscure town of Missouri an intel
lect capable of dealing with the mys
tery. After what years of pondering we
know not, this mighty brain has
brought forth a theory which, like the
alchemist's stone, has transformed the
base metal of our ignorance into the
pure, clear gold of understanding.
In the Democrat of Benton, Mo., the
simple, the inevitable, the tremendous
solution is thus unfolded:
"No living man of this age ever de
liberately chose to adopt 'trousers.' He
was forced into them and all other
eccentricities of diess by women. In
the very earliest sartorial experience he
is swathed in a queer bundle of in
coherent bandages by a woman. Later
she puts him in cute dresses, so that
the netphbors can't tell him from his
little sister. Still later she cuts off
his curls and puts him in knicker
bockers, and he puts on long pants
when she gives the word not before.
"That is all that man has to do with
wearing trousers. Women forced him
into them in the first place, and now he
is afraid t6 wear anything else for fear
of making a sensation."
Of course, there is no doubt about the
matter at all now. We wear trousers
in subservience to women, and, perhaps.
Just a little, In fear of the police.
GOVERNOR HARMON JUST HUMAN
Trait Thnt Takes Well With Thone
Who Cast the Votes In Ohio.
Review of Reviews.
Harmon appeals to the Ohloan
whether that Buckeye's political no
tions dovetail with the Harmon brand
of politics or no. Because Harmon
is, to use the expression of a Holmes
County farmer who was analyzing the
merits and demerits of the state ex
ecutive, "jes" so durn common."
"I'll tell ye. boys," he said. "I went
down f th' State House an' I walked
right into th' Governor's office an' I
sez. zes I, 'Where's Jud?' An' right
then he comes a-walkln' out an' he
grabs me by th' hand and he asts me
where I'm from an' hands me a stogy
an", by cracky, when I tells him my
name and that I'm from OI' Holmes,
why, he asts me about a lot of th'
fellers up here an' takes me by th' arm
and we walks out o" the Capitol tog-ether.
He ain't no more stuck up than
you be."
Which homely estimate casts an in
tense and interesting sidelight on J.
Harmon. He may not be feverishly In
terested in you, but he has a quiet, un
obtrusive way of making you believe
that he has been sitting up and waiting
to greet you since the dawn of history.
Not an ostentatious palaver, under
stand, hut just a natural, friendly sort
of a way with him that you're bound
to recognize and appreciate and swell
up about.
Ed Honf'fi Philosophy.
Atchison Globe.
Every automobile owner loves to tell
how he lately took a ride in a buggy,
and how slow it seemed!
Nearly every woman looks at a
strange man as if to say: "Don't you
attempt to flirt with me, you wretch!"
Women like to say this: "The only
thing a man cannot forgive in his wife
is. her mental superiority."
When you are tempted to run for
ofuce remember that many people wll!
talk friendly who do not mean it.
Somehow it always sounds like a
woman's tea party when one man says
to another. "I want to chat with you."
As a man grows older time flies so
fast that he seems to spend a good
deal of his time switching from coal
bills to Ue bills.
A mother never really understands
her hoys: she never thinks they are
like other boys, which is the truth,
but that they are better or worse.
Church Service nt 2:30 A.
M.
Nef York Times.
Rev. John F. Von Herrlich, a former
rector of St. Paul's Kpiseopal Church in
Kansas City. Kan., now is conducting a
unique church service. It is a prayer and
preaching service at :S0 o'clock each
unday morning.
The services are held in the St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in New York, with
which Rev. Mr. Von Herrlich Is con
nected. The texts are adapted to the
needs of tiie night workers, who make
up this unique congregation. From the
newspaper offices, the telephone offices,
the lelegraph offices! tho workers pour
into the streets at '.' o'clock. Mr. Von
Herrlich conceived the idea of holding
short services in which they might join.
before going home to bed and. sleep. The
idea became popular at once and the
night workers flock by the hundreds into
old St. Paul's Church, which lias stood
Imost without a change since libs one
of the landmarks of New York.
What Wllrthe Democrats Dof
Ixuiisvllle Courier-Journal.
The Republican party has owed more
to the - blundering of the .Democrats than
to its own sagacity or virtue. The epi
gram of General Grant that the Demo
crata could be relied on to perpetrate
some folly at The critical moment, nas
held good ever since it was uttered. Even
now the uemocrais may not iittve m
wit. or luck, to profit by the dilemma In
which the Republicans find themselves.
They will surely carry the next House.
When they get it. what will they do
with It? They must either adopt a de
cisive policy of their own a hard thing
to do in the face of so many would-be
leaders and so much dissonance of opln-
on or surrender to the Insurgents, who
have at least the courage of their con
victions and who know how to lead.
What In a I.arjce Fortune f
New York Commercial
Confronted with the question put to
him by a member of the National House
ways and means committee last year as
to whether or not large fortunes had
been made in cotton manufacturing in
New Bmgland. Henry F. Llppitt, a
Providence manufacturer, replied:
'That depends on what you call a
large fortune.' I do not think that
many large fortunes have been made In
cotton manufacturing." "What do you
call a 'large fortune?" " asked the com
mitteeman. "Well, I should call three
quarters of a billion dollars a 'large
fortune," " was the frank answer.
Question of Value.
Metropolitan Magazine.
Hogan was playing nurse to the
twins on the front porch. Tho twins
were annoyed because each wanted ex
clusive possession of a solitary kitten
and they were yelling.
A neighbor passed at the gate. w ell.
Hogan," he asked, "what would you
take for them children of yourn?
Hogan shifted in his chair. All the
money In - the wurruio couian t buy
thim," he declared. "But," he added, "I
wouldn't give tin cints apiece for any
more like thlm."
nt All of One Kind.
Pittsburg Gazette Times.
Still it is too much to expect that all
of T. R. s speeches will treat of the
beauty of life on the farm.
Impartial Enthusiasm.
Washington Evening Star.
For either side they-sound the drums
And play "The Conquering Hero Comes."
"Tis lucky for campaigning tricks
A braes band has no politics.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Rafferty were ex
changing ideas across the shabby fence
which separated their respective do
mains. The conversation turned on the
subject of woman suffrage. The first
lady is reported as saying: "Are ye tak
ing much stock In this attlmpt that a
lot iv the wlmmln are making to get
th' vote for us, Mrs. Rafferty ?"
"I ain't botherin' me head about it,"
declared Mrs. Rafferty. "I'm satisfied
to let Dinny and th' boys do all th' vot
ing for me family. But I do think that
a lady should get a man's pay."
"Well," replied Mrs. Kelly, "all t Kin
say is, Mrs. Rafferty, that I get one
man's pay, or know the reason why,
lvery Saturday night." Pittsburg
Leader.
Sir Ernest Shaskleton, at the lunch
eon in his honor, Riven by the Pilgrims
In New York, said of a piece of geo
graphical ignorance.
"It was incredible. It reminded me
of a little waiting mvti:
"As she brought me my tea and toast
and bloater one morning. I said to her:
" 'What a rainy morning, Mary! It's
almost like the flood."
"'The flood, sir." said the little maid.
She looked at me with a puzzled smile.
" 'Yes,' said I. "The flood Noah, you
know the ark Mount Ararat."
"She shook her head and murmured,
apologetically:
" 'I ain't had no time to read the pa
pers lately, sir." " Nashville Banner.
Mrs. E. S. Stewart, secretary of the
American Woman Suffrage Association,
was condemning, in an interview in
Chicago, a certain type of anti-suffrag-1st.
"This man," she said, "while shout
ing that woman's sphere is exclusively
the home, is apt to employ women at
low wages in his factory, or else, if he
Is poor, lets his womenfolk go out and
work.
"A virulent anti-suffragist, the kind
that attends meetings to throw banana
skins at the woman speakers, walked
gloomily down the street one morning
with a dinner pail under his arm.
" 'Hello. Bill,' said a friend. 'Where
are you off to so early?"
" 'Off to work,' the 'anti' answered
glumly.
" 'Why,' said the astonished friend,
what's the matter with yer wife. Bill?
Ain't she well? ""Washington Star.
At breakfast, recently, Andrew Car
negie indulged in a piece of pie. A diet
reformer present remonstrated.
"Why, Mr. Carnegie," he said, "do
you eat pie?"
"Of course," replied the noted philan
thropist benignly, "what do you do with
it?" Success.
The subject of a young man's essay,
who was graduated rrom a high school
in a Pennsylvania town, was "Haw
thorne," and in that essay lie said, "At
the age of 39 Hawthorne married and
took his brido to the old manse."
In discussing the merits of the essay
one young- woman observed to a school
mate: "Wasn't it awful that Harry
Meggs should say such a thing as ha
did?"
Then, in response to the other's In
quiry as to the allusion, the young
woman added: "Why, he said that at
the age of 39 Hawthorne married and
took his bride to the old man's. Why
couldn't he be more elegant and sav ti
his father - in - law's?" Philadelphia
Times.
IS INSURGENCY JUST A DREAMT
World's Prosrrsa Has Been Achieved
by Practical Men.
Amity Standard.
Should all the pledges of the plat
form of the Insurgent Republicans be
come an active force in this country
It would indeed be an ideal retreat.
They have recorded a fine dream of the
millennium, and Paradise could wish
for but few better conditions than pro
posed by them. But this is not Para
dise and the smooth, soft ways of the
visionary do not prevail. Hard and
fast conditions are to be confronted.
and lie who would make a name for
himself must of a necessity meet those
conditions face to face and gradually
conserve them to the better use of the
Nation. He who rants and tears his
hair in full public, view, in the history
of the world, has accomplished little
beyond the noise he made In his stormy
passage across front of the public eye.
The men who have made real history
in this country have been neither
dreamers nor visionaries, but grim, de
termined men who have met the obsta
cles in the way of good government
with a horny-handed faith in the
strength of right, and in silence worked
out the problems as they come up, re
gardless of the stormy mouthings of
the mob who would make all things
perfect in their time and set upon the
pedestal of fame a life-sized image of
the dreams they dream.
Five Congressional Election.
New York Times.
Here are the figures of five Na
tional elections, in all of which, save
one, the party in power lost the House
of Representatives in the "off year":
1874 Republican majority' of 103
changed to Democratic majority of 1.
1876 Presidential election disputed.
1882 Republican majority of $
changed to Democratic majority of 74.
1884 Cleveland, Democrat, elected.
1886 Democratic majority of 84 re
duced to 13.
Harrison, Republican, elected.
1890 Republican majority of 7
changed to Democratic majority of 148.
1892 Cleveland, Democrat, elected,
changed to Republican majority of 142.
1896 McKinley, Republican, elected.
1910 If the Republicans lose the
House of Representatives?
Gasoline Night.
New York Sun.
"Ask me to go to the theater any night
in the week except gasoline night and I'll
go." said the man.
"What night is that?" she asked.
"Saturday. Women get their gloves
home from the cleaners on Saturday or
else clean them themselves the last of
the week, and the gasoline fumes haven't
had time to evaporate. Half the women
you meet In a crowd on Saturday night
carry a gasoline odor about on their
gloves. In a hot, stuffy place that is
pretty bad. On Monday night gasoline
still perfumes the air, but it is getting
faint and I can stand it, but not on Sat
urday." Hnnds Off.
New York Sun.
Columbus had just discovered Amer
ica. "Awful." they cried; "didn't you know
It is conserved?"
Herewith they tremble.d for the fate
of posterity.
What It In.
Chicago Record-Herald.
"Pa, what's a Jeu d'esprit?"
"Something that most people think
they are saying when they exclaim
'Judas Priest.' "
In the Kindergarten.
St. Joseph Gazette.
"Now, children, what is this?" asked
the teacher, holding up the picture of a
zebra. "It looks fo me Ifke a horse In
a bathing suit," answered a little boy.
New Ananias Member.
New York World.
Will the members of the new Ananias
Club take equal rank with those of the
old ones, or will they belong to a junior
order, with inferior rights?