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PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MARCH 30.
YOUTHFUL IMMORALITY.
The papers have had much to print
about the arrest of a Brooklyn girl for
the murder of a young business man
who was found dead in a room they
-both occupied in a New York hotel.
The facts developed to be that while the
vouncr woman was about to become a
mother and thus supplied the motive of
revenge necessary to the prosecution,
no evidence could be adduced going to
fasten th crime upon her. Though she
was acquitted of the charge, her un
happy story, with all it Involves to her
family, .her friends and hr own future,'
became public property, and a pecul
iarly humiliating thing brought out was
the testimony of the young man's
mother that she had herself advised the
girl to commit suicide as the best ave
nue of escape from the trouble into
which the young man's perfidy and
her own weakness had brought her.
So heartless a counsel could come only
from a bad mother. "Want of proper
home training Is held responsible for the
girl's fblly In this case, and this un
feeling woman's advice to poor Florence
Burns indicates that the same lack is
largely to blame for the young man's
wildness. No young man properly
brought up would thus seduce an inno
cent girl and then seek, as Walter
Brooks did$ to throw her off for a
fresher face that pleased his eye and
suggested to him another victim of his
cruel arts. These are very common
Stories these days of working girls and
wide newspaper publicity, and while it
fwould be reckless to assert that they are
more numerous, population considered,
than formerly, they are entirely too
numerous, and alarming enough to de
serve inquiry for their cause and, if
possible, their cure.
One reason for the youthful immoral
ity that shocks us on every side is the
decline of religious conviction. Homes
'of the middle classes, a generation ago,
were apt to be dominated by a very real
belief in future punishment for earthly
misdeeds. This belief has been shat
tered or modified far more than our
creeds or pulpits comprehend. Scien
tific research has been popularized suf
ficiently to persuade thousands of well
jborn and fairly Intelligent people that
'if the lot of humanity is not annihila
tion Itself, the conduct of the life here
makes little material difference in the
individual's status In the life beyond.
The old religious authority for honesty
end purity is dissolving. The Bible is
coming to be regarded as reputable and
even exemplary, but not perfect in its
authenticity or binding in its com
jxnaads. The masses, perhaps, are not
yet permeated with this belief; and
there parental authority prevails, aided
by tho necessities and environment of
poverty. But the middle classes, who
'are more -enlightened than they used to
be, are less devotional. The young peo
ple who are loosely formed on moral
and religious lines are precisely those
who have social freedom and money In
their pockets for carriages, suppers and
hotels.
The religious aspect of the case Is one
in which censure should be sparingly
employed, and yet many serious minds,
both within and without the pulpit, in
cline to the view that Christian teach
ers, by stubbornly holding to the literal
inspiration of the Scriptures and ma
terial conceptions of the future state,
have reprehensibly involved the whole
t religious framework in doubt and hy
pocrisy. This Is a serious charge, and
in any case must be tempered with con
cession of right purposes In our theolo
gians and teachers. If they have erred,
it is in the head and not the heart. It
is also true that moral training that
brings good results can be and fre
quently Is Inculcated without orthodox
or even heterodox basis of any kind.
Besides, the work of the scientist has
been essentially that of the iconoclast.
He has torn down the ancient land
marks of the spiritual life and sits com
fortably on their ruins, careless as to the
materials of a superstructure that must
take Its place. The scientist is a man
as well as a student. As a member of
the human family It is as much his con
cern that men shall be saved from sin
as from Ignorance. It would be a hard
task, among our great minds that have
waged fierce battle against the myths
and superstitions of the rac,to find an
equal zeal In lifting our frail humanity
to a better life.
Another element in the problem is so
ciologlc The growth of cities and the
industrial and professional stand
ing given women through passing of
prejudice have put our girls more out
In the world and less In the home. Co
education has helped to give them more
the abandon of the man of the world
and less of the old tender modesty of
maidenhood. If It Is not wise to deplore
the change, it is altogether useless. But
it Is certain that mothers have not at all
adapted their training to the changed
conditions. Girls could once be left inpo
cent of much knowledge that they must
now learn. The bride of former days
went to her husband as guileless of
Nature's mysterious and sacred secrets
as the new-born babe. In this unin
formed and 'helpless state the young
woman of today, with her greater free
dom, cannot be left Innocence abroad
is a prey to evils that once were pow
erless to invade the precincts of the
home's quiet and circumscribed life.
The young person who is her own mis
tress at sixteen must be armed with
Intelligence that could be exercised vi
cariously for her when she was guarded
until 25 or marriage. It is much the
same with young men. Opportunity
makes the crime," and will do so unless
the prospective perpetrators are fore
warned. The end of the road whither
the first false step leads should be
shown to every "Walter Brooks before he
is murdered in jealousy, and to every
Florence Burns before she has closed
upon herself the door to an honest and
happy life. Eternal vigilance on the
part of parents is the price of good chil
dren, and -for themselves an old age
unsullied by remorse and shame.
THE OPERATORS' ULTIMATUM.
The time has gone by when a group of
employing capitalists can get together
at the outset of a labor controversy and
say: We will grant such and such
things to our men, and such and such
other things we will not grant, now or
at any other time. One reason why this
sort of a stand, attempted by the
Pennsylvania magnates on Friday, is
Impossible is- because labor has grown
strong enough In moral, mental, social.
and material resources to say something
Itself about such controversies, and an
other reason is that public opinion re
fuses to look at disputes of this sort
wholly " from the employer's point of
view. v The operators may think there is
but one side to the question their side
but the public knows better. President
Mitchell's prompt annulment of the or
der for an Immediate strike, made at
the instance of the Civic Federation,
comports with a reasonable attitude on
the part of organized labor which might
be more often assumed by organized
capital to its own advantage and the
general good.
The dominant fact about these labor
difficulties Is that the community has
at length roused Itself to the conscious
ness that they are its affair as well as
the affair of embattled property and
labor. The Civic Federation Is exercis
ing the prerogative of society, which
ou,r lawmakers and executives, whose
business it more naturally is, are too
cowardly to assert. The idea that
clashes of the magnitude and bitterness
of the modern strike should proceed at
the unrestrained 'will of headstrong
fighters on each side until the point of
bloodshed Is reached is puerile and fast
passing away. Interrupted production
and traffic, display of bitter arrogance
on the one side and bitter discontent
on the other, make up an exhibit that
demonstrates society's direct concern
with every affair of this kind. . Too
many innocent stockholders on the one
hand and dependent families and trad
ing communities on the other are affect
ed in a struggle such as now Impends
In the anthracite districts, to justify
the community at large in folding its
hands and "helplessly wondering bow the
battle will turn out.
What right have these operators to
say that the representatives of their la
borers shall be themselves In the em
ploy of the companies? The object of
the contention is obviously nothing but
a desire to deprive the workmen of such
diplomatic service as they may call to
their aid. There is no pretense that
the labor leaders do not represent the
men. or that their agreements will not
be respected by the men. The labor
leaders are empowered to act for the
workers. Just as much as the operators
are empowered to act for the owners.
The man that owned, a plant used to
feel, and the feeling was natural and
just, that no outsider should come be
tween him and hi3 men. But this good
old man has gone away. He sold out
to a corporation and the corporation
was merged into a trust, and the trust
has hired a lot of superintendents and
agents of one sort and another to repre
sent it In its dealings with labor. It
does not He very snugly in the mouths
of these blred men to complain because
labor has also hired men to represent
it. The workers have not demanded,
so far1 as we have observed, that the
presidents and chairmen of boards shall
all own the identical mines or railroads
they speak for, and hence the labor
presidents and chairmen are not justly
to be required to own or be part and
parcel of the labor they speak for.
This proposition, laid down by the
operators, is a very ridiculous part of
their ultimatum. We take it that even
Mr. J. J. Hill, friend of workingmen
and farmers as he Is, would trot out
his celebrated toothless old gentlemen
of 70 who own the Great Northern to
conduct negotiations with his trainmen
the next time he has-a strike on his
hands.
bu
R IMMIGRATION.
Oregon may well congratulate herself
upon the number and type of immi
grants that have come, and are still
coming to the state, homeseeklng, this
Spring. In a former era, dominated by
isolation, the watchword of the leading
men of the state was "home produc
tion." This, though still retained in the
vocabulary of "our Industrial life, has
been supplemented by the declaration
that we need for the development of our
boundless resources "people, people." It
is gratifying to note that this need is
being met to the extent of some 2000
homeseekers every week, and that the
class coming hither Is, generally speak
ing, of the type that will add to the
state's prosperity by their industry and
thrift
Though the Spring Is somewhat back
ward, and the March days have been
raw and ralnythe impression made by
the appearance of the country has been
a favorable one. The Middle West and
Northwest, from whence most of these
newcomers hall, are still suffering the
rigors of Winter; the contrast between
the appearance of the landscape there
and here is striking, and can scarcely
fall to please. This Is important, since
first impressions go a long way toward
keeping off homesickness a malady to
which the better class of homeseekers
are peculiarly liable, but which, when
Indulged, has a tendency to sap the en
ergy and Induce unreasonable discon
tent The arrival of these immigrants
is most timely, both for themselves and
"7-
for the .state. A decided change of lo
cation Is at best trying upon people who
love home and old associations. Upon
women especially these things set heav
ily. Men, for obvious reasons, bear the
trials Incident thereto with less friction
of the nerves and less bodily and mental
strain.
Having Interested ourselves In getting
these people to come to Oregon, it Is
now Incumbent upon all who come In
touch with them as homeseekers and
homebullders to give them welcome, to
assist them by suggestion, when neces
sary, in getting located, and to en
courage them in all neighborly ways
to "feel at home" as far as possible
from the first There is not the slight
est doubt that nine-tenths of the ener
getic, forehanded people now coming
here to locate will become in a short
time prosperous citizens of the state,
who will congratulate themselves from
year to year upon the good fortune that
directed their steps hither. Oregon
needs them; let us not forget that.
They need Oregon, with its mild cli
mate and boundless opportunities.
Their coming is an acknowledgment by
them of this latter fact. A few years'
residence, accompanied by well-directed
Industry, will prove the wisdom of their
coming, and add to the loyal citizen
ship of Oregon a contented, prosperous
host.
JRISH STATESMEN VS. IRISH BAB.
BLERS.
There have been. a few great Irish
men who have rendered Important serv
ices to their country within the lines of
constitutional agitation. The roll of
these great men is headed by the illus
trious Edmund Burke, and it Includes
Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell.
In our times there have been Irish agi
tators who have been worthy successors
of these -great men in their efforts for
home rule, and, falling In that of radi
cal larid reform. To the name of states
man William Redmond, the Irish mem
ber of Parliament, who said at Chicago
on Sunday last that "If we cannot win
home rule. we will destroy the Parlia
ment of England," can lay no just
claim. He will have what he wants or
he will TUln Great Britain. It is quite
possible, perhaps probable, that ulti
mately Ireland will get home rule, but
such utterances as those of Mr. Red
mond will not hasten the day of Its be
stowal. It is safe to say that the gift
of home rule for Ireland I3 farther re
mote today than it was the day that
Gladstone resigned his leadership to
Lord Rosebery. Why? Because of the
senseless and exasperating speech and
action of Irish agitators of the Redmond
and Dillon quality, who, the moment
that Great Britain became involved in
the Boer War, were not content with
such frank opposition and dignified dis
approval as were manifested by John
Morley, but were never weary of fllng
Ing'wanton Insult at the English flag
and making bitter gibes over battle
fields where, though defeated, the Eng
lish arms suffered no shame.
When we remember that there Is
scarcely a family of Influence and con
sequence among the English nobility,
gentry or middle classes which has not
suffered directly or Indirectly personal
bereavement through the Boer War, It
is not difficult to understand that never
In the life and leadership of such reck
less men as Tim Healey, Redmond and
Dillon Is home rule likely to obtain any
new friends in the British Parliament.
Suppose on the heels of the memorable
defeats of Bull Run, Gaines Mills, Ma
nassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellors
vllle, a "copperhead" Democrat had
risen In his place In Congress, and, not
content with opposing Lincoln's war
polldy, had sneered at the soldiers, both
the living and the dead, who had gal
lantly faced wounds and taken death
in vain for victory, what would have
been the consequences? Why. those
"copperhead" Democrats would hardly
have escaped mobbing at the hands of
the populace. They would not have
been mobbed because they opposed the
wr and Lincoln's war policy, but they
would have been mobbed for their reck
less and brutal insults to soldiers,
living and dead; they would have been
mobbed because they declined to spare
the newly-made graves where valor
proudly sleeps.
The meanness, the malignity, ex
pressed by Tim Healey, a brilliant man
of education and culture, when he
taunted Great Britain with having fur
nished the Boers at Colenso with an
other "Dlngaan's day," will neither be
forgiven nor forgotten by the ruling
generation of Englishmen, who have
fought this terrible Boer War. And it
ought not to be, becai 3e if the in
tellectual cultivated lead.-rs of the Irish
home rule party cannot rule their
tongues or subdue their passions on re
sponsible public occasions, what can be
expected of the discretion of the rank
and file of the Irish home rule party
when In some future difficulty of the
British Government they think they
havei discovered an opportunity which
would make "a great day for Ireland"?
That is the- trouble with this whole
Redmond and Healey home rule busi
ness. Its leaders never rule their spirits;
never control their speech; they are con
stantly pVpvlng that, while they have
no small wit and considerable eloquence,
they have no discretion. They cannot
govern themselves; they could not be
trusted tomorrow as the leaders of an
Irish home rule Parliament decently to
govern Ireland. The brains and prop
erty of England and Scotland have no
confidence in the statesmanship of these
Redmondltes and Healeyltes; and the
brains and property of Ireland share
this English distrust. Home rule for
the present Is dead, and is likely to be
dead a long time, thanks to the bitter
sarcasms, the reckless wit and flippant
eloquence of Redmond and Tim Healey
during the Boer War. T. W. Russell,
the most conspicuous of the Ulster
Unionists, sees that home rule Is dead,
and proposes a scheme of land reform
under which the sale of all landed es
tates In Ireland which exceed a specified
area shall be made compulsory by act
of Parliament Mr. Russell asks that
the Irish tenant shall be permitted to
pay for the land he occupies Its market
value, plus a specified amount for the
application of compulsion, and that the
state shall contribute a part of this
bonus required to extirpate the root of
all the Irish trouble.
The state ought to help the purchas
ing tenant pay something for compul
sion, since the Irish landlords were cre
ated by the state and have been the
English garrison of Ireland for centu
ries. With such a settlement Mr. Rus
sell says that the police force might be
reduced one-half; the resident magis
tracy might almost cease to exist The
central principle of this scheme is that
of "occupying ownership." There would
be no subdivision or subletting, no re
suscitation of the old relation of land
lord and tenant. Irish landlords would
have a chance of escape upon terms
that would save those possible to save,
,and Great Britain would have peace,
security and contentment in Ireland
and a loyalty that is today unknown.
Mr. Russell Is clearly an Irish states
man by the side of whom Messrs.
Healeyand Redmond are only brawjfng
Irish Bohemians.
OUTDOOR RECREATION.
The resurrection of the wild flowers
has begun. The procession that should
have started the first week of the month
Is rapidly today beginning to fall into
line. Our Spring, in comparison with
that of New England, rises early, but
lives so long that we can hardly 'tell
when Spring melts Into Summer. The
beautiful, brilliant, sudden, splendid
resurrection of Nature that New Eng
land's Spring exhibits Is unknown on
this coast, but to offset this we have a
climate that In its perennial mildness
gives a far larger number of days of
agreeable outdoor life. Spring wakes
with us early. In February's last week
In favored spots In Oregon violets may
be found painting "woodland nooks
with sweetest looks." There are a good
many wild plants in bloom with us by
the middle of March, while it Is the first
of April before New England's first
flower, the liverwort (Hepatica) puts in
an appearance; then follows the trailing
arbutus, but it is the first week of May
before the New England Spring really
becomes full of bloom and scent When
the shad bush fills the New England
woods with its white blooms, tinted
sometimes with purple, the old farmers
say that Spring has come to stay.
We miss 'this brilliant flash, bounce
and bounding beauty of New England's
short Spring that breaks like a beau
tiful fairy suddenly out of the earth;
we miss the glory of her Autumn, whose
brilliant hues wrap Dame Nature with
the hectic beauty of a dying Indian
Queen, but our mild, short Winter, our
early Spring, our bland Summer, with
Its cool nights, our long, bright Autumn,
Increase so largely the number of days
whenoutdoor life is not only tolerable
but agreeable that no man who has
lived in Oregon Ave years would lose Its
climate all the year round for the sake
of New England's brief burst of Spring
beauty or the short-lived glory of her
Autumn forest dyes. The climate that
affords the largest number of days wnen
it is comfortable to be out of doors is
the best land to live in, for there Is
exquisite mental pleasure to be obtained
In outdoor recreation. It is the best
balm for hurt minds; the best tonic for
debilitated bodies. The balm comes
with the morning breeze, bringing with
it the breath of a thousand flowers; the
physical tonic Is In the mountain airs,
while there Is a moral lift In the specta
cle of the beauty and breadth of Nature
that whether in vivacity or repose al
ways seems a perpetual rebuke to the
harsh, querulous narrowness of man.
The tuneful birds perhaps hold political
conventions; perhaps they wrangle in
bird talk as bitterly as does human
ity, but if they do we do not know It
The whistle of the blackbirds In the
tall trees made Lowell guess they were
holding "windy congresses," but to most
of us the blackbird or the hermit thrush 1
Is a fount of melodious song whose out
pourings help us all to grow old cheer
fully. The flowers, the trees, the birds, the
fish and the game all In their season
make a charming procession of old loves
that every year look fresh and new to
any man who was fortunate enough
when young to have opened his ears,
eye3 and his soul to their healing In
fluences. The woods, vocal with the
happy calls of birds and glowing with
the bright faces of familiar flowers, help
to disperse the busy meddling fiends of
caro and trouble from the cankered
heart of man. The strongest natures
feel something of this gypsy Joy which
prompted Webster, Fox, Disraeli, to
ramble In the woods, to He in the grass
with or without a book, or wander by
the brookslde with a companion who
knows the difference between the art of
conversation and the mere trade of ar
gument Whether we are in search of
healing influences for nerve and diges
tion or solace for a wounded spirit, or
sagacious preparation against the un
rest and unhappiness of unoccupied,
listless old age, there Is nothing better
than an early Imbibed love for outdoor
life when you have earned your leisure.
This early acquired relish for the in
finite variety of outdoor nature leaves
us only when death seals up our sight
The waters witch the eye and the wild
flowers are as welcome as they march
In annual procession from March until
October, Just as they did when we were
happy children and searched for them
every Spring, anxious that no mother
should have earner and sweeter blos
soms than we brought home to deck
the hair of her who was our cradle's
light
The vandal squatter may slash reck
lessly down our woods, and depopulate
our streams, but he cannot steal the
sunshine nor extinguish the stars; he
cannot level our mountains nor dissi
pate the purple mist of evening glory
that wraps the lower hills. The Win
ter Is over; the Spring Is come, and yet
she comes thus far so coyly and so cold
ly that these words of the sweet Irish
singer are on our lips:
Ah! my heart Is weary waiting,
"Waiting for the May
Waiting for the pleasant rambles.
Where tho fragrant hawthorn brambles
With the woodbine alternating.
Scent the dewy way.
Ah I my heart Is weary waiting.
Waiting for the May. 1
The oleomargarine contention now on
In Congress Is one of the most furious
ever waged for and against that oleag
inous compound. Large financial Inter
ests are at stake on both sides, and both
sides lug In as a popular phase of their
contention the "people's rights" on the
one hand to genuine butter for their
bread, on the other to oleomargarine, If
for any reason they prefer It to butter.
Much Is being said on both sides that
Is ludicrous In the extreme. For exam
ple, in the opinion of Senator Quarles,
"things have come to a strange pass
when steers compete with cows as but
ter producers, and It is time for self
respecting men to take up the cudgels
for the cow," while others In behalf of
the "noor man" urge that all restric
tions be removed from the manufacture
and sale of oleomargarine. The simple
facts of the question need no embel
lishment. The product known as oleo
margarine Is a fraud when sold as but
ter. Sailing under its own colors, made
of wholesome materials and subjected to
ordinary rules of cleanliness In manu
facture, no legitimate objection can be
I urged against its production and sale.
Foisted upon consumers as "butter,"
whether It Is composed of deleterious
substances or not, ' it Is a fraud, not
only upon dairy Interests, but upon the
public. It should not be difficult to
formulate a law that will protect the
people and the dairymen upon these
points, without unjustly discriminating
against manufacturers of oleomargar
ine. Senator Harris, who supports the
present drastic measure before Con
gress, known as the oleomargarine bill,
still sees much virtue in the product
as an article of food, and expresses sur
prise that manufacturers do not adver
tise oleomargarine as such, frankly and
boldly. This is the simple, honorable
solution of the whole matter. More
than this the dairy Interests have no
right to demand; with less than this
they will not and should not be satis
fied. v
The President's attitude toward de
serters from the Army and Navy .dur
ing the Civil Wan. Is the patriotic and
the military attitude. To restore de
serters to favor, by means of special
legislation, for the sake of making them
eligible for pensions, would be an Insult
to soldiers who earned honorable dis
charge through loyal service, and a
gross Injustice to them as well. It would
also compel the people to pay for service
that was dishonorably evaded Ignobly
shirked. No soldier's military record
should be tampered with by legislation.
The Nation cannot afford to cheapen
military service In any way. and cer
tainly not by placing the deserter on a
par with the soldier who earned and
received honorable discharge from the
service, and, through disability Incurred
therein, a pension. The bold Impudence
of the attempt to "fix the military rec
ords" in the Interest of pension-hungry
deserters is apparent. The country Is to
be congratulated upon the firm stand
that the President has taken against
the proposed abuse. The Secretary of
War Is very properly the court of last
resort when the question of the restora
tion of a deserter to his original status
in the Army is raised. Congress Is too
compliant by half, having political
fences to keep up over a wide and di
versified area.
Cecil Rhodes died at 47. So did the
famous English statesman, William
Pitt Alexander Hamilton was but 47
when he fell In a duel, arid the great
Admiral Nelson was but 47 when he
got his death wound at Trafalgar. The
active military careers of both Napo
leon and Wellington ended In 1S15, when
they were but 48. Grant's fame was all
won before he was 43. Henry V, the
greatest warrior King of England, died
at 35. Nathaniel Greene, the ablest sol
dier of our Revolution, save Washing
ton, died In his 44th year. Gustavus
Adolphus, the famous warrior King of
Sweden, was killed when about 3S. The
greatest soldier of antiquity, Alexander
of Macedon, died when about 33. As a
rule, men of action In the world's his
tory have not been men of longevity.
The notable exceptions include Crom
well, who was 43 before he became a
soldier, and was 53 before he became a
great General, and Marlborough, who
was 57 before he rose to any great mili
tary distinction. Mirabeau died when
about 42. Byron and Burns died at 37;
Shelley was but 30, and Keats only 26.
The great painter, Raphael, died at 37.
Goldsmith died In his 46th year. Edgar
A. Poe was about 40 at his death.
The sport known as "riding to the
hounds" Is of the type tersely described
as "fun for the dogs but death to the
fox." It also has Its drawbacks when
applied to riders, and Is by no means
all sport for the horses engaged. Mrs.
W. C. Whitney, It will be remembered,
received serious Injuries in this game
a few years ago that resulted in her
death, and a few days ago Lady Con
stance McKenzle, of Scotland, came
near being killed by riding, with a large
field, In the Whitney game preserve, in
Aiken, Ga., on the trail of a wild fox.
She was dressed In trousers, top boots
and riding coat a veritable Amazon
in the saddle when her horse, attempt
ing to take a ditch, fell, throwing her
violently. She was very severely, and,
it was for a time thought, fatally, In
jured. Involuntarily one's thoughts go
out to the fox. coupled with the hope
that he escaped the tremendous odds
arrayed against him.
President Roosevelt Is a born disci
plinarian. That he greatly desired to
discipline General Miles for his too free
expression of opinion upon the pending
military bill before the Senate commit
tee cannot be doubted. He has, how
ever, taken counsel of discretion and
decided to content himself by holding
suspended over the head of the loqua
cious Lieutenant-General the sword of
his displeasure, ready to sever his con
nection with the Army In case of an
other outbreak of adverse opinion upon
proposed -military methoda General
Miles will no doubt take the hint con
veyed by this leniency, and bottle his
views, at least until such time as, from
the safe retreat afforded by the re
tired list, with honors and emoluments
unimpaired and unmenaced, ho can
uncork them with Impunity.
The Great Northern Seattle Post-Intelligencer
comes out in a leading edi
torial article in opposition to the move
of Governor McBrlde and Attorney-General
JStratton against the Northern Se
curities merger and In favor of the rail
roads. There Is nothing surprising in
that the ses knoweth its owner or that
it fondly supposes Its voice will be
taken seriously as public opinion. The
article In question Is not, of course, de
signed so much for consumption In
Eastern Washington, where no one will
be deceived by It, as In St. Paul, where
the expectation" of literary returns on
Invested capital will not brook disap
pointment The American Sugar Refining Com
pany 13 said to be going Into the beet
sugar business out in Colorado. This
rumor leads the Indianapolis News to
suggest that "perhaps In time the Have
meyers may not feel so much distress
for the poor Cubans." This Is, Of
course, an unworthy reflection upon the
motives of the great philanthropists
whose business It is to cater to the
"sweet tooth" of the world to the ex
clusion of others who would fain share
the enterprise and accruing profits with
them.
Professor RIgler has engaged In no
more worthy work In behalf of popular
education since he has been Identified
with the public schools of this city than
that of attempting to enlist the co-operation
of parents and especially of moth
ers In the work of the teachers. The
effort Is certainly a laudable one, and.
It may be hoped, will meet with grati
fying response. The trouble with most
of the complaints about the schools Is
that the complainants don't know what
they are talking about.
Politics Is a game a selfish game at
that wherein, as In love and war, all
things are considered fair. If it breeds
selfishness among its votaries, why
need any one be surprised?
OKLAHOMA'S APPEAL.
There is just resentment on the part of
the people of Oklahoma of the universal
tendency to class that territory with Ari
zona and New Mexico, and to discredit
Us appeal for statehood by arguments
which' apply only to the territories last
named. Oklahoma has little In common
with the Southwestern territories, 'and
shares not at all In the adverse conditions
which present themselves to every mind
when either Arizona or New Mexico la
named. Whatever objection Is to be urged
against Oklahoma as a candidate for
statehood does not relate to a foreign and,
politically speaking, nou-capable element
in her population. There are, in truth,
few foreigners of any kind In Oklahoma;
and such as there are are of Northern Eu
ropean origin, and are of the breed which
naturally and quickly fuses with and be
comes incorporated with the mass o
wholesome American citizenship.
The argument presented by Oklahoma
In support of her application for statehood
Is one of surprising force surprising be
cause It makes plain the extraordinary
fact that a country which less than 15
years back had not cne white Inhabitant
Is now thoroughly equipped for statehood
In the points of number and quality of
population, manifest political capacity,
established Industry, a more than suf
ficient accumulated wealth, and a gen
erally competent organization of social
life. It Is with something like amaze
ment that the country learns that Okla
homa, which was only opened to white
settlement In 1SS9, has more population
than Vermont New Hampshire, Rhode
Island. Delaware, Florida, Montana, Wy
oming. North Dakota, South Dakota,
Washington or Oregon; that, coming In on
the basis of her present population, she
would be entitled to three members of
Congress more than the number allotted
to any state at the time of its admission.
And amazement turns to admiration when
It is told that of those who make up the
community of this young but lusty com
monwealth almost all are native Amer
icans, drawn from every state In the
Union, and representing the broad com
monalty of American life as It Is not rep
resented anywhere else, for nowhere else
Is there an extensive population of Amer
ican people with no single native son or
daughter not above 13 years of age.
The business and productive capability
of Oklahoma Is Illustrated by the figures
of her material affairs presented last week
to Congress by Delegate Flynn. who Is
conducting the Washington end of the ad
mission campaign. The climate of Okla
homa partakes something of the North
and something of the South; and the pro
ductions of the country, while largely
agricultural, cover a wide range. Okla
homa fruit comes Into market earlier than
that of the Northern States, and already
It rivals in some lines the fruit product
of California. The exported surplus of
wheat last year was 30,000,000 bushels; or
corn, eo.000.000 -bushels; of cotton. 200.000
bales. Oklahoma Is traversed by four
of the great trunk railroads, and of hef"2G
county-seat towns' but one lies away from
a railroad line, many of them having
three or four. There are upwards of 200
banks In the territory, with capital of
520,000,000. The Indebtedness of the terri
tory on June CO, 1S01, was less than ?1
per capita, and of this amount only 53S,
OOO was In the form of bonds issued for
educational purposes during the first year
of the existence of the territory. There
never has been a bond issued by the ter
ritory, or by any county or municipality
in It which has been repudiated, or In
which there has ever been any default In
the payment of Interest. Territorial and
municipal securities sell readily In tho
money markets on a 4 per cent basis or
less. There are several cities In the ter
ritory with from 10,000 to 15,000 popula
tion,, and they own their systems of wa
ter works and other public improvements.
The taxable wealth of the territory is
nominally about $70.000.0. but In reality It
Is fully $300,000,000. There Is not a million
aire in the territory, and not a pauper.
So much for the material development of
a country which, so early as 1SS0, was a
prairie wilderness. American energy nev
er In any past time or In any field
achieved a greater triumph.
It Is not alone In material wealth that
Oklahoma has achieved wonders. There
are In the territory 2500 public school
houses, located within easy access of the
homo of every man who desires to edu
cate his children, and meet of these
schoolhouses are paid for and have
been erected without the Issuance of
bonds or the Incurrence of any obligation
or debt. The territory Is also well sup
plied with higher educational Institutions,
such as a university, agricultural college
and normal schools. There are churches
everywhere; the roads are universally
good for a soft-soil country; the streams
everywhere are substantially bridged. In
all the towns there are commodious halls
for public gatherings; and the universal
fraternal orders arc everywhere solidly es
tablished. Oklahoma has been Republican since Its
organization, excepting in 1S0G. when It
sent for a single term a "fuslonist" to
Congress. Populism has no hold in the
territory, and there is no war against
property which meets Its honest obliga
tions. Oklahoma wants to come Into the Union
because It Is ambitious for the political
equality and Independence which belongs
of right to Its self-supporting character.
"Our people." says Delegate Flynn, "who
but a few years ago all lived In states,
have settled a new country, reared a
splendid commonwealth, which Is equal to
that of any state in the Union, became
self-supporting, and now feel that they
should be admitted as a state and have
the same representation in the councils
of the Nation as they would have had
had they continued In the states. They
do not delight In a territorial form of
government No state after It was ad
mitted ever looked back upon the days ot
Its territorial existence with pride. A ter
ritorial form of government Is without
pride of ancestry or hope of posterity."
The Mnnchurlan "Open Door."
Philadelphia Ledger.
In the face of such positive assurances
as our Government has received from
the principal nations In interest. It Is
Impossible not to believe that the "open
door" into Manchuria will be maintained
for American trade. This Is all that this
country asks. If this Is assured, the
other nations may settle their dealings
with China in their own way, so far
as the United States is concerned.
She Dwelt Amonjr the Untrodden
Wny5.
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs ot Dove:
A maid whom there were none to praise.
And very few to love.
A violet by a mossy stone
Half-hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only ona
Is shining In the sky.
She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But sh Is In her crave, and. oh.
The difference to me!
William Wordsworf
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
The Song: f the Shirk.
With spirits weary and worn.
With eyelids heavy and red.
Sat a newspaper man. and jumped an Inch
At each throb of his aching head.
Pore, pore, pore.
O'er the paper every day.
And as he read. In a voice full sore,
He sang this painful lay:
"Read, read, read.
With attention merciless;
Read, read. read.
Till the old sheet's on the press.
Column and stick and head.
Head and column and stick.
Till tho brain is numb, and the soul Is dead.
And the heart is faint and sick.
"And what do I find but beats.
And wrong-font editor's views.
And sermons long, and speeches weak.
Played up in the place of news?
And captions gone astray.
And headlines out of gear.
And the picture of Roosevelt run ahove
The name of some pioneer?
"Read, read, read.
Of Sampson. Miles and Schley,
Read, read, read.
A3 the weary days drag by.
That tho King ot Spain has a new Sprlny
crown.
Prince Henry's hat's blown oft:
That a Russian force of a hundred horso
Is quartered at Lctsgetoff.
"And tho same old rumors of war,
And the same old rows at home.
And the same old strikes In the rolling mills
And the same old strikes at Nome.
It is oh! for Mary Jane Holmes.
And the Duchess, and Gunter. too.
The Congressional Record's massive tomes
Would even look good to you.
"Through the window comes floating In
The perfume of springtime, bland:
Tou can hear the beat, on the busy street
Of the drum in the. German band.
But column and head and stick.
And stick and column and head.
Are looking at you. in cold, cdld print.
And simply must be read.
"Oh! for a tasto of the Joj-3
Of a Mother Goose nursery rhyme:
Oh! for a glance at the wondrous tales
That began: 'Once on a time'
But there Is no time for love.
And there Is no time for Joy.
No time at all. but what's beaten above
By the buck-danclns galley boy.
"Oh! foremen who wildly shout
For copy the whole day through.
You little know as you slice up 'takes
What a lot of harm you do.
For your minion and nonpareil.
Your agate and bold black face
Are the cruelest things this side of well.
We trust that you'll see the place.
With spirits weary and worn.
With eyelids heavy and red.
Sat a newspaper man and pored and pored
Over single and double lead.
Reld. read, read.
Till his brain refused to think.
And before his eyes danced a whirling mass
Of type and turned rules and Ink.
Pin us of PnclDcation.
It appears from the following wireless
dispatches, which might have been sent
to the War Department, that General
Miles is not the only man who has wres
tled with the Filipino problem and evolved
a plan for the pacification of the Islands:
LONDON, March 20. R. Root, Washing
ton, D. C: This would be my plan: Cor
ral each native man and read to him some
little thing of mine. I think that you
will find each leader Is Inclined to yield
to strains of melody divine. This plan
won't be O. K.'d in Boston, and It's the
plan of ALFRED AUSTIN.
BERLIN, March 29. E. Root, Washing
ton, D. C: Meln bruder Helnrlch 1st so
neullch zurueckgekehrt dass ich gar nichts
zu Ihncn zu sagen habe, aber I am think
ing about the matter, and just wait till
you get a wire from me before you do any
pacifying. WILLIAM, R. I.
NEW YORK, March 29. E. Root. Wash
ington, D. C: If you are up on literature
you may remember that I once suggested
to your department to civilize part of the
American Indians with soap and use re
ligion on the rest Why not try It on the
Filipinos? Yours, etc.,
MARK TWAIN.
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 29. E.
Root, War Department. Send the Fili
pinos to my constituents and they will be
civilized with the brethren of their own
hue as long as the trees and the hemp
hold out Respectfully.
BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN.
Wall of the Ignored Candidate.
I have shouted for the party; I have stood for
every slate;
I've sacrificed my business to become a candi
date. I have left my wife and children at a lonely
11 reside
To go out and get supporters for the sjato
from far and wide: -
I have run for every olllce, and have cheerfully
becn made
The lamb for every slaughter and the goods
for every trade.
And when at last the party stands a chanco
to sweep the town.
They smile on me with pity, and proceed to
throw me down.
For tho Job I had my eye on they have got tho
weakest man
They could put upon the ticket Just a chronic
also ran.
What' he'3 done to boost the party, as they
very soon wlli And.
Is exclusively set forth upon the tablets of his
mind.
All he does is sit and blow about the phan
tom coin he spends.
And promise tens of ballots from imaginary
friends.
They made me think I'd beat htm. but their
rerildy to crown
They waited till I'd helped them, then they
coldly turned me down.
Of course, they talk of harmony, and think
that I should shout.
And work, and toll, and slave, to help their
rotten ticket out:
They tell me as a rustler I'm almighty hard
to beat.
They know they need my strength upon tho
stump and on the street.
But Just to show them how I feel I'll take to
private life.
And let them go alone against the struggles
and the strife
Of this campaign; I'll Just give up my chances
of renown.
And pass up politics a while to throw them
fellows down.
One on Macbeth.
Macbeth was suffering from Insomnia.
"Is this a dagger I see before me?" ho
inquired of a Presence which he some
how felt was occupying the same room he
was.
"What do you think it Is," sniffed the
Presence, with fine scorn, "a Mauser rifle
or a.Krupp cannon?"
Considering the age he was living In,
Macbeth was struck by the common sense
of the observations of the Presence, and,
feeling certain that It was a dagger, he
decided to let it dag as soon as the fatal
moment arrived.
Enstcr Flowers,
Dainty little violet.
Bright with morning dew;
Gorgeous Easter Illy
Both are fair, 'tis true.
Yet you are but Nature's,
Fashioned but to fade.
Both today must hide your heads.
Both keep in the shade.
Know that this Is Easter,
And the fairest blooms
Grow not In the hothouse
Or the forest glooms.
The flowers that we worship
Prithee, be not wroth
Spring today from Easter hats.
And are built of cloth.
J. J. MONTAGUE.