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PORTLAD, SUXDAX, APRIL 20.
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LET US CONSIDER.
The Salem Statesman argues that in
asmuch as Senator Mitchell's friends
made a coalition with Democrats in
Multnomah County, two years ago, a
coalition of Senator Simon's friends
with Democrats is justifiable now. That
4s a singular position for a paper that
professes to be devoted to the Republi
can party to take. It Is by no means
necessary for The Oregonian to ex
plain the differences between the condi
tions of two years ago and those of the
present time. However, It will say
that it supported the Republican organ
ization and ticket then, as it supports
the Republican organization arid ticket
now; because it believes that under
the conditions in which the country has
been placed during some years past
conditions which still exist it is better
that the Republican party should pre
vail. The contests between Individuals,
or between factions, it cares little or
nothing about Two years ago .the
course pursued under the direction of
Senator Simon led the party to disas
trous defeat. The Oregonian protested
against repetition of that policy this
year; and those -who were responsible
for that disastrous policy lost control
of the party, in a perfectly fair pri
snary the only fair one Portland has
ever known. And now The Oregonian
protests against "bolt," and stands for
the Republican organization and ticket,
flust as it did two years ago. It does
not attempt to Justify one factional
movement by another. And yet, it Is
right to say, for It Is perfectly true,
that the conditions this year are alto
gether different from those of two
years ago; since this time there was a
!fair primary, under protection of law,
in which all participated, while two
years ago there was nothing of the
ldnd, and men' did not consider them
selves bound to a proceeding In which
they had been permitted no opportu
nity to participate.
A truce to these contentions, and
'away with them. They are paltry, per
sonal and factional. Men ought to be
.ashamed to allow their little personal
and selfish ambitions to stand in the
(way of a great cause. Is" there any
jreajson why the Republican party
Bhould exist? Is Its general policy good
'for the country, or better thanthe pol
icy of the Democratic party, or is it
not? Is the National policy of the Re
'publican party to be sustained, or is
the policy of the Democratic party to
tbe substituted for it? These are the
(questions that men who profess to be
I Republicans, and to believe in the pol
icy and purposes of the Republican
'party, should ask themselves and an
swer. The policy and purposes of the Re
publican party, enacted into measures
of law, have given peace and pros
perity to the country, and stability to
Its affairs. This policy has recovered
the country from the greatest indus
trial and financial calamities it ever has
known. It hag given new impulse to
.every movement in industry, finance
and commerce, and everywhere has
established confidence and security.
Never was labor so largely employed,
or at so high a rate of general wages.
Never was production so large, never
was commerce established on so broad
'a basis of prosperity. Is it worth while
to continue the conditions under which
theee results have been achieved? Or
shall we quit them and go back to
'what the Democratio party gave us
and still offers us?
Again, the National Administration is
jon trial here. The question is, whether
it is to be sustained by Oregon, or get
a rebuke from Oregon. In our state
the general election comes earlier In
the year than in other states. This
j election therefore will be held under
.the eyes of the whole country. Are the
people of Oregon going to tell the
country that they are indifferent to the
general prosperity that the policy of
;the Republican "party has brought
them; that they don't want the coun
try to keep the Philippine Islands that
they care nothing about the expansion
iof Pacific commerce, or retention of the
incomparable advantages we have
gained in the Orient? Yet this would
be precisely the effect of Republican
defeat in Oregon. It would mark the
turn of the tide from the high-water
.mark of our activity and prosperity;
it would be the signal of substitution
4of negation and reaction for the for
,ward course which the country is pur
suing with so much success. It would
be tho first quiver of a paralytic stroke.
lj 4UTO& ot tha National development
that has been so marked during the
past four years.
The simple and single question for
the electors of Oregon is this: Is the
general policy of the Republican party
better for the country than that of the
Democratic party, or not? On that
issue, not on -the petty contentions of
Individual and selfish ambition, not on
motives of factkmal retaliation and re
venge, should this canvass In Oregon
be conducted. Oregon is a Republican
state, and Its place in the Republican
line can be lost pnly through dissen
sions in the party or among its mem
bers. It will hardly be disputed that
the dissensions in Multnomah must end
some time. They ought to endnow;or
the way to end them is not to multiply
precedents for further dissensions.
Men seem sometimes to forget that all
that a party stands for may be lost
through contention among its mem
bers to control party action. Yet
In fact no set of men, no fac
tion, has a role right to the head
ship of a party, and the complaint is
not reasonable when through a fair pri
mary election, men long in control are
defeated, and have to give way to oth
ers. No political party exists for be
hoof of Individuala It has no reason
to be. If it do not stand for something
more than narrow and selfish ambi
tions. Yet these are the motives that
cause divisions Into factions. In the
opinion of The Oregonian the fortunes
of Senator Simon and his junta are not
of sufficient importance to stand for the
wreck of the Republican party of Ore-son.
THE DIFFERENCE.
The control of urban vice Is at all
times a painful and Is often a profitless
subject of agitation, and it ia apt to be
unusually so when it becomes entangled
with election fights. Much as gambling,
drunkenness and prostitution are to be
deplored and denounced, inimical as
every self-respecting organ of public
opinion must always bear Itself toward
"them, it Is -nevertheless true that-every
organized effort to effect a revolution
in the official conduct of these matters
must be judged, separately and dis
tinctly from all other such efforts, by
the motives actuating it, and above all
by the effects that seem certain to flow
from its persistent pursuit.
Something less than two years ago a
great outcry was raised In Portland
against the policy adopted by the
Mayor, District Attorney, and Chief of
Police, in arresting and fining gamblers
once a month, turning the money Into
the city treasury, and not molesting
them during the Interim, except for
enforcement of external order and
quiet. The agitation at that time had
for Its inception a desire to discredit
those officials for that course; and In
volved threats of their impeachment.
That was the motive of the effort, and
its effect was, as predicted, the sub
stitution of the "private graft" for the
"public graft" At that time the Mayor,
District Attorney and Chief of Police
were trying to hold the evil within
measurable bounds, and turn the pro
ceeds of the fines Into the city treas
ury. Their acts were open to question
on the score of public policy, but they
were not amenable to the charge of
malfeasance in office. In an attack
upon their official integrity The Orego
nian refused to Join.
Nothing could be farther removed
from the situation that existed in 1900
than the situation that Exists today.
The same three men are in office, and
the police force of this city is being
used in a shameless manner to protect
vicious resorts for the emolument of
some one In office. Of all the ways In
which these municipal evils can be
handled, the Tammany system of black
mail is the one way for which every
honest man feels only contempt and In
dignation. It is in full swing in Port
land today, and though it is In the
power of the Mayor, the District Attor
ney, the Chief of Police or the Police
Commission to put an end to it, not
one of them lifts a hand. The promises
of reform made in Senator Simon's in
terest to influence votes in the pri
maries have been cast aside, and the
undisguised effort now is to make all
the money possible within the brief
time allowed the present police admin
istration to remain In office. District
Attorney Chamberlain is busy with his
candidacy for Governor, and the police
department Is co-operating with him in
a shameless effort to defeat the Repub
lican ticket, Including Judge "Williams
for Mayor, and turn the police power
of the city over Into the hands of a
corrupt combination of boss gamblers
and burglarious politicians.
The unprecedented and crowning in
famy -of the present police regime is not
the license given to vice, but the protec
tion given to crime. There is- no ex
cuse on the ground either of espedl
ence or impossibility of prohibition, for
undertakings with thieves of various
types by which they may ply their oc
cupation undisturbed. No man with
the slightest solicitude for fair play or
public decency should give this official
conspiracy with criminals the faintest
countenance or extenuation. It is use
less to pave streets and clear off side
walks and plant roses, if the moral life
of the city is to be covered with the
rottenness of such nefarious compacta
ADULT CHILDREN.
In a show window on a prominent
down-town corner there were shown the
past week, three children at play a
white girl, a negro, and a Chinese.
That was all; and yet crowds assem
bled from morning till night watching
with evident pleasure xe grouping of
children of three races, doing the little
nothings which make up the life of in
fants as familiar to parents as grass
and trees. These spectators were not
of the Idle class, but made up of aver
age men and women, industrious, well
dressed and happy, drawn out of floors
by Spring's warm invitation. How
small a thing serves to entertain and
amuse the populace! Live shopkeepers
know this, and put the knowledge to
profit. Like John Habberton's Budge
and Toddy, grown folk want "to see 'e
w'eels go wound," therefore windows
are filled with mechanical contrivances.
A toy boat running automatically in
a tub of water will attract and hold
the attention of ninety-nine sensible
men and women, where a Hoe perfect
ing press or a Corliss engine would be
noticed by one. The crowd enjoys the
commonplace if it 19 behind plate glass.
A cat teasing a rat, or a hen with her
brood fills the sidewalk with spectators
from curb to curb eight Ijours a day,
while a teacher with six children pur
suing routine school duties in a show
window creates a blockade and calls
for the service of policemen to keep
open a narrow passage-way.
Show windows are interesting and
sometimes instructive lessonn to manv
j feminine adults at this season of the j
year. After long weeks of imprison
ment occasioned by Illness, household
duties and rainy weather, a walk
through the business district with eyes
open reveals to the housewife the new
est and the best that skilled artisans in
many lands have produced since last
fall. She adds to her store of knowl
edge of things useful and ornamental.
She gets Into touch with the season's
fabrics dear to every woman's heart.
Just as before the holidays, she selects
and perhaps buys at once that which
will conduce to family comfort, pride
and happiness.
With this well-defined mission, why
does a wholesome rational woman al
ways waste time looking at common
place "shows" such as have been de
scribed? And why does the sensible
professional or business man, ever alert
to earn the money which his wife is
going to spend, consider himself repaid
for watching the shopkeeper's stupid
exhibit? Verily, men and women are
but children of larger growth.
DON'T WORRY, MR. 3IARICHA3I.
Edwin Markham, In "Success," bitter
ly deplores what, he calls "the modern
fawning before wealth," and the Rev.
Dr. Savage characterizes the so-called
"Four Hundred," the Interior organi
zation of New York City society, as
necessarily "Ignoble and vulgar," be
cause it Is organized around wealth;
that is, it is not an aristocracy, but a
mere plutocracy. Another writer, a Mr.
Nichols, has written at length concern
ing this blue streak of vulgar rich that'
predominates in the fashionable Sum
mer seaside resorts. That charmed
circle has no real moral character, for
It Includes several women with a
blackened past When these creatures
Invade the capitals of Europe, they buy
their way skillfully Into a certain
amount of social recognition by the lav
ish use of money. They Introduce
themselves by incessant advertisement
just as a smart quack does his nos
trums or a sensational actress does who
has a keen eye to business, and knows
that the real leader of the orchestra is
the fellow who can blow his own horn
louder and longer than anybody else.
These creatures don't really know or
care anything about literature or art,
but they make fictitious enthusiasm
and chatter about art and literature
part of their current quackery. These
mushroom or mildewed rich don't care
anything about the President of the
United States, because the President iSr
according to their standard of selection,
more than likely to be what they term
a person of no social standing, like
Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland, Garfield,
McKlnley or President Roosevelt, de
spite the fact that he belongs by hered
itary descent to a family distinguished,
for brains .- character and public emi
nence in New York City for more than
150 years, despite the fact that ho be
longs to the same circle of distinguished
New York families from which sprang
Hamilton Fish, General Schuyler Ham
ilton, Gulian C. Verplanck. De Witt
Clinton and Edwar"d Livingston.
The kind of Intellect that rules this
circle of mildewed or mushroom rich
may be estimated from the fact that
to have dined at the Astors' is a pass
port to its confidence. A portrait
painter can get in by sufferance, but
an author not at all. Mrs. Van Rens
selaer Cruger Is the only member of
this circle who has been able to write
books without being exiled to social
Siberia for the rest of her daya Her
writings are tolerated because they are
devoted to adultery and cognate sub
jects and recognize Illicit relations be
tween men and women as part of the
orthodox conduct of good society. Of
course, this kind of society ia ignoble
and vulgar. It always has been, be
cause its master spirits have always
been vulgar and ignoble women, play
ing the part of a shoddy queen through
the money of some low-bred or shal
low man. The late Mrs. Paran Stevens
was In life the shoddy queen of this
vulgar and Ignoble ultra-fashionable
American plutocracy. She was a good
Illustration of a beggar on horseback.
When a factory girl she married a rich
hotel-keeper, Inherited his millions and,
being a woman of innate vulgarity, was
never able to recognize the fact that
money cannot possibly purchase that
real social superiority that rests on
morals, intellect and manners. Her
successors to the throne of the shoddy
queen have been quite as low-bred and
, vulgar in their efforts to ape the man
ners of the titled and rich aristocracies
of Christendom. For President Roose
velt, because of his high character as
a man, a soldier and a statesman, this
shoddy society has nothing but con
tempt, but the moment Prince Henry
touched our shores all these wretched
little plutocrats began to throw him
bouquetp. Mrs. Vanderbllt and Mrs.
Mills captured him for dinner and
luncheon, but only fifty of the "Four
Hundred" were invited to dine with the
Prince.
All this Is ridiculous enough, but
when wo remember that this little close
communion circle of vulgar. Ignoble,
mildewed or mushroom rich In no sense
represents or reflects the temper or
brains of our 80,000,000 American peo
ple, why need Mr. Edwin Markham
worry? Every century of our modern
life has been diverted or disgusted by
the pranks of a shallow social plutoc
racy of some sort, whose only business
in life has been .through their money
to nurse fads, follies and vices behind
the shelter of the barbed-wire fence of
so-called excluslveneos. The people
have always made short work of these
fops and fools when they became se
riously obstructive to the full enjoy
ment of popular rights, and they al
ways will. The American people are
only amused spectators of the extrava
gant pranks of the mouldy or mush
room rich. The American people-watch
J. P. Morgan attentively not because
he Is a rich man, but because he is an
able man, whose manipulation of his
wealth and influence through his Na
poleonic eye for opportunity and com
bination, make him potential for our
industrial and commercial welfare or
Injurious to it, but the American peo
ple neither fear nor fawn upon the
Idle, vulgar, ignoble rich. The few
that go on all-fours ttf them are fit for
nothing better. But the vast mass of
the American people are not money
worshipers with the souls of toadies
and time-servers.
The mass of the American people
know that these Idle, extravagant tuft
huntlng rich are nothing but Imbecile
incarnations of Btupld indolence and
malodorous selfishness; that they do not
to any appreciable extent make our
laws or preach our gospel. The Ameri
can people know that clean character
which stands for self-conquest and
sound self-culture are the only things
that are permanent acquisitions in this
life, and are our only treasure in
heaven in the life to come. The people
- V .
have no reason to fear the idle, im
moral, shallow, peacock rich, who are
really nothing but one of the gilded
files on the vast wheel of our national
life.
THE PRESENTS AXD ITS PROMISE, j
The present demand for homes suita
ble for dwellings for the laboring class
and for persons of moderate means Is
unparalleled In the history of this city.
To meet It houses are being built In
every quarter, though the greatest ac
tivity In this line Is noted, on the East
Side, where the area of unoccupied lots
"close In," as the real estate dealers
say, is much, greater than en the Westj
Side. Many houses of the class that
cost from 5S0O to $2500 are rented In
advance of construction, and many
more are taken by anxious house-hunters,
a small army of whom are con
stantly on the alert, as soon as the
buildings are inclosed. While a pres
ent. Insistent and in a sense Impatient
demand of this kind Is likely to result
in buildings flimsily because hurriedly
constructed,, the greater part of the
dwelllng-house3 now going up are of
the 'better class of dwellings, and all
except the very least- pretentious are
equipped with modern conveniences.
These facts Indicate that there has been
a large accession to the population of
Portland within recent months; that
these people are of the thrifty class,
and that work is plenty and wages are
good.
The most significant fact, however, in
regard to the- Immigration of this
Spring is that it is largely composed
of the agricultural class men of fami
lies, who have a definite object in com
ing to the state, and who have suffi
cient means wherewith to establish
themselves on small farms. These peo
ple may be depended upon to add to
the material prosperity of the state by
becoming permanent settlers and home
builders. Their presence will be made
in due time known through the growth
of the school census, through the In
creased area of cultivated lands. In the
Increase In flocks and herds, and in ag
ricultural products, as shown by the
tax-rolls. We may even hope, In view
of the Increased creation of property,
for a lower tax levy, especially as we
now have reasonable assurance of a
business administration of the affairs of
the state.
However this may be, wholesome ac
tivity created by legitimate growth in
population, business and Industry, is not
only welcome It is inspiring. Not that
"a boom" in the unsubstantial mean
ing of that term is desired. Far from
it What we want and apparently what
we are entering upon is a perlo'd of
substantial, not ephemeral, growth.
That Is to say, a growth preceded by
an Intelligent understanding of our re
sources and opportunities, and followed
up by development; a growth the es
sence of which Is Industry and the re
sults of which are competence and con
tentment for the people generally. The
old Oregon, sacred to memory, lias
passed away with the bulk, of the sturdy
army of pioneer homebullders that laid
broad and deep the foundations of its
civilization. Oregon's isolation is a
thing of the past; steam and electricity
have made the ox-team era of transpor
tation seem far, far away. Upon the
basis of tbe. old Oregon a new Oregon
Is being rapidly bullded. From rever
ence for the old we turn with glad
greeting to the new. In the inspiration
of the activities now at work it is easy
to see the dawn of a development of
which the fathers dreamed when, their
toilsome march ended, they pitched
their tents in ;the beautiful wilderness
known vaguely-durlng the first 'half of
the last century as the "Oregon Coun
try.' Up to. 1893 the franchise was so re
stricted in Belgium that the number of
qualified electors did not much exceed
130,000. But in that year an outbreak
which threatened revolution forced the
Parliament to recognize the principle of
universal suffrage, but burdened with
provisions for plural voting which as
sured the preponderance to the property-owning
classes. Every citizen over
25 has but a single vote, while those
who have real estate valued at 2000
francs or an annual Income of not less
than 100 francs from real estate or gov
ernment bonds have two votes. To this
class also belong married men or wid
owers of 35 years paying a house tax of
5 francs a year. Citizens who are grad
uates of the higher educational institu
tions, or have filled public offices, or
belonged to the learned professions,
have three votes. This plural voting
has defeated the ostensible purpose and
promise of the law of 1893, which was
to establish universal suffrage. At 'the
last parliamentary election the num
ber of citizens over 35 qualified to cast
at least one vote exceeded 1,453,000, but
the supplementary ballots cast by those
entitled to cast more than one vote
numbered 787,000. -Under this system
the worklngmen are practically dis
franchised and deprived of representa
tion in the great centers of population,
where they are numerically paramount
Belgium will never have political peace
until it follows the example of Ger
many and France In adopting the prin
ciple of universal suffrage, pure and
simple, as the basis for the election
of the popular branch of the national
legislature. The government has firmly
refjused the demand this time, and may
maintain itself; but It will have to
yield sooner or later, peaceably or with
revolution.
Another Leaf In the sad chapter
which records the hopeless attempt to
escape death from consumption after
that malady has fully Invested the sys
tem was turned when O. S. Kimball, of
a piano company of Boston, died a few
days ago near Phoenix, Arizona. Its
pathos was not relieved, but Increased
rather, by his marriage when death
was hourly expected, and only a "few
hours before it occurred, to a young
woman who had vainly devoted her en
ergies toward saving his life. Marriage
under such circumstances is only less
sad than death itself. When urged
simply by sentiment, it is weak and
foolish. When it is entered into for
material reasons, accompanied, as no
doubt it was, in this instance, it may
be Indorsed as prudent, since It pro
vides for the lawful and easy descent of
property to one for whom the dying
man desires, as a matter of love and
duty, to ' provide. At best, however,
such a marriage Is a sorrowful inci
dent of a sad death-bed.
The appointment of E. F. Ware of
Kansas, to be Commissioner of Pen
sions, to succeed H. Clay Evans, of
Tennessee, resigned, Is coldly received
by the friends of honest enforcement of
the pension laws. The New York Even
ing Post points out that Kansas has
been the chief source of the clamor
against an honest enforcement of the
pension laws, and the politicians of that
state have been -most urgent that a
Kansas man should bechosen lo intro
duce the looser administration demand
ed by the pension claim attorney ring
and their clients among the G. A. R.
Mr. Ware,who has been named by the
President, is warmly Indorsed by
United States Senator Burton of Kan
sas, the most bitter opponent of the
Evans regime. Commissioner Evans
administered his trust honestly and in
strict obedience to the law. The new
commissioner cannot hope to do more
than this, and since be cannot, the
friends of pension reform are naturally
apprehensive that he was appointed be
cause he would do less than Mr. Ev
ans did and give the pension cormo
rants all the fish they can swallow.
The acceptance of Mr. Evans' resig
nation when he was still willing to
serre was a very great mistake, for
Ware cannot do more than Evans has
done, and Is probably expectedto do
much less.
A "dry Sunday" In .a large city 13 as
nothing to a Sunday in which street
car traffic Is practically suspended. Be
cause of the former relatively small
proportion of the people suffer incon
venience, while the latter Imposes se
rious Inconvenience, if not absolute
hardship upen the multitude. San Fran
cisco Is face to face with this problem
today, and will account itself fortu
nate if violence Is not a feature of the
situation. The labor required of street
car operatives, while not hard in a
physical sense, is nevertheless of a very
responsible and exacting nature. It re
quires constant alertness, unfailing
courtesy and a not inconsiderable
amount of patience and endurance. To
be equipped with all of these qualities
and have In addition the knowledge
required to handle the car Intelligently
raises the street-car operator to the
ranks of skilled labor. Whether the
sum of $2.50 for ten hours' work in this
vocation is exorbitant recompense or
not, Is a question that will be settled
according, to the Inexorable law of sup
ply and demand. A peaceful settle
ment is hoped for in this Instance, and
one that will prove reasonably satis
factory to all concerned.
If reports of the doings of cardinals
In anticipation of the early demise of
the pope are to be believed,, these men
are a cold-blooded lot who spar for
place In the long line of papal succes
sion and supremacy, with the crafty
wiles of the ward politician. The stub
born longevity of His Holiness Leo
XHI has disappointed many hopes, and
it is not unlikely tkat It will yet elimi
nate many candidates from the con
test for papal honors. Something like
150 cardinals have died during the
pontificate of the present occupant of
the chair of St Peter, and some of the
aspirants for his seat, when death
forces him to vacate it, console them
selves, It is said, with the prospect that
the ranks may be farther thinned in
this manner before the college of car
dinals Is called upon to moke a choice.
Perhaps these holy men are maligned
in this matter. It is charitable, at least,
to think so.
Extracts from a letter written by
Judge Lowell, of "Pendleton, In which
he says he shall vote and work for Mr.
Chamberlain, as against Mr. Furnish,
are printed in several places. This
declaration by Judge Lowell Is not sur
prising. It has been known ever since
the primaries in Umatilla County how
greatly Judge Lowell was piqued and
disappointed by the expressed prefer
ence of the county for Mr. Furnish over
himself, for the office of Governor.
Judge Lowell was beaten five to .one.
He Is In many ways a worthy man,' but
always an impracticable one. For his
own lack o popularity and support he
ought not to blame Mr. Furnish; but
that perhaps is characteristic.
A bill was passed in the Senate a
few days ago to pay $5000 to the widow
of Judge L C. Parker, for extraordinary
service rendered by her husband as
Judge In the western district -of Ar
kansas. The bill was reported ad
versely by Senator Hoar, but he stated
that as the case was absolutely
"unique" he would vote for it The
country has become accustomed to
"precedent" as an excuse for drawing
money from the Treasury, but this Is
the first time that a claim has been
passed upon as "unique" and therefore
deserving. Thus another precedent has
been established.
District Attorney Chamberlain, if he
should use the power of his office, would
close quickly all the places of vice,
crime and Infamy, open in violation of
law, In Portland. But it will not be
done. It would interfere with the vote
on Governor.
General Miles has no doubt often
heard of the biter being bitten. He 13
likely now to add his experience to that
of others In a demonstration of the sen
sations produced by this process.
Heroic Men and norolo Verse.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The success with which the South
African Boers havo held out for nearly
three years against fearful odds Is cal
culated to make the world believe that
there Is something in heredity. The Boers
come of fighting stock. They are remote
descendants of the "free Frisians," who
made it their boast that no Roman tax
gatherer had ever set foot among them;
and more directly of those glorious
Dutchmen who stood out so stoutly
against the Spanish Empire when It was
In the plenitude of its power and world
wide dominion. The burgher blood in the
Transvaal and In the Orange Freo State
has also been reinforced by the blood
of the Huguenots, a race whoso stead
fastness and heroic endurance has never
been surpassed. Their, qualities were Il
lustrated and have Illumined history's
page In their prolonged defense of La
RochelTK
The brilliant manner In which the de
scendants of these heroic races are re
peating the history made by their an
cestors furnishes a high theme for the
poet, and Bertrand Shadwell, of Chi
cago, has done ample justice to It in the
following lines:
I've read my "Motley," and I 6ea again
Some of Its stubborn Dutchmen on the stag,e
Pick of Prince Maurice's own fight Ins men
Come back to life from that historic page
The same old dogged valor, calm resolve
To free their land or sleep beneath lta sod
(As constant water-drops the rocks dissolve),
The psalm, the prayer, tho steady faith In
God.
I see pale Philip in his palace halls
Beading the last dispatch which Alva sends:
"Today the mine Is sprung, the city falls.
The leader dies, and all resistance ends."
And still, their captain captive, wounded, dead
(Who was. their heart, their brain, their
sword, their steed),
Another and another in his stead
Springs to the van to battlo and to bleed.
Doomed and defeated in a hundred fields.
When all but honor seems forever gone..
There's not a roan who owns bis freedom, yields.
But. undeecalrlnz. still they struggle on.
. WHY DO MEN SUPPORT A PARTY?
The Success of lta Poller the Meas
ure oi Its Merit.
. Corvallis Gazette.
We form our estimate of men not by the
number of years they have lived, not by
what they proclaim themselves, but by
what they have done, or honestly at
tempted to do. Success Is the great touch
stone of Individual character; not that all
who deserve success achieve it but be
cause none achieve without deserving it.
By the same rule we shall form our es
timate of parties. If we eliminate men
and platforms things right In their own
proper relations and- carefully consider
the value pi what parties have accomp
lished we find no difficulty in making" an
intelligent choice as between them.
This divests politics of all offensive per
sonalities, prevents displays of mere par
tisan rancor and enables men to reason
dispassionately, logically and correctly.
The Republican party Invokes the ap
plication of this rule to Itself and would
apply It to the opposition. What of value
has the Republican party achieved? What
has been the fruitage of its principles,
policies, measures and administration?
Away back at its birth It opposed the ex
tension of human slavery. For more than
a generation slavery has been extinct and
our entire population rejoices It is so.
It resolved the American Union should
be preserved. The air is yet vibrating to
the shouts with which South Carolina wel
comed her President the President of 70,
COO.000 freemen living under one govern
ment revering one flag.
It declared for protection to American
industries and labor. Prosperity followed,
and we have become a great Industrial
giant supplying our own demands and of
fering the world our rapidly growing sur
plus. Ten3 of thousands tollers on farm,
at forge and loom rejoice because of this
policy and are proud to be known as
Republicans.
It determined there Is In truth but one
standard for measure of value, adopted
that, and declared every dollar of our
currency should conform to that standard
so that lt3 purchasing power should equal
that of any other and all equal the highest
standard. The American dollar Is a dol
lar of stable value; the credit of the gov
ernment never stood so high ana" financial
confidence never was so positive as now.
It accepts the unselfish, self-sacrificing
duties and responsibilities cast upon us
by an overruling Providence through the
exigencies of war and our flag floats over
far-off Islands to whose millions wc are
giving Saxon law and order and fitting
tor the duties of self-government
Wherever Republican principles have
been followea and policies administered
prosperity, happiness and healthful devel
opment have testified to their wisdom and
beneficence. Our people are satisfied.
The whole history of the Republican party
is resplendent with success. In this his
torical light the present policies and meas
ures of the party will be .crowned by suc
cesssuccess because wisely sought and
Tightly, deserved. If this can be asserted
of the opposition history must be rewrit
ten. a
Fifty "Best" American Poems.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A Boston critic, Mr. Frederick Law
rence Knowles, has compiled a list of
what he call3 the 50 best American poems.
Need it be said that his list Is made up
for the most part of poems by bards who
frolicked with ther muse In and around
Boston? We find that of the 50 poems
which the Bostonlan selects, 30 were writ
ten by Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes,
Whittler, Lowell, Mrs. Howe 'and T. B.
Aldrlch. Bryant comes In for two and
Poo Is credited with eight, probably be
cause the latter Is regarded by English."
critics as the foremost American poet.
What the English think well of is not
lightly passed over in Boston. Here la
tho list in full:
"Thanatopais" and "To a Waterfowl."
Bryant: "Israfel," "To Helen," "The City
in the Sea"," "The Haunted Palace," "To
One In Paradise," "The Sleeper," "Anna
bel Lee" and "The Raven," Poe; "DIvIna
Commedla," "Nature," "The Skeleton In
Armor" and "The Discoverer of tho
North Cape," Longfellow; "The Prob
lem," "Days." "The Rhodora," "Concord
Hymn," "The Humble Bee" and "Each
and All," Emerson; "Skipper Ircson's
Ride," "Telling the Bees," "In School
Days," "Ichabod," "The Eternal Good
ness" and "Playmates," Whittler;
"Hebe," "She Came and Went," "To-the
Dandelion," "Anspex," "The Courtin' "
and "Peace," Lowell; "The Chambered
Nautilus." "The Last Leaf," "The Liv
ing Temple" and "Old Ironsides," Holmes:
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomed" and "Out of the Cradle End
lessly Rocking,'' Whitman; "The Marshes
of Glynn." Lanier; "Bedouin Song," Bay
ard Taylor: "Abraham Lincoln," R. H.
Stoddird; "Battle Hymn of the Repub
lic," JuliaWard Howe;."On a Bust of
Dante," TT W. Parsons; "The Venus de
Mllo," E. R. Sill; "Columbus," Joaquin
Miller: "Echo Song," "Sleep" and "Un
guarded Gates," T. B. Aldrlch: "Sesos
trls," Lloyd Miffllnr "An Ode in Time of
Hesitation," William Vaughn Moody.
The last name in the list Is that of a
Chicago poet, hence this city his one
representative against Boston's 30 odd.
Perhaps we ought to be gratofiil to tho
Boston critic for letting Chicago In at all,
In view of the fact that he has shut out
Indiana with her wealth of poets and
doesn't give the Sweet Singer of Michi
gan or Elli Wheeler WHcox even honor
ablemention. We do not believe this list will give
much satisfaction outside of a certain
circle In Boston. It doesn't contain "Maud
Muller." "The Village Blacksmith" or
'"'Casey at the Bat," and without these
the masses will refuse to be satisfied.
In Washing-ton County.
Hlllsboro Independent.
Washington County will throw a respec
table plurality for the Republican candi
date for Governor. Governor Geer In
1SDS had 524 votes more than King. In
the off year of 1900, Wolverton, for Judge,
had 309 votes more than Green. Demo
crat, wherefore, notwithstanding the
county went fusion for some of the coun
ty officers. It seems that for state of
ficers it has uniformly been reliably Re
publican. In 1S0S the Democrats polled
1219 votes, and in 1900 the fusion Increased
only to 1253. The slump from the 500
plurality was due to the 200 Republicans
who did not record their votes In 1900.
This year Chamberlain Is no more a fav
orite than was King In 1900. and the same
question, sound money, with an Intelli
gent business administration and expan
sion of territory and trade, will justify
a heavier vote than in 1SD8, when 1743
Republicans put themselves on record.
Right in It.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
"I have been making a tour of the
South," remarked J. B. Joseph. "I was
greatly amused, on alighting from the
train on the Georgia Central Railway
In Savannah. The station Is surrounded
in all directions with a lot of saloons
and cheap restaurants. In great Illu
minated letters over one of these saloons
was the sign:
" 'Open all night
"Next to It was a restaurant bearing
with equal prominence the legend, 'We
never close.'
"Third In order was a Chinese laundry
In a little tumble-doWn hovel, and upon
tho front of this building was the sign,
in great scrawling, letters. 'Mo wakee,
too.' "
SLINGS AND ARROWS.
Ye Cnbbe's TrcKcdle.
It was ye Horse Reporter who did give ye
Grewsome Tipoe,
Tt caused ye City Editor to clutch his Copy
Cllppe:
It was ye bald Dramatic Manne yt Panlck did
create,
When he ye Horse Reporter's TIppe did soon
corroborate.
It was ye fayre & tlmlt Mayde yt did Socletee
Whose pallid Fayce when she came in was
frightful for to see;
It was je self sayme timid Mayde yt did with
trembling Llppe
Turn in ye Story hinted In ye Horse Reporter's
Tippe.
It was ye energetic Cubbe who came unto ye
Desk
To get sent out upon ye Tayle, yt was so
picturesque.
For said ye Horso Reporter, and ye Bald Dra- j
roauc jaanne,
And eke ye timid Maiden, who was wielding
of her Fanne.
Yt in a dark &. dingy Rooms a way adown ye
Stair,
A Woman's Screams unceasingly did rend ye
shuddering Air,
And though no one had heard ye Crack of Pis
tol or of Gunne,
Yet each felt sure yt in that Roome. fowle
Murder had been done.
It was ye, energetic Cubbe yt hied him to ye
Snotto
With very great Imaginings Payee exceeding
Hotte,
& as he flew adown ye Stair he heard a heavy
Thudde.
Yt was both dull & sickening & frose his very
Bloode.
It was ye energetic Cubbe yt pictured in his
Hind
A first Payge, double-leaded Tayle, of most
appalling Klnde.
& as he sped adown ye Stair, resolved yt forth
with he
Would strike, when yt he wrote It, for a raysa
of Salarle.
It was yo energetic Cubbe yt knocked upon ye
Doore, t
Expecting to look in upon a raging Floode'of
Gore,
Ye doore swung wide, when he did knock, and
lo! a Maiden fayre
He saw inside, perched up full high upon a
cano Seate Chayre.
& when ye Cause of her DIsmaye he eagerly
sought for.
He saw a tiny, furry Mouse to ruhnc across ye
Floore.
It was ye energetic Cubbe yt wrote no Tayle yt
Daye.
& yt applied for no Increase to eke his meager
paye.
Still Low Water.
The dove returned to the ark after
many days. e
"Well,'' Inquired Noah, as tho bird set
tled Itself into a steamer chair on the
forward deck and lighted a cigar In si
lence, "What are the chances of our get
ting ashore?''
"Sir," said the bird, "the oldest inhab
itants say "
"Thunder and lightning!' growled the
old captain, "haven't they all been
drowned yet? Say, you stay on board till
I get ready to send you out on another
expedition. I'm going aft to pray for more
rain."
And the bird, feeling in a mood for rag
time, went below to look for Ham.
The Airs of Spring.
Tho airs of Springtime that so softly play
When blossoms out the red and beauteous
rose, '
And all tho world Is glad with gentle May ,
Whence come they to tho earth who knows?
Who knows?
Whenco comes "Go 'Way Back and Sit Down,"
The gladsome "Honeysuckle and the Bee"?
Whenco comes "When Reuben Comes to
Town"?
Whence come3 the song that ends "Looks
Good to Me"Z
And then the echoes of tho shadowy past
That float upon the breeze and everywhere,
"Always." "Good-bye," '"Forever" and "At
Last,"
"The Drunkard's Mother" and "The Plumb
er's Prayer."
They ripple on each passing breeze tha blows;
They drift through every door that stands
ajar;
They mingle with the perfume of the Vose
And fill the world with music near and far.
But whence come they? Who starts them on
their way.
When Spring awakens and the rose Is blown,
And all the world is flushing with the May?
Ah, wise Is be. that he remains unknown.
Spring: In SmnlltOTvn.
(From the Smalltown Palladium.)
Bill Tomklns and Henry Schwerger went
out after trout yesterday, and we observed
a keg under the laprobe of the buckboard
as they drove off. Don't forget the editor
with the fish, boys, and we won't tell the
women folks what was In the keg.
George Hotchklss Is doing a lot of paint
ing cheap this Spring. Barns a specialty.
Leave your orders with him and you'll
make no mistake,
The editor Is a candidate for Sheriff,
and he wants your votes. Tho press is
mighty, and will prevail.
Children should be kept at home. One of
the Nelson boys got into the press Thurs
day, and we pretty near ran off a couple
of pages on him before his shouts caused
Fred Runyon. who was feeding, to tell
Tommy Henderson to shut her down. He
wasn't hurt only scared.
Swan Sorensen, who Is logging up Eagle
Creek, came Into town yesterday and re
newed his subscription. He says the boys
are keeping pretty sober this Spring and
getting out a whole lot of logs. Sarah
Smith is doing the cooking up there this
week,, while Nellie Anderson has gone
home to sit up with her sick mother,
whose case of rheumatism has been duly
reported In these columns.
Do your trading with our advertisers.
They're the real people.
Next week we will begin the publication
of a continued, story, which will be pub
lished in installments.
The Poet to His Pegasus.
Thou spavined, wind-galled, awaybacked, foua
dered jade;
Thou ancient skate.
With ridgy ribs and spine built like a blade.
And hobbling gait.
What muse, whose sense of humor woefully
Is out of gee,
In what attempt at clumsy deviltry
Has sent me thee?
The graceful gallop and the sprightly trot
Are both thy needs.
In every goodly virtue thou art not
As other steeds.
Of youth and beauty, spirit, form and build.
And symmetry.
Thy niggardly progenitors have willed
Not one to thee.
Pray tell me. travesty on equine kind.
Old. lifeless, lame,
How, mounted in thy saddle, I may find
The way to fame.
While poets canter by me with disdain
Upon that road,
I follow, halting, after, and In vain
I ply the goad.
But hark I no longer will I strive with the
To mount the heights.
Where poets, in the rosy twilight see
Fair Fame's delights.
I'll go to work with purpose set and stem
Till I amass
The wealth to buy an auto, then I'll turn
Thee out to grass.
J. J. MONTAGUS.
When the Tariff Shoe Pinches. X
Memphis -Commercial-Appeal.
The iniquities of the tariff are becoming'
more and more known through the study
of the question in specific instances. No
matter how strong a newspaper may bo
in favor of the high, protective tariff, it
will not be likely tc tolerate the tariff on
blank paper and wood pulp that takes
money out of Its pocket and places It la
tfc,o pockets of the paper trust.