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PORTLAND, SVXDAX, SEPTEMBER 21
TWO SIDES AXD A THIRD.
On the square Issue of veracity, the
advantage seems to lie upon the side
,of "labor." That is to say, the numer
ous reasons given for the construction
of the drydock at Vancouver are not
the reason. Mr. "Wakefield's acute de
sire is-to get himself and his drydock
outside the jurisdiction of the Portland
unions, where he can do the work and
get it done within the specified time.
He doesn't want to take chances on see
ing his contract vitiated and his- time
and materials wasted, by finding him
self, when the dock is about half done,
confronted with a strike, because the
boy that carries water is In arrearages
on his union assessments or because an
unfair jackplane has been found in
somebody's tool-chest, or because some
skinflint contractor In Portland or Ska
xnokawa has got into , a row with, his
anarchist workmen.
In this resolution Mr. Wakefield Is
supported by a considerable body of
public sentiment affiliated -with King's
Heights, Nob Hill and the Arlington
Club. You go ahead, Robert, and stand
your ground, is the slogan. You sire
right, and we'll stand by you. This
thing has got to be fought to the finish.
A man must know whether he can
finish a job or not, or there's no use in
his taking it. A business man has just
got to know where he is at. Somebody
inust make a beginning In this matter,
and it's up to you. Something must be
done or else the town will simply be in
the grasp of these labor agitators, and
there'll be no doing business at all. If
the unions want to drive capital away,
they are going at it in the best possible
way. The first thing we know, all en
terprise will be brought to stagnation
here, because a man can't tell when he
undertakes a contract whether or not
he will be permitted to complete it
On the other hand. You can find out
from any alert union man that the dry
dock episode Is only a link in the chain
which organized capital in Portland Is
forging to bind organized labor hand
and foot. They have no objection to
the principle of organization among
worklngmen, bless youi No! They
can't stand for more pay or less hours,
or concerted action of any kind, but
the union itself is irreproachable. They
rather favor the union, wherever and
whenever Its operations do not take any
tangible shape looking toward practical
results. With the moral, esthetic, edu
cational, ornamental, spectacular, rit
ualistic and religious aims and prac
tices of organized labor they are in
full accord. It is only when it ventures
outside the sphere of a Sunday school
picnic or the Young Ladies' Debating
Society that they raise any objections.
The capitalists, the union man can tell
you, are trying to do us up. They want
to cripple our organization at every
point where it promises to enable us
to help ourselves in an emergency. They
will stand together in a crisis to hpln
out their weaker members, but their
sense of justice Is outraged at the idea
that we should stand together in a crisis
to help our weaker members. The dry
dock is to be taken away just to punish
us, and to imbue the community with
the Idea tHat"we are its enemies when
we seek to enforce our reasonable de
mands as to hours and pay. This we
resent, and whatever we can do to un
mask the hostile batteries" aimed at us
will be done. The more bitter and de
termined the onslaught made upon us
the firmer and more effective must be
our undertakings of defense.
That Is the situation In Portland, just
as It is, put In words which will please
neither side in the controversy, but will
at least uncover it so that he who runs
may read. Nothing is ever gained by
covering up slumbering fires of explo
sive material which may in a moment
break into devastating conflagration.
It Is Important for this community to
understand that two giant forces are
marshaling for a combat to the death.
It Is the heavy casualties certain to fall
upon non-combatants that All every ob
servant mind with apprehension. It is
the ominous menace to the community's
peace, order and prosperity that directs
increasing attention to and lays increas
ing hope upon some form of compul
sory arbitration which will force the
embattled ranks of masters and men
to declare their cause before a legal tri
bunal and will produce a verdict having
the weight and force of a judicial de
cision. It is time to put away the fic
tion that the maintenance of public
peace and prosperity and the aversion
of public calamities are none of the pub
He's business.
If charity begins at home, It Is a lucky
thing for the fire sufferers that it does
not end there. For we see that in the
present fine movement in aid of the fire
victims visiting actors and actresses are
taking a conspicuous and commendable
part. The Neiil company and the Nelll
stock company, two separate organiza
tions of much artistic strength, have
united to give a great benefit next Tues
day afternoon at the Marquam and
Baker Theaters, and the proceeds,
which will doubtless aggregate several
thousand dollars, are to be' turned Into
the relief fund. It has been well known
heretofore. that Mr. elll Isa fine aotor,
but it was not known that he pos
sessed in so generous a degree the qual
ities of the gentleman and the philan
thropist -doubtless because the oppor
tunity w,as not before given. The local
management of the theaters, too, includ
ing Mr Shields, of Shields' Park, are
entitled to much praise for their activ
ity in pehalf of the relief fund; and the
Musicians' Union, which gives a concert
today, should not be overlooked.
HEXDERSOX'S SIGXAL SERVICES.
How fine and just is the keen irony
of fate which brings upon General
Henderson the wrath of the very ele
ment in the Republican party to which
his dramatic appeal was made! It is
a revelation at once of the partisan
slavery in whose chains the faithful
party man is bound, and of the hold
which enlightened tariff views have
taken on the Nation's -brains and char
acter. Hendersonlana fall into two divisions.
First, there are the tariff reformers
who praise his courage and deprecate
his views. Second, there are the high
tariff men, who support his views but
abominate his withdrawal. It was to
the high-tariff men that he appealed
from his committee, from his state or
ganisation, from the President. With
my declination boldly flung in the teeth
of the tariff reformers, he said to him
self, and with" my trusty shibboleth
about free trade, I will take my ap
peal from, the tariff reformers to the
stalwarts, the old-line protectionists,
and- they will lionize me as I deserve.
So he asked them for a verdict. And
he got it quick as lightning in the shape
of a good, swift kick. And In it was
the foot of an all-wise Provldence
When George McBride was elected
United States Senator from Oregon, he
gave to a newspaper man an interview
on National questlona A thinker read
it, and he said to a great politician,
gleefully. "Good! Why, he stands on
the Minneapolis platform!" "That Is no
news to me," replied the old politician,
grimly. "Ask me George McBrlde's
opinion on any topic of our politics and
I can tell you what it Is by merely re
ferring to the last Republican National
platform." Henderson has heard from
the George McBrldes of the Nation; and
their universal voice is th'at the Iowa
platform was Henderson's platform. It
was ,good enough for him.' He had no
business to have any other. If he didn't
believe in it, no difference. The party
needed him and didn't want a hullabal
loo, least of all over the tariff. It was
his duty to make the run, and the plat
form (Concerned him only in the capacity
of a trustworthy guide for the ascer
tainment of his own vlewa
This Calvlnlstic conception of polit
ical creeds and the individual conscience
has produced another inescapable corol
lary. It wasn't the platform that wor
ried Henderson. No platform utterance
would affect my party allieglance or
Incommode my automatically adjust
able convictions, reasons Mr. Thlck-and-Thln;
ergo, If Henderson Is dis
turbed, we must look elsewhere for the
cause. Unfortunately, there is too
much corroborative evidence for this
hypothesis, uncompllmentaryas It Is, to
be rejected. General Henderson's own
partlsanlsm has -Illustrated the type of
mobile opinions and Gibraltar "Repub
licanism." It Is significant that the
early outburst of enthusiastic approval,
yielded by Independent minds that took
him at his word, is apparently to be
put to flight by the sardonic philosophy
of his party associates.
Between the upper millstone of tariff
reformers who repudiate his paleozoic
doctrines and the nether millstone of
strict partisans who stigmatize his in
dependence as an assumed virtue, the
Speaker seems to have let himself out
of public life through an exceedingly
small aperture. His coup d'etat Issues
in a faux pas. It Is an Impressive
warning against the Insufficiently con
sidered assumption of the lion's skin as
an article of wearing apparel. It Is a
happy omen that God has not forgotten
the world, when an ecstatic devotee of
High Protection I9 seized upon by his
fellow-worshipers while In the very act
of kneeling at the 'shrine, because his
copious tears have washed off some of
the paint on the figure and betrayed its
terrestrial origin.
THE IRRIGATION' SCHEME.
The scheme of irrigation, comprehend
ing the study of the water supply which
can be utilized for distribution for the
benefit of arid lands, storage by means
of reservoirs so that the largess of Win
ter precipitation and Spring overflow
can be prevented from running to
waste; the coBt of such reservoirs, the
positive limit to the acreage that can
be placed under cultivation through the
systematic use of water available for
this purpose, and the examination of
watersheds to determine the best loca
tion for reservoirs, are among the pre
liminary steps that are necessary before
the actual reclamation of arid lands un
der the law passed by the last Congress
looking to this end can be begun. To
decide upon these matters hastily is
manifestly Impossible. Fortunately,
however, much of this preliminary work
has been done by the division of hydro
graphy under the United States Geo
logical Survey, and, as set forth at
some length In telegraphic report from
Washington a few days ago, years of
time will thus be saved in putting the
new reclamation act into operation.
For more than ten years the study of
the water resources of the great plateau
has been in progress with special refer
ence to a time more or less remote, but
sure to come, when Irrigation would be
come a question of National importance,
and hence would be taken up by -the
Government. The wisdom of this fore
handed policy Is apparent in the fact
that the geological survey, into whose
hands has been placed the engineering
and construction work of the reclama
tion law, has been able to set at work
at once upon the" basis of facts ascer
tained in advance of Congressional ac
tion on the Irrigation question.
In the very nature of things work. of
this character must proceed- slowly. A
scheme eo elaborate and so costly must
be guarded against engineering mis
takes that would cripple and defeat its
purpose, and bring it into discredit
through partial failure and the waste of
'funda It will be necessary for those
who are busy with arid land schemes
to possess their souls in patience, since
Irrigation plans under the reclamation
act will not be pushed in advance of
knowledge based upon engineering skill.
The "new homestead law," as it is
called, will in time become operative
upon a basis that will Insure the homes
that It provides from water famine. The
preliminary steps have been taken
through year of careful Investigation
of resources by the hydrographlc sec
tion of the Geological Survey. Proceed
ing upon the knowledge thus acquired,
the engineers will go on, not hastily,
but w$th the prudence that the import
ance of a National irrigation problem
demands, uto the end that when arid
lands are reclaimed under the new law
they will not be In danger of again re
verting to the desert.
OLD AGE.
The Des Moines (la.) Register has this
genial word concerning old age:
It Is doubted if a man ever feels truly old.
The spark of youth somewhere within us burns
to tho end. and feelings and desires belle the
face In the looking-glass and the pitying looks
of friends. No matter how slow, 3tealthy and
Insidious the approach of the Pale Pretorlan,
when he comes he Is unexpected, unlooked for.
As long as life Is In him man Is filled with the
thrill of living.
It Is natural to moralize about the
flight of time and remind each other
that to the churchyard we are creeping
year by -year. But there is a better
philosophy than this longing for length
of days and bewailing the flight of time.
Thls philosophy need not be the epi
curean Idea of a short life and a merry
one, but let It be decently useful and
vigorous life, whether it be long or
short. Youth to the boy is a Joyous sea
son, because, aglow with abounding
health, he longs for manhood and what
he fondly thinks is the desirable felicity
of its enlarged personal freedom and
social privileges; while advancing years
make the old man, if he has led a kind
ly, decent life, recall with tender melan
choly the sweet visions of his innocent
and merry childhood.
But if the old man has led' a mean,
low, selfish, hard life, old age is to him,
soon or late, only a time to mutter
curses over the early decay and death
of his best powers of body and mind.
Than such a mean and miserable old
age, better the short steps of a noble
life that never reaches to the appointed
age of man. Better a brief but blessed
life than a century, of selfishness that Is
sometimes associated with the rudest
health. The short lives, If they be full
of distinct and soulful purpose, have
this compensation; we can all always
fill out the shadowy years .to be with
what had been their sure destiny. Such
natures are not blighted, are never
dead, but always alive to' us through
the atmosphere left behind by an aspir
ing and inspiring life; we are, grateful
that they came and went. If the best
fruit of life be character, let no one
deprecate the value of such short lives
because of their brief career.
Who can put out the motion or" the smile.
The old ways of being noble, all with him laid
by?
Better a child dead in the brilliant
bud of early promise than that same
child dead at 80 with a life of hideous
selfishness and guilty sorrow behind It,
a bloated beast, a sordid, cruel Shylock,
a misanthropic mourner" over the con
sequences of lifelong animalism or lux
urious indolence. The best proof of a
sound, sweet heart is the childlike spirit
from youth to old age; the spirit of hon
est sensibility for the rights and wronirs
Uq others; the spirit of Innocent mirth;
me peecn ot irutn and the impulsive,
generous hand. Life la worth living
Just so long as there is a spark of this
childlike spirit in us not longer, which
means that when we do not care for
the joys and sorrows of others our room
will be unanimously voted to be better
than our company.
No man who lives rightly ought to
die other than by so gradual, almost
Imperceptible decay of the bodily pow
ers that the man simply drops his head
gently upon his breast as the angel of
sleep Is married to the angel of death.
That is, the man of harmonious body
and mind, who has lived wisely, should
die of no particular disease. He should
slowly flicker out like a splendid fire
whose backlog Is bumed out, whose fuel
Is not replenished and whose glowing'
coals go out slowly one by one until all
Is ashes where once the flames of youth
filled the wold with warmth and light
as they shot tip asplrlngly to the sky.
AX AXCIEXT ABUSE.
The persecution of the Jews by Rou
manla, against which Secretary Hay's
note to the powers signatory to tfie
Berlin treaty protests, is the survival of
an ancient abuse, which once disfigured
all Europe; but which survives In its
worst form tmly in Russia and the
Trans-Danublan States that are sub
servient to Russia in their public pol
icy. There are lines of bitter abuse of
the Jew In Juvenal, the famous Latin
satirist, but there is nothing remarka
ble In this, because the Roman In his
egotism held all other peoples In con
tempt. The European prejudice against
the Jews doubtless started with the
Crusades. When St, Bernard of Clalr
vaux was arming all Europe for the
second crusade, a cruel persecution of
the Jews broke out in Germany upon
the pretext that their sympathies were
with the Mahommedans of Syria. The
beginning of the first crusade had been
marked also by a fearful persecution of
the Jews which' raged all over Europe.
St. Bernard denounced this persecution
in a fierce and cogent indictment
as earnest and more eloquent than that
used by the great Roman Catholic Car
dinal Manning at a great public meet
ing held in London under Gladstone's
second ministry to protest against the
mobbing of Jews in Odessa and other
Russian cities. The Jews lent the cru
saders large sums of money, to etiulp
themselves for the Holy Land, and some
of these crusaders excited anti-Jewish
riots to relieve themselves from exact
ing creditors and written evidences of
debt. Under the Norman Kings of Eng
land the Jews were lalrly well protected
up to the accession of Henry III. In
the reign of Edward I 16,000 Jews were
banished, and this decree was not re
voked until Cromwell ruled England.
The Jewp were expelled from Spain
by Ferd4nandand Isabella. The Jews
had been in Spain for centuriea, and
had been distinguished for military skill
and valor. In the wars against the
Moors. They were driven out of, Spain
by the hostility of the church, even as
they had been In England. The Jews
expatriated from Spain took refuge in
France, where many of .them have risen
to great distinction, as they have In
England, Germany and Austria. Dur
ing the Middle Ages the Jew was not
only the best man of business In Eu
rope, but he was the physician, the
scholar, the student and the man of sci
ence. Up to 18"4G there was an English
law cprhpelllng the Hebrews to wear a
distinctive dress. They were at that
time prohibited from holding land and
debarred from serving either In the
army, the civil administration or in
Parliament. These disabilities had sur
vived since Cromwell's day, who Invited
the Jews to return to England because
heregarded them as the mcst Intelligent
and efficient commercial agents in Eu
rope. Since 184 all the civil disabilities
of thl Jews have been repealed in Eng
land. Hebrews of eminent ability have
sat on the English bench, have been
members of the House of Lords, and the
great English Prime Minister Lord
Beaconsfleld Vas a man of. pure Jew
blood. It Is a noteworthy fact that
Gladstone in. his youth vigorously op
posed in Parliament Macaulay's efforts
to remove the disabilities of the Jews.
The popular notion that the Jews have
not been In modem times a warlike or
patriotic race Is utterly without founda
tion. On the contrary. In proportion to
their numbers the Jews m every coun
try have been conspicuously patriotic
During our American Revolution there
were eminent Jews In Philadelphia who
spent their money like water for the
cause of the colonies. The Jews In Por
tugal and Spain before their expulsion
proved themselves abundantly patriotic,
the Spanish Jews taking a most gallant
part In the defense of the City of To
ledo .against the Moors. The German
Jews were nqtably gallant soldiers
against the. first Napoleon in 1S13-15,
and the French Jews .were always pa
triotic citizens and soldiers of their
adopted country. During our Civil
War there were probably not more than
100,000 Jews In the country, but there
were Jews In both armies who fought
with distinction. Secretaries Benjamin
and Memmlnger, of the Confederate
Cabinet, were both Jews The list of
famous persons of Jew blood include
Spinoza, Heine, La Salle, Karl Marx,
Disraeli, Mendelssohn.NMeyerbeer, Auer
bach, Rothschild, the iamous English
singer, Braham, Sara Bernhardt, Ra
chel, the great soldier Massena, Schu
mann, Schubert, AchllleFould, Sir Moses
Montefiore, Sir George Jessel and the
French sculptor, Bartholdl.
The ancient prejudice against the
Jews was originally due to religious
bigotry. TheoId-time Kings protected
the Jews because of their usefulness
as money-getters and loan-makers, until
the church became too strong for the
King. Then, when the prejudice origin
ally due to religious bigotry and super
stition was suffered to abate, the Jews
became the victims of the natural Jeal
ousy of a race remarkable for superior
business capacity and material prosper
ity. A stupid, thriftless man always
hates his prosperous neighbor. The
farmer who cannot keep his farm hates
the banker who lent him the money and
the lawyer who foreclosed the mort
gage. Rich and successful men always
suffer by the tongues of the poor and
unsuccessful. The prejudice due to this
kind of hostility still survives In Rus
sia, in Austria" and some parts of Ger
many, and taints small circles of vulgar
public opinion In America. It is unrea
sonable and unjust, for hatred" of the
Jew Is generally excited by his racial
virtues, which are peculiar to himself,
and not by his vices that he shares with
the Christian. For art, music and the
dramatic stage, for medicine, law, sci
ence, philology, general learning and
scholarship, the Jew has done so much
against such difficulty that no Intelli
gent man ever speaks of the race with
disrespect.
So far as our present remonstrance
is concerned, it will tfe heeded if Rus
sia approves, not otherwise, for Russia
sets the pace for such wretched coun
tries as Roum'ania. If Russia should
actively support our remonstrance,
Roumanla would reform her treatment
of her 400,000 Jews, but nothing will be
done,- for Russia needs reformation her
sslf. The only effect of Secretary Hay's
note Is to convince Europe that Uricle
Sam Is sure to speak out In meeting,
whether his pocket Is picked or his
heart touched.
The Oregonian correspondent who at
tributes the lynching of the negro at
Marshfield to what he terms the "In
adequacy of the law" does the mob too
much honor. In every Southern State
where negroes have been lynched for
Identical crimes the legal penalty Is
death. Mobs murder prisoners not be
cause they fear the law will not punlslr
them, but because they enjoy the sport
of murdering a wretch who has no
friends. A mob is a coward, a brute
and a fool. Capital punishment is the
penalty for rape in Louisiana, North
Carolina, Alabama, Missouri, Delaware,
Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia. South
Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Texas, Florida, Arkansas. Yet
In 'spite of this fact men accused of
rape have been burned at the stake In
several of these states. Mob murders
are not due to the "inadequacy of the
law," but to the desire of the mob to
murder "when It is safe to murder for
the fun of it.
Elsewhere In today's paper appears a
masterly discussion of Speaker Hender
son's resignation and announcement
from Representative Tongue, of the
First Oregon District. His assertions
are impregnable and his reasoning can
not be answered. Mr. Tongue has al
ready put himself on record a3 a sound
and consistent tariff reformer In the In
terests of justice, of the protective prin
ciple Itself, and of the Republican party,
for a letter embodying these views was
printed last year In the organ of the
American Protective Tariff League. Mr.
Tongue's clear vision and resolute stand
upon tills issue give Oregon just such
an admirable representation in Con
gress on the tariff question as Senator
Ddlph gave us on the money, question.
Again, let us say, Mr. Tongue's position
is beyond the possibility of successful
attack.
The grand jury of Attala County,
Mississippi, under Instructions from
Judge Stevens, hasjndlcted twenty-five
white men for the lynching of two Inno
cent negroes. About a month ago, In
the northern part of Attala, two ne
groes were -taken about noon time by
a mob, chained to a free and shot to
death. About 100 men participated in
the crime, but the ringleaders are the
only ones so far Indicted. About twenty-five
or thirty of the crowd formed a
semicircle around the two negroes, and
at a command Xrom the leaders a vol
ley was fired Into the two bodies. The
negroes were killed for a supposed in
sulting remark made by them about
some white men in the community.
Every day adds to the terrible strain
Induced by the coal miners' strike. Dis
aster seems imminent, and want Is only
withholding Its sharp pinch until the
frost king takes a hand In the proceed
ings. Yet the coal barons say they
have "nothing to arbitrate," and thou
sands of miners through their repre
sentative, President Mitchell, declare
that "nothing but arbitration will re
lieve the situation." Did ever reason
ing creatures present themselves before
the world In an attitude eo utterly at
variance with all reason, all toleration,
all common sense? j '
HENDERSON'S APPARENT C0URAGE
San Francisco Bulletjn.
David B. Henderson has proved him
self one of fhe greatest men In this coun
try by declining a renomlnation for Con
gress on tho ground that he did not con
cur with the platform of the Republican
state convention, inasmuch as it recom
mended the curbing of tni3ts by removing
or modifying the tariff on trust-made ar
ticles. Henderson's declination will deprive him
of the Speakership of the House of Rcp
renentatives, the most important and in
fluential office in the United States ex
cept that of President, and will retire
him to private life. He has served his
district in Congress 10 terms, or 20 years,
and is" admitted to be one of the ablest
statesmen in the country. His declina
tion of renomlnation Is proof that he Is a
statesman. Indeed, and not a mere poli
tician. The question of abating orxabollshlng the
trusts by modifying the tariff roust be
faced sooner or later by the Republican
party, but whether Henderson Is right or
wrong in his adherence to high-tariff prin
ciples, his renunciation of office for the
sakeNjf those principles is a sort of self
immolatlon of which few men in politics
at the present day would be capable.
Politicians ot this generation are selfish
and practical creatures for the most part,
who would accept any platform on which
thoir party pleased to place them, and
who would cheerfully subscribe to any
principles or policies which they deemed
good vote-getters. The idea of declining
a nomination for the sake of a principle
when acceptance would mean election is
quite beyond the intellectual powers of
most politicians, and doubtless many of
Mr. Henderson's fellow-members in Con
gress will shake their heads and tap their
brows when they read of what Mr. Hen
derson has done, and will sincerely believe
that the Speaker has gone mad.
But to a large number of American citi
zens Mr. Henderson's stand will be cheer
ing evidence that the age of .political 'hon
esty has not quite departed, and that
there are a few great Americans left to
pull their country out of the ruck of op
portunism, commercialism and political
dishonesty. Mr. Henderson is not of that
mean stripe of legislator who Is moved by
every wind that blows, and who takes
his opinions ready-made from the party
platforms. He belongs evidently to an
older school of statesmen the school
which stood fast by its opinions and held
to them in weal and woe. Henderson's
retirement may keep him out of the pub
lic eye for a while, but he is too great a
man to be permitted to He fallow long.
Evidence of Tariff-Reform Sentiment
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Speaker Henderson has declined his re
cent renomlnation for Congress by the
Republicans of his district because of
his belief that he does not truly repre
sent their views on the tariff question.
This is the most startling political event
of the season. For it is an impressive
recognition by Mr, Henderson of the
strength and earnestness of the Repub
lican sentiment in Iowa In favor of
abolishing or reducing duties no longer
needed to protect American labor, and
used only as a shelter for monopolies
and monopoly prices. Mr. Henderson
himself Is stoutly opposed to any move
ment for the revision of the tariff, and.
like others of his school, regards, any
modification of the tariff schedules to
adapt them to existing conditions as
"free trade in whole or in part." On
the question of reciprocity he stands with
the most conservative of the old-fogy
element. He is so firmly wedded to these'
views that he has ceased to be in touch
with the dominant sentiment of his Re
publican con.tltuents. He has had the
good sense to recognize the fact and to
decline the renomlnation which was en
thusiastically tendered him. This will
enable the Republicans of his district to
put forward a candidate more fully iden
tified with the prevailing Republican opinion.
No Effect on Cnnhman.
Tacoma News.
It Is safe to say that Congressman
Cushman will hold his own in any House
of Representatives, regardless of the
question as to who may be Speaker. He
docs not depend on favors, nor does he
court antagonisms. He has acquired in
fluence on his own account by force of
merit and ability. His constituency, the
people of the State of Washington, have
already profited by his brilliant and ef
fective work in Congress. It Is safe to
say that Congressman Cushman will not
gloat over Speaker Henderson's deter
mination to retire. By sending Mr. Cush
man to Washington, this stato secured a
capable, fearless, indefatlgablo and suc
cessful Representative. He will probably
serve more conspicuously in the 58th Con
gress than he has so far in the 57th. It
will make little difference who is Speak
er, for any speaker of the House will nec
essarily recognize Mr. Cushman, of Wash
ington, as a man of mark and a growing
favorite In the House and throughout tho
country.
The Mnnann of Reform.
Eugene Register.
There Is much sound logic in Henderson's
position, and the country generally will
hold to his views, which are In accord
with Roosevelt's policy and that of all our
ablest party leaders. Iowa Republicans, like
Washington Republicans, need to revise
their political creeds to conform to the
new National policy on the trust ques
tion, which must be handled by proper
legislation, leaving the tariff out of the
question in connection with that Issue.
Republicanism will never indorso the fal
lacy of free trade, although there will
come In time revision of tariff schedules
where such revision can be made without
Injuring the business of the country.
A Case of Oil nnI Water.
Chicago Chronicle.
If Governor Cummins Is a representative
Iowa Republican, David B. Henderson 13
not. The former Is a progressive and en
lightened man, who stands for ideas which
seem" to be peculiarly appropriate to his
state and its people. Mr. Henderson is
unyielding in his advocacy of principles
which find favor In the East, but which
many Western Republicans are disposed
to modify.
Strnnare If You Think So.
Dalles Times-Mountaineer.
Senator Mason and Speaker Henderson
were all right with the Republican party
for a long time, but now they are all
wrong. One can't agree with the trusts
and the other can't endure tariff reform.
It's strange how parties will thU3 dlsagrea
with their politicians sometimes.
Sir. Roosevelt's Araerlcanltim.
Chattanooga Times.
Those who heard President Roosevelt's
address at the Auditorium yesterday could
not doubt the superb quality of his Amer
icanism. He is coming moro and more to
typify the genuine American character
honesty, fearlessness and common sense
a definition he himself applies to the gen
eral average of the people of the Repub
lic. His references to the soldiers who
wore the blue and the gray were manly,
not maudlin. He didn't slop over, but
expressed the greatest admiration, the
most genuine esteem, for both, because
they had both exhibited those traits of
heroic devotion to principle, those quali
ties of fearlessness and daring and those
sterling habits of performing duties well,
regardless of consequences, that should
characterize not only the soldier, but the
citizen who would really carry on his
shoulders a part of the burdens of main
taining a free and mighty republican gov
ernment. Not a thoughtful man who lis
tened to the President but who felt that
under the guidance ot thio sturdy young
American the Government at Washington
will live, stronger . If not better than ever,
and that every Institution of the coun
try will bo fostered and sustained with
a loyal heart and a strenuous hand. Of all
his many admirable traits, none appeared
more forcibly, more rnturaly, and none
made a more lasting impression upon his
auditors fthan the sincerity, the breadth
and the enthusiasm of his love of coun
tryEast, West, North and South.
THINGS LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
No one need be alarmed over the an
nouncement that a combination has been
formed between the Vandcxbllt and the
Pennsylvania railway linos Involving
SO, 000 miles of road. This new
.deal Is merely a formal plan of
going ahead with a policy that
has been pursued Informally these 20
years by the two great companies. Prac
tically they control the East and "West
carrying trade ot the five great states
lying between the Atlantic Ocean and
the Mississippi River, the Lakes and the
Ohio. Each has kept within Its own field.
The one did not seek to increase its reve
nue by invading the other's territory, but
by fostering In every legitimate way the
Industries which had been established on
its own lines and by encouraging new in
dustries wherever active, practical men
wanted to plant them.
Twenty years ago Ohio, Indiana and
Eastern Illinois were ramified by Inde
pendent local railway lines running from
Somewhere to Nowhere, or from Nowhere
up asquirrel track. These roads were a
burden on the backs of farmer and manu
facturer. Unable to stand alone, they
were of little benefit to him who raised
or made something to sell. One by one
these orphan roads were bought or leased
by the Pennsylvania or the Vandcrbilt
system. Then "the territory that they
served came Into as close touch with the
principal markets of the country as if
It were on a trunk line. When the coupling
process was finished Columbus, O., and
Indianapolis. Ind., were not nearer to New
York or Chicago than towns 50 or 75 miles
away from the state capitals, nor were
the river towns at the extreme south and
the lake towns at northernmost limits at
a disadvantage.
These colossal companies were not In
the townslte business, and did not get
into Western politics. They set out to in
crease the earnings of the adopted
branches, and incidentally the main lines,,
by getting more freight and passengers
to haul at reasonable rates. They pro
vided wider markets for Indiana's "hogs
and hominy, hoop-poles and pumpkins,"
and their freight bills did not eat up the
Grangers' profit. They allied themselves
with the man who turned common clay
Into drainage tile and the skilled artisan
who converted a finer clay into $25,000
peach blow vasea They made common
causo with those who started furnace
fires In the natural gas belt and helped to
j drive many foreign manufactures out of
the country. Because these great rail
' roads Instead of "taxing the traffic all It
would stand," chose to accept fair com
pensation, they changed "two streaks of
rust and a right of way" Into profitable
property. If any one harbors a suspicion
that they milked the country, lot him
look over the census returns and noto
4iio unparalleled increase of wealth In
the Valley of the Ohio from 1880 to 1S0O.
To assert that the Pennsylvania and
the Vanderbllt railways are responsible
for. the prosperity mentioned would be
rankest sophistry, but no one will deny
that two powerful corporations operating
the many railroads of the Middle West
as part of a system on strictly business
principles served the country better than
00 "or 40 weak, Independent companies
could have done. Somebody must be paid
for hauling freight, and it is best for all
hands that the money should go to men
who devote themselves exclusively to
railroading and who are satisfied with
legitimate traffic earnings.
About two weeks ago, Henry Watterson
created a sensation by an editorial In the
Louisville Courier-Journal attacking New
York's so-called "400," or the "smart
set." He was answered by nearly all the
papers of Gotham. In his paper last Sun
day, Editor Watterson renewed the at
tack in a three-column article, which
was telegraphed all over the East. His
theme' is the growing licentiousness of
the vulgar rich. He goes a short distance
into, the history of New York society and
contrasts the Coopers, the Duncans, the
Rhinelanders, tho Hewitts, the Garners
and the Thorndikcs, who were rich and
vied with the Astors in lives singularly
clean and habits wholly unostentatious,
with a crowd at Newport, "the abode of
luxury and alimony," according to Mr.
Dooley, "where the husband of yester
day lnthradooces the wife that was to
the wife that Is, or ought to be." Mr.
Watterson writes so there can be no mis
taking In his meaning. He say3:
Tho sea-going palace; tho modern auto; the
struggle for equivocal notoriety; the strife for
title; the eating from the tree of forblddnn
knowledge; the nplng of the manners of the
foreign swell and the fancied great: the mar
riage as an experiment and the marriage of
convenience; the hot pursuit of pleasure at
home and abroad In short, the constant striv
ing after the ostentatious display of wealth
Inevitable to tho sun-Worship of Money these
aro among the features that distinguish the
Four Hundred from other rich people, who do
not need to affect anything, who heartily de
spise such proceedings, who. with fortunes se
cure and social positions fixed, live without
scandal and travel without adventure, but
whom tho wantons of the Smart Set describe
as the "bourgeoisie."
In separating the sheep from the goats, and
properly ticketing the goats, shall one be ac
cused of blasphemy?
"All of us, your ladyship," Lord Brougham
once said to a famous society leader, "all of
us. as your ladyship knows, have committed
adultery. But we mUst draw the line some
where; and. for one, 1 fix It- at murder!"
The New York Sun, commenting on
Colonel Watterson's second attack, says:
"Ho takes the 'smart set' too seriously,
and by so doing gives to this very lim
ited social circle an Importance it has
not. as an American social development.
Moreover, It he thinks he Is hurting its
feelings he Is very much mistaken. The
'smart set will bo flattered by the dis
tinction ho gives it. If these people are
not serenely indifferent to such assaults,
they are gratified by them. They like to
be published abroad as deliclously
wicked."
Verifying ,Mr. Watterson's charge the
Sun paints this revolting picture:
Mr. Watterson 13 Justified In attributing mor
al degeneration to the women ot this society.
Undoubtedly, looseness of speech has gone to
an extremo with some of these women, which
la not much exceeded in feminine ranks frankly
disreputable. For example, not long since, at
a fashionable dinner, a map of the older school
sat next to a young woman who had lately
"come out." Across the table her mother, a
notable social figure, entertained her neighbor
with loud language and Inferences so "broad"
ind even positively indecent that the gentle
man was amazed, and, more especially, that a
mother should keep up that sort of talk In the
presence of her young daughter; but, glancing
at the girl, he discovered that her face showed
only slgn3 of amusement. Profane expressions
once supposed to be confined to men and to vile
women aro now poured forth from feminine
mouths of this set. Little of the flavor of pure
and romantic sentiment can remain In such
surroundings.
And the "smart set" asks, "What are
you going to do about It?" L.
Lord Kitchener has hit on a happy phrase
prophetic of South Africa's future. At the
presentation of a sword given to him by the
corporation of Cape Town, though the formal
ity took place In London, in his speech of
thanks the General said: "You have the mak
ings of ndthlnr less than a new America in
the southern hemisphere." The English papero
seize upon the phrase, "the new America." for
their headlines.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Bobble's Air Caution.
I wish my papa- was on the police.
With a great big club anu gun to keep
the peace; v
With his elegant, tall hat.
And bright buttons, and ail that.
In, his uniform arrayed.
At the head of the parade.
And his long coat ironed out without a
crease,
Oh, I wish my papa was on the police!
I wish my papa was a mptorman;
We'd have the finest car that ever ran.
I'd put on all the power.
And run forty miles an hour;
All the old slow pokes would find
They must take the car behind.
He's so rich that if he wants to be he can.
Oh, I wish my papa was a motorraanl
I wish my papa was a fireman bold.
With a shiny uniform of red and gold.
I'd sit by him sm his seat.
As we dashed along the street,
And we'd drive right through the crowd;
I'd be happy and so proud.
While, the whistles tooted and the big
bells tolled;
Oh, I wish my papa was a fireman bold
I wish my papa was an engineer.
Running trains across the country, far
and near;
You bet he'd let me ride
In the cab up by his side.
How I'd maka the whistle yell,
And he'd let me ring the bell.
I could ride a mile a minute without fear
If my papa only was an engineer.
Hurrah for the Portland team, any
how! They can.t beat us for fourth place.
If the tariff is the Ark of the Covenant,
are the parties to it the protected trusts
and the Republican campaign commit
tees? University Park rejoices In Its prox
imity to the Centennial grounds. If it
Isn't the Fair site Itself, it's the next
thing to it.
"Mr. Reed, don't you know Mr.
Wrisht?" asked one of the three occu
pants of the elevator. "Reed and Wright,"
said Wright. "And." said Reed. Indi
cating the introducer, "cipher."
The service rendered by persons who
stop incipient panics by their promptness
and firmness Is only understood when we
encounter the panic that was not quelled.
This is the most comforting reflection
obtainable from the Blmingham tragedy.
Some men can extract a whole lot
of fun out of very slender material. Tha
Easton. Pa., Democrats have just fin
ished 100 ballots taken to nominate a
Congressman in a district where two men
out of every three are Republicans.
Great preparations are being made in
Dallas, Tex., for the reception of Rear
Admiral Schley on Saturday, October 13.
One feature of the entertainment is to
be a gathering of the school children,
every school, public and private. In tha
state having been invited to join tha
schools of Dallas In making the day a
notable one. On Monday there will be a
military parade, a public reception and
the presentation of a testimonial, fol
lowed in the evening by the inevitabla
banquet.
There is to be one more monument to
the Pilgrims. The Massachusetts Legis
lature this year appropriated ?25,000 for
a monument on the outer point of Cape"
Cod to commemorate the adoption of tha
Pilgrim compact of government. This
was made contingent upon the contribu
tion of an equal amount by the associa
tion on or before July 5, 1905. It is pro
posed to erect a rugged obelisk 200 feet
high, placed upon an eminence on the
outermost point of Cape Cod, where all
passing at sea may see it.
In accepting their 5250 second prize for
the sake of harmony, and now devoting
it to the fire relief fund, the Tacoma
Elks have contributed much more to tha f
cause of sweetness and light than did i
the original award. A strict Interpreta
tion of the tournament's conditions un
doubtedly Justified tho Tacoma protest.
Everybody -seems to have felt that tha
Salem Lodge made tho most creditabla
showing, but tho first prize was not of
fered for a "characteristic" display. If
we were to have another carnival, tha
rules should certainly be amended.
Alfred Davis, an English member or
Parliament, was at first indignant and
then amused at the questions he was
asked by customs officers In New York
on his arrival there recently. Among tha
queries were these: "Can you read and
write?" "By whom was your passage
paid?" and "Have you ever been in
prison?" To the first he answered by
writing in the blank "This is a specimen
of my handwriting," to the second "No
one was kind enough to pay it for mo,
so I paid it myself," and to the third,
having Inspected many European jails, ho
answered "Yes."
Up at Salem one day last week two
little Italian bo3 were playing on their
violin and harp and passing the hat. They
did this on an electric car, to the delight .
of a rural gentleman and his female com
panion, whose unaffected joy and cir
cumspect deposit of a dime In the con
tribution hat diverted the passengers as
much as the orchestra Itself. When tha
conductor came around for fares, tha
aforesaid R. G. announced that he had
paid his fare. "Not to me," said tha
conductor. "No; I gave It to the boy with
the violin." And the fare was collected
with difficulty, but amid Increasing
gayety.
Camllle Flammarion has secured tha
support of 20 members of the French
Chamber of Deputies for a bill to make
a new, and. as he calls it. "rational"
calendar compulsory In France. The as
tronomer would start the year with the
vernal equinox and have a year of 364
days. The odd day he would make a fete
day Independent of the year. He would
name the months after the stars. Flam
marion points out that the main advan
tage of his plan lies in the fact that tho
same dates rrecur on the same Says of
tho week, so that there would be no
need of changing the calendars every
year.
At the recent racing season In Saratoga
William C. Whitney noticed at the traei.
one day a young fellow for whom he lad
a strong liking. Knowing, that the yoirfcg
man was none too rich, Mr. Whltnqp
gave him a few tips on what he regardet
as good things. One or two of them
turned out very well and the youth came
every morning for a tip or two. Mr.
Whitney's judgment proved to be very
poor, so near the close of the meeting
he hunted the-young fellow up and asked:
"How have you come out?" "About
$10,000 to the good," was the surprising
reply. "You see, Mr. Whitney, I wasn't
long in discovering that you don't know
much about horses, so I coppered all your
tip3 and bet against the ponies you
fancied." The millionaire stared for a
moment and then had a hearty laugh.