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PORTLAND, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.
'EXTRAVAGANCE AND RECKLESSNESS'
Fortunately, the United States is not ask
ing for now loans. The Government is not
Increasing Jta debt by long bonds or by
exchequer bills for temporary needs. If In
any month outlay exceeds income, the de
ficit is covered by previous surplus laid
away. Individuals and corporations reach,
out for vast sums in loans, but the Nation
Is not a borrower in any market. Its interest-bearing
debt at the beginning of the
fiscal year 1808 xsps $847,385,130, and the
annual Inter eetNras SS4,387t315. A loan of
5200,000,000 was made by popular subscrip
tion for war purposes. Yet at the start of
the current fiscal year that debt was only
885,157,440 and the annual Interest $24,
176,745. In the Interval the Government
has paid the cost of the Spanish War, 520,
000,000 under .the treaty of Paris, and S50,
000,000 on account of the Panama Canal.
Now the Nation stands on a, granite basis
of credit, and over the door of the Treasury
may be inscribed: "We are not borrowing
here." The Treasurer of the United States.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT.
The Democratic campaign hook re
cords the painful but conscientious dis
covery, made by some of Its disinter
ested and cautious compilers, that the
average family contributes something
like $94 a year to the TJlngley tariff.
This is important, if true, and there is
fortunately no need to quarrel over the
exact figures. Ninety-four Is a good
number, near enough to 100 to be start
ling, and yet avoiding round numbers
eo as to avoid the suspicion of guess
work. Call it $94 and let it go at that
The inference Is, of course, that the
$94 are lost Nobody gets anything for
them. They are paid out (but not taken
in. They disappear," as it were, from
the fa.ee of the earth, having accom
plished nothing except to disturb the
honest Democratic soul and furnish
forth a chapter in the Democratic cam
paign book. It might be worth while to
show that some $284,000,000 a year are
paid Into the Treasury from tariff rev
enues and that the manufacturing In
terests of the Nation, whose welfare the
tariff had In mind, continue to add
something to the wealth? of the United
States and to give the average .family
something for its $94.
But let that pass. It Is not impor
tant We assume that theDemocratic
party, if It comes into "power, will im
mediately fix things so that the aver
age family will not contribute to the
tariff $94 per year, or any other sum.
On reflection we Incline to concede that
this is very near the truth. The four
years from 1893 to 1897 are not so far
away but their memory can be vividly
recalled. In those years our average
families didn't contribute $94 a year, or
any other sum, to the tariff. No, nor
to anything else. They didn't have it
THE BASE OF YlEE PYRAMID.
The Democrats hope to elect Parker
by a combination of a few Northern
States with the Solid South. There are
476 votes In the new electoral college,
239 being necessary to elect; and the
Democratic combination reads like this:
Southern States-
Alabama ll
Arkansas 0
Missouri IB
I North Carolina 12
Florida .... o
South Carolina 0
Seonrla - ia
Tennessee 12
rexas is
Virginia 12
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 9
tlarvland R
Mississippi 10,
Total
.159
Northern States
Connecticut 7
Indiana 15
New Jersey 12
New Sork 30i
West Virginia 7
Total i -so
It is an unfair trial of strength, be
cause It Is a game wherein one side
takes 159 points out of a possible 2$9
to start with, while the rest are to be
fought for. There is no fight in the
South. There is no appeal to the voters
on Issues, policies or the merits of the
candidates. If the Democrats can carry
the election on the lines laid down, we
shall have the East, North and West
divided like this:
Northern Stales Republican
California. Nevadat
Colorado. New Hampshire.
Delaware. North Dakota.
Idaho. Ohio.
Illinois. Oregon.
Iowa. Pennsylvania,
Kansns. Rhode Island.
, Maine. South Dakota.
M&ss&chusette. Utah.
Michigan. Vermont
Minnesota. Washington.
Montana. Wisconsin.
Nebraska. Wyoming.
Northern States Democratic v ,
Connecticut. New York.
Indiana. West Virginia.
.New Jersey.
The Republicans may carry these
twenty-six Northern States ,and lose.
The Democrats may carry these five
Northern States and win. The injus
tice appears when It Is considered that
In the North the Democrat can vote
and in the South the Republican can
not There is an eleCdon.t the North.
There is no election at the South. If
the majority in New York are for Par
ker, he gets the state's electoral vote.
If the majority in Mississippi are for
Roosevelt, then Parker gets the vote
anyhow.
The Presidential election In the
United States is a fraud. It purports
to be the free choice of an intelligent
people. It is the free choice of an intel
ligent peopleonly in name and in part
Out of 239 electoral votes that are deci
sive upon the Issues at, stake and the
meii proposed, only SO are actually so
fought for . andwon. if Parker wins,
while the whole 23S are fought for and
won If Roosevelt wins.
The 159 electoral votes for Parker are
determined upon in advance. They are'
handed to him by a reigning oligarchy
as absolute and unquestioned as the
mandate of the Czar. Platforms are
put ou they are addressed oily to the
people of the North. Candidates are
groomed and advocatedbut only to
the voters of the North. Republican
merits or mistakes. Democratic merits
or mistakes, are subject for commenda.
tlon or reproof only at the North.
It Is upon this basis of two-thirds -of
the result assured in advance that the
Democratic party assumes the role of
a candidate for popular approval.
Parker takes two points In a three
point game and is willing to play for
the remaining one. The base of the
Democratic pyramid is laid upon the
disfranchisement of 8,000,000 blacks in
the South, whose enumeration sends
men to Congress to read us lectures on
liberty and equality. Is it a fair game?
Is the foundation laid one that can
rightfully claim the co-operation of the
fairminded for the superstructure? Is
It the part of wise statesmanship thus
to reward and approve the. party whose
only chance of success is based upon
a result attained where a free ballot
free speech and an honest count are
unknown?
AN UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.
We are wont to say that the earth
has been fully explored, so that with
the exception of the poles nothing now
remains to tempt, the spirit of adven
ture. Yet there is a source of strange
and perhaps sensational terrestrial ex
ploration which Is practically a virgin
field and which, is almost infinite hi
possibilities of mineral wealth and me
chanical power. We allude -to the
depths of the earth's crust beneath our
feet The British Association recently
spent a session In cogitation upon this
curious theme. Mr. Charles A. Parsons,
chairman of the engineering section,
Differed some figures and other data on
a hypothetical bore into the bowels of
the earth. He calculates that the cost
of such a hole in the ground, Including
air-locks and cooling, the time con
sumed in the work and the tempera
tures of rock to be encountered, would
be about as follows:
. Time in Temp, of
Depth. Cost. years. Rock.
2 miles.... 3 2,500,000 10 .122 deg. F.
4 miles.... 5,500,000 25 152 deg. F.
6 miles...-. 8,000,000 40 182 deg. F.
8 miles.... 13,500.000 55 212 deg. F.
10 miles.... 18,500,000 70 242 deg. F.
12 miles 25,000,000 85. 272 deg. F.
Mr. Parsons Intimated that he
thought the undertaking might be
worth while. At the present time the
deepest mining shaft is at the Cape of
Good Hope, and It is said to be. about
one mile in depth. The deepest bore
hole of record is one In Silesia made by
the Austrian government also about
a mile deep. What might be found at
greater depths is what the geologists
want to know more than they are able
to tell In temperate language. The
sinking of a shaft to a great depth pre
sents, so far as are known, no insur
mountable difficulties. It would be de
sirable to select for such an experiment
a locality known or believed to be as
free as possible from water-bearing
strata, so as to minimize the cost of
pumping.
The great expense would He In the
necessary system of relays. The shaft
would have to be sunk In stages, each
about half a mile In depth, and at each
stage there would be located hoisting
and other machinery to be operated
electrically. At each second or third
mile in depth It would probably be
necessary to provide air-locks, in order
to sustain the air column and Drevent
the pressure from becoming too great
to be borne. A greater pressure than
twice that normal at the surface would
probably be- unbearable by workmen.
Ventilation would have to be provided
for by means of air pumps driven by
electricity. To maintain the shaft at
a bearable temperature at great depths
powerfulmeans of conveying the heated
air to the surface and replacing It with
cool air must bo provided. The amount
of heat conducted inward through the
rock wall and requiring to be absorbed
and carried off will denend
conductivity of the strata. Among
those who are studying this subject
critically the opinion obtains that it
would be possible to maintain a toler
able temperature at the depth of at
least twelve miles. Beyond this it
would probably be necessary to have
recourse to something like the Belgian
freezing process of M. Poesche for ex
cavating through water-bearing strata.
It goes without saying that the ex
ploration of the globe is only a ques
tion of time. It will doubtless have to
wait until the accumulation of wonirh
has reached a stage beyond the one
now with us when vast sums are lav
ished upon polar voyages, "airships and
the collection of fossils. Still, If we can
get down eight or ten miles for about
$20,000,000, we may yet see the day when
a combination of rich and curious peo
ple may start the shaft, even If they
have to leave posterity to complete it.
The results of the bore would be chiefly
geological, and in that respect of sur
passing interest and value. Engineer
ing genius may yet draw heat and
power from the earth's interior, and it
is certain that what is going on InBlde
our sphere will, when ascertained, cast
some valuable light upon many prob
lems of the universe at -large about us.
THE BLONDE'S ECLIPSE.
Backed with all the authority of the
Smithsonian Institution, comes the an
nouncement that the blonde is slowly
and surely disappearing from America.
Less hardy, less capable of victory In
the struggle of modern life, the suc
cessors of the world's gTeat queens of
wine and honey, savs the Smithsonian
Institution, are doomed, to disappear be-
iore tne nardier and more tenacious
brunette. What cause for tears Is here,
If "we-must believe news so sad! Pass
ing over the pitiful case of the poets
who will be lost without hair of golden
hue, to match and rhyme with eyes
of blue, who is there that does not
view with regret the prospect of a
monotonous world of dark-haired and
blackeyed beauties? It is all very well
for part of America's women to "walk
in beauty, like the night of Cloudless
climes and starry skies," but we want
rosy Aurora both foroher own sake and
for the sake of the -contrast that makes
dark and fair darker and fairer. And
think o the traditions that would have
to be revised. Saints and angels are
golden-haired in the popular mind.
When Eve appeared to Milton's vision
fine, as a. veil down to herslender waist.
Her "unadorned golden tresses wore dishevelled.
In later times the blessed daroozel.
who caused such a stir when she made
iier debut, had hair that "lay along
her back" and was "yellow, like ripe
corn," a description that moves the
unmesmerlzed young person of the day
to compare the damsel with the more
frivolous girj whose golden hair was
hanging down her back. From Helen,
an Inch from the tip of whose nose, as
some one says, had changed the history
of the world, and Cleopatra "and she
was fair as is the rose in May" the
red-gold goddesses have ever swayed
the hearts of men. And it cannot be
said that the blondes of history have
shown any lack of capacity for strug
gling along in the world. Elizabeth
was a bit of a boss in her time, and
she might have passed for a pyroxlde
damsel of a Jater period. Scientists
now and then make mistakes that lay
men are able to correct The Savants
of the Smithsonian are right in their
assertion that blondes in America are"
decreasing In .numbers. The cause,
however, is not lack of vitality; it Is an
even more powerful agent fashion.
That lathe secret In a nutshell. Fash
lon'c pendulum now swings toward the
brunette. The blonde is temporarily
out of it, especially as this is to be a
brown season, the trade journals say.
Even the little girl buying a doll wants
one with dark hair. Ignoring the blue
eyed and flaxen-haired darlings that
delighted her mother's infancy. Let
fashion approve of brunettes for a long
enough time, and blondes may-die out,
but the' moment the Inevitable reaction
comes, presto the locks of gold wll'
reappear.
AIDS TO THE DRAMA.
Around few institutions, human or di
vine, has such a mass of critical writ
ing accumulated as has been piled
against the theater. Regarded from
whatever viewpoint, it seems to awake
the Itch for writing, and we have es
says upon the stage from the moralist,
the preacher, the artist, the amusement-loverfrom
every one, in fact,
who has-ever seen a-play, and frequent
ly from those who have not Leaving
aside the ethical and the' higher criti
cism of the stage in general, how. many
fair pages have been spoiled by critics
of its more trifling aspects and its re
lations to the pleasure, almost as much
physical as mental of the playgoer?
Such nimble wits as George Bernard
Shaw and Max Beerbohm a sort of
inconsequential Chesterton have occu
pied themselves with the matters of
costumes and settings, the best hour
for the performance to begin, and. the
effect of dinner upon the appreciation
of the play.
The supreme Importance of the re
lation between a good dinner, and en
joyment of the drama has not
even yet been fully grasped, although
the subject has been treated by sev
eral essayists. One writer has even
gone so far as to draw up a number of
menus suitable for dinners before the
theater. There would be an evident
fitness in having, for example, a meal
of pickles, cold boiled mutton and senna
tea before going to see "Ghosls," .while
the proverbial "bird and bottle" would
put one in the mood for "King Dodo."
These suggestions may be all very well,
but they cannot be accepted as final.
Thanks to skillfully written breakfast
food and coffee-substitute advertise
ments, the American people must know
the composition of their foods, the per
centage they contain of proteids and
other mysterious things. It is there
fore up to Dr. Wiley to try something
practical on his poison squad, now the
dramatic season is upon us. A few
months' observation would decide what
foods enabled a man to enjoy most the
play, which modern customs bring im
mediately upon the'heels" of dinner.
Discussion of the food question leads
to owe almost as important, namely, the
question of drink. It cannot have es
caped the attention of playgoers, espe
cially those with tender corns, that
large numbers of men bolt for the door,
as the curtain drops upon an act Once
outside the theater, what do- these men
do? It is useless to veil the fac most
of them make their way to a convenient
bar, where they have something to
drink. There is nothing In this to cause
one to blame the men in question. They
are merely seeking something that will
bring their mental state into harmony
with the play. At present they seek
blindly, but if Dr. Wiley will experi
ment along this line the public will
know in time what Is the best thing to
do between the acts. With some plays
it Is undoubtedly a good thing to go
out at the end of the .first act and to'
stay away during the others. In the
present lack of Information on the sub
ject, that is the only valid excuse for
hutting past a lot of people whose en
joyment needs no stimulant other than
the play and'players afford.
OREGON AS HOST.
It is a matter of regret that so few
citizens of Oregon were present last
Friday at the. St Louis Fair, when the
ninety-eighth anniversary of the return
of the Lewis andi Clark expedition
was celebrated. But Jt is a matter of
congratulation that among those who
were present upon that occasion were
men so well qualified to speak for Ore
gon and the coming Lewis and Clark
Fair as 'are Mr. W. D. Fenton, Colonel
H. E. Dosch and Hon. Thomas C. Dev
lin, of this city.
The synopsis of the addresses of these
men well bears out the statement that
the Lewis and Clark Fair will be an
educator. All fairs are indeed educat
ors, but the Fair of 1905 will illuminate
a theme the realities of which are in
stinct with -grand romance. It will,
moreover, furnish a fund of information
concerning the present status, vast re
sources and grand possibilities of the
empire of the Pacific the existence of
which was first made known .by the in
trepid explorers of a century ago.
It is true that tradition had whispered
of the existence of this vast empire be
fore this time. But it remained for
Lewis and Clark to open the door to
the beautiful wilderness that lay serene
and smiling in the lap of Great Nature
awaiting discovery and occupancy. The
date of the return of the. explorers with
the wonderful tale they had to tell was
fittingly celebrated at St Louis. Ore
gon, the extreme limit of their-explorations
of a century'ago, upon whose
misty ocean shore they passed a dreary
but not altogether lonely and Inhos
pitable Winter, was the proud host-of
the day. She could and perhaps should
have made a larger showing, numer
ically speaking, upon that occasion, but
no more fitting or comprehensive words
could have been spoken than those that
were given tongue by the speakers,.
who are so Closely In touch "with the
Lewis and Clark achievement and Its
coming celebration at this end of the
line.
The Oregon Country is Indeed a grand
theme. Its past Its present and its fu
ture each is an Inspiring topic. Over
the first romance broods and tender
memories linger; about the second ear
nest activities cluster and strive, while
going out to meet the last are the hopes
and aspirations of a growing multitude
of loyal citizen. To these the wordsof
William H. Seward, quoted by Mr. Fen-V
ton in connection with his address ap
peal proudly. "The Pacific, Its shores,
its islands and the vast region beyond,"
said this sagacious statesman, "will
become the chief theater of event3 in
the world's great hereafter." At the
sunset gates of the great Pacific, facing
the ocean wherein its' islands and the
vast regions beyond are just awakening
from the lethargy of .the centuries, Ore
gon stands ready to work oui her grand
destiny. Every loyal citizen of Oregon
wljl echo the just and proud eulogies of
her citizens at St. Louis on Lewis and
Clark commemoration day.
KEEP YOUR MONET AT HOME.'
It is not likely that any taxpayer in
Portland will protest publicly or in pri
vate because the city let a contract for
Iron water plp-to a home concern
whose bid was about one-half of one
per cent higher than that of an Eastern
competitor. Employment of home la
bor whose wage will be several thou
sand dollars Is a good and sufficient
reason for violating the established rule
to give the work to the lowest bidder.
In a broad view, it involves no viola
tion of economic law, though techni
cally a -very slight burden is taken from
the manufacturer and transferred to
the community. Here Is an instance
of protection simply o foster the home
market.
Prosperity comeso a commonwealth
not so much from the amount of the
soil's product, the extent of Its fac
tories! output and the volume of trade
as from the profits to labor and capital
employed in agriculture, manufacturing
and business. Therefore, carrying far
ther the idea of building up your home
market, let it be your invariable rule
never to send a dollar to buy a neces
sity or a. luxury away from home that
you can get at the same price at home.
For the purpose of defining "home" so
far as It relates to the subject In hand,
be It set down that Western Oregon
and the Columbia River Basin consti
tute the commonwealths where the
principle should be established.
If fn Whiter you have no special
choice between California oranges and
Oregon apples, buy the home-grown
.fruit Insist from your grocer upon the
Oregon or Washington prune, not the
imported, which is neither as fine nor.
as low-priced as the home nrodunt.
Perhaps you need a screen for the fire
place; ask your dealer for one made in
Portland and save one-third. Refuse
to buy an Eastern-made blanket when
those made In Oregon are celebrated as
the best in the country. The East buys
from us only what it must have. No
Injustice is "worked if we pursue the
same policy. It is a sort of selfishness,
this standing in with one another, that
pays In the end. -
But our commonwealth manufactures
only a part of the things we- Sally need,
and the condition is not likely to
change soon. Then give your local
dealer the opportunity to make a profit
if he can do it without greater cost to
you. Every magazine you pick up at
this season or the year Is filled with
attractive advertisements that appeal
to the housewife. .Send for the cata
logue or booklet; reading it will per
haps give you full Information. Still
your first duty is to learn whether you
cannot get the very same article here
at the same price and save express or
freight charges To send money East
to buy something no better or cheaper,
or to place an order before finding out
what the home dealers can do, is little
sHort of an act of disloyally to the
commonwealth; The merchant's profit
adds to the wealth and consequently
the prosperity of the community.
Now Seattle, for example, pushes, the
idea of protecting the home market, to
the extreme. Here Is an illustration:
A big railroad east of Chicago has a
freight agency in Portland in charge of
a man who gets a lot of traffic on ac
count of his personal popularity and
the prompt service of his company. He
works for Puget Sound business, but
when he gets to Seattle he is turned
down because he doesn't establish an
office and live there. All the heavy
shippers tell him: "Come over here
with your office and your family and
we'll give you every, pound of our.
freight" They comprehend the value"
of a good salarj" distributed every
month among tradesmen, and they en
force the plan persistently. While this
in itself is a trifling matter, It shows
the Seattle spirit
Trade organizations, recognizing the
interdependence of all commercial in
terests, do their best to keep active the
principle of fostering the home market,
but numerically their members are a
small part of the community. Wage
earners are the main army that sup
ports retail trade. These should bear
in mind that they are contributing to
their own welfare when they foster the
home market Among professional men
a3 a Tule there is indifference In this
matter that ought to be corrected. The
more profit made In trade the more nu
merous and larger are professional fees.
Indeed no money expended at home for
rational needs is ever misapplied. It
constantly adds to the permanent
wealth of a community.
A FRENZIED FINANCIER.
That delightful serial "Frenzied Fi
nance," by Mr. Thomas Lawson, mil
lionaire stock gambler, and all-around
sport, is still scintillating through the
columns of a monthly magazine. No
recent contribution to modern literature
has awakened so much Interest as is
shown In this remarkable expose of the
methods of high finance, and "not the
least of this Interest is due to the fact
"that the writer has for many 'years
been a shining light in high finance
himself. There is a world of truth In
the saying that "When thieves fall out
honestsmen get their dues." Mr. Law
son admits In no uncertain or equivocal
language that -the men with whom he
was associated in Amalgamated Copper
were more kinds of thieves than were
ever assembled outside of the walls of
a penitentiary. He has not included
himself In the category in which he has
placed the Standard Oil crowd and a
few more millionaires, but by his own
admission it is apparent that he was -at
one time willing to be included, and
was to a degree fully as culpable as any
of his assoicates.
The latter, running a skin game on a
colossal scale, Indavertently perhaps,
removed the financial hide of Mr. Law
Bon along .with those of other victims
of lesser importance, and "Frensled
Finance" in literary form resulted. In
adapting the truism regarding the re
sults of a falling out among .thieves
we must perhaps qualify the reference
to honest men. This family row be
tween a flock of financial vultures 'will
not bring to life the suicides who
staked their life on Amalgamated and
lost all, nor will it return to other hon
est men the money that was obtained
from them under false pretenses. It
will, however, serve as a "horrible ex
ample," and as such may deter others
from becoming entangled In the meshes
spread by the Wall-street thimble-riggers.
The expose so far as It has pro
gressed is perfect, and is made up of
the most scathjng denunciation that
has ever before been publicly applied
to men of such prominence;
The latest installment of Mr. Laweon's
story'is devoted largely to "Gas" Ad
dlcks, and the feeling which the writeV
has for his late associate Is reflected in
his personal allusions to Addicks, who
he describes as "a financial guerrilla,
balloony, mysterious, yet as sticky as
a jelly fish a votary of rotten finance,
perpetual candidate for the United
States Senate, wholesale debaucher. of
American citizenship and all-around
corrupter of men, a corporation polit
ical trickster, who 'has done more to
hold up American laws, American elect
ive franchises and American corpora
tions to the scorn of the civilized world
than any other man of this or any pre
vious age, a man without a heart, with
out a soul, and, I believe, absolutely
without consicence." Usually In ex
poses of this character the public Is in
clined to underestimate the accuracy of
the statements when it knows that the
-accuser is drawing some of his inspira
tion from a desire to get even. In this
case, however, the expert testimony is
coming from one who has been so close
to the throne and his statements are of
such damning libelous nature that Mr.
Lawson has certainly imperiled his for
tune if not his liberty by making such
charges-public unless he is prepared to
prove them.
Mr. . Lawson by his own confes
sion s a .good deal ofa financial
buccaneer himself. He tells how he
forced up the sugar market in order
to save a man who had misappropriated
funds, to be used in purchasing options
in sugar. Owing to the skill of the
Lawson manipulation the man was
saved from the penitentiary and the
author of "Frenzied Finance" added
$250,000 to his own bank roll. Mr. Law
son. seems very proud of this achieve
ment, but apparently overlooked the-
fact that while he was hauling the man
who was "long" on sugar back from
the portals of the penitentiary he was
crowding the "shorts" into the bottom
less pit As the tale of a man who turns
"state's evidence" in an endeavor to
convict his erstwhile pals, the Lawson
story Is a valuable contribution to our
current literature, and if Its publica
tion will result in changing our laws so
that the United States will no longer
Jprove an open field for the operations
or such financial highwaymen as the
Standard Oil crowd, many of the Law
son offenses will be condoned. Robbery
on such a magnificent scale as noted by
Lawson in his story of Amalgamated
Copper would not be tolerated in any
other country on earth, and laws to
prevent Its continuance here are ur
gently needed. The crime of Whitaker
Wright was modest in comparison with
that which Rockefeller, Lawson et al.
worked on the public, and yet Wright
escaped a felon's cell only by. commit
ting suicide. Under our present laws
there Is no immediate necessity for the
Rockefellers to carry poison around
with them In order to defeat the judg
ment of the court
The findings of the local steamboat
Inspectors In the investigation or the
General Slocum disaster, on East River
last June, present an appalling picture
of Incompetency on the part of the offi
cers and crew of the boat Nothing
is said, however, of the criminal greed
of the owners or their agents, who were
eager to take the last ticket for which
money was offered, regardless of the
fact that the craft was already over
crowded, while the rotten equipment in
life preservers was ignored, with the
assumption that, had a full quota of
sound life preservers been on hand,
they could not have been used effect
ively in the brief space of time be
tween the breaking out of the flames
and the sinking of the steamer. The
wonder after reading this report is not
that the disaster occurred, but that any
well-informed person took chances
against such fearful odds of Ignorance
Jll equipment and Incompetency that It
woum not occur by venturing on board.
In these days of high prices for hay,
oats and millfeed, ' farmers will learn
the value of good cows. It costs little
If any more-to feed a good milker than
a poor one, and the cow that will turn
the greatest proportion of her feed into
milk has the greatest value. When hay
is $12 a ton in the Valley, as it is now,N
a poor cow can soon "eat her head off,"
as the practical farmer expresses it
Grading up the herds and eliminating
the scrubs will go a long way toward
making the dairy Industry more profit
able. Few farmers can afford to huy
thoroughbred cows, but all can- breed to
sires that come from stock with good
milking records. That Is the way to
Improve the general character of dairy
stock, and every farmer should do his
share, remembering that he Is not only
advancing his own Interests, but aiding
in the development of an Industry that
has great promise In Western Oregon.
There are degrees even in depravity.
Reckoned on the descending scale,
Frank Allen, now in the City Jail as a
Vagrant, has reached the lowest scale.
Self-Initiated, conscienceless, degraded,
he hatf not only found this lower level!
but has dragged with him to the depths
a young woman of simple, unsophisti
cated mind and decent parentage. It
is hard to listen with patience to this
girl's story, so utterly foolish and cow
ardly does she appear In the recital.
Nevertheless she is an objeot of pity
even If of loathing, and should be re
turned to her country home in Michi
gan as soon as possible. As for the
man the longest term In the Peniten
tiary that the law provides for the
grossest of his crimes will be a totally
inadequate penalty. The case, taken
altogether, is one of the most revolting
that has ever come to public notice in
this community. '
The rain that has fallen intermit
tently during the week has checked the
forest fires, given dry pastures a long
needed drink, revived drooping potato
vines, and In some locations has sent
plowmen afield. Over In Montana they
are waiting for snow to accomplish 1
these things, conditions of drouth being
so incorrigible that rain does not bring
relief.
WOULD ANY AMERICAN DO IT?
Chicago Inter Ocean.
There are 2000 schoolhouses in the Philip
pine. Over each Bchoolhouse floats an
American flag; In each achoolhous are an
American teacher and a number of Filipino
chlren singing- our National songs and learn
ing American ways. Suppose Judge Parker
atiould be elected President next November,
would any American. Democrat or Republican,
volunteer to go to any of those schoolhouaee
and say to- the teacher: "Judge Parker is
.President: the nollev of is r:At..,mAn t.
he reversed, and I come to pull down the
nag on your scnooi nouse?" Would any Amer
ican, do that? Would any American pull
down the flag-r Senator Foraker at the Audi
torium mtetlne.
This is a pertinent question, and it
suggests others.
Would -any American, with an eye sin
gle to the development and prosperity of
the. Unit ed" States and with the necessities ,
of our navy in mind, voluntarily reverse
the policy of the Republican party in the
Philippines, and pull down what has been
built up?
Would any business man, acting'-as a
business man, with only his own inter
ests and those of the country in mind,
voluntarily change the policy under
which business Interests have been built
up? Would he, if he could, pull down the
business fabric that has grown strong
under Republican policy?
Would any workingman, acting as a
workingman In the interests of himself
and family, reverse "the Industrial and
tariff policy of the Republican party?
Would he, with this one question before
him, vote to pull down what the Repub
lican party has built up, or would he
vot9 to maintain the policy?
Would any American, acting as an
American and not as a" party man, vote
to pull down 'the American flag la the
Philippines, In Hawaii, or in Porto Rico?
Would any American, with an eye single
to National growth and influence, undo.
If he could, what the Republican party
has done In the last eight years? If not,
why should he be indifferent to Republi
can success In November?
A Dead Organ of Infidelity.
Brooklyn Eagle.
After 70 years, tho Boston Investigator
has ceased to exist It was the organ of
infidelity. It was founded by a clergy
man who had found the falth3 of his
fathers too narrow for him, and who was
condemned by a grand Jury in Boston for
denyjng the existence of God, and sen
tenced to CO days' imprisonment That
was no longer ago than i834. and it was
the last trial of that kind in the Bay
State. A Unlversalist clergyman was
moved to exclaim: "Surely, the impris
enment of an old, white-haired man for a
few fanatical, skeptical words was one
of the most barbarous as well as Impolitic
expedients of the Nineteenth century.
Abncr Kneeland's moral character Is as
clear of blemish as we can reasonably
hope to see anywhere." Kneeland left
the state soon after Ills release from
prison, and died in Iowa, leaving his
paper to others, who waged war against
Christianity in a way to let few peoplo
know about it. For few know the In
vestigator, or know that a paper has
been maintained for no other purposo
than to argue religious faith out of exis
tence. It has never been widely quoted,
it has never exerted any marked influ
ence, it has never obtained a circulation
such as is enjoyed by the religious papers,
and they circulate none too largely.
But the reason for its demise is that it
is not needed, If ever it was needed.
Speech is as free as thought and requires
no defenders when It Is directed against
the established faiths. Science has said
guardedly, and as inoffensively as It
could, that dogmas so long held sacred
were insupportable by reason and con
trary to nature. Tom Paine shocked our
grandfathers, but we have listened pa
tiently to Ingersoll. There is, however,
another reason for the infidel paper, and
it is that although religion doe3 not ap
pear to be gaining ground, -there is a
growing recognition of its social value
and an indisposition among even the
Irreligious to make light of that phase of
it. Religion asks no law to defend it
from attacks. It points to its effects as
a moral conservator in the past, and tho
hopes it offers for the future. It points
especially to the fact that science, after
a brief divergence. Is altering U3 course
and Is about to meet it half way. The
study of facts does not lead one to rest
on fact It carries one beyond to causes,
and it opens up new series of facts that
materialism does not explain. When the
mysteries of continuing life, of universal
harmony and order, of the conservation
of energy, are revealed to us on any
ground disclosed by science, when the
shaping to one another of the flower and
the bee is explainable as without design,
there will be room for'a successor to the
Investigator.
Old Age a Disease, Not a Condition.
' Chicago Journal.
Had Ponce de Leon lived until today
he need not have come to the New
World in quest of the fountain of eter
nal, youth. On the contrary, he might
have combined the pleasures of the 'French
capltarwith business.
For Professor Metchnikoff, of the
Pasteur Institute In Paris says that old
age. Instead of being a condition. Is a
disease; that, in fact, there is no such
thing as old age.
This disease, according to Professor
Metchnikoff, is caused by the action of
certain germs called phagocytes, which
wander about the body in search of
other disease germs. When they can
not find these they feed upon things
which they should leave alone, and in
this manner Impair the health of the
body.
Some day the learned professor ex
pects to discover an antiphagocytic se
rum, or lymph, that will confine these
epicurean germs to their legitimate
diet When that time comes no one need
die, at least not before he has attained
the age and discretion of a Methuselah,
a Chauncey Depew, a Henry G. Davis
or a Tom Piatt.
Professor Metchnikoft's advice to
mankind at present is the shopworn in
junction to be careful ,about diet and to
practice temperance In all things.
Unfortunately it is much easier" to
grow old than It is to follow advice.
Meanwhile, until Professor Metch
nikoff discovers a phagocytic regulator,
persons desiring to live to a green old
age should come to Chicago, where the
death rate Is so law that even Ponce do
Leon, were he alive, would be satisfied
with It.
It is to hopod. however, that the
French savant will succeed in training
the phagocytes to act as sensible phag
ocytes should.
The Crepe-Trimmed Leiter Girls.
New Tork Press.
The Misses Nancy and Daisy Leiter came
to town from Bar Harbor about some law
business, and the sisters of Lady Curzon
showed themselves In Sherry's, to the
great interest of the out-of-town custom
ers. Nothing could have been more eye
catching than the entrance of these tall,
good-looking women, with long crepe veils
floating behind them. Their gown3 were
works of art, and Miss Daisy's was espe
cially striking. It was cut out a little at'
the throat, and she wore a string of large
pearls. Surrounded by so much black, the
pearls looked whiter than ever. It Is said
the engagement between Miss Daisy Let
ter and Major Eustace Cawley has not
been broken, but will be announced when
the time of mouring for L. Z. Leiter Is at
an end.
To the Sphinx.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Thou hast kept silence long, O thing of stone,
With eyes that brood upon the burning sand.
As if the wisdom of thine ancient land
Were closed in thy lips and thine alone!
Thou knew'st Osiris, and thou must have grown
Familiar with the Ptolemies, and bland;
And all the monster mechanism grand
Of Memnon's melodies thou must have known!
Thus men do prate In awe and wondering.
Striving to read beneath your silence hid
The secret of the tilings that are to pass.
I don't believe you know a blooming thing!
Tou will not speak, fearing that If you did
"You'd prove yourself a most ecrejnous asa!
NOTE ASDC0MMENT.
Vesuvius Is in eruption. Presidential
campaigns are catching.
Dramatic Noe Pinky Panky Poo has
arrived"" in New York with Mrs. Pat
Campbell.
Now that the slot machines are out of
commission? men- will have more change
suitable for the church collection box.
In yesterday's bit of "Lost and Found'
someone advertised. "Lost two young
cows, branded "V between Molalla and
Portland.'
Fortunately for some husbands, the
"vision -box" 'phone - doesn't render It
necessary to chew cloves before ringing
up wifey.
Astoria Is tired of the vertical system
of writing, it is said. This Is one of the
instances In which it is a good thing to
tire quickly. ' - t
The licenses of the Slocum's offlcera
have been revoked. What' relentless
avengers the members of the investigat
ing court must be.
Thank goodness. Admiral Dewey didn't
think It necessary to signalize the com
pletion of his 50th year In the Navy by
publishing a book. May his fame bo
everlasting.
It Is certainly a statesmanlike action
to marry the woman to whom one has
just paid $15,000 for breach of promise.
There's nothing like marrying a woman
with money.
A horse has died in Mount Pleasant at
the age of 33. But the colts are glad that
they'll hear no more of the terrible writers
of 'seventy-x and the great times horses
had "when I was young."
English aewspapers report the progress
of a football team touring Denmark and
Sweden. Football may yet prove the
opening wedge for a universal language,
many of its terms having already become
part of the French tongue.
An industrious statistician shows that
96 per cent of the inmates of American
insane asylums are brunettes. Although
the blondes are thU3 hopelessly outclassed,
we're ready to bet they're all there when
it comes to driving other people crazy.
A man bearing the somehow appropriate
name of Solomon Grumbleton was recent
ly arrested in London because he per
sisted In stopping persons he met in the
street and talking religion to them. "Join
the Salvation 4Army," was the advice
given him by the Magistrate.
PORTLAND, Or., Sept. .22. (To the Editor.)
There' a comical misprint In this morning's
Oregonlan which deserves your attention. In
the telegram from Belgrade. Servla. describ
ing King Peter'a coronation occurs the fol
lowing ludicrous sentence: "When the King
sat down, he took oft the crown, which
weighs four kilometers." (About 2 miles.)
P. H. G. METERS.
No doubt King Peter will wish before
long that his crown was away four kilo
meters. Not infrequently do we notice in the
"hatches, matches and dispatches" column
the announcement of a new baby's ap
pearance, and the addendum that the
"parents are the best-pleased couple in
Oregon, Dr. C. L. Large attending." Yes
terday we were pleased to observe that the
population of Scoggin's "Valley had been
increased by twin boys, "the parents of
whom are the most doubly pleased couple
In Oregon, Dr.. C. L. Large attending." It
almost looks as if" Dr. Large had gone into
the mail-order business.
Men cannot claim the monopoly of
minds fitted to deal with great social and
economic problems, not after the Penn
sylvania woman's suggestion that her sex
go on strike until female suffrage I3
granted. If this brilliant woman can only
organize her - sisters, she is certain to
gain anything she sets her mind upon.
Just think of a strike of women, and men
trying to cook, darn their socks, soothe
the baby, wash the dishes, hammer the
typewriter, sell ribbons and listen to harsh
masouline voices over the line from "Cen
tral." How long would the men hold out?
About 10 minutes, and then they would
be rushing after the women, beseeching
them to vote, become Senators, Presi
dents, anything, so long as the strike was
called off.
After all the pother over the theft of
valuable jewels from Newport people,
comes another rumpus over the theft of
onions. It is pardonable, one hopes, to
show an Interest in the affairs of tha
great persons of the country, as New
porters are, judging by tha amount of
newspaper space they get. It appears
that a Mrs. Oelr'lchs missed a measure of
onions from her scanty larder and fired
a cook and gardener because they couldn't
account for the missing vegetables. Had
any other product of the kitchen garden
been missing, the penalty would seem too
severe, but the onion Is the most precious
fruit of the earth, and we feel that both
cook and gardener justly got it in the
neck for monkeying with what Stevenson
calls the "rose among roots."
A Pan-Celtio dress would be a great ad
dition to the variety of life, and if the
recommendations of the Pan-Celtic con
gress result in tho designing and the
adoption of a distinctive costume, the
wjirld will not consider that the congress
has wasted its time. In these days the
world Is dully uniform. Were it not for
tho policemen, mail carriers, hospital
nurses, Salvation Army soldiers and the
members of a few other services, every
one would be dressed alike. Think how
Washington street would be enlivened
were a kilt of some pattern adopted by
the Pan-Celts, and all tho loyal Irish,
Highland Scots, Welsh and French Celts
wore. what was at once the racial garb
and Insignia. Then the Teutons might
take up a similar idea and the Latins and
the Scandinavians, and our streets would
excel in splendor and variety of rigs the
bazaars of India.
Now that the churches of the country
are in general shaking themselves ffee
from the trammels of tradition and are
making use of methods in keeping wjth
the bustling spirit of the age advertis
ing, offering social inducements, using
good lively music instead of dull old
chants, and so forth there Is one for
ward step that we should like to see taken
by the management of some up-to-date
congregation. It is well known that the
attendance at church Is often smaller
than might be expected, principally be
cause the hours of the services are in
convenient Some people don't get up
early enough for the morning service, and
they haven't finished their dinner, or
something, when the evening service be
gins. Now, what's the matter with try
ing the plan used so successfully by many
theaters that oX making the services con
tinuous? Members of the congregation
could then drop in any time during the
afternoon or evening, and this conven
ience would undoubtedly result In an un
usually large attendance.
WEXFORD JONES.
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