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The Oregonian reprints from the La bor Press an article on the arrogance of the management of the Consolidated Railway lines of Portland, and on the effort the management is making to crush union labor. doubt great part of the stock and most ol the bonds of this arrogant con cern are the property of "absentee land lords'as this article asserts. But lo cal m.-agers are still In control, s.lll xetain large Interests and still will hold them. The directors and other officers are of the "first families" and "reigning families" of Portland, who still hold stock in the concern although they give It out through their organ that they have sold. These are the people who make the intolerable conditions of which their workingmen complain, through the paper published in their interest the Labor Press. These are the people who have a pub lic property, a franchise, a right to use of the streets, valued for sale at six millions of dollars, for which they paid not one dollar. They got it by "work SZ. politics and legislative bodies? aim now mey can i pay aecent wage?, and arrogantly declare that no man who works for them shall be a mem ber of a labor union. The Printers' Union was the first union formed in Portland. During many years it was the sole and only union. The Oregonian has dealt with It steadily, during forty years. Differ ences of opinion and of interest have been adjusted on satisfactory terms be tween the Printers' Union and The Ore gonian whenever they have arisen during this long period. Why shouldn't the Portland Consolidated Railway deal with Its employes on a similar basis? Let us put it to the Portland directors, who pretend to have sold out, but still have control. Why do not Ladd and Mills a.rld Lewis and Campbell and Swigert, who control and run the Portland Consoli dated Railway, and also a I to exploit their plutocratic and monop olistic schemes, and to crush lnw ployed In the street railway service, ap ply ana enforce the like rules unon I those who work on and work far thoir newspaper organ? Simply because The oregonian has set the rule of fair deal ing with the Printers' Union. Mills and Ladd and the rest of them would de stroy this union also. If they could. They can and they do break down labor in every other way. as in the street railway system. MOVEMENT TOWARD TUBIJC OWNER SHIP. Finding at present Innumerable diffi culties in his way toward public own ership of street railways in Chicago, Mayor Dunne, of that city. Is making I a tentative effort, or proposing a slow approach, toward that result, by sug gesting a corporation, under direction of five citizens, which shall construct car lines on 240 miles of streets, under a 5-cent franchise; and at the end of twenty years the city is to take over the property. The five citizens are to constitute a board which is to hold the stock In trust. This board will issue certificates on the stock for sale to the public, which may be redeemed by the city at any time, and definitely at the end of f twenty years: arid out of the proceeds of the sale of certificates the lines are to be constructed. Whether capitalists will buy such certificates, bearing S per cent Interest, is a question that can, perhaps, be determined only by experi ment It Is hoped, however, that the certificates way be taken by "popular . suDsenpuon, to a. n-rge assresaie amount, and held as an investment by i. persons of moderate means. To this end It is proposed that only a limited amount be sold to each subscriber. Bit I this expedient probably wouM cw to nothing, for it would not prevent jarge capitalists from buying the certificates up afterward. If they thought the In vestment a good one. The scheme through the intermediate method, is expected to pass in twenty years Into municipal ownership. It probably, at this present stage of devel opment of the policy, is the nearest ap proach to public ownership that can be made at Chicago. Mayor Dunne, who was elected on a platform that called for "immediate ownership," seems to think so. The difficulty of dealing with the old street railway companies and of getting them out of the way will make It a long process. Again, a. great deal of civic education is necessary in our large cities, for preparation of the general mind, lest the game of politics might spoil alL Even Mayor Dunne tacitly admits that it would not be wise at this time, perhaps not safe, to in trust large financial lnerests to the chance products of the ballot-box In city elections. But it will be a reproach to democracy if this distrust shall not be removed. Democracy . must be able to do everything, or be pronounced a failure. OREGON AND THE HARICIMAN SYSTE5L No indictment of individuals recently brought before courts and people in Oregon is more cogent, more enlighten ing, more epoch-making, than the re report on the relations to Oregon of the Harrlman transportation system '.pub lished In the .report of the transporta tion committee of the Portland Cham ber of Commerce. Crowded with -facts and figures, it is all but Impossible to condense it within the limits of a news paper article. But Its vital Importance to the people of Oregon demands the attempt A slight rearrangement of the ma terial may help us. The Harrlman system controls, they say, the great transportation routes of our country by virtue of an agreement with other roads shutting out competition through their building In the state. This system has crushed all visible competition by Inde pendent roads and when it could not kill It has bought such 'roads and swal lowed them, and has digested them Into itself. While promising' extensions need ed In Oregon not for prospective but for actual, visible business it has failed to keep Its word, but meanwhile has Postered roads bulldlntr from CnH- fornia northwards into Oregon. Intend ed to divert Oregon traffic into Califor nia pockets. - Has any relation of the state to the railroad Justified either neg lect or injurs? Compare what Ore gon has done for her railroads with the treatment accorded them in Cali fornia and Washington. No anti-railroad legislation has been passed. The Railroad Commission. In existence be tween 18S7 and 1898. as a EUDervIsorv body only, was aboliphed. Nothlnc- has been -done by Oregon or her people to obstruct the investment of outside capital in railroads. But the advent of extended lines has been watched for and heralded with applause but has- not been seen. Taxes per mile have been: Oregon. Wash. ...14H fl78 ...150 215 Cal. Ida ha. J250 411)7 247 244 1M1 1&02 And the average valuation of road beds in Oregon. Including equipment, was. for 1904. per mile, 55377. Yet the cost per mile of the O. R. & X. Railroad reported for 1903 was $C4,5G0. Capital stock and bonded indebtedness of that company for 1903 are stated at SGG.000.000 or $49,SGG. per mile. And on those fig ures the earnings of the O. R. & X. are given for the ten years 3894 to 1904. the last two years being 5S.37C.403 and 55,173,040. respectively. This on a mile age of 1123 for those years. "Notwithstanding," says the commit tee, "the earnings have vastly exceeded any sum spent for extensions, by some means the bonded Indebtedness has in creased a large sum. thus perpetuat ing for years to come an Increase in fixed charges." Again, "Increase of stock or debt lays the foundation for a claim to Justify high charges through years to come." In spite of the enor mous sums charged In capital account, and demanding dividend and interest earning, and after payment of all fixed charges, yet the surnlup. over all charges, including dividend on deferred stock, mounted in the eight years from 1897. 5563.457. to 53.492.243 for 1904. No wonder that Mr. Harrlman has fought shy of meddling with a ma chine which was coining money for its owners at this astounding rate. But says the committee, will in dependent railroads pay In Oreeon? They point to the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad, through a sparsely settled country, and actively comnetlnc with the river. A road of this order and situation. 12L50 miles lonir. with a bonded debt of 540,000 a mile and cap ital stock of 519.744 per mile, earned. net. for the year ending June. 1904. 5179.462 with an actual surplus over all expenses of 530.938. The Columbia Southern, from Biggs, on the Columbia River, for 71 miles, south to Shanlko not in. but half-way to, the wide area of Middle Oregon was built for 5G30. 000 received from 5700.000 bonds, sold at 90, and gave good profit to the builders. Capital stock is 5300.000. Net earnincs for 1904 were 57S.5S0. The surplus, after paying 5 per cent interest on the bonds and all fixed charges, rose from 529,126 In 1901 to 539.2S5 in 1904. A continued rise In 1905 gives about 14 per cent on the stock, which was clear profit to the builders and owners of the road. Urged to extend southward to Bend (91 miles, we believe, from Shanlko), Mr. Harrl man softly suggests he will build fifty miles only, to a place called Madras, feeling it necessary. It Is supposed, to make two bites at that small cherry. Then the committee brings forward its strong demand. Malheur. Harney. Lake. Klamath and Southern Crook Counties cover about 56,000 square miles, not of undeveloped, but of rail roadless, country. This is the region' they require -should be connected with Oregon west of the Cascades, and so with Portland. Into this land of mag nificent distances and abounding re sources the two California Harrlman roads are. they say, heading, while Oregon stands Idly by. What advice does this committee gixe to their fellow-citizens? "Any and all railroad lines seeking entrance intojbe state should be encouraged In every reasonable way' Doubtless. It is to be hoped that this report will prove a veritable eye-salve to dull eyes. Surely it Is not enough to offer encouragement to other railroad lines seeking entrance Into the state. If Oregon citizens have the chance to aid in constructing or ex tending lines within the state, such ef forts should be courageously aided. It jLnay be a doubtful good to Oregon if the and then another, adhesive tentacle over It Competition, honest free, un fettered, should be our watchword. Above all let ue have noncst railroad bulldlnf. On any route odvocated. or suggested, by this committee, what pos sible excuse, much less necessity, can there be for repetition of such figures as have been quoted? The public has to supply Interest and dividends. Why not on figures based on cost with a reasonable profit if need be, but not to furnish counters for the stock markets of New York? THE CHAUTAUQUA IDEA. Chautauqua, is democratic She ad mits the aristocracy of intellect no more than American political theory admits the aristocracy of power. The creed of. the Chautauquans is that knowledge is for any person who can read, since it is all in books. And the creed is sound; but wisdom is not in books, neither is the sweetening and mellowing of the soul which the sun shine gives melllfinently streaming from those saints and sages who hold forth in colleges. Such wisdom Is part of what "college culture" means; the rest of it is what a student gets from "memory-haunted halls," from the out sides of apparatus and books, and, most of all. from his comrades. The college graduate ought to be a fragrant and mellow-pippin. Juicy with knowledge .and sapid with culture; If he is more often sappy than sapid, that Is not the fault of the theory. Chautauqua, the advantage of com radeship In-study being "well beknown" to her. supplies It by forming circles little groups of like-minded people In cities, and often In remote country places who meet as they may to study, to read. to discuss. And the work of the year culminates in the great assexn-bly.-llke that at Gladstone, where mul titudes exchange sympathies, notabili ties ' hold forth, and - professors give courses. The annual Chautauqua As sembly is a sort of rationalized camp meeting, with the hysteria replaced by sound instruction: but never without abundant and not unwholesome relig ious environment The Chautauquans do not form a col lege, but they have a goodly share of what 1s best In 'the college. Their work goes on where otherwise souls would stagnate in blank materialism. 'Its highest value Is not for the young, but for adults; most of all for women in far-off hamlets, who are saved by Chautauqua from the tragedy of their forlorn lives. The worst of village life Is its emptiness of every interest ex cept petty money-making and rancor. Chautauqua gives meaning and value to ihts cheap existence. University extension was an effort by the colleges to go out to meet the peo ple. In this country It failed. Our col lege professors can deal with young people, but not with adults, face to face. They are succeeding better with courses by mail. Everything is taught by mail, even music; and most things may be thus taught rather welL If knowledge Is what one "want". It may come by letter as well as by word of mouth, or better. It is probable that several hun dred thousand persons are pursuing courses in law, engineering, mathemat ics and the like, by mall. In this coun try now; and In general the results of their study do not disappoint them. What they get Is the bare skeleton of knowledge, nothing at all of culture; but they can put It to use without de lay, and that Is what they want Courses In colleges have been advo cated, to be open without entrance re quirements and finished without too' much of an examination. Such courses. It Is argued, would revive the ardor for wholesome learning in adults when schooling is forgotten, and open the door of opportunity to belated ambition. The argument is sound. Nothing could be more wholesome than such a popu lar broadening of the college; but It would take money, for such work must not Interfere with the regular classes. Thus the Chautauqua- idea develops and modifies Itself to suit the circum stances of varying fields. As far as It goes. It Is altogether good. Its defects are all of omission. The good it does Is substantial and widespread. It is one. and a very important one. of the agencies which are working to correct our crass materialism and convert this money-loving age to high thinking. As for plain living, that need not be taught after the high thinking has been learned. It will come of Itself. JOAQUIN MILLER. The songs of a lyric poet record the moments when his life, after hours or days of smoldering, breaks into clear flame. The long stretches of existence for all men are a moving slumber; the senses are dull; the passions sleep. But every man wakens now and then from the lethargy of the soul which we call "routine"; the "crowded hour of glori ous life" comes flaming; for most of us it passes with no record but regret; the lyric poet makes it eternal in his song. He sings the history of his soul, and. If he Is a real poet his music is not al ways gay. There Is abundant sunlight In Joaquin Miller's poetry, but there are also shadows. So life If but a day of weary frettlnx. As a sickly babe for lii mother gene; And I fold my hand, only this regretting That I have writ no thought or thine rial or. That live, or earns a cros or cryptic stone. Joaquin Miller wrote thus pensively many years ago. undervaluing his own work, for he has written many things that win lite, those very lines not least surely. In all their despairing beauty. His lyrical gift is clear and true. Even in his boyhood Joaquin Miller sang for immortality and to what listeners! Keats was scorned In England; Shelley was anathematized at Oxford; but think of t poet a boy poet with the oddities of genius, the divinity In him only half set free from clay, twanging his lyre In Eugene fifty years ago! The aged Joa quin Miller may smile now at those hard experiences of his youth; his no ble prophecy Dared I but eay a prophecy. As ang the holy men of o)3. Of rock -built cities yet to be Along these chining shores of gM has come true of himself not less than of these Pacific States. He has known fame and fortune. He has tri umphed over the "twin Jailers" of youth if any man ever did. and the verses which seemed "crazy" to the pioneers of the Mackenzie have become a part of English literature. His gracious. and benignant age, passing In a paradise of flowers, would compensate for an active life more severe than Joaquin Miller's; though his has not been lapped in easy luxury. A farmer's son. he wrote poetry at 13 and was editing a newspaper at 2L He had some -schooling, but not much. He bad to dig without direction through the books, few enough, which he could get hold of among thoe not too literary pioneers. Certainly lie found a Byron, and read it with pas sionate seat. Like the nalf-tewfe Englfea gen'-us, vageltt of icooo- clasm and rebellion. Miller possessed a bold Imagination; a facile gift of ex pression; brilliant Imagery and vigor of thought: but. unlike Byron, he was not at his best m sustained narrative. The author of "The Giaour" and "Ma zeppa" misdirected for a"tlme the gen ius of his neophyte, and Joaquin Miller, born to vslng of the soul, attempted rhymed tales of poems have beauty, but It is not the ueauiy. ior instance, of his wail over the grave of Walker, with whom he went to Nicaragua O ahell. sing well, wild and with a will Where storms blow load and birds be still The wildest sea son known to thee! All poets have been Imitative In their youth some of the greatest as well as those of minor genius. Originality de velops slowly. The poet though born with his gift, must learn how to use It It is no disparagement of Joaquin Mil ler to say that he was blinded and mis led by the brilliancy of Byron's fame. Byron had lyric and narrative genius of a power scarcely rivalled in English literature. His thought was audacious; his language had the splendor of star light the furious glory of lightning and sulphurous flame. He was the prophet of Iconoclasm. the thunder-scarred demigod of revolt Miller was a farmer boy knocking at the gates of fame. Byron "struck his harp and nations heard entranced": the boy heard, too, and was entranced: but all in good time he found his own voice. Byron has nothing more woefully beautiful than Miller's "Drowned." Deed strangle memories of deeds. And blossoms wither, choked with weeds. And floods drown memories ot men. Joaquin Miller studied law and rose to be a Judge among that virile and eager host of goldmincrs who then pop ulated Oregon from Canyon City to the Columbia. They had thriving towns where now there is only a hut or two. It is said that he Judged righteously and wisely, and might had he perse vered in the law. have risen with his dear friend, tunelessly dead, to wear me ermine on the Federal bench; but the call of his destiny was clear, and he obeyed. Joaquin Miller went to Eng land and the verses which the farmers had laughed at made him famous In the land of Byron. He returned to America with a world-wide celebrity. When he published his "Songs of the Soul." In 1S96, the poet was 53 years old: half a century of rich, romantic human experience has ripened Into the kindly philosophy of those poems. They are of an art more perfect than, his youthful writings; and not less vigor ous In expression, not less lively In Im agination. "While the thought is more profound and Just as bold. One of them has attained to fame more secure than critics or literary readers can be stow; "Columbus" has gone Into school books. It Is destined to perpetual re membrance, for children learn It by heart and love to recite It It is a hero's challenge to fate; the battle cry of invincible hope; Prometheus thun dering Indomitable from the frozen rocks; the Immortal and unconquerable Will eternally fighting and yielding never. They sailed; they railed; then pake the mate; The mad nea jbowo Its teeth tonight.' He curls his lip. he lie In wait. With lifted teeth, as If to bite! "Brave Admiral, say but one good word; What shall we do when hope Is goner The words leapt as a leaping sword- SII en. Mil on. sail en. mall on!" Ol'lt EARLY METHODISTS. A body representative of the class of men and women that has made for progress In education. In morals and In material development throughout the .country, has been in session in this city during the past week, under the name of the Methodist Episcopal Con gress. The sessions of this body from day to day presented much that was of general Interest and much that-attested the fact that the Methodist people are abreast of the times In things pertain ing to what may be termed the wider welfare of the Nation. Naturally, the subject that was most Interesting to our people was that of the early occupation of Oregon by mission aries of the Methodist Church. The part that these people, individually and collectively, played in laying the foun dation of civilization in this then re mote region Is well known. The day in the congress given to reminiscences along this line was one of peculiar In terest A connecting link between the present and the 'past appeared before the audience In the person of Rev. John Fllnn. a typical "clrcult-rlder" of the early days, who carries his more than four-score years with sturdy grace, the last but one of the Methodist preachers who traveled up and down the Willam ette Valley sixty years and more ago. bearing at once the message of the gos pel as interpreted by John Wesley, and that of civilization as presented by evo lution, to a primitive people. The story of those days reads like a romance, and It Is only when it Is given by the quavering, but still earnest voice of an actor In the far-away drama of human life on the border, that the strength and sincerity and beauty of character that It depicts can be fully realized. Testimony ot this type will soon be forever silent The records will be given to the written page, and over them will settle the charm of romance. Historians have! so far as the close proximity of the time will permit al ready given these chronicles to the world. The recital Is given the touch of reality by the names of Jason Lee, Gus tavus Hines. David Leslie. J. L. Par rlsh. Elijah White. A. F. Waller, and others more or less familiar to the gen eration that followed them. Sincere In their efforts to promote the material as well as the spiritual wel fare of themselves and the Indians whom they gathered Into their mis sion schools and colonies, these men. and the women who shared with them, and in many Instances bore the brunt of the hardships and privations of pioneer life. 'undoubt edly were. While they made much of the purpose for which they were sent out by the Missionary Board, It may be said, without disparagement that' they made even more of the material oppor tunities that life In the bountiful, beau tiful wilderness presented to thera. They were. In the main, practical men and women, and as such many of them left to their posterity material fruits of their industry and thrift and to the state a school founded la the interest, not merely of their own, but of future generations. Good, steady, reliable folk were these early Methodists, and their lnfeace Is still felt throughout the state upon the beginnings and political 4rganisatJn of which they, as became leyal Americans. laM a. shaping hand. It wa god to knw them, to awet them, te har Uem prtMch. and even, at tim. though, eon' tnu? to an injnnctfon m tle "Book of Disci pttn." to oW Jan wtU their t - ' methods and draw comparisons between their preaching and their practice. They constituted. an aggressive rather than a pacific force, and. largely for this reason, they were useful In their far-away day and the'strenuous life of their generation. It was thus that they formed an element to be reckoned with In the new civilization that was plant ed In the Willamette Valley, nearly three-quarters of a century ago. Men of character, some ot them men of let ters, all of them men and women able and willing to meet thtduties and re sponsibilities presented by conditions of border life, these people, known In con nection with the history of Oregon as the "early Methodists." naturally be came a power In shaping our civiliza tion. With Indians as their dally com panions in and about the missions; widely scattered settlers as their neigh bors; shrewd and. earnest men as their leaders, what wonder that these Vearly Methodists' left the stamp of their en deavor upon our material conditions and caused the simple, fervid religion of John Wesley to take root and flour ish among us? The record of Methodism in the Pa cific Northwest Is but a duplicate, modi fied to suit conditions of time and place, in the Middle West, and. Indeed, throughout the land. Sincerity and earnestness were Its characteristics. Enough of the commercial spirit per vaded it to render It self-supporting, and. later, accumulative. Aggressive, yet humble; gentle, but persistent: look ing out for material things while an swering the cry of the spirit for evi dences of revealed religion, the early Methodists made for themselves a place in the civilization of a continent and filled it grandly. We who have come later cheerfully accord to them the honor that is their due. and bow our heads. In respect and reverence, a3 they pass on. f"REE TRADE AND THE STEEL TRADE What an opportunity there must be In Wales for some of our American corporation sharks. This, be It remem bered, is under free trade, with no tariff to protect the manufacturer. The"South Wales Dally News." of June 7th, pub lished at Cardiff, gives the following Item: Steel Trade Profits. At the Hotel Metropole. Swans?, on Tuesday afternoon. Messrs. Leeder & Son offered at auction 2W fully paid HO ahares In the Briton Ferry Steel Com rany. Limited, Briton Ferry. The announce ment of tha sale contained ths following In teresting facta: "The dividends paid by the company during the past five yea-s are as follows: For tb year ending March. 1901. 673 per cent; do. 10O2. 45 per cent; do. 10O3. 45 per cent; do. 10O4. 45 per cent; do. 1005, 45 per cent trerage. 43H per cent." Th auctioneer, in introducing the sale, mid that the arerage profltn for the past five years had been no lea sthan 71 per cent, out ot which an arerage of 494 per cent had been paid In dividend, the balance having been placed to reserve and Invested In one form or another. No wonder that the stock sold at prices realizing nearly 400 per cent over the face value. From Swansea, in the tlnplate district of Wales, it Is report ed In public statements that America and Germany together exported 6000 tons of tlnplate In 1903. as against 422.05S tons exported from Great Britain, the greater part by far of that great tonnage being of South Wales manu facture. Of course this country was the customer for most of It Thus the Steel Trust has to suffer invasion of Its territory here from a free-trade cen ter of production. Such facts are worthy of notice. One of the principal reasons for the creation of the office of State Engineer was the collection of reallable data showing available water supplies for power and irrigation purposes. It was desired that exact and complete Infor mation be secured and published under authority thnt would give It credit wherever sent The accomplishment of this end Is now assured, for the state not only has a 'competent engineer, but the State Engineer has been made a Government official, so that accounts of all his Investigations will be published In Government reports. This will give reports of the hydrographic and topo graphic work In this state the highest credit and the widest circulation. Ore gonlans have known for years that this state has almost unlimited water power that can be used in manufacturing, but this latent resource has never been properly brought to the attention of the rest of the world. Soon we shall be ready to give accurate and detailed in formation to all who may be seeking opportunities for the establishment of manufacturing enterprises. "Both Tacoma and Seattle have long since outclassed Portland in the for eign trade." says the Tacoma Ledger. July 12. This reads all right. In arT off hand manner, but let us examine the figures. The same Issue of the Ledger gives the total customs receipts for the fiscal year ending June for Tacoma as 5249.210.S7. and for Seattle 5449.513.49. The official figures for the receipts at the Portland Custom-House for the same period were 5635,791.31; or more than 24 times as much as those of Ta coma. and more than 40 per cent great er than those of Seattle. More goods "In transit" for the Orient passed through the Puget Sound cities than through Portland, but in actual foreign trade, as reflected by the Custom-House statistics, the showing Is not unfavor able for Portland. Once more has the battleship Oregon won the annual trophy for marksman ship In target practice; still, the- an nouncement has not caused as much sensation as the Oregon's gunnery off Santiago seven years ago, when Cer vera's ships were the target A better undertone to the hop market In Oregon may be accounted for by In creased consumption of the extract the past week. Toward evening the visit ing doctors, got Very thirsty. Telegraphic- reports ot a riot on "San Juan Hill." New York, make one sus pect for a moment, an error la" the date line. The name of a Russian town would be perfectly natural. When President Roosevelt goes Into the Pennsylvania, coal mines next month he will probably have as hearty g. -welcome as be got from the Rough Riders of Colorado. "If the new combination against the theatrical trust shall serve to .book more acceptable shows -for' the Pacific Coast its birth will be welcomed and its growth approved. If Big BUI Tafr. as eabfed trwm Hmo- lulu, joined In several iee on beard ship, the other conpfes nHMt lMveex- fcm. "OREGON OZONE . Introducing Joaquin Miller. In introducing Joaquin Miller on the occasion ot the Bohemian ban quet to the poet. Saturday evening, at tae American Inn, closing the exer cises of Joaquin Miller day at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, the un dersigned, who served as toastmaster, made the following remarks: Poets arc born, not manufactured In Lowell. Mass., like shoes. And this Is no Josh. The only Josh that ever lived and did Its duty by mankind was the 1 late Josh Billings, who once made this ! most remarkable remark: "Thare iz ' two things in this world for which ' we air never fully prepared, and that ' twins!" This does not apply to poets, who never come two. in a pack age. Poets, are singular people. Tnere are poets and poets. Many of j them aro magazine poets. But a poet with a qualifying adjective is not al- together a poet He is a product, and j there is a smell of factory smoke upon I his garments. j Of the making of books there is no I nJ. sa-ys one; of the makingof poets ! there Is no beginning. One may acquire polish, one may purchase a pedigree, one may have prosperity thrust upon him. one may produce posterity; but poesy Is the gift of the gods. Its source Is unknown of men. and whether It springs from the tesselated floor of a palace, or from the desolation of waste places; or from the midst of the ! wilderness, the fountain Is divine. When Nature Inoculates a man with the microbe of the Muses he Is marked for life. Nature so inoculated a baby boy born In Indiana 60-odd years ago. To save him from being a poet, his parents took him out of Indiana at a tender age and brought him 3000 miles to the westward, to the land of the sunJown seas, to the continuous woods of the mighty wilderness; but here the rolling Oregon sang to him In splendid strophes, and the beau tiful Willamette wooed him with rip pling rhythm, and the majestic moun tains charmed him up their slopes to drink the snowy ozone of the. sum mits; anJ so. In the midst of the emer ald wilds, afar from the haunts of men. he became the Homer of this new found land, singing its epics of adven ture and achievement the vibrant voice of a crusade for empire build ing more daring than the embarkation of the Pilgrim Fathers for a bleak and. inhospitable shore, more romantic than the outgoing of the children of Israel to the land ot Canaan, more poetic than any exploit of the days of old, amidst the grandeur that was Greece and the glory that was Rome. The new West needed a poet, and this young Ulysses, this homespun Jason, this yellow-haired Argonaut became its poet The new West needed a prophet and this poet became Its prophet. If you doubt that he became the prophet of this land., behold this Expo sition and these shining cities that Jewel the shores and star the slopes of the Pacific, from the Gulf of Califor nia to Puget Sound, and then hear this prophecy of the West, to which he gave voice more than a generation ago: Dared I but say a prophecy. As rang the holy men of old. Of rock-built cities yet to be Along these shining shores of gold; Crowding athlrst Into the ea. What wondrous marvels might be told! Enough, to know that empire here Shall burn her loftiest, brightest star; Here art and eloquence shall relgnv Ab o'er tha wolf-reared realm of old; Here learned and famous from afar. To pay their noble court, shall come. And shall not seek, or see In vain. But look on all with wonder dumb! Shall not t'al Exposition honor its prophet? Shall not this new land pro claim Its poet? It you doubt thai he became the poet of the Sierras, listen: Primeval forests! Virgin sod That Saxon hath not ravished yet! Lo! peak on peak in column set. In stepping stairs that reach to God! If that be not poetry, then the scroll of poets Is made up! Hundreds of suc'i diamonds flash from hi3 books. His output runs more free gold to the ton than that of any writer in America. Why. a blot of ink from the pen of this Western. man contains more poetry than all the rhymed rubbish that rots In the pages of the Eastern magazines from year to year! More than 20 years' ago. and more than 2000 mile's east of this spot, a boy read a little book called "Memorie and Rime." It was In prose and verse. but even the prose was poetry. It told" of wild and wonderful adventures, of hairbreadth 'scapes by field and flood. of the perils that came to the pioneer and slunk away abashed at contact with indomitable courage, and It spoke brave words for the outraged and slan dered original owner of this mighty land the American Indian. That book gave the boy who read it his first knowledge of the grand and goodly land in the midst of which we are gathered tonight and that boy newly come to Oregon accounts It the proudest mo munt ot his life that he is privileged to stand here and present to you the only poet the only prophet ever honored In his own country, as the guest of this occasion has been honored this day the poet who has sung the song of the Sierras, the song ot the sun-lands, the song of the mothers of men, the song of sailing on. and on. and on. the song of the man who fails but who still fights on. For the roan who falls and who still lights on. Lo! he Is the twin-brother of mine! Gentle'men. I make way for the man whom I regard, since the death of Walt Whitman, as the greatest living American poet Joaquin Miller. The Iron Ways. Oh. Jet us build with bravest care - Our mansions in the vague remote. Though propped they be with thinnest air And banners but of vapor float Above thera. Let us mount sometimes By stately steps of ether maze To vaster visions, broader vcllmes. And quit the tedious Iron Ways. We dwell too near the dust and grime: Our very spirits trail the earth. I count it nothing- less than crime ' That we divine so little worth In living. Willing stars there be That woo us with thelr dreamy haze: Qh. let us drink their light and flee A moment from the Iron Ways! So deem It not in vain, in vain That senetiaes from our heavy task We turn, we spurn the blading chain And soar In Ged's geed light to bask iBxuttlitg- Earth; is ls with light And f4s be, they wk si tin its rays An4 will net cHab to Minimi tr bright BtX err walk the Iron "Ways. BOBBKTUI LOVX. V GERMAN DAY, JULY 22: Eternal Love to the old Fatherland.. - Eternal Fidelity to the new. Eternal Friendship between both , ' : That Is the- motto adopted to express In terse language the sentiments of the German-American in this country-' German day la being observed in every, city of importance east of-the. Rocky Mountains. It is taking hold here and soon will be a firmly established institu tion. German day ought to be a festival of friendship between Germans and those of other nationalities, who," together, form this great Union. The day is intended to remindi our fellow-citizens of the great share the German element has had in the preservation, progress and power of this republic, and incidentally to protest against religious fanaticism and sectar ianism and to prevent the resurrection of a Know-Nothlng party. It Is very unfortunate.that the study of history Is so largely neglected when young people leave school, and that through the materialistic tendencies of our age too little attention is paid to it Germans In large numbers began to come to the American colonies about the year 1650. The father of General Herkimer, for instance, brought over one colony of 3000 Germans; settling In the Mohawk Valley. N. Y. This settlement was the first to raise 2000 troops, bringing the first succor to the Revolutionary Army at Boston. This was also the first regi ment enrolled Into Washington's Army, and he declared it to have been his best. Where others wavered they never fal tered. Thousands of others joined" with General Steuben, and to these. Washing ton said, was due the success of his army. In industry the Germans were among the pioneers of this country. In 1690 they started the first paper mill.' and 40 years before an English Bible was printed in the Colonies they had their German Bible printed at Gerroantown. Pa. The first American foundry was erected by a German in 1726. at Bethle hem. Pa., the same place which '175 years later made the millionaire Carnegie". At this place the big iron chain was manufactured which prevented the Brit ish ships sailing up the Delaware. But when the last British soldier had left the country the Germans laid down their arms, and) In conjunction with other races, through energy and frugality, helped to open up the country from one state to another driving back the Indians and making a garden of the wild West. Two hundred years ago this country was settled on the Atlantic Ocean on a stretch of land 30 miles wide. In this short period It- has now reached the Pacific Coast from ocean to ocean cultivated country. The German has done his share in this peaceful development. When again this republic was endangered In the Civil War, the- German element placed themselves under the banner of Abraham Lincoln. German names of brave Generals and statesmen are today, a part of American history. The celebra tion of a German day by German-Americans also has as Its object to strengthen the ties of friendship between the United States and Germany, until these ties are so firm that we may Justly pronounce eternal friendship forever, between both countries. F. TOPKEN. Hostility to Large Portunes. J. Laurence Laughlln in Atlantic Monthly. The hostility to large fortunes . does not diminish with time and events. The vio lent denunciation of the discontented classes, or the more extreme Socialists, find an echo in the ranks of the more conservative groups. Into these expres sions, evidently based on strong convic tions, has entered the sting arising from a passionate sense of wrong: that these enormous accumulations are possible only at the expense of the poor; and that worn-, en and children go cold and hungry. In. or der that others may go warmly clad and live luxuriously. In this point of view there is a hopelessness which serves as the Incentive to brute force, to wild as saults upon the bulwarks of property and Institutions. What are we coming to? Are the times out of Joint? Certainly we are forced to face the facts as found in the thinking of great numbers of .people. To say that a man is a multi-millionaire is, to many, equivalent to saying that he Is an enemy of society, reaping where he has not sown, and protecting himself in his vast possessions only by the corrupt control, ot municipal councils. Legislatures and even the highest courts. It is this state of mind which leads some intelli gent writers to hint ot another French Revolution, and of prison bars for the financial kings. Yet. as wo look back a century there "was not. at least in the United States, any such antagonism be tween the rich and the poor. Perhaps the contrasts between the rich and the poor est were far less marked then than now. and the causes of dissatisfaction due to impotent rivalry were more generally ab sent In those earlier days, obviously, the total wealth of the community in all forms was very small In comparison with Its diffusion today. An Imaginative Advocate. - Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Much license is permitted to an advo cate seeking to Influence a jury in behalf of his client, and so perhaps ex-Senator Thurston is not to be, held to too strict an account when he pictured Senator John'H. Mitchell as walking in all kinds of weather from department to depart ment In Washington, "to secure what his constituents were asking him to secure for them, while I have seen his colleagues dashing by in their carriages with liveried drivers and footmen on the box." There Is a large oratorical coloring to this pic ture. Senators do not go about their de partment calls in this fashion. Indeed, is there one who does or has done this thing? Settlors Knox and Depew have their carriages, but they would scarcely employ them in any such way as this. Julep Not Yet Out of Style Boston Transcript There was a horrible rumor some time ago to the effect that the julep is no longer a popular tipple even In the land of Its origin, but investigations of Interested ones have brought to light more cheerful facts. Not only is it still honored and rer spected, but almost every day some one discovers something to add to it that m the opinion of one person, at least, im proves its flavor. This proves that its story Is nowhere near over. Besides, all the amateur gardeners have their little mint corner nowadays, and it Isn't likely . they are going to cultivate it just for use in case of roasted lamb. He Will Stay. Chicago Chronicle. Various distinguished citizens of Oregon are being "mentioned" to succeed Senator Mitchell, who. it is assumed, will resign Unless Senator Mitchell's whole history is misleading, these distinguished gentlemen may as well postpone any hope they have entertained of going to Washington -Iimne- . dlately. The Senator will stick to his seat until he is expelled or Imprisoned, and. as he will undoubtedly exhaust every legal delay, he will probably serve out his term., which ends In 1507. Those who Imaglna that he will voluntarily retire do not know the man. This Was Strategy. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. It is a. good, story, anyhow that Presi dent Harper, of the Chicago University, induced John D. Rockefeller to offer the U.0e),Cee gift to Yale. The cry of "tainted mosey" has been hurting the Chicago- in stitution, and the daubing . oc Yale with the same stick wUI help greatly to take the carse off. New, It is said. President Harper's university ean resume the reeep tkm ot big contribution from the oit nn without further Mm. an, one of Xjmjm la expected to be f rthcookat; very soon. .1..