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KITORT OF A I.I. IIHt ALL.
I a spiri: exceedingly captious and
:i n .isonablp the Coos Bay Harbor, a
p ner published at North Bend, -pur-r-
r.s jm accusation that The OregonJnn,
K : al-ir Fulton and Portland arc strlv
x prevent the development of the
( - Bay region. To this end these
1 -lies are engaged In a "conspiracy.
rfk and. foul." One hardly knows
'17 to deal with surh unreasonnble-
, - Perhaps the best way to deal
ii a carping spirit if to let it alone.
1 ct the Coos Bayf country, des-
1 -d now to development, after so long I
.i period of isolation, is a most interest-
g part of Oregon, lu -which it is im
possible that any citizen of the state :
should be indifferent, and all Oregon
i"d it? representatives in Congress will
do all that is possible to assist the
t!ee!opnient mindless of the carping
and peevish spirit of the North Bend
paper, which certainly cannot reflect
ihe sentiment in this particular of any
sidtrable number of the iople of
Si Jthw extern Oregon.
What is that paper's special griev
n e? It is set fdrth In accusations of
i ircdible absurdity. "Senator Fulton
c;unc down here." it ys. "to announce
a project (for a channel) of thirty feet,
whi'h he thought would keep out any
ii;. nllroad projects for Coos Bay.
He must have done ihip in the Interest
of Poriland. for who else was to be
br'ioflfd? It was a conspiracy, dark
asid foul, that should consign Its author
oblivion for treason to the state.
Fresh from his betrayal of Coos Bay
i.n the last Congress, he tomes down
!iere and attempts, to stifle our own
efforts in behalf of a deep-sea harbor."
Bu in what does this alleged be
trajal" consist? Why. "Coos Bay
wants forty feet on the bar and thirty
fle fel to Marshfleld"; and Senator
TnUon ought to get it at once. Instead
or doing mt. or telling the people he
a. ', he states the more moderate prop
oi. .vi. which he has hopes may be
"oniplished soon. The greater under
alt.ng he knows cannot be. Portland
1 is been struggling more ihan forty
t irs for thirty fet at low water and
" t got that dej)th yet though she
f put prodigious sums of her own
nr- into the undertaking, in addl
to those supplied by the Govern
n. We keep forty feet In view, but
1 Vt must be had first as well at
Coos Bay as at the Columbia River.
The money we want for these under
akmgs, or for either of them, is not to
b had merely for the asking. Were it
po to be had. achievement of both ob
ji ts would have been attained long,
Jong ago. Even the harbor of New
Yrk has not yet" got a depth, at en
trance, of forty feet, nor the harbor of
Boston, nor the harbor of San Fran
tlsco. nor the harbor of Baltimore, nor
o' G.iheston, nor of New Orleans. All
Oregon wants Coos Bay harbor made
vlep and commodious; but all persons
of practical judgment know that it is
going io take many a day to get a
t'lTir.nel of forty feet there; and after
th i continual and heavy expense to
Ji.a'ntain it. Senator Fulton undoubt
e V 111 do his utmost, and all Oregon
v help; but it is useless for us to en-tcn-iln
unreasonable expectations,
eher for Coos Bay or for the Colum
bia River. If Coos Bay had the entire
deVgnuon in Congress, selected from
Jts own citizenship expressly for the
y jrpose of getting forty feet of depth
a Coos Bay. the project still would
hae to take its chances and bide its
lime along with others on both coasts
of the United States, from Maine to
Texas and from San Diego to Belling
liam. and even to Nome.
The North Bend paper closes by say
irg "We may as well understand now
as !ater that not only Senator Falton
hut all Portland is against us. and that
lei- w eak support is worse than their
arrKe opposition." This Is puerile,
weak, trifling, childish, to the last-de-g
ee Portland and Senator Fulton
v sh "to have everything done for Coos
B that possibly can be done; only
Po-tland and Senator Fulton chase
lhaPtotns no more at Coos Bay than
?. the Columbia River. None of "us can
g i all we wanu nor one-half of all we
iant Coos Bay will find this later, as
t''e Columiba River has found it here
tofore, and finds it now. The motto at
"N ashington. over the door of the com
nrttee on rivers and harbors, Is not
Ask and ye shall receive." They will
te'l you, as they have told us who have
had long experience in this effort, that
the Treasury of the United States is
rot to be emptied, on demand, into the
rivers and harbors of the country.
Hitherto the Coos Bay country haa
hew earce!y approachable but from
the sea. The imports and exports have
given Coos Bay but a coast trade. Vol
ume of the products of the country J
though considerable has not been
heavy enough to demand traffic over
seas; nor has the harbor been a fit one
for deep and heavy vessels. But M'ithln
one year a railroad from the interior
of Oregon is to reach Coos Bay. We
hope and believe that other railroads
Mill soon follow. Use of Coos" Bay as
a port will then become Important. In
anticipation important now. To deepen
the entrance and the harbor therefore
becomes an important demand. All
Oregon is pledged to iu And yet we
know, from our own experience during
many -years, that the work of the Gov
ernment will be slow. Do our best and
utmost, it Mill be slow. But as the rail
roads draw into Coos Bay their Influ
ence at Washington will be helpful
greatly helpful for opening the harbor.
Portland wishes to reach Coos Bay by
rail. It is an object of especiMl Inter
est to Portland; It is the bond that Is to
unite all Western Oregon. It will add
force to the. effort to improve Coos Bay
harbor; it Mill draw a population into
Southwestern Oregon that will establish
industries, create -wealth aud develop
the. country. The assumption that any
other part of Oregon Mishe to hold
back the development of that part of
Oregon is Irrational and absurd. Port
land and Senator Fulton are In no
"conspiracy" to tills end. Both will do
all in their power for Coos Bay. But
The Oregonlan may be permitted to say
and it will say. Mhether under per
mission or not that M-hat they want
at Coos Bay. and what ir want at
Portland and at Astoria, is not to be
had all at once, nor for many years' to
come. -1f ever. Ports o old as Boston and
Baltimore great cities are still exert
ing all their power, all their influence,
all their effort, to get appropriations
frorjt the Government to deepen their
harbors; and they complain, for want
of success. On this coast, with our lit
tle power at Washington, we shall still
do the best M-e can. We believe Coos
Bay may be made a deep harbor. That,
however, is not yet fully settled. But
the effort will continue. It Mill ad
vance from stage to Jtage. we belie-e.
to a dempnstratlon or fulfillment. ,Bu
It Mill take time. The effprt must, how
ever, be urged and pressed to the ut
most. And it will be. There Mill be no
relaxation of the effort for Northwest
ern Oregon and for the Columbia
River, but it will not be an effort
against Southwestern Oregon and Coos
Bay. It is an effort of all for all.
Till' CHAIN" AI'IWIK AGAIN.
The Prinevllle Press Bureau, organ
ized to justify the wanton and criminal
burning of Wllford Crain's barn, pur
sues its inspired task In a printed de
fense of the murderous assault on. Wll
ford Crain by tfily Marshal .Harrington.
Crain. it is insisted, Mas reeling wjth
drink, and Harrington attempted his
arrest. A fight ensued, and Harrington
struck Crain with his billy. Crain felL
and the Marshal (being in Imminent
fear of his valuable life at the hands of
the drunken and prostrate Crain)
struck him as he attempted to nrtec.
"The latter blow across the oar." says
the- Prinevllle version of this trifling
affair, "brought -about unconscious
ness." .
We give the Prinevllle Press Bureau
the benefit of its full defense and ex
culpation, divested of the staggering
adjectives and hunchgrass epithets ap
plied to The Oregonlan, which are of
no consequence to The Oregonlan or
to the public.
It would seem to be necessary to add
very little to this confession beyond the
fact that Crain is said by other wit
nesses to have been sober, and to have
been attacked without provocation and
without warning. Crain is a small
imnn. Harrington a large one. .Crain had
been arrested several times before for
, drunkenness, but, strange to say. wlth
j out being beaten nearly to death. If
ho had been arrested before by Har
rington, why did Harrington on this
last occasion only use his billy with
such deadly effect; and if it was not
by Harrington, why did he at this time
seek, out his deadly personal enemy and
strive to put him in Jail? In its most
! favorable aspect it is clear that a homi
cidal brawl occurred at Prinevllle -that
might easily have been, avoided. Tn
any other aspect the affair is a re
proach to Prinevllle. an outrage on the
state, the necessary and usual conse
quence of range M-ars. sheep killings,
felonious confiscation of public lands,
of the wholesale prtictle of perjury that
has been common In Crook County, and
of the conspiracy to defeat the ends of
justice that was entered into by many
citizens there.
The OregonlHtfs information has
come from unbiased and Independent
sources. It has made its own Investi
gation of the attack on Crain, for the
sake of the truth, and for no other rea
son. It vouches for thcrellabllity of ks
informants, but for obvious reasons it
cannot disclose their Identity. Thev
live in Prinevllle.
SH.VI.I. CMIIJIKEN BK TAUOIIX?
A professor in the Corvallis Agricul
tural College arraigns the public schools
as Micked and murderous in that they
deprive the children of the land of their
freedom, cramp them up in school-
houses when they ought to be out of
doors, and subject them to eye-strain
that practically "ruins, their eyes."
Now it must be admitted.lhat. in or
der to teach children anything out of
books, they must be gathered together
in sc'hoolhouses and deprived, during
certain hours each day. of the liberty
to come and go at their pleasure: and.
further, that during these hours they
must use their eyes mre or less con
stantly. Opinions differ, however, as to
whether this restriction placed upon the
liberty of children is Micked and mur
derous, or proper and Mholesome. As
to eyes, they were made to -use, aud if
used and not abused, they should be
able to stand the strain to M-hich they
are subjected in the simple pursuit of
knowledge. Humanity, experience and
sanitation have gone hand in hand in
providing facilities for education in
connection trlth our public school sys
tem In recent years, and it may be said
with entire truth that the schoolrooms
in which, children spend from three to
six hours out of the twenty-four are
more healthful as regards light, tem
perature and ventilation than are the
homes in which nine-tenths of them
spend their sleeping hours and such
other time as they are not out of doors.
The children are Mith us. They must
have at least the rudiments of an edu
cation. If M-e are not to become a Na
tion of Illiterates. This education they
cannot acquire in the open fields and
without the use of their eyes, except aa
they use them at long range. All of
th?m cannot go into the business of
raising ioultry. and those M-ho-can and
do must study the business as a 'sci
ence, with hooks and papers as auxil
iaries, If they are to become success
ful in It
It is one thing to arraign an educa
tional system wicked and murder
ous, and quite another to provide a
substitute for It that will apply to all
classes. That there are defects In our
public school system all must admit;
but certainly jno onewill assert "that the
remedy lies In turning the children of
the state out to grass. ,
y MARK TWAIN.
Samuel I- Clemens , Is an unknown
writer. Mark Twain" is read wherever
books are loved. He is more American
than any other author in his life, in his
subject-matter and in his style. His life,
more ad-entuwus than old Ulysses,
richer in turns of fortune and the taste
of human experience, has grown from
the lot of a village boy Irt Missouri he
fore the Mar to a peera- lh. the nobil
ity of literature snd a home In the
heart of the human race. His career
embodies the Ideal of his country- The
American Ideal Is that the best and
greatest things belong to every man
alike, and the American spirit Incites
every man to seize upon his birthright
at whatever cost. Lincoln's career was
not more typical of this ideal and spirit
than Mark Twain's. The difficulties he
overcame Mere not sterner, nor did the
great President meet failure and suc
cess with a more serene philosophy
than the great humorist.
There are few foibles of mankind
M-hich Mark Twain has not laughed at.
There are few reverend lies which he
has not ridiculed. He. has 'wept over
the grave of Adam and made fun of the
German sentence; but nobody can find
in all that he has said or written one
word on the side of persecution or In
justice. Whatever he has ridiculed de
served ridicule; whatever he has
praised deserved praise because It was
manly, beautiful or true. He has lived
as he has written, always sanely, sim
ply and for the better side against the
worse. Mark Twain has been a printer.
"steamboat man, editor, miner, traveler.
publisher, lecturer and author. Whether
in all or any of thee callings he made
money or not Is of no consequence. In
one of them he lost money, a great deal
of it. and Incurred debts which he was
not required by law to pay, but he did
pay them to the last cent. Such things
are mere trifles. Men ought to pay
their debts. M-hether the law compels It
or not. and our wondering admiration
for one who does so simply shows how
near the rest of us come to being dis
honest. The Important fact about Mark
Twain's rich experience of life Is that It
has all gone Into his writings. And be
cause his life is ypicaliy American In
spirit and achievement, so therefore is
his subject-matter. No other of our
writers has so much of the United
States in his books. Cooper has In
dians. Hawthorne has New England.
Howells lias middle-class saints and
sinners, but Mark Twain lies the
United States, with all Its humor, its
greed, its cynicism, its reckless trust In
luck and Its saving idealism.
His style is shiftless and unprincipled.
It loaf on drygoods boxes, lingers to
swap horses and somejlmes drops Into
the saloon; but It carries a gun and
kills always at the first shot. Faulty
bj- all rules and models, his style has.
nevertheless, the supreme excellence of
being alive. He weaves no delicate lace
work of language; he shows no subtle
preciosity In choosing M-ords. Current
American .literature makes much of
those things cultivating a bloodless chi
mera which it calls "style" to the neg
lect of substance. But true style is some
thing deeper than the choice of words;
it is the power to make wordllve.nnd
Mark Twain has it. We. his contem
poraries, probably do not appreciate
how great he is. No American living
or dead has such a hold on the reading
world, none has such chances as he in
the race for immortality. His plots are
puerile, but so were Shakespeare's. His
language is faulty, but so is the lan
guage of the Bible. In the world's lit
erature his place is beside Cervantes
and Fielding.
r.vnuoT and riurofjOPUER.
The United States Penison Bureau
has had dealings with men of all sorts.
Veterans (alleged) who never smellcl
powder and veterans (real) who were
maimed while pressing forward on the
rough edge of battle; widows of veter
ans, old and faded, M-ho bore the stress
and strain at horrte during the M-ar; and
widows young and blooming. Mho
tickled the vanity of decrepit veterans
with a tale of love, married and in due
time claimed pensions from the Gov
ernment for their unwomanly little
venture. There have been men backing
their claim for pensions by displaying
crippled hands or armless sleeves which
M ere the legacy of barroom broils and
not of the rebel sharpshooters' unerr
ing aim; men Mith fortunes Invested in
Government bonds and men whose only
aset In life Is the M-ell-earned shelter
afforded by a Soldiers' Home. It has
even known a few men who refused to
accept pensions on the ground that
they M-ere M-eli able to live without the
bounty of the Government and M-ere
satisfied in that they did their duty as
patriots on a soldier's pay and asked
no greater remuneration for their ser
vices than the approval of a patriotic
conscience.
One of this latter class. William S.
Elliott by name, a' fanner by occupa
tion, lives. It Is said, at Xokomo. Ind.
He was a private In Company H. One
Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana
Infantry, and was sir months with that
gallant regiment in the field. He grew
desperately ill and was for several
weeks in the hospital at Harper's Ferry.
The disability Mhlch resulted from this
Illness become permanent, and. the busy
pension agent succeeded In securing for
him a pension of $30 a month. This al
lowance he has steadily refused to re
ceive, on the ground that his conscience
Mill not permit him to accept lu Being
pressed for particulars, he said: "What
claim have I on the Government? I
did only my plain duty, and am not en
titled to a reward for that." His dis
ability, he .said, further, might have
happened to him at home as well as In
be Army, and added:
Y. my penlon I lyln in the department
unclaimed. It amounted to 5I3.CU) tbrr
yrars ceo. and I ruppo It amount to IC
"00 n I 4ti not n-d the tnraey. n!:Jjr
does my family It I felt that t had 'xrrrd
the ntotiey 1 wuM take , but I am unabl
te figure oat bow I am entitled to It. I hate
a Urge ai)d productive farm, veil torke4.
and everytblcr lo make me comfortable. I
bave turned tbe canreBtencea by !aHy la
bor. uppare I had taken the (30 a tnantk
.penrtcn ana I and my children cad Ispe4 !&(
idleness. a so many -vdutd usdet the dr
eurnctances? The gift enKl be a curve In
stead oT a bU,rlcs.
This last paragraph proves that WH
lam S. Elliott, late of Company H.
One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indi
ana. Is a philosopher as well as a pa
triota man who has lived for a pur
pose, of which bearing arms for his
i country in her hour of peril was but an
Incident and not a controlling factor.
Patriotism of this type Is the Nation's
sure support In peace and defense in
war. and It Is. perhaps, not -as rare as
we are wont' to think.
TKEORV VS. CONDITIONS.
MIs"Snell. professor of domestic sci
ence In the Oregon Agricultural College,
as becomes a woman M-ho Is devoted to
her work. Is an enthusiast in regard to
ils possibilities and benefits. Some of
the strong opinions with which her ad
dress before Evening Star Grange, Fri
day afternoon, literally bristled, may be
set down to this very natural cause.
Her pity for the palefaced women who
crowd the street-cars In the early morn
ing hours is shared by man who see
In the spectacle a condition for which
they have no suggestion ot a remedy to
offer. Still, these palefaced workers In
shops and offices could not all go into"
poultry-raising If each ardently desired
to do so. Nor is there any reason to
suppose that one out of a dozen or a
hundred would exchange her position
as wienographer and typewriter, or as
shopgirl, as the case might be. for that
of mistress of a poultry yard, well
stocked and equipped. The suggestion,
therefore, and the pity that Inspired It,
are alike wasted upon a majority of
these -workers. Most of them consider
themselves rather fortunate than other
wise. In that they have work to do.
even though the hours are long and the
wages smalL Very few of them see
any attraction M-hatever in country life.
From the standpoint of a school of phil
osophers, or which Miss Snell Is a. mem
ber, they ought to prefer the freedom
and beauty and healthfulness of the
country to the restrictions and cramped
Industries of the city. But, as a mat
ter of fact, they do not.
In 4his as In everything else, all de
pends upon the Individual point of view.
The theory elaborated by this energetic
country-lover was attractively present
ed. But. confronted by the condition
of which the palefaced women who
crowd the street-cars in the early
morning hours are exponents. Its Im
practicability becomes at once mani
fest. The extreme effort of the theorist
and the reformer generally is put forth
in the attempt to give people something
that they do not want. This Is. true ail
along the line or endeavor. It Is wit
nessed In the zeal, energy and pity
that are stitched by the missionary
sewing society Into garments for the
natives of the Fiji Islands, who prefer
togonaked;in the earnest effort to give
tea. coffee and soup to men who want
M-hlsky; In the advice to young women
to study housekeeping Instead of sten
ography, in the vehement exhortation
of cardinal, priest and president to
women who thlnk-they know their own
circumstances best to bear all the chil
dren that they can; and In the effort of
lovers of all growing things, with their
beautiful setting of country landscape,
to Induce those who prefer the city to
take up their residence In the country
and devote themselves to bookkeeping,
poultry-raising, fruitgrowing and the
like. Effort along these lines, or most
of them. Is grounded In benevolent pur
pose and urged on by enthusiasm de
veloped from a special point or view.
Very logically, most or It Is Masted.
CAKKISON-S CENTENAllV.
William Lloyd Garrison belongs to the
noble army of saints and martyrs, but
he had the felicity, denied to most mar
tyrs, of seeing the cause he suffered for
triumph while he still lived. Up to the
end of the War of the Rebellion his life
from the time when he met Benjamin
Lundy. the Quaker abolitionist, in Bos
ton, was pne continuous fight against
human slavery. He professed. like the
Quakers, the doctrine of non-resistance
to evil. but. short of bloodshed, there
were no lengths he did not go In antag
onism to slavery. His denunciations
lack nothing of the sublime rrenzy of
the Hebrew prophets. He called the
domestic trade In negroes "domestic
piracy." apd he "would cover those who
! had a hand in it with thick infamv "
j These were his M-ords, printed In The
Genius of Universal Emancipation, the
abolitionist paper he and Lundy were
I publishing in Baltimore in 1ST. Baltl
I more was then and is now an ultra-
Southern city. It was the center f the
J trade In human flesh, and Garrison's
j denunciations of the traffic excited the
j mob to fury: but even Southern mobs
I had not In those days learned to burn
men nt the stake. As a matter of fact.
the Baltimore mob only vilified Garri
son: It M'as a Boston mob of refine!
and intellectual gentlemen who stripped j
him and dragged him through the
streets with a rope to hang him tied
round his body. That Incident took
place long after he had parted with
Lundy and left Baltimore.
A Yankee skipper who was In the
; business of shipping negroes from Bal
timore to New Orleans disliked "being
called a pirate, and sued GarrLon for
libel. He was naturally convicted In the
city where the s-ated statue of Judge
Taney still dominates the Washington
monument and the Peabody Institute,
and he was sentenced to pay 530 line
and costs. Garrison never had any
money, but he always had plenty of
spunk. If he had been rolling in gold
he" would not have paid the fine, but he
was almost penniless; so on the 17th
day of April, 1S30, a day memorable
in the annals of the perennial warfare
for human rights. William Lloyd Garri
son, the peer of any commander who
ever fought In that warfare, went to
JaiL John Greenleaf Whittier. then
Just hitching his Magon to a star and
almost penniless himself, besought
Henry Clay to pay Garrison's fine. Clay
j believed like Jefferson concerning slav
j ery. that It was an evil, and he had no
j love for it. though he did not see his
I M-ay to advocate abolition and himself
j owned negroes, as everybody knows.
I He promised to pay the fine, but Arthur
Tappan. of New Tork. famous in the
records of the anti-slavery struggle,
moved in the matter sooner, and to him
belongs the honor.
Released rrom Jail In Baltimore. Gar
rison dropped The Genl& of Universal
Emancipation. M-ent to Boston and be
gan the publication or The Liberator.
Ip . many ways the most famous of
newspapers. It was started January 1.
1S3I. and discontinued in 1S65, after
running thirty-five -years. During all
that time It systematically, fearlessly,
uncompromisingly and with constantly
growing influence preached abolition
ism. Preparatory to founding his pa
per Garrison tried to Interest respect
able Boston In his project by two or
three lectures. His subject was human
slavery. He sought a church to lecture
j In. No church was open to him. for
proved of slavery and his word reeked
I tried to hire a hall, but not hall door
1 would open unto hl.' for the owners
Iwere afraid of the merchants and the
tnorchsuits wre alraM mt the cotton
kings of the South. But Garrison was
not a man to be discouraged by obsta
cles, and he finally did get a place to
lecture In. but It was the little chapel
of some so-called Infidels M-ho met there
to worship a god strange to the New
England of the lS20's a god who did
not approve of the slave market and
the lash.
Garrison started his- Liberator with
out knowing any dsf- how the next
dayV: expenses , were to be paid. He
had no money at all. hut he trusted to
the Almighty, who can do. what money
cannot. "I shall print my paper." he
said, "as long as I can live on bread
and water." He lived on prayer and
love beyond all measure, and the
strength of his tremendous hatred for
wrong. He lived as the hermits of the
desert lived, and he fought as -Luther
fought, and Bruno and Savonarola, and
all who have counted starvation and
death as nothing and less than noth
ing. He slept on his office floor. For
years the daily bread for his family
came as the ashen cake to Elijah. "I
am in earnest." he said In his first
Issue. "I will not equivocate. I will not
excuse. I will not retreat a single inch,
and I will be heard."
AH these' promises he kept to the let
ter. His courage ms inflexible, bis
plain dealing terrible. The Constitu
tion compromised on slavery. Garri
son denounced It. He called It a "cov
enant with the devil and a league with
hell." Since voting num be under the
authority ot the Constitution, he de
cided that voting was Iniquitous. Per
haps he was extravagant. Perhaps "the
fury of his zeal had -its part In kindling
the conflagration or civil, war. But
civil war. with all Its woe. made us a
Nation. It made democracy the domi
nant influence in the world. It made,
labor the occupation o freemen instead
of slaves. It cleared the arena for the
protagonist of the next period of human
"history Ihe proletariat. The lessox of
Garrison's life is the one that Roose
velt and all his school of public men
are teaching us again. Righteousness
pays. Courage pays. Faith In man
and God pays. They pay In business
and they pay In politics. He was a
strenuous teacher, but his times.needed
his lessons. Just as our times need It
again. '
A conference of thirteen football col
leges has passed some resolutions look
ing to the reform of this Important ed
ucational exercise. The annual refor
mation of football gives pleasant and
harmless occupation to the professorial
intellect between Thanksgiving day
and Christmas. Nobody, least of all
the professors playing parts in the
farce, takes these resolutions seriously.
Like the drunkard's annual "swearing
ofT on New Tear's day. they injure
nobody, they give grounds ror compla
cent self-satltrfaction to college facul
ties, and they afford the comic papers
subjects for gently amusing para
graphs. By all means let this annual
reformation of football become one of
our National institutions and let us
continue to tlx Its date after the evil
has been accomplished, never berore.
Otherwise it might be taken seriously
and possibly Interfere with the financial
or advertising' returns from the game.
Morality Is very well in Its place, but
It must never Interfere with either edu
cation or business.
The vast number or words that it is
possible to use without saying" anything
to the poiit is strikingly illustrated' In
an editorial criticism In the Catholic
Sentinel or an article upon race suicide
in Tnc oregonlan last Sunday. As
matter or fact, any overworked mother
of ten or a dozen children? however II
literate: any wife or a drunken-, abusive
man. knows more about this matter
than any. cardinal, prelate, preacher.
editor or president who feels called
upon to theorize about It, from the
simple fact that her knowledge has
been gained In the school of experience.
from which, in the very nature of
things, he Is rorever excluded. This Is
a fact beyond the reach of sarcasm.
and one upon which it is not necessary
to dilate.
Seventy-one thousand dollars for a
16-year-old horse is a pretty stiff price.
but the record of Water Cress a- a sire
probably warrants the figure. The 4C0
horses sent to New York rrom the Hag-
gin-Tevis ranch In California sold for
505.T75. an average of over $1000 pr
head. So long as horses, even in Job
lots, can sell at a higher figure than the
gasoline M-agons. it Mill-be premature
to talk about the horseless age. Be
sides, ,who ever heard of a 16-year-old
automobile selling for 571,000?
Woman" mode of dress, if we are to
believe the theorists, Is the causecof all
her troubles. Tight corsets, tight shoes.
low-necked dresses, silk petticoats de
void or warmth, coats cut in the latest
mode all these things tell on the phys
ical and mental health of women. Per
haps this is why so many foolishly and
expensively dressed farmers wives And
their way to the Insane asvjums. or sur
fer physical collapse, while yet In the
prime ot life.
A man M-ho admits that he was dis
charged from his position at the State
Penitentiary ror insubordination threat
ens to fight the management of that
institution. Although his reasons ror
fighting may be good, he would have
better standing berore the "public ir he
had' resigned as soon as he discovered
that there -was something M'rong with
the management.
The president or the Western Pacific
finds it .necessary to deny that the
Gould system will now build to Seattle.
His denial was superfluous The Seat
tle boomers never expected or asked
him to build it. They are building Tt
themselves.
"fchUe other amusement caterers bave
had a rough road this season, tne Uni
versity of Tdlchigan's "sporting de
partment yielded a profit of 525.000. And
ypt there are well-informed men who.
declare that football doesn't pay.
Colonel Bob Miller would alsovake it.
The Oregonlan forgot to mention the
Colonel yesterday; but of course the
public took it ror granted.
For eight successive years Presidents'
messages have been recitals or National
prosperity. Here is one Item on which
all of us can stand pat.
They couldn't call the new battleship
the Oregon, so they did the next best
thing and named her the Idaho.
' Singularly enough, the movement to
1 reform football comes from those who
i don't play It
SILHOUETTES
We are all entitled to our opinions. I
have mine of people who write It "Xmas."
There Is a good prospect that Portland
will have a hat factory In the near future.
If -It Is in. operation by Spring it will be
a decided encourag-ment to the malting
of election bets.
The question as to whether a wife can
deprive her husband of property is being
considered in Judge Cleland's court. Any
married man who carries money in his
trousers pocket should be able to say
whether she can or not.
...
Miss Snell. of the Agricultural College.
is right- If more city young women were
out In the country raising ' hens there
would be a good deal less raising of an
other commodity that Is spelled with
an "a."
The similarity in the nomenclature of
Pullman cars and sailing vessels leads
one to believe that the same romantic
school girl christens both.
Is the Mayoralty of Portland such an
empty honor Mat Or. Lane can't make a
Ml:;Ie raid into an adjoining county or
give a friend a Job without asking the
Civil Service Commission? It's enough.
to make a perfect gentleman mad.
-
The Clearwater is so low that Idaho had
to launch Its battleship In. the Delaware.
The United States Senatorship entails
many hardships. Judge Gearin should re
flect that he will be compelled to mlss
somc of the shows at tlie Marquam.
The Russian army is moving out of
Manchuria, and there's a great demand
for disinfectants at Harbin and other
places.
Thomas F. Ryan may be sent to jail for
his part in the Insurance scrape." It "just
occurs to me that It is easy to account
for the fact as announced that New
York's C0 has ben reduced to 73. So
many of "the men folks are preparing to
get "sent up."
-
If the time ever comes when there ! no
trouble brewing In The Dalles, we may
be prepared to sec "the heavens roll up as
a -scroll'
The case of Labbey. the escaped lunatic.
should.be a warning to the .Salem asylum
officials that an ax is a dangerous play
thing to give a crazy man.'
If Kaiser Bill don't quit monkeying.
Brazil Is liable to pull his mustache.?.
"
The romantic maiden said: "A man with
a mustache doe not liavf a harmonious
face. It should be smooth, like a placid
lake, pleastnjt to behold, not a wavelet, not
a ripple to b- seen. The fac which would
pretent to ut such pleasure U like a, quiet.
Spring day ztnlal-and complacent.
"Harmonious faces succeed In capturing
the hrarts of thousands by their weet
nesy." Kx.
Now. woulun t that make you wear
whiskers?
Th rumor that the East 5Id gulches
are going to be filled will probably come
up for discussion at the annual meeting
of the Historical Society.
If the Unlversaltsts, and that "Berkeley
professor who declares that dogs and
horses are Immortal are both right, the
disadvantages of the former condition
will be In a measure counterbalanced by
the latter.
.
ir Only Wc Miglit.. .
Dream" on, little sis,-
That the world Is all good."
How gladly-we'd dream, too.
If only we could!
Go back to the faith.
To the hopes and the beams
Of falrj moonshine
That we saw In our dreams.
Dicky Dingbat's Kssays.
NO. 7.
XMUS.
this is a new kind 'of a selebrasttn got
up by the departmunt stors. it Is There
anlrersery al rite for the plck
tures got up to -ttl about It all
show a old Pedlar with whiskers and
a slay dran by ralndeers. Xmus is Ob
served In meny ways mostly, tho, by
bylng a lot ot Junk that pepul woodnt
by for themselves and giving It to there
Friends. I never get what I want at
Xmus. Last yere I wanted a Gote an a
gun, but they was'nt marked down cnuf
6o the folks got mo a card with a church
and ground glass on It and a hankerchief.
Meny pepul obsurve the. day as if It was
a commemuration of the discovery of
Alcohol, yeres ago when-l was only Four
they ust to call it Chrismus and we hung
up are stocking an got things In them, it
was fine then for they was a tree at the
sundle school and santy clase came and
we al sung and had a good time. Evry
thing Is changed now and I don't care
much whether Xmus cums or not. i will
Be 12 next munth.
Things are never so bad but that they
might be worse. We might have a min
strel show band on the streets every
day. ARTHUR A. GREENE.
SHOULD HELP OREGOX.
This. From Seattle. Is a' Kind
Expression.
Seattle PosUlntelligencer.
The Chief Engineer ot the Army has
asked Congress to appropriate 51,000.000 for
the continuation ot work upon the jetty
at the mouth of the Columbia River. It is
claimed that unless the appropriation Is
made and the work continued, the money
expended on this work in the past will be
all wasted.
While there is some reason to question
whether the expenditures in the past on
this work have been of very great value
in results accomplished, there is a pros
pect that the engineers may be correct,
and that when the full work Is completed
there will be a substantial and a perma
nent deepening of the deadly bar of the
Columbia. The Congressional delegation
from Washington, in -view of the fact
that Oregon's delegation Is practically in
capacitated for the performance of any
public duties, should take this matter in
hand and do all possible to secure the
needed appropriation. The Columbia Is as
much a Washington as an Oregon stream
There Is little prospect that any general
river and harbor bill will pass at the
present session of Congress. Even when
there is no general bill of the character,
it Is the practice' to take care ot continu
ing Improvements to which the Govern-
. meat Is committed, especially when it Is
made to appear that appropriations are
Imperative to prevent deterioration of
work already done. This Is the case with
the Columbia River bar. and with the
backing of the War Department the
Washington delegation should be able, by
united action, to secure the appropriation
which means so much to Oregon, and
particularly to Portland. We may need
, help ourselves Me tliave.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
Today is the centenary of William
Lloyd Garrison, the famous 'abolitionist,
non-resistant, and also probably the. one .
man who above all others led with unfal
tering step !0 years before the Civil War -began
the movement which crystallized'
into the freedom of slaves In this coiin-.
try. In his time. Garrison was called .a .
fanatic, an Infidel, and a traitor to his
country, was cast into jail, assaulted and
was the recipient of many letters threat
ening his life but with unfaltering cour-
fiSn he held to his opinions, and what he
believed to be true, until the end. He
lived a good deal in- advance ot his. time,
and was largely misunderstood. His re
ward came la;e.
Garrison .narrowly escaped being born in .
Canada. His parents were natives of that ,
country, and they, shortly- before- the
birth of their eldest son. settled In New
buryport. Mass.. where Lloyd first saw
the llght'of day, December 10. 1S05. When
Lloyd was 3 years rid' his father, who fol
lowed the sea-faring profession, and had
latterly become addicted to Intemperate .
habits, deserted his wife and family and
was never heard, of again. Although the
family, was left utterly destitute, the
mother, a noble woman, supported her
babies she had three of them by nursing
theNs!ck and making candy, which" her son
Lloyd peddled about town. At an early,
age he w;as apprenticed to a bootmakej.
and afterward to ai cabinetmaker. but-hi
had'nelther the strength jior tho mechan
ical skill necessary for these occupations.
When he was 13 years old he found a con
genial -place In the printing-office of the
Xewburyport Herald newspaper. He soon
became ah expert typesetter, a fellow
printer testifying that young Garrison
worked faster than anyone he had ever
seen with one possible exception and
that Garrison was far more accurate than
bis solitary rival.
When 15 years old Garrison began to
write for the newspaper on which he
was employed as printer, sending in hla"
contributlons anonymously, by post. At
It Garrison had a newspaper of his own.
the Xewburyport Free Press, and he dis
tinguished his first six months" Interest
In the sheet by discovering the poet Whi.
tler. In the columns of a Boston news
paper he started, the National Philan
thropist. Garrison advocated total absti
nence, and voiced hi3 opposition to war.
The year 1S2S was the turning point In
Garrison's life, and his ultimate conver
sion to the cause of the slave was the
work of a Quaker. Benjamin Lundy.. who
had already devoted 13 years of his life
to that project.- Garrison at once began
In his temperance paper to attack slav
ery, and announced as his triple aim the
abolition of . slavery, intemperance and
war. 'Going to Baltimore, he took an In
terest In Lundy's paper, and saw the
public auction of negroes often In prog
ress, for many poor wretches were sold
there for the Xew Orleans market. On
slave exhibited his back bleeding from 3T
gashes. Inflicted with a cowhide '.thong.
In. 1S30 Garrison returned to Boston, and
on the succeeding New Tear's began the
publication ot his famous newspaper, the
Liberator, at the head of his columns
being the motto: "Our country is the
world. Our countrymen are Mankind."
He called for Immediate and unconditional
emancipation. Without capital or sub
scribers. Garrison published the paper
weekly, with the help ot one assistant
and a negro' boy.
Pro-slavery meetings were held in many.
Xorthecn cities, and pro-slavery riots,
broke out. t A-great. meeting, was hejdjn .
historic' Faneull Hall, Boston. August -21;
lS26?to protest against abolition, ho prin
cipal men in the city taking part and the
Mayor being chairman. In the midst -of
the storm that ensued Garrison was calm,
saying: "Four men are enough to revolu
tionize the world." At last the mob broke
into the office of the Anti-Slavery office,
where Garrison was writing a letter. Ho
was solzed. a rope was placed around his
neck, and his clothes were- torn to rib
bons. His friends succeeded In getting
him to the Mayor's office, from whence he
was taken to' the City Jail for safety.
The Legislature of Georgia offered a re
ward of 5S0OO to anyone who would prose
cute and bring him to conviction In ac
cordance with the laws of that state, but!
like Columbus. Garrison "went on," and
on." On several occasions he visited
Great Britain In the furtherance of his
anti-slavery opinions, and said that on
his first visit there someone- remarked:
"Why. Mr. Garrison, I thought you "were
a black man."
.
January 1. 1563. Lincoln's proclamation .
of freedom to the- slaves as a military
measure placed the civil struggle on an
anti-slavery basis. In 1S65. when Garri
son's labors against slavery had been en
tirely successful, he was presented with
the sum of 5SO.C0O for his services. A
bronze statue has been erected to him In
Boston.
In speaking of the doctrine of non-resistance.
Garrison said: "We proclaimed
to the country and the world that the
weapons of our warfare were not carnal
but spiritual, and we believe them to be
mighty, through God! to the. pulling down
even of the stronghold of slavery, and
for several years great moral power ac
companied our cause whene'er-presented.
Alas! We are growing more and more
warlike, more and more disposed to re
pudiate the principles of peace. Just in
proportion as this spirit prevails. I feel
that our moral power is departing -and
will depart. ... I do not believe that
the weapons of liberty have ever been,
or ever can be. the weapons of despotism.
I know that those of despotism are the
sword, the revolver, the cannon, the
bombshell, and therefore the weapons to
which tyrants cling. Therefore these are.
not the weapons for me as a friend of
liberty.
"Much a. I detest .the oppression exer
cised by the Southern, slaveholder, he Is
a man sacred before me. He Is a man
not to be harmed by hand nor with ray
consent. He Is a man who Is grevlously .
and wickedly trampling upon the rights
of his fellow-man. But all I have to do
with him Is to rebuke his sin, to call him
to repentance, to leave him without ex
cuse for his tyranny. He is a sinner before
God a great sinner. Tet. while I will
not cease reprobating his horrible Injus
tice, I will let him see that in my hear;
there Is. no desire to do him harm that
I wish to bless him here and bless hm
everlastingly, and that I have no weapon
to wlild against him but the simple truth
of God. which is the great Instrument for
the overthrow of all iniquity and the
salvation of the world.
"As an ultra-peace man. I am prepared,
to say: Success to every slave Insurrec
tion in the South and in every slave coun
try. . . . As for John Brown, judg-.
ing him by the code ot Bunker Hill, we
think he is deserving of high wrought
eulogy as any who ever wielded sword
or battleax In the cause of liberty. But
we do not and we cannot approve any .
Indulgence of the war spirit."
Garrison had peculiar Ideas regarding
government. In 1SC3 he wrote: "We can
not acknowledge allegiance to any human
government. Neither can w oppose afty
such government, by a resort to physical
force. We recognize but one king and
lawgiver, one Judge and ruler of man
kind. We are bound by Ihe laws of a
kingdom which Is not of this world. th
subjects of which are forbidden to .fight."
It was President Lincoln who once said:
"I have only been an instrument. Tho
logic andhe moral ' power ot Garrison,
and the anti-slavery people of the coun
try, and the Army have done alL (gar
rison was not an orator, but the force
earnestness and logic of hl3 addresses al
most always carried bis awHcnces with
him. He died In New Tork, May 31, 1879: