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MISTAKEN ANALOGIES.
Between the .present conditions in
Russia and those in France at the out
break of the great Revolution there are
certain analogies; but they cannot be
pushed very far, because certain nec
essary conditions that gave life and
force to the Revolution in France are
wholly absent in Russia, and therefore
it is impossible to expect or to imagine
that the revolution threatening In Rus
sia will follow the course of the great
movement in France, which was the
starting point of changes that have
transformed the modern world, or at
least Is the greatest of all its series of
striking events.
The analogy attempted between
France and Russia holds closely as to
comparisons between the miseries of
the people of the two countries France
in 1789 and Russia at the present day.
As to poverty of the people, exorbitant
and unjust taxes, arbitrary govern
ment, total denial of popular liberty,
oppression of the masses by the nobil
ity and the church, favoritism and cor
ruption in high place at the expense of
the body of the people, and bankruptcy
of both government and people through
the incorrigible maladministration
which such a system produces the
analogy holds good almost throughout.
But revolution, in a vast state like
Russia, composed of many nations and
races widely separated, having little
knowledge, certainly no sympathy,
with each other, and nearly all sunk in
an ignorance that has not yet learned
the simplest definitions in the catechism
of liberty In such a country revolution
presents - very different aspects and
problems from those present In France
in 1789, and still more different from
those presented in Germany in 1848,
when people and army went together
igainst kings, princes and potentates,
to secure the reforms promised upon
the overthrow of Napoleon, but by the
rulers forgotten or denied as soon as
they were rid of the power of the
mighty man.
Upon the army rests the oligarchical
system of Russia. The army is drawn
from the people, of course; .but a peo
ple not prepared for liberty do not want
It. The army, therefore, the instrument
of Russian despotism, its prop and sup
port, is like the people from whom it
Is drawn. The revolutionists, the men
who are striking for liberty, are of the
more enlightened claBses, in a few cen
ters of the empire. But even there the
people are not all revolutionists.
Though the uneducated masses are ill
content, they see no way of escape .from
the tyranny that oppresses them, know
nothing of history, nothing of the
achievements of liberty elsewhere
throughout the ages, and therefore are
immovable. Education has not pene
trated the people, and therefore has not
penetrated the army. Again, the sub
tle policy of a .prudent and watchful
despotism draws bodies of soldiery
from vast distances to overawe the
people of the revolutionary districts
thus assuring itself that there shall be
no sympathizers in the army, or few
est possible, with the spirit of revo
lution, in the particular localities where
it is so active as to be at all dangerous.
Till some degree of enlightenment
can penetrate Darkest Russia, till the
people can get some knrAvledge of each
other, some knowledge of history and
of the world beyond their own narrow
horizon, there will be no chance for
success of revolution, for mitigation of
the despotism that bears them down,
for change in the disposition of the
army, for combination of the people
for any great common object. A coun
try so vast as Russia, embracing so
many races and nations, may never ap
proach , any degree of homogeneity.
The .body of an empire so constituted
can scarcely be expected ever to be
actuated by a common purpose. It is
possible, probable, indeed, that the
irst great step towards freedom in
Russia will be taken through dismem
berment of the empire. That would
give opportunity for progress towards
liberty in the more enlightened parts
of Russia, since there would no longer
be a barbarian soldiery in their midst,
drawn from the distant parts of the
empire, to hold down an unarmed pop
ulation. But as conditions are, and
likely long to continue, it Is not pos
sible to expect revolution to succeed.
Analogies drawn from France, though
true In part, are not true in the main
features, and therefore are fanciful or
Imaginary. Before revolution can have
any hope of success in Russia the peo
ple must take the army away from the
Czar; and this will toe impossible so
long as the masses of the people re
main untouched with the spirit of. free
dom, or a foreign soldiery can be pre
cipitated on a disaffected but unarmed
province. In Russia freedom's battle
is likely to last for centuries. Either
the people throughout the vast empire
must be educated to- liberty, so that
the army will come to their side, or
dismemberment of the empire must of
fer opportunity. Each or either is a
remote result. Had Napoleon succeed
ed he might have broken Russia and
opened a way for liberty. But there is
small probability f the appearance
now or hereafter of a conqueror to do
what he might have done, had the am
bition of the modern Caesar been tem
pered by the prudence of his great prototype.
THE ANSWER OF EXPERIENCE.
In New Tork there is a statute which
attempts to restrict the hours of the
work of women in a particular station
or place in the economy of life, in or
der that such may bear children who
will become strong and useful citizens.
Judge Olmstead, of one of the higher
courts of New York, says the argu
ment is not sound. It is not sound, he
says, because it is to apply only to a
particular class. We do not depend
wholly on the wageworkere, in partic
ular employments, to bring up children
for the state. There is the wife of the
teacher and the preacher, of the lawyer
and the physician, of the writer, sales
man and clerk; of the merchant and
the lumberman; above all, because
more numerous, than all the rest, the
wife of. the farmer. Are the children of
all these and of other multitudes of no
consequence,, and is their progeny to be
neglected by the state? Are not these
wives to have the eight-hour law, too?
And then the multitude of women who
never marry, and the other multitude,
who, though married, have yet no chil
dren. Any general statute must apply
to them also, for they may become the
mothers of citizens. On what ground
can they be exempt from legislative In
terference, injunctive or mandatory? It
is troublesome, indeed.
The question has been discussed in
Oregon. Judge Sears, of our District
Court, is led through a query offered by
the Evening Telegram to Recall a de
cision by the Supreme Court of our
state under a statute In which it is held
that the state may interpose in such
matters, because "it is the interest of
the state to have strong and healthy
citizens, and the physical welfare of
the citizen Is of primary Importance to
the state." s
Altogether rue. Then it becomes a
matter of opinion, as to the conditions
under which sturdiest children may be
brought Into the world and reared for
their duties. Or rather a matter of ex
perience. Whose children are the stur
diest? -Whose best equipped for the
work of life? The children of women
living in ease and luxury, or the chil
dren of women who work longest hours
at hardest toil, and bear children also?
Do we not all know that all the health
iest and .most hopeful children of the
world are born of mothers who have
fewest luxuries, work hardest and. put
in longest hours?
All experience, of all times, teaches
this one lesson, namely, that hard con
ditions of life produce the strongest and
sturdiest and most efficient progeny In
the world. The mothers of such are
hardest workers, work longest hours,
and bring up their children to work.
Such mothers and such children com
mand the Inheritance of the world.
Looking at the argument, or at one
side of it, we should like to see relief
come to the mothers of the land; but
the other side unfortunately is the
picture of a degenerate progeny. We
fear statutes will never be able to deal
with this problem. If the heritage of
all the future were not to those who do
most work, there would be no hope for
mankind. The human race, on one side
of Us nature, is tied to earth. Over the
progeny of mothers who are protected
from labor and who live on sweetfneats,
the aggressive offspring of working
mothers will always prevail. That is
the reason why the first families long
since did not inherit the earth.
The meek, of course, are to inherit the
earth. But to their meekness they
must add a mighty capacity for work.
You are not likely to find either quality
among those who inherit riches. In the
first generation there may be excep
tions; but in the long run the sons and
daughters of mothers who toil every
day in the duties of life, unrelieved by
any eight-hour law, will walk off with
the prizes. You will see the few curled
darlings of our sheltered or protected
women playing for a time on the streets
about our boarding-houses. But you
never will see them more. Grown up,
they disappear, pushed oft the stage of
action by the sons and daughters of
our working women.
VSE AND ABUSE OF MOTOR CARS.
In one issue of the New York World,
just at hand, we note in the crowded
news columns much space given over
to automobile accidents. At Munich,
Prince Eugene Marat was killed by the
overturning of his car. At Middletown,
Conn., a mad auto driver caused a run
away which resulted In fatal injuries to
an aged couple. At Winsted, in the
same state, a cool-headed driver
whirled his machine into a ditch to
avoid collision with a train. Injuring all
the occupants. At Oceanic, N. J., a
wealthy cottage owner was appointed
special policeman, without pay, to en
force the law against fast driving a
task that he promises faithfully to per
form. As - evidence of growing sentiment
against your-neighbor-be-darrtned spirit
among many motor owners and driv
ers, it is gratifying to note that a Man
hattan Judge after sending the chauf
feur to Jail also sentenced a rich auto
mobile owner to two months' imprison
ment in the Kings County Penitentiary
for exceeding the speed limit. In pass
ing sentence the court said:
It Is an unsound statement of law to say
that If the owner of an automobile should
direct his chauffeur to drive the machine
to a specified point at a highly excessive
and dangerous rate of speed, and If the lat
ter, acting upon these Instructions, should
do so, thereby endangering the safety and
lives of all others using the highways, that
the employer could escape from the conse
quence of his command and of his participa
tion in the violation of the law. .
It Is Intolerable that the publics highways
should be seized upon by reckless, and in
many Instances, incompetent drivers of these
machines, to the exclusion or imperllment
of other vehicles, and pedestrians. Fines
have proven to be Ineffectual. It therefore
becomes the duty of me courts, the lesser
penalty having failed as a deterrent, to
apply the more stringent.
The automobile has come to stay; it
may be for years, or may be longer.
With Increased population and wealth,
to say nothing of better roadways, the
machines are certain to multiply in and
about Portland. Unfortunately the
self-propelling wagon, unlike the hoof
beats or a horse and the rattle and
whirr of a trolley, does not convey au
tomatically a warning to the ear. As
a rule it travels faster than the road
ster or the electric car. Temptation to
excessive speed Is almost irresistible
among the immature Qf either sex, while
no small class of city dwellers, intem
perate in vice as well as in all forms
of recreation, have no thought of the
danger to themselves or others on the
highway. Because these reckless folk
do meet of their fast driving late at
night, when normal people are abed,
manslaughter 'by mangling has not
been common In Portland. No doubt
the arrest, Imprisonment and indict
ment of one professional driver for kill
ing a child has served to check the
reckless tendency In other men who run
machines for hire, and this may ac
count in a measure for the small num
ber of accident the past two months;
etill the evil accompanying the general
use of the automobile has by no means
been eradicated, nor will it ever be re
moved so long as men and women fla
grantly disregard the rights, life and
safety of the majority.
Portland has fairly effective police
patrol. Further vigilance should be en
couraged. Every safe and sane auto
mobile owner and driver and they are.
of course, the majority ought to aid
the police In running down lawbreak
ers, thus safeguarding themselves and
the general public. No one protests
against rational use of the motor car,
but all law-abiding citizens may. in no
avenging spirit, demand wholesome
punishment for the next man caught
exceedirtg the speed limit. it is far
better for all hands to make a resolu
tion now to observe the ordinance than
to wait until the next victim is carried
to the hospital or the morgub.
CITY FRANCHISES AGAIN.
It may be that the Common Council
will regard the ordinance proposed by
Councilman Vaughn for treatment of
the franchise held by the Southern Pa
cific on Fourth street as not the proper
measure for dealing with that'subject.
If so, some other proposal for an ordi
nance' should be brought forward, af
firming the ownership of- the franchise
by the city and requiring just compen
sation to the city for upe of it.
It should not be concluded that since
nothing has been paid for the use of
the streets of Portland hitherto by the
various individuals or corporations that
have held franchises covering the use
of them, through long periods, there
fore these franchises are the property.
In perpetuity, of those who first ob
tained them. Every franchise thus
granted should be recovered by the city
at' the earliest opportunity, and the
opportunity should not be waited for,
but created.
It is impossible that such use of the
streets of Portland should go on, with
out regulation or compensation. There
fore" It is incumbent on the Common
Council to affirm the principle of Mr.
Vaughn's ordinance, and apply it not
only to the Southern Pacific, in its use
of Fourth street, but to every other
corporation using the streets of Port
land under similar conditions.
Our great franchise mongers ,"got
from under" by selling out having
first made their bunch of franchises
immensely valuable, through secrecy,
trickery and political corruption. It
was their game, that they might seil
the franchises for a big sum. The city
got nothing. But it is not to be taken
for granted that this sort of business
is to go on forever.' To reclaim and to
recover the wasted franchises of Port
land is one of the first of duties to the
city; and The Oregonlan fully believes
that the great street railway franchises.
Juggled through the charter and
throurh operations In the Common
Council and Legislature, could yet be
recovered to the city; if intelligent and
vigorous action were taken and stead
ily pursued. , In other words,, that the
first families might be compelled to dis
gorge the booty.
OX SOCIALISM.
Readers who have the resolution to
peruse Mr. Pye's letter on Socialism,
which is printed on another page this
morning, will be rewarded with the cor
rection of some false conceptions, very
likely, and a gopdly store of useful
knowledge. Socialism is a fact in the
modern world which it is folly to ig
nore. To refute Socialism one must di
rect his arguments against what it
teaches; to overthrow what it does not
teach may be an agreeable diversion,
but it fails of the object sought. While
'many of our writers and politicians are
industriously refuting one dogma after
another which they are pleased to call
socialistic, the real socialistic propa
ganda goes on unchecked. Nor can it
ever be checked until it is understood,
if it can be understood, and perhaps not
then. It is based upon earnest thought
and behind it Is the impulse of gross
Injustice running through all time. It
proposes to the world a solution of the
problem of human misery and under
takes to eliminate injustice from the
relations of men. It is worldwide in its
appeal. It is profoundly intellectual
and at the same time addresses Its ar
guments to the mosfc. elementary of the
passions.
To think to overcome such a propa
ganda by ridicule . or by arguments
which patently miss the point is folly.
The refutation of socialism demands
the highest exercise of our best intel
lects. ,It requires full knowledeg of the
subject and-something -more than medi
ocre power of thought. A creed which
is spreading underground, so to speak,
captivating the mind of the electorate
while those who are our chosen guar
dians and leaders will not take the
pains to find out what it Is and what
it means may well startle us with its
possibilities for good or evil.
PROTECTION IN I'SE OF WATER.
The appeal made by a number of
farmers in the vicinity of Wamic,
Wasco County, to the Governor for as
sistance In protecting their rights to
the flow of water In streams passing
through their farms, points out a .need
for regulations which will afford the re
lief they demand. There are certain
rights, such as those growing out of
contracts, which it Is not the duty of
the state to enforce by criminal pro
ceedings. The burden of protecting his
own rights and bearing the cost of a
civil action in the first instance prop
erly rests upon the person who alleges
that he has been injured by breach of
contract. But there are other rights,
such as that of peaceful possession of
property, which it is the duty of the
state to protect and secure by proper
criminal laws. When a man steals a
horse or burns a barn or destroys prop
erty of another, the state undertakes to
capture the offender and punish him If
he be found guilty after a trial by a
Jury of his fellow-citizens. Why should
not the criminal laws in like manner
provide a remedy for the man whose
water has been shut off by some other
person who wrongfully takes it? Theft
of water in an arid region Is as serious
a matter as destroying crops, for it
amounts to' the same thing in effect.
It is as serious a matter as stealing a
horse, for the settler in the arid region
cannot keep his livestock without
water.
In what is here said there is no at
tempt to pass Judgment upon the par
ticular case under consideration. The
farmers say that when they, bought
their lands from the Government and
the date, streams of water were flow
ing over them. Since then an irriga
tion company has put in dams that
stop the flow of water entirely and
leave the settlers without water for
household and livestock. Whether the
charge thus made is true can be decid
ed only after the evidence has been
heard, ibut whether it be true or not In
this particular case, recital of the cir
cumstances shows the need of some
regulations which will provide the
owner of water rights, the same protec
tion under the criminal laws that are
enjoyed by owners of other classes of
property. When there is a controversy
as to the right to the possession of a
horse or the possession of water, the
disputants should be left to their reme
dies in the civil courts. But when any
class of property is taken wrongfully
and without a bona fide claim of right,
the criminal laws should provide relief
to the injured person. If every man
from whom property is stolen were left
to his civil remedy for the recovery of
it. robbers wouid be safe in the pursuit
of their calling. The state owes every
man a reasonable degree of protection,
and this it should assure him, regard
less of the character of property he
may own.
IMMOWTALITY.
An esteemed communication which is
published this morning contains, among
other interesting thoughts upon relig
ion, one to the purport that certain
tribes have been discovered which have
no conception of God or a future life.
The writer infers from this fact that
man is not by nature religious. Were
the alleged fact undisputed, which" is
not the case, it would at most prove
merely that these particular tribes were
I not by nature religious. Other commu-
nitieo of men which do believe In God
I nnrl th fntiirp life noori not sViuia lr
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! the reprobation of their less-favored
fellow-beings. In fact, wherever we
find religion existing we are confronted
by the dilemma that it is either natural
or supernatural. If man Is not relig
ious by nature then he has been made
religious by some power external to
Nature. There is no way to evade both
these conclusions, though a person may
adopt either one he chooses.
Whether the belief In God and a fu
ture life Is essential to religion may be
regarded as fairly open to discussion.
Some of the most religious men of our
times accept the dogma of Immortality
in a manner exceedingly elusive, to say
the most for it. Those who have followed
the Ingersoll lectures, which were
founded expressly to Inculcate the be
lief in Immortality and find reasons for
it, must have been somewhat disap
pointed at the vague results it has
achieved. The lectures get no further
than a recitation of the hopes for con
tinued existence which great men have
in all ages cherished, the aspirations of
poets and the dreams of philosophers;
but not one reason for the belief has
been advanced for which even the lec
turer himself claims full validity. It
remains, so far as they are concerned,
rather a longing than an article of
faith. Nor can there be any doubt that
the Christian world as a whole has lost
the ardent faith in. a future life which
in the first ages was its inspiration and
consolation. Of the present, reality of
heaven, with Its supreme Joys to the
protomartyrs we in this day have no
conception. They no more doubted it
than they questioned the facts of every
day existence. Probably it was more
real to them than the fire which con
sumed their bodies. To many now
adays it Is a hypothesis and nothing
more. . f .
But are we- less religious than the
early Christians? It may be doubted.
The Jews, whose religious genius no
body would presume to question, may
have had some inkling of the dogma of
immortality, but it nowhere appears in
their earlier literature. The dramatist
who composed the -book of Job knew
nothing of it. The famous text, "And
though worms consume this body, yet
in my flesh shall I see God," is a mis
translation, as all scholars now admit.
When correctly rendered it has not the
slightest reference to the future life.
The teachings of Eccleslastes are bald
ly materialistic. There are no more de
pressingly pessimistic utterances in all
literature than those of this world
weary writer. To his apprehension
there was a common end for men and
beasts, and the fate of one differed in
no respect from that of the other. "As
the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea,
they have all one breath, so that a man
hath no pre-eminence above a beast;
for all is vanity." The common misun
derstandings of the Old Testament fall
little short of the ludicrous, both in re
spect to the idea of Immortality and
the fancied prophecies of a Messiah.
Since their ignorance of the real or
imaginary future life did not prevent
the Jews from being the most religious
of the peoples of ancient times, we may
safely infer that its gradual fading
from the modern consciousness will not
diminish our essential religiosity. May
we say the same of the 'belief in God?
The concept of a Supreme Being Is one
of the most changeable of all our men
tal products. Without accepting the
impious dictum of a late infidel that
God is made in the image of man, one
cannot help observing that every mod
ern nation has a deity of its own. The
Russians have a God to whom they
pray for success against the Japanese,
and he rewards their faith with prom
ises, though he does not always fulfill
them. In our war with the South the
Yankees had a deity who was In com
plete sympathy with their cause, while
the Southerners had another who was
equally devoted to slavery and states'
rights. To say that these two beings
were the same is to ignore the power of
the mind to discriminate. The Gods of
the nations are concepts built out pf
the national ambitions, desires, sympa
thies and passions.
Not only are the national deities rad
ically different beings among them
selves, but It may be added that each
individual builds up a concept of the
Supreme Being which is essentially un
like his neighbor's. Will anybody pre
sume to assert that Mr. Rockefeller's
God is the same as Washington Glad
den's? The two are totally unlike in
all their attributes. That behind these
diverse concepts there may be a being
whom they all adumbrate it Is not our
purpose to deny; but it must be remem
bered that men are Influenced not by
what God really is, but by what they
think he is; so that, in respect to In
fluence upon conduct, things are pre
cisely the same as if there were a sep
arate deity for each nation. Every war
brings the national deities into the
quarrel Just as It did in primitive times,
though we agree to ignore the fact as
we do so many'others which are con
trary to polite convention. Still, w re
call Kaiser Wilhelm's "God of the Fath
erland," who overthrew France. That
men of high intellect have a common
conception of God all over the world is
a truth which we may admit; but their
ideas affect neither the multitude nor
the ecclesiastical machines. Every such
machine adopts the national God un
reservedly, and -wnen war breaks out
it sets up incantations to awaken 'his
zeal with all the fervor of the priests of
Baal.
Whether the mass of mankind would
not be more truly religious without the
false ideas of God which they cherish
Is open to question. It has never been
observed- that these Ideas have softened
their manners, made them less cruel
to each other or more merciful to their
enemies. All the cruelties of every war
and every religious persecution have
been sanctioned by some God. Every
act of national perfidy has been blessed
by some ecclesiastical machine. In
fact, laying aside Illusions for the mo
ment, one is almost driven by the facts
to believe that the principal use of the
popular conceptions of the deity has
been to sanctify conduct which the true
God must reprobate and abhor. On the
other hand, there is no doubt that
Kings and ecclesiastics have used the
popular fear of the imaginary divinity
to hold the masses quiet under oppres
sion and reconcile them to wrong.
"Due blls on heaven," to use an un
desirable expression. have always
played a great part in the interest of
tyrants. Would the world be worse or
better off if everybody should learn to
estimate them at their true value? The
imaginary deity of the multitude has
always been in bitter conflict with the
true God of the Intellect. The gradual
prevalence of the latter has marked the
spread of democracy In government,
mercy in war and justice in the rela
tions among men. We may say, there
fore, that without the belief in false
Gods we should be more religious than
we are, for Justice, mercy and equality
of right are the essentials of religion;
but without the belief in the true God
whose temple is the enfranchised in
tellect and the ritual of whose worship
Is the expression of brotherly love in
kindly deeds man would degenerate and
religion would disappear.
KIPLING'S STINGY MISTAKE.
When report comes that a noted man
of letters has produced a new; bit of
work, it is disappointing, not to say
exasperating, to be forbidden access to
it. This remark anent Kipling's indict
ment of Great Britain's policy toward
South African colonists, published by
the London Standard. When we get by
cable one stanza of virile verse, as
Back to the ancient bitterness
Ye ended once for all;
Back to oppression none may guess,
' Who have not 'borne its1 thrall;
Back to the elough of their despond,
Helots anew held fast
By England's seal upon the bond,
Ae helots to the last,
we naturally want to read the re
mainder, but it is copyrighted and so
few of us are subscribers to the Stand
ard. We shall have to wait for the
next book by this brilliant worshiper
of military might, the apostle of hot
lead and able friend of the adventurous
in every land.
And herein our former fellow-citizen
errs. America not less than England Is
entitled to the fruit of his fertile brain.
On the banks of the Thames he has not
more admirers than dwell on the shores
of the Hudson; San Francisco enjoys
him as much as Calcutta, despite the
fierce lambasting the Bay City got fif
teen years ago from the creator of
Private Mulvaney.
Let us on this side of the water have
your stuff promptly, Kipling. True,
and shameful .'tis,'tis true, we robbed
you of a fortune by stealing your
earlier products, but that was the law's
fault. You deserve a many times
bigger bank account than George Ade.
However, that is past. Any one of a
dozen American publications will pay
you more handsomely than the London
Standard. Next time let your vigorous
editorial be spread simultaneously
among English-speaking peoples. Don't
be partial.
Despite your minor faults, America
likes ''you. Kipling. You showed not
only good taste, but sound judgment,
by marrying one of our women. Don't
you remember w hen you were at
death's door In a New York hotel and
were saved by American skill and your
own marked vitality, the whole country
sent out the tendrils of its sympathy
to your bedside and then Joyed when
danger was' past?
Don't regard us as a negligible quan
tity. Our publishers won't, because
they can't, rob you again. Let us hear
from you often; the oftener the better.
There is only one of you in the world,
and you are too valuable to English lit
erature for one nation alone.
"THE GOAL, OF LEISURE."
The six little rocky states honorably
known in history as New England have
of late years been given over chiefly
to tradition. The crop of rocks which
they are said to have produced three
times a year for generations is still
there for the gleaning; but the glean
ers have grown weary and decamped
for fields more responsive to the efforts
of the husbandman. Long the home of
dyspepsia and ideals, it has latterly
been noted chiefly as the place of aban
doned farms and quaint country re
sorts. In this latter line the Saturday Even
ing Post sees New England's oppor
tunity for resurrection. It is suggested
that these states may profitably and
pleasantly become the common home,
the pleasant recreation ground, the
goal of leisure for our people. Other
sections of the country are more fertile
but none is more picturesque; other
sections lure the descendants of early
New Englanders to the pursuit of gain,
but to no other does their thoughts re
vert with such affectionate remem
brance. To attract the new generation, how
ever, the wildness of Its estate must be
in a measure subdued and in a meas
ure protected. That Is to say, good
roads must be built, its forests must be
preserved from the rapacity of lumber
men, its fished-out ponds and rivers
must be restocked and Its beauty spots
made Into parks through which it is
possible for the traveler or sojourner
to make his way.
William Hamilton Gibson, in his de
lightful book "Highways and Byways
of New England," wove Into his daily
record of Jaunts about old familiar
places a quaint spirit of romance that
is now .humorously, now pathetically,
attractive. . Ellen R. Rollins, in her
sketches entitled "New England By
gones," has brought a multitude of
readers in touch with the incidents that
made New England life tender and pa
thetic in the past. Whittier has sung
and Rose Terry Cook told In her folk
lore tales of the spirit and the charac
teristics that make New England a
rallying point for the memory of thou
sands of her sons and daughters of a
later generation.
It remains now for sagacious legis
lators of these memory states to take
means whereby the natural beauties of
the ejection will be preserved and
heightened, and some devices for the
comfort pf rural travelers may be se
cured, in order to bring about what the
Post calls the "resurrection of New
England" as an inviting goal of leisure
a place where world and .work weary
men and women of the nearer West
may dream and rest during the vaca
tion period.
Two boys Ernest Evans, of Rose
burg, and Ray Espey, of this city es
caped from the State Reform School,
near Salem, last Sunday night, cele
brated their freedom from restraint by
breaking into and robbing a general
merchandise store at Jefferson, a few
nights later, and gave a severe beating
to .two farmers who tried to capture
them the following day. The enterpris
ing lads were captured Friday and have
been returned to the Reform School,
where no doubt the authorities, finding
milder means for subduing their pe
culiar proclivities a failure, will try
what virtue there is in the old-fashioned
means designated by Solomon as
"the rod for the fool's back."
In the report of the state convention
of North Dakota Democrats we read
the names of B. S. Brynjolfson, Siver
Serumgard, F. M. Negge, A. E. Berg,
Terry McCosker, William Schulz and
William Schuett. In fact, the names of
foreign appearance outnumber those
plainly American. The hardworking
Scandinavians and Germans made
North Dakota, as they also made Min
nesota and helped to make other Mid
dle Western States. We need-more
settlers of that kind in Oregon.
- Must we wait till hard times, when
men will be willing to work, in order to
get the labor necessary to. build our
railroads and harvest our crops and get
our logs out of the woods and load our
vessels and cars? It would seem so.
But when men must work or starve
there will be poor wages. Now is the
time for willing and industrious and
far-seeing men to lay a foundation for
future independence.
Now if Portland didn't have more
postoffice business and more school
population, and other Indicia of growth
and importance and magnitude than
Seattle has. it would be sorry and si
lent. But Portland knows Seattle is a
fine city, and wouldn't brag for a mo
ment, only the thrasonical brag of such
newspapers as the Seattle Times forces
us now and then to throw in a word.
Middlemen are to be cut out in the
latest scheme for marketing the hop
crop, and the hops will go almost di
rectly from the grower to the brewer.
Now If the same scheme can be extend
ed to the prune industry, there will be
some show for the grower of this
healthful fruit to get a living price or
for the consumer to get the fruit with
out being a millionaire.
The Emperor of Russia, it is said,
does not comprehend the gravity of the
situation in his empire. The indica
tions are that he will yet hear some
thing drop that will arouse him to the
fact that something is going on, the Im
pulse of which is not a desire for con
tinuation of the Romanoff dynasty.
In the Coos Bay Railroad the rail
road from Drain to Coos Bay all West
ern Oregon, including Portland, feels
more interest than In any other of the
promised undertakings. Can It go on,
or can It not? The question Is up to
the Southern Pacific, which has prom
ised, through Mr. Harrlman himself, to
build this road.
For the Bryan reception the railroads
have made an excursion rate lower
than has ever been made before, except
In the case of the Dewey reception, on
the Admiral's return from the Philip
pines. Perfectly proper. Colonel , Bryan
went to Cuba the same year Admiral
Dewey went to Manila.
Mr. Moore, who was going to build
the Lake Washington Canal, is pouting
because of possible legal obstacles. All
Mr. Moore wants to carry the project
forward to a triumphant success is for
King County to furnish the money and
the property-owners the right of way.
The German editors know precisely
how the Kaiser should run the empire,
and the Emperor knows how the edi
tors should run their papers. It would
appear that honors ought to be even
in Germany, but evidently they won't
be until somebody goes to Jail.
The New York papers appear to be
surprised to learn that Uncle Joe Can
non swears profusely, eloquently and
impartially. Didn't they know that
Uncle Joe runs a bear garden at Wash
ington? The Insidious cigarette, it is said, is
undermining the young manhood of the
South physically, mentally and moral
ly. There are those who think that this
state of affairs is not confined to the
South. v
The dissatisfied relatives of Russell
Sage say that he was not competent to
make a will. But he was competent to
amat-s a vast fortune. Were they?
And If not. why should they have it?
"Astoria's Plain Duty" is the title of
an article in the Aetorian. It means
that Astoria's plain duty Is to build a
modern hotel. Astoria never will show
for what she Is worth till she does it.
Secretary Elihu Root is having the
time of his life in Brazil. Incidentally
his wife has been made happy by the
gift of a Brazilian diamond of first
water and big, no doubt, as a pea.
It cannot be Imagined that the recent
absence of - a part of the Supreme
Bench on a campaign tour of the state
has anything, to do with the present
congestion of the court docket.
San Francisco water is pure, but the
flies are blamed for spreading the
typhoid contagion. More tanglefoot is
evidently the great sanitary need of
San Francisco. -
Speaking of gunshot accidents while
the victim is crawling through a barb
wire fence, one is led to wonder if he
was after Chinese pheasants before' the
lawful date.
Pendleton farmers who serve beer to
hired hands to hold them to the job are
outdone in the Palouse, where the daily
bill of fare is chicken.
The boarding-houses of the Nation
ought somehow to be equal to the great
emergency that confronts the prune
market.
New York City reports a shortage of
chorus girls. Probably Mr. Corey has
cornered the market.
THE rKSSlMIST.
The funniest story Is the one you tell
yourself.
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The most brilliant feat of your
friend's dog is the merest common-
place compared with the performance
of your own dog.
.
Really, the most offensive person is
the man- who comes and .borrows a
nice, bright, new saw before you have
had an opportunity to use it yourself.
Another one is the individual who
plays an imaginary accompaniment on
a table when someone else Is singing.
She It Is generally a she is pretty
bad, but not quite so sickening as the
would-be coy, sweet young thing who
dances a little dance all by herself
whenever she sees a smooth uncarpet
ed floor. With one hand pointed to
ward the zenith, the other placed in a
graceful position about 45 degrees
north of her equatorial protuberance,
she takes two or three turns, and hums
a fragment of a waltz. The humming
is far from being entrancing, but it is
seemingly a necessary part of the per
formance. Speaking of disagreeable people, the
largest variety la composed of those
who talk at the theater. It requires
a conceit of more than ordinary mag
nitude for a person to Imagine that
anything she this one is quite often a
she has to say could by any possibil
ity be as Interesting as what is going
on on the stage, she Is an exceeding
disagreeable object to think about,
even after the performance is over.
Not the least exasperating feature of
her wondrous assurance is the idea in
volved that one is paying to hear her
talk, whereas one would pay almost
any price not to hear her talk.
ORTHOGRAFI.
Mr. W. S. Varnum. a local scholar of
some repute, is inclined to "thine" that
the prevailing methods of spelling are
open to vast improvement.
"Dhe best way to spel," says Varnum,
"Iz tu Ignore awl rools. consarn 'em!
Yu kan be, poetlk
In langwej fonetlk;
Let dhe printerz protest, gol darn 'em!"
One important and instructive event
in our weekly lives Is the arrival of
the Saturday Evening Boast. How
glad we are to know that bright-eyed,
active Jimmy succeeded in selling 300
Boasts In two days, and we glory in
the discomfiture of little Willie, who
only disposed of 10. The discerning
reader may well, lmagletc the Joy and
pride of Jimmy, but we cannot help
feeling sorry for Willie's ma. In the
department devoted to advice as to
how to get rich without work, wo
learn of the success of John Henry,
who sent in his application for a Job.
John Henry was not satisfied with a
single presentation of his many at
tributes, so he wrote 200 letters to his
future employers, and mailed them all
at once. This exhibition of perspicac
ity and industry won the admiration
of the firm, and tliey placed him In
the fabrication department. "How doth
the busy liar Improve each shining
hour." Some great man has said: "Be
good and you'll be lonesome; be truth
ful and you'll get left."
Then there was George what a noble
sound has the name George George
thought that he was entitled to a raise of
two dollars a month. This conclusion he
imparted to the head of the firm. - The
head of the firm carefully explained to
George that the firm was running on a
very close margin, and that really the
firm could not afford to pay him the two
dollars he desired. He showed hlin the
firm's. expense account, and it was even
so. George, however, was not disheart
ened. He noticed that the firm was upend
ing too much for wrapping paper and
string. He thereupon began a campaign
of retrenchment. At the end of the year
the firm had saved $12.13. Part of this
they gave to George, who Immediately
bought an alarm clock, so that he could
get up earlier In the morning, and save
more string. Thus it is that earnest en
deavor Is the surest path to ultimate
success.
M. B. W ELLS.
Tli la Oregon of Oura.
Albany Democrat.
It is a year since the Lewis and
Clark Fair was doing business as a
Summer resort. A year ago things were
humming down at Portland. The Dem
ocrat was always optimistic on tne
subject and declared that Portland's
prosperity would continue, and it has.
There is more business in Portland
todav than there was a year ago, take
the whole business interests of the city
into the accounting. Portland is en
joying a prosperity that Is marked.
The price of real estate is much higher,
the postal receipts more and the bunk
clearings greatly increased, nil of
which tell their own story of progress.
In this connection it may be said
that the whole nt Oregon is going
ahead, with a splendid outlook ahead.
Albany will move with the rest of the
state and Its best growth and develop
ment will he seen during the comlntr
five years. It will not go back, it will
go nh.'aci, a clean, enterprising city.
The building ot the Corvallls & East
ern Into Crook County will mean much
for Albany, anil there will be attend
ant Improvements which will add mate
rially to the progress of the city.
Did Mr. Ilnrrininn Take the Cenntlsf
Albany Democrat.
The Democrat said Mr. Harrlman
probubly took the Salem population of
5000 from the census, the last one giv
ing it 4Ti8, and added 713 to clear his
conscience. This makes the whisky
editor of tne Journal mad and he
howls in plain letters as follows:
"A Presbyterian Prohl Democrat
who never was outside of his own town
can't be expected to be fair or honest
in Ills treatment of other towns."
As a matter of fact the population of
Salem, with its enlarged boundaries,
la probably somewhere near 13,000. .
Till Telia It.
The Dalles Chronicle.
The advocates of an unreasonable
high protective tariff may cry "free
trade." but it will make no difference
for there are thousands of good Re
publicans who believe in the protec
tive system, but are opposed to a pro
hibitive tariff that makes the rich
richer at the expense of the people.
Homily of Slnng.
St. Ixuls Globe Democrat.
Yes. this is a hard old world, my son.
And awfully hard for the chap
Who goes through life ,wlth a fear of strife
And looks for a "nice, soft snap."
The race of life Is a killing race.
And the runners a brutal pack.
It's true, my son. If you strive to run,
Always on the "Inside track."
It's hard to get a "square deal." you say
In this game all seek to deceive:
Well, maybe It's so but will you show
The cards you have up your sleeve?
Yes. this is a stupid world, young man.
For. how It appears to you.
Whether good or bad or glad or sad,
Depends on your point of view.