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6 THE SUN DA OKEGONIAN. PORTLAND, MARCH 22, I90S. EUBSCBIPTIOX BATES. ' ' 1 INVARIABLT IN ADVANCE. (Br Mail.) Bally, Sunday Included, on year $100 lally, (Sunday Included, six mootbi. ... lially. Sunday Included, tare months.. 2.3 IalJy, Sunday Included, on month. . . Dally, without Sunday, on year Sou Dally, without Sunday, six month...... -J " Dally, without Sunday, -three month. . 1-75 Dally, without Sunday, one month..... Sunday, one year - 7. Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... l-o Sunday and weekly, cna year BY CARRI-tB. Dally. Sunday included, one year t.00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 73 HOW TO REMIT Send postofTlce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sendar-s risk. Glv postbltloe ad dress In full. Including county and alata, POSTAOK BATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. 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Our friends, the Catholic priest anil the Jewish rabbi, know not what they are doing when they place themselves in a position of this kind. Tjiey do not think It out. The protest against tho method docs not disguise the pur- ' pose. Here these apologists are, still pretending to doubt whether the Schmltz-Ruef "administration, and the ' franchise mongers, led by Calhoun, robbed San Francisco! Father Torke and Rabbi Wise, good, simple shepherds of the people, don't , know. - Our people, undoubtedly, are all honest alike Catholics and Protest ants, Jews and men and women of no formal profession of faith. No need, ; therefore, of any ecclesiastical or other ' zeal In support of thieves. A blatherskite known as Father Yorke, from San Francisco, has been , holding forth In Portland, upholding the thieves in San Francisco and de nouncing the prosecution of them. Kabbl Wise. . of Portland, has been more considerate, but ' he, too, flnds fault with the prosecution and tries to discredit its results. Father Yorke says: "Mr. Scott (of Tho Oregonian), I understand, was "- accused by Lincoln Steffens of offering a bribe of $25,000 in some case or other. How would Mr. Scott like to have the Heney methods applied to himself?" Let this blatant political priest apply the Heney methods to Mr. Scott, if he will. But who is Lincoln . Steffens, that he should '"accuse" any- body? Is he also accusing Senator Bourne as a party to that "bribery"? Men who pose as representatives of great ecclesiastical orders, which they may be unworthy to represent, may : get a little attention, even from The : Oregonian, which they would not get if they didn't appear as "fathers" and ; "rabbis," here or at San Francisco. FORCING AHEAD. Portland was hurt less by the panic, Is In better financial condition and has a brighter outlook than any other city . In the United States. Compare the . situation four months ago. when Xew , York had tied up the country's cash, ; with today, when bank clearings are only $ per cent below normal, and 1 judge for yourself.' Portland has ; grown only at the same pace as the i tributary region with which she does business. I.ast year's crops are secure. The r cord-breaking product of wheat has been marketed at the highest prices in : eleven yeans say 25 per ent better : than was reasonably to be expected. Its proceeds furnish the basis for this year's commerce with the Inland Km pire. The North Bank road puts Port land into closer relation with that rich region and must augment the steadily crowing trade. Taken far and by, the Pacific Northwest Is the most prosper ous part of the Nation. To get Portland in clear perspective, look at the town from Seattle or Los Angeles two cities approximately the sume size, all three progressing at the same pace the last ten years. Port land didn't get wild over real estate. Very few men are into it more than knee deep; 99 out of 100 will wade out comfortably on dry land. Valine haven't dropped. If you have such sus- p'.cions. try to buy anything for less than It was held last October. It will be surprising if it hasn't advanced 5 to 10 per cent. Lest you may have a . sneaking doubt whether demand Is genuine, read the list of building per mits every day. Men don't build houses for fun. In Seattle it is common talk that real estate drags: that most of the property on the market can be bought at prices scaled 10 to 25 per cent be low the value one year ago. " In X.os Angeles there, were never half so many vacant houses as right now and busi ness prostrate. Too many men are up to their necks in real estate; aome of them can't tread bottom. Of course, both these cities are going to recover, but It will be some time before the natural growth will restore real estate values to the 1907 figures. In Port land, because prices were kept within bounds, there was no backset. . It is reasonably certain that there will be steady advance. 'While other Pacific Coast cities are striving to catch up, Portland will be forging ahead. THE 'TOl'RTESY- OF EXCHANGE. "The Republican." a paperpublished at the town of Union, Union County, Oregon, offers these remarks: The Oregonian has ' served ' notice -upon the country press of the state that hereafter it. will grant the customary courtesy of an exchange only upon the payment of half rates, in advance, and a blush of shame un doubtedly crept over the building with the tall tower, from cellar to turret, when the order was made. God In Israel.- Has It come to this In Oregon? The demand upon The Oregonian for exchange has reached enormous proportions. This journal has not cancelled Its exchange list; but a time has come when it Is obliged to dis criminate. Its exchange list costs It many thousands of dollars a year large part of which is of no use what ever to it. "Courtesy" is fine; but there must be a limit to its cost. The demand for The Oregonian in ex change had reached an extreme which obliges it to drop some and to offer terms for others that might at "least cover the cost of white paper to say nothing of postage and other expenses. There are country papers with which The Oregonian willingly makes ex change. They are such as may be in the course of the year of some use to it occasionally, at least. Every Im portant newspaper is at all times beset with this demand for exchange. All of them are obliged to decline many. The Oregonian is an expensive or costly newspaper. To publish it costs money. No such newspaper anywhere can be given away. Every such news paper, wherever published, has almost unlimited requests, and even demands for exchange. And not only so, but for free copies to school, college and church libraries, for village lyceums and old peoples' homes and children's homes, and for no end of associations and institutions and even for private persons, who deem themselves entitled to "courtesy" and consideration. But no newspaper of the grade of The Ore gonian can be published on this basis. The paper of no grade or value Is not asked for on the plea of "courtesy," because it isn't wanted at all. The Oregonian declines the "courtesy" of exchange only with publications that are of no possible use to It, nor to any body, not even to the communities in which they are published. Doubtless the Union Republican is as good as many another, which is no good to The Oregonian. There are numbers of these papers which are printed in one place or another, merely for a show of occupation for persons too lazy to work In any calling, and the paper appears as an exrust?. But there are earnest, industrious and vig orous country newspapers, which The Oregonian is glad to get in exchange. They say something; they represent activities about them; they lead the thought of their own towns. When they have news they supply it. And their comment, too, is often sug gestive, stimulating and - useful. Through such weekly papers The Oregonian has 'been accustomed always to keep in touch with the spirit and purpose of the North west. But It has little regard for the Inanities of the lazy loaferism of the other sort, but will exchange even with them for the cost of the white paper upon which Its one hundred and sixty pages a week are printed. There ought to be some reciprocity in exchange of newspapers. "Courtesy" is a mighty good thing and mighty fine; but who knows of anybody who likes to give goods away year after 5'ear upon claim 'of courtesy set up by those who want something for nothing? "Exchange" should mean something. Let the plain speech be pardoned. There was and is need of it. WHERE THE SIMPLE 1JFE IS STREN UOUS. Fred Lockley has in the current number of the Pacific Monthly an ar ticle on "Our Contemporaneous An cestors" that, looking iinto domestic and social conditions which he declares still exist in the Central Oregon .region, furnishes a glimpse of pioneer life which, according: to popular belief the great Western world had entirely out grown. The assumption that "the day of the pioneer is over, for no longer Is there any frontier;, that the last West is gone" is dispelled by the pen picture this writer gives of the homo of a settler typical, as he asserts, of scores of others that are scattered through the remote districts of the "interior country," 1. e., the region that is yet devoid of modern transpor tation facilities. "Here, far from the beaten trail," he says, "time has stood still; here we may step, back into the era that we thought existed only in books and see. perfectly reproduced the daily life of our ancestors." ' How quickly around the nucleus furnished by this declaration thesubtle forces of memory rally. With what fidelity to detail appears the tallow dip, flickering upon the rude table, the wood Are blazing upon the broad hearth, the rag carpet upon the floor, the blue and white crockery (carefully preserved from a wedding "setting out" of half a century ago) upon the table, the mud-chinked walls of the log cabin, its roof of shakes. Its batten door and broad flagstone step, the bench just inside supplied with a tin wash basin, a bucket of water, a gourd dipper and a crock of home-made soap! A quaint picture truly, present ing a scene, and its details to which few would care to return except on a brief scout to gratify curiosity, but one that Is instinct with much that is sa cred .in the home life of the past and thus sacred to memory or lighted with the soft glow of tradition. Here we have the "simple life" in its very essence. Yet It is by no means the care-free life of which the sated dependent upon the bounty of civili zation dreams. It is in the primitive sense the strenuous life, ever on the alert for the needs of the morrow. The chance Autumn visitor sees the well-filled -barns, the high pile of pine knots stored for Winter's fuel. tb flock of turkeys roosting in the trees, the sheep gathered in woolly fold, thestore of fruits and meats and vegetables which betoken rude plenty: the home made soap and candles and carpets and quilts and clothing finished prod ucts awaiting use and enjoyment. But he can have no conception of the labor or months and years of which these assured comforts that wait upon the simple life of the frontier are the re sult. The traveler's tale is fascinating, but it merely skims the surface for in cident and illustration. The effort of years,, plodding, painstaking, strenu ous, was necessary to bring this about. To the extent that this effort has been dominated by cheerfulness and con tentment, and sweetened by family as sociations, it has lent its testimony to the proof that life is worth living, and that the simple life In Its primitive state is the embodiment of peace and plenty.- FOR TUB STOMACH'S SAKE. Chinese, Japanese and Italian gard eners produce the major portion of all the green vegetables, except those of hot-house growth, that are consumed in the homes of Portland. The Ore gon State Medical Association declares that it is customary for these people to use as a fertilizer very objectionable matter, which is productive of animal and vegetable parasites that become as it were, a part of the vegetable growth and being taken into the hu man system, produce enteric and oth er diseases. Since many of the vegetables thus grown are eaten without cooking, as lettuce, radishes, cabbage, onions, etc., the admonition that follows the pre sentment of this matter is timely. A foul fertilizer, human excreta espe cially, alive with animal and veget able parasites, may and does produce a rank growth of spinach, lettuce, onions and other green things so eagerly devoured in Springtime as table luxuries, but it is conceljible that these toothsome esculents may not be entirely purged, in process of growth of the foul matter that has stimulated this growth. Indeed, it Is more than probable that this process has not been entirely a cleansing one, and that many of the uncooked veg etables served upon out tables have not undergone in this process a chem ical change that makes them fit rom a sanitary standpoint; for human food. Hence, the action of the Medical As sociation in regard to this matter Is worthy of the attention of the health authorities, to whom 'appeal Is made to investigate and report upon the con dition under which vegetables in our truck gardens are grown. It is easy td imagine that there may be found to be such as will cause the fastidious -stomach to revolt and the practical sanitarian to shudder. On the other hand, they may be better than the alarming suggestion con tained in the protest and resolutions of the state medical authorities plainly indicate. In either case it is desirable that the true facts in the premises be known. Therefore for the stomach's sake, which is to say for the sake of the health of the Individual and fhe community, it may be hoped that this matter will be looked into by those who have authority to correct what ever abuses in the use of fertilizers iu "truck" gardening may be found to exisi. MUSIC. Since last Fall Portland has been favored with a rather generous share of excellent music. Three or four vocal soloists of great renown have been heard, a tenor, a basso and more than one soprano whose programmes included songs from Mozart down by way of Schubert to Grieg and living composers. All of them seem to have shunned the beautiful productions of Robert Franz; but next year someone may appear who will make up for the loss. We have had also some excel lent violin and piano music; but not enough of either the vocal or instru mental sort for the ordinary play goer to form the musical habit. Muplc is a language which expresses thought and emotion. Unless one knows Its vocabulary and syntax he is as much at a loss to discern what the composer is driving at as he would be listening to a Greek tragedy. People of means who own musical instruments and have the skill to play them can, to a degree, overcome this difficulty. There is no good reason why they should not learn the language of music as they, do French and go to hear recitals with full understanding of what is said by the singer or the violin or the piano. The talking machines and self-playing pianos have made It possible for music to make a genuine appeal to a much wider audience than it could a generation ago. Say what one will about the defects of these instruments, their mechanical baldness, their lack of expression, nevertheless they use the language of music and use it cor rectly. A person can, with a talking machine or automatic piano, learn the structure of Beethoven's symphonies, memorize their massive sentences, gain some insight into the master's thought and therefore prepare himself to listen with understanding and rational en joyment to performances such as the Portland Symphony Orchestra or the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives, where music appears not as a mere skeleton of rhythmic phrases, but clothed with the beauty of passionate life. People in most, European cities of a hundred thousand population are pro vided witli opportunities to hear good music at public expense. We teach our children to read English and cipher out of the general treasury; we even make an effort, not very successful, to teach them to appreciate Shakespeare and Milton. But thus far we have not thought it -worth while to elevate their musical taste above ragtime. Has the thought ever occurred to our peda gogical leaders that it is just as ruin ous to the mind to dissipate with bad music as with bad literature? Plato thouarht it was worse. We have prob ably got beyond that strange concep tion of art in general which looks upon it as a species of amusement. There was a time In our National his tory when we thought a- novel was a book designed to be read when a man was too weary dollar chasing to use his mind, or when a woman needed & little relaxation after the ravages of bridge whist. The theater was deemed an excellent place to study anatomy, and music was created by Sebastian Bach and Wagner to lull one into refreshing dreams. What amusement Is there In reading such a novel as "The Turn of the Balance." " "The Iron Heel" or "Tess of the d'Urbervilles?" Who finds himself in any mood for slumber after seeing such a play as "Mrs. Warren's Profession" or Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell?" Is there anything funny about "Paradise Lost" or "Lear?" Art' is a serious-matter. The great artists - have appealed not at all to minds jaded and weary. Their crea tions are not designed to be pastimes for the frivolous or recreations for the exhausted money grabber. They call upon the intellect for. Its keenest in sight and most wakeful energies. To go. to a concert where the "Messiah" is to be played expectlng'to take in the music without any effort of attention is fatuous. Onewho does so may make believe that he has understood and enjoyed the mighty . thoughts of the great oratorio, but his pretense will be just as silly as if he should sit down and pretend to enjoy Virgil without-first learning Latin. . Very likely there is enough money wasted and peculated in every Am erican city as large as Portland to support a good local orches tra. We shy at the idea of appro priating public funds to provide an education in music or any other art. but we abide with resignation the spectacle of waste, graft and extrav agance in our city governments. Music is among the things which make life worth living, just as pictures are and noble architecture. By proper educa tion it would be as easy to teach the public to understand and enjoy good music as It is to create the taste for good books. Silly songs are as de moralizing as silly stories. People shake their heads after a concert where Wagner has been played or Sehumann, and say "Very fine, no doubt, but It was above me." They are mistaken. It was not above them. They were listening to a language which they had never taken pains to learn. That was the whole of the dif ficulty. When we have mastered mu nicipal housekeeping somewhat better we sflall probably perceive the utility of bringing the civilizing power of great music to bear upon the public, and shall find means to pay for- it by what .we can save from the claws of the grafters. THE CALL, TO THE ABORIGINAL. A local item in a Valley paper says a number of boys escaped from the training school at Chemawa, but a tel ephone message overtook them and thej- were returned. It is to be hoped their punishment Was not severe. The blame is not wholly theirs. In the Spring the white man's fancy may lightly turn to thoughts of love. But. In the Spring, when every branch is running bankful; when the lark and the robin carol to their mates; when the pussy willows are ripe and the swelling buds are about to break forth into fragrant bloom; when the lords of four-footed creation neigh and bel low and prance and snort afield; when the young grass is mighty green and tender and the smell of the upturned earth is incense to the nostril it is hard to listen to the call of Nature anear and afar and be confined within walls of brick, when by'birth and In heritance, coming down from centu ries of environment and custom, one should have the right to roam freely and unrestrained. Civilization cannot be laid on with a brush, even in many coats, and perhaps it would be just as well if the excellent men in charge of these copper-colored wards' of the Na tion allow an escapade or two of this kind occasionally as a harmless blow ing off of the safety valve, always with watchful eye and kindly hand to aid in the return. , . . THE UNHAPPY MOSSBACK. . The Oregonian prints today a pas toral epistle from Millard' O. Lowns dale. Apostle to the Mossbacks, giving ghostly counsel to his woebegone flock. The counsel is excellent. 'It ought to stir the souls of these children of wrath into repentance for their manv sins and set the ax at work in every old orchard from Roseburg to Portland But we fear it will not. Jordan is a hard road to travel. Broad is the way that leads to codlin moths, and many there be that find it. Once a moss back always a- mossback, is a maxim which experience compels one to ac cept, however sorrowfully. It Is easier to keep ninety, and nine sensible orch ardists in the path of righteousness than to retrieve one casehardened mossback from his wicked ways. As a rule argument is wasted upon him. It Is not enough for him to be "Hair hung and breeze shaken over hell," as good old Lorenzo Dow used to put It. He must actually be dropped down into the brimstone. It is remembered that when Mr. Stewart first set. out his now famous orchard near Medford ho was abhorred by his neighbors as a public enemy. They had been raising nuss for many years and they knew ail about it. They knew, for one thing, that no such apples could- ever be raised in Southern Oregon as they used to pick in daddy's old orchard back in Missouri. After setting their trees out these devout pioneers had, with a beautiful and childlike faith, left the Lord to take care of them. The re sults rather tended to show that the Lord had not made a specialty of hor ticulture. And now here came this self-confident and intrusive Scotch man with a lot of newfangled and foolish ideas. They could have for given him for being foolish. What could not be forgiven was the sad fact that his ideas would compel people to go to work.. They were an impious assault upon the sacred belief that in Oregon work was a sin. One fancies that here, perhaps, lies the secret of the reluctance of the mossback to accept the plain truth. So long as he can shun it or argue it away he can continue in his old, shiftless, lazy courses with a good con science. Hence he conjures up reasons to show that it is wrong to cut back the horrible old orchards. Pruning trees is a good deal like work, while to let them alone is no work at all. With these two alternatives clearly before him,, w-hich would you natur ally expect a mossback to choose? He began life w-ith the fundamental be lief that work is wicked and the Gov ernment encouraged his faith by giv ing him fr nothing more land than any' man could cultivate. A premium was thus set upon thriftlessness and selfish exclusiveness, two character istics which have persisted down to the present time and seem likely to survive for a goodly season yet to come. While we admire, therefore. Mr. Lownsdale's enthusiastic missionary work among the-mossbacks, and laud and magnify his energetic spirit," we cannot conscientiously - say that we have much hope of his success. The most effectual remedy for the moss back is time, which ultimately seizes him with a grasp he cannot s-k. and lays him away where he will cease forever to impede the progress of the world. In our candid opinion, when the mossback was shipped to this world a mistake was made by the clerk of the universe. 'He was cre ated for some other sphere where work Is not necessary. Here he finds himself entirely out of place, and the striving of his neighbor is a continual grief to him. We do not, of course, recommend to the mossback that he should take it into his own hands to remedy the mistake that was made in sending him to the earth to live: but if it should by chance occur to him to do so there are several very ef fectual and not unpleasant devices for the purpose which one would gladly suggest to help him avoid failure. OLD-AGE PENSIONS. The first breath of hard times brings in view the thoifsands of poor, but un fortunate people who, despite their best efforts, are forever hanging over an abyss of poverty. These unfortu nates, who seem utterly unable to "grasp the skirts of happy chance, or breast the blows of circumstance," even in what we term good times, are unable to lay by anything for the periods of adversity, and accordingly must suffer the pangs of poverty, or, if they happen to be proud and high strung, the still greater pangs of "charity." The problem of poverty is world-old. There were "poor people" when history first began recording the movements 6f man, and undoubtedly the predecessors of man on earth in their caves and trees found difficulty in an equitable distribution of what we term property. But it is in these ever-recurring periods of financial de pression that the spectre of poverty stalks forth so promiscuously that its presence becomes painfully apparent to others than the actual sufferer. A recent address delivered by Will iam Allen White in Chicago has at tracted much attention through Its suggestion of a National pension sys tem for poor people. "National re sponsibility," said Mr. White, "Is to ward the honest, hard-working man, who, at the end of a long, industrious life, through no fault of his own, finds that he has nothing to show for his labor and only charity upon which he may depend for support." But Mr. White fails to offer, nor can anyone offer, a solution of the problem tjiat would meet the requirements of all cases, or even a. majority of the cases of the poor, but honest people who have failed in the battle of life. In his address, he called attention to what the people of Europe have done in the way of age pensions, cheap gov ernment insurance, and savings banks under government control, as well as other measures devised, for the inter est of the laboring classes. But the conditions which make old age pensions practically a duty of the government in Europe, do hot exist in this country. In Europe all of the land is controlled by the landlord class, largely the nobility. The population of entire cities and even counties in Europe are but tenants of some enor mously wealthy landlord, and all the life earnings of the people go to swell his treasure chests. The entire econ omic system of the European countries makes it impossible for a man to reap the reward of his labor, and it is ac cordingly but just and right, that the landlords, who are the "government" in most European countries, should provide old age pensions for those who have worn out their lives in service. But In this country, we have not yet reached that stage of servitude. All over the United States, and in Canada and Alaska,- there are thousands and millions of thrifty people who have been crowded out of the cities of the old and new world, and, to escape the terror of old age poverty, have sought the forests, fields and" mines, and wrested from them a competence which will render an old age pension unnecessary. To a greater degree than anywhere else on earth, every man in America Is "the architect of his own fortune." It is regrettable that honest, industri ous men should suffer from poverty after their days of usefulness are end ed,' but It will 'be an extremely dif ficult matter to formulate an old age pension system that would not in many cases place a premium on lack of ttirift. As no two men are exactly alike, there would be no two cases which could be considered alike, and society would find It impossible to de termine how far It could go in pro viding for the poor soldiers who had fallen, in the battle of life. We may, and undoubtedly will, accomplish much by legislation that -will tend to equalize . the opportunities men now have for amassing a fortune, but it would be impracticable at this time to adopt a system of old age pensions such as may be due the landlord-ridden countries of the old world. THE WAR AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. Effort by the officers of the Inter national Congress on Tuberculosis, to reach the people on educational lines in regard to the cause, treatment and cure of tuberculosis is comprehensive and should prove far-reaching in its effects. This body meets once in four years for the presentment of data collected in the Interval between ses sions and for the general furtherance of the work indicated by its name. Its next session will be held in Wash ington, D. C, next September, at which time a vast fund of information in regard to the subject treated will be made available to the public. The question of sanatoria for the treat ment of incipient and hopeful tuber cular cases - will be presented in a light which It is believed cannot fail to cause the multiplication of these in stitutions sufficient to meet the urgent demands of humanity and of Indus trial, social and political economy in the premises. Among the prizes for treatises upon the various phases of this subject is one of J1500 offered by the Smithson ian Institution for the best treatise that may be submitted on "The Rela tion of Atmospheric Air to Tubercu losis." Other prizes of J1000 and less are offered for the best exhibit of an existing sanatorium for the treatment of curable cases of tuberculosis among the working classes; for the best ex hibit of a furnished ho.use for a fam ily of group of families of the work ing class, designed in the interest of the crusade against tuberculosis; for the best exhibit of a dispensary for the treatment of the tuberculous poor, and for the best exhibit of a hospital for the treatment of advanced pul monary tuberculosis. Other subjects are presented, all of which are- of more or .less vital Importance to the civilized world. facing as it does the growing menace of this insidous disease. Scientists have sounded the alarm"; scientific re search has justified in every instance the validity of the claim that the prog ress of tuberculosis, having already caused a decimation of population in certain districts, threatens to depopu late them if not speedily and effec tively checked. The late rep'ort from Alaska by Government officials, rela tive to the growing prevalence of this disease among the Indians of that ter ritory and the "consequent menace to the white population, is in point. The alarum cannot be too quickly or too loudly sounded in regard to this mat ter. Science has discovered the cause of what is commonly termed "con sumption." It has also discovered and prescribed a remedy for the dis ease in its incipient stage. Better than all (since the ounce of prevention is everywhere accredited as worth a pound of cure), it has discovered and prescribed preventive measures which. if followed persistently and intelli gently, would practically blot this most prevalent, wasting and wasteful scourge out of existence in a decade. The hope of civilization in this mat ter is in the intelligent dissemination of knowledge.' The International Con-- gress on Tuberculosis at Its session in Washington next Fall will present the grounds for this hope and indicate the means whereby they may be worked with profit to the race. Students at Ann Arbor who had to be handcuffed in order to be taken to jail after rioting in a theater, should join with the insurgents at Stanford in founding a new university dedicated to the principles of liberty as they un derstand the word. There are a num ber of eminent and wealthy men in the country who would doubtless join in establishing an endowment fund for such an institution. All men who deny the right of organized society to regu late their actions should enter into hearty co-operation in maintenance of such an institution. Harriman, Rockefeller, and all other beneficiaries of stock manipulation, rebates and similar unlawful transactions, might reasonably be expected to lend all pos sible aid to a college of that kind. And from every part of the country there should be a rush of students to the new educational institution where every young man and young woman would be free to exercise individual fancy and give free play to personal desire, regardless of the rights or wishes or opinions of others. Colleges with rules are all right for those who like tjiem, but there should also bo col leges without rules, or, rather, col leges with rules that need not be obeyed. It takes all kinds of people to make a world. We must expect to have the hoodlum in college as well as out of it. But since it is not fair nor wise to. mix the hoodlums with the orderly and decent people, separate Institutions should be maintained for those who belong to that class. ' All over the United States public school authorities are investigating stairways, fire escapes and other means of exit from school buildings in case of fire. It takes a catastrophe such as that at Collinwood to arouse sleeping officials and spur them to performance of duty. A few years ago a similar disaster in a Chicago theater resulted In a general campaign against thea ters that had no adequate exits for use of the crowds in case fire should break out or some other emergency should create a stampede. Other wholesale forfeitures of human life will be neces sary to inform the people and their servants of other dangers whose ex istence is not thought of until the ap palling accident occurs. Perhaps the next structure to claim its victims wilf be a steel bridge whose supports have crystallized with .age, an insane asy lum, a prison or an underground grill room. If some superhuman power could give warning of the catastrophe the suffering, the loss of life and limb and the grief of the bereaved could be averted, but apparently the sacrifice must be made by the relatively few in order that the many may be taught how to avoid the danger. In the mean time, however, it is better to appear over-cautious than to overlook any preventive measures that can be taken. A great lot of persons who have been voting for Governor Chamber lain and other Democrats these many years! now announce themselves as Republican candidates for various of fices. That is amusing. Don't they know there Is no Republican party? Don't they know they and their fellow "Independents" have killed it? It has been decreed, during -years past, by these people, that there shall be no Republican party in Oregon. Very well. There is some time yet ahead of us. We can wait. If every Oregon farmer will resolve this Spring to raise twice as many chickens as he did last year, and will set twice, as many hens, we shall have next year a more nearly adequate sup ply of poultry and eggs' and the state will be that much better off. The pro ducer will scarcely notice the addi tional cost of production, but will en joy the Increased returns. . The Irish master of a British steam ship who refused to fly the American flag above the green emblem of Ire land will not be applauded by either Irish, British or Americans who are possessed of the usual amount of good sense. fool is pretty much the same kind of an individual, no matter what flag he Is sailing under. Donbtless Father Yorke thinks Schmitz, Ruef, et al., are innocent. Everybody else knows they are guilty, and bught to be in the penitentiary, and any court procedure necessary to place 'them there is justified. Father Yorke doesn't want them there, guilty or innocent That's what's the matter with Father Yorke. The Democrats of Lane County for mally agree to support no candidate "who is not for Statement No. 1." There Is no disagreement among Dem ocrats on that question. For that rea son there are Republicans who will support no candidate who is for State ment No. 1. - What cares the Supreme Court of California for the protests and criti cisms ot the people. The judges have the approval of the men to whom they owe their position, and with that they are probably content. Salem has a poundmaster whose du ties include the catching of bicycle riders who violate the spec? ordinance. The pound is a pretty good place for the "scorcher." . VERSE BT HARRY MURPHT. THE "STATESMAN." Wears a formal solemn phiz. ' As a nation's cares were his; Stands upright as virtue's friend. Says corruption's reign must end; Lashes with a noble rage A debauched and sunken age; Hints of plots among the great Boding ruin to the state; Cunningly he knows to steer For tho thing- he feigns to fear. When benignest Is his smile Then beware his web of wile; Hides his vile self-seeking under Sanctity that nrake men wonder. With a heart to fawn and flatter Or to threaten doesn't matter Both he'll do with equal will So it but his end fulfill. Greed or malice ever lurks As the motive of his works. Skilled to slay with nameless lie Men of reputation high. Like a snake he wriggles on. Slime betraying where he's gone. Cancer plague personified Of such cause have nations died; Judas, Janus, trickster, traitor. He'll prove mortal soon or later. SWEETER, STILL THE HOPE. Remembrance of the past is sweet; To reunite links broken. The friends of youth again to greet. Again hear fond tones spoken. The flow'rs of those departed days Are brighter than before; They bloom 'neath mem'ry's magic rays Upon- a fairy shore. The commonplace, familiar things Once deemed scarce worth a glance The vanisned time around them fllnga What glory and romance! Remembrance of the past Is sweet, iBut sweeter still the hope Of future, when, earth's task complete-, Beioved arms shall ope. SPRING. Beneath the step of maiden Spring The blushing blossoms w-ake; Her nimble-pinioned breezes bring To bud each grove and brake. Now sport the flocks o'er hill and piain; The serpent's dight anew; The blithesome bird its nuptial strain Pours from the boundless blue. ' 'T!s as a loving call they heard Each thing and promptly came; Leaf, blade and flower, beast, bee and bird. To answer to Its name. a rnxrriox. Give me & cot by nature's side, Aloof from rout and riot. Where gentle bird and beast abide. Amid the vernal quiet. By stream and mountain be my lot. I'm tired of towns and noise j'm tired of toils that lead to naught And burdens misnamed joys. A roof mid nature's paareantry; To know a brotherhood With wind-swept cliff and solemn sea And venerable wood. To be where hoary summits stand. Where viewless waters flow. By melody of fountain and An end of empty show! ' EVENING. The misty shadows waft around The earth a curtain of repose; City and Held -have husht their sound, ' And shuts the rose. A gleam from casement here and there Lights up the gathering gloom. Afar The townsman hears o'er tranquil air The clang of car. The tired toiler seeks his cot. Where lowly cheer-his breast rejoices With limbs relaxed and cares forgot. Mid childish voices. Returnirg steps make grentle hearts Beat high, and bright eyes dim; a year A termless age the day that parts From one who's dear! The evening breeze plays gently through The old man's locks; a smile rests or His facethe lowered lids renew Life's happy dawn. The pallid student, bending o'er His page, peers 'yond the nightly flame As though the darkness he'd explore For deathless fame. Despair comes with this peaceful hour' To knock" upon the secret breast. Where sins and wrongs forgiveless cower And murder rest. But sweet to him. with task fulfilled, " When earth enfolds her tired brood In that dear lap where care is stilled And hope renewed! Spiritualism. Grace Sorenson, In Omaha World-Herald Of this weird, un-ranny doctrine, Much on both sides can be said, But I see no satisfaction In conversing with the dead. When the spirit leaves the body And attains a higher plain. Whv should we desire to bring it Back to earthly woes again? When I die and go to heaven, There a while I'd like to stay. Without feeling that the family Wanted me to come away.- If I had to be forever On the earth and heaven road, I would And a half-way station ' Where I'd take ud nty abode. Bo when I'd receive a message From my relatives below, I could answer their Queer summoni In a way that wasn't slow. And if they kept on insisting That around them I must pranca, I would give them all they wanted Of a ghostly song and dance. I would not. like other spirits. On the chairs and tables tap. As it seems so idiotic On old furnituro to rap. It is atrance how many people Who contented lives have led. tFhould become these -on.tant knocker Just as Foon as they are dead. And no mediums I'd talk through, Tho' there was no other way. When they asked me for my mesagl I would simply say. "Nay. nay!" I don't like such go-betweeners. Who can fall off in a trance Any time they take a notion Or are given any chance. In't'-'s age. so Jast advan-ing, tts certainly worth while , To abandon o'd-tlme methods And to do things up in style. So in my communication. If I am allowed a cholt-e, I ivill either Sf-nd a wireless Or I'll megaphone my voice. The Plain Woman. reople's Magazine. The world for me another face mu wear Than if I challenged it with beauty's eyew: The deference, the smile of quick sur pr!e. The flatfrinc glance of strangers unaware. Even the rude, appreciative stare Which beauties while they chide do not misprise. I muKt forepo, affecting to despise; These thinss he for my sisters who are fair. So when one night beneath the Winter mn'.n IThe evening to my poor pale looks grown , kind I. You spoke the words- that turned my night to noon. ' I hel.l th'.-in but as words; and thought to fln'l The candid day disperse them like spilt wine. o late 1 was, dear Love, to kn'jw you mlnr.
