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Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 50 Tribune building. Chicago, rooma 510-012 Tribune building. PORTLAND, SUNDAY, JULY ft, 1908. "TUB PARTS'. IT IS I." Mr. Bryan, "in full retreat" from free silver coinage and government ownership of the railroads, will make the Injunction his paramount Issue this year. It will be an appeal to "a class," for "a class vote." But even as an attempt to "captura the vote of the labor unions" It is not likely to meet with entire success. It certainly indeed, will not take the entire union labor vote; while the assiduous effort to get this vote will very probably turn another sort, In large numbers, away. It Is regrettable, however, as the beginning of "class war" in poll tics; and Instead of being fed by pas sion, or urged on by supposed interest, it ought to be repressed as far as pos sible on both sides. Many, perhaps, most, of the labor union men are averse to the policy that would make appeal to the labor union as a political agency, or heed the appeal when made. Nor do they like the assumption that politicians sometimes make, that it can be bid for as "a class vote." Organized la bor can accomplish a great deal, but nothing of value by direct action In politics, on the side of one party or another. Besides, organized labor, which enforces Its hours and its scale of wages, is relatively but a small part of the labor of the country. The rea sonable and right thing ought to be donp, and must be done, in the matter of the injunction, without reference to the fortunes of one political party or another. There are rights and Interests all round. It can work no injustice or hardship to require men to keep the peace; but punishment for con tempt of court cannot be substituted for punishment of criminal acts, eith er In expectancy or in fact. Bryan Is absolute master of his party now. It will make a platform at Denver absolutely from his dicta tion. His position and authority could not be better stated than In a comment which compares his former positions with his present one. "At the Chicago Convention of 1896, although Bryan was the nominee, he had small part in running things Altgeld, Jones, Till man, Stone, et al. were on the Job. At the Kansas City convention of 1900 Bryan confronted a dangerous insur rection to get the platform adopted that he wanted he had to threaten the resolutions committee that he would appeal against it to the conven tion, and that if it turned down his advice he would withdraw his name as a candidate and become the candi date of the Populists, thus causing a split that would mean the end of the Democratic party. In 1904, at St. Louis, he was flouted. But at last he is the White Czar, the Autocrat of all the Democracies, the Little Father whose whims are laws. The conven tion Is to play the role that Nicholas asked of the Duma is to do exactly as it is directed, and that without kicking or back talk. He Is the sole proprietor the only source of honor and authority as he writes, so is It. Relieved of the need of entering on tedious persuasion and by a mere lift of an eyebrow directing the dance of his marionettes, no party boss in American politics has ever had so much reason for full contentment." Roosevelt never was bops of the Re publican party to the extent that Bry an Is now boss of the Democratic par ty. His party has no will whatever but his own. He has taken up the is sue on. the Injunction, as he took up the issue on the sixteen-to-one ratio with free coinage, in 1896. This issue is overstrained, as that was. Will his appeal on it be more successful? THK t'NRKGCLATED OCEAN RATE. Demoralization of the trans-Pacific trade by reason of the diversion to the oucz (janai or practically all of the business that formerly found its way to the Orient by the rail route across the continent and thence by steamer across the Pacific has been frequently commented on. Vigorous protests have been made at the Interstate Com merce Commission ruling that has caused this trade diversion, but up to date no remedy has been suggested. The Suez Canal is a long distance away from the Columbia River, and the actual working of this handicap on our rail and steamer business is not so well understood as it would be if the example were immediately before us. The Impossibility of a railroad competing with a water line under present conditions is shown, however, in the case of the steamship Nebras kan. which has been loading a small consignment of salmon at Astoria for New York. The salmon business, of course, orig inates at Astoria, and whether it goes forward by rail, as Is the case with the greater portion of the pack, or la shipped by Eteamer, Astoria is the port of departure. The American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, owners of the Nebraskan, and by reason of their im munity from all laws governing the making of tariffs better known as the "American Highwayman" line, having more space than was needed for their freight engagements on the Nebras kan, are taking this salmon from As toria to New Tork at a rate said to be about 60 per cent less than the estab lished rates by rail. Had this figure failed to land the business for the steamer, a still lower rate could have been made and the steamship men would have been answerable to no one for the cut In rates. Freedom of this nature Is denied the railroads, and had they desired to pro tect their interests by meeting the rate o? the steamship, It would have re quired the posting of the new rate for thirty days before the business could be handled. In this particular case of the Nebraskan it is, of course, very much to our interest to have Oregon products taken to market at the low rate named by the steamer, but the In cident also suggests the thought that It might be to the advantage of the shippers if the railroads were given a little more freedom in meeting this competition. A thirty-day notice of change in rates on business of this nature is, of course, prohibitive, and the case cited illustrates the tremen dous advantage the ocean freighters bound from New Tork for the Orient have over the railroads which in the past' have carried this traffic across the continent, incidentally increasing the available supply of cars for lumber shipment to the East and also admit ting of a frequent steamship service on the Pacific which had greatly in creased our local trade with the Far East. We will not profit to the fullest ex tent by water competition unless we give the railroads some chance to meet this competition, and such a chance is impossible under the present ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission. THE DEMOCRATIC PLUTOCRACY. . Mr. Bryan is supreme. The pluto cratic element of the Eastern Democ racy surrenders to him. All the wealth of members of the Democratic party Is bound to the conqueror's chariot wheels. He Is a victor over plutocracy. The hosts of Mammon from Manhat tan bow before the one only man. Now in fact every man is a plutocrat who has a little property more than another man, or the average man. And the average is low. It would seem that Mr. Bryan should not desire the support of any man who has accumu lated a property of any considerable Importance and value. It may be (comparatively) a large property, in deed, and may have been accumulated through laborious, honorable and painstaking methods, during many years. But it excites envy. The pos sessor of it is a plutocrat. He Is one who has succeeded in placing the dol lar above the man. . For he has Dol lars and The Man has nothing. It is the old story, then the story of all the ages. But there is a lot of Democrats, or men professing to be Democrats, -who, when the people come into their own, will afford rich pickings. Some of that pork, when cut up, will measure a thickness of five to seven inches on the ribs. YAMHILL COUNTY AND THE STATE. Yamhill County, unwilling to pay her proportion of the state tax on the same basis or system as that accepted by the other counties, "goes to law," and obtains a decree relieving her from payment, on the ground that the method Is unconstitutional. The Ore gonlan will not criticise Judge Gallo way's opinion; tt will only say that the Constitution of the state Is in such condition that there need be, it would seem, small reason for any citizen or county to bother about what may be Constitutional, what not. The simple truth is that virtually the state pos sesses no Constitution.. But a judge on the bench must still hold to tha formality. It is well known that the present plan was adopted as a means of put ting an end to the competition that had long continued between the coun ties in the matter of cutting their val uations in order to reduce their state xax. This made taxation very unequal and unjust, and caused a pitiful show ing, moreover, of the property values of the state. Since the present law came Into operation these evils, how ever, have been very greatly reduced. Tet it was always supposed that some county that didn't want to raise its valuations to the proper level would protest, soon or late; and. Indeed, It Is a wonder it hasn't been done ere this. Most of the counties were ashamed of the old method, and have had some pride in the matter of making a proper showing. In old times Yam hill was deemed progressive. It cer tainly is not pleasant now to find it taking the lead if the figure may be reversed in holding back. There ought to be state equalization of values, through a duly appointed State Board. We once had an equali zation law, but it, too, was set aside as not in conformity with the Constitution. Whether, under the Constitution as it now stands, any equalization law would be held valid, might be matter of doubt; but the Constitution now may be so easily changed that there is no reason why immediate effort should not be made to get a method that will bring about equalization of county values, by direct authority of the state. The present method is a vast improvement on the former one; but this now Is successfully attacked, and to go back to the old method will be simply intolerable. The state, in fact, needs a constitutional convention; but the time is not yet fully ripe for it, since our projectors and sophisters are not through with their experiments on the present system. But there will be a convention to recast the Constitu tion some time; and it is very probable that the increasing inequalities of tax. ation, and general disorders of the finances of the state, will be the means of compelling it. People will endure. practically forever, everything that is irrational and wrong, except the pres sure of manifestly unequal taxation To get rid of this they will throw over all discussion of theories and abstract notions of "the rights of man," for chief of all practical things, for right and Justice, is approach to fairness and equity, in the distribution of pub lic burdens. TARIFF ON CHERRIES. Now comes a cherry grower who demands that his cherries be pro tected against foreign fruit by a duty that will shut out French maraschinos, or at least stop their sale at 5 cents a pound in New York. For, says he, American growers must get S cents a pound for green fruit in order to make any money. How then, he asks, can American cherries compete with the French, when the latter are sold in this country, all "raaraschinoed" and barreled, at a price which Ameri can growers cannot meet? As a mat ter of fact they do not meet it, and he tells us that, out of seven big maras chino firms in the United States, only one is buying cherries, and it is doing 80 because obligated by contract. Since this cherry grower must pay protection prices for his farm ma chinery, harness and clothes and is estopped from buying those articles abroad at cheaper prices than they sell for at home, he thinks he, too, ought to be protected. This demonstrates anew the diffi culty, or impossibility of framing the protective tariff so as to treat all American Industries fairly and avoid mulcting one industry for the benefit of another. If cherry growing needs protection, it is entitled to it as much as any agricultural pursuit or manu facturing interest. The cherry growers should elbow themselves to the front of those who fre clamorous for tariff reform and see to it that in the reform their in terests shall not be left out. If they shall be treated right, doubtless no complaint will be , heard from their direction in the future. That Is the way of others who are protected against cheap foreign prices. WAS SHAKESPEARE EPHEMERAL? Portland people who went to see Mr. Mantell and his company act Shakespeare's plays were delighted In many ways. What pleased them most, apart from the merit of the dramas. It would be difficult to say. ' Perhaps It was the good elocution of the actors. They all spoke their lines well. Every word was distinct. Nobody had to guess what the player was talking about. The women especially spoke with admirable accuracy. This is noteworthy because women on our stage as a rule gibber instead of enunciating. What pass for words with them are a mere series of hisses, gulps arid inarticulate ' shrieks. This was painfully true of the women In Mr. . Collier's "Caught in the Rain," which was played In Portland not long ago to crowded houses. Of all the pretty females who adorned his in sipid scenes not one could be under stood without painful efforts of the attention. ' They did not speak; they gasped, sibilated and mouthed. Their words were run together in a stream of unintelligent noise. The men in that sifly play, even Mr. Collier him self, spoke badly enough, but the women were infinitely worse. The, women who played with Mr. Mantell had evidently been trained to speak the English language. , The Queen in Hamlet enunciated with keen Intelligence. Her words were almost too clear cut, If that is possi ble. Ophelia, too, excessively woe begone as she was from the outset, nevertheless did not mumble. From the heavenly lines of her part nothing was lost by slovenly speech. If she had only been able to smile a little before her tragedy began, as Mary Anderson used, she would have been an unalloyed delight. But then one did not need to look at her dolorous face, he could turn his eyes to her hair, which was a treasure for eternity. If it was a wig, would to heaven all worr.en would learn to patronize her wigmaker. Hot as the weather was, the sight of Ophelia's hair was worth a trip to the theater, not to mention Mr. Mantell's gracious art. He did some things which break a little with the classic traditions touching the mel ancholy Dane. Hi3 semi-swoon when the ghost came in looked a good deal like a sop to the groundlings. Hamlet Is . awed when he sees his father's spirit, but he is certainly not over come. After the first exclamation Hamlet's intellect Immediately begins to work. He sets about asking speculative ques tions, which he would not do if emo tion had overpowered him". The man who acts Hamlet to perfection will always give his intellect the first place; emotion will come a long way in the rear. Hamlet is the most intellectual of Shakespeare's plays. Not even Trollus and Cresslda can match it in that respect, while Timon, for all Its cynical philosophy, fairly blazes with passion. There are other passions besides love, and resentment against the world is one of them. We do not mean to say that Hamlet Is not an emotional play, but the feeling of the protagonist smolders while his intel lect broqds over it and pokes among the ashes. It is a psychological drama, teeming everywhere with self analysis. Under the activity of his mind Hamlet ages fast. He begins as a boy not yet out of college and al though the play covers pnly a little time, yet when he comes to talk with the grave-diggers he speaks like a mature man. Some foolish people have argued that here is another of Shakespeare's inconsistencies, which they love to pick out just as the ped antic Professor Lounsbury finds bad grammar in the Bible. He does not seem to understand that books like the Bible make grammar. But in Hamlet's case at any rate the poet is not inconsistent. Let one of the critics see his own father's ghost and receive from the specter a com mand to kill his uncle and one fancies that he would understand why Hamlet changed so suddenly from a boy to a man. Shakespeare was weak on geography and his chronology would shame a schoolboy, but of the secrets of the human soul he was past mas ter. If we fall to comprehend him it is our fault, not his; though it may be our misfortune instead of our fault. In spite of his being a man O . all time and the poet of the eternl ties, nevertheless Shakespeare wrote for his own day and in a certain sense his dramas, like all others, were ephe meral. They were ephemeral in the sense that the externals of life, in which his thoughts were necessarily clad, have passed away and been suc ceeded by new ones. Human nature has not changed ' and may never change, but the things which interest It have greatly altered. For exam. pie, Shakespeare's interest in history was wholly dynastic. His mind was occupied with the fortunes of York and Lancaster, with the personal struggle for supremacy between An tony and Octavius, and so on. The passions which are evoked by the struggle for power no man ever un derstood so clearly as he or expressed so potently in dramatic form, but we look at history otherwise. For us its interest is economic. Underlying the contest between Antony and Octavius was the struggle for exist ence of the Italian farmers. The Wars of the Roses are for us merely an epoch In the onward" march of de mocracy. For Shakespeare their happy outcome was the union of the white and red roses in Richmond; for us it was the destruction of feudalism. Shakespeare again has little or no sympathy for the "disinherited" classes. His heroic characters are all aristocrats. When they speak of the peasant or the mechanic it is with contempt. To be sure it is an error to assume that the feeling of Corio lanus, for example, was Shakespeare's own, but it would be a still greater error to imagaine that he cherished a state of mind which was entirely foreign to the world he lived in. To that world toil was degradation, pov erty was .vile, birth alone entitled a I man to honor;- and Shakespeare would have been more than human if he had not reflected its tone. . But Just as our interest in history is now eco nomic, so our interest in character has passed downward to the masses. The movement which began in Britain with Shelley and Wordsworth has be come dominant in English literature and among English speaking men. We no longer care to hear about dynastic struggles. We no longer be lieve that the fortunes of the rich and great are all-important. We have be come interested in the common man. Therefore we- go In crowds to Bee George Ade's County Chairman, while wti neglect Hamlet and Lear. If there were a Shakespeare to dramatize the life of our world no theater would hold his audiences; since there is not wt. .must e'en make the best of what we have. It is idle to expect men and women in general to enjoy the litera ture of any age except their own. ELECTRIC ROADS IN NORTHWEST. In the current issue of the New York Financial and Commercial Chronicle appears an "Electric Railway" section which presents In detail some very in teresting statistics on the local trans portation facilities of all the principal cities of the United States.. The fig ures showing the relative importance of the Portland and Seattle street rail way systems are especially Interesting. for the reason that they serve to cor rect a prevalent, Impression that Seat tle, with its wide-spreading suburban railway system, has a greater mileage than the Portland city lines. The Portland lines are consolidated under one management and operate cars over 219 miles of road. The Seattle Electric Company embraces practi cally all of the roads in Seattle and has a total trackage of 155.56 miles. The Seattle Railway Company, oper ating a cable line over the hill, has five miles of track, and the Seattle, Renton & Southern, a suburban road running out to Renton, has 19 miles, of track, making a grand total of 179.56 miles, compared with Portland's 219 miles. In the Portland figures, the new line of the United Railways Company is not included, nor is the Oregon Elec tric system. The mileage of the lat ter is about the same as that of the Puget Sound Electric Company, which operates the lnterurban line between Tacoma and Seattle and owns the Tacoma street railway system of 109 miles. The Hlllsboro and Eugene ex tensions of the Oregon Electric' will give this line a much greater mileage than that of the Puget Sound Electric, but, as neither of the lines is Included with , the city lines, comparisons in connection with the other figures are valueless. From these statistics, it appears that Portland has about forty miles more street railway trackage than Seattle. In gross earnings Seat tle leads with $4,287,089, compared with $4,050,145 for Portland, but the Portland practice of hauling two car loads of people on one car shows its results In net earnings of $1,772,825, compared with $1,528,159 for the Seat tle roads. Statistics showing the number of passengers carried are not given, but, as the greater part of Seattle's resi dence district is practically inaccessi ble except by carline or balloon, the number of passengers . per mile of track is undoubtedly much greater than In Portland, where walking in any direction from the business center is a pleasure. While Portland has forty miles more trackage than Seat tle, it is concentrated in a smaller area, area, much of the Seattle mile age being made up of long suburban routes to Renton, Green Lake, Ballard and other outlying districts. Portland 13 sadly In need of more of this sub urban mileage, for on practically every branch road on the east side of the river, the population has been forced back so far from the present lines that people are obliged to walk long dis tances in order to reach a carline. The growth of our street car facili ties, gratifying as it may seem in comparison with that of other North western cities, has not been in keep ing with the growth of the city and an additional fifty miles of road, dis tributed through the various residence districts of the city, are urgently need ed. Pending this improvement, a few more cars on the routes now covered would be a convenience that would be appreciated. FACILITATING THE CAMPAION. The Philadelphia Record publishes a story about President Roosevelt and the steel trust which the Indianapolis News does not credit. The story runs that Mr. Roosevelt has forced the trust to set its mills going at Pittsburg by threatening to reduce the tariff if they remain idle. He wants the mills to be running during the campaign. since that would create a fictitious semblance of prosperity and thus gain votes for Mr. Taft. The News is will ing to believe that Mr. Roosevelt would practice this indecorous subter fuge if he could, but It doesn't think he can, and, like the politician in George Ade's play, it "tells us why.' There are three reasons why, all of which we will quote: Now we have the utmost respect for the big stick, nor do we doubt the. willingness of the President to use It for the accom pltshment of a political purpose. But we very much doubt whether the steel trust could be driven thus to resume business before it was prepared to do so. There Is no reason why it should be terrified by any threat to "tinker the tariff." For the Republican party stands pledged by its recently made platform to give It enough protection to equalise the cost of pro duction here with the cost eff production abroad and also to give It "a reasonable profit" In addition. Nothing more than this could be askel Further than this Mr. Roosevelt will not be President after March 4 next and there Is reason to be lieve that Mr. Taft, the only other man who could -carry out the threat that Is supposed to have been made, will be much less disposed than Mr. Roosevelt has been to Influence the deliberations of Congress. Finally, no one believes that a Republican Congress will seriously Interfere with the protection enjoyed by the steel trust, no matter what may be the views of the President at the time. The tariff plank In the Republican platform is more of a menace than a consolation to the trust. It promises protection enough to equalize the cost of production at home and abroad, with a reasonable profit. The News thinks "nothing more could be asked." A great deal more could be asked, and, what is better, it could be obtained. For most of the articles which the steel trust produces, the cost of pro duction is less here than it Is in com peting foreign countries, because of the great efficiency of American Jabor and machinery. Hence a. promise to Impose a tariff which shall "equalize the cost of production" is in reality a threat to clip the revenues of the trust. With no duties whatever it could pro duce cheaper than its competitors can and still sell at a "reasonable profit." It sells goods today in Europe at a reasonable profit witli no tariff to pro tect it; why could it not do the same thing at home? .We see, then, that the Republican tariff plank, taken in connection with the facts of the case, might mean no protection for the steel trust. If the trust shows a docile spirit during the campaign, it will tend to ameliorate the rigors of Congressional action, will it not? If it does as it Is bid, we imagine that "reasonable profits will mean something very dif ferent from what It would if the pro tected infant were naughty. If It Is to retain the power to fatten upon the plunder of the community, we dare say it expects to pay for the privilege and would not refuse any reasonable re quest from Mr. Roosevelt touching campaign facilitations. What would a few thousand dollars sunk in running its mills amount to compared with four years more of unlimited piracy? The News thinks also that Mr. Taft would be less disposed to punish the trust by Influencing Congress than Mr. Roosevelt might in his place. Per haps so; but Mr. Taft may not be elected. And whether he Is elected or not, there will be an interval from December to March with Mr. Roose velt in all his horror still occupying the White House and a pliable Con gress in session. What would a recal citrant steel trust have to expect from them? Would not the big stick fall with thundering whacks upon its tariff protection and its profits? This fright ful image becomes all the more vivid if we keep in mind that the Republi can tariff plank admits of almost any meaning you choose to give it. DISEASE AND CURE. Mr. Luther P. Cudworth's position in the Christian Science communion warrants the supposition that his statement of their views in The Ore gonian of July 2 was authoritative. His letter is interesting and some what important, because, in spite of persistent efforts to enlighten the pub lic on the part of their lecturers and publication committees, there is still a good deal of misunderstanding as to what the Christian Scientists really believe and do. Some of the misun derstanding is, of course, willful, but some of It is sincere. Mr. Cudworth's letter ought to clear up much of the fog which seems to becloud the popu lar conception of his faith, though nat urally he cannot expect that everybody who reads it will agree .with him. One of his statements in particular will provoke dissent. "Physicians are com ing of late years to admit one of the points emphasized by Christian Sci ence, namely, that the human mind is the cause of disease." Much evidence could be produced to show that the trend of opinion among physicians is in the contrary direction. It would be difficult to find a physi cian who would admit that the human mind causes such diseases as diph theria, tuberculosis, smallpox or typhoid fever. Educated scientific opinion holds that these ailments re sult -from the action of deleterious germs of one sort or another upon the system. The mind does not cause them and it cannot cure them. A person might sit down and exercise his mind in all possible ways from now till the crack of doom without giving himself an attack of tuberculosis. . Unless the specific germ of that disease were present he would be Immune forever, let his mind work as it might, either sinfully or righteously. The same Is true of diphtheria and almost every other really dangerous disease. Phy sicians do admit that there is a class of ailments which are properly at tributed to abnormal mind activity, but the germ diseases are not among them. They concede, however, that a good, healthy mentality may do a great deal to fortify the body against the attacks of the specific germs, and when a disease has been acquired the mind may lend efficient aid in the cure. The mind may in a measure prevent the onset of a germ disease, and it may help to throw off such a disorder after it has been contracted. It must be granted also that a timid, appre hensive mental state may so weaken the body as to make it an easy victim to any germs which may happen to besiege it, but to have the genuine dis ease we must first have the germs. All that the mind can do of its own ac tion Is to set up a hysteria which shall resemble the particular disease in question more or less accurately. Such, we take It, Is the opinion of educated physicians upon the relation between the mind and disease. The Christian Science doctrine that the mind causes all diseases might be harmful if It were carried out in prac tice. But probably it is not. One may suppose that it is kept for orna ment rather than use, like many doc trines of other denominations. If it were to be acted upon, it might lead t. the neglect of cleanliness, disinfec tion, quarantine and other precautions which experience has shown we can not do without if we wish to avoid epidemics. From his doctrine that the mind causes disease Mr. Cudworth draws a curious inference. Rejecting the homeopathic . dictum that like cures like, he argues that the same thing cannot possibly be both cause and cure. "If the human mind causes disease," he says, "something outside of and superior to the human mind must be invoked for a remedy." The force of this Is not apparent. If the mind, acting In a certain way, causes disease, why should It not be able to undo Its work by acting in the reverse way? If It cannot It is an exception to every force that we know anything about. But can a charge of dynamite undo its work by being reversed? Re verse the explosion and see. We are speaking of manageabie forces, a class to which the mind distinctly belongs. But we have not quite stated the whole of Mr. Cudworth's inference. He goes on to say that the healing agency, outside of and superior to the mind, which must be invoked. is God," and thereby, of course, he eludes all reply. When a person begins to assert that God does this and that, he is beyond the reach of logic. However, there is no particular ab jection to saying that God cures dis ease, all diseases, if you please. It is a pleasant form of words, like the say ing that "God makes the wheat grow," and it may perhaps mean something. Still, in making the wheat grow we know that the deity uses certain agen cies, such as sunshine, rain, fertilizers, plows and human hands. Likewise In curing diseases he employs such agen cies as quinine, anti-toxin and rhu barb.' There la no harm in ascribing everything that goes on in the World to the direct activity of the Almighty if we do not neglect to 'provide him with the proper tools and forces to work with. While it is entirely true that the external world is probably il lusory, still it is also true that our bod ies are part of the illusion and subject to precisely the same physical rela tions as the rest of it. Until we can emancipate the whole universe from the laws by which it abides we are not very wise to try to make complete ex ception of our bodies. The acquittal of James H. Booth is not surprising. It' was, indeed, ex pected. The testimony failed to sus tain the gravamen of the indictment. Moreover, the verdict of the Jury is one more proof that public sentiment does not sustain the method of the prosecution, which puts men under in dictment, and then holds the charge over them for years before bringing them to trial giving out meantime every kind of insinuation against them and against others too, who are con stantly threatened and maligned, 'but never even Indicted. This sort of thing not only has become wearisome, but kindles Indignation and resent ment. It does not please the people of Oregon that, these trials have been delayed for years, for pursuance of spectacular objects, elsewhere, which, however, also have failed. Binger Hermann has been under indictment here for years, yet never has been brought to trial and never will be. All sorts of charges have been thrown out against Charles W. Fulton, yet there has been nothing but gas and wind on which to base them. No wonder the public patience is exhausted. It doesn't seem to be any Justifica tion of the taking of unconstitutional salaries to allege that "they all did it. even though we recall the historical precedent of the hog case, where every member of the jury "had got some of the pork." Never mind what members of the constitutional conven tion Bald In the debate at various times, when the salary schedule was under discussion. -After they had threshed all opinions out in debate. and had voted one way and another on various propositions, and even had exhausted banter, they specifically de fined the salaries and fixed them in the Constitution, expressly with intent not to leave the subject open to the Legislature. Else there would have been no reason to fix them at all. All the officials who have "had some of the pork" will not change the fact. An English paper said that ex-Boss Croker wasn't a real sport and now It apologizes and pays $7500 damages. England's the place for the Tammany Tiger to go for vindication. Some of those touts and race-track rounders, too, who have been driven out of New York by Governor Hughes will be able to take the hint. There Is a. better game than playing the races; it is "stringing" the English newspapers intq libeling "sports." Boss Murphy, Roger Sullivan and the late A. B. Parker are becoming reconciled to Bryan as a candidate be cause they have to be; but they desire to have a few words to say about that anti-injunction plank. They'll have to say 'em quick for the signs are strong that Col. Bryan has arranged to give the platform a thorough Gomperizlng. Having spoken pleasantly about Mr. Hearst, Mr. Bryan naturally supposes that that great Journalist and states man will fall In line with the Denver nomination. But will he? It should never be forgotten that Mr. Hearst is editor of a string of admiring news papers and is ablfi to speak pleasantly of himself. Col. Jim Ham Lewis, too, is willing to accept the Democratic Vice-Presi dential nomination. The Colonel, who is a mighty patriotic man, thus took the country into his confidence on July Fourth. But hasn't the Democ racy already an oversupply of star spangled candidates? The Republican Congressional Com mittee's offer of $150 for the best short article on the subject, "Why the Republican Party Should Be Success ful Next November?" seems dis tressingly puny in comparison with Senator Bourne's magnificent offers to second elective term literature. If Jim Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania, was listening, he heard his name men tioned several times at Lincoln, Neb. yesterday. But Jim Guffey knows how to get even. There will be no elec toral votes In Pennsylvania this year for any Democratic candidate. Should Oregon vote for Bryan there will be no sort of question that the people want also a Democratic Sen ator. Two months later than the elec tion of Bryan the election of Chamber lain will be easy especially if Oregon shall vote for Bryan. There Is talk now of the nomination of Herman Ridder, of New York, for Vice-President on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Ridder is a man of sound ability, of excellent judgment, and very fit to be President. Well, the Fourth is all over and we can count up and put away our re- maining fingers, eyes, ears and so forth for another Glorious . Fourth. But it really was an enjoyable day, between explosions. In San Francisco not a single Injury resulted from explosion of fireworks on the ever Glorious Fourth. The reason is that there were no fireworks, They have found out a thing or two in San Francisco. Tom Johnson says that he wants to put a government ownership of rail roads plank in that platform "on moral grounds." Grand. But does he want also to scare Bryan to death? It really would seem that somebody ought to suggest Hon. Milt. Miller, the peerless friend of the peerless Bryan, for Vice-President Our George doesn't want it at present. Mr. Heney, it would appear, took the psychological moment to turn over the prosecution of the Oregon land-fraud cases to a successor. It will be something to remember, years hence, that Portland got to the top of the baseball heap in 1908, and stayed there for awhile, anyhow. SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR A. GREENE. It Is hard for a man to stand on his dignity when someone is standing on his toes. Nowadays every woman with blonds hair Is kept busy explaining that she was born that way. A mother usually begins to worry over her son when someone notes his resem blance to his father. The surest way to please a man who has passed 30 is to call him "my boy." In society and poker it is always de sirable to have the right cards before you call. m If all the condemned criminals go to Heaven who announce their Itinerary on the scaffold. I'd advise Saint Peter to carry a gun. This department Is curious to know the whereabouts of one Jonathan Bourne. Charlie Ross and Lost Lenore please write. s A stitch In time often saves embar rassment. Don't think because you are left In solitary loneliness that you're a genius. There's Just a possibility that the peo ple you know are discriminating In their friendships. When a girl who can't cook marries a poor man, love soon jumps out of the frying-pan Into the fire. It's a little hard on a doting father who has had a daughter on his hands to be compelled' to keep a son-in-law on his feet after daughter marries. m m m The undertaker has no time for the man who Is buried in thought. Many a poor suitor is well off after the daughter of a rich parent has refused him. m Devotion. Sometimes In the long dark silence of the night There comes a dream of thee. Sometimes at ardent noon I hear thy song Calling to me. Sometimes In the flush young morn I seem to be Standing with you beside a Summer sea. But always In the evening when the grey And eerie shadows make their silent way Down the old lane, where we were wont to stray There do I wait sweet spirit, say That my poor soul may tryst with thine 'til the immortal day. Most of the real grief in life is caused by those who worry over Imaginary troubles. Whenever a young wife has a spat with her husband she longs to get even by going on the stage and becoming an emotional actress. The successful doctor la always willing to let well enough alone. Remember, Claude, that although a good front 1b to be desired. It requires backbone to make it convincing. The chief requirement of modem statesmanship seems to be an ability to gab before Chautauqua audiences. ' Matrimony Is the surest cure for ro manticism. . Many a righteous man is such because he has had no chance to be otherwise. The average man will tell more secrets to a good-looking woman than he will to his father confessor. When a woman Is finally convinced that she no longer has a figure, she real izes that life is a hollow mockery. Most of the scandals originate in the clubs or on street corners. The men tell their wives and they merely annotate and give them publicity. If all the world's a stage, most of us seem to be merely supers. Those who. drink to drown them usu ally find that It's a careless sorrow that hasn't a life preserver. It's hard to be romantic if your liver Is working properly. The modern celebration of the Glorious Fourth should bring the shades of George Washington and the Chinaman who dis covered gunpowder Into a close bond of fellowship. . The Washington man who was feat ured in Friday's papers as having 32 children certainly did his best to become father of his country. CLEVELAND AND BRYAN. Honor of the Memory of One by the Other. New York World, Dem. Four years ago Mr. Bryan said In a speech at Urbana, O.: "The Democrats in 1892 played a confidence game on the people, and put a bunco-steerer at the head of the party." In a statement issued June 22, ' 1902, Mr. Bryan said that Mr. Cleveland se cured his nomination In 1892 by a secret bargain with financiers: that he spent the largest campaign fund the party ever had; that he filled his Cabinet with cor poration agents; that he placed railroad lawyers on the bench of the United States Supreme Court, and that having debauched his party, he stabbed It to death to prevent its return to the path of virtue. Now that Mr. Cleveland is dead, Mr. Bryan is seeking to capitalize his mem ory for personal political profit. A por trait of Mr. Cleveland, draped In black, is to be hung in the convention hall at Denver. Reports come from Lincoln that Mr. Bryan would be pleased with the nomination for Vice-President of Judge Gray or some other man who was close to Mr. Cleveland. There Is much talk about "harmonizing" the two wings of the party as a tribute to Mr. Cleveland's memory. There has come from Lincoln, how ever, no suggestion of honoring Grover Cleveland's memory by returning to Democratic principles and nominating a real Democrat for President on a real Democratic platform. They Carry the Good With Them. Hearst's New York American. Going westward, Tamminy will find Kansas. Iowa and Nebraska more or less "dry" states. But what will the tourists care? Won't their buffet car have enough to quench every thirst? Will it? Huranh, -we apologize for the silly question-
