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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-