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PORTLAND. SUNDAY. SEPT. IS. ISO.
THE TEIENCIES OF A PARTY.
A great truth Mr. Bryan Is telling;
In his recent speeches. "Parties," be
declares, "are not to be measured by
the things actually done, but by their
tendencies." It is a test that ai
ways has been insisted on by The
Oregonian; but It has often been de
rided by Mr. Bryan's partisans In Ore
ron, and elsewhere, too. Many and
many a time, when uttered by The
Oregonian, It has called forth a cry of
rage from the non-partisan Demo
cratic oracles hereabout. "There is
nothing in the history or tendency of
parties by which to Judge them"
ihey exclaim; "ma are not dealing with
the past, but with the present and
future. The 'tendency argument Is
Sothing but hide-bound partylsm."
But Mr. Bryan is right in his state
ment. Twice has he been beaten be
cause of adverse Judgment on the his
tory, the course and tendency of his
party; and It is the main argument
against him and his party still. For,
between the Republican and Demo-
sratic platforms of the present year
there is scarcely a single appreciable
difference. "If," says the New York
Times, "the two were cut up, para
graph by paragraph, and well shaken
together In Mr. Bryan's hat, no man
on earth who had not previously read
them, no matter how intimately famll
lar he might be with present Demo
cratic and Republican policies, would
be able to restore the two documents
in their separate textual integrity.'
Tet there is a profound difference
between the parties. It Is to be found
in their historic characters, In their
constant tendencies, which have ap
peared In all their acts, attempted or
performed accentuated at the present
time by the contrast between the tem
per and temperament of the candl
dates. Spite of all appearances of sim
llarity, the parties and the candidates
are at opposite poles. Mr. Taft repre
sents one system of politics, one theory
of government; Mr. Bryan another.
The two have been In conflict from
the very beginning of our composite
or federal system. They antedate even
the Revolution and our National In
dependence. One of them Is for
strong, vigorous and efficient central
government; the other stands for a
loose non-national democracy iso
lated centers of local government,
such as exist in our Southern States
today, and in the city of New York,
where Tammany sets up a barrier
against both state and National con
trol. This distinction of parties never
will be lost. The party that calls it
self Democratic never can be National.
It always will be sectional and local.
will oppose a. Navy; will condemn ex
pansion, and will continue to insist on
abandonment of our Islands In the Pa-
clflc and Atlantic. Its notions of
finance, with sliver as the basis of
money and measure of values, corres
pond with the general character.
Within the memory of living men It
has favored the dissolution of the
Union, and its controlling element has
waged a war to effect It. Its right des
ignation Is the party of Little Ameri
cans. It has. Indeed, at one time and an
other, contained contradictory forces
within itself, which make occasional
counter currents, as eddies here and
there run against the stream; but the
general course remains the same; that
Is to say, opposition to strong, vigor
ous and efficient government, and a
disposition to promote and support
local and anti-national policies. From
its Jeffersonlan constitution this ts Its
necessary character. It is the source
of all its errors from the time it took
up the championship of slavery and
accepted the doctrine of National dis
integration as the proper application
and enforcement of its state-sovereignty
principles. Upon these ideas and
their consequences it still holds one
third of the states of the Union In a
Democratic party confederacy, and,
basing Its efforts and its power on this
sura foundation. It cultivates what
ever combinations of local political in
terest or occasional unrest that It may
find In other states, and essays to tie
the whole up together, for the pur
poses of a quadrennial election. It
appeals to every ism and to every
form of dissatisfaction in the land,
but drops one after another upon de
feat, and Invents new expedients for
fresh efforts. The Ideas and purposes
It has proclaimed In its platforms
these fifty years would have been ut
terly ruinous, could they have been
carried out. Its present platform la,
however, only an assimilation of what
it has attempted to gather in from
the efforts and measures of the Roose
velt Administration; yet. the party is
the same party as of yore, and Its
"tendencies" are the same, because
its character ts the same. It Is in
capable of the adoption or the execu
tion of any effective National policy,
because it is a non-national party.
All for the present, then. Is summed
up In this: Taft represents the party
of nationality; Bryan the non-national
party. This Is the basis of all minor
divisions, and Is none the less real be
cause minor divisions for the present
obscure It.
Bernard Pape, whose death oo
curred at his home on the East Bids
Tuesday morning, was a German
American of the thrifty industrial
type. He accumulated during the
years of his active endeavor a compe
tence for his age. He brought up a
large family of sons and daughters,
passed the closing years of his long
life "in peace among bis own," and
went to his final rest respected and
honored by the associates of many
years of his long life. The simple
achievements of such a life are within
the reach of all who pay the price In
industry and good citizenship.
IT 18 A HMflK STORY.
Mr. Chamberlain was not the choice,
and is not the choice, of a majority of
the people of Oregon for Senator. He
only was preferred in the circum
stances, to Mr. Cake, who had no bust
ness In it, and whose "butting In was
resented by thousands of voters; not
because they had objection to Mr
Cake on personal grounds, but because
they didn't deem him the proper man
for the position. Moreover, It was
known that he was nominated In the
primary by the votes of Democrats,
who Intended to vote against him, and
did vote against him in the election.
The hundreds and thousands of Re
publicans who voted for Chamberlain
dldn t vote for him because he was
their "choice." He was not their
choice, in any sense. They knew well
his personal unfitness, and knew more
over that he was, and is, an enemy
In politics of all that they desire. But
they wished to emphasize their disap
proval of the methods that bring for
ward such men as Cake and Bourne
as the representative statesmen of
their party. But Chamberlain neither
was nor is. In any sense, their choice
They wanted to rebuke the whole
scheme of this cheap and dishonest
business; and they reflected, moreover.
that It was the duty of the members
of the Legislature, under their sworn
obligation to the Constitution to elect
the Senator, and concluded they would
pass It up to them.
This is all of It, sung In short metre.
What's the use of beating about the
bush?
A SEATTLE SUICIDE.
Not long ago there was an account
In the papers of a Seattle boy who
committed suicide to escarpe going to
school. Before taking his exit from
the world he wrote a letter to his
mother which showed not a little skill
In composition and gave other Indies
tlons that the youth had enjoyed care
ful nurture. He said in the letter that
he could not endure the terrible
thought of entering school and min
gling with th-5 rough crowd of boys
whom he would meet there, and, since.
his mother had decided that he must.
he turned to suicide as the only es
cape. .The discipline in the family
was surely stricter than one commonly
sees nowadays. If It had not been so.
this extraordinary boy would have re
lied upon cajoling his fond mamma
or practicing that easy deceit which is
so effectual when children wish to es
cape obedience. He might have Imi
tated the little girl in Baltimore who
on her first morning at school fell up
stairs and so Injured her delicate
physique that she was never able to
go again.
The news reports gave no account
of the family of this unfortunate boy,
but one can easily imagine its main
circumstances. He had a most af
fectionate mother who loved to dress
his hair in pretty curls, to ornament
him with a wide white collar to his
Jacket and broad cuffs to his sleeves.
She forbade him to play In the dirt
lest he stain his immaculate knicker
bockers, or to run about In the sun
shine for fear he might ruin the deli
cate, dollish pink of his cheeks. He
had never heard an improper word in
his life. His English, as his letter
shows, was frightfully correct. Fight
ing he had been taught to abhor.
Rough play was ungentlemanly. It is
not difficult to believe that the
wretched boy had been brought up as
nearly as possible In imitation of Lit
tle Lord Fauntleroy, the most deeply
Immoral child character ever Invented.
The boy pickpockets In "Oliver Twist"
were models of virtue compared with
Mrs. Burnett's Infantile monster. Nor
Is the task of picturing the father of
the Seattle suicide very difficult. He
m correct in all his habits, a mem
ber of the Unitarian Church, a deep
student of Browning and much in the
habit of quoting Emerson at the
breakfast table. His evenings he reg
ularly spent reading aloud to his wife
and son from a history of Grecian art
In four large volumes. He was a thin,
slim man, if the term can be thus ap
plied, with a pale. Intellectual face.
In reading the dally paper he always
skipped the baseball news and scowled
In disgust when the headlines an
nounced a prizefight.
The acute reader has already dis
cerned that this poor Seattle boy was
a double victim, first of too much love
and second of too much culture. He
was a sort of hothouse plant, and the
result of all the coddling, fussing and
modeling he received was simply to
unfit him for life. He must have pos
sessed an extraordinary mind. Prob
ably he would have made a great man
if he had had a pair of sensible par
ents. The greatest misfortune that can
happen to a boy is to be born the only
child In a cultured family. If his
father and mother are too poor or too
busy to pay much attention to him,
he may escape some of the 111 conse
quences of such a birth, but woe to the
wretched child If they possess the
means and leisure to devote them
selves entirely to his bringing up.
About the worst thing in the world for
boy who has passed out of baby
hood Is the exclusive devotion of a
loving mother. Her incidental atten
tions morning and night after he has
been away from her during the day
are well enough, but, If she can keep
him in her clutches all the time, he
might as well be preserved In a bar
rel of molasses for all the good that
will ever come of htm. She will make
doll baby of him. If she possibly
can, and the chances are that if she
sets resolutely about It she can.
The wise custom of the English is to
hustle their boys away from home into
a public school at an early age. They
believe that the rough and tumble of
school life Is healthy for the urchins.
Even a little bullying and tyranny
from their mates is not thought to be
very harmful to British youths. Ex
perience shows that this custom is a
good one, for Englishmen have been
a sturdy race hundreds of years and
their stock shows no signs of dying
out. We can hardly say the same of
our older American stock. In a gene
ration or two, unless things greatly al
ter, there will be nothing left of it
except as it mingles with sturdier
breeds. Our original Anglo-Saxon
population, as It is called, seems to
present a case of arrested develop
ment. It flourished mightily for
while after It was transplanted in the
United States and then it began to
pine. Perhaps the climate had some
thing to do with its precocity and ,
early sterility. Perhaps In New Eng
land it was worn out prematurely by
the ' over-ctrenuous struggle with na
ture. Perhaps the mad race for
wealth has exhausted Its vigor; but,
for whatever " reason, alt observers
agree that It is headed toward extinc
tion. The little Seattle boy who killed
himself because he was afraid to go
to school presents an example of
some of our National tendencies car
ried to their logical consequences. He
was a product of that Impatience
which can not wait for natural pro
cesses but must force everything pre
maturely. He could not play, he could
not fight, he could not be one among
comrades. In short he did not know
how to live as a boy.
. A HABD CASK. .
The letter from Prairie City which
The Oregonian printed yesterday was
written by a person who sincerely be
lieves that Mr. H. P. Chambers has
been wronged by the state veterinary
surgeon. He permits a kind heart to
lead his Judgment astray, but he Is not
the only man m the world who does
so, and he has a much better excuse
than those who bewail the destruction
of diseased orchards. - Mr. Chambers
owned some glandered horses which
were shot by the veterinary surgeon.
It appears that the animals were his
sole property and that his family has
been reduced to want by their loss.
The case is a hard one. It Is much
harder than that of a shiftless farmer
whose diseased trees are cut down be
cause by ordinary industry the trees
can be completely protected, while no
precautions will always protect horses
from glanders.
Still the question remains Just
where it did before. Fundamentally
It is the same question, whether we
are talking of trees or horses or tuber
culous cows or scabby sheep. Which
must yield, the Individual or the pub
lic? Whose welfare Is more impor
tant, that of one family or that of a
whole state? If Mr. Chambers' glan
dered team were permitted to go from
place to place hauling freight, which
was his business, every horse along
his route would soon be Infected with
this terribly dangerous and incurable
disease. Not only would the money
loss to the community be great, but
human life would also be sacrificed,
for glanders attacks men as well as
horses. Honce, much as Mr. Cham
bers is to be commiserated. The Ore
gonian must contend that the veteri
nary surgeon did only his plain duty
when he shot the horses, and every
good citizen ought to commend him
for it. Nor Is It admissible that the
state ought to compensate Mr. Cham
bers. To make his case an excep
tional one would not be right under
the law, while, if compensation were
granted as a rule. It would encourage
carelessness and heap unbearable bur
dens upon the public. The Oregonian
suggests that Mr. Chambers' misfor
tune presents his neighbors with a
beautiful opportunity to exercise their
generosity.
A KAY OF COMFORT.
Margherlta, the Italian Queen Dow
ager, does' not relish the approaching
union of tha royal Duke of the
Abruzzi with Miss Elkins, daughter of
the Prince of West Virginia. The
Dowager says she objects because tha
Americans are pretty certain to sneer
at the Duke and Intimate that he loves
Miss Elkins, not for herself alone,
but for her father's broad pieces of
yellow gold; and the American sneers
are something that Margherlta can
not abide. They are too keen and
cutting, and alas, all too likely to be
true. But the Duka declares It is
Miss Elkins he loves and not her cash
and he swears by all the gods that
he would wed her Just the same were
she but a dairy maid and her papa a
Yankee farmer who worked a team
of horses Instead of a million men.
It is -barely possible that the royal
Duke overestimates the disinterested
ness of his passlbn. He has seen a
good many dairy maids In his brief
span of existence and some of them
must have been as lovable as Miss
Elkins, but his heart was never taken
captive until he met her In her
radiant sumptuousness. It is therefore
legitimate to guess that the sumptu
ousness had something to do with the
enklndlement of the fires of Cupid in
his manly breast.
But let us give Abruzzi the benefit
of the doubt. As noblemen go he is
a manly sort of a young chap who
has had his share of bold adventure
and hardy sport. As soon as her
father became a multi-millionaire it
was fairly certain that Miss Elkins
would bestow her riches on some
European of lofty lineage and we
ought to be thankful that she has
chosen a man instead of a scrofulous
simulacrum. These International mar
riages are gradually saddling upon the
country the evils of absentee landlord
ism in an . exacerbated form, but
there seems to be no way to put a
stop to them short of imprisoning the
infatuated heiresses. Since that can
not be done, we must e'en get such
consolation as we can out of the selec
tion of a wholesome young, man, like
the Duke of the Abruzzi by a girl be
longing to a class who do not usually
choose half so wisely.
A CUBIOfJS DILEMMA.
Commenting on the repeal of the
commodity clause in the Hepburn act,
the Springfield Republican takes' sub
stantially the same view of the situa
tion as that expressed by The Orego
nian the other day. The commodity
clause forbids railroads to own coal
lands and transport coal in compe
tition with other mlneowners. It was
repealed, the reader will remember,
by two Federal Judges In Pennsyl
vania, who decided that it violated the
fourteenth amendment to the Consti
tution of the United States. The Re
publican remarks that the railroads
have acquired their coal lands in di
rect violation of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, but this, of course,
makes no difference. The Interpreta
tion of the law by some Judges seems
to be that any and every violation of
the constitutions by a railroad is
perfectly proper, while any and every
attempt to control the railroad is a
highly Improper violation.
The Republican raises the same
point which The Oregonian suggested.
Since the. attempt to force the rail
roads to sell their coal lands is con
fiscatory. It is no more permissible to
a state than to Congress. Hence there
is no way to put a stop to the trans
portation of their own products by
which the carriers ruin their com
petitors and monopolize the business
of the country. If Judges Gray and
Dallas,' who made this momentous de
cision, should be sustained by the Su-
preme Court, then in one important
. i . it .3 ti i
particular the railroads will have es
caped from control. They will have
set oft one large area where neither
the state nor the Federal power can
interfere with their conduct. To this
area Judges from time to time will
probably add new tracts. It will in
crease constantly and never diminish
until we shall again have complete
anarchy in transportation and all of
Mr. Roosevelt's work will be undone.
Will the people be willing to begin
anew the struggle to regulate trans
portation along the same old lines or
will they be tempted to try something
more radical?
TRATS" rx THE SCHOOLS.
The household ruled by children la
a place where Incipient anarchy Is
nurtured, a place withal shunned by
Judicious, orderly people. The school
ruled by pupils Is such a household
on a larger, more aggressive and more
anarchistic scale. Every ultimate pur-
Aie. .-n.uvn man- la ilofoalBfl k
such a home and such a school. The
first lesson In government Is that of
cheerful submission to" proper author
ity. The first lesson in anarchy is de
fiance to the -duly constituted author
ity of home and schooL All evidence,
from whatever source, has shown that
insubordination has followed the In
troduction of "frats" into secondary
schools, and especially Into the public
high schools. They inculcate the Idea
of a privileged class, which is dis
tinctly at variance with the free school
purpose and intent. They encourage
snobbery and favoritism, beget olan
nlshness, discriminate against merit as
the basis of school honors, and, as is
shown by present conditions in Chi
cago, they defy control.
A precept in the - old-fashioned
bringing up of children declared that
a child was never too old to spank
until he was old enough to behave
himself m accordance with wholesome
family rules and regulations. Nor was
this precept confined to home rule In
the days, in which children were gov
erned and responsible men and useful
women were produced. It extended to
the school and worked therein the
habit of obedience that later was made
manifest In respect for law and due
regard , for properly constituted au
thority. It is not a matter of surprise that
the educational authorities of Chicago,
having been confronted by adolescent
impudence in the effort to purge the
high schools of that city of the "frat"
evil, are driven to the opinion that lay
ing on the shingle in the good old way
that proved efficacious in the days of
our forefathers In quelling Juvenile in
subordination, is the thing needed to
bring these parlous boys to a realizing
sense of the fact that as long as they
go to school they are under authority
and not, as they arrogantly declare,
"their own men."
A TRAVELER'S TALK.
Great anxiety concerning Sven He
din, the intrepid Swedish explorer of
Tibet, was felt by his friendB In Eu
rope when some months passed with
out knowledge of his whereabouts.
There seems, however, to have been
no ground for this concern, for, when
he closed his remarkable series of ex
plorations covering a term of two
years in that forbidden land, he
wrote home that he was going north
to spend last Winter in the highland
district of Ladakh, Western Cashmere,
and it was known that Leh, where he
proposed to go into Winter quarters,
11,250 feet above the sea level, can
have no possible communication with
the outside world during the long sea
son of snows.
The world has heard from him now
at Simla, British India, and, as it had
a right to expect, it has heard much
that is Interesting and even startling
concerning that vast region over which
silence has heretofore held dumb and
mysterious sway.
From the outline of Dr. Hedln's
work that has reached the outside
world, he will bring with him some of
the richest results of geographical ex
ploration that has ever rewarded the
efforts of the pioneer explorer. From
his notebooks and cartographic ma
terials it -will be possible to chart more
than half of the two large white
spaces on our maps of Western Tibet,
definitely and Intelligently.' His great
est discovery In this heretofore un
known region is a mighty range of
mountains extending west and north
west from Lake Tengrl to Northern
India. Through this discovery the
long mysterious sources of the Brama-
putra, Indus and SutleJ Rivers have
been disclosed.
A traveler's tale. Indeed, is the out
line given by Dr. Hedin of his Winter
Journey through the deep snowdrifts
of the Niu Chen range. These moun
tains have long been known at their
eastern limit, but until now there was
no evidence that they, with their many
precipitous offshoots, stretch for over
800 miles parallel with the Himalayas.
As yet but a general outline of the
discoveries of the great explorer has
been given. The truth probably Is
that, like many other explorers while
in the field of discovery. Dr. Hedin
was far too busy in directing his
course, taking notes for future-elaboration
and devising ways and means
to protect the lives of himself and his
companions in the great. Inhospitable
solitudes, to give time or thought to
sifting and arranging the facts of his
findings.
THE IMPERFECT AEROPLANE,
Aerial navigation, which has been
making long strides forward within
the past few months, received a severe
check in the deplorable tragedy at
Fort Myer, Thursday. Skeptics who
have never been willing to admit that
a machine heavier than air could be
successfully operated above the earth
will see in the accident a vindication
of their Judgment. But there are
many others throughout the world
whose faith in the ultimata success of
the aeroplane, or some other form of
flying machine, will not be shaken by
the unfortunate disaster that cost one
life and came so near to removing
from life the master mind In the sci
ence of aerial - navigation. The dis
aster calls attention to the one promi
nent and ever-present feature of dan
ger that is missing from other forms
of navigation or locomotion.
At sea, when the propeller becomes
detached, the ship can either sail into
port or at the worst can drift around
without endangering the lives of her
passengers nntil she is picked up by
a passing vessel. On the railroad, de
moralization of the propelling power
through a broken cylinder head or
other disability to the engine is sel
dom attended by loss of life. The
train, like the ship, is brought to a
I stop and the passengers, slightly ln-
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commoded, but generally uninjured
are transferred to another train or
with a rescuing engine continue the
Journey. With the flying machine,
however, all of the appliances and
safeguards that have been perfected
have failed to keep it afloat after the
propelling power was withdrawn.
In this respect the wonderful Inven
tion of the Wright brothers possesses
J no merits of consequence that were
not mentioned . in the old story of
Darius Green's flying machine. As a
writer In the Saturday Evening Post
expresses It "A man in an aeroplane
Is like a cyclist on a tight rope with
out a pole or a parasol. Let him stop
and he falls." The breaking of a pro
peller on Mr. Wright's airship did not
stop the machine, as there still re
mained in operation a second propel
ler. But the unstable, fitful nature of
the. element in which the aeroplane
was floating with the breaking of one
propeller caused such a sudden shift
In the center of gravity that the neces-
aJ balan . keep the machine
afloat was an Impossibility. To main
tain his equilibrium the aviator Is
obliged to drive his machine at high
speed, and this speed makes disaster
certain If a break occurs In the deli
cately adjusted machinery.
There have been a great many fail
ures and fatalities through experimen
tation in aerial navigation, and there
will probably be many more before
the successful machine Is finally
evolved out of the accumulated study
and experiments of hundreds of aero
nauts. We are living, however, in an
age of miracles, and a casual glance
backward for a few years before the
phonograph, the telephone, electric
light and, perhaps greatest of all won
ders, the wireless telegraph, came into
use, Is pretty certain to suggest the
thought that, after all, human In genu
lty would not be eclipsing Its present
accomplishments If it should hit on a
perfect solution of the problem of the
flying machine.
, SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.
As the season of the Equinox ap
proaches, that steadfast pillar, Mr. Jo
seph G. Cannon, Is likely to be much
beaten upon by storms. A double
method of attack is being practiced
upon him. He is assailed not only in
his own little principality of Danville,
111., but also, and perhaps more seri
ously. In tha districts of those Con
gressmen who are his stanchest friends
and most obedient lackeys. In Dan
ville Mr. Gompers pours forth a flood
of more or less effective oratory
against Uncle Joe, but the unterrlfled
old standpatter affects to despise Gom
pers and all his tirades. One can
imagine that the labor leader will not
accomplish much in the Danville
neighborhood against Mr. Cannon,
who has long been its pride and Joy
and the only reason any man on earth
had to know there was such a town in
existence. ,
But In the house of his friends Mr.
Cannon, the serene and imperturbable,
has a more formidable foe. He has
been so indiscreet as to incur the hos
tility, of the Methodist Church. From
olden time the Methodists have
been one of the bulwarks of the Re
publican party. As a rule these
brethren hate the devil best and a
Democrat next best, though Demo
cratic Methodist preachers are not un
known and some of them are powers
before the throne of grace. Mr. Can
non's offense consists In aiding and
abetting his little private and confi
dential committee on Judiciary to
smother the bill which was to forbid
the shipment of liquor Into prohibition
states. Your good Methodist believes
in prohibition. He prays for it, and
Mr. Cannon is making the unhappy
discovery that he has come at last to
the point where he is willing to vote
for it. All this is of evil augury for
Uncle Joe, though it may not defeat
him. A majority of 10,000 Is hard to
overcome.
But regard, If you please, the more
Insidious wiles which are being prac
ticed upon him. There is a systematic
effort to accomplish his defeat when
he comes up for re-election as Speaker
of the House. Some Representatives
have openly declared against him.
Others would so declare if they were
not afraid to do It. But In numerous
places their courage is receiving an ef
fective stimulus. The Methodists in
Kansas and other states are demand
ing a pledge from prospective Con
gressmen to the purport that they will
vote against Mr. Cannon. His warm
est supporters are losing their seats.
Adam Bede, of Minnesota, ts one of
them who has Just passed into the
maw of pitiless oblivion. Jenkins, of
Wisconsin, is another sacrifice to the
general feeling that Mr. Cannon is an
unbearable incubus upon the progres
sive civilization of the country. Ho Is
opposed to every good measure that
appears in Congress, and in favor of
every bad one. His tyrannical rule in
the House is without a precedent in
the history of legislative bodies. He
has said that any Representative can
rise at any time and demand his depo
sition as a question of the "highest
privilege," but this is nonsense. In
the first place, Mr. Cannon permits no
body to address tha House without his
previous permission. In the second
place, he keeps the members In such
abject terror that they would as soon
think of attacking a roaring lion as
their beloved Speaker. To be sure,
the basis of his tyranny is illusory.
Any member who should defy him and
appeal to his constituents with a frank
statement of the facts would be sup
ported in his rebellion, even at the cost
of a public building or two. But re
bellion Is a harsh remedy. It is bet
ter to put an end to Mr. Cannon's
reign, and there Is good hope that this
will be done next Spring.
FARMERS AND FARMERS.
That was a pleasing picture which
the Washington Herald painted repre
senting the American farmer driving
to town behind a team of spanking
bays and seldom at work In his fields.
It was the more pleasant to look upon
because, though a little extravagant,
It iwas, relatively speaking, true to
life. The time when the American
farmer was hard at work from day
light till dark is past. The modern
farmer is a worker, but not a drudge.
He still must plow' his fields, sow his
grain and harvest his crops, but he
uses modern machinery, does the work
in much less time and realizes larger
net returns. This is said of the repre
sentative farmer. There are still those
who adhere to antiquated methods, re
tain shiftless habits, and waste time.
Such as these may be seen on . the
road to town, but not behind a team of
spanking bays. More likely they will
be slowly dragging along in a wobbly
wagon whose wheels do not "track"
and whose weather-worn spokes are
scarcely more prominent than the ribs
of the drowsy horses which seem about
to drop out of the ragged harness, j
patched with old boot tops and baling
wire.
. There are some farmers many of
them who can spend much of their
time in town. But they have first con
structed fences secure enough so they
know the cattle will not get out of the
pasture into the corn field. They have
practiced a system of rotation of crops
until they have got rid of the weeds
and have restored fertility. They have
given up the notion that one cow Is
as good as another. They know which
cows pay a profit on their feed, and
they soon get rid of those which entail
a net expense.- They have wind-mills
to pump -water for the house and Darn
and power saws to prepare tne year s
fuel. They provide shelter for stock
and keep their machinery protected
from the weather. They don't patron
ize the transient agent, but buy from
the established dealer who will be
there when they want -a guaranty
made good. They read Agricultural
Experiment Station bulletins Instead of
the harangues of calamity-howling
demagogues. When there is work to
be done they crowd the work instead
of letting it crowd them. They don't
booze, they don't gamble, they don't
buy gold bricks. There are farmers
and farmers.
The height prescribed by the build
ing limit. has so often been reached
and surpassed in forming the world
renowned "sky line" that a life insur
ance building now planned, that will
rear Its head full 909 feet above the
pavement. Is received without protest
or surprise. Gothamltes and their as
tonished visitors gazed open-mouthed
-and not without fear, and trembling at
the first steel skeletoned sky-scraper of
nine stories that was built a score of
years ago. They now take its successor
of thirty-eight stories as a matter, of
course, with some wonder, it Is true,
but without apprehension of danger
from a horrible collapse. Engineer
ing skill has shown the practicability
of building one hundred and fifty
stories over a third of a mile into
the air. Beyond this point the thickness
of the walls for the lower stories, re
quired by the building code will be
prohibitive. Of course if it comes to
that and metallurgical researches de
velop a still higher elasticity and
ultimate resistance sufficient to stand
the strain, a revision of the building
code to meet the situation will not be
difficult. The stiffer, lighter and more
elastic materials available will be
deemed ample to insure the risk.
The discipline of the rockplle never
seems so appropriate or so efficacious
as when It becomes the portion of
the professional "masher." The fellow
who poses on street corners, maneu
vering for the attention of young
women and girls, or who lies in wait
In the vicinity of theaters or places
of neighborhood festivities for the
purpose of thrusting himself upon
women or girls, who are without male
escort, is so thoroughly despicable in
character that no penalty other than
that of breaking rocks for decent peo
ple to walk on fits his case. A re
vival of the publlo stocks or of the
ducking stool would be a good thing
as supplemental to a rockplle sen
tence for human cattle of the herd
and brand to which he belongs. Such
measures might be relied upon to be
at once penalty and cure for his
specific malady.
Portland Day, Wednesday, at the
Pacific National Fair and Livestock
Show will be a great event, but it will
have to be a great one to excel Port
land Day, or even Salem Day, at the
State Fair. . There is a movement
afoot to have Portland merchants
close their stores Wednesday after
noon. Why not?
Would Mr. Bryan be Just as Indig
nant If those steel trust magnates
were to tender their support to him
and not to Mr. Taft? We know how
much outraged Bryan Is over the fact
that he finds in his camp those other
exemplary , citizens, Tom Taggart,
Roger Sullivan, Charles F. Murphy
and C. N. Haskell.
Senator Foraker, the valiant cham
pion of equal rights for the colored
brother, was the aforesaid colored
brother's candidate for President of
the. United States. He would have
been nominated by the Chicago con
vention if he had only had about 500
votes to add to his baker's dozen. Then
what ?
Tut, tut. Brother Stone. Why get
Into a row with' a Socialist agitator
over the merits of the Y. M. C. A.
What says tha good book about turn
ing the other cheek? Just think of
the great advantages in trouble of
this kind of turning a cheek of Stone.
Senator Bailey, too, explained that
his relations with the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company were as an attorney and
"had nothing to do with his course
as a public man." But the public
couldn't see it. The public is so
strangely unreasonable.
There are a few freaks that Mr.
Hearst forgot to mention. There is
the porcupine and also the cuttlefish.
They have certain wonderful qualities
that ought to commend them to a
veteran engaged in a battle of quills
and Ink.
Mrs. Louise Powell-Stevens has ob
tained her divorce at last. Meanwhile
Stevens had married another woman.
There is, or ought to be a penalty for
bigamy in Oregon. Or is Stevens pre
paring to deny his latest marriage?
At this writing Mr. Taft has noth
ing to say about those little Standard
Oil donations to his friend. Senator
Foraker. But there is a lot that he
might say. Perhaps he will.
This is the week of the Pacific
National Fair and Livestock Show, at
Portland. It will be a good one. It
will have to be to live up to that
name.
Bryan people say "there is no silver
question now." No; because they were
utterly beaten on silver in 1896 and
again In 1900.
What we want in Portland this
week Is State Fair weather, if last
week's weather was State Fair weather.
Well, good-bye, Joey B. Take care
of yourself. You always did.
i POTPOURRI
BY NANCY LEE.
Adversity is a file upon which roost
of us sharpen our wits.
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Those who love themselves have few
rivals.
They say money talks,
frequently say good-by.
Well, it does
"Swell."
Bill Jones was a common sort of man.
just en everyday, ornery, "also ran";
jn, wife took in washing and his girl
I "worked out,"
An(j nis only son was a lazy lout.
I gut ono aay old Bill got an inside tip
Gn a garter buckle that wouldn't slip.
Which he capitalized for a million or so
And began to accumulate scads of
dough.
Now the Joneses "belong," as you all
should know;
And they havo a house that's a holy
show;
With its towers and gables, pillars and
bays.
Renaissance and recherehs in many
ways.
These latter they can't pronounoe or
spell.
So they compromise by calling It
"swell."
i
They have portraits like Van Dyke
used to make.
And a foreign title for daughter's sake;
They have motors and yachts and many
things
That a quick rush of gold to the head
always brings.
Old Bill's at a Bade for the cure of
his gout,
While terrapin's making mother stout.
Young Bill's down at Newport with
the Vanderwllt boys,
Where his clothes and his turnouts ara '
delirious Joys.
I
Now this little romance of the "vul
garly rich"
Leads up to the moral the sense of
which
Is. if you would get it and get it
quick,
Young man, bear in mind there's many
a slip;
Invent something to stop them, and
get rich on my tip.
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Show me the man who takes a eold
bath every morning and who hasnt
bragged about it.
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If sad news is to be broken, why
not select a stuttering man; he could
break it much more gradually.
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Optimism is a good thing until it
becomes so chronic that it makes pessi
mists of those you meet.
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The happiest way' of working for
one's self is to do things for others,
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Natural History.
Tommy Mary, do you know why
cow wears a bell around her neck?
Mary Of course I know why a cow. r
wears a bell round her neck. That's
the way she lets her little calf know
when dinner's ready.
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A Domestic Romance.
A small lad. sleeping with his
mother, awakened at midnight request
ing his mater to tell him a fairy tale,
whereupon she remarked:
"Go to sleep, my dear, it's too late."
After a period of silence the child
once again piped out in a shrill, child
ish treble, "Oh, mamma, please, please
tell me a fairy tale."
"Well, my dear,", said the mother,
"it's 2 o'clock now. Wait a moment,
father will be in presently and tell us
both one." .
A married man can never be truth
fully said to suffer in silence.
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All the world loves a lover, but mors
frequently sympathizes with him.
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The Help Problem. .
Mr. Environs Talk about the scarcity
of servants, my wife and I havo to
drink champagne for breakfast.
Brown How's that?
Environs Well, our new cook insists
upon serving it for breakfast, and we
haven't the nerve to upbraid her.
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It's a wise man that knows his own
affinity.
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A Youthful Lexicographer.
Definition of pessimist One who
sees things what are.
Optimist One who sees things what
ain't.
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. With Bryan and Kern
And money to burn.
We'll grease the toboggan
And not give a dern.
So let Billy Hearst
Do his very worst.
With his League that Is greased
With money accurst.
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To please a woman a shoemaker
should advertise shoes which are large
inside and small outside.
Bryan's Evasion on Money Question.
Yakima Republic.
The money question, says Bryan, has
settled Itself. The discovery of vast
amounts of gold gave the people what
was needed more circulating medium
and hence there is no need of the free
coinage of silver, as there was a dozen
years ago. By this statement Bryan
shows that he is an artful dodger. He
never advocated more silver because the
country needed more money, but be
cause the mine-owners wanted a mar
ket for their silver and beceause the'
country ought to have cheaper money;
The financial question was not settled
by the discovery of gold. It was settled
when the people decided against the
dishonest dollar, and in favor of the dol
lar worth 100 cents. Bryan maintained
always, as the populists maintained, that
the "stamp of the Government" gave
the coin its value. If he was right, the
Increased gold supply could have nothing
to do with the question. Everybody
knows now that the country did not need
more money in 1896, but needed only td
be rid of the pestiferous assailant of the
country's honcr. When Bryan was de-
feated, and this class of "leaders" went
out of business, the money of the coun
try came forth from Kfl hiding places
and prosperity returned. Bryan is as dis
honest in his discussions of the money
question now as he was in 1898.
"Cnlmmle Fadden " Enters Politics.
Baltimore News.
E. B. Townsend ("Chimmle Fadden")'
is being proposed by the Democrats of
Montclair, N. J., for Congress front
this district. Mr. Townsend has never
taken active interest in local political
affairs.