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PORTLAND. 6CNDAY. ArGUST IS. 190S.
BALLITOER'S REFORM LA"I POUCY.
For several years there was a tie
up of public land In the Interior De
partment. Entry was barred and pat
ents held up In ways that greatly
annoyed and In many oases damaged
this Western country. There came a
reaction from this hold-up. It was
natural and necessary. Lands were
again opened to the uses of invest
ment and settlement. It was to be
expected that defenders of the pre
ceding order would raise a clamor.
They have just made their clamor
heard in Spokane at the National Ir
rigation Congress. They charged that
the Government is relinquishing lands
which are being "gobbled up" by
water power grabbers.
Needless alarm. It Is not credible
that the Interior Department Us thus
playing to the schemes of speculators
end grabbers, either through negli
gence or dishonesty of Government
officers. Mr. Ballinger has pointed
out that as a matter of fact more
water power sites are now withdrawn
from entry than when he took office;
also that during the time that 1,000.
000 acres of land were thrown open to
entry last April, not a single dam or
rower-site was taken by private in
dividuals. Instances where the opening of
lands to entry on streams has bene
fitted seekers of water power sites,
doubtless are exaggerated. A few of
the criticisms may be valid, but on
the whole, the policy of the Interior
Department is Justified and proper.
There has been too much theory and
.doctrinaire business In the conduct. of
land affairs, by Eastern men devoid
t of Western interests and sympa-
' thies. Land frauds and waste of for
ests have been worked to death as
pretexts for an obstructive policy in
opening the public domain. Both the
frauds and the waste were due to a
lax public sentiment. This has been
corrected, and hereafter both will be
: held in check by popular demand for
conservation of land, forest and
stream.
At the bottom of all the hubbub in
Spokane was an effort to discredit the
new reform policy of the Interior De
partment. Of course Pinchot and his
associates, who represent the preced
ing regime, encourage the hubbub.
They seize upon far-flung Instances to
discomfit the Government. But while
the reaction in a few cases may need
modifying, the main question is
whether the new policy is sound and
desired by the country. The Orego
nian believes that the Nation will take
favorable view of this matter.
RIGHT TO CHASTISE CHILDREN.
Judge Bennett, of the Municipal
Court, is one of the "old-fahsioned
sort" of whom we hear so much in
these later days . In connection with
modern parental Irresponsibility and
Juvenile or adolescent delinquency.
He proved his title cleas to this dis
tinction the other day by deciding, in
a case brought before him. that a
father was Justified in slapping his
20-year-old daughter who still was an
inmate of his home for persistent dis
obedience of his commands. The
case at issue was one wherein the
daughter persisted In inviting young
men to the paternal home and enter
taining them there until a late hour at
right in defiance of her father's au
thority. The latter, growing weary of
a nightly programme of gaiety which
broke in upon his slumbers, proceeded
to supplement his verbal command
to the young woman to stop this non
sense by a succession of smart slaps.
Jn this Judge Bennett held that the
long-suffering parent was Justified he
having been haled before the court
upon complaint of his Irate daughter
for assault and 'battery.'
Parental discipline of this type be
longs to another day and age of the
world. Perhaps It Is not the less
wholesome on that account, but it is
certainly a somewhat startling innova
tion upon the present manner of deal
ing with disobedient children. Chief
Justice Marshall, of the United States
Supreme Court, belonged to the day
and age in which the parent's will was
held to be supreme In the household.
His aged mother, an Inmate of his
home, was loath to relinquish the
right to rule her son in the minor mat
ters of life, and he was wont to humor
this whim by curtly deference to her
wishes. An Incident is related touch
ing this point that Is Interesting In
this connection. The family was at
dinner and a young son the grand
mother's favorite persisted, contrary
to his father's quiet admonition. In
"blowing bubbles" In his milk, where
upon the father gave him a smart slap.
Rising in sudden anger, the aged
mother went over to the side of her
son, andi summoning all of her feeble
strength, gave him a resounding blow
upon the cheek, saying: "There; you
trlke your child and I will strike
mine."
The great Chief Justice half rose
from his seat, glared for a moment
at his trembling mother, who had re
sumed her place at the table, and
then quietly proceeded with his meaL
This case Is not parallel with that of
the latter-day father who chastises his
srrown son or daughter for disobedi
ence to his wishes, but It shows to
what extent parental authority pre
vailed, or was assumed. In the good
eld days that produced men of the
tamp of Chief Justice .Marshall and
women who believed that It was the
mother's Inalienable right and
bounden duty to punish her children
t any age when In her Judgment they
needed It.
"A child Is not too old to punish
until he Is old enough to behave him
self," was the prime rule of parental
(discipline In "y olden Urns." This
rule might easily be, and no doubt
often was. carried too far but old
fashioned folk are wont to assert that
it was more honored In the observ
ance than In the breach and point to
the growing number of delinquent
children In every urban community
and to the large proportion of youth
ful convicts in every penitentiary as
proof of this contention. '
IRRIGATION'S BIO START.
No one interested In the industrial
development of the Pacific Northwest
through irrigation should neglect to
pin In his memory a few concrete facts
published on page 8. section 5. of The
Oregonlan today. They are contained
In an address before the National Irri
gation Congress by D. C. Henny, con
sulting engineer of the Reclamation
Service for this district.
Epitomized, the record for Oregon
and Washington discloses that the
Government has expended on various
projects $6,000,000; a like sum will be
required to complete them. They will
then bring under cultivation 335,000
acres. Average cost per acre is under
$40. Estimated value of the annual
crop from these Irrigated lands Is $20,
000,000. Making wide allowance for
the labor of the Individual farmer, a
yearly return of mora than 100 per
cent on the capital Invested Is astound
ing. Experience with irrigated lands
In the Pacific Northwest shows that
the estimated returns are not too high.
Mr. Henny's view of the future re
clamation of arid lands Is well worth
reading. Only a start has thus far
been made in the two Pacific Coast
States covered in his repwt. Conser
vation of water here does not present
such difficult problems as are met In
the semi-arid regions of the great
southern plateau where deserts have
been converted into highly profitable
orchards and farms? The snowfall
the one dependable source of water In
the growing season never faibjjn any
part of the Cascade Mountains from
the California line to British Columbia.
In this respect Nature has been prodi
gal. It only remains for man to ap
propriate the gift.
HAWLEY AND EI.I.I8 IN WASHINGTON.
A Democratic organ in Portland
rails because Oregon's two Republican
Representatives in Congress do not
fight Cannon on all matters and put
themselves and their state down and
out in the House of Representatives.
That would complete the ruin of Ore
gon's influence in the National capital,
since Oregon's two members of the
Senate are in the down-and-out class.
The only Oregon men in the Na
tional capital who appear to be able to
represent their state are Hawley and
Ellis. That does not satisfy Demo
crats, -'of course. They want Oregon
represented in Washington by their
own kind the Chamberlain type, who
foozled with the tariff by supporting
high schedules in the making of the
tariff bill and then voted against the
nil! he helped to make, because his
vote wasn't needed to pass it.
It would be unwise for Hawley and
Ellis to take advice from persons and
organs that seek to place Democrats
in their shoes. ,
AWAITING THE SPARK.
None of the enterprising British
playwrights have followed up that
highly profitable production An eng
lishman's Home," with an up-to-date
version containing scenes of possible
modern Lucknow or Cawnpore hor
rors. But while the theatrical thriller
portraying this latest scare hovering
over England has not appeared, omin
ous fear is reflected in the tone of the
newspaper articles and even in the
guarded remarks of men high In offi
cial circles. India, with Its turbulent,
sullen, mysterious millions. Is seething
and stewing in a manner well calcu
lated to promote uneasiness In the
British mind. The threatened German
Invasion was almost lost sight of when
Dhinagri, an East Indian student,
murdered Sir William Wyllle in a Lon
don drawing-room. When the deed.
Instead of exciting horror in India, was
actually applauded by the dark
skinned fatalists, the' gravity of the
situation could not well be misunder
stood. A writer in discussing England's re
markable power over the strange men
of the East, once said: "Beneath the
small film pf white men who make up
the Indian Empire bolls or sleeps away
a sea of dark men, incurably hostile,
who wait with patience the day when
the Ice shall break and the ocean re
gain its power of restless movement
under its own laws." The crack of
the assassin's pistol is not the only sig
nal that has called attention of the
world to a possible early upheaval of
the mighty force 'which is fomenting
under that "small film of white men."
Since the Sepoy rebellion England
has employed drastic measures to blot
out sedition, and until now has been
fairly .successful. Recent utterances
of East Indian papers, however, reveal
a most serious situation. Yugantur.
printed at Calcutta, urges that "prep
arations be made for a general revolu
tion in everp household." Readers
are asked to "swim with renewed en
ergy in the ocean of bloodshed." The
Indian Sociologist asserts that "polit
ical assassination Is not murder" when
used as a protest "against the absurd
laws of an antiquated political system
like the one now prevailing in India."
The London Times publishes a very
Interesting study of the conditions
which provoke such seditious and an
archistic utterances. The Times cor
respondent frankly admits that "we
are face to face with the antagonism,
open or veiled, of a very large propor
tion of the Indian peoples. Our rule
Is disliked, not because It Is bad, but
because It is alien, and if we were a
race of administrative archangels the
situation would be very much the
same." The Times writer, like many
others who have given their views on
the-matter, dates the beginning of this
serious unrest to the time of the Jap
anese victory of Russia. When the nag
of the victorious yellow man was
raised above that of the white man at
Llao-Yang and Mukden, it dawned
upon the minds of all the'yellow race
that the Caucasian was not a god, but
instead was only ordinary flesh and
blood.
That victory may yet prove more
far-reaching in its effect than the wild
est dreams could have conjured when
Russia capitulated. England, with her
far-flung colonies, has developed a
masterly system of colonization meth
ods which has thus far enabled her
to keep the sparks away from the In
daln powder magazine. Just at this
time, however, trouble looms large on
her Far Eastern horizon, and a seri
ous uprising In India at a time when
her people at home are shuddering
with fear of a German Invasion might
be disastrous to her prestige and might
in fact endanger the peace of the
world.
That the loss of India would mean
the ruin of the British Empire Is prac
tically admitted by the Times corre-.
spondent. "We recovered from the
loss of America." said he, "but we
should never as a great nation survive
the loss of . India. When t we lost
America we were calling a new em
pire Into existence; the acquisition of
India redressed the balance. The
growth of Australia and India, our
services to the world In the Napoleonic
wars, our long lead In the earlier era
of manufacture by machinery, as
suaged and healed and reconstructed
our wounded prestige and brought us
new and vast outlets for our wealth
and our energy. Such opportunities
for renewed growth 'and rehabilitation
seldom occur twice in the lifetime of a
nation. All the more, therefore, does
it behoove us to seek to conserve the
empire of India."
Whenever England permits such
serious admissions to go forth to the
world, the situation is approaching the
critical, and the near future undoubt
edly holds some surprises that may
affect other countries than England
and her seething colony in the Far
East. ' .
THE TNION PACIFIC MELON. v
Union Paciflc'sold above $218 per
share in the New York stock market
yesterday, and predictions were freely
made in the market centers that it
would not be checked in its skyrocket
flight until it was above $250 per
share. One year ago it was selling
around $155 per share, and during the
panic of 1907 it lacked but half a
point of selling down to par. - The ex
traordinary strength in this stock at
the present time is thought to be due
to an approaching "melon-cutting," as
the occasional distribution of accu
mulated surplus is termed. Union
Pacific is a 6 per cent stock, so far as
the earnings from operation are con
cerned, but since 1906 the dividend
rate has been increased to 10 per cent
by earnings from investments owned
by the road. These Investments are
mostly in railroad, stocks, .although
there is a considerable revenue de
rived from coal lands and other lands.
The Illinois Central holdings of the
Union Pacific have a par value of
$29,623,100. and, as that stock is sell
ing around $160 per share, it now has
a market value of nearly $50,000,000.
There is also in the Union Pacific
treasure chest Baltimore & Ohio stock
of a par value of $32,334,200 for the
common and $7,206,400 of the pre
ferred, the value of the two on yester
day's quotations being about $45,000,
000. Other stocks held by the Union
Pacific Include Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, of a par value of $10,000,
000; St. Joseph & Grand Island, $5,
000,000: Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul, $6,457,000. Chicago & North
western, $3,215,000. and New York
Central, $14,285,700.
The market value of these stocks is
approximately $150,000,000, and, even
with earnings much lower than were
In evidence two years ago, they are
pouring Into tfce Union Pacific coffers
such a vast amount of money that a
reported Increase in the dividend, or a
distribution, of the) accumulating
profits, may reasonably be expected to
cause a furore in prices. Wall street's
intornretation of this recent extraordi-
I narv strength in Union Pacific is that.
instead, oi wiiuiug . mciu",
,,miitri nrotits from the invest
ments will be. used for buying more
New York Central, and it is also re
ported that heavy purchases of Erie
are being made on Union Pacific ac
count. .
If the New York Central purchases
were of sufficient volume to bring that
line under Harriman control, it would
probably be fully as satisfactory to the
stockholders as to present them with a
portion of the reserves which have
been increasing in value. Viewed from
almost any standpoint, there is some
thing healthy in the appearance of
this favorite Harriman stock, which is
in such great demand at more than
"double par." An advance of $118
per share In less than two years Is
not at all suggestive of hostile legisla
tion or reduced freight rates.
HISTORIC MOUNT BARER.
Mazamas last week scaled the top
of Mount Baker, a snow peak close to
the international boundary between
British Columbia and the State of
Washington. This mountain Is a land
mark In the early records of explora
tion. It is one of the lesser peaks of
this country In height, . but Its large
mass, great glaciers and rough scenic
character, together with its towering
form in view of the Straits of Juan de
Fuca and Puget Sound, make it a fore
most object in the topography of the
American continent. v
The alpine party made the ascent
from the base of the mountain last
Wednesday In seven hours. The mem
bers climbed 4800 feet, or Nearly 700
feet an hour, which was good moun
tain work, especially when twelve
women were in the party. On the
summit the climbers stood 10,728 feet
above the sea. This is 600 feet lower
m,,nt Hnnrl and 3500 lower than
bMount Rainier. The elevation, there
fore, was not much ror Mazamas io
reach, since they have scaled a num
ber of higher peaks in the Pacific
Northwest. Mount Hood stands 11,225
feet and Mount Rainier nearly 14,500
feet. .
The first record of the discovery of
the mountain Is that of the British
Captain Vancouver, April 29, 1792.
That was twelve days before discovery
and entrance of the Columbia River
by Captain Robert Gray, the Boston
navigator an event which gave the
United States first claim to the Colum
bia region. On the very day that
Vancouver sighted Mount Baker from
the entrance to the Straits of Juan de
Fuca he spoke Captain Gray, who in
formed htm that two days before he
had passed the mouth of a river (the
Columbia, not yet discovered), in lati
tude 46 degrees 10 minutes north,
"where the outset or reflux was so
strong as to prevent his entering It for
nu. Han " Thi. Vancouver discred
ited and shortly sailed northward.
while Gray returned to the coiumDia
River. Had Vancouver believed what
Gray told him and put off to discover
the river, he might have saved to the
British the territory now in the State
of Washington. ,
Vancouver named Mount Baker af
ter one of his lieutenants, who first
sighted It. The mountain marks an
important turning point in history
the day that virtually gave the State of
Washington to America and perhaps
i . .,Q nf DrAfi-nn. Three other
links were later to complete the chain
of American claims to this region oc
cupation by Astor's party In 1811-12;
nOT,o nf Snnlh claims on this
coast with Florida in 1819; and settle
ment by missionaries and other pio-
eers at a later period.
M.,ama. mmt tin All the Summit Of
the peak an American flag, which they
left flowing In the breeze. It wm .
fitting act. Captain Vancouver Imag
ined he was making the land British.
But to shut out Americans he ought
to have been exploring the Columbia
River. " Five months after Gray, Van
couver did enter the Columbia, and
then attempted, though too late, to
claim first discovery of the river. His
Lieutenant, Broughton, ascended the
river to the site of the present town of
Vancouver. On the way up he named
Mount Hood, the particular pet of Ma
zamas. At the mouth of the river
Vancouver sighted and named the
peak known as Mount Rainier, the
highest point in the State of Wash
ington. Mount Adams was named by
Americans later.
Mazamas might well have held a
celebration on Mount Baker, in honor
of Captain Gray, the American who did
so much to save Oregon and Washing
ton from the British, whose navigator
named Mount Baker.
ONE PIONEER STORY.
There appeared in The Oregonlan of
August 12 the pictured face of a
woman who a few days before had fin
ished her life work at her home In
Marion County at the age of 72 years.
The common' end of a not uncommon
life, as viewed from the standpoint of
the pioneer, was the passing of Mrs.
Salina Pyburn Hlnes. thus briefly
Chronicled. Some facts, however; as
detailed in connection with the an
nouncement of her death are of more
than passing Interest. Her father, so
runs the tale, started across the plains
to Oregon on May 15, 1852, by the
usual mode of conveyance ox teams.
Her mother had died a year before,
and with his eight children Elizabeth
being at that time 15 years old this
man essayed the amazing task of
crosing the western half of the conti
nent, then an unbroken wilderness, in
this pioneer fashion. Trackless but
for the emigrant trail and the paths
worn by the passing to and fro of
countless numbers ofbuffalo, was the
vast expanse to be traversed. Between
the Missouri River and The Dalles of
the Columbia there was not a human
hlbltation, except the skin lodges and
bark tepees of nomadic Indians. But
for the occasional spoils of the chase,
no food supplies were to be had dur
ing a Journey that covered full six
months. The only dependence of the
family was upon stores of bacon, hard
tack, flour, rice and dried apples the
two last occasional luxuries that were
carried through the heats of the long
Summer in the wagons. -Indians of
various tribes that might or might not
be disposed to be predatory or hos
tile roamed over the wide expanse.
Such were the conditions and dan
gers that this man faced with his band
of motherless children, as in the May
time of a far-away year he set his face
toward the setting sun, with a no more
urgent purpose in view, than to ex
change a home In Iowa, of the en
vironment of which he was perfectly
familiar, for a home In Oregon Terri
tory, over which was the glamor of en
chantment that was lent by distance.
One month later. June 15, this father
died and the children were left to con
tinue the Journey without even such
poor protection as he could have given
against its Inevitable hardships, and at
its end to make a home for themselves
as they might among strangers in a
strange land.
An unwritten record of anxiety, of
deprivation, of toil, of loneliness, of
perplexity, is that of this family and
many others similarly situated during
the Immediately succeeding years.
To plunge a family into the wilderness
under such circumstances has been ac
counted heroic. But was it not due
rather to' ignorance of the tlangers
that beset such a journey? Courage
was developed by the presence of dan
ger and the stress of privation, it is
true, but it is not possible to believe
that any responsible man, the head of
a helpless family, would, had he fully
realized tha conditions and probabili
ties of such a Journey at that time,
have undertaken to make it with the
means then at hand, for a purpose no
more pressing than mere change of
location. .
Ignorance, the consequences of
which might have any day been appal
ling, stood the men who started across
the plains with their families in the
ox-team era in the place of courage.
Courage was developed later more
especially amemg the women, who
Came with the bearded heroes
In the early, early day. '
Among these- the names ef many
have perished from - memory. Their
bodies literally broken upon the
wheel of circumstance, some passed
early to their rest. Others of tougher
physical fiber lived and wrought
from -youth to old age, but of
their struggles and achievement there
is no lasting record. Unacknowledged
state-builders; busy and potent factors
In the material development of the
country -that followed slowly in the
train of industry, economy and self
denial, these pioneer women lived, and
worked and died. Some of them yet
linger to enjoy, after the half-hearted
manner of . old age, the benefits that
have followed the civilization which
they struggled to promote. Now and
again a pictured face, marked with the
strong lines of self-sacrifice and en
deavor, appears in The Oregonian.
Underneath is a name more or less fa
miliar in the community, and a brief
statement. Including date of birth and
death and marriage, the year of com
ing across the plains and the-num-ber
of surviving children. Imagination,
based upon a knowledge of the strug
gles and privations Incident to the life
of- woman upon the frontier, rises up
and completes the record.
A PATHETIC ROYAI FIGURE.
Victoria Eugenie, until her marriage
three years ago, to Alfonso, the youth
ful King of Spain, Princess Ena of
Battenburg, is a pathetic figure upon
the royal stage of Europe at present.
Though to all appearance she went to
her fate as Queen of Spain willingly
and with affection for the swarthy lad
whom she married, recent disclosures
show that she was an unwilling bride,
and that, though she left England
with smiling face. It was with an ach
ing heart. She has been Queen of
Spain three short years and is the
mother of three children with barely
a year between. An English woman,
brought up in the close and affection
ate family domain of British royalty,
she Is both by birth and training a
woman of domestic tastes. Rapid
child-bearing has been a heavy drain
upon her. vitality and she is not even
permitted the solace of motherhood,
her babies being taken care of by
Spanish nurses who, upon stated oc
casions, bring them to her to fondle
In decorous fashion. Her young hus
band Is arrogant, her Austrio-Spanish
mother-in-law cold and exacting and
her own mother like herself, is hated
"with Latin vlndictlveness" by the
Spanish people.
This is the heavy price that the fair
youzug British Princess paid for be-,
coming Queen of Spain and the mother
of Spanish Bourbons.
Queen Victoria, her grandmother, In
the peace and seclusion of English
royalty, gave birth to a numerous pro
geny. Each of her nine children waa
hailed as a gift to the British Nation,
and through it to the thrones of Eu
rope. To these thrones many of her
descendants have been called the
women among them, almost without
exception, to lives of dire unhappiness.
The present Queen of Spain, in her
terror and misery, is not alone In royal
and Imperial wretchedness. Her's is,
indeed, but the common lot the grand
daughters of "Victoria, the Good,"
who have been pushed out upon the
great checker-board of European pol
itics as pawns in the international
game that, however it has been played,
has brought them no recompense. . A
pathetic figure upon the world's great
stage, each dwells In the pomp and
splendor of reflected power, Ill-content.
Whatever, In the chance of the fierce
revolt that Is raging in his kingdom,
happens to Alfonso XIII. 'the entire
civilized world Joins in the hope that
his unhappy young Queen, with her
infants, may live in safety.
GRAIN TRADE HEADQUARTERS.
The decision of Albers Bros, to erect
in this city the largest cereal mill on
the Coast is another indication of the
increasing prestige of fortland as the
great grain and milling center of the
Pacific Coast. This city already has
the largest flouring mill on the Pacific
Coast, and is the headquarters of prac
tically all branches of the grain trade
in the Pacific Northwest, so that the
addition. of the mammoth mill planned
by the Albers Bros, will enlarge the
market for all kinds of cereals. The
supremacy of Portland in the grain
trade was clinched for all time when
construction of the North Bank rail
road made tributary to this port prac
tically all of the wheat -country In
Eastern Washington that had not pre
viously been accessible from the Hary
rlman lines.
This city at the present time Is in
position to draw wheat from . nearly
every portion of Washington and
Idaho that cafl be reached by the lines
entering Puget Sound. In addition we
have a vast territory along the lines
of the O. R. & N. m Oregon and
Washington and along the Southern
Pacific from which it is impossible for
Puget Sound to secure wheat except at
a disadvantage that cannot be perma
nently overcome. The grain territory
already producing in. the Pacific
Northwest will this year turn oft more
than 80,000,000 bushels of wheat, oats
and barley, and many thousand car
loads of hay. ..This yield, with im
proved methods of farming and in
creased acreage still available in the
territory already reached by rail, will
In a few years be increased to more
than 100,000,000 bushels.
In addition to' this, the opening up
of the great Central Oregon region will
add more millions to the output than
it is possible to estimate at this time.
Actual crops in various portions of
that long-neglected land have demon
strated that we may reasonably expect
a grain yield fully equal to that pro
duced by that portion i of the state
now turning off crops of wheat, oats
and barey. The export business out
of Portland will naturally show large
gains with this increased amount to
handle, but it is in the' manufacture
of flour and cereal products for the
California and other near-by markets
that the greatest advantages to the
city and state will eventually come.
The extent to which this business is
growing is shown in the flour ship
ments from Oregon and Washington
to California ports for the past three
years. For the cereal year ending
June 30, 1907, 247,782 barrels of flour
were sent to the southern market. A
year later the amount was increased
to 427,406 barrels, and for the year
ending June 30, 1909, the shipments
were 574.272 .barrels, with similar in
creases for many years in the future
a certainty. In the development of
the lumber business and other re
sources Portland has added millions to
the wealth of the city and state, but
the grain business and Its allied indus
tries still remain at the head of the list
as wealth producers in the Pacific
Northwest. -
A NEW INCARNATION.
In connection with Dr. Charles W.
Eliot's prophecy of a new religion,
Mrs. ' Annie Besant's announcement
that Christ will soon reappear is not
without interest. She certainly knows
as much- about the future as anybody
and she pretends to know a good deal
more. Perhaps she does.
But what are we to understand by
Mrs. Besant's phrase "a new incarna
tion of Christ'1? In common -with
many ill-informed persons, this gifted
woman takes it for granted evidently
that the churchly figure called Christ
once actually walked the earth In hu
man form.' No error could be greater
or more easily demonstrated. The
Christ of the churches never did live
or could have lived. He is almost
purely a figment of the ecclesiastical
imagination and contains scarcely any
traits of the real Jesus, the wander
ing philosopher, the social reformer,
the Son of Man. Christ is what the
church has made him. He is a com
posite figure which has grown slowly
age after age, 'taking features from
many minds, embodying the most var
ied passions and answering to hopes
which have changed with the fortunes
of time and place. . The only. Incarna
tion he ever had Is In the church it
self, which, in one sense, supplies a
body for this spiritual concept.
To the person of Intelligence, there
fore, a new Incarnation of Christ
would mean neither more nor less
than a new church which should sym
bolize a new set of relations between
man and the Almighty. Perhaps this
may be what Dr. Eliot meant by a
new religion. Something of the sort
Is not unlikely to appear before a great
while. The older concept of the deity
was borrowed from the royal state of
the Assyrian and Babylonian mon
archs. Their most conspicuous qual
ity was vanity, which their subjects
had to gratify with Incessant praise.
Of course such praise could not always
be sincere. Their morals were ques
tionable and their cruelty shocking. It
was natural, of course, to make the Al
mighty resemble these monarchs both
in his deeds and his demands upon
his subjects, but the modern world has
outgrown this concept of the deity. A.
man of sense can scarcely believe that
the Lord cares to listen to stated por
tions of adulation ami flattery every
Sunday morning, or that he Is con
cerned with a preacher's Inflections or
the tailoring of his clothes. Such
things are all very well at an Oriental
court, but it Is a little Incongruous to
think that the Creator of the universe
ia. much troubled over them.
This notion of the Almighty is rap
idly fading from the world. In, its
place) we are acquiring the idea of a
nA hn Immanent In all that is.
Thd omniv nA nhmsA "God Lt every
where" has assumed vital meaning.
The new iaitn noias uut no sciunuj
is everywhere, and since It is Impos
sible that anything else, should be
where he is, it passes on to the con
clusion that he is everything. He is
all being and all activity, according
to the newer lights.
From all this comes tne aiterea iaea
of what true worship is. We cannot
please the Lord, we are told, by talk
ing to him however ingratiatingly. He
sees through our flattery and counts
it nought. It makes no ainerence to
him whether, we address him as
"thou" or "you." He doesn't mind If
we omit altogether to aaaress mm.
irv,.t ka -n'onta nf na la deeds, not
words. Hence the advanced religion
ist does not spend his time praying
the Lord to bless the poor and the af
flicted; on the contrary, he goes to
work to bless them himself. He coun
sels the fool, he heals the sick. Just
as Jesus did. Jesus told us to be per
fect even as he was; that Is, by cur
ing the blind and maxing tne lame
walk. But the church thought it
imow a herter wav and for a rood
many centuries has been trying It
with results not always Driinani. -ow
finally a few are going back to the old
original recipe. , :
It turris out, then, that the only new
Incarnation we have any ground for
Tn.cttns In r-eallv a very old one. The
only new religion weare likely to see
is the one that was preacnea Dy tne
Sea of Galilee. That will be new
enough to most of us. It will be par
ticularly novel In some orthodox
circles. Perhaps the world is actually
civilized eriough now to discard the
fictitious personage it has so long sub
stituted for Jesus and contemplate the
Son of Man himself. Perhaps It will
cease to feed on orthodox interpreta
tions of his teachings and choose the
teachings themselves. If .this should
happen. It would be quite enough of a
religious revolution for one generation.
Is It too much to hope for?
The perversity of the automobile fig
ured quite prominently in Friday's
news. Down in California two bank
robbers, after making a successful get
away from the bank, fell victims to
an automobile breakdown which en
abled the pursuing posse to round
them up and recover the money with
out difficulty. In Trowbridge, Eng
land, during the progress of military
maneuvers, an automobile ran into a
column of troops and -killed or wound
ed several of them. The accident was
most distressing, but it suggests a new
use for the automobile.. If a battalion
of the buzz-wagons could make life as
uncomfortable for the enemy as a few
of them can make it for the citizens
on foot in Portland, Or., or almost any
large city, the effort would certainly
be worth while
Some one in San Francisco made
the interesting discovery, the other
day, that $10 gold cflins of 1847, minus
the usual "In God We Trust," are
r;nn Rut it is not recorded
that anybody ever gave $500 for any
such coin. Publication or tne story iea
t tronorai overhauling everywhere of
stocks of coins, and the result is that
in Portland alone The oregonlan nas
heard of several such. Their owners
will have to calm their excitement as
best they can. Their coins are not
worth $500. However, they are worth
$10 each.
Aldrlch "bedeviled the schedule" we
agree; but then Chamberlain and a
big lot of Democrats helped him to do
it, by voting for highest duties on each
and every commodity in the production
of which their own states were directly
concerned. Bourne said simply that he
didn't know anything about it, and
would leave the subject to Aldrich,
who did know. Oregon has statesman
ship in the Senate.
Mr. Schively has managed to get out
from under one of those numerous
charges. But there are twenty-five
more. A long, weary Summer is be
fore that Washington special session.
The Senators who refused to cut the
Gordlan knot by taking Schively's Job
away from him might as well send
home for an extra lot of laundry.
Johnson Porter, of the Oregon
Trunk, Insists that there is plenty of
e,T- tnrn railroads UD the Des
chutes. General Counsel Cotton, of
the Harriman system, says there is no
necesary conflict between the two
projects. Then why Is there suh a
mighty battle In the courts and in the
canyon? Or any-battle?. .
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George H. Thomas complains that
The Oregonian will not print his com
munications. It will not. The Orego
nian occasionally prints worthless
communications, but it must draw the
line somewhere. Why should any pa
per anywhere at any time print any
thing on any subject from Thomas?
The grainhandlers' strike was soon
over. . The grainhandlers quite sensi
bly concluded that 35 cents an hour in
Portland is better than nothing, even
better than 30 Cents an hour at Ta
coma, or here.
Some people are always late. If the
multitude who registered at Spokane
the last month had come to Oregon in
time, each could have had a full sec
tion of the finest land in the world for
nothing. - '
Even If Senator Bourne was turned
down when Hendricks and Beach
were appointed to head the Oregon
census, haven't the people had just
as much to say about it?
Hermann must be amused at this
latest at'tempt to take scalps in the In
terior Department. Binger's motto is
"Stand pat and merit will win."
In Spain the Minister of the Interior
and the Minister of War are fighting.
That's safer than on the firing line,
facing, the Moors.
We should say that such a proced
as that Involving Thaw last week
would hardly prove any man's sanity.
Jeffries and Johnson are at last ar
rayed to fight. But they will talk a
long while before they Tight.
They are marrying off the King of
Siam at the age of eleven. They want
to get him used to trouble.
Walter Wellman. we are told, is
ready kgain o start for the pole.
That's all.
Despite the fact that he will have no
more trials. Murderer Finch is discontented.
TOPICAL VERSE
The Income Uara.
Swell people, you who do the stunt
Of putting up a nifty front.
Are all your words and all your acts
In strict accordance with the facts!
Are not some people, fairly wise.
Misled) as to your income's size?
To find a better touring car
Than yours they'd have to travel far;
Your residence throughout is graced
With things that show a cultured taste.
So none with you'd connect such ills
As overdue outstanding bills.
The handsome house in which you live.
The charming parties that you give
When you so often entertain.
And count thereby your social gain
Say, have the folks who gladly come
Full knowledge of your mortgage sum?
.!.. I. that inmme thins"
To you much prestige It will bring
. . . . ... i.i. .
II you re successiui wiiu uui
That it is e'en more than enough;
You'll have to lie the other way.
Carmen Bovina.
The muley cow awoke at morn
And caroled a blithesome lay;
For she thought as she lay on her downy
oouch
That her stomach was filled with hay.
That is, one stomach was filled with hay.
And one was filled with corn,
And one with oats; so she caroled away
On that bright Summer morn.
New York Evening Post
A Clothealess Future.
(Unless the wool schedule in the tariff
bill is changed. $200,000,000 will be added
to the cost of clothing.)
"Got woolen suits?" the stranger said.
The salesman sadly shook his head.
With "We are out of clo'se.
Under our newest tariff rate
I'll sell cheap suits of armor plate.
But woolens, light or heavy weight? ,
Try Tiffany for those."
I met a person in the street
In woolen coat and trousers nsat
(X wore a paper kilt).
Men stared as it he were a freak.
But he could buy such garb unique.
For he'd a million plunks a week.
This haughty Vanderbilt.
A burglar's victim, left unolad.
Decided he would print an "ad,"
And this was his request:
"The bold, marauder of last night
May keep the string of diamonds white,
The plate of gold, the rubies bright.
If he'll return that vest." ,
We in the city's busy hives
Insure our clothes the same as lives.
For precious Is' apparel.
What? Wear no clothes at all? ThaVs
nice, '
But what's the use of such advice?
The coopers' trust has raised the price
Of the protected barrel.
New York World.
Retribution.
A stroller of the city
Lay dying on the walk;
His life seemed slowly ebbing.
He couldn't even talk.
"It looks quite like a murder,"
The big policeman said;
"Or else a mighty sunstroke
Has hit him on the head."
"Not so," someone did venture,
"He courted death, did he;
He asked a question which, sir.
Resulted fatally.
He asked a passing stranger
Perspiring to the core:
'Say, is It hot?' then-'biff.' sir;
He never said no more."
Joseph Cone in Boston Herald.
The Joya of a Summer Vacation.
Chicago Record-Herald.
They rented a cottage together, the
Browns and their neighbois, the
Joneses, and said:
"We'll share in the cost and divide up the
work, and each one shall make his
own bed.
'Twill be easy to do. and I'm sure we will
' . find that housework will seem Just
like play."
So with this understanding they packed
up their "junk" and together they
Journeyed away.
For a while things went smoothly, a week
or two passed, then clouds in the dls
. tance appeared.
Mrs. Jones' told her hubby that mean Mrs.
Brown up and "sneaked" when the
table was cleared.
While it wasn't her night to wash dishes.
of course, she might have helped put
them away. -As
she did whenever 'twas Mrs. -Brown s
turn, a fact she could truthfully say.
Then Mrs. Jones said she was sick of her
Job. because Mrs. Brown seemed to
think.
She had nothing to do but look pretty
while she slaved the Summer away at
the sink:
And Jones disliked Brown because he de
clined to help clean fish that they
caught,
While Brown had a notion that Jones
didn't go for the water as oft as he
ought.
When a month had ?one by Mrs.. Jones
started in to ;hatid" Mrs. Brown "a
few things."
And Mrs. Brown, also, unburdened her
mind of a few little neighborly flings.
Now the Joneses and Browns are at home
once again, 'their vacation was far
from a treat.
And good Mrs. Brown doesn t see Mrs.
Jones when they happen to pass on
the street.
Incomes.
If I had the boss' income
Instead ryf my bone a day,
-Would I dally eat In old Ann street
Them waffles and coffee? Nays
Right into the Row 'round the corner
I'd break and I'd order there
A couple of steaks, two high shortcakes-
Some pie, and a ricn rcmi.
But the boss (ran you beat
It?) orders milk and shredded wheatl
If I had the boss' Income
Each pleasant afternoon
The stroke of two would see me through
. And the subway'd see me soon.
I'd sail away to the hilltop.
Where the Highlanders do biz.
And you'd find me, you can betchef
In a box behind the ketcher
Giving the umpire his.
Does the boss do that way? Nit!
Works when all the rest have quit.
If I had the boss' Income
Instead of my chicken feed,
I would take the air behind a Pa,r
That would surely be some steed.
And to and from the ofTlce
I would slide in' a "sixty" car.
That would hit the eye of the passers-by
And give 'em (at times) a Jar.
But the boss, he hoofs It home
Is he dippy in his dome? '
The guys what has it don't know how
to blow
It like the guys what hasn't got It
know. New York Bun.
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