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PORTLAND, SCXDir, APBII. 24. 1810.
ROOS EVELT AT THJS SORBOSKE,
Mr. Roosevelt's address at the Sor
Donne In Paris abounds with those
moral remarks which to many persons
seem trite but which to a keener in
sight signify an abiding sense of the
laws of the spiritual world. He sees
everything in Its ethical relations and
that is one reason why the instinct of
the multitude clings to him with an
abiding faith. "Let the man of learn
ing," he says with all the unction of
:the preacher, "beware of the queer
and cheap temptation to pose to him
self and others as the cynic, as the man
who has outgrown emotions and be-
'Hefs, the man to whom good and evil
are one." In another place he says
equally well and equally without the
possibility of contradiction that "the
man who does nothing cuts the same
sordid figure in the pages of history,
whether he be cynic or fop or volup
tuary." It Is this moral feeling which
gives Mr. Roosevelt his power among
Anglo-Saxons, men of a race which
has won its triumphs in the world by
the severe practice of ascetic virtues
. and which believes In them from the
bottom of the heart. His theme at the
Sorbonne, "Individual Citizenship,"
gave him the best possible opportunity
to exercise his powerful gift of preach
: ing.
t We may call his address a sermon
without departing very far from the
truth. His text falls into two divi
sions, first the duty of the average
man in the exceptional affairs of life.
Second, his duty in common affairs.
Jn all contingencies whether rare or
frequent the average man must be a
good citizen If the Nation Is to endure,
and if that fundamental condition is
attained it does not much matter about
the classes which stand Very high or
very low. The philosophy of Mr.
Roosevelt's address is the old one of
the imperishable " obligation of duty.
This obligation, to his mind, falls with
the same weight upon the scholar, the
man of wealth and the statesman as
upon the humblest toiler in the field
or mill. For the luxurious idler, the
ineffectual cynic, the sterile critic, he
expresses unbounded scorn. They are
the persons who not only contribute
nothing themselves to the. common
.work of the world, but they dishearten
others. They are worse than a -burden
lo be borne. They make the burdens
of others heavier.
Mr, Roosevelt's grudge against the
mere critic, if it can be called a
grudge, is 'of long standing. "We find
it In his addresses of years ago ex
pressed with the same vigor as In this
la6t utterance before the Soubonne.
Yet, after all, were it not for the critio
things would not go on nearly so well
as they do in the world. Mr. Roose
velt himself, little as he might be in
clined to acknowledge it, is a critic
and a severe one at times. Some of
his Judgments upon his fellow men
lack nothing in keenness, though It
must be admitted that they are usually
true. He owes the confidence which
the American people bear for him
fully as much to the criticisms he has
made on men and measures as on ac
tual accomplishment. In fact, it is
conceivable that history, after all, will
rank him rather with the critics than
with those who have constructed sys
tems of law or government. His power
rhttherto has lain more in the keenness
of his intellectual vision and his cour
ageous expression of his opinions than
in anything he has done. Much as he
; .loves action, it cannot be said that Mr.
'Roosevelt, in the constructive sense,
has been a man of action.
Roosevelt's great virtue thus far in his
career is that he has been an extraor
rlinary stimulus to the activity of oth
ers. His prime gift seems to be that of
the preacher and one sometimes
' guesses that he feels this instinctively
himself. His sermons have not
been characterized by extraordi
nary originality either, though this
. . . i cui iirLt.: ii in ii i in iv n on
.we sit down to extract from the
.'teachings of Jesus Christ, or from
those of any other individual who has
'wrought powerfully on the history of
the world, the portions which are en
tirely original, they are found to be
extremely scanty. The golden rule, for
example. is to be met with in many lit
eratures long before the time of Jesus.
"This ad-dress of Roosevelt's, like most
of those which he has made on great
"occasions, insists upon the fundamen
tal necessity for character in citizen
ship. When the time comes that men
no longer do their duty, then govern
.inents fail and civilization decays. But
besides character we note in this ad
dress a new insistence upon equality
and liberty. The liberty which Mr.
Roosevelt desires is that which permits
a man to develop his character unhind
ered by the encroachments of others.
The equality lie demands is that of op
portunity. He is wise enough to per-t-eive
that there never has been or can
be such a thing as equality of gifts or
station or property in the world, but
1 the equal right to labor, to enjoy what
a man has earned, to develop his per
sonality and powers, this is possible
-according to Mr. Roosevelt; and hu
nan affairs will never run smoothly
until it has been achieved and made
secure. "The good citizen will de
Tnand liberty for himself," and he will
also demand for others "the liberty
which he claims as his. own." Hither
to in the history of the world the liber
ty of some fortunate class has too fre
quently been built uponthe slavery
of others. This was true In all the
ancient civilizations. The modern
world has progressed toward the ideal
.of Christianity in proportion as It has
broadened the basis of liberty. Mr.
Roosevelt would make it as wide as
the human race.
X'EUCITATKXNS TO DEMOCRATS.
Democrats of Oregon are not so
absurd as they look and sound, after
all, for they are to hold a feast or as
sembly of their county chairmen in
Portland, during the last flickers of
the gorgeous pageant of the Rose Fes
tival. This will be a fit setting for
their grandeur of intellect. Patriots
who can brave the Jeers of the un
bossable people and hold a conference
of the people's chiefs are men of more
than common parts.-
The 1200 Republican delegates to
the Republican assembly, to be held
two months later, will owe to the
dozen unterrified leaders of the Demo
cratic hosts felicitations of the hour.
It has been declared by Democracy's
foes that Democrats are always sure
to do the wrong act at the right time;
but. this courageous deed will forever
silence such boastings where rolls the
Oregon.
The Democratic brethren will not
talk nominations at their feast, it is
said; only will they talk politics. This
is indeed a notable difference. But
they should not be so diffident. Their
grandest achievements in Oregon have
come of exchange of wisdom in as
sembly notably the elevation of
Chamberlain to the Governorship and
then to the Senatorship. So that pat
riots who "would deny Democrats the
right to repeat their good works are
most toad-spotted traitors to the
cause.
Republicans will hope to gather
some gleanings from this feast of the
chiefs of the unbossed people for use
in the Republican assembly.
SPHERE AND FLAKE.
Changes In language keep pace with
the progress of events. Some years
ago we were always hearing about
woman's "sphere." Of late the eco
nomic and social position of the fem
inine half of the world has' altered
very appreciably and in harmony with
the upheaval we now hear of woman's
"plane." She is no longer enclosed
In a sphere; she walks abroad freely
on a flat and open plane.
. President Taft, for example, in ad
dressing the Daughters of the Revolu
tion, wa careful not to commit the
solecism of mentioning their exploded
sphere. He spoke respectfully, though
not very enthusiastically, of their
plane. This alteration in speech is
significant. While men thought of
women as creatures shut up in an im
aginary sphere, the old ideas of in
feriority and ownership naturally
clung to them. The sphere was merely
a harem a little expanded, but by no
means broken open. The plane is a to
tally different affair. It spreads to
Infinity In every direction. Its sur
face is smooth to the feet and easy to
walk over for long distances. The
woman who tried to climb up the con
cavity of a sphere had a hard time of
it -all the way and was doomed in
evitably to slip back before she had
gone very high. She was like a worm
trying to crawl out of a bottle with
slippery sides and a tight cork. On
the, even flatness of the plane where
she now resides there is nothing to
hinder her Journeying as far and as
fast as she likes. President Taft may.
have disappointed the suffragists a
little by not speaking more ardently
in favor of their wishes, but he has
done the sex a. tremendous favor by
recognizing, as it were officially, that
they now stand on a plane Instead of
being shut up in a hollow sphere.
MUSICAX. TROUBLES.
We may now expect to be enter
tained with another, wail from the
high priests of Euterpe over the ex
ecrable musical taste of our country
men, for, financially, grand opera
seems to have 1 een disastrous almost
everywhere. In Chicago there is a
deficit. In Boston, even in Boston,
Spring, with its verdant blooms, finds
the operatic treasury empty, while the
New York promoters of exalted mel
ody are on the verge of bankruptcy.
We do not say that this condition of
things is a Judgment upon the man
agers of our musical affairs for their
sins, but it looks wonderfully as if
Providence had chosen an opportunity
to chasten them. Their conduct of
the business has always been wasteful.
They offer salaries to European sing
ers which are far beyond the ratis
in Paris or Berlin, and then to make
both ends meet they must charge
such exorbitant prices for seats that
none but millionaires feel able to hear
more than one or two operas in a
Winter. Naturally, when the cost of
living rises musical audiences shrink
and the managers find themselves
with an expensive array of prima
donnas and tenors on hand and no
means of paying them.
Grand opera will never be placed
on a permanent -basis in the United
States until our managers consent to
pay prices- which bear some reason
able ratio to what singers receive in
other countries. As long as salaries
remain at fabulous figures the busi
ness will necessarily partake of the
adventurous and spectacular. People
will go to operas not so much to hear
the music as to see the famous tenor
who can command five or six thou
sand dollars an hour for his voice,
but they will not go very often be
cause they cannot afford It. ' Thus
the habit of attending the opera is,
not developed in the multitude, and it
Is that habit alone which can make
musical enterprises successful in the
long run. But there is another rea
son besides . the high - price of seats
why the public does not find musical
entertainments attractive. Most of
the singing Is in languages which they
do not understand.- In all good operas
and songs there is an iiftimate rela
tion between the words and the mel
ody and a person who does not know
what it Is all about loses more than
half the pleasure of the performance.
A Parisian audience might tolerate
as an - exceptional thing a ' series of
performances in Italian or English,
but nobody would expect French peo
ple to patronize habitually entertain
ments in a language which they, could
not understand. In any foreign capi
tal the public would feel affronted if
its own language were systematically
shunned and some foreign tongue sub
stituted for it. Americans are very
patient under the infliction of ever
lasting German and Italian librettos,
but that the ordeal does not please
them is shown by their staying away
from the performances. To the elect,
however. It is highly objectionable ta
hear an English song from the stage.
Nothing less than a lied or a chanson
will satisfy them. Even American
girls feel obliged to forget their native
tongue when they sing in public. They
know that their genius would never be
recognized unless they exhibited It in
the languages of .Schumann and
Gounod.
Some time perhaps our musical peo
ple will recover from this abject pro
vincialism and admit that music sung
in English may be Just as beautiful
as in Italian or French. When that
time comes and American audiences
are permitted to know what the enter
tainment provided for them means, if
it means anything, we may expect to
see music become a great deal more
popular than it is now, and simultane
ously more profitable to its promoters.
"BAD (OMl'AM" ALDRICH.
Retirement of Aldrich and Hale is
said to please President Taft. It will
certainly relieve him of serious em
barrasshjent during the next two or
three years of his "test" as Executive.
Retirement of Cannon would also
make an easier political situation for
the President.
Taft has felt that he needed the aid
of these men in order to carry his
measures in Congress. Their antagon
ism, the President has believed, would
seriously obstruct or prevent the con
summation of his policies. He sought
the methods of peace for fulfilling the
pledges he had made to the electorate
and of carrying out the Roosevelt poli
cies. Once Mr. Taft had almost begun
a war on Cannon, but that was before
the election. Afterward, when Cannon
returned to Congress and the Speaker
ship, Taft deemed It necessary to co
operate with the head of the House .of
Representatives in the Interest of the
country's legislation. Likewise, he
deemed it essential to gain the aid of
the powerful Aldrich faction in the
Senate. ,
Now the Executive finds himself
suffering politically from the popular
dislike of the old regime headed by
Aldrich and Cannon. He has not
failed to discern this fact. "A dema
gogue President, on making, this dis
covery, would have cast them out from
him with much noise and spectacular
posing. But that Is not the Taft
method.
The country, or large part of it, is
displeased with the new tariff, with
high cost of living, ajid with things
generally. It is "tired" and wants
something new, though it knows not
Just exectly what. Democrats, mak
ing the most of the situation, call the
demand that for tariff reform. Obvi
ously the tariff is unsatisfactory, but
so will any schedule of duties be that
pretends to "protect" one part of the
Nation or one element of the people
against another, by regulating prices
at which they sell to each other. The
American people have not yet waked
up, however, to the fallacy of protect
ive tariff and therefore do not know
why they are so illy pleased.
Aldrich and Cannon are convenient
scapegoats for the penalties of this
discontent. They represent the ultra
conservative elements of Congress,
which include trusts and monopolies,
and with them are affiliated the
powers which the people hatefully call
those of boss and machine rule. The
passing of these two men for Can
non at his advanced age, it would
seem,' will not desire to continue a
combat that needs the energies of a
younger man may enable the Presi
dent to prove to the country the mani
fest sincerity of his purposes and their
freedom from monopolistic control.
It Is what may be called "bad com
pany;' that has exposed the President
to criticism. Tet the people sent that
company to Congress and Taft had to
work with it as ' best he could. And
his intentions of square dealing would
not allow him to take demagogic ad
vantage of his unpopular associates.
Roosevelt had used Aldrich and Can
non in spite of the popular discontent
with those men and yet not a word has
been said that he was soiled by the
contact.
At heart the conservative elements
that are represented by Aldrich and
Cannon are not loyal friends of Taft
or Roosevelt, and their dislike of
those two men has borne evidence.
Taft belongs properly to the radical
wing of the Republican party. In try
ing to conciliate the conservatives, he
has earned the displeasure of a considerable-influence
in his own original
following, without gaining friends on
the other side.
It is the business of the people,
however, to send right men to Con
grtss. It certainly is no fault of the
present Administration that the other
kind are there to do the people's law
making. Taft thinks the tariff the best
that could be sec'ured, and is probably
right to the extent -that no protective
tariff law can be satisfying.
The temperament of Taft Is one of
harmonizing. It Is a Judicial tem
perament that' works for results
through methods of conciliation and
compromise. Perhaps the American
people do not like that kind of Presi
dent. Time will show. But the Presi
dent will be able to appear before the
people in better light, now that the
"bad company," that some of the peo
ple sent to Washington for the Presi
dent to work with is to be eliminated.
MOVING DAY.
A virulent Spring fever is incubat
ing in Chicago, and will break out
without fail on May day. Against it
there is neither quarantine nor possi
bility of quarantine. Its scheduled
victims, at a conservative estimate,
will equal full 35,000 families by the
first of May, after which it will abate
as suddenly as It came, leaving more
or less evidences of Its destructive
power, Lnd the 175,000 people count
ing five to a family who have felt
its disturbing influence to a greater
or less extent, will settle down and
become normal for another year.
This malady is known as the "mov
ing fever." We have good Dr. Frank
lin for it that "three moves are enua.1
) to a fire." This being true, some
thing" like 200,000 people are the same
as burned out of house and home in
Chicago every three years.
This is serious, especially to the
extent that it affects the classes least
able to afford the loss the small
tradespeople and those who work for
wages. The waste incident to the
breaking out of the malady, even at a
much lower computation of loss,
must necessarily be enormous, and
places the victims in the front rank
of the grand army of American wast
rels. And this is not all. It deprives
families of the home feeling that cen
ters about the place of long abode,
and may readily be conceived to be
the first sowing of the seed of the
wanderlust that keeps half a million
of tramps on the public highways of
the countrj-.
It is easy to agree with the press
agent that this annual self-inoculation
of the moving fever Is a "tragic Joke."
In nine times out of ten perhaps in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred
the family gains nothing In comfort-i
I able housing or In lower rent by the
move, while in discomfort and expense
due to unsettled household conditions,
transportation charges, the wear and
tear upon furniture and the refitting
that is always necessary, the count
is large.
In many cities the suburban home
fever has counteracted the Slay day
pestilence to a great extent; but Chi
cago, though stretching out for miles
in the country, does not seem to have
found this panacea. In our own city
the thrifty laborer or tradesman who
moves goes to his own home a cot
tage or a bungalow in the suburbs
reached by a street railway line and
thereafter becomes immune to the
moving fever. No doubt conditions
are more favorable in the application
of this remedy in Portland than in
Chicago. They certainly are favor
able to the stamping out of this ever
where It has gained a foothold here,
since no sober. Industrious man with
in its wide and constantly widening
limits'needs to be without the nucleus,
at least, of a home which steady en
deavor properly applied will In due
time make his own. - ."
PORTLAND'S STREET NAMES.
Some citizens in Portland, evidently,
don't know there ever were pioneers
or town-builders here. Pioneer names
of streets have no sentimental nor his
torical significance nor practical util
ity for them. Therefore, they want
the names of the builders erased and
bare numbers put in their place. But
there is a large population who will
not sanction this change. Besides, the
present names have become lodged in
the vernacular of the people. In al
most all other cities pioneer or char
acter names -mark the streets. Then
why not in Portland?
Benjamin Stark was one of Port
land's founders and so was J. L. Mor
rison. Each name has fitting-place In
a prominent business street. The
names of Dr. J. C. Hawthorne and
James B. Stephens are attached to
thoroughfares on the East Side. Those
of Captain John H. Couch and George
H. Flanders designate arteries of traf
fic on t the West Side; also Daniel H.
Lownsdale, Dr. R. Glisan, A. X,. Love
Joy Francis W. Pettygrove and Will
iam Overton. And there are many
more.
These street titles deservedly belong
to the city's future as well as to its
past. They should not be cast away
as if Portland owed nothing to Its
founders and could cut loose from the
continuity of Its history and begin as
if now were the starting time and
nothing were behind. Besides, the
names are easily ' pronounced and
have proved useful. Change would
bring endless annoyance and much
confusion.
It is the business of newcomers in
a city to learn the names of its
streets. This they are required to do
In other cities all over the world.
They can do it in Portland in the
future as they have done in the -past.
THE HYDE TRIAL.
Th trial of Dr. Hyde in Kansas
City bids fair to present another of
those exhibitions, too frequent in
American courts, where the rules of
technical evidence are preferred to the
truth, where hysteria runs riot, and
where rabid sensationalism displaces
the sedate processes of Justice. The
accused physician is charged with hav
ing in one way and another murdered
almost an entire family. The means
he employed were first poison, strych
nine and cyanide of potash, and then
the germs of typhoid fever which he
is said to have injected into the arm
of one of the attending nurses. Inci
dentally he also tried to bleed one of
his patients to death. Dr. Hyde may
be innocent of the crimes of which he
is accused and again he may not be.
Things look pretty black for him at
present, but the rules jf evidence seem
likely to stand hfm in good stead for
one thing, while the sordid character
of most of his accusers will necessar
ily tend to impeach their testimony.
The charge that Dr. Hyde tried to
kill the nurse by injecting the germs
of typhoid fever into her arm is Im
portant because it may marl; the open
ing of a new era in the history of mur
der by poison. Upon reflection it sur
prises one that enterprising criminals
have not taken advantage long ago
of the resources wljich modern
science places at their disposal.
The germs of diphtheria, chol
era, typhoid, tuberculosis and so
forth, are to be found in almost every
medical laboratory, and they are not
so securely guarded but that an in
genious person could get possession of
them if he wished. Even if ho could
not get them In that way, there Is
nothing to hinder him from gathering
them as scientists do. from refuse,
from the circumambient air where
many of them constantly float about,
from the discharges of the sick room.
The neglect of aspiring murderers to
take advantage of this potent resource
cannot be ascribed to any such weak
ness as pity or the compunctions of
conscience. The annals of crime show
plainly enough that they never have
hesitated to employ any means which
they understood and which seemed
likely to serve their purpose.
In the palmy days of the art of poi
soning, say about the time of the
Borgias in Italy, this -method of usher
ing people Into the next world had
been carried to a marvelous degree of
refinement. ' It was possible to present
your dearest friend with his death
warrant in .the odor of a bouquet. If
he incautiously shook hands with you,
an invisible point which you had pre
pared for the occasion protruded al
most imperceptibly and gave him his
quietus. A favorite method of dis
patching inconvenient relatives or ri
vals was to Invite them to dine. Of
course, during the meal opportunity
abounded. The wine offered an easy
vehicle for the lethal dose, but it went
almost as well with the pudding.
Sometimes it was used for the flavor
ing of a particular sauce which the
favored guest was known to relish.
At the French court, too, especially in
the glad days of the Medicis and the
Guises, poisoning might fairly be called
a fine art. Ladies who wished to re
move an enemy were very partial to a
prepared fan which imparted to the
airs it wafted the desired deadly virtue.
It was also deemed extremely elegant
to present the doomed individual with
a ring which was furnished with an
anointed point on the inside. When
one's companion put it on he at the
same time sealed his fate. These
various devices for removing superflu
ous people were invariably supposed to
be applied with that gay r.nd light
some air which so distinguishes the
first society of all ages. To scowl
when one murdered his wife or his
mother was deemed an unpardonable
solecism.
Shakespeare took notice of the high
development of the art of poisoning
when he put the envenomed dagger
into Laertes' band and made the King
reinforce the dagger with a drugged
drink. In this case a beneficent fate
intervened to punish the intending
murderers, but that unhappily oc
curred more rarely than one could
have wished.
In the popular conception the poi
soner much prefers a potion which
will make his victim . feel that he is
dying. He loves to see an enemy
writhe in excruciating pangs. Even
suicides are partial to agonizing drugs.
It is just as easy to procure laudanum
as carbolic acid, but ten suicides use
the latter to one who chooses the
former, though laudanum is not near
ly so painful in its effects and Just as
certain. The real reacon why murder
ers have not yet made extensive use
.of germs, as Dr. Hyde is said to have
done, Is not so much mercy as ig-,
norance. The common run of crimi
nals have not yet learned the facts
about' lethal germs and, better yet,
they have not acquired the technical
skill which their employment de
mands. It is an art as difficult as it
is dangerous to manipulate the minute
messengers of death, propagate them
and preserve their virulence. If the
temperature, for instance, falls a de
gree or two lower than it ought the
culture loses its power to kill in many
cases, as Pasteur showed. We may
thus feel moderately safe from the use
of germs as poisons by Illiterate mur
derers simply because it is beyond
their capacity, but what a field it pre
sents for the enterprise of the edu
cated and intelligent.
THE WOLTER CASE.
"Albert Wolter, a degenerate youth,
who gloated over lewd pictures and
was 'crazy about women,' must die in
the electric chair for the murder of
Ruth Wheeler, a 15-year-old sten
ographer." So says a dispatch from
New York. All who have followed
the story of Wolter's abhorrent crime
feel that, even with the execution of
this penalty, scant Justice will be done.
Not since the crime of Theodore
Durrant shocked the world has a more
horrible murder been brought to pub
lic light than that for which this per
vert will suffer the extreme penalty.
Inconceivable in conception and dia
bolical in execution as was that of
Durrant, Wolter's crime is at once hor
rible and astounding.
First making love to the young girl,
himself a youth of tender years,
Wolter decoyed her to his room -and
strangled her and burned her body In
his fireplace. So, in brief runs the
dreadful tale. Appeal is made in vain
to sympathy in such a case, and even
pity turns dry-eyei from the scene
wherein this disnatured criminal was
the central figure, as he arose, follow
ing his attorney's eloquent plea for
mercy, and stolidly received the ver
dict "Guilty of murder in the first
degree."
The evidence in the case, as in that
of Durrant, was purely circumstantial.
Of necessity it had to be, but in his
summing up District Attorney Morse
declared that there were no unex
plained circumstances in the case.
The lesson, though a broad and open
one, is one that will do little for the
class to which it most strongly ap
peals young girls who, without the
faintest knowledge of what is neces
sary for their protection in thei- re
lation with the other sex, scout inter
ference on the part of their elders and
permit themselves to toe lured to ruin
perhaps to death.
KING EDWARD'S INVESTMENT.
The first quadruplets to enter Can
ada were four blue-eyed children of
David Grant, a Scotchman, and his
wife. The parents of seven, these
people found themselves In straitened
circumstances. The situation was
brought to the attention of King Ed
ward, who thereupon gave the father
J 500 for each of the four babies that
in a single night were added to his
family. The thrifty Scotchman, learn
ing that oats made a fine crop in Can
ada and that the wheat yield was un
failing and abundant, put the $20Q0,
minus the price of tickets from South
ampton to Ottawa, in his pocket and
hied him to the land of promise. Far
ing on to Alberta, he secured 320 acres
of His Majesty's eminent domain and
settled himself down with his numer
ous young family to grow up with the
country.
Emigrants in Job lots like these,
with every incentive to make the most
of opportunity, are a blessing to a new
country, especially where they take to
the open and live from the products
of the soil. A family of this type in a
manufacturing community would, in
ten or twelve years, develop into a
palefaced, tallow-fingered, wage-earning
squad, whose lives were bounded
by the walls of a crowded home and
those of an overcrowded factory. On
the wide Canadian prairie, however,
they will grow into sturdy farmers
and independent freeholders.
King Edward builded better than he
knew when he made it possible for this
sturdy Scot to come out to Canada and
establish himself there with his young
family. The investment was one that
will pay dividends to his American
realm in increasing volume as the
years go on.
JTTLES VERtNK ECUPSED.
The public demand for the product
of the muckrakers Is either on the
decrease or the readers of the yellow
magazines are insisting on something
more sensational than anything that
has yet been attempted. A few years
ago almost any kind of a fulmlnation
from Jimmy Creelman, Likkum Stuf
funs, . Bray Bannard Stoker or any
other of the charter members of the
Muckrakers Club would create an
immense demand for the publications
in which they appeared. These ex
plosions were very interesting at first,
but the public soon tired of the, ex
hibition of shooting gnats with ele
phant guns and for some months we
have beard but little from the muck
rake wielders. Now comes to the
front one Ben B. Hampton, owner of
a magazine of his own, and accord
ingly not hampered by space regula
tions or rtrtrictlons as to the size of
the yellow streak in his stories.
Mr. Hampton has scented a great
conspiracy by which the Morgan
Guggenheim interests are beginning
right where Captain James Carroll
left off, when the Government refused
to sell him Alaska at the original pur
chase prlco of about (7,000,000. Rea
soning from some fantastically con
structed theories which arc a part -of
the formula for all articles of muck
raking manufacture, Mr. Hampton
assures the public that our gold-bearing,
scandal-producing Northern pos
session is about to become a "Morgan
heim Barony." By a system which is
rapidly-approaching perfection, all the
wealth of that great treasure house
will flow Into the coffers of the Mor
gans and the Guggenhelms. It is not
in this direful predictldn of a coming
system of slcvery and serfdom in
Alaska that we find the chief feature
of interest in this renaissance of
muckraking. It is in the wonderful
figures which Mr. Hampton has
compiled.
No compilation of values of timber,
agricultural land or silver, lead and
a number of other minerals is made,
but, according to this eminent author
ity, the coal which is about to fall into
the grasp of the "Morganheims" is
worth at the mine $33,750,000,000.
The most conservative estimate on the
gold yield gives them $1,125,000,000,
and the same amount is credited to
the copper mines, although it is ex
plained that this figure is based on a
comparison with the Montana output
and the reader is invited to "Add to
that sum as your fancy suggests, for
the future production of Montana, for
the great deposits of Arizona, for the
certainty that Alaska contains vast
stores of copper yet undiscovered
and you may make any estimate you
like of the billions upon billions of
copper wealth which will pour out
from Alaska's mines." As an example
of a wholesale return of fancy for a
small investment of fact, Mr. Hamp
ton's article Is more "classy" than
anything yet turned out by his paid
muckrakers.
It is scarcely conceivable that the
excessive smoking in which Mark
Twain indulged twenty cigars dally
and innumerable pipes did not
shorten his life by a few years'. It is
true that he was an old man. since
even in this day a man cannot be
said to be young at 75, but he was
not an aged man when his length of
years Is compared with that of many
others the late Judge Williams, for
example, who but now went quietly
to sleep without pain, at 87, and Dr.
Parsons, who survives in good health
at 90. Mr. Clemens had the appear
ance of an aged man for a number
of years Its uncertain step, pathetic
thinness, whitened locks and color
less face. If, however, the excessive
use of tobacco contributed to these
marks of age and feebleness he as
sumed to be willing to pay the penalty
in the pleasure he derived from smok
ing. This estimate, since it was his
own, who shall question? Besides,
with family gone, middle age con
signed to the unrefunding tomb of
time, his fund of humor run low and
his mental vigor in eclipse, why should
his friends wish for him why should
he wish for himself a few more lag
gard, uncertain years? Life under
such circumstances is a debtor to
death. When the payment, as is fre
quently the case, becomes long over
due the involuntary holder of the
mortgage is an object of pity rather
than of cong-atulation.
Oregon City will be host to the Open
River Convention next Tuesday. Three
hundred delegates, from nine counties
in Western Oregon, the counties di
rectly interested in maintaining the
Willamette as an open river, will as
semble on that day in the historic city
by the falls to inspect the canal and
locks on the west side of the river
at that place. Later the delegates
will report their findings as to the
advisability of the purchase of the
present locks by the United States
Government, or the construction of
new locks cn the east side. Oregon
City was 'the center of hospitality in
the Pacific Northwest, in early days.
In this role, the names of Abernethy,
Dement, Barlow, Hedges, Moss, Pope
and Caufield come out as flashlights
from the past, while In a niche above
all the rest shines steadily the name
of Dr. McLoughlln. A reflection of
this hospitality, more properly speak
ing, perhaps, a continuation of this
hospitality, will be off' red by the pres
ent residents of Oregon City upon an
occasion that means much to them,
and much more to the people up and
down the Willamette Valley.
George Bafus, a wealthy Palouse
farmer, is in jail at Colfax, charged
with the murder of his brother-in-law,
who was slain during a drunken row
The men were on friendly terms be
fore the whisky got in its work, and
the murderer has a family of seven
children, who witnessed the tragedy.
There is a powerful object-lesson In
this murder, and It will hardly fail to
aid the cause of temperance.
If the boys and girls of the San
Francisco public high schools are as
tenacious along useful lines as they
are in holding to their sororities and
fraternities, they will stand a chance
to make something of themselves in
industrial pursuits later on. There is
unfortunately, however, no reason to
suppose that this will be the case.
Thousands of rosebusl.e through
out the city, in foliage of tender green
and bronze, and with tiny buds upon
all the new shoots, give promise of a
gorgeous display at the Rose Carnival
In June.
Hetty Green's son despairs of mar
riage, for he would be loved for him
self alone. He might yive away every
dollar and get a job. Greater fools
than that are finding wives every day.
The tremendous popularity of Mark
Twain's writings is witnessed in the
fact that his estate i3 worth $1,000,000.
And this though he was practically
bankrupt twice.
Some census takers are said to be
omitting the kitchen cook from the
count. They must be well-fed hus
bands or hopeless bachelors.
Now Mr. Bryan wants the Indiana
state convention to nominate a can
didate for United State Senator. Is
Bryan a Democrat?
It ought not to make delay if the.
census counter doesn't find the folks
at home. The neighbors know all
about things.
Still one dark spot in all this bright
promise of Democrats Mr. Bryan
has failed to say he would not be a
candidate.
We wonder if the suffragists learned
that hiss they gave President Taft from
the serpent in the garden of Eden.
If that Lloyd party found it easy to
climb Mount McKinley, why so many
doubts about Dr Cook?
When the sun 'first shines warm the
fool and his underwear are soon
parted.
Mark Twain Is also receiving praises
too late to hear them.
Poems by Sam. L. Simpson
Reprinted from the- Advance Proofs of
the Forthcoming Edition of that
Oregon I'twt's Work.
We leaned on our guns and looked over
the city,
Enthroned in the days that eternally
thrill:
And one stood in silence and one hummed
a ditty
Of a love that was lost and a wheel that
w-.s still.
"The pick and the shovel are rusted
and broken.
Faded the fires rf thj cabin and tert.
The long: roll lias soun led, the Chief
tain has spoken.
The owl sobs i.lone on the hills that
were rent.
"There's a sn.oke on yon hillside that
somehow will linger
Like a mist on the shore when, the
title has gone down.
Have you marked It a luminous vlelet
column
On the crold and the bronze of tl.e
frost-tinted tiees
Soaring to victory, saintly and solemn.
With the wreathed Immortelles that
Fidelity weaves?
"He was only an- Indian, the son of Old
Mary,
Swarthy and wild, with a midnight
of hair.
That arose as he sped to the Lethean
ferry
Like n. raven of doom In the quiver
ing air.'
And his crime? I've ' forgotten it was
something of ot:.er
Judge Lynch's decisions were i.ever
compiled ;
But we left him at last, with his forest-horn
mother.
Ana she camped by the tree that had
strangled her child.
"Te Deuins t.. -11 in the gloom of
old arches.
And the white-handed preacher co
quette with his God.
But truth finds her own in long battle
and marches.
And the flowers will bloom en that
tear-sprlnklcd sod.
When the tire has gone out and the
vigil is ended.
Poor Mary may sleep with the loved
and the leal.
For the stars will mount guard o'er the
ashes she tended.
And the beauty of morning return
there to kneel."
The Mother's Vigil.
The night is near and the twilight
falls .
In bannere: gloom from the sapphire
walls:
A crape of shadow is looped and hung
From star to star, and the moon Is
swung,
A funeral lamp from east to west
To hallow the earth's hibernal rest.
The peaks that glistened, the hills that
crept
Away and down to the vales of green
That slept in beautiful peace between.
Are as sere and dark as the faded page
Of some sweet tale of the golden age
A pale leaf stirs, with a rustling slgh
"I tarry late, but my rest is nigh!"
And day will come. In his crown of
gold.
With rosy dawn on his banners fold
And mystic night will be sailing soon
In sweet pursuit, with his crescent
moon
Bent like a glimmering sheet of light
Through star-set seas that are blos
soms bright:
The sheeted hills will awake again -The
brook will laugh as it leaves the
glen
To chase the birds, and to pray and
plead
For a lily's kiss in the clover mead
The dimpling river will loiter long
By banks of roses and groves of song.
And in and out. with her crystal feet,
Agleam in many a gay retreat
Will taunt old ocean, and sing and say:
"I come, I come." and yet still delay.
But what of us, and the loved of ours
The hopes that fell with the leaves
and flowers?
0 Science, thou that hast born the
torch
From world to world, and within the
porch
Of God's arcana, 'tis surely thine
To teach of heaven and grace divine
Shall years renew, end the seasons
chase
In cloud and sunshine o'er Nature's
And only we, with a world at stake,
face.
Lie down, and slumber, and nrr
wake?
And white, like a warning finger laid
Across the murmurous lips of night.
Shines down a glimmering track of
light.
The mists are parted, and hark, behold,
A star leans out with a brow of gold:
And bright and fair as a falling beam.
And sweet as an angel's earthward
dream,
The voice that fell upon Galilee.
Sounds yet again over land and wt:
"The Savior llveth; come, follow me."
What Death May Be.
Asleep I was. and softly dreamed.
As shaded lamplight o'er me streamed.
And flowers, white and calm.
Wreathed on my silent bosom seemed
To steep my soul with balm.
1 heard faint whiepers, and a tear
Dropped on ray forehead I could har
A sobbing, far away
And only those sweet flowers were near
That on my bosom lay.
The Old Newspaper.
The past rolled back like a rainbowed
vapor,
As you read again the old newspaper.
Found today.
Faded and frayed, and dearly olden.
Its thoughts are sainted, its speech is
golden. .
Prose and rhyme;
'As it wakes again, like a Rip "Van
Winkle,
With a heritage of rag and wrinkle.
The jest of time.
As soft as the tress of the bashful
maiden,
Tou stole one day when the tress was
laden
With tassled bloom.
It seemeth now, and your touch is ten
der. Tender as love, for the thread is slender
That stays its doom.
Comings and goings, wedding and dying.
Week-day traffic, and rumors flying
Round the marts
In the mezzotint of the types reflected
In the long, low light of years perfected
Reach our hearts.
Forever.
In Bculah a ringleted river.
That danced In a garland of pearl.
First sang the refrain of "Forever,"
With many a wimple and swirl;
And the flag-flowers bent In the rushes.
For a touch of the fanciful stream.
And the roses in redolent blushes
Were aflame with tho magical dream,
"Forever, forever, forever."
Was the song of the ringleted river
The refrain of a beautiful theme.
The garlands I twine by the river
Are fillets of flame on my brow.
And the crystalline chime of "Forever"
Is therdirge of Kljsium now.
"Forever, forever, forever.'
Was the chant of the musical river,
That sang me a treacherous vow.
There's an odor of death in the flowers
That droop in this chaplet of mine
Believe mo, in sunnier hours
They breathed an aroma divine, .