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WHO WILL HI CD THE PEOPLE'S WILL?
legislative eamllriatee who r-Tuse to take
Fitateiuent No. 1 ihouid ba vlwed with su
' plclon Voter have a right and a good nVht
to su'pact that In the event of th alactlon
f antl-etatemnt men. those; men may not
a-t la accorda:ire with tha wlahe of the
electorate, by refusing to take btatement
No. 1 tfce say In iSi-t that thev will do
a tney ptee regarding tha election of a
8ra'.or and will no? give heed to the
vl.1-.! of their constituent. They may iro
to Sim with on hand hld out behind,
prepared to ll or trade away their Sena
torial Totra, a auch Totaa her been aold
and traded away In the past, to tha dlsgrac
of the state. I'cndleton Kaat Oregonlatt.
This U the view of a Democratic
paper that baa always supported Dem
ent t to candidates and promoted
Democratic policies and had therefore
regarded with high approval every
device or trick or enterprise that
would demoralize and ruin the Re
publican party. So tt Is for Statement
No. 1. It wants another Democratic
Senator. It has no other reason.
Republican legislators who refu
tn take Statement No. 1 do not say It
effect that they "will not give heed
to the wishes of their constituent"
aj to Senator. They desire to be free
to nive heeJ to the will of the people.
They will not be trapped Into a situa
tion where they are obliged. In order
tn fulfill the terms of a pl'dge fool
ishly given, to violate their duty to
their conscience and disregard their
"eevnstitutlonal oath and vote for a
member of an opposite party for Sen
ator, who is not and could not be the
actual people's choice. These men
believe that there is a difference be
tween political parties; the Statement
Oners think there Is no difference,
and act strictly according to their
b-!ivf. By a combination of a minor
ity of Republicans. Democrats, Popu
. fiats. Socialists, and members of no
party, all voting at a Republican pri
mary, they are able to put up a for
midable front.
Men who are independent and frank
and opn with the public are de
nounced by the Pendleton paper as
legislators who "may go to Salem with
on'i hand held out prepared to sell."
etc. In this Infamous and detestable
group, then. Is Included the Republi
can candidate for State Senator for
Umatilla, County (Pendleton), a man
widely known for his upright and
Ktraifrhtfomard character and for his
hatred of all cant, humbug, pretense
and hypocrisy?
to his own people on the morning of
Labor Sunday with reference to the
social problem of the church, espe
cially as it has to do with the life of
working people,' emphasizing the
church's obligation to the Industrial
masses from tho social and economic
viewpoint."
It may well be that, faced with the
duty of preaching on these lines, min
isters will find, as will many of their
congregations, how hard It Is to lay
down In plain words why the working
classes, as a rule, turn from the
church, and how far harder to pro
pose a remedy. But until the churches
have received enlightenment and
proceed to act. It Is vain to hope for
the bridging of the gulf. The churches
must make the first move.
As will have been seen, the Idea
was that from sermons by their own
ministers, all congregations should
receive Instruction on the duties of the
church towards what Is collectively
called "labor." The Chicago minis
ters have shifted their burden, and
no light burden It Is. on to the shoul
ders of the union leaders. Special
invitations have been given to this
end. and the pulpits of the Chicago
churches will be so filled. Doubtless
return Invitations will be In order, for
the ministers to address the unions on
the duties of "labor" to the churches
All of which Is deeply Interesting, and.
if saying strong things rather than
smooth things by both sides is hon
estly practiced. It should prove most
useful.
terly censured. The Indians' man
agement of forests was no manage
ment at all. It was simply a let-alone
policy; the settlers' management Is
not infrequently mismanagement.
The ono perpetuated the wilderness;
the other subdues It. So between the
two the choice Is not difficult.
vance the cause of their people a
great deal faster than they can by
sending out sentimental epistles
marred by bad grammar and lncor-
' rect spelling",' to say nothing of dis
torted facts.
OCXDI0 THE ALARM.
Now la the time of year when the
hills resound with the agonized cries
of an alarmed group of patriots who
are loudly calling upon the people ta
march Into battle In defense of their
boasted liberties. It is a coincidence
not worthy of special note that these
same guardians of the public welfare
arc also candidate for public office.
Here and there some one rushes Into
print or to the public platform merely
for self-advertising purposes, but It's
all In the game and It goes for what It
Is worth.
The concern of these excited patri
ots is, of course, 90 per cent for them
selves and 10 per cent for the public.
but that Is as much, perhaps, as the
people havo a right to expect. Some
body has to till the office, and It is
well thnt the candidate should voice
the alarm that he always feels dur
ing the campaign for the future of tha
republic. Here Is the old, familiar
cry from one excited place-seeker:
LIBOR MrVDAV.
In all but five states of the Union
Labor day Is set apart. Oregon Is
not one of tho exceptions. Labor day
Is .when the streets are given up to
marchers who have laid ajide their
tools and come forth to be counted
on their one day of the year, to pa
triotic speeches and to rational sports.
But what Sunday is Labor Sunday?
That name has been given by the dele
gates of the American Federation of
Labor at Toronto, at their recent
gathering there, to the Sunday Imme
diately before Labor day. The name
Is to mark a fresh step forward In an
alliance between organized labor and
the Christian church, long hoped
for. but only now taking visible form.
For long time there has been a
steady growth in problems of life and
morals, increasing with every develop
ment of modern Industry, while a dl
, viding line between the working
; classes, so called, and the church.
, sometimes called organized Christian
i tty. has widened and deepened, until
: many on both sides believe tt to be
Impassable. "Were this true It would
be not only a National calamity, but
.' a reproach, for organized labor claims
to embody the same principle and
practice of right and wrong, the tamo
code of morals and of sympathy with
man n which the church Is founded.
The church excludes from herself. In
theory, no class, whether counted by
millions or by units. But encrange
J ment. welt nigh absolute division.
. there Is plain and Indisputable, and
the gulf has grown. Whether really
true or not. wageearners have felt
themselves uninvited, almost unwel
come, tn the churches. Certainly llt-
tie heed has been paid to their spe
: clal troubles or to any aid to ba
, gained from organized religion for
their relief.
Is all great spiritual movements
the advance from individual convic
tion to open and associated action 1s
low. The soil has to be prepared as
ill as the seed sown. So In this
vital question of our day. In quite
'. recent years the eyes of many of the
leaders of the unions have opened to
i a sure conviction that they and theirs
! would greatly gain If the ethics of the
Christian faith could bo made neces
' J aary terms in the never-ending argu-
ment between capital and labor on
questions ever pressing for solution,
but never solved. From the other
. aide the leaders of the church have
been groping In dim light to find how
the door of entrance to the churches
could be opened wide to the multl
j tudes of weary workers.
If the recently-formed Federal
' Council of Churches of Christ In
j America had done nothing else but
i advance this great question towards
t a solution It would have amply Justl
.Jfled Its formation. The department
of church and labor of the Presby
terian Church, the Methodist Church
tn the platform adopted ' by Its Na
tional body, and the Episcopal
Church, had already moved, when
the American Federation of Labor at
its Toronto meeting proposed that
organized labor join with ministers
' In the observance of Labor Sunday.
The commission on the church and
social service had been created by
the Federal Council as Its mgtncy to
organize and make general the efforts
cf the churches to grapple with the
wrongs tainting the social and indus
trial systems of our times. Grasping
its opportunity, this commission rec
ommended "that each minister preach '
I am oppoaad to the aaaembly movement
because tte purpoae and dalre I to evade
the primary law. nullify ita provlalona and
turn tha irovernment of the efate backwarda
Into that old SYetem from which th people
atnircled Ion to eecape ... I am op
pou to urrenderlna- my political liberty
and am therefore opposed to tha aaaombly
and tha aaaembly Idea.
So he runs for office. But are the
people to be trusted? Do they know
their own mind? Are they to be al
lowed to express it? In what partic
ular has the assembly evaded the prU
mary law or attempted to avoid the
full and free verdict of the people at
the primary? Do not the assembly
candidates go before the primary on
precisely the same basis as the anti-
assembly candidates?. How has ono
group of candidates an advantage be
fore the primary over the other
group? Is there the slightest differ
ence In their status except mat one
group was openly and publicly named.
and the other group was for the most
part privately and secretly named?
1'IIA S AT FOREST FIRES.
The Indians, It Is said, were wiser
in methods of forest preservation than
are their successors In tho Pacific
Northwest. They kept the under
brush In subjugation by running flrea
through It yearly and thus kept the
forest floor clear and open. This is
probably not true, since they could
not have burned the brush without
Igniting the trees.
In point of fact, the Indians did no
clearing of land for homes and crops.
They had no Incentive therefore to set
fires. The woods formed their game
preserves. It was to their Interest
to prevent flrea from running through
them. Notwithstanding all this, there
was abundant evidence In blackened
forest trees and charred, decaying
logs of the sweep of flames fed by
mighty winds throughout vast sections
of forests when the first white men
pitched th-lr tents and began to hew
out homes in the Northwestern woods.
As for undergrowth, there was no
scarcity of that in those early times,
as the first white men found, who
attempted to follow game, or other
wise make their way through the
wilderness.
Many, perhaps most of the forest
fires of recent times, have followed
the attempt of the settler to subdue
wooded areas to agriculture. Fire Is
the chief element In such subjuga
tion. The ax and the plow perform
their part: but between the sturdy
wielding of the first and the patient
following of the last, fire Is a neces
sary Intervention. "Without tt no
brush land, still less no forest land,
would or could ever ba transformed
Into grain fields and orchards. The
greatest care experienced in applying
the match to slashings is sometimes
futile. A sudden wind may spring
up, a vagrant breeze may shift, and
the servant aet to perform a neces
sary task becomes master and spreads
ruin far and wide.
It Is possible, therefore, that the
settler has been unjustly censured
many times when fixing the responsi
bility for forest fires, and It Is almost
In the nature of an Insult to compare
him In this rejapect unfavorably to
the Indians of prehistoric times who
made no attempt to subdue the wil
derness in the Interest of self-sustaining
industry.
The careless settler who, reckless of
consequences, beyond hi, own clear
ing. Area a slashing tn midsummer
and In so doing sets ablaze the woods
of a wide area, cannot be too gravely
censured, nor too severely punished.
But the man who, at what he con
ceives to be the proper time, calls fire
to his aid tn clearing land for his
crops and finds that, through-unfor-tultous
circumstances the fire gets, be
yond his control, is not the monster
that, when forest fires are raging
round about us, we are wont to paint
him. No man who has succeeded,
after a valiant struggle, which with
out the aid of fire would have been
bootless. In transforming a few acres
of wooded land Into a commercial
orchard, ts likely to censure the set
tler for using fire as an agency for
clearing land. The very best that any
man can do tn this endeavor is to
choose the time for firing his slash
ings with judgment and prudence and
watch It constantly lest tt escape from
his control.
For the vagrant wind that some
times springs up and defies his ef
forts he is not responsible, though for
Its riotous Interference he Is often bit-
OBEAT BRITALX 'LED NOT WORRY.
Great Britain Is taking some of the
utterancts of Colonel Roosevelt en
tirely too seriously. Tho Colonel's de
mand for the fortification of the Pan
ama Canal Is . characterized by the
Westminster Gazette as a "direct re
jection of the terms of the American
and British agreement of 1901 under
which the neutralization of the canal
is guaranteed." Admitting that It
would be reasonable for the United
States to assume some military control ,
over tne canal, the British paper sug
gest that such a change In the agree
ment should be effected "through dip
lomatic methods and not by the re
pudiation of its engagements."
That is exactly the method by which
the United States will secure all or
POIJTICAX, IDOLS.
Political idols, after knocking about
for a few years, more or less, have
Invariably become common clay and
are rejected as unworthy of honor
Btill less of adoration. The time re
quired for the dethronement of the
political Idol varies somewhat, but it
seldom outlasts a decade. Many of
these ere broken before their hopes of
the highest political preferment Is
realized, and their names pass' Into
history, representing failure. T.his
was true of Douglas, the little giant
and one-time the idol of the South;
it was true of Clay, the idol of the
Whig party, who went down to defeat
for the third time in the effort to
reach the Presidency; it was frue of
Cass, who, after the skillful maneuv
ering of years, secured the Presidential
nomination only to be defeated at the
any changes or "repudiation" of Its ' PUa by bluff old Zachary Taylor, who
agreements. Colonel Roosevelt Is very
popular just now and 1 making nu
merous statements which are hardly
Intended for acceptance everywhere at
their face value. The American peo
ple, however, have no Intention of
setting up a dictatorship by which in
ternational agreements can bo-violated
or abrogated by hasty speeches made
on a political tour.
AN rVWISE APPEAL.
By the "Council of Upper Classmen"
of Howard University In Washington
City a. curious circular letter has been
sent out to the press. It is printed else
where. Its aim is to mitigate, if possible,
that animosity toward "the consider
able body of American citizens com
monly known as negroes and colored
people," which leads the newspapers of
the United States to vilify them and
stir up race hatred against them. To re
Inforce the accusation that the news
papers treat the negroes with devilish
malignity, the Howard University stu
denlH, who themselves belong to the
oppressed race, cite a number of in
stances on which we have pondered
attentively without discovering much
poison In them. One of the worst Is
a headlne from a Baltmore paper,
"Negro seizes white girl," which the
colored students complain was printed
on the first page in bold letters. In
contrast with this enormity, the news
that two negro heroes had rescued
white man from death was obscurely
tucked away on .an Inside page. This
Is regrettable. Virtue ought to be
throned on the housetops, and vice
concealed in the cellar, but, alas, that
is not the way of the world.
Crime has more news value than
self-sacrificing heroism in tho ordl
nary course of things. Our opinion of
our fellow men Is so exalted that we
expect them to do deeds of high em
prise, and lay down their lives for one
another's benefit as often as they
have a chance. Hence the account
of such a deed lapses Into the com
monplace. Few are thrilled by It and
the newspapers cannot be expected to
herald It with big headlines. Crime,
on the contrary. Is the exception.
There is something so abnormal, so
monstrous about It that people are al
ways painfully excited when It occurs
Hence the news of crime is displayed
with that excessive pomp of typog
raphy which Justly draws down the
reprobation of the young negroes at
Howard University. Had a white man
seized the girl and fled with her to
sylvan recesses, the papers would have
told It in headlines Just as colossal
as they used for the negro. No race
animosity can be discovered In thi3
Incident, unless perchance In the col
ored brother himself who. if he had
been filled with the true spirit of
love, would no doubt have stolen a
girl of his own complexion.
The other items which the students
cite from the newspapers to prove
that they are disposed to vilify tha
negroes, are still more trivial. They
do not prove anything except the
proneness of all papers to magnify
things which are likely to Interest the
public. Had these young men taken
counsel of some wise old professor in
their university, he would have pointed
out a number of ways in which they
might have strengthened their appeal
to the press. It certainly does not
help their cause to say of the Wash
ington. D. C. Times that it "is a low
dirty sheet and catering to the rabble."
Apart from the bad grammar of this
sentence, of which "upper classmen"
ought to be ashamed, it exhibits a
spirit "which can hardly be com
mended. Nor Is It statesmanlike to
say of "the newspapers of this coun
try" that their methods "constantly
appeal to the putrid passion of ract
hatred. They cause rapine to break
loose by nurturing rancor. They are
weak-kneed and aopollg'zlng (sic)
when the hour Is bloody," and so on.
Would an Impartial reader deduce
from this language that the Howard
students are themselves entirely clear
of the stain of race hatred?
The letter Is too childish to be sent
out by representatives of a respectable
college. The faculty ought to have
censored It severely. Such expressions
as the following display a boyish van
ity which is pardonable enough In a
sophomore class meeting, but not tn a
document meant to mold public opin
ion: "Fully alive to the bigness of our
task, we go about It with a will and,
withal, a cheerfulness that Is amaz
ing to many observers." We fancy
the determination and cheerfulness of
these young men will not amaze any
body half so much as their conceit
will. The disagreeable fact seems to
be that they havo been coddled and
pitied and praised Into morbid self-con
sciousness. They look upon themselves
as prodigies of Industry and devotion
to a great cause. Secretly they rejoice
In being martyrs. They glow with
holy pride in the consciousness that
they are victims of relentless tyranny.
In short, they exhibit many of the
faults of spoiled children and lapdogs
which have been petted too much.
The negroes of this country are.
upon the whole, pretty well treated.
Nobody except a few Southern colonels
wishes them 111. Most people want to
help them forward. Their achieve
ments are chronicled and commended
in the papers. Their wrongs are
properly recorded, and Texas and
Arkansas are berated as they ought to
be for permitting the hideous lynch
ing which occur In their " country
hamlet. If a negro shows ability, he
has a chance to exercise it. To be
sure, he is seldom treated as the pre
cise equal of the white man. but in
time that will come whenever It Is
deserved. Meanwhile, if the young
men at Howard University will stop
their whining and attend to the pre
cepts of Booker Washington, they will
find healing for their sorrows and ad-
came to the contest with fresh laurels
won In the Mexican War; It was true
tn the end of Van Buren, who, as idol
of the Democratic party, swept the
country in 1S36 only to be defeated
four years later by the uncouth old
Westerner, William Henry Harrison;
it was true of McClellan, who, "banking
upon his fame as a soldier, made utter
failure tn his attempt to become chief
magistrate of the Nation; It was al
most pitifully true of Blaine, whose
valiant fight for the Presidential nom
ination ended at length In victory in
convention, only to meet defeat by a
small margin which accident ar
rayed against him at the polls. Benja.
mln Harrison was called from obscur
ity to accomplish Blaine's subsequent
defeat In tho nominating convention
only to be himself discarded four
years later, during which period the
death of Blaine occurred
History repeats and again repeats
Itself and nowhere with greater fidel
ity to detail than in the case of the
great party gladiators of the political
arena. The latest example of this
was witnessed recently In the utter
shattering of the Bryan Idol In Ne
braska. The state that had cheered
Itself hoarse for him In three Presl
dentlal campaigns, turned against
him without mercy or compunction In
a trivial local. Issue, and as far as Na
tional leadership Is concerned, he Is
down and out.
The Roosevelt idol is still wor
shiped, but for bow long? It shows
as yet but few signs of crumbling,
but If the testimony of history counts
for anything, the time for its over
throw Is fixed, though not yet de
clared. Either this, say the sapient
Interpreters of political signs and
omens, or the America Republic will
pass Into a limited monarchy with
Roosevelt as constitutional ruler. We
shall see,
the rate of about forty to a room are
furnished to the public schoofs. This
school department as now organized
and officered received $10,000 a few
months ago from the School Direc
tors, to be spent in books. The money
Is not yet all gone, but about seven
teen schools out of twenty-five are
In regular receipt of books. Without
question further funds will be made
available as needed. The Library
Association pays salaries and expenses
of management and distribution; the
school moneys go for books only.
These books 'are circulated among the
children, who take them to their
homes. Who can tell how far-reaching,
then. Is the benefit? While
schoolchildren are the first care,
teachers are not forgotten. From
the Portland Library a specially cho
sen set of text and reference books
are at the teachers disposition.
Needless to say that the books from
the Portland Library for the children
and their teachers are no' less desir
able than those catalogued In the
Salem lists. Let the good work grow.
However, this library plan of reading,
and. -passing on, delightful as it Is,
Ehould not replace tho buying of
books for one's very own. No public
library shelves have the Individual
value of one's own' gifts and pur
chases. Those scanty shelves hold
friends, not books; friends who never
grow old and lose their beauty and
first freshness. Not once but twenty
times read, till sentences, aye pages,
meet the eye familiarly when taken
from the shelf. Studied is too cold a
word; our own books are fed on till to
forget them is Impossible, for they are
part of our very lives.
band and children finds the truest
pleasure of life in visiting the home
of her childhood the simple palace
in which she was born and where her
mother lived and died in Darmstadt.
She Is more to be pitied than en
vied, this wife of the autocrat of Rus
sia and mother of a. menaced and
numerous progeny. But It is generally
conceded that she and her three elder
sisters, the unhappy Grand Duchess
Sergius, Princess Victoria of Batten
berg and Princess Henry of Prussia,
are the most talented and accom
plished of all the grand-daughters of
Queen Victoria. Her. face In its self
abnegation and repose is that of a
nun and discredits the silly reports of
her ungovernable temper and unrea
sonable moods.
LIBRARIES FOR COMMON VK.
One of the popular acts of the Leg
islature of 1905 was the passage of
the library commission aet and
school library law. During the five
years, full trial has been made of the
system then started and the progress
made is of general Interest. Nearly
all the counties in tho state availed
themselves of the beneficent provi
sions, both for school libraries, and
for traveling libraries in rural com
munities, and towns and villages too
small, or not advanced enough, to
support public libraries of their own.
The school libraries are In active op
eratlon, supplied by the State Com
mission from the proceeds of the
special tax of 10 cents for each child
of school age. The vital question is
as to whether the books chosen by
that State Commission suit the chll
dren, and tempt them to read. For
It is certain that the reading habit
must grow not be forced and that
once naturally developed It is the
child's precious possession to his life's
end. The lift of books Issued by the
Commission speaks for itself. From
primary class to high schools all
tastes are suited. For the little ones
are, first," nursery rhymes. "The Won
der Book" for girls and boys, six nur
sery classics, and the like. Then for
the 8-year-olds come "Short Stories of
Our Shy Neighbors." "Little Men,'
Andersen's Fairy Tales," "Scudder's
Fable and Folk Storlus," "Stories
Mother Nature Told." "Seton's "Lobo,
AS TO SAENGERFESTS.
The name "saengerfest" Indicates
pretty clearly the nationality of the
singers who have gathered at San
Francisco to participate In a festival
of song. Our German fellow-citizen
are not less shrewd and successful in
business than are the children of the
Pilgrims, but they have time In th
Intervals of their vocations to study
the masterpieces of music and prac
rice choral singing. The Scandina
vians of Portland have their musical
club, too, and the same may be said
of others, but the public has not been
informed of any similar organization
among the native-born Americans.
Music is said to be our National
art. Most families In comfortable cir
cumstances possess a piano and soma
effort, more or less serious. Is made
to teach girls to play upon that mildly
responsive instrument. Boys are
taught to play now and then, but not
commonly. Neither do girls learn the
art well enough to make It worth
while In the majority of cases, and
those who do master the piano usual
ly give up their music when they
marry. All this seems to. indicate that
our love or music stops with what
money can buy, which is a long way
short of the heart.
In that charming book, "Little
Rivers," Henry Van Dyke tells of a
village he visited In the Tyrol where
local musical genius unknown to
the outer world had organized the
young people of the place into a musi
cal club which rendered the songs of
the good composers with faultless
beauty. Such things are not rare in
all parts of Europe. They show per
haps that some European peasants
have a more adequate conception or
what life Is than some Americans , of
high social rank.
A peasant who enjoys Heine s songs
set . to Schumann s notes gets more
out of his earthly pilgrimage than the
man does who gives all his time to
making money. It ought not to re
quire all there fs in the American man
of affairs merely to manage his finan
cial concerns. If we are the gifted
DeoDle we claim to be, how does it
happen that we are so oppressed with
the machinery of life that we have so
little time to live? How do the Scan
dinavian and the German find leisure
for Saengerfests, while the American
can seldom spare ten minutes a day
from his business?
YOUNG MEN' FOB FOREIGN TRADE.
In our wider commercial field there
1 an Insistent call for an army of
young men. Ex-Vice-President Fair
banks has been abroad seeking and
finding knowledge In this. field. Here
Is what he says: "If we are Jargely to
Increase our export trade particularly
to the Orient, It Is necessary for us to
train and send into the. countries with
Rag and Vixen," and a similar long which we would deal bright, active.
list. Volumes for the 10 to 12-year- progressive young men wno wm learn
olds are many and good. Some have
not grown old In fifty years, others
bear new authors' names and titles.
Here are "Robinson Crusoe," the
Swiss Family Robinson," "Black
Beauty," "Alice in Wonderland
"Tales .From Shakespeare," line's
"Under Sunny Skies," "Towards the
Rising Sun," "Hero Tales From
American History and a score or
two others equally good.
For big boys and girls there Is
choice enough. For the practical boy
the "Book of Inventions," "A B C of
Electricity." "American Boy's Handy-
book," "Electric Toymaklng," "The
Triumphs of Science." For the imag
ination of the child food is provided
from Cooper, Kipling, Stevenson
Scott, Alcott, Hawthorne, Dickens,
Mrs. Ewlng, Tom Hughes and the
rest. Solid food Is also set before
them in abundance. But it Is so
temptingly edited and illustrated that
a youngster Is beguiled into learning.
One who has grown old on books
admires and wonders at the variety
.and beauty of the children's books
of today. There Is a kind . of self pity
in recalling the scanty list of one's
own childhood, and, perhaps, how
fiction . and story books generally
were kept as a kind of mental candy
for treats very wide apart. Surely
the education to be got from books
begins at a very early age In this
generation, and Is sugar-coated from
the very first.
But, after all, where can the peo
ple's money be better spent than in
carrying books for young and old to
the very doors of the ranchman in
the foothills, the tradesman In the
little town, the Invalid in a lonely
room, the children clustering In the
Winter night around the open fire
place? Books used to be a luxury,
too costly for the scantily-filled
pocket. Now, without cost, as a right
recognized and supplied by the state
itself, the business part of it man
aged by the best brains the state can
furnish, the books go Into the high
ways and byways. No fear that
any check will stay the full develop
ment of books for the people, young
and old.
While the work of the State Li
the language, habits and customs of
the people and who will become in a
degree a part of their commercial
life."
If we want a larger share, as of
course we do, of the markets of Japan,
Corea, China, the Straits Settlements,
India and so on, this is the way to get
It. In this way that is, through these
live, well-equipped, persistent agents
ur trade with the Oriental coun
tries as well as with Mexico and tha
Latin-American States can be made to
grow and thrive. The day of the poli
tician, sent out on a "job" as Consul
to a foreign country, seeking an ex
tension of our commerce with that
country, should be ended. The
quicker the better for our standing as
a producing, trading Nation in the
marts of foreign commerce. Men
equipped for the work, who are en
thusiastic In It and who will stay by it,
will be beneficial as consular agents,
and It ts useless to send out men of
any other type.
A NCN-FACET EMPRESS.
According to a court gossip, the
Czarina of Russia has a violent tem
per and upon 'occasion throws herself
on the floor and kicks like a spoiled
child. This is stuff and nonsense. A
daughter of the Princess Alice of Hesse
Darmstadt, brought up In England by
her grandmother. Queen Victoria, the
Czarina inherited and was trained In
the virtue of self-control. Naturally
amiable she was known in her child
hood as "Princess Sunshine" or "Sun
ny," her mother's published letters to
the Queen of England making note
repeatedly of these simple facts.
That she has had much to try her
patience and physical endurance and
make her jealous and hysterical as
charged, since she went to live In Rus
sia, Is no doubt true. In her effort to
produce an heir to the Russian throne
she bore five children in about that
number of years, the fifth of whom
was the coveted prince. Heaped with
reproaches by her Imperial relatives,
first In line of whom was her hus
band's mother, because of the birth of
so many daughters when a son was
so ardently desired, she grew to hate
James B. Forgan, the Chicago
banker, who seldom views the finan
cial situation through blue glasses, is
out with an interview In which he says
that "the West will not need to call
on the East for money with which to
move the crops of the Northwest. I
know of no help, no aid of any kind,
we will need from the East, except
perhaps that we may ask some of the
Eastern banks to pay us what they
owe us." No small share of the un
easiness that the East his displayed
over Western financial conditions in
the past has been due to the fear
that the West might call on the East
for money which It owed the West,
When the East wants money. It bor
rows from the West. When the West
Is hard up, It Is no longer obliged to
borrow; it merely asks some of Its
creditors in tho East to pay up what
they owe. So long as the West has
big crops and high prices and money
for the last crop still due from the
East, it will be difficult to bring on
very hard times.
. Wheat shipments from Russian and
Danublan ports for the week ending
yesterday reached 10.160,000 bushels.
Last week the shipments from the
same ports were 9,960,000 bushels. No
such weekly shipments have ever be
fore been recorded from Russia. The
enormous totals are so far in excess of
previous shipments that the American
speculators who had expected to sup
ply wheat for the shortage In the
French crop will hardly have an op
portunity. When It is remembered
that the Russian and Danublan crops
come on the market about the same
time that the American crop Is ready,
the size of these weekly shipments
seems all the more remarkable. With
the season opening with shipments av
eraging 10,000.000 bushels, it is rea
sonable to expect much larger ship
ments later in the season, especially
if prices are maintained at their pres
ent high level. '
Steamship companies engaged in
trans-Atlantic trade, despite their
sharp competition In building big
steamers, do not seem to be much
ahead of the trade even with their
latest creations. The passenger traf
fic has reached such great proportions
that the Lusitania, the largest steamer
afloat, arrived at New York Friday
with every stateroom on board taken,
and an overflow of cabin passengers
who were obliged to seek quarters in
the steerage. The Lusitania has ac
commodations ror uu cabin passen
gers and on every trip this season has
been booked up to capacity. The in
crease in business seems to ba keeping
pace with the Increase in tha size of
the steamers. By the time the White
Star line's thousand-foot vessel is
ready for service, the height of the
season will undobutedly show the same
shortage of aceommodations that Is
now In evidence.
wno nity years ago, or forty or
thirty could have believed that the
memory of John Brown, of Osawat
omie, would be honored In 1910 with
a public park, and the wild abolition
ist be eulogized by an ex-President of
the United States? Time cools pas
si on.
One week hence we Bhall have fur
ther evidence of Portland's growth
when 2000 or more school children In
excess of last year, apply for admis
sion to the public schools. Good times
and bad for the last thirty years the
opening day has always shown an
Increase over the previous year.
Here is Julius Silvestone pushing
himself to the front as a reformer
among other distinguished reformers.
and signing himself an "open, notor
ious, and continuous so-called Insur
gent Republican." There will be no
dissent from the second adjective.
Ambassador Thompson's Interna
tional railroad running- the entire
length of the western hemisphere may
not be a dream, but it will be a long
time before you hear Ed Lyons' sta
tion masters at Sixth and Irving call
out, "All aboard for Cape Horn!"
What a pity Frank Pettygrove in
845 didn't think to give up 100 feet
for Washington street. The entire
strip that width from the City Park
the river wasn't worth as much
then as a lot at the base of Mount
Hood is worth now.
Eugene hits on something new when
proposes to have an apple show
hich shall cover the entire length of
Its retail district. Oregon's choicest
fruit will add to the attractiveness of
show windows In any city In the
world.
THB MAPLE AT THE GATTffl.
BY 6AM L. SIMPSON'.
Like a goddess in sorrow dishevelled,
October sits grieving alone
By the rivers where beauty has rev
eled In the odorous days that are gone;
A fillet of scarlet leaves lonely
SurrouDds the ambrosial hair
That is flowing upon her profusely
And crowns her all womanly fair.
The scent of dead leaves and dead
roses
Yet lingers where rapture was born,
But a mystical whisper imposes
A silence so deep and forlorn;
For the music is done, and the dancers
Have gone their mysterious ways
To weep or to slrep, but no answers
Return to the last that delays.
The hearts that have swelled in soft
laces, ,
Like waves in a blijssom of foarn.
The love-molten lips and fair faces,
All gone where the pale Summers
roam ;
And the rustling of robes, and wan
shimmer
Of tresses unbound in the sun.
Like memories, fainter and dimmer.
Remind us the revel Is done.
And we envy the doom of the flfwers
That sighed a good-night ere they
slept;
Their Summer was richer than ours.
Yet Uiey have not lingered and wept;
They lie among grasses and briars.
Unheedinsr the joys that have fled.
And the night winds, responding like
friars.
Chant over the beautiful dead.
Here sadly at evening I ponder
By the maple that leans o'er the
gate,
When the sun rests Its shield over
yonder
A-weary of empire and state;
For the maple is solemnly glowing,
A glory of funeral fire,
And tho sibyline Autumn is throwing
Red stains on the sacred attire.
What troths have been plighted, I won
der. In the flickering shade of her bower?
What heart3 that have wandered asun
der Met here for a passionate hour?
What rosy caresses, what kisses
Of lips "that were wreathed with
flame
When the stars from their blue wil
dernesses Looked down without shadow of
blame!
But the birds that once sung as they
braided
Soft nets In these tapestried halls
Are gone with the days that have faded
As her coronal withers and falls.
The loves were requited, or broken.
rhe romance has grown weary and
old.
And the falling dead leaf Is a token
That life is unlovely and cold.
While the loves of us all are thus
falling
And wild o'er the billowy world.
We listen for fate's muffled calling
Ana arut with our sails darkly
furled :
As we carry our dead as we wander.
Ana dream of a lovelier shore.
While many the tears" that we equan-
aer,
Yet know not the loss we deplore.
Illumined and tinted each caee!
But the maple has lent us her story;
And Winter may come, chill and hoary.
And trample her wreath in hl ran.
But we, that have read it discreetly.
Have come to be wise in our grief,
For our tremulous spirits take sweetly
the lore of the crimsoning leaf.
For the leaves, ere they wither, must
nourish
The buds that shall banner the May,
And the rootlets will strengthen and
flourish
In the generous mould of decay.
And so, with relentless endeavor,
Yet nearer and nearer the stare.
The soul builds its kingdom forever
In the dust of its woes and Its wars.
THE HOBBLED ONE.
I cannot dance the old steps
I danced a year ago;
My hobble skirt would trip me
And hinder me, you know.
I dare not try the polka
Which once I danced with grace
Unless they will revise it
For half-a-foot of space.
I used to do the two-step
And scoot across the floor,
But now I stand serenely
And I two-step no more.
I tried it just last evening;
My partner was surprised;
He asked me very gently
If I was paralyzed.
I cannot do the schottische,
I stagger in the spurt
And find myself completely
Dissuaded by my skirt
O, tell the band to stop It!
My feet beg for a chance.
Or I'll try In a minute
The old St. Vitus dance.
I cannot hear the music
Without a vague regret
That I no more may stalk through
The stately minuet.
They'll have to make new dances
If they would fill the bill;
Devise a merry figure
We can dance standing still.
I cannot dance the old steps
For fear that I will fall.
In fact, since I've been hobbled
I cannot dance at all.
I can't sit this out with you
Don't lift your brows or frown
Because the solemn truth Is
That I cannot sit down.
Chicago Post
When a farmer across the river in
Clark County, Wash., raises $160
orth of onions on one-eighth of an
acre, the record has a tendency to
nullify the argument that agricultural
lands of the Pacific Northwest are
held too high.
The present Mr. Barnes, of New
Tork, is not destined to be so popular
as Archibald Gunter's hero of the
same name who entertained a former
generation in a popular novel and a
delightful dramatization of It.
Merely to put the vast sum so that
It may easily be remembered, let's
throw off the odd thousands and call
the building permits in Portland for
August two and a half millions.
them cordially. But she has been
brary Commission Is distributed over I through all a' devoted mother and a
the counties, the metropolis is not loyal wife, jealous of her prerogatives
neglected. For this the Library As- I and comporting herself with courage
sociatlon of this city Is responsible. I and dignity. She Is a beautiful woman
From the Portland Library, book at I withal and though devoted to her hus-
It develops that Fritz- Augustus
Heinze has not heeded the advice of
Old Man Weller to his son Samuel
relative to widows.
Hurry up with that 3-lnch de
ficiency In rainfall. It can't be made
good too soon to suit the populace of
Oregon.
Only seven days more of play, and
then the school youngsters of Portland
must take up the white child's burden
Work of building tho Alder-street
canyon goes merrily on.
GOOD INTENTIONS.
From the land of good intentions you caa
look acrow the year?.
Far abote the dismal valley of dletrasafui
doubts and f-iars.
You can aee the golden future smiling In
the morning sun.
Tou can hear the din of battle that ara
lightly fought and won.
You can see the broad road leading- to the
Country o fcuecess,
Windin through the pleasant meadows on
the hills of Happiness.
In the land of Good Intentions you may II
all day and dream
Underneath the trees that whisper to a
silver, silent stream.
You may plan enchanting Journeys toward
the rim of yonder sky.
Picturing the fame and fortune that you
hope for by and by.
Far ahead yo'u watch Ambition bidding
men to dare and do:
But the Blue sky of the present smiles
Invitingly to you.
Oh! The Land of Good Intentions U a pleas
ant place to dwell.
When the Sun of Youth and Springtime
weaves its magic, mystic r-ell.
But too soon the leaves will wither that
shine golden In the trees.
And the chill or Age and Winter will ba
felt in every breeze;
And if you too fondly linger you shall coma
to know at last
That the Land of Good Intentions Is tha
Desert of the Past.
J. J. Montague.
dif-and
The Difference.
Good News.
Teacher Now do you sc the
ference between animal instinct
human reason?
Bright Boy Yes'ni. If we had In
stinct we'd know everything we need
ed to without learning it. but we've
got the reason and have to study our
selves mos' blind or be a fou
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