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THAT U. OF O. $125,000.
The Oregon Legislature very prop
erly passed an appropriation in the
sum of $125,000 for the benefit of the
University of Oregon ,at its last ses
sion, and the same was passed up to
the people upon a referendum, and
will be voted upon at the general
election on June 1st '
For the credit of the whole State
and the good of the University, it is
to be hoped there will be a rousing
majority for the concession. To de
feat such a bill would show a popular
indifference to the maintenance and
success of one of the best and most
helpful integers of Oregon's state
hood. ,,..,)
- The State has founded the institu
tion in good faith, and maintained it
with a fair generosity for the years of
its existance; and what is sought for
it now, is not so much by way of
deliberate expansion, as it is to meet
the logical growth of the great school
. itself.
You cannot keep a good thin&down
to any limitations; it is bound to
grow and flourish, and the extension
of its work and service must be met
by prompt and rational expenditures
adequate to the pace of that growth.
There is nothing to be urged against
such an appropriation; the regency of
the University is of a kind to negative
all thought of waste or extravagance
or worse, and every dollar of the
$125,000 will find its exact and pur
poseful place in the scheme of bet
, terment designed for the school.
The people do not always have the
opportunity to exercise their will in
the distribution of the public moneys,
and this is an occasion for the dem
onstration of their best judgment in
directing, at least, that much of the
public treasure to channels that mean
something of real and practical good;
and of exemplifying their faculty for
wise administrative ability. To re
fuse it will be a sign of sheer weak
ness in that line; and we hope there
will be no dubiousness nor meagre
ness in the mandate from the polls
to hand this sum over to the proper
representatives of the establishment
we are all proud of.
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
SAVINGS
BANK
v HAS
MONEY TO LOAN ON
GOOD SECURITY
seems, being among the lofty, the
prosperous, the powerful, he has at
last come to his turn in the play of
popular criticism and resentment and
must make the best of it
THE MODERN SURGEON.
While we are following our pessi
mistic bent of damning the grafters,
scoring and scorning the "interests,
cursing the political pirates, of our
day and country, we might, as a mat
ter of sheer relief, turn to the clear
and compensating manifestations of
professional acumen and accomplish
ment that are making for the safety
and comfort of the race and contrib
uting hugely to the annals of scienti
fic achievment
. Among the great professions we
hear most of the surgeons; that is,
more frequently and freely of the
good things they are doing, of the
discoveries they are making, and of
the practical and perfect schemes they
are devising for 1 eliminating the
chance of death and diminishing the
volumne and duration of pain and
malady. ' .-..,
We owe more to them than we
GERMAN
EXPANSION
Baron Speck Von Sternburg Re
lutes the Story
NO LUST FOR TERRITORY
The World it Large Enough and All
They Want ia a Fair Chance to
Compete on Equal Terma With
Other Countries.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2a-Baron
Speck von Sternburg, the German
Ambassador at Washington, has an
article in the North American Review
which appeared today, on "The Truth
about German Expansion," refuting
reports of Germany's designs on Hol
land and Belgium, and explaining
JEROME'S TURN NOW.
New York's great criminal prose
cutor is to be grilled on the grand
jury irons of inquisition. His removal
has been prayed for by a host of
people who have alleged all sorts of
things against him and the matter
has reached the hands of Governor
Hughes, who calmly says, "the
charges will take their usual course."
This means somethings more than it
used to in New York, thanks to the
power and policies of that same Gov
ernor. '
Jerome is of the "Four Hundred"
of Gotham and this may have contrib
uted somewhat to the sudden array
of adverse sentiment against him,
that idea being current and popular
just now in centers of that kind. His
office is, in a sense, one of almost
National significance and cannot
escape the limelight even a little bit;
therefore it is an easy matter to
account for the 22 formal charges
that have developed against him, and
which are, for the most part purely
tentative and of no real import, while
some of them are grave enough to
rouse very definite interest.
Out here, 3500 miles from the man
and his sphere, he has never loomed
very big; has never been considered
really distinguished nor great in the
field he occupies; but he has been
generally credited with a desire to
do his duty by the people. ' But, it
the profound and successful students
of this comforting cult, become great
more by reason of the readiness of
their professional brethren to recog
nize and proclaim their victories, than
by any spontaneous acknowledgment
conceded by the laity. '
Every accession of professional and
technical value made by the physi
cian or the surgeon, is of direct bene
fit to mankind and reduces the meas
ure of its danger and decrepitude. We
should take better cognizance of the
good that is being done for us and
signalize our sense of its splendid
import as well as our knowledge of
its especial source.
EDITORIAL SALAD
Congress seems to prefer subma
rines to battleships. If the sub
merged vessels work, an enemy would
rather meet a battleship than the
hidden danger, so the subject is an
open one and can not be settled oh
theory alone.
When Mr Bryan delivered his
lengthy tariff speech in Congress a
colleague asked him if his wife wrote
it, to which Mr. Bryan replied: "She
might have done so, she is clever
enough." The compliment is delight
fully comprehensive. ;
realize and are far too chary in ad- Germany's real policy on expansion,
mitting what of it we do know. But, The Ambassador says:
day by day the debt is growing, and! "Especially during the last two
years it nas Deen noticed by those in
terested in the world's development
that a number of papers of Western
Europe, have circulated the' reports
that the ' independence of the two
small states Holland and Bedgium it
jeopardized in consequence of the
war spirit and lust for territory al
leged to exst in Germany. The re
ports, to which I refer, seek also to
interest the American people by as
serting tha tthe underlying reason for
ftrmanv't nnrnnc a ..I.. t.a
Netherlands, arises out of our ambi
tion to possess territory in the west
ern hemisphere. The Island of Cura
cao in the Caribbean Sea is pointed
to as a constant object of our keen
solicitude. Should Germany, It is
stated, succeed .in annexing the Neth
erlands, her colonies naturally will
pass with the mother country.
"In an article printed in the May
number 1906 of the North American
Review, 'The Phanton Perils of Ger
man Emigration and South-American
Settlements I have already given a
clear expose of Germany's policy in
the southern hemisphere and proved
that there is not a shadow of truth in
the attacks directed against it by po
litical columniators. '
"Even such politicans who cannot
ignore the conspicuous fact that the
German Emperor is an enthusiastic
advocate of the Peace Movement;
that the German Government since
thirty-seven years that is, ever since
the great national strife of the years
1870-1871 has striven always for
peace and always has been less active
than any other country in the direct
ion of expansion; that the German
nation has no other wish than pacifi
cally to mind its own business; even!
such politicans frequently believe, or
profess to believe, in spite of Ger
many's love of peace which, ever since
the German Empire came into exist
ence, has been demonstrated by his
tory to be an incontestable fact, that
this peace-loving Germany ultimately,
by force of circumstance of logical
development, will be coerced 1 into
annexing Holland and the Flemish
part of .Belgium, containing the great
port of Antwerp.
"Usually it has been stated that
Germany has an annual increase in
population of 800,000, that these new
masses must be supported by man
ufactories, and that the German Emp
ire will thus be - coerced, with or
against its will, into expansion, in
order to procure the raw material and
to establish the requisite markets for
its industrial growth. The annexa
tion of Holland and Flemish Belgium,
containing Antwerp, are described as
a mere preliminary necessary to
make possible such measures of ex
pansion. Germany must enlarge its
maritime basis, and should have con
trol of the Lower Rhine and its har
bors. To the alien, these arguments
may seen plausible enough. Whoever
is acquainted with existing conditions,
however, knows, that though seem
ingly plausible, this is not the truth.
"In the first' place,' it is not true
that colonial expansion is a necessity
for Germany, resultnig from its in
dustrial growth. The impetus given
to German commerce and German
manufactures is to be ascribed far
more to the increase in buying capac-
A Havana dispatch says there is a
growing sentiment there tor an
American protectorate or annexation.
It is certainly trying to see a great
and good friend pack up for a second
departure, when a hurry call for his
return is almost certain.
Absolutely fireproof cars will run
in the McAdoo tunnels, at New York,
and the Pennsylvania railroad will
have 85 of like construction in service
by June 1. With two such important
beginnings, the days of roasted wreck
victims soon will be memories of the
"barbarous past" '
Governor Sparks has appointed a
carpenter as inspector of Nevada s
new state police. - His friends say,
however, that it is not to be inferred
from this that the governor intends
to build up a wooden force.
The money stringency cuts no ice
at least very little. The fine ice
fields on the Hudson have been neg
lected by the companies because of
the hard times. .
' Quit Useful.
"She has a very useful husband."
"How do you make that out?"
"He can always suggest something
that he wants for dinner." Detroit
Free Press. i
A generous confession disana Blon
der. French Proverb.
; coffee ; 1
Why do we drink so
much poor coffee?
Because good coffee is
so good i
i Tow pcr rtnrni row aonor M res aoa'l
Mho Cctllllac't But: wt poy kia.
iy of tnhet natkmt England, France,
Ruia or America-than to all the
German colume combined. Germany
need no colonies, what ht wants is
merely free competition on all e,
the tqwn or, and the ri$hi to c
operate freely on an equal footing
w ith all other commercial and indus
trial nation, in opening up new and
as yet unopened district and markets.
Hence the principle of the open door
is the leading motivt of the foreign
policy pursued by Germany. It is
the red thread that winds itself
through the Eastern Astatic, the
Oriental and the Moroccan policy of
the German Empire. The high qual
ity of all German products obviated
the necessity of unfair preferences
accruing to political power. All they
need is a fair chance to compete on
equal terms with other countries.
The world is large enough, and rich
enough, in still dormant possibilities,
to admit of a pacific cooperation by
all nations in this great work.
"It is equally absurd to allege that
the annexation of Holland and Ant
werp is a necessary preliminary to
our colonial expansion. To have the
harbors and ports of the Rhine con
trolled by foreign powers naturally
would be insupportable to Germany.
The entire railroad and water-way
system of Germany radiate towards
the two main commercial centres.
Bremen and Hamburg, which ss cur
rent development has shown, are fully
equal to meet all demands of traffic,
and are capable of further growth.
The Rhine, it is true, ia an important,
and for the highly developed Rhine
Province an indispensable "' water
way. The export interests along the
Rhine always naturally will prefer the
shorter and cheaper all water route
via Bremen. It is, however, matter
of complete indifference to Germany,
whether the vessels on the Rhine,
carrying the products of the German
Rhine countries to the ocean, on their
journey pass along babks under the
dominion of Germany, : Holland, or
Belgium, for tbe traffic on the Rhine
is free of all payments, obstacles or
restrictions, and could not be more
free even if Cermany controlled the
adjacent districts. "And this freedom
has been secured abundantly by the
so-called Rhine-Traffic-Treaties, en
tered into and upon by the interested
states. ( ,,, , ' Vi
The ocean commerce also in no
wise suffers from the transportation
of the Rhine products on the Rhine,
as these German goods are re-shipped
on German ocean steamers from the
ports at the mouth of the river.
"Hence the reason which supposed
ly would impel Germany to annex
the neighboring states, are deduced
from false premises. '
"If we view the matter more close
ly, however, and independently of
the particular arguments which I
advanced in the introduction give
consideration to the situation of these
three states in general, we find that
no reason why Germany should be
solicitous for annexation, or even for
a union of economic interests. On
the other hand there are quite a num
ber why Germany should oppose an
nexation or a union of economic in
terests. Holland produces none of
the raw materials required by Ger
many for its manufactures. Belgium
produces mejly coal and iron, which
is the specific raw material of which
Germany possesses a superfluity, and
which is practically inexhaustible.
Moreover, the coal and iron mines of
Belgium have led to a splendid devel
opment of the iron industry of that
country, which is protected by a
tariff, and manufactures for its own
consumption and principally for
Trans-Atlantic export. If the German
Belgium boundaries were to be wiped
out, the products - of this industry
would depress the German internal
market which, at present, is control
led by the German iron Industry.
Conversely, the German competitive
products would depress the Belgian
internal market. ; Thus, both German
as well as Belgium" manufacturers
possibly may desire an increased tar
iffcertainly not its abolition. The
same condition that obtains in the
iron market, prevails in other com
petitive industries of the two coun
tries. :
"In consequence, no one in Ger
many or Belgium considers a tariff
union of the two countries feasible
or desirable, and annexation, of which
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