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THE OREGON" ' DAILY' JOTO-AX, POBTLANb, ATURDAT- EVENIKG; DECEMBER 45i -1002. Tee Oregon Daily Jouknal a S. JACKSOJi. JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANT. Proprietor. ' i -, Address: THE5 OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. S Yamhill Street, Between Fourth nd Fifth Portland, Oregon. INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC PAPER ' . . OP OREGON. Entered at the Postofflce of Portland. Oregon, for transmission tnrougn the tnalls a seconil-ciaii matter. Postage for single copies For an t, 10, r'li-page paper. 1 cent; 16 to S pages, g cents; over 28 page, S cents. AnonyBjoua eommunlcaiicnn will not be noticed. :, Rejected communication will not be returned. Business Office Oregon, Main 600; Co lumbia, : 70S. - , Editorial Booms Oregon Main 600. City "Editor Oregon, Main 250. ? SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 'Kii.V Th Dally, by .Carrier: . The Journal, one year ......6.00 The Journal, six months -0 The Journal, three months.......... LS0 ti'be Journal, by the .week. ."T.. ...... .10 -.' 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W Times Building, New York, and Hartford Building, Chicago. -When you' leave thaelty of change your address, even tor one weox, oon i ian w sail at the buelness office and leave your arder for Tha Oregon Daily Journal. AN INCREASED PAYROLL ; Tha statement that Portland's fur Mturo manufacturing Industry has in creased so greatly during the past year gives peculiar satisfaction to vie peo ple of tbia city who appreciate what , It meaWfcrit means an increased pay rolL ana" ""tbat mean enhancing of toroscerltv for everyone living here. It " mean -better business' for the mer chant. It means the building of com fnrtabla homes for the worker. It " kneanatnt rade wllT bempre'stableVj , less Inclined to epurta during seasons Vhen returns are coming In from agri cultural products. - The payroll that goes on duvlng tKe ttfttre -yeaT'ls" the "tolng' tht inaltfts cities solid. It Is the continuity of the - outpaying of the wages that keep ' a tores busy at air times, and places In the pockets of the people a constant supply of cash. ' Portland furniture business has in creased almost 800 per cent lit one year. The value of the product during the past 12 months was $1,125,000. And Portland J 1 ,tne .' greatest furniture .' maker on the coast It sends out more furniture than all of Puget Sound, and rnoreAhan al city of California - Th! la dua: to th timber resources v Of Oregon. " Here we bava a variety such lis may be found In no other state la the union, with the possible excep Hon of Missouri. More kinds of wood may be secured for the manufacture of furniture than -anywhere else, the kinds ranging from the soft and cheap to the bard and more valuable. Hun Breda of men are employed regularly, and have been for years. Fletoher Linn, of the Oregon Furnl tore Maaafttcturlng -Company, has -re- . Cently brought to the attention of the people here the great advantage Port- land baa ever other coast cities In this Una of Industry, and the publicity tie lias given to the facts has served to . Instruct the people and to establish the popular knowledge that this is the leading furniture emporium of RVest the , - RESTRAINT OF TRADE. The Inadequacy of preliminary dis cussion of the trust question Is shown : by the comments of prominent Repub llcan statesmen with reference to the j- revision 6f the tariff. They agree to reductions on certain articles, but al " Ways,, almost without exception, base their views upon the prevalency of lgh prices. This is not the basic rea son for the hostility- to trusts by the " '. tnoat ...Intelligent, men, .nL.jLhe . country, . and those Republican statesmen who 'take only that Into consideration ar . Hot doing credit to their sincerity, nor promising much genuine relief from the evils flowing from the formation pf gigantic combinations.' The fundamental argument of the correct reasoner is that trusts are in ' restraint of trade. And it Is a canon -'.of the law that stands honored by time . spd . Irrefragible, tbat anything that . : operates to restrain trade is vicious. Theirs are more teasons than high prlces'fn the campaign against trusts. ' Indeed, in some instances, prices have not been raised by the trusts, but have been lowered. The elimination of . . competition Is a greater evil, and the vesting oJfabsolute ..j.wer Jn...tbe.iands. of a few men is also more portentous than merely increased market values of trust-made goods, or 'commodities handled by trusts. The contention of the Republican statesmen that takes Into-Bccount 'only liicrcaaedrtces""'"bt the articles their particular constitu ents may be called upon to pay under a trust regime, does not go to the core of the question. jWe as a people must go deeper. We (TEE NEXT SENATOR FROM OREGON. ' ;V. ; j The Journal lias been waiting for some of its esteemed contemporaries to point out to the people that la the Senatorial question, as in all others, principles are greater than individuals. ' j. As the local Bepublican daily does not lead in this matter. The Journal, as an independent nawipapeiy feela Impelled to make a few suggestions to the people of Oregon. ' ' t , i It believe that there is a universal desire among the people of the UnlteS States that senators be elected directly by the people. The "stacking up? of Legislature to serve the wealthy Senatorial aspirant, the stay of all business Ci "Senatorial hold ups," and finally the corruption of Legislators, have been scene too common from Oregon to ; Delaware. The people today feel that, the Senate represent only the wealthy, privilege 1 classes, and they demand the direct re sponsibility of the Senate to the people. A constitutional amendment permitting this la prevented by thw senate itself. But if the people are aliv to their rights, they may attain the same end by imperatively demanding that the successful nom inee' before the people be made Senator by the Legislature. They must teach Leg islatures that they are but the machinery to register the people's will; much as are the presidential electors in the electoral college. Oregon today has a law permitting this nomination by the people. The Repub lican convention saw fit to Ignore the people's wishes and to deprive the peo ple of their right. What are the people of Oregon going to do about it? Sub mit to the politicians or assert themselvesT , Seising the opportunity offered by this failure, a sufficient number of voters nominated Governor ueer by petition, as provided by law, and he received a ma jority of votes ever his competitor, Mr. C. E. S. Wood. It Is said he was self-nominated. . That is not the question. The question is, Id he receive a majority of the votes? All Senatorial candidates before the Legislature are self-noml-nated. A man may honorably seek tba-offlce, but in a legal, sense he could not be self -nominated. ,. It is also said that the vote for Governor Gear does not show the real, wishes of the voters,- and that Governor Geer or his lieutenants made bargains. The danger of listening to such statements Is that they can always be made and against every man. Even If they are true, it is an additional reason why the peo pie should teach such voters that they cannot play wikh fire. Let them learn that the people will Insist Upon every man's vote being conclusive against hinwelf. as representing his real wishes. A voter has no moral right to play political poker with his vote. If those who voted for Governor Geer do not really want him, the best way to teach them a lesson is to put Governor Oeer Into the office. But how do we know they do not want him? Their votes say they do. The only safe way is to assume that the voters were honest and meant what they voted; otherwise elections are a farce. x The Journal has democratic beliefs and sympathies in politics. If it consulted Its own wishes It would prefer to see a Democrat selected as Senator. It has the Jblgheat regard for Mr. C. E. B. Wood as a Democrat and as a man. If the mat ter were left to The Journal it would send Mr. Wood to the Senate. But It was not left to The Journal. It was left to the people of Oregon and the voters of Ore gon have directly Instructed their servants In the Legislature that they desire to be represented in the United States Benate by. Governor Geer. It Is absurd to say that the people of Oregon ot- even the Republicans of Oregon have no way of expressing their wishes save In a party convention. It is far more Important that this nomination be made effective than that either Mr. Wood or Governor Geer go to the Senate. This law is lor all time. Mr. Wood or Governor Geer are but for sit years at most If the people of Oregon sit quiet while this law Is made a dead lat ter by politicians, they do not deserve self-government. Water does not rise higher than, its source A people have such measure of self-government as they deserve, and no more. The people of Oregon, If they deserve to elect their own Senators, wilt see the Importance ejf making this law effective on Its first trial, and will not suffer it to strangled In Its birth. They will make their representa tives In the Legislature feel that they must obey the people's will or taste the pen alty of opprobrious- retirement to private life as dishonest servants. The people of Oregon can foroe their will on the Legislature if they rise to the occasion. But if, as seems provable, they continue as dull and spathetlo as they have been, seeing no further in this matter than Geer or antl-Geer, Blmon or antl-Blmou, the law will become a dead letter and the mere convenience of politicians. If It be permitted to be a dead letter, the first time It is used that becomes a pre cedent for the future. If the people df pregon really desire to elect Senators, let them wake up her now and realise that a great privilege Is theirs, if they choose to assert themselves. Let them swallow Geer, or the devil, for six years, but let them assert their rights. Let them Insist upon, this law as a most important step toward direct legislation of Senators by the people. Let them Ignore the man and Insist on the vital principle -of popular self-government Not government by politicians. The .law exists. The nominations were made; the vote have been cast more than a respectable vote; the total for Mr. Wood and Governor Geer approximating the total vote of the state. In the language of the street. It is now "up to" the people of Oregon whether their wishes shall be respected or not It is "up to" the people of Oregon whether they will elect their own Senators or not It Is a question of the most tremendous Importance, but the people, of Oregon seem asleep. must determine whether or not it is salutary that trusts shall eliminate in dividualism, destroy competition, vest absolute power in the men, who con trol the trusts. Under some conditions, it might be vastly better were prices to- be higher with free competition operating to hiak"e tn'e'vaWe'orgoo'as according- to the law of supply and demand, ' than that prices be lower with competition eliminated and absolute control be verted in those who are at the head of -the-trust-' JPin sbsorutB TJtwer 1s" a potential evil, if not always operating to oppress the people in a particular instance, or at a particular time. This absolute power works to make It possible that at any moment the conditions in a given industry be arti ficially manipulated and the legitimate law of supply and demand be abro gated. It is the potential evil that oft en is graver than the actual , evil, if the potentiality be to bring about worse evils at the option of a few men. The timidity of the representatives of the majority party in attacking the subject bravely and acordlng to ac cepted tenets, is pregnant with the promise of failure in the pretended anti-trust campaign this winter. There are hints that there must be regulation of the trusts. There are statements that bills will be introduced that will affect to cure the evils. But there is little reason to look foi any action that La,. .i wiu reaiiy crippie viie uumviiituiuiro. It is not arrogating much of prescience .to. predict .that.!!) , present Congress will not da anything that will put a stop to the obvious abuses of the trusts. Indeed, nothing has occurred,. neither in the utterances of Republican leaders nor in the recommendations of the president that need alarm those who are hoping that the American Congress will avoid Interfering with the Institutions that are plainly in re straint of trade. , PITIFUL TESTIMONY. The inquiry of the strike commission in Pennsylvania is bringing to light the truth of John Mitchell's contentions that the anthracite 'miners are in a sad state from the oppression of the tool trust. With millions of wealth, plied up in a very few years since the coal combine was formed, the hard hearted operators, have kept the miners in a conditlort that appeals strongly to tne'ipcVW i ni6.de by those who know the fa-'ta. We are now learning why those miners) stood so bravely for their rights. It was a case of desperation, men fighting for bread for their wives and child ren. Read two,' excerpts -from the- reports of the inquiry: Jackson Ansbach of the Haileton .re gion- was an "Interesting witness, because he i.t the first fireman fo appear before the commission. He said he received $1.67 for a dav of 12 hours, and his assistant $1.26. On every other Sunday, when he and his assistant shifted from day to night work, they were compelled to work Z4 hours straigni wunout reuei. mis statement caused a bust through the courtroom, and every commissioner straightened up ana became more inter ested, in answer to a question put by the commission, he said he was off one Jay every two. weeks, thus working six days one week ana eigne aays tne rouow lng week. tev. James v. Hussie, rector of St Ga briel's Roman Catholic Church, . Hasle ton,. was the next witness. Drinking among the miners. he said, was at a minimum during the strike. When Saked to explain tne general conditions as ne Tohrid them;" Tatter Hussie sad lie bad lived in the coaj region practipauy ail tin life. The conditions in that region, he said. 'are deplorable. The 'mlneworkers are barely able to exist. I say this without any coloring, knowing that I am under oath. I realise that what I say is going to tha Amartnan seoole, and I wast ta talk cautiously. I have been In their homes. Thev are not homes, but merely a habitation, a resting place. Thyy are a fruRal. conservative, reasonable and Ood-fearlng people. We have eight Cath olic ohurcien in llnzleton. and they are crowded every Sunday with worshipers, and this Is no doubt true of the churches whose fnlth Is opposed to ours." In the face of these,- obviously tre statements, how may - the coal op erators sustain themselves before the country? How may there be anything but a verdict against thos operator? TRUEXHARITX Chicago has a hospital for degen erate cats, orphaned dogs and all that kind of animal flotsam and Jetsam. Tender-hearted people provided soup, oysters, turkey, and a real magnificent menu for a specially collected aggrega tlon of abnormal cats and mangy curs on Thanksgiving Day. Half a col umn of rot was telegraphed over the country, and, strange as it may seem, was printed in reputable papers, about the pink-nosed kittens and uncanned pups, gathered from the Blums of Chi cago, to show that Christian cliaiity was still broad enough to care for the suffering and helpless. Jubt why-a self respecting turkey should be butchered, and its healthy carcass -served with appropriate surroundings, even to napkins, to a colony of famished, albeit pink-nosed cats, is one of these mys teries that the male mind can never even hope to understand, until the 'last day, when the Heavens are rolled up as a scroll, and all things become plain. Why should the heart feminine and singular, ache arid anguish" over1 the woes and sorrows of a disreputable cat? ..Why should a bench-legged "mongrel stir the 'fountains of anti quated feminine affection to a point where It demands the sacrifice of a harmless and thoughtless turkey to the appeasing of the canine appetite? A useless question, of course. As well ask, Why is a woman? , The annual recurrence of church fairs and the commendable efforts of the women to secure means whereby to carry on the valuable work of their organizations, religious and charitable, suggests that the men do not give them the assistance they deserve. The women are compelled to resort to de vices to raise money, expending more ot value In effort and actual money than they receive lr net return. Fre quently, this )s becavee the men refuse to give to the organizations The bterieflt of their business training, and, too, sometimes, to another cause that may be Indicated by relating this absolutely true . instance; A woman in Oregon devoted to a certain church was asked to donate 25 cents towards a fund, and replied that she could not do that? foV the simple reason that her husband re fused to countenance it, but she could give a ham from her husband's tore towards a grand -upper tbat was to be given. The ham was given. A meeting will be held in Pendleton on December 13, to form plans for the securing of benefits to that region from the Irrigation laws. Judge Hartman. who was chairman of the.-Umatilla County delegation in the irrigation convention here, heads the movement, and Insists that his people fall not to be prepared to avail themselves of the good that may flow from the new Con ditions, tt is "a meeting "that alidunrt have its counterpart in other counties in Oregon.' It will call together a class of men who have won the reputation for energy and enterprise, and who us ually maka their projecta go, ' Pendle tl tot inble oi have set a good example fo their fellow Oregonlana la thua being, forehanded in this matter. There are land ; frandsf galore! In land frauds) I abort the 'Whole, syateii 4? disposing of puoue land la a fraud, favoring those woo secure at the expense of the lana- Lless, uorn and unborn. The existing law covering government lands afford knave great, opportunity and they maka the most of . tt. For years, in the great majority of land filings the law has been violated, in both, letter and spirit by men high up in the scale of civilization, as well as way down. Levi Ankenjr- comments upon the availability of rich men for the office of United Statee Senate are interest ing. His position is In the main cor rect There should be no bar to en tranca of rtoh- men-teto any office. Personal integrity, abilities, experience In matters concerning th'e public weal, soundness Upon public questions, cleanliness of political methods, these are primal considerations. No man should be barred from entrance into the Senate because he is rich. Nor should any man go to the United States Benata .solely because he is rich. It is a twe-edged sword. Caleb Powera," convicted in the Ooe bel murder conspiracy in Kentucky, and sentenced to llfe Imprisonment, has been granted a new trial on the ground that the Judge who presided at his trial waa prejudiced. The three Democratic Judgea on the Supreme bench dissented from the oplnlovand the fact that the Supreme Court di vided on party lines. In reaching its' conclusion, causes one to woncjo." if there may not still .be considerable prejudice of the political variety ii ths rase. The New Tork Press' story of the two bloods in New Tork who gambled for their wives and children must have been suggested 4y the play of Henry Arthur Jones,' "TheJ Masqueraders," -whieh- Is now being produced at the Baker Theatre in Portland. The Journal is not in the get-even buelness. It is here to print the news ana to "tote fair." The Journal will always be aggressive, but It will never be malicious. , REPUBLICAN RULE IN OREGON Government by adherents of the Repub lican party in Oregon appears to be un popular In many unexpected quarters. The following comment, from the editorial page "of the Morhlnrtregtmin, is of in terest in this connection! We have It from The Dalles, and 'Rose. burg that The Oregonlan's charges con cerning public land abuses are baseless. JBvrjttbtag..J, alLtfjrht . Every;tjj,lng.ls; as it should be. These assertions, made by - persons In collusionr with the land office officials and financially Interested In perpetuation of the present regime, proceed from Republicans who are nothing If not straight party men, and as such their attention may prop erly be invited to this passage in Presi dent Roosevelt's message: "In their actual use the desert-land law, the tinjber and Btone law and the commu tation clause of the homestead law have been so perverted from the Intention with which they were enacted as to permit the acquisition of large areas of the pub lic domain for other than actual settlers and the consequent prevention of settle ment.. , . v We shall not Indicate to the land office officials who stand convicted of winking at frauds In state land selections and neg lect of duty in facilitating the timber and stone frauds, whether they should con tinue to declare the Impeccability of the public land regime or fall in with the opinion of the President. They are under obligation to do the latter inasmuch as they subscribe to the doctrine .of Presi dential infallibility, so -ably exemplified in the comment of our members of Con gress on the President's message. Every thing In It is sound, wise; lovely and per fect. It is a wonder how anybody copld for a moment suppose such slavish a'du- natlftn would .pass mustef'ki hWimgVrtt criticism. ... It was Governor Geer' original .ajvd cogent defense to the Plummer story, which he discussed at some length In one of his senatorial campaign documents published In The Oregonlan, that even If he agreed to sell an appointment and then broke the agreement he should have re ceived great credit for Ills strength of character In thus repudiating so unholy a contract. In some such ingenious and unprecedented way as this he now seeks to break the force of discoveries in the state land department. "Suppose I did wrong," he says; "didn't Dunbar and Moore also do wrong?" This Is the Gov ernor's defense, as we gather it from the Salem papers that have access. to the executive think-tank. But If we were dis posed to say that any fault In Secretary Dunbar or Treasurer Moore establishes by a rule of contraries an equal amount of virtue In the Governor"" the fact would still remain that neither the secretary nor treasurer of state is responsible in any way for the operations of the state land., agent. ...While the state land board "its a"wnoi;iias be!-heia 'accountable for the land frauds In- general the Governor has exclusive control of that department In which the questionable transactions have been carried on. Tha chief diffi culty Is in selection of lieu lands,' a func tion which the law definitely locates on the Governor, who discharges It through the state land, agent, who Is appointed "by the Governor alone and happens to be a relative of his. if Secretary Dunbar and Treasurer Moore have been monkey ing with-the lieu lands, aVia tnttmated In print at Salem, the act Should be easy of demonstration, and they would be liable to Severe censure for' trespassing In the Governor's game preserve. ' A GHOST YARN. (Chicago Journal.) Ghosts of the orthodox kind are sup posed to walk only at unseemly hours In lonely places. But here comes the West Sid with a ghost that -Inhabits an iee box. The ghost is supposed to be that 1bf Thomas Ward, who was cruelly-murdered September 2& by his brother at t6 West Polk street. Last night was one Of the times tne ghost wandered. It scared everybody 4n- the- neighborhood, and 4he i noise brongnt two $m Icemen, Murray and O'Donnell, to the scene of the mid night walk. The officer found men and women In the streets.'' many- in half ghostly array, but when they'went tip ' to collar the ghost it had' vanished. Thai's a way ghoata ku wia ton and other Umattjle, County towns ' :! ' TEE TABASCO C0LUHN. - -' ! ...... . Greece and Persia fell out 491 years B, C. whan Dariu sent sunbaasadora de manding 'earth and water , as symbols -of submission. Since that' time no Persian ambassador has been sent to Greece. Now diplomatic relations are about 4b be re sumed after the lapse of J.S9I years-. This, the worst of quarrels may finally be patched up. T In consequence of .ei fifth eruption of La Boufrler. Chateau Be lair and ueorg town, the two principal towns, have been evacuated. That the inhabitants returned after the fourth 'eruption. Illustrates the Indomitable oouraae of mankind and ex plains way some married men have the courage to go home. John L Sullivan has filed a petition In bankruptcy, claiming to own but 160 worth of wearing appareL Wen. if we remember rightly.. John won his greatest victories when his wardrobe consisted of a pair of shoes, a belt and silk tights Edgar Saltus wants to know, we" sup pose, for he ask, "Would you be sorry to die?" So much depends on future con ditions that, well, we know some people we think will be sorry when- they dia, Verestchagin got $18,000 for hi picture showing Roosevelt and his rough riders charging at San Juan Hill, but In com menting on the price Just think the paint er had to write that name in one corner. A man in Chicago coughed up a iisard ten inches long and another man pursued and caught It Now -the first man claims the saurian and has brought suit to make the second fellow give it up. The Oregonlan expresses the opinion that Gov. Geer is responsible for much of the state land frauds. Perhaps that paper ha it bias warped by political preferences elsewhere. The strike of the Havana cigar makers doe not interfere with the majority of Havana cigars. Home oi mem are mano with a Bcappoose wrapper and a Green Bay filler. Edward Everett Hale solemnly inquires In the New Ttork American, "Wnat uo women need?" That's a hard one, Ed ward, and we suggest it be left to arbi tration. Bhe swept .along the pavement And she showed the pride she felt But she spoiled the whole effect of It When she reached -back for her belt Max O'Rell wants to know If men are fair to women. No, little Paul, men are good to women,' some are even true. It is women who are fair to men. i President Roosevelt's charge sft San Juan Hill was not any more strenuous than that of Vereschagln, who got $18,000 fpr the picture of It. "That's a man after my own heart," said the pretty Portlund girl, when she rnad the congressional election returns from Hawaii. Maybe trie"tove trust'thinka high priced coal too proutt ?tn be bOTfied" in -a-cheap stove, and It is doing all it can to pre vent it "Omaha claims a mah" eight reermir&nd who weighs 680 pounds, and he doesn't belong to any of tne football teams, either. ' An exchange says, '.'avoid whisky and water, it is a dilution and a snare." If you can't do that, anyway avoid the water. It's all right to raise the educational standard of the working classes, but mast of them would prefer a raise In wages. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says: "God made no thing in vain." Excuse us, Ella, but didn't he make wom-en vain? Lady Om has been made empress of Corea. It probably took more than one ohm to accomplish the result Ex-Mayor Hewitt says he is neither a Republican nor Democrat Maybe he's the long sought guyasticutis. President Castro ought to put a "turned rule" between his revolutions, so outsiders wouldn't get them mixed. l If Joe Simon is up to date he will have factured in England. Some pf .those long family lines you hear people brag about were those where the wash was hung. Max O'Rell continues to dump inane drivel into the columns of the New Tork American. Jack Matthews purposes carrying the war Into Washington. CREMATION IS SPREADING, (St. Paul Dispatch.) Recent statistics show that there la a constant and growing tendency to return to the custom of cremation, which pre vailed throughout the civilized world be fore the. Christian era, excepting among the Egyptians, Chinese and Hebrews,. The disposition of-the human dead by incineration has been meeting with more and more favor, that has In nowise been retarded since the flrbt cremation society was formed in London in 1874. That-same year a crematory waa erected at .Milan, and "two years afterward "one was' butTf in Lodi, Italy. In two years more there was one in Gotha, Germany, and afterward they be gan to appear in all lands. There are now 26 crematories in the United State. In the year that New York's first crema tory was. opened only 46 bodies were cre mated In the -entire country, -while last year the number was S,64S. POINTS FROM THE PARAGRAPH ERS Birmingham Nws: . elllngtpn and Ma son continue to give a revised Version of the "Two Orphan-". Boston Olobe: Mr: Mitchell was not punning when he spoke of the union of the operators as a coalition. Macon. New Young Rockefeller keeps right on tafklng disgracefully about rlchea The Ingratitude of the man is ap palling. ' Washington Post: That Maryland man wT)6" nai contracted -th""habtr of burying himself In every new grave he happens to discover la doubtless imbued with an ambition to grow up and be an Adlai E. Stevenson. HAROJTO UNDERSTAND. - (Chicago Chronicle.) . . SpilkliM I think SqulUlns would make a flrst-clas grand Jbpera singer. Bilklns HoWs that? Bptlklna Why, he's had such a long experience at sailing towns on a sub- r j Who Recently Purchatid the Washington Timet ' One of the most Important announce - menu of the week in Je newspaper world was that after pecumber 1 the morning and evenulg editions of, the' Washington Times were to,. pair consolidated., aaya Newspaperdom.', Frank A. Munsey, pub lisher of .the paper) mad, known his plans in the following editorial, iwhlch appeared in the Times last Wednesday morning: ' ; - "Beginning Monday,'. December Ji, Hie morning and evening editions of - the Washington Times will be-consolidated. The morning edition will be added1' to the evening edition, and the two, combined in one. On Saturday, November 29, the last Individual issue of the morning edi tion will appear. On the Monday follow ing the Evening Tunes-will be-Issued at the usual afternoon hour, and will .em brace the morning issue contain, all the best elements of the morning edition. It will be called the Washington Times, tak ing the name ot tha morning edition. "THIS SOMEWHAT RADICAL MOVE IS NOT NECESSARY, BUT. IT 16 DE-S1RABLE-.-1T IS DESIRABLE. SIMPLY IN THE SENSE THAT STRENGTH IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN WEAKNESS; AND WEAKNESS IS INEVITABLE WHEN THE ENERGIES AND THOUGHTS OF A NEW8PAPER FORCE ' KCX THE STATE PRESS. fit Fall City to Have Brss Band. Dallas Observer: Falls City young men re organising a brass band. They are receiving hearty financial support from the 'business men and citlsens generally of that thriving little town. Rehearsals will begin as soon as the instruments are received. The tooting of the horns and the hum of the sawmills will mingle har moniously and make merry music for our mountain neighbors next summer. A Buggy Marriage. Albany Demoorat : Tr-F. Nichols and Miss Minnie Austin, while passing through Albany, Wednesday evening, on their way from Astoria to Roseburg to reside, were united In marriage in their buggy on the Mascot Range by Judge Palmer. They wanted a piafn, every-day kind of a wedding, and get if Wants a Flour Mill. Baker City Democrat: The movement on foot to secure for Baker City a flouring mill plant is worthy the careful considera tion of every business man and citizen. One has only to look at the splendid mar ket here for all classes of merchandise and the tremendous consumption of bread-stuffs In the mines to see that a flour mill in Baker City would not only be a paying investment but a boon to the community. The production of wheat in this valloy is rapldiy on the increase and, with the Irrigation of arid lands, where now one bushel of wheat Is grown five will be produced in the future. Let's have a flour mill by all means, and very slight Inducement to capital will bring it. This Is an pppoHmfity for the cham ber of commerce to get in 'Its fine work. Good Bed . Apples. : Lake County Examiner: According to a prominent doctor, apples are excellent health- preservatives. ' If places were reaayfbr the ehtldmt' nr ttre" ttornhrg -to eat when appetite demands, they will prove a turning point for many petty ailments. The nervous system, always calling for phosphorous, Is quieted by a full fruit diet. Apples relieve the nausea of seasickness and are a help to those who are trying to break themselves of the tobaeco habit A good ripe, raw ap ple is completely digested In 85 minutes. This easy digestion favors longevity, the phosphorus renews the petrous matter In the brain. Seen With a Glass Eye. Aloany Democrat: Congress is now In session, and already' the Interesting fact is being, divulged that the Republicans will do nothing with the tariff. They de clare though that they will touch up the trusts, but a man with a glass eye can. see that it is only pretense, and that the trusts will not be -disturbed enough to affect their enormous appetite.. Partisanship Only., East Oregonlan: It look now as if the curse of partlsonism would still keep the people of the Southwest territories out of the Union. In the name .of Roosevelt who stands for rigid righteousness In politics, war and private life, cannot Justice rise paramount to narrowness and gWB-TfHheatthfut-gksw-ta -the,, abaeks- of legislation? The country Is sick ot the cauaverous touch of the partisan corpse. Larger than Japan. - --' - The Dalles Chronicle: Irrigation will do for Oregon what it ha done for Utah. The arid land of Eastern Oregon, .When1 watered, will support the populaUonlof an empire. Japan, with its 42.000,000 people, is not so large as the State of Oregon. When we consider" this fact it gives us some idea of th glorious future of the state when Its natural resources shall have been developed. - To Raise Apples. Hood River Glacier: The fruit growers of Forest Grove have organized a union and hope to encourage growers in that vicinity to take better care of their trees. They find that poor abd wormy fruit 1 a drug on the markets anywhere, while there is always a demand for good fruit The soil and climate of Washington County is favorable for the growing of the apple, pear, prune, cherry, grape and berries. By the Judicious use of the spray pump the apple growers of Forest Grove Lhope - isf - woceed- the sama as, Hood' tuver. A World' Dligrsce. East Oregonlan: The murderous Turk is once more butchering th defenseless' women and children"- of Armenia, ft Turkey were accessible to the United Statea...4uatnn..-ofJthe8 vholesale slaughters of the innocent would, overrun her accursed territory with such a host of avenging swords that the result of the Turk' chastisement, would be beyond Imagination. It is a aagrace to the ivil lzed European powers that each outrages occur within gun shot of their shores. Enough for All. Burns Times-Herald: There Is no ne cessity of one drop of the water of Silvie River reaching the lakes through its nat ural channel. Enough water goes to waste each spring to Irrigate every foot of land in this valley and make it th most de sirable ' spot In Oregon. If tha govern ment should take hold of the proposition, even before the project was completed, every foot of vacant government land would be taken up and a home built on each 180 acres. D the people Of Harney County realize what this would mean? Second the Motion. Forest Grove Times If tt jwaa that irrlgaton convention !: in .Portland which brought all this rain on us, then we move that a drainage convention be; called to ahut the floaaa '',?. i.,vf r-. 9 ' ARB SCArTEREO OVER TWO CREA ITIONS DAILY. MOREOVER, THE MA- ; lfcKIALa 111 A I UU TO MAKI UP A NEWSPAPER -ARK NOT SO SUPER' ABUNDANT THAT IT 18 POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE IN A" SINGLE . NEWS PAPER 'SHOP TWO PAPERS A DAY AND HAVE ' EACH ONE ORIGINAL AND STRONG THROUGHOUT IT IS INEVITABLE THAT EACH PAPER TO A GREATER OR LESS EXTENT MUST ROB THE OTHER. NO AMOUNT . Of WORK, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY, NO NEWSPAPER , FORCE, HOWEVER BRILLIANT, CAN MAKE IT OTHER WISE. THE CONDITIONS DO NOT EXIST; THE HAPPENINGS DO NOT COME SFf. "In this connection I wish to put myself on record as saying that it is -a rare -case -Indeed, if such a case there be at all. where a publisher has as profitable and satisfactory a proposition In issuing both a morning and evening edition of a news paper as he would have by concentrating on the one or the other.- The possible exceptions to this assertion are . found in the mprijlng.. papers that do not make Independent evening" .editions papers that run the same editorials and much of the same matter throughout the day, simply killing some matter and substltut- Ing later news as It comes in." Our Army In th Philippine. Boston" Evening Journal: - General Toung, whose blunt words have pro-" duced something of an anti-imperialist hysteria, 1 unquestionably right in his assertion that no army In the world would have borne Itself so humanely toward the Filipinos as our own regulars and Volun teers. This statement requires no con-' flrmatlon among men who know the world and know human nature. , The Country and Wall Street. St Louis .Globe-Democrat: The coun try can view with equanimity tha violent fluctuations in stock Just now taking place in Wall tareet No busi ness enterprise established on a sound basis and conducted with prudence and good .Judgment has suffered aa the re-.. suit of the decline In stocks. All mer cantile report agree that th country's business is In a sound and prosperous condition. . Disrespect tor Authority. Galveston News: The continuous les sons In looseness, disorder and out lawry are sure to tell In a most serious manner. They have moved even the children of th country to defy their parents, their teachers and the civil authorities, and to wait with confidence for popular encouragement and publio approval. In this serious state of affairs the observant American finds the most important of all the problem which the people of this nation are now cabled upon to solve. - - The feucaa-of the Krupps. .;.. . Philadelphia Publio Ledger: The re lations of . the Krupps. . to their em ployes seem to ha v been as hamoni ous as was possible. It is said that dif ferences have always been adjusted by arbitration. If this method has been sue- ' cessfurin Hie' vast" TQ'upP'ltiaustfies It can be applledwlth equally satisfactory results in every Industry. There Is much In the history of the Krupp family, par ticularly In that of the founder of the great work and of hi immediate suc cessor, which should encourage those who are trying to better their fortunes. Reciprocity With Cuba. Pittsburg Dispatch: The fact is that reciprocity with - Cuba is still attain able if the , United State can recognize that the very term implies fair and equal dealing But it is not to be had by such a proposition a that be cause the United State ha a 100 per cent tariff on Cuban products, and Cuba, has a 30 per cent tariff on United States products, therefore, a 20 per cent reduo tlon by the United States to 80 per cent must be balanced by Cuba's reducing her SO per cent duties-to 10 per cent' 7 A New Political Party. Boston Globe Socialism at the pres ent rate of increase will have more than . a million votes In 1904. And yet this new power in poli tics wa Ignored completely a few years ago. It wa not long before it cast S per cent of the votes of the state and obtained legal recognition a a party, and then th - political navigators began ta open their eyea Already the 6M parties, following the tactics of Bismarck' in Ger many, are willing to make terms with it by -adopting, some of its less radical planks. Th Publio and Opera. Brooklyn Eagle: The fact is that the American public Which pay for the opera wants the" famous stars. It Is hard enough to make people take the art of the stage seriously, and It Is impossible to spread that atti tude toward opera beyond the ranks of a small musical minority. Americans want to see the people who get the fabulous prices, and they want to see them in soemthing which .they have seen before, ft these great tar would sing "Home, Sweet Home," as Pattl used to, taa crowd would be still larger. , A Cause for Congratulation; Chicago Times: Grateful mention may be made here of the fact that a few footpads and burglars, surprised in tha act have gone permanently out of tha business during the year Danger In Poison a Philadelphia Inqulrert It Is lament able that neither repeated warning; nor sad experience seems to have the desired effect of making the ordinary ' persons cautious in the use of poisons. In the last few days three children have died presumably from taking poison that was carelealy left within their reach. " One would suppose that uoh accidents would by this time ave become almost Impossible -yet they are, constantly recur if ng with frequency that demands fur ther warning: If. parents would learn ta . keep poison in a place where they Could not be reached by others there would be fewer aocidenta , It is the old principle of familiarity breeding , contempt It cannot be toe trongly impressed upon everyone that the only immunity from danger is through constant care and precaution. It is a les son that needs to be impressed - upon every hidlvldual-wltheut -exception- ' No Reason to Walt New York Times: There is na reason why. the canal undertaking; should wait upon the alow resolu tion of the government of Colombia. We can -very -quickly find out - what 4a -In the Colombian mind by announcing that after a given and near date we hall give no further Consideration to th Panama route, but shall jroeeedto nego : FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS." i : . . . . . . . ,. .. tiate the - necessary treaties wiu lNioa ragua and Costa Rica : r 1 ', , ....... . - V ' V;
