THE OREGON jDAlLY :JdltrijNALi POBTLAKI), THURSDAY EVENIKO JUKE 1 1, ' 1903. EDITORIcylL COcTWcTWENT cND TIcWELY TOPICS THE ORjEGON DAILY. JOURNAL c. a JACKSON Jlfoutntaf A, . JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. Arfrfr.ii: THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth end Yamhill 8ts., Portland, Of. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Entered At t!if rostoffice of Portland, Orrgon. for transmicslon through tht mailt at second-clars mutter. Pontage for single copies For an 8. 10, or 12-page paper, 1 cent; 16 to 28 page, t cents, over 28 pages, 1 cents. TKLUPHONUSi BusfneM Offlre Oi iron. Main 500; Columbia, 703. " Editorial Rooms Oregon Main 250. SUBSCRIPTION RATES! Terms by Carrier. i Terms by Mail. The Dally Journal, one year 85.00 ! Th Dally Journal, by mail, one year.. If CD The Daily Journal, six months 2.60 j The Unity Journal, by mall. 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In a 'word, to let the spiritual, Unbidden and unconscious, grow up Through the common. This Is to be my symphony. William Henry Channlng. ROOSEVELT THE POLI TICIAN. . President! Roosevelt's views of public, of crbaveOTdergone s,-remarkablechange ' , since the oays when he won fame as an . ardent advocate of civil service reform, and when he was one of the most enthusiastic . exponents of that school of political mo , rallty which Inculcates that the office should seek the man. The change has been grad ual, but none the lefts complete. Theodore Roosevelt. Is . today one of the foremost "practical f t politicians" In the country, though It Is by no means Implied that he resorts to or approves the baser methods "too- ofteirfmployer by men "of-that etas. Time was: when Mr. Roosevelt believed rand taught that it Is Improper for an In eumbept of public office to use his position - for the furtherance of his own political am bitions. The servant of the public must be ..'jcontenC.Jie . argued then, .with ;,thou.xe. wards which "are the natural result of faith- f ul service performed with an eye to the public Interest. But Theodore Roosevelt Is no longer an Idealist In politics. He has graduated, or, as- the theorists . with-- whom he formerly . consorted would say, he' has degenerated Into the practical politician, who sees in the honors conferred upon him by the peo ple only an opportunity to gratify still fur .'.., ther his personal ambition or his desire for 7 office." '"' - - - - - 7 here arc many indications of this Change, which seems to have taken place in great part since Mr. Roosevelt became President. The most patent Is found In his .... electioneering trip through the Western states, unmistakably undertaken for the purpose of advancing his campaign for the presidential nomination In 1904. For more than a year he has been, using his office to further this end and the trip which he has Just completed was the crowning stroke whereby he expects to wipe out all oppo sition ana to render success certain. His appointments, his meninges and his npeecheg have been made with the Idea of lmpress- ing upon Republicans that he Is tin dictator and the, sole savior of his p.-my. Every detail of the western trip was pl.mued with this object in view and the ipsults have shown that the President has heen a painstaking student i:. '"the one j ist scfeool of practical politics. No nriVe holder could have made more strenuous ef forts' than has Mr. Roosevelt to prolong hi tenure. But for his desire to Fprml four years - more in the White- House, he w ould mvr have placed at the head of the i' sioffl. e Department n man whose only r.-."iriri''i)-datlon was that he was thoroughly versed In all the art which build up m p.-itonl machine and v'.: ontrol of party co,iei tions. Hart he no made that a pi olntii:eot, i the .President o.ild now he f;;u-.-,! tle . mortification r GOOD PROSPECT OF RESULTS. The Investigation which Is now being made by the District "Attorney should cer tainly give some substantial results. Whether evidence sufficient to Justify crim inal proceedings will be discovered, Is, of course, a matter of conjecture, so far as the public is concerned, but ll would seem safe to assume that civil suits will be Instituted for the recovery of the deficit discovered In the accounts of former County Clerks. The total shortage was approximately . 3, 800. The bondsmen of these officials are respon sible to the eounty for apy shortages The report of the expert, upon which the present Investigation Is based, " Is .the resulof itv era! months of patient work and It Is rea sonable to suppose that he Is not mistaken irf his statements of fact. " '-. .; Thus faf the Cotlnt'y Clerk's department is the only one'upen which the expert has re- portedr- He 4a t work on the books-f the other departments and will report upon them In time. There Is grave reason to fear that the tale of irregularities and abuses is still far from complete. Sheriff Fraxier was openly . charged during his term of office with having- collected-- from- -non-resident r taxpayers sums in excess of thejr indebted ness to the county, and The Journal pub lished R year ago fac-slmlles of raised re ceipts Issued by the Sheriffs office. There have been frequent rumors of 'even more serious malfeasance In this office, and the expert's Investigation mar prove even more sensational In Its revelations than in the case of the County Clerk's department. There are other departments which will demand close scrutiny. It must be thorough and Impartial if any lasting good is to.be accomplished. Sweden proposes to levy a tax on fat per sons. Party lines In future will probably be drawn -between the fat and the lean citizens. One 'advantage lof the new system of raising j revenue is that tax dodging will be exceed j Ingly difficult. The only way of escape will ! be to go into tralnina- before, the tax-rnl- The threatened crisis in toe British cab inet has been averted and the plan advo cated by Chaniberlaln of imposing protective duties has been shelved, nt leat temporarily. His following, however, is a lorge one and the question will yet become 'an important Issue in the nation's politics. A. Chicago paper notes with satisfaction that the chiropodists have not yet gone on strike Every other trade In the Windy City has done so. of the tr,o:-t f-f-riovs s. and..! -w-hich has arisen since the ijr Houte frauds. .HiS predecessors have heen. poveriieil 1.,' ah unwritten law which forbids that a President should openly seek a reriomina tlon. It nas bcji deemed contrary to the dictates of propriety for the chief ruler of , the fe-iubllo to . ngagt In a 'hunt for a sec ond, term. When President Roosevelt 1m- perlously demanded, under pain of his per sonal displeasure that his candidacy should be endorsed by the Ohio Republican conven tion, he violated every precedent of his of fice. It is true that he carried Jiis point, but the victory was purchased at a sacrifice of . Presidential been viewed a doien years ago with amaze ment and disapproval. And Mr. Roosevelr would then have been one of the first to-l discountenance such a degredation of the ' fhV. ' , New Jersey has a citizen who has been in Jail 600 times. And so many people who ought to have been In, have never been there at all. 'hnago had no sootier emerged from the laundry strike than the waiters went out. Chicago's leisure class is constantly increasing. MUST LIVE ON EACH OTHER. i'nele Sam has been temporarily bested in a tussle with King Alcohol; Jonathan retires from the Bremerton contest for a time, and rum rules. The only consolation friends of decency and order can draw from tWe situation Is that the fringe of glnmills win now have to subsist upon each other, or to go out of business. The, nnvv ileturt. dignity Which would have ' ment will not rennen the vut-A wo-i. until the Bremerton authorities guarantee the government against "the - evils which have brought about the present trouble, sod the mtvy authorities are right in their d tnand. Sacramento Record-Union. - A FEW PLAIN TRUTHS There are some people of Portland who seem to ' be of the opinion that the effort of The Journal to purify the politl- ' expression ."newspaper talk" has beea Invented since the days ' of vigorous prosecution of thieves'and political scalawags by the modern newspaper. Under the guise of conservatism a rftmin kind nt rwfinffrati ntr miirna ism s makirur sn-r.a ftri f. "dignity" an excuse for not spending money for news and a' protection against an expose of the grafters on wTiom it has fastened during the Inane years of its' existence. Portland has a most brilliant future, but the municipality is as badly man-" aged as St, Louis and as out-of-date as a South American town wi its self-styled dictatorship by petty municipal hangers(ojLand clerks lazy and fat on public plunder. To a Republican machine and to Republican abuses the City of Portland owes Its present wretched municpal condi tion. If this condition were due to the Democracy The Jour nal would condemn it just the same. ' Let us stop and contemplate, man to man, the abuses that the rotten administrations of Portland's affairs- have heaped upon us. Here we have a city as fair as any on Godjs earth, favored with a site thathas no equal in the world and in a position to command the trade of an empire. Does not; the love of this dear place jnake you yearn for its betterment, . for a government that will be for the people and not for a po litical combination either dominated by a Simon or a Mat thews, assisted in the latter case by a Mitchell? Then why not act? Are we to go along forever, kicked and spurned by an impudent horde of office-holders who are the tools of this double-headed Republican combination, working for self-interest and not for Portland? What have we to be proud of In the men who serve the city ander grace of power bestowed upon them by political, manipulators? What city in the country would stand for a Hunt, or what county toleratea putty man like Storey? Has even honest old Mayor Williams so forgotten his splendid rdcord as a man as ta.be Mind JoJhe deceit .that every design-, ing scamp of a wire-puller Is working on his rapidly elongat ing leg?, as-the county figure-head, Storey, followed in the footsteps of his predecessor and taking to reversing poetic -fancy for his employes, the people, by making a sow's ear out of the county's silken purse? Has Hunt, a hold-over from a municipality, the memory of which Portland would like to wash away with the coming flood, come Into his brass tor the. purpose of swelling his head or the receipts of the city treasury from the tribute oLgamblers? f Are'nt you willing to k'now that The Journal is sincere in its efforts to bettor your conditions? - Ws befevo.-yoir- are, " -but you must not stand supinely by and let discreditable things happen while this paper points to means for their un doing, - , 1 ,.:-.; The old saying is "We are. the people." Here the axiom ; is inoperative apparently. Is Portland to go on record as be ing even more careless of her being than is San Francisco, acording to the poet, when hewrote: "Siren Indifference to fate She tits beside the Goldtl Gate." " ' Portland, too, is sitting beside the Golden Gate of a. mag nificent opportunity' The eyes of the country will soon be turned toward us and the glories of Oreogn and our city will be heralded to the traveler m all parts of the world. The state and city have combined to. make the Lewis and Clark. Fair a great thing for all of us-. But before we invite strang ers withjn our gates let us insure them that we have a pure city and county government, a fearless press, a sturdy, hon est commonwealth and a clean city. To get this we must not brook for an instant the cheeky demands of a lot of tax-gobblers whof are causing us to operate under a high tax with the rottenest municipal govern ment in America compared to population. . These are plain truths and the only way to correct evil is to correct it. Let the incompetent office-holder of the Mitchell - Matthews-Simon-Hermann or whatever you mav choose to call it, political, ring, go way back and not only sit down but lie down. i WHY HERMANN WAS ELECTED. The Lew Iston Tribune gives voice to the following "outside view" of Oregon, politics: 'Hermann has een elected to Congress by Oregon to succeed Tongue on the promise that, although he Is said' to be unfit and discredited, the party will nominate a better man net time and so the people were Importuned to stand by the party regardless of Its failures and mistakes. Another controlling factor was that Hermann -would be able to get a share of administration spoils for his district, while a Democrat would have no right to ask favors of the government. Thus our extreme party politics leads to the elevation of unfit men to the high places and prevents the fit man from taking any part In the shaping. of public affairs. Still we prise our politics very highly and seem willing to pay several prices to have the public service abused and plundered." JEROME'S DOUBLE. v Tliere Is a man In New York who la so lik District Attorney Jerome that his life is a burden. He thinks of moving way to avoid Jerome's friends and enemies. His name la F, L. McCfltcheon. Some of his adventures would make a horse laugh. Only a day or two ago a man stopped him at Nassau street with: "Ah, now I've got you. I have been to your office three times and have been turned down every "time.". You are supposed to be a servant of the public, and I'm one. of the public. I helped to elect you and I'm entitled to respectful treatment. When can you see me on that matter?" McCutcheon, instead of trying to explain that he was not Jerome and knew nothing about "that matter," simply apologized and said "call again." "The other day," says Marshall Wilder, "I got on a Fifth avenue stage. and found that I had nothing less than a two-dollar note in my pocket." . "WeilT" anked afrlend. . , "I gave It to the driver," said Wilder, "and he asked me which horse I wanted." New York Times. - - i , . 1.1 .. She: Is Jt really true that the blind can "determine color by the sense of touch? H: ' Sure. I oftce knew a blind man who was able to tell a red-hot stove, by merely putting his finger on it. Chicago New. ; -' ;.-. ' . ;r BULLMAN TORN BY A HORSE ' It Seizes Him With Its Teeth and Tosses Him About , Till Tralner,Plerce Fells It With a Currycomb: ',' Caught in the jaws of a maddened . stal lion, tossed, bitten and pounded,, Jockey I J. J. Bullman bad a marvelous escape from death at Sheepshead Bay yesterday; The affair took ' place, at Bullmsn's pri vate stable, near his home, at Sheepshead! Jockey from his 'feet. ' ' Bullman recovered his nerve In an Instant and fought to tear himself loose. But he waa tossed Into the air, arid the eraxr tf.f- ' lion shook him as a terrier would a r. Then -round and round the bl box stall' tfim tinea 1aaVi4 wttlllai x. v.rt.. Bay. Th. horse. 'a beautifully proportioned Jockey from slds to side, pounding him j jet bl8xktrotter, wasa- wlthJl Bullman, reared In tht saddle, loves a Horse,! his hoofs. 3 :; ; : ' ?jf ' I and all his leisure is pasaed behind a Tha tossing and the pain of the teeth fa?? I ipeedy a trotter as his means can afford. I tened In tola Ida robbed Bullman of con Ten days ago he bought ths blck J sclousnesa .when Hiram Pierce reached, tl.a lion at a bargain, as ! thought, and last J scene. ' Ha bad not seen the attack, but his Sunday proudly gave tha dust to everything I aP had caught the thunder of hoofs and on the Coney Island. boulevard. ' ' ' 'V'Bullman"g" cries for 'blp.r: ; To all-appearances the stallion was. as I ' Tha young Kentucklan threw oft his coat. gentle as he waa , speedy. , Ha , would sat I selxed a bar of wood used as a guard for ' L from Bullman'i hand, and when the jockey tha front of the stall and tamed blows upon owner groomed him lri the mornings the the- animal. -;. -r-" , black racer ; would whlnney In ti e friend- .Under the rain of blowa the' horse Vushed ll.f faahlnn .' - I t Ilia aaBOllaA iW ..In . kl. i . Only one roan about (JBullman'f stable wail jaws oh tha Jockey never loosened. Dodrln scepUcal of, the new purchase, Tnia was the flying hoofs, Plerca threw , away the Hiram Pierce, a young Kentucklan, the wooden bar and caught up tha heavy metal - brother-in-law of Charles Patterson, head I backed currycomb that Bullman had trainer for Burns & Waterhouae, tha Call- I dropped. it would have been a contemptible, weapon in the hands of most men, but the young Kentucky trainer knew just how to make the most of it As with lowered head the mad horse made straight for him, Pierce struck o thOV fornia millionaires. "Look out for that black fellow,"," warned Hiram at first sight of the new trotter. '1 don't like his eye. He'll bite you if he gets a chance. , .a But Bullman only laughed and continued straight and hard for the stallion's eye. to come end go in the horse's box stall Back on his haunches fell the. brute, without a thought of fear. ': jaws fell apart, and Bullman rolled into the Bullman was up early yesterday morning I straw, covered with blood and seemingly ; uled to ride three races at the Oravesend Before the st'alllon," recovered from th track Pentaur In the second, Dutiful in tha blow he was a prisoner behind the doors .of sixth and John A. Scott in the seventh. After his stall,, while Bullman was belnaArrtd this he was to take a train for Chicago, to his home. ' - where he was engaged to ride McChesneyj Dr. Pool, of Sheepshead Bay, was tHe first in the Chicago derby. I physician to arrive. He found a great . Bullman rides for John W. Schorr, the wound where tha stallion's ' teeilf had torn millionaire horseman of , Memphis. 1 Bullmsn's right side. To this .were added Eager for the dash behind his new trotter, I many cuts and bruises, but not an , Injury Bullman hurried to the stable from the j anywhere that menaces lhe Jockey's llfe breakfast table and, currycomb In hand, un-I "Bullman should be up and about in rea Hiram Pierce half jestingly repeated the Pool old warning: Bullman will not be able to ride In the "Look out, Bullman 1" he shouted. "That I Chicago derby, and his employer, Mr, black devil will bite you sure!" Schorr, wired tha news West last night Without halter or headstrap the horseT "Of course, It was a desperate close stood motionless. His head was lowered, shave," said Bullman to a World reporter and so rigid wss his pose that Bullman at his Sheepshead Bay home last night. ceased laughing and spoice to mm. "mat black norse certainly did . fool me. "What's the matter, old boy?" he said, Why, he was as friendly as a pet dog. I have stroking the glossy neck. - (let my five-year-old boy drive him half a As a spark of fire acta on gunpowder, I dosen times. so did the first stroke of Bullman' hand! "How did I feel when he had me up In act upon the stallion. He turned, fastened the air 7 Well I can't exactly remember. his teeth in Bullman's right side and, -with What I do know Is that Hiram saved my Ufa a heave of his powerful head, took the with that blow on the stallion's eye." TOURI8T AND PIONEER. The bare-footed tourist swoops down on the West ' ' With a glimmer, of diamonds,, a surfeit of nerve . He. flashes his bank notes and hints the re quest That the whole busy country his pleasure should serve. . His ticket is good on the lightning express - The- flunkey all -thirs for hla harrowing tale But his bluster falls flat with the men who " came West When your busiest street waa a dim pony trail! He can teil you the' woes of the overland train - The long two-day Journey, the dust and delay How to starve for two hours on the perilous plain. When the cook in the diner got drunk on - - the way. The tenderfoot shudders to hear him relate How the manners of Westerners make him turn pale . But his fuming don't, ruffle the hero sedate, Who laid out your streets by the dim pony trail. The tourist may know all the operas grand But his soul never tasted the raptures that steal '""f' .From the old martial music, of pioneer land - ' The crack of the bull whip, the creak of the wheel! . He may know all the authors, and read, the late books - . - mi . irj.hrw nlfl aonrCtfTnbtWnlne'M pales , . ' In the light of the Epic locked up in the breasts Of the men who built towns on the old pOny tralll 5 , Bert Huffman. Pendleton, Or. REGARDING RAILS. PORTLAND, Or, June 10, 1908. ECltor Journal At' the present our civic- pride is growing at a rate arousing thrills of en thusiasm in those who are progressive in their Ideas, and- making the old moss-backs stand aghast with astonishment, wonder ing whether they will be. able to recognlie1 their old haunts In a few years. And while these good intentipns and acts are going on, I see cause for each citizen to act as a committee "ofone and give -a bit of time and attention to the public work now being done. . . ' I desire to call attention to the proper of ficials to the. laying of a. streetcar track at the intersection of Washington and Nine-, teenth streets, which should be of heavy rails, to assure the public that within a year or two the jarring has not made it necessary to take up the asphalt to fasten the clamps, and thereby ruin the streets. It should be the pride of our cltlsens to have well -paved streets, and then to maintain them, and cor porattons should give a helping hand, with' out being reminded of their public duty. - - LEO FRIEDE. WHAT HE IS WORTH. "What a . curious Jiablt"' we have," reji marked the streetcar philosopher, "of saying that a man is worth s$ and so many thousands of dollars. jPknow men who have, many dollars, who, judged from any reasonable standard, mat 1 know, are not worth ' anything at all. - It Is refreshing to hear occasionally of men who do happen to be worth a ."' great ' deal,- even although they are rich, and who are anxious that people should forget they have money and think- of them only for their qualities. AH the same, It always gives me an, unpleasant turn when I see a man's .worth put down in dollars." New York Commercial Ad- vertlser. -v. - Rich men's sons always have a pass to the devil but let it be said to their credit that" all of them do not use, lt A LITTLE TABA8CO 8AUCE. Mrs. Knicker They say a 'fool and his money are soon parted, Mrs. Bocker It isn't so. George Is a per fect idiot, and I can't get a cent out of him. New York Sun. It transpires that Mark Hanna has been for Hoosevelt all the time. Easy Mark! The reason, it Is said, that Chicago Is (so strenuous, is because everybody cusses its climate. The guests were waiting. Already the organ was playing th& procession!. . . Under the terms of the betrothal the bride was to cay 1995.000 cash. She had counted out a hundred $10,000 bills . - "Change, please," she said. . . That his grace, the Duke, was nettled, everybody could see. It was a painful mo ment. But the archbishop came to the rescue. Laughing as if it were all the best Joke" in the world, he passed the hat among the bridal party,1 and In a moment collected $5,000, which he pressed into the hrtda'a hand. --. Thus the self-respect of neither was sae rlficed. .'.i'--"V. . ";'. f ' 1'. V':'; ;if" Of course the story leaked out. "Dear old fellow!" exclaim tMnrv' . . fc.V7V.JJ and the archbishop was more in iiummH at weddings than ever. Life. f Eddie Arnold's "taflff investment con- . cent" paid its victims 2 centa on the dol lar. That'a better than many oil and min-v Ing companies have' done. - It is seriously announced Governor Yates of Illinois wantu tn h elected.;, Certainly, was there ever a man -who contracted the offlceritch that could ruj v himself t IU . ( . ,t ' 7