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TltE " OREGON ' DAILY JOUBKAL, rOKTLAyDr TUESDAY EVENING. JUKE 30, 1003. EDIT0Rj)Ic4L GOcTWoTWENTcAND TIcTWELY TOPICS BY I V DAILY; JOURNAL? ;ipS.f JACKSON l0lt( WOMEN At FIFTY, NOW AND, YEARS AGO BURIAL OF WE' A WE WA . (By fsul De Uney.) v : f" 4 4 JOURNAL PUBLISHING C COMPANY. Proprietors. Arfdrets: THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill 8L., Portland, Or, CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Entered at the Fostofflce of Portland, Oregon, for transmission through the malls sj aecond-cla. j matter. Postage for sinple copies for an I. 10. or 12-page paper, 1 cent; II to 28 pagea, 1 cents; over 21 pages, S centa. TKL.EPMO.NESi Business Office-Oi son. Main 600; Columbia, 706. Edltorla' Rooms Oregon Main 250. SUBSCRIPTION RATES I Terr.ia by Carrier. The Dally Journal, or.e year The Dally Journal six months ... The Dally Journal, three months -The Daily Jou:-nal. by the weelc .. 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He will add knowledge to knowledge, and a race of gloriously enlightened free men will, under such circumstances, develop from a race of ignorant, groveling alaves. Free nature to man. and man will emancipate himself. If wa should do that in this country our desire would not then be to restrict Immigration, but to encourage It, provided always that the Immigrants could be assimilated, that is. If admitted In large numbers, they could be taken Into the policy and made a homogenoua part of It; could intermarry with our people and become as one with the body of our citlsens. ' And this the people of Italy, Austria, Rursla and the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean would do. The Immigration problem thus becomes not one of keeping great numbers of assimilable people out of this country, but of opening natural opportunities and destroying special privileges In the United States, so aa to give plenty of opportunities for employment to all our present population and all who may come by birth or Immigration. Henry George, Jr., In a letter to The Oregon Dally Journal. THE IOWA TARIFF PLANK The Republican atate convention of Iowi wni meet tomorrow and there la reason to expect a, hot fight over the adoption of tariff plank. The "Iowa Idea." of which Governor Cummins haa been one of the lead lng exponents, Is that while a protectlv tariff must be maintained, the present acale , of duties la in many cases too high and ; should be modified. The "standpattera," on the other hand backed by all tbe power .and influence of the protected trusts, demand that no reductions shall be made. This now the attitude of President Roosevelt him - self although a year ago he was an advocate of tariff revision. Senator Allison haa been charged with the 'delicate task of framing a compromise tariff plank for presentation to the Iowa conven tlon, tha purpoae being to" devise an utter atice which may be acceptable to both fac i tlons of the party and which may avert the ' split which a few months ago seemed inevit able. As. in all attempts to obtain harmony at the expense of an outspoken declaration of principle, the compromise plank, If adopted. Is sure to be provocative of dis content. -. ' Many Influential Republicans', not In Iowa alone, but throughout tha country, firmly be Heva, that the nation! welfare demands a reduction of tbe duties upon many tM8t made articles. When American ma'uTifac- turers are selling their products abroad rt lower price than they ask from the home consumer, It Is . high time that the duty hould be reduced. The plea of protection for our "Infant Industries," when advanced In support of such a condition, Is preposter ous. The enormous bxercapltalliation of ilie "Industrial trusts, the Immense amount of watered stock upon which they are paying dividends, are In themselves an unanswer able argument In favor of intelligent re vision of the existing schedule. The Iowa convention may . be cajoled into adopting some meaningless compromise in . llru of a definite declaration of princfile, upon the, tariff issue. But such a com promise will satisfy nobody' but the poli ticians whose only concern is party success at the polls. If the Republican pariv is not equal to the task of tariff revision, the time will surely come when th pruple will oust It from pov.er. The question Is too vital to be met with temporizing hinI evasion. GET THE RIGHT MAIS. One 6t the most important matters to be considered by the directors of the Lewis and Clark Fair is the selection of the Director-General. The success of the great enterprise will he largely dependent upon the wisdom of their choice. The Director-General, if a man of force and ability, of broad views and sound Judgment, can do more than any other individual to make the Fair a last ing benefit to our state and to the Nortn-- west. Several citizens of more or less prominence and of more or less fitness for the place, have been suggested and discussed by members of the directorate., It is needless o say that it would be unfortunate In the extreme if politics were permitted to influence their choice, and happily no such factor seems likely to deterrnine their action. It will be equally, unfortunate if the man whom they elect Is a mere figurehead, without special adaptation to the difficult and onerous duties Ot the office. The Journal has already sug gested that William D. Wheelwright be made Director-General of the Fair, believ ing that he possesses those qualities which tha position demands. His experience in large affairs, his executive ability and his force of character ahouldmake . him em- Inently fitted to take charge of the great un dertaking.? This suggestion may or may not The attention of the world has been di verted from Russia's ' movements in Man churia by the Kishlneff massacres and more recently by the assassination of Servia's King and Queen, but evidences are numerous that 'Muscovite aggressions in the northern part of the Chinese Empire have not been abandoned. Reporta from the. Orient in dicate that Russia is steadily and inflexibly moving toward the final absorption of Man- huria. Japan Is watching, every move with keenest Jealousy and it would take but little o cause an open rupture between the Mikado and the Czar. The war spirit is running high in Japan and active prepara tory are "being made for the anticipated out break of hostilities. Senator Lordge of Massachusetts is now aaid to be the President's choice for chair-' man of the Republican national committee. Even If Mark Hanna were willing to assume the responsibility again, he seems to be re garded as Ineligible on aocount of his close affiliations with Perry Heath . and Post master-General Payne. Roosevelt appre- lates the necessity of keeping his campaign clear, as far as possible, from the taint of the postal' scandal. Postmaster-General Payne is quoted as saying that "They can't beat Roosevelt, no matter what happens." Such utterances are certainly indiscreet. It is not strange that Secretary of State Hay should say that Payne'a statements have been "a humiliation and an embarrassment to the administration." meet with the approval of the directors, but in any event their decision should be made wisely and carefully, with a full apprecia tion of the importance of getting the right man. "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?" It is the Insistent demand of a very large and influential portion of the press of the country. Republican "a well as Democratic, Postmaster-General Payne shall be com pelled to atep down and out. With charac teristic stubbornness, President Roosevelt seems resolved to ignore the demand. His newspaper apologists are now engaged in re minding the people that ' when Roosevelt makes up his mind to any course, he sticks to it with obstinate persistence, deaf to re monstrance or advice. Therefore, these apologists argue, It Is idle to waste breath over the matter and the subject of Mr. Payne's Incompetency should be dismissed from further considratlon. In substance, the President's defenders say to the public "Right or wrong, the President will retain Payne, What are you going to do about ltr No fair-minded man can deny that Payne gave only a reluctant and enforced consent to the Investigation of his department; that he ridiculed and belittled the charges of fraud and that the public no longer has any confidence in his professions and no faith that any Inquiry of which he has charge will be thorough and complete. Under these cir cumstances it savers of arrogant indifference to the wishes of the people to ignore the de mand for Payne's removal. Mr. Roosevelt and JUs supporters appear to -need -a-M minder that the American government Is a government of and by the people. The new woman of 60 has been praised as an Improvement over her prode cessor, who at thut age was in the same mental stats that a woman 20 years older finds herself today. Her physical appearance today also corresponds to that , of a woman of J5 in the past. j V ' The woman of the '60's could have looked at BO as young ss her descendants today had she not labored under the old delusion that there were different styles of dress for different ages of womankind. She did not buy a hat jlk- her daughter's, because there was In that Identity of dress a lack of dignity which she could not reconcile with her own traditions of what a woman of SO should be, or her Ideas of the dignity that a woman of that age should possess. . She would have felt ridiculous with her gray hairs covered by a fly-away toque of exactly the same style as her 18-year-old daughters was wearing. But she would have looked just as young as the woman of SO today had she cared to dress herself with that object in view. Whatever the advance In hygienic- living may have accomplished In changing; her appearance, the fact remains that the woman of SO looks young because her dress Is young. Every tendency of fashion nowadays Is to preserve the youthfulness of the woman of SO. Bonnets were regarded as her appropriate headdress 20 years ago when she had reached 35. They were gradually passed on to a lateryear until she hesitated to put them on at 40. Then the bonnet went out of style altogether It was the accepted symbol of a certain age. The woman who put It on her head simultaneously admitted to at least 40. This was compromising. Nowadays women are only as old as they look. And they refuse to add years with dress. Then tbe discreet and softening violet and white lace or plush rose and black tulle that rested becomingly on graying heads when the times wre festal have dlaappeared, unless they are seen on the best heads of three-score years and ten. The flaring plum and the rolling brim have supplanted them.- And with the millinery the woman past middle age sometimes seems to) have lost something of the discreet and softening charm that belonged to her before the new woman of SO stood in the shoes of the former woman of 85. In the nature of events the two ages bring to woman very different aspirations and responsibilities. The former woman of 60 had reached a settled, comfortable plane of life. If she was like most women of her kind, she found her life in her home. Her children, no longer very young, were her comfort and occupation. Sometimes it was her grandchildren as well who occupied her thoughts. Her happiness was among the interests which her home and her family created. But when the new woman put on a hat like her younger daughter, It seemed to exercise some mysterious influence, potent aa the power of the wishing cab of old. With thef hat came the desire to be just as much In it as any woman 20 years her Junior, to struggle with the realisation that she must recognize her age, after all and to feel only disappointment and bitterness when It Is not Just as easy for her as It Is for very much younger women to be here at dinner, there at the play, and some where else at lunchon, In the same constant succession that used to be the delight of only a young woman. The result brings disappointment to the new woman of SO. She sees her children taking part In pleasures that are denied to her, although she cannot understand why. She Is certainly dressed for them. She feels, moreover, that they are for her. But shs cannot be made to fit Into the scheme of social life. She cannot go out every night just because her sons and daughters do, but she would like to. Home does not make the same Inimitable appeal to her that It did to her predecessor of the '60 s. So the new woman of 50 Is not really so much of a success as she looks. From a spectacular point of view there is scarcely ground for complaint. (To some persons who value other things than the mere appearance of a youth that cannot possibly be genuine, certain beauties may have gone when women of 80 begin to look 16 years yoanger. . There was a serenity and peacefuloess about the other kind of a woman of SO that they like best even if she did wear a bonnet and had never heard of a straight front. Only she can know whether or not the new type Is an Improvement over the old. She could not have experienced the sensations of both, but she has her memories of what the women of SO were whom she used to know, and It is almost safe betting that the new woman of BO allows her thoughts to turn regretfully to the times when the women she remembered not only looked their age without the effort to conceal it, but lived according to the old rules that used to exist for them. They may not have kept "in It" ro long and known their pleasures for so many years. But they enjoyed the delights of calmness and repose and were not embittered and disappointed from the effort to keep up the "hoopla" long after Its natural time. Chicago Record-Herald. EA8TERN COMMENT ON THE HEPPNER FLOOD, The New York World contains the following editorial comment upon the Heppner disaster: The reader of the dally news Is becoming accustomed to the large figures of disaster. The mind of the average man 'no longer responds with an acute shock to the Intelligence that in a distant Somewhere hundreds of ltves have gone out In Are, water or a volcano's molten stream Sympathy is not dead. Nor has the Impulse to extend a helping hand passed away. We are dulled only to the sensational phase of the calamity far removed. ' ' Latest In the chain of recent natural catastrophes Is the wiping out by a cloudburst of a large portion of the towns of Heppner and Lexington in Oregon. There if c trrihl Hat of dead. The loss in property Is heavy. In every circumstance of ruined home and death-divided family there is appeal to the hearts of the country. Where the mere number of the perished is weak to Impress, the thought of bereavement, of linger ing sorrow and of golden threads suddenly severed, is powerful to move. The calamity had Its heroes. Leslie Matlock rode ahead of the roaring tide, like the hero of the Mill River flood In Massachusetts years ago, giving at his own peril warnings which saved many lives. Other brave ones were at work with rope, plank and pole while the deluge was at ita height. On the other hand there went with the rush to the saving hills men who left women and children of their own families behind. One hopes in judging these not to confuse absolute lack of time with any lack of courage. At Heppner the business buildings are said to have stood on higher ground than the residence portion of the place, and to have received, therefore, less damage. This indicates a. curious departure from - the usual -rule in- tha plotting of towns an-j unwise departure If the possibility of a flood had ever been considered. It was.back In the year 1878 that one of the downward. He showed guilt on his face. Par-, most thrilling episodes In the history of In- rlsh then proceeded:" : . JT." ; dian affairs In thls country occurred It the ' 'If' you do not fight nie, you are. a coward. Malheur Indian agency, while Sam B. Par- a dog, a coyote. . Tou are not worthy to be a rlsh, who was afterwards chief of Police of chief. Tou know I would kill you, for i am Portland, was Indian agent at the Malheur right v Tou know that you killed. the brave reservation. Parrlsh's good ' judgment and We-a-we-wa so that you could be chief, nerve saved the lives of hi companions and Tou killed a sick man.' You -will not fight a himself. ' and foverer gained ' for him the well man. You are a dog, a squaw, a whin friendship of the Piute tribe.; f ' In coward! . , ' There were about 700 Indians on the reser (''Now since you will hot light I will spare vatlon at the Jime, under egan as neea war you mis time. But If I ever hear of your chief and We-a-we-wa, Wln-ne-mue-ca and threats again X wil) kill you like the coward Water Belly as sub chiefs, we-a-we-wa was ana aog you are. , Say .one more word stricken down wKh a violent case of pneu- against the white man fcnd It will be yo monta and the nearest physician was at old last." Then pointing to the dead body Ot Fort Harney, more than 60 miles away. The We-a-we-wa, Parrish continued: " , sickness at the fort at the time made it necessary for the army surgeon to remain 'Tou have prepared to bury the body of there and the medical treatment was carried that brave chief In the Indian manner. You on by mean of Indian couriers between the expect to raise a great war cry at his funeral two points, who kept, the surgeon posted as and stir the braves of your tribe to mutiny', to We-a-we-wa's condition" from time to Tou shall not do it Such a coward shall time and carried such medicines to the not touch his body. X am going away now. stricken chief aa the surgeon prescribed. Leave his body alone, I will return and v i f - bury him In the white man's way. It you Under thl treatment the old chief was touch it while I am away I will kill you upon recovering rapidly too rapidly to please one my return." Olts, a medicine man belonging to the'dl- Then exhibiting his revolver Jn a deter vision of We-a-we-wa, and who was In line mined manner, Parrish and Ms companion to succeed We-a-we-wa as chief should the rode away while the subdued Indian dog latter die. This wily red men complained to redly returned to his tepee, his people that the beloved We-a-we-wa was not prospering under the treatment of the Bright and early next morning the live "white medicine man," and decided to take white men concealed their' guns under some charge of the patient and treat him accord- loose hay In the bed of a light two-horse lng to the traditions of Indian medical wagon. They drove to Olt's quarters. The science. . body of the dead. -We-a-we-wa was placed Unknown to the-agent, he went to We-a- I In the wagon and taken to, a grave on we-wa's bed and. togged out In the costumes hill already ordered dug by Parrish. Whe worn by the great medicine men of the the grave was reached the body was lowered Snakes, began their heroic treatment. The by the white men and then they retired. At first course-was the sudden application of a a signal, the Indiana appeared In every dl number of buckets of Ice-cold water on the rectlon, dressed for tbe funeral services of naked body of the unfortunate chief, and the departed chief. Old Egan led them and then he followed this up with a series of formed them about the grave. As division remedies that were equally as "heroic." after division of the tribe, headed by their respective chiefs, took their station about The result was simple. We-a-we-wa took the grave, tbe white men retired farther' and a sudden departure for his happy hunting farther away. The laat to encircle the grave grounds, and Olts, the medicine man, be- were the warriors of the late We-a-we-wa. came sub chief of the tribe. He was a blood- Old Olts was not present As the whtte thirsty savage by nature, as his exploits men drove away they heard the death wall proved in the last stand of the Plutes,' and rising from the Hps of 700 Indians, he proceeded to take charge of the dead chiefs remains with the avowal that he Had one Indian lost his temper and, turned should be burled wholly according to the on the white men their fate would have been customsVof the tribe. He also poisoned the short and certain. They could almost feel minds of the people of his tribe by stating the bullets piercing their backs as they rode that the "white medicine man" had killed away. But coolness prevailed and the In We-a-we-wa, and he was rapidly kindling a dlans went on with the ceremoney without spirit of mutiny among the warriors In seeking revenge againat the whites, as bits, fact. It had gone so far that news of a re- the treacherous medicine man, had planned, liable nature reached Mr. Parrlsh's ears to Parrlsh's challenge of Olts to fight him in the effect that he and his few white com- open field soon spread among the Indians, panions at the agency would be assassinated They admired his courage They called him at once. His companions consisted of Henry the brave white chief, and no further trouble Coleman, who had charge of the butchering came up during his term as Indian agent department at the agency, David Johnson, In fact, they learned to love him. He, did blacksmith, Lymon Damon, farmer and F. more with them than any other agent pre W. Wilson, carpenter. The demonstrations vtous to that time, or any agent that sue of the Indians showed that they were ready' ceeded him. The grounds about the old to carry out the plot and with only four men agency still verify this fact After the with him against 700, should all of the In- episode of the burial of We-a-we-wa Parrish dlans Join In the plot a "problem was pre- decided to dig a ditch from up the river iq order to bring water nearer the reservation ced I sented to Parrish to be solved, and to be solved at once. Sam Parrish was not a man to parley. He could have sent to the fort for protection, but the garrison was a small one and had Its hands full already. In fact this would have been the worst move that could have been made" Jttat at that time, when the Indians throughout the country were not in the best of temper. Taking his revolver and one of his most trusted white companions, who was also armed, Parrish proceeded to the head quarters of Olts, the new chief, which was a few miles distant from the quarters of the white men. The two men proceeded tjpon their arrival to Olts' tepee. The Indian was called' for and when Olts presented himself with an ugly scowl on his face, Parrish said PERSONS TALKED ABOUT. ' Mme. Marcella Sembrlch says she does, not talk to any one, not even to her husband, on the day of the evening she Is to sing. Neither does she eat anything later than 2 p. m until after the evening performance. Among other birthdays of June is Mrs. Humphrey Ward's. When Mary Augusta Arnold was born In Hobart, the Tasmanlan metropolis, her father, the second son of the famous Arnold of Rugby, was the Inspector of schools for the colony. She was in her fourteenth year when her father seceded to the Roman Catholic Church and joined the staff of Cardinal Newman's Catholic University in Dublin. It was doubtless this time that the future Mrs. Ward acquired the Intimate knowledge of Catholic doctrines, ceremonies and modes of thought displayed In her novels, Of the eight names belonging to the present Princess of Wales Victoria Mary Augustine Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes the first is a compliment to the late gracious Queen; the second is that of the baby's popular mother, tbe Duchess of Teck; the third Js a remlndet1 that "Mary" herself came into thetworld on St Augustine's day; the fourth is by way of attention to the Queen of Denmark, the Duchess of Teck's cousin, and the four remaining were connected with the royal house of Wurtemburg, to which the Duke of Teck belonged. 'wits'", T Have hear a"aTI7I Ttriow of your threats and what you Intend to do. You claim to be a great rising chief. You claim to be a brave man. I have come to test your bravery. I have my gun. You have yours. Take up your gun and come and fight me. We will step out In front of your tent and the poorest shot shall die the coward shall die. Brave men do not plot to kill men. They da., not shoot from ambush. They do not stab in the back. They are not afraid to face death. Come, stand before met You say you are a brave a great chief now come and 'prove it before your men!" Olts shook his head. He cast his eyes grounds. To get a bloodthirsty Piute to per form manual labor in those times was con sidered an Impossibility. But Parrish sue ceeded. He told the Indians that shovels and spades never got tired. The Indians under took to show him 'that they could make the shovels and spades tired. They would seize a shovel or spade and work until the per splration flowed off ot them in the attempt to make the Implement tired. When one In dian was exhausted In this manner he would drop out and another would take his place. Thus they kept It up day after day until the ditch was completed. They thought the ditch was being dug up hill, however, as all of the Irrigation appears to thenovice nowadays, but whealhflJWftteC- tJ in U was turned In they say that the "whlte chief was right and there was great rf Jolclng. A general holiday was, taken on ufa occasion of turning In the .water, and the festivities of playing in the water, footracing and general fun were Ions remembered by both reds and whites. The popular Indian agent and the treach erous Olts have long since passed away, and great ranch has been established on the old reservation grounds, but - the historlo landmarks are still there, and the story of the burial of We-a-we-wa is still told by the survivors of the tribe, though this is the first time it has ever appeared In print. THE BALKAN CROWNS. u Assassination tempered by abdication such a haa been the fate of most Balkan rulers. Since the Balkan peoples were emancipated, King Otho of Greece, Prince Cuza of Roumania. Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, Prince Alexander Kara georgey Itch and King Milan of Servia have been forced to abdicate, while Prince Danilo of Montenegro, Prince Michael. King Alexander and Queen Draga of Servia, as well as Kara George, the Servian liberator, have been murdered. t In addition, attempts were made on the lives of the late Queen Amalta and King George of Greece, as well as on the late King Milan of Servial 1 Out of the 16 Balkan rulers who have held sway during the last century, four alone- two Montenegrins ana Miiosn uorenovitcn rand tne snort-lived Milan jObrenovl ten II of j Servia died peacefully on their thrones while four are still alive. The remaininrnt , were all murdered or expelled, and even Milosh Obrenovltch was once compelled to abdicate temporarily. London Chronicle. ,. . KING JAMES' LA8T STRAW. The stodgy-faced boy at the last table In the public library reading room Is having a struggle most serious. He has covered both sides of a foolscap sneer with a vague smudge over which he still labors. His twisted mouth follows the motion of his creakfns pencil. - Before him Green's "Shorter History of the English People" lies open at the year 1688. Of all the two pages only so much Is decipherable: "TheAbdi caslon of James BL. The engllsh people had born a grate deel from James 2nd but when at last he gave birth to a son, they said this thing must end." World's Work. - There are some SO.OOfl saw mills in the country which are eating up our forests at the rate of forty thousand billion feet board measure, , every year. At this rate even America' -almost Umitlesstlmber resources" will eventually be exhausted, unless steps are taken to replenish them. ' THE RIGHT TIME TO STOP. "Mother, dear," said a frank young woman to her parent, who had Just been giving her a lecture, "if you would only stop when you have seored your point and said what 1 feel is a truth, you would make so much more Impression, but you always go on and on, and say so much that it puts us both out of temper, and you lose all the advantage you have gained." , " ; Many people make a mistake by not stopping at the right moment Many a truth would be carried home to a culprit and do good work it If were not diluted with dis cursiveness to such an extent that Its effect becomes obliterated, tout the fact ! that 1 Theeneraluy or people talk too much about everything, themselves, their affairs and their neighbors. Talking never does any. good, and It Is apt to do a great deal of harm, Philadelphia Bulletin, v ' " k v THE APPETITE OF "KITTY.'' The number of wild animals sold as pets to private families In this country is said to be beyond belief, but the families generally return the beasts before long to the dealer. A writer on this wild beast traffic In Leslie's Monthly for July says that one animal dealer, who recently sold a Hon cub to a lady, reoelved, only two months afterward, a letter . from "her saying: . "Please come and take Kitty away. She has eaten our New foundland dog." f --",-'. ' i U - rha production of pig trnrf in tha ITnitad for the condone: States last year was 17,821,307 gross tons; In 1901 It, w.as 15,878,354, and In 1900 it was 18, 78J.J42 tons. .r CAl NO ROOM FOR SURPRISE. President Roosevelt is ostensibly a civll servlce "reformer," but when bosses like Piatt, Quay and Hanna are permitted to handle all the great patronage of great States, converting the entire Postal Depa: ment Into a political machine to promc ' the re-nomlnation of the Republican PresiJv dent and to assist In every way at the elec tion of a Republican Congress, the adminis tration can hardly be greatly "pained" of' "surprised" at such revelations as are now coming to light Buffalo Times. . 1 CANADA FOR THE CHAMBERLAIN IDEA John Bull cannot get ready to join hands all round too soon for us. Every acre In the Northwest clamors for it; every business in terest In the East looks forward impatiently to the vast increase of population which this program will bring us. If the colonies can vote on this question, Mr. Chamberlain has already a solid colonial party at his back. Montreal Star. feAD M0RAL8 WORSE POLITICS.' ; It Is conceivable that President Rooeevejt, fresh) .from the - wholesale outpouring of moral precepts, Is ready., to '.stand : sponsor . rlmlnaHt have existed and been successfully operated. before he became the occupant of this White, House! Springfield Re publican, s yH-r rK '':-"'"'"'.- ' c- -