Editorial
SATURDAY, MARCH 12; 1904
PORTLAND, OREGON
THE OREGON DAILY
AN
C S. JACKSON
Published" svery evening (except Sunday ) lat-Tha Journal Building, , Fifth
OFFICIAL PAPER OP TMB-CITV OFPORTLANLr
FROM A BUSINESS VIEW POINT.
TJf THE CASE of Robertson vs. the Portland Club, now
before Judge Bears court, the public is being treated
to some information : as to the inside workings of
the gambling industry which flourishes apace under the
protection of the city fathers, and the facts brought out
in the reports of this case furnish some food for thought.
Tn fh varlnua llrcniii.il hnuapH now running in the city
may be found every day of the week from 3,000 to 5,000
men. This means that about 10 per cent of the men
actively engaged in -conducting the business of the com
munity are directly brought into contact with gambling in
its varied forms every day. These enter into every ac
tivity of the city's life, for whoever has visited the gam
bling houses knows that practically all professions and oc
cupations are amply represented- in the crowds that con
gregate there.
The influences at work in them are essentially im
moral and brutalizing in the extreme, and no mining town
in its palmiest days could boast of greater privileges in
this respect than can our fair city today.
In these hotbeds of vice are breeding under the most
favorable-conditions imaginable, a host of parasites which
fasten themselves upon the body social, and will not let
go until they have liberally bled 1t of much hard earned
' cash. " '.,.
Were this all, the seriousness of the evil might be de
bated; but there are other results, to one of which we
briefly draw attention. ; V
The habit of gambling essentially undermines the prin
ciple of common honesty upon which the whole fatrio of
a community's business Is based. If, therefore. 10 men
out of every 100 are daily being brought into contact with
those influences which are universally acknowledged to be
subversive1 of the very foundation of commercial life, it
is evidently only a matter of time until the whole structure
becomes Insecure. This is, however, an ultimate condition
which we are too sanguine to take seriously into account,
because we believe too firmly in the practical common
sense of the American people to' imagine that they will al
low present conditions to exist long enough to bring forth
their full legitimate harvest That a limit of forbearance
does exist needs no proof, and there are signs that it has
already been well nigh reached here. Unless we are
much mistaken evidence of this will be forthcoming in due
eeason, and that at no very distant date. It may be
somewhat discomposing, too, to some who now are very
confident In their security. , .
- The other ' Issues of this state of affairs we pass by
meantime.' through no lack of annrerloHnn nf their tm.
portance, but because we believe that the men in whose
charge lies the care of the commercial interests of the
city peed to be further aroused to the danger which lies at
their door and that, being aroused, they will do their duty
in- putting a stop to this licensed nuisance of most demor
alizing character,- The demoralization of the whole affair
lies at the door of those who have the power to stop it
and could do so with a word; but who, before they will
act, require, to have the law Interpreted
supreme court of the state. ;
FACTS NOT DENUNCIATION.
WITH SUCH testimony as that which is being
elicited at the hearing of Senator Dietrich of
Nebraska, who is charged with having sold
postofflce appointments for a liberal proportion of the
salary, and with such cases as that of Senator Burton of
Kansas who accepted big fees aa a lawyer to get certain
concessions from the department as, a senator, it is not at
all surprising that the general public look, with some de
gree of credence upon the report of the postofflce depart
ment that many of the congressmen have been unduly
active in' securing, unwarranted favors for their constit
uents," if notractually for themselves.
All of these investigations have left a bad taste in the
publlc'mouthv There has not . only been much smoke but
such tangible evidence of crookedness when the cases have
been carefully investigated In the courts that a strong pop
ular opinion prevails that there is very much more back of
it all and that there is a perfect mass of transactions
which have not received, but require, public exploitation.
Mere denunciation, by individual congressmen is of no
consequence. What the public desires are the-facts in the
case. It has had enough experience with abusive epithets
and it has already had occasion to discount vehement de
nials and indignant protests. It is undoubtedly true that
japajts r AJt-uAoxnra piajts.
Steadily Pursuing a Comprehensive
Scheme of Operations.
"From th St Lout Globe-Democrat
Japan has started into the war with a
presumption that she is going to win,
and that she ia sure of Increased In
fluence and power as a consequence.
Several weeks -before war began Japan
sent orders to a Philadelphia concern
for 20 locomotives, to be used on a mili
tary railroad which she Intended to build,
and which she Is apparently building,
from Funan, on Korea's southern coast,
to Seoul, that country's capital. The or
der for the locomotives ia being pushed
with all possible speed. Some of them
have already been shipped and the re
mainder will go this week.
All the indications justify Japan's
forethought and confidence. There have
been no Important military operations
thus far, but the signs show that Japan
is strengthening her position In Korea
and then when, a week or a month
hence, the order is given to move for
ward, sue win ue aoie to arive out any
Russians which she may find in that
country. Russia has undoubtedly been
Strengthened physically though not
morally by the removal of her head
quarters to Harbin. This has weakened
her hold on Port Arthur, but it has aided
her In hanging on to the province by
shortening the lines which she would
hftVA tn VWArH Prtrt IrMmr 1, mu h.
presumed.-, will be able to stand out
gainst the Japanese In any case for a
few weeks yet, whatever may be the
fate of the Russian fleets in the Yellow
sva -and the sea of Japan.
It is conceded that Japan Is in com
plete (control of all Korea from Seoul to
the straits. Even north of the capital as
fsr as" Ping Tang, despite the reports of
small bodies of Russians being seen
there, Japan is probably master of the
' sltuatlonr Whenever she decides to
make an advance she can probably drive
. the Russians up to and across the Yalu
without much trouble. Her serious task
will begin on the other side of that
stream. , The Russians will undoubtedly
make a hard fight for the defense of
the railway from Port Arthur to Har
bin. Their prestige at home, as well as
among all the conquered tribes in 81
ber, .depends on the maintenance of
thrlr ground in Manchuria. Japan made
a whirlwind fight on the water, but she
I proceeding more deliberately on the
land, knowing the difficulties are far
greater,. She ts proceeding,, however,
with an intelligence -and an elaboration
ut detail which show that hor cam-
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some of the things done by the departments, which the of
ficials would rather not have done, were done under pres
sure from congressmen.. These things have led to abuses
in the public service and 'the departments have suffered
from them. We. have now, heard a good deal about abuses
that have arisen in! the postofflce department through the
initiative of the officials. ' If other abuses have arisen
through the initiative of the congressmen all of the facts
should corns out. It will not raise the congressmen in
the public estimation to confine themselves to mere denun
ciation. That will have no better effect that it did in the
case of Senator Dietrich when he escaped trial on a tech
nicality.''. ' .'
Let the matter be
who have -been engaged In queer practices stand forth
unmasked.
"YOU GET ANYTHING YOU PAY FOR"
... V PRINCIPLE. ' ,
EVERYTHING Is grist which comes to the Ore
gonian mill. In this morning's issue there ap
hH m hvtA ' Adltrtrlol . riarnflrranh tn thin, tftfflwt
""Regular' Republicans and Independent" Republicans are
advertising their own respective -merits in the columns
of this newspaper. It is due to the public to announce
that such advertisements are paid for at full space rates,
and that they can
news articles by the
contingent" .
These articles have
as the mass of the
nothing about these
any more or any less than "true news articles." In the
good old days of country journalism when a single weekly
newspaper sufficed
tom to sell to opposing political organizations certain
columns of space in which to air their views. These col
umns were plainly marked for what they were and nobody
was left in any doubt as to what they represented or of
the further fact that the newspaper itself dis
claimed all responsibility for the utterances there
in contained. In the editorial or other columns of the
paper the editor vigorously maintained his own views.
This was Journalism as it used to be and it may be said
for it, considering
honestly with its readers.
But here we have two factions of the Republican party
pretty evenly balanced as to numbers. Each Is trying its
level best to win at the primaries and using every means
in its power to achieve that end. The Oregonian declines
to take sides with either one, which is within' its province,
but on the other hand with its thrifty eye on the bank
account It writes a letter to each side telling It that great
modern newspapers nowadays consider certain matters In
their business offices and in the event that either the
Mitchell or Simon faction has anything to say to the pub
lic through the columns of the Oregonian they may do so
in their own way at the rate of SO cents per line. Both
factions take advantage of the offer and each day have
used liberal space. So far as the mass of the readers
to them by the
were concerned, if
last page of the Oregonian they would straightway believe
that that newspaper was body and soul with the Mitchell
faction. If they saw nothing but the page opposite the
editorial page they would believe, on the other hand, that
the paper had gone over to the Simon wing body, soul
and breeches. Meantime the paper Itself, still with its
thrifty eye -on the cash receipts, said nothing one way or
the other editorially and its scanty references in the "news
columns" were flaccid enough to set harmlessly on any
political stomach,
There is , first the
which no newspaper
for advertising run in the guise of news matter. And
then there Is that further matter of self-respect which
should have led the paper itself to have given perfectly
fair and unbiased reports Of the doings ot both factions
so that Its readers might know precisely what was going
on. Then there Is
ing Republican if the paper itself could not fully fill the
bill it might allot to each side certain definite space so
that the public would be under no misapprehension as to
its authorship and this should have been given to them
freely and without charge; These are a few things that
have struck the general public with considerable force
and we fear that the money which the Oregonian will get
out of the transaction will scarcely compensate It for the
loss in prestige an$
paign has been carefully mapped out
long in advance, and that jihe knew tne
Russian situation about' as well aa
Nicholas II knew It if not better. ,
CZ.OTKES AVD TB0B FKB80W.
S. E. Klser in Chicago Record-Herald.
How would you like to be
As spick and span
And as lovely a man
As the one is we see
On the spring .fashion plau
Which the tailor displays?
He seems to wear stays.
He's so trim and so straight
In his way he is fully as sweet as to
looks
As the lady Is who
Is presented to view
With her waist cut in two
In the dressmakers' wonderful books.
Wouldn't earth be a pitiful place
If people were made on the fashion
plate scheme
If each woman's outfit were "simply a
a dream,"
And man were a suit .of clothes topped
by a face?
Clothes were Intended at first, were they
not,"
To put upon people who scorned to go
bare?
Now some of us seem to be swayed by
the thought
.That p.ople were made for the gar
ments they wear.
tnrrAaz.zA.B tacts.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Half the soldiers of the czar are il
literate. The per capita wealth of England Is
$210; that of Canada $240.
Of the public school teachers in the
United States 27 per cent are men.
During the last decade American ex
ports to China have increased sixfold.
Six hundred thousand revolvers were
exported from Liege, Belgium, last year.
The United States buys from Cuba
three times as much as Cuba buys from
the United States., .... . :
Out of 250 automobiles In the annual
exhibition In New York City. SO were
electrical and 178 gasoline.
The United States sold $133,000,000
worth of breadstuffs abroad last year,
an Increase of ) 6,000,000 over the best
previous year.. "" ' ;
Especially Whs Say Doesn't Know. :,
. From the Chicago Tribune.
, Imagine what "administrative entity"
must sound like when translated Into
Russian. ,
JOURNAL
JNO. P. CARROLL
and Yamhill streets, Portland,- Off.
probed to the bottom and let those
readily be distinguished from the. true
appended name of each Republican
been appearing for a week. So far
readers was concerned there was
articles to indicate that they were
to fill the public needs It was the cus
its limitations, that It at least dealt
they happened to see nothing but the
however irritable and exacting.
attempt to delude its own readers,
should ever do at any price per line
the further fact that Doth factions be
dignity which will naturally follow.
xnwxA.'s nusirosxzr.
Mo Seoauee of Any Sympathy With
American Institutions or People
From the Sacramento Union.
We are hearing much these days of
Kussia s unselfish friendship for Amer
ica This unselfish friendship play used
to be of France, because she helped
the American colonies during the revo
lution; now it is of Russia, because she
had a fleet with some sealed orders in
New York harbor during the civil war,
So firmly was the French friendship
policy hugged by the American people
mat immediately after the revolution
they almost rebelled against Washlna-
ton himself when the first president
determined that It should be the policy
of America to kep free of the war then
raging between France and England:
to give France no support. Washing
ton recognised, as every well-informed
American of common sense recognises.
that France lent aid to America, not
that she loved America more, but Oreat
Britain less. A few Frenchmen like
Lafayette fought for the Americana
because of 'the principles Involved. But
the substantial aid that came from the
government of Louis XVI was given
because of the hatred of the French
favorites for England.
Russia was neutral during the civil
war. Because she approved the republi
can principle at stake? Hardly. She
was neutral because there was nothing
else for her to be and because she.
too, hated England, who, so far as she
dared, was supporting the southern
cause. Those mysterious sealed orders
which were never unsealed may or may
not nave oeen instructions lor the Rus
sian fleet to Join the squadron of the
'north in the evnt of France or England,
or both, giving open assistance to" the
south. : But whatever those orders con
tained. they did not represent honest
friendship for the American govern
ment, nor for the principles which the
American government represents, how
ever Russia may wish it to so appear
now,
As a matter of fact no European na
tlon has ever shown unselfish friendship
for America. Friendly they have been to
America in times of trial. It is true, but
only that they might strike an Indirect
blow at an European rival.
.H" ffl Grumbling.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Perhaps we ought to be grateful to
February for delaying the advent of
March one day longer than usual this
Oregon Sidelights
Thinking it was his last change to
make a raise, a man In Pendleton held
up the Last Chance saloon and secured
25. .-
Great - sensation in Hood River, ac
cording to a contemporary; a Portland
attorney presented a bill for legal serv
ices.
Benton county granges are strongly
In favor of a line county exhibit at the
Lewis and Clark fair. The farmers are
generally right.
Single ladles beat married ladles at
basket-ball .at Joseph in spite of the
popular notion that married ladies gain
experience In throwing and .dodging
things.
Wallowa county will appropriate $1,000
If citizens personally will subscribe as
much, for an exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark fair. Wallowa la a fine county and
should show herself.
The amount of freight shipped from
Lebanon In 190S exceeded that shipped
In 1902 by 4.000,000 pounds, most . of
which were potatoes. The Imports in
creased 1,000,000 pounds.
One man in The Dalles, H. S, Wilson;
was' not In a good . humor last Sunday.
The fine fowl and other good things he
had ordered for a Sunday dinner were
stolen during Saturday night and he
did not feel like giving thanks for his
pickup, or restaurant dinner.-
Apparently a majority of the people
of Montavllla desire to come within the
city limits where they really belong. The
change would probably be mutually ad
vantageous, though some think other
wise. But It is a case where the majority
of taxpayers of the community affected
should rule.
There la never any egg famine In Cor-
Vallls. according to 'a landlord of that
town, who says: "Every other person In
town brings eggs In for sale. Farmers,
business and professional men all seem
to keep a score or more of chickens.
And they keep the kind that lay eggs,
too. No little, puny ones that belong to
a bantam, but large, clean,, whits eggs
that we are always glad to get."
The president of the Irrigon Irrigation
company has received the following let
ter, which shows that poverty as well
as wealth may be come by honestly:
"Mr. hold brook Deer sur, 1 am a mar
ried man I 'has a wife an six children
wich wood be good for the cooaL 1 wants
5 akers i will hav munny to pay after
Harvest. 1 can work but cant pay mun
ny. I a,m pore but 1 cum by it Honest"
Indications are that there will be more
activity in and about The Dalles the
coming summer than, for many years
past, several large buildings will prob
ably be erected, street Improvements and
extension of water works will be made,
work preparatory to building the canal
and locks will be commenced, and so
large sums of money will be expended
iur moor ana among Dusiness men 01
that city.
Recently two $20 pieces were found by
boys in the Deschutes river at Bend and
surrendered to Jim Overton, as eight
such coins had been stolen from his resi
dence. Later Mrs. Brosterhous, a neigh
bor, found six other $20 pieces In a rain
barrel at her house, which were also
turned over to Mr. Overton, so that he
has now recovered $160 all the gold
stolen, but is still short $30 In currency.
The trj'efs motive in thus disposing of
money he had run the risk of stealing Is
a problem beyond solution by the Sher
lock Holmeses of tjie Bend bailiwick.
A band of over S00 howling, yelping,
fighting coyotes Jumped into the Colum
bia river near Irrigon about daylight the
other morning, and swam to the Wash
ington shore, three quarters of a mile
distant, where they took a roll in the
sand and scampered oft toward the Horse
Heaven country, Why the "critters"
left Oregon for Washington In such a
large squad Is a mystery, unless their
heglra be ascribed to the upsprlnglng
on their native haunts of the Irrigon
settlement and the loud voles of the
Irrigator.
TUT iMPOKTAJrr BCATTBB.
sText legislature lTust carefully Con
sider Weeded Irrigation Law.
Ex-Judge S. A Lowell In East Oreronlan.
There are Interests confronting the
voters or Oregon more Important than
any party triumph or individual sue.
cess.
I refer to the necessity of such re.
vision of the laws of the state relating
to tne use or its waters aa will meet the
requirements of the federal government
in its reclamation projects.
No greater responsibility ever rested
upon a legislature of a western state
than will rest upon that which assem
bles at Salem In January next The
enactment of a progressive and compre
hensive irrigation act will unquesttona
bly mean the immediate beginning of
permanent government operations with
in our borders, which will not cease un
til millions of dollars have been ex
pended, and desert places respond in
abundant crops and happy homes.
On the other hand, failure to leais
late, or to legislate wisely, will mean
delay of years In this work, which is to
be the crowning glory of the century 'to
arid America, ' " "
While the engineera of the geological
survey are already prosecuting their la
bors in this state, it Is well understood
that such work is preliminary in Its
character, and that nothing permanent
or decisive will be done until there shall
be effected radical amendments to our
statutes.
, A bill will be drawn by the very able
irrigation commission appointed by thd
state law board, acting in collaboration
with the experienced hydrographlo en
gineers in the government service, but,
however meritorious or necessary such
measure may be, It will not become a
law unless there be strong men in both
branches. of the legislature to urge and
Many of the statesrn. the arid belt
have recently enacted new laws upon
these subjects by substantially unani
mous votes of their legislatures, but
in this state, when varying conditions
exist as to soil, climate and humidity,
the desired result will probably be
reached only by labor, compromise and
wise legislation. It 'now seems
probable that the opening of another
spring will witness In this county the
government's first reclamation experi
ment in Oregon, and success -here will
be followed by like wont in every ether
county . and every other . stream where
water is available, and arid lands: re
quire .its artificial application:
Will not all political parties then
nominate for the legislature their,
strongest men men broad enough to
grasp, the far-reaching importance . of
this most vital subject and will not
the press of all parties urge the inter
ests and hopes of our state, which seem
to rest In the balances at this time, to
rise or fait as the legislative assembly
shall determine this question?
CHINA'S NEW
Eliza R. Scidmore In Chicago Tribune.
Hongkong. Jan. 20. Hongkong has a
celebrity in residence here now to whom,
by contrast admirals, generals, dukes,
lords, and baronets are Of small degree.
"The modern sage," "the modern Con
fucius." as the most learned and intel
lectual man InChina was widely known
six years ago, Is here again Kang Yu
Wei, the reformer and intimate friend of
the emperor. Kwangssu of China, during
the , "one hundred days' . reform" that
precipitated that ruler's downfall..
Kang Tu Wei is a Cantonese by birth,
a literary graduate and essayist of till
the highest degrees, and in the country
where learning la so esteemed and hon
ored was considered the most learned of
all. His fame spread all over China, and
while the empire rang with his- great
ness in intellect he was summoned to
retting, attached to one or the govern
ment boards, where his essays and me
morials attracted and won the empe
ror's attention.
Although Kan Yu Wei had never
been out of China, he was familiar with
European history and literature through
the translations that have been made
ia Japan and China, and he knew the
theories of John Stuart Mill, of Herbert
spencer, and even Henry oeorge, ss
well as any occupant of the chair of po
litical economy In western universities.
His memorials were received -with great
attention, special ones were called for,
and the young secretary of the official
board, the modern Confucius, whom they
so proudly boasted of, was brought in
personal Audience with thd sovereign,
and the mutual sympathy and attraction
were complete. Then, for 100 days on
Wan Shon Shan, the Hill of Ten Thou
sand Ages, in the summer palace
grounds outside Peking, progress and
reform found such favor as the maddest
dreamer could never have dreamed. The
most progressive, enlightened, and ad
vanced of the older officials, those who,
like Chang Yen Hoon, who had seen the
outside world and foreign countries
many times, and LI Hung Chang, who
had seen it once, were left far behind
by the hot-headed young reformers,
the emperor, Kwangssu, Kang Yu Wei,
and six others.
This group of brilliant patriotic, de
voted young . souls dreamed of a new
China, for the war with Japan had
Shocked them to a realizing sense of
tha pitiful condition of their country
and the imperative need of reform if
China hoped to retain her 18 provinces.
Manchuria, and Magnolia, and continue
to be China, the great middle kingdom
of earth.
The emperor dwelt on, discussed, and
never grew tired of contemplating the
example which Peter the Oreat had set
for' the sovreeigns of backward and be
nighted nations. Poor, fettered, lonely
princel How pitifully pathetic it seems
for this soft soled, petttcoated, help
less young ruler to have envied the
rough giant who swung ship carpenters
hammers, lived and caroused with Dutch'
workmen and sailors, and, when re
turned to his boyhood palace, swung an
iron staff that the pale, scholarly
Kwangssu could hardly lift.
India and Egypt, ruled by aliens, were
terrible political warnings to htm; and
the story of Poland, torn and alive and
divided among three powers, was al
ways present In his thoughts, . So the
young enthusiast fired with a zeal that
transformed the pale and languid, culti
vated, and superlntellectual young sov
ereign into a restless, strenuous, eager
reformer, who tolled through the sum
mer nights at Wanshoushan devising
means for rousing and regenerating
China.
Education was the first thing the
emperor turned to, for, in all the good
advice given to China, 'the example of
Japah In spreading western education
freely to all parts of the empire was
unceasingly dwelt upon. The young
emperor ordered schools to be opened in
every village, temples to ibe turned over
for such purposes, teachers to be
brought tfrom abroad, promising stu
dents to be sent abroad, and all Chinese
who had studied In foreign countries
were to be availed of to help on the work
of enlightenment
The newspapers that were advocating
reform were subsidised and encouraged,
and officials and literates were bidden
to read them.
.The old conservatives, from Peking to
the' remotest provinces, ahook their
heads.- wondered and4xalled, not know
Ing where the thunderbolt of an im
pertal edict would land next It was when
the emperor began lopping off the in
competents, dropping unnecessary ofli
elals, that the alarm was given. Then
when he proposed to go to Tientsin by
railway train and review the vaunted
army of the northern viceroy consterna
tion became real. It waa but a next
step for him to propose to his supposed
ly loyal general that they should make
prisoners of the empress dowager and
her conservative cabal that were inter
fering with, opposing, and hindering all
the reform measures; but when the plan
was revealed the loyal ones promptly
warned the empress dowager and the
thunderbolt fell.
KOmS JAPANESE SZSOOVBTTBST.
From the New York World.
The progress of events In the far east
lends additional point to Russia's alle
gations of discourtesy on the part ot her
Oriental foe. Scratch the thin veneer off
Japanese civilization and beneath the
surface you find an Innerent rudeness
which a half a century or contact with
the refining, Influence of Occidental cus
toms has served only to conceal without
modifying, and which puts the Russian,
more regardful of the etiquette of war
fare, hopelessly at a disadvantage.
The act of beginning hostilities be
fore making a formal declaration of war,
the use of the enemy's signals, con
trary to all consideration for a foe, the
stealthy launching of torpedoes in the
dark, the bottling up of helpless cruis
ers, the disposition to sink a hostile
vessel wherever seen, the use of neutral
Korea us a base all this indicates a
departure from the practices of polite
warfare which Russia may be excused
for resenting. Now, latest and , worst
offense, the Japanese have destroyed a
mile of railway In the Russian rear. It
Isn't fair.
. The rest of the world Is watching with
amazement tha activity and readiness of
the Japanese. The little Island king,
dom Is teaching other nations one of
the most interesting lessons known to
history. What will be the outcome of
the encounters on -land? Will brains
be a match for the heavier battalions?
Os Sand, in the KOr&lng.
From the Seaside Sentinel. '
The Astoria dlvoree business is look
ing up. A woman was sued for divorce
by her husband, who alleged cruel and
Inhuman treatment by reaaon of her
staying out nights. In her answer she
stated that no matter how -late she
stayed out she was always home In time
for breakfast . ,
- -.i i 1 .i i i I,
When Harmony Will wrevaU.
From the Washington Post V ?
Mr. Bryan declares that he does not
cars about the candidate but that the
Kansaa City platform must' be reaf
firmed, 'if that Is done no one else will
care about the candidate either.
CONFUCIUS.
When the emperor realized the situa
tion he first sent messengers to warn
and to Insist upon Kang Yu Wei's leav
ing Peking at once and seeking safety
in foreign Shanghai. ?, the modern Con
fucius lingered to send messages, but
finally hurried wth Liang Chi Tsao to
Tientsin and Shanghai,-a British gun
boat receiving and assisting them on to
safety in f Hongkong. The six other
young reformers, dreamers of the hun
dred days' dream of reform, were be
headed, sons of viceroys and high offi
cials, the most able and promising of all
tne court rojiowing. -,
One martyr died protesting: his love
of country in terms to convince one
that a word for patriotism would soon
have been coined or Compounded for the
Chinese language. He declared that his
death would bear fruit and his mar
tyrdom help on the cause in the end.
Believing, his friends safe, the em
peror then attempted to leave the palace,
intending to ask asylum at: the near
est foreign legation until he could as
semble other troops around him for his
protection. Accompanied . by hia most
faithful eunuch he passed. through court
after court of the palace grounds and
had reached the bridge beyond which was
the last gate and a safe scape, when a
body of eunuchs overtook him, dragged
away his attendant, and hurried him
back to the presence of the empress
dowager.:: , .-,--r-r'
For months afterward the emperor did
not leave the little palace by the south
ern sea, at the lower end of the great lo
tus lake, In the western gardens, adjoin
ing the forbidden city of Peking. . The
little palace is a gem of Chinese archi
tecture and decoration, and rises from a
terrace platform bordered with pavil
ions and kiosks overhanging the water.
A bridge, a flat platform that could be
raised at will, connected It with the
Outer court of the winter palace, the
residence of the empress dowager.
When this sad little Trianon by the
southern sea was shown me. the rooms
had been stripped of every portable, de
tachable, packable article, and the Ger
man officers, who were playing tennis In
the Inside court were using camp stools
and boxes when they dined on common
tables brought in from any humble bar-!
rack.
There and at the summer palace the
emperor has passed his life in apathy,
reverie, and melancholy, giving some
time to study and reading and amusing
himself with pet animals. Four eunuchs,
who were most attached to him. were
withdrawn, three beheaded, and one sent
to exile, and ever since his atendants are
changed every other day. He has no
confidants, no companions, alone In the
crowd of courtiers, princes, eunuchs,
and Women an Idle, silly, teasing boy,
says one person; a sad faced, broken
hearted prisoner, aays another; while
others claim that his reason has failed,
and others that he Is playing a part
biding his time, and trusting no one.
Who can he trust? Who can he appeal
to? How can he be heard, and what can
he do? ,
When the modern Confucius had fled
to Hongkong it took all the energy of
the colonial police to protect him. and
he was sent to Singapore for safe keep
ing. It taxed the Straits authorities,
and. as rewards for his head were of
fered, and the price rose to hundreds of
thousands of taels, Singapore began to
fill up with highbinders and ruffians
and secret political agents from China
While there Kang Yu Wei waa the
Idol' of the great group of enlia:htened
Chinese of that free city men who have
had English education in the Setlement
and many of whom have taken degrees
ai ncoicn ana isngiisn universities. To
one of these most progressive Singapore
Chinese. Dr. Lim Boon Keng. who holds
the diploma and degree of Edlnburg
University and Medical schooL and en
joys a large practice in Singapore, Kang
Yu Wei talked his views at length: They
were written out in English and printed
In a Singapore newspaper, and while de
layed there for a steamer connection
three years ago a scrap book volume
of these letters of the refugee was lev t
me to read. They were admirable es
says, but they did not betray any orao-
tical statesmanship: did not lead to or
argue for any definite end.
Rang Yu Wei had then been spirited
away, and none knew his hiding place,
save his nearest friends and the worried
British officials. In driving about Pen
ang a week later I was shown the old
headquarters residence by the parade
ground, where Kang Yu Wei waa stay
ing as the guest of the Straits govern
menta Sepoy sentry pacing up and
down before the gate, another guard
visible within.
"How in the world did you learn he
was here?" asked a colonial official
when. Just for the sake of conversation,
he was asked to lend an Interpreter to
go with us to see the modern Confu
cius.
"O. no. I couldn't do that In fact I
don't know that such a person lives
nere." said the cautious one; and then
caution to the winds "but if you see
mm, do let me know what Confucius
has to say."
But the sage was not seen by any
casual tourist idling about JPenang.
SOME JAPAJTXSB PSOTXXBS.
Good wine brings out the truth.
Tho error of a minute, the sorrow of
a lifetime.
- After having tasted bitterness one be
come! a man.
It Is easier to find 1,000 recruits than
one general.
Tho life of sn old man la like
lighted candle in a draft
It is more difficult to keep a fortune
umn o maxe one.
The capital and the fireside have each
their own attractions.
Before we can sympathize with others
we mini nive surrered ourselves.
Do not be slaves to your children:
rney win nave their happiness later.
The wise man Shanes hlm.ptf ai.n
ing to circumstances, ss water takes the
snape or tne vessel Into which It
poured.
is
XX xxwt.
From the. Catholic Standard.
The fare in Lent should be austere,
For one short season in the year.
May we not keep our craving down
for palate-tickling food and frown
Upon our lust for goodly cheer?
Good men eschew their wine or beer
And mortify their bodies here. .
That sweet eternal Joy may crown
The fare In Lent
But woman, whom we hold most dear,
Will not to good advice give-. ear;
For everywhere, abroad, in town, .
The plans for Easter ht and gown
Are interesting most, we fear, .
The fair In Lent ."
Atoning for an Oversight., ,
From the Chicago Tribune.
"No, sir,'" said Alderman. Boodelle,
the eminent statesman from the 'Steenth
ward, to the constituent who was trying
to secure exemption from the provisions
.of the sidewalk ordinance.1 "I don't see
why I should do anything, for you. sir.
You haven't sny pull with me -as yet"
Apologising for his forgetful ness, the
constituent pulled out his check book.
Small Change
A Rooseveltlan administration seems
to be about as expensive as a war, .'
The 'lingers won In Seattle Tuesday
Bellinger for mayor and Rlplinger for
controller, " - - - 4 -
However the war goes, there seems
to be little but trouble Ahead for John
Chinaman. - . . ' ' . . ' ' - ,
It looks as If those other apostles had
It on for Smoot perhaps because of his
monogamous life.
When campaign money can be secured
from both sides, the Oregonian has no
opinion to express. .
The Democratle candidate for president
has usually been selected over the op
position of Tammany. . -
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It is quite proper for President Smith to
be at tha head of a department store, aa
well as of other things. :
The Pendleton Tribune says the Repub
lican party Is "a party of deeds." It Is,
Alas, and not repentant
New York Democrats expect to carry
that state next fall until they begin dis
cussing the Democratlo candidate for
president . : ;. :-.v'-v "
'The senate publto lands committee is
"all split up" on the Question of reform
of the land laws. In fact, any sort of re
form has a rocky road to travel in con
gress. - , ::.'-"-: i. ' '
A Kentucky man has named his four
boys Orover Cleveland, William J. Bryan,'
Mark Hanna and Theodore Roosevelt-He
must be determined on having harmony
In his family.
If the Democrats could size up in
Multnomah county with the Republicans
in the election as they do numerically
In the - respective conventions, they
would easily bury both factions.
Mr Cleveland insists that he wants to
be left alone, in absolute retirement and
complains that this wish Is not respected;
yet he persists in writing. letters of ad
vice for publication quite frequently.
Mr, Springer, for several years presi
dent of the American Livestock associa
tion, has been sprung by some of his
many admirers ss a candidate for vice
president They think he would run like
a scared steer.
What was needed at Springfield, O.,
Tuesday Was a sheriff and other officials
with both will and courage to keep their
oaths of office and do their duty. In
one out of many such cases a man of
this sort comes to the front
The Atlanta Journal thinks that "the
first-class politician Is usually about a
third-class man in every other respect."
But it this "fee true it does not follow
that a third-class politician is a flrst
class man in other respects.
Judging from remarks or queries oc
occasionally made,- It seems that there
are people who actually suppose that
gambling slot machines are not in opera
tion 'in this city. Perhaps even feme of
the city officials are thus credulous.
Divorced persons who desire to; marry
again will not worry much over the reso
lution of some ministers not to marry
them., A small fee will always obtain the
performance of the desired ceremony,
without questions as to previous mar
riage or divorce being asked.
With distressing regrets, ' Senator
Fairbanks will consent to run for vice
president on condition that the admin
istration support him for the presi
dential nomination in 1908. But by
190S the people may prefer a president
of quite different type from that so well
represented in the Indiana senator.
Not Infrequently does a real hero ap
pear In the ordinary ranks of men nd
walka of life one better entitled to wear
tn death the hero's bays and to be en
shrined as an heroic soul In the hearts
of his lamenting friends than many a
victor of a great battle or conqueror in
a bloody war. Such a ope ts Sumner
Smith, a young man who lost his life
in saving a little girl from drowning tn
the Willamette Tlver Tuesday. True, ht
did not expect to drown: strictly speak
ing, he waa not a martyr to his valor,
for his death was involuntary; yet with
out a moment's hesitation he took the
risk, and though saving the child's life
sacrificed his own; and thus in life's last
act became one of the world's real heroes.
the on TMxaa vorr mxssxt.
, From the Century.
It Is natural, wholesome, saving con
scientiousness, applied to all the rela
tione and emergencies of private and
public life, that Is so sadly wanting in
many American communities a con
scientiousness which results in some
thing like that system of honor which
distinguishes the student life of Vir
ginia, and which, Virginians are apt to
maintain, has perceptibly and beneficially
affected the tone .of business and other
affairs in that commonwealth. Down
right unscrupulouuness marks the
knave; a partial lack of scruple char
acterizes the large - numhers of boards,
as merchants, as taxpayers, as politic
ians, as voters, wink at evil practices In
others, timidly avoid all opposition to
official wrong, and themselves commit
slight and .not too conspicuous irregu
larities, or give support for selfish rea
sons te venal candidates for office. Such
"respectables" s re . the despair of - the
patrlotto men who. In our day and in a
thousand communities, are trying to stay
the tide of that political corruption
which, according to so good a friend of
America as John Morley, "for the mo
ment obscures the great democratlo ex
periment." . " ,(
It cornea to this, that "the period ot
corruption" which friends of Americans
abroad are called upon so often to apolo
gize for . corruption which, while bad
enough. Is not so deeply rooted as our
enemies believe can be brought to an
end only by the growth of a sense of
honor, of scrupulousness backed - by
moral bravery, upon the part of individ
uals In the republic. It Is not fantastic
to aver that a gift of imagination would
assist some people to be virtuous. If
a citizen should feel that his own lack
of scruple, in any direction, was, a con
tribution to the corruption -md dis
honor of his country, and that his per
sonal withstanding of temptation to do
wrong was not only an at of private
virtue, but had patriotic uses ss well
if he were convinced, for instance, that
his refusal to vote as a trustee for
contribution to a bribery fund or to V
dlshdhest boss was a means of doing
away with a national dlsgrnce if he
had the. imagination to grasp the large
bearings of his individual action, it
would be easier for him to take a stand
for righteousness Instead of weekly ac
quiescing In some custw.sry wrong.
Aristotle's idea of the stato was rsnoJ
elation "in a life of felicity snd noble
ness;"' but Christianity oWght' not to
hnva (a 1 frr net sn nla im aA 1 -i 1 "
jroott citizenship
and thomakliijr of a
rlghtaoua pcopla.
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