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THE OREGON' DAI L Y
:'W ' ' '.vl . A N I N D K 1 K N D X N .T N S W S P A
C S. JACKSON
Publiehed vrr vntor,i except Sunday) and. vnr Sunday morning at
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; . THEY MUSTBERECOGNIZED.;
TF THE TURrOSE of the meeting of river men and
dock owner this afternoon i. purely to tax steps
'". ' to" retain thetindiie advantage hich they Jiae env
joyed ever the bridge users then.it behooves She latter
' ' ,1.,. - t.Mrthr mtisinir' masaaiecina which, will
; V inke clear lo the authorities that they have rtgntJ.wnicn
& So fir the bridge usmlhlfve been
", iii their demands. They ' do not
'S ' traTfic arid are perfectlr willing to meet the other people
' ai least half way. , If this disposition is manifested on
.' both sides there will be little trouble
ficulty to the reasonable satisfaction of all concerned;
if it is not then the people Who use theVjdges must take
' such action as will insure to them some proportion of th
advantages tney are emiuea to enjoy.
The-east side hii str grown in importance and the
: number of peop!ejwho use the bridges has so largely in-
' creased that theiime has come whe they must be iake.it
. . -into;' consideration and the rights which are theirs must
be authoritatively recognized and
FREE: TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
'THE
HENRY PHIPPS
1 study, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis,
established in Philadelphia on February 3, 1903,
recently issued its first annual report. It is a strictly
charitable institution, receiving no patients who are able
: ) .to pay and was founded and is maintained by Henry
rmpps, 'A-iarge nuiiaing, lormcny n ouuk, w
sfceured,jtnd 'transformed into a modern hospital, with a
"complete dispensary,' laboratory, medical and nursing
staff, and every. convenience and appliance for treating
'the dread disease. During the first year 2,030 patients
' wr tmirA nf whom iu& ooor ocodIc had tubercu-
losis. . Nearly half the patients were
., sia supplying the greatest number ot tnese, ireiana
. iext and Germany next ' About 40 per cent' of the
patients were females. Most of the persona treated were
residents of Philadelphia. Oyer half were married. The
. "occupation furnishing the highest pumber was house
' work. . The wife and mother in a poor household is
peculiarly exposed to tuberculosis. Of the males labor
ers predominated, because they are poorly paid and so
live poorly. Poverty, is an any ot tne aisease. jwany
' patients came from the ranks of tailors, clerks, cigar-
makers, salesmen, printers and shoemakers, j Another
ffrouo. including bartenders,. waiters,-
",plumbersi shows the baletuf part played by the use of
alcohol in germinating the disease. In former times
. alcohol was.Jooked. upon as a preventive and cure of
i , tuberculosis, f Mow it is considered
. - of the disease and an impediment to recovery. Persons
who have had typhoid fever, pneumonia or pleurisy are
t ! ; predisposed to tuberculosis. . Many
inn insnivic ainu iv prttni
TatienU are put on a plain diet of.
nutritious food. As. a rule patients
jmilk and six raw eggs, and one solid
xnc in ill 11 nnipri 111 inc. insiuuic la
. upon this-one disease for its extermination. The open
air treatment is not possible in this institute, but patients
are given as much sunshine as possible during the day
.: and fresh air night and day. This institute-is yet too
' young; to furnish, very much positive
portlbn of asescured, but its experience so far adds
valuable evidence in support of the
. cuiosis, except in us aavancea stages,
' persons predisposed to suffer from
ventable.. There is little doubt that within a few years
- th m-nnnrtinn nf draths from thia cause will be arreatlv
""educfanderrlsoccasiorrloThehopehat-before
' the century passes tuberculosis will be a comparatively
.' , rare disease, unless in districts crowded with very poor
people. Henry Phipps is doing a splendid philanthropic
wnrlr . 1Va,iM haf hi, tia4 Mfi Smifsfn in ,rv 1aea-:itv
:-.m the, country. vy . . .- - . '
A -GOVERNMENT UNFIT
GOVERNMENT that findY;it
'-serve order, to shoot down
'.haps thousands of, workmgmen, women and
. Children, who are for the most part unarmed and de
fenseless against the soldiery, is a government unfit to
live anywhere on earth in the light of the twentieth ten-
An occasional collision m the case
. resulting? 1iT'Soihe"fa1talitie, might possibly be excused,
but such wholesale and indiscriminate massacres as have
occurred at St Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Lodi and
' other cities within the confines of the Russian empire.
-should make the thorough overthrow of the Russian
, government desired by every lover
.an inevitable event of tb near future.
A Anotner sure sign mar tne itusstan autocracy is ui
; . terly unfit tojexist is found in the revolt of the students,
... in sympathy with whom are most of their teachers. -The
, students are young men whose judgment is not yet fully
developed, 'and who are hot-headed; yet in them lie the
l hope "arid promise of Russia's future. They are inteJ-
7ligent,roberyant,-enthusiastic;- to a considerable extent
. educated, and when such young men, to the number. of
' thousands, declare their government to be intolerable, we
may Ttly'vipon it that they speak and Set upon sufficient
, i rwson ininK now impoiMoic nucn
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. of. almost any other country but
patriotic. But they perceive clearly
autocracy is treason to. the Kussian
TSergiu's is beingf formally mourned.
..connected wituu solemn' ceremonials. 'Official con-
i.l.l.r.1 Uf IX.m t- ' . I ' I J' ' . .1
. ii icicncu iium
. - . But for our part we choose rather
. . 1 'ft' 1 j .ill vi lime I1UIIUICU9 di (nuusanQi
. "-of workjngmea and women and children, driven tode
. """pair by the hbpclesi struggle t,obtsin the barest neces
' . .saries of life. If we have tears', for any "Russian blood
shed m tnese terrible times, ihey
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c0ttnr orthe sudden death of one
OT BOOKS.
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v AeconllDS tor th
Pubtihera' Circular
S.liS new books.
,tstlnct Jtttm r-
prlnta. Were publ
laat r, whlca
la a Ptlfht ralllnc off from th rcor4
ona
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lab
or iins. it wtu srlMM nruraa aom B' But after hit. the novl la an atUtnpt
ppl find that whereas" la 1SI nfat erMtlon. which th book on books
v taanad, laat yar' th mimbcr was only
1.711. TH -eon.iijr that t yara
.. It was only. SOOi . Vh aapplr f pory
ta rataaia rainy coaatani Its
D A f L.Y
L , PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
V:: . trata, .Portland. fOwyon. .
OFFICIAL PAPE5 OF. THE CITY. OF .PORTLAND
gence and means
right to live.;
LET
?iwhich.
''name,
extremely reasonable
want , to hamper river
in settling the dif
freach that, stage
go into effect.
It is undoubtedly
lived up to. . .
INSTITUTE for "trie
city at heart But
foreign-born,' Kus-
the people who
candidates who
the people are
get the sort of
and these. men
to the party machine but to the people themselves.
drivers, coolwr'artd
a premsposing cause
inherit the disease
as wm iu vuic
milk, eggs-and other
take three quarts, of
meal besides? daily.-
cuiiccduaicq cuurt
data from the pro
belief that, tuber
is curaoie, ana in
the disease is pre
t-, These kindly
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TO EXIST.
necessary to pre
- hundreds and per
of rioting atnkersJ.Keuocan masses,, following the . president,, that are
of human liberty, and
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, as
a scene wouia oc
Russia. Young men
that loyalty to1, the
people,
His funeral "was
u wunu i capitals.
to mourn the violent
will not issue on ae-
, vii v Hum n
of the people Vdp-1 this will be the
last year, SOI th year befer. ' But
bell-lttra la falling, as th output
liat year was lTS.aa aaalnat St In
J0 Thla appear to flv etor t th
tjpanlmlain of tho erltles who declar
that. thla .branch of Uuratur la dylnf
kfltat.
f
ar not; and. hawerer unaurvensfullr it
Hay aim. It Sot aim at an Meal. Hrw.
must pocket our chagrin. If w hive
any. and to our way. We ar aot forced
U read ftctioa by law.
. J O U k Nil
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JNO.r. CAfeROU.
Tha Journal Building, . Fifth and YarnhflJ
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pressors, but rather for these suffering, wounded,, mu
tilated and murdered poor, who seek with such intelli
as they have to preserve or obtain the
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EVERYBODY REGISTER
E PUBLISH in ; another column -an opinion
while it is not publicly backed-by a
emihates" from a Portland man". well
qualified to speak on the subject. ' His deliberate judg
ment is that the comintr city election will be governed
by the direct primary law. Hitherto, until the opinion of
Mr.. U Ken was published in tne dunaay. issue ot ine
Journal, it has been taken for. granted, that the direct
primary law. would not apply to the June (lection because
of alleged conflict on the ground of registration.'" But
with this difficulty swept aside the law will, undoubtedly
stand, tip to the point of officially testing it. If matters
it is improbable that the law will fail, to
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true that the matter is now up to the
people. If they want the law to go into effect everybody
who has registered will register again in the allotted 30
days so that they may proclaim their politics and in
this way secure the legal standing to participate in the
nomination of men of their party for the several offices.
This law is in line with the referendum in throwing back
into .the hands of the people powers which haye been
usurped by the political machines. Heretofore many
nominations in nowise pleasing to a majority of the
voters of a party have been secured simply through the
work of the political machines which haye dictated them.
It has been invariably found when men wefe nominated
under circumstances such as these and elected that they
felt th.ef.pwed their fealty not to -the people,. but to the
machin?. The result necessarily has been that good
government ' became a secondary consideration with
them and here in Portland we fell into a condition which
was far from stimulating to men who had the srood of the
under the new law1 the work of nom
inating falls directly to the people. The convention is
done away with and each man ore his. -merits goes before
.by their votes as party men select the
are to stand for the various offices.' If
true to themselves they can in this way
-men they want, for the various offices
are. beholden for their advancement not
It behooves all the people to promptly register under
the new law so that they will be able to take advantage
of its provisions and at the same time by thus -decidedly
expressing their preferences give a broad hint, fo those
who would thwart the law that it will be eminently wise
for them to, keep their haods off. i ".;, ' .: i '
. 'BRYAN BETTER APPRECIATED. .
HE eastern "sane press has a better opinion of
1 W. J. Bryan than.it had some years ago. Papers
that formerly alluded to him in a tone of rid
icule, at best,- latter,! y speak of him with a good deal pf
respect. Harper s weekly, for example, tecently said:
-T: The most growing politician - who comes under-'
11- about the country,- talks ' freely, and . says good
t-tfltni : If arn K in v.l1nt fnrm anil ni r :
.its, and to contemplate events with much genial
philosophy. The east seems to be reciprocating .
very heartily Mr. Bryan's, desire for better acquaint
anc. It has never known him so well or liked bim
so well as Jtvoes now. Its distrust of him seems to
be melting away, and not without good reasons, for
the Bryan of 1005 has come, a long ways from the
pot occupied by him in putting some of his most
alarming beliefs out of active life. A great many ..
things come to him who can. wait and Mr. Bryan is
a competent waiter! . He is not yet 45 years old.
Think of it! He is nearly;two years younger than
I President-Roosevelt, is the best known man in the-
country except the president, and, thanks to his ,
versatile talents, his sociability and his gumption, he
is not being forgotten. . t ' . j
sentiments are echoed in various other
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eastern .paper, uui Jiarjici a mrccKiy partly misjuages
Mr. Bryan, and the people among whom it lives also,
when it assumes that Mr. Brysji has traveled a long way
from .the position he occupied in 1846. True, events
have removed the free silver question from present con
sideration,.' bufMr. Bryan s far from being in. accord
with the present financial system of the country; he is
still opposed to the government's Philippine policy and
to a large army, and he takes no new position when he
approves the president's efforts in the. direction of gov
ernment control of railroads, The fact is that it is the'
moving toward Mr. .Bryan, rather than he moving to
ward the ground occupied by the gold standard -cohorts
in 1806 and 1000.- . The people are findintr out "that
Bryan was and is'the exponent of a great deal of im-
portant truth. He is wiser, no doubt, than he was. He
would be a dull man indeed who learned nothing in nine
years of the prime of his life; but in all live essentials
Mr. 'Bryan appears in the same attitude that he took in
1806. Yet a young man, he will be heard from if. he lives
for many years to come, and his influence is likely to be
greater fin the future than it has been h the past -'n .
A GRATIFYING DECISION.
H6 local optip'riiand prohibition committees have
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wsei.j luuib lugcipcr aoa, sgTcca io- rfcommena
to their followers that tin elrctinna be held tn
apply the provisions of the law except in: such districts
as elections will in any event be held. The purpose of
the agreement is two fold, first to make manifest that
there is no-intention to .Jake, undue advantage of the
law, and, second, that thereis no-intention to put the
taxpayers to Unnecessary expense in the'attempted ap-
vtiwiion 01 i(ic iaw 10 sections wnicn are nos now op
erating under its provisions. , '. -: t ; -,
This seems both reasonable and fair. To have sought
to take arbitrary advantageoLjhe law would .n the -and
do more harm than good to the causa represented by the
rocai optionists.;' in all such cases the movement will
more swiftly "Jand surely, progress if. it heeds public
sentiment and-follows on the heels of public demand
rather than seek to force. It. There are indications that
iu lurce-11. 1 nero are inaicauoi
settled policy of all Organizations.
' Wis OM WarM. , :
Do yo think that the world la as oM
a geologlata urr nkM th man who
af facta soianc. . ' - r
"It may ba." answered Mlsa Cayenn.
"but w muat at laat glv It eradlt for
being remarkably wall praervKj." r,
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TIM OoldaaS Spot. ' ;
. "Whew! ifa cold wtr jtrt!. eom
plalned little Bob. '. . t
i-N ,r womJer." VpHed Elatar'iook
whar your alitlpg lght uadec taa
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1
SmaUCkane
. And March, hT ;W predict rain. '
" Will Drain please soak it thra I)T
; -Ther must and wUl b a railroad to
Tluamook. ..... .,''.-'.
Vlow. too. alow
quickening. .
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yet; ; but' step
Perhapa th sanat trust needa a little
A Boat 1 men ' f or ' of flc no otnar In
Portland next June, i, : . ,. S-..i
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fJ- .nr. , mi h.,i. MiuiMiif .
Xund), behold HochJ '. . , ;
: Tha eenat hasn't Um to pass th
pur food blu either, u ,
'Am usual, tha letter that was ordered
bussed was not- burned.- -,
4he
er need to be a dlvore between
good, and bad legislation. ,
senate aeema t auspeet that th
president has become A Democrat v
'Tha oaar la ta need of new general
And the generals' in need of a new caar.
1 do it Kansas; if you can take a fall
out of Standard Oil. you eaua go up head.
It la nop too early t begin to cleao
up; remember that this la th spring wf
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Perhaps th,- Kanaa -leglalatur la
gulping at mar Standard Oil tha a It
can awallow. . 1 : ,
' Tha f anner who Uvea in a, eoontry
where wheat la narvested in March 01
AprU la in luck, y .;r
Th 'Standard "Oil ootopus may have
other state beaidea Ksnaaa to fight b
lore it gets through. (
Secretary Hitchcock will bar' to b
left In offlc till It im aeen whether he
can make good or not . .. , ;
Some' women ar aorry they married
Hoch. and aome are aorry they did not
have th c nance to marry him.
Th bid aaw, "what goa up muat come
down." doean't apply to trust-controlled
product such aa beef and sugar. . -,
If the grand dukea don't hurry up
with their reforma, ther may b-non
of them left to do this or- any other
WOrg. , - . . , . .-, :';
So far as th chare against Jndae
Swayn of riding on railroad passes i
concerned, th eenat la doubtless al
ready prepared to acquit ,
- wnen a man write a latter with
'.'burn thia" postscript he .had better
take an afterthought burn It himself,
and uae th long distance telephone.
Th people of a great eltr who will
be ruled fnd : robbed by a machine
haven't any . mora practical 'Intelligence
man a community or jiottentota.
Two fully grown foung society women
prosecuted a young man of their ao.
qualntanc for kisalag them, which he
confessed doing and said he would do
It over again it he had the chance, and
tha Judge not only discharged bim but
asaeaad two thirds of th costs on-th
young women. Her is a piece of jus
tice at leaat and a proper discourage
ment to the fad of prosecuting men for
mis aiiegea onrenaa. "( ,
j Oregon Siolcliglitj
Fly-flab Ing soon on Coo bay atraama.
North Bend haa drlvoa out its toughs.
Milton notfn-
On Parkarsvlll boy has killed 20
ravvtnfna lnm wini
A Ia Fayette man haa 11.000 bushels
f applea that h will ship east
Stoek buyers and timber cruisers Mt
coming active in th Nebalem valley. . ,
A Folk county poultry fancier has pur
chased ' g it Barred Plymouth Rock
rooater. -v . . " 1 ; -j. , , -
A .log II inch) in diameter
handled last week at th ParkersvUl
(Marlon oonnty) mllL
The popl around th Porast Grove
depot' want a new poet of floe, to b called
Carnation not Carrlenatlon.
Pamdleton .Christian church has added
over S00 members in two years.. Relig
ion alive in th upper country.
Tim to plant appl trees as val
ley. Mora red applea needed. . Every
body can't Hve on hope, nor yet on milk,
cream and cheese. . ,
More settlers ar. buying cream sepa
rators along tha Nehalem river. . . That
uey wtu certainly become a, great
dairy eoontry in th ntr -future., . . '
Dufur Dispatch: Aeoordtng to a eard
on th front door of our bank that door
la cloned In consequence of being froaen
up. The eard politely Jnvltea you to th
aid door. Th money is eaf and th
bans, doing business.
A beautiful sliver a-rav fox that an
Independence man bad spent JS months
try It g to domesticate broke his chain
and hiked out for theox country. Hla
former owner wanta him back $i0 worth.
bat wa hope' won't eaten him. i
Sprfngfteld News: Jim . McPhrrson
had a valuable dog .ran over and Killed
oy tn train on nay taax wee a. we aretj
nui anxious iu ww tuuboib aoRi raves
their Waterloo but we would Ilk to ae
th train run over about 400 of Spring
field's ears., " .
BuenA Vlita correspondence of Inde
pendence Weat Bide: It is reported that
several . men who have been loaflagi
around Bum a Roost all Winter, , ar
seriously contemplating taking am
ployment during part of. th summer, rl
What a relief thla will be. . . ,
Bclo News: What has beoome of our
flax men and th flax industry T W
have a good plant for preparing th lint
and ' can grew as good f las can be
grown anywhere. All we require Is for
aom one to take hold of the . mill and
buy th flax. We will do th rest. .
V Union la not tn th leaat discouraged
or disheartened over the failure of tha
county division bill, and will com up
greater and stronger and ,better than,
ever la 1M7, declares the Union R'
publican. - Thar -never nss been a rea
sonable shadow of doubt as to the merit
of th division proposition, aad-lt will
yet prevaUt
Prult tree around
Jurad. .' . .. ; f
.ABloAt;
Britain's Heart
Prank A. Bullen tn tondon Mall.
The lata lord Salisbury.' with that
far-sighted wisdom condensed Into epi
grammatic speech for whloh he waa a
deservedly famoua. one said. "In every
on of the cases where a great maritime
power haa been paralyses or killed, it
has not been by. th disasters It may
have Buffered In Ita provinces, or Its
outlying dependencies, but, by a-, blow
ai reeved, at tne neari." , . .
This Is not a literally exact . quota
tlon, but the eaart sens . Is preserved.
It has been allghtly altered because Lord
Ballabury waa speak In a of military war,
while I apeak of a war no less terrible,
Ot a blow no less deadly, which is be
ing waged -upon and la being-aimed at
thla long-auffering country of Jours. J
allude i,to t he-report ' of the American
merchant marine 'commission to con
gress, wnicn la aimeo. 'ana - aimeu
directly, at British maritime trade.
-It haa long been considered by free
tradera an effective retort to those who
point out th enormoua preponderance of
our buying over our selling as a proof
of loss to u that tha balance against
u 4a- mrey 'imaginary. , It ' la more
than, made up. they say. by tba-gtganttn
sums earaedT in freights, by British
merchant ah I pa and by th Interest, upon
foreign investments. . .
. About the second clause I , am not
competent to apeak, although I hold a
very strong dissentient opinion; but as
to th former. I will readily and gladly
admit that the skill, energy and enter
prise of our shipowners really have suc
ceeded (in building , up an enormous
earning1 power, which haa gone far to
counteract the blind folly of our rulers
In allowing th - world' markets to be
closed to us aa far as possible, while
ours ar open to ail the world. ' No
better proof of thla, I think, could be
found than th way in which every na
tion of any importance haa endeavored
to cut Into; and undermine that trad
by any means whatever. But perhapa
the only natlona thua engaged which
are at present worth considering ar th
United States, .Germany and France; ail
of which have shrunk from no sacrifice,
hesitated at no risk. ' in : order to take
from us that, which we have not only
earned fairly and squarely, ut which
haa become, from varloua well-known
economic reasons, (ha first neceaatty of
our existence aa a nation..
Taking these anxious nations tn their
reverse order: of importance. Franc has
enormouely 'added to her national bur
den by heavily audsidiaing all her shlpa.
both on their being Built and on, every
mil of their voyaging. In order to build
up a fast-decaying merchant marine.
But from various cause . which need
not b rone into here, ah haa been con
spicuously unsuccessful. Principally, I
think, because a mercantile marine, Is
no necessity of national life to her,- aQd,
secondly, because th overmastering
hunger of Germany for world-preponder
ance and the insatiable thirst of America
for incalculable Wealth ar not to fee
found In Franc today. . And this being
so. Franco may safely be left out of our
calculations. . , .. - ' -'. , - - .
With, Germany w haw' quite another
act of conaideratlona. Th word having
gone forth that Germany muat at any
sacrifice be th . greatest world-power,
and that thla is impossible without pfar
ponderant sea, power, all th force of
th empfre have been brought into Una,
immense subsidies . (secret as well 1 as
open) have been granted, whole lines of
British trad have been ' bought up en
bloo. and lastly, but by no means least
the direct imperial interest and favor
have been bestowed upon th German
mercantile marls to a much greater
extant than has been obviously shown
to th navy. .. And these efforts have
not been intermittent spasmodic; but
have gone on steadily with German per
sistence and thoroughness, and-.lt muat
be admitted 'with splendid results to
German trad with all tha world. Sure
ly, it .is a marvelous achievement for a
new maritime bower. Panoplied at all
point wlthj th armor and weapons of
protection, to nave tnus attacaea. tn
greatest maritime 'power in th world.
securely entrenched behind lta lnfaill
bly wise method of "free trade," and
to have taken from it in so compara
tively short a time aa vast a alio of its
vital-over-sea commerce.
But It haa been reserved- Tor-, the
Americans to prepare for our trad th
severest, the deadliest blow that It has
ever received. -i - - ( . , .
A -clear and strong note of warning
was sounded In th loading vrtlcie in
Saturday a. issue of the Dfuy Mail aa
to th Importance and imminence of
this blow; bnt it is deeply to be feared.
well as'-eauch to be regretted, that
scarcely any of our leading men or publicists-Will
glv It th attention It de
serve. . If they do they will probably
point complacently to th fact that the
International - shipping "combine,"
formed so short a time ago for th os
tensible purpose) of capturing ' th At
lantic trade for America from the hated
and despised Britisher, was a flsxle, and
la only kept . going by the splendid
White Star Una, who management Is
a leaser from a great shipowner. Mr.
T. H. . Ismay. But - they forget ' that
while that . glgantlo raovf , wee en
gineered ostensibly for th benefit of
American commerce. It was really ' In
tended only to pour a few odd millions
Into the pockets of - American pluto
orata like Mr. Morgan,! who ar really
men without a country and without a
law save self-aggrandisement aa dan
gerous, or mora ao, to the well-being of
th world vr was- Napoleon. . And
they forget also, that nearly all th
ships of th "combine ' at present 'fly
ing the . British flag may by a single
vote of t be United State parliament
that la, the congress and senate, be
made American,-and that then under
the new proposal they will simply make
It Impossible- for vessel under the Brit
ish, flag to compete with them at all.
For, to put it colloquially, the tax-upon
all r foreign via., n On-United Statea
ownedvessels entering ports under
the stars and stripes la to be - nearly
trebled,, raised from threepence
elghtpeifc per. ton, while .for United
State owned vessels tb taa Is t b
fourpenca nominally. -
But.it may be asked by some short
sighted, peopled Wilt not this hit -all
foreign ships alike? Oh, no; for. In the
first place, all. other foreign trade, than
British to the united Btateev ir lumped
together. Is but a trifle compare with
ours, and secondly. whl other - for
elgners poesees effective .means of re
laiiaiion. w oy our-o wn ci nave De
liberately deprived Suraelves of any
armoroc weapons wherewith to combat
this ratal attack- v
I have not nearly stated thv worst
aspect of thla United .State attack upon
British commaroa,' th last stronghold
of British trad, th life-Wood of th
nation, for apace- la exceedingly pre-
cloua; but I would Ilka to say ft con
clusion that this latest move on th
part of th United States ta a striking
commentary upon the' many public ut
terance of eur "fre trailers- of late.
W bars been told to repletion:
First that British trade, so tar from
decaying, la prospering, and waa naver
more prosperous than it la now. .'
Second, that II It 'la decaying, it is
tha fault of British merchants, who ar
lasy, incompetent, old fashioned, unwill
ing to learn from' the bright. 'wlss. and
up-to-date' Americans and .Germane.
Well, her Is the American answer. It
says In so many words: "Go ahead with
yeur co-sailed fre trad,, we will mean
while arlv vnn i isMrltn.l Imb ia th
uses of free trade within th empire"
and rancorous protection-outsider
Waiting Off witki
the United. Statea
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Mr. Arthur Ruht writing under tha
above title in Collier's for February 19,
shows how our greatest heritage, as a
nation. IS being squandered and stolen
by Organised Greed. Mr. Ruhl 'kaya;
More Xtuin s.OOO.OOO acres of timber
land, th greater part of It th magnlnV
cent timber, land of the northwest, has
been practically given 4way by the gov
ernmentj.ln th paat two years. - Probtt
bly nine-tenths of thts , was grabbed
either, by actual fraud or by violating
tha spirit of an abaurd and impotent
law. ."There is nothing particularly new
la tha
except that the land grabbed has
been particularly valuable, the destruc
tlon of timber particularly ruthless. Re
spectable citlsena have always thought
It proper to cheat the g-overnment Were
It not that such men as Senator Mitchell,
Congressman Blnger Hermann, Burveyor
General Maldrum of Oregon and Freder
ick Hyde, president of th Baa Francisco
school board.' ar under Indictment th
blase east would Hot even, now take any
Interest' Th west takes land grabbing
for granted. The whole hlatory of. our
publlo lands is on of ruthloaa, grabbing,
and still more of idlotio laws' and fare?
cal attampta to enforce them. The man
ner in which the government baa glvon
away its public lands makes th dealings
of Mrs, Chadwtcka bankers look like
th .apex of eonaervatlv and aatut
finances. We have thrown away and ar
throwing away such an empire as waa
never given to any other nation under
tha sun. 7 Under tha altrulstio theory
that th publlo land should be given to
th people for, homesteads and farms,
domatna vast enough to constitute sepa
rate atatea hav been toaaed ' away to
speculators, railroads, ranchmen.. ; and
lumber corporations. To tne states, for
tn svowed purpose or providing for ed
ueatlon, w one gave 10.000 acres of
land for eaqh senator and representative
in congress. Th states which had nd
publlo land received scrip which eventu
ally found its way into th open market
Wall street speculators at one time ad
vertised th college scrip of nine states.
Th entire scrip of on university was
offered at on tint for 17 H cents an
acre, ' Th greater part of this land,
th income of which Was Intended to
be used for education, has long alnce
been squandered and loat forever. Under
tb old swamp lands' act thousands -of
acres in th Sierra Nevada, moirn tains
were seised, as swamp lands t.OOO feet
above th level of th sea, actually re
quiring Irrigation to make anything
grow on them. Vast areas war sur
veyed when flooded and grabbed or In
cluded, because, some far-off corner of
.them had a mud hoi in It They tell a
stqry . of a man Who put a 'boat on a
wagon and bad his mule draw bim across
a stretch ..of fertile prairie. Then he
went to th land- off Ion and entered -hla
claim for swamp land, producing evoral
witnesses -who were . quite willing to
orally, that he fpwed over the
claim in a boat Railroads,-by Juggllr -the-"alternate
sections" they, received
when first running their -lines through
new country, have acquired tracts of
tO or even 10 miles, which they nave
held unimproved waiting for values to
rise, while the homesteaders beyond
these belts were driven back, compelled
to content themselves With th Imagin
ary advantages of a railroad perhaps SO
muea distant Th government has not
always even kept faith with Its own
children. It has Invited settlers into
the country, and after they bad 'built
houses and started farms in good faith.
has sold out th wool area to a rall-
roaa or s-pecuiaiive corporation ,at. roe
example, tl an acre. Tb homesteaders
were then elected or obliged to buy back
thei? own land from their, new masters
at for Instance, IS en acre, paying for
th improvement that they themaelvee
had made. And ao on. and so on. It's
sn old story now on that make ap
pear . respectable th average perform
ances ot pickpockets ! and thieves.
roiTT-nri bays ov
TOMT.
aW A. Yoga Tall of Kas-Vrwad Zavaaw
.."''' 'w tlatlopa. :
' From th Pendleton East Oregonlan. '
Ia A. Vogel of this city, who has been
In Portland on the federal grand jury
for th past 4S days, returned horn this
morning, tbs grand Jury having been dis
missed until April 1.
Mr. Vogel haa. been one of the moat
active and aggressive members, and In
dignantly ' refuted th etatementa that
F. J. Heney.. the prosecutor of th land
frauds, haa "led th Jury around by th
nose," aa aaaerted by friends of the ac
cused conspirators. ' .
- Ha - haa the highest prals for Mr.
Heney aa a lawyer, and aaya that many
of th Indictment were voted without
Mr. Heney xnowiecg. until axter tn
Indictment was rsturned. In every in
stance where an Indictment - has been
returned, 'th evidence waa overwhelm
ing, and although It may seem to an
outsider that much of th evidence I
far fetched or uncertain, yet Mr. Voxel
asserts that such a masa of convincing
and unquestioned testimony has - been
produced, that It waa Impossible - to
avoid returning , indictments in every
case." t. . ' --.: ....1
He also denies Chat any part of th
proceedings against either Senator
Mitchell -or CoogreaamSir; -Hermann or
Will lam son, ar part of a persecution,
as out 'of to men rm th-grand Jury,
laat week, 17 of them-were Republl-
pans. 1 Democrats and , Socialist, and
In almost every case, 'tb vote were
to-Hihanlmousi ' " '
Mr. Vogel says that Mr.. Heney and
Mr. Burns, who ar unraveling the cases,
ar simply doing a plain duty, outlined
ny tn requirements or : their omces,
and that they, both exhibit a sense of
Justice of th highest degree, although
some of th revelatlona made may seem
to be wrung from witnesses by unfair
means. - . , 1
Th grsnd Jury will convene again
about April 1, after an adjournment to
allow Mr. Heney and Mr. Bums to at
tend a trial of tha Benson-Hyde gang in
Washington, D. C . r
..''Ye Things sdiwa. :
Andrew-D. Whit in th Century. -
Aa a- result of observation and re
flection during g )ong life touching pub
lic' men and measures In wide variety.
would 'dealra for my country three
things above alt others to supplement
American civilisation!- From Great
Britain, hef administration of criminal
Justice; from--Germsny. . her theatre.
and from any or very European roun.
try save Russia, Ppsla and Turkey, its
government of cities. y ., ".: ,-, ;;'".' ,
EinlaniUnclwr tte.
'; ; Despotism '
. The Black river 'runs Into th Gulf of -Finland
at Ralvola. and alt around It a?
the. MAumfHl . nlHA.fnMA. . ... 11, 1.
stony hills of th north..' . . 1 .
From th beach one. may barely see,
with a keen eye, Jhe blue nlmf another
eoast beyond, but In th nlgllt the hold '
whit lights Of Kronstadt bilnk clearly ;
across th water, peering at th -dark' '
nees over their bull-throated cannon far -
av iornin nremf ijiat never come..
And sometimes. In the still of the day,
the woodcutters and fishermen start up
right to listen to th ominous mutter
of tha great guns of the fortress, test
ing their venom on th innocent water .
qf the gulf. ' ,. , .- .
. .".w, ,uta r.iiiani Sk .,
hunter's snd woodman's country.' whar a
they breed fine, strapping, lovable men, .
and stout-, pleasant yellow-haired
women. They are a conquered race, stilt
charing savagely under th yok of th
despot but they hav th germ of free
dom In them, th essence of liberty, and 't
will not easily merge Into the people
that governs them and, is now viciously
active In; an endeavor to strangle their .
nationality. , The Finn is -the Scotsman
of Europe, with not much Ore, with Utile - -showy
eflacrlty, but tough, very toughi '
., Ther la non of th red .rosatt or.
white cockade her. Thea silent Finns
hav -.not learned tha trick of cheap
symbolism in politics. They take their
principle raw and naked. And ther
ar no publlo meetings, no stump era .!
tors, no loos talking on great themes. : '
Th revolution has so deep a root that -it.
is not seen on the surface, -
. But be sure it is there, in th rich. -ground
of thes primitlv souls and aim-' -pi
Intelligence it has such a hold,.''.'
such a tenacity, that evidences of its
existence and - grim, fore will not be
smothered eternally,' It ia bidden, but .
It grows,-silent but purpoeeful. alow '
but deadly, sure to flam. .
The proof of Its ' preaeoo which i
easiest tb find consists in the meaaures ':.''
which Russia exercises to destroy it
Th whole activity of the government ' '
Is directed to disintegrating organlaa-,
tlona which it suspects to have. Men. .
formed,- Tha wolves run at their ease
in th . woods of Ralvola , this . winter,
for th man hav. been poured prodl- '
gaily Into Xuropatkin's fighting . Una,
No province In ail Ruaala haa been ' .
sucked so dry in the matter of men .
as - Finland. - The .war haa served Its .
turn in. this connection, for the Finns '
ar facing th Japanese in - Inordinate
numbers, and ther I not . a village ' .'
that has not loat Its beat and hot
dangerous members, raked, up in th ::
merciless net of the Russian military
... ,M bl.AW .A. . . .1. M.1..J .
system. - ; v . '.-'. - ' , . .-.''
- But 4 in th towns llttl domestio
town Ilk those of th Swiss cantons, -whets
tb villag idiot Is r the. most
prominent cltlsen there war men who. '
could not with any degree ot decency be
uprooted to become soldiers,'. A convict ,
that la what It amounts to must b
trapped, not snatched. Tber were law- ",'
yera, doctors, ' agents, bankers, mer- ',
chants, all tb ooy aristocracy ot th
llttl town, and these could not b mad .
to sarv in th ranks. . .'. t '.--1 "
But sine no one can ask question' of .
th government of Russia, th remedy -was
simple. They wars furnished with -passports
to th interior of Russia, and ,4. '
thes passports .mad po provision for .
return. . They war decanted, lifted from .
their hesnea and planted down in. a pew .
place, to.liv under the eye of a noatll
police, and do as best they, could for
themselves. '; C : .. '. .'. "... V -
' Ther is now ao Finnish flag. It may ' - -not
fly; ther la a'prioe on the head of ,
any on who give It to the air. And -
though"-you may sing "The Wearing of
the Green'' or shout "Banaaf. anywher
without offenaa, a bar of tb old Finnish
national anthem la a key to open priaon ,
doors and av fre pass over th' border.
Ther was diphtheria in on village.
Nln children had died in th night A
whll man on horseback were soouring .
th countrysid for a doctor. Ther..
should be a government doctor within '
reach, but he was not to befound that 1
night and on after another the pablea -gav
up th struggle and died,: and when ;,
at last a man earn back with a medical
student b had chanced serosa at rail- .
way station ther was nothing left to r
do-t-tilsAUnJiltttJb!iMd
cover the faces. . .. ,.,
Tbe people of th village war more at- .
lent than ot wont when I saw them, and
I had bean talking to one of them for "
some time before it slipped out that in.
hla home, ther had been two deaths. It ' .'
was Imposslbls to say anything aie--quate.
auch was tha grim reserve of lh v
big, stricken man. No formula of con-'
dolene but would hav. been Imperii- ,
nent tut on could net be dumb, I (. .
stammered something. ' ' . : . ; .
-He shook his bead. "At th beat", h -
answered, gravely, Jthes ar no times . I
fn. lillriMn.'9 .- . . ... . v . P.. '
1 Lewis antl CJarl-
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Feb. Jl.-We had a continuation of th ,
same pleasant Weather. Oheenaw and
Bhahaka came down to see us, and men
tioned that several of their countrymen
had sons to consult their medicine stone
ss to th prospects of th .following
year. This medicine stone is ftt great
oracle of the Mandaoa, and whatever it
announce it I believed With implicit
confidence. Every spring, and on soma
occasloiTK during the summer, a deputa
tion visits th sacred spot, where ther
Is a thick porous stone p feet In ctrcum-
ferenc. with a smooth; surface. Having
reached tha place, th ceremony of smok
ing to it is performed by th deputies,
who aiternataiy take a whiff them--
selves and then present the pipe to the
stone; after this they -retire to aa adjoin
ing wood for tha night during wnicn .it
may b safely praumedthat all th em--c,
baaay do not sleep; and In th morning
ther read the destinies ot the nation in
the white marks on the .stone, which.,
those who made them ar at-no loss to
decipher. The Mtnnetareea have a ston
of a aimilar kind, which has th earn '
qualities ' and the aame influence ovetr
th nation. Captain lewls - returned
from his excursion In pursuit of -that
Indians. ' On reaching the place where
th Sioux had'. atolan our horses,. they
found only on sled, and several -pairs ,
of moccasins which were recognised to
be those of tb Sioux. - Th party thon
followed tha Indian . tracks till they .
reached two old lodges, whtrhey slept
snd thnxt morning pursued the course
of th river till they reached -aom in- ,
dlan ramps, iw he re Captain lafwls passed
the nlsht some tlm saoi snd which .th
Bloux bad now set on fire, Jeavlng a
llttl corn near tha place In order to In
due th belief that they' were Rlcareat
From this point the Bloux tracks left th
river abruptly -and crossed Into the
plains; but perceiving that there was nor
chanc of - overtaking ' -them. - Captain '
Lewis went down to the pen where Cap
tain Clark had left some meat. whlcF he .
found untouched by . th Indians, and ,
then hnnted In the low grounds on th -river,,
till ha returned with about tuvoa. .
pounds at meat some drawn In a- slrf -by
It nf th men and th rest on horse-.'
bark, having killed It deer, 14 :lk and
one wolt ., , ' - .
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