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Editorial Page of ilka ; PORTLAND. OREGON. Wednesday,' june $8, iboj. T H E, O R E G O M "D A I L Y JOURN.A LI AN i v ! ' - . .1 . PUBLISHED BY JOUKNAJ. PUBLISHING CO. jno. r. cakrou; Pvbciabad ery evaomf J exiept Sunday ) ana every Sanday (nemkif at Ts Joea-ae. BufldJog, Fiftk Ymhffl streets, Portland, Oregon. NEITHER EXTREME VIEYVIGHT. " THERE ARE TWO. VIEWS. cfih Chinese exr ' flusion question. One rhay belled the Jew , .- England. vicy,-orthdcK:trinaph-r.viewr or the I V dilettante view. "lVo'm this view anjMegree, Iormcor method of exclusion, even ojj-laborers, is academically and philosophically wrong arid unjust, and sHould not be resorted to iintfer .any circumstances or for any reasons, .''? This view' ma v be dismissed with the remark- that for , ' ' sufficient' an4 excellent busins, industrial and "social : j. Treasons generally understood not only on this coast but throughout the country, the .exclusion' law; as it applies vto Chinese laborers en mase, is a settled poncy 01 tnc -.rftiintrv and will not be abandoned.- TThe reasons for this ' , ire juain and patent to'fvery practical man, and need no h restatement for the 'academicians and doctrinaires and .jikHniiM vinnlH - neither learn nor profit fhe'reby. The opposite extreme view i gained inrojifrn cnina4-cintinue to deiy deteat in tirtmeia ana inaustnai-wi ai . . r . mm. . .. .1 1 t. .l.:. ;.-- '. j-j D....:.f?:.M i r f.phobian spectacles. .. .There. -are' those,. though their nunv "&'ber is becoming less, who because an -influx of an un. " --limited and almost; 'countless number of Chinese' clieap 1 workingnjen to'this couotry'.woind Be iiiJuriousahdTs not to be Solera'ted. would exclude, every Chinaman of '' whatever class, would affront and insult and decry those r ' ' entitled tq .admission, and would have nothing to. .do tindir any circumstances with China or t.he Chinese. - r. ? This view is as, impracticable, unreasonable and intqlcr- sible as the other : '"'.. It is charged, and it appears witl reason, that the laws ' are enforced not alone with such rigor but with such a lack J " of tact and judgment that Chinese entitled to admission to " ;-'' the country are humiliated to' the last degree., There ran be no itistification for such conduct and there should .be just as little chance for difference of opinion that the J ' classes of Chinese who , are not exciuaea Dy law snouia, "' " have the same right' of egress and ingress, and decent ' '- evea hospitable treatment, as is accorded to the people of -jxny other country. Thus far everything is clear and " 'lain sailing, but beyond this the proposition to take off even the top bar. of ihe exclusion act is something which ij ''" should be carefully disci!5sed in alljts bearings. The eastern sections of the country are now being outraged through the admission of classes pf immigrants that have -no proper place in this country and at the bottom of much'-of the evil are thesteamship-companies whose I h Agreed causes them to violate the spirit if not the letter of the law. v . ; - ... -' HOW LONG WILL RUSSIA LAST? T HE TERRIBLE RIOTS in the cities of Russia and their bloody suppression inspire . the hope in eenerous minds that this state of popular in "-.surrection may involve theljvhole Russian people and; ., compel the concession of a constitutional form of gov ernment by the czar. Count Tolstoi, a Russian Liberal , " of genius, says that there is no hope of$nlarged popular freedom consequent upon these terrible riot s,L stamped .- out as they arc by the'iron heel ofjhejarmy which is fanatically devoted to the czar as the pope of.the Greek " church. The czar and his circle of autocatsare aB solutejy secure at home so long as the Russian standing rmy is not disaffected. This army is recruited from the Russian peasantry in whos,flBks there is no taint ol ' "nihilism or rebellion. . The workingmen. in "the, cities of : Russia are rebellious only because the Russian autocracy side. with the capitalist employer tQ make the lot of the s artisan wretched in the matter of-hours iand conditions jof labor. The military massacre in Warsaw was not a ".7 slaughteiwbf revolutionistsf t was "tKa cruel suppression of a possible labor riot. :-The: dangerous nihilists and r-Tevolutrbn6tr rRussia'h.v'e never come fronrthe rank and file of the army, which is absolutely loyal to the czar. "The revolutionists in Russia have come from the ranks of the university students, from the educated classes, from - the-Jews sometimes, who have been maddened by the ' ;." persecution of their race and religion, but the Russian ,"' ''; autocracy has been no more disturbed by these sporadic . " assassinations and riots than our government was by the x VliicaffO railway riots of 1894. - , Russia has about 126,000,000 of people, according to. her last official census, only two thirds of this being Rus- - ians. The .total .number of persons classified as Kus- sians is 83393,567. Of the Russians only 30.6 per cent of ther-malea-cla read -andwrtte-r The -adherent sof ;thef- j, orthodox Greek church number 87,123,604. This popula tion includes 96,916,644 "peasants, who furnish all the re : crujts Tor the standing army. It is the universal il- literacy, religious superstition and low intelligence of the Russian peasantry which, reflected in thejstanding army, makes a constitutional, .parliamentary government for . i. Russia a -rornantid, political dream.. Russia has sent i- 500.000 men into Slanchuria to-defeat Japan, it has been beaten beyond redemption on sea and land. It has suf -fered dangerous loss of political and military prestige, ' not in Europe, but in Asiawhere it-f has imposed on China, Persia and Afghanistan." With this Joss of po "" litical and military prestige' is it probabfe thai Russia Is ' : . nervously anxiousJo make peace? .We do not believe it , This loss of military an4 political prestige is Irretrievable, .The present prospect is that in the next seriotts battle , the Japanese will .beat the Russians, but, granting- fhat, -Russia could continue to keep up an interminable and r expe'nsbe state of war,' and it is not likely that it is e ' ., Srjous-tday in" its. professions of willingness to accept ;. ' peace. Rissia is not morbidly anxious for peace, be , cause it. 'really has not jhe slightest fearof revolution- at '. .:V home. Agreat polittal j-evolutior" implies a high pop i (' ular intelligence; it implies a people that, are not the blirKl slaves of priests or princes. In Russii we have noiie' of tthe conditious-of succfessjul rflutio"n; we "have J.an absolute military despotism giving the hand to the hierarchy of. the" Greek church. "'-' " ' . Out of such conditions no successful revolution ever i i . arises. The. great English revolution -f 1642 was s'ue- ccssful,--lecttse the sword, the purse, the parliament ' -- - - - : iL. i. .1 .. . r . l T . . . j . o . i . VN " " Freirth reyohition of 17H9; the uprising-was.a success j' "v"; from the. start, because '-he" army, both regular and i x militia, were infected, with "revolutionary ideas. The ' army-went over spon to the. revolution and it became an accomplished fact. I: 1. V So in the English : revolutions of 1642 and 16RS. they j T s'ueeeeded at Once because the army was at once with the .. revolutionistsT Ritt Russia is a pufe military . despotism andjia rirt fe.ar.Of a domestic revolution; '.J. - , ' 'l Russia will rrot easily make'peace with Japan. betTause J.'VUfJapajj is-too astute to be cheated out of thepofts of ' " -vArictoryi Russia did not-Undertke thys -war with Japan j ' thrurtgh any belief that becajise a Russian winter "forced - -'Npolt!on the Great to retreaf, Rxifntntjwas the victorious 1 ' v. 'game-cork ef'ElirOpe.; Russia', since Jhe day of Peter ! L .the Greats h"asamong the . great' powers of Europe; its soldiers have been stubborn and brsve but it has not been brilliant in war; its army has always been a dull, heavy, cumbrous, corrupt military machine. Its great empire, is like that of China, difficult of invasion, a huge political elephant, not easy to capture or destroy, but Russia has never been successful in war against a foe of equal arms of .numbers. It has beaten Turks in Europe and Tartars in Asja, but It was beaten badly by England and France in the Crimean war of 1854-56 and forced. to make peace ii most humiliating terms. It may continue to burn up its armies jfT fatal war with Japan, fe$less of domestic revolution, be'eause it knows that its stand ing army is true to the czar and his autocracy ofcorfupt nobility and cunning priests. " . Fearing nothing at home Russia- vil not soon make peace except on-most advantageous terms, so long as it can get money to wage war.' It ca.iLgetmen enough' and until the money shoe begins to pinch its foot Russia will home. If its army were disaffected the Russian-empire would tumble tomorrow, like a house of sand, but with his army true the czar is sure of his throne. . SPEED AND SAFETY iJrTTRAjN TRAVEL, T' HE OWNER.S and. operators of - the speeding trains between New York and Chicago have ex plained to the public that the rate Of speed had nothing to do, with the recent horrible catastrophe, in which many people were killed and maimed, but a care1 ful consideration of the subject cannot lead Jtn.impar tial person to this conclusion. " An inspection of the wrecked engine and of the track showed that the engineer saw that the fatal switch was open when he was 200 yards distant . He did all he could to stop the' train within that distance he shut of f steam. put on the air, turned loose- the sand, and threw the re verse lever fully forward. The dumb witnesses of en gine andjrack told that plainly. '. But the train was run ning at a speedjust then of 70 miles an hour, and could npt possibly be stopped within 200 yards, the farthest dis tance that the watchful engineer could discover the open switch. So it is clear that the speed of the train what ever or whoever may have caused the open switch is paryy. responsible in this case for the catastrophe. If the train had been running at a speed of 50 miles an hour railroad men say it iould have been brought to a aiandsiill within a distance of 7Qfl yards, This fact, now-apparent,' seems a strong argument against running trains at such an excessive rate of speed, at least except -over - a . surely and absolutely clear track, with no switches to ' pass. ' Yet there is another -view" to take of this matter, and that relates, not to-the speed of the train but teTfhe open switch. That showed, in a word, a lack of proper pre caution, on a road tarrying a train running at a speed at plaices of 70 miles an hour From this point of view it may be said that the disaster was not due to the speed of the train but to criminal carelessness in not being sure thttr there was no-open switch. -'" People get killed, too, on slow trains. The railroads of the United States killed 16,000 and injured 75,000jer- sons last year, and most of them, on comparatively sjow of support L?8eciiiia, co-operative colonics hv g-nrlljr failed la not proof positive hdt one m Ik Jit not succeed. The world Is' progressing. - Frenslert PinanW fertlrtes nnt lrumn. anew scandals. . Jt Is a "richly deserved Illness, . - ," J OREGON SIDELIGHTS trains. Th whole causes may nearly all be aummed.Upl vVall street has been almost killed bv ' i 1.. ... .-j l (....... -. k'Fen1ef1 ftmiiM" . . On British railroads only 1,150 people lost their lives on account of , raiIroad-aeeidenta-4ast-year,-as-against 10,000- in this. country; and Xlxeat Britain carries nearly as many passengers as are carried in the United- States. In -Great Britain there are 26 employes to every mile of railroad track, cm an average, and in this country only six,- That 'it r the main treason- "why. there areJ.o-many more accidents here than there. - . '., ' Trains' may run fast safely, if due precautiohsare. takejj, if the railroads will employ enough good" men to' see that there shall be no accidents. But in this connection it may be said that England has another tremendous ad vantage in sunken or raised track which give the .xail roads aifiill right of way with which Ordinary1 traffic cannot Inferfere. - . A' LONG-NEEDED REFORM STARTED. MONG the president's attempted reforms, Jie has -set in motion n invstigafion-in t-t he m thesis Of transacting business in the public departments and bureaus, to see if it cannot be relieved of the red tapism and loafing that have, become chronic and scan 3alou. He has selected certain heads 'qf departments and bureaus Hitchcock, Murray, Garfield andPinchot Eight-Mile (Morrow eountyi farmers at work on this job, and if they go about itjA-earnest j'rf .oran---n,f to get a railroad. they.can.no doubt work out a great reform. The investigation outlined, in the president's' letjexi'of instruction to these subordinate yet in a large sense-executive officials includes equalization of'salaries, buying supplies, changes in methods of bookkeeping . and ac counting, cutting short of endless rolls of red-tape, and the redundancy of clerical, help, which enables most clerks to loaf most r3 the time, or'at least several hours a day when businessjflen in private life are har4tivorkT The president says, among other thi-igs, thaf'a res olute effort should -be made to"frcure. brevity of cor respondence and the elimination "ofvJtndJess letterTwrit ing, There is a type of. bureaucrat who believes his en tire work, and that the entire workof .the government, should bethe collecting of papers inreference to a case, commenting with eager minuteness on each, and corre snondingwithWther official ;in refefence thereto. These people really care.nothing for the case, but only for the documents in the (Case." " ., Any one who ha had-business with the departments knows that this-criticisnjis well foundeTI. - The whole business has been" absnrdly institutionalized. Most of the clerks-are under the, civil service law,-and seek to make a snort job of close work a long, dilatory and easy one. Tftus they not only take life easy but'imj?ress peo- phtdoingTusiness.in the departments with their, great superiority and-lmmense importance?-' . , ' , All tlMSirihepresidnt's idpas are cacried outis to be changed. Clerks are tfwOrk, not loaf, and'worka rea sonable number oLhpurs perhaps eight. , And businfssj is to be done nt by unwinding an JntermiiiaWe tn of red-tape, but as . a ' gret Corporation . does, busihess, promptly-and Willi an feciSnoiny of effort combined witli a high degre of efficiency. j, .. - - ' . . - I '- "A. Beautiful Country, y'-. ' " Frrm the For-st O rnva Times. ' ' ITooe wants to brtce rtpllahtfui drive -. 'dhroufh s. country as fair as the ron j of jthe- Xe)i"Iet him to out by the road , . lUrtint tfce-foot of David s hill, past the " Smith tadPurdtn farms -to Thatcher, the turn .west to that paradise known JtHlalrtev stopping en ' th crest by 'jar." tUluws .for a good long ,100k -1 y- t . I : Lback over (he valley thy have .come tnrousn.'Snd another down- IrrTo Gales i;reek valley; 16 which thejr are comlnt. There may he flrer ..acehea. somewhere on earth than. Jh panoramaHw-j view from that point, but the, writer has never n them; The. mountains' cov ered with forests. ths fields of grain the orchards, vineyards.; arsdn,-: flocks "The stand patters will have the test of it' in con? gre. The Americu- people believe in' the protective tariff." Salem Statesman. Rot, yon fossil. The stand patters are runjufiig to-coefriaw, all pver the Unitenj States. 'The present tariff law is sinijify robbeiy Of he people, and everybody with any sensTknows it,- and all lionesl men acknowledge it. '. --.-v.- " . . tv:. g rasing la thi pastures, the farmhouiss thickly scattered all alona; the Var, the whit"schoolhouser1the church spines. all tell a, story'of beauty, per.arf5 plenty that can -be but feebly expressed In words. Then the abrupt descent Into Galea creek valley with--that' beautiful stream . everywhere manifest .a'nd the drlv"home ove Jevel mads and amid pjcturesque farm scenes makes aytrlp SMALL CHANGE No, It won't rain all summer. Better be moistened (t nan scorched. Still the smoothly. Panama Job . won't ma New and. Interesting- people coming evsry day. . " The Bheas ate the worst enemies -of orsanlsed labor. ..,'-.., .- The weather doesn't pay nucb-atten-tion to the almanac. "Tom Iwson seems to be wound up for a continuous rampage. 1 ' " ' Mr. Carneirle troald set rid of a good larsT rump of It in Russia. ' The art exhibits are worthy Of care ful and prolonged inspection.- It looks as If old General Llnlevitch was either mistaken or bluffing;. ' . Now youth, beauty -and wisdom-are turned loose from-the college. '- M . Kaiser WllVam wlh think' a fw thlns,ye before molng to war. , If Oyama Isn't held 4Ack there may be no need of a peace pow-wow, If Norway and Sweden can't acres. they can call In a college graduate. J . Admiral Enqulst congratulates him self that he ta not .the -subject of ma Inquest. - , . -- " .. : ,., ' Municipal .housecleanlns; ts irolns; to be one of the greatest of American In- dustrles. TherChTcaso strike Is nesrtr-ss devoid rtt tsterest as Cassio Chad wick or Nan mtterson. PauUiortoa declined the nresldeneif of the subway to do underground work In the Equitable,- . . Because Norway can orobablv s-nt a divorce eaally la -no sign that Ireland could do the same. Perhaps after awhile we will . have only six months of school a Vear and about four -tiours a day. While Nicholas Is making; promises to the semstovlsts, they are likely to point fingers at Trepoff. largalh ffftys have necessitated the addition of a hospital department to a New York department store. 4 It Is to be hoped that the 'teachers who are going to marry do not wish to keep on teaching as a necessary meanslwherever possible, and the amendment aimed to Imprgye the standing of the city's wsrrants aa commerclul paper was voted -down. To 'add to he ridiculous ness, of the thing., a special tax of i mills wss voted for bridges whose esti mated cost is $16,600 or more. Now we have the spectacle within the last few days , of the contractor who has been putting Ills money. Into the South Port land fills' quitting because he sees no money In sight; and ..the further spectacle or object lesson the city advertising for bids for-thy con- "Rtfssto and Japan should get to gether." says the New Tork Tribune Thought the desirable thing was to get them apart. A' New York banker Says business lh Hessian fly doing some, damage. in Tamhili county. : Almost everything In Dallas SnT vl clnlty. getting phoned: Fourteen drummers were In Sherwood at one time last week. Tield of "vetch- in Washington "county la phenomenally heavy. J. Coyotes are increasing rapidly IrTpor tlona of,stern Oregon. , , - A neighborhood -of -Coos -county -ts p- prupriaieiy namea temote. . Many Wiriamette valley farmers are iiianins mHy improvements. One Hay creek stockman, after sell ing a lot of sheep, has 20,000 left. , Bandoa has a Law and Order league striving- ror better and higher condi tions." , IT - Dufur water commissioners are dig ging.for an underground river, or some source or water supply, Deer are-a nuisance In portions of Douglas county On account of their .visits to gardens at night. A Union county man who a few years ago purchase a farm ror 120 an acre sold It last week for $62.t0'an acre. A Freewater man has an underground aitrh furnishing 100 miners' inches, that will Irrigate 40 acres of small fruits and berries, . or 80 acres of fruit trees. ' A lbTTrty, Democrat: That was an un kTfM swafm of bees to wait until after the- Democrat had gone to prpss before swxrmlng near the front door of the office. CT" " Hlllshoro Indepertdentf A couple of Olpsy fortune tellers came ut from Portland Saturday upon request of resi dents of thTag. city. Their .appearance Indicates thatUwy 'arejilntelJJlgent. fo flnod Kpman, A man Hving'near Pilot- Rock has gone out of-th?.oh'ep business and into th -clitVken and gg industry. He. has over" 1.300 -ohlkns, young-'and old, and will - soon have, sprang fries for those "who Can afford the luxury. Eggs mt worth now. from 1 to 10 cents-p'-f dosen; and Ije .gathers daily about 1 diinen. The ,xt of . mnjjitftlnliig tli 1.300 aTfirI4 j;hl kcn ,1s about lpef flflV. long to be remembeced. Jt?plylng to a. statement obnpt hlmsolfj tin ,the PendleUinTrlbune. the edltor-.of the-. Pilot Rock ftr-ford says: . "The edi tor ot this paper js not now, nor has he been.lnursing a 'very sore pate.' as a l:iiiir of "a "tnlxtitrwlth 'ne Sturffeyfint' nH Qturteyants jfr kny'one else. The editor of tUs paper Is rtijfM of protect ing himself and wITlht heSitate to take even charges with any man In this county or In this stste A.k the edi tor of the. Tribune. " th.uedltor or this paper wily meet him time and under shy circumstances case any eaceptlon la taken to tag pub ins nun m inne lactS. , at -any-J fn LETTE - 1 LETTERS FRQM 'THE PEOPLE I laialaUoB sad icnalolpal Improvement. Portland,' June JS. To the Editor ot The Journal: Shortly before last eleo tlsn I addressed a communication to the editor of the Oregonlan on the sub ject pf a proposed charter! amendment providing for a penalty of,15 per cent on delinquent Improvement .assess ments. Tha object of the communica tion wss to correct certain mistakes made by speakers at' a Bouth Portland meeting, and not without some diffi culty T succeeded In having It published. Them came an "answer" from Mr. Ralph R. Duplway,' a specialist In assessment contest eases and nephew if-. Hi W. Bcott. 10 which some. most extravagant assertions were made. Indicating either that Mr. DJntway had never read the proposed amendment or, as I ldo jiot want to believe, was purposely, mis representing the facts. Thinking good easy man that I was, that tha editor oC .the Oregonlan had enough- sense of Justice and1 fair play not to deny me an opportunity, to reply to Mr. Dimlway's two-column article labeled an "aneswer,' I addressed a second communication the Oregonlan in which I took up each and evftrv-nne- of the propoaltions sat forth In s1d answer and explained the rror contained In them. Among cither things. I conclusively showtxl that the proposed amendment could not . possi bly be a scheme of contractors or brokers! to" get ,15 per cent- pe4ty In addition to the principal and Interest of warrants. , for the sample reason that the amendment Itself stated In plain lan gusgethat the penstty should be col lectejifor the benefit ot the city pt Portland, t said many other things, the tr'uTIt of which cannot be dented, but whtcivlt -would be. profitless to repeat at his time. This communication the Oregonlan failed, refused and neglected to -publlh,.J)Ut on the contrary sagciy observed In Its editorial columns that the proposed amendment waa a plan on the- part , of centractora - to cinch - the taxpayers. This statement was made In the face of the fact that the same paper at about the. same date published In'lts news columns the amendment Itself, re lying evidently on the carelessness of the casual reader. The Oregonlan de liberately and maliciously aimed to mis--''lUia voters, and succeeded. I think It weU-that the people of this com-' munlty should know this, so - that in the future they will be mora careful about their source ofJnformatlon en subjects' of public Interest. . Ths referendum can never be a success until we, can. jCind.SjOme.way. of haying free, honest and intelligent discussion of the ' subjects ' refered. A ' majority of the voters at the June -election allowed themselves to be fooled by people who axe-4nterested in the business of contest ing street - assessments whenever and atru.ct.lon of - wooden bridges to be j?ald for" -out of a fund- created bit an as- f-eessmcnt o rdTnlrnce, p nd no bids being received. From my point of view It Is a disgraceful thing that the city should ssk for such bids Mif present-eondi-tlons. There Is a dark jrloud upon the warrants, and no sensible .man would have anything to do' with them. Our own contractors have learned this by experlence,and It is like a bunko "game to invite an outsider .here to do such work ' and then give blm pay checks which carry with them, maybe, years of MttgaMon. ' . There has ben much loose talk ot late about ''grafting" In city" contract work, with the result that there .Is . a widespread misunderstanding of the real condition of affairs. I have-made some little study of our" Improvement assessment laws and have been In a position to experience their practical operation, and I wish to say, here and now. that I am not altogether sorry that tha It per cent penalty amendment did ' not carry, - because Its adoption mrtmrhSVe -delayed mor.e radical legis lation which I am convinced 4s neces sary If we are to carry on our municipal undertakings In a businesslike manner. It will be easy enough , for the new ad ministration when It takes office to pre-vrnU-graftlng In city contract - work, but it wHl find that there Is another side to ..the subject mora difficult "to hajule. As some great man-has said this will suffice for the present. There will be , more hereaftel. . ROBERT 3. O'NErU r ' - 1 1. . . ,. '- glaring. The-raw material Is cheaper; the finished product Is dearer. In view of this fact, what, shall we think of those laborious arguments by which a government department tries to show that this trust la not a trust, that the packers' profits are very small, that the public has no reason .. to - com plain T Whera' tare tha 'books"" now that.' will explain cheap cattle and dear beef T And of what value are any 'reports' against the certain," plain 'dollar-end-cents ex perience of jevery . householder In tha vountryt" ' ' . . A PUZZLE IN PRICES OF commodities; Mr. Charles Edward Russell. In 'the July Installment, in .Everybody's MagaJ sine, of '"The. Greatest Trust tn the World," relates-. j .;- . f The news that. a --federal grand. Jury waa to, investigate the beef trust and Its. alleged vlolattona ot the Qrosscup Injunction waa published eerly'ln March. At that time the supplies ot cattle were good, .In, fact, a little more than normal, running at Chicago from 67,000 to s4,00 a week. . ..Hence, as the .Ltnteh season Was at hand, when the demand for meat l always lessened, a decline tn the cattle market was easily foreseen. The oldest observers In the market were astounded, therefore, when ' Immediately after the announcement of tha coming Investiga tion the prices for cattle began tol ascend. The first week ssw an increase of Zb to 40 cents a bundred-welght. The following week this adyance was re peated; notwithstanding Increased re ceipts.1 The next week saw a. further advance, until when tha grand Jury after Mareh 10 was fairly at work.ith aver- age .price of medium grade cattle -was II. f0 higher than before the rise began. And thia in. spite of,. the fact that the rattle receipts for larch ware the larg est ever known In that month." "In August.' 1904. the department "of commerce and labor waa engaged In an Investigation of the packing industry. subsequently 'embodied in th Qarfleld report. One of the agents of the de partment, a man named Robertson, .earns to Chicago -and busied blmself at the stockyards. He seemsto.have been under ' tha impression ' that what was wanted was facts. He applied himself assiduously to gathering facts, and es pecially racts relating -to the suppres sion of competition in the cattle market Now' this., as I have tried to show In' preceding chapters. Is a "particularly aQfe point with the packers, because it is so obviously and clearly a violation of tha Injunction. ' Mr. Robertson collected a great-many facts that were damaging LATEST NEWS FROM - ' RABBITVILLE - evidence. "' Arrt'l'he "ra gave us agents of the departmr ntv-every move ment, he made W8s closely watched by trust detectives. Amonc tha manr de. partmenta of the packing Industry, not the leaat efficient, aa I hava had much reason to know, la the- department hf secret information. From my .own ex perience I have no doubt that where Robertson went and whom he talked with, and an outline of what he'gath. ered. were fully reported . day by dav to the packers. Suddenly, In. the midst of his labors, Mr.- Robertson was rallea to Washington and Chicago saw him no more. . or the Information he collected. some jat It moat -Important" and -Instruc' tive. there Is not a trace, not a bint, in the Garfield report, . -r, Why was Robertson recalled? I don't know. It' has been publicly chargd that he waa called at the-Joint demand of therirtflonal Republican, committee and Mr. Charles G. Dawes, manager ot the Republican campaign and financial genius or tne packing Industry And these gentlemen have been. challenged to deny the charge. And thev hava never "On April 9. 1904. the newsnanera u ported that the interstate commerce commission was to go to Boston t in vestigate rebates and private car abuses-, particularly among- the packing-houses. On the. morning of April 10, the auditor of the. Boston department of Armour A l-Co.- received, from headquarters a long cipner dispatch of instructions. Imme diately thereafter the office "force was .ordered to pack into barrels all letters. A Word for the Agent. Portland. June 17. Tor the Editor of (The -Jdurnal On- reading the article published In your paper last evening. ."Agent Epidemic," I felt that a great injustice had. been done. While. . of course, there are In that Una of business ss In any other line some who ar dis honest ' and some fakers, but a great many are. true, reliable persons who perhaps do. not enter the business from choice, but. not finding work, rather than resort to law. degrading methods, try. to make an honest living In 'this way. .What If we as (lousewlves have to answer the door a doien times a day? We ate In this world to help others. Of course,- we cannot purchase, from every one who comes "to Our home, but a" few kind words cost nothing, and I sm sure will help llghtenf-the burdens of, perhaps, a few wagewlnners. .. A 'CITIZEN. ' The Beef Paradox. "' , Discussing "The. Greatest Trust in the World," Mr. Charles - Edward flusseli nays. In the July installment 1n Everv- - ."fn"tbe three years ending" January I. "05,-the value of the beef nttle of the CnTled States declined f H3,000,00. ,"I callratentlm to this ; fHcrrnerrii dally reported.. . It Is pivotal. . Tliew hole discussion turns upon It, : - ' "The value . of. ttte "has- decflued llus the price of meat r to the. con sumer declined? ' " - , ,r , "The retail markets of different cities do not -show that meat lias become cheaper. They Jtliow that It 1ms become-steadily dearer. ' . ' : " "Jlere. thein' Is the greiUtLjilgnlXIcanTi truth we re to fnce: ,Tlie cost of thi raw material has diminished a'Ae'prire of the f lnlsfied product has Increased. "In he1jIstory of comnfiTree no. such condition lis existed without desfgned and abnormal control anf manipulation. WHhout abnormal manipulation no tm-li condition would be poasihleM, If the cost of the raw material and the cost of tha finished product had kepr some measure or -relative pace, one ignnrnnt of or blind to the operations, of this trOt m4ght assert that raw-msterlnl n3 finished product togetner iisd. merely, taken part . In a world-wide movement or rising prices. Na one ran say thAt now. The diKrepaacy is to9 telegrams and records that might be, a nature to show the existence of combination or understanding with the otner nouses. This work was done tn hot haste, and that afternoon the bar rels were shipped to South Framingham, where the Armour compiuiy has v- ren dering plant. anT' there the contents were burned 4n tjie fumacs. No hint of this tnterestlng'event Is "to be found tn the report of Mr.- Garfleld. though to .the unofncla! mind it would seem of con Fronv-lrrlgon Irrigator.'. '.- . .Major Falrplay's gambling-rooms Wilt hereafter be closed during church hours, on Sundays, both morning end evening. The major has did this at the Instants of ths dominie. The Rabbltvllle. brass .band may give a blowout on July 4. They ire 'vracktlc Ing ariduoua to get another piece learned but It la slow work, for the feller what plays tha drum la the only one of 'em what can read music notes. The' others sll play by ear, so the drummer has tn keep whistling the "new tune to them tilt they learn it. But they , can play two pieces prettyrvood. , .- Some of our men folks' are" talkln' about organlxln'- a gents' aid society. They say the wtmmen has sd much "fun at their meetings that they will get up a society of their, own., luJor Fairplay has agreed to let' them meet in -vine end of his poktr-room. You can bet they will hava a big time' when they come together. They want about 40 members; then they will meet on . each feller's birthday. If two '-of 'em have a birth day on the same da they'll sure have' big doln's. . We don't know Just how the meetln's will start In, but you an gamble each session will' end with a fits and every member fuller nor a goat. There will be-anma big doln's. at the'1-: Bunco house 'Monday night next week. ... They ere goln' to give a party and liter- -ary. .They will be a" de bate. 'Kastus Splnoodle and Sam Merry ts leaders. . The question to be dectded will be "Re solved that female suffrldge awt to be give tp the wimmen." ...Admittance 10 cents. Com one, come 'all, at early - lamp' light. . . , , 1. - 'Squire Slnchem had Cactua jlm 'up' for stealln' chiujtens last .Saturday, and ha swpre an allbye. The 'squire said allbyes couldn't be used before a Justice In this atate, and anyway they was only good for larceny and murder cases. Then Jim awore he was In - lone the night when the foillg wns stole, so the 'squire let him off by jsuttln' up lx dollars for costs. Jim say a next time bell git a lawyer, but the'equlre says he won t hava no lawyers spootln' In his court. house..j-.--i- . -.4 r ' A troop of actors come In from Hpp ner and lone Friday by a Pair of mulea and carried their own theatre, which waa a tent. They sot it up and put out a lot of clrklers and at 8 'o'clock the place . was pretty full. Tha head manager came Onto ths stage and aald they would play opry or tra)edy,v comedy. , , wichever we wanted. We mostlv voted for opry, so thevlayedTtbat fine opry. Uncle Tom s Cabin. In six acta and a WOTdng, and they done It nvtghty good. .. some singing and dancing in it. In one spot where unci Tom gets 'stabbed by King Rlchardluat as Ofeella cornea In, welkin' in her Bleep whh-arandfe "In her nlte gown saying In trajlc voice where Is my boy tonite.'oh where is my boy tonlte. everybody cheered. It waa a fine tabloa Sagebrush Charley, who has saw. opry In Bpokane, saya he seen Joe Jefferson and Lew Dockstadder and Mra. Fiske play the same aiknmd they wasn't a bit better. Weil, it was a big suckcess and none of ua-begru&fed tha four dollars they took hi aHh-door. The City drug store win soon put In a-TulriTrjar of pnis, embracing all the popular varieties. . 1 . ...-.-,. , Pearl Peaohbloom came- out on the streets last Sunday evening with on t them frocks tlist.don t. reach much above- w.ate. one said It waa a deckel ge dress Just like society 'ivlmmtn wsres In 6tM avenoo. In Nu York. - But ..l ins wimmen wnst ware such clothes kln't built like Pearl, for she ts so fist in tha chlst that when she inp. aown iiae thst you can't tell her arkltectural deslne awt to ware thelp cut ?'h' nd Put cupple of them nittle.. .bird cage. Insiaa of HI. - 'Te, - LEWIS - AND CLARK En route up. the Missouri river front uieir winter qnarters at Fort Mandan.' f ft..!!?1' th Prcnt site of Bismarck. North thef Hkota.- The party la now ein. rthe northern Rockies: ...June 14. The party all occupied in making the boat: they obtained a suffi cient quantity, of wllJfiwjiarlt":to lino her, and over these "were placed the elk " skins, and whSh they failed they were, obliged to use the mTTfalo hide. The white bear have now become exceedingly iruuuirsume; incy constantly Infest our slderable si gnlftcance. Subsequently JheUam during the night, and though fliey ltr.,.,VJ:lt"!ihJ' tSr-temmercafnavnot attacked us? as our dSg whr commission proved a commission did not go to Boston. But the work of destroying the'papers had been, jlone in so m'uch of a panic that many documents essential to tn proper operation of the house burned with the rest, and I anderstamf '-that for -some tlnfe afterward the branch must needs be conducted largely on faith without works. 1 "To see the .extent ef the consumer's interest In these matters we must-re--member that to him come home st last, not only all the manipulations of the Cattle and beef maraets, hut all the transactions of th--9reat-Yellow Cae, end all the burdens' of which the fruit and vegetable growers complain. Ev ery dollar of . the unjust 'Icing charges' must be paid by the consumers all the bedeviling of the dairy products' mar-' ket Is, In the end. his sole affair. That it costs $84 to jee a car from .Tennessee to Chicago is really nothing to the to mato. ..grower In Tennesseel ffhe man fltat cats the- tomatoes Is the man Jhat paj-s the extorted-tribute. - , ? ; "I may not take spare to follow the Intricacies of the trade-in "these articles, but I , refer tnr h,' moment trt one as typical ab(Ttndlcathr.- . Take fertilizers. To the-north these are of no overwhelm ing moment; to the south-ttwy are In. dispensable. Cotton growing demands fer mixers -almost- aa jnuch aa It eW quires sunUght. -Of - the -. fertlllxers-l avtJtle for uae on the ration flelda the beef trust Is, prstrtleally speaking,.-the sole:, producer. In the last fftur years tha price of sudh fertilisers has In creased SO per cent, but the coat of making 'fertilisers has not Increased.- They are composed of 'cheap chemicals brought from jiOrbnd and of tha refuse of slaughtering. The price of the chem icals. has rut varledj.tne cost of slaugh tered nnlmiUs hnS decrensed". But the piles of the ferlllxeF-has advanced, and again the burden that this entails, fall- ner at -first and solely upon "the pro ducer, comes at last to. the people that buy and -wear cotton goods." tf : patrois an night gives-us notice of their approach, yet we are obliged". to sleep- withour arms by our sides for ;" fear of accident, and we cannot send one man alone any distance, particularly -If he hH to, pass through brushwood. We saw two of them tndaycpn the large Island opposite to us, but hs we are-all so- much occupied now, -we ;mean.trr reserye 'ourselves for som lelsureTnp ment and, then make's party to drive -them from the Islands. The river has ' risen nine Inrhes since our srrlval here. At Portage 'creek Captain Clark com pleted the-cache. In which' we deposited whatever we could spare from our bag gnge; some ammunition, provisions, books, "the specimens of plants and min erals,' and a-draught of the river from Its entrance to" Fort Mandan. After"' Hosing It he brokw up the encarfipmei.t and took all the remaining baggage to 1 thehlgh- plains, about- three-, mllea." Portage-, creek. lias risen considerably in ' Lconaeqoence of ..the. rain, and thr lypter naa Decome or a dep crimson color, ana . Ill-tasting. ,On overtaking , the oanoe he found that. .there was much more bag-, gage thsn could be carried on the two ; carrtagea, on therefore left .some of the heavy articles which could -not be ,. Injured, and proceeded oh to Willow run., where be encamped forrhwlrht." Here' they made a supper on . two boffaloe' which they killed on the way; bat passed the night In the' rain, with a high wind -from the aouthwest. . ' '. , ..Two Mlrjutes In Parliament.- - .- FTom M London Mall." 'i -? :, "I .pray leave, " said Sir William -Mart Dyke, "ta ask tha prime minister. In the poSslhlef evnr-f his giving' facili ties for another dl.-..ussloii,' if-he will make an appeal to the leadef of the op position to offer anme expression of re gret (fierce cries of dissent from the opposition) for tha obstruction la rip ple of Radical 'on 1 1 nd insulting language-C'Pollce! police!" "Order, or-1 dert" "Sit downl leveled against a minister of the crown.'' w ' , w ; A Xommon' bpinlon. - -', : ' From The Dalles Chronicle. - t While DalVes people generally did not Investigate thoroughly on Dalles day at . the fair. It i was evident tq . aIKwhe -walked down, the Trail that, there waa at-teast one .hint n the "fair face of he fair," one wlahf they are pleased to- See the management Is investigating with a " view, to remaylng.'" That Is the : conces sion known as "Uay paree." To those who hs've the least sense of refl-nmnt the "hand painted", atrlngpf pearls ho line up on the outside of this show are disgusting enough without' paying the prjee to entT and ne further nauseated. From th Arkansas Oaxette. - " The Republic of. Panama has a navy. The navy le aeteam yacht which was' " bought 'from a New York man. She will be armed with two three-pounders " and "two automatic rapld-flrers. which 111 glva her n armament as'hesvy sa the participant In a - negro ' crap game nsuslly carry.-And she ts com- raand.es by an admiral from aUnsaa City. . 1 -.