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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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 '
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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
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LETTE
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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
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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
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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.
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