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n o -.age TOHTLAND. , OREGON. ..j . ...... . .... .... THE OREGON DAILY AN i C S. f AOZSOS fnMtihoi itrf nnlii( (sirnt thinilsTF anifsTtrr- T -i rnlnf st NO NATIONALIZATION R' USSIA'S PROCLAMATION Poland and the czar', or Witte's, flat refusal to rrant to roland such autonomy as was granted to Finland, chows that Russia ia determined to (to ta all possible lengths to preven dismemberment of the great " empire. . Finland was in a' somewhat different position from that occupied by Poland; it had long enjoyed prac tical independence,1 and there wu no good excue,for , Russianizing it. Besides, the Finns selves . well qualified for self-government, as . the Poles, when they were a separate nation, or aggregation of i provmces, never ' did. . Finland,1 indeed, was taken into the empire on the express condition mailt autonomous, preserving its own government and making its own laws, and whit Russia had not carried , iout the spirit if the letter of this condition, Finland was too intelligent,, too united, and too determined upon S i own freedom, for Russia, tossing in its sea of troubles, : to resist the Finn's demands. Russia evidently intended. before the war with lanan broke out. t ually to Russianize Finland, as. it' possible, but had to give up this purpose, t . . ' But as to unhappy Poland Russia counts, if need arise, ; on help from Germany and perhaps ! indeed, from the European point of view, had long ago lost all claim to independence. The partitioning of Po ; land was arranged by Russia, Prussia and Austria, and it t was deliberately determined that the Russian provinces of Poland should be entirely divested of every sem f blance of nationality.-." The excuse for this much-criti-5 cised action was "the peace of Eiiropc..Evett jf JtOTa ; were now disposed to treat Poland as it has treated Fin- land, Germany and Austria would not consent, and the Kaiser and Emperor Franz Josef doubtless stand ready i-to aid the czar if need be to s suppress any general ! Polish revolution. I , ,, ' , ".. , v , , t Poland will be, must be, gftnted the' same degree of - liberty that under the new regime is to be granted to - the rest of Russia, but no motf . r w' i r ... f As between Senator Piatt and Ex-Boss Odell. it Is I immaterial which one has the president's ear. Piatt seems to be the dispenser of New : York patronage, "which besides serving certain corporations is his busi ; ness in congress. As for Depew, it does not appear that he has any functions in particular to perform, not even, ; of late, to telt supposedly humorous stories. -1 ' ' ' ; 'i' . ' '3 '-:m-' ;'.':i:'V. .V.-v i THE RAILROAD REGULATION QUESTION.- u 'NDOUBTEDLY the 1 railroad designated for the sake of brevity will be the principal question before the congress thatwill cortvtne orrthe first "Monday "of next ; month. The presi dent considers it the most important question to be con sidered tnd acted upon by the congress, and it is said willnpt only make it the leading feature of his forth- coming message, but in order that it fered with or entangled with other matters, will forego any recommendation as to tariff revision, which he is ..believed to favor. .' . - ' I v . I . It may reasonably be expected, that some such meas- f ure as Ihe president desires to be enacted will pass the house, as . the , Esch-Townsend bill, passed the last session of congress, ..but the issue is very doubtful in the senate. It. is known that many influential senators are opposed to gUch legislation, and others are yet un decided or uncertain, and that anything important and remedial will be accomplished is to say the least doubt ful. y:--:--- , j;' v-. ' But some such reform as the president has In mind is ' sure to come; such action may be delayed but cannot be ; prevented; for the people will demand it in no mis takable terms, and members of congress who do not obey them will have to give place to others who will ' do so. .. " We think the railroads are -unwise in opposing such - a moderate and reasonable degree of regulation as' is proposed, for it is not intended or calculated to cripple or oppress them, and, if they succeed in defeating this '" mild measure of reform now, it is not improbable that they will have to submit to severer ot more, drastic , measures of regulation later; They must Inevitably recognize the principle that railroads are in a large and I important sense public rather than private concerns, I which, the people have a right reasonably to regulate ." and c6iuf6"l." And that there liae bttn abuses of their .unrestricted powers and privileges scarcely any railroad man will deny. ;v ' " , .' ' .' ". . Among the probably unhappy women' of earth is Queen Wilhelmina of, Holland, who was sadly disap pointed in her marriage, and who not having an heir may' be deposed from her royal position, in order that Holland may become a republic in name, as it is already in most respects in fact ""','. INVESTIGATE THEM. , GENTS for a wireless telegraph in California are soliciting, ' in this city and many people are said to have invested their savings in the expecta tion of large profits." A heavy commission is" retained by the agents on all stock sold. ? : V ; v. f On its face the: scheme suggests the advisability of ex ' tremely careful investigation . before investing. - Ifit ,'realjy affords the opportunity for profit that is repre- sented by the agents there should be no difficulty in se " curing in California all the capital required. No one ' should buy stock in such a company without being thoroughly satisfied both as to the integrity and financial responsibility of the men at its head, and as to 4he merits of the undertaking. Commonly, speaking, it is a badge of fraud when a new enterprise, seeking capital, solicits investment by people of small means. They are . usually easier victims for the swindler than the man of larger resources and consequently wider business ex . perie,nce. ' -rw. - - "Any wireless tefegraph company which Is formed on a legitimate basis and with a " reasonable prospect 6f making money should be able to secure all the capital it wedt-withont peddling iter stock througl - - Moral View of Tips. .',,: : Prom the Jew Tork Sun.' " ' At one of She summer rsorta where hotel lire cornea very. "near "tn'belng rot) bed of all Its terrors the following circular Is given $0 the guests: . , . , Tli and Ses: The evils and annoy 'anres of this custom are generally. con vxifil. Tips are given for one or mors of the following reasons: . .- " f'natom, which la mere -Imitation, i nr of being thought mean, which Is c ( anl Ice. ...... lvire to be thought generous, which Is Vanity. . v Ix-Ktre to help the poor, which . Is 'urit.r. Ixtre for eome favor Inconsistent with full Jumlce to others, which Is bribery. l.tniH In some ilaca no reaaonable sriie c.n be had without Hrpli'f. INDBPBNDBNT NEWSPAPER ' -rr, ... , PUBLISHED BY "JOURNAL V PUBLISHING pa OP POLAND. ' of martial law in grafting bosses, more mercy or Cox In Ohio, to' had shown them are studied beneath that it, should re the line than they The loosest "of been 4he municipal crrmpletely grad has Poland as far as closer home, Brice Austria... Poland, been too closely the country; it is rate questionso tion to find how sentiment - . i HE Baker may not be inter received through already being felt coming -m. lor The . Democrat of land, and the POLICE RAID company located stock subscriptions of moderate means The, charter gave it, he says, on the gambling club upon which is a "holdup' by servants Be cause some .extra service I j wished, not covered by the price paid, which Is com mendable dmlre to par for all receivM. Appreciation of fatlafactory eervtee al ready rendered, - or of personal liking, ' which, is generosity and good wtlL Our employo have been selected as self -respecting! and unwilling to put them selves in the" place of ordinary hotel servants. . They ere neither objects Of charity nor social brtgnnd. :. - Prem the flrat flve motive our guests should be--free, and from the sixth our employes are free. It prompted by the last - two,, all should be willing to ac cept the plan, carefully. matnred after 10 year" experience. - to pay for extras In the regular bills and 10 reward for apeoletly mwitorton eervtc only at the end of visits. , ;. 1 JOURNAL no. CA110IA Ths Journal BiiM'rfi g'l and Yamhill "THE-THREAD OF ROOSEVELTISM.- HE MORE the recent elections are studied the more clearly it becomes apparent that the peo- . . pie in most casesin Pennsylvania and partic ularly Philadelphia, in Ohio, in Maryland and in New York City had clubs out for and used them upon the regardless of party. They showed no favor to '.Gorman in Maryland than to Durham In Philadelphia than to Murphy in New York. .And it is also evident, when the, incidents the surface, not only that the elec torate of the country are becoming less partisan than formerly but that they are demanding and requiring cleaner and more conscientious public service all along have bad. TV . . . , governments among us has always government Its weakness , was strikingly-apparent to every foreign observer who came among us and men like Brice in his last view of America were inclined to take a pessimistic view with reference to it. But like most foreign observers, indeed like some had never looked deep down into the hearts of the American people. He could not under stand why with these evils so apparent, with robberies so flagrant, an intelligent people like those of the United States so calmly bore them. . But the Americans have concerned with the material develop ment of the country to give to such matters the atten tion they deserved. When the evils got to a point where they became unbearable they simply rose en masse to remedy them. The trend of public thought is now all in the direction of better government, national, state,' county and municipal. The people have at great cost learned the lesson that if they are to secure the latter they must Cast aside partisanship, they must upset boss rule and they must elect men who will honestly and intelligently serve them without regard to party politics. This les son they are enforcing everywhere and they have found it so good that feli cities are following the example and lashing out of public life' the thieves and grafters of the dominant parties whether hey be Democrats or Repub licans... . i.' : ..".' "X 'r -.' t''":, "" It is no spasmodic wave of reform that is going over a genuine determination to reform based upon profound conviction. Those who wish to stay in public life must fall in line or fall out of office and those who think that the officials who serve the pub lic cause will be injured by the bitter criticism of those who are forcibly 'removed from the chance to graft. the public will have only to wait until the succeeding elec completely they have mistaken public ". . ' ' i ' - V., . "RESULTS OF THE FAI City Democrat was "one of the papers that grumbled a little about the state appro- nriation far tft Twi and Clark fair, and In. timatcd that no direct good would come of it to Baker county taxpayers. But now it says this: - ' "Good results following the advertisement Oregon has the late Lewis and Clark exposition are all over the state. Eastern Oregon its share Of interest on the part ot homeseekerr and capitalists, in quqst of farming lands and stock ranches. Here in Baker county more inquiry concerning farm and ranch lands is being made than ever before and as predictions that this would occur have proven true it is fair to assume that with the coming of spring and summer the further prediction that 1906 the greatest . immigration to Oregon known in years will take place will prove true, also." .'. i! proceeds to advocate, as The Journal has done ' continually,: the dividing up of large holdings disposal of them in small tracts, if near a, railroad, at moderate prices. So it truly says that "where pne man is now. trying to farm several hundred acres ten or a dozen men will find plenty of land to keep them busy and net them a good and ample yearly in come." , ' ..v..-',-.f!, '; . , ..'..'..: .; "In this way," the Democrat continues, "the county's population will be -greatly increasedthe country will be better developed, and more wealth will be produced." And k adds, truly: "There is room here for thousands of families.- Bid them .welcome.".' ' j.v That's -the talk. It's true not only in Baker county, Tillamook and the rest. The people are coming largely in consequence of the fair. . "We told you so." "Bid them welcome." : ON THE MILWAUKEE CLUB. HE RAID on the Milwaukie Club is something new undef the sun. It is something that is author . iied under the new charter and was authorized under the charter which preceded it. The question is one involving public morals. Has a big municipality like Portland the legal right in the attempt to protect the morals of its own citizens to go mt6 another community and raid a gambling house, as Chicago did recently, on the ground of public health, in suppressing a slaughter house, situated in an independent municipality, which was pollut ing the water, and In which position it was sustained by the courts? " ; ' ;-'--f I ( ',A : ' , i . i-' ;i the trlayof the authority; he exercised - ground of the bad influence of the the people of Portland, because its poolroom reports were being telephoned to a club house in this city and because he believed that this was the first insidious-advance, in the direction of public gambling in Portland against "which he was relentlessly opposed. . The tleed h,as been done ; the backyard of oue of ,our neighbors has been invaded. Many lawyers hold the act to be legally justified. If it is not it is now for the courts to say so. The matter should not be compromised; it should be brought to an- issue rhat will settle it definitely and for all -time to-come.- The question involved ia one of fundamental importance and in its decision there can be no middle ground. 1t is either justified or itis not and it is for the courts to say promptly and author itatively' which. .-. -. ' .....L.,.,...,... -'h ,-'"-tA Lover of Limelight. ( ' From the Bystander. - To give aa exact daf Inrtlon of so pais, plexing a personage as the kaiser seems hitherto to have been beyond the power of the wit of the world. A plausible at tempt, however, la made In the follow Ing mot: JVTien the ' kaiser goes S-chrlatenlng, he would like to be the baby; when he goes to Wedding, he withes to be the bride, and when he goes to afuntfral. he desires to be the oogae.M ' . ' He Knows. ' t.From the KeW Tork Herald! ' Joseph H. Cheat e eays the opportunities-for young men are greater than ever.-.-Tht young man Is apparently pves-iag irom experience, . .' - SMALL CHANGE WlnUr raina make groat summer and autumn nurvests. j. - r - I-. .J-J There are lota of anti-fat medtclnoa aavertiaM; wuy docan t anmebody rt ricn oj invtuimi an antl-leaa dopet , .. ' Intreolltt iDort la buomin. "m Un" back east.' Wall, you don't airutnt in.hi. u . year round, do you? If m. mn B. Turkere almost fat enough. ' - .. ". ' " ( Weather forecast rain! ', . ' ' ' '-.. e .;.''..'.: . Shouldn't the ex-boeaea hnM n. tional convention, and ventilate their may mum get ueverr for ore. tor-ln-chief. , , - . - Dig: fill; build; bulkheads; prepare. " ' . e e -. somehow we aiwava fmrmA omoot would get amote, e . , . . That Jimmy Hlun i . ciear, ne anouia nave taken the 17,000. 000 and lived hanoll In Parla - evr Wnoe for the glslaturet The whole bcodIs a hlnu anA . . . .. - imporwni man auy part of them. .-:' e a .. Day after day the nulla - - - MV Icnatlona. . - . . e a , . We are elad to renaat that ifiiitnn..h county waa never ao n Its officials ma now. But the efflcla.li . " r01" r'OBth. 'watch, We had to exoect Novamha to ax'nniJ - : - --" Tha atat. state of Washington wul earn a. good ueai Digger aaoary tnan it geta now when iv aucceeaa ia ireesing Portland off the map. rvr -v-r Dig out the edges of the harbor. A city can make mUHona aa wen a a persona.-,.. , . ; Food ' " Commlaaloner " Ttaflav pretty near earning his .salary, too. ; . e e ., . Really, we don't eara a. Aarn ir rmi. of Battervllle doesn't coma again in a inouaana years. - "Is Root to be ttr iiki ihi ! BUtesman, Well, he's the Root of It e . e i ; , ; A Fennsylvanta ludge baa decided that man waa bound-taf aunnort. Ma...!'. parents. And yet aoms people wonder why there arc so many bachelors. . .. i ..... ... .. .. .. .. e : e - . : Thank Time, the Portland team won't play baseball any more, this year. , It Is SSld thSt Trim Tmwr.w ... V.l to olose his gambling Joint at Lick Bnrlnaa. Indiana. it m. Mllwaw-kle, Oregon, he Is likely to be punea. x is nara times ror the deed. sure sports, my masters. A cert nsrae-ranher tnuat rather put to It when he wrote that he new ot a stingy lellow once who re fused to let the doctor operate on him for appendicitis because he wsa opposed to letting anybody set anvthln ait him. - , 1 : - - - ., : .."' e e Big ears denote generosity, especially In cornfield. . . . ' Good rock-crashing roadwork being done around Coqullle. :. .. " , . ; : ' '. , , e e v" Rafting togs yet, later than usual, on the Coqullle. ' e. a . An Arlington drayman Is doing a big ger business than ever.- '. . , .5 - I Eatacada improves some every week. Irrigation will yet win. Is Indeed al ready winning,- spite of Hitchcock, In Northern Umatilla county: :-.-... . - -. s -e . ' : . ! .':'f,". Millions In vetch and alfalfa. Thoroughbred stock over Oregon. t , ; , t . Increasing - all More land seeded I te grain this fall In Sherman oounty Than ever before. . , . e e . .y i ' : ' Woodburn Is already, and will be more and more, one of Oregon's Important cities. . 1 "' e . :; " 1 .', ! - Woodburn Independent: A hobo had a narrow eacaps from being shot Sunday night He was ordered by Night Mar shal Beach to get out of town. - He boarded a train and . when the train moved fired a rock at the officer. The mlaslls came close to Beach, 'who folt like drawing his revolver and teaching the hobo manners. V ... e . . if Oregon farmers all right. Albany Democrat:. "This will give Albany a chance to wake up." says s paper tn the little town of Eugene, sev eral miles up th Willamette, th other aids of Tangent - . . .,, e e Mount Angel now has a fine water system. . .. ' 'i-.i..: .. - . ; A band of t'rypsies" are working 811 vertoniana out of silver. u .' ; : e : ; ;".?'.' T.T"; - School teachers wanted In "' Grant COUnty. ..'k.i.a'. . .. eve Sclo New: ? Indication now seem te point to some very lively times In Ore gon during the next two or three years In the way of railroad building. Eleotrle lines will soon, perhaps, covar th prin cipal portions of th valley on either side of the river. - - . "" -' i ' ' Toledo Reporter: - New phone are being connected to th two line that operate from this place and. the main wires will soon sag beneath the -large amount of talk that they will have te Kent-Jtecorder: B. F. Bchaeffer hau quits sn experience last Monuay with a oneherss plow, while plowing hie gar den. It wae new work for both he end the horse, so, therefore, they had a little mlxup. No damage done. . e e " ' ; Kent Is having a row with the Stand ard Oil company about tanks. , Wt wouldn't' wonder If Kent would win. . ' OREGON SIDELIGHTS . RUSSIA'S : STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM William-H. Oal vanl In Deeeraber Pa cific Monthly. -' Never before has official Russia been so terribly exposed a In these history making daya. Never before. In these dsys of the twentieth century, has any governing power been held up to the ease of the world a the despotlnm of the north. Bureiy a specier ao Druwt, ao ghastly and o hideous Has never, ainca the close-of the dark ages, chal lenged the attention or the civilised world. Indeed, 11 is oououui aa 10 whether. In the gloomiest period of the dark ages, any subdivision or tn nu man family ever suffered so terribly from the yoke Imposed , by tyranny, imposture and privilege a the people In -the empire or tn csar. . ivor nave civil, military, and priestly arrogance and usurpations aver transformed any land into such a scene of dissension, of hatred, of persecution, and of blood, as the twin monater-ef statecraft and priestcraft In th holy Russian em pire. And ail tnis was aeuDeraieiy Dlanned and cruelly executed with but on aim In view, namely that the un limited power of the governing autoc racy ahould not slip out from Us bloody Jiands. Civilisation, nowever, wunoui ( iree dom.' has never been known to xlt vary long. " Heno th general out braak-n eruption which bids well to scatter all that has been held together by th blood and tear of on hundred and fifty million people. Th situation, indeed, baa become such that a member of th emperor' a council, which 1 but another nam for -that of a "patron ef Ignorance and ally Pf despotism, ad mitted that -it is a frightful disease from which Russia Is suffering." A frightful disease It certainly 'la, and Us actual origin In that land dates back to.ths. remot time of th Introduction of Imperialism among -the flourishing and peaceful peasant republics. With this ' began the "consolidation" of the Interests of th empire, which waa but another name, for centralisation ef power, and th increase of appetite 'for autocratlo power had constantly grown by what it red on more power. - It was, however, with the advent ef th. Romanoff -dynasty, about - three hundred year ago, that the centralisa tion of power began-to make ite rapid strides. On hundred years of th Romanoff, and w find Peter th Great to have succeeded ' In assuming full autocratic control of both church and state an alliance which has never been known to bring anything to a people but desolation and despair. ' Another hundred rear, and Russia, through th then raging Napoleonic wars, cam into contact with western, Europe, end this. In a great measure, brought Into th land of the csar the spirit ef revolution against the allied powersthe hierarchy and monarchy. - -r . r - - '- - The first, efforts for - constitutional rtghte was made when Nicholas I an- nounwr,"hnr"ownrmceesiorirTn Decern- ner, lsss. - This organised effort was made by the Decembrists, who took ad vantage of the prevailing perplexity of opinion during the . days of the 'inter regnum,, when the people were unde cided on the Question Of success ton. Ac cording to the lawe of primogeniture. me successor or Alexander I should hay been Constantino, the eldest of his brothers. ' But Constantino 're nounced the crown In order to marrv Counts- Oroudslnska, and .hence. Nich olas, in tnird son of Faul. becam em-peror-pontiff of all th Russlaa. Th revolt at his accession was led by the poet, Rileyeff, head of th Society of th North, and Pestel. head of the So ciety of th South. Th result of th first struggle for freedom in Russia waa th ghastly elocution of Pastel, Rileyeff. Monravleff-AnoatoL Bestua- heff-RIumln, and Kakovsky, while about on hundred young men. representing the flower of Russian Intelligence, were exiled to Siberia Inspired by th lives of those who died for liberty In Rus sia, a number of young men ware led to lib. Ih. nU.N.lh.l .!. . " us.,, vi avenging the memory of those forerunners of freedom In th land of th csars, and from this email band the work con tlnued- -uninterruptedly to this day. Their activity, however, was never so systematic ana so far-reaching as It nae oen aurmg th - last thirty veara of persistent effort and heroic saerlflro. But princes and priests had agreed to encroacn on in rignt or civil society according to th true sDlrit of ehelr al. llanee, and hence th struggle became mor ana more intense. Th revolu tionary propaganda wae 'nuahed - into every pan or tne empire, and no district " - dJ lewui out mar, tr ws rut a by the self-saorificlng efforts ef the men ana women who enlisted Himihii th war for freedom. Not ani mH th. imperial government to nav with th lives 01 ii most servile tools for every man er woman Who died on the scaf folds, but every sacrifice brought new men and women Into the ranks with a uin antnsinatioi 10 light It out. It was during this Period of Intonu a. tlvlty that Alexander II. himself, was w irafnwnii on tne street of Bt, Petersburg, and It wsa about tha time, that the imperial government in augurated through Its ClvU anH al... slastlcal agents a system of civil strife among th different claasea and creed .ninuHirai tne population Of th Ru emu empire, on tn old maxim of "di vide and govern." Henca heretofore lived In peace and amity, by cunning and deception, were brought to a stat of Internal strife and hatred, r. suiting in th direst calamities, to tha direst calamities, to that"" w perhaps a doaen years ago. long-suffering people of that unhappy m.l V'i?.S,ytnl o Awnder III, in March, 1881, matters becam still more unbearable. Alexander, hlraaelf a ,i.t ""L7 rurnn r nature and in cllnatlon, his rule, Influenced , by Kal. koff. editor of the Moscow ' Oaxett. Lrontieff, editor of th Russian Mes. senger. and Poblednoetseff, procurator ofth moat holy synod, becam the ?R !?r.r. U n,n opprssslon end T!Vt er'5 T lHran, erowlng spirit of democracy bad mors than evr becom eutocracy's chief problem, and how well It succeeded In thle work on ny -wll- judg from - th - fsct that scare a household is to b , found throughout RuMla. unless It be among th most illiterate classes,- which has not furnished on nr roor victim for exile, th fortress or th gallows. , It wss under such e stat of affair when Nicholas II cam lntd power in 1185, artd among his first public utter ances wa th declaration, "1 Intend te protect the principle of autocracy aa firmly' and as unswervingly a did mi tat and never-to-be-forgotten father.1 This memorable declaration wa mad on January ti, 1196, upon th occasion of his receiving III deputatlona who came front el! parts of the empire to teatify their loyalty by th customary presentation of bread and salt; and his majesty pronounced his words in a strong, clear voice, and with a remark ably resolut manner. It Is scarcely necessary te say her that' Emperor Nicholas II meant te keep hi word. ' With so greet a galaxy of grand dukes, with such an army of ecclesiastical t fakers, civil, military, naval, and other promoter anf adven turers, supported by th servility of an editorial Cabal, represented by such as Aksakoff, '. Katoff, Lsontleff, Mest shersky, Souvorln. and others, absolut ism In . alt. its rigor was never more triumphant i Th autocratlo ayatem be came more oppreaslve. the official ; thieve more unscrupulous, taxation more unbearable, education practically inaccessible, and bread scarcer ana scarcer.- - Bvory - section of ,- the vast country had becom a seen ef civil strlf. . Finland wae reduced to an ap palling subjection. Poland no longer presented any symptoms of life, the Jews completely ruined, the Doukhobors driven out of the country us wna beasts, the " Stundistsv, banished, the Mennonttes expatriated, , universities closed, end for th intellectual repr entatlvea of th community there re mained nothing but either ssrvti sub mission or war unto death. Herein Is th secret of th remarkable growth of th spirit of revolt In th land of th csars: and neither Mr. WU Ham T. Stead's Strang and etartllng effort "to emancipate the csar' and to bring hlra and th people closer to each other, nor Count Tolstoi s, non resistance d.ram. could possibly check th spirit of rebellion. Th Manchurlan adventure, with Its vast system of railway construction, fortifications, townbulldlng and still vaster system of official theft- for It Is estimated that about three fourths ef all the million expended were atolen by the bureaucrats in charge paved th way for th memorable Russo-Japanese conflict with all Ita dire conse quences to th organised brigandage V resided over by his Imperial majesty, Nicholas Alekandrovltch, emperor , and autocrat of al the Russlss. king of Po land, grand duk of Finland, etc., etc., etc. The terrible disaster In the far east and the gathering storm at. home led the autocracy to a new schem of perjury and deception. In order to Cro ats some enthusiasm and unlilcatlort of an outraged people whereby their end- iose trials and misfortunes might be met In a spirit ef resignation. The series of edicts, rescripts, manifestoes, etc.. pur porting to give project for commissions to provide sham assemblies to carry out sham reforms, failed entirely to stem the tide of the general revolt A hur ried peace was arranged, but that too. ith no effect upon the approaching storm. -The revolt throughout th' em pire of the csar finalist broke out and with what result we aa know; the su tocrsey yielded -the franchise was ex tended, the legislative power was con ceded to tha assembly, amnesty to many of the pclltlcal prisoners granted, and if the program Is at all honestly carried out, it may leed. to a regeneration of Russia. .And yet all that was granted represents no more than what the execu tlve committee . of the revolutionary party-asked of Alexander III, Is-days after the assassination ef Alexander II. How much happier and more prosperous Russia might ha'v been had thos con cessions been made at that time. It is Impossible to conclude this brief review Of Russia's struggle for freedom without expressing the highest possible admiration for th remarkable wey In which ' this great upheaval .hadben planned and brought about Though the struggle throughout It history had coat ao many sacrifices, yet the final con summation was so well arranged by a system of general strikes that it might have been- fully accomplished without anjTsacririces whatever. As usual, how ever., tb bureaucracy In different parts of tlie empire concluded on a carnival of crime, and not only have they allowed full swing te the vicious andi criminal of whom there are so many in modern oltiea, but these office-holding criminal bav themselves participated In th gen eral looting, and nave taken- no means whatever to .check the bloody, crlmee which so horrified ' the whole civilised world, Lacguags falls te adequately express the world' indignation and eon -J tempt over tne brutal atrocities perpe trated upon defenseless men. women and children.-- Some day Russia will hsvs to render an accounting for her .many deeds of blood and tears, for there is somewher a law of Justice at work from .which there la no escape. There are melodramas and there are melodramaa "Arlsona" , Is one. "The Fatal Card" Is another. They are aa widsly apart aa Tammany and Jerome, and it'a up to somebody to invent a new name by which to claes one -or-the other. . But hot for many yeare have Port land playgoer devoured a perform snce '-1 - --11 il anil thiinrisr melodrama as they did last night at the Belasco,. whos splendid stock eompany produced Haddon Chambers' 'Tn Fatal Card." Nor In . years have.' they . hal so splendid an opportunity of appre ciating th possibilities of that class of dramatic literature when properly done. Tb play ha its weaknesses, of course, ss have all In Its'- category, but it ac tion I so Intensely thrilling and 'so well Interpreted that th big crow-1 went home last night dreaming of the golden daye when "The Stlvet King" and "The Octoroon" were the apple' of our great stars' eyes. "The Fatal Card" -re not without a reputation. While It ha. not been pro duced aa extensively In this -country ae some of Its contemporaries. It wss once the reigning sensation at the old Palmar theatre (now Wallack's) on Broadway, with, auoh actors as . 3. 11. Stoddart In the east playing mere bite. sine which time no author ha wrlUen a genulo thriller or half Us etrength, A before Intimated, a company of such players aa th Belaaco- stock easily raises ths .standard, of melodrama, but "The Fatal Card," the play itself, is not to be thought of ae clap-trap. . It li, rather, an intense treatise of an enthral ling subject and there Isn't much danger of your leaving youf aeat before the startling climax of th final act. - Will R.' Waiting's return to the csst resulted lrt an ovat.on for the capital young actor. . Hie role ie (hat of Ger ald Austen, a manly and youthful En. llshman who comes to Colorado tn search of fortune, and arterward return td scenes of love, heroism and terror It is In light comedy that Mr. Walling excel, but he was forceful In every essential lsst night. The good effect of his long vacation wae reflected In - his - work throughout f To Lou I a Frohoff belongs great credit for hi admirable portrayal of th diffi cult role of aorg Forrester. It is probably, the .most rtlstlc work ha haa done In Portland. Fred Summer- as Harry, the love-stricken English chap, provided most of the comedy. He, too, scored a'dlstlnct bit . , t Mr. Satnpolls, one would naturally think, ' had enough to do In producing ths play, yet he appeared aa the vil lainous Dixon and without losing an atom of hie well known power. ' With Frohoff he made th audience hold Its breath for minutes In the great murder eoene. smaller parte were capitally done by William Harrle and Clarence Montalne. The former was ths crabbed old father originated by Stoddart end lost no opportunity during the IS min utes he was on the stage. - Miss Law rence, Miss Angus and Miss Bond bore their conventional assignments grace-1 h 1 - -1 -1 -, -i-ii-iiiqi-iii-i,-. i--xi. fa ' ; ' -. v THE PLAY ;. . . 1. . i y aaa-aTJSaSaTSs ! JOURNEY OF LEWIS AND CLARK ! - On Chinook ereefc -v November 20 It rained In th courss -of th night A hunter (Labiche). dis patched early to kill some food, returned with eight ducks, on which ws break fasted and then followed the course of th bay to th creek (Chinook) or out let of the ponds. It wss now high tide, the stream 800 yards wide and no per- -t.jn In the cabin to take us serosa 'Wa therefor mad a araall raft, on which on of th man (R. Fields) paaaad and brought ua a ennoe to carry us over. As w went along the beach w wer overtaken by eeveral Indiana.. whc gavs us drisd sturgeon and wspatoo roots, and soon met several parties ef Chlnooks returning from th camp. When w arrived ther w found many Chlnooks. Two of them being chiefs, w went through the ceremony of. giving to eat-h a medal and to the most distinguished a flag. One of the Indians had a robs made of two eea otter skins, th most beautiful w hsd ever. seen. The owner at first resisted every temptation -to part with it, but at length could not resist the offer of a. belt of blue besds, which Chaboneau's wif. wore around her walat. - During our absence - th camp had been visited by many Indiana and th men who had been employed In hunting had killed several deer and a variety of wild fowl. ' , More Higher Criticism. 1 . ' From the Topeka Herald. According to the Bible, Methuselah begat Lantech and lived 181 yeare there after. Lantech lived 181 year and begat Noah. Noah was 00 years old when th. flood occurred, .Waa Methuselah drowned T .' ; ; Various Man. , From, the Newark Newe. , How various Is man! One of htm. wsa shot for a bear out In Michigan the other day: another was k-aeo for a rab bit down In South Carolina, and one bit the dust up In Maine because he resem- . bled a deer.. . . fully, and -Mis -Adam "mad consider able of th old maid, even though it wa slightly overdone- -; - - The new policy of producing on Sun day afternoon Instead of Monday night la evidently . what the Belaaco' clien tele wanted. Th house waa filled at both performances. - - . - "i! '..; - RACES WHITNBT.1 v .. v Burlesque at the Baker. ; . : ; . The comedians who were funnier than anything that has come to Portland In many a day, a creditable, singing chorus, an olio that contains not a dull act these mad th show at th Baker this week, which masquerades under . the title. "Parisian Bell," decidedly better than anything Ins wheel has turned to, Portland previously.- Thar wr audi ence yesterday that crowded the house to the doors; sudlences that cam, per haps, because It ... wae -uncomfortable without and went away delighted... -The-Baker audiences hsvs hunrered ffOromeiafiirndriasrTiIghtlhe huh-T ger waa appeased. Sam J. Adams, whit appeared - a th aultan, ' In the ' skit called 'The Sultan's Wives." again as -an admiral In the second skit "Ths Girl from Manila," and on various other oc casions, wa funny every moment When h twisted his wide, mouth a it th crowd snickered; when h opened It to speak half -the audience laughed,! end whan he let loo hi drollery there was a roar from th first row to the highest . perch In the balcony.-- . , t - It is, of course, eomperatively easy to be funny Jn fantastic royal robes, with a cuspidor In place of a hat but1 It might be aald that Adams would be -funny In a back alley in a rainstorm. The other comedian, Maurice J. Burna, weara the. red fringe under the chin of the regulation Irish comedian type, but otherwise Is '. original.' Perhaps you think that the picture ef a red-whiskered Irishman, with a clay pipe In hie mouth, sitting among the ruins of a couch, and declaring hlmsslf to be none other than the- Little Eva w used to cry with, would be rather sacrilegious; v It wasn't-It waa. uproariously funny. So-wss the whole of the it minutes' . burlesque -on "Uncle Tom' t Cabin," which closed the show. , In th olio, Rba Donaldson did a cred itable sword dance and a sailor' horn- pip. Annie Abbott-who led the song. "My Honey. Lou," displayed an agility : that waa surprising, and which, rather then her singing, won her several re- CBlla 1st HI sin spf eers In a elans wir'act in which she removed her th street clothes while balanced' en wire. -. ' . - ' :' In ."The Rube and the Boubrette," Harry Sutton demonstrated that it la possible to Impersonate the unsophlstl ceted country lad without making him a yap, and kitty Sutton performed eome rather remarkable contortionist feets. Mis Clara Col sang well In the fa miliar "That's a Picnic for Two," and on several other occasions.. Th Mound ' City quartet -won four or five recalls. There was a patriotic tableau, and the . Baker audience apparently ohar th popular .notion that when stag folk mak a play at patriotism It la patrlotlo -to make a loud nolae. - ' Same bill all week,' with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, r "A Broken Heart : S A murder, a court scene, two love af- -. falra, a social outcast an accused son and an angel mother are among the v familiar thlnge you find at the Era plre this week in, "k Broken Heart " ; written, produced, managed and starred In at on time by th name women. It Is not. an unlntsrsting story -and the two largs audlencee which visited the popular playhouse ysaterday went away ' delighted with the treat which Colonel Craven had provided them. - There te nothing In the. plot that will . atrlhe the llstener-ae etartllngly new,-.-and there are moments when the Inex- , perlence ef th authoress aa a drama tie ' constructionist forces Itself to the fore. ' One scarcely can believe that eny court . . wae "conducted With such abundant com- .. . dy, for instance, a th tramp actor - Introduce In th trial ror murder, even ... though he is, as played by A. It. Brook. laughtng-hlfc- .Barring - erueitie er -- this nature. It will pie th majority - . a a play of heart interest. . , Th Story, briefly. Is that of a" pros, parous young miner, who becomes In- '. volved In a .murder mystery by th find- - Ing of a knife belonging to hlnat th ""' seen of th crime. He ha married an ' : adventuress, believing her pur, a eir-, cumstsne which also , works' against- him. Through a series of lucky coin- ' cldences, however, h tabllshs . hi Innocence, and It all and happily, with Marcel's heart broken, but th family-' Intact Ths action of the piece takes plsce In Colorado The company this season Is headed " by Miss Elele Gresham, a capable young . woman Of comely appearance. Sh play . : th adventuress ln a- manner which ' pleases. Frank Clayton a th heroin Dav wa a favorite Inatsntly end th .. other members 01 th company proved, iiKaoi. 3 ne piay nae Pn staged pret-
