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Published evary evenlne; (except Sunday) and every Sunday morning, at The Journal Building, Fifth and Yarn.
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; SHORTSIGHTED POLICY IN CHINA. ,
IF.ITIS.TRUE that the Chinese themselves are fo
tnenting trouble in China no nation has ever in the
( i whole course of history pursued a shorter-sighted
policy. For years China has been the prey of the Euro
;, pean nations. . Any pretext has been good enough for
?'"' them to-wntinue their encroachments and poor old
flabby China was utterly helpless to protect itself. That
the country was, tentatively parceled out for partition at
the close of .the Boxer trouble everyone , knows; that it
' wss saved from actual partition, by the action of this
.'v. country and Great Britain is an equally well known, fact
Among the .relatively few patriotic.-Chinese the fear of
.partition has been forbears the greatest menace." So
t long as Russia remained" a preponderating factor in the
orient that . was inevitably the ultimate outcome. But
j the defeat of Russia by Japan gave China a breathing
; spell How is it improving its chance? It is developing
an army, true enough, but some of its shortsighted peo
- pie are fanning the embers of prejudice against Amer
icans and developing more of less of a boycott where
there was no reason and very little inclination for it
But such a movement once started with the opportunity
t which it affords for revenge to the long suffering pop
ulation may speedily get out of control thus leading to
an anti-foreign sentiment, 4ith murder and pillage and
that species-of reprisals with which Germany, partic
ularly, horrified the civilized world long after the con
clusion of the Boxer trouble. ' -.
'. Any general uprising at thia time would almost inevit
ably lead to such "complications as would cause great
losses ftf territory by China." Notwithstanding the show
' ing made by one of its armies, an improvement so great
'., as to win the hearty commendation of the London Times
correspondent, China, many times more populous, than
Japan, still falls far abort of being 'another Japan.
Patriotism, aa genuine and self-sacrificing as the world
'."' has ever seen, is at the basis of Japanese, success. Then
they are absolutely honest in the administration of their
; public affairs. Every dollar spent goes to the extreme
: limit of Its value. They are, as they now stand, perhaps
the finest body of soldiery and the most ably officered
! in the world. They were not cast down by defeat,' for
that was practically the result of their war with China,
' when the fruits of victory were snatched from them by
- the intervening European powers, and they were not
'," unduly : elated by their , marvelous victory "over Russia.
. Thev have shown besides the most marvelous adaota.
; bility, meeting Russia and overcoming it by the methods
' of modern warfare which they carried to a higher stand
ard than it has ever before reached in the most civilised
; countries. -' " '';.'''" t' v ; '
The Chinese, on the other hand, have little genuine
patriotism. " To the masses it is a matter of perfect indif-
r ference as to whether the Manchus or the Muscovites rule
. af Peking. ; In either case they expect to be ground down
r in poverty, to be robbed and fleeced by their rulers, but
- back of it all is the .fatalistic feeling that the rulers
whoever they may be.'.will eventually become Chinese
in methods as weU as in appearance, v They are not
adaptable as a race,, they will not move through impulses
of patriotism," and graft, or squeeze, as they call it. is
carried to a perfection which would cause the bureau
crate of. Russia, pastmasters of Europe, to hang their
diminished heads. . Under conditions such as these
where would China stand ' in the event of ' serious
trouble? . It is not difficult to foresee the disastrous out
come, A generation or two hence with graft eliminated
' from the public service, its finances put upon a com-
t mon-sense basis, its annoying and diversified imposts
nd land laws, which utterly prevent the development
of the country, destroy the security of investments and
cripple trade, are modified to meet modern conditions,
.' its people Unified and made generally prosperous, China
might be in a position to' defend itself, but now it is
y 'simply inviting irretrievable disaster by encouraging dis
content and helping along boycotts which breed revo-
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; n T THEY CAME BACK TO OREOON. ( 'X
BOtTCUA' MONTH 'AGO a Sherman county man
'.( wrote to The Journal, asking for facts about
northern Texas, whither a food many eastern
Oregon . farmers have been going, and the opinion ex
pressed by this paper in reply is corroborated by reports
now coming in. A Umatilla county paper mentions
' . three' men, two from "that .county and one from Sher
. man county, who have returned from a visit to north
ern Texas, and says:" "All three pilgrim farmers de
cided not to invest, after a ' thorough investigation.
. They say the soil is so light that the seed blows out of
; the ground; that the rainfall is slight during the grow
ing season, while perfect torrents descend at harvest
time.. .. . -iS -j ' ''?:..( -.
-This represents the Panhandle country as even less
' desirable than The Journal described it, and is .evidence
that the Texas fever is not a good thing to get and
that there Is no place-like Oregon. - A trip of observe
tion and recreation is all right, for those who can af-
i ford it, but men who have a piece of fertile Oregon
land would better hold on to it or 'get, another piece
in Oregon. , f r..-i . - v; ... , v
it be national ownership of railroads, coal .mines and
other, "utilities ?" , :., ,; ,l
The. senate at least is doing much to make this the
paramount issue, one involving a struggle, says the St
Taul Dispatch, "compared with which that against the
silver standard will be but a friendly bout with, gloves
or a fencing tilt of boys with tin swords," and the St
Ful .paper adds: "And on this growing ' volcano the
men who direct Republican policies slumber placidly
and undisturbed. They maunder along over ship 'sub
sidies, extending the. provinces subject to privilege;
they dare Germany to. enforce her maximum rates afd
threaten higher rates tn retaliation; they insist upon re
taining a policy which enables manufacturers to extort
higher prices for their products from Americans than
they sell them fof to foreigners. And they are making
smooth the way and easy the path for Hearst with his
public ownership issue in 1908." ' ; " ; ;,; '
THE INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT IN NEW
:yvv- -.a:.,., ; YORK. '.,f -:; - .,
T HE New' York Evening Post, after facetiously
I " describing the movement in New York in favor
t ' ; of Mr., Hearst as a candidate for governor, con
cludes soberly that "it is no laughing matter." ,-Boss
Murphy, it says, learned at Albany that Hearst was
"coming strong." All this municipal ownership propa
ganda, that would have been thought-fantastic, impos
sible, 20 or even 10 years ago "is now seriously to be
reckoned with The clamor of It will fill the' state.
Republicans are affrighted by it, and decent Democrats
know not where to turn. Sober people are saying
that there is no means'' of beating Hearst off. This is
' the political porfent now confronting the citizens, of
'New -York. About it they .will have .tqtbink, write,
speak, act for months to come." ", :'vr" Jv
V .Well, whatever. one;may think of municipal or public
ownership . as ( a general policy, every one must admit
that there is a cause for such a movement, and that this
cause is not Mr. Hearst's money. He will rum for
governor of New York, if at all, not as the candidate of
a party but as the, candidate of the Independent league,
whose blank Statement of membership, the Post says, is
' being signed all over the tate at: an astonishing rate.
; This blank declares in favor of eight things, the .first
one being "public ownership of those utilities which in
their nature are monopolies." The extent to which this
idea is feeing accepted by the people aa a reform of or
' at least a relief from present conditions shows that the
movement iar likely , to become fairly revolutionary in
scope and character. Last year it was municipal own-
' xWi 'in New York and Chicago; this year it is public
-... iij in the great sute pf New. Yprki in 1908 will
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A RAILING NEWSPAPER REPROVED. - .
HE" Astoria Astorian persisting from day to day
in railing at Portland, and charging Portland
-with keeping ""Astoria; back' and working in
every possible but in no very clearly defined way against
its Interests and advancement, Mayor Wise of that city
in a communication ' to the Astonan reproves it for
these constant and for the most part groundless stric
tures. "As. mayor of this city," he says, "I feel it my
duty to speak so that Astoria may' avoid making more
enemies; we need more friends not more enemies, and
the safest way to friendship with neighbors is, not by
quarreling, but by reasoning with them. No doubt there
are certain men in Portland representing certain inter
ests, who pursue a narrow-minded policy; but the whole
city of Portland should no more be blamed for their
snonsignicancss, inn lue wuuic vi aswhi wmj us
blamed for. the mistakes made by some. of our people.
Oregon is our commonwealth and Portland our metrop
olis, and as a loyal (Oregonian, I wish to see Portland
grow and prosper as I am anxious for the growth and
prosperity of Astoria and of the whole of Oregon.'.
This is the right kind of talk and evinces the true
spirit Mayor . Wise, and all other unprejudiced and
broadminded men, know that "Portland" is 'not trying
and does not desire to Injure 'or Interfere with or in
anywise handicap Astoria or. any other town or port or
harbor or part of Oregon. Of course Portland men are
more interested in Portland than" in any other placer and
are more active in its behalf, as they should be, but they
surely all, realize that Portland , can gain nothing by
keeping back any other place, but on the contrary know
that the more Astoria and Salem and all. other Oregon
towns grow and prosper the more Portland wilL
.What the Astorian really objects to and is offended
at is the expenditure of any money by the government or
otherwise on the river channel above Astoria,, and it
would have liked to aee that elephant- the dredge
Chinook, kept at work on the bar until the money was
entirely exhausted, but its cherished dream of an aban
donment of a ship channel between Portland' arid As
toria will never be realized. "The bar is the most im
nortant thins, as Portland well realizes: and for. its im'
provement the inufluentiei men "of this city will, do as
they have done everything in theif power, but .they are
also going to have a 30-foot channel between here and the
mouth of the river, , : ---- , v '"'
Astoria has fine advantages .and resources. It hss
many progressive and enterprising citizens. 1 It will de
velop and prosper, and everybody in Portland,, will re
joice thereat but it is not well served by newspapers
that spend more time and breath in railing at Portland
than in, working for the advancement of their own cityfl
DO THEY PEAR THEIR OWN PARTY?
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rii HE Weston Leader, a Republican newspaper, rises
t I to ask what's the use of all this fuss about sign
. . - ing statement No. 1 when no-one but a Repub
lican can fee elected to the United States senate any
how? In return it may be asked what's the use of all
this Republican fuss over it then? The fears, the qualms
of conscience, the dreadful thought that the federal con
stitution may be violated,' sets the Republican organs
ghostdancing. ' They immediately place themselves in
the indefensible position that the legislature is an auto
cratic body altogether beyond the reach of the popular
wilL s " -r.'
The Journal doesn't care a baubee who is elected
United States senstor, but it does care mightily for the
principle involved in the coming election. The point at
issue is whether the legislature, which has so often
shown its utter incapacity, shall continue to elect United
States senators or whether they shall be voted for by
the people and the. legislature then formally ratify that
act precisely as it would do in declaring the result of a
stste election? Long experience has taught the people
that the legislative war is both a bad and vicious way to
perform thia important public duty. Tbey have hit upon-
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a new way. . i ncy nave nercioiore mniruciea ineir rep
resentatives about things they wanted done; now they
instruct them on who they want for United States sen
stor. As it is certain that the Republican body of our
electorate wilt decide the question of who is to be the
next United States senator, that it is to be purely a party
affair after alt, and the Republican majority in the state
assuredly lends strong color to the, claim, is it not just a
little surprising that the Republican organs should have
the nense to tell the majority of their own party that
they are not fit to decide such a question but that it
should be passed upon by the legislature which in all
the passing, years" has never displayed such significant
fitness as to evoke the enthusiastic plaudits of the pop
ulace? ' Faith in the people or their capacity tot, 'elf
government has , never, been a well-grounded .belief ' in
the convictions of the - Republican organs but usually
they have not made quite so plain their distrust and fear
of their own party. if .
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, NOW WILL HE HAVE. TO ANSWER?
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THEflBW. YORK COURT OP APPEALS hav
, ing some weeks ago declined to, require H. H.
"Rogers to answer questions propounded by Attorney-General
Hadley of Missouri on the ground that
this would be discourteous to the Missouri court of orig.
inal jurisdiction, Mr. Hadley lpst no time in going back
to Missouri and securing from the court of that state
the requisite) decision that Mr. Rogers must answer Mr.
Hadley s questions. Now when the Missouri attorney
general goes back to New York and gets Mr. Rogers on
the. stand again, if he can, we shall see whether or n6t
he will answer, and if not what excuse if any the New
York court: will have, next time for letting him of
That facetiously defiant1; gentleman will doubtless hive
very slight respect for the -order of a Missouri court
and perhaps no more for one 6f a New York court, if it
can be obtained, but then what? Because he is IL H.
Rogers of the Standard Oil company is he above the
law that the average witness must respect and obey or
be punished?: Why, indeed, is it necessary to go to all
thia trouble and incur all this Delay in the sffort to com
pel him to testify, when if plaint poor- John Smith Jiad
been thus recalcitrant he would have been crapped in
lau wiutm an nourc ' -'
SMALL CHANGE
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flowsra ana
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. Bunshtna 1 ana
tblnss do stow).
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. Bom ulee-looklng fellows are having
uieir ; picture publlanaa now -candl
Oatea. ,
It Dan afoAllan aas sou It will have
to o. . , . , .
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Jamea H. Eckels aars: "The araat
majority of the imtr loan popla are at
in Doitom nonsai." now ir ina uppor
story can be reformed they, will be alt
nam. . . .- . .
The 'Salem ' Statesman aaya tha rt
mary. law. la a Damoeratlo "trap for
Republicans to fall Into. Wall, moat
of them (earn to have gotten Into It,
reaardlaae of the Salam taadpatters
warnings. , ,
la Harry Orchard's ease.' an ravine
wih not aurnc. . . i.. .., fi. (.
Castro la alia amraaa Chinaman: ha
want . to artv out . au the .. f orelga
Tha Seattle Time got out a -"liver
Jubllaa" adltlon Sunday of IIS pagaa.
Why don't Garmany and Praoe com-
proml by letting the Irlah polio
Morocco!
Portland should be more of a roe
city ovry year. , .-.;-,
Bvo big Pittsburg - 1 eomplalnlng
that Its Carneai library la coating too
much.
Soma newspapw that prtndad t
support th primary nomination law ar
showing plainly enough that ft was only
a Tils pretens Of support.
But fsn't . it unlawful and unprece
dented -to raqulra policeman to perform
any manual labor! ; , ,
If x-Oovrnor . Gear Is all that
palmist aay hi palm shows that b la,
why should n want such a little offle
a governor of Oregon.
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Pittsburg haa a boy who ean't stop
running when ha start. Ha will doubt.
lass start for an offlo aa soon aa he
I old enough.
"Boll th water" should be ehangad to
"Oat water that doesn't need boiling."'
Probably TJnol Charlea Ororanor
doesn't now oar If th country do
go vamooratio, ana ao to ruin.
Candidal for Rprntatlv Rand
ay fa doesn't know whether h 1 In
favor of th direct primary nomination
law or not He can tell better after h
sees bow many votes he geta.
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Plnty of men would Ilk to be a sen.
tor. If they thought they eould.
Evea yet the rain ero la a little
norc .
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A mterob that can 11t In a lighted
cigarette must a a tough un.
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Th WUlamatt valley has a riant to
demand loudly that alectrlo lines from
that region b 1st into Portland.
r OREGON SIDELIGHTS ;
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Farmer ar plowtna- un in tha emt
unmoi nonae vaiiey. .
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Fort Orov Tim: In flahtla the
nan job seal it is important that
people should look after tha feno row
and roadside trees. Th , so 1 on
them a bad aa It I In th orchards and
ft la necessary to eleaa them out there
m order to max thorough work of it.
Bridgeport Item In Falls City Lornr
Church next Sunday. . - .
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"Grand ' balls" and "great revlvala":
so run th world away. -
Hurrah for tha hen a, at last
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Th San Jo seal must and shall be
annihilated. Albany Democrat That s
th talk. .NOW gt busy.
TJmatllm I to hav.lta first two-
story brick building. .
Creamery at Echo la assured. .
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. Prun prospects better.
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A Populist candidal for aherlff of
Douglas county claims nln votea
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An" Albany man 1 making arrange
ments to run an automobile line from
that plac to Cascadla during th com
ing summer. : H will put on an eight
passenger automobile and expects to
make the run between the two point
In from three to four hours. . , ,
Stock losses very light In eastern
Oregon. -,
Snow on the mountains la heavy and
erusted. but the valley ar springing
Into verdure with th rapid advance of
warmer weather. .
Some old anpl orchard ar being
grubbed up around Dayton.
Odd Fellow will erect a I1S.00O block
ltfi Hood River.; ' v
Talcut ' correspondence cf Med ford
Southern Oregonian: The young man
who lost the love letter containing the
many sweet - "ys-e" can obtain to
sam . by calling at th "Kandy
Kitchen." . - . r .
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In om counties not half th peopl
have registered yet
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Burglar who- broke Into Eobo sa
loon secured a few dollars and drink
able, but overlooked $10 la an un
locked safe.':.-... . , , . :
Oardena being made In Polk county.
Occasionally drummers do som
gnod two of them put out a fir in
Tillamook laat wV e .- ;'-',:
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. Seven tea to nshlpa ef so-ealld des
ert land In the" Suramar' Lake region,
which the government withdrew for, Ir
rlgatlon purpose a yar ago, ar to b
thrown opn to homestead, snd it la
said that the- district wUl enjoy the
largest settlement this yeet of any la
the. state. '. - ,: -t .
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Oregon la a good warnut state, if
people would raise' walnut treea.
"Aumsvlll haa been sleeping for som
time,'' says its correspondent lot th
Burton Times, Time to wak up, -
SECRETARY TAFT TELLS
V HIS STORY v ;
James B. Morrow In St Louis Glob
'.; ' .Democrat. I ,
Tby oould. aaslly persuade trangrs,
thajr wr bnothera, William Howard
Taft and Orover Clvland, and twins.
war in any wher near th aam aa.
Th Taft vas-larg, steady, deep In
ineir ttonand blue, and wld apart ar
th all las. of a candid and hoapltabl
mil in tn winning of esteem, conn
dance and respect Th Taft noe Is
goodly In sis and form. Th mustache
la tawny and th hair la Haht brown.
bald elrel is on th crown of th Taft
bead. The atmosphere and personality
are gracious, but power Intellectual,
moral and bodily la there. .
Th son st 41 has followed his father
from bar to the bench, and thano into
th cabinet AlphOnso Taft waa Grant's
war secretary, and In Cincinnati where
he lived all his yeara after ha was grad
uated from Yal and had taught thr
ror a time, be waa eminent aa a lawyer.
oivu omcer and citiaen. William How.
ard Taft waa second In a class of lit
at Yal. I asked him: ' "What did you
ao alter you lert colleger'
l waa in my twenty-first year when
nmsned at Yale." he replied. "I re
turned to my home and entered Clncln
natt collage for tha course la law.'1 My
father waa a hard-working lawyer, who
eaucated . bia children and left my
motner in means on which to live.
went through Yale comfortably, but 'I
waa fortunate In getting an education
and nothing els. -1 want to work for
th Cincinnati Tim, aad afurward for
th Commercial, aa a reporter of court
new. At flrst my salary waa IS
week, but my pay waa Increased until In
th and I received lit a week, which I
thought to be good wage for a young
ster. I continued with sir newspaper
wont xor soms tun arter j waa admit
tea to th bar. Aa a reporter I cam
Into personal relatione with a man who
waa running for prosecuting ' attorney.
and when he waa elected he chose me to
oe nis enter assistant v -v
My first publlo offlc waa a aolandld
piace ror me. giving, m as it did
rough-and-tumble experience in the law
at the tlm of life when I was ready
ror it I waa taught th necessity of
facta and how to get them. I learned
to search for truth and. to value vl
dene. ' Th training I tha received has
been of th highest Importance to me
ever slnoa. .Truth! That la what th
world need all th tlm. I remember
we war trying, a burglar and aa old
oolored man waa brought in to prove
an alibi for the prisoner. He knew the
burglar, and awore that be waa with
him the night of th crime, HI mam
ory waa clear on th matter, because th
next day a boy named Willie, with
whom he waa acquainted, waa run over
by a atone wagon and killed. Ha had
even mad a memorandum ef th acci
dent, and, so testifying, drew from th
pocket of hi greasy old. ulster a book
In whioh there waa thia entry: ., "Willie
killed today by a. atone wagon.' Not
another line had been written In the
book. At th break of day next morn.
ing I drove alx mires Into th eotmtry
and-found that Willie had been killed
In the manner stated. Returned to the
city,. I searched the hospital and death
records and established the fact that
the boy had been run over and had died
Just on week before th burglary had
been committed. W sent th oolored
maa to Jail for a couple of weeks to
chastise hi perjury, and tha thief to
th penitentiary. .'; t
Besides. -1 waa on my feet nearly
every day, malting speeches to theeourt
and- being, drilled la readiness, alertness
and thoroughness. As I look back on
it now I know my experience f those
day was th best t could, have had at
the time. Criminal law la not difficult
to learn, and I enjoyed Its practice, a
though I never did other than to prose
cute crimlnala.
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"What Impressed you most during
your service a prosecutorr
"The delay of the law la erimmal
case.. Th lawyar for th defense la
always th ringmaster, .and the court
la hedged- in by procedure, which has
com to -aa from England. There waa
an age when th accused needed all th
advantage he oould get when men were
arrested for trivial mature, when they
were denied counsel. So th procedure
under which we practice, InUaded for
another day, delay a th trials of cases
and permits th guilty to eeoape."
"Four presidents have given you r-
nee Arthur, Harrtaon, McKlnley and
Rooeeveltr I aald la the tone of Interrogation.
T had never thought of the matter
In Just that way," Jadge Taft replied.
"While I waa helping to put the crim
lnala of Cincinnati where they belonged
President Arthur appointed m to b
collector of Internal revenue for the
First district of Ohio. I waa SI yeara
old. Thar waa considerable whiskey
and som tobacco In that region, and
we took in 111,000,000 a-year aa taxes.
But I didn't Ilk th llf and resigned
the office tn II month or o to practice
law. About . that tlm Thomas C
Campbell, aa able aad daring man.
whose unprofessional conduct eventual
ly led to riot and th burning of th
Cincinnati courthouse, acquired such a
reputation for dominating Judge, cor
rupting Juries and bribing - witnesses
that the bar association determined to
disbar him. I waa one of th oommlt
te of 10 lawyer who were chosen to
prosecut him. and was made- Junior
counsel in that effort It was not a
pleasant duty. ' I went around with
Campbell himself and took testimony.
Finally we brought him to trial, and
the court split two to one in- hla favor.
waa not prepared to address the court
not having a previous notion of tfolng
so, but the senior, counsel was. taken
ill and I. waa called on unexpectedly.
but it proved to be my opportunity, tor
was very lamuiar witn tne case. -"I
didn't know It but it waa reported
to me afterward that It waa my argu
ment In th Campbell cas that had at-
tracted Governor Forakars - attention
t me. . Ha had acted as counsel for
Campbell, aot In th disbarment pro
ceedings, but In a criminal prosecu
tion preceding It He waa ' Judg
Foraker then, a lawyer In active prac
tice, and had Juat been elected governor
Of Ohio. . When there -was a vacancy
on the bench of the superior court pf
Cincinnati, without the slightest solici
tation, he appointed me Judge, to my
great surprise. I was now is years of
age, and good fortune had put me wher
II of my professions! hopes and am
bitions bad been centered and wher I
eould and did learn ' some law at th
expense of the public. Governor Foraker
Increased my gratltade to him by wish
ing to have me nominated and eleoted
to the office he had given ro. Ac
cordingly,, he had requested George B.
Cox,.who waa Just than, in 188, asplrtng
to 'political power, to assist me. Cox
helped ma, ind 1 "was nominated by the
convention.' I aay this to enow you that
I have had no personal qnarrel with
Cox. Our relatione, auch 'as they were,
war alwaya friendly." ., :r - j
, It haa been aald that one cf the chief
causes of Myron T. Ilerrlck's defeat for
governor la Ohio last year waa Secre
tary Taft's one speech of th campaign,
delivered at Akron., In which ha called
th thunders ef his elogeeDee upon the
beada of he1ossa. I asked him about
th chastened and afflicted master of
eouthern Ohio. .
'. "Cos must not be minimised in respect
to his ability." Judge Taft replied. "He
haa great sataclty and much power lu
nis personality. When he makes a tlclrei
he welgha all the element of th com
munity, take up claasea and nation
alities and proves hi art' and manage
meat He I a rich man, I suppose; but
I nave a notion that he haa repressed
th rapacity of hla underlings. W have
been ahamefullr unmindful In the fcurg
cities af this country of our duty aa
cuisena. uooa men -aay they have all
they can do with their own affairs. They
seem to think that local bosses, if not
exactly necessary, ar altogether natural
In our form of government Therefore,
theyompar boa with boas, and if the
on thy have gives thera a fairly decent
administration of publlo affaire they ar
concent to let it so at that"
"What -Waa .your personal experience
with Benjamin HarrlaoaT-, He appointed
you to be aollcltor general of the United
State and later to be a United Stat
circuit ludg." T i. -
"I becam wall acquainted with Gen
oral Harrison. It may surprise you to
know that he loved humor and told
funny stories with enthuslaam. , How.
ever, he felt the responsibilities of his
one to such a degree that he waa sua
plclous of th motive of too many men
who approached him and' treated them
coldly. Thus he got thS nam of being
denqlent In passion and, friendship,
When he mad m a Judg In 18SI be
gav . m tn- sixth v-circuit . 1 now
entered upon th work I loved. I had
four nne state Ohio, Michigan, Ken
tucky and Tennessee, After a laborious
term In hearing end writing opinions In
the court of appeals It waa a great
pleasure to go upon th circuit and hear
a Jury docket - It waa a good aa
good play; It offered a fine atudy of
human nature. But the aalary of 11,001
was Inadequate, for I had to pay all of
my' traveling expenses la going over
th circuit When we aat in the court
of appeals away from home we were
allowed expanses. After General Harri
son left tha presidency hs one or twice
appeared before m t snak a - legal
argument He was a great lawyer-
clear, learned and Industrious," v (
"Will you tell m about your appoint
ment to be president rof the United
States Thlllppln comjhlsslonT" -'
"On afternoon I Waa dictating a de
cision in the o UK federal - building in
Cincinnati when a telegram ' waa put
Into my hand? I tor It open and readi
T shall tak It aa a great favor If you
will call en m some tlm next week.
The telegram waa signed by William
McKlnley. I- couldn't Imagine what the
president, wanted with me, I guessed,
of course, And blundered. I came to
Washington, and on being abown Into a
room at tha White House met the presi
dent and Mr. Secretary Long of th
navy. . Presently EUhu Root, secretary
of war. cam in. ,
1 want t send you to th Philip
pines.' the president aald to ma.
But.' i replied, i - have tnougnt
from tha flrst that w do not need th
Philippine; thatiwe can get along very
ell without them. " -
" So have I.' Mr. McKlnley answered.
"But ao matter what we have thought
about it w now have th Philippine
and must., tak care or them. I ask
you to be a member of the Philippine
commission; to go. and assist to set up
civil government aa the army moves on.
i tnougnt or my piacar on tne Dencn
position for llf and a work I liked
better than aay other and.. wa reluc
tant. The president suggeated ..a leave
of absence for alx months or . year,
but that would have put a heavier bur
den on my colleagues, and I knew It to
be Impracticable. Then Secretary Root
told me that I was at the turning of th
ways in myllfe. ' Ton can take the easy
road.' he aald. remain on the bench and
be comfortable, or you can do your
country a service. For the First tlm
In our history an opportunity open and
it is given to you. The way win be
rough; you will have to make personal
sacrifices: take risks and work bard.'
"I went horns and argued th matter
for two weeks. In - the meantime, Mr.
McKlnley advised ma that I should be
president of the 'commission. That la
th way I cam to go to the Philippines.
Aad no two men ever gav another bet
ter support thaa Mr. McKlnley and Sec
retary Root gave me.' We followed the
army and aet up civil authority.- . Of
course, there wa some friction now and
then between the two. branches of gov
ernment, each being ' enthuslastlo and
mindful of Its. own right. When w
differed, I arrued II out with Secretary
Root by cable. Moreover, It was dis
covered that under Mr. McKlnley'a In
st ructions, w controlled th puree, and
that hadva tranqullliing effect The
purse I a mighty harmonlsor In all the
relation of lire. . .
"Nearly every quarrel begins la a
misunderstanding, in aa erroneous in
terpretation of the facta When we went
to the Philippines there was nothing to
do at first but to Investigate condition,
to get all th facta as well aa we could.
I had learned t do thia, as I told you.
while I waa assistant prosecuting at
torney In Ohio. We examined and cross
examined maay witnesses. We ' gav
th Filipino to understand that w
meant to b fair and Juat and to observe
the golden rule aa sloaely aa peeslble
that w were,. In abort anxloua to do
the best We could for th Philippine
people. " The task of gaining the confi
dence of the Filipino waa aot difficult
however, or, all the oriental people
they ar th aaaiest to work with, be
cause they are Christiana. Their ideals
are unlike those of th Buddhists and
Mohammedans, who are heathens. The
pattern they follow In thought .and ao-
tion ar in fiurop, not in Asia. But
they are sensitive and quickly inaulted.
and when their prid haa been wounded
they don't recover very soon. .
"W are Inclined to be harsh whn
w Judg Latin and oriental -character.
A Latin aaya: ' "I am glad ' to meat
you; my house Is you re." We Interpret
this literally, ana aay tae laun la
treacherous and hla word la not good.
W fall to remember that tha customs
of eenturlea have made him extravagant
in hla flowera of speech. - He doesn't
want you to bellev that he haa given
you hla house. What ha meana and
what he hope you win jmdsrstand Is
that ha Is -willing to -meet you more
than half way la amicable relations, to
live with you lu friendship and peace.
am bound to aay, however, that hla
eagerness to please haa led In soma
degree to the wrong opinion held of
him by many Americans. He doesn't
comprehend th blunt manner of -the
man from tha west, nor .his rough
speech. Furthermore, he haa lived hla
life In form. 'Most of us are-not in
clined to be ceremonious.4 and, there
fore, pay scant attention ttt, formalities,
but in th Philippine we tried to be
courteous, and to impress the Filipinos
With th belief that we were honest
and equitable. We Invited them to he
palace ef Malacanan and. told them It
belonged to them as muoh as to any
on. 1 don't aay this, plan converted
the revolutionists, but I do think, It
mad som of them lesa ferocloua; in
,tf)elr .wishes for success.
"I- want to tli Philippines hostile te
tha though cf holding them, but llf
aad work there arouse In on a mta I
elonery spirit. Th tlm seems to have
come, moreover, when w must tak a
broader view of eur duty and bearltrg
toward other nations. We can't shut j
ourselves np with past traditions. ' W
must 4e eur part the JW14, aaJt 1
. . " ' , , ,
THE UTTLE TOT3 WHO
NEVER PLAN
From th Nw York World. " -
"Moat of th boy and girl In our
publlo schools ar growing up almost
without exercise,',' sald-Xieaeral George
W. Wlngat. president of th. Publi
School Athletic league. ''Any Ameri
can who shall provide them with proper .
playgrounds and athletio fields will da
more for hi country than If he should .
build a chain of libraries from her t
California. It la shameful to let pur
children grow up lato half-men or halt
woman. What must be the effect npea .
our race of the constant Influx of auoa.
physically stuntsd oreaturesT I be
lieve the proper physical training of
our aohool children la th greatest prob
lem before New Yorkers today.
' . "Among - 710 New York schoolboy
examined recently in a east aid -school
there were only three who eould raise
themselves up by their arms on a hori
zontal bar until their chin touched the
bar. -., ... ... . ' ,
"It was thS moat startling fact we
could use to aid pur appeal for mony .
to buy and qulp an athletio field. But
th best we could get waa an sppropria-,
tion to- fit out a few makeshift play
grounds. You can't blam th board
of astlmat and apportionment) Thy
hev given us alt the aid In their power.
."Many of these -children don't know
how to play. They have to be taught
the simplest gam.' ' h. -J - :
"Whr can thy learn to nlavt Tw
of our physical Instructors ' recently
walked along one' block too feet one
on on aide of the' street and the other
on the opposite aid. ' They counted In
that brief apace 100 children. At play
Io. How oould they plarT How could
they run and Jump and climb T Tha
only real activity they had waa running '
away . from the ' polio man when ; h .
caugnt warn trying to piay, :
"What sort of eltlsens will these boys
and girls become when tbey grow tint
J don't say when they reach maturity.
ror how can auch eooped-up creature
ever reach maturity T Think of the kind
of men and women they will be. - And
their children what will they be like
We have an answer In the experience of ,
England trying to recruit her army for
the Boer war. " The men they got In ,
th cities wer practically good for
nothing. . .. .. ,;..' .. . ,.,.''.
"Thera are a few . recreation around
and publlo school athletio organisations
now. but not one fifth enough for th -children
to play and grow, strong in.
"Wi have a lot of Una athlete now
among the schoolboys fast sprinter,
great -runner, strong shot-putter,
vaultera. Jumpers, etc But th publl
schools ar not run to develop a few
stars. We want to give every boy and '
every girl a chance to grow Into a
strong, normal, . healthy man and
woman."
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Fort Clatsop: .".
February 17. R. Fields returned this
evening empty-handed. He reports no
elk toward Point A dam a Collins, who
had hunted up the Netul. returned with
one. Wlllard continues very sick. Good
rich and McNeil are . Improving: the
others off th aick Hat are nearly welt
In Confidence.
; 'From th Washington. Star. r '
"Of cour," aald th ponderous
tateaman, "In the course of my re
mark I said eom thinga.'whlch wr
not popularly understood." ' -
"How .do you snow taatr"
"Because.' rejoined the ' ponderous
statesman, dropping hla voice to a
whisper, ."X didn't understand 'em my
self." - , . . '.'
think we are fortunate to begin with -ao
promising a people aa the Filipino.
It will take a Hong tlm t change them.
Just now thetr views of liberty would
give them absolutism." . . . . .
"Win there d business opportunities
In' the Phlllpplnea for Americans?" .
Xor four or nv year tn Filipino
have had to endure all klnda of misfor
tune. Their cattle, which, with their land.
la the baa of their prosperity, have died
from disease; locusts have eaten their
crops; typhoons have destroyed . their
property. On bad crop la mended th
next season, but It requires some time
to recover from a aerie or calamities.
specially the death of draft cattle.
Agriculture with be the sourcs - of
wealth In tha Phlllpplnea, a fact that
muat be remembered and duly consid
ered by all Americana., Business Is bad
there now, but the cattle are breeding
and times will certainly Improve."
. "But aa a pacifier rod succeeded not
alone in the Philippines and la Panama,
but In RomeT". .... - ' ' ' -
"I had a pleasant time In Roma, where
I went to see about buying the lande of
tha Philippine friars and wher I. re
mained for alx 'weeks. I had two au
diences of aa hour each with Leo XIII.
Physically, he waa only a breath, but
i.-n . it. .i,i..k aa t. - -
aa brilliant and ready as ever. It seemed
to tne. Ha helped me la my business
and was earnest in hla desire to aid this
government In every way. He took his .
stand and ultimately carried the matter
through by appointing an able delegate s
to th Phlllpplnea and tailing him to ac- .
cord with ua, I am not sure that an of
hla adviser agreed with him." t .
Judge Taft Is a poor man. although
hla brother In Cincinnati, tha financier
of the family, haa mads a fortune, in the
newspaper business. While - governor
of the Phlllpplnea he waa paid 120,000
year. He told a committee i eon -
gross that hs had to spend every. cent .
of Itr The lighting of the old palaoa In
which h lived eoat I1Z a month and
he apent 11.000 a year for servant hire.
Knowing thee things. I asked him,
"What ar th persons! sacrifices of a
publlo career T" ;.'.. k
A man .In offlc without aneaas must
abandon th hop of making the future .
of hi family luxuriously comfortable, '
The American peopl of the past estab
lished the present scale or salaries for
their publlo officers. It seems to have
been satisfactory to the generations ,
which followed, but I think It ought to
be changed. All that a man tan do un
der existing Conditions to safeguard his .
family Is to get his life Insured. - If he '
lives sndf becomes old he must shift for
himself. On who has engaged In bust- ;
ima must fsel tha satisfaction of
achievement and tha pleasures pf . Inde
pendence for himself and his house
hold. ' But all occupations have their -una
and. downs. The fascinations -of -
publlo llf are to be found In the power
gives and th wholesome opportuni
ties It offers. If on haa been fortunate
aqd can look back on things well don
compensates ror the loss .of many
othsrs. It- is a Joy to do things, to be ''
useful and helpful." , :l i - , "'
Twice haa thia robust, cheerful and
conscientious man refused a place on-,
th bench of th highest court In the.'
land the one great office tn which he
na aspired because he believed hit
duty te be elsewhere. And Roosevelt
na aald er ntm: "There is not In this
naif on a higher or finer typ of pubUe
eecva-t Uaa Wevare Tatt," . , v
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