Ed 5 fro H al Pase-oOE,: Jomraa H -
I
1
PORTLAND. OREGON.
1
SATURDAY, MARCH , 10, 1CC3.
the: o it eg
Wf' irniTi.,..
Published svery evening, (except
, ,
-IMTV-TOtt PTTV r.TCTS HE
I
'T LOOKS to The Journal as though the council corn-
: mittee with ail tfiecards in Iti
the very best results for the public because it didn't
know how to play them; " Here were
lions struggling for the right to run
street, the, to them, crucial transportation key of the
! cifyr . There was vastly much difference between the
early and late bids of these companies. 'The final bid
of the Willamette Valley ' company seemed on Its face
astonishingly , liberal. There' may have been a TfrkC
henand there in it, but with the city's legal depart:
."T . ment handy ail thewKITiheserBiighr havejbeen:ferted
'."-. out and, once exposed,. they necessariTy would be reme
" "'"rdieA "There" may have been "shortcomings in detail,- but
remedy would likewise have followed there. And there
.were no exclusive rights granted.':; -'.' .':',VTI V .
i But in the outcome what appears on its. face to be
the poorer of the two, offers was
, jointed secondary ; tranchise was recommenaea io tne
Willamette company. What will be the result? Apparent
. Jy that the city will largely lose the profits jt. might
' have enjoyed and the-two companies, coming to some
sort of an understanding, will get the best of tit at a
aery big saving to both. .... ;-.. . .
-lJt ia per hapsnot veil jrettoo late to do something,
' tlirttign wt ietf it is. to recoup to thcTtythe"idvanfig
-which the council comaiittjift SQ JtcM?f IxJritt.cjgdAwsjr,
Bnt the resalt, and that, too, absolute! without preju
dice for or against either company, is so distressing as
l& M tUHliiealliig and we firmly believs ths svsaU at
-iaAa3fa-Jtill-lcmonstte
rerrr3ow-fc
.WENT. THROUGH THE SENATE. -: : ; " :
THE APPROPRIATION jof $4(,000. 1 Or continu
ing the work on the jetty at the mouth of the
. Columbia river has passed the senate without
opposition, but may not go through the house so easily,
for Speaker Cannon and Representatives Dalxell, Payne
and others are going to play politics this tall, and they
want to make a record for economy. . They arc going to
-"polnt-with pride." ' Yet the merit of the Columbia jetty
is acr great and lesr that our masters, Cannoft et si,
may perhaps past the bill-and say nothing about it to
-: ;Yorkv and Pittsburg," Pennsylvania,
Still the -business should be closely watched. We
, ought to be sure of it Senators Fulton and Gearin
have done well; we have no representative in the house;
yet Oregon has some friends there, wt think, and Czar
Cannon may allow the bill to go through. , .... ; , , .. ,
y It ought to pass. It is an important matter. The
.country is spendingTTiundreds"6f mnitohsrnpensloni
. ' and in other ways, and it certainly can afford this com
parative trifle for this great and important work,-?-
j,;''; .The appropriation -will not be made, however, without
, a struggle, without further effort, yet we think these
efforts -will be forthcoming and that the work at the
mouth of ,the Columbia will go on. ,, This means millions
-, for Oregoa.f ;':'.'. .:.... ...
.''i'V a ? fvyy'ia . , . . ja v . :;'.",'
, SATAN REBUKING SIN.
HE SPECTACLE of the Oregonian criticising
the accuracy of the repTtTlnide'lij The Journal
of the gas investigation parallels the spectacle
of satan rebuking sin. There is no newspaper in the
United States of any pretensions to respectability or
decency which so distorts its news reports as the Ore
gonian. In all decent newspapers, no matter what their
editorial attitude, they strive to give an unbiased news
report This me do, not only uii grounds of common
honesty, but because as a business
the gas investigation the only fair,
factory - reports printed in any newspaper in Portland
were printed in-The Journal. . Any unprejudiced person
who was present at the bearings will bear us out in this
' statement. - -- - X . J
, In tne report 01 political meetings
always expect to get perfectly unbiased reports.' It
, 7; hopes for them and occasionally gets them. This is for
I gtvea because of the partisaa leaning which so, many
fple have. . But even in this respect the best news
'. papers are setting a good example and no longer jrosti-
ttite their columns to aid petty partisan schemes. On
the other hand, the deraandfor unbiased reports of
other public proceedings is now demanded by an en
lightened public sentiment which will be satisfied with
nothing less and the rebuke which it administers comes
ia lessened circulation and influence. . ,'.
" : As a recent example, no one has forgotten the trials
' ; . of the late Senator Mitchell and Congressman William
; , son. The Oregonian promised that in order to be per-
. fectly impartial it would print shorthand reports of the
f . . . proceedings. This it did in the Mitchell case so long as
I. " the evidence for the prosecution was being presented,
t1.- J but when that evidence closed it dropped its, shorthand
! , report and published instead bald and garbled synopses
h ,'i !.: of the testimony which in no sense gave an adequate
j . v idea of what the defense had to present. In the William
- - " ' soa case this was "even more true;, its prejudice was
simply monumental. Williamsonrar is now-more clearly
''f.-. apparent, was chiefly guilty of the heinous offense of
t being congressman and h paid thebrtter-penaltyr- '
As matter of fact, t is a physical impossibility for
THE PLAY
Thar wr number f thins that
-Uttl Jobntiy Jonc." prntrT
vanttig. dellatif to an 1tnmmr u(31-
' tio. Th opera, wrlttaa tr Oorc M.
Colimi. t fa btcr iir lis linn and
" maku .than, moat or tin kind and
. throuch It run a eoniilatrnt. intricate
plot. . In which, atrana to relate, th
""pectators" round ' theniRf Itv kenlytap
. throated. Th plr i In three eti,
elaborately h flrat seen anowlna
" th eatetior of. th Motel Cadi in Lm.
don, th aariond at wfeart and th end at
a boat, ana th third Ban yranolK
Chinatown, at nlht Th Iftat act
' draca-ed d read full r and wm mdanUy
nereaaary merely ta untanai th plot
aad 1" smja for th aettlna. which
wa unuauallr pretty. Th acen ahow
Ins th steanablp at at night was
one of tha prettiest errecur
From th nam of th play, th fact
that Oeorg M- Cohan, th author.
aomlnaJly took th part,, and from tha
way Jo which th entrant of th Jorky
was prepared for by numerous apeeche
In the flrat ot. w were led to antlri-
nala Mill Johnnr J4na Ha th prlnet
rai trtnr t th anew. II lent at ail.
r. U a I, h at laaat dooaa't appaar
h. xk bus th4 ta crw waioft,
on d atl-y, j ournal
AN IHDKHDI(lt NITflHHB
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
n "
Sunday) ard "every Sunday morning, at
BUI streets, Portland, Oregon.
WORST OF IT.
the Oregonian to
hands failed to realize
two" big 'corpora
a track over Front
without regard to
issue. , It is a full
is dragging down
which has bred up
tain, which lids
sc6ldriiournalistTC-
sisted in, must soon
moral wreckage if
THE
accepted and a loose-J
ARDILY,
up of -trains would
r i.tt.r.
precisely what we
impedertranic7
The rest was very
senate, as he may
even criticise him
and Senator Gearin
days necessary to
Prrtapi he will,
policy it pays. In
I .. or. is
pie in uregon, regaraiess 01 pontics, are going
unbiased and satis
manship.' He is a
occasion offers he
1 - iAL -' -'- i liver or Lodge.;
the public does not 1 nauon can taae
priae,
Perhaps, probably
WAR
lailfha with and snickers over next day
I bo I th- lockay. but.'Th Unknown."
who afterward turns out to be a de
tective, Wllaon. who folia th plot at
th villain with tnalodramatlo dlapatch.
Were ar aom of th things that Cohan
make 'Th Unknown." . played . ad
mirably by Tom Lcwla, aay
Fota hot tlm. London make Fargo,
Dakota., look Ilk IQ'"cnt7n '"
I'll se you later, .j Mak It ea late
r""K1 " -
"Tou don't hav to be thirsty to
drink, do yout Dan't you waah your face
eaeept when tt' dlrtyr
71 tlk,-nllore, Tom Bharkey -was- a
sajlor."
In cold print tha line look flat, per
hap, gaid - la "Th Unknown's" dry
way -they brought a, laugh for erry
word. . j ,
Rtella 'Traeey,"' wlio play th tripl
role of earl, French gtrl and Ban, Fran
claco alrl, la clever, with big eye and
a squawky vole. In man's clothe she
look aa wall as Veata TlUey. and aa
Much ,11k a man Htrang a It may
aerm, ahe walk like a man, but when
aha amoke a cigarett th Illusion van
lahe. tth handles It a ft It war a
Orecraeker about to go off.
The muaie of "Ltttl Johnny Jonea"
I not remarkable, but I pleaelnc for
the most part, and th boy ar whiat
ling todejr -juet Give My Regards to
Broadway." Mia Adel Rafter, who
played Flora bell Fly, an Amertcan
aswapaper, woman, aaa a- volo un-
no, r. caeboli
" 1
The JournaTBuIldrria, Fifth WW Y
.,- ."' . ' ' ' ;
give a fair and unbiased report of or
-opinion on.ariylhihtf JlL' wt'K'h'. b" a psrsanal in
terest; Its fundamental weakness as a newspaper is that
everything -Is -viewed 7 from-th standpoint of its own
personal interests. V If one knows in advance where the
indivdual interests ,of Mry Scott -or -Mr.- PiUock Jie, .he
can predict the attitude of the Oregontan and this totally
the right or wrong of the matter at
public appreciation "of 'this faerwhictt
the Oregonian from its high estate,
for it a wider circle of bitter enemies
than any newspaper honestly 'conducted could ever at
separated from it public confidence and
respect, which baa made it a byword for revised and
contradictory opinions on all public questions. Tor the
1 sneers of the ungodly who claim that plain,, hard cash
is the open-sesame to alfocttoiv-awd partisan Icrvor
and which has earned for it a reputation as a common
harridan- an4 beldama-whiClvJ per
land it at the jumping off place' for
not commercial ruin.
BRIDGE AT LAST.
but nevertheless freely jn the fullness
of time, the - Port of Portland has given tts
authorization ' for the building of the Portland
& Seattle bridge "across the Willamette river.- Th more
the matter was Kone into the less excuse could be found
for delay.- To use the steel bridge, while not physically
impossible, imposed the severest restraints upon traffic.
Then when it reached the west side the congestion that
woii1rha-fol owed would simolv have- been unbesrsDie.
ITwliseaTizTdat"wnTnh dydock" the
yarasFtte6mpny-w PH
of the city and. there most of the switching and making
be done. These were exceedingly
fnr th pnMir hoth from the stsnq-
ooint of convenience, easy ingress and egress to Jong
trains and lhe7lcyelopineiit Which nararaHy-ollowa -un
largely a matter of detail, important
ft is true, but. still detail If Portia adwastogrow in
size and importance, aa it was justified to grow by. the
great country tributary to it, it was absolutely essential
that other railroads should find entrance here. The
most important road that could come in here was the
Great Northern-Northern Pacific combination. It
could Only enter the city by means of a bridge. Owing
to the physical peculiarities of the country an inde
pendent bridge was an inevitable necessity. It was soon
discovered that the bridge, owing to its length, must be
a-dra wr-Thea-tba only-question Jhat-remainedLwas to
decide the method of its construction so that it would
interfere tne least witn tne river trattic. Nearly ail of
these things have been satisfactorily decided. The're
was one suggestion made by the board which should
receive the attention .of the. north bank people. It is
that an overhead way be constructed for foot and ve
hicular, traffic. Bridges, while vitally necessay, inter
fere more or lesa with river traffic, which ia likewise
essential . to Portland's prosperity. ' For this reason it
is-wenotaitheir-nnbetvTheSt
destined to grow vastly in importance in the next few
years. - Direct communication between, the two sides o!
the river will become of crucial importance. It would
be a great stroke of policy and at the same time a very
valuable concession to the general public if this feature
is incorporated into the bridge plan.
v . SENATOR GEARIN.
ENATOR GEARIN does wefl to come home to
register and SO avoid any possibility of illegality
regularity if h npuld be elected-, to the
possibly be. Nobody will censure or
for taking this precaution Oregon
has important interests to look after at Washington, to
be sure, but they are now apparently iq very good. shape,
can be spared for the eight or ten
come home and register.
not be elected, yet a great many peo-
C I
for him. He is a man in the ripe prime of life. He is
an able lawyer. He has in him the elements of states
clean, conscientious, capable man. If
is an orator, a better one than Dol-
He is a man in whom Oregon and the
we may say, Senator 'Gearin will
not be elected. - He is a JDemocrat,.and that is consid
ered by some a handicap; but, really, which would decent
people rather have ia the senate John M. Gearin, Dem-ocrat,-or-FranlcBakerr
-Republican?
OR PANIC NEEDED.
H E Washington correspondent ' of the Boston
Transcript wrote last week that "a prominent
railroad man who is here in opposition to the
pending legislation" said: "What the country needs is
a panic Things are too prosperous. People have gone
mad on these populistic ideas, and nothing will bring
them to their senses but, a panic, which will show how
dependent all classes are on those aound conditions that
invite1 the investment of capital." . .-v.'
In 1896 a United States senator said to the executive
committee of the Monetary association: " We want a
war, something to set 'people to thinking of something
else than the money question." Well, we had a war.
Perhaps we will, have another one, since it seems im
possible to have -.-a- panic ,. -1 ' ,
On the other hand, has it ever, occurred to any of
these people that a panic is precisely what is needed to
hasten the very reforms which are now in the air? r-
usually sweet and clear, aad ta
comely. Bobby Barry. Who plays
Jon, ema to hav learned - til
leaaon well. His Singing of "I'm Mighty
Glad I'm Living and That's Ail" wa so
well dona that It nearly brought tears,
which, of course, hav nothing to d
with musical eomedyr
Th chorus - Is
well dreaaed -and
r--of th "dajie 1
notably that of th " 'Op In th 'Ansotn"
aong, ar well done, The three maid
who ax wards ' of th CTilne
e' iisw
paper man daqc axeeadlngly wel"
Drank Thirty-Six Bottles oIl.FigavJ
' From, the New Tork World.
"At a recent luncheon in this city, 14
very young woman drank SI bottles of
champagne, and It of them mokd
aven doaen cigarette.' ' ' ,
Th .abov statement was ma'd last
night by Rev. Madison C Peter of th
Baptist Church of th Epiphany, In a
lecture on "White th Money Ooea,"
delivered at th Twenty-fourth Street
Methodlet Episcopal church;
"The alarming Inoreaa of th drink
habit among women of America, speci
ally In New Tork," he said, "la on of
th great pevils, both to. th horn and
to th republic. . . . - ',.
"It Is a. common sight fn this city to
se -women, and . of ten g1rlln their
teena, drink In public and as frequently
snd aa hard aa th man, often witn as en
old anough t b thI( Catharav'
SMALL CHANGE
How do you Ilk the lap of SprtngT . -
-. r t,
Fin winter, ."they aay."
. e
Th church ar good placea to go
to, aspaeially in Lnt,
"Hurrah for,thr great American-Henl
'.;'". . ' - - - -
7Th Shtp subsidy trust Is organising. -
-.Albany Democrat: . Th river down at
Portland Is blocked with Ice several feet
thick Portland. Maine.
a
Horrlbl Match wathr, lant Itf
- - ..- ... ...
Bloux City Journal: Wha la General
l-ominT" wa a queatlon propounded in
vunajraa ma otner aay, . The queatlon
wa a gooa aeai easier to answer than
th subsequent question aa to what
General Corbln has done that tha rank
01 lieutenant-general ahould b aavad
especiailT xor hla benefit.
alienator Aldrlch seem a to have aot It
wnare in cnicaen got th ax.
''r.'' ' '
William J. Clark fwtth an "'". al
ludlng to candldatea for congreaa la tha
nrat aiatrlot saya: "Thar have each
completely, covered their district and
eacn claim . and . undoubtedly-, ha a
strong following, . It la --almost lmpoa.
albl to'' Judg as to which baa .th
strongest following. Mr. Clark I a
candidate himself, therefor judlolal In
aim expressions.
OREGON "SliOELiGHTS
Tha Union Republican ta now ran bv
eleotrlclty. , , '
Tillamook will get mora than
on
1 JJprajtalgj&gBellos 'rooit Tery-
.... ......
wnvrv.
Sheridan people are talking of having
a monthly fair. -
Tree planting la going on at a lively
rata around Irrlgon,. .
x .. - . . e ...... ; ; ' -
Qlendala -News: Two of -three lara
spool of wire cable for th aerial tnua
to be eatabliahed between th Green
back mill and th Martha roln hav
arrived at. their destination, via Wolf
creek. Six span of mule and th aid
of block and tackle wer necessary In
ascenaing tn mountain, - .- - -
Tit lis lay pnntlrs miflu
to- consider the protect of a fruit and
vegetable cannery for Brownsville, sen
sibly says tha Times, : -
Athena Press: If th person who took
th lantern from tha Athena - opera
house Friday evening will return It no
questions will be asked. Otherwla
Unci Bam Spencer ears thr will b
something doing.
Estaoada News: If the frogs at the
foot of tha terrace Increase in number
and noise, It la suggested that w hav
a frog driv. r :
a , .. ,
Wake up, business man. says th Belo
News, v: .
e a 1 .. '
Coos Bay News: Two hogs at Gam
ble's meat market last Friday attracted
considerable attention. They were re
ceived from Henry Lacrosse. South
Coo river, and -weighed respectively
43IH and I9S pounds.
e ..e , . '
mnt of 1 car of fat hoa from Ne
braska paaaed through Arlington on th
way to Portland. These hog ar worth
about tlifiOO. Thl money ahould hav
been kept In Oregon by our farmer. .
.' ... : e e .. ' - . f C
Today la aaJd ta b tha KSth birthday
of one of Albany's beat young ladlea.
Albany Dauiucrat. 1 And lliere ar old
bachelors and wtdowera up there, too. '
... - .;.. e , , .
Lebanon Express-Advano: "Will you
plea Inform ma at once If thara la
eny Reward o fared for John D. Rockey
Felow. thara Is a man hear In Hiding
whltch ancers tha Dlcrlpson of John D.
Rockey F"eiow wire m - at one - at
LaoombT Bitty MarahaL" :, ,
Coos Bay New: The tug 'Columbia
towed six veesel to sea on on Ud
Thursday . last and all of them wer
large except th schooner Ivy, a two-
maater. Captain Mage doesn't apar
himself when there's work to be don.
and be has earned a reputation aa a bar
pilot that is surpassed by none. ..-.-
Condon wants to be a wool market.
Oregon's Oldest Assessor. ' '
From the Cottage Grove Western Ore
gonian. ;
Paragraphs have bean appearing in
the state papers relative to the oldest
officers who administered ths civil law
in Oregon In territorial days. Cottage
Grove la able to do eomethlng along
that line. L. L. Whltcomb, whose poet.
offlc address is Cottage Orov, Is men
tioned aa ths oldest assessor now living
In th state. H was elected aaseaaor
of Washington county at th June elec
tion tn 1854 and assessed the county
that year.. , That wee before Multnomah
county wa formed. Hlllsboro was th
county seat, where all county business
originating In Portland Waa transacted.
In 1S6I Mr. Whltcomb waa elected com
missioner for Washington county. After
servrng"hl term be moved to Tamhtll
county, where In 18t and again In 1164
he waa elected sheriff, aervlng two full
terms. It ta believed, until further re
turns ar received, J:hat h ta th oldest
living ex-eherlft
AuCheerfulprinf Lay.
- - From th Weston Lead
Til Liaise 'a Is dlssMaeeV.
the lay of th Plymouth Rook hen. Her
ay haa been very generous and aatlafac
TofyTrmgl at lus Wuuil huuseliuli-.
where JO Barred Plymnuth Rock hens
hav been on duty alnc laat November.
They produc an averge of to eggs
oaus, anu aoinviinivs nacn vne it mar.
These hens bear testimony that pur
blood pays In poultry. . Soma of them
ar from th pen of th leading special
ist of th great chicken center at Peta
liima. California, who ' fowl hav
taken first prises at th Sacramento,
Lo Angelas and San Francisco poultry
shows. Ths others ars from a promi
nent Forest Orov specialist, . The Ply
mouth Rock ha no auperlor aa a gen
eral purpose fowl and consistent layer.
Oh, They" Look Pretty Well. .
" ' From tha Roseburg Review. '
Many of our Republican atate ex,
changes ar profusely. If not handsome
ly, illuatrateoV wlth th pictures of men
whose careworn feature stamp them, as
candidates for fooa at- ta April prl-
LAWSON' ON THE
INVESTIGATION :
iimm writinala ih
March number of Everybody's Magaahie
his view on thjr legislative Investiga
tion of tha Insurance companies. . lie
says In parti
"A laying bar f ssrraaWesj la th
necargr flrat atep toward sitrpatlng
It. The urgeon roust uncover th can
cer before cutting It out. I shall show
here . that, though progress has been
made, policy-holders' funds ar In more
deadly peril than ver before. While
MoCalla and McCordya and Alexanders'
hav been deposed, their organlsatlona
and- their mthela' reaaala. What Is
worse, all check has bean removed from
the giant erraftera of the ayaUm.' who.
In th minor revolution that hav Just
occurred, hav tightened their hold on
policy-holders' millions, and, more sure
ly than ver before, are a up rem . Jn J
authority and power. . - . , t
"I atated that tha New Tork investi
gation hed revealed- little more than
petty graft.- It was ao steered aa to be
confined to minor peccadillos of offi
ciate and director. Ths mn who might
hav been compelled to glv Informs
tloa of auch a character as seriously
to Involve th respectable, criminal be
gan to disappear from sight at th first
rumble of approaching trouble, . . ',
Andy Fields, tha head devil of the
Mutual Life, landlord of th 'House of
Mirth In .Albany, debaucher of leglala-
turea, chief graftaman of th Institu
tion, flitted to part unknown. . What
might h not hav been foroed to dla
close of corruption and knavery T In the
rasa of Judge Andy Hamilton, th New
Tork Life' chief, lobbyist, more explicit
information wa gathered. Thla man
had actually been paid th enormous
urn. of 11,100.000 for th purpose of
brmlng .- legislatures -thrmighPTit--tt'
country, congressman, judge, and ven
United BUtes senators.
T'hlle the' sums traced to this co.'-
ruptionist ar fairly large, every feature
tn connection with hi ' performances
and hi detection showed that the in
had Ssassd anly a frantlnn
of th amounts h had handled. ..Thla
ted te the ousplrtoe that Sndy Hamilton
might easily hav been used aa a cover
for much dlrct stealing. Fromwhsi
happened in Hamilton' case th people
can Judge by what tactics they will be
met when they dare to try to free them
selves from th mesne In which they
ar ensnared.
"Then there is th delusion, so. care
fully promulgated tnatlhe- EqulUbl
had been purified because Thomas F.
Ryan had taken possession and turned
over to three trustees full power to con
trol th corporation.- .
The beople swallowed this nebulous
morsel with the old-time of-couree-lte-Sll-rightneas
and -then-awaited devl
opmenta, which came with the'annual
election. Amid a flei.t'B beating of torn
tome and soundtng of baaooa. each of
the hundreds of thousands of tha Equit
able policy-holder received an address.
signed by tha Hon. Grover Cleveland,
ex-president of th United States, aa
chairman of Thomas F. Ryan's board of
dummis. ' '
"What thla addreaa, with all its many
words, amounted to was this: Every
policy-holder- Is wow accorded th privl.
lege that each year there ar elected
IS directors -of th Equitable company,
and that, under the new order of things.
Instead of their being elected by th
stockholders, a In th Hydd-Alexander
regime, they wilt be elected by us. who
ar appointed by tha stockholder, -to-
wlt, Tboma .F Ryan, in th following
manner: . W will nominate, ' Jnt - as
Hyde-Alexander formerly did. IS men,
but before selecting them w pledge
ourselves to glv to each policy-holder
th privilege of. sending us th name
of seven policy-holders who h believes
should be directors, and upon receipt of
..,h,.m h. ,ft wa win I
proceed, the same aa Though wS Tiadhot
Drone through th fol-de-rol of asking
for them, to appoint whomsoever wt se
fit as said director. . ;
"Which 1 exactly what happened. Th
reorganisation and purification of the
Equltabl actually amounts to this, and
this- alon: Thomas F. Ryan la now In
more abaolut control of tha eompany
and lta vaat fuoda than were Hyde and
Alexander, compared to whom aa an ax.
ponent of corporation frensied finance
h la aa a shark to shrimp.
"if -my readere will look ovr the
fruits of ths lat Inquiry they will
realise how Uttl th Insurance revo
lution It wrought really amounts to.
I hav-stated -that - th revelationa It
yielded wer mere sops. Let me re
iteratethe whol performance waa as
adroitly steered aa vr a sohm or
plan was that had Its beginning and and
In that Joggle factory of Juggl fao
tortos It Broadway. The committee
waa aa responsive to th 'system' as
th wax tablets of th phonograph ar
to th vole of a speaker. Some unex
pected breaks occurred, soms unpro
K rammed disclosures crept out, - but
those were promptly sidetracked. If
th investigation had been conducted
for' blood It would quickly have got
past th McCalls, Perkinses and Mc
Curdya. -
"No, indeed, th Rogers, th Rocke
fellers, th Stillmana and Morgans wer
not put under oath to disci os thla In
iquitous ' scheme for plundering, for If
they had been, th combined energies of
all th politicians of New Tork, shoul
der to shoulder with Wall street, could
not have prevented th Investigation
from spreading to th inner tenta of th
system.'
As I writ these line th publto Is
still under th delusion that all th
doings of th grafters and robbers
during th paat quarter , of . a century
ar now known, and it has full eon.
ftdenc that when th committee . re
ports to th legislature th policy hold
era will hav their relief. .
j"I hav had laid before m the cut-and-drted
program for th new legisla
tion which will be railroaded through
th New Tork legislator as th cure
all phoenix which has arisen from th
ashes of th Investigation.
"While It will undoubtedly deprlv of.
fleers and directors of th privilege of
handing out petty Jnbs to relatives at
fat salarte, and-mak -4mrMelble-the
th new order of IhTnifs wITI maaTtht
grafting of million , much easier than
tn the past -it mv m
stealing. When In the future' the Big
Three ha to buy th presidency eTTTW
United States or half a dosen legists'
tures -f or - v or 4- atllllon-dollara of
th Insuranc fund, the book entries
can be made of such a character aa to
slip through any number of investiga
tion a emoothly Roger or Ryaa
could slip through Bulphurvlll looking
for a trolley or gaa charter. ,
If my readera will look over th fruits
of ths lat. inquiry they will realls how
little th Inaurano . resolution In
wrought really amount to. I hav
stated that the revelations wer sops.
Let m reiterate the whol perform
ance was a adroitly sterd aa ever a
scheme ar plan waa that had Its be
ginning and end in that Juggle-factory
of Juggla-factorle. .
' "Only thoa thing snd those men
whom th master minds of Standard
Oil permitted to be touched upon, war
sifted. Bom unexpected breaks ao-
eurred; soma unprogramed disclosures
crept out; but tboa wer promptly 14
trackvd. '"If th Investlration hd been, con-
aucieq ror mood It would have quicaiy
got past th MoCalla, Parkins and th
McCurdya, .Aa I write these lines the
public Is -still -under the delusion that
Jail the dotnan of tha srafters and rob.
uers are now anowo. The cut and ariea
legislative' program will merely make
the grafting of mtllipna much eeajer
man in tn past.-
SUCCESS IS ACraFVTLV
BY WORK
. -WheeirWllcox
. (Cepyrtsht; ISO, by W. Bv Hearst.)
I watched a . handsome young girl
wh sat at a neighboring tabl at a
hotel for aome-days, and wondered why,
with her beauty and youth, good health
and becoming toilets, she missed being
charming.
Then I decided It waa th look of dis
content upon bar fair face.
-Talking with her later aha confessed
her discontent
"I do not Ilk my life at alU ah said.
"I am not making anything of myself.
I have no one to help or encourage me.
sou know we cannot do much without
assistance eome one to push ua
"With youth, personal - attractions.
health and a. determination to achieve.
we can work miracles," I replied.
But, you see, my environment la not
right,1 she .continued. "So much de
pends on one s environment, don t . you
know,
But I did not know; snd 1 told Tfer-ea
-The environment of Benjamin Frank'
lib was discouraging to an ambitious
lad. It waa so discouraging that he-
made a new environment.
And h made- it alone and unaided. .
llam rhJppa. He.:
was only tJlfforsheepHonjnjwher elae. A minister might
olate farm in iin"7take a euite of roofnara "hotel and
tender on a desolate
unable to read or write at the age ot
17. Tet he became a governor of (the
colony) Maasachusetts and a great ex
plorer, a brilliant general and finally was
"given"' a tlg " T3y IMS" kliig uf -tangland
for bis achievementa. . , i-m
f The environment of Joan of A rCu was
not on to make It. seem possible that
ahe could raise an army and lead It to
battle.. ..
Tet ahe did. aa wa all know. .
, Columbua'waa not encouraged by his
associates' when be wanted to set. forth
In March of new world.
But h wa so In earnest, and so de
termined that he had to And th way.
.We cannot all be a Franklin, a Phlppa.
a Joan of Are or. a Columbus, but w
can all call Into exercl soma portion
of th sam qualities . which actuated
those, exeat souls. - ' .
..W canroiv to doomething wS
teel 1 In our-power. ,
Then w can determine to .go ahead.
We can keep our purpose in mind
tl'nually- and work at- It - persisMntly.
We can call .prayer and th assistance
of unseen friend and divine innuence
to our aid." ' '
W can bellev In ourlva and our
own ability to work out a deal red re
sult without leaning" on any mortal.
W can b patient and undlacouraged
In ta fax of all obstacle.
. If occasional moods or aisoourage
ment dominate u w can reason and
pray them away and rle over them.
All these experiences - cam , to th
great souls named above.. -
They did not walk a steady, avn
path up to glory and auoceaa.:
- They faltered and worried and prayed
and wer discouraged and still kept on,
They did not watt for soms on to
change ' their environment or "for: en
couragement or assistance, save what
their efforts brought to pass.
Aa . Intense.' consuming, all-absorbing
desire to attain a certain end I Ilk
atwm-plowr-meltlnga away enow drifts, t
Environment gives way oeiore it.
- But a fretful discontent, a weak dis
satisfaction with existing conditions, a
wavering, wandering mind that- doea not
like what It haa and does not know what
It does want, never achieved anything
on earth aav destruction of th mental
forces.
f That la what o many young people t
the present day call - "ambition ana
wonder why they do not succeed.
Nothing can keep you from yeur
heart desire If you really - want It
enough to work for It yourself.
But as long as you expect others to
work for you the ruling powers know
you do not really want it, and.thsy.wil1
not help you to attain It.
Th opportunities of life ar brought
To our own doors, not by capricious
fata, :
But by the strong, compelling fore of
thought:
1 Send forth your heart's deeir and
work and wait. .
Insurance Recommendations.
By Wex Jones. . . '
By greet good fortune, a copy of ths
minority report which wasn't made by
the Armstrong committee was obtained
last night from a man in a balloon,
which waa at the time rapidly drifting
eastward across ths Atlantic
Among the principal recommendations
sre th followlngi
Presidents ot eompaniee ahould be al
lowed to raise their salaries without -re
gard to anything but their need of the
money. .
Funds to be used In fighting unfavor
able legislation should be ' made legal
and no vouchers should be required tor
sums expended on this account.
Relatives of th high officials In sny
eompany should b given th preference
In employing men, owing to their proven
cTacltyfor drawing th most psy for
th least work. 1
'All Insurance .companies of any kind
should be inutuallsed, that Is, th di
rector - should mutually-assist in rais
ing their own aalarlea.
Policy holder should be given every
encouragement to contribute to th bus
cess of the companies In which they
may be Interested. It should never be
forgotten that the policy holder Is th
foundation stone of the company and
ha to hold up all those on top.
Syndicate should be held In favor, a
6frlclals csn make la rg same- by-particl 1
paling rnnm,'Tmoany--pCTtwmie lirtn to
the company can be met, easily from th
TPI'IS. - ' -
Officials of ' Insuraftc companies
Should beeieniul from Hi ordinary pro
cesses of law, and subpoena of any kind
should not be Jield binding upon them.
Otherwise th offlclala may' be kept
away from th offlc so much that thelf
pockets may suffer. , r -' , ,
:: X Win Get In. '
From th Pendleton Easi Oregonian.
Selfish Interests In Portland are try
ing to defeat th plan of th north
bank road to enter that city by way of
a bridge ever.the Columbia river, on the
plea that tha bridge will Interfere with
commerce: if Portland will awaken and
aaalst In building another read bite) that
city to help haul la th products the
world which needs the products will
look out for. their exportation. .The
main thing l to enable the grower to
ship hi products Into th metropolis;
shipping them out I a small matt to
beoonaldeTsd afterward.
THE SORROWS OF
v A DIPLOMAT
From the New Tork World.
From the j
GeiieriToricior
selfishly and largely at his own expense
represented 10.008.000 of hie country,
men in Franc aa their American im-
'bassartui, said as a yliluilt;, nuii.pai tl
san citixen, among other things,, that
he waa glad to get back t hi own'
bouse again. -- - v - ., ..,. . "... .'
" "While th salary of an ambassador," -I1T.S00
a year, seem liberal to the un-
Initiated, aa a matter of fact th coat '
of. maintaining the 'embaaay is four
time as much as con areas allowa, or
bout 176,000," said 'General Porter.
"theHiraf ItenTof ex pense is "TTIS'Tent
Ing of a sultabl house for th purpose,
which must be paid for out of th am
baaaador'a salary. Although. friend of
mine had been looking for an official -realdence
for me, I arrived In Paris
without any. ' My aearch . lasted two.
months, and out of only three houees
at all available In every way I managed
to rent the Spltser munsion. -
"Spltssr bad-been a famous collector
and had designed hi residence for th
beet way of displaying ht treasure, '
Thl insured me pienty-or targw :
tlon-rooma for th official -entertain- -menta
that ar endless. He had sold '
hi collection, and with th exception of
certain . thing he had left, rvorles, re
pousse arm ore and exquisite carving; -tha
houae wa in order for my purpose,.
My owp family waa email, ao that wa
occupied the upper floor 'for ourselvea
only. ...--'.-
. "An ambassador's first duty. Is ta
present hi credentials and then to get .
in touch with the diplomatic corps lta
attache and personal families, and with
the offlclala of the country to which h
la sent. . For this purpose it Is 'obli
gatory to glvs a large official reception.
Etiquette demands that thle ehall tak -
place under hi own roof tt cannot be -
hold a reception there, but, an ambassa
dor muat have an of floial , residence.
"Altogether thl means a gathering of
abtrut 1,50 people, aa you can readily
uh3efSTaTid'T.nat "th SfflnSSSV BiUSf bS "
hrmae of ranalrlerable ataa inA sectaHv, -
irfangedo apcommodatr ttie-f o
tie.-- . :
One Installed, and the offlclaf eti
quette compiled with, there follows as
endless routine, of mora or less elab-'
orate functiona. ' -
One of tha Intrlnalo objects of an
ambassador's presence Is to - Inform
himself of sll foreign relations, of th
diplomacy that Is absorbed and com
municated generally In drawing-rooms.
at dinner, at society functions of all
sorts. Necessarily, an ambaaaador can
not accept a social favor without re
turning it," and ther follow mora obli
gation that ar In th course or his
legitimate duties, and yet entirely- apart .
from the- more ceremonloua reception
uat nolo ai in emoassy.
And yet when the rank ot amnassadn
waa created it waa atlpulated that the
pay should not b Increased beyond that
of the minister.
"Dinner parties ar ever so people ar
ordinary vnt at th American em
bassy. 'For Instance," when ax-President Har-. .
rteon came ta Parts It developed upon..
th American 'ambassador' to present
him to th had of tha nation, othee
high bfflclal and to th diplomat!)
corps, and to glv appropriate enter- r
talnmenta in his honor.. . . ,
"Aa It 1a, ther wUl probably never be
an American dean of th diplomtlo
corpa, because an ambassador can ael-
dom afford to donat his private pure
to th government long onough to raca
that position.
"No on In Paris knows from year
to year where the American am baas y
lav If you call a hack and ask th coeon- .
man to drtv you to It, he shrugs his,
shoulders and says he doesn't know
whM It I. hl -Tt 1 nn tllnfll' ,
Any ene know where every 'embassy
in Paris Is, excepting th American em- '
basay. , -
Th honor Is very great, of course, tf
an appointment to any on of the great
powers In Europe, for th list of an am
bassador's predecessor In, London and
Parla include such names ss Benjamin
Franklin. Jefferson. Monroe. Adams and
so on.
It Is of ths utmost Importance that
an American ambaaaador should apeak -
French, which la the diplomatic Ian.
guage of the world. Fancy the embar
rassment of a diplomatic officer being -
placed at dinner between two diplomats "
or two ladles, to whomvh could not talk,
and who could not talk to him. Of
course, one can always secure an inter
preter, but that leave a diplomatic
transaction too open to the suspicion of '
not Interpreting accurately, and It de- ,.
troys th privacy of interviews. Every
embassy has discovered the grave lm-
porta nee of this matter, v i .
"There la no greater Hindrance ana
embarrassment to an American ambas
sador than the Insufficient office staff
that IB provided. The personnel conalst :
of five secretsrte -and attaches, while
ether embassies have from It to IS.
"Usually an attache of the American
embassy Is a yong man who spends per- '
haps a quarter of the lncom hi gov
ernment provide In reselling his des-.
tlnatlon. than he discover that he Is '
expected to appear at ' all ceremonial
functions, to buy, probably, a new out- ,
fit of clothes, to ride In carriages, etc., on
a salary that would scarcely keep him la
necessaries at noma."
'So long as. the ambassador was a .
man who had a general grasp upon th
affair of th world, a man who waa
representative In character and intelli
gence, congress was satisfied to let him
live aa beet h could. Th plan of se
lecting such men hss led to establishing .
American prestige abroad probably- mora
than If the European cuetom of promot-
ing oy orqer or Tang nao oeen nu.
The- Britiah embassy In Pari coat
tts government about ItOMOOj .JUa nowv
worth several mmians. -
"The lonaer the United States aeiays
building foreign embeesles th mora .lt I
111 coat to build. Of course it is noi
necessary that tne American cmoaesr
hould be aa elaborate aa some others.
We might dispense with the beautiful
garden that ar usually attached to
the government house. W hould
be thsnkkful for a respectable roof of
ouf own and dispense with luxurteev
A rsreer for Tag mr of small msana, ..
as conditions prevail now, out wun aa
..ri-i.l residence rem Tree, ana wun m
mora liber! allowance 10 sn'ietaile. -II
ta a very tempting opportunity to a man
who desires to serv his country in sa
important capacity." ,4 . ' . -
'At Fori Clatsop. - - : ' -
March ls-e-It became fair about 1
o'clock aad w directed two parties of
hunter to, proceed along th Netul, on
up and th othr down th river. An
other party received . orders to set out
early tomorrow morning, cross th bsy,
and hunt beyond th , Kllhawanakle,
From th laat quarter we had mucn
hop of game, as It ha 4en aa yet but
little hunted over. It blew hard nil
day, aad th Indians did not leave. till
evening. .- . r
LEWIS AND CLARK"
;" v A-.