Editorial Page of The Journal THE JOURNAL AM IVnrPIKIIIKT NIWHPAPBK. c a. Jackson. rubllnhor mir Skadar mocalng, T. Jouxaal Ben- lag. nu na iaiuoiu nnm . Salmi at tk. .toff1ce t Portias. Onccm. tot traaamkarios ihrousb tk. nail ,cu 1 tbruugh tli mall nUPHOKI M.ln JUO M.to am OffleS. FdRKIU.N ADVEBTI8INO EirBSMKNTATI VB WO Nu.il .mt, Sort; Trltwe. BalU lag, Chicago. SstlL Iptfcwi T.nn. bj null to uj address a ih uauM BtniM. i.nias or men. niitv. :Mmt S300 I One month W iivnir Dm mr 41-00 I On sjosth. 35 DAILY AND SUNDAY. .CM iw $7 oo I Ob moots M The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark; to be a party to nothing under- or mysterious. Dick- FUEL FAMINE. FROM MANY TOWNS of Ore gon comes the increasingly in sistent plea for fuel The Bvinter is approaching, and fuel is al most gone, with no present prospect .of getting more. Orders were sent in weeks or months ago, but they have not been filled, and new orders cannot be taken, because there are no ears to carry the needed coal or wood, or if there are cars there are not locomotives to move them. If other demands upon transportation facilities were being met, if lumber nd ether products were being hauled away to supply the demand for it and keep the mills and factories running full blast, there might be some excuse for delay in supplying people with fuel. If they knew it was coming a little later they would not object to waiting. But there are not nearly enough locomotives and cars for these other purposes, and won't be all falL And if 100 towns are nearly out of fuel with no prospect of getting any, how are they to be supplied for the winter? Don't ask the railroads. They not only do not know but apparently do not care. They did not know that towns would grow and the demand for fuel would increase; in fact, sup posed the people could get along for one winter without fuel. They did not know that the output of lumber was going to increase rapidly, and the Volume of other products was to grow. What did they know or care about Oregon anyway, so long as it was yielding a good revenue to its Wall street overlords? We don't think that many people will freeze to death next winter in Oregon, but some of them may have to shiver considerably, and it may be necessary to sacrifice some of the fencing and furniture. Some fuel will be dribbled along after awhile, prob ably, but let consumers hope and pray that the winter will not be long and severe, and that by another fall the railroads will have discovered that it is to their interest as well as that of the people of Oregon to pro vide far more transportation facilities. PLATT SHOULD RESION. THOMAS C. PLATT has ceased to be useful, ornamental, or an object of wholesome mer riment Therefore he should retire from the United States senate, and eek the quiet shades of that ob livion which his misdeeds and frailties have earned. ( The people of this country have .fever been tolerant of the weaknesses of their great men, and have refrained from close scrutiny of the private lives of those who served them. But the nation has demanded that its ser vants should be stronger than their weaknesses, and that on the battlefield, in the senate, and in the presidential chair their frailties should not palsy arm, nor tongue, nor pen. At no time was Thomas C. Piatt ever . a "great man; never was he Stronger than his wealth and the com- bined money of the pedatory trusts with which he was allied tirade him. In business as in politics, he was the "me, too" type of man who is sup posed to lead because he follows Without making a noise, and who gets high place became the men who put him there would rather pull the Strings than do the jumping. Piatt controlled the New York Republican machine as much as the horn dom inates the automobile. He ceased to he a personality in the days of Roscoe Conkling, since when be has been nothing but United States senator. Long since Piatt ceased to be use ful s anything but an example' and a warning. His public life has been a shame and his private life a disgrace. Not only has he been a scandal him elf, hut he has been a cause of scandal in others. The opportunity that Thomas C. ' Piatt has to reaign may he his last. body that Mg toe moral to admit I Brigham H. Roberts because he had wives, and which . fought Reed Smoot's effort to take his sest on the grounds, not that he had more than one wife, but that he is a Mormon, cannot refuse to take cognisance of Piatt's turpmids, nor fail to expel him. HOOD RIVER OF COURSE a large number of Portland people will go to Hood River Thursday to at tend the annual fruit fair and the meeting of the irrigationists. As many as can spare the time should go. it is but a short trip; it is a pleasant one, and Unstinted hospital ity of the enterprising people of Hood River awaits all suitors. The Hood River valley is famed for its apples and strawberries throughout the land, and in oversea capitals. Its apples, to be seen there in great profusion this week, are considered by fruit epicures and connoisseurs-in various r countries to be the best produced in the world. If they can be equaled anywhere it is in southern Oregon. But the merit of the Hood River ap ples did not become known far and wide by silence and inactivity about them. Hood River tooted its mellow horn, and the world listened, looked, smelt and tasted, and to its surprise and delectation found that Hood River was no fraud, that it was able to make good, "and then some." Hood River valley is not only the best, or equal to the best, apple pro ducing region in the world, but it has oflier claims and attractions. Besides its also famous strawberries, other fruits and berries can be raised there, and hay and other crops. It' is sup plied with excellent water power, tim ber is not far away, the great Colum bia flows at its feet, and better than all, its people are intelligent, pro gressive, enterprising and moral a community of as good citizens as can be found in the country. The fair will be well worth attend- iag, and there will be interesting and instructive discussions of the very im portant subject of irrigation, by those who have made it a study, and in which Oregon is so vitally interested. So the trip to Hood River should be both pleasurable and profitable. The first issue of Ridgeway's, the weekly with a new idea, has just been published, and fulfills the promises of the editor. It made its appearance in 14 cities on the same day, with prac tically the same matter in every de partment. It is a weekly with daily paper and magazine features, and cov ers the. whole range of human inter est, from politics to society. The idea of this militant weekly originated with O. J. Ridgeway, who made Everybody's a power in the magazine world, and if subsequent rslues are as good as the first, the newcomer is here to stay. '' i Through alternating storms of snpw and sleet, 12,693 freezing people watched 18 shivering men play ball in Chicago yesterday. The temperature in Portland was S3 degrees. We can understand why the baseball "fan" ia willing to freeze solid in order to see a goad game, but how he can endure the other inconveniences of Chicago is the problem that killed Euclid. Alluding to the report that Mrs. Piatt was accustomed to ' knocking her husband down, the Pendleton Tribune says he ought to have been floored 25 years ago. Another case of kicking a man when he is down. Hasn't he been a good, loyal Repub lican all this time? Between the lines of the story that "Swiftwater Bill" Gates has lost his fortune and is so ragged that the dogs of Seattle bark at him one may read the suggestion that some of the in numerable ex-wivqg of the miner are pressing for alimony. Now it is reported that President Roosevelt wants, to. go to the senate after his term as president expires. New York could atone for keeping Piatt and Depew in the senate so long in no better way, unless by electing a real, sure-thing Democratic re former. ' The wholesale massacre of Rus sian Jews, women and children as well as men, goes on in various parts of Russia, and still thunderbolts from high hesven do not destroy the Rus sian government. But it hss a great "day of wrath" coming. According to Commissioner Hoffs estimate Oregon has increased only 50,000 in population in the past six years. This report should be pleas ing to the Oregonian, but it does not asiit anybody else. If the Cubans would elect Taft, or even Magoon, president, they might get over the revolutionary fever. A New York Republican campaign calculator figures put Hugh' ma The Candidates for Governor at the November Elections State Alabama California ........ Colorado .' Connect lout Idaho Iowa Kanaaa MasBMohuaetta . . . Michigan , Minnesota , Nebraska Nevada Nw Hampshire . . New Torn North Dakota Pennsylvania South Carolina . . Bouth Dakota Tennessee Republican. . .Nona . James N. Olllett . . . Henry A. Buchtel . . . Rollln 8. Woodruff F. R. Gooding . Albert B. Cummlna . . E. W Hoeh . Curtla Guild. Jr. . . . Fred at. Warner . . . . A. 1. Colo . George I.. Sheldon . ..John F. Mitchell ... . Charles M. Floyd . . . Charles B. Hughes , . k. T. Sarlee . Bdwln 8. Stuart Coe I. Crawford . . . Henry Clay Evane . . Carey a. Gray ...... Jamea O. Davidson B. B. Brooks Texas . . . Wlaconaln Wyoming; In addition to the above tickets the candidates In nearly every state. All of the above will be voted for November . Arkansas, Georgia. Maine, Oregon and, Vermont- have held their elections this year. In Kentucky the election will be held November 5. Third tickets have been put in the field in several statea. In Texas Col onel E. H. R. Green Is running as the candidate of the "reorganised" Repub licans. In Pennaylvanla Mr. Bmery Is the candidate of the Lincoln party as well as or the Democrats. In Nebraska fusion axiata between tnje Democrats and Populists. In Colorado Judge Ben B. Llndsey Is running as Sjn Independ ent candidate for governor. In California W. H. Langdon la the candidate of the Hearst organisation. A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT. For Simplified Spellers: The London Dally Chronicle gives these eccentric pronunciations of a few of the curious place names that dot the map of England: Rhudbaxton la Rlbson. Woodmancote Is Uddenmuckat ' Sawbrldgeworth la Sapaer. Churchdown Is Chosen. Sandtacre la 8enjtker. Little Urawlek is Llloslk. Aspatrla Is Spethry. St. Oalth la Toosy. Chaddenwyehe Is Charnage. Happlaburgh la Haseboro. Salt Fleetby Is Sollaby. Atmondesbury la Amesb'ury. Conugresbury Is Coomsbury. Few Women Stutter. "Stuttering women are very rare," said the physician. "I think It safe to say. that the average person passes through Ufa without ever meeting a stuttering woman. "There are two reft sons for this. First, woman naturally I don't know why la less liable to the disease of stammering than man. Second, If she develops this disease, ahe sets out with the determination to cure herself, and she succeeds; whereas careless man, rather than take the trouble of a cure, will go stammering on to the end. No Parasites Hera. Bara.br nssabajdt, chatttngf aMut ' her American tour, said that upon reaching that land of freedom from the stifling moral atmosphere of Europe one draws a long breath of the pure air of liberty. There Is no parasite class In America, From top to bottom of the soelal scale they are . all up and down Inhabitants of the United Statea, compoaed of men and women from all the countries of Europe. They constitute a verttabhvna tlon In the best sense of the word. Madame Bernhardt said she also ad mired the Canadians, but qualified her praise by saying: "There Is too much of the Latin race In them.' Foreign Stamp. The most coloasal stamp forgery on record entailed the successful swindling of collectors throughout Europe In 188. On that day the French papers announced that King Marie I o'f Sedang an Island In the vicinity of China was coming to Paris. As It happened, this self-created monarch was an ex offlcer of the French navy and his ap pearance. In Paris created considerable jority at 250,000, while' a Hearst man estimates his msjority at 200,000. These ante-election partisan estimstes are not worth the breath it requires to utter them. There is no danger of Rockefeller or any of his kind being personally punished on account of their viola tions of law. There are exceptions to all rules, and a good many of them to the professed square deal nil. If Mr. Bourne should be elected and should have a patronage pull, Mr. U'Ren may reasonably expect the fat test plum the new senator can pluck for him. Look how Clackamas county went last April. Isn't there some wsy of stopping that noise in Cuba until after the New York election? The people of this country do not want to miss a word of the candidates' speeches. The Russian press continues to froth with rage over what it terms the atrocities practiced on the home less negroes by the white savages of America. After his hard, trying work as president, Mr. Roosevelt thinks he will need a complete rest, and will go to the United States senate from New York. A Prophecy Fulfilled. From the Eugene Journal. The R. L. Polk directory people say the population of Portland is about 188.000. The Oregonian says it Is only 121.000. hereupon the Seattle paper howl with delight, the Portland Jour nal rails the Oregonian "traitor." We repeat our prophecy of 40 years ago and ever since that Portland will be the largest city on the Pacific coast and ons of the great ottlee of the world. An exchange Informs an anxious In quirer that "when a lady and gentleman are walking together on a street the lady should walk Inside of the gentle man." But how could she? And what gsntlsmen would swallow a lady t Democratic. ...P. B. Comer. ...Theodore A. Bell. ...Alva Adams. . . Charleg F. Thayer. . . C. O. Stockslager. . .Claude R. Porter. ..William A. Harris. . .John B. Moran. . .Charles H. Klmmerle. . .John A. Johnson. . A. C. Shallenberger. . . John Sparks V Hainan u. jameaon. William R. Hearst , John Burke. .Lewis Bmery, Jr. Martin F. Ansel. J. A. Stransky. .Melcomb R. Patterson. .T. M. Campbell. John A. Ay! ward. 8. A. O. Kelater. Prohsklttonlsts and Sociallsta save of the Common of a sensation. Aa soon as bis majesty had been duly advertised, seta of seven different postage stamps marked Sedang" and bearing three half-moons appeared, and so great was the demand for them that In less than a month they realised 1,00 franca each. Not until the king and his ministers had reaped fat fortunes lit this manner was it discovered that the whole thing was a hoax and the stamps consequently worthless. Pillules. Strawberries are good for rheuma tism. China's soil Is the richest In the world. Abstainers from pork, particularly Hebrews, never get cancer. Jean Chare t, a boy of 11, ascended Mont Blanc last summer. The University of Oxford prints books In 150 different languages. The king of England's gold and sil ver plate is valued at 110,000,000. Letters begging for a total Of 110,000,000 are received monthly by John D. Rockefeller. Gold pens are In the end the cheapest, for one gold pen. with decent treatment, will last 10 years. Armenian girls, the day of their wed ding, have the breast and neck painted all over with delicate blue flowers. And Vow Shoddy Leather. Shoddy leather is .the latest commer cial enterprise. Old boots snd shoe are gathered up and thrown Into a ma chine that spouts chocolate-colored dust. This dust la mixed with about 40 per cent of melted India rubber, and the mixture they prese out, aa thin as pis crust, under huge rollers, applying pressure of 10,000 pounds to the square foot. They color it afterward and put it on the market. It la used in cheap shoes. The men who half sole and heel you for a quarter employ a lot of it. Where They Should Live. From the Bohemian. John D. Rockefeller In Oil City. Wall Street Lamb la Shepherds- vllle. K Theatrical stars tn Fltchvllle. Board of Aldermen in Council Bluffs. Chauncey Depew- in Great Falls. The Treatrical Trust in Grafton. Thomaa W. Lawson in Wind Gap. Chorus Girls In Johannesburg. Nansen in Poland. Notes by the Way. By Wex Jones. Do not send Ice by mall. Hot wsather will malt it and the stamp will be wasted. Telegraph to. In arranging cut flower see that the' blossoms are on top. A vaae with the stems protruding is far from elegant. Rose leaves make a delicious salad. Va lettuce and tomatoea and French dressing. Place the rose leaves in a Jar snd keep them there until the salad la eaten. Mlovlng pictures entertain Children. Hang your pictures on a pin, and when they fall on grandpa's head the kids will laugh like mad. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Swear off cigars for a week and see how much more you'll like em. Muffins are delightful companions if well brought up. A cultured muffin le one of nature's noblemen. Read some poetry every day. It will elevate you above the petty worries of the dsy. Tou can read it In the street ear ads on your way down to busi ness. , Boys and Deer. From the Centrel Oregon Herald. Two young Evans creek beys war oat bunting the other day. armed with sn old needle gun and a .ll-oallber rifle. They had a limited supply of ammuni tion and when they jumped up a big buek and crippled him they ran out of sheila for the big guts, but followed their quarry until their dogs brought him to bay. The buck quickly killed one lf the dogs, but the other kept the deer Interested until the boy came up. They tried to finish ths buck with their It, but his. hesd was toe hard for the little bullets and they finally schemed around until they succeeded In lassoing him with a rope. They than tied hiss to a tree, and, having no bullets, they tried to kill him with clubs and rocks, but finally had to give It up and go for help. They went for the nearest neigh bor and got him to take his gun and finish ths lob they had begun. He la a Genius. The manager of a Parts esstno has aelved the women's hat problem. He has not forbidden ladle to wear heats, but hat decreed that ladies "an ohapeeu" must sit on ths left, and those who come "en cheveux" on the right. Re sult thst all ths gentlemen keep to the right, while the ladle on ths left realise that there I no particular fun In elttlng among a lot of women, espe cially when you cannot see the stag. There la a charming simplicity about this appeal to the fundamental Instincts of human nature which stamps ths solution as masterly might one not al- 4 most say a a stroke of genius t the The Weero la she South, Portland, Oct. I To the Editor of The Journal The pubiio has long slnee ceased to expect anything Impartial from a southern writer on the race ques tion. Environment, long residence in a particular section of the joounbry, un questionably effect a oh'ange la the average man's sentiments, habits and disposition. The communication over the name of L. M. Norwood, which appeared in The Journal of the 18th ultlsjo. attempts to justify the acts ef one class of crim inals, the whites, and condemn thoss of another, the blacks. Ths policy of ths law is equal and exact Justice to all men. Thla maxim ts not only ths basis of all law, but ths fundamental principle upon which our government ia founded. The pilgrim fathers, driven across the sea by the tyranny and oppression of Great Britain, planted ths Seed of pop ular government at Plymouth Rock, snd ths spirit Of theae brave, hardy. Justice loving pioneer was afterward breathed Into the Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal." The unwillingness of the south to rec ognise the manhood rights of ths negro, and the deliberate and wanton denial of his legal rights, were ths essence of the Oregonian editorial which baa so aroused our southern friend, and It Is on account of this injustice that honest, law-abiding cltlssns protest Everybody knows that the negro is denied his constitutional rlguts in the aou thorn atstee, and to contend to the contrary 1 the idlest folly. Mr. Nor wood say the negro. If deprived of the elective franchise unjustly, has a rem edy In the law. A great many of us be lieved, as suggesteu by Mr. Norwood, thst the supreme court of the United States would restore to the cltlsen the elective franchise " taken from htm by statutory enactments and constitutional provisions of southern states, but many ef u like Mr. Norwood were not so well learned In the law aa the august body preaided over by Chief Justice Fuller. The enfranchising amendments to the federal constitution provide that no cltl sen shall be denied the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condi tion of servitude, but there etlll re main with the state .the unquestionable right to prescribe conditions under which its oltlsens may be entitled to the exercise of this privilege. True, the question ha never been fairly and squarely presented to the supreme court, but only a short time ago that body handed down a decision touching ths constitutionality of thoss disfranchising clause In the conatltu tlona of many southern states, and in thla Instance it held that, the court had no Jurisdiction, as the queatlen was po litical, and relief should be sought from congress. The statement ' that colored people In the south pay lea taxee In proportion to their number than white is true, but that they receive for schools, seminar ies, colleges, etc., more than their Just ahare according to taxes paid I ab solutely untrue. For example, take the home stats of Mr. Norwood, Georgia, where the negroes pay taxes on over taooee.ooo worth of property, about II per sent of the taxable wealth of the state, and who tn l06 received for ed ucational purposee leu than 10 per cent of the school fund disbursements. The negro school teacher In Georgia receives leas than half as much pay aa the' white teacher gets, and the colleges snd uni versities mentioned by Mr. Norwood were founded snd are maintained by the philanthropic people of the north. The southern negro, instead of detect ing education, as stated, la very eager for it, and statistic show that in five Of the most populoua southern states the negro outnumber the whit la dally school attendance. The charge that the southern negro is lssy, shiftless and worthless can, with some justice, be applied to southerner of the lower classes irrespective f race. However, negro labor operates the fartm and mills of the south, and in all linss of both skilled sod unskilled trades you will find him In' brawn and oraln the equal of the white brother. No thoughtful negro will deny that crime is too prevalent among hi race in the south nor doe he desire to con done It. but realise aa do all good, law-abiding cttlsene ths need of some effective remedy. Ie lynching and burn ing the panacea T CHA0. A. LUCAS. Fridtjof Nansen's Birthday. Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Arctic explorer and at pressnt Norwegian minister In London, was born near Chrlatlania, Oc tober 10. 1881. HI father was a. well known advocate and his mother was Eva Bars, ths smlneat singer. Dr. Nan sen is often spoken of as ths most pop ular of Norwsy's great men. This Is so because he has all the element of the hero. Before he had passed his thirty fifth year hs was the foremost Arctic explorer In the world. Nansen found the way to Arctic Exploration through ths study of soology, which he began In the Chrlstlanla University in 1880. In lilt hs made a journey to the north in order to study snlmal life In high lati tudes. In 1118 he made snothsr Jour ney to Greenland, snd the fruits of his rssearehes ars to be found In his writ ings on anatomical mstters and ths soology of Greenland. His North Pole expedition, when hs reached the highest latitude until then attained, was made in liti-s. Cyclist in Mid Air. Dr. Bach, a German tourist, who was traveling In Pwltserland on a bicycle, has had a thrilling experience on the Alpine route near Ooohnen. His brake snapped. and the machine rushed down the steep road, finally crashing Into the n ridge over the River Reuse Ths doctor was flung Into ths air across the barrier sad in falling caught a chain hanging from one of the girders. He remained suspended over an abyss for nearly an hour and a half, hta crie for help bslng unheard, although a motor-car and a carriage passed within a fsw feet above him. Juat when the terrible strain was becoming unbearable some peasants, driving a cart, crossed the bridge and saw him, and With the aid of a noosed rope drew him up. He fainted on be ing rescued. The flesh was torn from hi hands and his arms wsre swollsn snd useless. Ths doctor was taken to Oosehenen and I at pressnt In the car of hi wlf. who arrived from Oermany. A knapsack, which he carried on Ms back, containing f:o in notss and gold, wss lost tn the rivsr. Oood Advertising. From the Roeoburg News. Portland Is doing some very Judicious advertising by endeavoring to rslse 1880.000 for sn up-to-date Y. M. C. A. horn for her young business men. Suoh actions speak mush loudsr than would many worda Letter. From People BIRDSEYE VIEWS of TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHANOB. Mors power to the eleetrte railroad. Go to Hood River this week and eat apple. , . The trouble la. Orandpa Rockefeller, that you abuse opportunity. e What fsw threehing mschlne were not burnt or blown up are now safely housed. s If it not snppoaed that there will be much chance for General 'Bell to ring very loudly in Cuba. e s All a man has to do to get rich ts to Invest a lot of money tn Portland real estate. If he hun t the money well, he's out of luck. s The -yWoodburn Independent wants Sen tow Fulton to have a collector of ouatoms appointed before Bourns gets In his work In fsvor of a U'Ren man. ' s The holy rollerltes thst have Invaded Oregon from California call themselves "Tongue of Fire." Call out the fire department and turn the hose on them, e s It was not very expensive for the Cubans to get a revolution started, but when thsy have Uncle Sam's bill to pay for straightening thlnge out, they won't be quite so gay. It la predicted that, the people of the earth will hava communication with those of Mar within 10 years. Then, maybe, we eaa get some useful advice. But young people seldom aot on good advice of their elder. Racing between automobiles snd bal loons will afford sports a good oppor tunity to bet on the relative mortality of the two modes of traveling. The odds will probably be largely In favor or the auto route to sudden and violent death. v A mad with a lot of undivoroed and unburled wive la no novelty, bat a Detroit woman 71 years old recently married her sevsnth husband, without funerals or divorces of hsr preceding Six. She should be let off on promis ing never to do It no more. e e Fools nave chosen many ways In which to kill themselves, but none more odorous than those fellows who died In a Llmburger cheese-eating con test. As swset aa ths stuff they died ef, but less enduring than its odor, is their roemory. Uncle Sam s Mission m Cuba OMR PRESS Effect on Oar Revenues. From the Beaten Transcript In all the discussion of the possibili ties of Cuban annexation, near or re mote, which the p reseat troubles are naturally provoking. It should not be forgotten that the Island holds an ex tremely Important relation to our federal revenues. Its great products, sugar and oigjars, are among the largest contrib utors' to Uncle Sam's, strong box. An nexation would doubtless mean, as It will ultimately mean with our posses sions of every sort, a free exchange of commodities, or a cessation of the 180, 000.000 a year which Cuban sugar has at tlmea poured Into our custom houses, besides the duties' on tobacco leaf. Her are sum that would have to be raised elsewhere. It tg probable that the con suming public would have cheaper ci gars If Cuba wsre annexed, but that the local price or sugar would fall Is less likely The last source of supply which any market calls into service, according to the teachings of political economy, sets the price, and that would be ths American beet The profit to the own ers of sugar lands f-om free entry of their product to the tnlted States would be enormous. The inclusion of Cuba within our tariff wall, whether desirable or not, thus Involves revenue rhsngs of the most far-reaching Importance Two Fallacies About Cuba. From the Indianapolis Star. Two popular fallacies about Cub need correction. The first is that our opera tion there are dictated by a desire to exploit the Island for our benefit: What ths presidsnt and Secretaries Taft and Root are anxloua to conserve Is the wel fare of ths Cuban people The other fallacy ia that the difficui tlee of the task may restrain our hand Nothing could be more fatuous. It Is necessary for Cuba and for us that all these tasks snd problems be faced and discharged. The Insurgents most be disarmed and quieted; ths rstgn of law must be snforced, the inctptsney of race war must be crushed. Ws could not suffer any such baleful conditions te prevail. If we should got out, ws should only havs to go back. The idea that we can wash our hands of responsibility or concern as to ths contentment and prosperity of Cuba must be forever dismissed. Annexation the Only Curt. From ths Brooklyn Bsgle. If the policy outlined in Mr. Taft's proclamation be strictly adhered to the Cubans will havs snother opportunity te govern themsslvss. Equity may de mand the concession of that opportun ity. But. frankly, ws do net think ths experiment is mors likely to succeed In repetition than It did in the first in stance. Ths very fact that a minority party considered armed rebellion fh only wsy to redress their political griev ances Is proof positive that ths Cuban people havs not msstered the first es sentlels of thejr position ss an inde pendent quantity. Those who are in capable of self-control are Incapable for self-rule. Annexetion le the only cure for the Cubsn disease, snd ths sooner It csn be administered the better for all concerned. Dry Nurse for Cuba. From ths Chicago Tribune. Whll no on Wilt criticise ths atti tude of President Roosevelt and secre tary Taft toward Cuba, and everx one mast sdmlt thst th conditions sre per plexing, yet It must be said thst thsy havs led the administration into a try ing and dlffleult situation. Ths United Statea has set ' Itself up voluntarily as a dry nurse for Cuba. It undertook to preserve order, and to do this has with It army and nsvy policed terri tory which, constructively. Is regarded as alien Th situation I unprecedent ed and unheard of In th experiences of this or any other civilised govern ment. When aiagrtan assembles it must OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Springfield la mors prosperous than ever before. e Fuel problem becoming serious In many towns. e Another big sawmill Is being batlt above Fslls City. e A Woodburn dealer sold 1780 worth of guns and ammunition In ons week. ... An electric road between Eugene and Springfield would be wall patronised, e e A La Follette woman raised quince II inches, aa wsll as other fruit la pro portion. e e Roseburg Is all stirred up over munic ipal ownership of water and eleetrte light plants e e Chinook salmon are running better In ths Sluslaw at Florsnc and are large than ever before Pendleton will have soms big guns ss lecturers there next winter. Senator La Follette among them. ' m J A Clackamas county young man named Tong was married last weak. Now h la only one of a pair of Tongs. gome wire fences in Yamhill county hava been cut by hunter. No wonder the farmer dislike the town shooters, e Ysqaina fishermen one night recently pulled in a shark that measured 10 fsst la length and weighed over 100 pounds, e e The Grasa Valley Journal tells of ths trial of a man "whose name we did not learn." and "the result of which we did not learn." e , The Neetucca cannery la overrun with fish, and thsy have limited all ths boats to tl tlah each until arrangements can be made to handle more. e e A Minnesota man who bought a farm near Medford last spring has returned to take possession, and brought three othef families with him. . e A Woodburn man who has half aa acre of ground cleared (lit In a year off of chickens, and sold 1290 worth of vegetables, mostly lettuce. HIS lettuce consisted of two rows 14 feet long and II Inches apart. If hs hsd had sn acre of lettuce and a market for It he would have realised !2.76v. COMMENT. aot definitely, for. if we continue the occupation, eventually we may da whs Gteat Britain did tn Egypt g, Independence Gone. Prqm the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Whether the period of occupation be long or short th independence ef Cuba ha been sacrificed. It la to be hoped the period will be short It certainly will be as short aa the United Statea can afford to make tt. It will again at tempt to establish a stable government, and when It believes that that is accom plished It will again withdraw. Resist ance would be futile. The Cubans will not have Spanish soldier to dest with, but officers and men who are used to Jungle campaigning and who will find Cuba an easier problem than was the Philippines. If the report are correct the mass of th people, Cuban aa wall ss Spaniards and Americana, will wel come our occupation aa a means of re storing trsnqulHlty. Ths American people don't want Cuba even temporarily. Nor do they want bloodshed But thJsacannot avoid the first snd. perhsps canrrm. avoid th sec ond But they will have peace even at the point or the bayonet. If necessary."' Cubs's Problem. From the Atlanta Journal. The correspondence of President Pal ma. Conaul-Oenerel Btetnhart and Mr. Bacon, assistant secretary of stats, shows very clearly thst this country did not tske ths Initiative in intervention. So far from having dons so ths presi dent waa very reluctant to send sol diers to Cuba, and kept urging the Cu ban government to bestir Itself snd put down the rebellion. The letter written by the president to Minister Quesada was Intended ss sppesrs oo Itr face, as a warning to Cubana that the way to prevent Intervention waa to get to gether. The situation today Is id the hands of ths Cubsns themselves. Thsy can rectors order, peace and govern ment and hava a republic if they will It Anxious to Surrender. . From the Sacramento Union. The Cuban rebels seem to be giving up their arms with great readiness and good temper, and Mr. Taft ts able to ex press himself as well pleased with the progress of pacification. This peaceful disposition on ths part of th rebels, if It shall be continued, Is a strong point In their favor and goes far to disprove the charge that they were fighting aim ply from ths love of fighting. A side light on the situation is shown by ths surprise of ths Cubans at ths acesssjat Milt v of the American authorities Any one may now exercise the time-honored American prerogative of boring the gov ernor and his busy staff to hsart's con tent. Barkis Is WlUhV. From the Sacramento Union. Long ago whan a foreign statesman asked the hlstorisn Motlsy If a certain South American country, then suffering from' a particularly destructive revolu tion, would like to come Into the Amer ican union, hs tn turn aaked: "Would I like to be taken In as a partner by Bar ing Bros.T" The eltuation In Cuba just now serves to recall thla diplomatic paesag. No Embalmed Beef. From the Minneapolis Trlbuns. Of course ths general staff didn't start this Cuban business, but tt seemed a very good chance to show ths world how ws cdn teas our army around with out winking. No embalmed beef this time. Wanted No Mistake. From the Philadelphia Ledger. When the president wrote thst letter warning Cuba hs was so anxious that his meaning should be plain that ks bald ts th eievstyls spelling. J 111 J -