The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, April 15, 1907, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextEDITOKLMj EV3E OF TUB -JOURNAL THE JOURNAL AM INDKPBNDBMT MBWSPAPta CX a. JACKSON. ta-labJ mr, imh Mml IT Sestfar amalns. at TIM Joeraal Ball- a. rut aa4 laoablll Mmu. rca-na . stares t tae eoatarftee at FertleaA. Or ramniaaMa lalMfa tae Saaue aa eaw ' waiiar. TBLBPHOMB MAIN Tin. AH eepertawnts raertie by ttiU eoeibee. aanui tlx eaaartiaaat Fa waa. tall fOtBIOH ARVBRTiaiNO BBPBB!TATITB VmlaaA-Beajaeila rial AoaertlalBS Aseerr. 1M Hmmmm atraat. Maw Xorki IMtieae Sell- : -. CAIcaa- vaacrlpttaa Tanas tT B ta say Ss tae Dalle luw, Caaaoa e Mexleel . ,-, ' DAILY ; Oh raw ....88.00 i One Meets..... SC1TPAI Oa year t.M I OM facet daily and sddat ; Oaa year T.0 t Oa antfe .1 AS 27,- JOURNAL IWOB- CnCTTLATIOX. ' ' ; Ksair.u:....:.;..:.;j8ft,a5o COMPAXATITX tTATZHXXT. Varaa, leOT.-aally aeraf.......tt.SSe -"oa, ISO, ey ererae..., .Sa.lSl Oala la the year. 4auy avenge,... S.TS Tha Jooraal was tba first aaptr ta tba aartbwMt Ihraarboal tba Orecoa eoaotry ta aabllak tta elrralattoe every Say tarlta aayoBe latefeatee ta cum and exam In tta nta) al ear Haw. Tba lavttathai stIU aoae ta ft-toad ar fee, am to aar npinnlitli) ef aw rlvala. wka (till Uncaring toabra of THC JOUaSAAS flsurae, TXC JOTaSAIA ttateawate ara accept hy all ad ran lain aeikerttiae, eosie at? arboai haa Bade exataiaailoaa. asA a tba nrHflt ef trblck Boarall'a Amn-a Nawepaeer Directory aeesrda THI JOUR DA L Ita faaraataa atar. vklrti farther ! eurae tla mi lai Isaac of Tha Josraal' claim and ftcarae. - THE JOUAkAL ha ln greater paid eirralatlna la Portlaad and la OrrioaB teas aaj atbar da I If paper It effete tba greet Manli ta a vartUare. tboaa miak tn time eeatraets aa Ing finm tba aaaaflt at rataa laaa. tta a X oaota par lark, par tnaartloa, par UiaaaaaA of prad clrralatioa. a lowar rata tbaa mnj papar aa tba euaat. Tba ad unlaw a taka adaaotajta af bath Jaarnal clrralatlna and rataa, aa aiark ao tbat tta aolnaiaa ar rrawdvd wltb tbrlr boalaaaa aad raaalta tVtm to them la tatlafalaa qaaatltr, wfclat TUB iOVKMAX. aroapara aad f aaarbaW j AN UNREASONABLE RATE. j : ONE does not need to be an ex pert In the matter of, railroad - freight ratej to be pretty lure -that the announced raise of the rate on lumber from Willamette Tal ler and fjouthern Oregon 'point to San Francisco is unreasonable and not to be endured if there is any law ful power in the land to prevent it It can probably be demonstrated to any impartial authority that the an nounced new rate is unreasonable in itself, is "more by a large percentage than ought to be charged for hauling lumber the distance 4his : hajTto be hauled, but besides that it is unreas onableunfair and unjust because on the strength. of the present rate men have, built mills, bought, land, pur chased machinery, built .. roads, em ployed labor, and made contracts with California consumers. To advance the rates as it is proposed to do is to take all these lumber manufacturers' possible profits, and in many cases to drive them but of business, at a great loss. It simply tpells ruin for them, and in the long run will deprive the railroad of a large volume of traffic that it might have had, apparently to its heavy loss also.; Hence the raise is difficult to understand, unless the railroad does not desire to haul lum ber over the. Siskiyou mountains, or the Oregon line is being sacrificed to build np a traffie elsewhere. r . There seem to be a large and well founded grievance here which the in terstate commerce commission, if for mally. appealed to, onght to look into without unnecessary delay. It is no light or small -thing for a railroad thus arbitrarily to put a large number of lumber mills , practically out t of business and paralyte a . great t and growing industry of $ large region pf country. And any , possible excuse for doing so seems, to vanish when n ' the enormousTietincome of this per' tion of the Southern Pacific fs con sidered. : If the railroads are to be regulated 'and compelled to do the' right thing by the people who furnish . business , for them, right here is a good chance to carry out that policy. The ques tion practically is: Has a railroad . right to drive a large number of men out of business and to a great ex tent destroy a great industry through out a large portion of a state? , ; THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE POLITICIANS. 'HE Republican county central . committee has enunciated a platform, and . done, what - it could to induce all voters reg ; istering as Republicans to vote for ',, Republican ' nominees, : but a good many; such voters will do aa they please about following this advice. . The committee says it "believes in the government of the city, of Portland by the Republican party," and there i fore desires all Republican voters to put candidates' politics ahead of all other considerations, but voters are nevertheless likely to take the candi dates' fitness and trustworthiness into consideration. This injunction of Mr. Cake, Mr. Davis and a few others, to vote 'f r straight, follows a brief com plimentary reference to the achieve ments of the Republican party and its leaders in state and nation, but some tVtir that a lot of Republicans) th subject hat been brought up, may remember, were not mentioned. Allusion to them would have been im politic? if not positively painful It would scarcely do to laud boastfully the Republican party of Oregon and all its leaders during the past few years. And we will be merciful and "name no names nor review any events. : Suffice it to say that possi bly it might have been better to have mentioned Roosevelt and gone no far ther, or came no nearer. Et't. this consideration aside, most intelligent voters have concluded with quite sufficient reason, tbat party politics should be a matter of minor consideration in the election of most public servants, especially in a munic ipal election. ' No national politics enter into the administration of city affairs, nor should any city, officer be a part of a political machine, and as such tied up with aspirants for United States senator, or the ambitions and fiche"mef5f mefinR'reggttng-f OT-prer. ferment in state or nation. The ad ministration of a city's affairs should be purely. a business matter, and the more it is mixed up with politics the worse it would be. - ( . Voters of Portland, and of Oregon, have manifested their independence of party heretofore, and with undoubt edly good results. They have thereby secured an admirable executive ad ministration of both the state and the city, which the lommittee did not venture to ."denounce," V So, as a genera) proposition, the committee's advice is distinctly bad. -' Republicans are greatly in a ma jority here, and if Republican candi dates ire surely as good and trust worthy a other candidates, it is to be 'expected that they will be elected, and the voters need no advice on the Subject from would-be leaders. If on the other hand a candidate not a Republican is believed to be the better-man for , the people's interests, the voters will do wisely as they have at times done before, to elect him and to pay but slight if any beed to his politics. ' "' ' V, The people have been fooled." and "worked", by. zealous politicians and party leaders for lo these many years, and large numbers of them have con cluded to look out for their own in terests hereafter and Ignore the poli ticians' advice. ; . A BAD TRICK. w HETHER the 2-mill bridge tax is a good and right thing or" not Is not a question at ; . : r . alt invoiyed m the matter ot the so-called free water amendment The people- adopted the bridge tax amendment, and it may therefore be assumed that they want it to stand. It certainly would cause much incon venience and embarrassment to repeal it now, especially without notice and without the people knowing it was being done. But if the people want to get rid of the bridge tax, there is an open, fair, legal way to do so, and they do not need nor desire one, two, three or half a dozen people, by an underhanded and concealed trick, to do this for them. The free 'water proposition is the only one the people were advised of in connection with this proposed amendment, and it was a gross rank piece of imposition on them to attempt to sneak the repeal of the bridge tax through under cover of the free water amendment This latter scheme, should be defeated on its own acount, but .since it has been surreptitiously tied up with the other. it ought to receive no votes at all. DIFFERENT IN ENGLAND. HERE is a great difference be- tween the course of criminal procedure in English and American courts. In England an accused person's money is less potent to delay a trial and prevent a conviction. A man , charged with murder or other heinous crime is brought to trial speedily, generally within a month or two, and the trial is brief, only the material, pertinent facts being admitted and the defend ant bejng given, no advantage oyer "the crown" in the matter of evidence. The procedure there woulcf be con sidered "railroading the accused to the gallows", in this . country; and while in some cases the defendant is not given a fair chance and the bene fit of all doubt, probably an unjust conviction rarely occurs. Though the theory is the other way, the accused is rather presumed to be guilty than innocent, and the .burden of proof is in fact shifted to him to prove his in nocence. English courts are open to criticism in this' respect, but on the other hand much in their methods is to be commended and might well be copied in this country. '. No long drawn-out nonsense, and Interminable wrangling and hair splitting sophistries over technicali ties, and far-fetched, trumped-up, ex cursive side issues, are allowed,' as in1 a criminal trial here. The court holds the lawyers and jurors strictly to . the law and the salient facts, hears the ' necessary, pertinent evi dence and no more, allows no senti mental rhodomontadct, and by-way bickerings of counsel, and winds np a case in a day or two that if the de fendant has "money would take a month or two here. . and the case is over.- The verdict and judgment are seldom appealed from, and far more rarely reversed. By the time a jury is cmpanneled in New York, an Eng lish criminal is condemned to death or is serving his sentence in prison. The result is that the number of murders in Crest Britain is only a small fraction of that in this coun try, in proportion to population, and the number of punishments of mur derers there is relatively , much greater. . In brief, in England a mur derer is promptly tried and unless he has a sufficient legal defense is speedily i "convicted and properly hanged, while in America the chances are several to one that he will not be convicted and punished at all, or if so it will be only after long, weari- iomedelaysaHdbsTrtictionithat make a mockery of the law and the justice "which it is supposed to em body. ,..w"- y- In England Thaw would have been convicted many months, ago, and if not hanged would have been serving a Jong sentence in prison. ROOSEVELT-WORSHIP. A' GOOD deal of inane . drivel about the soperhnman qualities of President Roosevelt is man ufactured these days by toadying corespondents, who omit no possible occasion to represent him as not only the greatest being the world ever saw, but that. astounding great ness and marvellous impeccability are manifest in his every word and action. What would be folly in anybody else is wisdom in him; what would be mis take is astute righteousness. These fellows beslaver the White House approaches with labored laudations to the old tune of the king can do no wrong, and it is to be hoped the presi dent, among them, is tired with their driveling hero-worship. Here is a sample from the Oregonian's corre spondent: , It has batrn many a lose day sine ae elevar a political trick wae turned aa the exposure of Wall treat's $5,000,000 eonaplracy. That - event demonstrated the raaourcefulneae of tha president; It demonatrated hie ability to keep tab even on the aeoret plotting, of , hla enemlea, and the manner In which the exposure waa made ahowa that the president la not alow to reeocnlaa a psychological moment Nonsense. Some half drunken fel low made some sort of a boast or threat, which somebody repeated to the president ' and in his impulsive' fashion he made a great to-do about a mere idle rumor; and if it were true' it would be nothing to become excited about, for the same elements- have been' raising millions in every campaign since the war. - v These correspondents seem to have taken their cue from the Hon: Bat Masterson, who recently said: ' Ton can lust put it down aa an abao- luta fact that' Theodore Roosevelt la the greateat president thta country baa aver aeen, and that he will be renomi nated and reelected next year.. Why. none of them eaa compare with him. Lincoln waa a rood aort of a man and did a whole lot for the country while he aerved a a president, and Washing ton did a lot, too, but they 'couldn't hold a candle to this man we've got now; they can t come up to him. ONLY TWO ALTERNATIVES. U NDER the free water amend ment aa proposed the voters face this dilemma: If they favor, "free water' and also the present method of pro viding bridges, and vote yes they get "free water" and lose the bridges. If they are against "free water" and also against the bridge tax, and yote "yes" they get free water." Such . proposed legislation as this would soon bring the initiative into contempt a result no supporter of the principle of people's rights will tolerate for a moment. ' It is apparent that there is no con nection between the two subject and they should never have been coupled together by such indirection. If it was carelessness on the part of the authors of the amendment it is ex cusable, but it should be withdrawn; if it Was intentional, as one of them asserts, it is unpardonable. Standard Oil-has been convicted of illegal -rebating on 1,462 counts, the maximum penalty being $29,240,000. Now here is a chance foe the judicial arm of the government to back up the executive arm, and punish this big criminal to such an extent that it will feel the punishment, and along with other corporate violators of the law be deterre1 from further lawlessness. Since it seems to be the policy of the government not to send any corpora tion officer to jail, as lesser crim inals are, some measure of justice may be attained by fines sufficient to hurt. - But this result, if to be achieved, Is a Jong way off yet It was quite to be expected that Thaw's lawyers would have a falling out, and that Delmss, since he took the lead in the esse and did not win, should be a principal object of at tack, Delmaa perhaps did as well as any of Thaw's other lawyers would have done; on the other hand there are thousands of lawyers of no very wide repute who would have, done quite as well as he. The case cer tainly did not serve 'to enhance his reputation. A great many men at a distance are overestimated. , Carrie Nation periodical alleges that an old war veteran has written to her proposing marriage, which fortunately for him she declined. He must want badly to get into another fierce war to make such a proposal ' A lot of voters thought they could register today. (If they had read The Journal more attentively they would have known better. It's swearing it in or no vote for them now. . No reasonable voter can be of fended at The Journal for disclosing theker-irriheTfeeyw ment, and a good many are thankful to this paper for exposing the trick in time. " ' Tkc Play "Tha Admirable Crlehton" waa writ ten by J. U. Barrie. and wilt eonae quenlly always be said to be a -good play. Gillette made It a good play, or rather made hlmeelf Immenaely popu lar with It. but It la doubtful If. under ordinary clrcumtaaneea, so pure a fan taay, a eonoeptlon so lnconjrruous and Inconsistent, la greatly satlafylnff to a oommon, every-day audience. It was produced at the Baker yes terday to crowded house. The ap proval of the audiences was somewhat dubious. However, tha production de veloped an excellent piece of acting on the part of ' Mrs. Crollus Qleeson. She appears on the stage only during the Last act and for -only a brief time, but gives the one really, artlatto bit of act ing la the entire performance. The story la deatgncd. to show that a man -is a man, no matter what hla titles or position, and that nature. If alven the opportunity, will adjuat ttlnga aa they should be. It deals with an English lord, his family and tha butler. Crlchton. In England the titled person la a member of the house of peers and the family is on of the moat ariatocratlo in the empire. , He has socialistic tendencies, which ar developed- In his attempt to break down the barriers between master and ser vant . . - - - ; With his three daughters,' two friends. a maid and Crlchton, the earl goes on a vafhttna? drills tA t f a.a m m nf the world. When far off the track of commerce the yacht la wrecked and party .cast upon an uninhabited Island. . They are left there for two years. and It is in that - remote and desolate place that nature asserts herself not only In breaking down the social bar riers against which the earl had pro tested, but In reversing conditions and establishing barriers even mora Impreg nable. The law of might and strength predominates. Crlchton. better suited b: brain and brawn to primitive condi tion of the Island than hla companions, naturally assumes the leadership de- spit the protest of the others. ' Event ually he sets himself up as king of the Island and rules his naif doxen subjects with much more rigor and In finitely more exclustveneas than the old earl ever dreamed oZ in -managing his estate in England. It Is while he Is absolute ruler of th party that the romance of the play beglne. Ledy Mary, the eldest aaugn ter of the earl, is attracted by his strength and power and falls In love with him. He of coura reciprocates her love and a minister of the party is about to perform the wedding cere mony when a ship lands and they ax rescued. Back In England Laxay uarrs romance la ended and the king of the little Island resumes his position as butler. Mr. Baume, of course, has the part of Crlchton. It I In this part that Gillette mad the play a great success. Mr. Baume gives a faithful and artls tlo portrayal of the remarkably in congruous character. Miss Lawrence also Interprets her part of Lady Mary with fidelity and even charm. Mr. William Oleason Is an excellent earl. But it Is th part that he is playing that makes th play so thor oughly Incongruous and purely fanci ful, few imaginations ar sufficient ly trained to- appreciate th character of a British peer, an aristocrat by long lineage, who. In two brief year, could under any circumstances become th grovelling, abject servant f his butler. Mrs. Oleason appears only for a few momenta towards th and of th play. but gives a splendidly artlstio Inter- nretatlon of th part of tn countess of Brocklehurst Mr. Bowles.- Mr. DIUa. Mr. Russell. Miss Kent Miss Terry and Miss Seymour also appear to good advantage. ' . 'Th Admlrabl Crlchton" la a de cided novelty. It has never been of fered in th weat before, and If you would Judge of It merits or the merit of Its presentation, you rnuei il It will bi th bill at th Baker for th entire week.,; ' .;. j. --.-"Hallo Bill" at Empire, "Hello. BIU at the Empire was a de cided sucess at both matinee and even ing performances yesterday. .: Tner were crowded houses at both perfor mances and svery on was thoroughly satisfied. . it la th last week of th Stair Havlln attractions at th Empire and th management seems to have reserved the best for th last It Is a semi military. fare with a sufficient number of laughs to continue hilarity from the beginning to th nd. Ferdinand H. AsnDey as sir.. w imam Fuller gives a highly creditaois per formance In th part that was first takan by th author of tb play. II Is a comedian of high order and soored a great hit yesterday. As BUI, tn war hero, h causes so much laughter that serloos consequences to the sudlenos mlarht be feared. Other member of th company appear to good advantage and demonstrate that they ars actors of flrst-olass ability, v Next week th new Seaman stock company will open at th Empire, 'It will produce tn meioerama, i n ttiaca Hand," said to be on of tb most thrill ing tbat aa ever been written. Mr. Seaman haa collected a company of really good actors and thgs who enjoy molodrama will have th opportunity of seeing It presented In a really artls tio wax. , One Better. ' ,- ' From th Lo Angeles Herald. - -. First Child Our baby can say "papa." ; Second Child wltb lofty superiority) Our parrot can say "papa" and papa's swear words toe, A Giriy Responsir . By B. Fairfax. . ' uiria, ao you know that It ta your duty to make your men friends regard you as th beat purest and sweetest gins in tns world T i sets a men standard for wo man, and ah must liv op to It If ah Z, w,wa i00 Influence ever Tou must make the man who la a. tentlv to you realise that tou reanaet yourself and that you demand that he raepeoi you also. ; , , - Make him understand that he eannot treat yon with famlllarltyi that ha can not be friend of yours If he Is vulgar In word or deed, nor If he Is Intem perate. If hs loves you and sees that you expect all this h will try t be worthy of you. , But you must never lower hla Ideal of you or you will immediately lose your Influence over him. , s - If you drink a cocktail you eannot expect him to refrain. If you laugh at vulgar stories you cannot exoect that he will refralafronv repeating them la your presence. Let him see th high vara that yon place upon honor and never swerve one Inch from your standard. I 4 Do not, of course, expect hiss to be a demigod, for no man is that; but do demand that be be an honorable, tem perate, manly man. Don't Lag. The nagging srlrt never has any lasting influence over a man, but keep steadfastly to your Ideal f wnat a good man should be. . j Forslv him If be occasionally has lapses, but on no account promise te marry him until you are quit sure that he is th kind of man that you would be proud of as your husband, and th father of your children. ' Th girt who marries a man to re form him deliberately enter npon a life of -misery and failure, Th man who enjoys th friendship of a nlc air! should be deeply appreciative of "the privilege. . , If be takes her to place of amuse ment, those places shoulr be absolutely above suspicion. H should see that she reaches home In proper time, and he should n 'er Introduce her to sny man or woman of whos good reputation he I not quit sure. - i . -Now, you see, grrl, for a man to treat yen In that wsy It Is necessary that he should look on yon aa some thing very pur and precious. Never encourage a man to speak te you unless hf has been properly Intro duced, -' Ton eannot expect a than to have as much reepect for th girl who makes eyes at him and allows him to speak to her without an Introduction as he .would for th girl -whom he bad to ask to be Introduced to, ; Of course, I know that one In a while a friendship formed In that way will turn out all right.' but It Is a great risk and not at all ths right wsy of do- IMnw things. Be dignified snd modest snd yon will find that th averse man will treat you with th greatest respect, snd thst he will be anxious to stand, well In your eyes. Hs will know that If h wants to win your regard he must live up to your Standard of what a man ahould be. It Is your -duty to make that standard a high one. , Tte Musical-City " . By Wex Jones. ' Inspectors of th steamboat sorvio plan to equip New York boats with musicals whistles. ' This world will be full of delirious joys ' ' When musie replace what now Is but noise. The steamboats will play us an air as they toot, , ',. And th sirens will eharm with their musical hoot; - The -IT trains no more win just rattle and bang, - i " ' But sooth our poor nerves with a clang-cling, ellng-claagl . Aad th kids on th pavement the sub way will bless AS they dano to th strains of a hum ming express. . No mora will the toller awake with a - groan As tbs dissonant , factory whistle te blown: - ' Instead. Ilk elf-rausio, will steal through his dream . A gladsome aubade tootled ut by th eteam; And th clatter of ash, cans, the elans mine of doors Will be beautiful billable, coaxing te snores. 1 r : The voice of the hawker, th cry "High Caah Clo'r Will sound bettor than Bond at a five- spot a throw. So hasten th dayoh, speed . It alone;!- When life will Indeed be one grand. . . Joyful song. . How to Run a Newspaper. Front the Pacific Outlook. . When a man goes astray Keep It out. When the critic roasts a play Keep It out. When two man tn anger clash; When a merchant goes to smash) When the cashier steals th cash- Keep It out. .. . When they quarrel la th ehurch Keep It out. ' When. the . teacher wields ths blroo Keep it out. When nine women fair to see Whlrper something over tea ' . Print it? Goodness gracious met "Keep It out!" .. Whn two statesmen make a deal Keep It out. -, ' Whan another trlee to steal Keep It out, ' .. ' 1, Stories thin snd stories tall: " s. Good and bad and big and small , Anything that's news at all , Hear era snout: -"Keep It eutr ""-""" r i a . Maine Man's Epitaph. f From Kennebec Journal. Speaking of . odd Inscriptions en tombstones, her is on which somebody has copied from a monument In a West Ripley cemetery: - jonn i j ones ' Born Feb. T, 1811 Died Aug. 11. 18T I earn without my own consent, Uved a few years, much discontent At human error grieving; T ruled myself by reason's laws. Y But got contempt snd not applause Bees use of disbelieving. For nothing s'er could mi content, -To faith some people did assent . Alone could gain salvation. But now th graaf does m enclose The superstitious will suppose ' I am doomed to bell's damnation. But as to that they do not know -Opinions oft from Ignorance flow . - Devoid of some foundation. Tie sasy men should be deceived When anything by them believed Without ft demonstrative . A Frank "Warninj v to , the Saloon From the Literary Digest. A remarkable editorial In Bonfort's Wine and Spirit circular twew iwa; warns tba asaloon that It must reform ar go, for Vie people are becoming dis gusted with Its vUs. Ths recent Pro hibition vlotory la KnoxvUl Is thought by some papers te be du t a revulsion of feeling against ths saloon rule of city politics, rather than to tn conver sion of th voters to total abstinence; and It la thS conviction of this wslghty organ of the liquor trade tbat If the saloon bualnesa throughout ths country does not mend it wsys It will "be pro hibited in all placee sav th buslusss or tenderloin preclnots of our larger cities." Sa serious Is th situation, in deed, that last June tha National Whole sale Llauor Dealers' association isaaeo aa appeal for th purification of the sa loon, and a few weeks ago in o.uiuoar Distillers' association appointed a com mission of flv to consider th advis ability of calling a national on van lion to frame a license law that can b pre vented to the etate- legislature lav plao of th "radical and impracticable legis lation" now being urged, and often suc cessfully, by . ths ' Anu-Saloon league. W quote these striking paragraphs from th Win and Spirit Circular: "With more than one halt of the geo- arraohloal limits of this great country under laws prohibiting the sal of aloo hollo beverages; with Tennesse passing through her legislature a bin tnat al most amounts to stats prohibition; with th Wsat Virginia legislature passing a measure to submit th prohibition of th manufacture and sals of wines and spirits to a vots of th people; with Texas providing that expreAe companies transporting wines and spirits shall take out a IMC license; with th Illi nois legislature considering, a county unit local option measure and Indiana a 11.089 license for ths few saloons that the remonstrance law will leave in tbat state; with Kentucky almost a dry state and facing probably a legislative session tnat will submit a prohibitory amend ment; and with an organisation oppos ing us and sworn to our destruction that seam to lack nothing In tha way of money or brains, snthusiasm, or per sistent, untiring work what, may ws ask, Is th win and spirit trad doing to arrest th current of events or to alter in any way th radical conclu sions' which are being forced upon the people In every state, county and pre- einet? . . - - "If there Is on thing that seems set tled -beyond question It Is that the retail liquor trade ef this country must either mend Its waye materially or be prohib ited in all placee savs the business or tenderloin precincts of our lsrger cities. If the Anti-Saloon league can main' taint tta present organisation It looks as If It will certainly destroy ths legal lsed saloon In all of the southern states, excepting perhapa Missouri, and it Is certainly making strong headway In Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min nesota and other western and northern states." . Far front sneering at the Anti-Saloon league, the - Win and Spirit Circular pays it Its respects thus; . ... Tb Anti-Saloon lagu . . . 1 not a mob of long-haired fanatics, as soma of th writer and speaker con nected with t ur business have declared. but It te a strongly centralised organi sation, officered by men of unusual ability, financiered by capitalists with very long purses, subscribed to by bua dreda of thousands ef men, women and children who are solicited by their ve rious churches, advised by well-paid at torneys of great ability, and It Is work ing with definite Ideas to guide It In every state. In every county, la every city and in every precinct. '. "If th Anti-Saloon league Is defeated at any point It Immediately preparea for another attack along new lines, and when It suoceeds It at one begins work for a more telling vlotory. "Precinct local option, with ths Antt- Saloon league. Is but th forerunner of county local option, and this again Is merely Intended as stepping-stone to stats prohibition. Thereis no qusstlon that this organisation has well-prepared plans for controlling th legislative branch of ths government at Washing ton, and of passing a national prohibi tory law at some time In the future, but before It undertakes so gigantlo aa en terprise It Is working to cripple the trade In every possible way, and while wa sleep It Is succeeding in the most substantial manner." : Mayor Lane's Democracy. From the Pendleton Tribune. . A great furore has been started in Portland as te whether Mayor Harry Lane of that city la a sufficiently dyed-in-the-wool Democrat to be worthy th support of those -ef his party who pride themselves Upon being ths only genuine blown-ln the-bottle bread. - But th difficulty arising when a question of this complicated character presents Itself for solution Is that no ons appears to be authorised to set the pace in th matter of aa orthodox defi nition.' There ar Bryan, Hearst and Parker fre silver, populism, socialism, state rights, centralisation and ths gold standard, multum ta parr ad Infin itum. -; . Just where Harry . Lane stands on ntese.momentous questions Is a matter calling for careful investigation, it Is net tbat hie record In the administration of Portland's affairs is to be seriously opposed, or perhapa opposed at all, but his Democracy must be simon-pure. "He must be a Jsffersonlsn Democrat, fa voring tha resolutions of 1898, thoush supporting -Bryan's proposal for ths gov ernment ownership ,tf railroads, and must advocate Jackson's theory of sound money while accepting Bryan's notion of going It alone without the consent of any other nation on earth, eto. Incidentally, . however, Chairman Thomas and General Kllfeather will be satisfied with any demonstration of genutn Democracy thst Includes th appointment ol Democrats to ths of fices. ! - -- - Jsckson's Ideas of money can go hang. but his proposition that to the victors belong ths spoils toast be writ large on the banner that spells Democracy to the brethren In the Oregon metropolis. This is the momentous question on which ' dangles ths Mayor's claim to orthodoxy. 1 . Today in History. 1480 French defeated the English at Formlgnl. . ' 1811 Mobile captured from the Span Ish. 1 81 T Horace Prtar. American sol dier snd diplomat. Born. 1848 Henry Jsmes, American author. born. - ' ' 184T Present houses of parliament in London first used by ths Peers. v 1881 Andres Quintans Roo, who sign ed, the first formal .declaration of the Independence of Mexico, died. ' Bom Nov. 10, 1787. 1888 Matthew Arnold died. Born Dec 14. 1811. ' ! Andrew Carnegie established his 18.000,008 "bf fund.- v Small Change ' , ' At any rate, Foraker Is sot a molly coddle. '.-' .' -; ' ' Th taint la not In ths money; fs InnooenL . .., Th ice cream man begins to look a little doleful. . . '" O. H- T. and th prohibition candidate may have a cloa race. - v f a . . i Ex-6enator Burton seems , to ' have passed out of view already. ., V x . . ' e . Th Jury probably didn't disagree ta their opinion of Ab HummsL Fairbanks Is' quite euro he ' stands higher than any other candidate. . - "i ' i ','-. ' . " ' ttarHmaH aaaiw tA Vtv. at. Ita. m lemon tree Instead of a plum tree. - ,e - , - , 1 Has Senator Fulton's noss been put out of Joint already by Senator Bourne a - e . i , ' And every little while the Big Stick bits the Q. O. P. elephant a hard whack. r -.T--, Of course Sohmlta and Ruef are able to hire high-priced lawyers Indefinitely. The skeleton In ths closets ef the late Stanford White's apartments were not sold. - - - By the way. doe anybody know what. ever became of that Insurance reform movement? Th rumor that th csar was about t threaten conveyed no hint whatever to Depw and PUtt, ' Every time a telephone magnate hears hla bell ring he expects hs 'haa been called up by Hener. . . Of course If Bonl ie writing for the newspapers, be doesn't need any more of the Oould money, - . i - a a The doums doesn't amount te much; It has neither bean dissolved nor bss It broke up In a row. ' " '" ';.... ' ,. There Is eonaldersbls strength la the onion market," says , ft market Item. Anybody could tell that by the smell. . . ..... Te make much of a showing. It ta feared 1 that Mr. Thomas' supporters will have to vote not only early but often. - v , '.-- '- e ' . Brander Matthews Says there are 100.009 converta to the simplified spell ing. The other 89,191 nsvsr write for publication. - ,'" ' T. F. Ryan haa acquired . acre in Congo for peanut ranch. That would be a good place for some ef our peanut politicians. A South Carolina farm prodaoes 18.- , floo worth of cabbages annually. It Is supposed that there are several moon shine cigar factories near by. e v " Indianapolis Star: Ths president's method is to keep his adversaries) so busy dodging bricks on their own elde of the fanoe that they won't have time to throw any hie way. , :. VrlManiflF Fnnniukir la a noted as ssylng that -celerity should he con tempered rith eunotatlon. No wonder that man anuld not see an v atatehoua graft, and wanted to send all cartoonists to Jail. - , - - . - Oregon Sidelights Independence people are talking of ft, eharry show. - .mm A large acreage Is being cleared around Lake Lablab, , Over I ecrea of now hop yards have been eet out near Monroe. . " . . , ... ..'. . ' Coyotes killed or crippled 10 ef ft band of sheep nar Lake Creek. - e ' A Morrow county man was arrested for stealing a hive of bev - e e - It Is expected that th Fossil cream ery will be running by July 1. - . e e One evening last week 1 So sacks of mall arrived in Klamath Fells. , e e- . A Rlckreall man has a Cotswold twin lamb 88 days old that weighs 81 pounds, . r - . " . - Ths Ice plant of the Corvallls cream ery will be increased In capacity from to 10 tons per day. , " , ' " ' " -. A man who hss bought a ranch en John Day rlvsr will irrigate ISO acres and set it out to fruit. ; No locality In tbs state haa better prospects than Echo and ths lower J- Umatilla country, says the Register. Men working on ths Irrigation ditch near Hermlston found a coyote's dea and killed three old one and captured II pups. v a - Wlllamlna correspondence of Shrl- dan Sun: Th rag aewlng at Mrs. gohal- ,: lers was well attended, and no gossip ing, either. ; . .,. 1 Several Fossil people have taken up 40-acrs timber claims, so as to hava fuel In future, as .even tracts of this sis ars becoming scarce.' . , . .- . e - x V - . Correspondence ' ef Dallas Obeerverl . Black Rock Is rapidly forging ahead, and new Duunings sre going up every day. W have the coming metropolis here. . The Pendleton Tribune I ."decidedly , opposed to the new state of Lincoln un- less It is stipulated In ths bond that Pendleton' shall be the capital and all ' the etate Instltatlons located here,"- .... iMMWIna la tti At. Ik. elty election, Woodburn must now have a population cf about 1,780 eoule, says . ths Independent. This Is s substantial Increase over 100 per cent since 1900. ' , " . ' ' ' Aatnrlan ialnrla haa mA k..a bergarly 78.8 inches cf rain this season, to Bay CitVs sstoundlng limit of 81.8 inonea. uui wnat in nanda want to know la, how Portland, with her abound ing precipitation, gets off with a ree-. ord of a paltry 84.1 Inchest Somebody's stock has been watered in this deal, sural e Condon Times! Ths fai; grain la all up and no rsseedlng Is necessary la . this vlolnlty. A large crop may be ex pected end unless soms unforeseen cli matic ehanga should occur a good nv erase yield Is sure. Farmers are busy sowing their spring wheat snd barley, and with the large amount of moisture In the ground a large return (Hay also be expeeted from spring sown grain.