t::z v.aav cnrcc:. state:.u: Published svery Tuesday and Friday " : " -1 ' -z ' - DJ tne ? "I ;: : STATESMAN PUBLISHING XO. SUBSCRIPTION EATE3. On rear in advance.. .$1.00 , .50 . .25 . 1.25 Six months, in advance.,..., Three months, in advance. .. .'. . , One year, on time, ............. ;' The Statesman has been established for nearly fifty-two years, and it has some subscribers who hare received it nearly' that long, and many wno hare read it for a generation. Seme of these object to having the paper discontinued at tn- time of expiration of their sub scriptions. For the' 'benefit of, these, and for other reasons wo hare conclud ed to, discontinue subscriptions only when notified, to, do so. All persons psying when subscribing, or paying in advance, will -have the benefit of the dollar rate. But if they do not pay for six months, toe rate will be $1.25 a year. : Hereafter we will send the pa per to all responsible persons who or der it, though they may not send the money, with the understanding that they are to pay $1.25 a year, in ease they let the subscription aeeonnt ron over six months. In order that tbsre ir ay be no misunderstanding, we will keep this notice" standing at this place in the paper. CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000 TO AN OLD TBACS HORSE. . J By W. 8. O. ": Come, Lancelot, you grand old boy, .Let's put our heads together, And have another quiet chat ' lief ore the wintry wea'ther. I know a haze is o'er your eyes, And your memory's failing some, But let us glance along the path ,Your 7 weary hoof a have eome. Do you remember how you felt -f When you scampered down the lane With, a tassel lor a fly brush And a strip of fuzz for manef . ' How your noso was always getting Up against a silken flank, Vhen ojd enough to try your teeth, Hut not, big enough to spank t How you dreamed upon the clover As you watched the shadows pass, When you had to bend your knees '' For your neck to reach the grass f And, say, do you remember How it made the children laugh, And they said tbey thought old Nellie lieu a little pet giraffe T How high you 1 stepped that morning, . u son or Aiiaruoni, When they lined you up with others, r. Ho lithe and game and gaunt! And don't yon thriM to think of it . How you cut tne turr with steel, When your Arab second cousin tViulifn't tret aniuit vour wheel I n J , - And how the Rosemond maiden Once made you take her mud, And carried off the cherished prizo In spite of all your blood f U say, wake up old pilgrim! -- Coine, ycomc and tell me now, If. 1 trained you for a month (i)uM'yju bead a Durham eowf But how it riled your temper t When , you learned how hay was , mowed, , Atod lury bitched you with, a "erow- , bait" ' And made you. pull a load! And a heartless brute one evening said: "Old at iff, yon 're getting old," And pulled your striped blanket off ? A d tu rued you in the cold. ' ' ' - ', . - And I bought you back in triumph 1 From the snowbanks and the sage, Juat to give an Jodian summer . To au honorable old age. And though you've had a checkered life, If I go-before von do, , I'm sure that you 11 remember ,Od friend was always true. -Baieuv Or., Aug. 17, 1905. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED CAM- f ' FAIQNS. .The people Vf not only New York city, but of thft entire United States, will watch with interest the campaign of Mr. Jerome, whe has cut loose from all jarty affiiis,tionsand intends mak ing a canvas's for district attorney of that city" on his own account. To Ore gonians this move on the part of Mr. Jerome is particularly interesting as it is much in line with what every one will do in this state who wants office under the new primary law.". Unlike Lost Haii Mv hair came out hv the hand. ful, and the gray hairs begin to J creep in. 1 tried Ayer.'a Hair Vigor. 1 and tt stopped the hair from com ing out and restored the color." Mrs. M. D.Cray, Na. Salem, Mass. There's a pleasure In offering such a prepara tion as Ayer's Hair Vigor. It gives to all who use it such satisfaction. The hair becomes thicker, longer, softer, and more glossy. And you feel so secure in using such . an old and reliable prepara tion; SlJeeleras. AH ir voor omrrtst cannot supply yen . i3il tu Mrs sea eive ts name of vow vtK CO- lxwiU Maaa. the conditions of 1 the pa"t7 each "candi date will have to stand alone. He wm come before the whole people, not with the backing of an organization in which the spirit of give and take, has led to a uniting of forces, but absolutely on his own merit and opinions.! si. '. ' Each candidate will i go bef ore the people with a personal platform,: and while personal friendship will enter to a limited extent in the final result, 'the chances are that those men wiU.be nom inated, that; is, will receive the plural ity of the votes, whose personal state-j There are still many months inter ments of policy may best meet the ap- J vening between the present time 'and proval of the- plurality of .voters. the day when the nominations .will be .That this means an election is not made and no one believes that all the necessarily true, because the most radi-1 candidates for the various offices witb eal and the most unsafe man may be in the gift of the people of the state may the successful man so far as securing the support, of the plurality of voters is concerned. . ; Occasionally, at rare times in our his tory la fset, men, individual men, have come before the people and have swept aside all organisation and opposi tion and have been carried forward 6a a corrent of popularity to high sta tions, but the ease has been very rare. The nomination of ' James O. Blane for president of the United States came to him as a demand backed by a great popular uprising within his party of the men whose love for the plumed knight overran their judgment; yet de feat came to Blaine. William Jennings Bryan was the ac cidental choiee of a party resultant on one ; nj-eeeh which made him popular among those who are apt to be led by their emotions rather than by their saner thoughts. Yet an explication of the rational outcome of the policy ad- voeatcd by Mr. Bryan sobered the pop-1 ulaec, and those who would have sup ported him for the presidency had the election come in August, were prepared to support McKinley when the election finally came in November. i : On the other hand, Theodore Roose velt stands out as an example of what personality may do toward making a man great and to advance him to high position. Students of political economy, men who have made polities the study of their lives, those who from those nat ural causes and conditions reaeh the point at which they beeome known as leaders in a party, were afraid of Roosevelt; they feared his abruptness, his vehemence, they feared his liabil- ( ity to form hasty opinions ana to ae upon them without ue consideration . t ! . ..unit uix. K oAtinn Tha fait . . . . , , .. " . . . . , . I that he was academical, that his ideas' of : political economy were those very j , , . ... . : : plo( I largely taught in .the universities. That" . . it i he was a reformer all admitted, but .. . . . . . : . that some of his reform ideas were of . i so rauieai a nature as to ue uangeroua, . . . 1 i , . ,t ,,! a ,n.i these old students of American poll- ics felt sure. That their fears were well grouped in some particular., and, nt in others, is now recognlxed, yet there are those in politic, today in the UniU-d State, who will declare' that President Roosevelt know, more about the public pulse twlay than be did six months ago. His demand for a revision of the tariff, for an immediate session of c i- grens for the purpose of adopting reci procity treaties, met with such a storm of opposition from all parts of the country, that one eonvent tion which had the temerity to declare the cause for. i 1 1 ' i -ti I its ; being called was based on Roose- j velt's own statement, was unable to! get- not only Mr. Roosevelt's sanction,! but that of any memoer of his cabinet,' and that the special senjtion of congress II .a. t .1 A. L is caiieu on, goes to snow, mat even , Roosevelt li-teus when the voice of the ,eopl arises in its majenty. Roosevelt was nominated and elected tiinuign a nponiuueou uprising ox h great majority of the people of the United States. Roosevelt has not ueen a man to advise with other people, to ask the opinions of other people, and such advice as has come to him has been gratuitous and offered to him because those ' leaders in the party to which Roosevelt naturally belongs could not stand idly by and see the tenets and the principles of that party destroyed at the beck or call, of one man or any one set of men. The question is, now that Roosevelt has been known so long by all the people, is he strong enough again to j come out as a personal 'candidate, and j would he carry that amount of support 1 of the entire people so as to again guarantee his election, even against organization that is, would he be able, independent of the action of his party. to make a successful canvass for the f presidency! This we doubt. Jerome may be strong enough to car ry tho city of New York for himself and make himself district attorney on a 1 purely 4 independent platform. : . He would ' have been stronger without a I question had the popular wave been' in evidence, had the public and the press from, all over the city insisted on his again being a candidate, but as the matter stands it Is a ease of per sonal ambition, purely and simply. ; s j Now ia Oregon the candidates who are asking for the support of the peo ple ' at the polls are very ; much like Jerome np to the present time. Each and every one . so far suggested . seems to be carrying out simply the desire of hi. own personal ambition. " This does not say that personal ambition is wrong, it does not say . that these men are not in; every,: way fitted for. the positions to which they aspire; It doe. not say that they ate not "proper men to be riven thM n;iUn. :tik imi. thought s that, the jopular uprising la 5 favor of any one of these men has not yet been, in evidence. There bare been B statements of policy 'as yet. There baa been no. position of ad vaned gov ernmental -economics outlined ss yet. No man; has proposed a reform, move ment of any character J Therefore, in this, the campaign np to the present time differs none at ail from other cam paigns in the past' excepting that these men are appealing direetly to the peo ple to aid them personally to the of fices. gift of Oregon have yet Jappeared in the open. j - THE MASK, IS OPT. ; If The Oregonian sees nothing in the protective tariff which it can commend then why "pretend, to bo something which it is not t The Oregonian n attempted to dominate Republican pol- W! i th state of Oregon for a num- ber of years yet never has missed an opportunity to attack its basic princi pal of Republicanism, the protective tar m m iff. It has written a great many edi- torials on this subject in the past but never anything so glaringly open, so absolutely barren of 'disguise as its edi- torial in yesterday morning's issue un- tier tne neau " iue Dianupaiier snu wi Fetieh." Papers like The Oregonian may de clare for free trade, and claim that the farmer, the , producer of the United States, is being hood-winked ' simply because they are accepting actual eon- ditions which they ean appreciate, rath- er than the academical which have not yet been "tried "except to their undoing, but this declaration will not be accept- ed by the tanners. ? ' ' Th Orecrnninn in no sense a producer, v " - " f r neither is it in touch with the produce er. All The Oregonian wants is cheap etnthins1. It 1 1 r r i " Yet The Oregonian ought to remember how its own business was affected by the nard times brought about by the success of free trade ideas in 1892 and '93. There is no argument for the aca-. demical politician; not even is argu-j ment to be found in history or such re- suits aa are evident to everyone else, of year after year show this, tor .u The Oregonian is of this class. It sees P wants, our foodstuffs and manufac- . . . . . , ,,, - been aecompiisneu. its tneories are par- . amount to everything else. To it prae- , ,t,ee 18 nothlnK- Republicans of Oregon who remem- her what occurred to them in 1892 will , . no doubt now feel the necessity of sup- J r l ! a i. i.. .i. : a. t 1. 1 : UUfilUV Lil c; udiv niaivub uui IWUUUll" . . . . . can newspaper in tne state, wnicn naa .,. .s'u ,k.. , the party watch brought prosperity and f- The . Oregonian ha. been an opponent the protective principle, yet withal " DeM1 80 opiwsed to the vemo- cratic; leaders in the past that it gave ja halt hearted support to uepuDiieans. It now thinks, however, that the echoes Wis a olil fa t ( m vnaa m 4 ia rtvAtas. rw w t ei-wF smuhsss nuisv I'l vs .. ... . .. , . ' . . , tion will be discarded, and free trade be a.lopted. It is mistaken and should recognize the uemoerauc and anti-tte- publican note that was present at all t n. ... : 4 1. . . n : a i times in that convention, except when Edward Rosewater, who sdw that he was in the wrong crowd, told them the truth about protection. The Oregonian ha. declared itself a. iT t i . ami-epuuncan. ji nas nnauy aumu-. ted the truth as to its policy. The. Statesman is the paper of the Kepubli-1 cans in Oregon. It is for protection,' ror sound money, lor conservatism in government, for advancement of the rights of the people. It has no candi-tbe no aze to grinu. it is s.mp.y , , . for , continued prosperity, and know, that continued Republican success will lead to it. MORE BAD LAND LAWS. The government land laws which have ruled the west have all been made by men who had no more knowl edge of the conditions which existed in the west than the man in the moon. The latest evidence of this is in the irrigation land laws, in which the prog- nosticated is about to happen. Many prophesied that the general fund would be called on to make up the deficit in this work, and that point is now about to be reached. The San Francisco Call says: j -.. , , "It was intended that the settlers on the irrigated land should pay back to the government, ia annual install ments, the cost of - the reclamation. That .would make a revolving fund of the original capital, and would trans- f e It from . completed to new pro A large number of irrigation jecta. plants have been put under' way, but none has yet returned a dollar to the fund. One reason appears to be that government irrigation plant, eost ' so much per acre of land to be served that 'settlers are shy about assuming the burden of debt. "As soon as an irrigated homestead i. occupied the debt to the government begin, to ruts. on it. entire acreage." If the limit of.srea is eighty acres, the settler has to pay,24l for water the first year, though he win be doing well if he put up his buildings, fence his land, provide teams and feed for them, get tool, and . implements, and , get twenty acre, in crop. He will then be using water on twenty acres at "a cost of 112 per acre. ' The term, and ebnd tions axe toot hard for the men who seek settlement on land. Those who have on hand the. amount of capital required to meet the conditions do not wish to live on the land. "Another obieetion is that the limit, nt holdincrs is too smalL A farmer must be a man of family. As his chil dren -reach maturity he wants .some land - to divide among them. A home stead of eighty acres will not serve that purpose. ' .5 , - "The law seems to have been made by men who. never underwent the ex perience of moving on to wild land, subduing it and making a home sup ported by its produce. In administer ing the law the interior; department has spread its legs too wide. It has un dertaken a number of very costly plants all at once. It should ' have completed one, seenred settlers on it, and hadytxperience to guide it for fur ther work. It is now in ' danger of . a reaction that will, be, caused, by the Qf s large' number of incompleted 'plaBts, and the lack of settlers on the binds that are under' the one that is 4x.,a ' i uuisuui ASE NOT ALL FOOLS. The Oregonian has done something the entire people of the United States have not been able to do in the last forty yes, the last hundred years. It has, by one pen stroke, eliminated the tariff question from party politics, and , nas maae it a non-paixtsan 4ucnu, How lovely! It -was so easy, too!. Yet there is a question about it. Free trade is still against protection, and protectionists still oppose free trade, .The only thing is, the Oregonian is for free trade, yet expects and wants Re- publicans to support it notwithstand ing they are for protection and don't believe in even the Oregonian, The Oregonian says the Chicago ("reciprocity convention " was non partisan. It knows better. Free trade a is not non-partisan, neither is protec tion, neither is Senator Harris of Kan- aas. or Cummins of Iowa. On these ' . - two questions the two dominant par ties of the United 8tates have divided for years and will continue to divide, All other questions are side issues. This the Oregonian knows. We are not likely to lose our Euro- pean trade and our increasing exports tures and can't eet alone without them. ,aai. !; ainoon " "j - ....... A.SW.SV of foreign trade in order to keep $1000 ; of home trade would make . the man who made the remark, and the editor who would consider it seriously, joint candidate, for a first-class foolish house. The proportion of home trade t f irB . trad ia so much different , " from this that it is useless to speak of u to a sensible man. Does any one be- o TEN Trrtri W.tavs i v. ' . , M 1 I The Oreeonian does not flatter its ' readers. It indicates a belief that they are all fools. Tbey are not, and if tbey act as tbey - 1 I 1 . 1. ..ma 4kn .Jitnv if uuuiu L ury wilt rauiw k v ... - - f . that paper to acknowledge it. 1 ---t.l Senator William A. , v Harris of Kansas to endorse a ship sub sidy proposition. Making it "profitable for other nations" to nse our ships means running them at cheaper passen ger rates, eneaper freight rates than those charged by the ships of England, France, Italy and Germany. Does any , hnHdinV the ships . i,in(r tfcem rhMMr. man- . , t.n .Ha, . t ow thi, ,,.. B ing cheaper wages to the laborers who nnatrnet the shine, meaner wncres to who .B,p tbem, and cheaper fhe men who maD them it not also mean cheaper supplies from the farmer, the factory, the forest and the minef American -wage earners, pro ducers, manufacturer., do you like Sen ator Harris' proposition? We hear aa emphatic 'No" from each of you.' Of course John Mtnto of Marion county, had no thought of pay or pen sion when he furnished his own horse and arms and helped fight the' blood thirsty Rogue river Indian, into sub mission in 1835. Ue got no pay prob ably cared little about it, fighting a. he was to protect defenseless women and children. And now well, now, after nearly half a century, a pension of $8 a month has been granted him. There are too few : voters among the Indian war veteran, to get them justice. Eugene Guard. i- I v ' While there i. no necessity of open ing our ports to the . Chinese coolies, they should be opened to Chinese mer chants and students. China, however, must learn that merchants and stu dents do not mean coolie, in disguise. Here has been the trouble in the past. Chinese ' authorities conld not ' be de pended on to live op to the treaty. They claimed " privilege, for coolies which .were- only the rights of mer chants and students. ' Providence seems to smile upon this country only in Republican years. The condition of corn is nearly 5 per cent better than. last year, and last year', showing was great. Without a special revelation on the. point the circum stantial evidence indicates the divine sympathise 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. , If the Republican party want, to get itself and the country into a situation of dire distress, it will take the advice of tone ex-Democrats who, coming into the Bepnbliean party, only on aeeonnt of opposition to Bryan free silver scheme, failed to leave their own free trade ideas behind them. . The Russians at the peace conference should remember Paul 'a exhortation to the Hebrews: ' But call to remem brance the former days in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly while ye were made a gaaing-stock both by re proaches and affeetionsi and partly while ye became companions of them that were so nseLf, .-, Henrv" Wattersonaays the black sheep among the t English aristocracy are more conspicuous than numerous. So it is with the grafters in the Uni ted States government. . We hear of the occasional dishonest man, while the manv thousands of honest men are never mentioned. . If the free-traders think there is a great demand for revision of the tariff why don 't tbey. wait until after tho next congressional election and see how many congressmen arc returned on a free trade platform I: Geo. C. Brownell tas a right to be a candidate for the United States senate if he wants to. The people of Oregon have also the right to question his fit ness for that position, or any other, for j that matter. Even the administration with Air. Roosevelt's "advanced views" on the tariff question had to cut the Chieage side issue convention out. Roosevelt wants to be a Republican yet awhile. The government had better irrigate some "of the land in Oregon already withdrawn, rather than to withdraw more. Withdrawal is not a popular move, even in Oregon lands. The fraternal picnic, the fraternal lodge, the fraternal insnrance associa tion are oeing worked to a finish for political purposes in Oregon. It is time for our Democratic breth ren to blow out the light. The vilest political sinner has returned to their free trade fold. Let have free trade, free wheat, free food, free labor and free soup. The former will bring the latter. "Let us make the most of what we have." sav. a .age of the east. How about our opportunities in Salem. A RAILWAY DANGER. In a discussion of the railway situa tion in eastern Oregon, especially as it relates to the future interests of the Willamette valley, one point seems to have . been overlooked by the valley press generally, and; by the Portland papers in particular and to the writer this point is one of vital interest. To its understanding a study of the map of the inland empire is necessary. The building of what is known as the Shaniko branch of the O. R. tc N. to Rend should be carefully studied Jn its relation to the future. There is to day undeT construction from San Fran cisco through northern California and in connection with the Southern Pa cific system,-a railway which is now completed to a )oiut in Modoc county, and which has for its apparent objec tive, the Klamath basin, where it ex pects to arrive within a few weeks. The gap, however, lying between Bend and Klamath falls is relatively short and who believes that once the two lines mentioned above reach Klamath Falls and Bend, respectively, they will be al lowed to stop tberef Once connected, these two lines, what more natural than a through transcon tinental route from British Columbia,! northern Montana, Idaho, through east ern Washington and Oregon to San ' Francisco T The Southern Pacific, the Harriman syndicate, call it what one will, so long as the idea is carried, has its center not at Portland, where a lot of its leased lines center but at San Francisco, terminals of its own main lines. Does any one doubt, there fore. Hhat once completed the line through eastern Oregon to connect these roads, the trade of eastern Oregon, and the inland empire wit. be, as much as possible, diverted to San Francisco t Now whereas the remedy f It lays in the extension of the Corvallis & East ern into eastern Oregon, so as to divert the trade of that empire toward this valley, to which it properly, not only politically but psysieally, belongs. The 0. k E. with an expenditure of less than a quarter of a million dollars ean be opened to a connection with the wa gon roads of the Crook eonaty district, and its natural extension to a connec tion with the Oregon Short Line will some day give this state' what it re quires, another . connection, from its eastern boundary to the valley.. WHERE WE HAVE BEEN EHY. Tae exposition visitor who take, a steamboat 'ride np the Columbia to The C Dalles , and back, then a "street ear. journey to City Park and ' Portland Heights" feels no doubt thai he, she or it, is f nlly equipped to talk about Oregon. In this the aforesaid visitor - is about I iaa able to tell of Oregon's wonders a. the average Portlander The Lewis and Clark fair people have taken the position that Portland , and the Port land .treet railway, are all there i. of Oregon. They have made no effort to enlighten visitors, further than what enlightenment can be gained in the ag ricultural building at the fair. No ef fort has been made to induce visitors to take a daylight run through the Wil lamette valley, orinto tho inland em pire. Yet no open-eyed visitor can see the fair or the town of Portland, or the .hipping on the Willamette river and not feel t-at somewhere there must bo a country back of all this. , The country is here, and It seems too bad that every visitor to the fair has not had some extra inducement offered him to come out and see it. Marion county should have looked after this matter for itself; Polk should hav done the same, and Yamhill ami Linn and all the rest. Tho ablest "spieler" to be employed, one who is up on' com mercial conditions, agricultural condi tions, educational facilities, railway and street ear liues, and everything else we have here, should have been in the Mar ion county both all the time, ever ready to talk and to interest every vis itor in Salem and its surrounding country. This has not been done, and it seems a matter of regret. It has been sug gested, but it sterns thex county ,conrt expected to get a good man for cheap pay, and that can't be done. It is late but not too late to do this yet, nnd uiueh good could be accomplished by such a man being placed there even at this late day. The eounty conrt, the Commercial club, the taxpayers' league, any or all these organizations, should take thcr. matter up and see that some thing in 1 done, and done now. reciprocity Expensive. The attention of those who are talk ing for reciprocity is called to the result of our recoprocal arrangement with the government of 1 uba, wihch has been in effect since December 27, 1903. The department of commerce and labor re ports that the trade with Cuba for the years 19i2-5 was as follows: Impurts I rum. KxporU To. 190.V ........ .$02,912,790 21,7GI.l!21 1904 7(5.9.H3.4H 27.377.4fM 190.J 8;..U'.0Oi 3S73.VK Treaty not in Migration; treaty in operation six months. The gain in exports to Cuba for 1905, full treaty year, as compared with 1903, no-treaty year, amounted to $lG,fil2,379. The increase of imports from Cuba in for Infants and Children. The Klrnr You Ilave Always Ilos:lit lia.H Iwnie tlio hftrna ture of CIioa. II. Flotcliejr, nnd lias len nuuln iiimLt Iiln personal aiipervixion for over 110 yearn. Allow no ono to deceive yoa In this. CotinterlViU, ImilatiniiH uml ' JTast-as-firoml aro lnt KxpcrlmentM, ni.d iilaiior tho health of Childreu IixMrienco nainst i:iMTinn nt. The. Kind Ton Have Always Bought Bears the In Use For Over Tr erro tmnar. A War Macp Free ..... Ws will give you a finely colored map of ths Orient, showing where the present war Is being fought, with all the names of the towns of which we are reading every day, and also a complete map of Asia, free to each, of oar subscribers who will get us one new subscriber for three months, remitting us 25 cents. Here Is a chance for the children to get this map with little effort. The map Is 12x18 Inches. Do this at once as we have only a limited number of them. TO dMLED MdDMIEi If you are going home to yon r oliiMutxxlV home thin year, reincmbcr tliat the JiOUTHKUN PAO. KIO lesids to ev erybody V home. Ton can go by way of St. and thence resich the ent ire East ami Soutji. Or, you tain go t Dalnth, and from there nse either the rail lim, or cne of the superb Lake Steauient dowr tlie lakm to Detroit, Cleveland Erie, and Buflalo the Pan-A meriean f;ity. 8tart right and you will prolally arrive at your detit? ia tion'all right, and, to start right, ne the Northern PaciGc,. and preferably the "NOUTII COAST LIMITKI tmin, in serviw after MAT 6th. j , Any local agent will Lame A. D. CHARLTON Asslstaat ' - 1905 as compared with 1903 amounted to $24,473,811. ;; " . The trade balance tor 1603 in favor of Cuba was 147,943,001, being f6,7C3,. 432 greater than Cuba's balance in 193 before reciprocity was put in op eration. An adverse-trade balance t)f $47,945,001 means that to the extent of tL at amount we bottgt from Cuba more than we sold to Cuba. It also means that we supplied Cuba with $47,945,001 of-American money with which to increase her patronngo of European mills and factories. . We give Cuba a 25 per cent preferen tial tariff on her cigars and tobruwo, and a 20 per eent preferential tariff on her other products. ...Under thi.i we have jwiid out to the Cuban producer and manufacturer the sum of $18,IM), (CO in the shape vf a bonus daring the year 1905, and when we add this iuun to the rash Icilr.. e of trado against us during that year, or nearly $ IS, tOott oi) we find that vie have actually paid Cuba ttf.0(Myno more than we h:n received f roan tht. country. That tins is what it cost ii to work up oir for eign trad'" with that island must be evi dent to the most stupid observer. While we have really increased our annual iort to Cuba in the sum of fiC'S 12,-179 since 1903, nnd have paid at the rate of $18,000,000 for the in-V-reane, it is difficult to see that the United States is any tho lwtter off for the arrangement. -' The intent of this -reciprocal ptuposi. tion was tooit the price of sugar anil to reduce the price of tobacco but docs any one nee win-re either has been done! Sugar is 25 jt eent higher than it was in -1903 and no user of tobacco will admit that there , has leen any change to his Iwnefit in, the price of Cuban i gnis or of otHer tobacco.. No one need make the statement and' fXjM'ct it to be received with credulity that it pays r will pay to' get foreign trnde -through, tariff, reductions. It has not paid in the cam; of Cuba, and it will continue to act againttt the Ameri can producer and manufactured wher ever put into practice. Public Is Aroused. The public is aroused to a knowledge of the curative merits of that great medicinal tonic, Klectric Bitters, for sick -stomach, liver and kidneys. Mary II. Walters, of 54 St. Clair Ave., ('- luu'bus, )., writes: "For several months I was given up to die. 1 bad fever and ague, my nerves .were wrecked, L could not sleep, aud tay stomach was so weak. from useless doctors' drugs that I could not eat. Noon after lgiuiiiug to take rdeetrie liitters, I obtained relief, anil in a short time 1 was entirely Cured.". Guaranteed at Dan'l Jr Fry's driT store; price 50c. LT1 0 5. V Signature of Year3. ht, mtw wnmm fm I THE Paul to Chicago, or St. Ioais. ratm. 1 . r wm n i General rer A r rOKTlAND, UHEOOM. 1