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ottom, and attaches these to his feet.

On this craft or rather crafts. he pro-
poses to cross the ocean. He has a
pretty good stock Of courage, but ere
he reaches Paris he will probably re-
gret that he did not have more judg-
ment.
The prospects OF time when this
government will cease to pay pensions
is not fiattering; the date is far in the
distant future, The war of 1872 ended
81 years ago, and there are only three
| male pensioners Of that war living, but
| there are 5000 widows drawing PEN
slons as the wives of veterans of the
war of IL If the widows of the vet4r-
| ans of the civil war hold on to life in 4
similar manner there will be some
100, 900 widow pensioners of that war
so years hence.
II the Pierpont Morgan railroad mo
nopolists get McKenna on the bench
of the supreme court and Paxson On
the interstate commerce commission,
they will not have to buy any other
railroads. They will simply wreck
those lines that do not act TO suit them,
and then proceed to gobb!e up the
wreckage at their pleasure. The only
power that can now prevent the cor
summation of this well-laid scheme is
the senate.
State Superintendent Irwin was
severely criticised by the teachers in
attendance at the State Teachers As
sociation in Portland. They past very
uncomp plimentary remarks about the
wholesale issuance of state diplomas
during his incumbency of Office. and
referred to the superintendent office
as diploma grinding machine"
Mr.. Irwin faced the hot shots fred at
him for time, then excused himself
from further attendance. AS is usually
the case when an officer is guilty of an
offense, he does not enjoy being told
of it, Especially if he has no defense.
No man in America today occupies
more enviable position in the eyes of
consistent people than Senator VOL
cott, of Colorado. He is firm ad-
vocate of silver, also d republican of
pronounced views, but when he found
the administration abandoning silver
be refused tc surrender his views, and
severed his connection with the party.
He is consistent, and is much more
worthy of admiration than are such
men as the ex-senator of Oregon who
sacrificed his own principles for the
principles OF his party, or rather to
boost himself into Office.
1t may be sad commentary upon
the pervcrseness of humanity, but it
is nevertheless true that the way to
make men honest is to make dis
honesty odious and grievious, and the
only way to put a stop to official de-
linquency is to make every officer who
handles public funds liable individual
ly and through his sureties for the
restitution OF every penny that be-
longs to the public. With that prin-
ciple engrafted in the code and en-
forced through impartial, fearless
courts we shall have no occasion for
levying extraordinary taxes to make
good the losses sustained through EN-.
bezzling custodians of public funds.
Government by commissions is be-
coming an expensive fad in this
nation and in every state. In Oregon
we have our railroad commission, our
pure food commission, our state board
of equalization, etc., and If one of
them has earned or saved to the people
of the state what it has cost it has not
yet been discovered. The same is true
of the national government. 1t has
its interstate commerce commission,
its monetary commission and numer-
GUS others. but all the good they have
is to furnish positions
for an army of taxeaters. When the
pruning knife of @, onomy is applied.
it could we'll be turned toward clipping
these commissions off.
no dolOis ICCCSo-
ed from it's efforts toward international
the republican party
must now defend the foreign financial
system, without subterfuge, that it is
grating upon the American people.
When the administration dropped in
ternational bimetallism it proved all
the charges made against the platform
of 1896 by the silver men and proves
that the international bimetallic PLANK
was but a sop to silver republicans.
Now that the last vestige of an Amnri.
can financial policy has been dropped
from the republican creed and
foreign policy inserted, what will the
silver republicans do? Will they fol-
low the gold standard of England or
will they stand for union and Ameri-
can victory?