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The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-16
BILLS ALLOWED.
Claims Ordered Paid at Last Weeks
Session of County Court.

The following bills were allowed by
the County Court at its regular May
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-16

Wool IS to Is
Wheat valley "a to
Flour to S3 70 per bill.
Potatoee S so TO so per sack
Eggs Oregon. Is II per doz.
Butter 80 to 40 per roll.
Creamery 40 to As per roll.
Corvallis.
Wool I5H
Wheat 68 per 5ushel.
Oats 28 to 80
Flour e5 c LOS per sack
Butter 80 to 40 per roll
Creamery so per roll
Eggs Is per doz
Chickens 8 to 9 per pound.
Lard rs per lb
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-16
Wanted.
Portland.

Market Report.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-16

Racine buggies are the best. See our
stock and get our prices before buying.
A. Wilhelm & Sons, Monroe
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-05-16

Don't wait until your bees swarm be-
fore you get a hive to put them in, Look
at Whee1er's hives. opposite Wade's
hardware store. ~
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Colombia and the Canal.

In the absence OF more explicit de-
tails, ii is fair to assume that the an
nounced rejection Of the canal
treaty by the senate at Bogota does
not necessarily mean that Colombia
intends TO break off all negotiations
with the government of the United
States. In all probability that rejec-
ton will be found qualified by subse-
quent developments. The interests of
Colombia in having the canal con-
structed through the isthmus of Pan
anna is too great 10 permit the failure
OF a canal treaty in some shape
The rejection reported is probably
of the terms set out in the treaty as
negotiated There has been strong
opposition throughout the United
States of Colombia to some of the
features of that treay, but even the
most unfriendly reports from Bogota
have not presaged the absolute rejec-
ton of any treaty The Colombian
senate has the same right to amend
that is lodged in the United States
senate as a part Of the treaty-making
power of our government. The most
likely method of procedure, therefore.
is for the senate now in session to
amend the convention so as to make
it comport with the ideas of a ma
iority of that body.
If this is done in good faith, and if
the amendments are of a character
likely to meet the approval of this
government or to serve as basis for
a mutual understanding, President
Roosevelt can submit the amended
treaty to the senate when congress
convenes in extra session. That is
not a long way off, and the delay in
volved would probably not be ma
terial.
The president is, however, clothed
with full authority, should he see fit
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
lilly to raise sugar cane, tobacco and

fully to raise sugar cane, tobacco and
cattle.
The mechanism of money-makIng IS
delicate and moves on wheels MADE
OF dollars. 1t grinds recklassly ana
remOrselessly. And it is not much
longer to be kept out Of the vast cot
ton fields of the south. Here was an
industry, one of the best in the world,
that the negro might have easily mo-
nopolized as his own had he been
wisely guided into industries after
emancipation instead of being lugged
into politics and notions OF social
equality But his chance has been
neglected and the crowns of independ-
ence he might have wrought are sure
to be worn later on by smaller con
tingent of farmer kings"
The large Incorporated plantation
will be a novel and surprising IN
stance of combination. 1t will raise
cotton for it's surplus crop and 1000
stuffs for self-support. 1t Will gin us
own cotton, express its own seed-oll,
use it's own bulls and meal for cattle
feed and fertilizers, and manufacture
its own crop and gin-lint in us own
factory. 1t will market "ollve OIL,
beef cattle and various grades OF cot
ton goods Nothing will be neglected
-nothing wasted.
Those who have figured on the
feasibility and returns OF cotton en-
terprises thus organized and operated
are sanguine that the future will wit
ness a rapid organization of incorpor-
ated plantations and that when these
have multiplied until their power is
supreme in the field the south will
prosper beyond every dream and be
no longer at the mercy of spectators,
eastern milI-ownerg or foreign ycom-
petitors-and the rural labor problem
will be fully solved.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Cotton and Frost.

A question of no little interest is
raised in the course of the discussion
of cotton possibilities in Egypt and
Cuba.
Can cotton be grown successfully
where there is no frost?
An old-timer, writing from Florida
to The New York Sun, quotes John G.
Calhoun as having declared, in mas
terly speech in the United States SEN
ate, that cotton cannot be successful
iy-that is, proftably raised where
there is no frost
The writer, who describes himself
as an octogenerian, says he has long
been a southern farmer and he has
learned that Mr.. Calhoun's dictum is
true. The cost of eliminating the last
years foliage, unaided by frost. is, he
declares, too great to make the cul-
ture of cotton under such circum-
stances profitable.
Is this true?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
For Good Roads.

The promptness with WnlCh the com
missioners OF a number OF counties
have made application for convicts to
be worked on the reads speaks elO-
quently Of the popularity OF the new
law.
Up to Thursday thirteen counties
have filed with the prison commission
formal application for the quota to be
assigned them. In Il number of other
counties the officials have the matter
under consideration, and there is
every indication that by the time the
new law, making the short-term con-
victs available for this purpose, goes
into effect, the full number will be
applied for.
In this way the first real impetus to
systematic road building will be given
in Georgia. With nearly eight hun
dred felony conyicts being worked
upon the roads. and with this force
supplemented by the misdemeanor con
yicts in the different counties, the
good roads movement will become a
reality in the state.
When the new law shall have been
in operation long enough to show tam
gible results in the line OF scientifcai-
Iy constructed highways. it will, we
feel confident, fluid such favor with
the people that the next step will be
the use on the roads Of the convicts
with sentences as high as ten years,
instead of being restricted to the men
sent up for five years and less, as the
law now provides; and ultimately
Georgia will use all, save perhaps her
life convicts and those of notedly des-
perate character, upon her roads, until
the state shall be covered with such a
network of good roads as will carry
the blessings of prosperity to the
rural communities Of every county.
The new law has come TO stay. It's
popularity has already been demon
strated, notwithstanding the dire pre-
dictions OF some OF its opponents.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Taft and the PHILIPPINES.

The presidents tender of the war
portfolio in his cabinet to Governor
Taft has naturally given rise to wide
speculation over the probability Of the
acceptance OF that important post by
the man who has made the civil gov
eminent in the Philippines an accom-
plished fact When Governor Taft de-
clined the proffer Of place upon the
supreme court, it was taken for grant
ed that nothing could tempt him from
his present post unless it was the
chief justiceship OF that court to
which exalted position he has right
TO aspire. But several considerations
which did not then enter into the stu
alton seem likely to influence him to
accept the war secretaryship.
One of these is his health. Govern
or Taft has been in the tropics long
enough. He has, upon more than one
occasion recently. shown that the
strain of work near the equator is tell
ing upon him, and the warnings he has
received are OF q character not to be
disregarded
This, however may be taken as the
consideration least likely to sway
man who has shown himself ready to
make every sacrifice of ambition and
personal convenience in order to carry
forward the great work to which he
has been chosen. The fact that civil
government must by this time be so
firmly established and in such good
working order that his presence is no
tn
velopment Of the islands, and, especial
ly, the fact that the office of secretary
of war would furnish him the oppor-
tunity to see carried into effect those
policies which he deems necessary for
the success Of the American admins
tration of those islands Of the Orient,
are the considerations most likely to
influence his acceptance.
AS secretary of war, Governor Taft
would be in q position to do more to
promote the right government OF the
islands that in the position he now
holds. He would be a greater infiu-
ence in shaping the policy OF the adj
ministration and, as such, better able
to prevent the domination Of the CIVIL
branch out there by the military. lie
has won the confidence Of all elements,
native and foreign, 70 degree which
could hardly be attained by any sue
cessor to the goyernorship and III this
respect the elimination of his person
ality from the Immediate scene would
be a loss; but this loss would certain
" be more than Offset by the gain to
all interests of having him at the head
of the war department, whore he
would have, practically, the final deci-
sion in all matters affecting the Phil
ippines.
If Governor Taft does accept the
place in the cabinet rendered him, it
will doubtless be due to this higher
consideration rather than to any per-
sonal ambition. From the standpoint
of Philippines peace and prosperity, 1t
is to be hoped he will consent to be-
come the successor of Secretary Root.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Should De No Further Delay.

The net increase in taxable values
OF Georgia as shown by the county di-
gests is so, 102 To this Will be
added an increase in the property re-
turns of the railroads approximating
$1,000, 900, not including the franchise
returns.
With this Information at hand, the
governor and comptroller general
need only to know the results of the
arbitrations upon franchise valua-
tons to enable them to fix the tax
rate for the state 1t is sincerely to
be hoped that there will be no I'M
necessary delay in the completion of
these arbitrations The present de-
lay serves to draw attention 10 one
of the many weak points Of the arbi-
tration system-that which restricts
the comptroller general to the mem
bers of the railway commission IN
making his selection OF arbitrator
for the state While this plan may
not have placed an unusual amount of
work upon these three gentlemen i'll
the past, the enactment OF the fran
chise tax law has brought on so many
arbitrations that 1t is almost a phys
ical impossibility for the members Of
the commission to complete their work
in the short time desired, even We're
no obstacles in their way
The fact is, however that they have
no power t. hurry the other arbitra-
tors. One result of the workings OF this
system, as seen just now. is that with
the time for fixing the tax rate al
hand. not one of the arbitraiions of
the large properties has been com
pleted. 1t may he that these can be
hurried without jeOpardiZing the in
terests of the state, but it would have
been very much better had it been
possible for artitrators to have been
selected without putting all this labor
upon the members OF the commits
sion. as then one arbitration would
not have to await the disposition of
others
Whatever the cause, it is to be
hoped that all concerned will cooper
ate with the governor and the comp
tTOiier Sehtfti III utiI5inS an carry
settlement of these matters in dispute,
so there may be no delay in the fixing
Of the tax rate
Even without awaiting the fran
chise arbitrations. it is now certain
that the tax rate for the next year
will be less than mills on the dollar
"a most gratifying showing and a
highly creditable record for Governor
Terrell's administration.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Not an Easy Mark.

There is concern in the heart of The
New York Sun lest democrats conduct
their next presidential campaign on
the theory that the inevitable candi-
date Of tho REPUBLICAN party is some
thing easy.
The Sun will, of course, be found
supporting that candidate, though at
present it loses no opportunity OF
shieing a brick at the passing Roose-
veltAn show. But witness the fol
lowing quotation from The Nashville
American. which appears i'll the col
umns of its New YORK contemporary:
Unbalanced, unreliable, full of self,
empty of prudence, of knowledge, of dis
erection, OF the comprehension of the laws
of nations. of the laws of his own coun-
try, of even the little social laws Mr..
Roosevelt is failure. Is that not pal
pahe Must we needs butt our heads
against n palmer proposition to take COS
nizance of this all too apparent natlonai
misfortune? Must there be yet greater
one?
And yet the republicans have already
committed themselves to this man $ re-
election, or rather number OF them
have. States have instructed for MN,
conventions have indorSed him ana Tor
what? In the happy appreciation ana
enjoyment of our wondrous prosperity
have any of us stopped to think for what
good or gain we owe Mr.. Roosevelt? Is
it not all 5he reverse? What democrat
can do worse?
The Sun characterizes this an in
discriminating opinion OF President
Roosevelt, and warns the democrats
that if they are to have any reasona-
BILE expectation of defeating that gen
tleman. they m st not make the mis-
take Of Understanding his political
strength or his personal popularity.
At the same time, however this able
representative of eastern republican
thought does not overlook the CppOr
tunity to present this southern esti-
mate of the man to its many republi-
can readers, presumably in the hope
that it may contribute to the discom-
fort at Oyster Bay.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
That Same Old TurkP

II does seem possible for modern
civilized powers to come to some
agreement by which the further SER
vices of the sultan of Turkey might
be dispensed with. He has been the
eye-sore and the bone in the gorge of
humanity for generations and time
has surely come when duty to God
and mankind demands his dethrone-
ment and the cessation Of his sue
cesson
If it be objected that the maintenance
of the porte is the core Of truce
that supports the peace OF Europe;
that to abolish it would involve
struggle between the powers OF the
eastern continent to control the stra-
tegic values of the now neutral buffer
state of Turkey, that objection can be
DISPOSED of by another Berlin con-
gress and treaty from which the rep
resentatives of the interested powers
can return to their capitals announc-
ing. as Beaconsfield did in 1878 that
they return bearing peace with hon
Or"
Such a congress of the powers
could demand the abdication of Abdul
Hamid. decree that the Turkish dy-
nasty is at an end and substitute for
the government an administrative
commission so adjusted as to main
tain the equities between the powers,
guarantee peace and prosperity to the
Turks themselves and so remove from
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
The Constitution and the Flag.

1t has been fully settled by the de
cision, five to four, OF the supreme
court bench, that the constitution Of
the United States does not follow the
flag-the ensign OF the national au-
thority. That settles the fact that
We have q dual form of government
half republican and half imperial
half horse and half alligator" Which
ever way We turn to escape that con
viction the case is labeled stare de
cisis, for under the majority rule five
judges make as binding law from the
supreme bench as the entire nine
could make in concert
Another and higher question is
whether the constitution remains with
the fiag at home? 1t is notorious with
all men who observe and think that
the republican party has as little re
gard for the limitations OF the con.
stitution here in the United States as
1t has for il when appealed to by the
Porto Ricans or the Filipinos
No man can truthfully deny that the
republican party has established in
this country those perpetuities and
monopolies which are unconstitution-
al. The party itself confcsses the
charge in its masquerade warfares
against its own creations Its Sher-
man antitrust law, its grand stand
resolutions in conventions and its wild
colt demonstrations by the president
and the sOmnambulistic Knox are all
substantial evidences that it has done
unconstitutional things and is now
impotent to undo them because bound
by the cords of its own iniquities.
That il would like exceedingly TO
crusade against the south and deprive
a number of our states of their con
stituiional representation is not dis
putabIe. But the negro is the only in
strument they can use for such an
unholy end. And just now the negro
Is not available to them. He has
turned up through the wrong trap
door and performed in northern com
munities in q way TO make ii fOregOne
that no pro-negro campaign can arouse
much enthusiasm anywhere west of
the Bill Garrison bronze effigy in the
Back Bay district OF Boston.
The constitution requires governors
of the states to deliver up indicted flu
gitives from Justice; but the republi-
can party's governor in Indiana re-
fuses TO deliver Ex-Governor Taylor to
the Kentucky authorities for trial on
an Indictment ar particeps criminis in
the murder of his elected successor
Other republican governors, including
Roosevelt of New York, guaranteed
this same fugitive free passage
through their states in order that he
might go as a delegate from Kentucky
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Back to the Plantation.

There is an undoubtedly growing
tendency in the south to 80 back to
the old plantation system of agricul-
ture that prevailed before the war.
1t has been found that the negroes
are not fitted, even after the expert
ence of a third of a century, to be-
come reliable landed proprietors I'M
der the small farm system. They are
not equipped with the means, scien-
tifc intelligence and habits that are
the essentials for making such farms
productive to their highest possibili-
ties and so the negro tenant and pro-
prietor farmers are always in debt,
under mortgage, disappointed them
selves and the agents OF disappoint-
ment to their landlords and cred
itors. Most Of them know little else
than cotton-raising and their lack of
thrift in that is too conspicuous to be
ignored. Scarcely one in twenty of
them produce as much of crop indie
pendently as he would produce I'M
der hire and intelligent superintend-
ence.
On the other hand, it has been
demonstrated within the past few
years that large tracts of land can
be consolidated under competent man.
aeement and worked with hired Ia
borers at minimum of expense and
larger profits than by any form of
tenant and crop-sharing system. A
time is coming when even farming
will be a corporation field and com
panies will be formed to hold and cul-
have been formed and used success
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24

to exercise it, to break off the nego-
tiations with Colombia and renew ne
gotiations with Nicaragua and Costa
Rica for the construction of canal
by the Nicaragua route.
If the action of the Colombian con-
gress is such as to leave the way open
for further negotiations calculated to
bring an agreement, the president Will
doubtless submit the matter to the
United States senate, which will act in
accordance with the later develop
ments. If, however, there is no proba-
bility of the acceptance of the Colon
bian amendments, if these are antag-
onistic to the principles upon which
the original treaty was constructed,
the duty of the president is plain. He
must start things going for a canal
through Nicaragua.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Coneer and Prince Ching.

The intrinsic value of the promise
which Prince Ching is reported to
have given Minister Conger may be
aptly described as a questionable
quantity.
AS usual there is a string attached
TO every development in the Manchu-
rian controversy. This time 1t comes
in the form Of time allowance, the
head Of Chinese foreign affairs having
given the American minister some
sort of q promise that on October 8
q date conveniently in the future-a
treaty shall be signed guaranteeing
that two Manchurian ports shall be
open
On October 8-providing there is
no extension of time, providing the
Russian authorities do not interpose
objections, providing the dowager EN-
press does NOT change her mind, pro-
viding-well, many other things.
All these conditions may not be set
forth in the written promise Prince
Ching is reported to have given Min
lister Conger, but that they were bus
lily at work in his celestial mind when
he attached his official signature to
that note there can be no doubt.
Minister Conger is clearly UP
against a -tails-you-lose
proposition in these Manchurian nego-
tiations, the other fellow holding the
winning end. First China says she is
willing, but that Russia. being in pos
session OF Manchuria, is the govern
ment to consult. Russia replies that
she has nothing to do with it, as the
country belongs to China, not to the
car. China suggests that this may
be the case in theory, but it is certain
iy not in fact; than Russia retorts
that as she has said her stay in Man
churia is only temporary, nobody has
a right to question her promises or
her Intentions 1t being up to China
again there is more squirming and pro-
testing.
Finally Minister Conger thinks he
has obtained something substantial,
but despite his reports the uncertain
ties of the situation remind one most
forcibly of those surrounding the hero
of the vaudeville classic, who was
OFF again,
On again,
Gone again.
Einnegan.
We will believe those Manchurian
ports have been opened only when we
see them.
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to Philadelphia and vote for the nom

to Philadelphia and vote for the NOM
nations of Mckinley and Roosevelt
And these are but sample bricks out
of the pedestal on which the repub-
lican party stands. Were there not
scores of other instances to cite these
three should be enough to incite the
great majority Of Americans against
the further dominancy Of the nation
by that party. It's contempts for the
constitution make pertinent the ques-
ton we ask: What kin is the constltu-
ton to the flag. anyhow?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
"The ONLY Bruffey."

(From The Albany Herald)
Bruffey. the only Bruffey. who can over
come more obstacles and sweep aside
more objections with n mere wave Of the
hand than any other man in Georgia,
when on the trail of a sensational news
story went to Milledgevile 10 get the
whole story of the whipping of Mamie De-
Girls at the state prison farm. and to IN
terview the woman herself. and he was
successful in both. Others had tried and
failed but Bruffey never fails in such
emergencies.
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the circle of Christian civilization
monster of intolerable character
The riot at is due to be read be-
fore the Yldiz palace and a transport
should be easily provided to take the
old rascal to some twentieth century
st. Helena
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
SUNNY Stanton.

F'rom The Sharks Enterprise)
Frank l.. Stanton is the Sunny jim
Of sunshine and a sparkling drop OF
dew IN every poem he writes
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
Mills Will Not Stop.

Americus Times Recorder: The British
courts refuse to recognize South Dakota
divorces. Well, the Sioux Falls patent
separator" can get plenty of grist with
out importing it from across the pond.