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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
WEATHER..

Tonight and Tuesday occasional rain
or snow.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14

that they would be in no way respon-
sible for appointments or detail man.
agement in the executive departments.
The problem is how to get the con-
gresham ont of the departments. 1t
can't be done at once. The grawth Of
the classified civil service and it's at
tendant idea that public business must
be kept apart from the rewards of par
ty politics will probably give us in
time departmental administrations as
free from congressional influence as
the British departments are free from
parliamentary influence. But when that
time comes we may jump from the po-
litical frying-pan into the social fire,
for it is said that in England many
things that go with us by political
pull go there by social pull
But all true reform is slow growth.
Some day we shall be better.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
TOO MUCH CONGRESSMAN.

Too much congressional influence
seems to be one of the greatest evils Of
the postoffice department. With con-
gressmen using the governments great
business department as a fruitful field
for mild form of graft, it is hardly to
be wondered at that Machen and others
in the department thought there was
nothing very grave in more malig-
nant form of graft. They were all the
time helping congressman to promote
their interests by passing them out IA
vors in the way of rural route locations
and increased clerk hire, etc, so why
should they not take a few rake ofrs''
from contractors themselves?
| Now, we do not scold the individ-
ual congressman who have used their
personal influence to secure more clerk
stituents That is one of the things
we send congressman to Washington
| for under present conditions. 1t is
often said Of a congressman that he
| is a great department man. That
means nothing more nor less than that
| he is a sort of attorney for his con-
stituents at Washington. He has this
advantage over the private attorney,
| that he has a vote in congress, and
| that his vote, put together with the
votes of many other congressional at
| torneys, can tighten or loosen the
purse strings for every department.
Thus there arises the temptation and,
indeed, the necessity for the depart
| ment official to be very accommodate
Ing to congressman.
The individual congressman going
home looking to him for this, that and
the other favor, is helpless. He must
play the game as it is played, or quit.
1t is a nuisance and bore to him, and
he we'll knows that, when playing the
arrand boy for individual constituents,
he is often neglecting their higher in
terests as part of the body polite
While working overtime to get more
salary for this or that employee. or a
pension for this or that old soldier,
the, congressman finds mighty little
time to devote to those public matters
that he was primarily sent to Wash
!ngtOn to attend to.
But what can he do? We have no
be delighted if it could be arranged so
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14

fee is the direct result of the election
of Senator Hepburn by Mormon votes
in the last Idaho Legislature. Woolley's
was held up for some
months on serious charges preferred
by Mr.. Donzae, of Lewiston, and 9TH
ers that Woolley, while acting in his
official capacity as revenue collector,
had blackmailed them out of money.
The charges were investigated by spe-
cial agents and by them sustained, but
the strenuous civil service cham
pion now in the White House
refused to withdraw his name
and his cuckoos in the senate
have finally confirmed this de-
lectable individual. The confirmation
was opposed by Senators Dubois, Teller
and Carmack, who asked for the re-
ports Of the special agents, but this the
senate refused to grant. 1t is safe to
say that this appointment of an "un-
worthy individual to federal Office in
connection with other phases of the
Mormon question, will split the repub-
lican party of Idaho in twain. Decen,
republicans all over that state have
bitterly opposed his confirmation and
at late meeting of the state republi
can committee at Boise this topic was
made the test of good republicanism by
the Roosevelt Mormon Hepburn ma
chine which controls the republican
party of Idaho.
1t is known that in 1900 the republ
can national committee made a deal
with the apostles of the Mormon
church whereby, in considera ton OF
the church influence in Utah, Idaho
Wyoming, Nevada and Colorado, and
the electoral votes of those states be-
the republican party agreed to pigeon
hole the proposed amendment to the
polygamy. This amendment was at
one time a very lively subject in poll
tics and its withdrawal from the po-
litical arena is attributed solely to the
republican, Mormon alliance made by
the republican national committee with
the Mormon church in 1900.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14

line up almost solidly in the republic
can state convention for Mcbride and
an appointive commission, but it is
still an open question whether or not
the governor will be able to get dele
gates enough from the west side to give
him the nomination.
II Mcbride should be turned down
the democratic party in this state will
have it's golden opportunity to prove
its loyalty to the people by nominating
for governor some staunch champion
Of the peoples cause for governor on a
strong commission platform. His cleo
ton would be almost certainty from
the start. Meanwhile it is the duty of
all good democrats to stand up squarely
for the right and trust to the moral
sense Of the people for the final vindi-
cation Of the partys position.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
OF GREEKS BEARING
GIFTS

She railroad organs all over the state
rae now pretending to advocate a rail-
way commission, but they insist upon
the shelving of Governor Mcbride by
the republican state convention. 1t is
only another case of the Greeks bear
ing gifts" into Troy and if the people
are fooled by this ruse it will be a
horse on them just as it was with
the unsuspecting Trojans.
The railroad organs now aVoW their
readiness to accept even an appointive
commission if Mcbride be left out in
ago these same organs We're opposed
to any kind of a railway commission
as being a menace to the prosperity of
the state. About six weeks ago they
began to talk of an "advisory commits
sion such as Oregon used to have as
beng harmless thing that would be
acceptable to the railroads. Two weeks
later they conceded that an elective
commission such as they have in
Texas, Iowa and California was what
this state should have. They asserted
that an appointive commission in the
hands of such an ambitious man as
Governor Mcbride would enable him TO
build up political machine of such
strength that the people would be re-
duced to state of abject political ser
vitude.
Now the aforesaid organs have YIELD
ed another notch. For the last week
they have been proclaiming their will
, lngness to support a plank in the re-
publican state platform declaring for
an appolntive commission provided
Mcbride be turned down. They know
that party platforms cut little figure
with many members of the legislature
"heh subjected to the allurements held
out by the king of Temple Flat. The
lobby now has a ma jorty of the hold
II is confident of it's ability to elect
enough more promise breakers to the
senate to block any commission bill
that the lower house might possibly
pass, of for nothing more than political
| effect.
The lobby is moving heaven and
earth or so much of both as it can
bulge to down Mcbride. The railroad
organs are trying to make the naonle
pelleVe that any other republican cam
dldate would be just as good friend
or the commission cause and that party
harWony would be restored by the
elimination of Mcbride. There is lit-
Tue DOUBT that eastern Washington will
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
THE MERGER IS DEAD.

The supreme court of the United
States this morning handed down a de-
cision holding the Hill Hartman rail-
way merger to be a violation of the
Sherman antitrust act and therefore
null and void. This decision compels
the dissolution of the Northern Securi
. ties Company and restores the indie
pendence of the Great Northern, the
Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific
railroads.
1t is great victory for the people
and it Will do much to restore popular
confidence in the highest court of the
land, which it must be confessed, was
somewhat shaken by the five to four
decision of the court holding the in
come tax clause of the Wilson tariff
law to be unconstitutional. 1t will be
recalled that the incame tax decision
was reached only after Justice Shiras
had reversed himself
The knocking out of the merger will
be another notable achievement to the
credit of President Roosevelt and At
torney General Knox, and their pOliti-
cal opponents should gracefully accord
all the praise due the republican ad-
ministration. The decision is also a
VindicatiOn of the attitude of Governor
Mcbride of this state toward the mer-
ger. He held it to be a plain violation
of that clause of the constitution of
this state prohibiting the merging of
parallel and competing lines of railway
within the state and he therefore, in
Structed the attorney general of the
state to begin action in the supreme
court of the United States for the dis
solution Of the Northern Securities
Company \ similar suit had already
been begun by the state of Minnesota
under the direction of Governor Van
SAINT. After the unanimous decision of
the United States circuit court of Min
nesota against the merger and the later
decision of United States District
Judge LoChren of Minnesota against
the state and in favor of the merger.
the suit of this state was not pressed.
as II was evident that all the issues in
NolVed would be settled by the appeals
taken from the Minnesota cases.
The overthrow Of the merger will be
gratifying to all foes of monopoly and
all advocates of individual rights 1t
is hard blow for the multi illionaire
plutocrats who have boldly def1ed the
laws of the land and it is vindica-
ton of popular government and of the
lncorrupubility of the highest court of
the republic The railway merger is
dead May its ghost never walk to dis
turb the tranquility of the law abiding.
Justice-loving American people
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
A CORRECTION.
st. Louis, March 9, 1904.

st. Louis, March 9, 1904.
Editor Statesman:
The report published in your paper
of recent date, that the Ellery band
had stranded in Portland Or, is wrong
and the publication of this article is a
rank injustice. The band after playing
ing your city continued it's tour and
is now in its tenth week of great sue
cess in Los Angeles, Cal, playing to
tremendous crowds in Chute park In
face Of the fact that we have always
been treated very kindly by you on our
various visits to your city, 1 trust you
will see fit to correct this article and
also mention the fact that We have
been engaged for the Worlds fair as
the main musical attraction during the
month of August.
Mr.. COlville who is credited as hav-
ing made this statement. was at one
time in the employ Of Charming Ellery.
He was dismissed for reasons which it
is not necessary to state in this letter.
and since then it seems his chief delight
and only occupation has been the
spreading of false reports relative to
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
WORLDS FAIR At ST. LOUIS, NO
MAY TO NOVEMBER.

Account of the Worlds Fair at St.
Louis the O. r. & n. Co. announce the
following rates:
To st. Louis and return ....... $4,000
To Chicago and return ........ $500
To Chicago and return from ST.
Louis ...... .....Sb2.o gu
Returning via California and Port
land add $1430 to above rates.
Children entitled to half rate, one
half of above rates.
Limit-Ten days going with final
limit Of ninety days.
Stopovers-Stopover will be allowed
in either direction within the limit.
These tickets are good going one
route and returning another.
For detailed information call on or
address r. BURNS,
General Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS.

The editor of a ladies' journal, or
high-cla literary bazaar for home
consumption, believes that the public
is losing confidence in the daily news
reports. He thinks that the loss of
faith is due to the distortion and en-
Enlistment Of facts as they are re-
moved from cold storage and prepared
with editorial condiments for the morn
ing and evening meals.
A monthly review wonders, editO-
rally, whether the public does ever
get quite an accurate conception of
any strong public man. Enlarging
upon it's doubts, it mentions that the
public held a wrong impression con-
corning Senator Hanna. Further it de-
clares: so, too, with the late Mr..
William c. Whitney, More men
thought of him during his last years as
a patron of the turf than as the aDlest
secretary of the navy perhaps that we
have had
And what is the deduction? That the
public has miScOnception of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. The review evidently
believes that Mr.. Roosevelt is a safe
official, and the public, it thinks, has a
more or less opposite notion of his
temperament. The characteristic that
ty.
Mr.. ROosevelt's defenders are follow
to set him right with the voters. And
the magazine promoters are going out
of their channel in trying to question
the reliability of news reports. After
all is said, the average conservative
newspaper is a reliable document as
it has a policy of sincerity which it fol-
lows in presenting information.
AS for popular misconceptions, it is
doubtful whether they could exist for
a long period. You can't fool all the
people all the time though some of
them can be fooled now and then and
though some diligently fool themselves
General public opinion relative to
man prominent in public life usually
is correct.
The public, as a rule, considers a
man for what he is, and not particular
ly for what he was or might be or may
become. Should he be a bon vivant.
that is a habit which must be studied
in connection with better qualities that
he possesses. Should he be erratic, that
fault is measured against his genius,
whatever its type. Should he devote
time and effort to many subjects and
diversions the public will question
whether he has capacity and time for
more serious matters. The public aims
at generally just estimate of the
worth of a public man, and although
it's estimate may be temporarily unfair,
it will ultimately adjust itself about
as nearly right as neighborhood adj
justs it's estimate of any of it's men,
berS
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
OPEN AIR CURE FOR CONSUMP
TIVES,

The two great facts which consti-
tute the argument for the open air
sanitarum and other hygienic methods
are, first, that the history of consump-
ton shows that about one man out Of
seven is killed by that disease, and,
second, that the hygienic treatment
in use in some communities has re-
duced the mortality 40 per cent
Doctor Porter, speaking before the
School of Philanthropy of the St.Louis
Conference of Charities. emphasized
the fact that one seventh of all deaths
are due to consumption. This is not
guess, he said. 1T is deduction
from the mortuary reparts of all civ
ilized countries. 1t seems that at pres
ent rates 100000 of those now liv-
ing in the United States will die of
this disease. 1t means in the United
States 100000 die each year"
In New York and Philadelphia, be-
cause of open-air treatment, the death
rates have fallen b 40 and 40 per cent
respectively. Doctor Porter's first
prescription for consumption is fresh
air. Climate is of little value in con-
SUMPTION" he said. 1T is the outside
air that counts. Air that has not been
breathed before, which has it's full
equivalent Of oxygen, and it matters
not whether it is air in the Adrion-
dacks, New Mexico or st. Louis"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14
APPOINTMENT OF WOOLLEY.

The confirmation of the Mormon
the United States assay office at Boise.
shows the public what may be expected
or the senatorial investigation in the
case of Apostle Reed Smoot.
Woolley was formerly United States
Internal revenue collector for Idaho
and his appointment TO his present Of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14

this organization. You will do rs -,
great favor by sending us a conv 80
your valuable sheet with a fair ranus
iation of the article which is ahs,r,
and which could do us great deal Of
injury.
Thanking you in advance, l am.
Yours very truly,
FRED B. CROW
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-14

Querist-Doesn't it worry Won
good deal that so many of your no
tlents die on your hands? Young Doc.
tor-Worry me? Why should it? Tb;,,,
Of the experience am getting,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Roosevelt and Fairbanks.

The national conventions choice OF
Roosevelt and Fairbanks is but the
formal record of the choice already
made by the rank and file of the Re,
publican party.
Theodore Roosevelt-the faithful
heir of William Neutrality-suspicious. for
national s~elf-respect, peace and pros
perity. He is of himself the type of
achieving American manhood. His
nomination has been all but sure ever
since the Republicans of Illinois de
clared him their choice for 1904. He is
nominated not only for what he has
done as president, but also for what
he is as an American man.
Charles Warren Fairbanks was de-
cisively indicated for the vice presiden-
tial nomination by his character and
record and by the logic of the po-
litical situation. He has we'll deserv-
ed the honor, both as a vital Republi-
a force in a pivotal state and be
cause Of the confidence that he in
spires in men of business affairs
throughout the nation. He strength
ems the president where the president
needs strength.
With such candidates the Republi-
a party has nothing to explain or
excuse in behalf of its chosen leaders.
The personalities of both are we'll
known throughout the nation. They
do not have to be interpreted by
others or be taken upon the assur.
ances Of any one. They speak for
themselves, and in no uncertain tone.
With such leaders standing for
policies Republican and national in
every respect, the Republican party
deserves success. 1t has earned it
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Always Hostile to Protection.

We have had since 1872 seven diff
ferent Democratic tariff policies. The
party has been always at heart an
tagOnistic to protection, but never has
had, save in 1892, the courage to de-
nounce openly the protective policy of
the Republican party clearly and cat
egorically.
We may look this year for a declara-
ton Of some kind hostile to the fiscal
policy which has made America pros
perous. 1t may be couched in terms
of concern for the American work
man. But the latter is not to be de-
ceived by empty professions from the
enemies of the nations sound tariff
policy and of his own prosperity. In
der Republican protective policy the
average income Of the American
workman's family is SS27.19, of which
s326.90 is expended for food, the av-
erage size of the family being 5.31
persons. The average annual income
OF the British workman under a free
trade tariff is $3.50, of which less than
% per cent goes for food.
Let the d. 0. p. resolve and "view
with alarm" as it may at ST. Louis in
1904, the American masses will vote
for a continuance of the policy which
has made this country the most pro-
gressive and prosperous on earth
Louisville Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

W of the famous firm of James
Blake & Company"
Did General Garden say anything
about his daughter?' asked John,
with anxious eagerness. Has she re-
turned from Europe?"
Il think the fair Jessie is in New
York at this very moment" said
Blake, smiling as he noted the flash
OF JOY in the others eyes. I'm not
supposed to know that he has a
daughter, ard you cautioned me to
be very careful to say nothing which
might arouse his suspicious. But he
invited me to dine with him at the
BIsnOp residence on Thursday even
ing"
of course, you accepted. Jim?'
Il should say | did" laughed Blake.
How would you like to take nv
place, John?"
Very much, jim" There was a
wistful, far-away expression in the
deep gray eyes. 81 must wait a time
yet-not long, l hope"
Never mind, old man. said Blake.
heartily, L nope you may live to dine
with her a million times, and that in
future years an old chap named Blake
may occasionally be permitted to
have a seat at the table, and that he
may be surrounded by a new and in
creasing generation of sturdy young
John Burts and fair and radiant little
Jessie Burts."
Thank you, Jim,' returned John
Burt, his expressive face aglow with
pleasure. when that happy day
comes you must bring Mrs. Blake and
the children with you"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
The Limit Reached.

DR.. w. H. Tolman, director of the
American Institute of Social Science
told the following story the other day
as an unconscious illustration of tie
prevailing sentiment in regard to the
race suicide" problem:
"A family of my acquaintance has
a certain pewter cup which has been
the property of five children in sue
cession, at the period when they first
begin to use cups. The other day
one of the older children, a small boy.
was discussing the propriety of be.
slowing the cup upon some poor
child. His little sister remarked:
Why, no., we'll keep it for the next
baby
Well said the brother, Z sh'd
think God would have sense enough
to know that five babies in one fam.
lily was enough."-New York Times.