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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
ISIPRoMPTU DROWNING.

Il. H. Sothern, few days before
he set out on his stupendous London
venture, talked at farewell dinner
about stage presence of mind.
when a dilemma unexpectedly
crops up" he said, 81 manage, In an
awkward way to master 1t somehow;
but l never acquit myself with the
brilliance that marks the typical an
ecdotes of stage presence of mind.
"They tell of a really remarkable
case that happened in Cincinnati. 1t
was melodrama. The hero, in the
second act, stood in the bow of ship
soliloquizing about love, while the
waves rolled and rocked on both sides.
1.-The waves were made in this way:
Blue canvas was spread loosely over
the stage, and under the canvas some
90 or 80 supers lay on their backs,
kicking and rolling and beating about
with their arms.
"But 1t happened that at this per-
formance there was a large hole in
the canvas. Through the hole, as the
actor talked passionately about love-
the head of super suddenly pro-
truded. The head looked about in a
wild, scared way, and quick as
thought the actor shouted:
Man overboardp
"Then, when the head disappeared,
he said sadly;
"'Alas, the perils of the deep! An
other poor soul gone to his last re-
ward!"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
THE DISTRICT FAIR.

1t has ever been gratifying to every
patriot of Morrow and Umatilla
counties that the district fair last fall
met with so very little criticism, and
so much commentator. Yet the ex-
hibit was really an experiment. This
year, with maturity of judgment and
more money to spend, the managers
have no fears as to the result. By
comparison, they are certain that
whereas the people got the full worth
of their money last year, that they
will this fall profit vastly more on
the time and admission fees spent.
In every department the exhibits
will be far better and larger. The ex-
hibit space will be larger by 5Ox2OO
feet-just 10000 square feet more
than last year will be filled with ex-
hibits All that is needed to abso-
lutely insure every feature of fair
week is good weather, and the
chances for bad weather are so slight
is not worth mentioning.
In general terms it is known that
very nearly as many applications for
entries have already been made as
had been received for last years fair
up to the day of opening.
1t is not possible to overestimate
the value of the purely social features
of these fairs to the communities
which revolve around them. They
have a cash value that is as unmis-
taxable as 1t is difficult to actually
measure. Every person who attends
Is benefited mentally, socially and
spiritually and goes home better
man, woman or child, and better
equipped to take up the hard work
of their lives.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17

all others, and which can not be Grad
icated while coloniallsm survives. In
this respect the black man of the
south has an immeasurable advantage
over the Filipinos. Is 1t not astonish-
ing that the republican party, which
came into existence by championing
the rights of the black man, should
now be so indifferent to the rights
of the brown man? And is it not
strange that it should attempt to in
volve this government in the solu-
ton of race question 1000 miles
away from home when the race ques-
ton that we now have is so difficult
OF solution?
Senator Beveridge entirely ignores
the fact that there is another element
in human progress besides force. 1t
is true that history is crimsoned
by the blood which nations have shed
in their attempts to administer gov
ernments over subject people, but for
centuries there has been a growing
protest against the old theory that
governments rest upon brute force.
Great progress has already been made
in the dissemination of the doctrine
that governments are just only in pro-
portion as they give expression to the
will of the people, and in the move
ment to substitute this doctrine for
the doctrine of kings and despots our
nation has taken the lead.
The doctrine of imperialism, as
stated so clearly and defended so elo-
quently by Senator Beveridge, is the
doctrine of piracy on large scale.
In some respect it is worse than pi-
racy. The pirate took what he could
find, and left; the imperialist takes
what he can find, and stays. The
pirate was a temporary affliction.
imperialism is an enduring calamity.
Piracy has at last been driven from
the seas by the joint action of the ma
tions; it is not too much to hope that
the day will come when Imperialism
will follow piracy into oblivion and
when self-government will spread
throughout the world.
Our nation is the natural leader in
1T In or liCln fnf
of free government. No amount of
commercial advantage could justify
us in following at the tail end of
Europe's procession, and it would not
pay us to do so if we were willing to
endure the political and moral humil-
iation of such a course.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
PORTLAND EXPERIMENTS.

Portland, Ore. is the first city in
the United States to pass an avowedly
antitrust law--one which reflects the
spirit which the national antitrust
law is supposed to express. 1t is an
experiment which will be watched
with as much interest as the famous
Galveston experiment" which gave
to the world new formula for mu-
nicipal government, and which is now
being initiated by several progressive
cities, notably Des Moines, Iowa.
If Portland makes even a measur-
able success of her municipal trust
busting experiment, it will give the
place as much advertising as the
Lewis and Clark fair did and will do
her every bit as much good as the
exposition did.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17

Under the caption of Govern
ment of Dependencies" Bryans Com
moner gives expression to what may
be regarded as a classical analysis of
the Philippine issue from the view
point of an anti-imperialist. 1t is well
worth reading, and especial attention
is called to it, in another place upon
this page. OF equal interest is the
shorter article also from the Com
moner entitled "Unmindful of Warn
ings."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
AS A TRUST BUSTER.

The Evening Telegram Of Portland,
speaking from the viewpoint Of the
average Portland citizen, has to say
as follows about the new antitrust
law of that place:
The antitrust ordinance is a new
departure in municipal legislation
While its provisions are doubtless
good deal more sweeping and drastic
than Is generally anticipated yet de-
pending upon the way in which the
ordinance is administered, the result
as a whole should be good. 1t has
proven of great general benefit as a
national law. That law could not
reach purely state offenses, therefore
It was not operative here, and there
seemed to be many cases which really
deserved attention. II this Is true,
then the ordinance should really prove
blessing, provided always 1t is ad-
ministered with discrimination and
good judgment and at the same time
without fear or favor.
The tendency of these laws is to
place everybody upon a plane OF
equality. Every man is supposed to
be equal before the law, yet the
greatest OF our commercial enterprises
have all been built up largely through
the discriminating rates extended
them. What is true in a national or
state way is true in a municipal way.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
LONE WOMAN's RIGHT TO DINE.

The right of the unescorted woman
to service at the tables of a public
restaurant is still living issue some
where in New York. Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch is to bring 1t to test
in the courts by means of a suit
brought not for damages but for JUS
! tification.
1t was in broad daylight and at
! one of the city's large hotels that din
ner was denied to the complainant
and a woman friend. I'VE make this
rule" explained the man in charge,
for the protection of just such ladies
as you. We do 1t to keep out objec-
| tionable women" Whereby an OPEN
ing was left for Mrs. Blatch's reply
that she had never been bothered by
Objectionable women, but only by OBJ
jectionable men. She supposed that
no effort was made to keep out these
latter.
Logic and the retort score heav-
lily against the hotel man. His own
explanation is an accusation. For of
what service Is a rule "for the pro-
lection of just such ladies as you" IL
it results in expulsion for its putative
beneficlaries? And what becomes Of
the putative principle, anyway, when
very Objectionable lady gets outside
the rule as she may easily do, by the
simple process of bringing along an
escort, even by hiring a district mes
senger boy In that capacity?
Taken at his own word, the hotel
man knew Mrs. Blatch and her friend
at once as desirable guests. How
could the mere presence of third
person, masculine gender, have
strengthened him in this knowledge? :?
And why should not the rule OF escort
work both ways, so that men coming
to dine must have their eligibility to
good company certified to by the COM
panionship of ladies IN. Y. World.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECTS"

Senator Beveridge adopts the idea
that capacity for self-government is
not natural, but cultivated, says Bry- |
an in the Commoner, speaking editor
tally. He takes the position that be-
cause we are capable of self-govern-
ment we should furnish government
as an exported article to those not
capable. That was not the doctrine
Of the republican party when Abra-
ham Lincoln was it's leader. Lincoln
expressly and emphatically denounc-
ed it, and Clay did before him. Ken
tuckys great commoner said that it
would be a reflection upon the AL
mighty to assume that He made peo-
pie incapable of self-government and
left them to be the victims of kings
and emperors. 1 might paraphrase
what Clay said, and suggest that it
would be a reflection upon the AL
mighty to say that He created the
Filipinos incapable of self-government
and left them helpless until Spain
found them, ruled them with a rod
of iron for three centuries, and then
sold them to us at two and a half
dollars per head because of our su-
perior capacity for government.
The senator attempts to use the
Ca IN
ward off the attacks of democrats,
but in so doing he betrays his lack Of
knowledge of the democratic posi-
ton The suffrage qualifications
were imposed not because the color
ed man is incapable of self-govern-
ment, but because he is not sufficient
ly advanced to govern the white race.
Where the two races are thrown to-
gether, the question is not whether
the black man is capable of self-gov-
ernment, but whether he is capable
of administering a government under
which both must live. In such cases
the more advanced race, as a matter
of self-preservation, fixes suffrage
qualifications in order to protect Its
civilization. But Senator Beveridge
overlooks the fact that the democrats
of the south show more consideration
TO the black man than the republicans
show to the brown men of the ORR
ent.
In the first place. the suffrage
qualifications of the south raise a
temporary barrier to suffrage and
under all the amendments adopted
some of the colored men now vote,
and new voters are added year after
year, but under a colonial policy the
Filipinos are permanently barred
from the rights of citizenship. On
this point the black man of the souht
has a distinct advantage over the
Filipino.
Second, the colored people Of the
south are protected by the constitu-
ton of the United States and by the
constitutions Of the various states
while the Filipinos have no constitu-
tional protection. In this respect al.
SO, the black man of the south has ar
advantage over the brown man of the
Orient.
Third, the colored people of the
south live under the laws which the
white people make for themselves
The Filipinos live under laws which
we make for them, and under which
we would not ourselves be willing tc
live. This is the real evil of coloni
al policy, the evil which outweigh
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17

Tomorrow is the stone over which
many man has stumbled.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND.

In England the house of lords has
voted Ill to S2 in favor OF a bill
which provides that a woman shall
not be disqualified by sex or marriage
for election as councillor or alder
man of the council of any county or
borough, metropolitan boroughs in
cluded. Women shall be eligible as
chairmen of county councils or may
ors of boroughs, but they shall not be
justices of the peace by virtue of hold
ing or having held such offices. 1t
seems remarkable that so conservative
body as the house of lords should
vote for so advanced bill. by ma
jority of more than three to one.
Several years ago, the house of COM
mons passed a similar measure by a
still heavier vote, 172 to 22. So the
present bill is not likely to fail OF
passage in the lower house.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
HOTEL PORTLAND
PORTLAND. OREGON.

PORTLAND. OREGON.
American plan. SO per day and up
wards. Headquarters for tourists and
commercial travellers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle-
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish bath
establishment In the hotel.
ii. c. BOWERS. Manager.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17

The lightningbug is a brilliant, but
he hasn't any mind; he meanders
through the darkness with his head
light on behind. Likewise the foolish
merchant whom no one can advise;
he declares there's "nothin' doin',"
when asked to advertise.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17
THE RIGHT MEDICINE
FOR PELVIC TROUBLES
FOUND IN PE-RU-NA.
Il TRS. CAROLINE KRAMER. Fort

NTRS. CAROLINE KRAMER. Fort
lVl Collins, Col, writes:
"The majority Of women who are suf-
fering from disordered periods and
other pelvic troubles, have such strong
faith in doctors that they allow them
to experiment on them for kidney, liver
or stomach troubles until they become
completely discouraged and their money
Is gone.
"This was my unfortunate expe-
rience for nearly two years when my
attention was called 70 Peruna.
81 hardly dared believe that at last
had found the right medicine, but as L
kept on using It and was finally cured.
could only thank God and take cour-
age.
az have had most satisfying results
nom the use Of your medicine and have
advised dozens Of women who were suf-
fering with woman's ills to use Peruna
and let the doctors alone.
"Those who followed my advice are
better today and many are fully restored
to health"
Mrs. Wilds Mooers, r. f. D., No. I,
Lents, Ore, writes:
"For the past four years I was .
wretched woman, suffering with severe
backaches and other pains, leaving me
80 weak and weary that It was only
with difficulty that I was able TO attend
TO my household duties.
az used different remedies, bui
found no reLiefunfn Ihad tried Peruna.
"within two weeks there was change
for the better. and in less than three
months was well and happy woman.
"All the praise is due to Peruna."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17

SLEEP.

: When to soft sleep we give our :!
I selves away, I
Z And in the dream, as in a fairy !
Z bark, !
+ Drift on and on through the en- !
+ chanted dark 7
I To purple daybreak-little !
= thought we pay !
4 To that sweet-bitter world we I
Z know by day. !
Z We are clean quit of it, as is !
. lark, I
Z So high in heaven no human !
= eye can mark !
Z The thin swift pinion cleaving i
through the gray. I
. Till we awake i'll fate can do I
Z no i'll,
Z The resting heart shall not take I
, up again I
Z The heavy load that yet must I
= make it bleed;
Z For this brief space the loud !
: worlds voice is still, I
Z No faintest echo of it brings us I
I pain.
: How will it be when we shall 1
Z sleep indeed?
3 Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 1
a n n n n n n n n y
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-08-17

Physicians were struck by light
ming while operating on a patient in
an Atlanta hospital. If they had been
struck by lightning while presenting
their bill it would not have been SO
surprising.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-07
ARRIVAL OF HOTEL
Is ANNOUNCED

Gregory, s. D.. Feb. THE Dallas
hotel arrived in Gregory Tuesday
This Is the curious news Item in a
local paper.
Its meaning Is clear when 1t Is known
that the entire town of Dallas is being
moved to Gregory. The new railroad
hit Gregory n missed all and the
latter town which had a phenomenal
mushroom growth when prospects Of
the railroad building there were bright,
is now almost entirely located here.
The hotel, however, owned by H. F..
Slaughter, had a ~precar1ous journey
which lasted over two months, although
the distance is not more than twelve!
miles. Winter overtaking the big.
structure perched up on enormous
trucks, not enough horses could be-
handled to move it and a wait for bet.
ter conditions was necessary. Finally
Contractor John Ogden, with fifty-fouri
| horses and a small army of men, man.
aged to get the hotel to it's new loca-.
ton.
Another South Dakota town is in a,
migratory stage at present. Evarts is'
| being carried on runners on the ice of
the Missouri river to Mobridge, where
the new Pacific coast extension of the,
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road will cross the Missouri river
Evarts has sor years thrived on the
firm belief that the railroad would go
west from there, but it has had the
same disappointment which has come.
to Dallas. Both have accepted the
philosophy ON Mahomet, and are go
Ing to the mountain. the mountain hav-
ing refused to come to them.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-07
SOUTH DAKOTA EDITORS
CLOSE a. FINE MEETING

Huron. S. D., Feb. 5.--One OF the most
successful meetings of the South Da-
kota Press association has just closed
here. The total number registered was
nearly fifty, and several now members
We're admitted. The fact that those in
attendance did not travel on free rail-
way passes indicates that South Da-
kota newspaper me are not dependant
on railway fayors, but can and win
pal fer their travel the same as other
pebble.
These officers w~ersschosen: Presi-
dent, W. r. Donald, Br:ttSn; first vice
president. r. e. Dowdell, Il Artesian:
second vice president. Mrs. s. M. Gill
bert, Salem; secretary. r.. L. Cogan.
Sioux Falls: treasurer. Ed NcD&niels,
Faandreau. executive committee, &eo.
Schiosser. Sioux Falls; u. d. Reeves,
Groton; :. F. Halliday, Iroquois,
The association accepted the inv
tdltion from WateEtoNn to hold its mex
annual meeting In that city.
number Of interesting papers were
sre&d in discussien of subjects directly
touching newspaper bns in the
sI2lcS& sai3 com.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-07
Has Meu Plan for
Handling School Lands

Pierre, s. D., Feb. t.-Foncannon, OF
| Mcpherson, takes issue with those
| with those who favor the withdrawal
of all school lands from the mlarkea,
| and proposes Il bill which VIII pia.e
practically one-twentieth of the laiias
ON the market eaeu year until ohe-
fourth of the lands shall nave oeeii
sold. and if there shall remain IN the
treasury at the end of any year a sun,
in excess of 500, 600 of u%nloaned sclool
! funds there shall be no sale OF lailos
In the succeeding year.
In support of this bill MI. toneah-
non calls attention to the prices Whlcn
were received for these lands sixteen
years ago as being a little over SIS per
acre and in 1906 about SIG per acre.
From this he argues that the interest
received on the land sold sixteen years
ago will bring the total receipts from
such land up to the price received
from the land sold last year, and hence
there mas been no loss to the state
school fund by the selling of the lands
during the early days of statehood.
Applying the same argument TO the
future, MIR. Foncannon believes tina it
will be better for the state to realize
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-07
BANK failure AT
SCOTLAND, S. D,
First National Closed by Order
of Examiner---Rumors
of irregularities.

Scotland, S. D., Feb. Con order of
National bank Examiner Silsby, of
Mitchell, S. D., the First National bank
closed its door here, Saturday after
noon.
There are numerous rumors as to
the reasons for the failure and hints
of possible arrests. On January &c,
1907, the bank had, according to pub
lished statement. time deposits
amounting to $1Oa 900. officers of the
bank say the institution is solvent.
The First National has recently beer
reorganized, G. G. King retiring from
the presidency and b. Barker succeed
ing him. j.. p. Resner is cashier.
One story which is given consider
anle credence. is that President King
has been investing heavily in the elec-
trio lighting plant at Mitchell, S. D..
Which he WINS. No statement of the
present condition of the bank is known
There is little excitement over the
closing of the institution.
Washington, d. c.. Feb. National
Bank Examiner Silsby has advised the
comptroller of the currency that he has
closed the First National bank of Scot
land, S. D. No reason is given for
closing.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-07
o.ATE's PRISON HAS THE
LARGEST ROLL IN HISTORY,

Sioux Falls. s. D., Feb. 4.-T1le adj
dition of seven new prisoners in the
Sioux Falls p~enitentiary during the
past few days, emitting the federal
prisoners, most of whom have during
the past few weeks been taken to the
government prison at Leavenworth,
Kas., increases the total umbe now in
the penitentiary to ITS, the highest
number incarcerated at any one time
in the history of the institution.
OF the seven new prisoners, three are
from Stanley county. One is Lewis
Bowker, convicted Of grand larceny,
sentence three years and six months.
Another is Frank Matjousky, grand
larceny, W. years and six months. The
third, from Stanley county, is a Sioux
warrior, William Two Crows, convict
ed Of grand larceny, and will serve two
years. Dawson county furnished Alfred
Bergman, convicted of running ava
with another mans property, and given
one year, and George Davis a colored
man, convicted of assault with a dan
gerous weapon, and will serve two
years. Bookings county sent Vert
McGennis, convicted of rape, and CIV
en- five years, and Jack Mckay. con-
victed of grand larceny, sentenced to
six months.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-07
ANOTHER LEPROSY CASE
In SOUTH DAKOTA

Clark, S. D.. Feb. LIN a recent dis
patch from Condo, S. D., 1t was stated
hat Horace Douglas, who had just died
lear that place from leprosy, was believed
20 be the only person in the entire state
of South Dakota who had been a victim
IF this dread malady.
This is incorrect, as there is a similar
Ease in this vicinity. the victim being a
woman, whose name for obvious reasons
has not been made public. The woman is
ISOLATED, the building in which she Is
virtually a prisoner being surrounded by a
high fence. No one is permitted to &C
aear her except to place at a point where
they can be reached from the enclosure
articles of clothing, food and other sup
plies necessary to maintain life in the IN
fortunate woman.
For a year or more a boy who also was
| victim Of leprosy was confined in the
,ame building with the woman, but a few
months ago death relieved him from his
suffering.