Show WHITS MANS LIMIT dr pearsons book on the unchangeable limits of the higher races is the basis of an artcle in the san argonaut in which the limit to the expansion of the white race Is told in recent events few things in history are more stir ring to the imagination than contend platoon of the remote obscure rise of the chite race am its irresistible sweep in swelling volume around he world Is dim origin perchance in the vale of cashmere its forgotten journey to tho shore the bine mediterranean the the building of aldon glory of greece and grandeur while northward german forests sheltered men while faced and then the spanning of the shallow muddy sea to albione Alb ions isle and white dovers cliffs were aware of the pale invaders foot again after the jong pause while europe from the gulf of to gibraltar ew app ulous the crossing of the mighty and the conquest of another continent till at length ns sprung of the ancient race look west acres the pacific hawaii is but a step beyond our western shore it was natural that abere the expanding white race should pant HS standard so it did and for a julme we heard af pf emigration to hawal of fortunes to be made in hawaii of the attractions af pf life tor nan on these islands of the aej iut bow Is 1 l now only a few years haye passed and eflowly but yellow and brown are driving out the white and the land pastes by degrees back to those pies which as was predicted byth writer hom we have quoted are its inevitable possessors the idea js dying that white people can live and thrive and propagate their hand in thesa islands making them 91 length an part of the lands that iha white race already possesses so wah the philippines after they had the property of these states the ships that baided bailed thither from his port were laden ft ath you th journeying to a rich new land to make their fortunes the philippines were ta be developed the tide of the valte race was to sweep over them as it had swept over california let us ay and they were to be reclaimed from savagery what has happened checked cheeked and spiru weary light of pocket and heavy of heart eich etaamer has been bringing home from manila those who vent forth wath high fco pei today the white population of the philippines is far smaller than at any moment since the first beear after the war the white race can get no foothold there the white man Is an interloper he bajla he returns india ahe straits settlements java and all the other colonies ln none of them has the alte man set his foot upon the soil as be has set his oot upon the oil of europe and north amer ca he is an intruder everywhere only a keeper of orde rhe takes no root iven n tern parate south africa be finds fc quite impossible to establish a with that of any European country jn batal for example the s continue to increase more rapid byln number than he can and so he is further rom the land today than at the beginning and be sides q south africa tho white man chinese to do his difficult labor and it seems time he Is destined to play but the part of overseer and keeper of order extraneous altogether auf tha most striking example of tho inability of the white race to extend the boundaries of Us peculiar civilization s ie continent of australia on n area almost as large as that of the united states there is today ua years after tha arrival of the white man little more than one person to the square roue about as many people in all continent as there are in the city of new york the birth rate has fallen and keeps falling until now it is the lowest in the world with a tingle exception the importation OF LUXURIES statistics of imports and exports are unfailing indices to the prosperity of tha country but t is not alway eay ta rightly read the lesson that they tawa in this connection some startling save just been issued by the appraiser of taft H of yew york ife searon that the importation of diamonds and precious istonya in general ha very largely increate d for the vear jut ended the value of such mer chandas e amounted to the formidable af pf and tills Is an 0 f over eleven million aa compared with the rear another of luxury automobiles tells similar tale the total number of cars imported during tha year that has just closed Is as compared with cars imported in 1904 with regard to the diamond importations tat ions a large number of these stone arrived jn an uncut condition and tha is evidence that the diamond cutting industry is veil established in country that of course Is tory but that the importation of objects of luxury sald show an increase SOL large may suggest conclusions that are not so satisfactory it dass not india teji rise in the general level of well being and it does seem to indicate that the rich are getting richer ancl more luxurious THE LITERARY CENSOR IN RUS the russian government has removed the press censorship and ane public is now at liberty to learn what the world Is saying and thinking it will probably be something thing of a revelation already the dally press is crowd ed with reprints and also with expressions of opinion from intelligent officials of this utter class there ar still some isolated and lonely examples ot of ahe average russian edl ic nc been a happy one seven censors waited like wolves upon his pa h and each one oad his own peculiar as 10 how a newspaper should be conducted trivial indeed was th news item that could run the sean fold gauntlet and bold indeed was the editor who would incur the penalties pe naties of unauthorized pub I 1 li cation those penalties ranged from a weeks suspension of issue to entire confiscation and imprisonment we may now assume that other branches of censorship will also be re labed thai the railway bovel wilano lobger b confiscated because it mentions th oar without a flexion and that thea abber stamp with which officialdom was wont to block out ot ending paragraphs in foreign news papers will become a thing of past the whole world except russia has laughed at the spectacle of mrs part ington back the atlantic wah her bryom but surety sinca alvi began thre has absen no such slant as russian censorship defying the thought of the twentieth century with a rubber stamp it is almost too tragic to he ludicrous the present reform must of course be arthe usual label of too late extracted by force are seldom valued and if athe russian public is now to aft allowed tornow to know what the world la thinking iffe knowledge is not likely to bg POP WATER the scarcity ti water n ogden river Is already the farmers 0 plain city an a littly later in the irrigating season other parts of weber county will ba tins Is the first reminder in a num tit the urgent necessity tor the of government works in ogden canyon whereby the flood waters ay b impounded and conserved conserve 4 A said to the editor that agen need not expect any part 0 the reclamation fund accumulated n utah tha the strawberry valley project would absorb it all and powerful influences were at work to advance that undertaking whet lier it had real merit or jn any degree corn with ether water storage and possibilities ahli in that 11 comes ron gnoj the most prominent and best posted public men in this state but this paper is convinced that thosa ho are au will not abueg their ghigli to the extent of lg beyond all decency the rights of northern lo 10 a fair share of tha benefits f the reclamation the nieresta nt eresta ogden are expanding each season and win continue to a greater acreage water is made available it would be a mia 4 the groath t th agricultural development of this section should be halted by a narrow policy in he administration of the reclamation tuna whereby al th available resources would adverted dver ted to schemes not clearly practicable or promising a comparatively small benefit r the water e ogden river can be stored by a dani that would not require an expenditure af pf millions and the results are jn no way problematical weber county demands us a ight recognition from those in authority may aside money to con serve its wealth 0 water that flows to waste jn the early spring A leading attorney points out the fact that nothing stands in the wy of the government obtaining jurisdiction inasmuch a the law provides that where t becomes necessary to acquire any rights or property the secretary gothi is author laed to purchase or condemn and 10 pay from the sums which may be needed or that purpose ohp aply ismil js available capital anthe reclamation funds if the straw berry valle project shall exhaust the money acini or that purpose then all other undertakings lugt be hept jo or completely before such an ua yar condition jaruck thas paper seeks to obtain or ana egden canyon dam a norunn st the government money apt rpt for that burp ose S SELF government y V secretary taft in one ot his speeches in san francisco candidly set forth the hopes and alms oe the government in the philippines and be took his hearers into his confidence when he saia when I 1 last had the opportunity 0 addressing you we were about to undertake the great task of establishing a government in the philippine islands we have done so what the defects of that government are I 1 do not this afternoon purpose to discuss no one can be more conscious of the deficiencies that do exist there than those that have had to do with its construction st and maintenance but I 1 beg to remind you that the principle apoi which that government has been ear even if at times the priar ciple has been ignored or violated is the principle upon which in past alsi tory no other colony or dependent government has been established and that Is the obligation of ahe mother country the country assuming to establish the government ot teaching the people over whom it put a government how to govern themselves that proposition depends upon the postulate that the people are not now able to govern themselves A good many of us have had experience and believe conscientiously that they are today entirely unfit to govern themselves and will be or one or two or perhaps three generations that being the case then it is our duty to tell them so and have them understand that during that time the question will be not what kind ot a government they ath have after they become in dependent but what kind of a government they have under the american sovereignty now WB have had the disadvantage it may be a disadvantage of differing with our fellow as to the question whether we were right first in establishing their unfitness to govern themselves and second taking that and attempting to govern them we have gone so tar along now in the problem that I 1 venture the alon that no american administration republican or democratic will venture to depart from that principle and I 1 say this for the benefit of my young friends who are here because it js well they should learn the truth jt is well they should have the cola fact and taking the cold facts that they should go on helping their own people and helping their govern ment in a direction which will be felpi ful instead of writing disquisitions on the subject of abstract liberty which never helped anybody unless it is liberty regulated by law and liberty arao furnished to every one GRAND DUKES ARE RULERS russian bureaucracy Is only a tool in their hands st petersburg july 13 According to a statement current asre last night there has been a change in the pro grain for a national assembly which will involve the of the minister ot interior project by ona based distinctly upon class representation a system against which the moscow congress took a stand this new project it Is said wilt be considered by the council 0 ministers andr the presidency of the emperoti empe rori reinforced by the grand dukes and a number of high court officials the emperors conversion to the class representation resen tation project is attributed to the influence and party leadership of the landed nobility the views of which were placed before his majesty in an address presented by count Boh president 0 the national conservative party and count shere in what is denominated the patriotic league despite the popular idea here as wall as abroad hat russia Is ruled by the bureaucracy it Is nearer the truth to say that she Is ruled by a small oligarchy of grand dukes and about thirty great noble families who have access to the court and who maka the bureaucracy tool with class instead of general representation they say they control not only the members 0 the nobility who are extensive land owners but also the peasants who live on their estates and thus buttressed the bureaucracy will haive to protect its own interests the emperor himself is the largest land owner owning more land than all the peasants of european russia and over palaces FOR PORTLAND fifty boltoc head hunters now on the way to the lewis and dark exposition portland july the first of august fifty boltoc Igor rotes will reach portland to build a village at the lewis and clark imposition and remain as a living ethnological exhibit during the fair for a time it seemed that portland was not going to bavo this interesting feature but after much hard work on the part or those interested in the enterprise the consent of uncle sam was secured and the igor rotes were collected and put aboard ship at adlla it was necessary to obtain the consent of secretary tatt and governor luke E wryght pi the philippine islands before the natives could be procured the government gave its consent for the head hunters 0 o come to america only after receiving rigid as turalee that they would be returned to their homes at the portland fair these people of limited apparel will do their peculiar dances eat dog cigarettes and otherwise add to the gaiety of the exposition their village will be located near the homer davenport bird and animal farm As this will be the first time any of these interesting wards of the nation have been on exhibition hibi tion in the pacific west t is expected that they will attract much attention RAISE MONEY FOR BOYCOTT honolulu july transport warren which arrived today from manila lost a blade of her propeller at sea she will be repaired here causing a delay of one week lineal are trying to raffio 0 fund 0 to assist in the boy cott of american gobas t china U is reported they have already raised A condemnation suit was brought in the federal court koday by united states attorney breckon to secure three and one quarter acre of land on beach the land ta owned by mrs afong and it wanted for forta and fortifications it is valued at 28 attorney breckons in hi complaint sets forth that the raple development of commerce in the pacific ocean and the need for the protection of commerce as el as honolulu is the cause tor condemnation there are forty seven defendants to the suit living in various part ol 01 the world among whom is rear admiral and his wife the suit will not be con tested the price of the land having already been agreed upon the legal action is for the purpose of clearing the title to the land |