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I TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1906. Entered at the Portofflce at Portland, Or., . as Second-Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. tT INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. a (By Mall or Express.) DAILY. SUNDAY INCLUDED. Twelve months $S.on til months 4.25 Three months 2.25 One montn . . , . .75 Delivered by carrier, per year 8.00 Delivered by carrier, per inoatll. . .- . . .75 Less time, per week .20 Sunday, one year 2.50 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 1.50 Sunday and Weekly, one year 8.50 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckwith Special Arrnry New York, rooms 43-.r0, Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. .' Chicago Auditorium Annex, Postoyica News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. . ht. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. 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Socialism, as The . Oregonlan has often said, Is entitled to a hearing. It Is strong enough, indeed, If not in Its positive or constructive argument, at least In Its suggestion to compel a hearing. It Is strong in Its appeal against private monopoly, and In Its contention for proportional and distrib utive Justice. The discussion It forces lays bare many evils In the industrial and social system; and therefore it does good. But in Its constructive argument it is less fortunate. In general terms the programme of socialism ia to substitute government management for private management, to put all productive in dustry under state administration, thus making the state the sole em ployer and putting all workers in the employ of the state. On this system the functions of government would ex tend over the whole domain of eco nomic operations; it would manage all the railroads, the factories, the mines and the farms. In place of competing retail stores, government distributing houses would toe established for deliv ering to each citizen his share of the .National production, as he might earn it in the employment to which he would be assigned. Individuals would "etill have a property right to things they were actually using houses, food, books, clothes, etc. but all the 'means of production would be nationalized. What are the objections to the sys tem? Such as grow, apparently, out of its Inherent impracticability. First, there would be difficulty of. assigning employments, since some are more de sirable than others, and the less desira ble are those which most persons are competent to undertake. There are more persons competent to clean the streets than to superintend an electric power plant or manage a railroad; and we assume the socialist etate would ...... " i. i l v . . . . iv- iiuiia c&uu i iruuo. The ordinary worker would have to be content with the position and the pay the state would give him; for of course all couldn't have the best Jobs, or the highest remuneration. Would the state factories produce any line of Siigh-class goods? What for? Under a true system of equality there would be no class of people to use them, and no class would have means to buy them, since none could acquire any thing beyond his daily or weekly wage, which of course in no case could be large enough to create envy in the body of the workers. Here again the claim that" private property would still exist as now requires attention. What means would men and women have, -working under the system, of renewing or repro ducing their property as time and use would wear it" out? And what means for construction of . new houses, and for travel, and for education beyond the ordinary? The socialist state would not endure it that any class of its peo ple should get wages or pay enough for these or any other objects in which all could not share. These are some of the difficulties that beset this constructive argument for socialism. Most persons think them in soluble. Besides, there is the objection that the system would create a despot ism from which all would soon be glad to escape. One thing is sure: The ar , gument for socialism must remove these difficulties, and many more, be fore the people -will give their assent to the system. But The Oregonlan believes, as it has said often hereto fore, that the country is booked for ad vanclng experiments in the direction of socialism. In the field of municipal ac tlon there is great advance in that di rection already. But if the constructive argument for socialism, as a system to put all pro ductive industry under state manage ment, seems to come to an impasse, it still remains to be said that its de structive criticism, directed against private monopoly and abuses' produced by it, does bear fruit. It is part of the awakening of the general mind to ex cesses of private monopoly and of the general movement to abate or check them. The purpose of a tax-exemption law is not merely to. relieve a certain amount of property from the burdens of government, but to lift a portion of the load from the 6houIders of those least able to bear it. For that reason the -exemption of personal property to ' the value of J300 was limited to house holders. It is quite certain that a tax exemption will be re-established in this state by constitutional amendment to take the place of the statutory provi sion declared Invalid by the Supreme . Court. It would be well, then, in fram ing the new exemption provision, to place the exemption upon a basis that will .make it most advantageous to those who need It most. Would it not be well, for example, to provide that each householder be allowed an exemp tion of $100 for himself and $100 for each member of his family Tinder a specified age, say 16 years? . The purpose of this would not toe- to encourage the raising of large families, but would be to lighten the tax burden for those least able to bear it. As a rule, the poorer people have the largest families to sup port. To them, therefore, the greater assistance should be given through a tax exemption. A WARNING FROM CHICAGO. The Chicago bank which has been looted of $1,000,000 by its officers Is a state bank and under state Inspection. The inspector seems very active, now that the mischief is done. His name appears prominently In the news. He has Issued a statement that he does not know where the officers have gone, and another that the bank has been closed for examination. It is a pity that he did not make an examination when it could have prevented the robbery of the depositors. It is small consolation to the poor people whose money has been stolen to know that the books will be looked over now. They will wish to know what Mr. Jones, the inspector. was doing while the cashier and the rest.wre making away with the funds. Of course this took time. A million dollars la not stolen, in a day. And dur ing that time Mr. Jones, who was chosen for the express purpose of knowing what the officers of the state banks were doing, knew nothing at aH about it. Now he makes up for his criminal negligence by posting notices. What is needed in Illinois, and in Ore gon no less, is an inspection law which means something, and an Inspector who will inspect. Locking the bank after the funds are stolen, making & parade of official diligence when it can do no good, has grown wearisome to the peo ple. The unremittent voice of the Na tion, and of this state In particular, de mands protection from these frequent robberies. What security has the Oregon depos itor in a private bank for his money? Absolutely none except the honor of the banker, and we are coming to learn what this vaunted "honor" amounts to. Anybody may start a bank, inveigle multitudes of the unwary to hand over their savings, and then do with the funds exactly as he pleases. There is no inspection, no control, no security. After the bank has been looted, the cashier or president may .be tried for embezzlement, but that does not restore the plundered funds. It does not buy bread nor provide for old age. In fact, these embezzlement trials have become a stench in the nostrils of the Nation. What is needed is a law that will pre vent the embezzlements and an officer who will honestly enforce the law. The lack of a banking law in this state is a scandalous connivance at crime. It is an invitation to theft. STAMPEDES AMONG MEN. The conduct of those on board the ship Slrio, which sang almost immedi ately after striking a reef on the east coast of Spain, recalls, though with many differences, what happened in Paris a few years 'since when a bazaar burned where a great crowd of fash ionaible people were amusing them selves. A terrible panic followed the outbreak of the flames. Men forgot chivalry, duty and even decency in a mad struggle to escape. Members of the old nobility of France fought with women and children for a passageway. striking them down and trampling upon them. It was one of the most grew some of the many fearful aspects of the catastrophe that the strong escaped while the weak and helpless perished. The press of the world, commenting upon it, raised the question whether the Latin races had. not degenerated from the better standard of humanity. It was seriously argued that men who could conduct themselves with the in sane and brutal cowardice of these Parisian exquisites had lost the nobler attributes of their sex, and, taking them as samples of the Latin race, it was inferred that moral decay had smitten the whole. A person Inclined to reason in this way might draw a similar conclusion from the frenzied cruelty of the Italian emigrants upon the sinking Slrio. Brandishing their knives, they expelled the women and children from the ship's boats which were about to be launched; then, dividing into furious factions, they fought with each other for posses sion. How many perished in this way is not known, but the bestial riot of the emigrants is a part of the grisly drama which we love to believe would not have oocurred upon an American vessel under similar circumstances. Still, to account for such lapses of men from the dignity of human nature, it Is not necessary to assume that they toe long to a degenerate race. Panic, with all that it implies of fury and madness, is a perfectly natural state of all. hu man beings in certain conditions. It is exceptional, but not abnormal; and to yield to It is not so much a symptom of weakness as of want of education. The ordinary man, no matter whether of the Latin or Anglo-Saxon race, is complete master of himself only in his familiar environment and . doing his usual work. Put him in conditions which are new or set him a novel task and he becomes uneasy. He is worried, nervous, often panicky. Stage fright is one sort of panic, and no man who is not absolutely certain that he. will never lose his 6elf-possession when he gets up to make a speech has the right to deny all excuse to those maddened emigrants on the Slrio. Their rush for the ship's boats dlf fered only in the degree of ita fury from those runs upon savings banks which we are all familiar with In Amer ica. In the one case men sacrifice their money in the effort to save it, in the other their lives. The nature of the psychological state is the same. It is deeper and more elemental than rea 6on. The animals which we are accus tomed to call irrational fall into panics very much the same as man. A squir rel caged for the first time injures it self in frantic efforts to break through the wires. Every wild-animal caught in a trap1 is seized with panic Some rage until they are exhausted. Others after a time recover some faculty that is wonderfully like reason and contrive means of escape. A muskrat, for ex ample, will often free itself from a steel trap, as all country boys ' know, by gnawing off its leg. But the panic among animals which seems especially human in its circumstances is a stam pede of a herd of cattle. Readers of cowboy literature have learned that a trifle may set thousands of -cattle run ning all in the same direction, with no apparent purpose except to keep going as fast and as far as possible, regard less of obstacles and heedless of con sequences. What psychologists call the Inhibitory powers of the brain are sus pended. The. case Is startllngly like that of an engine without a governor, or a watch which has lost Its balance wheel. The machinery in the brain runs like a train going down grade with no brakes on. The engineer who takes charge of the brakes upon our human locomotive Is habit. The gentleman differs from the boor by virtue of his habits, which ex tend to clothes, feelings and thoughts. Piety is one set of habits, wickedness another. Bravery is a habit, and so is cowardice. Temperament makes it hard tor some men to be brave, but It prevents none. -The Marshal of France, who said to his quaking hand on the eve of a battle, "Ah, coward, if you knew where I am going to take you today you would tremble still, more," was by temperament a coward, but he had educated himself into the habit of bravery. Obedience of an army to its commander is a pure matter of habit. Creak the habit and the power of m on- arch s vanishes like a mist in the sun. The settled' order of civilization is only a mass of habits which may some day suddenly dissolve and leave us in that enormous panic which we call anarchy. Many of the habits which are most es sential to civilization depend -upon" il lusions and superstitions of one sort or another which are not at all likely to be everlasting. When the crisis of danger is upon us it is too late for the reason to work. Reason Is slow and painful in its opera tions. It must have time. Hence the wise man gets ready for danger in the days when he is educating himself. He does his reasoning long before it is needed, and plans his daily conduct with reference to those great emergen cies which are sure to come to every body sooner or later. If one prefers to die the death of a brave man rather than a coward in sinking ship or burn ing theater, he must get ready for it by living bravely day by day until the great moment arrives. The panicky wild beast is strong In all of us, and unless it is chained and tamed by long years of reflection, reason and resolute habit, in the moment of our dire need It will set the upper hand and we shall 6ave our lives by murdering women as did those pitiful Italians, or go down under the waves like cursing maniacs instead of rational beings. OUT WITH THE SHIRK. The sentiment In the Palouse country is strongly in favor of labor. It re spects labor, welcomes labor and pays the laborer royally. It insists that on his part the laborer shall work, and, so earnest are the people in supporting this sentiment that they will not harbor in their midst idle men who are without money and who are unwilling to earn it. Truly the hour of tribulation has come upon the thriftless, indolent, va grant class in the Inland Empire. They are given the choice between working for good wages and "moving on." Work is abhorrent to them, 'and tramp ing in the heat and dust is not as pleas ant as lying in the shade by the road side throughout the long, sultry day and foraging for vegetables, eggs and fruit at night But, in the present tem per of those who are anxious to save their crops and willing to pay men to help them, the man who will not work has no place in the community and must move on. This is right. Let no able-bodied man who comes to the back door with a plea of hunger during the Winter that will follow this plenteous year be fed. The laborer's opportunity is here and now; the beggar's or the tramp's opportunity is of the past. Work in all lines, skilled and unskilled, is plenty, wages are good, and he who does not accept and make the most of the situation deserves the fate that be tel "the old brown grasshopper" as sung in a doleful ditty and interpreted as a lesson for children in a school reader of a past generation, as follows: Oh, In the long, bright Summer time I treasured up no store; Now the last full sheaf Is garnered. And the harvest days are o'er. It is useless to parley with the man who ought to work but will not; who clings to the idea that the world owes him a living and that the lot of the workingman is one to be deplored. If, after persistent urging, he consents to go to work, he will not earn his wage. Hl3 whole thought is given to shirking. If he Is loading hay when the gong sounds for dinner, he will drop his up lifted pitchfork, letting its load fall to the ground rather than upon the wagon; if hoeing potatoes, the hoe will drop like its handle was hot. The ob ject of such labor is not to accomplish what it was set to do, but to put in the day (eight hours), get its pay and "lay off." Every employer has had experi ence with labor of this class. It does not belong exclusively to the agricul tural sections, nor is it by any means confined to unskilled labor. Behind it is the grievance that sees in the em ployer a tyrant and the man of thrift an enemy. . The employing element in the Palouse country, as shown by the determina tion to bring all shirks to time by mak ing them work or move on, has set a good example. Let it be followed wher ever "possible, and, later on, let no quar ter be given outside of the rockpile to able-bodied men who pose for sympa thy because they are hungry. THE SAN FRANCISCO DEADLOCK. The San Francisco earthquake and the long train of attendant woes which accompanied It make quite an effective demonstration of the interdependence of capital and labor. After the crush ing blow had fallen, labor quite nat urally recovered sooner than capital, and paid the penalty for its haste in re gaining its breath toy standing around in the bread line waiting for capital to regain consciousness. Labor was help less, and without a market for several weeks following the disaster, tout, as soon as capital staggered to Its feet and began operations, the old partner ship of mutual interest was again resumed- Unfortunately the demand for labor soon exceeded the supply, and to day capital is all" but helpless by rea son of its inability to secure sufficient labor to handle the business that has been provided. Ten thousand carloads of freight are standing idle in the yards in and adjacent to San Francisco. There are not enough men available to unload these cars, and there is also an insufficient force to provide quar ters where the goods which they con tain can be stored. Labor, of course, is temporarily profiting to a consider able degree by this unnatural condition of affairs. It is not a question of wages, for in all lines . of work the wages paid are the highest on record. It is simply a case of an abnormal de mand and an Inadequate supply. Not all of the complaint of this shortage of labor is coming from the interests af fected in the rebuilding of. San Fran cisco. The Western Pacific," which had made elaborate preparations for speedy construction of its road long before the earthquake, is in thg market for 10,000 laborers, and throughout the state smaller railroad and other industrial enterprises offefc in the aggregate, em ployment for thousands of men. This outside demand, of course, intensifies the situation in the city, and is certain to retard the work of bringing order out of chaos and is also a contributing factor to the deadlock that now seems Inevitable. San Francisco, in spite of her crippled condition, is still the commercial and financial headquarters for the State of California. As such headquarters it Is, of ' course, necessary that the city should be equipped with the necessary "plant" for conducting the vast busi ness that in the past has radiated and in the future will radiate from that center. New railroads are being con structed to handle the business of San Francisco and the territory for which the Bay City is the great commercial and financial chearing-house. But, in view of the congested freight situation and the scarcity of labor, it would seem that the first task to which both capital and labor should be assigned is the re pair of the "plant," which in this case means reconstruction of the city to a point where It is possible to take care of the business. The clearing-house figures last week show clearings nearly $3,000,000 greater than for the corre sponding week a year ago, when the city was in the height' of its glory, in dicating quite plainly that there is plenty of money in spite of the dilatory tactics of the insurance companies. . Labor, as previously stated Is tem porarily profiting by this abnormal sit uation, -but it is more than ever the duty of labor to aid capital in every way In speedily restoring matters to their natural condition. Strikes and unreasonable demands on the part of labor will only postpone restoration of business and industrial enterprises to a normal plane, and in the long run the laboring man will pay t for the delay. For the present the situation is an ex tremely delicate one, which demands forbearance and concessions on both sides. Capital cannot get back into the grooves where It is most useful unless labor co-operates; and labor will event ually find its market restricted and de pressed unless capital, pre-eminent fac tor in all commercial and industrial life, is aided m repairing the "plant'' so that it can again work up to its capacity. Members of the Democratic Congres sional committee say they will "put up no fight" this Fall in districts where protection is strong, but they will make their effort in districts where people incline to tariff revision or to free trade. This is the reason, or lies at the basis of the reason, why the Demo cratic party never can deal honestly and efficiently with the tariff. The pro tectionist members of Congress that they get in the East and North won't have their pie meddled with; and many districts in the South, though always Democratic, are protectionist also, since development of their varied industries has given their leading men an interest in protection. From the Democratic party no rational amendment of the tariff is to be expected. Nothing has served to emphasize more forcibly the progress of Portland as a business center than the earth and rock fills that are being made of the wasteful, unsightly gulches that have heretofore been spanned by wooden roadways. There is something solid and substantial In the a-ppearance of the streets that have been filled, indi cating a growth that is no longer ephemeral. A new business or manu facturlng district will spring up along these' streets, margined heretofore by old frame structures on stilts, dripping noisome ooze and surmounting pools of stagnant water, of depth unknown, un til sand and gravel was sent down by the carload to seek bottom. The East Side has had its long day of dullness, but that day has passed. A destructive fire on the Bull Run re serve would be a disaster the effects of which would toe . difficult to compute. Protection of this tract from fire at this season of the year is extremely difficult, and in spite of the vigilance of seven rangers employed for that pur pose, four of them by the City of Port land, a fire got sufficient headway in the tinder-like undergrowth a few days ago to denude five acres of timber. The careless camper is an element that is difficult to deal with, but it Is safe to say that if one were found broiling trout over coals within the Bull Run reserve he would be given a lesson he would not soon forget. . "There's millions in it," says Dr. David T. Day, and he .proceeds to show how iron can be extracted from ordi nary black sand. Whether this can be done with profit is a question yet un answered, but Dr. Day is optimistic upon this point. If answered in the affirmative, there is no reason why Portland may not, as freely predicted, become a great steel-producing center. One matter is beyond dispute. There is plenty of black sand within easy reach. The Idaho Democrats cannot be dis suaded from their fixed purpose to de nounce the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg, but they are "a-naming of rjo names, Sairey." Nor are they in dorsing the efforts of a Republican state administration to bring the mur derers to justice. But it is neverthe less a graceful and patriotic act on their part to concede that Steunenberg was murdered. President Roosevelt has several times times found it necessary to declare through Secretary Loeb that his decis ion of 1904 is "irrevocable." Have the third-termers ever looked up the mean ing of "Irrevocable"? Or do they think that it Isn't really Theodore Roosevelt who is saying it? The bosses profess to toe pleased with the Illinois primary law. It can't be much of a law. The true measure of suoh a law is its efficacy in displeasing the bosses. There are some gentlemen in Oregon who could give valuable tes timony on that subject, if they would. The whole American press, since the recent Corey divorce in Nevada, has had a few things to say about the steel magnate and his domestic affairs. We wonder If Mr. Corey really feels re lieved since he shook Mrs. Corey for the chorus girl? Ths Iowa Democrats are the latest to come out for Bryan. Iowa Democrats have always been able and willing to do anything Bryan wanted except carry the state for him. They have sentenced Editor Nlckell, but they haven't got him in Jail yet, and his two Southern Oregon papers are coming out as usual. Now is the time -to subscribe. Seattle's Mayor has taken sick at Los Angeles, thus confirming the ' general Seattle opinion that Los Angeles has its good points a a place to get sick in. Mr. Nlckell got thirteen months. No use to suggest to Mr. Nickell that it is an unlucky number of months. It has already occurred to him. APOLOGIES FOR MR. BRIAN. Friends Trying to Square Him (or Hla Talk About Silver. New York World (Dem.) Mr. William Jennings Bryan is one year, four months and 22 days, younger than President Roosevelt. He was 38 when he first ran for President. He also is in his way strenuous. Admiring reporters describe Mr. Bryan as being "fresh as a daisy" when he ad Oressed the Irish Club in London, though the members of his party were fagged by an exhausting tour of the East and Mr. Bryan himself had undergone hos pitality in 15 British cities within the week. Mr. Bryan is evidently in his best form and very active. In the peace confer ence he was "a leader among leaders." It is promptly explained that he met Mr. Croker by accident, not prearrangement. The New Tork Times' correspondent pos itively states that Mr. Bryan "will go before the country on three issues." These are stated thus: He will stand for tariff revision, for legislation to curb and regulate the trusts, and for the establishment of an understanding that the Filipinos shall be allowed to govern themselves as soon as It appears that they are fit for self-government. The Times quotes "one of Mr. Bryan's closest friends" as saying that Mr. Bryan put into his recent interview "his last word about: the silver question." He "left the past behind him with the few words about it that that interview contains." One might have supposed that those "few words" reached out for Mr. Bryan's past and brought it with a Jerk right into his present. Still, as a man who can "do things" In dog days, Mr. Bryan Is well Worth watching. Speaker Cannon In the City. Providence (R. I.) Journal. It is a wonder somebody on the Bowery for, of course, he took a tour along that typical New York boulevard did not Sell "Uncle Joe" a gold brick, or a beau tiful adventuress further up-town work the panel game on him. For 40 years or more this Interesting specimen of Amer ican institutions has been traveling over this and other countries, meeting face to face the best and worst of their citizens, conducting successful business enter prises, and leading and assisting in the enactment of the most important legisla tion on the statute books, and still, ac cording to the New York point of view, he has not yet cut his eye teeth. It is really, too bad about the Speaker. But at least there is consolation in the fact that, so far as heard from, be did not get into the clutches of Wall street. The denizens of that Jungle would .have fin ished him indeed. Let us hope that the old gentleman is by this time safely back In Danville. A Check to Hearst. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Mr. Hearst's highwayman attitude toward the Democratic party of New York State can succeed only at a time of extreme party demoralization, for the indignity Implied in the hold-up would toe bitterly resented by the party rank and file in any ordinary time. It does not matter what a candidate's popular strength may be, or how formidable may toe his claims to political honors; when such a man confronts a party and says, "The nomination or I'll shoot," he places the party where it muBt wallow in hu miliation if it delivers the goods. The first conspicuous New York Democrat to place this aspect of the situation before the Democratic voters is Judge Parker. The ex-Presidential candidate was prob ably as well suited as any one to the task of checking the Hearst movement for, while he was 'severely defeated in 1904 and is no longer recognized as the National leader, he is not without dig nity and prestige in the Empire State, Judge Parker's interview on the politi cal situation seems most timely. Bryan Scare In Philadelphia. Philadelphia Enquirer. Don't make any mistake about Bryan. He is a menace. He is an actuality. He Is a candidate, and he means business. He Is coming home to receive the great est reception that an American citizen has ever had In the harbor of New York, If we except Admiral Dewey. The Demo crats are alive to the situation. It will not avail that Mr. Emery shall deny al llance with Bryan. Mr. Emery is the candidate of the Democratic party, and the presiding officer of- the Democratic convention which nominated Emery de clared that if the people elected him they would Inevitably elect Bryan. Un doubtedly there is danger ahead. Will iam Randolph Hearst, if he carries New York as a candidate for Governor, will make that state doubtful when it comes to the Presidency. Mr. Bryan, on his re turn, is to plunge into politics ana make speeches in New England. Massachusetts is faltering today in her allegiance. There is no use in closing our eyes to the situa tion. Add to New York and Massachu setts a Democratic victory in Pennsyl vania, and where shall we bring up when the Presidential campaign is on? Labor In Politic. Washington Star. Labor, it may be mentioned, has a gooA deal more to .consider at this time than the eight-hour law and the anti-injunction bill. No candidates for Congress any where, with the smallest chance of suc cess, are running on : platforms exclu sively for or against those propositions. General policies are at stake, and labor is interested In all of them. It is deeply interested in the tariff and quite as much so in good money. It may very well ask Itself, and ponder well the question, if it would pay In the long run to support a man who. In addition to favoring the anti-Injunction bill, favors also free trade and free silver at 16 to 1. Such a man if elected to Congress will have to vote on a number of propositions, and as labor is in inquisitive mood it should interro gate candidates all along: the line. For what would it profit labor if it secured its anti-Injunction bill and the completest en forcement of the eight-hour law If men it should help elect on those Issues fixed upon the country other issues antagonis tic to its financial and commercial well being? Labor very properly asks for a fair and sympathetic consideration of its Interests at the hands of the electorate, but It Is Itself bound to give as fair and sympatuetic consideration to the inter ests of others, and most especially as those interests are also its interests. More Jewels, but Fewer Automobile. New York American. A big increase in the value of precious stones and a slight decrease In the value of automobiles imported at this port dur ing July, as compared with the corre eponding month last year, is shown in a summary Just Issued by the Appraiser of Merchandise. The Jewels were appraised at $4,739,996.71. as compared with $3,992. 851.90 last year. There were imported 107 automobiles, including eight of domestic make, all valued at $379,881.25, as com pared with 98, valued at $382,170.57 last year. Modest Man. Catholic Standard and Times. Mr. Bragg Miss Gushington? No; she's not for me. She told me the other day that her husband must, be handsome rather than wealthy. Miss Ascum Well, you're not wealthy, but then Mr. Bragg That's Just it. She literally threw herself at my head, and I don't like that sort of thing. BOTH HARTJES IX PILLORY Lawyer for Each Side Scores Client of Other. PITTSBURG, Aug. 6. The end of the famous and sensational Hartje divorce case was begun today when arguments were begun before Judge Frazer. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Hartje endured the final ordeal when the lawyers made argu ments both Jibellant and respondent get ting a hot scoring, the conclusion, for to day beung a speech by jonn Marron tor the libellant. Reference to the children or the couple seemed to move Mr Hartje and hla wife very much. During Mr. Marron s argu ments, Mrs. Hartje at times grew ghastly pale at Mr. Marron's' assertions. Mr. Hartje was greatly affected by the state ment of Mr. Marron tnat no mo not kissed his children for a year. Motive of Mrs. Hartje's Desertion. W. R. Rodgers made the first address for Mr. Hart1e He made a sharp attack on the character of Mrs. Hartje. He spoke for a little more than an hour. He re ferred first to the separation of Mr. and Mrs Hartje, saying that the real . reason for her desertion was to be found in the love letters alleged to have been written by her to the coachman co-responaeni. Tom Madine. Mr. Rodgers devoted his address to an effort to beat down the evidence relating to the alleged visits of Augustus Hartje to resorts of questionable character. He pointed out that Mrs. Hartje had left her husband while he lay ill in bed. Concerning the letters which the de fense alleges are forgeries, Mr. Rodgers said the style and manner of the missives afford strong proof of genuineness. From beginning to end, he said, thoughts were expressed as they would flow. Mr. Rodg ers referred to Madine as one below Mrs. Hartje in social position, and said: "The letters show that the writer was display ing only a physical Interest in the object of her solicitude. She told him to keep his nails clean, not to eat fast and to bathe properly." "It Is these trivial things that stamp them to my mind as genuine," said he. Mr. Rodgers was followed by J. Scott Ferguson, also of the prosecution, who confined his address to a discussion of the letters, which he declared were all written by the same person. He will con clude tomorrow, Mrs. Hartje Sheds Tears. Mrs. Hartje overcome by the weeks of excitement, gave way to her feelings as her attorney, Marcus W. Acheson, Jr., was making bis plea. Mr. Acheson in clined to the pathetic side of the case and Mrs. Hartje cried silently. During her scathing arraignment by Mr. Rodgers she maintained her composure, except to express by her looks her disgust at what was being said. It is expected that the arguments will be completed in a day or two. Judge Frazer will leave the city tomorrow and the decision Is not expected until Fall. Five persons who are said to have been in attendance at the trial will be ar rested when a decree has been made. Charges of conspiracy in connection with the Hotel Lincoln episode, which was dropped by the attorneys for the plaintiff. It is said, will be brought against these persons in behalf of Mrs. Hartje, whose character was attacked in the allegations made in the bill of particulars. The names of the parties are being guarded closely. The hearing of the cases of Detectives Staubb and Anderson, who were arrested immediately after testifying in the Hartje case some weeks ago, was set for today. but was put over until tomorrow, because Mr, Marron was occupied in court with the arguments in the divorce case They are charged with larceny and entering to commit a felony in taking letters from the trunk owned by Tom Madine. THAWS WIFE SEEN WITH WHITE Theatrical Man Saw Them Together Week Before Tragedy. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. The prosecu tion in the case against Harry Ken dall Thaw may try to prove that Ev elyn Nesbit Thaw had been in the com pany of Stanford White since her mar riage to Thaw. The witness is Jo seph W. Jordan, at present manager of the Hotel Indian River, at Rock- ledge, Fla. Mr. Jordan was treasurer of the "Wild Rose" Company, in which Ev elyn Nesbit had a part. Some weeks ago he appeared before Assistant Dis trict Attorney Garvan, having been subpenaed, in company with James Lederer, who was the manager of the "Wild Rose" Company, but refused to tell anything, saying he would testify when forced to do so by a grand Jury subpena. The writ of prohibition se cured by the defense, however, pre vented this action, and the evidence was not , secured.' Mr. Jordan, it is said, could swear that he had seen White and Mrs. Thaw together within about a week of the shooting. "I came up from Indian River about two weeks before the tragedy," Mr. Jordan is reported to have said. "I had been here more than a week, and It was about a week before the shooting that I saw them together. I had walked from the East Side todard Broadway, and had Just passed the Martha Washington Hotel, in Twenty-ninth street, when I saw them. I spoke to them, and am cer tain of my testimony." Jerome Will Prosecute Thaw. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. District Attorney Jerome announced today that - he would personally conduct the prosecution of Harry K. Thaw, who is awaiting trial on a charge of murdering Stanford White. i Minister Peirce in Norway. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Aug. . Her bert H. D. Peirce, the newly appointed American Minister in Norway, arrived here this afternoon. RABID DOG'S MORE JURORS FOR STANDARD Great Care In Oil Monopoly Inquiry. Plan of Prosecution. CHICAGO.' Aug. 6. (Special.) The in vestigation by a special Federal grand Jury of the charges- of illegal roDates Dy Cliicago railroads to the Standard Oil Company, that was to have begun tocia. was postponed at the last minute until tomorrow, because the venire developed a shortage for various reasons. Instead, with United States Marshal Luman T. Hoy lu personal charge, six Deputy Mar shals started to seek seven additional grand jurymen to till out the venire. Oho additional witness was suDpenaea during the day He is F. L. Johnson, freight agent of the Chicago, tiuriingion & Qulncv Rallwav. D. J. Grammer. In charge of the New York Central lines west, with headauartcrs in Chicago, wno was to have been the first' witness in Chicago, went to Jamestown, N. Y., at the instance of District Attorney Sullivan to appear before a New York grand Jury. Two Grand Juries to Meet. Another grand Jury is to meet next Monday and rebate matters in connection with the Standard Oil's monopoly also will be submitted to it. The Jury which meets today is summoned from the old Jurisdiction of the Northern District of Illinois and will have cognizance of acts which the Government charges were com mitted prior to March, 1906. The second Jury will deal with the matters which occurred subsequent to that period, lhe two are made necessary by the changes in the Federal Court districts. Study Juror's Affiliations. With but three exceptions the men sum moned for this Jury service come from small towns In the Northern District of Illinois and secret service men have been busy learning their affiliations, not only with the Standard Oil, but with the rail roads which are Implicated. The Standard attorneys have been no less busy, but they are at a disadvantage in not know ing Just where the Government will strike. The matters to be Investigated Include violations of the Sherman anti-trust law and the Eituns -amendment to the inter state commerce act. The prosecution is based on the Garfield report, submitted May 2, 1906, and the first active step was in the hearing at Cleveland three weeks ago. After several days spent in that hearing it was found that the offense com plained of was committed in Chicago, ana consequently not within the Ohio jurisdic tion. Two Discriminations Alleged. The Cleveland case grew out of a stor age charge exceeding $20,000, which the Lake Shore Railroad failed to collect from the trust for oil stored in the Eighteenth-street warehouse. The Govern ment charges that the railroad never in tended to collect this storage fee, and that it was a device to give a debate. Much time will be spent and many wit nesses examined with reference to the secret deal known as the "Grand Junc tion combination" and the discriminatory rate to East St. Louis. By means of the two agreements between the railroads and the Standard Oil, the Government as serts, the oil company was able to shut out all chance of competition in the South and Southwest. TO STIR UP TIIE ICE 'TRUST Grand Jury Will Investigate Jerome Predicts Ice Famine. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. The attention of the August grand Jury today was called to the conditions governing t!io sale of ice in this city. Judge Rosals ky, in the Court of General Sessions, brought up the matter in his instruc tions to the Jury. District Attorney Jerome this afternoon declared that the ice trust investigation would come before the grand Jury on Wednesday. He said that there might be a famine in ice before September. After Philadelphia Icemen. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6. District At torney Bell today laid before the grand Jury all the testimony he has secured againRt 14 members of the Philadelphia Ice Exchange, who are charged with hav ing conspired to raise the price of Ice. Doctor Buys Patent. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. The Official Ga zette of the United States Patent Office, Just Issued, says that Louis L. White, of Portland, has sold his patent issued last Thursday, No. 827,134, on his lately Invented process of brazing metals, to Charles E. Ladd, of Portland, no consid eration being mentioned. (As Mr. Ladd and Mr. White are both out of town, the report could not be con firmed. Employes in Mr, Ladd's office and friends of Dr. White, who is a den tist In this city, alike declare that they know nothing of the deal. Three Killed at a Crossing. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 6. Two men and a. boy were instantly killed last night by being run down by the Pioneer Limited train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road at Okla homa avenue crossing. The dead. Pe ter Kochanski, married. 45 years of age, leaves a widow and six children; John Chrazn, married, 45 years old. leaves a widow and four children; Cas lmir Chrazn, 12 years old, son of John Chrazn. James E. English Missing. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. . (Spe cial.) W. H. English, of Kansas City, Mo., has written Chief of Police Burns, of this City, for information as to the present whereabouts of his brother, James E. English, who was last heard from at Oregon City about a year ago. WORK IS DONE From the St Paul Pioneer-Press.