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He ventured to suggest that cer tain changes in the diet and care of the baby might be advisable. The mother-in-law drew herself up proudly and an nihilated the presumptuous father with the his-torle reply: "After burying eleven children of my own, it seems to rue that I ought to know enough to t.iko care of one, even if you are its father." Her logic is difficult to follow, but her conclusion is widely accepted. The fact that a woman has slaughtered a number of infants through the effects of ignorance, superstition and folly is believed to fit her "peculiarly for the nurture of others. Professor J. Pease Norton, of Yale University, estimates that some 3,000,000 infants under two years old perish every ten years in this country from causes that are entirely preventable. Among these causes fig ure, of course, the ignorance and super etition of nurses and mothers; but im pure food, unsanitary dwellings and the multitudinous evils of poverty and con tagion also play a lamentable part in the dreadful result. During the twelve months to come, as in every year of the past in due pro. portion, 4,200,000 persons will be con stantly sick in the United States; and their Illness will bring sorrow, want and misery into at least 5,000,000 hqmes and shadow the lives of 25,000,000 per sons. Of the 1,500,000 funerals which ffnust be celebrated during the year to come the average expense will be $300 each. Counting the average number of working years of each producer in the country at twenty, this Imposes a tax of $15 per year on each of his working years. Could the average number of working years of each individual be Increased from twenty to thirty, the burden of the death tax would be re duced from $15 to $10 per working year. Would not this 'be worth while? To effect this very desirable economic reform is one among the many pur poses which those sociologists have in ky.,jrund who advocate the establishment of a National Board of Health with a J?.binet officer at its head. The pro- tK'al took definite form at the meet ? of the American Association for the f -4jvancement of Science at Ithaca last t a committee of 100 men of light and leading to promote the establish ment of such a board. The names of the committee have not yet been pub lished, but doubtless it will include most of the eminent physicians and publicists of the country. Many of these men advocate the National .Health Department; few or none of them oppose it. Professor J. Pease Norton, of Yale, whose pamphlet upon the subject forms the text for these re hiarks, advances five economic reasons : for such a department. He argues first that a department of health with an adequate budget would .diminish the number of deaths from I J. iit:ventable causes, like impure food ,T Ignorance of the nurture of children unhygienic school customs, contagion and filth. Thus the total population of the country would be increased, its av erage of health and productivity would be raised and the proportional number I ;of exceptional men would be enlarged. f . Pr"9sor Norton makes a ereat deal of t hi si last -point. He believes that the progress of nations in civilization and wealth, is to be attributed to their ex ceptional men, and he reasons, there fore, that any cause which Increases their 'proportional number is of incal lves culable benefit. He states that in i 1 population of 100,000,000 there will be I more exceptional men to the million than in a population of, say, 40,000,000. Hence the larger the population of the i,... country the faster it will advance. Hi; reasoning is based upon statistics, and could be refuted, only by an expert In j that science, if at all. In Itself it looks sensible. Inventions, new Ideas In busi ness, new legislation, and so on, arise, not from the average mind, but from the minds of men who stand above the average In some particular. Again, the National Health Depart ment w ould, by its work, raise the av erage limit of productive life. The first twenty years of the life of a human be Ing may be looked upon as an Invest ment. They are an expense. The next twenty years bring In returns from the Investment; and then, as a rule, the in dividual perishes. If the average limit of life could be raised from forty years to .fifty, the returns from the invest ment sunk in the first twenty years of life would be doubled. To the entire country this would amount to a saving of some $2,000,000,000 per annum, which certainly eeems worth while. Who is there that would not double the pro ductive period of his investments If he could? This is what the Nation ie re quested to do for itself by Professor Norton and hia co-laborers. His third argument is that an in crease of the productive period of life would decrease the annual burden of the death tax. By death tax we mean the annual expense of last illnesses and funerals. This has been referred to above. Fourthly, he believes that the National Health Department would de crease the sum total of sickness in the country, as it undoubtedly would if its powers and budget were ample. Final ly, he estimates that It would lessen the amount of criminality and the cost of its regulation. Sociologists all admit that disease and poverty are the prime incentives to crime. The saving to so ciety under this bead might foot up a round hundred millions; while the total annual gain from the activity of the health department might not be less than $4,000,000,000. The only objection which Is likely to be made to a National Health Depart ment by those who take pains to in- estigate the question is that it would be an invasion of the rights' of the states. This objection has been made to so many movements for the National welfare that it has become a little tire some. If the states were willing and able to undertake thee duties, the matter would have a different aspect; but they are not and never will be. Theoretical rights of the states are of small account in comparison with the good of the entire- Nation. They play too much the part of the dog in the manger to receive the respect or ap proval of rational minds. STRANDING OF THE GALENA. The stranding on Clatsop Beach of the British bark Galena, following so losely the wreck of the British bark Peter Iredale and the disappearance of the Iverna, is a matter very much to be regretted. The port is now sub jected to an unfair and unwarranted differential in sailing-ship freights. It is a deferential that is. not sanctioned or approved by the more intelligent class of shipowners, and is largely based on conditions which existed wenty years ago. And yet disasters of any kind to vessels headed for the Co lumbia River are at this time eagerly pounced on by a few prejudiced ship owners who are unfamiliar with local conditions. By their failure to give due consideration to the causes of these wrecks, unwarranted blame is placed on the port. ' The strandings of the Iredale and the Galena are the only losses, suffered by the Portland grain fleet since the Ship owners' Association levied a differen tial against the port, although three association ships have been lost during that period in endeavoring to get in or "i. ruBot oouna. viewed rrom a fair ami impartial standpoint, there is no blame that can be attached to the port, through such -wrecks as the Ga lena and the Iredale. The same gale that swept the Peter Iredale on the beach near the mouth of the Columbia also drove the barkentine Skagit to her doom on Vancouver Island, and her master and several of the crew were lost, whereas not a life was lost on the Iredale or on the Galena. The relative safety of the ports of entrance to Puget Sound and the Co lumbia can be understood by a consid eration of the wrecks of the Peter Ire dale and the Skagit. The latter was a coaster in command of a skillful navl gator who had for twenty-five years been sailing in and out of Puget Sound. Yet thick weather, a heavy gale and tnat tremendous northerly current which sweeps past the entrance of the Straits of Fuca carried the Skagit to destruction more deadly than that which overwhelmed the Peter Iredale. suppose that the Peter Iredale had been en route for Puget Sound instead of the Columbia and the Skagit had been headed for the Columbia River. when the ekillof a navigator with twenty-nvo years' experience in the waters In which he was cruising was insufficient .to save his vessel or his own life, what show would the Peter Iredale and her officers, unfamiliar with local conditions, have had if their vessel had. been en route to Puget Bound instead of the Columbia River? They would simply have laid their bones along the west coast of Vancou ver Island, where lie those of the King David, Pass of Melfort and Lamorna, a trio of association shlDS -which car ried down more than sixty men with them. No blame whatever can be at tributed to the conditions at the mouth of the Columbia, In the case of neither the Galena nor the Peter Iredale has any evidence appeared that the alleged dangers of the Columbia bar contrib uted in the slightest degree to the dis asters. Both vessels apparently made last passages up the coast and held in too close to the land in thick weather. What happened is an old story. It has happened . in all parts of the world wherever ships sail, and will continue to happen so long as men remain mor tal, and through occasional lapses or errors of judgment are vanquished by the forces of Nature. These disasters are regrettable, but are something for which the port is in no manner blame- able, and no fair-minded shipowner will attempt to make capital out of their. "THE DRUNKEST ARMY." A working chapter, or "tent," In Washington, D. C, of the Independent Order of Rechabites, perhaps the oldest temperance organization in the world, recently adopted unanimously resolu tlone favoring the restoration of the army canteen for the sale of beer and light wines to soldiers under proper re strlctlone. Many members of this or der are men who have served in the army; men who know all about the evil effects of excessive drinking from per sonal experience and observation, and they realize that the abolition of the canteen caused evils much greater in garrison life than those in the name of which this abolition was successfully urged. The results following the abolition of the canteen form a dark chapter in army life. Its abolishment does not control the desire of the enlisted men to drink, but forces him outside of the garrison for his supply, wjlere, without any restrictions, he indulges his appe tite on vile liquors that increase his craving. This argument is old and its late pre sentment offers nothing new. When, however, we are confronted bye, the statement of Surgeon-General O'Reilly that the United States Army is the "drunkest in the world." it is high time to put sentiment and theory aside and listen to the statement of facts as they exist, based upon human nature and experience. With the canteen as advocated by the Eechabites, supplied with beer and light wines, dispensed under rules, the soldier will be less likely to visit resorts outside the post, where vile liquors are sold and where vile creatures of either sex congregate. The position taken by this oldest of temperance organizations has the sup port of army officers and military or ganizations generally. The Spanish War Veterans at their recent conven tion unanimously directed their legis lative committee to press Congress for the restoration of the canteen. Since it has become manifest through a long line of unimpeachable testimony that there is more drunkenness in the American army than in the days of the poet canteen, and that this drunk enness is of a more violent and dis graceful type than formerly, it should be admitted, even by the good women of the W. C. T. U., that the abolition of the canteen, though urged in all sin cerity in the name of reform, was un wise. Certainly it has been proved be yond doubt that soldiers cannot be co erced into total abstinence, and that since they will drink, the orderly drink- ing-place offers the smallest possible Incentive to disorder. THE WORD OF GOD. Those who, like Mr. Whitney, call the Bible the "Word of God" imply by the phrase that the Almighty inspired the. men who wrote it. But "inspire" has many meanings, even among theologi ans. Some of them hold that the in spiration of Paul and Moses was pre cisely the same as Shakespeare's; oth ers in saying that the Bible is inspired mean that God dictated its contents and that -the human authors were mere amanuenses. Between these .extremes all shades of opinion are current today among Christians. Granting the Impossible supposition that Paul and the other Bible-writers were mere amanuenses to the Lord and that they put no thought of their own into their letters and narratives, it does not follow that what they wrote has come down to us unaltered. As a mat- ! ter of fact, it has not. No educated Christian believes that it has. The changes are numerous and great. Some matter has been lost; some has been added; some has been altered. Hence, even if the contents of the Bible were originally words of God, they are so no onger. It is known, for example, that the three "synoptic" gospels were derived from a single original, not' written in Greek, which has been lost. Every stu dent of the Greek Testament knows that there are long spurious passages in these gospels. The translators re print them without warning, but all , scholars are aware of their true character.- The epistles to Timothy, from which Mr. Whitney quotes an alluring proof text, are not authentic. Paul could not have written them, as any person can easily see for himself if he will look into the matter dispassionately. As for the threats in -the Apocalypse against those who add to or take from "this book," they apply to that book alone. The canon of the Scriptures was not fixed when the Apocalypse was writ ten. To apply the phrase "this book" to the whole Bible is, therefore, impos sible. The phrase "The Lord spake unto Moses" means that Moses, or some other person, said that the Lord spoke to him. fclr. Dowie has said the same. So did Mahomet. Perhaps they were all telling the truth; perhaps they were all mistaken. Granting that the Lord did speak to Moses, what he said in cludes but a small part of the Bible. And we have only Moses' word that It is correctly reported, even, if we con cede that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. In attempting to prove that Jewish lit erature is peculiarly the work of the Almighty, Mr. Whitney succeeds . as well as others, and no better. Those who undertake the impossible necessar ily invite failure. GERMAN TARIFF CONFERENCE. The members of the American Tariff Commission, appointed by the Depart ment of State, will reach Berlin this week, and the result of their' mission will' be awaited with much, interest, both at home and abroad. Whatever may be the outcome of this remarkable trip to the German capital, one feature of Interest stands out clear -and dis tinct, an that is that the appointment of such a commission for such a pur pose is a distinct acknowledgment of the necessity for changes in our an cient, unjust and dangerous tariff laws. It must be even humiliating to the Mc- Clearys, Shaws and other blind wor shipers at the shrine of Dingleytem, to be forced to witness such an exhibi tlon of weakness on our part. They may well ask, Whither are we drifting? For have they not on any and all oc casions waxed eloquent over our inde pendence of every other nation on earth and at the same time expressed supreme contempt and. indifference for any action of reprisal which our trade competitors and customers in other parts of the world might see fit to make? If we accept the declarations of these rigid standpatters, Germany can not, she dare not, discriminate against American products, and yet such asser tions are remindful of the story of the man who protested until the prison doors clanged behind him that "they cannot put me in jail." Germany be come very busy with her new tariff regulations several months ago, and it was only by very skillful diplomacy on the part of the ambassadors of the two countries, together with a promise for reform on our part, that the United States was not "cinched" to the limit last Spring. The day of grace was postponed until June 1, 1907, and it is the purpose of the present visit of the Tariff Commission to endeavor to per fect some kind of an arrangement by which the Germans will lessen the pun ishment with which they have threat ened us in retaliation for the shabby manner in which we have treated them in a commercial way. It is officially ann'ounced that the ob ject of the commission's visit is to' as certain Germany's reasons for levying the maximum tariff against American goods, but this is a good deal of a sub terfuge, for Germany made known her reasons for the discrimination in no uncertain terms last Spring, and there is small ground for hope that she will recede from the position taken. The United States has no commercial treaty with Germany, and at the same time we levy exorbitant duties on German products brought into this country. We accordingly have no legitimate rea son for expecting any, concessions from the Germans, and we shall not get them unless Congress comes to the rescue with some reciprocal legislation which will change the present jug-handled condition, of trade between the two countries. . It is. of course, expecting too much from the standpatters to look for any assistance from them. But their fre quently expressed belief that Germany must abandon her threatened tariff war is certain to receive a rude shock. The commission will probably be met with the fair proposition that if we will ad mit German products to the United States free or at a moderate rate of duty, similar treatment will be extend ed to American shippers. This being a fair proposition, of course the standpat ters turned it down last Spring, and It is hardly probable that the commission now en route will have any arguments that will cause a change of heart. The commission, however, will have accom plished some good if it returns with the news that American trade in Germany will have hard sledding until we 6et asid the foolish and unfair policy of the standpatters. General Shafter was handicapped during the later years of his life, and especially during his campaign in Cuba, by the enormous bulk off adipose tissue that he carried. His sufferings while in Cuba from this cause were pathetic and wenvnigh unbearable. It was then and has since been the opinion of many humane and public-spirited men that to impose this suffering upon a loyal and tried soldier of the Republic when there were other men of equal ability and superior rank who could have con ducted the campaign as successfully and with inconceivably less discomfort than did General Shafter, was a type of political cruelty that was reprehen sible and might easily, have proved dis astrous. It is a credit to General Shaf fer's indomitable will and rugged cour age that he got througn the campaign with honor and returned alive to the United States. There is quite a tinge of the past in yesterday's San Francisco dispatch an nouncing the return of the whaler Bow head after a cruise of three years and eight months in the Arctic. In the old days of the New Bedford fleet three and four-year whaling voyages were not unusual, but the world was moving slower then and the returning whalers found no such rapid history making as now takes place in much less time than is occupied in a whaling cruise. The Bovvhead brought back a $100,000 cargo, and her success will make it much easier to sign another crew at the customary $1 per month and a share in the profits. There is still an opportu nity for fwrae forecastle novelist to get out a later and more up-to-date whaling yarn than that most interest ing "Cruise of the Cachalot." The Great Northern is obliged to bor row coal from factories in order to get its -passenger trains out on time. No wonder that Mr. Hill is an earnest ad vocate of free trade with Canada. A few thousand tons of Canadian coal distrib uted along the Hill rail lines at this time would be an advantage too potent to escape attention. Incidentally it might be mentioned that Mr. Hill is not the only coal consumer who would like to have an opportunity to secure high grade coal at a low price. The inability to secure a . sufficient number of men to work on the road is said to have prevented the Southern Pacific from reaching Klamath Falls within the time limit in which the bonus of $100,000 was to be paid. The loss of the bonus, however, will not stay the speedy completion of the line, and the traffic which will flow out of that long-isolated region will bo of such volume that even a $100,000 bonus will seem small and inconsequential. Oregon has secured -her allotment of ground space at the Alaska-Yukon Ex position, to be held at Seattle three years hence. This is the first allotment that has been made, apd with the ad vantage of first choice for a site and a wealth of interesting features to pre sent, the mother of the North Pacific States will be in a position to attract plenty of attention at the big show. Ninety men have been chosen to rep resent the people of this state in the Legislature this Winter. How many of them are spending most of their time studying how they can best promote their own present and future political interests by means of trades and deals in which the people have no possible interest? According to market reports, the price of prunes is advancing. There is no cause for rejoicing in this, for the prunes have passed out of the hands of producers and every.advance in price will limit consumption. Neither the grower nor the consumer can profit by an advance now. Since they are unable to procure cars to ship their lumber, why wouldn't it be a good plan for the mills to cut the price for Oregon patrons and thus in crease the demand at home? Any man who i3 building will testify that there is room for reduction. Grand Master Buxton, of the Oregon State Grange, and Mrs. Buxton are graduates of the Corvallis College who are practical as well as scientific farm ers. So it can yet be said that an agri cultural school does turn out other than' professional men. , It is to be supposed that Tom Law son, as usual, coppered in the stock market his own prediction that Hearst would be elected. The fund of things that are not so that Lawson knows and tells seems never to grow less. The enthusiastic approval by Mr. Jim Hill of a 'fifteen-foot canal from St. Louis to the Gulf can, of course, have no inspiration in the fact that It would parallel one of Mr. Harriman's railroads. These are the days when Vice-Presi dent Fairbanks is thinking that but for the wireless telegraph he might have something to say about running things at Washington. Mr. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, declaration that God doesn't regard the drinking of a glass of beer as a sin makes.it per fectly clear which side of the hop mar ket he is on. Hearst may have been beaten, but Tammany still lives. It was the Tam many Tiger the sage had in mind when he observed that some cats have nine lives. Last fiscal year we sold to Germany goods valued at $234,742,162. Germany sold to us, same year, goods worth $135,742,935. THE BIBLE. One Who la Convinced That It la "The Word of God." PORTLAND, Nov. 11. (To the Ed itor.) The authenticity of the Bible having been assailed by Bishop Will iams, in an address before the Y. M. A., Detroit. Mich., and puDiisnea in The Oregonian, with editorial indors ing and enlarging the statement of the Bishop, "That the Bible is not the Word of God," and "that it does not claim to be the Word of God," there are many of the readers of The Ore gonian who are not willing to accept those statements without due investi gation, but are willing to accept the truth at all times. Having made a careful study of the Bible for many years, I am convinced that it is the Word of God, and that it is consistent in all its statements. I will refer the reader to the fol lowing passages which confirm the in ternal evidence of the authenticity of the Bible: "And God spake unto Moses and said unto him, I am the Lord, and appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Aimighty" (Ex. vi:2-3). This seems to be a very common way that Moses and other Old Testament writers had of presenting the author and the message to De delivered. "The words of the Lord are nure words as silver tried in a furnace' of earth purified seven times." 'Thou Shalt keen them. O Lord, thou Shalt preserve them from this e-enera- tlon forever" (Ps. xii:6-7). Silver that has gone through the refining process seven times would have no dross or Im purities left. So It is with the word of God. "And lo a voice from heaven savins. This is my beloved son. in whom I am well pleased " (Mat. iil:17). The seed is the Word of God" fLuke viii:ll). "If he called them (rods unto whom the Word of God came, and the scrip tures cannot be broken" (John x:31). 'And the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me" (John xlv:24). For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them" (John xvii:S). ah scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruc tion in righteousness; that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fur nished unto all good works" (2 Tim. Hi: 16-7). 'According as his divine cower hath given unto us all things that pertain to lite and godliness, through the knowl edge of him who hath called us to glory nu virtue - (.z ret. 1-3). . "God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son" (Heb. 1:1-2). vv hat God has authorized to be written may justly be said tS be the Word of God. Whati is written in the Bible is authorized and Indorsed by him. It is composed of history, law and prophecy. Only an itemized account could be given in so small a volume as it is written. 'And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written" (John xxi:25). ' If there is anything in the Bible that is objectionable, it is on account of the sin fulness of man, and the record would not be complete without it. We are told "that' comparatively little can remain of the original revelation The answer is, "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the proph ecy of this book. If any shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the wortis of the .book of this prophecy. God shall ,take away his part out of the dook or lite (rtev. xxn:is-in). The bishop must believe that -there is a Word of God, for he says: "The Bible and the Word of God." If the Bible is not the Word of God, what is it? Where is it? Will those who criticise the Bible answer these questions? If they have anything better, let them bring it to the light. The best is none too good. M. T. WHITNEY. Great Thlnjrs Expected In Japan. Yokohama Letter in Chicago Record ! Herald. American officials in the principal Jap anese ports do not hesitate to make the prediction that within the next ten years Japan is destined to startle the world with her Industrial achievements and her progress in marine proprietorship a good deal more than she did with her military and naval successes against China and Russia. The government already has appropri ated to itself the salt, camphor and to bacco interests of the country. It has a monopoly of these things. The govern ment owns and controls the most im portant railroads and within a few years all the private lines will come Into pos session of the government. This pro gramme is clearly defined and there is popular acquiesence in it. The growth of Japan's marine interests under the fostering aid of the government is too well known to need elaboration. It is on account of what the Japanese government is doing and what it intends further to do on account of the progress of the nation toward trade supremacy in the Orient: on account of the impor tance of Yankee seizure of every oppor tunity at this, the crucial time, to main tain its commercial rank in the far East, that strong representations are to be made to' the Government at Washington Instruction at to Fruit Pests. GASTON, Or., Nov. 13. (To the Editor.) I have just read with great interest the excellent editorial In yesterday's Orego nian, entitled "School Teachers and Fruit Pests." The suggestions given are en tireiv practical, and should be carried out without delay. In order to help the work along, the members of the St;te Board of Horticulture will be glad to co-operate with Superintendent Ackerman. In ar ranging for his teachers' institute, if Mr. Ackerman will notify me, I will under take to see that some suitable person is in attendance to give instructions in re gard to fruit pests and the proper way of combating them. The amount of Ig norance regarding fruit pests is astonish ing. The proper knowledges of the pests and remedies can be communicated in this way better thah-any other. WILBUR K. NEWELL, President State Board of Horticulture. Some Folks Hard to Please. Atlanta Constitution. "Dey tells me folks wuz lookin' fer de world ter come ter a end fer day, in Tennessee." said Brother Dickey, "en dey wuz mighty nigh scart out er dey senses. "Yes: that was the report." "What a fool people we is!" he Said, "Hollerin" ter heaven fer fire in col' weather, en den bein' willin' ter freeze des w'en dar's a prospect er fire by do wholesale! But some folks," he conduct ed, "would kick ef you wuz ter hang 'um wld a rope made an our er suk an satin!" ( Seasonable Seasoning. Washington Star. All cauratreous ind sincere. Patriotic, too: Striving to efface the tear For each suffering mortal here Giving toll Its due. Fearless, frank and generous Peerless, undismayed .That's us! Now behold the- other side. Secret, dark and vile. Steeped in avarice and pride. Wealth and power misapplied, -plundering with a smile. Shattering Freedom's priceless gem. Sneering as we strive to stem Fierce corruption's tide That's them! RIGHT TO TROLLEY CAR SEAT. Give Patrons Not Accommodated Re-bate Check for Three Cents. PORTLAND, Nov. 13. (To the Editor.) What do our. legislators propose in re gard to compelling our streetcar monop oly to run sufficient cars reasonably to provide for the accommodation of the public? The writer has looked in vain for some Intimation of a bill to be introduced re minding the corporation that the public has some rights which It proposes shall not go by default. , I do not refer to the lack of facilities on holidays, circus daysv or even fine Sundays, but to the wanton, cold-blooded disregard, of the every-day wants of the people aa revealed especial ly any evening from a to 7 o-obck, and frequently both earlier and later. Notwithstanding we are in a time of the very greatest prosperity to the Port lanff Railway Company, with a city spreading . out rapidly in all directions and compelling the use of streetcars, yet the monopoly puts only a sufficient num ber of vehicles in service to insure that the cars shall run during several hours of each day "chock-a-block" with passen gers at 5 cents a head, at least half of the patrons- standing and swaying dizzily in the contaminated atmosphere of the car, or hanging on to the vestibules at isk of lile and limb, and to the incon venience of all. . It is less than half a truth to say that no one is compelled to take a crowded car. For, after waiting ten minutes for a car to arrive, there is little wisdom in jeopardizing another ten minutes for one perhaps still more crowded. If the Port land Railway Company were needy, run ning at a loss, etc., we would have more patience. But with earning power suffi cient to pay dividends on millions of wa ter, they execute a merger so as largely to reduce salaries and other expenses. and at the same -time they see to it that the traveling public shall make every cubic foot of air space, in and outside their cars, contribute to their swollen gains. Reduced to the old-fashioned rule of three, the logic of the case is irresistible. For, if a car seating 50 and carrying no more will produce a handsome profit. how much more will one produce seating and standing 100? It is only another instance of inordinate greed, and that every public utility corporation absolute ly requires the regulating hand of the law, in order to prevent selfish disregard of the rights of the people. Isow as to, the remedy. Some suggest that laws be enacted prohibiting, under a severe penalty, as in England, the car rying of any more passengers than the car will seat. This, however, frequently works a hardship, as the writer has him self experienced in London, when some times three or four 'buses may pass be fore one can be found with a vacant seat. Our people would chafe under any stioh restraint, and not having the English man's relish and determination for law enforcement, the statute would be winked at. Others propose "no seat, no pay." but this would probably result In the crowding yof cars with the impecunious and penurious, to tne aiscomiort oi seat ed passengers. The writer would propose that all pas sengers not accommodated with seats shall receive a rebate check for 3 cents which can be cashed at any one of sev eral ticket offices handily situated for the convenience of the public. In this way the traveling public could get a seat ride for 5 cents, or in default, a "stand up" ride for 2 cents, and both the grasp ing corporation and the long-suffering public could consider the scales of justice evenly balanced. Should anyone insist on standing when there is seating capac ity, of course, no rebate should.be de manded or given. Here is a chance for a legislator to right a crying outrage of long standing and earn the deserved popularity of the entire community. NOB HILL. Income and Inherltnnce Taxes. The Chicago Journal under this head ing concludes an editorial thus: A society which numbers a few men whose wealth amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars apiece, and millions of men whose fortunes can be counted at only a few months' or days' margin against starvation, cannot long continue unless the majority resigns itself to labor unceasingly for the minority. That can not and will not happen in this country, and therefore it is evident that steps will have to be taken sooner or later to prevent any such social disparities from perpetuating themselves. The inheritance tax is one of these and the income tax is another. It is not possible that the rich will be able to prevent either of them from being adopted, but if it were, the unwisdom of such a course is mani fest. If mild remedies are not adopted severer ones will be. Hrr Faith. Chicago Record-Herald. "While you have faith In me," he said, "I will have strength to do my bestl" The blushes on her cheek were red. The Joy was deep within her breast. She pledged him all her faith, and prido Was In her heart as day by day He pushed the obstacles aside That once had eeemed to bar his way. With many a longing, tender emlle She read of triumphs which ..He had: She gave him to the world a while. And heard men pralee him, and was glad. The goal that In his youth had seemed So far away was won. and then Another goal beyond him gleamed, Wherefore he pressed ahead again. Throush dismal hours she sat alone. Through dismal days she vainly wept And longed to claim as oil her own Him that the world had won and kept. SOMEWHAT law: -n A. ' I J A. BUY M'LOLGHLIVS OLD HOME. Another Pioneer Appreciation of Ore frnn's Great Chieftain. PORTLAND, Nov. 13. (To tho Editor.) The writer heartily agrees with The Oregonian of last Saturday that Oregon City ought to own the houso In which Dr. McLoughlin lived in that city, which he named and where he planted capital which did good service for the earliest American settlers of Oregon as well as for the Hudson Bay Company. The lat ter had headquarters in London, and was trust pure and simple, as far as Brit ish law could make one, for gathering wealth from wild countries over which the British government did not have legal doniinion. The condition which placed. this great and good man between Brit- in s power at sea and the American peo ple on land in a contest for dominion, few, if any, of the actors on cither side could fully estimate. Dr. McLoughlin filled this very trying position for over 20 years and left the service of the monopolistic Hudson Bay Company when he could no longer obey its behest and turn from wayworn peo ple passing his gate in pursuit of the privilege of making homes in Oregon. They understood they had a hotter right to do this than the Hudson Bay Com pany had to exercise virtual dominion over Onegon in virtue of the special mo nopoly over Canada and "adjoining coun try" which the British Parliament had given it. The writer had the good fortune to see and receive kindness at the hand of Dr. McLoughlin without asking, both when he was chief of the Hudson Bay Company at Fort Vancouver and aftrr he resigned from his high service at tiio sacrifice of $12,000 per annum to come to Oregon City in the position of a plain American. He added to his investments there as though rounding out the plan of his own life formed as far back as 1S2S, when he made a tour of inspection of the Willamette Valley in company with Donald Manson, another of nature's noblemen. I have no hint that this was in this good man's plan of his own' life, from any of his un der oflicers, few of whom would have dared to question him. But the action of Mr. Thurston in Congress by which Dr. McLoughlin deemed himself unjustly robbed and vilified, sent him to his grave a broken-hearted man. I have always believed this also caused Mr. Thurston's death. Remorse cuts the core of life faster than injustice. The writer is one of the very few re maining who had the pleasure, as a Rep resentative of Marion County, of restor ing to Dr. MeLoughlin's heirs in 1S62 what tho spoilers had left after ton years of dickering, doubt and obstruction. Let Oregon City own the McLoughlin I house it is one thru will bring tourists to Oregon City long after its present rul ers have rested from their cares. Were I a resident of Oregon City. I should vote for the purchase of the McLoughlin house and lot. And as a citizen of Oregon, I am very willing to help make the good doctor's grave more presentable to vis itors. JOHN MINTO. WHAT CALIFORNIA WILL DO. Will Ohey Laws,- but Will Not Turn Schools Over to Pngnns. The Argonaut. We assure President Roosevelt, Sec retary Root, and Secretary Metcalf that it is immaterial to tho people of Califor nia what construction may be put on treaties and laws in so far as they affect the right to enter the public schools of this st;ite. Tho people of California will never permit children of Asiatic descent to sit at the same desks and occupy the same rooms with their white children. Tho Government of tho United States is powerful, but it is not powerful enougli fnr that, if it should attempt to force into the public schools of California tho children of alien, semi servile, and pagan races, it may per haps do so unrlor tho Federal law, for the citizens of this stato are law-abiding. But the attempt will only result In the school houses of this state being turned over to the Chinese, Japanese, Ceylone.se. Filipino, and Lascar proteges of the Fed eral Government. And the white men and white women of California will edu cate th"!ir children In schools o their own. New York's Rival 50 Years Hence. Berlin Despatch. Berlin, Germany, will be tlje greatest city on earth 50 years hence, according to the calculations of Hcrr Ohmke, a noted statistician. Its population will he in the neighborhood of 14.flOO.000 and Its only serious rival will be New York. In a pamphlet he has written to set forth this prophetic theory Herr Ohmke says that the population of Berlin is increasing more rapidly than that of any European city except Budapest, Hungary. Today Greater Berlin contains over 3, 000,000 inhabitants. ' This rapid growth, he says, with Ber lin's political and commercial importance, will place the Pnussian capital ahead of London, Paris and New York. He cal culates that London in 1955 will only have 7,000,000 Inhabitants. And Also In the "Last Sud Rites." Philadelphia Public Lodger. "Graft in Sun Francisco!'' exclaimed the Californian. "Say, you effete East erners don't know anything about our graft. It permeates commercial as well as political life. Why, I'll bet that If the citizens undertake tn hang the bood lers they'd get stuck on the price of rope." Education Neglected. Toledo Blade. When one reads of the actions of Count Boni de Castellane it seems a pity that Mrs. Jay Gould never taught her daugh ters how to use a rolling pin. 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