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Ill-regarded as he may be by most Americans, Mr. Rogers is not without friends whom his death would bereave. He is. said to bo intimate wltto Mark Twain. The unrelenting pose of hia head and his spare figure somewhat re call the "homo jucundisslmus" whom we all love; perhaps there is a simi larity between their souls. Rogers may be a great satirist who Jeers and Jokes in deeds instead of words. Perhaps the later history of Standard Oil will turn out to be a stupendous epitome of an epoch, as marvelous in history as Huckleberry Finn is in literature. Per haps Standard Oil and its kindred trusts mark the death of an outworn com mercial creed and the birth of a new one; and in rejecting it we only repeat the blind stupidity of our predecessors who have never recognized their bene factors until they 'were dead. Time will tell. Mr. Rogers has broken down from overwork. The evil days have come upon him because he would not rest. The machine which he controlled was too extensive and complicated. Its management drew too heavily upon his energies. Such vast responsibilities ex ceed the limit of human capacity. A man of extraordinary strength may for a time perform the task, but in the end it will break him down. It will either debauch his morals, as the Steel Trust does for its presidents, or it will wreck his bodily health. "Too much power is not a good thing for any man. There is a disease of the soul yhich it In duces, called "the mania of greatness." Nero and Caligula had It. So has the Czar Nicholas, who, in his boyhood, had a tender heart and loved his peo ple, whom ho now butchers. Too much power Is good neither for him tlhat wields it nor for those who must bow to it. We cannot have equal ity among men, but perhaps we may find some way to avoid those tremen dous gulfs of inequality which separate figures like Rogers from the common lot. He would have done better to have shared his responsibilities with others. Standard Oil is too big to be either hon est or humane. Its baneful Influence strikes both ways; it injures its own ers more than the people. For the sake of their own souls, Mr. Rogers and his allies should have been . satisfied long ago with what they had acquired, both of power and money. They should have given themselves time to live hu manly for a few years, and should have been willing to leave fledds of en terprise open to other men. Uncon trolled . ambition is deadly. It rules "like a mounting devil In the heart" and carries its rider to perdition. There is no merit in working for work's sake. Without a worthy pur pose toll Is ignoble. To keep on grind ing at the mill after there Is flour enough for alt earthly use indicates a Bplrit like Mammon's, who was the "least erected" of all the devils cast out from heaven. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who retired from active commerce years ago. is wiser than his colleagues. He knew when to be satisfied; and in these latter years of his unbeautiful career there is a timid budding . of graces which makes ue all lament that he had not forsaken greed and turned to the gentler virtues long before he did. If Mr. Rogers, for all his iniquities, has an esoteric loveliness which wina Mark Twain's affection, he might have be come a popular idol had lie stopped robbing us, say, ten years ago. In stead of regarding his Illness with cold charity, the Nation might be talking of him for President. The reader must not smile. Mr. Rogers has qualities which, well directed, would have made him a good President and a great statesman. As it is, they have made him a millionaire. The choice of Her cules was offered him and he took what suited his nature and desiiny. Be fore we condemn him, let each of us decide how much ibetter we would have chosen in the same circumstances. STATUS OF THE LIQUOR TRADE. Into any extended or elaborate reply to the tetter of Mr. Zimmerman, of the Anti-Saloon League, The Oregonian will not enter. It is not necessary. In such matters reply argumentative seriatim never Is effective. But let us take the gist o'f bis state ment or argument. He bases it all on the assumption, the assertion, the pos tulate, that alcoholic liquor is a de structive poison, whose sale should be prohibited toy law, Just as the sale of rotten meat. But the general public does not view it so. If it were held true, the argument would be conclusive. But it is not deemed true; therefore the argument is not conclusive. For In faot by far the larger part or proportion of the alcoholic lequor sold in the world produces no such effects as Mr. Zimmerman depicts. His state ment is the emotional and sentimental side of the subject. The world knows this; therefore it doesn't prohibit the sale of aJcohollc liquors as it prohibits the sale of rotten meat. Ninety per cent, probably 99 per cent, of the liquor sold in the world Is sold to those who don't get drunk on it. All these hold it to be the business of the other 10 per cent, or 1 per cent, to keep sober also. Drunkenness indeed is distressingly frequent; and the numerous cases of misery and want caused directly by this common vice continually cry aloud for some measure whereby the evil of drunkenness may be banished from the earth. But it does not follow that the sale of liquor necessarily pro duces intoxication. On the contrary, the facts establish the truth that the cases in which the sals of liquor is followed by intoxication and the evils that go with It constitute the excep tions to 'the general rule. The number of those who are likely to become in toxicated by the liquor they purchase is very small, In proportion to or com parison with the thousands who buy it and use it, in moderation, without ever approaching the state of intoxica tion. The consequence is that the liquor trade has a legitimate basis, and it is the abuse of the trade and the abuse of liquor against which soci ety, government and law must provide their restrictions and direct their pen alties. And, though it is often urged as a Justification of prohibition that even a moderate use of liquor is injurious to the health of the Individual, and in jurious to society, and though a great many people 'believe this to be true, the majority of the people think different ly; thousands maintain It is a harmless Indulgence, and many more declare It to be positively beneficial. Of course all these admit that the individual must control the appetite; but none want the law to control it for them. Herein are the reasons why prohibi tion is not sustained in communities of active and varied life, like that in our cities and larger towns. All admit that nobody may eat rotten meat without danger; and disgust moreover is a sure consequence. Besides, nobody eats rot ten meat knowingly. But the majority do not admit, and indeed only a few insist, that liquor may not be drunk in moderation, of course without de structive or deadly consequences, and with satisfaction, too. Instead of dis gust. In this statement The Oregonian pre sents no theory. It is a statement sim ply of general sentiment or opinion on the liquor question. It is this senti ment or opinion that has made and maintains the law and the practice, as to sale and use of liquor, as they are. Steady progress is made' toward restric tion of abuses. But prohibition is an other question. TRUSTS SEEKING TROUBLE. The American Protective Tariff League has adopted a policy of oppo sition to the new tariff agreement with Germany, And. at a meeting held in New York Thursday, decided unani mously that the measure was "con trary to law and to the policy of pro tection, unfair to the American im porter, to the customs service," etc. There is something In these protests that is remindful of that old axiom that "No rogue e'er felt the halter draw wlthgood opinion of tfhe law." Natur ally the loudest howls come from the greatest beneficiaries of the existing tariff law. - An official of one of the largest textile factories In Rhode Island, in a protest to the Merchants' Association of New York, sets up the old plea that all the rest of hte world is afraid of the United States, and for that reason will permit us to continue Indefinitely our selfish, trade-hampering policy against which the Germans rebelled. The textile man among other things says: ' Tou must ba aware that In th opinion of many of our ablest legislators, statesmen and merchants, Germany's threat to levy maximum rates on American merchandise would probably never have been carried out; and if It had, Congress would have quickly have found an effective remedy by imposing additional duties in .retaliation for such un fair treatment. This is an excellent illustration of the sentiment which so easily converts trade wars into more serious conflicts. The assumption that Germany was "bluffing" when she demanded fairer treatment than she has been receiving under the old law is not corroborated in the slightest possible detail of the negotiations. The attitude of Germany was forced by an overwhelming major ity of the German people and encour aged by the ever-increasing murmur of our own people against a policy which deprives our people of the right to pur chase goods without paying exorbitant tribute to the protected trusts. Our consumers are in need of many com modities which can be secured from Germany to better advantage than elsewhere. By purchasing these commodities from the Germans we enhance the buying power of the sellers and culti vate a feeling of reciprocity whlch brings us buyers for goods, for the dis posal of which we need a widening market. Germany was remarkably pa tient in the face of the insistent de mands made by her own people for this new agreement, and the assumption that she would recede from the stand she had taken is not warranted. Re taliatory measures on the part of Ger many would prove fully as effective as any which might be inaugurated by this country. If we shouM listen to the wail of these over-protected trusts and violate or abrogate the agreement with Germany, we would simply Invite a trade war which might prove far more disastrous and far-reaching than now seems possible. As a beginning for the tariff reform which Is certain to be inaugurated in the near future by one political party or the other, the German tariff agree ment is mild and easy. It might ba well for the American Protective Tariff League to recognize this fact. MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL. Professor F. M. Davenport, of Hamil ton College (Clinton, N. Y.), writes an article in the Outlook, In which he says: ''Since the wise and benevolent administration of Washington there have been only four Presidents of pre eminent executive strength. These men are Jefferson,' Jackson, Lincoln and Roosevelt. And Roosevelt is the only one of the four who has not actually exceeded tois constitutional powers." All depends on how you Interpret the Constitution. Almost every" President does things for which the Constitution furnishes no express warrant; and some will say, nor Implied warrant. That is, the Constitution does not cover every phase or requirement of National life. Upon Jefferson's own theory of the Constitution,, he had no power to buy the Louisiana territory, yet he bought It. Jackson was continually assailed by the greatest minds of his time for his alleged violations of the Constitu tion, yet the people stood by him. Ac cusations even more bitter were hurled against Lincoln for the measures al leged to be arbitrary and unconstitu tional that he took for suppression of the great Rebellion; yet the country upheld him throughout. Roosevelt to as done nothing that re sembles the things done by Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. Yet he has re peatedly been accused of having vio lated the Constitution. The methods by which he acquired the right of way for the Panama Canal were so assailed by able men of the Senate. Others gen tlemen of "the vested Interests" have denounced him for "unwarranted and unconstitutional interference with the courts of Justice." But on these sub jects the people are as unmistakably with Roosevelt as they were with his three illustrious predecessors whom the Hamilton Professor names. And it is a principle of constitutional Interpreta tion not admitted, however, by the text-writers and expounders that what the people, as a body, want, and make up their minds to stand for and to stand by. Is constitutional, or destined surely to be so. ADVANCE IN LUMBER RATES. The announced advance In lumber rates from Pacific Coast points to the East, if enforced, will quite naturally curtail the shipmerits from this terri tory. This is one method for relieving the car shortage, which, according to the contentions of the lumbermen, will prove effective. The railroads, which for nearly two years have been unable to provide a sufficient number of cars to handle the increasing business, have apparently reasoned out this remedy from a cause-and-effect basis. Low rates on lumber caused heavy increases In the volume of business. The effect of these increases was a car shortage. The cause must be removed before the effect can be remedied. But this rem edy will not be satisfactory to the lum ber shippers, and its permanency is al ready In doubt. The low rates which have been in effect have enabled Pacific Coast lum bermen to build up a fine business in the East and Middle West. This busi ness is said to be handled on such a small margin of profit for the lumber men that the advance announced by the railroads will enable Southern lumber to supplant the Pacific Coast product In that rich trade field. The lumbermen announce their Intention of taking the matter before the Interstate Commerce Commission as soon as an attempt is made to enforce the new rate. An appeal to that tribunal will bring results which ought to be fair to both parties. With lumber, as with all other commodities, the freight rate should be determined by the actual cost of transportation, plus a reasonable re turn on the investment of the com pany handling the business. It is on this basis that all freight rates in tiho country must eventually rest, and, If the North Pacific lumber rates are not now founded on such cost and profit, the Interstate Commerce Commission will without doubt give the relief sought. In the case of the Pacific Coast lumbermen there will not be very much difficulty in determining whether or not the Southern competitors under a preferred rate are Invading Pacific Coast territory in the Middle West. Any advantage which the Pacific Coast lumbermen may have in location, dis tance to market and cost of manufac ture cannot legally be nullified by the railroads by means of an exorbitant rate. If It is in the power of the rail roads to advance rates beyond a rea sonable figure for the purpose of check ing the volume of business, or as a means of retaliation, as is now charged by the men who find their business threatened, that power can be curbed in short order by the commission. There is another point which should cause the railroads to proceed with caution in placing this embargo on the Pacific Coast lumber business. The present era of prosperity will not last forever, and, even before it has run its course, the Pacific Coast will no longer be dependent on two systems of railroad for transportation. There are at least three new transcontinental lines now headed for the Pacific Coast, and some of them, or all of them, will be in the field for lumber business and all other business at rates which will not amount to confiscation of the' in dustries which supply the traffic. In stead of railroad men being obliged to resort to subterfuge in order to hold back shipments, they will be scurrying around among shippers inviting busi ness. If the Interstate Commerce Com mission will determine what is a fair rate on lumber, the early coming of competition in the business 'will settle the car shortage. Meanwhile, with many mills in the country, lack of cars is causing more trouble than the threatened Increase in rates. Vice-President Fairbanks and Candi date Bryan are now even in the race for the Presidential nomination. Each has saved from death a woman whose life was imperilled and each modestly disclaims any credit for the act. The story recalls an Incident In the life of the late General Joseph Lane, of Ore gon,, of which much was made In a sarcastic vein fifty years ago, or at the time when the "Mary Ann of the Mex ican War," so-called, had aspirations similar to those which now beset the dreams of the heroes first named. See ing a ragged, grimy lad of tender years weeping bitterly, General Lane so the story ran kindly asked the cause of. his distress. The boy, with a fresh burst of tears, replied that the "other boys," indicating a squad of Juveniles a little distance away, had money with which to buy candy and he had none. Our hero, moved to pity and philanthropy, thereupon went down into his jeans and drew up a copper cent, which he bade the boy take and got a stick of candy. The story was widely printed in the now shadowy days "Just before the war," and the deed was recounted in verse the con cluding lines of which were these: Now learn a lesson from this tale: Who gives a boy a cent To buy a stick of candy with Bhall be a President. It may be hoped that the utter fail ure of General Lane to realize upon this investment will not discourage present-day aspirants for the Presi dency in humane and philanthropic aots. Leslie's Weekly contemplates with a "pang of sadness" the retirement from the sea of the E. B. Sutton, one of the few remaining American ships. It notes that "with the passing of the square-rigged ships goes much of the poetry of the sea," and winds up its little lay of sadness with the custom ary recommendation for encouragement and protection of our shipbuilding In dustry, which In other words means a subsidy bill. But why play favorites? No one sheds any tears over the ox cart of the early days being supplanted by the railroad train. The electric light has advantages over the tallow candle, etc. The world Is moving and the old style square-rigger is as much out of date in comparison with the modern steam freighter as the ox-cart would be in comparison with the modern railroad train. The "poetry of the sea" cannot be made to pay dividends, and business and poetry never had much in common. Why lament any of the poor and im perfect facilities we had in the old days, without including all of them?- The Oregonian aeems to hav taken delight In one of two or thre recent editorials not especially to Its credit to hit the city of Eugene for aome shortcomings, apparently for getting somo of the abominable streets of Its own home city. McMlnnvlll News. The Oregonian doesn't forget any of the abominable streets of its own home city. And all you know at MoMinn ville, and all you know at Eugene, about the streets of Portland you learn from the statements of The Oregonian,, which is constantly urging improve ment of the streets of Portland. No, city, in fact, of the size of Portland has on the whole'-better streets;-but those most used fall now and then into holes, and The Oregonian is almost constantly pointing out the need of repairs or bet terments in one place or another. The general excellence of Portland's main streets Is, however, the remark of "every observer. The remarkable growth of Seattle is illustrated In a striking manner in the last issue of the Northwest Realty Review, a publication which halls from the Elliott Bay metropolis. On page 44 of the latest Issue of this paper the population of Seattle is given as 206,000, and by the time page 53 is reached the population has increased to 260,000. This Increase-of 44,000 people in eleven pages is believed to toe without a par allel. While Seattle was forging ahead at such a tremendous speed, Portland, of course, fell behind. The population of this city was 200,000 on page 44 of the Review, but on page 63, where the astonishing growth of Seattle was shown, Portland declined to 175,000. Herein we find proof conclusive that figures cannot He and also that 1 s o n f e. The announcement of the death In Paris, a few days ago, of Julia S. Bry ant, the only surviving daughter of William Cullen Bryant, recalls the up right, busy, tuneful life of a man Whose name was familiar alike to the schol ars and the schoolboys of the land during the middle years of the nine teenth century. Julia Bryant was for forty-six yeans the companion and comrade of her father. She died at the age of 75, having survived her father twenty-nine years. During the greater part of this latter period she lived in France, where she died. Her death closes the life of a serene and cultured woman of the class whom Whittier apostrophizes as those Who, lonely, homeless, not the leas Find peace In love'a unselfishness. Mrs. Snyder, who achieved some no toriety, wholly unsought, however, in connection with the robbery of the For est Grove bank several years ago, and the . subsequent murder or suicide of her 'husband, Carey Snyder, was lately remarried. Why not? There is indis putable evidence that Snyder is dead. His body, having been exposed to the elements a full year when discovered, bore mute but conclusive testimony to his demise, and gave his wife liberty to remarry if she chose to do so. Here's hoping that her second matrimonial venture will "turn out," as the gossips Bay, more happily than did the first. When he arrives In Oregon, Perhaps Secretary Wilson can be induced to set tle the controversy between Millard Lownsdale and the Hood River Valley over first-prize apples. Unknown men now engaged In ap propriating Clackamas County horses should remember that the Unwritten Law relating to this crime has not been repealed. . So free from discomfort is our Sum mer weather that the contrast of fatal heat in the Middle West is necessary for Oregon-lane fully to appreciate their blessing. For further proof that all Oregon is in the forward march, note the estab lishment of a bank at Gervais and the formation of a boosters' club at Jack sonville. Can't Tom Richardson get Secretary Wilson to give us a talk on the most efficacious method of destroying the hoplouse and the codlin moth? Joaquin Miller announces himself out of the race for the United States Senatorship. He will have plenty of company next June. Complications in Corea are likely to keep Japan so busy that we won't be disturbed until after harvest. - Among other things for Portland's self-felicitation is the smallness of July ice bills. THE WEST AND MR. FAIRBANKS Why tbe Vice-President Waa Given the Cold Shoulder. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The significant feature of Mr. Fair banks' experiences In Washington and Oregon arises from the fact that he and Secretary of the Interior Garfield have been in that part of the country at the same time, the Secretary being concerned with land frauds and other Land Office matters. At Sea.ttle the managers for Mr. Fairbanks are said to have endeav ored to get the local Republican Club to entertain him. The club took up the suggestion and decided to follow It, pro vided it could be arranged to Include Secretary Garfield and Gifford Pinchot, head of the Forest Service, who is travel ing with the Secretary. But when it was found that the three guests woulu not be in the city on the same day the club de cidejl to entertain Secretary Garfield and Mr. Pinchot "and pass the Vice-President up" as the account expressively puts it. Following this experience at Seattle the Vice-President was to have gone to Port land after making visits at smaller places. When Mr. Fairbanks was previously In Portland on the occasion of the Lewis and Clark Exposition he was feted and acclaimed, but It seems that no prepara tions at all had been made to honor his present visit not even a brass band, a reception oommittee or a. speech-making dinner and the omission appears more significant in view of the fact that Secre tary Garfield was elaborately entertained in Portland only a few days ago. It Is said that Mr. Fairbanks' plan to revisit Portland was known long in advance so that ample time was given' for prepara tion. These of themselves are small things, but when taken in their full meaning they are of larger Importance. They in dicate that If Mr. Fairbanks' "best hope" Is now in the West, then It has become a hope so small as to be negligible. But more Important than this Is the indication of hard and fast support for the Roose velt Administration and its representa tives. Secretary Garfield is an able young man who is making rapid progress In popular estimation, but it is apparent that the chief cause of the attention paid him was the fact that he represented the Administration. Apparently anybody with the Roosevelt trademark "makes good" in Oregon or Washington, while Mr. Fairbanks, who is recognized as rep resenting something different and antag onistic, gets a decidedly oold shoulder. These pointers from the far West deserve the serious thought of those who perslBt in thinking that Mr. Roosevelt's open fa vor of Mr. Taft will hurt the Secretary of War's chances. HOW THEY MAKE LAWS IX TEXAS No corporation or Saloonkeeper la Per mitted to Escape. Chicago Record-Herald. The Texas Legislature gained most fame this year by two of Its deeds. First it contributed to the improvement of the Government at Washington by keeping Senator Bailey in office, Waters-Pierce Oil Company included. Next It passed the nine-foot bedsheet law, which has already become celebrated wherever man concerns himself closely with- the com forts of life. But that is by no means all the Legis lature did. It passed a law making it an offense for any man in public office to employ under him any relative, unless the rela tionship is more distant than second cousin.. It forbade the drinking of any kind of liquor on trains under any circumstances. It passed a law compelling any theat rical manager to book any attraction ap plying for an open date if the character of the play production is suitable for a first class playhouse. It required all railroads to use elec tric headlights. It passed a more rigorous Sunday closing law for saloons, and another law forbidding saloons having In connection 'with their bars any device calculated to draw patronage, .such as billiard or pool tablep. It closed not only all bucket-shops in the state, but also all stock brokers' of fices. Half-fare rates have been prohibited as well as passes, not only for railroads but also for streetcars and telegraph and telephone companies. The mere possession of articles com monly used in games of chance has been made a criminal offense, and betting on baseball games is likewise made punish able by law. There were numerous stringent laws against corporations enacted, one of which has already caused twenty-one of the leading life Insurance companies to withdraw from the state. And the complaint of the Governor of Texas against the Legislature Is that it was not sufficiently drastic in meeting abuses under which the people suffer. Civilisation Moves In RabMtvtlle. The Dalles Optimist. The last stupendous, improvement is the Installation of a bath tub at the city drug store. Just think of that, a bath tub in his here town! This improvement come so suddent that it almost kaflumlxed some of us old tim ers, for we dlddent think the city drug store would go to the very limmit. But they did. Hank Stifel made the tub. It Is a fine one, patterned after them they use at the Hotel Portland and other swell hotels. Only ourn la made of fur boards, not having pine boards enough to do the Job. It is also painted outsides and Insldes, tu outsldes blew and the Insldes black, so It won't show the dirt two mutch. As the well from which the water is to be took to the bath tub is about a block away each Jent will have to carry his own water and also carry it away after the bath except where 2 or more Jents uses the same water. The charge per bath is 10 cents and pack your own water. Jents wanting hot baths can have the use of the tea kettle on the stove in the kitchen down stairs behlnt the perscrlption room. No extra charges will be maid for this but Jents will be expected to chop their own wood. Jents will also bring their own towels and soap. Two Children and Two Snakes, Fossil Journal. Bert Thompson's two little girls, aged S and 1V4 years, respectively, were having a fine time playing on a quilt under a shade tree in the yard yesterday, all un conscious of the fact that two rattle snakes were resting comfortably under the quilt. When the older girl saw a pretty striped thing sliding out from un der her very feet, she called her mother's attention to it and the mother was nearly frightened to death. Fortunately Henry Neal's cattle-driver was on the spot, arid with a couple of well-directed blows quickly killed the snakes. One was a very large one and the other a small one. One Trouble About a Dry Town. - Vancouver Independent. It is rather Inconsistent to work so hard on Sunday In an endeavor to see that no one else works at you are tired out on Monday and have to take a day off to rest up. Where Can They Go In Oregon. LaGrande Star. Two physicians are going to leave the city. This fact speaks volumes for laGrandA aa a health, resort. OJT THE LIQUOR TRADE. The Argament for Total Prohibition by Edict I-aw. PORTLAND, Or.; July 26. (To the Editor.) The Oregonian has recently given the liquor problem quite lengthy notice in Its editorial columns. Those who are engaged in the work of reform always read such editorials with a deep Interest for they recognize the power of the press as a public sentiment builder and under stand very well that the progress of any reform movement depends very much upon the attitude of the daily press. Many of the recent editorial utterances of The Oregonian on this subject have been most gratifying to friends of temperance and prohibition, because they were progressive In Spirit and were calculated to help us on to better social conditions. But in your issue of July 22, there appeared an editorial called forth by Judge Artman's lecture, which to my mind was regressive and reactionary. Will you grant me a little of your val uable space to call attention to one point In that editorial, which I be lieve is especially misleading. You Insist that the manufacture and sale of alcoholic compounds for bever age purposes is a legitimate branch of industry and trade. If this claim la true, then the traffic in alcoholic com pounds for beverage purposes must be beneficial and serviceable to society and the state. A vast sum of money is spent every year in the liquor shops of this city and country, and no busi ness mayJustly claim to be legiti mate which does not render to society some helpful service for the profits it derives from It. The manufacture and the sale of lumber is a legitimate busi ness because the raw material that passes through to the -mill is thereby made more valuable and serviceable, and Is used In the building of homes and other things which add greatly to the comfort and wealth of this world. Activity in the lumber trade is a sure Indication of healthful social growth and business prosperity. This Is also true of many other lines of trade that we might mention. But when you compare the traffic in alco holic compounds for beverage purposes with the traffic In lumber and other useful lines of trade, you find at once that it is radically different in nature, and should not be listed with them. The fruit of the field and vine which have passed through the brewery or distillery and is held for sale behind the bar of a saloon, might well be branded "dangerous." As an article for promiscuous barter It is of far less value to society now than it was be fore, and when sold even under the ordinary restriction it becomes what a certain New York Judge terms the most abominable, the most outrageous and the most Inhuman Influence oper ating in life. Activity in the liquor trade In Portland means more work for our criminal courts and police force, fewer comforts for many homes, more sorrow, more shame, more mis ery for hundreds of people. The lum ber industry builds up our city In wealth, comfort and happiness and the traffic in alcoholic compounds tears it down. If the first is a legitimate in dustry the other cannot be. Alcoholic compounds are no more legitimate for general and Indiscrimin ate commerce than opium and cocaine are. The traffic in cocaine and opium is limited by law to medicinal and sci entific purposes, and the traffic in al coholic compounds should be subject to the same restrictions. Prohibitionists donotpontend for the total abolition of the manufacturing and sale of cocaine and opium, but they would certainly kick up a great row if our Govern ment should attempt to license the indis criminate sale of these dangerous drugs. The prohibition contention, as I aee it, rests simply and solely upon the righteous demand that the Government take the same attitude toward the manufacture and sale of alcohol and alcoholic compounds that it has to ward every other substance of similar character. What would The Oregonian think of the proposition to license, for Instance, the sale of rotten meat or decayed fish indiscriminately for eating purposes, on the ground that it was within the right of 'any man to sell It If he wanted to, and within the personal right of any man to buy it if he chose. The law of our city permits the sale of Impure 'meat and fish for proper purposes, for making soap, fertilizer, etc, but prohibits the sale for eating or improper purposes. If it Is legiti mate to sell alcoholic compounds for beverage purposes, it is also legitimate to sell rotten meat and spoiled fish for eating purposes, and legitimate to sell opium for smoking purposes. and legitimate to sell morphine pills for the purpose of exhilaration. There is a scientific, medicinal and Industrial use of alcohol that is proper and legiti mate, but the trade In alcohol for bev erage purposes Is immoral and illegiti mate and should be prohibited by law. E. F. ZIMMfeRMAN. Superintendent Anti-Saloon League. "Old Han" Ireland's Record. Moro Observer. The St. Louis Globe prints the picture of an old-time Missouri printer who has stuck to the caae nearly 60 years. Pooh! The man of this shack has a record of 46 years' newspaper work In Oregon, and on his 72d birthday anniversary, July 4, 1907, was sticking up type in Moro, recording events of the 131st anniversary of Ameri can Independence and the coronation of Mrs. Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood as Mother Queen of Oregon, aged 120 years. Beat OregoV? Who has the audacity to make any such pretension? All Due to the Alaea Climate. Philomath Review. Mrs. Clark, of Alsea, is 80 and past and yet does all the housework for herself and son and is still more active with her needle than many a housewife. Here of late she has been making a quilt for each of her children, and any father would have cause to be proud of a daughter that did as well. THE UNWRITTEN LAW. IN SUNDAY OREGONIAN, TOMORROW 7T1 Hi 9S" HvJS- a K BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA SPLITTING THE SEA Spirited full-page illustration in colors of one of the latest of Uncle Sam's fighting machines. HAPPY CHILD LIFE IN PORTLAND A page of snapshots, each one of which tells its own story. CURE OF DISEASE IN OREGON ROSES Notable, timely article by Dr. L. Dechmann, setting forth the scientific facts relative to mil dew, w h i e h affects so many bushes at this time. ANIMALS STARVED TO SAVE MONET Another of Homer Daven port's severe lampoonings this time grilling the cattle barons of the West who allow animals to perish for lack of food. JVIANY OTHER NOTABLE AND INTERESTING ARTICLES Order From "Your Newsdealer Today TAMHILL EDITOR AND WAITER. Strange Story of a Tip and tbe Dose the Visitor Got. Dayton (Or.) Optimist. To illustrate the evils of the tipping system the writer Is tempted to relate an experience he had recently In one of Portland's leading hotels. The guest had eaten a breakfast costing 65 cents and handed the waiter $1 in pay ment. The waiter said "thank you" and put all the money in his pocket. He was asked for the change, and then the guest presented him with 10 cents. Passing out he told the clerk that he did not care to be held up that way again. The next morning the guest was served in a half-hearted manner by the same waiter and while drinking his coffee noticed a peculiar flavor to It; being In a hurry to catch his train, he ate hurriedly and left.. While on the train the peculiar taste of the cof fee occurred to him frequently and by the time he reached Dayton he was quite sick. What dope was put in the coffee we can't say, but we give the waiter credit for having cured us of "doing as the Romans do," as far as giving a tip is concerned. The waiter had evidently succeeded so well in holding up the guests before that he felt aggrieved that any one should re sent the graft. If the traveling pub lic should refuse to give tips at any time, the service in all hotels would be greatly Improved and there would be no danger of any one having an ex perience like the one related. Making tbe Noble Red Man Work. Burns Times-Herald. Marshal Anderson seems to have solved the drunken Indian problem in a most satisfactory manner. The noble reds are now put to work on the streets when they get an overdose of fire water and become "obstreperous." The prisoners are "let out" to property owners in various parts of town at a small fee per day and as a consequence the streets around their property pre sent a much neater appearance, be sides the squares are also leveled up and the loose rod- removed. Nlararer In the Haniznan Woodpile. Castle Rock (Wash.) Advocate. The way The Oregonian goes after Harrlman and his methods in the North west, and the comparisons It draws be tween him and Hill, while apparently well timed and deserved, are nevertheless pretty strong. It does seem strange that Harrlman connot get money to build his promised lines in this section, while HUI not only get the money, but also builds. There must be a "nigger in the wood pile" somewhere. From the New York World.