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It does not now seem lo tie a pro found generalisation to say, as our new prophets of politics and of govern ment are saying, that since we have the automobile, the telephone, the electric light and trolley cars, of all which the makers of our constitutional and representative system were ig norant, we therefore should pity their limitations of knowledge as to princi ples of government, and proceed to abolition of the whole system, under the new light afforded by the gasoline engine, the electric motor and horse less carriage. Doubtless it Is a great thing for a distinguished lawgiver or editor to be able to push an electric button at his desk, and get a gin rickey, or Scotch highball an advantage which our ancestors never possessed. But won derful as this is. we cannot see that it should be used as an argument for or proof of a superior progressive intelli gence in these times, which can war rant the . change of constitutional systems of government, abolish the old principle of equal taxation, cut the state university out of our educational h.5V'ni. Introduce a Jargon about recall of officials, or try to force voters to elect men of political principles op posite to their owu to the Senate. Many discoveries have been made In physical science, and more are to come. But the new discoveries In political and moral science have been mighty few, these many centuries. Have such discoveries been reserved through all the ages for a bumptious charlatanry in Oregon? We shall still doubt. rthciritoci r- in practicf.. That eminent array of political economists who sail under the banner f protection in its extreme form will Unit some interesting food for thought in a recent publication of the Bureau of Statistics showing details of our trade with Cuba for the past five years. When the recent semi-reciprocal agreement was perfected between this country and Germany, a prolonged howl went up from the "stand pat icts." To listen to their lugubrious wuilings as ground out on the "Amer ican Economist" phonograph, the uninformed individual would surely get the impression that our-foreign commerce had been Irreparably In jured by the mild concessions mad the Germans. These concessions were slight reductions in the tariff on a few urticles of which we stood greatly in need, and in return for this, Ger many made similar concessions on products which it was very much to our interest to dump on foreign shores. When the reciprocal agreement with Cuba was negotiated, it met with a similar reception. Nothing, absolutory nothing, but ruin and destruction to our trade, could result from this at tempt to give the Cubans a square deal by buying from them products v.'hich we needed, and the purchase .ii" which enabled them to buy goods which we had to sell. That was high tarilt theory and here are the facts: Since 1903, there has been an increase of 12314 cent in the exports from this country to Cuba, while for the same period the imports from Cuba have increased but SI H per cent. The Southern planters who fought vi ciously to prevent the operation of the present reciprocity treaty, which be came effective about five years ago. assured the people that the admission of the cheap Cuban sugar would ruin the business and cheapen the article so that it would no longer be possible fcr the South to put it on the market except at a loss. ' .That was the theory; the facts as compiled by the Department of Com merce and Labor show that in the five years since the latest reciprocity agreement was negotiated, sugar im portations increased from approxi mately 2.000.000,000 pounds in 1903 to 3,000,000,000 pounds last year. Had the theory of the high tariff men been even approximately correct, this in crease of 50 per cent In quantity of sugar imported would have justified the predictions of the planters and the sugar trust, but with shocking per versity, the price of sugar advanced so that the value of the 1907 imports was 367.187.688. compared with but 337.593.26S for the much smaller pro portionate amount imported in 1903. In other words, while the amount of imports increased 50 per cent, the value was nearly -doubled. A similar showing is made through out the list and the figures, taken in dividually or collectively, offer the strongest possible argument In favor of reciprocal trade relations with any country which produces commodities of which we are. in need, and in re turn purchases the products which we have to sell. - THE RAILROAD LAND GRANT. Senator Bourne, our reports from Washington, inform us, who has ac tively supported Senator Fulton's reso lution authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute suits for the re covery of railroad land-grant land, has written a letter to the Attorney-General, in which he expresses strong ap probation of the position of the de partment In resisting the proposed amendments to Senator Fulton's reso lution; adding, however, that if the equities of innocent purchasers' could be preserved by the amendment with out jeopardy to the Government's case, such amendment should be incorpo rated. He assures the Department it can count on his support In forcing the railroads to comply with the terms of the grants, and states that he will help secure, such subsequent legislation as will afford equitable relief to pur chasers in good faith from the grantee companies. In the circumstances, this appears to be the right position for our delega tion at Washington; since surely a way may be found and must be found for relief of those who have purchased the lands, in good faith, without collu sion with those who were perverting or misusing the grant. Besides, It is a general interest. Should everything be shut down and all rights lost, an incalculable number of persons engaged In the lumber busi ness would be Injured, many of them ruined, and the industrial progress of the country arrested for an indefinite period. But a way ought to be found to save these rights and these industries, with out abandonment of the purpose to force compliance with the terms of the grant, the greater part of which is still held by the railroad; or even to de clare that misfeasance has forfeited it. AN ANTI-RING TICKET. It is an excellent thing that the Ken tucky Kliek of Portland has done. It has held a meeting and offered a com plete Democratic ticket. The list of names constituting the ticket begins with Governor Chamberlain for the Senate, runs on down with a roster of candidates for such state offices as are (o be filled by the June election, in cludes members of the two branches of the Legislature for, Multnomah County, presents a full ticket for tha county offices, and completes an ar tistic piece of work with the names of precinct officers for the East and West Divisions of the City of Portland. Heretofore the Kentucky Klick has been somewhat modest more so than it ought to have been. Hence, it may be necessary now to explain to the multitude of readers that the Klick is an organization four years old, that hitherto has modestly withheld its merits and claims from the public, but now boasts of having first brought out Lane. Word and Manning and of hav ing wielded more influence in politics than any other organization. It is composed of "white males," most of them born South of Mason and Dixon's line, or whose parents came from that section of invincible Democracy. The organization is a secret one, but has no wish longer to conceal its existence. Its officers are Mark O'Neill, presi dent: S. C. Armitage, secretary; V. K. Strode, treasurer. Other principal members of the inner circle are H. B. Nicholas. C. B. Williams, T. J. Thornton, J. B. Ryan, W. T. Vaughn, W. T. Burney, T. G. Greene, E. A. McPherson, Tom Word, Oglesby Young, H. M. fiarnhart, M. J. Mallcy, W. H. Grindstaff. Alex Sweek and B. E. Haney an array of solid statesmen. The Oregonlan congratulates these gentlemen upon having completed the Democratic ticket. Without trouble, without a single hitch, they will see it through the primary. This will -be a simple formality. The Klick is not a ring; neither is it a machine. Odious combinations of that nature are left to Republicans. Yesterday The Ore gonlan printed the full ticket. It ex cited general admiration not Vnerely for the ticket itself, but for the smooth, aesthetic and absolutely rep resentative methods by which it was compiled. - A SINGLE-TAX FALLACY. One fad or fancy, or whatever it may be, of the single-tax brethren is beyond our comprehension. They teach that it is a terrible crime, the worst of crimes. In fact, to buy land and hold it for an increase of value. But at the same time they teach that it Is no crime to tuy a horse or a house or a share of railroad stock for the same purpose. If one buys a piece of land and simply lets it lie without use. he is a malefactor of the deepest dye. al though, make the best he can of it, the land is an expense to him. But it is virtuous to buy a share in a manu factory and lay It away In the drawer, out of use. although the share is not an expense, but brings In an annual in come. Our fanatical friends who advocate the single tax upon land values have lost the faculty of seeing things as they are. They cannot perceive that one kind of property is exactly the same as any other kind, subject to the same rules of value increment and equally just or unjust to those who have it not. The man who buys a calf ten days old Inflicts a double wrong upon his neighbors, because not only does the development of the dairy- business create an unearned increment in its value, but nature herself con spires to the same nefarious end. The calf actually grows in the night while the man sleeps, which land will not do. If it Is a sin to buy land and hold it out of use, how much greater sin is It to buy a calf and not sell it at once for veal? If ownership of unused land is wrong, so also is ownership of any other property which is not immedi ately employed in productive industry. If it is wrong to fend off from the land those men who want to cultivate it, so also Is it wrong to fend off from any other kind of property whatever any body who wants to make it productive. Disguise it as they may, the theory of the 'slngle-taxers is that ownership must be coextensive- with use. Those who doubt this statement are invited to read Mr. Guilford's letter, printed today and see if they can make it mean anything else? IRRATIONAL CRITICISM. The mental condition of the New York Sun must be a matter of serious concern to its admiring friends. The subtle wit and delicate cynicism for which that paper was once justly famous have given way to a frantic habit of calumnious billingsgate which seems likely to make it infamous be fore a great while. The Sun has simply lost the power to see or hear the phrase "labor union" without fall ing into a fit and foaming 4at the mouth with rage. Any person who ventures to speak of the unions with common fairness :or exert' himself to secure ordinary justice for their mem bers must expect to be deluged with a flood of calumny, provided,' of course, the Sun thinks him important enough to merit its unsavory atten tions. " ' Evidently the Sun , thinks Mr. Roosevelt very Important indeed. .for the tide of vituperation with w-hich it favors him grows steadily in ferocity and volume. His sins, as a panic gen erator, a usurper of legislative authority, an encroacher upon the re served rights of the states, have all been forgotten now in the baleful glare of his evil splendor as the friend and defender of the labor unions against the courts. All that Mr. Roosevelt has ever asked In the way of modification of the injunction power of the courts is a jury trial for workmen accused of contempt and notice with a chance to defend them selves when an injunction is threat ened. These are reasonable demands. They can not be denied without mak ing the law "fair for one and foul for another," to quote the words of Mr. Cannon. But the fact that the Presi dent favors them Is enough to make the Sun rave about his "duplicity" and "political hypocrisy" through column after column of its precious editorial space. What the Sun and those back of it desire is to dissolve the unions and compel workingmen to forego alto gether the advantage of collective bar gaining for their labor power. As an individual the workman is a helpless suppliant for his employer's grace; as a member of a union he meets his em ployer on equal terms. The destruc tion of the unions would reduce the laboring population of America to in dustrial slavery. Mr. Roosevelt sees this and as a matter of equal justice between the strong and the weak he wishes to .rescue the unions from im pending ruin. The growing abuse of the injunction power can end only in the destruction of the workingmen's organizations, an outcome which no genuine patriot can desire. It is un American to tolerate the prospect of an abjectly servile laboring class ground down and exploited by an oligarchy of millionaires. The President has not asked for the legislation of the boycott. He has ex plicitly declared against it, as every person1 must who cares for equity in industrial relations. But the Sun rages against his temperate proposals with the same ferocity as if he .had asked Congress to make the boycott lawful and abolish the Injunction power altogether. The organ of the trusts has completely lost the capacity to discriminate or else has made up its mind not to use it. Apparently it has also lost the ability to reason. We say this because every thoughtful per son knows that once our laboring population becomes convinced that It cannot organize effectually it will go over to socialism in a body. The only bar in the way of a Socialist party that will include virtually every wage earner In the country is the confidence of the workingmen that they can se cure just treatment by appealing to their fellow citizens through their unions. Destroy this confidence and the Socialist vote will Jump Immedi ately from thousands to millions. Mr. Roosevelt sees this. The Sun does not seem to see It. Which practices the saner statesmanship? SAVE THE SALMON. Federal control of the salmon fish eries of the Pacific Coast would seem to offer advantages not available even by invoking the initiative and referen dum. The disadvantages of the pres ent system on the Columbia River and tributaries, where three states, Ore gon. Washington and Idaho, all at tempt to maintain a separate set of rules and regulations, is serious, but matters are even worse on Puget Sound and British Columbia. The State of Washington and the provincial government- of British Columbia find it impossible to arrive at a mutual plan for protection, and even should they succeed, they would probably find the Dominion government on one side, and the Federal Government on the other, interfering with local laws that might conflict with those of the higher powers. . All of the trouble between state and state, nation and nation, or state and nation, would be averted and the in dustry vastly benefited by Federal con trol. Under such control there would be a cessation of the complaints that there is one law for the glll-netter and another for the trapman, and there could also be a uniform rule for the closed season throughout the entire Northwest. It is no protection to the salmon of either state, if the fisher men on one side of the river are per mitted to work their gear at a time when the authorities on the opposite side of the stream are endeavoring to enforce a close season. Federal con trol would also be more advantageous for the reason that the Government is always more relentless that the state In the pursuit and punishment of violators of the law. It has always been difficult, if not impossible, to keep the 'office of Fish Commissioner clear of politics, and for this reason alone, there would be an improvement under Federal control. Secretary Strauss, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Is said to be favorable to the change, and there is also a sentiment favoring it among the men engaged in the business, so that the prospects for early reform along these lines is fairly bright. Representative Hawley has received the assurance of the 'Department of Commerce and Labor that additional range lights will be established at the entrance of the Columbia River and at Tillamook. The new lights will be of decided value to shipping entering the Columbia River at night. At the present time, with no range lights to direct them, pilots find it impossible to enter the river, and as a result ves sels not infrequently lose an entire day in waiting favorable opportunities to cross. There still remains to be provided a much more important aid to shipping at the river entrance. That Is the establishment of a branch of , the Weather Bureau Station at Cape Hancock. Since the return of shipping to the old South channel, it is very difficult for the North Head observer to sight shipping entering the river when the weather Is hazy. The cost of the much-needed substation would be inconsequential in proportion to the benefits accruing, and special effort should be made to have it pro vided for. . I It Is said that the Waymire woman, whose flagitious conduct should have held her in Jail for a long term, is out on ball. That shows the insufficiency of our laws. It will be remembered that this was the woman who broke in upon Mayor Lane, addressed him In a most improper manner, and even molested his person. .Woman, from the beginning till now, has been the source of all trouble. Dux foemina facti. There was a judicial proceed ing proper inquiry into the whole affair; and now, since indignation has cooled and the woman is likely, after all, to escape, what is to be said? The Oregonian, wishing to do justice, so far as man's limited intelligence will permit, wishes to join in Adam's cen sure of the woman. In this case the woman may find refuge In obscurity, her rightful portion; but the man, vin dicated from the attempt upon him. is in fair way to be next Governor of Oregon. Triumph of virtue may be a little slow, but it always will be com plete. Things were doing, in the peaceful villages on Puget Sound, Wednesday evening. At Tacoma, a burglar bold entered a- store and exchanged suits with a dummy standing in a window, and at Seattle other members of the same profession entered a Japanese restaurant and carried away a 200 pound safe. Reasoning from the repu tation which Tacoma bears, it is easy to understand why the inhabitants re fused to permit their peaceful slum bers to be interrupted by a burglar w-ho disrobed and robbed a dummy in a store window on a principal street. But there is some mystery attached to the Seattle crime; not necessarily be cause it was committed, but because the robbers carried away the safe and left the building. This operation is entirely out of line with the Seattle policy of never doing anything by halves. Perhaps, however, the thieves came back last night, and took the building. ' After suffering two or three times from devastating floods this year, un happy Pittsburg is now menaced by another. Its plight is the direct result of the destruction of the forests on the headwaters of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. By the ruin of their homes and stores the people must pay for the senseless privileges they gave the forest destroyers years ago, and there is a prospect that more of us must pay a similar debt in the same coin. For a "practical" people we have been Strangely destitute . of forethought in this matter of dealing with floods and forests. A Umatilla County farmer has be gun suit to have a lease set aside on the .alleged grounds that he was so intoxicated when he signed the paper that he was unaware of Its contents. He ought to go a step farther, while he is engaged in litigation, and peti tion the court to appoint a guardian to prevent his running at large and ab sorbing intoxicating liquors. Individ ual responsibility seems to be losing its grip, when we read of such "welchers" as this "morning after" re pentant granger. Evidently the Chicago police force has missed Its calling. It .should give all its mighty genius to the production of "thrillers" and let others of a less imaginative turn attend to the prosaic task of nabbing thieves and murder ers. To behold such lofty intellects engaged in such a menial duty would be sad, even if they could do it suc cessfully. But 'brilliant as Chicago policemen are in the realm of fictitious literature, when it comes to catching thieves they are failures. Our friend, the lawyer and publicist, Joseph N. Teal, it is reported, is regis tered as a Republican. This is suf ficiently surprising, since his antece dents are known, and since, moreover, he is on the true-blue Kentucky Klick ticket for Railroad Commissioner as a Democrat. This political mix-up is wonderful. It beats the mix-up of babies at a church festival or county fair, when distracted mothers are not able to distinguish their own. In deciding to advertise itself by staying out of the Rose Festival The Dalles forgets the maxim, "Out of sight, out of mind." Absence in this case will not make the heart of Ore gon grow fonder of our little sister up the river, as she will learn when, someday, she has a festival of her own. If the daughter of Senator Elkins becomes a Royal Highness, as now seems likely, her glory will be the envy of all her sister Republicans; but will it outshine her father's? We must not forget that he was the true inventor of the "immunity bath." Disclosure of Mr. C. B. Aitchison's efforts as a lobbyist at Salem, for the measures required and promoted by the Ross Bank, will not be likely to help him In his efforts to be re-elected to the office of Railroad Commissioner. The objects of "the new system." so far as developed, are very simple. They merely intend abolition of equal taxation, higher education and repre sentative government. PAVING EFFECT OF RECIPROCITY. I Since 11(03, Valted Statea' Kxporta to Cuba larrriae 123Vs Per Cent. United States Government Circular. Exports from the United States to Cuba have increased 123Vi per cent since 1903. and imports from that island in creased 61! per cent during the same period. The total value of merchandise exported from the United States to Cuba in the calendar year 1907 was JSioOO.OOO against 323.500.000 millions in 1903, an annual average of $25,000.00l in the five years ending with 1903. The imports from Cuba in 1907 were 392,500,000, against S7.250,000 in 1903 and an average of 343.000.080 per annum in the five years ending with 1903. The Increase in imports occurs chiefly in sugar, tobacco, cigars, bananas, and copper. In the exports the increase oc curs in a large variety of articles, but especially in manufactures of iron and steel, cars and carriages, cotton manu factures, boots and shoes, lumber, coal, coffee, meats, eggs, and breads tuffs of all Sorts. The principal articles forming the $52, 500,000 worth of exports to Cuba are manufactures of iron and steel, amounting in 1907 to nearly 39,000.000. against about 33.500,000 in 1903: boots and shoes, $2,500,000, against $750,000 in 1903; lard, 33.000,000, against $1,500,000 in 1903; lard compounds, a little more than $1. 500.000 in 1903; eggs, $1,000,000, against $141,000 in 1903: flour, $3,500,000, against $2,000,000 in 1903; corn, $1,500,000. against & little over a half million 1943; coal, $2,250,000, against $1,250,000 in ' 1903; - pipes and . fittings, over $1,000,000, condensed milk, nearly $1,000,000; vegetables, $1,500, 000, lumber. $2,300,000; coffee (the product of Porto Rico, now a customs district of the United States. and therefore classed as an export). $1,500,000. The following tables show the prin cipal articles forming the trade of the United States with Cuba in the calendar years 1903 and 1907. respectively: IMPORTS FROM CUBA. Articles 1003. 1907. Sugar, not above No. 16 D. S. in color $37.583,i68 S16.197.6S8 Tobacco leaf, other than wrapper 10.157,975 12.137.601 Cigars, cigarettes and cheroots 2.97T.B24 4,017.229 Iron ore l.SOl.ago 2.322.710 t ablnet woods 3 l-s r04 Bananas 1.0.-.5:t lioSSKS Molasses 1.10S,a89 609.4o3 Copper ore. matte and regulus 4L1.0S3 All other articles S03.794 3.305.131 Total imports $57.28,291 92.4'9.L'7 Per cent inc 61.5 DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CUBA. Articles io.t. jar.7. Wheat flour t .'.08S.0S3 S 3.526.14!) !kar! 1. 406.673 3,051,646 Machinery, except locomotives 61!',37 Boot? and shoes 744.119 SUltijiiaS Iron and steel manu factures . . 2.374,216 Boards, deals, planks. joists, etc 0S0.46S 2.34O.S00 Coal, bituminous 1.277.471'- 2.212.211 Lard compounds .... 1,515. 757 l.O&uii?:! Coffee, green or raw. . 214.521 1.62H.010 :rn B24.7S.-l 1.574.526 Vegetables 4S1.5HS 1.467. lOI Pipes and fittings ... 1.11 !.:: Eftlts 111.244 1.072.9K4 Cotton cloths ....... 271. 5S2 1,(1X3,1114 Milk . 277.745 928.209 Chemicals, drugs and dyes 907.919 Cars and parts of. . . . 645,229 Kails for railways, of tel v 814,151 Pork. 9 a 1 1 e A, or Pickled 273,938 S0S.687 Fertilizers 77.t.-,0 Furniture, of wood... 334.648 737.928 Steam engines, loco motives 127,845 710.666 Paper and manufac ture of 250.343 673.S9S Wood. manufactures or r,K8.n.i Hams 376,763 .-;.9tts Wire 622.2:10 Mineral oil, refined.. 230.541 613,0t: Cotton manufactures. except, cloth 236.403 611.943 Builders' hardware, saws and tools.... 366.325 611.350 Bacon 322.383 572.758 Appai'Aus for scien tific purposes ;. 216,258 563.717 Car and carriages. . 550.073 Medicines, patent and proprietary 466,359 Ail other articles . 9.432.0U4 10.30.172 Total domestic ex ports $22,373,692 $51,851,121 Foreign exports.... 1.130.725 692.728 Total exports . $23,504,417 $52,543,849 Per cent increase? 123.55 Not separately stated in 1903. HARRIMA M.VKK OCEAN TO OCEAN. Reaches Goal Elrat By Purchasing; Central- Railroad of Georfrlau Brooklyn (X. Y.) Eagle. The purchaser of the Central of Georgia railway turns out to be E. H. Harriman. The sale was made by the Southern Rail way Company last June to Oakley Thornc and Marsden J. Perry, who, it seems, were the agents of Harriman. and who received 5 per cent commission for the work. The sum paid for the stock was $3,000,000. so the sum received as com mission was $150,000. The announcement of ownership was madr through the Georgia Railroad Commission. That body lias been aware of the real ownership for some time, but kept the confidence of the owners until the matter of the control of the Illinois Central road could be settled. Light is thus shed on the great struggle for the possession of the Illinois Central. That road was a necessary link in a great plan. The plan was no less than railroad lines under one control from the Pac.iflc Coast to the Atlantic Coast. The Central of Georgia will become the prop erty of the Illinois Central. The Illinois Central, controlled by and united with the Union Pacific, will make the ocean to ocean route. Thus a great dream has been realized. Harriman is the first of the railway managers to bestride the continent. It was a dream also of Georee Gould. For a time it appeared as If he would be the first to realize the dream, especially when he got control of the Western Maryland. But the opposition he met with in making his connections with the Wabash In Pittsburg balked his plans. Further progress was barred by the com plications arising from the fact that the Western Maryland was a coal mine own ing railroad corro'ration. So Harriman reaches the goal first. Dr. Coe la Aaralamt Statement 'o. 1. BKXD, Or.. March 19. (To the Editor.! My attention has been called to a news report in a recent issue of The Oregonian. quoting an Interview with Mr. Kennedy, editor of the Prineville Review, in which Mr. Kennedy said that, as a candidate for nomination for representative from the Twenty-first District, I would in dorse Statement No. 1. Mr. Kennedy was evidently mis informed in regard to my attitude toward Statement No. 1. and wishing to correct the impression which has gone out through that report. T desire to stale that I do not indorse Statement No. 1. 1 am a Republican and will vote for a Republican Senator, with due -regard to wishes of the majority of the Repub lican voters. U. C. COE. The Knox Retort to Falrbanka. Pittsburg Dispatch. An Indiana paper supporting Fairbanks, says that no man bearing the name of Philander was ever elected President of the United States. True enough! Neither do we recall at present that any man named Charles was elected to that office. ebraka' Platform Plaarlariaed f Boston Advertiser. Thf Nebraska platform. ostensibly written by William J. Bryan, is as de liberate a piece of plagiarism as was ever seen in politics. BRYAN'S StPrOHT OF PAr.KKR. It Waa Great, and Great Waa the ' Effect of It. New Tork World. The "Kansas Popuiists are unfair to Mr. Bryan when they denounce him for supporting Judge Parker "on the ground of party fealty." No Populist in the country was more loyal to Populist prin ciples during the 1904 campaign than was Mr. Bryan, and none contributed more to the overwhelming defeat of Judge Parker. No sooner had the Kansas City con vention finished its work than Mr. Bryan made a statement charging that Judge Parker's nomination was "secured by crooked and indefensible methods." and that "Mr. Parker is as thoroughly com mitted to the side of the financiers as Mr. Roosevelt." Mr. Bryan also an nounced that as soon as the election was over he would "undertake to organize for the campaign of 1908." His followers generally understood that the best way to promote this reorganiza tion was to knife the Democratic ticket, and this they did most effectively. Had Mr. Bryan bolted Judge Parker's nomination he would have greatly weak ened his influence and could have inflict ed far less damage upon the Democratic ticket than he did by remaining regular, but declaring that "a Democratic victory will mean little if any progress on economic questions as long as the party Is under the control of the Wall street element." Events vindicated Mr.' Bryan's method of procedure. Judge Parker was over whelmed: Mr. Bryan regained control of the Democratic organization, and has been using the Democratic machinery ever since to advance th principles of Populism. The Kansas Populists can have no just grievance against Mr. Bryan. They will search his, record in vain for a single instance of disloyalty to true Populism. KNOX LEADER SAYS ITS TAFT Significant Remark of Representative DalacII at Yale Banquet. Washington Special to New Tork Times, March 13. Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl vania, who, it is said, has been slated to put Senator Knox In nomination for the Presidency at the Chicago conven tion, created a sensation at the Tale dinner here tonight, predicting the election to the Presidency of Secretary Taft. "There are some people," said Mr. Dalzell, "who favor the nomination of Vice-President Fairbanks , there are some who favor Senator Knox, and others who favor' New York's Gov ernor, but the man whom eighty-five million people will elect President of the United States next November is William Howard Taft." For a moment the diners looked at each other In amazement and then wild cheering began. In the gossip which followed it was suggested that Dalzell had never for given the Republican organization of Pennsylvania for electing Knox to the Senate Instead of himself. Others re garded It as the beginning of a grand band wagon rush to Taft. Politicians regard it as the most significant speech of the year. Comment was particularly made on the fact that he omitted to mention Speaker Cannon. Senator Depew followed the lead of Dalzell and declared himself for Taft. "I am from New Tork." said the Senator, "and so I am for Hughes in structed for Hughes. But In my heart I am for the Secretary of War." ' Not a Candidate, He Saya. PORTLAND. Or., March 19. 190S. (To the Editor.) To whom this does con cern and others: I note in today's Ore gonian that I am a candidate for,. of fice. Tou're wrong. During my 24 years' residence in Portland I will state that I have never sought office, nor do I ever expect to. I will state further that I am absolutely opposed to the direct primary law. I believe the primary law to be an incubator for the incompetent and unworthy to enter politics. Can you believe for one second that any political convention (however rotten or machine-made) would have dared to place before the people of Oregon some of the men who were enabled to slide into office through the direct primary law? Tet The Oregonian has supported all of them. W. H. GRINDSTAFF. The Oregonian is not wrong, nor. has it supported all the men elected to of fice under the direct primary. Mr. Grindstaff's name was among the list of candidates submitted by the. Ken tucky Klick for the suffrage of Demo crats. If the Kentucky Klick had no warrant to trifle with the sacred name of so sensitive and high-minded a citi zen, that is no affair of The Oregonian. Palltlca Retarding Bnslaess Growth. ' Wall Street Journal. This is the state of thinus: We have had our liquidation and panic. We have squeezed the water out of capitalization. We have got rid of a dangerous inflation. We have had a house cleaning in banking. Everybody now wants a return to "good times.'' Everybody is anxious for a re viving trade, for the opening of factories, for the full employment of freightcars and for the maintenance of profits and wages. There is nothing which the people as a whole are so eager about as that. There would seem to be no reason wiiy their aspirations should not be gratified. Apparently there is no famine or other abnormal business conditions except one thing. We now have money enough and credit enough and transportation facili ties enough for a revival. What then is there in the way.? Just this: Politics. Tj pewritlaCa 113 Wards a Ulnule. London Cabie Dispatch. The Prince and PrlncesB of Wales, while visiting the business exposition at Olympia, had their attention attract ed to Miss Rose Fritz., a New Tork typewriter. They closely watched her work and asked her to give them a sample of it. They watched her with the greatest interest while she fault lessly wrote 113 words In a minute. The Prince read the matter admiringly and asked Miss Fritz to sign her name to it. She did so. whereupon the Prince pocketed the sample as a souvenir. The Ruling: Panslon. Lrondnn.Tit Bit. Two women leaned .over the backyard fence (The came old fence) as the mn went down. While each told the other in confidence The scandal she'd Rather'd about the town. For women must gossip, or they can't slep; They think that secrets weren't made to keep; So they lean on the fence In the gloam ing. Two women leaned over the garden rate In the evening glow as the sun went down. They wondered what made their husbands so late And they sneered at .the minister's wife's new gown. For women delight in a friendly chat. Without it their lives would be stale and fiat; So they leaned on the gate in the gloam ing. Two husbands come home from their golf ing game (Prom the office, they said) as the sun went down. Both ready and eager to hear the same Sweet scandals their wives had hunted down. For men. though they work, love .gossip, too An(J that's why their wives seek some thing new As they meet and talk in the gloaming. POTPOURRI BY NANCY Sighed the languid Moon to the Momlrnt Star, "Oh, little maid, how late you are:" "I couldn't rise from my couch, said she, "'While the man in the Moon was look ing at me." Never marry a temperamental man. Try to be sure of three square meals a day. I. Knowitall (After tellins a story at length) "Now, isn't that a dandy? Brand new, too.' Mr. Cynic "Huh. first time I heard that story I kicked the slats out of my cradle." A girl with rag-time eyes, can make a man dance to her music. Glancing at the pictures of the various musical artists who have appeared here recently, one at first thought . wonders whether they represent temperamental creatures or advertisements for hair in Vigorators. The ew Man. My ma's a marvel of knowledge. With her it's a sort of diseuse. Aunt Lizzie is dean in a college With any amount of degrees. Cousin Lou studies mineralogy, . That's somethln' all about rocks And Daddy, dear gentle old Daddy, Stays 'home and mends up our socks. My ma's a regular socialist. Sister Sue is a learned M. D., Virginia is great on astronomy, Kliza has gained an A. B. Ma's sister a swell lady dentist. Cousin Sue is all tied up in stocks; So Daddy, dear gentle old Daddy, MUST stay home and mend up our socks. . Roosevelt's coinage of the phta.iO 'strenuous life' can appropriately be applied to the ten-cent moving piclura films. . In foreign countries an engaged girl rarely sees her fiance till after marriage. Id this country the order la revevseci. many married women complaining they rarely see their husbands after inarriaj;. In respectability dwells the very soul of criticism. Distinctly Cattlah. Mrs. Bon Ton. "I must go to the cat show this afternoon." Her Rival "Indeed, I supposed all th entries were completed." Some women are hardly . up to the standard of a man, yet have been known to sink several fathoms below the level of a woman. Patient ''Suppose, doctor, that your operation on me does not prove suc cessful?" Doctor "Well, my dear man, you will never be the wiser." "Stick out your tongue," said the doer tor to a small lad. Whereupon he com plied. "Put it out still further, he de manded. "I can't," whimpered the youth,, "it's tied down at the other end." Many women keep Lent by remaining away from the theaters, and derive end less satisfaction from the money which they have so religiously saved. Tt will ultimately blossom forth in that love oC an Caster hat which they coveted throughout the period of penitence, Some people believe that th bonds of matrimony are on a par with the clearing-house certificates. Teacher "What is the past tense of 'I love'?" , fp-to-Date Scholar "I divorce." THINKS BRIAN COULD BEAT TAFT. "Marse' AYatlrrnoa lucre uses HI Bet to fl.no om the Renult. Louisville Courier-Journal. This promises to be a hard year. If Mr. Taft be the Republican nominee and it seems likely that in this the President will have his way we believe Mr. Bryan will beat him. The. Foraker sohism makes Ohio a de batable state. The colored vote of thn North, which, lost to the Republicans, will mean the loss of the great states of the middle West, with New York thrown in. can scarcely be united on the Secretary of War. There is every reason to believe he will lose the larger part of the organ ized labor vote. But there rises before him a greater factor still to be reckoned with; and that Is the silent, business end of it the money end of it even predatory wealth which will see in Taft th con tinuation of Roosevelt, with a Republican Sonate reduced to obedinncc. but in Bryan no danger whatever, a Republican Senate, justified in its recalcitrancy, to stand a stone wall between Bryan and the siiccrns of any of the Bryanized Roosevelt poli cies. At most and worst, they will right ly conceive that they only take chancca with Bryan. With Taft, triumphant and backed by Roosevelt, they will have no chance at all. The Courier-Journal the.efore increases that bet of half a dollar to a dollar and a half that Bryan will be the next Presi dent of the United States. A FEW MH1BS. 'What position docs the Alderman of ynnr wsrrt take In i-pHrd tr Piih1h naUnun?" Tsuslly at the side entrance." c'hicago Tribune. Brown Yes. nir; Toftnr Jones cured me. Minister No. my friend : Providence curort you. not the doctor. Brown Well, maybe he did. but the doctor will charge for It. Judge. Mistress (astounded You can't read, Norah? Good gracious! Flow did you ever learn to rook so well? New- Cook Shor. mum, Ol lay It t'not bein aMp to rade th rook books. Town and Country. "Cnme in, William." said the legislator's daughter, as her timid suitor halted out5tde her father's study door. "f'Hther, 1 wish to Introduce my Bill in the bmi? with hope that you w-IH give due consideration to the same." Baltimore American. Siibbuhs No. he's not lining in Swamp hurst now. He's been down in Florida in peareh of his health all Winter and now he's in California. Citiman I should think h'd go bark to Swamphurst for it. Subbubs Why? Citiman Beoauso that's? where he lost H. Philadelphia press. Gren On the strength of your assertion that you would trust Wlndlg with your life, I loaned him $10 and now I can't get It bark. Brown NO. and. you never w Ml, Green Then why d-d yon say you would trust him with your lire? Brown Oh, that's different. Wlndig's a dead beat all right, but ho 1 not an assassin. Chicago Daily News. The South Washington colored preacher paused after a long and rather dry theologi cal discourse on the subject. "The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard," and after mop ping his brow exclaimed! "Nw lhat I have pointed out to you sin - and Its penally, what more shall I ay. brethren?" a tired and drowsing colored lad on a front pew who -was rubbing his eea vigorously anr out: "Please say amen, mister, and i go home." Washington Star.