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6 THE MORSIXO OREGOXIAN. " MOTTDAY. AFRIT. 27, 1908. M'BHC'RIPTIOX RATF.S. INVARIABLY IK ADVANCE (Br Mail ) I!ly, Sur.flny Included, on year "i I'luiy. e.tirlay Included, m inonlh.... 4 25 I'al'y. Sunday Included, thr mmith.. IM Ial!y. Ptindiv Included, ftnm mntta.... liaily. without b'undy. am year ...... .ftO Illy, without Sunday. eix month . . . 23 Tniliy, without Sunday, three month. 1 iS Ially. without Sunday, on month..... -JO Sunday, on year - eo Weekly, on year ilseued Thureda ... I JO Sunday and weekly, ona year. .. .....- & BY CARRIER. Dallr. Sunday Included, ona year JJ Iiallv Purdav Included, ona month ... . i5 HOW TO REMIT tier, po'otTl- money order, eipree order or personal check on your loal hank Stamp, coin or currency ara at the ender' rik "M pnefftK-e aa dre In Xull. Including county and atata. POBTAOB RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Pestofflc aa Sei-ond-Oaea Matter. 10 to 14 I"ae f l to 2 rae SO to 44 Pee 4t to AO Plf 2. cent 3 cent 4 cent Forelrn poetase. double rate. IMPORTANT The postal law are trlrt Newspaper on which rn.tage I not fully prepaid ara not for ardad to d.at Inatlon. EAWTERW Bt HIOXI Of Kit K- Tha aj. r. BorhwIOi Hpoctal Ar"7-N York, rooma 4. V Tribune bolMln co. rooma SlO-ftia Tribune building CM- KEPT ON BALE. CMcas Auditorium Apne! Powtorflc . I o . 178 Dearborn artreet; Empire New B'ett.arxll. Minn. N. 81. Marl. Commer cial Station. . .. Colorado Aprlnc. Colo-H M T!"1' ... Denver -Hamilton Kendrtrk. o-ia Seventeenth treet; Pratt Book tttora, lit Fifteenth tret; U. P. Hansen. 8. BUra. "kIScIT M---lcelrer ClBf Co. fc'inth and Walnut: Yorna New Co MlnneapoM M. J. Cavmnak.n, BO Couth Third ( lodrmoti. O. Torn Mow Oo. Cleveland. O. Jam Ttiahaw. SOT Super ior afreet. Uwehtnarlon. n. C Ehhltt Htn. F"r teenth and F atreetw; Columbia Now Co. tttt.bur, PH. Fort Pitt New Co Philadelphia. Pa. 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Foater Orear; Ferry N'ets Stsnd: Hotel St. Francis Newa Ftand; I.. Parent; N. Wheatley; rwlrmount Hotel Newa Stand; Amoa Newa Co.; United Newa A-ncy. 14S Kddy street; B. E. Amos, man aif.r three wasone; World N. g.. 2625 A. Sutter street. Oakland. '!. W. H Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley: Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager five waaons; Welllna-ham. E. V (lolrilleld. Nov. Ixule Follln. Fiireka. Cal. Call-Chronlclo Agency; Eu reka News CO. PORTLAND. MONDAY, APRIL 17. 180. A RIDDLK INSOl.VF.D. Mr. P. S. Guildford contributed some very pretty upeculallons upon land booms to The Uregonian yesterday, but he did not answer our riddle. We pro pounded this enigma to the slngle taxers: "If society may rightfully ap propriate the unearned increment of land values, why should It not make good the decrement?" Our old friend Hops around excitedly, but he shuns the dilemma. To show that our ques tion has point, let us suppose a case altogether similar to what continually happens In practice. A man opens up a wheat farm In Dakota, where he raises large crops and for some years the value of his land steadily Increases.' Then a railroad Is built' Into British Columbia, where wheat can be grown cheaper than lu Dakota. "The result Is that the value ot his land falls off and he is ruined. Now. during the fat period of this farmer'a experiment the single taxers , would have deprived him year by year of the increase In the value of his land. This increase would have been carefully assessed and he would have had to pay It over or lose his farm. He could have retained nothing but his improvements and the annual re turns from his crops. Had he wished to sell his farm at any time the price would have been exactly what he gave for it plus the improvements. Then the lean years come on and all the in crement for which he has had to pay in taxtss suddenly vanishes. It was supposed to be forever fixed in the land, but as a matter of fact It is seen to be a winged fowl, which can fly rapidly and far. We submit that this unfortunate farmer has been robbed The values which society compelled him to pay for were entirely supposi titlous. mere figments of the imaglna' tion. and It is manifestly Just that he should be reimbursed. Or, even if they were real while they lasted, Mr. Guildford Is no better off. ' Let us grant that they were real. As society created them It compelled the farmer to pay for them year by year in the form of taxes, so that whatever reality there was In them certainly be longed to the unhappy man. Then by ' its own act, without any fault or par ticipation on the farmers part, so ciety builds a railroad which destroys these values. Ought it not to make good what the farmer loses? Had so ciety left the Increment untouched we should have no fault to find. What it creates It may perhaps rightfully de stroy in case nobody has been com polled to pay for It. But to create this value, force the farmer to pay for It and then ruthlessly destroy it in his hands without compensation is noth lng better than highway robbery. The slngle-taxers gain a certain plausibility for their bad cause by res olutely Ignoring agricultural lands and keeping their gaze fixed upon city property. But In reality this does not help them any. City values fall into two classes, those which accrue from the development of society and those which are due to speculation. The latter are not relevant to this discus slon any more than are speculative prices of wheat br hops. Economists are agreed that they tend to demor alize the community and should be suppressed like all other forms of gambling, provided that anybody can discover a way to suppress them. But with urban values which result from the growth of the city the case is dif ferent. There can be no doubt what ever that society may rightfully take In the form of taxes as much of them as may be essential to Its needs. Here we imagine the whole tribe of single-taxers to break Into a triumph ant smile. But we have really con ceded nothing. Society may rightfully take In the form of taxes aa much of all values whatever as are essential to Its no da, and not one cent more. . We now rvirt to our former position and remind the reader that all property re ceive an unearned Increment exactly the name aa land, and the rule which applies, to land applies to everything ela. -The limit of fair taxation Is the nds of society, and all property should bear the burdno equally. To thla General rule we admit that there Is one Jut exception. That Is the farmer's, stock and improvements. The very existence of society depends upon their development. Hence It Is the acme of social folly to penalize them by lmposlnir taxes upon thertv TRF.ASIRER PTFEVS FYDEUTY. State Treasurer Steel was elected by the people and draws his salary from he people. During his political cam paign he pledged hla good faith to the people, and before he assumed the duties of hla office he took an oath which bound him to render honest service to the people. But when he secured possession of the public funds he managed them aa far as possible for the benefit of Mr. Ross. When the state tried Mr. Ross upon a criminal charge Mr. Steel couldn't remember anything that would help the states case, but could remember everything he attorney for Mr. Ross wanted him to. Apparently he was quite sincere when he wrote that letter to Mr. Rosa telling of the efforts that were being made to get possession of the school funds. To Mr. Rosa he signed himself Tours faithfully. Steel." There are those who will admire Steel for being faithful to his friend. Mr. Ross, even though he broke faith with his friends, the people, who put him in office through the d'.rect pri mary, by the way. But perhaps the direct primary should not be re proached for Steel's shortcomings. The people didn't know. They couldn't know, perhaps. Tet If they didn't know and couldn't know about the qualifications of a candidate, are they fully equipped to ex ercise the nominating power? No doubt they will continue to exercise It, alnce they are willing to be responsi ble for their own mistakes, and they must pay for the misdeeds, blunders and crimes of their public officers. anyway. We may be willing to let the ad mirers of Treasurer Steel's fidelity to his friend continue to admire htm for his pitiful exhibition on the witness stand, if the Governor will exercise, hereafter aa heretofore, constant vigl- ance In his lawful oversight of Steel's bonds and bondsmen. SALMON AGAIN 8CARCK. Ten days of salmon fishing In the Columbia River show the salmon sup ply still on the-wane. This is the sea son of the finest salmon of the river the best in the world. Soon these fish will be an extinct breed. They are the fish that made the Columbia River famous. The few remaining specimens should be protected with closed sea son. The open season should be put off from April 15 to May 15. After that there should be the closed Sunday and rigid regulation of all kinds of gear gillnets. traps, seines ana wneeis. Master Fish Warden van Dusen quits his office May 1, leaving the In dustry hi a bad plight. It is too much to say that he Is wholly to blame for this condition of affairs. But the fish faction with which-he has been allied Is as much to blame as any other, and none is more grasping 'and none has defeated at much remedial legislation The new Warden. Mr. McAllister, has had little experience In the fish Indus try, but may learn. It Is a hard of fice to fill. Yet it is eaBier filled by en forcing the law. Meanwhile the few salmon encoun ter thousands of net barriers and snares and the scant ones that escape have rare good luck. Must this go on until. tin cans and cold storage have claimed all? . PARADOX IN FTWAJiCES. The financial situation in the United States is paradoxical. According to last Saturday's New Tork bank state ment, the clearing-house banks of the metropolis held deposits of 11,260,000 000, and the aggregate deposits of other banks and trust companies In Greater New York were $832,000,000, This vast grand total of nearly $2,100,- 000,000 Is the largest on record, and it has been piled up at a time when there Is crying need for money for legiti mate purposes all over the land. The clearing-house banks alone, at the close of business Saturday, held a sur plus reserve of more than JGO.000,- 000, and call money for nearly a month has been begging takers at from less than 1 per cent to 2 per cent. Meanwhile we have begun Bend lng money out of the country to seek employment abroad. Last week's gold exports amounted to $5,500,000, and the American situation was not In the slightest degree affected. That it was absolutely unnecessary to send one dollar to Europe (or Hqui dation of any Indebtedness is proved by the export figures, which for the first three months of 1908 show an excess over imports of $256,000,000, and for the nine months ending April I an excess of $567,000,000 over 1m ports, the gain over the corresponding periods in previous years being enor mous. In the face of this remarka ble showing we note that business failures for the first three months of 1908 numbered 4909, with liabilities of $75,000,000, compared with S138 fail ures with $32,000,000 liabilities for the first three months of 1907. Banking failures for the first three months of the year numbered 60, with liabilities of $70,000,000, compared with 12 fail ures with liabilities of $7,000,000 for the same period last year. These statements thus appear to show an abundance of money congested in New York (and conditions are relatively the same elsewhere), and coincident with it a tremendous mortality among business enterprises. , Mr. Morgan and his formidable Teti ne of financiers were unable, or at least unwilling, to raise the $5,000,000 necessary to save Erie from a receiver ship, although It was a foregone con elusion that Erie, in tumbling, would pull down other properties with it, or at the best create great havoc in val ues. But it is not alone the Erie that Is In need of funds for rehabilitation and improvement. It has been less than a year since James J. Hill, in a remarkable interview at W ashington stated that it was a matter of vital ne cessity to the entire country that all of the transcontinental railroads be double-tracked, and that it would re- quire the expenditure of $1,000,000, 000 per year for the next five years to build and equip the mileage needed to relieve the congested traffic situation that was at its height about a year ago. And now, with the banks burst log with, cheap money, with hundreds thousands of Idle men available. and with lower prices for all kinds of railroad equipment except that con trolled by the trusts railroad building is at a standstill, and will not be re sumed until hoarders of money are satisfied that there Is to be a new deal n railroading. They not only desire the assurance hat there Is to be no more sharp ractlce on the part of railroad ma Ipulators, but they also would like to be assured that well-managed, legiti mate railroad properties are not to be pilloried and harassed for the sins of thers which were In contempt of the Capital is In Idleness (and of course labor is always idle when cap ital takes a rest) because confidence has been destroyed, not alone In rail road enterprises, but in mining, manu facturing and other industries. The recovery will come first in railroads, because their requirements are greater than those of other industries, and after the drastic disciplining to which the good and the bad alike have been ubjected, it would seem that the time had arrived to re-establish cordial re lations and work for a return of confi dence which will again place In circu lation the vast sums of money now lying idle and forcing an army of un employed to remain inactive and dis tressed, . , Kmrvo poets. . Spring poets have come under the ban of self-respecting folk, for some reason or other, else beautiful yester day would have produced a tremen dous crop of them. Instead, the day brought forth only grass (or the brute herd and potatoes for the human. However, It's the humble things that make life comfortable. Could a poet or a sculptor live without butter and potatoes? The dogwood Is scattering Its white specks on the hillside and the wild currant Is throwing in Its red blooms. The wild lily Is in the height of Its glory, and the perfume of the cotton- wood spreads Its honey smell through the woods. The alder, elder and hazel! are sending forth leaves at a fast gait, and the fir and cedar are marked with new green tips. All this would be ac companied by sprouting of the Spring poets, in any other clime or age. But they are a banished tribe. They per ish under the poison spray of public opinion, like the codllQ moths that die In their flower homes in the appla trees. There are ever so many splendors for Spring poets to rave over, were not ninety-nine out of every hundred of them bores and were the world less taken with cheese and cabbage. Think of the panorama from Council Crest; of the orchard blossoms In so many places; of the evening star, now brighter than ever; of the drled-up ruts In the highway (for everything ugly has its compensating beauty); of the happy sunlight struggling Into the empty squabbling place of the Council and the Mayor. All things were beau tiful yesterday, except for those per sons who dread Heney or the peniten tiary or the June election. In a free country every man Is his own king and every woman her own queen. So Is every person hl's own Spring poet. This is as good reason as any, perhaps, for casting out the individual who presumes to see in verse more charm than his neighbors can. After all, there is no real need for him. The world is fair whether loved or not. Beauty is its own re ward. Besides, the Spring poets make the editors darken the circumambient air. And the editors are the fitter race because they tell the people about cabbage and potatoes. SOUTHERN PACIFIC I.AND8. That the Government's fight to take away railroad lands from the South em Pacific in Western Oregon alms not to open the lands to settlement, but to add them to the forest reserves. is considered by many persons as a likely outcome of the present move ment. In the East there is an estab lished public opinion that the Govern ment has allowed too much timber land to pass into private ownership and that private ownership is destroy ing large part of the timber resources of the United States. Not long ago Chairman Mondell, of the committee on public lands of the House of Representatives, urged as an amendment to the Fulton resolution that no actual settler hereafter should have claim to land in the railroad grants under the acts of 1866-70. As this amendment would have played into the hands of the railroad, should the Government fall to wrest the land away from the railroad, It was reject ed. Mr. Mondell will now urge the Attorney-General " to announce that, pending the Government's suits against the railroad, none of the land In possession of the railroad claimed by would-be actual settlers will be subject to settlement. Mr. Mondell's reason Is that this announcement will guard would-be claimants from play ing Into the hands of "shyster law yers under the false notion that their settlement will give them preference right to the land if it is wrested away from the railroad. The Oregonlan will not venture at this time to say whether addition of the railroad land to the forest reserves. Instead ot to settlement areas. Is de sirable or not, but to point out the ap parent purpose of the forces that are directing the Government's policy. This $30,000,000 landed estate of the Southern Pacific contains a vast quan tlty of timber. In view of the demand in powerful Eastern States that the Government shall retain In the public domain all remaining forests, It is easy to foresee what this demand will be as te disposition of the South ern Pacific lands. BAR DREDGE ' FnSPET). With the $1,450,000 provided by the sundry civil bill for the Jetty at Fort Stevens, work on that most impor tant improvement can be carried for ward both rapidly and economically. Unofficial surveys by shipmasters and pilots within the past few months have disclosed a noticeable Improve ment In the depth of water on the bar, and. as work Is continued with plenty of funds to Insure its completion, the change will be all the more noticeable, especially after the June flood sweeps out to sea. Now that completion of the Jetty is assured, and the work it is accomplishing is so satisfactory, it would be an excellent precaution to get the dredge Chinook, or some more suitable craft, at work at the en trance of the river. A considerable amount of the sand moved by the old Portland dredge above Astoria is said to have worked back into the channel and drifted down between Astoria and the bar, making it a difficult matter for deep draft ships to follow the old channel from Astoria to the sea. This sedi ment should be removed and deposited where It will cause no more trouble, and the dredge should also be placed lu service on the bar while the weather Is fine next Summer. Regardless of the excellent results that will be ac complished by the Jetty, there Is such an Immense volume of water sweep ing out of the Columbia River that, until it is confined by a Jetty front the north as well as the south side of the channel, there will always be eddies near which the sand may pile up unless it is stirred and kept moving. With plenty of money in sight for completing the south Jetty, and prob ably for construction of a north Jetty, there Is no apparent reason why the channel over the bar should not be scoured out to a depth of forty feet. But the prominence of the port is so great and the shipping is Increasing so rapidly that It would be a wise policy t. keep a dredge available after com pletion of the Jetty. In every large port In the world where It has become necessary to make harbor Improve ments dredges are maintained as a part of the regular equipment of the port, and, while It would be unneces sary to keep a dredge for the bar In service for more than a small portion of the year, when it would be neces sary to move new deposits left after freshet, it could be employed at other points Inside the bar, and when not in service would be Inexpensive to maintain. The commerce of the Co lumbia River will Increase more rap Idly In the next five years than In any similar period in the history of the port, and It is highly essential that we be prepared to handle K in the best manner possible. An eminent physiologist. Dr. Romme, a London dispatch says, has discovered that a boy Is born when the father is the weaker of the two par ents, and a girl when the mother Is the weaker partner. Then he points out that Kaiser WUlhelm has had five sons in succession, while the Czarina had four daughters In succession. This is rather surprising commen tary on the Kaiser and te Czarina, It has been commonly supposed that each was more vigorous than the other royal partner. Exceptions to this rule of Dr. Romme's, however, come within everybody's experience. Many physi ologists have thought they discovered the natural law that balances the number of males and females, but the mystery has been Insoluble from the beginning of man's observation Breeders of livestock have correspond ing theories, which they think verified. but the mystery here is also Insoluble. In human kind there are known to be certain psychological influences that change the ratio one way or the other, now producing a larger number of girls and then a larger number of boys. For example, a great war brings Increased supply of boys. This matter of sex distribution has puzzled think ers in all ages. It Is an interesting subject, but thus far the results of its study have been chiefly speculative. Harnan Singh was only a poor, dirty. turbaned Hindu of the laboring class, and, had he remained in India, he would probably have starved to death aiong with others of his countrymen vho perish by millions every year, But Harnan Singh was a human being, and when J. M. Dickenson, who was old enough to know better, his sons and a couple of other hoedlums shot into Singh's cabin, near Boring, last Fall, inflicting wounds from which the Hindu died, the name of Singh at- talned a prominence it could never have reached in India. An Oregon court has shown to the world that neither race, color nor previous condi tion of servitude of the victim will Justify murder, and Dickenson pere and one of his sons are facing a life sentence in the penitentiary, while the three other accomplices will undoubt edly receive long terms in the same institution. The verdict rendered at Oregon City Saturday ought to have a wholesome effect on that class of in dlvlduals who are always interfering with inoffensive Hindus and other Far Eastern aliens. .' Lincoln County is waking up. At a banquet given by the Newport Com merciai uiuo Saturday, jiooo was raised for the purpose of giving pub licity to the resources of the county The county, through which the Wil lamette Valley people pass on their way to the famous beach resorts around Yaqulna Bay, is rich In nat ural resources, and there are few, if any, more favorable localities In the state for securing a livelihood without overexertion. There Is a wide field for the intending settler in Lincoln Coun ty, as farming, dairying, stockraislng, fruitgrowing and lumbering all offer great opportunities. Mr. Chamberlain thinks that be cause he was one of the first cham- plons of Statement No. 1. Initiative and referendum, etc., he ought not to be recalled from the race for United States . Senator. But did not Mr. U'Ren, originator of these things, an swer the recall? A Tillamook dispatch says that the long-expected steamer Anvil has failed to put in an appearance, and fears are expressed that the opposition steam ship line will not materialize. The name of the boat suggests that some body may have got busy with a ham mef. The sale of "Teddy bears" has been enormous. If Mr. Fairbanks should be elected President, some enterprising concern could do an Immense busi ness by manufacturing miniature ice boxes in which the bears can be placed in cold storage for four years. It was clear -yesterday the first Sajnday after wet Easter proving tha the hard-and-fast rule of seven wet Sundays cannot spoil a fine Sunday in Oregon, no matter how many it spoils elsewhere. The Government perhaps need not worry about what it is going to do with that rallroafl land in Oregon until It gets the land. In weather like yesterday's, the young man's fancy turns to the bud ding rose and the onion patch. Latest reports indicate that seats in Taft's bandwagon will soon sell at a premium. If we are to believe the version of the Shonts folks, only the good Dukes die young. Even in death, scandals attaching to foreign nobility cannot be concealed. -tmaTIVB AID REFERESDCM MEAMRF. SUMBKR 1IL Whether the number of Supreme Judges hall be Increased from three to five and the Legislature shall be authorised to aboltsii the office of County Judge and Invest Circuit Judges with probate Juris diction, Is the question submitted to tht people hy tfce third referendum measure be voter! upon in June. The proposed amendment affects all of article seven of the state constitution. The article, at present provides for three Supreme Judge), as many Circuit Judges as msj be needed. County Judges, Justices or the Peace and other officers. The principal change proposed Is that of adding two more Supreme Judges and authorising th Legtslautre to turn over to Circuit Judges the probate work now performed by County Judges. Upon such an act being passed, the office of County Judge would cease to exist and county business would be performed by a Board of Commis sioners to be provided for by the Legisla ture. The amendment carries an express provision that sections of the constitution and statutes now in force upon the sub jects mentioned shall remain effective until the Legislature shall provide other- !. It is generally urged by lawyers and litigants that five Supreme Judges are needed.' There are now three 'Judges and two Commissioners, the latter performing practically the same work as Judges. The Commissioners have not, however, the full authority of Judges and their opinions have legal effect nly because approved by the Judges. The argument advanced In behalf of th transfer of probate duriea to Circuit Judges In that the men elected to. the office of County Judge are usually sot learned in law and are therefore not competent to try and decide the questions frequently arising from the administra tion of estates of . deceased persons. County Judges are. as a rule, chosen, be cause of supposed fitness for the manage ment of county business. All Important estate contests are carried to the Circuit Courts and from there to the Supreme Court. Litigation would be saved If the probate work were performed by Circuit Judges. The change to the proposed system would probably necessitate the election of one more Circuit Judge, in Multnomah County. Multnomah Is the only county In the state having a considerable probate business and even there It does not re ceive all the attention of one Judge. There are 17 Circuit Judges In the state. Many of them have so little work to do that time hangs heavy on their hands. It la asserted by men' who ought to know, that if the state were properly re- distrlcted, 18 Circuit Judges could easily perform all their present duties and care for the probate work of their districts as well. In several states, California among them, the probate work Is performed by Judge. corresponding In position and Jurisdiction with our Circuit Judges. Beyond a doubt, however, the adop tion of this amendment would be the oc casion for a strong demand for creation of many more circuit Judgships for lawyers who want the offices. Merry Widow Hat Delays Train. Pittsburg Dispatch to New York World. For five minutes the Pacific Express on the Pennsylvania Railroad was delayed this morning by a Merry Widow hat. When the East, Liberty station was reached a young and beautiful woman who boarded the train at New York In dicated that' she Intended to get out. She put on her new bat and started through the narrow aisle at the side of the Pullman car. Suddenly she came to a stop. The hat was too wide to clear the passage. She tried to wriggle for ward but couldn't, and then tried to back up. But the hat was stuck fast and she was nailed to it by half a dozen hat pins, There was great excitement. The con ductor demanded that the train start. and threatened to carry the young wom an into the city.- The porter tried to shove ber forward, but It was no use- Then a traveling man suggested that she take the hat off. It hadn't occurred to her before. After much trouble she re moved the hat pins. Then she got from under the hat and the porter gave it a yank. The hat cleared the aisle, but all .the varnish on both sides of the passage came off. By actual measurement the creation was 36 inches over all. Oldest Ex-Congreaamnn In America. Baltimore American. 1 "The oldest living ex-member of the Congress of the United States is the Hon. James C. McGrew, of Klngwood. In my state," said Representative Sturgess, of the Second West Virginia district, at the Rennert. "Mr. McGrew is now 98 years- of age. He is in full possession of his mental faculties and would be In good physical condition but for injuries sustained in an accident in Florida some little while ago. He was thrown out of a carriage, the horses of which had bolted, and both legs were broken. The surgical work. It Is claimed, was faulty, and Mr. McGrew has since been forced to walk with a cane. Otherwise for a man so closely verging upon a century he Is in good shape. Gentle Hlat ta Senator Fnlton. ' Washington, D. C, Star. Senator Fulton, at his annual Oregon salmon dinner in Washington, D. C told a tipping story. "In Astoria." he said, "there used to be an old flherman who brought me the first of every month a present of a splendid salmon from his master. I always gave the old fisherman a tip. "But one morning I was very busy, and when the old man brought the fish I thanked him hurriedly, and forgetting his tip, bent over my desk again. He hesitated a moment, then cleared his throat and said: " 'Senator, would ye be so kind as to put It In wrltin' that ye didn't give me no tip this time, or my wife'll think I've went and spent it on rum.' " Candidate Rea-rets His Courtesy. Indianapolis News. The usual- situation of one candidate for office electing his opponent is pre sented by the official canvass of the vote In the Fourth Ward of Springfield, 111 T. C. Baker, Jr.. Democrat, was declared elected over Charles Watson. Republican, by one vote. Watson admits that out of courtesy for Baker, whom he expected to defeat by a safe majority, ne voted for Baker. It was Watson's vote, there fore, that elected his opponent. Now Watson says he will contest the election hoping to find an error In the returns. gave Homes of Onr Dead Presidents. New York Herald. The home of President McKinley, in Canton, Ohio, has been sold for $20,000. Monuments costing many times that sum have been erected to the memory of .Mc Kinley. It seems very difficult for Amer icans to save the homes of their dead Presidents. Mount Vernon is about the only one that has been preserved. Osrnlatton In a University Town. Eugene Guard. Girls whp wear the up-to-the-minute umbrella hats may be kissed while walk lng around the streets and nobody be the wiser. For once fashion seems to have favored the daring man. Get busy, boys Don't wait until they, carry, tents around. VIEWS ON PRIM ART ELECTION. Their Next step. Junction City Time. The nemocrat who supported Mr. tut will support Chamberlain at the June election. View ( tha Whs Ola Fttra. Oakland Owl. It Is generally conceded that Senator Fulton's refusal to sign Btatement No. 1 caused hla defeat. Cake 12, rhaeaheriala I. Cottage Grove Leader. Here Is a r!ous political question; Who will be first on the ballot at the June election. Cake or Chamberlain. Oaly Oae This for Gears De. Hlllaboro Argus. The Argus will support H. M. Cake for Senator. It now remains for Gov ernor Chamberlain to withdraw from the raoe for Senator. Horn I Hnrhl Colonel Hofer In Salem Journal. Per Roienfelt Is noch lange nlch ausgresplelt. Zlemllrh vlel Schnea rrfallen au 17ten April. What the Majority Wants. lone Proclalmer. There la no uaa of a vote unlees the ma jority are to rule and tha recent primary has shown a strong majority in lavor ot the election by popular vote for united States Senator in this state. Take Hla Medicine Gracefully. Pilot Rook Record. Well, Mr. Cake, you are one of tha best men In the state, despite tne tact me Record wanted to see iMn. Fulton renorm itated. To be beaten bv euon aa you the Senator and his friends have no ' kick' coming. Are Democrats to Be Taken Serlonalyt Hlllsboro Independent. Mr. Cake la a Statement No. 1 man, true-blue Republican, and the peo ple choice for I'nited States Senator. If Statement No. 1 Is taken seriously, the Democrats are bound to support him now. Good Ad vie-. Governor. Sllvertonian Appeal. It Is evident that the people want Cake and the same desire will be man ifested in June without doubt. Mr, Chamberlain might aa well heed the advice of The Oregonlan and withdraw from the race. What Chnniberlala Could Have Done, Jefferson Review. Fulton Republicans claim their candi date was defeated by Democrats who reg istered as Republicans. The Review can t figure it that way. We believe Chamber lain could have defeated Fulton much easier than he can Cake. JukMds With the Election Law, Cottage Grove Leader. Fulton lays his defeat at the primaries to the Democrats, who, he says, regis tered as Republicans in order to get chance to vote for Cake. Whether they did or not, such a thing Is possible and an election law that can be juggled with In this manner is seriously defective. Fulton Down and Out; Next, Banns, Junction City Times. Mr. Fulton was in position to be of great value to the state, but he was turned down. The same thing will hap pen to Mr. Bourne and Mr. Hawley will come next, not because he has proven himself a useful man, but because some other fellow wants the Job. Alas for Oregon. Geography's Deadly Work. John Day News. Cake heat Fulton because Portland Is larger numerically, at least than Astoria. The results show plainly that Multnomah can dictate the nominees of the state and Second District offices If Portland wants to badly enough to stand In which It will always do when there Is anything In It. Everybody Will Be Good Dallas Itemizes. Hereafter, Fulton was beaten by Cake not be cause of his political affiliations, no because of Heney's charges, but be cause the people of Oregon have dem onstrated that hereafter we shall hare clean nolltice. and as Fulton belonged to the old ring and spproved of -thelf methods, his defeat was a natural re suit. Nothing- to It. Falls City News. The election of. Mr. H. M. Cake as United States Senator from Oregon Is as sured. No cleaner campaign could have been conducted than that Just closed, and let It be said to the credit of Mr. Cake and Mr. Fulton that they have left their supporters in perfect condition for united support for the election of a Re- publican Senator In June. Wanted Fulton, But Cake's O. K. Cottage Grove Western Oregon. Without disparagement of Mr. Cake, be lieving in him that the state has a sin. cere and able man, this paper does not hesitate to say that the state Is weakened 1n the Senate in the retirement of Senator Fulton. But 'tis done. We must now look for ward to and consummate the election of Mr. Cake. In hint we find a man sterling qualifications, sincere, manly, honest. Sot From One Cause. Corvallis Republican. The defeat of Mr. Fulton for renoml natlon cannot correctly be attributed to any Blngle cause, but rather to a number of Inconsequential causes working simultaneously. Least of all these was the assault ot Heney. Ore gonians saw the animus of Heney, and that he had failed to make good. Mr. Fulton Is an able, active and forceful man, and the people have not laid him upon the shelf for long. Who Is the People's Choice f MdMinnville News-Re-porter. So far as the management of this paper is concerned, it has believed that State ment No. 1 does not do what it pretends to do, that it does not under present con ditions necessarily result in the people's choice (It did not two years ago), yet at the same time It has appeared to the writer all the time to have been a mis take to combat the proposition. There has not been the least probability that George E. Chamberlain could beat the Republican nominee for the Senate. From the Colored Standpoint. Portland Advocate (Colored). The election will not be held until June, but even at this early date bets hsve been laid that Thomas O'Day will de feat Robert G. Morrow for Circuit Judfre, and Tom Word will be the next Sheriff, and so on down the line. But none of these things can be accomplished by the Democrats alone, and uniess the Republi cans go back on their nominees and sup port the Democratsihey wnl not have a look in. There is no denying the fact that the rank and file of the O. O. P. organization la disrupted and demoralized. This Editor Is From Missouri. Oregon City Enterprise. But, let us think. Suppose Chamber lain receives the popular vote in June, which is not probable, will- the Legis lature elect him to the United States Senate? Of the 75 legislative candi dates nominated by the Republicans, only 34 are Statement No. 1 men. In the event that ail of the men who did not subscribe to Statement No. 1 should Advertising Talks No. 15 THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF I0UR ADVERTISING Bj Herbert Kaufman Circulation is a fommoditv which must be bought with the same com mon sense nsed in selecting- potafvo. cloth anr real estate. It can be meas ured and weighed it is merolianilise with a provable value. It varies just aa much as the grocer's preen stuff. the tailor g fabrics and the lots of the real estate men. or rook refuses to accept preen and rotten tomatoes at the price of perfect ones. She tloes not count the number of vegetables that are deliv ered to her, but those that she ran use. When your wife selects a piera of cloth she first, makes sure that it will serve the purpose she has- in view. When yml buy a pioce of property you consider the neighborhood as well as the ground. Just so when you buy advertising you must find out how much of the circulation you ran use. Yon must eoneider the neighborhoods where yonr copy erill he rrad with the same thoufrhtfulness that you devotf.l to selecting the spot where yonr goods are sold. A dealer in precious stones would be foolish to open up in a tenement district, and equally short-sighted to tell about his jewelry in a newspaper largely distributed there. Out of ten thousand men and women who mipht see what he had to say, not, ten of them could afford to buy his poods. These ten thousand readers would bt mass without muscle. He could make them willing to do business with him, but their incomes wouldn't let them become customers. One of the greatest mistakes in pub licity is to drop yonr lines where the fish can t tako your bait. Circulation is, as you see, a very interesting subject, but very few peo ple know SDyiliing about it. It would surprise yrk'to know that this i noranne oCfcan extends to the business offices of newspapers. I have known publishers to continually mistake the class of their readers and have met hundreds of them who had the most fantastic ideas upon the figures of! their circulation. While I would not be so harsh as to accuse them of anything more than being mistaken, none the less their tendency to infect others with this misinformation renders it extremely advisable for you to become a mem ber of the Missouri society and "bu shown." You don't want a circulation state ment. You don't understand thes tricks in their making. Circulation statements, usually sworn to, are dost to blind the eyes of the advertiser to a newspaper's delinquencies in pro ducing results. Make the newspaper which carries your advertisement show you the list of its advertisers. The supreme test of the advertisinc; value of a newspaper is does it car ry the bulk of the advertising? A newspaper like The Oregonian, which prints the most advertising, month after month, year after year, is al ways the best medium. This is tiuo in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, as well as in Portland be elected, then Statement No. 1 will not have a majority In the Legisla ture. Will the Leislature. then, with a Republican majority, turn about and elect a Democratic Senator? Maybe it will, but we will have to be shown. Old Man Bennett's Ride Willi Fulton. Irrlgon Irrigator. We rode from Irrlcon to Pemlluton In company with Senator Fultnn lat Wed nesday, and had a long talk with him. He is pretty badly broken up, but. liki the others who have not hern carried away by the democratic-socialistic doc trines with which t!ie people of Omgnn are now drunken, he is sure that thq Republicans will soon wake up to sco that they are simply playing inlo the hands of the Democrats. The Senator was beaten by Democrats who registered as Republicans and voted for Cake. Sincere f So Are All of Is Sincere. Wciton Leader. The Leader thinks that Chamberlain should hesitate at the prospect of mar ring his remarkable record of victory hy risking defeat in an issueless camnaigu against a Republican unquestionably so clean and able and popular as Cake. Against Fulton he would have had a splendid fighting chance, but his pros pects are now problematical. Thereforo the Leader Joins with The Ore?onian. the Pendleton Tribune and the Eugene Regis ter In urging Mr. chamberlain to with drawwith the difference that it is sin cere, while they are semi-ironical. Kaughly Democrats. Lebanon Criterion. -In the opinion of many people the Ore gon primary nomination is deficient and sadly so. The purpose of the law was to purify politics and to allow the honest will of the people to prevail In the nam ing of candidates for office. The recent election and past ones clearly demonstrate that such results are not obtained. There were many Democrats In the county who registered as Republicans and voted In the primaries to pervert the will of the majority of that party. They have no in tention of voting for the man in the. June election for whom they voted in the primaries. Froiu the Sage of Santlam. Seio News. Senator Fulton is an able man intel lectually and commands the respect of his fellow-Senators because of. than fact. He has, also, proven to be a Senator true to the Interests of the people of Oregon so far as securing financial aid for her rivers and har bors. But he has aligned himself with the Interests and the opponents of President Roosevelt's policies. This fact, among thinking men had as much to do with his defeat as did his generally-regarded dishonorable con nection with Oregon land-frauds and bargain and sale elections of.Vnlted States Senator.