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3 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JULY 3. 190S. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Fostofflca aa Seeond-Class Matter. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall ) Dally, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 lally, Sunday Included, six months. 4--5 lJaily, Sunday Included, three montha. 2.23 lally. Sunday Included, one month.... -"tS lal!y without Sunday, on year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months..... Ially, without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 Lially. without Sunday, one month 60 Onndav. one year 2.0 Sunday and Weekly, one year 3-50 (By Carrier.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year 9 00 Daily. Sunday Included, one month 75 Hiiw to ltemit Send postofllcJ money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofllce ad dress In full, Including county and state. 1'ofttage Kates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 14 to JH pages, a cents: SO to 44 pages. 3 cents; 4tf to ttO pages. 4 centa Foreign r-ost-use double rates. Kastern Business Office The S. C. Beck Jvltn special Agency New York, rooms 48 ru Tribune buildltig. Chicago, room 510-512 'J'ribune building. POKTUXU, FRIDAY, JII.V J, 1908. THE SYSTEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. To the theory of "the people's choice," in matter of election of Sen ators of the United States, set forth in a letter from Hood River, printed to day. The Oregonian simply opposes the facts, as proved by past and pres ent conditions in the state. The underlying principle is that ours la a representative government and the Constitution of the United States has placed the power and duty of elec tion of Senators in the hands of the Legislature, whose members are repre sentatives of the people. An intrusive statement in the primary law attempts t'. nullify the constitutional principle and change the system. We shall not deal with the statements of the Hood River letter seriatim. That is not the right way to meet error. The right way is to state the opposing truth. We do not get "the people's choice" through this errant and fantastic method. That is absolute. It re Quires no argument. Everybody knows it. Do you tell us that Oregon is a Democratic state? It may be so. M e shall see in November. Then it will be clear whether Oregon is a Democratic state or not; or whether this talk about "the people's choice" is truth or mere stuff figment to truth opposite. Five-sixths of the members of the Legislature are mem bers of one party; yet they are to elect the candidate of the opposite party to the Senate! It is a long tale of transparent fraud. The seed of it is in the "statement," carried into the primary law, through w hich men are pledged to abandon the constitutional method of election of Senators, so as to obtain conformity to "the will of the people." It was an excellent card for the minority party. But the majority party has not acqui esced in it. No majority party ever will. For our system is a system of government through action or agency of parties. But here we have a juggle of politics, under which the members of one party are expected to elect the candidates of another. To talk about "the will of the people" in such a business is the most palpable of ab surdities. It begins in fraud. The method of nomination it proposes opens a door to perjury and invites it. Under it men by thousands commit perjury by registration under false colors, that they may be in position to force nomi nations on an opposite party which produce disgust in the party in whose name the nominations are falsely made. This method of nomination brings forth such candidates as Bourne and Cake, whom the party they profess to stand for will not sup port. The shallow faction of the ma jority party, aided by the opposition, will always govern the nominations; tut the consequence will be general disgust and refusal to support them. Bourne was nearly beaten, and Cake was actually beaten: because the nom inations made tinder such system in the primary, resulting from union for a common purpose between the tag rag of both parties, never can get support. Besides, such political misce genation and cross-lift, such sophisti cation, see-saw and syncretism in poli tics, makes all earnest and direct polit ical effort a farce. Party should be a means or instrument by which men who wish to associate for common purposes can unite, with expectation o? reaching ends or objects upon which they are all substantially agreed. But. at the outcome of this bunco game, you find one party pledged to the election of the candi dates of the other party, to the high "est political offices of the state and Nation. And this is said to be "the will of the people." Then a man is a mighty simpleton to call himself a Re publican; or he is an admirable dealer li. the short cards of politics, who calls himself a Democrat. If men are to be Democrats, let them be Democrats; if Republicans, then Republicans. But away with false pretenses and false use of party names for false purposes. You start in as a Republican candidate for the Legislature, and come out under a pledge to elect a Democratic United States Senator. Excuse those who want straight politics, and will have straight politics or none. When men vote a party ticket they want to know what they are voting for, and that bunco "statements" will not bring them out of the effort in opposition to the purposes for which they started In. The primary law will stand; but it reeds amendment, so as to offer no longer a premium to one party to force nominations on another; but the attempt to compel one party to fleet the candidates of another will not stand, even in Oregon, and not an other state in the I'nion will ever be so foolish as to try to force it. To the prediction that Oregon will adhere to it, this Journal has only to say that Oregon consequently will become a firmly-fixed demesne of the Demo cratic party; for if we are to have this policy we must look to that party to support It. Support of the Republi can party will never be obtained for the bunco game. It Is as repugnant to judgment as the silver craze was, and the holy ratio of sixteen-to-one. There is a lot of people who don't like the exaltation of fads and follies and whimsies and the multitudinous stuffs of deception and illusion, to the rank of first principles: and these will always have to be reckoned with. In nil this there is no present censure of . the Democratic party. It Is simply "playing the game." The utter Impossibility of a labor union or any other organization on earth ever equalizing the value of in dividuals who make up that great eco nomic force known as "labor" Is again proven by the railroad reports since the retrenchment policies became ef fective. 'On every line of importance In the country greater efficiency" has been shown by the men than previous to the panic. This is due to the op portunity afforded the railroads to weed out the poorer class of labor that they are obliged to use when work is plentiful and men scarce, and to retain only the best men. In the final solution of almost any economic problem the workings of the old rule of the survival of the fittest appear in some form or other. Labor is a com modity with a marketable value. That value, as in the case of every other commodity that Is bought and sold, is determined by the quality. When the good is scarce, employers sometimes take an Inferior grade, but when the supply increases they get the best, and it always demonstrates its superiority. WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS. The constitution says that "compen sation of officers, if not fixed by this constitution, shall be provided by la." Which means, if it means any thing, that wherever compensation is fixed by the constitution. It cannot be provided by law. If it were otherwise, what earthly use is there for this pro vision? If the makers of the constitu tion had intended to permit the Legis ture to fix the amount of compensation they could and would have said so by leaving out the clause, "if not fixed by this constitution." They would have said "compensation of officers shall be provided by law." The argument that the makers of the constitution intended the salary fixed therein to be a minimum amount is a reflection upon the intelligence or honesty of the men who formed the constitutional convention. They said that "the Governor shall receive an annual salary of $1500." If they meant that to be a minimum salary, they should have said "the Governor shall receive an annual salary of not less than 1500." To say, therefore, that the members of the constitutional convention intended the salaries fixed by them as minimum salaries is to im pute to those gentlemen ignorance of the English language or a deliberate purpose to deceive the people to whom the constitution was submitted for ratification. In other words, the emi nent gentlemen who now argue that the makers of the constitution did not mean what they said are charging the founders of our state government with being either fools or knaves. The Oregonian prefers to believe that they were honest in their action, that they meant what they said and said what they meant, and It feels certain that no department of government, legislative, executive or judicial, has any right to read into the constitution something that is plainly not there. The constitution itself provides the manner in which it can be amended, and, whenever something is to be in serted in the constitution, it should be done in the manner prescribed. BAUS VS. ULK. The coming of another harvest, with the price of grain bags steady at near ly 7 cents each, has brought with It the annual discussion of the merits and demerits of the system of ship ping wheat in bags instead of in bulk, as is the practice in the Middle Wset, where the greater part of the wheat is used for flour. W. H. Reed, a mem ber of the Washington State Grain Commission, has issued an . elaborate statement regarding the advantages of the bulk system over that of shipping in bags. As has frequently been stated, the adoption of any system which would relieve exporters of the vexatious bag problem would be wel comed, as the uncertainties of the crop have always made the bag business hazardous. The supply must always be ordered many months before the output of wheat can be accurately es timated, and to meet contingencies it Is nearly always in excess of the de mand, with the result that stocks must be sacrificed or else carried over. The fact that the bulk system has worked to advantage in the Middle West, where practically the entire crop is marketed for milling purposes, of fers no reason for its adoption here. During the season just ended more than 32.000,000 bushels of the Oregon, Washington and Idaho crop were shipped by water from Portland to Pu get Sound, while less than 15,000,000 bushels were used for flour, and the greater part of this was ground at tidewater, where it had been shipped to be sold for either milling or export purposes. Had It been shipped in bulk It would have been solely at the mercy of the milling buyers, for, re gardless of the theories advanced. It wtll be Impossible successfully to ship wheat in bulk from the Pacific Coast to Europe until completion of the Pan ama Canal shortens the time and less ens the danger of the voyage. Even under the present systems with grain stowed in sacks and secured by shifting boards, in a manner impossi ble with bulk grain, never a season passes without some of the grain fleet being damaged or lost through the shifting of the cargo by the constant battering of the fearful seas encoun tered In the vicinity of Cape Horn. An imperfect understanding of the subject Is disclosed by Mr. Reed when he says that "the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and other transcontinental lines now building into this state will force the exporter to elevators, because these new roads will have elevators." The utter impracticability of the ele vator system was thoroughly demon strated in Oregon and Washington by the late F. H. Peavey, in his time one of the largest grain operators in the United States. Mr. Peavey Invaded the Pacific Northwest with the. usual East ern contempt for anything that did not originate in the East, and he built fine elevators at every prominent wheat point In Oregon and Waslhngton and undertook to "force" adoption of the bulk system. The experiment was a signal failure, no ships suitable for handling grain in bulk being obtainable on the Pacific and the endless variety of grades and wide difference in the quality of the offerings making it necessary to clean and regrade all wheat at tidewater be fore It could be put aboard ship. Mr. Peavey, a practical grain man. could not "force" adoption of a system that was impracticable west of the Rocky Mountains, and the new railroads com ing west will have no better success until the Panama Canal brings with it another type of grain-carrying vessel and the Northwestern farmer grows a more uniform grade of grain. The Western men may have fewer theories than the new arrivals, but what they have been taught by practice has not been forgotten and there will be no "forcing" on them of methods which they have, after a fair trial, discarded as impracticable. THE DOCTORS AND QUACKS. The Oregonian confesses to a high opinion of doctors. They deserve it. They deserve nearly as high an opin ion as they have of themselves. They are doing an Important and necessary work in a most intelligent, scientific and devoted manner. It does not de tract from its merit or from their de serts that they are, as a class, being exceedingly well paid for it. They should be. They admit it themselves. We could hardly get along without the doctors, and sometimes we wonder how we are to get along with them, or some of them. Now we find the State Medical Soci ety in session in Portland gravely dis cussing the subject of quacks and quackery and what to do about them. One eminent practitioner turns loose a flood of criticism against the newspa pers because they accept advertise ments from "irregulars" and intimates that they are accountable for the harm done by unscrupulous and ignorant practitioners who pretend that they cancure incurable diseases and who as sume a skill and Infallibility that they have not. This is a plain endeavor to shift a responsibility that belongs with the doctors themselves, and with them alone. The doctors create their own standard of ethics. If the standard is ever raised, they will all tell you that the doctors are doing It. If the stand ard is lowered by the evil practices of any of their number, then, of course, some one else is to blame. If the newspapers are to investigate the merits of every claim or preten sion made by an advertiser, or to as sume responsibility for them, they will soon have to cease business. They will do nothing of that kind. Tley never did; they never can. The ap peal to the advertiser Is to the public through the newspaper which is only one of many such agencies. Its re sponsibility ends when it confines Its advertisements within recognized lim its of decency and declines to lend its columns to any palpable swindle or fraud. An advertisement is just what it is meant and understood to be. It is an announcement by the advertiser of the wares he has to sell, whether material, personal, professional or otherwise. It is up to the advertiser to "deliver the goods." The public understands all that. But is the news paper the only advertising agency? Certainly not. The billboard, the handbill, the circular letter and a thousand other methods are open to the advertiser; and if he were to be excluded from a newspaper he would easily reach the ears of the public through other mediums. In many cases he does; yet for most part the newspaper is looked upon as the best vehicle and is most commonly em ployed. The advertising doctor usual ly has a license to practice from the State Board of Medical Examiners, and what newspaper is justified, in accepting or refusing an advertise ment. In going behind the official re turns? If such doctors, or practition ers, have no license, why don't the regular doctors put them in Jail? If they have a license, who gave It to them ? If there is any doctor, quack or oth erwise, who is engaged in nefarious practices, no one knows It so well as the doctors themselves, and upon no other class, except possibly public of cers, does the duty rest to get the evidence against any offender and prosecute him. Or, if the laws are not sufficient, it is the unquestioned duty of the doctors themselves to in form the Legislature where the de fects lie and request that they be rem edied. And they will be remedied. But The Oregonian Is satisfied that under the present laws in Oregon there Is no reason why any so-called physician engaged in unlawful or fraudulent practices cannot be pun ished if the doctors themselves will undertake that duty as they should. If there is one class of practition ers more than another in this state that merits prosecution, it is that body of doctors which regularly engages In the performance of criminal opera tions. There is hardly a physician In Oregon or anywhere that does not know who such men are. Certainly no others but the doctors are In posi tion to learn. It is childish for the doctors to assume or pretend that the duty of stopping such practices and prosecuting such practitioners rests anywhere so definitely as It does upon them. Who else may know but them, and how may such malefactors be reached' except through them? It is easy enough to understand that such a task would be disagreeable and onerous, and any individual doctor may perhaps be excused for shrinking from it. But we hear much about the high code of ethics among the doctors, and about the admirable and unselfish way in which they as a class try to make the world healthier physically and thus better morally. Yet It would seem that if the physicians are teach ing us correct ways to live well they must also show the numerous pitfalls and snares that are set for the unwary and uninformed on every side. Who can discover them so well as the doc tors? Or is there aught In that justly celebrated code of ethics that requires them to be silent when they see the fly walking blindly into the web of the spider? OUR EDrCATIONAI, SYSTEM. Mention of the fact that leading educators in all parts of the country assert that Oregon's school laws are the best in the United States serves to remind us how willing Oregonians frequently are to admit inferiority, and how slow to declare superiority. It remained for Massachusetts and Cali fornia to tell us of our superior school laws, for we hadn't claimed this sur passing excellence ourselves. As a matter of fact, our whole educational system ranks with the best in the United States, and only the fact that our seaports and our proximity to China bring us a class of ignorant in habitants prevents our having the lowest percentage of illiterates. Our Agricultural College, with its experi ment station. Is doing as much along progressive lines for advancement of practical agriculture as any other sim ilar Institution, though perhaps it is not making as much display as some. Though our state university has not as large a number of students and in structors as such institutions in more populous states, it stands second to none when measured by success of the men and women who have gone out from Its doors. Not only In its laws, but In its courses of study, the quali fications of Its teachers and in the re sults attained, Oregon is a leading edu cational state and it proposes to keep abreast with other states In this re spect. Superiority Is not perfection and we shall not be content as loiLg as there is something better to strive for. Nor shall we forget, aa we advance from step to step, that it is our duty t-j extend a helping hand to the other states beneath us on the ladder. We shall be pleased to have them copy our school laws, our courses of study and our methods of school manage ment. While it will be necessary for us to keep the best of our teachers ourselves, we shall be pleased to have other states send here for those we can spare to help them elevate the stand ard of public education. The Oregonian, in fulfilling Its tfuty as a newspaper, yesterday printed some very unfavorable reports regard ing crop conditions In the Pacific Northwest. All mankind prefer read ing good reports instead of those which are otherwise, and The Orego nian would like to print none other, were it warranted by the facta in so doing. While regretting that unfa vorable climatic conditions have made such a heavy reduction in the antici pated yield of the three states, some consolation can be found in the reflec tion that this poor crop follows a record-breaker of last year, and at least half a dozen crops well above the av erage of ten years ago. The out-turn, in spite of the present conditions, will undoubtedly reach proportions much greater than those of a good crop in the same territory a dozen years ago. It should not be forgotten, either, that we are no longer dependent exclusive ly on wheat for our prosperity, and there will accordingly be no serious consequences to follow the smaller crop than was expected. Money rates in New York are lower than they have been since 1904. and not since 1900 has the volume of busi ness on the stock exchange reached such low ebb. These facts, with the dates duly considered, illustrate quite perfectly the tremendous influence a Presidential campaign has on the busi ness of the country. Unless the record-breaking crops which are now promised in the Middle West deterior ate more rapidly, this midsummer stu por will in the Fall give way to hilari ious activity. Senator Foraker celebrated Sun shine day at Cincinnati by making a speech saying Mr. Taft has a personal ity that is perfect; but that he advo cates the Roosevelt policies, which are not perfect. Doubtless Mr. Foraker would have preferred a candidate for President not altogether perfect advo cating policies altogether perfect. Far be it from Foraker to assume that he is perfect. Willie Hearst is easily satisfied. Commenting on the result of the re count In New York, he asserts that it is "more than satisfactory to me." With Willie taking that end of the bet, the public will naturally be expected to believe that he would have been grievously disappointed had the re count showed him a victor. Making English a required study in each of the four years of the normal school course was wise. No man or woman ever knew English too well or got to the point where no more could be learned. Those who are preparing themselves for the teaching profession should be particularly well grounded In English. The critics who complain that Mr. Roosevelt might have done more in the trust-busting line are the same persons who get greatly excited when It Is suggested that he may yet do more. Strange. Could Roosevelt do anything to suit them, if he tried, which he never did? The firecracker and the old "swim mln' hole" will now enter Into a com petition to see which can get away with the largest number of boys. The boy who can escape the test of both fire and water is entitled to be classed among the fit who ought to survive. A single block in Chicago, at Mor gan and Thirty-fourth streets, a resi dent district in the southwest part of the city, contains 2172 men, women and children. It Is doubtful whether there is a more crowded resident block In any city. Seattle had a world's champion wrestler who remained . a world's champion until some one came along and threw him. If we are not mis taken, he is still champion of Seattle, and that ought to satisfy everybody in Seattle. The pure food (which includes pure drinks) law went into effect Wednes day and hereafter only the pure stuff can be labeled "whisky." But what booteth the brand to the dweller in a "dry" country? A radical anti-injunction plank might lose the Democratic party as many good Democratic votes as the free-silver plank did. There are plenty of good Democrats who are not radi cals. William J. Bryan expresses confi dence that he will be elected Presi dent, despite the fact that no candi date from Nebraska ever defeated a candidate from Ohio. Or anywhere else. "After twenty-two years of office holding," say the press dispatches, "Mr. Taft is temporarily out of a Job." "Temporarily" Is not the word Mr. Bryan likes to see used. Perhaps the normal school question Is settled, and then, again, perhaps it isn't. Wait till the trading on appro priations begins next Winter. Now Is the time to provide against that fuel famine which afflicts so many people every Winter. Buy early and avoid the rush. Excursions into Baker County from both sides should be popular tomor row. Three "dry" days make a long spell of weather. Lest we forget. Ten years ago to day the battleship Oregon served this Nation at Santiago. Anyway. Madam Anna will have the de cency to marry Helie if she can. WOMBX AND "THE SEW HOME" Aot Because Thry Dislike Housekeep ing: but on Account of Conveniences PORTLAND, Or., July 2. (To the Editor.) I have read with interest your editorial in last Sunday's Ore gonian relative to "the new home. ' in which you speak of the changes which are now taking place from the indi vidual cottage life to that of the apart ment dwellings. While you have much to say concerning the economies and advantages of the apartment build ings, yet in your discourse as to the reasons why families are changing to the "new home" life, you indulge in J some criticism or our sex, wnicn, wniie doubtless unintentional, I know to be very unjust. You speak of the "patent fact that women have lost their taste for house keeping; they find it petty, futile and degrading. This may be wicked, but it Is undeniable." As a convert to the "new heme" idea and also as a house keeper who loves the work of keeping house (especially on the apartment plan) I wish to mildly protest in the name of that portion of our sex who insist on living in apartment houses because this modern method robs housework of its drudgery and makes it a pleasure. The apartment house is a success for a two-fold reason, first because capital can make a much larger return on the amount invested than it can in sepa rate dwellings, and second, because the advantages in housekeeping are aug mented many fold by the apartment house plan. - The features of continuous hot water every hour of the twenty-four is an advantage so great, that, like many other modern inventions and devices, we who get accustomed to it, wonder how we got along without it before. The heating of yie building from a central plant is another most invaluable feature. No petty wood dealer's tyranny to bother with; no wood or coal to carry up or utore away, no splinters to poison or coal lumps to blacken a womai.'s hands and no ashes to cleam from the stove or to soil the floors or carpets and to rarry out. The construction of "lifts" which run from the basement to and above the roof, through the tiers of kitchens not only provide for delivery of house hold supplies and necessities ii a much better manner than by individu al tradesmen, but also provide a means of carrying away the waste front the kitchen and table in less time and in a more satisfactory manner than can be done in individual hom.'s. They also constitute a vent -ip which the hot air from the kitchen stove rushes and which Is constantly replaced by cool air. This not oniy keeps the kitchen refreshingly cool but carries away with it all odors trom the cook ing. These advantages and pleasures are impossible in the individual home. Many other features are now being added in the shape of disappei.-ing beds, which slide into recesses und-r stairways and under false closet floors no, o1"? , falSe walIs- anl wtiich not only add to the room space, but SaTl? 10 Sanitat- the in- stJn"5 thtStUCtln f the """dings I Lhi through the recesses into - e"e. beds dlsaPPear there is a constant circulation of fresh air rwl!h!rmr?' the dust ralsed from the ?W.' g of carpet, cannot setu,, on hnm.- ,JeSe facU e've the "new home methods, advantages not only in ofreVm Space for the same cost of construction, but require less car- fMn, furnlsh,"s for the same more sanUarT the livln It Is no wonder, therefore, that the derunyent-K0Ut8Vdea srowhigw'n! aerruuy. Not because women fin "housekeeping petty, futile and de fa more" bCCaUS U iS " . savhnrf fCOnmlCaI- more llr to th i? f. mre P'easi"-e, not only to the housekeeper, but to the rest of the members of the family- MRS. LIZZIE F. ROGERS. In Astoria, Too. . Astorian. The Oregonian of yesterday, has a tha? PwSt ,aSaInSt the fiance graft that Is becoming one of the rankest menaces to business in the state And we are glad to note that "there aro can'of thSnr'a T brne about"" To J h . oppression and there Is going n?JS.0mlth!n!r d'nS" rBl"-f IS Tot granted in short order and rational scope. The evil has grown slowly, but it has TkJ"? eXKc,Pedin hard. And now that lined l bIK8e8t CUiea ln the 8,atB lined up for a scrap against the down right imposition the insurance barons at San Francisco have perpetrated we ex pect to see a general uprising 'all over the commonwealth; and some profound s' interesting statistics on the fire and life Insurance business of Oregon, at the office of the State Commission, at Salem and a deliberate study of them will tur nish a mass of fine fighting material. Drinks 48 Botilefur. of Beer Sunday.. Baltimore News. Judge Barnes granted Mrs. Belle H. Grey, at Chicago, a divorce after he Lea.1?ed , that ner husband drinks 48 bottlefuls of beer every Sunday. A BALLAD OF THE OREGON. July S, 189R. By Hermann Hagedorn. Jr. v V ,he cal1 ,hat ned you a .uhav ne'-ed with ardor and might Andh,e.nH0i "V". wl"i wave "P4 you For the gulls of wsr are screaming And the cry of tongues is loud And the long-furled flags sre streaming -Neath a wralth-born battleeloud. And ths ominous roar and rattle Thunders, thunders, founders on Aid us. aid us. maid of battle. Maid of waters, Oregon! You have heard, you have heard. Like a greyhound, like a bird. Scenting far storm and war. You have heard the call and come! Tou have heard, you have heard Of three nundred massacred On the Maine. Maine, Maine, In a peaceful port of Spain. Let their cannon cleanse the Main When wa come! Is It war. Is It peace? Still the thunders never cease. Still the cloud of battle lowers Blackening, paling in caprice. Prom the Golden Gate at mom Laughing winds o' March to scorn. Hot your engines beat the hours Pounding to the stormy Horn. Sweep, sweep, sweep. Through the South Pacific, sweep. Where the billows, gliding under, tp the towers and turrets leap. Sweep into the ports and out ! To Magellan's, where the shout Of the waves is as 'the thunder On the mountains round about. Sweep, sweep, sweep! - Now the Horn sinks In the deep Northward, northward, northward, north ward ! God! How slow the hours creep! Northward, straining plate and spar. Llghtless like a spectral car Cross you Punt Arenas' bar Is It peace or war to northward? Comes the answer, it Is war! For swords are drawn In Cuba And the ballets hum and cry. And men lie dead In Cuba That were strong as you or I! And there's war's grim roar and rattle Round Havana and Kan Juan, Forward, forward, maid of battle. Maid of waters, Oregon! Sweep, sweep, sweep! In the crow's nest, dipping deep, For a Spanish fleet of Cadiz Sharp the watch their vigil keep. Oregon, great Oregon ! Feed your fires! The fight Is on! Northward, where the great blockade la. Forward, forward, Oregon! Honor, honor, Oregon ! For the fight Is fought and won. And. the glory of your faring None shall cast their slurs upon! Honor to the brain that planned you. Honor to the souls that manned you. Honor, nonor to their daring. Honor to you, Oregon! INDIANA' AS A " BATTLEGROl'XD I Recalls Days When Tbat Pivotal State Sto to Either Political Party. Indianapolis News, Ind. The Democrats of this state feel that they have a pretty good chance of car rying Indiana this year. Naturally, therefore, they are interested in the possibility of the nomination of Mr. Kern at Denver as the candidate for Vice-President. For that will make more odds in their favor. The Demo crats to win in the National election must carry some Northern States that have not often of late been foutid in their column. Of old two states have been looked at by them .quadrennially with longing eyes Indiana and New York. The association recalls the days of the October elections when Indiana was pivotal and indicative and effort was made in corresponding degree by both parties to carry the October elec tion for a "pointer" and encourage ment. The state was a National battle ground. Here met the floods of elo quence and of money, to consume one another. It was of Indiana and what occurred here in the October cam paign that a high National (Repub lican) official spoke publicly of the "great efforts and soap" that had been used by his party In bringing success. The utterance has become a historic register of the corruption that was practiced without pretence of con cealment in our politics at that time. The October elections brought us something else, however, than floods of Eastern money and Eastern "toughs" to repeat or to prevent re peating. It brought us eloquence of high degree. The best National speak ers of both sides were sent to cam paign in Indiana, and for weeks Indi ana was the forum for a continuous outpouring of popular political elo quence. It was in the campaign of 1876 that Robert Ingersoll "stumped" Indiana and here delivered the classic period beginning "The past rises before me like a dream" a passage of pure elo quence marked by the highest flights of imagination, vivid with fire and color, tender with pathos and all couched ln a rhythmic expression that almost gave to it the force and effect of poetry. And that campaign was marked in Indiana by every element that made our political condition then not only picturesque and pleasantly memorable, but that made It also dark and dangerous. The power of the Government was exercised at the' polls with almost "carpetbag" freedom. Pri vate citizens were organized into cav alry corps and into squads of foot watchers. The scene was closely akin to that of an armed camp, .while the suppressed excitement and subdued bustle had the powder-magazine sug gestion. For all that, the Democrats carried Indiana In October that year and the "serried ranks" (all the nomenclature was military) of the Democrats hardly budged, repeating in November what they had won ln Oc tober. It is well for ns all that those old days are gone. Their recollection em phasizes the fact that our politics cer tainly if they have not grown better, have grown more refined. The open ness of corruption and browbeating that characterized those days has gone, and gone forever. It Is to be hoped. If the desirable features of public instruction and entertainment have also diminished it is a pleasing reflec tion that they are not needed; that the spread of intelligence, the accuracy of information that now characterize re mote precincts have made ,a more ra tional if less spectacular public exer cise. VASTNESS OF INLAND EMPIRE. Fertile Region Tributary to Great ( olamhln River. I.lppincott's Magazine. To realize at least something of the big ness of this Inland Empire, let us follow the Columbia, which- forms part of Its western boundary. "Oregon" is a name which Is far more appropriate, since the mighty river traverses fully a thousand miles of the Oregon country in its course from the snow-covered summits of the Canadian Rockies to the sea. The Orego nian remembers that it defines the north ern limits of his state, but on Its way southward it forms a bend truly majestic in its proportions, even as seen on the map. The territory which it partly en circles is the "Big Bend" country the western section of the Inland Empire, which has for its eastern neighbor the Palouse country, reaching far south even to the valley of the John Day River, in Oregon. Nearly hemmed In by the Rock ies on the east and the Cascades on the west, here Nature has created a great basin which is a little world in it self. In It are plateaus extending a hun dred miles and more, valleys now known to be of the greatest fertility. Much of the surface of this great basin is as level as a table; consequently the traveler may be startled to come upon a craclc in the surface a thousand, sometimes two thou sand, feet deep, for here and there are coulees where the Columbia and other water courses in past ages literally ate their way into the bowels of the earth and have left these gaping fissures as a sign of their power. There are a hundred thousand square miles of this Inland Em pire. It encircles five of the largest coun ties in the State of Washington, not to say the region which It embraces In Ore gon. It contains mines, forests, and from them those who have entered it are ex tracting riches as well as from the tree and shoot. Well can it be called the In land Empire, for into it have come 300.000 men and women within a quarter of a century, and 30,000 more are yearly swell ing its army of toilers. Concourse of Rose, at Paris. 1-aris (France) Cor. New York Times. Roses will have an exhibition and cor-test all to themselves next month, when the first annual "Concours des Roses," organized by the City of Paris, is opened at Bagatelle, in the Bois de Boulogne. The exhibition is interna tional, and blooming contestants are already beginning to arrive from Eng land. Holland, Belgium, Spain and Italy. There is only one prize to be award ed. This is a gold medal, which will be presented to the professional culti vator or amateur who exhibits "the most beautiful rose." There are no restrictions as to color or size. The whole question will resolve itself Into one of sheer beauty. Apart from the scientists and florists who will consti tute the jury, there will be a number of artists and society women skilled In such things. The City of Paris already has established at Bagatelle a rose garden, in which some of the most beautiful specimens of that flower in France may be seen. It is a favorite place of pilgrimage for all Parisian flower lovers. Up to the present France has been pre-eminent in the matter of roses. Foreign contestants, however, are hopeful of carrying the gold medal beyond the frontier. A Novelty Wanted. Chicago Journal. Mrs. Swelldame. Oh. will you please, Mrs. Grundy, give me the benefit of your best judgment? Mrs. Grundy On what, dearie? Mrs. Swelldame Do you that is do you honestly think happy marriage and motherhood has become rare enough for our set to adopt it as an exclusive fad? Why It Drags. Chicago Record-Herald. Kansas wants 21,500 men to help harvest the wheat in that state. The great trouble is that one does not have to pay dues for getting that kind of outdoor exercise. STATEMENT ' OXE A VITAL ISSVE This Man Say. It's Now the Only Ques tion Between the Parties. - HOOD RIVER. Or.. July 1. (To ths Editor. 1 I have been a reader of The Dailv Oregonian for 3S years, and expect to con tinue to read it as long as It Is published, for It Is conceded to be one of the best newspapers in the Vnited States. I nuit -take issue with some of your editorials, for the reason that I think you - place the Statement' No. 1 men in the wrong light before the readers of your paper. Like yourself I am a free trader, yet you and I both consider ourselves Republicans. That Is. we feel more at home ln the Republican party than we do ln the Democratic party. Neither of us Indorses all the planks in auy platform that the Republican party Mits forth. Tour paper was rever a protection paper, since I have been acquainted with Us columns, as I remember. The yaper cer tainly Is against protection now. except pos sibly for revenue. If I can read aright. Now you do not concede, neither do I. that because you and I are free traders, we cannot be Republicans on general ques tions -that Is, feet, as I said before, more at home In the Republican party than in any other. If this be true, cannot men be lieve in Statement No. 1 and be Republi cans? i I am a Statement No. 1 man. and Itko all Statement No. 1 men. believe that ques tion Is the principal question at Issue In Oregon before both the great lartics. and believe that It is paramount to all ques tions of party, where parly alone Is con sidered. 1 also believe that, should the Republican party of Oregon declare agalnn this live question It will forever be a mi nority party In this state, until It stands up for and indorsea the measure. I am confi dent that you are wrong, when you say la your answer to Mr. Allen H. Eatun, ln today's issue. "A Juggle that buncoes a lot of people, as 'Statement Republicans' In Oregon were buncoed, will never become the law of the United States, nor long bs the rule in Oregon under any party." Allow me to state here, that I do not write this letter ln a spirit of argument, but simply to let you know how I think tne majority of the people of Oregon feel on the subject, from the standpoint of Statement No. 1 principle. I am alinply one of the people, but I assure you that the people by a great majority ara think ing earnestly on this subject, and the State ment No. 1 sentiment is constantly growing, not decreasing, as you think. You do not meet the farmers, country lawyers, mer chants, lumbermen In fact the great com mon people, outside the cities, as I do. I tell you that nine of every ten men I talk to on the subject, my neighbors and friends, are Statement No. 1 men, or are inclining that way. This principle Is the natural result of the civic awakening that has been Inaugurated by our "Teddy." I think it has come to stay In this state, and that it will spread all over the Union. The thinking common people of all tha states have their eyes on Oregon, and Oregon today stands ln the forefrcnt of the battle for civic righteousness, which can never come through conventions and hold-up and sold out Legislatures. This is my opinion, aa one of the people, no mere, no less. This question will become more and more su perior to party, which for many yeara past has simply been a hobby-hrrse for pol iticians to ride into office, and keep there, by and through the party conventions and the bosses. The people will undoubtedly make mistakes, but the mistakes will be honest. Not so with the "bosses." Their mistakes are often venal Intentional. la not this a democratic government "of the people, for the people and by the people?" If not. what is It? As between Democrats and Republicans in our last election did not the majority declare for Mr. Chamberlain? Is he not the choice of the voters of these two parties? Did not the people, by an over whelming majority declare in favor of Statement No. 1? Are there not possibly some thinkers, honest thinkers. among these voters who favor this principle, that are as able to reason Intelligently on this or any subject, as you are, and are they not as liable to be right as you? Why la it necessary for you to asperse the motives or Intelligence of this great majority? You have a right to differ, and you may be right, but time will tell. Did not the Re publican party at the National convention Just held, by a vote of nearly 7 to 1 luin down a plank in the platform, declaring in favor of election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people? You say that you are in favor of popular election of United States Senators. Has not the Re publican party done this, though five times the lower house has endeavored to get the Senate' of the United States to sanction an amendment to the Constitution giving to the people the right to elect the Untied. States Senators directly? Have not some -7 of the states asked Congr-iss through their State Legislatures to amend the C'onstitu-' tlon accordingly? What has been the re sult? We are no nearer the goal than before, so far as any help from our auto cratic, plutocratic legislative-created upper house is concerned. What can we do.ex cept get the people to acting all over the Union under Statement No. 1 ? 1 am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but I predict that Statement No. 1 will sweep the country, and your great paper will soon be championing the cause of the people, which in all candor I think you are not doing now. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON. Fli-lnu; Line la In the Far West. Hartford (Conn.) Courant. Rep. The Far West has become a mighty factor in the National life. Bryan will appeal to it with all his powers of persuasion, and he directs his appeals to discontent. Economists tell us that discontent is the stimulus to work, to activity, to ambition, to progress. The value of things is determined by the desire of those who haven't them to nossess them. That's all right as a proposition In economics, but ln the hands of a demagogue that same dis content is a very dangerous element. He'll work it for all that it's worth. It is foolish to consider the man beaten, if he is nominated. There's a stiff fight ahead. Just as Serious for us as if we were on the firing line. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN SEEIES OF NEW DETECTIVE STORIES If the unraveling of mysterious crimes entertains you who will admit the contrary? don't fail to read "The Man With the Mas ter Mind," a series that begins next Sunday. They are the chronicles of Carlton Clarke, telepatho-deduc-tive solver of criminal mysteries. Each story is complete in itself, but read the first to get acquaint ed with this wonderful man. You will be eager for the next one. AMERICA'S MOST PROMI NENT PRIVATE CITIZEN Full-page combination picture of William Jennings Bryan, at various stages of his career, to gether with portraits of his fam- iiy. THE HOTEL CLERK ON LIVE POLITICS "Will they nominate Bryant Well, it's customary," he says; Mr. Irvin thinks 1904 will go down to history as the one year Bryan was not nominated. All shades of politicians will enjoy this essay. THE BIG FLEET AT HAWAII AND SAMOA A traveler who knows tells of the sights and the people that will greet American Jackies in the South Seas. x ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER