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8 THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY,- JUXE 30, 1909. PORTLAND. OREGON'. s-Eilt2r at Portland, Oregon. Postofflce as Becond-Class Matter. Subscription Rates Invariably la Advance. (By Mall ) gaily. Sunday Included, one Tear tS.OO Da y. Sunday Included, six months 25 la y, fcunday Included, three months. . . 2.25 Da y. Sunday Included, one month 75 ia y. without Sunday one year 6.00 Da y. without Sunday, six months S.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Dally without Sunday, one month .60 weekly, one year 1.50 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one year 8.5o (Br Carrier.) fj"y- Sunday Included, one year .... 9.00 Dally, Sunday Included, one month 75 - How Renl Send postofTtce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofTlce ad- ." Jn Including county and state. . 1T"K" Kates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 1 lo .s paxes. 2 cents; 30 to 44 pages. 3 cents; 45 to 80 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck K. tpc'al AK"cy New York, rooms 48 BO Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-512 Tribune bnildinK. rOKILAD, WEDXKSDAV, JUNE SO. 1909. OCR CHINESE "MISSIONS." Apropos of Chinese "missions" and settlements," and of attempts to "Christianize" Orientals, a few words here and now about efforts In Port land and their results. More than twenty years these efforts have been In progress. They have been futile, first and last. Nothing can be done with the Chinese, because they have nothing whatever in common with the spiritual or ethical content of Chris tianity. Each of the types of mind Is at immeasurable distances from the other. Upon the people of an old na tionality no new religion, foreign to Its nature, to Its culture, to its whole development, can be forced from with out, any more than a new language, a new literature, a new political or so cial system. Not so is human nature and the growth of ages to be changed. The Presbyterians, we think, were the first who attempted this work In Portland, and probably their effort ha been better sustained or more trenuous, than any other. More than twenty years ago, as we remember. Rev. W. S. Holt and wife, after much experience in mission work In China, where they acquired extensive knowl edge of the Chinese language, were - called to Portland and put in charge . of the work, which was liberally sup j ported by the Presbyterian Board of i -Missions, and had much earnest local ; encouragement. A full or sufficient J corps of teachers and helpers was em j ployed. A rescue home for Chinese girls was established, under the care ! of Mrs. Holt. For a time the effort jseemed to promise results, but now 'only a remnant of what was under , taken Is left. Mr. Holt has gone Into i other work, and the mission appropria j tions have been discontinued. J ' It would be Interesting to have a J statement of the actual money ex-i- pended in this and other "settlement" jj work in Portland, but-probably it can not be had. The patient, yet futile or . useless labor, nothing can repay. The Baptists also established a '( "mission" in Portland of considerable pretensions. All old-timers remember , the school in the Baptist Church at Alder and Fifth street, where Henry Failing gave free room, and money besides. There was a white superin tendent; and a native preacher with . his veneer of Christianity was added. j Much effort and much money were I expended. Now the "mission" has dwindled to nothing, or to some little room where night school Is held by girls of course we are told, under the care of a native Chinese. A similar "mission" was started by the Methodists a great while ago under Rev. J. T. Hansen if we correctly recall the name an American mis sionary formerly in China, who was called home to superintend the work, which had the support of the Meth odist Missionary Society. It has dragged along and dwindled under the superintendency of Drs. Hansen, Cllne and others, and later of a native Chinese, till now it is nearly extinct. A few Chinese perhaps still come in to be taught to read and write, but for teachers their demand is only for good looking young white women. Likewise the Church of the United Brethren started out In earnest to con , vert and to Christianize the Chinese of Portland. Their Home Missionary Society placed Rev. Dr. Slckafoose in charge. The effort continued for years, but at last was abandoned as fruitless. The Christian (Campbelllte) Church has made similar effort, at first under care of a Chinaman, who quit it after a while to go back to China, where he can use his smatter of knowledge for practice of medicine. This "mission," like some other things that are bigger at birth than ever afterward, we find on inquiry "hangs on about so so." The Protestant ! Episcopal Church in Portland has made some effort In the same line, we think, but with results similar to the rest. Whether the Catholics have essayed the like we are not at present informed. Probably the practical worldly wisdom for which they are known keeps them out of It. Yet the effort to convert and Chrls . tlanlze the Chinese here probably would have been more observable or ' showy In its results but for the laws ; that have restricted immigration of ' Chinese. But the various Chinese Christian missions have never been ; much else than night schools, where ! Chinese might learn to read and write i English a little, and thus help them selves In commercial Intercourse with ; white. But the Chinaman will always j be Indifferent to an American male ' teacher, or to an elderly woman. He ! can be interested only In or by good i looking young white women; and every '. Chinaman who can pay the price wants a handsome young woman poacher all to himself, and if he can fJie will-pay the price to get her. Then he will permit no other Chlnaman-to pay her any kind of attention. Benevolent people of the East, and many In Portland, contributing mis sionary money, are and have been en tirely Ignorant of the true state of . these "missions" among Chinese In Portland, San Francisco and other Pa j cine Coast cities. After more than ' twenty years of effort and the expendi yture of large sums of money, the Chinese churches in Portland, if any jxist, have not a dollar's worth of real property or any kind of foundation to show as a result, but only a small pgroup of "boys," as they are called, . meeting in or moving from one little t batty room to another with the pretty white girl always the chief attraction. Portland has many Chinese children. few of whom are In any way connected witn tne regular Sunday schools of the various churches. All are taught to follow In the footsteps of their an cient Asiatic parentage. To the Ori ental mind In general Christianity makes no appeal. All professions of "conversion" are for temporary pur poses, with calculated advantages. The sexual Instinct In its meanest phases is the main source of the desire of the Chinese young men for the company and Instruction of young white women. If the system were merely useless it might pass without severe comment, but It Is simply an abomination, of which the natural fruits now and again appear. To repeat what it has said before. The Oregonlan calls It mis guided effort, and it would like to add every emphasis In its power to the exclamation, "O, reform It altogether!" Admitting that the effort is sincere and benevolent, it nevertheless Is the product of a misdirected religious zeal and devotion, which like other good things may be turned, and in this case is turned, to various abuses and to no good. Oriental peoples cannot be "converted" to Christianity, for the Oriental mind and spirit are as God or Nature made them, and can't be made over again. But there may be developed a considerable varnish, film, or pellicle of hypocrisy, likely to de ceive superficial observation for a time. MOVING VANCOUVER POST: Seattle is still keeping up the fight for removal of the headquarters of the Department of the Columbia from Vancouver to Seattle. There has of course been no good reason advanced why this change should be made. There can be no other honest reason advanced than that Seattle is desirous of having the post located in that city. As the Government has in Vancouver one oX the finest sites for a military post that can be found anywhere in the country and has invested large sums In its improvement and perma nent equipment, abandonment would mean a loss of very heavy proportions with no compensating advantages. From either a transportation or a strategic standpoint, Vancouver is in finitely preferable to any location that could be selected on Puget Sound. As Seattle has thus far failed to advance any good reason for the change, the Tacoma Tribune comes to the front with a possible explanation of the attitude of the Elliott Bay me tropolis. The Tribune asserts that Vancouver is in effect only a suburb of Portland and adds that "Portland does not- need the headquarters, being the undoubted metropolis of the great Columbia River, basin .and one of the richest cities per capita in the United States." Continuing, the Tacoma paper asserts that: Seattle stands in great need of the head quarters, because she has no valley back of her to speak of; handles comparatively little lumber and grain, the two leading commodities produced In this state; is on a very steep hillside, necessitating enormous cost of cartage; short on level lands needed for railroad yards and other facilities; den olent In her harbor In vital particulars and stands to lose such Oriental trade as she has amassed by reason of her disadvan tageous geographical location and the con sequent change In routing of freight from the over-mountain lines, which are tribu tary to her, to the new line of water-level through the mountains at their base which la not tributary to her. Taking this cheerful view of the matter, the Tribune expresses the fear that the failure of Seattle to relieve Vancouver of the military post will be followed by a slump jn values which might affect both Portland and Ta coma. For this reason, Portland Is urged to yield and save Seattle from ruin. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Floating' around in many minds there is a vague expectation that the failure of the Republican Senate to re vise the tariff downward may turn the country over to the Democrats in 1912 and revolutionize the parties in Congress even sooner. There are signs already that Mr. Bryan is pluming his wings for another flight at the close of Mr. Taft's Administration. It will be remembered that he has promised not to decline In case the exigencies of his party call upon him for another campaign for the Presidency, and in running for the Federal Senate his principal purpose must be to keep him self in the public eye. As a' Senator Mr. Bryan would cut but an insignifi cant figure. He would not unite with the impious' band who have Joined the Aldrich forces to raise the tariff and enrich the trusts, nor would he adopt the tactics by which Mr. Tillman has raised himself to a conspicuous if not enviable position. Both these facts are doubtless to Mr. Bryan's credit, but for all that the man of lone and in flexible opinions cannot hope to accom plish much in the Senate Just now. It is doubtful whether he could even as sume the role of martyr and keep up an unbroken stream of protest like Mr. La Follette. for in spite of his devo tion to some unpopular and despised, if not despicable, opinions. Mr. Bryan contains little of the stuff from which martyrs are made. - Of course he knows how small he would look in the Senate beside the Rhode Island colossus who bestrides the pigmy representatives of the other states. It is a strange fact per haps that the smallest and most cor rupt commonwealth in the Union should tyrannize over all the others in the upper house of Congress, but it is undeniable, and Mr. Bryan, if he should by some chance enter that body, would find himself obliged either to bow his head to the master, as Bailey does though he pretends not or stalk up and down in ineffectual protest, like La Follette. Neither course is quite consonant with Mr. Bryan's character. One imagines, therefore, that he would not enjoy himself in. the Senate, even if he could get there, and that he would look upon the toga as an advertisement rather than as a token of substantial power. Be that as it may, there is reason to believe that the nascent hopes of Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party are built upon shifting sand. When the winds blow and the rains descend they will sink in cureless ruin. To make capital out of the failure of the Re publicans the Democrats must give some grounds for thinking that they would do better if they had the oppor tunity. Have they rjiven any such grounds? Mr. Aldrich could not have carried a single one of his outrageous increases of duties if he had not been able to rely upon a clique of Demo crats. They have not all voted for every new burden upon the people, but some of them have, and in every case Mr. Aldrich could count upon enough Democrats to gain his end. In a very real sense, therefore, the country will owe its new tariff burdens to the Democrats. If they had not stood by the trusts and upheld the champion of the trusts in every exi gency, the tariff would have been low ered, as Mr. Taft promised it should be. Senators like Mr. Heyburn would not have dared to flout and ridicule Mr. Taft's promises openly, saying nobody had made them' except some irrespon sible babbler, unless the Republican attorneys of privilege had been sure of the support of . the Democrats. The Republican insurgents could have thwarted the Aldrich conspiracy and enabled Mr. Taft to keep' his word to the letter if the Democrats had not shamelessly betrayed . their party pledges and thrown their strength to the side of the spoilers. It was the same way In the House when the fight was on for revision of the rules and clipping the exorbitant power of the Speaker. This power was so great that it made every member a helpless suppliant to Mr. Cannon. Nobody had complained of the senseless tyranny more bitterly than the Democrats, but in the crisis of the battle what did they do? They turned traitor to their principles and went over to the en. emy. . The country will not be satisfied with a tariff which plucks every citi zen to feather the nests of a few mil lionaires, but unless the people should suddenly go crazy they will not think of turning, to the Democrats for re lief. As well set the wolf to guard the lamb. The only genuine and forceful opposition to the Aldrich tariff con spiracy has been in the ranks of the Republicans. Not a word of real pro test has been heard from Democratic Senators, while many of them have openly lent a hand to the freebooters. On what grounds, pray, do the Demo crats expect to ask for the confidence of the voters? ntlESDS AND. THEIR USES. Insurance Commissioner Schively could of course simplify the trouble some Washington situation by resign ing. But he will do nothing of the kind. He will make all the worry, trouble and expense he can to the very end. The worst that can happen to him as the result of his trial will be that he will lose his Job. That he is putting his friends in the State Senate to a severe test when he demands that they stand by him, since they must thus openly ally themselves with a known grafter, does not greatly dis turb Schively. Friends were made for him to get all he can out of, no matter at what cost or with what humiliation to them. And Schively has friends. He counts them by the thousands. They live all over Washington. They proved their loyalty to him and their utter indif ference to the state's welfare and honor by giving him last September by far the largest vote cast for any candidate for Insurance Commissioner In the direct primary. Many of them then knew all about Schively. All of them ought to have known, for the facts had been everywhere published. But they were determined to "vindi cate" Schively. They did. But who will now vindicate them from the im putation of having acted unwisely and inconsiderately and in defiance of the general good? Who and what also will vindicate the direct primary from the charge that it may be, and generally is, made the instrument or vehicle for placing unfit men in office? In no other way and by no other method could Schively have been nom inated and the state thus dishonored. If Schively shall be dismissed from office by the Legislature, he will, of course, expect to be "vindicated" again. Why not? MISREPRESENTING PORTLAND. . ' The Oregonlan is in receipt of a pamphlet Issued by the California River and Harbor League, an organ ization of California property owners who announce their object "to secure for the producers and consumers of the state that measure of relief against railroad exaction and discrimination in freight charges which can only be had by the immediate and proper improve ment of all the navigable rivers and harbors of the state." The Oregonlan is fully in sympathy with the worthy purpose of the league, but must enter emphatic protest against some of the statements we find in Its pamphlet. In a report written by one J. T. Flytirr appears the remarkable statement that the only place upon the Pacific Coast where a 10,000-ton ship could land today without permission from a trans continental railroad is San Francisco. Continuing, this strange report says: Every commercial dock on the Pacific Coast, commencing at Belllngham. the most northerly port on Puget Sound, and includ ing Everett, Seattle. Tacoma, Port Town send, Astoria. Portland. Oakland, San Pedro and San Diego, is either owned outright or controlled by one or more of the transconti nental railroads. Jim Hill owns practically all of the docks of Seattle, Everett and Belllngham, and all the docks of Tacoma not owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, while Harrlman owns every commercial dock in Portland and Astoria, and about every dock In the State of Cali fornia, except those owned by the state in San Francisco. So far as Portland is concerned nothing could be much farther from the truth. Exclusive of many small docks at which eoasting steamers land and discharge, and not including the new dock owned by the city of $t. John, there are in Portland Harbor eleven private docks, in which neither Harriman nor any other railroad man is interested. These private docks ag gregate 4719 feet in length, with an average depth of more than 2 00 feet and a total storage capacity of nearly 175,000 tons. There are in this city four Harrlman docks of 33,000 tons capacity, and one Hill dock of some thing more than 50,000 tons capacity. This port, far from being at the mercy of the railroads for dock facilities, is better provided with independent docks than any other port on the Pa cific Coast. - To this fact more than to any other cause is due the preference shown this city by independent grain buyers seek ing a location. With the exception of flour, which is shipped in from interior points in transit for the Orient or for California, practically all of the grain shipped from Portland goes into the vessels from independent docks in no way controlled by the railroads. Portland has more than twice as many grain dealers as all Puget Sound ports combined, for no other reason than that, no matter how large or how "small the business of these dealers may be, they can always secure dock space for their grain on even terms with their competitors. The advant ages of this Independent dock system are reflected in the shipments for the season Just closing. For the first eleven months of the season Portland grain dealers shipped 10,092,660 bushels, while the shipments of all ports on Puget Sound were but 6,565, 561 bushels. If the California River and Harbor League is desirous of commanding the attention and enjoying the confidence of the public it will do well to be more careful in its statements regarding commercial facilities of ports outside of California. " Let all fathers and mothers keep their daughters, and all friends of hu manity keep the young women of the land, out of Chinese missions and slum work. " But the pretended seekers of Christianity from Cathay, and the general frequenters of the slums, don't want old or middle-aged men or wom en for teachers. . They want good looking young white women. It is easy to see on what side the degrada tion will be. Stop the miserable folly of trying to "do good" and to "pro mote the Christian religion" by such methods. No spiritual religion is for such as these. Don't sacrifice the young women by exposing them to the dangers. The "slum mission" never builds' up. It only pulls down the pure and inexperienced who at tempt it. The Orientals are as God made them. Let them alone except as we have to carry on our negotiation through commerce, or by gunpowder. That's a job for men, not for our girls and young women. There has seldom been the shadow of a doubt in the mind of the gill-net fishermen as to what method of fish ing was the most destructive for the salmon. The trapman, the wheelman and the seiner have also had pro nounced views to the effect that it was the "other fellows' " method that was ruining the industry. To the positive views held by these men is due much of the " perplexity that is noticeable when a conscientious member of the Legislature endeavors to frame up a bill for the . best interests of salmon protection. Despite these differences of opinion among the fishermen, there is food for thought in an interview credited to W. H. Tafte in yesterday's Oregonlan. If the seines are causing one-tenth the destruction that Mr. Tafte charges them with their use should be prohibited. Almost prohibitive is the price of apples in Eastern markets, reports W. K. Newell of the Oregon Horticultural Society. Same right here In Portland. Still at 5 cents apiece for choice Spitzenbergs in season, the fruit finds ready sale. Last year the supply did not equal the demand. Evidently the Montana capitalists who invested a princely fortune, in Rogue River Val ley orchards the other day have no such fear as Mr. Newell voices. Grow fine apples and you'll get enough cus tomers to eat your entire crop at "al most prohibitive prices." There is a multitude of people in this world able to pay 60 cents a dozen for the world's finest fruit, and the world Is Oregon's market. Official orders have been issued at Winnipeg, Manitoba, prohibiting any United States circus from parading the streets of Winnipeg unless it flies a British instead of an American flag. International complications will hardly result from this order, for so long as the patriotic Canadians will put up the coin of the realm for admission tickets the circus management will obligingly fly any old flag that is re quired" Still, Canada should not get gay with American circus managers, for some of them might take offense at these orders and refuse to show across the line and a Canadian circus in com parison to the American article is a tame and uninteresting affair. The Hartford Courant. strong, sup porter of protection, says: The policy of protecting manufactories which sell their goods cheaper to foreigners than to the people who give them protec tion Is what we cannot stand ton It Is pro tection, tbut for the other fellow at our -expense This is very well. A remedy of the evil or wrong is proposed. . It is free admission into the United States of goods made here and sold abroad at the reduced rates. For example: If a man can buy an American cash regis ter In London for 150 that costs $300 here, let him send over and get It and have it shipped to him here at home. South Carolina produces 10,000 pounds of tea per annum, and Tillman. her able Senator, insisted yesterday on protection for tea 10 cents a pound saying that such duty would develop a great industry in South Carolina. It was rejected, however, by 55 to 18. The effort of the Demo cratic Senator from South Carolina is another sign that the tariff is a local question. Every cent of the $61,000 allotted to Oregon for preserving forests will be needed, and much more besides. This has been a dry season. Unrelaxed vig. llance will be necessary the next two months if disastrous fires are to be prevented. If Washington bridegrooms should induce the Legislature to enact a law requiring physicians to submit to ex amination tests occasionally, the ad vantages would be considerable but would not be appreciated by the doc tors. Ninety-four per cent of the Third Oregon inrantry appeared In fighting trim for Inspection Monday night. It Is clear now why the Japs were afraid to attack us. They- had spies in Port- mna. If the Wright brothers want to be sure of mild weather, absence of high winds or rain storms, or any other vio lent meteorological disturbances, let them bring their airship to Portland. "Even the Republicans," says the ues Moines Register, "who declared that the tariff should be revised by its friends, didn't know how many mends it had among the Democrats. Several carloads of watermelons are on the way to Portland from the bouth. It is our - recollection that melons are a warm weather luxury. wny not wait till Summer? When you go to Seattle you will see everywhere the obtrudina- nntloo "You'll Like Tacoma." But really one ought not to have to see Seattle in order to like Tacoma. Speak softly, and carrv a his- mii ready to break out tomorrow. There's only one more day of Mayor Harry Lane. Perhaps Mr. Seufert thought he was going to capture one of his ancient Astoria enemies in a salmon trap. At last our Lane Is about to turn mto tne ways and delights of private life. "Leon Ling can't get away," cry the iew lore pouce. vveu, ne did. DEMOCRATS IX THE SENATE. The Party Organisation There Wholly Demoralised. Washington Letter to Brooklyn- Eagle. The Internal workings of the Demo cratic organization in the Senate are in a bad way. The minority is wholly demoralized, with no plans for con certed action. There Is much personal friction under the surface because Democrats continue to vote with Al drich, and now Senator Bailey Is to knock higher than a kite the tradi tional doctrine of free raw material. Senator Culberson, the acknowledged leader of the minority, is disgusted with his job and has practically quit. He found early in the game that he was a leader who couldn't lead. As Senator Tillman expressed it. Senator Aldrich has "seduced" all the Democrats he needs to -cure a safe majority on every vote. Culberson has never known how his men would line up when the clerk began calling the roll. Finding no cohesion among the Democrats, he has become disgusted and has practic ally eliminated himself from the tariff discussion. He has said scarcely a word for the past three weeks. Senator Bailey thereupon elected him self a leader for the minority. On every occasion he steps forward and outlines the Intentions of the Democrats. No body knows who gave Mr. Bailey this authority. In fact, his assumption of the leadership has given rise to a great deal of trouble. There have been some hot times among tho Democrats in the secrecy of committee rooms and cloak rooms. Bailey's habit of "hogging" the center- of the stage and stating the policy of the minority is deeply re sented. It is resented especially in some quarters because Bailey's views do not happen to meet those of other .Democrats. The Texas Senator is preparing a speech announcing the new Democratic doctrine of no free raw material- Critics of Bailey declare he has taken this stand in order to retain the friendship of the cattle-raisers of his state. The cattlemen of Texas exert a big in fluence in politics. They are dead set against the proposal to put hides on the free list, and it is thought this fact has a great deal to do with Senator Bailey's sudden advocacy of a tax upon raw materials. It has Just leaked out that Bailey had a warm set-to with big Ollie James, of Kentucky, in the Democratic cloak room the other day. James is a staunch supporter of Bryan. He took Bailey se verely to task for his repudiation of the time-honored Democratic doctrine of free raw materials. He also sprung a speech made by Bailey when the Mc Klnley bill was under consideration in the House, in which the Texas man declared for this principle. Aldrich has given practically no con cern to the Democratic opposition in the tariff fight. The only thing that has caused him worry has been the ac tivity of the Republican insurgents, led by La Follette and Dolliver. He has had the reassuring knowledge that he could get at any time as many Demo cratic votes as he needed. Simmons, White, Daniels and four or five others voted for lumber duties. They called it a "revenue duty." That's the ex cuse given by every Democrat when he votes for upward revision. It was the same way with other Democratic Sen ators on iron, cotton and other im portant schedules. A few of them asked for prohibitive or protective rates with no pretense of the "revenue" disguise. These included the Florida Senators, who want a monoply of the home mar ket for oranges, lemons and other fruits. . One Democrat has so far forgotten his party allegiance that he votes with the Aldrich crowd nearly all the time. He is Senator McEnery of Louisiana. The supposed consideration for his loy al support of the Republicans is a stiff duty on rice, cotton and sugar. Sen ator Bailey no longer criticises Mc Enery for voting with the Republicans, although he singled out Senator Hughes for a sharp attack because the latter was the only other Democrat to vote for a duty on lead. There was much secret rejoicing on the minority side at the rough handling of Senator Bailey by Senator Hughes in their encounter last week. The fact is that Bailey has followed the role of professional scold and general censor of the morals and political actions of other Senators so long that he has made himself unpopular. If there is a breach of Senatorial etiquette or a more serious offense. Bailey is the first to spring it to the front with a rebuke. The fact that he does not discriminate between Republicans and Democrats in distrib uting his scoldings and reprimands has not endeared him to the minority mem bers. Consequently, when he was neat ly trimmed by Senator Hughes last week there was much secret satlsfac tion on the Democratic side. It was conceded that the newcomer gave to Bailey just the "dressing down" he needed. Hughes' pointed reference to Bailey's trust entanglements made the latter squirm. It was the general com ment that Hughes had done a fine. Job of extracting the tall feathers from the Texas Senator. Some of the more optimistic of the Democratic Senators claim to have found a new political issue. They are hopeful, as usual, that it will prove tne means ox sweeping them Into power, although they have succeeded in con vincing very few that their hopes are well founded. The new issue is to be the Income tax. Gore and one or two others have figured it out that the Senate will beat the income tax. They hope to line up all the Democrats solid ly in favor of it, thereby Impressing the country with the- fact that the measure was beaten by the Renubll cans. They then believe the President's amendment to the Constitution will likewise be beaten by Republican states. They think they will be able to have the country understand that the Republican party, by corrunt maninn lation. was responsible for the defeat of this popular measure. They hone to create enough feeling on the subject to manufacture a new political issue from it. They are now talking about an Income tax as the issue of the next Presidential campaign. How One Cona-ressman Is Unlit. Rochester (N. Y.) Herald. Senator Beveridge was criticizing the ludicrous speeches of a certain upright, but hot-headed Congressman. "He . doe 3 make queer blunders, doesn't he?" said Senator Beveridge. "Have you heard about his latest? Well, It seems that a constituent, visiting him recently, complained of, the shabbiness of a pair of lnk-stalned crash trousers than he had on. " 'A man of your position,' said the constituent, reproachfully, 'ought to wear handsomer trousers than those.' "The Congressman, offended, answered reproachfully: " 'My trousers may be shabby, but they cover a warm and honest heart.' " Those Prayers ' for Rain. Umpqua Valley News. The people of Salem are praying for rain. Well, they might as well be do ing that as anything else. It will take up their idle time between ses sions of the State Legislature. Eugene Guard. When Oregon faces a crisis or ca lamity in the future, all that is neces sary to do is to ask Colonel Hofer t lead In prayer. THE PROPOSED CORPORATION TAX The Objections Crged Heretofore by The Oregonlan Conflrmed and Emphasised. Every objection to the proposed corpora tion tax, urg;d by The Oregonlan since the subject was broached two or three weeks ago Is confirmed by the opinions and argu ments of leading Journals of the Eastern States. The proposition La surely a mistake: for It would result not only In unequal taxa tion, but In exemption from tax of the great single masses of capital In the coun try. The following article from the Spring field (Mass.) Republican ought to be read Kvucraujr ana wen considered: To all appearances the nature of the proposed federal tax on corporation net earnings la not generally understood. Most people seem to identify it with the tax placed on net corporation incomes in connection with the individual incomes as by the income tax law of 1S94 which was overthrown in the United States Sup reme Court in 1896. On the contrary, there are certain important differences to be observed. The corporation tax may be levied in the same way in both cases, but the results will necessarily be radi cally cunrerent when it is applied without in on maiviaual incomes trom what they will be when the tax la nnniiori in connection with a general Income tax. Let it be said at the outset that llttl. justification exists for n. it tlon incomes when the government la tax ing individual incomes. First or last all corporation incomes find their way to in dividual pockets and are there taxed aoove a certain amount: and when the income is taxed in the hands of the cor poration and atraln wntn If rem.... . , individual we have a double taxation of no sort or use or essential bearing upon the effort to makA minorflnnno waaHh bear its fair share in the support of tne government. But let this pass. The point now to be considered is that a tax simply on cor poration net earnlnn volves injustice and presents broad oppor tunities for evasion which are wanting when applied in connection with a general inaiviauai income tax. The injustices are manifest. The "bloated in this case escapes altogether, but not individual incomes are also tax ed. The man who assumes all the risks or uncertainties of a corporate business is to be taxed under the Taft plan, while the man who reposes upon all its cer tainties is exempt. Risk or ownership capital In corporate undertakings is taxed while the same kind of capital In partner ship undertakinrrs la frpmnt n,.- u lionalres like Mr. Carnegie, whose wealth mostly in Donoea Investments, go free, while the owner of no more than one share of stock In Is taxed. The common sense of Justice outraged by any such proposition. ureat nowever. as this objection is another of a more serious character re mains to be considered the opportunities offered for evasion which are largely ab sent when the corporation Income tax is applied along with an individual income tax. The smaller corporations under the Taft plan can quite easily dodge the whole levy and all that it involves by simply dissolving into a partnership form of doing business. Corporations of only a few stockholders can easily make places for them In the management of the com THE PROTECTION GRAB-BAG. The Logic That Guides Senators and Shapes Tariffs. New York Evening Post. The one thing to be thankful for, at least, is that the disreputable game is being carried on more and more openly. Highway robbery is only aggravated by hypocracy. Here and there a Demo cratic Senator still thinks it necessary to explain that In voting with Aldrich on this thing he is no worse than the other Democrat who voted with Aldrich on the other thing. But such explana tions are growing refreshingly rare. It remained for Mr. Lodge to give classic expression, scholar that he is, to the logic that guides Senators and shapes tariffs: I have never been through a tariff discus sion without observing what would be called consistencies. ... I will take one general Instance. I voted, I shall vote again, for free binding twine, but on the strict principle of protection there is no reason why that Industry should not be protected as well as any other. . . . We under stand why such things are done. Other reasons which are both obvious and natural p.-evail over rigid economic principles. I have seen often In this debate, that when the hoary iniquity of the tariff has ap proached some local industry, even the most austere reformer of other people's indus tries, "will take his shrivelled hand without resistance and Ond him smiling as his step draws rear." I have thought more than once of the familiar lines: "Tls sweet to hear the honest watchdog's birk Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home." Can a sweeter disclaimer of the Eighth Commandment be conceived? Clear ness, sentiment, learning, wisdom are all there. "When it's your pockets, we are disinterested. When It's our pock ets, we are inconsistent." A MODERN DANIEL) YEA, A DANIEL And He Reveals What His state of Culture Is. Pendleton East Oregonlan. In selecting his "five feet of books," Dr. Charles W. Eliot, ex-president of Harvard, is not meeting with the ap proval of the average humble citizen. The books chosen thus far by the dis tinguished educator are all relics of a dusty antiquity. They are books that are found upon the shelves of nearly every large library, but are sejdom read. That they are great books all will admit. But they are of the past and not the present They are literary mummies. The reader of today wants a book in which he can feel the breath of life. He would rather read a live, cracking story by O. Henry, William Allen White or some other popular writer than to pore over Bunyan's "Pil grim's Progress" or "Plutarch's Lives." It may se that the modern writers are below the ancient authors in the mat ter of literary excellence. But at least they are more interesting. People are more Interested in the living than in the dead. . . Ballade of a. Modern Poet's Woe. Carolyn Wells in Harper's. Merrily sounds my bounding lyro When lyrics to ladies I would essay; My music is touched with dlvinest lire When I sing of girls that are glad and gay. The merry mischief of roguish May. The blushing glance of demure Florette, Set my heart athrill! But tell me. pray. How can I sing to a Suffragette? Feminine foibles my pen Inspire; Smiling caprices I'd fain obev. My cadences rival an angel choir When I warble of woman's winsome way. Round a trusting sweetheart my fancies play. A shy. sweet maid or a fair coquette; But my Muse in a flowery field would stray How can I sing to a Suffragette? Of dominant Dames I am not a squire; No "able appeals' my opinions sway. The Leagued ladies arouse my Ire, I shrink from their fevered fret and fray How can I trill a lilting- lay To Matron or Maid like a martinet? Whether her hair be gold or gray How can I sing to a Suffragette ? LENVOI. Poets, forsooth 'twas a fair array. The ladles you sang tn the older day: And I strum ycur measures with vain re gret Sow can I sing to a Suffragette T pany and pay out of the salaries (oper ating expenses) what would otherwise ga to net Income and dividends. Similarly, as no individual Income tax lies in wait on tne outside of the corporation, as it were, under the Taft plan, incentive with in the corporation is Increased greatly to find other ways of diverting earnings before they reach the form to be made taxable by the proposed scheme. The consequence of this is that the Federal government under the Taft nlan must exercise an espionage in the affairs or an Duslness corporations and a direc tion of the bookkeeping and accounting which would be unnecessary in the case of a general income tax. It the tax is to be imposed with any degree of fair ness at all as between the stockholders of the several corporations, a federal ac countant Will have to be placed in every corporation counting-room throughout the country. The President is said not to believe this, but his commissioner of cor porations, H. K. Smith, who has been having some experience in the mattet of corporation accounting, is quoted ai declaring that "to keep the corporations in line and prevent their evasion of the tax would require a force of special agents and examiners as large as the standing Army of the United States." And Mr. Smith's practical knowledge of the requirements of the case is no doubt to be placed above that of the President. And all this merely on behalf of raising no more than $26,000,000 Federal revenue as against a yearly total now collected by the government of above JSOO.000.000! Surely one of the most extraordinary fis cal propositions ever presented by the res ponsible public authority. Revenue ob viously cannot be its chief purpose. What then should be done? The mere question of additional revenue is easily to be determined. The best course to pursue would be to impose a general in come tax as the Democrats and insurgent Republicans propose, with, say, additional and temporary stamp taxes to make up the revenue deficit pending a rehearing of the income tax question before the Supreme Court. Even a tax on corpor ation dividends (as distinct from net earn ings or income) is much to be preferred as a temporary measure to this proposed plan: for, while objectionable on the grounds of equity, it could be collected with very little trouble or expense. If it is deemed unwise to presume so greatly upon a reversal by the Supreme Court of its 1S95 judgment, then the programme of a constitutional amendment for an income tax could be followed, with the substitu tion of stamp taxes, or even of a corpor ate dividend tax, for this scheme of the President, as a temporary measure. Then, granting the need of closer Fed eral control of corporations engaged in Interstate Commerce, let that question toe dealt with by itself. Why force it into a tariff and revenue discussion 1 Why divert attention at this moment from a troublesome tariff and revenue question to this other problem of even greater difficulties? And in any case who has thought of or is prepared to indorse a plan of Federal control of corporations which draws no distinctions whatevei among them in regard to restraint or in terstate trade, but places the Federal regulative power In every corporate counting-room wholly regardless of mon opolistic character or relationship to in terstate commerce? THE PASSING TRIBUTE OF A SIGH Farewell to Tariff Reform by the South ern Democratic Party. Watterson's Editorial in Louisville Courier-Journal. The Courier-Journal has been saying for years that as protectionism reced- tssl lit -Ka XT M . . S Z.Z 7 "utlu wouia rise in the South. Aldrich is finding some of his most useful support on the Southern side of the Senate Chamber. The Courier-Journal fought, bled and died as a tariff reformer during the ?fades Inte"vening between 1876 and 1896. Beginning in 1876 with the de mand that all "Custom-House taxation f.J,?Iy for revenue," to end In ib, with the abandonment of revenue reform for free silver and a semi-protectionist fusion with Republicans and Populists, the Democratic party has made a circuit of most of the fads and fancies of the modern groping about alter Utopia, some of them wise and many of them otherwise, but all of them abortive. -?U,.1i us rePeat. the Courler-Jour-f f car,n8r " As we observed in the beginning, it fit, bled and died long ago. What other Democrats can stand we can stand. Hurrah for piracy' Long wave fhe black flag! We shall never take Interest in any tariff "re vision that does not start with a bon fire of every schedule and every elassl flcatlon now upon the statute books. Let the robbing go on. ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE. Provision 'of New Law Applicable to Multnomah County. 1(PClRlLAKD' June 29. (To the Ed itorsWhat law was passed at the last session of the Legislature in re frar, to stock running at large in Multnomah County? What provision was made for its enforcement? J. A. G. An act to prohibit animals from run ning at large in Multnomah County west of the Sandy River. It is now unlawful for cattle; horses mules, sheep, goats or hogs to run at large in that part of Multnomah Coun ty which lies west of the Sandy River. Any animal above mentioned found running at large may be taken up by any person, who must immediately noti fy the owner If the owner be known; if not, he must post notices and pub lish notices in the nearest weekly newspaper. t The owner may retake possession by paying the finder a special sum per day for the animal's keep and the cost of publication. If owner do(es not appear, the finder, after posting notices and advertising, must sell the animals at public auction. He is allowed to retain a certain speci fied sum for the animals' keep and other expenses. He must turn the bal ance over to the County Court. For further particulars, see page 375 of the general laws of Oregon passed by the last Legislature. It seems to be "everybody's business" to enforce the law. Human Nature Deflnrd. New York Evening Post. "Father, what is human nature? I heard a man say it was human nature for the Southern Senators to vote for high duties on sugar and pineapples." 'Human nature, my son. Is the excuse commonly offered for a man who has been acting like a hog." I Know Not. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the Nautilus Death,., I know not what room you are abid ing In. But I will go my way. Rejoicing day by dav. Nor will I flee, or stay. For fear I tread the patn you may be hiding Death. I know not If my small bark be nearing you. But If you are at sea. Still shall my sails float free What Is to be will-be; NOryou" 1 th naDpy voyage by fearing Death. I know not what hour or spot you wait for me. v M My days untroubled flow; Just trusting on I For ah! I know, I know Death Is but life that holds s3me triad new fate for me.