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THE "MORNING OREGONIAX. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1910. 8 PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Fdstoffice as Ceoond-Class Matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In . Advance.' (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year .$3.00 Ially, Sunday Included, six months 4.25 Ially. Sunday Included, three months.. 2.2.1 Iatly. Sunday included, one month..... .75 Dallv, without Sunday, one year 6.O0 pally, without Sunday, six months 3.23 Xiaily, without Sunday, three months... 1.75 Tially, without Sunday, one month...... .60 "Weekly, one year 1-50 Sunday, one year . . 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one year 3.50 (By Carrier.) Ially, Funday Included, one year 9.00 Xally, Sunday Included, oog month 75 How to Remit Send Postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank, Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full, including county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages, 1 cent; 16 to SS pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, 3 cents; 40 to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Fast era Business Office The S. C. Beck with Special Agency New York, rooms 48 F0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-512 fTrnbune building. JPORTXAHD. TUESDAY, JAJf. 18. 1910. OLXEY AND BRITISH POLITICS. The serious illness of Richard Olney Recalls the distinguished part he played jn international politics when he was Beci-etary of State under Cleveland. ' The Presidential message of December S7, 1895, on the Venezuelan question, srav.e the Monroe Doctrine definite standing as a pact of international law. Before that time it had been tacitly ac cepted pretty generally, but had not toeen admitted to the assured standing which Americans deem essential to the public welfare. Naturally, as Sec retary of State, Mr. Olney was respon sible for this remarkably vigorous message. It took the ground that even if the Monroe Doctrine had not thitherto been explicitly admitted to the code of international law, still it belonged there since "in International councils very nation is entitled to. its rights." The Monroe Doctrine, Mr. Olney ar gued, deserves recognition because of "those principles of international law which are based upon the theory that every nation shall have its rights pro tected and its Just claims enforced." The Monroe Doctrine was involved in this affair through Great Britain's claim to a slice of territory which Venezuela also claimed. Mr. Olney, ep.eaklng for the President, urged Congress to send a commission to ex amine the disputed tract without prejudice, and, in case their report should be against Great Britain, he plainly intimated that war would be preferable to any relaxation of the strict intention of the Monroe Doc trine. The message caused great ex citement. War was freely predicted end actually seemed probable for a time, but it was averted. Though the commission was appointed and report ed unfavorably to the British, various ' circumstances combined to induce both the interested parties to submit to arbitration. For one thing, the commission was composed of men manifestly compe tent and above prejudice. Such names as Andrew D. White and D. C. Gilman, who were both members, guaranteed Its unwavering impartiality while their profound scholarship compelled re Kpect. But still more powerful on the Bide of peace was the universal sense that war between Great Britain and the United States would be an unpar donable crime against Christian civili zation. Long before 1895 American resentment toward England for its un friendly conduct during the Civil War had lost its bitterness'. Travel and commerce, the consciousness of com mon race and. language; had wrought their beneficent effect so fully that thoughtful men on both sides of the Atlantic were horrified at the prospect of bloodshed. When- finally the ctoild blew over, the opinion seemed to be universal in botn countries that no future war between them was possible. The transient threats of hostility in the time of Cleveland tended to strengthen peace by forcing both Eng lish and Americans to contemplate the unspeakable disasters of impending war. . Since the happy outcome of Mr. Ol ney's aggressive Venezuelan policy, nothing of consequence has disturbed the. peaceful relations between the United States and Great Britain. Friendliness has become so confirmed that . enthusiasts sometimes speak of the two nations as members of an' in formal federation, perhaps all the more closely united, because the- bonds are but half acknowledged. . The sim ilarity of -their Institutions and ours makes the politics of each country deeply interesting to the other. Brit ish tariff "reformers" confessedly base their theories on the results of Amer ican protection, while our radicals of every type find hope and comfort in the progress of advanced ideas in Great Britain. In spite of their mon archical government, the British en Joy a more flexible constitution than ours, and popular aspirations are more . speedily embodied in the stat utes. For that reason transatlantic political ideas are in some degree a guide and inspiration to progressive Americans. The island empire presents a great experimental field where ideas are worked out in practice for our in struction. Thus Americans look to Kng land to study old-age pensions, the parcels post, government ownership of the telegraph and municipal operation of public utilities. The Lloyd-George budget deeply interests another section of our radicals by the extent to which it taxes land values. Their cry that It enacts the "single tax" or anything like the single tax Is absurd. EASTER MONEY' MARKET. The back-flow of gold from the In . terlor to New York has set in full and strong, according to the New York bank statement appearing Saturday. Every year a large amount of money is taken out of New York for payment of January dividends, and. as these requirements must be met almost si multaneously with the demand for corn and cotton crop-moving, the drain on the cash, reserves of the metropolis is always heavy. If there are clouds on the financial horizon, the return flow of this money is slow and of small proportions, but this year It seems to have moved with alacrity. The surplus reserve held by the asso ciated banks of New York, on Janu ary 8, dropped to $4,765,325, the low est point reached since early last Oc tober. So quickly did the January disbursements find their way back Into Wall street that the reserve for the week ending last Saturday was more than $22,000,000, the highest point reached since August 14. This sudden rush of money was fol lowed by a. slight easing of rate, but the situation is still somewhat uncer tain. There seems to be plenty of money for all legitimate industrial un dertakings, but not so much as usual for stock speculation. This has forced a great many operators to abandon the market. Lack of speculative buy-' Ing. was responsible for a portion of the slump in prices last week. This liquidation was reflected in a decrease of more than $31,000,000 in loans of the clearing-house banks and other financial institutions not reporting through the clearing-house. The loan item of the clearing-house banks last Saturday stood at 1 1.1S0,259,000, com pared with $1,329,119,600 on th same date last year. The deposits of the clearing-house banks were $1,190,694,000, and those of the banks and trust companies not reporting through the clearing-house, were $1,224,097,400. These deposits combined show a decrease of abdut $250,000,000 compared with last year. In both the West and the South de posits are much larger than they were a year ago. Indicating that there is no pronounced scarcity of money in the country, but that there has been a shifting of the base of supplies. The remainder of the country would like to see easy money In New York, pro vided the ease Is not attained at the expense of the interior. The West and the South have done so well by keep ing their money at home since 1907 that these localities are no longer suf fering even when New York feels the grip of a tight money market. THE ILLUSTRIOUS JONES. . A long letter, full of personal malice against the editor of The Oregonian, by B. F. Jones, of Polk County, is printed today. The editor cares noth ing about personal abuse of himself, from such a quarter. It is too con temptible for his notice, and he begs the pardon of the public for giving long space to the-jvaporings of such a politician as Jones. One or two things, however, he will say, lest some may construe his silence into quasi admission. The public is not "aware that Mr. Scott has been a candidate for the United States Senate for a quarter of a century, and is naturally sore and disappointed"; for that Is not true. However, he supposes It was his right to be a candidate, if he desired. On the last night of the session of 1903 he consented, with great reluctance, and with no expectation whatever of being elected, to the use of his name; and he has been exceedingly glad ever since that he was not elected. But he could have been elected, practically without opposition, had he announced such desire at the opening. He is not "disappointed" at all. nor has he been, and nothing could induce him to ac cept any office whatever. . His posi tion at the head of this newspaper is satisfactory to him. Cheap politicians,. like Mr. Jones, who never think of anything but office, needn't trouble about Mr. Scott's supposed aspirations for office. He has just declined one of the very best and highest. Another matter: "Mr. Scott was willing, if elected to the Senate, to allow Mr. Bourne to name all the ap plicants for Federal positions in Ore gon." It is not true, and Jones Is a malignant liar to say It. We leave to Mr. Jones his glorifica tion of himself, as "the servant of the people." His present support ' of Bourne and his stand for1 "the people' was his opportunity, in the peculiar circumstances recently presented, to get an office, and he has got it. But the Republican party of Oregon will repudiate the methods which pledge those whom it charges with repre sentative functions to the election of Democrats to the Senate, or it will cease to exist. Every politician without princi ples has, . through many years, accused The Oregonian of being "a disturber," and Jones naturally echoes the clack' and clamor. Yes, The Oregonian has been a disturber, especially 'on subjects of finance and money and rule of political bosses and rings, in the state. This was Its long fight against Senator Mitchell and his following. The paper has thriven greatly because it has been a dis turber of men like Mr. Jones. NEW FREAK IN KANSAS. Density of ignorance regarding the ship subsidy question increases as the distance from the scene of actual oper atlons widens. For example, we find the New York Chamber of Commerce the greatest commercial organization in the New World, situated at our greatest port, refusing to Indorse the ship-subsidy plan, while out on the Great Lakes, far removed from salt water, a few shipbuilders and steel trust magnates have worked up a sen timent highly favorable to the subsidy. Umatilla County, Oregon, Is close enough to salt water to enable the farmers to make a close-range . study of the ocean carrying business, and as a result of such study they held a mass meeting at Pendleton Saturday, at which resolutions were passed de nouncing the ship-subsidy plan. Being endowed with ordinary com mon sense, ana naving acquired, a knowledge of mathematics, it was easy for these farmers to understand that their wheat was being carried to mar ket by the cheap-labor, cheap-ship countries of the Old World at a much lower rate than It could be carried !n American vessels. Their knowledge of existing conditions also proved to them that unless we were' permitted to own cheap ships and hire cheap labor, we could not ' compete ; with this foreign tonnage, as the heaviest subsidy yet proposed would be insufficient to equalize the handicap. The same mail which brought to The Oregonian a copy of the Umatilla County resolutions also brought handsomely printed and tinted booklet entitled "The American Merchant Marine; Its Rise and Fall, and Why. It was written by one W. P. Hackney, a W Infield, Kan., attorney. Respecta ble Kansas has bowed her head in shame and confusion over the antics of a number. of freaks that have ap peared within her borders, but no such "freakish" opinion on any National topic has ever appeared as that which is set forth in this publication, which is apparently intended to spread mis information among the Kansas farm ers. There is nothing equivocal or uncer tain about the statements of Mr. Hackney. He boldly announces that every man in inese united states who opposes the principle of a ship subsidy is either an ignorant ass, an unprin clpled demagogue or the paid hireling or baleful influences. Most of the ship-subsidy boosters distort facts in order to make them fit. theft: argumen for a subsidy, but this illustrious Kan san does not take any chances on facts i He has simply created some illustra- ions or examples to fit his argument. He tells of a visit to Seattle in 1889, where he found a wheat exporter la-) menting because he was obliged to ship his wheat in "an old English tub that was condemned forty years ago as unseaworthy," . while "a new steel American vessel has been riding at an chor there for nearly nine months and cannot get a cargo of wheat which It wants for Liverpool. The idiocy of this manufactured lie will be plain to every merchant that ever shipped a bushel of wheat, and if the Kansas farmers are as intelligent as their Oregon brethren, such asinine falsehoods can hardly fail to have an effect entirely opposite to that In tended. . . LIGHT FOR A NEIGHBOR. The Seattle Times finds fault, with The Oregonian for calling-attention to $45,000,000 slump In Seattle real estate transfers last year. After elim inating a -$35,000,000 item, in which the sale of a transcontinental railroad was involved, the Times says: "Even at that, our, real estate transfers show a legitimate fallingoff of about $10,- 000,000 and we admit it." Then the Times becomes insinuating and says:. That fact does not urevent our publish ing the truth about the matter, which is a. custom The Oregonian and other Portland newspapers might do well to emulate, be cause It is a notorious fact that they never print the totals, and that tlv only way these can be obtained is Dy an individual search of the records. The Oregonian boasts that Portland's real estate transfers in iao were ''about $5,000,000" more than those of lOOS. We do not dispute The Oregonian'a word, but at the same time it would be in teresting to learn Just how much this amounted to. An "individual search of the rec ords" is unnecessary for anyone who Is desirous of obtaining the totals mentioned, as they are printed in The Oregonian, dally, weekly, monthly and annually. The totals appeared in the regular issue of The Oregonian Janu ary 1'. They were given again In the editorial columns of the paper of that date, and again when mention was made of the Seattle transfers. However, to save the Times some trouble, we will again say that Port land's real, estate transfers for 1909 as compiled from the official records, and including several transfers where the actual amount involved was more than $1,000,000 in excess" of the nom inal $1 appearing on the records and in the totals, were $26,485,927, com pared with $20,21.5,780 in 1908. This is a gain of $6,270,147, compared with a "legitimate falling off of about $10,- 000,000" in Seattle. We trust the fig ures will be satisfactory.- - JUST A PRACTICAL JOKE. The untimely taking off of Chung Sing moves one to ponder upon the practical joker and his doom. Chung Sing thought to divert himself by pok ing his celestial finger into the eye of his slumbering friend Sing Bing. The poke was not intended to.be injurious. It was performed with bland and blithesome glee in the hope that It would mingle harmoniously with the current of Sing Bing"s dreams and gently woo him to consciousness. But it failed to mingle. He thought a burglar was pillaging his goods. grabbed his handy revolver and dis patched the innocent Chung Sing to that bourne whence he will never re turn to express his astonishment. Would that it might be thus with every practical Joker, or somewhat thus. We are not bloodthirsty enough to want them all killed, but It would be a balm to the feelings to see them more or less severely wounded. We have heard of a politician who began a long and glorious career by offering a magnate with . whom he wished to ingratiate himself a drink from an insidious flask. As the mag nate touched it to his lips a fire cracker tied to the under side exploded and blew his left eye out. So charmed was he with the witty device that he swore eternal friendship to the young politician who had conceived it and pushed him rapidly to the heights of power and salary. We mention this instance not as the rule, but as the exception. Few men have the grace of forbearance so abundantly as not to hate anybody who plays a practical joke, .on .them. They may :grin at the moment and profess to enjoy their . dilemma pro dlgiously, but in their hearts they are registering an oath of Vengeance. To the young the practical joke may be recommended as the best device in the world for making enemies. : LOCD-LUNGEn DEMAGOGY. Wiho are the men that are-howling at party assembly in Oregon? Comb them over and you will find them ma. chine politicians, of both the "hope ful" and the "has-been" types, mem bers of the Chamberlain-Bourne "gang" that is trying by catchword and demagogy to rule the politics this state in Its own selfish interest, men who care nothing for party prln cipie or party government, but are trying to gain personal advantage un der false pretenses. These patriots yell that many of the prominent Republicans who have urged assembly are would-be states men, ex-officeholders and machine pol iticlans. Yet how convincing is this noise from men who are running the only machine extant in this state the Bourne-Chamberlain combine who are themselyes more greedy seek ers of office and power than any others? Look over each one of the fellows that are yelling, and you will find that in every case they "want something," though, of course, it will not be seem ly for them to admit it. But, in the language of golf, they will "foozle the stroke." , None, of these strong-lunged indi viduals sincerely believes a conven tion or assembly can rob the voters of Oregon of their birthright, or of their primary inheritance, for do they not hold conventions of their own un der the pseudonym of labor or grange? And these conventions are private, "close .corporations," into which the people may not enter, as into the com ing Republican assembly. Nor can the people pass upon ' the works of these conventions, as they will upon those of the Republican assembly in the primaries. Public, representative convention is one of the most prized of American institutions. It has given this Nation some of its best possessions in all so cial activities. Yet there are selfish men in Ore gon who think by stirring prejudice to make themselves "leaders of the people" and holders of big offices without party convention. Many of: the champions of conven tion have held office and may hope to gain distinction again. But they can do so only through honorable effort and decision of party majority, and through, approval of their quallfica- tions in direct primaries. Party ma jority would be fatal to most of the other aspirants who are fighting party convention for convention is one of the instruments of majority choice. And who are fitter to represent party than its distinguished members? Why cut out the men whom the peo ple have honored with positions ,of trust from time to time in the past and proved themselves fit Representa tives of the people, and who now ad vocate the most American method of representing political sentiment in the party convention? It is a worthy recommendation of party convention that men of influence and following advocate it. And it acts also as recommendation of convention that selfish seekers of preferment. playing upon strife and factional, mi nority, oppose it. Cardinal Gibbons expresses himself as ready to indorse any method which may be devised to put the cost of the food of the common people 1. e., the common necessaries of life on a rea sonable basis. . The best possible method whereby this desired end may be reached is that which will encour age and. induce a large volume of middle-class consumers, who scratch from week's end to week's end for money wherewith to pay the living expenses of the family, to become pro ducers . of food supplies at first, if necessary, on a small scale. The worth of an acre as a source of food supply could be demonstrated In a single sea son by intelligent Industry, during the growing season, by the head of a fam ily after he has devoted eight hours a day to his wage scale. The food surplus must be increased, In small ways by those who cannot compass large things in large and larger vol ume by men who are able to own. subdue and crop larger areas of land. The conflicting statements of the press agents and salesmen engaged in marketing stock in various wireless telegraph companies may leave the public in doubt as to the merit3 of their respective contentions, but there can be no question as to the inestim able value of the "wireless" itself. A dismasted ship wallowing In heavy seas about twenty miles southeast of the Columbia River was sighted at an early "hour Sunday morning by the steamer City of Puebla. The pas senger liner immediately flashed a message to .the North Head station, and before daylight a revenue cutter and a tug were racing out of the Columbia, bound for the scene of the disaster and ready to give assistance If it were needed. This modern mfr- acle has already saved more lives and property than any other agency that has recently been invoked to safeguard the lives of sea travelers. The disinterested spectator who gets into the fight with a view of restoring peace not Infrequently receives a black eye or a damaged nose for his efforts. The United States Is, of course, big enough and strong enough to do police duty with almost any kind of a disturber; but at the sarao time there are indications that we might get a barked shin if the Nica raguan disturbance is prolonged In definitely. In. barring fighting at Greytown, the representative of Great Britain has adopted a policy directly at ; variance with that of the United States. When the United States firat took a hand in the Nicaraguan row, it was a mild-appearing kind of an affair that hardly promised to develop Into anything serious. Now it has reached a stage where the possibilities for fur ther complications are quite promis ing. Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Gleason assure the public that the big fight will be "pulled off" in San Francisco. Mr, Tex Rlckard and Mr. Jack Johnson seem equally positive that it will take place in Salt Lake. Now, if we could only contrive to have Johnson fight Jeffries-" by telephone, telegraph or wireless, with the black man in Salt Lake and the white bruiser in San Francisco, we should have a cinch on keeping the championship on the right side of the color line. Perhaps the worst feature of this suddenly appear ing cloud on the fistic horizon is the dread possibility that the contest may be retained in the conversational sta&e for a year or two longer. In spite of the effort to keep party politics out of the municipal election at Boston last week, Fitzgerald was elected Mayor because he is an active Democratic party man. His chief op ponent, Storrow, calling thimself an Independent Democrat, received near ly the whole Republican vote. But Boston Is a Democratic city. Her vot ers would not allow party politics to be cast out. Indiana has placed the figure of General Lew Wallace to stand as ono of its celebrities In Statuary Hall, Washington. Governor Oliver P. Mor ton is the other. Though Lew Wal lace rendered service as a soldier, his principal title . to . remembrance of posterity Is his fame as an author. Yet it is doubtful whether, even "Ben Hur" will long maintain the celebrity It has won. Let us not hope too much from the conciliatory tone of the Weather Bu reau. We have yet thirteen days In which to reckon with the month of the Janus face. ' One of the joys of the political cam paign In England, we are told, is the fpporturiity it gives to the meek and lowly voter to yell "Rats!" at peers of the realm. ' The Government man "forecasted1 clear weather for yesterday and a big rain storm came instead. However, he probably meant it wouldn't snow Thanks. , Many patriots who couldn't get an office out of a convention now fight convention: But that is the best tes timonial convention could have. It does seem too bad that we must wait until after the testimony before we can reach a verdict in the Her mann trial. Now if it should rain like this on the Easter hats but; perish the thought. However, twouia De Deicer man snow, "The Good Old Summer Time" was not written by a resident of Oregon during a "chinook" after a freeze. High cost of living is not so serious for some persons as dodging their creditors. , This weather Is not a proper sub, ject for discussion, PERMA1VEST HISTORICAL BUILDING Let Portland and the Rest of the State Join In the Expenfl. CORVALUS, Or., Jan. 16. (To the Editor.) A recent visit convinced me that the Oregon Historical Society is entitled to quarters more commodious The rooms liberally furnished by the city of Portland are already crowded with documents and historic matter. Some of them are taxed like warehouses beyond classification and easy refer ence, until that which might be as convenient as a modern library looks as ' unsystematic as piles of rubbish and plunder seized from the ruins of old castles and dumped in a hetero geneous mass regardless of their his toric value. Yet this same rubbish properly edited wil become the history of Oregon tomorrow. Great credit is due the Historical So ciety and the city of Portland for their generous efforts in preserving historic information before fact fades into fiction and the true history of Oregon is lost forever. But there is so much to the history and pioneer life of Old flreenn t Vi , f nn nrtA snclet-v And city should bear the burden alone o? acquiring and caring for the accumulat ing historic matter of value and interest to every citizen' of Oregon. It occurs to me that this is a matter of Interest to all our people., and when the. situa tion is thoroughly understood the peo ple as a rule will cheerfully share the burden, for the public spirited of all Oregon do not propose to be outdone by the princely spirited people, of Portland. I am told that the files of newspapers already collected would make a pile as high as the great Oregonian tower. The last annual report of the Oregon Historical Society shows that the fol lowing has been collected: Documents, mounted and unmounted. 9.200 Diaries, account books, etc. relating to early history 224 Maps, charts, etc. 165 AewsoaDera. bound volumes tia-ia- 1908) 172 Newspapers, unbound (1846-1909) ... .111,535 .hooks, largely historical o.lcw Books, early school from 1800 to 1880 576 Books, Civil War records 235 Books, government publications cov ering uu years o.zuo Pamphlets of all kinds 10.000 Letters from 1758 to 1009 80,000 Relics, pioneer days and Indian life. 1.702 Photographs of pioneers, framed and otherwise 8.600 Photographs, scenic In great variety. 600 Photographs, Indian 10O In addition to tha foregoing there are many scrap books mainly historical, and probably 30,000 scraps that have not yet been put Into books. Add to the foregoing the collection of cards, Invitations, programmes, handbills, etc running into the thousands, which have not been counted, and the various vol times of the society's quarterly, aggre gating more than 5000 pages of printed matter embracing easily 2,500,000 words all carefully edited by Pro fessor F. G. Young, than whom there is none more competent and all relating directly to Oregon history. Also with this . aggregation, must not be over looked the tons" of historic relics and mementoes of pioneer life that illuml nate the pages of this encyclopedia of Oregon like the finest steel engravings that adorn the pages of a beautiful book awaiting to be sumptuously bound. The history of Oregon will grow with the busy search of the Oregon His torlcal Society that goes out in every direction like Napoleon Bonaparte bringing the treasures Into the Louvre, And without the aid of this collection of historic matter the history of Ore gon can never be complete. Further more the political history of the United States cannot bo correctly writen with out giving a very prominent place to Oregon. Accordingly the growth and succes of the Oregon Historical So ciety is an interest that approximates National Importance. The history of the Oregon country is to be one of the great histories of the world, when America succeeds in producing a man that is equal to the task. When that personage appears he will naturally go to the "Sources o Oregon His.tory," which should be housed under Its own roof. In the meantime, for our own information and use, rooms ought to be provided where in all that has beeti secured can be di gested placed In usable form by bind lng, cataloguing and indexing for the benefit of schools and the public at large. If the public understood the im menslty of the undertaking and the self-sacrificing spirit of a few mostly of Portland who have contributed so much to the phenomenal success o the Oregon Historical Society, It Is my opinion that 10,000 people would unite themselves with this society In Its splendid work. But while the public is getting ready In its individual way, there appears to be light In another di fection. t When Corvallis College was no more and the state of Oregon 'was about to locate an Agricultural College In its stead in some town that would raise $20,000 for a suitable administration building, the 2000 people of Corvalll and vicinity with the earnestness despair, like the Athenians in rebuild ing Athens, undertook to raise $10 pe capita for every man, woman and child. But the money was raised and the state permanently located a college which bids fair In time to become on of the largest schools In the world. The moral I draw is: If It were generall understood that Portland with 200,00 population would raise only 50 cents pe capita, for an Oregon Historical So ciety building, I think the state would readily appropriate $100,000 for that purpose. Two hundred thousand dol lars would purchase a site and erect a commodious building to which addition might be added later should they be required. The city of Portland as heavy taxpayer has assisted almost every public enterprise in Oregon It would therefore be natural for the state to aid Itself, while recognizing Portland, in permanently locating institution strictly of the people in the metropolis where it wil be accesslbl to the greatest number of the people. A permanent home for the Oregon His torlcal Society is worth considering. JOHN B. HORNER. Swedish Sardines In American Oil. Washington (D. C.) Post. Norway packs 40,000,000 tins of sar dines a year. On account of the high price of olive oil the Swedish factorle have been experimenting with Ameri can cotton seed oil with which to lm merse the sardines In the tins. Ex perts who have tried the two kind one in olive, the other in cotton see oil have been unable to detect which was which, so probably It will no be long before we Americans are eat. Ing Swedish sardines packed In Ameri can ou. THEATRICAL BOSSES DISTURBED. Honifi Lose Money Near-Actors and Moving-Picture Shows Blamed. Kansas City Journal. According to the consensus of opinion voiced at the theatrical managers' dinner in New York the other day. the amuse ment business of this country is in de plorable condition. Oscar Hammersteln bluntly declared it is "rotten." The dinner was overspread by a pall of gloom and even Al Hayman saw through blue goggles. When Klaw & Erlanger, of which firm Hayman Is a potent mem ber, begin to get nervous, things indeed are In a bad way. The bugaboo that seems to threaten the entire theatrical fabric is the moving picture "show. This remarkable fad has spread with such alarming rapidity that there is scarcely a town or village in the country that is not supporting a number of these show houses. A feeling prevails in many quarters that the theatrical people are largely to blame for the present depression In their business. It has been the practice of many managers frequently to gouge the public for prices wholly Inordinate when the quality of entertainment is taken into account. Certain theaters have a fixed price for tickets. All the com panies that play in these theaters ex cept some for which the prices are ad vancedconform to the standard price regardless of the quality of their pro ductions. As a result there has srrown iro in this country a game of graft among many of the smaller theatrical associa tions. The American people have paid too high prices for the kind of entertain ment given. The managers have made a lot of male and female stars who have been foisted upon the public as artists of the first magnitude when in truth they were only second or third-rate players and not deserving of patronage at stand ard prices. There Is too great disparity between the so-called "star" and the good average actor. In no other calling Is there the same tendency to exploit personages without regard to ability. OPEN THE LAND. Unused Land,- Like Unused Gold. Profits Kotlilug. Aberdeen (Wash.) World. The end of this Ballinger-Pinchot con troversy, begun in a conflict of personali ties and a conflict of the mind of the trained lawyer with that of the bureau crat. Is near its end. Final conclusion will likewise bring an end to the policy of tying up the resources of the West. There is a rational conservation policy, and there is a. harmful one. The first would take proper cognizance of the needs of the Nation and adequately prepare for them. The second goes beyond all need or reason. The efforts of the Plnchot policy as re spects this particular district in which we live are plainly set forth In a letter print ed In another column of today's World. To the north of the harbor lies an unde veloped area of wealth, the largest area of Its kind in the North Pacific States. with the possible exception of Central Oregon. A few settlers have attempted to build pioneer homes in this region north of the Qulniault. But they have been hemmed on all sides by forest re serves. They have no roads and no means of communication. They are deprived of schools for their children. Their chance to progress, even to make a livelihood, out of the region in which they are trying to make homes, has been and Is today nil It will not be Improved until conditions are bettered. Conditions will not be bet tered until the land is opened to settle ment. Any policy that permits the conversion of the public domain to the ownership of great corporations is a mistaken policy So is any oollcy that prevents home-mak ing. Open the lands to proper use: shut them to improper use. Discrimination 13 nnssible. It ha not been Dracticed un der an Idea that closes all lands to all uses. Unused land, like unused wealth, profits nothing. A STRANGE SURVIVAL. The "Personal System" In Forest Ad ministration. New York Sun. The loyalty of the Forest Service to-Glf-ford Pinchot testifies to the engaging qual ities of that gentleman. It testifies even more strongly to the absolutely perverted relation which that service bears to the Government and to the Administration. Its devotion is purely personal. It "wild ly cheers" its former head, in about the same spirit that stirs a pack of student In a college "rebellion" to jeer the regu lar authorities and to make a demonstra tion in favor of an insubordinate dis charged favorite professor. The Forest Service Is not supported by the people of the United States as a vehi cle of glorification for its chief. Anybody would suppose It was Mr. Ptnchofs own establishment, endowed by him. responsi ble to him, responsible to nobody else. The result of a purely personal system of administration, of a sentimental and arbitrary as opposed to an orderly and legal course. Is seen In Mr. Pinchot's con duct and in the present feeling of his former subordlnance. They show alle giance to him alone. Discipline and subordination have dis appeared from the Forest Service. It is a personal, it seems to bo on Its way to be come a political, personal machine. The Forest Service is a survival in feel ing and action, under a law-abiding Ad ministration, of the advertising ardors, the Irresponsibilities and the self-satisfactions of the Wild Werowance of Ameri can politics. Lady Duff Gordon, Dressmaker. New York Cor. Kansas City Star. Fashionable New York is In a flutter of excitement over the announcement that Lady Duff Gordon, of London, is about to open a dressmaking estab lishment In this city. Lady Duff Gor don now is in this city making ar rangements for the opening of her establishment In March. She has taken a house in Thirty-sixth street, near Fifth avenue. Lady Gordon will take a flying trip to London and Paris for the latest hints in dress. The word hints is used advisedly, as Lady Duff Gordon creates her own fashions, which are known the world over. It is said she will bring with her a number of beautiful young English women. who will serve as ' models to show off her designs. She also will introduce into her New York establishment the much-talked-of stage used In her London shop. Lady Duff Gordon is a sister of Elinor Glyn, author of "Three Weeks," with whom she first visited this country. Johnny Jones Gets New Marks. New York World. When Superintendent Maxwell and Doctor Crampton, director of physical training, get their new system of "marks" In working order, little Johnny Jones may take home to John Jones, his papa, a note something like this from his school principal: Dear Sir: May I call your attention to the following record of your son's standing in class. WO being "perfect" T Algebra 05IChinning fa Enuglish 83icare of teeth 17 History .......... -76jKrect posture .18 Science 02. Hair, nnger nails.. 11 Language 110 Care of clothing ... 07 Drawing -.. .6lWash'g behind ears. 00 Unless he does better with his studies he cannot be promoted with his class. Farming Expert to King of Slam. Washington (D. C.) Post. Desiring to learn something abont farming, the King of Slam turned to America for an Instructor. J. C. Bar nett, of Tallulah, La., has accepted the post of adviser to his majesty, at a sal ary of $6000 and expenses. He will sail this week for Bangkok, making stops In European and Asiatic countries to i study methods: and. conditions, GOLD PRODUCT FOR THE WORLD, Total Increase for lO0 Was $14,122,7 e for lO0 Was $14,122,753, r 3.3 Per Cent. ng and Mining Journal, ent gold-producing counj or Engineerln l ne airrerent (rold-uroducina: tries of the world in 1909 not onlv kep up the great output of recent years nut again Increased it in a .marke degree. The return from the gol nines was greater than had ever befor been recorded In a slnsrle year. Gob mining was successfully prosecuted In many countries and most of them ln-( creased their returns, by the opening oi new mines, by the intensive working of old ones or by close recovery of metal from the ores In some cases by a con junction of all three methods. The total increase in the world's production! In 1909, as compared with 1808. was $14,122,753, or 8.2 per cent: Gold Production of the World. I Country. 190S. Transvaal SHS.S19.01rt ' 1909. ' $1M.POO.OOO al 00.500.000 7i.9SO.sn .u.ino.ono 26.000.006 1 2.60.-1.006 10.566,500 . 10.750.00fl 1 1. 000.O410 4.625.0O0 2.4S0.OOO 25.O00.0O0 united States .... 94.560,ooo I Australia 7X.X14.H7t I Russia ........... :ti.944.5tl Mexico 24.51 8. 54S Rhodesia 12.276. X94 British India 10.424.067 j Canada ". . . . 9.559,274 : China, Japan, corea. 10.til8.85o I West Africa 5. 7 7.1..'. Madagascar l.lXtf,S50 Other countries ... 24. 48.752 Total .44S.4S4.527 J457.567.2S0 The figures for 1908 include the cor rected official returns. 'For 1909 for nearly all the prominent countries as Transvaal, Australia. Rhodesia and India we have the official returns for 11 months, from which it is possible to estimate .the month of December very closely." From Mexico and 'Russia there are partial returns, and from sev eral other countries Information show ing the general course of production. In all cases where estimates are re quired they have been made on a con servative basis, so that yre believe the revisions later will Increase rather than diminish the total given. The second table gives the total gold production of the world for 20 years past, during which period it has in creased nearly fourfold. 1890 I11S.84S.70O 19O0. $2rs. S29.70X 2rtl.S77.420 ans.si2.40:; .'129.475. 4U Xill.OSS.'-IV. n7S.411.054 4O5.551.02-i 4ll.2H4.45S 44X.4X4.527 457.567.2kO 1K91 130.650.01)0 1901. 1SH3 J46.2H2.0OO J90 189X. . 158,4X7,351 1S2.509.28.-1 lHS.lr.15.741 21 1.242.0S1 237.KXX.WK4 2S7.X27.SXX 311.505,947 lSOX. 1904. 1905. 10O6. 11)07. 1!IC)S. 1909. 1894 1 S95 . . . . 1896. ... 1897 . 181 IS 1S9U. . . . This shows an almost continuous growth, with only a setback during the years of the Boer war, when the Trans vaal production was cut off almost en tirely. From state reports and other infor mation we have estimated an increase of a little less than $2,000,000 In the gold production of the United States during 1909. The additions made to the world's visible stocks of gold in 1909 were, as nearly as can be ascertained, between 65 and 75 per cent of the total produc tion; that is, not far from $300,000,000. This Includes gold actually coined and passing into circulation, and gold ap pearing either as coin or bullion in tha bank and Government reserves which form the basis of circulation and credit The uncertain elements in the disposi tion of the gold mined are the quanti ties used in the arts, for which no definite figures are attainable; the quantities directly hoarded or con cealed; and the quantities needed t replace gold lost. These losses arisj from actual destruction, as by fire or wreck; from concealment in private hoards; from actual disappearance in the many minor forms which are con stantly recurring and always escape record. Large as was the increased monetary stock provided, it seemed hardly suffi cient to meet the commercial domand, and there were at times durlnp; the year calls for gold from the Important financial centers which could not be promptly supplied. European markets had the call and took gold from thn United States Instead of sending It there, as In some previous years. That the new supplies of gold helped the general improvement in business there can be no doubt. That the betterment In conditions ran ahead of the lm-reasa in those supplies is another refutation of the theories of those who believe that the production of gold is the solo or the chief factor in commercial prosperity. The gold reserves of the great banks" , of Europe were reported as follows in' the closing weeks of 190S and 1909. It must be understood that these sums practically represent the banking re serves of the respective nations, the custom being for them to hold the gold owned by private bankers, as well as their own. In the table the amounts are reduced to dollars: 11100. J167.10O.405 701.307,400 1 S7.X115.500 2S4.O70.OOi) 704. 450. OllO 5O.405.OIM 21.2XX.3X.V J02.4OO.OOO 0.570,000 22.X4O,0O S.SS5.000 24,920.000 Bank of England 1 15X.662.01O $ 167.160.4 05 f Finn ct Krsce. . nm.tvtii.44.i Imn Blc Germany, 101. 965. OOO 245. 7o. n. to 607.255.NtO 4".i.OK9,(HM 2 1.4 IX. XX5 1S7.XX5.0OO 79.11X0, OOO 21.195.0O0 ,s 2so,ooo 2X.SX5.00O Aus-Hur.sarlan Bit Bank of Russia.. Netherlands Hank. Belgian National. Bank of Italy .... Bank of Spain . . . Swedish National. Norwegian ...... Switzerland ...... Total . ..$2.279. 134.700 $2,445,226,64(1 Rent Men No" Longer Preach. New York Cor. Kansas City Journal. "Is the pulpit obsolete?" asked Dr. Felix Adler, the lecturer and author, and answered 'Yes" to his own ques tion. "Failing church attendance," con tinued the speaker, "testifies to the failure of the pulpit. Formerly, views on Important subjects were headed by the clergy. Now, we read the vlewa of bankers. "The best men are no longer going Into the pulpit- The age is practical, and men want visible results. In turn, the influx of inferior men diminishes regard for the pulpit. . "Oratory as an art is dying. In tho pilgrim days, men listened to preaching for nine hours at a stretch. Now they will not stand for more than 25 min utes." Dr. Adler believes that in more eth ics, less theology and fewer diffuse dis courses on general subjects lies the cure of the clergy plight. "Prohibition" In Driest Maine. New York Sun. Professor Ira Remsen, president of the Johns Hopkins University and head of the National Academy of Sciences, spends all of his vacations in Maine. It is a matter of current history that Maine is dry, but Dr. Remsen had rea son one day to suspect that if he had to get a drink of whisky some day to save his life he would never be In dan ger of death in Maine. The doctor was bicycling and his pedal broke. He inquired the way to the nearest blacksmith shop. and. fol lowing the directions, ' arrived at a ramshackle place, the door of which was closed but not locked. He opened tho door, and, pushing the blcyclo ahead, was surprised to see a. crowd of men sitting around an Improvised tray, on which was a bottle and some glasses. Somewhat abashed, the doctor said: "I wonder if I am in the right place? Is this the blacksmith shop?" "Yes," said the blacksmith. "What'll you have, rye or Scotch?" Women Ticket-Sellers Excel Men. Baltimore News. Fourteen young women have been established as ticket-sellers at the sub way stations of the Hudson River tun nel system. The general manager of the system is reported to have said that these young ticket-sellers are paid at the same rate as men, and are quicker in giving change and more courteous. A i