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Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 19 to 28 pages. 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages. 3 cents; 40 to 60 pages. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S C. Beck wilh Special Agency New York, rooms 4tt 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510 512 Tribune building. l-OKTLAM), MONDAY, JUNE 1910. PRESIDENT IAITS DILEMMA. President Taft finds no single issue on which his party can stand united. On the contrary, he finds a number of questions and disputes breaking up the Republican party into what he calls groups. The President is dis heartened at the outlook and thinks he foresees socialism which has large variety of meanings looming up as the great issue of the future. In its finality socialism supplants individual effort and enterprise with government ownership and exploitation of the means of production and distribution, and supplants even private ownership of the common comforts and posses sions of life. It might be pointed out that Presi dent Taft, though dreading what he terms socialism, is promoting the -object of his dread as no President has done before him. He is forbidding acquisition of land of the public do main by individual citizens in the Far West. He is promoting a policy of conservation which has for its aim the perpetual ownership and exploitation by the Government of lands, streams, I minerals and forests. This is some thing new in the policy of this Nation. It-is paternalization of the resources of the Far West and denial of indi vidual enterprise. Alaska pays $12 and J 15 a ton for foreign coal, while the United States is working out a scheme of Government ownership and devel opment of coal mines in the territory. Elsewhere settlers are denied homes in regions greater than the combined areas of California, Oregon and Wash ington, in order that the "whole peo ple" may retain ownership of the pub lic domain. Yet all the progress of this country has come from the pri vate ownership of land. This is one side, and a highly important one, of paternalism or socialism In this coun try. Socialism is fraught with many in ternal disputes. The questions it pre sents as to private property and gov ernmental activity are vast in number and import. The dissensions of protec tive tariff spoils are pygmy-like com pared with them; so, too, are those of long-and-short-haul and of Cannonism and Aldrichism and the self-vaunting aims of present-day insurgents. If the Nation is coming shortly into contest like this which the President has just pointed out, the Executive's discour aging task has only just begun. The trouble Is that the American people are confronted with no great National question that compels united effort and submergence of local dis putes. The protective tariff is a breeder of local and factional troubles and will always be just that. The is sues of civil war, slavery, sound money and foreign war that have put an end to internal dissensions and compelled politicians to sVnk petty designs in the common welfare have died out. Is the country in need of such terrible issues again? The political parties of the United States find themselves impotent before the warfare of what the President calls groups "parties less than major ities," "and," he avers, "the Lord knows where your Government will be . or how much it will accomplish." It is a situation that discourages the Presi dent. It defeats his high hopes of a successful and history-making Admin istration. So long as it continues no constructive policy can be carried out In legislation by any party or "group." Roosevelt would be checkmated in Buch a situation, and it may be that his foresight caused him to retire so determinedly. While it lasts it will cause him to continue in retirement. Will the traveling Colonel be a sup porter of his chosen President or of a minority group of so-called Repub llcans? President Taft has found It Impossible to pacify the warring fac tions. It will doubtless be the same with the Colonel. Meanwhile the agi tatlon for free wool and revision down ward of the other fellow's goods con tributes to the lowered price of the product of Oregon woolgrowers. And yet woolgrowers find the manufac tured articles of the localities that de mand free wool no cheaper nor the duty on those articles lowered. Socialism is not the immediate cause of party break-up, although its trend is adding enormously to the expenses of government, to officialdom and to taxes. But protective tariff is sufficient to disrupt the Republican party. It broke up the Democratic party and now is serving the Republican the same way. There can be no perma nence in a policy of exacting protec tive spoils from one element of the population for benefit of others. Woes of the Republican party will continue just so long as that party adheres to the fallacy of protective tariff. Nor will Democrats succeed with it any better, much as they profess ability to do so. No political party can stand united on any of the petty questions now agitating Congress. They are not Na tional issues: they are sectional. Tariff for revenue only" should be a National demand, but such is the humbug preached by politicians that it is yet impossible. The trend of socialism may add to the general confusion That subject involves many groups also. The country needs an issue of National and high moral import. Tn none of the questions over which Con gress has been contending is there such an issue. Two limited trains and two regular passenger trains on the Seaside route carried full crowds Saturday, and the limited and the two regular passen ger trains yesterday were well filled both coming and going. By contrast With the weekly trips of the old steam- era Emma Hayward and Dixie Thomp son, or even the Wide West and the T. J. Potter that followed with tri weekly and daily trips, four Sue trains a day indicates a startling growth In the seashore business. With the first week in June showing a beach busi ness nearly equal to that of the height of the season last year, it now seems apparent that mid-Summer will find the railroad company, with its new limited service, working up to capacity and beyond. Portland . and Oregon seem to demand that the facilities for pleasure keep pace with those for business, and the Oregon beach re sorts are- entering on what promises to be the most prosperous season in their existence. NEW ASSEMBLY NOT ODD CONVENTION. Certain noisy critics of party assem bly declaim as if the Republican as sembly next month will select all the candidates for nomination and as if other candidates will be barred out. But Republican voters are not so stupid as to be misled by this false talk. Assembly candidates will be placed on the primary ballot just the same as other candidates; the several aspirants for nomination will appear in alphabetical order without regard to recommendation either of assembly or of other bodies of citizens; registered Republican voters will cast their nomi nating ballots for the men of their choice;" the voters will not be driven like cattle nor compelled to swallow any "dose." Democrats and their U Ren-Bourne allies will not profit their political schemes through falsehoods about as sembly and primary. The truth is that candidates of the assembly will appear on the primary ballot in the same way and on equal -terms with all other aspirants for party nomina tion. Voters will then choose the men they want for Republican nominees. Assembly candidates will be vouched for by the testimonials and the rec ommendations of a representative body of more than 1200 Republicans, in addition to the thousands of Repub licans who will sign their primary petitions. The people are to judge whether these recommendations shall be worth considering. The Oregonian believes they will win approval of the Republican electorate. It has reached a pass in Oregon politics where aspirants for office should be examined by a body of reputable citizens as to their fitness for the public service. These citizens should not belong to one class of busi ness, or trade or industrial interests; they should be comprehensive of the whole voting population within a polit ical party. Republicans will hold an assembly fully representative of every locality within the state to study the qualifications of seekers of office and to report to the people the results of their findings. Then the people may accept or reject, as they please. If there were no primary after the assembly, then the false alarm of the assembly foes might be genuine. In the old days of boss and machine con vention, there was no primary after convention. This makes a complete separation of new assembly from old convention. The. people ara not deceived by en deavors of selfish politicians to incite them against Republican assembly. Those politicians never could win the approval of a deliberative gath ering of Republicans for their schemes for office. That is the secret of their animosity. But people of Oregon have a higher concern than that. They want best men for office The assembly-primary plan which Governor Hughes, of New York, advo cates will afford people of this state means of choosing efficient men for official place, just as it afforded people of Portland that means in the city election a year ago. RIVER IMPROVEMENT SENTIMENT. Ex-United States Senator John L. Wilson, of Washington,-in a speech at Clarkston, Wash., Saturday, made earnest plea for improvement of the Columbia River. He advocated channel that would admit 20,000-ton steamships to Portland and Vancouver, with further improvements up stream so that vessels of 1000 tons could reach The Dalles, and provision for adequate river navigation above that point. Senator Wilson has always been inclined to favor Columbia River improvements, even at a time when a narrow sectional spirit in certain districts in his state was hampering the work. His open advocacy of broad comprehensive system or river im provement at this time is in keeping with a sentiment which has been gain ing ground in Washington for several years This sentiment will soon result in a practically unanimous movement for river improvement in all three of the North Pacific states. Vancouver, Wash., is favored in the river and har bor bill with an appropriation ' for deepening the channel between the city and the mouth of the Willamette River. Now that it has ieen demon strated to Washingtonians what an open river means to that state, as well as to Portland and Oregon, there should be little difficulty in securing the long-overdue recognition of what Portland has accomplished, unaided by any other city or outside territory for all of the Pacific Northwest. On the 90-mile stretch -of the Odium. bla River, reaching from the mouth of the Willamette to Astoria, the Port of Pdrtland has expended large sums o money, every dollar of which was raised by taxing the people of Port land. Portland built a 25-foot channel from Astoria to within four miles of Vancouver. It provided for the pro ducers of the entire Columbia basin a highway over which their products could reach the world's markets at a minimum of cost. So direct and tangi ble were the results secured by Port land that they can easily be reduced to actual figures. When the Port Portland began work on the narrow, shallow, and tortuous channel be tween this city and the sea, ships com ing here for grain cargoes demanded and received $2.40 per ton more freight than was charg-d from San Francisco. In other words, the river placed a handicap of $2.40 per ton on all of the grain that was grown for export in the entire territory tributary to this city. With the deepening of th channel, the differential shrank, until a few years ago it vanished completely, rates being exactly the same from San Francisco as from Portland. As th price of grain, sold and consumed Io caliy, is fixed on the basij of the for eign markets, the increased price, du to reduction in freight rates, affected every bushel of grain produced In the interior. Washington and Idaho thus have profited to the extent of millions o dollars from the river improvement work of the Port of Portland. That Portland's efforts are at last appre ciated is apparent by the Interest now being shown in the work. Portland, of course, will never be directly reim bursed for the large sums that it has spent in improving this river high way for the commerce of a great region, but with awakened interest in the subject there should not be much difficulty in shifting this burden to the general government, where it properly belongs. With a united Northwest working for such a project, we should not wait long for 20,000-ton steamers at Portland wharves. THE ROSE FESTIVAL, BEGINS. Portland -has made ample' prepara tion for its annual Rose Festival. The celebration spreads abroad the fame of this city as a home of one .of Na ture's most beautiful creations and also as a center of growing commerce and thrift. Portland is the trade cen ter of a great, productive region. Its citizens are presenting a peerless dis play of roses in many forms and varia tions, to please the ex of visitors and to gratify their own sense of the beau tiful. At appropriate times this city also pays tribute to various wealth products of soil and Industry. Now is the rose season and the rose blossoms are symbols of June days, the rarest of the year. s This is the month of glorious sun rises and sunsets. It is the time when flowers rival in .grandeur the vari colored rays of their parent sun and when the intensity of Summer has not bedimmed the grandeur of scene and leaf and petal. It is the chosen season of brides and of life's most ten der memories. Nights are shortest now of any in the year. Sprigs and fruits of garden, field and orchard are thriving now with might and main as at no other period. The Rose Festival represents all these various activities. It is a dis play of roses, because they are con sidered the crowning flower in Nature's garden. The Easter hats, sometime ago, were harbingers of this blossom ing time. They were very fine, of course; yet their inspiration came from the present blooms. Portland bids Its friends welcome to this festival. It hopes as many of them as possible will avail themselves of the occasion to view, along with the roses, the pulsing energies that are building here a great city, a center of Pacific Coast thrift and progress. HONEST LAWMAKERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS. Lawmaking is as much a duty of Legislature as election of United States Senators. A Legislature dishon est In the one duty will probably also be dishonest in the other. Corruption in legislation strikes at the foundations of property, liberty and fair dealing. Perpetrators of such outrages are deemed by the law as felons and by the people as most despicable betrayers of public trust. Yet corruption in a Legislature does not persuade the people that lawmak ing assembly should be abolished or that the lawmaking function should be taken away from thit body. Instead, it persuades them that they should elect honest men as makers of laws men who are known for uprightness and stability of character. Likewise, "jackpot" and boodle in election of United States Senator does not convince the people that the Legis lature should be abolished, or that election of Senator should be taken away from the lawmaking assembly. uriDery in one form or another takes place now and again in various places in the public service. It will be cast out wherever discovered. But it were better to prevent it or reduce the op portunities for it, by electing men to office who are vouched for and who have some record for integrity. That is the most that can be done to s,ave the puDlic service from bribery and loot. The public desires election of United States Senators taken away from Leg islature and lodged with the people because nearer responsibility to th people Avili make Senators more ef ficient, more active and more re sponsive to public demands. But that will not change the method of elect ing members of a Legislature; there will be the same need for the honest lawmakers that there is now. There will also be the same chances for cor ruption as there have been in legis lation, and corrupt legislation is a graver menace to a state than corrupt election of a United States Senator. The only safeguard against betrayal of public Interest by members of a Legislature or by a Governor or a Sheriff or a Judge, is election of fit men to office. Fitness is. a qualifica tion that should be determined by scrutiny of a candidate's character, motives and associations. It is absurd 'to think it can be ascertained alone by counting noses of a majority or a plurality of voters. All of which leads to the conclusion that electors should deliberate to gether upon candidates in conference or assembly before voting in primaries and election. The more representative the assembly, the more thorough will be the scrutiny. FUTURE AVIATION. Like everybody else, those who base their hopes upon the -success of trav eling In the air have their alternate periods of brilliant anticipation and depressing gloom. A few weeks ago it almost seemed as if we were not to hear anything more of an encour aging tone about aviation for a long: time to come. The terrible accident to the German Zeppelin II, together with a series of fatal falls from the. upper air, gave the prophets of ill an opportunity which they made the most of, and people began to think that aviation, after all, was nothing more than a bubble which had broken once for all and shown its complete hollo wness. Now there is a great change. The pendulum has swung far in the other direction. Numerous and astonishing feats of flying are reported from all quarters. The flight across the English Chan nel, which looked like such a won der a few months ago, is now the com monest thing in the world. Curtlss has flown from Albany to New York, with, one or two stops, and great races are planning, which are to begin at the Atlantic and end half way to the Pa cific, with a host of competitors for the prizes. This does not look like stagnation or failure either. To the wayside observer it indicates a future full of triumph, and yet not all those who are entitled to speak from expe rience are confident that aviation will be of much practical value very soon. Latham, the first to fly across the Eng lish Channel, says that today aviation has no commercial value, and Arch deacon, who is the leader of flying progress in France, declares that it is not likely to have any in the im mediate future. On the other hand, Orville Wright asserts that the aero plane will be ready for passenger traf fic whenever there is a demand for it. Mr. Wright never has been in the habit of speaking rashly. He Is em phatically a man of deeds rather than words and we may assume that he knows In this instance what he ia-talk-ing about. Perhaps he has a machine in hiding somewhere which is capable of proving the truth of his words. HOM KSKEKERS AND GOLD HUNTERS. There were two interesting stories in yesterday's Oregonian regarding "rushes." One of these told of a rush of 50,000 homeseekers into the West, whers they will aid development of the country. The other rush was of smaller proportions and was directed toward the new mining camp in the Iditarod district in Alaska. Estimates vary as to the number of persons in this northward exodus, but the to tal may reach 5000. There is even wider difference in the nature of the attractions of these two new fields for exploitation than in the number of persons that are going toward them. Conservative reports from the Alaska mining camp state that while a rush of 5000 people is expected, there is no discovery in the Iditarod district that would justify an influx of more than 1000. This means that four out of every five who are joining the stampede for sudden wealth will be disappointed. Contrast this with the migration of homeseekers into the West. Here the newcomers can all find homes and means of a livelihood, in a region so vast and so filled with latent wealth, that millions, instead of thousands, could find ample scope for their efforts with either capital or labor. The mining camp, if it is a good one, produces wealth quickly. but as a rule it is not a permanent or lasting asset for any country. The discovery of gold drew thousands to California, and built big cities on the western coast, but all of the gold that was ever taken out of the California mines was insignificant in value torn pared with the agricultural wealth which has since been developed in that country. The Iditarod goldseekers will work out the pay streak in a few months, and move on. The Oregon homeseek ers will find their pay streaks increas ing In value, the longer they stay here, and 20 years hence, what is now wil derness or barren plain, will be sup porting a population of millions. Portland's maritime prestige is well maintained this year. The movement of coastwise tonnage is far ahead of any previous record, and there is more foreign tonnage in port or under char ter to arrive for foreign lumber car goes than ever before. The lumber fleet in port includes the Knight of the Garter, which is loading the larg est cargo of lumber ever set afloat at any port. This cargo will run close to 5,000,000 feet, an amount sufficient to load more than five of the average sized lumber carriers of 20 years ago. The combined carrying capacity of rour of the carriers now in port la about 15,000,000 feet, and the tonnage chartered to follow these big ships at the Portland docks within the next 30 days has a capacity of more than 20,000,000 feet. In the output of roses and lumber Portland leads all other cities and, fortunately for all con cerned, each year brings increase in the output of each. The Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc Exposi tion will pay a dividend of nearly 4 per cent. Larger stockholders and a number of smaller ones are contrl. buting their dividends to the campaign against tuberculosis. It is expected that the Anti-Tuberculosis League will secure about $30,000 from this source. This fight against the deadly white plague is quite general throughout the United States, and as the results at tained by well-directed efforts are sat lsractory in the extreme, it seems a certainty that some day this dread disease will be eliminated or be checked to such an extent that it will no longer levy such terrific toll of death and suffering on the ' human race. Seattle has done well to effect a dividend on its exposition and the use to which that dividend is being placed is even more creditable than the big show. . President Taft Is Roosevelt's chosen President,-yet insurgents are claiming Roosevelt's alliance with them, as against Taft. President Taft's railroad bill, supposed to represent Roosevelt's ideas, is cut to pieces by insurgents Now, what is Roosevelt going to do about it? Are insurgents fighting Roosevelt's policies? Will the Colonel back up insurgents or Taft? A Clark County bridegroom-elect and his bride-to-be were unable to make the trip together to the county seat for the license. The young man appeared Saturday and the young woman will answer the questions of the Inquisitor today. But once they get hooked up, it will not be tandem, Artistic charm will now add to the natural beauty of the rose blooms Like the feminine sex, another of Na ture's most beautiful creations, the rose is enhanced by artistic adorn ment The Southern Pacific is "conserving" its land grant "grab" same way as Uncle Sam is conserving other lands near by and adjoining. Both are for bidding settlers to enter. Certain white men are training Johnson to humble the pride of the white race. But the white race seems indifferent to this treachery of certain of its members. Two Portland peddlers, who stole a five-ton piece of sawmill machinery, have certainly broken the record hith erto held by the man who stole the hot stove. The German Kaiser also feels the grind' of the high cost of living. He has the sympathy of the plain people of America. Generally it is the man who kills for unrequited love. Mrs. Prosser is a rare exception. No one is violently opposing the pro. posed assembly of rose lovers in Port land this week. Some persons seem injured because the comet didn't hurt them. NOVEL CORPORATION ATROCITY Kasjaaa Mam la Hounded to Death by Topers for SoctaI Drlaka." Chicago Inter Ocean. The Kansas Railroad Commissioners have received a complaint from an In dignant citizen that "the express agent in his town tips it oft" whenever he, the citizen, "gets a jug of whisky by express." The result Is, the complainant adds. that all the topers in town hound him to death for social drinks. He wants the commission to order the agent to keep his mouth closed in future and to make the order strong. The news of this new form of cor poration outrage In Kansas will no doubt move thousands of the people of that state to sympathy and indigna tion, and also, to a demand for speedy action which will render such things henceforth Impossible. It is bad enough, they will doubtless argue, for a corporation to mulct the public by its charges for its services. But when it goes to the extent, through its accredited representative, of Incit ing a man's own neighbors to levy tribute on his whisky, the situation be comes absolutely unbearable. If such practices are allowed to con tinue, what becomes of a man's right to privacy, to the peaceable enjoyment of his own. to be safe in his own house from unreasonable visits and searches and seizures? What safeguard has he for his rep utation for sobriety in the community In which he lives? Of all the forms of corporate Inter ference with individual rights, they will naturally proceed to say, this is certainly the most insidious, the most outrageous, and the most maddening! It follows a man into his most personal affairs. It clings to him not. only as long as the whisky lasts, but as long as the topers think that it Is lasting. They may be relied on to add that the tyranny which sets spies on a man's every action, which subjects him to a continued inquisition in order to extract information, is in no wise worse than the fiendish malice which keeps a man's neighbors on his trail until he gives up his whisky, his peace of mind, and his reputation. The theory that the agent Is alone responsible for the act will naturally be scouted. "There has been entirely too much shifting of the blame on mere subordinates," we seem to hear them say. "What is needed is a procedure that will reach the corporation Itself, that will make it not only repair the damages sustained, but give guarantees or conduct lor the future. Sad as is this evidence of a newly Invented form of corporation atrocity. there is a certain appropriateness in Its breaking out in Kansas. The state which leads in devising novel remedies for corporation troubles Is certainly entitled to have the first experience of novel corporation outrages. Iaaura-insr Against the Insurgent. Chehalls Bee-Nugget. It is feared by some Republicans that enough Democrats and others will vote in the Republican primaries to give Poindexter such a lead that If the Re publican legislative candidates pledge themselves according to the system fol lowed out last campaign, Poindexter might get enough to make him a Sena tor from the Republican party of this state. The Bee-Nugget believes in living up to the spirit of the law fully, but in this case Poindexter's record is such, as a rank insurgent and Democrat and he is on record In such a manner that we do not believe he is entitled to any consideration from the Republicans of this state, and has no claims what ever on the party. Legislative candidates may protect themselves and the party by qualify ing their pledges when they make declarations of candidacy by stating that they will not vote for Poindexter because they do not consider him a member of the party, a desirable Re publican Senator from this state, and not entitled to support from the Re publican legislative candidates or the Republican party. J The Truth About Assembly. Douglas Leader. That there Is so much opposition to the assembly Just now on the part of tne Democratic ana. "Independent" press of the state should not occa sion surprise on the part of voters of Oregon. Instead of being viewed as evidence of unpopularity of the as sembly the Republicans should look upon the outbursts of declamation de nunclatory of the Republican plan of protection of the party and its sue cess at the polls next November as positive proof of the success of the assembly and the fear that its enemies have of the Waterloo it will bring them. To those who have kept tab upon the newspapers of the opposition these journals are lighting the assem bly because they know that its adop tion means their defeat, and because they also realize the Republicans are fighting their enemies with their own weapons, and will assuredly win the fight. The lOlO Strawberry Record. Newberg Graphic. Fashionable women who have been accustomed to splitting peas to get them in their mouths would be greatly embarrassed to know how to handle some of the big strawberries that are now finding their way to the markets. One day last week A. P. Wallen, of Sprlngbrook, brought to this office a box of berries of the "Gold Dollar" variety that were as big as apples, and on Tuesday morning L S. Otis left two boxes only requiring ten berries to fill each box well heaped up and each berry rich and blood red to the core. ' Another Fish Story. ' Roseburg News. The small bull terrier belonging to Fred S. Mathlas seeing a large sal mon sporting in the riffle of the river Just below the dam, dove entirely un der the water and, after a plucky struggle, "Jack" finally succeeded In landing a 25-pound salmon, to the amazement of his proud master, who declares he will readily hold one hand on the Bible and repeat his story to anyone. The Lone Man. Haverhill Gazette. Nick Longworth says he does not care what his father-in-law thinks. He seems to be the only one in the country who doesn't. CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS. "How do you distinguish the waiters from the guests in this cafe? Both wear full dress." "'Yes, but the waiters keep sober." Cleveland Leader. First Young; roctor: When will you be able to get married ?' Second Young Doe tor: "I'm waiting now for only three oper ations more." Life. Mrs. Young: "I want to get a divorce from my husband." Lawyer: "What are your charges?" Mrs. Young: "My charges? Mercy! I thought I'd have to pay you." Boston Transcript. "You are not interested in family trees?" "No," replied Miss Cayenne, "so many of them remind me of these continual an nouncements that the fruit crop is a fail ure." Washington Star. Teacher: "You do not intend to make a profession of your study of music?" Pupil: "Dear me. no! I only am learning to play to kill time." Teacher (grimly): "You're doing it." Baltimore American. Editor: "We would very much like to use your poem, sir, but the fact is. we are not In a condition to buy verse." Poet: But you may use it for nothing; I would much like to see It in print." Editor: "Well, you see. we have a rule here that anything that Isn't paid for Isn't worth printing." Boston Herald. CLOSED-SHOP BLAMED FOR EVILS This Writer Thinks Saa Frsnrlico'i Labor Unions Cripple Trade PORTLAND. June 5. tTo the Edi tor.) Having carefully read and re read W. H. Corbett's communication In The Oregonian of today on the closed shop. I wish to state a few facts in connection with the subject matter with which Mr. Corbett dealt In a manner most gently conservative. The labor leaders of San Francisco boast with truth that It is the most strictly and actively unionized city In the United States; everything "closed shop." Let me look at the results. For years San Francisco's steam schooners and sailing craft have been built at Grays Harbor and Port Blakely. Wash. The Hamburg - American Steamship Company, tiring of Incessant labor troubles, took its business to Seattle. Two San Francisco boot and shoe fac tories were killed in their infancy; three elevator manufacturers did ab solutely nothing but repairs, while firms in Los Angeles and Eastern cities supplied the elevators for the city's new buildings. A woolen mill filled with machinery, stood idle for eight years and $200,000 or $300,000 worth of orders were sent East for brass valves and iron ' work for city improvements in the last two years. .Today, the Union Iron Works has 700 men employed and six years ago the same concern had 6000 employes. Both Mr. McGregor, of the Union Iron Works, and Mr. Young, of the Risdon Iron Works, Informed me that If on the first of June the eight-hour day was enforced, it would put them out of business altogether. . Three years ago, between 40.000 and 50,000 men. women and boy were in enforced idleness at one time through strikes. The striking streetcar men lost many thousands of dollars in wages, and lost the strike. The labor leaders of the Building Trades Council and Central Labor Union mulcted their members in strike contributions to the tune of $200,000 ostensibly to support the strikers, but in reality to create an election fund for P. H. McCarthy. Not one penny of this vast sum. taken from the pockets of the honest workers, has ever yet been accounted for. This is the whole aim and object of the closed shop, to create a condition of arrogance, graft and blackmail, for walking delegates ana professional labor leaders. Our San Francisco Mc Carthys. Chicago -"Skinny" Mike Mad dens, Driscols, Sheas and New York Sam Parkes. Mr. Corbett is too mild by more than half. The walking delegate must go. I have traveled all over the United States, and Portland and Los Angeles are the two most prosperous cities to be round in the entire country today. There are between 5000 and 6000 idle mechanics in San Francisco today in the building trades alone, and all boats and trains from that city are carrying idle men to this most prosperous city or Portland, Just as fast as they can get tne money to pay their fare. wnerever the closed shoo orevails. the "to let" sign is more in evidence than the full dinner pall or happy com- ioriaoie-iooking. well-fed children. There is nothing left of the original union today but name. The anarchist, the Socialist and the grafter are In control and are most assuredly making nonest toners their dunes and tools to the end that they may accomplish their own ends. This Is one of the princi pal reasons why I am a strenuous ad vocate or Investigation, conciliation ana arbitration. "The great soul of the worm is just," says Carlyle, and. the decision of the disinterested is always the most t just that can be obtained. All of these statements made or views expressed I stand ready to defend at an limes. p. h. SCULLIN. THE GOULDS AS CURIOUS TRAMPS Incident Recalled When Miss Marjorie bould Left Home to See Life. EUGENE, Or., June 4. (To the Edl tor.) -Reading of Edward Gould. Jr., running away from school at Pomfret Center, Conn., reminds me that when Marjorie Gould was about his age, or perhaps younger, she ran away one fine Summer day to see the world, accom panied by several of her young girl friends. The first day's journey took "rem to tne nouse or a young farme a few miles from Lakewood. N. J. Marjorie Gould asked the farmer's wife for permission to camp under a large tree in the yard. This being granted, she called for large slices of oread, Dutter ana jam for the whole lot. This lunch was furnished and paid for, as all the children had some money. When the farmer came home to dinner, he knew Marjorie Gould, nnrf harnessing up the fastest horse he had, ne drove with all his might to Lake wood. Here he found the whole town In commotion. George Gould had heen telegraphed for and had come on the iastest engine the railroad had. Th lake was about to be dragged to find the bodies. tjne can imagine the reception th tarmer got when he told his story. . four-horse coach was got readv an tne children brought back. The farmer asked Marjorie before he started Lakewood if there was anything he could bring her. she said she wanted two dozen cream puffs to take with them when they resumed their journey on the following day. All the New York papers got after this farmer to find out what George Gould gave him tor nis trouDie, but they never did. Al he would say was, "I m satisfied all right." As I remember Marjorie Gould that time, she was tall, slender and very beautiful as a child, generous to a tauit, but high-strung and of rather nervous disposition. When asked why she left her splendid home, she said: "I was just tired and sick of it and wanted to see the world." If she loves young Mr. Drexel, well; not, he'll have the time of his life. S. M. D. Good RMdl Movement and Farmers. HUBBARD, Or., June 4. (To th Editor.) I have read much about the good roads movement that is being ag itated so much throughout the state, and about the bond amendment to the state constitution, that ex-County Judge Webster seems to think is necessary. But, would it not be well for the farmers and taxpayers to d some of the boosting? They are th ones who are to be so wonderfully ben efited by this county bond indebted ness. Thus far. It seems to me, the enthu slasts in this good roads movement are loan agents who have money to inves automobile owners, and would-be offl clals' under the new regime. If there are any farmers or taxpayers who are favorably Impressed by this county bond amendment, 1 should be pleased to hear from tnem. J. s. YODER. Engene'i Expectations. Eugene Register. Albany's Fifth-street residents called off their referendum on the Oregon Electric building on that street, an now word comes that a big force of men are to be put. to work rushing the lin through from Salem to Albany, with the understanding that cais will running into the "Hub" city by Janu ary 1. That means the year 1911. will find the line exterded to and operating in the tjny oi tugene. Valid E: Kansas City Journal, "Now. don t tell me you were de tained by business, or any such im probable story as that."- "I won't, my dear. I was chased many blocks out of my way by a bull rhinoceros. PREROGATIVES OF BRITISH CROWS Historic Privtlecea That Attach to th KinK of England. London Globe. The prerogatives attaching to th crown in England may for convenience be classified under four main headings. These are: First, personal; second, po litical; third, judicial, and fourth, ec clesiastical in nature. With regard to that of the first- mentioned description the principal ones are as follows: As the individual invested with the supreme government, the sovereign cannot, legally speaking, ever be considered as deceased. At the most there can only be a "demise of the crown" that la to say. the trans fer of the royal authority to a suc cessor. The familiar phrase, -The King aeaa; ong uve tne King," means that though the breath is out of the body of one sovereign, there is another constitutionally entitled to occupy his place. For this reason the royal stand ard never flie3 at half mast over the sovereign s residence. Another "personal" Drerosrative of th King of England is that "he can do no wrong." Since from a theoretical point of view, he makes the laws, he is naturally above their operation. On mis account, therefore, should a sub- ect suffer an Injury at the hands of the sovereign, the fact is attributed to tne mistake of his advisers." In the same way, no action for false imprison ment can possibly be sustained against the King. He Is also exempt from tax ation, save In respect to lands acquired by his privy purse. Thus, It happens that while King Edward was not rated when living in Buckingham Palace, hia son was required to pay something like a.iuuu a year when in residence at Marlborough House. It is also inter esting to note that a species of sane- ' tuary attaches to any royal dwelling. The effect of this ruling is, that should a subject contrive to take refuge In. say, Windsor Castle, no Judicial pro cess could be executed against him un til he chose to leave the precincts. In the case of a criminal, or crown debt or, however, no such protection is af forded. Other "personal" prerogatives en joyed by a British monarch are the. exclusive right of printing the Bible in the British dominions, the erecting of lighthouses on the coast, and tho guardianship of all infants and lunatics. - It need scarcely be pointed out, how ever, that nowadays these privileges are not exercised to any pronounced extent. As a matter of fact, the print ing of the Bible is attended to by the authorities of the University Press at Oxford, while the other matters re ferred to are entrusted respectively to the Board of Trade and the Lord Chan cellor. The sovereign is also entitled to alter the royal standard. On the demise of the Crown a gen eral election is not necessarily called for; but Cabinet Ministers are required to surrender their portfolios. This, however, is only a matter of form, since the portfolios are promptly re turned. Peers and members of Par- ' liament take a fresh oath of allegiance. as must also officers of the navy and army, while ambassadors to the Court of St. James have to receive new cre dentials. Some of the prerogatives attaching to the throne of England date from very early chapters of the country's history, and their retention at this date is largely a concession to senti ment. So far as the "political" one go, the most valuable that King George may exercise is the one entitling him to withhold his assent to any bill, not withstanding the fact that bo'.h Houses of Parliament may have passed it. The last occasion on which this right was exercised was so long ago as the year 1707. As head of the state, the sover eign is commander-in-chief of the na val and military forces and is for this reason entitled, should he deem it nec essary, to set the old press gang laws In operation again. It is also a "political" prerogative to assume the ownership of all treasure- trove or lands discovered by any sub ject. Should, therefore, an English man reach the South Pole before a representative of any other nation, it will become the property of the crown and tne finder will be unable to float a public company for Its exploitation without previously obtaining the royal sanction to do so. The "Judicial" pre rogatives attaching to the Crown of England are for the most part of a highly peculiar nature. For example, every action in the Court of the King's Bench Division is considered as taking place coram rege ipso, even though the sovereign be out of the country alto gether at the time. The "ecclesiastical' prerogatives of the English monarch Include the ap pointment of bishops, and the patron age of all benefices that are thus ren dered vacant. Since the time of Henry VIII the King -has oeen recognized as the head of the church. He cannot, however, create ecclesiastical jurisdiction or found a new bishopric without the assent of Parliament. While the number of prerogatives that may at the present day be exer cised by George V is considerable, the list thereof Is nevertheless of an ex tremely attenuated description in com parison with the ones obtaining three or four centuries ago. Its proportions have been limited gradually either by desuetude or by pressure on the part of Parlament to forego certain items at one time included therein. The Magna Charta, for instance, was re sponsible for depriving the sovereign of much Of the power he formerly en Joyed, and the subsequent Petition of Right and Act of Settlement had also a considerable effect in the same di rection. Among the lapsed privileges of the Crown may be mentioned the granting of monopolies, the imposing of compul sory knighthood, the impressment of carriages and horses and the confisca tion of the property of any subject con victed of treason or felony. Can This Law Be Observed? Hillsboro Independent. ' If candidates at the coming election are to steer clear of the penitentiary they may have to carry about a bulle tin board on which Is pasted the many tl Ings which are taboo by the corrupt practices act. The Secretary of State has just issued a digest of the law and it fills two closely printed newspaper columns. The things forbidden are so numerous that there must be a constant reference by the would-be office-holder if he is to keep out of the clutches of the law. When the Returns Are In. Hillsboro Argus. It appears that the census takers are shattering the claims of many of our little cities in Oregon. There are scores of towns claiming four and five thou sand which are now cutting down their estimates at least 60 per cent, and those who have bean claiming the 3000 class are getting buck under the 2000 wire. Hia Constituent. Pittsburg Post. "Ever had 'em strew flowers in your path as you returned home. Senator?" "Naw. I'm satisfied not to have 'em strew banana peelings." Awful to Contemplate. Indianapolis News. Bat, gee! what would become of the theaters if the people stormed the box office to get their money back every; time the show was not satisfactory? - When Bryan la Popular. Boston Transcript. No sooner has Mr. Bryan started for Europe than his Senatorial boom re vives. He never seems so popular in his own country as when he Is out of 1U f