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lO TUT: MORTSTTTG- OREGONIAN- FRIDAY. JUNE 17, 1910. PORTLAND. OBEGOS. i i Entered at Portland, Oregon, Fostoffice aa Beeond-Claaa Matter. bunscrlDtion Kates Invariably tn Advance. (Bt MAIL.). Dally, Sunday included, one year ?'S2 Dally. Sunday Included, six months 5' Si Dally, Sunday Included, three months... Dally, Sunday Included, one month . Dally, without Sunday, one year 5 ?i. Dally, without Sunday, six months ? Daily, without Sunday, three months.... Dally, without Sunday, one month -gJJ Weekly, one year J Sunday, one year Z'??. Sunday and weekly, one year 8-ao (By Carrier). Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9.00 Pally, Sunday included, one month..... How to Remit Send Postofflce money or ner. express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postotflce address in Cull, including county and state. Postage Kates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 28 pages, 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, 3 cents; 40 to 60 pases, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C. Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 60 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510 612 Tribune building. . , PORTLAND, FRIDAY, JCNE 17, 1910. PARTS' ASSEMBLY ESSENTIAL. "Popular vs. representative govern ment" is one of the absurd phrases that certain politicians in Oregon think will carry them into office and power. These politicians oppose or ganization of political party through assembly - convention, insisting that 'the people" should supplant the rep resentative system of government and, politics with a hit-or-miss scheme of non-deliberative democracy. . Oregon, therefore, is a breeding ground for queer political ' doctrine. This doctrine does not thrive else where as It does in this state, yet it should be added that indications are it will not thrive here either. Wiscon sin, the original direct-primary state, has just held a state convention. Gov ernor Hughes, of New York, a strong apostle of direct nominations, has re fused to take up any scheme that would dispense with party assembly or a recommended ticket for primary nomination. He does not deem him self to toe in league with bosses for ad vocating retention of party assembly. He accepts the representative princi ple as necessary for successful opera tion of the direct primary. Here in Ore gon the results of unguided primary, in inefficient and demagogic official dom, obtrude every political discus sion, despite frantic efforts of the po litical faction that has profited from the "system," to obscure them with platitudes about people and bosses. Governor Hughes urged passage of the Hinman-Green bill for direct pri maries in New York. This bill em traced a wide plan for nomination of party candidates in direct primary, following recommendations by a cen tral committee acting as party assem bly. This bill was defeated by ma china politicians of both parties. Then followed the Cobb compromise bill, securing primary nomination of a great variety of officers but reserving the highest Btate positions, judgeships and city offices for convention nomi nation. The Cobb bill was also de feated. It is important to note 'that Gover nor Hughes steadfastly refused' to cut loose from' the representative principle of party organization. In ia speech at Batavia. N. Y., last Friday, he upheld "representative and responsible party organization." One of the passages in his speech was as follows: The measure known as the Hinman-Greon bill embodied a plan applicable to state offices as well as to members of the Leg islature and other officers, and met with widespread approval. It was designed to meet the conditions in this state and to secure at the same time the advantages of representative and responsible party organi sation and the enforcement of the rights of the party members. This bill was de feated In both .houses of the Legislature. X regard this as a grave mistake from every point of view, and 1 have not changed in any particular my opinion as to the merits of the measure. Oregon is coming back to "repre sentative and responsible party organ! zation." The means at hand for ac- ' complishing the reform is the Repub lican assembly, to be held next month In Portland, composed of more than 1200 members. Every office-seeker who knows the assembly would regard thmi as unfit is abroad clamoring against assembly. Too many of this kind of patriots are already in office, . The Republican assembly will vouch for a ticket of state candidates, as fit tor nomination in the subsequent pri- .. marles. Too many office-seekers have "landed" without recommendation of representative citizens. Assembly is certainly not a disrep utable agency of party. The Constitu tion of the United States and of every state was framed in assembly. Every constitution guarantees the liberty. of assembly. M'CARTHY THE MIGHTY. 'I tell you we run San Francisco and we run it to suit ourselves," said Mayor McCarthy in explanation of his statement that "you can bet your last dollar the big fight will be pulled off In my town just as advertised." The occasion of the emphatic language of the Justly celebrated Mayor was the attempted .interference of the Gover nor of California with the prizefight. "While there are so many features of the McCarthy administration that ought to cause any law-abiding Amer ican citizen to deny ownership or in terest in "my town," the Mayor's language can hardly fail to cause a sensation even in McCarthyized San Francisco. "Upon iwhat meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?" Or, to make another draft on the classics, "What a long tail our cat has grown." An ignorant foreigner on the Liver pool embarking stage, when asked if he was going to the United States, shook his head and said: "No, me no go United States, me go San Francis co." In his violent interview at Chi cago, Mayor McCarthy, like the for eigner, seems to be under the impres sion that San Francisco is' not in the United States. If this were true, it would afford some relief to San Fran cisco's neighbors who are obliged to blush with shame oftener than they can smile with joy over the conduct of the California metropolis. But there Is evidence of a flaw in the title which Mayor McCarthy seems to think he holds to San Francisco. The taxpay ers of the Bay City were so anxious to purge the city of "reform" that, for a time after the election of McCarthy, there was not much objection to the rather free-handed manner In which ' McCarthy issued letters of marque to the numerous vultures who flocked to s San Francisco from all over the world. As evidence accumulates, however. It becomes increasingly apparent that San Francisco made a swift jump from the frying pan into the fire. when the heavenly twins, Ruef and Schmitz were replaced by the model McCarthy. The object of Mayor Mc Carthy's visit in the East was to ap pear before a. Congressional commit tiee to urge an appropriation for the proper celebration of the opening of the Panama Canal. As San Francisco enjoys the unenviable reputation of being the only city of importance In the United States in which a fight could be staged it is easy to under stand the hostile sentiment that would be awakened by any attempt to hold a National exposition in such a place. But McCarthy has thrown ' down the gauntlet and defiei" the power of the state and the Fed eral Government, so that there is a plain line drawn between vice and lawlessness on one side, and morality and law observ .nee on the other. There is no question which side will win if the contest goes to a finish. As for McCarthy, he should read and re flect on Aesop's fable of the Frog and the Ox. , HILL LINES DIVIDED. "Oh, that is a Wall street institu tion. Wall street paves a dollar when ever it can. The Great Northern is a St. Paul institution," said President Hill of the Great Northern in discuss ing the reported laying-off of a large number of men on the Northern Pa cific. Tlis is a somewhat surprising confession, in view of the fact that the Northern Pacific has for years been known as a Hill road. It was over the control ; of the Northern Pacific that Mr. James J. Hill and the late E. H. Harriman in. Wall street fought out one of the most spectacular financial battles ever waged on the New- York Stock Exchange. The Hill people are no doubt still heavily interested in Northern Pacific, but for many months there have been cropping up at various times significant incidents tending to show that the relationship between the two roads was not as close as it used to be. . ' While the Northern Pacific is still known as a Hill road, we now see some very strong competition between that road and the Great Northern. With the Northern Pacific operating eight trains per day and the O. R. & N. six trains per day between Portland and Puget Sound, there 'would hardly seem to be any necessity for the addi tional six trains which Mr. HUl's Great Northern will operate between the two points. Portland and shippers through out the Pacific Northwest would not be at all dissatisfied to learn that there had been a complete divorce between the two Hill systems. James J. Hill's control of the North Bank road is assured. This line, in connection with- the Great Northern, will give him an admirable through route to the East. As feeders for this big system, Mr. Hill has recently ac quired the Oregon Klectric, the United Railways, the Astoria & Columbia and is 'building a line through Central Ore gon. Out of Spokane, reaching far up into British Columbia, he also has a, large number of feeders. These . lines complete a system that is wonderfully rich in traffic possibilities, and, with the completion of the projects now under way, it will leave the . original Hill system in possession of a great property. It is idle to presume, however, that the other Hill road, even though it is a "Wall street institution," will stand still while the Great Northern and its affiliated lines are reaching out into new territory. Twenty trains a day between Portland and Puget Sound are to many, compared with the no trains per day that have thus far re tarded development in many isolated regions in the PaciJic Northwest, and the Northern Pacific may yet wake up and do some building on Its own account. THE EASY AND LAWFUL METHOD. Brother B. Lee Paget writes to The Oregonian to say that the Prohibition ists would not have held their recent state assembly, or convention, if they had been able under the primary law to nominate their ticket. Mr. Paget and his prohibition friends would bet ter read the primary law. It provides that candidates may be nominated by petition. If the Prohibitionists had had any rooted aversion to an assem bly they- might, and should, have adopted the petition method of plac ing their candidates on the ballot. But the natural, easy and lawful method of finding the party's will and ex pressing it is by assembly or conven tion, and therefore the Prohibition ists adopted it. - . The right of assembly is a historic right, guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States and of the states It would be quite absurd to maintain that the Smaller the political organiza tion the more sacred its constitutional privileges, yet that in effect. is where Brother Paget stands when he defends the assembly for the Prohibitionists and would deny it to either of the dominant parties. If the assembly is unlawful for the Republican party which it is not- it is unlawful for the Prohibition party If the primary law intended to abol ish the convention iwhicri it did not for either of the great parties. It in tended similarly to abolish it for the smaller parties when it provided the petition method ofi nominations. But of course conventions or ssemblies may be held In strict conformity with the provisions and requirements of the primary law, and they will be held by Republicans just as they have been held by Democrats and are being held by Prohibitionists. COLLEGE FRATERNITIES. Outside of alumni associations and other professed college boomers the world has never been thoroughly con vinced that Greek letter fraternities are an unalloyed benefit to the young men who belong to them. In high schools it -is now agreed that they are a nuisance, and people of good com mon sense have united to try to abol ish them, but in the colleges they be come more influential every year Br, Penrose, of Whitman College, ventures this Spring in his annual report to criticise them a little. Ha cannot con vince himself, apparently, that it any better , for students to drink smoke and carouse generally within fraternity house than in other places The ordinary parent will be disposed to take the same view. Xr. Penrose urges his trustees to help him impose more severe restrictions on the frater nities than they have heretofore sub mitted to. Among other things he would have a member of the faculty resident in each house. This might help a little, but proba bly it would prove disappointing. the resident professor really did his duty he would have to spy upon the boys day and night and would pres ently become so odious that they would make his life miserable. If he did not do 'his duty his presence would hardly help matters. Experience seems to show, too, that it is not a good plan to rely too implicitly upon the honor of students to keep their be havior straight. Honor is not at its zenith during college years. Youths permit themselves to do deeds at that time of lif withchit a twinge of con science which they would not dare to think of either before or after. It is the epoch of emergence from boyish savagery to manly responsibility and partakes of the character of both pe riods, with the addition of a spirit of wild . a" . enture which belongs to neither. The best way to manage the Greek letter societies would be to abolish them, if it could be done, and ubstitute some more public and dem ocratic clubs in their place. " But this is too much of a revolution to expect. Colleges are the most conservative bodies in the orld. TERMINAL' RATE FIGHT ENDED. The long fight over franchises for the North Coast and the Milwaukee roads seeking entrance to Spokane came to an abrupt ending Wednesday night, when the City Council granted the franchises without any "terminal rate" or any other provisos which would in any manner hamper the op erations of the roads. Public senti ment in the Eastern Washington me tropolis changed so rapidly after the subject was thoroughly understood that the matter of franchises, will not even be submitted to a vote of the peo ple as was intended. In granting franchises to these new roads Spokane acknowledged the most potent influ ence in her greatness, for her com manding' position as an inland rail road center, to an overwhelming ex tent, is due to the railroads. With the newspapers ofthe city repeatedly call ing attention to the marvelous growth of the jobbing trade of the city, and with the heaviest jobbers of the city fully appreciating the discriminatory rates of the roads which had enabled the business to attain such magnificent proportions, it was surprising that any question was raised about admis sion of additional lines. Now that Spokane understands that terminal rates are made and main tained through the influence of water competition there will be more of an effort on the part f her people to take advantage of the water route for traffic from Atlantic territory to the Pacific Northwest. A North Yakima special in The Oregonian yesterday re ported that two, of the largest stores In Kennewick will have their entire Fall stock of goods shipped by water from New York to Portland and thence to Kennewick. Wool from the same territory bound to the Eastern markets is already following the wa ter routes in large quantities. With completion of the North Coast and Milwaukee roads into Spokane new business will follow and Spokane will profit greatly by their coming. What Spokane needs, however. Is a lower rate from Pacific coast termi nals. Portland has for years been en deavoring to secure lower distributive rates, and Spokane will never make the most of her opportunities until she Joins forces with Portland in a de mand for a lower rate on the most economically handled water-borne commerce. Every phase of this ter minal rate question has been so thoroughly (discussed in the three months' fight made over the, railroad franchises in Spokane that it is hardly probable that any further attempt will be made to secure ocean rates at a port where the ocean does not touch. AN AMERICAN DELUSION. , The American people .have always been, in the main, sober-minded and reasonable in their public expressions and in their popular demands. There fore, it is to be expected that their attitude on certain matters of taxa tion and transportations.chargej is the product of but temporary excitement. Here are the people insisting upon larger appropriations for rivers and harbors and knowing that expendi tures must be continuously increased for Army and Navy and for the grow ing hosts of officials that are adding to the public payroll. On the other side, the people are clamoring for re duction of excise and customs-duty taxes, - for exemption of the ."neces saries of life" from tax burdens and for "revision downward" of tariff schedules. In other words, the people are call ing loudly for the luxuries of Na tional existence and benefits of in ternal progress, yet clamoring against resultant burdens of taxation. Also they are insisting upon exten sion and betterment of railroads and higher wages for railroad employes, yet resisting the reasonable efforts of railroad managers to raise rates to meet the larger expenditures. At bottom of most of this discon tent is so-called protective tariff. This sort of taxation is fallacy; it fills the minds of communities with false ideas; it makes a race between them for ben efits derived at the other's expense. And, as preached by designing poli ticians, it has caused a large part of the public to believe that articles of general consumption should toe free of duty or excise, in order that the peo ple may buy them cheap. The general public, that is the common people, are the mainstay of the Nation and are the ones on whom the Government must depend for most of its revenues. Any "other arrange ment would be impossible. The Gov ernment could not maintain itself without taxing articles that the gen eral public .uses. The Government should tax as heavilr as the traffic will bear the luxuries of the rich and the well-to-do, but it will have to draw most of its revenues from taxa tion of goods of the most general con sumption. Protective tariff delusion has led away from this proper system of tax ation. Conflict of interests and locali ties over protective tariff shows that the business is gradually working to rational solution, but how long the process will take nobody can tell. It Is sufficient at this time to note that this conflict has excited the people to demand that the enormous expenses of the general Government be met by taxing the other fellow. This is un reasonable and irrational, and cer tainly only spasmodic. Protective tariff, therefore, is mak ing trouble for the people, anxiety for the Government and upset for poli ticians and statesmen. It causes the people to make unreasonable demands as to appropriations and revenues. Simultaneously with the news of the explosion of the Iditarod (Alaska) mining boom comes the news of a phenomenally rich strike on Queen Charlotte Islands. A gold reef is said J to have been found and traced for twenty miles, with "enough good ground in sight to keep a thousand stamps at work for 1000 years." This reads well and might be partly true. Perhaps the strongest point in its fa vor is that it Is comparatively close at hand. The Iditarod mining stam pede is said to have been worked up for the purpose of supplying business for the steamships, but the Bitter Creek mines, where the Queen Char lotte find has been made, are so close at hand that it would hardly pay the transportation companies to engage in any elaborate publicity campaign such, as marked the springing of the Iditarod trap. An amendment to our antiquated shipping -laws, prepared by Attorney George Shepherd, of this city, and' In troduced in Congress by Representa tive McCredie, offers an excellent method for securing an American merchant marine. It is brief, but great In possibilities if it carries, for it provides that "vessels built in any foreign country and owned wholly by citizens of the United States" are enti tled to American registry. With this amendment effective there would be an immediate rush for the bargain counters of European shipyards, and Americans would -Cave an opportunity to compete on even terms, as regards first cost, with all or any of the for eign nations ' that have been "so suc cessful on the high seas. -We can never successfully compete with the foreigners in the carrying trade until we use the same priced equipment as they use. Under the new naval programme, one of the battleships is to be built by a contractor and 'one at a navy-yard. It will be interesting to compare the cost of construction of the two vessels. Unless the Government can build bat tleships in a more business-like man ner than it handles any other class of work it undertakes, the cost of the Government-built craft will be , so much greater than that of the one built by private contract that an inves tigation will be needed to show where the money went. The general belief that a Government Job should always be a soft job has permeated nearly every department to such. an extent that Government work almost invari ably costs much more than is neces sary to secure the same results in prl-' vate business. All this mushy stuff wherein No. 1 forgives a man charged with big amy and weeps while she watches No. 2 "cuddle close to his breast" is nauseating. The man who can hyp notize women in that manner was born too soon. He should have practiced his arts in the Salt Lake country half a century ago. His plac 3 now Is be hind the bars. ' In the death of Mrs. Rose Hoyt, Portland suffers the loss of a woman who lived a life of altruism. To the formation of the Rose Society and for years afterward sfhe gave her best ef forts. In works of charity she was ever active and zealous. She endeared herself to a very wide circle of friends who held her in affectionate regard. At. New Brighton Beach, England they have established a municipal day nursery. At North Beach, the extreme southwest corner of the State of Wash ington, nature established a day nur sery twenty-five miles long. And you can hardly count . the children who will be there a week after the Port land public schools close this week. From all accounts the-.-prizefight which Governor Gillett has so rudely interrupted would have been a very peaceful encounter , if he had not in terfered. It . is too bad to cut. short sports of this lamblike character. The threat of Los Angeles employ ers to import 400,000 strikebreakers if trouble is forced upon them is ridicu lous, when reduced to an arithmetical and financial basis. One-tenth of that number would be a large body. How much easier 'it would have been if Civic Architect Bennett had been here to consult with Pettygrove and Lovejoyin 1845. They would have given ample railway terminals for nothing. Linn "ounty would be 1-nown as the healthiest region of Oregon, for in Albany only the aged people die and births exceed deaths as three to one Being slow only in dying means some thing. Up-state men coming to the-metrop oils may get their eye-teeth cut if they go to the place where it is done. The latest is a Pendletonian .who as serts he 'lost $300. If prayer won't pay for building material and labor, as asserted by members of . the Sunnyside M. E Church, why don't they get busy and issue bonds? It is not to be expected that San Francisco will have a safe and sane Fourth; either the blondes or the bru nettes will be wild over the event. Oregon at .this time has good rea son for self-felicitation over the fact that Hill's operations in this state are not controlled by Wall street. ' '."ashington and Lee has made Sen ator Chamberlain Doctor of Laws, Really, now, isn't' this a polite name for doctor of politics? Kansas calls for 40,000 harvest hands. Sorry, but we can't spare them. Oregon needs every mother' son to build railroads. As between the Panama exposition and the prizefight, San Francisco does well to give up the Fourth of July celebration. They speak of Roosevelt as ' the party issue in New York. Isn't he that all over the United States? Governor Gillett Is right when he thinks Jt is bad policy for California to offend the whole country. Little difference it makes whether they fight in California or in Call- fornla's rotten borough. In San Francisco the Fourth will not L only be safe and sane, but it will be a day of mourning. - Hereafter he will be known as Gov ernor -Bowerman. That's something. Denial of a 5-cent fare to suburbs will hasten annexation to Portland. Another skyscraper ia to go up in Alder-street canyon. ROOSEVELT WILL BE IN NO HURRY Not Likely to Throw His Influence - Until He Sees Things for Himself. In view of the ex-President's return to morrow, the following views are of more than ordinary Interest. They are by John Callan O'Laughlln. special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,, sent from Washington, June 11. Mr. CLaughlin la a close personal friend of the ex-President: Theodore Roosevelt is the burning question in Washington. He is an nigma to the politicians in the Na tional capital, despite .their years of association with him. He is to them a dynamite mine with a short fuse alight. They expect' an explosion when he sets his foot on American soil next Satur day and their only concern is the direc tion in which the debris will fly. The Administration is asking: Will he uphold the Administration of President Taft and commi himself to is support? The regulars are asking: t ' Will he indorse the record of the Re publican party in Congress, particularly with respect to the tariff law, and thus throw his influence toward securing the re-election of a Republican House? The- insurgents are asking: Will he condemn men who have courted political oblivion through their support of what they have conceived to be the Roosevelt policies? ine .Democrats are askinsr anil nil Republicans Join in the chorus: Will Theodore Roosevelt be a candi date for the Presidency in 1912? In the political atmosphere of Wash ington one can get any answer he de sires to each of the above Questions. Mr. Roosevelt must indorse the Administra tion because, having made Mr. Taft .President,' he cannot confess to lack or Judgment in his selection. Mr. Roose velt cannot approve Mr. Taft In view of me latter's failure to carry out the Koosevelt policies. Mr. Roosevelt must aDDrove the acts of me republican majority in Congress be cause all the honors he received were given him by the ReDublican rjartv. Mr. Roosevelt cannot approve the conduct of ine republican regulars In Congress be cause they have consistentlv criticised him and sousrht to discredit liim and his policies with the American people. Jir. .riooseveit must encourage the in surgents because they represent the ele ment in the Republican rjartv which stands for his ideals and which have forced progressive legislation. Mr. Roosevelt must denounce insurgency be cause this is a government by party and anytning subversive of the principle will De dangerous to the security and pros perity of the country. -Mr. Koosevelt will be a candidate for the Presidency in. 1912 because he alone can force the execution of the policies so necessary .to the development of the in at ion and the prosperity and haoniness of the people. Mr. Roosevelt cannot be a candidate for the nomination, because he himself has recognized the two-term Liauiuuu . ano maae ine otricial an nouncement that he regarded his first three years and six months in the White House as a term of office. So keen has been the Interest in what Mr. Rooseveit will do that every utter ance he has made, every invitation, to inends to visit him that he has extend ed, has been regarded as a'straw indi eating the course he will mirsue. When Gifford Pinchot conferred with him at Porto Maurizo, in Italy, the insurgents were wafted into the seventh heaven and the regulars were cast into the depths or despair. When it became known that Senator Root, by invitation of the ex-President had called Upon him in London the in surgents returned to earth and the regu lars Degan to smile. It was announced that Senator Lodce who supported the Aldrich tariff law had been invited to spend -two days with Mr.- Roosevelt at Oyster Bay immediate ly after the arrival of the distinguished traveler. This -news Intensified the In surgent gloom. I hen . Representative Fish, of New York, received a letter from the ex President asking him to make pilgrim age to the Cong Island home. On top of mis cpeering communication came a let ter . to Representative Madison, one of the strongest Kansas insurgents, request lng him to pay a call upon the former chief executive. So the regulars and insurgents have swung from one end of the pendulum to tne other. Like Mohammed's coffin, they are suspended Between nope and despair. Neither, side will -confess that it angled for the Invitations. All desire it to be known that personal regard alone. Im plicit belief in their Judgment, inspired the ex-President to single them out from the millions of Americans to apprize him of the political situation and to counsel him as to the course he shall pursue. The Administration realizes the great importance of haying Mr. Roosevelt make a statement which will establish mat ne is neart and soul behind Presi dent raft, or - that at least will show that their old-time friendliness contin ues. There is not the slightest doubt that many of the advisers of the President look upon the designation of Secretary of the Navy Meyer and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, and the dispatch of Captain Archibald Butt, military aid to the President, with a personal letter from Mr. Tart, as a shrewd political move, xnose wno are aware of the feel ing of Mr. Taft for Mr. Roosevelt assert that in taking this action he was in spired only by affection for his former chief. jtsut, wnaiever tne motive, there can be no doubt -that the President is acting In this matter in accordance with good taste and in line with the view held by the majority of Americans. The cabine officers who personally will represent the President at the New York reception held portfolios in Mr. Roosevelt's Ad ministration. s The letter sent by Mr. Taft, of course will meet with a response. The ex change of communications will show be yond a doubt both to the President and the ex-President Just where each stands in the other's eyes. Then, whatever re port may be circulated, the vie' taken by either upon a National question can be interpreted with a fair degree of ac curacy. , From my association with Mr. Roose velt during the long journey through Africa and . Europe, undertaken, in ac cordance with the instructions of the editor of the Tribune, I probably am in as good a position to "guess" what the ex-President will do as any one who has received short and cryptic letters from him. In my judgment Mr. Roosevelt will not be in any hurry to express his views on the burning questions of the moment. It is true he has received hundreds of let ters from friends in the United States giving their view as to what he should do upon his return. It is likewise true that he has talked with a large number of Americans familiar with polltlos and the trend of events in Ms native land. But what Mr. Roosevelt has not got, and what is so necessary to the forma tion of a correct conclusion. Is atmos phere. Mr. Roosevelt likes to decide things for himself. . He is not willing to take the view of another man. So, when he arrives in New York, no one need expect him to make a political pronunciamento. He will not bind him self to support the Administration or to denounce it, so far as the public prob ably will be aware." He will not indorse iu regulars or aiiacK. iiiexu, or inuorse the insurgents or attack them. He will first find out what they . have done, what they stand for, and what the needs of the people are. Then he may say some thing. - DO THEY WANT AN INSURGENT People Should Understand Issue aa to Poindexter. Aberdeen World. If the Republican county central committee can draft a platform clearly defining a Republican it will be en titled to gratitude. The task is not easy. Perhaps it can not De done posi tively. But it can be done negatively. It can be done, for Instance, so that an aggressive notoriety seeker like Miles Poindexter, Representative now in the - House and aspirant for larger honor at the hands of the party he does not support, can not stand on it. And that ought to be done. Whether or not the people of this tate want Poindexter is to be doubted. f they do, then they ought to have him. That, at least, would seem the clear presumption. Still, they ought to be saved from themselves. We want no such situation in this state as pre vails in Oregon, where a so-called non partisan system has run Itself into a Joke none to the benefit of the state or to the accretion of its Influence in Na tional affairs. Oregon, for example. has two Senators elected under the non-partisan scheme. One of them is an avowed Democrat. The mental capabilities of the other extend only so far as a game of golf and an offer of prizes for the best essay on the second elective term idea. Both are mediums by which this individual seeks to gain favor in the eyes of whomever may be President. If this state is a Republican state let it elect a Republican Senator. If it is not a Republican state let it elect a Democrat, or any man that will rep resent its sentiments. But no man has a right to ask the suffrage of Repub licans who is not in accord with his party. Which Is the Poindexter situa tion. WHY "DRVS" GOT TOGTHER. Couldn't Nominate Ticket Otherwise. Says Mr. Paget. PORTLAND, June 15. (Special.) (To the Editor.) The Oregonian's com ment Monday under the caption "An other Political Assembly," referring to the state convention of the Prohibition party, states that it "proves the univer sality of the convention instinct among citizens who seek righteousness." It is not fair, however, to attempt to justify a Republican nominating As sembly upon our action, as the case is by no means parallel. Both parties are compelled to rec ognize the following provision of the primary nominating law: "A political party within the meaning of this act is an affiliation of electors, representing a political party or or ganization, which at the next general election preceding, polled for its. can didate for Representative In. Congress at least 25 per cent of the entire vote cast for that office in the state." This section bars us from the use or advantage of a law for the operation or which "we are compelled to pay a pro rata of the cost, and Is probably unconstitutional. Under its terms, how ever, the Prohibitionists and other minor political parties are forced to the convention system in order to name their candidates. It is, therefore, misleading in the ex treme to use this Instance as an ex cuse for holding an altogether unnec essary assembly by either of the domi nant parties. . B. LEE PAGET. Opposition to Broadway Bridge. PORTLAND, Or., June 16. (To the Editor) The writer indorses the letter written by Mr. Walter TP. Burrell In The Oregonian today. In looking over the names of the different citizens who are willing to subscribe for the bonds on the Broadway bridge he notes the names of Dr. Andrew C. Smith, who is the owner of the half block on Seventh street, be tween C and 'H: Mr. McPherson, who owns property in the same locality; G H. Lombard, who owns a half block on Seventh and Davis; H. Wemme, who owns a half block on Seventh, between B and C streets, and a quarter block on Seventh and Oak streets, and Mr. Ben son, who owns a half block on Seventh and Oak streets. The firm of Olds. Wortman & King can well afford to take bonds on an enterprise of .this kind, that will bring customers to their door. The taxpayers should not be Imposed upon to load up a debt of $2,000,000 in building a structure that is unnecessary to gratify-a lot of grasping property owners to increase the values on their. property. . The immense raih-oad bridge at Third and Glisan streets about to be built is capable of handling the traffic for many years to come in this part of the city, and when the time comes to give more service the tube system should be installed. A. NEPPACH. Very likely the property-owners who expect direct benefit from completion of the. ' Broadway bridge and have made liberal offers of financial support win ' feel that that circumstance ought not to i be cited to their discredit. Opposition to the bridge is entitled to respect just so far as it appears that its motives are entirely disinterested. "Doctors of Aviation. K Syracuse Post-Standard. Orville and Wilbur Wright are to -be made doctors of laws by Oberlin College. The young mechanics, pioneers in the manufacture of heavier-than-air macniuLs and in traveling In them, might properly be awarded an advanced degree In engi neering or applied science- It is as ludi crous to decorate them with LL. D.'s as it would -.be to make Luther Burbank a doctor of civil law or Ben Lindsay a doc tor' of 'sacred theology. The term legum doctor has been taken to Include varied classes of law, but never before the law of gravitation, which, the Wrights have so successfully overcome. Where the Railroads Erred. ! Omaha Bee. ' Those 25 railroads that united in an at tempt to raise freight rates, if they had any justification on their side, which is doubtful, plainly erred in not proceeding through the ordinary channels of law providing for submission of proposed tar iff changes to the Interstate Commerce Commission. By their arbitrary action In ignoring this provision, .-' as well as the Sherman anti-trust law, they find them selves In a most humiliating dilemma. Their complete backdown before the Pres ident places them and their cause at a serious disadvantage for the future. Misleading; Terms. Kansas City Star. A New York man committed suicide the other day with a safety razor. Be it known that "safety" is a purely relative term, like "fireproof." Where You Can't Borrow Money. .. Kansas City Star. However, it is going to be a very diffi cult matter to borrow money at the Post al Savings Banks. The Cynosure. Washington tD. C.) Star. How will the hero whom we greet Array himself before The welcoming crowds who hate to meet Him face to face once mors? Some say we'll see him marchin in A splendid Afric lion skin. Perhaps he'll wear the Scottish kilt. And then,, agara, perhaps, He'll have a sword with Jeweled hilt He may appear in chaps. For they who seem to know him best Associate him with the West. The cap and gown of college life. The olive branch full-grown. The trumpet and the steel of strife Are all his very own. We stand and wait a tiD to gefc I As to the fashion he will set. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE Freddie was visiting relatives in Canada, and his mother constantly besought him to be on his good behavior and to avoid saying anything that might give offense, but one day when his aunt asked him at luncheon if he would have some curried chicken, he could not help showing his surprise. "Why, what's the matter, Freddie?" inquired the aunt; "don't you like curried chicken?" ", "Well, aunty, I can't really say," was his reply. "You see, down in the States we don't curry our chickens we pick 'em." Delineator. - Ex-Governor Pennypacker, discussing in Harrisburg the divorce evil, said with a smile: "Why, even the children are taking a flippant view of divorce. A Reno lady, I have been informed, was calling on a friend when a beautiful child entered the room. The lady drew the child to her. " 'And whose little girl are you?' " 'I don't know,' the urchin answered with a laugh. 'The decree isn't expected till next month.' "Washington Star. AH yesterday James had played truant from school, and when the irate master raised his cane threateningly James burst Into a flood of tears. "Please don't lick me, sir," he sobbed. "And why should I not lick you, pray?" thundered the schoolmaster. W'y, sir, 'cos I think I've 'ad enough!" gasped James. "Yesterday the boy as I played truant with and I fell out, and he licked me; and a man we threw stones at caught me and licked me; the driver of a cart we hung on to licked me; the owner of a cat we chased licked me. Then, when I got home, mother licked me; and after that father licked me; and then mother licked me again for calling her a sneak for telling father." "Well," responded the master grimly, by this time one licking more or less won't make much difference: and it seems hard I shouldn't have my whack. Come here sir !" Answers. Here is a story from Frank Ormerod's "Lancashire Life and Character." On one occasion a census clerk, in scan ning one of the forms to see that it had been properly filled up, noticed the figures 120 and 112 under the heading, "Age of father, if living," and "Age of mother, if living." "But your parents were never" so old, were they?", queried the astonished clerk. "Nowe," was the reply, "but they would ha' bin if livin'!" London Graphic. William T.. Stead, the editor of the Eng lish Review of Reviews, tells the story of an Irishman who applied to one of his friends for a position as coachman. "You know, Pat if I engage yoti I shall expect you to do things by combination. For instance, if I tell you to bring the carriage round at a given time I shall expect the horses with it and driving gloves, etc' " 'Yes, sorr, said Pat. "He was duly engaged and gave satis faction. One day his master came to him 'telling him to look sharp and go for a doctor, as his mistress was ill. Pat was gone for a long time, and on his master grumbling at him for his delay he said: "Sure, they're all here, sorr.' " 'All here?' said the master. 'What do you mean?' " 'Didn't you tell me to do things by combination?' " 'What's that got to do vith it?' said the master. " 'Well,' said Pat, 'I've got the doctor, the parson and the undertaker.' "Judge , Popular Fiction. Chicago Tribune. "I Remain Yours Truly." "Why, It's Early Yet. Mr. Lovelace?" "Certainly You May Smoke. Mr. Binks; I Like the Smell of a Good Cipar." "I'm So Sorry You Can't Visit Us This Summer, Aunt Rachel!" "Yes, I Usually Take the Upper Berth, From Choice." 1 "I Can't See Why People Are Interest ed in the Disgusting Details of a Prize fight." "Mr. Chairman, I Will Add a Word or Two toy Way of Explanation and Sit Down." "I Enjoy a Good Joke, Even When It's on Me." "You Have Beaten lie by an Over whelming Majority, and 1 Heartily Con gratulate You on Your Victory." "I Hate to Ask You to Change a Twen ty, but I've Nothing Smaller." r - Just Suppose This. Washington Herald. Now, just suppose it had been the Colo nel instead of Mr. Taft who secured only the Colonel would have "wrung," of course that "no increase in freight rates" concession from the railroads. Would we have torn our shirts and hollered our selves hoarse? Would we? . Oh, we guess we would! Growth In Twenty Years. Washington Star. New York had no idea, when Theodore Roosevelt was Police Commissioner there, that it woald one day be building tri umphal arches in his honor as an inter national celebrity. Plaint of Coal and Ice Men. Washington Star. The melancholy days have come. The saddest of them all; Not cold enough for furnace fires. For Ice, there is no call. In the Magazine Section of the Sunday Oregonian MOST WONDERFUL BODY OF WATER IN AMERICA Crater Lake, in Southern Ore gon soon to be brought close to civilization by an automobile high way. TWO OLD ABBEYS IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND Oregon girl visits the grave of St. Patrick and the land -jada fa mous by Sir John de Courcy. GO THE LIMIT IN THE NAME OF SPORT Wealthy amateurs who race in deep-sea motor-boats actually suf fer the extremes of human endur ance. TURNING HOBO MERELY FOR ADVENTURE Summer army of 500,000, mostly under 21, who are tramping for fun and excitement, and always in danger of death. ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDE ALER