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Eastern Bnsuseas Office Vrre A Conk- n ew York. Brunswick building. . stcgor building. Chl- fOBTTAND. SATTRDAY. OCT. 15. 1910. ROME EMEBGENC1XS AND OTHERS. Someone, through a mistaken sense loyalty to the Bourne & Chamber tin combination, calls admiring at trition to a message sent by Gover nor Chamberlain to the Legislature f 1905, taking an uncompromising tand against- the legislative practice of adding emergency clauses to many measures. o that they might become ffectlve' immediately and the men- tee of the referendum be evaded. Here are the patriotic Governor1 ringing words: My attention has been called to the fact hat many. If not a majority, of the bills hlch hav been Introduced In both in Houe and Fenal have an emergency claus declaring uch bill to be for th Immediate preservation of the public peace, health and. afetly of th people, thus. In effect, cutting of th right to hav auch laws referred to i people. Aa a matter ot taci. i l hav for It ohject the Immediate! sanation of th public peace nnlea It b to prevent Invasion, insurrenotlon or war. . - tive for Its Oblect th Im- mediate preservation of th public health unleaa It la to prevent tne wiitoucuuu mi plaru or th spread of nme 'con- .imi. nr Infeetloua disease, and no law -aa bar for Ha object the Immediate pres ervation of th public eafetly unless It be to prevent riot or mob violence or """""" -aleulated to bring about great deatructlon ef lif or property. Reference to this Immortal docu ment at this time, when the Bourne Chamberlain partnership, based on mutuality of interests, is much in the limelight. Is especially unfortu nate. What the Governor said in such noble terms and -what the Gov ernor did In such practical ways are two distinct and differing features of his extraordinary record. To strengthen and perfect the Foume-Chamberlain machine this same Governor, who was so grievous ly shocked in 1905 at the faintest suggestion of thwarting the peoples will by the easy expedient of an emergency clause, utterly Ignored his own lofty manifesto and aided In pushing through the Legislature bills creating various political joos. and he signed the bills, with their emergency clauses attached: and then be promptly filled the offices with bis own Immediate personal and po litical friend. Will Governor Chamberlain, or the apologists for and expectant bene ficiaries of his alliance with Bourne. explain In what manner the public peace, health or safety was men aced by the retirement of Commis sioners Slater and King from the Supreme bench, or was promoted by the Job between Chamberlain and the Legislature that hastily and brazenly put them back on the bench as Judges? Or how was the "public peace. health or safety" concerned In the political schemo to provide a place for Gatens. the Governor's private secretary, on the circuit bench for Multnomah? Or were the private peace, health and safety of Mr. Gatens and the Bourne-Chamberlain political machine the prime consider ations behind this skillfully executed legislative Job? Then there were two Tax Commis sioners, at $3000 per year each, who had to be provided for in another of those Justly celebrated emergency clause bivls. else the peace, health and safety of two loyal henchmen, at least one of them a devoted fol lower of Chamberlain, would have been forever destroyed. An Insur ance Commissioner and a board of higher curricula and others were cre ated also for the public peace, health and safety, and the country was again saved. This is the Chamberlain of 1909 1910. as opposed to the Chamberlain of 1905. when he defied a Republican Legislature and defeated everybody's Jobs or schemes or games but his own. Now we have the Chamberlain who does cheap politics in a cheap way for his own benefit and the ben efit of his partner, confederate and accomplice, Mr. Bourne. Who can wonder that there is widespread revol In the Democratic party against such methods and against such an ignoble alliance? Who can wonder that the Republican party at last has its eyes open to the mchlnations and schem Jngs of this brace of adroit political manipulators who kill off. eliminate, destroy, wipe out every obstacle In the way of 'their mutual political success? Who can wonder that the people have now set out to destroy the Bourne-Chamberlain machine? COLONEL KELLERS OCTDOXE These docks are now worth $:30. 000.000, and would bring that sum at public auction." gravely asserts the chief publicity agent In the campaign for public docks in Portland. The quarter of a billion dollars' worth of property mentioned is along the San Francisco waterfront. We are fur ther Informed that San Francisco "has the lowest dockage charge of any city In America." The "worth" or value of any property Is always based on its earning capacity, direct or Indirect. We are expected to be lieve, then, that the San Francisco docks are earning a fair return on the sum which they would bring "at public auction." Five per cent is a low rate of interest on the Pacific Coast, but in order to be conservative, we will assume that the money tied up In this property which would sell at forced sale for $250,000,000 is worth only 6 per cent, and we have an annual earning power of $12, 400.000. This, however, does not represent all that must be earned by the public docks. There Is an army of political appointees who must be taken care of on the rublic docks and their sal aries must be added to this fixed In terest charge of $12,500,000. Now to be of the slightest economic value, these docks must earn that 6 per cer.t Interest charge on the value of the dock "A also the operating; expenses. The Portland public dock boosters assure us that the tolls In San rran clsco are much less than they are itv Portland. But, estimating from the higher Portland rate of 25 cents per ton. it ' Is apparent that San Fran cisco's $250,000,000 worth of dock property is handling 50,000.000 ton. per year in addition to what is needed to supply the revenues for the "offi cials." Of course if we grant the usual claim that freight is handled on the quarter of a billion dollars worth of public docks at 5 cents per ton. it naturally follows that the docks, in order to pay "handsomely," as we are assured they do pay. must handle 250.000.000 tons per year. At the risk of driving more trade away from Portland to San. Francisco. The Oregonian suggests a method by which San Francisco can atract still more shipping to her public docks. By selling the $250,000,000 worth of dock property and investing the money in good 5 per cent bonds, there will be provided a fund of $12,500,000 per year. Vessel arrivals, small, large, foreign and coastwise at San Fran cisco are approximately 3000 per year. By dividing this tit. 600,000 among them, each vessel would re ceive $416S- every time she entered port. Could anything be more, allur ing? Nothing so enticing In the way of figures has appeared since Colonel Sellers Issued his famous prospectus showing the "millions" to be made by selftng eyewater to all of the inhab itants of the earth. AND TET NO WATER-POWER TRCST. Possible water power of Oregon and Washington amounts to between S.000.000 and 7,000,000 horsepower, according to the latest estimate of the Geological Survey. Less than 5 per cent of this power has been devel oped. This 5 per cent or less is not "controlled" by' arry huge trust or monopoly, nor has the remaining 95 per cent been grabbed by a giant combine. Yet a loud Plnchot cry is heard through the land, that waters are being "gobled up" by trusts an4 that the people are being robbed. Truth is. In Oregon, there Is no progress in new water power projects at all. The law has stopped it. This law compels applicants for new power projects to pay the state not less than 25 cents per horsepower per annum. The charge is prohibitive snd foolish. Besides, water power projects In both states are throttled by the National Government. Hysteria about a water-power trust has been created by a lot of theoret ical agitators of the Plnchot class. Be tween 6.000.000 and 7.000.000 horse power is running to waste in Oregon and Washington streams, large part of which is "conserved" and made use less by foolish rules and regulations of the Plnchot system. This la the same kind of conserva tion that has ruled the wilderness for untold millions of years. Meanwhile the water power'that has been saved from the clutches of conservation la driving streetcars, lifting elevators, moving factories and lighting streets and houses all for the much-abused people. WHAT THE MASSES READ. Certain of our esteemed contem poraries have fallen victims to the fear that the masses of the people are being corrupted by "cheap and trashy books." We do not share this appre hension. There are trashy books and trashy books. Those which the masses enjoy are comparatively harm less for all their dullness. They are detective stories, tales of weird ad venture and the like, vapid but fairly clean. Peoplo who read them get no benefit, but they are not corrupt ed. The readers of corrupt litera ture are the do-nothing rich, not the masses. It is to my lady lolling in bed at noon that the spiced French romance appeals. The tired working man, the vigorous boy want some thing else. Those who are familiar with publK libraries know what the literary tastes of the masses are. Useful hints upon the subject could be gained by peep ing over the shoulders of the roughly clad readers In the Portland public library. They do not while away their hours with fiction, but with books on electricity, economics and the like. The reading habits of the mob ma; impart danger to society, but certain ly not because their morals are being corrupted. If there is danger brew ing it is because their intelligence Is becoming too well-stored and alert. THE PKESinENT AT PANAMA. President Taft will make a per sonal Inspection of matters at the Pan ama Canal next month. By reason of his numerous visits to Panama in the early days of the enterprise and the close connection he has always had with the legislative and financial feat ures of the great' work, it Is probable that President Taft has more com plete knowledge of all branches of the work than any other man. The state ment that it Is already necessary to begin consideration of the matter of tolls on the canal Is a most encourag ing sign of the early completion of the big ditch. This question of tolls is easily the most Important that con fronts the Government- The state ment, however, that the canal, first? of all, "is a business proposition and must be so treated" may need modi fication. The cost of the canal is so enormous that It will be a very diffi cult matter to attract shipping with the tolls necessary to produce suffi cient revenue to return even a fair percentage of profit on the Investment. The largest shiping coneern operat ing on the Pacific Coast is the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. This company is expected to have a fleet of forty-five ships in commission when the canal Is ready for business. It now uses the rail route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and it is an nounced that "if the toll through the canal will make the cost of shipping, less, the company will use the water way: otherwise It will continue its present method." One of the strong est reasons given for the construction of the canal was its strategic value In time of war. If we still hold that view of the canal, it might be proper to charge the greater part of the con struction and operating expense to that account. It will not do to underestimate the Influence -which the Tehuantepec rail route will always have on shipping pasing between the Atlantic and the Pacific, snd It would seem that the rates must be made low enough to in duce shipping which now uses the rail route to make use of the canal. There is. of course, a distinct advantage in sending cargoes through the canal as compared with the rehandUng neces sary fry '"ay of Tehuantepec. but some of this advantage Is lost in the saving of distance which, the vessels must steam. It would seem like a . i . metre- tn determine in advance Just what the tolls should be. It might be necessary to cnange mnn very quickly after they were estab lished. Other very important feature hlni. wHl 1 HAtnnnr the attention of the President at Panama are the pro posed iortincationa. tne iunu ui sw ernment for the Canal Zone and the regulation of the sale of coal. The right of this Government to fortify the canal Is no longer questioned, but the problem of government in the Canal n nnnnriunitv for the exer- clse of good Judgment and diplomacy. traits wltn wnicn me ncsiunn u cu supplied. A MENACE TO EMPLOYERS. , The crude and drastic nature of the "employers liability" bill, pro posed by the State Federation of La bor for initiative enactment in Ore gon, la exposed again In section S, which, makes the person who is liable to an Injured worker for Indemnity also liable to heavy fine and Impris onment though the injury may have resulted from no fault nor neglect of his own. This liability extends to owners of machinery, buildings and lands, "con tractors, sub-contractors' foremen, architects or other persons having charge of the particular work." They are required by the bill "to see that the requirements of this act are com piled with, and for any failure in this respect, the person or persons delin quent shall, upon conviction of violat ing av of the provisions of this act, be fl.-'u not less than $10, nor more than $1000, or imprisoned not less than 10 days nor more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court, and this shall not affect or lessen the civil liability of such persons, as the case may be." The real purpose of an employers' liability or an employes' indemnity bill, such as this measure professes to be. Is to afford compensation or relief for personal Injuries or for loss of the breadwinner of a family. Such legislation Is defended by the doctrine that the victim of an unforeseen or unavoidable accident is entitled to In demnity and that, on broad princi ples, society owes it to him and his. But this particular bill, in addition to making an employer or an owner oT property or. which a worker suf fers injuries, liable to the victim for money damages, makes such em ployer and owner liable to severe fine and imprisonment, although tney could not have foreseen the accident. This would be dangerous and vicious legislation. It would put Into hands of prosecuting officers ana labor leaders power to harry and persecute employers of labor and owners of property. Labor leaders will find employers ready to meet them more than half way for a plan of Indemnity and re lief for injured workers. But em ployers Insist that the laws enacted shall not tempt outrage upon person and property. They also demand that Indemnity laws shall be so framed that workers shall get the most of the Indemnity payments, and that spoils shall be cut off from lawyers and liability Insurance companies. These are reasonable demands. They are a basis for fair play and rea sonable adjustment of Interests. Vot ers ought not to enact this bill. rXDEB FALSE PRETENSES. The San Francisco promoters of the plan for a Pacific Coast congress to discuss the maintenance of a strong battleship fleet on the Pacific Coast made a serious mistake In announc ing the afTalr as "under the auspices .r thn Mon.hant Marine T.eaeUA of California." The California Merchant Marine League is an offshoot of that Iniquitous organization which for years has maintained a paid lobby at Washington to further the interest of the notorious ship subsidy bill. No honest, well-directed effort has ever been made by the organization to se cure legitimate legislation which would aid the cause of an American merchant marine. Its sole purpose was to draw from the United States Treasury vast sums of money to be presented to millionaire shipowners whom our absurd tariff laws prevent from buying ships where they can bo secured at the lowest prices. Thu imorlpan tnTnnver would thus be mulcted twice on the same propo sition. They would nave to pay me excessive price which protection en ahi tha American shinbuilders to charge for ships, and on top of that would be obliged to pay a suDsiay sufficient to offset the cheaper rates which the foreigners are enabled to make with their cheap snips. The United States Is the only nation on earth with maritime interests that does not permit its people to buy cheap ships. England, Germany, Pnnrr. Norway and even Japan can go Into any of the world's markets and buy ships, and they are received under an adopted flag with a wel come. The attempt to place this Miintnr on even terms with Its com petitors in the first cost of the ship has been stubbornly resisted Dy tne Merchant Marine League. Every ship tha Tniflc Coast has suffered by this restriction in the supplies of tonnage. With such a record the present at tempt of the Merchant Marine League to sneak into public favor as the tail of a popular kite will hardly appeal h. i friends of the American merchant marine, nor to those who have become interested in tne f acinc Coast congress, because It was from .v.. flt onnmirwerl that It was for the purpose of discussing the means for securing a permanent Daiuesnip ueei on the Pacific. In the preliminary ln-t.-Attendee nsklne co-otera- tlon of the Pacific Coast commercial bodies, no mention was made of mer chant marine legislation. Even that topic, however, might nave recejvea consideration had it been presented by some others than such notorious snip subsidy boosters aa the Merchant Ma vlna lnnlp. Portland is strongly in favor of the maintenance of a large battleship fleet on the Pacific, but this city never has countenanced the ship-subsidy graft. This city and the territory which it serves are more interested in reduc ing the coat of ocean carriage than in increasing it. Until we as a Nation come to our senses ana give our own people the right to use cheap ships. which mean cheap ireignts, me snip ...h-iv hnceter will have hard sled ding, even when they attach their cause to so popular an issue as that of a big Pacific battleship fleet. The Callfomlans have made a misiane in thus dragging In a matter which should never have been mentioned at meeting of the nature first outlined I in the original literature regarding the I congress. I More than two decades have rolled into the past since Colonel Muncy said to all the world. "Keep your eye on Pasco." It has not always been an easy matter to follow the Colonel's admonition, for the dust storms of the old days not infrequently made it a physical Impossibility to keep the eye ooen. Colonel Muncy. " like Colonel Chenault, of Frankfort fame, and other sanguine promoters of the boom days that are past, has wandered rar into the twilight of the yesterdays, but Pasco has still held her place In the range of vision. Last Friday more than 1500 visitors poured into the city to assist in celebrating the opening of an irrigation project which will water C0.000 acres of land. From this time forward it will be, for more reasons than one. much easier to "keep your eye on pasco tnan was possmie in the old days when Colonel Muncy gazed through the spectacles of Colo nel Sellers and read the signs aright. Alaska Is a land of such magnifi cent distances that great portions of it still remain, "undiscovered coun try." It is, accordingly, not surpris ing to learn that a Government engi neer has discovered far north of the Arctic circle a mountain believed to . be the highest mountain on t,he Amer ican continent. This latest discovery was made in a region of which little Is known. lying more than forty miles from the Porcupine River, a stream which explorers have followed pretty closely in venturing so far into the un known land. Alaska has displayed so many wonders in that portion of the country which has been explored that it is not surprising to learn of others surpassing those which we already know. Eventually, when the gold seeker and his camp-follower, the set tler, have "cross-sectioned" Alaska and disclosed the extent of Its riches and wonders, the Seward purchase will seem more profitable than ever. According to Richmond dispatches, "Colonel Roosevelt asserted that the whole Republican party would be sol idly In line on a tariff programme be fore the next Presidential election came round." Most of the Republican party was in line on a tariff pro gramme during the seven, years in which the Colonel was swinging the big stick and forcing through almost any kind of legislation that he hap pened to want, but a close scrutiny of the record falls to show where he ever devoted any of his strenuous efforts to passing any kind of a tariff bill. There are a great many Republicans who think 'that President Taft blundered In not demanding a more satisfactory tariff bill than was passed, but no one questions his sincerity in attempting to give the people relief from the rapa cious trusts. The priests In Kansas City who ad vocate Sunday baseball are not vision aries when they say attendance on the games will keep boys from loafing on the streets. If he has spent the first part of the day as he should, the nor mal lad is not harmed by witnessing clean sport later. Far better for him to be in a great crowd, cheering, yell ing or groaning as the fortunes of the play go, than be a corner loafer, burn ing "coffin nails" and retailing nasty scandal. A daughter of that famous as well as practical man. H. L. Blanchard, has been chosen'for the chair of poul try husbandry at Pullman. This brings her Into direct competition with our Professor Dryden, of Cor vallis, and if his native modesty and chivalry- do nt obscure his zeal, the poultry industry of the Pacific North west will receive the attention its magnitude deserves. ' President Brown, of the New York Central, says that farms pay better than his railroad. That's no news. For the past thirteen years remem ber times began to get good In 1897 farmers have been the most prosper ous among American folk who work. The entire Nation's prosperity is based on the seven, eight and nine-bil-llon-dollar annual harvests. Just a word of caution to the dairy men whp supply the city. Do not let the animals drihk anywhere they find water. A city woman has found an angle worm in a bottle of milk, and, being finical, as city dwellers are, has given it to the health officer to make trouble. With no intent to reflect on the ver acity of United States Engineer Riggs, who thinks he discovered a mountain in Alaska 2000 feet higher than Mc Kinley, It is proper to remark that in these days of finding North Poles and scaling inaccessible heights the public must be shown. Oregon and Waslhngton, according to official reports, have one-third of the water-power energy of the United States. Yet the residents of Talla hassee, Fla., and Pattagompus, Me4 have more to say concerning its devel opment than the regions which would be benefited. If higher freight rates are necessary in order that the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania shall be able to pay dividends, what is the outlook for the seven transcontinental lines which are facing inevitable lower rates on the completion of the Panama Canal? Without entering into the merits of the Colonel's denunciation of Wall street and Tammany Hall, it may be set down as historically true that when they make a combination they art never beaten In New York. AU things considered, perhaps it will be well to name the tallest moun tain of Alaska, discovered last Sum mer, in honor of the President of the United States. By setting fire to a Portland rider's coat tails, the motorcycle has shown Itself auto-incendiary. The mishap suggests the use of asbestos clothing. When Oregon girls use apple boxes as carriers of love missives, don't they run the risk of Indictment for inter fering with the United States males? Things are progressing at an extra ordinary pace when Uncle Sam is now getting ready to fix tolls on the Pan ama Canal. If Lajoie could appeal to Judge Graham, he would likely beat Cobb out of the batting championship. That Paris strike is effervescing French-like. VOTE DOWJT TAX AMENDMENTS, Oae Citizen's Advice Not to Interfere With Orraoa'a Proapertty. PORTLAND. Oct. 13. (To the Ed itor.) A-s a cltisen and taxpayer I have been giving some hours to wrestling with the 32 measures on which we are to vote November S. The task Im presses me with the Importance of the advice recently given by a successful man. "let well enough alone." After a careful survey. I should a thousand times rather vote "No" on every meas ure of the 32. than to vote "Yes" on all of them. Oregon is now prospering as few states are. and of all the questions asked bv homeseekers, none are so often asked as "What are your tax rates, and on what kind of valuation?" To upset our revenue system by strik ing the words "Equal and uniform" out of Oregon's constitution, or to adopt a local option plan of county taxation which means inequality, and in plain words, means for each county to adopt a system ot its own with the idea of getting the best of other counties, is too visionary for sober thinking socialism, without any thought of men of capital seeking a permanent place of abode. No definite system of taxation is now pro posed, hence it is idle to discuss vagaries, but let us stand by the tried system of many states besides our own. until some thing definite and practical is proposed. The three attacks made upon our present tax system by three suggested , amend ments, offer us nothing in the- way of a new system, but are means as an open ing wedge for a series of experiments in taxation, whereby through some plan of exemption, the non-taxpayer may try varied experiments upon the unfortunate man selected to bear all the burdens. So lone as we stand by the old memoes requiring equality and uniformity In levy ing taxes, we protect ourselves iruiu everv class who may desire first to ex empt themselves from tax. then vote heavy, burdens upon the taxpaylng class. When any class of men are to be ex empted from taxation let them at the same time prove their unselfishness by disfranchising themselves on all questions pertaining to taxation. If taxation with out representation is nnconsmuuunai. then It follows that the non-taxpayer should not be permitted to levy the taxes. Pleasant as it might be to avoid taxa tion, no laws are more vital to our pros perity than our tax system, and no plan ever was more just than the one calling for "equality and uniformity." Let us defeat the so-called "tax amendments." all three of them. The people voted down a proposed system of exemptions two years ago, and the present attempt to cut away all barriers to exemptions and unequal taxation, means that we are to be confronted with still more radical pro posals, if we give them free rein. Our constitution is some check upon the fads that are to be urged for enactment year after year, and no wlyer words are to be found in Oregon's constitution than the ones which we are now asked to cut out. Cut out those words and the next plan of exemptions will Include a majority of the voters of Oregon, and you will find the non-taxpayer controlling the state, levying the taxes, and collecting them, provided the property will sell for enough to pay the taxes. Let well enough alone: experiment. If you will, where times are not prosperous. C. C. SHELJDEN. AS MEN AND PUBLIC SERVANTS. In Tills Way Should the People Con alder Their Judaea. PORTLAND, Oct 13. (To the Edi tor.) I see the public press is again dlscusing the right of plain people to comment on or criticise the decisions of Judges of the courts, state or Na tional. This leads me to say that In my opinion that question was settled, long ago by thoughtful people. A judge of a court Is a public servant nothing more, nothing less. He occupies a high and an honorable position, and if he Is an honest man, and performs the duties assigned to him in a faith ful manner, he Is entitled to the respect and courteous treatment of his fellow men. They can and ought to say to him, "Well done, good and faithful servant!" But and If he is not up to the proper standard of mind to fit him for his high duties and responsibilities, but bends here and there, swayed by sin ister motives and untoward influences, he is responsible to the public, and must abide by their candid opinion of him and his acts. And by their acts and decisions they can be known. A judge Is a man, with all the strong, as well as the weak points of our com mon human nature. To err Is human, and a Judge on the bench Is no ex ception to the general rule. Some of our judges are as honor able as men can be. Many, nay, I sup pose most of them, are above corrup tion, and discharge their duties as faithfully as they know how. There is no reasonable doubt about that But, on the other hand, there are judges who are not personally honor able. And there are other judges who have been elevated to their positions by sinister influences, and who serve their creators as faithfully as they can, or dare. There can be no reasonable doubt about this. Of my own personal knowledge I testify in this respect, and could verify the truth of what I have said. But the point I want to make is that every public official in this . J Tl i ,n PAnslah, country, iruiu ncoiuvtu. . . . , must be made to stand on his merits as a man and as a" public servant, and that no one shall be allowed Immunity because of his supposed dignity or pos ition. The right to judge the courts and to comment on their acts and de cisions Is of too deep significance to. allow of its abridgment In the least degree. LEVI W. MYERS. Now the Silhouette Dance. Theaterwelt. The dance possibilities have not been exhausted and novelties in that import ant feature of stage entertainment come with every season. This year there is the silhouette dance, which was Invented by the painter, Theodore Bruckner, In which Hlppolita d'Hellas is now appear ing. The name-of the dance Is mislead ing, for one expects to see the performer throw silhouettes on a screen. Clad only In a much slashed skirt and a band across the chest, she assumes many graceful poses on a stage where high light and deep shadow are produced in a manner to bring the performer Into bold black relief. The dance is certainly new and will probably draw until the next novelty displaces it. Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. A sharp tongua punctures marriage tires. An extra eay way to be wrong is to be dead sure you are right. A girl's feet never hurt her when she's walking with the right man. The biggest liars are the visitors who say what a good time they had. We do up lies in nice tissue paper packages with ribbon: we hand out the truth plain. Not Enoosrh Breakfast. Kaneas City Times. A third of all the pupils in the pub lic schools, according to the truancy officers, go to school in the morning without proper nourishment. And if the boys were allowed to Bleep aa long as they want they wouldn't have any time for any breakfast at all. No More Material. Washington Herald. "Why can't we have any more comio operas?" "For want of a title. Former libret tists have used up all the sultana, ty coons, rajahs, emeers and ahkoonds. On the Way, Pittaburs Sun. Whf! Hnry Stlmaon may not know where ht'i going with that T. R. krand for Gov ernor, ha appreciates that he's oa him way. 1 AS TO THK "JEW SITIU.IALIMI.- II I Ores Ploneer'e Vlewa on the Present Policy of Conner-ration. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 14. (To the Editor) The Oregonian of October S says: "The new Nationalism, thus far defined, means vast extension of governmental functions' and wholesale increase of al ready large swarms of officials. Func tionaries who live at the public crib universally approve of additional offi cialdom and taxation. They make 're ports' and file recommendations, all with the idea of "new Nationalism' in mind." Yes. Colonel Roosevelt Is claiming to know the West thoroughly, with "new Nationalism" in mind. Mr. Plnchot thinks he knows the East and corn and cotton states are sure for it, and F. J. Heney is like an expert legal hound, hnviirff flptMR th Kittlon his readiness to help destroy present Nationalism by i saying: "Owing to tax laws, state ana National, four-fifths of the resources of the country have already passed into the hands of monopolists. We of the conservative movement are trying to save the other fifth for the people." Mr. Heney. In saying this, is maligning our form of government; 99 per cent of the people who. chiefly by the power of voluntary association, have built the strongest power of known history In the least time, under a greater measure of personal freedom than ever before existed upon the earth, since Lincoln gave his life for the Nation as it was at his death. It is questionable whether Mr. Heney understands the meaning of the word conservation, as tt is of many mean ings, as doubtless were the words of the former mighty hunter who essayed to build a tower to heaven, and Babel was the result. I am in favor of the National con tinuance under the form its founders left it to us: a renresentative democ racy in which every citizen untainted with crime has a right and opportunity to use. his life and effort, by himself or associated with others, as to him seems best. There are many lines of develop ment of resources that can best be done by voluntary association, as mining, railroad building, iron and steel-making, harvesting the timber of densest forests of the Pacific Slope. The most of these are not monopolists. Producers of food and clothing cannot and do not monopolize. Merchants as a class can not and do not; neither can cultivators of the soil, or people in pastoral pur suits. There are probably no three men in this Nation more justly amenable to a charge of conspiracy to impede Nation al development than ex - President Roosevelt. Forester Plnchot and F. J. Heney.- Mr. Heney was selected by the President and Forester to prosecute those who up to the date of Heney's advent had been gleaning their living from pasturage on the public domain which the two were planning to wrest from the people, use and create a Na tional monopoly of resources of life un der the reservation policies now called conservation, but really a robbery of one-fifth of the people's inheritance, which they are using as a foundation to their naw Nationalism. JOHN MINTO. HARMONY AND PRIMARY LAW. Southern Oregon View of the Repub lican Parry. Grants Pass Observer. There is a harmony movement within the Republican party in the northern part of 'the state, and things are com mencing to look lovely. Assembly can didates are joining in the support of Statement One candidates, and Statement One candidates are backing assembly can didates. The control or tne state central Republican committee seems to have been captured by the Statement Oners, and the primary law and all other laws of the people, including Statement One. have been approved by resolution of the com mittee. . Probably this is best. Tt certainly would be If Democrats would cease to register falsely for the purpose of inter fering wth Republican nominations. If that continues, the result is bound to be that the weaker Republican candidates for Important offices will frequently be nominated by Democratic voters, and that is not good for the Republican party, and is bound to make trouble. The nomination by popular vote of can didates for office is entirely desirable, but if there is to be party government, and no better system has ever been de vised, then there ought to be provision for honest party nominations, free from the dishonest manipulation of the oppos ing party. . Exercise . and Rest. L. H. Gulick in North American Review. What is the relation between exercise and rest? Work is that at which we must continue, whether Interesting or not. whether we are tired or not. It used to be thought, that the prime re quisite of rest was the use of faculties other than those Involved In the labor of the day. But there is such a, tiling as fatigue which goes deeper than dally work. We can work so hard as to be come exhausted too exhausted for any kind of work. Perhaps this is will fa tigue. It is coming to be regarded as fundamentally true that rest from such fatigue demands continuity; that, for example, four periods of 15 minutes eacH of rest is not the equivalent of one hour's rest; that a man who goes on a vacation and takes half an hour of his business work every day. is doing the same thing as the man who had a horse with a sore back. He kept the saddle on only a few minutes each day, but the sore did not have a chance to heal. Rest periods must be sufficiently consecutive to overcome consecutive fatigue. N Tnlted Front. Pendleton Live Wire. While we are not in a position to predict what conditions will be in the state, we can safely say that the Re publican ticket will present a united front in Umatilla County. No matter how the Republicans received their nominations in the county they will be supported by both those who are In favor of an assembly and those who are not. This conclusion has been reached by the leaders in the party, and every honorable effort will be put forth to elect the entire ticket. There is no division and there will be no knif ing. It would please the opposition to continue the split in the party, but, as far as old Umatilla Is concerned, they will fail. It is a united party. In the Good Old Daya. Dallas News. We may as well admit, also, that the cost of living was lower when father pulled the children's teeth with a string. Uirtveraal Peace Impoaalble. , Washington Herald. There can never be a realization of the dream of universal peace so long as neighbors coax away each other's cooks. Evidently He Was Rattled. Baltimore Evening Sun. Why didn't the King of Portugal call out the militia? The Millennium. ' Denver Republican. w"hen there's never a fly to be awatted, And the skeeter baa trilled his lut thrill. When old-fashioned thins ar new thoughted Till there'a never a notion that' ill. When there' nary a lcud-volced dlaaenter To atir the political game. When the paper report no atorra center. Now. honest, won't llvlnj seem tame? When no one objects to food prices When butcher and grocer are fair -When the landlord exhausts all devices For fixing new kinks In your lair. When we see the millennium dawning' And the fag end of hardship and crime. Now. really the thought sets us yawning How th deuce shall we put in our UmT Life's Sunny Side The habit of contradicting some times "o'erleapes Itself unwittingly. "I've heard it said." remarked a lounger at the cross-roads store, "that John Henderson over by Woodvilie was one of IS sons." "That's whar ye he-erd wrong." con tributed the chronic kicker. "Twan't John Henderson at , all. 'Twas a brother o' his'n." Lipplncott's. Attorney-General Wickersham was describing at a dinner in Washington, an unfair law. 'The people under this law," he said, "are in the position of a young Wash ington attache. "As this attache was breakfasting the other morning his servant eaid to him: " 'You are out of whisky, sir. Shall I get a bottler " 'Yes, I think you might. James,' the other replied. 'It's your turn.' "Cin cinnati Commercial-Tribune. Opie Read, the novelist, appeared as entertainer for a switchmen's conven tion in Peoria. "It was a very enthusiastic audi ence," said Mr. Read. "They laughed heartily, but they didn't applaud much. You see. there were so many one-armed men there, that they had to applaud in pairs." Success Magazine. The minister found the alleged typi cal Kentucky Colonel and told him he must give up whisky or it would land him in the grave. "Think so?" asked the Colonel. "I am sure of tt. Colonel; and what Is more. If you will stop drinking. I am certain it will prolong your days," added the minister. "Come to think about it. I believe you are right about that, parson," said the Colonel. "I went 24 hours without a drink about six months ago, and I never put in such an internally long day in my life, sah." Cincinnati CommerclaUTrib une. A clergyman who enjoyed the sub stantial benefits of a fine farm was slightly taken down on one occasion bv his Irish plowman, who was sitting on his plow in the wheat field. The reverend gentleman, being an econo mist, said with great seriousness: "John, wouldn't it be a good plan for you to have a pair of pruning shears here and be cutting a few bushes along the fence while the horses are resting a short time?" John considered a moment and then said: "Look here! Wouldn't it be well. sir. for you have a tub of potatoes In the pulpit and while they were sink ing to peel 'em awhile to be ready for the pot?" San FTancisco Chron icle. PINCHOT TYRANTS IN THE WEST. Rule Over Struggling: Pioneers With Abstraction and Platltudea. Republic (Wash.) Paystreak. As predicted in these columns some weeks ago. the American Mining Congress in session at Los Angeles went on record against the conservation ideas of Mr. Plnchot. PInchotism has proved a stalk ing horse to a question more vital, more far-reaching in its influence on the affairs of the people than the conservation of resources could ever hope to be the ques tion of whether each sovereign state shall under the constitution continue to w - .n.-apain Btntn or Khnll surrender Its powers and prerogatives to the Fed eral Government to be administered by a horde of pensioners in the guise of con servation agents and employes. Already the army of conservation has grown to the proportions of a burden and there are signs of revolt among the peo ple, particularly the people of the West, upon whom has rested the burden of developing this country into what it now is. In the abstract there are many beau- ,vu.. oScrnr Plnr.hnt conservation. but abstract views never wrested this country from the wild nor Drougnt us matchless resources to practical utility. Without its timber, its mineral and its power the West cannot shape Its proper destiny, and any undue restriction thrown about these things means a restriction and a narrowing of the scope of Western progress. For a t'nlted Party. Seaside Signal. The assemblyites and anti-assembly-ltes met In a battle "of ballots, and in a majority of voting precincts the latter came out the victor and the Signal is one of the many newspapers in Oregon that will now do all in its power for a united party and for the entire ticket. The hatchet has been buried and it is the duty of each and every Republican voter to see that the entire ticket is elected in November. To this end those who were in favor of an assembly and those who were not should work shoul der to shoulder with that one object in view. Leaaon to Be Learned. Wall Street Journal. It is possible by combination to main tain prices. Beyond the. irreducible mini mum necessary to sustain life it is not possible to force consumption. The only way in which that can be done is by re ducing prices until commodities become attractive. Our manufacturers will con tinue in their present state of bewilder ment until they learn this fundamental lesson. Pointed Question. . Detroit Free-Press. If Pastor Russell Is right In his doc trine that there Is no hell, we'd like to know what it was our wife gave us the other night after we got home from sitting up with a sick bob-tailed flush and a middle straight. Celestial Criticism. Harper's Bazar. First Angel What is that spirit fussing about? Second AngeK-She says her hatpins stick out beyond her halo. Not Worried About the Coat. Washington Herald. There are 80,000 prisoners in Jails in the United States, and not one of them is worrying about the cost of living. FIELDER JONES TO DESCRD3B CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES FOR OREGONIAN. The world's baseball champion ship series will begin next Mon day with the Philadelphia Ameri can League team and the Chicago National League nine as opposing teams. The Oregonian has made special arrangement by which forecasts of the games will be re ceived from Fielder A. Jones, ex manager of the Chicago White Sox, who now makes his home in this city. Fielder Jones left Portland Tuesday night for Chicago and hae agreed to size up the oppos ing teams for the Chicago Tribune and The Oregonian, which ar rangement will give the readers of this newspaper advance news of the great baseball series writ ten by a man who is rated as one of the greatest baseball generals the game ever knew. In addition. The Oregonian will furnish its readers with the com plete Associated Prees reports, which means that no detail of this great series will be overlooked.