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WHAT U DmiKHTIC IXMTK1XKT Th Louisville Courier-Journal minds a clarion call for Mr. Bryan to leav th Democratic Hous to work oat ita own salvation In its considera tion of th tariff question. Colonel Watterson review at length the rec ord of th Democratic Irty during the past sixteen years, and rejoices tvr the fact that Democracy now en Js a little spell of sunshine. "We hare." he soya, "a living chance to or In. But we are not yet masters of th situation. It were Indeed a fate a destiny that at the moment when th Republican prolectionlsta are split ting hairs amor.c themselves. Demo crats, pretending only to be bent upon driving graft from the tariff and re ducing It. aa we nr able, to a reTenue fcasis. should engage In chatter about the Incidentals and make controversy frr the conveyance, set, aa we all claim to be, lo a common direction and purpose. Po come away, Mr. Bryan! Avast there and leave the boys a chance to start the old carry-all of Democracy In their own way. not In your way. The old carry-all of Democracy is two-headed monstrosity. The Courier Journal thinks that It Is headed In one direction, and Mr. Bryan Insists that It go In another. The one way Is free raw materials: the other Is tariff for revenue. Both are Democratic doc trines, or have been at one time or an other. The Democratic ways and means committee of the House la trying to solve the dilemma by declaring eventually for free raw materials and providing actually now for a tariff for revenue, lo other words, the policy of the Demo crats Is to be tariff for revenue: the doctrine is to be Democratic free raw materials and eventual free trade. ' The Baltimore Evening Sun. recog nising the perplexities of the situation. ennavors to throw light upon it in the following lumlnoua way: '"There is some plausibility la the contention that free raw wool is a Democratic principle, because It has been placed on the free list In all hi Democratic tarlfT bills for twenty-five years or more. Tet a tariff for revenue Is the real Democratic principle, and If, In order to secure revenue, it is neces sary to place a duty of some sort on free wool.' there Is no offense to Demo cratic doctrine in that act." In other words, the repeated declaration of the Democratic party for free raw ma tarlals Is entitled to no weight. When the Democratic majority In Congress la confronted by the actual business of adjusting Democratic campaign pro fessions with the necessities of practi cal legislation, the Democratic party is not to be held to account for what It regularly says In off years. The Dem. ocratlc House committee ignores Mr. Pry an and everything he says, the Democratle platforms and everything thsy say. In order that the Democratic rarty may be saved from the conse quences of its own campaign folly. ! Vet Chairman Underwood would hav It understood that the Ptm crallc party purposes to hav harmo nious free trade and tariff for revenue policies, not exactly contemporaneous, but snccedsneoue. Free wool Is some day to follow a productive period of tariff revenue from wool Imports. Oh, yes. Meanwhile the committee pre sents a beautiful brief In which It show that th present wool Imports are 170.(00.000 a year, on which du ties of $11,000,000 ar collected. Through th Underwood scheme it purposes SO per cent reduction of th wool tariff. Th committee esti mates that wool Imports will, under th new schedule, reach the great total of I1S0. 000.000 a year, on which $40. 100.000 will be collected In duties. Of this Increase of 10.000.000 in wol Imports It Is estimated that $39,000.- 0 will be In th form of raw wool and 40.0.000 la th form of manu factured wools. Thus It wl'.l be seen that the Demo cratic party baa got so far awayfrom Mr. Bryan that It endeavors In this way to assure th country that by Its tariff policy there will be no decrease of revenue, but there will be a mighty I arrets of Imports. What will be the real effect of this most radical pMlcy if th expectations of th IVmocratiC House organisation shall be realized? Chairman CnderwooJ haa taken pains to show that there will be no redac tion in revenu.o. It !s clear, then, that th tariff I to b Just as much a tax as it ever was. and the people as a whol are to have no relief In that respect- Tet Ihey are going to buy some H9. 000. 00 annual y of foreign wo and woolens mora than they buy at preeent. If th rp!e of the t'nltej Plates purvhase from the foreign manufacturer s quantity of wool sml wool products ISO.004.000 In excess of the presert Importations. It follows that they must withdraw thvlr custom to the extent of 140.000.000 from tre dme.:o manurscturers. unless. ,f course, ther Is 10 000. 000 expan sion of tr-.a American market: but no en l.xk for that, and It .ull be f ;;v to pretend that under th new tariff po'.L-y It will iwur. Th net resuH of the rreat Demo cratic scheme of trsrlinc lth th free W'H1 question by cutune the present schedule In two a ill be to r-iu.re the peopl to pay substantially th same amount In tariff tax Into th United jt;te Treasury and to patroaiz th foreign manufacturer much more largely than at rree.r.t. What Is to become of our U"tnet:o manufactur ers? Will they be t-ara!ied by the vast Inundation of foreign goda, or will they be able to hold their own? They will, of course, be greatly crip pled In the face of su.-h formidable opposition. Either tbat. er t&ere U something decidd:y wrong In Chair man Underwood's flirurrs. The appeal of the Democratic party Is to the consumer of manufactures as sgalnst the producer. Tet if ws shall not preserve the balances be tween consumer and producer, by an easier and better way than the Demo cratic wool tariff policies, a period of stagnation Is In store for the woolen mills without commensurate benefit to the wearer and user of woolen goods. HI.y! WAXTEU. NOT 1CVEWUM. The people of Eusene do not feel good over the referendum of the State Unlversiry appropriations. Nat urally. But It is a little surprising to find that the resentment takes the form, at Kast in one quarter, of a threat at reprisal on the Oregon Agri cultural College. A Eugene paper re cently remarked that the "Oregon Ag ricultural College may congratulate it self In having escaped the referendum thus far. and at the same time having hampered other state schools by this means. In the future, however, it will find that every legislative appropria tion it gets will be held up for two years, subject to the approval of the people." This Is a very serious and disturbing threat, and It bodes no good to the future either of th Agricultural Col lege or th State University. It Is not possible that such sentiments find ready echo at the home of the State University. Indeed, we see that the Eugene Register repudiates them and say they do not have Its approval. An attack, concerted or spontane ous, by the friends of the State Uni versity on the Agricultural College will wreck, or at least greatly Injure, the State University. The reaction would be Inevitable and disastrous. Mean while It would appear that the only course left for the State University, in order to sustain Its appropriations, now before the people, is to make friends, not enemies. nxrvq it if against taft. Senator Bourne's lofty mind Is shocked at the "Idiotic peanut politics" played by some people and some news papers who are endeavoring to "mis lead the people by conveying the Idea that there will be no protest to the re nomlnatlon of President Taft." The Senator drops Into prophecy. The next Republican convention, he says, can not nominate a man for President who the delegates "Inevitably believe will be defeated." No second elective term for Mr. Taft. No. sir. Mr. FlxJt Bourne will be on hand ajrain. Just as he was at Chicago In I SOS. to voice the loud call of an enthusiastic people for Mr. Koosovelt. Or will It be Lm. Follette? The Senator had fallen outside tho breastworks In 101 in his great cam paign to be a Republican delegate from Oregon. But this time In April, 1I! there Is to be a Presidential primary, and th voter Is to be permitted to trote for Just one delegate. Bourne fixed it. It was very adroit. It may be hard to shut him out next year. Plumping Bourne votes for Bourne may achieve the miracle of putting Bourne In a Republican National Convention. But why should not his followers in the Democratic party also be similarly Instructed, and send him to the Demo cratic convention? NOT A MDB LtSrC Of all the many wonderful and contradictory arguments advanced against the Canadian reciprocity agreement, the most remarkable is the one used by the writer of a com munication published In another col umn. This writer assumes that Presi dent Taft realizes that he made a mis take In supporting the Payue-Aldrtch tariff and is trying to save his face by raising the issue of reciprocity. That Taft blundered In his advo cacy of the Payne-Aldrlch bill Is gen erally admitted, but he never halted in his fight for downward revision. He denounced the Inequitable wool schedule and continued his efforts to secure a permanent tariff board, tak ing the present board aa a step to wards that goal. The Canadian reci procity agreement Is part of his gen eral campaign for tariff reduction and greater freedom In trade relations with other countries. It is no side Issue: It has been one of the main issues ever since Blaine's famous dec laration that the McKlnley bill m-ould not enable us to sell another sack of flour or pound of pork abroad: Its position as a main Issue was fixed finally by McKlnley"s Buffalo speech, and it has been kept to the front by a constant agitation In the Northern border states. Taffs course with regard to the tariff la plain to any man who follows the course of events. When he be came, to us his own expression, "the titular head of the Republican party." he found Aldrlch at the brad of the party in the Senate, Cannon In the Hons, and he considered it his duty to work with them as long as possible. They were tooth standpatters and any reductions they did not give volun tarily he had to wring from them unless those reductions should be sdopted by their respective houses In spite of them. He contended that the Payne-Aldrlch bill made a real reduc tion in the tariff and therefore should be accepted as a step forward; It In creased the revenue, which was nec essary: it Imposed the corporation tax. which not only yielded revenue, but Increased control over corpora tions; It established a temporary tar iff board, which was a preliminary to further revision. Taft considered that ail these points Justified hlra in ap proving the bill. It gave part of what he wanted and be accepted It as a first Installment, determined to ask for more. Taft more recent course seem to indicate that he recarded the result of the 110 elections as a repudiation by th Republican party of their old leaders In House and Senate and as a rebuke to himself for co-operating too closely with them. He went right back to the Republican platform and to the Issue which he bad made In 1J0J. He sought th estsb!lshmnt of a permanent tariff board which should ascertain a scientific basis for future revision. He then took up reciprocity, and. using the data fur r.'shed by the temporary tariff board, he negotiated the Canadian agree ment. He chose Canada wisely. Tor In that country conditions are similar and there la o excuse for the "pauper labor" cry. It Is our nearest neighbor, and each courtry has a large number of non-competing proJucts. When this agreement got Into Con gress the standpatter found they had s new Taft to deal with. Dalzelt, Cannon and others howled and w ailed, but Tsft went risht ahead. Insisting on th adoption of the agreement And getting votes wherever fas coull. TIIE SI OR NINO Democrats and Republican are all alike to him. so long as they help him to carry out Republican principles as defined In the platform on which he was elected. Now the fight is to begin In the Senate with a good promise that Penrose, head of the Pennsyrvanla Republican machine, and Stone, the progressive Missouri Democrat, will line up their forces for reciprocity and carry the day. Taft has already aaved his face. If it ever needed saving. The men who blocked his plans for real tariff re vision are busy trying to save theirs. Taft haa dropped them, arid their kind aa guides. His ruld is now the Re publican platform and he is carrying It out. His championship of reciproc ity is part of a general policy of tariff reform and Is no side Issue. AS TO IMMM. There Is a great diversity of opin ion In regard to keeping dogs in the city. Arrayed against each other in militant attitude are those who love and keep dogs and those who hate the creature and will have none of him. Extremists In both cases, their testimony Is both unreasonable and Inconclusive. In point of fact, a city Is no place for an unchained dog. If any citizen wishes to keep a dog. pays the license for so doing and keeps the animal confined to his own prem ises, that Is strictly his own business always supposing that the dog is not one of the kind that barks at night. Beyond this no person should be per mitted to keep a dog In the city. The animal may or may not be dangerous. In this respect he Is like a mildly In sane person. No one not even his best friend Is safe from his sudden humors or caprices. Then there is the neighborhood pest that prowls at night, upsets gar bage cans in the back yard, digs In the flower beds or under the porch and makes himself a nuisance In many ways. When sanitary regula tions so much talked of and so de sirable, are properly, enforced dogs will not be given the liberty of the streets for the reason that clean, wholesome streets sre impossible un der such circumstances. It Is not necessary. In order to abate this nuisance, to revile a man because he loves his dog. It is only necessary to. require everyone who keeps a dog to confine the animal strictly to his or her own premises. Finally the female of the species should be strictly and Inexorably banished to and kept In kennels out side of the city limits the farther off the better. When these things are done the dog nuisance will be under proper control and nobody will have legitimate cause to grow sarcastic on the dog question or hurl Invective at his dog-loving neighbor. As it is, the keeping of dogs as they are kept In Portland Is certainly an abuse of pub lio privilege and Individual rights. ROOT A IIIHAlTOtNTMENT. One of the disappointments of the reciprocity fight In the Senate Is the attitude of Mr. Root. He. of all men. one would have expected to stand by the President, for they have pulled together In harness In Cabinet and were supposed to be In thorough sympathy. But Mr. Root has proposed and In sisted on the one amendment which the finance committee adopted and which may be fatal to the agreement. Senator Penrose, who knows how each member stands, says the Senate will reject It, but it Is a danger until rejected. Mr. Root rendered notable service as Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and Is recognized as one of the strongest men In the country. But he cannot get away from his old af flliae tions, which are with the trusts and protected Interests. He is a vast Im provement on hla predecessor, Piatt, but what w need In the Senate Is not only men with brains and respectabil ity, but men who will use their brains In the public Interest. WHAT rODTOrnCa FKOFITS MKAX. Reports of the Federal Postofflce Department show an unbroken chain of deficits for a period of :( years ranging annually from $3,000,000 to a total of nearly $17,600,000. The breaking of this chain In the period ending June SO, 19H, by Postmaster General Hitchcock may properly be termed one of the most notable achievements of the Taft administra tion. The transformation In two years of a deficit of $17, 441. 71 to a sur plus or 1. 000. 000 will ultimately. If not Immediately, favorably arfect the pocket books of the whole public. No department of the Government Is 'so directly supported by the people. No other governmental function Is so In timately associated with the dally ex penditures of the ordinary citleen. - The last surplus shown by Post office statistics was In 188S. In Oc tober of that year the reduction in first-class postal rates from I to I centa went into effect and In the fol lowing fiscal period the long record of deficits began. Perhaps the deficit of the last quarter century cannot all be charged to wasteful processes. The period named Included the date of the establishment of the rural free delivery service. The expensees of rural delivery increased from $500,000 in 1897 to $36,844,968 In 1910. This service has been In recent years the second largest drain on the profits of the department of the various branches or factors of the mall deliv ery system. No doubt a portion of the saving In expenditures that will be shown in the forthcoming report of the Postmaster-General will be found In this branch of the service and will have been obtained by con solidation of star route and delivery systems. The retrenchment In general ex penditures has been accomplished, too, without Injury to the service. Postal business along profitable lines has been encouraged, methods of handling mail have been simplified, the stand ard of efficiency among employes has been raised and Innumerable leaks hav been stopped. Thus in the face of th costly growth of rural delivery and the necessity for ordinary expan sions Mr. Taft's Postmaster-General, so frequently denounced by his ene mies as a politician, has shown re markable business acumen and ad ministrative qualities. In what specific particular the pub lic will soonest profit as the result of Interior postal reform Is not hard to forecast. Elimination of the growing deficit removes one argument against the establishment of a parcels post, although In fact the extension of pos tal service along such lines would probably prove profitable to the Gov ernment. The cause of parcels post has been farther encouraged by th failure of the professed fears of op ponents of postal savings bancs to OREGOMAN. , SATURDAY, materialize. There Is a marked simi larity between the arguments against postal savings banks and parcels post. Banking interests fought the former as a threatened competitive Institu tion. Mercsntlle and express com panies oppose the latter on the same ground. The short experience already had with postal savings banks has proved the fallacy of the opposing arguments, and the public is likely to grow more confident that similar re sults will be attained by the parcels post. If th parcels post turns out as profitable to the Government as Its supporters expect the road to 1-cent postage will be shortened. This is what the Taft-Hltchcock reformation of the postal service presages parcels post and 1-cent postage. In the view of Albert J. Beveridije, ex-Cnlted States Senator from Indi ana, a political union between Canada and the United States once a dream trenching upon reality and gravely dis cussed under the title "The Annexa tion of Canada" is now no longer a prospect, but merely a dim and van ishing memory. Tet. he says, if any thing could call that memory back and make It a living force, it will be the prevention of closer trade and social relations between Canada and the United States. Hence, If thj banded powers of finance and sentiment in Canada which are working together against reciprocity should defeat It. It may come to pass that the forces thus set in motion will compass the very end which Canada as a nation wishes to avoid. On this side the ghost of annexation has not been seriously raised In connection with questions of trade reciprocity with Canada. It may come later, but It will come as a sequence and In the regular march of events not as the result of a premedi tated plan to promote peacef il con quest. The eight-hour law for women en gaged In gainful vocations, that was enacted by the late Legislature of Washington, became effective June 8. The law Is compulsory upon workers to whom It applies. That is to say, no woman will be allowed to work overtime In any gainful employment outside of domestic service, even if she desires to do so. It Is held that the law will serve to increase the num ber of women employed without ma terial reduction in individual wages. However this may be,- it can hardly fall to be of benefit to working women physically and ultimately of benefit to the race. It is gratifying to note that sundry good citizens have awakened to the fact that a school trustee Is to be chosen by the electors of this district In a few days. From the names pre sented there should be no difficulty In securing a good business man with progressive educational attainments for the place. The election is an Im portant one, and one In which politics in the ordinary acceptance of that overworked term, has no place. The election Is for taxpayers only. Let all property-owners of the district, men and women, take notice and govern themselves accordingly. The case of Armon Elumbaugh at Hartsvllle, Mo., shows the worthless ness of confessions of crime extorted under duress, either by a mob or by the police. He confessed a crime of which he was Innocent and was whipped and driven out of town. Many a man haa been lynched on no better evidence and false aweatbox confes sions have been used to convict men legally. As the moths flock to the light, lov ers of social gayety and seekers after social distinction flock to London. The Atlantic liners carry them over In car goes, and the thrifty British hotel keeper and storekeeper waits with itching palm to relieve them of their cash. Both parties get what they want, so everybody Is satisfied. At last Portland is to have a square deal on the furnishing of Army sup plies for the Philippines. By securing an equal rate for the Columbia River and Puget Sound ports, the Govern ment wipes out the differential which has given nearly all contracts to Seat tle and Portland, the natural source of supply, will get a good share of the contracts. The blunder in the spelling of "chauffeur" on the state badges illus trates the disadvantage of adopting foreign words into the English lan guage. Few can pronounce the word correctly, yet it is not easy to find an English equivalent. A chauffeur is simply the driver of an automobile, so why not call him an "auto-driver"? As was befitting, the best number on the Rose Festival programme was re served until near the last. The chil dren's parade combined every feature of beauty, color and rhythmic motion that was necessary to compose and complete a most wonderful pageant. Establishment of a pension fund for electrical workers, as announced In a National convention at New York yes terday, is the most decent proposition of the year. In that hazardous call ing no man knows when he will be removed. A broomhandle factory, down In Coos, Is reported to be rushed with orders. No doubt that Is true, for the frequent purchase of new brooms Is a mild form of lunacy that affects many housewives. A few more incidents like the Etokes and Kohl shootings and it will not be safe for a man to go near a woman of a certain type unless he is sure she is not loaded. Any suspicious character may be the fiend who perpetrated these latest crimes. Gather all of them. There Is too much killing and cot enough hanging. How many mur derers have we on hand? Putting a plain clothes man back Into uniform has an element of humor. After a strenuous week of Rose Car nival, a sane Fourth will be refreshing. One seldom hears of a poor man be ing shot by an Infuriated woman. Let thers be no Jostling of women and children tonight. Strawberries are not yet low enough to be canned. y Today for a glorious finish. JUNE 10, 1911. KBW (TORT OP ABRAHAM UXCOLS Hav He Took a Too a a: Maa Iat His Hoas la 1H.VH. Cincinnati Enquirer. When coming from th reunion ban quet of th One Hundred and Thirty seventh Ohio Volunteer Infautry, which took place at the Grand Hotel Tues day night. Louis P. Bentley, of Ludlow. Ky, after hearing eulogies of the war heroes, and especially of Abraham Lin coln, remarked to Alexander Hill. Sr.: "Too did not know that for some months I was once a member of Abra ham Lincoln's family, did you?" "No, how did that happen?" asked Mr. Hill, eagerly. Then In a burst of patriotic pride and confidence Mr. Bentley told the story, which he has always kept to himself and family from an undue sense of mod esty, which explains why Mis Ida Tar bell did not And him In writing her book, "He Knew Lincoln." "It was in 1S58." said Mr. Bentley, yesterday, repeating his story to the Enquirer, "and I was a boy of 18 who had learned the printing business, and was staying in Decatur. III., then a town of about X inhabitants. and could not find work. I was boarding at the Ogelsby House, the only hotel In town, and had paid my last $5 for board and was feeling about as blue as any one can feel under those circumstances. Stephen A. Douglas, then the Demo cratic Senator fron Illinois, was a can didate for re-election and his opponent, a young lawyer named Lincoln from Sprlngfleld. and he were having a series of live addresses, which have since be come so famous. Both parties were in th hotel at that time to hold a debate that pight. and Douglas, the man of the hour, was upstairs in the hotel parrar with a bottle of whisky, a box of ci gars and surrounded by admiring friends who came to call upon him. "There was great excitiment in the town, and it centered in the hotel, but I was feeling too blue to care about it and sat in the office downstairs, not caring to speak to anyone. A tall, raw boned man sat near me as much unno ticed as myself, all hunched up in his chair, whittling a little piece of wood. Presently he began to ask me ques tions, and I replied in the briefest of monosyllables. "Po you belong here" he asaed. ' 'No.' I replied. " "How long have you been herer " 'About a year.' " What are you dolngr 'Nothing.' ... ... " 'That is not a good thing lor a young man of your age to do. Can you find work.' . , " 'No.' I replied, feeling very rebel lious against fate. " 'What do you do when you are working; Have you a trader " 'Yes; I am a printer,' I answered, wishing this man would stop his ques- n'Well. young man.' he said kindly. I have an interest in a newspaper in Sprlngfleld. and if you come back with me tomorrow I will see If the foreman of the printing-room cannot give you a Job. Will you comer " "I do not know, I will see, I an swered, feeling more kindly toward this curious gentleman. -Don't you want a Jobr he asked quickly. . . . ... "'Yes, I do.' I answered, but T. did not tell him the reason for my not ac cepting his offer. I had no means to go to Sprlngfleld. 60 miles away. It was the first time that I was broke and I hated to own it. . . . "He said nothing more, and that night after the debate, where there were as many as a half-million people present in proportion to the sise of the town, I came face to face with him again in the hotel office. "'Well, young man, he said, are you going with meV "Then I confessed the reason why I oould not. "I knew then that my friend was Abraham Lincoln, the young Republi can candidate for Senator, who had de bated with Stephen A. Douglas. "It was near midnight and the steam boat was due to leave in a short time. " 'You come with me anyhow,' said Mr. Lincoln, 'and I will take car of you-' ' . , "I did not require much urging, and went to my room to collect my small belongings and Joined his party. We arrived in Springfield the next morning and Mr. Lincoln took me to his home, giving me the only vacant room In his house, and I ate breakfast with the family. After that he took me to his law office and had a talk with his partner, Mr. Herndon; then we went to the printing office of the Illi nois State Register, the paper In which he had an Interest, and we had a talk with the foreman. The latter, after asking me to writ something, said he was sorry, he saw I knew the work, but there was no position that be could give me at present, promising me, how ever, the first ehanc of work. At that my spirits, which had risen, dropped down again to a still lower ebb, until my benefactor said: " 'Now, I am going to be away a great deal on this campaign and,- Mr. Hern don will be very busy, so how would you like to stay In the office and an swer the questions of visitors for $4 a week?' That was before the day of stenographers. "I did not think there was so much money in the world, so I accepted the offer gladly and remained a resident of the Lincoln household for nine weeks. Then one day Mr. Lincoln told me that Mrs. Lincoln's aunt was going to make them a visit and that as I had the only vacant room in the house he would make arrangements for me to stay with a lady across the street, who had two young men boarding with her, if I did not care. I could not object and moved and I suppose Mr. Lincoln paid my board all the time I was there as well as my salary, for I know I did not pay any. Then one day the foreman sent for me to work on a brief and when it was finished, to my great delight, paid me full Journeyman's wages. Alto gether I remained in Sprlngfleld four months, going from there to St. Louis, where I went into a printing office; but I soon returned to Cincinnati and to Ludlow, where I have lived for nearly 60 years." Mr. Bentley never had an opportunity to renew his acquaintance with Abra ham Lincoln, but never forgot the help ing hand which he extended to the lonely, despondent boy that night in Decatur, which played such an import ant part In the history of the great President himself. RECIPROCITY OVL.T SIOE ISSCEf Cerrespoadewt Thinks Tenable I With Taft' Personality. PORTLAND, June 9. (To the Edi tor.) After seeing various comments on the reciprocity question, I believe the trouble is not reciprocity Itself so much as the personality behind it, viz. Taft. If be has made a mistake on the tariff, why not come out and admit it, and not try to make a new face and save himself by befogging the party with a side issue which seems largely to raise other and more important is sues without settling any. But then so goes the world. Mistakes will happen. The country is trying to "align it self to take its place among the na tions of the world, and struggle. In ternal and perhaps eventually external, may come. The race is not only to the swift but to the strong. But after all, as Republicans, if we are going to enter upon reciprocity why not try or at least look forward to a system of reciprocity with all nations, if such be possible, not neces sarily free trade, but a conservation of mutual interests with free trade as the ultimate or Ideal. JOHN H. WICKS. A Republican from w.iy back. J PASSIXG OF A.V HONORED PIOXEER Aa Appreciation of the l.ae Dr. James A. Richardson, Once State Seaator. PORTLAND, Or., June 9. (To the Editor.) With the passing of James A. Richardson. I am reminded that al most the whole procession that formed the vanguard In peopling and develop ing the state of Oregon has passed in final review, and left but a few straggling survivors behind. As each survivor of the great procession is called in turn to follow in the foot steps of those who have gone before, the painful thought arises that there is but a small and rapidly diminishing group who recall or care for the work of th passing veterans who laid Hie foundations of the state. As thou sands are being yearly added to the tltrongs upon our streets, as new In dustrial schemes are everywhere de veloping, and' as radical changes in the routine of everyday life are taking place and constantly forcing to the front new and absorbing attractions, the Individual man disappears in the great mass. The great world, reckless and heedless, absorbed in new develop, ments, and hungering for new sensa tions. Is more lightly impressed with the breaking of old friendships. It cares less and less for the old tradi tions and little heeds the passing of those to whom it owes a greater debt than It Is able to realize. It Is only with the passing of a conspicuous character like our friend that we fully realize the trend and are impressed with the thought of how little room there is in this world for sentiment, or for the sweeter influences of rotro Epection. But the old pioneer is still among us. There still remains a reverence for the old traditions. The pioneer spirit is not wholly dead. Now, upon the eve of the annual reunion of the Oregon State Pioneer Association, the passing of so distinguished a member of th group should call for something more than a flitting thought. Last week, when the world was busy, a pillar of the Btate crumbled away. A light went out. A strong man was called. A home was made desolate, and many friends knew for the first time how large a part he had been of their lives. Dr. Richardson was a man of genial spirit and of im posing presence. He was a strong character, whose influence, so far as he could determine the question, al ways tended for the betterment of his fellowraen. He was a leader in his profession. In public life, as Mayor of the city of Salem, as a member of the Oregon State Senate, and in the discharge of other conspicuous duties in the public service, there was shown a marked capacity and real devotion to the higher Ideals of citizenship. In the home circle, at the bedside of the afflicted, in social and public life, he displayed all of the ideal qualities of a good citizen. There is due his mem ory a public expression and acknowl edgement of the debt we owe him for his example was the one that tended to make men better citizens and better men in all the relations of life. C. B. M. if AME "REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN Writer Explains That It Does Not la - dlcate Attempt to Reform Chureb. PORTLAND, June 8. (To the Ed itor.) In an editorial In The Oregonlan of June 8, referring to the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the question is asked: "Why do they style themselves 'Reformed'?" The use of the quali fying word "reformed" in the legal name of this church is frequently ques tioned: and. inasmuch as a congrega tion of Christians under this name ia about to be organized in the City of Portland, I send the following answer, which I believe to be historically cor rect. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of America is a direct descendant of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of the British Isles, originally formed from those scattered "societies" which rejecteS the revolution settlement of 1688 because they felt bound to stand true to the covenants, viz. the National Covenant of Scotland, sworn In 1638, and the Solemn League and Covenant of the three kingdoms Scotland, Eng land and Ireland sworn In 1643. Hence they were called "Covenanters." The church in America inherits this name and also proved its right to it by re newing the covenants in 1871. The right to the use of the name "reformed" rests: First, on the com mon ground of other reformation churches (such as the Dutch Re j formed) holding to those doctrines which is synonymous with CalviniBtlc as distinguished from Lutheran. John Knox, a disciple of Calvin, was a fore most leader and agitator in the foun dation of the Scottish church. His torically, the church was "reformed" 'n doctrine even before it was formally Presbyterian in government. Second, on the addition ground, of the second reformation in Scotland. The attainments of the second reformation, which was from prelacy and Erastian sm. as the firBt had been from popery, were embodied in the two national covenants above referred to. Professor R. J. George. D. D., late of the Allegheny Theological Seminary, writing of the history of this church. 1 says: "She did not originate in a sect coming out ol tne resDytenan unurcn of Scotland, but was composed or tnose members of that church who held un swervingly to the covenant engage ments by which the whole church was bound, and for which the great body of martyrs of Scotland gave up their lives." In McCllntock and Strong's Encyclo pedia, under the head "Covenanters," we find this statement: "It is in the standards of the Covenanters that we have to look for a true embodiment of th tenets held by the great body of English and Scotch Presbyterians of 1643." Hence, without expressing any opinion as to whether the Presbyterian Church needs reforming or not, the Reformed Presbyterian Church is cer tainly not an attempted reformation of it. neither is It in any sense a division from that body. F. D. FRAZER. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan. Juna 10. 1861. On Friday evening last, a military company under the patriotic title of "Union Guards" was organized in this city. The company having adopted suitable regulations for their discipline and pledged themselves to maintain a permanent organization elected the fol lowing officers: Captain. W. H. Cor bett; lieutenants, E. G. Randall, S. J. Reed. T. B. Trevett. H. Failing, John E. Gilbert, W. V. Spencer; corporals, James O'Niell. P. C. Schuyler. Jr.. S. J. McCormlck. E. W. Tracy; treasurer, James M. Breck; secretary, John Wil son. A spirited meeting of the newly-organized Young America Engine Com pany took place on Saturday last, at which the following officers were elected: Foreman, Master Richard Hoyt: assistant. Master James Troutt; president. Byron Holmes; secretary, Alexander Dodge, Jr.; treasurer, Harry Leland. The company will parade in full uniform with their miniature en gine on independence day. The Vancouver Chronicle states that Mr. Catlin there has got up a full secession ticket for the Legislature. Mr. Catlin will not support any man who does not believe that a state or territory has a right to secede. The Chronicle thinks the people will crush out the secession ticket. Advertising Talks By William C Freeman. Mr. A. V. Saaford, of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal and Tribune, wrote to me recently saying that he had seen in a magazine published at a girls' seminary, an advertisement of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and that it struck him as peculiar that a loco motive should be advertised in a girls' seminary magazine. I should say it was peculiar, and as Mr. Sanford suggested in his letter, it illustrates the immense amount of sup posedly good advertialBs: which is ab solutely wasted, and the cost of which is charged up to miscellaneous ex penses a sort of fund that is wasted every year. Just as a matter of good will towards people who ask for con tributions to programmes, etc All of this side-issue advertising, that has no particular purpose to serve, is detrimental to the general cause of ad vertising to the legitimate media that really render a service to the adver tiser. The manufacturer of a tooth pow der, or a face cream, or a eloah and nit manufacturer, might advertise in a girls' seminary magazine and rea sonably expect to get a return for hla money; but why a locomotive works should advertise in It is hard to ex plain. Certainly not for any adver tising value it might possess. Th only possible chance the Bald win Locomotive Works might have of getting results from the advertisement Is that one of the girls might marry some day the president of a railroad, and if she remembered the fact that the Baldwin Locomotive Works adver tised in her seminary magazine, she might suggest to her husband that he equip his railroad with Baldwin loco motives. But that' waiting a little bit long for results. Wasted advertising is like waste in everything else. It nmt he avoided If a business is to prosper. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe Copyright. 1911, by Georre Matthew Adams. If you annoy anyone unnecessarily, you are mean; that's the long and short of it. Don't expect gifts all the time; occa sionally give one. You may think you are aa young as you ever were; but others ah, so often others do not agree with you. It Is pitiful to see a well-behaved old man bustling around to help his wayward son out of difficulty. The best way to prepare for trouble is to save your money. A farmer was eating dinner In a restaurant. "Give me a little more chicken," he said to the waiter, "to make my bread come out even." The facts are that a man may breathe properly, eat properly, sleep properly, and obey all the rules of san itation, and then die of old age at 70 to 74. If you can't do anything about It, don't talk about it. If a girl marries, and does poorly, all the other girls are discouraged for months. A crowd of people can find amuse ment in looking at each other, and making remarks. Hetel Coatroom Privileges. Kansas City' Star. Coatroom privileges of a hotel are often sold, bringing from $5000 to $10, 000 a year. Special Features of Tomorrow's OREGONIAN Compensation, the new novel of Washington society, which has attracted wide attention, will open in the Sunday magazine section. It is from the pen of a former Portland girl, Miss Ruth Cranston, daughter of Bishop Earl Cranston, illustrated by Oregonian staff artists. Don't iniss the first installment. "How Taft "Will Conquer the Hot Spell" is the subject of a timely half page which throws some interesting, sidelights on the President and his official duties. People who go swimming or boating or about the water should read Captain J. H. Quinan's half -page on how to resuscitate apparently drowned persons. Seven more of those graphic Civil War photos are presented along with an absorbing page on the escapes and executions of daring spies and scouts of the Civil War Pictures of Portland's annual Rose Festival, showing floral magnificence of the big special features. Scores of European nobles are on the lookout for rich mates to fill up depleted coffers. A Paris correspondent tells in half a page all about the most stupendous of all matrimonial agencies one that deals in nobles and heiresses. There are a lot of notable American old bachelors. Half a page is devoted to their achieve ments and inner affairs. "The Man Who Went Back" is the week's short story. It is the tale of a man who wished for childhood and got his wish. Basil Lambert, Athens corre spondent, writes interestingly of the unbaring of royal palaces and tombs in Homer's ancient Ithaca. Colonel Crowe discusses the coronation; the country's funny men contribute a half page of ively fun; the Widow Wise, Sambo and Mr. Twee-Deedle have fresh adventures. All the news of the world right up to the minute and several pages of photographs of Rose Festival parades. r