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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1911)
t TIIE MORXIXG OKEGOyiAy, MONDAY. JULY 10, 1911. c E(te (Dwrimuw rORTLAXD, ORCOX. EMera-l at Portland. Oregon, Poofflc scoa4-c:ess Matter. uFrrl$tlaa Rates Invariably la Adtaai (BT MAIL.) Party. Pnnday rneiuile'l. on yr fi lial . funrtir ln.-lu.lf l, : months I-ai:r. Sunday Inputted, three month.-. 1 i j. sunaay inciuufd. oh - Itlijr. without Sunday. oce year..... Italiy. without Sunday, elx montna - Ital.y. artrhout Sunday, thraa mart ha. .. - X- Iel.y. wltnout Sunday, one month - Waakly. one ynr fuodif. en wir us day aa4 Weekly, ooa W (BT CARRIER-) X!!y. Sanifay tnc!ttdHl. ob year. ...... Hair to Remit ml PoatoSlce money order, uprrn order or personal eD i o your local bask. atanire. win or currency re at ta aandar-a ma. Giro poetoffl; adJrae la fail, tnrludlcs county and state. Foetaeje) inn lo to 14 paa. 1 cant: 1 to zs paa. a raata; to to 40 M oanta; 0 to oo pea. 4 casta. Fxralca droble rata. Lawtera Bwalniee Office" Verre Conk t!a ,vw Tor. Hrucrarlck buUdlns. Cal ctr, Sttr bulMiBc. PORTLAND. MOND.AT, JILT 1. mil prices am high. The record of the range of price from the year 18S0 to the present time raises the question: What l prosperity? If the cost of everything one buys advances In proportion to one's Income, the rain Is not evident. But with the majority the Income does not advance In equal ratio with the cost cf living- and only those are train ers whose profits have Increased in greater ratio than the rout of what they consume. It Is doubtful whether the majority have gained by the period of high prices. So far as legislation can affect prices, it has been directed almost un. ifonnly to aid the producer, while the consumer has been left to shift f"r himself. If Congress were to adopt the opposite point of view and legis late for the benefit of the consumer, the producer might make less money as a producer, but he would pay out less as a consumer and would have a larger net balance at the end of the year. Even if his net balance were somewhat smaller, the cash balance he carried over to the new year would have a larger purchasing power and would therefore represent a really greater value than a Urge sum has at a higher range of prices. We are continually deceived by thinking of money solely in Its units of value Instead of In Its purchasing power. The figures given by the United States Bureau of Labor show that ft on the basis of what It would buy in 110 was worth 11.467 In 1897. I1.1S1 In 1900. $1,166 In 1890. In or der to be as well off as he was In 1597. a man now should have 4 6.7 per cent more Income that la. a man who re ceived 11000 a year in 1S97 should re ceive $147 in 1911. Some men have secured the higher Income, some more, but the vast majority less. The bulk of the advance In prices) may be traced to interference by leg islation with economic law. The more obstacles are placed In the way of the fltrw of trade In Its natural channels, the higher the cost of every article of trade. If a boy dams a stream, the water will rise until It flows over and around the dam. but much of It will be lost In the opera tion. When man dams the channels of trade, the same thing happens and the cost of what passt-s around and over his dam Is correspondingly In creased. High tariffs, obsolete shipping laws, lax corporation laws are some of these dams and the trusts add other dams. All contribute to raise prices until the consumer is paylrg "all that the traf fic will bear." Prices then begin to fall, the producer cries "hard times" and thinks he is growing poorer, though his reduced income buys as much as the larger Income. The con sumer who is not directly a producer feels relief until Mr. Hard Times cuts salaries. Then times grow harder and prices lower, because the market Is reduced. Seeing everything is cheap, the rich buy up the choice things and Improve them with the cheap labor, and prices begin to rise again. Then prosperity spreads and the stream flowing around the ends of the dams swells in volume. Man can no more thrive on the ob struction of the natural channels of trade than he can live on bottled sun shine. I1 BUN'S WELCOME TO THE KINti. Mixed sentiments were expressed by the people of Dublin when King George and Queen Mary visited them. The banner. "Welcome. We Want Home Kule." expresses these senti ments. The King Is welcome as King t f Ireland visiting his people, but the occasion Is seized to remind him of wrongs the righting of which will make him welcome to the official rep resentatives of the Irish capital. Un til then no formal addresses of wel come wiM be presented and the people will mob and Jeer tho police and sol diers, though they cheer therr sov ereigns without ceasing. For many years British sovereigns shunned Ireland as a rebellious prov ince in w hich their lives would not be safe. Only towards the close of her reign did Queen Victoria visit the island. Since home rule has become a cardinal article of faith with the Liberal party and radical land law reforms have been made. It has be come the custom for the King to show himself among his Irish subjects. King Edward and Queen Alexandra made a tour cf Ireland In 1903 and everywhere were enthusiastically re ceived. They paid another visit in 104. The fears of those who ex pected Insult or attack on their per rons were belied. Until the close of the seventeenth i-entury an English king never went to Ireland except with an army to put down rebellion, and their deputies were mere viceroys sent to hold a con quered province in ubJction. What l:ttle liberty Ireland enjoyed In the middle ages was taken away In 1494 by Poyulngs. who forbade the assem bling of the Irish Parliament without Ms order and reserved to the English Privy Counctl the power to annul Its laws. This act has provoked the In cessant demand for home rule. Re pealed in 17F2 to allow Ireland a brief period of troubled liberty. Poynings' law was followed In 1S00 by the act of union, which finally abolished the Irish Parliament. When the Lords have been deprived of power ar.d the Aaqulth Cabinet has forced a home rule bill through the; Hrltlsh Parliament, an Irish Parlia ment will be ready to welcome the King, and the Lord Mayor and Council will present him with an addresr The reconciliation of Ireland to the other kingdoms will then be complete and the Kin wiU find his Irish sub jects as loyal, both officially and un officially, as those of his other do minions. I'NIOX OF THE fHlBCHES. The union of Christianity is one of those dreams which are good to strive for, though Its realization is not within the range of probability. It could not be effected except upon the basis of a creed so broad tfiut no de nomination would be required to abandon Its peculiar tenets and that each could retain a large part of Its separate Individuality. Here would come the difficulty, for each sect would, regard some doctrine of Its own as essential to the common creed and some would Inalst on a closer union in government than others would endure. Great liberty of Action and thought would be necessary In order to pre vent church union from producing stagnation similar to thut of the mid dle ages. At that time, when the church was most nearly united, it was most corrupt and vicious, iteiorma tlon. which began disunion, did more than teach new doctrines or revive old and forgotten ones; it taught right living. Though the Catholic Church remained the same in creed and out ward form, the Reformation reacted upon It to purify it and Inspire it to the great missionary movements of Xavier. Loyola and Francis or Asslsl. Freedom of thought Is essential to progress. It has produced many men who were called heretics, but they have been hailed as the religious lead ers of the next generation. If the churches should unite, they should leave room for the heretics or they will drive out the standard-bearers of truth. They should not assume that their creoda contain the last word In religious truth, for the law of evolu tion applies to rt as to material things. TAFT. THE PROt.BKSSIVE. No longer do we hear the words: "Can Taft come back?" The cry i now: "Tuft has come back." We no longer hear: "Taft Is a good fellow. but ." Men say: "Taft Is a good fel low, but a good fighter." W hat has produced this change? vh.n Tuft hei-ame President he en deavored to avoid tho charge of dicta tion to Congress, which had ueen m,la lumlnst his Dredecessor. He as sumed his duty to e to co-operate with the party leaders in Ssenate ana House. He therefore co-operated with Aldrtch and Cannon, not realizing that they had ceased to be the real leaders they were mere holdovers. The re- nli vm the I'avne-Aldrich tariff bill. which ho accepted with. resignation as the best he could get but wnicn tne Nation received with dissatuafctIon. vt ho averted himself sufficiently to have the corporation tax enacted by It and to have the income-tax submitted m th. ctntuL Yet he blundered In the choice of his private secretary", and the Crane incident made a bad impression. Had he been Roosevelt, he would have K.,ii...i it thmnih": twlnir Taft. he smiled, said nothing and bided his time. Hut with the reeular session of Con gress In 1909 he took a more aggres sive attitude. He secured tne passage of the new railroad law and the Jup iruir th one srreatlv enlarg ing control over railroads, the latter removing the last cause of irritation with Japan. He told Congress wnat. he wanted and he worked to get It. He was no longer content to take what Congress would give him. ll mail a rreat stride along tne same line at the last regular session. when he submitted the Canadian reci procity agreement to Congress. Find- nr his own oartv split in two on me mniirA be took aid from the Demo crats and got it through the House. pinHlnr It talked out of the Senate, he called an extra session to pass it, al though by so doing he gave tne oppo sition party the opportunity for which It longed. Having secured Its passage by a Democratic House, he stands over the Senate, which is rent In all direc tions by dissension, and demands: "The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill." Backed by overwhelm- ng public opinion, he will have his nay. The wobbling, wrangling Sena :ors have learned that that smiling face is set on a thick neck wnicn grows stiff on occasions, and that this is one of the occasions. He offered to forward the cause or peace by making an arbitration treaty n broader lines than any statesman had yet dared to suggest, and the offer has been taken up by the three lead- no- nations of Europe. lie has tnere- by won the plaudits of the churches. hich not long ago questioned nis ill ness to head the Nation, because he ffered with them on a point of the ology. He has refused to meddle In he affairs of Mexico and has thus inn a warm friendship from the new as he enjoyed with the old admlnlstra- ,on of that country. Ho has made greater steps towards bringing the great corporations Into mbjection to the law than any or nis predecessors. Not only has he caused . Cfonrixrrl Oil and Tobacco cases to be brought to a successful conclusion. but he has caused the dissolution or leveral other trusts and has begun, hrnnth the Attorney-General's ofilce. proceedings against many more. He he as proved that he win not spare a lav vvbreaker, however rich, oy autnor- iztr rct tho nrnsecution of alsh ana Morse and by refusing them pardon. well as by forcing tne sugar trust d other Importers to disgorge their stealings. He has refused to become party to the persecution or a raitnrut public official, and his steadfast cham pionship of Secretary BaUlnger has won admiration even among the lat ter's critics. Throughout his Administration Mr. Taft has been tho object of the guer rilla war of the Republican Insurgents. Boasting of their own superior virtue, they proclaimed that their mission was to lead the party onward and up ward. They were adepts at proposing amendments to tarlfT and railroad bills which they knew had no hope of adoption. Their Idea of their own Im portance was expanded by the blunder of Secretary Norton In admitting that the President would cease to Ignore them In distributing patronage. But when the reciprocity bill came before Congress, this faction, which was to reform the Republican party, spilt in all directions, each man going in the direction which he imagined some local interest dictated. Then it be came known that these "progressives" are made of the same stuff as any or dinary politician. Their halo has fallen off. Events have proved that Mr. Taft Is the real progressive, and the whole Republican party has rallied to his support, except the dwindling faction of malcontents. He has shown his ability to rise above party In the effort to carry out his party's pledges-, and by so doing has won the confidence of men of both parties ard of no party. When he assumed office, the shadow of his great predecessor loomed large behind him In the public mind. He has grown, and that shadow has faded until now he can be fairly and truly judged as the worthy head of the Nation. ANOTHER STORY OF ("HIPVTRECK. Summer shipwreck has again been added to the list of disasters on the Faclflo Coast. Another vessel per haps unseaworthy, perhaps because there was "Dutch courage" at the helm has been driven upon the rocks In a calm sea with loss of human life and property. The wreck of the Santa Rosa on the morning of July 7 at an isolated point on the California Coast was apparent ly due to an error In navigation. To what Impelling cause this error was due will probably, upon Investigation, be disclosed. This much seems cer tain even from the wild and conflict ing first-reports of the wreck. The weather was clear, the sea smooth, the captain was asleep in his cabin. The ship was out of her course, and struck upon the rock, parted amid ships and went down. Several of the crew were drowned "when the lifeboat in which they were trying to escape was capsized against the side of the lurching, groaning ship. It would appear from the two tales of shipwreck that have been told on the Pacific Coast within the fortnight, that discipline at sea, the iron rule of the commander who to responsible for the lives of those who go down to the sea In ships and for the property that Is Intrusted to his care and skill, and Implicit obedience on the part of his crew are among the lost virtues of a seafaring age that was renowned for courage and endurance and skill In the art of navigation. This latest tragedy of tho sea tells of stubborn ness on the part of the captain that cannot by any stretch of the Imagina tion be construed into courage, and of an error In navigation that Is inexcus able upon any hypothesis that will be accepted by careful seamen and com petent navigators. The Santa Rosa was built In 1884, a date which, taken In connection with the fact that she had seen hard service during her twenty-seven years' afloat, may serve to explain the quickness with which she went to pieces, while the state ment that this was the captain's first trip In command of a vessel may ex plain his Inability to rise to the terri ble emergency that confronted him. A IIEAVg TOI.I- The automobile Is tireless as a ser vant but most relentless as a master. Chained to power. It tugs constantly at Its leash and frequently slips It in tha most unexpected places. Like all unreasoning forces that are Instinct with power, a very maniac In the sud denness of always possible caprice. It does its worst as often as opportunity offers. Woe to the driver who courts opportunity or Is unmindful of its constant attendance upon this exhil arating. Inspiring, daring creature of the Inventive genius of man this mo tor propelled by a very fury of com bustion which, when constrained, works his will, when released by ac cident or lapse of vigilance brings dis aster and death! The toll taken from our peo ple by the automobile last week was unusually heavy and relentless. In two Instances in which It included the taking of life It was due to imperfec tions In the road a Jutting rock be tween deep ruts In one case, a con cealed "soft spot" in the other, against and Into which the machine lurched, exacting Its heavy toll In hu man life, appalling injury and wreck of property. The record is incident ally an object lesson illustrating the necessity of good roads. If a wingless people . are to persist in the determi nation to fly over the ground. TOO MANY WOMEN. In the noDulatlon of England the fe males outunmAr the males by more than 1,117,000. similar lacis nave been noticed In Massachusetts and Avrnl nthera. of the older states of the Union. It Is a well-marked tend ency of the human race as It pro-a-resses In civilization to produce more women than men, or at any rate to bring more of them to maturity, bome account for the preponderance of fe males by the theory that boys are more adventurous than girls. They expose themselves to more danger, eat morn tndlepstlble food, and so on. thu3 bringing upon themselves disease and death beyond their foreordained snare. 'n doubt there Is something in this. After a period of prolonged warfare the men of a country are naturally outnumbered by the women. Thl9 was the case In France after the Na poleonic struggles. To fill out his last levies Napoleon had to enroll young boys. He applied tho principle of riiiM labor to his armies. At the time of his banishment not only did the French women far outnumDer tne men, but the average stature of the population had diminished by an inch or two. But nature has a way of remedying itLnrnnnrtlnns between the sexes. It Is known that when males are rela tively scarce male children preponder ate, and the revorse Is also true. This law runs through the animal kingdom and It Is not very difficult to account for it nlausiblv. But why in normal times female children should prepon derate Is another question. It Is not certain that they do. une mere zaci that more women reach maturity does not prove that more of them are born. The conditions of industrial life may bear so much harder on the males that, more of them perish in youth, leaving a preponderance of adult females. Strong drink also en ters as a factor. There are some women who drink to excess, but not nearly so many as there are of men. We should not be surprised to learn that the liquor habit accounts for pretty nearly the whole of the excess of women over men in England. The divided responsibility that is characteristic of men who hold mu nicipal office and is, in fact, no re sponsibility. Is notad in the attempt, as recorded in a news item of three taxpayfng women of a neigh boring town, who, having learned that a discount of 16 Per cent was allowed by the city on cash payment for street surfacing, set out to verify the state ment with a view of saving that sum on the amount assessed against their property. The Mayor was first visited. Unable or unwilling to enlighten them, he referred them to the City Engineer; the City Engineer sent- them to the City Clerk, and the City Clerk to the City Attorney, who finally, with great profundity, read a section of the city charter, and to cover his confusion. gain time or properly inrorm niinueu, promised to take the inquiring free holders out to that portion of the Btreet that had been paved to prove that the work was up to the standard. This was about as relevant as was the assure pee of a village storekeeper who, being asked by a housewife If he had any cheese In stock, replied: "No, but I have Just got In some fine ten penny nails." The recent collision between two automobiles at the Junction of East Thirteenth and Multnomah streets is not surprising to any one who has had occasion frequently to pass that point. Practically outside of police Jurisdiction, In an exclusive and not very closely built up residence section, automobiles whiz past this point and along streets adjacent thereto at a reckless speed that Invites disaster. The Impact upon the occasion of this collision was frightful and the crash resounded for many blocks. The only surprising feature in it was the es cape of the occupants of the machines with their lives. Forecasts of the action of Congress are that It will do as Taft proposed that It should do pass tho reciprocity bill and practically no other. All the schemes of Democrats and Insurgents to pass various tariff bills or amend ments to the reciprocity hill will go up In smoke. Reciprocity as a Re publican principle declared in the Na tional platform and defined by the head of the Republican party will be come law. Tariff revision by sched ules will follow at the regular ses sion, based on facts ascertained by the Tariff Board and not in the hit-or-mlss style adopted by the Demo crats for campaign purposes only. County Judge John W. Sewell, of Washington County, was remarkable In that his whole life of nearly sixty years, with one brief interruption, was spent in his native county. This rarely happens with Westerners, even when born in the West. The latter are usually so filled with the adven turous spirit of their fathers that they Inevitably take to roving, at least in their younger days. That Mr. Sewell was entrusted successively with the offices -of Sheriff and County Judge proves that those who knew him best esteemed him most. H. W. Stone's Chautauqua address on the boy draws a rather gloomy picture of the boy of the present in contrast with him of the past genera tion. A worker for some "cause" is too apt to have his mind fastened on the evils he wishes to remove and to overlook the good which Is all around him and which far exceeds the bad in the aggregate. There are still lots of good boys In the world, and they are not "goody-goody" either. They are of the kind that will make good Boy Scouts, as Mr. Stone will find. The 40 marines who deserted at New York asserted their inalienable right to celebrate the Fourth of July, which was effectually denied by the withholding of their pay. They at least had tho consolation of money in their pockets without the aftermath of the celebration, but that does not satisfy a patriotic marine. Baltimore is raising a fund of $100, 000 to secure the next Democratic Na tional convention. Baltimore has gone out of fashion 8S a convention city since Greeley was indorsed by the Democrats there in 1872. Na tional conventions have followed the center of population farther and far ther West. There is a multiplicity of kings in the vegetable kingdom. We have long had King Corn, King Apple and King Bing the Cherry. Now we have King Potato assuming the crown. The oth er klpgs will assert their divine right when tne humble and baseborn "spud" dona the royal purple. With all the work planned for the coming week, the members of the City Council will earn their salaries for July. The fact adds strength to the argument of Adolph Wolfe for proper remuneration of members when the city shall be governed by a commission. Acting-Chief Slover"s admonition to the force to ba courteous to the public is kindly advice that should be heeded. Let the younger members pattern aft er Jacob Hoesley, Griffith Roberts and other veterans, who are always gen tlemen as well as officers. King George Is ungallant. At Kingston he began his address with "I and the Queen." That may be royal prerogative, but an American hus band, after a similar remark, would have a very bad few minutes when the crowd had gone. Baseball teams from the warships Louisiana and New Hampshire played at Copenhagen In presence of the King and court and a great gather ing. Denmark has supplied us with a pugilist of the first rank; she may send us a pitcher next. If a National organization of re tailers should be formed to attack the anti-trust law. their customers might also form a National organization to defend it. One is no more visionary than the other. . When two boys, one seventeen and the other -fourteen years old, are al lowed to drive an automobile be tween Portland and Puget Sound, ac cident insurance cost la likely to rise. A bull can put an army to flight when the army has only blank cart ridges, but when a bulldog attacks an airship, it means death to the bulldog. Having spent the money he made in Venezuela during his last term. Castro has gone back for more. His European tour was costly. The retired clergyman who is mak ing $1300 a-year in poultry on three acres in a Portland suburb Is showing the way to other men. The wornout industry east of the mountains of fining Chinamen for il legal fishing Is being revived with Britishers for victims. The harder Mayor TaiiBlck, of Walla ryalla, tries to hold his Job, the more determined Walla Walla appears to be to separate him from It. Possibly because Seattle has an im maculate administration is the reason of the great reduction in the cost of street paving. Old Sol and the mercury will bring reciprocity quickly. Gleanings of the Day The anointing oil which was used at the coronations of King Edward VII and King George V, consists of a mix ture of sesame and olive oils perfumed with roses, orange flowers, jasmine, cinnamon, flowers of benzoin, musk, civet and ambergris, and its composi tion is founded upon that used In the 17th century. At the conference of educational au thorities to be held in Berlin next month, a proposal will be made to re place Greek by English In the curricu lum of the Prussian gymnasia, says a London dispatch to the New York Sun. It is now stated that the entire reform of the Humanist gymnasium is con templated, the proposal being to make Greek an optional subject, thus placing it on a level with Hebrew, and to make English obligatory. It is also proposed to reduce the time devoted to Latin in favor of natural science and gymnas tics. The Emperor, it Is reported, is in favor of the proposed reform. The scholars are protesting most vigorous ly against It. Organization by a National bank In New York City of an allied trust com pany Is evidence of 'the desire of Na tional banks to have their powers broadened and the United States Inves tor says: There has been a tolerably atrons growth in Conxreae for aome time paat of the vlew that a much greater degree of liberty should ba allowed tha National banks than now ex lits. Country banks have been insistent In demanding the power to lend moderately on real aatate security, ' and city banks have been very dealroua to haye some of the powers granted to aavlnga institutions and trust companlea. There haa been atrenuous opposition to tha broadening; of the National bank act In these dlrectlona on the ground that the reserve of the country was al ready precariously situated owing to the fact that It was parcelled out among so large a number of separate and small institu tions. If larger powers were to be granted to these Institutions, it has been argued, and If they should be allowed to tie up their capitals upon less fluid security than at present, the result would be to reduce the solvency of the community and thereby to Increase the danger of panic and disaster. A New Yorker offered a newspaper man an annuity for his baby in ex change for his seat at the coronation. This is in contrast with the prices paid at Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838. Seats in W'estmlnster Abbey were advertised at 10 to 25 guineas. Another Italian art treasure has been secured by an American. An Italian peasant found some fragments of marble in the garden of an ancient villa at Campiobbl, near Florence, and sold them for $100 to Professor Con stantino, , an antique dealer. He put them together and found they made a female figure, wearing a lion's skin, which archaeologists recognized as Om phale, for love of whom Hercules spun wool. The head was missing. Con stantly offered to sell the statue to the government, but official experts pronounced it a worthless imitation. A week later he sold it to an American for $60,000 and It was immediately shipped away. The government or dered It sequestered, but was too late. The Italian police are now searching the garden for the missing head, while Constantinl has changed front and now declares the statue worthless. Baron de Lord, a natural son of the late Duke of Aosta, who, as Amedo I reigned over Spain for a few years, has been arrested in Paris for petty pil fering. He was born in Turin In 1880 and his mother. In despair over his waywardness, shipped him as cabin Boy on .n Italian tramp steamer. He returned after several years and mar ried the daughter of a rich Italian nobleman, but squandered her fortune in 18 months. She was granted a sep aration and the count allowed the baron $30 a month. For six mnths he. has lived in Paris, putting up at the best hotels. Overburdened with debt and In desperate straits for money, the baron resorted to petty thieving and was caught red handed. The New York Sun says: William M. Ivins occasionally tells one on himself. Often on the streets he Is stoop shouldered and in meditative mood. Coming out of tha Holland House tha other after noon in this physical and mental attitude, one of the dingiest and frowsiest tramps in creation slapped him on the shoulder and in guttural tones croaked: 'Cheer up. old man, the world won't miss either of us." Others In public life might fitly make the same remark, but they either neglect to do it or fall to realize their superfluity. What the Insurgents need Is a dose of one of the essential components of the hated stand-pat spirit the willing ness and the ability to stand immov ably for the things for which they stand, says the Chicago Evening Post. The Old Guard has misused this ad mirable human quality. But that does not render It less admirable. If In surgency is to amount to anything, if it is to check the weakening internal reaction that has already set In, it must stand pat. Wherever you go and to whomever you talk, the chances are fifty to one that you will hear: "Well, how Taft is coming along." says the Hartford Courant. There Is no doubt that he is stronger today than ever since he entered his office, and for that matter stronger than his party. His frank, clear-headed and sincere way of doing things has come to be understood, and It Is mighty popular. Everybody trusts him, and no higher compliment could be paid to a President. A V1SIOX OP CONSERVATIOJr. Once in a dream, by midnight snack Begot, F?om pie? ham sandwich and tamale. hot. lonklng into the future. I observed Our g"oriou. Western Kmplre .11 conserved. Neath coverlet o conservation Iread. la.k'i coal atlll alumbered In its bed, Whfle iver on the lookout. Uncle Sam Kent shooing ott tha hov-rlng Cunningham. Y,Tiiid iry eye peeled at all times Lest at d.ome"2ntoward hour the Guggen- Dodglngelm"'h Governmental guardians. Cop ot' ahtcuttleful of anthracite. Meanwhile, the people of tha East and . '"nd called that conservation blest. .UI?.." .v.- rn.nlni trusts- VOTSOlty v -n't our resources for posterity : Kept our ki.mil. 10. ilav hv day Tne Jrtc. & coil . loared. upward, and away. Tif men throughout the country, as a rule. Kept coal for decorationnot for fuel. Aaes of chronic conservation paaaed And coal had vanished from the earth at Save where tha Government sat, watching to. b?ack deposits on Alaska's ahore. People to temper Boreas' bitter chill. Were forced to stoke the Area with dollar Sine price of anthracite, grown worse and Was clean 'beyond the poor man's meager puree. Tt atlll we bleaaed tha guard of Uncle Sam. ' (m 'n&mit i.usgirnii-iiw .-. ... , D - Which kept Alaska'a coal landa ever free. i Xean Coins, , GREAT GROWTH IS NOW PROMISED Pioneer Contrasts Xew Development of Central Oregon. With Early Efforts. BALEM. Or.. July 3. (To the Editor.) The writer -confesses to great per sonal Interest in The Oregonian's re ports of the development meeting as reported at Prlneville on July 2 by Its staff correspondent, and was especially glad to read that some names men tioned by Mr. Bennett have been known well and favorably for 36 years in working for development in and around Prlneville. It well became John New ton' Williamson to preside over that meeting when organizing for a district already covering thirteen named towns, Beveral of which are destined to be come distributing centers in a short time, chiefly by the influence of being railroad centers. "Nute" has been made first vice-president of developments, for which he is believed to be fitted by those who have known J. N. Williamson from boyhood, and have always esteemed his honesty as well as his enterprise. The writer has had much to do with dry, as well as wet, land during his 67 years in Oregon, and has no doubt of the great increase of homes now prom ised. It Is a good thing to advertise the uses of Central Oregon as an agri cultural country, as it was advertised as a hunters' and trappers' country when Peter Skene Ogden made his sec ond exploration of the central and western portion of Eastern Oregon. In his second expedition, Ogden reached the north edge of the Oregon Lake region and found lakes of brack ish water and small lakes decidedly salty near others of fresh water. On November S. 1826. he found many na tives in starving condition, and his men reduced to one meal a day. Although swan and other water fowl are plenty, he recorded 100 shoots and not one kill. He records this In evident disgust as bad marksmanship, but I doubt Whether this was the chief cause. The gentlemen of England doing business in the Hudson Bay country as direc tors, sent all the goods their traders used on the Columbia, among which was the fusee, a light musket thrown aside as a war weapon, and which was as near useless as a gun could be. The writer bought one of these guns from Messrs. Sears and Payne, taken from an Indian horsethief on Burnt River in 1845, in a district that Peter Skene Og den was exploring. As horse stealing and murder seemed to be the common practice, he, Ogden, dared not punish by retaliation, as he thought the laws of God and man would Justify. Therefore, on Novem ber 3. 1825, he was holding his party on the north edge of the lake region, which we now call Central Oregon, amid starving Snake Indians, while the freemen of his party were reduced to one meal a day, and had either to kill their horses for food or leave Ogden s employ and scatter out In hope of find ing game and beaver for individual support. Chiefly by the exertions of Tom McKay, Ogden's pressing PePlex ity was relieved, and they got to the fresh water lakes and game country. But In contrast to what permanent set tlement will do. It is noted that Og den's second exploration and trapping trip Increased the consumption of horses for food, so that the expedition which collected over $12,000 worth of beaver, gave no profit. Home-building has been giving the American settlers profit ever since it began. Resident pasturage increased the profit five-fold, while the plow and irrigation promises ten-foW. Active Crooks and Passive Saint. HILLSBORO. Or.. July 8. (To the Editor.) According to a statement In The Oregonlan, Governor West says that "an Ictive crook is a better citizen than a passive saint." This will, no doubt, add considerable impetus to the business of. robbing honest people of their Just earnings, as his very liberal policy of paroling such c haracters on, honor will attract many Into the state with the hope that they may soon ob tain their freedom if convicted of CrThat a man who has choked some helpless girl or woman Into Insensibil ity while he robbed her of charity and honor should be paroled on honor Is a Sew definition to what we suppose rightly belonged to that term. Prob ably Dr. Cook, or Peary, brought it from the North Pole regions. W e think such a course about as far from Justice as Cook, or Peary, either, came short of discovering the Pole, and a great many people believe that Is a consider able distance. We think such a policy is Just about as near to the making of crime a virtue as anything could be while what has been supposed to be the real article Is placed at a discount. Where is the dignity of the law? In the Governor's policy, of course. JOSEPH BROCK. Evangelist. Bivouac of the Dead. MISKILU Wash.. July 8. (To the Editor.) nease state where I can find The poem entitled. "Bivouac of the Dead." I heard this read once while in the southern part of Virginia, and have tried many times since to get It, with a short history of the writer. A. A. H. The poem "The BWouac of the Dead." by Theodore O'Hara, Is found on page 248 of "An American Anthology, 178. 1900 edited by Edmund Clarence Sted man and published In 1900 by Hough on Mifflin Co.. Boston. The poem con sists of nine double verses. 72 lines in all. , m Boyer Toll Rood. GRAND RONDE. July 2. (To the Editor ) In The Oregonlan of June 30 is a resolution by the Tillamook Commercial Club In regard to the Dolph toll road. If they would kindly turn their attention to the Boyer toll road In the southeast corner of their own 'county, they would certainly do a Irreat favor for Salmon River people. In Lincoln County, as the road cuts Just across the corner of Tillamook County, and Is the only outlet from Lincoln County, north of Toledo. It is about seven miles across from Lincoln to Yamhill County. LINCOLN COUNTY SUBSCRIBER. Handicapped as a Composer. Puck. "No, I am afraid you will never win fame and fortune as a song writer," re- ,.-.., nnhiiHher. as he handed marfteu fci.w back the manuscript compositions "But I have maae nw ...n. tomb,' and 'kiss1 rime with wish," expostulated the youthful composer. "What more do you wantr ..m 4mtttAri thi nuhlisher. 'but you know entirely too much about the rules or grammar. ... i a ; a ih. vnnnf man curse tne day wherein he had been given a com mon school education. IVorklng; Honrs Are Contracted. Baltimore American. In the large cities of the United ex.... inrAin week in certain selected occupations ranges from 44 hours in the building trades In New York, Chicago, St. Louis and San Fran- cn tnr- lnhnrers in Phlla- C1SCU, fcu ww -v- delphla. Cleveland, Pittsburg and De troit For tfte wnoie couuu;. """" . as a.EiR AntrtnAerinttT. 53.4 to 58.4: textiles, 65.6 to 60.4; clothing. 61.3 to 66.2; peper, 56 ana o. p"""6. to 63; wood, 65 to 58. Marrh-to-the-Sea Doctor Dies. Baltimore American. William A. v annui." ' v - J of Mount sterling. "-)- "b."i who constructed the famous Chatta- . . . . . Hanaro I C Vi m- t n hoochle Dnage ........ on the march to the sea. died in Ken tucky recently, from Brlght's disease,, Advertising Talks By William C Freemsn A brother and sister recently had a rather spirited discussion about ad vertising, and they wanted me to de cide which was right. The brother claimed that a very old and well-known business house was lagging behind in the business race because It did not adopt modern ad vertising methods. The sister claimed that it wasn't necessary for this conservative and high-class house to do any advertis ing at all that people knew they could get the finest kind of merchan dise at this store and that they would go there whether it advertised or not. The brother claimed that his sister's statement was absurd, and ehe claimed that her brother exaggerated the value of advertising. Now, the facts are that the house referred to advertises In Identically the same manner as it did 30 years ago it has thus far refused to change its methods. Its advertising is merely a catalogue of prices of the merchandise to be sold. The business of the house is not as great as It once was. It has forgotten that new people are growing up In Its community that young men an young women are taking the place or the older men and women. The younger people are attracted to the stores that prepnre their advertise ments in an attractive, newsy way) and they do the business. People used to ride behind a good team of horses and enjoy it. Today they ride in automobiles. They don't want to ride behind horses if they can help it. So it is with advertising. There Is no wledom In sticking; to custom. It is a firm's duty to the public .to give the public what it wants. Why con tinue cataloguing when people want a description of a new hat, or a new gown, or a new suit, or a new style of hose? Advertising is news and should be carefully prepared It will be read if it is news. If It is a mere catalogue except in very rare instances It won't bring as srreat results. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyright, 1911, oy George Matthew Adams) After a woman has been marired a year or so, there is this sort of look on her face: "I wish I had known some things sooner." When a man Is discharged, his wife thinks it was because he was too honest to suit his employer. Every man Is thought to be good look ing by some woman of poor taste. A woman who does a great deal of housework has a trot that is acquired in no other way. The prettiest woman in the United States, many men believe, has her face on the silver dollar. After a woman passes 30, it doesn't make much difference how old she is. All the business Instinct In a woman's nature seems to be devoted to paying oft a church debt. My Idea of a coward is a man who won't fight when he is drunk. When a man says money can do any thing, that settles it; he hasn't any. The women think the men can accom plish anything. But the men know better. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan. July' 10. 1861. An attempt was made night berore last to burn the unoccupied house on the northwest corner of Fourth and Taylor streets, owned by Dr. Davenport. The steamer Pacific has refused to carry the British mails from San Fran cisco to Victoria unless paid at the rata of 1250 a trip. There is no money pro vided for this purpose and the mails are being sent from San Francisco to Victoria by sailing vessels. It is rumored that after the overland mail goes Into operation there wlll ba but two steamers a month from New York to the Isthmu3 and thence to San Francisco. The mercury rose In the thermom eter in the shade yesterday to 91 de grees. Our Astoria correspondent, under date "of July 6, writes: The people of Clatsop Plains had a fine time yester day. They had a picnic dinner, reading of the Declaration of Independence, short patriotic and eloquent addresses by Messrs. Dlerdoff, Gillette and Cal ender, and closing up with a nice so cial gathering in the evening at Mr. Gearhart's. In town we had a full dis play of bunting, firing off salutes and a fine display of fireworks in the even ing, terminating with a ball at the Union Hotel. We saw a threshing machine on wagons bound for the country pass through our city yesterday. The weath er Is now fine for maturing the wheat crop. Brad's Bit o' Verse "There are no times like the olden times," say folk of the dreaming ways; but the present to me is fair to see, and today is the best of days. Life w;as sweet. I know, in the early glow, with its wealth of hope and truth; but the rug ged noon is as fair a boon as the dewy dawn of youth. This morning hour had its song of power and its note was clear and bold: but we sing it still as we climb the hill to the sunset gates of gold. Our Joys are as new and our friends as true as they were In the days of yore; and the stress and strife and the storms of life are steps in the great world's lore. So we laugh and sing as the moments Dring their measure of Joy and praise; and the sunlight sheen and the fields of green stretch back to the good old days. There's many a song if the heart be strong and if love be warm and true: there's many a rift in the clouds that drift, where the sun comes smiling through. Then a truce to care and to bleak despair and regret for the days long dead; give me the chimes of the present times and the bright sky over head. Give me the clasp of a loving grasp and a welcome at the door; and I will not sigh, as the hours flit by, for the days that are no more. (Copyright, 1911, by W. D. Meng.) Drop In Aluminum Values Bis;. Cincinnati Enquirer. Aluminum, which is present almost everywhere, w-as quoted at $15 a pound in 1880. Because of the development of Its recovery, it is now quoted at 23 cents a pound. V