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Buts nJ-VJo Ci Jin .New York. fcrunalc ul.din. afo. otacr bot:duiS- ' fcaua Office No, S Rnt fr. B W.. London FOfcTLAD. TtEfcDAT. APRIL t. lilt. i WASTED-A VOLITION. It 1 actually alarming, the way the future of Oregon uid even of the Na tion Itself U bound uo In the candidacy of two or three aspirants for office. This state of affairs is described In the official primary nominating PnP lust off the press of the State ainter. The startling details are given. by the candidate, themselves, so they must be The defeat of Jonathan Bourne, for example, will mean so he says that the people are not qualified to rule themselves. All the confluence, tradi tions and beliefs that have grown up among the American people in 13 years will thereby be overthrown. The republic will have oeen pru. , ure. sod there will be nothing to do but let the forces of evil lake tneir own course. To the people of Oregon "-Tou are on trial, not I. My method of making no campaign for re-election to the l-nited States Senate is entirely new in the popular government move ment. It la up to you to demonstrate whether you have the Intelligence to recognize and appreciate good public service." and so on. Later he says: "Am giving you an opportunity or lemonstratlng your Intelligence and ap preciation of good service." and that "the result must have a tremendous influence on other states and the fu ture policies of this Government." All of whk-h is very disconcerting If true. Mr. Clyde, who wants to be Repre sentative In Congress, 1 also one of the props of good government. We learn from Mr. Clyde's modest statement that the "overwhelming preponder ance of lawyers In Congress. Is lnlml cable to the beet Interests of the coun try." Mr. Clyde "Is the only candi date for Congress that Is not a gradu ate from a law school." It Is there fore Hobson's choice. It is up to Ore gon to save the country from a power before which Mr. Clyde tells us that even the Supreme Court quails. But hold. Mr. Clyde la opposed to child labor. Mr. Bourne. In whose ticcesa the life of Republican prin ciples Is Involved, employs child labor In the Bourne cotton mills. Mr. Bourne tells us he has sacnnced half his for tune in attending to his duties In Con gress, and that he has expended $J0. 000 from his own pocket In helping retain our laws in Oregon and fighting for their adoption In other states. If e send Mr. Clyde to Congress Is he not likely to deprive Mr. Bourne of the balance of his fortune by abolishing child labor? Can we afford to impair the usefulness of Mr. Bourne after we have sent him back to Washington to save the Nation? On the other hand, will the Nation survive If we send a lawyer to the Lower House In place of Mr. Clyde? Here la Indeed a quandary. Nor Is that all. The fortunes of Oregon also depend upon the re-election to Congress of Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Lafferty tells us that he 1 waging a light for the recovery by the public 'of S.J0O.O0O acres of Oregon land from a railroad corporation. "Many people think the land gTant suit will eventu ally be dropped," writes Mr. Lafferty in the pamphlet. "Such will not hap pen If I am re-elected. But probably the case will be dropped If I am de feated." Let us recapitulate the fearful and complicated situation: If Mr. Bourne la defeated ropuTar government 1I1 have been proved a failure. If he Is re-elected the ability of the people to rule will have been vindicated. ' If Mr. Clyde Is defeated Congress. ,:ready legally topheavy. will probably upeU and the land grant case will also go to pot. If he Is elected along with Bourne he Is likely to ruin Bourne's etton-mlll Industry by abol. Uhlng child labor. Bourne will then no doubt be financially unable to con tinue the tremendous services wnicn are grounds for his re-election. ' If Lafferty Is defeated Oregon will ne 3.300.000 acres of land. If re elected the cry for help against law yers' domination of Congress and the courts will not have been heeded by Oregon. : There should be rriany gloomy households In Oregon as the voter gathers about him his family flock to listen as he reads the words of warn ing these patriotic office seeker have prepared. What earnest seeker for l?.e welfare of the commonwealth can dfvlse a way to meet the dangers that threaten? What Is the solution of this menacing problem? There Is but one 'inmer. one conclusion. Oregon Is cer tainly up as-alnst it. JT.iE APPUjG KTK. Profeor Joseph rVhafer's mono graph on Jesse Applegate. which oc-.-upln the University of Oregon Bul letin for February, v. Ill be read with .Mention by students of Oregon his tory. Applegate was one of the pio neers of 1141 and an intimate asao ;lnte of Marcus Whitman. Professor hafer Intimate that he virtually led the Immigrants through the perilous stretch of country westward from Fort Holt In Idaho, availing himself of Whitman's general knowledge or the rrglon. The missionary was then re turning from his futile trip to the EiM In que.t of funds to aid his enter. pr!-e. Jeoe Arp'egte frat settled In P"lk 'inty. where he remained till 1S4. m hen "he removed to Toncalla In the L"niiu Valley. It was In this In terval that he performed great service tr. the state by helping to establish a .'institutional government. Professor . hafer Is not so enthusiastic as some Ica deeply Informed writer have bees - - - . . ' - i over the "provisional government" which was adopted In the Spring of 1841. From the fact that it was ap proved by a bare majority of the voters present at the meeting where It was proposed, he infers that it -was probably premature." He goes on to say that "the organ ization Itself waa raulty." The or ganic laws were "somewhat loosely drawn." the system was more preten tious and complicated than the occa sion called for. while it waa to be supported by "the fatuous expedient or popular subscription." The Immi grants who arrived in the Fall of 14 with Jesse Applegate at their head dealt rather aummarily with this prim itive system of government. They treated the "organic laws" as mere statutes which might be amended without ceremony. In fact, they al tered these fundamental laws exten sively and placed their amendmenU In operation without submitting them to the people. Applegate. writing In after years, said that this revolution brought the new community to the verge of "anarchy and Internecine war." but Professor Schafer thinks he probably overestimated the peril. How. ever that may be. the change waa re sented by the older settlers and waa followed by "another reorganization which brought order and political prosperity to the districted colony." Professor Schafer's account of Jesse Applegate's career la a fine piece of historical work of the modern and sci entific sort. It will no doubt be wide ly read and will contribute to the ac curate knowledge of pioneer days. THX NEW AND OLD ROOSEVELT. From far off In Central Oregon comes to The Oregonlan a voice out of the political wlldnemeea crying that Taft has not carried out the Roosevelt policies, and thererore Central Oregon Is, or ought to be. against him. We take It that our misguided friend does not refer to the Roosevelt policy of blanket conservation that dedicated a large part of Oregon to mournful Iso lation and Industrial paralysis, all but destroying the sheep business, driving the cattle from the range, expelling the homesteader from his frontier home and putting Important citizens In Jail. What Roosevelt policies? Colonel Roosevelt Is running for President to day mainly on an Issue created by himself. It Is the recall of Judicial de cisions. It was the main feature of the Columbus speech, and of every subsequent formal speech defining his principles. It is the last and most striking word In the Rooseveltlan pol icies. Taft has been alncerely and Inde fatigably devoted to the constructive Roosevelt policies of 1 901-1 i08. Roosevelt has forgotten all about them. Taft Is opposed to the gone-to-seed Roosevelt policies of 1912. Roose velt will doubtless have forgotten all about them, too, ere another cycle has rolled around. ROOe.EVEXTI.HM RJTFTDI ATE1. The Issues which Colonel Roosevelt haa Injected into the campaign for the Republican nomination are squarely met by the platform of the Indiana Republican convention and the meas ures which he advocates are repudiat ed aa not being In accord with Re publican principles. The initiative and referendum and the recall applying to Judges and their decisions as well as to other officers are condemned on the ground that they "Hvould weaken and imperil the strength and perpetuity of our Representative system of Govern ment." This la the Issue which Roose velt has brought to the front In the campaign. Although he admits that It is a state Issue only he seeks to make It a National issue by discussing it In almost every speech he makes. The third term Is made an Issue by Roosevelt's action In seeking the nomi nation and the challenge la taken up by the platform In these words: "w hold to th boll'f that Washington oat a good and oaf prvrodont In limiting hi offVial tenur to two term. W b lloro thai In following hla rroeadent hi txreaora tfr wlao and patriotic Thin unbroken cuatom. during tho enttr llf of lh Nation, haa com t hava tho potency of a constitutional limitation on omclal ten nra in th Prealdcno ot th Kepubllr. That paragraph sums up the entire argument against a third term with a force and terseness which could not be excelled. It Is followed by an equally forceful statement of the argu ment for a second term as being In accord with the policy of the Repub lican party for half a century in the case of a Republican President who has "faithfully carried forth the pre cept and policy of hi party." That policy, it recalls, waa followed In the cases of Lincoln. Grant, Harrison. Mc Klnley and Roosevelt. That Taft has fairly earned this honor the platform shows by summing up briefly and approving the achieve ments of the Administration. Taft Is pictured here as the repre sentative of true Republicanism, car lied Into action In a progressive spirit, while the new ideas which Roosevelt represents are repudiated as un-Re-publlcan. Those ideas do not even rep resent a united Insurgency. Roose velt would apply direct legislation only In state affairs; his rival. La Follette, would extend them to National af fairs. He would apply the recall to Judicial decisions; La Follette does not take op that Idea, and Governor John son, one of Roosevelt's chief backers, describes that device as "his own pe culiar qualified recall." In Indiana Roosevelt made hut first open, stand-up fight to be accepted as the representative of Republicanism ar.d to have hi new Ideas adopted as Republican principles. Both tie and his theories are rejected. He la at kuue with the Insurgent loaders, of whom La Follette Is the chief, on those theories. He Is not a Democrat. Then what Is he? Perhaps the Springfield Republican haa solved the riddle by describing him as "a state of mind, not only a state of mind, bu a pecularily Inflamed state of mind, which Its own votaries could not easily fathom." ACTIVITY M RKVIWNtS. 'The first beginnings of a trend of Industrial activity are discerned In large purchases of material by rail roads and in programmes of Improve ment which will require still larger purchaf. Activity In rail mills, car shops, foundries, machine shops, lo comotive works, tie and lumber mills la the necessary consequence. The larger buying power of all these In dustries and their employes will spread the revival to the merchants and lo other Industrie. A vlviring wave of life has begun to flow through all the Nation's industries. The depression was largely of the railroads' making, although they have been loudest In voicing sorrow over It. Forced to raise wages, they were forbidden to recoup themselves by raising rates. Simultaneously the great laiiuoLTuka UUU whjol aU-) Ul iovt.aa producers of traffic became . disgrun tled t being forced to get within the law. The railroads reduced their pur chases partly because of their ill-humor, partly because it was necessary to make good on their poverty plea and partly because the trusts re stricted production. This caused a reduction In earnings, which in turn caused rigid economy In expenditures for maintenance of way and equip ment. This again caused shrinkage in production, which was reflected in shrinkage of earnings on the traffic thus cut off. But a time comes when this kind of economy must cease and must give place to sudden large expenditures, ii U with a railroad as with a house. If , a man neglects to make repairs for several successive years, the time comes when he must make extensive repairs at one time or let th house fall about his head. Postponement of maintenance expenses on a railroad does not mean money saved or even postponed expenditure of only, the sum which would ordinarily be ex pended each year: it means the ex penditure within a brief period of not only this sum but of a further sum to compensate for the continuous deteri oration due to delay In making the repairs first required. In short, the longer a railroad puts oft spending money for such a purpose, the more It must spend in the end. The railroads have evidently reached the point where they must spend this money, and the total will be larger In proportion to the length of the delay In spending It. The resultant quickening of the pace of trade will swell the volume of traffic and of earnings. This will encourage and necessitate still further expenditures. and swell prosperity to larger volume, which will make every hand and brain busy. irVNOARY AND FRANCIS JOeiEPH. Francis Joseph 1. Emperor of Aus tria, came to the throne by virtue of an abdk-atlon and if ho carries out the threats which he is making to the turbulent Hungarians he will leave it by the same method. . His uncle, Fer dinand, whom he succeeded In 1848. was a weakling whose fortitude gave way under the troubles of that event ful year. The revolutionary spirit of 1S48, starting In France, permeated the whole of Europe and stirred up trouble for Austria both In Italy and Hungary. Ferdinand gave up the dOal throne to his nephew in the hope that Francis Joseph, who waa then a young and exceedingly popular man, might make headway against difficulties which threatened to become over whelming. In the end Austria was victorious both In Italy and Hungary but the cost In the latter country waa ruinous. Under leaders like Kossuth and Szechenyl the Hungarians had de clared their Independence and estab lished a phantom republic. When this transitory government was overthrown by the Imperial troops a veritable orgy of bloodshed followed. The Hungarian patriots were butchered by the thou sand. AH the prisons were filled with political criminals and the leading men of the country when they were not slain were subjected to incredible outrages. One story of that frightful time la significant of the state of the country under the scourge of Austrian tyranny. A Magyar Lieutenant who had been severely wounded In the service of the patriots met an Austrian officer on the street soon after leaving the hospital. His wounds were still so far from heal lng that he was unable to lift his hand to make the proper salute. Offended at this slight to his dignity, the Aus trian had the wounded Lieutenant placed on a bench In the public square and flogged till he perished. Up to 184 8 the union between the crown of Austria had been, at least In theory, voluntary. Each nation retained its Independence and was governed" by Its own laws. But after the downfall of Kossuth and his comrades. Hungary was deprived of Its ancient constitu tion and treated as a conquered coun try. Happily this state of things did not last long. In 1868 Austria had abundant troubles of her own to deal with. Attacked by Germany and beaten on the field she sadly needed the help of the Magyars, and In re turn for It Francis Joseph thought best to make concessions to the na tional eplrlt. Accordingly. In 1867 he was crowned King of Hungary, the old constitution was restored and the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy was reinstltuted. The original union of' the two crowns dates back to the Turkish In vasions In the sixteenth century. Soly- man the Magnificent brought an army of 100.000 men Into Hungary in the year 1526 and Inflicted a terrible de feat upon the Magyars at Mohacs. This calamity ao weakened them that the nobles offered the crown to Ferdi nand of Austria and ever since that time the fortunes of the two countries have been linked together. In theory the Hungarian monarchy l. elective. Practically It has been hereditary in the House of Hapsburg. which reigns at Vienna, but the elective principle has always been cherished among the Magyar and may revive In full force when Francis Joseph passes away. The heir to that aged monarch Is his nephew, Francis Ferdinand, who Is fairly certain to reign at Vienna, but he may never ascend the throne at Budapest. The Hungarians,, whom the reader will, of course, not confuse with the Huns, are an ancient ' people whose origin Is a little uncertain. The famous Professor Vambery believes that their ancestors were Turks, but there is a more probable opinion that they are allied to the Finns. The writers of antiquity speak of them as Ugri, Wen grl. and so on. The Huna who deso lated Europe under Attlla had a to tally different origin. In the last twenty-five year almost a million Hungarians have emigrated to the United States and we often give them the title "Huns" but. as we see. it can hardly be called accurate. Their own name for themselves is "Mag yar." Politically and intellectually they are one of the most interesting nations In the world. For politics they have as great a liking aa an Irish Im migrant to the United States. They have always possessed a constitution and though it haa been In abeyance now and then after some great mili tary catastrophe the country haa shown wonderful recuperative power and ha never failed to regain Its posi tion In a few years. The capital la Budapest, on the Danube, a city which ha grown rapidly during the last quarter f entury and now has not far from a million Inhabitants. Here the local Parliament sits, and the wrangles with Austria over Magyar rights are carried on. Throughout the mild reign of Francis Joseph the Hun gHrians have been steadily wresting one concession after another from YidiOa. Xheit JLUUfAUoil la ivt WVUvJ plete national Independence and there can be little doubt that they will ob tain what they want in the progress of time unless international difficulties intervene. The death of Francis Jo seph, which must happen before long In the course of Nature, will bring many perplexities to the fore and may transform the map of Europe. Should the dual monarchy definitely fall asunder nobody will be greatly sur prised, but If it does there will be dif ficulties to settle with Germany and Russia which may involve new servi tude for the Magyars. Coincident with their ambition for nolitical liberty and self-government. there has been an outburst or national "- literature in the Magyar tongue and a inoarmuuuuii .'i. " " . . . . - the people. The nobility have con quered their medieval scorn for com merce and Industry. Companies have been formed to exploit the resources of Hungary with great historic name on their directorates. Scientific agri culture has been introduced, the de structive floods of the Theiss River have been partially controlled, and many similar . movement are in progress. The result of It all Is that Hungary, which twenty-five year ago was one of the most backward coun tries in the tworld, is rapidly becoming one of the most progressive. A decision rendered In the Munic ipal Court of Chicago and based on a decision of the Illinois Supreme Court cuts the ground from under the loan sharks' feet. It looks as though it should be good law any where, and the shark's lawyer evident ly thought so, for he did not appeal. A packing-house employe assigned hia wages as security for a loan, but later changed his employer. The nenv em ployer disregarded notlca Ot the as signment, and the shark then sued the employe. It was contended In defense that a man cannot assign wage to be earned In an employment which does not yet exist and the case was thrown out of court on this ground. If a man falls into the clutches of the loan sharks and assigns his wages, all he need do In order to escape Is to get a new Job. Turkish recognition of the French protectorate over Morocco alters noth ing, but It lends a color of legitimacy to an established fact. It looks as if the northern half of Africa would be divided permanently among France, Italy and England. France gets the lion's share In area, but Egypt is worth all the rest. Italy's portion in Tripoli will probably cost her more than it will ever return, but it has a strategic and sentimental value. Rome once owned all of Africa's Mediterranean coast and It seems proper enough that Italy should get a piece of It now. When the conservation plans for the Mississippi River are completely carried out, the water which now cause destructive Spring floods will be stored In great reservoirs to be re leased during the Summer drouths. Some work of this kind ha been done already, but much remains undone. The Mississippi was once a great high way of commerce. Of late years it has ' been little more than a huge drainage ditch. Now there Is a move ment to restore Its usefulness and make It "a northerly extension of the Panama Canal." Colonel Roosevelt proposes to short en the ballot because the voters can not familiarize themselves enough with the qualifications of many candidates to make wise selections. Tet he pro poses to lengthen the ballot by requir ing the people to vote on the recall of court decisions, which requires close study of the legal points involved. He admits that the people cannot trust themselves to make a wise choice among a multitude of candidates, but wishes them to undertake a far more arduous task. Ultimately Harry Thaw will find a batch of alienists who will pronounce him Bane and then he will be set free. Had the Jury which tried this per nicious person done its duty he would have been disposed of in the electric chair and there would have been no more worry over him. As It. Is, he will be turned loose sooner or later and will no doubt resume the unedl fylng career which was interrupted when he was sent to the asylum. Lyle ha cause to be proud of it position as a leader In the actual con struction of good roads. The whole Northwest Is talking about them, but the people of Lyle and surrounding country have. built them. Attorney-General Crawford rules that a voter may be sworn in at the primary election, which means that many good-natured men can go peril ously close to perjury In assisting him to vote. Being too late to discover the South Pole. Captain Scott is hanging around the Antarctic in hope of discovering something else which will hand down his name to fame. Fashion Is progressive. It ha pro gressed from the flower garden, um brella, coal-scuttle and dlshpan hat to the portable electric light plant hat for women Hard times for Monte Carlo mean good times for the tailors, . butchers, bakers and grocers of those who have abstained from gambling away their money. If there are unsanitary creameries doing busines In this city, the health officer's duty is to close them without delay and without extended talk. Germany, disclaims Intent to violate the Monroe Doctrine, which Is unnec essary, as nobody took the rumor seri ously. ' All that water running to waste in the Missouri Valley would make a tre mendous corn crop If conserved. If the miners spend the month's "vacation" In the potato patch, the time will not be counted aa lost. Darrow Is asking for help in his defense. By all means, let the faith ful dig up another 8175.000. Th Sublimated Order of Fans has the right to blockade all sidewalks this afternoon. Being a Briton, Captain Scott will stay on the job until he find the Pole. Here In Portland work Is too good to indulge in strikes. One more week for registration. These are fttlking times. STOCK A.XD BOND LIE" FIGVRES Mr. Oaatoai IHactiaaea Indebted" ! I. R. I A P. Co, Effect. PORTLAND. Or., April 1. (To the Editor.) I find In The Oregonlan some post-prandial remarks of Mr. C. M. Clark chairman of the Board of Directors of the Portland Railway. Light & Power Company, made at a dinner given that gentlemen by his friends at the Arling ton Club. Had not air. tiarit rotu to a criticism of my own. the Justice of which he darea not aeny, i wvu. v. n i . hi. uttio .iipprh nass un noticed. But passing over the lofty dis- .... I t, w,!rt. rofcr to his critics. and his evident bad temper in being com. pelled to notice mem at an, i oes i" i suggest to the gentleman mat it. wuum have been rar more sausiaciory m readers of The Oregonlan his patrons m A ..-nnrarl If ho had 0-iven the 1111 b- lio some information, some real facts about tne cost ot electric hbui. om nowor at Portland, instead of dealing in contemptuous lnbuendo. Why could not Mr. Clark nave 101a nis aumcntc and. the public whether the criticism of Mr C. P. Church, in The Oregonlan, tha't the citizens or Ottawa, Canada, get electric power for . manufacturing purposes at 810.40 per horse power per annum, while Mr. Clark's Company pro poses under Its new and reduced rates to charge $162 for an equal amount of electric power. And why could not Mr. Clark have told his admiring audience whether it were a possibility or not that the city or San Francisco could furnish electric light to the home owners of that city for two and a half cents kilo watt hour, and the city of Pasadena, its home owners for 5 cents per kilo watt hour, while the home owners of Portland have to pay his company 15 cents per kilowatt hour? The public wants facts; wants to know the truth, and doesn't care anything about Mr. Clark' dignity, his vast for- A V. - nAvr&rtw A hlfl ("H 1 1 0 fl- And IUIIOi Ul IUQ Jlw.Wt fcj " . ' It la greatly to be regretted that he did not give --down a little of tho precious facts within his knowledge. But. for bis statement, that his company has not Issued any "watered stock" for the last six years, let us be thankful. I suppose he intends to put all the sins of the company in issuing watered stock, (of which there is oceans of it) upon the heads of Fred Morris, H. C. Campbell and A. L. Mills. Very well, we can throw stones at them any day. But this is a serious question and there is going to be trouble about it. Permit us to make one serious propo sition. From a published statement made three days ago. Mr. Clark admits that his company his issued and there is now outstanding a bonded Indebted ness on his property of 834.000.000, and that the stockholders have paid $16, 250.000 on their $25,000,000 of stock and that this stock is receiving from the people of Portland 4 per cent annual dividends on water and all. There is then, according to this statement, a stock and bond lien against the prop erty or this company of $59,000,000, ror which the people of Portland have to dig up dividends upon. That Is a big pile of money and goes farther in ex plaining the high cost or living than the monthly grocery bill. But is Mr. Clark's statement reasonable? A rail road ror all the uses and trade or Ore gon can be constructed and equipped all over Central Oregon tor $30,000 a mile. At that price the outstanding stocks and bonds or the Portland Rail way. Light & Power Company will build, equip and put in operation a first-class railroad from Portland. Ore gon, to Kansas City, Missouri. Is Mr. Clark's statement believable? Oregon politicians and transconti nental politicians, have worked them selves and various people up to a white heat or excitement about the Giiggen helms stealing all the coal in Alaska, and two Cabinet officers have been fired by President Taft on that account. But here, right at our doors. In plain sight from our front windows, we be hold Mr. Clark's Philadelphia Corpora tion grab all the coal belonging by just right to the people of Portland. Our coal is In the electric energy of the wa ter power of the Sandy and Clackamas rivers. And there Is enough there, not only to light, but also comfortably warm every home In this city up to a population of 1.000.000 people; and warm them for less money than It costs to do so now with wood and coal; and pay all the Just expenses of furnishing the electric heat. Think of the health and happiness this would be to the toiling mothers who have to dress and keep clean the children, pack up the wood, fire the furnace, clean the dust and ashes out ef the home and an to be had In any or all the rooms of the house by turning a switch. There are homes already in Portland heated by electricity; and this Is no fancy sketch. And think of the new factories that cheap power Ottawa, Canada power would start here in Portland, and give employment to thousands upon thou sands of Industrious people. But what is the use ot such poor beggars aa Charley Church and myself setting up our opinion against an auto cratic multimillionaire? JOSEPH GASTON. DISTII.L1XO NOT IRISH RELIANCE Dan McAUen Dispute Statement Made ' by John T. Miller. PORTLAND. April 1. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonlan today contains a dispatch from Dublin. Ireland, inspired by John T. Miller, now a resident of London, England. The dispatch is mis leading and erroneous: Dublin. March 81. (Special.) John T Miller, an Oregon man. ha an Idea that Ireland would advance more rapidly to ward Industrial proaporlty If tho nation did not rely o much on tho production ot whisky as a national asset. So he has secured tho freehold or ex tenoivo distillery premises In the City ot Galwav which ho means to convert Into a uaar refining factory. That, ha contends, will sive far more employment to the peo ple of the locality than whisky production. Ireland does not and never did rely on whisky. It is a well-known fact that the national Industrial asset of Ireland Is linen. Everybody has heard of Irish laces and crochet work and tatting, and hundreds of other articles too numerous to mention. Have you ever heard of the famous Donegal rug. of which Olds, Wortman & King, of this city, are the agents? Are you aware that 50.000 men are employed In shlp-bulldlng. and that tome of the largest liners that cross the Atlantic were built there? The whisky Industry is -if minor im portance. I have heard that there are a Tew distilleries around Beirast. ir my memory serves me right the dis tillery spoken or in Galway has been closed for several decades. It is a well known fact that the peasantry of Ire land drink coffee or tea in public places inBtead pf whisky. DAN M" ALLEN. Information on Coata Rica. THE DALLES, Or- March 31. (To the Editor.) Flease give me informa tion whom to correspond with at San Joe. Central America, to Inform one or the price or land, and what railroads there are, if any, building at the pres ent time. OSCAR CAMP. Write to gamuel C. Lee, United States Consul, San Jose, Costa Rica. wltckmakersi. SHERIDAN, Or.. March Jl. (To the Edltor.)-Will you. kindly publish the address of ome one who works In hair makes switches, wIks. etc., street . - 1-1 -1- -.! TUT. U and number? A SUBSCRIBER. Consult the classified advertisements in The Oregonlan. Moter-Drtveu Hojrake. Indianapolis News. A niolor-driven tiayrake for use on mU turn a Austrbu, la.ve.nUoa, Bourne and the Press Newspapers Dlicml Candidate's Tariff Record and Abuse of Frank. lng Privilege. Bourne Weals In Wasco. Shaniko Star. In Southern Wasco County there is little or no Bourne sentiment. Selling Gaining Ground. Forest Grove News-Times. Hon. Ben Selling, candidate tor United States Senator, Is gaining ground daily In this locality. The people clearly see that he is their rep resentative. Bourne Abusing Foal office Frank. Grants Pass Observer. Senator Bourne is distributing tons of his misleading literature over Ore gon, and it doesn't cost him a cent for postage. Being a Senator he is abusing the franking privilege for this pur pose. It is a cheat on the people, who pay the bill. Kind L'nrle San Being Ised. Beaverton Reporter. It looks as though Senator Bourne intends that others who are after his place In the Senate shall not Bpend much money to secure the nomination, while under the franking privilege his campaign costs him practically nothing. Kind Uncle Sam, lucky Jonathan. It looks to us as though Ben Selling would secure the Senatorial nomina tion. People Paying for Campaign. The Dalles Optimist. . The mail is being flooded, and coun try postmasters are being worked overtime distributing and sending out Jonathan's "views" on public ques tinn. -fft.. tha nnmosa of advertising his candidacy for Senator, under his frank, at tne expense oi u -.... States Government; still there are those who pretend to believe that Bourne is a friend to the people, because he is furnishing them with "buncombe" to read while they are paying for if In directly. It Is high time that the peo ple should get rid of this "sham" and fraud, who is not a representative of the people in any sense or the term. Bourne Addlns to P. O. Deficit. Grants Pass Pacific Outlook. Did you ever stop to think what caused the deficit in the Postoffice de partment? Well one or the greatest things that leads up to that deficit is the amount of political matter sent out by the different members or Con gress. For instance. Senator Bourne is now in Washington and he wanted to send his political views to every voter in the State or Oregon, so he used his "rrank" and the postoffice carried several tons or his private matter clear irom the Atlantic Coast to th s state free. Of course the Senator is "a poor" man, so it is all right. If a "rich" laboring man should use one of those franks for only a small letter he would be sent to the Government prison for from one to 25 years. Bourne's Tariff Record Selfish. La Grande Observer. Jonathan Bourne certainly broke his pick with the people of Oregon when he voted with Aldrich on the tariff measures. Bourne had a cotton goods factory to tor in the East, hence he stood with Aldrich. But Oregon neith er raises cotton nor manufactures cot ton goods. We are consumers and are paying the high duty in order that Jonathan's dividends may be greater from his mills. He has fooled the people a long time, because he advo cated direct legislation. But his day Is done. Direct legislation and all the principles of Oregon's plan are ad :' .... v.- soiiine- and oraotlced vutftiru " ' " . - by Ben Selling, When Bourne was a machine man and held up the Legis lature. The people have a . chance to elect a business man who thinks right, acts right, and Is right, and they are going to do it. MIMMI M WAGE SCALE IS REMEDY Labor's Rights Infringed When Pay Does Not Give Ordinary Comforts. PORTLAND, April 1. (To the Edi torsEighteen years ago the writer Issued a pamphlet In advocacy of the freo and unlimited coinage of gold and silver, each as standard money, and independent of a legal ration; the present coinage and currency to re tain the present momenclature and the new silver coinage to be given a new and distinct .momenclature in the lan guage of account and contract, and also lh advocacy of the adoption of a minimum rate of wages. Mr. Scott, the editor of The Oregonlan, In editorials approved the proposed plan of coin age, declaring it to be "purely scien tific"; but the doctrine or the minimum rate or wages at that time attracted no genuine advocates. Now the liberty loving people or England demand legal recognition of that doctrine. Man's law the administration of dis tributive Justice was rendered neces sary through man's refusal to obey God's commands. Had man been ever obedient, the duty to labor should still be his. but in the state of original in nocence labor would be a work of love, affording pleasure iDstead of pain. Through disobedience the earth was "cursed" In his work. "In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken," Gen. 111:19. This Imposes a duty and confers a right. The right with which man is endowed is the fruits of his labor or wages. It is "inalienable." and the positive law should recognize and protect It. God instituted the family: "Male and female he created them" and blessed them with fruitf ulness; "increase and multiply." "Wherefore a man shall leave father and mother and shall cleave unto his -wife; and they shall be two in one flesh." Man's law should recog nize the father as the breadwinner and his wages should be sufficient to pro vide himself and family with the or dinary comforts of life. When his wage" Judiciously expended, prove In sufficient for this purpose his God given right Is infringed, and when the infringement produces widespread and lasting distress the adoption of the minimum rate of wages is the proper legal remedy. Such a law should be practical but cannot be perfect. The best law ever enacted by man in some cases works an injury, but If for that reason we should repeal It. then for a similar reason every law should be repealed. As Mr. Milton avers in his argument for the liberty of the pres, "we must accept the good things of this life with the evils which belong to them or live without them." The proper rate can be ascertained by the exercise of common sense, and no sliding scale is necessary. In its operation, should it enable a voung unmarried man to accumulate "a start in life," so .much the better. The business which can not meet the necessary requirement is a bad business and should be aban doned. Every business would soon ac commodate itself to the changed con ditions and wealthy men, by such par tial assumption of a long-ignored obli gation, might find It a little easier to go te heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. God haa given man only one way to please him and gain heaven, by doing good to our fellow man. Every word or deed which dots not tend to pro mote the welfare of man Is either frivolous or worse than frivolous. JAMEd B. CARK, 60S Everett Strojct, Song in Lighter Vein By Dean Collins. When Franklin freely flew his kite. While 'ev'ry one looked on in wonder. And drew from out the stormy clouds The bolt that touches off the thunder, I doubt if e'er he dreamed that this Mysterious force the storm clouds carry Should some day drudge to decorate Our lovely ladles' millinery. The lightning harnessed in the wires Now serves us like a humble lackey; It warms our slippers, browns our toast. And lights our fuming pipe of '"baccy"; It races o'er the telephone And bears our message to our neigh - bor And now to decorating hats Perforce it turns its glowing labor. Oh, lovely woman soon shall have An aureole of stars and crescents. And shrubs and flowers and humming birds. Framed up in glowing incandescents. It will be found that the degree ur pyrotecnnics in ner nat ia Dependent on how capable Of storing up dry cells her rat is. In evening on the crowded streets, 'Twill joy the heart of ev'ry fellow To pipe tlte glowing pageant pass Tricked out in purple, green or yel low. Who knows but in tbe Senate's halls Someday along bill may be harbored, Providing, as for ships, how hats Must wear their lights on port and starboard? Perhaps while waiting for a car. Some slender dame may catch the vision Of errant man who homeward treads The highball waits of Indecision. He'll mark the lighted mass of hat. And think, "A lamp post!" Ah, I'm very Fraid that some drawbacks may at tach To this electric millinery. Portland, April 1. Half a Century Ago From Th OreKonlan of April 2, 1862. Cincinnati, Feb. 1". The news of the capture of Fort Donelson causes intense excitement and Joy. Tonight there Is a general Illumination. To morrow there will be a National sa lute by the heavy guns on the fortl ricatlons. A letter to the Argus rrom Uewiston says: "There are about eight wooden houses in town. Most of the houses are made of sheeting stretched over light wooden frames. It Is yet uncer tain whether Lewlston Is at the head of navigation on Snake River or not." From the Walla Walla Statesman Mr. McBride. of McBrlde & Rhodes, ex press. Informs us that the miners are now leaving Salmon River for the lower country quite as numerously as they are leaving this point for the mines. They are compelled to come out on ac count of the scarcity of provisions, and much suffering is already experienced In the mines from this cause. The Capitol was to be illuminated on Saturday, February 22, with gas, from basement to dome. The Illumination of private dwellings will probably he re quested as a means of distinguishing loyal from disloyal persons. It is surmised that General Pillow burned the state library of Tennessee Just before evacuating Nashvillo in or der to destroy certain treasonable cor respondence filed away within it which, ir taken by our troops, would have seriously -compromised distinguished men in both sections of the Union.' The steamer Pacific brought up rrom San Francisco a fine new steam engine for the railroad in course of construc tion between The Dalles and Deschutes. The engine is called "The Pony." and will no doubt startle the cayuses, who roam in that neighborhood, from their propriety. The Deschutes railroad Is to be 15 miles in length and very dif ficult to construct. However, the good work is advancing rapidly. This com mencement will give an impetus to a new enterprise, namely, the construc tion of a great Northern Pacifio rail way, uniting Oregon by a great band to her sisters of the Northwest. God speed the "iron horse." Two beautiful and entertaining three act dramas are offered tonight "Therese, or the Orphan of Geneva, ' and "Madeline, or the Foundling." Mrs. Forbes and Mr. Beatty take the lead ing characters, as usual. As "Ed" Howe Sees Life If the truth hurts you, it is a sign that you have been playing with a lie. Xour troubles are like your children; you must take care of them, and keep them out of other people's way. After a man reaches 70, he Is so dis gusted that he doesn't fear death much. When a boy studies for the ministry the idea is nearly always put into his head by his mother. You know how easily people bother you? Well, that's the way people feel about you. There Is a certain pleasure In apolo gizing, when you are not apologizing for anything serious. When a young woman gets married every wife longs to have a "private talk" with her. A thin woman ran to catch a car. and fell into a seat exhausted. "I reel, she panted, "like a rat woman." Literature is always too liberal in the tasks It gives the people. People are always a little suspicious of a man who does his own cooking and housekeeping. Pay la Revenue Cutter Service. PORTLAND, March 31. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly inform me what the sal ary is of a First Lieutenant in the revenue cutter service. Is it more than that of the Navy? A SUBSCRIBER. First Lieutenants in the revenue cutter service rank with Lieutenants In the Navy, who receive pay on a basis of $2400 a year for first five years of service. Pay increases thereafter at rate of 10 per cent for each five-year period up to 40 per cent. How to Say "Boise." PILVERTON, Or.. March 31. (To the Editor.) Kindly state the proper pro nunciation of Boise, the capital of Idaho. A SCHOOL GIRL. Webster's dictionary says it is pro nounced Boi-za, with accent on the first syllable. Residents of the city usually pronounce It Boi-sle or Boi-zie. Law Concerning Barbers. MAPLETON, Or., March 31. (To the Editor.) Kindly Intorm me whether or not the compulsory barbers' license law and the Sunday closing "of barber shops law have been repealed. A SUBSCRIBER. They have not. Italy' Big Drink of Wine. Indianapolis News. Italv's 1911 vintage is estimated at 1,183006,090 gallons.