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TTTE MORNIXQ OREGOXIAJf. WEDNESDAY, MAT 22, 1912. $Jte (Dmrimtmi lORTUXD. oircav Bntr4 at Portland. Or.oa. Poetotttce aa IWor.d-c.aaa Hatter. -cr.pua Kalea Invariably la due BT MA1U 0!!T. tBCludad. OOt Tf- Lai:r. Bgrda; tn ufiwl. eia m-nthe . l-arr. 8u&diy lnc.uul. ur mm-ne. Lm.t auna Inciuiad. on tnon;n... I:.r! ai-.r.o.l fjnjaj. one Jar I-ai.y. without Sirdar, sis Bijnthi ... Nl 7. without tnrea mmths. . ta:.r. auriout bucOaj-. era month 4 5 W !). on J ISO S 5 J - Suadkr. oaa rar - - -.taajr and VeJkly. on year... n.-u a ...... . i.,iurid on rM' W V. and Inc.udtd. oae BOMS ... . . - . . i. . .. . s . n ' ' r.ioMT or er aspr-ee urj-r or ly.reonal ca- " U local tan, liismpa. com or cirn-' . at eeod.i-e rlu. Oive p-'flt'ce addraea la fu.l. lac.udina eoontjr ar.d atata. roatasa Br la to 1 c'i... i. iTi?" - " "- tl'VL: o to r.a.a. caala. oa-aa, : rata. ---. ta.Mr- ItaaKxaa ortWa N err- a Con I'n .Sow t; irunaca bui.aln. - cao. alegar buddies. lm - a Uilic M B.n atraat. a. W.. j.fada- r - ruKTUXD. HfcIl.NJUAT. MAV '- I ' itn two foi.nts or .itw. A good example of how opposite conclusions can be reached by two -urn from examination of the same set of facta ts furnished by article, of Secretary MVe.h and J. K. oax fi.I.i on -president Taft an.l the Roosevelt Policies." published In the Outlook. Each man reviews the Tart ... . -. . - u .. h . Vaf. not only haa ' been faithful to the Roosevelt policies j .... 1 ... I O kill """"" " , defined In tne piauorni wv. hu -nlaraad and Improved upon taem. Mr. Garfield reaches the conclusion that he abandoned them and only turned to the support of some of them when driven to It by the Insurgents and public opinion. Mr. MacVeagh holds that Ta.'l'i manner Is different from Roosevelt's but that anyone who will take the pains to find out will learn that Taft has been faithful to the Roosevelt pol icies. He probably supplies the ex planation of the lndifierence with which Taffs achievements have been received In contrast with the applause given Roosevelt, when he Buys: "The Roosevelt policy of publicity unfortu nately didn't descend to Taft." This Inability to get his action before the people in a favorable light came at a time when such publicity was most needed, for his enemies and critics were most abnormally .active in mis representing his every' act. Mr. MacVeagh makes a good case for Taft In some particulars by ignor ing his blunders and dwelling with emphasis on h.s wise deeds, w hile Mr. Garfield expatiates on his blunders and asserts that, when he aoted w isely. It was under some sort of compulsion. For example. Mr. MacVeagh passes over the Payne-Aldrlch bill, but a Taft "has changed the direction of-the Republican party's tariff policy and has stood valiantly for the policy of tariff revision." Mr. Garfield says that "when the President could have been the greatest help to the men who were fighting for lower schedules and I an effective Tanrr commwun, or re fused them aid." but he says nothing of the fact that Taft secured the Tarltf Commission, then scoured enlarge ment of Its functions and finally pro posed schedule revision, upon which both Democrats and Insurgents greed-11;- seised without giving Taft credit. Taft's first blunder was In not writ ing a vigorous message calling for tar iff revision downward when he called the extra session of 1909. His second was In not Insisting on a substantial reduction of duties. He allowed him self to be hampered by his conception of the limitations of his powers. Roosevelt was not bothered by any stt h scruples. He took an active hand In the framing of every Important bill. Taft also had too much regard for party ragularlty. Because Cannon and Aldrich were the party leaders in Congress, he acted with them. They were reaotlonsrles and he got himself tarred with the same stick. He was a progressive but he did not Join the other progressives In a fight ngilnst the reactionaries within the party and therefore got no credit for his pro gresslveneas. Mr. Oarf!eM rtlsps n-lent preju dice against Taft In discussing conser vation, though Mr. MacVeagh truly ays: Aa fr t. r-"M of transaction, of ih Taft A-lmlntatrmtit-n. It pn.w. that a.l Hooevo:t ronaore1 with It. haa twrn rr lalnod. and that prarti.-:tr a!! he enr.arwd nhout !tr haa kn lafa ii'd end hr.ui' l aMtha the portnarrs: protect ln of lha statutes Mr. Garfield, a ho m hlle S- cretarv of the Interior was dominated by i'ln chot. accuses Taft of supporting the men who favored exploitation by the special Interests. He contradicts Roosevelt himself by assertlrg that the President had the right to withdraw public land by executive order, elee why did Roosevelt as tor legal au- . thoritv to witndraw coal lanu . tte a--- ..... th.i trtdi r.in.n-Btlnn rtttl rri ' posed by Balllnger and approved by Tart would navs favored monopojj. in , face of the fact that Ba'.lmger drew the first bi:is for leading coal land and power sites. When conserx ation and Ballinger are mentioned, tjurflel 1 like Ptnchot. becomes h!:n.!ed by prejudice and storms wildly at Ratlin ger and all he ever did and sai-l. Mr. MacVeagh makes a good case for Taft on the subject of trusts and railroads and shows the insurgents to , have condemned as Taffs schemes wrhich had their most ardent t ham plon In Roosevelt. Mr. Garfield ac cuses Taft of trying to solve the trust problem with lawsuits and with doing nothing to secure regulative laws tn face of Taft's repested recommenda tion of such laws. Mr. MacVeagh gives a long cata logue of progressive measures wh!-h have owed their origin to Taft. Mr. ! Garfield. nevertheless, denies that Tan Is progressive ana explains away t Ms record by saying, in effect, that I what good he has done was due to the work of the Insurgents or was done because he was driven to d It against j h! will. i HOME BAKU THrHIMA The visit of Abdul Baha. the great Oriental religionist, to this country has stirred up unusual activity among his followers which manifests itself In the publication of a great number of tracts and booklets as well as In other w-aya. Among the Bahalst booklets which we have received Is one entitled The Universal rrtnclple of the Banal something over on the Grange tn the Movement." It constats of extracts ! "wee small hours' of the morning." from the writings of Paha CLlah. the , We can imagine the tremendou father of Abdul Baha. The extracts j rush of farmer to the offices of the cover a wide f'eld from religious ur.lty i Graduated Slr.gle Tax League, when to "Good and Bad Newspapers." Con- ' the news spreads, not only to get arm cerclng unity the prophet saya, "Make fuls of the bill so kindly paid for by not the religion of God the cause for foreign donations, brtt also to rase strife amocg you. It was revealed for, the purpose of unifying- the whole world." Thus reads like good doctrine. It has also the merit of being- fully up with the times. Inasmuch as the most promising religious movement in the Western World Just now Is that for the federation of the denomination. Haha CLlah does not agree with those fanatics of all faiths who rail at "mere human knowledge." He tells us that knowledge Is like unto the wings for the exaltation of man -and like a lad der for ascending. The real treasury of man Is his knowledge. Knowledge is the means of honor, prosperity. Joy and gladness." This is about all that Herbert Spencer would have cared to a In pralee of secular learning. His teaching on the subject of beg gary Is the precise opposite of some of our Christian divines who praise mendicancy because It affords the righteous an opportunity to be char itable. "The most despised man be fore God." exclaims the prophet. "Is he who sits and begs. we are to hr wnat ne w ui nae S( n.me that would Ignore the growin the 1. W. W. propagandist who begs itvelopmrntt sentimental, huUori from the rl-h one moment and reviles . cJ an(J otnerw.ls.t of ov.r fifty years, -horn the next. We should suppose he i ., , k-- lh atreeta would bi a little more despised b'fore God than even the pure ana simp.- "Kvery man who occupiea hlmaelf with an art or trade." Baha VLJah teaches us. "Is a worshiper of Clod." He spoke In favor of International ar bitration long before that project had become fashionable In Europe and ir-.ri.-a. "If any ouarrel arise be tween rations It must be adjudicated -.tnoi rnnri If anv na- rebels amlnst the decision of the - .... .... I . ...It to court, the other nations must unite to . .... . . . 1 An pUl aun mi rrurn.u... the spirit of the age will find much Readers wno wisn io aeep up " of Interest In this little book. It can be obtained gratis of the Persian American Bulletin. Washington, D. C WIIAT OF THE STAY-AT-HOME Sixty per cent of the Republican vote is represented In the preferential primaries In the various states and SO per cent of the Democratic vote. Tbe only variations from the low average are Oregon and North Dakota. There the habit of voting at primary elec tion Is fixed and the custom of miscel laneous attendance at the Republican poll is likewise established. But what Is the matter In great stales like Mas sachusetts. Pennsylvania and Illinois, where almost one-half the great Re publican electorate remains at home on election day? The issue between Taft and Roosevelt was acute and excit ing; the public Interest was Intense, the decision was to be momentous. In Massachusetts particularly was there a clean-cut contest, certain to have a potent and even a determina tive effect on the general result. Yet tn that state after the most stirring cam paigning by Taft and Roosevelt and systematic and concerted effort by their lieutenants only a little over one half the Republican vote was cast, and less than one-fifth the Democratic. The open Invitation to Democrats to enter the Republican booths doubtless RttrH.-ted many Irresponsible members of that party away from their faith and added some thousands to the Re publican total, so that It Is clear that at least one-half the normal Repub lican vote w as absent from the polls. The superior xeal of the Roosevelt forces, is Is commonly assumed, brings out his vote fuliy: but. if that Is so. what Is the real Roosevelt strength In the party as a whole? Where do the atisentees stand? Presumably they will vote on elec tion day In November. They always hnve. What will they do If Roosevelt shall be nominated? Where -will the Itemocrats who voted for Roosevelt at the Republican primaries go? Can Roosevelt carry over to November his primary strength and gain also the stav-at-home voters? He must. If he Is to be elected. But first he will have to ret the nomina tion. . n tx or TRii us. We have raised a warchest." shouted the Fels single tax organlxa tlon a few weeks ago. Now, the war chest. It seems. Is open, for we wel come to our mldjit the Graduated Sin gle Tax League, with real headquar ters in a real building. Corporal fridge, of the "soldiers of the com mon good," Invites you to call and get copies of the "graduated single tax measure." There are copies a-plenty. Remember "we have raised war chest." collecting money In the East ern states and even Canada to foist the vicious experiment upon the State of Oregon. Anybody can get aa many copies as he desires. ss s Corporal Crtilge. He and his fellom--warrlora will never be too busy drawing pay from Philadelphia to watt on cus tomers. The "graduated single tax measure u tn, b. th nont farmers of Ore- Ron assembled at the State Grange meeting last week, denounced as con taining "delusions and snares prepared ,.,.,,... , sopaal to aa mint- classes - , ' . nothie with a bait held out to each as delusive as It is un- true. It ts the product of the same paid lobbyists who slipped through the county option single-tag Joker In 1910 and thereby made good with Fels for ,' mnr. . .- of Ksd and butter ls on amendment cunningly rira.-.,t t. r,.,r.des to the fore a graduated t.ix on large land owners that would be as easy to evade as the tax on money and credits. It slyly presents the nearest thing possible to state single tsx In an Inconspicuous paragraph. Money. 50 per cent of w hich has been contributed by a Phll edelrhla multi-millionaire. Is to be ex pended lavishly to carry through a i mei-oir which thus rretends to aim -. .v.- ...ithv i Two vears ago the author of this ...r.,i,1atet single tax measure' ,pr,d . joker Into a resolution a4or,rd bv the State Granfe close to ,h mldr!Bht hour. The Joker he rm, B!sys to have a Joker In his sleeve enabled the Fels bureau to put the Grange In tne untrue rgnt or in corslng the poll tag county option swinJle. Yet In spite of the single-tax ambush in 1910. the midnight work of Erother CRen at the State Grange the same year, and the clumsy attempt at concealment of stingers In the "graduated" measure. Corporal Crldge j Insists thnt "the big tax dodger and lar.d grabbers" last week "slipped with awe upon the batUe-ecarred dlers of the common good who are so full of tricks that they dream of tricks. rOBCBTTTSO HISTORICAL, FORTUASD. Here we have again a grand scheme for renaming the streets of Portland by abolishing all the names we have and substituting the numerals and the letters of the alphabet. The present system is not perfect, but It has sentiment, custom, memory, as sociation and pretty much everything to make life worth while to speak for it. The promoters of the scheme ap pear to think that the Ideal municipal form is the checkerboard and that no other considerations count. But they do count. There are many people here the very large majority, we believe to whom the suggestion of wiping: out the present honored street names Is Intolerable. Here the names of many pioneers and other historical figures and institutions are perpetuated In our street nomencla- j ture. yet profane hands devise a new n bocks b th. nundreda Is corn- ; n,.,,,-,. Jud, dlclous, but that is all that ought to be done now. But if more la done we hope the ghost of old Portland will forever haunt the City Council. RIC-HEi-OX A.VD rOKf.nT.NF.SS. Electricity properly applied per. formed its allotted task In the Charles town death house of the Massachu- town de J setts penitentiary Monday night and I B t'l. Rev. Clarence V. T. Rlcheson, mur derer of his promised wife and unborn child, paid the penalty as prescribed by law for his cowardly and most ab- horrent crime. Alienists have been busy for months seeking a reason for his crime In an unbalanced mind, that would have sufficient weight with the courts and the executive to turn aside the death penalty:, ministers have la bored In his behalf, striving to estab lish before the world the Innocency of his Intent or to excuse him on the ground of emotional or erotic insan ity for the crime that he committed, but all to no purpose. The most that these agencies could do was to protest his execution as an Insane man. attend him to the electrical chair with the mockery of religious consolation upon their lip, at the last Intimating by a question, to normal minds exceedingly wide of application to his case, that "he was willing to die for Jesus' sake." "For Jesus' sake!" By what twist of the evangelical Imagination; In ac cordance with what Irreverent creed: through what warped conception of the nature of the lowly Naiarene, could anyone conceive that this unfaithful priest died or was willing to die for "Jesus' sake"? To the credit of the man who was about to die for his great transgression It must be said that he did not answer according to the formula g1vn but simply said: "I am willing to die." realirlng doubtless at least that his Xakodnoos of soul -Drought to that gata no toll. It ls plain, however, that Clarence V. T. Rlcheson held to the last to the hallucination that he was persistently persecuted by malice, not Justly prose cuted by law, since among the last words wrung; from him by close ques tioning were these: "I forgive everybody." The ordinary mind falls to see that this man had anything to forgive. It realizes, in stead the fact that society, which he had so grossly sinned against, was very patient with him. and that having exacted Its penalty It is ready to dis miss the man, though It cannot, for Its own sake, forgive his grievous sin gainst It. ' t'Ot'BT SCANDALS. The scatidal which has drawn so much unpleasant attention to the court of Belgium may have no foun dation in fact. Kings and Queens axe watched with envious eyes by those who surround them, and even their in nocent acts are only too liable to mis construction and false report. - Still, the conduct of many exalted person age ls anything but Puritanical. Mon arch sometimes seem to believe that the ordinary rules of morality do not bind them, arid It would not be sur prising if the Belgian story should turn out to be true. The late King Leopold left behind him an Inheri tance of scandal which will not ba exhausted for years to come. Both his private and his public conduct were so notorious that the court can hardly yet have been thoroughly fumi gated. During his reign the dally life of the Belgian royal family was a succession of infamies. Naturally there is some expectation that the same sort of thing will go on under his successor. History i full of accounts of court scandals. Most of them are related in different ways by different writers, but there Is usually a basis of fact even for the worst. Perhaps the most celebrated of all Is the quarrel between Kreder l.k the Great and Voltaire, which kept Europe excited and amused foradosen years. Frederick began by tak ing the volatile French genius Into his Intimate affection and confidence. Voltaire went to Berlin and was in stalled in a sumptuous establishment with a handsome pension from the King. Each of the pair wrote a num ber of poems tn praise of the other. ! The most devoted letters were Inter- changej and It seemed aa if the an- 1 clent Ideal of a perfect friendship hud been realized betweei the tyrannical German monarch and his French de pendent. But by and by the heaven of their affection became clouded. Vol taJre was so fond of satire that he could not help satirizing the King, and Frederick wa!" suspicious that he could not trust rvn h's beloved Inti mate. The beautiful vision enaea u Voltaire's flight and nis arrest ana Im prisonment on the road. In revenge he told all the scandal he knew and a ; great deal that he Invented about Frederick and his court and the King; replied by blacklisting him at every capital In Europe. Naturally the af fair was highly enjoyed by the pub lic, as everything ls which seems to spot the sun of royalty. The little German courts which ex isted like malodorous weeds through out Central Europe until Bismarck gathered them all up Into the empire were prolific of scandals. Most of the royal families were deearnt morally and many of them physically. A num. ber of tbe reigning monarch were Insane, but they were all sup posed to be miraculously chosen and held their power by divine right until Bismarck took It away from them. The royal family of Prussia has plenty of domestic troubles, but Its morals are Impeccable. The same can be said of the Danish reigning house. Its mem bers are a wholesome group of people who know how to live above reproach. aol-jTha daughter of Denmark have, been sought as Queens In several capitals and one of Its sons founded the royal house of Greece. The Austrian have not been so fortunate. Their reigning family has been prolific of scandals. The most painstaking efforts have al ways been made to suppress them, but success has been only partial. Every little while some story leaks out of an Austrian Archduke who has married an actress or of a Princess who has committed suicide for the best of rea sons. France enjoyed two great historic scandals shortly before the time of the revolution. The story connected with The Man In the Iron Mask" was never quite substantial enough to be really relishing to lover of the sala cious and mysterious, but it has re ceived more attention from historians than many a great battle. It is sup posed by some writer that this puz zling personage was the Illegitimate son of Anne of Austria by the Duke of Buckingham, perhaps the most cele brated gallant in history. Others say that he was the twin brother of Louis XIV. He was born a few minutes later than his brother and In order to prevent a quarrel over the succession their father. Louis XIII. ordered him to be kept a perpetual prisoner. After a variety of adventures he was Incar cerated in the Bastille and Invariably compelled to wear a black velvet mask to conceal hla face from chance ob server. After the fall of the Bastille his cell was carefully searched for clews to hi Identity, but nothing wa ever found. Just on the eve of the revolution France was treated to another royal scandal which goes by the name of "The Story of the Diamond Necklace." This Involve 1 Marie Antoinette and Cardinal Rohan, grand almoner of France, as Its principal characters. The active Intermediary In the affair waa the light-hearted Countess La motte Valois. Through her Car dinal Rohan carried on a love affair with tne Queen. whom he presented with a magnificent dia mond necklace which he neglected to pay for. Subsequently, when he was sued for the price the whole Intrigue was exposed. It had gone far enough to give ground for a story of a mid night meeting between the Cardinal and the Queen in the park at Ver sailles. Marie never received much afffection from the French people and this scandal dealt a fatal blow to her feeble public populurity. It was not the least among the factor wnicn orougm on the preliminaries to the revolution because it intensified the hatred of the people for their King and Queen. No doubt it suggested those incredibly shameful tales which were circulated against the honor of Marie Antoinette on the eve of her execution. There has been too much fuss and ceremony over Rlcheson. who was one of the vilest criminals ever executed. So far as the public has learned he was bad through and through. It was proper enough for the Rev. Herbert Johnson to give the wretch the last consolations of religion, but it seems rather like straining a point for this divine to preach a sermon over his corpse and carry messages to hi fam ily In Virginia. Religious duty i not the same as maudlin sentimentality. The diary which Joseph Washing ton, ship's steward, scratched with a handcuff on the floor of his cell, is a contemporary record of hi uffer ings, but it may not be true. He may have lied to get the captain, who had punished him. Into trouble. But a captain' authority on board hi ship is terribly autocratic and extremely liable to abuse. A tale of wrong like Washington' ought not to be dis missed until it has been patiently In vestigated. ' If Burke Is to be believed It is im possible to Indict an entire nation, but San Diego affords abundant evidence that an entire city may have a fit of hysterics. The only Importance the I. W. W. people have or ever will have Is given them by the frenzied antic of their opponents. Left to itself thia foolish propaganda will evaporate. Opposed by lynch law It repays fury with fury. Moderation is the only sane rule of life. The selection of Senator Root as temporary chairman of the Republi can National convention should satisfy both factions. Calm, passionless and firm, he 1 -well fitted to hold the dele gates In check when their passion be come heated. Being a friend of both Taft and Roosevelt, he can be trusted to hold the balance even. The noble Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon never thought of saving any live from the Titanic except hi own and hi wife'. The plebeian wireless operator stayed at his post to the last.' The plebeian bandmen played a the ship sank. Who were the real noblemen? Belgium had become so accustomed to scandals at court during the reign of the gay King Leopold that, even If King Albert w-a not Involved In the recent scandal, he Is placed under sus picion through the reputation the royal family had secured. That will be an enjoyable Junket of the three doctors of the Department of Agriculture who are to make personal test of the product of the breweries of the country to olve "what la beer?" The matter will be Just right for ex tended research. Schools, parks and streets weje named for pioneers In the building of Portland and the state. Why take away the honor to the memory of m .ny? ' The Governor of Massachusetts doe not let maudlin sentiment interfere l. the execution of Justice. The chair wilt again be occupied in a few weeks. Any plan for uniform salaries of county official of Oregon ls not prac tical. The cloth must be measured to fit the Job. Disband the naval militia Juaav as i the season of outdoor functions ap proaches! Out upon uch lnconoclasm! Should there be extraordinarily high water. It will have aubsided ere the beginning of the Rose Festival. The Beaver will be at home next week and fan must begin to make medicine for their success. Newton Johns deserves a Carnegie medal and Seattle should see that he get It. Men are preparing for the Oregon Apple Show and the tree will do the rest. RHTBARB A PROFITABLE CROP. Raark Rear Caaby la Marvetons Ex ample ef latelllarrat Bock ParmlauK. A. R. rummttira ft Sons have been ship ping rhubarb from their four-acre patch lnc the 28th of March and to data tiava shipped In ticnt of 40 tona. They eatl mato that during tha next two weeks, which will finish the crop, they will ahlp enouah to brins tha total up to 50 tona Tor aome ttmo tha dally ahlpment has been a ton or more on an average, so that if the season laats but ten days that figure m-Hl ba reached. Tha price received to date haa never been lower than 1 for a 40-pound box. and at the flrat of the season was even higher, but at that prica It makes too a ton or X25O0 from the four acre. Six hun dred and twenty-flva dollars an acre la not a bad return for a crop that ls aa euro aa rhubarb and aa easy to handle. It does not have to b picked at a certain time, aa do some varieties of beniea. for Instance, and can be kept aome time after being picked. Mr. Oummlnes Is raising rhubarb In a bnalnesa-like way and alms tn a year or ao to be able to ship !n carload lota, wlilch will mean an additional profit of several oenu a box. Ha would even like to hava others raise thia crop on a larga scale and ehlp with him and will do all he can to demonatrate Its possibilities and actual cash value. The foregoing from the Canby Irri gator of last week Is splendid ar gument to use for Inducing immigra tion to Oregon of people from the East, particularly from Massachusetts and other portions oi New England, for Mr. Cummin came here from Cape Cod a very poor man less than 20 years ago. Now he has 20 acres of as fine land as there is in the world, with a fine irrigation system, splendid build ing as fine a place as any man need wish for. He Is making money rapid ly. Aside from his rhubarb he raise large quantities of other truck, such as tomatoes, sweet corn, rabbage, parsnips, rutabagas, beets and onions. His sweet corn is said to be the best that comes to the Portland market, and he makes almost dally shipments to leading ho tel from about the middle of July un til Thanksgiving. Aside from thl there ls a fine orch ard on the clace, and berries of all de scriptions. While neither Mr. Cura mings nor his wife or son will tell Just what their income 1, It must be well up to 7500 per year, with a very small outlay for labor, and a water tax that is as nothing compared to the benefits derived from the crop insurance which the water provides. Mr. Cummlngs wa for several years a plumber, and when he bought his land he knew nothing about farming, horticulture or truck raising. So he began to study, and Is one of the best illustrations of the "book farmer" that we have In Oregon. Any person wish ing to embark in any branch of the agricultural business could afford to spend a lot of time and money to hear Mr. Cummlngs' experience on seed se lection alone. There is no man in Ore gon better versed than he In that branch of the business. The sweet corn he raise is from a variety of his own breeding, made possible by his system of selection. Not many concrete examples of suc cess on the land can be found to equal that of Cummlngs A Son. but we have thousands of people on our lands who are doing better than the farmer In almost any oher portion of the coun try. The best way to attract settler Is for the newspapers to tell about notable successes. WHAT JfEW FRANCHISE CALLS FOR Provisions of Applled-for Electric Car- line Privilege Are Detailed. PORTLAND, May 20. (To the Edi tor.) In making a visit to the City Hall the other day 1 took occasion to look up the franchise which the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany ls asking from the City Coun cil and I found the following facts: The franchise consist of 25 sections, and uses 7500 words to describe its conditions. Of the 26 sections, 24 of them provide for the protection of the people in one capacity or another. The only section which sought to outline the company's rights enumerated the streets upon which the franchise proposes to apply. The streets or rather divisions in volved were as follows: Rose City Park on Sandy boulevard from Twenty-eighth to city limits: It Is proposed to double track this extension and pave. It will cost the company $125,000. Eastmoreland, or rather Bybee-treet extension, about 20 blocks, four miles from the Postoffice: This is where the real estate people are operating so extensively and where the Reed Institute ls located. It ls five mile from Portland's business district. Any man who rides this distance gets his money's worth. It will serve when complete 600 or 1000 people. East Harrison street from Fourteenth to Thirtieth: This is a vacant terri tory that deserves streetcar privileges. Residents now have to walk to Clinton or Hawthorne streets and the suffering public have long been demanding the privilege accorded to other sections. Mount Tabor: Here is an extension of a mile or more through a sparsely settled country and five miles from the city. The line now is three miles long and the proposition is to add another mile or two out In the realm of real estate speculation so as to help some one out who is short of money, due to heavy real estate Investments. East Fifteenth street: For a block or two to straighten out the end of the line. Car shops: On Center street permis sion to enter tbe shops and only a block or two is involved. The shops are located three miles from the business center. This is all there is in the much mooted franchise and over which the City Council has been grand-standing for all these months. The extensions will cost the company much money. Not one of them will pay Interest upon the rails, let alone the cost of opera tion. The extensions are far out In the suburbs and will be of great conven ience to the people living in the outer districts. People like myself have been in duced to go out where lots are cheap and build homes upon the assurance that the people of Portland would con sent to a street railway connection. Now that they have got our money it seems as if the powers that be want, to beat us out of what little remain ing chance we have to improve tbe value of our property. Personally I think It an outrage that men like Clyde and Magulre should be In the Councl. to deprive us of our rights. The argument of regulation is pure buncombe. The price of 5 cents is al ready fixed in the franchise for each trip and the company give a transfer with each ticket if desired. No sub urbanite believes for a moment that the company could carry people over these lines for less than a nickel and they express a willingness to pay it. This talk that some day we will be a million people and some future con tingency may arise by which it will be made for less money does not ap peal to me. What we want is street- car privileges now. The company ls willing, yet the Council seems to Im agine a bugaboo. " J08EPH COCHRANE. One Secret Husband Keeps Detroit Free Press. "Does your husband tell you every- th"Ys. everything, except how much pocket money he spend himself every week." Looking- Oat for Business. Washington (D. C.) Herald. "This is an unusually healthy suburb," declared the real estate man. "Then I guess we won't sign a lease," responded the lady. "My husband 1 a doctor, you see," Writer Would Regulate, but Tint De molish, Combinations of Capital. PORTLAND, May 21. (To the Ed itor.) Co-operation of effort is Just as essential as concentration of energies. Co-operation, combination, organiza tion and trusts are necessary for in dustrial progress. The whole world has tried the opposite plan, that of competition. A fool once said that "competition is the life of trade." Other fools are yet reiterating that ex ploded theory. You hear no wise men saying that cut prices are the life of trade. And competition means cut prices and always did mean that and nothing less. It is ridiculous to undertake to stop this onward march of combination the results from organization are cer tain and sure and safe what less should a good business man want to strive for? Just now the Government of the United States is engaging in the foolish procedure of trying to tear down and destroy that which has been Invited and that which has required long years of the brightest and most courageous business minds of the world to build. To what end? The Supreme Court of the land has decided . that the Standard Oil Com pany and the Tobacco Trust must be dissolved. And they have dissolved. But to whose profit? Is tobacco or oil any cheaper to the customer today than they were a year ago? Weren't the prices of these trust commodities higher before the trusts were formed than after? To be sure they were. Well, what is gained, who has profit ed? Surely not the common people. Who then? No one save the muck raker and the demagogue, and the po litical charlatan who ls blinding the eyes of the voter so he may secure the votes of the easily deceived he thinks his noise is profitable to himself. Trusts and combinations should be regulated and restricted, but not de stroyed. Moreover, they are not going to be annihilated. They must not be wrecked, nor can they be. Many of us believe that without the co-operation of our live business man In the Commercial Club and the Cham ber of Commerce, Oregon and Portland would not show their Immense Increase In population. Without the activities of men in co-operation, Portland and Oregon would not show the vast in crease in her products and wealth. Without co-operation Portland would now be a village instead of a modern city. So why deny co-operation in any line of business? If co-operation Is good in religious and fraternal societies, why should it be bad in politics? If it is good that Mr. U'Ren and the soap man's other friends should get together and hoist a single tax campaign on Oregon, why should it be bad for Republicans to co-operate? If It is right that Democrats should get together and name a man for the United States Senate, why is it wrong for Republicans to get together and name a candidate for Governor? For it is all co-operation and ls done for the purpose of avoiding and preventing misdirected competition. There is strength In unity of pur pose, but only decay and disintegration in competition. Competition invites and puts into business Incompetents, and keeps them and their successors there, with their ignorance of costs of production. Co operation and organization eliminate the Ignorance of the poorly qualified. Competition keeps two telephone systems alive in Portland and compels a business man to double his expendi ture for this service and he receives practically no results in return for this expense. Amalgamation and consol idation of these companies, properly regulated, would give the telephone user the same service at one-half of the cost. The logical and larger attitude of the German government towards trusts and combinations as contrasted with the abBurd position of our own Govern ment, is best illustrated by the help of the German government in forming and nerDetuating Its steel trust. The German steel trust has an output per year, of 8,000.000 tons of finished products, as against the United States Steel Trust's output of 10,000,000 tons. Eight million tons in Germany is a much greater proportion of the total than 10,000,000 is in tne unneu oiaico. Germany's eminent economic authority. Professor Reisser, says: The necessity for the formation of cartels (agreements) in Germany was clearly recog nised in the '70s. By this means over-production and ruinously low prices were ter minated. Germany legislates for trusts at the same time regulating them. By this process she has become a world power In the production of steel and iron. While our own Government is under taking to destroy what wisdom has builded. Germany ls continually foster ing and inviting more and more of the same quality of Industries that our muck-raking, vote-wanting dema gogues say we should destroy. La Follette and his class of dema gogic office seekers are continually striking at the railroads. By word and deed they lose no opportunity of try ing to make the "deer pee-pul" believe that railroads are grinding them into the earth, that thi class of corpora tions are Illegal and are making too much money. None of them believe what they say. They are talking for votes. The railroads of the United States are paying their stockholder an aver age of 4V4 per cent earnings annually. Is that too much? Railroads axe be ing legislated against not for. The National banks of the United States are paying their stockholders annual dividends of 10 to 12 per cent. Is that too much? National banks are continually being legislated for not against. Competition is war, and war is helL Co-operation is peace, and peace Is profit SEXECA C. BEACH. A COLOR STUDY. ' Young Mr. Green walked out one day. To call on 3xrs. oruwu, And on the way met Mrs. Gray, wv.rta iutaIv come to town. Then Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Brown And also Mrs. Green, All went to call on Mrs. Black, Whom they had never seen. Dear Mrs. White, she Joined the "Duncn. Aa al.n Mrs Tllua They had a dainty pink tea lunch. With tea or greenest Drew. Now Mrs. Brown had eyes of gray, And Mrs. Gray's were brown; Had Mrs. Black, so people say. The bluest eyes in town. And Mrs. Green had auburn hair. And Mrs. Brown's was blond. The cheeks of Mrs. Blue so fair Showed touch of fairies wano. Tbe blending of these colors bright Were dazzling a the sun. But when a mouse came into sight. aiy: now v.w,o - Colors that will "run." they say. Are never "fast." Oh, no! But how those colors "run" that day Wa anything out slow. WILL A. METTE Niagara Small la Comparlaom. New York Tribune. The greatest waterfall In the world. In point of height, is the Grand, in Labrador, where the fall la 2000 feet. The Sutherland Falls. In New Zealand, rank next, with a drop of 1004 feet. However, In point of volume of water, neither of these can be ranked first. Niagara dashes over a precipice only 1H feet highy Trunk Lines By Dean Collins. Now would they change tbe size of trunks And make an extra charge on space. Whereon the traveling public lists A mighty roar: "'Tis a disgrace." Says everybody angrily Or, rather, everyone but me. Miladi who is wont to have Her trunks on Gothic models made. Massive and deep, wherein her gowns Without a wrinkle may be laid. Sniffs in disdain, "I do desptse A trunk of merely pillbox size." And drummers, too, they raise their roar: "Give us the grand eight-story trunk. That has to have a special car. But nicely holds our lines of junk." They balk at limits stubbornly That is, most everyone but me. I have no flossy Summer hat. With dainty lace and flowing plume, Such as requires a 'scluslve trunk. Fifteen by twelve, for storage room. Therefore I say, defiantly: "Cut down the trunks! It hurts not me!" I need no giant steel-ribbed trunk With heavy ribs and massy locks. In which to store, when traveling My other collar and my socks. Not e'en a suitcase, goodness knows. Need I that ls to hold my clothes. So merrily I go my way, . Nor fear a charge on excess space The while my toothbrush end my comb Safe In my vest find storage place. Let others rage Incessantly 'Gainst little trunks. It Irks not me. Portland. Or.. May 21, 1912. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan. May 23, ISrtl. In the impeachment case of Judge Hardy in the California Senate, all tho specifications in the Indictment found by the assembly were dismissed ex cept the 15th. which related to his treasonable expressions uttered on various occasions. The judgment was that he be suspended from office. Mr. Bloch. of the firm of Bloch, Miller & Company, has just returned to The Dalles from Colville, bringing with him over $10,000 In dust. The miners on the Spokane are taking out from J10 to $20 per day to the hand. A large number of Chinamen from British Co lumbia were working on the Columbia. They were dong well, taking out from $6 to,8 per day to the hand. The San Francisco Herald says that Coffey & Risdon, boiler makers of that city, are building a boiler 32 inches in diameter, 12 feet In length with 82 inch tubes, for the water works ol Leonard & Green of this city. For a long time it was believed that an Italian barker of Baltimore was the Orsinl who undertook to slay President Lincoln on his Journey to the capital In February, 1861. and It is possible that he was one of the plotters, but it has come out at a recent trial of a man named Byrne in Richmond, that he was the captain of a band of ruffians that was to take the life of Mr. Lincoln. This Byrne used to be a notorious gam bler In Baltimore and emigrated to Richmond shortly after the 19th of April, of bloody memory. Council A petition to establish a uni form grade on Front street, between Washington and Alder was referred to a committee. A resolution to discon tinue the lighting of the streets with gas after the 13th instant was adopted. As "Ed" Howe Sees Life tr nn believe In hone, help it all you ca- Every good thing needs help. The more carefully you go into any thing, the more the disadvantages show up. When you are guilty of bad conduct of any kind it is high treason against yourself. A thunderbolt never yet fell from a clear sky. You usually have ample warning of trouble. Bravery is knowing how cowardly the enemy la It is more trouble to hate people than It is to like them. Storekeepers think they "do" a great deal for your trade, but what they do nver seems very Important to you. Look at any man's clothes and you will find from seven to 70 spots that should be removed. The sort of man known as an icono clast rarely lasts more than three or four years. It is always a hard job to jar a man loose from, hi money. HATS AMD FLOWERS. Bt DEAK COLL.INS When old J. Pluvlus o'er the sky Went drlvmg on his water cart. And let the twinkling raindrops fly. Wildly for shelter did I dart, rr n-Aa , har'a walrv flllW jo Bve nviii - - - J My new two-thirty "Panama (?) And Close Desioe me, m mo mwi A mad rosarian I saw. Although my hat was limp and 'lorn. He had fared worse by far than 1. His Panama (?) wa past repair; I gave a sympathetic sigh. "Confound J. Pluvius and his tricks. That put us both in such a fix." Quoth I. To my surprise, he smiled And gently gurgled. "Fiddlesticks:" And as the rain boomed down the street, Ar.j overflowed the teeming gutter, This dippy mad rosarian, Began to mumble and to mutter: And as the downpour grew more strong. And fiercer swept the streams along, Lo, my companion raised his voice And burst into a Joyous song. "The drops that from the heavens fall Mean lumps of Joy to me, you know. What though they spoil my hat? They make Tbe rose grow the roses grow. "Each drop a bud, each bud a bloom. I watch the heavens' liquid boon. And count each drop, which means a rose Early in June. "Oh liquid promises of roses' blush! Forget your hat, and watch 'em flow! I count each drop, and know In Juno we'll have Borne Rose Show, kid! You betcherl Some Rose Show!" Portland, May 21. The Modern Ideal tn a Husband. Answers, London. Miss Rocksey But, papa, George i a hard-working young man. Old Rocksey That' it, exactly. The man I wish you to marry must be able to make money without working. Aad She Gets It Easily. Answers, London. She Do you give your wife an al lowance, or does she ask you for money when she wants it? Ke Both,