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THE 'mOKNING OKEGONIAN. TUESDAY. JULY 30, 1912- 8 POKTLAI. OREGON. ; Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poetofflca a, Eacond-Claaa Matter. f Eubacrlbtloa Bates Invariably la Advanca. ' (BT MAIL) I Daily. Sunday Included, ona rear 8-JJ Dally, Sunday Included. U months i Sally, Sunday Included, tbrea months... x Daily, Sunday Included, ona month. ' Dally, without Sunday, ona year. Daily, without Sunday, six months. .... a- ' Dally, without Sunday, three montha... -" ' Dally, without Sunday, ona month "V , Weekly, one year -? 1 6unday, one year - - " i. .. . .. .4 nna .ar. ........ " ' ....- in.iriM nni vnar ....... a.00 , i .. U, DUUW, ... . .. . , li 1. (L.n tnataffica money or- ' der. aapreae order or personal checlc on our ' local bank. Stampa. coin or currency are ! aTtha mdtfi nai Glv. postofflce addr : in full. Including county and state. t-.- IA tn U nUUL 1 Cent, IV W 10 O" paVN. mmaaa . ' n.lB OtrtceVern. Conk. , Un New York. Branawlc Diumma. i ha Franclaco Olllca R. J. BldweU Le ft f 12 Mantel alreet. , European Ollica No. Regent ntrael. - ' w Loudon. PORTLAN D, TUESDAY. JULY ' ! 1'ivr AND KETTLE. ? - Mr. HUles make, out a fairly good : case for the steam roller. No candid .' person can read hi discuss. "analysis of the 238 contests at Chl- cago and fail to be impressed by the ' clearness and power of the Hilles ar- ' gument. We have no notion that the ;i Hilles contribution will make the , n-,.. imnression on the average ' Roosevelt mind. Colonel Roosevelt has ; : posed dramatically beiore me - as a martyr to steam-rollerism and he .'never enjoys himself quite so much as when he is denouncing somebody or ' other as a thief and robber. The great I "Chicago fraud will go thundering down the ages as the prime issue 01 mo I ' campaign. The 560 traitors and ras- ) ..i. i tha, Chicago Republican con. I ' took away from Theodore . Roosevelt a nomination he wanted and demanded and thought it was all fixed ! h. should have. It is the crime of the - Mr HUles has of course told the t public very little It did. not already know. But he has put in succinct T form the case for Mr. Taft. and it T ought not to be brushed aside with ' 1 mere denunciation of Taft, the Na- i tional committee and the convention. r But doubtless it will be. That is the ' Roosevelt way. tsu '.''and paint it blacker, but ignore the - ni-t- gf tltA nnt. The pot here is those 238 Roosevelt I contests and the Roosevelt campaign : fund. Who inspired those spurious I contests and why? Who put up for - the Roosevelt campaign ny " -' not Colonel Roosevelt answer the call ; of Mr. La Follette to publisn tne con - trlhntors to his campaign fund? i It is time for a real explanation from J ' Oyster Bay " ; r HYDROPHOBIA AND MCZZLES. I - rmm the facts as stated by Dr. Cal. J vin S. White, secretary of the State Board of Health, it seems impossible ' to avoid the Inference that an epiaemm j ; of hydrophobia is raging among the J " nf nrfion. Fourteen of the anl- ' yrniia hroiiarht to the hospital for treat i ' ment lately have died of that frightful . . disorder. How many more may be suffering from it and roaming un I J restrained upon the streets and high. : i ways of course nobody knows. An un- suspecting child meeting a mad dog is , j almost certain to be Ditten, ana wneu that occurs the chances are an in m l vor of a terrible death for the hapless victim. To De sure, owing; io ic m l ' vestigations of Pasteur, hydrorr.jbia . -. can be cured, but the process is wean ' i some and expensive, and unless the . case is taken very soon after the wound is made, there is little hope of recov ery. It is surprising that the City Council should have listened with any natience to the ignorant tirade or an opponent of scientific medicine when the ordinance ror muzzling aogs came up for consideration. Her contention " was that "there is no such disease as - hydrophobia," that "the so-called dis ' . ease is simply excitement caused by ' ' fear, and that doctors who call hydro phobia a disease do not know what thev are talking about." We are In clined to believe that It was not the doctors who exposed their ignorance on that occasion. Hydrophobia is not only a real dis ease, but it has been known to the world for manv centuries. Several - ancient writers give its symptoms ac- t-iirntelv. and DeODle are known to - have died of it ever since history b gan to be written. It not only attacks dogs, but cats also, as well as wolves - and cows. Skunks are peculiarly suo ' Ject to hydrophobia, and the virus In jected by their bite is probably more dangerous even than a dog's. The na ture of hydrophobia was not under stood until Pasteur made his famous "" Investigations. He came to the con - elusion that the disease was caused by a germ. Pasteur did not suc ceed in isolating the germ of hy drophobia, nor has anybody since his day accomplished the feat. How. then, do we know that there is a germ? We know It by evidence fully as con vincing as sight. If a healthy animal Is Inoculated with the saliva of a mad dog. It is certain to take the disease. ' The experiment has been repeated over and over again until not an atom of , doubt Is left on the subject. Scien tists can produce a case of hydropho bia at will by Inoculating an animal with the infected saliva. The experi ment has been performed not on ani mals only, but on man as well. One scientist, for the sake of advancing knowledge of this frightful disease, inoculated himself several times, cur ingr each attack by the Pasteur process until the last, when he neglected some precautions and perished. Pasteur obtained the attenuated virus upon which his cure depends by drying pieces of the spinal cord of a hydrophobic dog. The germs lose their virulence when they are dried. By Inoculating a person with virus which had been greatly attenuated and following this up with stronger and stronger doses.. Pasteur finally produced immunity from hydrophobia. Inasmuch as the disease requires a long time to Incubate, the Immunizing process can always be carried out if the - patient is taken before its ravages have gone too far. Hydrophobia develops its horrible symptoms in three stages. In the first there is irritation alternat . ing with numbness about the bite. - -This is followed by the "stage of ex cltement," in which the slightest dis turbance throws the patient into vlo lent convulsions. He loses control of his muscles, particularly those of the throat. At the same time he suffers fearfully from thirst, but any effort to swallow leads to terrible spasms which falsely simulate dread of water. From this deceptive appearance comes the name of the disease, which means "fear of the water." The spasmodic throes of the muscles of tile throat cause strange noises which sound like "barking," though they are involun. tary and entirely due to the awful suffering of the victim. The stage of excitement may last four days, and, unless relief Is obtained, it is followed by the stage of paralysis and death. It Is perfectly useless for anybody to deny these facts. They are as well known as the law of gravitation. Why anybody should wish to deny them is mystery, since the bite of a- mad dog may at any hour condemn some child to a frightful death. Why the City Council should have hesitated to de clare an emergency upon the muz- zllne ordinance Is a still greater mys tery. We understand that the love of notoriety and general cussedness some times make cranks uphold the most dangerous propositions, but the City Council is not composed of cantank erous cranks and it is supposed to care more or less for the welfare of the public. If there ever was an emer gency demanding the Instant applies tlon of an ordinance, certainly an epl. demic of hydrophobia is one. What sane citizen wants a gang of mad dogs raging through the streets with nothing to defend the public against them? The cry that muzzling is cruel to dogs is nonsense. It. is perfectly easy to fit a humane muzzle to a dog which will not pain . him at all and which at the same time will protect human beings from his teeth if he hav pens to run mad. But even if a muz zle did necessarily inconvenience the do(-, what of it? We take it that the life of a child Is somewhat more valuable than the liberty of a dog to range the streets and snap at whatever he likes. In the present epidemic of hydrophobia we are brought face to face with the question whether dogs or human beings are of the more conse quence in the world. We do not see how a person of sound common sense can hesitate about the answer. PROTECTING THEIR GOOD NAMES. Somehow we are disposed to associ ate in our own mind the news that Rev. Mr. Milnes has resigned his pulpit at Pendleton, because of various indiscretions, among them the playing of billiards, and the discov ery by a Pasadena doctor that soci ety women, clubwomen and high school girls smoke cigarettes. What is wrong about playing billiards, and what Is wrong about women smoking cigarettes, if it is right for anybody to smoke cigarettes? Of course we all agree cnat cigarette smoking Is a detestable habit, but we suffer the spectacle of superior men smoking without more than a passing thought of protest. If man may smoke. why not women? If the layman may play billiards for pastime, why may not a preacher? Apparently it is not easy to answer these questions, but, having asked them, we shall endeavor to answer, If all women smoked, as nearly nil men smoke, the sight of a cigarette in a woman's mouth would not be a bid for notoriety and an advertisement by her that she holds the canons of so ciety and the opinions of most men and all other women in contempt The public instinctively associates cig arette smoking with bad women, ia America, at least. Good women are supposed not to smoke, just as they are supposed not to appear on the public streets In tights. Why should any woman care to run the risk of a discussion as to the class to which she belongs, or to offer a defense that. tnough a good woman, she smokes? a preacner. too, . like a woman. should be above suspicion.. Preachers do not play billiards. Whv should .Brother Milnes play? DEMOCRATS DIVIDED OX THE TARIFF. There is as wide division amonar the democrats on the application of the principle of tariff for revenue only as there is among the Republicans on the application of the protective principle. v nson has expressed his belief in I revenue tariff with Incidental protec tion. Bryan has recommended to the House leaders the adoption of the principle of free raw materials. The House leaders have rejected both the ories and have revised the tariff in a haphazard manner, taxing: raw wool but admitting raw sugar free and de pleting the revenue until their tariff would fail to accord with the first requisite of the Democratic theorv. But Hearst calls on Wilson to approve tariff reform in the spirit which has actuated the House and not in the Bryan spirit of "destruction and fanat. lcism." If Wilson stands by his doctrine of a revenue tariff with incidental pro tection, ne win ran foul of Clark and Underwood, but will gain support In cane-sugar-growing Louisiana and in tne beetsugar-growing West. If he adopts Bryan's doctrine of free raw materials, he will alienate the vote of tne west, which he particularly aepka the products of that section being classed as raw materials. bhould Uilson incline to free raw materials, what could he expect from Oregon, for. example. With wool, logs, hops, grain of all kinds, fruit and tne tree list, and the products manu factured from these commodities, as wen as an otner manufactures, taxed the Oregon voter would exclaim that he was compelled to sell on a free. trade and to buy on a protected basis. Wilson is believed . to entertain hone ot carrying uregon. Out how could he do so on such a platform? What an. plies to Oregon applies to many other states. If the Democrats wish to carry the manufacturing states of the East and of the Southern seaboard, they must ay stress on free raw materials and on incidental protection to manufac tures. In the West they must empha size relief to be given from high duties on manufactures and press the soft pedal on free raw materials. But read ers In one section of speeches made In the other section will be seriously per turbed by the threat to their own in dustries and the Democrats will dis cover once more that the tariff Is a local issue. IXTERVXNTIOX MAT YET COME. If the Mexican rebels wish to force the United States to Intervene they are going the right way about It. The American people will not patiently witness the spectacle of 1000 of their tenow-cltlzens disarmed and excelled or forced to Join the rebels. If the rebels should attack the Americans at iladero and a battle should result, as It Inevitably would, the event might prove as effective in arousing this Na tion to uncontrollable indignation as did the blowing up of the Maine. Entry of American troops Into Mex ico could scarcely fail to be followed by forcible pacification of the country by them. We might send a force into the republic for the sole purpose of refcuing beleaguered bands of Ameri cans, but some irresponsible bands of patriots would almost surely attack our men and provoke reprisals, even If either rebels or Federals or both did not make open war on us. Hostilities! would then spread until they covered the whole country. -' Should intervention become neces. sary, it would culminate in some form of American control over the country, The least we should be likely to accept would be an- arrangement similar to that which we have In Cuba. If the war should be long and exasperating, we might insist on some form of pro tectorate which would give us the right to maintain garrisons and to hunt down bandits. None but the wildest jingoes would propose annexa tion, with its consequent incorporation of a large population alien in race. having a far lower standard of civili zation than ours, turbulent In temper and continually yearning for an inde pendence it is Incapable of rightly using. Only such flamboyant phrase mongers as Champ Clark desire to extend our dominions from the pole to Panama. HELPING THE RAILROADS PAY TAXES- PORTLAND, July 2t. (To the Editor.) un tne editorial page or The uregonian, July appears an editorial entitled boaK ing the Farmer." The Oregonlan has fig. ured out how much the railroad would have to pay on 20 miles of track, but The Ore- gonian was very careful not to mention any thing about the millions of acres the rail road owns, where the graduated tax woul( sting. The railroad holds this land so high that nobody can buv it. so therefore it Is lying Idle. It la not the railroad alone that holds millions of acres; there are otliers. Put on the rraduateri tax and see how Quick they will let go and that will give the poor man a chance. Why are all tne ncn peo ple so scared of graduated tax? I would Ilka to hava The Oregonlan explain. REUBEN TBEBER. 89 Church street. The article which Mr. Treber criti clses was devoted to a discussion of tax that railroads would pay and be re lieved of paying on their rights of way by imposition of the Fels single and graduated tax measure. The Orego- nian did not, and- probably will not. attempt to cover all the, phases of the amendment in one article. One news paper has tried that and has put itself in a bad light. We are, however, willing to discuss Mr. Trebers letter. If this correspondent's assertion that the graduated tax would compel the railroads to let go of their large land holdings is correct, then the rail roads would not pay any graduated tax on such land. If cut into small tracts and sold to individuals, nobody else would pay a graduated tax there on. If he properly forecasts the re sult of enacting the amendment the large land holdings have no place in a discussion of the revenues to be pro vided by the graduated phase of the measure. Mr. Treber should keep both ears open when listening to the arguments of the paid single-tax propagandists He will be told that the graduated tax on large land holdings would produce revenues so enormous that they would offset the revenues lost by exempting from taxation all improvements and personal property. He will also be told, unless slngle-taxers suddenly re- form their tactics, that the graduated measure would compel the cutting up of the large lr.nd holdings. Yet the minute large land holdings were cut up and sold In tracts of less value than 810,000 in one county, they would cease to pay a graduated tax. They would moreover pay their proportion of the loss sustained by freeing rail road improvements from taxation This conclusion is so obvious that it ought to be clear to everybody. The measure cannot be a taxing-lnto-use measure and a graduated tax producer too. To assert that it would be Is an attempt at raw deception. . If the single and graduated tax amendment Is Intended as a revenue- producing measure, pure and simple. It has for its support only theories and speculations. It has been drafted without authentic basis to calculate upon. No existing tax rolls or other valuation statistics disclose the value of land and land alone. So-called real estate tax values Include a large va rlety of what are really improvements. These improvements would be exempt under the operations of the measure. It Is a visionary, guesswork, hlt-and miss production. But there are a few things we do know concerning it. One is that it would exempt from tax ation the improvements on the most highly improved land outside of, city business centers railway rights of way and that the revenues thereby lost would be extended over all lands. We do know that it Is the product of hired workers who have little or noth ing of taxable value in Oregon. We do know that these hired workers did not dare present an honest, square- toed measure a measure that clearly ana unmistakably defined their Intent. Its origin and the past record of Its originators in the arts of deception ought to be enough to condemn it without attempts to throw light upon us uncertain and untried provisions xne answer to Mr. Tiber's final question is obvious, If he refers there in to single tax. "Why are all the rich people so scared of the graduated tax?" The rich people are like the people of moderate means and the poor people who own small homes. They do not want their land confls cated. retaliation: may rehi-t.t HavlnB fa.ilpri in sanra (rnn l,n subsidies, the shipping Interests and tne interests Demnd them are endeav Orlng tO Secure SllhKlriiaa InHIroj.. tlon. thoutrh bv vleldlnsr tn rViem wo should expose ourselves to a charge of u-emy oreaKing irom tne whole mari time world , and to retaliation in the raisin&r Of tnlla ,-tr, tna Sum Ponol on the canals which connect th firpat Lakes. Even should the contention or the free-toll advocates be sus tained as in conformity with the Hay Pauncefote treatv. th soma hIci-Itt,- inatlon would thereby be legalized un der international law with relation to British and Egyptian ships passing through the Suez Canal nnrl ransariian ships passing through the Canadian oauit ste. marie and Welland canals. If ownership of a canal carries with it the rlcht to frfn nn.eaao-a Inv tha ships of the owning nation, then Great Britain. Kn-nl and Cnnnrla hava tv,o same right as has the United States. iB uiny snips wnicn we nave any color of right to exempt from tolls are American ships engaged in the coastwise trade between American ports. The only ground on which we can exempt them is that foreign ships cannot in any case engage in our coastwise trarl. Tf wa nhnnM aa.. to discriminate between our own coastwise snips owned by railroads and those not owned by railroads, we have that rie-ht. Rut wo hiv. nn to extend this discrimination to ves sels piying Detween our own ports and those of other American countries, nor to discriminate hptwppn fnretcrn ves sels owned by railroads and those not ownea Dy railroads, as the Senate committee proposes. To do so would be a violation of the Hav-Pauncefnto treaty. If we should persist in this course In defiance of the treaty, we should give Great Britain good cause to retaliate hv prpmntltio- v.. Egyptian and Canadian vessels from tuns ana Dy raising ine tolls charged ships of other nations In. sufficient amount to recoup the loss. The trea ties governing these canals all con tain the same provision for equality of tolls, and if one of them may be in terpreted as permitting exemptions, so may the others. The policy of the Senate committee is also in direct conflict with our pur pose in building the Panama Canal, That purpose was to reduce the cost of transportation for the benefit of the whole Nation. The cost of the work is being paid by the whole Na tion. It is now proposed to take a part of this reduced cost of transpor tation and donate it to the shipowner to "tip" him II a ton out of the canal funds. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill which would comply with the letter but violate the spirit of the treaty. He proposes that tolls paid by all American vessels be refunded from the treasury. This scheme has the merit of throwing off the disguise In which the free-toll advocates have clothed the ship subsidy. Were we to remit tolls on' some of our ships engaged in foreign trade, the subsidy advocates would regard the fact as tha entering wedge and would claim like exemp tion for all American ships on the plea that we were unjustly discriminating. But they are not yet ready to throw off the disguise. If Congress would but take the right point of view, all difficulty might be avoided. This is the point of view of the consumer, whose money built the canal, and for whose benefit it was built. From tha viewpoint all ships of all nations should be allowed to use the canal on equal terms, that we may have the widest competition, the low est freight rates and lowest cost of liv ing possible. Congress would then not only secure to us, as a Nation, the greatest material benefit, but would avoid smirching our National honor. The shipowners, in their capacity as consumers, would get the same benefit as all others, and they are entitled to no more. It is probable that an American and an Englishman will become powers in the Chinese republic. It is proposed that the bankers who are negotiating a loan to China, but insist on super vision of expenditures by their Repre sentative, offer a compromise which, it is expected, will not offend Chinese dignity. This is the appoint ment of a foreign adviser to China and the position has been offered to Professor J. W. Jenks, formerly of Cornell. The Chinese government is said to contemplate offering the post of general adviser to Dr. George E. Morrison, the Pekin correspondent of the London Times. Dr. Morrison has been consulted for years by leaders of various parties at every crisis. Sir Robert Hart thus may have two successors. Few nations can grow within their own dominions both the hardy apple of the temperate zone and the date of the tropics. That the United States can do so attests the diversity of our resources, our strength as a produc ing nation and our practical indepen dence of other nations. Almost every commodity necessary to clothe, feed and house our people, not merely in comfort, but In luxury, can be pro duced in ample quantity on American soil. Though other countries can grow some staples and deliver them in our ports cheaper than we can grow them ourselves, the possibility of be coming independent of other nations exists. Senator Heyburn is the ideal stand patter. When the whole Nation is calling for relief from the pyramided protection which has developed our Infant industries until they have be come overshadowing, devouring mon sters, he calls for more protection. He tells us that the way to secure relief from the trusts, the product of exces sive protection, Is grant more pro tection. It will encourage competitors for the trusts, he hopes. He would have us take a hair of the dog that bit us, cure like with like in politics, as the homeopaths do In medicine. . A man who at the age of 83 can be gin study for the purpose of discover ing a cure for cancer Is a living refu tation of the theory that at advanced age a man's powers of initiative be come atrophied. No such generaliza tion is true, for in that respect each man is unlike any other. With some the mental and nervous energy ap pears to remain unimpaired until the body suddenly breaks down like the "one-hoss shay"; at the other extreme are those who never develop the full share of Intellectual power. The current month of July will be remembered for its singular weather and shocking calamities. Rain such as Oregon rarely sees at this season has disconcerted the farmers. Floods have devastated other states. Japan has seen both fire and flood. The human mind seems to be as much out of Joint as nature, and all sorts of acci dents abound, many of which are ap parently perfectly unnecessary. If it Is not all due to the sunspots, pray what Is the cause? The Windy City Is determined to steal all literary laurels from the East, since one hundred men will pay $5000 a year for five years to run a poetical magazine. Exaltation of breakfast foods will be eclipsed by the lyre of the hog. When Judge Galloway officiated at the marriage of his son, the surmise may be held a fact, in the absence of definite news to the contrary, that he did not neglect to claim all the rights that ensue. If electricity can be used to calm air waves, a device for that effect be ing now on trial, Henry can spring the wireless on Mrs. Peck when she starts the lecture. The appraisement of Hawley's es tate -betrays the fact that a railroad magnate's fortune may be watered as thoroughly as his stock. The mutinous militiamen needed to soak their heads as well as their feet for the tired feeling. The farmers whose grain was trampled during the maneuvers are theoretical losers. While muzzling on account of the mad" epidemic, why not include the soapbox orators? ' The marrying justice was slow to decide on taking a dose of his own medicine. Somebody must be cornering the grain bags, for the price has about doubled. This is Oregon's year of plenty. judging by crop reports. MR GUILFORD DISCUSSES GOLD He Believes Money'a Value la Created by Labor of Ml ulna; and Coining. WESTPORT, Wash-, July 29. (To the Editor.) In my article about Robinson Crusoe's gold mine and single tax, in The OreKonlan of July IB, I seem' to have stirred things up, and everybody, including The Oregonian thinks I am sewed up with my own argument. Now a gold mine and a gold eagle are two different propositions. A gold mine is raw material. Is a natural re source and, according to my personal idea of single tax (and maybe Mr. Crldge's, too, when It comes to a show down), might be a possible prospect fit for taxation. A mine of any descrip tion Iron, coal, oil, diamond or any natural resource comes in the same class. The term "land" covers all these things from a taxation standpoint. Now then the gold eagle is a manu factured product or a product of labor and raw material. The labor expended on the gold, combined with the labor necessary to produce gold-working ma chinery, has converted it Into the me dium of exchange. Gold is not money until the United States stamp Is on it, any more than wheat is a cracker, or any more than the sun, the rain the seed a field of sage brush some men, horses' and machinery are a crop of wheat. The element of labor enters into the itold eagle, the cracker, and the wheat from which the cracker Is made. The element of labor does not enter into the field of sage brush, nor the cold mine. When the element of labor is exempted from taxation you have single tax and a show at the Social ists goal. "Each man gets his lull share of the product of his labor.' I hope I have made it clear to Mr. Short that The Oregonian did not turn my argument, but merely made the error of calling gold "money," and therewith a false premise naturally drew a false conclusion. I am not posing as a teacher of sin gle tax or guaranteeing to agree in every detail with anybody who does pose as such. I am interested in tne single tax movement as I understand it. and it looks mighty good to me. Suppose I own a section or xarm iana adjoining Mr. Shorfs any place in the country. Suppose we Dougni our property the same time, that we are about the same age, health, strength, ability and have about tne same amount of money. . Now suppose that I find a srold mine on my land. ,.now that eold mine was no more created by my labor than his plain farm land was created by his labor. It seems to me that even though gold nas a statue market value, which does not depend uDon the size or growth of the commu nitv In which it Is found, that its pres ence on a piece of land would enhance the value of that land, and as iana should be taxed according to its value. barring Improvements, land capable of yielding gold ore instead of spuds should be more valuable and hence sub ject to greater taxes. The same argument applies to um ber, a rich Diece of farm land as com pared to a poor piece, a good corner lot as compared to a poor one. Of course Mr. Short will agree with me that If Robinson Crusoe had lived on a gooa big island and sufficient number of nsnnln ahould have become ship wrecked on the Island In the covrse of tima to tnr.rpa.se the size of the village m a million, the need for a medium of exchange would have arisen and li tney r-hnan enld for the standard it wouiu hava Increased In value some from Rnhinson's. time. we assume in noo lnson's case that the only way to get the island is by shipwreck, and that It ia imnoasible to eet away from It. And if we didn't tax the fellow that con trolled the output of that gold mine, might not he be tempted to squeeze down the output and double the price from time to time? Each should pay taxes accoraing tu the nnimnroved value or tne natural resource which he monopolizes, wnei.ii er It be a gold mine, an orchard tract, a nnrnpr lot Or a Waterfall. Taxes are expensive, a nuisance, out necessary. "Land" speculators are ei- nenslve. a nuisance, but unnecessary. If we tax land with all natural oppor tunities inherent, according to unim proved value, land speculation will be abolished. Labor of the useful type will then have a chance of receiving Its full reward. F., H. trUIljJ urtu. Inasmuch as Mr. Guilford mentions The Oregonian's argument on the ques tion, we venture to break In on nis controversy with Mr. Short In a pre vious letter Mr. Guilford asserted' that gold had a "community value." As single taxers have so often used the term "community value" as applied to land In arguments for the taxation of land and land alone. The Oregonian asserted that Mr. Guilford, as a single taxer, was consequently arguing for the taxation of money. He now switches to "labor value" and applies that term to money. We understand him to hold that it Is gold in the ground, only, that has "community value." Yet it would not make any dif ference whether the gold found on Robinson Crusoe's Island were In the ground or In the form of money left in a cave by pirates. Neither would have value In the absence of a community that wanted to use gold. If Robinson Crusoe found gold nuggets In the bed of a stream, the labor cost would not be much more than taking the coins from the cave. If ho transported both to a community he could get practical ly as much for one as for the other. It probably costs not much more, if any, to coin a ten-aoiiar guiu ywuo than It does a penny. It costs no more to mine gold than it does to mine some far cheaper metals. We really believe Mr. Guilford will have to look again to discover the cause of money s value. The labor cost of mining and mintage gives but small part of it. The uninformed man might lnier from Mr. Guilford's illustration of the two farms that the gold mine escapes taxation under the present system. Yet if the Assessor performs his duty, the land with a known valuable gold de posit pays taxes on its relative value today. We do not have to Impose sin gle tax in order to tax gold mines. It ought not to be necessary, but It seems to be, to announce that In this comment The Oregonian Is not uphold lng the present system of taxing moneys and credits. When an attempt was made to point out the peculiarities of Mr. Guilford's former argument, a paid single-tax writer, with his custo mary adroitness and insincerity, used the comment to attack, in another newspaper. The Oregonian for a stand that was not even implied. For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the paid Fels brigade is peculiar. Easy. Judge. Fresh from college. Bill and Charley, Joseph, Henry and the rest. To the world now grant a parley. Era they of It things divest. What they don't know is a trifle. And it can't bo found in books: That they mean most things to rifle You may gather from their looks. They have notions as to money , They will quickly put in force: They know how the bees get honey, , And tho game ia plain, of course. Men In trade they will astonish "With a number of new tricks. And no doubt they will admonish Persons now in polltica. Making way' in tha professions Is a simple thing to them. Why Insist upon concessions Whan, ?ou'v worked' your theorem? YTHY WOMEST KEEO THE BALLOT Reasons Given by Snffrasrlat la Reply to Oppoalnar Argnmeat. PORTLAND, July 2. (To the Edi tor.) In answer to the article which was published in The Oregonian un der the heading. "Antl Vote Women Issue Argument," I wish to state the side of a suffragist who is blessed with a good home and is well sheltered and cared for. In reference to the article by Ida M. Tarbell on Suffrage, she states that accident may throw woman into the "outer circle," but that "it is not her natural habitat." How about the 7,000, 000 working women In the United States who are actually thrown into this "outer circle." most of them against their own wills? Does she take these Into consideration, and Is it not just that they should have a voice in framing laws which so directly affect them? The article against the Woman Suf frage Amendment states: "Let aiy man ask the women of his acquain tance and particularly the women who are doing women's work in the world, the women whom he most respects, and he can satisfy himself as to whether women want the vote." The very na ture of this remark Implies a class of citizens who are protected financially and a class of women who do not have to work In the "outer circle." Who are these women who are doing women's work In the world? Are they not womenly women like Miss Jane Addams, Mrs. Frances Squire Potter, and scores of others, who want the ballot to lighten the burdens of the "outer circle" and to broaden the vision of the protected class? In the argument against the woman Suffrage amendment, the article states: "Because suffrage Is to be regarded not as a privilege to be enjoyed, . but as a duty to be performed." Is it Just for these women who object to the responsibility of voting to prevent those women who reel It their duty to vote from exercising the ballot? There Is no law compelling men to vote, and there are many who, not regarding it as a duty, refuse to exercise this power. I see no reason why these women should not still enjoy exemption from this burdensome "duty," at least until they feel called upon to exert their influence In the larger sphere of women's work. The argument further states: ' Be cause the women not so representiJ suffer no practical Injustice which giving the suffrage will remedy." This argument might apply to that sheltered class not thrown out into the world to earn their own living, but why not also consider the great mass of work ing women and children in our large industrial centers, who labor under most trying conditions, which only the ballot can remedy. The article closes by stating: Be cause suffrage logically involves the holding of publio offices, including jury duty and office holding Is Incon sistent with the duties of most wom en. There are many women wno are forced from the "inner circle," includ ing unmarried women and widows, who have the Interests or humanity at heart, and are perfectly capable in every way of holding public office. As to women serving on Jury duty, there are numerous cases Involving women and young girls where It should be the duty of women to protect their sex. it these antis could but look below the surface and see the hidden meaning behind this wonderful world-wide wom an movement, the deeper significance of it all might be revealed to them. FRANCES DAITUfl, M'CCSKER'S CHANCE DISCUSSED Correspondent Believes Support of Taft Will Elect Independent. NEWPORT. Or, July 29. (To the Editor.) I was gratified to notice in The Oregonian that there was a pros pect that Thomas McCusker would be an Independent candidate for Congress against Lafferty. There is only one question not made plain. Since McCus ker is still a Republican, will he sup port Taft for President? If he should, there is no reason why the Taft and La Follette Republicans cannot unite and secure his election. Of course Lafferty's plurality was secured by fraudulent Democratic votes in the primary and there being no hope of electing Judge Munly, Democrats will Wn large numbers vote for Lafferty, but if McCusker will stand by and support the Republican Presidential nominees he will receive the solid vote of the La Follette supporters and Taft supporters alike, and be elected. And what a fortunate- exchange for the State of Oregon McCusker for Laf ferty! I also notice Mr. Leppers letter. Of course he and all Roosevelt men are honest men no dishonest men but Mr. Taft and his supporters. Of course it was honest for Mr. Roosevelt to file contests against the seating of 240 of the Taft delegates at the Chicago con vention. When these contests came before the .credentials committee, well as the National Republican com mittee, the Roosevelt men voted with the Taft men in most of the contest cases. Many were absolutely without foundation. The object In riling the contests laid the foundation for the Roosevelt partisans to come to Chicago and ask to have the convention organ lzed by delegates against whom no contests were filed so they could ex clude these 240 Taft delegates and organize with Roosevelt delegates. Be cause they could not "Duuooze tne convention, they bolt and charge fraud. Just wait until the campaign opens. Taft and his friends will show the American .people that the only object of the Roosevelt third party Is to de feat Taft and the Republican party. It Is perfectly plain that if Roosevelt had been gratified with a nomination for a third term he would still be a Republican. No party was ever organ lzed and succeeded in the Interest of one man, and there are millions and millions of Republicans who will en lighten the Roosevelt third-termers in the November election. C B. LA FOLLETTE. GARTER BADGE BRINGS fSOO. Medal Commemorative of Princess' Wedding; Sold for S35. Philadelphia Cor. to the New York Herald. Decorations, war medals and medal Hons struck In commemoration of im portant events brought the highest prices at the sale of the George H. Earle, Jr., collection. An Order of the Garter heirloom sold for $500. It was purchased by Henry Chapman, presu mablv for a foreign bidder. Of chief romantic Interest was the gold marriage medal commemorative of the wedding of Crown Prince Ru dolph of Austria and Princess Stephan ie, which went for 35. This alliance, it will be recalled, was one of the most tragic of modern royal history. A med al struck to mark the sixtieth anni versary of Queen Victoria's ascent to the throne of England sold for $8, and another to celebrate the marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise went for U9. An Ericsson medal Issued by Swe den brought 80 cents. A Bermuda six pence of 1616 was sold for $17.60, and a New England shilling of 1652, one of the first made in this country, for $42. Joint Deed to Real Estate. PORTLAND, July 29. (To the Ed itor.) We have three children, and my husband and myself are Joint owners in Oregon real estate. In the event of death of either of us. would the share of the deceased pass to the' survivor? AN INUlKliK. 639 Fifty-eighth Street, North. If the deed runs, to both husband and wife, full title passes to survivor on the death of either. The Seeds of Doubt Br Deaa Collins. Protesting 'gainst the state of things For all that they were worth. Some local leaders met to give The new Third Party birth: And in their full convention hall They uttered hefty speech, And toM of wrongs they had endured: Each talking unto each. They roared at bosses,, turning loose Expressions hot and cross The while each doped his private dope How he himself might boss: They spoke of the "steamroller" too. With bitter Jeer and hoot While In their own convention hall A "roller" went "toot-toot!" And after all the scene was o'er. Sad though it seems to be. They figured up the net results But they could not agree; Some said "Our party new is formed," But others answered "Not!" And thus the controversy waxed Again confused and hot. And while we see the Bull Moose bunch Wrestle and do Its best To find If it's a party sure . Or just a mere protest: I i-atch them and I ponder thus: "It does ocAir to me When the Bull Moosers thus fall out, Tis well for G. O. P." And If a little local thing Like their convention here. Produces such uncertainty Oh, would that I might hear The Moose herd In Chicago When the gathering call Is sounded. For that will be a sample of Confusion worse confounded. Portland, July 29. Half a Century Aga From The Oregonian of July 30, 1802. New York, July 22. A Newbern, N. C, letter says: "Hamlltons. K..C, was captured on the 9th by three of our gunboats and a company of Hawkins' Zouaves under Captain Holmes. It was defended by a regiment of rebel cav alry, supported by a strong force of Infantry and artillery and a rebel fort which commanded the river. There were numerous masked batteries along the river, and also a rebel steamer filled with sharpshooters. Washington, July 23. General Hal- Ieck is ordered by the President to take command as general-in-chief. Washington, July 23. It is said Stonewall Jackson has gone up Shen andoah Valley with 70,000 men. San Francisco. July 22. Captain Simpson has Just arrived from the State Prison with Intelligence that to day at 10 o'clock 150 prisoners made their escape, carrying off Lieutenant- Governor Chellls with them. They were fired upon by the guard and some killed. They carried Chellls about four miles beyond Corte Madeira, where they re leased him. The citizens of San Rafael hastily armed themselves snd pursued. Near Ross' ranch, after C'.iellls escaped, the fight was desper ate, as the prison guard no ljnger re served their fire. The deta-hed par ties of convicts were surrounded .ancl captured towards dusk. Only 28 con victs remain at large, ten of whom are supposed to be dead. The boat Harriet W. Almy was towed up to this city Monday evening last by steamer Cowlitz from St. Helens, to which latter place she had made her way from the mouth of the river by her own Bails. The new steamer Spray, recently built at Deschutes, made a trial trip last Saturday, which proved entirely satisfactory, and demonstrated the en tire fitness of this boat for the Upper Columbia trade. The play of "The Jacobite" was very well done last night, and the singing of Miss Virginia Lawrence and Miss Belle Devlne fully equal to any previ ous occasion. Wax Ont of Bridge Tangle. PORTLAND, .July 27. (To the Edi tor.) Regarding the controversy on as to the public using the upper por tion of the new Steel bridge, I would suggest that the city go Into partner ship with the railroad company In the ownership of the bridge, Issue 4 per cent bonds and pay the railroad com pany the amount of cost of construc tion of that portion of the bridge that the city desires to use and charge the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com pany enough rental to pay the annual Interest on the bonds. In this manner the city would prac tically own a bridge of Its own, or at least that portion it now actually needs for the use of the public. This it apears to me would be much better method than if the city had built the bridge Instead of the rail road, as far as cost Is concerned when figured upon the basis of an entire new bridge. A. C. GOING. The Spelling of Plttsborg. PORTLAND, July 29. (To the Edi tor. (1) Perhaps there are others than myself who would be pleased to have you state in your columns whether or not there is a final "h" on the word "Pittsburg." when spelled properly. (2) Is there not authority for both spell ings? FELIX GEORGE. The original charter of the city has the name spelled with an "h." Custom has generally dropped the "h," ' but whether there Is any authority for the change can probably be learned only by inquiry at Pittsburg itself. A Problem in Cribbago. MILL CITY, Or., July 26. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly answer through your paper what the correct count is of a hand In crlbbage ace, three sevens, with tray as deck head? A REAUKK. There are three combinations of two sevens with the ace. To make 15, each of which counts two, the three sevens count six and the tray does not help the hand. The total count is there fore 12. No. HOQCIAM, Wash., July 28. (To the editor.) Will the U. S. Postofflce de liver a special delivery letter, with a Canadian special delivery stamp, sent from any Canadian city to tne uniiea States? C. L. K. GO T' WORK. It ain't no use to hanker after riches. It ain't no use to hanker after fame. Tain't no use to spend your time a KTumblin' The man with bralns'll get there Jlst tha same. Idle hankerln" don't get a feller much. You gotta put your shoulder to the wheel: And go t' workln", sweatin sometimes swearln But plowln' right ahead 's 'f you're made of steel. I guess If He put Intelligence In man. And give man a fair amount of grit and vim, Tain't no use to blame the other feller Fer usln' what God Almighty s given him. It's up to you and me and all our brethren To get our share of old Earth's bless- In s too; Quit kickln 'bout unequal rights or labor And go t' work, and find your dreams come true: J. O. Hartman.