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TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, AUGUST IS, 1912. 6 rORTTAXn. OKKGOX. Eater at Portland. Ortfoa. Poatofflcs a Ocond-Claas afsttsr. ubacrtbtioa Hum Invariably a Aa vanes, jnv uin. Dally. SMnday Included, out year fJ-JJ Dally, Sunday Included, six month..... " Dally, Sunday Included, threa months... a-" Dally. Sunday Included, on month .. ! uauy, wltnout Bunoay. 001 year Dally, wltnout Sunday, mix months. .... -- Bally, vlthout Bunday, ttara months... a-" ally, without 6unday. on month...... -rr WMK17. an year RubiIa. ana vu r ............ Sunday and Weekly, on year.. ,, (BT CARR1KR.) Dally, Sunday Included, on year....... Dally, Sunday Included, one month..... . . ' . . i. u i T.inffi,.ji money or der. expreia order or personal cnack on ' y laal K.nk lumgi coin or currancy axe at the aandar-a risk. OIt postofflce adoraae In full. Including- county and stata, ,a Peata, Bate 10 to 14 pages. 1 eent. l to 3S pagaa, 3 oanta; SO to 40 pages. 40 to S paxes. 4 cents. Foreign postage, double rat. . inters Business Offices Terr A Con- nn New York. Brnniwlck building. eago. Stager building. co Ban Francises Olllce R. J. BldwaU -o 142 Market street. . . o Earopeaa OMlce No. 8 Regent atreet a. W., London. FORTLAXD, MONDAY, AIGCST 12, 1913. BATTLING FOB THE LORD. If we were to grant that sincerity existed on both sides there would be b large measure of justice in the enor mous financial aid that George w. Perkins is reputed to have given and be willing to give the Roosevelt cam paign for progressiveness. If there is not sincerity on both sides it is an - entirely different matter. This ob servation is induced by a perusal of Colonel Roosevelt's confession, of faith, wherein It deals with the labor ques tion, and by an examination of the re port of the Stanley committee's inves tigation of the Steel trust wherein it relates to the treatment accorded workmen by the trust. Many of the conditions which Colo nel Roosevelt deplores and promises to remedy exist among the laborers em ployed by the Steel Corporation. "The profits of this system of labor employ ment," says the Stanley committee, "go to the Steel Corporation." Mr. Perkins is a director of the Steel Corporation. In his confession of faith the Colonel declared for the living wage; he con demned the seven-day working week; he advocated three shifts instead of two each day of twenty-four hours in the continuous industries; by implica tion he upheld the right of working men to combine for their protection. On the other hand, the Steel Cor poration has declared against the ex tension of union labor; during the period embraced by an investigation by the United States Commissioner of Labor (May. 1910) 20 per cent of the 153,000 employes in the mills covered by the report worked twelve hours a day every day in the week, including Eunday: only two shifts were employed In the twenty-four hours; every week or two weeks the shifts were trans- ferred. the common practice being for ,one shift of employes to work twenty four hours on the day of the transfer. The report of the Stanley commit tee quotes the following resolution adopted June 17, 1901, by the execu tive committee of the Steel Corpora tion: That w are unalterably opposed to any extenston of union labor and advise sub sidiary companies to take firm poaltlon when these questlone come up and say that they are not going to recognize It, that la, any extension of nnlona In mills where they do not now exist; that great car ehould be used to prevent trouble and that they promptly report and confer with this cor poration. Concerning the effect of this resolu tion the report says: American laborers loyal to their unions could not b had. Something had to be done to get laborers. Southern Europe was ap pealed to. Hordes of laborers from South ern Europe poured Into th United States. They were almost entirely from th agri cultural claaaea, knew absolutely nothing about th Iron and steel manufacture, but wer sufficient to fight the labor nnlona S"hey were absolutely unskilled, but they could work especially as common laborers. In times of special necessity eren advertlae- merits for foreign help of this class were tpread broadcast. In the same committee report is re produced one of these advertisements, printed in 1909, calling for workmen In open, shops. The advertisement expresses a preference for Syrians, Poles and Roumanians. The report continues: Th result is that about SO per cent of th unskilled laborers in the steel and iron business are foreigners of these classes. With the benefit of a skilled American fore man such a crew can work out results In unskilled labor production. The profits of this system of labor employment go to the Steal Corporation, while the displaced Amer ican workman shifted as best he could. "We stand for the living wage." These are Colonel Roosevelt's own words. Doubtless the plural pronoun Includes Director Perkins of the Steel Corporation. The confession ought to be good news in Pennsylvania. Per haps Pinchot had It in mind when he promised the Colonel a plurality of 300.000 In that state, for here is how the Steel Corporation, with its thou sands of employes in Pennsylvania, has been standing for the living wage: As to the dally lives and conditions of liv ing ef tnaa laborers, the testimony taken Is voluminous, far too extensive even to summarize In this report. The testimony certainly shows conditions undeairable, and far below what is ordinarily understood to be th American standard of living among laborers tn our country. Som of th de tail are revolting, both as to sanitary and moral conditions. Taking the ordinary tamlly as a unit, the wages paid, even If the head of the family is constantly em ployed, are barely enough to provid aub nstence. And "the profits of this system of labor employment go to the Steel Cor poration." Verily something stronger than poetic Justice may be found in the financing by Director Perkins of the Roosevelt campaign for the labor ing man. But will some doubting Thomas arise to say-that possibly a director of the Steel Corporation could correct this particular labor system without electing a President pledged to laws that would compel him to remedy It? Let doubters remember that "we stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord." This may be but one of the mysterious ways In which the Lord performs his wonders. THE VETO OF THE WOOL TARIFF. By intimating. In, his veto of the Democratic wool tariff, what degree of reduction In duties he would ap prove, .President Taft has placed on the Democracy responsibility for fail ure to relieve the people of a part of their burdens. Having committed himself to the principle of tariff re vision on the basis of the Tariff Board's report as to the guiding facts, he could not consistently do otherwise than veto this bill, for the reasoning on which It Is founded Is a direct challenge of what the Tariff Board has said. Taft Is agreed with the Democrats on the main point that the wool duties are too high. The point on which they disagree is: How much too high are those duties? The Presi dent tells the Democrats what degree of reduction he will approve. The Democrats reply that this is not enough and that they will not coifeent to any reduction until they can take off as much of the burden as tney consider excessive. The President of fers some relief immediately, the Democrats refuse any relief until the day, probably several years hence when they can grant their own meas ure of it. There Is no partisan politics In Taffs attitude. He offers to share with his opponents credit for a large degree of reduction In duties. They would still be free to make a still fur ther reduction next year, if the peo ple should entrust them with full con trol of the Government. But rather than give Taft a share of the credit of their good work, they will do noth ing. Meanwhile the people must con tinue to pay prices for woolen goods which are enhanced by excessive pro tection, while the wool-growers bear the odium of enjoying such protection, though they actually suffer all the consequences of free trade. MORK DISAPPOINTMENT FOR WAT TERSON. Woodrow Wilson's greatest sin is his refusal to be "guided by the battle- scarred veterans of Democracy Henry Watterson, for example. Wil son cast aside the support of Colonel Harvey as a hindrance rather than a help and thereby gained the appli cation of the epithets .vingrate" and "pedagogue" from the hot-tempered Kentuckian. Having accepted the pedagogue's nomination with as good. grace as possible, Watterson turned from the role of critic to that of ad viser and warned the candidate not to heed the advice of the New Tork World and Journal that Wilson should explain away the revenue only tariff plank as countenancing incidental pro tection. : The Colonel has bitter memories of what Cleveland did to the tariff plank of 1892. That plank was written by Watterson himself, who saw in Its in sertion In the platform the 'crowning triumph of many years' struggle to induce the Democracy to cease strad dling the tariff issue. The climax of a fierce debate in committee was Wat- terson's success in inducing the con vention to jump down on his side of the fence. While he still glowed with victory, Cleveland threw a bucket of cold water over him and chilled his enthusfasm. He rose again in 1912 to deny that a revenue tariff meant free trade and to say: The Democrat who is afraid of the cry of free trade had better get off the line of fire, because every proposal to revise the tariff is called free trade by th protectionists. Wilson has now committed himself to the policy of gradual and cautious tariff revision, of "hitting the high spots" first and of then cutting off the tariff graft by small Installments. Thus he removes the realization of Watterson's Ideal Into the dim future. The Kentucky Colonel Is growing old and may not live to see the Nation worshipping at the shrine of his star- eyed goddess. Life is full of sad dis appointments. CASTING A HOROSCOPE. Governor AVilson has engaged the services of a new order of physiogno mist to delve into the intricacies of the Wilson countenance and wrest therefrom the secrets that Nature has written of the future. The worker In occultism calls himself a psycho- physicist and he has been invited to work his wonders at the Wilson domi cile at Seagirt this week. Without having had a special course in psycho-physics, in fact without having a very definite idea whether you apply it externally or take it with your meals, we feel we have the capacity to cast a horoscope for the Governor that will cover that partic ular period of the future encompassed by the next six months. Closing our eyes and lighting our pipe, so as properly to simulate the requisite trance, we observe the Gov ernor taking a great many short trips and meeting a great many people. He will. make an unusually large number of personal friends and is to be re ceived with marked attention wher ever he goes. People will cheer him. feast him, flatter him and fawn upon him. Many newspapers will say nice things about him and in fact life will have a most pleasing odor. But he must not let these demon strations go to his head, nor must he acquire a fondness for them. He must beware of a large, fat, good-natured man who Is working against him. And early in the month of November the throngs will cease to cheer, the feasts will be discontinued, the fawners will cease to fawn, the nice things will no longer be' said and life will for a time lose its exquisite flavor. For the nec tar of victory will be quaffed by the aforesaid large, fat good-natured man who Is working against our subject. Yet the bitter dregs of defeat are not fatal and our subject will recover anon amid the tranquilly refreshing environs of the little Seagirt retreat. WHO'IX BE A DAREDEVIL? PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (To th Editor.) Throuah your ditorlals you hav continu ally urged Dan Kellaher to renounce his nomination aa an elector on the Kepubltcan ticket, and thus permit some strong Taft supporter to tak hla plai-e. Ia there any necessity tor nis noinc io: you aurelv no not believe that Kellaher would be a dare devil, like Thomas McOusker. and disre gard the will of the people? Should Taft carry the State of Oregon in November, and Kellaher remain on the Republican ticket as an elector, it appears to me that you are doing him an Injustice by not as suring our citizens that he will disregard his peraopal inclinations and vote in the electoral college for Taft. ' Oregon has al ready taught Its citizens that it tolerates no such disloyalty aa evidenced by Thomas McCuBkfr. As Kellaher did not seek th office of an elector, but the voters of the state wrote In his name, it therefore appears to me that he Is under no obligation to the Republican partv. As a Progressive, I will say that Kellaher should get off the Republican ticket as an elector, if by so doing It will thereby further the interests . of th Pro gressive rjarty locally. This, however. Is an open question. Possibly In a future meeting of the local Progressives, the ques tion will be decided and. faithful to the cause of Progressivism, if it should b .so decided, you will find Dan Kellaher getting off of the Republican ticket as an elector. Then what rejoicing there will be among the "stand-patters." OLIVER M. HtCKEY. The situation is exactly this. If Mr. Kellaher remains on the Republican electoral ticket without a pledge from himself that he will obey the will of the people, and if Taft carries Oregon by anything less than an overwhelm ing majority, Mr. Kellaher will not be chosen as a Republican elector. Re publicans who know his personal in clinations will not vote for him under such circumstances. They will write in the name of some other man. Those who do not know of his party allegi ance to Roosevelt will vote for him thinking he is a Republican. - There will be thousands of informed and thousands of uninformed. Mr. Kella her is not yet so famous that the entire electorate of Oregon pauses to hear words of wisdom from his lips. If Mr. Sphinx Kellaher remains on the Republican ticket and Taft carries Oregon, the electoral vote will be split. A candidate on some other .electoral ticket will defeat Mr. Republican Kellaher. We might find that Mr. Progressive Kellaher had defeated Mr. Republican Kellaher, or that some other lone Progressive or some single Democrat had won a plurality. Under such circumstances it would still be reasonable to hold that Taft hoii arrioH Drpran. R II t the Ore- gonian does not propose, to asSure the citizens that tne single rrogresaive elector or the single .Democratic eiec tor thus chosen would obey the will o the neonle. It is confident the will o the people would not be heeded. And inasmuch as we have heard so much about Mr. McCusker's dare-deviltry, we should now like to hear about somebody else s nerve. w in eacn Rnnscveit nnri Wilson electoral can didate say what would be his attitude under such circumstances? Is there sine-le one who will be dare-devil enough even to answer the query? We guess not! Yet it Is a possmie, not improbable, complication. Candidate Kellaher's presence on the Republican electoral ticket with out a definite statement from hlmseir as to what h will do If elected as Republican. Imperils a full and. free expression of the will or tne people to which he nrofesses to be so devoted. Tf The Dren-nnlan assured the citizens that he would disregard his personal inclinations if Taft carried uregon, the assurance would be an opinion and nothing more. It would have the weiH-hr of an oninion. and no more Moreover, in the absence of a definite statement to the contrary. The Ore-s-onian is of the oninion that he would not. The Oregonian also holds the opinion that if at the promised pro gressive meeting It Is decided that the nniv Vinno nt the Progressives is a SDllt electoral vote Mr. Kellaher will remain on the Republican ticket, expecting to be a dare-devil after election. DERKT OR "LOGANBERRY. There has arisen on the horizon In Polk Countv a cloud no larger than a bedsheet of legislative size. But it may grow larger as the berry season progresses, for some newcomers are endeavoring to change the historic name of a station on the Southern Pacific line the name it has borne since the road was constructed, some thing less than forty years ago. This station has been known for almost forty years as Derry. And why Derry? Because well, listen and then when you have heard, say whether you think it should be changed to Loganberry, Gooseberry, Raspberry or any other berry. When the Nesmith family came to this country in the latter part of the eighteenth century they embarked from their native town of London derry, in good old Ireland. They set tled in New Hampshire and named the little town that grew up near them Derry, leaving off the London .like good and loyal Irish. In 1843 the Nesmlths, or some of them, removed their lares and penates to Oregon and that was a mighty good thing for Oregon! They took up a homestead in the Rickreall "Valley, in Polk County 5S0 acres of fine land. They were not far from DallaaJ not far from Salem, but their trading was mostly done at the little town of Rickreall, about half a mile to the west. When the Southern Pacific was projected on the west side from Port land south, a survey was made through the' Nesmith homestead and Colonel J. W. Nesmith gave the road the right-of-way through his land, a strip sixty feet wide by a mile in length. Then he gave ten acres for a depot site. stipulating that the depot or station should be known as "Derry. About half of the Nesmith home stead was sold years ago to Senator Ankeny, of Washington, a son-in-law of Colonel Nesmith. Just east of the Nesmith place Is a farm belonging to H. B. Thielsen, of Salem. Or It did belong to him until recently, when it was sold, as It is said, to a syndicate of Salem men who are going to set a large part of Its 400 acres to logan berries, and change the name of Derry to Loganberry. . Loganberry! What a Juicy name for a town! All summed up it amounts to this: Will a few men, simply be cause they intend to go into a com munity and set out a berry patch, even though it be a pretty large patch will they be suffered by the old set tlers to take away an honored name and substitute for It the appelation of a common fruit? Not if we under stand the feelings of the old settlers in the Rickreall or Nesmith neighbor hood. IS WORK "HEIM'' A correspondent seeks to explain the scarcity of men for harvest and construction work by his own expe rience as a laborer under a boss who drove his men. He admits that he had Just turned from the physically easy work of a pastor to that of a manual laborer, and he endorses the remark of one of his fellow-workers that "it is hell." No doubt It is, .when a man who Is not Inured to manual labor finds himself called upon to keep pace with others who are hardened to toll by years of training. He attempted too much at the beginning. No man who thus changes his occupation can ex pect to do a full day's work the first, or the second, or even the third day. He must work up to the standard re quirement for a day's work by degrees. He erred in taking a job where he would not be allowed to do so. At the outset it will go hard with him, but when calluses replace blisters on his hands, when the soft flesh of the easy life he has led is worn off and when his muscles have become hard ened, the work will cease to appear irksome. He will feel a vigor and elasticity In his frame which will make him exult in his physical strength. His appetite will Improve so greatly that he will relish substantial fare and his blood will course through his veins with new life. The fog of dys pepsia which may have clouded his brain and given him a Jaundiced view of life will be dispelled. His mind will become clear, 'his thoughts will become cheerful and troubles which seemed to weigh him down will be come mere trifles all this unless he is lazy or has heeded to the breeders of discontent. Our correspondent Imagines that in recommending manual labor, an edi tor speaks whereof he does not know, but therein Mr. Scott errs. The Ore gonian, if It would, could name men employed In newspaper offices who have done the laborious work of the harvest field from sun-up to sun down; others who still combine like work with their newspaper calling. and still others who expect or hope to return to the farm. The Oregonian knows of newspaper men who have carried the hod, laid brick and mixed mortar. These men have not been, and are not being, broken down by toil. They are in the full bloom of health and strength, and they attri bute that fact mainly to their labor with their muscles. All work days are not of ten hours. All bosses are not drivers, such as the one our correspondent describes. They know when a man Is giving a day's iwork for a day's wage, and they see that he gives It. Some laborers, like other men, are inclined to loaf on the Job, and it is the boss' business to prevent this. When he does, the loafer complains, as did the man our correspondent mentions. Work, hard work, which strains the muscles and causes the sweat to flow. is not the curse It is commonly called; It is a blessing. It makes men strong. It is the source of the greatest men s greatness, from Cincinnatus, who was called from the plow to save his coun try, to Lincoln, who was the better statesman for having been a rail splitter. The most beneficent decree which God ever gave to man was the one he gave in driving Adam from the delights of Eden: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." FATE OF AN OBTRCSFVE PAPA. In seeking a divorce a Kansas City woman selects as the grounds of com plaint certain defects in the character and breeding of her husband, bhe mentions no instances of gross neg lect, cruelty or infidelity, but rather puts forth an array of marital short comings such as can be found, in greater or lesser degree, in every household. Her first complaint is that he chews tobacco in bed. That, to be sure, is a serious offense, because it implies a fondness for the weed that must sub tract from the fullness of his marital affections. Her second cause of com plaint Is that he refuses to go to church; her third is that he sleeps in. his trousers; and lastly she complains that he obtrudes his presence upon his daughter's callers. This last-named cause is Indeed a serious one. Any sympathy that we might otherwise have felt for the man because of his essentially human shortcomings is completely lost before this heinous charge. It is an offense calculated to try the patience ofny wife and mother to the snapping point. Wre can see in the mind's eye the whole tragic picture. Enter a young man, spick and span In his calling clothes. The daughter of the house hold greets him at the door. She has on an apron to Indicate that she has just emerged from the kitchen vvTiereas she spent the afternoon primping and slipped on the apron as a subterfuge to disguise the fact. The young man is led into the parlor, where he arrives after having stum bled over his own feet a couple of times. A brilliant conversation is struck up concerning the weather and in the course of half an hour or so it has drifted around to the productive subject of theaters, when papa makes his entrance. Papa is glad to see the young man, who slips a clammy palm to the ob trusive pater and becomes excessively uncomfortable. Papa, being a man of blunt sensibilities and little percep tion, takes up a discussion of local politics, the young man is cowed into polite attention broken only by occa sional nods of assent to arguments he does not hear, and the evening slips away into nothingness. If this were all the tragedy would not be overwhelming. But there is more. For after a few such experi ences the young man discontinues his calls, as do succeeding victims, one after the other, and the daughter eventually dies an old maid. Divorce is a regrettable thing, but if there is any mitigation that can be pleaded for the system, it would seem to lie In this very case. The character of Democratic pro gressiveness is revealed by the pro posal to limit civil service employes to a seven-year term and the char acter of Taft's progressiveness appears In 'his announced intention to veto this scheme. The Democrats desire more spoils, Taft desires to abolish what spoils remain by placing all subordi nate officials under civil service rules. Yet the Democrats have the audacity to boast of being progressive and to dub Taft a reactionary. Possibly the scarcity of harvest hands may be accounted for by the abundance of candidates In Washing ton. If the candidates would go to work In the harvest field they would make money instead of spending it. and their fellow-citizens would not waste time in listening to the recital of their superlative merits. Withdrawal of the Roosevelt men from the Republican state committee of Ohio clears the issue between the Republican and Progressive parties in that state. It is as impossible for a man to be a member of two parties at the same time as it is for him to travel simultaneously In opposite di rections. There seems to be as strong a de sire to rip up the commission govern ment in Spokane as there has been in Tacoma. Why not let one board com plete its term and give the system a fair trial instead of frequently pulling up the plant to see if its roots are growing? This Is the open season for right- of-way agents in Oregon and they are received with open arms wherever there seems to be real money, instead of a promoter's scheme, behind them. A Sellwood farmer reports that a bolt of lightning knocked the pipe out rfr his mouth. We are tempted to speculate on what he was smoking In it at the time. A German wireless station on Long Island has little terror. In time of trouble a single shot could put It out of commission. Candidates for Governor two years hence may Just as well wait to see how the 1912 campaign ends. Suffi cient unto this year are the troubles thereof. If to the deaf mute plaintiff and defendant we could add a few deaf mute lawyers, what relief the Judges would feel. Taft's veto record may exceed Cleveland's, but it will not consist of bills to give pensions to deserving peo ple. ' Haines wins the Republican nomi nation for Governor of Idaho by so small a plurality as to be distressing. If John Barrett Is not handy. Sec retary Knox is the-best man to send to Japan. Pastor Aked is a famous angler and, of course, his fish scales must be re liable. Seismic disturbance is getting more Turks than the Italian army and navy. Would it not be great If Portlafl produced the "white hope?" LIKE CALM AFTER THE TEMPEST. Present Safety: of Streets Contracted With Period Before Speed Crusade. PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (To the Edi tor.) It is not often I am impelled to "break into print," and usually when the inclination comes I successfully fight it off; but the present demand for "letting off a little steam" is so insist ent, and withal, so promising of relief, that I must ask you for the allotment of a bit of space. The subject which has agitated me is the recent crusade against automobile speeding, together with an important fact which it de veloped, and the wonderful metamor phosis worked upon the streets of our cky and In the temperament of our people. I can compare this metamor phosis and its effects to nothing more apt than the sense of relief, security and content which comes with the blesseM calm following a tempest. As one who has suffered from the automobile plague, I want to felicitate myself, publicly (no other way will do), on the happy conditions instituted by that crusade. I want to felicitate, also, the 257.100 other sufferers from the plague for the same thing; I wish to commend the policemen for the energy, activity and Impartiality which has characterized their efforts In the crusade, and. more than all, I wish to congratulate Judge Olson for his fear less attitude toward the offenders brought into his "court. Sometimes It happens that a public official fails of appreciation by his constituents and is caused to suffer loss of prestige through neglect on the part of those who should support him; buj I think I can Justly assure the judge that, in this instance, the people are with him and will stay with him. He need have no fear of the vaunted Influence of the 700 members of the Automobile Club; for the people will never surrender the position acquired by means ef the pres ent crusade and will be quick to sus tain Its champions. The people are no longer helpless since having armed themselves with the Initiative. They can easily regulate this speed question by the passage of a law, the mechanical operation of which would annul licenses to drive upon conviction in a Justice Court of violation of the ordinance, without imposing any discretion in the court. The people are in the temper to do It, too, if aggravated further. Before this crusade against speeding was begun, pedestrians were in con stant peril of their lives when they at tempted, timorously, to cross a street, and were daily being run down and either maimed or killed, as everybody knows. So numerous were the casual ties. Indeed, that the newspapers were perforce compelled to publish accounts of the same In job-lots; but since tbe institution of the crusade, nearly a month ago, but one serious accident has occurred on our streets, but one per son has been killed (the man run down by the police patrol). No innocent chil dren have been slaughtered, not one little mound has been added to the large number already raised in our ceme teries. Do you understand what this means? It means that reckless drivers of automobiles were responsible for every one of the accidents and deaths which lately disgraced this city. The evidence cannot be otherwise construed; they are "caught with the goods." This great fact should never be lost sight of or forgotten; and the efforts o our judges and police to maintain the pres ent policy of sanity and safety should be actively supported. COLE BURKE. 254 Twelfth street. Taft Peace Policy Reminder. MEDFORD, Or., Aug. 10. (To the Editor.) The workingman better not forget that Taft did not borrow his insistent advocacy of the cause of in ternational peace from Teddy. Of two candidates for President, one a champion of militarism -and the other standing for the peace treaties be tween nations, which would the labor ing man better support? He might ask the Socialists on that point, who claim that they have already put the veto on several international wars. Moreover, ten years from now or some time anyhow. Roosevelt will be execrated for his opposition to those same peace treaties in the same degree in which Taft will be honored for his independent and broad-minded advocacy of them. The recall of the Army is more im portant than the recall of the judiciary. E. H. HARPER. Election Statistics. HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 10. (To the Editor.) What was the vote for Roose velt, Taft and La Follette at the April primary election in the State of Ore gon? How "did the vote in the Republican primary in June compare with the vote cast by the Republicans in the last state election? ANOTHER VOTER. The total vote cast for Republican Presidential candidates last April was 71,913. Roosevelt received 28,905, La Follette 22,491, Taft 20,317. In 1910 the total vote cast in the general election for Representative In Congress was 56, 898. The votes given other candidates varied widely. Swimming; English Channel. PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Ed itor.) Who was the last man that crossed the English Channel by swim ming, and how was it done? Was he all the. time in water? How did he eat his lunch? G. C. P. William T. Burgess swam the Eng lish Channel from South Dover. Eng land, to La Chatelet, France. Septem ber S, 1911; airline distance, 40 miles; time, 22 hours 35 minutes: actual dis tance traveled, 60 miles. Burgess was In the water continuously from start to finish. Newspaper accounts did not state whether he ate while in the water. Clearings and Permits. EUGENE. Or., Aug. 10. (To the Ed itor.) Kindly give bank clearings and building permits for Los Angeles. Port land and Seattle for last two years. L. E. HARRIS. The Oregonian has statistics concern ing bank clearings and building per mits In Portland only. The totals fol low: Clearings, year ending June 30, 1911. J535.S64. 062.50; 1911-12. $579,030, 338.49: building permits. 1910-11. $31, 959,874; 1911-2. $18,867,273. Finding; n Homestead. PORTLAND, Aug. 10. (To the Ed itor.) How can one best find a claim without going to a locator? I know several people like myself who would be glad to take advantage of the new homestead law. but do not like the idea of trusting a professional locator. A sut5autiJt;i. Call at United States Land Office In Worcester building. Salt t Dissolve Standard Oik PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (To the Ed itor.) To settle a dispute, please give the year In which the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company was begun. and the outcome of same. LOUIS W. TRAHMER. The eauitv suit to dissolve the Stand ard Oil Company was Instituted Novem ber 16, 1906. The decree was in favor of the Government. Delegrntes at Baltimore. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 10. (To the Ed itor.) please inform me as to how the Oregon delegation to the Baltimore convention in 1912 voted on the ques tion of Parker's chairmanship. B. F. V. Holman voted-for Parker.' The other nine delegates voted for Bryan. WORK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Service Rendered the People by Grent News Organisation. The. following address was made at the recent newspaper conference be fore the University of Wisconsin by Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press: "I am asked." said Mr. Stone, "to answer the question: 'Can the impar tiality of the news-gathering and news supplying agencies be fairly chal lenged?" To me, of course, as to any right-minded person, such an inquiry is about as courteous as if you should meet me with the salutation: 'Are you a.burglarr or, 'Do you belong In the penitentiary?' But we shall not quar reU "I am quite ready to waive all sense of propriety as to th form you have given to the topic and to recognize that the institution I represent has a public character a large responsibility and is fairly subject to inquiry. "I should be very glad if the Asso ciated Press, its purposes and its prac tices, were better understood; I mean better understood by bolh reader and editor. The institution bears a very important relation to American life, and Is, I am gure, well worth your study. Its telegrams are printed pri marily In over 800 dally newspapers and are copied or rewritten In unnum bered thousands of other daily, week ly or monthly publications. It is doubt lees safe to say they are read by over three-fourths of the people of the land. "I am sure you will all agree that It Is important, to use no stronger word, that your market reports, for example, be trustworthy. Well, what assurance have you, not only that the reports of the Associated Press are honest, hut that out of the necessities of the case they must be more certain of accuracy than any other market reports? "One good reason grows out of the magnitude of the association's work. "I insist that no smaller agency can possibly give as great a guaranty for accuracy or impartiality. First, there are the traditions of half a century which must be lived up to. This spirit which animates every one In the serv ice is a good deal, but naturally is not all. More important Is the fact that every telegram of the Associated Press Is subjected to such a degree of censor ship as to make untruthful or biased reports practically Impossible. "Every one familiar with our work knows that it is utterly impossible for any one in the service, from the gener al manager to the least important agent at the most remote pOlnt, to send out an untruthful dispatch and escape detection. Tou may write a biased or inaccurate statement for a newspaper and 'get away with it," but you cannot do it with the argus-eyed millions who read the dispatches of the Asso ciated Press. "Obviously then, the very maKnltude of the Associated Press work tends to make truthfulness and impartiality in the service Imperative. It cannot be used to 'grind any one's at,' to serve any special interest, or to help any po litical party or faction or propaganda. "If you hear a man whining that the Associated Press is run in the interest of this party or that you may put it down that what he wants is not lair play, but a leaning his way. "But the Associated Tress is some thing more than a more town gossip. It is the srreat forum in which tne vital questions arising in our democratic form of government are debated, lan ing no part in any controversy, neither advocating nor opposing the view of the contestants for public approval, it furnishes thein an avenue through which they may reach the people, with the assurance that they shall have ab splutely fair treatment that it is a case of a free rieid ana no tavor. "It is worth noting that at the closi of each Presidential campaign for yean both candidates have borne public testt mony to the impartial treatment the; have received at the hands of the Asso elated Press. "T. .hi, nr.u t h a nnnrt nf the associa tlnn hpcomes the 'melting pot' of American public opinion. "Finally, the business of news gath -! v a a (uirtf.t mnrfll value. Th association has an enormous influence on American life. Adopting tne ter -Unlnirv ,M,r TTtpdiCftl friPnd.S 'W'l cure diseases upon the body politic by the aseptic ana not ny tno nnopn method.' "Riven a. correct environment, we iAA i . t n 1 1 thit rAKt Tf wit the truth before them the people choose to go wrong that is tneir airair. no ours. We furnish an atmosphere, o truth which necessarily purifies tin .-.nnni f rnmiiitinii. "We furnish thi lic-ht which flames out into the dark places' and makes Impossible 'treason stratagem and spoils. T atAFn.l vicr-tlnnna la th nrfre O liberty, then the ceaseless vigil of the Associated Press must nave very nign value in our repumic. Man Dies. 1SS Yearn Old. An official investigation into the claim that jose uaviario. who oieu a few days ago at Tuxapan. Mexico, was 185 years old, has been made, and It is announced that it was fully established by church records that he was born in 1727. For more than 75 years before t-, .1 . t- C.lvarln wno bnAwn to t H P Ilia UALH .Ol IM 0 ...,w .. .. people of the town where he lived as the oldest man in tne worm, ne wo active until a few days before his death. Mudtnrtle and Cat Sleep Together. D.ltlmnrd lmarlcan ' Turtle Dove is the name of a family a I . V. .. V.nma A fpfl fithftrlllA Oil- , 1 1 L 111 111' IIVHIO .... . Ion. of Albany, N. Y. It is a mudturtle which has been In tne ramiiy lor u , I- ..!ii r, ha IKft V.ir. Old. years. f.iui i. - " - The turtle and the cat at the Dillon household are Dosom inenos, aim .t. i v. . , invoi-i.hiT k found toarether under the stove, wiin me lunmt, ucou on the cat s paw. Climbing Rosebush SO Feet Blath. Boston Herald. E. R. Drummond. of Waterville, Me.. has in his garden what is believed to be the largest climbing rosebush in Kennebec County, if not in mat state. It stands 20 feet in height and at the present time it is covered with blos soms. Pa'a Way With a Wooer. London Tit-Bits. Pa. why do you always Insist on me singing when Mr. Spoozleton comes ""Well, I don't like that fellow, and yet I hate to come right out and tell him to go." LIVE IX THE PRESENT. Count not leaves that fall to the forest floor. Nor brood o'er water that has passu! the wheel; Their work is spent; they will return no more To please the eye or grind your corn to meal. Indulge not In a revery over these Poor attributes or yesreraays oispiay. And do not worship them on thread bare, knees, But give new things, within your heart, full sway. Tis folly to sigh for departed things And give them thought till soul is drowned In grief. For up the vale the river sweetly sings, And Spring will soon appear with budding leaf. So do not prate about those ashes, bare. Of vanished hopes crushed In tbe sod den earth. While chances spring about you every where Illumed with glory of their present worth. GLENN NORBREY PLEASANTS. Half a Century Ago From The Orfgonian of August 12. 1S. For several years efforts have been made to obtain from Congress dona tions of public lands, the avails of which should be applied to the endow ment of an agricultural college In each state of the Union. At the re cent session of Congress these efforts were successful. An act wa passed granting: for the purpose named ni every loyal state an amount of public, land to be apportioned to each state equal to 30,000 acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress. Th State of Oregon, under the iaw, wi:i be entitled to 90,000 acres of land. This land, If selected as soon as the law will allow, can be made to lie worth J100.000. The steamer Golden Gate burned at sea. Terrible loss of life; of 33S per sons on board 198 lost or missing; $1. 400,747 of treasure lost. The steamer Golden Gate, Captain Hudson, left San Francisco for Panama on Monday, July 21. She had on board 242 passengers with 96 officers and crew. On the after noon of July 27 the ship took fire. She was headed for shore, which was three or four miles distant. About 100 of the passengers had reached the fore castle when the flames, bursting out amidships, cut off all communication. Many who were In the after part of the vessel leaped Into the sea and were drowned. There was a terrible panic on the forecastle. A few leaped into the sea. Others whose garments were on fire had to -be pushed overboard. Ropes were made fast to the sides of the ship and passengers descended by them to the water, but they wtre soon so much loaded that those who first went down were crowded off and drowned. Of the ten boats on board but four could he reached. One of these was capsized and sunk on being launched. The other three were filled when launched, hut many of those who were found swimming were taken on board. They instantly steered for Man zanlllo. The ship struck when about 301 yards from the beach. By the shocK many were thrown overboard. The St. Louis, coming from Panama, reached Mansanillo on the 2Sth and took off from the shore all the sur vivors. The steamer Maria, recently arrived, Is intended to run on the up-river trade in opposition to the Oregon Steam Navigation Company's steamers. A rumor was brought to this city on the Hunt last evening that new. exten sive and equally as rich ami remark able gold discoveries as thou of Sal mon River had been made east and south of Florence City. THE PRU.llHER AS LABORING MIX One llnmllo tlir Shovel but ;! It Ipin Too Hard, PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (To the Krt ltor.) Allow me to give a little exe gesis on the article In The OreRonlan Sunday about 6000 men needed in camn and field. The matter seems to be at the same time encouraging and asissra vatlng; but how to solve the problem I believe needs a little personal expe rience In order to give a just state ment of things. Having received a charse In Wisconsin I had to await the recovery of my wife from an opera tion. Near the hospital excavating was under way for a new building. 1 fig ured that here was a chance to earn my hospital bill working for the com pensation of $2.50 a day of ten hours. The boss told me I could start the next morning a quarter-to-seven. 1 stood it for two days; but I only wish the gang bad consisted of editors and pas tors and businessmen. Then there cer tainly would have been a howl In the excavation movement, and instead of the papers exhorting their fellowmen to take up these Jobs, they would tell them to stay away. What makes the work so pernicious as it Is? Not only is it hard; but it lasts for ten hours find then yo-i have a human -being;, called a boss, to watch every movement you make and hound you like a vulture if you don't cxerl yourself to the utmost. 1 asked my fellowworkers how they liked the job; they answered "Like hell." And it seems to me, that came as near the truth a3 possible. Watch all these pooi slnners going home from work at P. M. and It is a pity that with all our boasted civilization we don't know bet ter. The criminals at Salem look like gentlemen compared with the 60im wanted in camp and field. Remember what the Lord says: Whatsoever ye have done to one of my little ones, ye have done to me." Of course they are not men with big heads on them; but we have no right through a petty boss and greedy minds behind to work them to death. The Humane Society threatens to punish those who overload the horses. Well done; but more so should they be punished who overload their brethren. But as I wrote before: The only way you can realize it, you dear, well fed businessmen, editors and pastors, Is to spend a week or so of your vaca tion where you want the 6000 and things will be righted. Tou will not see people loaf then, when they get what Is due to them both in regard to treatment and wages; as it is now. they cannot help being embittered against society and shun work like Paul tells us to shun evil. J. SCOTT. A Dog Awompnnlmenl. Judge. "Are you one of those who believe the dO(r is man's most faithful friend J" "I must admit that I am not." "Then. I take it. you do not keep a dog?" "Oh. yes. I keep one, but not because I like the brutes. It happens that the one we have always howls unmercifully when my wife tries to sing." Taking In Snmmer Boarders. Detroit Free Press. "Are you going to take in any Sum mer boarders this year, ma? "T think I will. Hiram. I can make a nice little sum of money that way." "Then, for goodness" sake, don't at tempt to give them the stuff they call Uinir. Insist on their eatlns just what we have ourselves, even if it Is too ricn lor em. Damon and Pythias, Players. Chicago Record-Herald. in. ...v. , Hi4 1lmnn nnH PvthiA (in that made them so famous?" "I don t rememner now, out i minis they were a winning battery that some manager found in one of the bush leagues." Class In Dressmaking. Chicago Tribune. 'I am going to put some white in the yoke." said the young lady, referring to her gown. Won't that scramble It?" inquired the young man. Congressman as a Provider. Exchange. Have vou asked your Congressman for any free seeds?" "Naw; but I wrote to -iim to una me two or three good Summer boarders. Resistance to Electrical Current. Baltimore American. For measuring the resistance to the electrical current of poorly bonded rail joints la the purpose of a device in vented by an Ingenious Frenchman. Two Weeks of Snmmer Peace. Boston Transcript. Holllngs Where would you like to spend your vacation? Henpeck In au Institution for aeai mutes. -