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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912. 6 PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Orsson. Postotncs Second-CIS Uattar. ubacrlbtloa Rates Invariably f Advaae tBY MAIL.) ally. Sunday Included, one year. ?;; bally. Sunday included, six mootbl..... J - Dally. Sunday Included, three montM... Dally. Sunday Included, ana month..... Daily, without Sunday, one year. J"", Dauy. w.tt-out Sunday, alx montna..... Daily, without Sunday, three montna... Daily. wltaut Sunday, ona month. ..... JJ Weekly, one year Sunday, one year au Sunday and Weekly, ona year liJT CARRIER.) Dally. Sunday Included, ona year.. Dally. Sunday Included, one montn..... How ! Remit Send PoatoKlce r. expreaa order or peraonai cheek on local bank. Stamps, coin or c"f"nfdr, at tha sender's risk. Give postottlco adore., in full. Includlnc county and stats. t9 Paataca Hatea 10 to 14 paiea. 1 ""'.A to 2a paces. 2 centa; 0 to u pa.ea. "; 4 to ti paea. 4 centa. Foreiitn poatae. a.,.ra"Bo.Ue Offlc-V.rr. Conk- an New Tork. Brjaawlck building. caxo. stexer building. i.ii Co.. Saw Francisco Olllce R. J. BldweU - T Market street, g, European olflce No. Recent stre. W Loudon. --. PORTLAND. TUESDAY. AUGUST 80. THE WICKED TARIFF TAX. Candidate Wilson talks f rankly to the New Jersey farmers and tells them that they are being outraged by the protective tariff, .which taxes every thing they buy. and exempts in effect everything they sell. The Inference is that the farmers should not pay. and therefore nobody should pay. Nobody wants to pay the tariff tax. That Is certain. The ideal tariff U the urttf that insures high Prtc' the American producer and low prices for the American consumer. But there is. for there can be. no such U Yet is there no benefit in the pro tective tariff to the farmer or pro ducer? Ask the Oregon wool-grower or hopgrower. What does Mr. Wilson propose to do for the woolgrower. for example? Mr. Bryan and a large ele ment of the Democracy want free wool Mr. Wilson objects to the tar iff that protects the farmer's hoe, or harrow, or axe, or binder. Presum ably he follows, or will soon follow, Bryan, into the free raw material "Let' us have no tariff, to be sure. Evenbody objects to the tariff he has to pav on the article he buys, and everybody has to buy something. The knowledge that everybody now has that the foreigner does not pay the tax but the American citizen does, under the protective system, is the basis of the universal complaint against the protective tariff. Nobody is satisfied, and nobody will be, so long as there is a tariff. The only remedy appears to be to abolish the protective tariff, so that nobody will have to pay the tariff tax: or at least so that somebody else will have to P8But who will pay? It costs a bil lion dollars a year, and more, to run the Federal Government. The pro tective tariff (the despised Payne-Al-drich bill) provides for the greater part of the Federal income. When we are willing to reduce the expense of our Navy, or Army, or harbor im provements, or pensions, or public buildings, we may reduce the customs revenue. Either that or provide other sources of Income. What are they to be? Will some of the statesmen who have successfully demonstrated that the tariff is a tax tell us? Will they also tell us how to raise money for government except through taxation? PROPAGANDIST OF SOCIALISM. The best Judges to decide the ques tion whether the Roosevelt pro gramme is Socialistic are the Social ists themselves. Their spokesman Is Representative Berger. the only So cialist in Congress, and he predicts that Roosevelt "will be remembered as one of the most aggressive and most strenuous propagandists for the Socialist party ever known." He halls Roosevelt as the first statesman of a non-Socialist party who has rec ognized "the class struggle, the great economic revolution," as having "gone a long way in the direction of state Socialism." Roosevelt's plans for the benefit of the worklngman, for the elimination of the middleman, for a protective tariff which will give the worklngman his share, are all pro nounced Socialistic. But in his letter to the New Tork Times Berger reminds us that Bis marck's plan of workingmen's insur ance "Is not satisfactory to either side in Germany," and predicts that the mInlmunTwage experiment in Eng land will cause Lloyd George's down fall. He is sceptical as to whether the middleman can be eliminated un der the capitalist system "without abolishing a large part of it." He pronounces Roosevelt's stand on the trust question the weakest part of the Colonel's programme, but is not sur prised at this "with Perkins and Mc Cormick at his (Roosevelt's) elbow." He expresses gratification that the Colonel is even adopting Socialist phraseology in saying trusts should be controlled "by the people collec tively." Berger questions the efficacy of the Roosevelt treatment of the trusts and his plan of seeing to the proper division of prosperity, asking how the latter end can be attained so long as the bulk of the National wealth Is owned by a few individuals. The term "corrective of Socialism," which the Colonel applies to his programme, makes Berger laugh and say of the doctor who prescribes this medicine: He has not learned that one cannot throw ideas into the masses and then expect that these Ideas should not take root and grow. Mr. Roosevelt, after accepting so much from the Socialists, cannot expect the American people to stop thinking where he wants them to stop. . , The Roosevelt programme' is de scribed as appealing mainly to the middle class, ground down between the capitalists and the proletariat. Mr. Berger says: The enlightened and class-conscious work Incmen will not be caught by the glittering oir.lltl,. hut stand by their own or ganization, the Socialist party. And as for the unenlightened and stupid worklngmen that tan be sold by their leaders, these worklngmen will In all probability be sold again to the Democratic party this time. So, in the opinion of the leader of the Socialists, the corrective of So cialism will not correct. The liberal allowance of Socialism which Dr. Roosevelt proposes to give will only Increase his patient's appetite for more. The new party, instead of weaning men away from Socialism will .only become its recruiting ground. People will not stop thinking where Roosevelt wants them to stop. Such is the fate of statesmen who attempt to cure an evil by giving the Nation more of it. This Government is founded on the principle of indi vidualism.' and our evils are due to jur departure from that principle and to our adoption in some degree of the opposite principle Socialism. The remedy for those evils is not more Socialism, but a return to the solid ground of Individualism. The way may be toilsome, but our social fabric will gain strength as It throws off the poison with which it has become in-noculated. THE POWER BEHIND WILSON. RAYMOND. Wash.. Aug. 1. (To the Ed itor.) Were not Belmont and Ryan tha men. or the power, that nominated Wilson for President? p R SIDELINGER. No. The plain truth will permit no other reply, and The Oregonlan states the fact unqualifiedly. The oniy tes timony to the contrary, so far as we have noticed, comes from Mr. Roose velt who savs in effect that the Balti more convention was in the hands of the bosses, and that they procured tne nomination of Governor Wilson as President. The power that brought the boss ridden Baltimore convention to its knees and turned it about face, and compelled it to nominate Governor Wilson, was 'William Jennings Bryan. Without Bryan, Wilson would have been impossible; with Bryan he was invincible. The bosses Murphy, Ryan. Belmont, , Taggart. Sullivan, Hearst were to a man arrayed against Wilson. The convention as a whole was far more conservative, or re. actionary, than the Chicago conven tion, and it was definitely planned to nominate a known conservative like Underwood, or a colorless trimmer like Clark; and the arrangement would undoubtedly have been consum mated except for Bryan. We don't know that Wilson suits Bryan as well as Bryan would have suited Bryan as a candidate; but we know what Bryan did. We can only guess what he might have wanted to do. THE MICROBE OF CANCER. There Is nothing necessarily im probable in the announcement that Dr. Gaston Odin, of Paris, has dis covered the germ which causes can cer. Granting that the germ exists, It was sure to be discovered sooner or later, but up to the present time there has been serious doubt concerning Its existence. There are two respectable hypotheses which have been advanced to account for this most intractable of human maladies. According to one hypothesis it is not caused by an in vading germ, but by the excessive de velopment of one of the constituent parts of the human system itself. It Is well known that in the body there are two kinds of tissue. One is com posed of the somatic or body7 cells. The other consists of the germ plasm, the cells which perform the function of reproducing the species. The hypo, thesis of which we are speaking as serts that germ cells are scattered rather miscellaneously throughout the system and at any time by one cause or another they may be Incited to be gin a course of development which under proper conditions would pro duce a new individual. But since the conditions are abnormal thje only product is a tumor which presently becomes malignant and destroys the body in which it exists. This hypothesis has never been demonstrated, but It is held by a num ber of leading scientific men and many experiments have been made to put it beyond doubt. Two or three cele brated "cancer cures" have been based upon it without waiting for proof of its accuracy. These cures are intended to work upon the germ cells and in hibit their abnormal development In the mouth, breast or wherever they happen to be located. The other hy pothesis holds that cancers are caused by some foreign microbe which i in vades the human body and sets to work to multiply Itself, feeding on the surrounding tissues. As its numbers Increase a tumor is naturally formed which presently breaks down and be gins to poison the entire body. Until Dr. Odin's discovery research had failed as signally to demonstrate this view as the other, but perhaps doubt on the subject will soon be at an end. It is said that his discovery has been accepted as valid by the highest French medical men who are proverb ially prudent in such matters and would not rashly imperil their repu tations for scientific caution. The great difficulty in treating those multifarious malignant growths, which all In popular speech go by the name of cancers, comes from the fact that the germ or microbe, or whatever It is which causes them does not remain fixed in any particular locality of the body. If it did the cancer could be cut out by the sur geon and there the tale would end. But the cancerous cells get into the blood and are carried here, there ahd everywhere. They lodge in the glands, in the intestines and even in the brain, so that a person who has one cancer at work visibly destroying him may have a dozen others invisible but per haps even more malignant and ruin ous. It is this which makes it always doubtful even after the most careful and skillful surgical operation whether the cancer has really been extirpated. The fatal cells are almost certain to lurk somewhere about the system. In the blood or in some of the glands, and begin their work again as soon as the operation is over. Surgery is perhaps less effective against cancer, than against any other malady requiring the use of tho knife. It is this fact which gives quacks their inviting opportunity. They are able to point out any number of cases where the most distinguished physi- "clans have failed to extirpate cancer and therefore say to their victims with alluring plausibility, "You see how little the doctors can do for you. Why not try our ihfallible cure?" The number of infallible cures for cancer which have been Invented to betray the Ignorant and deceive the despair ing is almost numberless. From ra dium to the X-ray, from plasters of one sort and another to prayer and trypsin, everything under heaven has been tried and everything has failed. There is no cure for cancer.' Worse still, if the disease Is infectious, as it may well be, scientific men are un able to tell us how to avoid the dan ger. According to some it is caused by certain varieties of food. What varieties? Nobody knows. Popular superstition declares that tomatoes cause cancer, but this is folly. "There are doctors who believe that eating meat predisposes a person to the out break of malignant tumors, but the evidence for their opinion is only slight. Thus far the disease has baf fled all the resources of science. At the Rockefeller hospital investigations have been carrfed on by competent men for a long time to find out some thing reliable about the cause and cure of cancers, but the results are as yet meager. Of course whatever Is done must be by way of vivisection. It is only by experiments upon living ani mals that the terrible secret of ma lignant tumors can ever be unveiled. Dr. Odin's discovery, which perhaps solves the mystery, was achieved by this method. He tells us positively that cancers are caused by a microbe which he has isolated and studied. He has also prepared, from it a serum by the regular Pasteur process which checks the progress of the tumor and imparts immunity to the healthy. The reports of Dr. Odin's discovery will not receive full confidence until they have been verified again and ; again by physicians in all parts of the world, but if they should turn out to be true he will rank with the greatest bene factors of the human race. THE HOLLOW SCEPTER. Yoshihito, youth of thirty-two, has lately succeeded to the imperial throne of Japan. His is a regal magnificence that visits itself upon no other mon arch of the earth. Oriental splendor, pomp and ceremony in their very es sence invest his rule. His people all but deify him. To them he is the connecting link between God and man. He is the embodiment of the spirit of Japan. He has thirty palaces to live in. The respect his subjects must hold him in is awe-inspiring. They may not so much as mention his name during his lifetime. To say "Yoshihito" is a sacrilege among the Japanese. He must be referred to as the Emperor. When the title is print, ed capital letters must be used, as must the pronouns referring to him. Not even the greatest, among his subjects may presume to address him. In his presence the greatest must low. er their eyes. He may be addressed only through members of the imperial household. At state banquets he will sit alone on a raised dais and none may presume to eat until he has fin ished. Millions of his subjects bow at the mere mention of his title. Unless he break through precedent he will be the most unapproachable man in the world, which means a splendid iso lation throughout his life. The question of whether he is per sonally popular can affect his station little. His subjects believe him de scended from the gods. He is the 123d sovereign of his line, tracing the royal descent back to 600 years before the time of Christ. As Emperor he Is en trenched in the intense idealism and mysticism of his people. But there is another side to the picture. The modern spirit that made its impress upon old Japan in the past deoade or two found lodgment with Yoshihito long before he had any thought of becoming a monarch. He learned European ways, received an European education, developed a fancy for European athletics. As two other sons intervened between him and the throne, he developed Into an intensely human young man with many associations, working at school without favor or special consideration. He wedded a merely royal woman with a fondness for European things, particularly for tennis. Now at thirty-two, in the prime of his youth, he must give up those things in a large measure and sacrifice himself to the splendid Isolation and the pomp that are the Emperor's lot. His imperial functions are limited, although the modern spirit has made it possible for him to read war orders and administrative reports when he so desires. That, with ceremony, prayer at the shrine of his forefathers and an occasional review of his troops, must make up his new life. In its superficial moods the world has been inclined to look upon all rulers of nations as beings upon whom Fate has lavished her most bewitch ing smiles. In time we may come to see these monarchs, or many of them, as unhappy individuals who have been required to sacrifice1 themselves on the altar of a National fancy and who are destined to a life of repression, isola tion and hollowness. An occasional peep beyind the royal curtains be trays a somber truth. A fleeting vision of tragedy was caught by the world when King George reluctantly gave up private life for the throne of England. Another imperial tragedy is suspected In the succession to the throne of Japan of a young man of thirty-two who had Just , learned the Joy of liv ing. THE DISINTERESTED MR. SCHWERIN. Mr. Schwerin is at his old game of trying to kill Portland as a trans oceanic shipping port. He admits having so managed the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company that it lost money. The Impression was thus created that such a line could not pay because Portland suffered from . some disad vantages which did not' exist at other ports, or because there was not enough business at this port. Mr. Schwerin said nothing about these dis advantages when he abandoned the Portland & Asiatic line, but simply gave the public to understand that the line could not be made to pay. Now he speaks out and says that the handicap under which Portland suf fered consisted in custom-house regu lations which did not govern other ports. He makes this statement at a time when the people of Portland are endeavoring by their own efforts and with the aid of the railroads having terminals here to establish an Asiatic steamer line. One-third of the sum necessary to guarantee the establish ment of this line has been subscribed by President Farrell on behalf of the O.-W. R. & N. Company. Mr. Far rell's experience as president of the Pacific Coast Company entitles his Judgment as to whether such a line will pay to some respect. It Is not to be presumed that Mr. Farrell would waste his company's - money on a venture which was fore-doomed to failure. Therefore, we may reason ably back Mr. Farrell's opinion against Mr. Sehwerin's, even presuming Mr. Schwerin to be actuated by a sincere desire to warn the good people of Portland against a losing investment. But is that Mr. Sehwerin's motive? When he found if he found that the Portland custom house was en forcing regulations which were not enforced at San Francisco and Seat tle, did he make any effort to have those regulations relaxed at this port or to have them strictly enforced at other ports, that the handicap might be removed and all ports put on an equal footing, in that respect at least"? Not that any person in Portland knows of. He simply threw up the sponge in Portland and, to build up the Pacific Mail, continued to use the advantage San Francisco enjoys, through evasion of the rules which are observed in Portland. His inter est in' the present movement to estab lish a new line here Is not that of a friend seeking to save our citizens from a losing investment; it is that of a rival, seeking to frighten compe tition out of the field. His motive Is to ward off competition with the Pa cific Mail. If any man doubts this statement, let him read the statement made by Mr. Schwerin under oath 'before the Senate committee on inter - ocean canals on March 10, 1910: X want to say in regard to this that the Pacific Mall Steamship Company has for 50 years been absolutely a San Fran cisco organization. There is not any ques tion on this; there should not be any mis- . . . i . t. i. T .fim n Seattle. Portland, Los Angeles or San Diego insti tution it la San Francisco lock, stock and barrel. As stated, the Pacific Mail has worked to the Interests of San Francisco I am frank to say that I did my level best and. Just as long aa I am in this business, l im going to do" my level best to keep San Francisco the queen of the Pacific. Mr. Schwerin throws cold water on the Portland steamship movement solely and simply "to keep San Fran cisco the queen of the Pacific." His warning should be heeded only so far as he calls attention to possible ad vantages San Francisco has over Port land in the interpretation of custom house regulations. We should busy ourselves in discovering whether such discriminations exist and, if so, in seeing that they are removed, not only in appearance, but In fact. It is significant that Mr. Sehwerin's letter is dated, at the National capital at the precise time when Congress Is considering a bill which will ex clude Mr. Sehwerin's ships from the Panama Canal so long as they remain under railroad control. Mr. Schwerin has been doing his utmost to induce Congress to cut that provision out of the Panama Canal bill, for his spe cialty is operating a steamship line as a club in the hands of a railroad to drive competition off the sea. The less money a steamship line makes, when operated in this manner, the better pleased are its real owners. Such a man as Mr. Schwerin Is a poor ad viser to men who contemplate running a steamship line on its merits. By starting such a line Portland is very apt to prove how poor a steamship manager Mr. Schwerin is from the standpoint of men who are trying to make money on their steamships, however good a manager he may be from the standpoint of those railroad men who are content to lose money on their steamships, provided they thereby prevent other steamships from taking away business from their railroad. The Democrats are trying to bull dose President Taft into consenting to abolition of the Commerce Court. He has forced them to abandon the ef fort to revive the spoils system by in direction, and now must either yield to them on the Commerce Court pro vision or force them to pass an ap? propriation bill a third time without that obnoxious clause. It is safe to predict that he will not yield. If the Democrats would look at the subject as statesmen rather than as partisans, they would be content to define more clearly, the functions of the Commerce Court, that it may have no excuse for invading the province of the Inter state Commerce Commission. This and a few more reversals by the Supreme Court will put the Commerce Court In its place and make it the really useful body it is capable of becoming. According to all accounts, the cur rent horrors in the Peruvian rubber regions surpass King Leopold's per formances in the Congo. The natives are indisposed to work under the burning sun of the Equator, but the rubber trust must have its dividends. Hence tortures, murders and outrages beyond belief. The exposure comes by way of England. Peru has baen asked to permit an investigation, but refuses the privilege to Protestants. South American civilization has many singularities. In view of the unpleasant feeling between England and Germany which has been so marked for the last few years it is interesting to remember that Bismarck was looked upon as a friend to the British Empire. Before forcing a quarrel upon Napoleon III he assured himself of England's neu trality, which he won by pointing out that Germany must always remain a land power. The Emperor William's naval ambitions are post-Bismarcklan and probably anti-Bismarcklan. The $160,000,000 pension bill is one of the trifling items in the price we pay for having to fall back upon an Inefficient military establishment in time of war. And it affords an insight into the aftermath of that type of economy the Democrats are now prac ticing in their anti-warship attitude. There are only four republics in the banana belt disturbed by revolu tion Mexico, Nicaragua, Hayti and Ecuador. It is a cold day when there is not a revolution either incubating or in full blast in that region. Inci dentally there are few cold days in the tropics. Austria's scheme of autonomy for each province of European Turkey probably has for its aim benevolent absorption of the same kind as that which gave her Bosnia and Herze govina. The Austrian Empire has been built up by such absorptions. If the Anglo-German quarrel could be settled by a talking match between Joseph Martin, the ex-Canadian states man who has been elevated to the Imperial Parliament, and any German living, Britain would be a sure win ner. An Oakland woman insists that her husband has a perfect right to horse whip her, and so wants him released from Jail for that offense. The author ities must feel a temptation to let him off and return his horsewhip to him. The season for fish stories has opened. A Buffalo banker visiting Oregon has caught a twelve pound salmon with his hands and feet. The season is young and It behooves some Oregonlans to beat that. This Alphonse and Gaston act be tween Roosevelt and Wilson grows wearisome. The Colonel speaking in a kindly way of a rival is as clumsy as an elephant's waltzing. A herd of moose should be added to the elk, buffalo and bear in Yellow stone Park, if our National wonder land Is to be kept up to date. In readiness for Roosevelt's cam paign tour, all newspapers will sup ply their composing rooms with an extra supply of capital Is. The manner in which the Chinese executed Chang Chen Wu proves them to be no better than a Texas lynching mob. As the moon changes today, let' us give Forecaster Beats the benefit of the doubt and prepare for fair weather. All Oregonlans must become vege tarians this Fall if they would clean up the tremendous crops, to be gath ered. In the event of a close vote, an electoral commission might class Dan Kellaher as a second Cronin. Hunting the blind pig is the latest addition Governor West has made to the duties of the National Guard. 1 9 12 PRESIDENTIAL VOTE IS SUBJECT OF ANALYSIS Taklnsr the States In Their Turn, It Is Clear That the Roosevelt Claim. Are . Based on Wind Democratic Observer Gives a Few Facts and Figures. PORTLAND, Or.. Aug, 19. (To the Editor.) The local Bull Moose have announced that what they intend An n tltnaa XI r! rt don't fnmA in and get vaccinated is something awiul. Jiivery new pariy upcns no first campaign by announcing that it owes its existence to an overwhelm ing demand on the part of the people, that it is to last forever and that it Is to sweep the earth. We have had a half dozen new parties during the last 60 years, all of them giving us this same kind of hot air and all of them engaged in the job of sweeping the country, and every last one of them is now as dead as Julius Caesar. This new aggregation of politicians needs calling down for its own good. They apparently have not yet learned that Teddy never carried the State of Oregon. He was beaten in the Re publican primaries by a majority of 14,000. He was beaten by La Follette in Multnomah County. He didn't carry either the state or the county in the Republican primaries and he won't carry either one of them in November. La Follette's manager is the Republi can candidate for Congress in this county and La Follette himself Is throwing the hottest kind of shot into Teddy in every issue of his weekly and denouncing him as a traitor to the pro gressive cause. What loyal follower, believing In the personal honesty of La Follette, will ever support Roosevelt? Will you allow a few comments on the situation from one looking at it from the Democratic standpoint and allow us to suggest that, while the Bull Moose is pawing around and making a great noise, as Is his habit, the real man whom all Republicans need to watch Is from New Jersey, and his name is Woodrow Wilson. rntmvn t.ao iii(.antv hean nnhllshpd an amusing Bull Moose estimate of the probable electoral vote in iNovemoer. n comes from the fertile brain of C. W. delegation at the National Bull Moose convention. Senator Dixon, leaays manager, approves McClure's forecast. You can always bet on Dixon. Doc. Coe's estimates are even more sweep ing than McClure's, What Doc. doesn't know about the political situation is . w.l.,nl.r iinlfnnwaklp anri his Snfl- cialty is giving advice and imparting Knowledge. rne real iacts we. How ever, that there Is nobody in the world who knows less about the actual po litical situation in the country than the partisan politician who has just got back from some National convention, thoroughly saturated with his own partisan prejudices. McClure gives Wilson Alabama, Ari zona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia a total of 202 votes. He gives Roosevelt California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas. Michi gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina North Dakota, South Dakota. Oregon, Ohio, . Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin, a total of 255 votes. Ever this ridiculous estimate leaves Tedd: 11 votes short of a majority In tht electoral college, so he places In the doubtful column Idaho, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky, a total of 60 votes. Let us analyze this estimate. There will be plenty of time later to analyze Republican estimates. Taft's followers probably will dis pute the concession to Wilson of the states of Connecticut. Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New. Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. It is early in the campaign either to make or an alyze estimates, for we all remember that Bryan's election was conceded in 1896 two months before the polls opened. He was getting crowds every where, just as Teddy is. but some way the enthusiasm cooled as the cam paign developed. To begin with, the Democratic party is today more nearly united than ever before. It will lose votes to Taft in the Eastern States, and to Roosevelt in the West, but it will get Republican votes in great numbers both East and West and will more than hold Its own in the general aggregate. In McClure's list California is the most promising state of all for Teddy, but in the primaries last Spring he polled less than 20 per cent of the whole vote of the state, which the registration lists show to be over 1 000 000. To constitute a majority or this requires 500,000 votes, or 300.000 more than. Roosevelt received In the primaries, and to beat the Democratic nominee he must poll many thousands more than he did last Spring. Colorado is a Republican state. In 1908 it went Democratic. If Teddy should get the whole Republican v.ote it Is doubtful If he carried it. Roosevelt carried the Illinois pri maries, although he got only 30 per cent of the total Republican vote And he got that vote only by the help oi the Governor Deneen organization ana by making a bitter anti-Lorimer cam paign, while suppressing the Taft Lorl mer letter. His duplicity in the Lori mer matter will count against him heavily in November, and Deneen and the whole state ticket have declared for Taft. They .understand the Illinois situation. To overcome the Democratic vote of 1908 in Illinois Roosevelt would need to beat Taft 4 to 1. Teddy can bid goodbye to Illinois. Indiana went Republican in 1908 by 11,000 plurality out of a vote of over 700 000. In the recent primaries Tart ROOSEVELT'S AIM WAS FATAL Killing- of Spanish Soldier Is Described by Colonel's Book. OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 17. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan of August 14 I find the following query from a correspondent: "Has Roosevelt in one of his books boasted of shooting a Spaniard In the back during the en gagement at San Juan Hill?" If the correspondent will refer to Colonel Roosevelt's book the "Rough Riders," copyright by Charles Scribner & Sons, and dedicated to the Rough Riders by the author. May 1. 1899, at pages 136 and 137 he will find the fol lowing: "Long before we got near them the Spaniards ran. save a few here and there who either surrendered or were shot down. When we reached the trenches we found them filled with dead bodies. . . . Lieutenant Davis first sergeant, Clarence Gould, killed a Spanish soldier with his revolver just as the Spaniard was aiming at one of my Rough Riders. About the same time I also shot one. I was with Henry Bardshaw, running up at the double, and two Spaniards leaped from the trenches and fired at us not ten yards away. As they turned to run I closed In and fired twice, missing the first and killing the second. My re volver was from the sunken battle ship Malnie and had been given me by my brother-in-law, W. C. Cowles, of the Navy. At the time I did not know of Gould's exploit and supposed my feat to be unique." Contrast this with a few sentences from General Grant's Memoirs, vol. 2, touching the capture of Petersburg: "As we would occasionally look around the corner we could see the streets and the Appomattox bottom, presumably near the bridge, packed with the Con federate army. I did not have the artillery brought up. ... I had not the heart to turn the artillery upon such a mass of defeated fleeing men, and I hoped to capture them." . Comment would seem to be unnecessary. carried it, beating Roosevelt In Indian apolis by a vote of 4 to 1. Besides this Governor Marshall is the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. Where does Teddy come in? In Iowa Taft carried the primaries. Governor Carroll Is a strong Taft man and Senators Cummins and Kenyon have both repudiated the Bull Moose party. To meet the 1908 Democratic vote In Iowa" Teddy would have to beat Taft nearly 4 to 1. Kansas, the old home of Populism and Sockless Jerry and Mary Ellen Lease, Is naturally a Roosevelt hotbed, but to carry that state against the Democrats he would have to poll over 4 to 1 of the Republican vote. In the primaries held in Kansas last week the two radical Taft Congressmen, An thony and Campbell, were nominated by heavy majorities, although all the Roosevelt artillery was centered on them, and Governor Stubbs. one of Teddy's seven Governors, was beaten on the popular vote for United States Senator by Senator Curtis, a pro nounced Taft man. Even in "bleeding Kansas" Teddy has lost heavUy since the Spring primaries. In Michigan Taft carried the pri maries. To beat the Democrats In that state Roosevelt would need two-thirds of the Republican vote. .. Minnesota voted against Taft 'n the primaries on account of the Canadian reciprocity bill and if Teddy can get two-thirds of the Republican vote he may lead Wilson a close race. Montana was carried by Taft in the primaries. It was Republican in 1908 by only 3000 plurality. To carry that state against the Democrats Teddy must beat Taft 10 to 1. Missouri was close in the primaries between Taft and Teddy. It went Re publican n 1908 by only 600 votes. To beat Wilson in that state would require the solid Republican vote, and Governor Hadley Roosevelt's most active cham pion at Chicago, has repudiated the Bull Moosers. Nevada went for Taft in the pri maries. In 1908 It went Democratic. To carry it Teddy would need more than 100 per cent of the Republican vote. North Carolina went Democratic in 1908 by over 22.000. To talk of Roose velt carrying it is unadulterated rot. In North Dakota Roosevelt was badly beaten by La Follette in the pri maries. Senator Gronna, a leading "progressive," has come out for Taft, and La Follette. Taft and Wilson to gether will take care of Teddy there. South Dakota is favorable to Roose velt but to carry the state he must get two-thirds of the Republican vots. In Oregon the vote for Teddy was 28 000 For Taft and La Follette the vote was 42,000, a clear majority of 14 000. The Democratic vote in 1908 was over 38,000. Nearly 15,000 more votes were cast in the Republican primaries than were cast for our two Congress men in the general election in 1310. This indicates that a large Democratic vote was cast In the recent Republican primaries which is likely to go to Wil son in November. With La Follette s continuous and bitter denunciation of :oosevelt in his paper and his speech Friday In the Senate denouncing Roosevelt and declaring that Taft had , . than him in nrose- oeen iiiuic ai.n.o - - - cuting the trusts, few loyal followeis of La Follette are likely to vote the Bull Moose ticket. Ohio was carried for the Republicans In 1S08 by less than 70,000 plurality out of a total vote of 1,121,000. To over come the Democratic vote in Ohio Teddy would have to beat Taft 8 to I. Pennsylvania, while favorable to Roosevelt, has never failed to go Re publican In any Presidential election since the war. In 1908 the Republican i I., wo. snn nnn when the Demo crats polled nearly a half-million votes. To carry wasninswu xj beat Taft 2 to 1. Many Republicans are going to Wilson and the Demo crats are apparently united. Wisconsin is La Follette's state, and he Is bitterly opposed to Roosevelt. That will settle the Bull Moose .nera. West Virginia is favorable to Roose velt, but to beat the Democrats there he would have to beat Taft 4 to 1. What about McClure's so-called doubtful states of Idaho, Massachu setts, Tennessee, Georgia and Ken tuclty In Idaho Borah, Roosevelt's brainiest and most level-headed leader, nas de clared for Taft, and to carry the state Roosevelt would need at l;at twu th'rds of the Republican vot.3. Massachusetts was carried by Tail in the primaries and Roosevelt would need two-thirds of the Republican vote to carry it against Wilson. Tennessee went Democratic In 1908 by 17,000 votes and Is for Taft as against Teddy. , In Georgia, a state with a popula tion of 2,600,000, the Republicans got 41 692 votes in 1908. Here is a Bull Mooser at his .best. When Teddy car ries Georgia will Ackerson and Coe kindly drop us a line? Kentucky was Democratic in 1908 and was carried by Taft in the Republi can primaries last Spring. It is a shame to ask any respect able newspaper for space sufficient to analyze the silly claims of tue Bull Moosers, but bluster and nerv and hypocritical pretense have carried many elections, and it is influencing many votes in this campaign. After the No vember election however, the Bull Mooser will cease from troubling, and the proprietor of the outfit can st once open his campaign for he 'A1'81 nomination in 1916. OBSERVER- MENACE OF FIGHT PICTURES. Even Accounts of Mill" Sbonld Be Barred, Says Mrs. Olds. PORTLAND, Aug. 17. (To the Edi tor.) The announcement by the Chief of Police as to forbidding the display of prizefight moving pictures finds a welcome in the thoughts of every lover of moral uplift and proper education. These pictured fights are even worse In some respects than the original de moralizing "mill" itself, in that it costs but little to see them and many a weak human being who "lives on ex citement" can see them night after night until by rapid stages contempt for the value of a human life become so strong it is an easy step to emerge Into a full-fledged destroyer of human life by whatever means at hand. I hope the day is not distant when we will have In our state an enactment for bidding the display of such pictures anywhere within the state on pain of heavy fine or Imprisonment or both. More than that, I am looking toward . i i -n-ni Ka unlawful in our a any ivucu i. ..... - - state to flash or write upon bulletin boards the details oi a ukui m jjkjs ress anywhere and still farther that newspapers will not be permitted to publish the detailed accounts of the de grading fights. Those things should be regarded as among the "unprintable" things. Heaven knows We are all only too near to the savage sta'te without feeding- by any means a tendency to degeneracy. We will some day learn to aid In the prevention of crimes of all sort by ceasing to have so many things Dermitted as schools of degradation. " MRS. W. P. OLDS. Lese Majeste 'With Mr. Roosevelt. Indianapolis News. At President McKinrey's funeral, it Is related, Mr. Roosevelt sat next to Senator Mark Hanna, who was over come with emotion. "I hope, old man, said Roosevelt, "that you will be to me all that you have been to him." "Yes." sobbed Mr. Hanna, "I will I will, only, d it. don't call me 'old Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of August 20. 1S63. The difficulty relative to the seizure of the . custom-house at Port Town send is not yet settled and Victor Smith still remains on board the steamer Shubrlck. In possession of the books, valuable papers and money of the custom-house. Governor Picker ing and United States Commissioner McGUl had reached Port Townsend, where a warrant issued demanding the presence of Victor Smith and Lieuten ant Wilson, commander Ait the Shu brlck, before the Commissioner. The United States Marshal was resisted by the officers of the boat. Lieutenant Wilson refused to allow the Marshal to see Victor Smith and refused to obey the summons. Before further pro ceedings could be had the Shubrick weighed anchor and struck out for Vic toria. ' A horrible murder was committed by parties unknown near the town at the forks of the Quesnelle on July 26, in which three respectable citizens of that place named Charles Rouchler, H. Lewin and David Lokolsky were in stantly killed and robbed of a largo amount of gold dust and valuable articles. Emigrants continue to arrive In Ne vada Territory, but not so numer ously as expected. Tho largest emi gration seems to he going to Oregon and Washington Territory, attracted by the stories of rich diggings. Ap peal. The Clasop Cadets returned last evening from an excursion of a fort night down the coast. Another comet has been visible in the northwestern portion of the heav ens for the last three or four even ings. The horsepower ferryboat, used in" crossing the Willamette at this place, sunk Sunday night last at the upper ferry landing, caused by the tide com ing In much higher than anticipated and the boat not being sufficiently; moored for such a contingency. PRUXES THAT FLOtniSII HERE Resnlt of Experiment Are Given by Mr. Dosca. HILLSDALE, Or., Aug. 17. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonlan of Au gust 16 appears an item which is, or ought to be, of great Interest to the prunegrowers of the Pacific Northwest. It is stated that Professor H. W. Sparks, supervisor of the Washington state demonstration farm at Pullman, recently made an examination into the cause of the prune crop failure of Clark County, Washington. After statins the probable cause, he suggested that Interested prunegrowers could secure some seeds from the sugar prune that has been grown in an Italian prune orchard, where there mieht be a chance of cross-pollenizatlon from the Italian and thus propagate a prune with all the progressiveness of the sugar prune and all the desirability of the Italian. In this connection permit me to state that I do not question but that good results may be obtained should tho advice given be acted upon, though we have already several prunes which, practically cover the points desired. I have on my grounds a great variety of prunes with which I have been ex perimenting, notably the prune KiiRel bert, of German origin: Imperial Precose of French origin and a prune produced on my grounds, which the pomological division at Washington, D. C, was kind enough to give my name; all of these varieties are strong healthy trees, vigorous growers, regular bloomers, bear a full crop every year and the fruit ripens fully four weeks earlier than the Italian or, more correctly speaking, the Fellenberg (known to the trade as the Oregon prune). In fact, they are even at this writing past their season, hence the September showers will not crack them open to make them unfit for evapora tion or shipping as fresh fruits. They ripen at a season when the market .Is practically bare of desirable fresh Ore gon fruit. The Imperial Precose and Dosch are dark purple in color with a delicate light blue blush, are both larger than the Oregon prune, uniform In size, free stone, meaty, aromatic, winey and a delicious, toothsome table fruit. They evaporate heavy, usually 30 to 40 la the' pound. These prunes, like the Ore gon, retain their therapeutic properties after evaporation, without losing any of their flavor or palatableness, not found In the French or California prune. They are a preventivo for scurvy and very healthful for per sons of sedentary habits. Tho prune Engelbert is smaller, round, dark blue, clingstone and is the heaviest pro ducer of any prune. It Is not good for evaporation, but especially adapted for preserving and is in a class by It self for that purpose, being unequalled by any other prune or plum. I pre sume trees of these varieties can be purchased from our leading nurseries, HENRY E. DOSCH. Baths In Red Malvolnle Wine. London Standard. It is not often that the official French Bulletin des Halles contains any startling items of intelligence, but the last number produces a cir cular which Is being sent around to old customers by numerous wine growers. The following ,Js a literal translation of this original trade cir cular: "Baths of superior Malvolsie wine are the most fortifying and healthgivlng. A hectoliter (100 quart) cask is sufficient for 100 baths. " The whole contents of the barrel are emptied Into the bath each time and after remaining in it 20 minutes the wine is poured back. After the 100th bath the Malvolsie is distilled and de licious 'eau de vie' Is obtained." Baths of milk and champagne are not un heard of in Paris, but a bath of red Malvolsie wine would be taken as a fable if it were not advertised seri ously in so respectable and business like a paper as the market bulletin. Pranks of the Water INoszle. PORTLAND. Aug. 17. (TO the Edi tor.) Regarding Mr. C. E. Child"s dis covery of the hose-nozzle phenomenon, I discovered some time ago that a noz zle with a bell-shaped orifice will exert a strong suction if the thumb be placed over same. The stream of water exhausts the air from the "bell" on the principle of a mercury pump. If a jet of water be thrown through a paper cylinder of larger diameter than the water the paper when wet will be sucked In flat instead of burst ing outward, as would seem to be tha logical result. I did not think that any but tha "bell-mouthed" spray nozzles would produce Mr. Cllne's result. M. HOLLIXGER. Class In Live History. London Tit-Bits. The teacher had been telling tho class about the rhlnocerous family. "Now, name some things," said she, "that are very dangerous to get near to and that have horns." "Automobiles!" replied little Jennie Jones, promptly. . Hint to a Politician. Washington (D. C.) Star. "I shall sweep everything before me," remarked the boastful candidate. "Well." replied the weary citizen, "I wish they'd take you out of National politics and put you at the head of the street-cleaning department." It Would Be Appreciated. Chicago Record-Herald. . "What reform are you Interested in now?" "I'm advocating that people be paid double for the work they do when they don't feel like working,"