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1912. 10 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, PORTLAND. ORBOON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postoffloe Subscription Bates Invariably In .advanca. Sally. Sunday included, one yar.......8.0 Sally. Sunday lncmaeo, six monui.. . .. Sally. Sunday Included, three montns. . Ialiy, euncay mciuaeu, vuv . - - - Dally, without Sunday, one year....... J Sally, -without uunaay, six , Sally, without Sunday, three month.. . 1.JJ Aaliy, wimoui boouji w - weekly, one year a Vk Sunday, one year J-JQJ Sunday and Weekly, one year.... -v CBT CARRJEB.) Dally. Bandar included, one year. . jjauy. bunaay mcjuoeu. vum iuuum.... Ham to UemiE seno. ro.wiu. , ' der. express order or personal check on your iocai Dana. stamps, rr t the imderi risk. olTe oostoffloa adareea In full. Including county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages, 1 cent: 1 to 28 page. X cent; 80 to 40 pages, S eents, 40 to 80 paces, 4 oenta. Foreign postage, double rate. . Eastern Bostaees Offleea Verra Cojik Un New York, Brunswick; building. en act, Steger building. San Fraadseo Office R. J. Bldwell Co. 12 Market street. Kuropeaa Office No. Regent street. B. W., London. rOKILUID, FRIDAY. SEPT. , OHIO'S KEW CONSTITUTION. The constitutional revision which was adopted throughout, with the ex ception of the measure extending the franchise to women, by the voters of Ohio on September 8, consisted of forty-three amendments. These amendments were submitted by a con vention that was called through the original instrumentality of the Ohio Board of Trade, which desired a more progressive system of tax laws. In terest In the Initiative and referendum, woman's suffrage, labor legislation, court reforms and liquor traffic enact ments was aroused In a secondary way at first, but by a peculiar twist of po litical fortune ultimately gained su premacy In the convention. The tax amendment as submitted and adopted preserves the uniform rule of taxation such as we had in .Oregon prior to the last election. It was the one1 thing that the original promoters of the convention sought to abolish. The principal criticism by the newspapers of Ohio was directed fxgainst this phase of the convention's work, but It was answered by the ad vocates of uniform rule with the ar gument that the newspapers were controlled by the moneyed interests and desired to Impose a greater tax burden on the farmers and those least able to pay. Apparently Ohio voters, though progressive along other gov ernmental lines, are conservative on the subject of taxation, for the tax amendment carried. It will be of in terest to Oregon voters to learn that the amendment also contains an inhi bition of single tax by means of the Initiative. This inhibition is not so broad, however, as to deny the voters the power to initiate a constitutional amendment making single tax possi ble. The amendment also provides for graduated income and Inheritance taxes and allows excise, franchise and mineral taxes on the production of coal, oil, gas and minerals. The initiative and referendum clause is not the ideal of pronounced advocates of rule of the people. It is more on the order of the "shotgun be hind the door." A measure may not fee Initiated direct from the people to the polls. It must first go to the Leg islature. If adopted In unchanged or In amended form by the Legislature, It is still subject to the referendum. If it is rejected by the Legislature, it may be submitted to the people upon petition of an additional 3 per cent of the voters. The original percentage, however. Is not large. Three per cent of the voters will send a measure to the Legislature. But this percentage, In view of Ohio's greater voting popula tion, will, in aotual working of the ini tiative, probably require as much ef fort In the circulating of petitions as the 8 per cent provision that Is in force In Oregon. Ohio, too, has made the success of petition circulating more difficult by requiring that the signatures shall come from at least one-half the counties In the state. The Ohio measure- also requires a pe tition by 10 per cent of the voters to Initiate a constitutional amendment, while 8 per cent will accomplish that end in Oregon. Some surprise has been expressed over the light vote polled on the liquor amendment. This was probably due to the fact that both "wet" and "dry" factions professed to be satisfied with the amendment. The existing consti tution of Ohio does not authorize the licensing of the liquor traffic. The "wets" -desired license regulation. They won on this issue, but the "dry" element succeeded in compassing the license clause abo'ut with inhibitions against brewery-owned saloons and the granting of licenses to aliens, and with provisions limiting the number of saloons to one in 500 of population, automatically revoking licenses for violations of law, and preserving all present local county option laws and regulatory measures. The revision amendments do not in clude a provision for the recall. There is what may be termed a substitute, which provides for the removal of dishonest or Incapable officials by the Legislature after investigation of charges has been made by a commis sion. It will be remembered that Colonel Roosevelt urged recall of decisions upon the Ohio constitutional conven tion in an address delivered before that body. The convention failed to adopt the Roosevelt plan, but devised something better. Majority decisions, where in effect one justice on the su preme bench may annul a law on con stitutional grounds, are avoided. It will require, under the new constitu tion, the concurrence of five of the six Supreme Judges to Invalidate a law, except where the Intermediary Court of Appeals has decided against it. In the latter event an ordinary majority of the Supreme Court Is sufficient. There are various other court re forms included, one of which is the three-fourths jury verdict la civil ac tions which Oregon adopted in 1910. One amendment in relation to in dustrial and labor legislation Is inter esting in view of lta apparent Intent to make the Legislature supreme In. such enactments, even to the exclusion of the) Initiative and referendum. This amendment follows: Iws may be passed fixing and regulating the hours of labor, establishing a minimum wage, and providing for the comfort, health, safety and general welfare of all employes; and no other provision of the constitution shall Impair or limit this power. The convention apparently realized that there Is a vast difference between the voting strength of the employing class and that of the working class. Whether the working class would seize advantage of Its preponderance of votes to enact through the initiative legislation repressive on the employ ers may perhaps be questioned, but seemingly the convention sought to .nlncl It. (u.i u "ft"." Other important amendments among the forty-two adopted are the following: Birect primaries. Including - Presidential preference and choice of United States Sen ators by direct -vote. Home rule for municipalities, permitting -nnnlrlnal nvtianhin nf nuhlin utilities and the formation by each municipality of its own charter. wnm mi nw vHaaI districts in deter mining, by vote of the people, the size of scnool noaraa ana organisation wt systema Eight-hour day and six-day week on all public works. Compulsory compensation laws for In jured employes and those disabled by oc cupational diseases, authorised. Issue by Legislature of $50,000,000 worth of bonds for a system of lnter-county roads permitted. . Double liability of stockholders in finan cial Institutions receiving deposits estab lished. Abolition of death -penalty. Conservation provided as to mineral re sources, and water power rights; woodlands Legislature empowered to regulate the use or bill boaras. Appointment of women authorised to po sitions of tnlst In state institutions where women and children are cared for. "Blue sky law" for regulation of corpo rations adopted. Injunctions prohibited In labor disputes except to protect life and property: persons charged In contempt proceedings with vio lating such an Injunction entitled to Jury trial. . , Limitation of $10,000 on amount of dam ages that may be recovered in a civil suit for wrongful death removed. - Court reforms adopted providing for one trial and one review except in chancery cases, i On the whole, the new constitution is more Indicative of a new trend of thought than of revolutionary senti ment in Ohio. The .so-called "pro gressive" amendments are for the most part hedged in with restrictions that remove the state's new funda mental law from the broad charge of radicalism. THE COLONEL'S HALO. Pnlnn.l PnnaOVAH with the raoidity of thought, locomotion and transfor mation that mark all his actions, naa recently found new subjects to en-o-t--a hia tii-riA Anrl Attention, and had apparently buried his contentions about the theft of the Chicago con vention. But he revived the thread ham ffianA Da Moines, when he referred again caustically to the naughty "highwaymen wno naa tairanarhA nomination from him and said that he "would not debate with a pickpocket the ownership of a watch he had stolen. Pmhahiv not: the Roosevelt way nrmiit -,-. tn oton.1 it hack, for we are Justified in assuming that the Bull Moose conspiracy to grab the Republi can -trniu In the electoral college has the hearty and enthusiastic indorse ment of the Colonel. The extraordi nary aspect of the Roosevelt assump tion nf hle-h and holv political moral ity is that this questionable and in defensible confiscation or. tne -neijuu-lican organization. Republican name and Ronnhllmn candidates Is being carried out in face, of Colonel Roose velt's vehement and repeated asser tions that the Progressives are a new and independent party and that the Republican party is corrupt, bank rupt, reactionary and useless. Tf k Prnm-f-H'jivpq nm a new party. and if Colonel Roosevelt opposes fu sion or any political arrangemeiii Hv, tha -R-miirtlimn nartv. the straightforward course for him is to demand that the Progressives stand on their own feet in California, -a.au-sas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oregon, and tfeAir hntil rtnwn the f la they are falsely flying as Republicans. Yet the Colonels delicate sense oi nonur is not shocked at this bold buccaneer ing project of political piracy. He Is grieved and outraged only when a nomination is stolen rrom nim. If the Republicans had nominated Inn..-nH thor WOUld be HOW 110 third party. The Republicans refused to nominate Roosevelt and there Is a iiKir-.a-n nAnr nartv there and there) with a bran-new platform, new principles, new moralities, ana a new halo; but it is the same old game and the same old candidate. PORTLAND'S CLEAMNO-IT PROCESS, s-monna in nn a of the Willamette ft notion that the right thing to do In the present emergency was to recaii uti. West for "butting In" -on aiiairs ina-i r, r-.no nf his hnsiness. "I have been making a few inquiries on the streets," he writes to The Oregonlan, t -finH thirA I an overwhelming sentiment in favor of the Governor's vice crusade. Many people wouia readily vote to recall West on his prison policy, but when it comes to f-ioaninir no shop they are with the Governor, tooth and toenail." u.-.tKN- tno-aA c-rtorl nponle. Who dO not live in Portland, are entirely will ing for the crusading Governor to new to the line with his little axe if the chips fall where none will hit them. H,.t it mav be different when the cyclone moves on up the Valley. We take it that tne Governor is in , -loncor nf (he recall, and knows it. The strength of the West position is that he has brought to his support the forces that stand for decency, morality and religion. They may Justly doubt the wisdom of his course or the soundness and efficacy of his policies, or even the purity of his mo tives, but they have nevenneiess nu alternative when there is a call for help In any war on vice. What are West s policies .' now m , Mftun nn tVto town? What in- (,iiin( and consistent Dlan has he framed? What will be the ultimate outcome of the whole Business, te yond the publicity and scandal that lave transpired as a result or. sensa tion and agitation? Where la Be go ing to put the scarlet women? What he going to do wttn tne saioou bum? Who but the poor women are going to get the worst of It after the campaign is over and the casualties are ascertainable! Governor West has made, in nis scheme to turn Portland upside down id inside out, an apparent alliance with Mayor Rushlight. Chief Slover and the rest of the city administra tion, all of whom are primarily re sponsible for conditions, or ratner tor failure of all measures of correction. He has aimed his batteries at the Sheriff and the District Attorney, who are only secondarily responsiDie. Hav ing effected this' alliance, he has passed on to a campaign to get the breweries ana tne express i-uinpnuira. In a few more days there win oe some new object of attack, repression and reform. What next? Withal, we think that 11 the gov ernor, or the Mayor, or the cnier oi Police, would dismiss their brass band and fold up their circus tent and settle down to quiet and systematic enon to arrest and expose the men who pa tronize the disorderly houses and the persons who f urnlsn tne liquor to tneir Inmates, without a license, the whole problem would. be in a fair way toward solution. When Russia has absorbed Persia and European Turkey forms part of the Italian empire, England and Ger many will open their eyes to the folly of fighting one anotner. me power which ought to rule in western Asia Germany, but vno iuy xtusaiaa policy of the British government has played into the Czar's hands and thwarted William until the Cossacks are maneuvering almost on the fron tier of India. The sooner an alliance is concluded between - Great Britain and Germany the better for x:iviliza tion. - - CHOOSING "A PRESIDENT. "The Presidential primary returns," says our own Senator Bourne, "Indi cate that Colonel Roosevelt is the choice of the great Republican party, and certainly he was of Oregon," an:l therefore the Bull Moose candidate is favored with the distinguished support of the Senator from Oregon. It is a momentous decision, rendered after four months of thoughtful silence and painful doubt. The first love of Sena tor Bourne was Mr. La Follette; but the April primary in Oregon decided for Colonel Roosevelt. Four and one half months thereafter the father of the Presidential primary accepts Its verdict. The fact that It is announced one week prior to the Roosevelt visit to Oregon may or may not be signifi cant; but anyhow it is just in the nick of time. The Bourne remarks about the re sult of the Presidential primary sug gest some reflections on the purposes of that admirable vehicle for the ex pression of party Judgments. The Presidential primary In Oregon ex presses a preference for candidates for President and Vice-President and binds the delegates elected at the pri mary to vote for them in the National convention. The law and its opera tions are based wholly on the fact that the National convention nomi nates the candidate. But now Senator Bourne and others in Oregon insist that the primary, and not the convention, nominates the Presidential candidate. If that should be so, there is no Justification for par ticipation , in a National convention by delegates of a state. If all the states have a Presidential primary and none of them will agree to abide by the re sults of the National convention, the convention should, of course, be abol ished.. If there is to be no convention, the only remaining function of a Pres idential primary would be to nominate candidates for Presidential elector, and instruct them for whom to vote in an electoral college. Clearly there will be no more Na tional conventions, and therefore no National candidates of any National party, if the states are Individually and without consultation or confer ence with other states to determine their candidates for President. Whether there would then be a Na tional party, or groups of local and sectional parties within the states, it is not easy now to guess. ' THE CASE FOR THE NEWSPAPERS. If the newspapers are not fully con victed of all their real sins and some imaginary ones in these heart-searching days it Is not the fault of their critics. Last Summer a conference on the shortcomings of the daily pa pers was held at the University of Wisconsin and some of the speakers made their case look fearfully black. More than one learned essayist en larged upon the mendacity of the press,, its subservience to advertis ers. Its bad habit of subordinating facts to political prejudices and a mul titude of other transgressions. There were only a few voices, and those rather timid, to laud the virtues of the newspapers at that high-browed conference. It is comforting, therefore, by way of a change, to read an article by Dr. Hirschberg, of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, which takes "another tone. Dr. Hirschberg, who is a physician, not a professor merely, has enjoyed a wide experience of newspaper life and probably knows as much about the conditions surrounding the daily press as anybody in the country. In his opinion, which the curious may read In the Editor and Publisher for August 24, the veracity of the news papers has been undeservedly decried. Dr. Hirschberg declares that he be lieves the ordinary newspaper to be as truthful as the ordinary minister and even more so. To support his view he gives reasons which may not convince everybody, but they are cer tainly interesting. The minister, he tells us, Is necessarily subservient to his wealthy pewholders. If he does not subscribe to their opinions and preach their prejudices his connection with the church is apt to terminate with great celerity. He may talk as much as he pleases about a hypothet ical "demon rum," but let him an nounce from his pulpit the name of the man who owns the saloon next door and it is all up with him. He may inveigh against "the social evil" In broad, general terms, but it will never do for him to disclose that his leading deacon receives the ground rent for the worst dive in town. The daily paper, on the contrary. Dr. Hirschberg continues. Is nobody's servant. It bas no ax to grind and no boss to toady to. Of course adver tising is essential to its life, but ad vertising depends on circulation and that comes from the favor of the mul titudinous public. No individual .can appreciably help or hinder it. The newspaper which serves the public by giving the news as it Is may count unerringly oh the good will of its readers. Its advertising business is as secure as any earthly reliance can be. It is the subservient, crawling newspaper with no principles .and no will of its own. Dr. Hirschberg tells us, which stands In dread of losing Its advertising revenue and which usually does lose It In the long run. It Is easy to understand, therefore, why from Dr. Hirschberg's point of view the newspaper is likely to be more truthful than the pulpit. He goes on to say that it Is also a more positive force for good In the world. According to his view the papers have taken the leadership in social reforms far more frequently than the minis ters. Pretty nearly all our "moral spasms" begin in some newspaper of fice and it is only after they have at tained a certain momentum that the pulpit begins to be agitated by them. Every student of American history knows that, partisan as many news papers often are, the majority are far more independent than they were fifty years ago. When Charles Dick ens visited this country such a thing as a newspaper not yoked up with the fortunes of some politician was unknown. It was the day of "the great editors," but altogether too many of those forcible personages were time-serving politicians who had not thought of the public welfare out side their own offices and the juntas of their parties. Such a condition has become rare now-a-days. It would be difficult to find a prosperous news paper in the United States which does not take an active part in wel fare movements of one sort and an other. Not all of them are working in the same causes, but it Is no re proach, that their desire for the pub lic good moves in diverse paths. So cial reformers commonly concede that the best remedy forsome of our acknowledged evils is publicity. As long as conditions can be kept under cover of darkness, corruption thrives, but it can seldom thrive in the glare of publicity. The service of the news papers in this direction is beyond all estimate. The habit of publishing every fact which will Interest any group of readers is a growing one. Of course it makes the papers "sensa tional" and often Induces them to de scribe events which shock refined tastes. But the evil of suppressing news is far greater than any possible bad consequences from publishing too much. The wise newspaper chooses a middle course and exercises a sound discretion. Nor Is there much ground for- the charge so often made that the news papers delight in vulgar English. Their English is not as a rule pedantic, but it is none the worse for that. What Is called the "colloquial style" is often more genuinely literary than writing which makes pompous pretensions. Swift, for example, wrote colloquially and he will be read when Milton's grand periods lie forgotten on dusty shelves. It Is a fact that self-respecting papers pay a great deal of atten tion to their language. Some of them even, employ writers who are not so much expected to discuss current events as to Write upon serious sub jects in well-chosen English. The late Andrew Lang's connection with the press was of this nature. He wrote for the daily papers, but not by any means as a literary hack. His Inde pendence was respected and his genius was not hampered In any way. The same Is true of H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Galsworthy, Chesterton and a dozen other distinguished men who have made their living at one time and another by contributing to the da'ly papers. Perhaps if the whole truth could be told. It would come out that the newspapers have done as much to sustain the purity and solidity of Eng lish literature in our time as any other agency. If it be replied that some newspapers are scurrilously vulgar, we can obviously rejoin that some books are just as bad. A reader of The Oregonlan writes to ask if in a "live wire" we have not an example of "two objects occupying the same space at the same time." Psrhnna wa hftvfl. Tt deDends on what an electric current really is. If it is merely a flux of electrons, as most physicists teach, there is no ground for supposing that two things occupy the same space at the same time in the conducting wire. The general question which perplexes our corre spondent Is, after all, a matter of defi nition. What is an "object"? What is "space"? In the prayeTS for pleasanter weather which some are offering up it would perhaps be advisable to ln niusiA o nAtitinn for an additional fa vor. The rains have damaged the farmers by injuring hops, grain, ana so on. The mere cessation of the will not make this loss good, and since the Lord can repair It as easily as he can stop tne rain, wny not ask him to do so? Perhaps the Rev. Mr. McPherson will modify his prayers according . to our suggestion, which Is offered with becoming mod esty. That the good persons do lives after them was realized by several scores of Portland's poor youngsters who en Joyed a steamer trip and big picnic paid for out of a fund set aside for the purpose by the late Albertina Kerr. A platoon of Texas cowboys is ready to Invade Mexico and cope with the rebels in Sonora. If It happens, the Orozco troops will realize how won derfully accurate was General Sher man in descriptive matters relating to war. If you decided a certain official was crooked and put up $400 as a bait and that same official later returned the J400 to you with his compliments, wouldn't it be about the most embar rassing moment of your life when he called? ui wniktne- for twelve years, an eminent globetrotter says he will soon stop. We know or an emineui con versationalist who has been talking for more than twelve years without even a hint of stopping a Vm,i Vnrlt woman, has had her husband arrested for violently re pulsing her Invasions or nis pockbui. Robbing the male always was more or less of a perilous occupation. ' No police department can oe aiij thlng more than a mere body for en- - e law and n rd OF while bot- luruciiicin ui - --. nn from the politicians by civil service regulation. vr jnnM tint vnnne woman on trial i , r .u " - - - j . for a hideous murder felt a moment's fleeting satisfaction in tne prosecutor s warning to the Jury to disregard her beauty. After a Kansas City man had drawn four aces and was raking in an im mense Jackpot, the ceiling fell. Proba bly a part of the game he wasn't in on. Prayer for rainfall has been fre quent, but the local service of suppli cation for cessation of rainfall Is pos sibly the first since the days of Noah. T).iiiAr than nav taxes. Delaware Socialists say they will go to jail. Jail also takes away the painiui necessiu of paying rent and board. England Is to build the biggest bat tleship yet. The dreadnoughts of a vear ago will probably be assigned to the mosquito fleet. Burnside-street property owners are now after wider streets. Is this move ment an adjunct of the campaign for owl car service? Great Britain has abandoned de mands for arbitration on our Panama Canal policy. Well, some one had to back down. ' Minneapolis police used their clubs freely on the heads of the soapbox fra ternity. Damage to the clubs not yet reported. The "humpback" salmon crop is reported a failure this year, which leaves the market open for pink cat fish. r.nii suffrage is defeated in Ohio, meaning the Buckeye State is not es pecially progressive this year. TFhot a made-to-order world this will be when scientists succeed in cre ating life in their workshops! THINKS WEST A CERTAIN LOSER. Recall Would Be Sure to Be Effective, Says Mr. Lane. PORTLAND, Sept. . (To the Edi tor.) I have just finished reading the editorial article in The Oregonlan. Tuesday, on the recall of Oswald West, Governor of this state. I have no hesi tancy in saying that I believe that the editor's deduction is erroneous as to the likelihood of relieving this state of West's ubiquitous presence" and ser vices. I want also to say that I am a Demo crat and voted for West. I now sol emnly declare, if kind Providence will forgive me and absolve me for my very grievous sin, I will promise in future to examine, as it were, all same as phrenologist, the nut, the cranium, the noodle or whatever you choose to call it. . In other words, I am not so much to blame in this case, as I took it tor granted that, so long as West was running on the Democratic ticket and vouched for by brothers tTRen, Wag non, Cridge and C. S. Jackson, he must be all wool and a yard wide. Here after I will do my own thinking, and will not be Influenced by the above named quartet. I believe it very easy to recall Os wald West and get rid of this intoler able nuisance. The Oregonian's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding. I believe that, were West to stand again for any state office, much less the office ot Governor, he would not get 20 per cent of the Democratic vote of this state. If there is one thing more than another that we Democrats are sticklers for it is brains in our candi dates. I believe he ought to be re called, at once, the sooner the better, and if Mr. Story will go ahead with the petitions for his recall it will sur prise The Oregonlan and all others vrho at this time appear friends of his with what an avalanche of votes he would be swept from the office. I am not a saloonkeeper, neither am I addicted to vice in any form, and am not a beneficiary to the extent of one cent; nor have I ever had either directly or indirectly any revenue from prostitution, gambling or liquor traf fic. I am a total abstainer and have never rented my property for illegiti mate purposes. I believe West an in sincere, hypocritical demagogue, and all this crusade is gotten up as a grandstand play to get himself talked about so that his name will appear in the press. He has done irreparable damage to the Democratic party of this state right now in this crucial time when we want to elect Woodrow Wilson and Dr. Lane. Most of the voters think West a Democrat in good standing., GEO. LANE. Mr. Lane took bad advice two years ago and now repents. Now let him take The Oregonian's advice. Let that recall alone. The promoters of the scheme all find it necessary to make the same disclaimer that this corre spondent makes that he is not a sa loonkeeper or a gambler or a panderer to vice. We can foresee clearly what form the issue would take over the recall. You will please excuse The Oregonlan from encouraging any recall under such auspices. REPRIEVES ENCOURAGE MURDERS , Robrrtn Should Not Escape, Says Mem ber of Fatal Auto Party. PORTLAND, Sept 2. (To the Edi tor.) Too much has been said pro and con about the action of Governor West in failing to uphold the laws of the state. Because he is Governor he has no right to take such arbitrary stands; he was not. elected Governor to stand in the way of Just punishment and enforcement of laws that have been enacted dealing with criminals, par ticularly murderers. We know personally of one inci dent where the murderer admitted he would not have taken such a chance had he not known that Governor West would reprieve him if captured and sentenced to hang. Governor West makes a great point of having the law enforced through out the. state; even goes so far as to expel from office men whom be thinks incompetent. Does he stop to think of the dan gers incurred by the Sheriff or his deputies In risking their lives run ning down cold-blooded criminals when he abuses -the power vested in the laws of the state in reprieving those criminals after they have been caught and justly proven guilty and sentenced? Furthermore, he goes so far as to take the laws in his own hands and says that they should hang the rich, but, of course, let the crooks have their liberty and kill more. Is that the kind of law-abiding rules that this state should have? It was lucky for us that Jack Rob erts did not have a gatling gun in stead of Just an ordinary pumpgun. He tried hard enough to "get" us all, and his failure in this is probably due to his lack of sufficient arma ment. But had he killed the five of us, as it undoubtedly was his Inten tion to do. Governor West would still have reprieved him or else be incon sistent in his policy. It isn't in the spirit of revenge that we want this man hanged, but we want justice, and hence our antipathy to wards Governor West for his clog ging the machinery of Oregon laws. Let Governor tWest open his heart and tell us what his feeling would be toward the murderer had he made one of the Governor's family the object of his deadly aim. H. L. TABB. BLAME LAID ON "GRAY WOLVES" Sugrgeatlon Also Made That Scarlet Wo men Be Given Work, GRAND VIEW FARM, Sept. 2. (To the Editor.) I see The Oregonlan has given much space to correspondence on Portland's clean-up. Perhaps a few remarks from a woman's standpoint might be acceptable as all the blame seems to be placed upon the "scarlet" women, while the gray wolves seem to be left out. A correspondent takes the reformers to task for not taking these women into their homes. I don't think that Mrs. A., B. or C. should be expected to receive these women into their homes. Neither should they allow the gray wolves to come into their homeB. To the "wolves," and to them alone, every scarlet woman ows her downf alL ' The cry Is to drive them out. But where can they go? In all this hue and cry, I have not seen one feasible plan for providing for these unfor tunate women after they are driven out. We all know that to be healthy and happy we must have pure air. wholesome food and plenty of congenial and desirable employ ment for the mind and body. I would suggest that the state provide homes for these women. Colonize them. Give them a chance to earn their living. Treat them kindly and help them to reform by giving them something to do. Give them a chance and thousands will reform and scores of good women will help them to return to virtue and respectability. And what of the gray wolves? I say hunt them down till the last wolf has been captured. DR. OWENS-AD AIR. Giving- irlm a Lead. ' Chicago Record-Herald. "1 congratulate you," said the pretty girl. 'Why?" asked the young man, who was one of her many admirers. "Father and mother and I took a straw vote last night and you bad a clean majority of one." Benefits of Hot and Cold Water. Baltimore American "Have you hot and cold water in your new house?" "Too much of both?' What do you mean? "When my wife is not pouring cold water on my plans she is keeping me in hot water." Stars and Starmakers - By Leone Caaa Baer. ' "The biggest hit in his career," is the way one Los Angeles reviewer refers to Donald Bowles' characterisation of the Prince of- Clar In "Israel," which the Belasco players put on last week. Edythe Chapman, after a year of rest returned to the footlights for the week, and played the role of the Duchess de Croucy. Thomas MacLarnie, who was a Baker leading man when Alice Fleming played her first engagement here, is character actor with the Belasco folks. Muriel Starr Is playing leads Just now. see "Bought and Paid For" is headed in our theatrical direction by Julia Dean in the principal feminine role. Julia was here last as the younger sister with Nance O'Nell In "The Lily." Paul Armstrong, who has never been on the Pacific Coast, will be with the company producing his "Romance of the Underworld," when it comes to the Heilig before the holidays. Holbrook Blinn, who is remembered best as Jim, with Mrs. Fiske in "Salvation Nell." has the big role in Armstrong's play. Cath erine Calvert is leading woman. , see Speaking of Paul Armstrong, his praise agent, Harry L. Davidson, says this in a letter In the San Francisco Dramatic Review: "Armstrong was a great pal of the late Homer Davenport, and at the tat ter's death, bought the famous stud of Arabian horses possessed by Davenport. I think he will arrange to exhibit them at the 1915 exposition. The exhibi tion will consist of four pure blooded Arabian stallions, sold to Davenport by Sheykh Akmet Haffez, of the Anezeh tribe of Bedouins, also ten mares with foals. This collection of horses is worth $100,000. One stallion, Euphrates, formerly owned by the Sul- ton of Turkey, is the picture horse of the world. His valuation cannot be estimated." Richard Watson Tully's American Hawaiian drama "The Bird of Paradise" is in rehearsal in New York with Bes sie Barriscale In the role of Luana, the Hawaiian Princess. Miss Barriscale created the role when the play was first produced in Los Angeles one year ago, where It ran for six weeks. In the New York cast is Guy . Bates Post, Lewis Stone. John W. Burton, who is none other than our own John Burton who was character man at the Baker a year ago. Howard Hickman, who is Bessie Barriscale's husband (they like alliteration in their stage names don't they) is to have a role In support of his wife. Stage support, that Is. . "Scandal Alley," a new play on modern social conditions and written by Wlllard Mack, while he was play lng here last winter is being produced for the first time on any stage this week in Salt Lake City. Marjorie Ram beau has the feminine lead. Richard Vivian and J. Frank Burke are of this company. So is Rosa Roma, Mr. Mack is playing his own hero. e. e "Pomander Walk," said to be a path to the land of happiness, is coming soon to the Heilig. e e Marie Baker, character woman lately at the Baker, Is appearing this week in support of Laurette Taylor at the Alcazar in San Francisco. The bill is "Seven Sisters." Miss Baker plays the role of the widow Gyurkovics whose daughters range in age from 6 to 24 years. see After an absence of three years Roselle Knott is going to return to the stage. Also Portland Is to be the scene of her debut. She has surrounded herself with an excellent company or rather her manager, Ernest Shuter, has seen to It that company and scenic In vestiture are of the best. On Friday night, the 13th (lucky combination) Miss Knott opens at the Heilig in "The Awakening of Helena Richie." Henry Hall, who has been with the Cathrine Countess company this Sum mer is to play the role of Lloyd Pryor. Mr. Hall cancelled an engagement as John Brooka in "Little Women," which William Brady is to play In New York this season. Mayo Methot the fascinat ing child actress Is to be David. Val borg Ahlgren, a Portland girl who has been identified with Pacific Coast pro ductlona is to play the role of the gossipy Martha King, Earl Dwire is stage director and will be Dr. Lavender in the cast, Adln Wilson Is the erratic youth. Sam, and Fred Wilson, lately released for this engagement by the James K. Hackett players at the Co lumbia in San Francisco, is to play the role of Dr. King. Florence Daven port is Sarah, the housekeeper, and Miss Knott is, of course, Helena. After playing the Heilig on the 13th and 14th the company goes directly to the Moore in Seattle, then to Tacoma, and then Into Canada, playing first at Van couver. Miss Knott was last in Port land In "When Knighthood was in Flower" at the Marquam. e e Manager George L. Baker's new stock has Just IS regular members, so. annarentlv. this astute magnate takes no stock in current superstition. But there's a lot or volunteers wno have Joined forces with the organiza tion so that altoarether it numbers 22. They open next Sunday afternoon in "The Deserters." see Fletcher Norton; and Maud Earl (Mrs. Norton), two of the featured stars In "The Antique Girl," at the Orpheum, are on their honeymoon having been married only a few months ago when the Lasky production began its tour of the Orpheum circuit. Maud Earl is the youngest daughter of a noted theatrical family. Virginia Earl, the celebrated star, is her sister, Nor ton .is the ex-husband of Valeska Suratt, former stage partner 6Y Billy Gould, who was at the Orpheum with TAun Anhivn last week. Norton divorced the actress three months after their marriage and was wedded to Miss Earl with whom he was ap pearing in musical comedy in the East. Doris Wilson, third featured star In "The Antique Girl," says Wilson is only her stage name and that she Is the daughter of Count Cort Severtsen Adeler, who was a squadron com mander in the Swiss army. nhiAf d' Escadron de l'armee Sue'- dose" in her father's title in documents the prima donna cherishes. see Enraged by a call from his agent, at San Francisco, for another big batch of theatrical "cuts." a New York manager wired out to his employe: 'I know what you agents do in San Francisco. You go out to the Cliff House and throw cuts at the seals. The one who Is the poorest marksman has to buy the others drinks. That's what becomes of our cuts," The Electrical Life By Dean Collins. A rube from the city blew out to the " farm To spend the brief season of Summer vacation, And, won by the country's advantage . and charm, Bewailed the misfortunes of city man's station; "Oh why can't we have such advant ages too," He sighed, "And live Just like the farming men do? "While I must rise early and hop on the trolley Away to my burdensome Job in. the city; The farmer man idly loafs round and is Jolly. Regarding us boobs from the city with pity, Who toil the day long, till we well nigh are dead. While 'lectrical Juice does his farm work instead. "He sleeps as he listeth, full late in the morning. Nor worries his head about milking the kine; For gay little ampheres, without need of warning, Swarm out to the dairy and do the job fine. Oh little Boy Blue has abandoned his horn For the ampheres will chase the cowl out of the corn. "The farmer man gives not a thought to the reaping. But basks in the sun by his big bungalow. And watches the sheaves In the stubble field heaping Where swift little volts gaily drive to and fro; The haymow is filled full of grub for the colts. And the pumpkins are cut by the swift little volts. "No wonder we city men yearn for the soil, Where bank accounts grow like the weeds in the clover; And sigh to duck out from our struggle and toil; And cop out a farm and begin life all over; And sit at our ease in those choicest of spots Where labor is done by the ohms and the watts." T. R.'S CULT UNLIKE SOCIALISM Comparison Brings Expression of Hu miliation From Socialist. PORTLAND, Sept, 4. (To the Ed itor.) The Socialist party has felt the disgrace of having its name linked with that of the ex-President far more than the ex-President himself has felt It. There is as much difference be tween the purposes of the Bull Moose and the Socialist party as there is be tween Vancouver Barracks and Gibral tar. Bull Mooselsm is a product of a day. Conceived in a moment of frenzy, it became the housing agency of the political unfit, misfit and discontents. All of the antiquated, fossilized and home-returned political hacks were in vited to "get on and ride to salvation." It was the last and only chance. A bid was made for any one who would hearken, and anything which might serve as tempting bait to insure a good catch was utilized by the leaders of the Bull Moose hence we have a few So cialist principles in the platforms of the Bull Moose party. To this extent only is the Bull Moose party socialistic as we will show.' The Socialist party, far from being a product of a day, is an evolutionary product. Conceived generations ago, it found its expression In the hearts of Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Eugene Debs. Victor Berger and countless others. Though working under differ ent standards and struggling under varied conditions, generation after generation has seen the ultimate cul mination of what Is our modern So cialist party. Unlike the Populist, Pro hibition or Bull Moose parties, the So cialist party has had its foundation in th scientific philosophy which gov erns human life and human endeavor. The Bull Moose party was built on a passing fancy, and Its constructive principles will be of minor considera tion but a few years hence, while the principles and purposes of Socialism endure the ill usage of time and the unkind editorial pen. Can the Bull Moose party long exist? A simpleton once dwelt upon a plain. Wishing shade around his home he built himself a beautiful artificial tree. Two years afterwards a father and son, happening through the valley, came upon the relic of the simpleton's manufacture. They were both struck By the remarkable similarity of tha bark, the limbs and the foliage to a real tree. Still, they both noticed the fearful Inroads that the elements had made upon its usefulness. The father said to the boy: "This object here, my son, could not long exist. Unlike a tree, it was the product of a day. To endure, a tree commences Its life amidst the storms, rains, sunshine and lightning. Its whole form Is tempered with strength, resisting power, pro ducing and reproducing qualities. Above all, It was nature's product In communion with nature's call. That is the secret of a tree's growth, so differ ent and richer in Its Inheritance than this dead object you see about you." Just like the tree is the course of socialism, and, like the simpleton's creation, is Bull Mooslsm. One, like the tree, has, twig-like, weathered the storms of the centuries and become ripe to scatter the fruits of its growth; the other, manufactured by a simple ton, will soon die and rot, unable to weather the storms of life. No, the Bull Moose, can not long exist. It be lieves in the deification of its leader and the subordination to a lesser ex tent of its principles, while socialism owes its healthy growth to a belief In tho contrary. CHAS. M. GOODMAN. 446 Larrabee street. CALIFORNIA HELD UNGRATEFUL State Said to Owe Much to Efforts of Mr. Taft. PORTLAND, Sept 6. (To the Edi tor.) California is the lngrate of this family of states. If there is any state In the Union that owes a debt of gratitude to President Taft It Is Cali fornia. San Francisco is preparing to give a great exposition. There was a long and bitter fight to secure that plum over the very proper demands of New Orleans. Was it not the Influ ence of the Taft Administration end the representation of the regular Re publican party that made it possible for California to win such a signal victory? Let that sink deep, brother and sister Californlans. There Is another matter of still greater Importance that concerns Cali fornia, not only California, but the entire Pacific Coast, That was the passage of the Panama Canal bill. The bill was signed by President Taft In the face of tremendous pressure of the powerful financial and railroad in terests. The signing of this bill firmly fixes the beginning of the greatest era on the Pacific Coast. It is the biggest thing that was ever done by any Presi dent for a particular section of the country. And yet, California, the un grateful child, sees nt to repudiate Its debt of honor and turn over its poli tical powers to the support or a false and misguided cause. C. W. M. Optophone to Help the Blind, Chicago Record-Herald. A London scientist has devised an in strument which gives the blind a "sec ond sight" through the sense of hear ing. This novel Invention Is called the optophone. By its use blind persons can locate lamps, windows or high lights and "perceive" shadows.