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v v VOL. L,II-M. 16,196. RADICAL CHANGE FEARED BY TAR Upset of Prosperity Is Seen in Free Trade. PROTECTION POLICY UPHELD President Predicts Blow to Labor if Democrats Win. COUNTRY NOW PROSPEROUS In letter to Wanamaker Bcllcr Is Expressed That Good Times "Will Continue In Event of Repub lican Success at Election. BEVERLT. Mais.. Oct. II. White House officials made public tonight a letter from President Taft to John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, dealing with some of the Issues of the cam paign, and thanking Mr. Wanamaker In bis own behalf and on behalf of the people of the Nation for his "splen did work." The Presidents letter dealt almost oxsluslvely with the tariff and prosperity, which he declared, was largely duo to protection. The letter In part Is: I want to thank you for the splen did work you are doing for the success of the Republican party in the ap proaching election. I thank you not for myself, but for the people at .large, who have so much to lose, so little to gain from a change of administration, who will indeed suffer if a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress secure the oportunity to make good their platform pledges, and an extra session of Congress is called next March to change the tariff from a protective to a revenue basis. Effect of Change Feared. ' "Wholly apart from the respective merits of the protective and the tariff for revenue policies. It must be obvious to thinking men that radical a change cannot be effected without a period of readjustment, the wiping out of numerous industries that prosper because they are protected, and that pay good wages to thousands of em ployes. Even were it admitted and I do not admit it that ultimately this readjustment will be successful and that our present protected and prosper ous industries could bo replaced by others that would thrive without pro tection, what of the transition period? How would fare the wageearner who was thrown out of employment for a year or more, and who in many - In stances, would be compelled to learn a new trade? Benefits of Chance Dim. "As a protectionist I can see no bene fit to be gained from such a change, even when the readjustment is com pleted. For 60 years, under the pro tective policy, our industries have grown at a pace that has astounded the world. Our wageearners have established and maintained a standard of living that is unknown In the old world. Even during the period of high cost of living, which has prevailed throughout the civilized world for a few years, our people have suffered no such hardships as those of the old world. "The abundant crops of this year are already operating to decrease the cost of living to the American working man, while there is every indication that wages will be maintained. On the other hand, our factories are run ning full time, there are abundant orders ahead, wages high and it Is la bor, not employment of which there Is a scarcety. Good Times Ahead Seen. "With plenty of employment at good wages and the prices of foodstuffs falling In some instances. In others about to fall, the wageearner Is just on the eve of garnering his harvest, and If existing conditions are not changed by a political upheaval, we will see the balances In the savings banks grow in the next four years as never before. "We have experimented in the past with the tariff theories of our Demo cratic friends. Tou will recall as clearly as I do, the distress that fol lowed the passage of the Wilson bill, Is there not a certain significance In the fact that it is another Wilson who would again subject us to such an ex periment. Wilson and prosperity are words that refuse to go together in our campaign history. Democratic Coatrol Feared. "The election of a Democratic Presl dent would mean the election of a Democratic Senate and House, and the present Congress has proved how sav agely and with what recklessness the Democrats would deal with the tariff if they were in full control of the ex ecutive and the legislative branches of the Government. "I cannot understand how any Ameri can voter can fail to see that by throw lng away his vote on the third party or by voting to put the Democrats in power in the White House and In Congress, he Is as surely courting disaster as is the small child playing with matches.' Cooperage Freight Rates Higher. WASHINGTON', Oct. II. Increases averaging about 23 per cent In the freight rates on cooperage, including butter tubs, drums, well buckets, kits etc. from Chicago and Mississippi River points to Rocky Mountain des tlnations were approved today by the Interstate Commerce Commission TRANSPORT PRAIRIE MISSING 20 DAYS XAW DEPARTJIEXT PEAK'S FOR VESSEL'S FATE. Urgent Dispatches Are Sent Out to Santo Domingo Stations Seek ing Information. WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. Fears are n th Navv Derartment for the United States . transport Prairie, with sn marines and the United stales Commission aboard, which was last heard from on Octover 2 off tne coasi of Santo Domingo, whither It had been ordered to investigate the uprising there and Interfere if American or for eign Interests were endangered. . a .finer firTtarv Wlnthrop sent ur gent dispatches today to all stations in Santo Domingo, seeking information as to the vessel's whereabouts. Th commission of inquiry on board the Prairie includes Brigadier-General Frank Mclntyre, chief of the Insular Bureau of the War Department, and W. T. S. Doyle, of the Latin-American ci- vislon of the State Department. . The last word heard from the vessel was a dispatch from General Mclntyre on October 2 that the vessel would proceed along the north coast of the Island republlo and would leave Octo ber 6. The lone silence has created consid erable uneasiness In official circles, al though it is hoped the Prairie merely has nassed out of touch of cable sta tions and soon will report. The vessel Is commanded by Commander A. H. Scales and, besides the force of ma rines, carries a considerable crew. "F0RG0TTEITGEMS TAXED Customs Officials Jog Memory of Friend of Carnegie. NEW YORK. Oct. 21. (Special.) Customs officers exhibited much inter est in the contents of a Jewel case car ried by one of the members of Andrew Carnegie's party when Mr. Carnegie and his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. George Lauder, of Pittsburg, arrived on the steamship Baltic last Saturday. A deputy surveyor of customs stepped up to Mrs. Lauder and asked If it were not true that she had forgotten to de clare some Jewelry. , According to the story, coming from sources believed authentic, Mrs. Lau der said that she had some Jewelry that she had not thought of declaring and she was taken to the customs-house. There comes from sources usually cor rect the story that there were three articles of Jewelry In Mrs. Lauder's case which were - valued at approxi mately 90.000 and which she had not declared. These articles were a brooch, lavelllere and a. necklace. The Jewelry was sent to the appraiser's. Mrs. Lauder went with her husband to the customs-house today and there paid the duty, which, according to the story of one in a position to know, amounted to $33,000. Immediately upon payment of the duty, the Lauders left for Pittsburg with the jewels, which were returned. HEART BALM VALUE $1500 Women Jurors Rescue Member of Sex Woman Acts as Attorney. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 21. (Special.) With her claim for $25,000 pressed by a woman lawyer, before a Jury in cluding seven women Jurors. Miss Ethel Peterson was today awarded a verdict for $1800 for the failure of Ross L. Phlllippl to marry the plaintiff as per agreement. The Jury deliberated on the verdict for two hours. Five men assisted the even women Jurors in arriving at a conclusion. ' Mrs. Leonla W. Browne represented the plaintiff and Judge Milo Root was associate counsel for the aggrieved. The Jury scaled the claim down from $27,600 asked In the complaint. Judge Tallman made no comment on the verdict. The complaint set forth that Phll lippl and Miss Peterson mutually ex changed marriage vows on December 15, 1908; that the defendant subse quently postponed the marriage day a number of times and finally, in Octo ber, 1911, definitely refused to marry her. On April 12. 1912, it Is charged, Phlllippl married Miss Bernard Smith. STARS INDICATE NO CHOICE Astrologist Who Foretold McKinley's Fate Predicts Election. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Oct. 21. (Spe clal.) Rr. D. Derolll, the astrologer who in the Globe, on November 4. lsuu predicted the violent death of Presi dent McKinley, Issued today a fore cast on the coming Presidential elec tion. After reading astrologically the lives of the Presidential and Vice-Presl dential candidates he concludes: "The result of my study is that there will be no choice by the people. No nn can carry enoukh states to be elected beyond a doubt. The election of the President will then be made through Congress." WOMAN DOCTOR APPEALS Linda Burficld Haxzard Alleges Abuse of Discretion. TlHOMA. Wash,. Oct. 21. (Special.) Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard, the Se .ttl fast specialist, who was convicted in the ICitsap County Court some time ago of manslaughter for the death of Miss Claire Williamson, a wealthy Eng lish spinster, has appealed to the Pierce fniintv SuDerior Court from the action of the State Medical Examiners, who revoked her Jicense to practice osteo nathv anil fasting. Trn.srula.rltv In the proceedings of the board and an abuse of discretion is al leged, also that Mrs. Hazzard was not given a fair hearing. PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1912. KNOX TURNS GAZE 10 L Situation at Vera Cruz Closely Watched. "HANDS OFF" STILL IS FOLICY Ambassador Wilson Will Con ... suit Secretary. NAVY M AY HAVE T0 ACT If American Steamer at Mexican Port Now Closed Is Kept From Unloading United States May Break Blockade. WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. Offiolal interest here centered today on the situation in Mexico, where the rebel lion, which has been in progress for months, has taken on a new ana lormi dible phase, under General Felix Diaz. Retusn to Washington of Secretary Knox, from his Japanese trip: the presence here of Henry Lane Wilson. , - . n u.vinn anil Important nmDiiBstiuui iv ... . developments in the military situa tlon at Vera Crus, held by JJias wumn i a m wa iisvt. were elements that served to concentrate attention on the Mexican trouble. Secretary Well Informed. A Secretary Knox was accompanied , . rhiooira to Washington by H.intinvtnn Wilson' Assistant Secre tary, he found himself upon his ar rival here, well Informed or an save th in test developments. Probably in consequence, the conference which was expected to take place Between oecre o m tTnnT and Ambassador Wilson was deferred. However, the Ambassador probably will have an opportunity to discuss the situation and receive sug crcstinna for his sruldance in the confi dential talk with Secretary Knox be fore "the latter leaves tomorrow night to Join President Taft at Beverly. The one fact that appears clearly today Is that,'lthough the Ambassa dor has conferred at length with act ing Secretary Ado and the ornciais of the State Department, who are charged particularly with the conduct nt utir-n relations, nothing he has communicated has influenced the of ficials to change the clearly denned policy of non-intervention in Mexico. Coalition la Rumored. This Is true even In the face ot seml-nrri-tii admissions that the revolu tionary movement in Mexico has as sumed a much more serious aspect tnan ever before, and that a coalition be tween the forces of the rebel leader (Continued en Page 2 ) MEXICAN 0 ....,..,1i...tiiiii'i''''''',tTTT'"""'' ! , THE CALL OF THE PEOPLE. " I jftw P 'pi ft : I - y , ' 1 . . s . . s s . 1 f tl s "' ' INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 47 regrets; minimum, 39 degree. TODAY'S Rain, warmer; high south ' to vouthwest winds along the coast. Foreign. Bulgarians within 12 miles of Adrlanople; big; battle Imminent. Page S. National. Secretary Knox turns attention to Mexican situation. Page 1. Witness tells of secret account kept by Structural Ironworkers Union. Page 8. Perkins. Indignantly denies charges of un derwriting Roosevelt campaign fund. Page 5. Transport Prairie, missing 20 days, and Navy Department fears for fate. Page I. Poll tlon. Republican leaders concerned at apathy of voters on tariff Issue. Page 12. Chairman itoores says Moose estimates are worthless. Fags 10. Poll, puts Illinois In Taft column. Page 2. President Tart writes of dangers In event of Democratic success. Page 1. O. C. Wilson. California lawyer, speaks for Democratic causa at Bungalow Theater. Page 4. Domestic. Officer at murder trial tells of acts of Law rancs mob. Page 3. Jack Johnson tHreatens to . kill subpena server. Page 8. Couple will wed without ring- or word "obey." Faga 1. Pittsburg- friends of Carnegie pay $30,000 duty on gems which they forgot to de clare. Page 1. Colonel Roosevelt wearied by -ride te Pitts burg. Page 4. Scheppa expressions of hatred for Rosen thal admitted as evidence In Becker trial. Page 1. Jerusalem professor says science will don . ble wheat crop of United States. Pago L Sports. University and Oregon Agricultural College on verge of ending football controversy. : Pace 7. Beavers' draft on "Elsie" Bills. Wichita slabster likely to hold good. Page 7. Spokane-Multnomah smoker events and rep resentatives scheduled. Page T. Pacific Northwest. Governor West proclaims Tuberculosis Day" for Oregon October 27. Pago 6. Seattle's recall move on Mayor Cotterill held In abeyance. Page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Clarence True Wilson's pamphlet rolls W. C. T. U. Page i. Railroad belt line project In Peninsula dis trict brings Louis Swift, big packer, to Portland. Page 11. Police committee protects evil doers, as serts Kay. Page 16. East side Business Men's Club Indorses in terstate bridge and Peninsula franchise. Page 11. Atlantic City and Washington rivals for 1913 temperance convention. Page 16. Thousands greet Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunlway today on her 78th birthday. Page 11. Councilmen are hissed In five hours of stormy debate on "tin-plate" ordinance. Page 10. - Commercial and Marine. Possible California market for California hay. Page 17. Wheat advance at Chicago held in check by large arrivals. Page IT. Stock prices sold down In Wall street by shorts. Page 17. Daisy Freeman's damage estimated at J20,- 000. Page 16. ' BURGLAR ROUTED BY-CO-ED Clad in Pajamas, Beloit Student Jans Intruder With Hatpin. ' BELOIT, Wis., Oct. 21. Clad only in pajamas and carrying a hatpin, Miss Agnes Thornton, of Bedford, Mass., a co-ed at Beloit College, routed a burg lar whom she found In her room this morning. The young co-ed chased the intruder through the park and inflicted several vigorous thrusts, which elicited yells of pain from the fleeing thief and caused him to drop her violin, which he had stolen. SGHEPPS DISLIKE OF GAMBLER CITED Conversations at Hot Springs Related. ROSENTHAL HELD WORTHLESS Defense Attempts to Prove Becker Victim of Plot. OFFICER MAY NOT TESTIFY Attorneys for Policeman Expected to Rest Case Today Withont Put ting Becker on Stand Con versation In Tombs Denied. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. What Sam Schepps'told his friends in Hot Springs, Ark.; about the murder of Herman Rosenthal was read Into the record to day, at the trial of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, who is charged with Instigating the crime. "I don't want, you fellows to think we killed a man who was of any ac count," Schepps told Postmaster John son, of Hot Springs, according to Mr. Johnson's testimony before the com mission sent to Hot Springs to ex amine him and other persons. . "That fellow Rosenthal was a dirty cur. He should have been killed. I don't want you fellows to think of me as a com mon murderer." Scheppa Held to Be Conspirator. Mr. Johnson's testimony waa read by John W. Hart, Becker's lawyer, with intent to support the contention that Schepps was one of four men who de sired Rosenthal's death on his own account and conspired to kill him. For two hours this afternoon Mr. Hart read extracts from the testimony at Hot Springs. In that which went on record was a talk between Schepps and Michael Berkholz, of Argentina, Ark., in which Schepps is alleged to have said "You don't know what a dirty dog Rosenthal got to be. He thought everybody was abusing him. Why. he even wanted the gang to kill Louis Kaufman." Mr. Hart read Into the records the testimony of Acting Mayor Petit, of Hot Springs, Ark., before the commis sion ' sent to Hot 6prings to interro gate persons who talked with Sam Schepps there. "Sam Schepps told me," read Mr. Hart, from Mr. Petlt's testimony, "that he wasn't going to say anything to anybody about the case until he saw Jack Rose's confession and had read it article by article. Furthermore. Mr. Hart read: " 'Well. Sam. It looks to me,' I said. (Continued onFage) TO DOUBLE WHEAT CROP, SCIENCE AIMS JERUSALEM EXPERT GROSSES 'WILD AXD "TAME" GRADES. Experiment Produces Grain Thnt Thrives in Dry or Shallow Soil Regardless of Drouth. , CHICAGO. Oct 21 Doubling of the wheat crop of the United States is the possibility raised by scientific discover ies made, by Professor Aaron Aaron sohn. of Jerusalem, according to an announcement made today at the Uni versity of Chicago. ' Professor Aaronsohn is the director of the agricultural experiment station in Palestine, an institution financed by Julius Rosenwald and Judge Julian Mack, of Chicago. The investigator, who found the original wheat plant growing wild in Palestine after years of search, is en gaged in crossing the plant with bet ter grades of wheat in order to pro duce a superior one. The experiments. Professor Aaron sohn asserted,' show that a type of wheat can be produced adapted to the semi-arid regions of Algeria, Tunis, Syria, Egypt, Turkestan and other arid countries and to similar land in the United States. Plants grown by the experiments thrive in rocky, shallow and dry soli without cultivation. Professor Aaronsohn told of his work on a former visit to Chicago and Mr. Rosenwald and Judge Mack advanced funds for the station In Palestine. Botanists at the University of Chicaao have followed the work with interest. "This is really the biggest propo sition regarding the food supply of the world now before us," said Professor Coulter, head of the department of Botany at the University, wno taiaea with Professor Aaronsohn. "The cros sing of the wild wheat with other grades will Insure crops in drouth and in arid lands. It will be the salvation of the eastern countries." 36-WORD RITUAL TO UNITE Ring, "Obey" and Other "Superflu ities Are Left Out. NEW YORK, Oct. 2L (Special.) Without a rinsr. without the word "obey" and without any reference to affection for each other. Miss Hilda Matzner of New York, and Louis L. Schwartz, a young Minneapolis lawyer, will be married tomorrow at the mar riage room of the Ethical Culture So ciety. Except for an address by Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott, one of the assist ant leaders of the society, the ceremony will consist of one sentence, repeated by Miss Matzner, after Mr. Sehwarts. Miss Matzner Is an artist. Several of her sisters belong to the Ethical Cul ture Society. One of them was married by the same ceremony several years ago. Mr. Schwartz is not a member ot the Ethical Culture Society, but has agreed to it. Dr. Felix Adler, head of the Ethical Culture Society, and two assistants are allowed to marry porsons through the passage of an act of the Legislators some years ago. After the lecture Miss Matzner and Mr. Schwartz will Join hands. Mr. Schwartz will say: "L Louis L. Schwartz, do take thee, Hilda Matzner, in life and death, o be my lawful wedded wife." Miss Matzner, with a change in the position of the names, will repeat this sentence after him. That is all there will be to th- mar riage. WYOMING MAN HAPPY HERE Prison Guard Sees More Flowers at Salem Than In 25 Years. SALEM, Or., Oct. 21. (Special.) "Just send us a bunch of Autumn leaves. Today I have seen more flowers than I have seen before during the past 25 years," was the comment of M. E. Pickett, a guard from the Rawlins, Wyo., penitentiary, who came here to secure extradition papers for an es caped convict from that, place. He had plucked a small fuchsia bud from the State Capito grounds and his tender regard for this brought forth" the statement that he wished to give his wife the surprise of her life by pre senting her with the bud. State em ployes are planning on giving the fam ily a genuine surprise in the nature of an Oregon flower shower, which prob ably will result In more flowers being sent to Wyoming than the whole state has seen In 25 years. VANCOUVER LEVY 9 MILLS City Council . by Action Makes County's Total 44 Mills. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 21. (Spe cial.) The City Council tonight de cided on a 9 mill tax levy for the city on an estimated assessed valuation of $4,666,000. This levy, added to the school levy of 10 mills, 23 mills by the county, and 2 mills for the Port of Vancouver, makes a total of 44 mills which the citizens of Clark County will be com pelled to pay this year. KING IS GUEST OF WARDS English. Sovereign Will Pass Few Days at Hungerford, HUNGERFORD, Eng., Oct. 21. The King arrived here this evening to re main a few days as the guest of John Hubert Ward and Mrs. Ward, who was Miss Jean Reid, daughter of the American Ambassador. The town was illuminated in honor of the King. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WOMEN WAGE- WAR E OF 1001 Don't Regulate Social Evil Is Plea. PERPETUATION MEANS TOID Segregation Does Not Exter minate, Say W. C. T. U. INTEREST IS UNABATED Almost Every Delegate Found In Seal When Roll Is Called White Temple Auditorium Crowded to Hear Addresses. TODAY'S W. C. . V. PROGRAMME. . 10 A. M. Young People's Branch Institute, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church; Loyal Temperance Legion conference, Sunday - school room. White Temple; department confer ence, auditorium, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. 1:15 to 1:45 P. M. Devotional and song service. 1:45 P. M. Convention called to order; prayer; reading- of minutes; announcements. 2 P. M. Superintendent's hour. 3 P. M. Consideration ot Frances E. Wlliard memorial fund. 4 P. M. Report of resolutions com mittee; miscellaneous business. T:S0 P.M. Platform night. Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, presldlne: ad dresses by Miss Edna Rowan, ot K auras: Mrs. Florence B. Beauchamp. of Kentucky; Miss Deborah K. Liv ingston, of Rhode Island; music by First Presbyterian Church quartet. Condemning as false and pernicious the doctrine that the .social evil is a necessity, and declaring segregation and regulation wrong In principle and utterly Inadequate to lessen the evil, provide for Its perpetuation, not -termination,' resolutions Intended as a weapon to be used In the present cru sade against vice In Portland were adopted at yesterday afternoon's ses sion of the National W. C. T. U. "Purity of life Is essential to men and women," declares the resolution, which was adopted In advance of the regular resolutions programme on ac count of the present situation In this city as regards the anti-vice cam paign. Interest was unabated at yesterday's several sessions, both morning and afternoon, .each call to order through out the day finding practically every delegate In her place. Visitors, both men and women, augmented the audi ence enough to completely fill the White Temple auditorium at several of the meetings. ProhlV Husbands There. The convention hostesses, of whloh Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh Is general chairman, were Introduced at the after noon session, so that the delegates might know who had been looking after their comfort and entertainment thus far, and to whom to look for fu ture information and guidance. Promi nent delegates were also Introduced, and the introduction of the husbands of some of the famous workers in the cause of prohibition, putting as it did those husbands In a rather subordinate light, was the occasion for much merri ment. This was the "get-acyuainted" part of the programme, and when it was over all questions as to who this or that one was had been answered. Minor changes in the W. C T. U. constitution were made without de bate, articles IV and VI being slightly amended. The reports of the managements of The Union Signal and The Young Crusader, the official publications of the organization, were heard. both papers being shown to be in flourish ing condition. The Union Signal Is now entering more homes than at any time since 1903, its circulation Increase for the year being 7865. Prizes and medals were awarded for efficient work in securing subscriptions. Bad Bills of Health Given Mrs. Martha M. Allen, at Grace Methodist Kpiscopal Church at the morning session took up the cudgels against alcoholic nostrums and gave several of the more familiar brands bad bills of health. Mrs. Allen Is su perintendent of the department ot medical temperance for the National W. C. T. U.. and twice has attended the Inter-National Anti-Alcohol Con gress, with credentials from the United States Government. Not only medi cines containing alcohol, but several simply designed to get the money and do the patient neither harm nor good, were named by her. "Sanitogen" was characterized as nothing but milk curd, with glycerine phosphates. One soda-fountain favorite, was classed as a narcotic, the speaker quoting Dr. Wiley to the detriment of the beverage. Mrs. Allen told of the systematic campaign that has been begun to In duce druggists to cease selling, medi cines containing alcohol, and she de clared that the higher-class druggists favor the movement. As a result of the work of the women of her department In West Virginia, the physicians of that state, through their medical society, passed resolutions favoring a pending prohibition amendment to tlio state constitution. "The doom of the liquor traffic will (Continued on Pago 3.) T