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10 THE 3IOBMNG OKEGUMAX. rillUAI,. JULY 11, iyi3. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Poatofflco a second-class matter. Subscription Hate Invariably In Advanca' CBY MAIL) Daily, Sunday Included, ona year 5?2 Daily, Sunday Included, six months . ... -a Dally, Sunday Included, tores months ... 2.5 Dally, Sunday included, one month .... -"I? Daily, without Sunday, one year Daily, iihout Sunday, six months a- Daiiy. without Sunday, three months ... Daily, without Sunday, one month ..... "J? Weekly, one year ....,...... z-Y Sunday, one year S'in Sunday and Weekly, one year B.oo tBV CARRIER) Dally, Sunday Included, one year "S Dally, Sunday Included, ono month How to Kerolt Send postoico money or der, express order or personal check: on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ara at sender's risk. (jive postoffice address in. full. Including; county and state. Postage Mates to 18 pases, 1 cent; 18 lo a-' pages 2 cents; 34 to 4S panes, 8 cents; 60 to 60 paces. 4 cents; to 76 pages. 3 rents:. 78 to U2 pages, U cents. Foreign post age, double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree as CorOc lin. new York, urunswlc building. Chi cago, Steger building. San FrnndM-o Office It. J. Bldwcll Co., 74:1 Market street. European office No. 2 Regent street 9. W.. London. PORTLAND, raiDAT, JI IY 11, IMS. SHALL CIVILIZATION DISARM? Attention' of the excellent people who preach that the world has be come so civilized that maintenance of armed forces for Katlonal defense has become unnecessary Is respectfully di rected to recent events on the Balkan Peninsula."Tatlons -which were recent ly brothers in arms against the Turks, whom the world regards as veneered barbarians, flew at each other's throats. Hate was so venomous that KOldlers discarded rifles and stabbed each other with bayonets. Seven hun dred captives were confined in a mosque and burned with the building. As wounded prisoners were being carted through the capital of their captors, the crowds deliriously cheered the spectacle. Turn to our own continent, to Mex ico, right across our borders. ' Pillage and murder in the guise of civil war ere rampant. Foreigners, too few to fight, must permit Indignities by sav age soldiers of either party. In the Philippines the bloodthirsty savagery of the Moros is ended only by their pursuit and extermination on a moun tain top by American soldiers. These events, happening in our own day, teach us that civilization survives only by superior force. The civilized world is Burrounded by barbarians, home of whom have been thinly var nished with civilization, but who are held off only by the ring of bayonets along the frontiers. Were the United States to sink into the impotence of decadent Rome, the barbarians would sweep across our borders and over whelm us. Having disposed of the Turks, the half-savage Balkan nations would join hands with equally "barbar ous Russia in reducing Europe to their own level. Only the armies of Germany and Austria would hold them back. Civilization has evolved from a world of barbarism by beating back the waves of Huns, Tartars and other wild races which rushed on its shores. It has developed behind the protect ing wall of its armies, as ancient Brit ish civHizatlon developed behind the walls which Rome built to keep back the Plots and Scots. Were we to tear down that wall by disarming, barbar ism would again, overwhelm us as the Saxons overwhelmed the Britons when Rome withdrew her forces. Those who call upon us to disarm under .the delusion that the whole world has be come civilized are really calling upon civilization to place itself at the mercy of barbarism, with no alternative but surrender at the first summons. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Conservative optimism is the most favorable phrase descriptive of the present state of mind of the financial centers in regard to 'business condi tions. This optimism is modified by doubt and fear as to the effects of the tariff bill and as to crops; also as to the effects, of European . disturbances on the world s. money market. But. with the prospect of crops not .mater ially smaller than those of last year and with the usual great . demand for commodities for actual consumption normal and steady progress is pre dicted. On element of doubt is the effects of tariff revision, but, as probability grows Into certainty that the bill will be passed in substantially its present snipe, tnese effects are discounted. Banking and currency legislation Is not so immediately at hand as to have affected business conditions as yet. -v a no iscior most adverse to a re newal of the activity which marked the years ending with 1907 is the ex pectation of a period of steady firm ness in money rates. This is based on several circumstances. The great sums or money locked up in European treasuries In preparation for possible extension of the Balkan war have not yet been released. Demands for capi tal In the great money markets for new enterprises have exceeded the available supply, turning loose of 260,000,000 In dividends and Interest payments in this country affording only temporary relief. In European markets there has been an epidemic or Dorrowing, the public constantly demanding higher interest and under writers constantly floating new issues. Some of these issues have not gone oft well and underwriters have been stuck with from 50 to 90 per cent on their hands. The strike at the Rcind mines has reduced the flood of gold from that source and has helped to increase the disproportion between demand and supply of capital. Railroads are fac ing the necessity of soon converting their short-time notes into bonds and will thus increase the offerings of se curities. The stock market has suf fered a long slump in consequence of tariff agitation, expected attacks on trust9 and the long-continued on slaught on Wall street and all that it signifies. But even as we write news comes to strengthen the favorable signs. The Balkan states are ready to settle their differences through, mediation. That will hasten liberation of the war funds of European nations. The process of squeezing the water out of security values is held to have gone a little too far, carrying them below intrinsic worths This will justify some recov ery, though not a speculative boom. Easing up of the European money market and evidence that stocks had touched bottom and had definitely started on the ascending scale will loosen the purse-strings in this coun try. A more liberal supply of capi tal at reasonable interest will put ani mation Into existing industries, which are now running at reduced speed, and will bring to life many new enter prises wnicn have been awaiting . a turn In the tide. Commodity values will become adjusted to the new tariff, and manufacturing will become the more active for having passed through a period of doubt. Autumn should reveal the working of those forces which Justify optimism and by Spring the business world, knowing fairly well "where it is at," should have settled down to .its reg ular stride, when every dollar of cap ital and every hand is profitably em ployed. The recovery has- been so long delayed that it will be the more complete when It comes. - " WHY THEY ARB THERE. The pretense that the crowd which daily fills the streets before the Ore gon Packing Company is there for peaceful purposes is on its face pre posterous. It is there for coercion and intimidation. It is there to bully the workers at the plant into forced desertion of their employment It is there to wreck the business, if need be in order to gain its ends. It is there mainly at the behest of disor derly, reckless and arrogant outsiders who have impudently taken charge of the strike and who are not concerned in the orderly settlement of any ques tion. They rejoice over a situation which their violence has created In the probable suspension of business Saturday night. They will have won a victory for their "rights" if they shall throw 150 or 200 people out of employment. The packing company finds condi tions unbearable, and will shut down if it is not relieved of the siege by the W. W.'s to which it has been sub jected. The Mayor purposes to pro tect the plant and the workers. But he has sought to secure a peaceful so lution by peaceable means. The agi tators do not want peace, but trouble. They thrive in their open and insolent defiance of authority; they will go as far as they dare in ignoring the law. They will find that the law was made to be obeyed, and that the public pa tience may be exhausted. In any issue between order and dis order, law and lawlessness, peace and riot, where do the I. W. W.'s think the community stands? Where do they think Mayor Albee stands? ABOLISHING THE WAGE SYSTEM. PORTLAND, Or., July 9. (To the Editor.) Referring to the editorial In The Orego nian today, "Is a Wage Dispute Ever Set tled? has The Oregonian not yet learned that from & Socialist standpoint the wage question will be settled only by Its abolish ment? Socialism is opposed to capitalism. hlch is founded upon the wage system. wherein the worker receives one-fifth of his product and the employer four-fifths. So cialism says, "labor creates all wealth and t Is entitled to Wie full product of its toll." Hence, so long as it receives only a part, be It one dollar or five dollars, the question remains unsettled. C. B. PYE. The cave-dwelling era in the devel opment of civilization is long 'since passed; yet your socialist would return to it. But if the work-or-starve law of human existence is to be enacted and enforced in the new-old socialistic Utopia, the Inquiry naturally arises as to what will become of the numerous socialists and more numerous I. W. W.'s who refuse either to work or starve. The entire structure of society is to day built upon the principle and prac tice of division of labor. That in equalities exist and . injustice is per petrated is undeniable. But what does our socialistic friend propose "in Its place? Does he Intend to reward every man according to his talent, in dustry, or opportunity, or all to gether? Or does he propose to share and share alike among the worthy and the unworthy, diligent and lazy. strong and weak, capable and incapa ble, sober and dissolute, great and small? If the former, the thrifty will soon own everything, the unthrifty nothing; the bees will save for the Winter, the butterflies will die with the first frost. If the latter, there will be Immediate aid universal chaos, for it violates the most ele mental principles of fairness and jus tice. If the wage system is to be abol ished, it will be when it Is learned that the laborer Is not worthy of his hire But he is, and he always will be no more, no less. ALL FOR THE SAKE OF HONOR. "The Oregonian carefully omits to mention," remarks the Pendleton East Oregonian, "the obvious fact that if Senator Chamberlain should get the Louisiana Senators to stand with him against free wool he would be obliged to vote with them for a tariff on sugar. In other words, if he should get their support he would have to bribe them and cast his own honor to the winds. He would cease to be a legislator and become a Senatorial pirate." Which would be quite dreadful In deed; so the Oregon Senator prefers to remain a Senatorial straddler, who would like to suit all concerned by being for free wool for the consumer and for tariff-protected wool for the producer. It is tough on Senator Chamberlain that he cannot pursue indefinitely his ideal of statesmanship, which Is to be for everything anybody wants and to be against nothing any body opposes. The Louisiana Senators are against the Underwood tariff bill, and will vote against it whether or not Sen ator Chamberlain joins them. There would be, and there need be, no bar gaining, no trading, no bartering of votes, to shock and mortify the Sen ator's sensitive soul and cause him to cast his honor to the winds. . Not at all. He may preserve his sacred honor, and yet beat the bill if he and one other (Senator Lane, for example) will refuse to abide by the decree of the Democratic caucus. But of course Senator Chamberlain the "non-partisan" and "Roosevelt Democrat" of the trying campaign of 1908 will bow meekly to the Democratic yoke, and vote for free wool, free lumber and all the rest, and he will be supported by the East Ore gonian and the other "independent' newspapers, which are for a free wool bill this year just as last year they were for a 29 per cent duty all because it was the Democratic game and all because It was the result o a compromise with Mr. La Follette who made a practical poetical deal with the Democrats, which Senator Chamberlain and his delicate honor then somehow contrived to counte. nance. But in 1913 we discover the Senator operating with a nice new model of political honor. The Progressive party exultantly claims credit for every piece of pro gressive legislation which is put for ward or passed. It boasts that it was founded to put into government cer tain principles of democracy and hu man welfare. Through its offshoot the' Progressive Service, it enlists the aid of men and women of other par ties, and then exclaims: "We did it. The progressive movement was - well under way and was assured of success long before the first thought of a Pro gressive party entered the Roosevelt brain. It began in Wisconsin and con tinued there In spite of the opposition of the Colonel; it continued in Ore gon, where we led the way in adoption of direct legislation. The Progressive party is a cuckoo, which occupies the nests built by other birds and which boasts o( the fine nest it has built. WHAT IS A MILLION T An ardent admirer of Mr. Bryan writes from Grays Harbor to condemn The .Oregonian's article discussing the difference between Mr. Bryan as ommoner and candidate and Mr. Bryan as Secretary of State. He chal lenges the truth of the statement that we have seen and heard him on a thousand platforms, read him In a million newspapers." We can't imagine - what is wrong with this assertion, unless Mr. Bryan's devoted supporter is under the im pression that "thousand" always means ten hundred units and "mil lion" invariably refers to a thousand thousand units.0 But even in literal figures, considering that the "we" in The Oregonian's article referred to the people generally, the statement is oubtless nearer the truth than other wise. - We are not informed as to - the actual number of speeches Mr. Bryan has delivered since 1896 but would consider one thousand a moderate estimate. The 20,000 or more news papers in the United States have been quoting Mr. Bryan far seventeen ears. An average of fifty quotations each is a small estimate for the per iod. But as a trifling lesson In the use of words it Is well to remark that the standard dictionaries are authority for the use of either "thousand" or million" in referring . to an indefi nitely large number. It was in that sense The Oregonian gave utterance to the quoted expression In that meaning the words are not uncom monly found in the best literature. Locke, for example, refers to "mil lions of truths that a man is not con cerned to know." Millions in units cannot be less than two i thousand thousand. We fancy if the eminent English philosopher had been called upon to name 2,000,000 truths that a man is not concerned to know he would, to use a colloquial expression, have been badly stumped. HOW EXEMPTIONS GROW. There are certain tax . exemptions prescribed in a statute which was re enacted and enlarged by vote of the people In the last general election. This law is liberal in its scope when one disregards the false contention or implication that taxation Is a penalty upon enterprise. Taxation is pay ment for what ought to be value re ceived in various forms of service and protection.: That full value Is not al ways given is not the fault of the tax ing system or an excuse for greater exemptions. , A 'number of clubs, lodges and or ganizations have been escaping taxa tion on the theory that they come un der the law which exempts the per sonal property of an organization and all real property used -for 'the actual purposes for which the institution Is incorporated, if those purposes be lit erary, scientific, charitable or benevo lent. The' question of taxing some of the organizations under scrutiny in volves only an interpretation of the aw, but In that Interpretation it ought not to be held that' the property of an organization -of .which literary study, scientific research, charity or benevo lence is merely incidental to. the amusement, comfort or housing of its members Is entitled .to exemption. As well might -we say that several fami lies might incorporate, build homes around a building devoted to library purposes and pay no taxes on the whole of the property.. . But if the chief aim and purpose of an organi zation Is to benefit society in one: of the particulars recognized In the act, it ought to' have the benefits of the law. One danger in tax exemptions is that, once begun, there is no ending. Probably the real intent of the people In passing the existing law was that corporations, not organized- for profit, but formed to enrich the general pub lic In literature or science, or to ex tend benevolence or charity with gen erous hand wherever needed, should be given free such service and protec tion as taxes usually buy. The intent is greatly broadened If it Includes so cieties whose educational or benevo lent help Is extended only to those who pay dues to it. Tet the law can be readily so construed. It is also possible so to Interpret the act that only those institutions that are per forming a broad public function In lit erature, science, education or benevo lence shall be relieved of taxation. The latter Is the really logical construc tion. CLOTHES AND MORALS. The Oregonian printed a letter from spinster the other day which touched incisively upon the subject of women's, clothes. The gist of her ar gument was that "there- is no con nection between a fashion of many clothes and high morality, and few clothes and low morality." In short her decision was that morality has no permanent relation to clothes. Any change in customary attire may for a time -draw attention to the charms of the body but the effect will be tran sient and as soon as the new fashion has become familiar it will cease to work either good or evil. It has been remarked by a certain sage that deni zens -of the demi-monde are usually excessively particular to array them selves in ample attire on the street. Their imitation of modesty far out shines the real thing. On the other hand the most discreet and retiring belles of Paqua wear, as all anthro pologists know, nothing at all except their beauty and even that is be clouded. The facts of the case fully sustain the contention of our fair corres pondent that there is no necessary re lation between clothes and virtue. The whole thing is a matter of habit. We blusn at the unusual, whatever It hap pens to be and the customary in all Its forms sustains our piety. Most of us Tuld be as rudely shocked at the spectacle of a woman wearing too many clothes as we profess to be when she wears too few or too tight ones. The Turk Is suffused with Ingenuous shame when his females appear In public unveiled. The Fiji Islander ex pects 'Jus wives to wear their nose rings, whatever else, they may leave off. Inasmuch as women are verging to. ward the similitude of man In most fields of endeavor, we. may fairly look forward to seeing their attire evolve Into masculine habitudes. The mod ern male wears garments which are just about perfect as far as comfort and modesty are ' concerned. They conform to the framework of the body without calling especial ' attention to any part. They neither suggestively conceal anything nor make indiscreet exposures. When we remember that in addition to these merits our gar ments permit all sorts of work to be done with pleasing facility we have demonstrated that male attire comes very near to the sartorial ideal. If, then, women should decide to imitate it more and more closely, what could be said against the wis dom of their choice? Some savants aver that they see In the current fash ions for the fair sex a distinct trend toward the . masculine. The narrow skirt, they prophesy, will soon be di vided. The amorphous Waist with its paraphernalia of corsets and ribbons will presently evolve Into a coat and veBt. To 'the emancipated vision no sufficient reason appears why women and men should not wear garments cut In the same fashion, since here after they are to do the same work In the same surroundings. Why should females competing with their hus bands and brothers in industry hamper themselves with attire which contin ually imperils their success? Thus the heralds on the mountain tops argue. For our part we are content to watch the course of evolution with a certain serenity of soul. Well knowing that nothing we can say or do will modify the current of the fashions one little inch, we are recon ciled to let it flow calmly on toward whatever ocean an allwise providence may have destined It for. Philippine slavery is agitating the Eastern newspapers and William S. Lyon, of Manila, writes to the New York Times the following description of a custom of the Negritos, who live in the Zambales Mountains of Luzon: It is a tribal cnstom, probably not knows to Mr. Worcester, to dispose of suddenly orphaned children who have not reached a ! self-sustaininar nee tov killlne- them. Occa- siuuauy soma aauic itegrno interposes, seizes the orphans, runs them down Into the valley and, for a few pesos, .sells them Into bond age to some Filipino family, who utilize tnem as Douse servants. These slave-dealers and slave-hold ers are the pleasant people who quote the . Declaration of Independence in support of their demand for total in dependence to continue a traffic which we abolished 50 years ago. Secretary Bryan calls himself a progressive, but this does not seem like progress. . We modestly offer the opinion that Judge Wanamakeri of Ohio, misun derstands Judge Parker, of New York. The latter luminary said that "Judges ought to be beyond criticism," . The Ohio judge thinks he meant that "they ought to be exempt from criti cism," and differs with him sharply. He is right. No man ought to be ex empt from criticism. But Judge Par ker's thought was that the judiciary ought to be so pure and wise that crit icism could find no point to attack, and he is right. Still, judges are hu man, and it will be a long time before his ideal is- attained The Chicago Evening Post calls at tention to the excellence of Chicago as a Summer resort, and says: In addition to the justly famous lake breeze, she now offers a northwest wind that comes In ove the prairies with a coolth all Its own. With this complete apparatus she is able to offer a line of July tempera ture that cannot be excelled. Was not Chicago among the cities where the sun struck scores of people dead and prostrated hundreds, and where the stewing, humid heat killed hosts of babies? Our neighbor must think we have a short memory, .or that we do not read the news. ' It Is disconcerting td be told that as firearms become more accurate and of longer range they kill fewer men. Since the purpose of a battle is to kill as many as possible, it seems as if we ought to go back to old-fashioned weapons. - But perhaps Lieutenant Colonel Morrison was Indulging in a little pleasantry when he made the remark we have quoted. If he really meant what he said, we have only to Invent an absolutely perfect gun and then there will be no casualties at all in war. So many things that happen nowa days make one think of Caesar's wife. He required the poor thing not only to be .good, but to manage so that all the igosslpg would say she was good. She must be above suspicion. So ought a County Superintendent, and, above all men, a civil service exam iner. The Brooklyn Eagle gives Its read ers some sage advice on how to get through the hot spell. Why not avoid it altogether by coming to Ore gon? There's plenty of room and the warmest thing the wilted New Yorker will find will be the welcome. How times have changed may be Judged from the fact that General Hancock's widow distributed suffrage tracts at the Gettysburg reunion. The General distributed things which made a more forcible impression 50 years ago. What is the matter with St. Louis? Mr. Folk cleared one flock of graft ers out of the City Council, but here is another graft inquiry by the grand jury under way. Is the grafting mi crobe in the air of St. Louis? Jack Johnson is reported as an nouncing he will never return from France, but he is making his "holler" too soon.. .If the United States really wants him, the United States will get him. That Southern California boy estab lished the record for drinking pop by consuming thirteen bottles arid a large quantity of candy, but now his diet is the proverbial milk and honey. Table d'hote costs sixteen cents a day at the penitentiary, according to a statement of the Governor. Once a man gets out, he is likely to eat him self sick after that experience. Times have changed. Striking wait ers in St. Louis are demanding pro tection of the militia. Generally it is the strike-breaker who Is in fear. The Kansas grasshopper of 1873 re turns to find much food and tremend ous change In the western part of the state. Hailstones as large as walnuts are an Ohio affliction, but. state loyalty might have said as large as .buckeyes. Merely holding on a statutory charge a man whose victim Is of ten der years does not look like law. The leper at large near Port Town send can be retaken as easily as an eloping smallpox patient. Oh, for an. eighteen-Inning game, just to revive Interest that is becom ing stale! . . . PIONEER. TOWN IS NOT UNGODLY Resident of Oak Point Contradicts Statements Credlted-to Pastor. OAIC POINT, Wash., July 9. (To the Editor.) Many residents of this place, and some former residents also, have requested me to answer through The Oregonian a paragraph that appeared in its columns recently, wherein It Is asserted that the Rev. Alfred Bates, one of the visitors to the Portland Rose Festival. Is the first pastor in Oak Point In 66 years; that when the Rev. Alfred Bates arrived at Oak Point he found a former Baptist preacher, who told him he was afraid to preach here; and that at a school entertainment, shortly after his arrival, the door was broken in and a free fight took place; that now, however, all Is changed and within the three years of the Rev. Mr. Bates' residence here. In connection with this matter per haps a few words about the people who built up an industry here in the past, and left their names connected with the early history of Oregon, may be of general Interest. There are many people still living In Portland who know that Oak Point was the early home of the Abernethys. George Abernethy arrived, by the- way of Cape Horn, in 1840. He came hero in company with the Rev. Gustavus Hines, the Rev. Jason Lee and many other missionaries. George Abernethy later was elected trie first Governor ,of Ore gon. His brother, Alexander, came a few years later,- when they built the largest sawmill on the Columbia River at Oak Point. They also put on a line of sailing ships between San Francisco and Portland. They purchased and leased wharves and docks in San Fran Cisco, and materially helped by these Industries to develop Portland In the early days. They also owned the largest flour mill in the state of Ore gon, which burned down at Oregon City in 1862. They also built a large flour mill at Oak Point. The home of the Abernethys at Oak Point was, and the location is yet, an ideal spot for a home, situated in the midst of an orchard, on a plateau that rises boldly above the Columbia, with a wooded hill forming a background, with a magnificent view of the great river. The historic house, which was built in 1857, the doors and windows for which were brought around Cape Horn, was burned down a year ago last September. At the time of the fire it was the property of Mrs. M. A. Young, of 445 Larrabee street, Port land, who still owns the grounds. The old-time ministers always found shelter and encouragement in this house. The first on circuit here was the Rev. Mr. Royal, who came about 1856 end was still on circuit here in October, 1866. After the Rev. Mr". Roy al came the Rev. Mr. Allen, who lived in the Abernethy house for months and finally removed to a parsonage built for him at Freeport, on the Cowlitz River, and he was on circuit In 1870. In 1884 a Presbyterian minister at tended to the wants of this place. For the last 10 years several Norwegian ministers have come here, the present gentleman, the Rev. Mr. Nestor, for five years. The Rev. Mr. Ainsley, the Baptist minister referred to by Rev. Bates as being afraid to preach here, came here eight years ago and at once commenced to preach here and organ ized a Sunday school. He did very creditably and was doing well enough when Mr. Bates came Into this neigh borhood. Mr. Bates had lived here long enough to know that this gentleman's wife did not want him to preach on ac count of former illness. The fight at the school entertainment spoken of took place a year before the Rev. Mr. Bates came here. It was started by a man who did not belong here, a few loggers standing by and two or three new importations got drawn into it. The door was not brok en in. The man who started the fight opened it and stepped Inside for shel ter. The church the Rev. Mr. Bates speaks of has caused much discussion in this neighborhood. When they first began to talk about building a church all were willing, but wanted a church that all denominations could preach in. This was objected to by Mr. Bates and a few others. Many withdrew from the Methodist congregation and built a Baptist church, without soliciting hardly anyone for money. The Baptist minister here, the Rev. Mr. Nation, has done much this last year to reconcile the diverse interests of the church peo ple here. WILLIAM NEWELL. HARM IS SEEN IN RESOLUTIONS. Writer Deplores Conference's Effort to Put Religion in Constitution. PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Ed itor.) In his article in The Oregonian today, H. C. Uthoff asks: "Who Shall interpret God's mandates?" A ques tion along the same line was asked by a preacher friend of mine of Dr. Martin, one of the leaders in this prom ised national reform, and his answer was: "Why, the Supreme Court will decide what is right." You may say that this "is to laugh." It would be if It wasn't so sad. His fellow reform er. Dr. Wylie, of Pittsburg," is on rec ord that we are "going to have re ligious laws" and "they are going to be enforced." This servant of him who preached charity, stated that "a Sunday law which tolerates anyone to keep the seventh day holy, was an abominable law!" Dr. Batten admitted that the ob ject of the "world" (?) conference was to "throw Its aggregate weight in the political scale to put religious doctrine into. the Constitution of free America." (See two last issues of "Liberty,", pub lished at Washington, D. C.) One of these reformers wrote: "Let them who don't like it get out' and "let them move to some desert isle and there in the name of the devil set up a government in his. name." The people of Portland were warned time and again. Last Winter in a lo cal theater and since then in various halls, the Religious Liberty League told vast audiences that this "world" conference was only a blind, by which the old National Reform Bureau was going to put the lambs on record that they desired to be shorn. Most people ridiculed this warning. The conference has come and gone and we must admit that we liberty-loving citizens have gone on record unanimously in favor of state interference with the liberty of conscience. A headline In The Oregonian July 6 read: "Nation Is Advised to Adopt Re ligion," and the article went on to say: ". . . it Is meet that we should give recognition to him (God) In our Con stitution and in our common law." There is walling over the 115,000 the city put up. But that is a mere baga telle when compared with the trick of putting the audiences on record for things which no one believes- in, ex cept those who preach to empty Dews and demand that the sheriff shall drive people into church. The harm la done. Who is going to undo it?. The money loss will be forgotten, but the resolu tions will live and be used time and again to influence legislators. H. Dress Freedom for Other's GIrl. . PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Edi tor.) Referring to the letter from R. V. M." In regard to "Freedom for women," I agree with her. Women should be allowed to dress as thev please and I for olke and I think most men will gladly vote for them to be allowed to expose their charms if they want to. Of course I will not want any gin tnat i intend to marry to do so but am perfectly willing for the other fellow's girl to go in tights if she chooses to do so. They all, or at least a great majority, seem anxious to dis play their figures. Then why Inter fere? Go to It ladles. I am sure you win nave a good following. ANOTHER MAN. Galveston Storm. PORTLAND, July 9 (To the Ed itor.) Please give the date of the Galveston, Tex., disaster. G. L. R. -September 8, 1900. DISCRIMINATIVE MARRIAGE LAW Woman Writer Recoirntsea It and Deema Act Premature. PORTLAND, July 10. (To the Edi tor.) Those persons in Oregon who take an Interest in practical eugenics have, I think, a well-founded com plaint to make against the unjust dis crimination in the law requiring medi cal certificates of good health for males only before marriage. To say that the law should exempt woman for fear of Insulting womanhood is really only mawkish sentimentality and a sickly sort of chivalry that in this 20th century elicits only an amused smile from Intelligent women who know something of the world'. From the standpoint of scientific eugenics such an exemption of the female is abso lutely ridiculous. . When Dean Walter T. Sumner, of Chicago, announced the rule a year and a half ago that no couples would be married in his church without the health certificate, he had the good sense anf fairness to include both men and women. Besides venereal diseases, there are others, such as tuberculosis and epilepsy, which ought, to be im pediments to marriage. Women are just as- likely to have these as men. Hence why should they not be exam ined if we are to have regulative laws at all? Of course the present law was aimed mainly at persons having vene real disease. Even so, I don't believe women should be exempt. Physicians' records show that a certain number of women, exclusive of those who make vice a profession, have these diseases. What is the good of shutting our eyes like bats to the truth? The human race ought to be protected from them, too, if we are to accept science and facts and not false sentiment as our guides. As the great Finnish anthropologist, Edward Westermarck, in his "Origin and Development of Moral Ideas" says, "The concealment of truth is the only indecorum known to science." Venereal disease in men and women ought to be regarded as a misfortune, just as any other disease is so regard ed, -and not as a punishment. That is the scientific, the humanitarian atti tude. To look upon these diseases oth erwise Is to take the antiquated, be nighted, cruel and dangerous view which the world has clung to in its harshness and prejudice altogether too long. To discriminate against men as the Oregon law does is to help estrange the sexes in mutual goodwill, instead of promoting, as we should, a sympa thetic understanding of what is nec essary to health and happiness in their reciprocal relations. Centuries ago the prevalent attitude toward woman was that in certain of her functions she Was the personifica tion of evil. We have for the most part got beyond that fallacy. But this Oregon law seems to indicate that we are drifting toward another profound error, namely, that all men are de praved ana. unclean by nature, but that women are so innately "pure" as to be virtually dehumanized angels. Both views are wrong and pernicious. Men and women, while different in some de gree psychologically as well as phy siologically, are both human and suf- iiuieuuy aiiae to De aDie to get along in comparative harmony, if only each sex will honestly recognize the peculiar traits, needs and limitations of the otner. Perhaps, after all, this new marriage law in Oregon is premature. Perhaps we are beginning at the wrong end in such matters, as Havelock Ellis sug gests, by forcing a Iawupon the neo- ple which education and public senti ment has not yet demanded. In doing this we stir up enmity, bitterness and misunderstanding. Careful and con unuea instruction by parents and through the press, school, platform and pulpit in the moral responsibility in- vuivea in rearing children, would acmeve more by creating a body of Intelligent public understanding that wouia spontaneously support a law, wnen . enacted at the right time, by ready compliance with its purpose. In the absence of such intelligent public sentiment the law becomes a virtual dead letter. It is easily circ and thus people come to haye more and more contempt for all statutes, both wise ana rooiisn. it Is but another ex ample or our American impatience which ignores that well-established truth of sociology; "Profound changes are never sudden and sudden changes Rto never proiounu. RUTH VERNON MAYNE. TARIFF BILL PARTISAN, UNFAIR Writer Finds Other Faults With Demo cratlc Administration. PORTLAND. July 9. (To the Edi tor.) O. K. is Governor Geer's letter on the tariff. It Is time the people were waking up to the partiality and eciunuiism of tne Democratic tariff out. it aoes seem like after all th complaint and wrangling and Jang ung we snouid nave had something aecent. diii giving fair treat- ati scuiiuiia ana interests as nearly as might be, but this bill seems to contemplate the most partisan and uniair taritr we nave ever had After their professions in the late campaign or justice to the common people including their old song of equal rights to all and special privi leges to none, we see blatant partisans ignoring this plain principle and favoring what will bring them votes ,or what has a pull behind it or a friend at court. Away with such hyprocrlsy. The cringing and fawn ing attempt to induce California to crawl and renounce her rights as a state to abate a grievous evil and nui sance and the attempt to cover up or shield the white slave mess as exposed by an alert and honest attorney who was most insolently referred to On ac count of his politics form a combina tion too disgusting for any voter of any party, and will never get the vote or approval of the plain thinking or self-respecting people now or hereaf ter. Government tfl succeed must be based on justice and fair dealing to all sec tions as well as all classes, or occu pations. The wool grower .of the West is as much entitled to It as the manu facturer of the wool In the East and the same with other products. " Let blind partisans bewaro of the fire of sectional passion or hatred which once started, its end cannot be foreseen. GEORGE H. GREELY. Union County's Woman Official. LA GRANDE, Or., July 7. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian a few days ago mention was made of the recently appointed Superintendent of Schools of Union County, as being the first woman to serve in this capacity. She is the first woman appointed, but not the first elected to fill this position. Nellie M. Stevens was elected County Superintendent in 1894 and served for two terms, or until the Supreme Court handed down the decision adverse to women holding the position. The coun ty was larger then than now, compris ing' the portion known as the "Pan Handle" since embraced by Baker County. This large territory was visited, sev eral new districts organized, and much good along school lines was accom plished under the able management of Miss Stevens, the first woman superin tendent of Union County. A UNION COUNTY PIONEER. Decision of Wise Sweetheart. Louisville Courier-Journal. "I guess she loves me, all right." "Why so?" "She vows she'd rather be miserable with me than happy with anybody else. Puck. Clerk (Marriage License Bureau) "Two dollars, please." Pete Possum "Lordy. man! How yo" s'pose Ah's gwine hab two dollars, when Ah ain't even married, ylt?" Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregon of July 11. 1S63. Port Townsend. July 10. The pre liminary surveys of the Port Townsend Southern Railroad commenced today. Seattle, July 10. A. J. Hay ward, of Portland, the well-known lumberman, leaves here tomorrow morning, accom panied by his wife, for a trip to Alaska. Salem, Or., July 10. State Superin tendent McElroy, Mrs. McElroy, Mrs. E. N. Cook, Cook Patton, Superintend ents Peebles and Yoder, Misses Cox and Chamberlain, Mrs. Cox and a number ofjothers leave on Wednesday for San Francisco to attend the convention of the National Education Association. The regular meeting of the North Pacific Fruit Growers' Association was held yesterday, President Cardwell in the chair. Rt. Rev. B. Wistar Morris, bishop of Oregon, is a delegate to the Lambeth conference, which assembled in Eng land on July 3. The street railway to Sunnyside was completed several days ago and Mon day a steam motor was run out there and back. There arrived here yesterday four Eastern ballplayers under conditional engagement to the Portland baseball club. They are: J. O. Cran, catcher. and Charles Terry, pitcher; B. Hill and C. Beardsley. Adjutant-General J. C. Shofner and Colonel Charles E. Morgan, command ing the Third Regiment, O. N. G.. have gone to Salem. Mrs. Thomas Guinean and daughter. Miss Bessie, left yesterday for Sac ramento. Mr. J. R. Baldwin, formerly a lawyer of this city, now of Baker City, is in town. Yesterday forenoon about 10:30 o'clock the first locomotive which ever crossed the Lower Willamette on a bridge came over the new and splen did structure owned by the O. R. & N. Company that now spans the river. Manager W. H. Holcomb and Superin tendent C. V. Johnson were on board. The Cardwell-Creighton place, on the outskirts of the city on the Sandy road, comprising 7.6 acres, has been sold to W. H. Wynkoop for $8000. The same place was sold 10 months ago tor J4j00. National Bank Reserves. PORTLAND, July 9. (To the Editor.) Under the heading "Per Capita Up 10 Cents," in The Oregonian July 4, the total amount of money In the United States Is given as $3,718,397,000; the amount held in the treasury as an as set of the Government is $347,053,000. The total amount of deposits in all banks is, I believe, approximately $18. 000,000,000. There are in the United States over 3000 banks not reporting (Treasurer's report 1911, p. 365), and whose deposits are not known by the department. I want to ask The Orego nian for further information: (1) How much of this money that is outside the U. S. Treasury, and sup posed to be in circulation, is practically retired from use by the legal cash re serve in banks? (2) Are all National banks required by law to keep on hand in their own vaults a cash reserve of 25 per cent of their deposits ?i D. J. FORBES. (1) In 1912,'the latest year for which we can find the figures, the total re serves of all National banks were 1404 million dollars, of which SC2 millions was actual lawful money on hand. A recent report showed that the reserve of country banks totalled 657 millions, of which 240 millions was in their own possession. (2) Country banks are required to hold a reserve equal to 15 per cent of their liabilities, and may redeposit 9 per cent In reserve city banks. Reserve city banks are required to hold in re serve 25 per cent of their liabilities, and may redeposit half of this in banks of central reserve cities. Banks In cen tral reserve cities must maintain a re serve of 25 per cent of their liabilities. PERFECT POLICEMAN JOINS FORCE Boston Ex-Fireman Scores 10O Points in All Rigid Tests. Boston Cor. Philadelphia Record. A "cop" who neither drinks, smokes nor swears and, incidentally, boasts of a thousand other unusual virtues, has Just been added to the police force of this city. It is the first time Boston has had a perfect policeman, an officer who scores 100 points in every depart ment of police desirability, according to the examination tests. He is William McLaught, for two years a hoseman attached to Engine Company 26, in Charlestown. McLaught surprised the examining officials when he scored 100 per cent in the strength, balance and health trials of the civil service test. The previous highest rec ord was 99.015 per cent, which was con sidered by Commissioner O'Meara and the civil service physician to be prob ably unbeatable. Ml I of Man Robbed of Fortune. Judge. Grouch There goes a man who rob bed me of a large fortune. Gink He robbed you of a fortune, and still he is enjoying his liberty! Grouch Not by a darned sight! He married the rich widow I was after. July Days Are Special Economy Days It will pay you handsomely to read the. advertisements in The Oregonian, for this is the month when merchants adjust their stocks by clearing out small odd lets, things that have not sold fast enough. The ac cumulations are inevitable in the beet stores. All right for you, but not for the merchant who must keep his stocks trim within certain merchandising limits. Prices generally drop duriug these times. Consequently yon will find it wise to run through the ad vertisements from time to time, they will enable you to" buy many things at prices very much lower than those usually asked for the same styles or qualities. Things for every member of the family, for all sections of the home and for the table are now uppermost among the ad vertising features.