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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11, 1914. JO Wait Bw$mm PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered t Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as secono-elass matter. Subscription Kate. Invariably In Advance (BY MAIL) IHy, Sunday Included, one year 522 aily. Sunday Included, six months 4.25 Daily, Sunday Included, three months ... l-j-o Lally, Sunday Included, one month -TjJ Dailv lthnnl Kitndav. on V(- r ....... 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months ..... 3.Z.V Dally, without Sunday, three months ... l-'5 Dally, wlthaut Sunday, one month .fO Weekly, one year : l-0 Sunday, one year jJjjO fcunday and weakly, one year -6 (BT CARRIER) Dally, Sunday Included, one year S9.00 Dally. Sunday included, one month ..... . How to Kemit Send nostoffice money or der, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at senders risk. Give postoffice address in full, including; county and state. Postage Kates 12 to 16 pages. 1 cent; 18 to 82 pages. 2 cents: 34 to 48 pages. 8 cents; 6o to 60 pages. 4 cents; 62 to 76 pages, 6 cents; T8 to 2 pages, 6 cents. Foreign post age, aonnie rates. Eastern Business Offices Verree & Conk lln. New York, Brunswick building. Chi cago. Eteger building. 8an Francisco Office R. J. Bldwell Co.. T42 Market street. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 11. 1914 WHO BEAKS THE BURDEN? The Oregonian opposes the U'Ren propo sition to have the estates of dead men pay tor Oregon roads. Now the rank and file will favor It all the more. Oregon City Courier. Is it so? So much the worse, then, for the rank and file. But it is not so. Witness, the fate of the TTRen measures in the last two elections. The rank and file has learned to look with proper suspicion on all schemes and measures emanating from Ore gon City. The Oregonian has had a hand in exposing them to the pitiless light of truth, and people have gov erned themselves accordingly. Mr. U'Ren would have the state give everybody a job. . The proposal needs but to be stated to show its utter impracticability, its sheer in sanity. He would pay them through funds raised from the estates of dead persons. Confiscation is a mild term for it; silliness is another. The County of Multnomah realized through the inheritance tax last year about $50,000. That sum would not go far toward jiving all applicants a job. If the rat- were to be raised sharply, it would result in nothing but wholesale perjury or outright seques tration. There would be nothing left by any decedent. But the gravest and most menacing feature of the U'Ren proposal is the heavy load it places upon thrift and industry and the premium on va grancy, idleness and ingratitude. The man who can get a Job when he wants it will frequently hold no Job long, and the state would inherit as its workers the cast-offs of every em ployment. If the state pays the wages of everybody who wants to draw pay from the state, t'.ie burden falls back Inevitably upon the citizens who sup port the state. How do the men who are working steadily In the mills for, say, $2.60 per day of ten hours, like the idea of supporting a great army of taxeaters at $3 or more per day of eight hours? v That is ITRenism for you. DEMOCRACY IN A HOLE. Democrats are In a most perplexing position in regard to canal tolls ex emption and President Wilson has put them in it. When they plead that they are not bound by their plat form declaration in favor of that prin ciple, they are reminded of Mr. Wil son's profession of strict fidelity to the platform in his reply to the wom an suffragists. When they say that the canal tolls plank was slipped in unknown to the committee which drew the platform. Senator O'Gorman is there to contradict them, for he was one of the most influential members of the committee and he is a cham pion of exemption. When they say that exemption is a special privilege, the retort is that its repeal would grant a special privilege to transcon tinental railroads, both American and Canadian. If they urge that this con cession is necessary to preserve am icable foreign relations, they are asked why we should yield pusillan imously on a question of domestic pol icy in order to retain other nations' friendship. By yielding should we not earn contempt for our weakness? While by resisting until an arbitration court decides against us we should at least retain respect, though enmity accompanied it. Senator Brlstow put the issue squarely before the Senate. Having fceen employed by the Government to investigate the effects on traffic of the Panama Canal, he is well equipped to speak on the subject. He stated the effect of tolls in these words: The amount of the toll, whatever it is. is added to every ton of freight that passes through the canal as an additional charge. Free tolls for American ships engaged in the coastwise trade would mean that there would be no additional charge imposed upon those ships for carrying commerce be tween the Eastern coast of the United States and the Western coast for passage through the canal. If a toll Is charged, the rate will be increased by that amount; and the water rate, if It is a free competitive rate, will determine the transcontinental rates charged by the railroads, for every dollar of toll that is levied upon commerce that passes through that canal between the porta of the United States will, as a prac tical proposition, not only be added to the water rate, but also to the transcontinental freight rates. But the effect of repealing exemp tion would not stop there. England also protests against exclusion from the canal of railroad - owned ships, and Senator Borah pointed out that the two propositions are linked to gether. Mr. Bristow rejoined: I agree absolutely with the Senator from Idaho. I think the proposed repeal of the free-tolls clause is more than an entering ifedge; I am not sure but that it will result in a nullification, as to its practical effect, of the inhibition of railroad-owned ships passing through the canal. If we are not only to exact tolls from coastwise ships but are to per mit railroad-owned ships to use the canal, what shall we have gained by our investment of $400,000,000? One of our chief purposes in making that investment was to cheapen transpor tation by facilitating water competi tion with railroads. If we charge tolls to coastwise ships, we shall throw away just that much benefit of com petition. If we permit railroad-owned ships to use the canal, a very short time may elapse before they will have driven out all independent competi tors, will have raised water rates to a parity with the railroad rates pre vailing before the canal was built and will have used their steamships, as the Southern Pacific for years used the Pacific Mail line, to drive out water competition. The route through the canal between 'our coasts may then become as bare of American ships as our rivers have become bare of steam, ers under the pressure of railroad competition. The railroads will rule the ocean as they rule the rivers. The President cannot deny that toll exemption Is a Democratic policy, for as Senator Chamberlain said, not a single Democratic Senator voted against it when it was adopted and half the Democrats in the House vot ed for it. The policy had thus been adopted by the Democracy, and its Indorsement at Baltimore was an in dorsement of that which the party had already done, not a trick of a few schemers. The only Senators who voted against it were Republicans In whose company Democrats would find themselves 111 at ease, for they Include many of the old standpat bri gade. Here are their names: Brande gee. Burton, Crane, Fall, Gronna, Lodge, Nelson, Oliver, Penrose, Root and Wetmore. When we recall that Senator Lodge voted against exemption, his protes tation of patriotic confidence in the President's wisdom in foreign affairs Is heavily discounted. He is not show ing a lofty disregard of party through devotion to his country; he is wel coming an ally in a cause for which he has always fought. Mr. Wilson is putting his party into a position which will be most difficult to defend. The party which formerly delighted to twist the British lion's tail is to obey the lion's command. The party which would make the rail roads servants of the people now be comes their ally r. .inst the people. The party which has many a time ful minated against monopoly is to clear the way for monopoly. If the Presi dent has his way there will be much explaining to do next Fall. DIVAGATIONS OF A SALEM CRITIC. The Oregonian is not a little sur prised to discover the following para graph on the editorial page of its in telligent and usually accurate con temporary, the Salem Capital Journal: The Oregonian, which has always ex pressed little use for the recall, referendum and other features of the Oregon system, is now backing a recall movement against the Mayor and Commissioners of Portland. Because they have voted in favor of in stalling water meters in order to save waste, a question upon which public senti ment is divided. The Oregonian is peeved and does not scruple to invoke the recall against the officials as well as the refer endum against their acts. This is the worst feature of the recall, that it is generally actuated by spite or personal Interest and hampers officials In the dis charge of 'honest public duty. There la no doubt in this case that the Portland Commissioners believe their action will re sult in good to a large majority of the people, and they should be given an op portunity to make -good. - A referendum and recall election will cost the city 810,000 or S12.UU0, which is almost as much as the appropriation set aside for the meters. One wonders how so much mis information and misunderstanding can be compressed in so few words. The world knows except one Salem editor marooned at the antipode of all earthly enlightenment on this par ticular subject that The Oregonian has not approved in any way the pro posed recall. The journal at Salem may search in vain through the col umns of The Orcsonian for criticism of the referendum, though there has been much of objection to its misuses and perversions. J need involve only nominal cost, si it must occur at a general elect unless the City Commissioners of otherwise. The present approprla for meters will exceed $50,000, budget for 1914 calls for $250,000 the total cost of meters for all will be about $600,000. The Oregonian agrees that the, cal of public officials is often spired by improper motives; b thinks, and has ever thought, tha right of appeal properly lies thro the referendum on any public m uro from any legislative body to th people at large. The initiative is a different matter. It is a strange sight, but instructive withal, to behold various self-proclaimed sentinels of the Oregon sys tem leveling their guns at those teme rarious persons who have the nerve to suggest a referendum on the auda cious meter game. Are not they the original discoverers and present own ers of the referendum? PROFITS FROM BANKRUPTCY. Star route contractors have blocked the scheme of Postmaster-General Burleson to make a profit on the parcel post at their expense. They refuse to bid at the rates he offers, because he has added to the ordinary mail and to parcels limited to eleven pounds each parcel as heavy as fifty pounds, without proportionate in crease of compensation. Hence four fifths of the bids are rejected. Mr. Burleson's course goes far to justify those Senators who opposed giving him discretion in the change of rates and weights with the idea that he should have the same discretion as the general freight agent or traffic manager of a railroad. He has made changes in the conditions under which contracts were made without chang ing the price. He has bankrupted some contractors and would bankrupt others if they were so foolish as to bid on his terms. His course threat ens to break down the entire star route and rural mall service. The people desire to have the parcel post expanded as fast as practicable, but they do not desire its expansion before provision has been made for carrying the added weight or for ade quate payment to the carriers. They do not desire it to earn a profit, par ticularly at the expense of honest public servants. They will be content if the postal service as a whole pays its way and in lieu of profits will be satisfied with cheaper, better service as earnings increa: in greater ratio than expenses. A SILENT NOVELIST. The conviction is gaining ground in literary circles that Marie Corelli, the famous novelist, will write no more books..- Her active career is closed. Her sun declines toward the Western horizon. Her figure, already a little wan and ghostlike, begins to parade with awful pomp beside Shakespeare, Dante and Thomas W. Lawson in the land of memory. Miss Corelli herself confirms the story that her work is o'er and gives some reasons for retir ing from the busy whirl of literary life. It is not the mere burden of years that has put her pen to rest. Were that the only trouble she would have given us treasure after treasure as long as there was breath in her body. The trouble is that the taste of the public has declined. There was a time when Marie Corelli filled the newspapers with her name and tame. Once her books lay boside the Bible and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress on every parlor table. But all that is changed. "Trade's unfeeling train usurps the book market and dispos sesses the swain," so to speak. It seems perfectly fair to speak of Miss Corelli as a guileless swain beside the wily monsters who have lured the public away with their wares. Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad and the mature but agile De Morgan are the individuals whom Miss Corelli accuses of looting her literary business by monopolistic competition. She says as much in plain terms in a letter to a British newspaper. They have invaded her legitimate market, underbid her goods and hogged the trade. If these specifications are true we have a clear case for the application of a literary anti-trust law. Unfor tunately there Is no such law at pres ent included in international treaties, but there ought '.o be. When we be hold a genius like Marie Corelli sink ing into oblivion because more artful writers have captured the market it is time something were done. The obvious course seems to be to estab lish a regulation that any person who has bought one of Miss Corelli's books shall buy all the rest of them and read nothing else as Ion;, as he lives. In our opinion such an enactment would be eminently just. RETICENCE AND REFORM. Agnes Reppller, who is a spinster of a certain age and ripeness, has been writing on the "Repeal of Reti cence." : Her ' complaint is that the world has begun to talk plainly about some evil matters which in the good old days of the Puritan taboo were left discreetly unmentioned. Miss Repplier accepts implicity the faith that these evils are past all remedy. Discussion of them does no good be cause it can lead to nothing in the way of improvement. Her theory is that such troubles always have ex isted and always will, inasmuch as they are a part of the providential scheme of the world. Our best course in regard to them Is to speak and act as if they did not exist as long as we possibly can. When they actually break into re spectable society by their conse quences we should give them some decent name and put on the best face we can until the flurry is over. Miss Repplier's essay, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, takes the point of view of the village gossip toward delicate topics. They may be dis cussed with hushed voices behind closed doors, but it is disgraceful to acknowledge in public that you ever heard a whisper about them. This attitude is no doubt extremely polite and highly satisfactory to the spinsterish mind, but it gets no where. The world declines longer to accept Miss Repplier's faith that the social evil and its allied ills are in curable. It rejects the doctrine that they have been in posed upon us by Providence and has resolved at all costs to get rid of them. The first step toward extirpating them is to expose them in their true hideousness. This Is unpleasant, but It Is necessary. The public must learn exactly what the ere ure looks like that it has been nursing in its bosom all these centurie- We must also get clear ideas of the reasons why it tvj so huge and thriven so - ft ia. nor the Jewel, wherever fou There is one County and his nam Brown. He has been jL torney there continuous 20 years, surviving change. stance and the vicissitude by sheer ability to comman eral respect. He does not c the duty of a public pros prosecute for the mere purpo curing a conviction; but he record for energetic pursuit of malefactors that is without a ; fn the state. His master is di his loyalty is to the state and 1 interests. If the public welfare dema conviction, Mr. Brown gets it, ' Invariably; if it permits lenien suggests protection, Mr. Brown lessly serves justice in that waj' is a good lawyer, a faithful : officer and a high-minded citiz It is suggested that Mr. Browi be a candidate for Attorney-Ge of the state. The state will do if it is able to get such a ma that important place. ASQUITH'S HK1I.FXI. 6TRATEG Premier Asquith's proposed promise with the Ulster Unionis Irish home rule may prove to clever piece of political strategy offering to give each Ulster C( the option of exclusion from the Parliament by popular vote he lenges the Unionists to a cou noses. The latter have been SDe of "Protestant Ulster" as thoug whole province were Protestanij as though all Protestants were I ists. In fact, the only counties Protestants are in the majority U A nl.n. rtAntn r, A T f derry, and there is no certaini the majority of voters in those ties opposes home rule, for Protestants favor that measure, home rule movement began , Ulster Protestants and resul 1782 in the establishment of tan's Parliament. One of the est Nationalist leaders of times, Parnell, was a Pre Londonderry City, a strong Protestantism, recently electee tionalist to Parliament. Thus Mr. Asquith s com may prove to be a most effec of the Ulster Unionist bluff, moral certainty that no would vote against home rul.( the four named as having a ant majority and it is quite that one or two of these fou vote favorably. If the exclude ties should be reduced to two ( and Armagh, for examp would be In the same pof( those states which 'delayed e, to the American Union. The. become ridiculous as a small r of Irreconcilables. . Either ei ment would be perpetuated excluded counties would gradil drawn into a United Ireland. The Ulsterites must realize t therein lies the explanation c objection to the Asquith schen if they reject it they will be the. defensive before British opinion and will clear the w Mr. Asquith to put through h inal bill subjecting all Ulster Irish Parliament. Their hopes cess in resistance to home rr more In a resubmission of the' hlSw treaV w question to the voters at a general election. The Unionists in general use Ulster In maneuvering for the same result. They maintain that home rule should be submitted to the people at the election of a new Parliament before the House of Commons passes It over the Lords' veto. They know that the popular vote would not be cast en tirely on this issue, but would be much influenced by others, on which the Liberal coalition has lost strength. They expect the Labor party by run ning third candidates to split the coa lition vote and let Unionists into many seats. The trend of bye elections has been towards the Union ists. They have everything to gain by preventing a compromise on home rule and by forcing a general election with that issue as a pretext. A com promise would deprive them of that pretext, would add to Liberal pres tige and would put the Liberals in the position to placate the Laborites and to revive their waning popularity by bringing forward new measures which would appeal to the British democracy. Mr. Asquith has therefore made a skilful move to put his opponents in the wrong, to justify forcing the bill through in spite of the Lords' veto in case his offer Is refused and to stave off a general election. The Unionists may well hesitate to drive him to this extreme, for, once a bill actually be comes law without the Lords' assent, the power of the upper house the bulwark of Toryism will be gone. We have heard so much lately about Germany hallenging British maritime supremacy that it is sur prising to learn that the tonnage of new vessels launched in Great Britain last year exceeded that of all other nations combined. British tonnage was 2,203,000, that of all other na tions 1,806,000. Germany was a poor second with 618,0fC and the United States third with only 288,000. Nor Is this disparity due to building of warships, for Great Britain's total was only 271,000 tons, while other na tions built 405,000 tons. There is sound sense in John Bull's statement that we built the Panama Canal for his use. Miss Edith Durham, a Balkan war correspondent, in a lecture in London protested against the work of the Red Cross on the ground that by restoring the sick and wounded to health it kept up the supply of soldiers and thus prolonged war. There has been war in Mexico fo- three years without much regard to Red Cross rules, but there are no immediate signs that the end is near. Were the wounded al lowed to perish on the field, the effect would be to brutalize the survivors and reduce war to the conditions of primitive barbarism. id in favor rrblfr I- There is much toe sa encourage: ise of pure: food. Housekeeper Should Insist on Cleanli ness and Purity, Says Writer. PORTLAND, March 9. (To the Edi tor.) No doubt the majority of your readers have been greatly interested In the various articles in The Oregon an pertaining to pure food; but after all, what are we doing individually to make things better? "Stop, look, lis ten," does not always make us realize that danger is near, and we pay little or no attention to the danger signals until some one tells us the story and drives the truth home. How true it is that there is a cer tain laxity in regard to food products, even though it may seem that rapid strides are being made. I wish the good people of Oregon would be the first to urge the National Civic Federa tion to hurry their work sufficiently so that impure food may be banished from the market in every state at once. Make the food laws National ones,, thus saving each state the trouble and expense of having its own laws, and then the people in one state will know what to And in another should they go there. Why bad meat and other ar ticles are allowed to be sold even though "lawfully labeled," I cannot understand. I'm a bit ashamed of even my own beloved home state (New Jer sey) to know that its laws allow the marketing of anything that is labeled "adulterated and impure," and that horse flesh can lawfully be sold. Too true there is unjust discrimina tion in various states, and there should be none, absolutely. A product Is either pure and fit ,for food, else it is impure, and therefore wholly unfit. I can only ask why are benzoate of soda and alum allowed In any foods. I can readily see that men will make and sell inferior goods just as long as the law allows It, or thoughtless women purchase. It seems to me that the housekeeper, ir eager to know what is best for her family, will take advan tage of every bit of education that comes to her along these lines, as. in a great measure, she is responsible for the thousand and one things the grocer sells that are adulterated, for she doesn't take time to familiarize herself with the things in her pantry, which she daily handles. Can she be taught to naturally read the formulas on her cereal cartons, baking powder cans, syrup containers, vinegar and flavoring extract bottles, prepared flour packages, jelly and jam glasses, etc, making it seem as much of a necessity to do this as to send her order to the grocer and pay her bills? The indifference on the part of the housekeepers, as we meet them from day to day, is rather appalling, when we consider how much is at stake. Grocers have told me they carry certain grades because women want them, and will have them at any price, "if she gets her head set." although he knows and tells her they are not the best. Grocers want to be honest- Are the laws and the housekeepers helping him? To me comes another thought lust here, of the lack of importance attached to the handling of foods, such as bakers' goods, etc. Really one Has to be somewhat hardened if she does not mind the very dirty way bread uih cakes and oies. etc.. are transferred from the wagon to the store. Surely mine are not the only eyes that have beheld Huch sights. Doctors say that more diseases come to us by hand con tact than any other way, but when we realize that the hands of strangers may have indirectly brought us disease, is it not quite time that we should have some local laws covering these matters? One of the most important being that every baker shall wrap each loaf of iread In oiled paper as soon as sui- iciently coooled after leaving tne oven, 'he horses, harness and wagons should e kept schupulously clean, and pies nd cakes kept in proper containers so ie driver need not touch anything ith his hands. Surely no one will Ink these suggestions unreasonable, I saw a white (?) milk wagon a few 1ys ago that was so filthy around the ,o,rways that I wondered who would ant milk delivered from such dirty ,rroundings. People who do business this loose ana careless way snouia tve no patronage, and neither should inufacturers who give us all sorts oi I ulterated and impure foods. kVhen we buy of such' men then are taking from the honest man who nds for the best things, but does i get his due because of our indif ence. We must each one help, and no housekeeper think that the little can do will not aid the cause. ;ver so little poison in our food may d to bring a lifetime of pain, stom i trouble, diseased kidneys, eta LI DA M. BROOM ALL, Froua Junket With reaches. (From Soda. Fountain.) auarts milk, 1 pint heavy cream, spoonful salt, 3 Junket tablets, 1 ce vanilla, ounce almond ex- ct coloring. 1 can peaches. Blanched londs and marshmallow whip. Dis ve junket tablets in a little cold ter. Heat milk lukewarm and add solved tablets, sugar and salt. Add few drops of green or pink coloring F i U iaAP1nr T of until n!4H ck In salt and ice and let stand eral hours. Serve on saucers and h-nish each serving with half a ach. Fill center with a little marsh- llow whip and place a blanched ond on top. THE COLUMBIA. i rst conception sun-kissed ocean. I Vapor wafted eastward ho. Caught and held ty Kocky Moun tains, Willing captive, yielding snow. fterine murmur, myriad trlckilngs. Given tongue on mountain side. Splashing. flashing. downward dashing. Robed in whiteness like a bride. liRDinK. slipping, untamed skipping, fL,lke a white-tail fawn at play; Eager to fulfill the mandate. Under gravity's mad sway. umbling. rumbling, oft times grum bling. fAt the windings In my path. Headlong plunging, Dlinaiy lunging. Grinding boulders in my wrath. It cascading, cannonading. . Ruthlessly Invading glen, 1 Undermining banks confining I Unleashed passions of mad men. IN DEFENSE OF THE REALTY SIAN Acreage Dealers Are Wrongly Abused, Says R. M. Tattle. PORTLAND, March 10. (To the Ed itor.) Every good citizen watches with interest the successful endeavors of the organizations and individuals througj whose efforts new enterprises are brought to the city and state; or a new steamboat line established to Alaska, the Orient, the Atlantic Coast or else where. We applaud without stint the establishment of new factories, the construction of new business and of fice blocks. But I have noticed with regret a tendency on the part of some newspapers, and speakers on public oc casions, to belittle tlie real estate men whose business it is to cut up Into con venient building lots acreage that is contiguous to the city. Not long ago a much-respected rail road man was reported to have made some slighting remarks about selling and trading town lots. During the last campaign for state and Congressional honors one of the candidates (who was,; by the way, defeated) thought it would be to his benefit to join in the same clamor, and not until he was informed by Interested parties that his own busi ness would scarcely bear the scrutiny that would the business of those who made it easy for the poor man to ac quire a home for himself and family did he desist. In my judgment, the men who have by purchasing acreage outside the busi ness part of such a city as Portland and cut it up into small tracts for the worker to build himself a modest home upon are among the benefactors of the community. They may not be actuated entirely by philanthropic motives, but the result of their labors is highly ben eficial. All reformers have seen the evil of people huddling together in the city, as is the rule in foreign coun tries, where the children are in hourly contact with the sights that attend drunkenness and profligacy; where the busy streets are the only places for them to exercise and play. It is an ideal sight that of the mother, own ing her little home, however modest, with her children playing around her, playing in the lot that is her very own, with plenty of fresh air, away from the contaminating influences of the crowd ed city streets. How would such a healthful condition as prevails in scores of additions around Portland exist if it had not been for enterprising real es tate men who had bought acre prop erty, cut it up into blocks, laid out streets and sold lots on easy terms to the man who would perhaps put-up first a tent, and then a modest home? Again, the men who laid out such mag niflcent additions as Laurelhurst, Irv- ington, Rose City Park and many oth ers have been doing excellent work- quite as important as those who have established steamship lines, construct ed railroads and built city blocks. All are deserving of praise, and it does not behoove men in one line of industry to cast slurs on those who are engaged in other lines, different, but equally necessary. There is nothing a man can do more praiseworthy in its nature than to pro vide a home that is his very own for his wife and children. The business man who makes it easy for one to ac quire a convenient plot of ground on which to build such a home is doing excellent work, and I would like to see him get am occasional word of praise, Instead of condemnation. R. M. TUTTLB. SHABBY WORK OF TRICKY ENEMY. Democratic Newspaper Properly Ex poses the "Tom" Kay Coop. Salem Messenger (Dem.) A more dirty, contemptible piece of political trickery was never perpe trated upon a respectable citizen of Oregon than that of which Thomas B. Kay, present State Treasurer, is the victim, made such, we believe, through the childish whims and political schemes and mechlnations of Governor Oswald West, when that worthy at tempts to spring the name of his friend Tom Kay, an ex-Portland policeman, for the office of 'Treasurer of the state of Oregon, that he may feed his grudge against an enemy. But with all his popularity, with all his egotism and exaggerated opinions of his own greatness, we cannot believe his scheme will win Thomas B. Kay, the present Treasurer of Oregon, though a modest man who cares little for notoriety or superfluous advertis ing, is a man known to be on the square in his dealings with the public, and every man In Oregon who has watched the trend of events at the Statehouse durin the past three years must admit -,if he desires to be fair and honest, that Thomas B. Kay, the pres ent State Treasurer, has been the sav ing grace, the safeguard, the brains, the mainstay of the present administration. There may be some who doubt this statement, but everyone who has tak en the trouble to keep in touch with the facts must admit its truth. We are Inclined to the belief that, when it comes to a show-down, the peo ple of Oregon will know who has been their friend; will know that it has been the good horse sense and business judgment of tht State Treasurer that have kept the Governor and some of his over-zealous lieutenants from car rying out numerous schemes that would have piled expense still higher and compelled greater deficits in the various public institutions. If the peo ple do not already know the facts in this matter it is simply because they have been carried away by blind enthu siasm and their attention turned into channels where the truth has been lost sight of. LUXURIOUS CODDLING OF UNFIT. An Intimation From Over Seas That Policy of Petting Has Limitations. London Correspondence. Sir William Ramsey, t'jtfted sci entist, asks the 4' Twenty-five Years Ago From The Oregonian of March 11. 1889. Washington, March 10. Th Oregon delegation in Congress recommended to the President Lee Moorehouse as the United States agent at the Umatilla Indian reservation. San Francisco, March 10. George Knox, of Portland, has returned from a visit to Fresno. ' San Francisco, March 10. Hon. J. P. Wager, editor of the East Oregonian, of Pendleton, is visiting his brother-in-law. Dr. G. P. Reynolds, in Alameda. Albina is now working under the new charter, which was passed by the last Legislature. The new charter extends the city limits to about six times' its former size and will increase the popu lation to about 4000. Last Saturday evening C. C. Grimes. George Heath and William Donlan. the School Directors of Albina, met to de cide which of the two contestants, I. W. Blelck or Miss Boggs, was legally entitled to the office of School Clerk. They decided in favor of Mr. Bleick. The Sunnyside motor line is to bo extended to Mount Tabor at once. Work is progressing on the Hawthorne-ave-oue motor line. A new law creates the office of Food Inspector, to be elected by the Legisla ture. The Republican caucus nominated Professor R. K. Warren, but no joint convention was held to fill the office. Several lawyers think Governor Pen noyer has power to make an appoint ment. A singular piece of mechanism, sup posed to be the framework or skele ton of an alleged flying machine, was left In the hallway of The Oregonian office several days ago. The owner ex plained matters by saying that his model represented a flying machine. The inventor, Elijah Morton, is confi dent that it will be a success. The Manistee Colony Company, of Manistee, Mich., have decided to estab lish themselves along the Coast, some where between Clatsop County and Yaquina Bay. Paul Cross, a 14-year-old lad from The Dalles, had a delicate operation performed on his right hip a few days ago by Drs. McKenzie and Bevan. The swan at City Park has been trampled to death by a deer. County school superintendent esti mates the population of Multnomah County at 70,000. The well-known firm of Cox, Smith & Teal has been dissolved. Colonel James Fulton has declined appointment as county judge of the new county of Sherman. O. M. Scott, of Grants, is prominently named. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian of Jlarcli 11, 1S64. The House committee on Indian af fairs Has recommended that Mrs. Mar garette L. Stevens, widow of the late Governor I. I. Stevens, of Washington Territory, be paid an additional $1000 a year for his services as Governor. Washington. March 9. It is under stood that Colonel Wallace favors the appointment of D. S. Payne, now United States Marshal of Idaho Territory, to the vacant gubernatorial chair. Memphis, Feb. 26. General Smith's cavalry expedition has returned. It was estimated that the expedition de stroyed over 1,000,000 bushels of corn, and tore up a number of miles of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, burned many bridges' and trestles and brought in over 1600 horses and mules, 2000 ne groes and 300 prisoners. The expedi tion was successful at every point, ex cept the important one of forming a junction with Sherman. Chicago, March 1. A prominent gentleman just from Washington says the President informed him that the destination of Sherman was Mobile and that the object of General Smith's ex pedition was not to effect a Junction with Sherman, but to act as if that was the intention, for the purpose of drawing the attention of Lee Forrest, Roddy and other cavalry chiefs from Sherman. If this be true, the expedition was entirely successful. Mobile. Feb. 16. The Hartford, with Farragut and six mortar schooners, are with the fleet and it Is rumored they will engage Fort Gaines today. The fund of the Portland Mercantile Library is rapidly being collected. An amount will soon be realized that will be equivalent to $4000 in New York. Wc are informed by passengers on the Panama and by our public officers that, among the crowd on this steamer are a number of men that need watch ing, being desperadoes of the worst class that ever Infested California. Judge Shattuck will deliver a lecture before the Washington Society at the Portland Academy this evening. San Francisco, 'March '10. F. J. L. Smiley, William G. Bloomfield and Joseph H. Redmond were arrested yes terday by the United Statea Marshall on criminal charges relatlna; to theii connection with the Golden Gate treas ure. The complaint alleges that they stole upward of $300,000 In money and merchandise. "The Octoroon" was performed for the last time last evening at the Wil lamette Theater by J. H. Taylor. Miss Howard. Miss Morgan and Mr. Myers. Co-operation, The Keynote The great and compelling thought in modern merchandising is co operation between manufacturer and retailer on the one hand and be tween the retailer and the public on the other. It used to take almost a life time to make a first-class article of merchandise generally known and desired, and to build tip a Bound nd satistactory business. The remarkable development of newspaper advertising now makes t possiDie to build up in a com- aratlvely short time a Nation-wide emand for almost any product or rticle backed by true worth and onesty. Enterprising dealers encourage the anuracturers from whom they buy co-operate with them in creating s demand by means of newspaper ertising. ane dealer does his by featuring these advertised cles in his windows or on his iters and by instructing his people to recommend them, e public has learned to rely these Nationally advertised les and patronizes the dealers 1 sell them. lis kind of co-operation is the ote of modern business. It sim- s business, creates a better rstanding between luanuiac and retailer, and insures ter satisfaction and less bother lie consumer. Bureau of Advertising. rican Newspaper Publishers' ciation. World building. New solicits correspondence with ufacturers Interested In news- r advertising and co-operative .r work. f-ok on request. Adv. 1 I I V 1 i V