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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1910)
TIIE MOItXIXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1910. rOKTXAXD. OHXGO!. r nt.r4 at Portland. Orso, poatoffle as frond-Class IaMr. . . iubscnpuoa feat Invariably In Advance. (BI MAIL). 5s!lv. Pan4ar tncla11. on year. . . 1 d J t I .. -i. Mitnllll 4 1 5mt Sunder Included, thr month.. 5:ly. Sunder Included, on montll...., -J .'t.y. wit.v-ut sunay, en yr. .... Daily, without Sunday, six months.. Dai!, without Sunday, thr months Dllv. without Sunday, on month. .. W-ly. on yr ................... Sunday. b year. ............. under and wrakty. en yar. ...... (BT CARRIER). Daflr. Sunday Included, en ytir... Dal.y. Sunday Included, en month.. .0 . 1.7 . . . 1.50 .TS Mew to Kasnlt Sand Poatofflc fBJ -xlr. nprrai ord.r ec poraonal c yux local hank. Stamp, coin er currency r at th Hodafl nic OI JMJtotnc sddreaa la full. Ux-lddlns county ana f Bali It to 14 pace. 1 cent, to l n ...... f i u J Dacca, t en 49 to u pa-. 4 enta Foria post doubl rat. tauara Bavin OfnV Vrr Con' II Nw York. Rrunawlctt bulldlna. CM- mi. atcr buLdtns. rOlTUXD. XOXDAT. OCT. SI. ll TRVCiO TO ITNIL TUB ITBUC. A loud yell, a strong yell and a yell mil together offered by the various parrot voices and phonographic agen cies of tho Bourne-Chamberlain ma chine) yields a great volume of noise, and tend to confuse the public a to the real Issue of the present cam paign. The genuine issue Is to be avoided, covered up. hidden, sneaked out of the public gaze, or the Bourne Chamberlain outfit Is lost. Hence we discover that their pigmy candidate for Governor sings his little ' song thnut hlmaalf In one key. Chamber l-i ) n nnitndt 1V1T on his tune of "immblvkm" and "conventionUm.1 and the local newspaper organ of the machine lumu from one red-letter production of defamatory Invention to another about Bowerman im aaiei do.x.-opic rapidity and with a nislig nant purpose to tear his reputation to tatters. The Great Absentee Is gone, of course, but the Bourne typewriters are clicking merrily away and in a day or two we may look for another grand farewell address ot aamonmon. caution and remonstrance, signed. lrt ana delivered (through the mails) by the Mighty Oracle himself. Naturally the public, if it listens to the anvil chorus and tries to distin guish the several voices, is likely to be distracted; and distraction, uncer tainty, disturbance and doubt as to what is going on behind the scenes are precisely what the Bourne Cham berlain partnership Is after. The issue Is Bourne & Chamber lain, seeking through West as Gover nor to tighten their Joint grip on Ore gon. Let the public keep a watchful eye steadily on the antics and move menu of the partners and their vari- ous allies. They are out to run things In Oregon. They want control so that Bourne may be re-elected and cnam berlaln may be re-elected. To that end Chamberlain, through West, re pudiates every obligation to do any thing for the Democratic party, "ex- cept as the Democracy may be a step ping stone for him, and Bourne re nounces his Republican allegiance. Tet each calls, and will call, on Re publicans and Democrats alike to help along the Bourne-Chamberlain' game. The Bournc-Chamberlaln strategy la first to beat Bowerman and elect West. They want and must have Went. They will use htm. That la the deal, long ago cooked up between the allies and now to be consummat ed. If possible, by West's election as Governor. Watch the development of the plot if West shall get In at Sal cm. Watch the stealthy movement for Bourne. Watch the Bourne money poured out where it will do the most good. Watch the activity of the Bourne "push" in conjunction with the Chamberlain "push." Watch the energetic and indispensable co-opera Uon of West. Observe the usual Democratic meddling. under the Chamberlain-West guidance and lead rshlp. in a Republican, primary, all for the benefit of Bourne. See each of the allies and players take his place and promote the game by play ing his assigned role. Notice how beautifully everything will work out If the first vital enterprise of West's lection shall be successful. If West (hail not succeed, the conspiracy I'd fall. That la the consummate and flow- fring strategy of the Bourne & Cham berlain plotters. It is opposed by the great body of Republicans and not a few Democrats of principle and self- respect under the leadership of Mr. Bowerman as candidate for Governor. It is not pretended that Mr. Bower man has all the angelic virtues with which it Is sought by the Bourne Chamberlain organs to glorify his opponent; but the public has had abundant evidence that he is a man of character, conscience. Individuality, Independence, Intelligence and expert ence. Ail these qualities he Is known to have, and he has besides the gift of a real courage and a genuine self- respect. No man owns him. no spe cial interest guides and directs him. If he shall he elected, there will be no perverted or Improper uses of the high office of Governor to accomplish the ends of Jonathan Bourne or George Chamberlain, or anyone else. He will be Governor, and he will do his duty by the public and by all the public The man will be elected Sen ator whom the people want elected. No Bourne will he again elected, un less the people through a fair, full and untrammeled expression of their desires. Indicate that they want him elected. Of these things the people of Oregon may be absolutely certain. BT CONTRAST. A picture among others, submitted In an amateur prize photo contest on Halloween, appears In the current issue of Leslie's Weekly, under the title. "Halloween at the Farmhouse." It portrays "Halloween" In Its most simple, enjoyable phase In the homes where young children abide. A wide hearth, on one side the father, on the other the mother; an Interested guest, possibly an older member of the fam ily: a tub of water In which apples are bobbing about, with three little heads bent over it in eager attempt, with the teeth, to grasp the elusive fruit; the grotesque pumpkin-face on the mantel: tall cornstalks still bear ing the harvest ears who could con reive a more tender, wistful picture of home life, mingled with tokens of Autumn plenty? How sharply and unfavorably by contrast appear the rude pranks of untrained youngsters who go abroad on this -night of weird traditions, In tent upon mischief! Probably as sug gested by the Encyclopedia Britannlca, in accounting for the strange customs and mysticisms that grew up about Hallowevcn. or Halloween, the vlg of Hallowmas, "the Winter as well as the Summer festival was from the beginning regarded as a season which the fairies were both unusually active and unusually propitious." However this may be, the sacred, early traditions of the day have be come obscured and the observances of the festival home degenerated in many urban communities, our own Included, into a rude roysterlng that calls for police activities. PLEASTVO BOCRNE CHAMHERLAIX "There are some anti-assembly ora tors and leaders," complains the Bourne &. Chamberlain machine pub licity bureau, "who were hot against assembly before the primary and have utterly abandoned the cause since. In other words, the sworn allegiance of the anti-assembly leaders ought to have been to Bourne and they should have followed the black flag Bourne out of the Republican party Into the Democratic party. There you see the real purpose of the Dem ocrat Chamberlain and his crowd an the pseudo-Republican Bourne an his coadjutors, hangers-on and paid political procurers, in mixing up I the Republican primary. They sought and seek to wreck the Republican party. If they shall not control it. Now they roar because the so-called antl atscrobly Republicans decline to help them In their ruinous project. The Republican primary made Its selections of "capable and trustworthy men" from the assembly and anti-assembly candidates. The issue between them then disappeared, for It had been determined. Now all are can didates of the direct primary. Is the primary to be supported or Is it to be repudiated and broken down? How can It be sus taincd as a rule and method o party action If It shall be assumed that the voters In a primary have not the right to name the candidates of their party, and that members of the deposing party, through their leaders like Chamberlain and their newspa pen, shall have the privilege of de termining whether these nomination are or are not suitable? The Republican primary has no duty of naming candidates to please either Chamberlain or Bourne. Tet Bourne & Chamberlain would have the public think so. 'EEInD THE MONEY, rFRHAPS. Os West collected $251 from the State of Oregon as "traveling ex- penses" and S365.S0 from the Na tlonal Government as "witjiess fees' for the same trip to Washington and return, also his salary as Railroad Commissioner for the period of this double engagement. Doubtless think ing himself entitled to a good com mission for this thrifty business, he pocketed $50 of the Government money this after having sworn false ly that he was a resident of the Dis trict of Columbia and was making the trip to Portland as a Government witness. Mr. West has made office-holding his means of livelihood and probably thought he was entitled to the $50 as much as he needed It. But wasn't it petty business for a man to engage in who now aspires to the highest office In this State? rVBIJC DOCK FACTS. In discussing the handicap to be Imposed on Portland by a public debt of many millions for public docks, in terested promoters of the burden are conducting a campaign of misrepre sentation and subterfuge that has sel dom been equaled. The cautious manner in which real facts and ac tual details of public docks are evaded or distorted by the dock exploiters and debt promoters Is in strange con trast with the elaborate production of theories and "half-truths" relating to the subject. The chief organ of the purveyors of dock sites has re peatedly made the assertion that pub lie dock charges in San Francisco are but 5 cents per ton. while in Portland It costs 25 cents per ton for the same service. The Oregoniaa a few weeks ago exposed the falsity of these fig ures, by printing the rates and pen alt lea on all freight that remains en the San Francisco docks more than twenty-four hours. All the advantage of this 6-cents- per-ton charge Is swallowed up by higher dockage charges for vessels. and higher storage charges for freight which remains on the docks longer than twenty-four hours. The San Francisco Commercial News. In Its Issue of October 17, prints In detail the receipts from the public docks for the fiscal year 1909-10. Out of total of $1. C$7,949. 19 received from rent.", dockage, wharfage, tolls, con cessions, etc., but IJ43.S07.39 was re ceived in - tolls . for freight bandied over the public docks. In other words, the 5-cents-per-ton toll was only about one-fifth of the total bur den that public docks laid on ship ping In San Francisco. Portland is asked to build docks In order that a few steamship owners and Jobbers may enjoy 6-centa-per-ton wharfage charges. No one expects to place the bonds for this "opening wedge" of $2,500,000 at less than 5 per cent. Another 5 per cent must be allowed for depreciation. We thus have as a portion of the fixed charges, not including insur ance and cost of operation enor mously greater than under private ownership the sum of $250,000 to earn. To earn this at the 5-cents-per-ton rate which we are expected to give the Jobbers and steamship-own ers. It will be necessary to handle S. 600,000 tons of freight per annum before we are even on the first two Items of expense In connection with the dock. As the average coastwise steamers, outside of the regular lin ers, which use their own docks, sel dom enter with more than 500 'tons. we would be obliged to have 10.000 of the steamers per year. A century or two hence we may have that num ber; hut It seems hardly fair that the twentieth-century taxpayer should be burdened with the cost of facilities that will not be needed for at least 00 years. The greater part of the business handled over the San Fran cisco docks Is grain, flour and lum ber, shipped from Portland and Pugct Sound. None of this traffic would make use f a public dock In Portland. The lumber would be shipped direct from the mills whose owners maintain their own docks. The grain, with the exception of an Insignificant amount brought in by a steamboat line that as never paid operating expenses, all comes In -by rail and Is passed from rail to ship at no expense to the Portland taxpayers. No more expensive or unnecessary tax-eating scheme has ever been pre sented to the taxpayers of this city. Our shipping Is growing more rapidly than ever. Its growth is simultaneous and mutual with the railroad and manufacturing growth of the city. We have within the city limits miles of unoccupied water front which can be utilized for dock purposes- when ever there Is a demand for it and whenever dock property can be made to pay a fair rate of Interest on the Investment. reason's Mrrryi.K gbootx One does not hear so much now adays about insurgent castlgatlon of railroads. Perhaps there is not so much need of severe treatment, now that railroads are cutting down ex penses and Investors are wUiholdlng funds from railroad uses. Residents of Interior Oregon probably do not relish a political policy that retards railroad building there by shortage of bond-sale money. The situation will right itself after a while, of course, but some lessons will be learned In the process. In Eastern states, where ' Republi cans sorely need votes in order to cope with growing Democratic strength, the spellbinders are lees rampant against railroads than last Summer. The heads of the Nation's greatest railroads have testified be fore the Inter-State Commerce Com mission, with fair show of reasoning, that their companies need larger prof its in order to maintain service and to secure additional funds for railroad investment: also a more reasonable attitude on the part of the public toward railroad earnings. The evils of railroad capitalization certainly should be eliminated; also those of inflated construction cost. On these matters there will be difference of opinion. The question of rates Is a complex one, and never will be ad Justed to satisfaction of all parties concerned, any more than can the question of taxation. But there will be approach to substantial Justice In regulation of rates. This Is the way the American people will deal with the railroads, after they shall have recovered from the political hysteria of the past year or two. Meanwhile it is Interesting to note the sobering effect of the present po lltlcal campaign on the politicians o both parties. They are bidding for the conservative vote in the great States of New York, Indiana and Oh.o. They are making very much of President Taft's political modera tion and less of Roosevelt's erstwhile radicalism. The middle course be tween the two extreme of stubborn stand-patlsm and rabid insurgency Is winning the thought of the country. The middle course universally trl umphs In the end. The new times. after all, are very much like the old HOPS AXD BEER. There would be no beer without hops: therefore If Oregon the great est hop-producing state Is to pronlbit sale of the one it ought consistently to prohibit sale of the other. Oregon would be a fine spectacle, indeed, for bidding Its own citizens to obtain beer, yet permitting them to supply beer hops for the people of the rest of the world. If money carries any taint, there would be the taint. So that, first of all, Oregon needs an Initiative measure prohibiting sale or culture of hops, if it means to go Into the prohibition business. It would be easy to prevent "blind pigs" In hops, far easier than In beer. And Instead of shipping out thousands of tons of hops,- to be brought back in the golden beverage, and thus making itself victim of the freedom of Inter state commerce, Oregon could strike at the very roots of the liquor business. What Is the use bewailing inter state commerce annulment of prohibi tion, if we promote interstate ship ment of hops? , Let the hop business is a very con siderable Industry In this state. It adds millions of dollars annually to the sum of wages and profits. It has been accounted a legitimate In dustry and such It really Is. There Is proper place for hops and proper place for beer, and the world at large does not share the view of certain citizens of 'Oregon, that each is wrong and vicious. waiting for the retcbxs. The tone of the New York stock market, the weekly bank statement. the ease In call money and firmness In time loans all indicate quite clearly that the financial Interests of th country have been bracing them selves for any possible shock which might follow surprises In the election results next week. When gilt-edge security like Michigan" Central is forced to pay 4 per cent for $10.- 000,000 in Paris, at a time when call money is dull at less than 3 per cent. there is unmistakable evidence of a leaning toward the teapot or the old stocking as a temporary receptacle for surplus funds. Even time loans were quoted In New York Saturday at 4 H and 6 per cent, and prime mer cantile paper could find no purchas ers at better than 6 H and 6 per cent. But after all this preparation, there may be no severe storm to follow the temporary calm. Not only the big financial interests, but the small ones as well, have been discounting any possible result of the November elec tions for so long a period that it Is mprobable that there will be hys terics of a violent nature. Legitimate business, as well as business of less merit, has been the football of scheming politicians for so long that In many quarters. Irrespective of party, there is a growing belief that any change which may happen will hardly increase the turmoil. New York, as usual. Is the etorm center. While there are large numbers of honest men In both- parties, who would like. to see the Roosevelt -slate broken, they fear for the moral effect outside of New York. Capital In a great many lines has been so unmer cifully bullyragged by the politicians for the past few months that It has about reached a point where It can view with a fair degree of equanimity almost any kind of a change, although can never forget that the reputa tion of the Republicans for safe and sane policies Is better than that of the Democrats. The defeat of Sttmson would re move the shadow of the big stick and still the crash of sounding brass that has been reverberating through the land for many weeks, but even the business Interests are divided as to whether the country would be any better off under a Democratic admin- lstration than It would be with four years more of Roosevelt. It Is this uncertainty that has resulted in waiting game In finance and trade until after next week. Then, with the return to Industrial centers of money from the enormous crops, there should be a change for the better, no matter who Is elected. Five steamships carrying inward cargo . for Portland crossed into the Columbia yesterday and five others laden with Portland cargo for Call f ornia ports crossed out to sea. These steamships arrive and depart with rjassensrers and -cargo because this city has built up a big water traffic. In. spite of all of the misrepresenta tion circulated regarding Portland maritime prestige, the railroads con tinue to pour traffic down through the Cascade gorge in steadily-increas ing volume, and the ships to carry it away increase in number as the traf fic is available. The ill birds that are fouling their own nests by crying down Portland's advantages as a sea port can make but poor headway in the face of such facts as are sent out to the world In the official port statis tics. No other port on the Pacific Coast Is showing greater maritime growth than Portland, and In no other port will greater Increases be scored In the years to come. And public docks are as unnecessary now as they ever were. Ex-Secretary Garfield, who has been a somewhat over-zealous pleader for public land conservation of the Plnchot type, has apparently not always felt the same interest In con servation that he now professes. Washington advices Indicate that Mr. Garfield will shortly be called on to defend himself against more serious charges than any that have ever been made against Secretary Ballinger. In the Ballinger case, no worthy proof was produced against the defendant, but In the Garfield case the record is not so clear. When Colonel Roose velt was President, he gave as a rea son for the appointment of Garfield to the important position of Secretary of the Interior, that "Jimmy wanted the Job." If the charges now made against Garfield are proven, his rea sons for wanting the Job can be appreciated. The death at her home In Canemah on October 28 of Mrs. E. J. Marshall closes the simple annals of a life that ran its course in womanly ways for three-score and six years. "Mrs. Mar shall was a daughter of Wiley May, a pioneer of Clackamas County. Mar ried in her early girlhood, she was the faithful wife, until his death in 1884, of William H. Marshall, Throughout all of her gentle woman ly years she was the devoted mother of the children who were born to them, of whom six survive. Memory will raise over the tomb of Mrs. Mar shall the tributes which affection and respect hold in reserve for such women. America has at last succeeded In forcing that loan on China without Drovoklng international strife. The fact that it was placed at 95, and bears 6 per cent Interest, would seem to Indicate that the burning desire of England and Germany to supply China with all the money needed had cooled a little. Now that America has a financial foothold in the Flow ery Kingdom, our opportunities for doing business with the Chinese ought to improve. Commendable spirit Is shown in the movement to park the Sandy road from the O. R. & N. crossing to the Country Club grounds, but what's the matter with coming westward on the same proposition? This road can be made one of the notable highways of the Pacific Coast If taken up and pushed before adjacent land becomes too valuable. Democrats are wondering at the inconsistency of the local Democratic organ In Portland, that Is now soft- soaping John Manning, after having exhausted Its vocabulary but a short time ago In declaring his adminis tration as District Attorney ineffi cient and disgraceful. Politics makes strange bedfellows, to be sure. Hey- dey, a riddle! In early days Oregon felt the influ ence of New England c ionization. Now we are beginning to reverse things. The Beaver Club, formed of Oregon ftudents at Amherst, will leaven the provincialism of Massachu setts with the broader National spirit of the Pacific Coast. The New York suffragists welcomed Sarah Bernhardt to this country as one of our own dear sisters." Up to date there has been no disposition on the part of the Democrats, Repub licans or even the Socialists to dispute the claim of the suffragists. Better be a plain, three-meal s-a-day citizen of the United States than a kinglet in uneasy Europe. Recently Portugal was in the spotlight, now It Is Greece, with Spain trembling In the balance. No kinglet's Job Is safe over there. As further evidence of Portland's progress, notice me eignty-six-page Issue of The Oregonian yesterday. It fairly reflects the growing prosperity of the safest city on the Pacific Coast. When the great Sarah Bernhardt is welcomed to our shores by a shower of chrysanthemums, proof is offered that all resources of the press agent have hot yet been exhausted. The last week of the campaign Is here and but one editor has called his loathsome contemporary a notorious liar. This was at Roseburg. The week Is young, however. When your motor-car breaks down at night, miles from home, this new wireless telegraph beats tramping to the nearest telephone to summon a dray. If you understand any of the pro posed constitutional amendments, let reason govern your vote. In- the case of those you do not understand, vote no. The Master Fish Warden takes the wrong time to Inspect the young lob sters at Yaqulna Bay. The Sunday excursion season has ended. What a boom the Roosevelt cause will take on this week! Hearst has deserted the Colonel BRTA.V ON TUB ISSCES OF TODAY Progressive Republicanism la Only the Bryanlsm of 1884, From his Indianapolis speech. But nobody la enjoying progressive Re publicanism more than I am. I do not think even the progressive Republican gets much more satisfaction out' of the Indorsement that some of them are giv ing at a late day and with some hesita tion to the opinions that we have been advocating all these years. If you want to find the smile that won't come oft you need not go to the advertisements of breakfast foods; come to Nebraska. I began to enjoy this some years ago when Mr. Roosevelt first commenced to make Incursions Into our platform yard. I was in Washington at a Gridiron Club banquet; he was the chief guest and sat on the right of the toastmaster and I sat on the other side; and the boys of the club were Joking him from the beginning of the banquet to the end about what he was taking from the Democratic plat form, and when it came my time I Joked him, too. I mentioned some of the things, but I assured him that I did not speak complalningly; that, while some of the Democrats objected, I did not; that I believed our platform was made for use and that If we could not get a chance to use it I was glad to have anybody use it. I toid those banqueters that I felt so good to see the Republicans climbing up on our platform that I was much in the attitude of the young fellow down in Alabama, a bashful yeung man. who courted his girl for a year before he had the courage to propose to her. One even ing he told her that he loved her and asked her to marry him. She was a frank, outspoken sort of a girl and she said: "Why, Jim, I have been loving you these many months. I have Just been waiting for you to tell me, so I could tell you." Jim was overcome with delight. He went out and looked up at the stars and said: "Oh, Lord, I hain't got anothin' agin" nobody." That was the way I commenced to feel years ago about this matter. I have been feeling better and better ever since, and I don't know what I am going to do if I get to feeling much better than I do now. A little while after this banquet the cartoonist began to take it up and Collier's Weekly had a cartoon that some of you may have seen. It repre sented the President and myself as birds, both of us birds, but he was on the neBt. and I was on a limb, and his nest was feathered with feathers that I had for merly worn, end there I sat on the limb, all bare, with Just one feather left, tariff reform, and I was wondering whether he was trying: to set that. And sure enough two years ago they tried to take that feather, but they got to quarreling as to whether the feather ought to turn up or turn down, and it split the party. But, when I found my feathers were gone. I proceeded like any bird ought to, to raise a new crop. I worked diligently, especially while he was In South Africa, and when he came back I had reached about that period of development you notice in a chicken when it runs across the road In front of the automobiles in the Fall. If you will notice, the chicken sometimes has lost its first feathers and Its second feathers are not fully developed. I was In about that position, so to speak, when he came back, and then he went out to uaa watomle and tried to get every pin feather that I had. But. my friends, the cartoons are doing him Justice now. He Is getting what is coming to him. A friend of mine sent me a cartoon the other day. I want to keep it In my office. It represents Mr. Roose velt with a large family of boys no race suicide; it Is a family of good size, and each boy represents a political issue. One of the oldest is Anti-trust. He Is nhout 17. and they run from tnat on flown, and ever? boy looks like me. Now. mv friends, if I lert tnis mauer here, I am afraid that you might think that I believed myseir wormy oi mo credit which these cartoons imply, but It Is not that. I recognize that I am only getting now reaction from what they did a few years ago, when these things were unpopular, and they called them Bryanlsm In derision. But now, when they have become popular, they can't rub the label off. I did not deserve the censure then. I do not deserve the credit now. (Voice: "Yes you do. ) BOY TVILI. FIRST ACCLAIM KING Captain of TVestmlnster School to Exer cise nn Old English Privilege. New York Herald. Whon Kinsr Georsre V of England Is crowned next June at Westminster Ab- h the honor of being the first to ac claim the new monarch will be the prerogative, not of the highest of his subjects, but of the captain of West mniiir school, who will thus exercise a privilege, the origin of which is lost In remote antiquity. The school existed even before the rnunrintlnn of the venerable abbey, and for centuries its captain has enjoyed the tmimie distinction of being th first to cry "God save the King!" after the coro- natlim peremonv. as ine ams jiu nueen nroceed ud the nave of the ab- luv to tne altar me wi wdolujihdwi Knvi. led bv their captain, will shcut VIvrI- Geors-lus iex: vivai mail. pini!" After the ArcnDisnop oi L.an terbury has placed the crown on the monarch's head the captain again rises and exclaims, "God save me lungi This cry Is repeated by the peers ana nurMMs nresent and then by the entire ..nne-reratlon. When the thousands of magnificent wreaths were sent to Wind nr t the funeral of the late King E-n-arri VII a-8DecIai place of honor u riven to one whose inscription ran as follows: "The last tribute to a great king from the boys who first hailed hira as such. The boy who will next year enjoy mo honor is K. D. Murray, who won me King's scholarship in 1305. He is a son nt Rfihert Cunningham Murray, of Norbury. fleaponae From n Lover of Nature. Buffalo. N. Y.. News. He had been on a hunting expedition for several days in tne paca wooas., roughing It rather severely, and on taking a seat In a railway carriage re turning: homeward, ne looaea as do- c-rimed and weather-beaten a trapper as ever brought his skins Into a set- n.Tnent. He haDDened to una a seat next to a young lady evidently be longing to Boston who, after taking tock of him tor a lew minutes, re marked: "Don't you find an utterly nasalonful sympathy with Nature's most incarnate aspirations among the skv-toDDlng mountains ana me aim aisles of the horizon-touching forests, my good masr un. yes, repiiea im aoDarent backwoodsman, "and I also am freauently drawn Into an exaltation of rapt soulfulness and beatific Incan descent Infinity or aDstraci." "inaeea:" said the young lady, much surprised. had no Idea the lower classes ieit like that." l Jane Morgan a Master Mariner. New York Press. Jane Morgan, whose engagement to be married to Cecil Fisher, son of Ad miral Lord Fisher, was announced re cently, is a licensed master mariner and Is one of the lew women in me Lnuea States who have qualified to command shlD. She passed a rigid examination in 1904 before the United States steam boat inspectors. She is an enthusiastic yachtswoman and as a master mariner as commanded ner latners yacnt, me Waturus. She Is qualified to command on all oceans," and in 1307 she received license as a pilot on, the Delaware River. Miss Morgan, who Is a daughter of Randal Morgan, vice-president of the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia, is popular In society. She is an "outdoor girl" and is a member of several athletic organizations. It was rumored in 190$ she was engaged to Sir Thomas LIpton. , INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM MEASURES Contraction and Maintenance of a An Act That Merita Approval of Voter A Local Bill Affecting- Baker County Should Be Sustained Rogne River Fishing B1U Ought to Be Defeated. Article No. 11. An act authorising the purchase of a site for and the construction and maintenance of a branch Insane asylum to be located, in the dlscretlen of the Board of Trustees of the Oregon State Insane Asylum, at or within five miles of either of th following- cities, to-wit: Baker City, Pendleton or Union, in Eastern Oregon; to be called "The Eastern Oregon State Hospital." 302 Yea 803 No. Under a provision of the constitution adopted in 1908 all public Institutions In Oregon, not located elsewhere on January 1, 1907. must be located in the county where the seat of government is, unless ordered otherwise by an act of the Legislative Assembly, ratified by the electors of the state. The act providing for the construc tion and maintenance of a branch asy lum for the insane In Eastern Oregon has been submitted to the voters by the Legislature in accordance with the provision of the constitution. It is the only way In which any new public in stitution can be established outside Marion County. A clear and concise argument in fa vor of the bill is printed In the official pamphlet, and so - far as indicated no serious opposition to the measure has arisen. It is admitted that, unless this bill is adopted, it will be necessary for the Legislature to provide appropriations for largely increased facilities at the existing asylum. But in the Interests of the unfortunate patients who are detained at such Institutions It is deemed advisable to have a branch in stitution located In a section where cli mate differs materially from that at the present Institution. The State of Washington has two asylums for the Insane, one at Stella coom, near Tacoma, In Western Wash ington, and the other at Medical Lake, near Spokane, In , Eastern Washington. It has been found in the treatment of the insane that in some cases the dry climate of Eastern Washington is more conducive to recovery than is the cji mate nearer the coast. In other cases the coast climate is more beneficial. As Is pointed out In the pamphlet argu ment, the cure and not the detention of the Insane is the main object of maintaining such institutions. In cost of buildings the establishment of a branch asylum would not be mate rially greater than at Salem, and while in cost of maintenance there would perhaps be an Increase In a branch institution over that accruing in new ward buildings at the existing institution, this increase would probably be offset by the saving In traveling expenses. The majority of the cases arising In Eastern Oregon would undoubtedly be treated at the branch asylum. When a person is ad Judged Insane and ordered committed to the state Institution, an attendant is sent from the asylum to conduct, the patient to the hospital. A round-rip and a one-way fare are both required and must both be paid by the state. Selection of one of the three places mentioned in the bill as a site for the institution is not now in Issue, but the choice of location Is such that the board of trustees of the Oregon Insane Asylum would be able to select a site that would be close to a satisfactory traffic center in Eastern Oregon. Transportation charges, augmented as they are by the necessity for- sending attendants from the extreme western portion of the state to the extreme eastern portion for patients, consti tutes a considerable Item of annual ex pense. For transportation charges alone the last Legislature appropriated for the State Insane Asylum the sum of $15,000. ' As a matter of fact the sole Issue in volved Is whether it is better to estab lish a branch asylum where choice of climate will be possible in the treat ment of patients, and to which a large portion of the state Is more readily ac cessible, or to build additions to the WET" DAYS IX A "DRY" Complaint That Prohibition DMs Not, Will Not, Prohibit. Union (Or.) Scout. At the election of 1908 Union County was supposea xo do voiua urj. true? Is Union County dryT li it is. then why this batch of court prosecu tions that are continually before the people? They make plenty of business nri thA neoDla foot the bills. If the a'aitators of this great problem are sin cere in their purpose then why don't they pass a bill prohibiting the use. mpn.ifartiirK or sale of intoxicating llnnnr for any purpose wnatsoever; Whv leave it on sale for medicinal, me chanical and sacramental purposes? So long as It is used, manufactured, im ported or sold at all. drunkenness will continue. There is nothing different in the proposed measures from that which we already have. That is pre cisely the condition in UmatilIaCounty. Is Umatilla County dry? Go and see. That is exactly what we are doing in Union County. Is Union county ary: Come and take a look. There is no use denying the fact that Union County Is as wet as It ever was. What difference does It make about a doctor's prescription? There are plenty of doctors that would refuse to give a clandestine prescription for whisky and there are also plenty of doctors who will give a prescription for any pur pose. There, are plenty of druggists who will rfuae to sell whisky except for legitimate purposes and then there s the other kind who will sen it. ior me money. If our aruggists win nui !. whisky to their friends then some druggist will come to the town who will. If our doctors will not give a prescription U any man who has the price, then some doctor will move In who will. What can you or anyone else do about It? Are you in a posi tion to say when a man needs whisky? If a doctor gives a prescription the druggist must fill it; whether It is for whisky or quinine. Bowerman and Normals. Pendleton Live Wire. It is hard to grapple with this ques tion because of so much m'srepre- sentation. For political effect, the people have been led to believe our normals are A-l. Yet it is said that California, Idaho, Washington, and even our state would accept the diplo mas of our normals, but compelled the graduates to take an examination. We An not know, but It is said, that a better education could be gained in the Pendleton high schools than in our normal. This is an unpleasant ad mission, but If it is so, let us ac knowledge it and change that condi tion. Let us take Jay Bowerman's ad vice and through the Initiative, not politics, place the. normals on a ped estal that will make them like a beacon light and not a candle under a bushel. The diploma of a normal should be a sufficient guarantee for a life certifi cate in any state. Branch Insane Asylum In Eastern Oregon. present institution to care for the growing needs of the state. One or the other alternative must be adopted, and, in view of the recognized merit in the plan of maintaining two hospitals for the insane in a state so large and of such varied climate as Oregon, the ap proval of the voters, should be given the measure. a An act providing for the payment of SliMX) annually to the Judge ot the Elgh-.h Judicial District, by Baker County, lu addition to the annual salary ot $3000 received by him from the state. 814 Tea. 315 No. This bill has been submitted to the voters of the state by referendum peti tion after having been adopted by the Legislative Assembly, vetoed by the Governor and passed over the Governor's veto. It is a measure not, of general Interest to the state and affects only Baker County, and for the same reason that The Oregonian has advised voters to vote "no" on initiative bills of strictly local character It advises them to vote "yes" on referendum measures not of Interest to the state at large. The ordinary voter can have no. means of ascertaining the merits of the bill unless he resides in Baker County. No argument is presented for or against its adoption in the official pamphlet. It is ' reasonable to believe that the members of the Legislature before passing the bill had presented to them, either In com mittee or on the floor, reasons why the additional sum of J1000 should be pro vided annually for the Judge of the Eighth Judicial District by the taxpay ers of that district, and also any reasons, if any there be, why such additional compensation should not be provided. The Legislature by a two-thirds vote has decided that the Judge's salary should be Increased to $4000. The Oregonian has consistently main tained that it is an abuse of the Initia tive and referendum to submit to the voters of the state at large questions of local or minor importance. Every bill of that character should be defeated so often as it la presented to the end that burdening of the ballot with matters In which but few persons have concern shall be effectually discouraged. If the affirmative vote prevails on the Baker Judgeship bill' the action of the Legislature will be sustained and the referendum thereon defeated, as it should be. - A bill for an act prohibiting the taking of ftsh from the waters of Rogue River, or any of Its tributaries, by any means, except with hook and line, commonly called ang ling. 88. Tea. 849 No. The voters at large have no interest In the approval or rejection of this bill, and have no means at hand of ascertain ing whether its adoption will work good or harm to the general welfare In the Rogue River "Valley. One argument Is presented for the bin and two against It In the official pam phlet. If the voter hopes to ascertain from the arguments whether the bill is of merit he must elect to accept the veracity of one side and reject the state ments made by the other side as untrue. Statements made In. the arguments are directly contradictory, yet In determin ing the worth of the bill existing lacia must govern. Who at a distance can kii what they are? It Is apparent from the arguments tnat the adop'tion of the bill would Injure pe cuniarily one class of citizens and be ol value to another set of citizens In the Rogue River Valley, aucn neing m ease It properly belongs before the Leg islative Assembly where Its merits may be more readily determined and if ap proved may be so amended that it will work the least possmie narm to u" whom It would injure. For these reasons the bill should be defeated. " JAY BOWERMAJf A GOOD FIGHTER Never Hnnted Sort, Clerical Jobs, and Is the Man for Governor. Capital Journal. The Republican candidate for Gov ernor elicits admiration because he Is a good fighter. When he talks to a campaign audi ence, he strikes telling blows straight from the shoulder. He does not spend his time telling funny stories. To Jay Bowerman life is real, life is earnest. As a poor boy in Marion County, he was not hunting soft clerical Jobs. He mauled rails and hauled cord wood for a living. He has hands and arms and a phy sique develeped by hard labor. In the Legislature he was always dead in earnest for or against a prop osition. He has come up from the ranks of the toilers, through hardship, and rep resents the laborer and the producer. He has held no lucrative political Jobs and has not made any easy money In politics. Three dollars a day for 40 days has been the limit of fat Jobs with him la Oregon politics. He turned down the big transcon tinental railroads, and voted for the people's railroad amendment. Jay Bowerman is a good lignter, win clean hands, on the side of the common people. ' The Republican party Is fortunate in having a fighter for fundamental prin ciples as its candidate for Governor this year. Advice to Prohlbyionlata. Nehalem Enterprise. The "drys" wll In all probability learn more of the obstinate nature m men when they live a few years longer, in m.r nninion it has been proved con clusively that men will not be driven to anything nor win iney loieraio any Intrusion upon their perso-ci ngms Just to Justify the follish whim of those who happen to differ on the sub ject of what ther should eat or drink. Men are consuiumu uuicichuj th reneral run or animals. iney would resort to any means to evade an issue or show their contempt for a law that would deprive them of their rights: hence it seems foolish in the extreme for intelligent men and women to attempt to correct an evil Dy com nnlsorv methods. We advise our breth. ren to direct their enerfles in more commendable channels of activity. Conservation of energy is Just as es sential to the future welfare of the Nation as the conservation of our nat ural resources, and unless this course is adopted sooner or lat..r, we fail to see where that satisfying portion of misdirected zeal can sootne the aching brow and compensate for future ills.