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THE arorcNTNG OBEGCHsIAS FSrDAY. 3AKUAJZTC 4, 189S. THE POPULAR YOTE HOW THE TJEOPLE REPUDIATED THE HA.VE3IEYER. BILL. UTearly Complete Record of the Vote Cat in Tills Tcar'a State Elections. The following table has been, complied by the Philadelphia Press, and contains the vote from 42 states and the territory, of Utah, soon to become a state. The vote is not official, except for a few states, but the variation In these will be very smalL The vote from Florida and Nevada Is not at hand, but they can affect the totals only a very little, as the vote was light in both states. The fusion vote is credited -wholly to the populist party in Alabama and Georgia, and to the repub licans In North Carolina. If any unfair ness is done in this way it is to the re publicans. In the votes of several other states also the figures do not do the re publicans full justice, but it is not pos sible always to be absolutely accurate where there are alliances between tv.o parties. The total vote when all the fig ures are in will probably reach U.330.0M. The following is the table: States. I Rep. Dem. Pop. j Pro. Alabama. .. 72.53S 54.273 Arkansas.. 10.ST1 S6.021 1,281 1,531 California . 110.73S 111,944 51.3M 10.5S1 Colorado ... 90.843 9.634 76.487 4,500 Conn. 3,975 CG.2S7 1,346 2,310 Delaware .. 19,882 18.C57 490 Florida Georgia 123.833 81.742 Idaho 10.20S 7,057 7,121 203 Illinois 455,888 322,406 60.066 19.490 Indiana .... 283,503 238,732 29.933 11.144 Iowa 299.376 149.980 34.907 7.437 Kansas .... 146,296 26,992 115.421 4.615 Kentucky . 154,054 156.809 17,917! 1,723 Louisiana . 78.624 22,507 14.G63 Maine 69.305 36.387 4,930 2.616 Maryland .. 99.324 96.628 7.500 Mass 1S9.307 123,930 9.307 9.965 Michigan .. 237.215 130.823 30.012 18.788 Minnesota . 148.060 54.604 87.645 6.883 Mississippi . 191 23,501 12,050 331 Missouri ... 229.641 226.347 42,463 3,099 Montana .. 22,500 9.000 15.000 522 Nebraska .. 94.623j 7 031 97,815 4,439 Nevada I N. H. 46.491 33,959 832 1.750 N. J 163,823 115.315 4.149 7,252 New York . 673,818 517,710 11.094 23,525 N. C 148.384 127,593 N. D 23.728 15,600 439 Ohio 413.9SS 276.882 49.484 23,596 Oregon 41.034 17.498 26.033 2.700 Penn 574,801 333.404 19,464 23.433 R. 1 29.260 17.990 2,241 S. C 217.085 36.032 S. D. 40,623 8.102 27.383 1,101 Tenn 105,104 101,336 23,092 Texas 52.295 200,981 150.02S 2,000 Vermont ... 42,656 13,142 739 464 Virginia ... 83.846 113.438 10,365 "Wash 34,812 14.160 24.9S3 203 AV. Va. .... 89.505 76,176 3.417 673 Wisconsin . 195.150 142,230 23,604 11,240 Wyoming .. 10.149 6,963 2,176 Utah 21,328 19.503 553 Total ....5.5SS.S26 4.148.45611.240.752 219.843 Considering the compilation editorially, the Press says the announcement of the vote in many states has been delayed an unusual time, and in two states it is still lacking. The first fact that will strike the reader Is the size of the poll. There were 11,263,377 ballots cast and counted, as compaied with the 12,034.85S cast and counted in the presidential elec tion of 1892. This is the largest vote ever cast in an off year, the falling oft from the vote of two years ago being only 31,481. This is sufficient to show how profoundly Interested the people were in the election, and to disprove any claim that the result was due to indifference. Another significant feature. of the re turns is the great increase of the repub lican vote over 1892. In that year the total republican vote was 5,173,202. while this year the republican vote is 3.5SS.326 an increase of 413,124. This larga increase in a party's vote In an off year over the vote the same party cast in the previous presidential election is probably unique In Aiiierican-politlcal history; In the dem ocratic sweeps of 18S4 and 1890 no such in crease was apparent. The democratic vic tories were due in both cases to a falling off in the republican vote. But this year the republican victory Is due to a large increase in the republican vote the party having cast not only the largest vote it ever polled, but also having cast the largest vote ever polled by any party in this country at any election ever held. In 1892 the democrats polled 3.534,226 votes, and had a plurality of 379,025 over the republicans, but they were in a minor ity of 969,205 on the total popular vote. This year the republicans cast 5.58S.S26 votes, or 34.100 more than the democrats did when they elected Cleveland, and they have a plurality over the democrats of 1,439,870, and only lack 26,?26 votes of having a popular majority. The demo crats called It a great popular indorse ment two years ago, when they polled tnly 46 per cent of the total vote. If that was a. vote of approval, what ought the vote of this year be called, when the republicans polled almost exactly 50 pei cent of the vote? It must be remembered also that this was dont, under the great disadvantages under which republicars labor in the South. If they had been able to poll their vote in that section, the total republican vote would have been over 6,000.000. and the republican plurality over the democratic vote would have been nearly 2.000,000. A notable feature of the returns is the number of states that gave large repub lican pluralities. One state Pennsylvania gave a republican plurality exceeding 200,000. Four states New York. Ohio, Il linois and Michigan gave republican plu ralities exceeding 100.000. In four states Massachusetts. Wisconsin. Minnesota and Iowa the republican plurality was over 50.000. and New Jersey and Indiana fell only a very few thousand below this plu rality, and in such small states as New Hampshire. Rhode Island. Connecticut, South Dakota and Colorado, the repub lican pluralities ranged between 11,000 and 17.000. The vote as given in the table is on the highest state officer voted for, or, where there was no state ticket, on con gressmen. This is hardly fair to the re publicans, as in several states the oppo sition fight was was concentrated on the republican candidate for governor, result ing in a loss in Minnesota. Nebraska, and California of at least 50,000 votes of the republicans. A comparison of the vote on congressmen would also show much more advantageously for the republicans. But the vote, imperfect as it is. the figures for some states not being official, and with two small states lacking, is ptill enough to prove that the election of this year was the most tremendous polit ical upheaval this country ever witnessed. There is no parallel to it. The voters rose in their might and smote the de mocracy hip and thigh, and literally mas sacred its hope for future preferment. They also placed on record their con demnation of the ridiculous incapacity and puerile blundering of the present ad ministration at Washington, an adminis tration that began its career with such pompus proclamations of proposed re forms. If any one wishes to know the American people's opinion of Grover Cleveland and his policy, let him read the story of these figures. The Pedisree Hunter. Philadelphia Record. Of all the iueer professions, there is rrobably none queerer in this city than that of a certain shrewd young man-about-town. who calls himself a "pedigree hunter." This young man has a large clientele among the wealthy, and he is in a fair way to become one of that class himself. His methods are interesting. Having made himself thoroughly conver sant with "Burke's Peerage." he an nounced himself as an expert in the trac ing of pedigrees. There are, of course, a large number of wealthy Phlladelphlans who are anxious to be able to say that their forbears were illustrious knights and lords agas since. Their family traditions are not too authantic. and so the pedigree hunter Is engaged to go over to dear old England and look the matter up. The ex- pert sails away in the most commodious of ocean greyhounds, puts up at the best hotels on the other side, performs his re searches leisurely, and returns with a complete family tree. His expenses are paid, and he pockets a big fee besides. THE STATES GOOD ENOUGH Annexation end Life in Canada Dis passionately Viewed. MEHA3IA, Or., Jan. 3. (To the Editor.) I am requested by readers of your paper and others to answer the letter of W. H. Haynes, of Mill City, published in The Oregonian, December 23, In regard to the resolution of Senator Gallinger, on the an nexation of Canada. To state it mildly, I think his position is inconsistent, and his statements misleading. He says we are asking England to give us Canada, which will not be done, because it is the best part of the British empire, and England cannot do without it; that the Canadians do not want annexation, and that Canada is larger than the United States, and equally as rich in resources. Senator Gallinger is not asking England to give us Canada: but as an American, he thinks the Canadians have some rights of their own, and if they wish to annex he proposes to give them a generous wel come. That it is the best part of the British empire, and that England cannot do without it, is news to me. I have known many Englishmen before I saw Mr. Haynes, but have never known one to make so frank a confession of the poverty of John Bull. We at one time conceded that Canada was larger than the United States, but since the purchase of Alaska we are in a position to question their undisputed ownership of the North Pole. Canada has been a British province much longer than this country has had a separate existence; and we are willing to concede that the majority of her peo ple are of the same parent stock, speak the same language, profess the same faith, and are as Intelligent, industrious and economical. This Is especially true of the country along the border, which contains its largest cities and principal population; and if it be true, as he states, that the resources are equal, how is it that while we have a population of CO.000.000 she has but 5,000,000? But the fact is that her resources are not equal to ours, and our climate is vastly superior. He says that they are happy and contented, have the best government under the sun; their laws are better; property is more secure, and they have had but one bank failure during our present financial crisis. Well, they may be contented, but that is difficult to believe, when there are probably as many Canadians to be found residing in the United States as in Canada. Lincoln once said people were not apt to run unless they have something to run for; and I am inclined to believe that this vastly superior people, as he would have us believe them to be, know a good thing when in reach, and they are finding it on this side of the line. Their government and laws are similar to ours, and I have it from personal intercourse with their people in what is considered the best col ony (Ontario) that they have the same charges of corruption and boodle we have. A regards the bank failures, Can ada has as good times now as for years, wages for farm work have always ranged from 510 to 512 per month, and other wages in proportion, in the older colonies I will now quote Mr. Haynes. He took his son, who is 20 years of age, to Al berta, Canada, last summer, and hired him out to herd sheep for $10 per month and board, and claimed on his return that he could not secure work for himself at any price. My sympathy goes out for the poor boy while I write, for he Is probably dividing his time at the present between feeding sheep and detaching icicles from his nasal appendage. They have had no good times since our late war no great industries to shut down. Their surplus population has flocked to this side. As a people they are very economical and conservative, and, having but little to spendi seem disposed to spend but little of that. He further states that the pop ulation of this country Is composed of the scum of Europe, who would not be allowed to remain in Canada. Well, I know him to be an European, and will leave him to explain why he is here and not in Canada. He further states that our population is composed of socialists and anarchists. He drills in that crowd, hurrahs for a foreign flag, and votes the populist ticket. I have been in the United States 38 years; came to better my condition; fol lowed the Stars and Stripes for nearly three years during our late unpleasant ness; have been to Canada a number of times, and have never seen the time that I could have bettered my condition by go ing back to remain; and I shall not go back. This country, its climate, people, laws and flag are good enough for me. A CANADIAN. DOLPH RECOGNIZED. By Senator Morgnn in Connection "With the Nicaragua Bill. During the recent debate in the senate upon the Nicaragua canal bill, Senator Morgan, of Alabama, who Is generally credited with the authorship of the meas ure, tooK occasion to pay senator uoipn a high compliment upon his connection with the mattter, as will be seen by the appended extract from the Congressional Record of December 20: Senator Perkins, of California, advocat ing the measure, said: If any amendment can be offered which will convince the distinguished senator from Indiana (Mr. Turpie) that it is wise to pass the bill of which the distinguished statesman, the senator Trom Alabama (Mr. Morgan), is the author, or If the senator from Indiana himself can suggest such an amendment without impairing the object for which the bill is intended, the building of the Nlcarague canal and its control by our government, I shall favor it, Mr. Morgan I beg to disclaim the au thorship of the pending bill, not because there is anything in it which I do not favor, but because there are two senators sitting in my presence, the senator from Oregon (Mr. Dolph), and the senator from Maine (Mr. Frye), who have better title to the authorship of this plan than I have. Mr. Perkins There is glory enough in the measure, it the bill becomes a law, for each of the distinguished senators who have been named by my modest friend, the senator from Alabama, to wear a laurel wreath. A Remarkable Sentiment. , New York Sun. Those who recognize the profound wis dom and far-reaching significance of the every-day utterances of Mr. Cleveland can exercise their intellectuals over his speech at Georgetown, S. C, on Saturday: "Southern hospitality Is noted, and just ly. It Is not the first time I have enjoyed It; but let me say that I have always es teemed it the more because I have felt that it was the underlying principle of American citizenship." Southern hospitality the underlying principle of American cltlzeuship! It is a great thought, ,if a new thought, and it will repay the most careful study and the most reverent exegisls. There is much more food for reflection in the notable address which the presi dent delivered In the hall of the Wlnyah Indigo Society after his voyage on the Wistaria in company with Fighting Bob Evans and the demijohn. Court Notes. Judge Stearns will announce decisions this morning in the following cases: J. F. Gomez vs. Elizabeth Poland et al.; Northern Counties I. T. Co. vs. M. Mo Nulty et al.; Multnomah county vs. North west Loan & Trust Company: O. B. Stubbs vs. African JL E. church et al. The county commissioners are in ses sion, passing the usual monthly bills and attending to road matters. DEMOCRATIC PARESIS THE PARTY UTTERLY UXABLE TO DO AXYTHIXG IX CONGRESS. A Go - ax - Yon - Please Business, TVIth No Poller. "Wnatcvcr. Probablyno better account of democratic imbecility and utter powerlessness to do anything could be presented or found than that afforded by Washington specials to the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, during the recess of congress. Some of these we reprint, as follows: Since congress adjourned, Carlisle has been at work upon his financial scheme, attempting to modify It to fit the varied views of our alleged statesmen. Before that. Carlisle had put in weeks of labor upon it. When he presented it to con gress he thought it was a good scheme. At first it was apparently well received and the secretary of the treasury was de lighted. He wore a sweet smile which spread robustly over his scholarly fea tures. He thought it would go through on an oiled track. Crisp, Catchings, Cul berson and Outhwalte, and the other bellwethers of the house approved It as the best they thought they could get. It was arranged that the bill should be quickly reported to the house by the bank ing and currency committee and rushed through in a jiffy. But Springer, the chairman of the committee, didn't take to the plan. There would be no advertise ment in it for him, and Springer exists upon notoriety. So Springer put an ob struction on the track in the shape of hearings by hls'commlttee of all bankers who wanted to talk. He got an official stenographer and had all the testimony taken down and printed. A score of bankers and financiers appeared before the committee and gave their views. All opposed the Carlisle plan, but no two for the same reason. When asked to suggest a currency plan, each one did so, but no two suggested the same, and all, when brought down to the scratch, only sug gested plans of a general character. The result of the hearings was the com plete muddling of the minds of the mem bers of the committee. Before listening to the bankers each man thought he was an expert on currency matters. Each one had his views, but after listening to so many varied opinions their minds were muddled and they were like lost sheep. CULBERSON FLED. Old Dave Culberson, the wiseacre of the committee, was the only man who re tained bis equilibrium. He declined to hear any of the testimony, but Carlisle got at him one evening for two hours and succeeded in converting the Texas sage to his bill. Then old Dave pounced Into the committee room and got up a caucus of the democratic members, who he Induced to report the Carlisle bill as it was, and let the house itself tussle with It. Culberson then thought it a good bill, but after studying it several nights and talking with men who opposed it, even he began to waver. Then the entire house seemed to split up. The republicans ar rayed themselves against the bill. The Northern democrats did likewise. They didn't like the state bank feature. The Western silver men pounced upon it, be cause it was, they believed, another blow at silver. The Southern men, as a rule, announced for it, but were waver ing in all directions. A poll of the house was made and it was found the bill could not pass. A closer poll demonstrated such division in the democratic party as to indicate that no financial measure can pass. As a matter of fact, the democratic party in congress is very much like a cannon firecracker which has cracked. It seems impossible to get the pieces to gether again in a compact mass. Two- -tliirda. of the. democratic members have been defeated for re-election. They owe no responsibility to anybody and they don't seem to care whether congress does anything or not. Each one of these men is looking out for another job and they care more about that than they do about the future of the democratic party. Many of them hold that Cleveland Is re sponsible for their defeat, and they are prepared to knife him on all occasions. They are willing to sacrifice the party to get a knife into his ribs. WORSE THAN AT FIRST. The democratic leaders of the house have been trying to pacify the opposing elements of the party, but up to date they have signally failed. Everybody is talk ing on the outside, but nobody seems to have the nerve to get up on the floor of the house and make a ringing speech that would rally the forces. So when congress adjourned for the holi days. It was just where it was when it met on the first Monday In December. It is true, the Carlisle bill has been reported as Mr. Carlisle first wrote it and it has been so changed as to eliminate nearly all the good features. The very thing which it first sought to remedy the issue of cur rency based on bonds has been changed and the bill as it stands now, after hav ing been monkeyed with by Springer and other crazy-horse currency reformers, is a rarnc mongrel measure with which no body is satisfied. It may be that when the members come back after the holidays they will have learned something from their constituents. But with a party, two-thirds of the repre sentatives of which have been repudiated by the people, there is no hope of any thing being done. The house may possibly get near enough together to pass some sort of a currency measure, but even that is doubtful. There Is no possibility of the senate's doing anything. In both houses the men who pretend to be for the free coinage of silver are in the majority, but they have either lost all their nerve or else have been demagogu Ing before the people. It is a sad spec tacle these representatives of the demo cratic party are making of their party. TRYING TO ROUND UP THE HERD. A few of the leaders and re-elected ones are trying to do something, but the great mass of able democratic statesmen are much like a herd of buffaloes on a stam pede. A few of the old bulls are trying xo stop it, Dut the mass of the herd seems disposed to tear down everything in its path. As a matter of fact, the democrats are split all to pieces. There are administra tion and anti-administration squads among them, and these respective squads are split up into smaller squads engaged in fighting each other, and goring every thing that shows its head all of which goes to show that our system of having an old congress meet to legislate after a new congress has been elected Is all wrong. The people have turned these rep resentatives down, and those who have been turned down seem disposed to pile up some large and glowing chunks of coal upon the backs of the people. In the language of Vanderbilt, it is "the people be d d," with them. Cleveland is perfectly willing to go along and issue bonds. In fact, that just suits him. It suits Wall street, and what suits Wall street suits Cleveland. Every body has known that after issuing bonds the last time, he turned the entire matter of finance over to Mr. Carlisle. But he has not moved a hand to aid in the adop tion of Mr. Carlisle's scheme. Instead, he went off duck-shooting down In South Carolina, and since his return he has been engaged In nursing that old gouty foot, in preference to holding the bottle to the mouth of the Carlisle-currency infant. These are indeed great days up here In Washington. Everything Is in a mud dle and nobody believes In the possiblllty of clarifying the waters before the 4th of March. And when the next congress meets next December, it Is doubtful if that will be able to do anything. The house may pass a currency bill because it will be largely republican, and the re nublicans usually march and ficht. anrf i act in a compact and solidified body. No party will control that. The populists will hold the balance of power, and it Is not probable that the senate will accept any financial measure which the house will pass. Cleveland and, Tom Reed might get together. They seem to agree pretty well on finance. But Tom Reed's house and the mongrel senate will hardly be able to get together. So, as it is, the country will have to hustle for itself. jWhlle congress Is fight ing the country is burning! And it Is "let her burn" with a lot of our able statesmen. GUARDING FOREST LANDS. More Power Needled, to "Withstand UnscrupHloas Rapacity. The whole countryhas an interest In the preservation of our timber land, for it has been shown conclusively that but for standing timber the rainfall amounts to little in making the land mellow and fit for cultivation. There is, too. an un ceasing disposition not only in the states separately, but at Washington also, to express this conviction in such form as to insure us a fair amount of timber land against devastation of a wasteful char acter. The form of this expression in national legislation is a bill which not long ago passed the house under a suspension of the rules, and which it is hoped will shortly come up in the senate for definite action, says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The bill provides for the guarding of certain tracts of forest land by the fed eral authorities. It Is a good bill in many respects and should receive approval; but, at the same time, amendments to It might profitably be made in the case of those provisions which permit the cut ting of timber on the reservations at such times and in such places as are therein named. These provisions, while professed ly intended only to allow of the judicious thinning out of timber where the thick ness of the trees is destructive of the vigorous growth and spread of the forest, leave loop holes, it seems, for incursions upon the woodland by speculators and settlers which would defeat the obvious purpose of the legislation in no small de gree. The clauses appended appear to give more power to the interior department, which is by the bill made the guardian of the reservations; this is needful or wise In view of the Tapaclty and unscrup ulous character of many of those who seek land, timber or mineral rights In our new territory. "That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the secretary of the interior from permitting, under regu lations to be prescribed by him, the use of timber and stone, free of charge, to bona-fide settlers, miners, residents and prospectors for minerals, exclusively for individual use for firewood, fencing, build ing, mining, or prospecting purposes. Any lands In any forest reservation, the min eral character of which has been or may, be shown in accordance with the existing mining laws of the United States, and the rules and regulations applied there to may be restored to mineral location and entry. Provided, That pros pectors and mineral claimants shall have access to such forest reservations for the purpose of prospecting, locating and de veloping the mineral resources thereof." In the main the provisions of the bill, especially those relating to the cutting down and selling of timber, have been framed with a fair judgment of what is wanted. It provides for the protection of the reservations by the regular troops, whom the secretary of war Is authorized to detail in sufficient numbers to answer that purpose, and penalties, while not specifically named in the measure, shall be prescribed by the secretary of the in terior department and imposed upon poachers or other offenders against the new legislation. Without counting the Yellowstone Park and the National Park in Alaska, we have In this country about fifteen reser vations which, undej the act of 1S91 or previously, were pet apart for growing timber, and which covered a total area of some 13,000,000 acres. It was quite use less to set apart this land if we don't intend to protect it thoroughly from thieves and vandals; and In the face of practically no legislation of the kind on the subject, the bill we have spoken of should be given thoughtful consideration and passed. POSSESSION OF THE DEAD. Queer Case Decldeel by a. New York Police Justice. Police Justice Simnis, of New York, says a woman is entitled to the exclusive pos session of her husband, whether he Is dead or alive, In the body or reduced to a mere handful of ashes. And who shall say this is not good law and sound morality? William August Engels was a prominent pharmacist in New York. He was about 30 years older than his wife, but he was rich and he loved her, so they got along happily. One day he died. His widow, in obedience to his last wishes, dutifully caused his remains to be cre mated, and kept his ashes in an iron box among her other precious belongings in her home. Later Mrs. Engels remarried and became Mrs. Gieseke, but her second venture proved unfortunate. She also be came Indebted to Mrs. Belsner, and gave the latter the sacred box of ashes as col lateral. There were other things handed over in the same capacity, such as jewelry and clothing; but the box of ashes was the most important in the eyes of Mrs. Gieseke. Mrs. Gieseke and Mrs. Belsner are not on friendly terms now. Yester day, in the Essex Market court, before Justice Simms, Mrs. Gieseke applied for tfierecovery of the ashes, declaring that they were kept from her unlawfully. The court decided that no woman had a right to retain possession of another woman's husband, whether in an iron box or other wise. Mrs. Belsner was ordered to deliver the box to Mrs. Gieseke. Mrs. Belsner was inclined to ridicule the proceedings, but the court frowned her down. "Sup pose the spirit of that dead man were to arise from his ashes and reprove you for keeping him in pawn?" observed the jus tice, impressively. Mrs. Belsner shud dered, and, with a muttered remark that she "didn't want his old ashes," she hastened home and sent a man post-haste with the box to Mrs. Gleseke's home. Mrs. Gieseke, who is very pretty, fondly exhibits an undertaker's card, with a small Yale key suspended by a string from one corner. On the reverse side of the card is written: : 62 E : WILLIAM E. ENGLES. : : Incinerated June 27, 1S92. : : Folio 7S3. : She explained that the key opened the iron box whenever she wanted to bedew the ashes with her tears. Certainly under such circumstances only a stony-hearted judge could have refused her request for the precious remains, and Justice Simms by his decision shows himself to be a man of tender and wholesome sentiment. Lesson, of Silver Lnke. Salem Statesman. That Sliver Lake holocaust should prove a warning to other towns. Every public building should be provided with ample exits and easy stairways so that in case of emergency human life need not be so recklessly sacrificed. And then there should be provided tested fire escapes for each window of every hoteL Human life is too valuable to be thus crushed out. BUSINESS ITEMS. If Baby I Cattlnj; Tecta, Be sore to use that old .and well-tried remedy. Mrs. Wlnslows Soothing Syrup, for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gama. allays tU pais. cores wind coilo aad diarrhoea. ' ' - You hardly realise, that it Is medicine when takias Carter's Uttje Liver Pills. They are very email: no baa effects; all troubles from torpid liver are rehired by their use. BROWN TO FCAMAKT THE REVEREND GENTLEMAN'S, RE PLY TO THE LAWYER. He Says the Lntter's Arsraraent IS Characterized liy Misconceptions ana Special Pleading PORTLAND, Jan. 3. (To the Editor.) I am glad that the public is being aroused upon the question of taxing church prop erty. From that viewpoint, I have been interested in Mr. Wallace McCamant's re ply to my sermon, printed in Monday's Oregonian. I can return his compliment by calling his article "able and plausible" especially the latter. Mr. McCamant's exceptional brilliance as a lawyer disposes one to believe that he has said the best that can be said for the taxation of church property. It is somewhat startling, therefore, to find his entire argument characterized by misconceptions and spe cial pleading. Referring to my first argument, Mr. Mc Camant asks: "Is Dr. Brawn ready to contend that all the unimproved real es tate in the state of Oregon should be re lieved from taxation on the ground that it is not productive?" That question is not at all germane to the issue. It misses the point of my argument, which was that property actualy used for church pur poses is not Intended to yield an income. If a man holds unimproved real estate, he holds it for purposes of income or speculation. The church does not hold its edifice and its site for such purposes, and, therefore, does not fall Into that class. Mr. McCamant Is equally at fault in his objection to my second argument that church taxation would be double taxa tion. He cites the Chamber of Commerce as an institution whose members justly pay double tax. But again the cases are not parallel. The Chamber of Commerce is a business institution, which exists to advance the business interests of the city and, therefore, of its members, and which holds and operates Its property for purposes of income. The church, how ever, is not a business institution, is not designed to advance the business inter ests of its members, and does not hold or operate Its building for purposes of in come. On the contrary, the First Pres byterian church has more than once re fused to receive people who were evi dently seeking membership with the object of securing patronage. The church is distinct from all other organizations or corporations in that it does not hold its building for income like a business firm, nor for speculation like a real-estate dealer, nor for personal pleasure like a lodge or club, nor for the personal ag grandizement of Its members in any way, but for unselfish and public service, of God and man. This consideration Mr. McCamant leaves untouched. To my third and chief argument that the church Is a public benefit, Mr. Mc Camant makes the surprising reply that the community is not agreed on that. The Oregonian, however, differs witli Mr. Mc Camant, and completely demolishes him in an editorial, which is precisely in the line of my own statement "that the truths for whose promulgation the church stands are essential not only to the welfare, but to the very existence of society," and that the church is, therefore, of value to the state "as a public teacher and con servator of morals." Why does the state exempt the public schools from taxation? Because it recognizes the fact that the schools promote that mental education which is necessary to the welfare of the state. Why does the state exempt the churches? For substantially the same reason because the state recognizes the fact that the churches promote that moral education which is necessary to the wel fare of the state. That the schools be long to the state while the churches do not Is a technicality which does not affect the equities of the case; or, if it does. It but strengthens the cause of the churches, for the schools are not only exempt from the general tax, but enjoy a special tax for their own benefit. If the churches, which are at least as important and in dispensable as the public schools, receive no special tax and ask none, they are all the more entitled to exemption from the burdening general taxation. If you call this "subsidy," and say that it is "un fair to require the non-church-goer to contribute to the support of any church," I reply that the state compels a man who has no children to contribute to the support of the public schools, and that It Is no more unfair in one case than in the other. No injustice is done to any man when he is made to contribute di rectly or indirectly to the support of the institutions which are indispensable to the safety of his own life and property, and the peace and pereptuity of the com munity in which he lives. Whether the exemption of church property from tax ation is an alarming violation of the American principle of the separation of church and state, is an abstraction too trivial for serious discussion. The con siderations which led the framers of the constitution to forbid congress to make a law establishing any particular religion are in no way jeopardized when the states relieve churches, of all religions, equally, from burdens which would impair their usefulness to the peril of the state. Mr. McCamant is a lawyer. He should know whether the courts hold the exemption of church property from taxation to be con stitutional. The state is not going out side of its legitimate province when it decides that the institutions which are in dispensable to its own life shall have a chance to live. As the editor of The Ore gonian well holds, the state, In exempting churches, has in mind not their theologi cal differences, but their moral influence. It is thinking primarily not of the churches, but of itself. It is, therefore, a valid objection to the taxation of church property that the churches could not af ford to pay taxes. In his fourth objection, Mr. McCamant virtually concedes that taxation, of church property would necessitate the closing of half the churches in Oregon, but he in timates that such closing would not be an evil. As the newspapers say "comment is unnecessary." His "unanswerable historical argument" is unanswerable only against his own po sition. The abuses which led the English government to confiscate church property grew out of the fact that the church held vast properties which were not used for religious, educational or charitable pur poses, but which were held for purposes of income or speculation the very class of property which I expressly insisted ought to be taxed. But this in no way affects the present contention that prop erty actually used for religious, educa tional and charitable purposes should be exempt from taxation. It is extraordinary that Mr. McCamant should refer to Eng lish precedent in view of the fact that England has had for centuries and still has an established church. I deny, moreover, that Presbyterians are agreed that "the Unitarian church is a bore, rather than a blessing." We do, indeed, believe that Unitarianism, as a theological system, is fundamentally un sound, but from the viewpoint of "the public benefit," from which we are now looking, we gladly concede that the Uni tarian church of this city exerts a health ful influence in the direction of public morals and all civic virtues. Mr. McCamant's misconception of my plainly printed sermon reaches a climax in his statement that I argued "in favor of maintaining the exemption, as it now exists." On the contrary, I expressly de clared and urged that all church property which is held for purposes of income or speculation ought to be taxed, and that only that property should be exempted which Is actually used for religious, edu cational and charitable purposes, and then only when conducted for the public, sup ported by voluntary contributions, and occupying a suarpiy ueunea amount, ox HjitJflLk MDHESDHY TbS Fl6fliSI)tS Have forced a speciajl sale on us which, has to be conducted and finished at once. The heavy fall of snow caused our roof to spring a leak, and damaged stock in our Cloak and Dress Goods Departments to some extent. Those goods slightly damaged and damp will be put on sale, in addition with OUR GREAT ANNUAL SALE. ' The sale of damaged goods, will be conducted in our Millinery Department, as our Cloak De partment is in such shape that goods cannot be kept there, and it will take some time to repair the damage. FIRST AND TAYLOR STS., PORTLAND, OREGON exempted ground. 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