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PORTLAND, THURSDAY. JULY 13, 1905.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.
The Chamber of Commerce of Port
land, in Us address to President Roope
velt. in favor of the admission of a lim
ited number of Chinese laborers during
the next ten years, puts forth a number
of statements and arguments which
may not be disputed namely, that in
our Pacific States there is work that
ought to he done which our own work
ing people will not do; that develop
ment of the country lagp because there
is lack of people to do this work, and
that white labor would not be injured,
but benefited rather, by the Introduc
tion of Chinese labor that would do it.
But while these arguments contain
much that Is sound and true, exceptions
may be taken to them, nevertheless.
For it is true that Chinese would to
some extent push our own workers out
of employment, or cause here and there
reduction of wages. Chinese would
swarm into innumerable occupations
in which white workers now to some
extent engage, and white workers
would feel that they were being crowd
ed out. It would be useless to tell
them that development of the country
through labor in Its lower forms, sup
plied by Chinese, would certainly open
new opportunities for white labor in
higher forms and with better pay. They
would not believe it.
To reopen the gates to the Chinese
would, beyond doubt or question, give
rise .quickly to renewal of the war upon
the Chinese which convulsed our Pacific
States twenty to twenty-five years ago.
Our working people will not have the
gates reopened, or even partially re
opened: and it is useless to talk about
it. . They will not have it. And they
have votes enough to prevent it. or to
retire from Congress or other positions
In public life, all persons who would
advocate it.
Undoubtedly., if we should let half a
million Chinese laborers into our Pa
cific States, wc should get a deal of
useful work out of them, that will long
go undone. But we should have stormy
protest from our own working people,
political and social turmoil, anti-Chinese
meetings, renewal in intensified
forms of all the features of the former
war upon the Chinese and upon their
employers. Xo matter whether the pro
test were altogether rational or not
we should have it.
But we shall not have it, for the law
which excludes Chinese laborers will
not be repealed, nor modified even to
the extent suggested by the Portland
Chamber of Commerce. The address to
the President is a mistake. There can
be no valid objection to admission of
merchants, travelers and students; but
laborers will not be admitted, even
though the country might find them of
great service in many ways. We would
better let development go slow than in
troduce this source of trouble Into the
country.
NEW PENNSYLVANIA BOSS.
Senator Knox has just made a visit
at Oyster Bay of "profound personal
and political concern to President
Roosevelt." So the news accounts say.
The exact purpose of the Pennsjivania
Senator's visit may easily be Imagined.
It was to discuss the great political
upheaval in Pennsylvania. Events of
moment have happened in that rich,
corrupt and discontented state during
the past three months. The remarka
ble revolt of Mayor Weaver against the
powerful Republican organization
started it all. Israel W. Durham, the
Philadelphia boss, has been overthrown.
Senator Penrose, the weak and ineffi
cient successor of Boss Quay, has gone
into eclipse. The Republican machine,
ooth state and city, has gone to pieces,
and the party is looking for a new
leader.
Senator Knox expects to step into the
shoes occupied in succession by Simon
Cameron. Tom Scott. Don Cameron,
Matthew Quay and Boies Penrose. He
will assemble. If he can, the fragments
of the disorganized and discomfited
ring, and himself dominate hereafter
the Republican party of that state.
Senator Knox has the special friendship
of H. C. Frick.' and he undoubtedly
has the moral support of the President.
If he is able to gain control of the
party in Pennsylvania, it is tobe sup
posed that he will elevate politics
there to a plane never yet attained.
Knox is an honest man. He has been
a corporation lawyer, but he is known
to be Independent, resourceful, aggres
sive and fair. The corporations will
not fight him. The people as a whole
like him. He will find, no enemies in
Pennsylvania except the adherents of
the old Quay-Penrose gang, who are
in politics for all there is In it and who
purpose not to be driven out if they
can help it. But they are badly on the
defensive, and their power is gone. Bet
ter days are In store for Pennsylvania.
CIIAUNCEY DEPEW.
Yale is shocked. It takes a good deal
to shock j'our up-to-date 'university.
The twentieth century alma mater. In
her tough benignity, can overlook
amazing obliquities in a rich alumnus
and more amazing ones in an alumnus
who is not only rich but filially benefi
cent; but Mr. Depew is a little too much'
even for Yale. In the throes of digest
ing her recent putrescent million from
Rockefeller. Yale does not feel -quite
equal to keeping Mr. Depew under her
ancient and respectable skirts any
longer. He must hie him forth from
the dignified shelter of her corporation
chamber, and face, not a frowning, but
a smiling, world. For the world cannot
frown at Mr. Depew; it cannot take
even his sins seriously. There Is some
thing gently ludicrous about his graft
of 125.000 a year upon the forlorn Equi
table Life which disarms the critic It
Is very much as if some cherub had
been caught safecracking. "We read his
confession of getting a swindling loan
from the Equitable of a quarter of a
million upon property worth only half
as much, and try hard to burn with
righteous indignation. It is In. vain.
No one can burn with indignation
against Mr. Depew. He Is a sort of
flabby moral prism which dissolves the
hottest wrath into smiles. He is a
promontory of spiritual mush and mo
lasses from which the loftiest ethical
billows return In sweetened wavelets.
It Is not credible that Yale is half as
angry at him as she pretends. Can it
be possible that she is making a scape
goat of her venerable son?
Mr. Depew is 70 years old; and pretty
nearly all those years have been filled
with activities which he thinks enor
mously important. Readers of his
speeches know what a delight It is to
him to tell what he has done and how
exemplarlly he has done it. Above all
things, he loves to pose as a type of the
successful American before a Young
Men's Christian Association. And his
joy In himself is not ill-grounded.
Mr. Depew has achieved what In any
other man would be called brilliant suc
cess. He Is an orator, and, queer as the
statement undoubtedly sounds, his
speeches are not silly. A very careful
reader may even, here and there, come
across a sentence which sounds as If a
statesman had thought it out. Further
research will generally show that Mr.
Depew was not the statesman, but the
speech sounds Just as well as if he.
were. His style is what Elizabeth, of
the German Garden, calls stodgy a
sort of literary pork and beans; his
discourse Is singula rlr barren pf Any
thing like vivacity or humor; but tljere
arc opinions which do not lack sense.
Mr. Depew thinks, for example, that
the President . of the United States
should be ineligible for a pecond term
and should have a pension for life.
These views arc sound, and none the
less so because Mr. Depew only echoes
them. In 18S8 he remarked In an ora
tion that "the political mission of the
United States Is purely Internal." If he
changed his mind about this Inter, he
was one of a numerous company, and
he had the advantage of having less to
change than most of the others.
Mr. Depew began his political career
in the Assembly of New York. He ends
it in the United States Senate, and
there are few dignities between those
extremes which he has not enjoyed.
He was even though of for President In
1888. and received ninety-nine votes in
the Chicago Republican Convention.
There is no record of any useful act
which Mr. Depew has done as a politi
cian or any measure for the public
good which he has advocated; but, on
the other hand, he has kept out of Jail.
"Whether this Is to be taken as evi
dence of luck or ability need not be de
cided: it is not evidence of patriotism,
for Mr. Depew has never made the least
pretense of holding his offices for any
other purpose than to promote the in
terests of his railroads. His betrayal
of the public has been bland, ingenuous
and consistent.
Through all these oratorical and po
litical adventures and throughout his
remarkable career as a railroad presi
dentbetrayer of the people, violator of
official oaths, grafter, manipulator of
shady deals no one has ever dared to
question Mr. Depew's fervent and in
trepid piety.
"I believe in the Old Testament and
the New Testament precisely as they
are presented by Christianity." says
this admirable confessor. Surely here
is one man. in a backsliding age, not
ashamed to own his Lord; and what a
comfort and inspiration he is to all the
rest of us! Not only of his Lord is Mr.
Depew not ashamed; he glories also in
a good, old-fashioned devil. "Some
people don't believe in a personal devil,"
he says in one of his most comforting
discourses; "I do. He Is one of the most
agreeable fellows I know." Doubtless
the esteem is mutual.
Such are the character, the achieve
ments and the religious convictions of
the man whom the corporation of Yale
University threatens to disown. A won
dering world asks why. Not long after
entering upon his high office. President
Hadley remarked, touching dishonesty
in public life, that the way to end it
was to treat those thieves like other
thieves. The remark was so wise and
so obviously true that no one believed
he could mean it. Nor has he since
done anything to show that he did
mean it. The acceptance of Rockefel
ler's million seemed to indicate that
President Hadley had forgotten -what
he said in the early freshness of his
great position. It was suggested by a
chuckling admirer of President Harper,
of Chicago University, that that distin
guished and foxy pedagogue had taken
advantage of his rival's lapse of mem
ory to effect a neat bit of strategy.
The odor of kerosene is very strong,
as everybody knows, around Chicago
University. So strong that students
have gone to Yale rather than breathe
jL Suppose one should manage to pour
a little kerosene over Yale, then?
Would it not beautifully advance the
cause of education? President Harper
thought so. He whispered his thought
to the great source of all good; and
behold the golden rain descending upon
Yale, which put up no umbrella. In
deed Yale set out every one of her tubs
and caught the million, smell and all.
The deodorizing could come later. Pres
ident Harper smiled. Yale was now as
bad as Chicago. But he smiled too
soon. Yale had a Depew to fumigate
with; an oily, combustible, useless De
pew. not very rich, no longer very
influential, and very, very shocking;
Just the lamb for an effectual but not
too expensive sacrifice. So up goes the
voluble Chauncey In smoke, and when
the fumes of the offering have cleared
away, not "Araby the blest" will smell
sweeter than she. Tally one for Yale.
pure rooD.
It was a kindly philosopher who em
bodied his wisdom In the aphorism
"Keep away from the kitchen." What
Is to be seen and learned there is far
from lovely. Ignorance of it is more
appetizing than knowledge. Still, great
men have not been wanting who made
much of the delectable art of nourish
ing the human body. The younger Du
mas valued his cabbage soup above his
novels. Cookerj". as commonly prac
ticed, is the art of spoiling food. The
art of poisoning It Is applied before It
comes to the Wtchen. The stuff that is
put into our baking powder, vinegar,
coffee, sugar.- butter, milk, pretty near
ly everything we eat or drink, we dof
not call poison. It kills us just the
same, but we elegantly name It "adul
teration." It Is curious to think how many peo
ple there are engaged in the dally oc
cupation of slowly poisoning their fellow-citizens
and making money enough
by It to support their families decently
and contribute something for the con
version of the heathen In foreign lands.
Slow murder may now be classed
among the refined vocations, perhaps,
and still the Pure Food Commission
finds It objectionable. R. M. Allen,
secretary of the convention, thinks he
has found a way to stop it altogether,
and his way is very easy to follow. A
label, so he thinks, stating exactly what
was Inside the package labeled, would
solve the problem. Very likely It
would. If labels could be induced to dis
play so much frankness. Nobody would
put poison into food, if he had to an
nounce the fact to the public. Nobody
would buy poisoned food If he knew IL
The difficulty would be to maintain
the veracity of the label: but a law to
confiscate and destroy all food In the
market falsely labeled might accom
plish something. Such a law would re
quire an elaborate and expensive sys
tem of Inspection, but no more so than
any other pure-food law; while Its en
forcement would be exceedingly simple.
The food Itself would furnish all the
evidence required; no question of own
ership or personal responsibility would
come in to complicate the case. The
application of the law would begin and
end with the guilty parcel.
Such a law. decently administered,
ought to work well. It Is worth a fair
trial, but the political Influence which
has blighted all really effective legisla
tion for pure food In the past Is not
likely to admit this If it can be pre
vented. OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
The change from BIgelow the banker,
living in a luxury that requires millions
to purchase, to BIgelow the convict,
tottering tVhls grave in convict stripes,
is nota pleasant spectacle. It should
serve as a warning to the many Indi
viduals who regard too lightly other
people's money. This Is a, swift age we
.are living In. and the disciples of high
finance are turning their tricks with
such alarming frequency that new rec
ords for swindling are continually be
ing 1 made. For that reason BIgelow
might have passed out of public mind
had hiv embezzlement not been on such
a colossal scale that the shock did not
wea: off before Banker Devlin trailed
In with another violent breach of public
confidence, and was In turn closely fol
io wed by Banker Lewis, of St. Louis
and other points throughout the coun
try, a
So far as appears by advices to date,
neither of these two latest candidates
for public notice Is liable to meet the
punishment laid on the shoulders of
BIgelow. but In a degree their crime
does not materially differ from that
which made the Milwaukee banker
ramous for his Infamy." It will never
be known whether Devlin was lucky or
unlucky in having his methods exposed
before it was too late. Had the gigan
tic enterprises which he was financing
with other people's money been carried
through to a successful termination, the
world might never have been aware of
the close call that the owners of that
money experienced. On the other hand,
had Mr. Devlin kept his unlawful pro
ceeding under cover until reverses
forced him into the same financial
depths sounded by BIgelow, he also
would in all probability have ended his
days in a convict's cell.
For this reason, paradoxical as It mas
seem. Devlin was lucky In reaching the
end of his tether without doing any
more damage than has alreadj been
charged up against- him. The light re
gard in which he held the law or the
rights of other people is reflected in the
details of his assets and liabilities.
Overshadowing all other items Is a loan
of 51.200.000 which he secured from his
First National Bank of Topeka. As the
capital stock of that bank was but
$300,000 and the National banking act
says quite explicitly that "the total
liabilities to any association of anv ner-
son or of any company, corporation or
firm for money borrowed, shall at no
time exceed one-tenth part of the
amount of the -capital stock of such as
sociation actually pnid in." this was
most flagrant violation of the Federal
law. In thus breaking the law-
placed in jeopardy practically all of the
deposits held by the bank, as those de
posits amounted to but little more than
$1,300,000.
These depositors placed their funds
in
the keeping of Mr. Devlin's bank be
cause they regarded it as a safe insti
tution. and had any other individual o
number of individuals appealed to the
bank for the use of twelve-thirteenths
of all of the money on deposit in the
bank, the appeal would have been
turned down immediately. But Mr.
Devlin, with no more regard for the
rights of the depositors of his bank
than that held by the man who takes
his employer's money to the racetrack
Instead of the depositors to which he
has been sent, loaned himself this vast
sum on such insufficient security that
the moment a breath of suspicion
struck his financial cardhouse it tum
bled in ruins. .
Lewis, the St. Louis high financier
now in the tolls, seems to have had a
similar contempt for the rights of the
nfortunate dupes who supplied him
1th money for financing his private
schemes. Among the items on his list
loans is one of $797,758 to a real es
tate company of which he was n resi
dent and principal owner, and $380,000
tne Lewis Publishing Comnany.
Mans of the remaining loan items were
directly and indirectly traceable to
Lewis, and to all intents and purposes
the Peope's United States Bank was
merely a trap for catching funds to be
used by Lewis in carrying on his wild
cat schemes.
The highwayman who holds up his
ictlms at the point of a gun is only
mild sort of a nuisance In comnarl-
son with these financial highwaymen
c the Blgelow-Devlln-Lewls stripe,
ho rob. or attemnt to rob. hundred
of people with their "frenzied finance"
schemes. The most unfortunate feat
ure of the evil lies In the distinction
that seems to be made between thA
hlghwas-man with a gun and his fellow-
craftsman with the bank. The former
nearly alwas's sent to the nenlten-
tlary. the latter nearly always escapes
the punishment he so richly deserves.
The discussion of a site for the new
High School building on the East Side
immered down comes to a Question of
ways and means. The district owns
the site in close proximity to the Haw
thorne School. It does not own the 51te
which Is urged in place of this one. and
the owner, holding to the not uncom
mon Idea that the close Droxlmltv of a
school building damages residence
property, will demand what is nractl-
cally a prohibitive price for the cov
eted blocks. As plainly stated by Di
rector Beach: The School Board has no
authority to spend money in excess of
that provided by the taxpayers." The
sum of $100,000 was voted for a new
High School bulldlnsr. the site to whfrh
objection Is made being already an
asset of the district. It would require
an additional $30,000 to procure the site
urged as an ideal one for the purpose.
Where Is this money to come from at
tnis time? Neither Director Wltten
beg. Miss Florence Kelley, of New
York, nor Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull,
of the State Child Labor Commis
sion, offers a solution, to this question.
It is clear that the construction of the
much-needed building must either be
delayed, practically another year, until
the taxpayers can be heard from In due
course of law and time, or construction
must proceed upon the site alreadv
designated. These are facts which the
ories will not answer.
A young man and young woman of
Eugene scouted the wisdom that coun
sels first cousins, for the sake of pos
terity, not to Intermarry. Eluding par
ental vigilance, they hied them to San
Francisco and thence out to sea, where
the captain of the vessel performed the
marriage ceremony for them. So end
eth the first chapter. Let us hope that
one later on In their life history will
not verify the fears of those who. when
such a marriage is contemplated, seek
to prevent It In the interest of offspring.
Not all consanguineous marriages
prove disastrous In this way, but statis
tics show that many of them do, and
in the common estimate the menace
hangs over all. Many states, for rea
sons presented by the history of the de
fective in their charitable Institutions,
prohibit the marriages of first cousins.
Vers brave or vers Inconsiderate must
be those who defs these warnings of
prudence and experience.
Official life In Russia carries with It
grave responsibilities and dangers. The
ever-present knowledge that the bomb
of the assassin mas cut short the life
of the official Is not conducive to peace
of mind, and an even greater disturber
is the apparent hopelessness and Impos
slbilits of placating the bombthrowers.
The Grand Duke Sergius fell a victim
to the avengers, because he would have
no audience with them. Now Count
Shuvaloff has been assassinated be
cause he was too free in granting audi
ences and v hearing petitions from all
classes of people. Russian hlstors has
been written in blood for generations,
but the partlcmM:ehapter that are
now being made wnTlive as the blood
iest of ans in the stbrj. If there is
truth in the saying that "the darkest
hour is Just before dawn.", there is cer
tain's a dawning for Bvissla near at
hand.
Dr. John Welch. who5eIeath occurred
at his home on jthe East Side a few
dass ago. had been for many s'ears one
of the substantial, dependable citizens
of the state. He Jca"me to Oregon In
1863. a poor man. but carefully trained
In the profession of dentlstrs. Through
application to his work, and bs open,
honest but correct business methods he
acquired a modest fortune. In addition
to this he brought up a large famlls
and gave the reads hand of phllan
throps to mans who were struggling
against adverse circumstances and who
were not so well equipped bs nature as
himself to overcome obstacles unaided.
His record of over forts S'ears In Ore
gon Is one of good citizenship and of
honorable endeavor along lines earls
chosen and perslstentls followed.
A star pitcher suing a league presi
dent for damages to his reputation Is a
real novelts in a much-advertised
sport. If "Skel" Roach gets a verdict
against Lucas, he will establish the
precedent that players have some rights
a manager Is bound to respect.
A sear ago no small number of
knockers declared that Portland lacked
hotel accommodations. We are now
taking care of about 15,000 visitors a
das. Has ans one heard of people
walking the streets at night because
thes can't find beds?
Mrs. Oelrichs. of the Newport col
ons, has lost bs theft a diamond tiara
worth $10,000. Is it poyslble that for the
sake of publlclts the 400 have taken up
methods discarded bs actresses s'ears
ago?
While Masor Lane is about it. let him
order boxes removed from sidewalks
also. Just now we need all the nat
ural room we have for our own pedes
trians and for visitors.
In view of the disclosures connecting
Chaunces M. Depew with certain trans
actions of the Equitable, it mas be said
once more that no man's fame Is safe
until after he Is dead.
Portland today has- as a guest the dis
tinguished Ohloan who declined a $100.
000 job in order to run for Governor
again.
Perhaps it was all one of Senator
Depew's little Jokes. Then perhaps not.
OREGON OZONE
The Queen of Coos.
The dispenser of Oregon Ozone Is not
much of a ladles' man. If the reader will
pardon a personal allusion, but he surely
wants to meet the remarkable young
woman described bs the Coos Bas Har
bor, of North Bend. Or., as the top-notch-
er in the Harbors recent contest ror
the purpose of sending a few star beauties
to the Lewis and Clark Exposition. She
Is coming, we understand, next Saturday,
the 15th Inst. Speed the day! If this Is
the sort they have in Coos Bas. let them
send us such Hebes and Helens, Penelopes
and any other sort 'of Greek goddesses
that mas appear In the back of the dlc
tlonars and In Coos. County, Or., bs the
bunch:
Miss has a (treat reputation for beauty
and richly deserves it. She Is only a slip
of a girl as yet. well entered In her teens.
She is tall for one so alender (truly?), five
feet three and one-half lhcht and weighs
IIS round. Her hair Is brown-black and her
eyes a warm brown. She looks at you with
drooping head from under Ions lashes and
ber eyes are soft as a young fawn's. Her
cheeks are like red roees and in either one
Is a little dimple. Her chin and nose and
mouth are finely chlled. beautiful as a
eculptors model. The sweetness of her charm
is her simplicity. Miss a visit to the
World's Fair wilt be the tint time she has
ever been away from Coos County. She haa
a simple, trusting disposition. She la a child
of nature, wholly unspoiled xsyet. She is
not fluent in her converse, but honest and
straightforward. She knows none of th arts
by which people In society conceal their true
feelings. (Pleasa God. may she never learn.)
Miss l unschooled, but she is young:
and her life iar before her. She can make It
what she will. She has not that fault so
common to the young-, a doubting- cynicism
and a cruel sarcasm. She has a charming
manner, and her air Is one of confidence. The
writer never saw Mlsa but twice, once
at a distance, and again last May. when he
called at her home near Sumner. On that
last occasion she was out In the barnyard
helping with the evening' milking. She Is
a pretty little milkmaid, and that is about
the turn of her existence.
Ah-h-h-h! There Is something truly
catching about that description. It sails
Into the Harbor In double-leaded, triple
plated, quadruple glors like the triumphal
barge of Cleopatra under full sail, sweep
ing across the front page like the aurora
borcalls In the land of the midnight
sun. The man who could write that
sort of thing after having seen the sub
Ject but twice and once at a distance Is
an artist, and we bow before him, we
kowtow, we salaam, we kiss the grassy
sward of Coos. Let us but behold her
once, even at a distance. Let us stand
afar off and be Immersed, soused, drowned
In the madness of that melting vision!
We doubt not that the girl who got 42,120
votes deserved a million. Let her come
to the Fair on Saturdas. which Is Joaquin
Miller das, and let the Poet of the Sierras
be presented to the Queen of Coos. Then
will he cease to celebrate In his song
the glories of Oregon mountains, cease
to sing of the Sierras and the sundown
seas, and tune his lyre to loftier lllto In
praise of this glorious girl, who would
have given Homer Inspiration for Iliads,
made John Keats Impervious to the darts
of early denth. and caused Swinburne to
flash from the flerj summits of immortal
song a more sclntillaht message to the
ages. Queen of Coos. Come!
A Happy Thought.
"The other das." said the Morrison
street man. "I put a handful of matches
In mj- pocket, from a match-holder hang
ing bj the door, and was happy In the
thought that for once I would have
enough matches to run me for the das.
You know I'm a constant smoker."
"YesT
"And when I got to my offlce. up on the
"Ighth floor. I found that those confound
ed matches were the kind that won't
strike unless you scratch them on the side
of the box In which thes come. Now
wouldn't that smoke S'ou out?"
"You would have been all right If s'ou
had known that you can strike matches
of that kind on a pane of glass," said the
Washington-street man.
"Is that so?" the constant smoker ejac
ulated, eagerly. "Good! Hereafter I'll
just carry a window pane along with me."
The Funston family Is keeping up lt
reputation for fighting qualities. The
father of General Fred was arrested In
Kansas, the other das, for expressing his
opinions, and he resisted the policeman so
forcibly that he had to be strapped to his
buggy and hauled to the station. The offi
cer averred that Mr. Funston came to
town armed with a Winchester and a re
volver, and bought cartridges enough to
carpet the bottom of his buggs. The sort
of spirit that swims rivers with swords
In Its teeth, under 'a galling Are, seems
to be retroactive.
A bronze factory in Butte, owned by
Senator W. A. Clark, has the contract for
turning out a monument to Marcus Dalj.
who was Clark's most bitter opponent.
Fortune's wheel makes strange turns, but
none stranger than this.
Down In Southern California man who
makes a living by having himself burled
alive for two days and charging 10 cents
admission to see his grave, has commit-,
ted a sad breach of decorum. It appears
that he took a flask of whisky with him
Into the solemn tomb. Imbibed too freely
thereof, got drunk and tried to paint the
inside, of his coffin a carmine hue. and In
his efforts disconnected the tube which
furnished air for his lungs. When dug
up he was Just about to breathe his last.
One should not Indulge in such hilarity In
such a grave situation.
"An effort is being made." sas's the Los
Angeles" Times, "to have a time-ball
erected at the harbor of San Pedro. At
the present time there are only two time
balls on the Pacific Coast." We do not
know what a time-ball is, but we venture
the opinion that It Is high time that. the
number of highballs on the Pacific Coast
be diminished. Down with the highballs!
ROBERTUS LOVE.
THE STORK'S AID -DE-CAMP.
Reprinted by request from The Oregonlan of
Oct. 1. 1000.
SOMEBODY Sept. 27. to the wife of A. B.
Somebody, on the something farm in Pat
ton Valley, a daughter, the parents of
- whom are the beat pleased couple In that
section. Dt. C. L. Large attending. Clas
elfled d&wtf
In Patten Valley when the stork:
From Heaven Is near arriving,
Yon see the farmer hitch his team
And see him madly drivinc;
He's off post haste to catch the Doc.
Whoe woric is never ending.
And soon we read a child Is born.
With Dr. Large attending.
The people think no child of theirs.
A xn or eke a daughter.
Can enter in th! vale of team.
Exactly as it oughter.
Unless the little notice reads:
"The mother is duly mending.
And pop is glad he got his kid,
With Dr. Large attending."
And when the great mllienlum comes.
To bring us Joy Unending.
Til bet the world is born again,
"With Dr. Large attending.
LETTERS ON IMPORTANT TOPICS.
Fraternal InanrsHce- and the Necessity of Legislative Action Direct
Primaries aad the Vote? Sunday aad the Fair,
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., July 9.-(To
the Editor.) About four years ago I
wrote an article for your columns calling
attention to the inadequacy of the rates
for life insurance then In force among the
fraternal Insurance societies, and predict
ing that the das "was at hand when the
older societies would be compelled to ad
vance rates or go to the wall.
Since that writing, which attracted con
siderable attention, nearly all the older
orders have advanced rates materlalls.
and some of the j-oungor. wiser than the
rest, have done the same.
The eldest In this country, the A. O. U.
W.. put Itself on rates prepared by one
of the first actuaries In the countrs: the
K. O. T. M a younger order, made a de
cided advance, and now the Roal Ar
canum has followed the lead of the A. O.
U. W. very closels. aria" the Woodmen of
the" World have authorized their head
consul to emplos actuaries to report to
their next head camp session adequate
rates.
The Importance of these moves In the
right direction cannot be overestimated,
for fraternal insurance has grown to pro
portions onls sllghtls short of regular life
Insurance. The month's payments and
the low expense ratio, possible bs the
lodge system. ha3 placed Insurance within
the reach of the classes who need It the
most, the men who toll In the shops, in
stores and on the farms.
The change noted above has not been
brought about without much discord, and
large loss of the less thoughtful members.
who cannot understand that societies, or
ganized with only comparative" soung
men. must have a constantls Increasing
death rate, as the number of o"ld men In
the ranks Increases. Happily, the num
ber of men who have seen the necessity
for the change has been large enough to
prevent the failure of any of the larger
orders.
The trouble In the old-line companies
have emphasized the necessity for the
fraternals to guard their reserves with a
Jealous care. From reports Just at hand.
I note that the A. O. U. W., with only
half their membership on the new rates,
accumulated over Jl.OOO.OOO In a sear. be
sides paying off about that amount of ac
crued Indebtedness. It Is true that a vers
considerable proportion of this was loaned
to the members on their policies, and the
provisions for the safeguarding of the
funds seem perfect. yet forewarned by the
experience of others. If there are any
loopholes, thej should be closed promptly.
In the letter referred to, I suggested the
necessity for state legislation ror frater
nal Insurance. Sucft a law was passed at
the last session of the Legislature, and
while It was far from being perfect. It
seemed to mo to be a step In the right
direction. In that It prevented the organi
zation of new societies on manifestly- In
adequate rates. Its verbiage was not
clear, and was capable of double interpre
tation, as was clear to all who heard the
discussion on Its passage. The Governpr,
In vetoing It. placed a different construc
tion on some of Its provisions from those
who secured Its passage. By the next ses
sion a law should be prepared and fully
discussed beforehand, which shall at least
safeguard the following points: Minimum
rates for mortuary proportion; filing com
plete reports, annually, with the state,
showing membership statistics: rates,
changes in rates, valuation on a 4 per cent
basis, amounts of receipts and disburse
ments. Investments and their nature, and
the State Commission should have author
ity to proceed against any society fall
ing to comply with the provisions of the
law.
You will note that I have not made val
uation a basis for permission to do busi
ness. As these are mutual associations
and as their plans "vary materially, solv
ency cannot be determined on the same
lines that are used for old-line companies.
Again, the enormous surpluses and reserve
accumulations of the old-line companies
Indicate that the rules used In their gov
ernment need revision.
The publication of the statistics will
have a beneficial effect, for a soclets
shown to have a great and growing de
ficiency of funds for future needs will bo
open to suspicion, and will soon be unable
to compete with those showing a better
financial condition.
Already the change In sentiment among
every-das people In regard to Insurance Is
becoming apparent. The only question for
S'ears seemed to be. "How cheap are the
MR. ROCKEFELLER'S JOKE
Makes College President Swallow
His Own Plan.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
It was while speaking at Denver in
January. 1900. that President Hadley,
of Yule, brought forward his famous
remedy of social ostracism for trust
abuses. He did not think much of
legislative remedies. He believed that
a proper and healthy public sentiment,
acting by itself, would be more effec
tive, and said: "When It Is understood
that a man who does certain things
cannot associate with his fellow-men.
It will penetnitc deeply Into the social
organism." Later on he said, by way
of explanation: "Social ostracism will
serve as a remedy for any public evil.
It Is. In fact, the only effective remedy.
It applies to evils connected with trusts
In the same way that it does to any
other, form of commercial wrong."
President Hadley was evidently still
holding the same views when, a few
weeks later, he npoke In Boston, say
ing, among other things: "We shall
have an emperor in Washington within
25 years unless we can create a public
sentiment which, regardless of legisla
tion, will regulate the trusts." This
utterance also underwent explanation
later on. but without changing the
sense as it was understood by most
readers.
Truth compels the statement that
few people regarded the Hadley rem
edy for trust evils as practicable or en
titled to serious consideration as a
finality. But no one anticipated that
Professor Hadley himself would be the
one most conspicuously to cover his
remedy- with ridicule.
Accounts of the Yale almuni meeting
of Wednesdas say that four times In
the course of President Hadley's an
nouncement of the Rockefeller gift of
Jl. 000.000 did the entire audience
"cheer" and "yell" and "roar' Its ap
proving enthusiasm. Had Mr. Rocke
feller himself been present, what would
have happened? Refusal of a seat on
the platform? The cold shoulder ev
erywhere? Yet if his methods may
properly be condoned what are the
methods related, to the aggrandize
ment of the syndicated wealth which
call for social ostracism, of the author?
One Is almost forced to the belief
that Mr. Rockefeller deliberately laid
a trap for President Hadley. which he
proceeded straightway to fall into. He
is a man. we believe, not wholly devoid
of a sense of humor, and It might easlly
be worth a million In his case to see
Dr. Hadles publlcls swallow his own
plan of meeting the menace of the
trusts. It was a great joke and worked
to a charm.
The Jumping-Jack Soldier.
Toledo Blade.
General Weyler has been made Secre
tary of War In the Spanish Cabinet, Re
member Weyler? He Is the man who.
once upon a time was going to lick Uncle
Sam.
Vnin Hope Rudely Dispelled.
Chicago Tribune.
The landgrabbers" hope that Secretary
Hitchcock would be a good fellow has
been rudely dispelled.
rates?" This Is -being replaced with
"How safe is the order?"
C. C. HQGUE.
WHY NOT A CONVENTION?
Suggestion! for Guidance of the Pri
marj Voter.
PORTLAND. July 11. (To the Edi
tor.) Our next general election will be
held under the new primary law and
evers person who aspires to offlce will
have the privilege of circulating a peti
tion and getting his name on the prim
ars ballot. The Utopian dreams of the
reformers will have come to pass. Per
haps. The man who Is best known will
have a long lead In the primary race
though a better qualified and better man
may be In the running. A plurality will
nominate, and the unfortunate person,
who receives a plurality of the vote cast,
which may be but a small proportion of
the party vote, will be entitled to go on
the official ballot as the party standard
bearer. It occurs to me that there is
.danger of naming the wrong man and
some measure should be taken to give di
rection to the parts. Why would It not
be advisable to call a convention In the
good old-fashioned way and recommend
candidates for the consideration of the
voters, and a candidate required to re
ceive a majority of the convention.
Of course it will be urged that such
a convention Is likely to be dominated
by the bosses. That Is true, but the
primary law will give the mass of the
voters the right to appeal from the ac
tion of the convention and confirm, or set
It aside before the general election. If
the last state convention had been mere
ly a recommending convention the result
In the parts would have centered on
pome other man than the nominee for
Governor when the primaries occurred,
and we should not now have a Democratic!
Governor. After all the candidates be
fore a convention are good men whom
the members could cordially support even
If -they lost their favorite, but when a
nominee Is forced upon the party in the
face of a large and determined protest
there la going to be trouble.
A convention Is necessary to frame a
platform and declaration of pdlnclples.
Why may not that convention recommend
for the consideration of the members of
the party a list of candidates?
Parties are maintained for the further
ance of policies of Government believed
to be for the best Interests of alf the
people. How Is the party organization
to be preserved without representative
party councils? VIDL
WHY NOT A HALF HOLIDAY?
How the W. C. T. U Would Solve
One Sunday Problem.
HEADQUARTERS W. C. T. TJ.. Port
land. July 13. (To the Editor.) Having
read with deepest Interest all that har
been said pro and con on the question of
"open amusements at the Fair," we beg
leave to offer a suggestion.
It would seem that the chief argumenf
In favor of an open Trail Is that the la-J
boring class cannot otherwise have th
pleasure of attending these places. ThI
WQ3 the main argument In asking for th
open gate. Now. of course, the worklr?
man or woman desiring to visit the Fal
surely want to go when all Is in actll
operation. They all wish to see all "tl j
wheels go round."
In face of this fact, why not united' j
work to bring this about, not on tl
Lord's day. commonly called the Sabbat
but to appeal to employers, busing
houses, etc.. for a Saturday half-hoUdal
then appeal to the Exposition irenag
ment for a lower rate of admission ("
Saturday: then the laboring men ail
women could "do the Fair" when the ma
chlnery and all was in active operation.
Saturday half-holidays are now almosq
universally observed In Eastern cities
Shall the great and beautiful Rose City
"where rolls the Oregon." be behind. Ir
this progressive step? This half-hollHa'i
innovation Is a well-established custom
And would tiof the half-holidav plan 9t
the most sane and delightful vxlv out ofl
the much-debated question of an open
Sabbath? Let us set about educating pub-"
lie sentiment to bring this about.
L. H. ADDITON.
PAUL JONES' BODY.
Henry Watterson In the Louisvillj
Courier-Journal.
It was certain, when the quest foj
the body of John Paul Jones. Institute
by General Horace Porter, was reward!
ed with success, that doubt would bl
cast upon the genuineness of the flncj
Human nature is whimsical alike iil
Its credulity and in Its skeptlcisnl
Sometimes it will pursue a fake, some
times resist a fact, with a pertlnacltl
little short of ridiculous. There ari
people who believe that John Wilkfi
Booth was not killed by Boston Col
bet. but that he made good his escar
and lived many years after; yet til
surmise In the very nature of the cad
to say nothing about the proof
the contrary does not admit of real
onable conjecture, even of Intelligel
dldcussion.
That the body of a man dead lj
years and exhumed from an unmark
grave no matter what the Identlflil
tlon should be received without que
Hon by a public 3000 miles away w
not to be expected. In the first plad
the sensation newspapers, commltti
with each issue to as many surpriH
as may be found or fabricated, woil
not permit it, and outside the net!
papers, of course. the "doubtll
Thomas is perennial and alwa
around. It Is fortunate, therefore, tl
General Porter has his evidence
such perfect shape and that It Is
abundant and absolute. Only a
of his orderly method, his trained
liberation and skill, his tenacity
sincerity of purpose, could have wort
to such a conclusion a task so arc
ous and Intricate.
Editor Patterson's Venture.
Independence Enterprise.
The Oregonlan Is a little unkind to
I. L. Patterson, a recent acquisition to
journalistic fraternity. Mr. Patter
i holding down the position of Collector
vu.Ti.uiua iui rort oi .roruana, Jl
uraliy felt a little timidity toward pit
Ing suddenly- Into the field of newsnz
endeavor, to be assigned a place ami
the more experienced. Mr. Patterson
tempted once before to embark In
newspaper business with others by acc
lng stock In the Salem Capital Jour
The venture was unsuccessful. Assc
ted with such veterans as EL Hofer
George W. Davis. Brother Pattel
never had a fair show, and failed.
time. Brother Patterson chose the Sa
Statesman as a medium through whlc
express hlmslef. and profiting by e
rience with the Journal, did not buy s
outright. Another method of acqul
control was adopted, and The Oregc
should have known It was not Intel
that the names of the publishers si j
be announced at this time.
Profitable Use of a Great Xai
Milwaukee Sentinel.
There Is a disposition to moralize
fact that the son of the author
"Scarlet Letter" Is writing physic
ture articles for a yellow journal.
If It comes to "mere lucre." the chl
are that Hearst pays Julian much
than the public paid Nathaniel.