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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1906)
THE aiOKXIXG OKEGOXIAS, MONDAY, MAY 28, 106. Entered at the Postofflea it'portlirf. Or, as Second-Class Matter. , ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES. CT INVARIABLY IK ADVANCE. (By Mall or Exprasa) DAILY, SUNDAY ' INCLUDED. Twelve months ? 22 Fix months . 55 Tnree months S-... t2 Cne month '. - Delivered by carrier, psr year u.vu . Uellvered by carrier, per month J Iess time, per week..... Funday, one year ?V Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday). J-J 6undsy and Weekly, one year HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beekwtth Special Agency New Ysrk, rooms 48-50." Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms MO-612 Tribune building. KEPT OX SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex. Postofflce News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. t. Paul, Minn. N. St. Marie, Commercial Station. Denver Hamilton Kendrlck. SOo-lU Feventeenth street; Pratt Book Store, iii Fifteenth street; L Welnsteln. 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"When The Oregonian gives as an only reason for the success of the Re publican party that Us candidates are Republicans, Jt descends from Us usual high standard of Journalism, to tha basis of a mere party organ." This from the gantiara News, a thick and thin Democratic party organ, which Is supporting Its party ticket now, as it has always -done heretofore. It sup ports its party ticket thus because it believes doubtless, or feels at least, that the policy and purpose of its party are better for ' the country than those of the Republican party. Reversing the statement. The Oregonian supports the Republican party, because it fully believes, and It undertakes to say-and to maintain, that the advantage here lies with the Republican party; that is to say, the policy and course of the Republican party have been the better for the country. -In the long course of experience and history lies the vindi cation. As to the candidates of the two par ties at the present time, their ability, reputation and personal character, It would be ungracious to Institute com parisons; but The Oregonian will say that it supports the candidates of the Republican party not only because they are Republicans, but because they are equal at least, fully equal, in ability, fitness and character to their oppon ents. Should comparisons be insti tuted as to personal character but we ghall not now proceed on this head, though numerous flings made by Dem ocratic organs might seem to justify it. It is enough, we trust, to say that as men and citizens the Republican candidates, both as to their public and private character, could fear no test which their opponents could accept. Tiresome and odious are these Demo cratic partisan assumptions that the candidates of their party are men of superior virtue, ability and character; that the Republican candidates have nothing but their party name to com mend them, and that-that name has been debased and degraded, till the only honorable thing Republicans can now do is to vote the Democratic ticket. A single word, directly, to those who utter such expressions as that quoted from the Santiam News. Since Mr. W'ithycombe though his character and talents are of a different description from those of Mr. Chamberlain, yet are such as make him as fit for the .office and-as worthy (there might.be comparison or contrast, but we shall not pursue it), why does the Santiam News support Mr. Chamberlain? Sim ply, and solely because Mr. Chamber rain is the Democratic candidate and the Santiam News wants a Democratio triumph. It is the same motive that actuates the pluto-demo organ of Portland, with this difference, that the pjiito-demo organ would stand with the Republican rarty If It could con trol It. The Oregonian frankly and fully admits that it prefers the Repub lican party, chiefly because It has learned from the history of the coun try and from its own long observation, to distrust the Democratic party; but they who support the Democratic party, as Mr, Chamberlain always does, and such organs as the Santiam News always do, are those who like this ' party, because of its sins, which the American people have thought it nec essary to rebuke these fifty years. Let the history ot the past fifty years say what there has been in the his tory of the Democratic party to Justify these assumptions. The country has regarded this party, during this long period, as dangerous to its welfare, and en has kept it out of power; at times the country has regarded its doctrines and purposes as not merely odious, but infamous, and on such occasions bas administered uncommon rebukes. It never has been necessary to assume perfection In the Republican in order to find reasons for opposing the Demo cratic party, nor is it now; for a party cannot escape Its history and charac ter, and the country justly regards the Democratic party on its history and character with apprehension and dis trust. There Is no issue in Oregon at this time but the issue between the historic parties. If one party offers. Its candi dates as Republicans, the other party offers Its candidates as Democrats. In each case it is the party record or his tory that comes before the electors, and upon which their judgment 4s In voked. The Democratic tickets are composed of , Democrats throughout, contending for party advantage. They will obtain It, if Republicans give them the election which they are striving to win, disingenuously, by pretense of "non-partisanship." It will amuse. If you stop to think of it these Demo cratic candidates. Chamberlain and Gearln, Galloway and Graham, for Congress, the candidates for the Legis lature and county offices, on down to the bottom of the list, posing as non partisans for Republican votes, but soliciting and expecting, as Democrats, the votes of the party that nominated them. If these candidates should be elected it would be a Democratic vic tory, wouldn't It? If not, what would constitute a Democratic victory ? Clean politics require truth-telling and no shams. Does it lie in the mouths of these intense Democratic partisans, nominated as Democrats, devoted to their party, to Its "policy, its purposes and its historic character, to denounce others for their adherence to their party and declare that they themselves want a. "non-parttean election?" Ter giversation is not less censurable In politics than In other affairs. The Dem ocrat, it seems, who Is doing everything possible for his party is not a partisan; while the Republican who stands by his party is. The organs and candi dates of the Democratio party talk as If they supposed that those to whom they offer this transparent subterfuge couldn't see through, it. ' The Democratic argument, addressed to Republicans, Is that "there are no politics In this election." Then there are no politics In any election. Be sides, If there ate no politics, in -this election how is it that Chamberlain, Gearln and all the rest of them have been nominated as Democrats, appear on the official ballots as candidates of the Democratic party, and Intend to stand and certainly wilb stand by their party If elected or if not elected will still stand by It anyhow? In false pretences In politics there is dishonesty, as in other things. HOME RULE FOR CITIES. Probably none of the proposed con stitutional amendments now before the people commends itself to such general favor as that which provides for crea tion of municipal corporations under general Instead of special laws. The purpose of this proposed amendment Is to take from the Legislature power to enact city charters, and place that power in the hands of the people of the territory to be affected by the act of Incorporation. The constitution at present provides that corporations shall not be created by special act except for municipal purposes. One of the amendments drafted by the People's Power League, of which W. S. TJ'Ren is the head, proposes to amend section 2 of article 11 of the constitution so as to prohibit creation of either pri vate or public corporations under spe cial laws. It declared that "the legal voters of every city and town are here by granted power to enact and amend their municipal charter, subject to the constitution and criminal laws of the State of Oregon." This is an effort to bring about "home rule" for cities. It Is a move ment based upon correct principles and aimed at needed reforms. It has the double object of relieving the Legisla ture of a vast amount of work that it should not be called upon to perform, and of placing in the hands of the people themselves the power to deter mine the fundamental law of their city government. The present system is unbusinesslike, undemocratic and open to gross abuse. The practice under the constitution in Its present form is for the members of the Legislature from the county in which a city is located to draft a charter, introduce it in the Legislature, have It referred to them selves as a special committee, report it favorably, and secure its passage upon their assertion that it is satisfac tory to them. Charter bills are not even read in the Legislature, and, if they were read, no member could un derstand their provisions unless he spent many hours studying-them and many weeks investigating the local conditions for which a city charter is supposed to provide. A charter enacted by the Legislature Is the product of the work of from one to half a dozen men, who have personal or political In terests to serve. A charter bill may be introduced in the Legislature one day and be passed through both houses and signed by both presiding officers before the close of the next day. The reople of the city to which it applies know nothing of its contents, and if they did they have, as a rule, no time or opportunity to make their wishes known. Occasionally a divided delega tion causes delay In the passage of a charter bill, and a protest goes up to the Legislature, with the result that the measure stands or falls according to the weight of influence that can be brought for or against It among mem bers of the Legislature. Political tricksters, proficient opera tors In high finance.and franchise grab bers, are the chief beneficiaries of the present system. Under the proposed amendment, the people of a city could elect a charter commission to draft a charter, with the requirement that the sessions of the commission shall be public After it had been drafted, the charter would be submitted to a vote rf the people of the city, and would be adopted or rejected according to the measure of approval it met when read and discussed by those who must be subject to its provisions. Under such a system, plutocratic influences could not secure enactment of charters drawn for the protection or promotion of their special Interests. The people of a oity would have the power to say upon what terms franchises shall be granted, and what shall be the general policy of the city regarding the many important questions that arise In every municipality. This proposed amend ment deserves an affirmative vote. MR. GEAKXVS OPINIONS. "At no time," says Senator Gearln, "have I said that a Republican Legis lature should elect a Republican Sena tor unless he received a popular ma jority. If Bourne receives a majority of the votes of the people he 1s en titled to the Democratic votes in the Legislature. If I receive a majority of the votes of the people I am entitled to the Republican votes in the Legis lature." This is in answer to a recent statement of The Oregonian, on au thority of its Washington correspond ent, that -in Senator Gearin's opinion, a Republican Legislature would not elect a Democratic Senator, no matter what Statement No. 1 provides. It will be observed that the Senator does not deny his former statement, or en deavor to alter its expression. A Re publican Legislature will not elect Mr. Gearin or any other Democratic Sena tor and he knows it. He is not de ceiving himself about it, just as he could not and did not try to deceive the public about it In his previous statements. All he says now is that a Democrat If he shall receive the pop ular vote in June will be "entitled" to election In January. But neither the Senator nor any other sensible person expects it, no matter what he may be entitled to. A Republican Legislature will elect a Republican Senator. A Democratic Legislature will elect a Democratic Senator, and probably it will be Mr. Gearln. We don't see that a Demo cratic Legislature could do better. PACKING-HOUSE METHODS. In the World's Work for the present month a "Picture of Meat Inspection," profusely Illustrated, 4s given by W. K. Jaques, M. D., at one time head of the meat inspection at the Chicago stock yards. The article is more than timely. In that it was long overdue. The same may be said of the action lately taken by the President and by Congress fa vorable to rigid Inspection of fresh meat from the stockyard shambles, in tended for domestic use, to which this and kindred articles, sown broadcast by the press, give peculiar emphasis. The packing-houses, says Dr. Jaques, are the kitchens of the Nation, and they ought to be clean; but they are far from it. And when be adds that a far greater question faces the public than that of the taking of rebates or the raising of prices of meat products namely, the cleanliness, palatabillty and safety of these products he makes a statement that wdll receive the unani mous indorsement of all intelligent per sons, even as the amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill provid ing for Inspection of meats intended for domestic use received last Friday unanimous Indorsement in the United States Senate. As a private citizen and a physician who consumes with a million others the products of. the Chicago packing houses, Dr. Jaques has taken up this matter and spread before the public his findings in the premises. The first of these sets forth the fact that a few men dominate the meat supply of the Nation. It is no 'longer a matter of choice with consumers as to what and where they will purchase; they must buy the products of the packing-houses of these men or go without meat. He shows that some of the packers go to the very limit In obtaining emaciated and diseased material to convert into food products which they place on sale. Perhaps all do not offend in this way, but the findings are against all, ana to say that they are alarming when viewed from the standpoint of public health, revolting when viewed from that of common cleanliness, and dis tressing when taken in connection with the lives and homes of the multitude in Packingtown a teeming suburb of a great city is not stating the case too strongly. There is found political influence giv ing the instant Impression of a power above law; animal misery that beg gars description; human habitations overcrowded with child life and redo lent of foul odors; stagnant pools and disease-breeding "dumps" ' about and over which little children play the live long Summer day, while over all rises the steam from the great vats and the noisome exhalations from dark, dll-ven-tllated, unclean cattle pens. It is conditions such as these that have been brought before the Presi dent and Congress, Impressing the ne cessity not only of providing a system of meat inspection by the Government that may be depended upon to Inspect, but the contingent necessity of remod eling the packing plants in order to ob tain better ventilation and more light In buildings where this great industry is carried on. Furthermore, the Pres ident insists that ample facilities be provided for employes to live, far enough removed from the rooms in which meat is prepared for the table or for sale, to prevent contamination from tuberculosis or other disease germs, and that lavatories be provided to Insure personal cleanliness of those who handle meats during the various stages of preparation for market. His concern is to secure fresh, clean, un contamlnated meat for the American people, and to remove the suspicion which the prevailing methods of the great packing-houses have fastened upon American meats abroad. General Miles may be forgiven If he sees in this attitude of the Government toward an Inspected and otherwise pur ified meat supply for the Nation, and, in an always possible emergency, for its Army, afield and afloat, a tardy vindi cation of his course in regard to the tainted meat supply of tie Spanish war, which, as he asserted, was far more fatal to the United States soldiers than were the bullets of the enemy, the fa tigue of the campaign or the exhaustion of the tropical climate all combined. RICHES AND INDIGESTION. John D. Rockefeller, who has been mentioned by the Eastern papers lately in connection with the investigation of the gasoline business and railroads; says that Jie feels like a rich man this Spring, and by way of explanation adds: "I .never felt better in my life. My digestion does not trouble me and I can travel about my place here with comfort and pleasure." It was not so last Summer. On the contrary, he felt very bad, and not at all like a rich man. Perhaps Mr. Rocke feller's unsupported statement concern ing his digestive apparatus will not be accepted by an incredulous public which has heard him speak through his lieutenants about rebates, but we have the testimony of a trustworthy corre spondent who saw him the other day and says: "He certainly look well now; his color is good, his step is springy and his spirits are as high as if Theodore Roosevelt and Commis sioner Garfield never existed." While the contrast in Mr. Rockefel ler's "condition between last year and this has the flavor of an introduction to a patent medicine reading notice, the news must be accepted in good faith. Dyspepsia is no respecter of persons. One feels just as as miserable as an other: the richest man In the United States, and, according to Ida Tarbell, the meanest, suffers quite as much from the depressing influence of undigested food as the driver of one of his oil wagons. If Rockefeller were generous he would let, the world know what cured him. Lack of the power to assimilate nor mal food may have had a psychological effect on this abnormal man. Perhaps If he had been able to take care of three square meals a day and then get eight hours of restful sleep dyspepsia is not a soporific he would have been content to stop at half a billion and then in imitation of Carnegie devote the re mainder of his days to giving away a part of the income. It may be that somebody has given Rockefeller some such advice as Secre tary Taft received recently to eat plain, wholesome food and give his ner vous organization something to build on; or maybe some one has told him that the seat of his Indigestion was his mind, not his stomach Whatever the cause that led to Improved health, It wasn't more money. We should like at this late day to see the change in Rockefeller's physical condition work a change In his attitude toward his fellow-man. Already President Roosevelt is mak ing engagements for a speaking tour of the Middle West which he is plan ning for a year from this coming June. Invitations to make college commence ment addresses and county fair ad dresses are pouring In and there is no likelihood that the President will need to shorten his trip by reason of scarcity of places to which he has been assured a welcome. Though Roosevelt's popu larity has been at a more demonstra tive stage than it Is today, the people have lost none of their confidence In his integrity or their admiration for his ability. There was for a time a tendency to put him ' in the list of heroes who should be worshipped and It was almost assumed that tie could not err. The strenuous life incident to trying to lead or drive an obstreperous Senate has shown that he is human and subject to human limitations. The American people may be excused for over-estimating hdm, for he Is the greatest man In America today, and the nearest approach to the ideal in American citizenship. ,N man who has raised his voice to question Roose velt's honor will ever stand half as well In public! esteem as does the pres ent Chief Executive. "How can The Oregonian tolerate Jonathan Bourne, who was an advo cate of free coinage of silver and sup ported Bryan?" The question comes on a postaL card to The Oregonian. Further, "How can The Oregonian for get or overlook what it said in those days about Jonathan " Bourne?" Be cause times and conditions now are not what they were ten years ago. If Jon athan Bourne then was an advocate of free coinage of Bilver, so was John H. Mitchell, and almost every other active Republican politician of Oregon, except Joseph N. Dolph. The Oregonian dealt with Mitchell, Bourne and all other ad vocates of silver alike. But Bourne was straightforward enough to go to the support of Bryan, where the logic carried him. Others, however, hung round the Republican fleshpots. But It's over; or The Oregonian would at this moment still be making It interesting for all advocates of silver, Democrats as well as Republicans. By the way, what right has any Democrat, whose whole party was for silver, to be throwing bricks at Bourne because he was a silver man too? A Washington, D. C, policeman has hit upon a very novel plan of catch ing criminals of a particularly low or der. While the scheme might get too old to'work successfully many times In one place, it promises enough excite ment to commend it to any Portland policeman who may find their labors monotonous. 1 The Washington keeper of the peace feigns intoxication, stag gers along the street ahd Into a dark alley or lumber yard and finally falls down in apparent stupor. The human vvjltures who Infest every city have fol lowed his; aimless wanderings and when he falls the more fortunate has ten to relieve him of his pocketbook and watch. He revives at the proper moment, flashes a revolver in the rob ber's face, makes a capture, and rids the city temporarily of a dangerous character. Perhaps he may sometime be second best in quick gun play, but if he should fail to make the game win some day, he will at least be entitled to an epitaph showing that he went the limit in an effort to earn his salary. The Portland Labor Press scolds at The Oregonian for commending the frankness of a Democratic candidate for the Legislature, who proclaimed himself a Democrat running as sweh and advocating Democratic principles. The Press thinks he is a pretty bad man. Well, this paper did not nomi nate him. He won out in the Demo cratic primaries in opposition to the Democratic machine. He 1s probably now opposed by the Democratic ma chine for announcing himself as a Dem ocrat instead of trying to get Republi can votes by the over-worked device of political tricksters who call themselves "non-partisans" in the hope of getting office thereby. What is party? A combination or association of citizens, to support or promote the public Interest upon some general principle on which they are all agreed. If the Republicans- of Oregon are to have a party they would do well to stay with it' and support it, and leave Brother Chamberlain and his co adjutors to their devotions to their own party, whose purposes are at all points at variance with those of the Repub lican party. Behold the gall of them. That Is, of the intense Democratic organs of the state, including the pluto-demo, organ of Portland, reclaiming against the "partisanship" of The Oregonian be cause it supports the Republican party. Tet they support the Democratic party and its ticket straight through. But that Isn't partisanship. It Is liberal politics. The Senate fears to make haste n retiring Mr. Burton from the public view. It will wait till the Supreme Court acts again. The Senate has for gotten that It is the sole Judge of the qualification of its own members. Meanwhile, there Is a possibility that Burton may resign, or die. What Mr. TJ'Ren wants to do by one proposed initiative measure Is to punch the present state constitution full of holes, and then make It Impossible for the people to get a new constitution. Mr. Bryan thinks Mr. Roosevelt has surrendered to the plutocrats. Remem bering 1904 and St. Louis, Mr. Bryan ought to know what, surrendering to the plutocrats is. The non-partisans for campaign purposes only are strict non-partisans until they get office, and then of course they are Democrats. A new light is illuminating Ohio. It comes from Standard Oil and by it the people see "better and know more. TX THE OREGON COVSTRT. Tread Llgbtly. . Plymouth Review. Candidates should not disturb the edi tor on Sunday. Editors need a chance to pray. Simply cannot get on without praying. Thlaars That Look Good. Hood River Glacier'. Among the many things in Oregon that looks odd to an Eastern man is to see the Irish vote the Republieain ticket, prohibitionists among the Democrats, and to see water run up hilL Round 2. Newport News. . We failed to receive a copy of the To ledo Leader last week a usual thing when the little feeble-minded diseased ex Populist runt that is miscalled its editor has anything naughty to say about us. Despite the Frosts, as Venal. Vancouver Columbian. Reports from all over the county indi cate that many extra fruit driers will have to be built in almost every com munity to take care of the bumper fruit crop that will be harvested this Fall. A Clackamas County Prospect. A nugget of gold was found In the giz zard of a spring chicken bought ot A. H. Glesy & Co., of Aurora, last week. The chicken was raised on D. Harme's place, near Macksburg. eight miles from here. A test showed the nugget to be pure gold. To Make Htm Ears His Money. Sheridan New Sun. There is some talk of the City Council putting the Marshal on a a night watch man instead of having him on duty dur ing the day. We believe this a good move, we need a watchman at night much more than during the day. Right Kind ot Father. La Grande Chronicle. G. A. Casper Informs your corre spondent that he is about to reward his small daughter for her diligence at school by purchasing for her a grand piano. He expects to visit Port land in the near future for a close in spection of the instruments. Dreary and Depressing. llwaco Journal. There is an aesthetic side to the good roads movement that is of no little im portance. What Is drearier, what more depressing than to drive along a country road deep with mud and furrowed by ruts, the water standing in pools 1n the road, and where ditches ought to be? Right Kind of Roller. BlckletAn News. While meandering across trie fields Sat urday morning we observed a young Miss on the hurricane deck of a field roller, doing as good work as her big brother could do. Some persons might not think as we do on matters like this, but we can assure her that she is at least 10 points higher In our estimation and we glory in her grit. Disowned. The Dalles Chronicle. "What's your name?" said the Judge in the recorder's court this morning. "Filloon's me name," answered the victim of too much "Oh be joyful." "You're a " said the judge. "None of the Filloons have ever' been bums. Thirty days." . Anyway that's the way they are telling the story on Recorder Filloon this afternoon; - Throwing Away Money. Corvallls Gazette. If a man was to throw a roll of green backs out into his pasture and let the calves eat it everybody would think he was crazy. The newspapers would tell about it and everybody would talk about what a fool he was. Tet that Is exactly what every farmer is doing who lets his calves run with the cows. The calves eat -cream, which if separated and ship ped to the creamery would yield a hand' some income every year. "Turning; the Other Cheek.' Tillamook Headlight. I wish to thank the donors of the splendid suit of clothes recently given me by the citizens of Tillamook in lieu of the ' coat of eggs donated me some time .-since: Both suits were duly appre ciated, 'and came in both Instances from parties outside of my church. I am sure I meet the parties that gave me both sutts almost every day, and I wish to ex press my appreciation in this public way. J. E. CONNOR. Oregon's Old Folks. Dallas Itemizer. Uncle Johnnie Rhodes, who Is 88 yrs. old ,rode to town last week on his saddle horse. One pleasing Incident of Uncle Ira Butler's 94th birth last Sunday was the attendance cf the Evangelical church people in a body to congratulate him on his long life. As has been the cus tom for many years past all the Inhab itants of the town, old and young, were invited to call and many accepted, thus showing respect for the aged. Hen Worth Knowing. Freewater Times. Mr. Campbell's egg challenge, published In a recent Issue of the Times has been accepted. And when the eggs were com pared the one laid by Mr. Campbell's hen was compelled to take a back seat. It went down to defeat before an egg whose dimensions were 7 6-10 in diameter and 7-10 in circumference respectively. The egg was brought in by Mrs. George Mil- ner. Although the Campbell egg was cut measured, the hen as an egg-producer has not been equaled, as she laid two eggs the same day. Boy Who Will Get There. Marshfield News. A boy named Sleep, aged U years, who had been visiting a family at the head of South slough, started Thursday last for his home at Prosper, on the Coqullle, and got lost In the woods. A search was made for him, and he was finally found on Saturday by an Indian woman named Annie Minor, whose dog followed the boy's tracks to a log, underneath which, in a depression in the ground. the boy was lying down. He hal slept in the timber two nights, and had wan dered around in the daytime trying to find a trail that would lead him to the Empire-Bandon read. He had taken a lunch with him when he started out on Thursday, but ate only a little of It, thinking he might need it later on. Grant County Bear Story. Long Creek Ranger. Sam Bower owned two bears and they were the nicest kind of pets. They grew fond of Sam and would run to him when ever he came in sight. They did not dis tlngulsh between Individuals as some bears do and whenever they became hun gry would beg of the first man they met. One day one of tha bears went out Into the woods and got lost. A Canyon City sport went bear-hunting about the same time. The pet bear saw the sport first and being hungry ran toward him to beg for food. As soon as the sport saw the bear he ran and when the bear saw the man was running It ran faster. The pace became furious, for the sport was becoming more frightened every second and the bear was trying to keep up. Fin ally the sport saw a cabin and made for It. In an exhausted condition he reached the shelter, threw open the door and hurrying in slammed it shut and crept to the window. There stood the bear wagging its tail. But the poor oport re mained in his hiding place until Sam came and took the pet away. VOTE "NO" ON THIS AMENDMENT Proposal' to Make it Easier to Change the Consti tution - Should Not Receive Public Approval No Demand that Present Limitations be Removed There Is one proposed amendment to the Oregon Constitution which is unwise In Its purposes and should not be adopted. By this amendment it Is proposed to make It more easy to amend the Constitu tion section by section and more difficult to revise it by means of a constitutional convention. The effect of this change in 1 the Constitution would be to encourage constitutional amendments in response to temporary, fitful public sentiment, thus making the fundamental law of the state unstable and uncertain, where stability and certainty should be Its chief charac teristics. It is already easy enough to amend the Constitution, and no demand whatever exists for- further loosening of those limitations which guard against ill- advised action. The proposed amendment to which ref erence is made was drafted by the Peo ples' Power League, of which W. S. TJ'Ren is the active manager, and is be- fore the people for approval or dis approval at the coming June election. At present the Constitution provides for Its own amendment in either of two ways; first, a proposed amendment may be ap proved by two successive sessions of the Legislature and then submitted to vote of the people; or, second, an amendment may be proposed by initiative petition and submitted to vote of the people without action on the part of the Legislature. Un der the first method, a proposed amend ment must receive an affirmative vote of a majority of all the votes cast as the election in order to effect an adoption. Under the second method, a proposed amendment may be adopted by a majority of all the votes cast upon that subject. The first method has been in force ever since the State Constitution was adopted. That process of amendment is slow and somewhat cumbersome, but carefully guarded. The latter method is authorized by the Initiative clause of the Constitu tion and may be pursued by any person who will take the trouble or sustain the expense of securing the signatures of 8 per cent of the legal voters to a petition. Briefly summarized. the proposed amendment provides that an amendment to the Constitution may be submitted to a vote of ,t he people, after being approved by one session of the Legislature, and may be adopted by a majority of all the votea cast upon that subject. It further provides that no convention shall be called to propose amendments to the Con stitution, or to propose a new Constitu tion, unless the act calling such conven tion shall first be approved by a vote of the people at p. regular election. This proposed amendment, if adopted, would not affect the right of proposing amend ments by initiative. Since this subject is one that is not fa miliar to the average citizen and is one not easily understood, let us state the situation more in detail. Prior to 1902 any person who wished to have the State Con stitution amended must draft his pro posed amendment and secure its Introduc tion In a Legislature composed of 60 Rep resentatives and 30 Senators. If adopted by a majority of the members of each house, the proposed amendment must wait two years until another Legislature convened and be there presented for con sideration. At each session the proposed amendment would be referred to a com mittee for special investigation and re port. If adopted by the second Legisla ture, It would then be submitted to a vote of the people at the next general election, and to be adopted must receive the affirmative votes of a majority of all. persons who cast ballots at the polls. Thus, if 100,000 persons voted at the elec tion but only 90.000 marked their ballots upon the proposed amendment, over 60.000 must be for the . amendment In order to FRANK TALK IN THE HOUSE. "Be Brave and Raise Our Salaries," Says Gaines. From a Washington, D. C. Dispatch. During the disoussibrj, of legislation af fecting the interests of trfe District of Columbia In the House yesterday, an ex ceedingly interesting colloquy occurred between Messrs. Gaines, of Tennessee, and Babcock, of Wisconsin. Mr. Gaines inquired: "Why do we sit here like a lot of cowards and raise everybody else's salary and not raise- our own?" Mr. Sims, of Tennessee Because we want to come back here. Mr Gaines We are a lot of moral cow ards' not to raise our own salaries. A whole lot of us get a whole lot more than we ought to have, and others do not get enough. Of course, a lot of people are opposed to it, just as a lot of people were opposed to- the passage of the law against members riding on railroad passes. "A great railroad man told me he had issued a free pass to every federal Judge In my district," said Mr. Gaines, "and all had kept them except one and he used to be a member of Congress. He had given every member of the Legislature a free pass and- they had all kept them, as had the Governor- I told him it was con trary to law, and asked him why he did it, and he said his company felt it had to." Mr. Babcock replied he was- very sorry the gentleman from Tennessee had failed to tell the House where transportation could be . procured. Mr. Gaines It is in your pocket, like it is in mine. That is all I ever used, my own money. Mr. Babcock There is no transportation In my pocket. I always pay my own way In the trains and in the street cars. Mr. Gaines Have you always done that? Mr. Babcock Not always. Mr. Gaines Then I am a little ahead of the gentleman. I'm no saint. (I augh ter.) I am satisfied that when the time comes he will vote to cut oft free passes Issued to the Judiciary and members of Congress. THE DEMANDS -.1- - --' - -'... V. r SB? v. From ths Philadelphia Inquirer. THX CZAR HAS MADE VT HIS MIXD TO STAY AWAY FROM 6T. PETEBA BCBO THIS WINTER. secure Its adoption. Thus tha proposed amendment was before the people for about three years and had the special consideration of about ISO men selected from all parts of the state. In 1902 the Initiative and referendum amendment was adopted, under the pro visions of which the people reserved tho right to propose either laws or constitu tional amendments by petition without the aid of the legislature, and adopt them by popular vote. Under this new clause the constitution could be amended In exactly the same manner that laws could be enacted by popular vote. One man may draft a proposed amendment to the constitution, prepare petitions and have them circulated until he has secured signatures of eight per cent of the voters, or about S000 in all. Then the measuro goes to a vote of the people, four months later, and, if it receives a majority of ell the votes cast upon that subject. It be comes a part of the constitution. It 100.000 voters go to the polls and only 90.000 mark their ballots upon an amend ment proposed under the initiative. 45.001 affirmative votes will adopt It. Only one man may have approved the measure be fore it goes to the people, for the 8000 people who sign the petitions do not even read the proposed amendment With these two methods of amending the constitution In force it would seem that there Is no need to loosen the re strictions upon constitutional amend ments. Empowering one session of the legislature to submit an amendment will open the way for trading on constitutional amendments In the same manner that legislatures now trade on ordinary legisv lation. A looser system will breed a spirit of carelessness and a willingness to adopt without full consideration policies which wise statesmanship would not approve. If there be fault to find with the constitu tion at present, it is that the provisions for its amendment are not now-- suffici ently restrictive. The fact that there are now five constitutional amendments be fore the people for their action in Juno leaves little room for doubt that Oregon has already gone as far as she ought in this direction. The last provision of the proposed amendment now pending before the peo ple has no merit. The legislature has now the power to call a constitutional convention at any time, bst such a con vention could take no action that would be effective until it had been approved by a vote of the people. If a convention were called, its sessions would be public. Its recommendations would be 'jeforjs the people for discussion, and any new con -stltution they might propose could not supplant the present unless it met the approval of a majority of the people. Why, then, the need of rovidlng that no con vention nhall be called until after the act authorizing the convention has been ap proved by the people? This merely makes one more popular vote necessary. Oregon legislatures have not shown themselves to be favorable to conventions, and there Is no indication that they will. Thisr last provision Is ostensibly an effort to guavji the constitution against unwise amend ments; but it meets no public demand or need. In fact, there is no part of the proposed amendment that has Its origin in a public demand. There has been no discussion that has shown such a change in the constitution to be desirable or necessary. The constitution is a part of the govern mental system which should be chaneed only to meet a clear and certain public need. There Is nothing to be gained b the adoption of this proposed amendment and the people of Oregon will do well to vote "No." A. W. P. COWBELL COST 9100,000. Creek Indian Story of an Old Boundary Line Dispute. . Kansas City Star. A 23-cent cowbell caused the Creek Na- -tion to lose a strip of land which is now worth at least J.100,000. according to an old Creek story which is told in the Can adian district of the Cherokee Nation. This is the district in which are now lo cated Porum and Russell, two thriving towns. The - story runs this way: The boundary between the Creek and Cherokee Nations had never been de finitely located, so government commis sioners were sent out to locate the dis puted boundary line. A council of the Creeks and Cherokees was called and the day set when the matter was to be de cided. The Creeks wanted for their east ern boundary the western banks of the Arkansas River and Boley Mcintosh, then chief, was a powerful man, and It was expected that he would get what he wanted, though the Cherokees wanted the line to be fixed so that the rich Canadian district would be theirs. In those days the Indians had cheap cowbells on their ponies so that when the horses strayed they could be found. The night before the council the pony belonging to Chief Mcintosh came in without its bell. The next day. be worried about the bell ami finally set out to find it. Ha forgot all about the council of the tribes and when he finally came in the matter had been settled and the Cherokees had won. The search for the cowbell had cost the Creeks the rich Canadian district. Mis Hatch Wan a Famous Model. Boston Dispatch. Miss Olive Hatch, who years ago posed for a picture painted by W. M. Brown, called "Christian Endeavor." which has been reproduced ail over the world. Is dead. Tho scene of the pic ture is laid in front of the Old South Church, and shows a sweet-faced young woman helping a drunkard, who baa been lying in the enow, to his feet. Tho interesting fact about the picture is that it was painted from an actual oc currence. OF THE D0UMA i'-i '! -k.lH - .' a