Morning Oregonian., August 21, 1906, Page 3, Image 3

THE MORNING OREGONIAJf, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1906.
LET PARTY FINISH
UNDER
WAY
Roosevelt Writes on
Election Issues.
WRONG TIME TO MAKE CHANGE
Opposes Tariff Revision as
Hurting Prosperity.
REGULATION OF TRUSTS
Change in the Control of Congress
t Would Mean Oscillation Between
Radicalism and Reaction.
Canal Enemies Defeated.
NEW TORK, Aug. 20. A letter written
by President Roosevelt to Congressman
James E. Watson, of RushvUJe, Ind., re
viewing and approving of the work of the
present Congress and declaring, "to
change the leadership and organization of
the House at this time means to bring
confusion upon those who have success
fully engaged In the steady working out
of a great and comprehensive scheme for
the betterment of our civil and social con
ditions," was made public today through
the Republican Congressional committee.
The President also declared that such a
change would result in a hurtful oscilla
tion between the extreme radical and the
extreme reactionary. The President also
eald he hopes the present Congress will
enact laws prohibiting political contribu
tions by corporations, lowering the duties
on imports from the Philippines, and lim
iting the number of hours for railway em
ployes. AVelfare of Nation Involved.
The President's letter to Mr. Watson in
full is as follows:
My Dear Mr. Watson: I hear through
Speaker Cannon and Representative Sher
man that you have volunteered to give
your services to the Congressional com
mittee for the entire campaign, without
regard to the effect It may have upon
your canvass in your own district, and I
feel like writing you a word of congratu
lation and of earnest hope for the success
of your efforts. If there were only parti
san issues involved in this contest, I
should hesitate to say anything publicly
In reference thereto. But I do not feel
that such is the case. On the contrary. I
feel all good citizens who have the wel
fare of America at heart should appre
ciate the Immense amount that has been
accomplished by the present Congress, or
ganized as It is, and the urgent need of
keeping ti..s organization In power.
With Mr. Cannon as Speaker, the House
has accomplished a literally phenomenal
amount of good work. It has shown a
courage, good sense and patriotism such
that It would be a real and serious mis
fortune for the country to fail to reeog
. nlze. To change the leadership and or
ganization of the House at this time
means to bring confusion on those who
have been successfully engaged In the
steady worklne out of a Ereat and com
prehensive scheme for the betterment of
our social, Industrial and civic conditions.
Such a change will be to substitute a
purposeless confusion, a violent and hurt
ful oscillation between the positions of
extreme radical and extreme reactionary
for the present orderly progress along
the lines of a carefully thought out policy.
Next Measures to Take Up.
The interests of this Nation are as va
ried as they are vast. Congress must
take account, not of one National need,
but of many and widely different Na
tional needs; and I speak with historio
accuracy when I say that not In our time
has any Congress done as well in so many
different fleius of endeavor as the present
Congress has done. No Congress can do
everything. Still less can it in one session
meet every need. At its first session the
present Congress, In addition to the many
tasks it actually completed, undertook
several tasks which I firmly believe It
will bring to completion In its second ses
sion next Winter.
Among these, I hope and believe that
.the bills to prohibit political contributions
by corporations and to lower the duties
on imports from the Philippine Islands,
each of which has been passed by one
House, will be enacted into law. 1 hope
and I have reason to believe that favor
able action will be taken upon the bill
limiting the number of hours of employ
ment of railway employes. These and one
or two other measures, the enactment of
which I have reason to hope for, are im
portant. But far more important are tne
measures which have actually been
passed, and as to these measures I wish
to reiterate that they are not important
in a merely partisan sense, but are im
portant because they subserve the wel
fare of our people as a whole, of our
Nation as an entirety. They are import
ant because those who enacted them Into
law thereby showed themselves to be fit
representatives of all good Americans.
What Congress Bid for Canal.
In affairs outside our own country our
freat work has been beginning to dig the
'anama Canal. The acquisition of the
canal strip was due to the initiative of
Congress, and the fact that the work
thereon is now being done in the most
thorough and satisfactory fashion Is due
to the action of the present Congress at
the session just closed. Only this action
rendered the work possible, and the.
heartiest acknowledgments are due to
the far-seeing patriotism of those who
made It possible. The digging of the
Panama Canal is the colossal engineering
feat of all ages. No task as great of the
kind has ever been undertaken by any
other nation.
The Interests banded together to oppose
It were numerous and bitter and most of
them with a peculiarly sinister basis for
their opposition. This sinister opposition
rarely indeed ventures openlv to announce
Its antagonism to the canal as such.
Sometimes It takes the form of a baseless
accusation against the management or a
demand for an Investigation under cir
cumstances that would mean indefinite
delay. Sometimes It takes the form of
determined opposition to the adoption of
plans which will enable the work to be
done not merely In the best but in the
quickest possible way. Had Congress
been either timid or corrupt, and had not
the leaders of Congress shown themselves
far-sighted in the matter, the work of
building the canal would never have been
begun, or. If begun, would now have
halted.
Evil Work of Opposition.
.The opposition to the treaty by which
our right to build the Panama Canal was
secured; a part, at least, of the opposition
even now being made to the ratification
of the Santo Domingo treaty, which Is
one more step In the effort to make peace
ful and secure the waters through which
the route of the canal leads; the constant
effort to delay on one pretext or another
the actual work on the canal all prove
how essential It is that, if the American
people desire the Panama Canal to be
built In speedy and efficient fashion, they
should uphold the hands of those who in
the present Congress have so effectively
championed this work.
No less praiseworthy has been the atti
tude of this Congress In continuing to
build and maintain on a high plane of
efficiency the United States Navy. This
country Is Irrevocably committed to the
maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. It
is irrevocably committed to the principle
of defending and policing the canal route.
But its championship of the Monroe Doc
trine and its announcement of its inten
tions to tha canal route would both. b
absurd on their face If the Nation failed
to do Its dutv in maintaining a thorough
ly efficient Navy at as high a point in
penucuon as can possioiy De ootainea.
Moderation in Fighting Trusts.
Our external affairs are important, but
our internal affairs are even more Im
portant; and no other Congress for many
a long year has. as regaros ine Deter
ment of our internal affairs, done so much
and such excellent work.
The tremendous social and industrial changes
In our Nation have rendered evident the need
of a larter exercise by the National Govern
ment of Its power to deal with the bueine
use of wealth, and especially of corporate
wealth, in interstate business. It is not too
much to say that the course of Congress
within the last few years and the hearty
agreement between the executive and legis
lative departments of the Nation in taking
the needed action, each within its sphere, nave
resulted in the Nation's, for the first time.
definitely entering upon the career of proper
performance of duty In these matters.
The task is peculiarly difficult, because
it is one in which the fanatical or foolish
extremist and the reactionary, whether
honest or dishonest, play into one anoth
er's hands; and they thereby render it
especially hard to secure legislative and
executive action which shall be thorough
going and effective, and yet which shall
not needlessly Jeopardize the business
prosperity wnich we all share, even
though we do not all share it with as
much equality as we are striving to se
cure. It Is a very easy thing to play the
demagogue in this matter, to confine one
self merely to denouncing the evils of
wealth and to advocae, often in vague
lunguage. measures so sweeping tnat.
while- they would entirely fail to correct
the evils aimed at. they would unaount
edly succeed In bringing down the pros
perity of the Nation with a crash, it is
r.Mo easy to play the part of the mere ob
structionist; to decline to recognize the
great evils of the present system and to
oppose any effort to deal with them In
rational fashion, thereby strengthening
Immensely tne nanos or tnose who advo
cate extreme and foolish measures.
But It is not easy to do, as the present
Congress and its Immediate predecessor
have done, that is. sternly to disregard
alike the self-interest of those who have
prouted by the present evils and the wild
clamor of those who care less to do away
with them than make a reputation with
the unthinking by standing in extreme
opposition to them. But this is precisely
what tne present congress nas done, in
stead of enacting antitrust laws which
were so vague or so sweeping as to defeat
tneir own oDjecis, it nas given ns an in
terstate commerec law which will enable
us to exercise in thorough fashion a su
pervision over the common carriers of
this country; while scrupulously safe
guarding their proper Interests, to prevent
them from charging excessive rates; to
prevent tneir favoring one man at the
expense of another, and especially a
strong man at the expense of a weak
man, and to require them to be fully ac
countable to the public for the service
which to their own profit they render the
public.
State Supervision a Sham.
The previous Congress, by the enact
ment of the Klkins law and by the crea
tion of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, Including the Bureau of Corpora
tions, had enabled us to make great
strides In advance along the path of thus
bringing the use of wealth in business
under the supervision ' and regulation of
the National Government, for in actual
practice it has proved a sham and pre
tense to say that several states can thus
supervise and regulate It. The strides
taken by the present Congress have been
even longer in the right direction. The
enactment of the pure-food bill and the
passage of the bill which rendered ef
fective the control of the Government
oyer the meat-packing Industries are real
ly along the same general lines as the
passage of the Interstate commerce law,
and are second only to It injrnportance.
Stand for Protective Tariff.
"We stand unequivocally for a protective
tariff and we feel that the phenomenal
Individual prosperity which we are now
enjoyino- is not lightly to be jeopardized;
for it would be unwise to the last degree
. "cto u Liit-ie a. aiiiu.il Denent
at the cost of general business depression.
" " """'c' istvcii miB or scneauie
becomes evidently disadvantageous to the
VnMnn Hotaut... nf 1a nun u , i
mc tlJttUKCO WHICH siO
on from year to year in our conditions,
and where it is feasible to change this
rate or schedule without too much dis
location of the system, it will be done:
Wlilla a vanaral ..irl.lnn . i .
........ ev....c, icvioii,,, ui mo rates ana
schedules will be undertaken whenever it
" jjjctr iu me Buoer ousiness sense
II f mi. ranna . . . w . 1 " . . ,
j . . " ,JK'. wi4o i-iitj ueneuis to ne
flUrlvAil f rum vr.al.tT.,- b . . nv. i ...
..v.... ...unjllH outu ijiiaiiges Will
outweigh the disadvantages, that is, when
t l.c,nlul u" iiiuie guoa man narm.
urn auu one wura or caution, how
ever. The question of revising the tariff
stands wholly apart from the question of
dealing with the so-called "trust" that
is. with the control of monopolies and
with the supervision of great wealth in
business and especially In corporate form
The only way it is possible to deal with
those trusts and monopolies and this
great corporate wealth Is by acting along
the line of the laws enacted by the pres
ent Congress and its immediate predeces
sors. The cry that the problem can be
met by any changes in the tariff repre
sents, whether consciously or uncon
sciously, an effort to divert the publio
attention from the only method of taking
effective action.
"I shall not attempt to" enumerate all
the good measures of less Importance
which the Congress has enacted into law,
although some of these measures as for
instance, the Consular bill and the 'nat
uralization bill, are of wide-reaching ef
fect. I have said enough tor show why in
my judgment, you and your colleagues
are entitled to the good wishes of all
those American citizens who believe that
there are real evils in our Industrial and
economic systems, and that these evils
can be effectively grappled with, not by
loose declamation, but by resolute and in
telligent legislation and executive action.
Sincerely yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
James E. Watson, M. C, Rushville. Ind
Oyster Bay, N. Y Aug. 18, 1906.
KILLS WIFE WITH AN AX
Aged Miner in Michigan Commits
Act While Insane, and Escapes.
PONTIAC, Mich.. Aug. 20.-(Speclal.)
William Thomas, an aged miner, mur
dered his wife, Elizabeth Thomas. In the
basement of their home today. He had
been bordering on insanity for several
years, and during the past two weeks
had made numerous attempts on the lives
of several members of his family.
This morning Thomas went Into the
basement about 7 o'clock to do some
work. His wife entered the basement
shortly after, on art errand, and as she
entered he sprang a,t her with a short
ax. From an examination made by the
Burgeons it was found that he struck her
on the skull with the ax five different
times, crushing the bone of the skull each
time. -After this he cut her throat with a
razor.
Thomas then carried her body up stairs
and laid It on the bedroom floor, ,He
washed his hands in a washpan and
made his escape. A posse under the di
rection of Sheriff Hoke Is searching for
him.
. Work for Released Prisoners.
CHICAGO. Aug. 20.-The State of Illi
nois, through the agency of its own free
employment bureaus in Chicago and other
cities, beginning next Monday, will pro
vide employment for and gU-e wholesome,
helpful assistance to the men, women and
boys released from the various penal and
reformatory institutions each. year. Gov
ernor Deneen, who has been interested
deeply In this problem, and has consid
ered It with his advisers on the several
boards, has placed his approval on a care
fully mapped out plan to Intrust to the
state employment agencies the duty of
securing work for those who have either
served out the sentences Imposed by the
courts, or by good conduct, have had
their punishments mitigated. - The system
has been perfected so far that the first
practical steps will be taken next Monday.
Aid From Peru and Ecuador.
LIMA, Aug 20. A subscription has been
started at Iquique, and will be started at
Guayaquil and Lima for the victims of
the earthquake In Chile. Among tha
victims at Valparaiso are Rector Lyceli,
Charles Hossellan and family, Deputy Ra
gon Leon Silva, Enrique Blanco and Rob
ert Courts and family.
E
Grand Jury Ignores Jerome in
Trust Inquiry.
HE SHIELDED ICE DEALERS
When District Attorney Falls to Call
Witnesses Against Trust, In
quisitors Violate Precedent
and Issne Subpenas.
NEW TORK, Aug. 20. (Special.) The
grand Jury today took the investigation
of the ice trust out of the hands of Dis
trlst Attorney Jerome and began what
the Jurors say will be an Independent in
vestigation, which is likely to result In
Indictments.
The cause of this drastic action waa
that the only evidence produced by the
District Attorney was that provided by
the officials of the accused trust. Mr.
Jerome was also frank in stating his be
lief that the trust had not conspired to
raise the price of ice and that no Indict
ment would be found.
Foreman Karsch last week demanded
that certain witnesses with other evi
dence be brought before the Jury. The
District Attorney's office failed to com
ply, and today the grand Jury ignored
the District Attorney's office and sent out
a batch of subpenas for witnesses.
It was said at the Criminal Courts
building that it has been many years
since a grand jury decided to act Inde
pendently of the District Attorney and
sent out its own subpenas.
AMERICAN GOLD MINE DEAL
Court Anxious to Sell, but Fears Re
pudiation by Douma.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 20. The
newspapers here report that Ameri
cans are negotiating for the purchase
of the Nerchinsk gold mines, which
have been the cause of a great scan
dal in which several Grand- Dukes
were i Involved. The mines are sup
posed to contain quartz worth $2,000,
000,000 and the court camarilla Is re
ported to be anxious to dispose of
them, but the Americans are chary of
purchasing a concesison which might
be repudiated by Parliament, .
UBERAIj leader is hopeless
Guchkoff Says Czar Is Ignorant and
Stolypin Will Fail.
MOSCOW, Aug. 20. In an interview
today Alex E. Guchkoff, who is re
garded as one of Uie strongest and
most capable conservative Liberals In
Russia and who many times has been
mentioned as the natural Premier In
a conservative Cabinet outside of the
bureaucratic circles, spoke in a de
spondent tone of the future. He said:
There can be no doubt of the Emperor's
good intention. The great misfortune la that
he does not comprehend the situation. The
influences which hedge him about are such
that it is Impossible for him to understand
what Is going on In the country. The fact
that the Emperor to constantly in the dark
regarding- the true state of affairs Is responsi
ble for . the hopelessness, of the outlook. I
have personally the highest respect for Pre
mier Btolypin and am satisfied that if he
could have his way he might be able to ex
tricate the country from the dangers which
threaten it from all directions. I fear, how
ever, that hla capacity will avail little against
the influence -of the court and Ministers who
surround blm. For this very reason it was
Impossible for me. Count Heydon or others
to enter the Cabinet.
While I still believe that if the Ministry
were placed in the hands of Conservatives and
Liberals enjoying some measure bf public con
fidence it might be possible to' effect a re
conciliation between the Government and peo
ple, the chances are dally, almost hourly,
diminishing and before the Emperor could be
Induced to yield such a step it probably would
be too late, as the march of the revolution
will compel M. 6tolypln, despite himself, to
go further and further on the path of re
action and repression. In the meantime, in
my opinion, there Is little chance of a thor
ough-going amalgamation of the Constitutional
Democrats and Octoberlsts. While the ulti
mate object of both parties it practically
identical, namely, the achievement of a con
stitutional monarchlal regime in Russia, their
alliances are totally different. The Constitu
tional Democrats have gone too far with the
revolutionists to draw back ana the course
of the government is bound to drive them
further and further away from the methods
to which they are committed.
WHAT MAKES REVOLUTIONISTS
Pitiful Procession of Children Or
phaned at Blalystok.
In a special dispatch to The Oregon
Ian from Lemberg, Austria, is de
scribed the heartrending spectacle of
a procession through the streets of
over 100 children of families which
were massacred during the last out
rages In Blalystok, Russia. The chil
dren were sent out from Russia
through the efforts of German and
Austrian charitable societies, which
will place the unfortunate orphans In
different Institutions throughout Eu
rope. Fifty boys and 66 girls com
prised the sad traveling party and the
City Council of Lemberg Immediately
subscribed about J500 for their help.
After resting several days in Lemberg,
the children were sent out to different
asylums in Austria and Germany.
WORK OF CONTENDING FORCES
Police Sent to Kingdom Come, Reds
Exiled to Interior.
ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 20. Last
week's statistics show that 58 officials
were murdered and 43 were wounded tn
Russia proper: that 60 bomb depots
were discovered; six safes rifled of
money and 63 persons robbed. These
official figures do not take into account
the pillaging in the country.
The St. Petersburg Gazette says that
2300 persons were banished on Saturday
from St. Petersburg alone, and that
760 were placed on trains being bound
for the interior. The police of this city
are being trained in the handling of
rapid-fire guns in arms factories out
side of St. Petersburg.
Dragoons Shoot Riotous Miners.
USOVKA. Aug. 20. Two squadrons of
dragoons last night began to disperse
a meeting of Vyatka miners, when sev
eral shots were fired from back of the
crowd, which numbered several thou
sand. The dragoons replied with five
volleys, killng ana woupdlng many min
ers. Eight ring-leaders of the disturb
ancA have been arrested Tha
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excitement prevails there.
Guards Let Bankrobber Escape.
8T. PETERSBURG, Aug. 20. Colonel
Solivleff, who Investigated the escape of
BellnzolT. the leader of the band of Mos
cow bank robbers, from the train on
which he Was being conveyed to Mos
cow for trial, hag found that bis escape
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wag entirely due to the gross careless
ness of the guards. Instead of Jumping
through a. window of the train, it turns
out that Bellnzoff was in the toilet room,
with a guard outside. The prisoner locked
the door, ral.ed the window, quietly
lowered himself to the step of the car
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SKA1LOX MAY BE PARALYZED
Governor of Poland Nervous Wreck.
Jews Lead In. Revolution.
WARSAW,Aug. 20. In connection with
the attempt on the life of Governor-General
Skallon, on April 18, 28 arrests have
been made on suspllcon. The nervous
shock to the Governor-General -caused by
the explosion of three bombs in his imme
diate vicinity has been so great that par
alysis is feared.
Of the 63 civilians who were killed in
the massacre here August 15 or who died
of wounds received at that time, 45 were
Jews. Of five revolutionists arrested for
shooting policemen, four were Jews.
More Douma Members Arrested.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 20. Two
more members of the outlawed Par
liament have been arrested. M. Fren
kel, at Ymanl, and M. Prituli, at Or
loffka. Two other arrests of members of Par
liament have been reported today, one of
them In the Province of Kiev and the
other in the Province of Taurlda
Thirty-seven naval officers at " Cron
stadt have resigned, owing to their indig
nation at what they characterize as the
lenient sentences imposed on mutineers
by tha courtmartial in session there.
Medical Men From England.
BOSTON. Aug. 20. Among the passen
gers on the White Star Line steamship
Cymric, which arrived yesterday from
Liverpool, was a large party of English
surgeons, physicians and physiologists
who are on their way to Toronto, where
the annual convention of the British Med
ical Society Is about to open. The party
was) headed by Sir James Barr, of Liv
erpool. Immediately after leaving the
Steamer they took a train for Toronto.
Reds Kill More Police Officials.
TAGANROG, Russia, Aug. 20. Two ser
geants of police were severely wounded
by revolutionists today.
CHINSTOKOVA. Poltand. Aug. 20. The
chief of the rural constabulary here wasj
killed toda by terrorists.
American Citizen Expelled.
ODESSA, Aug. 20. An American citi
zen named Ginson has been expelled
from this city and under a police convoy
has been taken to the western frontier
by order bf the Governor-General. Gin
son was arrested as an alleged political
provocative agent. He Is a Russian Jew,
who recently took out citizenship papers.
Stolypin Improves Situation.
PARIS, Aug. 20. Dispatches re
ceived in the most authoritative quar
ters here from St. Petersburg say the
situation In Russia is rapidly improv
ing and that Premier Stolypin Is con
fident of carrying out liberal reforms
before the new Parliament is elected.
More Mutineers Executed.
CRONSTADT. Aug. 20. Sixteen . men
were condemned for participation in the
mutiny here August 1 and were executed
at daybreak this morning. Among the
number were two students named Ivanoff
and Makrians, and Dr. Gusaroff, an army
surgeon.
AVI 11 Make Use of Navy.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Baron Ro
sen, the Russian Ambassador, today
informed the State Department that
the Russian government will use Its
navy to prevent the Importation of ex
plosives and firearms into Russia.
Alfonso and Queen Start Home.
LONDON. Aug. 20. The King and
Queen of Spain, who have been visiting in
England, will start on their homeward
trip today.
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Taft to Decline Judgeship and
Seek Presidency.
BAD NEWS FOR FAIRBANKS
War Secretary Will Soon Xotlfy the
President He Wants No Ermine
and Stay In Fight for
the Nomination.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-Special.)
Secretary Taft will decline appointment
to the United States Supreme Court bench
and remain in the Cabinet. He will no
tify the President to this effect early in
September, as court assembles for the
Autumn term in October.
This determination upon Mr. Taft's part
means that he probably will make his
visit to the Philippines next Winter. It
also means that he will continue to be
Presidential timber until the nomination
is made by the Republican National Con
vention. Secretaries Shaw and Root and Speaker
Cannon will doubtless be delighted at the
conclusion reached by Mr. Taft, as they
figure the Ohio delegation must support
the Secretary Instead of Senator For
aker, who virtually destroyed his chances
of the nomination by his fight against
the railroad rate regulation bill. Mr.
Fairbanks alone of all prospective candi
dates will be bitterly disappointed. Be
ing born In Ohio, he believed that the
state might be Induced to cast Its vote
for him.
PREVENTABLE WASTES.
Yale Professor Argues for National
Health Department.
North American.
Much favorable comment has been
made by members of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science
upon the paper read recently by Pro
fessor J. Pease Morton, of Yale, upon
the "Advisability of a National Depart
ment of Health," In which he said:
"There are four great wastes today, the
more lamentable because they are un
necessary. They are preventable death,
preventable sickness, preventable condi
tions of low physical and mental efficiency
and preventable Ignorance.
"The facts are cold and bare. One mil
lion five hundred thousand persons must
die in the United States during the next
six months. ; Equivalent to 4.200,000 per
sons will be constantly sick. Over 6.000,000
homes, consisting of 25,000.000 persons, will
be made more or less wretched by mor
tality and morbidity.
"We look with horror on the black
plagues of the Middle Ages. The black
plague was a passing cloud compared
with the white waste visitation. Of the
people living today, over 8,000,000 must
die of tuberculosis, and not a hand is
raised by the Federal Government to
help them.
"Eight millions must dls of pneumonia,
and the entire event Is accepted with as
resigned a mien as the Hindoos show,
who, in the midst of Indescribable filth,
await the day of the cholera. More than
6.000.000 of infants under S years of age
must succumb during the next census
period. Yet It Is probable that these
numbers could be cut In two.
"The National Government expends an
nually t7,000,000 on plant health and ani
mal health through the Department of
Agriculture, but not one cent is ex
pended directly on tha health of Infants,
save through the splendid work of Drs.
Wiley, Atwater, Benedict, etc.
"Thousands have been expended in
stamping out cholera among swine, but
not one cent has been expended for eradi
cating pneumonia among human beings,
"The logic that justifies an annual ap
propriation of $2,000,000 for a liga-savlng
Waists Sacrificed I
service against the accidents of at sea
should Justify protection against acci
dents of disease and death.
"It Is probable that a National Depart
ment of Health could be advantageously
made to consist of the following bureaus:
"Infant hygiene, educaUon and schools,
sanitation, pure food, registration of
phyclslans and surgeons, registration of
drugs, druggists and drug manufacturers;
registration of institutions of public and
private relief, correction, detention 'and
residence; organic diseases, quarantine,
health information, immigration, labor
conditions, research requiring statistics,
research requiring laboratories and equip
ment." Chinese Pigs Too Fat to Squeal.
Liverpool Mail.
A Pekln correspondent says: "It Is no
uncommon eight to see 12 or 13 enormous
fat pigs with tholr legs tied huddled
close together having a ride In a Chinese
cart with some sort of light cargo on
top of them and a man sitting on top
of the cargo. The pigs are silent and
consequently one would think they should
not be objects for the action of the So
ciety for Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals. The"fact Is that the animals are
too fat and lazy to make any noise, until
disturbed at their Journey's end, when
bagpipes are as Italian opera to the
terrific squealing heard."
District of Columbia Facts.
Outlook.
There are about 320,000 people In the
District of Columbia; over 60.000 of
them live outside of the old City of
Washington (which now has no legal
existence, hojng mprgod in the Pis-
Rheumatism
Does not let go of you
when you apply lotions or
liniments. It simply loosens
its hold for a while. Why?
Because to get. rid bf it you
must correct the acid con
dition of the blood on which
it depends. Hood's Sarsa
parilla has cured thousands.
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In shops where work
manship, style and fit
ace chie (acton
if,
nir SHIRTS
are siren first place. They
please the dealer and satisfy tha
Wearer. In white and color-fast fabric
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JEWELERS. Cor. Third and
No inflation of values, no re
ductions in name only at Lip-man-Wolfe's
Values are ex
actly as stated; merchandise
exactly what we say it is.
93c
Tuesday Sale New Fall
Millinery for $4.95
Portland's first all 1906 sale of new, ex
clusive Millinery, including the popular
greens and browns, that will be the reign
ing fashion.
1 . .
Ihere is a
wide variety
of large and
small shapes
in the irresist
ible new con
ceits. There's
individuality
and exclusive
ness in the
trimmings
jome of velvet
and coque
feathers, ,
which are very
popular this
year, and oth
ers of ostrich
tips and wings
They come in
the new shades
garnet, Alice
and old rose.
vi7 1
O' Ml $
of green and brown; also
blue, white, gray, tan, ynavy
Really exquisite creations, copied CJ, Q
from new Parisian designs, for.. P twU
trict of Columbia), In a large number
of small towns and villages scattered
over the hills and valleys of the terri
tory. About one-third of the popula
tion is colored the largest number of
colored people gathered in any place
In the world; about one-fourth of the
population Is very poor poorer than
most poor people elsewhere In tha
United States; there Is much abject,
poverty.
Uruguay a Good Customer.
Exchange.
Uruguay reduced her national debt by
Jl.570,450 during 1905. The total debt on
January 1, 1906, was J121.455.747, of which
about SO per cent was external. Uruguay
Is a prosperous country and in her pros
perity Is a good customer of the United
9tates. Exports of merchandise from this
country to Uruguay for tha nine months
ending March 31, 1906, amounted to J2,172,
276, against $1,200,542 In the same period of
the previous year.
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