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Call-Chronicle Agency. . Norfolk. Ya. .American News Co. Pine Beach. Vs. W. A. Cosgrove. r : PORTLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST i. 1907. THE DELUSION OF PROSPERITY. "Who has seen anything of all this in jury which the President's policies are said to hve wrought upon the busi ness and industry of the country? Is there a trace of it visible in Oregon? If calamity has befallen the Nation be cause of railroad regulation and the prosecution of the Standard Oil pirates. Oregon ought to feel It in common with the other states. Is business at a standstill here? Is anybody out of work? Are the mills idle? Has build ing ceased? Are wages down? Are prices falling? Have crops failed? If our present condition is calamity, it is marvelously disguised in the habila ments of prosperity. A workman who receives higher wages than he ever got before Is hard to Inoculate with the calamity mania. Lumbermen whose orders at top prices exceed the capacity of their mills are apt to Euffer from a delusion of pros perity. When the wheat, fruit and po tato crops surpass all precedents, when dairy products exceed anything ever seen hitherto and prices have reached war-time limits, farmers can scarcely escape the heretical belief that they are pretty well off. The railroads are swamped with freight, the local banks overflow with - money, small savings accumulate in every household, enter prise continually develops into new fields. If this be calamity, let us pray heaven that it may continue. The commercial and industrial ruin that broods with raven wings over Ore gon is brooding over the rest of the country Just as dolorously. Everybody Is busy, everybody is .making money, everybody is saving more than he ever did before, and seeking Investments for a spanking surplus. Still we must not rejoice. We must cast dust anJ ashes on our heads and clothe ourselves in the habilaments of woe; for the men appointed by Providence to set the fashions for 'us, our first families, our light-fingered plutocrats, are howling calamity and we must howl with them. "What makes the case difficult for the mere honest citizen, the man who has not mastered the fine art of sanctimo nious theft. Is that the millionaire grabber has excellent, reason to howl while he has none whatever. Quite the contrary. 'He has every reason to re , Jolce, in fact. His own prosperity makes it an extremely arduous task for him to sympathize properly with the stock gamblers whose inflated bal loons have burst, and with the trust pirates who have fallen on evil days In the courts. Their shrieks of woe and rage ought to move him to tears. He finds it difficult not to smile at them. In his sinful and irreverent heart he is prone to feel that the howls of con victed malefactors make sweet music. There is some reason to believe that these conviqted malefactors, with their nangers-on and parasites, are about to form a new political party with a novel bet of principles and an inspiring battle cry. Briefly stated, their principles are, first, that every trust magnate has an Inherent and unalienable right to steal whatever he can lay his hands on; second, that the God-given right of the syndicated pirate to plunder the plain citizen is the only secure basis of pros perlty; and third, that to fine or Im prison a "prominent and wealthy citi zen" for breaking the law is a social crime. Nay, worse still, it is flippant. These are the political principles 'of the projected new party. Are they not beautiful to look upon? The battle cry or slogan. Is not quite so original. In fact, it Is modeled upon a suggestion from Mr. Bryan. Ten years ago that great statesman Jieartened the courage of his serried hosts by inscribing "The free coinage of silver" on his glorious banner. The confederated plutocrats, -as they march to the defense of Stand ard Oil. and the destruction of Mr. Roosevelt and Judge Landls, will un furl to the proud breeze the same leg- end with the change of but a single word. Instead of "the free-coinage of silver." they will emblazpn on their standard "the free coinage of crime." "Who would not blithely march to a bloody death in a cause so noble? THE ANTI-CANTEEN BLUNDER. "The greatest mistake ever made in the Army . management was abolish ment of the Army canteen," is the com ment of a prominent officer stationed at Vancouver. Another officer, in criticising the "W. C. T. U. for its efforts In abolishing the canteen, ex presses the opinion that "They never did or could have made a move where in they so absolutely played into the hands of the aloon-keepers." These opinions are the result of of ficial observation of the effects of the anti-canteen law, and they are state ments easily proved by even casual ob servation of conditions in any city near which an Army post is located. As is stated by the officials in interviews printed in yesterday's Oregonian, the question as to whether the men are better off with or without liquor does not enter into the canteen controversy. The issue is whether the men shall se cure pure liquors in moderate quanti ties. under surveillance of the Govern ment, or whether they 4shall go outside the barracks to be drugged with vile poisons and robbed of their hard earned money. The saloon-keepers fa vor the latter plan, and, strange as it may seem, they have the assistance of the "W. C. T. U. BANKS AND THE LAW. There has long been felt In Oregon the need of a sound state banking law. Other states have had such laws for many years. But Oregon was the last, or among the last, tp acknowledge that the public had any right to know what became of its savings after they passed the wickets of a private bank. The associated private banks of Ore gon, headed by the Portland banking trust, for years prevented the enact ment of a good law, or any law, on the subject. If there had been a thorough banking law and searching official examination, such as the public de manded, and was entitled to, there would have been no failure of the Ore gon Trust & Savings Company. It is plain where a large share of the re sponsibility for this unnecessary fail ure must be placed. But we haven't a state banking law even now, through the activity in the last Legislature of the banking interest and the allied corporation and fran chise interests, which ran things at Salem. A law was passed, because the bankers were fearful of the conse quences if something were not djne. But they managed to insert this provi sion In section 34 (page 273, General Laws of Oregon, 1907): Within 18 months after the taking effect of thU act, all such banks shall conform to and In all respects comply with all the pro visions or this act and be subject to exam ination by the examiner, and the penalties herein provided. But eighteen months is not all. The act was filed in the office of the Secre tary of State "February 25, 1307. The Governor wouldn't approve It, evident ly because he didn't think well of thi whole business. All legislative acts, unless otherwise provided by an emer gency clause, shall take effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns. The last legislative session ended February 23, 1907. Ninety days thereafter was May 24, 1907. Eighteen months there after will be November 24, 1908. Meanwhile we have a State Bank Examiner who has devised a seal, in accordance with section 6 of the act, and is drawing his salary in accord ance with section 5. After November 24. 1908, he may be able to proceed .llii- gently in compliance with the 42 other sections to carry out the provisions of the law. But suppose he had been able to busy himself with the affairs of the Oregon Trust & Savings Company even so late as last May. THE NEW LUMBER RATE. It is perhaps unfortunate for the lumbermen who are making a fight against the proposed increase In lum ber rates that Mr. McCormick was se lected as Ambassador to plead their cause with Mr. Hill. "While it is true that Mr. McCormick's employers, the great "Weyerhaeuser lumber and logging trust, have for years been quite close to Mr. Hill in business relations, there are other eonditions in connection with the demand for the old rates that nulli fy any possible advantage which might accrue from the existence of such rela tions between the railroad king and the timber king. As The Oregonian has frequently stated, the amount of profit which the lumbermen and timber deal ers are making out of the business should not be the least consideration in determination of what is a fair and reasonable rate for hauling the product to market. Such a basis for fixinir rates would be a return to the repre hensible Huntington plan of "all that the traffic would bear." But the Wey erhaeuser people, the largest holders of timber In the world, occupy a some what vulnerable position In the present fight for maintenance of the old rates. . It Is true that they are engaged in tne manufacture of lumber, but their interests as loggers and timber owners are far greater than their interests as lumber manufacturers. Mr. McComick was selling logs and stumpage a few years ago at $4 to $5 per thousand. As most of the land from which he was se curing logs was bought at $6 per acre, or a few cents per thousand stumpage basis, the Weyerhaeuser profits at that time were anything but small. As the demand ' for lumber improved, prices advanced' and logs and stumpage kept pace with the advance, until $9 and $19 per thousand was being paid. The Weyerhaeuser syndicate and other manufacturers of lumber who owned their stumpage and paid no tribute to the loggers, secured the benefit In full of this 100 per cent advance in prices. The lumber manufacturer who was forced to buy his logs may have re ceived some of the advance, but his Increased profits through the big de mand for lumber were inconsequential in comparison .with those of the men who owned the timber and made prof Its all the way from the forest to the car. It is presuming too much to think that Mr. Hill was unable to meet the McCormick argument that the pro posed Increase In rates would ruin the business. He would simply remind the representative of the timber trust that, by lopping off one-half of the 100 per cent advance which had been made in the price ot logs, the proposed advance in rates could easily be taken care of. This of course would not dis pose of the question as to the reason ableness of the rate, but it would effec tually block the argument that all of the blame for the anticipated ruination of the lumber manufacturing business should be charged up against the rail roads. For this reason, the case could have been presented In a much strong er manner by some actual manufac turer of lumber who was forced to buy his logs In the open market. The advance In rates will force a re adjustment of log and stumpage prices, and, while that readjustment is in prog ress, the sawmill men who are not holders of stumpage will experience much trouble. The men who will suf fer most by the change will not be those of tho Weyerhaeuser type, but the smaller manufacturers, and it would have been much better for the case to have been presented by one of those men than by one whose argument was negatived by his own experience dur ing the 100 per cent advance in log and stumpage rates. , The Interstate Com merce Commission has established a good record for fairness. It can be depended on to grant the Pacific Coast lumber industry a fair and reasonable rate to market. It it doubtful, how ever, if It will be any more impressed than was Mr. Hill by predictions of ruin to the industry from the represen tative of a trust, which has been pock eting a 100 per cent advance on logs and stumpage. BIGHT VS. EXPEDIENCY. ' Expulsion by force from a Portland saloon one of the lowest of a low class of a young girl who called there re cently, as was her custom, to solicit money from Its patrons for the msrey end "rescue work of the Volunteers of America, has caused much comment. The saloon-keeper who accompanied his order to the girl to leave his prem ises by force, was arrested for simple assault, haled before Judge Cameron of the Police Court, given a hearing in which he admitted the charge, but Jus tified his action to the satisfaction of the Judge by the plea that he ejected the girl from his saloon to protect her from the insults of men in The place fthe patrons of his business. He w-as upon this showing discharged fr-jm custody without penalty. There Is more than one way of 'ook ing at this matter. That of the sa le n-keeper is outlined above, thojgh there is reason to Relieve that this was not the true reason why he objected to. the coming of this girl to his place, asking contributions to carry on tho work of the organization which she represented. It is easy to conceive that It Is annoying for a person to come Into a disreputable, even if duly licensed, place of business, and work against that business, first by open and conscientious disapproval of its purpose and methods, and again by turning aside Into the coffers of char ity money for the relief of the misery which the business is largely Instru mental in creating. It must te said, however, in this connection, mat as a matter of pru dence, w.mien, and especially young girls, should not go into or about places where evil-minded men congregate to drink and entertain themselves and each other with ribald song and story. There is a theory that any woman in this great and glorious country can ga anywnere upon any legitimate quest without danger of insult, providing she carries herself with womanly dignity and modesty. This is fine in theory, but it falls far short of the facts t x perlence and observation. In point of fact there are places where women, and especially young girls, should not go upon any mission short of a dire emergency. Little good can result from effort that brings young wo-nen in direct contact with vice and human degradation, though the purpose be high and courage be brought to the work. Notwithstanding the theory to which reference is above made, there is always the menace of vulgarity and insult about places where degraded men congregate. Briefly, a woman has a perfect ritrht to go where business. Inclination or purpose calls her in this country, pro viding that in so doing she Is not in fringing upon the rights of others; but as a matter of expediency and of pru dence there are places where woman should ot go. Since, however, tber are women, zealous, earnest and trus, who conceive it to be their dutv, in the interest of humanity, to face vice In its pulieus and track - It tn -it. they should be accorded such rjfcotec tion by the officers of the law as every Amerlcan citizen has a right to expect and upon occasion to demand. GOVERNMENTAL INCONSISTENCY. The absurdity of some of our navi gation laws is again brought to light by the breaking of one'of them by no less important an individual than the Secretary of the Department of Com merce and Labor. Mr. Straus was at Honolulu ready to depart for this country when the British steamer Asia, owned and operated by Americans, came along. Under the law which Secretary Straus" own department is supposed to enforce rigidly, the Asia was liable to a fine if she accepted him as a passenger. The master of the Asia, with a full knowledge of the sit uation, demanded a cash deposit of $1000, and it was paid. Of course, Mr. Straus will not lose anything by xhe operation if the Collector at San Fran cisco fines the steamer the amount col lected from Mr. Straus, the Secretary, The heads of the Government depart ments are allowed an expense account, and the Item will probably find its way to the United States Treasury under that head. There "would be no pun ishment attached to a line under such conditions, but it might serve to keep up appearances and enable the Govern ment to "save its face." If these ridiculous violations of the law by the Government Itself were less frequent the Imperfections of the in adaptation of the law would not be so noticeable. It seems entirely reason able that a law that the Government finds It necessary to break is not a very good law for the people to be obliged to obey. The Infraction for which the Government will fine the Government $1000 In the Straus case could happen only in the United States, iw tjvBiy uiner nation ir they ever had such ridiculous laws, long ago discarded them. But there are a num ber of other similar rules and regu lations which the Government, while insisting on their observance by the public, is continually breaking when it seems advisable for It to do so. Pend ing enforcement of that Iniquitous law which will prevent any but American ships to trade between the Philippines and the United States, the Government passed a law providing for shipment to the Philippines of Government stores in American bottoms exclusively. , As American ships were scarce on the Atlantic seaboard, no attention was paid to the law, and the quartermas ter's department continued to ship in anv vessels that were available at low- J est rates and on the best terms. Of course the Government saved money by the operation, but it broke the law. There was also a law which forbade the purchase of Panama canal supplies in foreign countries, but, when the administration needed steamers and learned that the supply in America was inadequate, and the prices demanded were about double those at which they could be secured elsewhere, the orders went abroad. A few weeks ago, it became neces sary to ship a large -quantity of coal from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast navy-yards. This route was clearly within the protected coastwise zone, but the Government paid no at tention to the law that prohibits em ployment of any but an American ves sel on the coastwise route, and char tered a fleet of British vessels to per form the work. Continued violation of these laws by the Government Is ample evidence that they are obstruc tive and unwarranted, but If there Is any such thing as consistency it might be well for the Government to prac tice it a little. The laws which are being violated are of course obnoxious and obstructive, but they should be re pealed, not broken. The men who go down to the sea in ships meet with strange . experiences and face death In Its most awful forms, but rare indeed are the occasions when the grim reaper presents a more threatening or terrible aspect than was' reported by the steamer Eureka, which arrived at Seattle Saturday. A deck load of nitric acid broke loose, setting fire to the ship while she was wallow ing in heavy seas. Beneath the burn ing decks were 250 tons o powder and 200 tons of gasoline, and, as the vessel lurched around in a fifty-mile gale with an explosion momentarily expect ed, the men worked like demons" to jet tison the fiery deck-cargo and extin guish the flames. It is not to be won dered that when the danger was over "they dropped in their tracks ex hausted and unstrung, sobbing for the breath of life which had so nearly been taken from them." The scene must have presented wonderful opportuni ties for a Kipling, but unfortunately few Kipllngs ever go to sea on an ex plosive carrier. Four lots in a prominent part of Al bina were sold a short time ago for approximately $16,000. No mention of the transaction appeared in the news papers, but the deeds were placed on record Saturday, and the total amount shown on the records as consideration for the lots was $2. There was no trade or bond for deed involved, and no "love and affection" consideration. It was simply the transfer of the four lota for $16,000 in cash, but the world will never know by reference to the records that the lots sold for more than $2. This Portland characteristic of holding real estate transfers and build ing permits down to the lowest notch is responsible for the surprise that is always expressed when a stranger en ters the city and tells us that "It Is wonderful to find such activity In real estate and building operations In Port land." 'Announcement of the death of Judge Alfred F. Sears, Jr., of the State Cir cuit Court, at his home in this city yesterday morning came as a sudden and painful shock to this community. It was an event wholly unlooked for at this time, for since his illness of two years ago he had been apparently In his usual health. Judge Sears has served faithfully and conscientiously the inter ests of this county upon the bench for a number of years. He leaves behind him the record of an intelligent and upright judge and a worthy and use ful citizen. His wife, three sons and one daughter, his aged father and mother and numerous friends mourn his sudden passing in the prime of his usefulness. Salem, newspapers are worrying be cause a dispute has ar.sen between the city and some bridge contractors, and as a result thers may be difficulty in transporting visitors ti the Stita Fair Grounds. Since street paving at the Capital Is soon to "re'gln it might be well to pro 'ura stipulations which will Insure passage between the State House and the hotels while the Legis lature is In session in 1909. Tacoma is struggling with the prob lem of keeping smokers off the rear platform. Here in Portland many youngTind old women endeavor to keep them out of the front end. Some day trolley-cars will have a hurricane deck for users of the weed. Then the fair sex will take possession and mere man will -enjoy his pipe below. "Apple Xing" White is not the first man who has to'd Orcgonlans that thoy are slow. But Mr. White has had only a brief icquaintance. - The race Is not always to the swirt Beavers were never noted for speed tout their reputa tion Is a viry creditable one nevatthe less. It Is difficult to unJo .-stand how some of the depositjrs of the defunrt bank could take telephone stock In settle ment of their ciaim.. The stock is part of the assets of the bank and the depositors must ehare pro rata In th9 assets. Wben a member of the-country press goes back on the time-honored "wood taken on subscription," Nemesis camps on his trail. The Jefferson Revjew wails: "Just our luck. We got a check Tuesday on the Oregon Trust & Sav ings Bank, and the next day it busted." Bryan complains that Taft has no well-defined policy. Possibly the Ohio statesman has learned from the Ne braska oracle that It is embarrassing to announce policies so well-defined that every one of them must be aban doned before the season closes. No small number of our fellow-citizens are entitled to sympathy over re peated exasperating incidents of the telegraphers' strike. They are robbed of the vital details contained in that which succeeds: "Following is the score." ' When a crowd of bookmakers with out question pay out a king's ransom on a false report of a horse race, we get some Idea of the universal confi dence reposed In that Impersonal thing called the telegraph. Within five months the big fleet of battleships will split the waters of the Pacific. Let Dan McAllen get busy at once on a celebration that will demand their presence In Portland. . Among the feathers Roosevelt Is charged with stealing, Bryan does not mention free silver, railroad ownership and Populism. WHAT STATE PAPERS ARE SAYING They Know a Good Thing, s Forest Grove News. t The most convincing evidence that Washington County is the best in the state is the fact that settlers are com ing here from the highly lauded commu nity of Hood River, and buying .rms. No less than three such transactions can be found in other parts of this paper this week, which tells its own tale. How Kelso Gets on the Map. " Kelsonlan. The fans are talking about the notori ety this place has received because of the fact that some of our citizens shook $1000 at McCredie as a challenge that the Port land team could not jeat the Tigers. Now, the bet may or may not have been a good one; but McCredie saw fit to pass It up and he is being roundly roasted by the Coast papers for so doing. No Justification for Flosrarlnc. Pendleton Tribune. Governor Chamberlain's excuse for flogging the- escaped hunchback, Al brecht, is especially weak. It was no legitimate excuse at all. The fellow had escaped without the officers knowing anything about it. He had not only hurt nobody, but had not attempted to. It was a case of lack of discipline on the part of the officers, and while at times this cannot be avoided, the fact remains that it furnishes no Justification at all for flogging of any kind. Punishment by reason of withholding merit marks for such breach of trust, if a trusty. Is a proper punishment; but when a prisoner succeeds in outwitting the officers and peaceably escapes, to flog him for it when recaptured is a mere brutal exhibi tion of force. , What "Loyalty" May Do. Toledo Leader. It is semi-of ftclally or less an nounced that Governor Chamberlain will be the Democratic candidate for United States Senator, while Mayor Lane, of Portland, will make the chase for the Governorship on the same tick et. The loyalty of - the Multnomah County Republicans practically insure their election. Fling; at Portland Banka. Dayton Optimist. Portland banks and trust companies have no money-to loan in neighboring cities because they "make It a rule to loan on Portland real .estate." The credulous sucker In the country will send his money to Portland for deposit rather than put it In the home bank, where It will be used to develop local projects. We rejoice in the prosperity of Portland, but the business men there are losing sight of the fact that with out a substantial development of the surrounding territory, Portland would be a very weak sister. Small Boys and Billy Goata. Newberg Graphic. You may envy the occupants of the automobiles as they go whirling by, but in a test 'for pure and Innocent pleasure the kind that the mind will revert to in . after years with glad some remembrance we will bank every time on the small boy who drives along the street with a billy goat hitched to a rickety, little old wagon. Other People's Money. Hillsboro Argus. The State of Oregon cannot throw too many safeguards around the bank ing system, and The Oregonian is to be commended for Its intelligent effort, prior to the last meeting of the Legis lature, for a statute covering safety to depositors. Ill-timed speculation has ruined many small holders of money when they had their nest-egg placed in some bank, ostensibly sound, and yet rotten, through gross misman agement, that may, after all Is said, have had nothing to do with criminal intent. But It is well, however, to have a law that will not only close a bank when over the safety line, but that will carry punishment for reckless Invest ments, when other people's money is the motive power. Parts His Hair Wrong. Echo Register. "Our George" may do well enough as a running mate for Bryan, but he won't do for a mate for Bourne in the Senate. We have nothing in the world against "our George," for he has made a good Governor, as Democratic Gov ernors go, but no man who parts his hair with a Democratic comb can make a Senator for Oregon. Our people are not built that way. Bagging a Good Methodist.' Albany Demociat. J. W. Baker, of Cottage Grove, came down in a, rig from Harrisburg yester day afternoon. He didn't have to come that way, but being State Game War den, thought he would see for himself what's doing down this Chinese pheas ant belt. He heard only five shots, which he investigated, and found were some boys shooting digger squirrels. His experience is that men who violate the game law are Just those who should be above It. One of the culprits he captured once wae a Methodist, the most religious man in the neighbor hood. A Mother In Israel. Hillsboro Argus. Grandma Elizabeth Perry, of Houl ton, now In her 80th year, and who is as spry as the ordinary woman of 60, was out the first of the week, the guest of J. H. Dorland and family, of Shady Brook. Mrs. Perry's husband was one of the pioneer physicians cf the Coast, having arrived with Mrs. Perry In 1845. The old lady has prob ably nursed more sick people in Oregon than any. other woman in the state and she says she can yet take care of a person if they are not "too poorly. Governor Glenn's Btislnesa at Home. Baltimore News. Governor Glenn, of North Carolina, will not attend the dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic Club August 26, on account of pressing business at home. Bears Dine at Grocery Stores. Detroit (Mich.) Dispatch. Bears, driven from the forest by fire, Invaded Standish, Mich., and terrorized the populace. They dined at grocery stores. At Wilson's Mill. Dayton Optimist. The Are whistle blew a few minutes before 1 o'clock Tuesday and in a few minutes the whole department was car rying water. The Are was soon extin guished. Our Are department la well equipped now, having added two oil cans for the fighters of Are. Summer Letters, New York Sun. "Dear Husband: Much to my surprise I And expenses mounting-; Your last week'a cbeck is all used up Despite my best accounting-. My health demands I stay away And, therefore, to my sorrow, I'll need a hundred more at one. So please remit tomorrow." (Explanation: Bridge.) "Dear Wife: My loneliness is great, So words cannot express It; I keep your picture on my desk And every hour caress it. The modest sum for which you ask Shall not go unheeded. And so I send two hundred now. In case more may be needed." Explanation: Poker.) SECRETARY TAITS SPEECH. Comment of Newspapera on HIa Re marks at Columbus, New York Tribune (Rep.). The Secretary's speech makes 4 it clear to all who may have entertained doubts about It that he has not changed his views and has no desire to change them. He accepts and de fends the ideas and measures which have given distinctive character to the Roosevelt Administration. Secretary Taffs programme is care fully rounded and well balanced. It will appeal, we think, to the party and the country, because it represents in the main tho political tendencies of the day and reAects the well-grounded wishes of a great majority of the peo ple. New York Sun (Rep.). No mystery longer veils the Secretary's purpose. My policies are Tatt s poli cies, down even to employers' liability, inheritance tax. graduated income tax, general non-socialistic correction of 'swollen fortunes" and other fragments of the familiar phraseology. "My poli cies" are formally reviewed with the ad miration of a connoisseur,' defended with the zealous Ingenuity of a personal coun sel against the aspersions of radicals like Bryan, and commended and adopted, tevorally and cellectlvely, with only such slight differentiation of detail as may have seemed necessary to escape the ap pearance of abject Intellectual servility. Is there in all political history so extra ordinary an Instance of perfect complais ance on the part of the Aaron of a some what difficult Moses. New York World (Dem). To the defense, explanation and lauda tion of the policies of the President. Sec retary Taft devoted practically the whole of his carefully prepared "keynote" speech. Delivered Just as he is starting upon a trip about the world as the "trav eling man" of the Administration. It la in effect the platform for his Presidential candidacy. New York Times (Dem.). The Arst Presidential "policy" with wftich. Mr. Tatt is In disagreement is that of Feaeral licenses to all Inter-state cor porations. The Secretary is tactful. He says the suggestion of the license first came from Mr. GarAeld and Mr. Bryan "adopted it." The country knows very well that Mr. Roosevelt also adopted it, and is still advocating the enactment of a law that will put this extraordinary and dangerous power into the Executive s hands. There Is further disagreement with the President in what Mr. Taft says about the reduction of "swollen for tunes." It. is his belief that the State Legislatures have complete control of what shall be done with a man's property after his death. New York Herald (Ind.). The speech is said to have been read in advance by the President and Secretary Root and brings him before the people as the Inheritor of the RooBevelt mantle and policies. In its treatment of the Im mediate end "live" questions, the speech Is at once vigorous and temperate, and regarded as a restatement of Mr. Roose velt's views or as those of a possible suc cessor should prove reassurring to Busi ness interests. . ' Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.). As Taft is an open candidate for the Presidency, it would be better, perhaps, to consider his remarks as voicing the policiep which he would adopt if elected chief executive of the nation. Philadelphia Record (Dem.). Secretary Taft was evidently trying to go his own gait and at the same time keep step with his chief. He hardly con ceals his consciousness that their views are not identical, and In defending the President's policies he says frankly that he Indicates some details in which he should slightly deviate from the Presi dent's course. So long as he is a member of the Cabinet he could not possibly say more than that, but it is open to those who read his speech to Infer that Mr. Taft would be much less likely than Mr. Roosevelt to increase radically the sphere of Governmental action, and cer tainly the Judicious Secretary of War, unlike the President and the Attorrey General. would never toss off careless remarks that would inevitably alarm business men. Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.). It might fairly be said that the speech was devoted to an exposition of the vital difference between the policies of Presi dent Roosevelt and those of Bryan; and it need hardly be said that Mr. Taft con demned the doctrines of the Nebr&skan as heartily as he upheld and defended those of Mr. Roosevelt. Washington Herald (Ind.). We regret that he has altered his former opinion favorable to an immedi ate revision of the tariff, and now thinks that it would be wise, for reasons which are familiar enough In Republican dis cussion of the tariff, to postpone revision until after the next Presidential election. Mr. Taft is In the Presidential canvass as a tariff-revision candidate. His whole discussion of this subject Is pitched In a moderate key, and there Is nothing in it that can be construed as in the least alarming to the business community. The Benefits of Irrigation. Baker City Herald. One Baker City lady has a new way of keeping callers and peddlers from her home when she is busy. She sets her lawn sprayer on the sidewalk in front of the gate. No one can pass without getting wet, and as result no one enters. COURTING DANGER FOR HIMSELF DENOUNCES THE WHIPPING-POST. . Delaware Officer of Experience Says It Is Wrong. Wilmington (Del.) Special In New York World. "I would hang a man for murder rather than lash one at the whipping-post for stealing a chicken, if I had the choice. In the first instance he would have paid the penalty for his crime, while in the latter case no good whatever would be accom plished. The Delaware whipping-post, In stead of being a corrective agency, makes its victims revengeful and brings out all that is hateful in their nature. It should certainly be abolished, and the day is coming when it will be done away with." Warden Asmond S. Meserve, of the New Castle County Workhouse, at Green bank, near. here, who has resigned his position because of his disapproval of this medieval system of corporal punishment and of his dislike to wield the lash, made the above declaration today while seated in his office at the prison. He was so firm In his denunciation of the century-old form of punishment that he frequently brought his' fist down upon his desk In order to more forcibly emphasize his re marks. He continued: "Since I became warden of this penal institution In 1901. and beginning in No vember of that year. I have whipped 235 white and negro men. The number of lashes ranged from five to 60, a negro who attempted to poison a Wilmington famllv receiving the highest. Of this total 60 men had been whipped before, some of them as many as six times. Does not this prove that the whole system falls far short of being corrective? Of the con victs whom I have lashed 60 per cent were negroes." Warden Meserve, who Is a criminolo gist of note, said that nothing was more repugnanf to him than to be compelled to whip a man on the bare back with a cat-o'-nine-tails. "If it did any good." he said, "I would not care so much, but the effect is harmful rather than bene ficial." As the warden is a Vermont man and knew nothing of the whlpplng-post from a practical standpoint before coming to Delaware, he was asked what. his feel ings were when he applied the "first lash to a prisoner. "I was so overcome," he declared, "that I could hardly stand up. I cannot de scribe my feelings; words are not suf ficiently descriptive. I had a sense of abhorrence, not to say pity. Mr first ex perience, in November. 1901. was to lash eight men. When It was all over I was so weak that I could scarcely walk. I was no good, . physically, during the re mainder of the day. The affair so un nerved me that I spent a sleepless night." "When prisoners whom you were whip ping have appealed to you for mercy, what were your feelings?" the warden was asked. "My feelings have been awful and be yond description. In' such cases I simpiv shut my eyes and wielded the lash. I had to perform my duty. To my mind, as a result of my experience, the whlpplng-post should.be abolished above ev erything else." Mr. Meserve said he could not under stand why Delawareans. as a rule, up held the whlpplng-post. "One of the most lovable men in this state is Chief Jus tice Charles B. Lore," said he. "He is the embodiment of all that is gentle and affectionate. Yet he declares that the whlpplng-post Is a- crime deterrent. The Chief Justice sentences all prisoners, or virtually all of them, who are to be whipped. His reasons for upholding the system of lashing is that we are mid way between Baltimore and Washington on the south and Philadelphia and New York on the north, and but for the ex istence of the whlpplng-post we would be a stopplng-on place for bank burglars and other classes of criminals. "I do not agree with the Chief Jus tice, despite the fact that Delaware has not had a bank burglary since 1873, when 'Jimmy' Hope and 'Big' Frank and other cracksmen of note attempted to rob the National Bank of Delaware tn Wil mington. They did not succeed and all were whipped at the old Jail in New Castle." Olallie-s, Chickamun, Muckamuck. The Dalles Chronicle. Indian women with "olallles" are num erous about the streets today and as the huckleberry Is a favorite fruit their pa trons were plentiful. The Indians are not behind the times, and, like every thing else, their produce Is higher than in any previous year, seventy-five cents a gallon being the price asked by the Slwashes, although berries are a large crop. "Too much chickamun," said one purchaser this morning, to which the squaw promptly responded that she paid more in the stores for muckamuck. Two Heads Where One Belongs. The Brownsville Times. A man with two heads on his shoul ders was exhibited on one of the ave nues of Brownsville the other night. Both heads were fully developed and were rather handsome In features. The man is not an ordinary museum freak, as might, be supposed, but Is a young man who lives In this city and moves In po lite society. The other head on his shoul der was that of his sweetheart and pos sibly would not have been seen In that deformed position had It not been for the blowing of the window curtain to one side for an Instant. Tide Casta ITp Fnnndllna; Baby. ' Boston Dispatch. E. B. Bates of Bass Point. Nahantj found a live 3-month-old baby wedged between rocks on the beach. It is be lieved that the little one vaa thrown ofl a vessel and was carried ashore by a change of tide. From the Chicago Journal. .1