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THE MOBXIKG UKflGOXIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1907.
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'PORTLAND, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1907.
MONOPOLY MORALS.
The Standard Oil Company and Its
parasitic apologists liave maintained
the pose of persecuted Innocence won
derfully well for a surprisingly long
time. In the- entire history of the
world there are few cases of- hardy,
purposive, profitable hypocrisy so
consistent and, upon the whole, so
successful as theirs. Years ago, when
the first victims of the ruthless Rocke
feller methods began to bring their
wrongs before the public, we were cau
tioned not to believe them. It was
incredible, we were assured, that a
man like Roi kefeller, a fond husband,
a loving father, a pillar in the church,
a fountain of charity, .should disre
gard the law, override the rights of
other men, intrigue, plot, rob and
ruin. There must be some mistake.
It was our duty to suspend judgment,
we were told, until the facts were
proved by documents.
Very well; the country suspended
Judgment and waited. Then Henry D.
Lloyd, Miss Ida Tarbell and others
began to delve among the documents.
They took copies of rebate contracts,
read orders to Epies, waded through
court records, tracing step by step the
monstrous progress of the Octopus
through iniquity beyond belief to
wealth and power beyond precedent.
The results of their work t-e Investi
gators published. The country read
and marveled. Could such things ac
tually have been done In a Christian
land, by respectable and pious men,?
"No," replied Standard Oil through Its
lawyers and hangers-on, "it is all a
mistake. All these accusations orig
inate in the envy of our rivals. Be
lieve nQthing against us until it is
proved in court. We are slandered
angels. Behold the whiteness of our
robes."
Many of Lloyd's and Tarbell's accu
sations had already been proved in
court, but still the Octopus continued
its pose of persecuted innocence with
fair success. A corps of able attor
neys and a flock of learned and rev
erend retainers were kept busy manu
facturing perjury in defense of Stand
ard Oil. The trust was attacked bold
ly in Texas, more timidly in Kansas,
by a daring State's Attorney in Mis
souri; but apparently It suffered little.
Driven out of - Texas, it sneaked back
under an alias like a pickpocket to a
county fair. When the magnates con
descended to show themselves in court
th-y cowed the prosecuting officers
and bullied the judges. They sneer
ingly refused to answer questions.
They defied legal summons. They
were greater than the Nation. The
law had become their creature and its
machinery worked as they willed.
It is Interesting to speculate what
the destiny of the Standard Oil Com
pany would have been had not Mr.
Roosevelt become President. With
some l an in the White House who
was complaisant under its thumb
what might not the trust have done?
As the current Investigation in New
York shows, it pervaded the country
under scores or names, everywhere
scheming, plotting, bribing, undermin
ing the social structure. It was like a
vast cancer eating away tho Nation's
vitals. It assuredly controlled the
Federal Senate. Probably it controlled
the House of Representatives. Many
of the lower courts were awed into
meek submission. Its grasp was upon
the railroads, the minerals, the tim
ber, the ships of the country. State
Legislatures were mere puppets for it
to manipulate. One puts aside with
extreme difficulty the belief that, if
the Standard Oil Company, with its
allied forces, had gone forward un
checked a few years longer, it would
have transformed the Government
into a close oligarchy and made its
power perpetual and absolute. Mr.
Roosevelt hinted at the same opinion
in his Trovincetown speech.
In the current investigation the
Standard Oil officials, chastened by re
cent reverses, have abated something
of their old arrogance; but their policy
of unblushing, systematic perjury has
not altered in the least. None of
them know anything whatever about
the affairs of their company. Its books
are sealed to them; Its records they
have never read; they are Ignorant of
its transactions. When we come, if
we ever do, to sum up the compara
tive good and evil of the trust system,
we must not forget its putrefying in
fluence upon morals. As our monop
olies develop, the old-fashioned vir
tues and kindliness of life fall more
and more into disrepute. In the trust
code there is no such thinj as business
honor; fairness to a- competitor is dis
reputable; manly fighting has given
way to stabs in the back. How long
will it be before our trust magnates
begin to employ poison and hired as
sassins to accomplish their ends? The
step to this is very short from some of
their practices. Truth-telling long ago
became contemptible among them.
They must hold an t-nnual competition
in mendacity with million - dollar
prizes to the biggest liar. Nothing else
could have vcloped their capacity
for prevarication to the pitch it has
reached. But of course their sin brings
its own punishment.' "The truth itself
is not believed from one who often
hath deceived." Whether this proverb
is altogether true of the trust mag
nates or not we are not likely to know,
for they will never give us a chance
to test it. - ,
HOW , THE ROGERS METHOD WORKS.
A current news paragraph tells a
typical- story about Mr. H. H. Rogers.
Mr. Rogers, it seems, was engaged in
the gentle pastime of taking a walk
with a friend. They' came across a
fine-looking factory. "There," said
Mr. Rogers' friend, "Is an establish
ment that I want. I have tried re
peatedly to buy it, but the owner re
fuses to sell. What would you do in
such a caj-?" "I would build an
other establishment alongside of it,"
replied Mr. Rogers, "and drive him
out of business."
That Is the historic Rogers method.
When anybody got in Rogers' way,
Rogers started in to kill him off. If
lt was a competing oil company,
Rogers undersold him until he starved
his rival out. If it was a factory, he
built another factory just like it in the
same field and took away his competi
tor's customers. If it was a railroad,
and it wouldn't sell to Rogers on his
terms, he made the railroad sick by
buildirig another railroad.
Rogers' method worked successfully
for a long time, and made him an
enormously rich man. But he has
just met with a, slight reverse that
has cost him something like $40,000,
000, a neat sum even in these pros
perous times. Mr. Rogers conceived
the great idea of building a railroad
432-jniles long parallel with the Nor
folk &" Western. It may be assumed
that he first tried to buy the Norfolk
& Western at a figure tl.at would have
left its owners no profit, and he failed.
Then he started in to make the Nor
folk & Western sick. The Norfolk &
Western seems yet to be in an entirely
healthy condition, but Mr. Rogers is
just now slowly recovering from a
paralytic stroke brought about . by
worry and grief over his vast losses.
Mr. Rogers, for the first time in his
predatory career now knows how the
victims of the Rogers method feel.
wire IS ITT
The Oregonlan does not aspire to be
numbered among the admirers of Car
rie Nation. This, doubtless estimable,
female exhibits asperities of temper
and singularities of conduct which
make fondness for her a difficult vir- 1
tue and which blight in their tender
bud' the fragrant blooms of admira
tion. Among her purpose probably
the main one is to advertise herself.
and if she does not love a fight for its
own sake we are very much mistaken.
Very likely she has counted the cost
of her public performances and thinks
it is not too much to pay for the fun
she gets out of them. Police courts,
rotten eggs and Jails are the spice of
life to Carrie, we suppose. Existence
would seem stale, fiat and unprofitable
to her without them.
Still, she is a human being and en
titled to the same elementary rights
as the rest of us. It is also to be said
that the things she opposes, such as
booze, cigarettes and gambling, are
not esteemed very highly by decent
people anywhere. ' Her methods of
attack are spectacular, even unseem
ly; but it is' only her methods which
need correction. Her purpose, apart
from its alloy of vanity, is good.
Why, then, are the police so hard
upon this woman? Why is she pun
ished more severely for a merely for
mal, constructive offense, than many
of the vilest miscreants are for un
speakable crimes? Carrie Nation is
to spend seventy-five days in jail in
Washington City for making an anti
cigarette speech on the street. We
imagine that the same court which
sentenced her so heavily habitually
lets off thugs, hoodlums and panders
to vice with ten or twenty days.
Is there a fellow feeling between
our police machinery and the active
ministers of vice? Does Carrie Na
tion outrage this sympathy by her
boldly outspoken diatribes, and is it in
the spirit of revenge that the petty
magistrates punish her more severely
than they would any one else for an
offense ten times as heinous?
SENILE DEMENTIA.
Supporting what is known as the
"Osier doctrine," though without spe
cial reference to it, is the annual re
port of the Lunacy Commission of
Great Britain, which shows first a dis
quieting increase in the population of
the insane of that kingdom, and fur
ther that 38 per cent of last year's
fresh cases of lunacy was due to senile
dementia. Discussing this phase of
the situation, one medical authority
expressed the belief that "we live too
long for the kind of work we do."
It is held that the advanced medical
and sanitary knowledge of today keeps
'a multitude of people alive whose
minds are practically worn out. The
present age demands more brain work
and nerve strain than were demanded
only a few years ago. There is less
and less demand for people who can
use only their hands. It is thus that
the physical wear and tear have de
creased while brain work and the
strain on the nervous system have
Increased. As a result, the mind dies
first and the body zs Kept alive by
medical science, thus adding to the
list of senile dementia cases in insane
asylums.
This statement or diagnosis is sub
mitted without sir; estion of a rem
edy. It is plain that there can be but
one remedy,, since medical science is
not likely to return upon its traces,
and that is the one so bluntly sug
gested by Dr. Osier some months ago.
As against senile dementia that
creeping paralysis of the mind, due, as
above held, to the heavy preponder
ance of brain work over physical exer
tion, the quietus suggested by Dr. Os
ier would be vastly preferred by many
if not most people. Of all' conditions
(except only solitary confinement
without work during the effective
years of life), that of senile dementia
covering a period of driveling years
in an insane asylum, is the most
dreadful to contemplate.
RELLEF'IN THE Ml'Tl'ALS.
The success of the six mutual fire
insurance companies operating in this
state offers excellent encouragement
for ultimate release from the grip in
which the fire insurance trust is hold
ing the people of Oregon. The official
figures compiled by Secretary of State
Benson show that during the past
eleven years the insurance trust has
collected in Oregon nearly $9,000,000
more than the amount of losses paid
and the total of premiums returned.
This enormous amount of money has
not only enabled the companies, oper
ating with the trust, to realize large
profits on its Oregon business, ' but it
also enables them to have an excellent
representation at Salem whenever any
legislation affecting their interest ap
pears. -Portland, being the largest
city in the state, has, of course, afford
ed the richest field for exploitation by
the trust.
Year after year we have improved
our facilities for fire protection. New
engines, more hydrants, more firemen,
a new flreboat and other equipment
have been added. A natural suppo
sition might be that, with the contin
ued additions of these facilities for fire
protection,' some recognition or appre
ciation in the way of reduced rates
would be noticeable. It is, of course,
unnecessary to state -that- losses by
fire have been greatly reduced as
newer and better equipment . has
been added to our facilities for fire
fighting. All this, however, has had
no effect in reducing premiums, but
on the contrary, either by a horizontal
advance, such as followed the San
Francisco earthquake, or by advances
on .special classes of risks, the trust
succeeds in extracting proportionately
greater net profits than it realized
when our sole protection against fire
was vested, in an old hand-engine.
For many years prior to the San
Francisco earthquake and its attend
ant conflagration the necessity of ac
cumulating a large emergency fund
was offered as an excuse for the ex
cesslie premiums demanded. But
when the "emergency" arose there was
no apparent disposition to divert the
fat profits of preceding years to meet
it. Instead, Portland and all other
Oregon policy-holders were forced to
pay extra premiums to meet the ab
normal losses. The success of the half
dozen mutual fire insurance compa
nies operating in this state, as shown
in detail by figures printed in yester
day's Oregonian, is so pronounced and
unmistakable that there can be no
doubt that a general 'xtension of the
system to cover all, or most, classes of
risks in the state would result in an
enormous annual saving to t'.ie people
of the state. As matters now stand,
millions-of dollars which the trust is
collecting from Oregon policy-holders
is sent out of the state.
. With a mutual company, policy
holders would be provided with insur
ance at cost. They would have the
satisfaction of knowing that the less
ened risk, due to installation of a new
engine, or a flreboat, would redound
to their profit, and not to that of some
non-resident shareholder in an insur
ance trust.
REVIVAL OF THE WHALING INDUSTRY.
There are indications that the whal
ing industry of New Bedford will soon
be galvanized into life and the "whal
ing widow" become once more numer
ous in that and other New England
fishing harbors. The whaling brig
Sullivan recently returned to that har
bor, whence she sailed two and a
quarter years ago, with 3300 barrels
of oil and a commander, who reported
that he had never before in his long
experience in the whaling business
seen so many whales, either in North
or South Atlantic waters. His record
shows that in five consecutive days the
brig captured enough whales for a
yield of 375 barrels of oil.
Such results are reminders of the
days of long ago in which fortunes
were accumulated in the whaling in
dustry and the hardy and frugal peo--pie
of the Massachusetts coast lived
and throve as seafaring folk content
with their lot in life and accepting
its hardships uncomplainingly. The
men of this era were born to the sea
and the women to the lot of the fish
erman's wife. The difficulty in reviv
ing the whaling business will be in
finding men and women young, vig
orous and willing to take the place
of this vanished company of sturdy,
patient tollers. Certainly from the
standpoint of the landlubber there can
be a no : -ore unattractive vocation
than that which sends the boy to sea
at ten or twelve years, and compels
the man to leave his home and family
two or three years at a time the for
mer to return a man "grown out of
his mother's knowledge" and the lat
ter to find himself a stranger to the
children that he left in the cradle and
trundlebed.
Yet there is a sort of romance con
nected with the business; its history
has r.iany touches of pathos and heart
break, of unrequited toil and bitter
hardship, albeit many a fine fortune
had its beginnings in the malodorous
cargo of a successful three years'
whaling cruise in distant waters. And
perhaps no greater Joy was ever felt
than that of wives and- sweethearts
and parent when, after a long cruise,
the New Bedford whaling fleet was
sighted at the entrance of the harbor.
This feature of the whaling industry
has passed into the shadowy realm of
folk-lore; or, touched by the pen of
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and that of
other chroniclers of New .England
tales, has taken the form of romance
or tragedy. Or oftener still has lapsed
into silence with the passing of its
heroines. It was merely a side issue
in a strenuous, profitable industry, and
its possible repetition is not taken into
account when the prospect ' that the
whaling industry will be revived is
announced. The basis for this proph
ecy is found in the report of the cruise
above noted, and the fact that during
the first week in September two barks
and a schooner bound ror the South
Atlantic, where whales are said to be
disporting in shoals, sailed from New
Bedford. ,
The appeal made by Mr. A. L. Mills,
president : the' Open-Air Sanitarium
Board, for public contributions to
carry on the work should have weight
with humane and philanthropic per
sons of the city and state. The work
that has been and is being done at this
retreat for consumptives is both gen
erous and valuable, and it should not
be allowed to suffer from lack of
funds. Its finances are managed care
fully, and no expense is Incurred hat
is not for the " betterment of the in
stitution and the comfort and care
looking to their recovery of the pa
tients. Not all who seek the balm of
its healing are cured; not all, indeed,
are helped, since in pale desperation
many seek relief in its treatment who
are beyond all earthly aid. But a
large proportion of its patients are dis
tinctly benefited and many are re
turned to their homes and business, to
all appearance, at least, cured, and
with knowledge that will enable them
to keep the destroyer at bay. This is
the record this the work. The in
stitution ir worthy of adequate 'sup
port. Fifteen steamships flying foreign
flags are under charter to the United
States Government to bring coal from
Atlantic Coast ports to the Pacific
Coast, and already eight of them have
been chartered to carry return cargoes
of Oregon grain to Europe. Of course
the Government violated the law by
chartering these foreign steamers for
a coastwise trip, but as money was
saved and the Oregon farmers were
afforded cheap tonnage for carrying
their wheat to market, the transaction
was highly beneficial to all concerned.
Some day returning reason will force
our statesmen to repeal the present
idiotic restrictive navigation laws and
permit a private citizen to charter
tonnage at as low a rate as it is char
tered by the Government in violation
of a very bad law. It is hard on our
reverential ideas of protection and
ship-subsidy graft, eut It Is sound
business doctrine, and eventually we
must adopt it or be left in the race for
trade supremacy.
The wheat market scored another
sensational advance yesterday, not
alone in Chicago, but throughout the
world's markets. The Indifference of
the foreign markets to the decrees of
the American Society of Equity was
shown in an advance of nearly 3 cents
per bushel in the Liverpool and Lon
don markets, while in this country,
where the Society of Equity is making
such strenuous efforts to advance
prices, the total gain was a fraction
less than 2 cents per bushel. Tho sit
uation throughout the world is strong,
and if anything serious should happen
to the coming Argentine crop within
the next sixty days it would be difficult
to predict the top figure to be scored.
Meanwhile the farmers of the Pacific
Northwest are taking no chances on a
decline, but are unloading their hold
ings to better advantage than in a-ny
previous big-crop season on record.
The Seattle Socialists, who are so
fond of exhibiting their ability as jaw
smiths that they are willing to go to
jail rather than cease obstructing the
streets, should take on a side line of
pale pills or some other elixir of life.
Then by the payment or a small fee
they could carry on their street
harangues unmolested. Unfortunately,
the accumulation of money by any
method seems to be so abhorrent to
most of the street-talking Socialists
that they can hardly be expected to
attempt anything that would bring
torth the coin of the realm. Wealth
and prosperity to a certain class of
Socialists would be as distasteful as
they were to the Populists who kept In
"the middle of the road" about ten
years ago.
The rain of the first part of the
week proved a blessing to the State
Fair. The grounds were In a fine con
dition and the cool bracing air made
the outing an ideal one for the thou
sands who attended, while properly
equipped campers, cfter the two first
mornings, were as comfortable as they
would have been in their own homes.
Taken as a whole, the State Fair was
a success, and its managers are well
entitled to the congratulations that
they receive on every hand.
The rumor that one Henry McBride,
of Seattle, had joined the "Down-and-Out
Club" seems to nave been prema
ture, and the figure of the ex-Governor
is looming large on the political
horizon of the Evergreen State. If
McBride yields to the demands of his
friends and abandons his law practice
for another shy at the Governorship,
Washington is certain to witness a
most spectacular political campaign
next year.
A single fir tree cut near Raymond,
Wash., a few days ago, yielded three
logs which scaled nearly 45,000 feet,
the market value of the lumber there
from being $425. At this rate some
of the quarter sections of timber land
which have been selling as high as $50
per acre do not appear to have
brought exorbitant prices.
Cashier Morris has "explained" the
Golden Eagle's overdraft. Now, how
did It get to be $21,000 without the
bank's onsent? Having reached that
sum, why didn't the bank write it off
instead of waiting for it to grow to
$94,000?
The docking of the Lusitanla, after
her record-breaking run across the
Atlantic, was a great occasion in Man
hattan, though it is said that "several
grown-ups and over a dozen small
boys by some oversight missed it.
From London comes authentic news
that fashionable women will return to
the murderous small corset a lament
able waste of health for a small waist.
With a Grays Harbor schoolteacher
breaking his leg at football this week,
the season may be said to have start
ed in early.
: Motto of modern Portland banking:
The less character and property a bor
rower has, the larger his line of credit.
Probably Broadway was as strange
a sight to Ezra Meeker and his ox
team as they were to Broadway.
Be it remembered that for once in
many years the weather favored the
State Fair.
WAS HARRISON A COLD MAXr
Two Anecdotes That Show the Late
Prdeut' Warm Nature.
New York Sun.
Washington still remembers Presi
dent Harrison In connection with at
least two notable' events during his
all too brief administration,. When the
fire occurred In the residence of his
Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Benja
min F. Tracy, Mr. Harrison walked out
of his residence, then the executive
mansion, now the White F je, alone
and Inspired only by a neighbor's pity
and aiteclion. He had no secret serivce
men with him, ' no janissaries, no
marksmen on assorted bicycles. The
scorched and tortured' bodies of Mrs.
Tracy and her daughter were sent to
the White House and the still breath
ing form of the Secretary was borne
on a litter to the same friendly refuge.
Benjamin Harrison walked behind his
friend's unconscious form, holding in
warm grasp an almost pulseless hand,
and passersby at that central point
Farragut Park and at mat crowded
hour of about 8:30 or 9 A. M., saw the
chief executive of the great -t nation
in the world stumbling along at the
side of a forlorn pageant; with tear
stained cheeks and miserable mein.
Again, when his Secretary of the Treas
ury, Mr. Windom, fell dead at a ban
quet in this town, and when President
Harrison heard of It through the White
House machinery of quick communi
cation, he bethought himself this "un
emotional" and "unsympathetic" mon
ster that the suddenly created widow
was one of a merry and hilarious party
at one of the Cabinet residences of the
day. The hour was late, and the cir
cumstances most embarrassing and
difficult, but Benjamin Harrison had
himself driven to the door oi lue house
of gayety, seut in for the bereaved
woman, arid while on the way to her
desolated home told her the dreadful
news as best he could.
Without enthusiasm. unemotional,
unsympathetic! And all this because
he did not wear a pose upon his sleeve
and ask the mob to contemplate it.
THE LONG "A" IN LVSITANIA.
New Ship's Name to Be Pronounced no
as to Rhyme With Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Record.
The first trip of the Lusitanla has
aroused no little discussion as to the
pronunciation of the ship's name,
many well-versed speakers insisting
on giving it the sound of Lusitannla,
to rhyme with Britannia. Americans,
however, should have no difficulty
with this fine old Latin word, as its
"a" is sounded like the "a" In "fate,"
and the name rhymes correctly with
our own Pennsylvania. Campania,
Lucanla and all other words with the
single "n" are similarly pronounced.
Lusitanla was a province of ancient
Spain, then itself styled Hispania.
This province corresponded pretty
nearly to modern Portugal, and Is now
used. Indeed, as a political synonym
of the present Portugal. Lusitanla
has long been famous for Its grapes,
and readers of Tennyson will recall
the poet's use of the name in his
"Lyrical Monologue," written at the
Cock tavern, his favorite London re
treat. The first stanza runs:
O plump head waiter at The Coat
To which I must resort.
How goes the time? 'Tls 5 o'clock.
Go fetch a pint of port;
But let it not be such as that
You sot before chance-comers:
But such whose father grape grew fat
On Lusltanlan Summers.
A knot, or nautical mile, is consider
ably more than a land mile; to be ex
tct, about 267 yards more, or roughly,
every seven knots are equal to almost
eight miles. It means that the Lusi
tanla has a speed of about 30 miles
an hour, and as few of the ordinary
suburban trains exceed that rate of
speed, It gives a vivid and graphic
Idea of the great ship's progress.
APPLE PRICES OF LONG AGO.
How I). II. Ln-n-nsdule Realised $21 Per
Box for Culifornta Shipment.
LAFAYETTE, Or., Sept. 18. (To the
Editor.) It is interesting, if not very
instructive, to follow the successive
claims of record prices in the different
apple-growing sections of the state,
and the comments of The Oregonian
upon the recent sale by a Hood River
gentleman of a portion of his crop at
$8 per box were exceedingly appro
priate. The early history of apple
growing in Oregon is replete with
even higher records than those noted,
though it would perhaps be of little
moment at this time to cite the many
instances. The sale of apples at $8 per
box Is a noteworthy event and should
be chronicled with pride, but it is by
no means a record transaction.
All horticulturists in Oregon know
of the fabulous prices obtained by the
pioneer apple planters. The Llewellings,
the Stevenses, the Wallings and many
other3 of early fame were the record
producers. Three boxes of apples sent
to California in the early '53a by D. H.
Lownsdale netted him $G3, or $21 per
box." It is -a significant fact, that all
the apples of pioneer days all these
record apples were produced in the
Willamette Valley. The Oregon
pioneers undertook the planting of ap
ples at a very early date and the lus
cious quality of their fruit brought
them the real "record" prices and their
Willamette Valley the name of the
"land of big red apples."
M. O. LOWXSDALDE.
Twin Children Mixed In a Bath.
London Mail.
An amusing story of the mixing of twin
children in a bath, so that their identity
became confused, ras told before the
magistrates at Chatham, when a man
named Philip Barling, of Rainham road,
was summoned for not having his child
Archie vaccinated.
The defendant did not appear, and the
proseecuting solicitor said that a letter
had been received from the defendant
stating that his child was dead. Archie
was a twin child, the other being named
Cyril. Inquiries were made, and the reg
ister f deaths showed that it was Cyril
who was dead. The defendant then ex
plained that the children got mixed in the
bath, and the ribbons tied upon them were
changed, but it was really Archie who
died and was buried at Maidstone.
The bench made an order for the vac
cination of Archie.
A Matinee Idol In Love.
New York Herald.
Jean Gerardy, the famous Belgian vio
linist, will marry Miss Baba MacQuade, a
rich young artist of Australia, noted for
her beauty. Gerardy will make a tour
in America this season.
THE GOLDEN AGE.
'Tls writ in magic pages.
'Tls told by bards and sages.
That brighter skies
And bluer eyes
Were known in vanished ages. 1
The rose it grew no thorn then.
Poor man knew not to mourn then.
The greed and Crimea
Of these dull times
To blight -and blast weren't born then.
The world was free from error.
All things were richer, rarer.
From Nature's face
Shone forth a grace
Diviner far and fairer.
The vows of maids were truer:
And broken hearts were fewer.
All this and more
The days of yore
Saw when the world was newer.
O Time! turn back the hours;
Give us again the flowers
. That blossomed there
In purer air
'Neath other, kinder powers.
HARRY MURPHY.
THE NATIONAL GUARD.
The matter that is just at this time
receiving the widest attention among Na
tional Guardsmen is. a proposed Nationtl
enactment creating a National Reserve !
Army in substitution for the present sys
tem of National Guards. The plan is
already embodied in a bill for presenta
tion to Congress, and is championed by
no less a person than the Secretary of
War, Mr. Taft.
The . change would be a radical one
from the present system. The most pro
nounced change would be that of putting
all members of the reserve army on half
pay during time of inactivity, with full
pay In time of encampments, camps of
Instruction and actual service.
At the present time Guardsmen are not
liable for Federal duty and cannot be
called out of the state in which they are
assigned. In order to get a militia or
ganization into action against a National
enemy It is necessary for each man to
volunteer his service and be formally re
enlisted. Under the new system the Guardsmen
would have to answer the call to arms
Just as Imperatively as dees the Regular
Army now. The Guard or Reserve Army
would be -liable for any and all kinds of
service, and at the call of the Federal
Government at all times.
The plan for providing half pay is gen
erally regarded as a logical one. That
would make the service more binding.
Rules as regards drill attendance could
be more rigidly enforced, and the disci
pline would be more exacting. In fact
the requirements generally could be made
stricter for enlisted men and officers
alike. At the present time the man who
belongs to the National Guard does so
at a financial loss to himself. Officers
are required to buy their uniforms and
equipment, and they are in no way re
imbursed for this expenditure, except
during service, when they receive reg
ular army pay. The enlisted men re
ceive their uniforms and equipment, but
nothing more. In event of trial for
failure to attnd drill they must pay the
fine imposed by a delinquency court out
of their own pockets.
The proposed National Reserve plan
was made public by Mr. Taft during a
recent visit to Kentucky. He said at
the time that he favors this system of
building up a National defense, and be
lieved it effective and relatively inexpen
sive. The National Cuard at present ex
ists under the Dick bill, which ceases
to be operative about the first of the
year, after having been In effect five
years. Mr. Taft is quoted in a Wash
ington. D. C, interview as havlne- said
the National Reserve plan might be sub- !
stiiutea upon the expiration of the Dick
bill.
The plan is thoroughly favored by lo
cal Guardsmen.
The showing made by the Oregon in
fantry team at the National rifle tourna
ment on Lake Erie last month is a mat
ter of general felicitation In Guard cir
cles. Seventeenth place was a position
to be envied when it is considered that
there were 48 competing teams, and that
every man there was an expert rifleman.
Oregon finished ahead of several of the
country's crack teams.
Members of the team are beginning to
drop back home, one at a time. They
report that the tournament was one of
the most bitterly contested of any yet
held. Not a few of the teams were on
the range many weeks in advance of the
opening of the contests. In this way
they were able to study the conditions
prevailing on the Ohio range, and it is
a matter of record that the knowledge
of atmospheric peculiarities in any given
vicinity is altogether necessary in suc
cessful markmanship over long ranges. '
The Oregonians gt. there about a week
before the first event, and put In several
days of preliminary practice. The
weather conditions were found to be
most baffling, seeming to require a whole
weather bureau to keep account of the
wind and temperature, which changed
with every minute. A 6 o'clock wind at
one instant and a 10 o'clock wind half
a second later was by no means a rare
occurrence. Asidefrom taking 17th place
In the National match the Roseburg men
captured sixth place in the regimental
skirmish contest, while the K company
men, of Portland, took tenth place in
the same competition. Both teams
finished ahead of the Regular Army
marksmen. '
r?Z?lian Ha,mmon' ' of Eugene, and
Captain Hamlin, of Roseburg, have been
promoted to the rank of Major, for serv
ice with the new Fourth Oregon Infantry.
Both officers have had wide military ex
perience and are fully qualified to com
mand battalions. Captain Hamlin, who
is Superintendent of Schools at Rose
burg. commanded a company in the Phil
ippines during the trouble of 1898 while
Captain Hammond was a non-commissioned
officer In the First Nebraska Vol
unteer Infantry.
Company drills have been generally re
sumed and good attendance is noted
throughout both the Third and Fourth
regiments.
The Third Infantry is getting ready for
quarterly inspection, which occurs on the
night of September 26. There will be in
spection muster and review. The regi
ment will turn out In field uniform. The
usual military dance following the cere
monies will probably be dispensed with
owing to the condition of the ballroom,
where a gymnasium is being installed
The success of the picked American
rifleteam in the competition against Ca
nadian and English riflemen for the
Palma Trophy, Is a source of great sat
isfaction in army and National Guard
circles. In connection with the return of
the team from the scene of victory the
New York World has an amusing' al
though not altogether pleasant story of
the riflemen's experience In meeting
President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. It
seems that the President's secretary, Mr.
Loeb. was advised to meet the riflemen
with autos and convey them to meet the
President. Arriving at Oyster Bay, the
marksmen found no autos awaiting them
and after waiting in vain half an hour
for the vehicles to show up, telephoned
to Loeb's headquarters only to learn that
he had taken the army auto intended for
the riflemen and had gone out for a
pleasure trip of his own. the World says.
Then General Drain, who used to be
Adjutant-General over in Washington
and is well known among local Guards
men, negotiated with haekmen and paid
J20 to have the team taken to Sagamore
Hill. As their visit had been scheduled
and they were late In meeting the Presi
dent, the meeting necessarily had to be
cut short and all because, as the World
says, someone blundered badly.
"Bob"1 Evans' New KlKlitlng Mood.
N. Y. Dispatch in Phlla. North American.
Details of an acrimonious correspond
ence between Rear Vdmlral Robley D.
Evans, United States Navy, and Barton
Myers, a member of the board of gover
nors of the Jamestown Exposition, are
published in the Army and Navy Journal.
Mr. Myers in a letter attacked the Ad
miral because a service paper declared
the Navy was being used to advertise
the exposition for the Benefit of money
grabbers. Rear-Admiral Evans then sent
to Mr. Myers a note, in which he wanted
to know If that gentleman was correctly
quoted. Mr. Myers replied to Admiral
Evans, saying that he wrote the letter
about 2H months ago. The Admiral then
landed, but declared Myers was imperti
nent. Insolent and promised to deal with
him in the future.
Onn for His Mother-la-Lsw,
Kansas City Dispatch.
A man asked the police of Kansas City
to allow him to carry a revolver on the
ground that his mother-tn-law, who is
about to pay him a six months' visit, has
"peculiar ways."
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
OREGONIAN
TOMORROW
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OFF THE MOUTH OF
THE COLUMBIA RIVER
Full page half-tone of a ma
rine view, including a vessel at
anchor one of the best things
ever turned out by the Sunday
Oregonian 's art department.
PHOTOGRAPHING TOUR
OF CLATSOP BEACH
One day's work of au ama
teur photographer at Seaside,
whose results were children
just Oregon children of the
most interesting sort, at work
and play.
FRANCIS RICHTER
PRAISED BY A MASTER
Mrs. Alma A. Rogers writes
from Vienna of the blind Port
land boy's playing before tLe
great Leschetisky a story of
large human interest to the
average reader, but particularly
to lovers of music.
"BROKE" AMERICANS
GETTING ON IN EUROPE
' Dexter Marshall contributes
from Paris a readable tale of
how stranded Yankees use their
intellect to earn money.
BREAKING UP
THE "BLACK HAND"
Pennsylvania's unique con
stabulary the only agency of the
law equal to checking this dis
reputable band.
PROOF OF AN
INHABITED MARS
Theory that our neighbors on
the planet are calling us by
wireless, thrills the world of
science.
EGYPT'S DRY FARMING
SECRETS REDISCOVERED
And by an American. Camp
ell, of Nebraska, is the man.
His system promises to re
claim millions of acres in arid
Oregon.
AMERICAN COLLEGE
IN UPPER EGYPT
Frank Carpenter tells of 700
boys taught by United States
professors and forced to play'
football.
PLANTING JEWS IN
A YANKEE CANAAN
How persecuted Russians are
brought to this country through
the Galveston gateway and find
useful work.
SWINDLERS WORKING
WAGE EARNERS
Signed article by John Mitch
ell, president of the United
Mine Workers of America,
warning his fellow workers
about investing their savings.
Order from your news dealer
today.
WHO IS THIS GREAT POSTI'ONEKr
This Administration Has Mode a Rec
ord of Doing Thing.
New York Evening Post (Dem.).
"The Great Postponer" was what Mr.
Bryan called Secretary Taft in his
Oklahoma City speech. To those wno
hold the orthodox view of the present
Administration and its activities, the
term must seem absurd. It Is famous
to the ends of the world for "doing
things." for opening the door to Op
portunity's knock,' or, if Opportunity
fails to knock, running out In the street
to collar that abstract personage. Un
doubtedly, a good name of this sort Is
hard to lose. The President could prob
ably sit till the end of his term with
folded hands and not lose his popular
reputation as a man of action. Taft,
who Is his official mouthpiece, is re
garded ex officio in the same way.
This reputation is borne out by the
historical fact that the present Repub
lican Administration has never or
practically never, advocated the in
definite or even long postponement of
any issue. Tariff revision, as a Repub
lican measure, began to be talked of
seriously about 1902 and 903. The
"Iowa idea" saw the light at that time.
Representative Babcock, Chairman of
the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee, declared In the
Spring of 1903 that he rega.ded tne
Fifty-eighth Congress the one which
was elected In 1902 and convened In
the Fall of 1903 as "pledged to a re
vision of the tariff." Mr. Baocock was
not the official spokesman of the Ad
ministration. That title goes with the
war portfolio. '
Lltthtnlng Burn Feathers of Geeaa.
Kansas City Times.
Lightning at Middletown, Mo., killed six
big geese, burning the feathers completely
from tueir bodies.
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Trouble.
A tramp, a jug of liquor.
A nook among the has;
A harmless combination.
On a perfect Summer day.
But note the quick transition.
To the pit which habit dug:
Now the whisky's in the hobo.
And the hobo's In the Jug.
Lead a. Hand. (PenUeotiai-.