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PORTLAND. THURSDAY. JAN. t, 1907.
THE PARTY THAT ABDICATES.
There Is no Republican party or
ganization in Oregon, and no person,
or group of persons, can have the
courage (or temerity) to attempt one.
To do so would be to make a "ring,"
or "machine," either of which Is ex
ceedingly odious, and each more odi
ous than the other.
The primary law has abolished
parties in Oregon, and especially the
majority party. It does not leave It
even a party of factions, which might
Indeed effect something, since some
kind of party allegiance would still
be acknowledged. It makes politics a
personal scramble, a contest of Indi
viduals, who stand for nothing at all
except the desire of the individual to
get the office. What's the use of
voting for the man unless -ou know
he stands for principles and purposes
which you desire to be carried into
force and effect? And how are you
to do anything except by acting with
a party? Is each man, or small
group, to act a separate and discon
nected part? That Is the necessary
consequence of the primary law.
Tha party with which The Ore
gonlan has acted these fifty years has
abdicated. It has quit business. It
has no rallying point. The pri
mary law has cut from under
It every possibility of organization. It
has no platform, and can make none.
It has no central point of organiza
tion, around which men may rally. A
few men vote for an Individual for a
nomination. He may have fifteen or
twenty per cent of the vote. The
other eighty per cent have not wanted
him, and have voted for others or
haven't voted at all. He will not be
elected. The primary law has abol
ished the representative system.
Men Attest for the duties of official
place will not enter Into this scram
ble. Self-appointed candidates, whom
the people do not want, will obtain
the so-called nominations. You know
then what will follow. We have all
seen it. The candidates' are beaten
because they represent nobody but
themselves and a few personal ad
herents. The Oregonlan excuses itself from
leading a forlorn hope. In the name of
party. In this game. Since others do
not consider themselves bound to sup
port candidates so nominated. It will
not. It has had enough of that kind
of thing.
There can be no party without
party organization. And there can be
no organization that does not rely on
the representative system. Under
present conditions a so-called Repub
lican nomination, pretending to rep
resent the party that has borne that
name. Is a palpable fiction. It will be
the same also, after a while, in the
Democratic party. Neither party will
have any means of knowing what it
Is contending for, and will fall wholly
into the hands of cheap pretenders.
No man who respects himself will
nominate himself and push for office.
Or If he should, he will not be elected.
The Oregonlan begs to excuse itself
from any further attempt to establish
principles and purposes through the
methods created by the primary law.
It would advise no man to seek a so
called nomination under ti ls method
or system. For the system is not rep
resentative, and there are no party
principles or party obligations, in
such a scramble. When you have
destroyed party and abandoned what
party stands for, nothing Is left but a
cheap personal contest among self
nominated men. Mighty few will find
inspiration ' in that. The Oregonlan
has been slow to admit or to accept
i tha abdication of the Republican
j party of Oregon, but has been com
j polled to do so. It struggled a long
time, and after repeated discourage
ments, for it thought the Republican
party ought to hold together, even in
spite of the primary law. But that
became a lost hope; and the rest is
silence.
NO SLOP BARREL.
It is not an attractive headline. It
suggests what every one would wil
lingly Ignore or forget. And yet garb
age is with us. Daily accumulation of
garbage is a consequence of living
"close In." Every family ought to be
required to consume Its own garbage.
It should be a consequence of living
"close in." Every hotel should have
its own furnace, or plant, for incin
eration of its garbage. It Is an easy
matter. It will cost some money, but
it is an easy matter. The city never
should be expected to remove garbage
or to provide means of burning it.
But it should require all persons to
burn their own garbage. Every house
hold should be made to do It. And
rigid inspection should enforce It.
Will it be said that this is Impossible?
Scatter the population, then. Let the
people who can't burn their garbage
get to the farms or to the suburbs.
Since you never can have a garb
age crematory where people like to
have it since everybody is willing or
desirous that it be placed somewhere
else why not deal radically with the
problem ?
If the city is to remove the garbage
and burn It, let it perform the service
in the easiest and quickest way, and
place its crematories so as to meet
that demand. But why shouldn't it
force every householder to burn his
own garbage? Then, of course, each
would have less. Every house can be
as well fixed to burn its own garbage
as to dispose of its slops and ordure.
Rents "close In" then would be
higher, perhaps; but that change
would tend soon to equalize the condi
tions In one place and another,
throughout the city and suburbs.
It Is really absurd that the house
holder should expect the city to cart
off his garbage and burn it. The only
duty of the city is to require him to
burn it himself. Many householders
in this city and other cities have no
garbage to be removed. They burn it
themselves. It is' as regular a part
of the duties of the day as any and
every other sort of cleaning and tidi
ness. There never should be a slop
barrel. To have a slop barrel should
be made an offense against public
sanitation and the public health. Peo
ple of Portland should be tired by
this time of the effort to locate a gen
eral crematory for garbage away from
their own neighborhood, in the vicin
ity of others. If we will persist In
living in congested districts and hud
dled up, when there is room all about
us, let us each and all bear our share
of the burden of keeping clean.
OUR DEMOCRATIC BRETHREN.
One of the militant Democratic
newspapers of the Eastern States is
the Philadelphia Record. But in com
mon with most Eastern Democrats, it
opposes Bryan. In a recent Issue it
has this to say:
Good taste. If nothing else, requires that
the Democratic leaders who have only led
the party to defeat should go away back
and sit down and give some new men a
chance. In the middle of next month May
or Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland. Is going
to tell the people of New York "why Bryan
must be nominated." This Is magnanimous
of Mr. Johnson, but the party would like
to succeed once more. Mr. Bryan's record
needs only a reference. When Mr. John
son was running for Governor of Ohio he
got the gentleman from Nebraska to stump
the state for him, and he was tha worst
beaten man who ever ran for the office.
In the recent Kentucky campaign Mr. Bryan
stumped the state for the Democratlo can
didate and for the first time In ten years
the Republican candidate -was elected. Three
year ago Judge Parker was defeated, and
he 1 not now engaged in telling the party
what it must do, and still less Is he so
liciting another nomination. Mr. Bryan and
Mr. Johnson would do well to follow his
dignified example.
A free lance now is the Louisville
Courier-Journal. It no more likes
Bryan and Tom Johnson than the
Philadelphia Record likes them; yet
it puts in this reply:
Mr. Bryan and Mr. Johnson will answer
this by saying that the defeats to which
the Record refers were procured by Demo
cratic dissatisfaction promoted by dough
faces and traitors masquerading a Demo
cratic leader and organs. They will say
"to Hell with youl What did you do to us
In 1890?" They will argue that Bryan ran
ahead of Parker both in 1896 and in 1800.
and that If anybody is to go way back and
alt down It Is the Wall-street crowd which
they declare the Record represents and not
the real Democracy of Jefferson and Jack
son and Bryan, Mr. Johnson pointing to
his own triumphant vindication in Cleve
land, a rank Republican city. Mr. Bryan
has no Idea of going back anywhere, or
sitting down either, you bet, and no more
has Tom Johnson, and what is the Record
going to do about ltT The Record has no
more manners than the Courier-Journal,
which has no manners at all. Has It any
hope of carrying Pennsylvania for the Dem
ocrats, or Philadelphia? Nay, nay, Paul
ina, nay! -
POWER AT SEA.
Hero Hobson, of the , Spanish War,
now a Representative in Congress
from Alabama, sought and obtained
a place on the House naval commit
tee; and now he announces that he
will devote every energy towards a
larger navy, with a special object of
securing naval bases and fortifications
on the Pacific not only on the shores
of our Pacific States, but in the Phil
ippine and Hawaiian Islands.
Hobson says the Japanese in the
Hawaiian Islands are numerous
enough to be a menace, and that
Japan soon will have a great naval
base in the Island of Formosa, a short
distance from Manila. The late Boxer
trouble in China, he declares, was at
the Instigation of Japan, whose peo
ple have a fanatical hatred of all
white men, and especially of Ameri
cans. They talk even of leading a
movement for expulsion of the Eng
lish from India awaiting, of course,
a favorable time.
In Hobson's. view of it the sailing
of our fleet to the Pacific means that
America Is to become "the bulwark
of the world for stopping the progress
of the yellow peril." It Is the ambi
tion of Japan to lead China, and to
organize the vast forces of the Ori
ental world against the encroachment
of all Western or white races. But
'the white races have superior re
sources for building ships, and the
white man's hold on the supremacy of
the ocean is the only hope of keeping
a world peace."
Though it is diplomatically denied
that the movement of our fleet to the
Pacific has any reference whatever to
Japan, It Is known by all who have had
access to Administration circles at
Washington that but for uneasiness at
the growing pretensions and increas
ing hostility of Japan the fleet would
not have been sent. The otiject, of
course, was not to threaten Japan, but
to let It be known to the world that
we are prepared to do something our
selves in the Pacific in case of need.
And it is a "practice," or "exercise,"
voyage. Sea defenses are more im
portant to us now than ever before.
Our Navy never can be smaller than
now, but must be Increased in power,
from year to year. Hitherto the
Army has required more money than
the Navy, but the two branches of the
service for defense are to change
places in relative cost. We cannot be
seriously attacked by land, nor are we
likely to have enemies against whom
land campaigns can be directed. But
we must have power at sea; for our
defense -is to be made at sea, and our
attack, too. In case of need.
IS IT THEIR AFFAIR?
Two or three brewing companies
are displaying a touching solicitude
for the constitution of Georgia. Their
disinterested zeal is aroused by the
fact that 50 counties in that state "go
dry" with- the New Year, and they
have asked a Federal judge to declare
the local option law contrary to the
Georgia constitution.
It looks to an outsider as if this
were a question for the State Courts
to decide. If Georgia has enacted a
law which violates Its own constituv-
lion, has it not a Supreme Court com
petent to pass upon it? What con
cern has the Federal Government with
such a question? What could be
more strictly a domestic affair? The
action of the brewing companies ap
pears extremely like an underhanded
attempt to sue a state in the Federal
Court. This the Constitution of the
United States forbids; but we know
how lightly some Federal judges re
gard such prohibitions when they
stand in the way of the great corpo
rate interests.
It is not pleasant to witness the
steady annihilation- of the authority
and prestige of the state Judiciaries
by the Federal Courts. Is it with a
predetermined purpose to destroy the
last vestige of state autonomy that
they pursue their present course?
A BACKWARD GLANCE.
It is comfortable to believe that the
world Is becoming every year a better
place to live in. It is still more com
fortable to believe that the better
ment of things applies' to all classes of
men. We like to think that not only
the rich, but also the poor, enjoy
more of the blessings of life now than
formerly. It is agreeable, too, to hold
the opinion that everybody knows
more today than he did a year ago,
that he Is more intelligent, public
spirited and moral. This is a pleas
ant faith to live by. It is wholesome.
Inspiring and energizing; but is it
warranted by the facts? Some excel
lent people would tell us that the facts
make no difference If we can only
continue to cherish an optimistic
belief; but to imagine that all Is well
when, in truth things are going to the
dogs, seems too much like living over
a volcano which may erupt at any
moment and hurl us into the air with
all our beautiful optimism,- What are
the facts? Are we growing richer,
better, wiser and happier, or not?
That we are growing richer can be
proved by figures. There is no need
of rehearsing them here, but they
show well enough that the world con
tains today a larger store of desirable
things than it did a year ago. The
panic has not destroyed anything that
was worth saving. A fe reputations
have gone to dwell with tle snows of
yesteryear, but they were built on
fraud and their collapse is far from
being an injury even to the men who
'have suffered shame. One could
easily name certain bankers whose
spiritual state will undoubtedly im
prove as their sinuous finance is un
raveled. The loss of unsubstantial
prestige will undoubtedly lead them
to repentance and out of the guileful
banker may emerge the whlte-squled
saint. In the language of holy writ,
"Out of the strong, or bitter, came
forth sweetness." The trouble with
our increasing riches is that they tehd
too much to gather in lumps or car
buncles, giving to half a dozen fortu
nate people a great deal more than
they need, and depriving others, who
are just as wise and good, of the ne
cessities of life. We have solved the
problem of creating wealth. We have
yet to learn how to distribute it.
It is not so easy to prove that we
are wiser than we were a year ago,
but at any rate we are no more fool
ish and probably a little less. We
shall certainly be more cautious about
going into debt. Credit will be used
with, more discretion. But upon the
great questions of government and
life wisdom accumulates slowly, and
the advance of any one year is seldom
measurable. The fruit of experience
ripens gradually. Still, we handle most
of our problems with Increasing con
fidence. The country feels assured
that the policy of rigorous control
over the railroads and trusts Is the
correct one, and it is ready to take a
step or two ahead in that direction.
This confidence has been fortified,
rather than weakened, by the panic.
Most men are willing to help cut off
some of the tentacles a power
which can work so much harm when
it is displeased with the policy of the
Government. In the direction of
making the Government of the Nation
strong and efficient, the wisdom of the
American people has undoubtedly
achieved marked progress since last
year.
If we are no better ourselves than
we were a year ago, most of us are
sternly resolved that others shall be
better, at any rate. The wickedness
of the trusts shocks the public more
and more severely. There is less tol
erance for the methods of high
finance. The determination that busi
ness shaU be transacted fairly and by
the rules of old-fashioned honesty
shows no signsNjf relaxing. Indeed,
it grows firmer every day. The pub
He has less and less mercy for fraud
in high places, and It applies harsher
names to the shortcomings of wealthy
miscreants than it did last January.
The temperance cause has advanced
astonishingly within the year. The.
territory conquered by the amti-saloon
forces is something amazing and there
Is reason to believe that the wave of
hostility to the public sale of strong
drink has by no means reached its
crest. Nothing testifies to our zeal for
our neighbors' salvation more clearly
than this war on the saloon.
Are we happier than we were a
year ago? Some are and some are
not. For most people happiness
means contentment, and the active
minded, thoughtful person is seldom
contented. He is perpetually striving
for something better than he has or
is. Hence he is never happy except
in the rare moments of victory. At all
other times he is urged onward by un
satisfied aspirations. Perhaps it is
just as well that most of us are not
as happy as we should like to be. If
we were, the chances are that the
world would begin to slip backward
toward barbarism.
Oregon' and Washington wheat
shipments (flour included) for Decem
ber, reached the enormous total of
7,682,000 bushels, or more than 2,
000,000 bushels in excess of any other
month in the history of the trade.
With the November shipments of
more than 5,000,000 bushels, the total
for the two months will be about 13,
000,000 bushels, valued at approxi
mately $11,000,000. Tonnage now f
loading- at r-oruana ror January ship
ment has a capacity of 2,600,000
bushels, and at the Puget Sound ports
there is January tonnage for 1,200,000
bushels, exclusive of flour shipments,
which will easily bring the value of
the three months shipments up to
15,000.000. All this from a single in
dustry in which the men engaged
were nearly all in excellent financial
condition before they began selling
this season's crop. When the returns
are all in this season, the Pacific
Northwest will have more money for
Investment than ever in its history.
Lumber has declined $3 per thou
sand feet in St. Paul territory and of
ferings are in excess of the demand.
This incident would seem to have con
siderable bearing on the lumber rate
case now before the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The railroads will
undoubtedly claim that the actual de
cline in the demand, as reflected in
the $3 reduction, has been more of a
factor in closing the mills than the
10-cent advance in the freight rate.
One thing that stands out reasonably
clear through' this maze 'Of rates,
closed mills, declining prices and mil
lion dollar profits, is the extreme dif
ficulties which will in the future be
encountered by loggers in their at
tempt to sell logs at 19 per thousand,
and keep their stumpage Hmlt3 down
around $1.50 and $2 per thousand.
When the. next bulge comes, the tim
ber owner may insist on a share of
the profits.
All legitimate immigration litera
ture well placed brings good results,
but the best results are obtained from
facts set forth by - the great dally
newspapers In attractive form. The
distant reader believes that 95 per
cent is truth, for no self-respecting
journal can afford to misrepresent.
Such an immigration document is the
New Tear edition of The Oregonlan,
issued yesterday. Apart from the in
formation concerning the Pacific
Northwest which it conveys, its prac
tical value rests on its very wide dis
tribution among intelligent and desir
able folk in every "section of the
United States. As an advertisement
of this empire, it is pre-eminent.
The Southern - Pacific will place
another steamer on the Coos Bay run,
and expects to increase materially the
business between Portland and Coos
Bay ports by bringing full cargoes of
coal to Portland, returning with gen
eral cargo from" this city. Coal at the
present time is the most important
staple produced In Coos Bay, and, as
this port has need of the fuel in stead
ily increasing quantities, establish
ment of a frequent service will be of
mutual benefit to both ports. The
Coos Bay coal is said to be equal to
any other grade brought to Portland,
and tha preference to which articles
of home production are always en
titled should be shown it.
The death of Mrs. Mary Wood of
Hlllsboro. at the ripe age of 120
years raises the interesting question
whether the climate of Oregon may
not ultimately restore the antedelu
vian limit of human existence. Mrs.
Wood began life In Missouri, a calam
ity which naturally shortened her
days. Had she been born in Oregon,
it is safe to assume that she would
not have - been cut off at six score
years, but might have lived out two
complete centuries at least. And this
is only a beginning. Very likely when
the Oregon climate has produced its
full effects on the race. Methuealeans
will be as common here as prunes.
A Chicago dispatch announces that
medical science has perfected a treat
ment by which the healthy organs of
the lower animals can be substituted
for diseased parts of the human body.
There are great possibilities here 1 if
the discovery goe3 far enough to
enable the brain of an intelligent
watch dog to be substituted for the
zig-zag affairs which some so-called
bank officials have under their hats.
A Federal judge at Denver rendered
a decision 'in favor of a lot of land
fraud defendants and the Government
doesn't like it and will appeal. We
don't know that this is, of particular
moment to anybody in Oregon, yet
there,are a few citizens who are likely
to prick up their ears when they read
about it.
It is now proposed that the pleb
iscite be Invoked for location of 'the
garbage crematory. In the present
state of the public mind we doubt the
expediency or propriety of the sug
gestion. There would be danger of an
Immense majority for placing it next
door to Brother Thorburn Ross.
They Bay- William J. Bryan shot
twenty-three ducks the other day and
is preparing to go on a bear hunt.
This man seems to be ambitious to
equal both Cleveland and Roosevelt.
But maybe it is the Florida William
J. Bryan.
How would It do to think of Bona
parte for President? Wouldn't the
great name carry him? Any descend
ant of Madame Letltia ought to be a
name to conjure with.
The burglar who broke into the of
fice of the Portland yellow journal
doubtless went on the theory that
where there were no brains there
must be money.
It appears to be uncertain where
the garbage crematory should be, but
every one seems to be agreed that It
should be about four miles from a
given point.
It would have been better for Gen
eral Stoessel if the Japs had got him
and kept him.
Portland inaugurated the New Tear
with a veritable Bedlam of noise. That
helped a lot.
"Show me" is the motto of Mis
souri. The Missouri boy came to see
our boys and wera shown.
GOOD WORK BY BISHOP PADDOCK
Fine Record of New Episcopal Mis
sionary (or Orrgou.
The Outlook.
The Rev. Robert .Lewis Paddock was
consecrated Missionary 'Bishop of East
ern Oregon in New Tork City on Wednes
day of last week, after a service in the
metropolis notable alike for its courage.
Its helpfulness, and its tireless industry.
During his connection with the pro
Cathedral on the lower East Side Mr.
Paddock attracted attention by his en
deavor to break up the various forms of
vice in the neighborhood. When he be
came rector of the Church of the Holy
Apostles on Ninth avenue and Twenty-
ninth street in New Tork City, the
church had a hundred communicants;
it now numbers 850. Its rectory has be
come a Settlement House, with three
workers besides the rector; there is an
other Settlement House in the near
neighborhood under the direction of the
church, in which four women have made
their headquarters; Chelsea House, a
home for 36 young worklngwomen, start
ed by the church, has become self-supporting;
and near the church is a house
for boys coming in from the country and
waiting to get work, or for those who,
having lost one job, are waiting for an
other. The Chelsea Improvement Society is
made up of men and women working for
good government and clean politics; and
the Chelsea, Park Society has had a dis
tinct influence for good. The lower West
Side Ministers' Association, which has
grown up largely under Mr. 'Paddock's
leadership, has brought into working co
operation forty ministers of every com
munion except the Jewish and Roman.
The Holy Apostles stands in the heart
of the district known as Hell's Kitchen,
aDd is environed by tenement-houses, sa
loons, and boarding-houses. Mr. Paddock
has done a great work of regeneration
in It.
A Futile Prayer.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Incidental to the labor troubles in Gold
field. Nevada, has come a suit against
the Miners' Union, praying for its dis
solution by a Federal court, and alleg
ing that the union was organized for the
destruction of property and to create
"endless strife, disorder, .bloodshed and
rioting." This is something new and the
outcome will be awaited with interest,
especially as part of the prayer is that
the union be prohibited from meeting.
Of what use, however, would be any such
restraint? From the ashes of one union
the Phoenix of another will rise imme
diately, if not sooner. That is one of the
advantages enjoyed by such organiza
tions. They do not own plants. They
have no large sums invested In physical
equipment. Dissolve a corporation with
large material possessions, compel It to
shut dqwn, and calamity overtakes It.
Dissolve a union, with everything to gain
and nothing to lose by violence, and lit
tle or no embarrassment follows. Nothing
is easier than to choose another name
and keep on picketing. The prayer may
be granted, but that will not restore law
and order In Goldfield.
This Whack at Roosevelt.
New Tork World.
Judge Hannls Taylor, a very eminent
student both of constitutional and Inter
national law, recently prepared a. me
morial to Congress setting forth that
Pelatiah Webster, of Pennsylvania, was
"the original designer or architect of
the Constitution of the United States,"
and praying that he be officially recog
nized as such. ,
Pelatiah Webster's title is disputed,
however, by Senator Knox, of Pennsyl
vania, who Insisted in an address before
the New England Soolety of Philadelphia
Monday night that Judge Taylor was
mistaken, and that Benjamin Franklin
was the father of (the Constitution.
Judge Taylor Is ready to maintain his
thesis and has challenged Senator Knox
to a joint debate before the Bar Associ
ation of the District of Columbia.
If the challenge is accepted, Theodore
Roosevelt should be selected as referee.
Mr. Roosevelt knows little -about the
Constitution and cares less. He would
make an impartial and unprejudiced um
pire. Has Profitable Occupation.
New Tork Sun.
According to a dispatch from Guthrie
Mr. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, not
he of Florida, once declined an invitation
to move to Oklahoma, lead the fight for
statehood and receive as his reward one
of the Senatorshlps. After considering
the offer for several days Mr. Bryan de
clined it because "he had his newspaper
and other interests in Lincoln and he did
not see how he could afford to take the
step." From his point of view Mr. Bryan
was quite right; as editor, lecturer and
peripatetic candidate for President, with
two defeats as his working capital, he
has a profitable occupation, and bis in
terests would suffer if he had to go to
Washington and sit in the Senate.
The Cotton Crop.
The Crop Reporting Board of the Bu
reau of Statistics of the Department of
Agriculture estimates that our cotton
crop in 1907-8 will amount to 5,681,968,000
pounds (not Including llnters). equivalent
to 11,678.000 bales of 500 pounds gross
each. The distribution by states:
State. Bales! State. Bales.
Texas 2.490.000tGeorgia 1.8818.000
Mississippi . .1.534.0001 Alabama 1.216.0O0
S. Carolina. .l,091,000lOklahoma ... 910,000
Arkansas ... 790.000! Louisiana ... 712,000
N Carolina.. 6O4.000lTennessee ... 29S.00O
Florida 64.000'Mlssouri .... 40.000.
Virginia . . 14.0001
It Is a Sigh.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr. Bryan reminds one somewhat of
Henry Clay, who would rather be right
than President and never was. What
a really great man Mr. Bryan might be
come if he would only let the bee light
on some other bonnet and go in for
things possible and reachable, the War
wick of his party and his time!
Weary Willie on Socialism.
Earl Hooker Eaton, in Success.
A Socialist, a Socialist, that's what I pine
to be,
With lodgings at the Waldorf while I set
the pee-pul free.
With motor cars that do a mile in 60 sec
onds flat.
In which to run the errands of the pro-le-
ta-rl-at;
With private secretaries and a valet at my
side.
To help me as I toil to bring' about the
Grand Divide.
Sasslety Is to the bad and things is get
ting rank
1 want to be a Socialist with millions in
the bank!
I want to rise at 10 o'clock and slave away
till noon.
For work I've never done a stroke "Is
man's most precious boon,"
And when I've sheared the coupons from a
- peck o' bonds er so,
ril put in all the time that's left to give
the poor a show.
There's Happy Jack and 'Frisco ' Pete
They've often said to me
That wealth was not divided up the way it
orter be.
And I am for a dtwy, though the kickers
call me crank
I want to be a Socialist with millions In
the bank!
I want a quiet Summer home to rest in
when it's hot,
A bungle-oh at Lenox or a humble Newport
cot.
And when the blamed reporters come, with
efcy, reluctant air,
I'll tell 'em how poor father made more
dough than was his share;,
I'll tell 'em how he left the coin to me
one tearful day,
And how not yet, but soon, you know ril
give It all away.
So when the Job 1 open, here my applica
tion blank
I want to be a Socialist wits millions In
ths bank I
II. HAMILTON HAS SECURED WORK
Unemployed Man Who Threatened
Self-Destrnctlon, Now an Employe.
PORTLAND, Jan. 1. (To the Editor.)
In answer to a recent inquiry In The
Oregonlan, will say that H. Hamilton,
who suggested suicide because he could
not get a Job,' has got one.
On reading his communication in The
Oregonlan of December 15, I came to the
conclusion that he needed a job badly.
9o I wrote him through the general
delivery department of the Portland
Postofnee, making an appointment with
him, and found him to be as hard up as
he represented himself to be, only a little
worse, as he only had two bits of his
dollar. '
I put him "next" to a job that I had
in sight for myself, but having some
money left that I saved during the
Summer, while work was plentiful. I
thought, like one of Dickens' characters,
that I could wait "until something else,
turned up."
Thinking Mr. Hamilton might see the
Inquiry in The Oregonlan about him and
answer it himself, I put off answering
it until now. But probably he cannot
always obtain The Oregonlan, or he might
have overlooked the matter, or what is
more likely, he Is where he cannot get
the paper.
Therefore, that his friends may not
worry about him. I take this opportunity
of letting them know that H. Hamilton
got his job. F. H. J.
The "Impolite' Mosquito.
"Mosquito Life," by Evelyn G. Mitchell.
Even more aggravating than the bite,
although far less serious in its effect
(unless Influence on nerves, language
and feelings be taken Into considera
tion), is the buzz.- There is, to the
writer, nothing on earth so irritating
as the shrill, piping and shrieking right
in one'ei ear. Just as one is comfortably
drifting off into peaceful slumber. It
rouses one up like a fire alarm. The
victim snatches wildly at the air, think
ing unutterableness, with the general
result of A self-inflicted thumped head
and the escape of the tiny offender.
The buzzing is produced by the vibra
tions of a thin shred' of chttln in the
large air tubes Just behind the open
ings in the thorax which admit the air.
'me pitch varies with the different spe
cies, as well as with the sexes. Stego
myia Is almost a silent mosquito; being
a day flier, it would not be good policy for
It to attract too much attention. Ano
pheles will elng at night, but I have
never, heard it do so in the daytime.
As Dr. Howard has stated, the chant of
the female Anopheles is of a decidedly
lower pitch than that of the other
genera, so that the "villlan" is easily
distinguishable by its bass voice. Dr.
Goeldl says that the amount of dis
tension of the abdomen by food or eggs
influences the pitch. Apart from rec
ognizing the use of the hum of the fe
male in guiding the male I feel somewhat
as did & small girl who remarked to me:
"I don't see why they screech so. If they
-don't like how I taste, it's awful impolite
of them to holler about it so loud."
Roosevelt Remembers the Pacific Coast.
Brooklyn Eagle's Washington Special.
Despite all reassuring reports which
Secretary Taft brought to Washington,
it is rather remarkable that the activity
of our military authorities has been in
creased rather than diminished. The
President knew, of course, that the Army
and Navy were to surpass all previous
records In their estimates of appropri
ations for offensive and defensive equip
ment this year. He received Secretary
Taft' a report of his conference with the
Japanese officials in ample time to have
warned the military authorities to pare
their estimates down to a basis of ex
pected tranquillity. Nothing of this sort
was done. - The President approved the
excessive demands of the military officers
and sent them to Congress with his
"O. K-," notwithstanding the fact that
a deficit of J100,000,000 is likely next year.
More recently the President has lent
his influence to a movement to secure
immediate appropriations for guns, mor
tars and mines on the Pacific Coast, rie
is personally interested in putting the
cities and harbors of the Pacific In a state
of thorough defense.
Fisrht Ruling In Tennessee.
Washington (D. C.) Stories in New
Tork Times.
They were talking about the recent
fight in the House. Representative
Sims, of Tennessee, was reminded of
a case of assault and battery out in
Tennessee; Judge Thomas P. Bateman
was presiding, and the defendant was
found guilty.
"The fine in this case would or
dinarily be $10," said the judge in im
posing sentence, "but inasmuch as the
plaintiff called the defendant a liar I
fix the fine at $5."
That encouraged the attorney for the
defense to hope that the fine might
be made still less.
"May it please your honor," he said,
"he called him a liar twice."
"That makes no difference," replied
the Judge, without looking up. "He
ought to have knocked him down the
first time."
. Fat Meat Have the Advantage.
St. Paul Dispatch in New Tork World.
Investigation of Pullman-car rates,
begun by John M. Marble, attorney for
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
upon complaint of George S. Loftus, of
St, Paul, disclosed the advantage-whlch
a. fat man has when he travels in the
rush season. The testimony showed
that when upper berths have to be
used agents are instructed to allot
them to persons of light weight and to
assign heavyweight passengers to the
lower berths. It was admitted that
the Pullman Company pays Its porters
$25 a month and expects them to col
lect the remainder of their wages in
tips.
.Wall Street, Seen From Kentucky.
- Louisville Courier-Journal.
A convict released from Stng Sing after
47 years' imprisonment says he is afraid
to go about in New Tork. The fact is,
a man who Is simple enough to get into
Sing Sing hasn't a ghost of a show to
make a living among financiers who have
spent their lives in successful efforts to
keep out of Sing Sing.
A FEW SQCIBS.
"Sometimes 1 think," said Mr. Tlmmld,
"if I only had some money I might get
married." "Couldn't you borrow some?"
suggested Miss Passay. eagerly. Philadel
phia Press.
Mistress Malvlna, do you know anything
about dill, pickles T New Girl I think I
met him at a dance once, ma'am, but I
haven't any acquaintance with ..him. Chi
cago Tribune.
"What's become of the old-fashioned lying
fisherman?" is asked by a Journalist who
has not noticed that the new-fashioned
Ivlng alienist has crowded him out of the.
limelight. Louisville Courier-Journal.
"I wish I had enough money to Invest In
some of the mines that are advertised."
"You'd be a fool to do it." ,I wouWn't
do It. I'd buy a winter overcoat." Phila
delphia Public Ledger.
Kollls Mr. Allmoney Is all smiles. Molly
Yes, he has captured a gridiron heroine.
BoIUs A gridiron heroine? Molly Yes; a
college girl who really knows how to broil
beefsteak. Judge.
Vicar's wife No, the vicar Is not In Just
now. Is there any message you would like
me to give him when he returns? Old
woman cheerfully) Please, mum, Martha
Hlgglns would like to be burled at 2 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. Punch.
Mr. Microbe (reading "The Dally Germ")
Horrible catastrophe! Ten million lives
lost! Mrs. Microbe Goodness gracious.
Mlkr- what happened? Mr. Microbe The
First National Bask, without a word of
warning sterilised a dollar bill Puck.
INATIpNAL GljARD
ONE of the important questions that
came before the National Guard As-(
sociation at the annual convention last.
Friday was one of armories for -state
troops. After the subject had been ex
haustively discussed, the association at
once adopted a resolution, drafted by
Colonel James Jackson, providing for an
active campaign for the securing of per
manent armories.
The last Legislature set aside $100,000,
with which to build suitable homes fOr
the various organizations outside Port
land. The State Grange promptly at
tacked the appropriation, and the matter
is to be submitted to the voting public at
the June election, under the referendum.
' The Guard does not intend going into '
politics. It was the unanimous sense of ;
the officers present that a campaign of
education was the modus operandi to be
preferred. When the voters were given !
to understand the peed of the armories'
and their value from an economic stand
point, it was urged that no further cam
paign would be required to insure public
indorsement of the appropriation.
From a purely economic standpoint the
Guardsmen have a strong line of defense..
At the present time the state is paying
out $8000 a year for rent of armories. In!
nearly every instance these impromptu!
headquarters for military organizations'
are unsulted for their purpose, Arms and!
equipment become damaged from storage '
In damp rooms, and the loss counts into !
money speedily. But, leaving that aside,
it is pointed out that In 12 years the
armories would have paid for themselves
in the saving of rent; .and in 26 years
the state would be ahead $100,000, not to
mention owning its own armories. It is;
the old old hypothesis of buying the
house and escaping the landlord. Under
a section of the appropriation bill it is
provided that the money now paid by the
state for rentals shall revert to the stale
treasury.
Those are the figures that the Guard;
wishes impressed upon taxpayers who are-:
Inclined to view things from the stand j
point of dollars and cents. There is an-1
other line of argument for those endowed,
with patriotic impulses; the necessity or'
having well drilled, properly organized'
and fully equipped troops ready for
emergencies that may arise. As Captain
John R M. Taylor, of the Regular Army,
pointed out before the Guard Association,
hunger is the thing that ultimately drives
a people to war. and Asia is propagating
faster than acreage Is being provided for
their sustenance. The Pacific Coast is!
wonderfully fertile and thinly settled, and
It is only to be expected that Asia should!
cast a hungering eye In this direction.'
Thus far the Invasions have been those of
peaceful but hungry emigrants, but the
future Is an unknown quantity which'
has to be provided for. Modern warfare
is a tiling of science, the day having
passed, military men aver, when the'
farmer can leave his plow and go at a
minute's notice to fight his country's
wars. It is contended by military experts
that a force of say 50,000 trained troops
could cope with half a million armed men
who were not organized and equipped'
for a campaign. Hence the necessity off
training as many able-bodied men as are'
willing to devote their time to military;
work is obvious. As to the argument of
misinformed persons to the effect that,
militia is s peace organization which does!
not serve In time of war, attention is'
called to the fact that the National Guard
fought the war with Spain as well as the'
campaign in the Philippine. There was;
no more gallant regiment in the field,:
nor one which saw harder service than I
the infantry organization sent out from1
the Oregon National Guard to the Philip
pines In 1898.
' -
The attack of a speaker before the Peo
ple's Forum on Colonel Jackson's sugges
tion that drill sergeants should be placed
in the public schools to Instruct young
men in the use of firearms, was the sub-;
ject of considerable comment among
Guardsmen. Colonel Jackson has been
following the flag for something like 45'
years, during which time he has engaged
in three wars and a score of battles. His
promotions have been in nearly every in
stance for distinguished gallantry In
action, and he has been twice decorated
for bravery. The only subjects that have
ever received his full attention have been
those relating to the welfare of the coun
try, and it is assumed by military people
that he knew what he was talking about,
which is a virtue not ascribed to his
"rltlc. Besides, the National Government
te now engaged in doing Just what Colonel
Jackson suggested, and the War Depart
ment has several men of ability out or
ganizing boy rifle clubs in American
schools. '
Guardsmen who did not engage in rifle
practice during the Summer will now be
required to explain just why. The state
requires every man to perfect himself in
marksmanship, which is the chief requi
site of the modern soldier. Those that
failed must face a court of Inquiry. The
number is limited, to the credit of the
Guard.
Major F. S. Baker, statelnspector of
small arms practice, leaves early this
week for a tour of the state troops sta
tioned outside Portland. He will conduct
a court of inquiry at each station where
there were failures to engage in range
work. Those found guilty, without a suf
ficient defense. ill be fined.
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION O F
THE SUNDAY
OREGON IAN
FROM OBSCURE POVERTY TO
PROMINENCE
Twelve new men in the Sixtieth
Congress, including the blind Sen
ator Gore, who rose against great
odds; a splendid lesson for Amer
ican boys. .
GOING TO MARKET
Full-page illustration of chil
dren the sort of pictures that
have added popularity to the Sun
day edition.
THE HOTEL CLERK ON PRO
HIBITION Humorous but philosophical
views of the reform wave now
sweeping the country.
TROUBLES OF MOROCCO'S
SULTAN
Ko war history, but a lot of sit
uations showing the comedy in
that troublesome land.
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TOWN
First impressions of London, by
Joseph Schafer, professor of his
tory, University of Oregon.
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