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PORTLAND. FRIDAY, JANUARY SI, 1908.
CAUSES OF rXCTUEASrSQ INSANITY.
Tho relative number of Insane per
sons In the world is increasing, but it
dues not Increase so fast as one would
suppose from tho records of the crim
inal courts. Fifty years ago the de
fense of Insanity was comparatively
rare; now it is more common than
any other. The lawyers have grad
ually built up a working definition of
insanity which Is so complicated,
tortuous' and vague that thefe are
very few homicides which cannot be
brought within , its bounds. Any ec
centric escapade in the course of a
long life, a sudden outburst of tem
per, a career of Immoderate vice,
such things as these suffice to make
out a case of insanity in court and
plenty of experts seem to be always
ready to dress them up In a ponder
ous and learned way so that they
look impressive. Almost everybody
can remember acts of his own which
In tho hands of a capable lawyer
would show that he was Insane
should occasion- arise. Indeed, It
would be a good plan for people to
form the habit of setting down in a
diary the unusual things which they
may happen to do from time to time.
Nobody knows how soon the record
might become invaluable, since most
of us would commit murder under
sufficient temptation, and it Is best
to bo ready with a prepared defense.
Quite apart from tho misleading
records- of the courts an actual in
crease of Insanity has been noted in
recent years. Contrary to the com
mon opinion, it is most noticeable in
cities. The Springfield Republican
quotes Dr. Pauline Leader, of one of
tho Iowa hospitals for the insane, to
the effect that the much discussed
preponderance of insanity in rural
districts Is Imaginary. "No more
farmers' wives become insane than
from any other class." she says, add
ing that tho healthy, active, outdoor
life of the farm is more healthful and
more generally beneficial to mind and
body than the life led by laborious
women in cities. It has never been
argued that farm work made women
insane: It was the loneliness of their
lives that was supposed to be dele
terious. Perhaps years ago, when
Iowa and the Dakotas were thinly
settled, this cause may have been
more active than it is now and- we
may accept rr. Leader's statement
without giving up the belief that soli
tude and monotony tend to destroy
the intellect. Persons familiar with
tho business of grazing sheep on the
desert .ranges know how prone the
herders are to lose their minds. The
effect of solitude upon the brain has
often been taken for a theme by
authors and seldom has it been
worked out more dramatically than
in the late noval called "The Fugitive
Blacksmith." There is every ground
for believing that lonely existence,
day after day, in the monotonous
drudgery would affect a farmer's wife
just as it would a sheep herder.
, It is interesting to remark here
that those who oppose the . parcels
post and other means of ameliorating
the conditions of country life are
really laboring to increase the num
ber of the insane; but since the plu
tocratic corporations slay men's
bodies without the least scruple when
it will increase their dividends, there
is no reason to suppose that they
would hesitater to slay's, women's
minds for the same purpose. The
mere fact that a parcels post would
lessen the disease and misery of
country life will not move the ex
press trust to cease Its opposition.
Like other trusts, it thrives on disease
and fattens on misery.
As country districts grow well
populated and neighborly society de
velops fewer people become Insane.
Life on a small farm in a populous
community probably comes nearer to
normal human existence than any
other in the modern world. The city
Is deleterious to the mental faculties
from causes which are the opposite
of solitude and monotony. It im
poses the strain of constant excite
ment, unceasing noise, relentless
worry. Preventable noises in the city
are responsible for a great deal of
insanity. Such noises as the racket
of trolley cars cannot be abolished,
though they could be diminished; but
one of the worst of all these disease
breeding nuisances, the barking of
dogs in the night, might be abated
entirely. Could the cases -where this
needless . abomination has caused
death , or insanity " be collected : they
would present a formidable array.
There Is absolutely no excuse for per
mitting dogs to exist within the limits
of a city. Apart from their filth and
noise, they are diligent propagators
of diphtheria. '. ' .
The worry which causes Insanity
generally relates to property. It
arises -among the poor from, the per
petual grin of the wolf at the door,
and among the well-to-rdo from the
fear of losing what they have in the
savings bank. In stock investments,
or in some other place of insecurity.
To future historians one" of the; most
striking features of the age we live
in will be the- general insecurity of
property. They will wonder .t the
stupidity of this generation in failing
to devise some method of making our
possessions safe. The sense of inse
curity is prevalent and Incessant. It
grinds both rich and poor and prob
ably causes more insanity than any
other defect In civilization. It not
only alloys the pleasures of life but
it adds to the horrors of death, for
few men leave the world without
some doubt in "their minds whether
or not their families can keep what
has been left them. No matter how
large and well invested an Inheritance
may be the chance is about even that
it will be lost in the mutations of
finance.
IT IS OREGON'S CAUSE.
The favor of a visit has been paid
The Oregonian by Mr. O'Brien and
Mr. Cotton of the railway combine
that has long had Oregon bottled up.
The object of the visit was to protest
against a statement made some days
ago by The Oregonian, to the effect
that the roads were not kept up to a
proper degree of repair, betterment,
efficiency and safety. This, they say,
is unfair and untrue, because much
money has been spent on improve
ment of the roads and they are in
excellent condition; and so are the
equipment and service.
If these things are true the people
of 'Oregon certainly are unreasonable,
if not lacking in intelligence. Most
of us have been under the impression
that the roads and the service have
been dragging along in any old way,
deemed good enough for Oregon. But
the complaint is not against the local
management. It lies against the
policy pursued by the stock-jobbers
of New York, who control the whole
system, and milk it to the utmost,
while refusing or withholding the ex
tensions and the service due to Ore
gon. No small part of the contribu
tion to the recent financial crisis was
due to the enormous operations of
these plungers, who, instead of ren
dering the country the railroad
service it requires, gamble, with the
money and the credit at their com
mand with stocks and bonds all
round the board. Oregon is not satis
tied with her share -of the treatment
and its consequences; and if this
newspaper is able to say a word that
can get attention,, in expression of
the dissatisfaction of the people of
Oregon, it is thereby performing one
of its most important duties' to the
publie.
THE WAY OF THE POLITICIAN. .
Mr Bryan shows himself a super
ficial observer and incorrect thinker,
when he says that "predatory wealth
can protect itself more easily from
National legislation than from state
legislation." The contrary -Is true, in
fact. It is always easy for "the inter
ests" to control the local legislatures.
Upon them, one by one, the effort
may be directed. For example, the
legislation of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey is and has been for years just
what "the interests" have wished. On
the other hand, it Is seldom that any
private steal can be got through Con
gress. If you mention protective
tariff for refutation of this remark,
the answer is that protective tariff, in
one phase or another, has support
from every state of the Union and
from members of every party. Mem
bers of Congress from Louisiana and
Texas unite with members from Ohio
and Massachusetts to - support it.
Tariff is a subject of National legisla
tion. Were it a subject of state legis
lation, the jobs in it would run to in
finity. In municipal and state fran
chises the greatest of all jobs are per
petrated, and the most numerous.
The reason is that predatory wealth
can so easily control state legislation.
It is not surprising that when a
man talks as much as Mr. Bryan does
he is unable to keep an account of his
own opinions. Though he professes
to oppose centralization, and to be an
advocate of the Jeffersonian doctrine
as to the rights and powers of the
states, as against the National Gov
ernment, no Hamiltonian has ever
gone so far as he has in the direction
of centralization. He has proposed
Government ownership of 'railroads,
Federal license of corporations. Gov
ernment guarantee of bank deposits,
and even Federal police work in the
states, as regulation of child labor.
There may be wonder -why Mr. Bryan
so distrusts state power at one time
and exalts it at another. But this or
the like of it is the privilege, or at
least the habit, of the enterprising
politician, who is outside the works
and wants to get inside the works. If
was distinctly Jefferson's method,
who denounced all the policies of the
Federalists, and yet when he reached
the Presidency not only accepted
their policies in the main, but went in
many important ways much further
in the direction ot centralized power,
than they had done. '
FIE UPOX THEM.
The young woman who was dis
charged by the California' Bank Com
missioners because she knew more
than they, did and served the public
more faithfully happened to find a
new position at once. She therefore
suffers no inconvenience and the
Commissioners will receive their
merited portion of scorn and con
tempt. But suppose this girl had not
been acquainted with the president
of the California Trust Company. Her
discharge might then have . been a
serious matter vand it would have
bitten all the deeper because she was
punished for her merits and not for
her deficiencies.
The lesson to be learned is not en
tirely clear. Shall subordinate of
ficials cultivate the habit pf not being
too competent and active, or shall
their, superiors try somewhat more
energetically to earn their salaries?
Would it not be(a strange and happy
transformation in political life if
every official were to begin from this
day to strive diligently to give value
received for his pay? The new bustle
and hustle that would ensue in publio
offices would be a little disconcerting
at the outset, but in time we should
get used to it, and it is quite likely
that everybody except the officials
themselves would enjoy the change.
Perhaps even they would come to
enjoy it after a while, for it is really
more satisfactory to feel that one
earns what he receives than to be .a
thinly disguised object of charity, as
too many public officials are at
present.
One of our greatest needs in this
country is a set of public officers who
understand their duties well enough
not to feel jealous of their female
clerks and, with courage enough to do
what their oath pf office requires.
MR. I.ITTLKI IEI.D'S WAIL.
It is, of course, quite natural that
Mr. Littlefield should rant and protest
against the appropriation of $1,000,
000 for coal and for freights thereon
for the Pacific squadron. . This pro
test from ' the patriotic man from
Maine is not made from any objection
to the fleet's making the voyage .to
the Pacific. - Neither can he find any
legitimate reason for the purchase of
the coal or for its shipment in foreign
ships, which carried it at such a low
figure that the Government has saved
a vast sum of money on freight alone.
In his vigorous objection to the ap
propriation asked, Mr. Littlefield was
merely taking advantage of an oppor
tunity to say a few words in favor of
that long-sought graft, the ship sub
sidy. Mr. Littlefield asserted that, under
the act of 1817, which Is still in force,
the coal which had been shipped in
foreign bottoms should have been
seized and sold. -There are people in
this country who have for years
watched the movements of the Little
fields, Gallingers, Humphreys, and all
their retinue of millionaire shipown
ers, and who, in despair of securing
honest legislation for a ' merchant
marine, might now welcome seizure
of some of these foreign vessels car
rying American coal. Such sel2ure
Would force th.s Government to act
in a speedy and businesslike manner,
and in a very short time the Amer
ican flag would float over a great fleet
of vessels that are now available to
registry under any other flag on earth
except the Stars and Stripes. No
precedent would have been estab
lished had the Government, instead
of chartering the fleet of foreign
steamers to carry the coal, simply
purchased them outright. This was
the expedient resorted to with signal
success during the war with Spain,
a few years ago,and today all of the
best ships in the auxiliary service of
the Navy and War Departments are
foreign-built craft that were hastily
pressed Into service at a time when
stress of circumstances compelled
substitution of ship subsidy bun
combe by plain business sense.
The Government offered a- freight
bonus of 60 per cent for American
vessels to carry coal for the fleet and
several thousand tons are now afloat
In American bottoms. This extra 50
per cent comes out of the money paid
Into the treasury for the account of
the people as a whole, and the profits
of a few rich shipowners are thus en
hanced at the expense of many thou
sands of people who would prefer
cheap ships to high freights. Mr.
Littlefield is correct in his statement
that our naval fleet was without
power to support itself within the
radius of its operations, but if he had
the interest of his country as much at
heart as he has the interests of the
shipping trust, he would offer as a
substitute to the ship subsidy bill a
measure granting power to the Gov
ernment to take . advantage of the
present low . prices of foreign ship
ping, and to secure a fleet of colliers
and other tenders for our Navy. The
bill should also permit American citi
zens to buy foreign ships, and place
them under the American flag
SIMULATED POWER.
Edward VII opened -the British
Parliament Wednesday with medieval
pomp nd ceremony. The grandeur
of this function was for many years,
during the long reign of Queen
Victoria, obscured by the black
shadow ot the personal grief of the
sovereign. The throne, almost lit
erally, was hung with crepe for more
than a generation, the queen refusing
to be consoled for the death of the
Prince Consort, and keeping up
through all these years the outward
signs of mourning in her apparel and
in her public as well as private life.
The British people, 'who delight in
outward insignia of power, chafed at
the lugubrious spectacle presented by
a throne in perpetual mourning,
though they repressed for the most
part audible murmurs out of tender
veneration for their widowed queen.
Edward VII, very early in his reign,
disclosed the hand of a man at the
helm by opening Parliament with
great pomp less than a month after
the death of the queen.
The scene of Wednesday was but a
repetition of that of February 14,
1901, the occasion being one of the
most brilliant state ceremonies in the
long history of the British realm.
The king's speech held but the com
monplace utterances of the constitu
tional monarch and was received
with scant Interest by the lords of
the realm and the government of
ficials gathered In the throne room;
but the 'loyal and enthusiastic multi
tude, shut out from the Inner circle
of royalty, lined the route from
Buckingham Palace to the Houses of
Parliament in full enjoyment of the
spectacle presented by the grand
pageant.
Edward VII is a constitutional
monarch in the sense prescribed by
that term. Hence, neither women
clamoring for suffrage, nor Irish Na
tionalists demanding a fair hearing
before the courts can expect anything
by special favor or Intervention of
the king. The throne of England, as
occupied for more than sixty years by
Victoria the most conservative of
sovereigns is satisfactory to her son.
He will enjoy the panoply of power,
without troubling himself or his ad
visers about questions of reform.
The Chicago wheat market went
off with a rush yesterday, the May
option showing a loss of nearly 2
cents per bushel. The excuse offered
for this extraordinary weakness was
heavy shipments from the Argentine,
together with fairly heavy exports
from this country. Fortunately for
the United States, the farmers have
marketed the greater part of the sur
plus, and the average price received
has been so far above the average of
recent years that it has made the
business of wheatgrowing much
more attractive than for several
years. East, of the Rocky Mountains,
a large proportion of the crop has
been moved, but in the Pacific North
west there are still several millions
to go . forward. As the farmers of
Oregon and Washington have already
received more money than ever be
fore received for a single crop, - the
added millions will spell prosperity
with large letters throughout the In
land Empire.
A fellow named Schuyleman makes
complaint that The Oregonian hasn't
printed sundry long, stupid and tedi
ous letters written by him. He is one
of those who make themselves a nui
sance by trying to get before the pub
lic in long, prosy and worthless let
ters, expecting the newspaper to sur
render its space and "pay the freight"
for their exploitation. Many letters
are offered to The Oregonian, and it
prints more letters from the people
than any other newspaper on the
Pacific Coast, but it can't print all,
and never prints any from those per
sons who simply want to exploit
themselves, and rub the itch of a
poor opinion, in the hope of gaining
notoriety. The last letter this fellow
sent to The Oregonian was a long,
driveling, canting epistle, extolling
Thorburn Ross as a good and pious
man, censured unjustly by the publio.
The writer would vouch for Ross, but
there didn't appear to be anybody
who would vouch for him.
Mr. W. H. Calkins, of Eugene,
thinks the referendum system stops
far short of what the people require
for assertion of liberty and promotion
of Justice. He suggests that the system-
should - be so amended and en
larged as to call the referendum on
opinions or decisions of the Courts,
and especially those of. the Supreme
Court. It does, indeed, seem anoma
lous that any branch of the Govern
ment should be above control of the
people and of their right of review
and reversal. The initiative and referendum,-
having conquered for the
people the executive and legislative
branches, nhould now advance to
conquest of the judicial. The pre
tense that any branch of the Govern
ment should be above review ahd
correction by the people is a doctrine
dangerous to liberty. This new and
final reform is necessary to comple
tion of all that have preceded it.
Will the average or general voter
take a look at the fish bills, on the
initiative ballot, and tell which one
he wants? Will he spend days and
nights trying to find out, so he can
make up his mind? How is he to
decide how he will vote on the crea
tion of a new county in a part of the
state remote from where he lives?
Or on a plan of forcing "Sabbath
observance" in various neighbor
hoods? Or on a fanciful scheme to
put men out of office before the close
of their terms ? It will be strenuous,
men and brethren. If you undertake
it. But you will not. Nine-tenths of
you will exclaim, "Bother the whole
business!" and let it go at that. No
reasonable person could have fore
seen to what extremes either initia
tive or referendum would be carried.
Else the system would have been re
jected by a bigger vote than that by
which It was a lopted.
It is to be regretted that the Coun
cil could not see its way to approve
of the Park Board's contract with the
new superintendent promptly. With
tfie Rose Festival in sight, when the
city will be on exhibition before the
whole world. there should he no,
I shiftless, ignorant. tasteless work
aispiayea m the parks. An engineer,
however competent within his own
field, is not a landscape artist and It
is no derogation from his ahllltv rr
say that he is not a suitable person
to undertake the beautifying of the
parks for- a great national festival.
In empldying a noted specialist the
Park Board has acted wisely and
there should be no undue procras
tination in ratifying their contract.
The initiative petition for enlarge
ment of the powers of the Port of
Portland to enable It to handle the
bar pilotage and towage was filed
yesterday with the names of 2460
voters attached. The number of
signers was about 1,000 more than
required by law, and their signatures
were nearly all secured without so
licitation, not one dollar being spent
in circulating the petitions. No other
petition ever circulatedln the county
has met with such unanimous favor,
and the success of the measure, when
it comes before the people in June,
promises to be fully as overwhelm
ing as the popularity with which the
petition v.as received. '
Daniel J. Hennessy who died sud
denly on the streets of Butte a few
daysjago, is mourned by alt classes in
Montana. Working men, city and
county officials, delegations from
labor and other organizations from
the chief cities of the state marched
in the funeral procession of the dead
millionaire, who was known as "the
merchant prince of Montana." This
shows that a man may accumulate a
large fortune through his dealings
with his . fellow men and yet retain
the respect and confidence of all
classes in the community.
Judge R. S. Bean has filed his peti
tion for nomination for re-election to
the Supreme Court. He is now fin
ishing his third term of six years
each, on this bench, ani before he
became a Justice of the Supreme
Court he was Circuit Judge for a
number of years. To painstaking and
conscientious service he owes the
long favor with which he has been
treated by the people, who, doubtless,
will elect him again.
Tou don't hear anyone poking fun
these days of "canned fish" money.
It did its duty; and now that it is
dead, Portland can pay it the tribute
of gratitude if not respect.
Guilty or not guilty, immunity or
no immunity, talkative or taciturn,
you can't keep Abe Ruef oft the first
page.
Through whom, we wonder, did
Abe Ruef receive the tip that a court
of appeals would declare him innocent?
TO CONTROL COURT DECISIONS
A Fiirther Necessary Measure Under
the Referendum.
EUGEXE; Or., Jan." 28. (To the
Editor.) It seems" to the writer that In
the matter of the referendum the authors
of this Constitutional amendment have
come far short of giving this the scope
that it should have. In order to really
put the Government into the hands of
the people.
AH primary works on Civil Government
make three departments, the Legislative,
the executive and the judicial. The ref
erendum reaches all actions of the Legis
lative branch, the Recall will undoubtedly
control the executive, but the judicial,
which overshadows all in its power, has
no curb.
Now would it not be a good plan to
have the action of the Supreme Court
subject to the referendum, as by so do
ing it would be' divested of the power to
make null the action of the people, by
construction?
As the people are the fountain of jus
tice', so the right of referendum should
be extended to all cases decided by the
Supreme Court, and all suitors should
have the right to go to the fountain for
flnal decision affecting their rights. It
seems to the writer that there can be no
distinction in principle between the con
trol of the decisions of the Supreme Court
and the control of the action of the Legis
lature. If the people are to be the final
arbiters as to the form of law, they
should also' be the supreme authority as
to the construction of law.
A form of appeal from the Supreme
Court to the people themselves could be
easily arranged.
It might be urged that the expense
would be too great to print and circulate
the case and argument among the people,
but it would seem t6 the writer that that
would not be necessary, as all papers in
connection with the case, on appeal,
could be filed with the Secretary of State,
or some. other officer, and anyone desir
ing to inform themselves In regard to
the case could go there and read It. It
would be open to all. and I have no doubt
there would be ample opportunity for all
so desiring to examine Into the matter
thoroughly. In fact. It would seem to
the writer that the printing of laws and
arguments as is done In the present ref
erendum proceedings Is wholly a waste
of money, as no one ever reads any of
the stuff that is circulated. All that
would be necessary iri. order to get the
decision of the peopln would be to have
the title of the case printed on the bal
lot. It is quite possible, too, that the initi
ative could be used with effect along
this line; and by appropriate procedure
the suitor could bring his case before
the people direct, if he so desired, with
out submitting to the delay of passing
through the courts with his case.
The writer of this only offers his Ideas
along this line as a suggestion; and it
would seem that an experienced reformer
coujd from these few pointers frame an
amendment that would cure this very
fundamental defect In our basic law.
W. W. CALKINS.
-"AST EXAMPLE."
Under the above headline, the Eugene
Register publishes the following article.
The Oregonian reprints It as part of the
political discussion of the time. Such a
situation as is herein presented, would
make a dilemma indeed;, but In truth It
is Just . what very probably will occur.
But what is anybody going to do about
it? The Oregonian has been "up
against" this, or the like of this. In
several elections, and has declared its
Independence mainly because it is satis
fied with the experience It already has
had in the game. Here is the Register's
article :
In the coming; Senatorial contest In this
state, it is apparent that we shall have a
three-cornered fight before, the - primaries,
wtth Chamberlain out for ' tfie Democrats
and Fulton and Cake for the Republicans.
Now when those primary votes are counted,
say out of 100,000 Chamberlain gets 35.OO0
and the other two candidates 63.0O0. Now
here Is the actual political expression and
personal expression of the people on choice
for United Statea Senator. What will the
Statement No. 1 fellow do about those
63,000 votes which represent the preference
of over three-fifths of the voters in the mat
ter. By whatever turn the campaign might
take .-with elimination of the lowest of the
two Republican candidates for the June
elect-ion and the knifing; that might be car
ried on by 'the defeated wing of the Re
publican party, even to resulting In the
Democrat becoming the popular choice at
the polls, what Republican bound hand and
foot by Statement No. 1, would consider
himself as doing his whole duty by his
constituency If he failed to take cognizance
of the fact that the . voters of the state
cast at the primary 65,000 Republican
votes, as against 40,000 Democratic votes T
"The Lady" with the Clgrarette.
Kansas City Star.
Without disposition to be finicky or
prudish, the general sentiment will ap
prove the action of the New , York
Board of Aldermen in forbidding wom
en' to smoke in restaurants and other
public places, and would approve a
similar restriction of the feminine
highball and cocktail. The idea of
women smoking or drinking is repug
nant to a wholesome and nearly univer
sal feeling. It is out of harmony with
the ideals of womanhood and the gen
eral fitness of .things.
There is a certain standard of femi
nine delicacy that wholesome mankind
has respected which la impaired by this
recent and exotic development. .
The New York Aldermen may often
be derelict In civic affairs, but they
were fundamentally right when they
voted to retire from public view the
lady with the cigarette.'
Idle Rich Worse Than Hoboes.
Chicago Dispatch in New York World.
Professor Edward A. Ross, of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, denounced big for
tunes and Idle rich to the City Club.
"In proportion as riches and rich men
are honored in the state virtues and the
virtuous are looked down upon," salu the
professor. "A certain lawyer recently
said of Mr. Harrlman: 'He moves In a
higher realm into which we may not
enter.' Is this the spirit of AmerlcaT
An Idle, parasitic class in any commu
nity is a detriment to It, whether It is
composed of millionaires or of hoboes.
The greater danger lies in the former
class, because, while people look down
upon the hobo, they are inclined to look
up to the wealthy parasites. In emula
tion of them honest methods of getting
a living are deprecated and idleness is
exalted."
Kins Edward Wears a Corset.
New York Dispatch In Washington (D.
C.) Herald.
"AH the fat men in England of any
prominence political and social prom
inence, I mean, as well as physical
prominence come to me to have their
figures improved," said Mme. Jacques,
who arrived yesterday from Europe. ,
"King Edward Is one of my custom
ers. He is short and rotund, you know,
and his waist is" quite elegantly per
ceptible in a proper belt, but without
it" and the rejuvenator of Kings
and Duchesses lifted her eyebrows and
smiled expressively, giving one the im
pression that to reveal the true 'pro
portions of the Emperor of India and
King of Great Britain and Ireland
would be lese majeste. -
BOURNE AS THIRD TER' BOOXEIt
Oregon's Junior Senator Caricatured as
Having; a String- Ont.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
(Extracts from news report of proceedings
at the recent banquet of the Gridiron Club,
an organization of Washington, D. C.
newspaper men.)
The menu card was a campaign song
book with a song for each candidate, il
lustrated by a cartoon. For example,
the song in honor of Judge Harmon was
Illustrated by a cartoon showing 'the
judge disconsolately gazing from a lone
ly tent at an army flocking into Bryan's
camp, and the first verse, to the air of ,
"Tenting xomgnt, was:
I am tenting tonight In the old camp
ground
"Where we tented in '92;
But I'm tenting there all by myself.
And it makes me feel quite blue.
Presently one of the members arose
and read a section from the Court Jour
nal, one or tne verses oi wnicn follows: v
Hear the fellows with the booms
Selfish booms!
What a world of merriment is echoed from
the tombs!
- How they speak and speak and speak.
In the day and in the night:
While the voices growing meek.
Listen week succeeding week
With a grouchy, sad delight ;
Keeping tab, tab, tab.
To the oversowing blab
That emanates so constantly from their
committee rooms.
From the booms, booms, booms,
booms.
Booms, booms, booms.
From the crashing and the smashing of the
booms.
Somewhat later, one of the members
entered with a large letter which he de
clared had been given him by Senator
Bourne, the persistent and indefatigable
boomer of a third term for the Presi
dent. "Mr. Bourne says," explained the
bearer, "that this is the original of
President Roosevelt's letter of with
drawal, and he calls your attention to
the fact that it has something tied to
it."
Wherewith he unfolded a long string
and retired.
Above the tables, as the dinner pro
gressed, floated varl-colored balloons,
each representing some Presidential
boom. The presence or a number ot
Presidential candidates was one of the
features of the dinner, and a good deal
of the fun was directed at them.
An examiner suddenly said:
"Judge Gray, give, an example of
a fixed habit."
"William Jennings Bryan," was the
prompt reply.
This examination was suddenly ended
by the appearance of the double of Sen
ator Bourne, who began -delivering his
well-known argument about the necessity
of glv ng Roosevelt what Mr. Bourne
calls ' a second elective term." It ef
fectively broke up the proceedings. Each
man whom he addressed picked up his
chair and went off with it. Finally,
Bourne, finding himself deprived of his
audience, picked out a vacant chair and
began delivering his argument to It;
whereupon the chair walked out of the
room all by Itself.
Then a fortune teller appeared with a
crystal ball In which he saw strange
things for Instance, the Union Station
filled with runners from Vice-President
Fairbanks seeking for Incoming passen
gers from Indiana whom the Vice-President
might invite to dinner. He also
saw Ellhu Root, "who," he said, "would
rather make a bright saying than be
President."
"Then why does not he?" inquired a
member.
"Did you hear the President's last
words to Admiral Evans before . he
sailed?" inquired another. '
"No; what did the President say?" ,
"He says, 'Bob,' he says, 'Bob,' says
he.
" 'Don't call me Bob,' says Evans;
'call me 'Doc.' "
THE PRIMARY LAW.
And a Dissertation on Statement
Number One.
PORTLAND, Jan. 30. (To the Editor.)
I am one of that class of Republican
voters that Is receiving a very consider
able amount of hectoring by the press
and politicians, and I ask privilege of
a word in defense. Referring to Mr.
Hodson's definition of a Republican as
one who votes the Republican ticket and
works for and with the party, I would
merely say that was David Bl Hill's
definition of a Democrat made seven
years ago. Mr. Hodson, you must try
again. There is an old-fashioned idea
prevailing in the minds of a good many
people that parties were the creations
of principles and were only necessary or
Justifiable for this reason. Mr. Hodson
and Judge Lowell, of Pendleton, seem to
think that the party ' machine must be
maintained regardless of principles; that
the party, through its machinery, must
define and designate the principles and
measures on which its adherents must
line up and stay In the ranks. Thus they
assert that acquiescence In Statement
No. 1 Would destroy the party or the
machine. Mr. Hodson says that no can
didate that subscribes to Statement No.
1 will get his support. To offset this,
I declare that no candidate for the
Legislative Assembly that refuses to sign
Statement No. 1 will get my vote. " So
there, Mr. Hodson, is a proposition. I
am a plain, common citizen, but I am
one of a pretty large class; my vote will
count Just as much as yonrs. Candi
dates had as well make note of this
the plain, common voters will most
likely outnumber the politicians at the
polls.
It is not my purpose to discuss tho
merits or demerits of Statement No. 1,
or of the primary law. I will only sa?
that these have not been on trial long
enough to determine anything definitely.
There is one thing certain, that in the
selection of United States Senators by
the people rather than by the Legisla
ture, there would be removed the prin
cipal cause and means of corruption.
The people now elect Representatives to
Congress, and practically the President
of the United States. Are they not just
as competent to choose their United
States Senators? The Presidential elec
tors merely record the will of the people
in the' election of the President. The
Legislature should also merely record
the will of the people in the selection
and election of United States Senators.
If the people in a Republican state, as
Oregon undoubtedly is. should choose to
elect a Democratic or Populist Senator,
they certainly have the right and should
have the privilege. The will of the peo
ple should be supreme. No politicians lri
the interest of party should be permitted
to thwart this expressed will. Every
candidate for the Legislature should be
required to sign Statement No. 1. and
the voters should see to it that he is of
such character that he will keep h
promise if elected.
AHIO S. WATT.
The Will of a Woman.
Chicago News.
If a woman will
Don't attempt to chide.
AH your wordy skill
She will put aside.
She won't be denied:
She'll keep on until
All has been supplied
If. a woman wilL
If a woman will
You to her must bow.
Thus avoid a chill.
- Thus srevent a row..
Give It to her now.
She might take it ill;
Anything allow
If a woman will.
If a woman wilt
Then she will you know.
"Swallow down your pill.
If she'll have it so.
Don't you fume or fret;
Smile and pay the bill.
What she wants she'll get
If a woman will.
FOREIGN TRADE ENCOURAGING.
Government Returns Show facie Sam
la I. a rarer Exporter Than Ever.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The foreign trade returns for December,
just published from Washington, D. C,
reflect in a striking way the revolution
which the pjnic has brought about in the
home market. This is best shown uy a
comparison of the merchandise figures
with those for the same month In pre-,
vlous years:
Excess of
December. Kxports. Imports. export..
190T f2ti7.179.43ft- fii2.SSS.771 f 114.Si9V.rtf5
1948 190.S99.977 lK4.K4u.7iH 5VW217
1906 lnn.7"8.52n 101.H2.799 9S.Ssj.7.'l
1904 14S.2.V1.259 00.8116,739 4SIM MH
19113 174.819.506 , 77,7rtS.fi."4 87.orf. -2
192 147.092,40:1 S4.SW.VS7 M,K.41(i
1901 1M,41.5K9 79.920.271 a7.vi2.S-l3
19CO 145.SSU.S71 0S.6U7.207 77.102.UJ1
The quick and radical reduction in the)
home market's capacity or disposition to
absorb goods Is Bhown in the sharp fall
ing away of imports from the record fig
ure of J134.0O9.OX) a year ago to Ji'li.OOO.'M)
last month. On the other hand, exports
made a new high record of J2O7.0O0.O0O un
der the force of a general liquidation in
duced by the financial crisis.
The result Is a phenomenal favorable
trade balance of $114,S90.600 a figure never
before equaled or closely approached with
in a single month. Net Imports of gold
in December amounted to f43.444.0CS. com
pared with J5,736,342 a year aso, whi.e sa
ver exports and Imports just about bal
anced each other. Thus the apparently
unsettled trade balance for last month
reaohed the . figure of f71,446,000. which;
would have sufficed to pay off quite a
volume of obligations, euch as the return
of American sttx ks held in i-urope, asldo
from those current Invisible obligations
common to our situation in relation to tht
outside world. It may certainly be said
that the great amount of gold imported;
during November and December, aggre
gating about J107.000.000 In excess of a
driblet of gold exports, according to the
Government's figures, does not at present
represent a oa.n to be called back later,
but has been paid for In produce and mer
chandise. The phenomenal December trade results
assist iri establishing some new records
for the country's foreign trade during tho
past calendar year. Compared with the
year 1806 the account stands as follows:
loor. ltioe.
Merchandise ex
ports fl,23,49S,43 fl.7WS.243. 434,
Merchandise im-
ports 1.423.326.680 1.820,501,BT
ISrcess of exports. f 600.171. 7M f 477,741. S-J
Net sliver exports. 15.618.677 1I.729,2:
Total exports.. ..f 613.7S5.B31 f 494.471,1 II
Net gold Imports.. K8.1K2.SS3 IoS.SI0.222
Apparent unset- . .
tied balance f 427.603.246 f 885,600.890
Both exports and imports of merchun-,
dlse in 1907 exceeded oil previous records;.;
and so did the balance of JJOO.000,000 on
merchandise account, and so also of the
apparent unsettled tradj balance remain
ing (tfter the movements of specie have
been taken into consideration.
It is, evidently a strong position which;
the' country occupies in its commercial
relations with the outside world strong
for a debtor nation: and we may thus be
able to hold large command over the in
ternational exchanges In relation t- the
movement of gold. The fall of prices and
decided check to consumption in the homo
market will operate to reduce imports de
cidedly, while exports will Increase, at
least in quantity, through the necessity
created of seeking larger outside markets
for the products of our factories. That
"American peril' is likely to become more
of a reality -than ever before to commer
cial Europe during the next year or two.
SOUTH CAROLINA UWOR GRAFT
More Than $4,000,000 Stolen Under the
S'nte'a Dispensary Law.
Atlanta (Ga.) Dispatch to N. T. Sun.
"In the 14 years of the South Caro
lina liquor dispensary law, the amount
stolen and grafted aggregates between
f 4,000.000 and f 3,000.000, conservative
ly estimated." said T. B. Felder, of At
lanta, who has been assisting the Attorney-General
of South Carolina In
prosecuting cases against alleged bribe
takers and bribegivers.
Warrants .have been issued against
40 or 60 men' all over the United
States, says Mr. Felder, charging them
with conspiracy, defrauding the State
of South Carolina, with perjury and
with accepting bribes.
It is stated that among those who
will soon be Indicted by the grand
jury in Columbia "will be wholesale
whisky dealers of Atlanta, Macon, Au
gusta and Savannah.
One of the worst cases appears to be
that of a Cincinnati Arm, which
claimed that the state owes it J35,000.
The Commission declares that the. firm
owes the state f63,000 overcharges and
fraudulent charges.
Attorney Felder says some of the
most prominent politicians In South
Carolina are involved in the scandal.
India's Two Ileal Prodigies.
Kansas City Star.
India lays claim to two boys who. If
the report be true, are real prodigies. A;
Benares newspaper says: "When the
elder was 2 years of age he acquired the
alphabets of several languages almost
unaided, and by his fifth year got by:
heart the whole of the great grammar of i
Panini, together with several English.
Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali books. By
his sixth year he was able to write a
round hand- and solve problems of arith
metic. Now, in his seventh year, he hasi
taken up the vow of an ancient Brahmar-;
charln, after being invested with the staff
2one, urn, threads and black antelope.;
skin, and is studying the Vedas. Thai
other boy, his younger brother, now about
4 years old, is able to read books in San
skrit, Bengali and Hindi with ease, and
can commit to memory any passage on
hearing it once or twice."
To Him That Hath, Comes More. '
The Kansas City Star.
The late Henry C. Havemeyer. head of
the sugar trust, leaves an estate of J25.
000 000 to his heirs. Mr. Havemeyer dur-,
i'ng his lifetime made no disguise of the
discriminative method by which he was
enabled to unjustly levy tribute upon the
sugar consumers of the United States. It
was he who frankly declared that the
"tariff was the mother of trusts." Dying,,
he pays nothing back. There are no pub
lic bequeBts or benefactions.
At Home and Abroad.
Detroit Free Press.
Abroad we always try to be
Polite; we study etiquette;
The tricks of high society .
We never have forgotten yet.
We stand upon our dignity.
At least, as far as we are able.
While waiting, you will never see
Our hands above the dining; table.
Our soup we never, never blow. ,
We never start right in on cak;
We modulate our voices low.
We seldom ever make a break.
We never josh the maid who serves.
Nor look to see If she is pretty;
In fact we're on to all the curves
Of high "f8 ln a modern city.
To think of asking for dessert
Before the solid coarse Is througti
Is something. I may here assert,
That we would never, never do.
All proper customs we obey.
On celery we never haunch:
We dine in quite the proper way.
And then go out and buy a lunch.
At "home 'tis very" different, though.
Our elbows on the tables rest;
If hot. our tea we always blow.
And eat the way that pleases beet.
We Josh the maid and roast the cook.
We call for things we do not see;
And sometimes father reads a book.
Which may not be propriety.
We even In our shirtsleeves dine.
While mother wears a dressing gown;
The customs, gjadly we resign
Of all best families in town.
Abroad our etiquette's displayed,
Our manners perfect, I repeat;
At home behavior's not our trade.
But there we get enough to, eat. -