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Newspaper Page Text8 THii MORNING OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908. mxxnw SIBSCRIPTIOX RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By MalL) Dally, Sunday Included, una year IS 00 Dally. Bunday included, six months.... 4.25 I'ally, Bunday Included, three months. . 2.25 Illy. Sunday Included, one month. . lJally. without Bunday, one year l-atly, without Sunday, six months 3.2o Dally, without Sunday, three months. . '1.75 l)ally. without Sunday, one month -W hunday, one year .3U Weekly, one year (issued Thursday)... 1 Sunday and weekly, cne year 8.00 BY CARRIER. Dally. Sunday Included,- one year 00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month HOW TO It EMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress in rull, including county and state. POSTAGE KATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce as Second-f 'lass Matter. JO to 14 Pases i c , 18 to 28 Pain J cents SO to 44 Panes 8 cents to 80 Panes cents Forelrn postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage is not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckvcith hpcclal Agency New Tork. rooms 48-60 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms 610-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex; Postoffioe News Co.f 1"H Dearborn street. St. Paul. Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Colorado Springs. Colo. Bell. H. H. Denver Hamilton ana Kcndrlck. 908-013 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. S. Rice, George Carson. Kansas City. Mo. Rlcksecker Cigar Co, Ninth and Walnut; Yoma News Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugh. B0 South Third. Cleveland, O. James Pushaw. SOT Bu Derlor street. Washington, D. C. Ebbltt House, Penn sylvania avenue. Philadelphia. Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office; Frnn News Co. New York Cly. D. Jones Co.. 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(ioldfleld. Ner. Louie Follln: C. E. . Hunter. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. FRIDAY, FEB, 1. 190. TJIE SANITY OF ROOSEVELT. The New York Sun, organ of "the interests," thinks President Roose velt's actions prove him to be insane. It puts- the suggestion and conclusion delicately and pityingly, thus: We may only remark that in respect of tone, of substance and of Intention, the message delivered to Congress yesterday by the Chief Magistrate of the United States is absolutely without precedent or parallel in our docu mentary history. Comment on Its contents is unnecessary; It Is the method, the manner, the aura that are most disturbing. Can any person skilled In the psychologle indications read this) portentous diatribe with out perceiving that its legitimate place Is lather in the inwards of a carefully-framed hypothetical question addressed to experts than in any respectable collection or state papers? It Is an even more disturbing reflection that the hand which penned this message is the same hand which directs the American Navy, now on its mission toward unknown possl- nintles. God send our ships and all of us good luck I And yet the American people be lieve in the sanity of Theodore Roose velt and approve the actions, the course, the policy, that "the interests" regard as proofs of insanity. The Sun rather stretches the truth when it asserts that the President's special message la "without precedent or parallel in our documentary his tory." Most of our statesmen have spoken out plainly when there was occasion for it. Especially was this ' true of those who stood at the head of affairs before tire Civil War. The Re publican party originated in plain speaking. Though its beginnings were deeply rooted in the fundamental ideas of our history, it came into be ing' as a party of protest against in tolerable wrong, of constructive hos tility to special privilege. In continu ing this protest and this hostility Mr. Roosevelt merely obeys the enduring impulse which Is the soul and life of the Republican party. If he puts his rrotest in unusual form, the circum Ftances are unusual which confront him. If his hostility is energetic, we must not forget that the foes of the country whom he attacks are ener getic, powerful and incredibly astute. He might have spoken of the trusts and the robber magnates in terms of polite endearment; he might have ob scured their crimes in a oloud of fine language. But if he had done so he would not have accomplished the- pur pose he had in mind. That purpose was to arouse the country to the danger which menaces, a danger serious and imminent. The ; plutocratic oligarchy, like the oli . garchy of- slaveholders half a century ago, has its hand on the throat of " the courts. Any judge who dares to defy its mandates in his decisions is assailed with systematic slander; any t ourt which It cannot control it seeks to disgrace by falsehood and calumny. The plutocracy aspires tp rule the country by controlling the Judiciary. It - aspires also to corrupt legislation at the source by filling the' Senate with its creatures and driving the House with an ox goad in the. hands of its most serviceable retainer. It seeks to destroy the influence of the Executive by mendacious sneers, such as we read in the above quotation from the Sun. The President wrote his special message to bring these facts clearly before the eyes of the country, and he succeeded. " Newspapers like the Sun and men like those who dictate its policy are always at a loss to comprehend simple honesty and direct, unequivocal speech. Accustomed to astute indi rection, habituated to veil, their pur poses until it is no longer possible for their intended victims to escape, they are astonished that anybody should deal openly, frankly and sincerely with great public questions, as Mr. Roosevelt does. Indurated to deceit, the plain truth appals them. They have relied so long on words to con ceal their purposes that they -think the President insane when he ex presses a straightforward intent in unmistakable language. In brief, just 'as some of the. hangers-on mistake theft for business enterprise, so the -.magnates themselves mistake blunt candor for insanity. "The man is tell ing the truth," they cry In astonish ment, 'he must "be crazy." They know very well that they themselves would never tell the truth unless they were crazy, and, they Judge the President accordingly. THE INITIATIVE "PERFESH." Initiative measures do not start spontaneously. Some are hobbies, and the hobby-makers start them. These are simple fads, that their au thors or devotees have cherished all their lives, without ever having had a chance before to get a hearing for them. The great body of the sensi ble and practical folk wouldn't listen. Other some of these measures are schemes in which their promoters have a special Interest one grab game or another. The initiative sup plies a method, or starts a hope, of getting these whimsies, or graft schemes, enacted into laws. The hope is to smuggle them through, by stealthy method knowing that the electors are likely to be careless or ln attentive, or unwilling to be troubled with such matters, and will either vote yea, or not at all. The business of procuring signa tures for initiative measures is be coming an "industry" of the state. It Is rapidly creating a professional class, who find in it profit and thrift. The "perfesh" will undertake to get names for any Initiative petition, so as to fulfill the requirements of the law. The rate the solicitors are paid depends on the earnestness of the au thors of the scheme, the extent of their hopes of profit through it, and their ability to pay, compared with the prospect of the profit or gratifica tion to themselves. Payment of three to five cents a name is the rstost usual fee to canvassers or solicitors; but if there is good promise of graft or profit from the law that is proposed, ten cents has been charged and paid and even more, when the time was short and the petition had to be filed soon. At three to five cents a name, can vassers have been known to boast that it was easy to make eight to ten dollars a day; because the person to whom such petition is presented al most invariably signs in order to get rid of the solicitor and avoid his en treaty and explanatory harangue. To almost every initiative petition for a general law-; perhaps every one the signatures necessary for its filing are obtained in this way. It is not so much so with referendum bills, yet to some extent it is the same, as to them. Completion of the work of the "ini tiative perfesh" takes the petitions up to the Secretary of State, who is charged with the duty of preparing the methods and arguments for their exploitation. The State Printer's bill, and the bills .for stationery, postage and clerical service, become very heavy. All these are charged against the state. The utmost vigilance will always be necessary, on the part of the electo rate at the polls, to prevent jobs in these bills, or foolish measures that are mere fads, from being sneaked through. But the great majority will not be vigilant, they will pay no at tention; and herein is the real dan ger. GREEK. The report comes by- way of the Boston Transcript that Dr. Joseph Wood, head master of the famous English school at Harrow, has de clared that "Greek must go." In his school, which educates great numbers of leading Englishmen, "the place of irGleek will be taken henceforth by art. music and the modern languages. One almost necessarily infers that science, too, will play a more con spicuous part at Harrow than hereto fore. ' All this is in concord with the changing conditions of the modern world. The time when Greek was es sential to an "education" has passed away. But the time when the world can spare Greek culture has not come and never will. . Most of us are will ing enough to admit that our modern, scientific, evolutionary civilization be gan for all practical purposes with the renaissance some time before Co lumbus discovered America. The re naissance owed its potential energy to the rediscovery of the Greek language and literature. Perhaps if they had never been opened up to Western Europe we might have had chemistry, electricity, steam and free thought, but they would not have come to us so 'soon by hundreds of years, and it is conceivable that they might never have come at all. The debt of the Aryan world to the Greek language and the books written in that golden tongue is beyond all computation, and we have, not been stingy in owning it. - For two or three centuries the speech of Plato has formed the foundation of college cur riculums and what began as a grate ful acknowledgment of benefit con ferred has finally begun to degenerate into intellectual formalism. The Western world has begun to feel Its burden of Greek as a sort of intellec tual slavery. It feels somewhat as if the greatest of the literatures was lit tle more than a squeezed orange. Why should the succeeding generations of English and American youth continue to suck it? " The tendency now is to discard Greek and revert to that condition which- .Erasmus ' found at Oxford, where not one of the professors could read Homer. We can easily carry this tendency too far. For every boy and girl to go through the pretense of learning Greek in college , is absurd, but-to banish it from the curriculum would be lamentable. All that we have and are comes directly or indi rectly from the land of Hellas. Greece 'taught us how to think, how to write, how to act in civilized society, 'how to pray, how to govern, how to question the universe, and how to die. Chris tianity is half Greek. Philosophy is all Greek. Science travels the long way which the far-sighted Stagirite pioneered two thousand years ago. Religion still follows afar off in the footsteps of Plato. To cease the study of Greek would be like denying our intellectual parentage. We should be gin to wander in a world which we could not account for. Still Greek is. becoming more and more a study for the elect few who have special aptitudes and tastes. It is a difficult language, requiring years o application. The time the ordinary student spends upon it may not be en tirely wasted, but he seldom goes far enough to receive much return except in a general knowledge of the laws" of language. Sound intellectual economy would turn his efforts in other direc tions. While our colleges will always continue to teach Greek, the classes will be likely to diminish progressive ly in numbers. Perhaps ultimately it will become a purely university or "post-graduate" study, like Sanserif and Hebrew, and the ordinary person will depend upon translations for his knowledge of the noblest literature of the world. But was there ever a time when he did not? WHAT A SPECTATOR SEES. This kind of thing is going on in Multnomah County and all over the state. That is to say: Democrats are registering every where as Republicans, and in the pri mary they will vote for the Republi can candidates for the nominations whom they deem weakest and most easily beaten. Then In the general election they will vote for the Demo cratic candidates. Moreover, if they can commit Re publican candidates for the Legisla ture to Statement No. 1, they will ex pect a Republican Legislature to elect the Democratic candidate to the Sen ate; for whom, by their sharp prac tice, they have secured a plurality of the popular vote. Again, by such practice, they might get one or both members of the House of Represent atives in Congress Now all this, even if it should suc ceed, wouldn't concern The Orego nlan, or make a particle of difference; only it wishes it understood that it isn't a mere gull, that doesn't know what's going on about it, or foresee futurities. Every kind of fraud and deception is 4n this business. It Is a juggle arid a cheat, through and through. This journal doesn't concern itself about the result. To that it Is indifferent. But it would be sorry if it were so stupid that it could be duped or fooled, and not know the intent and tendency of things going on round about it. EASY EXPLANATION. Rev. George R. Varney wants The Oregdnian to explain what it meant when it said that "he (Varney) has too much to say that isn't true." The Oregonian meant Just that. In a pub lished letter Mr. Varney warmly de fends the famous Baker City "pink circular" and says that "no man in Baker City has denied the truth of a single statement made in the circu lar." We summon Varney as i. wit ness in denial of its truth. The Baker Ministers' Association, including Var ney, has subscribed to a complete apology to the public and to Judge Smith for lying about the Judge In that circular. Wlthoujt Investigation, these min isters made against the judge the shocking and Inexcusable charge that he was drunk on the bench. It was not true. Varney and his fellow-preachers gloss over their gross fault by boasting of their hu mility in "confessing their deep regret at making such a blunder." They would not have made such a blunder if they had had any proper appreci ation of their sacred duty to use every reasonable effort to learn the truth before they attempted to proclaim it. These. Baker City preachers rushed out thl3 sensational fly-by-night cir cular in such haste as to Justify the suspicion that they feared they might by some chance ascertain the facts before they had opportunity to attack the Baker City authorities and malign the good name of an upright Judge. Varney no doubt wrote the circular, and the other preachers no doubt "supposed" his statements were true. There are some things even a preacher should not take on faith. RECOUPING BY ECONOMY. The effects of the recent upheaval, which began as a "rich man's panic" and ended by throwing several hun dred thousand poor men out of em ployment, -are still coming to light. The "rich men" are all taking sub stantial nourishment at regular meal times, but they seem to be practicing retrenchment in their expenditures for luxuries. An Associated Press dis patch notes a decline in the January imports of precious stones " at New Tork of over $3,000,000 compared with -the imports for January, 1907. There was also a heavy decline in the number and value of automobiles Im ported in January, as compared with January. 1907. The total amount of Imports of all classes was more than $27,000,000 less than for January, 1907. - . The, people who import precious stones and automobiles, of course, form but a small portion of our popu lation, but their, forced retrenchment is fully as significant as that of otrtier members of society who will never have Intimate association with dia monds or automobiles. -This policy of retrenchment will affect our customs revenues, but it Is a hopeful sign for the future. Mr. John W. Gates, who escaped from Wall street shortly be fore the temple of speculation col lapsed, told a New York reporter a few days ago that he knew that good times were surely coming, for he no ticed that the people were wearing their old clothes. It must necessarily follow that, if the people stop buying automobiles and diamonds and con tinue to wear their old clothes, it is only a question of a short time until they will again be prosperous. Lord Welby, an English financier of considerable note, has been making a study of the recent crisis in this coun try, and has Imparted his views to the world through the Contemporary Re view, of London. The importance of wearing old clothes and retrenching on expenditures wherever possible is suggested in his statement that "the capital required to extend business and to open new fields of trade can only be supplied from the savings of the world. From these accumulations, and from nowhere else, must be de rived the capital ruthlessly destroyed in war and the sums usefully em ployed in the works of art and peace. The moment that . the passions., the extravagances and the legitimafe needs of the world trench, too closely upon these accumulations, then finan cial stringency is inescapable." Not all of the blame for the recent crisis Is charged up against the ex travagance of the people, for Lord Welby is vigorous in his condemna tion of our frenzied finance specula tion; but he makes It quite clear that rigid economy and industry will be necessary on the part of every one to bring about speedy recovery. It was not an unmitigated hardship that the extravagance of the people was checked at the same time a halt was called on that wild fever of specula tion In Wall street. Wffh booming prosperity on every hand, much less attention was paid to saving money than there was to making it. Petty economies were Bcorned and countless millions were wasted on automobiles and other luxuries which were not needed. It will be many years before some of our people will again get reckless with their savings, and indiscrimi nately purchase luxuries which can not contribute to their happiness or well-being, in anything like propor tionate ratio to their cost. The les son has been a severe one, and will hardly need repetition for those of the present generation. The records of political economy throughout the world are replete with evidence tending to show that the pio neers in almost any branch of en deavor receive remuneration scant in deed in comparison with their succes sors in the same calling. The enter prising brigand who captured Mary Ellen Stone was obliged to dispose of Ills capture for the beggarly pittance that could be scraped together by the religious societies which were respon sible for Mary Ellen being at large. Then came Raisuli -and gathered i Perdicarls, the American. "Perd" was of very little more use to the 'American people than Miss Stone, but the price had advanced and it cost approximately $50,000 to get him out of the clutches of the bandit. The Incident, however, awakened in Rai suli the thought that he was not get ting all that the traffio would bear, and as a result we are now informed that Great Britain must pay $100,000 and grant immunity from punishment to Raisuli for restoration of Cald MacLain. Wtih such a steady rise in the market price It will soon require a King's ransom to bring in the stray Caucasians who fall into the hands of the outlaws. If a lunacy commission does not in terfere with the decree of the court, and Harry Thaw is permitted to re main quietly in the Matteawan State. Hospital for the Insane sans tobacrb, liquor and rich food; -kept strictly within hospital regulations as to reg ular hours for sleep, meals and exer cise, -and restrained from all vicious Indulgences, he may in the course of ten years become a reasonably clean, decent man, who can be discharged from the asylum with safety to the community. His mother, good woman, makes the mistake common to moth ers of vicious, irresponsible eons, in resisting the decree that forces this degenerate into retirement. Therein, as wide experience proves, lies her only hope of release from anxiety lest he further disgrace his family through crimes against society. The good woman who seeks, in tears and en treaties, the release of a degenerate son from durance for crime is an ob ject of sincerest pity. The Governor or commission that denies this plea performs not only a distressing but a heroic duty, and is entitled to the commendation of the public that is thus signally served. A philosopher of the green cloth remarked that the keen delights of playing faro bank were riot infre quently marred by the cver-recurrlng thought that, while a man one day might have $100, there would be 100 days In which he had no dollar. Some such thought must be forced on Mr. C. W. Morse, who for a few fleeting months was credited with wealth ap proximating $20,000,000 and is now a fugitive from Justice, worth several hundred thousand dollars less than nothing. It is perhaps wrong, how ever, to mention the game conducted by Messrs. Morse and Heinze in con nection with a faro bank, for by com parison the latter is immediately ele vated to the ranks of strictly legiti mate undertakings. The more we read of the high finance games of New Tork the easier it is to under stand the difficulty encountered " by Eugene Canfleld in conducting a faro bank in that city with nothing but the "splits" as a legitimate percentage in his favor. Ex-Premier Franco, for a short time dictator of Portugal, has left his country for his country's good and is now in Spain. He is followed to his retreat by the hatred of the people and the reproaches of the royal fam ily of Portugal, who lay the death of the King and Crown Prince at his door. His brief career and Its bloody termination prove that it is not safe to attempt to return to practices in government that the world has out grown. The Czar of Russia may, if he will, learn a lesson from the recent experience of Portugal and apply it with profit to himself in his dealings with his Finnish subjects. San Francisco Is experiencing a coal blockade, there being about 100, 000 tons more of the fuel than can be handled in present storage facilities. The liberal stocks piled upfor the coming fleet have contributed to, the trouble, but the ever-increasing con sumption of oil has also been a factor in lessening the demand for coal, thus aiding in the blockade. Despite the mild Winter and the liberal Importa tions, there is nothing resembling a coal blockade in Portland, or, if there is, it has not been reflected in lower prices. It seems that Senator Bourne has discovered that he Is not "the whole thing" at Washington. But nobody is save one. Truth is, the individual Senator or Representative whoever he may be is all mixed up in the basket of small potatoes, and has to be content with such recognition as he can get. ' William J. Bryan hopes for a Dem ocratic victory this Fall, with himself in the title role." He has indulged this hope so often that it has become second nature to him. Schuebel is exploiting the virtue of silence. This is chiefly remarkable from the fact that he was trained (so far as he has been trained) in the U'Ren school of politics. The tobacco trust has sliced the usual large quarterly pie and served it to stockholders. It takes more than a Wall-street panic to injure Amer ica's staple Industry. On February 25 New Tork City will annex New Jersey by submarine tun nels. President Roosevelt acting as master of ceremonies. Shall we have the referendum on court decisions? It would be great est of all possible reforms. Who furnished the tip that Ore gon's delegation will Eplit even on Ta and Hughes? MRS. EDDY'S TRANSFERRED SHRINK Precedents for the Change of Base sf Cbrlstlan Science. New York Times. Famous historical precedents for the sudden transfer, in the night, of the shrine of Christian Science, from Con cord, N. H., to Brookline, Mass., are the flight of Mohammed from -Mecca to Medina, and the removal of the Mormon Church from Nauvoo to Salt Lake. Irs. Eddy's removal of her lares and penates, if we may be pardoned for associating the doings of this high priestess with pagan names, is not quite so explainable as the flight of the prophets of Islam and Mormon. We have not heard that the New Hamp shire climate is unfavorable to the de velopment of the cult, and In view of the prosperous grq,wth of Christian Science since 1S89, when its "discoverer and founder" first made her residence In Concord, we should infer that the condi tions there were all favorable to her denomination. The circumstances of the flight, how ever, Indicate that the need of secrecy was felt. The new shrine had been care fully prepared beforehand, and although there must be a small army of newspaper reporters near the place, not one of them had learned what was going on. The seeress informs the world that her decision to move was not made suddenly. and her desire to be near the earliest es tablished church of her cult is the only reason she gives' for the change of base. But Mohammed was never "Interviewed," and it is doubtful If he would have made any newspaper his confidant. The au thentic announcement of the presence of a physician, with "credentials," in Mrs. Eddy's suite is surprising, in view of the general condemnation of the practice of medicine by her followers. But it was doubtless wise to have one In attendance on a very old lady making a tedious journey at night. And it only proves once mors that the ways of seers and prophets are past finding out. NO WAY TO HEAD OFF MR. BRYAN Skillful Manner In Which He "Palled Off Hii Wnshlntcton Visit. Washington Correspondence of New York Times. Mr. Bryan has handled his campaign on this visit to Washington with con summate skill. He has taken a leaf out of the Roosevelt book and has become master, with a big stick. He has greeted every one of the men who secretly cher ished the intention of telling him that he ought to be the Warwick and not the candidate of the Democracy, with very much the same sort of cheerful glare that John L. Sullivan used to employ on his antagonist In the ring. As a result that secretly cherished intention has re mained secret. Mr. Bryan carried off the Newlands dinner last night on Just that plan. When the cigars were reached and the guests moved out to the smoking-room. Mr. Bryan took charge of the conversa tion, and thereafter the Senators listened dutifully to what he had to say. He began by telling them that he had heard of but one candidate for the Presi dency who had been defeated three times; that there might have been a man de feated four times, but he was absolutely certain no man had ever been defeated on his fifth campaign. Then, apropos, perhaps, of something he felt in the at mosphere, he told the story of a cow puncher in Texas who went unbidden to a ra,nch dance. The floor manager took him by the arm and somewhat abruptly conducted him outside. In a short time the cow puncher tried again. Then the manager tackled him with violence and threw him out. Aa he picked himself up the cow puncher turned to some loungers and said: "Those fellows can't fool me. I know what they mean. They don't want me." When Cannon IVu Approached. Washington Letter to Troy Times. "In all your experience," said your correspondent to Speaker Cannon the other day, "did anybody ever make a cqld-blooded proposition to bribe you for a cash consideration of its equiva lent?" "To be honest, I will say that in my nearly 20 years on the committee on appropriations I never had but one ex perience of the sort you suggnst." was the reply. And then the veteran re marked: I.will not say that I do not like money, or that I would not make money by any legitimate means, but It is my pride and glory thatio man lives who can truthfully say that he owns Joe Cannon. The representative of a very powerful institution once came to me with an offer that was equivalent to possibly $250,000, He wanted to buy me for that sum. I showed him out of my committee-room, and I will say that the concern he represented did well in withdrawing him from the Washington field. Not that I do not want $250,000, or $100,000, or $50,000, but I figured tha If I took a bribe I would have to live ever afterward with a thief and a scoundrel. Now I only have one life to live, and I do not want to spend the remainder of my days In the society of a thief. Neither' will I permit myself the. punishment of asso ciation with a man who Is the slave of another man, and the official who sells himsqlf to another is owned body and soul by that man. Selfish motives alone would keep me honest." More Stump Speech Than State Paper. New York World, Dem. The Roosevelt who makes the judi cious grieve Is he who onee more bandies epithets, who hectors Judges, who quotes with approval -a letter accusing a rail road president of crime, though he has not even been indicted; who calls for Federal "physical control" of railway operations: who follows the Bryan plat form of 1806 in denouncing "government by injunction," and who utters the dan gerous doctrine, bad in law, that "when once an inflated capitalization has gone upon the market and hss become fixed In value Its existence must be recog nized," to enforce his desire of "physical valuation" of railroads. This Roosevelt Is Intemperate, abusive, hasty. His mes sage is more like a stump speech than a state paper. It Is less an argument than a shriek. Woman's Intuition. Notes and Queries. The ideal woman does not reason; her processes of thought are instinctive, so far that she can give no account of how she arrives at them. If she at tempts to do so, her professed reasons are palpable afterthoughts, proving that logic, is at least no obtrusive fac ulty. And she is wise not to pretend it, and though she cannot reason, she is very apt to be right. POLITICAL COMMENT. The solid South may sucoeed in nomi nating Mr. Bryan at Denver, but the solid South cannot elect anybody In November. This is a point well w.orth remembering-. If Mr. Bryan shall be nominated he will not carry even a single state outside the South. Charleston News and Courier. Somehow respect for "William J. Bryan Increases when we find that there is nobody In the Democratlo party with nerve enough to tell him to hia face that he won't do. Baltimore News. Senator Watterson would serve well, but Editor Watii;rson will continue to serve better. His sockdolagers are all his own. and his party has more than deserved all he haa administered -to It In the past 12 years. Washington 8 tar. The many readers of the World who have Joined in its demand that stock-gambling be stopped by state and federal law will applaud Mr. Roosevelt's suggestion In his special message that the Government for bid the "use of the- mails, telegraph and telephone wires'' for such purposes, "Just as It does In lottery transactions." Such action would be of incalculable benefit to honest Industry. New York World. VARIED VIEWS ON THE) MESSAGE. Is a Great Moral Awakening;. Philadelphia Press (Rep.). Mr. Roosevelt's pleas will be heard and heeded by his fellow-countrymen. No man in our history, has so won them. If his unceasing zeal sometimes irritates even those who agree with him and ad mire him, this is because of the very qual ities which have made his Presidency a great moral awakening of the deeper con victions and conscience at the American people. Hints Vagruely of Trouble. New York Sun. Rep. The message is absolutely without precedent or parallel in our documentary history. Comment on Its contents is un necessary; it is the method, the manner, the aura that are most disturbing. It is an even more disturbing reflection that the hand which penned this message Is the same hand which directs the Ameri can Navy, now on its mission toward unknown possibilities. God send our ships and all of us good luck! Triumph of Wcil-SrndUd Expression. New York Evening Post (Ind. bem.) Those who have always believed Mr. Roosevelt to be a man of moderation, will find their opinion confirmed by this message. The very style of it is re strained and chastened. No abusive epi thets escape the President. He chooses the Just and mild word with scrupulous care. Other productions of his may pos sibly have been open to the charge of being Imprudent, tempestuous and ex treme, tout at last we have from his pen a perfect triumph of cool deliberation and well-studied expression. A New Bid for Totes. Boston Herald, Ind.-Dem. The message Is strangely lacking in the directness and dignity of a Presidential recommendation to Congress. Regardless of the truth or Importance of some of the utterances contained, the occasion and the circumstances attending it, together with the tone, suggest the candidate, apparent ly defiant of foes, yet suppliant of votes. The stoutest admirers of the President will regret that In his mind there exists the necessity for this descent from the high Presidential office to the Held of eampaignnig. Believes In R-oosevelt Policy Chleago Tribune, Rep. The Tribune believes in the President and in the policies with which he Is identified. He has voiced the' general de mand for a better ethical standard In huslness and in politics, which came into being before he came into office, and he has performed a great public service in arousing the conscience of the country. The Tribune believes in the principle to which he subscribed, but the Tribune also .believes that the message which he sent to Congress yesterday was unneces sary and inopportune. "Vindictive, Personal Abase." New York Mall (Rep.). The country may applaud Mr. Roosevelt. We do not know. We do know, however, that out of the cataclysm of last Novem- ber the country recalls with gratitude the attitude of the men who saved the day by deeds as valiant as those immortalized in battle, and In face of utterances from the President more destructive in effect than if a foreign naval fleet had opened fire on our greatest seaport. The people will ask by what title does our President, elected to conserve our interests, plunge us at this critical time into the chaos of class antagonism, of vindictive personal abuse? , This Tirade of Violent Abase. - New York Times, Dem. The message will be read with astonish ment at least, but also with profound regret, not unmixed with disquietude. It really consists for the most part of a tirade of violent abuse directed, upon the one hand, against those the Presi dent is pursuing, and, upon the other, against those he imagines to be pursu ing him. In the unseemly and undig nified violence of language it surpasses all his previous achievements, and by its tone and temper It engenders a nat ural apprehension as to the extremes to which this Ill-balanced man may permit his perfervld zeal to carry him. Legacy to Future Administrations. New York Tribune, Rep. Most of the recommendations con tained In the message are in no sense novel. The President's views show no weakening of his resolve to strike & Juster balance between the powers which the managers of corporations have too often misused and the duties to their stockholders and to the public which they have too often neglected. These views may not find expression in legis lation this year or next year, or even the year after. They are the legacy of Mr. Roosevelt's Administration to the Administrations which are to follow. But they contain seed which is bound to come to fruitage. Just and Sound Recommendations. Chicago Record-Herald, Rep. Other public men have suffered years of detraction and let events speak for them, but Roosevelt's genius compels him to speak out himself, and if the style of his message displeases some of his own well wishers there are thousands of others who will feel that it is just what is needed to make the war against special privilege and predatory wealth effective. As for the substance of the message, the recommendations that It contains, these already have public opinion behind them, They are Just and sound. They are in ac cordance with modern progress and the enlightened statesmanship of the age. They not only deserve hearty support but they will command the support of Demo crats and Republicans and will be written in party platforms If not In the laws of this session of Congress. Is In the President's Best Vein. Washington (D. C.) Post, Ind. As a vigorous presentation of his side of the case, it is in the President's best vein. His intense feeling is manifest throughout the message, and It is not difficult to perceive that he regards the adequate governmental control of corpo rations the greatest question before the country. His denunciation of dishonest persons and methods in business and finance goes to the limit of severity. Mr. Roosevelt does not say anything in the message, even by Inference, re garding the Presidency. The subject is left open to speculation. It remains to be seen what June will bring forth at Chicago, whether the people will take Mr. Roosevelt at his word regarding a third term, or whether they will force the nomination upon him. Yesterday's mes sage is certain. In any event, to revive the enthusiasm of those who desire the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt. Doubts Wisdom of Roosevelt Lead. Baltimore News, Ind. The greatest danger in the Roosevelt method lies in the unchecked appeal it makes to the emotions. It does not de pend on an examination of facts or of consequences, but rests Its case almost exclusively on the emotional sympathy It Is calculated to arouse. It could be used with equal effect "to advocate a law fixing a minimum wage, a law to provide work for the unemployed, a law for old age pensions, a law for any project of socialistic change. And what Is more, it will be. Suppose that all the reforms the President has now In hand were to be accomplished tomorrow; we should still not have the millennium, the President himself would not claim that. There would Btlll be rich and poor, and the poor would still suffer hardships aye, and hardships that would not seem one whit the lees because there had been a change in the law concerning injunctions. ICMBER COMPAXT WILL WAIT Old Rate Necessary for Resumption of Normal Output. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 6. (Special) The annual meeting of the stockhold ers of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Com pany, held yesterday In their offices here, resulted as follows: President, Frank H. Buck; vlce-praslden.t. E. H. Cox; manager and secretary-treasurer, George H. Kelly; directors. F. H. Buck. J. E. Danaher, E. H. Cox, George 11. Kelly. A. C. Dixon and Charles H. Brlergs. The record of the past year was re viewed, but few plans were made for the Immediate future. Nothing definite can be done until the settlement of the rate question. Of the four Lane County mills, two, located at Saginaw and Springfield, have been closed down en tirely, and the mills at Cohurg and Wendllng are running on about half time, so that the Booth-Kelly Company Is doing Just about one-fourth of Its normal business. If the rate question is settled favor ably to the lumbermen, the mills will be started as soon as business will per mit, but it can hardly be expected that all the mills will start up at once, run ning full capacity, because of the para lyzed condition ot the market. HAINES TO EXPLAIN FAILURE Sensation Expected In Forest Grove Bank Disclosures. FOREST GROVE. Or., Feb. . (Spe cial.) A meeting of the depositors snd creditors of the E. W. Haines Bank has been called, to be held at Verts Hall, Saturday, at 1:30 P. M. Mr. Haines will then submit a full statement of the causes which led the bank to close. The deposits are estimated at about $50,000, and the resources considerably above that amount. Mr. Haines further says that the troubles of the bank are not al-1 together of recent origin-, but that they date back In part to something occurring several years ago, which he expects to explain. The impression prevails in the commu nity that something Hensational will b disclosed, as Mr. Haines announces that he will be prepared to show that the financial difficulties of the bank are not due to any wrongdoing on his part. NO VERDICT IV LIQUOR CASE Jury 'Holds Canny Salnon-Keeper for Second Trial. OREGON CITY, Or.. Feb. . (Special.) Four men voted to the end to convict in the case against H. K. Tackleson, charged with the Illegal sale of liquor, which came to an end at noon today. The jurors failed to reach an agreement and were discharged by Judge LcBrlde. The case was the fourth and last of the1 Canby saloon caw. In which James '. Jesse, Ben Bermosher, Peter Holberg and; Tackleson were charged with selling li quor to minors. Bermosher and Holberg pleaded guilty last Monday and were fined $15 each,; and Jesse stood trial and was convict ed, but has not yet been sentenced. Tackleson was held to appear at the regular April term of the Circuit Court and will probably be given a second trial. CONFIRMS CARRAU DECISION Rehearing Also Denied to Co-opera, tive Uomebuildcrs. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. .8. (Special.) The State Supreme Court today denied motions for rehearings In the Mario Carrau portion of the John Sullivan es tate case-and in the case of the Attorney General against the Co-operative Homo Builders of California. It was the peti tion for a rehearing in the Carrau case which brought abor.t the disbarment of Judge J. W. Robinson, of this city, by the Supreme Court. In the Homebullders case, the Attorney-General sought to oust the California corporation from doing business In Wash ington because It has nfot compiled with 6tate laws governing bSiilding and loan associations. The decision of the Su preme Court against the coVnpany stands. BRAVE WOMAN ROtTS THIEF Seizes Revolver and Protects-' Con tents of Jloney Drawer. SOUTH BEND, Feb. . (Special.) An attempt to rob the till of the Loveless gro cery store In this city was thwarted Tues day by the bravery of Mrs. Loveless, wife of the proprietor, who routed the robber at the point of a revolver. Mr. Loveless had Just left the etore, when stranger, who had evidently waited for the opportunity, entered and went straight to the money drawer. As he broke it open and started to grab the contents, Jlrs. Loveless came from a rear room armed with a SS-caliber revolver. At her threat to shoot, the thief hurried from the store and ran up a side street. Thera was JS0 in the till at the time. xkee SCHUEBEL DECLINES TO TALK Believed Ho Will Refuse Secondary Position. OREGON CITY. Or.. Feb. 6.-(SpecIal.) -rhrlstian Schuebel remains strictly non committal about the reported develop ments at Washington In relation to the appointment of a United States Dlstrii-t Attorney. Mr. Schuebel intimates that he knows more than he will tell, but de clines absolutely to discuss the situation. He sayp he has not received a telegram from the National capital for six weeks. Mr. Schuebel declines to say whether or not he will accept the position of as sistant to the United States Attorney, but it is believed here that he will not. Railway Slakes Bridge Proposal. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) The Southern Pacific Company has made a proposal to the city, offering to construct a reinforced concrete bridge over Its tracks at or near Sixth street, the city to-make the approaches and steps leading to the top of the bluff. This matter has been pending for some time, and the proposal of the company Is now in the hands of the committee on streets and public property. Marshal Declines to Resign. SILVERTON, Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) Because he is alleged to have exceeded his authority as an officer. Mayor Wolf, at a recent meeting of the Council, re-1 quested the resignation of City Marshal A. G. McMillen. McMJllen refused to comply with the Mayor's request and there is now a deadlock. McMillen Is un der Indictment by the grand jury on a. charge of nonfeasance in office, and uis trial will be held in April. Clackamas Candidates File. OREGON CITY, Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) The first candidates to file petitions under the direct primary nominating law are County Clerk Greenman, County Re corder Ramsby and County Assessor Nel son all of whom are candidates for re nomination and re-election. Upon Mr. Nelson's petition appear the words, "Equal assessment for all." Adds Course in Italian. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or., Feb. 6. (Special.) A course in be-l ginning Italian, has ben announced by the department of modern languages. Dr. Timothy Ohloran is at the head of this department. - '