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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1808.
AWAY WITH POLITICAL JIGGLING!
These observations of the Pendleton
Kast Oregonlan may be worth a re
mark these observations, to wit:
Why are The Oregonlan, the Pendleton Trib
une and other papers run by old members of
the Oregon political machine opposed to State
ment No. 1 and the popular election of United
States senators? Have the voters ever asked
themselves the question, sincerely? Why
should these manipulators of the old ma
chine fear the people? why are they op
posed to the people's rule? Let us get into
the subject earnestly and see Just why they
fear to trust the people.
Now first let it be remarked that
The Oregonian is not, never has been,
a member of any political machine,
old or new. These forty years it has
' opposed the Republican political ma
chine, and often has censured and
even denounced it. The Republican
machine was a MitcheU machine, all
.these years. Even Democrats have
sneered at The Oregonian for its op
position to the Mitchell machine, and
repeatedly have joined with the
Mitchell machine for the purpose of
defeating The Oregonian and others
opposing the Mitchell machine. The
triumph of the Republican machine,
directed by Mitchell, over The Orego
nian, gave no greater delight to any
than to the Pendleton paper and other
Democratic organs. Such has been
the political .history of Oregon, this
many and many a year. The Republican-Mitchell
machine always had a
large Democratic element in It. Twice
this Democratic element, with the ap
proval of the Pendleton paper, gave
Mitchell his election to the Senate,
over the protest of The Oregonian.
Repeatedly The Oregonlan beat the
Republican-Mitchell machine; yet its
Democratic sympathizers helped it
out. This Is' history, known of all
men.
There was for a time a sub-political
machine, known as the Simon ma
chine. No more was The Oregonian
a member of it. It was the opposi
tion of The Oregonian to the Simon
political machine that beat it, in its
turn,
As to matters of the present time.
The Oregonian opposes Statement No.
1 because the statement is an impos
ture. It is merely a cheat. The Con
stitution of the United States pre
scribes t"he way or method of election
of Senators. This bogus statement
proposes to supersede the constitu
tional method. It proposes to make
a candidate for the Legislature prom
ise In advance to violate the Consti
tution which he is to be sworn to sup
port. Then again, the assertion that
the bogus statement is merely to re
quire ratification of the people's
choice is ridiculous pretense. The
method does not ascertain the peo
ple's choice. It puts up men the peo
ple do not want and will not support,
and then declares the result "the peo
ple's choice." It is a mere juggle of
partyism and of deceptive politics.
The Oregonian hates indirection,
fraud, deception, bosh and humbug.
This is its objection to a proposition
that asks a candidate for the Legis
lature to make a promise to violate
an oath he must take after he is elect
ed, and to do it under pretense of
obeying the wish or order of the peo
ple when the people have not wished
or ordered any such thing. It is but
a juggle: and away with jugglers
in politic-", as In all other things!
It has been so long since Portland
has had an opportunity to feel grate
ful toward Mr. Harriman for anything
that the appearance in Portland har
bor of the fine Frisco liner Rose City
is almost sensational In- its novelty.
.So much time has elapsed since Port
land has had a modern steamer on
the' route that no small share of the
passenger business has been driven to
the railroads, or, where the sea trip
was desired, to Puget Sound- With
the Rose City alternating with the
Sonator, which is a fairly good craft,
the ocean route may regain some of
its lost "popularity, and Induce the
great mogul of our" land and sea
transportation to provide two or three
more Rose Cities, or similar fine craft.
Portland has grown somewhat since
1880, but the change would never have
been suspected had one judged the
growth by comparing the ancient
scrap heaps which of late have been
in the passenger trade between this
city and San Francisco with those of
nearly thirty years ago.
GROWTH OF THE NATIONAL INSTINCT.
The article on "Working Hours of
Women," printed on this, page, is a
statement of ideas in fermentation in
the general mind. One point, how
ever, misses notice. It relates to the
relative functions of the states and of
the General Government. Appeal to
the Supreme Court of the United
States of such matters tends to show
how the functions of the states are
being lost or absorbed in the central
government showing, moreover, how
the people are appealing more and
more to the central, government as a
means of establishing large general
ideas, not merely of politics and of
economics, but of humanitarian prin
ciples deemed essential to the general
welfare. The idea is growing that the
Government of the United States is no
longer a government of limited pow
ers, but may cover all local condi
tions. This is a vindication pf the princi
ples of Hamilton, against the prtnei"
pies of Jefferson; though eVen Ham
ilton did not go so far" as to contend
that the police powers of the states,
the laws for regulation of public
health, and for' direction, of industry
on sanitary and humanitarian princi
ples, should be -formulated or inter
preted by the Government of the
United States, against that of the
states. But it is becoming evident, from
incidents pouring in on all sides, that
Jefferson's principles or theories of
government are practically obsolete.
The working classes of the country,
once sticklers for local authority and
power, are looking more and more to
the central government for support of
their claims and for promotion of
their objects. It is an appeal from
the focal conscience to the general
conscience of the Nation. With ap
proval, or at least with consent of the
people of a state, the General Govern
ment takes hold of the problem of
yellow fever in New Orleans, or of bu
bonic plague in San Francisco. The
very proposition would have made
the early Jeffersonians stare and
gasp. . The party nominally descended
from Thomas Jefferson, now finds its
leader in William J. Bryan; yet
Bryan's measures of supervision and
control by the General Government
would practically cut the states out,
altogether.
Truth is, all forces. Industrial, social
and political, are working all the time
for a consolidated nation; not con
sciously, perhaps, but all the more
surely because it is largely an uncon
scious movement. Oregon, on the
question of woman's working hours,
takes an appeal to the conscience of
the United States.
OCR PLUTOCRATIC RULERS.
The recently reported interview
with Mr. J. P. Morgan on the labor
outlook may not be true, but it is apt
ly imagined if It is false. Mr. Gom
pers is entirely right In saying that
the thoughts attributed to the New
York master of high finance have for
a long time been in the minds of a
large number of plutocrats. It is just
as well to have these thoughts haled
forth into the light of day so 'that the
country may see how they look. The
plutocrats are fighting a bitter fight
with Mr. Roosevelt to obtain perma
nent control of the Government of the
United States. It is a good thing for
everybody,to understand exactly what
they intend to do if victory should
perch upon their banners. That this
real or imaginary Interview accurately
states their purpose with regard to
the labor unions there cannot be the
slightest doubt. They will break up
the unions if they can and reduce the
laboring man to abject industrial serf
dom. His will is to be abased, his
manhood bestialized, his power to re
sist annihilated.
The clear and definite statement of
the plutocratic programme with re
gard to labor sweeps away a cloud of
cant and enables us to think to the
point upon industrial matters. For
one thing, we see exactly how much
sincerity there is in the protestations
of the plutocrats that they want a
high tariff because It keeps wages up.
Mr. Morgan's steel trust is the great
est beneficiary of the tariff, and we
now know precisely what Mr. Morgan
thinks about wages. If possible he
will force them down to the starva
tion point, and so will every other
magnate who fattens upon the profit
able deceits of Dingleyism. They love
the tariff because it fills their pockets;
if It really raised wages, they would
be the first to denounce it. The gen
uine effect of the tariff upon wages is
beautifully shown by the present state
of things in this country. We have
Dingleyism in full bloom and at the
same time every city from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific is filled with men
clamoring for work to keep them
from starvation and for the most part
clamoring vainly.
' Not only the tariff law, but most of
our other industrial laws have been
enacted at the dictation of the pluto
crats and for their class benefit. This
legislation has been so" neatly con
trived and so servlceably interpreted
by. the courts that now in the larger
industries of the United States there
is no such thing as competition. All
are united into one great system, and
the control of the system belongs to
Mr. Morgan and a few of his fellow
conspirators. Througn their hands
the products of labor must flow, and,
if they have their way, labor .will re
ceive for creating those products just
what Mr. Morgan is willing to bestow,
and not a cent more. What Mr. Mor
gan is willing to give is no longer a
matter of doubt. It Is barely enough
to keep the workman alive. The la
borer is to be. dragooned into submis
sion by grinding poverty. If Mr. Mor
gan has his way the self-respecting
American workman will soon be no
more than a memory.
We produce enormous wealth in
this country, but it flows from all di
rections into the possession of a few
individuals; and how are they using
it? What is the final and highest
product of all this toil, this sweat and
hunger? For .what lofty purpose are
our workingmen mangled on the rail
roads, mutilated in - factories and
burned to death in coal mines? What
is the ultimate flower which crowns
and Justifies the cruelties of our plu
tocratic regime? For what .great end
do multitudes of children in New
York and other cities go starving to
school, fainting with .hunger as they
sit at their desks? What is this
American Beauty rose, to produce
which, in the language of the younger
Rockefeller, most of our people must
live in misery and die in despair?
What becomes of the wealth we are
all working to produce and of which
Mr. Morgan and his aristocratic
friends are' robbing us?
Some of it goes to produce our
Thaws with their Evelyns and their
retinues of insanity experts. Some of
it provides means for our Stanford
Whites to fit up their chambers of
mirrors and procure women victims
for their orgies. Some of it furnishes
forth monkey dinners and bridge
whist parties. One fraction keeps
Wall street going, and through .Wall
street flows finally into the banks of
Morgan and Standard OiL Another
fraction of vhat is produced in Amer
ica by those workmen whom the plu
tocrats have determined to harry intp
submission goes to purchase titled
husbands for our "American queens."
Gladys Vanderbilt could afford to pay
five million dollars for her bedraggled
remnant of European aristocracy.
Some pay more, some less, but all
titles come dear. This, then, is what
we are coming to in the United States
if the plutocrats can carry out their
plans. We are to become a Nation
of degraded industrial serfs forever
slaving at ther starvation point under
the iron law of wages, while our su
periors and rulers riot in sensual lux
ury on the products of labor. Monkey
dinners and titled European husbands
are the glorious fruit of those injunc
tions. Supreme Court decisions, annul
ments of righteous laws and military
suppressions which are aiding Mr.
Morgan and his fellow magnates to
accomplish the revolution they have
planned and reduce the American
worklngman to submission. Is this
the kind of a revolution we want? Is
this what America stands for?
WORK FOR NEEDY MEN.
Except in the business districts and
in some of the near residence districts
of Portland, few streets have been
paved or eVen treated with macadam.
It is useless to scrape and haul mud
off the unpaved streets. More will be
formed at once. What is needed is
rock bottom for the streets, and then
such surface as cost of improvement
and other conditions will permit.
But this can be done only in reg
ular and due form, under the ordi
nances of the' city. It cannot be ef
fected by employment of men out of
work, for whom relief may be intend
ed. , The cost of the improvement
must be estimated, the assessment
made and the work conducted in a
legal and orderly way. This is work
for contractors, not for common la
borers, who can't wait for all the red
tape to be unwound and wound up
again, and who, even, then, would
have no means of doing the work.
But we Relieve the, city shtJuld help
the unemployed. It can do so direct
ly, and at once, simply by putting
squads of them at work clearing up
the park lands In the western part of
the city. If the city is to do anything
it should buy the tools and offer needy
men work at grubbing, logrolling and
general clearing. This is practicable,
and it would be useful to the city,
while lending help to men in need.
But there would be no use whatever
of putting them at work shoveling
mud off the deep back streets. Within
a week there would be deeper mud
under it. Those streets ought to be
improved. But it can be done only in
the legal and regular way. . It is
sheer waste to try to remove the mud
from them. But it wouldn't be sheer
waste to buy tools and set at work on
the park lands men in distress and
willing to help themselves by their
labor.
HOPS, BEER AND PROHIBITION.
A Eugene correspondent, taking
exception to recent editorial comment
In The Oregonian regarding the con
dition of the hop market, and the pos
sible effect which prohibiiton -may be
having on prices, sends The Oregonian
some .figures on the, barrel tax on
beers. These figures, which were
compiled by the 'New York .Hop Re
porting Company, show the tax for
1907 to be $60,110,595, compared with
$57,168,288 for 1906. . The corre
spondent, in presenting the figures
states: "This doesn't look as if the
prohibition wave had established a
high-water mark," and requests us to
"publish the figures, so growers may
see that their difficulties come from
short sellers principally." The Ore
gonian has no expert knowledge of
the conditions responsible for an In
crease in the barrel tax on beers in
1907 over that of 1906, but would
venture the opinion that the prosper
ity which ran riot until near the close
of 1907 undoubtedly had some effect
in increasing the consumption of
plebeian beer along with other high
er-prlced luxuries.
This might easily be possible and
at the same time admit of the prohi
bition wave inundating much new ter
ritory. That The Oregonian is not
alone in the belief that the spread of
prohibition Is affecting the hop mar
ket is shown in a Salem dispatch in
yesterday's Oregonian, which says
that nearly 1500 hopgrowers have
signed telegrams to Senator Fulton
asking him to oppose National legis
lation intended to aid in enforcement
of prohibition laws. Beer Is undoubt
edly the -least offensive of any spirit
uous liquors, and will never be entirely
eliminated from the list of beverages
used by Americans.
An Increasing population and in
creasing wealth might' easily admit of
a slight increase- in the beer output
for an indefinite period, but .it seems
quite plain that the increase in the
beer output has not been in keeping
with the increase in hop production.
bhort selling," of which our corre
spondent complains, cannot hold
down a market if the supply is insuf
ficient for the natural, legitimate de
mands. The Oregonian has at vari
ous times in the past six months
printed the best obtainable statistics
covering the hop stocks on hand
These statistics, which have .come
from growers, buyers and brewers, do
not show any wide degree of variance
on the available stocks. They nearly
all show a heavy surplus above im'me
diate requirements, one well-known
expert on the subject in yesterday's
Oregonian presenting figures which
disclosed an. excess above require
ments of 87,000 bales.
Even In these stocks on hand can
be traced the influence of prohibition.
for the manner in wiiich It is spread
ing may well cause brewers to decline
to purchase hops except in "hand-to-mouth"
quantities. From the entire
discussion two particular features
stand out clear, distinct and incontro
vertible. One is that prohibition Is
making gains throughout the country
and is checking an increase even
where it is not causing a decrease in
the consumption of beer and other
liquors. The other potent factor in
the situation is a hop production
largely in excess of requirements. But
a limited knowledge of trade or math
ematics is necessary to admit of an
understanding why hop prices are
low.
Notwithstanding the utmost efforts
of the School Board .to provide room
for the pupils of the public schools,
every building in the city is crowded
to its full capacity. Principals are
driven to their wits' end to provide
seating accommodations for all who
apply, and teachers are .taxed to the
utmost to take care of the large
classes that are assigned to them.
Contracts for a new building of eight
rooms at Richmond have been let,
while six rooms are to be added to the
new building at Arleta, and a like
number to the Shaver building. These,
when completed, will relieve the pres
sure somewhat, or they would 'relieve
it were they now ready for occupancy.
By the time they are completed, how
ever, the chances are more than even
that the pupils will be here to fill
them, as other rooms are now filled,
to their capacity. This is, however,
the last thing that the city should
complain of, since there is no surer
evidence of its permanent and healthy
growth than is found Mn the Increase
of its family life.
The promotion of General O. O.
Howard, retired, to the grade of Lieu-tenant-General
is gratifying to a mul
titude, of the people in Oregon, who
for several years hailed this valiant
soldier as a fellow-citizen. General
Howard was for a number of years a
resident of Portland, and with his
soldierly bearing, earnest, serene
countenance and empty coat sleeve
the latter a token of his presence on
the firing line at the battle of Fair
Oaks was a familiar figure upon the
streets. He has earned the honor,
not only because of his years, but be
cause of his gallant Bervice for his
country in war and his benign influ
ence upon educational and reform
movements during long years of
peace.
Epitomized from press dispatches
published yesterday: Five thousand
men back to wrork in South Chicago
rolling mills; same number resumed
operations at the National Tube
Works, Lorain, O.; 1000 operatives of
the Gorham Manufacturing .Company,
Providence, R. I., who have been on
short time since Thanksgiving day,
began on full day; tube plant at
Zanesville, O., employing 700 men, re
sumed work; big cotton mill at JSidde-
ford, Me., will resume full time .next
Monday with 4000 operatives. The
industries of the land are fast return
ing to normal conditions.
The many friends and acquaint
ances of J. Hamilton Lewis, in Ore
gon and Washington, can deeply sym
pathize with the gallant Colonel for
the unusual amount of publicity that
has recently fallen to his lot. It will
comfort them, . however, to know that
the gentleman with the sun-kissed
whiskers and the Chesterfieldian air
has always borne up bravely under
such onslaughts. : The only keen suf
fering he has been called on 'to endure
has been when the newspapers failed
to say something about him.
Human nature ,1s much the same in
a great many features and creatures.
No sooner does one vaudeville man
ager . put out a good "turn" that
strikes the public fancy than a rival
follows up the successful lead with
something similar. ,Mrs. Eddy, with
her science of healing, has built up a
large and respectable following which
Is assuming such formidable propor
tions that srn -Imitation bearing the
brand "Christian Psychology" is being
staged by another religious denom
ination in. New York.
A grand total of 18,081 children is
reported for public school work In
this city at tlte beginning of the pres
ent term, as against 16,624 last Feb
ruary. This corresponds with the ac
tivity of a home-building period un
precedented In the history of Port
land, and is a record of which tax
payers, even while they squirm at an
increased levy for school purposes,
may well be proud.
The Prince Helie de Sagan, whom
Count Bonl Castellane mistook for a
cuspidor, was awarded 20 cents" dam
ages for the assault., and Bonl was
fined $20 for his misconduct. If' the
amount awarded Prince Helie was
based on the ad. valorem system, he
must have been quite severely dam
aged in the encounter.
The Australian liner Yeddo, sched
uled to sail from San Francisco for
the antipodes on Friday, will go out
with but 1500 tons of freight, al
though she has a capacity for 6000
tons. And still the subsidy seekers
shriek for facilities for reaching for
eign markets.
Isn't observance of the first day of
the week, after all, a question of geog
raphy? In New York City the advo
cates of woman suffrage will hold a
parade next Sunday, while in Winni
peg last Sunday the police raided a
synagogue and broke up a wedding.
Belated National honor to General
Oliver O. Howard will please the en
tire Pacific Northwest, where the dis
tinguished soldier's service In putting
down tho last serious Indian uprising
is gratefully remembered.
Now that Mr. Burns has qualified
himself for" the position of noted
American, he must drop "Tommy."
The popular diminutive Is applicable
only to feather-weights and presi
dents. ' . '
Even if the "big dipper" should
supplant In the popular mind the "big
stick," the new symbol will never
carry with It a suspicion of feminin
ity in the Rooseveltian make-up.
Demand for the parcels post may
now be said to have been lifted out of
the realm of academic discussion.
The road to the United States At
torneyship for the District of Oregon
is not only steep, but rocky.
His Kansas City speech gives color
to the rumor that Taft has lined up
with Roosevelt.
WORKING HOURS OF WOMEN
The Oregon Cane Put 1 1 1o the Su
preme Court of the United States.
The Outlook, Feb. 8.
For the first time in Its history the
United States Supreme Court' has re
cently been called upon to decide the
right of a state to regulate the work
ing hours of adult women. A law of
Oregon limits these hours to 10 in one day
in factories, mechanical establishments
and laundries. Curt 'Muller, .a laundry
man, attacked the constitutionality of
this law, which was, however, upheld
by the Oregon Supreme Court In 1906.
The decision of the Federal Supreme
Court, to which the case was appealed,
will substantially determine the con
stitutionality of all laws restricting
women's working hours In the United
States. Such laws have been enacted
in 19 States, the earliest in Massa
chusetts in 1874, the latest more than
a generation afterwards. These laws
are not the result of an ephemeral
public whim, but a deliberate public
purpose. One of the leading members
of the Boston bar, Mr. Louis D. Bran
deis, generously volunteered his serv
ices as associate counsel in arguing
at Washington this Oregon case. Mr.
Brandels also submitted a brief which
is of extraordinary interest, in that it
brings before the Court the actual
facts at issue in this case that Is, the
effects, physical, moral and economic,
of regulating women's working hours.
The publication of this brief marks a
significant change in the defense of
labor legislation. Hitherto cases in
volving constitutionality of statutes
restricting: women's working hours
have been argued almost wholly upon
their legal merits. Citations and ar
guments of pounsel 'have been con
fined chiefly to the legal right of
states, under their police powers, to
enact necessary health measures, even
if such restrictions Interfere with the
"freedom of contract" guaranteed by
the fourteenth amendment of the Fed
eral constitution. This right of states
to restrict individual freedom in the
interest of public health and welfare
has been explicitly upheld by the high
est state courts and by the Federal
Supreme Court itself in Important de
cisions. The real question at issue,
therefore, in upholding the constitu
tionality of laws limiting women's
working hours is no longer in the
main a legal one, but rather medical
and social. Argument no longer cen
ters on the question whether a state
may enact such statutes, but whether,
as a matter of fact,- such statutes are
reasonable health measures, necessary
for the public welfare. It Is in em
phasizing this important distinction,
and in- having brought before the
Court the authoritative statements of
medical and lay experts, that lies the
unique value of the argument present
ed by the counsel for the State of Ore
gon. Mr. Brandels marshals authori
ties in order to set before the Court
the "facts of common knowledge" on
which legislation of this sort has been
based. These authorities show that
long hours of labor for women in
mechanical purs'uits have ill effects on
the health of the women employed (to
a greater extent than such hours have
upon men), on their safety, and on
their morals causing and increasing
drunkenness, for instance; but, what is
still more serious, these hours of work
are a menace to the general welfare,
foe they insidiously and grievously im
pair the child-bearing functions of the
workers, the mothers and future moth
ers of the race; they injure and even
destroy homes, and are responsible for
hosts of neglected children; they thus,
In a double sense bring evil upon fu
ture . generations with cumulative
force. The brief sets forth the bene
ficial effect. , in all these respects,
which has actually been secured by
restrictive legislation. No one could
be justified In attempting to anticipate
the decision of the Supreme Court on
this momentous case. On questions of
this character, however, its decisions
have not always been strictly uniform.
This case, however, as argued, illus
trates the fact, which Judge Amldon
stated in an address last Summer, that
many or the questions which come be
fore the courts In the form of c.nnxti
tutional questions are really questions
)ii mieipreiKtion 01 Human, living
CUI1UM1UHS.
The Verdict In the Hall Cae.
Modford (Or.) Tribune.
The immunity bath for many is th
price the Government Is comnnllert t
pay to secure a conviction of almost
any Kind among higher class rogues
whether it is the land fraud or th
secret rebate that is to be punished.
- To convict Hall A dnznn np an . f .... .1
ants secured freedom .from prosecution
ror turning traitor to the man wh
had shielded them from rtravtmia t
cution. A dozen' confessed perjurers
and law-breakers nre riK v. imr....
nity promises to betray their partner
111 Bum. ij. is a. nign price to pay fo
one conviction to lot a dozen escape
yet the conviction could not be ob
tained otherwise, and so perhaps th
.end Justifies the means'
In Oregon' fault is found with Mr
Heney for letting big business men es
cape to punish politicians. In Callfor
nla. fault Is found because he let th
politicians escape to punish tho bil
business men. No matter what cours
he pursues to obtain convictions, th
same crowd will find fault. '
The Ore non Experiment.
Afuncie (Ind.) Star.
Government by party i a system
based on the idea that public orfice is
a thing to be conferred by representa
tives of the people in response to the
promptings of political convictions.
Government by self-seeking- and slf
made nominees is a system proceeding
on the theory that public office Is a
prize to be picked out and won by
the man who wants it most and will
work hardest for it. It la not strange
to find direct primaries advocated by
those who hate all parties alike and
who are attracted to politics solely for
the power it gives them a power that
is held in check by party organization,
corps d'esprit, government, discipline,
principles. The result of the Oregon
experiment is deserving of study in
framing primary laws for Indiana and
other states.
No Politics.
Umpqua Valley News.
Did you ever notice how many of
the Democratic papers harp on the "no
politics" theory? This is a little
Democratic "Joker."
At the Comedy.
Arthur Stringer in "The Woman in tho
Rain."
Last night. In snowy gown and glove,
I saw you watch the play
Where each mook hero won his love
In the old unllfollke way.
("And. oh, were life their little scene
Where lore so smoothly ran.
How different. Dear, this world had been
Since this old world begarr!)"
Kor you, "who say them gaily win
Both hand and heart away.
Knew well where dwelt the mockery in
That foolish little play.
"If love were all-if love were all,"
The viols sobbed and cried.
"Then love were best whate'er befall!"
Low, low the flutes replied.)
And you. last night, did you forget.
So far from me, so near?
For watching there your eyes were wet
. With Just an idle tear!
(And down the great dark curtain fell
Upon their foolish play;
But you and I knew Oh, too well!
Life went another way!)
HOSEV. NEEDED FOR CHARITIES
Contributions) Asked from Public to
Keep l i the Work.
PORTLAND, Feb. 11. (To the Pub
lic.) The directors of the Associated
Charities, at their rearular monthly
meeting today, decided that it was
necessary to make ari appeal to the
public for more liberal subscriptions
than have been coming in, and accord
ingly decided to lay before it" the fol
lowing facts.
During the last months more than
700 different people have been kept
from starvation by this association,
and during the month preceding near
ly as many more, and some of these
have had to be continuously helped. This
list includes families and single men,
many unemployed laborers and others
of the different classes and occupations
caught by the hard times, and the help
furnished has varied with the need.
The financial strain has been heavy.
the work costing $1577.41 in December
and $3024.63 In January, and it threat
ens to continue at about the same
rate for a month or two longer. Had
it not been for money saved up from
bequests, this association would have
had to close its doors, and unless am
ple subscriptions are made It will have
to do so yet.
No effectual relief can come from
any official action by the city or coun
ty, as experience has demonstrated that
no city or county can, by any appro
priations within its power, bolster up
the labor market, and any attempt to
do so only increases the congestion in
the city and makes the call upon char
itable associations the heavier.
It is, therefore, incumbent upon the
public-spirited citizens of the city to
be generous and give liberally, and If
anyone is missed by our canvassers, let
him send his contributions direct to
the office at 305 Jefferson street. The
money Is needed now.
THK ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
By Thomas N. Strong, Edna TImma,
I. N. Fleischner, Charles E. Lndd, An
drew C. Smith, Mrs. E. B. Colwell, G.
G. Gammans, A. J. Montgomery, J. C.
Robinson, directors.-
XU SPELIXG LIST IS ISHOOD.
Simplifying; Bord litis Another Pecc of
. Phonetic AVurk.
New York Special.
The "simplified spelling board" has done
It again. A further list of words which
should be spelled, according to Its ideas
and those of President Roosevelt, was is
sued today. This second list contains
words. Here they are:
Ake, Ache.
Alle, Atsh.. '
Agast, Aghast. '
Aifabet, Alphabet. .
Autograf, Autograph.
Autum, Autumn.
Bedsted. Bedstead.
Blbllo-grafy, Bibliog
raphy. Biografy. Biography.
Boro, Borough.
Blkl, Build.
Bildlng, Building.
Campain, Campaign.
Camtor. Camphor.
Quire, Choir.
Cifer, Cipher.
Coco, Cocoa.
Colleag, Colleague.
tolum, Column.
Condlt. Conduit.
Counter-fit, Counter
feit. Curtcous, Courteous.
Curtesy, Courtesy.
Crum, Crumb.
Det. Debt.
Dettor, Debtor.
Dlafram. Diaphragm.
Dout. Doubt.
Dum. Dumb.
Eg, Egg.
Exeede, Exceed.
Foren, Foreign.
Forftt, Forfeit.
Furlo, Furlough.
Gastly. Ghastly.
Gost, Ghost.
Gardlan. Guardian.
Harang. Harangue.
Hlght, Height.
Inuetted. Indebted.
Hand. Island.
He. Isle.
Lam. Lamb.
Leag, League.
Lim, Limb.
Num. Numb.
PaintJet. Pamphlet.
Paragraf, Paragraph
b onettc. Phonetic.
Fonograf, Phonograph
Fotograf, Photograph.
Tlsic, f hthisic.
Tlsts. Phthisis.
Procede, Proceed.
Kedout, Redoubt.
Hedoutable, Redoubt
able. .
Redouted. Redoubted.
i-ent, Scent.
Sion. a?t-lon.
Hithe, Scythe.
Slssors, Scissors.
Sivt Sieve.
Slight. Sleight. .
Solem, Solemn.
Soveren, Sovereign.
Succede. Succeed.
Purfit. Surfeit.
Telegraf. Telegraph,
reletone. Telephone.
Thum, Thumb.
Tung, Tongue.
Wier. Weir.
Wierd. Weird.
Gard. Guard
lYoman. Teoman.
The board figures that the public will be
able to struggle along with this condensa
tion until it meets again to devise more
word -economy.
GREATEST LUMBER Cl'T IX Ii07.
Value of the Year's Product Is Not
Less Than $700,000,000.
Forest Service Circular.
More lumber was cut In the United"
States last year than In any other year
In its history. The enormous amount
of 37,550,736 board feet was produced,
and the mill value of this was $621,
151,388. In addition, there were pro
duced 11,858,260.000 shingles, valued at
$24,155,555, and 3,812,807,000 lath, valued at
$11,490,570. On the whole, it is safe to
say that the present annual lumber cut
of the United States approximates 40,
000,000,000 feet, and that the total mill
value of the lumber, lath and shingles
each year produced Is not less than
$700,000,000. These figures give some
idea of how vast is the lumber industry
and how great Is the demand for its
products.
A glance at the kinds of lumber pro
duced shows very clearly the passing
of white pine and oak. one the greatest
softwood and the other the greatest
hardwood which the forest has ever
grown. Since 18!i! the cut of white
pine has fallen off more than 40 per
cent, while that of white oak has fallen'
off more than 36 per cent. Today yellow
pine leads all other woods in amount
cut, while Douglas fir and tills will be
a surprise to . many c omes second.
Since 1899, the cut of Douglas fir has
increased 186 pi-r cent. Louisiana is
the foremost yellow pino state, with
Texas, Mississippi and Arkansus follow
ing in order. Washington produces by
far the greatest amount of Douglas
fir.
Hon- the Tariff Works.
Philadelphia Record.
Observe: Thousands of workingmen are
idle in the great Iron and steel and allied
Industries. The business of the railways
has fallen off one-third. All const motive
undertakings dependent upon iron and
steel supply are In a state of either em
barrassed and sickly operation or of com
plete suspension.
In the face of this disastrous situation
the giant monopolies that have control of
our ore beds and of Iron and steel produc
tion grimly reduce the output, discharge
workmen, and keep prices at the top
notch. They are as ready (with tariff
aid) to skin the consumer in the time of
his adversity as in seasons of prosperity.
They might revive business by reducing
prices. They mleht relieve distress. They
mifcht set idle hands at work. But a
policy of stand-still pays better.
Another Objector to Statement No. 1.
PORTLAND. Feb. 11. (To the Editor.)
When C. W. Hodson stated that he would
not vote for any man who signed State
ment No. 1, he showed that he was
honest, and that he is not going to do
that which would require him to vote for
a Democrat for United States Senator.
His objections to Statement No. 1 are
legitimate and merits the consideration
of every Republican In the State of Ore
gon. Now Is the time to put a stop to
this business. JOHN SHATTUCK.
A FEW SQI IBS.
"It's no disgrace to be poor." "t can
remember a time when it was no disgrace
to be rich." Louisville Courier-Journal.
Dad I wish I could be a little boy again,
tike you. Willie. Willie I wish you could,
dad-only lltiier, of -course Judge.
Nodd There was to be & meeting of my
creditors today. Todd Well, wasn't there?
"No. They unanimously agreed that they
couldn't afford to'spend the time." Life.
Hitter This paper states that it is only
a matter of time when the automobile will
reach the poor man. T'pp You bet It will
reach him if. he don't get out of the road as
soon as he hears tho first "honk, honk!"
Chicago Daily News.
Scotch keeper That's a very line car
you have got. Chauffeur Oh. it ain't a bad
car. s. K. She wa'd be a verra powerfu' car
whatever? C Oh, no; I wouldn't say that.
S. K I wsss not Judgln by the size, 1 was
Judgin' "by the smell." punch.
TK HOUSTON
0m
.BY LILIAN TINGLB.
The late Sir Henry Thompson- says in
his "Diet in Relation to Age and Activity"
that for many years It was his custom
to keep an alcohol lamp with a full tea
equipage by his bedside, and, on awaken
ing in the early morning, to make for
himself a large cup of tea with a liberal
allowance of milk, and to drink it slowly
in bed. He found this a pleasant iiml
healthy way of beginning the day. and
as he was past SO yenrs of age when he
died, tea drinking, for him at least, can
not have been tho baneful nerve-destroying,
life-shortening habit that some people
would have us believe.
The early morning cup of tea, as well
as the restful and sociaoie atteinoon cup.
Is .an English habit that is usually found
very pleasant by American visitors. In
deed I know of one American college pro
fessor who makes tea every afternoon In
his laboratory, explaining to curious
observers that he formed the habit while
in England and finds it impossible to
break. The interesting thing about it is
that he-was fi England only three weeks
altogether. But that just shows, of
course, how insidious this tea-drinklnp
business is.
If you should happen at any time to
stay a 'day or two In England and fall
under the same spell, you are confronted
on your return with the difficulty of find
ing the traditional velvet-footed, perfectly
trained maid to make and bring to you
the early, cup of tea. The afternoon tea
is comparatively easy to manage, but
half the cltarm of tho bedside cup. unless
to exceptionally vigorous people like flr
Henry Thompson, lies In Its magic ap
pearance before you, already at your
awakening.
But it now would seem that some Inven
tive genius has found a solution of this
difficulty, so that no matter though you
are your own maid or that the lady you
employ in such a capacity has packed her
trunk and departed, with or without
words, at a short notice, you need not
lack your morning comforter and stimu
lant. Just read this advertisement, taken
from the Times:
"The clock that bolls water, makes tea,
etc. You set the clock and the rest Is
done for you automatically. Wakes you.
lights lamp, boils one pint of water,
(you remember that it was a large cup
of tea that Sir Kenry Thompson found
so beneficial) pours out, puts out lamp,
and sounds gong when tea is ready, with
out human aid."
Now that is a clock worth having, it
seems to me. Probably with a little train
ing, and kindness and encouragement on
your part, it could eventually be taught
to get a complete course dinner, serve and
wait at table, answer the phone, wash
and dress the baby, sweep and dust a
room, open the door for visitors and do
the family washing, ironing and mending,
all without human aid. If the tariff on
such clocks is not prohibitive I think I
shall write to London and get the makers
to send me a nice, promising, intelligent
and ambitious one and see what the
higher education will do for It.
If you begin talking about tea. its
wholesomeness or unwho'.esomeness and
your favorite kind and method of making
it, some one is sure to remark that really
fine tea Is not to be obtained outside
of China and Japan; that you must go
to these countries if you want to taste
tea in perfection and learn the best way
of preparing and serving it, aid that none
but the Chinese or Japanese really ap
preciate Its virtues.
Having heard this sort of talk all my
life. I approached my first cup of tea In
Japan with an interest almost amounting
to reverence. It happened in Nagasaki.
I went ashore with some people who
wanted to make a rickshaw trip to a
pretty little place called Mogi; but I had
to stop to send a cablegram and attend
to other matters and seeins that the rest
of the party (It was a purely feminine one
and inclined to nervousness), were afraid
of not having time enough for the trip
I summoned up all my courase and told
them to go on without me.
As the dust of their rickshaws disap
peared, I felt for a few moments vcry
muoh alone in Japan: but I knew the
words "yen," "sen" and "Mogi," and
when my cable was sent off I decided
. that there was no reason why I should
lose all the fun. So I picked out a strong
looking coolie from the wildly babbling
crowd that surrounded me. got another
sturdy one to push behind (we had to go
a long way up hill and, well, never mind
what my weight is; I think myself, two
coolies give style to a rickshaw), and
oft we went at a rattling pace.
It seemed a most romantic thing to he
sitting, all in white raiment like a "take-a-kodak-with-you"
girl, behind a real live
blue-clad, brown-legged, bowl-hatted rick
shaw coolie, and looking down on the
wonderful panorama of town, harbor find
hillside. The flowers, air and sunshine
were quite intoxicating and it took every
bit of a long life's training in soberness
and propriety of conduct to keep me from
shouting and singing and waving my hat
to all the little Jap doll babies and gigsl
ing "little maids from school" that stood
at gaze . as wo passed. The climax of
enjoyment was reached when the steep
ascent ended and tho road began to wind
downwards between groves of bamboo
and camphor trees. There was a teahouse
Just like the pictures, and a little girl
who apparently had stepped straight out
of the first act of "Madame Btitterlly"
was inviting me to rest and refreshment.
So I sat under the trees and gloated in
advance on the deliclotisnrss tlmt she was
to bring me. She came back, with many
smiles, a hideous yellow and green,
"foreign" tea set, cups with handles and
tea .with cream cream of the conned
milk variety.
Alas! for my dreams of real Japanese
tea In Japanese style! But I cheered up
when she Inquired, in pantomine, Whether
I wished to offer refreshment tn my
coolies. I made gestures which she cor
rectly interpreted as "Hang the expense'.
Give them anything they want." and 'hen
I sat back, feeling like a small heneli
cent tin providence, to watch my faith
ful rickshaw boys make ar.d drink their
tea with proper Japanese appreciation
and ceremonies. And then I had another
shock. It was "Belfast ginger ale" tlint
they called for: and they drank it gtirgl
ingly out of the British manufacturer's
bottles!
That is what one gets for cherishing tea
ideals.