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Newspaper Page Text9 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, .WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 190S. rnmn SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCS. -By Mall.) Daily, Sunday Included, one yar $3. 00 Dnlly. Sunday Included, nix months.... 4-25 Dally. Sunday Included, three months. . 2.211 Ddily. tiunday Included, one month. . .T5 Dally, without Sunday, one year 8.00 Lally.. without Sunday, six months 3.25 Daily without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month 10 Hunday. one year 2-50 Weekly. one year (Issued Thursday)... 1-50 Sunday and weekly, cne year -50 BY CARKli-K. Dally, Sunday Included, one year 9 0 Dally, Sunday Included, one month...: ."5 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, cola or currency are at the sender's risk. Give poatofflce ad dress In full. Including- county and state. POSTAGK KATES. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postofflce a Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Pages 1 nt IS to -2H Pages cents 80 to 44 Pages 3 cents 46 to fO Pages cents Foreign -pontage, double rates. IMPORTANT The po-ual laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage Is not fully prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFFICE. The S, C Eeckwith Special Agency New TTork. rooms 48-50 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooms &10-012 Tribune building. KEPT ON SALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex: Postoffle. News Co.. 178 Dearborn street. St. Paul. Minn. N. St. Marie. Commercial Station. Colorado Springs. Colo. Bell. H. H. Denver Hamilton ana iiendrlck. U06-914 Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 11114 Fifteenth street; P. Uanaen, 3. Rice, George Carson. Kansas City. Mo. Rlcksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut; Yoma News Co. Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaugb, 00 South Third. Cleveland. O. James Pushaw. SOT Su perior street. Washington. I. C. Ebbltt House. Penn sylvania avenue. . Philadelphia. Pa. Ryan's Theater Ticket Office; Penn News Co New York City. L. Jones Co.. Astor House: Broadway Theater News Stand: Ar thur Holallng Wagons; Empire NVws Stand. Ogden D. L. Boyle; Lowe Bros.. 114 Twenty-fifth street, i Omaha Barkalow Bros.. Union Station; Ma;eath Stationery Co. Ies Molnrs. In. Mose Jacobs. bai-ramento. Cat. Sacramento News Co., 430 K street; Amos News Co. Salt Lake Moon i!ook si Stationery Co : Rosenfeld & Hansen; O. Yi. Jewelt. P. O. corner. Los Angeles B. E. Amos, manager ten street wagons. Pasadena. Cal Amos News Co. San Diego B E. Amoa. San Jose, Cal. St. James Hotel News Stand. Dallas. Tex. Southwestern News Agent 44 Main street; also two street wagons. Amarllla. Tex. Tlmmons & Pope. San Francisco Forster 4 Orear: Ferry News Stand: Hotel St. Francis News Stand; L. Parent; N. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand: Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14 Vb Eddy street; B. E Amos, man ager three wagons. Oakland. Cal. W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets N- Wheatley; Oakland News Stand;. B. E. Amos, manager five wagons. Uoldfleld. Me. Louie Follln: a B. Huntor. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. .IORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, FEB. la. 1008. RAILROADS IX EUROPE AND AMERICA Of many foreign railroads the cap italisation is largely in excess of that of the railroads of the United States. England averages $271,000 a mile, France $136,000 a mile and Germany $110,000 a mile, as against $67,000 a mile in the United States. But, then, there are railroads in England, France and Germany, constructed so as to se--cure greatest possible strength, secur ity and safety, while in the United States we lay down parallel rails on any sort of grades and curves, and fun trains over them. It is admitted that our country is not old enough yet to have its rail roads throughout of the first class Not .more than .10 per cent of our railroads will compare in this respect with those of England and France. Only a part of those of Germany are up to high, requirements. It Is only in our more densely pop ulated states, where traffic is greatest, that we can expect construction and safety to come up to the English and French systems. Few of our lines west of Chicago have double tracks. Many east of Chicago ' have not. Curves and grades are not reduced to lowest possibility, as in Europe. Ridges are not cut nor valleys filled. It is an amazing contrast to look over the railroads of Europe and then over those of the United States. Tet this is not said by way of cen sure of American . roads. Distances with us. In proportion to hose of Western Eur"ope, are immense; and much of our country Is still sparsely Inhabited and furnishes comparative ly little traffic. .Rates . with us are proportionately lower, yet probably will advance, rather than decline in many parts of the. country as the roads are built up to an efficiency and security corresponding with the roads of Western Europe. But it is a mis take to assert that the roads of Amer ica though they give low rates, when distance is considered give highest class of service. In 1 a way, indeed, they do; for the cars are more sump tuously furnished and there are more conveniences; but, there is not more" speed nor more i safety. Much, in deed, are the Pennsylvania Limited and Twentieth Century trains bragged about, arid justly; but these trains and their speed are exceptional, and de mand a clear way, to the delay of oth ers; and of course their rates are high. But we have few roads that can allow as high speed as you find on th main lines of England, -France, Germany, Belgium and Holland. The roads of Italy are not In very good condition. Tho country mostly is mountainous and difficult, and state experimentation with . the railroads has brought them Into straits from which 'it will take them a good while to recover. And besides, the country Is poor, and less t ratlin is' supplied by thirty millions of people than by five millions in the United States. Condi tions in European countries all fur nish contrasts to those in America in railroad service not less than In .other things. The United States Court of Appeals in New York has confirmed the sen tence, of ten years at hard labor im posed on Captain Van Schaick, of the steamer General Slocum, for criminal negligence in ' connection with the burning of the- steamer and attend ant loss of -1000 lives.- That the ven erable master of the boat was guilty and should be punished is undoubt edly Igue. But there are others. The officers and directors of the Knicker bocker Steamship Company, owners of the Slocum, were also to blame, for the preliminary examination showed beyond a doubt that, they knew the boat to be equipped with rotten hose, "phoney" life preservers and worthless lifesaving apparatus. None of these men, all to the greatest extent responsible for ' the tragedy, ' have been punished," and that- the cap tain, who simply obeyed their orders, I should be tfte only one to suffer is not I at . all creditable to the New York courts. RATS. The knowledge that rats are indus trious distributers of the plague bids fair to make the business of catching them an elegant occupation suitable for college graduates and decayed gentlemen. "Why should it not be mastered by women and add to the already extensive list of employments in which the gentler sex may engage without loss of the bloom of their re finement? In Chicago rat-catching gives occupation to a man In nearly every large business house. The de partment stores, for example, can no more get along without Uieir rat catchers than their detectives and floor-walkers. The rat is one of our most insidi ous foes, and it illustrates the singu lar Machiavellian quality of his na ture that for thousands of years he has been able to pose as a harmless intruder. He has even been a pet in some households. Now we are begin ning to find him out. Whence does the innocent pig derive his trichina spiralis? From the rat. Left to him self, the pig would pass a placid ex istence in storing up lard and slices of ham for sandwiches, with no thought of harming anybody. But into the Eden of his sty comes that serpent, the rat, and then there is a train of woe without end. The pig eats the rat, and with him his trichina germs. The man eats the pig and with him his trichina germs. Then the germs begin to eat the man and he perishes in misery. Rats, too, disseminate cholera. They first Infect their teeth with-it and then by their miscellaneous nibbling they convey it everywhere. There is noth ing under heaven 'that a rat will not nibble. The tales of his biting through water pipes of lead are nothing at all in comparison with the Eastern story of one that gnawed his way through a chilled iron safe- and devoured the Caliph's title to his throne. ' Fortu-, nate it Is for the human race that the rat has been found out. If the dis covery of his perfidy had been delayed a few generations more, mankind would have perished and the rat would have taken his place as king of the earth. OREGON'S BILL OF HEALTH. " A most suggestive and interesting report is that of Dr. R. C. Yenney, secretary of the State Board of Health. This report is a plain state ment of facts that must appeal favor ably to those who are contemplating a change of location and who justly estimate health as the greatest of blessings. It shows that Oregon's death rate In 1907 was, approximate ly, nine in every 1000 Inhabitants; that the state during the period covered was remarkably free from Infectious diseases; that contagion existed in only one county Grant --where, ow ing to improper methods of handling, there were 121 cases of smallpox out of the 317 cases of this disease In the entire state. Very few fatalities at tended this disease a fact which is equally true of the regt of the more dreaded contagious 'diseases. Of communicable diseases tubercu losis led in the number of deaths, one in ten of the total number In the state being due to this malady. The effect of the open-air treatment for this dis ease was not discussed, but It Is no doubt true that the number of deaths was lessened through this treatment. as provided at the Open-Air Sanitar ium near this city. The death rate from typhoid fever was low; the num ber of cases throughout the state was 558 not a large number considering the wide area ,covered, but much larger than it need to have been, had the sanitary regulations prescribed by the Board of Health been properly observed. Upon the whole, the report is grati fying as showing the healthfulness of Oregon's climate and the Intelligent oversight of sanitary conditions by the State Board. of Health. - People grow old and drop out, sicken and die here, as elsewhere, but proper or even ordi nary observance of sanitay rules gives here an assurance of health and the promise of long life. This is no idle assertion. It Is supported by the carefully compiled . figures and facts presented'by the report to which pub lic attention Is hereby-directed. MR. HUMPHREY'S HOBBY. Congressman Humphrey, .of Seattle, delivered one of . his characteristic pleas for a ship subsidy at Detroit last Saturday. Mr. Humphrey has repeat ed the gauzy statements of the ship subsidy meti so often that he is show ing symptoms of believing them him self. He makes the deliberate mis statement thaf there is a greater ton nage of-foreign trade carried out of Puget Sound in American vessels than In- foreign vessels. He also says that the proposed subsidy .bill "simply means that our Nation will assist our merchant marine in the same way that every - foreign nation assists its merchant marine.".' Yet Mr. Hum phrey has been in touch with his sub ject for a sufficient length of time to know that, with the - eyeptlon of France, no other nation is wasting money o"h ship-subsidy appropriations for the merchant marine."- : . The term.. "wasting money" is used advisedly, for there is more merchant marina tonnage in the world today than there Is business for, and no thoroughly enlightened and up-to-date nation, would be paying a subsidy for a service which could be secured for nothing. But Mr.' Humphrey is not altogether to blame for these peri odical flights into the realm of Ac tion, for we find his sentiments in dorsed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer In language fully as extrava gant as his own.;. In a laudatory edi torial the P.-I. says:-- It Is time for the National Government to take hold of tills question with vigor if the Nation Is to fully realize the possibilities open to it in foreign fields of trade. Not only in the- Orient, but in Central and South America also there are splendid opportunities await lng this country. But these opportunities can not be used to advantage unless) the Federal Oovernment devises some means of building up the American merchant marine. The for eign trade of this country will never be what It ought to be so long as American goods are shipped abroad in. foreign bottoms. "Foreign bottoms" are now carry ing Oregon and Washington products to the Orient as low as $3' per ton, while American bottoms in the coast ing trade are demanding $3 per tion for transporting freight between Ore gon and Washington and California ports, less, than one-fourth the dis tance. With this $3 rata to the Ori ent it would be Interesting" to learn by what pculiar line of reasoning the P.-I. arrives at the conclusion that we cannot take advantage of our foreign trade opportunities, Are we to be lieve that our trade with the Orient would be increased by advancing the rate to a .figure approximating that now charged by the American vessels in the coastwise trade? But if we must have American bottoms in the foreign trade, let us in reality follow that portion of Congressman Hum phrey's suggestion that we "assist our merchant marine In the same way that every foreign nation assists Its merchant marine." - Give our shipowners the same op portunities as are enjoyed by those of foreign nations. It costs $450,000 to build a 7000-tqn cargo steamer in this country, while the foreign shipyards are building them for $200,000, and every other nation on earth except the United States permits its shipowners to buy this cheap tonnage and enroll It under the national flag. The United States was forced to buy some of this cheap tonnage during- the war with Spaini and it will be forced to do so again as soon as public opinion be comes sufficiently aroused aver the manner in which Goverrfment funds are being wasted in the charter of for eign ships to act as tenders 'to the American fleet of warships. ' American citizens should have the same rights on the ocean as are en joyed by foreigners, but they will never get them, nor will we have a merchant marine, until our ancient navigation laws are repealed and .we are permitted to buy ships at as low prices as are paid by our competitors. Where the shipping situation is not understood, Mr. Humphrey makes a good plea for the subsidy bill, but it is not in accordance with the facts. MR. T A FT AND THE COLORED VOTE. Weil-Informed observers expect the Republican party to win the next Presidential election, but not by an easy victory. If the wrong man should be nominated, victory will pass to the other side. Neither party can expect to command the allegiance' of the American electorate by. virtue of its past history or Its traditional prin ciples. The voters will be more at tracted by men and the outlook for future performance than by the splendor of abstract theories or the glories of bygone deeds. They are more interested in the solution of the questions which confront this genera tion than in those which were solved by their forefathers. Mr. Bryan Is certain to poll a large vote if he is nominated, and that he will be nomi nated is an almost foregone conclu sion. Whether the Republicans will choose Mr. Taft -or Governor' Hughe for their leader is still doubtful, though the chances are very much in favor of the former. That they will reject both these men is unthinkable, since any other of the prominent can didates would probably be defeated. Mr. Cannon, for example, would stand no chance all in the field against Nebraska's brilliant son. The opposing tickets, therefore, are quite likely, to be headed respectively by Mr". Taft and Mr. Bryan, and be tween now and the final action of the nominating conventions there .will be a great deal of speculation about their comparative strength and weakness. Mr. Bryan will be opposed by the same faction in .his own partv which has always fought him, though Its prestige and numbers are now less than formerly. The inglorious defeat of Judge Parker, who was the candi date of the anti-Bryan faction, dis credited its judgment in selecting a leader, while the decay of the silver issue -permits many, gold-standard Democrats to vote for Mr. Bryan who were opposed to bim on principle In' previous campaigns.. The alleged pop ular rejection of Mr. Bryan in the South is mythical. There are a few newspaper which cry out against bim, but they have always done so and their following is negligible. His prospect of polling virtually a full party jtote Is as good as any candi date's and better than mqst. The really serious danger that 1 menaces him,- apart from his natural foes, is the Independence League,, which is as yet vague and shadowy. On the other ha.n'd, Mr. Taft is not wholly free from the danger of revolt within his party.v The anti-Roosevelt element, the' reactionaries, will not support him unless they believe that the Democratic candidate is a greater menace than he to their predatory privileges,, and they may not believe this of Mr. Bryan. He is untried as yet n high administrative office and the unknown Is full of hope. He might prove to be as wax in their hands, while they-know very welt that they cannat manipulate Mr. Taft. A certain pliability which Mr. Bryan has habitually, displayed In dealing with opposition proffers . golden prospects to the light-fingered plutocrats were he once established in '', the White House. Mr. Taft will have also to reckon with a certain hostility among the labor unions, which have not for gotten that he was the inventor of government by injunction; but it is not believed that this is a very serious matter: Laboring men are Incompar ably more apt to overlook their pri vate resentment in loyalty to party than the .plutocrats are. The anger of the negroes over the Brownsville affair is more Important. They blame Mr. Taft; for his part in. the discharge of the colored troops, and if they should seek revenge by concerted po litical action against hjm.they might possibly compass his defeat. In sev eral Northern states there are negroes enough to hold the balance of power In a close contest, and the ' coming contest, as we have said. Js likely to be close. . " What would the negroes gain were they to defeat Mr. Taft and make Mr. Bryan President? They would gain the dubious satisfaction of defeating a man who has always been their friend and throwing victory to their declared enemy. Mr. Taft had very little to do with the Brownsville affair. What little he did was from a sense of duty, and not from hostility to the ne groes. As good citizens would they wish a public . official to violate his oath of office to protect criminals of their race? But he may have been mistaken? Certainly; but at the worst his mistake was an honest one. On the other hand, Mr. Bryan Is. an enthusiastic upholder of the whole body of Southern anti-negro legisla tion. By his acts he proclaims his be lief In negro disfranchisement, in Jim Crow ordinances. In the chaingang horrors, in peonage and in the sup pression of negro schools. At any rate, all these things are part and par cel of Southern Democratic orthodoxy, arid Mr. Bryan has never repudiated one of them. It is very easy for the negroes to decide which is the better friend of their race, Mr. Taft or Mr. Bryan. Lit them put -the question plainly to both aspirants, "Are you for or against Jim Crow- legislation and negro disfranchisement?" and see what the answer will be. Is there an intejligent negro In the country who does not know that Mr. Bryan would bp obliged to approve of these barbar ous measures and that Mr. Taft would freely and heartily oppose them? The growing belligerency of the Germans, as reflected In their remark able Increase in appropriations for battleships -and cruisers, has caused Great Britain to reconsider her deter mination to build but one Dread naugbt. The programme has been changed to include three of the great fighting1 machines and a corresponding- lot of smaller vessels, including twelve torpedo-boats. While this will hardly bring England up to her favor ite "two-powers" standard, to which she has clung so fondly for many years, it is . thought that It will in crease her strength to such an extent that there will be some hesitancy on the part of any other "two powers" tackling her Just at present. The dove of peace has never before wit nessed such a massing of fighting ships as each of the world's powers Is drawing round it, and the bird may well be excused for frequent fits of nervousness, for the explosion, when it does take place, may split the world asunder. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad has established a train serv ice over its new extension as far west as Terry, Mont., and Is closing up the gap between that point and Butte at the rate of about five miles per day. The line is expected to be in operation as far as Butte by May 1, and to the Pacific Coast a year later. It is not definitely settled whether the new transcontinental route will reach Portland over Its own rails or by a trackage arrangement with either the Harriman or the Hill lines. The "Mil waukee" has secured enough traffic out of 'Portland territory, howeyer, to make it a certainty that It will find some easy route for reaching this city. With the Canadian Pacific coming into Portland by way of the Spokane & International and O. R. & N., the North Bank line coming direct this year, and the Milwaukee and "North Coast" roads due next year, - Port land's outlook for transportation fa cilities is bright indeed. . Portland is showing up with in creasing prominence on the maritime map of the world. Reports received Monday brought news, from Yoko hama of the sailing for Portland of the German steamship Numantia. From Montevideo the British steamer Glenstrae, en route for Europe with wheat from Portland, was reported, and at Port Natal, South Africa, the steamship Borderer arrived with wheat from Portland. At Manches ter, England, the steamship British Monarch arrived Sunday to discharge a cargo of wheat loaded at Portland, and the French bark Vincennes, out ward bound from this port, passed Dover, England, yesterday. The steamship Tiberius, with wheat from Portland, passed through the Suez Canal Friday, and' the steamship Au chencrag, also wheat laden from Portland, sailed from St. Vincent, Cape Verde, Islands, on the last lap of a 13,000-mile voyage to Europe. The complaint of an official of the Mount Hood Railway & Power Com pany about the attitude of Mayor Lane on franchises to new lines seek ing entrance to the city contains some rather serious insinuations. The truth of the statement that it would 'be bet ter both for the road and for Porand if the line came' into the city instead of halting at the suburbs is .obvious, and it would seem that there might be a common ground on which the rail road company and the city could meet without Imperiling or abusing' the rights of either. Portland is forging ahead at an unprecedented rate, and any and all additions to our transpor tation facilities which can be secured with surrounding.' territory should be welcomed. Mr. Thomas Strong, of the City Board of Charities, has the right idea anH pursues the right policy, as to rendering assistance to those In need. The one way and only true way in work of this, kind is -to help people to help themselves. The "hand out" system, the "potlatch" system, is the worst possible abuse of charity. It creates more pauperism always than it .. relieves. Addressing- a long article mainly to The Oregonian, the Salem Journal remarks: "There are those who say the Republican party will never get right till it has had its- drubbing." But The Oregonian will take no more drubbings in the name of the Repub lican party not for a while, anyhow,, you. may. depend. Of vicarious sacri fice It has had enough. Harry Thaw has now nothing to do (smoking being prohibited at his present residence) but observe the ef fects upon hjs fellows of "brain storms," "stuperous melancholia," "dementia Americana" and other dis orders from which, according - to learned alienists, he had suffered all Unknowingly from infancy. Ii aid 'of the unemployed. Judge Gantenbein ought to charge an admis sion fee to -the Waymire trial and give ho return checks. According to the press . agents, some of the testi mony will be well worth the price of tickets. - .. v . . Rus'sia has undertaken -to build an aerial warship. Her bad luck In keep ing her ships afloat and In service on the water has, It is thought, instigated this attempt.-' -' ' ' " The only way to put the' Goasrn rrient in the hands of the people is to get the referendum on decisions of the Supreme Court. A new portrait of the sick man of Europe would be welcome Just now In American newspaper offices. A( Callao tomorrow? , It is hard to realize that Evans is so far along on his journey. ' ' ' No small number of Oregoniais will agre that Heney earned the money. Good morning! Are you going to ttie Waymire trial? STUDY OF FRANK H. HITCHCOCK The Polities! Manager Who la Snins lnsr Southern Delegates to Taft. Washington (D. C.) Letter to the Utica N. Y.) Press. Frank H. Hitchcock, who Is to under take the work of swinging the South ern delegates to Taft, Is a typical in stance of one class of successful man in the executive civil service. He was a clerk in the Department of Agricul ture a few years Ego, and one day was told that his services were not needed longer. It meant hunt a new Job, and he was telling a fellow clerk that he did not know where to look. "Haven't you any Influential friend?" asked the other clerk. "I don't know a man in high position except Mr. Cortelyou," said Hitchcock. As a result of the talk CortelyOu was appealed to, and the President sent word that his secretary's friend must not be disturbed. From that time he was known as "Cortel sou's man," and as such flourished. He was promoted in the Department of Agri culture until he became a division chief. Mr. Cortelyou made him chief clerk' of the new Department of Com merce and Labor In 1903, and later took him to New York as his right-hand man In the campaign of 1904. He was made First Assistant Postmaster-General when Cortelyou became Postmaster-General, and this Is the posi tion he resigns to become Taft man ager in the South, Mr. Hitchcock is a fiend for work. He works from 12 to 18 hours a day, and accomplishes about as much In that time as an average man of his position would In eight hours. He makes work, works around in a circle, fairly drives stenographers Into in somnia, and accomplishes little worth whlie. Yet his reputation as a worker is sending him South for Taft and may yet land him in the cabinet." He would be a good cabinet officer, too, in the way that Cortelyou is familiar with every phase of Government adminis--tration, a good hustler, but a poor counselor. Mr. Hitchcock is a Harvard man from the academic course; six feet two in height, well proportioned, with a fine face and a firm jaw-. He has a WRrm handshake, a charming smile and a confiding look in his soft blue eyes that makes you want to buy his brick without even opening the satchel. NIGGARDLY POLICY OF OREGON And the Referendum tq Help It Out. Walla Walla Union. The last Oregon Legislature appro priated $125,000 for the maintenance of the State University at Eugene, and a ref erendum hag been called on the appropria tion, thus tying up the funds of the uni versity until after the June election. Heretofore the largest appropriation ever made for the Oregon University was $47,500. Even the larger sum seems ridiculously small in the State of Wash ington, where the appropriation for the State University at Seattle averages about $350,000, and at the last session of the Legislature was only a little short of $1,000,000, If we count the appropriation for new buildings in .conjunction with the Lake Washington shore lands given to the Alaska-Yukoh-Paclflc Exposition first and then the usufruct to the university. It Is no wonder that Oregon is looked upon as a mossback state and it is so far behind Washington In the development of Its equally rich resources when such niggardly tactics are used In dealing with state educational Institutions. If the ref erendum results in the defeat of the $123. 000 appropriation. 1t will have the effect of calling a halt on the effort being made In several states to adopt the Oregon plan of direct legislation. The Washington State University would' have been closed long ago If it had been forced to subsist on a pittance of $47,500 a year, and even $125,000 .would have barely kept the institu tion alive. If Oregon would attract the best class of immigrants from the East ern states it should adopt a more liberal policy toward its educational Institutions. It is to be hoped for the good name of the state that the? people will vote over whelmingly next June for the larger ap propriation. ELECTION QUESTIONS. A Variety at Question Asked, Some of . Them Childish. LA GRANDE, Or., Feb. 17. (To the Editor.)-I in-close herewith some ques tions which the Blue -Mountain Grange, No. 345." at its last regular meeting direct ed me to send to The Oregonian. to be published and answered if you desire. EDWARD D. JASPER. Whereas. Blue Mountain Grange has taken a firm stand In favor of Statement No. 1 ; and . Whereas. The Oregonian has repeatedly de nounced Statement No. 1 as a humbugr: Therefore, we of Blue Mountain Grange dee-ire to be informed in regard to the fol lowing; questions: In what particular or particulars is State ment No. l a humbug? , Docs The" Oregonian object to the method of nominating United State" Senators under Statement No. 1, to the method of election after nomination, or both? Why? . Does The Oregonian object to the principle of electing United Htates Senators by direct vote of the people, to the method of election tmder statement No. 1. or does It tljlnk the choice Not the people will not be- the choice of The Oregonian? . If It is unwise for the people to choose their' T'nlted States Senators, why should not the State Legislatures elect l.'nitod States' repre sentatives and Congress1 elect our President? Does The Oregonian think all the Important men of Oregon are sent to the Legislature? Has not the election of United States Sena tors by the Legislature in the past resulted in unsatisfactory machine politics and boes rule? Are machine - polltlrW, boss-ism and hide bound partisanism to be preferred to the sim ple principle of Justice? The Oregonian has repeatedly published Its views about Statement No.' 1 and elec tion of Senators. It Is unnecessary nOw to repeat them. Several of the above questions are merely childish. A FEW SQUIBS. "De reason why Mlstah Taft's so popu lar." said the old darky, "is Jes' becase he's got so much pusanal magnitude." Life. "I don't see." remarked .Miss Gddie. -"why. she . should go and marry that old man for his money." "Why." asked Miss Gilday, . "how else could she get it?" Philadelphia Press. "v"So you're still hunting work?" Yes, Vr." answered' Plodding Pete. "Don't ou know that out "West they are wilting and anxious to give men employment?" "Sure I do. Dat's de reason I likes dls territory. Tou can go on huntin work wldout bein' dls tdrbed." Washington Star. "Things look rather run down around here.-, remarked the man who had returned after many years to his native village.. "Run -down. I should say so," replied the friend of, .his youth. "There's an automobile-comes- through nere about every three min utes.'; Philadelphia Record. Lazy Lewis I wuz told dat d farmer wot Jives -on dat hill paid hjs hands Jist de same wedder dey worked er not. so I went an' hired, t' him. Tired Thomas Den yousa played off sick. I reckon ? I.azy Lewis Tep, an- ajt de end ov de month I found dat he never paid nobody nothln' nohow. Chicago D.atly News. ' By the shivering fits which chill us. By the feverish hearts which grill us. By the pains acute which fill us. By the aches which maul and mill us. By the quacks who draft and pill us, By the hydropaths who swill us. By tha allopaths who bill us, By the nervous fears which kill us, Tell us, tell us, wee Bacillus. . . What, and why, and whence you are! London World. HOl'SE FOR ROOSEVELT POLICIES. But Bills) Will Be Rnnhed to Senate Too Late to Act on Them. Washington, D. C, Dispatch to N. Y. World. The policy of the House toward the Issues contained inthe radical message recently sent in by President Roose velt has been decisively outlined at a conference of House leaders. This conference was participated in by Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker; John Dal zell and James S. Sherman, his asso ciates on the committee- on rules; Se reno E. Payne, the floor leader; James A. Tawney, chairman of the appropria tions committee, and William P. Hep burn, chairman of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. The House leaders have determined to. save their own bacon at the expense of the Senate. They regard the President's recommendationsas popular with tho country and do not Intend to take the burden of killing them. They do not want these recommendations to be en acted into law, but they do want to avoid becoming unpopular with their own constitutents by rejecting them. They do not care what becomes of the Senate, and they are determined to put them up to that body and let It take the odium of defeating them. This .determination, or most of It, tvas announced In the World of Feb ruary 4 The conference since held has been to arrange ways and means of accomplishing the desired result. The programme agreed upon by the House leaders at this conference is as follows: ' 1. Nothing is to be done until the appropriation bills are well under way. 2. In the closing days of the ses sion bills are to be brought In from the proper committees for the enact ment of all the recommendations in the message. 3. Very little debate Is to be allowed, and the bills are to be rushed through the House. The Senate Is depended on to kill them. v 4. Lest there should be any slip up in the programme by which the Sen ate might be forced into enacting the bills, the calendar of the Senate is to be carefully watched, and the bills are not to be forced through the House till it is perfectly plain that the Senate cafendar Is so clogged that the Senate con Id not pass the bills if it wanted to. As a matter of fact there would not bo the least possibility of the Senate's passing any such bills, unless the pub lic pressure were tremendous. Still, the House leaders, do not intend to take any chances. They mean to ar range the passage of the bills through the House for a date' when, on their coming up In the Senate, a single Sen ator could filibuster them out of ex istence. Then the "Representatives can go out on the stump and appeal for re-election as enthusiastic indorsers of the President's programme. It is the old game, played a thousand times in Washington What effect this will have upon, the House's Presidential candidate remains to bo seen. The House is for Cannon. At present he has lines in the Senate which are assuring him of Senatorial support. FROM REPl'BLICArlT STANDPOINT The Method of Nomination and of Election. Eugene Register. Oregon Republicanism clamored for a law that would give Oregon Repub licans the right to select their own choice for United States Senator to be voted for by a Republican Legislature. A Republican Legislature, acceding to that request, adopted such a law be cause Oregon Republicans asked for It. In other words, the Republican party of Oregon got what It asked for. It can now go ahead, select its own choice for United States Senator and a Republican Legislature has no other alternative but to ratify that choice. There can be no boodling or jobbery or deadlock over selection of a Repub lican Senator, no corruption fund can be used for the Republican party has spoken, declared" its Senatorial choice and woe be to that Republican Legis lator who does not stand by his party's choice, as made by all the Republican voters at. the polls. This being a fact, why should not every Republican candidate for the Legislature In the State of Oregon at the coming election pledge himself to vote first, last and all the time for Republican voters' choice for United States Senator, as expressed by the Republican voters at the polls. Can he do otherwise and be true to the law framed, by the Legislature for that purpose? Can he be true to his con stituency which elects him as a Re pubMcan for that purpose af well as for all other purposes, for which he is sent to the Legislature? And what applies to Republican Leg islators .applies with equal force to Democratic Legislators. Then why this howl about Statement No. 1, a sop thrown in for convenience, of inde pendent Legislative candidates who have no political home? ' KaiiMs Society Note. Society Column of Bclolt (Kan.) Times. Mr. and Mrs. George Tennyson, of Min neapolis, changed cars here this morn ing for Marysvflle. Mr. Tennyson was on his way to that place, where liis'pre liminary trial for the murder of his father will come up next week. UNITED STATES AND JAPAN CARTOON FROM THE i'RKNC'H PUBLICATION, I.E RIRK. SHOWING A PARISIAN VIEW OF WHAT THE LITTLE JAPS ttOlLI OO TO PRESI DENT KOQ8ETKLT IN CASE OF A WAR WITH THIS C'OFNTRV. THH0yS9t0LD BY LILUN TINGLK. Every once In a while some energetic Ladies' Aid Society whirls in and Rots up a cook-book which is to be the most novel, helpful ar.d practical thing of the kind ever published. It is to contain the united wisdom of all the housekeepers of the congregation, and its sales are to he so great that the proceeds should easily furnish not only new hymn-books, car pets, interior decorutions and pipeorgan for the church, but also a trip to the Holy Land for the pastor. On various occasions I have even contributed in a humble way to some of these wonderful volumes, though I never had a hand in tjhe real business of collecting advertis ments, editing or publishing such a work; but I know a girl who has had some in teresting experience in that way. There was to be a bazaar for the church tm which she belonged, and as she had s helpful disposition, plenty- of spare time and no talent for fancy work, she un dertook the management - of the cook book. She designed a lovely cover, with a picturesque figure in a Sou'wester and the motto: . . 1 "The man at the wheel Must have a gool meal." "A very fetching sentiment," she said, "Every man that sees it will want to buy that book." Then she wrote a large number of reply postalcards demanding recipes and "hints" fjrom all sorts of people, and took a . lot of youthful' mas culine advice about how to get advertis ing. The advertising came easy, she said, but she did not explain her methods. She did, however, tell something about the contrlhutlpns. she received. At first ehe followed the plan of asking the men of the congregation to name their favorite dishes and the women to send in their favorite recipes. There was a certain monotony ' about the replies, however. For Instance, she had 42 recipes for chocolate cake and 57 for .chicken salad; and those men who didnt say "a good beefsteak" or "turkey and cranberry sauce" were a little Inclined to vagueness. "A good square meal," "anything my wife cooks," "anything but liver,'! "oysters, any old way" were some of tho replies. One man, with distressing flip pancy, announced that for a steady diet he knew of nothing quite equal to cold boiled cabbage and lard. ' Several women declared In polite but unmistakable terms that they did not in tend to make public the secrets of their superior kitchens; and many of the best practical cooks said that they never used a recipe Just Judgment and the other special gifts with which providence had been pleased to endow them. So my amateur editor had to modify her methods, and having much tact and per severance, she eventually got together a pretty good sort of book; but she said that she never worked harder in her life or came near offending more people. The late Lawrence Hulton was on one occasion requested to contribute to an "Author's Recipe Book" which some un known lady was getting up for some good .cause. He said that he had no more idea of cooking than he had of milking a cow or of harnessing a horse, or of setting a hen, or of building a dynamo. He did not even care what was cooked for him so long as it did not contain tripe or tomatoes. But here he was asked to contribute a paper which would be reproduced in facsimile stating what ho could prepare most to his liking upon a kitchen .range or In a chaflng-di.sh, witli his manner of procedure. This quite nonplussed him, until he bethought him self of one particular and peculiar delicacy in the evolution of which he could safely trust his reputation as an expert. Tlvse are his Instructions: "Take a long paper cutter, attach to the same by means of rubber bands and securely, an inkcraser; Insert the Ink eraser firmly into a march mallow plug, and hold the same over a student's lamp or etudy fire until the marsh-mallow begins to sizzle, drops into the ashes, puts out the light, or burns your hand. And eat while hot." Curious ly enough he received no thanks for this Interesting and Instructive "hint." One wise old lady's "favorite recipe" for mince pie iS worth quoting. It was as follows: "Go round the house and put in some of everything good in the house; then go round the house again and put in some more .of it." Contrast this with another recipe for "boarding-house minee pie": "Put s"ni" sugar and ten raisins into what is loft .f the hash."