Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, March 06, 1908, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text8 $t)$ Bn$onxm SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By MaiL Dally. Sunday Included. on year -J8-?! Dally. Sunday Included, all montha 4-. .Xslly, Sunday Included. three montha.. Dally. Sunday Included, ona mouth.. -7 Dally, without Sunday, one year J Daily, without Sunday, alx montha .. p Dally, without Sunday, thraa montha.. 1.7S Dally, without 8unday. ona month..... -0 Sunday, one year '. ? J!J Weakly, ono year (Issued Thuraday)... jJ 6nnday and weekly, can year w BV CARRIES. Dally. Sunday Included, ona year n,oo XaJ!y. Sunday Included, ona month HOW TO BJUdlT Send postofflce money arder. axpreas order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the eender'e risk. Olve postonTtce M dreea In fuU. lncludlns county and elata. POSTAGK BATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Postotnc aa Socond-Claaa Matter. JO to 34 Pasea cf,nl IS to 2S Paces a centa 8 to 44 Pagea 3 cents 4 to 60 Pages - cen Forelern postage, double ratea. IMPORTANT The postal lawa are atrlct. Newspapers on which postage la not fully Prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BTJ6INKSS OFFICK. The 8. C. SKkailb 6pecfaU Agency Now Tork. rooma 48-60 Tribune building. Chi cago, rooma 510-512 Tribune bulldlnjc. KEPT OJf HALE. Chicago Auditorium Annex: Poetofrlee News Co.. 178 Dearborn atreet; Empire News Stand. St. Pawl, Minn. N. St. Maria. Commercial Station. Colorado Springs, Colo. Ball. H. H. ' Denver. Hamilton and Kendrick. 06-; Seventeenth atreet; Pratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. 8. Rice. George Carson. Kansas City, MovRleiesecxer Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut: Yorna- K Co. Mlaneapolla M. J. Cavanauih. 50 South Third. Cincinnati, O. Toma Kevi Co.' (ievehuid, O. James Pushaw. SOT Su rer lor street. Washington. D. C. Ebbltt House. Penn sylvania avenue; Columbia News Co. Pittsburg-. I'a. Port Pitt Newa Co. Philadelphia. Pa Ryan's Theater Ticket Office; Hnn News Co.; Kemble. A. P.. SijS Lancaster avenue. 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Wheatley; Fairmount Hotel News Stand; Amos Newa Co.; United Newa jgencv. 144 Eddy atreet: B. E. Amos, man ager three wagons; Worlds N. S.. 2825 A. Sutter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets: N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager Ave wagons: tVellingham. E. G. Ooldneld, Nov. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND, FRIDAY, MARCH 6. IMS. E FLU RIB US I7KTM. Portland is a city astride a river. So Is every other city built within the same state, on a river. The old part of Portland ia the West Side. The new part the East Side already contains the larger population. That is, the families are on the East Side, and yet nearly the whole adult population, men and women, and all above the age of fifteen yearsvisit the West Side from day to day, and most. of them every day. The chief residence district of Port land is the Bast Side. It will be so, more and more. Suburban and village conditions now prevail there. The East Side wants quiet residence for families. Parents live there for two reasons. First, residence is cheaper there. Second, they know how desir able it is to keep young children out of the active centers of the city. But parents want the city, and will have it. Hence they wish to live as "close in" as they can. The' life and living of the family are made out of the ac tivities of the city. As a consequence Portland, like all . 'other modern and growing cities, is two cities in one. It is difficult, nay Impossible, to make ordinances cover ing every part of such a city. Regula tions necessary n one locality are not suitable at all for another. Pavements, and street cleaning, and Are regula tions, and the manner of dealing with the -liquor traffic, can't be the same on the East Side as on the West Side. But in course of time business dis tricts will grow up on the East Side; they are growing up now. From the river they will push further and fur ' ther out. Then all the near districts of .ihe East Side will compare with those on. the West Side, and the subur ban and village part of Portland will be pushed further and further away. Everyone sees this movement actively In progress now. But the central part of the city never can be controlled by suburban ' village conditions; nor can the subur ban parts be controlled by the ordi nances and regulations necessary for the central city. The suburban people want particular conditions for their own localities; but even they want other conditions in the central city, where the business Is done, or to which they daily resort. It is proba ble, for example, that the East Side would vote by a tremendous majority to forbid the sale of liquors on the East Side. But the same voters would declare by a tremendous majority against prohibition on the West Side. The logic of all this goes deeper than syllogistic forms, and deeper than any argument about "consistency." But the two parts of the city, though seemingly at variance, are not so at all. Society has its differences, but In. the ultimate it is all one. The greater part of the taxable property is on the West Side, because it is the old city, whore the business mainly is done, and values are concentrated. But it may not be so always. Ad vance of values on the East Side may tend, and probably will tend, towards equalization of conditions. That is, the East Side that part of of it with in a mile or two of the rivers wifl lose gradually Its suburban and vil lage character, and its interests will conform more and more to those of the West Side. This process. Indeed, is going on already, before our own eyes. The West Side Is shut in by the heights behind It. There must be business expansion on the East Side. Portland, thirty years from now, will be a more homogeneous city than it is today. The time will come when distinctions of West Side and East Side will scarcely be known, or will be known a little as those of North Side and South Side are known at Paris and London. The city will grow with in, on both sides of the river, "and vil lage conditions will be. pushed fur ther and further out. Thus far the old part of the city is helping the newer parts more thari It is helped by them; or, rather, the help rendered by the older part is. direct, while that contributed by the newer parts is indirect or lesa direct, yet on the whole equally contributory to the common growth. For example, the greater part of the water revenue ia paid in by the older part; yet it is constantly expended in the extension of mains throughout the "newer mostly orj-the East Side. So of the cost of construction and maintenance of bridges. But the return comes to the West Side the older part in con centration of business and increase of values.' to which the larger city the East Side is thus enabled to con tribute. . The sum of all is that a big city has greatly different and widely variant features:- and. further, that though the West Side -and the East Side at Portland differ apparently so much, yet on the .whole survey there is no real difference between them, and they; never can be really at variance. The very differences contribute to unity. It is one of the mysteries, yet one of the facts, of human society. , IT SEEMS A LITTLE. LATE. ' .l The constitution of Oregon fixes the salaries of all state officials.. The sala ries are low. But fees and emolu ments of various kinds were soqn In vented and applied for ' increase of the- salaries of all state officials from the top to the bottom. Every Gov ernor, every Secretary of State, every Treasurer of State, took "the Illegal or unconstitutional fees. Methods were devised for allowing and giving addi tional .and unconstitutional compensa tion even to Judges of certain of the court. These expedients are lit force now, and Judges are taking trte pay. The salaries of the Governor, of the Secretary of State and of the. Treas urer of the state have been increased by statute, in open defiance of the con stitution, and the whole business is going merrily on. At every step of this proceeding, these forty years. The Oregonian has protested against it as illegal and un constitutional Now behold the mat ter comes up in a test case' at Salem against F. I. Dunbar, late Secretary of State, to compel him to return fees and emoluments asserted to have been converted by him to his own use; which, however, the statutes and the usages of the office had authorized him, as they had authorized all his predecessors, to keep. v The Oregonian will not argue now that the fees and emoluments thus retained were authorized by law, in conformity with the constitution. It has always insisted that they were not. But it is unfortunate indeed that this question may come before tribunals whose members long have been re ceiving pay in excess of the constitu tional limitation. And here today are the chief officials of the executive and administrative departments of the state receiving, under pretended sanc tion of law, salaries largely in excess of those fixed definitely by the consti tution. Since we have lost sight of constitu tions, perhaps it is no wonder some think United States Senators are now to be elected by popular vote and not by the Legislature.- In a little time some method of electing Representa tives in Congress different from that prescribed in the fundamental law may be urged and enacted by statute of Oregon. But is Mr. Dunbar the only official these forty years of whom restitution should be required? The precedents merely have been followed which were established when the offices were "organized" under the administration of Governor Grover nearly forty years years ago. Everybody in office has had a lot of the pork, and the hook of most of the state officials is in the pork barrel now dehors the consti tution. DOUBLING THE YIELD. The joint effort of the Washington Agricultural College and the O. R. & N. Company to enlighten the wheat farmers of Eastern Washington is one of the most important pieces of public work undertaken for many years. The railroad company has taken up the work for the purpose of producing more revenue for the road, but the results, which may prove helpful to the railroad, will prove even more advantageous to the farmers and all other lines of business dependent on the prosperity of the agricultural classes. The principal gain expected under the new system of farming to be taught by experts on the "demon stration train" is in making an acre produce two crops where only one is now possible by the Summer fallow plan of growing wheat. This proposed system of rotation of crops, however, does more than re move the necessity of having one-half of the acreage idle all the time, for by cropping the alternate years when wheat is not grown with some other product, it is possible to return to the soil the properties which are In time exhausted by the continued cropping in wheat. The experience of Califor nia offers a good example of the re sults of continued wheat growing even when Summer fallowing- la practiced. Beginning in 1860, with exports of 10.000 tons of wheat and 59.000 bar rels of flour, the wheat production of that state steadily increased until in 1SS2 it had reached its maximum with exports of 1,128,000 tons of wheat and 919.000 barrels of flour. There was a slight increase in flour shipments in the following years, but the aggregate in wheat and flour never again equaled the high-water mark of 18 82. From the record figure shipments have steadily dwindled until last year the exports were only about 40,000 tons of wheat and 600.000 barrels of flour, and for the first eight months of the current cereal year the exports have reached a total of but 22,000 tons of wheat and less than 200,000 barrels of flour not one-half as much as has been imported from Oregon and Washington by California dealers during the same period. Flour In cluded. Portland and Puget Sound ports have in the past eight months shipped 1,000,000 tons of wheat and still have several million bushels of the 1907 crop to rrfove. It Is undoubt edly true that some of the California landformerly In wheat is now produc ing fruit, vegetables and other small farming products to which land owners were driven because it was no longer possible to secure enough wheat from the exhausted land to make t a profitable crop. ' 1 It Is also true that In the score or more of fat years leading up to the high-water mark in 1882. and through" the succeeding ten or fifteen years in which the output steadily dwindled, the land became so thoroughly ex hausted that much of it will require many years' careful treatment before it can be depended on to produce a paying crop of anything. The O. R. & N., with Its demonstration train, is apparently attempting to lock the stable door before the horse is stolen. There are very few districts in the rich wheat belt In Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho in which the soil has seriously deteriorated, and, by careful handling and enriching by rotation of crops, it will be possible not only to maintain a large output of wheat but at the same time keep all of the land cropped every year. The coming of the great Swift pack ing plant will make Portland tha greatest livestock market on the Pa cific Coast, and the corn, roots and other stock feed that can be grown on land which now lies idle in Summer fallow will afford sustenance to catte, hogs and sheep In numbers sufficient to make the Industry divide first hon ors . with that of the premier cereal which now brings so many millions into the Northwest. . THE WORST BANKING SYSTEM. The Aldrich currency' bill is merely another rotten patch on a rotten gar ment. Report is that if is to be forced through .as- an . expedient, so that members of Congress can go home and say, "Behold how we have re formed the currency!" The hope is there will be ' no further financial strain for a while, and that this mis erable expedient will pass for the pres ent as a sufficient measure. But in fact it will be no help at all. It " will . be no preventive of future panics. - It will be even an aggrava tion of the conditions of future panics. when economic and financial circum stances shall combine to bring them about. ' The reason is that the whole princi ple of a bond-secured currency is a financial error. It makes fixed and inflexible conditions. A currency se cured on bonds becomes, in any emergency, stagnant or Immovable. Such is the nature of our currency now. More of this kind of currency not only will not relieve any financial stress, but will increase the difficul ties at the first sign of danger. What is wanted is a bank currency based first on gold reserve and next on movable or liquid securities, cur rent bills of exchange, having short periods to run, and based on com modities moving actively all the time in the channels of commerce, at home and abroad. A currency based on fixed securities will get into a fixed condition itself, at intervals corresponding with the break of periods of speculation; and such currency tends to produce both the speculation and the break. A bond-secured currency on such occa sions is locked up, because It is the same as the bond. But a currency based on liquid securities must keep moving, because the securities though not less valuable than the bonds must keep moving also. Con sumption and trade in staples of con sumption never can stop. Currency based on bills of exchange therefore is the true currency. All the world knows it, and all the world uses the knowledge except ourselves. On the gold standard we were like to fall behind, in the company of bar barians. On the principles of paper or bank currency we are falling into similar predicament only worse, be cause we have no barbarians to keep us company; in support of the worst currency and banking system in the world. A BLOT ON OCR CIVILIZATION. Not since the fateful day, Decem ber 30, 1903, when, several hundred happy children in gala attire went into the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, intent upon the enjoyment of a holiday, and came not out again, has the Nation shuddered in the presence of catas trophe so shocking, a holocaust so pathetic, a woe that appealed so tenderly to the heart of humanity, as that which chronicled the death by fire of nearly two hundred school chil dren in a suburb of Cleveland last Wednesday. To every father and mother in the land, to every teacher and school superintendent, to every school board, the news of this disaster has come as a cruel shock and a note of warning. The building in which 300 children were seated at the time of the dis covery that it was on fire was built of brick, but Its inside" finishings and equipment were of wood, rendered highly Inflammable by months and years of furnace heat; Its capacity was overtaxed, the little ones being huddled away In the garret; and the two exits were hung with heavy doors that opened inward. A comfortable but by no means a capacious place in which to house 300 children during the cold weather of a Northern Ohio Winter, when all went well. It was a. veritable Are trap, a crematorium, a. funeral pyre, when disaster, con stantly hovering over it, found a mes senger in a stray spark from the over heated furnace. This Collinwood school building, with all of Its comforts and its many defects, was a fair representative of tens of thousands of school buildings in this country. Its glaring defects in narrow halls. Insufficient means of exit and lnward-swinglng doors, are duplicated in myriads of instances in the older school buildings in every city and village in the land. Fire drill, in which a multitude of teachers are competent directors, and tens of thou sands of children are well disciplined actors, reduce the danger to human life in schoolhouse fires to the mini mum when buildings are properly provided with" wide halls, stairways and doors; but in the case of the Collinwood fire, though conducted with quickness and precision, it merely precipitated a mass-of march ing children against a closed door. Imagination sickens at the result and prudence and humanity unite in demanding an inspection of every schoolhouse in the land, to the end that a repetition of this disaster through narrow halls, insufficient exits and inward-opening doors may 'not again leave a crimson blot on Ameri can civilization. The steamer Rotterdam has just been launched at Belfast, Ireland, for the Holland-American " Steamship Company. . The Rotterdam is one of the largest and finest steamers ever launched, having a displacement of 97.190 tons. She flies the flag of a diminutive kingdom, about as large as a fair-sized Oregon county, and she will make money for her owners by carrying American tourists across the Atlantic in competition with second class American steamers, which cost twice aa much. It will be noted that this magnificent steamer was not built on the Zuyder Zee or at any other Dutch port, but in Belfast, Ireland, where they build them cheap and don't care a rap who buys them or what flag they sail under. American patriots of the Gallinger-Humphrey type do not believe in this method of securing a merchant marine. Their plan is to pay the highest price known in the ship-buifding world, and then beg the Government for a subsidy with which to offset the Increased cost. Holland may be Dutch, and slow, but she has learned that cheap ships, no matter who builds them, are the kind to make money with. Better put the overflow of a crowded school building, . that is ' universally composed of the little ones, in tem porary and even flimsy structures on the grolind, as has been done in this city in times past, than to huddle them into the attic of the crowded building, as was done in Collingwood in the case so luridly brought to light this week. There are practical phil anthropists and humanitarians who advocate the one or two-room system of building public schoolhouses, es pecially for children of the lower grades schoolhouses built on the cot tage plan, with high ceilings and win dows and wide doors. To say that a city like Portland cannot afford the ground space for such buildings Is absurd. A city that cannot afford to provide safe and sanitary housing for its school children should not de plore a low or decreasing birth rate. It is not the number of children who are born, but the number who are conducted through intelligent, safe and responsible channels to the goal of good citizenship that make a state worthy of the making. Now that the storms of Winter are over, and the breath of Spring is in the air, the revenue cutter McCulloch has arrived at Astoria. Several months ago, when Winter storms were sweep ing the ocean, and life and property at sea were in peril, an effort was made to have a revenue cutter sent to Astoria from San Francisco. The al lurements of -bay city life were ap parently too strong, however, and the arrival of the much-needed craft was delayed until long past the time when she could have been of service. The director-general of the revenue serv ice certainly "moves, in a mysterious way his wonders to perform." Whether the inference is to be drawn from Mr. U'Ren's proposition to Mr. Cake that Mr. VRen thinks of quitting the field as a candidate for the Senate, one would hardly say. But it really would be unfortunate if Mr. tPRen should quit the field. He is the original and only genuine Statement No. 1 man. All others are pretenders and imitators. It is really to be hoped that Mr. ITRen will per sist for the vindication of Statement No. 1. It would be a calamity to wit ness the abandonment of the only genuine campaign for principle we have had in the state for some years. "If it is proper,"- asks an inquirer, "to elect Presidential electors and send them to a National convention instructed, why may 'we not so instruct members of the Legislature?" But we don't elect Presidential electors as Republicans and instruct them to vote for a Democrat, if the Democrat shall have the popular majority; nor vice versa. If Bryan can carry Oregon, his Oregon electors will vote for Bryan though the popular majority of the country may be heavily against him. Medford (Or.) schools have taken up the lost art of letter writing. So long as the study is confined to girls no harm is likely to result. Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, a master politician, once remarked that he would rather travel a thousand miles than write a letter. Oregon has known Senators who would have fared better by following Cameron's coun sel. Are there any schoolhouses In Port land where doors swing inward and not outward? Tears ago this ques tion was agitated here, with good ef fect. Since then many schoolhouses have been constructed. How about the doors? And in all our towns of the Northwest, how about the doors? The Yamhill County Republican convention turned down Statement No. 1 by a vote of 173 to 25. That's about the way Statement No. 1 stands with Republicans elsewhere that Is, with Republicans - who are Repub licans. The President tells the National Lumbermen's Association that "we are on the verge of a timber famine." Wonder if his opinion is based on the pictures of the 7-11 claims, or "on Joe Teal's lumber-rate argument. Raiding of a fantan game in China town echoes pre-restriction days, when Chinese cut a figure in Portland's ag gregate vice and contributed largely to Municipal Court revenues. Also to special policemen. The advocates of ground-floor school buildings for the little ones will find a strong argument in support of the sanity and safety of their con tention In the late Collingwood horror. Whatever may be the decision on the lumber rate, the Interstate Com merce commission cannot plead lack of fact or opinion on the subject. A really intelligible and rational number of the Salem Capital Journal is just at hand. Not a line of edi torial in it. Republican conventions to follow will have light work drafting plat forms. - Each must adopt the Ohio model. Let those who fear the reactionaries may control the Chicago convention take comfort from the Ohio platform. Maybe the next generation will see the end of suits growing out of the San Francisco graft. Probably ten million public school children participated in fire drills yes terday. . SAFEGCARD WORKING WOMEN. Ttofense Agntnat Abaolotiem and Rev olution Ia the Square Deal. Indianapolis Star. It will doubtless seem to many persons that the United States Supreme Court, tn upholding laws in protection of female labor, is inconsistent with its recently announced decisions hostile, or at least accounted hostile to labor. The expla nation of this incongruity, if incongruity there is. must be found in the fact that both states and Nsrtion are passing through a period of hasty and impulsive legislation. . In a" way this decision Is socialistic. That is to say, it turns away from in dividual freedom and toward paternal re straint in the hands of the state. . But It ought to be perfectly clear by this time that if we are to escape true socialism, meaning by that Government ownership and the destruction of Individual ambition and initiative, whose end is social stag nation and decay, then the only door of escape is through a -modification of our extreme individualistic Ideal by the adoption of semi-socialistic measures of Government control, it is the business of husbands and fathers to protect their women and children from cruel and en feebling conditions; but If they will not do It. then the state will. It is the duty of employers to conserve the health and happiness of their men; but if they will not do It, then the state will. It is the duty of insurance companies to protect their policy-holders from favoritism and spoliation; but if thiy wjll not do this, then the state will. It is the duty of banks to stand between ineir shareholders or depositors and panic or spoliation; but if they will not do. this, then the state will. It is the duty of railroads to deal tenderly and solicitously with tho lives and limbs of trainmen and -passengers, and to handle, the enormous trust funds intrusted to them In a conscientious spirit of accountability; but if they will not do this willingly, then they will be compelled to do so by the state. "Paternalism," as a battle cry for spe cial privilege and a criminal indifference to one human being's responsibility for other human beings Intrusted to his care, has lost its terror to toe thinking American mind. As between individual ism with Injustice on tne one hand and paternalism with justice on the otner hand, we shall take paternalism with Justice and shall not shrink from what ever odium may accrue. What makes anarchy is tyranny. What makes social ism is injustice, and those who do not like the crop must change the seed. The defense of society against absolutism and revolution alike is in the square deal. By this doctrine the Republic, we venture to say, will stand; and for this cause Theo dore Roosevelt has not lived in vain. THE BLIGHT OF BRVAMSM. This Democratic Paper Doesn't Appear Friendly to the Feerleaa. ' New York World. William Jennings Bryan made six speeches in Kentucky during the cam paign of 1907. The state responded with a Republican plurality of 18.053 and turned a Democratic administration out of office. A few weeks ago Mr. Bryan went to Frankfort and urged the Democratic members of the Legislature to elect John C. W. Beckham to the United States Senate. Mr. Bryan's influence was so great that although the Democrats had a majority of eight on joint ballot, the Ken tucky Legislature yesterday elected ex Governor William O. Bradley, a Repub lican, to succeed James B. McCreary, a Democrat. This is another brilliant triumph of Bryaniem. It represents the sort of vlcT tory which for twelve years the Demo cratic party has been achieving under Mr. Bryan's Peerless Leadership. In 1896, when Mr. Bryan was first nomi nated for President, there were 39 Demo crats and 42 Republicans in the United States Senate. - Today there are 31 Demo crats and 61 Republicans. When Mr. Bradley takes the seat of Mr. McCreary, if Mr. Bryan's leadership continues, there will be not more than 30 Democrats to 62 Republicans. Not a single Democratic vote will be necessary even for the ratification of a treaty. The Republican majority can spilt into two equal factions and each faction out-vote the Democratic minority. The Democrats In the Senate of the United States will have returned to their despairing status during Grant's admin istration. How much longer enn the Democratic party survive the Blight of Bryanlsm? Mrs. Eddy a Profitable Citizen. Boston Transcript. ' At Concord, N. H-, they have been cal culating Just how much Mrs. Eddy's nine teen years of residence -meant to that city in financial returns. Estimates vary, naturally, but this seems to be a fair, average estimate: The Christian Science Church (Mrs. Eddy's gift), JZS.OOO: char itable donations, $25,000; miscellaneous gifts and contributions, 325,000; for rood roads, 325,000: Pleasant View estate $40, 000; household expenditures, 3100,000; In come from special privileges granted to Concord-manufacturers and business men, $40,000; granite contracts for Christian Science churches obtained because of Mrs. Eddy's residence, and perhaps through her influence. $1,000,000; other known expenditures, $90,000. The grand total of this is $1,570,000. If this be true, the general lament heard in Concord when the benefactress moved away to Newton, would appear to have some foun dation in pocketbook as well as in senti ment. Mrs. Eddy proves a gilt-edged municipal asset. The Last Great Katockont. Washington Post, Ind. , The die is cast, the Rubicon is crossed. Mr. Bryan is as good as nominated. He will write the platform. He will name his running mate, and the result will be the same. Mr. Bryan will be smitten un der the fifth rib, just as he smote Judge Parker. And does the world know that hundreds of thousands of voters, enthusi astic -Bryariitas of 1S96 and, 1900, Intend to have a share in the knifing? The sole reason why Mr. Bryan will be nominated at Denver is that it is the one way to be rid of him. He could have been beaten for the nomination, and would have been, but for the fact that a crushing defeat in 1908 will make an end of him. Where Deletes tea Will Find Illinois. Chicago Post, Ind. Rep. , Sneaker Cannon Is too astute a poli tician not to Understand that the .State of Illinois, like the whole Middle West, is heart and hand with the President of the United States and with his policies. This means, unless we of the- Middle West are imbeciles, that we ara going to throw our combined and complete strength for a man who we are confident will carry ' on the work of the President and perfect that work. This means, un less we are weaklings," that we do not intend that our delegates In the con vention shall be delivered up bound and gagged to any man who we are not sure will carry on those policies courageously, whole-heartedly and with effect. What ! A "Job" for Statement No. 1 f E-ugene Register. " U'Ren wants himself and Cake to get out of the Senatorial race and the two get together and select a third man for the Statement No. 1 fight. How does this kind of a scheme suit the friends of the direct primary law who have been led to believe that the law was made for the express purpose of preventing that kind of conniving among machine bosses and scheming politicians? Sane nnd HestlthT Dtveralom. Tillamook Herald. - Do away with the poolrooms and the Saturday night dances and the only amusement left for the young will be to roll hoop. ROOSEVELT AND JACKSON. , Attitude Rearardln; Their Sneeeaaera In White Honae Almost Identical. Washington Dispatch to the New Tork Tribune. The desire of President Roosevelt to assist Secretary Taft Into the White House is not a new campaign plan in American politios. Andrew Jackson helped Martin Van Buren Into the first elective place In the land, and, like President Roosevelt, was criticised In certain quar ters for attempting to name his successor. Representative Gardner, of Massachu setts, who is an ardent Taft supporter, brought to -the White House today a copy of "The Life of Martin Van Buren," by David Crockett. . "I brought this book up to show the President," asid Mr. Gardner, "in order to let him see that the campaign Just opening now is merely a repetition of his tory. This book of Crockett's might have been written this year.with the name of Roosevelt for that of Jackson, and of Taft substituted for Van Buren. "I thought it would interest the Presi dent to know that he is not the first man to be 'jumped on' for the course he is taking, and I also wanted to tell him that he won't be the first man to win out on the issue. Crockett, who hated Jackson, in spite of the fact that they both hailed from Tennessee, . used the same arguments against the election of Van Euren that the Democrats and antl- Taft people are using against the Secre tary of War." Secretary Taft, who called at the White House today when the President's ante room was filled with visitors, had an en thusiastic reception.' Before he could escape into the President's office he was obliged to shake hands all around. Sena tor Fulton, of Oregon, who was in the President's office when the Secretary finally worked his way through the throng, greeted him as the "next Presi dent," and assured him that Oregon was "for him." "You will be elected, Mr: Secretary, without the Ehadow of a doubt." added the Oregon Senator. - "Did the Secretary show any indigna tion when you told him that?" some one in the anteroom asked Senator Fulton when the story of the incident was re ported. "No: he did not." replied the Senator. "Nor any surprise. I believe he is be ginning to think that the country means business. Why, his nomination and elec tion are foregone conclusions." BANTA1I GEORGE IN BARNYARD. Thla Editor Draws for Hla Illoatra tlona on His Duwxhlll Education. East Oregonian. You have seen a bantam rooster strutting and prancing about the barn yard, with tall feathers erect, head in the air and neok arched for a fight. You have seen the clumsy Buff Cochins, the awkward Brahmas and the timid Plym outh Rocks shy about this little fellow and seek the secluded corners of the barn yard when he climbed up on the tip top of the dung hill to flap his wings and crow.. You know the scene? You can picture it In your mind? Very well. - Let us turn to the political barnyard of Oregon and see tf we do not find a counterpart of this scene there. Let us watch the big Cochin, Harvey W. Scott, the timid Plymouth Rock, T. T. Geer, and meek Brahma, S. A. Lowell, shy aoout in the barnyard as though actually scared at the diminutive bantam, George B. Chamberlain-, as he flaps his wings and crows on the Senatorial fence! Fie, fie; men. Don't be so timid. Who is afraid of a bantam? Who is scared a.t ono diminutive Democrat with a state full of Republican votes? Lowering- the Great Lakes. Providence, (R. I.) Journal. Within a period of only a few years, ac cording .to an expert geologist employed by the Canadian government, the full ex ercise of the franchises which are work ing havoc with the glories of Niagara Falls will create a condition of the most serious menace to the interests of navi gation on the waters above the falls. The operations that threaten the reduction of the grand display of overflowing waters to a series of unlmposing rivulets, are further bound to effect a decided lower ing of lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, according to the investigations of this authority. The shoaling of the upper lake harborsand the Erie and Welland canals is an inevitable sequence. Testi mony of this sort,- which will be offered to the Rivers and Harbors Committee with especial reference to the consequence of the investigation' to American Interests, ought to haveyan impelling effect to In duce Congress to take more than tem porary or half-way measures for regu lation and control of tha situation. Senator Bourne for Hug-heaf Walter - Wellman in Chicago Record Herald. Although Governor Warner is now a Taft man, a story Ia told of him which il lustrates what a queer game politics is. Two or three months sgo the Governor made a trip to Washington. While there he fell in with Senator Bourne, of Ore gon. Bourne got hold of the Michigan Governor and convinced him that Gov ernor Hughes, of New York, was going to be nominated for President and advised Warner to got on the band wagon. The Governor came home and immediately proceeded to give out an interview in which he declared himself for Hughes. One funny thing about this incident is that Bourne told Warner Hughes was going to win because Roosevelt was for him. And another funny part of it is that Senator Bourne has won fame as the original and persistent boomer for a third term. Washington Cennty Candidate. Hillsboro Independent. Hon. W. K. Newell on Wednesday filed his petition for renomlnation as Repre sentative, and promises If elected to vote for the Republican receiving the highest number of votes for Senator.. This is a clean-cut, plain statement, and If the voters cannot elect him on that platform he can stay at home. He does not want to go to Salem and be forced to vote for a Democrat, and he will not do it. Mr. Newell made a good record last Winter, is honest and sincere in ail his actions, does not straddle the fence, and tha people always know where to find him. He is a good man to tie to and there Is no doubt of his re-election. Judge Gray an Democratic Nominee. - Philadelphia Record, Dem. The people are tired of crusades and crusaders. They are looking about for some man for the next President of the United States who will be satisfied to run the country in constitutional grooves and let the people govern themselves as nearly as possible after the manner laid down by themselves. Judge George Gray, of Delaware, appears to fill the bill. The mention of his name brings forth no word of disparagement in any corner of the land. He was born astraddle of Mason and Dixon's line, and belongs to the whole country. More Substantial Than Any Echo. Echo Register. Echo is coming Into her own. Land that was only fit for lean, long-horned cattle a few years ago, is now produc ing, without irrigation, 25 bushels of grain to the acre. Other land, under ir rigation, is producing ten tons of alfalfa hay to the acre each season. Lands un der the new canals will soon be support ing thousands of families. Time Will TelL Woodburn Independent. Oregon will select a Republican Sena tor in June. The -talk that no Republi can can defeat Chamberlain is silly. The state is not Democratic. SILHOUETTES BT ARTHUR A. GREEN?!. Automobile acquaintances frequently re sult in fast friendships. s . One caressing housemaid can stir up more domestic trouble than a dozen im perious Venuses. Happiness is a bird which we pursue all our lives like the silly child with tha salt-cellar; and like him, we never get close enough to put salt on its tail. Mythology tells up that Orpheus went to hell for his wife. But why individual ize?. s In view of his popularity with the fair sex, I've often wondered why Paul Gil more doesn't move to Colorado and run for Governor. s s One very simple and effective way of becoming a "prominent society man" in the newspapers, is to be killed in an auto accident. a If a woman Is afraid to say a thing she compromises by looking it. as The public always suspects preachers and bank cashiers who drive fast horses. The most experienced find themselves the veriest novices when the Grey man stalks In at the door and commands, ''At tention!" . a a To Flower Found Between the Lcarss of an Old Book. You're but a faded marguerite. The ghost of a burled past; That has haunted me ever For many a day You were too spotless and sweet t last. Dear marguerite. Not a gibbering ghoul. In cassock and cowl. Returned for a dark deed done. ; But the wraith of a queen Left lonely, I ween. In a sepulcher old and gray. A tomb of love's memories, Smiles and of Joy, That we made for you, she and I. You have long lost the sheen Of your seraph-like mien. And, like the rest, must die Sweet marguerite, She was supreme In the old regime. In the Kingdom of Laugh and Bonn, But time has grown weary. And days ah, so long. Since we lived for her, you and I, . Dead marguerite. Of marguerites there were many a score, And of Idle dreamers the same; But she passed them ajl by, ( And heeding our sigh. Looked on us, you and I. With your eerie smile, Tou are like to beguile Me to hope for a by and by. For that sweet sometime day. Let us fervently pray. My marguerite, you and L a a a The plumbers complain that business has been dull this Winter. Ihe Lord seems to be taking care of his people. " a Most of us who have lived the world's life find a melancholy pleas ure occasionally walking In . the soul's Gethsemane, where thrive only rosemary and rue. a a Federal statistics show a decrease from last year of almost $1,000,000 in the consumption of liquor and tobacco for the months of January and Febru ary. At least, & few of the boys must have kept their resolutions. a a a Charity begins at home, and too often ends there. a a A trombone player's wages should be arranged on a sliding scale. . a The man who Is being beaten in tha game of life usually claims that some one is dealing from the bottom. a a Now that Lent Is here, devout wom en will draw the blinds when they play bridge. I a a a People who think they have expert? enced all the griefs and disappoint ments which flesh Is heir to should try getting up a local talent show, a a a One of the hardest tasks in the world Is to live up to a letter of intro duction. a a a i No man who has time to play bil liards In the middle of the afternoon will ever become President. a a a It is possible to love those who im portune, but we can fully respect only those who command. a a a Will someone kindly feel in one of the corner pockets for ' T. T. Geer's Congressional boom? a a Epitaphs which sound the praises of the deceased are advance notices de layed In transmission. Mrs. Workovrr'a Overwork. Dixonville Cor. Roseburg Review. A new industry has sprung up hero whereby a woman can support her hue band. Mrs. Steve Workover last week corded up over 15 tiers of wood and helped to cut eight tiers. She has worked probably a hundred days in tho timber, splits and tiers the wood while her bus band saws. She is in excellent health and enjoys the work exceedingly. Aa 'Pronounced In England. Cleveland to.) Laader. There waa once an old fellow namad Bevolr Who waa 111 with tha gout and luna- fevir. And all of hla niecea Were tickled to pieces, Each eesar tor what he might leroir. Now one was a lady named Bea.ulleu, Who, of course, loved him dearly and treSQa lieu. , But she needed tha change. Bo lt'a not very atranxe That tha girl waa excited undeaulieu. For her beau a- young fellow called Ruth ven Who long- for her favors had atruthven, Wu poor, and unable To give her tha taihle Or toga that her father had guthven. A rival he had Mr. Veacl. Old, wealthy, tat, grinning and gretci. Whose court to the maid Made tha lover afraid. -' Or, anyhow, some w hHt uaescL Well, the uncle ha died down at St. Legs And left her hia coin none can pt. legar. Now they're married, and she' Fpending money with ease. And ha Is a prosperous vt. leger.