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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.