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Forster A Orear; Ferry News Stand; Hotel 8t. Francis News Stand; L. Parent; N. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14 ft Eddy street; B. E. Amos, man ager three waguns; Worlds N. S., 2826 A. Sutter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth snd Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News stand; B. E. Amos, manager five wagons: Welllnxham. E. O. Ooldfteld, Nee. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cat. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, MAR. IS. 1808. WAS IT LOST LABOR? Under the hew system which Oregon has had the honor to introduce to the world, it has become unfashionable to have any political principles. It is even discreditable. Greater part of the constitution has been superseded by initiative and referendum, and the remainder of it by the "statements" required in the primary law. We have learned that nobody who lived beforo our time ever knew anything. Such discoveries as those of the multiplica tion table are antiquated. A few years ago there was a like effort to repudiate the value of gold as material for standard money, but it suffered a set back at the hands of an insensate peo ple; but who knows what the Uhren system might not yet do for delivery of mankind from the old superstitious tyranny that rests on the pretensions of the vfelue of gold?' The hope of progress is the hope of the world. We may well pity the Intellectual weakness of our ancestors, who sup ' posed they were establishing certain principles of government on a consti tutional and therefore lasting basis. It was in the month of August, in the year of eighteen 'hundred and fifty seven, that the representatives of the people of Oregon, duly elected, assem bled to form a constitution of Oregon. That appears now to have been mid summer madness. They labored through many weeks, and finally on the eighteenth day of September (1857 ) . produced an Instrument that they supposed might be a guide to the legislation and Jurisprudence of the state. A vain imagination! The con stitution they made Is now treated but a a statute. The time they spent In producing It was wasted. Initiative petition now may make anything law that any group of persons entertaining chimerical notions of public, and even of private Interest, may exert them selves to' bring before the electorate. Of course it could not have been fore seen that It would be so abused, or the proposal would have been beaten by a mountainous majority. Some few who made that constitu tion yet remain, and more who voted for lta adoption. Not bad men, either; even If the philosophy and principles of government entertained by them were so very irrational, and so unfit for the sapient theories entertained by the illumlnatl of the present day. But It seems that their entire idea of a written constitution was a mistake. Initiative petition, with provision for referendum, is all we want; together with a primary law containing provis ions and "statements" for abolition of political parties and supersedure, in election of Senators, of the Constitu tion of the United States. The time has come, it seems, when the man who stands for any of the main ideas and principles on which our Government, national and state. was founded, is merely an intellectual old fogy and fossil, tolerated only through the pity of those who press modern claptrap Innovation. Payment of five to ten cents a name to solicitors of petitions for initiative and referen dum Is now the governing law. or at least the new scheme, for government of Oregon. It is the scheme for the fundamental lav, as well as for the statute; and of every elector the great eat vigilance will be required to pre vent these purchased petitions from becoming not merely the statutes, but even the fundamental law of the state. The new method, so perverted, has virtually abolished all sure principles of government and law; so that it is becoming unfashionable, and even matter of reproach, to talk about hav ing any political principles, or to urge men to act together, in party effort, to preserve anything, or to accomplish anything. Tet there will be return to sanity; it may be ere long. Then it will be conceded that the making of the old system was not lost labor. JCIM.E PARKER'S SPLEEN. What better place is there for tell ing the truth than a -law academy? What worse place is there for propa gating falsehood? Clearly, Judge Al ton B. Parker saw all the advantages of his position when he was called upon to address the law students at the Philadelphia Academy the other day, and determined to make the most of them without regard to fact or con science. Here is part of what he had to say about the President: Indeed no attempt Is made by our purpose ful and resourceful President to conceal bis desire and Intention to have the Federal Government: take possession of powers not granted to It but reserved to the states and the people. Nothing could be farther from the truth than this statement, and yet Judge Parker is so soured by disap pointment and blinded by partisan rancor that perhaps he thought he was telling the truth. We ought to put the most charitable construction we can upon his motives. Mr. Roosevelt has never even dreamed of urging the Federal Government to take possession of powers not granted to it. He has urged it to put into full exercise cer tain powers granted In the Constitu tion but hitherto left dormant and un used. He has urged this because In no other way could the people's rep resentatives cope with the terrible menace of plutocratic tyranny. When Judge Parker speaks against the President, two facts ought to be kept in mind, by those who hear ox read his remarks. One is that he is embittered by defeat and probably looks upon Mr. Roosevelt with the jaundiced eyes of a disappointed rival. The other, that he Is a paid employe of those oligarchic plutocrats whom Mr. Roosevelt has compelled to obey the law. Like many other loud voiced advocates of "the interests," poor Judge Parker has to do as he Is told and say what his masters put into his mouth. But the venal railings of men like him, whom we know to be the hired mercenaries of lawless brigands, are comparatively harmless. It is the spectacle of an entire bench of judges openly showing themselves subject to the same power, like the Supreme Court of California, which makes us realize the present danger to our liberties arid institutions. Law yers can talk on the side of crime as much as the like. We know It Is their trade. But when a. court pro claims its alliance with the criminal rich and shelters their depraved tools from the law, then we may well besin to tremble. EDUCATIONAL HOUSEC LEANING. By a decisive vote of 16 to 3 the Chicago Board of Education has out lawed the Greek-letter "frats" in the high schools. Beginning with the first Tuesday in September next, all mem bers of secret (societies will be sus pended. This action of the board is fairly deliberate, since it has been pre ceded by four years of agitation and discussion. It is also based upon ade quate, information, for the board has collected the opinions of 306 principals of schools upon the various aspects of the fraternity problem. In the main these opinions hold that secret socie ties in the public high schools are un desirable for many different reasons. There seems to be a pretty substantial agreement among teachers and school authorities that they ace detrimental to study, undemocratic, and subversive of discipline. These charges, which have been . convincingly established, are sufficient to condemn the secret societies. Were there nothing worse in the background, the action of the Chicago board would be completely justified by them. But there are worse accusations against the secret societies, much worse ones. It is more than hinted by those who have looked into the matted that they furnish opportunities for precocious and detestable vice. It must be that some knowledge of this darker aspect of the subject has come to the knowledge of school authorities and courts. Otherwise we should be at a loss to understand the unbroken unanimity with which the fraternities have been condemned. Officials and Jurists may be expected to differ upon a mere question of discipline. Noth ing less than considerations going to the 'basis of youthful morality could have brought them Into such agree ment as we see regarding secret soci eties arriong school children. In three states Indiana, Minnesota and Kan sas they have been outlawed by leg islative act. The Supreme Court of Washington has sustained a drastic rule of the Seattle directors against them, and the Illinois Court of Ap peals has decided that Boards of Edu cation may take such action against the fraternities as they see fit. Upon the whole the outlook for the secret societies is dark. These societies are one of the unde sirable consequences of the increasing intimacy between the colleges and the public high schools. The intimacy Is one of domineering superiority on the college side and imitative dependence on the side of the schools. Just as beys catch up the habits, good and bad, of grown men whom they happen to associate with, scholars in the lower grades imitate the tricks and customs of those above them. And just as a habit which is well enough for a man Is often a vice in a boy, so the secret societies are but harmless follies in college, while in the high schools they are totally noxious. It would have been bad enough if the higher institu tions of education had stopped with dictating what should be taught and studied in those of lower grade. This unpardonable exercise of authority has divorced the public high schools from practical life, made their curric ulums visionary and unscientific, and driven out the great majority of male youth from the classroom to get their preparation for life upon the streets. . ,When we remember that the col leges have done this for the high schools, and at the same tfVie be queathed to them a silly rigmarole of left-oer titles, such' as "freshman, sophomore. Junior, senior," with the ceremonies of a premature graduation day which have even crept down into the grammar grades, and a lethal leg acy of formal examinations, one would have supposed that ' the pernicious transfer might have ceased. But it did not. The habit of neglecting study for peripatetic games had to come also with traveling musical clubs, meander ing debating teams and child orators careering over the country in a blaze of precocious glory. To cap the cli max, the colleges bestowed their Greek-letter fraternities upon the schools. We may perhaps take com' fort in . the thought that they can scarcely have anything worse to give, but the comfort is rather cold. The foremost duty now confronting high school authorities is to get rid of this impertinent heritage from the col leges, bag and baggage. There should be an immediate and thorough-going declaration of Independence. The course of study must be regulated to suit boys and girls and not college fac ulties. The whole Incongruous para phernalia of imitative graduations, oratory, errabund teams, and so on, should be eliminated and the schools should take their own course-and hold to it fearlessly and steadily unless they would see their usefulness disappear altogether. But it is well withal to apply the broom to the biggest evil first. - Hence we all rejoice to see the authorities starting in upon the Greek letter fraternities. When will educa tional' housecleaning begin in Port land? . SOME PORTLAND ATTRACTIONS. The location at Portland of the larg est packing plant west of the Missis sippi River, together with the applica tion for a site from another large con cern, has caused some speculation among the Seattle papers as to why such things can be. The Seattle Times fires pretty wide of the mark when it says that "because of the prices real estate brokers in this city, having con trol of tideland areas suitable for manufacturing, sites, have in the past put on property that was obtained from the state years ago for a paltry song, two of the largest packing con cerns in the United States have been driven against their will to locate vast plants in Portland." That reads well for home consumption in Seattle, but it is hardly In -accordance with the facts. The big packing firms were not driven to Portland "against their will," nor was it the enormous prices at which Seattle real estate was held that caused them to locate in Portland. To be sure. Swift & Co. obtained in this city for something like $1,000,000 property which at Seattle tideland prices would have cost them $120,00"o, 000. But it should be remembered that Swift & Co. had no serious inten tion of locating on Puget Sound. Had they desired to locate a plant there, it was unnecessary to. go Into the re stricted tideland district, where prop erty was held at (not sold for) such fabulous prices. There were other lo calities near Seattle where property could have been secured at more rea sonable figures. Even from the vicin ity of Tacoma the business of Puget Sound could have been handled as ad vantageously as from Seattle. The reason that Swift & Co. located in Portland and the reason that a num ber of other great concerns, Including one from Seattle, are seeking further locations in Portland, is that this city is the one point on the Pacific Coast where a packing-house business on a large scale can be conducted econom ically. There are many factors contributing to this admirable situation for such plants. This city is the largest distrib uting center in the Pacific Northwest. It is located at the foot of a water level route which is now used by three transcontinental railroads. It is at the gateway of and is the trading point for the great Willamette' Valley and the vast Columbia Basin, two agricul tural districts which contain a produc tive area in the aggregate four times as large as that which is tributary to Puget Sound. Both in available sup plies of raw material and In transpor tation facilities for distributing the manufactured products and massing the raw material. Portland offers to the big packers inducements that are missing from any location on Puget Sound. For these reasons the Swift plant is here, and others will follow. BALANCE OF TRADE. The "balance or trade," as the dif ference Between the exports apd the Imports of a country is designated, has always been a favorite topic for the extreme protectionists. If this bal ance is against us, we are warned that the country is on the road to ruin through permitting such large imports to enter. If the balance shows in our favor, it is used to illustrate the ad vantages of protection. For the, eluci dation of a theory the "balance of trade" may be all right in its place; but close examination of Its working, not alone in this country, but In Eu rope, discloses the fact that its advan tages and disadvantages are misunder stood or misrepresented. A summary of the February trade returns shows that the value of all classes of goods exported from this country last month was $85,743,361 more than the value of the imports for the same period. This balance of trade was $52,000,- 000 greater than for the same month In 1907. Last month our imports showed a value $44,000,000 less than for Feb ruary, 1907. Based on the protection ist theory, these figures could hardly fail to show a hilariously prosperous state of affairs, but the actual condi tions they reflect are not extravagantly prosperous. The same theory applied at the other end of the line would also show the United Kingdom on the high road to ruin, but there, as here, theory is at fault. The people across the Atlantic have felt to a certain , ex tent the effect of the panic on this side of the ocean, but general trade condi tions in the United Kingdom have failed to suffer the radical disarrange ment noticeable in so many lines in this country. The February excess of exports over imports averaged $3,000,- 000 per day, but, the protectionist the ory to the contrary notwithstanding, It is a question whether the United States as an exporter or Great Britain as an importer derived the greatest benefits from that balance of trade. A large portion of the balance of trade was in raw materials, which, ad mitted duty free into the United King dom, were worked up into commodi ties that were shipped, all over the world at a profit to British capital and British labor. Some of these millions also represented the earnings on for eign capital invested in the United States, on insurance, banking and shipping business. In other words. Great Britain was drawing in wealth due her from this country. This ad mission of free raw materials has, of course, made the United Kingdom the greatest manufacturing country on earth, and its present prosperity -could never continue under anything but a free-trade policy. Our decline in Imports, as compared with those for February, 1907. reflects a diminished purchasing power in .this country. Instead of being a cause for rejoicing, it is as much to be regretted as is ths decline in the amount of busi ness American shopkeepers and manu facturers are doing. Removal of the tariff, which has created trusts and trust prices, and establishment of a fair policy of reciprocity, which would bring our Imports and exports nearer an equality,- might not be a bad thing for the country. Certain it Is that the much-lauded "balance of trade" is sus ceptible to a meaning radically differ ent from the meaning credited to it by the protectionists. "We. are ready at a moment's notice to begin shooting at the targets, to go out to sea and fight a battle, or to keep on with the cruise.". This is the testimony of the commander of the battle fleet of the United States Navy that has just doubled Cape Horn and dropped anchor in Magdalena Bay. How puerile, in the face of sucli tes timony, are the criticisrrls recently passed upon our Navy! How utterly at variance with the charges of ineffi ciency and general inadaptability to the work for which our magnificent battleships were constructed! . And how reassuring if reassurance were needed that this declaration is from the lips of Rear-Admiral Evans, than whom no more competent authority on naval efficiency exists! It would seem to be in order for alarmists or critics of the Reuterdahl stamp to "go 'way back and sit down." Women who come from foreign countries to the United States to ply Immoral' vocations are well toward the lead In the class of "undesirable aliens" against whom It is the duty and has become the purpose and pol icy of the Government to discriminate. The deportation of women of this class 1. e., those who within three years after being admitted to this country are found to be leading immoral lives is in the interest of public decency. For the sturdy, self-supporting alien and his helpful wife and numerous progeny there is room and welcome; for the mischief-breeder, pauper and evildoer, of either sex, there is neither. Of this ilk we have already enough, and to spare; and being essen tially a generous people, are quite will ing that foreign nations should keep their surplus stock of human cattle of these pernicious breeds. It is the unexpected that happens when the March skies pour down over the Pacific Northwest a volume of water that endangers or' carries away bridges, inundates low-lying fields, and by means of landslides and washouts interrupts railway traffic. Since, how ever, it is one of the things against which foresight could not provide, it is Just as well that such a storm comes when it does come as a sur prise, works its will quickly and passes. Inconvenience and delay, in cident to the Interruption of traffic, are always vexatious. Beyond this the mischief due to the March freshet, the crest of which has passed, was not of a serious nature, and, though unusual, was not wholly unprecedented in the wide section visited. Regret at the announcement of the contemplated transfer of Colonel Roessler, of the United States Engi neers, will be softened by the state ment that he will probably be succeed ed by Colonel W. C. Langfitt, who was formerly in charge of river and har bor work in this district. In the past one of the greatest disadvantages suf fered in this work was the frequent changes in engineers. It seemed to be the' policy of the' Government to trans fer an engineer as soon as he became sufficiently familiar with local condi tions to enable him to be useful. The return of Colonel Langfitt, if he shall succeed Colonel Roessler, will be wel comed by all who are familiar with'his energetic policies regarding river Im provement. Sir Edgar Vincent, formerly finan cial adviser of the Khedive of Egypt, in an interview printed in New Tork -expresses the opinion that the recent panic in the United States was of "in estimable value to the Commercial fu ture of this country." Helnze, Morse, Gates, and the rest of the crowd who were a little slow In getting out from under will probably receive this cheer ing comment with the same degree of pleasure that is felt by' the man with a boil when he is assured that it is a fine thing for him. The panic may have saved the country from a much harder fall than it sustained, but its "value"'wlll always be-regarded as a doubtful quantity by many of the chief mourners. Ex-Chief Engineer Stevens is out with another interview regarding the Panama Canal in which he expresses the opinion that the work will be com pleted by the end of 1914, and that if necessary, it could be completed two years earlier. He speaks fn high praise of Lieutenant-Colonel Goethals, who is in charge, and states that it will un doubtedly be completed at a cost fully $50,000,000 less than the estimated $300,000,000. This is a much more pleasing report than the one Mr. Ste vens made a few days earlier, and there is a possibility that he may err in. judgment in predicting commercial failure for the cannal after it Is com pleted. Abdul Aziz Is reported to have paid Mulai Hafid a large sum of money to withdraw from the country. If Mulai has an eye to business he can, to use an expression of the green cloth, "double-shoot the turn," by making a 'hasty run for a good vaudeville circuit. He might not draw as well as Raisuli, but with Abdul Aziz paying him to leave and an American vaudeville manager paying him to come, it would be worth while. Many citizens do not register be cause they have no interest in the pri maries. But registration at this time serves for the June election as well as the Presidential election in Novem ber. So long as the Thaws were telling things about Stanford White, the facts at least served to point a moral; but there would not be eyen this merit in stories they might te4I on each other. In the list of "worldly amusements" that Methodist young people will es chew, gossip and shopping seem to have been overlooked. The foreign automobiles would prob ably have made better time If they had taken the Oregon trail. Senator Tillman's "uncrowned king" has the merit of having refused the crown for a third term. If you are going to vote in June or November, why not register before the books close, April 7T FREE LAND, FREE LUNCH. Writer Supplies Another Chapter Asralnat the Slnicle Tax. CANBT. Or., March 16. H. D. Wag lion. Portland Dear Sir: I note your rather silly effusion addressed to me and published in last Saturday's Oregonian. and ypur communication impresses me that you are bidding for cheap notriety more than anything else. 1 note your figures also, and would call your at tention to an editorial published in the same issue of The Oregonian. t At the present time you are no doubt closeted with an elementary arithmetic containing the "rudiments of numbers," and If you are successful in mastering the fact that .two and two make four, you may feel Justified in breaking into print again. Otherwise, you had better save your wonderful argumen tative talent for you might be called upon to prove that two and two do not make four, and from the nature of your arguments on the single tax I do not doubt that you would under take the task. Let me suggest that you and your single tax brethren adopt for your motto: "Free Land and Free Lunch." If you get free lunch, why shouldn't you get free land? Here Is a strong point for you. I am aware 'of the fact that Henry George was a member of the Interna tional Typographical Union.' but that is not sufficient reason for me to sup port the single tax theory. I do not believe In the theory of taxing land until it shall become community prop erty, as you advocate. -This is also the doctrine of Henry George. The latter was a great man, so was Ed ward Bellamy a great man, or he could not have planned and written his "Looking Backward," but the things he presents are things any dreamer might dream. We are dealing with conditions in this day and age, and not with theories. A thousand years from now the single tax might "be a good thfing, but that will be a long time and after you have gone to heaven, my dear Waggle. Now, "Waggle boy," study that arithmetic until you learn to add up a column of figures, and before you attempt to deal with a report from the Secretary of State on the taxable values of Clackamas countv. GEORGE W. "DIXON. HERB'S AN OLD STORY. Thla Man Denounces Intrinsic Value and Wants Flat Money. WOODBURN. Or.. March 13. (To the Editor.) I have been reading your edi torials on the subject of finance and have come to the conclusion that you are lost in the swamps of the gold standard wild erness and are chasing that Jack-o-Iantern called Intrinsic value. You say the error in our financial system Is the flat notion of money. That assertion is astounding in the face of the fact that all legal tender is flat money. Your $20 gold piece is fiat money, and you want to take notice that; when you pay it out, you have used only the fiat. Intrinsic value cuts no figure In the transaction. Therefore, the money question has nothing to do with intrinsic value, for the simple reason thatrit is a question of the sovereignty of the Gov ernment issuing it. And. if the people were sovereign in power in the United States we would have Government banks and plenty of full legal tender green backs. Good times for the producers would put them out of reach of this stock gambling oligarchy called "National bank system." With the greenback system, no panics; no loss of "depositors' money in Government banks, but more certainty. In business and a higher civilization than is possible in this "dog eat dog" system which Is now in vogue. J. L JOSEPH. BOGUS REFORM IN LAND TAX ' Proposed Initiative- Meaanre la Return to Methods of Aborigines. PORTLAND, March 17. (To the Edi tor.) No one should be deceived into voting for the proposed initiative amend ment to our State Constitution, believing it to be either needed or wise. The real purpose is to set aside the elementary constitutional provision which now binds our Legislature, and our courts, namely: that all taxation ought to be equal and uniform, and place instead thereof a starter in single taxation of land. WThen once we have "single tax" of land in our Constitution, the way will be clear to levy and collect for all state and community purposes, a tax equal to the value of the land, rental or otherwise, until final socialistic confiscation of all lands to the public results. It is an opening wedge to Henry Georgeism. plain and simple, and to pub lic absorption of "unearned increment." and such is the real motive behind it all. Single tax of land simply means a grad ual and easy realization of wild and de structive theories, tbat private ownership of land ought to be abollshcu, and all land owned either by the public or In common. We once ..ad it in practice when Indians ruled America. Now they wish to start in to down civilization's system in all countries and all ages and return to. that of the Aborigines. M. C. GEORGE. The Late Profeaaor Bonrne of Yale. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. March 17. (To the Editor.) Members of the Oregon Historical Society who were in the city during August of the year 1905 remem ber with interest the visit of Professor Bourne of Yale University, who attended the meetings of the historical conference at the Lewis and Clark Exposition and delivered one of the principal addresses in connection with that conference, and who was afterward elected to an honor ary membership in the society. His many university friends in this region have been pained to learn of his death at New Haven, Conn., February 24. as the result of a surgical operation which was per formed as a last resort in the treatment of a malady of long standing. Professor Bourne was considered one of the most brilliant of the younger men of the American Historical Association, and his career could be said to have hardly begun. He was perhaps best known in this region as the author of the essay on "The Whitman Legend" and of a shorter criticism upon Jonathan Carver, in whose writings the name Ore gon first appears in literature. His work was characterized by extreme care in the selection of the authorities which he drew from, as to their genulness and' natural prejudice. T. C E. Paralysis Follow Severe Handshake. Marion (Ind.) Dispatch to the Indiana ' polls News. A severe handshake given Ira Hinch man, a barber, of Gas City, by his friend. Otto Hlldebrand, so paralyzed Hinchman that he is confined to his bed at the home of his mother in this elty. The warm greeting extended Hinchman occurred February 13 at his barber shop. Hilde brand grasped Hinehman's hand and re marked that he had the better grip. So sudden and forcible was the grasp that Hinehman's right shoulder was wrenched out of place. A physician replaced the shoulder, but being unable to work. Hinchman started to his mother's home here, but fell in the street, paralyzed, and was taken to the house in a wagon. Massage treatment has been given since and the patient Is improving, but is still unable to walk without great effort. 1 Malheur "Way of Doing- Things. Woodburn Independent. J. C. Fleming, of Ontario. Or., came to town in the morning of one day the latter part of last week, bought the Frank Grimps farm at $125 per acre, the Bigger place in East Woodburn at $8700. a i lot in the Belle Passl cemetery and leit on the evening train on his return to Ontario. That's going some- j NON-RESIDENT LAND OWNERS. Ex poors Fallnciea of Proposed Single Tax Meaanre. EVERETT, Wash., March 16. (To the Editor.) We non-resident landowners are unable to protest by vote, but hope that all non-Improving and speculative holders of land and town lots, living In Oregon, will protect their own and our in terest in a grand assault against the per nicious idea of exempting improvements on land from taxation. A few of us here own considerable land in Oregon and are investing at low prices and waiting for a profit. We are reasonably sure that our investments are right if population in creases, and If the actual settler the man with the hoe, the Oregon farmer, invests his capital and labor, makes the country to blossom, pays his taxes in proportion to the value of his improve ments, incidentally adding a Talue to our holdings, a value we hope to confiscate before a system of taxation is adopted which would exempt the farmer and levy a heavy toll on us. We can depend on the newspapers. The Oregon farmer, tolling under the heat of a June sun. will not advertise or pay for editorial work during the cam paign. We feel we are safe in that the other "units in society" will surely save us from the "doctrinaires and corpor ate interests" that would invade our preserves and place burdens of govern ment on the "shirkers" rather than the workers, relieve the toilers at the expense of the spoiler, and take taxes off indus try and on the monopoly of those who use land and those who hold land idle. I confide in the efforts of the news papers and the apathy of the man with the hoe to prevent such a calamity. DANIEL N BE SON. INDIAN WAR VETERANS. A Proper Appeal fur Increase of Their Penaiona. Letter in Cowlitz County News. In yesterday morning's Oregonian I notice a pews item entitled "Pensions to Oregonians." Then follows a list of names, residents of Oregon, who have had their pensions increased recently. I do not begrudge any veteran of any war in which the United States has been en gaged, all the Increase in his pension he can secure. The Government is pretty tardy about these increases of pensions, to say the least, but the point I desire to make at this time Is that not one of the veterans named Is an Indian war veteran. The Indian, war veteran gets $3 per month, no more. Why should not the Indian war veteran be entitled to an Increase as other veterans are? Why discriminate between him and the vet erans of other wars? He risked his life, he suffered hardship and privation, he bore the heat and burden of the day and the dangers which threaten the soldier on the field of battle. He was regularly mustered into the service of Uncle Sam, and he stands before the country and be fore the world as one of the veterans of a war in which his country was engaged. Therefore I ask, why in the name of even-handed justice and common sense is he not entitled to the same lights un der the pension laws of the United States that are accorded the veterans of other wars? ANDREW LAWS, Indian War Veteran. INKUM'S DISCOVERY. Inkum Stebblns' keen proboscis Smelt -the smell of putrid graft; Inkum Stebblns' little muck-rake Raked the question fore and aft. Fore and aft he shrewdly raked it. With a sharp, incisive pen. Inkum Stebblns raked up- U'Ren, (With an accent on the 'Ren.) Tell us, tell us, Inkum Stebbins. What is this that you have found Scratching with your little muck-rake On our graft-infested ground? " 'Tis Indeed a rara avis," Quoth the rabid raker then. " 'Tis the one and only .U'Ren, (Please to accent on the 'Ren.) " 'Tis the sapient creator Of the double-headed brute. With the asinine appearance And the elephant's to boot. (Do not ask a man .to name it, For, Indeed, he really can't . A mere Elephass It may be. Or a wild Jackassophant) "He's the champion of the 'peepul, And the foe ' of the 'machine, And he strives to make the methods Of the Legislature clean; 'Let them send not to the Senate Him who thickest slings his pelf Though to vindicate the people I must sacrifice myself.' "The protection of the masses Ever is his chiofest care, Even though his course may doom him to the Senatorial chair; He, will save the simple voters -From the sharks that gather thick, Though he has. to dig eleven Hundred bucks to do the trick." Hail the grand, great-hearted black smith! Inkum Stebblns bows to you, Forger of the Otherendum, And the Imitative, too! Great protector of the "peepul" From the wiles of wicked men. Honor be to noble U'Ren, (With the accent on the 'Ren.) Dean Collins In Dallas Observer. r Latin America a Good Cnstomer. Mexican Herald. Probably there are not 50.000,000 people south of the Panama Canal, but there are surely 40.000,000, and if Mexico and Central America are added the total population of Latin America will be ap proximately 63,000,000. who are yearly in creasing their foreign trade. South of Panama the bulk of the trade is with Europe, which has planned for it and does not bar out with stupid tariffs the staple South American exports. ' Latin America is a big customer and all the time a larger buyer. It is worth study ing and worth cultivating, and its notable progress should be better known in the United States. A FEW SQUIBS. "Pa. what's a metrical romance ?" "Well, this month's gas bill Is one." Cleveland Leader. "Sometimes." said Uncle Eben, "I ketches myse'f Iambastfn' a mule foh doin' purty much de same as I would do If I .was In de mule's place." Washington Star. "Don't you ever get homesick, captain ?" asked the passenger on the ocean liner. "No'm; I'm never home long; enough," re plied the captain. Philadelphia Press. Under the by-laws of the Press Humorists' Union a fine of 5 and costs Is Incurred automatically by anyone who refers to the Lima salute to the American fleet as a species of Peruvian bark. Loulrvllls Courier-Journal. "How did you and your husband discover that you were affinities" asked the pretty young widow. "Heavens! We never did. We got married in a decent way, neither of us having any reason not to." Chicago Record-Herald. "Do you think you could identify the burglar?" asked ths detective from City Hall. "Well, I never saw him," replied the victim, "but he was a very small man." "How do you know?" "Haven't I told you he got into our flat without any trouble?" Philadelphia Press. Elyth It Is too bad that" Clara was In love with Jack when he proposed to me. I feel .sorry for the poor girl. M&yme why, she Is in love, with Tom. She never even cared for Jack. Edyth Oh, dear! I never would have accepted him had I known that. Chicago Daily News. "What sort of telescope do you use for seeing things on Mars?" Ths eminent as tronomer, habituated to scanning the heav ens at magazine .space rates, stayed his pen but an instant. "I have learned." he re plied, "not to rely on any telescope. The beet of them sadly hsmpers the play of the Imagination." Philadelphia Public Ledger. SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR A. GREENE. A reformation that does not include restitution. Is but a poor apology for reform. see This much may be said in favor of the devil. He gives his followers a run for their money. e The Ballade of the Crying; Voire. (After the well-known baseball classic. some time after.) Now it looks exceeding rocky for the "favorite sons" today; 'Most every state's been heard from with the date three months away; News that Hushes has carried Brooklyn and Joe Cannon grabbed Danville. Doesn't pale the cheek of "Teddy," nor "fuss up" his fat friend "Bill." a. straggling few are coming for LaFollette, Knox, Fairbanks, But the busy state conventions keep on tilling up Taft's ranks: And It looks as if one ballot would take him kiting through , And "the boys" are feeling "bully," and the sky's a roseate hue. But the Interests still "figger" while the "hostiles" still are mad Although Cortclyou's extinguished and Foraker's "to the bad;" Yet there rises up among us a man of lofty men. Talking loudly of his mission and the Great White Light he's seen. He of all our almost- tatesmen has a right attractive plan To accomplish third-term wonders and beat out tradition's ban; And his voice still clamors loudly, bringing cheer to those who fhourn He's a Senator from somewhere and his other name is Bourne. He has solved the knotty problem, scorning ancient rules of three. And he still has hopes of getting the convention to agree That the way to save the country from destruction's canker-worms Is to do a small subtraction, leaving two "elective terms." While they tell him at the White House that "T. R." is surely "sot" In his firm determination and this brilliant scheme is rot, Still this ardent propagandist keeps on talking through his hat And again comes back as blithly as the storied Thomas cat. Does he think, when legions gather, that a deadlock will 'Impede The wheels of nomination and will cause V a wild stampede From the crowded Taft enclosure, leav ing "Bill" and "Ted" to mourn. To a Senator from somewhere whose other name Is Bourne? see Mrs. George Law, a San Francisco smart set matron, has employed an agent at a good salary whose duties are to prevent the newspapers from giving her publicity in their society columns. At least this is the report that comes from the Bay City. It is probable, however, that the agent will find his occupation gone if he performs his duties to the strict letter. Only burlesque actresses enjoy well-placed publicity more than society women. The hearse or the patrol wagon eventu ally picks up the fellow who stands on a corner and waits for Opportunity to come for him in her victoria. see Whatever else they did do, the Saint Patrick's day paraders did not carry red flags. s s Here's hoping ' that the snakes may never retake Ireland. see To Another Helen. the same being Her Ladyship, H. J. C.) 0 maid, far come from the Blessed Isles, Deign to entrance me with your smiles: 1 pray you look on me with those eyes In whose fathomless depths the mystery lies; i Deign to accord me your royal grace That I may have a courtier's place In your lovely court and there enjoy What I' missed by not living in ancient Troy. Thus I besought the haughty maid Approaching her timidly and afraid; But pretending to me that she had not heard She answered me never a single word. The lady's demeanor was very cold And regretting much I had been so bold I left the presence as I was told. Now this Helen of mine was Just eight weeks old. Is it any wonder that she was cold? ess I've never known of a so-called Pla tonic friendship or a friendly political contest that did not end in a scandal, ess My Idea of a mean man is the fel low who tied a bow of orange ribbon on Dan McAllen's door knob yesterday., ess The only certain way to make a patriot of . an American citizen Is to give him a Job under. the existing ad ministration. What will presumably be a perfectly g-r-a-n-d play called "What Women Will Do" Is headed this way. Among other things it will probably tefl us that they will: Say "no" and mean "yes"; graft all the loose change from their husband's trousers pockets; fight unnumbered rounds a la Marquis of Queensbury at a bargain counter and insist that they are two fragile to darn the old man's aocks; buy all the books a good-looking young agent brings around and then com plain that the men spend so much money for cigars; sing "Love Me and the' World U Mine" in ncar-aoprano voices after the people in the flat below have retired and are half dead for sleep; wear the carcasses of birds of Paradise on their hats when they attend the meetings of the Audubon Society; play bridge for bir stakes and lead a moral reform against slot-machines; live on one meal a day In order to economize for sets of sables; lug tubercular lapdogs around in their arms and leave the baby at home doped with soothing syrup to keep them asleep while they gad; drag their men friends to grand opera and insist that they en Joy it when they aren't sure whether it was Wagner or Charles K. Harris who wrote "Die Walkure." These are only a few of the things that women will do. The dramatist has his wires crossed. He meant to call his play "What Won't Women Do?"