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THERE MTU.L WILL BE UOl'BT.
The automobile has bron discovered
silife the Constitution o Oregon was
framed; also the telephone; and rub'
bcr shoes have covne into more general
use.
But it is not clear that thcSe and
similar discoveries have superseded, or
greatly affected, the fundamental prin
ciples of constitutional and representa
tive government.
It does not now seem lo tie a pro
found generalisation to say, as our
new prophets of politics and of govern
ment are saying, that since we have
the automobile, the telephone, the
electric light and trolley cars, of all
which the makers of our constitutional
and representative system were ig
norant, we therefore should pity their
limitations of knowledge as to princi
ples of government, and proceed to
abolition of the whole system, under
the new light afforded by the gasoline
engine, the electric motor and horse
less carriage.
Doubtless it Is a great thing for a
distinguished lawgiver or editor to be
able to push an electric button at his
desk, and get a gin rickey, or Scotch
highball an advantage which our
ancestors never possessed. But won
derful as this is. we cannot see that it
should be used as an argument for or
proof of a superior progressive intelli
gence in these times, which can war
rant the . change of constitutional
systems of government, abolish the old
principle of equal taxation, cut the
state university out of our educational
h.5V'ni. Introduce a Jargon about recall
of officials, or try to force voters to
elect men of political principles op
posite to their owu to the Senate.
Many discoveries have been made
In physical science, and more are to
come. But the new discoveries In
political and moral science have been
mighty few, these many centuries.
Have such discoveries been reserved
through all the ages for a bumptious
charlatanry in Oregon? We shall still
doubt.
rthciritoci r- in practicf..
That eminent array of political
economists who sail under the banner
f protection in its extreme form will
Unit some interesting food for thought
in a recent publication of the Bureau
of Statistics showing details of our
trade with Cuba for the past five years.
When the recent semi-reciprocal
agreement was perfected between this
country and Germany, a prolonged
howl went up from the "stand pat
icts." To listen to their lugubrious
wuilings as ground out on the "Amer
ican Economist" phonograph, the
uninformed individual would surely
get the impression that our-foreign
commerce had been Irreparably In
jured by the mild concessions mad
the Germans. These concessions were
slight reductions in the tariff on a few
urticles of which we stood greatly in
need, and in return for this, Ger
many made similar concessions on
products which it was very much to
our interest to dump on foreign
shores.
When the reciprocal agreement with
Cuba was negotiated, it met with a
similar reception. Nothing, absolutory
nothing, but ruin and destruction to
our trade, could result from this at
tempt to give the Cubans a square
deal by buying from them products
v.'hich we needed, and the purchase
.ii" which enabled them to buy goods
which we had to sell. That was high
tarilt theory and here are the facts:
Since 1903, there has been an increase
of 12314 cent in the exports from
this country to Cuba, while for the
same period the imports from Cuba
have increased but SI H per cent. The
Southern planters who fought vi
ciously to prevent the operation of the
present reciprocity treaty, which be
came effective about five years ago.
assured the people that the admission
of the cheap Cuban sugar would ruin
the business and cheapen the article
so that it would no longer be possible
fcr the South to put it on the market
except at a loss. '
.That was the theory; the facts as
compiled by the Department of Com
merce and Labor show that in the five
years since the latest reciprocity
agreement was negotiated, sugar im
portations increased from approxi
mately 2.000.000,000 pounds in 1903
to 3,000,000,000 pounds last year. Had
the theory of the high tariff men been
even approximately correct, this in
crease of 50 per cent In quantity of
sugar imported would have justified
the predictions of the planters and the
sugar trust, but with shocking per
versity, the price of sugar advanced
so that the value of the 1907 imports
was 367.187.688. compared with but
337.593.26S for the much smaller pro
portionate amount imported in 1903.
In other words, while the amount of
imports increased 50 per cent, the
value was nearly -doubled.
A similar showing is made through
out the list and the figures, taken in
dividually or collectively, offer the
strongest possible argument In favor
of reciprocal trade relations with any
country which produces commodities
of which we are. in need, and in re
turn purchases the products which we
have to sell. -
THE RAILROAD LAND GRANT.
Senator Bourne, our reports from
Washington, inform us, who has ac
tively supported Senator Fulton's reso
lution authorizing the Department of
Justice to prosecute suits for the re
covery of railroad land-grant land, has
written a letter to the Attorney-General,
in which he expresses strong ap
probation of the position of the de
partment In resisting the proposed
amendments to Senator Fulton's reso
lution; adding, however, that if the
equities of innocent purchasers' could
be preserved by the amendment with
out jeopardy to the Government's case,
such amendment should be incorpo
rated. He assures the Department it
can count on his support In forcing the
railroads to comply with the terms of
the grants, and states that he will help
secure, such subsequent legislation as
will afford equitable relief to pur
chasers in good faith from the grantee
companies.
In the circumstances, this appears to
be the right position for our delega
tion at Washington; since surely a
way may be found and must be found
for relief of those who have purchased
the lands, in good faith, without collu
sion with those who were perverting
or misusing the grant.
Besides, It is a general interest.
Should everything be shut down and
all rights lost, an incalculable number
of persons engaged In the lumber busi
ness would be Injured, many of them
ruined, and the industrial progress of
the country arrested for an indefinite
period.
But a way ought to be found to save
these rights and these industries, with
out abandonment of the purpose to
force compliance with the terms of the
grant, the greater part of which is still
held by the railroad; or even to de
clare that misfeasance has forfeited it.
AN ANTI-RING TICKET.
It is an excellent thing that the Ken
tucky Kliek of Portland has done. It
has held a meeting and offered a com
plete Democratic ticket. The list of
names constituting the ticket begins
with Governor Chamberlain for the
Senate, runs on down with a roster of
candidates for such state offices as are
(o be filled by the June election, in
cludes members of the two branches
of the Legislature for, Multnomah
County, presents a full ticket for tha
county offices, and completes an ar
tistic piece of work with the names of
precinct officers for the East and West
Divisions of the City of Portland.
Heretofore the Kentucky Klick has
been somewhat modest more so than
it ought to have been. Hence, it may
be necessary now to explain to the
multitude of readers that the Klick is
an organization four years old, that
hitherto has modestly withheld its
merits and claims from the public, but
now boasts of having first brought out
Lane. Word and Manning and of hav
ing wielded more influence in politics
than any other organization. It is
composed of "white males," most of
them born South of Mason and Dixon's
line, or whose parents came from that
section of invincible Democracy. The
organization is a secret one, but has
no wish longer to conceal its existence.
Its officers are Mark O'Neill, presi
dent: S. C. Armitage, secretary; V. K.
Strode, treasurer. Other principal
members of the inner circle are H. B.
Nicholas. C. B. Williams, T. J.
Thornton, J. B. Ryan, W. T. Vaughn,
W. T. Burney, T. G. Greene, E. A.
McPherson, Tom Word, Oglesby
Young, H. M. fiarnhart, M. J. Mallcy,
W. H. Grindstaff. Alex Sweek and B.
E. Haney an array of solid statesmen.
The Oregonlan congratulates these
gentlemen upon having completed the
Democratic ticket. Without trouble,
without a single hitch, they will see it
through the primary. This will -be a
simple formality. The Klick is not a
ring; neither is it a machine. Odious
combinations of that nature are left
to Republicans. Yesterday The Ore
gonlan printed the full ticket. It ex
cited general admiration not Vnerely
for the ticket itself, but for the
smooth, aesthetic and absolutely rep
resentative methods by which it was
compiled. -
A SINGLE-TAX FALLACY.
One fad or fancy, or whatever it
may be, of the single-tax brethren is
beyond our comprehension. They teach
that it is a terrible crime, the worst of
crimes. In fact, to buy land and hold
it for an increase of value. But at
the same time they teach that it Is no
crime to tuy a horse or a house or a
share of railroad stock for the same
purpose. If one buys a piece of land
and simply lets it lie without use. he
is a malefactor of the deepest dye. al
though, make the best he can of it,
the land is an expense to him. But it
is virtuous to buy a share in a manu
factory and lay It away In the drawer,
out of use. although the share is not
an expense, but brings In an annual in
come. Our fanatical friends who advocate
the single tax upon land values have
lost the faculty of seeing things as
they are. They cannot perceive that
one kind of property is exactly the
same as any other kind, subject to the
same rules of value increment and
equally just or unjust to those who
have it not. The man who buys a calf
ten days old Inflicts a double wrong
upon his neighbors, because not only
does the development of the dairy-
business create an unearned increment
in its value, but nature herself con
spires to the same nefarious end. The
calf actually grows in the night while
the man sleeps, which land will not do.
If it Is a sin to buy land and hold it
out of use, how much greater sin is It
to buy a calf and not sell it at once
for veal?
If ownership of unused land is
wrong, so also is ownership of any
other property which is not immedi
ately employed in productive industry.
If it is wrong to fend off from the land
those men who want to cultivate it, so
also Is it wrong to fend off from any
other kind of property whatever any
body who wants to make it productive.
Disguise it as they may, the theory of
the 'slngle-taxers is that ownership
must be coextensive- with use. Those
who doubt this statement are invited
to read Mr. Guilford's letter, printed
today and see if they can make it
mean anything else?
IRRATIONAL CRITICISM.
The mental condition of the New
York Sun must be a matter of serious
concern to its admiring friends. The
subtle wit and delicate cynicism for
which that paper was once justly
famous have given way to a frantic
habit of calumnious billingsgate which
seems likely to make it infamous be
fore a great while. The Sun has
simply lost the power to see or hear
the phrase "labor union" without fall
ing into a fit and foaming 4at the
mouth with rage. Any person who
ventures to speak of the unions with
common fairness :or exert' himself to
secure ordinary justice for their mem
bers must expect to be deluged with
a flood of calumny, provided,' of
course, the Sun thinks him important
enough to merit its unsavory atten
tions. " '
Evidently the Sun , thinks Mr.
Roosevelt very Important indeed. .for
the tide of vituperation with w-hich
it favors him grows steadily in ferocity
and volume. His sins, as a panic gen
erator, a usurper of legislative
authority, an encroacher upon the re
served rights of the states, have all
been forgotten now in the baleful
glare of his evil splendor as the friend
and defender of the labor unions
against the courts. All that Mr.
Roosevelt has ever asked In the way
of modification of the injunction
power of the courts is a jury trial for
workmen accused of contempt and
notice with a chance to defend them
selves when an injunction is threat
ened. These are reasonable demands.
They can not be denied without mak
ing the law "fair for one and foul for
another," to quote the words of Mr.
Cannon. But the fact that the Presi
dent favors them Is enough to make
the Sun rave about his "duplicity" and
"political hypocrisy" through column
after column of its precious editorial
space.
What the Sun and those back of it
desire is to dissolve the unions and
compel workingmen to forego alto
gether the advantage of collective bar
gaining for their labor power. As an
individual the workman is a helpless
suppliant for his employer's grace; as
a member of a union he meets his em
ployer on equal terms. The destruc
tion of the unions would reduce the
laboring population of America to in
dustrial slavery. Mr. Roosevelt sees
this and as a matter of equal justice
between the strong and the weak he
wishes to .rescue the unions from im
pending ruin. The growing abuse of
the injunction power can end only in
the destruction of the workingmen's
organizations, an outcome which no
genuine patriot can desire. It is un
American to tolerate the prospect of
an abjectly servile laboring class
ground down and exploited by an
oligarchy of millionaires.
The President has not asked for the
legislation of the boycott. He has ex
plicitly declared against it, as every
person1 must who cares for equity in
industrial relations. But the Sun
rages against his temperate proposals
with the same ferocity as if he .had
asked Congress to make the boycott
lawful and abolish the Injunction
power altogether. The organ of the
trusts has completely lost the capacity
to discriminate or else has made up
its mind not to use it. Apparently it
has also lost the ability to reason. We
say this because every thoughtful per
son knows that once our laboring
population becomes convinced that It
cannot organize effectually it will go
over to socialism in a body. The only
bar in the way of a Socialist party that
will include virtually every wage
earner In the country is the confidence
of the workingmen that they can se
cure just treatment by appealing to
their fellow citizens through their
unions. Destroy this confidence and
the Socialist vote will Jump Immedi
ately from thousands to millions. Mr.
Roosevelt sees this. The Sun does not
seem to see It. Which practices the
saner statesmanship?
SAVE THE SALMON.
Federal control of the salmon fish
eries of the Pacific Coast would seem
to offer advantages not available even
by invoking the initiative and referen
dum. The disadvantages of the pres
ent system on the Columbia River and
tributaries, where three states, Ore
gon. Washington and Idaho, all at
tempt to maintain a separate set of
rules and regulations, is serious, but
matters are even worse on Puget
Sound and British Columbia. The
State of Washington and the provincial
government- of British Columbia find
it impossible to arrive at a mutual plan
for protection, and even should they
succeed, they would probably find
the Dominion government on one side,
and the Federal Government on the
other, interfering with local laws that
might conflict with those of the higher
powers. .
All of the trouble between state and
state, nation and nation, or state and
nation, would be averted and the in
dustry vastly benefited by Federal con
trol. Under such control there would
be a cessation of the complaints that
there is one law for the glll-netter and
another for the trapman, and there
could also be a uniform rule for the
closed season throughout the entire
Northwest. It is no protection to the
salmon of either state, if the fisher
men on one side of the river are per
mitted to work their gear at a time
when the authorities on the opposite
side of the stream are endeavoring to
enforce a close season. Federal con
trol would also be more advantageous
for the reason that the Government
is always more relentless that the
state In the pursuit and punishment of
violators of the law.
It has always been difficult, if not
impossible, to keep the 'office of Fish
Commissioner clear of politics, and for
this reason alone, there would be an
improvement under Federal control.
Secretary Strauss, of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, Is said to be
favorable to the change, and there is
also a sentiment favoring it among
the men engaged in the business, so
that the prospects for early reform
along these lines is fairly bright.
Representative Hawley has received
the assurance of the 'Department of
Commerce and Labor that additional
range lights will be established at the
entrance of the Columbia River and at
Tillamook. The new lights will be of
decided value to shipping entering the
Columbia River at night. At the
present time, with no range lights to
direct them, pilots find it impossible
to enter the river, and as a result ves
sels not infrequently lose an entire
day in waiting favorable opportunities
to cross. There still remains to be
provided a much more important aid
to shipping at the river entrance.
That Is the establishment of a branch
of , the Weather Bureau Station at
Cape Hancock. Since the return of
shipping to the old South channel, it
is very difficult for the North Head
observer to sight shipping entering the
river when the weather Is hazy. The
cost of the much-needed substation
would be inconsequential in proportion
to the benefits accruing, and special
effort should be made to have it pro
vided for. . I
It Is said that the Waymire woman,
whose flagitious conduct should have
held her in Jail for a long term, is out
on ball. That shows the insufficiency
of our laws. It will be remembered
that this was the woman who broke
in upon Mayor Lane, addressed him In
a most improper manner, and even
molested his person. .Woman, from
the beginning till now, has been the
source of all trouble. Dux foemina
facti. There was a judicial proceed
ing proper inquiry into the whole
affair; and now, since indignation has
cooled and the woman is likely, after
all, to escape, what is to be said? The
Oregonian, wishing to do justice, so
far as man's limited intelligence will
permit, wishes to join in Adam's cen
sure of the woman. In this case the
woman may find refuge In obscurity,
her rightful portion; but the man, vin
dicated from the attempt upon him.
is in fair way to be next Governor of
Oregon. Triumph of virtue may be
a little slow, but it always will be com
plete. Things were doing, in the peaceful
villages on Puget Sound, Wednesday
evening. At Tacoma, a burglar bold
entered a- store and exchanged suits
with a dummy standing in a window,
and at Seattle other members of the
same profession entered a Japanese
restaurant and carried away a 200
pound safe. Reasoning from the repu
tation which Tacoma bears, it is easy
to understand why the inhabitants re
fused to permit their peaceful slum
bers to be interrupted by a burglar
w-ho disrobed and robbed a dummy in
a store window on a principal street.
But there is some mystery attached to
the Seattle crime; not necessarily be
cause it was committed, but because
the robbers carried away the safe and
left the building. This operation is
entirely out of line with the Seattle
policy of never doing anything by
halves. Perhaps, however, the thieves
came back last night, and took the
building. '
After suffering two or three times
from devastating floods this year, un
happy Pittsburg is now menaced by
another. Its plight is the direct result
of the destruction of the forests on the
headwaters of the Allegheny and
Monongahela Rivers. By the ruin of
their homes and stores the people
must pay for the senseless privileges
they gave the forest destroyers years
ago, and there is a prospect that more
of us must pay a similar debt in the
same coin. For a "practical" people
we have been Strangely destitute . of
forethought in this matter of dealing
with floods and forests.
A Umatilla County farmer has be
gun suit to have a lease set aside on
the .alleged grounds that he was so
intoxicated when he signed the paper
that he was unaware of Its contents.
He ought to go a step farther, while
he is engaged in litigation, and peti
tion the court to appoint a guardian to
prevent his running at large and ab
sorbing intoxicating liquors. Individ
ual responsibility seems to be losing
its grip, when we read of such
"welchers" as this "morning after" re
pentant granger.
Evidently the Chicago police force
has missed Its calling. It .should give
all its mighty genius to the production
of "thrillers" and let others of a less
imaginative turn attend to the prosaic
task of nabbing thieves and murder
ers. To behold such lofty intellects
engaged in such a menial duty would
be sad, even if they could do it suc
cessfully. But 'brilliant as Chicago
policemen are in the realm of fictitious
literature, when it comes to catching
thieves they are failures.
Our friend, the lawyer and publicist,
Joseph N. Teal, it is reported, is regis
tered as a Republican. This is suf
ficiently surprising, since his antece
dents are known, and since, moreover,
he is on the true-blue Kentucky Klick
ticket for Railroad Commissioner as
a Democrat. This political mix-up is
wonderful. It beats the mix-up of
babies at a church festival or county
fair, when distracted mothers are not
able to distinguish their own.
In deciding to advertise itself by
staying out of the Rose Festival The
Dalles forgets the maxim, "Out of
sight, out of mind." Absence in this
case will not make the heart of Ore
gon grow fonder of our little sister up
the river, as she will learn when,
someday, she has a festival of her own.
If the daughter of Senator Elkins
becomes a Royal Highness, as now
seems likely, her glory will be the
envy of all her sister Republicans; but
will it outshine her father's? We
must not forget that he was the true
inventor of the "immunity bath."
Disclosure of Mr. C. B. Aitchison's
efforts as a lobbyist at Salem, for the
measures required and promoted by
the Ross Bank, will not be likely to
help him In his efforts to be re-elected
to the office of Railroad Commissioner.
The objects of "the new system."
so far as developed, are very simple.
They merely intend abolition of equal
taxation, higher education and repre
sentative government.
PAVING EFFECT OF RECIPROCITY.
I Since 11(03, Valted Statea' Kxporta to
Cuba larrriae 123Vs Per Cent.
United States Government Circular.
Exports from the United States to
Cuba have increased 123Vi per cent since
1903. and imports from that island in
creased 61! per cent during the same
period. The total value of merchandise
exported from the United States to Cuba
in the calendar year 1907 was JSioOO.OOO
against 323.500.000 millions in 1903, an
annual average of $25,000.00l in the five
years ending with 1903. The imports from
Cuba in 1907 were 392,500,000, against
S7.250,000 in 1903 and an average of
343.000.080 per annum in the five years
ending with 1903.
The Increase in imports occurs chiefly
in sugar, tobacco, cigars, bananas, and
copper. In the exports the increase oc
curs in a large variety of articles, but
especially in manufactures of iron and
steel, cars and carriages, cotton manu
factures, boots and shoes, lumber, coal,
coffee, meats, eggs, and breads tuffs of
all Sorts.
The principal articles forming the $52,
500,000 worth of exports to Cuba
are manufactures of iron and steel,
amounting in 1907 to nearly 39,000.000.
against about 33.500,000 in 1903: boots and
shoes, $2,500,000, against $750,000 in 1903;
lard, 33.000,000, against $1,500,000 in 1903;
lard compounds, a little more than $1.
500.000 in 1903; eggs, $1,000,000, against
$141,000 in 1903: flour, $3,500,000, against
$2,000,000 in 1903; corn, $1,500,000. against
& little over a half million 1943; coal,
$2,250,000, against $1,250,000 in ' 1903; - pipes
and . fittings, over $1,000,000, condensed
milk, nearly $1,000,000; vegetables, $1,500,
000, lumber. $2,300,000; coffee (the product
of Porto Rico, now a customs district
of the United States. and therefore
classed as an export). $1,500,000.
The following tables show the prin
cipal articles forming the trade of the
United States with Cuba in the calendar
years 1903 and 1907. respectively:
IMPORTS FROM CUBA.
Articles 1003. 1907.
Sugar, not above No.
16 D. S. in color $37.583,i68 S16.197.6S8
Tobacco leaf, other
than wrapper 10.157,975 12.137.601
Cigars, cigarettes and
cheroots 2.97T.B24 4,017.229
Iron ore l.SOl.ago 2.322.710
t ablnet woods 3 l-s r04
Bananas 1.0.-.5:t lioSSKS
Molasses 1.10S,a89 609.4o3
Copper ore. matte
and regulus 4L1.0S3
All other articles S03.794 3.305.131
Total imports $57.28,291 92.4'9.L'7
Per cent inc 61.5
DOMESTIC EXPORTS TO CUBA.
Articles io.t. jar.7.
Wheat flour t .'.08S.0S3 S 3.526.14!)
!kar! 1. 406.673 3,051,646
Machinery, except
locomotives 61!',37
Boot? and shoes 744.119 SUltijiiaS
Iron and steel manu
factures . . 2.374,216
Boards, deals, planks.
joists, etc 0S0.46S 2.34O.S00
Coal, bituminous 1.277.471'- 2.212.211
Lard compounds .... 1,515. 757 l.O&uii?:!
Coffee, green or raw. . 214.521 1.62H.010
:rn B24.7S.-l 1.574.526
Vegetables 4S1.5HS 1.467. lOI
Pipes and fittings ... 1.11 !.::
Eftlts 111.244 1.072.9K4
Cotton cloths ....... 271. 5S2 1,(1X3,1114
Milk . 277.745 928.209
Chemicals, drugs and
dyes 907.919
Cars and parts of. . . . 645,229
Kails for railways, of
tel v 814,151
Pork. 9 a 1 1 e A, or
Pickled 273,938 S0S.687
Fertilizers 77.t.-,0
Furniture, of wood... 334.648 737.928
Steam engines, loco
motives 127,845 710.666
Paper and manufac
ture of 250.343 673.S9S
Wood. manufactures
or r,K8.n.i
Hams 376,763 .-;.9tts
Wire 622.2:10
Mineral oil, refined.. 230.541 613,0t:
Cotton manufactures.
except, cloth 236.403 611.943
Builders' hardware,
saws and tools.... 366.325 611.350
Bacon 322.383 572.758
Appai'Aus for scien
tific purposes ;. 216,258 563.717
Car and carriages. . 550.073
Medicines, patent and
proprietary 466,359
Ail other articles . 9.432.0U4 10.30.172
Total domestic ex
ports $22,373,692 $51,851,121
Foreign exports.... 1.130.725 692.728
Total exports . $23,504,417 $52,543,849
Per cent increase? 123.55
Not separately stated in 1903.
HARRIMA M.VKK OCEAN TO OCEAN.
Reaches Goal Elrat By Purchasing;
Central- Railroad of Georfrlau
Brooklyn (X. Y.) Eagle.
The purchaser of the Central of Georgia
railway turns out to be E. H. Harriman.
The sale was made by the Southern Rail
way Company last June to Oakley Thornc
and Marsden J. Perry, who, it seems,
were the agents of Harriman. and who
received 5 per cent commission for the
work. The sum paid for the stock was
$3,000,000. so the sum received as com
mission was $150,000. The announcement
of ownership was madr through the
Georgia Railroad Commission. That body
lias been aware of the real ownership
for some time, but kept the confidence of
the owners until the matter of the control
of the Illinois Central road could be
settled.
Light is thus shed on the great struggle
for the possession of the Illinois Central.
That road was a necessary link in a
great plan. The plan was no less than
railroad lines under one control from the
Pac.iflc Coast to the Atlantic Coast. The
Central of Georgia will become the prop
erty of the Illinois Central. The Illinois
Central, controlled by and united with the
Union Pacific, will make the ocean to
ocean route. Thus a great dream has
been realized. Harriman is the first of
the railway managers to bestride the
continent. It was a dream also of Georee
Gould. For a time it appeared as If he
would be the first to realize the dream,
especially when he got control of the
Western Maryland. But the opposition he
met with in making his connections with
the Wabash In Pittsburg balked his plans.
Further progress was barred by the com
plications arising from the fact that the
Western Maryland was a coal mine own
ing railroad corro'ration. So Harriman
reaches the goal first.
Dr. Coe la Aaralamt Statement 'o. 1.
BKXD, Or.. March 19. (To the Editor.!
My attention has been called to a news
report in a recent issue of The Oregonian.
quoting an Interview with Mr. Kennedy,
editor of the Prineville Review, in which
Mr. Kennedy said that, as a candidate
for nomination for representative from
the Twenty-first District, I would in
dorse Statement No. 1.
Mr. Kennedy was evidently mis
informed in regard to my attitude
toward Statement No. 1. and wishing to
correct the impression which has gone
out through that report. T desire to stale
that I do not indorse Statement No. 1.
1 am a Republican and will vote for a
Republican Senator, with due -regard to
wishes of the majority of the Repub
lican voters. U. C. COE.
The Knox Retort to Falrbanka.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
An Indiana paper supporting Fairbanks,
says that no man bearing the name of
Philander was ever elected President of
the United States. True enough! Neither
do we recall at present that any man
named Charles was elected to that office.
ebraka' Platform Plaarlariaed f
Boston Advertiser.
Thf Nebraska platform. ostensibly
written by William J. Bryan, is as de
liberate a piece of plagiarism as was
ever seen in politics.
BRYAN'S StPrOHT OF PAr.KKR.
It Waa Great, and Great Waa the
' Effect of It.
New Tork World.
The "Kansas Popuiists are unfair to
Mr. Bryan when they denounce him for
supporting Judge Parker "on the ground
of party fealty." No Populist in the
country was more loyal to Populist prin
ciples during the 1904 campaign than was
Mr. Bryan, and none contributed more
to the overwhelming defeat of Judge
Parker.
No sooner had the Kansas City con
vention finished its work than Mr. Bryan
made a statement charging that Judge
Parker's nomination was "secured by
crooked and indefensible methods." and
that "Mr. Parker is as thoroughly com
mitted to the side of the financiers as
Mr. Roosevelt." Mr. Bryan also an
nounced that as soon as the election was
over he would "undertake to organize
for the campaign of 1908."
His followers generally understood that
the best way to promote this reorganiza
tion was to knife the Democratic ticket,
and this they did most effectively.
Had Mr. Bryan bolted Judge Parker's
nomination he would have greatly weak
ened his influence and could have inflict
ed far less damage upon the Democratic
ticket than he did by remaining regular,
but declaring that "a Democratic victory
will mean little if any progress on
economic questions as long as the party
Is under the control of the Wall street
element."
Events vindicated Mr.' Bryan's method
of procedure. Judge Parker was over
whelmed: Mr. Bryan regained control of
the Democratic organization, and has
been using the Democratic machinery
ever since to advance th principles of
Populism.
The Kansas Populists can have no just
grievance against Mr. Bryan. They will
search his, record in vain for a single
instance of disloyalty to true Populism.
KNOX LEADER SAYS ITS TAFT
Significant Remark of Representative
DalacII at Yale Banquet.
Washington Special to New Tork
Times, March 13.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl
vania, who, it is said, has been slated
to put Senator Knox In nomination for
the Presidency at the Chicago conven
tion, created a sensation at the Tale
dinner here tonight, predicting the
election to the Presidency of Secretary
Taft.
"There are some people," said Mr.
Dalzell, "who favor the nomination of
Vice-President Fairbanks , there are
some who favor Senator Knox, and
others who favor' New York's Gov
ernor, but the man whom eighty-five
million people will elect President of
the United States next November is
William Howard Taft."
For a moment the diners looked at
each other In amazement and then wild
cheering began.
In the gossip which followed it was
suggested that Dalzell had never for
given the Republican organization of
Pennsylvania for electing Knox to the
Senate Instead of himself. Others re
garded It as the beginning of a grand
band wagon rush to Taft. Politicians
regard it as the most significant speech
of the year. Comment was particularly
made on the fact that he omitted to
mention Speaker Cannon.
Senator Depew followed the lead of
Dalzell and declared himself for Taft.
"I am from New Tork." said the
Senator, "and so I am for Hughes in
structed for Hughes. But In my heart
I am for the Secretary of War." '
Not a Candidate, He Saya.
PORTLAND. Or., March 19. 190S. (To
the Editor.) To whom this does con
cern and others: I note in today's Ore
gonian that I am a candidate for,. of
fice. Tou're wrong. During my 24
years' residence in Portland I will
state that I have never sought office,
nor do I ever expect to. I will state
further that I am absolutely opposed
to the direct primary law. I believe
the primary law to be an incubator
for the incompetent and unworthy to
enter politics. Can you believe for one
second that any political convention
(however rotten or machine-made)
would have dared to place before the
people of Oregon some of the men
who were enabled to slide into office
through the direct primary law? Tet
The Oregonian has supported all of
them. W. H. GRINDSTAFF.
The Oregonian is not wrong, nor. has
it supported all the men elected to of
fice under the direct primary. Mr.
Grindstaff's name was among the list
of candidates submitted by the. Ken
tucky Klick for the suffrage of Demo
crats. If the Kentucky Klick had no
warrant to trifle with the sacred name
of so sensitive and high-minded a citi
zen, that is no affair of The Oregonian.
Palltlca Retarding Bnslaess Growth.
' Wall Street Journal.
This is the state of thinus: We have
had our liquidation and panic. We have
squeezed the water out of capitalization.
We have got rid of a dangerous inflation.
We have had a house cleaning in banking.
Everybody now wants a return to "good
times.'' Everybody is anxious for a re
viving trade, for the opening of factories,
for the full employment of freightcars
and for the maintenance of profits and
wages. There is nothing which the people
as a whole are so eager about as that.
There would seem to be no reason wiiy
their aspirations should not be gratified.
Apparently there is no famine or other
abnormal business conditions except one
thing. We now have money enough and
credit enough and transportation facili
ties enough for a revival.
What then is there in the way.?
Just this: Politics.
Tj pewritlaCa 113 Wards a Ulnule.
London Cabie Dispatch.
The Prince and PrlncesB of Wales,
while visiting the business exposition
at Olympia, had their attention attract
ed to Miss Rose Fritz., a New Tork
typewriter. They closely watched her
work and asked her to give them a
sample of it. They watched her with
the greatest interest while she fault
lessly wrote 113 words In a minute.
The Prince read the matter admiringly
and asked Miss Fritz to sign her name
to it. She did so. whereupon the Prince
pocketed the sample as a souvenir.
The Ruling: Panslon.
Lrondnn.Tit Bit.
Two women leaned .over the backyard
fence
(The came old fence) as the mn went
down.
While each told the other in confidence
The scandal she'd Rather'd about the
town.
For women must gossip, or they can't
slep;
They think that secrets weren't made to
keep;
So they lean on the fence In the gloam
ing. Two women leaned over the garden rate
In the evening glow as the sun went
down.
They wondered what made their husbands
so late
And they sneered at .the minister's wife's
new gown.
For women delight in a friendly chat.
Without it their lives would be stale and
fiat;
So they leaned on the gate in the gloam
ing. Two husbands come home from their golf
ing game
(Prom the office, they said) as the sun
went down.
Both ready and eager to hear the same
Sweet scandals their wives had hunted
down.
For men. though they work, love .gossip,
too
An(J that's why their wives seek some
thing new
As they meet and talk in the gloaming.
POTPOURRI
BY NANCY
Sighed the languid Moon to the Momlrnt
Star,
"Oh, little maid, how late you are:"
"I couldn't rise from my couch, said
she,
"'While the man in the Moon was look
ing at me."
Never marry a temperamental man.
Try to be sure of three square meals a
day.
I. Knowitall (After tellins a story at
length) "Now, isn't that a dandy? Brand
new, too.'
Mr. Cynic "Huh. first time I heard
that story I kicked the slats out of my
cradle."
A girl with rag-time eyes, can make a
man dance to her music.
Glancing at the pictures of the various
musical artists who have appeared here
recently, one at first thought . wonders
whether they represent temperamental
creatures or advertisements for hair in
Vigorators. The ew Man.
My ma's a marvel of knowledge.
With her it's a sort of diseuse.
Aunt Lizzie is dean in a college
With any amount of degrees.
Cousin Lou studies mineralogy, .
That's somethln' all about rocks
And Daddy, dear gentle old Daddy,
Stays 'home and mends up our socks.
My ma's a regular socialist.
Sister Sue is a learned M. D.,
Virginia is great on astronomy,
Kliza has gained an A. B.
Ma's sister a swell lady dentist.
Cousin Sue is all tied up in stocks;
So Daddy, dear gentle old Daddy,
MUST stay home and mend up our
socks.
.
Roosevelt's coinage of the phta.iO
'strenuous life' can appropriately be
applied to the ten-cent moving piclura
films.
.
In foreign countries an engaged girl
rarely sees her fiance till after marriage.
Id this country the order la revevseci.
many married women complaining they
rarely see their husbands after inarriaj;.
In respectability dwells the very soul of
criticism.
Distinctly Cattlah.
Mrs. Bon Ton. "I must go to the cat
show this afternoon."
Her Rival "Indeed, I supposed all th
entries were completed."
Some women are hardly . up to the
standard of a man, yet have been known
to sink several fathoms below the level
of a woman.
Patient ''Suppose, doctor, that your
operation on me does not prove suc
cessful?" Doctor "Well, my dear man, you will
never be the wiser."
"Stick out your tongue," said the doer
tor to a small lad. Whereupon he com
plied. "Put it out still further, he de
manded. "I can't," whimpered the
youth,, "it's tied down at the other end."
Many women keep Lent by remaining
away from the theaters, and derive end
less satisfaction from the money which
they have so religiously saved. Tt will
ultimately blossom forth in that love oC
an Caster hat which they coveted
throughout the period of penitence,
Some people believe that th bonds of
matrimony are on a par with the clearing-house
certificates.
Teacher "What is the past tense of
'I love'?" ,
fp-to-Date Scholar "I divorce."
THINKS BRIAN COULD BEAT TAFT.
"Marse' AYatlrrnoa lucre uses HI Bet
to fl.no om the Renult.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
This promises to be a hard year. If
Mr. Taft be the Republican nominee and
it seems likely that in this the President
will have his way we believe Mr. Bryan
will beat him.
The. Foraker sohism makes Ohio a de
batable state. The colored vote of thn
North, which, lost to the Republicans, will
mean the loss of the great states of the
middle West, with New York thrown in.
can scarcely be united on the Secretary of
War. There is every reason to believe
he will lose the larger part of the organ
ized labor vote. But there rises before
him a greater factor still to be reckoned
with; and that Is the silent, business end
of it the money end of it even predatory
wealth which will see in Taft th con
tinuation of Roosevelt, with a Republican
Sonate reduced to obedinncc. but in Bryan
no danger whatever, a Republican Senate,
justified in its recalcitrancy, to stand a
stone wall between Bryan and the siiccrns
of any of the Bryanized Roosevelt poli
cies. At most and worst, they will right
ly conceive that they only take chancca
with Bryan. With Taft, triumphant and
backed by Roosevelt, they will have no
chance at all.
The Courier-Journal the.efore increases
that bet of half a dollar to a dollar and
a half that Bryan will be the next Presi
dent of the United States.
A FEW MH1BS.
'What position docs the Alderman of ynnr
wsrrt take In i-pHrd tr Piih1h naUnun?"
Tsuslly at the side entrance." c'hicago
Tribune.
Brown Yes. nir; Toftnr Jones cured me.
Minister No. my friend : Providence curort
you. not the doctor. Brown Well, maybe he
did. but the doctor will charge for It.
Judge.
Mistress (astounded You can't read,
Norah? Good gracious! Flow did you ever
learn to rook so well? New- Cook Shor.
mum, Ol lay It t'not bein aMp to rade th
rook books. Town and Country.
"Cnme in, William." said the legislator's
daughter, as her timid suitor halted out5tde
her father's study door. "f'Hther, 1 wish to
Introduce my Bill in the bmi? with hope
that you w-IH give due consideration to the
same." Baltimore American.
Siibbuhs No. he's not lining in Swamp
hurst now. He's been down in Florida in
peareh of his health all Winter and now
he's in California. Citiman I should think
h'd go bark to Swamphurst for it. Subbubs
Why? Citiman Beoauso that's? where he
lost H. Philadelphia press.
Gren On the strength of your assertion
that you would trust Wlndlg with your life,
I loaned him $10 and now I can't get It
bark. Brown NO. and. you never w Ml,
Green Then why d-d yon say you would
trust him with your lire? Brown Oh,
that's different. Wlndig's a dead beat all
right, but ho 1 not an assassin. Chicago
Daily News.
The South Washington colored preacher
paused after a long and rather dry theologi
cal discourse on the subject. "The Way of
the Transgressor Is Hard," and after mop
ping his brow exclaimed! "Nw lhat I have
pointed out to you sin - and Its penally,
what more shall I ay. brethren?" a tired
and drowsing colored lad on a front pew
who -was rubbing his eea vigorously anr
out: "Please say amen, mister, and i
go home." Washington Star.