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Newspaper Page TextTHE MORNING OREGON! AN, TUESDAY, APRIL, 14. 1908. 0 Bu$mmn ttBHCBIPTIOX RATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCS. (By Mall.J M VKtlv. Sunday Included, on year. " Dully. Sunday lnctuill. tlx montna.... Cully, Suudny Included, tbroe roontns.. Plly. Sunday included, one. moniu.. Daily, without Sunday. OM year. J Lal!y, without Sunday. alx mouths...-. ' Dally, without Sunday, ti re months.. l l Dally, without Sunday, on montp. jjjj Sunday, ona year .,'".." i m Weekly, on. year (lesued Thur,d;;; i.ii Sunday and weekly, can yaar BV CARRIER. Dully. SunnaY Included, one year.. ti.ii.. a i nna montll CI .7S HOW TO RH..U1T Send poatoBlce njB'J order, nprcn ordor or peraonal your local bank stampa. coin or currency are at the Bender". rlk. Give po.lolce aa- in lull, includlnx county and atata. rOSTAUK KATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Postofflce Second-Claaa Matter. C 11 XmmM 1 to 2S Pasee SO to 44 Panes 44 to PO Pares a cents . 8 eenta .4 cents Fcretsn po-taire. double ratee. IMPOKTAST The postnl laws are strict. Newspapers cn which postage Is not fully repaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BCSrNltoS OFFICE. Th a n. ILeokw1t.h Hoecial Asu7 N l. rnnm. iK.fl Tribune building. Cnl- aero. room. 610-6L2 Tribune bulldln. KEPT ON SALE. Chlcaro- Auditorium Annei: i.t''!" News Co.. 1 Dearborn atreet; Umpire Mews Stand. St. Paul. Minn N. St. Marie. Commercial Ctat Ion. Colorado Springs, Colo. Bell. H. H. Denver. Hamilton and Kendrlck. ":;" seventeenth street: Pratt Book 8tor, lt Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen, U. Klce. tieorK Carson. Kansas City. Mo, Rleksecker Cigar Co, nth and Walnut: soma Ntwi to. rn Minneapolis M. J. Cavanaui-b. DO Third. Cincinnati. O. Toma News Co. reveland. O. James Pushaw. I0T Bu fcarior Mreet Washington. D. C Ebbltt House. Pnn- ayUanla. avenue; Columbia Newa Co. FlttBburg. Pa. Fort Pitt News Coy m.1i.j.ill. - Tnnter Ticket Office; Penn New.'co.; Kemble. A. P.. New York City Hotallnrs newstanda. 1 v-ir nn-at utii h .nit Hroadway. 42a ana Broadway and Broadway and -MHh. T1" A'iTi sinirie monies delivered; 1a Jones Co.. Astor houso; Broadway The ater News Stand; Empire News Stand. Ogden. D. U Boyle; Lowe Broe.. 114 Tweuty-afth atreet. Omaha. Barkilow Bros.. Union Station; aiakeatli Stationery Co.: Kemp Arenaon, Dee Molne. la Moee Jacobs. Frcno, Cal. Tourist News CO. Sacramento, Cal. Sacramento News Co.. 430 K street: Amos New. Cc, gait Lake. Moon Book stationery Co.; Rosenfeld & Hansen; 4 W. Jewett. P. O. corner; Htelpeck Bros. Inns Beach. Cal. B. E Amos. Pasadena. Cal. Amoi News Co. Ban Diego. B. B. Itnoi San Joae. Emerson W. Houston, Tex. International News Agency. Dallae Tex. Southwestern News Agent, 44 Main street; also two atreet wagona. Ft. Worth. Tex. Southwestern N. and A. Arency. Amarilla. Tex. Tlmmona Pope. Kim Franclaco. Foreter Orear: Ferry News Stand; Hotel St. Francis Newa Stand; L. Parent; N. Wheatley; Fairmouut Hotel News Stand; Amos Newa Co.; United Newa Airency. Eddy atreet: B. B. Amos, man ager three wagona: Worlds N. B.. 2825 A Cutter street. Oakland. CL W. H Johnson. Fourteenth and Franklin streets: N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manaeer live wagons; Welllnirham. E. O. Golrirleld. Nev. lxuie Follln. Eureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. . WKTUXB, TVE8DAY, Aritlt, 14. IMS. DISPOSING OF MR. ROOSEVELT. ' Ever since Mr. Roosevelt began his second term In the White House our busyhodies have been distressfully en gaged in providing for his future. A personage- of his magnitude seems to "stump" them. None of the usual avocations of our ex-Prcsidents fits htm exactly. Washington could retire to his princely estate, and, surrounded by obedient slaves and aristocratic friends, lose nothing of that majesty which doth become a retired First Magistrate. But Mr. Roosevelt, though by no means poor, has not the means to-set up an establishment that would pass as "princely" in these opulent davs. The best he could do in that line would be outshone by so many that it would look mean. Washing ton, the richest American of his gen eration, could do what Roosevelt, who has only a comfortable fortune, can not Imitate. The chances are that he has never dreamed of Imitating it. His Ideal of country life partakes more of the cowboy type than of tho aristo i ratio. Much less can one imagine Mr. Roosevelt going into the poultry busi ness, like the estimable Mr. Hayes, when he quits office. In our visions and dreams we can behold him roping a steer without much of a shock, but neither men nor gods could endure the spectacle of Theodore Roosevelt setting a hen. With no perceptible loss of Presidential prestige Mr. Cleve lBnd has diverted his post-official years after several manners. He has reared a family, delivered homilies and finally cast the mantle of his vast respectabil ity over Mr. Ryan's insurance com pany. Two of these things Mr. Roose velt has already done with unap proachable dexterity; the third seems somewhat incongruous with his moral and mental habits. When Grant went out of office nobody bothered much about finding an occupation for him. All he had to do to keep his dignity intact was simply to be himself. Ap parently that self was so great that nothing could add to or lessen its maj esty. Whatever he did or refrained from doing, he was always Grant, and that was enough. But in tho minds of his countrymen the idea of Roosevelt is inseparably associated with activity. Repose is no part of his character, as the people conceive it. The Nation refuses to think of him as a dignified idler, a spectacular sojourner in royal palaces, a dilettante in literature, or a peripa tetic lecturer, such as Mr. Harrison became. We are all determined that he shall have something to do which shall keep his tremendous energy fully employed and at the same time gran diose enough to save his Presidential respectability and our pride. We can not bear to let him do nothing: still less can we bear to let him do any thing undignified. Everything that has been proposed for him thus for leaves something to be desired. It is a truly noble office t(: he President of Harvard Univer siiy. for instance, but so it is also to he bishop of Massachusetts or editor of the Century Magazine. There is nothing in the nobility of a university headship to make it exclusively suita ble to round out Mr. Roosevelt's ca reer. It is somewhat of a disen chantment. Indeed, to picture him fac ing a hostile campus for the sak of a new set of football rules he who has faced a hostile plutocracy for the sake of a nation's liberty. The suggestion of his becoming a Senator is not without allurement. Undoubtedly he could and would make a great stir among the decrepit shades of that sepulchral chamber. He would et the dry bones rattling. But what could he accomplish? Are his ener gelc methods well adapted to influ ence a chamber aa devoted to propri ety and precedence as the Senate? Would his uncompromising; frankness carry far in a body where sinuous In direction has long been the way to success? Would not his devotion to the public welfare look strangely out of place in an assembly where devo tion to private interests is so much the fashion? It is to be feared that the very virtues which make Mr. Roosevelt a great President would make him, not an inconspicuous, but a continually baffled Senator. The latest suggestion, that he travel in lands remote and shoot big game, is well enough for an interlude, but one hardly believes that Mr. ' Roosevelt wishes to hunt bears all the rest of his life. As a permanent occupation we fail to find anything entirely suitable except for him to keep on being Presi dent. How unlucky for Mr. Roose velt, and perhaps for everybody else, that our unwritten law puts this solu tion out of court. THE SUN RETRACTS. x The New York Sun, which beams brightly on the yellow rich and frowns dafkly on all other classes, is, in spite of Its utter lack of policy or principle, at times very entertaining. A few weeks ago it devoted a column to abuse of expositions in general and the forthcoming Seattle Fair in particular. The "roast" was In a half-facetious and half-sneering vein, the predomi nant chord being that traditional con tempt which the provincial Manhattan Islander has for everything that Is not decorated with the New York hall mark. The Oregonian commented on the Injustice of the Sun article, and pointed out the fact that the attendant benefits of the Seattle Exposition would not be confined to Seattle nor to the West, but could not be other than advantageous to the entire coun try. Mr. C. B. Yandell, secretary of. the Seattle Chamber qf Commerce, also protested against the narrow-minded view which the Sun had taken regard ing the exposition, and supplemented the protest with an extraot from an Oregonian editorial and an interesting array of figures which showed that, even in Its present raw and undevel oped state, the Pacific Northwest was annually purchasing approximately $30,000,000 worth of goods from New York. The Sun's attack on the Seat tle Exposition was uncalled for and unjust, but Mr. Yandell, with a fine display of knowledge regarding the policy of the Sun, made no demand for an apology on any such old-fash-lcned reasons as fair play or honest acknowledgment of a wrong. He would probably have failed to receive an an swer had he done so. But the clink of the dollar made the able New York "roaster" sit up and take notice, and the Yandell communication is printed in full, accompanied by a verbose as sertion that the Sun article had been misunderstood. The rather abject ex planation was followed with the frank statement, "We have no other wish for Seattle and its exposition than the best of good luck, a good time, a big crowd and no deficit at tho windup." The sloppy attempt to square matters with the Seattle people concludes as fol Vowss r We stretch across the continent a hand of friendship with the best of eood will and a-ood wish, reservlne; the rlrht to be lust a little bit ruffled because the esteemed Seattle Chamber of Commerce read Into our comment so much that was not there at all. Perhaps the Portland Oregonian has been lying: again. It is unnencessary for The Orego nian to resort to lying for the purpose of finding an opportunity for criticism of the Sun or its peculiar policies, or rather lack of policies or prin ciples. It has been so many years since the Sun took to sneezing whenever Wall street took snuff that few and far between are the off days when its editorial columns do not contain warped, biased and in spired comment on some subject that was fully as much, entitled to fair treatment as was the Seattle Exposi tion. The Oregonian has not been "lying again," but on most topics the Sun is lying yet. WHEAT IS. STtXI, KINO. In no other branch of Industry Is the remarkable growth and develop ment of the 'Pacific Northwest more strikingly illustrated than in the enor mous grain crop which was produced last year. Final figures on the yield as printed in yesterday's Oregonian show a total of 58.000.000 bushels of wheat, and 22,000,000 bushels of bar ley and oats. These figures would be noteworthy Indeed, had the three states continued In the policy of twenty years ago and cultivated but little else than wheat, but when It is remem bered that this enormous gain in yield has been made with an annual diver sion of thousands of acres from wheat to fruit and diversified farming, the showing becomes all the more won derful. Thirty years ago more than one-half of all the wheat shipped from the Pacific Northwest was grown In the Willamette Valley, and a dozen years ago it was still possible to pick up enough wheat to supply several ships a year with cargoes of Valley or "Oregon" wheat, as it was known In the foreign markets. This season not a single shipment of Willamette Valley wheat has been sent foreign, apd throughout the Valley are hundreds of small orchards and farms which yield greater revenues from a few acres than were obtained from quarter sections ane half sections of wheat land a quarter of a century ago. The evolution that has taken place in the Willamette Valley has also begun in the big wheat districts east of the Cascade Mountains, fruitgrowing and diversified farming Increasing quite as rapidly as in the Willamette Valley With enormous gain in the wheat yield, simultaneously with wonderful increases In the output of Truit, hops, livestock and dairy products. It Is, of course, clear that new acreage is an nually being brought into service for both grain and diversified farmlng purposes. The latter, on account of the larger returns on the investment is gaining ground more rapidly than wheatgrowing. but the great North west still contains such vast areas of virgin soil that it is by no means im probable that the three states may yet produce a grain crop of 100,000,000 bushels. The important part which the Pa- cific Northwest now plays in trie world's grain markets can best be un derstood when it is noted that the United States is the greatest wheat producing country on earth, and that for the first nine months of the cur rent cereal year nearly one-fourth of all the wheat exported from the United States and Canada was shipped through the ports of Portland and Pu get Soynd. There will, of course, be an increased demand for home con sumption as the population of the three states grows, but it will be sev eral years before this increase will equal that of the output, and for that reason the Oregon and Washington ports will for many years enjoy the distinction of shipping a larger per centage of the. crop produced than is shipped frorfl any other part of the United States. REPLY TO BISHOP SCADDINti. To Bishop Scadding as an authority upon the status and history of the church he so ably represents we nat urally defer, but there are one or two points in his letter to The Oregonian, printed last Sunday, upon which one is constrained to ask for more light. The bishop says: "There never was a time when by act of Parliament the church was established and thus made a national church." When he wrote these words the bishop must have for- l gotten for the moment the Act of Su premacy, 1 Elizabeth, c. 1, and the Act of Uniformity, 1- Elizabeth, c. 3., both acts of Parliament, which declare the Protestant Church to be "the state church as by law established." To our thinking, this comes pretty near to es tablishing the church by law. But whether the Anglican Church has been established by law or by custom, the fact is indisputable that it is actually stablished. Its bishops are ex-offlcio members of Parliament. The King is Its head. Its rites are laid down by act of Parliament, and so is Its creed. Good writers have said of the Book of Common Prayer that it is "part of the law of England." If the church is not "established," why so much talk of disestablishing Would, it not be a little futile for Englishmen to worry so much over disestablishing by law something that by law never has been established? If he church is entirely disconnected with the government, why trouble the government about the matter? Why try to sever a relation which is non existent? We cannot concur with Bishop Scadding, either, in his belief that the established church has no hold upon the public revenues. He says our statement, "that the church main tains its hold upon the public revenues is absurd and untrue." Of course If the church does not maintain its hold It has no hold. Let us see about it By the last Education Act. which has made so much trouble in England, re liglous education 1s intrusted to the clergy of the established church, and it is supported by taxfttion. So much protest has there been against this method of forcing everybody to help support the Anglican theology that dissenting ministers Jiafe gone to jail rather than pay the tax. This educa- tion act is still in force, and to our minds it constitutes something of a hold upon the public revenues. From whatever source the revenues of the established church were orig inally derived, they are now settled by law. The church raJtalns them by vir tue of its status as part of the British constitution, and were thaf status al tered it would lose them. The remark that the revenues are attached to par ticular parishes or sees, and not to the church as a whole, is irrelevant. It makes no difference whether ecclesias tical revenues are partitioned before or after collection. An episcopalian church in this country could change Its form of worship entirely if it wished without forfeiting its prop erty. If In England a local church -of the establishment were to vaj-y from the legal forms and be convicted thereof, i would be ousted from the parish property. Even a clergyman enjoying the income from a private advowson must conform to the estab lished rites or he will be ejected from his freehold. Nor can it be admitted that "the statement that the church was en dowed by the state" is shsurd and false. When the Church of Rome was disestablished in England" under Eliza beth and the Protestant rite estab lished, much of the property of the older communion was made over to the new one. The present Protestant establishment dates only from Eliza beth and its property titles run back no farther. Most of them were be stowed directly by the state. The ori gin of this property is another matter, and we freely concede that a great deal of it was given by the Thanes to the primitive parishes, beginning in the time of Theodore. King Aethel bert "bestowed his lands and palaces upon St. Augustine." The Anglo Saxon records show that "almost every princely personage bestowed some such gift" at his death. Persons entering monasteries not "infrequently brought their whole fortunes with them." It was in this way that the landed property of the church really arose, not from the gifts of the Thanes to the parishes, of which Bishop Scadding makes so much. Compared with these vast possessions,' "the sin gle parcels of land belonging to the parish churches bore about the same proportion as the small yeoman free holds of that time bore to the lord ships of the royal Thanes." More over, almost immediately after the parishes were formed they were en riched by the tithes.-which were "al most as important for the permanent and uniform endowment of the ecclesi astical institutions as the possession of landed property." Our authority for these statements Is Dr. Rudolph Gneist, professor of law in the University of Berlin, and we think he fully bears us out in saying that the English Church is established by law and that it main tains a very vigorous hold on the pub lic revenues. GOOD FOB HARNEY COUNTY. Advices from Harney County are gratifying as noting a substantial in crease in the population of one of the richest and most resourceful regions of the state in Industrial, grazing and agricultural possibilities. When the weary immigrants of the ox-team brigade toiled slowly across the sage and bunchgrass plains and over the mountains of Eastern Oregon fifty to sixty years ago and pushed on over the Oregon trail to the Willamette Val ley and other coast regions, it was not without consciousness that they were leaving behind them on either side a most delightful, productive and attractive region, of which, however, conditions of Isolation and Indian oc cupancy made settlement then out of the question. They did not, perhaps, like Rev. Samuel Parker, who passed over the wide expanse of unoccupied territory between the Missouri and Co lumbia Rivers in 1835. Indulge in dreams of empire and see with pro phetic vision this vast domain support ing a populous and prosperous popula- tlon. They were fatigued, hurried, ' anxious, and could only note the beauty of the lovely wilderness and pass on to a section then more hospita ble to the settler. Times changed. conditions shifted, and Parker's dream had a much speedier awakening than he himself believed to be possible, since for more than half of the three score and three years since his proph ecy was recorded the Indians have been gathered upon reservations and the white man has been in possession of the land. Harney is one of the relatively new counties that Jiave found political, ag ricultural and Industrial place in the great expanse known as "Eastern Ore gon within that period. That it is entering upon an era of prosperity of a substantial type is apparent from the number of homestead entries made in the land office at Burns during March. 'The stages from the nearest railroad points come in each day loaded with passengers, all intent upon taking up and or buying property and engaging in business," says our Burns corre spondent. . It certainly seems that this inviting and growing section should be supplied at an early date with trans portation facilities thKf. would relegate the stagecoach to' the pas The attempt of the grainhandlers to enforce in this city a higher wage scale than prevails on Puget Sound for exactly the same class of work, if it succeeds, can have but one result, and that is the transfer to Puget Sound of practically all of the wheat exporting business. The only alternative is for the city to raise a fund to pay the dif ferential demanded, for the exporters are In an independent position, where they are not forced to do business in Portland if any burdens are to be laid on them which can be escaped by han dling the wheat at Puget Sound. The rates from the wheat districts are ex actly the same to Puget Sound as they are to Portland. It is not at all clear where the grainhandlers will profit by demanding a rate which will drive the business to other ports, leaving them with no grain to handle at Portland. The question is one in which the city as a whole has much at stake, and the labor differential must be removed or the business will leave us. Patrick Henry Scullin, the apostle of peace, has been "exposed" again. this time in San Francisco. Nearly a decade has elapsed since Mr. Scullin conceived the idea of enlisting all mankind under the banner of peace at about $1 per throw and upwards, and in that time he has visited practically every city of importance in the United States. The chase for peace has been a long one with the dove ever a few laps ahead, but Patrick Henry's dis appointment was always salved by the application of the few dollars collected for the good of the cause. As a means of producing a livelihood, Mr. Scullin's industrial peace proposition has the three-shell game and the lock trick ba41y distanced. Perhaps from the Scullin standpoint the best feature of the scheme lies in the lack of oppo sition encountered, for, although Mr Scullin does not play the one-night stands, he has the only industrial peace show on the road today. The depth of water at the Columbia entrance is only an incidental feature in delaying the sending of a battleship to Portland. The overshadowing in fluence, against the proposition is the depth, length and width of the Califor nia pull in the hands of Citizen-Secre tary Metcalf and Citizen-Senator Per kins. If the fleet was not obliged to go to Puget Sound for coal, it is ex tremely doubtful whether a single 6hlp would be permitted to go north of the California line. They would certainly be prevented if the Metcalf-Perkins pull was strong enough to preven them going. The matter should not be dropped until the California Secre tary of the Navy is forced to give his true reasons for objecting to sending the vessels to Portland. The New York Independent says that David Graham Phillips, in his lat est novel, "Old Wives for New," is de termined to be realistic at any cost, and that one of his most striking scenes is based upon "an alleged dis creditable incident in the life of one of our prominent men, which has long been rumored about the city but has been kept out of the papers." Though the Independent takes an unfavorabl view of Phillips' effort, the criticism is not likely to hurt the sale of the "book and the author perhaps anticipated as much. The present building activity in Portland Is not in any sense a boom, It represents, a solid, substantial growth in business and in homebutld ing consequent upon its demands. The most gratifying features of this activ ity are that the larger structures are planned not more in accordance with present requirements than with an in telligent outlook to future needs, while the homes under construction and in contemplation are almost without ex ception of the better sort. Young Mr. Cole, it seems, is relying chiefly on a Democratic paper for sup port of his candidacy for District At torney before the Republican primary. But what of It? Isn't that the new dispensation in Oregon? Republicans don't care, certainly. They won't elect Republicans themselves; why shouldn Democrats help out? We assume tha Mr. Cole is a Republican. At least he is now, as much as many other so called Republicans. It is reported that Lake Pamelia, near the foot of Mount Jefferson, has gone dry. Fine chance for Tom Law son to 'stake out a few mining claims and discover that the bed of the Take is covered with gold washed down from the hills in the centuries gone. Lo, the poor salmon packers of the Columbia River Packers' Association! Last season's pack was so light that only a 4 per cent dividend on a capi tal stock of 12,000,000 was possible! This does not fall far short of being distressing. April has not thus far been in a coaxing mood. As' a result, fruit buds have not blossomed prematurely and the prospect of a large crop of all or chard and berry products is excellent. Several thousand Americans, when they reach San Diego today, will ex claim: "This is my own, my native land." Campaigning from the pulpit some pulpits seemed to be in order in this city last Sunday. PARTY OPPOS1TIOX TO BRYAN Some A Bperts of Democratic Strnararle to Defeat Hla Nomination. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. There are evidently two ways of In terpreting the opposition to Mr. Bryan's onilnatlon. which is now finding or ganized expression In the open cam paign for Governor Johnson and uilge Gray. Either the opposition Is based upon the honest conviction that Mr. Bryan could not be elected, or It is based upon the distressing fear that he might be elected. There is more ubstance In the latter interpretation than is c6mmonty conceded. That sec tion of the conservative Democracy which has zealously fought Mr. Bryan for 12 bitter years cannot consistently iew with serenity the possibility of a Bryan administration, for the reason hat It regards him as a dangerous man who would make the most unsafe of Presidents. It is to be remembered, also, that the Democratic politicians and editors, who have been unrelenting in their antagonism, could not hope to exercise Influence upon or receive fa vors from an administration of which Mr. Bryan would be the head. Add to that their humiliation over the final success of their dearest foe In reaching the Presidency. In spite of their long continued hostility, and a motive is easily found for their present conduct In making a last-ditch fight for one third of the delegates to Denver. Ihe two Interpretations are worth considering, for the ejake of the light they may throw upon the general polit ical situation. Having stated them plainly and perhaps bluntly, it remains to he said that the present opposition to Mr. Bryan s nomination undoubtedly gathers motive power from both sources. Unquestionably, there are many Democrats who seriously doubt the ability of a twice-defeated candi date to win the election and who. "rebel against the doctrine of despair' asso ciated in their minds with the Bryan candidacy; but, on the other hand, no one who is familiar with Democratic politics during tho past 15 years can fail to believe that nothing would dis tress and annoy a certain school of Democrats more poignantly than Mr; Bryan's election to the Presidency. If there were a growing possibility of his success, their hostility to his nomina tion . would grow in intensity. It it were now possible to estimate accur ately the relative strength of the two motives, there would be some rich ma terial for the Republicans to feed upon and digest in determining the course wisest for themselves to pursue. 1ven as the case stands. Republi cans would be wise to interorct the Democratic situation In the" light least favorable to themselves. In the late development of the Johnson and Gray canniaacies. Kepiiblican politicians are' abundantly Justified In seeing a grow ing belief in the Democratic mind that there Is a prospect of electing a Demo cratic President, whoever the candidate may be. As the chances for a minority increase, it is an axiom of politics that tna competition for Its nomination widens and Intensifies. In the present Instance, Mr. Bryan's own belief that his party's chances of success this year are excellent is well known, and it is that conviction on his part that ex plains his growing determination to be the Democratic nominee. There are conditions everywhere discernible. moreover, which would load Mr. Bryan's enemies witnin the Democracy to share his views as to the party's chances, so mat it a Republican Interprets the growing Democratic competition for the uenver nomination as something wormy or nis serious consideration, he win snow nimseir a man of sense. ASKS FOR STR AIGHT DEAL. Peter Home Replies to aa Anonymous letter Writer. 9BLLWOOD, Or.. April 13. (To the Kd itor.) A screed from "A Doval Renuhii can" came in my mail recentlv. and wish ing that others might know the kin of people wno seem to think thev are eolne to show us the real thing In honest poli tics. I will acknowledge its receipt, re- srrcimng mat its antnor seems to be afraid to get any closer to me. Pos sibly he thinks his "loyalty" and purity might suffer If he should even come out m tne open. His letter reads: ' Portland. Or.. Am-il ! Mr. Peter Hume: Your letter In today's Oregonian reveals plainly the character and disposition of yourself. You prefer to oe a parry to crime and corruption in politics than to aid in its overthrow. It is far better to send an honest, ef ficient Democrat to the United States Senate than a Republican who Is a d n thief, such as we have had. and as you well know. The loyal citizens of 'the state of Orejron will not allow It. So you may just as well draw in your horns and submit to the will of the honorable voters of our state. Yours In sympathv, LOYAL. REPUBLICAN. Let me awure "Loyal Republican" and all others that I count among my best friends many Democrats In politics, and will cheerfully see. any one of them go to the United States Senate from Ore gon providing the voters of the state send enough Democrats to the Senate and Legislature at the ensuing state election to elect one there the only lawful way he can be sent without a corrupt deal, double dealing, and even perjury on the part of very many. I am openly for square dealing and Honestly in politics, as in all other things. PETER HUME. A Test of the Party. New York Evening Post. Governor Hushes continues to be the most impracticable of Presidential candi dates. He has definitely refused-to name his own delegates-at-large from New York. If the proposal that he should was spread before him as a snare he has avoided it; if as an Invitation to set up a's a boss, he has spurned it. Let the con vention and the party in general attend to their duties, and he will attend to his. This Is magnificent, but it is not politics, so many people say with a groan. Why won't the Governor get out and hustle for the nomination? Why won't he forever be flinging himself at the heads of the voters? This Is like asking why he does not make himself over. There he stands, the sort of man God made him. and he can be no other. If the country wants him. he will respond: If not, no sign of disappointment or discontent will escape him. There is no doubt how he will stand the test. But it must not be forgotten that a test of his party also is involved. It will have to show whether it has -been so sensationalized in recent years that it cannot appreciate the virile qualities of a strong and undemonstrative man;- whether it has become so enslaved that It 1s no longer free to choose him even If it wants to. s Yonnar Ta ft Up for Contempt. From Secretary Taft's Speech Before the Chicago Press Club. I have enjoyed myself so much during the last 20 minutes that the thought of getting up and saying something myself comes over me like a cold douche. I was once a reporter myself. I never reached the journalistic stage. It was when I started out to study law. I did court re porting for the old Cincinnati Times dur ing the day. Since then I've always dealt easily with reporters who misquote me. I thought once I had pulled off a big story. We used the biggest headlines we had in those days. The next morning I was summoned Into court for contempt. I had reversed the decision exactly. It is now my duty when in Washington to hold two receptions daily, for the corre spondents. With reference to their cross examinations I am gradually becoming bullet-proof. Not that I have learned to He. but I am learning to make answer in such a way that the truth or nontruth of the matter cannot be successfully investi gated. , NATIONAL GUARD DEFINITE; announcement regarding a new state range for use by the Infantry troops stationed at Port land will be made within the next few days. It can be said with some degree of certainty that the range will be securetj. at present there being no apparent chance of a hitch. Negotiations for an excellent piece of land have progressed well towards the final stage of purchase. As previously stated the proposed new range is located about 16 "miles from Portland, communication being afforded bv electric line, railway and boat. Im mediately upon closing the deal, should that end be effected, work of Installing targets will be taken up. It is planned to put In the 309 yard range first so that the men can begin their target season soon after May 1. The ranges will then be extended as rapidly as possible, the whole being completed at a date no later than June 15. Ranges up to 1000 yards will be provided. Eleven hundred new Springfield rifles. occuplng a full car, arrived early In the week and are now being distributed as rapidly as possible. With the shipment of 100, previously received, sufficient rifles are now at hand to equip substantially the entire Guard, although the equipment will not be complete until a third ship ment of 300 guns is received. These ad ditional guns are expected daily. Consignments of new rifles for the en tire Fourth Infantry aa well aa the out side companies of the Third Regiment were sent out Tuesday and Wednesday and should have been delivered belore this time. e Adjutant-General Finzer issued t,ie annual order for small arms practice Saturday. The order contains detailed instructions governing range work for the season. In part, the order follows: "Medical officers. Chaplains, enlisted men of the Hospital Corps and enlisted musicians are relieved from small arms qualifications. All other ofttcers and en listed men will be required to qualify as prescribed and will be awarded decora tions in accordance with their respective classes. Any member of the National Guard not required by orders to qualify may do so and the regulation decora tions will Be issued. "Range practice for the rifle in spe cial course 'C will commence May 1 and continue until October 31. The allow ance of ball cartridges to each company for use at home stations during the sea son of 1908 will be not less than 6000 rounds, provided the instruction of the company as set out in this order has been of such a nature as to warrant the expenditure. Careful record will be kept of every shot fired, both at the home station and In the camps. The records will be placed in the record books and a report made to the Adjutant-General, November 1, 190. "Officers will be held strictly respon sible for the conduct of the men under their charge In going to and from the range. While at the range they will see to it that every care and precaution is taksn to prevent accident and the destruc tion of human life. "The object of instruction In rifle firing should be to produce a large number of uniformly good shots rather than to de velop expertness. Instructors should therefore give careful attention to poor shots and new men, rather than to the best shots. "The scores made by the soldier in record practice, marksman's course, de termine his fitness to progress to a more difficult and longer range. Tf be has fallen short of the totals required to qualify him as marksman, he. will do no more individual record practice that season, but will be qualified according to the scores he made. "If. however, he has attained the record for the marksman, he progresses to the sharpshooter's course and if suc cessful in making the requisite record as sharpshooter in that course, he is en titled to trial at the next higher course, which is that of expert, at 800 and 1000 yards." e e Advices received from Washington. D, C during the week indicate the el.000.ooo appropriation for Joint maneuvers this Summer may be reearded as quite certain. Since the appropriation was put back in the Army bill by the Senate its sup porters have been concentrating their forces on Congress and at last ac counts had most everyone won over ex cepting Cannon. The old Krags are being boxed for shipment to the United States Ordnance Department at Washington, D. O., the first shipments having already gone. It is the purpose of the War Department to issue the guns to schoolboy rifle clubs organized for the promotion of small arms practice. Officers will not be. debarred from parti cipation in the National rifle matches. The section of the Army Bill making that provision has been stricken out by Con gress. The argument was made and ac cepted that the service gets more benefit out of the participation of officers, by qualifying them to instruct the men under them, than in the perfecting of individual marksmen from the ranks. But the old rule will continue; that the best marksman wins place on the team, whether he is officer or enlisted man. Nm York In 1f20. Chicago Record-Herald. "This seems -to be a most exclusive district," said the stranger. ''It is," replied the native," and a curious thing about It is that the ladles living on the south side of the street are never received by those who live on the nor.th side. Caste Is very sharp ly defined here." "How does that happen?" "You see, the mansions on one side are occupied by ladles who have been divorced from Dukes. Those who live .on the other side have separated them selves from mere Counts and Barons." Pension Cheeks Go Everywhere. Boston Transcript. Probably few persons realize the extent of the labor which the payment of our pension charges imposes. To sixty-seven countries pension checks are sent. There are pensioners in Japan and Liberia, and even at St. Helena. Of the JT34.4M paid to pensioners resident in foreign coun tries last year, more than one-half went to Canada: but Germany drew Ireland, S9..T76; England. $53,918: Mexico? 123.508. 3t. Helena's portion was 180, a sum which though small, must be appre ciated in that island of decadent for tunes. yif Dad. American Magazine. Huh! Mebbe I don't know all 'at Is. An' mebbe I ain't so tall. An' mebhe I ain't but eie-ht years old En goin' to be nfix' Fall But what's tho differnce. I don't see, Ef rra Jea- but a lad. A-whJle I'm growln I tov got My dad. Ef suthiiV com" 'at I can't do, Why that don't hafter mean That it ain't a-oiinr tor b did Ef it had ongbwr bn. Ef 1 am Beared, er ef I'm hurt, Er f I'm feelln' Bad, I reck'n it's an rls-ht; fer thar'a My dad. Why ma's a -s-oraeni, I'm er-boy. An' ef we was alons We mi&ht feel sorter scared ter live Though I ain't aquechin' none. But now. why mo an ma jes' sings An" "-miles 'cause- we're so glad 'At God knowed what we'd need, an' My. -dad. Advertising Talfcs No. 9 HOW TO WRITE RETAIL ADVERTISING COPY By Herbert Kaufman A skilled layer of mosaics works with small fragments of stone they fit into more places than the larger chunks. The skilled advertiser' works with small words they fit into more mind than big phrases. The simpler the lanpuase the great er eertaintv that it will be understood by the least intelligent reader. The construction engineer plans his roadbed where there is a minimum of rade he works along the lines of least resistance. The advertisement which runs into mountainous style is badly surveyed all minds are not built Tor high- level thinking. Advertising must be simple. When it is tricked out with the jewelry and silks of literary expression it looks as much out of place as a ball dress at the breakfast table! The buying public is only interested in facts. People read advertisements to find out what vou have to sell. The advertiser xvho ran fire the most facts in the shortest time gets the most returns. Blank cartridges mak noise but they do not hit blauk talk however clever, is only wasted space You force your salesmen to keep to. solid facts you don't allow them to sell muslin with quotations from Omar or trousers with excerpts from Marie Corelli. You must, not tolerate in your printed selling talk anything that you are not willing to counte nance in personal salesmanship. Cut out clever phrases if they am inserted to the sacrifice of clear ex planationswrite copy as you talk Only be more brief. Publicity is cost lier than conversation ranging in price downward from $6 a line, talk is not cheap, but the most expensive commodity in the world. Sketch in your ad to tha stenog rapher. Then you will be so busy "saying it" that you will not have time to bother about the gewgaws of writing. Afterwards take the type written manuscript and cut out every word and every line that can be erased without omitting an important detail. What remains in the end is all that really counted in the begin ning. - Cultivate brevity and simplicity "Savon FranCais" may look smarter, but more people will understand "French Soap." Sir Isaac Newton's explanation of gravitation covers six pages, but the schoolboy's terse and homely "what goes tip must come down" clinches the whole thing in six words. ' (Copyrisrnt, 1!0S ) BOWED DOWS BY BRYAN. How Southern Pnnrr Fee! Ahont the Peerless One. Sotier Democrats, even though thev per sonally prefer Bryan and bMre in his theories, should remember that success should be the chief object in a campaign, and that the vindication of par icular policies may well be left to a later day. Without success at the polls theories and policies are worse than useless. What the Democratic party needs in order to make it strong in order to keep it. alive. In fact is another victory to follow its long de feat and exile from power. Macon (Gj.) Telegraph, Dem. Mr. Bryan will carry the solid South, but no claim is made that he can carry his own state or one of the doubtful Northern or Western states. We should nominate a man who can carry some of the doubtful states. However, put him up and that, will eliminate him. Kdgefield (8. C.) News, Dem. Nobody who wishes the Democracy to win urges the nomination of Parker. He's a loser. But Bryan is not only a loser twice, but a loser and a gres.ter loser as he grows older. What the Democratic, party needs is a fr"sh horse. Charleston (S. C-) News and Courier, Dem. It is Mr. Bryan's weakness that he can not refrain from meddling with details and Is never content to leave well enough alone, and he has messed up many a sit uation by his undertaking to boss a job which is none of his business. He -had better accept the Souni as it stands with the chances altogether In favor of it supporting him for one more candidacy, rather than try to force a situation which will stand precious little disturbance. Charleston (S. C.) Post, Dem. The Democratic party has been bound hand and foot by Mr. Bryan, and so far from his voluntarily loosening the bonds he is busy drawing t..em tighter every day. He will go into the convention with a majority of the delegates. If he does not receive the nomination on tne first ballot he will make it so hot for every body who has opposed him that the con vention will not dare to nominate any one who Is not persona grata to the court of Lincoln. Minneapolis Journal, Ind. Snipping Xews From Seattle. SEATTLE, April 12. Arrived Steam ship Humboldt, from Skagway; steamship Northwestern, from Valdez: steamer Montara, from San Francisco. The steamer Montara, of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, from San Francisco, seven days and one hour out. A foul bottom due to being out of dry dock for nearly a year, and a three months' tieup 1n San Francisco Bay was the prime cause of the long trip while a steady northwest wind also delayed. Cap tain Hall hugged the siiore all the way up which accounts for his not being re ported by passing ships. He was from 10 to 25 miles inside the regular course to avoid the wind. The Montara was about out of coal when she arrived. Shs carried 1200 tons, largely powder and ex plosives. Steamship Humboldt brought from Alaska Professor C. C. Jorgensson, of the United States Experimental Agricul tural Station, at Sitka, and Professor H. J. Nikoloff, a Bulgarian savant from the University of Vidin, who is making a walking tour around the world. He went to Alaska two months ago and from Seattle will go to Japan.