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rORTUXD, MONDAY, APRIL tO. 190,
1.0WKR RATES. NOT LOM.EB HA 11.
The Astoria newspapers and the As
toria Chamber of Commerce are, witK
commendable zeal, endeavoring to se
ture some of the export wheat busi
ness for that port. The Lewlston
Udaho) Tribune prints a communica
tion from the Astoria Chamber of
Commerce, asking the co-operation of
the Lewlston Commercial Club In se
curing the freight rate from Lewlston
to Astoria that now prevails from
Lewiston to Seattle. As the Seattle
rate and all other Puget Sound termi
nal rates are based on the Portland
rate, the present plan of campaign la
merely the reappearance of the old
Astoria contention for the same rates
as are granted Portland. In other
words, the pioneer city of the state de
sires to have the railroads, free of
charge, haul wheat 100 miles farther
than is necessary to reach the deep
set carriers which convey it to for
eign markets.
If the channel from Astoria to the
sea were in as good shape as the chan
nel from Astoria to Portland, so that
It would be possible to get In and out
without detention ships too large to go
above Astoria, there might be some
excuse for asking the railroad com
pany to Increase the haul on wheat
100 miles without remuneration. But,
under present conditions, with Port
land an easy port to reach by any
craft that can enter the river, there is
no possibility that any railroad -will
ever move the wheat over the 100
miles between Portland and Astoria at
cost as low as it can be moved by
ship or steamer.
The new North Bank road has
opened up a considerable area of new
wheat country lying within 200-mile
limit of Portland. This city is the
natural shipping port for that new
country, as well as for all of the wheat
territory In the Columbia Basin. The
reason that Portland Is the natural
shipping port for that territory la that
It Is here that the railroad first en
counters the carrier which is to trans
port the wheat to the world's markets.
If these carriers could ascend the river
to the Cascades or The Dalles, the
wheat would be transferred to ship at
those ports. There has been some
complaint in the Pacific Northwest
that the increasing wheat production
and attendant heavier tonnage for the
railroads would justify a lower rate
than that now In effect. That rate re
ductions will be made In the near fu
ture Is highly probable, and quite nat
urally the cost of hauling wheat to
tidewater by way of Portland will be
the base on which any new rate which
may be quoted. will be established.
But it is hardly reasonable to sup
pose that the railroads will quietly
grant a reduction in freight rates if
they are asked to haul wheat 100 miles
farther than is 'necessary without a
possibility of their receiving anything
for the Increased distance covered. It
is to the interest of Lewlston and the
intervening country, as well as that
lying beyond, to have their wheat
reach market by the shortest and most
economical route. The wheatgrower,
anywhere along the line of the North
Bank Railroad, might submit evidence
tending to show that the rate on
wheat for the 200-mile haul to Port
land is excessive and should be re
duced. If before attempting to estab
lish this, however, he should Insist on
the railroad company increasing the
cost of getting his wheat to market bf
33 1-3 per cent, as it would do if the
road were compelled to haul It over
' the 100 miles between Portland and
Astoria, there would be Infinitely less
possibility of his securing the reduc
tion asked.
Portland and all other cities In the
Columbia Basin will join with Lewis
ton In any move for lower rates, but
it would seem to be a very short
sighted policy for any of the people of
any of the Interested localities to de
mand that the railroads Increase) the
cost of getting the wheat from the
farm to the ship by forcing the rail
roads to haul It 100 miles farther than
is necessary.
BI'CiAfftOO OR RF.AIJTY?
"The Oregonlan." remarks the Ten-
dleton East Oregonlan, "has held up
the Chamberlain bugaboo before the
voters in hop.-"s of whipping them into
line." The Oregonlan hasn't tried to
whip Republicans Into line, because it
hasn't cared whether they get In line
or stay In line. Besides. It would have
done no good. Tet The Oregonlan
will watch with Interest the great
transformation of the Chamberlain
bugaboo Into the Chamberlain reality.
Are the East Oregonlan and all the
other "non-partisan' newspapers that
have been whooping It up for State
ment No. 1 as sound Republican doc
trine, which It is treason for a Repub
lican to forswear, going to support Mr.
Cake or Governor Chamberlain for
Senator? Of course they will do their
utmost for the Democrat. They have
never wanted Mr. Cake or any other
Republican to go to the Senate. They
will do everything now that they can
do against him, for they have con
trived to bring about a situation where
he has committed the fortunes of his
candidacy to a so-called popular elec
tion that is not an election; and, if he
shall be defeated and he will be if
they can bring about that result they
will call upon him to see that State
ment No. 1 Republicans in the Legisla
ture redeem their pledge by the elec
tion the real election of Mr. Cham
berlain. That Is what every Democrat
and every Democratic newspaper In
Oregon have been working for with
might and main: and from this time
on they will redouble their energies to
that end. ,
A Democratic Senator sent to Wash
ington by a Republican Legislature
will certainly cause the country to sit
up and take notice.
AN ARBITRARY BTLE.
The Chehalis Board of Education
has decided that in future no married
woman shall be employed as teacher
In the schools' of that city. The rea
son, as set forth in a resolution," is
that teachers' positions! should be
given to self-supporting women, and
not to women who have husbands to
support them. This is logical in its
way; but when, as very frequently
happens, it discriminates against
teachers of mature years, broad cul
ture and long experience in favor of
young women of superficial education,
little training and small aptitude, it
is a detriment to the purpose for
which public schools are maintained.
There is an opinion quite prevalent.
and supported by sound reasons, to
the effect that the schools were insti
tuted and are maintained for the ben
efit of the rising generation. In this
view the best teachers should be se
cured without regard to their financial
necessities or as to whether they are
wives or spinsters.
Of course a young wife and the
mother of small children would be out
of place in the schoolroom, her first
care and duty being In her home.
Such women seldom if ever apply for
teachers' positions, being more than
occupied in their domestic affairs. But
a married woman who Is childless, or
whose children have passed their early
childhood, should not be discriminated
against as a teacher simply because
she is a wife. Other things being
equal, such a woman Is more than
likely to prove more effective in the
schoolroom than is the woman to
whom the deepest experiences of life
have not yet come. Hence to discrim
inate arbitrarily against married
women as teachers Is likely to work an
Injustice both to the applicant and the
schools.
AS ABOTDAiVCE OF MOSEY.
As all signs are said to fall In dry
weather, it is equally true that all the
ories meet their limitations in periods
of unusual disturbance In the financial
and political world. One of the most
popular theories advanced In explana
tion of the recent financial cataclysm
and somewhat tardy recovery there
from was that a scarcity of gold and
tangible collateral had been created by
the enormous destruction of values In
the Boer War, the Japanese- Russo
conflict, and the California and South
American earthquakes. The theory
was not without corroborating evi
dence, especially in this country, for
from the Atlantic to the Pacific there
was a frenzied quest for money that
was apparently not available on any
terms. By reason of this sudden dis
appearance of the coin of the realm,
stocks, bonds and all other forms of
gilt-edge collateral became, to all in
tents and purposes, as worthless as the
paper on which these promises of re
demption at face value were printed.
It was, of course, shown that much
of this .money had been frightened
Into hiding, but this explanation nat
urally could not refute the fact that
there had been an enormous destruc
tion of real, tangible property value in
the wars and earthquakes mentioned.
That the disappearance of capital,
however, was only in minor degree
due to the cause thus ascribed Is ef
fectually proven by the enormous
amount of money of which the public
obtains a flash view now and then.
It will be remembered that a few days
prior to the crash in Wall street, last
Fall, a 140,000,000 bond issue In New
York attracted bids of 3205,000,000;
and yet, with all of that apparently
Idle money at hand, it became neces
sary for this country in the following
three months to import $100,000,000
in gold from Europe.
In February a similar-sized bond
Issue brought forth bids to the
amount of 3300,000,000, and still
business refused to show signs of re
turning confidence and money was far
from "easy." When we were import
ing gold in record-breaking quantities
much uneasiness was felt lest such
enormous withdrawals might precipi
tate a serious stringency in Europe. If
any further evidence were needed to
prove that there was still an enormous
amount of money in the world availa
ble for investment, it was shown last
week In London, where the tender of
an issue of $13,750,000 London County
Council' bonds paying 3 per cent
brought forth offers of $500,000,000.
Such elaborate displays of idle money
offer Indisputable evidence that there
Is, throughout the world, a vast
amount of capital seeking investment,
but. it also proves thatthe holders are
seeking forms of Investment which are
more attractive by reason of their
safety than for the dividends paid.
These enormous accumulations ' of
funds cannot, however, be withheld
forever, and as soon as the pastime of
Indiscriminate "bullyragging" of all
kinds of corporations, good, bad and
Indifferent, cesses, it will again begin
flowing out Into the channels of trade
and there will be a speedy return of
good times.
WHY OCR MHOOl. Ft' XD M RMALU
Among those persons who have read
with interest the testimony of E. P.
McC'omack In the Benson-Hyde case
at Washington Is T. W. Davenport,
formerly State Land Agent, and father
of Homer Davenport. Those who are
familiar with the record of the Benson-Hyde
land transactions, as exposed
a number of times through the col
umns of the press, will remember that
Davenport had opposed the sale of the
state lands which the Benson-Hyde
syndicate purchased. For a long time
his opposition was effective, but finally
he happened In the office of the clerk
of the State Land Board one day and
saw a big pile of gold on the clerk's
desk. Upon remarking that some big
transactions must be on, he was told
that the forest reserve' lands were be
ing sold, and, in the language of the
street, he went "up in the air." That
pile of gold had been paid in by Mc
Cornack for Benson and Hyde. The
applications for the purchase of the
land were fraudulent, and everybody
who cared to know anything at all
about them knew they were.
Reference to the transaction is
made at this time not for the purpose
of giving information. The facts have
been published so many times that
they are familiar. But it Is worth
while to recall the Incidents of the
deal now related In court at Washing
ton for the purpose of giving due
credit to a man who was faithful to
his trust. Moreover, It was not tha
duty of T. W. Davenport to guard
against such transactions. In protest
ing against the sale of the lands men
tioned he was doing more than his offi
cial duty in an effort to protect the
school funds of the State of Oregon.
He did not close his eyes, as he might
easily have done, and remark "This is
not my affair." As a public-spirited
citizen he sought to do his duty to the
state, and the fact that his.efTorts were
not successful because he was power
less detracts not the least from the
credit due him. Had the management
of the school land affairs of this state
been given at all times Into the hands
of such men as T. W. Davenport and
Oswald West, we should not now have
a common school fund ridiculously
small as compared with the school
fund of the State of Washington.
W HKKK riTY- LS MISI-IvVCKD.
Philanthropists of the more vision
ary type have lately pestered them
selves, and to a greater or less extent
the public, in attempting to reason
out the causes of the periodically re
curring ' periods of distress entailing
non-employment of large numbers of
men. A resolution. lately passed by an
organization called the Ethical-Social
League of New York is typical of the
anxiety suffered by persons who feel
that they have a call to right the
wrongs of humanity. It is based upon
the assumption that there are more
than two hundred thousand persons
out of employment in New York at
this time, including some thirty thou
sand homeless men, "presumably be
longing to the vagrant class." Upon
this basis a touching appeal Is made in
which the widespread distress of body
and mind and the frequent demoral
ization of character incident to the
homeless and otherwise needy condi
tion depicted is pathetically set forth.
Naturally the document would not
be complete without the presentment
of plans whereby this widespread dis
tress might be -relieved and the char
acters of "vagrants" protected from
demoralization. Equally, of course,
state, county and city officials are ex
horted to undertake immediately a
system of public works upon which
the army of vagrants and other unem
ployed men may be given employment
at good wages. The establishment of
state farms for vagrants is strongly
urged, and the Governor and the State
Legislature are Ailed upon to institute
inquiry Into the causes that have led
to the enforced idleness of this large
army.
The authorities called upon will
probably. If they consider It necessary
to reply to these tender-hearted, im
practical "leaguers," answer that pub
lic works are undertaken when they
are needed, providing there Is money
to pay for them and not according
to the fluctuations of the labor mar
ket; that state farms furnishing soft
jobs and shelter for vagrants would in
all probability be crowded in Winter,
when outdoor work ceases, and desert
ed In the Spring and Summer, when
the wander-lust lures to the fields, and
that "homeless men" are, as a class,
homeless from choice, and not from
necessity.
Vagrancy Is a condition inherent in
the nature of the vagrant; the wander
lust is his ruling passion; aversion to
work is his leading characteristic. He
himself would be the first to scout
the idea of employment that would
mean the curtailment of his desire to
roam. No state farm, with its routine
of plowing and planting, hoeing and
harvesting, for him. As for a "home,"
he does not want one, except as a
temporary shelter in stress of weather.
A homeless man Is not necessarily a
vagrant, but he is a man who, broadly
speaking, is ruled by selfishness; a
man who has not cared to exert him
self in the direction of maintaining a
home and family. There are excep
tions to this rule, to be sure, but It ap
plies to homeless men as a class, and
puts them without the pale of intelli
gent, well-placed sympathy.
It Is within the capacity of any man
of sound body, ordinary intelligence
and desire for a home to found and
maintain one. There is no obstacle to
this that cannot be overcome, except
the man's own disinclination to settle
down, live an upright life and conserve
his resources. That these resources
are small need not deter titm, since a
small home may and often does repre
sent the best that is In the word, In
thrift, comfort and happiness.
An Enoch Arden, cast away on an
Island, "the loneliest In a lonely sea,"
may Justly excite sympathy as a
"homeless man"; an invalid, bedridden
pr disabled from His youth up, may
claim the consideration of pity, in that
he is homeless, except for the housing
of sweet charity; a man who has had
the misfortune to lose by death or
some of the more bitter vicissitudes
of life his entire family may come to
a homeless age without reproach of
selfishness; but for the rank and file
of an army thirty thousand strong in
troduced as "homeless men" and under
this title presented to the considera
tion of the public as worthy of free
bed, board and shelter, the sympathy
of practical, purposeful, self-helpful
men ran hardly be enlisted.
Thirty thousand homeless men
mean an equal number of women
struggling along the highways and by
ways of Industrial life as wage-earners;
it means a multitude of Infants
taken care of In baby homes and
foundling asylums. It means a condi
tion that is to be censured, not pitied,
and that pampering upon state farms
and In soup kitchens and charity bar
lacks will encourage and perpetuate.
Study of the aggregate vote at the
primaries last week confirms the tes
timony of observant citizens as to the
rapid growth of East Side suburbs as
well as that portion of the trans-Willamette
district lying' within the city
boundaries. Here are the totals for
Senator: West Side 6575, East Side
9560. country 1774. Not less than 95
per cent' of the "country" vote is
reached by car lines, and may be
classed as suburban. It seems that
the population of the West Side Is only
a little more than thrice the suburban
population. But election day was ex
ceptionally stormy; access to polling
booths was much easier on the West
Side and there were fewer stay-at-homes.
Besides, one vote in the sub
urbs stands for a considerably larger
percentage of population. A census
at this time would probably reveal a
ratio of five residents on the West Side
to two in the suburbs. If the filling
up of the entire East Side continues
for two years at the present pace, the
next Federal census may show a rela
tive population of two to one in favor
of the East Side. And even at that
the West Side will be growing steadily.
Alex McLean, the tame, unromantlc
son of the sea, whom Jack London
made famous In his novel "The Sea
Wolf," has abandoned the raging main
and will spend the Summer freighting
nitro-glycerin and black powder on
the swift Skeena River from Port Ru
pert to the Grand Trunk Railroad con
struction camps Alex and his broth
er Dan were. In years gone by, the best
copy-producers Pacific Coast reporters
ever encountered, but, despite their
faculty for appearing as the central
figures in so many thrilling tales of the
sea, there are probably a hundred un
known sailors and skippers along the
Pacific Coast who have "pasts" fully
as exhilarating and exciting as those
of the McLeans. But the fact re
mains that none of them could accept
a position freighting powder for a pro
saic construction camp with any as
surance that It would be Bent all over
the country as a piece of Important
news.
Wreckage coming ashore on the
west coast of Vancouver Island indi
cates that the "terrible north coast"
has claimed another victim. The Iden
tity of the missing ship is still a mys
tery, but It Is thought to be a foreign
vessel, as neither jof the American ves
sels mentioned in the Victoria dis
patch as being possible victims had
teakwood bitts, or mahogany doors.
It has been nearly three months since
the British ship Hartfleld disappeared
near the same locality In which
wreckage Is now coming ashore from
another victim of that dangerous
coast. If the underwriters were forced
to pay for the lives that are lost by
the awful wrecks resulting' from dis
asters which overwhelm so many ves
sels of the Puget Sound fleet, the ad
vantages of the Columbia River as a
safe entrance for ships would appeal
to them more powerfully.
With the Gould family troubles de
veloplng into a three-ring circus, it
would seem that the spot-light would
be too busy to do much for Mrs.
Yerkes-Mizner, who, it is reported, is
about to purchase another ticket in
the matrimonial lottery by marrying a
man named Leo Tecktonius. This
much can be said in favor of the
widow of the great traction magnate,
that she has confined her marrying
escapades to the scapegraces she has
picked up on American soil. The av
erage American rounder and scalawag
is so far ahead of most of the Euro
pean nobility purchased for Americans
that, from one point of view, they
resemble fairly good husbands. We
cannot be too lenient in criticising
Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner until she marries
a titled foreigner.
Despite the poor market and the
heavy stocks on hand, the attempt to
curtail the 190S output of hops In
Oregon promises to be a failure. Advices-
from the various hop districts
of the Willamette Valley are that not
to exceed 3000 acres of hops have been
plowed under, and there Is a sufficient
acreage remaining under cultivation,
under favorable circumstances, to pro
duce a crop fully as large as that of
last 'year. The American Society of
Equity has apparently failed to take
the hopgrowers under its protection, as
it has the Kentucky tobacco-growers,
for as yet there have been no r.eports
of barn-burning or nlght-rldlng in the
hop districts of Oregon.
By a recent revision of the Army
camp the American trooper will be al
lowed a ration of buttermilk and other
delicacies with his bacon and hard
tack. This adds 2 cents a day to
the cost of feeding him. No one can
complain at this added cost, especially
when it is likely to reduce the number
of desertions and keep the men out of
hospitals and in good fighting trim.
There's a row on hand in San Fran
cisco because certain women of social
prominence didn't get on the fleet's
reception committee. Such things oc
cur when mere men get jealous, but
usually they are kept out of the news
papers. For the next five weeks Governor
Chamberlain will prove conclusively to
all his supporters that the United
States Senatorship is not a political
office.
The last time the records show Mr.
Ross In Salem he was lobbying with
the people's Legislature against the
banking bill.
Of course the successful candidates
were the best looking. Anybody could
have picked them out. That's what
the people did.
In neighborly spirit and in all kind
ness we say to President Castro: Look
out for the Big Slipper.
The rain Is doing more good to the
crops than harm to the Spring suits.
Just to think, those bonnets cannot
be worn for seven Sundays more.
ro9ERYB TnC PTI11C BERFTtGB
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Here te trlaeeieai Water Fewer, Bt".
EUOENE, Or, April 18. (To tha Edi
tor.) The Orcgonian editorial last
Thursday on "The University and the
Schools" and th later one on "Lawn
for the People." most pertinently sug
gest that It la high time that tha
thought of the people of Oregon was
directed to matters of vital and higher
Interest to them.
Every moment of delay in the prep
aration of an adequate policy for the
conservation of wealth of the people
In the water power In the State and
the related Interests, means Irreparable
loss. The Oregon people have a match
less heritage In these resources which
will be squandered as certainly as were
those they possessed In their school
lands, unless they unite under loyal
and wise leadership in a movement to
secure their Interests.
Many things conspire to make this
the psychological moment for the Ini
tiation of a campaign to save this
wealth for the people of a greater and
happier Oregon. President Roosevelt s
vetoes of the franchise gifts and his
conference called to meet at Washing
ton, D. C, May 14 and 16, to discuss
the conservation of National resources,
will tend to raise this whole subject to
an uppermost place In the public con
sciouanesa. Co-operation with the Na
tional Government there must be. from
the start. And In the surveys and fu
ture administration this co-operation
will be continued. Then. too. the time
between now and the meeting of the
Legislature la none too long for the
maturing of measures necessary for
realizing the people's Interests and for
getting them so thoroughly understood
that the enactment of them will be
resolutely demanded.
Why not move forward through the
arrangement of a representative meet
ing at Portland about May 20. at which
the reports of the Oregon delegates to
the Washington. 1. C, conference may
be received? Let this be the Initiating
step In the campaign to save to the
people that which should for all time
be theirs. From that time on until the
meeting of the Legislature, the work
of taking careful cognizance of the ele
ments of the problem as we have it
here In Oregon, and of gleaning the
best results of experience the world
over, in solving like problems, would
need to be prosecuted.
Probably Just one observation on this
movement is pertinent. What it pro
poses calls for the utilization of the
best scientific service. There can be no
large success in it without the counsel
and skill of those who are experts. The
State University is, as It always has
been, at the command of the people for
the winning for them of largest gains.
When a matter is so Vital and so ur
gent for the future welfare of the peo
ple of Oregon, the university feels con
strained to take the Initiative, particu
larly as the task of counsel and sug
gestion in the matter falls so plainly
within Its natural sphere.
F. G. YOUNG.
Antidote for a Tired Mind.
Philadelphia Record.
"The best antidote for a tired and
weary mind that I know of is work."
said a well-known downtown lawyer.
"Sounds somewhat paradoxical, I know,
but I will explain. When I have worked
over a problem until my brain Is numb
I find the best way to clear my head Is
to plunge into a totally different problem.
Now my hobby is photography, an there
are a great many puzzling things about
photography which I plunge into. The re
sult Is after an hour or so of this sort
of relaxation I go back to my original
proposition, much refreshed In mind and
I usually manage to solve it, too. That
Is why I majntaln a dark-room at my of
fice and keep all sorts of chemicals on
hand. I used to try to clear my head
by sleep, but it didn't work, not with
me, at any rate. No, If I attempt to
sleep directly after puzzling over a case
I will lie and think of my problem In
stead of sleeping. For this reason I have
formed the theory that changing the
entire thoughts of the mind just before
retiring will knock out Insomnia."
Music at Seattle) Exposition.
Exposition Circular.
Frederick Neil Innes, the well-known
bandmaster of New York, has been ap
pointed Dlrector-ln-Chief of Music at the
Alaska-Ypkon-Paciflc Exposition to be
held at Seattle, Wash., June to Novem
ber, 1909. The musical programme prom
ises to be of unusual Interest Inasmuch
as Mr. Innes has announced his inten
tion of giving an unusual prominence to
the works of native American composers.
Some of the best orchestras and bands
in the country will be beard In pro
grammes made up exclusively of Ameri
can works. A McDowell Memorial Fes
tival is already planned, and a large
monetary prize is to be offered for the
best original orchestral work having for
Its basic subject some historical Incident
bearing on the acquisition of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacflc
territory.
"Bowing" Makes Violin Tone.
' Pathfinder.
While a man In Philadelphia has
been trying to invent a varnish that
will make a new. cheap violin sound
like a stradlvarlus, a well-known vio
linist and maker of the instruments
has been working along a different
line to secure the same effect. He says
that age has nothing to do directly
with the tone of a violin; that the
amount of "bowing" it receives Is what
makes the tone superior. He makes
use of an electrical machine which
sends vibrations through the Instru
ment, and he claims that In 30 days as
much "bowing" can be given the vio
lin by this means as it would get in
59 years in the ordinary way.
They'll Know the Reaesa Why.
Portland Advocate.
The 600 or 700 colored voters in Port
land and Multnomah County are sick
and tired of being ignored entirely by
the local Republican officeholders, and
the machinery that controls that ele
ment In the way of appointments or
recognition of some kind. For instance,
they might give us a deputyship, or a
clerkship; or, If nothing more, a Jani
tor's Job. In fact, any old thing, for
we must have something, either in the
city, county or state, in the way of
appointments, or know the reason why.
Cheer Up I the Worst In Yet to Come.
The Dalles Optimist.
When the reformers give us the
single tax, the law of recall, make
Statement No. 1 obligatory upon -all
legislative candidates, and hit us up
with a few more reforms of that na
ture. Oregon will be in a hellov a fix,
and she will begin to grow down hill
at a rapid clip. We used to think
all of the cranks were in Kansas, but
they are not all there now.
Gout the Foe of Consumption.
Paris Dispatch to the London Post.
Sir Dyce Duckworth, In his address to
the faculty of medicine, said that many
persons were constitutionally predisposed
to rheumatism and gout, but' an im
portant characteristic in such cases was
the antagonism of the tissues to the
bacilli of tuberculosis. The more rheu
matic or gouty a person was the less pro
nounced was the tendency to consump
tion. Making a Corner Study.
Pathfinder.
"My son," said his father solemnly,
"when you see a boy always loafing
about the street corners, what place
in life do you suppose he is fitting
himself for?"
To be a policeman."
DOMnO MILLION AlllaS" CAUGHT
New Tax ie Catkera 1st tka Nena
Rewldewta of New York.
. New York World.
More than rlrh and socially
prominent New Yorkers, with homes
In this city but "legal residences" In Tux
edo. Newport. Lenox. Bar Harbor. Lake
wnnd and elsewhere, moat of whom have
hitherto escaped personal taxation hre.
were found when th tax books for 1!
pie cpened to be caught In the new tat
not spread by the 8a xe non-resident law.
The roster of thee wealthy non-retl-dcut,
last year but an unimportant quan
tify then the law first went into effect,
tnls jear is swollen to Imposing I'm n
si n and is the feature of the near tax
rolls. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt's admis
sion ?o the Million Dollar Club is d ie to
the fact of her having recently come into
her share of Iter fathers millions.
The list of the non-resident New York
era reads like a social and business direc
tory of thee city. Names of aco -s of
persons conspicuous In society anj In
finance, whom the average New Yorkor
would never dream had their legal homes
elsewhere, are Included In the list. The
New York address of each Is given. Many
are shown to live on Fifth avenue or In
the fashionable streets adjacent.
The Saxe law was designed to catch
this great army of -wealthy New Yorkeis
who have homes here but claim residence
elsewhere. It provides that the personal
property of these persons held In this
city can be taxed.
Only six names In all appear on th
personal roll of non-residents as being
assessed for over $1,000,000. Andrew Car
negie, who up to last year headed th
list at $5,000,000. this year divides th
honor with Mrs. Russell Sage, who is as
sessed at the same figure.
The Million Dollar Club this year is
made up as follows:
Mrs. Russell Sage. $5.n00.0nf.
Andrew Carnegie. $5,00ti.0u0.
John D. Rockefeller, $.500,009.
Alice O. Vanderbilt, $1,000,000.
Gladvs Vanderbilt. H.ooo.ooo.
William K. Vanderbilt. $l.oro,000.
The real estate assessments surprised
the city officials by the big Increase re
corded. The total increase for all the
boroughs Is I472.OO0.OJ0. This Is 7 per cent
Increase over last year, and It will add
$47,500,000 to the borrowing capacity of the
city, provided the assessments stand.
The grand total of the real estate as
sessments for the entire city is $.176,
0W.652. '.ast year the total was $V704.
009,662. This did not Include any assess
ment for special franchise tax or real
estate of corporations, which will swell
the amount about $630,000 000 more.
WHRRE DEMOCR ATIC VOTE COl JiTS
Wheat It Is Ca, aa on Friday, at the
Republican Primary.
Grants Pass Observer.
The primary election for the nomi
nating of candidates for the various
state and county offices will he held on
Friday next, April 17. Nearly all the
candidates are Republicans. There are
very few Democratic candidates for the
higher offices, and these are without
opposition in their party. . It follows,
therefore, that the primary election
now close at hand will be almost en
tirely a Republican election. It is the
manifest policy of the Democrats to
hold back for the benefit of any advan
tage that the contest among Republi
cans may develop. This is perfectly
legitimate.
But other methods to obtain advan
tage have been adopted by Democrats
that are certainly not legitimate,' and
that on any view must be deemed dis
honorable. This is the registration by
Democrats as Republicans In order to
affect the nomination of the Republican
candidates. This disguised Democratic
vote amounts to many thousands
throughout the state, and will gravely
interfere with the honest selection of
nominees by actual Republican voters,
who alone are justly entitled to select
their candidates for the June election.
The disguised Democratic vote will be
potent because it will not spilt, but
will go solidly for such Republican can
didates as the Democratic managers
consider will best serve the Democratic
interest.
While the chief aim of this political
trickery is probably in the hope, of se
curing the election of a Democratic
United States Senator by the Legisla
ture, It will unquestionably be also ex
ercised' in the affairs of the various
counties. In Josephine County there
are about 157 straight Democrats who
have registered as Republicans, and
who will vote solidly on Friday for
such Republican candidates as will best
serve the Democratic interest.
PRESENT STEP PURELY TENTATIVE
First, Weigh Coat of Proposed 111 ah
Bridge North ef Steel Brldare.
PORTLAND. April 18. fTo the Ed
itor.) A large number of the residents
and taxpayers of this city are united in
an effort toward a high bridge across
the river at a point below the Steel
bridge. Petitions to this end have been
prepared and signed. At this moment,
$5000 has been voted by the City Coun
cil and the ordinance is now in the
hands of the Mayor, for the purpose of
finding out the. cost of this bridge and a
subway, it being proposed that the
latter shall be placed at some point
south of the Burnside-street bridge.
The object of this ordinance is to
secure the services of Mr. Modjeska, an
able bridge engineer, and to ascertain
from him a fairly correct idea of the
cost and all other information which
may be necessary. If the cost of the
bridge seems too great, the people of
this city will have an opportunity to
turn it down.
Interested as we are in the growth of
the city, realizing the need of the Wrest
Side merchants for better transporta
tion facilities, and the greater need of
tne resiaents 01 the East Side, we are
in favor of this step, if It shall prove
feasible and does not involve too heavv
a tax.
We, ' therefore, would regard these
steps which have been taken as purely
tentative, without binding the city to a
heavy bond issue until it can be deter
mined whether the bridge is feasible
and within the means of the pople
WOODARD. CLARKE & CO.
TO PORTLAND.
"iiT w,ou,d8t earth's grandest sights
And nature at her best
Go take a ride 'round Portland Heirhts
Clear up to Council Crest. ' w
On hills around and far below
Portland in beauty lies
And crowned with everlaating snow
Three mighty mounts arise.
St. Helena, Adams, Hood you see
Plain to unaided eye
Grand and serene the group of three
Looks down from azure sky.
Like noble sentinels they stand
O'er river, mount and plain.
Proud of our great Rose city and
Her men of nerve and brain.
There the great Columbia flows
Majeatlc at their feet.
And hero to swell Its volume goes
Willamette, deep and fleet.
And countless ship the world to keep
In salmon, lumber, grain.
Have aafely plowed the silvery deep
To the Pacific main.
Our peerleas exports find their tray
To many a foreign strand.
And correspondents ever pray
For mora of tba same brand.
Go North and South, and Cast and West,
Take plenty time and meana.
Don't fall to aea the grandest beat
Of world's storied scenes.
Pull marry a grand and charming view
Will please you on the way.
But like the rest, you wilt be true.
Glad to return and say:
Fair city, great and fertile land.
Here would I ever stay;
No place aeema half so good or grand
Beneath tha t day.
T. McK. N.
Advertising Talks
No. 12
THE DOCTOR WHOSE PATIENTS
HANG ON.
By Herbert Kaufman
Out in China all things are not
tojsy turvy. Fhysirians are paid for
keeping people well, aud when their
patients fall ill their weekly salary
checks is stopped. The Chinese judjre
a medical man not by I he number of
years he lives, but by the length of
time his clients survive.
An advertisinp medium mn-t be
judged in the same way. The fact
that it has age to its credit isn't so
important as the age of its advertis
ing patronage. Whenever a daily
continues to display the store talV of
the same establishment year after
years, it's a pretty sure sign that the
merchant has made money out of that
newspaper, because no publication can
continue to be a losing investment,
to its customers over a stretch of
time without the fact being discov
ered. And when a newspaper is not
only able to boast of an honor roll of
stores that have continued to apjiear
in its pages for a stretch of decades,
but at the same time demonstrates
that it carries more business than its
competitors, it has proven its superi
ority as plainly as a mountain peak
which rises above its fellows.
The combination of stability and
progress is the strongest virtue that a
newspaper can possess. Only the fit
survive reputation is a difficult thin
to get and a harder thing to hold it
takes pierit to earn it and character
to maintain it. There is a vast differ
ence between fame and notoriety, and
just as much difference between a fa
mous newspaper and a notorious one.
Just as a manufacturer is always
eager to install his choicest stocks in
a store which has earned the respect
of the community, just so a retailer
should be anxious to insert his name
in a newspaper which has earned the
respect of its readers. The manufac
turer feels that he will receive a
square deal from the store which ha
age to its credit. He can expect as
much from a newspaper which is a
credit to its age !
The newspaper which ontlives the
rest does so because it was best fitted
to it had to earn the confidence of
its readers and keep it. It had to be
a better newspaper, than any other,
and better newspapers go to the
homes of better buyers. Every bit of
its circulation has the element of
quality and staying power. And it is
the respectable, home-loving element
of every community not the touts
and the gamblers toward which the
merchant must look for his business
vertebrae he cannot find buyers nn
less he uses the newspaper that en
ters their homes. And when he does
enter their homes he must not con
fuse the sheet that comes in the back
gate with the newspaper that is de
livered at the front door.
(Cxpyrtght, 1!ns
AMERICANS CARELESS PEOPLE.
We Lead the World la Mat of Prevent,
able Accidents Canalag Death.
Iron Age.
In the accidents) of America's railroads,
mines, shop, street, etc., we maim and
kill about 600.000 persons yearly and need
lessly destroy between ordinary fires and
other sources fully ROO.OOO.OOO worth of
property.
The loss of property occasioned by the
careless throwing away of matches and
cigarettes costs the United States some
thing like S50.000.00o annually.
Our railroads maim and kill 17 times as
many travelers per 1000 as those of the
United Kingdom.
The mines of the United States kill
three times as many as those of Europe.
The ordinary American lives to see the
record of nearly one-half of the present
population of the United States being
maimed or killed and about J12.000.000.oivi.
or nearly seven times the valuation of
the Steel Corporation's properties, lost,
chiefly through carelessness.
Is it possible for any nation to have
such a merciless, wholesale loss of life
and property without expecting a retri
bution or day of reckoning? Is it not
time there was an Awakenlnp; to stop
such uncalled for dire losses? The writer
of this believes It is and that very much
of our destruction of life and property
through carelessness can be prevented,
and the object of this article is to solicit
answers to the following questions, the
same to be directed to box 3S4, Sharps
ville. Pa.:
First, what are the chief reasons for the
United States leading the world in casual
ties as Is found in the home, hall, shop,
mine. tra-el, etc, through carelessness on
the part of employers, employees and the
leisure class?
Second, can there be a notable decrease
In our casualties, and. If so, by what
means Is such beat accomplished?
Legislature la I'nluatly Libeled.
Governor Hughes at a New York Bar As
sociation Meeting.
The legislature came under an unjust
libel the other day. I was sitting in the
executive chamber, the room being full of
people. Suddenly a man slipped into the
seat beside me, and before I could say
anything he declared he had a complaint
to make about Auburn prison. I thought
a minute and then asked: "When did
you get out?" "Yesterday." "What were
you in for?" "Aiding a prisoner to es
cape." Aha!" I said, "were you ever In
before?" "Tea, I served two years for
that, and was out two years, but was in
for ten years before that." ' "What was
the charge then?" "Burglary." Then he
stated his complaint. After be left I
summoned the man who generally meets
these people before they reach me. and
asked him how a convict could (tet in
ahead of others who were there by ap
pointment. "Oh," he said, "I thought he
was an assemblyman." That was an un
just libel.
Taeoma Hospitality.
Tacoma News.
By the way, Portland is cordially,
heartily and sincerely invited to visit
Tacoma next month and see the battle
ship fleet.' We had almost forgotten
this Invitation in the press of other
matters. Really, Portland should make
the trip, not only for the purpose of in
specting the fleet, but incidentally to
see a real harbor.
Javanese War Seare la Kaasaa.
Emporia Gazette. -There
is good authority for the state
ment that a Japanese fleet is apt to sail
up the Neosho River and bombard
Emporia at any time, and the city hasn't
even a street-sweeping machine for pur
poses of defense.