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Newspaper Page Text8 TTTK MORNING OREGOXTAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22. 1908. ICBSCIUPTinX RATES. IrTVARJABLT IX ADVANCE. (Br Mali.) Dane Rnnifaw fn 1 1 : d ii Bu TMT. . . .$- VmAiT. Sunday Included, mix month. -ia tll. without Sunder, ti-.re mont&a. . -l lellx. without Sunder, one month - ? Sunday, on year f SI Weekly, ana year (Issued Thursday)... -Y unaajr and weekly, cao yaar . BI CABaUKeV. ally. Sundae Included, ana year. . flallH " - - J ..... ..n mOlMll 00 HOW TO REMIT Sand po.totf lc. mon.y ardar. nprtu ordar or personal aur local bank. Btaropa. coin or curr.ncy are at th aandar-a risk. Olva poatotflc. drees IB tuU. including county ana . - rOSTACB BATES. Smered at Portland. Oree-oe. Poatofflca na Sacond-Claaa Matter. . , JO to 1 aee J 1 to 28 Pacta 0 to 44 Pun 44 to SO Pacei cnw Foreign postaa-e. double ratea. UfPOKTAKT The poetal lawa are trleb Oewepap.r on which Poata ta aot fully repaid are not lorwarded to doatlnauon, EASTXRJf BCSlSEbS OFFICE. Tha g. 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Fourteenth and Franklin streets; X. Wheatley; Oakland New Stand: B. E. Amoe, manager St Wagons: Weltlngham. . O. (oldHeld. Nev. Louie Follln. tureka. Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency: Eu reka Newe Co. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1908 r- l AN ANOMALY IN DIVORCES. The beauties of our heterogeneous divorce laws have been exemplified lately by a case In the New York courts. A woman In that state who had lived with a drunken husband as long as she could Anally left him and fled with her two children to Virginia. Here three years later she was able to prove that her husband had commit ted the "Scriptural offense" and the Virginia courts granted her a divorce. Notice of the suit was served on him by publication in the newspapers, but not personally. Hence these tears. New York permits a person suing for divorce within the state to give notice by publication, but it will recognize no divorces obtained in other states un less there has been personal service. The reason for this rule is not appar ent unless It be a presumption that in New York there is no such thing as collusion, while In every other state collusion Is the usual practice. If this is the reason, it looks amazingly funny, since the last Vanderbilt divorce. which was obtained behlntj closed, doors without embarrassment from impertinent questions or rude inter meddling by the judge in the parties' private concerns. If this aristocratic divorce was not obtained by collusion, then none ever was. Having secured her divorce with this flaw In the proceedings, the woman resumed her quiet Virginia life and five years lRter was married to a respectable lawyer of Madison, In that state. Of this union one child has beea born, which the taw of New York condemns to a life of shame, although the. law of Virginia pronounces it per fectly legitimate. Within a month af ter the woman's marriage to the law yer her former husband brought suit against her In New York, alleging that she was living in adultery. The trial came on In due course, and the court was compelled to decide that, accord ing to New York law, the allegation tu true, though by the law of Vir ginia it was raise. Naturally, the New York Judges, not being utterly devoid of human feeling, pronounced this outrageous verdict with extreme reluc tance. Justice Dowling declared that the woman "was entirely blameless.' She had complied with the law of Vir (tin la in every particular and with that of New York also in everything essen tial. She had omitted nothing but one futile detail and her omission was from ignorance, not from Intention. Still. It was fatal. The state law, which sees no evil !n racetrack gambling and tVall-stTeet swindling. In the rigor of its virtue made this woman an adul teress and her child an outcast be cause she had unwittingly overlooked one trilling formality In suing for her divorce. "Tha stat of the law by which a di vorce Is regarded as valid in one state and void In another" said Justice Laughlin, "shocks the sensibilities of decent men and women." This en lightened jurist does not believe the mischief can be remedied completely without an'amendment to the Federal Constitution, but he sees a way to mit igate It. His suggestion Is that trial courts grant no divorces except In case where they can obtain full Juris diction over both parties. There seems to be no doubt that divorces thus se cured would be valid verywhere, but the remedy would be worse In some ways than the disease. A malicious brute could abuse his wife as much as he liked, and then by fleeing to an other state forever prevent her from obtaining legal freedom. She could follow him. of course, but he could escape again. It is to be dreaded lest Justice Laughlin's well-meant sugges tion might, like so many other restric tions upon the freedom of divorce simply encourage polygamy. lnj.qoAamemic Qlxprce falltntojjaiavei ieviae4dii; BtateuV-tlae-Uieoiy-. thre classes. There, are some who for religious reasons would forbid the legal severance of the marriage tie in All cases. The natural result of this theory, if it were applied in practice, would be to make' marriage unpopu lar and Increase the number of ille gitimate births. To see how it works out we need look no farther than France, where until very recently di vorces were oup of the question and where the rate of illegitimate births is among the greatest in the civilized world. Next we have tbose who wish to confine divorces to the "Scriptural ground." The outcome of this restric tion has been simply to put a premium on the commission of the essential act. It has never diminished the number of divorces, but it has multiplied the number of adulteries. Thirdly, there are those who would permit the legal severance of the marriage tie when ever it plainly appears that the par ties concerned would be the better for it. Persons who are of this opinion would leave the desirability of a di vorce in every case largely to the dis cretion of the trial judge, though he should err. If at all, on the side of liberality. . Experience shows that this is the view of the dlvoroe question which is most promotive of happiness and morality. Nor does it conflict with the Jewish lawas set forth in the Scriptures, although that las, c4jn- fllcU with itself. The Bible gives four different rules for granting divorces. and there is no good reason for call ing one of them more "Scriptural" than the others. Common "sense and common humanity both teach that the United States ought to have a uniform divorce law, and within, reason, the more liberal that law Is the better. DID IT SWEEP TUB STATE? Statement No. 1 is not in control of the next Legislature yet; but the out look Is quite promising. Control is to .be achieved through the historic pro cess of knifing Republican candidates for the Legislature by so-called Repub licans who took part in the- Republi can primary, and by electing Demo crats. It will succeed, no doubt. In this happy era of good feeling between the parties, brought about by the gentle art of killing off Republican candi dates at elections, there is no differ ence, of course, between a Republican and a Democrat. Yet It is Just as well to inquire, sole ly in the interest of truth and the facts, and for no partisan reason, just how far Statement No. 1 prevailed in the late Republican primary. State ment No. 1. we are told, swept the state. Hardly. It swept less than one-half the state, as the reader will discover when he has calmly and Im partially digested the following fig ures: There were 66 Statement- No. 1 can didates In the late Oregon Republican primary. Thirty-four were nomi nated. Thirty-two were beaten. Yet that isn't the whole story. There were 75,- Republican legislative candi dates to be nominated, and they were nominated. Of these 75, 34 signed Statement No. 1 and 41 did not. In the 34 successful Republican nominees are 15 from Multnomah County, leav ing 19 winning Statement No. 1 candi dates in the state at large. There are, therefore, 38 Republican legislative nominees outside of Multnomah County who didn't subscribe to State ment No. 1, as against 19 who did. or Just two to one. The figures are hard reading. But If you desire to be in formed about the political situation in Oregon, so far as it pertains to State-, ment No. 1 and the next Legislature, it will be well for -ou to examine such figures patiently and treasure them carefully. Now there is an active movement to nominate independent Statement No. 1 candidates in those numerous counties where Statement No. 1 has not pre vailed, in order to defeat the un pledged or Republican voters' choice nominees of the Republican party. It will be useless, of course, to say to Re publicans or to the public that the Republican nominees everywhere are fairly entitled to the support of all Re publicans, especially those Republi cans who participated in the primary. We don't urge it. Yet 'If there is no principle worth fighting for except Statement No. 1, and no issue In Ore gon' but Statement No. 1, why didn't the advocates of Statement No. 1 unite and hold a Statement No. 1 primary? What was the Republican primary for? Of course these questions are academic and unimportant, but they are nevertheless present In the minds o? many who used to think they were Republicans and who don't know now what they are. MORE ABOUT I.n.Y DALE. Mrs D. E. Lunsford must guess again. He misses the mark widely in assign ing a reason why The Oregonian laughs at the Lily Dale humbugs. We have not the slightest wish to "cast ridicule on those who believe in the reality of the spirit world and of spirit commun ion," to borrow a phrase from his let ter printed today. We laugh at the Lily Dale humbugs, because they are humbugs, and for' no other reason. The fact that a man smiles at a fraud gives no ground whatever for the be lief that he would also laugh at genu ine spirit manifestations. Reverence" for truth does not imply reverence for every falsehood that parades in the guise of truth. One may believe in the spirit world without feeling obliged solemnly to revere every fat old me dium who dresses up her rheumatic uncle In a toga and pretends that he is Julius Caesar returned from the ever green shore. That there are some so-called spirit ist phenomena which have not yet been satisfactorily explained we are free to admit; but It is no explanation of these mysteries for a medium to wrap a naughty little girl In a white sheet and call her an angel. Mr. Lunsford makes the same mistake that all fanatics have made since the world began. He assumes that our enmity to fraudulent Imitations of truth is enmity to truth Itself. We be lieve just as strongly as he does In every ascertained fact concerning both this world and the next one; but we differ from him in that we require our facts to be proved before we believe them. To our minds there is a deep slough between ' reality and fraud in which he'may wallow as much as he likes, but our .preference is to walk on solid ground. How Is the truth ever to be separated from the error which entangles and blights it unless we hold up the error in its genuine aspect? But perhaps Mr. Lunsford does not wish them to be separated. The Oregonian distinctly repudiates Mr. Lunsford's implication that it adopts the philosophy of materialism. of. idealistic monism in recent issues and indicated clearly enough that It deserve the profound respect of thoughtful men. From the day when Berkeley first gave it to the world until now It has never been impaired by criticism, and probably It never will be. Haeckel's assault upon it Is con ceded by thinkers to be mere childish folly. The whole tendency of recent science Is to establish the "spiritual istic" interpretation of the universe; but this is a very different thing from establishing the credibility of the Lily Dale humbugs. The Oregonian ven tured the other day to mention a few of the things which the intellect, or reason, has accomplished. After the good old fashion of all fanatics, Mr. Lunsford replies with a list of a few of the things It has not done. "Can reaspn tell us what electricity is"? Has reason anything to offer as to the fact of being?" On these and all other subjects reason has a good deal more to offer and a good deal better than the moonings of credulous superstit ion. It may not be able to tell us what electricity is. but all the same it has mede electricity the servant of man. It may nof tell us what Being is. but it is making being in this world a pleasure Instead of a perpetual tor ment, as it was during the "age of faith." When a man has a doctrine to teach which requires him to belittle human reason and exalt credulity, be ware of him. THE CITY'S LAND. It seems that the eight blocks of land which the Inman-Poulsen Lum ber Company desires to obtain from the city as a free gift may be worth about J100.009.' Why the city should make such a donation as this to the lumber company is not apparent. Of course if the corporation has Improve ments on the land it would be wrong to confiscate them; but to avoid con fiscation it is not necessary to rob the city. It is open to the lumber com pany to buy the eight blocks, or it might In a pinch pay rent for them. Just as other people do when they desire to use land which does not be long to them. Suppose some poor man out of a job should ask the City Council for a present of eight blocks, or even one block, would he get it? It is understood that the lumber company, in asserting its right to grab the city's land, has not displayed that meek and lowly spirit which properly entitles one to inherit the earth. Not only has it put the city officials to in glorious flight when they ventured to step upon this tract, but it has set its face against all Improvements in the neighborhood. With these facts in mind, one wonders why the city should be so grateful to the lumber company as to feel obliged to make it a present, especially a present of such magni tude. A little love token from those Councilmen who feel especially grate ful might not be amiss, especially if it came out of their own pockets; but why should they wish to demonstrate their love for the corporation by giv ing away the city's real estate? Seriously, have we not had almost enough of this shameful process of squandering municipal property? If a corporation wishes land belonging to an individual, it expects to pay for it; if it wants land belonging to the city, why should It not expect to pay for that also? .If It Is wrong to rob one man, why is it not wrong to rob many men? Our constitutional law needs one supplement. In addition to the provision that private property must not be taken for public use without compensation, there should be another that public property shall not be taken for private use unless it is paid for. HANDICAPPING THE PORT. The threatened conflict between the grain exporters and the grainhandlers has been temporarily averted by an agreement providing for payment of the old scale. until June 1. After that date the present scale of 33 1-3 per cent above the Puget Sound rate for straight time, and 100 per cent above it for overtime, will give way to one which will leave the Portland wages on straight time but 16 2-3 per cent higher and overtime but 66 2-3 per cent higher than the Puget Sound rates. Removal of even a small por tion of the differential which labor has levied against this port will help some what, but sooner or later the cost of shipping wheat at Portland must be reduced to the same level as at Puget Sound, or we shall lose a good share of the business. In a communication to The Orego nian yesterday a member of the Grain handlers' Union, unintentionally per haps, discloses one of the reasons why such a stubborn attempt has been made to maintain this wage handicap againBt Portland. Assuming that the writer of the communication was sin cere in his contention, he is ignorant of the conditions governing the wheat shipping business of the two ports. He mentions the admirable natural loca tion of Portland at the foot of a down hill haul, the advantage of a fresh-. water harbor, and concludes that "that is another reason why exporters can afford to pay more wages and make more profits for themselves here than on the Sound." The freight rate on wheat from the interior Is exactly the same to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle or Everett. It will always be the same, although equalization of port charges may in the future cause the railroad companies to favor Portland on account of the lower cost at which the freight can be delivered here. This, however, is a matter over which, the exporters have no control, and it can In no possible manner, af fect their profits. It Is not a matter of the slightest concern to the export ers whether wages are 40 cents per hour or SI per hour, so long as the wages are the same at- both ports, for the expense must be borne by the wheat producer. But when they can charter ships for Puget Sound at ex actly the same rate as for Portland; can force the railroad company to de liver wheat at Puget Sound at exactly the same rate as at Portland; can get even better stevedoring dispatch than at Portland, it is folly to assume that they will for an Indefinite period con tinue to pay higher wages at Portland than at Tacoma or Seattle. Two exporting firms, operating at Portland and Tacoma, have during the past season handled nearly 600.000 tons of grain, about evenly" divided between Portland and , Puget Sound. Every ton handled on the Portland docks cost for grainhandlers' wages 40 cents per hour straight time, and 60 cents per hour overtime. Every ton handled at Tacoma cost 30 cents per hour straight time, and no overtime. Portland, in spite of this handicap, made a good showing, because the O. R, oVKrC oub6-41iaJoiB.t-j:ate find refused to deliver wheat to roads lead ing to Pugst Sound, and also paid about 320.000 bar pilotage in order to secure removal" of a differential, of 30 cents per ton which the foreign ship owners had levied against the port. Next year the O. R. & N. will have a line running to Puget Sound, and it will be in the power of the exporters to force the hauling to Puget Sound of a much greater proportion of the wheat than they are fnow shipping from our competitive ports oh the north. . The Oregonian would like to see the grainhandlers get the highest possible wages, but the ease with which grain and ships can be diverted to Puget Sound demonstrates quite clearly that we cannot maintain in this port a wage scale higher than that of the ports with which- we must compete. In the long run the question will sim mer down to the plain proposition whether grainhandlers "would prefer to handle the wheat at Portland at Puget Sourfd wages or whether they would abandon the business and let the Pu get Sound men handle It. With the increased prestige given the port by the North Bank Railroad, there will be more business and more work, providing we meet Puget Sound com petition. If we fail to meet it, we will lose . the new business ss well as that which we now hold in the face of ob stacles, natural and artificial. An amendment affixed by the House to the agricultural appropriation bill providing $30,000 for the purchase of a National bison range on the Flat head Indian reservation, in Montana, has been Indorsed by the Senate. This action Is in accordance with an ap peal for the preservation of the buf falo, made by the American Bison As sociation. It sets forth strongly the danger of- extinction that ' menaced these animals, which but half a cen tury ago roamed the grazing lands of the great plateau In vast herds. This is a somewhat expensive pasture, but If adequate to the purpose the cost will not be grudged. The association through whose efforts this appropria tion was secured is pledged to Btock this range when once it Is fenced. The land will be policed and patrolled by the Government during the annual tourist season and every effort will be made to protect the herd from hunters, white and red. Bison Increase slowly, and' will not soon outgrow the range that iwill be provided for them by means of this appropriation. Forty-one killed and sixty Injured in a trainwreck would Indicate a disaster that could logically be expected to oc cur nowhere except in America. In this case, however, ' the wreck took place near Melbourne, Australia, .a rear-end collision being responsible for the 'great loss of life. The Australian system of railroad operation Is, as near as the conditions permit, modeled af ter that of Great Britain, where loss or life through accident has been re duced to a minimum. So . long, how ever, as man remains mortal, there will be among railroad men occasional lapses of vigilance and errors of Judg ment for which fearful penalties will be exacted. Perhaps if labor were as plentiful and railroads as scarce in the United States as In other parts of the world, our record would not be so much worse than that of other coun tries. . "Conditions are simply horrible In the parts of Alaska which I visited," says Mrs. Reyonlds, a returned mis sionary. "Women unblushingly sell their daughters just as they would a nugget of gold or a team of dogs, and the traffic has reached such propor tions, and has been engaged in to such an extent, that the moral phase of it is lost sight of." This Is a de plorable state of affairs, but It is ques tionable whether the practice is any more immoral or reprehensible than that which is so popular in "Darkest Manhattan," where "women unblush tngly sell their daughters" for a musty foreign title worn by degenerate rakes whose personal charms and ability would be insufficient to win even an Alaska "klootchman." An ordinance to regulate the prac tice of physicians has been recom mended by the Council committee on licenses and will be submitted to the Council for action this afternoon. Since it does not discriminate agamst any school of medicine, being aimed directly at a class of practitioners that has become notorious In the' city through unlawful practices In recent months, it may pass without protest. It can hardly, however, do more than require physicians already accredited as reputable to post their virtues as healers in conspicuous places a form cf advertisement which the "ethics of the profession" should, if consistent, fcrbid. Speaker Cannon just wants to show the papers of the country all of them that they've gbtto come around to the captain's offlce'lf they want to ar range that little matter -of the wood pulp tariff. That's the way he does ft down in Danville, where some one or other prints a newspaper. But it takes a little more than Danville to nomi nate and elect a President. Now that inconsiderate trifles have been disposed of, let all 'ot us tend moral support and give gold coin to the various publicity agencies that are spreading the fame of Oregon. Con certed effort, if well directed for two years, ought to raise the state's popu lation close to the million mark in the next census. Bubonic plague Is said to be raging in La Guayra, Venezuela. The plague is an affliction to be dreaded wherever it appears, but its horrors are to a certain extent minimized when it ap pears in a country that is already plagued with a man like Castro. Now they are going to examine Harry Thaw for sanity. Why not leave the decision with him and be done with It? Congress is going to find out why news paper is so costly. Everybody knows the trust simply advanced the price. . Mr. Bryan Is not only Industrious as a money-maker, but economical as well. He collects his press agent's sal ary. The defeated ones can now make a lot of money by going to work. Time flies. It's just ten years since jvo declared scar on Spain, TRI E ANT FALSE IN SPIBITX" AI.ISM. What Shenld Peeple Brtlre aad What ' Netf " VANCOUVER, Wash., April SO. (To the Editor.)! desire to protest somewhat gainst the flippant nd sarcastic style of the editorial In Sunday's Oregonian anent Lily Dale and spiritualism. No such con ditions exist at Uly Dale, or elsewhere, as materialised spirits frequentina; barber shops and saloons and walking the streets at night conversine: at ease, or course, these thinrs are only said to cast ridicule on those who believe in the reality of tha spirit world and of spirit communion. That it will have this effect there Is no doubt, and ridicule Is a powerful weapon in the hands of one skilled in its use: nevertheless, neither ridicule nor reason can destroy a fact, as the effect of ridi cule Is only temporary and reason must be In possession of all the facts to ar-1 rive at a correct conclusion. One may be in possession of a fact for which no reasonable explanation can be found. In deed, our most eminent scientists can find no reasonable explanation for many of the common facts of everyday life; or, at least, one which they may not be com pelled to change tomorrow. The belief In the spirit world and Its Influence on the material world is the basis of most religions. When the or thodox churchman prays, he addresses a spirit god. and answer to prayer Is received spiritually to be wrought out In the material world in accordance with laws governing the material world. All forms of religion have their frauds and dupes, and. to praphrase a quotation of scripture, let the one without fraud cast the first stone at the other. 'That the spiritualist movement is per meated by fraud is freely admitted by spiritualists themselves and there is a well organized movement on foot to rid the ranks of these parasites, who fatten on the credulity of their victime and are bold enough to push their way Into most select circles. The wvrk of such men as Professor Hyslop in assisting in exposing these frauds is commendable and they will have the support of all spiritualists who have the good of the movement at heart. Not long ago The Oregonian published a list of men standing high In the scien tific world who are pronounced benevers in the reality of the spirit world and o communion therewith. Many of those men, like Sir Oliver Lodge, state an un qualified belief and give reasons amount ing almost to a scientific certainty. Many men. life Professor Hyslop, state thatr after allowing all possible deduction for fraud and credulity, there still remain certain facts unexplainable on any other grounds than spirit communication. The materialistic .surgeon says tnere Is no soul because his scalpel falls to re veal It. The materialistic reasoner de clares there Is no spirit world and no spirits because his reason fails to bring them to view. Both, because of their in ability to see. declare the thing impossible and ridicule those who believe in the reality of these things. Many persons have no conception of music: is there, then, no such thing as harmony of sound? The Oregonian draws a decided dis tinction between faith and reason, and says that: "Faith never invented a ma chine, neutralized a poison, cleaned a street or prevented an epidemic. . What ever has been gained along these lines Is the fruit of the intellect." Well, what is intellect but another name for spiritual force? Is intellect a .material thing, to be weighed and analyzed? Reason, you say, has given us electricity, but can reason tell us what electricity is? Nay, has reason anything to offer as to the fact of being? No. for reason can deal only with material things and finds no place In its logic for things spiritual. To the spiritual philosopher spirit is the cause-source of all conscious existence, and matter but the ever changing form with which It clothes Itself. 'SpHritual things are spiritually discerned," and when the spirit has left tne gross ma terial form and taken on the finer ethereal body, communication may still take place even as telegraphic communication takes place -without the wire once thought to be so necessary. If reason can prove nine tenths of all phenomena fraud, one-tenth will be enough to establish the fact. Re spectfully. D. B. LUNSFORD. REVOLT GROWS AGAINST BRYAN. Comments on the Situation From Dif ferent Democratic Newspaper. Utlca (N. Y.) Observer. J5em. The Democratic party and the great in dependent vote of the country have been aroused and are no longer disposed to give way to "the doctrine of despair." Candidates will be presented to the dele gates at the Denver convention who might victoriously sweep the country. and we believe that one of them will be nominated. The Denver convention bas suddenly! become of supreme importance. Toilts action is attached an Interest that has not attended any similar assemblage in a generation. Judge Gray' Boom la Growlna;. Boston Post, Dem. Judge Gray has already received the direct Indorsement of conventions of min ers in the anthracite region, in recog nition of his conspicuous service aa chair man of the commission which settled the great strike. The Democratic state committee of Delaware has declared for him. His successful opposition to the force bill when he was a member of the United States Senate is remembered at the South, where the movement for Gray Is gathering momentum. And organized labor is taking up the call. Tblnka Gray Heads the Party. Lexington (Ky.) Herald. Dem. The election of Judge Gray to the Pres Idency would be in no sense an experi ment. There Is not the slightest ques tion about his capacity to measure up to the ?reat responsibilities of that office. and if the Democratic party Is seriously to consider any other than Mr. Bryan Judge Gray ought not to be overlooked There Is little doubt that with Gray at the head of the ticket and the party united in his support, the Democrats would enter the campaign with a decided advantage over their opponents, and with confidence in the certainty of a sweeping victory. Wants n Southern Man Chosen, Florida Times-Union, Dem. If the South may not name one of her own sons, let her at least choose the man who can command the additional strength that must be secured. But because she has this opportunity she should not forget that the exercise of the power Implies full responsibility for the action. Let her be sure she Is right and then go ahead. As against Taft, Gray or Wilson could carry New York and New Jersey. Where Is the equivalent of this strength to -be found in the West with equal cer tainty? We know the South will cast her vote for the candidate. We are not Impunglng the availability of Bryan or Johnson, but we hope the South will stand together for the man of her choice. Von Are Liar," Ruling:. St. Louis Globe-Dispatch. When one party testified In court in St. Louis that he struck the other when called a liar. Judge Tracy said: "That's right. A man who calls another a liar, must expect to be struck." Makes Kettle Out of Copper Cent. New York World. George O'Rourke. of New York, under arrest as a vagrant, to show that he is a coppersmith and can earn his living, made a kettle out of a- copper cent and sent it to Magistrate Moss. Not Beavers, Juat Gophers. Condon Times. If the first games of the season are any criterion. the Portland baseball team will occupy the most Illustrious tail-end position ot any team In the country.. HARRIMAN AND THE READING. One More Imserlssl Link to the Mag nate Tranarontlnental Chain. New York Dispatch to Chicago Inter Ocean, April 1. Edward H. Harrlman, Wisard of the Pacifies," apparently has transferred his interest to Eastern roads, and, according to a statement in the Wall-Street Journal, has engineered a project which will place the Philadelphia A Reading Railroad Company in the Harrlman list and give the Baltimore & Ohio an entrance into New York City over Ha own rails and make him a "billion dollar rail magnate." The Wall-Street Journal is so certain of the correctness of tta Information that -it comes out with the assertion that "unless obstacles not now In siRht turn up the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad will acquire entire contrdf of the Reading company and secure a direct outlet In New York. and the entire project will be engineered by E. H. Harrlman and his friends. " e If this Information is correct and the obstacles not now in .sight" do not "turn up" the Harriman roads and their capital and mileage will present the following: Capital stock. , .Si37.41.0(W . . 2ft.vn4S.KM . . inyoio.ooo . . I12.6.14.100 . . 17l.2Tl.0 .ViHi.om . . Urt.OOO.WiO Mile age. e.4.19 ..w;4 s.fiim 4. es.1 a.t.M l.HOll t.ua Company Pothern racilie. . . . Vnion Pacific Illinois Central .... Baltimore A Ohio. . Erie t'entral of Georgia. fnua. & Heading... Totals $1.171,aW2.fi.S 31.473 "While this table show the financial situation of what will be the "Harriman system when present plans are all brought to a conclusion, the strategic position Is better Illustrated by the fol lowing list of cities reached by the line : Spokane, Butt. Portland, Or. San Franciaco. Sacramento, CaL Is Angeles. Salt Lake City. Ogr1n. Utah. Cheyenne. ' Denver. El Paso. San Antonio. Dallas. Fort Worth. , Galveston. Houston. New Orleans. Omaha. Lincoln. Kansas Ctt .-. Lincoln. Minneapolis. St. Louis. Memphis. Pt. Taul. Iouisville. Chicago. Birmingham. Nashville. Natchez. Vlckahurg. t'hattanocf a. Jackson. Macon. Atlanta. Savannah. Augusta. Ga. Cleveland. Cincinnati. Buffalo. Pittsburgh. New York. Rochester. . Baltimore. Philadelphia. . Wilmington. Washington Trenton. Haxrisburg. Another table which shows the great extent of the Harriman system is the fol lowing, which gives the states which are traversed by Harriman lines: New Jersey. Pennsylvania. Delaware. Indiana. Virginia. Iowa. Nebraska. Colorado. Montana. Nevada. Washington. California. New Mexico. Louisiana. Kentucky. A I aha. ma. Maryland. Ohio. Illinois. West Virginia. Minnesota, Kansas. Wyoming. Vtah. Idaho. Oregon. Arizona. Texas. Mississippi. Tennessee. Georgia. ' Wisconsin Missouri. rr-v. .-tat-Ao 1 nthor HMirr1s which are not traverspd by this great system are North and South Dakota, Michigan, Arkansas. Oklahoma, the two Carolina and the six New England states. With the acquisition of the Reading, which fn turn controls the Central Rail road of New Jersey, whose mileage Is included in the above table, Harriman be comes a "billion dollar rail magnate," the first in history, and gains such a hold upon the railroad situation of the country that he will be able to meet any competition directed against him. Another important feature connected with the deal Is that with the construction of a short link in Central Pennsylvania, connecting the Baltimore & Ohio with the Reading, the Baltimore & Ohio would be given as short and as good a line be tween Chicago and New York and 9t. Louis and New Tork as that of any other company. CLEAR DFTY OF CHAMBERLAIN. Why Doesn't He Retire in Favor of Other Statement One Manf Eugene Register. Now that Statement No. 1 has been "vindicated," Chamberlain, who belongs to the minority party, should step down and out and let Cake, have the honor. Before the primaries it was declared that the iseue was not a political one, but the right of the people to choose. As a result of the primary election. Cake seems to have received more votes than Fulton and Chamberlain put together. Now, if there is no politics in the Statement No. 1 issue. Chamber lain should quit. But will he? Cer tainly not, although he and Cake are both Statement No. 1. candidates. The facts are that the real political fight has just begun, a struggle In which the will of the people as expressed at the primaries will be reversed in favor of Chamberlain, U the ingenuity and skill and powerful manipulation of machine politics can accomplish the work, in which event there will be some dis gusted Statement No. 1 members in the next Legislature, when by their pledge they are forced to vote for a Demo cratic Senatorial candidate. If by any hook or crook a Statement No. 1 Legis lator should refuse to vote for Cham berlain, shquld he succeed by aid of the machine in landing the nomination, such Legislator should be impeached or recalled. Perhaps we had best en act the U'Ren recall measure In antici pation of those Legislators who may be disposed to gig back on the State ment at the critical 'moment; If Cake has as united a .support from those who voted for him in the primary election as he will have from those who sup ported Fulton at the primaries. Cake will be the choice of the people for United States Senator. Let not those who supported Cake through ulterior motive conclude that they can switch to Chamberlain and cast the onus and odium of Cake's defeat upon the Ful ton wing, so-called, of the Republican party. There is too much of the true blue Republicanism among the rank and file of those who supported Fulton to allow for one minute the shoulder ing of political perfidy upon them when the real principles of Republicanism are at stake. "Msnt" Watteraon for Prraldent. Barrels and Bottles. What's the matter with Henry Watter son for President of the United States? Dean of American Journalists, prince of good fellows, Saul amid the towering ar ray of grreat men Kentucky has Riven the world, like Milo he has carried the Dem ocratic party ever since it was a calf until now when, sitting securely astride Mason and Dixon's line, he alone Is able to sustain the enormous bulk of unterri fled bovine that slakes Its thirst in Lake Itasca and slashes Its tail around Flag ler's railroad until its tip hits Key West. For the Democratic party is a water drinker when It wants water! Not since the days of Grover Cleveland has the Democratic party had a candi date who inspired a tithe of the wild en thusiasm with which the name of Wat terson would weld Its shattered fragments from Texas to Massachusetts. The idol of the South, the brother of the North, and the friend and defender of men who love liberty and justice everywhere, Hen ry TVatterson stands today, In the ripe maturity of 'his powers, his party's grand old Cyclops and his country's Clncinna tus! i lw, Willamette Valley, Speak Ip. Des Moines (la.) Register. A cow owned by a dairyman near Fonda. Ia.. has produced an average of 67.6 pounds of milk a day (or 11 days. On one day, Xhe yield was &H4 pounds. T w MATIOINAL GUARD CONTRART to expectations, the range iuF.itl.rn was not definitely settled during the past week and at this time would seem to be further from a settlement than ever. The com mittee Is not ready to report yet. but It seems assured that tho old range back of the City Park will have to be used for a month or even two after the opening of the outdoor season. May 1. e While somewhat belated, the report of the National rifle competition at Camp Perry. Ohio. last Summer, makes the revelation that the Oregon team made even a better showing than previously recorded by taking first place on the 1000-yard range. F.very team of the 4S participating1 w-as beaten at 1000 yards by Oregon, and there Isn't a more difficult rmiii in the lot than the 1000. a fact that is demonstrated by the scores of each team. Oregon beat tho I'nited States Naval team, which won the National team match, and beat both Army teams, the Naval Academy and every state in the Union. Oregon's total score at 1 J0 yard.i was 437. The Navy came a verv closo second with 43. NVW Jersey also had 43(i. while the next closest competitor was Pennsylvania, with 435. Wash ington scored 428. Massachusetts 42S, Ohio 429, the United States Cavalry 3S6. Annapolis 42T. United States In- iantry 36 j. New ork 414. That the range Is a stumbling block ror even experts is shown by the records of a number of good teams. California made only 32S. Tennessee fell back to !05. Nebraska got 267. and North Da kota fell down to 158. Discovery that the local team fin ished first on that range is more en couraging than even the team stand ing on all ranges, which was fifteenth place, or ahead of 23 teams. It is the Intention this year to creep up among the top-notchera at the National shoot In August. e e The action of the Senate In striking out the amendment to the Army ap propriation bill which would have pre vented officers from participating in the National rifle and pistol matches, is highly gratifying to the War De partment, according to an ' official communication released for publica tion yesterday. Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver, assistant Secretary of yar and president of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, pre sented the views of the War Depart ment to the (Senate committee on mili tary affairs and also addressed a com munication to Chairman Hull of the House committee. It Is not thought likely the House will insist on the amendment. In presenting the matter General Oliver said that President Roosevelt had asked him to call the attention of the committee especially to the pro vision relating to officers and to ask that It be stricken out. He quoted Gen. B. W. Spencer, the New Jersey authority on rifle shooting, as saying It would practically destroy the effect of the National matches. General Oliver said: "In case this amendment becomes a law It will almost. If not entirely, defeat the excellent purpose for which the first law upon the sub ject of the National trophy was en acted in 1903. The reason for the en actment of the law was to encourage excellence in marksmanship with rifles and pistols In the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard. In this most Important of all military functions, the officers are the Instruc tors of the enlisted men, and this they are not competent to be unless1 they thoroughly understand all the details of military rifle and revolver Bhooting. They attend the National competi tions, some of them from states or territories which have not even a rifle range. They mix with the finest rifle and revolver shots in the world and absorb much valuable Information and not a little equally valuable enthusi asm. They return to their organiza tions and tell what they have learned, which is absorbed and disseminated throughout the entire military force of the state or terrltory.- "This has been going on with the Na tional Guard for the past four years, and during that short period the Improvement and interest In military marksmanship have been remarkable. In 18M competi tions were inaugurated In the Army, where officers and enlisted men shot to gether for prizes. This soon developed many expert rifle shots and created much enthusiasm in the Army. As a result, when the Spanish War came on. our reg ular Army was the finest body of expert riflemen In the world. And those who started the National trophy are working to accomplish the same thing for the Na tional Guard. It certainly needs no argu ment to prove that an educated officer In his military duties Is of far more value to the Government than an educated enlist ed man. for the reason that the officer can be sent to Instruct other officers and enlisted men. It would really be for the best Interests of the United States to have the teams sent to the National matches composed entirely of commis sioned officers. On account, however, of other considerations, it has been found advisable to have a fair proportion of en listed men in each team." e Thursday night. April 30, has been set as the date for the final events In the series of athletic events which have been In progress for the past five months. The events of that occasion will be worth wit nessing, the participants having won the right to appear through repeated victories In the preliminary events. The programme will consist of a 50-yard 6sh, a quarter mile run. half-mile run. relay race, tug of war, wall-scaling, tent-pitehlng and high jump. A large turnout Is expected. Medals for Individual winners and tro phies for the successful teams will be given out at the conclusion of the events. An admission charge of 25 cents will be made, the proceeds to go to the Board of Officers' fund.- a Among the matters of general interest to come up at the meeting of the Board of Officers on Tuesday night will be a report of the committee on gymnasium equipment. This committee, composed of Captains Welch. Bowman and Scott, has secured prices on various kinds of suit able apparatus which Is to be bought out of the funds raised for that purpose. The completion of the gym at the Armory Is an event that is being anxiously watched for by the enlisted men stationed In Portland. e e "Are you working for the passage of the Armory bill?" That question Is being nsked Guardsmen throughout the state. Success of the measure, which means 12 new armories, depends to a large extent upon the efforts of Individual workers. Unless Guardsmen get out. and hustle, no one else can be expected to do so. Port land Guardsmen are inclined to be rather lax in their Interest in the bill, from the fact that they would not be directly ben flted. That is' a poor spirit. Failure of the bill would reflect In a degree on the Guard. Incident of Chelsea. Mass., Fire. Boston (Mass.) Dispj'eh. While the fire was raging in Chelsea, Mass.. four young women gathered around a piano at a street corner and sang "We Won't Go Home 'Till Morning." a fifth playing the accompaniment. All Were homeless, and were trying to keep their courage, up.