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rOKTLAJin. Tl'ESDAY, ArRIL XS, 180.
THE COXIKREXCE OF GOVERNORS.
The conference which will convene
at the White House in Washington on
May IS will be one of the most im
portant meetings of public men that
America haa ever seen. Those who
are to participate may fairly be called
the leaders In our civic life. The Pres
ident and the Governors of the sev
eral states probably stand nearer to
the people and enjoy more of their
confidence than either the legislative
bodies or the Judiciary. We have
learned by sad experience how little
Congress and tho State Legislatures
will accomplish for the general weal
hen left to their own devices. It la
only when they are spurred on to their
duty by energetic and courageous ex
ecutives that they really fulfill the
purpose they were created for. In
general way the public has come In
recent years to believe that it Is better
represented by the executives whom
it elects than by any other officials.
Strang, dominating Governors are
popular wherever they appear. Mr.
rtoosevelt, the most imperious Prcsl
dent we have had since Jackson, is
even more popular than he was.
The conference, then, will be com
posed of a body of men whom the
people trust in a peculiar sense. Its
purpose Involves the future welfare of
the country, perhaps Its future exist
ence. What we should do or become
if we were bereft of our natural-re
sources one does not like to try to
imagine. We are in the habit of boast
ing that the United States Is the great
est country in the world, and in the
next breath we always add that its
pre-eminent greatness Is due to Its un
paralleled natural resources. It haa
long been the fashion to speak of
these resources as "inexhaustible.'
Persons whose school days ran back
ten years or so will recall the magnifi
cent phrases of their old geography
books. The pine forests of Wisconsin
and Minnesota, the turpentine of the
I'arollnas, the coal of Pennsylvania
the hard wood of the Mississippi Val
ley and the Appalachian Range, to
gether with a score of other treasures,
were all Inexhaustible."
fc..perience nag made us wiser.
Wisconsin and Minnesota have no
more pine. Some is left on the Pa
cini: Coast, but not much compared
with the growing demands of the
world. Hardwood lumber, which
used in the good old times to be lav
ishly used In every house, is now
luxury for the rich. Coal ajid all other
kinds of fuel rise steadily In price,
Experts tell us we shall never see the
day of cheap lumber or fuel again
They go on to warn us that in about
thirty years at the latest, unless the
demand falls off, all our merchantable
timber will have been exhausted. How
long the coal of the country will last
Is not quite so certain, but the limit is
by no means remote. Nor Is the sup
ply of Iron likely to hold out much
longer than the coal. The truth is
that we are on the verge of a famine,
when we shall all be crying for th
natural resources which the Lord gav
us so abundantly, and we shall cry In
'ain. Esau will whine for the her!
lage which he squandered, but his
whines wlI not bring it back.
Mill more disquieting is it to re
member that the destruction of the
forest Involves two indirect evils each
ruinous to the country. The first Is
the loss of the fertility of the land
The fertile part of the earth lies at Its
surface. When a country is well for
ested rain Is husbanded in the spongy
leaf soil and refreshes the earth with
out denuding it. But when the trees
are gone then there Is nothing to safe.
guard the call and it soon follows as
It has in Italy. Palestine. Spain and
other parts of the world where peopl'
have treated their land Just as we are
treating ours. The second evil is the
tieDosit of the- soil la- rlvor cUannelaJLtates. " The record-breaking ship
which r thua convened from nmt-
Itahl atrram, ipto arrlea pf rrldle and
hal'nurn. In Winter thev nr torrvnta.
Summer they are ahnllow pool.
connected hy weak rtmlcta. More
over, mhen the) forenta r. our whole
atem of Irrigation will t with them.
ince! Irrliratlon dpentla abeoiuteiy
port atorea of water which are re-
ained by firet throuah the heats of
ummer.
All these matter, will be taken up
vtematlt-al!y by the conference at
Waahlnirton and the foundations of a
policy of conservation of natural re
source will be laid. When one thinks
f It, It la amaiinir that this ha not
been done before. But sometimes the
moeit obviously necessary tnmfrs !
hose hlch have to wait longest. It
s the everlasting glory of Mr. Koose-
elt that he ha perceived the over
whelming Importance of treasuring
our natural resources and has taken
he difficult Initial stops to accomplish
Very likely nobody less popular
han he could have wakened the Na-
lon from its hypnotic sleep of false
security and compelled It to take an
merest In this mtst vital subject. Mr.
Roosevelt Is almost the first of our
ubllc men to realiae that the United
States Is not merely a land of adven
ture to be exploited, but a home where
people must live as long as the world
lasts. He has turned his gaxe away
from the absorbing present and fixed
It upon the endless future. He has
taken thought for the generations un
born. He has seen & vision of the
eternal march of the human army and
boldly proclaims that It ought not and
must not march through a stripped
nd barren desert. The earth docs
not all belong to the present. Poster
ity haa Its rights, and this great con
ference of our most rusted leaders
will take measures to protect tnem.
Ut.HT FROM BISHOP UTAIOrXti.
The Orcgonian is truly thankful to
Bishop Scadding for the light which
he throws upon the matters in con
troversy between us In his letter
printed today, but it were to be wished
hat the Illumination had been less
mingled with the smoke of ecclesias
tical logic. As to the "establishment,"
for example: The bishop thinks It is
misunderstanding to believe that the
"hurch of England was established by
Henry V11I. Of course It is a mls-
nderstandlng. It was established by
Elizabeth. But it is a much more
serious misunderstanding to believe, as
he bishop does, that the Church of
England is identical with the Roman
'atholic Church, which it displaced.
It is not the same cither in ritual.
reed or government. The Church, of
England is protestant unless the stat
utes of Elizabeth misstate the facts,
while the Church of Rome is Catholic.
Moreover, we do not mean that the
property titles of the Protestant Epis
copal Church were "guaranteed" by
le acts of Elizabeth, as Bishop Scud
ding suggests: what we mean is that
they were created. The old church
was utterly abolished and a new one
took its plaoe. For a long time the
profession of the old faith was penal
ized in England. Catholics were for
bidden to vote, to hold office, to gradu
ate at the universities. The property
which had belonged to the Church of
Rome was confiscated and turned
over, largely, to the Church of Eng-
and, though some of it was given to
laymen. The property rights of the
Anglican Church date from this confis
cation. Those who believe that the
Protestant Church of England had no
existence before the time of Henry
VIII are unquestionably right. Before
his time there was a Catholic Church
o which England belonged, or whose
faith England professed, but It was
not the same church as that which Is
now established by law In England.
We cannot agree with Bishop Scad-
ding that '"established" means simply
placed under the law of the land."
It means a great deal more than that.
For many years the rites of the Epis
copalian Church were the only ones
which were permitted by law in Great
Britain. Dissenters were persecuted,
often with great, cruelty. We may
mention the Scotch Covenanters and
the English Quakers, for example. We
may also recall the fact that at one
time several hundred clergymen were
deprived of their livings In -England
because they declined to follow the es
tablished ritual. Nor can we agree
that tho "hostility" between England
and Rome "has been a fruitful cause
of sin, indifference and intrdelity."
Th'at hostility has done more than
anything else to redeem England from
sin, to inspire it with true religious
zeal, and to remove the causes of in
fidelity. But. most valuable of all,
the irebellion of the English people
against the Church of Rome estab
lished the bulwarks of civil liberty in
Europe and America. It is a wonder
ful thing that Bishop Scadding should
select one of the most signally benefi
cent events in all history for his espe
cial lamentation.
Finally, the "present education con
troversy" is not irrelevant to this dis
cussion. It presents a glaring in
stance of the seizure by ecclesiastics
of revenues which they have not the
ability or inclination to put to useful
employment. We commend the bishop
for shunning it, but not because it
ought to be shunned.
AN ERRATIC WHEAT MAftKET.
A heavy decline in the European
wheat market yesterday, followed by
a dragging, listless market in Chicago,
again demonstrated the small consid
eration that Is this year given the sta
tistical position of the cereal. The
slight decline in Chicago yesterday
was registered in the face of the most
bullish .weekly statistics that have ap
peared this year. There was a shrink
age of more than 4,000,000 bushels in
quantities on passage. World's ship
ments were about 400,000 bushels
smaller than last week and 4,500,000
bushels smaller than for the corre
sponding week a year ago, and the
American visible showed a decrease of
about 900,000 bushels compared with
an increase of a similar amount a year
ago. The visible, now stands at 3 5.
865,000 bushels, a decrease of more
than 17,000,000 bushels as compared
with the corresponding date last year,
and with two exceptions is the small
est that has been shown for ten years.
But the buyers who became hysteri
cal a few day earlier when a long-
expected and much-discounted falling
off was recorded In Argentine ship
ments, failed to see anything in yes
terday's figures to warrant higher
prices, and the European market suf
fered a sensational decline. Perhaps
the most perplexing feature of the
wheat situation throughout the season
has been the uninterrupted flow of
heavy shipments from the United
men? with which the Argentine ha
been deluging the European markets
were expected, a It was well known
throughout the world that the crop In
the southern country was the largest
that had ever been harvested.
In this country, however, both the
Government statistic and those of
private firms showed a crop which
was ISO. 000. 000 bushels smaller than
that of the preceding year. But from
that small crop and the supplies which
were carried over from the preceding
season there has been shipped a larger
amount than was ever shipped in a
similar period from any preceding
crop. These continued heavy Ameri
can shipment have undoubtedly Im
pressed the foreigners that the Amer
ican crop was much underestimated
last year, and now. with another
American harvest but a few weeks dis
tant, and with weekly shipment aver
aging nearly 1.000,000 bushels more
than for the same period last year,
when there was a big crop to draw on,
we may well expect some stubborn
resistance to any advances which may
be attempted.
And yet It will be a very unsafe
proceeding for Europe to rely too
muchvon early shipments from the
1908 American crop, for If anything
serious should happen between now
and harvest, there would be no other
country in the wide world to which
Europe could turn for supplies of any
consequence until next Winter, when
the Argentine again becomes a free
shipper.
FOR BETTER FARMTNO.
The special farming demonstration
trains which the O. R. & N. Co. has
planned to run through the wheat belt
of Oregon and Washington next month
will undoubtedly meet with tho same
cordial welcome which the farmers
extended to the first of these trains a
few weeks earlier. The business of
farming is in certain features similar
to other enterprises. In practically
all lines of industrial endeavor will be
found the same earnest desire to se
cure the maximum returns from the
minimum investment of capital or la
bor. And in farming as in other work,
the Individual or corporation that can
demonstrate how the present methods
for attaining certain results can be
Improved upon is sure of a hearty re
ception.
The two most important subjects
which are mentioned in the pro
gramme issued by General Freight
Agent R. B. Miller, under whose di
rections the trains will be operated.
are "Summer Fallow" and "Conserva
tion of Moisture." It has been dem
onstrated beyond a possibility of doubt
that not only can the loss through
having half of the wheat acreage In
Summer fallow be saved, but there are
certain crops which can alternate
with wheat with positive advantage to
the soil. We all know what dlversl
fled farming has done for the Wlllam
ette Valley, and incidentally it might
be mentioned that Mr. Miller, as suc
cessor of C. H. Markham, of the
Southern Pacific, is entitled to much
credit for some of the transformation
that was wrought in the Valley meth
ods of farming. The Willamette Val
ley farmers demonstrated that the Idle
Summer fallow acreage could be
cropped to such good advantage that
in a short time the alternating crop
was producing more money than was
obtained from wheat. Now there is
very little wheat grown In the Vallej',
and diversified farming not only keeps
the land busy all the time, but the re
turns are many fold greater than from
wheat.
By replacing the Summer fallow
system with one which will admit of
constant use of the land for crops
which will replace the qualities of soil
that are now extracted by wheatgrow
ing, or even while lying idle in Sum
mer fallow, the productive area of
country in the great Columbia Basin
will be nearly doubled. What this
means from a traffic and general busi
ness standpoint can be understood
when we Tecall the enormous amount
of agricultural products that are now
produced in that great region.
The conservation of moisture is also
a subject of great concern to the
wheatgrowers. Total crop failures are
unknown in the Pacific Northwest
and for the past ten years We have
been remarkably free from even poor
crop years. Not all of this Improve
ment in conditions is traceable to
more favorable climatic conditions,
but much of it is the result of better
farming. Some of the experts who
will accompany the demonstration
train have been engaged for many
years in scientific experiments which
have enabled them to impart to agri
culturlsts Information which has been
of the highest value in improving the
system of farming In semi-arid lands
The operation of these trains will
enable thousands of farmers to secure,
free of cost, some very valuable hints
on the industry which means so much
to them as well as to all other people
in the Pacific Northwest, for it is un
necessary to state that anything which
in the slightest degree assists the
farming community becomes at once
to the advantage of all "other lines of
industry. The demonstration train will
fill a "long-felt want," and should be
kept in service until idle Summer fal
ow lands are a thing of the past and
l better system of farming prevails
throughout the great Northwest.
BIG OPPORTUNITY FOR GRAFT.
After an investigation of the subject
of the watersheds of the White and
Southern Appalachian Mountains, the
Secretary of Agriculture has recom
mended that the Government purchase
lands .In each range of mountains for
the creation of forest reserves. The
purpose is to renew the forest growth
under a system of protection with
view of retaining moisture, preventing
floods and maintaining timber supply.
The lands which the Secretary would
have the (Jovernment purchase have
already been denuded of their timber
growth and are practically worthless
to the owners. It is recommended
that the Government pay $6 an acre
for 600,000 acres in the White Moun
tains, or $3,600,000 for the tract, an9
$3,50 an acre for 5,000,000 acres in
the Southern Appalachians, or $17.'
500,000 for that tract.
While the correctness of the forest
reserve theory cannot be questioned,
one cannot reflect upon the monstrous
grafts accomplished in the name of
forest reserves in Oregon without feel
ing certain that Government appropri
ations for the purchase of deforested
lands in Atlantic States would be the
beginning of a system of graft that
would eclipse the lieu land and scrip
operations ao well known in the West.
The Secretary of Agriculture thinks
the Government would not be com
- JJ
pelled la pay mora for the 4and than
would an individual. The Secretary
must be a farmer with le experience
the ways of the world than most
farmers In this country have. He cer-
ainly has a good opinion of the public
plrit of the lumbermen and rancher
ho own th stump lands of New
Hampshire and the South Atlantic
States. He also has confidence that
ember of Congress would not pass
an appropriation bill with a Joker In it.
s they did when the law were passed
hlch enabled railroad companies to
gobble up the best timber lands of
Oregon under the guise of fair ex-
nange.
The plan evidently Is to set a maxi
mum price and pay no more. Under
uch a plan a few landholders would
sell to the Government and others
would hold, believing that eventually
there would be a demand for their
ands. After having bought a few
thousand acres located In the form of
checkerboard, some subsequent Sec
retary of Agriculture would report
that a forest reserve of that sort can-
ot be a auccess because of the prl-
ate holdings Included within the iim-
Us
Then It would be up to the Gov
ernment to make larger appropria
tions, raise the maximum limit and
perhaps extend the area of the re
serve. The undertaking Is a hazard
ous one, even though the need for
conservation of timber resources be ac
knowledged.
The emotional French, having noth-
ng else In particular to claw eacn
other about, are Just now engaged in
fierce war of words over the pro
posed interment In the Pantheon of
Zola. As It was the dead novelist who
anked quite a number of skeletons
out of the French closets when he set
In motion the investigation that finally
righted the wrong which France had
nfllcted on Dreyfus, there Is naturally
some resentment on the part of the
custodians of the afore-mentioned
keletons. Madame Zola, apparently
knowing that the honor would rest
more with the Pantheon and some of
its deceased tenants than with her late
husband, objects' to the controversy
that has been raised and would like
to retain possession of her husband's
body, but as this would be regarded as
a victory for the anti-Dreyfus party, it
will probably be permitted to honor
the Pantheon with its presence.
It Is, of course, only a coincidence
hat the news of another big strike in
the Alaska gold fields should be re
ported just prior to the opening of the
transportation season. Eighteen hun
dred dollars to the pan is a story
which it would be difficult for the
miner with the price of a ticket in his
pocket to resist, and if there is any
thing like a partial substantiation of
the Nolan Creek story, it will undoubt
edly attract a great many treasure
seekers who would be dissatisfied at
the slower but more certain methods
for securing wealth in the United
States. Alaska has poured Into the
world's treasury a vast amount of
the yellow metal, but it is questionable
whether the net results would show
that as much has been taken out of
the mines of the far north as was
spent by the thousands who have
searched for gold and found nothing.
It has been ninety-six years since
the War of 1812 was fought, hut the
new pension act, which became effec
tive last week, provides for an in
crease of pension for one widow of a
soldier who fought in that conflict of
the long ago. The Civil War ended
not quite half a century ago, but there
are on the pension roll the names of
183,696 pensioners who will, under the
new act, receive an increase of $4 per
month. Nearly 8000 Mexican War
pensioners and 3171 widows of partici
pants In the Indian wars also receive
this increase of $4 per month. By
the time the army of pensioners who
are now being paid for their services
during the Civil War have passed
away; the pensioners of the Spanish-
American War or their widows will be
sufficiently numerous to keep the pen
sion roll up to its present great pro
portions.
The folly of permitting children to
handle firearms is again illustrated by
the death near Cottage Grove of 12-year-old
Roy Clark. The boy had'
been out hunting with a companion,
and stopped to rest, and when he
started to continue his trip, pulled the
gun toward him, muzzle first, with the
usual result. There are imore than
enough of these distressing accidents
among hunters of mature age who
cannot well be prevented from carry
ing firearms, and there should at least
be some effort made to keep them
away from children until they reach
an age where they can exercise some
discretion and judgment in handling
deadly weapons.
Oddfellowshlp has entered the nine
tieth year of its existence in the United
States. Last Sunday, April 26, was its
eighty-ninth birthday. As was seem
ly, the day was observed with me
morial services in various sections of
the country, chiefly in the churches.
Friendship, love and truth" is the
motto of the order, and its work fol
lows closely upon the lines thus desig
nated. Mr. Cake received 25,700 votes in
the Republican primaries for United
States Senator and Mr. Chamberlain
received some 5000 votes in the Demo
cratic primaries. Tet there are some
folks who think the people meant for
Mr. Cake to withdraw in favor of Mr.
Chamberlain. This is indeed a vexing
question.
As long; as 'pedestrians take risk of
serious or fatal injury by walking rail
way trestles instead of keeping to the
road that parallels It, accident to life
and limb will result. Prudence dic
tates the way to safety in this matter
as in most others.
The Quartermaster-General has fig
ured it all out that taking a quarter of
a million dollars of trade away from
this city will "help Portland." Cer
tainly; but we are generous enough
to ask him to help Seattle and San
Francisco in the same liberal fashion.
If Banker Ross should have to pay
that $576,000 fine with prison labor at
$2 a day, he would learn the worth of
the hard-earned dollar to the multi
tude of poor people who deposit their
savings in banks.
Give Mr. Ross all his constitutional
rights, of course; but is that all he
wants?
Old-fashioned Portland rejoices over
the recrudescence of the dashboard
sign
chusk or REtM'SLiCA rrcniiS'i
Feara T Seerrtarr Tt ft Cast Carry
Mr, lark Stale mr Ohio.
Washington in. C. Correapondene of
the New York Herald.
Th, party In New York iwmi to hv
r4ach.nl situation where It cannot help
Itself, The raid of the Taft men on the.
Hughes column, the attitude of stat,
leadVrs In eppoalnx 'he Oovemor. the
prospects of this flint becomln much
more tntenae. tho attitude of the President
in forcin; the nomination of a member of
his Cabinet, the business depression, the
Iar number of Idle men In New York,
all hare combined to put the party in a
very serious rjredleament.
The well Informed politicians of New
York, while they expect to see Taft nomi
nated, have very little cortndence In th.
Secretary' ability to carry the state. All
factions In the state are considerfh
whether It wfll not bo absolutely essential
for them to nominate President Roosevelt.
Another Roosevelt wave is coming, but
whether It will be strong enough to sweep
the convention off Its feet will depend en
tirely on the ability of Secretary Taft
managers to hold together Inatructed dele
gates to the number of 491. All the state
bosses of New York, while fighting
Hughes. y that he cannot run any bet
tor than Secretary Taft. and the strife
in the party Is expected to make th
public say: "A plague on both your
houses." This situation In New York la
still being duplicated In Ohio. The flsht
Is going on there within the party, and
the betting 1 heavy that the Republicans
will lose their state ticket and also the
electoral vote.
Secretary Taft ha had some sucoesse
and some reverse during the week. Min
nesota went into the Taft band wagon
and Instructed the delegates to use all
honorable means to bring about Taft's
nomination. The movement of the negro
voter against Taft has expanded all over
the country. The Republicans of the Sixth
Congressional, District of South Carolina
are antl-Taft. Instructions for Secretary
Taft were voted down in the Third and
Fifth Congressional conventions of Massa
chusetts. On the other hand. Secretary
Taft was a victor In the Sixteenth Mis
souri.
Frank H. Hitchcock, the Secretary's
campaign manager, seems to be holding
his forces well in hand all through the
western country. It wai Mr. Hitchcock's
early plan to capture all the West, and he
has succeeded, except In the cases of
Utah and Nevada. These two states are
expected to be for Taft, and thus Mr.
Hitchcock" prediction will be made good
of having every delegate for the Secre
tary of War west of the Mississippi River,
The "allies,1' however, are still fighting
desperately. Some of them are fighting
among themselves, and the anti-Taft
campaign seems to lack cohesiveness, but
it does not oeem to lack funds. But the
money that the Taft managers are spend
ing has now reached the enormous total
of several hundred thousand dollars. No
such expenditures have ever been known
In a pre-conventton campaign. When all
the facts come out, a it Is believed they
must, they will shock the country, it 1
predicted here.
THE ROSS VERDICT.
ProteeCloai to K,efrl4lnuite Banking-.
Eugene Register.
Prompt conviction of J. Thorburn Ross
of the defunct Title, Guarantee & Trust
Company, for appropriating state school
funds to his own use, is a warning to all
banks, that would speculate, that the
practice is not tolerated in Oregon. To
convict such manipulators Is a protec
tion to legitimate banking In Oregon.
Good Lesson and Sound Precedent.
Albany Democrat.
Mr. Ross thought he couldn't get Justice
down in Portland, so he had the ase
transferred to Salem, where he got plenty
of justice before Judge Burnett, with a
vengeance, and people generally will
indorse the action of the jury, believing
it was justified by the evidence and badly
needed every-where as a precedent. It is
time that bankers were made to under
stand that the trust they have is a
serious one and that they must behave
themselves. Mr. Ross will appeal. He
would do better to begin serving his
sentence at once.
No
Other Outcome Possible.
Pendleton Tribune.
It seemed no verdict except guilty was
possible under the circumstances. The
conviction of a man so prominent in
business and church circles is attended
by a feeling of sorrow, not that he should
be shielded from the demands of justice
any more than the humblest citizen of
the state, but the betrayal of a public
trust by such men is calculated to destroy
the common faith in our supposedly best
men. But when such Instances of decep
tion and unreliability as that disclosed by
the revelations of the Title bank's affairs
are discovered the public conscience de
mands that short work be made of the
participants in the interest of better busi
ness morals and public honesty.
Make for Sound Morality.
Baker City Democrat,
It will be a very decided change for
the extinguished president of the bank to
change his abode from the comforts of a
palace to the soft side of a prison bed,
but as he has made the bed himself it Is
but just that he should lie on it. There is
an atmosphere in this Nation for a con
dition of better things, from the lowest
rank to the highest stations in the Na
tion. The air is full of cleaner things.
The people are demanding cleaner politics,
the commercial life is demanding cleaner
business, the social conditions of the
country are demanding cleaner home life.
The verdict in the Ross case Is not very
reassuring for the balance of the officers
who are yet to be tried.
No Room Here for Crooked Banks.
East Oresonian.
There is every evidence that Ross pur
posely squandered his depositors- money.
There is every evidence that he con
ducted a speculative, plunging, "bucket
shop" on the capital entrusted to him by
the public and his conviction will be a
lesson to others who may be similarly
inclined. There is room for hundreds of
substantial banks In Oregon. There Is
room for thousands of investors and room
for hundreds of legitimate enterprises, but
there is not room for one banking "bucket
shop." The quicker Oregon and the West
gets on to a substantial banking basis the
better for the country. Every failure of
a crooked bank only serves to lessen the
faith in good banks and the legitimate
bankers of the country should repudiate
Ross and his ilk.
Senator "3etV Davis, Freak Row.
Washington (D. C.) Herald.
The various species of octopuses will
take notice that Senator Jeff Davis,
of Arkansas, Is back again In his ac
customed place in the United States
Senate. It is not known whether his
determination to exterminate all of
them is still uppermost In his mind,
but It will be well for them to keep
their weather eye upon him, because
he is just as big as ever in avoirdu
pois, and his voice as strong, even if
be did use it overtime during his re
cent campaign in Arkansas. He still
has "a chance for a killing, as there are
several measures in an embryo state
which he can speak on. If permitted.
He still has the post of honor in the
late "freak row." bis seat marking
the southeast corner of the Democratic
side. He ha his angelic smile with
him, and to the casual observer the
big Arkansan doesn't look as if he
has been traveling rough and rugged
roada since we last saw him.
ot Republican Enovch to Hurt.
Albany Democrat.
A good many people registered as Re
rmblicans who are not enough to hurt.
iust wanted to get into certain quarter
ln the primaries.
Initiative and Referendum
Measures
For th. Information of ,ot,r, ther, will
ho puMtahed on th:, par, from day to day
brief sum marie, ,f th, laltlatlv, and rfer-
,adum meaawr,, to b, submitted 10 to,
pttonle at th, Jun, , lection. toeth,r wui
a ,hort ,:at,m,ni of th, argument, for an-i
against each.
."SI M nr. hi 1.
ntanetri; the time of the general state
and county electlona from June to No
vember is the purpose of the fourth
measure upon which rhe people will vote
on June 1. The proposed constitutional
amendment was submitted to the people
by a resolution of the last legislature.
The portion of the constitution affected
by the amendment Is section 14 of article
2. which provide, that "Oeneral election
ahall be held on the flrt Monday of
June, biennially." The proposed amend
ment declares that In 1S10, and thereafter,
general elections shall be held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday In
November, which is the date of the Na
tional election. The amendment also pro
vides that all officer except the Gov
ernor shall begin their term of office on
the first Monday of January after their
election. The Governor will begin hi
term, a In the past, after hi Inaugura
tion, th date of which depend upon
the convenience of the Qovernor-elect and
th Legislature. The amendment also
provide that all law pertaining to nom
inations, registrations and other pro
ceedings preliminary to elections shall
be' enforced the same number of daya
prior to the general election a is now
provided.
This proposed amendment had Its origin
in the belief frequently expressed that the
state and National election should be
held at the same time, thereby saving the
trouble and expense of holding two elec
tions every fourth year. Since the di
rect primary and registration laws were
adopted an additional argument has been
heard, that the campaign take place at
a time of the year when the member
of the Oregon delegation are busy at
"Washington and cannot return to d'.aouss
the Issues xf the day before the people
without neglecting their official duties.
If the election wa held In November,
when oher states hold elections. Sen
ators and Congressmen would come home
to participate In the political campaign.
The argument that has always been
used against an amendment such as la
now proposed is that National Issues have
only a remote, if any, connection with
Issues in state politics, and that state
elections should be conducted solely with
regard to questions of state government
and that selection of state and county of
ficers should be kept free from the in
fluences of party divisions upon the tariff,
monetary standards or territorial ex
pansion. AS EASTERN OREGON WOOL KISG
Tribute 10 the Memory of E. H. Clark,
Who Lately Died at Pendleton, Or.
LYLE, Wash., April 2. (To the El
itor.) About SO years ago, on a well
kept horse, there rode into Hcppner a
typical New Englander," arranged with
tin, taste In the habiliments of an Eng
lish huntsman. His high boots, with
a glossy shine, were particularly no
ticeable to the people about the late
Hon. J. L. Morrow's store, the first
building erected in town. This man,
fresh from the city, was E. H. Clark,
a prominent woolbuyer, whose death,
after three days' sickness with pneu
monia, at Pendleton, occurred last
week, Monday.
It was E. H. Clark who gave financial
assistance in stimulating the growth of
the woolgrowing .industry, especially in
Morrow County. More than one success
ful woolgrower can attribute his advance
ment to money advanced on growing wool
and the hard sense lectures on better
breeds, by the late E. H. Clark, known
to many in Morrow County as "Wooly"
Clark. The way he won the appellation
was through the late Nelson Jones, a
sheep man noted for his originality. One
day "Nelse," as he was better known,
announced in Morrow's store that Clark
was in the country. Owing to there be
ing many in the country of that name.
he was asked what Clark. Mr. Jones,
adjusting his hat to the back of his head,
and whitlineT away on a stick as ho was
wont to do trying to think of the first
name, at last uttered: "Oh, Wooly Clark.
Just then E. H. Clark popped In the door
and heard the utterance. It is needless
to say that Mr. Clark paid for cigars for
the crowd, and that Jones and he grew
to be very close friends.
Of the thousands of dollars advanced
yearly in years past in Morrow County,
E. H. Clark was never known to op
press anyone, or to lose a dollar. He
aided with financial assistance the founda
tion of the structure of woolgrowing In
Eastern Oregon. He was abreast with
the times, possessed an educated and
bright mind. He was a loyal friend and
an honest gentleman.
J. G. MADDOCK.
Danger to an English Ducking; Stool.
Westminster Gazette.
The pretty Kentish village of Ford
wych. near Canterbury, is in danger of
losing its ducking stool, for which a
large price has been offered by a
trans-Atlantic millionaire. This is one
of the very few remaining examples
left in England of the Instrument
formerly designed for the reformation
of scolding or otherwise unsatisfac
tory wives. This distinction, of
course. It shared with the now simi
larly rare scold's bridle. It is said,
by the way, that the ducking stool at
Fordwych was even used in the pun
ishment of so-called witches, after the
barbarous fashion of those times.
Volunteer Road Work for Farmers..
MARSHFIELD, Or., April U.(To the
Editor.) Noticing a recent news report
in Tfle Oregonian from Weston, that the
farmers of that locality had volunteered
road work,' and having been a reader of
The Oregonian a good part of my lifetime,
I wish to say that I think the idea a
good one. In my 25 years of farming in
the Willamette Valley, I usually found
some time for volunteer road work and
always considered it a good investment.
From my observation and experience,
there is hardly a farmer in the Willam
ette Valley but could spare from one to
a dozen days' extra work on the roads
every year. This would go a long way
toward solving our road problem.
J. W. WATT.
A Dot and a Man.
London Sunday School Times.
He was a doit.
But he stayed at home
And guarded the family night ahd day.
He was a dog
That didn't roam.
Ha lay on tho porch or chased the stray
The tramp, the burglar, the aen, away.
For a dog's true heart for that house
hold beat
At morning and . evening. In cold and
heat.
He waa a dog.
He was a man
And didn't stay
To cherish hi, wife and children fair.
Ha waa a man.
And every day
Hi, heart grew calloaa. Its love-beat, rare,
fle thought of himaelf at tho close of th
day.
And cigar in hie finger,, hurried away
To the club, the lodge, the store, th,
Bhow,
But h had a right to go, you know.
Ho waa a roan.
BOOIvS
1
PKOPLF. who are t.wl jU'lcr of Kr.s
IIh literature wouM p.i.it ! ...fc
lncredulo',1, were one 10 te:i thrn
that the name of the one poet in Kn;
land whose poetry t now m.vt unsvt'u".
ly read by the masses Is one H V. H.i--elay,
gipsy. Put it i . rxir-t;
lost 1 months Barclay h., .i ocr
75. tW copies of his hoiks. . or
Chancer, ala.y Milton and Tennyson:
It should be explained, however, t- ,-,.t
Barclay's booklet., limited at !r - ow e
expense, are bound In p:tiier-lwck cov--.3
and coat 3 cent each, and that lox ad
venture and the merry httte rmv'1ie.-- .f
rural life form the auhjects from wM, t
he drinks poetic Inspiration, in IN- i.i-i
two years, he has eomplcte'y tr.te'-l
around Rntltnd. betn rtrnien tu -caravan
by an old horse. re.l"H i:ic in '..
name of Jush. Bsrelnv', Invert- r. --d'-xvon,
la at a country f .1 it-. w:ire h
atanil, on the stejis of his carav.tn s-- U.ii;
hls book, by ,he-r force tf wit. nanie--and
oratory.- He cares nothing of v.;i;
the critics of him. and Is meVpenui t
of publisher,.
"I'm tha poet of the people, in th-
surest aense.'" Barclay recently -!.
have the genuine gilt of lmprftvsH!vi j
can adveritae my book, with veryH'-..
factory results, by attending a eo.im;-.-fir
and offering to write with ett ch irk
some verse for any girl in tho crow. I
who will acknowledge that she Ik in love.
Very soon, little slips of paper ure i-,an I- -1
to me, reading 'His name is 1,1,11. mvl
his eyes are blue." 'HI, name is .I n k jrii
hi hair 1 black.' Then I compose vr,.-
about Tom and Jack, and hint tin t wen
ding bells will ring soon. I rea.l tnl.s
to the crowd, and easily sell my hook? '
One of Barclay's best-known bioks s
"Strange Talcs of a Tramp ''
It seems only the other d.iy. that t'.-.,-papers
contained touehintf ailuion, t
"Oillrla's" hist diiy., ami that she ,11.
suffering for the ordinary comforts of lit..
It bAs Just been discovered that one nC
the best of her latter-day stories hap ueen
reposing. marked "accepteii," im! . in
published, in the pigeon-hole of a pnh
lisher's dek In London. It had appitrem
ly been forgotten ahout. or tin- liier.iry
adviser perhaps reported that Ouiria's iiay
waa done. A correspondent write.- t hit r.
the manager of a well-known Now Yoik
publishing-house recently gave dire, ttont
to bring out to lipht all the mnnuaeriptt
marked "purchased," reposing amid tho
accumulated dust of years lit the varlons
rooms of the firm's literary department.
Manuscripts representing tho investment
of thousands of dollars were unearthed,
but strange to say not one was fnuiei
suitable for publication in W. The host
of prices had evidently been paid for
them, and among the author's names was
observed that of Bayard Tuylor.
In England certain critics are wonder
ing whether the mixing tip of tho Druco
case with Dickons' "hiiwin Drood" viis
after all nothing more nor less than sa,
new instance of the adroitness of the
American "publicity agent" in iiliiiz'p.i;
current news to boom a book. The suc
cess of this particular effort, it Is saii,
is noticeable in quite a "little boom" In
"Edwin Drood" that cannot be ex
plained altogether by the fact that tho
hold of Dickens In America grows
stronger every year. "
Lucille Baldwin van Slyke, who 'ate.. y
made her debut in magazine fiction, has
bad a remarkable experience. She has
not been out of college long, is married
and lives in Brooklyn, N. T. None of
these things is remarkable, but recently
she sent out five stories at one time to
different magazines and all five were ac
cepted. ,
An inveterate bully of French rvvs
paper editors felt that one of the lit Tary
fraternity had wounded his feelings by
an intimation that he could Just sign his
name, and challenged the scribe to a duel.
Every word in the challenge was mis
spelled, and the editor's reply read:
"Dear ?ir You have called me out
without any good reason; 1 have there- ,
fore, the choice of weapons. I choose tho
spelling book, and you are a dead inan."
The duel was never fought.
,
Katherlne Evans Blake is one of the
latest names to be added to the Ions list
of Indiana novelists. She Is a Honsier
by birth, though nowadays she lives in
Minneapolis, and her stories are thorough
ly Hoosler. "Heaifs Haven,"' published
a year or two ago, dealt with the celibate
community of Rappitejt at Nw Har
mony. "The Stuff of a Man." just issued,
has its scene laid at "Blufttown," which
is recognized as Rockport, Ind.. a beauti
ful town on the bluffs of the Ohio River.
Rocknort was Mrs. Blake's birthplace.
There at the age of 13 she wrote her
first novel in pencil,- on the wrong sld
of some rolls of wall-paper with illustra
tions by the author. Years after, when
the old family farmhouse had been sold.
Mrs. Blake visited It; in a bedroom aim
tore away a little corner of wall-paper
and found some pale lines of childLsfo,
writing still visible upon it.
,
The Outing Publishing Company has
received so many requests from writers
for an extension of the time limit for
the receipt of MSS. In its Jiooft first novel
competition that it has decided to post
pone the closing of the competition until
August 1, 1908.
,
Josephine raskam Bacon, who as Jose
phine Dodpre Daskam. made her first liter
ary impression with short stories. 'is a na
tive of Stamford, Conn., and a Smith Col
lege girl of the class of 'SX. Each reminis
cence of her youth is bound uo with a par
ticularly active sense of humor, and it is
a question whether any school or college
girl ever had a livelier career something
to which the abundant anecdotes told by
her classmates are testimony. After the
short stories. Miss Daskam published
"The Memoirs of a Baby," which excited
attention when it first appeared serially
in Harpers Bazar. The fact that Mrs.
Bacon s habit Is to restrain herseif from
being over-prolific, carries the conviction;
that a new story from her pen is really
ahout something and worth the telling.
Four years ago Mis, Daskam was mar
ried to Seldon Bacon. Until recently her
residence was in New York City, but at
present she is living in th country not
many miles outside. Mrs. Bacon's friend
In describing her say that she talks a.
she writes, crisply, sometimes bitingly.
and with refreshing originality in word
and phrase. Her new tale, "Ten to
Seventeen," conveys just this impression
of irrepressible humor and fancy.
Blumenthal. the great theater man
ager of Berlin, was once talking vvith
Tolstoy about Ibsen, and In a moment ot
sarcasm said: "I have put a good many
of his plays on the stage, but 1 can't say
that I quite understand them. Do you
understand them?" "Ibsen doesn't under
stand them himself," Tolstoy volunteered:
"He Just writes them, and then sits down
and waits. After awhile his exiJtiuder
and dramatic critics come and icil him
what he meant."
,
After a year of secrecy, durins which
some prettv wild guesses have been mada
a to who was the author of "As tht
Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian
Prisoner', Wife in Japan." it is at last
revealed that she is Miss Eliza Rtihumali
Scidmore, a resident of Washington, D.
C , a prominent member of the National
Geographic Society, author of a number
of standard books, IncludinK some oil
Alaska, "Jinriksha Days In Japan,"
"Westward to the Far East." "China, tho
Long-Lived Empire."' "Winter India."
etc. Of course Miss Scidmore was lit
Japan during the war, taut her book Is
obviously based on fact, and the illustra
tions are from actual people.