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PORTLAND, FRIDAY. MAY 1, 1908.
TEN TEARS AFTER MANILA.
Today Is the tenth anniversary of
the battle of Manila Bay. On the first
day of May, 1898, Commander Dewey
under sefcret orders signed by Theo
dore Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of
the Navy, sailed Into Manila Bay, suc
cessfully eluding the mines which the
Spaniards had strewn at the entrance,
and in two or three hours destroyed
the enemy's fleet. The Spaniards had
mora ships than the Americans and
there was at that time no modern ex
ample of their naval inefficiency on
record. Dewey's enterprise was there
fore bold almost to the point of fool
hardiness, but the event Justified his
judgment. Not one of his men was
killed, not a vessel was lost. It can
hardly be said that he fought a great
battle, but he certainly won a great
victory. , Battles are judged according
to the relative numbers, equipment
and skill of the opposing forces; vic
tories by their consequences. The
battle of Hastings, which decided the
destiny of the British Islands, was a
petty affair compared with Mukden,
but nobody would deny that the vic
tory which the Normans gained on
that field was one of the most mo
mentous of all time.
At the battle of Aegospotami the
Spartans gained possession of ' the
Athenian fleet without effort or loss.
The Attic sailors were on shore; the
Peloponneslans took them unawares,
slipped on board the defenseless ships
and sailed away. Thus there was no
battle at all at that fatal spot on the
Hellespont, but there was a victory
won which broke the naval power of
Athens and swept the city of the violet
crown forever from her imperial posi
tion In Greece. The battle of Manila
was incomparably less notable as a
piece of naval strategy than Trafalgar,
but we may say after mature consid
eration that Dewey's victory was
greater than Nelson's. Possibly Na
poleon was really strengthened by the
loss of his naval power. He was com
pelled to abandon ' his visionary
schemes of Oriental conquest and con
fine his operations to the Continent of
Kurope, 'which was their true sphere.
Dewey's victory changed the course of
American history. For good or ill, it
broke the spell of tradition which had
hitherto limited the diplomatic and
military influence of the United States
to the American continent and drew
us into the family of the nations as
an equal and respected member.
This would have happened sooner
or later had we never fought with
Spain, for all modern problems are in
ternational. No country can live to
itself in our times. Problems of cur
rency, of labor, of markets, of immi
gration, are all world-wide. Even lit
erature has become a matter for the
world and not for special people. Not
Russia, but the whole civilized earth,
will celebrate the approaching anni
versary of Tolstoi. Ibsen is more at
home In Germany than In Norway.
Shakespeare has transcended the
boundaries of England and the Eng
lish language, just as Homer has
transcended Hellas, and now he be
longs to the world. Mr. Root said not
many months ago in a famous speech
that the state lines in our dual system
were fading away. He might have
said the same of the traditional
boundaries of the nations. For Kings
and politicians they still exist; but not
for capitalists, for scientists or for men
of letters. The great labor movement
i. strictly International. Hence we
say that the United States must soon
have entered the family of nations, and
abandoned what Mr. Roosevelt called
its "parochial policy," but the battle of
Manila broke the lethal enchantment
of the past at one stroke and set us
free to live in our own generation and
solve our own problems.
That the American conquest has
done sreat thlng3 for the Philippines
there can be no doubt. We have given
them free schools, an inland com
merce, land ownership and railroads.
Best of all, we have given them a local
Legislature, which is not without autonomy-and
initiative. To be sure, we
have Imposed upon them the shackles
of the Dlngley tariff, which have de
stroyed their sugar and tobacco in
dustries for the benefit of our sugar
and tobacco trusts; but on the otloer
hand this monstrous injustice has ap
preciably helped to break the bonds of
Dlngleyism at home and has brought
the day of commercial freedom nearer
for everybody. The industrial suffer
ing of the Filipinos has been in a sense
vicarious. Out of it will come liberty
for all Industry. Broadly considered,
although our rule in the islands has
done much for them, it has done more
for ourselves.
Shallow speculators may attribute
the moral and political ferment which
disturbs the country and threatens old
wrongs with dissolution to Mr. Roose
velt, or to popular fickleness, or to the
labor unions, or to the Socialists, but
the truth is that the real reason for it
is to be sought in the definite break
with the past which occurred at the
close of the Spanish War. The primi
tive period of our history then closed
forever and a new one opened. The
problems of the past were laid aside.
The problems of the future were taken
up. In acquiring trans-marine prov
inces we abandoned the policy of
Washington. His counsels were put
out of court. They had served their
purpose, we decided. Something
greater and better must be devised for
the generations to come. But In aban
doning the political counsels of Wash
ington we also abandoned the whole
fetichlstlc scheme of adoration of our
provincial, narrow, timid past and be
came as men boldly facing the great
future and seizing upon its problems
with emancipated energy. Such has
been the history of all nations. The
same thing happened to England after
the destruction of the Spanish armada,
to Greece after the battle of Salamis,
to France after the early victories of
her peasant commanders over the al
lied armies on the frontier, and to
Japan after the defeat of China. His
tory repeats itself, though there Is di
versity in the tale, too. The outburst
of national life which was the natural
fruit of the Spanish War has only be
gun. We may reasonably expect mar
vels from it In the years to come, some
miracle of justice, some prodigy of
righteousness. America will evolve a
national life unlike what the world has
seen before and better than humanity
has dared to hope for. In celebrating
the tenth anniversary of Dewey's vic
tory let us all be optimists.
EASING THE TAX LOAD.
Oregon voters are asked by single
taxers to enact a law next month ex
empting from taxation dwelling
houses, barns, machinery and manu
facturing establishments, livestock and
farm Improvements. These are classes
of property most liable to spoliation
by thieves. and miscreants and a for
eign enemy. Tet by the terms of the
proposed enactment, such property is
to contribute nothing toward the
maintenance of the courts, the police
and the militia. Land offers no such
temptations to thieves or mobs or in
cendiaries or a foreign enemy as per
sonal property and improvements do,
yet under the proposed measure land
would be taxed for their protection.
The most equitable method is taxa
tion of all property. None better has
been invented. Re-enactment of the
$300 tax exemption is the most prac
tical way of easing the tax burden on
farmers and small home-owners. Per
sons who feel the heavy load of per
sonal tax should look to that exemp
tion as the best means of relief. Pay
ment of taxes is always an unpleasant
necessity. One of the places where the
load is heavy is in the home of the
couple Just starting in life. Before
marriage neither the woman nor th
man pays taxes. Afterward the As
sessor finds their few household be
longings. This tax is contrary to pub
lic policy. The advantage should not
exist on the side of bachelors and
spinsters. The J300 tax exemption
would encourage homebuilders. It
would satisfy much of the discontent
that is crowding the single-tax camp.
MR. METCAI.I-S MISTAKE.
The explanation which Mr. Hodson
brings rfom Washington for failure of
the battleship fleet to visit Portland
discloses that it was not malice, but
ignorance dense, inexcusable ignoiv
ance- that prevented the vessels from
being ordered to Portland. Mr. Hod
son states that Admiral Evans and
Secretary Metcalf "went out of their
way to prepare statistics showing that
such a side trip would be fraught with
danger." This may be true, for in no
other manner would it be possible to
prepare such statistics. But the sta
tistics on which Portland based her
contention that nearly all of these
battleships could come to this city In
safety were not secured by "going out
of the way," nor were they cooked up
and doctored for the occasion. The
difference between "mean draft" and
"cruising draft" was perfectly well un
derstood by the river and bar pilots,
who were and are ready and willing to
bring the vessels to Portland In safety.
If Mr. Metcalf was more familiar with
the "draff of his vessels he would not
have put forward so flimsy an excuse
for their non-appearance here.
No one who is at all familiar with
the subject believes for one moment
that these battleships are poking along
the Pacific Coast with' bunkers filled to
their maximum capacity, for the pur
pose of putting the ships down into
the water to their "cruising draft."
Some of the deepest-draft .vessels of
the fleet, when coaled for a voyage of
from 3000 to "4000 miles, draw as
much as 27 feet, but before they
steam one-half of that distance they
have lightened the bunkers so that the
mean draft, if the' ship is well
trimmed. Is less than 25 feet, and for
the short journeys along the Pacific
Coast most of them would draw less
than 24 feet. The "cruising draft,"
when starting out for a 3000-mile run,
with bunkers filled to capacity, is ma
terially different from the "cruising
draft" of the same ship on a short run
from San Francisco for Puget Sound,
where the vessels are to fill their bun
kers. It requires no more water to float
a battleship drawing 24 feet of water
than is required for the huge, un
wieldy, bad-steering merchantmen
which come and go without delay,
drawing 26 feet Of water. The pilots,
who are in better position than any
one else to decide the' matter, much
prefer handling a battleship of 25 feet
draft than a merchantman of even
smaller draft, for the reason that the
battleships are all twin-screw vessels,
and, in event of damage to the rudder,
can be handled by the propellers;
while, if anything happens to the rud
der, on the ordinary tramp steamer,
she is immediately helpless. It is
gratifying to learn, 'however, that It Is
Ignorance of conditions, and not mal
ice or deference to the "knocking" of
rival ports, that has caused this act
of Injustice. '
It lends encouragement to the be
lief that.some day, in some way, short
of a surgical operation, a little plain,
ordinary, every-day common sense
can' be injected into the system of the
Navy Department autocrats. Mr. Met
calf may be a very bright lawyer.
The. facility with which he filed
"cruising draft" as a demurrer to
"mean draft" points quite clearly to
ability of high order in the art of
making "the worst appear the better
reason"; but it will never satisfy the
people of Portland, who are familiar
with the cold facts in the case, and
vho will always prefer them to any
Navy Department theories. Portland
Is no longer a shoal-water port, and it
will require something more than the
ukase of Mr. Metcalf to make it so.
BERNARD SHAW AND COLLIER'S
WEEKLY.
Between the redoubtable George
Bernard Shaw and the estimable Col
lier's Weekly a very pretty quarrel has
broken out. The Oregonian mentions
the difficulty not to take sides, which
might be dangerous considering the
tempers of the belligerents and their
love for a good fight, but merely to
explain what It is about. Collier's has
been offering prizes from time to time
for short stories. On one occasion
George Bernard Shaw sent in a story
which won the prize for that quarter,
and a tidy check for $1000 was duly
dispatched to the famous wit. Most
people would have been pleased to get
such a check on almost any terms, but
Mr. Shaw is not like most people. The
principal part of his fame is grounded
on being different. He chose to be of
fended a t the idea that Collier's should
suppose him to be base enough to
compete for a prize, and returned the
check with a scornful letter suggesting
that P. F. Collier & Son use the thou
sand dollars to erect a tombstone for
themselves.
Thus the story runs as rehearsed in
Collier's Weekly, but we fancy there
is something more to it. Shaw seems
to be decidedly averse to competing
for prizes, and, being a rich man, he
does not need to do what he does not
like. Hence the chances are that he
was inveigled into the competition by
some of those subtle arts which Col
lier's knows well enough how to prac
tice for advertising purposes. If that
was the case, his anger is fairly well
explained, and It does not appear to be
very wicked. Shaw is a man of pretty
sound sense who feels a rather uncom
mon desire to do. the right thing by
those less fortunate than himself. One
may guess, therefore, that he was will
ing to let the prize go to somebody
who needed it more than he did.
Perhaps also he was not proud of
the company in which his story ap
peared. The short story of our time
is about the most insipid literary prod
uct. the world has ever seen. Even to
look at the titles of the weary things
in the magazines gives one a head
ache, and few would read them with
out heavy compensation. But of all
the short stories which are published
it is safe to say that Collier's are the
worst. They reach a pitch of dreary
idiocy which nobody can conceive of
unless he tries to read one of them.
Nobody who values his sanity should
try to read two. Shaw's story was
about "Aerial Football." Whether it
was better than Collier's average we
cannot remember, but it could .not
have been much worse. Since it won
the prize, we should conclude that it
must have been a miracle of dullness
were it not for the fact that Shaw's
name has advertising value.
If George Bernard was entrapped
into the competition he has The Ore
gonian's condolences, though he does
not need them. In all this wide world
we know or nobody better able to take
good care of himself and his rights
than the author of "Mrs. Warren's
Profession." If Collier's has wronged
him, strength to his arm and valor to
his soul is our prayer. It might add
to his vigor if he could know that he
is avenging others' wrongs as well as
his own, for in the matter of outrag
ing rights when it can be done safely.
Collier's is by no means without sin.
THE READY PISTOL.
The pistol vice, like other vices of
men, is readily transmitted to boys of
immature years. The story . comes
from Roslyn, Wash., of a quarrel be
tween two lads, one of 11 and the
other of 15 years, which culminated
in the shooting of the former by the
latter, death resulting instantly. . The
youthful murderer, still following the
example of older criminals, fled, still
carrying his pistol, determined, most
likely, since he is an apt pupil in the
school of ungoverned passion, to sell
his liberty dearly.
For the fate of the poor little lad
who was first bullied and then in his
helplessness killed by a boy much
older and stronger than himself, there
can only be pity and regret. For the
ungoverned youth who was first so
cowardly as to enter into bitter con
tention . with the child and then so
cruel as to deprive him of his life, pity
and horror and amazement are at
strife. Such an act can only be ex
plained by the force of example and
the conditions of a pitiless environ
ment. 1
Natural depravity formerly entered
into, a problem of this kind and was
indeed its chief factor. But humanity
has grown wiser, and, except in ex
treme cases, like that of Jesse Pom
eroy, whom baffled science named a
pervert, the boy who goes wrong Is
found Xo be the victim of environment
rather than heredity; of neglect rather
than 'Inherent viciousness, and of bad
example rather than. an inborn spirit
of lawlessness. This boy is, of course,
unfit to be at large in any community.
He must be pursued and caught and
punished. But let no man who habit
ually carries a pistol in a civilized
country sit in judgment upon him,
since by this very fact proof pre
sumptive at least of murderous intent
upon self-adjudged provocation he is
barred from rendering a just verdict
In the premises. The man with a pis
tol ready to his hand Is not a mur
derer chiefly because the provocation
for which he is looking has not come
his way.
-
In the opinion of Premier Price, of
South Australia, Great Britain should
prepare to resist the yellow man's in
vasion of that province by force if
diplomacy fails to accomplish this ob
ject. In a recent address before the
Liverpool Produce Exchange the Pre
mleT expressed the hopethat every
man in Australia under thirty would
learn how to use a rifle, to the end
that he might be effective In resisting
such an invasion when.it comes to
that. He furthermore warned the'
home government that It could not
keep the country In a prosperous con
dition, . or maintain political and in
dustrial supremacy over it by merely
"flying the flag over it." This, from
a conservative Englishman, or one
who was conservative before he went
to Australia, discloses the fact that
sentiment against the yellow men in
connection with the social and indus
trial life of white peoples, Is not con
fined to the Pacific Coast of the United
States. It gives a new emphasis to
Kipling's estimate of the "white-man's
burden" as represented in dealing with
the newly awakened hordes of Ori
ental countries whom he designates as
"half devil and half child."
The orange crop shipped from
Southern California this season will
aggregate 40,000 carloads, exceeding
by a third the shipments of last year.
Growers are conservatively figuring
that the 'sales will approximate in
value $7,000,000. The total shipments
from Southern California citrus groves
up to April 22 were 16,16$ carloads of
oranges and 2005 carloads of lemons.
A golden harvest truly, and one which,
like the yearly increasing bulk of the
apple crop, shows a steady gain in the
consumption of fruit, the supply of
which scarcely keeps pace with the
demand. Like . the ever-present po
tato, fruit In some form Is found upon
the tables-of a vast majority of Amer
icans, laborers Included, every day for
at least three-fourths of the year, and
three times a day in many homes
during the fruit ripening season. Its
substitution for meat among the in
telligent classes, especially in feeding
children, may well be accounted a
gain to civilization.
A prominent automobile manufac
turer says that within ten years the
idle rich will be indulging in airship
parades and aerial navigation, with
cars propelled by gasoline motors, and
the automobile will have been rele
gated to a position strictly utilitarian.
This reads encouragingly, for, under
such a change in conditions, the com
mon people, who must still travel
afoot, will not have their lives con
stantly menaced by brainless idiots
who drive through the streets at ter
rific speed in big autos bought with
the money that papa made by hard
work. The aerial programme also of
fers great possibilities for ridding the
earth of some of the dead timber that
now clogs the social system, for when.
Reggie and Algernon meet in a head
on collision a few thousand feet up in
the air, they will be ' harmless when
they reach the earth again.
The Astorlan, with a fine exhibition
of returning reason, has discovered
that The Oregonian is in favor of a
deep channel over the Columbia bar.
It also seems to have learned at last
that any improvement to the bar can
not fail to benefit Portland much more
than it will benefit Astoria. Now that
our eccentric friend at the mouth of
the river has at last acknowledged
that The Oregonian is right in its de
mands for river improvement, we may
expect cessation of this eternal
"knocking" on the part of the com
munity represented, or perhaps mis
represented, by the Astorlan.
When The Oregonian announced the
news of the determination of the Ore
gon Electric to extend its lines Jn the
Willamette Valley by building over
200 miles of new track, the Salem
Journal exclaimed: "More paper rail
roads." So you call that fifty miles of
the best road in Oregon a "paper rail
road," do you? Or. are you Just
"knocking"?
State Fair next September. Select
a few of your most promising fruits
and vegetables, poultry and other live
stock, and give them a little extra care
so that you will have something worth
placing on exhibition when the annual
event takes place.
When he was a candidate for nomi
nation for the office of State Treasurer
two years ago Mr. Steel advertised "I
am not a banker." If he had added
"But I have a friend who Is," the vot
ers would have been so much the
wiser.
It begins to look as though the vote
for the university appropriation bill
will be almost unanimous, as it should
be. If you Want the appropriation to
become effective, mark your ballot be
tween the number and the word "yes."
While sympathizing with Japan
over the loss of a training-ship by an
explosion, we cannot help but feel that
the accident shows that our own mis
haps have not been due entirely to
carelessness or lack of ability.
Senator Bourne will probably forget
the loss of the State Central Commit
tee if he can only control the conven
tion. But if he should lose the con
vention well, excuses from Mr.
Young would be in order.
Bailey, of Texas, has a lot of trouble
convincing his constituents that his
relations with the oil trust were on
the square. But, since Texas is begin
ning to know Senator Bailey, it is get
ting suspicious.
The Fairbanks boom has marched
across the Ohio River and grabbed
two Kentucky .delegates. Something
had to be done to offset Foraker's for
midable pair of MissiBsippians.
Somehow it would seem that Sena
tor Bourne's great second elective
term campaign had not made a hit
with the Republicans of Oregon.
Mr. Lytle isn't excited by the pros
pect of a competing line to Tillamook
and will take his time about building.
He means Mr. Harriraan's time. .
Whatever may be the uncertainty
about where Raddlng and the Way
mire woman are, it is perfectly certain
that they are not in jail.
Governor Hughes "will stay In the
Presidential race to the finish." Fin
ish appears to be the right word.
Thank goodness there is no mud. in
the streets on the first day that the
cars stop' on the "near side."
The rosea will ' bloom Just as fair
without ' the battleships.
O. A. C. IXE SCORES VICTORY
Defeats the Willamette University
- Team, 8. to 4.
SALEM. Or.. April 30. (Special.)
( Oregon, Agricultural College defeated
Willamette university at Daseoan iu
day by a score of 8 to 4. The game
was an' interesting one and the teams
more evenly balanced than the score
Indicates. No run had been made till
the third inning, when Willamette's
pitcher walked Rooper home. Then'
his . whole team got excited and went
to pieces. Corvallls had no trouble
making hits and registered seven runs
that inning, Poff batting a good three
bagger, which a fumble made a home
run. v " .- .
After that Willamette settled down
and good bail was played on both sides
till the seventh Inning, when the Ag
rics broke down and gave the local
team its score. Nace made, a good hit,
which , brought in two men, and Im
mediately after Doege sent 'the ball
through center field, bringing in Nace
and. getting home himself by aid of
a fumble. In the ninth inning Looney,
Corvallls,' made as three-base hit and
got home on a hit by Francis.
The attendance waa fair and the
demonstration Immense when 'Willam
ette scored Its four runs in quick suc
cession. The batteries: Agricultural College,
Rooper and Otto Moore; Willamette,
Jerman and Unruh.
Willamette and Albany College will
play here tomorrow afternoon.
CAVBT SALOOX CASES TJP
District Attorney "Will Make Final
Deposition at Early Date.
OREGON CITY, Or., April 30. (Special.)
District Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges an
nounced thjs afternoo.i tliat the Canby
saloon case would be brought up at early
date for final disposition In the Circuit
Court. In the case against H. K. Tack
leson, the jury disagreed at the trial at
tho special term of court in January.
James Jesse was convicted and fined $300
and sentenced to serve six months in Uie
County Jail, but his attorney asked for
time in which to file a bill of exceptions
preparatory to perfecting an appeal to
the Supreme Court, but It is probable
that no appeal will be taken. Ben Ber
mosher and his barkeeper, Peter Holberg,
entered a plea of guilty and were fined
S175 each.
These four men were arrested following
the death of young Charles Klnzel, at
Canby, last Fall. Klnzel was with a
party of boys who obtained beer and
whisky at the Canby saloons and he was
left in a drunken condition in a barn,
where he was strangled. The case aroused
Intense excitement in this county, and
particularly at Canby, and at the muni
cipal election following the tragedy the
town went dry and there has been no
saloons there since.
FROST PROVES 5IOXEY-SAVER
Helps to Thin OverlQaded Frnit
Trees In Rogue River Valley.
GRANTS PASS, Or., April 30. (Special.)
The frost reported in Southern Oregon
last week did not damage the fruit crop
of Grants Pass and Josephine County in
the Rogue River Valley as was at . first
supposed. A careful investigation and ex
amination of orchards in all sections of
the district points conclusively to the fact
that the fruit crop will be far above the
average, and that the unusual frost of
last Friday will save the orchardists
many hundred dollars for hand-thinning,
which, owing to the 'extraordinary bloom
of the trees this Spring, would have been
a considerable item of expense.
INSAXE, HE LEAPS TO DEATH
James WliiUington, Asylum Patient,
Commits Suicide.
SALEM, Or., April 30. (Special.)
James Whittington, a resident of Ba
ker City, committed suicide at 2
o'clock this afternoon by Jumping from
a stairway at the State Ineane Asylum.
He fell about 15 feet, striking- his head
and shoulders upon a concrete floor.
Whittington was brought to the asylum
about nine months ago, after he had
made several attempts at suicide at
home. He made two previous at
temnts at suicide here.
He was about 65 years old and leaves
a wife and several children.
Strike Gold in Centralia.
CENTRALIA, Wash., April SO.
(Special.) A second gold discovery
since work in constructing sewers In
Centralia commenced was made yes
terday by A. E. Strachan, manager of
the Perth Coal Mining Company. A
shovel full of gravel from the sewer
ditch in the alley back of his home
was panned and about $1.60 in gold
found. The gravel came from a depth
of about fifteen feet from the surface
of the ground.
The gravel in which the gold is
found is of glacial origin. There is
much "black sand" in it and a consid
erable quantity of platinum. Plans
are being discussed for the sinking
of a prospect hole.
Ugly Charges In Divorce Suit;
OREGON CITY, Or., April 30. (Special.)
The divorce suit of Elma Genini against
Tony Genini occupied the attention of the
Circuit Court today and was not com
pleted when court adjourned this after
noon. Mrs. Genini charges her husband
with cruel and inhuman treatment, while
he comes back with accusations that she
was criminally intimate with one Andy
Jeffery, whom he found with her in a hotel
in a Washington town and upon discovery
Jeffery fired several shots at the husband,
none of them taking effect. Jeffery and
Mrs. Genini were later arrested In Port
land and convicted In the Police Court,
The fight of the pair is really over the
possession of their little daughter, Sophia.
Cass Will Return to St. Louis.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.,
April 30. (Special.) Contract Surgeon
William E. Cass, United States Army, is
relieved from duty at Vancouver Bar
racks, Wash., and will proceed to his
home in St. Louis, and upon arrival re
port by letter to ,the Surgeon-General of
the Army for annulment of contract.
First Lieutenant William C. Stone.
Third Infantry, Fort Lawton. Wash.,
having been found by an Army retiring
board incapacitated for active service on
account of disability Incident thereto, and
such finding having been approved by the
President to , take effect August 18, 1908,
the retirement of Lieutenant Stone from
active service on that date is announced.
Inhuman Mother Sheds No Tears.
BAKER CITY, Or., April 30. (Special.)
Mrs. 'Clara Lakey, charged with the
death of her new-born babe, which she
threw into a closet at Huntington yes
terday, admits that the child was hers,
but claims it was still-born. She has
not shed a tear nor shown any sign of
repentance. She has been separated
from her husband for six months and
has been In Huntington only two weeks.
She Is under arrest, to be tried at the
next term of court.
Delegates From Cathlamct.
CATHLAMET. Wash.. April 30.
(Special.) At the Republican prim
aries held here yesterday to elect del
egates to the county convention, the
following delegates were chosen: A.
D. Birnie, Thos. Irving, J. R. Burke,
John Canavis, David West, E. S.
Snelling and H. E. Armstrong.
Initiative and Referendum
Measures
For the information of voters there will
be published on this page from day to day
brief summaries of the Initiative and refer
endum, measures to be submitted to the
people at the June election, together with
a ahort statement of the arguments for and
against each.
. . NUMBER 6.
A compulsory pass bill, enacted by the
lasf1 Legislature,"" will be before the peo
ple for their approval or rejection at the
general election, June 1. This bill was
passed by the Legislature, vetoed by the
Governor and then passed by the Legis
lature over the Governor's veto. The
referendum was then demanded upon it
by means of petitions prepared and cir
culated by the state Grange. The Grange
is leading the fight against the meas
ure. v
The bill provides that before any rail
road corporation may exercise the right
of eminent domain, It must file with the
Secretary ' of State a certificate granting
to -certain public officials free transporta
tion over .all the lines of the company in
Oregon, Tha -officers named In the bill
are the Governor, Secretary of State,
State Treasurer, Attorney-General, Super
intendent of Public Instruction, State
Printer, Oregon Dairy and Food Com
missioner, Game and Forestry Warden,
Fish Commissioner, State Health .Officer,
State Engineer, State Land Agent, the
members of the Legislative Assembly of
the State of Oregon, the Judges of the
Supreme Court of the State of Oregon, the
Circuit Judges," the Prosecuting Attor
neys and the County Judges and Sheriffs
of each county. .
This makes a list of over 200 officers
whom the railroads would be compelled
to carry free of charge at all times if
this bill should become a law. The ar
gument In favor of the bill is that since
the state confers upon railroad corpora
tions the right of eminent domain, that
is, the power to secure rights of way
by condemnation proceedings, the rail
roads should pay for this favor by carry
ing certain public officers free. Many
European governments require similar
grants. "
Against the bill It is argued that the
power of eminent domain Is one that
should be exercised only for the public
good and that the state should place no
price upon the right to exercise it. Fur
ther, it Is asserted that If It were proper
for the state to place a consideration upon
the exercise of the power of eminent do
main, the giving of transportation to
public' officials would be entirely inade
quate as remuneration. But the chief
argument against the bill' Is that It tends
to restore the evil system of passes which
existed In pregon for so many years and
which system was disapproved by an
overwhelming vote of the people in June,
1906, when an unqualified anti-pass bill
was given popular Indorsement. That
bill was Inoperative because of the ab
sence of an enacting clause but the rail
roads have observed its provisions.
It is asserted that if passes were pro
vided for public officials at all they should
be given only when the officer is travel
ing upon public business that persons In
office have no more right to free trans
portation than other persons while on
private business. Possession of free
passes would give persons in office a
great and unjust advantage in conduct
ing campaigns for re-election, an advan
tage tending to build up political machines
and enabling men to perpetuate them
selves in office. It is further asserted
that public officers are better paid than
most men in private life and they, if any
one, should be able to pay railroad fare.
Moreover, the giving of free transporta
tion to certain . persons merely shifts the
burden, for if part of the people ride free,
the rest of the people must pay a rate
sufficiently higher to - compensate the
company for the service it renders.
Eventually the people generally pay the
fare even If some of the people ride free.
Finally, it is argued that the officer who
rides free cannot maintain the same at
titude of mind toward a transportation
company as he would If he paid his fare
that he will be less ready to Insist upon
proper service than he would if he stood
in the same position as the ordinary trav
eler. Any Chance of Sidetracking Bryant
From a Democratic "Warhorse" of Indi
ana. "I do not, however, believe anything but
his death will prevent Mr. Bryan's nom
ination at Denver. Not very long ago I
heard one of the other candidates say the
same thing. Henry Watterson, whenlaBt
seen here, while radically opposed to
Bryan, believes that he is sure to be
nominated.
"There Is widespread rebellion against
him through the South, but It will die of
lack of a leader. New York will go unln
structed and almost as much opposed to
Bryan as the delegation was to Cleveland
In 1892, but New York alone does not
make nominations. My own state of In
diana at heart la against his theories
the Democrats who worked under Hen
dricks and McDonald and Voorhees but
there Is a new crowd In the saddle here
now, and they ride as Bryan directs. Il
linois is in line for him and I think he
will carry Ohio against Harmon. He la
still absolute master of the West, so much
so that at a recent banquet in the West
the guests cried down Mr. Harmon and
would not let him speak, they were so
anxious to hear Bryan.
"I have only to add that I do not be
lieve even hard times will elect Bryan if
he Is nominated. Nothing except a large
proportion of the labor vote being un
employed will give him a chance."
Restaurant on Wheels) Coata $3000.
Indianapolis News.
Ralph Richardson, of Madison, Wis.,
has a restaurant on wheels which cost
12000. The vehicle has stoves, chairs,
Is lighted by electricity and has a tele
phone. Cooking is done on a large
scale.
Town Marshal With Yearly ray.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
T. E. Bolton, Marshal of Kenmore,
O., despairing of having his salary of
$25 a year raised, has resigned.
From "New Ttaanatopefa."
Dr. William H. Holcombe In "Southern
"Voices."
In gloom and darkness was the poet lost
Who calls this earth the mighty tomb of
man:
Tis but his temporary habitation, s
Hie cradle and his school of discipline
The dark, cold ground in which the seed Is
sown.
That, struggling upward, slowly germinates
Until It bursts into the shining air.
Not Christ alone has risen, but all have
risen:
The atone is rolled from every sepuchre;
Tho grave has nothing It can render back.
When wo ascend to our eternal homes
We leave no living fragment of ouxBelves.
We do not pass from nature to the grave;
But nature is our grave, from which we rise
At seeming death, our real resurrection
Into the world of spirits. And the tomb.
With all lis grief and tenderness and
shadow.
Is the creation of our sluggish minds.
By kindly memories and sweet suggestions.
To cherish and prolong the love of friends.
Gone, but not lost; unseen, but nearer still.
In beauty and In glory, to our life.
Which lives In God, immortal as himself.
Advertising Talks
No. 16
The Man Who Retreats
Before His Defeat!
By Herbert Kaufman.
Advertising isn't magic. There ia
no element of the black art about it.
In its best and highest form it is
plain talk, sane talk selling talk.
Its results are in proportion to the
merit of the subject advertised and
the ability with which the advertising
is done.
There are two great enemies to ad
vertising profit, and both of them
are caused by ignorance of the real
functions and workings of publicity.
The one is 'to advertise promises
which will not be fulfilled, because
all that advertising can do when it
accomplishes most, is to influence the
reader of your copy to investigate
your claims.
If you promise the earth and de
liver the moon advertising will not
pay you.
If you draw men and women to
your store on pretense and fail to
make good, advertising will have
harmed you because it has only
drawn attention to the fact that you
are to be avoided.
It is as unjust to charge advertis
ing -with failure under these condi
tions as it would be for your neigh
bor to rob a bank and find yourself
indicted for his misdeed, In brief,
advertising dishonesty is even more
profitless than unexplolted deception.
The other great error in advertis
ing is to expect more out of advertis
ing than there is in it.
Advertising is seed which a merch
ant plants in the confidence of the
community. He must allow time for
it to grow. Every successful adver
tiser has to be patient. The time that
it takes to arrive at results rests en
tirely with the ability and determina
tion you display in the effort. But
you cannot turn back when you have
traveled half way and declare that
the path is wrong.
You can't advertise for a week and
Because your store isn't crowded say
it hasn't paid you. It takes a cer
tain period to attract the attention
of readers'. Everybody doesn't see
what you print the first time it ap
pears. More will notice your copy
the second day, a gTeat many more at
the end of a month.
You cannot expect to win the con
fidence of the community to the same
degree that other men have obtained
it without taking pretty much the
same length of time that they did.
But you can cut short the period be
tween your introduction to your
reader and his introduction to your
counters by spending more effort in
preparing your copy and displaying
a greater amount of convincingness.
You mustn't act like the little girl
who planted a garden and came out
the next day expecting to find it in
full bloom. Her father had to ex
plain to her that plants require roots
and that, although she could not see
what was going on, the seeds wore
doing their most important work just
before the flowers showed above
ground.
So advertising is doing its roost
important work before the big re
sults eventuate, and to abandon the
money which has been invested just
before results arrive is not only fool
ish, but childish. It .would be just
as logical for a farmer to abandon
his fields because he could not har
vest his corn a week after he planted
it.
Advertising does not require faith
merely common sense. If it is be
gun in doubt and deserted before
normal results can be reasonably
looked for, the fault does not lie with
the newspaper or with publicity it
rests entirely upon the head of the
coward who retreated before he waa
defeated.
INTENDED FOR SENATOR BOURNE?
One More Declaration on the Subject
of a Third Terra.
New York Sun.
The following dispatch from "Washing
ton was printed yesterday in the Publlo
Ledger of Philadelphia:
The President's positive and third-term
declaration made at a private dinner tlie
other night In the presence of representa
tives of foreign nations and other prominent
people la becoming known and exciting in
terest. He declared with measured delibera
tion and great poeitlveness thut he waa n..t
a candidate now for the Presidency: that ho
would not consider the nomination If It were
offered, nor accept It If It were given him
by the convention.
By way of emphasis, In order that there
should be no chance for a misunderstanding,
he declared with heat that the question waa
not discussable, and that the mere suggestion
that he Is now a candidate or could become
a candidate was a grave and studied Ineult.
The persona who heard the declarattonhave
no longer a shadow of a doubt, and others
who believe that the President Is not to be
considered think that the antics of Senator
Bourne; of Oregon, In sedulously booming the
President are simply the hysterical efforts of
a persistent notoriety seeker to attract at
tention to himself.
Intended for Bourne? Oh, no; we
think not. That Irrepressible, Irrespon
sible, ridiculous person has braved for
so long the President's honest indigna
tion In the matter of the third term that
he is practically Immune. Jonathan
Bourne's grave and studied Insult is con
tinuous and tolerated.
If the rebuke was administered as re
ported In the foregoing narrative, we take
It that It was Intended directly and ex
clusively for the Hon. James Schoolcraft
Sherman, of Utica, member of the ruling
oligarchy of the House of Representatives
and unlmpassloned Hughes boomer In the
interior counties of New York.
Chicken Thief Locks Sheriff In Jail.
Philadelphia Record.
A chicken thief In the Huttonsvllle, Pa.,
jail. Inducing Sheriff Thomas, to go In'
side a vacant cell, Ioi-ked him up and.
dressing himself In the Sheriff's best
clothes, drove to the house of a deacon,
where he represented himself to be a
friend of Thomas, saying the officer
couldn't "get away from the Jail at pres
ent." Wall of Small ColIeRe Towns.
New York Herald.
"How shall we keep the young men in
the small towns?" asks a Western collrsa
president. "Very easy, professor; keep
the girls there."