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I"OKTLA-I. MONDAY. MAY 4. 1908.
"THE KNIFE" IV TOUTICS.
WhaW-ver doubts or apprehensions
there may be among the Kepublicans
of Oregon as to the result in the state
four weeks hence- have arisen directly
from the conduct of Republicans them
selves. Through petty enmities and
contemptible rivalries they have slain
their party in the state. A very large
faction for years has been putting the
knife Into the vitals of the party
their chief motive being that of resent
ment because they were not able to
control it. This has let Democrats
Into leading official positions in the
state and given their party a prestige
which now enables it to contest hope
fully for the United States Senatorship,
and encourages the thought and be
lief that the.state in November may be
thrown to Bryart.
It has not boon a contest over prin
ciples within the Republican) party.
The work of disintegration and demo
lition began with the defeat of Fur
nish by politicians and their personal
adherents, In revenge for what they
chose to regard as "Bill's trespass" on
their own demesnes. Kurnish had been
a Democrat, and this was excuse
enough. The real reason was the dis
appointed purposes of a faction. The
most eminent man of Oregon was
JIayor of Portland. He likewise fell
a victim; and the next Republican
candidate for the office of Governor
shared the same fate. So did other
Republican candidates for important
offices. The plea was entered that in
all this there was "no politics," it was
no "party matter." It was party sui
cide, all the same.
But if there is "no party," if there
is "no politics," in the chief official
positions of the state, there is none in
the office of United States Senator, or
even of President. It is through par
ty and political effort that means are
. found of obtaining the leading official
positions; and it Is through these po
sitions that one political or party pol
icy can be enforced, as against any
other. Those Republicans, therefore,
who have been' so persistently helping
Mr. Chamberlain to be Governor have
been helping him also to be United
States Senator; and they have been
making conditions also that may give
the electoral vote of the state to Bryan.
Kor free and easy movement in poli
tics, set agoing, cannot be held as the
exclusive prerogative of the faction
that habitually appeals to It when
things are not to its liking. The habit
spreads, and example provokes retal
iation. For years the chief feature of
Republican politics in Oregon has. been
the use of "the knife"; and probably
our wieiders of the political bolo will
not have done their perfect work till
the Republican party is reduced to
buch extremity that nobody will wish
to contest for the honor of sacrifice
to Its war god, upon its altars.
To support the argument for "inde
pendent" action, regardless of party,
it has been persistently asserted that
there are no differences now between
the parties which should incline the
citizen to maintain his old allegiance.
If the differences of character and his
tory and general tendencies of parties
are forgotten or put aside, this may be
mainly true. And we are constantly
told that all considerations of this
character are obsolete; that it is use
less to speak of the merits or demerits
of one party or another as to matters
that have passed into history. Let all
that go. But there are some who have
been accustomed to think that the his
tory of parties throws light on their
present character and their present
tf ndencies, and therefore on what may
be expected of them hereafter. All
this, however, is now ruled out. Men
flaugh, or gibe, when you talk of it.
If, then, the historic courses of our
parties are po longer to be a factor or
guide for further association and ac
tion in and through party; if we are
to break with the past wholly and re
ject it as any sort of guide for the
present and future, there is no need,
of course, of maintaining any party
under Its old designation, or of calling
oneself a Republican or a Democrat.
To "vote for the man" means) that you
are to put away from you every con
sideration except your own private
likes or dislikes, or your thought pr
judgment as to the efficiency of one
candidate or another for the particu
lar "work you have marked out for the
official, in the position for which he is
named. That eliminates from politics
all higher or ultimate principle. But
it seems to be the order of the day.' It
is the rule of materialism and of com-'
monplace in politics, to which' all ef
forts to maintain honorable and effect
ive party organization- have been
brought by the sicarii of party faction.
The art of slitting political weasands,
and of delivering fifth-rib stabs, is
hardly yet satisfied with its achieve
ments, wonderful as they have been;
for perhaps only about one-half the
Republicans of Oregon have yet had
a hand at it.
PARTY PLATFORMS THIS YEAR.
What will the party 'platformss this
year contain? The Democratic party
will wish to escape from its past; the
Republican party is likely to dwell
very much on its past, and to meet
too little the demands of the present
time.
One thing Is apparent. The Demo
cratic party is turning away from its
old contention against centralized gov
ernment, and is willing to go about as
far as the Republican party in asser
tion of the right and authority and
power of the National Government
over all things deemed essential to
the public welfare.
Thus the old contention of parties
over state vs. National authority, and
relative rights and powers, has' vir
tually been settled in favor of the
views of the old Federalists, and
against those of Jefferson's State Sov
ereignty Democracy. This is the log
ical outcome, first, of the Civil War,
and next, of the tendency of indus
trial and commercial forces toward
consolidation.
The Democratic party now concedes
that the General Government shall do
pretty much everything that formerly
it held was unconstitutional and whol
ly beyond the functions of the central
government. It now calls for regula
tion of commerce between the states,
for improvement of waterways, for
regulation and extension of the Na
tional banking system, for control of
combinations of capital, for pushing
schemes for irrigation and reclama
tion of lands, and lt'even debates ship
subsidies, with some manifestation of
disposition to grant them. On the tar
iff question it is divided; for many
parts of the country it is as earnest
in support of protection, at least as
a partial system, as Republicans are
for support of it as a general system.
Between the parties, therefore, we
shall have no clean-cut line of divis
ion this year. The platforms will be
platitudinous one of them talking
about the glories of the era of Lin
coln, the other about the glories of
the era of Jefferson, and either plat
form capable of construction one way
or another on .most questions of the
present time.
One thing, however, is very appar
ent, namely, the disappearance of the
old fear of centralization, and the gen
eral triumph of the principles of Ham
ilton over those of Jefferson that is,
of the idea of one sovereignty over
many or instead of many, and consol
idation in many ways more firm than
even Hamilton could have imagined.
A PREDICTION RECALLED.
The New York Times reprints from
Its issue of June 2, 1856, a real estate
article, in which a great future for
the City of New York was predicted.
It is strange now, yhowever, from the
fact that the reality has so enormously
exceeded the calculation. The writer
said:
Plant the point of a pair of dividers on the
cupola of the Ulty Hall and draw a olrcle
with the outer edge of the Battery for its
extent and It will be found to Include within
It a section of the island which will be suf
ficient for the .business purposes of this
metropolis during the next 00i years.
Yet this would carry the business
section of New York scarcely half way
up to Union Square; and the business
section in one-tenth of 500 years is
now miles above that. Again, verti
cal construction has- increased the
down-town area three- to five-fold.
Who can guess what the achieve
ment of Portland will fce in the next
fifty years? AH our principal cities
o-n the Pacific Coast are sure of a
growth corresponding with that of the
East and of the Middle West in the
former time. The momentum of their
growth Is but just now beginning to be
observed, in a striking manner. Spe
cific prediction is not necessary. For
however enthusiastic, it could hardly
exceed the mark; more probably would
fall below It. Portland may not be
come the greatest city in the Pacific
States, but it will be great. It is great
already. The future of every one of
the leading cities of the Pacific Coast
it is scarcely possible to overestimate.
The 'prediction of the New York Times,
flfty'years ago, compared with present
realities, may give some idea of what
will occur in cities of the Pacific Coast
in fifty years the continent to draw
upon for boundless production and the
ocean for commerce. Moreover, the
forces of the present time move events
with a rapidity far exceeding that of
the movements fifty or even twenty
years ago.
A MATTER NOT WHOLLY OF FltirRKS.
Commissioner Darlington, of the de
partment of public health of New York
City, reports for the period from Jan-,
uary 1 to April 1 of the current year
the' lowest death rate ever known in
that city for the corresponding quarter
of a, year, and the very highest birth
rate on record for a like period. Spe
cifically, there were 20,309 deaths, or
nearly 7000 per month, and more than
200 every day, yet the death rate was
only 18.43 for every one thousand of
the population. For the past ten years
the death rate of the great city for the
first quarter of the year ha3 averaged
20.52 to the'thousand. , .
The lower rate of the recent period
is regarded as specially significant of
Improved sanitary conditions over
those of past years. Climatic condi
tions were similar to those of former
years the weather being far from
mild and subject to sudden and pro
nounced changes. These things being
true, the Health Commissioner of New
York is justified in "pointing with
pride" to the Jower death rate of the
present year as shown by the records
in his ' office, since it may fairly be
attributed to better sanitary conditions
of streets and interiors, and the fact
that the average family and in-dividual
are much better informed in sanitary
matters than was the case, a decade
ago, and decidedly more careful in the
matter of health protection.
Another interesting item in this
quarterly presentment of vital statis
tics of the great city is what the New
York Commercial calls the "superb
birth rate" for the time covered, 32,655
babies having been born in Greater
New York during the period noted,
while the average for the past ten
years has been about 23,000 quarterly.
Still another is the slump in the mar
riage market, as shown by only 9557
marriages -for the quarter, against 11,
750 a year ago. The practical eco
nomic domestic and semi-scientific in
struction in the schools is regarded by
the journal quoted as the possible
cause of the better sanitary conditions
that are plausibly accredited with the
decreased death rate, but it is unable
to account for the other conditions
noted, saying:
. What shall we say of the slump In the
New York marriage market only &.57 for
the quarter as against 11.750 a year ago?'
Does the big boom in births discourage
people from entering the marriage state? Or
do the practical lines of school Instruction
above referred to tend to keep the boys'
and the girls' fancies away from "thoughts
of love" ? Or is it actually happening that
an Increasing number of people have not
money enough to warrant marrying and as
many more haven't the necessary time for
it amid the multiplicity of "goings-on" in
this town?
The sad truth probably is that the
increased birth rate has not been sup
plied from the homes in which im
proved sanitary conditions are found,
and that among the 32,655 babies that
came wailing into the great city dur
ing the past three months there are a
large number to whom life will prove
anything but a boon to be desired or a
matter upon which humanity or the
state is to ' be congratulated. An in
creased birth rate can be "pointed to
with pride" and assessed as "superb"
only when it proceeds from awakened
civic and parental responsibility a
condition which is not by any means
assured by mere figures.
. FOR MUTUAL ADVANTAGE.
In an exceedingly pleasant and har
monious meeting at Lewiston Satur
day, in honor of the opening of tire
new railroad between Riparia and
Lewiston, the business men of the two
cities pledged mutual assistance in the
development of the great empire in
which both cities have such a vital in
terest. What the completion of that
road means to Portland, as well as to
Lewiston, cannot easily be compre
hended, for the possibilities are too
great for the average mind to grasp.
We do know, however, that the ener
gy and industry that have built two
such cities as Lewiston and Clarkston,
and within a dozen years have trans
formed a desert waste into a vast re
gion of wonderfully rich farms and
orchards, can show, with the improved
opportunities afforded by rapid tran
sit to the world's markets, results
even more remarkable than those al
ready accomplished.
"AH roads lead to Portland, whether
they come down the Snake,- the Clear
water, or from interior points, and in
the marvelous development of this
country, they will double the popula
tion of the metropolis." In such lan
guage, Mr. Libby, of Clarkston, at a
reception given the Portland visitors,
called attention to the impregnable po
sition of this port as the great trading
center at the foot of the downhill haul
to the sea. The loyalty of Lewiston
to Portland has never changed. The
two cities have had so much in com
mon that even the superior facilities
which- a railroad to Puget Sound pro
videdmany years before the building
of the Lewiston-RIparia branch was
completed, failed to weaken this loy
alty, although through necessity this
city lost some of the business.
With the newly completed facili
ties, all of the business that has been
lost wilj be regained, and in addition
there will be a phenomenal increase
In development following the new lines
to and beyond Lewiston. The water
lcvl grade is at last to receive its
long - overdue recognition, and the
roads now built or unde construc
tion, with the necessary feeders that
must follow, will cause pjractically all
of the traffic of the vast' Inland Em
pire to gravitate to Portland. The ex
cellent reports that are now being re
ceived from the bar indicate quite
clearly that the jetty is at last mak
ing an effective showing, and in a few
months the delays to which Portland
shipping has at times been subjected
will be ended. There is every assur
ance that by the beginning of the
next shipping season it will be possi
ble to get twenty-six-foot vessels in
and. out over the bar with no more
delay than Is now experienced in get
ting them up and down the river.
Now that the facilities have been
provided for bringing tthe traffic down
to tidewater more economically and
expeditiously, than it can be brougtit
to any other port on the' Pacific Coast,
Portland must make it a point to see
that no unnecessary charges are levied
against the shipping that comes here
to meet the traffic at the foot of the
water-level grade. We must be In a
position to guarantee to ships the.best,
possible towage service at no higher
rates than are charged at Puget Sound.
We must also make our pilotage rates
the same as prevail in competitive
ports, even though to accomplish this
reform it be necessary to repeal the
present ancient and unjust compul
sory pilotage law, and place the pilots
under the jurisdiction of some author
ity to correct the abuses in the service
which, in the past, have seriously in
jured the port. These reforms, how
ever, will not be difficult; for Port
land and the entire Northwest have
labored too long to bring the great
traffic of the Inland Empire into the
water-level groove, where there is the
least resistance, and the business will
not be slighted or driven away, now
that it is within our grasp.
KQUALITV BEFORE THE LAW.
A writer in the Saturday Evening
Post tells the story of a millionaire's
son who embezzled $50,000 of the
funds of a trust company in which lie
was interested, and who was "let off"
at the instance of his father. Three
months afterward a collector in the
employ of the same concern stole $150
from the money intrusted to him, and
he served four years in prison for the
crime. Officers charged with the duty
of enforcing the law let the greater
criminal escape because he had an in
fluential father and punished the less
er offender without thought of mercy.
Thus was the lie put upon the funda
mental doctrine that all men are cre
ated equal before the law. Thus was
the word passed out to young men
that if they would commit crimes at
all they should commit large ones, for
then their chance of escape would be
increased.
But that policy is not everywhere
observed. There are justifications
where the greatest effort is. made to
convict the greatest criminals and
where prosecuting officers do their
duty , regardless of persons or in
fluences outside the merits of a case.
Where statutes are thus fearlessly and
impartially enforced, respect for' law
is certain to become more general,
crimes of this character will decrease,
and there will be an absence of that
discontent which arises from a sense
of injustice imposed under the forms
of law.
The attitude of the prosecuting offi
cer toward a criminal is very likely to
be a reflection of the attitude of the
people who elect him and keep him
in office. If they are willing to con
done the offenses of rich offenders
while insisting upon the punishment
of small violators of the law, it may
be expected that the officer will Im
bibe the spirit of his surroundings.
If the people of a community con
tinue to honor and respect a wealthy
criminal, if they bow and scrape be
fore him, acting as though they
thought him a much abused, perse
cuted and unfortunate man, what else
can be expected than that the prose
cuting attorney will treat him In much
the same way? If an offender is
worthy of the company and confidence
of the best people of a community,
is he not too good a man to be brought
before a jury upon a charge of crime?
Practical justice and equality will be
attained in our courts when a sense of
justice and equality has found a per
manent resting-place in the minds and
hearts of the people.
A slight decrease In the surplus re
serves was- shown in the New York
bank statement Saturday, due largely
to shipments of gold to Europe and
the payment of over $3,000,000 Into
the Subtreasury. That the financial
institutions of the metropolis are still
glutted with money is shown by the
high percentage of the surplus reserve.
The requirements are but 25 per cent,
but the clearing-house banks now hold
29.80 per cent, the state banks 27 per
cent, and the trust companies 31.83
of their deposits. The clearing-house
banks' deposits aggregate $856,926,
500. It is thus apparent that there Is
on hand plenty of money. It is also
apparent that there are plenty of op
portunities for investing it. The one
missing link in this chain of favorable
features is the confidence of the pub
lic. Until that Is re-established, there
will be a surplus of capital and labor
and good times will be slow in returning.
With idle tonnage accumulating in
every port on the Pacific Coast and
new steam schooners, ordered when
the boom in freights was on a few
months ago, still being launched, the
situation is far from bright for the
shipowner. A steel steamer brought
from the Great Lakes, and easily
worth a year ago $75,000, was sold at
Aberdeen at receivers' sale Saturday
for $20,000, and a large number of
small stockholders have lost heavily.
The decline in the lumber business is
given as the cause of the trouble, and
.if this is true, it will tend to support
the contention of the railroads that it
is the decline in the lumber business,
and not the increase from a forty
cent rate, that is causing trouble for
so many of the mills. Not one-half
of the coastera available for the lum
ber trade, can find employment at
rates from one-third to one-half those
prevailing a year ago.
Mr. Armour Is endeavoring to cor
ner May wheat because the supply of
wheat available for delivery at that
time is short. Young Mr. Letter at
tempted the feat about ten years ago
and the Armour who is now engaged
in bulling the price of wheat Is a son
of the man who delivered so much
wheat to Leiter that he was unable to
pay for it, and It cost his father about
$10,000,000 to square up the shortage.
A similar fate is hardly likely to in
terfere with Mr. Armour's corner, for
available supplies of wheat are very
scanty, and even money cannot buy
deliverable wheat if the cereal does
not exist in .quantities sufficient to
meet the demand. As in the case of
the Leiter coup, it Is the farmer, who
has actual wheat to sell, who profits
by the high prices offered.
A great writer on the science of gov
ernment warns us not to look too
closely into origins. We shall be apt
to see things not to our liking. That
is why so many didn't like the meth
ods of Simon and Matthews, in their
respective heydays of political grand
eur. It was ring and machine rule.
But that kind of thing has been
cleaned out by reform; and now we
are not going to inquire too narrowly
into the manner in which the forty
seven delegates for Multnomah to the
Republican State Convention were ap
pointed, or who appointed them. There
is complaint. Indeed, but some people
will always be making trouble.
If the elector hasn't full knowledge
of the initiative and referendum meas
ures, or is in doubt about them, he
would do well to vote "No." "No" is
usually a mighty safe proposition.
That is to say, unless the time has
come for Oregon to have a universal
guffaw of Folly over the uses to which
"the new system" is forced by vari
ous groups of our population.
The Republican State Committee
asks the State Convention to send to
the National Convention delegates fa
vorable to Mr. Taft, and some of the
members are said to advise sending
Senator Bourne as a delegate, for har
mony's sake. If the State Convention
should instruct Mr Bourne for Mr.
Taft, would that make harmony?
Since our Democratic brethren
helped so powerfully to nominate the
Republican candidates, xwhy in the
name of all sincerity don't they turn in
and help to elect them? Since we have
got the primary law and initiative and
referendum, tvhy can't we have fair
dealing in politics?
Should Mr. Taft be the people's
choice for President, we need not ex
pect' Democratic Presidential electors
to vote for him.
Mr. Steel has shared the fortunes of
Mr. Ross a long time. Is their part
nership yet to continue?
Yesterday was one of those wet Sun
days, after rainy Easter, but only half
wet.
OREGON TANGLES ITSELF IP.
Remarks on the Pickle Into Wnk'h
Out State Haa Got Itself.
Washington (D. C.) Post.''
Oregon's attempt to overrule the
Constitution of the United States in the
matter of electing Senators has run
against a formidable political obstacle.
Primaries were held in that state the
other day, at which the people voted
for Republican and Democratic candl-'
dates for Senator. H. M. Cake, a Re
publican, and Governor Chamberlain, a
Democrat, received the highest num
ber of votes. The election will take
place in June, and the Republican will
run against the Democrat. Both are
"SUttmcnt No. 1 men" that is, they
approve of the Oregon plan of requir
ing all candidates for the Legislature
to pledge themselves to Statement No.
1, which requires members of the Leg
islature to vote for the Senatorial can
didate receiving the highest popular
vote, whether he be a Republican or a
Democrat.
Governor Chamberlain is one of the
most popular, men in Oregon, and is
likely to receive more votes than his
opponent. The Legislature, however,
is likely to be Republican by a large
majority. Foreseeing that party su
premacy may be upset by the new
fangled Popullstic referendum. Repub
licans are now abjectly begging Cham
berlain to withdraw, on the ground
that Cake received more votes than
he at the primaries. But Chamberlain
cannot see why he should refuse the
Senatorship at the hands of a Repub
Mcan Legislature, even if he is a Demo-,
crat.
The people of Oregon are apparently
willing; to have a Republican Legisla
ture and Democratic representation in
the Senate here. The vote reveals that
the people at the primaries look almost
entirely to the personality of candi
dates, and ignore political policies. The
most "magnetic" candidate has the best
chance of success. The Portland Ore
gonian, gazing over the field, asks
with a dazed expression "What was
the Republican primary for?" The peo
ple of Oregon will hardly be in con
dition to answer that question until
they have gotten Statement No. 1 out
of their system. But some of them
are already beginning to wonder
whether a mobocracy is all that it
seemed. If the Republican majority of
that state should find its will on Na
tional questions thwarted by a Demo
cratic Senator for six years, the lesson
may do seme good.
SETTLERS OS S. P. RAILROAD LA AD
If Latter la Forfeited, ' Saya Writer,
Only ( ongmn Can Act.
CATLIX, Wash, May 3. (To the
Editon) In recent Issues of three
newspapers of Portland, a warning ha
been sounded to settlers on 'Southern
Pacific Railroad lands that it is the
intention of the Department of Justice
that settlers on the lands shall acquire
no prior right to purchase by reason
of having settled thereon "prior to final
adjudication, and that the Attorney
General was expected soon to warn
settlers to that effect.
This seems strange at least that
Congress should pass a resolution au
thorizing the Attorney-General to en
force the terms of the granting act,
and that he should try to prevent the
fulfillment iof eaid terms, by warning
the settlers off the lands. It is also
quite as absurd that the Department
of Justice should, let it be known be
forehand that it would, if possible,
prevent the fulfillment of the terms of
the grant, thus proving itself a de
partment of injustice.
The fart is that, if the lands are for
feited. Congress and the Department
of the Interior will have the disposition
of them, and not the courts, nor the
Attorney-General.
A few of the settlers may be In
duced to abandon their Improvements
and quit their claims in disgust, but
there will be others ' to take their
places.
These settlers are hardy pioneers,
and, although they may not be compe
tent to grace a corporation attorney's
office, still they do their own thinking.
D. F. HOWARD.
"Pretty Woman la the Brat Sauce.''
iNew York Dispatch.
Georges August Escoffler is here. He is
the world's champion catch-as-cateh-can
chef, and the reporters were shocked to
hear him attack a great American institu
tionpie. He said that pie may be all
right for America, but that it wouldn't
do for la belle France.
A pretty woman sitting opposite a man
at dinner is, according to. Escoffler, the
best sauce obtainable. "Nozzjng zo mooch
to ze appetate adds," said he, "as une
belle femme at ze table."
Dining, according to the chef, is a fine
art. This is what he said about it:
"Much can be said of the art of dining.
One should e guided not only by in
clination, but by taste. One might say
there are dishes to' meet every mood.
One should not eat everything on a
menu that is, begin at the beginning
and run through the bill. Use discre
tion; use taste. It Is not a true gourmet
who will seek to eaf all solely because
of the opportunity to do so."
lee Water Fights Off Pneumonia.
Terre Haute Dispatch to Indianapolis
News.
Dr. M. R. Combs, one of Terre Haute's
best-known physicians. is recovering
from pneumonia, and the medical frater
nity say that his life was saved by heroic
treatment, of which there is no record of
a like case. - A freezing water bath was
given him at the moment he was thought
to be dying to shock the respiratory cen
ters and thus restore respiration. Cold
water baths in cases . of fever are fre
quently administered to lower the tem
perature, but Dr. Combs' temperature
was normal. He was kept In the bath
three hours. The ' death rattle ceased
after a short time following the Immer
sion and respiration soon became
stronger.
The entire staff of Union Hospital had
been Interested and assisted in the fight
for his life when, at the critical stage.
Dr. Niblack suggested the Ice water
bath.
t ' '
Britain Geta Our "Chesapeake Flan.
London (Eng.) Dispatch.
William Waldorf ABtor has presented to
the Royal United Services Museum the
flag of the American frigate Chesapeake,
captured by the British frigate Shannon
June 1, 1813, the bugle on which, accord
ing to accepted tradtion. the order for the
charge of the Light Brigade was sounded
at the "battle of Balaklava, October 25,
1854, and the medals of Trumpet Major
Joy, who sounded the charge. This is
tantamount to a gift to the nation, as
the museum is supported by the state.
It will be recalled that the trophies' were
sold at auction January 30. and were pur
chased by Mr. Partridge, who, it was
rumored, was comnussioned by an Ameri
can collector. Many regrets were then ex
pressed at their supposed loss to Great
Britain.
Editor Resents Interference.
Fort Collins (Colo.) Review.
The little fellows keep pecking away
at the editor of this paper because he
changes his political affiliations when
he pleases. We haven't time to notice
all of them singly, but some of these
days we will take a pot shot at the
bunch that will hit every polliwog in
the puddle.
Jilted Twice, and Marries la Spite.
Baltimore News.
George Petonak, of Marysville. 111., who
bad secured two marriage licenses and
been jilted, made sure the third time by
taking his sweetheart to the license
clerk, and the trio went to the office of
a Justice, where they were married.
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 short statement of the arguments for and
against, each.
NUMBER 7.
The measure commonly known as the
"Armory bill" and pending before the
people for adoption or rejection at the
June election, was passed by the last
Legislature and the referendum was de
manded thereon by petitions circulated
by the State Grange. The bill provides
an appropriation of $100,000 in four an
nual installments of $25,000 each for the
purchase of grounds and the construction
thereon of armories irf the several cties
of the state. Location and construction
of armories are to.- be under the control
of the State Military Board, and the
armories are to be located in cities
having military companies. The. 'build
ings are to be large enough for the
drilling of companies and the proper
storing of Government military supplies.
Military organizations using the armories,
are to pay to the State Treasurer, out
of their annual allowance, such rent as
the military board may fix.
The reasons urged in behalf of this
measure were that National Guard com
panies are unable In many instances to
secure suitable quarters;. that they must
pay rent out of proportion to the value
of the rooms they occupy; that it is dif
ficult to keep military organizations in
a state of efficiency for active service
without suitable drill-rooms, and that it
would be cheaper In the end for the
state to save the $5000 rentals now paid
and own its armories. It Is said that
the) board would locate armories only
In cities furnishing sites therefor.
Against this bill it is argued that the
expenditure of so large' a sum of money
is unnecessary; that while some of the
companies may have quarters too small
for company drills, the rooms will suffice
for ordinary needs; that If the state
makes this appropriation it will be but
the beginning of a movement which will
not end until an armory has been built
in every town in the state large enough
to organize a military company; that
appropriations for armories will become,
like appropriations for normal schools,
the basis for trades in the Legislature;
that the military needs of the state do
not require any such expenditure as this
now proposed.
CONDITION OF ALASKAN INDIANS.
Dr. Holt Telia of Mission Work There
by Preabyterian Church.
PORTLAND, May 3. (To the Editor.)
I read with much Interest the editorial
In yesterday's Oregon fan concerning the
Alaskans. There is connected with it the
statement concerning missionary, societies
that "from some cause these wretched
heathen at our very doors; these simple
minded, tractable, inoffensive, but shock
ingly degraded creatures, the Alaskan
Indians, have been overlooked in this
zealous search for souls to save and
Dodies to rescue." There is more of the
same sort.
It seems hardly possible that any one
in Oregon can be ignorant 'of the facts
in this matter. Alaska had no sooner
become an American possession than the
Presbyterian Church began work for the
Alaskans. Any one at all familiar with
the late Dr. A. L. Lindsley, so long the
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
of this city, knows that his church. led
by him. began to aid the Alaskans as
early as 1878. sending one of the memr
bers, Mrs. McFarland, there as a mis'
sionary. Today that same church has
missions for the Alaskans from Point
Barrow to the southeast corner. Including
St. Michaels Island. There are schools
for the children, in which they are cared
for. physically, mentally and spiritually,
regular church work for the families, a
hospital, and In One place also a trained
nurse,, especially to care for the bodies
of these unfortunate people. No one
will say that, all is done that may be,
but not for one moment since we have
had any rights er privileges in Alaska
has the American church forgotton her
responsibility for the Alaskans. Nor is
this limited to the Presbyterian Church.
I speak of this one because I know some
thing of its work.
Anyone who attended one of the "all
day missionary meetings." to which The
Oregonian refers editorially, should know
that foreign missions only have a share,
a reasonable shae. of the attention of
the "all-day missionary meeting" of the
churches. But home missions, the great
need at our doors, call forth the most
earnest efforts, and always have the full
sympathy of those who attend the meet
ings. The Christian people still have some
sense, and some idea of what is due from
them to every needy people, and among
the best work that the churches are do
ing today is the work for native races,
those easy victims of the white man's
greed and vices.
W. S. HOLT.
Field Secretary for Home Missions.
Kentucklnn Foretell Ilia Death.
Maysville. Ky.. Bulletin.
A strange story in regard to the recent
death of Almanza Byrd at his home near
Owlngsvllle, has Just been told by .his
family.
Byrd was occupying an upstairs room
when, one recent morning, he rushed
down Into the family room, and. in a
very excited manner, told his wife that
a voice had said to him: "Byrd, you will
die before 12 o'clock today."
Mrs. Byrd tried to convince her hus
band that it was his Imagination, but he
grew more excited, and vehemently pro
tested that the voice was real, and its
prediction only too true. All that could
be done did not calm him, and his agita
tion and fear became intense and uncon
trollable, and when finally almost ex
hausted he lay down and suddenly died,
almost without a struggle.
It was in the room occupied by Byrd
on the morning of his death that he blew
out the brains of his son with a load of
buckshot two or three years ago. His
son had nattered down the door and was
advancing on his father with uplifted ax
when the fatal shot was fired.
A FEW Kql JBH. .
Tt was- rush hour in 'the subway. Martin
Luther hung wearily from a strap. "Here
stand I." he said. "Ood help me, I can
do no otherwise." Judge.
"What T am after." declared the spoils
party candidate. "Is not so much causes as
effects." "Whose effects?" shouted a man
In the crowd. Baltimore American.
Ssmday-school teacher tr your enemy
should smite you on one cheek what would
you do? Tommy Tuffnut Dat would depend
on how big he was. Philadelphia p.ecord.
"Don't you consider it honorable to tell a
man hl faults to bis face?" queried the
youth. "Yes." replied the wise guy. "but 1
consider It safer to tell them to his neigh
bor." Chicago Daily News.
"Can you tell your present fiance's ring?"
Inquired the romantic girl as the doorbell
sounded. "Why, certainly." answered her
practical friend. "It's the newest of the lot."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Professor If you were called in a case
where a man had fallen head foremost
down a AO-foot mining shaft, what would
you advise? Medical student Advise bis
friends to fill up the hols and save funeral
expenses. Answers.
Good ley They're In reduced circum
stances, of course, but their family Is a very
old one and proud, even tf they have lots
of debts. They date back to th.fi earlleRt
colonial times Cutting The debts, you
mean? I doubt that. Philadelphia Press.
"Bljcby Is the man who Invented a lum
inous keyhole." "Yea." "It was a failure.
Bixby came home from the club at 2
o'clock in the morning, confident that he
would bave no trouble in finding the proper
place to Insert his latchkey. And. lo! when
he looked for the luminous keyhole he saw
a whole galaxy of them." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Advertising Talks
No. 17
THE GANNON THAT
MODERNIZED JAPAN
By Herbert Kaufman
Business is no longer a rnan-to-man
contact, in which the merchant and
the patron establish a personal bond,
any more than battle is a hand-to-hand
grapple where bone and muscle
and sinew decide the outcome. Trade
as well as war has changed in its as
pect both are now fought at long
range.
.Just as a present-day army of he
roes would have no opportunity to
display the individual valor of its
members, . just so a merchant who
counts upon his personal acquaint
anceship for success is a relic of the
past a business dodo.
Japan changed her policy of exclu
sion to foreigners after a fleet of
warships battered down the Satsuma
fortifications. The Samurai, who had
hitherto considered their blades and
bows good enough, discovered that
one cannon was mightier than all the
swords in creation if they could not
get near enough to use them. Japan
profited by the lesson. She did not
wait until further ramparts were bat
tered to pieces but was satisfied with
her one experience and proceeded to
modernize her methods.
The merchant who doesn't adver
tise is pretty much in the same posi
tion as that in which Japan stood
when her eyes were opened to the fact
that times had changed. The long
range publicity of a competitor will
as surely destroy your business as the
cannon of the foreigners crumbled
the walls of Satsuma. Unless you
take the lesson to heart, unless you
realize the importance of advertising,
hot only as a means of extending your
business but for defending it as well,
you must be prepared to face the con
sequences of a folly as great as that
of a duelist who expects to survive in
a contest in which his adversary bears
a sword twice the length of his own.
Don't think that it's too late to be
gin because there are so many stores
which have had the advantage of
years of cumulative advertising. The
city is growing. It will grow even
more next year. It needs increased
trading facilities just as it's hungry
for new neighborhoods.
But it will never again support
neighborhood stores. Newspaper ad
vertising has' eliminated the strength
of being locally prominent, and 5-cent
streetcar fares have cut out the ad
vantage of being "around the cor
ner." A store rive miles away can
reach out through the columns of the
daily newspaper and draw your next
door neighbor to its aisles, while you
sit by and see the people on your own
block enticed away without your be
ing able to retaliate or supply new
customers to take their place.
It is not a question of your ability
to stand the cost of advertising but
of being able to survive without it.
The thing you have to consider is not
only an extension of your business
but holding what you already have.
Advertising is an investment, the
cost of w hich is in the same propor
tion to its returns as seeds are to tho
harvest.' And it is just as preposter
ous for you to consider publicity as an
expense as it would be for a farmer
to hesitate over purchasing a fer
tilizer if he discovered that he could
profitably increase his crops by em
ploying it.
'One Thousand W'ordM Per Minute?
Washington, D. C, Herald.
Representative Timothy Ansbcrry, of
Ohio, can talk at the rate of just about
1000 words a minutitj If you don't be
lieve it, look nt the Congressional
Record. By talking those 1000 words,
more or less, in one minute, Mr. Ans
berry , obtains the championship of the
House.
It was all caused by the Democratic
filibuster, because In order to get the
1000 words, more or less, in the Record
the words must be spoken. Any one
who gets "leave to print" these days
get it with an ax.
On the day bsfore the conferees
reached an agreement on the widows'
pension bill there was placed In Mr. Ans
berry's hands a 1000-word newspaper
article in which it was charged that tho
leaders intended to kill the hill. Mr.
Ansberry thought he would like to .put
this in the Record, as it would do no
harm to stir things up a bit.
AH of tho time for debate on that
day, with the exception of one minute,
had been exhausted. By appealing to
John Sharp Williams. Mr. Ansberry se
cured this minute, although several other
Democrats were clamoring for it.
As soon as he was recognized. Mr.
Ansberry plunged wildly into the rend
ing of the 'extract from the paper. Tho
official stenographer was able to catch
the name of the paper from which he
was reading, but from that time until
the 60 seconds had expired there was the
sound of only one very long word.
When the gavel fell Mr. Ansberry had
completed the reading of his communica
tion, although the official stenographer
was not able to catch a single word, and
gladly accepted the clipping and in
serted It In the Record.
The Blowsomlng.
Kmlly Wood.
Oh', such a darling little breeze
Went dancing through our town.
He frisked about among the trees
And kissed their branches brown.
Then evej-y little waiting tree
Shuddered In sheer surprise;
And turned as white as anything
Before our wondering eyes.
So now up'on a sea of bloom
Our restless town's adrift;
White as the foam upon the shore
The plum tree blossoms lift.
And, where a peach tree 'gainst the white
Stands rosily aglow.
It's like the opalescent sea
When sunset colors show.
Now. in the stuffy offices
All up the dirty street
My little breeze goes wandering
Bearing a fragrance sweet.
The essence of the fruiting bough
And blossoming wood-ways.
Of hopes, so shy. they scarce can face
Our hurried working days.
And all because a careless brceza
Went dancing through the town
Stopping a bit among the trees
To kiss tbeir branches brown.