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Newspaper Page Text8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1908. pit BS RIPTION HATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 18.00 rally, Sunday Included, six months.... 4 25 Dally. Runday Included, three, months. . 2-25 Dally, bunday Included, one month... .75 Dally, without Kunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months. ... 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months.. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month 00 Sunday, one year 2 M Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday)... 150 Sunday and weekly, one year 3.50 BY CARRIE lit Sundav Included, one year. . . oo Dally, Dally Sunday Included, one ruorrth.. order erV.. ordJr MrVona check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency i k : i r- Knavr I) riMK. uiy jiubiuuh.. dress In full. Including county and "lata. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postoffies as Second-Class Matter. " 10 to 14 Paces 1 cant It to 18 Pages 2 cent 80 to 4 Pages . S cents 6 to 0 Pages cents Foreign postage, double rates. 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Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agency, 14JA Eddy street; B. fc. Amos, man user three wagons; Worlds N. S.. 2625 A. Sutter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager live wagons; Welllngham, E. O. Irolittleld, Nev. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. - PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. MAT 6, 1908. MENTAL. HEALING. At the close of his article on "The New Art of Healing," in the May At lantic, Max Eastman exhorts every body who has been benefited by what he calls "suggestion" to come bravely1 to the front and own up to it. Why any one should wish -to conceal knowl edge so interesting in itself and so 'im portant to the whole human family is a mystery, but that some do conceal it in undeniable. Perhaps : many people suspect that there is occult trickery in mental therapeutics; if their maladies are cured without medicine, the devil must have had a hand in the business, and of course nobody wishes to confess publicly that he is under obligations to that personage, whatever he may be willing to do privately. Max Eastman makes it apparent, however, that His Satanic Majesty has little or nothing to do with most of those innu merable cures which are startling the modqrn world, revolutionizing the sci ence of medicine and providing a basis for some three or four-score new re- . ligions. To his mind they may be ac counted for without invoking the agency of spirits either good or bad. The fundamental fact which Max Eastman postulates is cited by John Burroughs in an article in the last number of ffhe Outlook upon the thinking power of animals. The ven erable naturalist makes the point that, while animals do not think, there is undeniable thought exhibited in many of their actions. In the provision for her young which the solitary wasp makes by stinging spiders and placing them near her eggs there is evidently an adaptation of means to ends, but Mr. Burroughs contends that the wasp knows nothing of this adaptation. She has never thought it out, but performs the acts blindly, like one in a dream. Indeed, he believes that all animal life below man goes on in a state much like somnambulism. Even in the ac tivity of plants he sees thought, s anybody must who takes the pains to watch their purposive movements. The closing of blossoms by night and their expansion by day, the offices of insects in fertilizing seeds, the twining of tendrils around supports, innumera ble facts of this sort reveal thought, but It is not the plant that does the thinking, nor in the animate realm is It the bird or beast. John Burroughs boldly "predicates the existence of a sub-stratum of men tality which is common to everything in the universe. Doubtless he would discover it in the chemical atoms where it would furnish him with a reason why they unite as they do in unvarying ratios, never making mis takes. It is this sub-stratum of uni versal mind which has thought out the proper course of conduct for each liv ing animal. All that the brute or fowl has ordinarily to do Is to follow blindly the Inner leading; but in severe emer gencies they generally perlBh because they have no power to think for them selves. Man has power to think for himself, and it is this which sharply sets him apart from all other living things: but even in him the power is limited. He cannot by taking thought alter his stature or change the shape of his body. Still, in his stature and in the structure of his body, exact and purposive thought is manifest. What 'is tho source of it? Naturally the source is the universal sub-stratum of mind. It is here that the forms or patterns of our limbs and organs exist. As we grow from the cradle to man hood, matter is, as it were, deposited upon these pre-existing shapes. Per haps Plato had some such thought in mind when ho talked about his Ideas." When tho world-mind has made a body it does not say good-bye. to its I work. It still takesn interest in the creation ana tries Jf keep it in good order. Perhaps this continual effort is -what the old-fashioned doctors meant by the "vis medicatrix naturae' which the materialistic sehool of the last century declared to be a myth, Nowadays we are reviving some of our discarded myths and find them to be truths. For a lizard the healing en ergy of Nature can restore a lost leg, I but it cannot do. quite so much for a man. Still it can relieve him of a fever or quiet a neuralgia. In some cases it has straightened a crooked spine. In the lower animals it works 1 better than in human beings because 75 I the former hnvn no thinkine rmwAe rf their own to hinder its activity. Our j minds are very useful in many re- spects, but if they once get saturated with a "belief in disease" they are a decided nuisance. Here is where sug gestion comes In. It puts aside the conscious mind with its rooted prejudices and conceits, and delivers us over to the great re storer, the sub-conscious reservoir of power, which then may perform its offices unhindered. If our ailment has not gone too far, if the Platonic Idea of the body is not irretrievably wrecked, the mould broken, the form distorted- beyond recovery, It will be rebuilt and become as good as it ever was. This is the theory of mental healing. At any rate, it is one theory. Max Eastman hardly comes out in such plain terms about the matter. He fences off the issue with some hazy references to the Influence of the mind upon the body," but it amounts to the same thing. The truth is that recent science is carrying us back to the question which Walt Whitman posed a long time ago "And if the body were not the soul, what'is the soul?" Only we should probably re verse the Inquiry and ask: "If the soul were not the body, what is the body?; ONLY ONE PRINCIPLE LEFT. It is useless now to try to advocate or uphold further the Republican party as a means, an instrument, or Ah agency, through which things may be accomplished. All- principles now are embodied in Statement No. 1. There is nothing else. But of State ment No. L- the Democratic party is the best advocate and surest exponent. It is nothing to the purpose that it Is a violation of the Constitution of the United States on the one hand, and a negation of the principle of repre sentative government on the other. All that has been argued out. And the people of Oregon stand by State ment No. 1, as a principle superior to every other, and to the Constitution itself. Now arises the question how this great principle can best be, supported and maintained. It can best be done, undoubtedly, through the Democratic party. That, party is unanimous for it, while a great section of the Repub lican party is against it. It is true that the Democratic party is using it but as an expedient. But the first utterance of great principles Is always tentative. Every other prin ciple of politics is now superseded by Statement No. 1. The electorate will decide which of the parties can be the more fully trusted to uphold it. The Oregonian, in its humility, leaves the decision to the wisdom of the people. In former years there were great questions in our politics. Everything now has been settled down and con centrated and inspissated and clarified Into Statement No. 1. And George Chamberlain says Harry Cake is not to be trusted on this greatest of all the issues that ever have come before the people of Oregon.. And he -wins general applause. There is a history of parties, but we forget everything but Statement No. 1. SLANDERING PORTLAND. To get anything like an accurate es timate on the immense size of the Pa cific Coast States, their enormous nat ural resources and - widely separated and widely diversified industries, is a task that is seemingly too great for the average special writer who drifts out to the Pacific Coast from-the East. The wise Journalists who write so knowingly of Pacific Coast conditions would not be tolerated in the East if they were to pass final judgment on economic Conditions in New YoriN without approaching nearer than Chi cago to the city of which they were writing. But Los Angeles, which is 200 miles farther from Portland than New York is from Chicago, is suitable vantage ground for a review, by one of these Journalistic experts, of Pacific Coast financial arid commercial condi tions. Perhaps the "rawest" work of this nature that has yet appeared In print was a column of special correspond ence from Los Angeles in the New York Evening Post a few days ago. "Disagreeable as the fact may be," says this Journalistic oracle, "there seems to be no escape from the con clusion that the Coast cities have spe cial reason to anticipate dull times and unsatisfactory business and financial conditions." Continuing, he savs: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Portland, Seattle, Spokane and practically every important town of the Far West are overbuilt. Th growth of the past few years has been so rapid that everyone had fallen Into the habit of discounting " the future. The collapse of boom conditions and the special causes that are leading to the with drawal of both population and wealth to new agricultural districts that are springing Into existence in California, Aiisona and New Mexico have already resulted In leav ing an abnormally large number of business and tenement buildings vacant. It may be several years before the demand for such properties becomes sufficiently active to cause a general resumption of building. Just why any one connected with a responsible paper like the Evening Post should publish such misleading drivel without first referring to post office receipts, building permits and other official evidences of - a city's growth is not at all clear. If that wise special correspondent will come to Portland and locate some of the "ab normally large number of business and tenement buildings" which he claims are vacant, her can make a handsome commission off would-be tenants who are now forced to wait months for completion of buildings before they can engage in business. He would also learn, if he viewed Portland at closer range than from Los Angeles, that the number ofvbuilding permits in April this year exceeded those of last year by 187, and values were but a few dollars short of $1,000,000. Included in these permits were 303 dwellings to cost $584,075, cbmpared with 226 at a cost of $453,140 in April, 1907; and on May 1 every architect in the city was fairly swamped with work, and in the first three days of the month the average number of dwell ing-house permits was greater than for the month Just closed. There was an increase in the Portland postoffice receipts over those of April, 1907 It must appeal to the dullest Intellect that this, remarkable demand for new dwellings and for postage stamps would hardly be in evidence if, as at leged by the Post correspondent, there was "withdrawal" of population and wealth. These tourist journalists may be ap proximately correct in their studies of economic conditions in Los Angeles, which is so largely dependent on the Eastern tourist business, but there is no more sense or justice in grouping Portland, Seattle and Spokane with the depressed California climate head quarters than there would be in mak ing comparisons between the orange crop of Oregon and that of California. . THE WOLFF MURDER. In his remarkable book, "The Turn of the Balance," Mayor Brand Whif- locK, or Toledo, O., describes an imag inary murder which in several partic ulars seems to resemble that of Na than Wolff. A tramp entered the de fenseless home of two lone women in tending to rob but not to kill them, Meeting with some slight resistance. he was excited to frenzy by the fear of discovery, and finally murdered the women in a horrlbe manner. One may suspect that possibly Martin's original purpose was merely 'to rob Nathan Wolff, assuming that Martin is the guilty man . in this case. Having en tered the store, he probably found the situation . somewhat different from what he had expected.. Very likely Wolff made a more vigorous resistance than he anticipated. Perhaps Martin expected him to fail into a panic of terror and permit his shop to be plun dered without much disturbance. One can easily imagine that the wound on Martin's forehead, made with an ax, was the first act of violence in the drama. Wolff seized the weapon and struck with it blindly but ferociously. This maddened .Martin, who at once fired his revolver and caused Wolff to- drop the ax. Martin then seized it and began the terrible work of mutila tion which was so shockingly evident when, the deed was discovered. - To help account for the unnatural circumstance of the murder, the un necessary hacking of the victim's head, we may recall that Martin ap pears to be a cocaine fiend. This drug is one of the most deleterious in the whole pharmacopla. It quickly and completely destroys the moral stabil ity of its victims, rendering them de ceitful and cruel. Physicians say that it dehumanizes those who use it, anni hilating their superior traits and leav ing them little better - than beasts, though with the degenerate cunning of the lowest of the human species. In this connection it is interesting to in quire whether Martin's addiction to cocaine will enable him to make a suc cessful defense of insanity when he appears in court. s - SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT IX STEEL. Thesteel trust -has declared its reg ular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on its preferred and one-half of 1 per cent on its common stock. While the dividend remains the same as before the business depression began, there has been a heavy shrinkage in the net earnings for the first quarter of the year. They were only 46 per cent of the net earnings for the corresponding quarter last year, and less than half as large as for the first quarter In 1906. Yet, owing to the beneficent workings of our incomparable tariff system, the net earnings since January 1 have still exceeded $6,000,000 per month. So long as they hold up to such enormous proportions, there will be small liabil ity of the greatest trust on earth suf fering any keen distress from a tem porary depression in business. The report is interesting, however. showing as it does the extent of the contraction since a year ago; and it is also not without its encouraging feat ures, for, while the quarter's net earn ings were at very low ebb, they make a better showing when considered by months. The turn of the tide appar ently came with the new year, for January earnings were greater than those for December, those of February were greater than for January, and for March, the third month of the quar ter, were much larger than for the preceding month. If this rate of prog ress can be maintained, it will not be ong before business will be back to its former proportions. While the trust is fighting against price reductions, partly to protect its customers who have stocked up at high figures, and partly to keep its scale of profits at the highest possible notch, it seems hardly possible that the present prices can be maintained unless there Is an immediate change in existing condi tions. The expectation of the con sumers that a decline will surely take place Is perhaps responsible for their aversion to placing any large orders at this time. , THE LATEST SHIPWRECK. As often as disaster overtakes coast wise vessels, whether from stress of weather or untoward accident, the crews of the United States lifesaving service demonstrate qualities of cour age and endurance that inspire admir ation and gratitude. Whether drag ging their heavy surfboats long dis tances over the sands before launch ing them, breasting in them the boil ing surf, getting lines aboard a lurch ing, surf-beleaguered vessel, drawing half-drowned, half-frozen, despairing human beings from the dread sweep of the down-streaming seas, or patrol ling lonely beaches in midnight Win ter gales, with anxious eyes ever strained seaward and ears harkenlng amid the boom of breakers for the fainter boom of a ship's signal gun, the llfesaver is the embodiment of manly strength and -human courage. -The Pacific 'oast has been hitherto meagerly and is still inadequately pro vided with lifesaving stations; but the crews of those that we have have never failed to give a good account of themselves when occasion has arisen. The late wreck of the schooner Minnie E. Kelton occurred beyond sight and sound of the Yaquina Bay lifesaving station, but the crew responded with promptness and Intrepidity, when the news reached them, some hours after the vessel struck, and did what could be done to aid the luckless mariners. So effective was the service rendered that there are ten men living to tell this tale of the sea, where but for this one would scarcely have survived. The enthusiasm with which the O. R. & N. demonstration train is greeted on its second trip through the Wash ington wheat belt is easily understood when it is stated that, by carrying out the plans recommended by the agri cultural experts who accompany the train, fully 1,000,000 acres of land which now lies idle in Summer fallow can be made to produce profitable crops. This, land can not only be brought into cultivation every year, but it has been demonstrated by actual tests that, if planted in certain crops, it adds to the richness of the soil and replenishes the supply of properties which are exhausted in wheatgrowing. The lecture course provided on the demonstration train includes number of other features of up-to-date farm ing, which, if generally adopted, will be of inestimable benefit to the entire Northwest. The fact that this excel lent work is undertaken by the rail road company from the purely selfish motive of increasing the traffic does not in the slightest degree detract from its great value to the farming community, as well as to every other line of industry in Oregon and Wash ington. A big gold strike at Grants Pass or vicinity never attracts as much- atten tion as a big strike in Alaska. This Is not due so much to the increased size of the Alaska strike as it is to the greater distance from Oregon. But, while we never hear much of the big strike and the steady .output of the Oregon mines, -they are much in evi dence, and not a season passes without some new mines of great richness be ing discovered in Southern or Eastern Oregon. The latest from ' the South ern Oregon district Is a $7000 pocket near Grants Pass, with a report that there is an immense amount still in sight. This may not develop Into a permanent profit-payer, but there is already a large number of steady pro ducers in the Southern Oregon mining districts, and, compared with the number of men engaged in Alaska, the miners in this state are undoubted ly making a very fair showing. The girls who are pupils of Horace Mann School, New York, have been forbidden, by edict of the faculty, to wear ultra-fashionable clothes. .In cluded in the edict are "Merry Widow" hats, or hats extremely large and gaudily trimmed, "Lotta Faust" col lars, Dutch necks and maile bows, peekaboo waists and short sleeves, all jewelry except pins necessary to hold collars, light or fancy-topped shoes and shoes with high heels or fancy buttons. Some of these extravagances are reprehensible and most of them are out of place in the schoolgirl's wardrobe. Still it is doubtful if the object that of inducing quiet taste in dress and a closer attention to study will be attained by an edict of this kind. It is somewhat like applying baptism as a means of grace to an un willing subject. The diagnosis which startled appre hension recently made of the malady from which ex-President Cleveland is suffering seems to have been at fault, since the patient is said by his physi cians and his wife to be making good progress toward recovery. This would have been impossible had the malady been cancer of the stomach, as report ed. Hence, although an old man, and one whose physical endurance has been heavily taxed in past years in various ways, Mr. Cleveland may yet return to a state of health that prom ises comfort to his remaining years. A relatively young wife, a young fam ily, with opinions much sought in the larger affairs of life, he has yet much to live for, though having passed the limit of three-score and ten years. Every large city in the United States Is wrestling with the problem of seat- ng its school children. The Borough of Brooklyn has more pupils on part time than any other city in the land. the foreign element, urged by the com pulsory education law, making enor mous demands upon the schools there. Six new school buildings will be con structed this year to relieve the con gestion of the primary grades,, while half a million dollars will be spent In enlarging two of the high school buildings. If there is any suggestion of race suicide In this situation, the Board of Education has not discovered it. Not too few children, but too many, under the ban of irresponsible parentage, is the menace which con fronts the country. Venezuela, finding the task of thrashing the United States into a state of abject submission rather heavy for the present, is said to be ontemplating a raid on Colombia. The scheme is not. one of Castro's own selection, but he is being urged to start a disturbance by Panama, which has had a boundary line dispute with Co lombia. While it might be a great convenience for Castro to have some tuppenny" country like Colombia to practice on, there is no assurance that the United States through its inter ests In Panama, might not be called in to settle the trouble, and in such case the Venezuelan fire-eater would be in a more ridiculous position than ever. A gentle passing was that of Charles L. Anderson, a pioneer of Coos County, a few days ago. Stopping on . the treet to give some children a ride in his wheelbarrow, the kind old man met death without warning, apprehen sion or more than momentary pain his last act that of giving pleasure to little children. Death wears a mask of kindness when he comes in this way. - Ellis wants us all to vote for him again for Representative from the Sec ond District. But how do we know how he stands on Statement No. 1? Olson, or Anderson, or somebody, is candidate for Justice of the Peace, or something. But he gives no assurance of his position or purpose as to State ment No. 1. Attorney Darrow. too. wants Or chard reprieved. No doubt. Think of the predicament of the lawyer for a murderer when he is confronted by a prosecuting Witness who is telling the truth about the foul crimes of his client. Having got the murderer off, Mr. Darrow doesn't think it necessary to punish anybody. ' Mr. Kline, of Corvallis, member of the Oregon State Central Committee, being far away in Washington, doesn't think that the committee took advan tage of his absence to indorse Taft. When the latest returns come in, Mr. Kline will think again. Judge Williams, Colonel McCraken and other real baseball bugs have not lived in vain. The season has again opened. SEASIDE! BECKONS BATTLESHIPS. Two Correspondents Point Oat Tilla mook Head for Visiting: PHgi-lma. SEASIDE, Or'., May 5. (To the Editor.) We are making an effort to have the fleet give us some kind of display off Tillamook Head. Some Portland people have so much interest in Seaside and also because they have been slighted. In respect to the ships not going up to their city, we think they will be interested in having something done here. We can make a trail up on the Head which would give us a view, such as cannot be had from any other point along the Pa cific Coast. We could see the ships for 40 miles, coming and going. If The Ore gonian Is Interested and feels like helping the movement, such help will be greatly appreciated here. Dan J. Moore has our petition and is going to make an effort to get Portland to work with us. We are at Portland's service In any request she may ask. W. S. HENNINGER; Mayor. SEASIDE. Or., May 6. To the Editor.) Portland! has, to some extent, been left out of the route of the battleships. Where are all those mountain climbers who go to the mountains to see the sights? Why not come down to Seaside, and go up on Tillamook Head and look down on the battleships as they go by? That would be a sight never to be seen again. Senator Fulton has told the Astoria Chamber of Commerce that the battle ships would be slowed down as they go by here, and has also given the day and hour. What a grand sight it would be to sea uncle Sam's ships, looking from a mountain 1100 feet high, almost over tnem. There is an old foot trail called the "Bartley trail" that could be cut out a little and be made good for foot travel, leaning up on Tillamook Head. Now, for-mountain climbers! HENRY BRALLIER. SAFE FROM MENACE OF PRIVILEGE Bo Long aa Xewspapera, Backed by Healthy Public Opinion, Remain Free. Kansas City Star. The necessity of the independent news paper to a modern democracy that was what Rabbi Wise was getting at when he told the Associated Press that he. did not fear the menace of privilege so long as newspapers remain free. No democracy can manage Itself successfully without an intelligent and healthy public sentiment. No such sentiment can exist over a large territory without the publicity given by the independent newspaper. This function cannot be performed by me newspaper which colors Its news and Its opinions to suit its party or its cor poration affiliations. . Under such condi tions the people are not given the' data on which to base an intelligent ODinlon. It was easy enough for them to know that they were being oppressed by the Stuart kings. When property was con fiscated and good men thrown into iall there was no great need of newspapers to arouse the country. The menace of mod ern oppression Is a more subtle thing. The favored corporation exacts its plunder In ways that escape observation. Unless pub licity la given by the independent news paper there Is always danger of the re crudescence of feudalism, benevolent but deadening, exploiting the people, for the Denent oi a favored class. With such newspapers offering daily tne raw material on which to build an enlightened public sentiment, privilege loses much of its menace. In the long run it must succumb to publicity. Actors Get Two-Cent Railroad Rate. New York Tribune. According to an official statement Is sued from the offices of the National Association of Theatrical Producing Managers, that organization has ob tained for the theatrical producers in this country a 2-cent party rate through nearly all of the Southern States. The rate will go Into effect as soon as the Interstate Commerce Commislson has been advised of the decision reached by the railroads interested. It is un derstood that when this rate Is In op eration there will be a saving of 1 cent a mile on each Individual traveling mrougn me soutn with theatrical en terprises. The producing managers' organization has been engaged for several months In an effort to bring about an equitable settlement of the rate question, and had it not succeeded in getting a reasonable consideration it Is likely the "road business" would have been entirely abandoned next season. With 112-Pound Stone, Kills Snake. New York World. Miss Grace Zabriskie,. of Brooklyn, had been visiting Miss Rachel Ryerson, at Towaco, N. J. The two young women started across a hill pasture, a short cut to a neighbor's. Miss Ryerson. who was leading, suddenly halted, pointed to a clump of grass beside the narrow path, shrieked, and fainted, falling on her face. In the grass was a rattlesnake, which, angrily rattling, struck at the prostrate girl, but did no more than bury its fangs In her heavy walking skirt. The snake was coiling to strike again when Miss Zabriskie picked up .a stone, and surprising to relate hit the snake, crushing Its head. Then she dragged the senseless Miss Ryerson, who weighs 164 pounds, over the grass for 20 feet at least, and when she revived, helped her home. The snake measured six feet one inch long; the stone Miss Zabriskie lifted and threw weighs more than she does 112 pounds. Blind Girl Take Shorthand Notes. New York Times. One of the striking things about the report of the New York Association for the Blind, which covers the two years of its existence. Is the frontispiece. This exhibits "the blind secretary taking the shorthand notes for this report which she wrote entirely, with the exception of the financial statement, and transcribed on the typewriter. Back of her the young est home teacher of the association, who is also totally blind, is reading her stenography from the Staynesby-Wane machine. Here are two employments which it might be assumed are practi cally unattainable without eyesight, and good eyesight, actually pursued with suc cess by the blind. Other illustrations show the work of blind persons in dress ing dolls, caning chairs, mattress ma kins', massage, operating a telephone switch board, broom making, carpentering, shav ing and haireutting, and blind youth engaged- in athletic sports. Wants Battleship Oregon Here la Jane. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 30. (To the Editor.) Since the city of Portland has been placed on the "unfair list" by Quartermaster-General Aleshire. of the United States Army, and also by the Secretary of the Navy, if The Oregon Ian will use its influence with Jhe lat ter official, perhaps some of the land locked patriots of this state might get permission from Mr. Metcalf to view uncle Sam s Armada with field glasses or long-range telescopes from the Deaen at Astoria. .ven an exceedingly small favor ofrthis kind would be grat ifying possibly to a small number of persons. If a request of this kind should be denied at this time, I hope mat our own uregon, tne bulldog of the Navy," will be allowed to visit Port land during the .Rose Carnival. ROY D. SMITH. Wall Arises for Foreign Markets. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. While the decision of numerous of the Carolina cloth mills represented at Spar tanburg recently to close down indefinite ly on July 1, or earlier, was impelled by a feeling of hard necessity, it none the less gives the operatives a bad, prospect. Such situations pathetically Illustrate the great need of seeking foreign markets to serve as a safety-valve for the constant ly multiplying productive power of tho country. HOW THE DIRECT PRIMARY WORKS IN OREGON l nbtnsed Opinion From an Intelligent Ion a Editor Swinging of the Pendu lum From the Era of Graft and Corrnptlon to an Extreme of Drastic Reform. (The. editor of the Beacon, of Bplrlt Lake. Iowa, who was In Oregon at the time of the recent primary election, wrote the. following to his paper, from Cottage Grove. It is worth reading throughont Oregon. We give the entire article, with exception of an' Intro ductory paragraph of no interest here.) In the evolution of affairs In this commonwealth, it came to pass that moral standards were much - involved by a greed for commercial gain. This Is no new condition, for it is in all the states the conspicuous peril of this generation. But here In Oregon there was temptation beyond the ordinary because of the loose execution of laws enacted for the - protection of public land interests. Maladministration wait ed on cupidity and -.opportunity on bothv As graft and greed performed their dirty work -Indifference to moral standards grew apace and became so common as to be accepted almost with out Condemnation. This condition naturally involved politics and politicians. Political pow er meant control of instrumentalities vital to the pursuit of remorseless greed. The official who might try to stem the tide of corruption was men aced by the threats of organization vital to his Incumbency. It was easier to submit than to resist the exaction of the gang, and unfortunately, states men, like the forces of Nature, are wont to proceed along the lines of least resistance. And the moral sense of people slumbered. So much money was involved in maintaining the com mercial status quo that substantial sums were easily diverted to the cor ruption fund, and Immorality found its worst expression in wholesale bribery Deeming it proper to fight fire with fire, even the reformers put money In their purse and went after the pur chasable political factor of Influence. But on the people slumbered until the ferret system installed at Washington ran down the political odors thaj smclled to heaven in this coast, country. It was no news to this people to learn of the crook edness announced by a National adminis tration morally strenuous. It has been common" talk here for years. So com mon had been the abuses proclaimed by the government that all communities were more or less Involved, until it was thought to be merely an evidence of commercial acuteness to stand in with corrupt or indifferent officials and rob the Government. Grief widespread and unconsolable was the portion of offend ers. Homes were wrecked and hearts were broken. The trail of justice rapidly led " to the political , promontories oc cupied' by the "higher-ups." 8enatpr Mitchell, for more than 20 years a leader at Washington and in Oregon, was found red-handed In the prevailing crime, and death mercifully mitigated his punish ment. He had not enriched himself, but would appear to have taken as his share in the plunder a life lease on his job. Both Congressmen were indicted. Senator Fulton, with his seat scarcely warmed, was left alone at Washington to speak for his state. I do. not understand that he Is believed to be involved In this carni val of crime, except as an accessory to the extent of winking at the corruption that returned Mitchell to office. He was probably as clean as the circumstances permitted, in the view of an ambitious politician who believed It to be necessary to work with the rascals in order to pro mote his own political fortunes. His record at Washington would appear to be clean and more than ordinarily help ful to his state. He was doubtless glad to witness the deliverance of his party and state from the bondage of graft. But withal he Is under the ban of suspicion. As usual In such cases the people of"t)re goa arose from their slumber which was a portion of the debauch of cupidity and opportunity, and grew so virtuous as to lose confidence in every public man and VOTE "YES" FOR THE UNIVERSITY Don't Make Any Mistake About Tills Referendum Measure. EUGENE, Or., May 3. (To the Ed itor.) In your issue of this date. I find the following editorial: Tr lht elector hasn't full knowledge of the Initiative and referendum measures, oi ls in doubt about them, he would do well to vote "No." "No" is usually a mighty safe proposition. That Is to say. unless tho time has come for Oregon to have a universal guffaw of Folly over the uses to ,hih "the new system" is forced by vari ous groups of our population. Knowing full well that the intent of The Oregonian Is not to convey the wrong impression in the above, I take the liberty of calling your attention to the state of mind In which it is name to leave the reading public. The au thor of the editorial, In advlRing elec tors who have not full knowledge of the ifiitlative and referendum measures to vote "no," on all of them, appar ently did not have In mind the differ ence between the initiative measures and the referendum measures, the for mer being initiated by the people and the latter being submission of the acts -of the legislature to a vote of the peo ple. Among the referendtlm measures is the University appropriation, upon which The Oregonian, along with a united state press, has been urging the electorate to put a big X In front of the "Yes," and thus stand loyally by a worthy educational Institution of the state. We are quite sure that The Ore gonian had no intention of conveying the Idea that any voter in the state would be Justified In casting' a vote against the appropriation, but should vote "Yes" arid work to carry the meas ure overwhelmingly. WILL G. GTLHTRAP. Of course, the people of Oregon will stand by the appropriation for the Etate University. It Is a proposition easily understood. No elector can have any doubt about it. Since the State of Oregon has undertaken a University, It ought, to support it, and must support it. Favors Port of Portland Bill. PORTLAND, May 5. (To the Editor.) The explanation and argument published In The Oregonian of what is known as the "Port of Portland Bill." are timely excellent and convincing. Nevertheless, many of those who will be called to vote on this measure are not aware of the great Importance of this proposed law, not only to the City of Portland, but even more so to the farmers of his state. In creased prosperity for the producers of our agricultural wealth, by increased and cheaper facilities for the handling of these products, means also Increased pros perity to the citizens of Portland, not even excepting the man who earns hia living by manual labor in the city. There fore, wote "yes" on No. 300P; 300P not 300. THOMAS PAULSON, Mother-Love Causes 80 M lie Swim. Baltimore Kews. A cow swam 30 miles In the Mississippi River following the steamer Spread Eagle which carried the animal's calf.' After the long swim tho cow was rescued by fishermen. ready to turn their backs upon the party of their dearest hopes and loyal affiliation In other years. Out of this tide of civic righteousness came a radical primary law. which gave to the rank and file of parties absolute power over Its leadership and all official dom within the state. But In Its swing the pendulum of public sentiment Is not wont to be under the control of deliberate Judgment directed to the public good. Following the primary and as part of the campaign of vengeance and reform, it is proposed to bind members of the legisla ture to vote for the popular choice not at the primaries, but at the polls, for the Senate. Oregon has a Democratic Governor. He Is stronger man his party. It is the hope of the Oregon Democrats to send him to the Senate, and what is known here as Statement No. 1, covering this proposition. Is expected to be a factor in the proceeding. In their zeal to win public confidence during the prevailing demoralization the successful candidate for the Senate and many other successful candidates for tho Legislature exploited this strange doctrine. ' Mr.' Cake, the nominee, must yet submit himself to the state electorate in June, along with Statement No. 1. If the latter wins. Gov ernor Chamberlin may " easily be com missioned to go to Washington to cau cus with PitchMtk Tillman and Jeff Davis, while Cake and his fellow Repub licans I consider at their leisure how vain a thing it is to strike a deadly blow at party integrity in the hope of advancing political reform, or personal fortunes. I am not deciding as to the relative merits of Cake and Fulton. Perhaps Fulton had it coming. Cake may or may not be the better Senatorial tim ber. Chamberlain may be a better man than either. But as one who believes that an enlightened Nation can estab lish and maintain important principles and lines of public policy only through the exercise of party power, I cannot regard with indifference an organized effort on the part of Republicans to de stroy or impair party integrity or ef ficiency because the people have at some period slept upon their rights and permitted rascals to loot their Gov. eminent. Furthermore, I atn in favor of the most liberal application of the term government by the people. I be lieve the direct primary method of nominating party candidates to be in this Interest. I will abandon this be lief only when years of experience may have convinced me of my mistake. But I hope to see the system better ex emplified and better justified in Iowa than It has been In Oreon. There Is here too much of indifference. At the primaries last week, charged with nominations for a complete, state, dis trict and county roster for two years, not more than 65 per cent of the reg istered Republican vote was cast. The large measure of responsibility imposed upon this people Is apparently not fully realized. Candidates have appealed, and In many cases successfully, to the prejudices of the people. It seems to be the particular business of the can didate to toot his own horn in high' C. There is evidence of advantage In dis plays of Insincerity. It seems to be expected that candidates will do a lot of pledging, and the temptation on the part of the ambitious is to do stunts in this line Inconsistent with the better ends of government. Of course, tins is not -all due to the primary. It may posslbly be in spite of it. But in times of political or moral reform there Is a lamentable tendency to place a tr mlum upon insincerity and to provide opportunity to men who trim their sails to popular breezes and sow dis content that they may reap the - re wards of office. Iowa has a better pri mary law than Oregon, and Is without the demoralizing conditions wrought by a carnival of corruption. The pri mary will find no better field for a fair and conclusive test than in our own noble commonwealth. CHAMPOEG'S PIOXEER, MOM'MEM Desires That It Be Permanently Located On High, River Land. BAY CENTER, Wash., May 4. (To the Editor.) Noticing in The Orego. nian that a proposition Is on foot to secure a tract of land at C'hampoeg. Or., for a permanent location for a resting-place for the commemorative historical monument. I suggest that it be located on the high land instead of on the river brink, as at present locat ed. I personally visited the monument a few years ago, and know from experi ence that Its present location is a vory poor 6"ne. The reason is that the river bank is wearing rapidly away at that place, and If the monument were locat ed anywhere on the bottom land it will always be subject to great daniaao by high freshets, as tho whole bottom is frequently swept clean of all build ings, fences, and other Improvements. The exact spot where the building stood and where the celebrated meet ing and voting was held, was, I think, washed away years ago. If a nice lo cation could be bought near there on the high land and improved. 'it would bo a thing of great importance as a remembrance for generations to come. L. H. RHOADEd. The Demand for "ExeJianuc." Nashville (Tenn.) American. None can gainsay tlic truth or jus tice of The Oregonlan's observations (as to exchanges). The American is glad to exchange with Its weekly brethren, but there really ought to be some distinction between weekly papers. There Is. Soma are far better than others. A dfllly docs not get news from weeklies any more. Correspondents are ahead of the weeklies! If they do not contain ideas, sugges-4 tions, opinions worth, noting tliev are of very little value to the daily. There are too many of this kind, and they could not fairly complain if the dailies re fused to give them a paper seven days a week for an excuse of a newspaper once a week. Another thing: Why should a daily be sent practically free to a weekly that is constantly abusing and misrep resenting it doing all the injury it can? Why shouldn't these along with the utter ly trifling and worthless he cut off the "courtesy" list? Why not rational dis crimination? Origin of Oregon Again Discovered. SALEM, Or.. May 4. (To the Editor.) It has been a question for manv years by our most noted historians as from -what source the word "Oregon" was derived. Let me solve the mystery. By referring to Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, under the word "hurri cane." It will be seen that the Italian Is "Oragano." and the French "Oura gan." I Infer from this that the word "Oregon" Is a corruption of the Span ish, and originally applied to the wind. If so. the spelling should be "Oragon." N. F. NELSON. Mtle-a-Mlnute Run Save Life. ' Philadelphia Press. At Mafcada, Pa., a motor car was driven a mile a minute to bring a physi cian, who arrived just in time to save the life of Wilbut Best, chocking to death on a piece of meat.