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Newspaper Page Text10 THE 3I0ItXI"U OKEGOMAN, FKlliAI, 31 A 1, liUS. 61-BSt'RlPTION KATES. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. (By Mall.) rHy. Sunday Included. ona year. Dallv, funday Included. six months... Ially. Sunday Included, three raonlni. I'stly, Sunday Included, one month... IiallT, without Sunday, one year . Dally, without Sunday. six montm... fally. without Sunday, three month!. Dally, without Sunday, one month Sunday, one year Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday).. Sunday and weekly, one year BY CARRIEK. .s.oo , 4.28 . 2.23 . .75 . 8.00 . 3.25 . 1.75 . .60 . 2 50 . 1.50 . 3.0O Dally, Sunday Included, one year... rt.n a,,,4v lnrlti1ori nnfl month. .00 T5 HOW TO KE.'in ena p""' order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad dress In full. Including county and state. POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Fostottlce as Eecond-Class Matter. JO to 14 Pa . 1 to 28 Pages 80 to 44 Page 40 to 80 Page cen" Foreign postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are . Newspapers on which postage is not tuny prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BUSINESS OFF1CK. The 8. C. Berkwith Special AlCMey w Toik. rooms 48-50 Tribune building, (.ni cago. rooms 510-512 Tribune building. KEPT ON 6ALH1 Chicago Auditorium Annex: ston-ice News Co., 178 Dearborn street; Empire jow Bland. St. Panl. Minn. N. Ste. Marie. Commer cial Station Colorado Springs. Colo. H. H. BeU- lernver Hamilton Kenarlck. 90-f Seventeenth street; Fratt Book Store. 1214 Fifteenth street; H. P. Hansen. S. Rice, George Carson- Kansas City, Mo. Ricksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut; Yoma News Co.. .Minneapolis M. Cavanaugb. 50 Soutn Third. Cincinnati. O. Toms News Co. Cleveland. O. James Pushaw. 30T Super ior street. Washington. T. C Ebbttt House. Four teenth and p streets; Columbia News to. rlttsb.irg. Pa. Fort Pitt News Co. Philadelphia. Pa. 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Foster Orear: Ferry X'ewri Stnnd- Hotel St. Francis News Stand; I.. Parent; N. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand: Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 14',j Eddy street; H. E. Amos, man aer three waguns; Worlds N. ti.. 2625 A Ktitter street. Oakland. Cal. W. H. Johnson. Fourteenth snd Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand: B. E. Amos, manager nve wagons; WelHngham. K. G. (oldtleld. Nev. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency: Eu reka News Co. rORTLAXi), FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1908. KALEIDOSCOPIC. Should Mr. Chamberlain receive the majority or plurality of the popular vote In June, of course he will be elected Senator in January. The Leg lslature will be Republican, but it will elect him. It will matter not that he is a Democrat, and a Bryan Democrat He will be elected. That Is, the Re publican party, through the illusion and folly of Statement No. 1, will have committed suicide. Lawgiver U'Ken, and Senator Bourne, standing as intellectual obelisks In the midst of the ruins, will be a reminder of Macaulay's New Zealander, sitting on one of the ruined arches of London Bridge. But there will be hard times in Ore gon for ' Statement No. 1, after that. Mr. U'Ren and Mr. Bourne also will disappear. And yet perhaps their fame may be secure. The ambitious youth who fired the Epheslan dome outlives in fame the pious fool who reared It The name of Dr. Guillotin. says Gar ble, is likely to outlast Caesar's. Oh, brethren of the Holy Statement, you need your medicine! There Is much probability you will get it. Since this system abolishes distinc tions of party, and since It Is the law of the land, to be strengthened fur ther by an amendment of the consti tution, or by a new statute, to compel the member of the Legislature to vote for his political opponent for the United States Senate, let us not be startled by, or start back from, the logical result. Only, let us perfectly understand what we are doing; and when we walk over the edge of the precipice, after we have seen it, let us not attribute our misfortune to bad luck or to Di vine Providence. Yet everything, calamity included, is greater or less, by comparison. The plunge to the bottom of the precipice might not be the worst of all possible things. How edifying it would be, in deed, and how full of inspiration for the future, to see a Republican Legis lature electing a Democratic Senator! No party" is the popular cry In Ore . gon. because one of the parties is no parly. The fox that had lost his' tail argued with all the rest of the foxes that they should rid themselves of that useless and burdensome appendage. We don't read that the foxes did it, for the. fox is a very sagacious animal. But the Republican party has done the like. Walk right up. brethren, and take the medicine that lias been brew ing and stewing in the kettle, under the magic art of Dr. Bourne and Dr. TJ'Ron. HE.NJTANT MONEY. In the great financial centers there is actual congestion of money. It is apparent in London and Paris as in New York. Proof of it is seen both lu the eagerness with which first-class bonds are taken at low rates of inter est, and in the decline of stocks of the highest class. Any great enterprise. well established and of assured earn ing power, can get money simply by asking for It; but new undertakings tall 1n vain, or got little response; while proposals for Investments look ing to the creation of new properties are scarcely heeded at all. It means that Investors who, for sev eral years and down to last year, had been going very far afield, were thor oughly scared a while ago, and more over that many suffered losses, more or less. As might be expected, the swing of the pendulum Is now pretty far the other way. Investors who, a year or two ago, would snap at almost anything, now neglect opportunities that certainly are good, and will prove go hereafter to those who have the faith to undertake them. There will not be another money panic for a while, perhaps not for years. The tendency to conservatism will prevent it. But the East ought to know that there yet remains in the West as good opportunity for invest ment as ever heretofore; and the East has made its great money by invest ment in the West. The congestion of money and the re sultant stagnation can't last very long. The country is yet too full of unap propriated opportunities. In our Pa cific States alone these opportunities are but Just beginning to appear: since It Is apparent that In them there Is room for thirty millions of people where now there is scarcely more than one-tenth of the number. All that Is necessary is judgment in the invest ment, and Intelligent and energetic management of the undertakings. There Is a freeze at present of Eastern money; but the thaw will be due again in no long time. It is not possible that, with opportunities before it, the Investment market should long remain stagnant. It will take a while, of course, to catch up with the expecta tions of former Investment, but not so long either, in a country which every where invites Intelligent energy. The West, Indeed, is doing well, as it is. It is not affected in itself by any re verse, but only as it reels, tnrougn sympathy, the arrest of activity in the East; for nothing can materially hurt the West, with its natural products. great crops and good prices. LIGHT FROM NEW ZEALAND. The secretary of the Oregon . Tax Reform Association, Mr. A. D. Cridge, contributes to The Oregonian today another specimen of the peculiar tlogic of his tribe. He brings from remote New Zealand the information that the rebuilding of Wellington in that blessed isle is largely attributed to the single tax. Very well. Following out his logic, we must, of course, attrib ute the rebuilding of San Francisco to the fact that it has not the single tax. If it is the method of taxation that constructs cities, then each must have due praise for its own. Wo learn also from Mr. Cridge that the single tax has compelled property owners in New Zealand cities to build upon their land. But property-ownersl In Portland have also been building on their land, erecting structures as substantial, we dare say, as any to be found in New Zealand. If New Zea land's improvements are caused by the single tax, then ours must be caused by the kind of tax we have.' If it is our taxes which produce our blessings. let us ascribe to each its proper por tion of gratitude and not commit the gross error of glorifying one method and damning another for precisely the same things. We do not believe that the happi ness of life and the prosperity of na tions depend ' upon their particular form of taxation in arty such measure as the slngle-taxers claim. So long as taxes fall short of absolute confisca tion communities will thrive under al most any system. It Is blank folly to ascribe the prosperity of New Zealand to the single tax. If Mr. Cridge's rea soning were sound, then the prosperity of his model nation could be destroyed by abolishing taxes entirely, which is manifestly absurd. No tax produces prosperity, though some may hinder It. The only equitable tax is one that falls heaviest on the shoulders best able to bear it, and in exact proportion to that ability. This rule exempts no species of property as such, though it would exempt all property in the hands of men of very small means because to such men the burden of a one dollar tax exceeds by many times that of a thousand dellars to a man of wealth. Moreover, taxes ought to be appor tioned with some reference to the de mands which property-owners make upon society for protection. The sin gle tax would exempt the fortunes of non-landholdlng millionaires and cor porations, although they" are continu ally calling upon the state for military and police protection and taking up the time of the courts with their liti gation. The truth of the matter Is that the single tax will not bear inves tigation. It is one of those delusive dreams which seem delightful in the darkness of one's bedchamber but which show all sorts of absurdities In the light of open day. OPENS THE WAY TO FRAUD. In a decision in Clatsop County, Cir cuit Judge T. A. McBrlde has held, so the news dispatches inform us, that signers of a local option petition may withdraw their names after a petition has been filed and thus the petition be made Insufficient because of the lack of the required number of names. It must be apparent to every one that law of this kind not only permits but invites deception and fraud. A brief illustration will show the effect of such a ruling. Let it be supposed that In a certain county or district 1000 signatures are necessary on a pe tition for the submission of the liquor question. Under the law as declared by Judge McBride, any number of enemies of the movement may sign the petition, aiding In making up the required number. Then when the friends of the movement, finding that they have signatures enough, and to spare, file the petition in the County Court, those who have signed it with fraudulent intent may have their names stricken off and thus may ren der the petition null and void. The injustice and viciousness of such a proceeding are readily appar ent. When men sign a petition, whether for a vote upon the liquor question or for any other purpose, there is an Implied agreement that each who has written his name upon the document has in good faith asked that the object expressed therein be ottairued. Each signer has a right to the aid of every other signature legally placed thereon. To permit a petitioner to withdraw his name, after a petition has been filed and after It has become too late to add new signatures. Is like permitting a member of the Legisla ture to change his vote on a bill after It has been passed by the Legislature and the Legislature has adjourned. Every man who signs a petition or any other document must be presumed to know what he is signing and to intend the legal effect of his act. If he is to be permitted to .withdraw his name at all, that withdrawal should take place before" the time has expired for the adding of new names. The forms of legal procedure are made snares and pitfalls when one may use them for fraudulent purposes and with the approval of law. The methods of the liquor element have always been those of deception and trickery. By such methods they have brought themselves Into disrepute. Though they may have gained for themselves a temporary advantage from lime to time, they have been making more j certain the ultimate abolition of their ' business. When the day shall come upon which the last of their doors has been closed, they may turn to useful and honorable occupations with the knowledge that neither preacher nor reformer wrought their downfall, but that their own vicious conduct forced upon a long-suffering people the ex treme remedy of prohibiting that which will not submit to regulation. MR. ROOT'S IDEA. In the course of his speech on the first day of the conference of Govern ors at Washington, Mr. Root uttered an original Idea, or one which we may call original after the loose manner of ordinary speech. At any rate, nobody ever said exactly the same thing be fore, although it was a natural out growth of the conditions we live in. I regard this meeting as marking a new departure the beginning of on era In which the states of the Union will exercise their reserved powers upon a higher plane of patriotism and love of country than has ever existed before. Taken with what precedes it, his re mark signifies that Mr. Root expects to see the states of the Union take part through their delegates in many con ferences of the kind now assembled in Washington. Perhaps he may hope to see these gatherings become annual events, like the conferences of Mayors, charity workers, teachers,and so forth. Why not? Why should not the states meet regularly in their sovereign ca pacity, by delegates, and deliberate upon 'matters which concern the wel fare of the whole country? Certainly that would be more dignified and more profitable than the scramble for public buildings", postofflces, and other bless ings which now occupies the states through their representatives in Con gress. Congress was originally intended to be a conference of the states. They were to be doubly represented there, in the Senate as corporate bodies, in the House as popular constituencies. But Congress has become largely a fu tility. It can no longer- accomplish much. It is fettered by divers Influ ences," bound down by idle traditions. It has tied its own hands with rules, precedents, forms and ceremonies. It has ceased to respond to the 'will of the people. It does not even try to attend to the needs of the country. It only acts when it is driven either by the. orders of its bosses or by an ener getic executive, like Mr. Roosevelt. In the former case It acts with docility, as if it loved the lash. In the latter it whines like a whipped cur, but it usually obeys. Still, now that Mr. j Roosevelt must soon go out of office. Congress snaps its teeth at him and growls as it would never have dared to do a year or two ago. The meetings of states which Mr. Root proposes would be outside the law, though not unlawful. The states are forbidden by the Constitution to make agreements with each other un less Congress consents. Futile and cowardly' as Congress has become, it would scarcely venture to forbid the states to agree upon matters which plainly promoted the welfare of the country. If it did, Its successor would be wiser. But no permission is needed for the states to send their Governors and distinguished citizens to meet and discuss great public questions. Vari ous conferences extraneous to the law liave initiated pretty nearly every pro gressive measure we have known for the last quarter of a century. Very few such measures have originated either in Congress or the State Legis latures. Those bodies seem to have lost the power of intelligent thought. City governments have been reformed, forest reserves planned, the reclama tion work projected, the ballot puri fied, through the influence of meetings of one sort and another which the law does not recognize. All that our leg islative bodies have done is to give re luctant legal assent to what voluntary associations have accomplished. Mr. Root's idea is therefore entirely in harmony with the custom -which has grown up in the United States of permitting the machinery of govern ment to stand idle or grind out folly while the genuine business of the country is done by extra-legal assem blies. "" If Congress were a body capa ble of doing its duty, the conference upon natural resources In Washington would be unnecessary. The constitu tional representatives of the people would long ago have taken thought upon these matters and acted for the public good. But they have taken no thought, and even after others have done the thinking it is doubtful whether they will act. But the con servation of natural resources is only one of the many questions which the states might take up with profit. How to get some necessary amendments into the Federal Constitution is an other. That several such amendments ought to be made pretty nearly every body agrees. That it is impossible to make them is also conceded. But if there were an annual conference of the states, how long would it take to formulate an amendment giving the election of Senators to the people, for example? Once fojmulated by their representatives, the states would adopt it unanimously, and then Congress would be compelled to submit it to a National referendum. One can easily think of many desirable things which Mr. Root's proposed conferences might accomplish. His idea is likely to prove fruitful. THE LAW'S DELAYS. 'the manner In which proceedings for the removal of judges of the courts for cause drag their slow length along and thus destroy the moral force and effect of the final decision is cited by the New York Commercial in the case of Justice Deuel, of the Court of Spe cial Sessions, who was impeached for malfeasance in office many months ago, on the ground of his business connection with "Town Topics" and "Fads and Fancies." The charges created a great sensation at the time. Everybody was talking about the case, and caustic criticism of the judge was general, both in and out of profes sional circles. The press gave col umns of space to it and it was con ceded that the New York Bar Associ ation had made out a strong case against the alleged delinquent. The matter dragged along for weeks, and finally, so far as the public was con cerned, was dropped and practically forgotten. Almost like a voice from the tomb, therefore, came the announcement a few days ago that the Justices of the appellate division of the Su preme Court of New York have just been hearing arguments on a motion to confirm the. report of the referee against the removal of Justice Deuel from office. Even lawyers had to rack their'memories and refer to records In order to establish in their own minds the status of the case, and the general public in a dazed, half-hearted way attempted to recall the salient features of the case and to realize what, if anything, had happened to the delin quent jurist. ' After this brief and sudden awaken ing the case Is likely to lapse further into a somnolent state covering many weeks of inactivity:, since the court has yet to pass upon the referee's report. Even then, as pointed out by the jour nal quoted. If it should turn the re port down and order Justice Deuel to quit the bench, all the life and force and moral effect of such an order as a deterrent influence would have been eliminated from it. For this the public conscience Is not to blame. It is simply impossible to keep public interest at white heat while courts dally for weeks with jus tice and lawyers industriously weave networks of technicality around the alleged rights of criminals. The Oregonian mention the programme for the maneuvers of the fleet ofT the mouth of the Columbia on May -10, but fails to tell anything about the fleet at Yaauina, which will undoubtedly be the loth, the day before. Why la The Oregonian so silent on the Bay maneuvers? Albany Democrat. Why, Indeed, should The Oregonian be silent about th'is or any other mat ter of public interest? But it has not been. It has had abundant news no tice of the efforts to get the fleet to stop off Yaquina Bay, and also specific announcement that they had been suc cessful. All this antedated the order for the fleet to stop off the Columbia River. Why should The Oregonian drag in Yaquina Bay, or Coos Bay, or Magdalena Bay, or any other bay, when the Columbia River is under dis cussion? Where, by the way, did the Democrat get its Information that the fleet is to stop off Yaquina? From the same source, of course, that it gets everything else that it learns and re prints about the events of the world at large The Oregonian. There is as much truth as brevity in the assertion that the man who does net want to work always has it in for the man who does not have to. And yet it must not be assumed that all men who have it in for those who don't have to work are men who don't want to work. , There is a whole lot of people who like to work and who do work, but who entertain a feeling of resentment if they don't get a fair share of the returns from their labor. Quite naturally their resentment is di rected against those men who don't nave to work Because they get an un earned portion of the product of those who do. The great majority of peo ple, rich and poor, like to work, but they also like to see results. The idle rich and the idle poor hate each other and both are detested by the industri ous rich and the industrious poor. tlndoubtedly the conference of Gov ernors will become one of the most valuable of the permanent civic or ganizations in the country. The body will be a representative one, and Its members will speak with an authority not possessed by men who attend the various congresses and conventions that are held from time to time. The action taken by the conference of Gov ernors at this and future meetings will have no small influence upon the United States Senate and House of Representatives. - The attempt by the City Council to put out of business clairvoyants and other "mystics," who, for pay, take a peep into the future for all who apply, will probably fail. Human nature loves to be humbugged, and why should it not pay for the luxury? This instinct can be driven to cover, but not eliminated. Hence the "mystics" and their followers will find a way to cir cumvent any law for their extirpation which they cannot openly defy. Now if Senator Bourne should sol emnly declare that he would not be a candidate for a second elective term and as a further evidence of his good faith should be urging another for the position, would he relish iq if some one should call his good faith and sincer ity in question, by declaring he must take it anyhow? Senator Bourne might yield, indeed; but that supplies no reason to believe that President Roosevelt would. Many of the delegates to the state convention had not been in Portland for two or three years. They were as tonished to see the large number of new business blocks that have gone up since they were here last. The con vention was worth while even if it had served no other purpose than to give the delegates from distant parts of the state an opportunity to watch Portland grow. There has been gross, abuse of the initiative and referendum power. By voting down all the unwise and un necessary measures, the people will discourage this sort of thing. When faddists and self-seekers learn that t"hey cannot work their schemes upon the people they will quit trying. Now, Indeed, supose we had had Lawgiver tTRen's recall in full opera tion when the late State Republican Convention met here in Portland with such amiable and benevolent purposes toward Senator Bourne. It would have "started something" mighty In teresting to Senator Bourne, sure. In the news reports of today it will be noticed that Senator Bourne sent a telegraphic dispatch, to bo read at the Republican State Convention. He seems to haveTnade the mistake of supposing that his news would be of interest to a Republican convention. Oregon's population is steadily and rapidly increasing. This is a good time for school districts to ascertain whether their schoolrooms are crowd ed, and if so to make early arrange ments for more room by the time school opens in September. 1 Sheriff Stevens certainly has "made good" in his office. Neither himself nor his friends are claiming for him in that regard more than his due. But Word, his opponent, was a good Sheriff also. The contest rests on per sonal and party choice. The French court holds that the un speakable McKees were unfit for each other and should be divorced. If unfit for each other, they are unfit for any others, and therefore only fit for each other. AVhy should they not be made to live together? It was harmony with a large H- SINGLE TAX l. NEW ZEALAND AH the Blrasinga of Prosperity Due to It, Saya Mr. Crldare. PORTLAND. Or., May 14. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian, May 12, i. J. Fording turns loose a mass of ignor ance and suspicions concerning the Sin gle Tax Amendment that ill-fit an edu cated man, such as he evidently is. His whole contentions are refuted in a few words by the Tax Commissioner of New Zealand in his official report, which was sent by special request to the British : Parliament. By the further fact that, after two years' careful investigation and consideration of the experience of New Zealand for over 14 years by the near-by Australian state of New South Wales, the latter state has followed the former by a more sweeping law that was almost immediately put into effect by a vote of the people in over 42 cities and towns. Says the Tax Commissioner of New Zealand: The rebuilding of this city (Welling ton, a city of 58.000) which for some years past has been rapidly going on, is largely attributable to the taxation of land values, so that the supply of build ing materials could not at times keep pace with the demand." Wellington has the single tax In opera tion, as .have many other cities in that state. None of the evils assumed by Fording have been manifest there. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." New Zealand has been eating it and calls for more. No community there has ever gone back to the old after trying the new. The same authority says further: The effect (of the single tax more sweeping than is proposed lr Oregon) is very marked. It has compelled owners of these urban and suburban lands to build or sell to those who would. It has thus caused a great Impetus to the build ing trade. An owner of land occupied by buildings of little value finding that he has to pay the same taxes as an owner having his land occupied by a valuable block of buildings must see that his interests lay in putting his land to its best use." Thin Is the exrjerience invariably in New Zealand and everywhere else wher ever the principle has been appllert ana to the degree that it has Dcen put. m force. Aeain ouotinsr the New Zealand report. which may be real news to the readers of The Oregonian: The effect of this (the local applica tion of the Single Tax) tends to reduce rents and values of residential sites by h lor-o-o increase of these made avail able. The form of speculation in land unused and held for a prospective incre- in rnrP V met W 1 1 R 111 fBL-fUL vuaio. Where this system has oeen on inai fnr mnnv vears It cannot oe oiscarui-u As well talk to the New Zealand towns titles where It is In operation 01 giv ing up their free institutions and asking China to send a Mandarin to rule over , II ..1 Read up. Read the amendment and do not De airaia. A. D. CRIDGE. Secretary Oregon Tax Reform Associa tlon. POLITICAL CONFUSION. Beat Described by the Term 'ConfualOM Worae Confounded. cwimtv Observer. Th Orrenn Observer Is a Republican newspaper. It was founded some 16 years ago as a Republican newspaper, and is maintained by the present owner and editor as a Republican, newspaper on me .tn nnvlntinn that the Republican party has in the past been of Incalculable value to the American Republic, and that the principles that party represents are necessary to the stability and prosperity of this great free people. Nevertheless the Observer has no word to say to its readers in regard to the state election campaign now in progress ,,t n-hirh "will end at the polls June 1. The primary nominating law - provides opening for great political trickery, and this opening was taken bold advantage of by the Democratic opponents ui mo re publican party. A political game was put up by the minority party and successfully worked out in the primaries. It has de moralized the political situation In Ore gon. This Democratic game has yet to be worked to a conclusion on June 1, and the Observer feels that- In the Interest of the Republican party it is well that our Democratic friends should play their whole hand on this occasion, and ac complish all they can. Then Republi cans who are sincere may govern them selves accordingly. Moreover. In the political confusion now existing, the Observer does not see that its advocacy in the present campaign could be of a particle of service either to the Republican party as a whole or to the Republican candidates who are -now before the people. It feels that the best thing to do in the interest of the cause is to await the developments of the next few weeks. A Principle In Imminent Danger. PORTLAND. May 13. (To the Edi tor.) I sometimes wonder whether the enthusiastic friends of the initiative and referendum principle in state gov ernment appreciate how much the fate of that principle may depend upon the success or defeat of the appropriation for the University of Oregon. The en emies of the principle will undoubtedly rejoice In the defeat of the appropria tion not because "they are opposed to it, but because they realize the im portance of defeat as discrediting the principle. Personally, I have always ti.micht thorp was much .in the refer endum principle to merit Its fair trial, and there are many of us who are thus frlendlv. If, however. It shall become a means of relegating the University of Oregon to the ecrap heap, the friends of the principle must not be surprised If our faith In It shall be so shaken that we become Its opponents instead of its tentative friends. Do the enthu siasts prefer to convert us as open ad herents to the principle or make us avowed enemies? We shall see. Who shall say that the fate of the principle of the referendum does not hang upon the result as to the University? ZERA SNOW. - The American I'rewt of Today. G. D. C. in the Providence (R. I.) Journal Let us not deplore the passing of the personal in American journalism if newspaper men merely cloak their names behind a mask that gives them greater power. In spite of all its freaky and yellow examples, the Amer ican preB of today is of greater influ ence than ever, because there are more good papers than there used to he. more able editors than there used to he. and more general adherence to the public welfare, upon which confidence III A lUiWrfUpti Imibt aiWU.VS tir UkjrU. The passing of the party organ, more than any othsr Influence, has contrib uted to the increasing power- of the really good newspapers. Those who criticise newspapers most generally draw their impressions from the yellow journals. Great Preacher. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Roosevelt is therefore one of the re markable phenomena of the age. He often errs, he Is not Infallible as a leader, nor what could be truthfully called a safe statesman, nor a seasoned, sure thinker; but as a popular teacher and preacher for the United States he enjoys a position of immense authority and a place of the highest value, for he is unequivocally, apart from his statesmanlike abilities or pursuits, one of the Influences which "warns with a loud voice and rules with a strong arm. and carries order and discipline into a world" which, but for restraining in fluence, would be a "wild waste of passions", and greed. GUILTV OF STKALIXG KORSES Jury Convicts Promptly When One of Gang Confesses. WALLA WALLA. Wash., May 14. (Special.) Testimony of one of the gang who turned state's evidence today re sulted in the conviction of John A. Mc Intyre on the charge of horse stealing. Mclntyre was supposed to be a member of a gang that last Fall shipped two carloads of horses out of ' Wallula country. Paul Kruger, his accomplice, told of the crimes on the witness-stand and it took the jury 20 minutes to reach verdict. Two more members of this alleged gang. John Tycke, Jr., and Richard Tycke, aged 14 and 16 years, Rre on trial for horse-stealing and when their case is completed tomorrow their father, John Tycke, will be tried. BLAMES HIS WIFE'S MOTHER Wealthy Alaskan Thus Answers Suit for Separation. SEATTLE, Wash., May 14. (Special.) That he and his wife could get along splendidly were it not for his virago of a mother-in-law, and that the latter and his sister-in-law influenced his wife and made her a party to a con spiracy to -get possession of his prop erty was the answer made today by Frank Becker, a wealthy and well- known Alaskan, to the divorce action of his wife. The court took the woman's application for a separation under ad visement. In her complaint Mrs. Becker says that her husband is a habitual drunkard and she fears to live with him. ONLY ONE OBSEHVES LAW Salem Saloonkeepers Retain Closed Fronts to Shops. . SALEM. Or., May 14. (Special.) Mayor Rodgers and the members of the license committee of the City Council made a tour of the Salem saloons today and found that only one proprietor had fully complied with the ordinance requiring that fronts shall be thrown open and boxes removed. The liquor-dealers were given three days In which to comply with the law. Challenge Liquor Men to Dehale. OREGON CITY. May 14. (Special.) While comparatively little interest is being tiken tn the country districts in the attempt to make a dry county out of Clackamas at the coming June elec tion, the fight Is getting warm In Ore gon City and the small towns of the county where the Prohibition element Is letting no chance go by to play a winning card. This is especially true In Oregon City, where the ministers have banded together in an association to drive the saloons out of business. Tomorrow night at the Shively theater, J. D. Matlock. Mayor of Eugene, will talk at a Prohibition mass meeting, ex plaining how Eugene manages to get along without the revenue derived from the saloon licenses. The committee In charge of the cam paign to abolish the saloons In Clack amas County has challenged the Retail Liquor Dealers' Association of Oregon City to a Joint debate. Want Roessler Retained. ASTORIA. Or.. May 1 4. (Special.) At a meeting of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce on April 27, resolutions were unanimously adopted commend ing Colonel Roessler. United States En gineer, for the excellent work he had been doing on the extension of the jetty and asking that he be retained in his present position. A copy of these resolutions was sent to Brigadier General A. Mackenzie, Chief of Engi neers, United States Army, and this afternoon a communication was" re ceived from him, in which he declared that whenever it became necessary to assign Roessler to other duties, his successor here will resume the Gov ernment work with no halt. Astoria's Festival Float. ASTORIA. Or., May 14. (Special.) The Astoria float for the parade at the Portland Rose. Festival will be "manned" by two people, a girl and a boy, one representing a nymph, sitting at the feet of a figure of Neptune, and the other a yachtsman. Miss Louise Wise, daughter of Mayor Wise, has been selected as the nymph, while Carl Thomas, a member of the High School Debating Team, will take the place of the yachtsman. Wireless Service for Alaska. SEATTLE, May 14. Plans for extension of the Alaska service of the United States Army Signal Corps call for the in stallation of new wireless stations at Nome, Fort Gibbon, Fort Egbert, Wran- gel and Petersburg Cannery. The pro posed wireless stations in Alaska will save many miles of land wires which need constant repairs. DEAD OF THE NORTHWEST Mrs. H. L. Nave. COTAGE GROVE. Or.. May 14. (Spe cial.) The funeral of Mrs. H. L. Nave, wife of Dr. H. I Nave, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this city, was held here this afternoon. Dr. and Mrs. Nave came here from Indiana seven months ago, the doctor having accepted the Western appointment with the view of benefiting Mrs. Nave's health. A week ago today, she suffered a stroke of paralysis, dyins Wednesday night. A husband and three sons survive her. One son lives in Seattle, the other in New York. GOULDS TO ISSUE MOKE BONDS Want S 150,000, ((00 to KciuihI Debt and Develop Koads. . NEW YORK, May 14. The Tribune tomorrow will say: An important further step was re ported today in the working out of the plans for financing the roads of the Gould system. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company, it is learned from trustworthy sources, is about to create a mortgage securing an issue of 150.000,000 bonds, authorization for which will be asked from the stock holders at a special meeting to be held within a few weeks. The bonds are expected to be 5 per cent and will run 50 years. Of the proposed $150,000,000 there will be re served $90,000,000 for refunding the outstanding bonded obligations of the company, the remaining $60,009,000 be ing available for future use in the de velopment of the property and for other purposes. ANNOUNCE NEW POLICY Government to Build Separate Post offices for Large Cilles. WASHINGTON. May 14. The omni bus public . building bill 'carrying au thorizations of $20,963,000 for new con tracts, and $2,1G5,000 for continuing Aid contracts, a total of $23,128,000 was to day reported to the House by Chair man Bartholdt of the committee on public buildings and grounds. There is enunciated in the provisions of the bill a new policy determined upon by the committee, namely, to erect separate and special buildings for postofflces in the larger cities of the country. DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS Republicans Who Sat as Delegates or Who Held Proxies. Delegates In the three conventions and their proxies were as follows: Baker (State and Congressional! A. V. Swift. William Tollman. W. J. Patterson. J. N. Hart. W. O. Ayre. B. K. Kennedy. V. G. Drowly. by W. J. Patterwon. proxy; K. P. Voruz. by Jlruce Dennis, proxy; James Chan-noi-k. Benton (StRtel J. R. Smith. George W. Denman. Ed. Williams. C. V. Johnson, A. J. Johnson. Clackamas (Slate and Congressional) T. G. Huntley. James I'. Campbell, Thomas F. Kvan, Chauncey K. Ramsby. Charles A. Miller. G. VV. l'rosser. J. W. Reed. o. L. Clyde, C. M. Lake. John Gibson. G. W. Clark, T. S. Stippe. by G. W. Prosser. proxy. Clatsop (State and Congressional G. C. Fulton, F. I. Dunbar. Robert Abbott. J. W. Welch, W. F. McGregor, F. J. Carney, Charles Gulllume. by J. C. McCue. Columbia tState Warren Quick. T. C Wales, John Southworth. Albert Freeman. J. B. Doane, G. D. Sutherland. (Congres sional) K. H. Flagg. Edin Ross. Harry West. Kasper Libel. Tom Morris. Coos (State and Congressional!" C. A. Pehlbrede. C. R. Barrow, by C. A. Sehl brede, Pete Loggle. J. W. Clinton, F.. A. Anderson, by C. A. Sohlbrede; R. H. Rosa, by F. K. Gettlnits. proxy. Crook Not represented. Curry Not represented. Douglas (State and Congressional A. C. Marsters. K. L. Miller. William Emery. F. H. Conn. John E. Love, Hiram Gallup, James Batty, by J. O. Newland, proxy; Frank Alley. H. G. Sonnemann. Gilliam (State and Congressional ) R. R. Butler. C. A. Danneman, George Ferry, by J. B. Goff. Giant (State and Congressional) Otis Patterson. Sam R. stott. by M. S. Montelth. proxy; H. E. Hendryx, by M. S. Montelth; George H. Cattenach. by M. S. Montelth. Harney (State and Congressional! Frank Davey. Willtam Hanley and William Miller, by Frank Davey. proxy. Jackson (State and Congressional! J. I. Pendleton, by Ed Bartlett; I. L. Hamilton, by Frank Pinnott: J. D. Hurd. by John '. younjr; C. W. Levar. by F. W. Hollls; J. W. Staples, by E. D. Brlggs; J. M. Wagner, by E. D. Brings; J. w. Bollinger, by F. W. Hollls; F. W. Hollis. Josephine (State and Congressional) A. C. Hough and four proxies for J. C. Camo bell. L. L. Jewell. W. C. Hale. George S. Calhoun. Klamath (State and .Congressional! L. F. Willlts. E. F.. Titch, by c. N. McAvthur and George Noble. Sr.. by Frank Ira White. Lane (State) S. M. yoran. I., ti. Potter, H. Vandberg, J. I. Jones, W. Kuykendall. W. G. Gllrtray. I. N: Edwards. J. II. Bell. S. rl. ITlendly. D. A. Paine. C. Cole. (Congres sional) H. W. Thompson. W. S. Moon, T. Wneler. s. B. Eaxln. F. J. Head. ij. I Monrhead. W. F. Walker. G. H. Kelly. W. G. Griffin. A. L. Brlggs. J. E. Martin. Lake (State and Congressional) P. F. Light, S. H. Ahlstrom, H. A. Hrat:am, by A. F. Clark. Linn iState and Congressional) F. J. Mil ler. E. D. Cusick. V. L. Marks. P. II. rv..!!ne. J. P. Carter. R. E. Warner. ('. H. Davidson. N. M. Newport. G. H. Handle. Malheur (State and Congretiotiai) 1. W. Hope, G. L. King. C. K. BeMlr.g. by G. 1 Kllg; G. A. Hurley, by I. W. Hope, proxy. Lincoln (Ftate and Cnngrr slonali li. A. Hen.'ll. F. A. Godwin. Frank K Kuke:-. Marlon (State) F. B. .Southv. Irk. John Knight. J. T. Valkenberg. W. .1. Clarke, w. H. Eldrrdgc. W. A. Taylor. ,T. W. McKlnnf, Fred Drager by C. B. Moores. D. H. Lnnne), H. A. Johnson, J. X. Smith. J. M. Poor man. H. A. Snyder by Alrx Lafollett; (Con gressional) G. B. Hicks. J. T. Hunt. J. V. Anderson. Charles Platts. 1.. T. Reynolds. Torn Kav, W. C Winslow, J. 1). Slnim-Mi?, B. F. Robertson. Multnomah (State and C.-r.gre.i!oria!) C W. Sherman. H. W. Cr.e, W. W. nenk. Frank F. Freeman, c. E. Lookwood. George Otten. Ben Selling. M.-Klnley Mitchell. A. V. Oi -ton. F. E. Reaen. C c. Newcastle. C M. Idlewan, Charles B. Sawyer. .1. W. Sher wood, J. F. Kertchem. E. A. Austin. A.' C. Cooke, Phil Metchan. Jr., W. E. William son, George K. McCord, D. J. tjulmliy.- II. M. Tilttle. John Miller. C. V. Hoivar.l. D. F. Hardman by L. W. Harriman, Thad Vree land. R. E. Menefee. H. S. Rot e. A. P. MHnley. J. H. Kelley, W. C. North. C. V. I'atton, S. C. Beach, J. J. Noonan, Sr.. E. L. Shaffer bv C. W. Hndpon. H. K. Collier. . K. Marshall, E. L. Raybum. E. C. Lind say. Tom Corder. H. T. Page Pr. Eminett Drake. E. B. ("olwell, T. Morris Dunne by Charles T. Early. S. C. Spencer by Thomcs McCueker. R. E. Sewell, Gcorce H. Wlltlanis. Polk (State R. E. Williams, r. S. I. aughary. G. L. Hawkina. G. I.. Kelty. R. H. Knox, J. C. Talbot; (Congi-tslonal) I. F. Yoakum, A. J. Baxter, Morris Fowle. p. E. Paddock. William Cadle. H. B. B.-ophy. Sherman (State and Congressional) L. Barnuin, J. J. Wiley, Ed Mrb.ee by K. V. Llttlerteld, proxy. Tillamook (State and Congressional) H. T. Botte. F. Severance, Carl Haberlarh by G. H. Lamb, i.roxy. Umatilla (State and Congressional) A. B. Montgomery by T. G. Montpomeiy. proxy: L. W. McComas. E. J. Sr.mervllle. Gus Winkler. A. B. Thompson. W. J. Furnish. F. S. Ou'-l. Herbert Boynton. I'nlon (State and Congressional.) John H. Ptare L. A. Wright. F. S. Hramwell. D. A. Barnes. W. .1. Snorigra.-s. C. A. lloyle by .1. H. 1'eare. J. D. Casey, Hairy Cook by L. A. Wright. ' Wallowa (State) F. P. M.-Cully, John McDonald bv F. P. McCnlly. F. A. Clnrk bv George Hlatt. .1. O. Kiddle by George lilatt; (Congressional) W. K. Holmes. Charles McDaiiicls and John McDonald by George Hlatt. Wasco (Slate and Congressional! M. A. Moody, N. Whealdon. .1. F. Hendricks. G. B Wood, Dr. E. E. Ferguson, H. C. Rooper, C. L. Phillips, Alex Stewart. Washington (State and Congressional) B. F Purdy, J. W. Hughe. Medford Laugh lln. John Ireland. A. N. Pavls. Kenton Bow man Charles Tlgard. William Butler. Herman Collier. , , . Wheeler (State and Congressional) John H. Putnam. Albion Kablcr J. 1. Barnhouse by W. H. Rarsc'.ale. Yamhill l State and Congressional! M. A. Baker. B. H. Evans. J. II. Rtese. John ftort man. Clarence Butt. G. M. Allen, J. I. Nichols. Lee 1-aughlin. SAILORS VISIT 17NIVEUSITT! Medals and Cups Tor Winners ol Sports Gift to California. SAN FRANCISCO, May H.-Tlie center of interest of the fleet festivities was transferred today to Berkeley, the site of tlie University of California. Athletic sports, including contests between college champions, attracted thousands. Medals weso given to the first, second and third men in each event, and silver loving cups to the ships represented by winning tearr.V In tliis city the prosramme included au tomobile rides for the bluejackets, street car excursions, balloon ascensions and vaudeville entertainments. A beautiful onyx and gold service whs presented to the cruiser California. Vliis. tlio second valuable gift to the cruiser, was subscribed for by citizens of this city, and consists of a massive punclihnwl with 21 punch "glasses," all carved from the purest California onyx and ornamented with California gold, the lettering being raised in solid metal. A handsome onyx stand accompanied the punch set. At tlio same time a beautiful onyx and gold lamp. Given by the. citizens of San Diego, was presented to the California. A luncheon to the chaplains attached to the fleet was given at the Falrmount Ho tel. During the afternoon baseball (tames between teams from tile Army and Navy were played on the Presidio grounds. An nil-night bull and entertainment wei o Kiv-en by the Gaelic Club at the spacious auditorium. IXSTHICT, DEMANDS BKYAV Rays Delegates Should Not Be Sent Without Order. LINCOLN. Neb.. May 14. In the Com moner tomorrow William J. Bryan, under a glaring caption, will urge the instruc tion of delegates to the Democratic Na tional Convention. He says: "Instructions to delegates nre the order of the day. Nearly all the states which have held Dernooratic conventions so far have instructed. This Is as it should be; Instructions are democratic. The people, speak througli instructions: they cannot speak in any other way. A failure to instruct turns the dele gates over to party bosses." Blackmail, Says Elder Fullerton. ST. LOUIS. May 14. S. H. Kullerton. the father of Robert W. Fullerton. who Is held in San Francisco on charges preferred agalnet him by Miss Gladys Hobart, of New York, stated last night that if his son is not released on the writ of habeas corpus he will probnbly go to San Francisco and accompany Ilia son to New York to meet the charges. Mr. Fullerton insists that his con is not guilty of wrongdoing, but is the victim of a blackmailing scheme.