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Newspaper Page Text3 THE aiOKJUKG' OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, JUSTE 6, 1908. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. IBv Ma.il. Dully, Sunday Included, one year 18 00 ually. Sunday Included, six mtnm. . Dally. Sunday Included, three month Dally, Sunday Included, one month. . Dally, without Sunday, one year Daily, without Sunday, alt months. . Dally, without Sunday, three month Dally, without 8unday, one month.. .. 4 25 2.25 .75 6.00 3 2S 1.75 .60 SO aunday, one year Weekly, one year (issued Thursday) 1.50 bunaay ana weekly, one year 8 50 BY CARRIER. Daily. Sunday Included, one year. ..... .9 00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month 7 HOW TO REMIT Send postofflce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give postofflce ad dress In full, lncludlnc county and state. . POSTAGE RATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Fostoftlce as Second-Class Matter. 10 to 14 Pases i ceni I to 28 Panes cen" 80 to 44 Pages . 48 to 60 Pages 3 cents 4 cents Foreign postage, double rates. IMPORTANT The postal laws are strict. Newspapers on which postage Is not tuny prepaid are not forwarded to destination. EASTERN BCS1VESS OFFICE. The 8. C. Beckwlth Special Agency New Tork, rooms 48-50 Tribune building, t-ni-cago. rooms 510-512 Tribune' building. KEPT OS SALE. , Chicago Auditorium Annex: PostofTlce News Co., 178 Dearborn street; Empire News Stand. St. Paul. Minn. N. Ste. Marie. Commer cial Station Colorado Springs. Colo. H. H. Bell Denver Hamilton Kendrlck. 006-J Seventeenth street; Pratt Book Store. 11 Fifteenth street: H. P. Hansen, 8- Rice. George Carson. Kansas City. -Mcx Rlcksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth and Walnut; Yoma New Co. Minneapolis M. J". Cavanaugh, 60 South Third. Cincinnati. O. Yoma News Co. Cleveland. O. James Pushaw, 307 Super ior street Washington. D. C. Ebbitt House. 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Fort Worth. Tex. Southwestern N. and A. Agency. Amarilla, Tex. Timmons A Pope. San anclco. roster A Orear; Ferry Kws Stand: Hotel St- Francis News Stand; I.. Parent; N. Wheatley; Falrmount Hotel News Stand; Amos News Co.; United News Agency. 1414 Eddy street: B. E. Amos, man aer three wagons; Worlds N. 2626 A. Sutter street. Oakland, Cal. W. H. 'Johnson, Fourteenth and Franklin streets; N. Wheatley; Oakland News Stand; B. E. Amos, manager nve wagons: Wellingham, E. G. " (ioldlleld. Key. Louie Follln. Eureka, Cal. Call-Chronicle Agency; Eu reka News Co. rORTLAND, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1908. "SECOND ELECTIVE TERM." Senator Bourne's effort to force con ditions that would result in the nomi nation of President Roosevelt for an other term seems to have found its quietus. It is because Mr. Roosevelt meant what he said when he declared that he would not be a candidate for re-election. ButJlr. Bourne has seen fit to im peach his sincerity. It was unfortu nate indeed that he should have as sumed that the President was merely a demagogue a rank and dangerous demagogue. The President comes out of it without a spot or stain. But Mr. Bourne certainly does' not emerge from it with credit. The trouble with Mr. Bourne is that he is absolutely without knowledge of high principles in politics. With him politics is merely "a game." In Pres ident Roosevelt he mistook his man. But he is not yet "out of the game." We quote from Wednesday's San Fran cisco Chronicle: There are some people who call themselves "Koosevelt Second-Termers" who are delug ing the delegates to the Republican Na tional Convention with literature and badges looking to the renomlnatlen of President Roosevelt for a "second elective term." They have opened a "headquarters" In Chi cago. All this paraphernalia costs money. It costs a good deal of money. "Where did you got It. gentlemen?" A truthful answer to that quesLlon would throw a great deal of light on various other questions. The money certainly did not come from Presi dent Roosevelt, or from any friend of his. Of course, none of this literature is wasted on Oregon, where the Bourne programme was distinctly and spe cially repudiated and Taft delegates elected. Yet the phrase "second elec tive term," used in this literature, be trays its origin. Mr. Bourne orig inated it. The proprietorship, the copyright, is his. There Is every reason to doubt whether Mr. Roosevelt could be elect ed if the nomination were forced and the convention should adjourn. His declination has been positive, his dis claimer so absolute, his pledge to Taft so complete, that it is idle tor talk about forcing the nomination on him.. Is Senator Bourne alone in this business? If not, who are his coadju tors? "Back of every important mod ern political movement,-" says the Chronicle, "there Is money." That this movement is "important" we do not know. But the Chronicle says it is; it tells about the "headquarters" in Chicago and the "literature" and "badges" that accompany the effort. "Somebody," it adds, "is putting up money." Oregon is familiar with tha tale of similar "headquarters" (to compare small things with great) at Salem. THE PIONEER DEATH LIST. The annual death roll of Oregon pioneers, as compiled by the secretary of the Pioneer Association, comprises thirty-four names, most of which are familiar In the early annals of the state. They represent the lives of men and women who came her in their youth, impressed the stamp of active, useful manhood and woman hood upon the life of the community with which tfiey came in touch, and to a greater or less extent upon the civ ilization of the state, and passed on. The name of Rev. I. D. Driver, for ex ample, is closely associated with the vigorous expounding of the gospel ac cording to tho tenets of Methodism for full fifty years; that of Arthur H. Breyman recalls the beginnings of our early industrial and grazing interests; that of Mrs. John Ewry the days when neighborly sympathy ministered to the inmates of the home in which death had entered; that of Anthony Noltner the crude days of Oregon journalism; that of David Smith the primitive era of Oregon farming; that of Mrs. Sarah D. Owens the dauntless heroism with which woman met the dangers of life upon the frontier; that of Charles M. Cartwrlght and P. J. Mann the vigor and success with which, under primi tive conditions, the mineral wealth of our isolated state was exploited; that of Dr. Ezra Poppleton the simple methods of hearting, that sufficed for pioneer ills and ails. And so on throughout the entire list which was published in The Oregonian yesterday of the pioneer dead of the year from June, '07, to June. '08. Reminiscence in some quarter is ! busy wtafi each and every name in the list, making sad note of the fact, as ordered by Nature, that the pioneeYs are rapidly passing from the land. THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY." Now, then, you see how entirely right The Oregonian'-was months ago, when it said the Republican party is "a party that abdicates." This party has made such a fool of itself that, though it has seventy-six members of the Legislature out of ninety, it can't elect a Senator, The Washington (D. C.) Post epit omizes the' situation in Oregon. It says: "The -Republicans have placed themselves in a ridiculous position. but have no right to evade obligations incurred in good faith and with open4 eyes, and it is better that they be mis- represented by a Democrat than be tray their trust. Once free from the pledge, it is not believed they will ever get into such a fix again. The wor ship of populism has made them the laughing stock of the country." This folly, of course, will be imi tated by no other state. Let Oregon bear the designation of the "fool of the family." She is entitled to it. But it is hard on a state to get such a nairie. REPUBLICAN CONTESTS. If the Republican National Commit tee decides all of the 229 contests for seats in the convention which are to come before it and succeeds in keep ing all parties good-natured, it will perform a. miracle. Some of the con tests arose in Ohio through the mach inations of Mr. Foraker, who could make trouble even if he could accom plish nothing else: There are a few also from Pennsylvania, but by far the greater number come from the South. The Republican vote in these states is almost purely Imaginary. It exists on paper, but not'in fact. However, So' far as the National convention is con cerned, the fiction is treated as if it were a reality, and the delegates from the South will hold the balance of power and perhaps decide who shall be the candidate for President. For most of the Southern contests, as well as for those from Ohio, Mr. Foraker may be thanked. By his contrivance when a delegation had been instructed for. Taft a contest was set on foot by the negroes under his thumb. Sometimes perhaps there was ground for it; usually there was not; but of course that made no difference. His negro puppets were incited to do their worsin the hope that out of a large number of cases' some might win, irrespective of right and wrong. Should Mr. Taft lose as many as half the congests, he cannot be nominated on the first ballot in the convehtlon. Fishing in troubled waters would then ensue and nobody knows exactly what might happen. Although the trickery of Mr. Fora ker is at the bottom of most of the contests, he has the sympathy and perhaps the support of the political clique known as the "allies." This clique includes all the candidates who have no possible hope of nomination except through Mr. Uaft's defeat. Mr. Cannon is in it as well as Foraker, and with them in' more or les3 Inti mate conspiracy are Fairbanks and Knox. They are all pulling wires to win as many -contests as possible against the Taft delegates. If they can make the first vote in the conven tion indecisive, they expect demoral-r ization to follow. A panic may arise among the Taft delegates and some member of the "alliance" may turn out to be the lucky man around whom the fugitive forces will rally. Of course this is extremely Improbable. Mr. Roosevelt, who is working like a hero for the Secretary of War, is not a man to leave business at loose ends. All that can be done to prevent a panic will be done. No stone will be left unturned to win the contested cases for Taft. But,-after all, enough of them may be lost to make the out look dangerous. Much depends upon the feeling of the National committeemen. Contests of this kind are not always decided purely upon their merits. Other con siderations intrude. Factional Inter ests often prevail over abstract right and wrong. If a majority of the com mittee is with the allies, they will probably win most of , the contested seats. But from what is known of Mr. Roosevelt and his skill in political manipulation. It is much more likely that, the majority is with Taft. DECREASING FOREIGN TRADE. ',. The June statement of receipts and expenditures for the Government shows a deficit for the month of May of nearly $12,000,000, as against a surplus of $8,500,000 for May, 1907. This decrease is a continuation of tha slump in revenues which began sev eral months ago, and, a slrrglar show ing is not improbable for the ensuing few months before another big crop and a settlement of political differ ences eases the strain on our financial system. As will be noted in the sum mary printed in yesterday's Oregonian, the receipts for the eleven months of the fiscal year are $56,187,522 less and the expenditures $72,467,046 greater than for the corresponding period in the previous. year, leaving a net differ ence in revenues of $128,654,568. The heaviest shrinkage in the May receipts was in customs receipts, with internal revenue receipts a close second in the poor showing. An increase of $2,300, 000 on account of "warships," and of over $1,100,000 on pensions, made up the greater part of the May increase in expenditures. The showing, viewed as a whole, is not a pleasing one, but when the mag nitude of the operations of the Gov ernment is considered, it is not alarm ing. The Government is, in a way, a vast business enterprise. When the people are prosperous they spend money freely'for goods on which cus toms duties or internal revenue duties are collected. This Increases the profits of the Government Just as a good crop and ample purchasing power Increase the business and profits of the merchant who acts as the mid dleman between the producer and the consumer. The heaviest decrease In imports to this country has been in crude materials used for manufac tures. This reflects a diminished de mand for the goods which our own people have been manufacturing in part Tfrom the crude materials import ed. Studied more closely, it will dis close a decreased number of laborers at work in our factories and an attend ant decreased purchasing power. Individually, these unfavorable fac tors may not seem very serious, .but they show that the recent commercial disturbance was so widespread in Its ramifications that every line of bust ness, from that of the corner cross roads grocery to the United States Treasury, was affected in greater or lesser degree. Our exports are now falling off and will continue to do f(o until the new crop is ready for market. This, however, is not serious, for the factor to the greatest extent responsi ble for this falling off now was the unusually liberal heavy exports of breadstuffs which were dragge'd out by the high prices prevailing for thepast ten months. - COURTS OF ARBITRATION, Reports from New Zealand seem to show that the compulsory arbitration law is not working so well as might have been hoped. In spite of the mst advanced legislation in the world that blessed isle has its labor troubles and is looking for something more ad vanced still by way of remedy for them. The law requires disputes be tween employer and employed to be submitted to the court of arbitration before a strike is ordered. If this is not done, the union which orders a strike is liable to a fine. The report is that seven workmen were discharged from a mine because they were not needed, and their union, being offend ed, ordered a strike without appealing to the arbitration court. To punish .ilis violation -of the law the cour, fined the union $375. Meanwhile the Strike had been settled by agreement and theminers had returned to work. but when the fine was imposed they refused to pay it and struck again, this time against the court, evidently, Workingmen in the United States have never liked the idea of compul sory arbitration and reports of this kind coming from New Zealand, where the plan has been tried for a long time under favorable conditions, will not make it more popular here. Our unions seem to believe that their rights are safer under the protection of, their own strong right arms than under the shield of the law, and, tak ing everything Into consideration, per haps they are safer for the moment, But the time is sure to come in this country and everywhere else in the civilized -world when private wars will no longer be tolerated between work men and their employers. That they are tolerated now is only one among many evidences that civilization is still defective. How soon compulsory ar bltration, or something equivalent, Will come It would be foolish to try to pre dict. It may take a long time. . When we remember how many thousand years were required to force mankind into the habit of submitting disputes between individuals to the courts we are led toexpect rather a spacious In terval befofe the arrival of compulsory arbitration. In the end, however, strikes and lockouts must cease. The interest of the neutral public, which is seldom considered at all at present, cannot fail to assert itself ultimately and force some method of peaceful settlement upon "the belligerents. We may re gard this as certain, although Just now there are signs of an opposite tend ency. Not only do we show no indi cations of wishing to establish new courts for arbitration or any other purpose, but there is a clear tendency on the part of the people to distrust the courts we have, and on the part of the courts themselves to shirk their work. This work is the settlement of disputes by litigation, arid in theory it makes no difference whether the dis putes are important or trivial, large or small. The civilized world has agreed that it is better to have differences between, neighbors over a pig or a fence and differences between corpora tions over railroads and insurance sur pluses all settled in court rather than with fists and shotguns. But the pres ent tendency of the courts is to wel come large disputes between million aires and corporations and reject small ones between neighbors. An eminent Jurist has recently said publicly that the majority of men would be just as happy if access to the courts were denied them for the litigation of their petty troubles. This jurist is wrong. He forgets that the petty troubles of small men are just as important to them as the mighty en tanglements of corporations are to the corporations. And if the coifrts are not open for the litigation of disputes they will be litigated with high-handed violence. The discouragement of law suits sets a premium upon neighbor hood feuds. It is a direct incitement to murder. Make the courts difficult of access to the small man with his petty troubles and you destroy one of the great bulwarks which civilization has erected against anarchy. If the courts we have deem these little mat ters beneath their notice, then new courts ought to be established where justice to the humblest individual shall be cheap and speedy. Society is an noyed excessively, and great expense entailed, by petty litigation, much of which ought to be avoided; but the courts cannot be closed to such con testants. Cheap and speedy justice for the man of small account is something which society has not yet achieved. Much less has it achieved justice for laboring men considered in masses, which is the only way they can be considered under modern- conditions. The development of machinery has placed the industrial unit, the individ ual laborer, in a condition where he resolutely declines to be treated as an isolated person. He demands to be dealt with as an element in a mass more or less homogeneous. This de mand of the laboring man will be con ceded in the long run because it is simple Justice. The futile freedom of contract which . the courts- insist upon granting him will be super seded byx complete freedom of ac tion in concert with his fellows; but this freedom implies duties. Possibly nothing less than courts of arbitration with very extensive powers can enforce them. Perhaps some better method may be devised of compelling our war ring industrial powers to keep the peace, but in one way or another the task will surely be accomplished. The children's parade and drill in the procession on the East Side Thurs day evening was one of the most beau tiful and interesting features of Rose Festival week. The simple, dainty cos tumes, the pretty and graceful evolu tions of the squad, and the manifest interest of each child in the part that he or she was given to do, formed a picture -that appealed to the pride of parents and to the generous approba tion of the multitude. If the gay little marchers were weary (as doubtless they were), they gave no sign of it in lagging footsteps or fretful faces. No doubt prudent and judicious mothers removed all discomfort incident to weariness by tucking the children up snugly in bed as soon as they reached home and allowing them to sleep until noon the next day at the expense of a half day's unexcused absence from school. They say Oregon is a Republican state, and they will prove it by giving an overwhelming vote for the Repub lican candidate for the Presidency in November. Then if Oregon is a Re publican state, does it want a Demo cratic Senator? Is that "the will of the people"? Do words or names mean anything? Does, the history of parties mean anything? Does the his tory of the country mean anything? Of course Oregon will elect a Demo cratic Senator. Not, however, because a majority of the voters of Oregon are Democrats, but because the Republi cans have allowed themselves to be swindled in a bunco game. Paste in your hat that line from "Lalla Rookh" "Ye would be duped and cheated, and ye are!" It isn't a thing very serious, of course, and rather to be grinned at. But will "ye" be bun coed again? The tobacco trust is the latest of the tariff-protected monopolies to offer evidence as to the stringency of the financial situation. In New Tork Wednesday this infant industry de clared the' regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on the preferred stock, the dividend rate being the same as it has been for more than a year. No statement Is made of the amount that was placed in the reserve fund after making provision for this dividend, but it was probably sufficient to increase materially the sum that the trust al ways puts away, for an emergency which might arise whenever it became necessary to engage in throttling com petition. The amount shown in the dividend is only 6 per cent petv. year, but even this on a stock which has been generously inflated,' may mean all the way from 15 per cent to 25 per cent. Public school teachers have had a hard week of it.' It would probably have been as well for all concerned had the schools been dismissed for the entire week, since to compel at tention to lessons when a parade is in progress in any part of the city is impossible. If the Rose Festival is to become a yearly event, the school schedule should be rearranged in or der to avoid as far as possible the drain upon the energies of teachers and pupils Incident to a week's merry making in the last month of the school year. To meet this requirement suc cessfully, family outings must end with August, the schools be opened the first Monday in September and closed the first week in June. This may be accomplished ip a few years especial ly if hop-picking becomes a lost occu pation, as now seems likely. In some of the upper tributaries of the Columbia River the water is un usually high. But it is not general. The great river drains the western slope of the Rocky Mountains for a distance of 1500 miles from north to south; yet the flood from this vast area seldom or never comes all at once. It is most violent now in the basins of the Pend d'Oreille, Clear water and Salmon Rivers. Fifty years ago there was a sort of mystery about the annual rise In the Columbia, as down to recent times there was mys tery about the pulsations of the Nile. But the whole geography of the Co lumbia watershed is now known, and we hear the reports about the "June rise" in the most 'matter-of-fact way. Two million words of testimony have already been taken 'In the Gov ernment suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Company, and the record will be still further extended by 'an additional million words included in the exhib its. This is in keeping with the mag nitude of the Rockefeller operations, the Landls fine, and the length of time that wjll probably elapse before the fine is paid and the company dis solved. Here is a party, here in Oregon, that has elected five-sixths, nearly six-sevenths, of the members of the Legisla ture, yet has so tangled itself up with vagaries and follies that it has to elect a Democratic Senator and quit busi ness. What man of sense is going to depend on, or ever act with, such' a party hereafter? One John M. Brown was a Railroad Commissioner, or some such officer, down in Georgia, and Governor Hoke Smith, when he took office, put him out. Then Brown ran -for Governor against Smith, and now Smith goes out! Politics is a pleasant occupation elsewhere, as in Oregon. A Federal judge has gone on record as approving the verdict of the Idaho Jury that acquitted Haywood, "refus ing to be swayed by popular clamor." But the judge discreetly refrains from expressing any opinion that Haywood was innocent. The steamship Corwin for the ninth consecutive year is the first steamer to arrive at Nome after the opening of navigation. The Corwin 'was built at Portland a fact which undoubtedly accounts for her being first In the field. Opponents of Bryan, talking John son, declare that the fight at Denver is anybody's fight even yet, and that Bryan's success is by no means as sured. -Hearing this talk, the Bryan men answer "Too much Johnson!" i Mayor McClellan has gained five votes in his great contest with Hearst. The little Mayor also enjoys the slight advantage of having .the job well in hand. President Roosevelt has definitely decided to go to Africa and hunt big game. He hunts no other. It's ail Another reason why California sent no roses to Portland is that there are no California roses worth mentioning. OBJECT LESSON FOR WASHINGTON last Consider the Unhappy Flight of Oregon Republicans., ' Centralia (Wash.) NeVs-Examlner. Politics are certainly tPsy turvy over in Oregon, and the results of the elections held on Monday tend to make one waver in one's faith in the peo ple of Oregon being in sympathy with Republican principles. There has been such a lack of consistency on the part of the people in their choice of a United States Senator that one may well wonder whether they know Just what they have done. The will of tho people Is supreme, but when the. will is diametrically opposed to cojnmon sense one may be excused at smiling at the idiosyncrasy of the sovereign power, and for thinking that, after all, the constitutional method of electing United States Senators by the people's representatives is better than having them elected by the people direct. If Mr. Chamberlain . will represent the people of Oregon in the LTnted States Senate, how about Mr. Ellis in the lower House of Congress? If the majority of the people of Oregon are in favor of Republican principles, how will they like their representative in the United States Senate advocating Democratic principles in that body? It would have been equally absurd to have elected Mr. Cake to the Sen ate and Mr. Jeffrey to the lower house. It is more a queston of consistency than of politics. Mr. Chamberlain's ability is not doubted, but the politi cal faith that makes him a Democrat will certainly be antagonistic to those who are bound up in the basic prin ciples of the Republican party. It is probable that Mr. Chamberlain would side with Mr. Roosevelt In his fight against certain National evils; he might side with him, or with his suc cessor, against corporate aggression, against the encroachment of monopo lies; against the despotism of com mercial combinations; but these are not basin, political questions. All good citizens, and Mr. Chamberlain is a good citizen, are united in their opposition to capitalistic oppression, but on all questions that- are purely political political in a party sense of the word Mr. Chamberlain will vote with the Democratic members of the Senate. All his ante-election pledges will avail nothing, for did he not have the baslo Democratic principles at heart there would be no reason why he should not affiliate openly with the Republicans, something that he has not done, and something that he will not do. He has always been a Democrat, Is a Dem ocrat, and always will be a Democrat. He was elected a United States Sen ator as a Democrat by a Republican people, whose eyes were supposedly open to what they were doing. The election in Oregon should be an object lesson to the people of Wash ington. The direct vote of the peo ple is, in principle, at least, a thing devoutly to be commended, but every precaution should be taken to prevent the wishes of the people in one house of the' Legislature being annulled In another branch of the same Legisla ture. e . The evils Incident to the election of United States Senators by the State Legislatures might be easily remedied without any breach of 'the constitu tion, and without running any risk of the people committing any political in consistency. At the direct primaries each party could nominate its own candidate for the Senate, as was done at the recent primary elections in Ore gon, but the final selection could safe ly be left to the State Legislatures. By adopting such procedure neither Democrats nor Republicans would have any cause to complain. A Republican Legislature would elect the Republi can nominee, and vice versa. A desire on the part of the people to have Democratic representation in the United States Senate would necessitate the election of a majority of Demo cratic state legislators. This -would be consistent, and the minority would have no cause for complaint. . Vanishing Bison Comes to. Its Own. New York Times. By act of Congress, signed by Presi dent Rooseveltrthe plan to restore the American bison to its Western habitat has Just become workable. The Na tional Bison Society, by the initiative of its president. Dr. William T. Horn aday, who is superintendent of the Broxzoologlcal Park, has designated an area of 20 square miles near Missoula. Mont., for the new buffalo range; this the Government will buy and fence in, while the people of the country will be invited to subscribe $10,000 for the purchase of the "nucleus herd." Popular interest in the plan to save the historic "buffalo" has never flagged. There are still enough speci mens of this noble and valuable animal to fill with their domestic descend ants the plains; which their shaggy ancestors overran. There are ranges in the West, too, where herds of wild bison may perpetuate themselves, un der beneficent game laws, for many generations. Dr. Hornaday's patriotic! labor in collecting the money required for the first wild herd will not be un requited. Long-Distance Talker Measured. Washington (D. C.) Star. Long-distance talking.-'as it is called, is not difficult for a trained speaker. Such a man finds sermons in stones, books in the running brooks, and talk In everything. All themes lead to his tongue, and he can twist nearly any thing to suit his purposes. There are moments in such an exhibition when one applauds the ingenuity displayed. But necessarily there are periods of the most trying dullness, unenlivened by either wit, or logic, or persuasive ness on the part of the speaker. It was to protect the House against such dis plays that Thomas B. Reed rewrote the rules of that body, and put the filibuster largely out of business. Take a Long Breath, and Read. Chicago Dispatch. The "Swiss Gun Club" was incorpo rated at Belleville, 111., under this name; Schwelzerlschesscharfschuetzengese 11s chaft. the largest name ever submitted to the St. Clair County Court. If benevo lent features are added to the club, as the Incorporators say may be done, the name will be changed to Schwelzerls chesscharfschuetzengesellschaftun t e r s-.' tuetzungsxereln. Boy's Toys Insured For $25,000. Baltimore News. Young "Willie" K. Vanderbllt III. has so many toys, that he has to have them insured for $25,000. Many of his toys have been especially made for him. They are richly engraved and finished in gold and silver, and insured against all ills save death. Mistakes Identity Leads to Jail. Baltimore News. Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania, has pardoned J. C. White, of Detroit, . who has been In the penitentiary 18 months of a five-year sentence, the conviction having been due to mistaken Identity. WHAT IS THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE f Shall Legislators Obey Instructions of Their Own Constituents f SILVERTON, Or.. June 5. (To the Editor. What constitutes the "People's Choice" within the meaning of the pledge taken by a majority of those elected to the Legislature at the late election? This may, at first blush, seem an absurd ques tion to those gentlemen who were and are successful champions of the "State ment"; but it is not only a pertinent, but a vital, question to the true Republican who believes in the principles of the Re publican party and yet Is bound by his pledge to vote for.a man who belongs to a party which Is and always has been, in nearly all things, opposed to his. So ber reflection on the part of those elect ed to the Legislature as exponents of Statement No. 1 will inevitably cause them to realize that their first duty Is to the people who, according to the Con stitution of this state, they are called upon to represent. The "State of Oregon is divided into Representative and Senatorial districts. Each district is entitled to a certain number "of representatives in the State Legislature. The representatives from each district 'speak for and in behalf of their constituents and owe no duty or responsibility to any other portion of the state, except that of observing tho principle of "a square deal" In the mat ter of legislation and In general to work for the betterment of the whole state. As to the matter of ante-election prom ises and pledges, they are responsible to the people of their respective districts and po 'others; and a pledge or promise on the part of legislative candidates to vote for the "People's Choice" cannot by any reasonable intendment, if the "Statement" means anything, be con strued so as to compel them- to hold the will of their own people at nought and vote for a man who has been repudiated In their own district. Standing on the principle of the "Statement," it would be a direct slap and an Insult to the peoplo of their own districts if members of the Legislature would disregard the will of those whom they have pledged them selves to represent and vote for a man who has secured a bare majority in the state by reason of excessive majorities in thickly populated districts where po litical intrigue and dirty politics play the largest part in securing the "Peo ple's Choice." In Marion County thore are three State ment No. 1 men who will be members of the next Legislature. They have pledged themselves to the "People's Choice" for United States Senator. The people of Marion County have expressed, by their ballots, that Henry M. Cake is their choice. Will these three gentlemen dis regard the will of the people of Marlon County, to whom they are responsible and to whom they owe their election, or will they regard their pledge as a com pact with their own constituents and vote for the "People's Choice" for United States Senator? The same ques tion confronts members from several other counties and districts, and any other construction of the pledge of State ment No. 1 candidates places the smaller districts completely at the mercy of those more densely populated. If this construc tion of the "Statement," now that it has become a controlling element in the po litical affairs of the state, is not adopted, the "People's Choice" In the matter of selecting a United States Senator will, in the vast majority of cases, be the choice of the large cities. MILLARD A. S1ETZ. JOKE IS ON THE V. S. SENATE. Majority Has to Bow to the Bogey Man ' of Unanimous Consent. Washington (D. C.) Herald. In their way, the rules of the Senate are as bad as those of the House, and even worse, for tho House can at least transact any business approved of by the majority and the Speaker; but the Senate cannot effect its own will save by unanimous consent. It Is a situation that has called loudly for reform these many years, and it Is only poetic Justice that the very men who have been sweating under the filibuster are chiefly responsible for failure to Introduce some form of cloture Into Senate procedure. Only when a piece of desired legislation is threa tened by the exercise of a Senatoriuft right Jealously preserved by the old-timers are they hot for putting on the shackles. It ought to be done, of course, and there has been ample time since the last one man filibuster to set the rules in order. We do not believe that a vote on any legitimate legislative proposal should be obstructed in either house, after ample time for debate on it has been allowed. either by power reposed in the Speaker or by privilege lodged In a Senator. Wherever the rules of either house con travene ths simple principle they should be amended. The majority In any legis lative body should be able to have its own way; not a merely arbitrary way. but the way of the unhampered voting majority. Else the public business can not be responsibly conducted or legisla tive policies carried out. It was this con sideration which developed the existing House rules. But those rules go far be yond the necessities of the ease, and clothe the majority, and especially the Speaker, with too much power. They err In one direction as badly as the Senate rules; by clothing the minority with too much authority, err in the other. It ought to be possible to frame rules for both houses that would hamper neither freedom of debate nor tho right of the proponents of legislation to have it voted on. Doubtless a plausible argument for legislative obstruction may be offered when it is used to defeat bad measures. The trouble is that obstruction may be employed as easily to defeat good meas ures as bad. The best way to defeat bad legislation is to vote it down. If that cannot be done, the majority be comes responsible for it, and may be made to suffer for It. The people have a remedy at the polls for all legislative blunders. Dog Catcher Not Afraid of Bites. New York Herald. David Stetnfeld. of Montclair, N. J., who is known as the -champion dog catcher of the United States, is one notable believer in the fallacy of the theory that hydrophobia can be com municated through the bite of a dog, and he ridicules the idea that Dr. Marsh, of Flatbush, died from what New York scientists describe as rabies. Stelnfeld Is the official dogcatcher for Montclair. Madison, Nutley and several other towns in New Jersey. He has, according to his own figures, been bitten hundreds of times. "I have been bitten time and again by dogs that were afflicted with rabies, and I have never suffered 'any evil ef fects from the experience," says Steln feld. "As to the disease being communicated from handling an Infected dog, I do not believe that' such a thing is possible. I have captured 7000 dogs during my career, and in that number were scores that were deilared mad. I have captured them with bare hands when my fingers were sore from bites, and not once was I infected by the germs of hydrophobia." Head Escapes, But Legs Injured. Philadelphia Dispatch. Two bags of salt fell on the head of William Henger, of Philadelphia, which was not seriously injured, but both his legs were broken. Just So; It May Indeed Happen. Walla Walla Bulletin. The way Oregon went "dry" has al most caused Walla Walla to spit cot ton In anticipation of what may hap pen here later oh. Shooting Up the Battered Hulk. Grants Pass Observer. The constitution of Oregon will be shot full of holes by the time the va rious amendments are finally tacked on. BRYAN EASILY LEADS THE FIELD Nearly Three-Fourths of Delegates so For Elected Are for Ulin. New York Tribune, May 31. Sixty-four delegates to the Democratic National Convention have been chosen since the Tribune's last table of delegates-elect appeared. State and "terri torial conventions were held last week in Texas, West Virginia. New llampshiie and Arizona. Texas, West Virginia and Arizona instructed for F:y::n. New Hampshire did not Instruct, but six of the eight delegates chosen are und. l stood to favor Bryan's nomination. Of tue til delegates elected Biyau got 62. The result of the canvass of the pri mary election returns in Florida was an nounced on Friday evening. A:i Asso ciated Press dispatch lrom Jacksonville, published on May 22, was responsible for the erroneous impression that Florida had elected one Bryan ahd nine anti Bryan delegates. As a nwttfr of fact, returns from many parts of the stato had not been received at that date and the canvass had not yet been begun. Tho democratic Slate Committee now' an nounces that only four delegates were elected under the rule, wnich requires a majority at the first primary, and that the six others will have to be elected at a second primary. - The four elected are credited to Bryan. The call for th3 National convention fixed its membership at 1001", the Philippines being excluded from representation. Six Philippine dele gates have been chosen, however, and will apply for admission. Of the 735 delegates so far elected, 54t are in structed for Mr. Bryan or committed to his support by resolutions of preference or public announcements. Twenty-two are for Johnson, 11 are for Gray and 1S6 are uncommitted. Mr. Bryan has tho support ot 73.7 per cent of the delegates so far elected. The distribution by states, territories and dependencies among tho various can didates of the 735 delegates so far elected is shown in the following table: STATES AND TERRI TORIES. Alabama , Alaska Arizona , California Connecticut , Delaware District of Columbia Florida Hawaii , Illinois Indiana , Iowa , Kansas Maine Massachusetts ...... Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska New Humpshlre .... New Jersey New York North .Dakota Ohio , Oklahoma Pennsylvania ...... Rhode Island South Carolina ...... South Dakota Texas Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming ........... Totals 51-- ttn . . 'o!. . 111. 24! . til. Hi! 4; . 14' tlft; 1 1 . .14li 22 111 K.'i Note Contests 'are beins ma!'i for six Feats frm the District of Columbia by an uninstructed delegation. Total membership of the convention of lOUS, 1002. Neeessarv to a choice under the two-thinls ruie. 0i. Six-Leaf Clorei Mars Hominy. New York Press. Through fear that a six-leaf rlnver ho discovered iu the morning might mean bad luck. Carle Dunbar, of Ihytle ave nue, Jamaica. Queens, didn't half enjoy his Saturday vacation. Ho spent tho dny wondering what would befall him, and seemed surprised at supper time that th.i day had been productive of no great event. - The finding of a six-leaf clover is ex ceedingly rare. Dunbar, who is 12 years of age, found a nest of four-Jeaf clover leaves, which means good luck. a all not continued materialists know. Pres ently ho plucked a stem that had live leaves growing upon it. That filled him with horrow, as it indicates had luck. It would take all the four-leafed clovers he had found to offset the baleful influence of the live-leafed clover. He tore it apart and threw tho bits in different direction Just then he discovered tho fix leave growing upon one stem. -,a his knowl edge of tho bearing of ofoVi-r leaves on luck did not extend abo'lNS1' the five-leaf mark, he placed the six-leaf sprig In water and displayed It to all his friends. Few had ever heard of a six-leaf -clover. When DamroRch Leads. Mrs. Alice Harrlman. Seattle. When Damrosch leads, one feels a moun taineer Threading the forest glades, while hlsrlv and clear A lark sings In the blue, and drowsy bees Murmur content to every wandering breeze That stirs the leaves till pipes o' Pan we hear. Comes deeper note, winds rush and dom ineer; Comes Btrident cries, the heights rise boldly sheer; Comes crashing storm, all hell the mas- .tcr frees When Damrosch leads. Thus from the peace, the stress, discord austere. One learns life's lesson of the smile and tear: That seeming discords are but Gods de crees Misunderstood. Love rules our destinies And Jife is sweet and heaven is here When Damrosch leads. Snnke aod Crows In Battle. Danville (Pa) Dispatch to Philadelphia Record. A. D. St. Clair, a farmer of Valley township, was annoyed at dinner by a great cawing of crows near the farm house. Seizing his riile, he opened the door and discovered a desperate battle being waged withirt a few feet of the doorstep between a monster blacksnako and about a doziin crows. The snake was getting the worst of tho fight and was endeavoring To gr-t away, only to be headed off by the enraged birds. The battle lasted about ten minutea and was ended by St. Clair, who suc ceeded in killing the snako and several of the crows. The snako measurml six feet. Mexican Army Deserters Laalied. Baltimore American. "Instances of desertion from the army in Mexico are very rare and for tb best of reasons." said Sen or Jose de Minaldez, of Nucva, L,eon. "The reason lies in the almost sure capture of the fugitive and the certainty that he will get, not one, but numerous floggings on his bare back. These lash ings are done in the presence of the com rades of the deserter, and when the men see how great is the suffering of the miserable wretch who tried in vain to . quit his military obligations, they are forced to conclude tiiat it is better to stick to the army than to undergo such a terrible ordeal." Eats 15 Biscuits As Annex Meal. Kansas City Dispatch. Roy King, aged 17. six feet high and 176 pounds, of Whiteside', Mo., eats 15 bis cuits with a full meal and tops off with a big supply of dessert. Dog nans 17 Mlies In 4.1 Minutes. A mad dog near Oakland City, Ind ran 17 miles In 45 minutes.