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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1008.
IT IS ALL ONE SYSTEM.
Mr. Taft wants free exchange, free
trade, between the Philippines and the
United States. Why not? The Phil
ippines are within the territorial sov
ereignty of the United States. Mr.
Taft has repeatedly declared for free
admission of the products of the Phil
ippine Islands into our American states
-into our United States of America.
But the platform adopted by the con
vention that nominated Mr. Taft de
mands such limitations upon free ex
change as will "offer effectual protec
tion" against the sugar and tobacco of
the islands.
Nothing could more completely il
lustrate the narrowness and selfishness
of "protection." It is an abominable
idea, or doctrine, at its best; because it
implies the use of the authority and
power of government to give certain
of our people advantages over others.
Applied to the distant possessions of
the United States, it becomes .an un
speakable oppression, because its vic
tims are voiceless, and have no means
to help themselves. We must give up
the Philippine Islands, or allow them
free trade with the United States;
abandon them or permit free entry of
their -products into the country that
compels their allegiance and enforces
their submission.
The San Francisco Chronicle, ar
dently yet mistakenly devoted to "the
protective principle," nevertheless de
mands justice for these unrepresented
dependencies 'of the United States. It
commends the liberality of Mr. Taft,
who has insisted steadily on free ad
mission of their products into the
United States, and has condemned the
robbery that has the sanction of the
Republican platform. It says, rightly,
that when we forced these people to
submit to our authority "we obligated
ourselves In the name of all that 13
decent and Just to govern them with
an eye single to their interest." Fur
ther: "If we did not want the islands
on those terms we committed a na
tional crime against justice, our own
honor and civilization Itself to take
them. And their interests Imperative
ly demand that we shall give to them
free access to our markets in com
pensation for the special markets of
which we deprived them. And we
have never done it. We admit their
hemp free, as we always did, because
we want their hemp and cannot pro
duce it; but against sugar find tobacco.
the other great products of the conn
try, we continue to maintain a prohibi
tive tariff, and we do it at the behest
of two of the most corrupt trusts
which Infest and disgrace this Nation
All this is mighty right. Yet the
Chronicle declares itself in this same
article as "the most stalwart of pro
tectionist papers." It is a position
that will never hold. For if it is wrong
for two of our trusts to rob the peo
ple of the Philippines, it Is equally
wrong for these and other trusts, un
der cover of protection, to rob the
consumers of the United States. What
Is the object of protection against the
Philippines? To hold up the prices of
special products in the United States,
for the benefit of the trusts that con.
trol those products. What Is the ob
Ject of protection in general? The
very, very same; to secure higher
prices; that is, to compel consumers
to pay more for the goods they must
have, goods whose production is con
trolled by various trusts and comblna
tions, which, having the power, fix the
prices. Whether the trusts are en
abled by law to rob the producers in
the Philippines, or the consumers in
the United States, is all one to the
trusts. The whole scheme is iniqut
tous, from top to bottom, and then
back again, from bottom to top.
The Philippine Islands belong to the
United States. We compel their alle
giance; we should admit all their
products free. This Is the first part
of the lesson. The second part of it
is, that when we levy taxes, not with
a view to revenue, but to "protect"
persons engaged in particular indus
tries, by forcing consumer to pay
higher prices, we commit monstrous
injustice at home, as we commit the
same by the other process against our
distant possessions. All the parts of the
scheme form one stupendous whole
system of trust robbery. Mother of
trusts is tariff "for protection.
WATER GRADE TO PORTLAND.
"A waters-grade line of steel over
which both Hill and Harrtman will
operate trains between Lewiston, Ida
ho, and tidewater at Tacoma, is one
of the probabilities of the near fu
ture," says the Tacoma Ledger in dis
cussing a communication from the
Lewiston Commercial Club asking the
assistance of the Tacoma Chamber of
Commerce in bringing about a better
connection -between the two cities.
The only "water-grade route" out "of
Lewiston Is that which follows the
natural water courses of the couatry
down to tidewater at Portland. Be
tween the metropolis of the Idaho
panhandle and Tacoma lies that lofty
range of mountains over which
freight must always pay heavy toll
for tho enormous cost of liftine it. Rv
("Increasing the mileage from Lewiston
to Tacoma nearly BO per cent over
that from Lewiston to Portland, it
would be possible to get a better grade
than is obtainable over the Cascade
Mountains, but the stiff grades that
must be climbed between Portland and
Tacoma are far from being water
grades.
Any traffic that comes down over
the water-level grade from Lewiston
to Portland will find in this city all of
the advantages for water shipment
that can be found in Tacoma, 145
miles farther away and with the com
pletion of the big warehouses now un
der way on both sides of the river this
port will be much better equipped for
handling the business than any other
port In the Pacific Northwest. There
is absolutely nothing to be gained by
hauling the freight any farther than
the nearest point at which It can be
reached by the ocean carrier, and
that point is Portland. According to
the Ledger article, "few Western cit
ies have been more hampered in their
growth by unfavorable rail connec
tions than Lewiston and Clarkston."
This is perhaps true, for until the
opening of the Lewiston-Riparia cut
off, the cities mentioned are depend
ent solely on the over-the-mountains
route to Puget Sound.
Portland always has been and al
ways will be the natural outlet for
that rich Idaho country, but when the
Northern Pacific, in plain disregard of
the forces of Nature, built a railroad
down Potlatch Canyon instead of
down the water grade ot Snake River,
some of the business was diverted, for
even a railroad that Is forced to climb
two lofty mountain ranges before it
can reach tidewater has some advan
tages over no railroad, and Portland
until now has been without railroad
communication with Lewiston. The
Lewiston-Clarkston country is wonder
fully rich in natural resources, and it
.already supplies an immense traffic for
the railroads -and steamboats. This
traffic, however, will double and treble
now that better facilities are availa
ble. Fruit, stock and lumber supply a
heavy traffic for the railroads, but for
the present and for a number of years
in the future grain will supply the
greater part of the traffic for the
roads. Nearly all of this grain finds
a market beyond the seas, and if it Is
to follow a water-level grade to mar
ket it must come down the Snake, and
Columbia River route.
So long as ocean freight rates re
main the same out of Portland and
Puget Sound there will be no reason or
excuse for hauling the freight past
this city to the distant markets on
Puget Sound. That they will always
remain the same is an assured fact, for
the enlarged powers granted the Port
of Portland at the June election will
enable it to equalize any possible dif
ference which might arise between the
two ports. Lewiston and Clarkston
have been "hampered in their growth"
In the past, because Puget Sound was
the only port they could reach by rail.
In the future this handicap will be
missing and the commerce of the Lew
iston country will flow to Portland as
naturally and easily as the waters of
the Snake and Columbia flow to the
sea.
SHIPS GO TO THE CARGO.
The British steamship Wimbledon
sailed from Aberdeen Thursday with
3,000,000 feet of lumber, the largest
cargo that has ever left Grays Har
bor. This is a remarkable showing
for a harbor which a dozen years ago
was supposed to be unsafe for any
craft except small coasting steamers
and schooners. The change has been
largely due to the effective work of
the Government Jetty, and it is confl
dently expected that with its comple
tion there will be a thirty-foot chan
nel to the sea. With facilities that
will admit the dispatch of steamers
of 3,000,000 feet lumber , capacity.
Grays Harbor will have but slight oc
casion for worrying over its future as
a seaport. The most economical and
best-adapted steamers for all trades
today are the freighters of the Wim
bledon type, and they can carry lum
ber and other products into a great
many ports throughout the world
that cannot be reached by larger car
riers. . -
The theories of the greater econo
mies of the big ships as compared
with the medium type of freighters
have beep, rudely jarred out here on
the Pacific Coast, and while the levia
than Minnesota is sailing back and
forth across the Pacific with hardly
enough cargo to keep her in good
navigating trim, smaller craft in
great numbers are going out fully
loaded from other Coast ports. Grays
Harbor, less than 100 miles from Pu
get Sound, is not obliged to pay trib
ute to the "big-ship" ports of Puget
Sound, but can secure all of the ton
nage needed for Its business at rates
as low as those which are in effect
on Puget Sound. Kureka, Cal., for
merly a schooner port, Is now loading
3000-ton Bteamers, and Coos Bay is
also in the deep-water class. The
average carrying capacity of vessels
from Portland has doubled In the
past fifteen years, and more than 90
per cent of the tonnage afloat foday
can load to the capacity of the ves
sels and experience no delay In enter
ing or leaving the river.
Th'e ' country . tributary to Grays
J Harbor, Coos Bay, Willapa Harbor
s
or Eureka is susceptible of immense
development, and the harbors will be 1
kept In condition to handle the traffic I
to better advantage than it can be
handled through any other port, no
matter how large the ships may be.
On the Oregon coast, Tillamook, Ne
halem, Yaquina and Sluslaw will al
ways handle a certain amount of
coastwise business, but their greatest
growth and development will come
from railroad connection, which will
give them a foreign outlet through
the ports north and south.. Grays
Harbor has a number of large mills
located at different ports, and all of
them can be reached by" almost any
craft that can cross the bar.
The same is true of the Columbia
and Willamette Rivers, there being at
the present time no less than fifteen
ports between Portland and the sea
at which, ocean-going vessels .have
loaded lumber within the past two
years. This great increase in the
number of seaports along the Oregon
and Washington coast proves beyond
question the truth of that old com
mercial rule that the ships will go
wherever the cargo "can be reached
instead of the cargo being sent to the
ship.
HOW WE GET THE B-ESTl
The motorman, who was exchanging
glances with a girl, as some say, or, as
he says, was looking at the movements
of a fractious horse, was simply a
light-minded person whom any little
lncjdent would divej-t from duty. He
had no power of concentration, but
could be called from his work by any
trifling occurrence. It was easy, even
natural, for him to forget that life and
limb of two or three hundred people
depended on his vigilance. The strain
upon him was too great. Any little
thing diverts such a mind.
So often with the barber who shaves
you. Some trifling occurrence on the
street will arrest his attention. He
will look out on the street, stare at the
phenomenon, forget his work and keep
you waiting. A little dog trots by.
covered with a fantastic rug. It is of
highest interest to a crowd that col
lects on the street, and you have much
difficulty to get on by It, or past It.
The threshing machine must shut
down while the crew goes to the cir
cus. It is idle, indeed, to pass censure on
this disposition of average human na
ture. The redeeming fact is that aril
these people are supremely wise about
public affairs; and when they bend
their thought on matters of state,
through direct legislation and in other
ways, there is the general satisfaction
of knowing that human wisdom has
done its best and utmost.
CHILDREN'S DAY NURSERY.
A thoughtful charity, kind and un
ostentatious, is conducted in this city
under the name of the Children's Day
Nursery. The name, tells of care and
love bestowed upon little children
whose mothers must go out day after
day, either as the entire support of
a family or as assistant to the father,
whose earning capacity is not equal
to the family's needs. . It implies, at
a glance, the welcome fact that the
little children of mothers thus called
away from home, day after day, as
wage earners, need not be locked up
at home and left to fret and wail out
their misery without the attention
that is the birthright of infancy and
helpless childhood. It is a simple,
helpful charity that has root in the
maternal Instinct of protection and
care for the young that is a charac
teristic of true womanhood.
The arrangements for the care of
children in the Day Nursery are sim
ple and sufficient. From 7 o'clock A.
M. to 7 P. M. a motherly woman is
in charge as matron. The children
are not coddled and spoiled. They are'
managed with tenderness and firm
ness, fed with wholesome, suitable
food at noon and again .at 5 o'clock,
and have a nap between meals. A
kindergarten is maintained for. the
older ones, toys are provided and they
are encouraged to amuse or entertain
themselves and each other in childish
fashion.
A nominal charge Is made for this
service, which, in the aggregate, pays
the rent of the pretty home-like
building in which the nursery is now
lodged at Ninth and Burnslde streets.
This is not a clamorous charity
that begs its way from door to doqr
or constantly vexes the ears of men
in the business districts. Once a year
it asks public patronage for an enter
tainment or a game which bright
and active, members of the Fruit and
Flower Mission, under the auspices
of which the Day Nursery was estab
lished, work up Industriously and
energetically.
It will readily be seen that this is
not a charity that pauperizes its recip
ients. Each earner who brings a
child to the nursery in the morning
and returns for it at the close of the
day's work is required to pay a small
sum for the care and food given to
the charge. Cleanliness, too often
neglected in the poor homes from
which the babies come, is absolute
here, and with pure air, wholesome
and suitable food and regular habits
of eating and sleeping, the children
are kept well and happy. It Is, in
brief, a helpful charity, approved by
common sense and humanity; a prac
tical charity that does not release
parents from the obligation of earn
ing for their children, but enables
them and especially mothers to earn
without neglecting their young chil
dren.
ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL EDUCA
TION. What will they do with, it? We
mean with their education. We are
thinking of the hundreds of college
graduates who will be pouring forth
in a bright and beauteous stream al
most every day during this blessed
month of June. What will they do
with the things they have learned?
Have they learned anything in col
lege that will help them earn their
living? Some of these smiling grad
uates do not need to make their liv
ing. Providence has been kind
enough to provide the wherewithal
far. their material needs without the
exercise of either mind or muscle on
their part. Perhaps they are the en
viable class among the graduates
perhaps not.
At any rate, whether less enviable
or more, many- who now leave college
for the world must do something to
earn their bread. Will their litera
ture and grammar, their Latin and
algebra, help them in the struggle?
A little, we hope, ut certainly not
much. The person who earns a liv
ing In the modern world must do It
by the exercise of some kind of use
ful skill, skill which produces some- I
thing that will sell in the market.
Literature and grammar, Latin and
algebra, ornament the Individual who
learns them. They Impart to him
certain graces of spirit which are de
lightful to behold and delectable to
possess, but they will not sell. They
bring no price. A man might have
them In their perfection aftd still find
it impossible to get a job. This would
be a sad state of things, for it is a
job of some kind which keeps us all
out of the poorhouse or the jail.
Unless an Individual is forever re
moved from the necessity of earning
a living, his education ought to give
him first and foremost the ability to
get a job and keep it. If it does not
effect that primal purpose, it is a fail
ure fundamentally. If It does effect
it, then the education is a success, no
matter how much it may lack of the
ornamental, or the cultural,, to speak
in the accepted lingo. It is the great
misfortune of our smaller colleges
that a useful education is expensive,
while an ornamental one is compara
tively cheap. It takes but little
money to furnish an outfit for teach
ing Latin, Greek, mathematics and
literature; but to teach the sciences
upon which modern life rests, and
will move and more rest as time
passes, requires large endowments.
Hence it is to be feared that the edu
cation which a student can . obtain
in the smaller colleges will become
almost useless to him in the struggle
for bread. The result will be that
those who have to make their way
in the world will resort Increasingly
to the larger and wealthier schools,
while the small colleges, If they do
not sink to the position -of prepara
tory academies, will educate only the
sons and daughters of millionaires.
who do not need to work. This would
be a calamity, because the small col
lege does something in the way of
character-forming which the popu
lous university cannot do. Still,
bread comes first, and unless the
small colleges can discover some way
to teach the useful arts and crafts,
the law of survival will seal their
fate.
Reports on the coming wheat crop
in the Pacific Northwest are somewhat
conflicting, but prospects are good for
something better than an average
crop. Lack of rain early in the sea
son had the effect of cutting down the
yield in some of the "dry" districts,
and In a few plfcces there are com
plaints of rust. The Jim Hill mustard
and tarweed are also making their
presence felt in a great many local!
ties. Under the most favorable cir
cumstances from now till harvest it
might be possible to secure a crop of
60,000,000 bushels in the three states,
compared with about 58,000.000 bush
els last year. The crop of 1907 was the
largest ever grown in the Pacific North
west, and a repetition this year could
hardly be expected. With 50.000,000
bushels at prevailing prices, however,
coming right on the heels of last
year's record crop and good prices,
there is bound to be wholesale pros
perity in the country as soon as it be
gins coming on the market.
The block system is a wonderful de
vice for preventing collisions on the
rail, but it cannot prevent them if its
warnings are disobeyed. Nothing has
yet been invented that can absolutely
insure the traveling public against
those frequent lapses of vigilance on
the part of train and trolley-car oper
atives. The block signals on the
Mount Scott line were working per
fectly Sunday afternoon, but the fail
ure of a careless motorman to take
notice of them caused an accident
which might easily have been attend
ed with a heavy loss of life. Perhaps
one reason why loss of life is smaller
on foreign railroads than on American
lines, is that employes are more vigl
lant, employment of any kind In Eu
rope being sufficiently scarce to cause
trainmen to exercise care in retaining
their positions.
A considerable force is working on
the railroad grade along Snake River,
between the mouth of Burnt River
and of Grand Ronrie River, on the
Oregon side. This is an extension of
the Oregon Short Line., Ox Bow tun
nel, which . will cut off a bend of
Snake River, Is being pushed from
both ends. We may now expect to see
the work pushed on steadily till the
road is completed to Lewiston. This,
so far as we know, is now the only
railroad extension work going on In
Oregon, except electric lines about
Portland and the North Bank exten
sion from Vancouver.
Since Benson and Dlmond, on trial
at Washington for land frauds, could
not be convicted, none, probably, can
be convicted any more, in cases of
this kind. Juries get befuddled over
the mass of testimony In such cases.
can't follow it or comprehend its
meaninig, and "not guilty" Is their
shortest way out. It is evident that
the judge who tried the cases had ex
pected a different result from the testi
mony produced. Hyde, however, part
ner of Benson, waa found jrullty. Even
omniscience, so the old saw goes, can't
fathom the minds and. ways of Juries.
A 17 per cent increase in the num
ber of pupils attending the Portland
public schools is noted at the close of
the term last week. This is One of
the evidences of increased population
on which there can be no dispute,
The number of school children en
rolled at the end of the term last week
was 22,213, and it was not very many
years ago that Portland did not con
tain that many people of all ages.
Is Governor Chamberlain likely to
make it galling to Republican mem
bers of the Legislature, entangled in
the meshes of "Statement One," by
making speeches for and urging the
election of Bryan? Or will the exi
gencies of the situation muzzle him?
We should be sorry to witness in "Our
George" anything short of "independ
ence" in politics.
The School Board did a graceful act
when it promoted Miss Fannie G.
Porter to be principal of the Failing
School. For a number of years she
has been "next to the head" In that
and other schools, the only block In
her upward progress being apparently
her sex. Now this limitation is wisely
removed. .
Wait until the ticket has been rati
fled at the November election before
you ask any one to pass the pie.
Dr. Brougher - must hustle to get
ahead of Dr. Lapham.
SOME CA5TPAIGX ECHOES.
Mrs. Abig-ail Scott Danlway Dlacnaaea
Woman Snffrage Defeat.
PORTLAND, June 22. To the Editor.)
have finished reading the editorial
walling of my good brethren of The Dalles
Optimist, the North Bend Harbor, and many
other newspapers, to whose Journalistic
courtesy I am indebted for complimentary
subscriptions to their enterprising publica
tions durlnr the late electoral campaign.
which landed them and the women together
on the banks of Salt River, where we an
lie gasplne for breath, trie men or tne t.
O. P. having been stranded by "Statement
No. 1." and the women of all nam lea having
been caught In the twisting tail ot the
prohibition cyclone.
But there Is no great harm done without
some good occurring: and It does somewhat
comfort the women In this combination
of disasters to note the fact that not one
of these defeated wallers. The Oregonlan
Included, can say. as did Adam of old, "the
women did It"
Mv lamented and 'honored friend. Fran
ces E. Wiliard, the most brilliant but most
grievously mistaken woman of ner aay, was
not there to lead the G. O. P. into am
bush. The Eaiial ufrrair Association con
ducted Its quiet campaign along strictly
non-partisan lines, and the w. c. l. L.
contented Itself with a prayer-meeting and
water-wagon camnaian. leaving- Clarence
True Wilson and Mrs. Ralph W. Wilbur
to vote together In the company of thugs,
wlfe-beaters. home-deserters, saloon and
anti-saloon allies, "eminently conservative
men- ana men who spawn their progeny
upon charity, all of whom will vote as a
unit every chance they get against the
rights and duties of the. honorable mothers
of honorable men who, as yet, are in the
minority column.
Wail on, men and brethren! It will do
you cood to set a taste of "how it Is. your
selves." Meanwhile, the stranded women
of Oregon waach with quiet amusement the
handiwork of our ambidextrous Governor
as he detaches you from hl3 hook of
"Statement No. 1," and lands you wriggling
In the maw of his capacious creel.
ABIGAIL SCOTT DITNIWAY.
CELEBRATION AT ALBANY.
July Fourth Will Be Big; Event In
Up-Valley City.
ALBANY. Or., June 22. (To the Editor.)
From what I can gather at this distance,
like "a man up a tree." It appears to be
.settled that Portland will not enjoy any for
mal celebration of the nation's blrtnaay.
Some time ago an article In The Oregonian
stated that because of the great lnilux of
visitors from all parts of the state during
the Rose Festival, It would be fitting for
Portland to return the courtesy of these
calls by visiting various sections of the state
during the holidays incidental to the cele
bration of the Fourth of July.
I desire to Inform you that Albany is pre
paring to celebrate Uncle Sam's natal day In
a manner entirely befitting the Hub of the
Willamette Valley. We have planned to
begin the celebration on Thursday. July 2,
and to continue it until midnight of Satur
day, July 4, this- giving three full days to
the patriotic observance. There will be two
days of horse racing at the Bailey Race
Track, which is famed as one of the fastest
tracks in the Pacific Northwest. And it is
expected that the racing fixtures will In
clude speedy entries from all sections of the
Willamette Valley, from Washington and
from California, and that two days of rare
sport to the many lovers of the horse will be
the happy result. Patriotism, fun, rare
spectacles and entertainment will reign su
preme from early morn till late at night
during the three daye of the celebration.
There will be attractions of all Kinds and to
suit all tastes. There will be a grand show
of -prize stock, and a baby show, in which
will be enrolled Linn County's fairest and
most valued product. There will be parades
by patriotic and benevolent organizations,
the children of the pubUc schools, athletio
clubs; a Venetian water carnival on the
Willamette 'River, boat races and aquatlo
sports.
Albany will be decorated during the days
of the celebration with flags and bunting
and at night by streamers of electric lights
forming brilliant arches over the principal
thoroughfares. Bands of music will give
open-air concerts at various points through
out the city during the daya of the cele
bration, and on the Fourth of July there
will be a patriotic programme, the feature
of which will be a good, old-fashioned
Fourth of July oration by W. C. Hawley,
who has Just returned from a season of Con
gressional duty at Washington. At nlsht
there will be magnificent displays of fire
works. This patriotic celebration will ba the oc
casion for a reunion of the citizens of Linn
County, when they will show their patriot
ism by rallying 'round Old Glory. Every
preparation is being made to adequately
care for our visitors and to give them a
rare good time.
The purpose of this letter Is to invite the
good, citizens of Portland, who afforded us
such magnificent spectacles of charm and
brilliancy during the weeks of the Rose Fes
tival, to visit us and give us an opportunity
to make some return for their boundless hos
pitalities. They will find once more th at
mosphere of the old-fashioned, wholesome,
patriotic Fourth of July observance. In
spired by that fine spirit which bred the pio
neers who blazed the path of progress Into
a wilderness and who' have wrought that
romance of Industry and commerce known
today as Oregon the Empire state of the
great West. We form today the last re
maining West It 1s the best West, and It is
eminently proper that that patriotism which
spread the civilization, which is our proud
boast, to the western edge of the last West,
should here find Its greatest stronghold.
. We are 80 per cent Americans lo Oregon.
It is the Native State. We may therefore
be pardoned for Indulging in a good, old
fashioned Fourth of July celebration the
kind which has passed from the dwellers In
our great metropolitan centers, and of which
the newest generation has no knowledge.
Again, we Invite you of Portland, pur
metropolis, to come to Albany and hear the
eagle scream In the good old way.
B. I. DASENT,
Albany Commercial Club.
Cat and Chicken.
ARLETA, Or., June 22. (To the Ed
itor.) Being much interested In your
editorial on dogs and cows. In this
morning's paper, I write for advice: I
keep chickens; my neighbor keeps a
pet cat. My chickens are confined
within a six-foot wire fence; the cat
can climb the fence. I like chickens;
so does the cat, especially young chick
ens. As a result, the cat Is Inside the
yard much of the time, and my small
chickens are rapidly passing insiae me
Question: Shall I kill the cat at the
nrloe ot my neighbor's enmity, or quit
raising chickens? I must do one or the
other. My chickens have for four
months paid a net profit of 25 cents a
day. The cat is worth about 10 cents.
This Is a small question, but it de
mands settlement, and the case is a
genuine one. Please help.
CHICKEN-FANCIER.
How We're Capturing; Canada.
"Washington ( D. C.) Post.
The imaginary boundary between the
United States and Canada Is rapidly
disappearing in the Northwest. "You
nass through a broken wire fence,"
says Mr. Corbally. "and you are told
that you have left British and stand
on American soil; at the next house
you find that the farmer Is a brother
of him with whom you stopped over
night in Canada; as you ride through
his herd you notice many brands fa
miliar across the boundary. The land
is one: the people are one, and the
herds are mingled; the absurd fence
is broken down in many places. You
wonder how long that frontier the
barbed wire and the tariff will en
dure."
The Americanization of Canada Is
shown In the press, which takes its
style from the American newspapers;
In the American books and periodicals
found everywhere; in the hotels, th
barber-shops, the bars, and even the
clothes worn and the language spoken.
All are American. The influence of
Eastern Canada seems to have depart
ed entirely. The Canadians look
southward rather than eastward; and
as for England, It is very far away.
Dobs Wreck Dummy Rats.
Baltimore News.
Docks locked in a drugstore in Dar
by. Pa, thinking dummy rats used in
the show windows to display an ex
terminating powder were the real
thing, attacked the collection, and
everything in the window was
wrecked.
Ancients and Honorable Will Work.
Topeka Journal.
How are the mighty fallen. The re
nowned, the famous Ancient and Hon
orable Artillery of Boston, Mass.,
the oldest military organization In the
United States, is about to quit being a
private military company and become
J a part of the state minus.
HAMMOND'S UNDERTAKING.
Hta Recent Bis; Deal for Properties
About Aatorla.
Dally Astorian, Sunday.
Once again in the history of Astoria
the name of A. B. Hammond lies very
close to the popular interest, and
means much in a commercial and in
dustrial sense. Mr. Hammond has re
turned to Astoria and closed a big
deal for local properties, which, with
out definite figures for authoritative
use, must have ranged up In the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. This Is
very significant, for this successful
man Is not making wild Investments
overthe country, and, despite the claim
of many, that he never invests any
where until things are at "zero," in
dicates his confidence In the site and
aptitude of the place and port for big
business, and is also indicative of cer
tain reaction from the dubious level
of "zero" since he comes at all.
At all events, he is here, with, per
haps the biggest plant in all this
country on, his hands, and an infinite
and valuable assortment of specific
knowledge of the business and how to
run it. Taking the great plant of his
company at Eureka, with its 1000 or
1200 people on the pay rolls; Its vast
property. Its company homes, boarding-houses,
chapel, school, library,
baths, docks, yards, warehouses, fleets
of sailing and steam craft, and one
has a faint idea of what Mr. Hammond
and his associates Intend to make ot
this fine system at Tongue Point, pro
vided, that Astoria and her people do
their share In meeting the situation.
and sparing him, and it, the onus of
contravening .and Impeding policies,
public and private; not that he Is ask-
ng anything in particular, but his
renewed interests in the city and sec
tion, calls for the expression of pur
poses and plans that shall dovetail
with the developments he shall want
to make.
The fact that he represents thou
sands of acres of the finest timber
lands in this country; that It must be
gotten out, hauled here, and made
marketable, and then dispatched to
all corners of the country and the
globe, is part and parcel of that scheme
of development: and the logic of it
talks much more of this particular
point, than he himself will talk. In
fact, he Is not ready to talk for pub
lication, and says so frankly. He and
his people have every conceivable re
source and facility at their command
to make Astoria one of the leading
lumber ports of the world, and such an
end is worth playing up to. They must
be met half-way, at least, and no bar
riers set up that are needless or sense
less. Astoria must play her hand In the
game of up-lift as well as those who
come In here to do things on the scale
Mr. Hammond generally does them;
it Is poor wisdom to disparage and
obstruct, and the quint-essence of
sound business judgment to aid, con
tribute, meet and smooth things out,
for all concerned. - And if this big
company has come in here at the zero
hour, then the cue tor the new prog
ress is aptly at hand and it were folly
to overlook it. . So, Astoria can be
square and friendly and helpful In
this venture, without sacrificing a
scintilla of her right and prestige in
any direction.
In this same relation, it should not
be forgotten that Astoi.a owes-a debt
of no small proportions to the Hume
interests that are now closed here; for
years they have maintained these
great mills through all sorts of dis
couraging conditions, as well as under
more equitable circumstances; and at
all times have stood for the port and
done as much (and often more) as any
of the home concerns, for the advance
ment of Astoria. They have dealt
fairly and honorably at all times, and
there are none hereabout to gainsay
the character and credit of the house
of Hume.
BISHOP MEELV AND DR. RADER.'
A Word About Recent Statements Made
Through The Oreconlnn.
PORTLAND, June 22. (To the Editor.)
Bishop Neely's letter in The Oregonian
of June 10, which has just come under
my eye, demands a few sentences of
explanation from myself.
As a correspondent of your paper, I
deemed It my duty to give an outline of
every important movement connected
with the conference at Baltimore. . In
what I had to say about Bishop Neely
I was acting as a reporter, and the
things contained In my letters were
such as I discovered without using un
duly the Influence of my position or the
intimacy of my acquaintance with the
members of the General Conference.
What came to me that reached the col
umns of The Oregonian were such mat
ters as were current about the conference-room
in reference to Important In
dividuals. I did not then profess to per
conally know of the things of which I
wrote, but Hon. F. A. Hazeltine's com
munication In your paper of June 13 fully
establishes the rellabilty of my Informa
tion. Only one matter connected with
Bishop Neely's case, therefore, seems to
Justify an explanation, and that is in
reference to his nationality. I have
known 'the bishop for about a score of
years. By some process which I cannot
now recall, I have had the Impression
that he was an Englishman. It was
probably unnecessary that I should have
said this, but It had not occurred to me
that It was any reproach to him to be
of British birth, especially as Methodism
originated in England and owes to John
Wesley, the great Methodist, more than
to any other Individual. Then Bishop
Xeely is so much like that great church
man that we had always thought of him
as having grown up under like condi
tions to those which obtained in the
life of Mr. Wesley. It surely can be no
reproach to Biehop Neely or any other
American to be thought an Englishman.
As I wrote so many letters and dealt
with such a variety of subjects. In an
unofficial way, it Is a source of gratifica
tion that so little criticism has reached
my ears.
Thanking you for the very generous
way in which the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church has
been treated by you, editorially and oth
erwise, I am most truly yours,
DANIEL L. RADER
The Power of 13 States.
From the Nashville American, Dem.
In 1904 the electoral vote of thirteen
states elected Mr. Roosevelt President.
The total strength of the electoral col
lege was 476, necessary for a choice, 230.
The vote cast for Mr. Roosevelt by thir
teen states was as follows:
New Tork 89'Wisconsln 13
Pennsylvania .... 34. Iowa 1.1
Illinois 27jNew Jersey 12
Ohio :W California 10
Missouri 18' Kansas 10
Massachusetts ... l
Indiana 151
Michigan 14!
Total 244
Had Mr. Roosevelt carried each of
these states by the possible majority .of
one vote be would have had a majority
of thirteen votes. Had Mr. Parker re
ceived the entire vote in all of the other
32 states he would have received a pop
ular majority of over 6,000,000 votes.
The92 6,000,000 voters would have had
their hands tied by 13 states. As it was
the voters In these 13 states tied the
hands of 6.149,947 good citizens in the
other 32 states. Was President Roosevelt
elected unfairly? '
B leanings of the Turin.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Not many years ago Texas found very
little market for her snakes, but the tarf
iff has changed all that. This Spring's
rattlesnake crop In Texas is being sold
off In four-ton lots. f. o. b. cars at Aus
tin, for tlO.OOO. The price per snake Is
so low that every family may have Its
snake charmer. Monopoly, as Mr. Bryan
points out, h3 indeed a blessing to the
consumer.
DONS ARMOR OF O. A. C.
Writer Denounces Attacks on that In
stitution.
PENDLETON, Or., June 22. (To the
Editor.) Three different communications
attacking the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege have appeared in The Oregonian
within the past week or 10 days. From
the manner In which the letters are
written it is evident that the authors
are In a prearranged plot to discredit the
O. A." C. If they are, they are in the
most damnable scheme that has yet
grown out of Oregon's unfortunate col
legiate jealousies.
Who are these fellows that are taking
such pains to misrepresent the Agricul
tural College, in order to arouse a
wholly undeserved sentiment against
that school? Why do they not show
their colors, so that the people of the
state may see the motives that prompt
their envious yelps at Oregon's largest
educational institution? If they are Uni
versity of Oregon men. they are showing
rank Ingratitude, for had it not been for
O. A. C. votes I doubt if the university
appropriation could have carried in the
late election. Though a. graduate of O.
A C I worked and voted to sustain the
university appropriation and know many
other O. A. C. men who did likewise.
Members of the faculty and regents of
the, Agricultural College did so. Presi
dent Kerr and Dr. Wlthycombe both up
holding the appropriation. In public ad
dresses. So, it the correspondents who
write from The Dalles, La Grande and
Ashland are U. of O. men, It is time for
the responsible people of that school to
squelch them until they will be heard
from no more.
In the last communication from M. C.
Billings, the insinuation Is made that
O. A. C.'s big attendance comes largely
from Corvallie and that Corvallls is
profiting at the expense of the state.
This is Incorrect, for any one informed
on the subject may easily know that the
little Benton County town cannot fur
nish a very large proportion of O. A C.'J
1100 students. It is also asserted that
O. A. C. is usurping the high school field,
but the Ashland writer, if he has ever
seen the Agricultural College, knows that
the best part of the work given there
may not be had In high schools. Fur
thermore, If Informed, he knows that a
student may not enter O. A. C. until he
has had two years of high school work
and that the standard for admission wilt
be raised when conditions within the
state justify. At present, thousands of
young people within this state are eO
situated that high school attendance '.a
not practicable, and while that condi
tion exists they are entitled to admission
at the higher state schools.
The course of study at O. A. C. Is- a
matter for the regents of that school to
handle andthe same is true of the uni
versity. I believe that the intelligent peo
ple of Oregon know this and that they
will not be deceived by such commun
catlons as those written by Messrs. Wil
ber. Turner and Billings. If there Is
any school in the state that Is a bonf.
Ada blessing to Oregon, that school i.t
the O. A. C. It Is a school that rcachi
the common people of the state and it
gives a course of study that directly
benefits them in the everyday walks of
life. The entire cost of maintaining tho
school, if I am correctly informed, comes
from the Federal Government, and aU
the state has to do Is to provide suita
ble buildings. Surely Oregon can do th.s
much.
The writer from Ashland, whoever 1:
may be, threatened to start a referendum
petition should the Legislature appro,
prlate further money for O. A. C. build
ings. But the legislators wll learn how
much his arguments are worth, and if
Mr. Billings or any others ever become
active with such a petition, they will fin'
that some thousands of loyal-hearted O.
A. C. alumni will also be in the game.
And I prophesy that If ever an O. A. O
appropriation is left to the people of th.
state, the majority in favor of the
school will be so great that the two sur
plus votes for the university will not be
noticeable. E. B. ALDRICH.
THE BUNCO GAME.
The Way It Has Been Worked Oat in
the Politic of Oregon.
Western Oregon (Cottage Grove).
About three years ago the Demo
crats commenced calling Theodore
Roosevelt a Democrat, and joshed Re
publicans for having voted for him.
It was never made quite plain to us
why the Democrats. Vioted for "ways
that are dark and for tricks that are
vain," adopted Mr. Roosevelt into their
family, until the Statement No. 1 I
am greater than thou G. E. C. Pop
ular Choice circus was pulled off.
Now we understand. The Democrats
took another reef in their pants, and
hit upon the happy plan of "power- of
suggestion." They suggested to us
fool Republicans that Theodore Roose
velt Is as much a Democrat as a Re
publican. At first we smiled knowing
ly. When the "suggestion" was next
shot at us the "power" having taken
small root we looked silly; they sure
had us going. Then the doctrine was
handed out to us in large allopathic
doses throughout the state. Then
other suggestions followed fast and
followed faster; and we being under
the hypnotic influence of these Demo
cratic hypnologlsts, all they had to do
was to point a linger at us and we had
a "spell." So we were lined up on
about this line: Roosevelt a Demo
crat. No difference between the Re
publican and Democratic parties.
George E. Chamberlain non-partisan.
The direct primary law and Statement
No. 1 the great panacea for all our po
litical aches and pains. So we floun
dered around in our hypnotic condi
tion, until we got in the breach, and
the foxy George, aided by his mediums,
throughout the state, took first and
second place in the political arena of
Oregon. This shows, as The Oregonian
has often pointed out, that there is no
Republican party in Oregon. There
may be a. few scattering Republicans.
Of course, there may be a few In Ore
gon that do not believe the assertion
that there is no Republican party in
the state. George hasn't said so In so
many words. However, one of these
days he will wave his magic wand and
start down some road in Oregon, and
all the Republicans, so-called, will fall
In, with head slightly Inclined for
ward, eyes wide open In vacant stare,
and follow. When he shall have
bunched the gang, he will give them
his hypnotic sleep-producing stare, fig
uratively blow the G. O. P. In the air,
and then we shall He down like a foun
dered bull pup, and worship at th
feet of "Our George."
The Need of Saner Living.
Boston Herald.
Dr. Darlington's statistics concern
ing the Increasing prevalence of car
diac troubles among the American peo
ple are a warning appeal for a reform
In methods of life. Attention has been
called to the increasing number of
deaths among adults from heart
trouble, but It is mort startling to
know, that out of 275,000 school chil
dren In New York, 1.25 per cent had
heart disease in some form. Over 70
per cent were suffering from some
physical obnormallty. During the past
two years 1234 children In New York
schools have died from heart troubles.
It Is a sufficiently serious fact that the
present generation are wearing out
and wasting their life energy In the
unreasonable speed with which the
race is run. But that Is only a part of
the consequences. It Is more serious
to endow the coming generation with
organic weaknesses and to foredoom It
to the loss of life and opportunity.
Relegated.
Chicago Record-HeralA
The Senator from Oregon is relegated
to that Bourne from which stampedes
never return.