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POKTUXU, FRIDAY, JII.V J, 1908.
THE SYSTEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
To the theory of "the people's
choice," in matter of election of Sen
ators of the United States, set forth in
a letter from Hood River, printed to
day. The Oregonian simply opposes
the facts, as proved by past and pres
ent conditions in the state.
The underlying principle is that ours
la a representative government and
the Constitution of the United States
has placed the power and duty of elec
tion of Senators in the hands of the
Legislature, whose members are repre
sentatives of the people. An intrusive
statement in the primary law attempts
t'. nullify the constitutional principle
and change the system. We shall not
deal with the statements of the Hood
River letter seriatim. That is not the
right way to meet error. The right
way is to state the opposing truth.
We do not get "the people's choice"
through this errant and fantastic
method. That is absolute. It re
Quires no argument. Everybody
knows it. Do you tell us that Oregon
is a Democratic state? It may be so.
M e shall see in November. Then it
will be clear whether Oregon is a
Democratic state or not; or whether
this talk about "the people's choice"
is truth or mere stuff figment to
truth opposite. Five-sixths of the
members of the Legislature are mem
bers of one party; yet they are to elect
the candidate of the opposite party to
the Senate!
It is a long tale of transparent fraud.
The seed of it is in the "statement,"
carried into the primary law, through
w hich men are pledged to abandon the
constitutional method of election of
Senators, so as to obtain conformity to
"the will of the people." It was an
excellent card for the minority party.
But the majority party has not acqui
esced in it. No majority party ever
will. For our system is a system of
government through action or agency
of parties. But here we have a juggle
of politics, under which the members
of one party are expected to elect the
candidates of another. To talk about
"the will of the people" in such a
business is the most palpable of ab
surdities. It begins in fraud. The method of
nomination it proposes opens a door
to perjury and invites it. Under it
men by thousands commit perjury by
registration under false colors, that
they may be in position to force nomi
nations on an opposite party which
produce disgust in the party in whose
name the nominations are falsely
made. This method of nomination
brings forth such candidates as
Bourne and Cake, whom the party
they profess to stand for will not sup
port. The shallow faction of the ma
jority party, aided by the opposition,
will always govern the nominations;
tut the consequence will be general
disgust and refusal to support them.
Bourne was nearly beaten, and Cake
was actually beaten: because the nom
inations made tinder such system in
the primary, resulting from union for
a common purpose between the tag
rag of both parties, never can get
support. Besides, such political misce
genation and cross-lift, such sophisti
cation, see-saw and syncretism in poli
tics, makes all earnest and direct polit
ical effort a farce. Party should be a
means or instrument by which men
who wish to associate for common
purposes can unite, with expectation
o? reaching ends or objects upon
which they are all substantially
agreed. But. at the outcome of this
bunco game, you find one party
pledged to the election of the candi
dates of the other party, to the high
"est political offices of the state and
Nation. And this is said to be "the
will of the people." Then a man is a
mighty simpleton to call himself a Re
publican; or he is an admirable dealer
li. the short cards of politics, who calls
himself a Democrat.
If men are to be Democrats, let
them be Democrats; if Republicans,
then Republicans. But away with
false pretenses and false use of party
names for false purposes. You start
in as a Republican candidate for the
Legislature, and come out under a
pledge to elect a Democratic United
States Senator. Excuse those who
want straight politics, and will have
straight politics or none. When men
vote a party ticket they want to know
what they are voting for, and that
bunco "statements" will not bring
them out of the effort in opposition to
the purposes for which they started In.
The primary law will stand; but it
reeds amendment, so as to offer no
longer a premium to one party to
force nominations on another; but
the attempt to compel one party to
fleet the candidates of another will not
stand, even in Oregon, and not an
other state in the I'nion will ever be
so foolish as to try to force it. To
the prediction that Oregon will adhere
to it, this Journal has only to say that
Oregon consequently will become a
firmly-fixed demesne of the Demo
cratic party; for if we are to have this
policy we must look to that party to
support It. Support of the Republi
can party will never be obtained for
the bunco game. It Is as repugnant
to judgment as the silver craze was,
and the holy ratio of sixteen-to-one.
There is a lot of people who don't
like the exaltation of fads and follies
and whimsies and the multitudinous
stuffs of deception and illusion, to the
rank of first principles: and these will
always have to be reckoned with. In
nil this there is no present censure of
. the Democratic party. It Is simply
"playing the game."
The utter Impossibility of a labor
union or any other organization on
earth ever equalizing the value of in
dividuals who make up that great eco
nomic force known as "labor" Is again
proven by the railroad reports since
the retrenchment policies became ef
fective. 'On every line of importance
In the country greater efficiency" has
been shown by the men than previous
to the panic. This is due to the op
portunity afforded the railroads to
weed out the poorer class of labor
that they are obliged to use when
work is plentiful and men scarce, and
to retain only the best men. In the
final solution of almost any economic
problem the workings of the old rule
of the survival of the fittest appear in
some form or other. Labor is a com
modity with a marketable value. That
value, as in the case of every other
commodity that Is bought and sold, is
determined by the quality. When the
good is scarce, employers sometimes
take an Inferior grade, but when the
supply increases they get the best, and
it always demonstrates its superiority.
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS.
The constitution says that "compen
sation of officers, if not fixed by this
constitution, shall be provided by
la." Which means, if it means any
thing, that wherever compensation is
fixed by the constitution. It cannot be
provided by law. If it were otherwise,
what earthly use is there for this pro
vision? If the makers of the constitu
tion had intended to permit the Legis
ture to fix the amount of compensation
they could and would have said so by
leaving out the clause, "if not fixed by
this constitution." They would have
said "compensation of officers shall be
provided by law."
The argument that the makers of
the constitution intended the salary
fixed therein to be a minimum amount
is a reflection upon the intelligence or
honesty of the men who formed the
constitutional convention. They said
that "the Governor shall receive an
annual salary of $1500." If they
meant that to be a minimum salary,
they should have said "the Governor
shall receive an annual salary of not
less than 1500." To say, therefore,
that the members of the constitutional
convention intended the salaries fixed
by them as minimum salaries is to im
pute to those gentlemen ignorance of
the English language or a deliberate
purpose to deceive the people to whom
the constitution was submitted for
ratification. In other words, the emi
nent gentlemen who now argue that
the makers of the constitution did not
mean what they said are charging the
founders of our state government
with being either fools or knaves.
The Oregonian prefers to believe that
they were honest in their action, that
they meant what they said and said
what they meant, and It feels certain
that no department of government,
legislative, executive or judicial, has
any right to read into the constitution
something that is plainly not there.
The constitution itself provides the
manner in which it can be amended,
and, whenever something is to be in
serted in the constitution, it should be
done in the manner prescribed.
BAUS VS. ULK.
The coming of another harvest, with
the price of grain bags steady at near
ly 7 cents each, has brought with It
the annual discussion of the merits
and demerits of the system of ship
ping wheat in bags instead of in bulk,
as is the practice in the Middle Wset,
where the greater part of the wheat is
used for flour. W. H. Reed, a mem
ber of the Washington State Grain
Commission, has issued an . elaborate
statement regarding the advantages of
the bulk system over that of shipping
in bags. As has frequently been
stated, the adoption of any system
which would relieve exporters of the
vexatious bag problem would be wel
comed, as the uncertainties of the crop
have always made the bag business
hazardous. The supply must always
be ordered many months before the
output of wheat can be accurately es
timated, and to meet contingencies it
Is nearly always in excess of the de
mand, with the result that stocks
must be sacrificed or else carried over.
The fact that the bulk system has
worked to advantage in the Middle
West, where practically the entire crop
is marketed for milling purposes, of
fers no reason for its adoption here.
During the season just ended more
than 32.000,000 bushels of the Oregon,
Washington and Idaho crop were
shipped by water from Portland to Pu
get Sound, while less than 15,000,000
bushels were used for flour, and the
greater part of this was ground at
tidewater, where it had been shipped
to be sold for either milling or export
purposes. Had It been shipped in
bulk It would have been solely at the
mercy of the milling buyers, for, re
gardless of the theories advanced. It
wtll be Impossible successfully to ship
wheat in bulk from the Pacific Coast
to Europe until completion of the Pan
ama Canal shortens the time and less
ens the danger of the voyage.
Even under the present systems with
grain stowed in sacks and secured by
shifting boards, in a manner impossi
ble with bulk grain, never a season
passes without some of the grain fleet
being damaged or lost through the
shifting of the cargo by the constant
battering of the fearful seas encoun
tered In the vicinity of Cape Horn. An
imperfect understanding of the subject
Is disclosed by Mr. Reed when he says
that "the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul and other transcontinental lines
now building into this state will force
the exporter to elevators, because
these new roads will have elevators."
The utter impracticability of the ele
vator system was thoroughly demon
strated in Oregon and Washington by
the late F. H. Peavey, in his time one
of the largest grain operators in the
United States. Mr. Peavey Invaded the
Pacific Northwest with the. usual East
ern contempt for anything that did not
originate in the East, and he built fine
elevators at every prominent wheat
point In Oregon and Waslhngton and
undertook to "force" adoption of the
bulk system.
The experiment was a signal failure,
no ships suitable for handling grain in
bulk being obtainable on the Pacific
and the endless variety of grades and
wide difference in the quality of the
offerings making it necessary to clean
and regrade all wheat at tidewater be
fore It could be put aboard ship. Mr.
Peavey, a practical grain man. could
not "force" adoption of a system that
was impracticable west of the Rocky
Mountains, and the new railroads com
ing west will have no better success
until the Panama Canal brings with it
another type of grain-carrying vessel
and the Northwestern farmer grows a
more uniform grade of grain. The
Western men may have fewer theories
than the new arrivals, but what they
have been taught by practice has not
been forgotten and there will be no
"forcing" on them of methods which
they have, after a fair trial, discarded
as impracticable.
THE DOCTORS AND QUACKS.
The Oregonian confesses to a high
opinion of doctors. They deserve it.
They deserve nearly as high an opin
ion as they have of themselves. They
are doing an Important and necessary
work in a most intelligent, scientific
and devoted manner. It does not de
tract from its merit or from their de
serts that they are, as a class, being
exceedingly well paid for it. They
should be. They admit it themselves.
We could hardly get along without the
doctors, and sometimes we wonder
how we are to get along with them, or
some of them.
Now we find the State Medical Soci
ety in session in Portland gravely dis
cussing the subject of quacks and
quackery and what to do about them.
One eminent practitioner turns loose a
flood of criticism against the newspa
pers because they accept advertise
ments from "irregulars" and intimates
that they are accountable for the harm
done by unscrupulous and ignorant
practitioners who pretend that they
cancure incurable diseases and who as
sume a skill and Infallibility that they
have not. This is a plain endeavor to
shift a responsibility that belongs with
the doctors themselves, and with them
alone. The doctors create their own
standard of ethics. If the standard is
ever raised, they will all tell you that
the doctors are doing It. If the stand
ard is lowered by the evil practices
of any of their number, then, of
course, some one else is to blame.
If the newspapers are to investigate
the merits of every claim or preten
sion made by an advertiser, or to as
sume responsibility for them, they will
soon have to cease business. They
will do nothing of that kind. Tley
never did; they never can. The ap
peal to the advertiser Is to the public
through the newspaper which is only
one of many such agencies. Its re
sponsibility ends when it confines Its
advertisements within recognized lim
its of decency and declines to lend its
columns to any palpable swindle or
fraud. An advertisement is just what
it is meant and understood to be. It
is an announcement by the advertiser
of the wares he has to sell, whether
material, personal, professional or
otherwise. It is up to the advertiser
to "deliver the goods." The public
understands all that. But is the news
paper the only advertising agency?
Certainly not. The billboard, the
handbill, the circular letter and a
thousand other methods are open to
the advertiser; and if he were to be
excluded from a newspaper he would
easily reach the ears of the public
through other mediums. In many
cases he does; yet for most part the
newspaper is looked upon as the best
vehicle and is most commonly em
ployed. The advertising doctor usual
ly has a license to practice from the
State Board of Medical Examiners,
and what newspaper is justified, in
accepting or refusing an advertise
ment. In going behind the official re
turns? If such doctors, or practition
ers, have no license, why don't the
regular doctors put them in Jail? If
they have a license, who gave It to
them ?
If there is any doctor, quack or oth
erwise, who is engaged in nefarious
practices, no one knows It so well as
the doctors themselves, and upon no
other class, except possibly public of
cers, does the duty rest to get
the evidence against any offender and
prosecute him. Or, if the laws are
not sufficient, it is the unquestioned
duty of the doctors themselves to in
form the Legislature where the de
fects lie and request that they be rem
edied. And they will be remedied.
But The Oregonian Is satisfied that
under the present laws in Oregon
there Is no reason why any so-called
physician engaged in unlawful or
fraudulent practices cannot be pun
ished if the doctors themselves will
undertake that duty as they should.
If there is one class of practition
ers more than another in this state
that merits prosecution, it is that body
of doctors which regularly engages
In the performance of criminal opera
tions. There is hardly a physician In
Oregon or anywhere that does not
know who such men are. Certainly
no others but the doctors are In posi
tion to learn. It is childish for the
doctors to assume or pretend that the
duty of stopping such practices and
prosecuting such practitioners rests
anywhere so definitely as It does upon
them. Who else may know but them,
and how may such malefactors be
reached' except through them?
It is easy enough to understand that
such a task would be disagreeable and
onerous, and any individual doctor
may perhaps be excused for shrinking
from it. But we hear much about the
high code of ethics among the doctors,
and about the admirable and unselfish
way in which they as a class try to
make the world healthier physically
and thus better morally. Yet It would
seem that if the physicians are teach
ing us correct ways to live well they
must also show the numerous pitfalls
and snares that are set for the unwary
and uninformed on every side. Who
can discover them so well as the doc
tors? Or is there aught In that justly
celebrated code of ethics that requires
them to be silent when they see the
fly walking blindly into the web of the
spider?
OUR EDrCATIONAI, SYSTEM.
Mention of the fact that leading
educators in all parts of the country
assert that Oregon's school laws are
the best in the United States serves
to remind us how willing Oregonians
frequently are to admit inferiority, and
how slow to declare superiority. It
remained for Massachusetts and Cali
fornia to tell us of our superior school
laws, for we hadn't claimed this sur
passing excellence ourselves. As a
matter of fact, our whole educational
system ranks with the best in the
United States, and only the fact that
our seaports and our proximity to
China bring us a class of ignorant in
habitants prevents our having the
lowest percentage of illiterates. Our
Agricultural College, with its experi
ment station. Is doing as much along
progressive lines for advancement of
practical agriculture as any other sim
ilar Institution, though perhaps it is
not making as much display as some.
Though our state university has not
as large a number of students and in
structors as such institutions in more
populous states, it stands second to
none when measured by success of the
men and women who have gone out
from Its doors. Not only In its laws,
but In its courses of study, the quali
fications of Its teachers and in the re
sults attained, Oregon is a leading edu
cational state and it proposes to keep
abreast with other states In this re
spect. Superiority Is not perfection
and we shall not be content as loiLg as
there is something better to strive for.
Nor shall we forget, aa we advance
from step to step, that it is our duty
t-j extend a helping hand to the other
states beneath us on the ladder. We
shall be pleased to have them copy
our school laws, our courses of study
and our methods of school manage
ment. While it will be necessary for
us to keep the best of our teachers
ourselves, we shall be pleased to have
other states send here for those we can
spare to help them elevate the stand
ard of public education.
The Oregonian, in fulfilling Its tfuty
as a newspaper, yesterday printed
some very unfavorable reports regard
ing crop conditions In the Pacific
Northwest. All mankind prefer read
ing good reports instead of those
which are otherwise, and The Orego
nian would like to print none other,
were it warranted by the facta in so
doing. While regretting that unfa
vorable climatic conditions have made
such a heavy reduction in the antici
pated yield of the three states, some
consolation can be found in the reflec
tion that this poor crop follows a record-breaker
of last year, and at least
half a dozen crops well above the av
erage of ten years ago. The out-turn,
in spite of the present conditions, will
undoubtedly reach proportions much
greater than those of a good crop in
the same territory a dozen years ago.
It should not be forgotten, either, that
we are no longer dependent exclusive
ly on wheat for our prosperity, and
there will accordingly be no serious
consequences to follow the smaller
crop than was expected.
Money rates in New York are lower
than they have been since 1904. and
not since 1900 has the volume of busi
ness on the stock exchange reached
such low ebb. These facts, with the
dates duly considered, illustrate quite
perfectly the tremendous influence a
Presidential campaign has on the busi
ness of the country. Unless the record-breaking
crops which are now
promised in the Middle West deterior
ate more rapidly, this midsummer stu
por will in the Fall give way to hilari
ious activity.
Senator Foraker celebrated Sun
shine day at Cincinnati by making a
speech saying Mr. Taft has a personal
ity that is perfect; but that he advo
cates the Roosevelt policies, which are
not perfect. Doubtless Mr. Foraker
would have preferred a candidate for
President not altogether perfect advo
cating policies altogether perfect. Far
be it from Foraker to assume that he
is perfect.
Willie Hearst is easily satisfied.
Commenting on the result of the re
count In New York, he asserts that it
is "more than satisfactory to me."
With Willie taking that end of the bet,
the public will naturally be expected
to believe that he would have been
grievously disappointed had the re
count showed him a victor.
Making English a required study in
each of the four years of the normal
school course was wise. No man or
woman ever knew English too well or
got to the point where no more could
be learned. Those who are preparing
themselves for the teaching profession
should be particularly well grounded
In English.
The critics who complain that Mr.
Roosevelt might have done more in
the trust-busting line are the same
persons who get greatly excited when
It Is suggested that he may yet do more.
Strange. Could Roosevelt do anything
to suit them, if he tried, which he
never did?
The firecracker and the old "swim
mln' hole" will now enter Into a com
petition to see which can get away
with the largest number of boys. The
boy who can escape the test of both
fire and water is entitled to be classed
among the fit who ought to survive.
A single block in Chicago, at Mor
gan and Thirty-fourth streets, a resi
dent district in the southwest part of
the city, contains 2172 men, women
and children. It Is doubtful whether
there is a more crowded resident
block In any city.
Seattle had a world's champion
wrestler who remained . a world's
champion until some one came along
and threw him. If we are not mis
taken, he is still champion of Seattle,
and that ought to satisfy everybody in
Seattle.
The pure food (which includes pure
drinks) law went into effect Wednes
day and hereafter only the pure stuff
can be labeled "whisky." But what
booteth the brand to the dweller in a
"dry" country?
A radical anti-injunction plank
might lose the Democratic party as
many good Democratic votes as the
free-silver plank did. There are plenty
of good Democrats who are not radi
cals. William J. Bryan expresses confi
dence that he will be elected Presi
dent, despite the fact that no candi
date from Nebraska ever defeated a
candidate from Ohio. Or anywhere
else.
"After twenty-two years of office
holding," say the press dispatches,
"Mr. Taft is temporarily out of a Job."
"Temporarily" Is not the word Mr.
Bryan likes to see used.
Perhaps the normal school question
Is settled, and then, again, perhaps it
isn't. Wait till the trading on appro
priations begins next Winter.
Now Is the time to provide against
that fuel famine which afflicts so many
people every Winter. Buy early and
avoid the rush.
Excursions into Baker County from
both sides should be popular tomor
row. Three "dry" days make a long
spell of weather.
Lest we forget. Ten years ago to
day the battleship Oregon served this
Nation at Santiago.
Anyway. Madam Anna will have the de
cency to marry Helie if she can.
WOMBX AND "THE SEW HOME"
Aot Because Thry Dislike Housekeep
ing: but on Account of Conveniences
PORTLAND, Or., July 2. (To the
Editor.) I have read with interest
your editorial in last Sunday's Ore
gonian relative to "the new home. ' in
which you speak of the changes which
are now taking place from the indi
vidual cottage life to that of the apart
ment dwellings. While you have much
to say concerning the economies and
advantages of the apartment build
ings, yet in your discourse as to the
reasons why families are changing to
the "new home" life, you indulge in J
some criticism or our sex, wnicn, wniie
doubtless unintentional, I know to be
very unjust.
You speak of the "patent fact that
women have lost their taste for house
keeping; they find it petty, futile and
degrading. This may be wicked, but
it Is undeniable." As a convert to the
"new heme" idea and also as a house
keeper who loves the work of keeping
house (especially on the apartment
plan) I wish to mildly protest in the
name of that portion of our sex who
insist on living in apartment houses
because this modern method robs
housework of its drudgery and makes
it a pleasure.
The apartment house is a success for
a two-fold reason, first because capital
can make a much larger return on the
amount invested than it can in sepa
rate dwellings, and second, because the
advantages in housekeeping are aug
mented many fold by the apartment
house plan. -
The features of continuous hot
water every hour of the twenty-four
is an advantage so great, that, like
many other modern inventions and
devices, we who get accustomed to it,
wonder how we got along without it
before. The heating of yie building
from a central plant is another most
invaluable feature. No petty wood
dealer's tyranny to bother with; no
wood or coal to carry up or utore
away, no splinters to poison or coal
lumps to blacken a womai.'s hands and
no ashes to cleam from the stove or
to soil the floors or carpets and to
rarry out.
The construction of "lifts" which
run from the basement to and above
the roof, through the tiers of kitchens
not only provide for delivery of house
hold supplies and necessities ii a
much better manner than by individu
al tradesmen, but also provide a means
of carrying away the waste front the
kitchen and table in less time and in
a more satisfactory manner than can
be done in individual hom.'s. They
also constitute a vent -ip which the
hot air from the kitchen stove rushes
and which Is constantly replaced by
cool air. This not oniy keeps the
kitchen refreshingly cool but carries
away with it all odors trom the cook
ing. These advantages and pleasures are
impossible in the individual home.
Many other features are now being
added in the shape of disappei.-ing
beds, which slide into recesses und-r
stairways and under false closet floors
no, o1"? , falSe walIs- anl wtiich
not only add to the room space, but
SaTl? 10 Sanitat- the in-
stJn"5 thtStUCtln f the """dings I
Lhi through the recesses into
- e"e. beds dlsaPPear there is a
constant circulation of fresh air
rwl!h!rmr?' the dust ralsed from the
?W.' g of carpet, cannot setu,, on
hnm.- ,JeSe facU e've the "new
home methods, advantages not only in
ofreVm Space for the same cost
of construction, but require less car-
fMn, furnlsh,"s for the same
more sanUarT the livln
It Is no wonder, therefore, that the
derunyent-K0Ut8Vdea srowhigw'n!
aerruuy. Not because women fin
"housekeeping petty, futile and de
fa more" bCCaUS U iS " .
savhnrf fCOnmlCaI- more llr
to th i? f. mre P'easi"-e, not only
to the housekeeper, but to the rest
of the members of the family-
MRS. LIZZIE F. ROGERS.
In Astoria, Too.
. Astorian.
The Oregonian of yesterday, has a
tha? PwSt ,aSaInSt the fiance graft
that Is becoming one of the rankest
menaces to business in the state And
we are glad to note that "there aro
can'of thSnr'a T brne about"" To
J h . oppression and there Is going
n?JS.0mlth!n!r d'nS" rBl"-f IS Tot
granted in short order and rational scope.
The evil has grown slowly, but it has
TkJ"? eXKc,Pedin hard. And now that
lined l bIK8e8t CUiea ln the 8,atB
lined up for a scrap against the down
right imposition the insurance barons at
San Francisco have perpetrated we ex
pect to see a general uprising 'all over
the commonwealth; and some profound
s' interesting statistics on the fire and
life Insurance business of Oregon, at the
office of the State Commission, at Salem
and a deliberate study of them will tur
nish a mass of fine fighting material.
Drinks 48 Botilefur. of Beer Sunday..
Baltimore News.
Judge Barnes granted Mrs. Belle H.
Grey, at Chicago, a divorce after he
Lea.1?ed , that ner husband drinks 48
bottlefuls of beer every Sunday.
A BALLAD OF THE OREGON.
July S, 189R.
By Hermann Hagedorn. Jr.
v V ,he cal1 ,hat ned you
a .uhav ne'-ed with ardor and might
Andh,e.nH0i "V". wl"i wave "P4 you
For the gulls of wsr are screaming
And the cry of tongues is loud
And the long-furled flags sre streaming
-Neath a wralth-born battleeloud.
And ths ominous roar and rattle
Thunders, thunders, founders on
Aid us. aid us. maid of battle.
Maid of waters, Oregon!
You have heard, you have heard.
Like a greyhound, like a bird.
Scenting far storm and war.
You have heard the call and come!
Tou have heard, you have heard
Of three nundred massacred
On the Maine. Maine, Maine,
In a peaceful port of Spain.
Let their cannon cleanse the Main
When wa come!
Is It war. Is It peace?
Still the thunders never cease.
Still the cloud of battle lowers
Blackening, paling in caprice.
Prom the Golden Gate at mom
Laughing winds o' March to scorn.
Hot your engines beat the hours
Pounding to the stormy Horn.
Sweep, sweep, sweep.
Through the South Pacific, sweep.
Where the billows, gliding under,
tp the towers and turrets leap.
Sweep into the ports and out !
To Magellan's, where the shout
Of the waves is as 'the thunder
On the mountains round about.
Sweep, sweep, sweep! -
Now the Horn sinks In the deep
Northward, northward, northward, north
ward !
God! How slow the hours creep!
Northward, straining plate and spar.
Llghtless like a spectral car
Cross you Punt Arenas' bar
Is It peace or war to northward?
Comes the answer, it Is war!
For swords are drawn In Cuba
And the ballets hum and cry.
And men lie dead In Cuba
That were strong as you or I!
And there's war's grim roar and rattle
Round Havana and Kan Juan,
Forward, forward, maid of battle.
Maid of waters, Oregon!
Sweep, sweep, sweep!
In the crow's nest, dipping deep,
For a Spanish fleet of Cadiz
Sharp the watch their vigil keep.
Oregon, great Oregon !
Feed your fires! The fight Is on!
Northward, where the great blockade la.
Forward, forward, Oregon!
Honor, honor, Oregon !
For the fight Is fought and won.
And. the glory of your faring
None shall cast their slurs upon!
Honor to the brain that planned you.
Honor to the souls that manned you.
Honor, nonor to their daring.
Honor to you, Oregon!
INDIANA' AS A " BATTLEGROl'XD I
Recalls Days When Tbat Pivotal State
Sto to Either Political Party.
Indianapolis News, Ind.
The Democrats of this state feel that
they have a pretty good chance of car
rying Indiana this year. Naturally,
therefore, they are interested in the
possibility of the nomination of Mr.
Kern at Denver as the candidate for
Vice-President. For that will make
more odds in their favor. The Demo
crats to win in the National election
must carry some Northern States that
have not often of late been foutid in
their column. Of old two states have
been looked at by them .quadrennially
with longing eyes Indiana and New
York. The association recalls the days
of the October elections when Indiana
was pivotal and indicative and effort
was made in corresponding degree by
both parties to carry the October elec
tion for a "pointer" and encourage
ment. The state was a National battle
ground. Here met the floods of elo
quence and of money, to consume one
another. It was of Indiana and what
occurred here in the October cam
paign that a high National (Repub
lican) official spoke publicly of the
"great efforts and soap" that had
been used by his party In bringing
success. The utterance has become a
historic register of the corruption that
was practiced without pretence of con
cealment in our politics at that time.
The October elections brought us
something else, however, than floods
of Eastern money and Eastern
"toughs" to repeat or to prevent re
peating. It brought us eloquence of
high degree. The best National speak
ers of both sides were sent to cam
paign in Indiana, and for weeks Indi
ana was the forum for a continuous
outpouring of popular political elo
quence. It was in the campaign of 1876 that
Robert Ingersoll "stumped" Indiana
and here delivered the classic period
beginning "The past rises before me
like a dream" a passage of pure elo
quence marked by the highest flights
of imagination, vivid with fire and
color, tender with pathos and all
couched ln a rhythmic expression that
almost gave to it the force and effect
of poetry. And that campaign was
marked in Indiana by every element
that made our political condition then
not only picturesque and pleasantly
memorable, but that made It also dark
and dangerous. The power of the
Government was exercised at the' polls
with almost "carpetbag" freedom. Pri
vate citizens were organized into cav
alry corps and into squads of foot
watchers. The scene was closely akin
to that of an armed camp, .while the
suppressed excitement and subdued
bustle had the powder-magazine sug
gestion. For all that, the Democrats
carried Indiana In October that year
and the "serried ranks" (all the
nomenclature was military) of the
Democrats hardly budged, repeating in
November what they had won ln Oc
tober. It is well for ns all that those old
days are gone. Their recollection em
phasizes the fact that our politics cer
tainly if they have not grown better,
have grown more refined. The open
ness of corruption and browbeating
that characterized those days has gone,
and gone forever. It Is to be hoped.
If the desirable features of public
instruction and entertainment have
also diminished it is a pleasing reflec
tion that they are not needed; that the
spread of intelligence, the accuracy of
information that now characterize re
mote precincts have made ,a more ra
tional if less spectacular public exer
cise. VASTNESS OF INLAND EMPIRE.
Fertile Region Tributary to Great
( olamhln River.
I.lppincott's Magazine.
To realize at least something of the big
ness of this Inland Empire, let us follow
the Columbia, which- forms part of Its
western boundary. "Oregon" is a name
which Is far more appropriate, since the
mighty river traverses fully a thousand
miles of the Oregon country in its course
from the snow-covered summits of the
Canadian Rockies to the sea. The Orego
nian remembers that it defines the north
ern limits of his state, but on Its way
southward it forms a bend truly majestic
in its proportions, even as seen on the
map. The territory which it partly en
circles is the "Big Bend" country the
western section of the Inland Empire,
which has for its eastern neighbor the
Palouse country, reaching far south even
to the valley of the John Day River, in
Oregon. Nearly hemmed In by the Rock
ies on the east and the Cascades on the
west, here Nature has created a
great basin which is a little world in it
self. In It are plateaus extending a hun
dred miles and more, valleys now known
to be of the greatest fertility. Much of
the surface of this great basin is as level
as a table; consequently the traveler may
be startled to come upon a craclc in the
surface a thousand, sometimes two thou
sand, feet deep, for here and there are
coulees where the Columbia and other
water courses in past ages literally ate
their way into the bowels of the earth
and have left these gaping fissures as a
sign of their power. There are a hundred
thousand square miles of this Inland Em
pire. It encircles five of the largest coun
ties in the State of Washington, not to
say the region which It embraces In Ore
gon. It contains mines, forests, and from
them those who have entered it are ex
tracting riches as well as from the tree
and shoot. Well can it be called the In
land Empire, for into it have come 300.000
men and women within a quarter of a
century, and 30,000 more are yearly swell
ing its army of toilers.
Concourse of Rose, at Paris.
1-aris (France) Cor. New York Times.
Roses will have an exhibition and
cor-test all to themselves next month,
when the first annual "Concours des
Roses," organized by the City of Paris,
is opened at Bagatelle, in the Bois de
Boulogne. The exhibition is interna
tional, and blooming contestants are
already beginning to arrive from Eng
land. Holland, Belgium, Spain and
Italy.
There is only one prize to be award
ed. This is a gold medal, which will
be presented to the professional culti
vator or amateur who exhibits "the
most beautiful rose." There are no
restrictions as to color or size. The
whole question will resolve itself Into
one of sheer beauty. Apart from the
scientists and florists who will consti
tute the jury, there will be a number
of artists and society women skilled In
such things. The City of Paris already
has established at Bagatelle a rose
garden, in which some of the most
beautiful specimens of that flower in
France may be seen. It is a favorite
place of pilgrimage for all Parisian
flower lovers. Up to the present France
has been pre-eminent in the matter of
roses. Foreign contestants, however,
are hopeful of carrying the gold medal
beyond the frontier.
A Novelty Wanted.
Chicago Journal.
Mrs. Swelldame. Oh. will you please,
Mrs. Grundy, give me the benefit of
your best judgment?
Mrs. Grundy On what, dearie?
Mrs. Swelldame Do you that is do
you honestly think happy marriage and
motherhood has become rare enough for
our set to adopt it as an exclusive fad?
Why It Drags.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Kansas wants 21,500 men to help
harvest the wheat in that state. The
great trouble is that one does not
have to pay dues for getting that kind
of outdoor exercise.
STATEMENT ' OXE A VITAL ISSVE
This Man Say. It's Now the Only Ques
tion Between the Parties. -
HOOD RIVER. Or.. July 1. (To ths
Editor. 1 I have been a reader of The Dailv
Oregonian for 3S years, and expect to con
tinue to read it as long as It Is published,
for It Is conceded to be one of the best
newspapers in the Vnited States. I nuit -take
issue with some of your editorials, for
the reason that I think you - place the
Statement' No. 1 men in the wrong light
before the readers of your paper. Like
yourself I am a free trader, yet you and
I both consider ourselves Republicans. That
Is. we feel more at home ln the Republican
party than we do ln the Democratic party.
Neither of us Indorses all the planks in auy
platform that the Republican party Mits
forth. Tour paper was rever a protection
paper, since I have been acquainted with Us
columns, as I remember. The yaper cer
tainly Is against protection now. except pos
sibly for revenue. If I can read aright.
Now you do not concede, neither do I.
that because you and I are free traders, we
cannot be Republicans on general ques
tions -that Is, feet, as I said before, more
at home In the Republican party than in
any other. If this be true, cannot men be
lieve in Statement No. 1 and be Republi
cans? i
I am a Statement No. 1 man. and Itko
all Statement No. 1 men. believe that ques
tion Is the principal question at Issue In
Oregon before both the great lartics. and
believe that It is paramount to all ques
tions of party, where parly alone Is con
sidered. 1 also believe that, should the
Republican party of Oregon declare agalnn
this live question It will forever be a mi
nority party In this state, until It stands up
for and indorsea the measure. I am confi
dent that you are wrong, when you say la
your answer to Mr. Allen H. Eatun, ln
today's issue. "A Juggle that buncoes a lot
of people, as 'Statement Republicans' In
Oregon were buncoed, will never become the
law of the United States, nor long bs the
rule in Oregon under any party."
Allow me to state here, that I do not
write this letter ln a spirit of argument,
but simply to let you know how I think
tne majority of the people of Oregon feel
on the subject, from the standpoint of
Statement No. 1 principle. I am alinply
one of the people, but I assure you that
the people by a great majority ara think
ing earnestly on this subject, and the State
ment No. 1 sentiment is constantly growing,
not decreasing, as you think. You do not
meet the farmers, country lawyers, mer
chants, lumbermen In fact the great com
mon people, outside the cities, as I do. I
tell you that nine of every ten men I talk
to on the subject, my neighbors and friends,
are Statement No. 1 men, or are inclining
that way. This principle Is the natural
result of the civic awakening that has been
Inaugurated by our "Teddy." I think it has
come to stay In this state, and that it will
spread all over the Union.
The thinking common people of all tha
states have their eyes on Oregon, and Oregon
today stands ln the forefrcnt of the battle
for civic righteousness, which can never come
through conventions and hold-up and sold
out Legislatures. This is my opinion, aa
one of the people, no mere, no less. This
question will become more and more su
perior to party, which for many yeara past
has simply been a hobby-hrrse for pol
iticians to ride into office, and keep there,
by and through the party conventions and
the bosses. The people will undoubtedly
make mistakes, but the mistakes will be
honest. Not so with the "bosses." Their
mistakes are often venal Intentional. la
not this a democratic government "of the
people, for the people and by the people?"
If not. what is It?
As between Democrats and Republicans
in our last election did not the majority
declare for Mr. Chamberlain? Is he not
the choice of the voters of these two
parties? Did not the people, by an over
whelming majority declare in favor of
Statement No. 1? Are there not possibly
some thinkers, honest thinkers. among
these voters who favor this principle, that
are as able to reason Intelligently on this
or any subject, as you are, and are they
not as liable to be right as you? Why la
it necessary for you to asperse the motives
or Intelligence of this great majority? You
have a right to differ, and you may be
right, but time will tell. Did not the Re
publican party at the National convention
Just held, by a vote of nearly 7 to 1 luin
down a plank in the platform, declaring in
favor of election of United States Senators
by direct vote of the people? You say that
you are in favor of popular election of
United States Senators. Has not the Re
publican party done this, though five times
the lower house has endeavored to get the
Senate' of the United States to sanction an
amendment to the Constitution giving to
the people the right to elect the Untied.
States Senators directly? Have not some -7
of the states asked Congr-iss through their
State Legislatures to amend the C'onstitu-'
tlon accordingly? What has been the re
sult? We are no nearer the goal than
before, so far as any help from our auto
cratic, plutocratic legislative-created upper
house is concerned. What can we do.ex
cept get the people to acting all over the
Union under Statement No. 1 ? 1 am not
a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, but I
predict that Statement No. 1 will sweep the
country, and your great paper will soon be
championing the cause of the people, which
in all candor I think you are not doing
now. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON.
Fli-lnu; Line la In the Far West.
Hartford (Conn.) Courant. Rep.
The Far West has become a mighty
factor in the National life. Bryan will
appeal to it with all his powers of
persuasion, and he directs his appeals
to discontent. Economists tell us that
discontent is the stimulus to work, to
activity, to ambition, to progress. The
value of things is determined by the
desire of those who haven't them to
nossess them. That's all right as a
proposition In economics, but ln the
hands of a demagogue that same dis
content is a very dangerous element.
He'll work it for all that it's worth.
It is foolish to consider the man
beaten, if he is nominated. There's a
stiff fight ahead. Just as Serious for us
as if we were on the firing line.
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DETECTIVE STORIES
If the unraveling of mysterious
crimes entertains you who will
admit the contrary? don't fail
to read "The Man With the Mas
ter Mind," a series that begins
next Sunday.
They are the chronicles of
Carlton Clarke, telepatho-deduc-tive
solver of criminal mysteries.
Each story is complete in itself,
but read the first to get acquaint
ed with this wonderful man. You
will be eager for the next one.
AMERICA'S MOST PROMI
NENT PRIVATE CITIZEN
Full-page combination picture
of William Jennings Bryan, at
various stages of his career, to
gether with portraits of his fam-
iiy.
THE HOTEL CLERK
ON LIVE POLITICS
"Will they nominate Bryant
Well, it's customary," he says;
Mr. Irvin thinks 1904 will go down
to history as the one year Bryan
was not nominated. All shades of
politicians will enjoy this essay.
THE BIG FLEET AT
HAWAII AND SAMOA
A traveler who knows tells of
the sights and the people that will
greet American Jackies in the
South Seas. x
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