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8 THE MORNING OR EG ONI AX, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1908. (Ufa togmmm Entered at Portland. Oregon, FostofOce aa Eecond-Claaa Matter. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) ' M Daily. Sunday Included, one year 8 .00 Dally. Sunday Included, six montha 4.23 Dally. Sunday included, three months. 2.J Dally, Sunday Included, ona month.... .i Dally without Sunday, ona year - 8-00 Dally, without Sunday, six months..... 8.2o Dally, without Sunday, three month!.. 1.7." Dally, without Sunday, one month .60 Sunday, one year .&0 Sunday and Weekly, one year. ...... 3.00 (By Carrier. Dally. Sunday Included, one year 900 Dally. Sunday Included, one month.... .75 How to Remit Send postofnee money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad dress In full, including; county and state. Postage Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent; 14 to 28 pages, 2 cents; 30 to 44 pages. 3 cents; 40 to 60 pages. 4 centa Foreign post age double rates. Eastern Business Office The B. C. Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 CO Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610-S12 Tribune building. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY tt. 1808. A COMPREHENSIVE SPEECH. Mr. Taft's speech Is before the country. It ia careful. Judicious, mod erate, yet incisive, and therefore char acteristic of its author. There is not a declamatory phrase in it. Its tone and temper throughout is that of the well-balanced judicial mind. There is no discussion of abstract politics; no dissertation on past "Issues" between parties. Everything Is addressed directly to the conditions and to the affairs of the present time. The speech, almost wholly, deals with the economic questions of the present day. The Democratic party has been anxious to escape from its history of the past time, and this speech meets it upon the "issues" of the present day and hour. It is a discourse in the easy style of a popular address, as such a speech should be; not in the close and severe language of an opinion from the bench, nor yet in the manner of a studied message of the President or of an oration on some special occasion from the Senate. It is, rather, a fa miliar discourse to the people of the United States, on the subjects directly presented to the electorate, in the po litical debate of the present year. There Isn't a particle of buncombe in the speech. It is long, but the many subjects could not be dealt with in less time or space. Besides, the character of the man stands out in the speech. It is peculiarly his own. Every topic is dealt with freshly and Independently. The country has the railroads to deal with, the trusts and the claims of labor. They must be dealt with in the judicial spirit; and this speech is the outline of a just and effective policy. It will not satis fy everybody; for nothing Is easier than to hammer away at abuses, and howl and yowl for reform, without proposing any rational or practicable remedy. Taft's analysis of the fu tilities of the anti-injunction plank of the Bryan platform is a piece of work that could not be Improved. The ex posure of the juggle is complete. ' Reasonable and just regulation of corporations is necessary; for they are not to be destroyed, root and branch. Mr. Taft's suggestions for their regu lation are of practical and effective nature, not windy declamation. And because they are sane and reasonable, and will prove effective, they will in the long run prevail, while radical and extreme measures will only invite defeat and failure. The speech is long, but the subjects ere topically treated; therefore It may be read In portions and sections, and the remarks on any topic may be con sulted when desired. The Oregonian does not agree with all the positions taken by Mr. Taft, upon the many subjects covered by his speech; yet it must commend the speech as a whole, as worthy of the man and of the posi tion he occupies before the American people. It will be examined from time to time, in specific detail. THE RISE IN STOCKS. Nearly all of the prominent railroad and industrial stocks are scoring heavy advances, and a Chicago statis tician has figured out that, since low- water mark was reached late In 1907, there has been an appreciation in the value of 175 leading securities of more than $2,614,000,000. When this up ward movement began, it was credited to manipulation on the part of Wall street Interests, endeavoring to make en artificial showing for the purpose of financing some big bond issues. Re cent developments, however, disclose the fact that the strength of the stock market is not due to artificial condi tions. It is simply an assertion of the old law of supply and demand, the commodity at issue in this case being money. The situation also corrobor ates the oft-repeated statement that it was not scarcity of money, but scar city of oonfldence, that caused all the trouble last Fall. The advance In the stock market is due to the Increasing stocks of money which find in present prices for rail road and Industrial stocks satisfactory Investment. When call money was soaring to record-br?aking height Inst Fall, and time loans were almost unobtainable. In some cases at rates as high as eight per cent., with heavy - bonuses paid, there was no Incentive to do anything with stocks except to sell them and loan the money. Now the situation is reversed. Sixty-day loans are quoted dull In New York at two per cent., ninety-day loans at two and a half per cent., six months at four per cent., with prime mercantile paper not too plentiful at three and a half to four per cent. New York Central, a standard security, which went into the dumps along with all other railroad shnres last Fall, has climbed back up around 109. and as It is a five per cent, stock, it will pay on that figure some thing better than four and a half per cent. Northern Pacific. I'nion Pacific and a number of other standard securities will pay as much as, and some of thorn more than, five per cent. As an investment, they are accordingly much preferable to the cheap rates that are offered for mercantile paper or loans." With no desire to "bull" the market. It might safely be said that, with the money market In Its present congested condition, but few ot these stocks are selling up to their full value as Interest earners. New wealth is being created throughout the world at such an astonishing rate that there is always a demand for Invest ment securities of some kind. An occasional stringency like that which overwhelmed the country last Fall has . a tendency to check this demand, not because there is a shortage of money, but because a temporary loss of con fidence frightens so much money into hiding that the amount still available commands rates that for most pur poses are prohibitive. The country at large will not suffer by the present advance in stocks and bonds, for the advance is merely a re flection of the increased supply of money, and that in turn is an unmis takeable sign of returning prosperity. ' FAIRLY CONSIDER IT. Had the great penalty . against the Standard Oil, for the crime of paying rebates, been enforced, there would be no trpuble hereafter with any offender, great or small. Now, rebates may continue. Creed on both sides shipper and railroad feeling secure, will still take risks. Tens of thousands will vote for Bryan, under the impulse or notion that this sort of thing may somehow be stopped, through change of political or party administration. But what could Bryan do, more than Roosevelt has done? He could do far less; for party forces that are with Roosevelt and would be for Taft, would be against Bryan; and In the Senate and courts "vested rights" would be still stronger than before. The New York Evening Post, com manding the decision that protects Standard Oil, is happy in the thought that even if Bryan were elected he could do nothing. "The gloomy fore bodings," it says, "as to what may happen If radicals and revolutionaries come Into power are groundless. We still have a Constitution to guard our ancient liberties." Further: "The quiet, steady hard work and hard thinking for which Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan have so- little liking; the careful framing of legislation; the thorough gathering and skillful pre sentation of evidence this is the only process by which the people can suc cessfully prosecute a case against the criminal rich.' If we elect Bryan, he will inevitably disappoint us as Mr. Roosevelt has disappointed us and for exactly the same reason." Are we, then, to support the Watson party, or the Hearst party? Both say al most these same things. But read Taft's speech cf today, and see If the judicial balance of this address does rot offer the rational course for ra tional men. NEW' YORK AND INDIANA. The New York World has examined the records and finds that no Demo cratic candidate who failed to carry both New York and Indiana has ever been elected, and that every Democratic candidate who did carry those states was elected. The Inference Is that If Bryan can carry these two states he can count upon election, but other wise he is certain of defeat. Here Is the record, as given by the World: McClellan In 1864 lost New York and Indiana. He waa defeated. Seymour In 1S68 caTried New York, but lost Indiana. He was defeated. Greeley In 1872 lost New York and Indiana. He waa defeated. Tllden In 18T6 carried New York and Indiana. He was not seated, but Democrats insist he waa elected. Hancock In 1880 lot New York and Indiana. He was defeated. Cleveland In 1884 carried New York and Indiana. He was elected. Cleveland In 1888 loat New York and Indiana. He was defeated. Cleveland in 1892 carried New York and Indiana. He was elected. Bryan In 1806 lost New York and Indiana. He waa defeated. Bryan In 1900 lost New York and Indiana. He waa defeated. Parker In 1904 lost New York and Indiana. He waa defeated. The showing ia not very encourag ing for Bryan, for, since the advent of the Independence League, with all the strength Hearst can give it in New York, there is not much likelihood that the Nebraskan can carry New York. Then, too, if some of the North ern states are made doubtful by the swinging of the negro vote to Bryan, it Is not at all improbable that some of the border states will be made doubtful by a swinging of Democratic white votes to Taft. Mr. Bryan can't play with the negroes and the South ern whites at the same 'time. HARKIMAN AND THE GOULD SYSTEM There is nothing surprising in the report that what is known as the Gould system of railroads is about to be brought under the domination of E. H. Harrlman. Much of the strong est financial assistance received by Mr Harrlman comes from the same In terests that in the past have not In frequently stood behind the Gould In terests, and are now supposed to have large holdings in the Gould properties. Mr. Harrlman, who is an exceedingly modest man in disclaiming credit for his marvelous achievements In recon structing and organizing railroads, has always said that he was merely the representative of men who had faith In his ability, and permitted him to use their money in carrying out his plans. Capital seeks results wherever it is invested; so it is but natural that the capitalists of the Gould system should desire management equal to that which has made the Harriman roads among the most profitable in vestments in the railroad wor)d. In the magnitude of the expenditure and the perfect success of the under taking, the entire history of American railroading shows no parallel to the feat performed by Mr. Harriman in reconstructing the Union Pacific and its allied lines. Perfect physical con struction has been a hobby of Mr. Harriman with his railroads, and in this respect it would be dfflcult to Imagine a greater difference in meth ods than those of the Union Pacific magnate and the founder of the Gould system, one being a builder and the other a wrecker. Having repeatedly demonstrated his ability to take a bankrupt or badly-managed road, re build it and place It In the dividend earning class, Mr. Harriman is easily the best man that could be secured to help the Gould system out of its steadily increasing difficulties. The Gould system, with the Missouri Pacific for the keystone of the arch includes in actual ownership or under lease more than 12,000 miles of rail road extending from Omaha on the north, with a network of branches, down to New Orleans and Galveston It also reaches out Into the Southwest as far as El Paso arid Laredo. Ex tending west, it includes the Denver & Rio Grande system, and the West ern Pacific, now under construction to the Pacific Coast. The Eastern pos sessions of the Gould system Include the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Wabash" and the Pittsburg Terminal Company, with a limited mileage in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Practically all of this great system is In territory where it can easily be connected with systems already under the Harrlman control, so that the effect of the amal gamation, if It is consummated, will be materially to enhance the efficiency of both properties and at the same time admit of great saving in opera tion. With the Gould roads under Harrl man control In the Middle West, the movement of lumber from the Pacific Coast would be materially facilitated by reason of the superior connections made possible under one management, compared with the delays which necessarily ensue in the exchange of traffic between roads, and the same advantage would be found in handling westbound freight. Some of the sub sidiary lines of the Gould system are in the hands of a receiver, and, if the magic wand, which Mr. Harrlman seems to wave so successfully over all the properties which are brought un der his control, is still potent, they will be rehabilitated and placed on a dividend-paying basts in a very short time. Incidentally, control of the Gould system will relieve the compli cations that have arisen since Gould invaded Harriman's western territory with his Western Pacific. FOOLING THE NEWSPAPERS. One or two little state papers that have nothing better to do profess to be gleeful over The Oregonian's news forecast of the Standard Oil decision. Here is that spiteful and unspeakable scrub Hofer, who runs a penny paper at Salem, Teproduclng in parallel columns the headlines of the Chicago dispatches last Wednesday and Thurs day just to show how "Oregon's only metropolitan dally" erred. It did, to be sure, but it was The Oregonian that told Hofer and everybody else that it was mistaken, else Hofer might never have known It. It is perhaps worth while, since the subject is. deemed worthy of discussion by some people, to re mark that The Oregonian was in excellent company. For example, the same news dispatch was printed on the same day (Wednesday) and with the same prominence, by such news papers as the New York. Herald, Chi cago Record-Herald, St. Louis Globe- Democrat, Dallas News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Kansas City Journal, New Orleans Picayune, Los Angeles Time;!, San Francisco Chronicle and many others. These are first-rate newspapers and have some standing at home and abroad for enterprise, re liability and Intelligence in the collec tion and dissemination of news. Not a single newspaper, anywhere, so far The Oregonian has observed, printed the statement that the de cision would be reversed, as it was. All appear to have relied on a common source of information, the Govern ment officers, who gave it out "posi tively" that the opinion of Judge Lan dis would be sustained. Newspapers throughout the United States were thus led into error, as any newspaper, however cautious, may be that at tempts to tell in advance what is go ing to happen; and telling things in advance is a great feature of the newspaper business nowadays. The newspaper that does it oftenest and best is the most sought for, and should be. Yet who may be sure that the news papers were wrong? Perhaps the opinion was changed-overnlght. One of the judges, when asked how it could be that one who had delivered so many arguments and opinions in criticism of the trusts, had rendered a decision like this, answered: "The mind develops." It deceived the fore casters of news. But the Standard Oil group had the right "Up," for the stock of the eompany was strong throughout the entire time, and specu lators made a great clean up. Which goes to show how profitable it may be, though it may not always be easy, for a great monopoly and its friends to fool the newspapers. DO WE REALLY KNOW HISTORY? To the reader of 'current history as It Is written In the daily papers and the magazines, the story of events is clear and intelligible. The extrava gances of some of our figures of speech are so well known to and understood by the people of today that they have no difficulty in form ing a correct mental picture of scenes and transactions described. But what a strange idea of the events of today might very easily be formed by men living. 4000 years hence, should they, Inhabitants of Borne other continent, chance to uncover in the ruins of this country fragments of accounts of what is now taking place. Imagine, for a moment, a being to whom Eng lish is as little known as some of the ancient languages are to us. Imagine him as ignorant of our history as we are of the history or tribes now known scarcely by name. Then place in the hands of such a man a literal translation of this first paragraph of an article written by Walter Wellman last Monday and imagine the mental picture that would be formed: One great Bryan ratification, leading; to a wild burst of enthusiasm In celebration of the triumphant reappearance of the peerless one after a temporary eclipse; a demonstra tion of the completeness of the new leader's power over all men and measures; amnesty and harmony for all who may be useful and who promise to be good: expulsion from the temple, excommunication and the scaffold for all who have committed lese majesta and who refuse to bow the knee in humble plea for pardon such Is to be the Demo cratic National convention, the first session of which is to begin at noon tomorrow. To us the words "expulsion from the temple, excommunication and the scaffold," convey exactly the thought Mr. Wellman Intended. We know precisely what he meant. But what a different idea would be conveyed to a man who knew, only enough of our language to make a poor translation and who knew nothing whatever of our political affairs. The archaeolo gist of centuries hence would be jus tified in accepting Walter Wellman as a reliable chronicler of events In his day. If the ravages of time the earthquake's shock and the ocean's storm left no other record of the Denver convention than this one paragraph, there would be ample evi dence to warrant the assertion that the Bryan who lived in 1908 was a tyrant, cruel, vindictive and merciless. Scraps of current history written in an unknown tongue by an unknown people furnish at best an uncertain and unsatisfactory basis for an esti mate of the character of the men of whose deeds they are a record. When it is. so readily apparent how mislead ing might be this quotation from so able a writer as Wellman. Is it any wonder if we of this age have mis understood the writings of men who lived ages ago? The plaintiff asked $18,000 damages, the defendant had offered $3500 and the jury awarded plaintiff $1800. Such. In brief. Is the story of the at tempt of a Washington County farmer to hold up the new electric line to Hillsboro. The Oregon Electric, which has asked fewer favors and fulfilled its promises more faithfully than any similar corporation that ever endea vored to do business In the state, is to be ' congratulated on the outcome of the suit. As the jury before which the case was tried was composed of farmers, who would quite naturally know the value of Oregon land, and incidentally the increased value that an electric line would give It, the orig inal offer of the railroad company seems quite generous. Now that the case has been settled without blood shed, the plaintiff can enjoy the ad vantages of the rise in value of the remaining acres, which wire undis turbed by the advent of the trolley. At Weiser, Idaho, a few days ago. Edward Hubbard, veteran engineer of the Oregon. Short Line, was ac quitted by a jury of the charge of manslaughter, caused by running over and killing a four-year-old boy. Hub bard was pulling the second section of passenger train. The child lived within a hundred yards of the track and was sent across for the cows by his grandmother after the first sec tion had passed, she having no knowl edge of a following train. The prose cution contended proper warnings had not been sounded, but the Jury, com posed of ranchers, visited the scene of the" accident and was Impressed by the surroundings to believe Hub bard did not see the child. The ver dict, tried . on the facts, was Just. Locomotive engineers are not fiends. bent on killing people for pleasure. It Is more than likely the unfortunate Hubbard will, as long as he lives, see the mangled body of the little boy, and that is greater punishment than can be meted by Jury or court. One of the speakers at the Howard Summer school recently criticised teachers for comparing their own compensation wijh that of hod car riers, the comparison being in favor of the laborers. He asserted that the teachers get what they are worth and that if they receive but $1.75 a day it is because they ' bring to their work only such ability and training as can be bought for that price. This, how ever, is not entirely true. Teachers who are worth more have been in competition with untrained teachers who are willing to teach for less in order to aid themselves in acquiring further education. The capable teacher who accepts a low salary does so not necessarily because that Is all she Is worth, but, more likely, because the school board stands ready to em ploy an incompetent teacher for the same money. The Inman-Poulsen Company, who made $1,000,000 out of the lumber business in a few years, are not the only firm that succeeded in holding their own in the face of the alleged prohibitive freight rates. Testimony now being taken in the land-fraud trials shows that the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company saved enough out of the freight to run the value'of their holdings from a few thousands Into the million class, in less than eight years. The pastor of an Eastern church proposed the erection of an addition to the church to be used as a court ing room by the young people. At the same time the authorities in another city have placed a searchlight on a high building and will play it on the city parks to keep the young people from courting there. Apparently, there's no room for it at home. The American Society of Equity is not having very good success in holding up the price of tobacco, but insurance rates on Kentucky tobacco barns must certainly be higher than they weVe before the society began its campaign against the tobacco trust and the Independent farmers. Some people will deplore the im mense "waste" of ammunition and the other large expenditures on account of rifle contests taking place in the United States, but all would rejoice, in case of war, that our soldiers know how to defend themselves or vanquish an enemy. In giving an account of a speech by Jim Ham, at the Wisconsin Demo cratic state convention, the Milwaukee Sentinel speaks of the pink-whiskered orator as from Chicago and Georgia. Is Washington to be thus shorn of its glory? Rhode Island has tried to do some thing original by celebrating the battle of Bull Run. Better forget it. It wasn't'Very creditable for the North, and there's nothing to be gained by reminding the South of the conflict. Corn is now 80 cents a bushel in the Middle West. Mr. Bryan should ex claim: "Remember the days when you sold your corn for ten cents, farmers, and vote for the Democratic ticket." A Topeka woman has two children of her own and has adopted seven or phans. She earns the living for the family. There isn't any place in the Hereafter too good for her. It will be unnecessary for Mr. Roosevelt to take the stump. He can find occasion to write a letter to some backwoods friend and let it be given to the press for publication. The report that Pittsburg has put the ban on open-work bathing suits will be believed when it has been fully confirmed from reliable sources. The Hearst speech was well worth reading. Any man would be proud to have written it. Mr. Brisbane is to be congratulated. Nowadays a man who Is rich can hardly be In the prominent citizen class unless he can show how he made his money. It will now be in order for men who are queer In their heads to make wheelbarrow bets on the election. New York Is to have the biggest and finest Jail in the country. It should contain a Wall Street ward. Mr. Bryan hasn't said that he is highly pleased to see the dinner pails filling up. CONFESSES BRUTAL MURDER Corporal Barkar Shudders When Shown Victim's Dead Body. SPOKANE. Wash., July 28. Corppr Fr&nk Barkar, of Company D, Third Infantry, Fort Wright, accused of the murder of Ira Nesslnger at Medical Lake, with a gasplpe Saturday night. is in the tolls of the police., and has confessed to the crime. He was caught at midnight in bed in the Min neapolis lodging-house. A suspicious circumstance surround ing the capture is the fact that the Corporal had torn the bars from his uniform. This furnished the police a clew yesterday afternoon. Detectives McDonald and Pearson traced the man to the Minneapolis bar, .where the trail was lost temporarily. They decided to search the lodging-house. The landlady said that no soldier had rented a room. A room was forced open and the Cor poral was found In bed. He was taken to headquarters and Prosecutor Fred Pugh called out of bed. He and the officers "sweated" Barkar several hours, during which time he stoutly denied his guilt. Barkar confessed to" the crime about 5 o'clock this morning, and was taken in a fast automobile to the scene with detectives and Deputy Sheriffs. As soon as they reached Medical Lake residents began assembling and wanted to lynch the soldier. The auto was worked at fast speed through the crowds and dodged out of town with the prisoner. Barkar claimed that he got Into a row with Nesslnger over an Insult he offered to a couple of young girls. He said Nesslnger called him a "cheap $13 a month." He then took up a lead pipe that was lying in the road and beat Nesslnger over the head but did not rob him, he said. When the soldier was shown the dead body of his victim, shudders shook his frame, and he would have fallen In a collapse except for being shackled to Deputy Sheriff Doak. ACCUSED OP STEALING AUTO Chicago Man In Custody at Chehalis. Held for Extradition. CHEHALIS, Wash., July 28. (Spe cial.) Ernest Delbler was arrested here today charged with stealing a Haynes automobile in Chicago in May. He is alleged to have driven the ma chine to Oshkosh, Wis., where his wife and child live, shipping it thence 'o Portland by rail. He was returning to Portland from a trip to Seattle when arrested. C. A. Dunn, a Portland business man, was taken with Delbler, but was later re leased. He claimed he was enticing Delbler back to Oregon to secure the latter's arrest there. Credit for Delbler' s arrest is due the Tenino City Marshal, who came here on the early morning train. Telegrams re ceived from Chief of Police Grltzmacher of Portland, and Captain Cudmore of a Chicago detective bureau, ask that Delbler be held until he can be extra dited. PASSES STOLEN MONEY ORDER Stranger Wearing Elks Emblem Ob tains Cash at Chehalis. CHEHALIS, Wash., July 28. (Spe cial.) It developed here today that Mayor F. H. Muller and W. F. Toles, well-known Centralia merchants, were victimized out of $22 and $20, respect ively, Saturday on fraudulent money orders. The blanks were stolen from station 15, Seattle, last Winter. During the Elks' celebration at Cen tralla Saturday night, a man repre senting himself to be Ed Bennett, and wearing an Elk emblem, cashed the or ders at the Muller & Toles store, tak ing part In trade. Both were drawn payable at Chehalis, and the work was of the coarsest kind. Toles' order was presented here today at the local Post- office and was turned down. Mr. Muller has the other. The Foetal Inspectors 'have been given a good de scrlption of Bennett tonight. CAN'T SELL WORMY APPLES Fruit Inspector Will See That Lswe Are Strictly Enforced. SALEM, Or.. July 28. (Special.) County Fruit Inspector Armstrong stated today that the state law, prohib iting the marketing of wormy and scaly apples, pears and other fruits which was not enforced last year on account of the light yield of fruit in some sections, will be rigidly enforced this year. The yield is abundant and there is no reason, declares the inspector, for any grower to bring bad fruit to mar ket. Mr. Armstrong states that the movement will be state-wide, under the direction of the State Horticulturist, W. K. Newell, of Portland, and the Dis trict Commissioners. SETTLE CASES OUT OF COURT Beaverton Damage Suits Cleared Up. Tracklaying Resumed. HILLSBORO, Or., July 28. (Special.) When court convened this morning It was ascertained that all of the cases In litigation over right of way for the Oregon Electric had been settled out of court. The last contender was Bull itt, of Beaverton, and as soon as he heard of the Reghltto verdict he con ferred with the railway officials and settled with them, thus clearing away the last obstacle between Beaverton and Hillsboro. The Oregon Electric laid its cross Ing over the Southern Pacific at Beav erton yesterday, and tracklaying to HinsDoro was actively resumed today. WARRANTS FOR LAND DEALERS Salem Mayor to Make Arrests Unless I a Licenses Are Paid. SALEM, Or.. July 28. (Special.) Warrants were issued today for the arrest of several real estate men who have failed to heed the warning of Mayor Rodgers to pay the annual li cense required by the ordinance and thus avoid trouble. The Insurance agents will be the next to be brought to time, according to the Mayor. The Oregon City Transportation Company, operating a line of river steamers, must also pay a license If the plans of Mr. Rodgers are put into effect. The five-cent theaters, the proprie tors of-billiard tables and others have escaped by meeting the Mayor's orders. TAKE OFFICE NEXT MONDAY Twenty of 33 School Superinten dents Have Been Re-elected. SALEM. Or., July 28. (Special.) The new County Superintendents throughout the state will take office on Monday next. ' The change Is not made In this office on July 1, as In other county offices, for the reason that the retiring officer Is required to make a report during the month of July, cover ing the last year of his Incumbency. Of the 33 County Superintendents. 20 were re-elected, new officials going In in the other 13. E. C. Coad was ap pointed in the new County of Hood River. R E VIEW QFTHETAFT ADDRE S S Straightforward Dlsenssloa by the Republicans. Candidate of the Issue of the Campaign, With a Clear Statement of What He Believes and Will Advo cate aa President. (N his address of acceptance of the Republican nomination for President of the United States, Mr. Taft makes no effort to add to the previously an nounced policies of his party or to limit or qualify any of the planks of his party's platform. As compared with an address such as one might reasonably expect from Roosevelt, Mr. Taft's pro duction Is a mild presentation of the Is sues of the campaign, containing none of those passages which strike a pop ular chord because of the forceful lan guage in which they are expressed. And Mt. Taft's manner of handling his subject Is entirely In harmony with the needs ot the occasion. At the time Mr. Roosevelt delivered the address which so deeply Impressed the people of this country, there was need for words that would arouse men from slumbers and stir them to action. Or dinary language would have been In sufficient for the purpose. Today the people need guidance, and in the clear ly presented arguments of Mr. Taft's address they will find it. His views upon the subjects discussed would not throw an audience into a tempestuous demonstration, but would send his hearers home thinking carefully and earnestly upon . the most Important problems now before the American people. It Is a dignified address, meet ing every issue squarely and dis cussing It courageously. Upon the subject of Injunctions, which will apparently be a main topic of the campaign, Mr. Taft defines his position clearly. He boldly assert the right of courts to Issue temporary Injunctions In cases where there is threat of damage to property or busi ness, but he condemns the practice of procuring injunctions against acts which are not threatened, which in junctions, served upon ignorant men. frighten them out of asserting and ex ercising their- rights. He defends the right of laboring men to form unions, to strike In order to procure recog nition of their demands, to persuade others to strike and to resort to the boycott If they wish, but he denies the right of any man or set of men to em ploy duress or to use the secondary boycott which brings into the contro versy third parties not directly con cerned. He takes decisive stand against the plank of the Democratic platform which demands trial by jury in Indirect contempt cases arising out of violations of the orders of courts. He shows in a most convincing man ner that the authority of the courts would be gone if they were deprived of the power to enforce their decrees, and that the delay of trial by jury would be to the advantage of capital rather than of labor, for capital could employ cunning counsel anxious to avoid Justice. Delay has always been to the ad vantage of capital In its controversies with labor, and In his address Mr, Taft points out how these delays can be avoided. It has been the practice of employers to secure temporary injunc tions against strikers and then let the proceedings drag before the issues are brought to' trial. The plan pro posed by the Republican nominee is that temporary Injunction shall not be Issued without hearing, unless the dan ger of Irreparable injury is apparent, and that, when a temporary injunction has been issued, the need for it shall be shown within a specified time or It shall be dissolved. This would pre vent delays and the consequent abuse of the writ of injunction. Upon the subject of tariff revision Mr. Taft has little to offer in addition to what has been already said in the Republican platform and by the Re publican leaders. He stands squarely upon the platform favoring revision at a special session, and declaring for the principle of protection to the ex tent of the difference in cost at home and abroad, together with a reason able profit for the producer. He says that such revision will lower some tariff rates and raise others, reliev ing consumers in one instance and aid RUPERTS LOSE DIVORCE CASE Salem Couple Gain Nothing by Cost ly Litigation for Separation. SALEM, Or., July 28. In an opinion written by Commissioner Slater, the Su preme Court today reversed the decree of Judge Burnett, of the Circuit Court for Marlon County, in the case of T. J. Luper, appellant, vs. Lizzie R. Luper, and dis missed both the complaint and cross-complaint of appellant and respondent, re spectively. This Is the celebrated Luper divorce case In which T. J. Luper was granted a divorce in September, 1901, on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Luper upon learning that the divorce decree was entered, came to Salem from Rodgers, Ark,, and had Luper arrested on the charge of per jury. In the meantime Luper was tried and convicted of the charge of perjury and Mrs. Luper was subsequently granted a divorce upon a cross-complaint based upon the conviction of Luper of a felony. i.uper appealed Irom the decree of con viction of perjury, the principal conten tion being that Mrs. Luper being the wife, was incompetent as a witness against him on the criminal charge, but the Su preme Court sustained the decree of con viction. Counsel for Luper then petitioned for a rehearing and this is still pending before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court dismissed the com plaint of Luper on the ground that deser tion must be a continued absence against the other's sincere desire. The Supreme Court reversed the de cree of Judge H. K. Hanna, for Jack son County, In the case of the State, appellant, vs. G. L. Hammelsy, and holds the defendant for trial on the charge mentioned. Other cases decided were: Edward E. Parrish, appellant, vs. Luella C. Par rish, respondent, from Linn County; Wil liam Galloway. Judge; reversed and dis missed. Opinion by Commissioner King. J. J. and John A. Jennings, respond ents, vs. L. Trummer, appellant, from Multnomah County; John B. Cleland, Judge; affirmed. Opinion by Justice Eakln. Sarah A. Merrill, appellant, vs. Hexter & Strause, respondents, from Multnomah County. Petition for rehearing denied. Montana Bankers' Business. BILLINGS, Mont., July 28. The Mon tana Bankers' Association today elected officers, passed a resolution asking Congress to establish a Subtreasury at Seattle, and one indorsing P. C. Kauf man, second vice-president of the Fi delity Trust Company, of Tacoma. for treasurer of the American Bankers' As- J aociation. ing producers In the other. Abandon ment of the principle of protection, as proposed by the Democrats, would, he asserts, destroy not only the business of illegal combinations, but the busi ness of legitimate enterprises as well. Amendment of the anti-trust law so as to prevent restraint of trade Is ad vocated by Mr. Taft. and. though he does not point out definitely the plan by which this would be attained, he favors a system of voluntary licensing and publicity rather than the Demo cratic plan of licensing all concerns controlling 26 per cent of the products in which they deal.' He asserts that a law such as proposed by the Democrats would include a great many small cor porations manufacturing special ar ticles of no considerable value. He be lieves that the Supreme Court will hold that the formation of a union for the purpose of striking. In a peaceful manner, for higher wages is not a vio lation of the anti-trust law, but If there is any doubt upon that point It Bhould be removed by legislation. He also believes that a concern should be allowed to sell its business and agree not to enter the same business again in the ,8am e territory, which right has always existed at common law. He would not prohibit combinations, but would restrain them "with all the ef ficiency of the Judicial process," and in case of violation of the law he would punish the managers "with all the severity of criminal prosecution." That discrimination rather than the maintenance of excessive rates is the chief evil to be aimed at In transpor tation. Is Mr. Taft's belief, but he ad vocates, nevertheless, a physical valu ation of railroad properties, which will form, in part, the basis for such inves tigations as may be deemed necessary from time to time, as to the reason ableness of rates in force. He re marks that few complaints have been made that rates are too high, but there have been many complaints of dis crimination. Mr. Taft takis an unequivocal stani against the Democratic policy of guar anteed bank deposits. He points out that this compulsory insurance of de posits would be an unjust tax upon the honest banker for the benefit of the dishonest; that It would encourage reckless methods, that state banks could not be brought within Its pro visions, that it would be Impracticable unless banks should be subjected to such close regulation as to make them practically Government banks. The argument that the guarantee plan would encourage speculation, backed as it is by. the early experience of New York, Is one that will strongly appeal to the voter. Mr. Taft prefers the postal savings bank as a better provision for safety of deposits. Liberal praise of the Roosevelt ad ministration is plentlrul In the Taft address, as one might expect it would be. He points out in particular the passage of the rate bill, the prosecu tions under the anti-trust laws and the enactment of the pure food and meat Inspection laws, as . particular In stances of Roosevelt's accomplish ments. In general he credits the Roosevelt administration with the es tablishment of new and higher ideals In public and private conduct, and says that the "chief function of the next administration is to perfect the machinery by which these standards may be maintained, by which the law breaker may be restrained and pun ished, but which shall Interfere with business as little as possible." Nothing of the demagogue is shown in the response to the notification of his nomination. Neither is there a single evidence' of a desire to please or placate those interests which the Roosevelt administration has antag onized. Without the use of the words which so aptly describe the Roosevelt policy. Mr. Taft conveys in an unmis takable manner the conviction that he proposes a continuance of the ''square deal." FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME XV. A. Bolton, Bachelor of Beaver, ton, Dies After Long Spree. HILLSBORO, Or., July 28. (Special.) William A. Bolton, a bachelor, and aged 57 years, was found dead Sun day morning at his home near Bea ver.ton. Deceased was a woodchopper and had lived in Washington County for ten years. He went to Portland about ten days ago and indulged In a protracted spree, returning the last of the week. Ho claimed that he had been "robbed of watch and money while In Portland, but told a neighbor he still had a few dollars at home, and with which he continued his drinking. Bolton was found dead In the yard by his neighbor, David Harper. De ceased told his friends that he came from Connecticut, and that he had been crowded out of rights in an estate. Ha had no relatives here, and there was no correspondence to indicate the res idence of Eastern relatives. PULLS DOWN NOTICE; IN JAIL Unable to Give Bonds, Forbes Must Occupy Cell Till November. SEATTLE, July 28. Daniel L. Forbes, who was arrested by order of the local Federal Court for tearing down a notice of an Injunction issued by the court and posted in a conspicu ous place on the waterfront, restrain ing the striking longshoremen from in terfering In any way with the ship owners, was held to the Federal grand Jury by Judge C' H. Hanford this morn ing' In $500 bonds. Unable to give security, he will have to remain in Jail until next November. Forbes admitted tearing down the sign, but pleaded that he did not know what It was. Judge Hanford eald the atti tude of the strikers may lead to a trag edy and warned them to keep the peace at all costs. Counties Left Without Prosecutor. PENDLETON, Or.. July 28. (Spe cial.) Attorney W. C. E. Prultt's mys terious disappearance has not only left the counties of Umatilla and Morrow without a Prosecuting Attorney, but it has left Umatilla County and Pendleton without a prosecuting officer or magis trate. Circuit Judge Gllllland. County Judge Bean and Justice of the Peace Parkes are all in the mountains. How long this etate of affairs will continue is not known.
