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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.