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Chic to. rooma 610-012 Tribune bululln. PORTLAND. WEUXESOA". AUG. 5. 190. A DlSOOCKSE Or POVERTY.' To couple the name of poverty with the name of Oregon, or with the name of any of the states of our New West, Is an absurdity and solecism. Here Is a state of vast extent, abounding In very kind of resources, few of which have yet been touched by the hand of industry a state that has the propor tions of an empire, yet no more than five or six Inhabitants to the square mile. To bewail the prevalence of poverty in such a state, and to com plain that unjust government is the cause of it, may be good exercise in declamation, and It certainly is ex tremely common. Possibly, too, it may proceed honestly, from a sentimental yet contrarious nature, not blessed or cursed with habits of practical indus try and foresight. But in either case, there are no resources for any one in such declamation. In these new states there is no pov erty that is not traceable to want of ordinary prudence, industry and fore sight; and poverty from such causes has always existed and always will ex ist. Its Ills are of the sort that neither kings nor laws can cause or cure. Poverty, however, is merely a relative term. Property or wealth can not be equal; and a condition that would be poverty for some would-be abundance for others. In the great cities it is certain there will always be many extremely poor, and no help for it. But in our spaTsely Bettled new states, poverty, when it exists, is the fault chiefly of the Individual or the family. Study of any case will show It; and nothing government, society or law can do will balance the lack of initiative industry, want of foresight or general efficiency, in the individual .or In the family. Declamation on the stump, in socialist publications, or anywhere else, against the system that declaimers assume makes many poor and keeps them so, is but as the idle wind. It is complained, however, that pov erty is the cause of the admitted ineffi ciency, and that the inefficiency In creases and perpetuates the poverty. To a great extent this Is true; but knowledge of this fact helps nothing: or helps little. When you are told that inefficiency and poverty often travel together you really know noth ing more than you knew before. You are supplied with no means for melior ation of the condition. Beyond ques tion, inefficiency and poverty do act and react on each other. The pair is constantly bringing more and more children into the world. Inefficiency, first a cause, soon becomes an effect, and this again a cause; as certain nox ious weeds multiply both from root and seed. the seed, besides, having the advantage of wings of down which carry them on the winds far and wide. The truth Is that some will "get on" in the world, while others will not. It does indeed violate the modern fashion to speak of industry, prudence, intelligence and continual self-denial, or postponement of the full gratifica tion of the want of today for larger results in future times; but these "vir tues must ever be the basis of Individ ual prosperity or well-being, for the vastly greater portion of the human race. They who possess these quali ties and keep them in constant exer cise will succeed, especially in a new country like ours; they who possess them not, or do not acquire them, will seek comfort in. idleness and in queru lous speech, and make up the audi ences that windy orators will address in the parks, or socialist writers through frothy publications, or politi cians in search of votes, through ap peal to party for the purposes of an election. But the conditions of the problem will never be essentially dif ferent from what they have been in all times and what they are today; for "the poor ye always have with you." The declamation about them, most of which is Insincere, sinister, hypocrlt ical, intended to promote the fortunes of the orator, or of his party, or of some other purpose wholly foreign to actual help of the poor, will be a con. etant theme, of course; but Its motive is apparent, even to most of those in whose behalf the effort is fitfully made, mostly In campaign times. Apart from all this, or bearing the smallest possible relation to it, is the general effort to obtain justice for the whole people through restriction of special privilege and by preservation to the whole community of rights and advantages that Justly belong to it against the aggression and greed of those who revel in wealth obtained through conversion to their own use of utilities that belong to the comma nlty or state as a whole. Usurpation of franchises, of which we have seen examples in Portland, an abuse against which The Oregonlan made Its loudest protest. In vain, has been car ried to extremes in every state. These franchises, seized by exploiters for their own enrichment, should be re- covered as fast as possible, and they will be. So of the protective tariff. It has been turned into an instrument for aggrandizement of the fortunes of the IV w. Hence our Carnegies. Sov of the railways. The rebate system has made our Rockefellers and a whole line of lesser millionaires and plutocrats. These and similar abuses are deeply intrenched. They are fortified at every point. They have their protectors ana defenders In both the great parties. When the Democratic party had entire ct.ntrol. during the Cleveland Adminis tratinn. it was the same, only worse Check of these evils is not to be had through party action, but by Instruc tion of the whole body of the people in economic and moral principles. Roose velt has done more in this direction than any other man of his day, ana more than all other men since this contest began. Should Taft be elected he will continue the work. Should Bryan be elected the work will be halted again; through the contentions uf parties and politics. Rut irhpn all is done, when tna franchises sh-ill have been recovered for the state; when the protective arifr ahall have been shorn of its un just features; when special privilege shall have been cut on at me top anu cut out by the root, the same. old ques tion about the poverty or tnose wno i,nn'i in them the virtues of initi ative pnflrrv. of calculated industry, of steady and persistent purpose, of pru dence and soDrietyna seii-uenmi, ui postponement cf present gratification tit futnrA hnnn an d exDectatlon: this same old obstinate question will still be mooted. Still mere win De tnose A to throw the blame on soci ety and government, rather than take it on themselves, still mere win De so cialist agitators and political mounte banks haranguing in ana aDout me public places, and in the charlatan prints, telling "the people" that they must look for their resources to the state arid to the government, not to their own industry, intelligence, pru dence and sobriety. And now, meantime, work Is in de mand, as never before, in every de partment .of Industry in these new states. If you employ men in the as sociated trades you usually get, good service. Here you find intelligence and efficiency. But in lines of indus try not covered by the associated trades and in these four-fifths of the industry of the country is engaged you will find disinclination to work and commonly miserable inefficiency. Men and women refuse to work for wages that landowners and farmers and loggers are able to pay; they will engage, and then work only a little time and in the poorest way. They don't know how, and are unwilling to Uarn. If you want land cleared, or your crop harvested, or your fruit gathered and prepared for market. you will be continually bafflea ana ais- appointed. Tour people will not stay with you and work as you do ana as your ancestors did, and as all your successors must do as long as men live on the earth; but they will grumble and quit, say the work doesn't suit them, or is too hard, and hie them away to the town, where they can get into the baer Joint or poor man's club. or listen to the harangues of socialist politicians in the public squares, who will tell them how greatly they are abused under the existing social re gime. Think you is there any cure for the poverty that results from conditions like these? Nor let it be said that these are the words of one who has no knowledge of the strenuousness of la bor. They are written by one who has known from personal experience every phase of Its hardest requirements. But men and womra must begin, as they began aforetime, at the bottom, and work up. They are not required to accept or to renew all the hard con ditions of our pioneer life; but they must not expect everything at once, nor anything without working for it. Today, however. It is not necessary to go through one-tenth part of the hardships and privations endured without murmur by the men and women of the Oregon Country, who opened the way for the conditions that exist today, yet who are de nounced as usurpers and monopolists and oppressors, because disposed to conserve the property and maintain the Institutions which they or their an cestors created. Let all men and women work as they did who estab lished Oregon though there are in finitely greater advantages now; and the professional howl about "the pov erty and oppression of the masses". will have small audience Indeed. Tet let the howl continue as long as It may, there will be no uplift in the howl. It will forever remain that the man's resources are in himself, in the family of virtues of which Industry and prudence are the parents; and no resources will he ever find, in or un der any form of government, or the cdministration of any party, from men who preach to him, as those who love notoriety or have hope of gain always will, that he is the victim of the injus tice of society and government. This Is not a question or matter of today, but of all time. TROUBXB AT STANFORD. That there is a movement under way to remove Dr. David Starr Jordan from the headship of Stanford Unl versity seems hardly doubtful. How extensive tt is one can only guess. A long article In the Boston Transcript, written from San Francisco by a spe- cial correspondent, says that many of the alumni have a hand in the plot, a clique of the faculty is sympathetic and perhaps active, while some of the trustees have also taken sides. Of course the students who were disci plined last Winter for debauchery are venomously opposed to the president of the university. Naturally their friends stand with them, and it is not surprising that they have won over to their cabal certain editors of San Francisco papers.. These men have been actlva. defenders of graft in the city and state. . They could scarcely be expected to stand for discipline and morality in the university. In their riotous orgies last Winter the Stanford students merely followed out the suggestions which the highest court in California had supplied in the graft cases, and very likely it seemed a little hard to them that President Jordan should not have adopted the maxims of that august tribunal in dealing with disorder. But he did not. He applied heroic measures to the in cipient rebellion, and now he has to ruffer the. consequences which might be expected in a social body which is Infected to the heart with moral decay. The upper classes In that unhappy state are apparently so in love with anarchy that they cannot endure law and order within the confines of their universities. They want the Lord of Misrule to be lord everywhere. But It is only fajr to admit that the resent ment of the disciplined students and their admirers and friends' has- only hastened an outbreak against Dr. Jor dan which was bound to come sooner or later. It was almost inevitable that the warfare between the old formal education, called classic, and the new education for utility, called scientific, should have centered about his person. The founder of Stanford University desired to devote his money tp the teaching of modern Ideas, especially In THE MORNING OREGONIAX, AVEDN ESP AY, AUGUST v 5, 1908. applied science, and Dr. Jordan was chosen for president principally be cause of his well-known views upon education in general and upon the evo lutionary theory in particular. He was an advocate of freedom in the choice of studies, of real as opposed tr formal instruction, and of science rather than the Greek and Roman classics. The trend of education today in with him in all these matters, but when Stanford University was first opened his views were startllngly novel and It was not practicable to secure a teaching force without Including mem bers whose sympathies were di rectly hostile to the wishes of the founder and to the ambitions of Di. Jordan. Thus the virile new thought and the reactionary old were brought face to face within the walls of the university and the natural con sequence was friction, ioriunaieiy Dr. Jordan's power was great enough to eliminate the. more bitter reaction aries one after another, but it was not sufficient to prevent their spreading false accounts of the caue and nature of the struggle. By assiduous work in the press they established their pose as martyrs and made the country believe that President Jordan was a foe to academic freedom, when in fact that was the very thing he stood for. The foes of freedom were the reactionaries whom he sent packing. Since Stanford was purged of the ir reconcilable classicists the' Greek and Latin fanatics all over the country have looked upon it with an evil eye. Although they had control" of every other school in the United States, they were not satisfied. They wanted Stan ford also, and they have incessantly dinned at the trustees until it seems that they have finally produced some effect. Dr. Jordan's powers have been materially limited. Certain trustees are hinting that Greece and Rome do not receive a square deal at Stanford. All the signs, In fact, point to the con clusion that this great foundation, like s i many others, is about to be pervert ed from its original purpose and swal lowed up by the greedy classicists. May It give Xhem an indigestion. THE HEARST PARTY. Mr. Hearst's Independence party will receive Just as many votes as he chooses to pay for, and no more. It has published a set of principles which might be attractive to radicals of one sort and another If these men were not abundantly provided for elsewhere. But they are. The socialists offer a feast even more inviting than Mr. Hearst displays. The Populists dish up a smoking hot repast. Mr. Bryan's platform is not without its spicy meats. Why need any radical turn to the Hearst banquet? Any honest radical, we mean. Of course radicals for pay will find their interest in accepting a seat' at his hospitable board. Mr. Hearst's party is a purely mer cenary affair. In the exigencies of our National life there ls'no reason for its existence. It alms at nothing which other parties do not aim at more sin cerely and directly. It has no purpose except to puff up the ambition of one man whose vanity is already sufficient ly exalted. There never before was a party in the United States which must give so poor an account of itself and the reason for its existence. It can do nobody any good and hardly anybody much harm. If it Injures any one It will be Mr. Bryan. In a doubtful state or two the Hearst party may turn the scale against him, but if It does it will be because the scale is very evenly balanced. The negro vote is as much to be feared by Taft as the Hearst vote by Bryan. There is something un-American in the very phrase "Hearst party." Hith erto our political divisions have been over principles or at least the imitation of principles. . It is ominous to see a following which professes nothing ex cept devotion to an individual with several superfluous millions. It smacks of Rome in the days of Crassus and Pompey. Fortunately nobody need be frightened. Our Pompey cuts but a pitiful figure with his scattered bobtail of a party and his only function in our politics will be to make such enter prises ridiculous. We have no room for a proletarian faction headed by a patrician millionaire. OCR GREATEST DEPRESSION. "Somehow," says the Seattle Times, "The Portland Oregonlan doesn't brag a bit about the substantial and contin ued evidence of great prosperity which was clearly showing that Portland is the metropolis of the Pacific North west. Oh, no! She isn't doing a thing of that sort nor hasn't been for nearly four months and for the Sim pie reason that Portland is suffering the greatest depression experienced by any city in the Pacific Northwest." This is distressing, indeed, coming at a time when we had hypnotized our selves into believing that record breaking building permits, real estate transfers, postofnee receipts and wheat and lumber shipments did not neces sarily mean that the "greatest de pression" had overwhelmed us. Yet there are extenuating circumstances which we are compelled to submit for consideration of the Seattle Times as well as others who may be interested in the facts. Portland's fcullding per mlts for July were 81,038, 060, com pared with 8760,761 for July, 1907. an increase of about 33 per cent. Seat tie's July building permits to and in cluding July 29 were 8833.463. The returns for the last two dayB are as yet unpublished, but, estimating on the average for the twenty-nine days, they would total for the month 8900,130, compared with 81.569,243 for July, 1907, a decrease of about 50 per cent. The "greatest depression" has thus left Portland with a gain of 33 per cent and Seattle with a loss of 60 per cent in building permits. Further evl dence of the ravages of the "greatest depression" are shown In the character of the buildings for which permits were Issued. There were 458 struc tures represented in Portland's 81.038, 360 total, the average being $2267 per building. For the. 8833,463 reported to July 29 in Seattle there were 980 permits, an average of $850 per build ing. The Portland permits lor dog houses and chicken coops are not in eluded in the totals, although they would undoubtedly have aided in swelling the figures still farther In ex cess of the figures from Seattle. Another evidence of our "greatest depression" appears in the postofflce receipts, which show an Increase of only about 10 per cent over those for July, 1907. The increase makes a new record for July, although the "depres sion" is great. Portland's July real estate transfers were only $1,708,801 while those of Seattle for the first twenty-nine days of the month were $1,487,299. From these figures, which could be extended to an indefinite length, it is easily apparent that, while poor old Portland is "suffering the greatest depression experienced by any city in the Pacific Northwest," Seattle is floating on a high wave of pros perity. This paradoxical situation is ex plained by the fact that what would be regarded in Portland as a depres sion In Seattle would fill the place of a hilarious boom. The point of yiew is responsible for the mistake the Times van marin in transforming an era of unprecedented prosperity in Portland ;,.trt va 'irroAtftt denression." Sonutnr willlnm R. Allison, of Iowa Is dead. His distinction was due, not I to what he did in the Senate, but to the fact that he had sat longer in tnat body than any other member who ever occupied a seat in it. He had been a Senator continuously since March, 1873, and probably would have been re-elected for another term, beginning in March next. He was one oi mu Immovable, standpat members of that , body; and. although the younger ele- j ment of his party in Iowa tired of him long since, they shunned the row that would have resulted from serious.effort to oust him. No 'one should say of any man that he lived too long; but Allison was kept In the Senate too long. He was no builder of- legisla tion; never asserted himself ' strongly on any subject, but was of those "who only are reputed wise for saying noth- Ing." A progressive man doubtless will succeed him in the Senate. According to German advices, which may or may not be strictly accurate, Japan has appropriated st vast sum of money for a fleet of four battleships and five armored cruisers in addition to vessels already building This, it Is stated, will place the Nippon empire in third place in the world's navies in 1911. Before getting excited over the increasing naval strength of our friends across the sea it should be rer membered that, if Japan continues buying such luxuries as battleships while many of her people are crying for bread, the year 1911 may find most cf the battleships as well as other col :tprl in f he international pawnshops. To t-io n v,a ioen anendlner moriey with the recklessness of a drunken sailor for many years, and as a result ner peo ple are now staggering under a na tional debt of proportions that would cause civil war. riot and repudiation Ip. almost any other country. A wo trnn i-nari nlnnsr the Columbia from The Dalles to Astoria would be a invnrv ra.ther than a necessity, but it would be a great addition to the at tractiveness of the state. Lommum A.tinn hotwwn neighbors Is fairly easy by water, but rowing is hard work compared with driving a good team. r,f inw thA motor boat is destined to affect social conditions along navigable streams it would be rasn to try to pre dict. A practicable motor boat capa ble of eight miles an hour with six persons on board can be fitted up by an Ingenious person for $70. This in cludes the engine. Who shall say what such a fact signifies : a ko ner cent advance in Oriental freight rates at first glance seems like a serious matter, but when it is noted that the new rate, with the advance added, is only $3.50 per ton for an .n haul of about 4000 miles, there does not seem to be much room for protest. The reason that the trans Pacific rates are not at low record fig ures is that the fleets of the world are bidding for American trade. That is also the reason why it is very difficult to get any sympathy for a ship sub sidy out here,' where it is known by experience that it is unnecessary. uth thA lending- candidates this Toft nnd Tirvan. are to talk Into the phonograph, and their dulcet tones are- to be ground out in meiainc sounds to the villagers In every part of the country. But there always will be something ludicrous about canned eloquence and the thought or it. now rvAr th nubile taste tends to the deg- ladatlon of oratory, as well as of jour nalism; and the fact must De accepiea. Tf thA real estate men of Portland can cut'up the big Willamette Valley farms into ten-acre tracts they win re move one of the worst impediments to ho nrnrrp..q of Oreiron. It would be interesting to learn what satisfaction a farmer derives from holding a nuge irapi nf land which breaks him down with toll and keeps him poor. Per haps such an estate gratines nis pnae, but what is the difference between pride of that kind and folly? , Klamath County reports a surplus of bears this Summer, and offers Mr. Harriman positive assurance that he can bag a few. If the Klamath County bears are no more difficult to handle than the kind Mr. Harriman meets in the game preserves of Wall street, the railroad wizard will tie knots in their tails and drive them into camp tandem fashion. If Mr. Harriman is coming to Ore gon for solitude, ahe will find plenty of it. The vast tracts which his railroads ought to cover and do not are highly productive of loneliness, bears and sagebrush. With fair transportation they would produce cities, men and apple orchards, but they would not be so desirable for hunting grounds. The "wealth producers"-of the coun try are not the citizens who lie round In the park blocks, throng the beer joints, read socialistic literature and clap tha Dobs, Hearst and Bryan ora tors, who tell them of the wrongs to which a hard world subjects them. Since the gods do not want to de stroy Mr. Roosevelt, they have not made him mad. Since he is not mad he will not oppose Mr. Hughes. Men like Hughes and Roosevelt cannot af ford to fight each other. There seems to be no way to pre vent an automobile from going over a precipice, when the precipice is handy and the brakes won't work. No way but to do your automobiling at home In your mind. Mr. Bryan , is obviously "sore" be cause Mr. Taft, too, was .invited to can his voice in a -phonograph. However, no harm will be done to anybody, if nobody turns the crank. Naturally, Mr. Harriman objects to any allusion to the country at large as "his territory." "It isn't mine," he says. Thanks. HOW RAILWAY EMPLOYES STAND Strong; Presentation of Their Interest in Industrial Conflict. The following quotation from a pamph let issued by the Nebraska State Railway Employes Protective Association, will serve to shed further light on an Omaha news dis patch regarding the purpose of that or ganization, published In Tha Oregonlan Monday: "The present move on the part of not only the railroad men of Nebraska, but those of other states, is almost pu. taneous, and has been brought about . ... i ..itpnod, which has been quite general; -undoubtedly tor the reason that this great corpuw industry is more vulnerable than others and, from its magnitude, more conspic uous. People feel that something 13 wrong that must be corrected. That there Is something is undoubtedly true; that the fault does not lie with the railroads at present is susceptible -of indisputable proof. In the interests of the general public, fairness must prevail, and a calm, dispassionate sur vey of the situation obtain. "To seriously cripple the transporta tion facilities of the country will be a disaster much greater than can be con ceived of. and will reach every man, woman and child in the Common wealth. "Notwithstanding the great prosper ity enjoyed by the people of the United States during the past few years there Beems to have grown up a sentiment that the railroads and their employes are not to be permitted a fair share thereof. In many instances merchants advanced their prices suf ficient to immediately absorb all the increase granted to employes without a- scintilla of Justification. On the other hand commercial organizations took advantage of the situation by en deavoring to reduce the revenues of the railways; the employes In many In stances, working Into their hands, hav ing been deceived by promises of legis lation on their behalf which, when It materialized, gave the other fellow some substantial advantage, and the railroad employe the privilege of pay ing his fare; or freight charge on his household goods if through misfortune he was required to change his position. "If railroad construction and mainte nance expenses are to increase (and there is no other prospect) and the rates are to be reduced, the inevitable is one of two things a reduction of wages, or an effort to make good the Inroads on the revenue by increasing the train load." After stating in detail the well known facts covering increase In mileage of railways during recent years, the In crease in cost of materials, wages, taxes, and other expenses of operation; and the voluntary and legally enforced reductions in passenger and freight rates, the pamphlet presents the mem bers' plea for recognition as constituting- n vnrv lnrra and reDresentati ve percentage of what Is termed "The .... 1. 1 1 not- la sb fnllnwfl: "There are employed immediately and dependent upon tne rauroaas oi mo United States over six millions of peo ple. Eight hundred millions of dollars are distributed in wages through them to as many, more engaged In various "It is quite apparent that railroad men as a class are being made 'a cat's paw to pull political and other chest nuts out of the fire. "The natural tendency is a general advance in freight rates rather than a decrease, which must obtain if the country is to continue on its road to universal prosporlty. The railroads are the very arteries through which the commercial iifo flows. If they are re stricted or harassed, stagnation follows and will seek out even those who Im agined they were merely spectators. Many are now astonished to find that their financial and even domestic affairs are concerned, although they cannot connect them with the railroads. They have been either applauding or amus edly cognizant of the railroad baiting. "Rallrokd employes themselves have been indifferent to the aggressiveness of the anti-railroad element. This leth argy has enabled those who are play ing to the galleries to profit politically and financially, until the railroad man now finds himself "holding the Back." He is handling more cars in each train, the fireman Is throwing more shovels full of coal each mile. He has in a su perficial way attributed this to the railroad managements, now he is com onaivTP fnr himself the causes, and finds that in supporting the many drones. in the hive he is required to take oii his back greater burdens. "Let him suggest that the taxes be reduced by lessening the expense of municipal, county and state, or Federal Government and his political friends will take issue with him. Who ever heard of cutting the expense of Gov ernment? While it Is generally con ceded that thee are too many office holders In this country, there is no ap parent inclination on. the part of any to let go. It is a very lucrative profes sion. The work is easy; the pay sure, with an air of gentility that is allur ing. "Look around you in any community and see the drones In the hive that you must support, and If you will analyze their political principles you will find that many of them have none in par ticular. They drift with the tide of public sentiment and will eat out of the hand of the railroad employes as meekly as those of any other class, if necessary to remain at the public cribs. If we assert our rights as American citizens the cry is started that we are coerced wear the "Brass Collar.' We are told that to protect ourselves is to Incite class against class. We are asked with an appearance of righteous Indig nation If we are making threats, and are invited to sit idly by and see our source of revenue depleted. "Their Insulting Insinuations, that railroad men must employ someone to think for them, is all a bluff. The brains necessary to operate a train, modern locomotive or machine, will drive one-half of this class Into ob livion if their tactics are employed. "While such methods are objectlon ahio trt a picht-minded Individual en gaged in honest toil, it Is sometimes necessary to fight tne devil with fire. They are now beginning to cry 'Wolf and will next plead the baby act. ' "If the railroad men will continue to stand together, as the present move ment indicates they will, a house cleaning will follow that will be to the everlasting credit of the American peo ple and of vast material benefit. "The proposed decrease in rates does not materially affect the local mer chant. The freight on a hat or a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes, a yard of cloth or pound of merchandise is very small indeed and the reduction affecting it would be infinitesimal, but In the aggregate it Is the very life blood of the railroads. "The elective and appointive officers and department employes of Nebraska receive salaries amounting yearly to $995,407. The city of Omaha has an an nual payroll of $449,735.28. "Nebraska has little occa sion ' to antagonize these great (rail way) industries, and those who are advocating it will find that it will not continue to be popular. "The tide is turning from the very force of Justice and right thinking. "Until conditions reach their normal it is absolutely necessary for railroad men, without reference to organization, class of service or political affiliations to stand united In opposition to these policies that tend to diminish their wages or add additional burdens . to their dally tasks." SHALL DEPOSITS BE IXSlHREDt Bat How Is That Question an laane In the Present Campaign T pORTLAKn Or.. Aue. 4. (To the Edd- rT.e.n.t1. lAaHn In hi Demo cratic1 address, claimed that twelve years ago the Republicans promisea to reiorm our currency, but had not, and "proved" it by quoting Congressman Fowler, who a year or so ago charged our currency system as the worst in the world. Mr. Gearin evidently confused our promise to maintain currency on a gold standard, which was preserved, with Mr. j-that our inflexible' system of currency on Dona Da3is 1 not equal 10 eitjwLivi terns based largely on business assets as In English, Canadian, German or French banking. But the Senator assured us that the Democrats now have a real remedy, "all i ....... 1,1 what thev wwi a li u a, jaiu .vie, ...... - allege is the present evil. Their plat form pieages tnem to remedy tne bjicrcu evil suffered by uninsured depositors In National banks, and Mr. Bryan, when he shall be told that he ws nominated at ienver, is to come out lor mis yieiec good and strong. But further along In the speech it ap pears that in our National banking sys tem It is not a very alarming evil after all. Mr. Getarln quotes with approval Congressman Fowler, showing that the entire loss in National banks in forty years is oiuy oi-iww ui una ici vcuu Tsti't it nerfeetlv awful how reckless Re publican legislation has been? Nearly one three hundredth ot one per cent iosi gone to smash in forty years. "Turn the rascals out!" Our friend Gearin. In that same speech, f.lrt.r trtilr thA hIHA ffiirilrattvplv sneak ing) off Bro. Taft for presuming to doubt the efficacy of this Democratic pledge to tax solid banks in order to pay this fraction or a inaction ot iosh, uui n Senator will adjust his spectacles, and really read the Democratic platform, he will see what a different matter Mr. Taft had In mind. Mr. Taft wns not worrying over any infinitesimal tax on National banks Insuring tter depositors, but rather the proposed democratic tax of National and other sound banks to Mv.t. Airv tnraiLoa.a denosltor in any and every wildcat, state, corporate or private bank that might wisn to lane auvui6 of the proposed Democratic legislation. T n-n ,Dthp, hnir nlatform DledKe that all the taxing of National banks is to be done "under an equitaDie system which shall be available to all banking insti tutions wishing to use if; in short, legis lation by which any plundering, schem ing state or private "banking institu tions" anywhere, which agrees to put up a pro-rata of tax, can have the sound banks committed to make good to its heedless depositors the money they con fide to kite-flying "banking institutions" anywhere "wishing to use the system." Of course they each would "wish to use the system," and thus, Mr. Taft says, the proposal is impracticable and that "if adopted exactly as the Democratic platform suggests" the result will be ruinous. Mr. Taft merely criticised the Demo cratic insurance plan in Its suggested shape. He nowhere In his speech of ac ceptance disapproved of any proper plan for deposit Insurance, state or National. He was simply showing the dangers of the Democratic system of forcing the taxing of all honest, prudent banks. Na tional, state or private, to make up losses from imprudence, recklessness, speculation or dishonesty of "all" other "banking institutions" that might wish to come in to the system which the Demo cratic platform says "shall be available" to them. There is no real need for legislation concerning dsposits in present National banks and all efforts to make an issue Ip National politics on "Insuring deposits" appear purely for campaign effect. The real trouble is almost entirely with irre sponsible state and private "banking in stitutions," where only state law con trols. nn.1 whnsA nrivate contracts with thflr heedless denositors no laws of Congress can reach or regulate. M. C. GEORGE BOSTON'S STRONG MAN OF MUSCLE With Great Ease He Handles Bales of Hay and Barrels of Flour. DnolAn fllrh For downright strength few men can equal Antonio ferry, a general man pany, who is called the fastest banana packer In Boston. Antonio, who Is bet ter known as "Tony" throughout the dis trict, was born in the Island of Flores in the Azores group, which is under Portu guese jurisdiction. He nas tne oam skiii , ,k t .Hn vanoe hut he Is r. nrettv UL HIO , -'i - good American after living in this coun try for 19 years. To look at Tony -as you pass him In the .t..Qt ..m, wmiM think he was a man of a-ood physique, without extraordinary strength. But tnat is wriere iony wuum deceive the average man. His weight is i-n it, onH ha la 5 feet 7 inches tall but he is a mass of muscle, and no task seems too hard for him. -tony was i .i la,, .xfctv n it he looks the nlc . t,airv, ani Vinn a. cheerful, sunnv disposition. The most he ever weighed L 1 1 1 M W 1 in 1. 1 . ( ' was 190. . ' T. t Atimir in toll In words what 1 L IB VI 1 1 1 . V. u i . . ' . ' - - Tony can do, for when you do tell it the things seem easy. lony can n-r un.i-o ,ott emu- hlirh without lissistance mi. . Aav- hut when vou come XI1HL Ovuiua -' - v to lift a bale of hay weighing 2o0 pounds up as high as your neaa anu Vul u u.. i ,.- h.iaa it- T-.nnires unusual mrwo oiuw -'""" " -- strength. But Tony does this and other things Just as difficult. - One day someone was - Jollying Tony about his strength and said: '"Why. you couldn't carry a barrel of flour across the street." That remark nettled T-ony-and he replied with some spirit: I couldn't, eh? Well, I bet you the price of a barrel of flour that I can carry a barrel of flour on my back from here to the ferry and from the ferr. on the other Bide to my home in East Boston. That offer called for a take-up or a back-down, and the wager accordingly was made. Tony lives at 101 Liverpool street. East Boston, and he had no dlfti cultv in triumphantly carrying the flour to his home. "I tried to get the same man to bet me that I couldn't carry two barrels strapped together, but he would n't do it," said Tony when speaking 'Of tha incident. Tony says that he never saw anything yet that any other man was willing to take hold of that he wouldn't tackle. Colors Vpset Dyer's Mind. St. Louis (Mo.) Dispatch to New Tork World. Around the iron cot of Richard Fape at the City Hospital there would seem to be a riot of colors. The monotlnted hospital walls are a Kaleidoscope ... celling a rainbow, and every object within range of his disordered vision takes on hues of vivid beauty Pape's mind is affected, and he Is in the hospital for observation. He is a dyer" and a quarter of a century over the dye vats is said to be the cause of his hallucinations. That "h.mlcal. in the dyes slowly poisoned Paps . and finally, brought on an affliction o f the mind Is the belief of the hospital phy- "hu Umlted vocabulary is inadequate to express the marvels his al-ordered retina and brain conjure up. Papo Is 46 years old. Lightning Prefers Wooden Pomp. Philadelphia Record. Llehtnlng played a curious prank at the home of Joel King, of Center county. A bolt-struck an apple tree lumped from there to a wooden pump on the porch, which it almost split n two The curious part was that In jumping from the apple tree to the wooden pump the lightning Jumped almost directly over an iron pump, which was untouched. The family were In the kitchen at the time, and though they were very badly fright ened, no one was hurt. A WARNING TO THE SALOONMEN What They Are Dolns to Make Oregon a Prohibition tate. St. Helens Mist. rr-i. .!A..L.11anori nf thA CitV Of Alio nniuiin' i'v - Portland are doing everything In their nnwer tn aid the prohibit lonists In sweeping the State of Oregon two years from next NovemDer. Bianuum by themselves it is doubtful whether those who believe in the total prohl hiiinn nf the sale of intoxicants would be successful, but there are great . 1 V.a11a,.a thA numbers oi voters wnu uc..c i- n ... nnr1iifteA should saioun a n m " - -' -1 be abolished, and when they reallz . . 11.1.. n'lll loin tnat iniS IS impwsaiuic iinrj- ... . v.1.. n ,.nt trt nhnfilittAlv DTO- hibit the sale of intoxicants. The Port land saioonmen are saiu i" achieved a victory in preventing the passage of an ordinance forbidding . i .. ...Amon In nlUfPO. wherS tne pi eocni-o v p i x V in . ... - liquors are sold. It may be a victory. but it Is likely to cost mem uem. ' antl-saloon sentiment is strong, even in Portland, and every act of the saloonkeepers that Irritates the pub- ., in in..a,A thin sentt-ment. not 11C Will 'i"-"" only in the metropolis, but throughout the state. AtM , It is easy to assert that this Is a matter that concerns Portland alone, but the people know better. Vice in the city means additional expense throughout the county, and this la true in Columbia county as well as m Multnomah county. The license for saloons In the city goes Into the muni cipal purse, but the expense of suits growing out of the liquor traffic are borne by the taxpayers of the entire county. So that, viewing It from a . financial standpoint solely the state at large is Interested in m.ann" in which Baloons are conducted 1 i ths cities. From the broader standpoint of the public good, also, the people of the county are Interested In the man ner In which the affairs of the great city are conducted. It is generally ad mitted that saloons frequented by women are recruiting offices for the brothels, the penitentiary and the asylum., Not one word can be said in their faMor, and yet they are advocated by the liquor interests of Portland and the Council seems to be completely under their control. ORGANIZED LABOR REVOLTS. Will Not Follow the Lead of President ftnm ner. Philadelphia Special to Baltimore News. Rebellion has broken out in v.. ranks of labor unions affiliated with h. imorican Federation or laoor agalnst the efforts of Samuel Gompera. president of the federation, to ...k-.j. partisan National politics Into the labor i..i.ta -niimher Rt movement. ine uiii least 100,000. , The resentment against Gompers .. - t.oMr.aiiv noticeable in the Central Labor Union, which Is mad up of delegates from tne vanouo union sections of this city. Frank Morrison, secretary of trio . . t. i .. m ,iw nf Tifthnr. who American x-u. - came here under orders from Gompers to settle a dispute i " election of officers of the Central La bor Union, held two weeks ago. said: "We intend this year to see that or ganized labor shall be a unit In support of Bryan. We will all follow President Gompers' lead." Delegates to the Central Labor I nlon representing such tmdes as garment workers, hatters, printers, electricians, painters, the various building occupa tions and what is known as the "mis cellaneous section." taking all trades arc of different political faith. Threat of secession from the federa tion are freely made, and a movement Is on foot to show to all the labor unions of the country affiliated with the federation that Gompers is making an unfair use of his power in the in terests of the Democratic National ticket. Gompers has been looked up. Nobody in this city knows him better than James A. Wright, past general master workman o the Knights of Labor. "Gompers came to this country from London, a cigarmaker by trade," says Wright. "He joined the Knights of La bor in New York and became head of the Clgarmakers' Assembly, K. of L., in that city. In the early '80s he was expelled from the Knights of Labor for trying to interject politics into the order. The goods were found on him. There was proof that he acted as a tool for Tammany Hall in trying to turn the labor vote over to that or ganization. He then, with other ex pelled Knights, formed the American Federation of Labor, and since that time has used all the influence at his command to turn organized labor over to the Democratic party." Londoner Memorises 40.000 Dates. London Tit-Bits. E. C. Laston. who has juet issued a challenge to the world for the memory championship, although only a young man of 23 years, is a veritable walk ing encyclopedia, for he has memor ized 40,000 dates of the . principal events in the world's history since the creation. It was quite by accident that he discovered that he had sn ex ceptional gift of memory. He was be ing trained as an army officer, when an attack of rheumatic fever dispelled his hopes in that direction. At that time he happened to meet the Zanclgs In India, who, noticing what a re markable memory he had tor dates, ad vised him to cultivate it. He then purchased a copy of Haydens "Dic tionary of Dates" and sought to com mit to memory the dates of the most important events in the world's his tory by writing BO to 100 dates on a piece of paper, and rewriting them three or four times until he had fully grasped them, with the result that he has a repertoire of thousands of dates, and can give the correct answers without the slightest hesitation. . His Hen Just "Stood Pat." Chatham (N. J.) Dispatch to the New Tork Times. Hudson Budd s stationary hen Is dead after a career of nearly a year as the only one of that variety in this section of New Jersey. Mr. Budd expected that, the hen would live only a short time, and consequently does not feel as bad ly as he might, since she existed sev eral months beyond the time he al lotted to her. She became stationary at the time Mr. Budd laid the new concrete floor in his hennery. The hen, a fine example of the Brah ma variety, wandered Into the roost a few hours after the concrete had been put down and Bank ankle deep In the mixture. Next morning the con crete had "set" and the hen was an chored. As it was Impossible to get her out, Mr. Budd provided a seat for her. One point that Interested chicken fanciers of the section was that the egg-laying ability of the hen was not Impaired in the least. Mr. Budd thinks fatty degeneration of the heart finally ' took his prize "stand-patter" to hen heaven. Dog Rescues Drowning Kitten. Montclair (N. J.) Dispatch to New York Tribune. George W. Da Cunha, an architect, of Valley Road, has a dog which pre vented the drowning of a kitten that has been its companion since its birth. Mr. Da Cunha'ts hired man tookvthe kit ten to a pond with the intention of drowning it. The dog accompanied tho man. and when the latter tossed tho kitten into the water the dog Jumped after it. When Mr. Da Cunha heard how persistently the dog had Inter fered to save the life of ths kit tan, be refused to have It killed.