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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.