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rORTLANU, THl'IWIMV, Alii. M. l0.
THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE.
Approximation of the two plat
forms. Republican and Democratic, to
each other makes It difficult for per
sons who do not understand the his
toric and fundamental differences of
our political parties to decide between
them. Mr. Clifford Dammon. No. 8.2
East Seventh street. North (Portland),
writes:
Each day I read your editorial page care
fully. Heine; young and Inexperienced, tho
mistakes of Mr. Bryan and his party, which
you ao clearly point out from day to day.
are of Incalculable value in Tormina; a Just
opinion. I am sure your efforts are appre
ciated by every one.
On the other hand. Is it not neresaray
tint iv know something of the principles of
the Republican party; something of what It
h is done in tile pa., something of what it
etrlves to accomplish in the future? What
I have observed does not draw me closer
to the Republican purty.
It is admitted that there is close ap
proximation of the declarations and
demands of the two platforms. Repub
lican and Pemocratlc, at this time.
But the approximation is apparent,
rather than real, and moreover is but
temporary. It appears now, because
there in no clearly defined matter to
fight over, as there has been hereto
fore and will be again. The real dif
ference between parties is to be found
in their historic character; in their
past contests on vital questions or
matters of highest import in National
life and politics. Overlook this dis
tinction, and one party now Is about
the same as another. And neither
will have any actual significance.
But what has the Republican party
done? It has asserted tho principle
of nationality and kept the country
united, against the purposes and ef
forts of its opponents, in war and in
peace. Its main principles were con
firmed by abolition of slavery and by
the surrender at Appomattox. Since
then it has directed the country
through the greatest period of pros
perity it ever has known: it has taken
care of the National finances and
crushed all monetary heresies; it has
defeated the effort made in Bryan's
former campaigns to debase the money
standard, reject gold, and make silver
the standard of the money of the
country; and thus it has averted Na
tional dishonor and 'general bank
ruptcy. It hasn't made sunshine and
rain and crops: but it has safely and
wisels' directed the policy of the coun
try; not without mistakes, indeed,
chief of which was indiscriminate en
franchisement of a race not yet. fitted'
for the suffrage. But It has preserved
the country from the misfortunes that
would have followed the acceptance of
the doctrines and purposes of its polit
leal opponents, including dissolution
of the Union, and the disgrace and
ruin that would have followed the de
basement of the money of the country.
The primary difference between the
parties exists in human nature. One
is in favor of authority and efficiency
in government and affairs, whether
against a rebellion of National propor
tions or a city riot: the other opposes
assertion of authority, and sympa
thizes with those who think they are
"oppressed" by the conditions which
government and society find it neces
sary to maintain and enforce for their
preservation. From Washington to
Roosevelt, one of the great parties of
the country has been an integrating
force; from Jefferson to Bryan the
other of the great parties has been a
force of disintegration. The great
Civil War was the leading Incident of ,
the difference or division; but there 1
have been many more.
BOSTON'S GREAT DISCOVERY.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals should award a
medal tQ the Boston man who has In.
vented a substitute for the overhead
checkreln that is. unless the Inven
tor first gets a medal from some so
ciety for the encouragement of
humor. The Boston inventor has se
cured from the United States Gov
ernment a patent for his appliance
and in his specifications he relates
that it operates in accordance with
the well-known fact that when a
horse holds his head high he In
variably throws his ears forward.
Therefore he devised a small and al
most Invisible brace to be attached to
the top of a bridle in such & manner
that it will hold a horse's ears for
ward. It follows, according to logic
as it is taught in Boston, that a horse
so equipped will hold his head up
without a check rein.
The Idea Is one that is capable of
almost unlimited application. As all
horsemen know, when a horse travels
very fast he holds his tail nearly
straight out behind. According to
Koston logic, the conclusion Is inevit
able that if a horse's tall be- held In
a horizontal position he will be able
to make much faster time than he
otherwise would. This suggestion is
particularly valuable Just before the
beginning of the Fall race meets.
Then, too, the same principle could
undoubtedly bo applied to men as
well as to horses. Everyone has ob
served that a man who goes about
with his hands in his coat pockets is
economical almost to trie, point of
miserliness, while one . who has a
habit of keeping his hands In his
pants pockets is free in spending
money. Then by sewing up the pants
pockets of a spendthrift, his prodigal
tendencies could be overcome. Clos
ing the coat pockets of a miser would
cause him to spend his savings freely.
It ha a been knovn from time imme
morial that when a man runs very
fast he swing his arms rapidly. The
Boston inventor should devise some
sort of mechanism which would make
a man's arms move rapidly, thereby
enabling hlnj to Increase his speed in-
I definitely. The more one thinks
I about it the more important becomes
this Boston idea of controrllng a
horse's ears. Any man who has ob
strved the ways and habits of dumb
brutes and of human beings will be
able to suggest innumerable ways In
which tho same principle can be util
ized. The Inventor should be recog
nized, not only by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, but
by all scientific, philosophical and
other learned organization.
WHEN IT 18 CAL1.EB Hl'MBfC.
If any one thing could be more ludi
crous than another, it is the spectacle
of Judge Parker, candidate four years
ago of the plutocratic element of the
Democratic party, now stumping for
the Bryan end of the combination,
which last time repudiated Parker
with Bcom and contempt.
Not only this, but the Bryan Democ
racy is now posing as a poor man's
party, the party of the shirtless, one
gallus democracy; and Parker, attor
ney at New Yerk of several of the
biggest trusts and combinations of the
country, plutocrat of plutocrats, is out
on the stump for the candidate who is
to crush the trusts and, bring the poor
man Into his own.
Yet there are those who wince and
whimper and say naughty words,
when this game Is called humbug.
WirERE HORTICILTCRE THRIVES.
The Department of Horticulture of
the Oregon Agricultural College has
Just Issued a fifty-page bulletin on
Wasco County orchards which every
fruitgrower should procure and read.
While the bulletin does not undertake
to give a detailed account of the man
ner In which an orchard should be
conducted. It does point out a multi
tude of the methods pursued In one of
the best fruitgrowing sections of the
state. Wasco County methods will
not always be applicable to other sec
tions, but in many particulars they
will be, and the intelligent grower will
soe at once many suggestions in the
bulletin that will be helpful to him,
even though he Uvea In a county far
from Wasco (or Hood River, now cre
ated from Wasco). The bulletin Is a
report of a survey of the orchards by
Professors C. I. Lewis and R. W. Al
len, who found Wasco an Interesting
county to work In. In one of their
Introductory paragraphs they give this
Interesting information, which should
serve as a stimulus to those engaged
In fruitgrowing:
It has indeed been Interesting work in
this county. Taking Hood River as an ex
ample, we And an agricultural community
where the average orchard is onl Hi acres
In area and where the retuma hare reached
a mark as high as $1$00 per acre, while the
average net returns through the entire
valley was not far from ."juO per acre for
bearing orchards. Here we find many men.
located ten years ago with a few hundred
dollaia. who now hare young orchards that
are selling aa high as Slftoo per acre and
wao count their wealth from $40,000 to
$10.000. Any community that will support a
family on ltl a-.-res la Indeed Interesting.
What will Its future be? That Is an Inter
esting study for the sociologist, for thia
region promises to develop Into an ideal
agricultural i-nmnmnltv.
PARKS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS.
Nearly all the larger towns of Ore
gon have established high schools and
public libraries, and are now turninig
their attention to public parks. Salem
and Pendleton are among the cities
that have had the matter under most
earnest consideration, newspapers in
each of these places having urged the
importance of provision of thia kind
for the comfort and enjoyment of the
people. The subject Is one that may
weli receive the attention of any town
that hopes to grow to any size, for
eventually parks will be needed. Since
It takes many years to produce shade
trees large enough to make a park
worthy of the name, a public enter
prise of this kind cannot be under
taken too soon. Some of the cities of
Oregon are particularly favored . by
Nature, trees being plentiful and nat
ural parks being located adjacent to
the city limits. But other cities, lo
cated in a treeless region, or suffer
ing from the misguided industry of
early pioneers, must plant and nurture
the trees which will in future years
give cooling shade to those who must
seek recreation In public parks.
Fortunate Indeed is the city so
planned and laid out that trees may be
grown along the streets and In the
front and back yards of generous
sized lots. Such a city, if the trees be
properly protected and cared for, be
comes one Immense park, for the side
walks are shaded and every residence
lot has space for flower gardens and
shrubs. Of course trees must disap
pear from the business portion of
every city, but in the residence dis
trict shade trees may be grown as well
as not, adding to the beauty of the
surroundings, reducing the tempera
ture in Summer and diminishing the
dust nuisance. Though Oregon knows
little of the excessive heat of the East
trn States, protection from the direct
rays of the sun is pleasant here as
elsewhere. The city that neglects to
plant shade trees, or that permits van
dals to destrey them, loses one of the
greatest sources of pleasure any place
can possess.
Even though a city may have trees
along all its streets and around nearly
all its homes, public parks are also
needed. There must be open-air
meeting-places for use on public occa
sions. There must be playgrounds for
the children away from the dust and
danger of the street. There must be
lounging-places for those who wish a
place In which to spend their leisure
time and who do not wish to seek
the attractions of a bar-room or
a den of vice. A large city like Port
land has need for an extensive park
requiring considerable expense for
maintenance. The smaller cities of
the state need not and should not un
dertake to establish such large parks,
for the Initial cost would be great and
maintenance charges would be out of
proportion to the benefits derived.
There are at least a dozen towns In
Oregon, and perhaps more, that
should have two or three parka, each
of such size and character as recrea
tion grounds for old and young. Near
ly all cities in Oregon are spread over
an area much greater than is neces
sary In proportion to the population.
One park, located on the outskirts of
such a city. Is of comparatively little
use. Several parks, or park blocks,
as they might be called, located in dif
ferent portions of a city, would make
excellent recreation grounds if the
trees were large enough to make a
good shade. The cost of keeping such
parks in order would be practically
nothing. In medium-sized towns the
effort should be to make a park use
ful rather than ornamental. To be
useful it must be easily accessible. A
park maintained for Its scenic beauty
I Is almost Invariably an expensive lux
ury. It Is frequented most by those,
who need it least.
Aside from Its immediate value a3 a
rark, a tract of land purchased by a
city is a good business Investment.
Every growing city needs new school
house sites from time to time. If
purchased after residences hare been
erected thereon, such a site costs much
more than Its actual value for build
ing purposes. The residence buildings
must be torn down or moved away. A
park block could be easily trans
formed into a most excellent school
house site. Almost any town in Ore
gon that buys a vacant block In its
suburbs now and uses It for park pur
poses for twenty years will have need
of It then as a schoolhouse site. In
the meantime its usefulness as a park
would justify the Investment.
Every town should have its public
high school, its public library and Its
public park. Each should be estab
lished and maintained for use rather
than appearance.
JUDGE PARKER'S SPEECH.
There was once a time when few
people understood the real purpose
and effect of the protective tariff. In
! those days It was supposed to fall a
j little short of the Almighty as a Bene
factor of mankind, and only a little.
If a new gold mine was discovered in
Alaska, thank the tariff for it. If the
wheat crop was abundant, let the
tariff have the glory. If the National
health improved, the tariff was the
cause of It. But the Increase of pop
ular information and Intelligence has
.largely done away with such nonsense.
Everybody now knows pretty well
what the tariff has done for the coun
try, both in the way of good and ill.
and there are very few reading per
sons who would care to take exception
to much that Judge Parker had to say
about it Tin Tuesday night at the Hei
lig Theater. As he said, it is an un
just tax; but he is probably mistaken
in asserting that the Democrats would
be much more eager than the Repub
licans to revise it downward. When
they had the opportunity under Cleve
land they did the opposite. They
raised the schedules, upon the whole,
Instead of lowering them. The parti
san twaddle about the Wilson bill hav
ing been a free-trade measure is be
neath contempt. It was In truth a
bill for a high protective tariff, and
what Judge Parker's party did on that
occasion It is fair to presume that
they would do again.
The truth of the matter is that the
Democratic bosses are just as unscru
pulous as any in the country, and
probably more greedy than their
rivals, since they have not enjoyed
much plunder for a long time. The
trusts which benefit by the tariff
would not be likely to find these bosses
entirely unapproachable when the
time came for the promised revision.
The advantage which the tariff gives
the trusts is so real and substantial
that they can afford to pay almost any
price for its continuance, and It is rea
sonable to believe that they would pay
one party as readily as another. But
It can scarcely bo granted to Judge
Parker that without the tariff we
should have no trusts. It is rather
stretching the fact to say that the
tariff has created them. It has been
a contributing cause to their prosper
ity, beyond a doubt. It has tightened
their grip on the consumer's throat.
It has held his hands while they
robbed him." But the chances are that
we should have had trusts, even if we
had never participated in the blessings
of Dingleylsm.
Instead of creating trusts the tariff
sets a maximum price which they can
exact from the consumer. If we had
no tariff, that price would be fixed by
other causes, and It would be lower
than It Is, but the trusts themselves
would be quite likely to flourish still.
The principal cause of their existence
Is the great economic discovery that
It Is cheaper for men in fhe same line
of business to combine than It is to
fight. They can make more money
by plundering the consumer than by
plundering one another. As long as
this truth persists we shall be likely
to have trusts. The basic idea which
underlies these combinations Is that
competition is wasteful while co-operation
is good husbandry. It is an idea
which is likely to extend rather than
to be abandoned. Perhaps also Judge
Parker might have mentioned railroad
rebates and discriminations among the
causes of the trusts, If he had cared to
be entirely candid. It is credible that
the beef trust has gained more from
unfair dealing with the railroads than
from any other cause.
We cannot really hope, therefore,
that revision of the tariff would anni
hilate the trusts, though it would
lessen 'the amount of their booty. It
would .do something toward checking
that annual drain of wealth from the
West to the Atlantic seaboard which
has embittered the .voters on this side
of the Alieghanies against what they
call "Wall street." This bitterness of
the Western voter against the Eastern
money power will play an Important
part in the current campaign and in
the main it will help Mr. Bryan. Of
course his election would not put a
stop to the flow of wealth away from
those who produce It and toward
those who absorb it, but a great many
people think it would, and pure fancy
Is as Important as cold fact in Presi
dential elections, often more impor
tant. Tariff revision, which would
really help somewhat, is not likely to
be hastened by the election of Mr.
Bryan. Indeed It might be hindered.
"Who pays the lawyer?" Is the ques
tion District Attorney Langdon asks
concerning the defense of the two
Greeks charged with dynamiting the
home of ex-Supervisor Gallagher, of
San Francisco. And that's a question
the answer to which would 'be Inter
esting In many cases out of court as
well as' in. Who pays the advocates
who throng legislative halls during a
session of the lawmaking body? Is a
question which has been many times
asked, but seldom answered. If the
people could always see the negotia
tions and transactions conducted in
secret, they would much more easily
understand the rather formal proceed
ings that are open to the public. "Who
pays?" Is a question that goes to the
root of most of the Ills that organized
society is heir to.
When a man has introduced a
woman to the public as his wife for
sixteen years, the question whether he
has deceived her becomes of second
ary Importance In the litigatipn which
follows their separation, The public
has some rights in a matter of this
kind. If a woman should Introduce a
man to the upblic as her husband for
sixteen years, -or for sixteen days, and
then announce boldly that she had
never been married to him, and knew
she hadn't been, .there would be no
corner of decent society where she
could again hold up her head. We
are about to learn whether a man can
do the same thing. Public opinion Is
generally believed to be a just judge.
We shall learn whether it deals the
same kind of justice to a man that it
would to a woman.
The chairman of the finance com
mittee of the Democratic campaign
says that "the Republicans know
where, to get their campaign funds."
Why shouldn't they know? Every
man who has enjoyed the prosperity
which Is fostered by Republican rule
I should feel a desire to have that pros
perity continued, atid may reasonably
be expected to be willing to contribute
to a campaign fund to continue it. At
the close of a Democratic administra
tion most men are too poor to contrib
ute to any kind of a campaign. It
would be surprising If Democrats
knew where to go for funds, for It Is
difficult to imagine why any one
should desire to see the Democratic
party placed in power.
The accidental death of any child Is
a sad event, bringing inexpressible
grief to those bereaved and arousing
the deepest sympathy of all friends
and neighbors. Particularly sad Is an
accident such as that which ended the
life at Salem of the 2-year-old daugh
ter of President Homan, of Willamette
University, whose child was drowned
while he was absent from the state
and 'while the mother was confined to
her bed. Though President and Mrs.
Homan are strangers In Oregon and
their circle of acquaintance is there
fore small, they have the slncerest
sympathy of every person who has
learned of their misfortune.
The one Industry In Portland that
has suffered from the effects of the
Wall-street panic is lumber. Dullness
In this line of manufacture seems to
be at an end. Production has been
kept clown to dally needs. It is stated
on reliable authority that practically
nowhere in the land is there now a
30 days' supply. Evidently the United
States is once more needing Oregon
fir and is willing and able to pay 10
per cent more than prevailing prices
the past seven months. With restor
ation of the lumber industry to its
normal activity, Portland is easily in
the lead of every. Pacific Coast city.
There is no disputing tine contention
of Oregon hopgrowers taat they can
not afford to pay as high prices for
hop-picking this year as they have
paid in the past. Moreover, wages
generally are not so high now as they
have been in recent years. There is
no doubt that men, women and chil
dren can make more money per day
picking hops at 40 cents a box than at
almost any other occupation. Of
course every one would like to see
hop-pickers receive 50 cents a box for
picking, but conditions do not justify
payment of such a price.
A Camas, Wash., preacher delivered
an address on "Impressions of a City
Council Meeting." There are many
people who will seriously doabt
whether a preacher's vocabulary is
adequate for the task of fully describ
ing the true impressiops made by
some Council meetings. A preacher
should hire a street urchin to do the
swearing for him while discussing
such a subject.
Shooting an unarmed and defense
less man because of a grievance which
may very likely be wholly imaginary
may make a hero in the East, but It
wouldn't oqt West. The Thaws and
the Hainses would get scant sympathy
in the section of the country where
an affair of this kind is conducted
with a display of courage. A coward
makes a poor hero.
Several . Democratic papers assert
that "Cake would have won but for
Fulton's friends knifing him." It is
one of those assertions that lack even
probable proof; but if It is true, it dis
proves the other assertion: that Cham
berlain is the actual choice, and sim
ply means that the electors didn't
want Cake. This, anyway, is the ex
planation. Now we have
though the Oregon
the report that,
hay crop is im-
mense, the price is
cause of a shortage
Is good news to the
won't it afford the
excuse to raise the
to city consumers?
likely to soar be
in California. That
hay producer, but
dairy combine an
price of milk sold
"Velly tlubble," as the Chinese
American would say. The East sup
porting Taft because Bryan is too
much like Roosevelt, and the West
urged to support Bryan because Bryan
Is more like Roosevelt than Taft is.
Here truly is a comedy of errors in
politics.
The marriages of old fools, where
there Is any considerable estate, have
an Invariable result. Thoy break up
In a row, and the lawyers feed fat.
Portland has supplied many an In
stance. No doubt it made the present Mrs.
Stevens very happy when Mr. Stevens
confided to her the glad news that the
woman he had been living with for
sixteen years was not his wife.
If Mr. Hill hurries up and builds
that road from The Dalles through
Central Oregon, he'll find Mr. Harri
man there that is' If Mr. Hill's ob
jective point is Pelican Bay.
The Hearst papers. It may be sup
posed, may' be depended on to enter
enthusiastically into the popular sub
scription scheme for the Independence
League campaign fund.
It is Interesting to note 4hat the
Parker audience took off their coats
and vests so as to hear the Judge in
greater comfort. Well, they had "em
to take off.
"Let the pople rule," says Mr.
Bryan. The same people that ruled
In 1896 and 1900?
Prohibition War Not Over.
Washington Herald.
"Booze blubberers and hell-broth
megaphones, like the Nashville Ameri
can," begins an editorial in the Ameri
can's esteemed contemporary, the Nash
ville Tennesseean. So you thought the
prohibition war was over down there.
did you? Well you It isn't.
SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE."
m
Remarks of One " uu " the Com
ment of Another Sun.
New York Sun.
While Mr. Bryan was yapping out in
Lincoln to the, applause of a hetero
geneous assemblage of Democrats,
Populists and Republicans, the solemn
old Baltimore Sun was formulating a
deliberate utterance which repudiated
him and all his works. "Shall the
people rule?" screamed Mr. Bryan,
dandling and playing with his tawdry
platitude as though it were a pregnant
epigram. "Yes," says the Baltimore
Sun. "the people shall rule by all
menns, but if so it must be through the
medium of Taft, who knows what they
want and knows how to realize their
highest aspirations.
The Baltimore Sun is a queer old
newspaper. It has taken up with Re
publican principles, policies and men
before, and is likely to do it again.
In 1895 it joined itself to the Lloyd
Loundes movement, as a result of
which that futilo but well-meaning
gentleman became Governor of the
state and Arthur P. Gorman, the head
of the Democratic machine, put off his
Senatorial toga and took a six years'
holiday. It has done many freakish
things at different times. It has played
reform, and sniffed at the heels of
Charles J. Bonaparte, and consorted
with more or less Industrious Mug
wumps. But through It all the Sun
has been the supreme organ of Demo
cratic thought In Maryland, the vade
meeum of the farmers from one end of
the state to the other and far Into the
Shenandoah Valley, If not as far as
Lexington and Staunton. The horny
handed thousands take it in good faith,
swear by It with unblinking confidence
and accept its teachings as they would
a message from the sky.
And this paper, a prophet of Democ
racy as far at least as Maryland is
concerned, has deliberately repudiated
Bryan and declared that William H.
Taft is the man who will most intelli
gently represent the people's wishes
and can most effectively promote their
interests. From one quarter, there
fore, Mr. Bryan lias received an answer
to hli theatrical inquiry, "Shall the
people , rule?" That was not exactly
the kind of answer he expected, per
haps, but it emanates from the very
neighborhood to which he is directing
his harebrained overtures of evangelization-
Those Southern voters at the
North whose ballots he dreams of at
taching to himself this year are many
of Jhem from Maryland, and now they
are strengthened In their political ac
tion not only by the silent arguments
of material expediency and plain com
mon sense, but by the dispassionate
admonitions of the newspaper which
taught them Democracy in their youth
and still presides at home over the
fountain of party discipline and right
eousness. The South proper will be Demo
cratic this time, though for a reason
not at all connected with Mr. William
J. Bryan quite Hie contrary. In fact
but the transplanted Southerners who
vote In Northern States will want some
motives rtronger than they have , in
sight at present for subordinating their
prosperity and hopes of further opu
lence to the parrot cry from Lincoln.
TEJf ISSL'ES OMITTED BV BRYAN
Shrewd Statement of His Interpretation
of the Democratic Platform.
New York World (Dem.).
A platform is binding as to what it omits
as well as to what It contains. ... A
platform announces the party's position on
the Questions which are at Issue, and an
official Is not at liberty to use the authority
vested In htm to urge personal views which
have not been submitted to the voters for
their approval. Mr. Bryan's speech of ac
ceptance. Fairly Interpreted these two sentences
have more meaning and greater political
Importance than anytiiing else that has
been spoken or written by Mr. Bryan or in
Mr. Bryan's behalf since, the campaign
opened. They embody solemn pledges for
the present and for the future.
The first, In the highly significant
words, "what It omits," pledges the candi
date against advocacy of doctrines favored
by him in the past, but Ignored this year
in the platform. Tho second goes beyond
his candidacy and referring to the possi
bility of his election, pledges him as Pres
ident against Ideas formerly supported by
him that have not this year received party
indorsement. Thus these pledges cov-r
broadly and completely not only his
course as a candidate but as President,
should he be elected.
The "ommlttd issues" which Mr. Bryan
obviously had In mind, and which by this
declaration are now condemned, aban
doned and burled forever, may be briefly
summarized as follows: (1) Free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1: (2) the
threat to pack the Supreme Court; (3) the
election of Federal judges by popular
vote; (4) denunciation of Federal courts
for enforcing the laws and protecting life
and prop:-rty; (51 opposition to ctvll-servlce
reform: () sympathy with mobs; (7) gov
ernment ownership of railroads: (8) Initia
tive and referendum; (9) class hatreds,
and (10) sectionalism.
In turning his back upon these questions
Mr. Bryan is to be credited with sincerity
as well as shrewdness. He has learned
that they do not appeal to Democrats. He
probably has misgivings as to their valid
ity himself. He naturally wlsh?s to fore
stall Republican attacks upon his vulner
able past. It Is possible, too, that a more
intimate acquaintance with Democratic
principles has given him Increased faith
in their wisdom end applicability to exist
ing conditions. Time certainly must have
convinced, him, as it has others, that rea
son and not passion points the way to the
Presidency.
Will Accept the Market Price.
CORVALLIS. Or.. Aug. 17. To the
Editor.) I saw a statement In your is
sue of yesterday that the landowners
around Corvallis and the Oregon Agri
cultural College were trying to hold
the state up. While some of them may
have been a little high on their prop
erty, the majority of them priced their
land for considerably less than land not
so near the town or valley, nor nearly
so desirable, is worth. This land was
priced to them by the acre. The land
some two or three hundred yards fur
ther away has been platted and Is sell
ing rapidly at 250 to $550 per lot, 50x
100 and 50x120. The land they are
wanting will plat nicely and will sell
at the same prices more readily than
this being sold.
Will you please count up and see
where this will put It and even allow
the streets taken out. which we are
not supposed to do. We don't wish to
be extortionate, but we dq want some
thing near what others are selling
theirs for. All we ask Is that the com
mittee come up, or have some one come
and see what other land of the same
quality and lying as near the town and
college as ours is selling for. Then I
think there will be no need of any con
demnation proceedings. There may be
one. and poseibly two. who would be
a little obstinate: but the majority will
be reasonable. We will be willing to
select a man and they a man. and those
two. If not able to agree, to select a
third, and settle this way, if they so
desire. All we want Is Justice.
G. R. FARRA.
Senator Bourne Gets New Name.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner.
Senator Bourne, of Oregon, who of
fered a prize of $1000 for the best essay
urging the renomination of Roosevelt,
is now wondering whom he will hold
responsible for the gold brick he ac
quired. Leat None Get Away.
Forest Grove News.
Pr. Large has both phones.
DISAPPEARS FROM HIS HOME
Louis H. Kretzer, of The Dalles, Has
Not Been Seen Since Saturday.
THE DALLES, Or.. Aug. 19. (Special.)
Officers of this city and county
seeking the whereabouts of Louis ri.
Kretzer. a well-known oung man of The
Dalles, who disappeared from his home
here last Saturday night. He signified
his Intention of going down town, sup
posedly to return within a short time.
Nothing has since been seen or heard of
him by his family. Some weeks ago
young Kretzer received a severe blow on
the head, which his family fear may have
caused mental derangement, as no other
reason for his disappearance can be ad
vanced. He has a wife and four children.
New Members of Military Board.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash.,
Aug. 19. (Special.) Captain Kenneth. C.
Masteller and First Lieutenant Howard
S. Miller, Coast Artillery Corps, are re
lieved as members of th board of offi
cers appointed to meet at Fort Worden,
Wash., and First Lieutenants Wesley
W. K. Hamilton and Charles C. Burt,
Coast Artillery Corps, are detailed in
their stead.
Leave of absence for one month, to
take effect as soon as practicable after
the maneuvers at American Lake, with
permission to apply for an extension of
12 days. Is rranted Captain J. R. Harris,
Medical Corps.
Captaln William K. Moore, Coast Ar
tillery Corps, will proceed to the artil
lery districts in the order named and
make the Inspection of artiliery post
telephone and lire control Installation as
contemplated in general orders. War De
partment, District of Columbia and Dis
trict of Puget Sound.
Goes Beck to Stand Trial.
COLVILLE. Wash., Aug. 19. (Special.)
Chief of Detectives Perdue, of Victoria,
arrived hefe today to convey to British
Columbia Guarino Beniamino, the Italian,
who was arrested by Sheriff Graham last
Friday upon a charge of larceny of a
considerable sum of money Intrusted to
his care by his employer to be used in
payment of wages dus the workmen over
whom he was foreman in a brick yard.
Beniamino denied the charge when arrest
ed and declared he would not return to
British Columbia for trial without extradi
tion. Later, however, he decided to re
turn without a fight.
Centralia Schools Renamed.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 19. (Spe
cial.) The growth of the city has
caused the Board of Education to
change the names of the various
schools of the place. The North
School will hereafter be known as the
High School, it being far from the
northern limits of the city. The South
School will be known as the Lincoln
School. A portable building will be
placed on the school site In the north
east part of the city. This will be
known as Logan School. Mountain
View and Oak View Schools will re
tain their old names.
Prisoners for Alcatraz.
VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Was h.,
Aug. 19. (Special.) In compliance
with instructions from the Secretary
of War, the commanding officer, Van
couver Barracks, Wash., will send,
under proper guard, the following
named military convicts to the Pacific
branch, United States Military Prison,
Alcatraz Island, California: Samuel
Kelley, Joel S. Leiart, Howard E. Oak
ley, Fred A. Molke, Alfred J. Argens,
William E. Seyler, Floyd D. Smith,
Merido Evans. Carrel W. Davis, George
p. Brown and William A. Bohn.
Hop Crop Light in Marlon.
HUBBARD. Or., Aug. 19. (Special.)
Hops and hop-picking are uncertain
ties at the present time. Not all the
hops in this part of Marion County
were cultivated or cared for this year
and now, owing to the extremely weak
market, it is highly probable that
many yards that have been cultivated
will not be picked. The crop is not a
heavy one, as many of the long arms
on the lower part of the vines have
no hops on at all. Picking will be sev
eral days later than usual.
Mill Xearlng Completion.
LAKEVI1SW, Or., Aug. 19. (Special.)
Lakeview's new flouring mill will
soon be ready for operation. When the
need for a flour mill at home was sug
gested last Winter, the merchants of
Lakeview and farmers of Goose Lake
Valley subscribed the necessary funds
to establish a mill. The building Is
now complete, the machinery on the
ground and flour will be turned out
tills Fall.
Limits Speed of Autos.
CHEHALIS, Wash.. Aug. 19. (Spe.
clal.) The City Council has passed the
ordinance regulating the speed of auto
mobiles within the city limits. Twelve
miles an hour on streets, with a four
mile speed at crossings. Is the limit
fixed. The Council has also passed the
ordinance recently Introduced requir
ing that all sidewnlks within the fire
limits be built of cement.
Chafin to Speak In Washington.
TACOMA. Wash.. Aug. 19. H. K. Rock
hill, of the Prohibition State Committee,
today received information that Presi
dential Nominee Chatin will reach this
state August 31. He will open his cam
paign In Spokane on that date, will
speak In North Yakima September 1 and
in Seattle on September 2 and September
3 in Tacoma.
Fisherman Drowned at Astoria.
ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 19. Axel Hellem.
a fisherman, was drowned Tuesday night
by falling off the wharf of the cannery
of A. Booth & Co.. being Intoxicated at
the time. His body was recovered thia
morning by grappling. He was a nattve
of Norway, 21 years of age and unmar
ried. He has a number of relatives In
Portland, where he formerly resided.
Old Courthouse Demolished.
COLVILLE. Wash., Aug.' 19. (Spe
cial.) The old Courthouse at the cor
ner of Main and Jeanet streets, which
was built in l&Ss, at a cost of about
$3000. was torn down this week to be
replaced wllh a handsome brick and
stone building at a cost of $25,000, to
be owned and occupied by the Bank of
Colvllle.
Denounce "Twisting" Practice.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Aug. 19. "Twist
ing" was the subject of several hours' dis
cussion before the National convention of
life underwriters today which resulted
finally in the adoption by a unanimous
vote of a resolution denouncing the prac
tice. "Twisting" is the vernacular of In
surance men for the efforts of any Insur
ance agent . to persuade any person al
ready Insured to leave the company in
which he is insured for the alleged su
periority of another. Many speakers
spoke of the practice in strongly denuncl.
atory language.
Miss Farrett's Petition Denied.
In the Federal Court yesterday Judge
Gilbert denied the application of Helga
Farrett to take depositions of witnesses
In Buffalo and New York. She is suing
W. B. Merseneau for $50,000, personal
damages for breach of promise, and
wanted to take the depositions of several
witnesses in the Eastern cities.
XIXETEEX CASES QCASHED
Criminal Charges"Arer Dropped in
Circuit Court.
Presiding Judge Morrow has dismissed
19 criminal charges in the Circuit Court
upon the recommendation of District At
torney Cameron. In most of the cases
the District Attorney believed that trials
would only entail upon the state a useless
expense, as he brieves there is not evi
dence enough to secure conviction. Among
the cases dismissed are two in which the
charge is threatening to kill. The defend
ants were bound over from the Munici
pal Court, and the men released on bail.
In one case the charge is assault and
battery, and in another larceny. Two
charges of giving liquor to minors have
been Cismissed. and three of selling to
bacco to minors. In three cases the
charge is contributing to the delinquency
of a minor.
A number of cases were filed more than
a year ago, and in several cases the ac
cused men have not been located. The
Circuit Court docket is badly congested,
cases now being set as far ahead as Sep
tember, and this has caused the District
Attorney and his deputies to go carefully
over the cases in hand, and to recom
mend for dismissal minor cases where a
conviction of the accused would be well
nigh Impossible The causes dismissed are
as follows:
John Doe. filed June 7. 1M": charge, giv
ing liquor to minor: Herbert Martin, com
plaining witness; latter sent to reform
school.
John Doe, died July 10. 1!07; giving llqua
to a minor; Walter Johnson, complainina;
witness; latter on probation.
Lloyd Campbell, filed July 18. 1007; ob
taining money by false pretenses; V. V.
Davis, complaining witness.
Dick Million, filed August 6. l!r7: as
sault; Virginia Mead, complaining witness.
A. E. Thomas, Bled August 13. 107; as
sault and battery; Ltrlu Thomas, complain
ing witness.
John Kruse. filed September 27, 3007; con
tributing to the delinquency of a minor;
complaining witness. Minnie Walz; latter
on probation.
J. J.' Bloom, filed October 2. 1007; sell
ing tobacco to a minor; Herman Lebranse.
complaining witness.
E. F. GH'bs, filed October 20. 1907; selling
tobaccco to minor; James V. Spangle, com
plaining witness.
Joseph Sugarman. Bled October 2t. 1907;
selling tobacco to minor; t.loyd Fisher, com
plaining witness.
Louis A. Cohen, (lied December 10. 1007:
receiving stolen property.
G. S. Palmer, filed December 16, 1007;
disturbing the peace.
Rush Elmore, filed December 17, 1907;
contributing to the delinquency of a minor;
W. E. Buffum. complaining witness.
Joseph O. Carson, filed December 24. 1007:
threatening to kill; Elizabeth B. Carson,
complaining witness.
Solomon Hernstein. filed December Srt.
1007; receiving stolen property; Ah Powell,
complaining witness.
Matilda Hugenln and Omer Hugenln, filed
January 31. 1S08: larceny; Ethel Kern,
complaining witness.
Howard C. ;reen. filed February 3. 180S;
fugitive from Justice.
T. Komato. filed March 2S, 1008: con
tributing to the delinquency of a minor;
Emll and Peter Keilborn. complaining wit
nesses. .
Louis St. John, filed May 1.1. 100S; adul
tery: Chris Peterson, complaining witness.
W. t,. carmack, filed June 10. 10"S; threat
to kill.
MITCHELL ESTATE DELAYED
run not Be Settled Pending Decision
in United States Court.
The John H. Mitchell estate cannot be
closed until Judge Wolverton hands down
a decision in the United States Court.
This Is the statement made in the second
report of David M. Dunne, administrator,
filed with the County Court yesterday.
Mr. Dunne's report shows that he hus
waited three months for this decision,
and that It has been more than a year
since the motion was filed.
The object of the motion was to have
the 1000 fine Imposed upon Mitchell July
25, 1905. cancelled on the ground that
the prosecution and punishment abated
at Mitchell's death. The motion was
made in June. 1907. Briefs were sub
mitted by counsel for the administrator
last April, and by the Government last
May. after Judge Wolverton had heard
the arguments.
Dunne says he was unable to sell a por
tion of the real property of the estate
January 16. as expected, because the
buyer was dissatisfied with the title. The
administrator was unable, he says, to ob
tain from the widow a deed conveying
her dower interests.
The report shows the total receipts
from the estate to have been f64ii7.lt to
date. This amount Includes J375S.10 re
ceived from S. C. Ward foroll storks, and
a balance of $1349.04 on hand when the
first report was made. The disburse
ments Include a mortgage redemption
for $1316.67. paid W. H. Kolman and
$1248.63. representing a third of the pro
ceeds from the sale of oil stocks, paid to
A. H. Tanner.
SIRS. DEACOX CHARGES ABUSE
Proprietor of Sherman House Is
Granted Divorce.
That her husband, John G. Deacon,
nearly choked her to death in his effort
to make her converse with him. and was
only prevented from committing murder
by the timely arrival of others was the
statement of Amy Deacon before Judge
Morrow In the Circuit Court yesterday.
She said that thia assault was made
July 2t. Although Mrs. Deacon made the
statement that she is a woman who dos
not talk much, she was free to express
herself wh'le on the witness stand. The
couple were married at Buffalo, N. Y..
April U. ISM. where Deacon was a street
car man. His wife said that since the
wedding she has been obliged to support
him and in the last six months to endure
his abuse. Judge Morrow granted the
divorce.
Mrs. Deacon conducts the Sherman
House, at Eleventh and Washington
streets. Deacon recently brought suit
against her, asking that a receiver be
appointed for the business, in which he
claimed an Interest. He said that his
wife had converted the funds to her own
use. This suit was dismissed.
Abbie Jacobs has filed a divorce suit In
the Circuit Court against Ward E. Ja
cobs. He charges her with deserting him
March 30. last year. They wera married
September 17, 1893.
Baunigortner Refused Damages.
The County Commissioners refusad yes
terday morning to allow the claim of F.
T. Baumgartner for damages to his auto
mobile while coming to Portland along
the Base Line Road. Baumgartner's
chauffeur endeavored to eecap? a collision
with the county's steam road roller, and
ran into a number of gravel wagons which
had bean left beside the road. H de
manded $160 damages.
Final Account in Evans Estate.
The final account of Peter F. Johnson
In the estate of Charles Evans shows
the receipts to have been $1933.30. and
the disbursements $236.35.
Klmberly Threatened by Fire.
WINNIPEG, Aug. 19. Forest fires
burned all night In the neighborhood of
Klmberly, and Klmberly and Sullivan
are threatened. A serious fire is burning
a mile from Moyle and another near
Ryan. The Canadian Pacific and the gov
ernment have called on their fire fighters
around Kimberly, but any attempt to
control the flames is out of the question.
Destroys Cleveland's Old Home.
NEW YORK. Aug. 19. Workmen will
begin soon to tear down the house at No.
12 West Fifty-first street, the last New
York home of the late Grover Cleveland.
The property has been purchased from E.
C. Benedict and is to be replaced with a
modern residence. Grover Cleveland In
April of 1893 leased the house of Mr.
Benedict.