THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1903.
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PORTLAND. TUESDAY, SEPT. 8. 1908.
.A SHIFTY OPPORTUNIST.
Effort of Mr. Bryan now is to es
cape the "Issues", of his own making,
on which he put forth his former en
deavors to be elected to the Presi
dency.
Now he cheerfully declares that he
is delighted to note that Mr. Taft and
President Roosevelt have come round
to his "principles." But he omits,
with discretion, those "principles" on
which he was candidate for the Presl
dency aforetime. He says he was
"denounced" because he favored rail
road regulation, independence for the
Philippines, tariff changes and Income
tax.
No. He was not "denounced" for
these things. They were not then in
issue, between the parties. Nor are
they now. Mr. Bryan's former prln
ciples were free coinage of silver. Gov
ernment ownership of the railroads of
the country. National initiative and
referendum, and denunciation of the
Supreme Court because, on the issue
as presented to It, the Supreme Court
could not uphold the income tax.
But the states may levy an income
tax if they wish, and an inheritance
tax, too. Oregon has an inheritance
tax. and may add an income tax if it
desires. And Mr. Taft says, in his
opinion if the question were rightly
presented to the Supreme Court of the
United States, income tax would be
sustained. However, some of the
fruitful sources of taxation should be
left to the states. Isn't this one of
them? Has the party of Jefferson ar
rived at the finality that the General
Government should have all power
and do everything?
However, upon none of these things
was Mr. Bryan defeated in his former
appeals to the people of the United
States. He had taken his stand for
free coinage of silver, which would
have revolutionized the monetary pol
icy of the United States, would have
substituted sliver for gold as the basis
of our monetary system, would have
upset all crediis, ruined all business
and reduced labor to extremity. On
this sole issue the election of 1896 was
contested. It went against Bryan.
The country saved Itself. Again In
1900 the same policy was affirmed,
with addition of demand for Inde
pendence of the Philippines. He was
beaten more signally than before.
Since then our opportunist has as
serted the principle of Government
ownership of the railroads and Initia
tive and referendum as a National pol
icy; but finding that he had mlBsed
his guess herein, as before, he has
kept these "principles" out of his plat
form of the present year.
Now when he says that his "princi
ples" ha?e been Indorsed and ap
proved by the President and Mr. Taft,
be Is careful not to mention the real
"principles" of his former campaigns,
upon which he was defeated and re
jected. What he calls his present
"principles" embrace subjects upon
which there Is no settled opinion, one
way or another. Every one. admits
that at some time or other we may cut
loose from the Philippines or grant
them Independence. But no person
of sound Judgment supposes we can
do so now. Regulation of railroads Is
not a party or political question, never
can be. It is purely, an economic
question, to be dealt with according to
conditions and circumstances, which.
In various parts of our country, have
an Infinite variety; for the regulations
that would suit Massachusetts and
New York would not fit In Oregon and
Washington. It cannot be a National
party question. Nor can . readjustment
of the tariff be made a party ques
tion, for the Interests Involved have
an Infinite variety, dependent on In
finite variety of circumstances In
widely separate parts of a great coun
try. Hence there always will be Dem
ocratic protectionists and Republican
free-traders, and it will forever be im
possible to draw party lines on the
tariff, or to make the tariff a close
party "Issue." Taxation of Incomes
and of Inheritances, as said already.
Is a subject that might well be left
to the states, as sources of Income for
them. The General Government al
ready monopolizes all the best sources
of Income. The states should retain
these.
But Bryan and his party wish to get
far away and out of hearing distance
from their former "principles" the
principles on which they made their
efforts aforetime; so Bryan, who Is a
facile speaker, comes out with his new
discoveries, "forgetting or wishing to
forget, as the Scripture his it, "the
things which are behind."
But Governor Hughes. In his speech
at Youngstown, O., on Saturday,
drove a spear through all these new
pretensions by showing that they are
mere inventions for a new campaign,
substitutional, made for occasion,
brought forward for the purpose of
providing escape from old embarrass
ments; that these things are not the
true Issues between the parties at all,
but that Bryan's well-known and hith
erto denned purposes, or principles,
are. Moreover, "if all that Mr. Bryan
has favored during the past 12 years
had been enacted Into law. we should
have been overwhelmed with disaster
and would' regard it as our chief busi
ness In the future to find a way of es
cape from the meshes of Ill-considered
legislation In which we would have
been entangled. It Is fortunate for
him as well as for us that he was de
feated, and whatever may be his pres
ent political potentiality may be as
cribed to the fact that hitherto he has
' not been permitted to carry out his
programme."
Here are the tests by which Mr.
Bryan is now to be Judged. But his
attempt Is desperate to shift his old
and real principles to fictitious, imag
inary or trifling new ones.
There Is a difference between the
candidates.' It consists mainly In this,
that Taft Is running on his record and
Bryan Is running from his record. The
difference between the parties is sub
stantlally the same.
PRISONERS IDLE IN JAIL. .
An act passed by the Legislature of
1907 and afterwards upheld under a
referendum vote by a 2-to-l majority
vote of the people contains the follow
ing provision:
The Sheriff In every county .hall have the
cu.tody and control or all persons iegaur
commlted or confined In the county Jail
of hie county during the period of uch
fnmmitmnt nr confinement: provided, how
ever, that inch Sheriff shall, under the di
rection of the County Court of hl county.
In the cut of the prisoner In the county
Jail held to labor under existing law, work
such prisoner at such place, and for auch
time and In such manner aa the County
court may direct.
The language of the act Is clear;
the intentions of the people were ex
pressed In the vote given the meas
ure when it came up for approval un
der the referendum. In such clrcum
stances the attitude of the County
Court In refusing to "direct" the
workings of the prisoners in co-operation
with the Sheriff Is strange Indeed.
Meanwhile the taxpayers who
passed the law and must foot the bills
are losing the services of the Idle pris
oners, who should be at work building
roads under the direction of the men
whose duties are so clearly defined by
the law.
THE CZAR OF LABOR.
Mr. Gompers may be disappointed In
his efforts to elect Mr. Bryan, but by
his attempt to swing the great vote of
organized labor to the representative
of a party which has done so little for
labor he is in a fair way to split the
American Federation of Labor asun
der. It was perhaps fortunate for the
Republican party that this "Old-Man
of-the-Sea" fastened himself on the
shoulders of Bryan instead of Taft,
for from all parts of the country come
murmurs of disapproval over his at
tempt to drag the Federation into
politics. Kentucky is the latest to re
port the threatened disruption of the
Federation on account of the "steam
roller" methods of Gompers, and the
bitterness has reached a point where
free-for-all fights are Indulged in by
rival factions. The reasons for this
state of affairs are many, but the one
which overshadows all others is the
great American desire for Independ
ence of thought and action:
The American Federation of Labor
is a great economic force, but it con
sists of such a small minority of all
labor that, as a political force, it falls
short of the pretensions made by Mr.
Gompers. Within the ranks will be
found many Intelligent thinkers who
will not for a moment admit that
Samuel Gompers is any better Judge
of National politics and their effect on
labor than these Individual voters
themselves. They will point to the
absurdity of expecting any relief or
assistance from the Democratic party
so long as the states which are most
notoriously inimical to the Interests of
organized labor are in the Democratic
column. Mr. Gompers could crack the
party whip over organized labor
much more effectively If he could
point to a single Democratic state
wherein organized labor has fared
anywhere near so well as In the Re
publican states.
The Knights of Labor In its day was
fully as strong an organization as the
present American Federation of La
bor, and yet it disintegrated through
strife brought on by its appearance
In politics. In attempting to do the
thinking for 2,000,000 American la
borers, Mr. Gompers . has not only
brought down on his head the wrath
of a large number of that gxeat indus
trial organization, but he has incident
ally courted the disapproval of a great
many of that vast army of laboring
men who are not of the union. As
far back as 1900 the American cen
sus showed that there were engaged
In gainful occupations In the United
States 29.285,922 people, more" than
one-third of whom were engaged In
farming, a branch of Industry in which
organized labor has never secured a
foothold. Of the 1,521,355 railroad
employes in this country in 1906, en
gineers, firemen, switchmen and train
men numbered less than one-fifth, and
one-third of this fifth were not mem
bers of unions. The arrogance of Mr.
Gompers will hardly fall to stir a feel
ing of resentment among many of
these non-union men, and, viewed in
all Its aspects. It seems highly proba
ble that the Republican party was for
tunate Indeed in escaping the support
of the Czar of labor.
GUARANTEEING WHEAT DEPOSITS.
A Willamette Valley farmer, acting
upon the suggestion of one of the
planks Of the Democratic platform,
wants the Government to guarantee
grain deposits. He says that some
years ago he put his grain in a ware
house and the warehouseman failed,
leaving him without any wheat, which
was worth its valiie In money to him.
He says he believes In guaranteed
bank deposits and wants the law so
framed as to Include grain deposits. If
a man has $5000 worth of wheat de
posited In a warehouse and may turn
It Into cash any day and deposit the
cash In a bank, why shouldn't .the
Government guarantee the grain de
posit as wll as the money deposit?
The warehouseman puts all grain into
one bin, buys grain from one farmer
and returns grain to another, making
sales at pleasure, but never keeping
the Identical sacks of wheat In sepa
rate piles. This Is exactly what the
banker does with money deposited in
his bank.
If we are to adopt a practice of
guaranteeing things in the name of
the Government, why stop with bank
deposits? Thousands of people trust
their lives every day to railroads. Why
not tax each railroad company a cer
tain proportion 4f" its earnings to
create a fund from which all damages
shall be paid in case of accident. It
Is true that this would encourage rail
roads to be careless, for they would
have to bear but a small part of the
expense of accidents. The roads that
keep their tracks and equipment In
good condition would have to pay part
of the damages incurred by the negli
gent company, which seems unjust,
but what have we to do with Justice
and Injustice when It comes to a Gov
ernment guarantee? The point of the
whole matter is that the traveling
public should) be guaranteed by the
Government that damages will be
paid In case of injury and that the
Government has a fund from which
to do the paylng. Any man who op
poses Government guaranty of grain
deposits or of the lives of railroad
passengers is an enemy of the people.
At least that seems the Inevitable out
come of the Democratic style of rea
soning. But that is not the Republican view
nor the sensible view. The Govern
ment has a right to regulate the busi
ness of bankers and warehousemen
and railroads. , It has a fight to say
that the warehouseman shall always
have on hand a quantity of grain
equal to the amount for which he has
receipts outstanding and that failure
in that respect shall constitute grand
larceny, punishable by imprisonment
in the penitentiary. Such a law as
that, property enforced by faithful
District Attorneys In courts that are
not worshipers of technicalities, will
Boon solve the troubles of the farmers
who put their grain In warehouses.
Similar laws relative to the manage
ment of banks, requiring the banker
to have in his possession at all times
either the cash or valuable securities
sufficient to make his deposits good,
with a prison penalty for violation,
would soon put an end to dishonest
banking. And a few penal laws aimed
at the careless or negligent railroad
manager would go far toward the sav
ing of life. ' Such Is a reasonable plan
of protection, for It does not punish
the honest railroad operator, the
honest warehouseman or the honest
banker.
BRITISH RAILROAD MERGER.
A London cable, printed in yester
day's Oregonian, announced the pro
posed combination of practically all f
the great railroads In . the United
Kingdom under two heads, with
view of eliminating competition and
facilitating traffic. Whether it will be
advantageous to eliminate competition
is a question, but a combination which
would admit of an Interchange of
traffic In a land where railroads cross
and recross at frequent Intervals
would certainly be an improvement
on the present system. Great Brit
ain's railroads are small affairs com
pared with the gigantic systems which
are spread over the United States, but
their capitalization has reached quite
imposing proportions, the lines in
volved in the proposed merger repre
senting something over 11,750,000,000,
Perhaps the most striking feature
in connection with the operation of
the British roads Is the fact that, de
spite the beggarly low wages that are
paid employes- and the ' attenuated
dividends which are returned stock
holders, the rates for freight and fare
average higher than in the United
States. This' is in part due to the
enormous Investment of capital In the
roads, the cost of betterments and re
pairs being charged up against the
road instead of deducted from the
earnings from year to year. A policy
of this kind, applied to the American
roads, would In a few years Increase
the capitalization to a point far and
away beyond anything that has ever
been scored by injection of water in
the stock. The predicament In which
the British roads are now placed will
have a tendency to silence some of
the criticism that has been directed
against the American roads, which
pay big wages and haul freight at an
average of 40 per cent less than it is
handled by the railroads of any other
country.
The railroads of Great Britain and
other European countries do not kill
as many people as are killed by' the
American roads, but in nearly every
respect a comparison of the economic
conditions of American and British
roads Is decidedly unfavorable to the
foreigners.
RETIRING CHURCHES.
Should the proposed union be con
summated between the First Presby
terian Church and Calvary, it will in
dicate a marked progress of Christian
brotherhood and common sense. In
1882, when the band of fifty members
severed their connection with the First
Church to found Calvary, the parent
society met in, a frame building at
Third and Washington streets. Dwell
ing farther to the west, perhaps the
emigrants found It inconvenient to at
tend worship downtown. Perhaps
there were other causes for the sep
aration, for church members are still
human and have their little frailties
like the rest of us.
But if there was any discord, time
has healed it. If there was none, so
much the better. Commerce, which
caused the First congregation to mi
grate to Twelfth and Alder,, now again
bids high for the ground where their
meeting-house stands, and presently
they will yield to its urgency and move
again. What expedient could be bet
ter than to follow the Calvary pioneers
to their charming homestead and
there erect an edifice large enough to
accomomdate both societies and beau
tiful enough to set fitly in the frame
of Portland's encircling hills? The
Presbyterians have sufficient wealth, if
they were united, to construct a monu
mental church artistic In design. Im
posing in size, splendid In decoration.
which should testify both to the Chris
tian devotion of the builders and to
the power of their faith in Oregon.
Why not do it? The site of Calvary Is
too remote from the tidal stream of
commerce to be disturbed for years.
Perhaps the religious serenity of the
spot will never be broken by the In
road of trade and for all time to come
it may remain hallowed ground conse
crate to God instead of Mammon.
The flight of the First congrega
tion before the victorious army of
commerce from Third to Twelfth
street and soon again to some remoter
haven seems to be Inevitable as the
city grows. The same thing happens
everywhere, In Boston, New York,
Baltimore. Farther and farther up
town the church buildings move, fol
lowing their congregations. Trade,
hungry for profits, claims the sites
once dedicated to htm who taught the
wickedness of greed and the militant
cohorts of his followers fold their ban
ners and retreat. It is hard to pic
ture the appearance of Portland' in
that long ago when God was still wor
shiped on Third street. The cynic may
sneer, if he likes, that eighteen years
Is not so very long after all; but It Is
only children who measure time by
counting years. Men count events,
and reckoned thus by all that has
happened, by all that has been gained
and lost, by the men who have lived
and died, by hope and despair and
the changes that have come, it is an
age that has passed away. What will
Portland look like after another
eighteen years? The new Presbyter
ian Church, towering in glorious sim
plicity, like the message of the Mas
ter, will face Mount Hood, opposing
the Bubllmlty of religious art to the
chill sublimity of nature. Far up
Washington street to the foot of the
heights the massive haunts of trade
will rear their walls, while upon the
heights themselves and nestling In
those verdant valleys which wind
among the hills like memories of
Paradise, there will be palaces and
fragrant gardens of roses and the
gleaming hearths of happy homes.
After nightfall, standing on Council
Crest, one sees a field of lights stretch
ing eastward as far as the eye can
reach. In eighteen years more it will
stretch as far westward, and every
light will mark the focus-of some
man's love and hope. A great pleas
ure road will traverse the slope of the
hills, cross the Willamette and inter
sect the Peninsula, ending perhaps at
some park near the Columbia. The
banks of the Willamette will have
been cleared of the defilements which
mar one of the loveliest spots on
earth. Concrete quays will replace
the offensive piles, with the swarms
of vermin which they shelter, and the
bridges will be trebled in width,
adorned with statuary, massive, calm
and beautiful as beseems the high
ways of a mighty city.
But this is all a dream? Perhaps;
but it Is a prophetic dream. The fu
ture need only keep the promise of the
past and It will all come true. Would
one might add to the vision a prophecy
that the churches will cease to flee
before trade ere two more decades
elapse. Would that they might turn
valiantly upon their pursuers and re
establish the altars of the Almighty in
the heart of the market-place. It
would be grand to see a great Presby
terian cathedral floating the banner of
the cross in the face and eyes of Mam
mon, say at . Third and Washington,
again. Such a structure would sig
nify that the church was reconquering
lost territory in more than one sense.
Grays Harbor has made a very flat
tering start In the dispatch of -large
steamships in the foreign lumber
trade. Nearly a dozen of the big
ocean tramps have loaded there in the
past six months, and, all things con
sidered, they have fared very well.
Unfortunately for the good name of
the port, the steamship Mathilda,
with an Inexperienced pilot on board,
got out of the channel and stranded.
Viewed from a fair and Impartial
standpoint, this Is no reflection on the
harbor, but the foreign shipowners
not Infrequently place a wrong con
struction on such accidents. It is said
that pilotage and towage rates out of
the harbor were so high that the risk
of an inexperienced pilot was taken
rather than payment of the terms de
manded. -This, of course, was poor
economy for the ship, but if Grays
Harbor wishes to retain her growing
prestige, she must endeavor to make
pilotage and towage rates so reason
able that they will not be ' refused.
Poor pilots are worse than no pilots.
It was eminently proper that the
meeting of the Oregon Good Roads
Association should be held in Tilla
mook, for in that Isolated county can
be found a few of the best wagon
roads in "use anywhere In the state.
The lack of other means of transpor
tation undoubtedly induced the resi
dents to exercise more care in road
construction than they would have
otherwise devoted to the task, and,
now that the railroad seems an as
sured fact, these fine roads will great
ly add to the Inducements which Til
lamook County can offer settlers.
There is still a vast amount of road
building' to be done in Tillamook
County, but the numerous gravel
bedded streams and comparatively
easy grades, together with a general
disposition on the part of the people
for road improvement, will enable the
work yet to be done to be carried for
ward rapidly.
It has been said that heathen peo
ple have one advantage In that they
have no quarrels and divisions over
religion. But do they not have con
troversies concerning the proper
length and breadth of a wooden or
stone god ? Is It not reasonable to
believe that members of one faction
who paint their god red condemn to
perdition all those others who paint
their god blue? It is rash to assume
that, whereas enlightened people can-,
not agree regarding deity, ignorant
people can.
We all know in a general way that
Oregon is a great agricultural state,
but every one can acquire a better
knowledge of the particulars in which
Oregon excels by attending the State
Fair at Salem next month. Several of
the leading counties have prepared
exhibits In the county contest, and In
these exhibits there will be displayed
the best of everything that each sec-
Ion of the state can produce. A trip
to Salem during the Fair will be recre
ation combined with education.
Bacon said that reading maketh a
full man. It is not necessary for any
one to tell us that whisky .does the
same thing. Since there are a great
many people who like to get full one
way or another, it would be wise for
11 those communities which have
abolished whisky to establish good
libraries, where everybody may get
full reading.
How few friends we really have If
we measure friendship by the stand
ard set up by Emerson: "A friend Is a
person with whom. I may be sincere;
before whom I may think aloud." A
friend who will not rejoice over an
other's frailty or misfortune Is rare.
Probably In" no part of the United
States was there a better exhibit of
strong, healthy, good-humored, law
abiding men than moved In Portland's
labor parade yesterday.
Warring factions among Portland
spiritualists cannot heal their differ
ences except by appeal to the pri
mary law and Statement No. 1.
I
If Mr. Gompers will go down to
Danville and stay there for the re
mainder of the campaign, a lot of
people will feel better.
Harrlman can make amends for de
lay by Instructing his publicity bureau
to exploit to the fullest Tillamook but
ter and cheese.
Now that he has started on the
Ohio campaign, Taft, too, may prop
erly refer to the strenuous life.
With the certainty of a railroad, no
part of Oregon will grow faster than
the Tillamook country.
FROM CLEVELAND'S LETTER.
An Extract From His Laat Address to
the American People.
There is fear on my part of being
misunderstood In what I am about to
say, but surely the fair-minded man
must . realise when he considers my
attitude toward my own party, all now
a matter of immutable record, that it
Is prompted by a sense of simple fair
ness. Personally and officially I have
had the opportunity of knowing many
things concerning Mr. Taft that were
not a matter of general knowledge,
and with a keen Interest I have watch
ed his large share in the conduct of
our National affairs In very recent
years. His excellence as a Federal
Judge in CInncinatI Is something not
to be underestimated or overempha
sized., for should he come to the Presi
dential chair the qualities which made
him a Judge of high ability, which I
know him to have been, will be the
most needful to him as President of
the United States.". His high ideals of
honesty and of relative Justice, his
great capacity for severe labor, and
his humorous wisdom in the face of
the serious problem are attributes
equally valuable and commendatory to
a people seeking him in whom they
may repose the trust of their collect
ive Interests while they turn their In
creased attention to their passing in
dividual demands.
BREWERY GOVERNMENT'S LESSON
Banefnl Power of the Touarh Saloon In
Nullifying I-avvs of Decency.
Indianapolis News.
It has been shown very clearly that
the recent riots In , Springfield, 111.,
were due almost wholly to the fact
that Springfield is and long has been
governed by the brewers. They,
through their controlled and owned
saloons, have nominated and elected
public officers, dictated the course to
be pursued by them after they were
elected, and, of course, have said "how"
the laws should. , be enforced or
whether they should be enforced at
all. There Is nothing novel in all this.
On the contrary, the combination of
brewer and politician is familiar to all
of us. It exists In practically every
American city.
Why should anyone be surprised
that the Inevitable explosion came?
What happened in Springfield was
bound to happen. More than that, the
same conditions will produce the same
result in other cities. Indeed, mob
rule had existed long, before the re
cent mob broke loose. For, with the
Government and the police under the
control of men who had bargained for
and obtained the right to violate the
law a right which they freely exer
cised the very Government itself was
a lawless thing. It was the product
of lawless forces, inasmuch as it was
the product of bought elections and a
debauched suffrage. Finally the fail
ure or refusal to enforce the law had
the . effect of giving free rein to the
dangerous and vicious classes. Here
Is what happened:
The riffraff, the floater, the saloon bum
and the hanger-on at resorts, learned from
those "higher up" that laws may be disre
garded and no penalty follow. This class
haa seen officials play their favorites and
at once concluded that if violation of one
law may go unpunished, so It may be with
another law. That class believed from what
It had seen that the laws were Impotent,
and If It was caught In the commission of
a crime It expected to escape with a slight
penalty or none.
And yet only last Spring the brew
ers in their convention at Milwaukee,
where the Reisch Brewing Company,
that runs things at Springfield, was
represented, declared that "the tough
saloon must go." It has not gone out
of Springfield. On the contrary it is
firmly Intrenched in the capital of Illi
nois. It will not cease to exist in any
community In which the brewers and
saloons control the Government.
Where the right to violate the law Is
bought and sold, where the police
power Is under the control of the men
who want to be permitted to violate
the law, there we may always expect
the tough saloon to flourish in all its
hideousness. And In such communities
Springfield mobs and Springfield
lynchings are always possible.
The Crucial Teat
Chicago Post.
"Ah!" say his critics, "you pretend to
have an abiding faith in your fellow
man!"
"I don't pretend: I have!" he responds,
proudly.
"Umph!" they say, satirically. "You
claim to trust and believe In all men as
your brothers; you assert that confidence
begets confidence, and that the man who
acts thus toward others will be re
warded." "I do," he repeats.
"Then why don't you show your prin
ciples by yovr actions?"
"What do you mean?" he demands,
hotly.
"You never order scrambled eggs or an
omelet In a restaurant."
Humiliated and chagrined, he turns
away, having no defense ready.
Hunting Cham for Mr. Roosevelt.
New York Dispatch
Rev. Hugh Brickhead. rector of St.
George's Protestant Episcopal Church
and successor to Rev. Dr. W. S. Rains
ford, has returned from London by the
Atlantic Transport liner Mlnnetonka.
with a rumor, which he said' he be
lieved was based upon fact, that Dr.
Ralnsford would be one of the mighty
African hunters who would accompany
President Roosevelt into the Jungle.
Dr.' Rainsford has been killing great
game In British East Africa ever since
he retired from the pastorate of St.
George's, in the Winter of 1904.
OUR FLEET AT THE ANTIPODES
Out of the mist and the sea.
Out of tha cloud and the sun
They come, the ships of the free
They come with victories won.
.......
', The city sleeps; the shepherd's hut Is still
The dew waits ror tne magic touon or morn;
The surging tides that sweep the peaceful
shore
Tell of a mighty host that comes apace.
Far out upon the headland's furthest point
A keen-eyed watcher looks and cries,
Sail ho!"
The sun bursts forth, and in its golden
path
A shining, white-clad floet rides on the sea.
Upon the hills a million voices shout
A wondrous welcome to the steel-ribbed
ships
A million tongues speak out in glad acclaim
And eager hands stretch forth In greeting
true.
"Oh. warriors from the far-off western shore
Pink deep' your anchors in the golden sands:
Rest here awhile the shining day Is long;
Behold our portals, they are open wide.
Brothers of yours are we; we speak your
tongue
The same red blood runs In your veins and
ours.
Long nursed we at the selfsame, pulsing
breast
Mother of nations that gave birth to you
and us.
Allegiance still we owe and freely give.
While you. our younger brothers, stand
alone
And reckon with the nations of the earth
As man to man. with fear alone of God.
Brothers Indeed are we; and here we vow
No alien tongue shall cause us to forget
Our sacred ties of love. Our flags entwine
Our steel-clad fleets keep peace on sea and
land
Our destiny is yours our alms are one
Justice for all in sight of God and man.
Ob let us mark this day upon our hearts
A milestone in the onwaro. marcn or time.
Columbia's sons, brothers to you are we
God speed you safely now; God guide your
way.
Into the mist and the sea.
Into the cloud and the sun
They go. the ships of the free
They go with victories won.
SEWELL TRUAX.
Salem, Or.
RICH LOOT
Joseph Meyers' Valuable Papers
Stolen In Express.
(Continued From First Page.)
wish Is assurance that their father will
be protected from any designing persons
In his old age, and when they are satis
fied upon this point they will not press
the guardianship proceedings further.
Banker Says Nothing.
John H. Albert, who shipped the box
to Mr. Meyers, declined to discuss the
matter today, but it is learned that he
told the parties directly Interested that
so far as he is aware, no one but him
self, Mr. Meyers and the Wells-Fargo
officials knew that the box was to be
sent.
The trial of the guardlansnip case has
been awaited with keen interest by all
who are acquainted with the Meyers fam
ily, but now the mysterious disappearance
of the box of valuable papers compete
overshadows the pending litigation in
public Interest. It Is felt that the mys
tery will soon be solved and that the dis
closures 'will create a greater sensation
than any of the numerous- controversies
In which the Meyers family has engaged.
EXPRESS COMPANY HAS CLEW
Package Stolen From Union Depot
About Midnight, August 21.
Attorneys for Joseph Meyers in this
city last night unwillingly confirmed
the news contained in the foregoing
dispatch.
How the theft was accomplished Is
not yet clear to the officials of the
Wells Fargo Express Company. The
package was taken from the Union
Depot offices, they believe, some time
between 11:30 P. M. August 21, and
1:30 A. M.. August 22. H, Beckwith,
superintendent of the Portland office,
said:
"During those hours our men at the
depot are rushed and it is likely that
the door of the office was left open for
a few moments and some person
slipped in and took this package. We
have detectives at work on the case
and will never let up until we catch
the thief, no matter how long it may
require. We have some clews' but
what they are we are not ready to
make public."
In shipping the package from Salem,
J. H. Albert named a nominal value
only, the figure being placed at $10.
On this account the package was not
placed in the express company's strong
box but was left outside the safe with
miscellaneous express packages, it be
ing intended to deliver it to Mr. Meyers
the following morning.
No Other Package Stolen.
Not another package at the depot
was missed. Indicating that the thief
was not there to pilfer the express
company indiscriminately of whatever
article of value he could carry away.
The theft of the package of valuable
papers recalls the recent sensational Inci
dents connected with the marriage of
Joseph Meyers and Mrs. Zenalde Du
Rette In this city last month. The Jour
ney of Mr. Meyers to Portland, where he
was to marry the middle-aged widow, his
arrest at his sons' instigation as the aged
bridegroom, entered the county clerk's of
fice to secure his marriage license, his
shadowing by deputy sheriffs and private
detectives, his final triumph and marriage
while the insanity chsS-ge was still pend
ing, his later vindication and release on
the testimony of expert alienists who ex
amined him, are still fresh in the public
mind. 1
Meyers came to Portland to be married
August 17. The insanity charge was filed
the same day by his sons. Drs. Andrew
C. Smith, S. E. Josephi and William
House were appointed by Judge Webster
as a commission to examine into his men-,
tai conaiuon, ana tne nearing was set zor
August 17, but, on petition of his sons,
postponed until August 21. A peremptory
demand was made upon County Clerk
Fields August 19 for a marriage license,
which was Issued. The couple were mar
ried at the courthouse the same day by
Judge Morrow.
Sons Seek Guardian for Father.
A proceeding was then started by the
sons in Marlon County on August 20 to
have a guardian appointed for their
father, as an incompetent,- and the In
sanity charge was dropped. But Joseph
Meyers and his attorneys Insisted that
the hearing should be held. When the
sanity commission reported, the aged
bridegroom was cleared and all doubt of
his mental balance removed. The action
in Marion County Is still pending, the
time for the defense to appear expiring
September 10.
Friends of the pioneer merchant of
the, Capital City say he has done much
more for his sons than might have
been expected. From a small start, Mr.
Meyers, during his 20 years' business In
Salem, has built up the largest store in
that city. Two years ago he decided
to retire and he Is said to have planned
to give his sons the business. A cor
poration was organized last year
known as Joseph Meyers & Sons. The
father gave Henry W. and Milton L.,
his two older sons, a majority of the
stock, for which they gave him a prom
issory note for $38,600, In July, 1907,
payable In ten years. The note bore in
terest at B per cent. The sons paid
some cash at the time of the transfer
and he kept a small part of the stock
of the new corporation. Last Spring
he lent them $14,000 on demand notes,
also bearing 6 per cent.
After the marriage with Mrs. Du
Rette, and the accompanying annoyances
to which the old man was subjected and
for which he felt bitter toward his two
oldest sons, he decided to move to Port
land to live and this was the reason he
sent to Salem for his box at the bank,
where he kept his private papers. The
package, when it was stolen, contained
not only the notes of his two oldest sons,
amounting to a total of $52,800. but the
majority of the stock certificates of the
corporation of Joseph Meyers & Sons,
which he held as security for the payment
of the notes, together with his own stock
In the concern. His bank-book was also
In the package, as well as considerable
jewelry, bank books of savings accounts
he was keeping for two younger sons,
stocks and bonds In other concerns. Insur
ance policies, and other valuable papers.
Did Not Intend .to Collect Note.
His friends say that Mr. Meyers never
intended to collect the note for $38,600,
which was made payable In ten years,
because of the fact that Mr. Meyers, al
ready 71 years old, could not be ex
pected to live that length of time. Friends
say further that before his marriage with
Mrs. Du Rette. Mr. Meyers made a settle
ment upon her, limiting the amount of
money she should have to a small per
cent of his estate, so the .bulk of his
property would go to the sons.
Mr. Meyers was not In the city last
night but it Is understood that It Is now
his Intention to proceed against his sons
and press the suit to be started today.
Attorneys for him will leave no stone un
turned. It is said, to secure the collection
of the three notes which have been stolen
from him but whose existence, it Is stated,
he can prove.
Reward Offered for Stragglers.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 7. As the search
of the patrol from the American fleet for
the men who failed to go aboard their
ships when the fleet left here Saturday
for Albany has not met with much suc
cess, rewards have been offered for the
apprehension of 221 stragglers.
Many Working Girls Suicides.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 7. There
were 66 suicides in this city last week.
A larger portion of that number were
working girls between 18 and 25 years
of age.
ROBBER GETS
NEW LAAV WILL HAVE TEST
Primary Election to Be Held la
Washington Today.
(Continued From First Page )
missioner; 8am H. Nichols,- Secretary of
State; C. W. Clausen, Auditor, and J. H.
Easterday, Attorney-General.
Close Vote on Two Offices.
It Is expected that the result on State
Treasurer will be close between E.. K.
Erwin, of Spokane, and John G. Lewis,
of Aberdeen. On Lieutenant-Governor,
Ellis Morrison and Charles E. Coon are
expected to run close in Western Wash
ington, with M. E. Hay the second-choice
favorite. Hay will likely run ahead of
the other two on first choice In Eastern
Washington, with Coon probably next.
This estimate puts the contest between
Hay and Coon, and If the advantage of
being In office works out well, as many
politicians think. Coon looks like the nom
inee. E. W. Ross apparently has the advan
tage In the contest over the office of
State Land Commissioner, with 8. A.
Callvert second. It is difficult to gauge
sentiment on this office, because there
has been no discussion of the merits of
the respective candidates. Judges Milo
Root and Herman D. Crow are quite gen
erally picked as assured of renomlnatlon
for the Supreme Court, and indications
point to S. J. Chadwlck as the third
nominee. There are three positions to
fill. Root's nomination is the only one of
the three about which there is any doubt
ful discussion.
Will Settle No Issue.
Whatever the result of the primaries, no
definite issue will be settled. While lo
cal option has played an important part
In the campaign, all the candidates are
committed to a local option law, and the
party has Incorporated a local option
plank in its platform.
The nomination of Mead or Cosgrove
would probably mean the adoption of a
more repressive law than If any of the
other candidates were successful, and this
will be the sole significance of the result
In that particular.
Alleged extravagance has been an Issue
raised against Governor Mead, but the
charges have been denied vigorously and
figures have been used so voluminously
that It is probable the voters at large
have npt reached any convictions on the
subject. The primary campaign has been
aptly described as one not between candi
dates, but between newspapers. No defi
nite policy of any candidate for Governor
has been attacked or is In issue.
Probable Democratic Choice.
As to the Democratic ticket. It Is the
general opinion that A. J. Splawn will
be the nominee for Governor and M. M.
Godman for United States Senator.
In the third Congressional district Miles
Polndexter Is believed to be the favorite
candidate, so far as Spokane County Is
concerned. But It is uncertain If his lead
there will give him the required 40 per
cent of the flrst-cnolce votes, and with
the second-choice provision operative, Lee
A. Johnson, of Sunnyslde. apparently will
be a close competitor with Polndexteft
Indications point to a heavy vote
throughout the state. In Spokane, Se
attle, Tacoma and numerous smaller cit
ies registration exceeds all previous rec
ords. The efforts of the multiplicity of
candidates for county offices will do much
towrad bringing out a full vote.
SECOND CHOICE NEW FEATURE
Primaries Being Tested for Firs!
Time In Primary Election.
SEATTLE. Wash., SeDt. 7. (Special.)
Tomorrow will be held the first gen
eral primary election In this state under
the new direct primary law passed by
the last Legislature.
It will also be the first primary elec
tion held anywhere which embodied the
second-choice feature. This provides
that in the case of certain offices, the
most Important of which Is Governor,
the voter must indicate both his first
and second choice of candidates. If no
candidate is given 40 per cent of the
first-choice voles of his party, the second-choice
votes will also be counted to
determine the nominee.
Interest is centering on the contests
for Governor between Henry McBrlde,
ex-Governor, and A. E. Mead, the pres
ent executive, and that for United
States Senator, for which office the
people will indicate their preference.
A majority of the candidates for the
Legislature are pledged to vote in the
Senatorial election in the Legislature
for the man receiving the highest vote
at the primary. The fight between
Senator Levi Ankeny, the present in
cumbent, and Congressman Wesley L.
Jones, who aspires to succeed Ankeny,
has been even more bitter than that
over the Governorship.
There Is no such thing as prediction
as to the result. There has been little
betting on either Governorship nor
Senatorship.
King County apparently will, cast be
tween 30,000 and 35,000 votes, which
will be pretty nearly one-third of the
votes cast in the state. The voting in
Eastern Washington Is expected to be
light because of the primary coming in
the midst of the harvest season.
Institute Reopens Monday.
OREGON CITY, Or., Sept. 7. (Spe
cial.) McLoughlin Institute will be
opened next Monday morning for the
Fall term, and it is expected that the
number of pupils will be greatly in ex
cess of last year. The first year of the
Institute that was erected not only as an
educational Institution, but to serve as
a memorial to Dr. McLoughlin, was a
marked Buccess under the direction of
Rev. A Hillebrand, pastor of St. John's
Church. In addition to the grammar
grade, two years' high school instruction
are given, and- Latin and German are In.
the course. The Institute building was
constructed at a cost of $12,000. and of
this amount $4000 came from popular sub
scription and $1100 was raised through
entertainments.
Debs to Speak at Oregon City.
OREGON CITY, Or.. Sept. 7.-(3pe-cial.)
The local Socialist organization of
Clackamas County Is making active prep
arations to conduct their Presidential -campaign,
and propose to have meetings
In every schoolhouse In the country dis
tricts and open air meetings at Oregon
City. Arrangements have been made to
greet Eugene V. Debs, when he comes
through Oregon City on his "Red Spe
cial." He will reach Oregon City at 4:35
o'clock next Monday afternoon and will
stop for a half hour, making an addresj
from the rear platform.
Convinced He Has Found Lost Mine.
MYRTLE CREEK, Or., Sept. 7. As
says showing from $157 to $225 In gold
to the ton of ore confirm the finding
of the lost Shefflln mine by B. M.
Armitage near this place. From the
time that the free-milling ore was
found by Armitage, convincing him
that It was Shefflln's old prospect ht
had found, assays have shown con
stantly Increasing values In the ore.
Haywood Talks at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND. Sept. 7. William D.
Haywood, former secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners, made
the principal Labor day speech here to
day. In the parade were about 20,000
unionists, including a large delegation
of waitresses in caps and aprons. A
unique feature of the celebration was
the workhorse parade.
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