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rOBTLAXO. XOMI1V, OCT. . ISO.
THE THIRD Or NOVEMBER.
The election Is distant yet four
greeks. Nothing very clear appears,
lnre local questions and disputes are
confused In many parts of the coun
try with state and local issues. For
example, we think Indiana a doubt
ful state, because of the peculiar
status of the liquor question there,
which allies the Democratic campaign,
with the saloon Interest and promises
to give that party the whole strength
of the liquor Tote. Still. Taft might
get the electoral vote of the state,
though the Democrats might carry
their 'state ticket and the Legisla
ture. Astringent local option law has
been enacted and the Democratic
managers are playing the game c
qulvocation with it, hoping to win.
The same Is true In Ohio though
the conditions are not so clearly and
sharply outlined.
That New York will cast her vole
for Taft may now be deemed most
probable; and the same may be fore
boded of Connecticut, New Jersey,
Maryland and Delaware. Still Bryan
might win. If he could carry certain
Important states of the Middle West.
Indiana has fifteen votes and Illinois
twenty-seven. Their Joint number
exceeds New York's thirty-nine, but
the excess would not give the major
ity to Bryan unless a considerable
number of other states could be car
ried for Bryan. But what states?
It may be set down as utterly Im
probable that either Michigan, Wis
consin. Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa,
Nebraska or Kansas will vote for
Bryan. Nor is he likely to get any
vote In the Rocky Mountain or Pa
cific states, with the possible or prob
able exception of Nevada. Colo
rado. Wyoming. Utah. Montana,
Idaho. Washington. California and
Oregon promise nothing for Bryan to
build on.
The election, as heretofore, is In
the two great cities of New York and
Chicago. While it cannot be deemed
' that New Tork City will throw for
Bryan a majority so enormous as to
carry the State of New York for him,
or that Chicago will do the like for
Illinois, yet there is some element
of uncertainty. The two great cities,
by their own vote and the Influence
they exerted In the states about them
elected Cleveland in 182. But has
Fryan the hold in those cities that
Cleveland had? Can anybody sup
pose it? Each of the great cHies
moreover exerts an Influence upon a
group of states; New York upon
Connecticut and New Jersey; Chicago
not only upon Illinois, but also upon
Indiana and Wisconsin, and even upon
Michigan and Minnesota. The elec
tion therefore may be said to He In
the cities of Chicago and New York.
Are they for Bryan as they were for
Cleveland? In this inquiry Is the key
to the election.
Oregon, The Oregonian believes,
will vote for Taft. There Is a good
deal of awakening among Republi
cans, and factlonul differences for the
present are sleeping. But the plural
ity will not be large and the vote must
be full, or Bryan will carry the state.
PORTLA.ND'8 RKfORD SHIFMEVrS.
The Tacoma Ledger, which for sev
eral months has been very fnlr In Its
news reports of Portland's shipping.
Is again becoming careless. Portland
has made such a splendid record in
wheat shipping this season that the
opportunities for the usual carping by
the Puget Sound papers have been
few and far between. But the Ledger,
by straining a point, in announcing
arrival at Portland of the big steamer
Knight of the Thistle, got In one of its
old-time uncomplimentary and un
warranted Insinuations. After stating
that the vessel "will carry probably
the largest cargo of the season from
Pacific Coast ports," the Ledger con
tinues: "She will load 6000 tons at
Fortland if she can get over the Co
lumbia bar with that amount aboard,
and will take 6000 tons at this port,
completing her cargo of 12.000 tons."
There Is nothing in the condition of
the Columbia River entrance nor of
the channel between Portland and the
sea that will prevent the Knight of
the Thistle from going through with
out delay, loaded to her capacity.
Steamers of even greater draft than
she will show when fully loaded have
made the run without delay during
the past week. The Knight of the
Thistle will carry 000 tons of cargo
when fully loaded. Instead of 11,000
tons, as stated in the Ledger. The
reason that part of this cargo Is taken
at Portland and the remainder at Ta
coma Is that Kerr, Glfford & Co.. who
have the vessel under charter, have
two large steamships and four sailing
vessels loading In Portland and one
email sailer chartered on Puget
Sound. The Knight of the Thistle
will take on board two average-eized
nail cargoes at Fortland and a third at
Tacoma. Two to one Is not quite so
grit as the percentage which the
previous operations of this firm have
shown this season.
In order that the Ledger will fully
understand why It Is no greater, the
operations of this single Arm of ex
porters for the season are Interesting,
glace the opening of the new season
they have dispatched from Portland
five steamers and three sailers, the
latter Including one of the largest
sailing ships In the world. This fleet
from Portland carried more than
1.S00.000 biuhols of wheat and 21",
000 bushels of barley. During the
same period the same firm dispatched
from Seattle and Tacoma four vessels
with 61S.195 bushels of wheat. It
Will thus be noticed that the average
cargo from Portland was something
more than 190,000 bushels, while the
average cargo from Tacoma and Se
attle was something less than 130.000
bushels, So long as the firm which Is
dispatching the Knight of the Thistle
maintains Its present ratio of three
bushels from Portland to one bushel
from Puget Sound, this port will view
with mild Indifference the occasional
diversion of a steamer from this port
to Puget Sound for the purpose of
picking up a few hundred tons that
have accumulated at what was for
merly one of the great wheat ports of
the Pacific Coast.
With completion of the North Bank
road Into Portland next year It will,
of course, be unnecessary for such
movements of steamers to be made,
and they will all receive their full
cargoes In this city.' So long as the
present practice is in a measure nec
essary, however, fhere should be no
misrepresentation of the reasons
therefor.
BOOSED KLT AND BRYAN.
Why or how can there be more lm
propriety in the participation of a
President of the United States in a
political campaign than In the par
ticipation of a man seeking the Presi
dency? Is It undignified for a man
In office to speak to the people, and
yet dignified and proper for a man
seeking the office to do It? Neither,
we believe, should be sanctioned as
a custom; and time has been when
neither was. But customs change.
The participation of Roosevelt
came about In this way: A repre
sentative of a New York paper re
ported a statement made by the
President, obtained It would appear
Ui conversation, to which Mr. Bryan
took exceptions, and upon which he
sent a long telegraphic letter to
Roosevelt. The latter answered at
length. Then Bryan responded at
similar length. It seems to The Ore
gonian not a very becoming or profit
able controversy; but It brought out
a lot of statements from the two
champions and seemed to delight the
partisans on either side.
FRACTICAI JUDGMENT IX OFHCB.
It Is solely on the basis of practi
cability and of humanity that oppo
sition or protest Is entered to the
Mayor's order to expel from the city
a class of women whom no decent
person wishes to be In the city, but
who In fact cannot be kept out of it.
Their presence Is an evil that every
city has to deal with as It can; but
no city has yet undertaken the one
way that would be effective; perhaps
never will. That method would be
the enforcement of stringent meas
ures against the men who create and
maintain the evil. Since the city will
not do this, it can do little in the mat
ter, and that little only by way of
such regulation and repression as
will keep the evil in the background,
or as far as possible out of sight.
Nothing of suppression or reform
is good for anything In the face of
the difficulties of such a situation.
The supposition .that expulsion and
exclusion of women of this class Is
possible is not creditable to the In
telligence of those who propose It;
to make serious attempt to do so is
not creditable to their humanity.
The grand Jury In its report, delivered
on Saturday, dealt with the suDjeci
In a considerate manner, but briefly;
for It is a repellant subject, and
every person of Judgment realizes that
the evil Is one to be dealt with ac
cording to circumstances; with a
view both to what Is practicable and
what is humane.
A small body of our citizens who
call themselves the Municipal Asso
ciation of Portland, who are much
accustomed to deal with these and
other municipal problems on theory,
not according to conditions, seem to
have Induced the Mayor to make
specific promises as to certain matters
of this kind before the election, and
are holding him, though reluctant
and tardy, to his pledge. Every per
son of sound observation or reflection
must have his own view of the wis
dom, or unwisdom, of the public offi
cial who, for any purpose commits
himself to the theories of extremists
In matters of public administration.
But "it is the law." The law sets
many a standard In moral and social
life which In practice admits approx
imation only, and the Judgnient of
officials as to what is practicable or
possible. The law gave Shylock the
pound of flesh; but Shylock never has
been thought the better of for shout
ing. "The law, the lawl I crave the
law!"
FRTEXDUSS.
Here Is a clause from the constitu
tion of Oregon (Section 15, Bill of
Rights) that has evidently escaped
the attention of the reform-mad agi
tators for "law enforcement" In Port
land: Laws for tha punishment of crime shall
be founded on tha principles of reformation
and not of vindictive Justice.
Two days ago the Portland Munici
pal Association, through its secretary,
John Bain, gave utterance to the
astounding doctrine that It Is no con
cern of the good men making up that
righteous organization what becomes
of the unhappy women who are Just
now being expelled from town
through the relentless operation of
the municipal Big Stick. Let them
go hang, or starve, or soak themselves
In deeper depths of sin. wherever and
however they may, so long as they do
not offend In Portland. Said Mr.
Bain, when asked If the Municipal
Association should not look to the
reformation of the girls:
Do you try to reform burglars? Lava- la
not made to reform, but to punUh. Tha
fundamental principle of tha law la to Im
pose a penalty for wrongdoing;. Reforma
tion can only coma from within tha sinner.
Tha law la made to protect society. Law
la to punlah ao that the offender may not
commit the offenee a eecond time. That la.
remembering tha punlahment, tha offender
may heaitata before repeating tha crime.
The greateet truism ever aald la that "Man
cannot be made good by law." Only within
a man oan reformation come. So It U plain
to be eeen that enforcement of law has
little to do with reformation.
What If the constitution of Ore
gon, on which our laws are founded,
and from which our virtuous guar
dians of law should draw their in
spiration, says that law should be de
signed for "reformation and not for
vindictive Justice"? And what If
every decent human instinct says the
same thing? Doesn't the law also
say that these poor creatures have
erred? So cast them out. turn away
from them, withdraw from them any
kind of sympathy, help or coun
tenance, and let them perish. If they
must. They have no friends no
friends certainly among those cold-
hearted exemplars of morals and law,
the Municipal Association.
Our fathers who framed the Ore
gon constitution did not know much
about modern methods and "principles
of reform, perhaps, but they were hu
man beings.
OFEX-SJ&ASOX B LOO I-THIRST.
This Is the open season again for
the so-called "sport" to indulge his
blood-thirst by flushing pheasants and
quail out of the thicket with dogs and
slaughtering them with guns. It Is
the season when he feels privileged
to pull down farm fences, maim and
kill horses, cattle, sheep and hogs,
and otherwise disregard property
rights; to waste powder, guns, carfare
and earnings, and ruin fences ana
livestock all to the probable value
of several hundred dollars in order
to satisfy his destructive craving and
an appetite that six-bits' worth of po
tatoes and beef would feed just as
well.
The law forbids the huntsman to
enter any Inclosed premises or to take
In any dogs, "without permission from
the owner or person In charge of such
premises." It forbids him to hunt
without a license, procured of the
County Clerk; it says that on demand
of the owner of the land or of his
agent or representative, the bird
killer shall exhibit his license. All
this and much more Is in the law to
check the blood-thirst of bird-killers.
Some day an exasperated farmer
will Invoke the unwritten law against
some member of this despoiling class.
This will be deplorable, whatever the
provocation; for killing the Intruder
Is not the lawful redress for chasing
over one's land with dogs and guns.
Yet of such consequence there is al
ways danger.
Whether the man who hunts out
birds with dogs and slaughters them
with a gun on land which he is not
privileged to enter is a potentate or a
clerk, he needs civilizing. His ances
tors too near back were savages.
Bears and wildcats are no good in
the eworld, and the sooner they are ex
terminated the better. But birds are
necessary in cultivation of the soil,
and If species of them are Injurious
to crops, farmers can take care of
their interests without the aid of the
city huntsman.
When bird-killers climb fences not
their own or lead dogs Into livestock
lnclosures, they are hunting trouble.
Frequently they find it. Some day
It will be the kind that opens the way
to most serious consequences.
BIX LION 8 NEEDED FOR RAILROADS.
Six billion dollars is the amount
which President Yoakum, of the Rock
Island-Frisco railway systems, esti
mates will be needed to build and
equip new railroads and to Improve
railroads already built. This estimate
covers the requirements for the next
ten years, and seems to have a sound
and reasonable basis in the facts
which Mr. Yoakum presents. In his
address at a convention of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Englnemen at Columbus last week
Mr. Yoakum said that a gain of 44,
000 miles in the past ten years had
brought the railroad mileage of the
country up to 227,000 miles. To meet
the demands of the rapidly develop
ing country, he asserted that it was
imperative that a similar ratio of con
struction be maintained for the ensu
ing ten years, to accomplish which
would require the expenditure of
$6,000,000,000.
The Increase in the gross earnings
of the roads for the past ten years
amounted to 130 per cent, and a sim
ilar Increase for another ten years
would bring the total gross earnings
ten years hence up to $6,000,000,000.
As the railroad employes receive 42
per cent of the gross earnings, and
now earn 3, 000, 000 per day, an In
crease proportionate "with the gross
earnings would give them approxi
mately $7,000,000 per day la 181S.
The magnitude of these figures is be
wildering and fascinating; but, in
view of what has taken place in the
past ten years, there Is no reason to
believe that the estimate Is far out of
the way. About a year ago, when
every available car In the country
was moving and at every division
point ancient engines were being
taken from the scrap heaps In an en
deavor to move the enormous busi
ness offering, James J. Hill said that
immediate expenditure of $5,000,000,-
000 would be necessary in order to
prevent utter congestion of freight a
few years hence.
The panic of last Fail eased tne
strain on the roads and their equip
ment to such an extent that there was
soon an abundance of idle ears and
locomotives. It also tightened the
strain on the -money market to such
an extent that no funds were availa
ble for carrying out the work needed.
Mr. Yoakum, In raising the estimate
of Mr. Hill, seems warranted. by the
ratio of gain that was shown in the
years preceding the panic, and with
complete restoration of confidence the
country will undoubtedly enter on the
greatest era or railroad ouiiamg it
has ever known. Unless there is an
early resumption of operations, it Is
not at all Improbable that a single
year following election of Taft will
see a return to the car snortage ana
track shortage conditions which made
such congestion in business ror tne
two years preceding the panic The
interests of the railroads ana tne
country they serve are so closely In
terwoven that one cannot prosper
without the other, and the recent up
heaval has cleared the air to such an
extent that with returning confidence
In the general situation will come an
improved demand for railroad securi
ties. The necessary $6,000,000,000 which
must be spent can be secured only
from the, savings of the people on
both sides of the ocean, and If those
savings are not frightened back into
hiding by possible election of a finan
cial theorist and flat-money advocate,
they will be available In rapidly In
creasing amounts Bhortly after the of
ficial count Is made next month. This
Is an Inopportune time for recrimina
tions or for weeping over spilled milk.
The railroads, good and bad alike,
have suffered for the shortcomings
of the bad ones, and, having taken
their punishment, it is proper that
they should be encouraged to proceed
with building of new lines and opera
tion of old ones on strictly business
principles.
There Is a wide field for legitimate
exploitation here, and renewal of ac
tive railroad building throughout tha
country will bring with it the most
prosperous times we have ever known.
This applies with greater force to
Oregon than to any other part of the,
country, for It is in this state that the
needs for railroad development are
the greatest.
The first substantial decrease in the
surplus reserves of the New York
banks reported In many months was
noted in the Saturday statement,
which showed a decrease' of more
than $8,000,000. As decreases of this
size, and much larger, are nearly al
ways In evidence during crop-moving
periods, that of last week occasions
no surprise nor special comment.
The reserve above legal requirements
is still in excess of $42,000,000, and
with call money in New York going
begging at 2 per cent and lower, and
three to six months' loans sought at 3
per cent to SH per cent,: the money
situation is remarkably easy for this
season. Unless the country should be
the victim of a political miracle in
the election of Bryan next month,
some large blocks of this cheap
money, now lying idle In New York,
will be put to work very soon after
election.
From the state committee of the
Populist party of Oregon there is one
last gasp The party long since was
dead, but Its committee revisits the
glimpses of the moon, to utter a
squeak for Bryan. But observe that
the Populist party has supported
Bryan heretofore, whenever he was a
candidate. It died supporting
Bryan. This committee is In the case
of the poor fellow, working on a tall
building, who had fallen from a
height and lay gasping on the street.
One who was passing by stopped to
look, but saw that, though breathing,
the man had been killed by the fall.
"Ah!" said he, "the poor man is
dead." He may be, sor," said one of
the poor man's fellow workmen, "but
he isn't slnsible of it." The party is
dead, but Its committee isn't "sinslble
of it."
"A Life-Long Republican" in Lewis
County, Washington, says he now will
vote for Bryan. Very well;. If he has
made a mistake in his life-long ad
herence to the Republican party, and
thinks it would have been better for
the country had Lincoln and Grant
and Hayes and Garfield and Harrison
and McKinley and Roosevelt been de
feated, and their Democratic bppo
nents elected, he should by all means
vote for Bryan. It ts evident this cit
izen feels that he has made a life
long mistake. Bryan now Is his man.
Ver well. It Is a free country, and a
man' who feels that he has been a fool
all his life has an undoubted right to
change.
- An ' Immense water power project
ts broached in Illinois. It proposes
a great waterway from Lake Michi
gan, supplementary to the Chicago
drainage canal, for development of
water power. The project has In
view the development at three . or
four places of not less than 130,000
horsepower, for which bonds amount
ing to $20,000,000 are proposed, and
on which the people of Illinois are to
vote In the November election. The
estimated value of the water power
exceeds $3,000,000 a year. The loan
Is not to be a burden on the taxpay
ers, but is to be financed by a syndi
cate, under direction of the state.
Possibly Oregon might be carried
for Bryan If our matchless non-partisan
Governor, on taking the stump,
should deliver his main address to
"statement one" Republicans, assur
ing them that the right time and
proper way to preserve this inestim
able principle would be to vote for
Bryan. Then they'll clinch it. Then
they'll make it certain that the mule
phattt will prevail In Oregon forever.
Nobody else can argue this as
"George" can.
The telegraphic report of the
Brighton Beach automobile races was
In one particular slightly at variance
with the facts. It stated that all auto
records had been broken at the big
meet. Further particulars disclosed
the fact that but one man had been
killed. This is by no means a record
for automobile racing, but, on the
contrary, is a very poor showing, un
less some of the half dozen injured
should die of their wounds.
Nothing new about Millionaire
Corey taking a brass band into the
woods on a hunting trip. He under
stands the real pleasures of the
chase. That's about what he did
when "courting" Maybelle.
Great weather, almost unprece
dented weather; but we respectfully
suggest to the weather clerk that a
little rain will relieve a growing
anxiety that this sort of thing may
keep up all Winter.
If s all right to have eight years of
Taft and then perhaps eight years
more of Father-in-law Roosevelt; but
there ought at the same time be some
way to avoid sixteen years of Son-in-law
Longworth.
Mr. Olney has stated a peculiar
argument for Bryan's election in a
most cogent manner. He says Bryan
Is entirely safe, since, if elected, a
Republican Senate will bind him
hand and foot."
Evelyn says Harry has not contrib
uted to her support for two montha
and that his case is Incurable. We
had no Idea that, with a rich family
behind him, he could be "busted" so
badly as that
Of course the wives of the reform
ers will help lift up the fallen by
giving a "siren" a place as cook or
chambermaid or nursegirl. A good
place for charity to begin is at home.
Next thing, no doubt, we shall have
a new and fearful design of Turkish
rug from the very factory where T.
Roosevelt, Jr., started to work. Ob
serve the "started" to work.
A man with veneer of virtue, as
sumed for political purposes, can
make a fool of himself, even without
trying. He does it unconsciously.
His nature betrays him.
Many girls and boys never thought
of the social evil, or knew -what It is,
until their attention was called to It-
If those new salmon laws should
hold In the end. that wouldn't re
store any of those wasted salmon.
In this municipal government of
ours there Is an unhappy lot of
pinchbeck virtue.
OFFERS SOCIALIST REMEDY. .
Thinks That Co-Ope-ratloa Inntrad of
Capitalism, Will Save.
PORTLAND, Oct. 4. (To the Editor.)
Lugubrious, indeed, is the outlook, un
der capitalism, for the "sirens," when
that capitalism will no longer permit
them an abode for the sale of their wares
or to ply their trade.
Jt would not require a very searching
Investigation to ascertain that in the ma
jority of cases, these women are driven
to the last resort (except suicide) by
economic conditions and ill treatment by
parent, husband or employer, to sacrifice
that most precious of all possessions to
woman, her virtue. The recruiting agents
for the making of inmates for the brothel
are left Immune to prosecute their trade,
because it would not do to disturb the
goddess of profit who sits enthroned on
her pedestal, free from Interference and
molestation to pursue her juggernaut of
child labor, "sweat-shop" labor, "scab"
labor, and all the foul-smelling, putre
fying and decaying products of capital
Ism. It is more than true under capitalism
that the "siren" has not a place to lay
her head, and she will be more and more
hounded to an early death by the fast
Increasing numbers being constantly
thrown on the market by capitalism
crying louder and louder for its triplets.
rent, interest - and profit to take their
Dlaces. ,
It does not require a comprehensive
knowledge of the theory of surplus value
to understand that now every nation Is
Itself engaged In seeking foreign markets
for exploitation, for It finds itself con
fronted with no orders and must there
fore close down its mills and factories.
and thereby throw vast numbers of idle
men and women on the market who only
Intensify the struggle for existence. And
under capitalism, "there Is nothing for
her to do but commit suicide, and get
out of the world as quickly as she can."
But there is a hope; capitalism is In the
throes of dissolution, and is rapidly dig
ging its own grave. And unleiis it can
precipitate a war to stimulate and en
courage business to continue for a tem
porary longer lease of life, it will give
way to a completely new order where
rent, interest and profit will be abol
ished., and the dawning of the co-operative
system will take the place of
rampant individualism, as personified in
the ripe fruit of capitalism.
Then, articles will be produced for use
and not for profit, and the opportunity
will be afforded every one to be usefully
employed. Then, there will be no need
for any woman- to eat the crust of char
ity, or the loaf of lust.
A MARMADUKB.
15S9 Chautauqua Boulevard.
WOULD ARREST TUB SATYRS.
And Make the Church Find Employ
ment for Women.
TACOMA Wash., Oct. 4. (To the Ed
itor.) As an American citizen, and one
who believes that woman is entitled to
the same rights and protection as man,
I desire to commend the attitude of The
Oregonian on the matter of the disposal
of the women of Portland's restricted
district. Especially do I commend the
editorial "Sirens and Satyrs," in the is
sue of last Friday.
The fact is as plain as day that man
is equally guilty with woman and Is
Jointly responsible for the social, condi
tions that exist today. Ih fact, after an
experience . of 20 years in newspaper
work, during which time I have had op
portunity to observe all phases of this
question, I am convinced that in the ma
jority of cases man is the aggressor and
wholly responsible for conditions which
some well-meaning reformers axe trying
to remove by an attack on the unfortu
nate women.
As The Oregonian ha stated, this
question never will be disposed of until
men are made to pay the penalty for
their share in making a vocation for the
scarlet woman. No matter where she is
driven, beings who masquerade as men
will pursue her and make It possible for
her to barter her virtue for bread. In
fact, what else can she do? The writer
has personally known of cases where
honest efforts on the part of women' to
reform have been thwarted by the hu
man brutes who have dogged her foot
steps and advertised the facts of her for
mer existence, until she has been spurned
by alleged followers of' Jesus Christ, and
kicked into the street. With nothing
left between her and death but the old
life, what wonder that she should choose
the latter? She has not always done so,
for the records are full of cases where
she has taken her own life rather than
again become the victim of man's lust.
Portland cannot solve this question by
merely driving the women out of the re
stricted district. That policy never has
and never will be effective. Let the po
lice first arrest the men, no matter what
their standing may be, who patronize the
women. Give them a "stiff" jail sen
tence, regardless of influence or social
connections. Then let the Christian
church provide means by which those
women who desire to reform can make
an honest, living. The others will be a
problem until the whole brutal business
Is stamped out.
J am heartily In sympathy with any at
tempt to. do away with the so-called re
stricted districts in Portland or any other
city, provided all the guilty parties get
the samSJtreatment. It's a mighty mean
proposition; however, to make the wom
en bear the brunt of the blame.
The time Is coming when this question
will be disposed of. I fully expect to see
the day when a man in private life or
public official who wfil advocate the con
ditions that exist today, will be looked
upon as would a man who advocates a
return of the old slave days. Not only
will the restricted district be abolished.
but the saloon and other attendant evils
will go with It.
This will not be accomplished, how
ever, along the lines proposed by some
reformers. The remeay is nigner.
The Oregonian does well to asK tne
question, "What would Jesus do about
it? In the proper answer to xnat ques
tion lies the solution.
EDGAR T. BHUfiT.
Asks, What Would Jesus Dot
nriDTT a vn rw-t a Tn th Editor.)
The cartoon and editorial In last Fri
day's Oregonian on the "Scarlet Woman"
are gems, and are sermons more potent
., .. .., i.i r , i.
tnan an xne ramms ntuumuisa
a ill- Ama nf "fViA ,-lntb " The
editorial referred to closed with the bud-
Ume and unanswered question, wihm.
would Jesus do?" What would he do
(-44. what AA he An with the Ma-
dalenes? Let some of these braying pul
piteers wno nave oeen iu-si. aim luicmwm
bellowing for the total extermination of
k- .noriAt wnman. answer from their
pulpits, "What would Jesus dor'
j urtiN n. d i v r.i a.
Helpful for the Women.
PORTLAM). Oct. 4. (To the Editor.)
I have always believed in giving credit
where it was due, and, although a strang
er In town. I feel as If I must express my
thanks for the editorial in The Oregonian
on "Sirens and Satyrs." I have a friend,
a business man. here, who says he In
tends to frame a copy of the ertitorial and
hang It up in his office, and I shall paste
a copy of it in my scrapbook. If more
newspapers thought as The OregBnlan
does, there would be fewer ruined women.
ja wuaiAn.
Now, This Is Tough.
Pilot iRoek Record.
A closed town In Portland will work
a hardship on the members of the State
ment No. 1 Legislature who in company
with their friend George are looking for
ward to a good time in town at the close
of each week's deliberation of that
august body. The Salem hop Juice lacks
the conversation of the Portland va
riety, the old politicians say.
rJfSOCJTD INSURANCE.
The Bryan Theory of Bank Guaranty
or Deposits Insiirmnre.
Collier's Weekly.
Mr. Bryan's scheme, which he calls a
guarantee. Is an insurance proposition,
and it Is entirely mutual in its nature.
The Government does not stand back of
It. There are no stockholders who pledge
their resources. There is nothing, except
a certain definite and limited fund. This
fund is to be used to Insure risks which
are not selected. It is to insure all alike;
good or bad, and all at the very same
rate. The real working of the scheme
amounts to this: the stockholders of an
Indiana bank guarantee that the assets
(which they are not allowed to see) of,
say, an Idaho bank are and shall con
tinue to be good; and that the directors
of the Idaho bank (over whom they have
no control) shall always be men of rec
titude and sound Judgment, and Mr.
Bryan thinks that this little idea of his
will prevent panics.
In 1893 the existence of a gold fund to
guarantee the payment of Government
currency in gold, many times larger pro
portionately than the deposit guarantee
Tund would be, was of no avail In pre
venting a gold panic. In 1907 a currency
and specie reserve fund in the National
banks, equal to about 13 pen cent of their
deposits, did not prevent one of the most
frantic currency panics In the history
of the National banking system. What
reason is there to think that, in times
of stress and uncertainty, a fund of a
few millions to guarantee deposits of
$13,000,000,000 would have any more re
assuring effect? The scheme is worth
little or nothing as protection. It would
greatly increase the number of failures
by the encouragement of reckless bank
ing. It would not help to meet panics.
It would help greatly to bring them on.
WHERE ARE WOME5T TO GO?
Portland Shirking a Duty and Unload
ing; It on Others.
v Astorlan.
Tt would seem that the Oregon me
tropolis has raised an insoluble prob
lem In the Issuance of Its drastic fiat
against the demi-monde; has "bitten
off" a morel mouthful it may neither
masticate nor digest; and must even
tually recall the signal, yet manifestly
Inoperative, point of its sweeping order.
In the light of all municipal history
in this relation, the country is given
to wondering where the Portland peo
ple draw their assurance from in this
grave premise; It has been demonstrat
ed so often, and so logically, that these
wholesale "purifications" are farcical
and inadequate, that the extraordinary
terms of the Portland .police order seem
ridiculous and the outcome primarily
fatuous and futile.
Where are these women to turn for
shelter and sustenance and the com
mon essentials of existence? It must
be conceded that they are alive, and
human, and amenable to the necessities
and exactions of ordinary subsistence.
They must clothe and feed themselves,
must rest and sleep and strive and
struggle to maintain the wretched life
all have not the courage to lay down
at the tentative behest of the puritan
ical moralists behind such movements.
For a great city to be deliberately
cut upon one of its own foulest festers
and distribute contagious emanations
over Its municipal body; force them
abroad upon other communities, and in
fect even the country-side about It, is
a criminal and Idiotic thing to do; and,
in the light of all that human experi
ence teaches, in this relation, reacts
with vastly Increased ratio of evil upon
the place and people responsible for It.
- This case amounts to an open confes
sion that Portland is without a police
force or programme adequate to take
care of an inevitable and inseparable
element of police Interest and minis
tration; that It must shake off Its own
responsibilities In this regard and pass
them on to other places and people to
bear and regulate; that the sum of its
civlo duty Is done when It has spread
its own Infection farther aid deeper at
home, and Inoculated, or added to, the
range of wretchedness in sister towns.
It Is the same old story; but the
Portland telling of it Is a shade stupid
er than any we recall Just at the mo
ment. PORTLAHLVS FALLEN WOMEW.
One of the Sp&ams of w Virtue" in
Portland,
Baker City Herald.
And now the metropolis of Oregon,
through her "virtuous" Mayor, Harry
Lane, steps on a high pedestal and beck
ons all fallen women in that municipality
to leave and never more return. As a
compromise the Mayor suggests that a
section outside the city limits can be pur
chased for these women, but that Port
land must be purified.
This coming from the man of Waymire
fame sounds much like the echo of a
conscience heavily ladened with guilt of
some kind and a desire to impress upon
the public that the individual Is saintly
pure and without stain.
It is decidedly refreshing to notice that
Portland's newspapers, at least some of
them, have taken all the varnish of this
pretended moral act off the Mayor and
laid the matter before the people In Its
true light. One paper published in Port
land says that these women would not
be what they are were it not for men
who first drag them down and then keep
them down, and at the same time so
ciety receives the men with open arms
and frowns upon the female victims.
There is some charity due the woman
of the red light districts. The weaknesses
of humanity is everywhere apparent end
a fallen woman, in many cases, is not
wholly to blame for her unfortunate
condition. Usually her lower place in
life can easily be traced to some man
who is probably a social lion and a hero
among the smart set.
While these facts exist the great ques
tion now urged by Portland's Mayor Is
to abolish her from a city of over 225.000
population. Such a thing is not only im
possible but it is both unfair and inhu
man. Where would the purified Mayor
have these women go? Does he want to
dump them into every other coast city
only to have them keep up their scarlet
career? The suggestion has been made
that every man who frequents the red
light district in Portland be arrested and
his name published to the world, and It
is a good one. In this way the women
leading such lives would soon find it nec
essary to seek employment, and when
once from the binding throes of their
present immoral condition it Is quite like
ly that a new life will appear to them
and a percentage at least will be reclaim
ed Into good citizenship.
Workmen's Garden Plots.
London Telegraph.
The municipal authorities of Belfast
. fin,ant 1mr0.rarrl In a Scheme Of
worktngmen's garden . plots, begun in
East Belfast a lew monma ago unuor mo
auspices of the Strandtown Cottage Gar
den Association. A start was made
with about three acres, divided into 24
sections, the conditions being that in
each allotment six different species of
vegetables should be grown. The majori
ty of those to whom the plots were al
lotted were English and Scottish work
men employed in the local shipbuilding
yards. Although one or two of the ama
teur gardeners retired after their first
enthusiasm had cooled, their places were
quickly taken by others, and the. culti
vation of the half-rood plots has proved
so popular and successful that the local
corporation intends to adopt it on a
more extensive scale In other suburbs
of the city next Spring.
DICKENS' LOVE-LETTERS TO UORA'
Remarkable Romance of the Great
Novellat at Laut Revealed.
New York Times Saturday Review.
The little book privately printed for
the Biblophlie Society of Boston, con
taining some correspondence between
Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell,
Is covered by copyright, and permission
to quote from the letters, which have
been for half a century Jealously
guarded by their possessors, has not
been obtained. The story unfolded by
the correspondence, however, may be
told:
It appears that in 1832. when Dick
ens was a poor youth in London, he had
the fortune, good or ill. to meet the
three daughters of George Beadnell,
manager ofa London bank. With the
youngest of these daughters (the two
others being engaged) the young man
straightway fell in love. It was a very
bad case Indeed for him: the young
lady reciprocated, to the point of reply
ing secretly to h.s letters and of meet
ing him in the street and In the quiet
of clmrches In the neighborhood of her
home. Whether Maria was a flirt or
her parents forbade the attachment
does not appear, though it is probable
that both these causes operated to
break off the affair. The earliest of
the letters now published deal with the
story at this point. Dickens bewails
Maria's fickleness, coquettishness and
her disagreeable moods. With one let
ter he returns a present she has given
him. ' She dislikes one of his letters so
much that she sends It back. Finally,
in a wordy and somewhat absurd epis
tle,' Dickens, declaring that he has nev
er loved and can never love any
human creature breathing except
ing his fickle Maria, metaphori
cally falls on his knees and begs her
to tbe reconciled. The answer Is cold
and final, Two years later Dickens
married Catharine Hogarth, and shortly
Maria was married to Henry L. Winter.
e a a
Vw enty years passed. Charles Dick
ens was a famous man when he re
ceived a letter from George Beadnell
containing an Invitation to the novelist
to visit him and his family in their
home In Wales. Whatever may have
been Dickens' emotions, he exoused
himself. In 1866 Mrs. Winter herself
wrote. Dickens bad been married 19
years and was the father of nine chil
dren. He was, however, perfeotly will
ing to philander, and he wrote the lady
very nicely. Mrs. Winter responded
even more cordially. To her Dickens
now replied very sentimentally hopes
she has read "Copperfleld," protests
that the passion he had for her Is faith
fully represented In It, trusts that she
feels It something to have been loved
so well. He has a mind to call her by
her Christian name, and signs himself
"Ever affectionately yours." In his
next letter he does call her "My dear
Maria" this In answer to a letter from
her In which she must have asked for a
meeting. They proceed to arrange this.
Dickens writes that so many people
know him It is dangerous to be eeen
with him. He suggests that she call at
the Dickens house on Sunday, asking
first for his wife, who is almost posi
tively certain not to be in.
a e a
Alas! they met The lovely little
creature was Been to be now a stout
lady, with no remnant of her youthful
charms except those coquettish ways
which are not quite so charming in
stout ladles in middle life. For the au
tobiographical description of the Inter
view we have to go to "Little Dorrit,"
to the scene in which Arthur Clenman
meets Flora Finching. The remaining
letters tell the sad tale of the disap
pointment of Maria's revived affection .
and Dickens' embarrassment. It is
she who now pleads. Dickens' replies
are brief, and it appears he has not an
swered all her letters. He Is afraid he
will not be home when she comes, but
tells her to expect to see his family.
The correspondence languishes and
dies. After three years' silence, how
ever, Mr. Winter, having failed In busi
ness, Maria writes again, no longer on
a sentimental but on a very substantial
subject. She asks Dickens to lend her
husband money, which he is unable to
do. However, Dickens, sends Mrs. Win
ter a few words of condolenoe when,
later, her father died. It Is rather a
cruel Instance of the irony of events,
but provocative of little sympathy for
the final victim.
EXPERIMENT WITH THE BANKS.
Oklahoma Guaranty Flan Kat Tot
Success.
Chicago Tribune.
Manifestly the men who make deposits
In Oklamoha banks have not become con
vinced as yet of the special advantages
of the guaranty law. July 16 last there
was over $36,000,000 on deposit in the Na
tional banks and only $18,000,000 In state
banks. The National banks had $1,250,
000 less in July than In May. but that
was because the state and municlnal de
oosits had been transferred to state In
stitutions so they might make a better
showing. The state offioials do not have
supreme confidence in their own law.
When they deposit state funds they re
quire an Indemnity braid for twice the
sum.
Mr. Bryan and other people as much
given to making cocksure statements as
himself have applauded the Oklahoma
venture as a success. As yet it Is neither
a success nor a failure. It is an experi
ment. A trial of a few months deter
mines nothing. But the experiment Is
one which those best qualified to form
opinions which are of any value eye
with distrust.
The National bankers of the state, as
might be expected, are opposed to the
guaranty plan. Some of them see in It .
evidence of Bryanite hostility to the Na
tional bank system. But the investiga
tion by the Tribune has brought out the
fact that the state bankers, while ad
mitting that the measure may be of
temporary advantage io state banks in
smaller towns, view It with more ox less
apprehension.
Although the Oklahoma law has not
been tested in the only state that Is try
ing it, Mr. Bryan would straightway
apply it throughout the United States.
He has the same passion for crude, reck
less financial legislation that he had 13
years ago, though it has taken a less
dangerous form now than it did then.
Middle West B"orecBt.
Chicago Inter-Ocean. Rep.
Judge Taft will have, no walkover.
Mr. Bryan has ceased to be a candidate
who can be dismissed lishtly. At the
same time, there is no use in any
body's regarding seriously some of the
Democratic claims in the Middle West.
With respect to the Republican Na
tional ticket there is no doubt what
ever about Iowa and Illinois. The Re
publicans of Illinois will give Judgo
Taft not less than 40,000 plurality and
probably 60.000.
The Republican position In Indiana
has been weak from the outset. In
diana has given and continues to give
many indications of uncertainty. Buc
if the Indiana Kepauiican ornauiMui
has managed to retain ,75 per cent of
its old power the state will be saved
to Taft.
In Ohio there are more varieties ef
trouble than It would seem possible to
crowd into one state. Yet It Is out of
the question to count Ohio anyhow but
for Taft.
But be other states as they may. In
the Middle West one thing la certain
Illinois Is as sure as Pennsylvania for
Taft.
Political prophets, especially those
moved to prophesy about Illinois, are
invited to paste the foregoing in lieir
hats, that by consulting it frequently
they may preserve their prophetlo
reputations