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Chicago, room 610-OL2 Trlb-jn building PORTLAND, TCKSDAT. OCT. . 180a. THE BTLOAIUAN DECXwlRATIOX. Bulgaria Ilea south of the Danube and north of the Balkan Mountains, and extends from east to west between 6ervla and the Black Sea. Boumella lies south of the Balkans, directly on the way from the north to Constanti nople. These were among the Euro pean provinces .overrun by the Turks, after the conquest of the Eastern Roman Empire. Russia waged the great war of 1877-78 to deliver them from Ottoman rule, and would have accomplished her object but for the Intervention of Great Britain. This power foresaw that the conquest and possession of these provinces by Rus sia would lead Russia at once to Con stantinople; and the pre-eminence of Great Britain on the sea enabled her to forbid the further progress of Russia, Then a treaty was patched up (the Treaty of Berlin), which secured- a sort of autonomy and nomi nal Independence to Bulgaria, yet left the shadow of sovereignty to Turkey. Bulgaria now declares her independ ence, and the declaration la to include Roumella. It means that the Treaty of Berlin Is torn up; and may mean a war that will involve all Europe. Slated In other terms, it Is one of the convulsions attending the further (and ultimate) dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. In the war of 1877-78 Russia by her overwhelming weight, had anni hilated the Turkish armies. But her success had filled Great Britain and Austria with consternation; for the way was open to her to Constanti nople, and Russia either would ab sorb all the Turkish provinces of Europe, or would erect, out of these provinces, a state nominally inde pendent, yet her own vassal, extend ing from the Southern border' of Rus sia to the Aegean Sea. Austria thus would have been completely flanked by the greater power; Turkey no longer would have remained as a buf fer between Russia and the Mediter ranean, and Russia would have suc ceeded In placing herself In position to cut off Great Britain from her Asiatic empire. The Congress of Ber lin, hastily assembled by the powers, checked the purposes of Russia, stopped her career of conquest, and established, as nominally independ ent principalities, the provinces Rus sia would have swallowed. Yet the sovereignty of Turkey, to an extent, was still recognized over them. It was a purely artificial arrangement. efTected, not to meet the wishes of the people of the provinces, but to suit ambitions of various rival powers. Now the provinces, through their representatives, claim their entire Independence. In 190S the population of Bulgaria, Including Eastern Roumella, was 4.028.239: the territory of both, S8.0S4 square miles. Under provinces nominally tributary to Turkey, but also under protection of Austria, are Bosnia and Herze govina. They lie towards the west, di rectly adjoining Austria-Hungary. Their area Is 19.800 square miles, and their population Is 1.600.00D. Austria, it is alleged, will now claim these provinces wholly as her own, insisting on the exclusion of the nom inal sovereignty by Turkey. Servia, lying directly between Bosnia and Herzegovina on one side and Bulgarla Roumelia on the other, also was among the conquests of Turkey, In the age when the armies of the Sul tan advanced even to the gates of Vienna; but its independence was established by the Treaty of Berlin ( 1878). The population of Servia in 1S04 was S. 676. 989. The area of the country is 1S.6S0 square miles. The inhabitants of all these provinces are classified among the Slavonian races, closely affiliated with the main body of the people of Russia. All the leading powers were par ticipants In the Congress at Berlin, which established the condition, which have existed since, yet now are Interrupted by the action of Bulgaria and the announcement of Austria. All therefore, must feel concern in the new movement; which, in its chief feature is one step more in the dis memberment of the Turkish Empire in Europe. The Ottoman power came into Europe over Ave centuries ago. It closed In rapidly on the last remains of the Eastern Koman or Byzantine Empire, whoso dominion was speedily reduced to Thrace, Macedonia and part of Greece. In 1453 Constanti nople was taken, and the great em pire of the ages was at end. Then the Moslem Invasion overran Eastern Europe and advanced throughout the countries bordering on the Mediter ranean, till the combined forces of Venice. Spain and the Pope defeated the Turks in the great naval battle of Lepanto. in 1571. Tet the Turks still advanced theior conquests to wards Central Europe, till finally arrested at Vienna in 16S3. by John Sobleskl. King of Poland. Since then Turkey, though still powerful, has been undergoing st'aily decline, and but for the jealousy of the Western nations towards each other Turkish rule lung ago would have been ex pelled from Europe. Whether the powers will Interfere now to prevent the Treaty of Berlin (of 1873) to be torn up and cast to the winds, the world will twn know. Possibly the other states may now be willing to Interpose a small Independent power, lon-prislns the provinces of the Lower Danube and the Balkans, between Russia and Constantinople, with guaranty of lt Independence and neu trality, as that of Belgium was guar anteed by the power after the fall of Napoleon. THE yECESSART WAGON ROAD. Curry County, a rich but Isolated region lying in the far southwestern part of the state and bordering on the California line, is to be connected with the outside world by a wagon road which the Government is build ing from Grants Pass to Gold Beach. The new thoroughfare is apparently no cheap pleee of work, for included in its construction is a steel bridge with a 180-foot span across Rogue River. . A .long-distance wagon road la. of course, much less convenient than a railroad for either freight or passenger traffic but there are a great many localities in Oregon where even a good wagon road would prove of great value in aiding development of the country It is now practically certain thai the railroad to Tillamook will be com pleted at an early date, and with its completion there will follow rapid de velopment that was Impossible so long aa there was no economical means of transportation to and from that great coast region. Coos Bay will also be given, rail connection in the not far distant future. But the railroad to Tillamook cannot reach every dairy farm and orchard, nor all the timber lands. Consequently the necessity of good roads will be aa great as. or even greater, after it la completed, than it is now. Tillamook has made an excellent start in pro viding the necessary wagon roads, and for many miles through that country and over beyond the Nehalem as far aa the Clatsop County line the roads which are completed are models of excellence. Clatsop County has also made a good beginning in opening up the country which is not directly accessi ble by railroad, and during the past season completed a very costly piece of ' road between Seaside and Elk Creek. In all of these coast counties from Clatsop on to Curry the wagon road will always be an indispensable adjunct of the railroad, and the good work that is now being done on the roads will bring returns many times greater than the cost. ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS A FAII.CRET A late number of the North Ameri can Review contains an article by Charles W. Lamed, of the United States Military Academy, upon the "Inefficiency of the Public Schools." Thoughtful educators and parents will do well to ponder seriously over it. The opportunities for testing the effi ciency of public school instruction throughout the country, Mr. Larned thinks, are exceptionally good at the two Government institutions at An napolis and West Point. A plain re cital of facts and incidents relating to the examination of applicants for entrance last March and the conclu sions suggested by the facts and sta tistics presented touch our National life at its most vital point that of the mental acuteness and physical ef ficiency of our young men. The original requirements for en trance in these Government schools were, for manifest reasons, very mod erate. The country was new, the population sparse, wealth was still to be acquired. It was held that rigid entrance requirements would put the poor boy in the more remote sections of the country at a disadvantage and make these schools in a sense prohib itive to them. In 1866 some advance in the educational test given to can didates was made, but it was not until 101 that the standard in schol arship required of applicants was fixed at its present moderate status. All candidates are required to take written examination In the following subjects: Elementary algebra through quadratic: plan geometry; English grammar; English literature and composition (very element ary); United State History thigh school); general hlatory (high arhool); geography (descriptive, common school). Naturally It might be supposed that a course in our public schools cov ering a period of ten to twelve years, the last four years in High School work, would equip the candidate so that he could come up to this exam ination with full confidence in his ability to stand the test, and that there would be practically no failures. But what are the facts? Out of 814 who took the entering examination early in the current year, 265, or 84 per cent, failed in one or more sub jects (the normal minimum being 66); 56 failed in one subject only; 64 In two; 50 In three: 42 in four; 27 in five, and 26 in all subjects. Two hundred and nine, or 66 per cent, failed In two or more subjects; 146, or 46 per cent, in three or more; 95, or 30 per cent. In four-or more: 53, or 17 per cent. In five or more; 26, or 8 per cent, in everything! Out of 314 examined, 295. or 90 per cent, were educated in the public schools, the average number of years of attendance therein being within one month of ten years. What an ar raignment of the efficiency of our pre paratory system of education as worked out through our common school system! What an arraignment of its efficiency as an equipment for an ordinary business career, and how useless as an equipment for common industrial life! But this Is not all. Of the number presented 82 were rejected on physi cal examination and 18 placed on pro bation, making a total of 100 physi cally defective, or nearly 30 per cent out of a grand total of Sal. That 314 youths, nearly all trained In our costly public schools, with an average attendance of nearly ten years should show 84 per cent of failure in this not severe educational test Is regarded by this writer as a revelation that should make the Judicious grieve and our educators sit up and take notice. Even more serious than this is the fact that nearly SO per cent of the grand total were found physically de fective and were rejected upon that basis. If the results obtained from these examinations are to be accepted as a test of what our public school system is doing for our youth, de clares Mr. Larned, "the conclusion is inevitable that the ten or twelve years constimed in their production are not well spent, and that the youth in these cases have not received a fair day's wages for a fair day's work." There Is in connection with this presentment, however, a showing In favor of Western schools that must bring at least a crumb of comfort to our educators. The weakness of the school system here demonstrated is relatively greater la the Eastern and older schools tbaa la those of t&a younger and more sparsely settled re gions of the West. There is, accord ing to the table given of this educa tional test by states, a decided bal ance in favor of Western schools. In New Tork. for example, where the machine Is supposed to be most per fectly adjusted. 20 candidates out of the 37 presented failed; in Massachu setts. 16 out of the 23 examined failed; In Maine the failure was com plete; Utah's one candidate passed the examination; Oregon presented three candidates and two stood the test, the third failing in one subject only, and but for the very high standing of the alternate on all subjects, he would have been allowed to make up his slight deficiency. Iowa made rela tively a better showing than Pennsyl vania: Minnesota than New Jersey; Kansas than Maryland; Nebraska than New Hampshire; Oregon than Illinois; South Dakota than Ohio: Missouri than Connecticut. This in dicates the freshness and vigor of the West. Its pulse and push, as com pared with the slated methods of the East. Concluding. Mr. Larned says: . Thirty par cant f physical deficiency in our youin I Wimnuil ww - which may well concern, more especially In view of the Increasing tendency of popu lation to urban centers. "What are we going to do about ItT loe education have any thing to do with it; and. if so. what doe an educational system amount to that shows thl percentage of deficiency In its output? If education U concerned with mental development alone, it la fair to ask: If 16.CS6.S0S boy and girls, taught in our public achool at a cost of J7e,896.472. average no better In InteUectual attain ment than Is evidenced by the foregoing, does the result justify the outlay and the ten or more years' apprenticeship of youth It damand T Rvnxnro trans-pacific tram. Refusal of the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit transconti nental railroads to make a lower rail rate on through freight for the Orient than is made on freight distributed in this country continues to demoralize the trans-Pacific trade out of Oregon, Washington and California ports.. It was pointed out in these columns a few weeks ago that the tramp steam ers operating out of. Atlantic ports through the Suez Canal were quietly taking up a large traffic which for merly flowed to the Far East by way of the transcontinental lines and the trans-Pacific steamers. This shifting of the trade from the comparatively new route across the Pacific to the old route by way of the Suez was made possible only by the ruling of the Commission regarding publication of rates. By the trans-Paclflc route thirty days' notice had to be given before a rate could be changed, while by the Suez route the rates could be changed every thirty seconds if the transpor tation men so desired. By the trans pacific route it was possible to land American goods In the Orient so much quicker than the Germans or British could land them there that the American exporters were working up a fine trade. This ia now declin ing and that of Germany is increas ing. But the Suez route is not the only one that is permitted to take advantage of the poor ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission, for a Chinese steamship company has Just perfected arrangements with the Tehuantepec Railroad by which cat ton from Texas and other Southern States can be shipped to the Far East by the Tehuantepec route at rates much lower than it is possible for the railroads to meet without sacrificing the rates on all transcontinental traffic. The cotton trade with the Far East is large and is growing rapidly. It will now be possible for It to be han dled by a short rail haul to a Gulf port and thence by steamer to the Atlantic terminus of the Tehuantepec road. From Salinas Cruz, on the Pa cific, it will be taken across to the Orient by the recently organized Chi nese steamship line. Diversion of this cotton will be especially severe on the Pacific Coast lines, for It has been very valuable traffic for filling out cargoes of flour and other Paclflo Coast products. The transconti nental lines, prior to the strange rul ing of the Interstate Commerce Com mission, were permitted to make- the rates on this cotton much lower than on freight destined for points in this country. This was of material advan tage to the roads In getting cars out West without the necessity of hauling them empty, and it was also of advan tage to Pacific Coast shippers who re quired a frequent service to the Far East. As the total amount of this business In the aggregate was less than 5 per cent of the business handled by the transcontinental roads, the latter quite naturally have refused to sacri fice the rates on the remaining 95 per cent, and as a result we are wit nessing the , rapid disappearance of what had become an important branch of the commerce of the Pacific ports. The manifest injustice of the ruling is plain when it is shown so clearly that no one except the foreign steamship companies is profiting by it. At the same time there would be no objection from any source ' In this country to a continuation of the for mer system of rates. THE LAWS PURPOSE. Mr. John Bain, secretary of the Municipal Association, has summed up his opinions on crime and punish ment in a statement whose brevity may possibly atone for Its barbarous Inhumanity. "Do you try to reform burglars? Law is not made to re form, but to punish. The funda mental principle of the law is to im pose a penalty for wrongdoing." Thus salth the oracular Mr. Bain, and one may infer that this astonishing utter ance expresses the sentiment of the Municipal Association as well as his own. It would be difficult to com press Into one set of twenty-eight words more ignorance of the struggles and achievements of the men who have been laboring for the last cen tury to reconcile punitive procedure with common sense. It would be Im possible to express in a million words a more fatuous misunderstanding of the purpose of criminal law. Evidently Mr. Bain thinks hie question is a poser. '"Do you try to reform burglars?" Bless your soul, of course we do unless we have failed to profit by the teachings of experi ence.. In every enlightened place of detention the world over the sole ob ject of all that is done to the burglar is his reformation. The purpose Is so to change Mm, soul and body, that he shall leave he prison no longer a burglar, but an honest and useful cit izen. Not a single thi.ig Is done In a civilized prison with the sheer intent to "punish." that is, to Inflict pain for th) ke of the pain. Even the death naniltv Itiiirht Hilt tO b CftfTied OUt aS niii-A of venceanre. Its only excuse is that in the last resort It Is an indis pensable preventive. Nero gave or ders that his victims should feel that they were dying. One gathers that Mr. Bain might do likewise were he in Nero's place, but enlightened leg islators have done their best to make death swift and painless when it must be inflicted. In their view it is not a punishment, but an act of self-protection by society. Vindictive cruelty under the spe cious title of "punishment" has never served to protect society. It has never diminished crime. Thefts and breaches of the peace have not been so common in England since her laws were Christianized as they were when it was a hanging offense to steal a shilling. Since British law began, however dubiously, to aim at the reform fit Inn of criminals, crime has grown less frequent. Mr. Bain quotes with great relish the deceptive half- truth that "men cannot De maae gooa by law." Man is good or bad accord ing to the nature of his environment. Fagin's boys were proud to be thieves. In a different environment they would have been Just as proud of their hon esty. Under Ismail Pasha the Fella heen of Egypt were so harried with tuM that thev became hobos and bandits, while English law has trans formed them to industrious iarmers. Law as a mere mandate cannot make m a- t9l Vinf Jtv niacins: an individual In a healthy environment it can transform his whole being, mere are exceptions to this rule, but most of them are cases of disease. Mr. Bain makes another blunder. The "fundamental principle" of the law is not "to Impose a penalty for wrong-doing," as he asserts, but to prevent wrong-doing of certain kinds. Other kinds it does not meddle with at all. If the law could prevent wrong-doing without imposing penal ties of any sort, it would gladly forego them all, and some of them it has already foregone .as being worse than useless. Parole laws, the inde terminate sentence, juvenile courts, trade schools, are a few of the meth ods the law has tried of preventing crime by other means than penalties, and every one of them, when fairly practiced, has succeeded better than the barbarous recipe of "so much crime, so much punishment." There is one relation between crime and punishment which an enlightened mind can tolerate, and only one. Her bert Spencer put it as well as any body, "the punishment ought to be the logical consequence of the crime." But those punishments which are truly logical consequences come through the operations of natural law, not through human law. "Vengeance is mine," said the Almighty, meaning that it is a matter too high for man to meddle with. Our business with the criminal is to reform him if we can; if we cannot then we may- elim inate him. But when society blasts a man or woman with its curse and turns the victim out to starve or to seek a living by reduplicated sin, it is guilty of a worse crime than the one it has assumed to punish. More than one-half of the world's wheat shipments for the week end ing last Saturday was shipped from the United States and Canada, the contributions of these countries be ing 2,000,000 bushels greater than for the corresponding week a year ago. Russia meanwhile has suffered a complete reversal and the ship ments last week were exactly one half as large as those of a year ago. Nearly all of the figures In the weekly statistics appearing yesterday were bearish, but the market possesses such great inherent strength thai it closed higher than on Saturday. The American visible showed an increase of more than 4,000,000 bushels, and quantities on passage also increased 4,000,000 bushels, but were still 6,000, 000 bushels smaller than for the same week last year. The future of the market Is somewhat uncertain, but there is very little in the statistical position that can be regarded as per manently bearish. Longshoremen's Union No. 6, in a straw vote, gave Bryan 42, Taft 1 and Debs 1. This one-sided result offers an Interesting study as to the power of party loyalty over unionism. Has kell, who wrote the Bryan platform and whom Bryan refuses to repudiate, was formerly an official in the Citi zens' Alliance, the greatest enemy that union labor has met in this country. The fact that Bryan's manager was in the pay of Standard Oil might have been overlooked by some of these stal wart Democrats in the Longshore men's Union, but it is extremely dif ficult to understand how they can ac cept the platform built and boosted by a sworn enemy of union labor. The Oregonian is asked what it really thinks Taft's majority in. Ore gon will be. The Oregonian has no sure opinion. It knows that in the registration there is about 52,000 Re publican majority. But how can it know how many men to support the partisan Juggle of "Statement One" Hed, and swore on the registry to the He? The story that reached Fairview that "President Roosevelt will take the stump for Taft" was from the same authority no doubt that an nounced that "President Roosevelt would be a candidate for a third term despite all denials" The baseball fans are too much Interested in that little contest be tween New Tork and Chicago to grieve about the painful story of last Sunday's happenings to Portland at Oakland. There is a great opportunity now to learn whether the Balkans are a peo ple, a country, a range of mountains, a fancy breed of cattle, or a new brand of cigars. Young Turkey is going to find that there is something to do in this un happy world beside wresting a con stitution from a feeble old Sultan. As a last resort, Mr. Bryan may yet spring the "pernicious activity" clause of the civil service regulations upon Mr. Roosevelt, Meanwhile It may be that you have not registered and cannot vote for President if you try. when the time comes. Nicholas Longworth says he didn't say it. It would help a lot if Nicholas didatt aajr anything, - - XOX-PARTISAHSHIl. The Play as the Phrase for the "U Vote." The Labor World. In politics or in any National move ment for" office-seeking is the sola aim of many of the movement workers, the word "non-partisan" stands out in virtuous prominence. The public at large Is fascinated by the word, and Is led to believe that those who brand themselves with it are people who look far beyond self and party and are solely and sacriflcingly devoted to he wel fare of the public In this sense, when such a condition really exists, the non partisan is to be admired, extolled and encouraged. But at the present time the term "non-partisan" has become of specious use. Just so" much as the good old and Inspiring word "liberty," a word that Madame Roland declared when she faced death had been used to cloak diabolical crimes. We have been launched into what Is termed a "non-partisan" political movement which has for its only aim the election of W. J. Bryan as Presi dent of the country, and also the plao ing in power the Democratic party. Although "non-partisan" implies that you may have a choice, in this in stance, that Is, in this political move ment, established to catch wage-workers, it means that you cannot have any choioe, if you are a true and inde pendent man, and that you can only vote for Bryan. Thle la the up-to-date definition for "non-partisan" as decreed by ' President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor. This term "non-partisan" is put torch in order to toe readier induce wage workers to follow the other specious and misleading admonition: "Vote for your friends and oppose your enemies." This also Is all right as a guide line when it is sincerely put fogAh and when absolute deception is riwc eon cead in it. In this instance, how ever, it is misleading, and we will pro ceed to show at once that such is the case. The Southern States are ruled by Democrats and by the most enthusias tic supporters of Bryan. The Demo cratic rulers of these states who are the most ardent supporters of Bryan are the most relentless and bitterest and despotic foes of trade unions and of wage-workers in general that this country has known. They are ene mies of labor beyond all possible doubt. Has President Gompers sent any of his workers or his decree there to oppose these despots in the coming campaign? Are these enemies of labor to be opposed by President Gompers and his workers? If not, why not? If the votes of labor form an effective power, why is that power not being urged against the Southern Democrats who are tyrants over labor? Is it "non-partisan" to oppoee Republicans In the North on the plea that they are enemies of labor and pay no attention to the Democratic despots In the South merely because they are supporters of Bryan? Is the latter a friend of labor and can he be looked upon as such when his chief supporters are the des pots whom organized labor has been fighting for years? Let us have un equivocal answers to ' these questions. In the meantime they expose to the full glare of sunlight the speclousness and the utter fallacy and rottenness and deception of this "non-partisan" slogan. In this "non-partisan" connection we would further like to ask: Why is it that in all those years President Gom pers and a certain number of his prom inent associates have never uttered one word in praise of the grand and im mortal work President Roosevelt has done for labor? Some real Democratio partisans have even done this, and all true non-partisans of prominence have done this. But the promoters of this new "non-partisan" movement have not done so. Their "non-partisanship" is so dear to them and so cherished by them that they can't permit it to go too far from them; they will not trust It to the South, nor will they allow it to even extend to Roosevelt. They con fine it entirely to themselves and Bryan. Nothing more Is needed to show up the sham of this cry than the fact that President Gompers has for years been so much of a real partisan that he has never uttered a word laud atory of President Roosevelt's grand and glorious efforts in behalf of labor. TONTINE HOTEL ASSOCIATION EXDS Death of Old Yale Alumna Permits Division of Valuable Property. New Haven (Conn.) Dispatch to New Tork Tribune. The death of Deacon Lucius Wooster Fitch, of Westvllle, has removed one of the most distinguished of the Tale alumni and has made it possible to close up the Tontine Association. Deacon FItoh was 88 years old. He was the oldest Tale alumnus in this vicinity, being a graduate of the class of 1820. He was the son of Dr. Eleazur Thompson Fitch, pastor of Tale Col lege for many college generations, and professor of homiletics in the Tale divinity school for 35 years. President Timothy Dwight, In his "Memories of Tale Men," says that "in his mental gifts he was one of the most remark able men the college had ever had in its circle." For many years Deacon Fitch was assistant treasurer of Tale, and for two years he was treasurer in the ab sence of James Kingsley. A daughter, Miss Elizabeth Wooster Fitch, and a granddaughter, .Mrs. Dwight N. Moore, survive him. The Tontine Association Is a corpor ation formed in 1S20 to erect the Ton tine Hotel in this city under unusual conditions. There were 300 sharehold ers, each subscribing $100 on condition that each shareholder should nominate a person then alive, and that the seven surviving nominees should divide the property when the other nominees had died. The death of Deacon Fitch leaves exactly seven nominees. The annual meeting of the Tontine Asso ciation will be held next month, and the property, which Is worth fully 1250,000, will then be divided. Ungrateful Wm. J. B. New Tork American, Hearst. The owner of this newspaper offered to dupUcate, and did duplicate, every dollar contributed to Bryan's campaign by others. When Bryan was beaten the owner of this newspaper hired him i . - . i ..1 anri rtaid him for to write Btiivi,., r - writing them at least 10 times what they were worm, in uiuc, ma might have money to live until the next campaign. When the next cam paign came the Hearst papers support ed him again, and the owner of this newspaper again contributed money to the Bryan fight. Death Follow Eating; of Wheat. Erie (Pa.) Dispatch. Clarence Light, aged 3. of Jackson Township. Pa., while playing in a barn ate so much wheat that death fol QUOTES TUB RIIS REMEDY. Writer Thinks Present Haunts Suit able for Scarlet Women. . j PORTLAND, Oct. 5. (To the Ed-! ttor.) Apropos of the "scarlet women who are now being driven from their old haunts in the North End. the fol lowing written by Jacob A. Rlis in 1893. should carry some weight with our goodly-minded but impractical friends. Perhaps no man in the whole world is so well qualified to speak on the sub ject, for no other man in all modern history has done so much for or has written so much of the "under world." This was written at the time when Dr. Parkhurst was In the limelight, and when New York City had been so vig orously stirred by real reformers like Mr. Rlis. while the theorists were undertaKing much the same work as is new being undertaken in Portland. This is what Jacob RUs. the real j reformer, said: "I would not, whatever else might happen, by any hasty or Ill-advised system of wholesale raids, send these women- into the tenements and flats of our city. That is surely what will hap pen. Is happening now. It is a danger Infinitely greater than any flowing from their presence where they are and as they are. Each center of moral contagion by this scattering process becomes ten or twenty, planted where they will do the most possible harm. Think of the children brought in dally, hourly contact with this vice. Think of the thousands of young women look ing dally for work this hard Winter. Be there ever so little money for woman's honest work, there is always enough to buy her virtue. Have tene ment houses moral resources that can be trusted to keep her safe from this temptation? "This is a wicked villainy that must not be permitted, come whatever else may. We hear of danger to "our young men' from present conditions. What sort of young men must they be who would risk the sacrifice of their poor er sisters for their own safety? And it Is being risked wherever houses of this kind are being shut up and the women turned Into the streets there to shift for themselves. The Jail does not keep them. Christian families wtll not receive -them. They cannot be killed. No door opens to them: yet they have to go somewhere. And they will go where they think they can hide from the police and still ply the trade that gives them the only living society Is willing they shall have, though it says it Is not" Why should the good people of Portland drive these women to other haunts? If they are not desirable peo ple in Portland's North End, how much more desirable are they in the South End, or West End, or in Salem, or Astoria, or The Dalles? Have we any right to spread disease to the people of other localities? Is it a Christian act to send these unfortunate women to other localities where they are not wanted? Legally, these other localities can quarantine a pestilence, but there seems no law to quarantine these poor women. The question with many of us: "Is it right?" SENECA C. BEACH. DESCRIBES THE ADAM OF TODAY Thinks Moral I. aw Applies Alike to Tempted Onea of Both Sexea. PORTLAND, Oct. 5. (To the Edi tor) That "lewd women should not be ruthlessly driven out of the city" is the decision of the grand jury. That is correct. Let them remain. If our men have reformed these women will soon seek other means of support. It would do my heart good to know that our beautiful city is teeming with good virtuous men men who have seen the evil of their ways and are seeking to live pure, noble lives men who at last recognize that they share alike with women in crime, and are desirous of uplifting both themselves and their fallen associates. Just how it happens that an immoral man is any better socially than "an Immoral woman has always been a puzzle to me. No fallen woman has made her record alone, and nine out of ten it has been by the aid of some pretended lover or many times a mar ried man. There can be no distinction. Adam should have been strong and not have eaten of the forbidden fruit, even though tempted by the fair Eve. No doubt if the truth was known, it re quired very little solicitation to over come his natural tendencies toward right in order that he might satisfy his curiosity. He should have braced up and said: "Yes, I rather wanted to eat and Eve gave unto me, and we shall bear the blame alike." I should be glad If our Adam of today is freely meditating upon the problem and ac tually feels that the time is at hand when right must assert itself, and purity of heart and action must pre vail. But, if on the other hand, man has not reformed, we need the demi-monde, as in their existence many of our young girls will be protected, who would otherwise be insulted, ruined and made Inmates of refuge homes. But let such men be known to the de cent element of society, and ostracized as fallen women are. Publish his name and brand him as she is branded. The weak man does not want to be known to the world. V. E. C. BLAMES THE HOLY ROLLERS. Writer Think Removal of Portland's North End a Mistake. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 6. (To the Editor.) The "holy rollers" evidently have plucked a few brands from-the burning among Portlands civlo authorities, if one may judge from the pious edicts de signed to purge the city of all unright eousness. Now, moral crusades ere Justifiable in some cases, but generally they miscarry when directed by misguided zealots. TlilB brings the Issue to a point where I wish to commend the logic and foresight of the grand Jury In its verdict upon the "move on" edict. In Justifying its course by the statement that a "move on" verdict would have the effect of spreading an undesirable element over town, that Judicial body not only evinces a true grasp of the situation, but it fear lessly essays to rule In the face of a sanctimonious sentiment which manlfestS( more zeal than prudence. The writer was residing in San Fran cisco at the time the ultimatum of the Bay City's Mayor sent the denizens of the alleys off Dupont and Kearney streets, scurrying for shelter. They made directly for the uptown districts and proceeded to establish themselves In flats, lodging-houses and hotels the abodes of private families. Obviously, these -creatures must live somewhere. Then it was that these self-styled civic reformers were treated to the spectacle of respectable ladles and courtesans pass ing through the same doorways. It is easy to foresee one result of such a condition. Decent women were often times mistaken for the other kind, and accosted. OTTO GIL3TRAP. Colored Walters Give Satisfaction. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 6. To the Edi tor) The colored waiter ia giving every satisfaction to the guests and management of the Portland Hotel, and is here purely on his merit as a first-class waiter, and not because it is impossible to get first-class white waiters. I write this to correct a statement made in an Interview with me in regard to the International rceneva Association and system of tip pVng I ant. W. B. MARTLIN. Hotel Portland. Educated Blrda In New York. Baltimore News. .. . nor Port Jervie. N. T.. that the birds fly backward to keep the dust out oi laen ejr.es. SILHOUETTES BT ARTHUR A. GREENE. At last the ancient bugaboo of. "trou ble in the Balkans" seems to have come along and made good. sea Those who are ambitious are certain to bump many bumps and shoot many chutes. a What a woman does not dar utter with her lips she expresses with her eyes. e Frosts are most disastrous to truck gardeners and theatrical managers. e Tom Richardson has a great deal to say about Portland's exportation of wheat, but very little about its con sumption of rye. a e Ii must be something of a disappoint ment to the bride of a fashionable wed ding when she realizes that she has not married the best man. , a ' Merry Millinery. A happy milliner sat in her shop And said to herself, "Here's where I cop Out. the money, for I've got the drop In a business way on the blooming lot." For with Winter coming oa apace. The women are running each other a race To ee who can get the most feathers and brim By buying Fall hats to dike up In, From morning "til night through the busy town The femtnes are hurrying up and down; down: And it helps not a bit for the men folks to frown While hat bills go up and falling leaves down. a While It Is true that straws indicate which way the wind blows, in a poli tical campaign It is wise to watch the man who takes his vote without a straw In it. a To those who expect what their hearts are set upon the unexpected al- ways happens. . The man who coined the word "avi ation" deserves a vote of thanks from wrltters of doggerel. It's so easy to make It rhyme. a a a . Those who importune may sometimes be loved but only those who command are respected. A husband may be certain of his wife's constancy when she has ceased to be attractive. DICKY DINGBAT'S ESSAYS. Series B. No. 2. 3d grade. age . Ottomobeela. . Ottomobeels are Invented by the devil to kill manyacks and innocent bystand ers, pop calls them Infurnal manheens and once when he had to Duck One quick he called them something Wors. Ottomobeels are not new. they have had them manny years Only they ust to be known as Jugger-Nuts. That was in India and so the pepul that ride in them now are generaly Indians, otto mobeels have a lot of Innards but no conscience and also the asma. They oost more than a house and Lot and smell wors than a goat. They are out of or der more oftener than Pop Is at the deacon's meeting. And they make busi ness for the Undertakers. Pepul ride in thera to make pther Folks think they are Rich and some to get drunk and raise cain in. 1 think, ottomobeels ot to be run In but they wont run In the mud. When I get to be a man i am going to chew tobacco and Cuss and carry a gun but I do not think 1 will have a Ottomobeel. a a a People who live in glass houses should be careful about their bathrobes. a a The keenest wit one may possess le to keep silent at the right time. - a a a Some of us are so Just and discern ing that we never miss an opportunity to bs Impolite. a a I respectfully suggest to my good friend Dr. Brougher and his associate well meaning but ill advleed reformers that a precedent may be cited from John viil-vii which Invokes a higher law than either those of Moses or the Massachusetts Bay colony. CLEVELAND LETTER MYSTERT. New York Times Refuses to Ssy It W'aa Not Genuine. After the management of the Time had learned hat that letter had neither been written nor signed by Mr. Cleveland It pre sented the matter to the District Attorney, brmiaenburg had admitted that Jlr. Cleveland did not wian m lei.u-r, bui t-xialneu i.mt It had been written from conversations Uli the ex-Prcsldent. New York Globe. Every statement made In this paragraph taken from the columns of our neighbor, the Olobe. Is untrue. The management of th Time has not learned that the letter was not written nor signed by Mr. Cleveland, and the agent from whom the Times purchased the letter has not admitted that It was not signed by Mr. Cleveland, or that It was writ ten from conversation with him. The Kow Times, October I. Thus the mystery deepens. The Times, which published the article refuses to say it Is not genuine, but evidently be lieves It Is. Certain It Is that the piece bears innumerable marks of Mr. Cleve land's well-known manner and style. The Times Is one of the most careful and conscientious of newspapers, and is pursuing every possible line of investiga tion to ascertain whether the allegations about the article are true or false. A Strictly Confidential Litter. W J. Lampton. In the Nw York World. Dear Friends: I take my pen In h To"lt you know Just how 1 stand Since Hearst, to knock you fellows out. Has given me a fearful clout. By Greece' That man should be in Jail For tampering with my private mall. I stand well, I don't stand at all; I'm flattened out beneath the maul That drops on him who thinks he can Put down In black and white a plan By which his special Interests may Be handled so that it will pay: A pleasant plan In which to mix Hla business and bis politics. Oh, say, dear friends. I ask of you -h'at Is our country coming to When men of means who try to rise Abov all low-browed enterprise To higher things, to wider scope. Are handed out this sort of dope? Dear partners In my little game. Forgive me. I am all to blame: I should hava known what dangers lurs In every lln of letter work I did know, friends; of course I knew, But zeal my common sense outgrew. I should hav seen you quite alone. Or whispered to you on the phone: I've seen the harm that letters do Curse me for having written you. Ah, me! What wrath In them is stored! The pen is smltier than the sword. Pleas burn this letter, every bit; I have no copy her of It I That may bo stolen, reaa or "u. I iour lrian4 la aeed, John B. ArcMoia