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Newspaper Page TextTIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1903. rOITUXD. OREGON. Entered ftt Portland. Oregon. Foatotte as Kecasd-Claas Matter. atacrtpUoa Heir Inrmrtably la Advnnen, Br Haiti ftallr. Sunday include on year ? jelly. Sunday Included, six monlh.... J Lai:y. Sunder lnc.uded. thr nioclhl. a Lai:y. Sund.y Included, one month...- Uai'.y without bunder, one year J-f. lai.y. without Sunder. 1 moatfas..... Lal.r. without bunday. thro month.. Tjaliy. without Sunday, on month " Weekly, one year J ? lucd.r, one year.... f Itaadajr and Weekly, on year s" (By Carrier I Daflr. "under Included, an year...... tlly. Sunday Included, one montn. ... -1 How to Kail Bond poetofflee money rder. xprees order or personal check your local bank. Stamp, cola or currency are at tne Bender's risk- Olve poetofnee a creaa In full, including county and etata Paetag Kates 10 to 14 page. 1 nt: 1J I 2 pacee. 2 oenta: SO to 44 pagea cent.. 4 to SO page. 4 centa Foreign post age doubl ratea Eastern Baetnee Ofncc Th 8. C Bck wltb Special Agency New York. room. 4 eO TrlDune building. Csucago. rooms olo-t.ll Tribune building rOBTXAND. THCKSDAt, OCT. i. ISO. IT PHOULT) CONflRf OCR FACtFlO STATES. W have the strangest things. Her) Is Mr. Bryan saying: "There is no place la the world where citizenship means so much as It does In the United States: bat I wonder whether people who vote In the United States realize what a single Tote means? A single vote has cost this country hun dreds of millions of dollars, not to speak of the continuing appropria tions that that vote has cost us." The reference is to the single vote In the Senate, on the question of Fili pino Independence, some ten years ago. The treaty, by which we took over the Philippines from Spain was bitterly opposed In the Senate, and finally was ratified by only a single vote. Two-thirds were required. The vote was 67 to 27. Opposition to the treaty and to an nexation of the Philippine Islands was led by Senator Hoar, of Massachu setts. Many Republican Senators stood with him. Many Democratic Senators were for ratification of the treaty, which had been signed at Paris, December 10, 1898. Oppo nents of the treaty hoped and ex pected to be able to reject it. At this critical time Mr. Bryan suddenly appeared at Washington. The posi tion he had gained In his party gave him great consideration and author ity. He threw all his Influence in favor of the treaty. Senator Hoar, leader of the opposition to the treaty, wrote for the Xorth American Re view, of October, 1900, "that Mr. Bryan came to Washington and stabbed the cause of anti-imperialism In the back in the hour of Its as sured victory. The treaty would have been beaten almost by a majority. Mr. Bryan put forth all his power as a great political leader to secure the adoption of the treaty." Bryan's advocacy of the treaty was notorious. All the advocates of an nexation spoke of It and welcomed his help. The nowspapers of the time were full of It. But Bryan now deplores the acquisition of the Philip pine Islands. What manner of man is this, who thus repudiates a policy and an action that he himself urged and supported, and without whose aid most probably never would have been adopted. The Oregonian supported the treaty: nor does it regret ratification. It believes the United States should retain the Philippine Islands, and has no doubt that, if the proposition of their abandonment were presented to the American people, an overwhelm ing majority would oppose It, and would favor their retention by the United States. It believes, moreover, that not a single state of the forty seven would vote for the candidate for the Presidency who should make his canvass on the lsue of pulling down the flag in the Philippine Islands. Yet we are to Infer from Bryan's speeches that the effort to do this would be one of the measures of his administration. Do our Pacific slates desire thlsT Do they wish the United States to get out of the Philippines? Are they willing to abandon this base of com merce and of naval power In the Pacific? Do we want no navy, no naval stations, here, for protection of our other Interests In the Pacific? Have we no Interests here, on this shore of the greatest of oceans? Is the Atlantic Coast the only coast of the United States? On this issue Bryan should not get a single vote In any one of our Pacific states. It is true "there is no place In the world where citizenship means so much as It does in the United States." But this sentiment Is not the exclusive property of any party. We have made our citizenship mean something hitherto by turning Mr. Bryan down. We shall still make It mean some thing. If we continue to reject his counsel for abandonment of our positions in and over the empire of the Pacific Ocean. The man forgets us, or overlooks us. There should be no vote In any Pacific state for Bryan! Taft. on the other hand, knows about our possesions In the Pacific, and understands their Impor tance, as well as their relations to the commerce and to the growth and de velopment of our Pacific states. Bryan's state has no ocean, no ships. What should Oregon, or Washington, or California, care about ocean, or ocean commerce? The River Platte has no ocean ports: what good are they an where? But what was Bryan's object. In urging adoption of the treaty by whlch the Philippines were acquired? It was a passing or vagrant thought, merely, occurring today, to be aban doned tomorrow. Is this the man to be at the head of the Government of the United States? He now thinks to get votes In certain quarters, in the Kastern States, by suggestion of aban . donment of our possessions in the Pacific. What have our Pacific Coast states to sav? The National Conservation Commis sion is engaged In a census of the standing timber in the United States. As the work is to be completed early in 1909. and has only recently begun, it is questionable whether It can be very accurate. There is a wide vari ance In the estimates that have been made of our timber supply, but the most liberal are startling when the rapidity with which the supply Is dwindling is considered. Hnry Gan nett, who made an exhaustive study of the subject, placed the figures in 1900 at 1.390.000.000,000 feet, board measure, and. at the present aanual ronsumption. it Ik stated that the sup ply wiil be exhausted In fourteen years. By allowing for the growth of the timber in the meantime. It is believed that this supply can be made to last for twenty-three years. When It is remembered that twenty-three years ago the supply of timber was regarded as Inexhaustible, the vast ness of the consumption which has taken place since then can be appre ciated. Substitutes for wood will soon be coming Into general use, and the forest primeval will be but a mem ory. CAMPAIGN JT0I5E. Very large audiences greet Mr. Taft. and the enthusiasm for him is aid to be at high pitch. These, how ever, are but superficial indications, as everyone Informed about our po litical history knows. From such In dications t would be unwise to as sume that Taft will surely be elected. Audiences equally large and equally enthusiastic greet Mr. Bryan ana noisier audiences, for Bryan's oratory and method and" shallow ways of thinking appeal specially to the classes who make most noise. Larger and more enthusiastic audi ences greeted Henry Clay than any who ever have met and applauded any other American statesman; yet Clav could not win the Presidency. After Clay, Blaine perhaps had great est power and popularity as a speaker, drew largtst audiences and elicited greatest amount of enthusi asm and applause; but Blaine could not be elected. Bryan has more abil ity or capacity to act audiences wild than Taft possesses: because Taft is a better thinker and more practical man than Bryan, and the general audience wants to hear the man who stirs their emotions and sets them to shouting, rather than the man whose speech makes them think. But before it comes to the voting, on the sombre November day, most of the people, certainly many of them, will think the matter ovea seriously and then act upon a deliberate judg ment very different from the spirit of the assembly that responds with "en thusiasm" to oratorical claptraps. Bryan. In several recent speeches, has expressed confidence in his elec tion. Taft has expressed similar con fidence as to himself. The only excuse for Taft is In the fact that he is a new campaigner, while Bryan Is an old war-horse on the stump, and ought not to be deceived by appear ances. All know that In 1896 his audiences were even larger than now, and the clamor much louder. Recall the roar for Bryan on the streets of Portland, and of every other city, for week3 before the election of 1896, and put in comparison with it the tame ness and silence of the Bryan cam paign now. As you tried to make your way through the streets every silverite and populist held you up and tried to preach to you, and there were crowds at every crossing, listening to silver harangues. Loud campaign ing often presents most deceptive appearances. Not this year, nor ever again, will-there be so loud shouting in Portland for Bryan as when Port land threw its vote against him two to one. Nor Is his present campaign in the Middle West as noisy as then: yet he may now get, and probably will get. a larger proportional vote and even then be far behind. WHAT KILLED TRANS-PACIFIC TRADE. The Oregonian is called to account by J.. N. Teal because a slight tech nlcal Inaccuracy, affecting in.no way the point at Issue, may have con fused the law regarding trans-Pacific rates to foreign countries with the Interstate Commerce Commission's interpretation of the law. As The Oregonian has discussed the matter in all its phases at varying periods for the past two years, and' the basio principle Involved Is pretty well un derstood by all people who are at all Interested In the subject, there may have been a tendency in the editorial article complained of to omit the wealth of verbiage that Is so dear to the gentlemen who draw up legal papers. The fact remains that the trans-Pacific trade has been killed by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion's interpretation and enforcement of the law governing rates on foreign bound commerce. By Its Interpretation of the law, the Interstate Commerce Commission assumes Jurisdiction over the foreign trade to' the extent that It can treat the land haul of that foreign-bound freight, as exactly similar to that of freight destined for points "within the United States, thus compelling pub lication of tariffs. . Naturally, aa ex plained in the article criticised, the railroads will not invite an attack on rates involving more than 95 per cent of their home business for the sake of retaining the scant 5 per cent which was the maximum of their trans-Pacific business. When the "Baltic Pool" decision mentioned in Mr. Lane's letter submitted by Mr. Teal was made. The Oregonian com mented on the case and expressed the hope that, as the shore line e the ocean had been declared the limit for Interstate " commesce Jurisdiction, there would be no further attempt to Interfere with trans-Pacific trade. The "Baltic pool." being legally de clared immune from the regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, unfortunately did not stay the efforts of the Commission to regulate over-sea commerce. Railroads deliv ering freight to the steamship lines Included in the Baltic pool were obliged to publish their tariffs, and neither the business of the roads nor the steamships was affected by the ruling. This was due to the fact that practically ail of the freight handled by the steamships originated so close to the Atlantic seaboard that the rail end of the tariff, without any prefer ential rates, was Inconsequential. This same ruling, when applied to the Pacific. 6pelled ruin for the trade, for he reason that the rail end of the haul was from four to five times as large as the steamship end. In other words, the Atlantic steamer received the greater portion of the through rate, while the Pacific steamer re ceived the smaller portion. Reduc tion from the regular tariffs necessary to make the business available was all taken from the rail end of the haul. For example, freight was carried from Lake, ports to the Atlantic sea board for 60 cents and $1 per ton, while the charge from New York to Europe was more than Jl per ton. From the same Inland ports to the Pacific the rate would be $10 to J15 per ton. while the rate across the Pa cific was from $2 to $5 per ton. In such conditions and they were strictly natural conditions it was manifestly unfair to apply the same rule to trans-Pacific commerce that was applied to trans-Atlaantic com merce. The effect of this Interstate commerce Interpretation of the law has been to divert to the Suez route the traffic which the railroads for merly brought to the Pacinc porta, enabling the shippers of local products from these ports to have a frequent service to the Far East. It will be still more seriously felt when a re vival of the lumber trade will neces sitate the hauling west of empty cars which should come loaded with trans pacific freight, even though that freight was unobtainable except at rates below the regular American tariff. Pacific commerce Is becoming important enough to be handled on other than Atlantic standards. 51 B. BETERXDGE OX rSJCJiCTOOJfS. Like other orators, Mr. Beverldge says some things for the sake of the sound and some for the sense. The section of his speech at the Armory which refers to Injunctions Is valuable for both sense and sound. It sug gests an idea or two which no other speaker in the campaign has brought out so forcibly and whose truth is evi dent. Mr. Beverldge makes tne ex cellent point that predatory corpora tions would profit much more than the labor unions would by any limita tion of the equity powers of the courts. Suppose Mr. Bryan's plan were adopted and disobedience to an injunction could not be punished without a jury trial, the Senator from Indiana showed how the corporations would take advantage of it to per petrate injuries for which there would be no practical redress. Theourt would issue an order for bidding an act. The corporation would Ignore the order and go ahead the same as If it had not been made. This would, of course, constitute a con tempt of court, but no punishment could be Imposed without a Jury trial, and we all know what a formal trial amounts to when a rich and power ful corporation is the defendant. By the time its lawyers had finished their dilatory motions, appeals, new trials and the rest of the accepted routine, the Injured party would be dead and his wrongs forgotten by hi3 heirs. This portion of Mr. Beveridge's speech was very strong, It Is true, as he says, that laboring men who de mand a restriction of the equity pow ers of the courts do not realize what would follow were their demand granted. The abuse of Injunctions is a tran sient matter resulting from the bias and temperament of a few judges. They must in the nature of things soon retire and the evil will in all likelihood disappear with them, while the immense remedial .effect of the writ of Injunction properly used will continue forever unless It is Impaired by unwise legislation. It is not shrewd in labor to try to break down the machinery of civilized govern ment. When that machinery Is di rected to proper ends, the more effi cient it is the better. It Is wiser to correct the use than to ruin the In strument. ADVANTAGES EC THE WEST. The immortal advloe of Horace Greeley to "go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country," still has features of positive merit. The "East," even if you follow it clear round the world until you reach the opposite shores of the Pa cific, offers no such Inducements as are noticeable In the West. "Dear old Lunnon" Is east of the Pacific, and economic conditions are In such a state there that a few weeks ago five thousand men answered an ad vertisement for a position which paid 14.50 per week. Coming west to the New World, New York is badly con gested with labcr willing to work at low wages, and Chicago Is no longer a poor man's paradise. But the vast hordes of laboring people who center In London, and from there are crowd ed across the water to New York, get no farther from the starting point than is absolutely necessary It is a long voyage from Europe to New York. To Chicago the distance is an effectual bar for any of the weaklings and for most of the strong. As for the Pacific Coast and the inter lying country, it is only considered by a very tew. As a result of this aversion by labor Itself to leaving congested labor enters, there are al ways much greater opportunities In the West, What Is true In the case of labor is a'.so true in other direc tions. As an example of this trait, the rush this week to the opening of the Rosebud Indian Reservt-tlon in Nebraska Is Interesting. The amount of land available was sufficient for about 5000 homesteaders, and there were lined up on all four sides of the tract nearly 200,000 settlers, who hoped to secure one of the 6000 homesteads. The time and money necessary to prepare for this grand rush and attempt to file on this land, together with the expense and un certainty that must be endured, be fore the claim could be perfected, would be greater at a moderate esti mate than the cost of locating on some of the lands In Oregon or Wash ington, or even more than the cost at which some of the farms already lo cated could be secured. Free farms In the Far West are not so plentiful, nor so easy of access as they were twenty years ago, but there is still a large number of them avail able, especially If the seeker will exercise as much patience and spend as much money as seems necessary even to secure a chance at one of the "drawings" on the Indian reserva tions farther east. Equalization of the available supply of farmers or laborers in the United States, would be of immense economic advantage to the country, as it would relieve congestion in the East and relieve a famine of labor In the Far West, HELP FOR DEBATERS. The High School of Wenatchee, Wash., has asked The Oregonian for information which will help its team debate the question of "The Closed Shop." It seems that the schools of Washington have chosen this subject for their Winter debates and Infor mation about it will naturally be at a premium. The Oregonian gladly imparts whatever it happens to know about the closed shop and everything else, being a fountain of truth and not a storehouse; but the request of the Wenatchee students excites two or three thoughts which it seems wise to set down before oblivion seizes them. The first thought Is that It would be a fine thing for the high schools of Washington to possess each a library of common Information where the students could investigate questions for themselves. Or If the school cannot have a library, surely the town can. Another thought is that the State of Washington is big enough and rich enough to employ a public librarian; and that official could not spend his time more usefully than by telling the school children where to find this current information which they aesire so eagerly. The files of The Outlook, The Independent, The Forum- and many other periodicals are rich in material touching the question of the closed shop. Mr. Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, whose headquarters are in Washington, D. C, makes it his business to spread Information on the subject, Mr. Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., would dance with joy to have an oppor tunity to mail the Wenatchee school a ton or two of pamphlets opposing Mr. Gompers, and ona Imagines that Mr. Van Cleave would hail a similar opening as heaven sent. Mr. Hum phrey ought to welcome a request for public documents on this question, as well as petitions for sterile turnip seeds, and we suppose Mr. Jones and Mr. Cushman would feel the same way about it. In the departments at Washington there are oceans of such documents waiting wearily for read ers who never come. Thus the Wenatchee students will perceive that there is plenty of information about the closed shop scattered through the world if they can get hold of it. Washington County, which boasts of shipping sixty carloads of con densed milk every month, is now planning establishment of a number of fruit and vegetable canneries. There is plenty of business for can neries In Washington as in other Valley counties, and as the large farms are cut up and orchards multi ply there will be an increasing sup ply of fruit for canning- purposes. Canneries enlarge the market for fruit products, though they do not usually pay highest prices. But finding a market for products Is an essential part of successful Industry, and, if Washington or any other county would experience the greatest indus trial development, it must create or discover new markets in which to sell goods. Washington County has reason to be proud of her milk con densing plants, but has much more reason to be proud of that enterpris ing spirit which leads to the develop ment of new Industries. "Exclusive Irvington" is said to have fallen heir to one party of pros titutes who were driven from their obscure and unnoticed haunts in the North End. Others have scattered throughout the city, many of. them finding refuge in respectable rooming and lodging-houses. Of course it will be an easy matter for the ten addi tional policemen to-keep them all un der surveillance, and there will be no chance for tnem, to return to their former vocation. This at least la the Utopian theory on which our vision ary reformers are proceeding. Un fortunately for the good morals of the city, the scattering of this colony merely results In the evil being flaunt ed in the faces of respectable people, who . until this crusade began were not necessarily aware of its exist ence. The crusade from a moral standpoint was but a farce, but It Is accompanied by elements of tragedy and pathos and trouble. e All the tests of the "straw vote" taken in Oregon show large majori ties for Taft over Bryan. But then perhaps the Bryan inert don't travel on the railroad cars, or visit the bar ber shops to get shaved, or attend the first-class theaters, or get their shoes polished at the stands. Have, the Bryan voters taken to the woods? Or will there be found some approxi mation to truth In that registration (52,133 Republican plurality), after all? Or is the horrible suspicion Justified that those 639 Democrats who registered as Republicans in Portland are the only Democrats here? Hadn't George better take the stump right quick? Another needless sacrifice of life to religious belief is reported from East Portland, where a 16-months-old baby was permitted to die without medical attention. Perhaps the most distressing feature of the tragedy lies In the fact that the innocent victim of the religious crime was the second child of the same family to die with out any effort being made to save Its life. There have been many serious crimes committed In the name of re ligion, but none are sadder or more needless than those which call for the sacrifice of Innocent and helpless young children. The Appellate Court of Indiana has denied a rehearing In the case against Tom Taggart's French Lick gambling Joint, and-It now seems that the great politician and friend of Bryan is to lose his "layout," The experience of Haskell, however, precludes any pos sibility of Tom being repudiated by the Great Commoner. Being "caught with the goods on" Is not detrimental to Democratic prestige. Of course not all those people at the Armory were Republicans. Some of them were Democrats, there to shout for Bryan and otherwise to make a disturbance. By the way, did any one ever hear of Republicans In Portland going to a Democratic gath ering Just to raise a row? Who Is the State Game Waruen? Who knows? Where does he live, if he lives, and what excuse has he for doing nothing whatever while the game laws are being violated daily? The Methodist clergyman in Illi nois who says the salvation of the whole town depends on Battling Nel son's "conversion possibly hopes Bat will "lick 'em" into flie church. Those solemn pessimists who looked for Hood River to wind up the sea son with a large number of nice red apples on Its hands are respectfully referred to the market reports. Those great crowds to see Taft may not have been all Republicans, to be sure. Many were attracted by sheer curiosity curiosity to see the next President. Announcement. There will be a meeting of the I-Told-You-So Club Wednesday, November '4, 1908. Place, everywhere. Now It Is said that the President will make no speeches for Mr. Taft. That ought to cheer up Mr. Bryan considerably. Mr. Hearst will speak in Portland October 12. This is not an advance notice. It is a warning. Crete, it seems, has decided to cast Its fortunes with Greet. This thing Is getting exciting. HOT SHOT AIMED AT MR. BRYAN Here's a 1 1 carat Kdltorlal T&at'a Well Worth Heading. Kew York American. Mr. Bryan, that last letter to Mr. Roosevelt is matchless in its Impu dence. With an effrontery that is like an Inspiration, you charge Mr. Roose velt with the Haskell dismissal. It was the Roosevelt refusal to hear him, you urge, that caused Mr. Haskell "to resign." What. Mr. Bryan, had Mr. Roosevelt to do with Mr. Haskell? Had the lat ter been his platform-builder? Was he collecting money from Standard Oil for him? You speak of Mr. Haskell's "resignation." Here again you invite correction. If not flat contradiction. Mr. Haskell aid not resign. He said "NTo" in Oklahoma, "No" In Kansas City, "No" in Chicago after he arrived. There was no Haskell resignation, as you, Mr. Bryan, of all' men, best .know. He was thrown out; thrown out by you, Mr. Bryan, with every mark of ignominious hurry, every detail of main force. Grasping at the casing, he was thrust through the door; clutch ing at the wainscot, he was bundled down the stair of your affairs. And In what you, Mr. Bryan, thus did to Mr. Haskell, your cowardice be came apparent, your Ingratitude stood revealed. Mr. Haskell had worked for you. got money for you. You were deep within his debt. Whatever were his general deserts yon at least owed him support. And when he was as sailed, what course did you adopt? Did yon take his hand? Did you stand by his aide? Did you even so much as attempt to defend him? Instead of finding fault with Mr. Roosevelt, who had had nothing to do with him, you should find fault with yourself, who had had everything to do with him. e e When Mr. -Haskell eought you in Chicago you wouldn't so much as see him. In your hare's heart you feared lest the ruin that was overtaking him might seize also upon you. Mr. Bryan, you have pretended since the Haskell downfall to an Innocent lgnoranca of that gentleman's hereto fore. Do you Imagine that the public accepts your weak pretense? Many people no more believe it than you be lieve it yourself. Better than any oth er, you knew the Haskell past. The moment he was brought to bay by It, you saw that all was up. Wherefore, when he came seeking you in his trou bles, you, like another Joab with an other Abner, drove the knife nnder his fifth rib.. You did this, trusting that the treason to a friend might b re ceived as proof of your own purity, e e Your conscience, Mr. Bryan, must be a Russian conscience. The wolves were closing in on you, and you threw them Mr. Haskell. You say in your letter, Mr. Bryan, "My record is a sufficient answer." Still harp ing on "my record!" You said the same when that workingman put his "public beggars" question. What Is this marvelous record against which you so bravely place your back? Is there a fence of policy upon both sides of which you haven't stood? Is there a pathway of principle which you haven't trod both ways? Is there an Interest or an issue which you haven't alternately advocated and opposed? Once the champion of the crucified, you have become the right arm of the cruclfiers. You denounced a cross of gold, a crown of thorns. Now you find In that crown of thorns the wreath of possible victory. Uplift that cross of gold as the emblem of every prosperous hope. e e Your "record," Mr. Bryan, is of as many hues as Joseph's coat. Also, like Joseph, you have come down into the Egypt of the East, and are already be ginning to interpret the dreams of the Pharaohs of Wall street. Your record is a record of abandonment, of desertion. With a selfishness so Satanic that It touches nearly the sublime, you have run from every cause you ever spoke for, every friend you ever had. You would share in the triumph of an enemy, soon er than taste defeat with your own peo ple. A Summer soldier, a sunshine pa triot, of the sycophants and the smell feasts, you are present In prosperity only to be absent In adversity. Mr. Bryan, you suffer from a purblind egotism that sees only Itself. You look too often in the glass, too seldom from the window. You are too fond of your own Image, too much the Narcissus of politics, and fool yourself into believing that others think as well of you as you think of yourself. Secure of your own favor, you feel secure of the public favor, and this encourages you to turn false, pursue the expedient, desert prin ciples, abandon friends. It Is Municipal Hypocrisy. St. Helens Mist. The great city of Portland has decided that the proper way to deal with its "undesirable" women is to drive them out of town. As to where they will go the authorities evidently have no con cern. They will say it is no business of theirs. All they care is to get rid of them in response to the urging of the Pharisees and certain business men who have concluded that their presence de preciates the value of property in the neighborhood. Columbia County ad joins Multnomah and for years its ex penses have , been increased by the tramps, thieves and lunatics who have been driven out of Portland. It is a sad commentary upon our civilization that a great city, should decide to foist Its un desirables upon other communities. It is worse than Cain's "Am I my brother's keeper?" and there should be some way of compelling the City of Portland to care for its own criminals. Moreover the idea is barbarous and cruel. If adopted by all communities It would mean a war of extermination against a class of unfortunates who are singled out as the special object of unlawful persecution. Portland Is fast earning an unenviable reputation for municipal hy pocrisy. Country and City Life. Jacksonville (Or.) Post, Country life has its drawbacks, but It has Its great advantages which over come them. True, those who live In the country are "Rubes" and "Farm ers" and "hayseeds" to the cigarette smoker in town, but the boast of the business men In the world today is that they were born on a farm. Take away the surrounding evils that beset the young men or women on the threshold of life's Journey in the city, and substitute the helpful influence of nature, and you fortify them for the sterner walks in life. The few things which they do not know about table etiquette and when it Is proper to leave two visiting cards and when but one. they will catch onto much quicker than city boys and girls will learn to properly stoke the furnace or make good bread. No boy or girl need be ashamed of living on the farm, for it they have taken advantage of what it has offered they are well fortified for after life. Tax open letter to am. bryax t written skk.ho.-v3 uh.iui. Former Rcaldeat of Oklahoma Aak Several Qnentiuna Iavolvlajr Haskell. WOODBURN, Or., Occ . (To the Editor.) The practical application of Mr. Bryan's war cry "Shall the people rule?" was plainly shown when his un derstudy, C. N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, adopted this same motto and used it as his own during his campaign for governor. "Shall the people rule," Mr. Bryan? Did the people rule when your confidential friend and choice for treas urer of the National committee was nominated for governor iy the gross est of frauds? The frauds in Logan county, where Guthrie the state capital is located, were so scandalous that the returns from there were never considered in the "so called" official count. There the ballot boxes were stuffed and ne groes were improperly voted to such an extent for the sake of harmony in the party. In .LafliJre county, which is next to Arkansas, It was . openly charged by Democrats that a great number were brought across the state line in order to insure Haskell's nomi nation and these charges were never denied. In this county Haskell's ma jority was raised from about 1100 as first glv&n out to over 1800. Other frauds all over the state were perpe trated; but these two and the stuffing of the ballot boxes in Muskogee, Has kell's home town, were perhaps the most flagrant. Did the people rule, Mr. Bryan, when your friend Haskell's stool pigeon, William Murray, ruled over the con stitutional convention and disregarded the minority, with a despotism which would have appalled Uncle Joe Cannon, whom you accuse of being tyrannical? Did the people rule, Mr. Bryan, when Haskell with the assistance of blind Senator T. P. Gore, so gerrymandered the state of Oklahoma that grave fears were expressed in Oklahoma that the President would refuse to accept the constitution for that reason alone? Did you not know of Haskell's con nection with the Citizens' Alliance of Muskogee? This alliance was formed to keep labor unions out of Muskogee and Haskell's signature appears first among the organizers. The fact of his connection with it was heralded to the four corners of Oklahoma and you must have known of it; yet you made him treasurer of the National com mittee. And you pretend to be a friend of union labor. You are Haskell's friend, Mr. Bryan, and have said many times for publica tion that the constitution of Oklahoma is in your opinion the best constitution ever written. Do you know that in as sisting to frame this constitution Mr. Haskell repudiated the pledges he had 'made to his constituents to do all in his power to Incorporate' in It stipu lations for separate schools, coaches and waiting rooms for negroes and made no such attempt? Taking Has kell's record then as a public officer in Oklahoma, and utterly disregarding his former activities, it can plainly be seen that he is not a safe man to be the confidential friend of a public of ficer. , Whether or not you can plead ig norance as to Haskell's record in Ohio and elsewhere is a question; but, Mr. Bryan, during the constitutional con vention he was your friend, and since that time he has been an exponent of your ideas, and during this time the facts were too public to escape notice. "Shall thepeople ruler' The record of your understudy shows what your slogan amounts to; shows that the people shall not rule If he can prevent It, when it interferes with his personal advancement. During the constitutional convention and the campaign following, I was en gaged in reportorial work for the Okla homa News, of Oklahoma City, and am able to vouch for the above statements. BLAXNB M'CORD Don't Mix Bad Apples With Good Fruit. PORTLAND. Oct, 6- (To the - Edr Iter.) Your editorial in today's paper, "Friendless," was read with great sat isfaction, not only on account of the Justice it expresses, but in this day of decrying the efforts of those who have gone before us, it is-a good thing to know there Is someone with enough red blood In his veins to champion the efforts of the framers of our constitu tion. Now with regard to the friend less: Back on the farm we had to assort the rotten, specked apples before packing the barrel; when this was not thoroughly done and a lot of the rotten, specked ones were left and packed along with the good ones it was not long before there was a barrel of rotten apples to be got rid of. It has been our observation that this applies pretty well to the human fam ily, and no one but he who fulfills Burns' description "for a mantle" large and broad cloaks himself In religion" desires that these friendless human beings be scattered throughout our city, for this is what did happen once before when there was more zeal than common sense applied to this subject. It is not missing the mark far to say it will happen again. - EDWARD WILLIAMS. Prayed With Fallen Women. PORTLAND, Oct, 7. (To the Ed itor.) In Tuesday morning's Issue of The Oregonian, Dr. Brougher, in re plying to his critics, says: "I want to ask your correspondents who have been sneering at the churches and preachers, what they have been doing to save these girls?" "I doubt If any one of them ever did anything more than to sneer at the reformers." "Let them show what they are doing lor these girls, or let them 'shut up." " Well, Dr. Brougher, there was one of these "sneerers" who, possessing a great deal -of pity for these unfortunates and a little of the Christ Bpirit, went quietly down, last week, to the North End without any fanfare of trumpet or drum and visited each of these houses, leaving a Bible at every house, and praying personally and individual ly with the inmates. At each house the "sneerer" was told that no preach er of any church or church member had ever called or prayed with them before. Now, this was not much, to do a very little but It was what Jesus would have done. JOHN H. STEVENS. A Terrible Strain. Chicago Record-Herald. "Pa, who was Charlotte CordayT' "I dunno. She makes women's hats, I guess. I heard your ma say some thing the other day about getting one of Charlotte's brand. Now run out and play with the pup; I want to read about Foraker sendin' $50,000 back to dear Archbold. Gee, how sad it must make a man to let go of it after get ting It right) in his hands like that." Toot, Too. Heppner Gazette, Heppner Is a community of con tented and prosperous people. It has given the City of Portland more mod erately wealthy men than any town of Its size in Oregon. It has more wealth than any town in the state of its size. Move Home Containing Fifty People. Newark (N. J.) Dispatcn. Workmen at Orange, N. J., have be- . - mflT,B a VimtsA in which 60 ner- sons live without disturbing the occu pants, the Job to De completed in a week. Married Indcr Cemetery Monument. Montgomery (Ala.) Dispatch. In order to escape parents who ob ts.tA ti fhA mrrh Twis Acres and Ollie Pierce were married under a monument in a cemetery at Dresden, Tenn. . Xawadaya the Preacher la the PulpU ced Mont of All. Fire. MILTON, Or., Oct. 6. (To the Edi tor.) The report of Bishop Hughes' remarks at Salem about writing ser mons, as givin by The Oregonian, fol lowed by an editorial article of ap proval, suggests to the undersigned the following reflections: Is it not more important for a preacher to prepare himself for pulpit work than to merely construct sermons to be offered con gregations? A prepared preacher means a prepared sermon. The man in soul and body stands behind the ser mon or speech More time is needed in thought, original thinking, and in gath ering properly from sources outside of himself than in the mechanical com position of a sermon. Instead of spend ing so much time in putting down upon paper, it would be better to be more diligent in finding something to put down. Some of the cheapest contribu tions ever given long-suffering assem blies have come by the way of one or two written sermons read or unread in the pulpit. Permit me to say that writing ser mons carries in itself some degree of peril and weakness. Having written a sermon, the man preaching, in spite of himself, may be fettered in recalling what has been written. Writing may give exactness of statement, and it may also result in a measured rigidity. An audience demands not so much the written style as the spoken; in tine, more, the tongue than the pen. Ability to talk is more valuuble to a preacher than to write. A man entering the pulpit for life ought to be convinced that he is a natural talker. Moses, slow of speech, was glad tp have by his side a talker rn Aaron. The demand of the pulpit is a high level of Christian oratory, -and a true orator will have a crowd if he speaks in a barn. There are failures attend ing extemporaneous speech and there are also splendid triumphs. It requires more preparation to present an unwrit ten sermon thar a written one, either read or unread. . 1 have often thought that writing down one's thoughts tends to slowness of utterance, as the thought must go no faster than we write. It may cause us to hesitate in speech that wo may have just the right word, just the. idea. Abandon, flow of ideas in accept able words, fire; not the dry essay, the people covet in their orator. On the alert for new modes of ex pression heard or read, that we may impress a world-hardened generation, we preachers may blow the dust off from old truth and then lift it to the level of the new. . Permit me to say, also, that in an effort to shun fanaticism, we may break away from the help of the Holy Spirit. There may be so much ot the human in a polished written sermon, that there Is no room for.the Holy Spirit. A strange warmth, a welcome unction, comes from the Holy Ghost, and fire from Heaven Is to descend to burn up the rubbish of communities. It was Jesus of Nazereth, who Bald: "Take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall an swer, or what ye shall say, for the Holy Ghost shall teach you In the same hour what ye ought to say." Information may make a chemist, but the great thing a preacher needs Is fire. The Holy Spirit uses mind, mouth, elo quence, humor, wit, satire, good sense and hard study to win the triumphs of the Kingdom of God, to make muslo at tables of feasting and to hang cap tured banners upon the walls. B. J. HOADLEY. NAME SCHOOLS FOR PERSONS, Sufrireatlon as to Honoring- Portlund ers in High as Well as Grade School. PORTLAND, Oct. 7. (To the Editor.) I notice that Mr. H. Turner, in this morn ing's Oregonian, suggests that the terms "West Side" and "East Side,"- now commonly used to designute our two high schools, be dropped, characterizing them as "silly," and "West Portland High School" and "East Portland High School" be substituted therefor. For one, it occurs to ma that the last named designations are "sillier" than those now in use. We have had no West Portland and no East Portland and no Albina since consolidation by vote of tho people in June, 1891, Then the three In corporated towns of Portland, East Portland and Albina practically went out of business, and on July 1 of that year the new Incorporated City of Portland began its existence. The terms "East Side" and "West Side" came into use at once, by common consent, and mainly through the efforts of the directory pub lishers, as a convenient means of de scribing the location of residences; and quite naturally, after the new high school was built, it came to be known as the East Side High School. By the Bamo parity of reasoning, when the third high school, now contemplated. Is finished, it will be called the Albina High School. So, in all three cases, with more to fol low In the years to come, if present methods are followed, the city will be perpetuating obsolete names. While Mr. Turner's suggestion does not appeal to-me at all, yet I agree with him to this extent, "that there ought to be a change in the names of the high schools. Hence, I would suggest that the old high school be called the Davis High School, after Anthony L. Davis, a member of the first board of school directors of School District No. 1, elected in 1851, and the new ona the Butcliel High School, as it is believed that Joseph Butchel, a pioneer of 1SS2, did more to cause tha double block upon which the new high school now stands to be secured for school purposes than any other man. And hereafter, when other high schools shall be constructed, they ought to be named after some one, either man or woman, who has performed some notable deed in connection with school work. GEORGE H. HIMES. The Whole Thins la Wronsf. Tacoma Press. It is not right to force a man, In a primary election, to designate his party politics. Men working for corpora tions do not like to put a check Into the hands of the manager of such in stitutions. Say a corporation wants a certain man nominated on the Repub lican ticket and they make the request of their employes to vote tho Repub lican ticket in order that such a candi date may be successful. Now suppose a man in their employ takes a Demo cratic ticket, it is a cinch that h would get his time at once. various ricK-i;ps. First Officeholder What is your favorite ouotation? Second Officeholder One Rood term deserves another. Philadelphia Record., Mr Smith (after Ill-tempered speech by Browni Mr. Chairman and gentleman, fol lowing the example of Mr. Brown's luncheon, I shall venture to dlaafiree, with him. Punch. Customer But I want to use it as an appatiier. Mre. Delicatessen (obllRlnglr) Veil, do't all righd. I vill tear der purs food label oft It und you von't know vat's in it. Puck. Cholmondeley You and your sifters aro twins, are you not? Majorlbanks We were when we were children. Now, however, ehe Is five years younger than 1. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mrs. Newlywed I want to buy a afak. Lumberman Hickory, oak or ash? Mrs Newlywed Porterhouse. Lumberman Tou'll Ond that in the butchershop. This is a lumber-yard. Judge. Father fto llttl son returning from horseback ride) Got a fall, did yuu? Well, I hope you didn't cry like a babyT Son No. dad, I didn't cry. I Just said one word tho same aa you'd have said. Punch. "What la a parlor socialist?" "A lady who believes In parlor socialism." "But what is parlor socialism?" "A belli that all 06P should be held in common." Lou:vllle Courier-Journal. Motorby (s'ernly) I hear you're Retting rake-offs from both the repair-man and tha tire dealer. New chauffeur (in surprise) But sir didn't you advertise for an ex perienced chauffeur who thoroughly undex Lood hie business? Puck.