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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.