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WHICH WC WISH TO REMARK.
Many persons who heard Senator
Beveridge's speech thought it able
and strong; but certainly It was not a
great speech "when compared with
star of the models of reasoning and
eloquesoe which have passed Into per
manent literature. Nor are there any
modern or recent speeches of this
class. Taffs are merely plain talks.
In a practical way. but delivered with
little illustration or force: Bryan's
are windy harangues, received with
delight by persons of superficial views,
to whom thinking is irksome. Bever
ldge's speech at Portland was that of
an orator of the Bryan type, speaking
to the points of a party platform and
opposing those of an adversary. Bev
ridge was ready and copious; but a
party plea, on such method. Is not
weighty in matter. Little of real Im
portance is talked about in this cam
paign; and there is no orator at pres
ent who Is able to raise small subjects
to the rank of matters of large inter
est or of dealing with the temporary
and accidental things of current poli
tics In a manner to convey lasting In
struction. Yet of course we are not
often to expect speakers of the power
of Burke, Ames or Webster, or of men
next below even much below them.
It ought to be said, however, that Gov
ernor Hughes Is making excellent
campaign speeches.
Complaint Is made on the Demo
cratic side that Beveridge did not deal
as he should have dona with such
matters as initiative and referendum,
guaranty of bank deposits and elec
tion of Senators by direct vote. His
omissions. It Is said, are to be dealt
with by local Democratic campaign
ers. Of course, as Beveridge was not
speaking to please the Democratic
brethren, he could hardly be expected
to deal with their new crotchets or
hobbles in a way to gratify them.
Beaten out of all their old positions,
they have a fresh stock of banalities
and futilities, every time. One has
only to wait to see the new clap-traps
wear themselves out.
The Oregonlan speaks for Itself
only, for It only half-way agrees with
the Republican party. But It doesn't
agree with the Democratic party at
ail. The basis of this dissent lies In
the history of the country uid In the
history of parties: of which this Jour
nal has had at different times much
to say. Probably It Is not done yet
with this theme. But Just now It will
say something about the new assort
ment of great principles which this
party has collected; some of which
the local brethren claim were not
treated adequately by Senator Bever
idge. Guaranty of bank deposits is only
a political or partisan cry. It Is not
practicable as an economic principle,
and never will be adopted. After the
coming election it will be forgotten.
Neither careful bankers nor prudent
depositors will want It; for the rea
son stated so forcibly by the Balti
more Sun, that "when the cashier of
S bank in Oklahoma (or elsewhere)
takes to the woods with the bank's
cash, the-deposltors in the banks of
Baltimore and elsewhere, which are
honestly conducted, will not be dis
posed to rush eagerly to make up the
loss." The great states, where the
great banking interests are, will not
have this method of "Insurance" of
reckless backing.
Initiative and referendum may make
Some progress, for a time, as a state
movement. But as a National move
ment it will gain no ground. Bryan
at one time urged it, but the propo
sition raised a protest In his party so
loud and vehement that he was forced
to drop it. The platform of his party,
tvrltten In his own closet, with the
assistance of his friend from Okla
homa, contains not a word about it.
even as a state policy. Protest of his
party whipped this offending Adam
out of Bryan and his Oklahoma co
adjutor. Initiative and referendum
Dow will settle down to a whim of
some of the small states. The great
rates do not deem it practicable at
all; nor is it even possible they will
for the reason that it is Incompatible
with republican or representative
government, on arty large, scale.
As to election of Senators by direct
popular vote It is noted by observers
In all parts of the country. North and
6outh, that opposition to the proposed
change is 'much more manifest than
formerly; that it is gaining in con
centration and power. The objection
now Is asserted that It involves a
very radical change in our system of
government; that It belongs to the
class of measures of the family of
Initiative and referendum, of social
ization" of the railroads and of the
chief Instruments of production, with
public ownership of all principal
utilities" and general dispossession of
private owners, both large and small.
The Senate and the Supreme Court
were established as barriers to the
progress of this spirit, ami the mode
of their selection was conformable to
the purpose. The proposal to change
the method has been little subject to
discussion heretofore and there has
been much passive acquiescence,
which will change to positive opposi
tion as the discussion shall proceed.
Southern States will want it no more
than Northern less even: for the
. Seuth will not consent- to the loss of
th .representative prinrlple, with con
" sequent loss of the Influence of thof e
esteemed fittest to be at the head of
affairs. The Oregonian fully believes
that the proposition to change the
method of electing Senators has had
a larger degree of favorable consider
ation than It ever will know again. The
experiment in Oregon, with its conse
quence, does not encouraga any other
State. . whether Republican or Demo
cratic, but serves rather as a warn
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ing. One observes it In the tone of
the press in every part of the United
States.
It is the Arm conviction of The
Oregonlan that the country will not
follow the Bryan party in any of these
way not even if it should chance
thait Bryan were elected to the Presi
dency. It is not going to have initi
ative and referendum, abolition of
Injunction, free coinage of silver,
change of the method of electing
Senators, guaranty of reckless banks,
abandonment of the Philippines, gov
ernment ownership of the railroads,
reduction of naval force, or accept
ance of any part of the main scheme
or general policy which the Demo
cratic party has been advocating dur
ing the last dozen years. Such is
the careful and candid Judgment .-f
this newspaper. ' Those whom it may
concern are invWed to wait and see.
CERTAIXIT THE PEOPLE Mt PT JKITI E.
"Shall the people rule?" Certainly.
And they will rule. But It Is the en
lightened public Judgment that will
rule, must rule; not the whims of the
day, nor the expedients of politicians
playing to these whims.
Faith in the people is a great thing.
But we have heard of some people
who know more about particular sub
jects than others. Who wouldn't
rather have the opinion of a specialist
about sheep breeding than the opinion
of ten thousand who know nothing
about it?
The use, the good, of checks and bal
ances in government, is that the peo
ple in the mass are thus compelled
to review their opinions and Inform
themselves.
Who now stands for any single thing
the Democratic party has advocated
these fifty years and more? Yet the
people rule. Many of the propositions
were plausible at the time, or at one
time or another; yet everybody is glad
that everything for which this party
has contended these fifty years is dead
and burled. All that it is making its
present campaign on will be dead
ana buried before the next one.
Shall the people rule? Undoubtedly.
No question about it. But they have
not been ruling hitherto, in accord
with the raw notions of Mr. Bryan.
As often as they take time to examine
his propositions they reject them.
First impressions of some of the peo
ple are favorable to his notions or
expedients. But on reflection they
reject his "principles" as vagaries.
The deadly enemy of Bryanlsm is in
struction or knowledge; in accord
with which, only, the people have the
right and power to rule.
WHICH IS RIG ITT?
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union is an organization whose
good intentions are undeniable. Con
cerning its practical sense opinions
differ. It has acquired the reputa
tion of advocating measures for sen
timental reasons, without paying
much attention to the probable re
sults. By some it is said that the
"W. C. T. U." is apt to be satisfied
with producing a, superficial illusion
of virtue. If it can make the outside
look white and clean, it cares little
what goes on within. Very likely the
organization has been maligned by
those who put the case thus, and yet
there is somewhat in its Taylor-street
resolutions which seems to set ap
pearances above reality.
These resolutions declare unalter
ably against "the segregation of vice,
under whatever guise it may be
made." The sentiment sounds well.
Whether It means well is another
question. As to vice, we must do one
of three things. We may extirpate
it, segregate it or scatter it. Natur
ally the desirable course would be to
extirpate it.- but at present this is im
possible. Hence our choice lies be
tween segregating and scattering.
Vice is a moral disease, and the prac
tical question is this: "Is it more
easily controlled w,hen It is quaran
tined in a certain section or when it
Is permitted to spread as it may?"
To some persons the exodus from the
North End looks like a great moral
victory. To others it seems much
the same as If a huge pesthouse for
smallpox sufferers had been depopu
lated and the patients sent out to In
fect the whole city. All experience
teaches that the latter view1 is the
sound one, but the W. C. T. U. may
be right and experience wrong. A lit
tle time will tell.
THE WATER TRUNK USE.
The strongest plea for deep water
ways that the association could put
forth" Is the indorsement placed on
Mr. James J. Hill's paper read at the
National Waterways Convention in
Chicago by the delegate who present
ad it. From the telegraphic summary
of the paper it would seem that the
praise given it was not extravagant.
The recommendation for a permanent
commission authorized to expend ap
propriations at Its discretion upon Na
tional waterways in the order of their
Importance is an excellent one; so
also is that which suggests the classi
fication of the rivers and canal routes
In the order of their value by the
commission and the carrying on of
the commission's improvement plans
without interference by Congress or
any other party. The recommenda
tions of Mr. Hill, which are of special
Interest to the Pacific Northwest are,
to quote from the news report:
Third Insistence upon th development
of trunk lines first and upon a depth that
will mak these real carrier of commerce.
Fourth liberal standing appropriation
annually for th commission's work with
out making the mistake of urging that th
National credit be pledged to unheard-of
amounts in order that we may complat
the whol work at one.
The wisdom of the development
first of the "trunk line" of water
ways is quite clearly illustrated in-tha
case of the Columbia River. Ships
have been coming to the Columbia
River for more than 100 years, and
ocean-going craft cams up as far as
Portland more than seventy years
ago. The river then, and for more
than forty years afterward, was un
safe at low water for vessels of more
than thirteen, fourteen or fifteen feet
of water, but the undeveloped empire
drained by that river was so marvel
ously rich that waterway improve
ment soon appealed to the pioneers in
our deep-sea commerce.
This improvement began on the
"trunk line" between Portland and
the sea, and not on the upper reaches
of the river, or Its "laterals." it being
plain then, as now, that internal de
velopment would be hampered and
Obstructed until ' commerce could
move to and from the high seas with
out delay. Portland began Improving
this "trunk line" more than twenty
years ago, and with some aid from
the Federal Government has succeed
ed so well that now. with the river at
its lowest stage, vessels of twenty
five foot draft are carrying Inland
Empire products from Portland to
the sea at a cost per ton per mile so
low that no railroad ever constructed
could meet it except at a loss. But
this "trunk line" Is not yet complet
ed, and there should be no division
of energies or attempt to spread
Government appropriations over the
"laterals" until it is completed.
The ships of the world have been
Increasing In draft, as the channel of
our trunk line has been deepening,
and it is now more necessary than
ever before that we deepen the chan
nel to accord with the greater draft
of the ships. Mr. Hill is Just com
pleting a water-level-grade railroad
into Portland. With this road and its
branches he will haul to tidewater
wheat and other products from the
most remote portions of the Inland
Empire. This immense traffic will
be turned over to the ocean carrier
at Portland, providing our water
"trunk line" is maintained at a depth
which will accommodate the increas
ing size of the ships. If It is not im
proved in keeping with the demands
which the near future will make upon
it, Mr. Hill will be obliged at greater
expense to himself, and at great loss
to Portland, to seek an ocean outlet
farther north.
The Interests of Portland and the
entire Columbia basin and the inter
ests of Mr. Hill are mutual in this
matter, for all will suffer through
failure to Improve the wonderful
highway to the sea. Once this great
work is completed, development of
the upper reaches and laterals will
follow naturally and easily. Rail
road rates are so much lower In this
country than they are in Europe that
Inland water transportation may not
immediately reach the prominence
that it has attained m the Old World,
but the trunk line in this country,
where big carriers can be operated at
small expense, la destined to handle
a mighty commerce.
AX HISTORIC NIGHTMARE.
Monarchy has always been the
nightmare of the Jefferson Democ
racy. They got it from the bad
dreams of Jefferson himself; who
pretended to be in terror lest Wash
ington and Hamilton and Knox and
Lee and Marshall and Lincoln and
many more, who had fought for
American freedom and achieved it by
effort in the field, while Jefferson was
skulking and hiding away from the
enemy and hurling the platitudes of
Rousseau at King George and the
British Ministry, should sacrifice and
trample under foot the liberty they
had fought for, and establish a mon
archy on the ruins of it.
We are told now again, that mon
archy, which was so near, in Jeffer
son's nightmare, is upon us again.
Somebody reported that Nick Long
worth had said that after Taft, Roose
velt again. Nick is a shallow fellow,
not worth minding, no matter what
he might say. But he declares he
never said that.
However, it is as good a monarchi
cal scare as our Jeffersonlans, so fear
ful for liberty, want; and Freedom
therefore shrieks again, as she did
when Kosciusko fell. And yet Amer
ica may still have hopes of Freedom.
Henry Watterson. of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, one of the most
charming and amiable of men, was
born and reared In the school of Jef
ferson Democracy. That Is the reason
why he. was a Confederate soldier
(and a mighty good one he was), and
why he Is a Bryan Democrat, at this
time. In a speech at Louisville, re
ported in The Oregonlan yesterday, he
expressed the Jefferson fear that the
opponents of the Democratic party
were. bent on turning the Republic
into a Monarchy. The White House
he says, is "already the palace of a
King." Now the people of America,
while they have highest regard for
Mr. Watterson, will be slow to Join
with him in this alarm.
When Washington was President
Jefferson was terribly afflicted with
this idea. He made it intense. It was
cultivated as a party cry. Jefferson
secretly hired a fellow named Frencau
to attack Washington on the charge
that under him the government was
"fas galloping into a monarchy." The
words are Jefferson's own. At a Cabi
net meeting Jefferson being present
Washington, in a high state of ex
citement, denounced these attacks
not knowing at the time that Jeffer
son had inspired them. Jefferson set
down in his diary, which was not
printed till .long afterwards, that
"Washington on this occasion was
much inflamed; got into one of those
passions when he cannot command
himself; 'ran on much about the per
sonal abuse which had been bestowed
on him; defied any man on earth to
produce one single act of his since he
had been in the Government which
was not done with the purest motives;
that he had never repented but once
the having slipped the moment of re
signing his office and that was every
moment since; that "by God he had
rather be in his grave than in his
present situation; that he had rather
be on his farm than to be made
Emperor of the world, and yet they
were charging him with wanting to be
made King; that that rascal Freneau
had sent him three of his papers
every day, and he could see nothing
in this but an impudent design to
Insult him;" and much more. Jeffer
son, who had hired this rascal, and
was Inspiring all his work, gloatingly
set an this down, and later It was
published to the world. It was part
of Jefferson's quixotic crusade against
"Monarchy," for party ends, and it
has been revived as a party cry at
Intervals ever since. It was the favor
ite partisan accusation against Lin
coln, when It was asserted that he was
exceeding his powers in his measures
for suppression of the Great Re
bellion. 'The country is drifting into
monarchy!" "We shall lose our liber
ties!" "Abe Lincoln will make him
self Emperor or King!"
The very people who would stand
most resolutely against monarchy are
those accused of a desire of it. They
are believers to and supporters of the
principles of orderly and regulated
liberty, at immeasurable distance
from monarchy. But buncombe is
not to be taken too seriously. Allow
ance may be made for the party that
is "out."
TH 190S WHEAT CROP.
The Government crop report this
week contains the first official state
ment regarding the dimensions of the
1908 wheat crop. While the figures
are 90.000.000 under the record crop
of 1901, they are 25,000,000 bushels
greater than for the crop of 1907.
The Government estimates place the
out-turn of both Spring and Winter
wheat at 659,000,000 bushels, com
pared with ' 634.000.000 bushels last
year, and an average of 641,000,000
bushels for the preceding ten years.
Perhaps the most remarkable feature
In connection with the 1908 wheat
crop is the rapidity with which it has
been marketed. The shipments since
July 1 have already exceeded 60.000.-
000 bushels, and. while this has been
exceeded in-.th xwLtv-ta Anttyicaa.
visible has never increased so rapidly
on anything but a bumper crop.
On October 5 the visible was 34,
281.000 bushels, and for the sanie
week in 1906 it was 34,652,000 bush
els, although the crop of 1906 was
75.000.000 bushels greater than that
of 1908. .
Last year the visible In the first
week of October was 43.597,000 bush
els, and showed a decrease of more
than 1,000.000 bushels compared with
an increase of more than 4,000,000
bushels this year. The price, at which
the cereal has been selling since the
opening of the season has undoubted
ly been the means of bringing out
offerings more freely than in any
past season, and the actual amount
floated does not represent even ap
proximately the amount sold. In the
Pacific Northwest more than two
thirds of the exportable Burplus has
already changed hands, but not one
third of it has been shipped, and in
a lesser degree free movement from
first hands is reported in- the East.
The crop is much short of a bumper
one, but the strength of the market
seems in a fair way to make up for
most of the shortage In the yield, and
this, with a good crop and high prices
for other grains, will make the year
an exceptionally prosperous one for
the farmers
The refusal of Millionaire Knapp,
of Newburyport, Mass., to permit his
daughter to marry Howard B. Smith
unless he "quit living on an allow
ance and went to work" has been fol
lowed by a breach-of-promise suit
filed by the ladolent Smith. This is
something unusual in the way of a
breach-of-promise suit, and the out
come will be awaited with Interest
If the Eastern heiresses should gen
erally adopt the practice of demanding
real "men" for husbands, instead of
Idlers or foreign rakes, there would
shortly be an improvement in the
race. . It is seldom, however, that one
of these disreputable drones gets so
far down in the scale of decency as
to advertise his shortcomings to the
world in the shape of a breach-of-promlse
suit against an unusually
sensible heiress. Dartmouth will
hardly be proud of her champion ath
lete. There Is a report that the efforts of
Samuel Gompers to deliver the labor
vote to Bryan will be rewarded by a
Cabinet position. As it will be the
Solid South that supplies the votes
with which Mr. Bryan is elected, if by
a miraculous calamity he should be
elected, Mr. Gompers will, of course,
be in a position to assist labor. De
mocracy at its home and headquar
ters In the child-labor districts of the
South has awlays done so much for
labor that Mr. Gompers' fidelity to the
cause of Democracy is easily explain
able. And of course this same De
mocracy, which has proved such a
faithful friend to labor, will rally to
the support of Gompers on any plan
he might put forward for the better
ment of labor conditions.
The Beveridge speech did not suit
the Democrats and they are complain
ing about it. He did not advocate
direct election of United States Sena
tors, they say. Awful, awful. Nor
did he say anything about that other
pet Democratic doctrine, the initia
tive and referendum. Right here in
Its home, too. Carry the news of
the outrage to Bryan. Bryan will be
Indignant, for Bryan is making the
woods ring with his demands for the
Initiative and referendum. Yes, in
deed. Haven't you heard the elo
quent flashes of silence Bryan is daily
emitting on the subject of that great
reform?
The Pacific Ocean has again
proved of insufficient size for two
steamers bound in opposite direc
tions, and as a result the new steam
schooner Norwood and the Standard
Oil tanker Asuncion came together
with a crash which left both vessels
damaged to the extent of several
thousand dollars. Fortunately no
lives were lost, but the accident was
one that might happen to any vessel
during a fog. So long as there are
no regularly defined courses over
which northbound and southbound
coasters will travel, we shall continue
to hear of such disasters.
Professor William Milligan Sloane,
of Columbia University, and also pres
ident of the National Institute of Arts
and Letters, Is In search of a new Na
tional hymn and will endeavor to
have the Institute offer a prize for a
rousing National song that will com
bine "Yankee Doodle," 'The Star
Spangled Banner," 'Marseillaise" and
"Die Wacht Am Rheln" into one pa
triotic hymn. The task is not a dif
ficult one, and all that is necessary for
the prizewinner is to turn the receiv
ing end of a phonograph loose during
the late afternoon exercises at a Fed
erated Trades picnic.
A Bryan paper of Oregon says:
It 1 very bad. we are told, for Gompers
to advise workingmen to vote for Bryan:
but it was highly patriotlo in 1S96 and 1900
to scare about & million voters into voting
contrary to their desire.
Why, of course, those sturdy voters
couldn't have been scared. They sim
ply were shown what silver money
would mean to them. But wasn't it
the luckiest thing in the world that
they were reasoned, or even scared;
since disaster thereby was averted?
Who is sorry that the silver craze
was beaten?
Mr. Jacobs, of Eugene, who has
been arrested, fined and imprisoned
several times for "bootlegging," is
beginning to leara that the law is a
dangerous thing to trifle with, when
it happens that there are law officers
who have an honest purpose to en
force the law.
Here's a Nevada Judge refusing to
grant a divorce to two actors one
actor and one actress, rather unless
they appear in court. That's very an
noying, and will do a lot to discour
age matrimony between stage favor
ites. George Fred Williams has "came"
and "went"; firm in the belief that
Oregon is safe for Bryan. Sure.
Hasn't George Fred Williams been
here, speechifying?
We are occasionally reminded by a
fatal accident that a rifle or a pistol
in the hands of a small boy is a ter
rible weapon. Also in the hands of
any one else. i
If the weather man will take our
tip, he'll keep at it until those show
ers do come". We always have show
ers some time during the Winter.
The war in the Balkans has already
begun in the Hearst papers, and
their imitators. We are in for a lot
of JouxnalistAo fcloodletttng.
f 8RTAV3 SYMPATHY H1TH LABOR I SHORTAGE MAX ,
Let Him Show It by Advoonttnx; Reform
tit HI Sore State.
DRYAD. Wash., Oct. 7. (To the Ed
itor.) While Mr. Bryan la making his
pitiful pleas for the labor vote of the
North and weeping copious tears over
our imaginary wrongs, I wish to remark
that it Is up to him to show wherein he
has ever done anything for the laboring
man either as a Congressman or as a
private citizen, especially as a Repre
sentative in Congress one law which
he had passed, one word 6poken, one
deed performed to show the earnestness
of his feelings for the wrongs of his
fellow man. Don't wobble, but speak out
In plain English.
Of course this period covers only about
16 yeara that you have been in the lime
light and we have no way to judge the
future but by the past;' you may yet
do something. You may, but It will be
chimerical and not practical, a sort of
panacea to ln6ure against the aches and
pains of working like taking away the
Job Itself. No work, no getting tired, you
know. '
I can but look back a short time and
I see that grim, starved ghost of 1894, '96
and '84, an apparition which stalked over
the land then, and like a thief in the
night took all I had: my Job, my savings
and my dinner bucket. Mr. Bryan, did
you help lay that ghost? I will answer
for you. You were hunting a new issue
and too busy to look back over the way
you journeyed. Your eye was on the
White House and you oould not see the
soup kettles by the wayside. It pleased
you to call the states that do not sup
port you the enemy's country- I know
comparisons are odious but will not the
labor conditions in the enemy's country
put the labor conditions of your coun
try, to wit. the sure Bryan states, in
the background?
I spent several years of my life in the
Sunny South and I say, yes. The man
who fellows the mule from sunrise to
sunset in the long cotton rows will say
yes. The woman with the heavy cotton
hoe who follows to chop the rank weeds
will say yes, as she looks with a sigh
towards the North, where In that far dis
tant land she has heard tell that her
Northern sister wears shoes the whole
year around. And the little boys and
girls they, too, are in the fields for days
and not hours; no time for school or play.
The 60,000 young men of the South who
are In our logging camps, our mills and
our factories on the Pacific Coast are but
a confirmation of what I say: that the
labor conditions of 'your country," the
sure Bryan states, are not so good as in
those states that will vote for Mr. Taft
this coming election: Facts and figures
are stubborn things. Reform your
friends, Mr. Bryan, and then you will be
accounted sincere on this question at
least.
Your word is law down there In the
Southland. Go down there and shorten
the hours of labor in field and factory.
Take the women out of the cotton field.
Place the boys and girls in the schools.
Enact a child labor law In every one
of your sure and certain states and then,
and not Oil then, will I accept your tears
of sympathy as genuine.
THERON LANDON.
THESE BE WONDERS.
Aad Yet Observe That the People Are
. Infallible.
' Newberg (Yamhill) Graphic
We have a man here In Oregon who
hopes to be elected to the Senate of
the United States at the coming session
of the Legislature, who can scarcely
attend a public gathering of any kind
without getting so gloriously drunk
that he must be led away by a friend
on either side to boleter him up, and
It looks like he might be successful In
his aspirations, and yet 21 counties in
the state have been voted dry and there
is a good prospect of voting the whole
state dry before the term of the new
Senator will expire. Verily, the Ore
gon style in politics is one thing at
least that is new under the sun.
At the June election, Yamhill County
voted dry by a majority of 862 votes,
while at the same election a strong
temperance man and the best all
around man from the standpoint of
qualifications for the office of any of
the candidates was turned down and a
man elected to the Legislature in his
stead who was and now is committed
to vote for a man for United States
Senator who is the most notorious
drunkard in Oregon politics today. An
other misfit in Oregon politics.
Pacific Outlook (Grants Pass.)
We have a number of holy-minded
Democrats in Josephine County who
will tell you that Taft should be de
feated If only on account of his being a
Unitarian, which, one of them declares,
is equivalent to being an infidel. You
will notice, however, that these same
holy Democrats have been hollering
and voting for Chamberlain early and
late for years past and are still shout
ing for him as the next United States
Senator; yet so far as we know, Cham
berlain never showed a religious symp
tom in his life, and furthermore, has
been quietly notorious as one of the
Jollleet good fellows that ever blew in
from the land of the mint julep. As
fresh evidence of this a number of the
Northern papers are commenting caus
tically upon the report that Chamber
lain was possessed of a glorious Jag
while attending the recent regatta at
Astoria and made the eame sort of a
spectacle of himself as any common
Republican drunk would have made.
We suppose our scrupulous Democratic
friends will find some method of ex
plaining away these facts or of show
ing that a Governor and Senatorial
candidate who makes himself a moral
discredit to himself and his 6tate is not
In the same class with a Presidential
candidate who has, by inheritance, a
taint of Unitarlanism. Oh, consistency,
thou art hard to locate.
Apples Mirror Mr. Bryan's Face.
New Haven (Conn.) Dispatch.
Bucyrus Scudder, a farmer near Beth
lehem, Conn., says he has four apples
on which he has succeeded In growing
portraits of William Jennings Bryan.
Ink.
By James J. Montague in New Tork Amer
ican. A drop of Ink makes millions think Mon
treal 6tar.
It was Kipling's delight when he used to
be rig-ht to portray -With a pungent
'he"-pen
Thei uncouth underside of the eddying tide
of the rude human creatures called men.
And whenever he wrote there were thou
sands to quote, from Calcutta to Kala
mazoo, Both his verse and his prose, which con
vincingly show what the ink of an
author can do.
When Roosevelt assails all the animal tales
that &eton and Aesop have written.
And declares that a yak has no horns on
his back: that a chipmunk can't wal
lop a kitten.
Th publishers light for whate'r he may
write, and would pungle a dollar or two
For each word of ftls stun, which shows
plainly enough what the ink of a states
man can do.
When Archbold sits down with a three
- ringer frown and tells what he'd like
to have done.
And Issue commands to political "hands"
as to how U. S. should be run.
Dishonor and rout And conspirators out, and
treason looms large on the view.
Which shows to all men what the poison
ous pen ana mo m a - can uu.
Creditors of Farmers' Company Be-
gin Bankruptcy Proceedings.
ALBANY, Or, Oct. 9. (Special.)
Proceedings will be instituted in the
Federal Court at Portland to throw
tbe Albany Farmers' Company into
Involuntary bankruptcy. Attorney
Percy R. Kelly, representing several
creditors, left for Portland this after
noon to institute proceedings.
The shortage of the company Is now
estimated between $30,000 and $40.
000. and creditors fear they will lose
heavily. The failure of this company,
which has been in operation here for
more than SO years and has conducted
a big business operating warehouses at
Albany, Tallman and Tangent, has
caused a sensation. Scores of Linn
County farmers are stockholders In
the company, and a number of Linn
County's leading farmers and promi
nent business men of Albany are in
terested in the failure, either las stock
holders or creditors. A report Is cur
rent here today that criminal prosecu
tions will follow the present civil pro
ceedings. It is said that all of the .creditors
will join in the bankruptcy proceed
ings. Attorney Kelly will file the pe
tition for Involuntary bankruptcy on
behalf of Hon. J. M. Shelly and S. S.
Williams, partners under the name of
the Eugene Milling Company, who
have a claim for $2700; J. R. Baltimore,
of Albany, who claims $800; and R. A.
McLagan, of Albany, who claims $500.
Other creditors will enter the pro
ceedings, and It is said that the case
filed In the State Ciroult Court here
yesterday, in which S. M. Garland, of
Lebanon, was appointed receiver, will
be dropped. It is said this case was
filed only to prevent the directors ship
ping oats from the company's Albany
warehouse and that the bankruptcy
proceedings will supersede It.
TOO PROUD TO LEAVE JAIL
Tony Gallagher Would Bather Stay
Than Plead Poverty. .
TACOMA, Wash.. Oct. 9. (Special.)
Tony Gallagher, whose term at the Mc
Neill Island United States Penitentiary
has expired, refuses to sign the applica
tion for discharge made out and sent to
him, and apparently will stay in prison
forever. The law provides that prisoner
sentenced to fine, costs and time, shall
remain In confinement until the fine and
costs are paid or until otherwise dis
charged by law.
By making application for discharge on
the ground of having no funds to pay the
fine. United States Commissioner Samuel
D. Bridges can order their release, but
Gallagher Is proud and rather than plead
poverty will stay.
MARION ADOPTS LANE FLAX
Voters to Decide on Question of
County High Schools.
SALEM, Or., Oct. 9. (Special.) There
was filed In the County Clerk's office to
day a petition that the County High
School question be submitted to the
voters of the county at the November
election, and the submission has been
ordered.
If the project should be adopted, the
County High School Board will levy a
general high school tax sufficient to pay
the tuition of all high school pupils in
the county, and then will pay to each
district having a high school a certain
amount per month per pupil.
Lane County Is the only county In the
state that has adopted this plan. The
purpose Is to encourage rural high
schools.
WHALE CATCH IS LARGE
Vancouver Island Fleet Makes Million-Dollar
Haul.
VICTORIA. B. C, Oct. 9. That the
success attending the whaling operations
on the west coast of Vancouver Island
Is altogether phenomenal, and that the
total catjh this year will be half as
great again as It was In 1907, Is borne
out by news Just received here from the
stations at Sechart and Kyuquot, from
which the steam whalers Orion and St.
Lawrence, respectively, hunt. The total
take up to date amounts to 656 of the
mammals.
For the lay mind to grasp what this
means it may be said that the value
of the catch Is well over $1,000,000.
Moses Dlllaboy Dies at HHIsDoro.
HILLS BORO, Or.. Oct 9. (Special.)
Moses Dillaboy, aged 66 and a native of
Canada, died at his home in North Hills
boro, yesterday, from an attack of
Brlght's disease. Deceased had lived
near Reedvllle for many years, and
moved to this city six months ago. His
first wife died some years ago, and he
again married, his second wife surviving
him. He is survived by grown children
by his first marriage.
Appeals to Circuit Court,
ALBANY, Or., Oct. 9. (Special.) G.
B. Hansard, who was convicted at Leb
anon of selling liquor in "dry" terri
tory and was given the maximum pen
alty of 30 days in the County Jail and
a fine of $500, has perfected his appeal
to the State Circuit Court. The tran
script on appeal was filed today. The
case will come up for hearing at the
October term, which convenes Octo
ber. 26.
Jacobs Gets Another Sentence.
EUGENE, Or.. Oct. 9. (Special.)
Joe Jacobs, yesterday convicted of vio
lation of the city ordinances by selling
liquor, was today fined $100 and sen
tenced to 30 days' imprisonment In the
City Jail. The sentence will not be
carried out, however, until after Jacobs
Is tried for violation of the local op
tion law, for which he was arrested
yesterday.
Chehali9 Levy Is Reduced.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct 9. (Special.)
The City Council has fixed the Chehalis
tax levy at 15 mills. Last year the levy
was 25 mills. The levy this year includes
provision for support for the new Car
negie Library. The County Commis
sioners have fixed the county levy at 18
mills. As fixed by the State Board of
Equalization the valuation of Lewis
County property Is $19,349,270.
Dr. Coe President of Bank.
KELSO, Wash.. Oct 9. (Special.)
At a meeting of the directors of the
First National Bank, Dr. Henry W.
Coe. of Portland, was elected president
of the institution to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of S. S. Strain. L.
C. Wallace was elected to the vice
presidency to fill Mr. Coe's former
position.
Receipts Increase 32 Per Cent.
MONTESANO, Wash.. Oct. 9. (Spe
cial.) The postofflce receipts at llon
tesano for the quarter ending Septem
ber 30, 1908, show an increase of 32
per cent over the same period for 1907.
The receipts for the quarter ending
September 30, 1907. were $1166.21, and
for the corresponding period this year
they were $1661.04.
Eugene Receipts Increase.
EUGENE. Or.. Oct 9. (Special.)
The stamp receipts for the Eugene
postoffice for the quarter ending Sep
tember 30 show an increase of 20 per
cent over tbe sales for the same period
ear.
HE STARTLES CLUB "OJIEN
j Judge Xeterer Demands Proficiency
in Child Raising Before Marriage.
BELLING HAM, Oct. 9. "I hope to
see the day when the law will require
the prospective bride and bridegroom
who are preparing to be married to
present a certificate of proficiency in
child-raising before the ceremony may
be performed. There will be fewer
cases before the Juvenile Court."
Thus spoke Judge Neterer, Superior
Court Judge and Judge of the Juvenile
Court, before the 200 delegates to the
convention of the Washington State
Federation of Women's Clubs today.
The address produced a sensation.
The following officers were elected
at the closing session of the Federation
this afternoon: President, Mrs. H. W.
Allen, Spokane, re-elected: correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. H. C. Blair, of Spo
kane, re-elected; treasurer. Mrs.
John Trumbull, Port Angeles, r
lected; first trustees. "Mrs. H.
S. Brode. Walla Walla, re-elected; re
cording secretary, Mrs. E. C. Jewett,
Bellingham; first vice-president. Mrs.
N. H. Jennings, Seattle; second vice
president, Mrs. J. C. Prlngle. Port
Townsend; auditor, Mrs. N. B. Coffman.
Chehalis; second truBtee, Mrs. Colon
Shedd, Pullman.
Next year's session of the Federation
will be held In Seattle.
OLD COMMITTEE TO STAT
Time Too Short for Republicans to
Change Campaign Managers.
OLTMPIA. Wash., Oct 9. (Special.)
Ellis da Bruler will remain in charge as
chairman of the Republican committee,
despite the fact that he has been oharged
with usurping that position. Here last
night a long and lively session was held,
attended by most of the State Repub
lican candidates, or their representa
tives. It was finaliy decided that the time
was too short between now and election
to make any change In the Slate Central
Committee. Notice was today sent to Mr.
de Bruler that the candidates are willing
that he should remain in charge until
election day.
Propose Township Rule.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Oct 9. The Lewis
County Commissioners have passed a
resolution to submit the subject of town
ship organization to the people at the
election next month. Petitions toward
that end have been extensively signed in
the country, the move being started by
the Grange.
BALLOONS WILL RACE TODAY
Eighty-Six Entered for Great Cnp
Contest at Berlin.
BERLIN. Oct. 9. Eighty-six balloons
have assembled here to take part in the
series! of airship contests that begin to
morrow and continue through Sunday
and Monday. Among the pilots are sev
eral army aeronauts of world-wide repu
tation. The races will start from the
suburb of Schmargenoorg. The princi
pal event will be the contest for the in
ternational cup, which will take place on
Sunday.
Great public Interest has been aroused
by tills event for which there are 23 en
tries, representing eight nations. There
will be also a number of other endurance
and distance races, with fixed goals.
The arrangements are most complete.
The balloons were tested today In the
presence of the contestants, and regula
tions according to size and other condi
tions were decided upon.
The three American contestants, James
C. McCoy, N. Henry Arnold and A. Hol
land Forbes, aocompanied by Brigadier
General James Allen, chief of the Signal
Corps, U. S. A., visited the grounds to
day and obtained official maps from the
Aero Club, that is promoting the con
tests. They were also given the final In
structions for pilots. During the progress
of the races the pilots will drop out
every half hour during daylight loaded
envelopes containing dispatches informing
the Aero Club of the whereabouts of their
balloons.
Attacks Plumbers' Trust.
CHICAGO, Oct 9. Four men accused of
conspiracy were arrested yesterday on
complaint of W. H. Shilvock, a dealer In
plumbers' supplies. They are John S.
Kelley, Western manager of the Central
Foundry Company, of New York; James
Gavin, business agent of the Plumbers'
Union; Simon O'Donnell. the business
agent of the Plumbers' Union, and Wil
liam Gunther, president of the Gasfltters'
Union.
The warrants for the men were taken
out by W. H. Shilvock, who alleges that
O'Donnell, Gunther and Gavin ordered
contracting plumbers not to buy his
goods, and ordered members of the Jour
neymen Plumbers' Union to quit work in
buildings where Shllvock's goods were
being put In. so that they could assist
Kelley in forcing Shilvock out of busi
ness. Three Wed Aboard Liner,
NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Wedding bells
rang loud and long aboard the White Star
Steamship Majestic yesterday. When the
mail steamer from Old England arrived
at her pier she brought three brides to be
who were to be met by as many promised
husbands. The girls were Miss Alice L.
Osborne, of Norwich. England; Miss Mil
dred F. Hand, of Bournemouth, England,
and Miss Rosa Jane Webb, of Ports
mouth, England. They had to tell all this
to the immigration lnspectress. but eho
would not allow them to go ashore until
Wednesday.
It took a deal of red tape for three very
earnest young men to get aboard the Ma
jestic and Into communication with three
weeping young women, who dried their
eyes at sight of their sweothearts.
Reorganize Life Company.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9. The Republic Life
Insurance Company of Illinois, the $1,000,
000 life company of the Rhodus Bros.,
which was to have back of it the $2,500,000
Central Life Securities Company as a
holding company, will be reorganized with
a number of well-known Chicago men at
the head and will enter actively into the
insurance field. Burch F. Rhodus and tha
ather officers and- directors of the com
pany capitulated to Judge Kohl6aat's ulti
matum to the effect that the company
would be placed in receiver's hands, un
less they retired.
Charles E. Norton Very III.
BOSTON. Oct 9. Charles EHot Nor
ton, prominent as an author and au
thority on art and literature, and pro
fessor of history at Harvard Univer
sity up to 1898, since which time he
has been the professor emeritus at
that Institution, is seriously 111 at his
home in Cambridge. He is 81 years old.
THREE SUE SOUTHERN" PACIFIC
Demand Damages for Injuries in
West Side Wreck.
Three suits for damages against the
Southern Pacific Railroad were filed be
fore the United States Court yesterday.
The complainants were injured in a wreck
caused by passenger train No. 3 break
ing through a trestle near Forest Grove
on the west side branch.
The complainants are David M. Nay
berger, who asks for $10,000; J. H. Brown,
$2500, and Evalin Brown, who Is seek
ing to recover $16,000. The Southern Pa
cific is represented by Attorneys W. D.
Fenton, Ben C. Dey and K. T. Leiter.
Attorneys McCain and Vinton appear for
xil sin tiffs. J