PORTLAND. OREGON.
Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflcs as
cond-Clas Mutter.
Subscription Rates Invariably In AdTmnee.
(By Mail.)
t,.ii G.tnav inninded. on year ?-"Y
Xjaiiy, Sunday Included, six months. ..
I-mlly. Sunday ln-lud-d, three months.
Tlly. Sunday included, one moi.u..
rl!y. without Sunday, one year
Xa:ly. without, Sunday. ix months.. ..
Iaiiy. without Sunday, tnree montns. .
Tally, without Sunday, one moata
Weekly, one year
Sunday, one year
Sunday and Weekly, one year
4X5
2.5
.75
6 00
3.2b
.1.73
.60
1.10
2 r.o
8.40
(By Carrier. J
9 AO
Tally. Sunday Included, one year......
Dally! Sunday Included, one month 'a
How to Remit Send I'" n"
erder. eiores. order or personal ckk
your local bank. Stamps, .coin or currency
m-r at the iendrt'i rlsa. Give poetpSK e ad
dress In full. Including county and tate-
Poitsge Rates 10 to 14 pages. 1
, T',... cents: 30 to ii paces. 3 cents.
4 "1065 pages! cents. Foreign postage
tasters Business Office The 8- C. BecK
iti. sneclal Kz-nry New York, rooms 4
MTrtbun. bnfldln Chicago. rr Jl-Sia
Tribune building.
PORTLAND. 8ATCRDAT. OCT. IT.
injunction.
The right to do business Is a personal
right, and the business Itself is a
property right. No man has the right
to obstruct the lawful business of an
other, or to urge boycott of the goods
or the trade of another. But in the
jargon of the time a man's business
is not a property right; that is. his
right to do business to manufacture
and sell goods, and make legitimate
profit in trade, ought not to be pro
tected by law against such as may try,
by appeal to men and -women not to
worn for him. or to the public not
to buy his goods in order to break
him down. It Is said the injunction
ought not to be used to restrain effort
of thfs kind; and that liberty of
speech and of the press Is violated
when you are forbidden to harangue
against the business of a man or com
pany whom you dislike, or are for
bidden to badger, intimidate, vilify or
do violence to their employes.
But injunction In such cases Is to
Ftand. maugre all attacks upon It. The
right to live in peace and do business is'
the first of all rights; and it follows
that those must be restrained who
would destroy or deny the right.
Juries, in the long run, will decide, of
course. They may even wish to hang
an innocent man against whom a gen
eral prejudice exists and sometirD.es
they vote to do it. But even here
checks and delays and injunctions are
introduced, in the interest of Justice.
Tet right to property and right to do
business are not Inferior to right to
life; for "you take my life when you
do take the means whereby I live."
But. it is said, "every case to a Jury;
let the jury decide." But In multi
tudes of cases, before trial by Jury
could be had. the property and busi
ness would be destroyed and the dam
age Irreparable. .,
The naked assertion put forth by
speakers against the injunction is that
the right of man to lo business peace
ably, and to hold in restraint those
who would ruin his business, is not a
right that belongs to him personally
and does not inhere in his business as
a property right. This Is what was
applauded at the anti-Taft meeting,
addressed by Andrew Furuseth, the
other night. It is a notion that the
Bryan campaigners are working to the
utmost. Nevertheless, a conspiracy to
destroy a man's business and property
never will be excepted from restraint
of law; or, if excepted for a short
period by partisan madness, it will
be restored mighty soon.
If peace and Justice are wanted, and
the right to property and business and
life is to be conserved, it will be nces
sary to vote down the Bryan party.
Undoubtedly these rights In the long
run will be saved anyhow, even after
a furious fight over them; but
mightn't the fight better be avoided?
OBDKBH FROM WASHINGTON.
The extent to which an overwhelm
ing amount of red tape has lessened
or nullified the usefulness of the
revenue cutter service has 'frequently
been commented on. Life and prop
erty have been repeatedly in Jeopardy
and not Infrequently lost through the
seeming Impossibility of getting a rev
enue cutter out of port without regu
lation orders from Washington. The
latest and decidedly the most serious
Instance of this strange pollc regard
ing the handling of the revenue cut
ters has developed In the testimony
regarding the wreck of the Star of
Bengal, in which 111 lives were lost.
' faptain Farrer. of the tug Hattlo
Gage, who was accused of cowardice
in cutting his hawser and abandon
ing the Star of Bengal before the
marine inspectors at Seattle, testified
that he supposed the Star of Bengal
was ashore in the dark when he cut
the hawser and ran to Wrangel and
notified Captain Sianford, of the reve
nue cutter Bumside.
Captain Stanford was so thoroughly
entangled in the meshes of red tape
that, instead of rushing to the rescue
of the imperiled men ns fast as steam
could carry him, according to the
sworn testimony of Captain Farrer,
he "said he could not go to the rescue
without first communicating with
Washington." Captain Stanford was
then taken to the nearest telegraphic
station, "where he wired for permis
sion and got it. but got back too late
to save any lives." Captain Farrer
also stated that, while he returned to
the wreck and picked up some of th
survivors. "Captain Sianford did noth
ing with the Burnside."
This almost criminal negligence) is
only a repetition of similar work In
the past. For moreihan twenty years
there have been from three to five
revenue cutters loafing around Pacific
Coast ports, except when they are tak
ing a Summer outing amid the cool
ing breezes of Behrlng Sea. In the
Fall and Winter, when the gales cause
shipwrecks, these cutters are almost
Invariably snug in port at some point
remote from the scene of the disaster.
It was remarkable that a cutter 'waa
found so far north so late in the aea
eon, but. as the testimony of Captain
Farrer shows, the craft was fully as
useless1 as she would have been at an
chor in San Francisco harbor.
Waiting for orders from Washing
ton, and even asking for orders from
Washington, has sacrificed many lives.
Such strict adherence to rules is not
altogether creditable to the. officer
hm r thA npnarrment
-VUW " . J ' ' " - - .
that requires that they be respected. J
The record of the revenue service Of
this Coast, so far as it affects tne
rendering of seryice to wrecked or
missing ships, is even and consistent.
The assistance has never been forth
coming in time to save life. The last
moments of the 111 men who made
an unsuccessful- fight for their lives In
that wild September night -on the
Alaskan coast would not have been
any more pleasant had the unfortu
nates . known that a stanch,- well
equipped revenue cutter in a near-by
port could not come to their rescue
without orders from Washington.
MIGHTY THTX GRCEL.
Nobody Is deceived in least degree
by Governor Chamberlain's letter de
clining to take the stump for Bryan.
It is not because he Is of the opinion
that as a high public official he ought
to be above the partisan spirit, but
because he fears his active appearance
on the stump for Bryan would offend
certain Republican members of the
Legislature, who have been entrapped
by false pretenses Into promise to vote
for him for Senator. It is merely
part of "the game."
If the Governor feels that "the ad
ministration of public affairs should
be absolutely above and beyond the
party spirit." as he declares, and
therefore that he cannot though an
immovable Democrat take the stump
and make speeches for Bryan, he
might perhaps expjain why neverthe
less he solicited and accepted the ap
pointment of delegate to the Demo
cratic National convention four years
ago, went to St. Louis on that errand,
and acted as a delegate and adviser for
his party there. His present course
of action Is merely a play. Candor Is
wanting In It. And Just now he Is
taking greatest Interest in the efforts
for Bryan in Oregon. He is con
sulted and gives advice on all the prin
cipal proceedings at headquarters,
and his official influence is used to
the utmost for his party and its Presi
dential candidate.
He claims It as a virtue that
though he attended the convention of
1904 yet he didn't speak In public
for the candidate that year. He
didn't speak for Parker, because he
knew there was no use for anybody
to speak for Parker. It was a rep
tile prudence, looking to chances of
further deception.
Candor is an excellent thing even in
a politician, tjid the subterfuge of a
politician deceives even less than that
of an oily, sanctimonious and gone
broke banker. Bah!
Lord, how plainness does hate hy
pocrisy, and how yea and nay do hate
equivocation and humbug! A Missis
sippi Democrat a non-partisan! Tell
it! Let the man call himself a Demo
crat a Jefferson and Jefferson Davis
Democrat, In regular descent to a
Bryan Democrat; for that's what he
is. He Is entitled to what respecta
bility and consideration and honor
there may be in that averment aid
association. But from those who play
a part for political preferment all
men have a right to pray for deliver
ance. ' A SENSIBLE LETTER.
Some of the spellbinders who are
making so much noiae about the
country might take a lesson or two
from Mr. Roman, of Eugene, whose
letter Is printed' today in The Orego
nlan, and their speeches would be
the better for it. He has succeeded in
summing up the principal arguments
against Mr. Bryan and his theories in
a manner which It would bo difficult
to excel: It does not seem possible
that any workingman could see his
way to vote for Bryan after reading
Mr. Roman's letter. He is a work
ingman himself, and looks at things
from the point of view of the wage
earner, but it often happens that men
who stand at the same viewpoint see
objects very differently.
It is difficult for a rational person
to understand what any union man
can expect to gain by the election of
Mr. Bryan. He may be well disposed
to the enactment of favorable legisla
tion, but a good disposition by itself
can accomplish nothing. Combined
with It there mtist be the ability to
formulate a practical policy, and this
ability Mr. Bryan does not possess,
or If he does he has never given any
evidence of It. Other conditions must
also be fulfilled. No legislation fa
vorable to labor can be enacted by
the President. It must have the con
currence of Congress. The chances
are very remote that Mr. Bryan will
find a Congress of ale own party if
he Is elected, and furthermore it is not
by any means certain that a Demo
cratic House and Senate would be in
clined to pass such laws as labor re
quests. The Democratic party has
never shown much liking for labor in
its previous history. The parts of the
United States where labor is most op
pressed today are under Democratic
control. There Is no way to Judge of
a party's future -conduct except by its
past, if it has a past. If it has none,
then we must trust entirely to prom
ises. Mr. Bryan's party, as well as
Mr. Bryan himself, has a past, and it
belies most of the promises which are
so abundantly showered upon work
ingmen. They have their choice
whether to believe the promises which
are now made or to expet that what
has already been done will be repeat
ed in the future. Mr. Roman seems
to prefer the latter choice, and it must
be confessed that his Judgment ap
pears to be sound.
A F.UIIUAR STORY.
The story is told of a woman a
stranger In this city who, failing to
find work as a waitress, grew de
spondent and committed suicide. Had
she gone out bravely and cheerfully
to do housework, even if not compe
tent, yet painstaking and willing to
learn, she could readily have found
work, reasonable wages, board and
shelter.
Pity for a shallow nature that yields
readily to discouragement is always
due and seemly. But sympathy In
behalf of a person who must work for
a living and yet, because the special
line of work sought is not found,
commits suicide In sheer despair, is
not easily evoked. No capable young
woman needs to go without work in
this community who is willing to earn
an honeet living. There are many
overworked housekeepers and mothers
of the middle class in this city who
would gladly pay a small btt suffi
cient weekly wage to a cheerful
helper, give her board and room and
treat her kindly, but who find It prac
tically Impossible to secure such help.
Either the wages demanded are
more than the family income will Jus
tify or the young woman bars the
way to employment by stipulating
that she will not wash or iron, bake
bread, wash windows, mind the baby
even occasionally, attend to the fur
nace or do or assist In doing many
other things that must be done for the
comfort of the household. In brief,
she does not want to do housework
at all, but will condescend to do it
providing she is paid high wages, is
allowed privileges enough and can cut
out the things she does not line to u".
Failing in securing work on her
own terms, -such a woman grows des
perate, considers herself the buffet of
fate, and commits suicide or does
worse. Pity is her due, of course,
but not sympathy.
THE SAILOR'S MISTLETOE.
Andrew Furuseth, professional agi
tator, whose dissatisfaction -with this
country is so great and constant that
in his more than twenty years' resi
dence here he has never taken the
trouble to learn the language of our
people, is an excellent example of
parasitical growth on the labor body.
In many respects Andrew resembles
the romantic mistletoe, which waxes
strong and healthy on the lifeblood
which the white oak tree draws up
from the soil, and In time takes so
much of the sustenance that the tree
dies. This foreign "mistletoe" has
thriven so well during his parasitical
growth of twenty years or more that
some of the numerous waterfront or
ganizations along the Coast have be
gun to show withered branches, and
at some points, notably Eureka, CaL,
they have actually died, while Andrew
the "mistletoe" roosted on them.
But Andrew still finds this a good
country for his purposes. He can pub
licly damn it as a place unfit for free
men and women and all the while find
it much easier to make a living here
without working than would be pos--slble
in the land he left behind him.
In the Interest of Bryan, Haskell,
Rockefeller & Co., Andrew has tem
porarily abandoned his profession as
a disturber of amicable relations be
tween employer and employe, and is
touring the Coast endeavoring to in
duce his followers to vote the ticket of
the party . that draws most of its
strength and owes its very existence to
the child-labor districts of the South
ern States. Furuseth is in some respects
a dangerous man. His glib talk about
"yobs and inyunctlons" is interspersed
with cunningly constructed arguments
which are not without their effect.
It is this art of playing on the al
leged grievances of a certain element
in the labor classes that has enabled
Furuseth to live for so long without
working. In his talk in this city
Furuseth dwelt at length on the- beau
ties of the Declaration of Independ
ence, which declares for all men the
right to "life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness." Mr. Furuseth's ad
miration for this Immortal document
was unbounded, but, unfortunately for
his argument. It is r.3torious all over
the Coast that hii own particular
union, with its strikes, boycotts and
picketing, denies to all who do not
bear the Furuseth brand the highly
prized right to "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness." Bullets, brick
bats and bludgeons have been used
by Mr. Furuseth's friends in an effort
to teach the unfortunates that the
only interpretation of any constitu
tional right for public use was that of
the Sailors Union.
One of the strongest reasons why
honest, law-abiding labor on the Pa
cific Coast should not support Bryan
Is because Andrew Furuseth is sup
porting him.
HOW TO MAKE BANKS SAFE.
In the effort to settle the normal
school problem the members of the
Legislature should not forget that the
banking law needs some important
amendments. Officers of a bank should
be prohibited from bororwlng its
funds, either directly or indirectly.
They should be prohibited from loan
ing the funds to a corporation con
trolled or largely owned by them.
A banker who receives deposits oc
cupies a position of trust, and it is
an elementary principle of law that a
trustee .shall not loan the trust funds
to himself. In other respects the
loans of a bank should be restricted
with a view to preventing losses.
And in every Instance, violaton of the
law should be punishable by impris
onment, not by fine. We, need no
guarantee of deposits in order to se
cure safety, provided the banking laws
are made sufficiently strict with pen
alties sufficient to make violation dis
astrous to the offender.
ALL LOST GROUND RECOVERED.
For the purpose of comparison, it
is exceedingly gratifying to note that
business in nearly all lines in Port
land has returned to a normal basis
within a year of the upheaval of Oc
tober, 1907. Had this complete re
covery been prolonged another month,
there would have been no normal
figures for last year on which to base
comparisons. As bank clearings were
either eliminated or reduced to ab
normally low figures during the clos
ing months of 1907, It is obvious that
the totals would be almost as value
less for comparative purposes as the
totals for the corresponding months
twenty years ago. The same Is true of
real state transfers, building permits
and all other features of finance and
commerce.
The entire commercial and financial
structure Is so closely Interwoven and
related that any sudden clogging of
any part of the machinery Is felt
through all the parts. The month of
October will in the aggregate show
liberal Increases over those of a year
ago in the volume of bank clearings,
building permits and real estate trans
fers. The figures for next month will
show even greater increases over
those for November, 1907, the dark
est month in Portland's commercial
history for the past dozen years. But
the flattering showing for October and
November will mean less than that
of September, for the reason that we
shall never know how much business
was lost forever during the panicky
few weeks that marked the close of
1907.
The September statistics show that
In a fraction less than twelve months
Portland has recovered all of the
ground lost during several weeks of
most drastic liquidation and re
trenchment in all directions. With
building permits of nearly 11,000,000,
exceeding those of Los An gules, Balti
more, St. Paul, Omaha and a number
of other large Eastern cities, the Sep
tember records place Portland among
the select few cities that have ef
fected complete Teeovery from the
panic. To add to this fine showing,
the business already in sight for the
remainder of the year is sufficient to
swell- the totals far in excess of those
of a'year ago, even had there been no
panic to disturb the equanimity of the
situation. The reasons for this splen
did showing, which will do much to
advertise Portland to the world, are
not far to seek. They are found in
good crops and high prices for nearly
every commodity produced in Port
land territory.
These crops and the high prices at
which they were marketed have fol
lowed other good crops and high
prices which have been In evidence
for several years, and have provided
the people with plenty of money for
investment or for hiding. The tem
porary upheaval a year ago sent mil
lions of this money Into hiding and it
has only recently begun to reappear.
As the certainty of Taft's election be
comes more assured, this money , will
come out in increasing quantities It
is being augmented now by a in
creasing stream of funds that are
brought In by new arrivals who find
In Oregon and the Pacific Northwest
a most attractive field for invest
ment. Portland rounded out the year fol
lowing the panic with record-breaking
business. We are entering the
second year with two new transcon
tinental' lines coming into the city,
and with active construction work
under way on half a dozen new steam
roads tributary to the city, and with
more miles of electric line projected
and under construction than at any
previous time in our history. With
the possibility of any radical disturb
ance in our financial policies elimi
nated by the election a fortnight
hence, it is almost a certainty that all
former commercial and industrial rec
ords for Portland will be broken dur
ing the coming year.
The Portland Horse Show, like
every ether really "big" affair under
taken by Portlanders, Is a success. It
has drawn to this city wealthy and
prominent horse-lovers from all over
the Pacific Northwest, and the exhi
bition includes a large representation
of the bluest blue blood in the horse
world of the Paclflo Coast. There
may be a tendency on the part of
some of the visitors to divide their
attention between the trappings which
adorn the ladles and the horses which
add to the beauty of the trappings,
but this also Is a feature of the mod
ern horse show. The point which
appeals with greatest force to the
visitors is that Portland has been
making such swift strides in wealth
and artistic development that it thus
becomes possible to put on a show of
such magnitude. When we find Madison-Square
prizewinners and others
still better out here near "the con
tinuous woods where rolls the Ore
gon," it may be taken as an unmistak
able sign that time has not stood still
In Portland, Or.
While Oregon needs a new water
law, regulating the acquirement of
water rights and declaring the public
ownership of unappropriated water,
the state does, not need a complicated
and expensive system of supervision.
The title to the use of water should be
certain and capable of proof, just as
the title to other property is. Theft
of water should be made a criminal
offense, just as the theft of other
property is a crime. But there is no
need to employ special officers to po
lice the arid region of the state.
Sheriffs and Constables , arrest men
who sfeal other classes of property,
and they can easily arrest those who
steal water, for the man who steals
water is a permanent resident, not a
transient. The next Legislature will
be expected to pass water laws for en
couragement of Irrigation and manu
facturing, but will not be expected to
burden the state with an expensive
administrative system.
The Bureau of Statistics notes a
decline of $250,000 in the opium
trade of the past year. The Govern
ment deduction that these figures re
flect a decrease in the use of the drug
is hardly convincing; however. In
view of past experience, it is not im
probable that a portion of this de
crease in the amount Imported may
be traceable to some new discoveries
In the smuggling game. . The amount
of opium on which duty was paid In
the United States never did tally very
closely with the amount consumed.
"Flyin's all right," said Darius
Green, according to the chronicler of
that early experiment in aerial navi
gation, "but.'tain't such a thunderin'
sight of fun when you come to 'light."
In this respect there does not seem to
be very much difference in the re
sults scored by Darius and those of
his imitators and successors. The
American aeronauts who dropped into
the North Sea will at least agree with
Darius as to the sensation when they
"come to 'light."
There is again a report in circula
tion in San Francisco hinting at graft
In connection with repair work on
the Army transports. As it has been
ten years since the first of these re
ports were given publicity, and quite
a number of suspiciously large for
tunes have been made by men who
were supposed to , be interested, it
might be a good plan for the Govern
ment to do some investigating.
Reasons that satisfy one man are
not convincing to another. There
are few, for example, who would ac
cept the argument of the Willam
ette Valley farmer, who, though a Re
publican, says that he is going to vote
for Bryan because he is now unable
to get the farm help he needs. He
feels certain that if Bryan is elected
he can get all the men he wants at
$20 a month.
Some may be of opinion that if
Bryan should be elected the bad ef
fect on business will not last long;
because Bryan, as soon as he may get
into office, will abandon the injurious
ideas he employed in .order to get in.
They say Jefferson did this, and so
will Bryan. But it may be a risk.
' The cost of "lifting" the Sunday lid
In Portland is $3000 lawyer fees,
whereat the dealers who must pay the
bill are displeased. That would have
seemed a small price when the lid
was on.
Abruzzl is willing to abandon hia
title for the Ellfina girl. That is quite
proper, since every American girl who
weds a foreign nobleman abandons
her title of American.
For Governor Chamberlain per
sistently to pose as a non-partisan Is
contemptible. He Is the most in
tense of partisans, and everybody
knows It.
There are Democrats who wonder
what changed Governor Chamberlain's
mind, after he promised in the party
headquarters to stump for Bryan.
In the Council squabble it has not
yet been satisfactorily explained why
it is necessary to allow women in
saloons.
If city folks who growl at the rain
had had it earlier, the price of pota
toes would have been lower.
. If Cannon's enemies should not de
feat him, wHl they expect to get. what
they want out of him?
The Church faction in Union County
should now have iti inning undisputed.
ASKS FARMERS WHAT THEY WA3ST
Commission on Country Life Sends Out
Half a Million Circulars of Inquiry.
Half a million circulars, in which 12
comprehensive questions "are asked,
were started by the . Commission on
Country Life to every corner of the
United States, beginning last Friday.
The commission, of which L. H. Bailey,
of New York, is the chairman, has
elected E. W. Allen, assistant director
of experiment stations in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, executive secre
tary. Dr. Allen will be assisted In com
piling the information received by the
Census Bureau.
It Is expected that Information will
be completed and placed in the bands
of President Roosevelt In December,
upon which he can base a message to
Congress.
Some of the questions asked In the
blanks, which will be sent to intelli
gent and reading farmers all over the
United States, as well as to others in
touch with rural life, follow:
Are the farm homes In your neighbor
hood as g-ood as they should be under ex
isting; conditions?
Are the schools of your neighborhood
training; boys and girl satisfactorily for
life on the farm?
ro the farmers in your neighborhood
get the. returns they reasonably should
from the sale of their, products?
Do the farmers in your neighborhood
receive from the railroads,. high roads, trol
ley lines, etc, the service they reasonably
should have?
Do the farmers lu your neighborhood
reoeive from the United States postal
service, rural telephone, eto.. the service
they reasonably should expect?
Are the farmers and their wives in your
neighborhood satisfactorily organized to
promote their mutual interest?
Are the renters of farms In your neigh
borhood making a satisfactory living?
Is the supply of farm labor in your
neighborhood satisfactory?
Are the conditions surrounding hired
labor on the farms In your neighborhood
satisfactory to the hired men?
Have the farmers In your neighborhood
satisfactory facilities for doing their busi
ness In banking, credit, insurance, etc. ?
Are the Banitary conditions of the farms
In your neighborhood satisfactory?
Do the farmers and their wives and fam
ilies In your neighborhood get together for
mutual Improvement, entertainment and so
cial Intercourse as much as they should?,
What, In your judgment, is the most
Important single thing to be done for the
general betterment of country life?
BEATIFIC VISIOIY IW GEORGIA
Colonel J. Ham Lewis a Kaleidoscope
of Pulchritude In HI a "Native" State.
New Tork Sun.
The Hon. John Worth Kern, speak
ing pieces In Georgia for the "cham
pion of the people," has been accom
panied and oversunned by that many
colored, radiant cracker Colonel Jim
Ham Lewis, at present of Chicago.
Colonel Lewis modestly describes his
part in the campaign as mainly "so
cial." It Is social and sociological, it
is light and heat. It is education. It
is aesthetics. Inevitably Colonel Lew
is Is a native Georgian. He is a titular
native of every state he visits. He
has the happy art of so believing. In
fact,he isat the expense of maintain
ing a little log cabin, the right birth
place of a statesman, In every state
and territory.
The nomination for Governor of
Illinois having gone by right of seni
ority to Uncle Adlai, Colonel Jim Ham
returned from the foggy lowlands of
politics to the heights of beauty which
are his natural home. He tosses off
a political speech whenever he is asked,
and occasionally, from habit, when he
isn't; but it is as the stained glass of
fashion, the dream of the colorlst.
the despair of the sculptor, the brilliant
moving human landscape, the enchanted
forest, the kaleidoscope of pulchritude,
the picture book in breeches, that he
satisfies every eye, diffuses taste and
popularizes art In Georgia, and inno
cently drives into the background the
excellent Mr. Kern. On with the pit
helmets and smoked glasses; gaze fear
fully at this strange glory In Atlanta:
"The Colonel was sartorlally au fait.
He. wore a light-colored soft hat, a
flowing ascot tie of Alice blue, in
which there nestled a Jewelled June
bug, an Immaculate white waistcoat,
a walking suit of smoke-colored cloth,
in- which there artistically draped a
handkerchief of sky blue. He carried
a light cane and wore a pair of yellow
chamois gloves. He wore no spats."
The charmed Constitution reporter
sees in him "grace personified." He
encourages Governor Hoke" Smith
"Delighted to see you again, I am
greatly charmed Indeed to see you"
he is also charmed to meet that nov
elist and tribune of humanity Colonel
Sid Tapp; he even speaks with a proud
humility of his "pink azure (pink cor
al) whiskers." Everywhere he gave
and got pleasure, he beamed and was
beamed upon. We hope he will be as
good to the 45 other states he was
born In as he has been to Georgia.
It is no secret, by the way, that if
Mr. Bryan is elected Colonel Lewis will
be the next Ambassador to Andorra.
REPUBLICANS GET LITTLE MONEY
Contributions for Campaign Far Less
Than They Should Be.
Chicago Inter Ocean, October 10.
With a liability of about $390,000 on
his hands in connection with the Re
publican headquarters, in the Harvester
building and only $100,000 collected in
the Western' Held, Chairman Frank H.
Hitchcock of the National Committee
yesterday decided to postpone his trip
East and see what could be done in
a last final desperate appeal for money.
The publicity programme of both
campaign committees, particularly that
of the Republican, has worked havoc
to the plane of the managers.
When George R. Sheldon was selected
for treasurer of the National Commit
tee, it was understood at that time
that he was to collect about $1,500,000
for the Republican campaign, accord
ing to a statement made at the Repub
lican headquarters yesterday. He start
ed out well, but ran against the pub
licity stone wall, and has. since been
uniformly unsuccessful In getting
funds.
It is said on reliable authority that
between $300,000 and $400,000 has been
collected altogether from all sources,
and that there is a promise of substan
tial contributions in the New York dis
trict for the last two weeks of the cam
paign. But in Chicago they are worse than
strapped they are In a state of bank
ruptcy now.
Delegation after delegation from the
Western and Mountain States has been
turned away empty-handed by Mr.
Hitchcock In the past two weeks, and
more will be told today and tomorrow
that the cupboard la bare and that the
National Committee will be unable to
assist the state committees with cam
paign' funds.
THE CHRONICLE OF TOMMY.
Teaoher (catching Tommy fishing on Sun
day) Do you know the wages of sin?
Tommy Is this a sin? Teacher It un
doubtedly is. Tommy I don't want wages
for this. I'm satisfied to do It for fun.
Illustrated Bits.
Tommy, very sleepy, waa saying his
prayers. "Now I lay me down to Bleep,"
he began. "I pray tne Lord my soul to
keep." 'If," his mother prompted. "If
he hollers let him go. eeny, xneny, miny
mo!" Harper's Magasins.
"Tommy," said the hostess, "you appear
to be in deep thought." "Yes'm." replied
Tommy, "ma told me somethln' to say if
you should ask me to have some cake or
anything, an' I bin here so long now I
forgit what it was." Philadelphia Press.
"If your mother bought four baskets of
grapes, the dealer's price being a quarter a
basket, how much money would the pur
chase cost her?" asked the new teacher.
"You never can tell," answered Tommy,
who was at the head of his class. "Ma's
Sreat .at bargaining 1" Ladles Home
OUXA&li y
BRYAN, TAFT AND THE LABORING MAN
Pertinent Remark, by an Oregon Laborer to His Fellows on the Two Can
didates and on the Parties That Have Presented Them Which Party nd
Man Can Best Be Trusted!
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 15. (To the Ed
itor.) Being a laborer myself I wish
to say a few words to the laborers of
Oregon. The electors of the United
States are called upon once more to
choose a man to fill the office of
President. If we are Intelligent Ameri
can citizens we must have some con
victions regarding the principles and
policies that we wish carried out In
the conduct of the general government.
We wish you to consider, as true and
loyal American citizens, the important
fact that the Interests and welfare of
some 9000,000 of people are at stake,
and that the interests of the whole
people are paramount to the selfish in
terest of any clique, faction or mere
office-seeker. This is intended to be a
government by and for the people, and
In which all shall have equal rights
before the laws.
Remember, this Is a business world
and a world of business. Now then,
because we are too numerous to meet
together at one point and enact laws,
we must employ agents or servants
to attend to this business for us. Hence
we have a representative democracy.
Now, It is a good business fact that
when Intelligent people find It neces
sary to employ any one to aid them or
to attend to a certain business for
them, they always want to know
whether he is competent, experienced
and reliable. All men's knowledge Is
limited. We may be experts In some
one line, but our knowledge may be
very limited in others. If we are sick
and need a physician we would prefer
one who has had some known practice
and success and has a good reputation,
to a mere wind-Jamming faker who
claims to have a "cure-all" for every
disease. If any one seeks to be em
ployed by us in an important position,
either private or public, we always
want to know his history, his asso
ciates, and have proof of his ability to
do those things that he claims to be
an expert in.
The Two Parties Contrasted.
We have two prominent men, Mr.
Taft and Mr. Bryan, offering their
services to us in filling the office of
President of the United States. The
business that we employ a President to
attend to is to uphold and enforce the
Constitution, see that the laws of Con
gress are enforced Impartially and see
that the dignity of the country is main
tained abroad and peace maintained at
home. Each of these men claims to
stand for certain principles and poli
cies that they wish to aid in uphold
ing. Now, it is our duty, as true and
loyal citizens to Inquire Into the his
tory of these men and the parties that
are recommending them fon. the office
of President.
Mr. Taft is highly recommended by
the Republican party the party that
gave us Abraham Lincoln, McKinley
and Roosevelt. He claims to hold to
the principles and to believe in the
policies upheld by these great men.
What they have done Is a part of his
tory. The history of the country for the
past 45 years, In -which It has made the
most remarkable development of any
country of ancient or modern times, is
the history of the Republican party.
We believe that the principles and
policies of the Republican party, in a
general sense, are the best for the
whole people. The great advance of
the country under the influence of
these policies proves their saneness,
and it is reasonable and logical to sup
pose that the country will continue to
prosper If they are continued. Mr.
Taft Is the man that is selected to con
tinue these policies, if elected.
Forty Years of Democracy.
The Democratic party seeks to elect
Mr. Bryan to carry out the principles
and policies that they claim to hold.
It Is our duty to Inquire into the his
tory and achievements of this party
before Intrusting it with full power to
run the Government. We will only
go back about 40 years (they have a
history back of that you will do well to
look Into) and see what this party has
done for the country. We find that the
false leaders of this party have been
flaw pickers, howlers, obstructionists
and slanderers, before the world, of the
Government of the people. They have
been persistent office-seekers and have
tried to obtain them by trickery.
(Our Georgia will please stand up, and
if he can't stand up, get a couple of
his admirers to hold him up, while he
takes notice.)
Those claiming to be leaders tell us
that they hold to some principles that
thev call Democratic, but in their at
tempts some time ago to tell us what
constituted a .Democrat tney ratiea to
make it clear Just what they stood for.
It is reasonable to suppose, if they pos
sessed any great principles and had
any great policies to present which are
superior to those that the country has
advanced under, that the people would
have found them out during the last
40 years. The Democrats may be all
of one speclesr but there are so many
varieties that we don't know what to
depend on. Bourke Cockran came
nearer telling the truth than any of
them when he said, when called upon
to state what a Democrat was, that "he
was Just a Democrat," thereby confess
ing; that the party had no principles
that courd be definitely stated, and that
there was nothing left but the brand
and office-seekers.
Sir. Bryan's Record.
1 Let us now look into the history of
Mr. Bryan. For the last 12 years Mr.
Bryan has been running for office. He
reminds me of an old "hoss" that my
father owned when I was a small boy,
and which figured in many a race that
the neighbor boys, with similar old
plugs, held in a large field in the
shadow of the forest where the old
folks couldn't see. The old "hoss" had
a tough mouth and was long on wind,
but short on good horse sense. He
liked the racing. In fact liked It so
well that he never knew when to quit,
but would run all over the field and
repeat and keep on running. He liked
it so well that when turned out to pas
ture he would run himself down. What
are the personal quallfleatlons of Mr.
Bryan and what has he done for the
laborers, or attempted to do for them,
that would be a true benefit t
Tried to Cut Wages In Two.
In 1896 he stood In with the silver
mine owners in an attempt to beat our
brother miners out of one-half their
wages, or, in other words, to cut down
their daily -wage one-half by coining
SO cents' worth of silver bullion with
the dollar stamp and forcing them to
take It instead of the gold dollar or
its equivalent that was due them.
They did not dare to cut their wages
one-half openly, because the boys
would have objected and gone on a
strike; but they attempted to do this
by trickery and Juggling and a play
upon the word dollar. At that time it
took al-put 825 grains of the mine
owners' silver bullion, or Its equivalent,
to pay the miner one dollar of his
wages. They wanted to get the priv
ilege, through the aid of Mr. Bryan, to
walk down to the United States mint
with 412 grains, one-half as much,
and compel the United States to put
Its itamp on It free of cost, and then
compel the miners to accept it in pay- I
ment of their wages, because the wordj
dollar was stamped thereon. They
could just as well have taken 10 cents'
worth of copper and stamped the word
dollar on that and forced them to take
it, if they had succeeded In getting
possession of the Government.
I think; It was at Elmlra, If I am not
mistaken, that Mr. Bryan, while mak
ing a speech, was forced to admit that
he was receiving, or had received,
money from the uilneownerst but ha
claimed It was as their attorney.
Then Mr. Bryan, In-order to get the
farmers' vote, tried to make them be
lieve that the price of their food
products would be doubled if free coin
age of silver was adopted. How would
this have affected the laborer if it had
been accomplished? The value of the
laborer's labor depends upon the pur
chasing power and exchange value of
the money that he is paid, and also
upon the price of the products he ex
changes it for. In the first place, Mr.
Bryan attempted to take from the
laborer one-half the purchasing; power
of the dollar, and then double the price
of the food that was to fill his dinner
pall. This shows what a great, peer
less leader he was and what a great
statesman. -
Wilfully Wrong, or Woefully Ignorant.
Mr. Bryan was either wilfully wrong
or woefully ignorant of the questions
at issue. He boldly claimed at that
time that the dollar that the laborer
was being paid in had too much value
or purchasing power, and should be re
duced in value. Mr. Bryan, at that
time, assumed the role of a prophet
and did a great amount of wild
prophesying, predicting great calamity
to the country unless the people would
accept him as their "great medicine
man" and take his political nostrums
freely.
But the country still lives and has
managed to get along fairly well with
out Bryanism. Mr. Bryan Is still with
us and is willing to save the country
If we employ him to attend to the
business. He has concluded now that
the tariff needs fixing and that he is
a great mechanic in that line. We em
ployed some of his craft once upon a
time in that line, and we remember
their work and were awfully glad to
get rid of them. We will say here that
the money question or the free coinage
of silver was a purely business ques
tion nothing political about it; but
Mr. Bryan, acting the part of a dema
gogue, thought that ho could fool
enough people to elect him at that time.
Tariff a Business Question.
The tariff question also is a busi
ness question and not political, and
should be perfected by an able com
mission and not lugged into political
campaigns. As far as we laborers are
concerned, we should ask that the
essense of the tariff laws should be
that the American laborer should have
the first privilege of doing; the labor
required In the United States, and that
our money should be kept at home and
paid to home laborers, and not encour
aged to go abroad to employ and pay
foreign labor by 'buying products that
we can manufacture at home just as
well.
We do not mean to be selfish In our
trade with other nations, but wish to
give them a square deal. But we are
aware of the fact that this country Is
one of the best, if not the best, mar
kets in the world, and we do not care
to trade a $100 horse for a $25 horse,
even up.
It is claimed for Mr. Bryan that since
making the great blunders of the past
he has learned something. This is
claimed by some of. his friends, not
by Mr. Bryan himself. We would like
to ask this: What fountain of wisdom
has Mr. Bryan drunk at, and what
heavenly food has Mr. Bryan been fed
on since then that he has frown so
wise and benevolent f
Laborers' Special Privilege.
Mr. Bryan Is now trying to make the
laborers believe that they will have
some special privileges or more rights
under the Constitution, if he is em
ployed to fill the office of President,
than they now have. This is a delu
sion Uldt Ilt3 WUU1U Uivo ua lu Jauui
under for his own benefit. Mr. Bryan
will not be the Government. This is a
Government by the people the 90,000,
000 of people.
If we are true and loyal American
citizens, and I believe we are, we do
not ask for any special privileges or
class legislation In our favor, or rights
not accorded to all the rest of our fel
low citizens by the Constitution of the
United States.
This Is a Government by the people,
and no portion or faction of the people
have any right to any privilege under
the Constitution not possessed by the
whole people. And any man attempt
ing to delude any of the people by In
sinuating, directly or indirectly, to the
Contrary Is a demagogue and fraud.
We believe that some of the neces
sary qualifications of a statesman are
that he must have a thorough com
prehension of certain principles and
definite policies that are to be upheld
and carried out in the conduct of the
Government, and that it is his high and
satrlotlc duty to bring about by all
lawful and Just means, that the
American laborer gets the privilege of
doing the labor for America.
I cannot discover any more founda
tion to Bryanism than there is to a 10
cent balloon tied to a rotten chunk and
afloat on a duck pond.
Cause of Panics.
Mr. Bryan tries to counteract the
force of the fact of the country's pros
perity under the Republican adminis
tration by citing the late money panic,
and Insinuates that the policy of the
Government Is responsible. Mr. Bryan
Is great on logic. He can't get around
a logical square without running into
himself. When he attempts to be logi
cal his feet 'don't track, but he gets
tangled up and down he goes.
If the country, under Republican
policies, has, as a general rule, been
prosporous these many years, then
those policies and their upholders
should have the credit.
Panics can be produced by bad poli
cies and Incompetent administration.
They can also be brought about by the
people themselves under good policies.
If, when the country Is prosperous, the
people, or a certain portion of them,
engage too much in speculation and
over-reach their financial ability to
meet their obligations, they are liable
to bring on a panic One goes down
and drags others with htm. Like
causes produce like effects. If certain
policies bring prosperity to the coun
try, they do not bring a panic. The
people, or speculators, bring the panic
A Man to Depend On,
Now, my fellow laborer, I will say
that when we wish to employ a man
to attend to the business connected
with the Presidency, and support cer
tain principles and policies that we
believe in, we want a man that we can
depend upon and that we will know
where to find. We have no use for a
man that wobbles round all over the
political field, like the old racehorse,
seeking votes.
Mr. Taft is In sympathy with the
principles and poller under which the
country has advanced for the last 40
years, and can be depended upon to
continue them.
You ask me where he nans irom.
My sole reply shall be.
He comes from Grand Ohio,
And he stands for you and me.
JACK ROMAN.