Morning Oregonian., October 20, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

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CMttSi3 of tho present ye ar I the
apprehension that Governor Hushes
of N"cw York, -will be defeated He is
an uncommonly able man; he has un
usuallv elear ideas and purposes, in
civic affairs; he has shown a broad
end courageous view or conception of
moral duties and reP onslbiliUes
of men in high station. He s not a
dreams or "demist either, but a
ver.' practical man. Simply b his
own intellectual and moral force he
has compelled abandonment abate
ment of many abuses in his state, and
has done more than any other man
ever did to lift the moral public life
of the state to a higher plane let
the indications arc that the evils and
abuses now in alliance with a. Parti
sanship that opposes him will defeat
his re-election. It will be interesting
to watch.
So excellent and able a man is Gov
ernor Hughes that Democrats every
where have been holding him up as
fie man whom the Republicans ought
to have nominated for the Presidency;
and it has been remarked as one of
the proofs of the degeneracy of the
Republican party that it did not. But,
so corrupted had the Itepubliean
party become, that it would not nomi
nate so (treat a man a man so im
bued with great moral ideas for the
Presidency. It was a Pity, indeed.
Yet now this same opposition Is doing
its utmost to defeat his re-election in
New York, and is marshalling for the
purpose all the disreputable elements
of both parties. It is "the game"
Fach state has its own frame. All the
people of Oregon are familiar with
the Orecnn frame, which is played
around -our George" as the center
piece, under the humorous or comical
legend, "Th People Must Rule."
But Governor Hughes is not to be
put down easily. He makes speeches;
he addresses the people; he puts fre
quent questions. "I would ask my
opponent," he says, 'are you in favor
of the repeal of the Agnew-Hart bills?
Are vou in favor of the restoration
of race-track gambling? Are you in
favor of an amendment to the consti
tution allowing gambling? If that is
what is meant, let us know it and try
the Issue on that basis. My desire was
to wipe out these pest places of temp
tation." " But of course he gets no
response.
This Is the one issue in New York.
A subordinate one is the Governor's
veto of the two-cent fare bill. This
Is urged against him chiefly for its
supposed Influence in the West. To
this he answers: "Our railroads are
the great highways of commerce, and
all our business activity and thousands
of workmen are dependent upon them.
We want the best stations, the best
equipment, and the best service, with
no discriminations. 1 don't believe In
arbitrary legislation. If thorough In
vestigation shows the step is right, I
take it. If not. I do not."
This Is manly. What follows is ad
mirable. "I take pride." says Governor
Hughes, "in being Governor only as I
can satisfy my conscience and my
sense of duty. I will sign no bill for
popularity would not hold tho office
of Governor If I had to do what any
one told me. Walk in the middle of
the road and you will get bricks from
both sides. But my one ambition Is to
serve the people with no special
favors, but with fair treatment to all.
It is not a personal question, but I am
determined to maintain these prin
ciples and demonstrate that the forces
opposed to them are not strong
enough to carry New York State."
Here is a man who may not be able.
In the face of the combination of dis
reputable interests and partisan fury
against him to win the election. He
may not be able now again to com
mand success: but he'll deserve it.
His triumph will consist in mainten
ance of the principles and reforms he
has established: for Tammany's too'.,
rti-ning for Governor against Aim,
tins not answer to pointed Inquiry
whether he is in favor o? and w'll ap
prove, if elected, the repeal of race
track gambling and other reform bills.
He will dodge, of course; and Bryan,
seeking his share of the usufruct, will
counsel him to silence. A game very
like this Is going on in Indiana; where
the object is to overthrow the county
local option law and re-establish Tom
Taggart's gambling hole at French
I.lck Springs, of which Brother Kern,
Bryan's running mate. Is attorney
Tagsart. to whom Kern, at Denver
gave the credit for his nomination.
These appear only as side issues of
the campaign; yet they are main
Issues, after all. New York and Indi
ana, where the election will be de
cided, depend on them.
MEVTCLOFMTSNT NOT YET BEC.rX.
As an illustration of the compara
tively sti.a'i1 amount of development
that has ti-ken place in many regions
In Oregon, 'he summary of the Vlila
mook Counts tax roll as pr.nted in
yesterday's Oregonian is instructive
and interesting. The Assessor's fig
ures show 13.656 acres of tillable aud
5 49.S92 acres of non-tillable lands.
The term "non-tillable." as applied
to most Oregon lands, is a misnomer.
The lands so classed will eventually
all become tillable, and when cleared
will produce enormous crops. They
are "non-tillable" at this time because
they have not yet been denuded of
their wondrously rich growth of val
uable timber, but wherever this tim
ber is removed and the land is
cleared, it Immediately makes fully as
satisfactory returns as are secured
from any of the lands already in cul
tivation. The Tillamook Assessor's returns re
flect a condition which has always im
pressed visitors who have entered
that rich region after a journey in
volving much hardship and discom
fort. The amount of land already
under cultivation seems so small that
it is ever a source of surprise that
it should turn' off in the aggregate
such amazing yields of butter and
beef-making products. Beyond the
dairying industry it has, of cours'-.
been impossible to make much prcg
ress In development so long us there
were no transportation facilities f.ir
placing the products on the market.
Early completion of the railroad will
work a radical change In this iso
lated region. Clearing the land is ex
pensive work, but It produces such
wonderful crops after it Is cleared
that as soon as the railroad enables
new settlers to reach Tillamook and
make personal Investigation of con
ditions there will be a pronounced
change In the respective figures ofl
tillable and non-tillable lands re
turned by the Assessor.
Tillamook, however, is not alone In
Its glory with returns of more than
forty times as much non-tillable
land, for in degree these figures tnske
a fairly accurate reflection of condi
tions In nearly all the coast counties
as well as some in other portions of
Oregon. In these other counties, as
in Tillamook, lack ot railroad trans
portation has been the cause of this
slow development, and, now that this
most necessary factor in development
Is about to be supplied to Tillamook,
the Wallowa country. Central Oregon
and possibly Coos Bay, it is difficult
to over-estimate the resultant benefits.
So long as Oregon is obliged to Import
butter and eggs by the carload and
tralnload, there will always be a great
opportunity for disposing of every
thing that can be produced in our
coast dairy regions, and since the first
settlers went Into those -regions the
population and attendant demands of
the cities have kept a proportionate
distance ahead of the supplies. There
will be a vast population west, of the
Coast Rango when one-half of Tilla
mook's land is tillable. and Incident
ally Portland will then have more
than 1,000.000 people.
EVEN SlTFOMrXfi
But if Taft should be elected, and
the vote of Oregon shall go heavily
for Taft, then the political prestidig
itateur of Oregon, who declared the
other day in his letter that he is a
Democrat and a supporter of Bryan,
yet looks to Republicans to elect him
to the Senate, will find himself not a
little embarrassed.
He has told why he is a supporter of
Bryan, enumerating one thing after
another. Bryan was for this policy
or that, for this measure or that;
yet if Bryan shall be defeated and
Oregon shall go against him (as it
will), then these great and vital prin
ciples will be left hanging In mid
air, and our Oregon acrobat with
them.
Then the question, "Shall the people
rule?" will become more pregnant
than ever; and tho tear then will fall
from the slimy eye.
APrl.K TREKS, OLD AND SEW.
At this season of the year every
body grows enthusiastic over apples
as a commercial product, just as
many grow sentimental in May over
the apple orchard as a beautifier of
the landscape, a haunt for the honey
bee and humming bird its boughs
censers swung by the Spring
breezes dispensing fragrance through
the open doors of the farm
house and out upon the high
ways. Bryant'8 song, "The Planting
of the Apple Tree," combines the
poetical with the practical to a de
gree and, as is the wont of songs upon
the lips of old men, is shadowed at
the close with pathos. To the ques
tion, "What plant we in the apple
tree?" the poet makes answer:
Parrel for a hundred flowery Springs
To load the May wind's restless win:;
"When from tte orchard row Iwpouie
Its fraKrance through our open dottrs;
Fruits that ehall rot 11 In Bunny June
And redden In the August noon
And drop when gentle airs coma by
That fan tha blue September BKy.
Growing practical and scenting tho
spirit of a coming commercial age the
poet continues: -.-The
fruitage, of this apple tree
winds and our flair of stripe and star
Shall bear to cotists that lie afar.
Where men shall wonder at the view
And ask In w hat fair groves they grew.
This prophecy is on the verge of a
wider and more complete fulfillment
than even the poet dreamed, not as
regards New England orchards, or
those of New York in one of which
Bryant's tree was planted, but as It
applies to the beauty and abundance
and commercial value of the apple
trees of Oregon. Eschewing or ignor
ing sentiment and imbued with the
commercial spirit our applegrowers
are planting and cultivating apple
trees and displaying the fruits thereof
to an admiring world. Spitzenbergs
and Jonathans, Winter Bananas and
Baldwins. Newtown Pipp'ns and Ar
kansas Blacks vie with each other In
rich and delicate coloring as well ai
In size, shapeliness, fragrance and
flavor, and over them broods the com
mercial spirit and the spirit of
friendly competition that called all
this excellence into existence.
Hawthorne, writing In the early
years of the last century, when apple
trees, gnarleid and wind-torn, but
things of beauty and utility still, cast
their cropped fruit on the hillsides of
New England, has this to say of them:
"Apple trees possess a domestic char
acter and have grown humanized by
receiving the care of man as well as
by contributing to his wants. There
is so much individuality of character,,
too, among apple trees that it gives
them an additional claim to be objects
of Interest. One is hard and cropped
in its manifestations, and another
gives us fruit as mild as charity. One
is churlish and illiberal, evidently
grudging the few apples - ir.t it bears;
another exhausts itself in free-hearted
benevolence. The variety of gro
tesque shapes into which apple trees
contort themselves has its effect on
those who get accquainted with them.
They stretch out their crooked
branches and take such hold on the
imagination that we remember them
as humorous and odd fellows. And
what is more melancholy than the old
apple trees that linger about a spot
where once stood an old homestead,
but where Is now only a ruined chim
ney rising out of a grassy, weed-grown
cellar They offer their fruit to every
wayfarer apples bit-er-sweet with
the moral of human vicissitude."
This was written long before the
commercial spirit touched the apple
orchard, discovered Its possibilities
and bent Its energies toward bringing
it to perfection. He who plants apple
trees today does not take the pictur
esque as presented by Hawthorne, nor
tho sentimental as presented by Bry
ant. Into consideration.
Modern apple tre-s are not allowed
"to contort themselves into grotesque
shapes, stretch out their crooked
branches and take hold on the imag
ination as humorous and odd fellows."
They are planted for a purpose, made
to grow symmetrically for a purpose,
cultivated for a purpose, and that pur
pose has -worked itself out. in Oregon
at least. In apples, the beauty and
abundance and size and shapeliness of
which make for profit and perfection
wherever the commercial orchard is
found. Horticulture has come to be
recognized among us as a science, the
first fruits of which are the unsur
passed products of our commercial
apple orchards. We may admire and
even love the old apple trees of song
and story. We may even admit that
their blossoms were more delicately
tinted and more fragrant than are
those of the diligently sprayed, seien
tlilcally pruned apple trees that are
plauted for profit; but the old apples
and the new are as dissimilar as were
the New England apples of century
and more ago to the bitter-sour crab
apples of the wlldwood, fr ra which
they sprung
Jl'RIFS ARE ALSO TO BLAME.
To a large extent the Saturday
Evening Post is right in charging up
against trial juries rather than trial
Judges a large per cent of the fail
ures to convict guilty men who stand
upon technicalities. Juries magnify
the importance of nice points in evi
dence as often as Judges do the nice
points of law. Sometimes the "juries
let the points of law Influence them,
even after the judges have 'ruled
against the defense.
As an instance in which juries fre
quently fail, the Post mentions cafees
in which emotional insanity is put up
as a defense. It Is undoubtedly true
that emotional insanity Is frequently
displayed by Juries. Lawyers under
stand the weakness of jurors in .this
respect, and miss no opportunity to
appeal to their emotions rather than
to their reason. The records show
how frequently they succeed. But the
many reversals of criminal cases upon
unimportant technicalities show that
courts as well as juries let something
besides reason stand between a guilty
man and Justice.
VINO AND BODY.
At the present time there are per
haps a dozn men in Portland, outside
the Christian Science connection, who
earn a more or !e?s precarious living
by the practice of mental healing,
some call their art by one name, so.ne
by .not:itr. Of -.-.ivrse it is to the
advantage of each new healer when
he comes to town to advertise some
thing novel, since novelty is a great
attraction to many of the habitual
patrons of these practitioners. To
them an old delusion under a new
name presents much of the .iharni of
a fresh discovery in tnerapeutics, and
tac joy of bein cured of all thtir
lUs -time after time by ingeniously
varied Incantations never palls upon
tnem. To the healers these peren
nially hopeful people are a treasure
forever.
But whatever name this healing
process goes by makes no difference,
all comes to the same thing and its
results must be attributed to the
therapeutic power of the mind over
the body. Some practitioners get the
results by the "laying on of hands"
and prayer, others by anointing the
patient with "holy oil"; some use a
miraculous image or fountain, some a
sacred bone and still others simply sit
calmly and "demonstrate" until the
illness betakes itself elsewhither. The
methods of working and applying the
healing power of the mind are num
berless, and. so far as one can discern,
they all seem to be about equally ef
fective. All of them accomplish some
thing, none perhaps does as much as
Its professors claim. But under all
this smoke it is impossible to doubt
that there is fire. Mental healing is
a reality. It has already proved a
boon to thousands Of people and If
the time ever comes when the art
can be freed from superstition and im
posture it may rank higher than the
practice of material medicine. Here
tofore it has only been studied in a
haphazard, metaphysical, mystical
way. Very often those who obtain
the results are incompetent to ob
serve their own processes accurately
and sometimes considerations of profit
lead them to obscure their art with
purposive mystery.
To say that all the fugitive practi
tioners of mental healing who flit
from city to city are dishonest and ig
norant -would not be true. Many of
them " are admrlably candid. Some
have mastered all that is known of
the mind and the body. But there
are also many who know nothing ex
cept a jargon which they do not un
derstand and whose sole aim Is to coin
the faith of the unwary into money.
Perhaps these "healers" cure diseases
now and then, but it stands to reason
that their main business is imposture.
The good they do is accidental, the
evil is systematic. To the Injury of
their profession, educated physicians
have been too relucta.nt to acknowledge
the facts of mental healing. When
the facts can no longer be disputed or
ignored, they still neglect to study and
apply them. Thus, so far as the doc
tors are concerned, this enormously
beneficial art would probably hi
been left forever to be exploited by
quacks and charlatans. The Christian
Scientists have done better. They
have reduced the facts of mental
healing under a comprehensive theory
and restricted Its practice to persons
who comply with certain require
ments. The theory may be erroneous
and the requirements insufficient, but
for all that their move is in the right
direction. v
The "Emanuel Movement," which
the Rev. W. G. Eliot has been ex
plaining 1n a scholarly way to his con
gregation, is an effort to unite what is
good in mental therapeutics with what
is good in material medicine. It
originated among some clergymen
who perhaps saw in It a way of re
turning toward primitive Christianity.
In the early church every minister
was a healer of bodies as well as sonls,
after the manner of the Master him
self, and it is curious, if not important,
to remark that in proportion as the
clergy- have renounced their power
over disease they have lost prestige
among the masses. Religion and
medicine were united In the begin
ning. They have since been widely
sundered, but the separation and
semi-hostility have been good for
neither.
It is the purpose of the Emanuel
Movement to confine mental healing
to the domain where it strictly be
longs, leaving a wide field to material
medicine. To accomplish this the
practitioners are to work !n consul
tation with regular physicians. Some
lack of harmony may result f-r the
bourdary line is obscure an! difficult.
Mr. Eliot's rule that functional disor
ders are to be left to the mini to cur?
and organic ones to the doctors is
more or less illusory. All functional
ailments are organic and all organic
ailments are functional. The distinc
tion Is one of degree, not of kind. A
nervous disease which did not involve
"a change in the nerve cells" would
be inconceivable to many scientists,
though the change might not be per
ceptible In the laboratory. Very likely
there is a line which limits the thera
peutic power of the mind, but candor
compels us to acknowledge that it has
not yet been traced out.
The combined efforts of the Argen
tine and the United States and Can
ada are making it very difficult to
keep the wheat market up to the dol
lar mark. For the week ending Octo
ber 10 the Argentine shipments
dropped down to about 600.000 bush
els, but the American shipments were
so large that the total was held at de
pressing proportions. Last week
American shipments were more than
1.000,000 bushels smaller than those
of the preceding week, but the Ar
gentine, which by all previous records
should have long ere this ceased'ship
ping for the season, showed up with
shipments of nearly 1300,000 bushels,
and Russia figured to the extent of
nearly 3.000,000 bushels. An in
crease of nearly 5,000,000 in the
American visible brought the amount
up to nearly 42. 495. 000 bushels, which,
with the single exception of last year,
Is the highest point' reached at a cor
responding date since 1900. With all
of the weekly statistics so strongly
favoring the bears. It was not sur
prising that there should be a sagging
market, but whether the weakness
will continue is still a problem.
The Oregonian hastens to apologize
to the Government for an unwarrant
ed prediction made a few weeks ago.
When the Norwegian steamship
Guernsey entered the river and was
fined $5000 for failing to present a
bill of health from the port of depart
ure. The Oregonian ventured the pre
diction that in due season there would
be a remission of $4995 of the fine.
For some unknown reason, however,
Uncle Sam has seen fit to inflict dras
tic punishment on the unfortunate
steamer, and her agents have been
notified that the fine must stand as
levied, with the exception of a trifling
reduction of $4975. This Is the most
serious fine that has yet been inflicted
on careless, shipmasters ,and will no
doubt serve as a warning.
In the central portion of the Wil
lamette Valley evidences of oil de
posits have been found in wells and
springs, and attempts have been made
to sink wells deep enough to find oil
if it Is there in paying quantities. Un
fortunately the well-boring operations
have not been successful, owing to
accidents to the machinery, and no
satisfactory conclusion has ever been
reached. Now test wells are to be
sunk near Pratum, in Marion County.
While Oregorlians, as is usually the
case, will have no faith in the enter
prise until they see it succeed, yet It
is quite possible that oil will be found.
At any rate, the test is worth while.
"Of all the Presidential candidates
within the memory pf this generation,
Taft is unquestionably the best
equipped, in training and experience
and in wide and close contact with
large affairs." Thus declared the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, an Inde
pendent Democratic paper. It spoke
truthfully. While Taft may not ac
complish as much as Roosevelt has
done and is not as well equipped as
a fighter as Roosevelt was, yet it is
true that Taft surpasses even Roose
velt in experience at the beginning of
a Presidential campaign.
After all, then, it isn't so bad.
"Calamity," we learn from Bryan
sources, "is a false alarm." On the
contrary, there is "splendid pros
perity." Bryan's candidacy "doesn't
alarm anybody." Oh! then, the tune
Is changed about the "Roosevelt
panic" and "Roosevelt hard times."
Yet 'we hear from a mighty lot of
people, "Walt till after the election."
It is not probable that Congress will
ever consider seriously the project of
making the sound banking business of
the country Insure against loss from
all the various kinds of crooks that
wont to go into the banking business.
Beyond this very brief statement,
argument against Bryan's ban,k insur
ance plan is scarcely necessary.
Finest of all the receptions that the
American fleet has met was that at
Tokio, where 10,000 Japanese school
children sang, in English, "My Coun
try, 'Tis of Thee," as the officers
passed by in review. It was a tribute
both to America and to the all-conquering
language of the English
speaking world.
Since we are to go into the Insur
ance business insuring depositors in
banks against loss why shouldn't we
have a law to insure sheep against
scab and crops against frost? And
many of our best men against delir
ium tremens? And more of them
against the silly notions of Bryanlsm?
The latest argument for Taft and
against Bryan is, "Elect Taft now, and
defeat Bryan; for If you elect Bryan
now you will have Roosevelt four
years hence, and nothing can beat
him." It is the argument of the es
teemed New York Sun.
President Roosevelt gave Mr. Taft
three square meals at the White
House, Sunday, and then accompanied
him to the Unitarian Church. But it
is our understanding that Taft Is per
fectly orthodox, all the same, for he
eats tike a Methodist.
One Eastern Oregon bank wrecker
went unprosecuted; why should not
another? Isn't it reasonable for all
bankers to assume that since one goes
unpunished the same policy will be
pursued as to others?
So long as the Democrats claim
Oregon as "doubtful" or "debatable,"
everybody will be able to place a cor
rect valuation on their other, claims
about "doubtful" states.
By reason of the car service main
tained by the Oregon Electric, a Mult
nomah County member of the Legis
lature can live at home and attend the
dally session at Salem.
The only time the average property
owner feels his own possessions worth
less than his neighbor's is during the
session of the Board of Equalization.
Salem has a saloonkeeper running
for Mayor. Uufortunately for a large
class of voters, the corrupt practices
act prohibits candidates from treating.
When children rebel at school it is
a pretty sure sign that they have been
permitted to make a success of re
bellion at home.
Is the moral crusade to wane just
because the offenders have moved to
other places?
WHAT OP TARIFF REVISION f
A Calm and Fair Dtsrusaloa of tbe
Present Situation.
New York Evening Post. Ind.
Both candidates for the Presidency
have bound themselves, if elected, to
call Congress in extra session for the
express purpose of revising the tariff.
This state of things by Itself ought to
be a source of much cheer to tariff-reformers.
To have the force of their
arguments admitted, and their position
sustained, by both parties is really a
great triumph for the little band of
"doctrinaires," as Roosevelt called
them four years ago. Far from being
despondent they should look forward
with high expectancy to the near fruit
ition of their long-deferred but un
conquerable hopes.. Believing as they
must in their ability to meet the pro
tectionist enemy In the gate with the
irresistible economic and political ar
gument, they should hail the certainty
that, whoever is elected President, the
Dlngley tariff Is to be thrown into the
melting pot. Whether the measure
that comes out Is likely to be better
lfMr. Bryan feeds the fire, rather than
Mr. Taft, is a question regarding which
we need to seek calmly all the light
which we can get from political history
and human nature.
Consider what happened after the
great tariff-reform victory of 1892.
There was then a Democratic Senate;
yot tariff revision as wounded In the
house of its friends. Even President
Cleveland, with all his conviction and
great determlnatiqn, was unable to get
from a Congress which his party con
trolled a tariff measuring up to the
demands of the most moderate reform
ers. What chance Is there that Bryan
would have any better success with a
Senate sure to he hostile to him? Will
he be able to wrest from enemies what
Grover Cleveland could not secure from
friepds? There is but one answer.
When to Bryan's studied indifference
though many years to the iniquities
of ttie tariff, you add the powerful
partisan motives which would induce
the Senate to place itself athwart his
path, a reasonable man cannot come
to any other conclusion than that tar
iff reform would have an exceedingly
hard road to travel w'ith Bryan in the
Presidency. Indeed, if we really were
the sworn champions and beneficiaries
of high tariff and monopoly, we should
feel much less in danger of being dis
turbed by Mr. Bryan than by Mr. Taft
It is credibly reported that many pro
tected manufactureres are taking that
view and are, to say the least, not
working themselves to death to elect
Mr. Taft
On the latter's side, if President,
there would be the advantage of a
party not only with a majority in both
houses of Congress, but solemnly bound
to use that majority for tho revision of
the tariff. Moreover, Mr. Taft has
taken, on the whole, a more advanced
position than any prominent Republi
can. He has steadily fought for free
trade for the Filipinos. He has re
peatedly stated that he considers many
of the rates in the Dlngley tariff too
high. He was for "Immediate revision"
when Mr. Bryan was saying nothing
about the tariff.- True, Mr. Taft's cam
paigning has betrayed him into praise
of protection and absurdities about the
Wilson bill. Yet even in the midst of
these vagaries, which we have con
demned as sharply as the next the
fact remains that ho is convinced of
the unfairness of the Dlngley law and
fully intends to bring about its thor
ough modification. On that, he has
spoken and can be quoted, again and
again. Now, we are confident enough
of the justice of the case for a lower
tariff, and of the way in which people's
eyes have been opened to the inequali
ties and wrongs embodied in the Dlngley
bill, to believe that any revision honest
ly undertaken is certain to eliminate
a great deal of favoritism and a great
deal of fraud. The old way of pur
chasing tariff privileges cannot be re
peated under the jealous scrutiny with
which the public is certain to watch the
framing of the next tariff. So that the
prospect of getting, If not a perfect
bill, at least a vastly better measure
than the present law, we must believe
to be excellent in case Mr. Taft is
elected President'
Nor' can one. finally, overlook that
strange but verified law of political ac
tion, according to which it is the con
servative party which catches up and
enacts liberal proposals. The radical
party spends itself in agitation; there
upon the conservatives come into
power and pass the desired law. And
the country which would have been
convulsed at the sight of radicals put
ting through the same legislation, ac
cepts it from the conservatives as a
necessary and healing measure. It was
the chief of the protectionist party
who gave England free trade; and Mr.
Taft might well be proud If he could
follow in the footsteps of Sir Robert
Peel, and could say with that statesman
that he had made the bread of labor
ing men "sweeter because it is no
longer leavened by a sense of injustice."
FOR BRYAN AA"D HARD TIMES
Hovr -Would Mr. Bryan Himself Regard
Thia AntumPntJ
SOUTH ORANGE, Oct 10. (To the
Editor of the New York Times.) A
large number of voters believe that the
election of Mr. Bryan would bring
about four or five ears of very hard
times speaking of such a lean season
as if it might be the devil's own doing.
In fact several years of healthy con
traction would be a blessing to us Just
af present
In the first place it would stop Immi
gration and compel emigration. Would
this be a hardship to us who stick?
It would stop the writing and pub
lishing of many books and prevent the
painting of many pictures and decora
tions. Bad? Not that we can see.
.It would stop the booming and ex
ploiting of land and the flotation of
fake corporations. Would this be a
serious matter?
It would bring to a halt the tremen
dous expenditures of moneys by the
City of New York for vast schemes
that are only vast schemes for the
everlasting wonderment of the country
bumpkin, but which advance the citi
zens not one Inch in morality or hap
piness. The taxpayers could not lose
in this, and maybe a person in ordinary
circumstances might be able to own
a house within the town limits. We
know that taxes cannot go on increas
ing forever. Just think of the sudden
termination of the financial exploita
tion of all our suburban communities
that to date have been placed on the
level that will not be overtopped for
20 years to come. The suburban Vil
lages and towns have been watered
sewered, grave-yarded, cement-walked,
fancy -pavemented, city-policed, over
clerked and over-contracted. The peo
ple want to catch up in tlie vacation
days to come. They want a respite
from the taskmasters from the high
moral teachings of the corporation
trustees. Boom times have meant
thinner goods for the money. Every
one has been preaching Inflation, and
no one economy. The election of Mr.
Bryan, if It did bring about hard times,
would bring about some joy to the
people who like to walk.
C. J. TAYLOR.
In the Streets of Canby.
Canby Tribune.
Grant White shot a wild duck In a
puddle of water In front of his livery
stable Tuesday.
"THE QUADREN'XIAL FIT."
Democrats Assert Country "Fast
Tending; to DeSpotiam."
Pendleton Tribune.
Says the Bryan organ in Portland:
"The Pendleton Tribune quotes the
Democratic platform of ISriS. This is quite
modern only 40 years back."
But In doing so The Tribune had in mind
only a sincere desire to comfort the trou
bled hrethren.
If this paper can demonstrate to the ap
apprehensive Bryan followers that the
dangers their chief thinks he sees on the
Governmental horizon, and which are re
fleeted by themselves in their daily lam
entations, are not real, but fanciful that
is, if It is a matter of history that they
have alwavs been the victims of nuadren-
' nial nightmares for campaign purposes.
invented every four years by designing
leaders who know better in that case it
is the duty of a Republican paper to do
all within its power to soothe the troubled
breast of the innocent Democratic fol
lower who may actually be fooled by the
aforesaid leaders.
Hence, the republication of the Demo
cratic platform of IStiS, which shows that
40 years ago, and every four years since,
the brethern threw practically the same
sort of a fit based entirely on the exig
encies of a pending campaign which de
sires to get votes at any cost.
Air. Bryan says he believes the count
try Is fast tending to "empire." He sees
some sort of warning handwriting on
some sort of Imaginary wall. He needs to
aiarm, somebody in order to frighten peo
ple to his support. The Democracy has
always needed to see some hideous hand
writing on some convenient wall which
bodes nobody good unless it Is placed in
power.
Jefferson bad the same complaint when
Washington was President, and It has
supplied the groundwork for a perpetual
series of hysterics ever since when the
Democratic party has been "out."
All of Bryan's assaults upon the Re
publican party In this campaign, as well
as in his former ones, are conjured griev
ances for campaign purposes, as every
thinking man understands.
The condition of our people, collectively
and individually, was ifever so satisfac
tory as It Is today.
There is no cause for alarm which trou
bles the Democratic soul. Nobody now
believes the. -election of General Grant
to the Presidency In 1S6S threatened the
"pillars of our Government." Few people
believed it then. It was only a scare at
tempted by the Democratic leaders the
same trick that Bryan is trying now.
So. The Tribune now, by recalling some
of the Democracy's former specters of
"grave dangers" which had no existence
whatever, may succeed in showing the
rank and file of the hrethren that they
are merely the victims of hereditary and
chronic fear transmitted from past Demo
cratic sires for political effect, and that,
therefore, it is as well to pass the matter
by as a vagary without foundation, a plea
without sense.
It should serve to compose the brethren
a hope and purpose which The Tribune
cherishes when It recalls that plank in the
National Democratic platform in 1868, an
ticipating the election to the Presidency of
the hero of Vicksburg and of Appomattox
think of it! which said, speaking of the
Republican party:
Under its repeated assaults the rlllars of
the Government are rocklnir on their base,
and should it succeed next November and
Inaugurate Its President, we will meet a a
subjected and conquered people, amid the
ruins of our liberty and the scattered frag
ments of the Constitution.
And now, looking back dispassionately,
wouldn't that jar you?
Wouldn't it Jar- you you even if you are
a Democrat?
POINTED QUERIES FOR CHAXLER
Governor Hughes Tuts His Opponent on
the Grill.
Utica Special to New Y'ork Times, Oct. 18.
In the same city In which he made his
famous appeals to the people on the race
track gambling and public service com
mission bills. Governor Hughes tonight
added a third appeal direct to the citi
zens for the policies he represents. It
was aimed Bpecilically at the arguments
raided by Lieutenant-Governor Chanler en
the issues of "government by commis
sion" and "personal liberty." While an
audience of 2500 people that packed the
Majestic Theater to the roof shouted and
cheered its approval, the Governor re
peated the question he asked his opponent
in a recent speech, and added that he
should continue to ask them until Mr.
Chanler replied or his silence became
more eloquent than words.
These are the questions:
Are you in favor of the repeal of the Pub
lic Commission laws?
Would you transfer the powers of the
Commission to any atate officer, and if
so, to what office?
Would you deprive the Commission of
any of its powers, and if so of what power
Are you in favor of the repeal of the
Agnew-Hart bill?
Are you In favor of the restoration of
race-track gambling?
Do you desire the amendment of the
constitution of tho state so as to strike out
the prohibition against public gambling?
"Let my opponent cease to hide behind
phrases," declared the Governor. "This
is serious business. It is an Important
political campaign, not a masked ball.
An effort has been made to capitalize the
points of resentment against me. Oppo
sition, honest opposition, is a good thing.
But we want this opposition to come to
the stage, where we can know what It
really Is."
What Bryan's Election Will Do.
Tillamook Headlight
The dairymen who want butter fat
at 12 cents a pound, the price paid un
der the Cleveland administration, will
vote for Bryan next month. And the
dairymen who want the price to remain
the same as the last few years will
vote for Taft
Woodburn Independent.
Oregon needs more railroads, and it
takes money to build railroads, and
there must be a feeling of confidence
In the country before the people can
be induced to let go of their money.
How much confidence would the elec
tion of Bryan give? None.
Skamania's Apple Exhibit.
CARSON. Wash., Oct. 19. (To the
Editor.) Reading In this morning's Ore
gonian that Carson gets credit for fur
nishing the entire exniDit trom sxamania
County, I beg to say that I put in the. dis
play, which was done in the name of
Skamania County, as the painted sign
which I bought and paid for plainly read
as follows: "Skamania County Exhibit."
I stood there as the exhibitor, being in
dorsed by the president of our County
Horticultural Society, .displaying exhibits
from different portions of the county,
some of which could not have been shown
from Carson. R03WELL SHELLEY.
Sad Days for the Pheasants.
Woodburn Independent.
In the cars on the Southern Pacific
have been hanging big strings of China
pheasants that Portland sports took
home with them. They never miss, and
judging from the size of the majority
of the birds on the strings, they even
slaughter the little bits of hens that
could crawl through a two-inch knot
hole. This may be sportsmanship In
their eyes, but it looks as if they were
determined to exterminate the pheas
ants. They will be getting to sparrows
next
Losti Part of .an Upper Lip.
Hillsboro Argus.
Peter Jacohson, of Lenox, met with a
singular accident last Tuesday. While
petting one of his workhorses, the an
imal playfully bit out a portion of hia
upper lip. which was anything but fun
for Mr. Jacobson, who immediately
came to Hillsboro and had the wound
dressed by Dr. F. A. Bailey. Seach
was made by Mr. Jacobson for the
missing piece of lip, btu it could not
be found.
BRYAN AXD SILVER.
With Something About a "Fundamen
tal Defect or Mind."
HOSEBl'RG. Or., Oct. IS. (To the Ed
itor.) in an editorial on "Bryan's Past
The Oregonian sas that '"Mr. Brian's ad
ventures with free sdver betray a funda
mental defect in bis mind whi.-ti unfits
him for hitth administrative ottlco " T.n-n
William McKJnlcy was unfitted tor higli
administrative office, for was he not among
that very respectable portion of the ite
publiean party who. in 1 S'Jt. considered bi
metallism ' good gospel? And was not
Arthur J. Balfour, .mo time Prime Min
ister of England, also unfitted lor tugli
administrative office? For if 1 remember
rightly he was one of the many dis
tinguished advocates of tho double-standard
at that time. Mr. Hryan docs not stand
"unique and lonely' in his responsibility
for the free silver heresy. I verily thought
with myself that bimetalism was a good
thing. Bui upon Mr. Bryan has been laid
the iniquity of us all. Of course I con
cede that Mr. Bryan has made mistakes.
The man who doesn't make mistakes
doesn't usually make anything. Mr. Glad
stone reversed himself on great political
questions as completely as Mr. Bryan has
done, and no one questions his statesman
ship on that account. And it is to be ob
served that even Mr. Bryan's failings lean
to the people's side. It may be said that
his sympathies outrun his statesmanship,
l'or my part I prefer to hao a man In
the White House whose sympathy for tho
people would occasionally iiad him Into
error in their behalf than to have a man
there who would pursue an unerring policy
ill tho interest of the corporations.
Mr. Bryan has abandoned tho free silver
question. That Indicates "a defect in hia
capacity for high administrative otftce."
The leaders of- tho Republican party are
being compiled to abandon their pot high
protective policy. Does that indicate that
the leaders of the Itepubliean parly have
shown a fundamental defect that unli'a
them for high administrative office? In
stoad of being an Indication of caclllatlon
and weakness I think Mr. Bryan's change
of mind shows the development of ma
turity. His political genius has been build
ing more stately mansions. He has been
growing and leaving his "outgrown shell by
life's unresting sea." He must evier tip
and onward who would keep abreast of
truth.
Only, such inveterate "standpatters" as
t'nele Joe Cannon never change ilK-ir minds.
They are so thoroughly committed to the
"interests" that tliey are without variable
ness or shadow of turning. They will
probably nevvir be accused of espousing
any cause In behalf of the people or of
abandoning any policy in the interests of
the corporations. Put some iay the peo
ple's love of progress will gently and sor
rowfully chloroform those fellows into pri
vate life. Sometimes It is the better part
of statesmanship to cl.antre one's mind.
Kven the ponderous Mr. Taft miy find It
expedient to change his nttitunV' in re
gard to the Roosevelt "policies." I ali
not a political prophet, but 1 will hazard
the opinion that if Taft is elected ho will
repudiate, or at least not go forward with
tho Itoosevelt policies. Tt Is quite pluitt
that Taft's sympathies with the Roosevelt
policies are considerably toss marked than
h'is subjection to the domineering person
ality of the President, and witli tho shadow
of the "big stick", withdrawn and the pre
datory tendencies of his party bringing
powerful intluences to bear upon him it
may turn out that Mr. Taft will reverse
himself as completely In regard to Rome
velt's policies as Mr. Bryan has done In
regard to free silver.
ANDREW R. MARKER.
But has Mr. Bryan changed his mind
or purpose In regard to silver? Not a
word from him to that effect. He has
dropped the subject. In order to get
votes, for this election. McKlnley did
vote for free stiver coinage in 1S7S. buc
before 1896 he came to undersland the
subject, and then became candidate on
the gold-standard platform. Why
didn't Bryan change, too? Because of
a "fundamental defect of mind," which
was supported, we may allow, by parti
san ambition. The term "bimetallism"
Is used again. The notion never had
any support except among shallow
thinkers and foolish partisans. Differ
ence of opinion about the tariff fur
nishes no parallel; for that is a ques
tion upon which men always will differ,
as their local interests dictate. Hence,
though the Democratic party pretends
to oppose protection, it never will de
prive the Southern and Democratic
States of protection for their products.
But money, measure of all values,
stands on a very different basis, and its
laws are inexorable as those of math
emaLics. Of these tilings Bryan has no
knowledge. Therefore though he pro
fesses to "espouse the cause of the peo
ple" he merely misleads them, so far
as his influence goes. Hitherto they
have had enough judgment to turn
him down. They may again; for his
present "agitations" are no more ra
tional than his former ones, though,
perhaps, not so portentous of injury to
the country. Yet it is patent as ever
that "a fundamental defect in his
mind unfits him for high administra
tive office."
J. W. KERN, AXD WHO HE IS
He Is Tom Tnggart's Man, and a Van
derbilt Attorney.
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
If elected Vice-President John W.
Kern would preside over the United
States Senate. Mr. Bryan has said that
he will ask Mr. Kern to occupy with
him the White House. In the event of
the death of Mr. Bryan, or his removal,
or incapacity. Kern would become
President a possibility which demands
thoughtful consideration in view of the
historical fact that since the Civil War
three of our Presidents have been called
to the Presidential office from the Vice
Presidency. What manner of man is this who has
been chosen by Mr. Bryan as his running-mate?
Kern has publicly pro
claimed that he owes his nomination to
Tom Taggart, of Indiana, the discredit
ed politician who is now before the
courts of Indiana as a lawbreaker and
a keeper of one of the worst gambling
resorts in the United States. He is
professedly, and in fact, the creature of
Taggart. As political s,oss of the City
of Indianapolis, Taggaift gave him ap
pointment as City Attorney. The two
men have been hand-ln-glove for manv
years, and Kern Is attorney of record
defending Taggart and his di reputable
resort before the courts.
Taggart has been the mast r mind
of the two. He has dealt with the law
defying corporations on a footing of
equality, and both have patronized
Kern.
Even as he goes over the country
asking for votes for himself and Bryan,
Kern is on the payroll of the Big Four
lines of the Vanderbilt system, a law
breaking corporation which has been
fined $116,000 for paying Illegal re
bates to the trusts, and paid the fine.
He admits this railroad connection. He
had to admit it when his lost railroad
passes were found in order to bring
himself and his employer within tho
pal of the United States law. which
forbids, under heavy penalties, the giv
ing of a pass, but authorizes passes to
railroad attorneys.
Mr. Bryan cannot deny the disreputa
ble history and affiliations of his running-mate,
for they are matters of of
ficial record.
The One Straight Question. .
Baltimore News, Ind:
As for Mr. Taft, nothing can rob him
of a record in the service of his coun
try and a training such as no Presi
dent In" a generation has had. The
voter who is in doubt as to how he
should cast his ballot can do no betcer
than to hold fast to this one thought:
Do the achievements in public life, the
experience, the long record of Mr.
Taft or the professions and the shift
ing ideas of Mr. Bryan promise better
for sane consideration of the various
problems that confront us and for a
prompter and more permanent re
habilitation of public confidence and re
turn of BrosperiW ?