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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, NOV. ,
A KICK OF THE LIQUOR TIUDE.
In the ordinary and natural course
of thinirs. Taft should have had 100.
000 majority In Ohio and 40,000 to
SO.OOO in Indiana. The vote of the
people on National issues In these
states should have been not unlike
that In the other great northern states.
But In both the majorities for Taft
were relatively small. It was due to
the effort of the liquor Interests. In
opposition to local option. Those In
terests have at the same time elected
the Governor In each of the states of
Indiana and Ohio, and have elected
the majority of the members of the
Legislature In one of them and possi
bly In the other. At the same time
they have thrown their forces for sev
eral members of Congress, and have
elected them.
It was the enactment of the local
option law In the states of Ohio and
Indiana that produced this fury and
outbreak; that Is. it was the revolt
of the liquor trade against control
or extinction, under local option. The
law shuts out the sale of liquor In
many of the counties of either state,
and this action at the polls Is In the
nature of retaliation and revenge. The
course of the liquor trade on this sub
ject, which enured wholly to the bene
fit of the Democratic party, was rec
ognized, long before the election, as
making the two great central states
uncertain as to Taft, and uncertain
es to Senators and Representatives In
Congress.
But now, since it Is over, will the
local option laws In Ohio and Indiana
be repealed? Nay. verily. The party
that has had the benefit of the storm
against this law will not even so
much as suggest repeal. If the liquor
trade would cease fighting, be as quiet
end decent as it can, and realize that
It exists simply by sufferance but
mustn't be arrogant. It would have
very little trouble in the districts
where permitted at alL
PHOTOGRAPHY CHKCK9 FRAl'IHLF.XT
VOTING.
In the city of New York an extra
ordinary method was adopted to pre
vent illegal voting. When the elec
tor registered, each and every one
was required, as usual, to make his
signature. These were photographed
for each and every election district
In the city. The photographs of sig
natures, two copies at every voting
booth the original remained at the
office of registration were means of
Identification of the voter, if chal
lenged. He was obliged to write his
name and the original, transcribed
by photography, was at hand for iden
tification. If he couldn't write his
name, his mark would suffice. If the
photographed names of his witnesses
were with it.
It proved the most effective method
of preventing Illegal voting ever
known. For Greater New York 7000
photographic lists were necessary.
They were bound In books and in
dexed according to alphabet. It was
Impossible for one Individual to per
sonate another, and voting on dead
men's names was cut out entirely. The
method was a nearly complete estop
pel of many of the prartices of Tam
many, and. as a consequence of it, it is
believed that Tammany never more
will be able to manufacture Its old
time colossal majorities.
The process most likely will be ex
tended to other cities. It is the com
pleted way yet employed for preven
tion of fraudulent voting. The signa
ture books at each polling place,
showing an exact copy of the original,
of course are obtainable only by re
course to photography.
SI'RKAUINH THK GOSI'KL OF GOOD
FARMING.
One of the moat practical and far
reaching experiments that has ever
been made by railroad managers for
the development of the carrying trade
was Inaugurated a few years ago when
the first "corn train" was sent out
' over the principal railroads of Iowa,
accompanied by practical instructors
in the art of making two bushels of
corn grow where but one grew before,
by proper drainage, cultivation and
seed selection. Instant popularity
greeted this train from start to finish.
An element in this popularity was the
gratification the farmer felt at the in
terest that the railroad managers were)
taking In his vocation. The motive
was, of course, at bottom a selfish one;
but selfishness f this type rules In
the commercial world, and the agricul
tural as well, and is In Itself the main
spring of prosperity. It puts the cor
poration spirit in closest touch with
The spirit of Individual enterprise to
the manifest advantage of both.
The experiment of the "corn train"
has been repeated In various localities
of the West for several years with in
creasing success. In our own state It
has taken the form of a farming dem
onstration train sent out by the South
ern Pacific, and, accompanied by dairy,
fruit and wheat experts from the Stats
Agricultural College, it Is now abroad
spreading the gospel of good farming.
Intelligent dairying and acientiflc fruit
growing throughout the Valley.
Schools have been dismissed at various
points to allow the children to profit
by instruction that can never come too
early to country boys and girls. Farm
ers cut off from such sources of infor
mation in their youth and young man
hood are eager students of ways and
means whereby their lands may be
made more productive and the quality
" of their crops Improved. Conscious of
their inability to deal with the problem
of modern dairying without competent
Instruction, dairymen flock to the dem
onstration train and listen intently
while the state's experts expound the
science.
It must be clear to all who visit the
farmers' demonstration train and lis
ten to the addresses and Instructions
of those who accompany it that the
I old era In agriculture, horticulture and
dairying has passed away, and that in
Its place new methods, new results and
increased profits are found. "The old
est of Industries" has now become the
youngest in eagerness to learn and
thereby make the most of Its oppor
tunities. MKBELI A REMINDER,
Since Jefferson, the great Apostle of
Democracy, let us say the John the
Baptist of Democracy, put up Madi
son as his successor, and then put up
Monroe as the successor of MadiBon.
don't you worry any longer about Taft
and Roosevelt, Roosevelt making
Taft his own successor.
You see the Republic has survived
these crises. And other crises. And
more crises are yet to be survived.
Though Jefferson is utterly dis
credited, and all that he contended for
perished at Richmond and Appomat
tox, the Government at Washington
still lives still lives, because Jefferson
was turned down at Richmond and
Appomattox.
It was not his dictation of Madison
as his own successor, nor his dictation
of Monroe, as the successor of Madi
son, that troubled anybody. Those
were trifling Incidents. Such things
will do for people to talk about who
have no conception of first or funda
mental principles.
Jefferson's first and distinctive prin
ciple was exaltation of state sover-etgnts-
over National sovereignty.
The crisis of American history
rose out of this conflict. Never mind
his dictation of the nomination of his
successors for the next sixteen years.
But he didn't like . Jackson-, and de
clared there were one hundred men
In Albemarle County (Va.) fitter to
be President.
PRKSniENT ELIOT.
The news that Charles William
Eliot has retired from the presidency
of Harvard University will Interest
every enlightened American. His ad
ministration began In 1869 when he
was 35 years old so that it has covered
a period of 40 years. During that
Interval the Ideals of educational pur
poses and methods in this country
have been completely transformed
and to President Eliot more than to
any other man the credit of the great
work is due. But one person, the late
Daniel C. Gllman, the famous Presi
dent of Johns Hopkins University,
could have been named as a possible
rival, but the achievements of these
two remarkable Individuals lay along
lines so divergent that they supple
ment rather than compete with each
other. To Dr. Gllman we owe the or
ganization of genuine university work
in the United States as distinguished
from the high school and college
studies which before his day passed
for university education. His-principal
feats were of an administrative
nature. Among educationists his or
ganizing ability was supreme.
Dr. Eliot has not only been a busi
ness man of unusual capacity, but he
has also been a propagandist of new
and revolutionary theories. He has
known the bitterness of strife and has
felt the edge of satire as every pioneer
must in the world of thought. When
he assumed the presidency of Har
vard the college was pretty well cob
webbed over. For -the time it was a
wealthy school and Its enrollment was
large, but It had fallen Into academic
routine. The spell of antiquity was
upon It. Tradition had replaced vital
thought. Reverence for established
customs seemed to put progress out
of the question. The schools of law,
medicine and theology were virtually
independent of one another, droning
along year after year in prosy lethargy
well satisfied to be forever as they
then were. President Eliot brought
into the ancient halls of the college
new life and a disturbing energy. It
had been the custom for previous
presidents to drop into the meetings
of the medical faculty once dr twice
a year as a matter of form without a
thought "of interfering with business.
Dr. Eliot took the chair from the
first and kept it. "What is the reason
for all this hurlyburly. this upsetting
of the established ways?" Inquired
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes at one of
these newly enlivened sessions. The
humorous author and physician was
not altogether pleased with the Inno
vations. "I'll tell you the reason,"
replied Dr. Eliot serenely, "there's a
new president."
New he was in every way. He be
gan by organizing the helter-skelter
faculties of the school Into a powerful
and united body. Then came the long
campaign for elective studies which is
not yet entirely over, albeit the fight
against the new idea Is now nothing
but a skirmish. Dr. Gllman of Johns
Hopkins never accepted the elective
system. He adopted in place of It a
scheme of what he called "groups."
The student was given his choice
among a number of groups of studies,
but he was forbidden to wander at
will among the courses offered by the
professors and select what he ' liked.
Yale has bowed at last to the logic
of events and made her courses elec
tive, but she was almost the last Im
portant school in the country to do It.
Her reluctance to adopt the Harvard
idea illustrates the deep contrast be
tween our two most famous universi
ties. Harvard stands for the forward
movement in thought and practice;
Yale stands for the good old ways,
even when their goodness has become
more or less questionable. Harvard
represents the ideal in American life;
Yale represents the material. While
Dr. Eliot Is a pioneer in the realm of
speculative educational thought. Presi
dent Hadley of Yale Is a great author
ity on railroads. The so-called Har
vard Idea has both its good and Its
bad sides. At its best it gives us
Charles Eliot Norton. the stern
champion of democracy enlightened
by art and purified by obedience to
God, or a Roosevelt who has the cour
age to do and die for his concept of
duty; at its worst it gives us the
sickly mollycoddle for whom duty has
no meaning and life is a dismal
dream.
Dr. Eliot was led to his scheme of
elective, studies by comparing the in
efficiency of American education in
the sixties with the solid accomplish
ments of Europe. The graduate of
the German or French university went
out into the world thoroughly equip
ped to take up technical work and
carry ft through. The American col
lege graduate knew rather less than
nothing of a practical sort while his
classics and mathematics were pitiable
phantasms. If he wished to learn
anything worth while he had to go to
Europe. As a matter of fact, every
student of American biography up to
the last twenty years or so expects
to read of each man that "after grad
uating at Harvard or Yale with the
highest honors he went to Germany
to complete his studies." This Is a
polite way of saving that he went to
Germany to begin his studies. That
la what Dr. Eliot himself went for and
he came back an expert In chemistry.
How many remember that the great
educational theorist wrote a text book
of chemistry in those far-off days when
he was at the head of the Institute of
Technology? The cause of our educa
tional Inefficiency Dr. Eliot saw in
the cut and dried courses and methods
of the colleges, their foolish depend
ence upon theology, and thffir seedv
old faculties. He perceived tha,t the
adoption of elective studies would re
vive them at one stroke. It would
put new life into the branches, rout
theology, .eliminate the half dead pro
fessors and compel the adoption of
modern methods of instruction. All
this would come through the force of
competition, he prophesied, and events
have confirmed his foresight.
The retirement of Dr. Eliot formally
ends the public career of our most
eminent teacher and college admin
istrator; but there is no reason to fear
that he will not continue to think for
many years to come and express his
thoughts with his habitual compelling
vigor. .
RETTRN OF PROSPERITY.
Gratifying in the extreme is the in
dustrial news from the Eastern manu
facturing districts as well as from
those nearer home. The protracted
period of waiting and uncertainty that
has been so trying on the nerves of
business men has given way to a feeU
ing of confidence which is reflected in
all lines of trade. Prior to election
it was generally believed that the stock
market, which had been steadily re
gaining its lost strength, had reached
a point where any possible advantage
due to Republican success would be
fully discounted; but even In that ac
curate trade barometer remarkable
gains were scored es soon as the news
of Mr. Taft's election had been con
firmed. .
In the East, numerous large fac
tories are resuming operations with
liberal orders which had been held
up pending result of the election.
These orders are from merchants
who have been sailing close to
the wind since the panic of a year
ago, and who are now ready to aban
don the hand-to-mouth policy that
seemed necessary so long as there was
a possibility of election of Bryan and
the attendant flight of confidence from
all lines of business. There is noth
ing manufactured or artificial about
this confidence and Its effects. It is
the spontaneous and natural demon
stration of normally healthy business
conditions 'which for a time have been
held in bondage by distrust of a
blighting change In our political and
economic policies.
Money Is plentiful. Never In the
history of the country has there been
more of it stacked up in the banks.
For several years our farming indus
tries have enjoyed wonderful pros
perity, and naturally not only the
farmers but others Indirectly interest
ed in their prosperity, have accumu
lated large sums which since the panic
a year ago have been held off the mar
ket. Recovery from that panic has
been remarkably rapid, but it would
have been much more rapid had we
not been threatened with a drastic
change in the political policy of the
country. This return of optimism,
vigor and confidence means more to
the Pacific Coast than to any other
part of the country. It Is here that
the opportunities for development and
growth on a large scale are greater
than anywhere else in the United
States.
With an abundance of money at the
low rates which are encouraged by
confidence in the future, it will be pos
sible for the railroads to proceed with
their needed extensions and improve
ments, and following these extensions
will come other Industries throughout
the territory traversed. There will
be no wild, hysterical boom, but there
will be a steady and uninterrupted
move toward greater things In all of
the Pacific Northwest. In that move
ment Portland stands In a position to
realize more heavily than any other
Pacific Coast port, for the reason that,
even in the height of our prosperity
about a year ago real estate values
never soared t the dizzy extremes
reached by other cities on the Coast.
The drastic liquidation of last year
had a great moral effect on our finan
cial Institutions and the business of
high finance, received such a shdck
that It will not soon, if ever, reach the
prominence gained at that time.
With housecleanlng completed among
the weak financial institutions, and
with four years of stable, reliable ad
ministration of the affairs of the Gov
ernment, there is nothing that can
prevent the entire country, and espe
cially the Pacific Coast, from steadily
working up to a higher plane of pros
perity than we have ever known be
fore. A JOYFTL ANNIVERSAB1
Yesterday, November 5; was Guy
Fawkes day. If Portland citizens
were as observant es they might be of
the customs of their' British ancestors,
they would have constructed an ef
figy of the great conspirator and
burned it with hootings and shrieks of
pious rage. The weather was s fine
that It was almost a pity the festival
was forgotten. But even In England
it Is no longer celebrated with the zeal
it once was. Except In .-the cathedral
towns, where all pious observances
are naturally attended to better than
elsewhere, Guy Fawkes Is virtually
forgotten, and his day passes like any
other. His memory has faded with
the waning of the old bitterness be
tween the Catholics and Protestants.
Guy Fawkes gained his evil emi
nence in the reign of Jtames I, the
King who had the Bible translated
into an English classic. James was
little beloved by the Catholics, whom
he persecuted with a vigor natural
enough in an apostate, but no less
irritating for that. Certain men of the
older faith arranged to have the King
and his heretical Parliament, acceler
ated In their progress through this
vale of tears by blowing them all up
with gunpowder when they assembled
to open Parliament on the Bth of No
vember,' 1605. Guy Fawkes was se
lected on account of his many endear
ing qualities to apply the match to
the mine which had been planted un
der the Parliament house. The plot
was betrayed some ten days before its
consummation, and on the morning of
the Bth .Guv was caught squatting
among the powder barrels with the
slow matches in his hand.
This being a sectarian quarrel,
Fawkes and his accessories were
treated with true theological mercy.
He was first tortured a long time to
make him tell the names of the oth
ers in the plot and then hanged, drawn
and quartered after the good old Brit
ish rite. The rest of the conspirators
were also put to death and for many
years afterward Guy Fawkes day was
celebrated In England with the mer
riment which suited the anniversary
of an event so joyful.
The boy of twelve who is on trial for
hia life in th State Circuit Court in
this city is entitled to the sympathy
that is naturally aroused when an un
tutored child is on one side and a
brutal man on the other in a murder
ous encounter. The defendant in this
case is not a delinquent child In the
Juvenile Court's definition of that
term, but a boy seemingly without evil
intent or disposition, who, about to be
a.sailed, as he thought, by an angry
man with an oar. shot .in defense of
himself, his sister, half a dozen other
children and his dog. The encounter,
with its fatal result, could certainly
have been avoided by the man who
precipitated it at the expense as the
sudden sequel showed, of his'life. Hu
man sympathy wages war with official
duty In approaching Judgment in this
case.
Senor Palma, the Cuban, patriot,
died in New . York Wednesday. . This
old world of ours is hustling along so
rapidly at the present time that most
of our forgetful people would pause
for a moment to try and remember
who Palma Was. Ten years ago, how
ever, Palma was in the limelight all
of the time, and he was entitled to all
of the plaudits that he received. To
Palma more than all others among
that sturdy band of Cuban patriots
who plotted and fought and died that
Cuba miglSt be free is due the credit
for breaking the rule of Spain and
starting that rich country- on the
highway to modern civilization and
prosperity. Tomas Estradn Palma
will live in history, and the time will
come when even the. descendants of
the Liberals who caused him much
bitterness in his closing days will re
vere his memory-.
An attorney with the suggestive
name or Gaines seems to have been
acting as financial agent for the Ore
gon Railroad Commission. On the
strength of his promising to secure a
reduction in railroad rates on .wheat,
he seems to have succeeded In mak
ing contracts with a number of farm
ers who agree to pay him a certain
percentage of the reductions ordered
by the Railroad Commission. Unfor
tunately for Mr. Gaines, the rude and
unfeeling Railroad Commission has
intervened and informed the farmers
that there is a law providing methods
by which rate reductions, in case they
are warranted, can be secured without
the assistance of Independent financial
agents. Mr. Gaines struck a promis
ing field for exploitation, but it Is
feared that he will not be permitted
to enjoy the fruits of his enterprise.
It's a dull day that does not bring
to light some new position for Presi
dent Roosevelt. Yesterday's dispatches
announced that he would, after his
term expires, become a special con
tributing editor of Outlook. It was
also stated yesterday that he had been
mentioned as a possible successor for
President Eliot, . of Harvard Univer
sity. As It is quite evident that or
ganized labor will no longer permit
Samuel Gompers to lead It to destruc
tion, there might be an opportunity for
Roosevelt to succeed to that presi
dency. Possibly, perhaps probably, nay, in
deed, now surely. It will be under
stood what The Oregonian meant when
it said that the election was in the
great cities of New York and Chicago;
not only in the votes thrown in
those great cities, but in the influ
ence they exert all around them.
We are none of us materialists, in
the grosser sense; but all must do
business, and not allow imaginative
and unrealizable notions to overtop
the realities of practical life. Chase
of rainbows Interests us. But it is a
fairy tale.
It is said that Mr. Bryan is not de
pressed by the news of his defeat. A
man's feelings in such circumstances
Niepend greatly on habit. One who
has often been defeated In Presiden
tial contests must acquire more or less
immunity to disappointment. In the
language of Dr. Johnson, "a man used
to vicissitudes is not easily dejected."
Besides, Mr. Bryan is a man of pious
sentiments and he believes, doubtless,
that all these light afflictions which he
suffers at recurrent intervals of four
years are blessings In disguise.
The demonstration train which the
Harriman lines are running through
the Willamette Valley is the most per
fect of its kind that has ever been sent
out, and the interest shown by the
farmers indicates that it Is appreci
ated. Scientific farming is no longer
a joke, but is of vital necessity to the
farmer who desires to increase the
output of his land, flocks and herds.
The work accomplished by this trainis
certain to bring good results.
"If you want to study the genuine
effects of romantic love, go to the Po
lice Courts," wrote a famous cynic.
Sebastian Greco has said .more for
common sense In family relations by
his pistol and razor than a dozen
sloppy . novelists could say against it
with their pens if they each wrote a
book a week for a hundred years.
Why should Americans make "var
sity" stand for university? The ab
breviation is sensible enough In Eng
land because there It represents the
real pronunciation of the word. The
English actually say "univarsity,"
"Darby" for Derby, and so on; but we
do not. With us the abbreviation is
a bit of provincial imitativeness.
Four years hence, likely enough,
the Democratic candidate for Presi
dent will not count on Missouri until
he has its electoral vote nailed down
tight. Missouri seems to betray an
Inclination to show 'em that Democ
racy in that part of the South may
not be an Incurable disease.
"Taft has carried every county in
Oregon by unexpected pluralities," we
are told from Democratic sources.
Unexpected? Unexpected only by
those who thought they knew all
about it without taking the trouble to
find out from impartial and truthful
sources.
Perhaps the fellows who stand
around the streets and cigar-store
corners and want to bet everybody on
election will learn after a while that
they don't know anything about it,
never did, and never will. But where
did they ever get the money to bet at
all?
Tired but happy. Judge Taft has
gone to the Virginia Hot Springs for a
complete rest. ' He will remain there
two weeks, and as far as possible make
his mind a blank on political matters.
This Is wise.
We shall also hear no more of the
great Democratic scheme to require
the good banks to guarantee the bad.
The vote of Oregon for Taft was
vote of "recall" of Chamberlain.
STATE PAPERS ON THE ELECTION
Deitr, Dear: They Thought of Their
Stomachs.
Pendleton East Oregonian (Dem.)
Why Taft was chosen is not difficult
to see. it Is because the people were
satisfied to let well enough alone. It
Is a difficult - matter to displace a
political party when economic condi
tions throughout the country are good.
Business conditions are very fair now
and ninny who favor the measures ad
vocated by the Democratic party hesi
tated to bring on a change. They lis
tened to the threats made by the other
side and feared to displease the pow
ers that be. The people thought with
their stomachs rather than with their
brains.
Hurrah! Alao Whoopla!
Salem Statesman.
There will be four years of solid and
splendid prosperity in this country.
The wheels of Industry all. over the
land will go on with accelerated speed.
A billion dollars in orders for manu
factured articles, that would have been
countermanded or not given had Mr.
Bryan been elected, will now make the
men In the factories throughout the
country busy. Building operations in
ten thousand cities and towns will go
forward. There wlil be a market for
prunes and hops and wool, and all the
wants of a nation of workers will
make a demand for the things raised
on the farms and the articles made in
the factories. The hoarded money In
the banks and safety deposit vaults
and stockings will come out from hid
ing, to earn more money for its owners,
and to give added prosperity to the
whole Nation.
Things worth while will proceed
with a new activity."
Oh, Cheer Vpi the Worat la Yet to Come
La Grande Star (Dem.)
The most inexplicable surprise comes
from Union County, which gives Taft
a plurality of 247. And this in the
shadow of the failure of the Farmers
and Traders Bank, which so recently
closed Its doors, robbing the child Who
has saved its nickels, to those helpless
from age who had placed their sav
ings of a lifetime there for safe
keeping, and are now left penniless,
the victim of a one-sided banking sys
tem that takes our money and in our
hour of need leaves us nothing but a
ticket to the poor house. It is all over,
the votes ate counted out and the trust
and money baror.s have full sway for
four more years.
Still the Same Theortat.
Eugene Register.
There is little, if any, difference be
tween the Bryan of 1896 and the Bryan
of 19D8. He is older grown but still
a theorist, and a theorist in the Presi
dential chair would be a menace to the
republic, hence the people, who rule
In this great Nation of ours, very
wisely set Mr. Bryan aside for the
third and. possibly, the last time, for,
as between the man who Is a theorist
and the man who is practical, con
servative and longheaded the United
States will always choose the latter.
Bryan's bank guaranty plan and his
position with reference to injunctions
made against him In. this campaign,
especially with the business Interests
without regard to party.
Plenty of Rrasoni) bat What's the I'sef
Albany Democrat.
Mr. Taft has beaten a clean, pure
and able man, one above reproach.
Nevertheless it was a great mistake run
ning Mr. Bryan at this time. Twice de
feated he should have, given up to
someone else. Governor Johnson, of
Minnesota, should have been given the
Dlace. He would have made a cam
paign that would have made Mr. Taft
take notice. Mr. Bryan, like Webster
and Clay, can never be elected Presi
dent, and he will do well to accept the
inevitable, and further, not to dictate
i.ie policies of his party too persist
ently, as good as they may be. ,
It Is easy to give reasons, but what's
the use.
. No More Vagarlons Agitation.
Pendleton Tribune.
Bryanism has again been given a solar
plexus blow as it deserved. The
United States has never enjoyed a ten
year period of such prosperity among
all its people as during the last decade
and there has been no more call for
Bryan's wild attacks on our Institu
tions than there was against the opera
tion of the laws of gravity. He has
just closed the weakest campaign ever
made by any candidate for President
of the I'nited States and has been
taught a lesson which should per
manently terminate his incessant in
fiction of half-baked vagaries on a
people who think for themselves.
Saved!
Baker City Herald.
The American Nation is saved for
four years more at least. Saved from
what? .From the ranting foolishness
of a man with a hobby; from the de
plorable conditions that are sure to
follow free trade; from the financial
disturbance which the guaranteed bank
deposit scheme of Bryan would have
caused; from the Idleness of factory
and shop; from the reduced values in
farm products and other depressions
that are akin to Democratic statesman
ship and rule. This Ib one of the
many times when the "people rule."
People Are In Great Luck.
La Grande Observer.
It is -conceded that no man ever en
tered upon the duties of the high office
of President as well equipped and with
such general ripe experience as Wil
liam H. Taft. The people, under these
circumstances, expect a wide and
profitable administration, and they will
not be disappointed.
Guaranteed.
Astorian.
The ejection of Taft is the best guar
anty of bank deposits and other valu
ables that make up the property of the
people.
Heavy All Along the Line.
Roseburg Review.
Emulating our heavyweight Presi
dent, crops should be extra heavy the
next year.
JAPAN'S MESSAGE TO MR. TAFT
Also Chnructerlatic Sea-inaper Notice
of Our Fleet's Vial to Nippon.
PORTLAND, Nov. 0. (Dear Editor.)
Most hearty congratulation for the
success of Mr. Taft which you have
done a great deal for, and we, Japa
nese are not concerned directly to the
same, still, we enjoy it very much.
Under separate cover, I seud a copy
of a Japanese magazine which we have
Just received from Japan which I think,
you may be interested to see some Eng
iish words of welcome to the fleet. This
magazine is entitled The Taiheiyo,
same meaning The Pacific and Is for
young people. I do not think you can
read the rest of those on the first page.
M. FURUYA CO.
D. T. UCHIDA
The printed page referred to reads:
Welcome!!!
tva enthuaiastlcally welcome our dis
tinguished gueata from the thither count
of the Pacific. They are the bravest sons
of a mighty Republic the glorious messen
gers from a country, where relations to us
were always cordial. Let us embrace them
as brothers, entertain them as old com
rades. Americans and Japan se are the two
greatest nations on the coasts of thej broad
ocean and so long aa they remain friends
and brothers, the peac and prosperity of
Lb East will not btt disturbed.
I APPRECIATION OF DOI CLAS FIR
A Beautiful Oregon Wood for Interior
Finish of Offices and Homes.
American Lumberman.
When E. H. Harriman was ' on the
Pacific Coast recently he vtstted the
Portland Commercial Club and was at
once attracted by the permanent furni
ture, fixed seats, etc.. in the clubhouse
made from Oregon, or Douglas fir. He
thought them more beautiful than ma
hogany and requested an official of the
Harriman lines, who chanced to be in
the party, to send him samples, saying
he would probably use the wood in his
new home, a country residence, which
it is understood will be the most elab
orate In America. Not long after came
President B. L Winchell, of the Rock
Island road, who is one of the ablest
and brightest of the younger set of
American railroad men. and he served
notice upon the officials of the Harri
man lines that unless they hastened
to furnish a sleeper or dining car in
Douglas fir he' would do so and "beat
them to it."
It. is somewhat surprising that out
side of Washington and Oregon the
merits of ftr for Interior finish of of
fices and residences and for furniture
are known so little, or not at all. It
might have been somewhat of an ex
aggeration to say that fir is more beau
tiful than mahogany, but it is a wood
of beauty as well as of utility. It is
unnecessary to make comparisons.
There are manv beautiful woods, and
each should have its place In any well
designed and artistically furnished
home, or fine business structure, hue
no wood of beauty should be ignored.
A competent architect or furniture
designer can not neglect mahogany,
or oak. or birch, or maple. Or yellow
plno in some of its forms, and he should
not neglect Douglas fir. A wood is
naturally beautiful when it combines
an attractive color with a pleasing
figure and when it will take a smooth
and durable finish. Any wood having
those qualities is god to use. and
Douglas fir ranks among the best of
them. It needs no. stain to make it
beautiful in color, It does not have to
be carefully selected for grain, it
takes a fine finish and it is strong
and as hard as many of the woods used
for the finer purposes. On the Pacific
Coast are many fine residences and
magnificent office buildings In which
this wood is used. Many office build
ings a'e completely finished in it. In
residences it is used in libraries, halls,
dininfy-rooms, drawing-rooms or cham
bers, vieing with oak, mahogany and
other woods that are customarily pre
ferred for such purposes.
Perhaps a Tacoma lumber company
was the first to make a practical dem
onstration of its merits for such pur
poses, for about 15 years ago it put
up a fine office building for its own
use in connection with its saw mills
and finished it throughout in Douglas,
fir. Most visitors from the East, un
familiar with the wood, were puzzled
to know what this beautiful finish
could be made of. It was, in fact,
remarkably attractive. Following
that exemplification of its merits for
the finer uses, it was put in a multi
tude of first-class buildings, for either
residence or business use, until now it
Is more largely used than any other
material for interior finish u-ied on
the basis of its merits, and not merely
because It is a local product and rela
tively cheap.
The rest of the country is beginning
to know Douglas fir as an interior
finish wood because it Is being made
into doors and shipped all over the
country, but that trade is not large
enough yet to make every one acquaint
ed with fir. and on account of its
excess weight as compared to pine,
and the distance which these doors are
shipped, it may not for a good many
years be a very prominent factor in
the Eastern door trade. But as a raw
material for the sash and door, interior
finish and furniture factories of the
East, it should rapidly grow in favor.
It will not supplant mahogany and
oak, but it should be used side by side
with them and for substantially the
same purposes. It will give variety In
the office and in the home, and is well
worth a place on its own merits.
It should not be despised because it
Is cheap. It is cheap, not because it is
not ' good and beautiful, but because
it is plentiful. Clear selected fir can
be laid down in Chicago, for example,
at less than one-half the cost of ma
hogany and not much more than one
half the cost of white oak, but this
low cost lumber can be made into
goods which will put to scorn the word
"cheap."
We do not expect to Influence the
consumer by what we have said, for
the consumer takes what the architects
and furniture designers and the con
tractors prescribe, but these gentle
men are missing their chances if they
fail to take Douglas fir into account.
BLAMES BIG TIMBER SYNDICATES
Favors Levying Tax on Fixed Basis of
the Average Stumpoge Value.
GALE'S CREEK, Or.. Nov. 4. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian of last
Saturday appeared a communication
by Ben Irwin, headed "Don't Assess
Standing Timber."
Mr. Irwin's communication is perhaps
good In one way, but as there are al
ways two sides to an issue, I now point
out a few mistaken ideas of his.
The counties of Columbia, Clatsop,
Tillamook and others, did not cruise
their timber for the purpose of raising
the taxation, but to equalize It and
place the burden of taxation where it
properly belongs. Heretofore, a poor
man with perhaps only 1,000.0)0 feet
of standing timber on his quarter sec
tion, was assessed as much as a big
corporation was taxed for 20,000,000, on
a like amount ofland. These big tim
ber companies, in 90 per cent of their
holdings never paid one-tenth of their
actual cash value to the patentee and
would not sell their holdings today for
ten times the amount invested. The
consequences are that the poor man
is compelled to sell his timber claim
for any price he can get, or have it
eaten up by taxes.
These same syndicates that own four
fifths of the finest timber in the above
counties are the sole cause of the enor
mous prices we pay for lumber. They
control the timber situation and will
market only what they please. So, I
say that it is only Just to levy a tax
on a fixed basis of the average stump
age value.
Mr. Irwin also says that Columbia
County will suffer for all time to come
by forcing the timbermen to cut their
timber now, and that when other coun
ties are receiving high prices and heav
ier taxes, Columbia County will only
have a lot of cut-over, uninhabited
land left. Does any one think that
the "higher taxes of other counties"
are going to lure the honest, hard
working settler away from Columbia
County? He will find that as soon as
that timber is removed, that Columbia
County will be settled with a class of
thrifty, industrious homeseekers who
will be a pride to any county and of a
more substantial benefit to the tax
roll than the timber.
The records of Tillamook County will
show that as administrator of an es
tate, I disposed of 160 acres of land
with the accepted estimate of 21,140,000
feet of standing timber, for which I
had been assessed $36 per year. I can
point to several claims that do not
contain over 5,000,000 to the 160 acres,
that paid the same tax. That speaks
for Itself. that there was no fair play
for the man who held a 6,000,000 claim.
SAM J. SMITH.
Mr. Hearst Knowa.
Washington Star.
Nobody but Mr. Hearst himself can say
whether he got $12,000 worth of fun out
of those letters.
DR. FOILKES WAS MISQl'OTED
Never Reported Conversation aa Havln
Occurred at City Council.
PORTLAND. Nov. . (To the Edi
tor.) Councilman Baker does the Rev.
W. H. Foulkes an injustice In his letter
to The Oregonian. He charges Dr.
Foulkes with "willful misrepresenta
tion" In reporting In his address at
the Y. M. C. A. last Sunday a conversa
tion between a representative of the
Retail I.lquor Dealers' Association and
a member of the Council as taking
place in a Council meeting. I heard
Dr. Foulkes at the Y. M. C. A. meeting
last Sunday, and distinctly remember
that he said the conversation took
place at a meeting of the liquor license
committee of the Council, and not at a
meeting of the ouncil. 1 am also willing
to say that he gave a truthful report of a
conversation that did take place at a
meeting of the liquor license committee,
at which I was present.
A. A. WILLS, Councilman at Large.
PORTLAND. Nov. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) Dr. Foulkes. of the First Preshy
terlan Church, is charged by Council
man Baker, in a letter to The Ore
gonian. with "willful misrepresenta
tion." He accuses Dr. Foulkes of tes
tifying that a certatn conversation took
place at a meeting of the City Council.
I was present at the Y. M. C. A. meet
ing last Sunday afternoon and heard
the address given by the minister in
question, and remember that he told
the conversation as taking place at a
meeting of the liquor license commit
tee. He described the table around
which the members of the committee
sat, and how the representative of the
Liquor Association set on one side and
the Councllmen he addressed on the
other side. In addition to his naming
the liquor license committee as the
place where the conversation took
place, his description made it impos
sible to apply to the City Council.
F. MKEKCHER.
VOTES FOR 18 C. S. PRESIDENTS
Remarkable Experience of Veteran Re
publican Who Supported Mr. Taft.
OREGON CITY, Or., Nov. 5. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian of yester
day it is said: "If a man lives 80 years,
he can participate in only 15 Presiden
tial elections. Another 15th part of
life's joys came and went yesterday."
The writer, a retired printer of Ore
gon City, claims thp.t in the 90 years
and over he has livid he has voted 18
times at Presidential elections, begin
ning with the Whig candidate, W. H.
Harrison, in 1840. and closing with W.
H. Taft at Tuesday s election. In these
i8 votes, he has had the satisfaction of
being on the winning side 12 times.
He remembers, too, that in the 68 years
beginning with the inauguration of Mr.
Harrison and the retiring of Mr. Roose
velt. March 4 next, the Democratic
pacty has had control of the Govern
ment only 20 years five Presidential
terms Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, one
term each, arid Cleveland two terms.
"Shall the people rule?" Yea. verily.
They have drawn comparisons, and
have said that in the 20 years of Demo
cratic rule that the country has had
more financial panics, more "hard
times," more distress among the labor
ing masses, than in all the 48 years of
Whig and Republican rule. And for
this reason they have wisely decided
to keep a Republican captain and crew
on board the ship of state during her
next four years' voyage.
E. WARNER.
Stand by Principles, Not Men.
HILLSBORO, Or.. Nov. 5. (To the
Editor.) The editorial, "Constitutional
and . Representative Duty." in today's
Oregonian is terse and to the point. I trust
that every true Republican will reread
the article and ask his Representative
and Senator to the next session of our
State Legislature to at least be consistent
and vote for a Republican Senator. Per
sonal popularity may and doe's carry men
oft their political equilibrium and lead
them to forget that they should vole for
principles as well as to vote for men;
but when they regain their senses, let
them make reparation and vote for the
men who formulate and stand for Re
publican principles. J. P. TAMIES1E,
" According to "The New Law."
Harper's Weekly.
Parents of Wayne, a suburb of Phila
delphia, are required to report prompt
ly any case of contagious disease. In
compliance with the regulations of the
local board of health.
In accordance with this order. Health
Officer Leary received this post card
recently:
"Dear Sir This is to notify you that
my boy Ephraim is down with the
measles as required by the new law."
Thinks Oregonian Fought Good Fight.
PORTLAND, Nov. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) I congratulate The Oregonian on
Mr. Taft's great victory, and believes
that It is all for the best. The Ore
gonian fought mighty hard and cheered
and encouraged the people of all the Pa
cific States to come up strong against the
miehtv. F. MACNE1L
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF
THE SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
SOME MEN WHO WERE
CLOSE TO LINCOLN
Living Americans who got
close to the great Emancipator
and are now able to throw side
lights on his character.
MAKING TRUMPETS OUT
OF PUMPKIN LEAVES
Full-page illustration in col
ors of an entirely original Au
tumn scene in Eastern Multno
mah County.
TILLAMOOK'S CAMPAIGN
FOR GOOD ROADS
General awakening over the
construction of first class high
ways throughout the county.
MIGHTY RIDGES
OF PRECIOUS ROCK
Bohemia district, Lane Coun
ty, with its wealth of undevel
oped gold, silver and copper
mines.
STUPENDOUS OPERA
AND HAM SANDWICHES
Mrs. Alma A. Rogers writes
frtaji Vicuna concerning enjoy
ment of the highest in musical
ai-t and' humble refreshment
between acts.
FOOTBALL AND ROMANCE
BY THE HOTEL CLERK
A dissertation on the second
ary National game, together
with comment on approaching
matrimony.
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