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THK PACIFIC OCEAJ.
Election of Taft assures attention to
the interests of the United States In
the Pacific. Mr. Taft knows what
ought to be done, and how to do It.
He Is an earnest advocate of free trade
between our Pacific Islands and the
mother" country. He knows that
commerce will bind them to us. and
will bind us to them. In the Presi
dential office his influence will be
great and strong for permanent at
tornment of the Islands to ourselves,
and for enforcement of the policy nee
fsuiary to maintenance of American
Interests in the Pacific Ocean.
Our Pacific states, no question, have
(treat slake herein. Control of the
Pacific Is a matter which specially con
cerns them. It was thought of when
overy state. of ours on the Pacific
Ocean, and every state on the Pacific
. slope that feels the throb and energy
of their political and commercial life,
voted for Taft, knowing him to be the
best exponent of their desire and fore
cast as to the. future of the United
States In and upon the Pacific Ocean.
Do we realize what It means? In a
general way we do; yet we are con
trolled by a tendency that we scarcely
realize or understand. Rapid develop
ment and change on the Pacific shores
of the two hemispheres will, within
a century, produce great changes upon
the face of the world. Our Pacific
states of America will be profoundly
affected by these changes. We should
consider what they mean.
A few days ago the Emperor of
Germany gave out a siatement for
publication in the London Telegraph,
which has had attention in eve ry part
of the world. The primary object of
the statement was to show that Ger
many was in no way hostile to Eng
land, had not favored her enemies, did
not assist or encourage the Boers of
South Africa, and had no thought of
coming into conflict with Great
Hritain. whose power essentially is
power at sea. Those matters we may
pass by. as not of direct concern to
its: but there was a statement In this
deliverance of the Emperor of Ger
many which does concern us, and
which we should do well to heed.
"Look." said he, "at the accomplished
rise of Japan. Think of a possible
national awakening in China, end
then cf the vast problems of the Pa
."".c. Only those powers which have
great navies will be listened to with
respect, when the future of the Pa
cific ccmes to be solved; ar.d if for
that reason only Germany must have
n. powerful fleet." If It Is Important
to Germany, how much more Impor
tant to the United State?; We are
upon the scene. Germany is distant
from It. Unless we have power at
tea we shall be outside the question.
Our Influence will be nothing.
To theorize on altruistic and hu
manitarian principles, in the presence
of such a situation. Is merely to be
impotent. If we would be listened to
with respect a navy is necessary.
Hence a navy on the Pacific Is one of
he greatest. If not the very greatest, of
our -National needs. All history, all
experience, supports the claim; and U
Is the function of the Intelligent
national mind to look before as well
to study that which is behind.
Power at sea has always controlled
the course of history.- In the nature of
things it always will. Greece pre
served the western world by the vic
tory In the naval battle of Salami.
Carthage would have annihilated
Home, and the whole course of the
modern world would have run in chan
nels different from those we know had
Hannibal been able to make his coun
try understand the necessity of main
tenance of power at sea. By her power
t sea Venice ruled during the middle
gr.; the Turk's advance in the con
quest of Europe was stopped at the
naval battle of Lepantp. The only
force that could hold out against the
colossal power of Napoleon waa the
naval strength of England. Our own
Independence was won at Yorktown by
the almost "accidental presence of a
superior French fleet. Our Confeder
ate states would have won their Inde
pendence had they been able to ob
tain command of the ocean, or even
to contend for It. on even terms.
We may never have to fight for
maintenance of our position on the
J'acltlc. But if we are to maintain it
on equal terms with others, and not
by their sufferance, we must be ready
to fight for It. Roosevelt has the
Idea: Taft has the idea, and from this
point of view it is fortunate that Taft
Is the successor of Roosevelt. Through
Taft our Pacific Islands will be drawn
into closer relations, with new and
stronger ties of interest and com
merce; we shall have an Influence at
work for creation and support of a
Pacific naval force, and we may ex
pect that our maritime interests on
the Pacific, as well as on the Atlantic,
will be deemed worthy of Xational at
tention. COMMENT OX THE ELECTION.
After a great political fight Is over
and the passion of combatants has
cooled, you get a fair estimate of the
cause and the effect of the struggle
from the Intelligent press of the coun
try, even If in the moil and broil of
the campaign every newspaper was
partisan. The earnest, honestly ex
pressed sentiment of the United States
over Taft's election Is reflected In the
comment of its representative Jour
nals. Copious extracts are presented
In this issue of The Oregonlan. It is
gratifying to see the manly spirit of
the Democratic press toward Taft. and
a disposition on the part of independ
ent papers with Bryan leanings to
stand by the President-elect. Note the
tone of the New York World, and
Hearst's New York American, the
over-critical New York Evening Post,
and the cold Springfield Republican.
Here Is the able and conservative
Brooklyn Eagle predicting that the
South will support Taft's policies and
the always non-partisan New York
Herald telling its readers to depend on
quiet and stability for the next four
years. Democrats In the Pacific
Northwest will find in the comment
several reasons for picking on some
other man besides Bryan for candidate
In 1912.
THE NOVEMBER METEORS.
Two or three of these latest nights
have been comparatively clear at Port
land, ret hazy: but on the heights
the air has been comparatively clear.
A few of the November meteors have
been seen, but no great number.
Should the sky continue clear many
may appear.
The November meteor stream, as we
call it, is due now; that is. the earth
In the progress it makes through its
orbit, cuts great meteor streams In
the month of November, the brilliancy
of which, in the display, depends on
a number of conditions, as yet only
partially known. But it depends large
ly on the state of the earth's atmos
phere and the standpoint of the ob
server; and, again, as astronomers
suppose, on the fact that the meteor
stream is more dense at one point than
another. when cut by the passage of
the earth in its orbit. The passage of
the earth through the larger meteor
belts is known to take place in No
vember, though lesser meteoric phe
nomena are witnessed at other seasons
of the year. Again, the earth may
pass through the denser parts of the
stream one year in the daytime, at
another year in the night time. Be
sides, the meteor streams may not
pursue quite the same orbits or
courses from year to year, for travers
ing their wide paths around the sun
they are liable to be attracted from
their normal courses by the greater
planets, and their vibrations may re
semble those of an elastic hoop that
has been sharply struck. All these
conditions and many more affect the
November and other meteoric displays.
Meteors are sjpposed to be parts
and particles of matter, more or less
associated, pursuing In their belts In
dependent orbits around the sun, but
liable to great interference from vari
ous causes; yet observation has shown
that the greatest manifestations of
meteors are In the month of Novem
ber. It is believed that the whole solar
system is alive with meteors, or with
meteoric matter; and as the earth In
Its course through space comes in
contact with these particles they are
fused by the passage through its at
mosphere. Most of the meteors are
never seen. Yet the earth, day and
night, is "pelted with star-dust, stoned
with meteor-balls,'.' and in the month
of November probably most of all.
IMMIGRATION TIDE RISING.
September reports on Immigration
Into the United States show a slight
Increase in the number of newcomers,
as compared with the preceding
months of this year. The statistics for
the nine months ending with Septem
ber, as compared with those for the
same period in 1907, show a net loss
of nearly 1,000,000 people, there being
a decrease in the inflow of 729,603,
while the departures for the nine
months were 247.376 greater than for
the same period last year. These fig
ures show a striking curtailment of
our power to utilize foreign labor, and
while the movement has undoubtedly
reached, "low water slack," the turn
of the tide Is coming too late In the
season to result in very great increases
In immigration this year.
The recent improvement in the gen
eral industrial situation has undoubt
edly been noted abroad, or there would
have been no such increase as was
shown In the September figures; but
most of the vast crowd of foreigners
who took the back track to their old
homes when the panic was at Its
height about a year ago will remain
abroad until Spring, and their exam
ple will be followed by the Intending
newcomers, who will again turn in this
direction for employment. Meanwhile
their presence will not be seriously
missed from this country; In fact. It
may be of some assistance in restoring
normal conditions. There Is appar
ently a sufficient amount of labor
available for all Immediate require
ments, and the absence of the foreign
ers quite naturally makes It easier for
our own people to secure employment.
But with the settlement of our quad
rennial political disturbance and com
plete restoration of our rudely inter
rupted prosperity, there will again
come a demand for all of the labor
that can be secured.
This country Is still enormously rich
in natural resources as yet undevel
oped, except in a small way, and the
more men that can be worked to ad
vantage in development of these re
sources the greater will be the profits
of all concerned. What this country
stands most In need of in the Immi
gration line Is a better class of for
eigners than the average run which
had been pouring in for several years
prior to the panic of last Fall. We
need men who will go out into the
woods and on the prairie and build
homes to which they can retire when
an occasional reversal of prosperity is
experienced.
WATER HAUL TO CHICAGO.
There was nothing visionary or Im
probable in the prediction made by
Vice-President Fairbanks that lumber
and other products from the Pacific
Coast would eventually be delivered In
Chicago by water. The greatest ton
nage to move through the Panama
Canal from this region, will be lumber.
As yet our shippers are expecting no
such inroads on the rail trade as would
make possible diversion of the busi
ness to an all-water haul so far in
land after It had reached the Atlantic
Coast. But Chicago still has great
aspirations for seaport honors. The
people of Illinois have recently ad
opted a constitutional amendment, em
powering the Legislature to authorize
a bond issue of $20,000,000, to be used
In construction of a deep waterway to
the Mississippi River. The Father of
Waters is also receiving unusual at
tention at this time, and with suffi
cient appropriations can undoubtedly
be placed in condition for navigation
of vessels of medium draft for many
hundred miles Inland.
It will hardly be possible to place
the Mississippi River and its Chicago
connection in shape to handle the
monster steamships which now prove
to be the most economical craft for
the handling of our lumber, but trans
shipments at New Orleans on vessels
of lighter draft for shipment hun
dreds of miles inland may be re
garded as reasonably certain. It is
in this Atlantic coast trade, and the
European trade, that Portland and the
Columbia River will witness the great
est possible volume of lumber traf
fic. In no other similar area in the
known world Is there such a vast
amount of merchantable standing tim
ber as now Ilea untouched between
the Columbia and Willamette rivers
and the Pacific ocean. In addition to
this forest of almost illimitable pro
portions there Is another vast field of
virgin timber lying east of these
streams, all of which must come out
to market by way of Portland.
Tillamook. Nehalera, Yaqulna, and a
number of other small ports can han
dle a small local business along the
coast with fairly good success, but
when the real business of manufactur
ing lumber on a big scale is com
menced the entire coast territory, ex
cept in the immediate vicinity of As
toria, becomes tributary to Portland
or some nearby point on the Willam
ette or Columbia, where the -great
ocean freighters can load to their ca
pacity. Based on the Government
figures as to the growing use of lum
ber. It seems quite clear that by the
time the canal Is completed our tim
ber supply will have been reduced so
materially that much higher prices
will prevail. It is then that our tim
ber holders will reap the reward for
their patience, and It Is then that
Portland and Oregon will view with
pleasure an era of big shipments at
big prices.
The Panama Canal will be the
means of diverting a large amount of
Oriental business that formerly flowed
through Portland and other Pacific
ports, but it will undoubtedly add to
the commercial growth and prestige of
the Pacific Northwest by permitting
us to flood the world's market with
vast quantities of timber. There is
nothing wild or visionary In Mr. Fair
banks' prediction, and when it is ful
filled, as it almost certainly will be,
the greatest wheat port on the Pacific
Coast will easily retain the prestige of
being the greatest lumber port on
earth. Mr. Fairbanks only a short
time ago visited this rich land, and he
is in a position to speak intelligently
on the topics in which our people are
most concerned. His prophesy will
come true.
MR. TAFT'S RELIGION.
President Roosevelt's letter to Mr.
J. C. Martin, of Dayton, O., is one of
those exalted essays on religious lib
erty which only the noblest minds can
compose, but which all of us can
understand and appreciate. Mr. Mar
tin Is a mere lay figure, of course. The
President needed somebody to address
himself to; hence he drew at random,
perhaps, from a pile of letters, all
much alike, and Mr. Martin's hap
pened to come first. If he had drawn
Mr. Jones' or Mr. Partington's it would
have been all the same. Any one of
them would have supplied him with a
text for the great sermon on religious
freedom which he was resolved to
preach as soon as the election was
over, for they all inquired imperti
nently into Mr. .Taft's faith or lack
of it.
Naturally, the President's dictum
that a public official's religion is pure
ly a question between himself and. his
maker must be taken with certain
obvious reservations. Everybody will
admit that a man's clothing concerns
himself alone. A voter has no decent
right to inquire whether a candidate
dresses in broadcloth or fustian, or
even whether he puts a swallow-tail
on when he goes out to dinner. And
yet If It were certain that a given
candidate for the Presidency would,
if he were to be elected, receive am
bassadors barefoot and in a red flannel
shirt, good citizens might permissably
pause before voting for him. Many
things which are not sinful nor illegal
are still scandalous. One might say
something of the same sort about re
ligion. It is a matter which a man
must settle with the Almighty. His
fellow citizens have no right to meddle
with it. And yet, If a man's religious
creed or practice outrages convention
as glaringly as a red flannel shirt at
a White' House reception would, we
can scarcely avoid taking notice of It
when he runs for office. Mr. Roose
velt himself would probably demur to
a Mormon elder or a Holy Roller for
his successor. . The most emancipated
soul 4n the United States would feel
some misgivings at the prospect of a
Tongues of Fire exhorter being ap
pointed to succeed Chief Justice Ful
ler. Even in these enlightened times,
therefore, a ian's religious views, and
especially his practices, might conceiv
ably cut a figure in a political cam
paign without reproach. In the past
there have been occasions when the
religious opinions of public men could
not have been Ignored without griev
ous folly. Suppose Queen Elizabeth
had chosen a Jesuit for her minister
Instead of Lord Cecil. The history of
the world would have been altered for
the worse. Few will deny that the
English Insistence upon a Protestant
succession to the crown was Judicious
statecraft when the Stuarts were ex
pelled. It was wise because it was
the only feasible method of preventing
the British Isles from becoming an
appanage of France and Northern civ
ilization succumbing to ultramontane
Influences. In the days when religion
was politics it could not be eliminated
from politics, but we have come to a
time now when state and church have
parted company, ostensibly at least.
Each undertakes to run its own busi
ness without help from the other or
interference with it. The state does
not support the church or constrain
It. The Government does not seek to
prescribe ritual, impose creed or ap
point bishops. The President is ex
officlo head of no church, and he lays
claim to no ceremonial sacredness. To
assassinate him Is a secular crime, but
it Is not sacrilege,' as it would be to
kill the Czar or King Edward, who are
both the ceremonial representatives
of the Almighty.
On the other hand, whatever the
churches may claim in theory, in prac
tice they have given up their pre
tension to dominate the state. Some
of them seem still to be disquietingly
receptive of favors from the secular
arm. but u.pon the whole they have
submitted with such grace as they
may to the verdict of the modern
world, that priests make good consola
tors but bad rulers, and the wider the
chasm we open between theology and
statecraft the better for us all.
Still, the more firmly a man believes
his religious opinions the more he
values them and the more difficult it
is for him to admit that a person who
denies them can be trusted in private
or public life. The peace which reigns
among conflicting creeds has been in
terpreted to mean that nobody cares
much for any of them. Anybody who
vitally believed his creed could hardly
keep his peace when it was denied.
A person who believed that his way of
getting to Heaven was the only true
one would feel Justified In forcing
everybody else to adopt It if he could.
What Is a little Imprisonment or tor
ture. 'or the stake itself, if it saves us
from eternal fire? On grounds like
these W. H. Matlock, among others,
has argued for the equity of persecu
tion. The fact that no church cares
to persecute any longer is a tacit ad
mission by ail of them that possibly
there may be mistakes in their codes.
Thex absurd failure to -stir up secta
rian rancor against Mr. Taft. shows
that the American citizen, as a rule,
has transvalued the old sectarian con
cepts. He has measured them by new
standards and computed revised esti
mates of their worth. The modern
worth may exceed the ancient or It
may not. but it certainly belongs to an
entirely different realm. Religion and
politics are divorced in this country
for good and all.
PrInce Henry of Prussia, brother of
the Kaiser, Is probably the most use
ful man in his way in Germany. An
Admiral in the navy, a genial fellow
and a man well versed in social and
governmental matters, he is also the
handy man of the imperial family.
When there Is a risk to be taken in
the interest of "science he takes it the
life of the Crown Prince being far
too precious to be placed In Jeopardy;
when there is a funeral function to be
attended in solemn state Prince Henry
dons mourning and goes; when a wed
ding, his festive garments come out,
and again he goes. When an airship,
as auxiliary to the naval equipment of
the empire Is to be tested from on
high he takes his life in hand and
climbs aboard. Between him and the
throne are seven lives those of the
Kaiser's six sons and one grandson.
Hence no great disaster to the realm
would follow his death. All loyal Ger
mans would, however, mourn such an
event as a personal loss, so strong a
hold has this genial, fair-haired son
of the lamented Emperor Frederick
upon their affections.
Tha semte) to marriage entered into
against the advice and expostulations
of kind, considerate ana aneciionate
nofonto hot often been written in
tears and regrets. The story is an old
one, that in endless repetition pnngs
up nothing new. Its latest public
Illustration is found in the case of
Ruth Bryan-Leayitt, who after several
iraaca ef imhonnv married experience
has returned to her father's house with
her children, asking only that her
husband remain away from her. It is
said that she abhors divorce and will
not seek one. Other women of per
haps equal sensibility have preferred
divorce to the position of a wife in
nama nnltr Tha miefiHon thllK TlTG'
sented is a matter of Individual taste
and may be dismissed witnout preju
dice in either case. The lesson pre
liminary to the condition that forces
this decision 1 . one that wilful girls
who scout parental advice in the
matter of marriage have often conned
through tears, and learned through
humiliation and sorrow.
The reaction in the New York stock
market yesterday was almost inevita
ble. That it was not in evidence sooner
is remarkable. This Is not due to
any special cause for weakness, nor is
It any reflection on the merits of the
securities involved. It is . simply a
case of the public taking profits that
have accumulated during the remark
able advance both before and since
election. There has never been and
there probably never will be a pro
tracted period In which stocks make
heavy gains without occasional breath
ing spells, in which Investors unload
sufficiently to cause a temporary sag
ging in the market. The Government
decision on tobacco stocks may have
had some sentimental or sympathetic
effect on prices, but the real, cause
of the comparatively small weakness
that was apparent was the profit
taking by an element well satisfied
with the heavy gains scored.
The Government crop report, which
appeared yesterday, made such a flat
tering showing for corn that there was
a decline of more than a cent in the
price. According to this report there
is now Indicated a yield of 2,642,
000.000 bushels, compared with 2,692,
000,000 bushels actually harvested last
year. This latest estimate is more
than 100,000.000 bushels greater than
those made earlier In the season. If
it is correct the country as a whole
will be better off, even at a slight les
sening In price. The news should be
especially pleasing to the railroads in
the .corn belt. Even at .yesterday's
closing prices, the crop has a value
of $1,600,000,000, which is not. an in
significant sum, even when divided
among a great many people.
It is announced that the foreign
missions committee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has appropriated
over $1,000,000 for next year's work
in Africa and China. In another col
umn of the paper that makes this
announcement there is printed the
statement of a State Senator in Mary
land that Tuskegee Institute Is a com
plete failure and that education of the
negro unfits him for work and makes
him a criminal. But the work of the
Institute and the foreign mission work
of the Methodist church will continue.
Perhaps an appropriation ought to be
made for home mission work among
Maryland State Senators.
The fatal ending of the elopement
of the young Van Vlack girl of East
ern Oregon by what the police of San
Francisco allege to be a criminal op
eration further emphasizes a truism
co-existent with civilization, that the
sanctity of the home cannot be pre
served in a divided family. There is
a lesson for parents in every case of
the kind.
Banker Morse has been sentenced to
serve 15 years in prison for wrecking
his bank in New York. But he hasn't
served any time, and is not likely to
do so soon. It is one thing to sen
tence a banker quite rare, too and
another thing to put him behind the
bars. Here In Oregon we have seen
bank wreckers sentenced, but no one
has seen them behind the bars.
A number of Oregon girls have
learned by sad experience in the last
few months that the wages of sin is
death; but the young men who were
parties to the crimes have suffered
no such penalties, nor any penalties.
Perhaps the goddess of Justice is a
little too blind.
Steel King Schwab has boarded up
his $7,000,000 palace because he can
not afford to maintain it.. Evidently
he is not much happier than the oc
cupant of a $700 cottage In Portland
suburbs who can afford to' maintain
his habitation in appropriate fashion.
The Linn County Grange is more
than half right in preferring well-made
short roads radiating from railroad
towns to one great highway across
the state. That means business before
pleasure.
The surplus of over 2.000,000 bales
of cotton in the United States this
year comes right handy for the over
time running of the mills.
Where will a real lady go now to
get a drink in Portland?
SLAVERY IN OREGON TERRITORY
Several Instance of Blacks Held In Un
paid Servitude During; the IS On.
PORTLAND. Or.. Nov. 9. (To the
Editor.) Anent the question of slav
ery in Oregon, so remarkably present
ed by Hon. George H. Williams In one
of the strongest and most logical state
papers of territorial days, printed In
the Oregon Statesman July 28. 1SST,
and lately reprinted in the current
quarterly of the Oregon Historical So
ciety, it may be said that negro slav
ery did exist in Oregon Territory to a
limited extent from 1850 or there
abouts up to the adoption of the state
constitution. The following specific
examples are cited:
Rev. Jacob Gillespie, a minister of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
of Eugene, brought a slave girl named
Esther, to Oregon about 1852, and held
hr as a slave (without as far as is
now Known, any ODjecuwii iie. w
until 1858. In that year a brother of j
the girl came irom taiiiui-um
opened negotiations with Parson Gil
lespie for the purchase of Esther. After-
some "dickering" as in a horse
trade, her owner finally- agreed to ac
cept $1000 for his chattel. This sum
the brother actually paid partly in
cash, giving his note for the balance.
My Informant. Mr. Joel H. Johnson, of
Woodmere, does not know whether
this note was paid or not. but he states
that the cash payment in the transac
tion was used to buy a bell to call
worshipers to the Cumberland Pres
byterian Church, of which Mr. Gilles
pie was pastor in Eugene, and for
what he knows may still be in com
mission in one of the churches in thp
university town.
The girl Esther was a capable and
comely young negress. and worked
faithfully for the Gillespie family
without wages during the years men
tioned. She accompanied the family
in the capacity of cook and general
servant to the camp meetings and re
vival meetings held at various points
and times in Lane, Marion and Polk
counties, to which her master was
called in the capacity of evangelist.
Anxious after her purchase lest she
shrould be driven forth by the edict
Of the voters on the question of allow
ing "free negroes" to remain in Ore
gon (this question being one of those
submitted for decision, with the con
stitution) she accompanied her brother
to California.
It is recalled also that Hon. Joel
Hargrove, of Benton County, brought
a slave man with him to Oregon Ter
ritory In 1850 or thereabouts and kept
him as a slave for a number of years.
Mr. Hargrove was afterward probate
Judge at Walla Walla County, Wash
ington, and died there some years ago.
It is remembered further that Dr.
William Allen, who came to Oregon in
1850 and died soon thereafter, brought
with his family a slave girl named
Rose. This girl belonged to Dr. Al
len's wife who was afterward married
to the late William Barlow. Rose
lived many years in the Barlow family,
was kindly treated and was greatly
attached to her mistress and children.
She considered herself under some sort
of obligation to remain with them,
though it is not probable that any
serious effort to retain her would have
been made had she at any time ex
pressed a desire or determination to
leave. She finally left the family and
lived in this city until she died several
years ago.
These are instances of negro slavery
in Oregon Territory that are within the
knowledge of many persons still liv
ing. There were no abuses of power
recorded In connection with holding
these negroes, except the simple fact
that they were kept in unpaid servi
tude, and In one Instance at least
were compelled to pay a large sum
for the right to go forth in the world
free. In the language of Woodrow
Wilson, as quoted by Mr. Davenport
in his exhaustive article on the "Slav
ery Question in Oregon." to which at
tention was called by The Oregonlan,
"it is not a truthful picture of slav
ery," of the type against which the
moral sense of the nation revolted.
It was slavery nevertheless in the
simple definition of "unpaid servitude"
and.lt recalls a condition In our simple
pioneer annals that at this distance
excites wonder. C. A. C.
Some Driven at "Editor" Roonevelt.
Washington Herald.
Up to the moment of going to press,
Edltor-to-Be Roosevelt had not opened
negotiations with Editor Rosewater, of
the Omaha Bee. looking to his connec
tion with the staff of the Outlook.
New York Mail.
We do wish that President Roosevelt
would become sporting editor of the
Outlook. It would do away with abuse
of the press box, at any rate.
Richmond Times-Democrat.
As editor of the Outlook, we dare say
Mr. Roosevelt will hand out many . a
printed slip.
Harrisburg Telegraph..
Wonder if Mr. Bryan will refer to
Editor Roosevelt next year as "our
esteemed contemporary."
Charleston News and Courier.
The President might make a very
passable editor, but the first essential
of a good reporter is that he get his
facts straight.
New York Sun.
Knicker What do you expect next?
Bocker Bonaparte to get a job on
some comic weekly.
Military Portable Searchlight.
London Observer.
A searchlight which can be carried in a
soldier's knapsack has been invented and
has already been adopted by at least two
governments. The contrivance consists
of a portable searchlight apparatus of
such power and lightness that a beam
of 600,000 candle-power can be developed
with an outfit weighing not more than
35 pounds. The principle Is one of a
combination of two gases, which, acting
on a new metallic pencil, produced by
combustion a light of extreme brilliance.
It is said that the light developed Is so
powerful that it can be used for hello
graphing over long . distances by day
light when there is no sun. By night it
is said to have an effective range of more
than 30 miles. The German and Greek
governments have already ordered a
number of outfits and the British au
thorities are carrying out experiments
with the appliance.
Concerning Canned Speeches.
Puck.
"It appears to me." ventured the store
box politician, "that the efforts of Presi
dential candidates outdo each other in
making speeches Into phonographs and
must have a limit."
"Perhaps each one is trying to break
the record," suggested' the very weary
listener.
where Hie Responsibility Ended.
Washington Star.
"Isn't it about time for you to declare
your sympathies In political matters?"
"No, sir," answered Mr. Dustin Stax:
"I have done about all that I consider
my duty In the declaration line when I
get through declaring dividends."
No.
FOREST GROVE, Nov. 9. (To the Edi
tor.) To settle a wager, will you please
answer the question, whether W. J.
Bryan ever received the popular vote of
the United States for the Presidency?
A SUBSCRIBER,
Different Viewpoints.
Judge.
' Redbeak Well. 1 know a good
mother-in-law anyway.
Plnkbill Whose yours?
Redbeak No; my wife's.
Lessons Taught by Last Tuesday's Election
Tntt'. Victory and Its Probabfe Effect en the Nation'. Weal, as Voiced by
the Leading rw npapern of the Land.
Bryan'a Inherent WeaUnrnn.
New York Herald. Hem.
Mr. Bryan's overwhelming defeat is
made the more significant by reason of
Mr. Taffs vulnerability. The Republican
candidate had to bear the burden of
general hard times: of a million men
out of employment; of business inter
ests complaining and dissatisfied: of a
steadily increased cost of living; of an
unparalleled disaffection of labor lead
ers; of an unparalleled disaffection of
the negro vote; of Republican factional
fights in the great pivotal states of
New York. Ohio. Indiana and Illinois:
of a reactionary platform, which he
was obliged to modify In his speech of
acceptance; of an insidious use of re
ligious prejudice and bigotry against
Mr. Taft's liberal and advanced belief;
of a popular resentment against Mr.
Roosevelt's determination to name his
successor and a proxy.
The hard-times issue alone was a
burden under which a far stronger can
didate than Mr. Taft might have suc
cumbed. It Is the first time In the his
tory of the country that a great panic
has, so far as the popular vote is con
cerned, not defeated the party in pow
er. But Mr. Bryan has been proved
unsound on so many financial and eco
nomic questions in the past that the
Republicans turned their own responsi
bility for hard times Into a source of
strength. Nothing contributed more to
Mr. Taft's election than the belief of
worklngmen that his triumph would
make for the restoration of prosperity,
while Mr. Bryan's election would fur
ther retard good times.
Confidence the Xeed of the Hour.
New York American, Hearst.
Mr. Taft, on the heels of Mr. Roose
velt's 4th of March departure, will take
up the responsibilities of the White
House. Every one should give him his
best word, his best help. The need of
the hour is confidence commercial
confidence. To invoke it there should
be political confidence. The latter can
only be arr'ved at by the whole people
coming together as one and giving Mr.
Taft their compact support. No one
questions his honesty, his patriotism,
his public well-meaning. If he make
mistake, fall into error, it will be 'of
the head. The Taft heart is all right.
Until such mistake appear, such error
occur, no one caring honestly for gen
eral good will criticise or interfere.
There has been too muqh Democracy,
too much Republicanism in brief, too
much partisanship injected Into gov
ernment in the recent past, and thereby
the popular welfare suffered and waa
not served. It will redound to common
weal and Induce that condition of com
mercial and political confidence so nec
essary to the general well doing if, for
a change, a healthful change, we set
partisanship aside, supplanting it with
broad patriotism.
Parkerlxlng Himself Undid Bryan.
New York Tribune, Rep.
Mr. Bryan's failure as a campaigner
was obvious a month ago. It was not
so much that he had lost his skill as an
orator or a pleader. But he had lost
his compass and could no longer con
duct an aggressive and Impassioned
canvass. He vacillated and shifted,
when he should have taken a single
definite line of attack. His insincere
bargain with Mr. Gompers for the union
labor vote was a millstone about his
neck; for he could neither admit that
he had granted Mr. Gompers' demands
In the evasive Denver platform nor de
ny that he had granted them. He thus
drove from his support thousands of
voters who had formerly considered
him, if possibly a visionary, at least a
consistent and courageous radical. Mr.
Bryan did not read the lesson of the
campaign of 1904. He tried to narrow
his views and reduce himself to the
Parker stature, hoping thereby to pla
cate the Democratic politicians of the
East and South. He did not seem to
realize that by Parkerizing himself he
simply invited another 1904 disaster.
Greatest of Republican Victories.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Ind.
Thus again does the country register
its superior confidence in a Republican
conduct of the National Government,
and this under circumstances which in
other years and under party conditions
as formerly prevailing, would more
likely have sent the administration
party out of power through the force
of an epochal landslide. Not before In
the history of the country has a politi
cal party won in a Presidential con
test following a great panic and in the
midst of a business depression coming
into existence under the administration
of that party with the single exception
of 1876, if that may properly be except
ed. All precedent in this respect may
thus be said to have been successfully
defied, and the greatest of all Republi
can achievements at the polls stands
to the credit of that wonderful organ
ization. The South Will Support Taft.
Brooklyn Eagle. Ind.-Taft.
The significance of the victory, for
conservatism through Republicanism,
led by Mr. Taft. over radicalism, led by
Mr. Bryan, will be found not only In
the gratification of the North, but in
the satisfaction of the South. That sec
tion felt that it had to stand by Bryan,
not because of Bryanlsm, but because
of so-called race Issues, which It feels
that Mr. Taft will wisely modify or
neutralize. The representatives of the
South will be the stout supporters of
Mr. Taft's policy of rational protection,
of judicious educational tests in suf
frage, and of a knitting of business in
terests with public policy under a sane
and safe and patriotic National admin
istration. The result in the Union is what it
should be. It is expressed with an
emphasis, discrimination and kindness
that can neither be mistaken nor
resented.
Solid Qualities, Not Show, Demanded.
New York Evening Post, Ind.-Taft.
His election over his more showy
rival is one proof more of the deep
seated preference of democracies for
the steady man of solid qualities. Mr.
Taft was not a brilliant campaigner,
but there is such a tiling as being too
voluble. Behind the words of the com
monplace speaker, the people have a
way of going to a strong character and
firm resolution. It was so with the
heavy-footed Grover Cleveland, as
against the agile but slippery Blaine: It
has been so with Mr. Taft against Mr.
Bryan. That our new President is am
ply equipped for his duties, his bitter
est enemy does not deny. That he has
a just perception of the course which
the hour demands of him, all his friends
will hope. To avoid clamor and self
advertising; to let the country know
that a hand maybo strong even if not
forever clenched; to move quietly but
firmly to declared ends; and to give the
Nation the sense of grievances removed,
together with a chance to recuperate in
peace such is the general policy which
we have no doubt that Mr. Taft has in
mind, and which we wish him all suc
cess in carrying out.
New Glory to the American Name.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Rep.
Bryan's third defeat is so sweeping
that the Democratic party will probably
have to select a different candidate in
1912 if it is to continue to live. He
made his fight under the best possible
conditions for himself, and the result
is overwhelming and abject defeat.
Hundreds of thousands of Democrats
voted for Bryan yesterday who will re
joice at his defeat as fervently as any
Republicans will. They would have
voted against him if they had supposed
that their votes would bo necessary to
defeat him. Parker's fiasco four years
ago showed that Bryan was not the sole
cause of the weakness of the Democ
racy. It is possible that some time in
the future the ban will he taken off the
Democratic party, but that time Is far
In the distance. The American people
have given the Republicans a new man
date to control the Government. To
day, in every social and financial capi
tal In the world, American credit ad
vances. All over the world today a new
glory attaches Itself to the American
name.
ftood Counsel for Taft.
New York. Sun. Rep.
We wish well, with all our heart, to
William H. Taft. Jf he will use his
power to enforce our laws instead of
to dlsoense them, inculcate the spirit
of unity and goodwill and cultivate the
sense of National sodality and equality
among all the people, he will do all that
may lie hoped or asked of him. The
people have cnosen him for his lefty
office, and to the people and to his con
science and to his manhood and to
nothing else is ne responoiuie.
Democratic Party Not to Be Trusted.
Chicago Inter-Ocean, Rep.
As a whole people we instinctively
preferred Mr. Taft to' Mr. Bryan, not
because Mr. Taft is ultra-conservative
not because he stood for reversing
what has been done in the name of
progress, whether Justly entitled to
that name or not but because he was
felt to be more conservative than Mr.
Bryan and because the Republican
party was felt to be more conserva
tive than the Democratic party, and
also more efficient for Vhe business of
government.
The Democratic party was united as
it had not been for years. But the
sober thought of the American people
refused to accept the Democratic party
as prudently to be trusted with the
business of government. With the ten
dencies represented by the leadership
of Mr. Bryan his party was felt to be
too radical to be safe.
Will the Democratic Farty Survive?
Hartford Courant, Rep.
How about the Democratic party,
wrenched and strained by defeat in a
third Bryan campaign? Will it sur
vive or perish? That remains to be
seen. It survived the Charleston dis
ruption, the secession year, the "war-a-fanure
year, the Greeley year. It Is
a tough old sinner; its vitality is
astonishing. Until It smells "a wee
Strang' as the Scotch schoolmaster
said the arrangements for the funeral
can wait. Likely as not it will be on
hand again in 1912 with a new man it
will hardly nominate Mr. Bryan a
fourth time and again be knocked
silly by the country's vote for Taft.
Cardinal Principle Again Approved.
Washington Post, Ind.
It is apparent that the two great ele
ments of the population the business
men and the farmers have decided in
favor of experience against theory,
stability against radicalism, progress
ngain&t experiment. Another element,
that of organized labor, has evidently
refused to leave the Republican party
in a body. The cardinal principle of
the Republican party is again ap
proved; that is, the majority of tha
people stand for protection to American
industry and labor.
The End of nrynnlam.
Boston Transcript. Rep.
It lias been apparent for a decade
that no Democratic candidate for Presi
dent would stand much chance of suc
cess without the sincere support of Mr.
Bryan, such was his hold upon the radi
cal masses of his fellow partisans. That
hold has now been badly shaken. The
Americans are a very practical people,
and party men like to see in a leader
visible signa tiiat he is able to accom
plish something. The Democratic party
stands today like a great, untenanted
edifice, almost falling to pieces from
the force of the elements and neglect,
but of such potentialities of strength
as to invite a new occupant. No Demo
crat emerges from this election with
any prestige which would qualify him
for that privilege. It is easy to see in
the extraordinary victory which Gov
ernor Hughes has won over his ene
mies who would be the coming leader
of Republicanism, if it were not for
Taft, but no equally rising Democrat
appears above the horizon. The candi
date and the issue of the next Demo
cratic attempt to dislodge Republican
ism from National supremacy are yet
to be discovered. But It will not be
Bryan. With him it is "three times
and cut." ,
Quiet and Stability for Four Yearn.
New York Herald, Ind.
Now that the elections are over the
American people cheerfully acquiescing
In the results will buckle down to busi
ness with renewed vigor and the reviv
al of prosperity will be accelerated.
The fullness of their confidence in Mr.
Taft is expressed by their action yes
terday, and they will now proceed to
plan their future affairs In the assur
ance of quiet and stability during the
coming four years. Mr. Taffs views
with respect to the support and exten
sion of the country's interests abroad,
and particularly in the Far East, prom
ise a new stimulus to our commercial
development. The Herald has earnest
ly commended his views on this sub
ject, and beiieves that yesterday's vic
tory was In no small part due to uni
versal approval of the foreign policy
for which he stands.
Little Hope for Democracy In Future.
Denver Republican, Rep.
Mr. Bryan is disposed of as a candi
date for the Presidency, but It does not
follow that he is removed as a factor
in Democratic politics; and herein lies
an element of weakness in the Demo
cratic party. The nomination of Judge
Parker in 1904 was an effort on the
part of the Democracy to return to
conservative lines. But the result of
that election showed that the oppo
sition of the Bryan Democrats In the
West to Judge Parker was quite as
vigorous as that of the Eastern Demo
crats to Mr. Bryan; and so long as this
conflict between the radical or Bryan
Democrats of the West and the con
servative Democrats of the East is rec
ognized in Democratic counsels the
Democrats will have little hope, what
ever may be said respecting the ad
vantages of any other course .which
might be pursued.
The only policy of the Democratic
leaders in the days of Tilden and later
of Cleveland was to abandon the West
to the Republicans and to rely upon
the solid South in conjunction with
New York. New Jersey and Connecti
cut. But the long dominance of Bryan
has greatly weakened the Democracy
In the East and in some respects in
the South; and hence every Democrat
must admit that even a return to that
line of battle would hold out little
hope of victory for the party which
has so long listened to the seductions
of Bryanlsm.