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TIIE MORNING OKEGOMAy, WEDNESDAY. KOVK3IBEK 11, I9QS. PORTLAND. OKECOX. Entered at Portlnd, Orison. FoMoflle Eecond-Claa Matter. ubeeriptlea Kale .laraxlably U AdrmrxMS (Br Mail.) Tally, Sunday Included, one year. . . Eal.y. Sunday Included, all month ? Lally. Sunday Included, three month.. f I'ally. Sunday Included, oue month.... " lally, without Punday. one year -w XaJly, without Sunday, ala montha. .... J Pally, without Sunday, three montha.. -i- Ijelly. without bunday. one month Weekly, one year J-j Bunday. one year J Sunday and Weekly, one year Sao IBy Carrier.) rt!y. Sunday Included, on year a.00 Li:y. Sunday Included, on month Hew ta Bemlt 6end potoic money order, expreea order or personal ehck on yeur local bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at the Bender rlek- Give poetofflee aa drea m ruli. Including county and mat. rmtaxe Kate 10 to 14 pagea. 1 cent; 1 -if. . 2 rent: 30 to 44 cent. 46 to CO pace. 4 cent Foreign poiiat double rates. Eartrra Baalnea OHt-Th B. C. Bck- . . amnt,w V w Tork. room 49- 60 Trlbun bulldln-. Chlcaao. room S1U-&13 Tribune bulldinx. r ruRTUVD. WEOJiEDAT. SOT. 11. W. mi acts, ob six? Admirable for Ingenuity, and at tha same time for simplicity and effi ciency, are the various steps by which ' we have arrived at "the will of the people" of Oregon. If the "will" Is at cross purposes with Itself so that a state having but "a small population gives 23.000 majority for Tart for President, yet In the result Is "pledged" to Chamberlain for Sena tor why, then It shows how admir able, and at the same time how In genious and how efficient, this method of arriving at the will of the people Is. Oregon has thrown in the election Just held about one-fifteenth part of the vote of .New York about one vote in fifteen. In Oregon Taft has 23.000 majoritv which is the same as If he had 375.000 in New York. Now If New York, with this vast majority for Taft. should have to elect Murphy to the Senate, by the overwhelming Re publican majority of the Legislature, we should have the same situation In New York as In Oregon, and in Ore gon as In New York. It would be "the will of the people." Tet there la an opinion that the will of the people may be Juggled with, just as figures may be Juggled with, or the declarations of political plat forms. In Oregon the first step was State ment One. The second step was reg istration of Democrats as Republic ans. The third step was encourage ment of Republicans to run for the Legislature, on Statement One, prom ising them the Democratic vote: and encouragement of a Republican candl date for the Senate to declare him elf, upon . the promise of Demo cratic support. The fourth step was the primary election, wherein the Democratic brethren, who had regis- tered as Republicans for the purpose, threw their votes In for Cake for the nomination for Senator (Chamberlain was not on the primary ticket at all) and for Statement One Republican candidates for the Legislature. The fifth step was the election Itself, when thousands of Democrats who had reg istered as Republicans and had voted for Cake In the primary, appeared as partisans of Chamberlain: and, having got the "pledge" from Republican candidates for the Legislature yet ; having no candidates of their own knowing they couldn't elect them '. voted for Statement One Republicans, and then triumphantly exclaimed, "Now we've got you! Behold the will of the people!" t It Is a five-act drama. It suffices, says Horace, that the drama be not continued beyond the fifth act. Yet the management of the theater has a programme which Includes a sixth act. It wants a Legislature, five , sixths of whose members are Repub licans, to elect Chamberlain In the face of 23,000 plurality for Taft over Bryan, In a vote of 100.000 between . them. Thus we are to arrive at the .' will of the people. Political science, under democracy, . has for its object the will of the peo ple. Here you have It! Success for It now will carry this method triumphantly Into future elec .' tlons. One party and then the other ' will use It. We can get Mr. Gearln for Senator next time, or some other ' able Democrat, Just as well and as smoothly as we get Mr. Chamberlain now. The method for ascertaining the will of the people and for. arriv ing at It Is now established. There has been a lot of folly heretofore In experiments for ascertainment of the will of the people. Oregon has solved the problem. MR." HILL TOO PESSIMISTIC. Mr. James J. Hill, always an inter esting talker, and a remarkably well informed man on most topics, not In frequently overshoots the mark when talking on large subjects and In gen eralities. An incident of this nature ' was noticeable at Tacoma. Monday night, when he made the somewhat startling prediction that six years would witness the end of wheat ex portation from this country. Accord ing to Mr. Hill, the consumption of wheat in the I'nited States will In crease so rapidly that, in the brief period mentioned. It will have over taken the production. The annual production of wheat in this country ' for the past five years has averaged very close to 700.000.000 bushels, the crop of 1906 exceeding that figure by 85, 000. 000 bushels. Comparing the ten years' average ending with 1908 with that ending in 1898. there Is a material increase shown in the yield. This Increase has been so noticeable that, in spite of a rapidly growing pop ulation, we have still been in a posi tion to 'supply the rest of the world with an exportable surplus of from ISO. 000. 000 to 200.000.000 bushels, the only exceptions being the two lean years 1904 and 1905. when the exports fell below 100.000.000 bushels. Based on a per capita consumption of five bushels, which Is a fraction higher than the Government figures, there would be about 450.000.000 bushels re quired for food for our own people. Another 75.000.000 bushels would be required for seeding purposes, leaving a surplus of about 175.000.000 bush els, for export. In order to absorb all of this surplus in six years, we would have to consume approximately 30, 000.000 bushels per year more than are now eaten by the American people. This, at the usual per capita allow ance, would require about 8.000.000 per year added to our population, a growth which will hardly be reached. Even were there no change In other conditions bearing on the subject, it will require more than twice twelve years for the population to increase to a point where all of the wheat would be needed at home. But there Is an other phase of the matter which Mr. HVJ strangely overlooked in making his prediction. The average yield of wheat in the United States at the pres ent time is less than fifteen bushels per acre. In Great Britain it Is thirty two bushels per acre. Long before this country ceases to be an exporter of wheat improved methods of soil cultivation will materially Increase the yield of the cereal. If this improvement should reach the degree of perfecton ; attained In Great-Britain, instead of a yield of 700.000.000 bushels per annum, the same acreage as Is now in crop here would turn off nearly 1.500.000.000 bushels, an amount sufficient to feed a population more than twice as great as that which now dwells In the United States. The day is coming when the consumption of wheat will overtake the production, but it will not be within the next six years, nor within a dozen years. I MORE or GOMPERS. ' Mr. Gompers continues to have a great deal to say about the laws and the court decisions on the subject of injunctions: yefhe says little, because he carefully avoids all precise state ment of his own position and conten tion. He launches into indignant speech about alleged denial of free dom of speech and freedom of -the press, which he asserts are denied to him and to his associates; but he stu diously refrains from saying that what he really wants Is unrestrained free dom for the boycott, both by speech and press, that he may Injure or de stroy. If possible, any business that he cannot bring to acceptance of his terms. He wants besides no restric tion upon "picketing," or upon intru sion on the premises where a boycott has been declared, and holds that the right to do business in a particular place or In any place is not a property right, nor entitled to protection as such. It is his action In accord with these purposes that has brought him Into conflict with the courts, upon which he rails at great length because, as he asserts, they have taken away from himself and from those whom he assumes to represent the rights of free speech and free press and liberty of personal and associated action. It Is to be settled as a principle, we believe, by the laws, and the courts. If it Is not so settled already, that the right to do business in peace, and without molestation, is a law of the land. Also that the right of free speech and of free press cannot in clude the right to employ them for Injury or destruction of any lawful business. But the Gompers claim goes further. It not only contends for the right of the direct boycott, but for boycott of those who do not join in the boycott. That Is, when any man or establishment is boycotted, others shall not deal with that man or es tablishment upon pain of being boy cotted themselves. So that the right to speak and to print against a man and his business, and the right to surround the place with pickets and take a course that will call a mob to gether, perhaps will raise a disturb ance, certainly will obstruct the man's business and probably break It up (for this is the Intent), together with the right to call unfair and declare a boycott on others who do not Join In the primary boycott, are the rights for whk-h Mr. Gompers contends, and for deniaj of which by the laws end courts of the land he denounces the laws and courts and all who do not Join him In denouncing them. This Is kept up In full stream end flow ever since the election, and the telegraphic reports continue to be bur dened with It; which Is the reason why this further statement Is made at the present time about a matter that was thrashed over and over dur ing a campaign of five months, but Just now ended. A NEW EDITOR. The story that the Outlook has en gaged Mr. Roosevelt for one of its edi tors recalls the fable of the six robins who Invited an eagle to join them in a picnic. It was a lovely picnic for the eagle. So far as acquaintance with literature goes. Mr. Mabie, of the Out look staff, knows incomparably more than Mr. Roosevelt, and his writings possess a limpid meekness which the President cannot hope to compete with. As for Dr. Lyman Abbott, his somewhat accommodating religious and political creeds seem to harmon ize pretty well with the Rooseveltlan doctrines, but then they would har monize with anything. Dr. Abbott's courage sometimes marches at even pace with his Intellect, but not often. Usually discretion keeps his leaping thoughts strictly hoppled. Of course Mr. Roosevelt will domi nate the Outlook, as he would domi nate any other periodical he was con nected with. It will become more or less completely a reflection of his opin ions. How those opinions will stand the test of repetition and restatement month after month for. a series of years it Is Interesting to Inquire. There Is reason to believe that the policy of the Outlook, as supported by Mr. Roosevelt, will b to transform the present wage system of Industry Into what Dr. Abbott calls "Industrial de mocracy." Under the new arrange ment Industry would be conducted perhaps by the suffrages of the work ers. The Idea seems absurd, but no more absurd, perhaps, than the Idea of conducting government by popular vote once did. MR. CANNON IN ERROR. Speaker Cannon Is reported to have expressed strong opposition to the Panama Canal. At a banquet given by the Chicago Bankers' Club a few days ago he is quoted as saying that 'this is not a time for the expendi ture of a large sum of money for com pletion of the Panama Canal." If Mr. Cannon had made a close study of the economic problems Involved in canal construction, he would be forced to admit that this was exactly the proper time for the "expenditure of a large sum of money" on that most impor tant work. Laying aside all question as to the prospect for Immediate re munerative returns when the canal is completed. It Is certainly most neces sary that the enormous Investment al ready made be not placed in Jeopardy by cessation of work at this most crit ical time. The Government has spent many millions In preparatory work on the canal. It has made of that fever stricken, plague-haunted region a healthy place where men can work as well as In lands more distant from the tropics. After making the place hab itable and healthy, the Government continued the good work by expend ing many millions In preliminary sur veys and excavations. Not only would all of this work be' thrown away If the work were to be halted, but the millions spent In making sanitary Im provements would all be wasted, for in such a climate there would be a rapid return to original conditions. The climate Is such that deterioration In the plant would make It practically worthless If It were permitted to re main Idle for even a few years. Of less Importance, but hi degree almost as unpopular. Is Mr. Cannon's reported objection to reforestation. He is said to question the right- of the Nation to "exercise police power to prevent the destruction of forests," and as with the Panama Canal, to de sire that the work of repairing the loss through vandalism be passed on to posterity, although by so doing it Is apparent to all that It will be a bald and treeless country on which poster ity will be obliged to begin opera tions. Mr. Cannon's speech was made before the Eankers' Club, which is composed principally of millionaires. The doctrine of permitting posterity to work out all of these problems Is now too narrow for the Amertcan people, and It will be rejected. a. DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS. To the observer of current affairs the Democratic party presents a curi ous phenomenon. It Is neither fish nor flesh, neither radical nor reac tionary. It contains a radical wing which is ready to go far in the direc tion of revolutionary reform; but with it is a reactionary wing which dreads reform, even the mildest, worse than Mr. Cannon himself, if that Is possible. Between these two wings reigns bitter and apparently unappeasable hatred. This Fall an outward reconciliation was patched up between them, but it was atrociously deceptive. The friends of Judge Parker in the East must have cast thousands of votes for Tart Nobody would be surprised to learn through Mr. Hearst, or some other revelator of esoteric mysteries, that Mr. Parker himself so far forgot party allegiance as to vote for the hated foe. Add to this state of facts the undeniable truth that Tammany must have betrayed Bryan outrageously, and we have a picture of political dis loyalty which seems to have become chronic In the Democratic party. In 1904 the same tactics were played against Judge Parker by the Western Democrats. In two preceding elec tions Bryan had suffered from them In the East as he has again this Fall. Can the discordant factions of the Democratic party ever be united? If they held any principles in common there would be some hope that they might, but It Is exceedingly question able whether there is a single politi cal doctrine which all the members of the party believe In. The old dogma of state rights which used to be their common shibboleth, has come to mean less than nothing. The great New York organs of so-called "Democracy" are found shrieking loudly for state rights today, and more loudly against them tomorrow. When the rate bill was before Congress, the New York Times was consumed with gnawing apprehension lest the holy preroga tives of the states might be Infringed by it; but when a little later two or three Inferior Federal Judges swept away a whole body of state legislation with a stroke of their Judicial pens, no newspaper In the country looked on with such placid contentment as did the Times. The old slogan of "state rights" has become nothing more than a pawn In the great game of corporation politics. When the states attack the special privileges of the corporations, then the reactionary wing of the Democrats suddenly be comes Imperialist. When the Federal Government attempts to regulate the freebooting monopolies, then these mobile followers of Jefferson are again transformed Into state rights men. Their facility Is wonderful, even If It is not admirable. But the other wing of the Demo crats Is consistently radical. It in cludes the old-time Populists, with nu merous new .converts to the doctrine of government by the referendum, strict regulation of the corporations, popular election of Senators and Fed eral Judges, and the like. It is the fundamental doctrine of this wing that all power should be directly exer cised by the people. They put the so-called rights of man far above the rights of capital, and are ready at all times to sacrifice the business Interests of the country if thereby they believe human welfare can be promoted. What hope of genuine reconciliation between two wings so utterly at odds can be expected? If one Is satisfied, the other Is necessarily offended. A candidate who Inspires the reaction aries with confidence excites the dis trust of the radicals. It seems, there fore, to follow that, as long as these two antagonistic factions continue both to call themselves Democrats, the party Is doomed to Impotence. Its only hope of future success lies in get ting rid of one-or the other of its hos tile components. There Is a natural law reigning in the political world which In its own good time settles difficulties of this na ture. Men are attracted In spite ot themselves to religious and political parties which represent their real feel ings and beliefs. The conservative Democrats have vastly mor in com mon with the Republicans than they have with the Bryanltes. It is nat ural to expect, then, that they will gravitate toward the Republican party before a great while, and merge with it. The only obstacle of any import ance to this union Is the tariff, and that Is not very, serious one. The reactionary Democrats and the stand pat Republicans agree pretty well about protection. Their economic In terest la the matter being the same, their opinions are the. same. - The barrier between them Is therefore largely Imaginary, merely a thing of names and empty formulas, and we may expect to see it swept away be fore many years. This will leave the radical wing too small ever to hope for power unless It finds allies. Where will It look for them? Naturally among the minor parties,' and It will coalesce with that one which holds essentially the same principles as its own. This Is the party of the Social ists. They believe all that the radical Democrats believe, and a great deal more of the same kind. But excess of faith Is no bar to harmony. The Important fact Is that such principles as the radical Democrats possess are all held by the Socialists: and such new ones as they are likely to acquire will probably come from the Social ists. Hence It Is between these polit ical elements that the union is apt to occur which will provide a worthy nu merical antagonist for the Republic ans. Very likely this new party will keep the name "Democratic." The hand will be Esau's, but the voice will be Jacob's It will be called the party of JefTerson, but It will be In reality the party of Socialism. The New York Evening Post says that "Mr. Bryan has played an Im portant part in the effort to separate business from politics." This state ment Is one of those generalizations with which political discussions al ways abound, and which often mis lead. Politics and business touch each other at all points and cannot be sep arated; yet politics never should ba made an instrument for schemes of private gain. This much Is agreed. But the notion that politics oan be separated from business Is as unten able as the' notion that government should be separated from property, or have no care for property. Politics must be concerned with business, and business must take an Interest In pol itics. Their separation Is Impossible. Burke said that the idea- of govern ment divorced from the duty of con servation of property was a monstrous thing. " Norwegian Consul Cederbergh, who is aiding in establishment of op position to the sailor boarding-house keepers, is quoted as saying that "the good citizens of Portland ought to take hold of this matter at once. If the commercial bodies and exporters i of the city will not the churches ought to do so." The "commercial bodies and exporters" of Portland have wres tled long and often with the sailor problem. and under the present system of a state license and a good commission to en force Its provisions, there have been less trouble and less expense to the ships than ever before. That Is un doubtedly the reason why the men most familiar with the business are not encouraging any opposition which In the end might disturb the present very satisfactory conditions. "Beaten to a frazzle," used by Pres ident Roosevelt, Is no hard term, to understand. Yet perhaps It has not been used hitherto by any author great enough to give it authority. But It has been used a long time. At Appomattox General Gordon, one of Lee's corps commanders, said, "I have fought my corps to a frazzle. I can do no more." A flag In the wind is often whipped to a frazzle. By Pres ident Roosevelt the word now prob ably will be given a vogue. Who started it evidently from the word "fray" or "frayed," to ravel out or wear out or whip Into strings may never be known. The Chicago wheat market was booming yesterday, the May option scoring an advance of more than 2 cents per bushel. This advance was made In the face of an Increase of nearly 2,000,000 bushels in the Amer ican visible. The season is now drift ing around so close to the turn of the year that 1f there were any Inherent weakness in the situation It - should show signs of developing. The Argen tine crop is almost upon us, and If It were excessively large, its effect would soon be felt. Cheap wheat now seems farther in the future than ever before. The battleship North Dakota, first of the American Dreadnaughts, was launched at Qulncy, Mass., yesterday, and the United States Government is, or is about to be, In possession of a battleship that Is the equal of any afloat. The North Dakota has a dis placement of 20,000 tons and will cost about $7,000,000. If she keeps out of the way of the cheap torpedo boats which are so numerous In war times, the new fighting machine may be of great value to our Government. Some men make even a Jest and farce of their use of the election fran chise. In the Second ward of Cor- vallis one man voted. for two Repub lican electors, one Democrat and one Socialist. . Another voted for the four Democratic electors, then crossed the names out and wrote "Bryan and Kern" at the bottom of the ticket. The English demand for hops Is raising the- price of that commodity, and there Is consequent great rejoic ing In our prohibition counties, which hope the English won't drink them selves to death; but. If they do, hope also they will not overlook the ex cellent qualities of our hops for beer- making. It appears that this time Bryan has run behind his vote of 1896. Free coinage of silver was the most attract ive fallacy ever presented to the American people, and the most diffi cult to beat. Even yet great multi tudes can't see through the fallacy, and want It for "an Issue" again. The public has a mild Interest now In learning whether Mr. Hearst has any more letters to give out for pub lication by his esteemed contempora ries; or, being now Indifferent as to whether they are read or not. will he save them for his own papers? Mr. Gompers tells them at Denver that he speaks for unorganized as well organized labor. That's very kind. But somehow unorganized labor prefers to speak for Itself. See election returns. Yes, It's the same Gompers down at Denver trying to persuade the Ameri can Federation of Labor that It wasn't a real cyclone, only a temporary zephyr, that struck him. Will the members from Oregon vote for 'Cannon for Speaker? You may depend they will if for no other rea son but to "show" their political op ponents in Oregon. In view of Chairman Thomas' de nunciation of non-partisans, as being a scabby breed of alleged J5emocrats, we rise to askthe old question: What Is a Democrat? The persons who later will complain of wet weather are th fellows who just now are not making busy use of the weather they've got. We suppose that "straight" Demo crats hereafter will refrain from nam ing their progeny In honor of our non partisan George. Some Democrats claim victory in Oregon after all Bryan failed to carry the state, not by 25,000, but by 23,000. Leap year or no leap year, the Elklns flrl ought to take a hint and stay away , from where, she Is not wanted. The unsuccessful fight on Cannon has made him worse than ever. His enemies should have let well enough alone. That "slump after election" and that "slump after the fair" will go thun dering down the ages together. It Is easy for bank wreckers In Ore gon to stay out of Jail, since there is no guarantee of law enforcement. All perfcet ladles are very much concerned by the liquor fight In their behalf in the City Council. Bryan and Sir Thomas Llpton should get together and form a. Try Again Club. NINE QUERIES FOR SOLID NINE Dr. Foulkes Wants to Kiew Some Things From Conacllmen. PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Ed itor.) May I be permitted space In The Oregonian to address an open letter containing nine questions to the nine members of our City Council who sup ported the Rushlight ordinance? Of these nine gentlemen may I have the privilege of Inquiring: 1. If you can see no difference be tween a "restaurant." as legally defined in the statutes of the City of Portland, and an "eating-house." subject to every possible legal definition, do you Imag ine that the general public Is equally at sea? 2. If you are so strenuously opposed to "class legislation." why did you not try to repeal the Cellars ordinance out right. Instead of beating about the bush with this eatlng-nouse ordinance? 3. Is it not true that while you are anxious to see that the "little fellows" are not discriminated against, you are really (perhaps all unconsciously on your part) serving one of the biggest and most selfish fellows of all the liquor interest? 4. How can people understand your purposes when you say "We are deadly opposed to women In ail saloons, ana than support an ordinance making It legally possible for her to De present In practically every saloon In the city? 6. Do you Imagine that the real Issue can be clouded by the misquoting and maligning of those who openly op pose you, and thus public sentiment be turned off your trail, after somebody else? . In your earnest desire that no branch of the liquor traffic should sur fer, have you given sufficient or even equal thought to the welfare of the women of this city, which welfare, in the words of the Mayor, vetoing your ordinance, "outweighs any and all distinctions and fine discriminations be tween the rights of those engaged in making profit from the sale of such Intoxicants." 7. Is your lachrymose concern for the farmer who comes to town with his wife and only two bits in his pocket, and who, therefore, cannot afford to eat a full meal with his beer, true either to fact or common sense? How many farmers of the splendid German race you have named as your stock illustration have you complimented by your poverty argument? Furthermore, If all your contentions on this point De true. Is it not "class legislation" of the clearest sort to put the appetite and custom of one class against the welfare of the whole? 8. In your conviction that ministers and churches ought not to mix In poll tics, how much of your concern comes because you believe in the church, and how much because you do not believe In It? 9. If you succeed In passing your ordinance over the Mayor's veto, do you think you will have settled this troublesome question? WILLIAM HIRAM FOULKES. LONG ON AUTOS SHORT OX BOOKS Intellectual Destitution of the So Called "Smart Set" In America. New York Evening Post. That books are commonly regarded as luxuries rather than necessities is indisputable; and publishers and book sellers assure us that In a pinch of hard times books are one of the first luxuries that even wealthy people forego. The matter was touched on at the recent dinner in London of the Publishers' Circle Book Trade. Sir George Trevelyan. who responded to the toast, "Literature," regretted the halcyon days in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, when peers and landowners kept their libraries as well supplied as their cellars. Were Bir George accused of being a praiser of the past, he would probably be unable to find exact statistics to support his thesis; but any one who has seen in the London bookshops the astonishing number of well-printed and handsomely-bound books, often with book-plates, dating from the last half of the eighteenth century, will agree that In that happy age many gentlemen made It a point of 'honor to maintain fins libraries. This, It must be remembered, was a generation later than Squire Western. But Sir George Trevelyan was certainly speaking well within the facts when he added: "In our time smart people and people who want to be thought smart buy not books, but motors." Yet on this topic also we should like to see some definite fig ures to sustain our general impression. Were our gentlemen who drive about in motor cars to make a clean breast of It, we should probably find that most of those people who are willing to pay from (2000 to $7000 for a car and from $500 to $2000-a year for maintenance and running expenses would regard the expenditure of such a sum for books as a reckless extrava gance. And yet we are surprised at the Intellectual destitution of the so called "smart set"! Why Rockefeller Did It. James P. Hornaday, In Indianapolis News. Very careful investigations reveal that Rockefeller acted on his own In itiative. A leading New York banker, whose relations with the Standard Oil group of financiers are Intimate, says: "I have taken some pains to get at the facts surrounding the statement Mr. Rockefeller gave out, and I am confident that just one thing led the oil king to give the country the state menthis vanity. He read In the news papers the day before the Carnegie statement favoring the election of Mr. Taft, and he told some of his associates in the office at. 26 Broadway that he felt it his duty to let his friends throughout the country know where he stood. "An effort was made to dissuade him from Issuing the statement, but he said he owed It to bis friends, and he gave It out, not realising what an uproar he would create. His best friends tell me there is no other explanation of how the statement came to be issued sim ply an old man's vanity. Raising Goats for Cougar. Cottage Grove Western Oregon. H. S. Webber, who has a place on Cedar Creek, tells us that last week a big cougar killed a large wether, which was too large for It to carry away, so leaving Its victim, the cougar killed another and bore It away. This was within 30 yards of his barn, and they are becoming more and more audacious. Something of an idea of their danger can be obtained when the cougar, which killed the wether, broke its shoulder and broke its neck. They are liable to attack a child at any time, and the bounty for them should be made high enough to make It an object to exterminate them. Jack Powell has six varmint dogs with which he has killed five cougars since last March. The animals seem to be coming closer to civilization, down from the mountains. Out of a bunch of 150 goats. Mr. Webber has less than 50 left. Raising goats for the varmints is poor business, and be is going to quit trying to raise them. Bear-Killing Record. Drain Nonpareil. Bob Teague shot the largest bear of this season yesterday morning, near the Dimmlck sawmill, two miles north of town. His dogs treed Mr. Bruin Wed nesday . night, and they, together with several bonfires, encouraged the big brute to stay In the tree until Bob went home and got his rifle. As soon as daylight came he sent the big fellow to bear heaven by means of five or six Win chester bullets. It measured eight feet from tip to tip and weighed 500 pounds. NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTION COM MENT. Pertinent Remarks oa the Result by Oregon, Washington. Idaho Papers. Kelso Kelsonian. It Is our prediction that Mr. Taft will be one of the greatest Presidents this country has ever had. To the Wrong Address. Irrlgon Irrigator. Hello, Sammy Gompers! Did you not make a mistake and "deliver" that labor, vote at the wrong address? Consider "George Now. Pilot Rock News. Poor, dear, neglected, nonpartisan George of Statement Number One fame, will now be given due consider ation. How Long? Grants Pass Pacific Outlook. Query: If It took Bryan 12 years to win over his own precinct, county and state, how long will it take to win over the entire country? Braaen Effrontery. Ashland Tidings. Oregon 25,000 for Taft! And yet the Democratic state committee had the effrontery to claim the state for Bryan the day before the election. Follow Taft'a Record, Condon Times. Follow his record as Judge. Secre tary of War and statesman, and then tell us whether or not Taft Is the right man In the right place. Bryan Caught Under the Slide. Weston Leader. It was a landslide, all right, as pre dicted by the Democratic chairman, with the trifling difference that Bryan Instead of Taft was under the slide. Decided by the Farmers' Vote. Oregon City Enterprise. The farming vote did the business. There has never been a time in the history of this Republic when the farmer has been in' such a prosperous condition as now. Impolite Invltntion. Pilot Rock Record. Well, those who do not like the way Oregon voted will find consolation in the fact that there is still room for a few more in Alberta. Confidence Restored. Silverton Sllvertonian-Appeal. PnnfM.jii'n la iantotoH Tannines resumes its natural tenor and will ba continued under the same prosperity that has been enjoyed during the past ten years or more. Business Activity Win Be Stimulated. Gresham Herald. It is apparent that business aotlvlty will be greatly stimulated by pros pective conditions. Already thou sands of people are assured of im proved labor conditions. Didn't Run Little Bit. Jefferson Review. That a large majority of the people of the United States are in favor of Republican rule was emphatically dem onstrated Tuesday. Bryan didn't run a little bit. - -A Republican Landslide. Tillamook Headlight A great deal of credit is due The Oregonian and the country Republican press for the big Republican vote in Oregon on Tuesday. It was a Repub lican landslide. Three Gratifying; Results. . Pendleton Tribune. Three things happened as a result of the election Tuesday which are espe cially gratifying to the people of the country at large the success of Taft, Hughes and Cannon. Time to Repair Guessalna Apparatus. Walla Walla Union. The depositors who have been talk ing and furnishing us with analogies which were certain to carry Bryan to the White House, have four years in which to get their guessing apparatus in working order again. Employment for Honest Work. Baker City Herald. Taft's election does not mean that the laggard and loafer shall have an easy time. That is a mistake. It means that the man who is willing to give honest work for honest money will have no trouble in getting em. ployment. Capital Will Now Take Hold. Tillamook Herald. Now that matters have been settled for the next four years,-and all uncer tainty as to the policy of the adminis tration, capital will now take hold and in a few months all the great In dustries of the country that have been running shorthanded will be working a full force. President of the Whole People. Hillsboro ' Argus. It is hoped that Taft will be the President of the whole people, stand ing for the right, and against the per nieidus doctrine of special privileges to the few, who are represented by the "interests." Brran Ran Twice Too Often. Corvallls Times. Fear, Republican organization through patronage, Hearst and Tam many were the great forces that de feated Bryan. It was not that the public really wanted Mr. Taft, but that great forces were arrayed against Mr. Bryan, a candidate at least twice too often. Can Be Depended On to Do the Right Thing. Corvallls Gazette. The American people can always be depended upon to do the right tiling, in the right place, at and exactly the right time. This spirit has been mani fest in all the marked events of the Nation's history, and at no time has It been more evident than in the election of Tuesday. Oregon's Acting Republican Chairman. Eugene Register. "Pat" McArthur, graduate of the State University, and legislator from Multnomah County, was appointed sec retary and practically the entire re sponsibility for conduct of the state campaign fell upon his shoulders, but he proved equal to the emergency, the accuracy with which he framed up the result In the state tabulation by coun ties showing that he was master of the situation. Fine Obituary Notice. Lewlston Tribune. Again the mind turns to that lonely figure, whose hopes have been pitched so high and brought so low. With the setting of his son his name goes to Join those of Calhoun. Clay, Webster, Blaine, Tilden and Thurman, to whom It was given that they should serve their country and their day well, and make deep imprints in the dust of time, vet should be fated for supreme and irrevocable ' disappointment and failure of their burn and laudable aspirations. SILHOUETTES BY XRTHl'R A. GREENE. Duty is the only magistrate whose decrees are never reversed. They may be delayed in execution, but soon or late Bailiff Retribution appears to ex act the penalty. The school of experience never holds graduating exercises. Men declare their love many times, women confess their's but once. The XIV of St. John: Lot not your heart be troubled: y ba llevs In God. believe also In me. Therefore, because thou dost believe free thy fond heart from trouble. In the Father's house are mansions raised To give thee refuge 'gainst the days When grief and woe beset thy ways; When cares that mock and sore assail Thy soul, which wavers 'tween the vale. Shall over doubts and fears prevail To speed thy winged spirit's sail Toward that far bourne whence none return. No questioning shall then deny The boon thy strivings are to earn Safe progress from the hence to thence; For In the eid thy faith in him Shall find a worthy recompense. Tha Habltback letters. (No. l.of the Series.) Written by a elf-utainlng young man to hi iter. Flossla Habitback. a product of the flnUhlng chool. With apologia to all who hav aver written letter. Hot Springs. Sunday, the 8th. Dear Floss: You speak of having dated yourself to come across on the "Yes" or "No" proposition with a young slob who wears a colored hatband. This is very fine for an ingenue of 29 who has been sitting on the substitutes' bench for ten seasons. It proves that there is a chance in our own. our na tive land, for a girl of abstemlnous habits and industry, even though she does occasionally lead from a sneak; but don't let this offer of a future chance at the alimony window go to your head. A girl of your experience should be sufficiently wised up not to believe the prospectus the average custom-made young man hands out. It Is part of his game to boost and then hs may be a broker of suburban real es tate. You never can tell, as Barney Shaw says. In these days of free schools and open-work newspapers the advantages of an "education are at the disposal of every youth, and most of our young men are. well braced for the love-making aria- from watching Henry Miller and Jimmy Hackett You lay yourself liable to an awful bump by acting, hastily in a matter like this, for you might find after the paid an nouncement and your graduating pic ture had appeared on the society page that Four-flush Claude smokes Pitts burg cheroots and picks his teeth on the street. In that event It would clearly be up to you to go Into rose pink hysterics, make the eau de co logne sign and recall the souvenir postal cards. I hate to say it because the Ladles' Home Jollier doesn't ap prove, but I must advise you. Chickens, that under these circumstances there Is' always the devil to pay and no coal-tar thawed out. Now, little tyke, take the advice of a tolerable fat parlor entertainer who has gavotted up and down the claret-cup-and-cellulold-favor plalsanco for many years, don't get your signals mixed. Don't buy any almost-clolssno. Engagements are like Invitations to drink. If you don't drink you may always take seltzer, but it requires moral courage to do it, and you're no female Hughes. Matrimony Is even harder. It Is a sort of personally eon ducted excursion, where the best you get Is an upper berth, a trading stamp cuisine and a "seeing things" trip on the yap-carrlages. At that you ran'i verv well back out because the faithful pathfinder has your baggage checks and transportation. Don't be in a hurry about this, and before- the kickoff I'd advise you to call up some good guy and get a line on his dope. Most any experienced hand-holder will do, and they're al ways glad and willing to tout a de serving girl right In matters of this kind, provided "Central" doesn't shut vim e hfnrA hit finishes. Don't be afraid of getting a bum steer. He'll give a complete record or an tne as nipnr vminsTRt era' nast oerf oroiances. Including draws and welched matches. As I say, any strong and healthy Patsy Bolivar will do that mucn tor you. tciw takA mv advice. Lovelocks, and do a little Bradstreetlng before you let this neverwuzzer put his bet down on vnur number. Don't feel - badly about cancelling his option, either, for there are Keeley Institutes in almost every large town. t So no more at present. The onlr secret it is safe to tell a woman Is a new complexion recipe. Marriage is frequently only a gen teel name for a long domestio scrap. At 21 we are all patriots. Most of us fear to compromise a good reputation more from vanity than fidel ity to virtue. Solitude Is the best cloister for a tired soul. Revolution Is the leaven in the loaf of organized society. Our old friend Coal Famine Is loom ing up on the horizon, hand in hand with his side partner. Car Shortage. The Boys and Girls Have It Blast. O. A. C. Barometer. Whatever your position In life or whatever your calling, your personality and your personal appearance have a great deal to do with your success or failure. It is useless to mention here the number of repulsive men and wom en, with unclean bodies, unkempt clothes and unkept hair, who have achieved fame, glory and greatness In the circumstances of this world. These, however, -are only cases of transcen dental geniuses and people possessed of great hypnotic power. Very plain, often ugly people, may posses an at tractive personality. But they aro well-dressed. It Is not physical beauty of a classical type that is a necessary factor to success. It is a well-kept body, attired in decent clothes, tact fully worn. Sneering at the Truth. Albany Democrat. The railroads will now be swamped carrying goods to be delivered when Taft is elected.