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Beck T.lkp 'L Agency New York, rooms 48-$-HT.f ""? building. Chicago, room. 610-512 1 rlbune. building. FOKTI.A.n. WEDNESDAY. MAR. 14, GERM AX If AND ENG1AND. In order to quiet the fears that have arisen in the house of his beloved Uncle Edward, the Emperor William hastens to assure his near relatives that they have overestimated the com ing strength, of the German navy. When First Lord of the Admiralty .rteginaia McKenna threw cold shivers of fear up and down the back of the British Hon. a few days ago by calling attentiou to German activity In build ing warships, he asserted that the Ger mans would have 17, and possibly 21, Dreadnoughts in 1912, compared with but 20 for Great Britain. Now comes the. German Navy Department and au thorizes the statement that in Au tumn, 1912, Germany will have but IS of these vessels of the big gun type. Mr. McKenna, in making his plea for an enormous Increase in the appropriations necessary to provide Great Britain with a sufficient number of ships, seems to have, found It nec essary to use the maximum possibili ties of German naval construction in comparing them with the actual work that would be turned out In Great Britain. The official denial of Germany that she will build more than 13 of the big fighting machines prior to 1912 may relieve the anxiety of Great Brit ain, for it will leave her with at least four more of the big sea fighters than are possessed by Germany. This falls considerably short of the time-honored two-power standard, but It seems that Great Britain has abandoned that mon umental task and will now endeavor to retain a respectable lead In a one power standard. The disclaimer from Germany of any Intention of passing her . ore aged neighbor In the race for naval supremacy, and in offering figures to prove her Intentions, Is fully as reassuring and peaceful as the re marks of Mr. McKenna and Premier .Asquith when they exploded the mine in the House of Commons. Mr. McKenna said "that It was axio matic that Great Britain should have a navy sufficiently strong to ensure Britain's shores from Invasion, the em pire from hostile attempts an 1 trade from destruction In time of Avar." It was, perhaps, only a coincidence that he then called attention to Germany's activity Jn the building of battleships, for Premier Asquith. who followed him. assured the people that any cal culation as to the relative strength of the navies of Great Britain and Ger many must not be supposed to Imply unsatisfactory diplomatic relations, but "On the contrary, the recent course of international affairs had tended to remove all barriers." He said that "the government had more than once suggested a mutual reduction In naval expenditures, but it always had been assured In the most formal manner that the German naval expenditures were governed salely with reference to Germany's needs and d:: n t depend upon Great Britain's programme." It is probable that Great Britain fears that Germany's "needs" may in clude some British territory, and that all barriers have not been removed. Great Britain's estimates, which caused such a sensation throughout the king dom, were based on what Germany could do if she were so disposed. Great Britain's estimates of her own capacity under similar pressure have not been announced; but, while England might hold her own for a few years longer, German prestige Is rising rapidly, and the "needs" of the Fatherland, espe cially territorial "needs," are greater than ever. PERILS OF AIR NAVIGATION. Ballooning Is the safest method of aviation. So few are the fatalities at tending the balloon that some enthu siasts have callet. It a safer sport than automobillng. This may be true, when the balloon does not encounter a violent air disturbance. In a peaceful equilibrium of atmosphere t"e balloon is. safe enough, no doubt. But in a storm, the big gas bag is but a play thing of the winds, far worse than a ship in the ocean. In such case the larger the balloon the less It can be controlled or guided. A ship saves it self by reducing the surface that It ex poses to the gale, that Is, It takes in sail. The air "Vessel cannot do this. It is worse than helpless In a heavy wind. It is the same with the ordinary balloon, the dirigible balloon and the aeroplane, although the latter theo retically ought to be able to withstand , a gale the best. The aeronauts who ascended from Pasadena last Saturday were unable to direct or control their balloon against the fierce storm that drove northward into the Sierra Mad re Mountains'. Owing to the heavy load, of the bal loon and Its small supply of sand bal last, it Is not likely that the big gas bag could rise above the three successive mountain chains and gain Mojave Desert. 60 miles beyond. An atmosphere that causes a balloon to rise rapidly in one temperature will cause It to sink fast In a colder. After the six men roBe from Pasadena, a snow storm blew up with great fury. The cold, of course, lessened the lift ing power of tneir air vessel. The small weight of sand ballast aboard could be thrown out. but the balloon might continue to fall upon the snow driven mountains. One possible way of enabling the balloon to rise out of danger and cross the mountains would be to leave behind, where it could touch, one or more members of the party.- But it would be very danger ous to approach that near the ground, in a storm. The party might be dashed against a cliff or the balloon might become- entangled in a - tree. Coupled with, all th.es a dangers would. be the difficulty -of directing: the bal loon, even In a feeble -way. out of sight and hearing of the earth In a violent tempest. Air will probably always be unre liable as a medium of travel or traffic, owing- not altogether to imperfections of the air ship, but to uncertainties of the air. Mortals feel none too safe In well-anchored houses, when the blast comes. AX OU ITIIEND WITH A NEW FACE. -The Gothenberg plan of handling the liquor traffic; nndniihtpiv m,- j In Sweden it has succeeded well, main ly Because the company which has the monopoly of all liquor sales does not seek a profit. If the public is correct ly Informed, the company which asks for a monopoly In Portland will seek a profit. This makes all the difference in the world. The proposal to pay the city a lump sum of $365,000 a year looks ominous. If the revenue of the city were made so largely dependent on a single source, and that source of such a thoroughly well understood character, it is to be-feared-that all attempts to regulate the monopoly would be balked by the threat that regulation would Impair the revenue. A privilege purchased at the enormous price of $1000 a day would naturally be held very precious both by those who owned it and by the City Council, and we may be. perfectly confident that regulation would be of the most super ficial character. The monopoly would acquire a vested right to Its profits and nothing would be permitted to Interfere with them. We must remember also that the experiment of placing all the saloons in the same city under the control of a single corporation Is no new thing in this country. Indeed. It Is common. In St. Louis, for example, nearly all the saloons for a long time have' been owned by the Anheuser Busch Com pany, with results which have not com mended themselves to the lovers of law and order. The theory that a mon opoly would stave off the day of pro hibition is not supported by the facts, for in St. Louis there Is today, after years of monopoly, a strong prohibi tion movement. To the plea that the proposed monopoly would be "differ ent," we need not pay much attention. -The principal fact In the situation Is that it -would run the saloons for a profit. This tells the whole story. One company running them for a profit will do precisely what any other com pany would. The difference would subsist only in name.- The results would be the same. The solution of the liquor problem does not lie in this direction. WHOSE BUSINESS IS ITt Miss Helen G. "Emery, of San Fran cisco, has got a good deal of notoriety of the kind that prudent young women shun and reputable people everywhere deplore, in choosing for her husband a young man of alien race a little brown man of the Orient. So deter mined Is ,thls infatuated young woman to marry in accordance with the strange whim that possesses her that Bhe has refused to hearken to the re monstrances of her father, has over ridden the scruples of her sorely dis tressed mother and departed with her lover for the purpose it is supposed, of marrying him at the first opportu nity. It is sometimes held by thoughtless persons that marriage is a matter that concerns solely the man and woman who assume Its obligations; that It is nobody's else business If the two im mediately concerned are satisfied, On ly the shallow reason thus. The mar riage of every man and woman is a matter of weal or woe to the com munity. In certain cases, the state steps in between the contracting par ties and says no. Oregon yesterday, through the agency of the District At torney, balked a similar couple, with a similar intent, at the request of the State of Idaho. Society has rights and enforces them. But what of the Inherent rights of posterity if the question of "marriage Is to be limited In each case to the personal rights of two people? Even the children of Gunjlro Aokl have a right to be born Into social conditions that Insure them the respectful con sideration of their relatives, their schoolmates and the community into which they are born. This birthright can only come through the marriage of Aokl with a woman of his own race; for where in our system of so cial economy is there a place for the child, still less for the'man or woman, of half caste? Then the children of Helen Emery, the grandchildren of Archdeacon Emerv. hava nm v... right to enter life under conditions that win give tnem at least the possibility of good fellowship, happiness and suc cess In life? A WAVE OV FOIXY. The strike of the French telegraph ers and postal employes presents some new and Interesting features in both the labor and the government owner ship problems. Paris news in yester day's Oregonian was that the strikers, not content with winning all the sub stantial points for which they con tended, are trying to force the govern ment to a public confession of defeat by the dismissal of M. Simyan, who is extremely obnoxious to the state em ployes. The Clemenceau ministry is pretty thoroughly permeated with so cialism, but it seems to have balked at so pronounced an admission of fear as the granting of this demand would show. At the beginning of this novel labor war, the French government dis played considerable backbone and an nounced its intention of treating the affair as a conspiracy against the state. This in effect is what the strike actual ly was. but in the light of subsequent events it would seem that the govern ment was so fearful of the result of the pressing of drastic measures that it promptly, backed down. The settlement, of the" strike, even should, the strikers fail to get the scalp of M. Simyan, Is so pronounced a victory for the strikers that it can hardly fail to cause considerable alarm among the conservative element In France, which for a long time has been uneasy over the steady drift of the country toward socialism. From all re ports that have been received of this French labor trouble, it has been con ducted on exactly the same lines as any ordinary industrial strike. In its success It has established a dangerous precedent, which may lead to some thing far more serious than the diffi culty which, for the present at least, seems to have been patched up. The right of the laborer to quit his employment if the wages are unsatis factory, or for other reasons, has never been denied. In this country and in European countries, these rights have generally been given sufficient latitude to permit the strikers to use argu TnE MORXIXG OREGOMAX, WEDXESDAY, ments, ranging from moral suasion to force, in an effort to prevent others taking the places vacated by the strik ers. Generally speaking, it has only been when public service In which the Government was directly interested has been interfered with that the Gov ernment has taken a hand In settling the 'difficulty. In the case of the French strike, which has terminates with the establishment of such a dan gerous precedent, the employes of the government so far forgot their duty to the public that they not only ab ruptly, abandoned their work, but by force prevented their places from be ing filled. With the ordinary workingman or mechanic in the employ of a private corporation, this conduct may be ex cusable. On the part of a govern ment employe, representing as he does in a degree, no matter how small, the government Itself, this conduct is fraught with grave consequences, and failure of the French government to maintain its authority and punish the leading conspirators is in effect only a postponement of the trouble, which next time may be still more serious. It Is said that the government In an effort to "save Its face" has agreed to treat the strike as "a wave of folly" and to punish no one. The proceed ings certainly disclose considerable fol ly,; but It is not clear that the fools are confined to the ranks ofthe strik ers. ... PORTLAND'S SKYSCRAPER ERA. At no previous period In the history of Portland has there been such a remarkable building movement as Is now on at full swing. The work un der way arid actually provided for is sufficient to keep this business up to high-water mark "far into next year. Portland has at last reachecT-the sky scraper age. . In every direction these mammoth structures, in varying de gree of completion,- are rising above the streets and surrounding property. The Lewis and Henry buildings on Fourth and Stark, the Meier & Frank, Portland General . Electric, and Olds, Wortman & King buildings on Alder, the Wilcox buildings on Seventh and Stark and Sixth and Washington, the Lumberman's building, the Ladd & Tilton building at Third and Washing ton, the Oregon Hotel annex, are a few of the many big structures now act ually under way or with plans com pleted. These buildings are following the completion of the Board . of Trade building, the Falling building,, the Rothchlld, Couch and Swetland buildings and a number of oth ers which the croakers solemnly predicted were ahead of the demands of the city. As a matter of fact, the population of the city is increasing so rapidly that it is with extreme diffi culty that quarters are found for the new arrivals seeking office and store locations. Portland Is breaking rec ords in all classes of buildinss, but the demand for them is so great that there is no Immediate danger of the supply getting ahead of it. MAKE THE BOOST GENERAL. Nobody need think of It as a miracle if Portland's population grows to 500, 000 within the span of not many years. Such things happen in the regular course of events, but they do not hap pen without cause. The increase of population Is, like any other phenome non, a consequence of antecedent events and conditions. Where the con ditions exist, people are attracted by them as if by the law of gravity. When the conditions are absent, advertising will not of Itself draw Inhabitants. Advertising is effective only when there is something worth while to ad vertise. Fortunately, Portland Is bet ter supplied than almost any other city, in the United States with the features which make life pleasant and the prospect is good for the erection of more manufacturing plants and other industries which will enable a larger population to earn a living. Beautiful scenery and a delightful climate, however enjoyable they may be, will not of themselves round out existence. People must eat as well as gaze upon snow-capped peaks. The outlook for Portland is that they can do both. The development of a great city is an evolutionary process to which many factors usually contribute. Some of these factors are supplied by nature. Others man must himself provide. In some quarters there Is a disposition to believe that evolution will, of itself, do everything, but we are learning that no mistake could be more deplorable. Intelligent results are obtained only through intelligent effort. Evolution is blind and irrational. It leads quite as often to disaster as to : desirable ends when human Intelligence does not interfere to control its operation. The evolution of the Shorthorn steer would never have come about in the world but for the application of man's good sense to the purposeless laws of hered ity. The same is true of the Hood River apples. Nature furnishes the starting point and the general methods of procedure, but the details of the evolutionary process man must work out for himself, or he gets nothing worth - having. Intelligence is quite as essential to the building of a great city as to the production of a perfect apple or a profitable steer. If. then, we desire to see a city here with 500,000 population, we must take the measures necessary to produce it. Nature has arranged matters so that the greater portion of the Inhabitants of Portland must dwell on the East Side, while -they will do business and find employment on the West Side. The problem of crossing the river be comes, therefore, of prime Importance to the future of the city. Easy and rapid transit means accelerated growth. Expense, delay, annoyance, mean dwarfed and hampered growth. A person being asked to specify the thing most needful to the rapid con centration of population here might well reply, "a perfect system of tran sit across the river." The law has in corporated the east and. west sides in a single city and it is the -part of wis dom to devise some method of uniting them as closely In fact as in theory. Whether the ultimate solution of the problem will be high bridges or tun nels the future will reveal, but It is certain that within a few years we shall have seen the last of the ugly and inconvenient draw bridges which are a mere makeshift at best and are fertile In annoyance both to navigators and to the public. The modern ten dency is to tunnel under streams In stead of bridging them, both for reas ons of economy and convenience. A tunnel once constructed properly is likely to last forever, while sooner or later the best bridge must be rebuilt. Moreover, an underground passage is out of the way of everything else. A notable Incident of Portland's his tory in. recent years is the movement of the' large retail stores and some of the financial institutions westward, leaving the streets along the river to the wholesalers and commission men. Where this movement will end nobody would venture to predict Just now, but as population inrijies nn th i..; cY. naturailythe stores will move in that di rection also, whilethe East Side will tend more ana more to develop minor retail trading centers of its own. The migra tion of business from one locality to another is amonor th Tr-ot intpfaeHm, incidents In the growth of almost every tiLj. oo iar as our great department stores are concerned, it is conceivable that as the years pass they will draw an increasing volume of trade from the country. Part of It will come by mail, but not all of it. The new elec tric railways and other means of rapid transit bring the country population even nearer' to the center of the town and stimulate them to forsake the rural store for the larger opportuni ties of the mammoth city mart. Thus the growth of retail business in Port land depends more or less on good communication with the country,, while the growth of every kind of business depends on the prosperity of the rural districts. Every effort made to Increase the scope and profit of agriculture In Oregon and Washington Is, therefore, a gain to Portland. Every effort to give the farmers the advantage of good roads Inures to the benefit of Port land 'almost as directly as Improve ments in the city streets. Half a mil lion people in Portland would be an undesirable anomaly without a corres ponding development of the surround ing agricultural region. The city can not maintain a healthy growth unless the country grows also, for when all Is said, we must admit that the coun try feeds the town and provides the ultimate market for many of its products. Fifteen hundred people at Central Point and 3500 at Medford to greet the Southern Pacific demonstration train, Is an example of the Interest shown in these attempts on the part of the railroad company to Improve conditions for the farmers. The enthu siasm with which these trains are re ceived in the Willamette Valley Is In strange contrast to the haughty in difference shown them by the wheat barons In Eastern Oregon, who, hav ing grown wealthy with a minimum of effort In their farming methods, are content to continue such methods, re gardless of the advantages which aro shown by the experts in charge who accompany these demonstration trains. The Willamette Valley was once a wheat country, and at that time Its lands iWere no more valuable than those of Eastern Oregon are today. Now, the valley farms are worth so much money that it is unprofitable to grow even dollar wheat on them. Lieutenant Shackelton, of the Brit ish navy, is reported to have reached the South Pole. Telegraphic commu nication with the Antarctic is very bad at this season of the year, and fjor that reason it will probably be some time before full particulars of the affair are available. If the report is true, however, the performance will take some of theT glory from Lieutenant Peary, who is expected to hang the Stars and Stripes on the North Pole in the near future. As a lecture bu reau attraction, Lieutenant Shackelton will now have first call over all other men on earth. The latest Is to consolidate all the Portland saloons In one management a monopoly and to put all present sa loonkeepers out of business. The chief argument for this interesting scheme is that it has never been tried here, nor within many thousand miles of Portland. That settles it. Let's have it. Tillamook is finding its salvation in competition. Months ago, when one steamer gave that port spasmodic con nection with Portland, the whole coun ty suffered. Now that opposition boats are running regularly, the great dairy district takes on new life and sends out both loaded with freight and pas sengers every trip. Two San Francisco women have lately become engaged to marry enter prising and attractive Japanese gentle men, temporarily employed as cooks or servants In American families. The fad seems to be growing. Now a British Lieutenant has dis covered the South Pole nearly. Wal ter Wellman, our great near-explorer, would have found the North Pole all right If he could have got his balloon started. Senator Bourne Is In place on that newly-created Senate finance commit tee. As long ago as 1896 he was deep ly impressed with the idea that our whole financial system needs reform ing. It was a great idea to send up a rescue balloon after that lost Califor nia air vessel. - There was at least one chance In a thousand that the winds might carry It In the same direction. New York doctors are rediscovering the fact that bee stings are good for rheumatism. The business end of a wasp has been known almost to euro paralysis when rightly applied. Good for Mr. Whltla, May he now proceed to prosecute, with all the in dignation of an outraged father and all the vigor of outraged law, the villains who kidnaped his young son. A professor in a Chicago psycho therapeutic class says the solar plexus is an emotional center. That's where Bob Fitzslmmcms showed It to Jim Corbett once upon a time. Just so long as Portland keeps the office of postmaster, Oregon's Senators in Washington need not be alarmed about moving offices from Portland to Puget Sound cities. . There were no malefactors of great wealth at the wharf to bid Colonel Roosevelt good-by. They preferred to shed their tears in private. If Castro returns to South America, he will locate at some point near enough to Venezuela to be a menace and a nuisance. ThatBrltlsh drumbeat will go around the world criss-cross if this latest ex plorer has nailed the Union Jack to the South Pole. - "Oregon, Extra Dry, 1910," is the slogan of the prohibitionists. Yes, Mumm's the word. J Will it be the Teddy Lion now? MARCH 24, 1900. MORE: VIEW'S OX THE tariff. Eastern Newspapers, as a Whole, Speeds: Favorably of the New BUI. Philadelphia Press. Rep. Some duties are raised and the principle of protection to American labor where protection is needed runs all through the bill. If through inadvertence or Imperfect knowledge this principle is violated at any important point there will be ample op portunity for c demonstration of this fact and for the cure of this defect before the bill reaches final passage. Genuine Revision Downward. New York World. Ind. Dem. Chairman Payne's tariff bill shows evi dences of the cross-purposes of contend ing interests. In these respects it is not likely to be Improved in the turmoil of a House debate. Yet as it stands it does, upon the whole, fulfil the party pledge of a genuine revision downward in tie inter est of the Government and the consumer. Reserve to States, Tax Inheritance. New York Sun, Ind. Rep. Whatever happens to the customs duties and the free list, subject to unknown shlftings or abandonments, one evil de vice for revenue in this bill should be struck out if Congress has any feeling of state pride, if not of state rights. The tax on inheritances, direct and collateral, should toe reserved to the states. Most Reasonable Bill of All. New York Times, Ind. The mere introduction of such a bill by the committee responsible for revenue legislation, in a House of Representa tives con-trolled by a large Republican majority, is a notable event and may prove memorable. For the fclll does, be yond all possible doubt, make a breach in the almost impassable tariff wall, and the breach is proposed by the party that built the wall. It is a more reasonable bill than any that has ever originated with the party of protection. Recognises Demand for Revision. Boston Herald, Ind. As a whole, the bill appears to be a reasonable response on the part of the committee to the demand of the Nation for relief from oppressive and privileged tariff duties. The cut of W per cent in the steel and lumber schedules, and the transfer of Iron ore and hides to the free list mark suoh complete abandonment of the traditions of Republican tariff-making that adequate attention may not at once be given to the lesser items in the schedules. The general scheme of the re Vision is reduction. Such increases as have been recommmended apply chiefly to luxuries. Payne Bill Looks Rosy. Hartford (Conn.) Courant, Rep. What the Senate's finance committee and the Senate itself ,wlll attempt to do to the bill at Mr. Aldrich's instigation we shall see when the time arrives. We all remember what weird experiences befell the Wilson tariff bill in that wing of the Capitol, and what President Cleveland said about them. There seem to be rea sonable grounds for hoping that the Payne bill will have better fortune. Even elderly and stubborn Senators sometimes think twice before openly flouting and defying public sentiment. Also President Taft aid quite a while ago that he would rather have no revision at all than a dis appointing, dishonest revision. Panacea for Lost Trade. Boston Post, Dem. Had such a bill been offered- with in dorsement ofthe Republican majority in Congress a quarter of a century ago, Joy-lires would have been , lighted on the hilltops throughout New England. Had such schedules been enaoted into law a quarter of a century ago. Now England would not be today dotted with extinct furnaces and iron . works in ruins. Our shipbuilding plants would not be van ished and forgotten. Our working people would not have been forced to emigrate. Is there time to recover some of the great industries of New England under such a tardy recognition of the Industrial needs of our people? It Is at least worth while to try. Breach Grows In Tariff Wall. Providence (R. I.) Journal, Ind. The new tariff bill Is about as much In the way of revision downward as a ways and means committee dominated by Messrs. Payne and Dalzell could be ex pected to allow. It falls far below the ideals of the tariff reformers; it perpetu ates Injustice to the consumer; it rests upon an unsound economic principle. Nevertheless, it is encouraging that even a beginning in the way of reducing exor bitantly high duties should be made. If the standpatters fancy, however, that it will allay agitation, and give to the pro tected Interests another dozen years of special privilege, they will find them selves, mistaken. Increase of appetite will grow -by what it feeds on. The breach in the tariff wall will become larger rather than smaller. ST. BERNARD ROUTS SALOON THEIP Masked Mold-Vp man Leaves His Coat tall In Angry Dog's Month. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Bruno, a massive St. Bernard dog owned by Michael Renn, a saloonkeeper at 990 Western avenue, is the hero of the Southwest Side. The noble animal has long been a pet of the children of the neighborhood, where he is universally loved and re spected for his gentleness and good na ture. The corner where he lives has long been the rendezvous for the youngsters of the neighborhood, for Bruno is the chil dren's friend and dearly loves to romp and play. It was not until the other night that Bruno was called upon to play a different role. As his master was sitting with two of his patrons, playing a game of cards in his tavern, the door was pushed open and a man wearing a black mask entered. "Throw up your hands and don't move," the intruder commanded. Renn and his comrades thought they were the victims of a practical Joker and continued their game. The man advanced across the room and, pulling a revolver from his, hip pocket, exclaimed with an oath, as he pressed the cold muzzle against Renn's neck: "Get up or I'll shoot your head off." Quickly realizing that It was a regular hold-up the men arose and stood with their faces to the wall while the burglar broke open and rifled the cash register be hind the bar. "Here, Bruno," called Renn, as the bur glar started from behind the bar. Enraged at this call for help the burglar raised his pistol to shoot, but before be could pull the "trigger Bruno had run from an adjoining room and leaped at his throat. In an instant the dog and burglar were struggling on the floor, the latter too scared to shoot and endeavoring to wrest himself loose from the enraged animal. Regaining his feet the burglar dashed for the door with Bruno at his heels. Be fore Renn and his companions could In terfere the robber had burst open the door and disappeared, not, however, with out leaving his coat-tail in Bruno's mouth. The Real Reason. Cleveland (Ohio) Leader. Why am I honest? Well, 'tis not Because of what my friends would say If I were otherwise tor what Do others' thoughts count, anyway ? Nor am I honest Just because A Rood example I should set; Nor from respect of certain laws ' That men may make, and break. Nor yet Do I make honesty my rule Because 'tis the best policy; That were the reason of a fool. But 'tis not strong- enough for me I scorn such reasons every one. But not this: One who's In disgrace. Who stole a watch and couldn't mn Tells ms the Jail's a draughty placa. MEMORIAL TO SAI . X- SIMPSON Funds to Be Raised to Erect m Monu ment at Salem. SALEM. Or., March 22. (To the Edi tor.) The Samuel L. Simpson Memorial Association of the City of Salem has taken upon Itself the pleasant and agreeable duty of erect! no- a monu ment to commemorate the talent and genius of Oregon's poet, Samuel L. Simpson. In this matter the cordial as sistance of the press of Oregon is re quested. The idea of the originators of the association is to place the monument in Salem. In Wilson avenue, fronting the State Capitol Building. The funds to erect the monument can be obtained by entertainments, lectures and small contributions from former students of the Willamette University, pioneers and admirers of Sam Simpson's high literary ability. Sam Simpson was a pioneer of .the state, having been brought here by his parents in 1846. The reason for plac ing the monument in Salem is that a good portion of Sam Simpson's boy hood and early manhood was passed there. It is the wish of the organizers of this association to enlist in behalf of this cause persons .residing in all the towns and cities of the Northwest, who were formerly students of the Willam ette University, and all persons who appreciate his fine literary Qualities. We wish to bear testimony to his gen ius In Borne suitable and proper man ner. A monument, the expense of which should be borne by the parties above mentioned, would be a fitting memorial to one who fell untimely In life's battle. A. N. Bush, the banker, of Salem, is the treasurer of the association, P. H. D'ARCY. President of the Samuel L. Simpson Memorial Association. HAY'S PREDICTION OF HIS DEATH "1 Expect to Be Comfortably Dead la 10O8," He Wrote While Secretary. New York Times. A very interesting letter, referring to President Lincoln Just after Ms first in auguration, and written by John Hay. is In an autograph sale at Anderson's. The letter is dated Washington, 1861, and says in part: If there Is anything which more than all causes me to regret the intolerable press ot business about-the President's office. It 18 the Impossibility of answering the letters of my best friends. I have positively not had a moment's leisure since we arrived in this city. The throng of office seekers Is absolutely fearful. They come at daybreak and still are coming at midnight. You know that In anything I can do you can command me, but you overrate my in fluence. Mr. Lincoln positively refuses to make any recommendations for positions in the department; he rejects the entreaties Uvea most intimate friends and reta in another letter, Washington, Decem ber 12, no year, Hay says: Walter Noyes was appointed on the rec ommendation of two Rhode Island Senators. Burnslde and Anthony. I did not pay Mc kinley s debts. I never called him -William In my life, nor did he ever call me John. Our Intercourse has always been of the most formal character. I have absolutely no claim on him for myself or friends. "And in another letter Hay writes from Washington: I am old. alck and busy, and I have not a moment at my disposition besides w'lat Is occupied by my dally tasks. ... Do not talk about anything so ridiculous as my be Inji a candidate for the Presidency. I shall never hold an office after this, and I expect to be comfortably dead by 190S. Juty r"! re0aJled' Sectary Hay died Ten Years in' Bed fox Lasy Man. Jerseyvllle, 111., Dispatch to N. Y. Times The laziest man in the world lives iii this village. His name is John Mumcra, and he has been in bed 10 years because he is unwilling to comply with the rules of the Jersey County Farm, which say that every one living there shall rise at 5 A. M. Mumcra Is not sick. Ho eats regularly, and is in perfect health. "I am ready to hold up my hand and swear that he has kept Ms word," said Superintendent Mourning, of the County IF&rm. "John has been In-bed 10 years and ho says he will stay there the re mainder of his life. "Jle Just lies there and looks at the ceiling, or rolls over once In a while and takes a nap. When he talks it is all about how foolish a man is to get up every morning when he knows he'll have to go back to bed again at night." Reciprocity Wit a a clan. New York Globe, Rep. The Payne tariff bill is not a single bill but a double one it provides not one set of schedules, but two a minimum set and a maximum set, the second about 20 per cent higher than the first. Attention yes terday was focussed on the minimum duties on the theory that they would be the ones to be collected, but it is by no means impossible, if the bill goes through in its present form, that as to imports from many countries the maximum rates will go automatically Into effect making in these cases actual Increase in tariff imposition or but nominal reduction. This Is reciprocity with a club. Expects Gold Run From New Motor. Kansas City (Mo.) Dispatch. G. W. Johnson, an electrical engineer at Grant City, Mo., has an Invention which he calls an "air and vacuum mo tor." He says of it: "After an Initial charge. It will run indefinitely and pro pel anything that moves. It will furnish any number of horsepower, and Is suit able for motor cars, airships, streetcars, railroad trains, farm machinery and other things. I have tested it thorough lyhave adapted It to a motor-cycle and it is a success." Bank Check on Pine Wood Block. Columbus. O., Dispatch. At the Fourth National Bank of Cin cinnati was presented a check for 83 cents, written on a block of pine wood an inch thick, one foot long and six inches wide. It was paid. A real estate dealer became engaged in a dispute with a tenant over a broken window pane, and the tenant, being compelled to pay the expense, wrote the check on the nine block. Firemen Called for Dance Partners. Baltimore News. During a dance on Petee. street. Cincin nati, it .was discovered there was a short age of male partners, whereupon a buxom woman turned In an alarm of fire. When a lot of handsome firemen from a nearby engine-house appeared the woman said: "They ain't no fire. Stay and dance; that's what we wanted ye fer. Why doncher stay and dance?" Watch the Senate, at Every Stage. Chicago Journal, Ind. Dem. It will be well to watch the Senate at every stage of the present tariff revision fight. There are many members of that body who doubtless sincerely desire to keep faith with the people and to redeem their party's solemn pledges. There are also Senators whose allegiance to the money power blinds them to either patri otism or honor. There will soon be a counting of noses. Best Fathered by Republicans. New York Evening Post. Ind. As it stands today, the Payne bill must be confessed to be a more enlightened and promising measure than any tariff bill ever fathered by the Republican JLparty. THBDmnVAT-BEAH CONTROVERSY I Which the Portland Printer Is Ac cused of Being Deceptive. EUGENE. Or., March 22. (To the Edi tor.) Again I submit a reply relative to the state printing graft and in answer to Willis L. Duniway, who has so cleverly avoided explaining to the people of Ore gon how he earned the odd-$60.00O paid to him for the state printing during the r.K?07 and 190S- Perhaps he thinks mat this, as well as the fact that thera was a deficiency of over $30,000 for thnso years will soon be forgotten bv the tax payers? If this be his reason for not ex plaining, then will he kindly state what his emoluments are to be during the next two years? He should have no trouble in doing this, since he alone knows what Vno reduction in rates, under his own "fair and reasonable" bill, will be Mll" ?unlway "ays that I am mistaken in stating that the Duniway bill makes no reduction whatever in the Jobwork.-He drew the bill himself and "knows that a very great saving" will be made "espe cially through the use of 'eight -point" in . "-f,u,ni ana tne cutting of the rate of press-work from 55 cents trr 40 cents." This statement of Mr. Duniwav Is not only misleading, but is absolutely untrue, as Mr. Duniway knows, and any one can tell by comparing his self-serving bill with the section of the code at tempted to be amended. The only place in this great reform bill where "eight point" is mentioned is in reference to, the printing of the "acts." "memorials," "res olutions" and "Journals" of the Lecls- - . icpviu ui state omciais. and "pamphlets." and in this connection eight-point" Is to bo used only ' in, head," 'foot" and "side" notes. -Tln-dexes" and "tabular" matter. As1 to these, "eight-point" is used only in cbn "ttn wlth tha following language: Shall be printed in 8-polnt or 6-point type, leaving the matter entirely op tional with the State Printer as to whether he will use "eight-point" or "six point," and the only change In size of type in this connection from the old law is from "7-polnt or 6-point" to "8-point or 6-point." ,j A wonderful reform this! No word even tends to Indicate that this insignificant change shall in any way apply to Job work, but is expressly used in connec- uwawora. i-ne other method pointed out by Mr. Duniway wherein the exorbitant cost of Jobwork is to be so greaUy reduced is "by cutting the rate of presswork from 55 cents to 40 cents " and in this his statement is as mislead ing and deceptive as in using "eight point" in lieu of "six-point." - Mr. Duniway is very careful In drawing his would-be-reXorm-measure to avoid specuying anything that would in any way touch upon the Jobwork. the printer's graft. It is easy for Mr. Duniway to call the other fellow "grafter" and teirthe people that the former schemers for grafting" looted the state treasury, "and how they were superseded by the onlv honest reformer, past, present or future. But It remains a fact, nevertheless that the state today Is paying more for its public printing than ever before, and that the recent session of the Legislature -was confronted with the largest deficiency for the state printing in the history of' the state. Why this condition, if Mr. Duniwav is the great benefactor of the people he' as serts himself? Since the days of Frank C. Baker, the state printing office has had the reputation of being a graft upon the taxpayers, and conditions are little or no better today. The printing of Baker. Leeds, Whitney and Duniwav is in existence, and an examination of" the Itemized bills therefor are on file in the office of the Secretary of State show much the same state of facts. Mr. Duni way gets his pay by the same rule, of measurement as did Baker. Leeds and Whitney, and based upon the same rate, which has not been changed since .1ST8. when the old hand-press was the onlv means of printing. Before Mr. Duniway's time, the many forms of Jobwork were printed in 11-point type, but since. . the "phat" is measured in 6-point, 8-point and . 10-pointi thereby increasing - the emoluments of Mr. Printer by substitution of the smaller type. Another reform to be found in this "fair and reasonable" bill of Mr. Duniway's is in Section 4. where he Increases the number of copies of the general laws to be printed from 2000 to 2400. and Increasing the number of Journals from 240 to 480 copies. Mr. Duniway's complaint that the pro visions of the fiat salary bill sought to oust a constitutional officer and confis cate his plant, is as false as is Mr. Duni way deceptive, and is an appeal for sym pathy only. The bill, as originally intro duced. If this is the light in which ho wishes to consider It, provided that after July 1, 1909. the State Printer should, re ceive an annual salary of $4000 for- the balance of his term. Will the taxpayers of Oregon call' J4000 a year "ousting'" What does Mr. Duniway think he is really worth, that J4000 a year seem so Insignifi cant to him? But the bill was amended before passing the House so as not to go into effect as to the salary until the, end of his term. He now says I opposed this amendment. Certainly I did. and for the reason that I believed that $15,000 to $25. 000 a year was out of all reason. Whether right or wrong in this, I bow to the Judg ment of the people. The original bill provided for the pur chase of a plant by the state under sealed bids, contract to be awarded to the low est responsible bidder. Was this "con fiscation?" Mr. Duniway certainly had better than an even show with firms deal In in such machinery, for his was in place and In good shape, and Just such as the state would be required to pur chase. But In this respect the bill was amended before passing the Houso so as to give Mr. Duniway the preference over outside dealers. The bill was also amend ed so as to put the State Printer on the Board which would have the purchasing of a plant. The bill as amended was admitted to be fair by Mr. Duniway from his point of view, yet while admitting so to me he was then openly working for its defeat. In all the history of this state, no stata officer has so persistentljr been within the bar of the House and Senate as was the present State Printer. Not a vacant chair but the Printer occupied. First on one side of the room and then on the other; constantly on the move and at every member's elbow. Ever in evidence ' was this persistent lobbyist, and he a state officer, drawing approximately $20, 000 a year over and above expenses. ' The only way to ever shake this octo pus, the state printing graft, is to have a salaried State Printer and either go Into the open market and buy the printing or have state ownership. ' L. E. BEAN. Thinks the Measure Will Be Recast. Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle, Dem. It does not follow that because the bill will be reported favorably that it will be passed Intact. There have been times when the partisan - machinery of the House was strong enough to put a bill of the kind through under whip and spur. But the machine of today is not in the best of running order and majorities are slim and uncertain. When passed, it wiil be through concessions. And when con cessions are begun no one can tell where they will end. There Is but one safe pre dictionthat when the bill passes the House, It will not be the same bill. A Perfect Tariff Is Called For. Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Ind. Dem. Why should we not be given, therefore, the finest, the best balanced the most equitable, the most scientific, the moat beautiful set of schedules that the world has ever seen? Never mind New Ehigland! Forget all localities and special inter ests. Give us . simply the perfect tariff, made strictly according to protective prin- (lr,l. t V. a onttahla Hnn.n , ...4 .. 1 . . something which hereafter could be point ed to with pride as a model 'of fiscal statesmanship and a Joy -forever.