Morning Oregonian., April 21, 1909, Page 8, Image 8

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THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK.
The -western world, which has been
accustomed for more than a century
to look upon the Turks as a decrepit
people, versing toward extinction, re
gards with incredulous wonder the
resurgence of modern political Ideas
on the banks of the Bosphorus. That
the subject of the Sultan should as
pire to liberty seems almost as strange
to us as that some tribe of the lower
animals should suddenly develop no
tions of domestic life. The truth la
that the character of the Turks is not
well understood in the West. They
are not a degenerate people. The mar
tial vigor which they possessed at the
beginning of their history they have
never lost. Addicted to vicious courses
sometimes, and Indulgent of their
grosser passions, on the field of battle
they have always played the man. Nor
Is there anv eronnri fo i r..
that they are by nature an unprogres nlbe b"nd t0 another law equally lm
sive race. Their early rulers were J portant- " wuld e distressing if any
notable for a. nir ... I Patriots forgetfulness should mako
Many military and civil practices were
introduced by them to the advantage
of the Oriental world, and for the age
In which they lived their rule was
famous for Its even-lianded Justice
Many of the wretched subjects of the
Greek Emperors, In Constantinople
took refuge In the course of the 18th
century, to escape the extortions of
the tax gatherer, among the subjects
of the Turk in Asia Minor.
Where and -when the Turkish people
originated, nobody knows. We hear
of them as early as the 6th century
after Christ, playing something of a
part among the nomadic hordes which
raided and conquered In the vast re
gions of Central Asia, where so much
history has had its source and so much
misery for mankind has been plotted
In the year 1200, the period of the
amazing conquests of Jenghlz Khan
orijui urancn or the Turks oc
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little by little from the feeble Greek
. Emperors of Constantinople. The
troops of Jenghlz Khan, wandering up
and down the earth, devastating and
slaughtering, came face to face with
the army of the Seljuks, at the City
of Angora, sometime near the year
1250, and for hours the battle between
them raged with even fortune; but
suddenly a band of 400 horsemen,
under a gallant leader, whom none of
the combatants had ever seen before
rushed to the aid of the Seljuks and!
casting themselves upon the Tartars of
Jenghlz, decided the day. The leader
was Ertogruhl, son of Suleiman, the
founder of the power of the Ottoman
Empire and the father of an unbroken
line of more than thirty Kings. He
had come from far Khorasan, whence
. he had been driven years before by
the power of Jenghlz. and wandering
westward toward the Aegean coast
and the secure mountains of Anatolia
he had lingered for a time on the
banks of the Euphrates, then resumed
his Journey, and arrived at Angora in
the nick of time to avenge his past
wrongs and retrieve the day for his
relatives, the Seljuks. They rewarded
him with a little piece of territory, not
far from the famous city of Nice,
where in an earlier and happier time
the turbulent bishops of the orthodox
church had elaborated the great creed
which we all still confess and some of
us still 'believe.
A place to stand on was all that
Ertogruhl needed. Little by little his
power increased, sometimes by a wed
ding, sometimes by a victory. In 1258
his son, Othman, or Osman, was born
from whom the title of the Ottoman
Empire la derived. -His son, Orkhan,
was born In 1288 and achieved, in
1326, the first great triumph of the
Turks over the Greeks by capturing
the populous City of Brusa, near the
Ionian Coast. Orkhan was a diligent
innovator and a wise statesman as well
as a competent captain. He it was who
Invented the organization of the Jan
issaries, that famous body of Turkish
troops to whose disciplined intrepidity
so many of their conquests were due.
Each year he required from his Chris
tian subjects a thousand well-grown
boys of tender age, whom he caused to
be nurtured up In the true faith of
Mohammed, and drilled In the art of
fighting. Inured to valnr bv
' - j wrested
sant discipline, fearless of death be
cause tney Knew that the Joys of
Paradise awaited them the moment
they fell, eager for victory because the
Sultan placed no rein iiuon their- to
slons, they composed one of the finest
bodies of trooos In the wnrlfl Put t n
-time, - like all favored soldiers, they
Decame dangerous to their masters and
had to be massacred.
' Before the year 1400 the conquests
of the Turks had extended across the
Bosphorus as far as the boundaries of
iiunsana, wnue in Asia tney ran east
ward to the banks of thn unhntoi
They were picturing to themselves an
empire which should include the whole
World When. Out nf nlenr uVir -
thunderbolt fell and so shattered their
power tnat it .did not recover for
years. The thunderbolt was Tlmou
the Tartar, that marvelous warrior whi
spread ruin from the Coast of the Pa
cine to the marshes of Germany. On
the old battlefield of Angora, where
the power of the Turks was born, thel
army met the troops of Timour ani
was annihilated. But the most strik
Ing characteristic of the Turks is the!
vitality. . Reduced by this reverse- to
a people 'without a country they
, nevertheless, began almost immediate
ly to recover themselves. Within 8
dozen years they had overrun Asia
Minor again and were fighting the
Hungarians on the banks of the Dan
ube. In 1451, under Sultan Mohammed
II. they undertook the siege of Con-
ctantinople. For many years'they had
its subjects Into slavery. One of the
pnantom Emperors who sat upon the
throne of Constantino had even con
sented to pay tribute to the Sultan.
Now the siege was begun in earnest
and after two years of fighting the cen
ter of the orthodox Christian faith and .
the capital of the eastern empire of
ROme fell Into the hands of the Turks.
From that day to this their rule has"
extended over some of the fairest parts
of both Europe and Asia. Often at
tacked, they never have been con
quered. Aonarentlv rK-1 n ty fn v.
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century and a half, their empire Is still !
souna at neart and possessed of a spirit
of progress iwhich promises great things
for the future. Perhaps the most
startling political phenomenon of our
day Is the new birth of Asiatic nations
whom everybody had supposed to be
on the point of extinction.
THE BU8HLXGHT-BAILET DEAL.
Since certain prophets of a political
faith in Portland who are bent on
electing Rushlight Mayor are holding
themselves before the popular gaze as
the only true guardians of the direct
primary law, It would seem necessary
at this Juncture to admonish the breth
ren that that law has a full sister, the
corrupt practices act, whose majesty Is
equally worthy of their respect and ob
servance. This law declares that no' candidate.
In order to promote his nomination or
election, shall promise any other per
son aid In securing "any public or pri
vate position or employment" For
the benefit of pure politics and an
overcrowded Jail, Mr. Bailey and Mr.
Rushlight should he Informed by the
prophets of the faith that any deal be
tween them, for Mr. Bailey's present
withdrawal and his future reward,
would constitute a grave violation of
the corrupt practices law, punlBhable
in ways one shudders to mention.
The Oregonian feels constrained to
bring this matter before the gentlemen,
in order that in their zeal to comply
with the direct Drimarv lnw bev mot.
him unhappy hereafter.
NON-COSEPETIMO COMPETTnOX.
The Interstate Comm
slon will have another hearing on the
namman merger case In thin oitv
next month. An attemnf H.-I11 v o
to show that the union of the South
ern and Pacific interest in v,.i,.
.u
Northwest destroyed all competition
ueuween me two lines. Without en
tering into the efTect which this merg
ing of the two lines might have had on
the business of the territory involved,
il ib umicurt to understand why the
public should be prnrctud to v.,ii
that any competition remained after
the lines were merged. Take, for ex
ample, the traffic department. Here in
-regon we nnd the traffic end of the
Southern Pacific, in charm t -mv u
B. Miller, and, much as we admire the
us uisposiuon or the gentle-
be expecting too much of him to en
ter Into any fierce fight with Mr. R. B.
miner, in cnarge of the traffic for the
O. R. & N.
In fact, we can hardlv crmv-t or.tr.
thing else than that Mr. r: r irin
of the O. R. & N., and Mr. R. B. Miller',
or rne southern Pacific, seated at the
same desk, up in the Wella-Far
building, would calmly discuss the
freight situation .no" n rv-o 1 ai.
to ry. with Local Traffic Manager R. B.
Miller, of the Harriman svstem. Th
situation Is an interesting one, and the
question involved is rar-reaching and
serious, especially at a time when Mr.
Harriman Is adding more rapidly than
ever to nis rar-riung railroad empire.
It would seem to be an imnossibin-rv to
merge these properties without d.
stroylng competition, and the public
wmcn pays tne ireignt is less Inter
ested in the economic n rl-tro nra rys
havlnr; one set of officers for two lines
tnan it Is In having the satisfaetorv
rates which result from rcasnnahio
and healthy competition.
"OBAKDMOTHEK'g FLOIVERS."
A timely chapter unon this nA
theme In the current number of the
woman s Companion recalls out-of-the-way
corners in old irarfl
rows of stately sweet-scented senti
nels or the vegetable world Just be-
yona tneir ranks, that inw loner
olden garden paths foxglove and
Canterbury bells. toueh-m-no on
snapdragons, the more lowly pe
tunia and mignonette, black-eyed
Susans and variegated cillv flow
ers, gaudy hollyhocks and drowsy
popples In endless array from the
shadow background of memory. "Old
fashioned" flowers and these and oth
ers or their class that made gay and
fragrant the eardena of lono- a k
we are Joyfully told that they' are
uommg in again" a statement that
has found proof for several successive
years in tne flowers used to decorate
the long tables at the annual banquet
of Oregon pioneers. The catalogues
that are sent out sown broadcast, no
It were over the ovmnr,-,, i
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Springtime, devote a large part of
their space to aflvArtisinc rvA i
flowers, not forgetting to say that they
are easily grown, gratefully responsive
to care and cultivation and make am
ple return in the
fragrance of their blossoms for all
the attention that is given them.
Why, indeed, should not these
flowers become popular? Rather,
why should they ever have fallen into
neglect to be reinstated in favor only
by painstaking advertisement con
taining assurances that the strains of
these old flowers have been greatly
"improved"? That their culture has
been revived is in evidence along
many paths that lead up to pretty
suburban homes, in the borders of
many back yards and in- quaintly
contrived beds upon city lawns.
Rural gardens are once more gay
with them and they are beginning to
appear in out-of-the-way fence cor
ners and along roadsides where the
seeds have been sown broadcast by
the wind. -
The reason of this revival of interest
in "grandmother's flowers" is due
perhaps, to some extent, to the free
distribution of seeds by the National
Department of Agriculture. Like all
vigorous, hardy creatures and plants,
these flowers are persistently vital and
reproductive. While they are grateful
for good soil, irrigation and cultiva
tion, and thrive grandly under these
conditions, they are not discouraged
by neglect and many of them return to
a wild state without abatement of
their vigor and beauty, though greatly
diminished In size. .
Who, taking a walk In the pastures
or woods of the Willamette Valley In
late Springtime or early Summer, has
not been delighted with the beauty of
ine larkspur that riots In many
tints of pink and purple, pure and
mixed? With the columbine, In its
crimson vestments and dark brown
spurs, holding but not hiding its yellow
honey cups? The foxglove, estray
from the garden but sending up long
spikes of white or variegated blossoms
from Its thick, dusty-looking bed of
leaves? The diacentra, with its grace
ful, drooping branches of pink tinted
heart-shaped blossoms, tipped with
pearl? The wild flag, in many-hued
purple, and the corn flower, an im
ported but lovely vagrant that makes
gay, In places, the wheat fields from
which farmers have tried in vain to
exterminate It?.
"Grandmother's flowers" are all
these and many more that have es
caped from the gardens and gone back
to the wilds from whence they sprang;
ours, too, in undisturbed beauty and
fragrance and riotous abundance to
cherish for memory's sake, to love
and cultivate for our own.
ROUTE TO CENTRAL OREGON.
The Albany Herald and the Prlne
ville Review take exception to com
ment made toy The Oregonian on the
heavy grades which would he encoun
tered In an extension of the Corvallis
k eastern Railroad to Central Oregon.
The Herald savs that "a wrono- imn.'
slon is given, for the route up the San-
uara is just as much a water-level
route as is the Deschutes route." This
Is true to the extent that tv, otti
follows the Santlam River, and it will
aiso ronow the Deschutes River. The
latter, however. Is for nlmoot th
tire distance through the canyon a
siow-moving stream, while the San-
uam is a succession of rapids, the rise
per mile alonir the Santfam ki .
much greater than along the Des-
nutes. It is this heavier- irrnrio v,
Santiam which will act
that in a few years will more than off.
set the saving in original cost of the
una as compared with the more ex
pensive Deschutes line.
Were the physical conditions the
same on the Santlam and trio n,.
chutes routes, The Oregonian and
probably the entire business commu
nity of Portland would much prefer
me oantiam route into Central Oregon,
as It would pass through a country in
which every mile would supply traffic.
The line could also be completed at
least a year earlier than the Deschutes
route, this advantage alone being of
great Importance to Portland and the
territory to be served. But the day of
mountain-climbing railroads Is past,
and enormous expenditures are in
curred In rebuilding and straighten
ing tracks for the purposes of reducing
grades, so that it may be regarded as
a certainty that the traffic of Central
Oregon will be hauled out over as near
to a water-level grade as can be se
cured. The Prineville paper asserts that
"the Deschutes canyon has no tonnage
and never will afford any. It is, in
fact, the most worthless, chimerical
railroad pronosltlon we hnuo
heard of, its one asset being its scenic
Deauty. .Tnls. same criticism, so far
as tonnage is concerned, would apply
to the celebrated LnoJo ont-ntr whi-i
cost more money than any similar
piece oi roaa in the United States. The
Deschutes routa will ho main o
tery of a great system of railroads
wnicn win some day reach every por
tion of the rich Central Oregon coun
try. Prineville, In the wonderfully
rich Owyhee Valley, is slightly off the
main route to be followed by a line up
the Deschutes, but the possibilities of
the city and the surrounding country
are too great to leave that point with
out railroad facilities very long after
the road Is completed up the Des
chutes. Mr. Harrlman's reputation
rests on his wonderful success in find
ing easy grades and attendant low op
erating expenses for his trains. He
will seek these grades in entering Cen
tral Oregon, and if they are not avail
able from this end of the state they
can be found leading to California.
For this reason The Oregonian favors
the Deschutes route over all others,
and is convinced that the road will be
built as soon as the Government gives
permission.
FEMALE CHEATS.
It would 'be interesting to know just
how common among our very wealthy
people the practice of swindling the
Government is. It Is a matter of
every-day report that few of them
make honest statements of their per
sonal property to the Assessor, but the
public has not often suspected them of
swearing falsely to the customs offi
cers. Since the tariff schedules were
arranged largely for the benefit of the
millionaires, it certainly does appear
somewhat mean in them to try to shirk
paying even the small share of the tax
which falls to their lot, but that they
do so seems scarcely disputable.. It is
still more shocking to learn that the
offenders are mostly women. Few
people were surprised when it was dis
covered that the much-favored sugar
trust was cheating the benevolent gov
ernment by using false scales at the re
ceipt of customs, but it Jars one's sen
sibilities to find our admired and
adored women in the same boat.
The women who have been caught
in an attempt to swindle the Govern
ment Dy shirking the duties on the
goods they import belong to the class
who are presented with million-dollar
checks on their birthdays and who re
ceive palaces on Fifth avenue for wed
ding gifts. They are of the species
who employ trained nurses for their
pet cats and send their poo'dle dogs out
for an airing in a $10,000 automobile,
attended by two footmen and a valet.
Such women have a sort of Intelli
gence, hut its operation is confined en
tirely to the sphere of dinner par
ties, bridge whist and One clothes.
They think of nothing else except their
dogs and cats, and are almost unaware
that the universe contains people who
do not belong to their set. They live
in a false world, a realm of chimeras
which has but little resemblance to
real life. They all belong to some
church and are assiduous in perform
ing what they call their "religious du
ties"; but few of them have such a
thing as a conscience, and none of
them could form the faintest image
of what Shakespeare meant by the
milk of human kindness. Hard, cold,
glittering, unmoral, they are the spend
ers and wasters of the world. A bet
ter civilization than we now possess
will find some method of existing with
out them.
The speculative public, which de
lights In selling something, which it
does not possess, had a very pleasant
day in the Chicago wheat pit yester
day. Before the bears' appetite for
revenge had been satisfied the price of
wheat had been hammered down from
to 4 cents rer bushel- T'nfnrti.noi.i,,
for the Consumers of hreurl nnnn nf
this wheat that caused the furore in
tnicago is available for breadmaklng.
and is llkelv, la.ter In iha aooann ,
cause more disturbance in the market
wnen an ereort Is made to get It to de
liver on the contracts msla ri.,,-in
the hilarious few moments on the Chi
cago j3oara or Trade. Meanwhile the
great Ajnerlcan people are waiting In
suspense for the Hon Jamoo wn,An
of the Agricultural Department, to di
vulge tne present whereabouts of that
mysterious 143,000,000 bushels of
wheat which he reported In farmem
hands on March 1.
The state wen-ji to hAVA -marl a o
very advantageous purchase In the
site recently bousrht for the niuf -vr.it.
Schorl. Upon the ground purchased.
wnicn comprises about flfty-foui"acres.
Is the old Polytechnic Institute build
ing and a dwelling-house in good re
pair, uctn or which can be utilized for
purposes of the state institution. Gen
erally speaking. It Is poor economy, or
no economy, to buy old buildings for
Institutional purp-oses. Repairs are
costly, and the hnllrllnca at haQr
unsuitable and are more than likely to
prove unsanitary. New ground, new
lumber and modern construction for
Institutional J purposes may be more
costly in the beinnlnor hut thin nra
usually cheaper in the end. Possibly
mis may De tne exception that will
prove tne rule.
A training school for nurse girls is
to be undertaken In connection with
the Baby Home in Waverly. The ef
fort Is a commendahle one. One of
the fallacies that should long ago have
been exploded Is that a half-grown
girl Is, by reason of her box, and per
haps by a supposed latent maternal in
stinct, fully qualified to take care of a
baby. This idea has been often dis
proved by sad experience, and now it
is to be supplanted by an effort to
teach girls, through a practical course
in baby tending, under experienced di
rection, to wash, dress and feed an in
fant properly, and otherwise assume
Intelligent responsibility for its wel
fare. The world moves.
True sympathy must indorse the
plea of the lad of 14, who, being de
prived of his arms and legs toy being
run over by . a switch engine in the
freight yards of the Great Northern
Railway at Seattle Monday night,
begged to he allowed to die. A human
being thus horribly maimed has no
place In the Industries, pleasures or
achievements of life. Existence under
such conditions is unhearable, even in
contemplation.
The community suffers a loss as well
as husband and children in the death
of the wife of William FUedner. Mem
ber of a pioneer family that crossed
the plains when the state was young,
she helped its growth In the ordained
way, and, although She failed of the
allotted three-score and ten, her years
were filled with good work and chil
dren and friends will call her memory
blessed.
An American citizen has been killed
at Persia while engaged in helping the
revolutionists. As a rule the killing of
an American by half -civilized foreign
ers is attended with serious results, but
in this case the American had appar
ently "butted in" on a family row in
which he was not directly concerned.
This fact will probably save some
trouble for the Persians.
People are sitting up to take notice
of Portland. "I made some profit
able Investments in real estate in Port
land, Or.," is a sentence in a short
story in a recent issue of a fiction pa
per of "more than a million weekly."
But there is no fiction in the state
ment of profit. Such things are too
common for comment here on the
ground.
July wheat was 87 cents per bushel
in Chicago one year ago yesterday, and
potatoes were 85 cents per bushel. Yes
terday July wheat closed at $1.12
per bushel and potatoes were $1.16
per bushel. From these figures it is
clear that some one is "cornering" the
potato market with much greater suc
cess than is attending the wheat cor
ner. President Taft has become a fan, as
is his right, but he suffers a heavy
handicap in his inability to arise on his
hind legs on a top seat in the grand
stand and let out one screech after
the other when a triple play decides
the game.
The A-T-P managers continue to
draft Oregon men. D. C. Freeman is
the latest. Freeman learned how at
the Trans-Mississippi and took a post
graduate course at the Lewis and
Clark. He is what may be called "good
stuff."
This is not the time for Mayor Lane
to declare that no inducements could
take him into the race for Mayor
again; that will depend on the ani
mosities resulting from the Republican
primaries.
If an assemhly of 600 people to
make recommendations Is wicked and
corrupt, a bunch of half a dozen ob
jectors to name opposing candidates
must, be so inflnitesimably good as' to
be harmless.
Mayor Lane does not want a rein
forced concrete expert to referee the
East Twenty-eighth-street bridge con
troversy. Certainly not. Isn't the
Mayor the universal expert?
The Turkish trouble has at least sue
ceeded In clearing up any lingering
idea that Tewfik Pasha is a cigarette
and Edhem Pasha a new brand of
cheese. We live to learn.
The Mayor has a lingering doubt
that the arrested gamblers can be con
vlcted. When elected as a reform
Mayor he had no such doubt.
Rising temperature is due In Wash
ington this week. The Daughters of
the American Revolution are in ses
sion.
Even Bull Run water is flat and un
satisfying when boiled. The remedy
is simple. Stop boiling the water.
The Sultan's abdication will be un
fortunate for bill collectors.
What's a constitution
Turks, anyway?
between
And the Beavers beat the Angels.
M'LOUGHLITtr HOUSES IS SAVED.
F"nnd" Are Raised to Prevent Raxing
of Building-.
PORTLAND, Or.. April 20 (To the
Editor.) It Is with great pleasure that
I am able to announce that the "Mc
Loughlin House," Oregon City, will not
be razed to the ground. It-will be re
moved at once to a lot that was given
to that ctly by Dr. McLoughlln, and
it Is confidently expected that before
many months pass by tt will be made
habitable and become the chief cencer
of Interest there. Public spirit Is not
yet all dead In Oregon City, and the
memory of "the old Doctor, the good
old Doctor," as he was often affection
ately called, has not passed out of the
minds of many of the early pioneers In
other parts of the state, notwith
standing more than half a century has
passed since his death. While Dr. Mc
Loughlln. like all other human beings,
had his faults, his virtues and the
value of his services to early Oregon
should never be forgotten. He is eas
ily the most commanding figure in con
nection with the settlement of Ore
gon, with all due respect to other noble
and patriotic men. Dr. McLoughlln
does not belong to Oregon City alone
citizens at large the state owe him
a debt of gatltude a debt that cannot
be paid; but the pioneers, the state
builders or Oregon and their descend
ants, will never let the memory of his
many kindly deeds be forgotten. And
one of the most effective means of ac
quainting the present and future gen
erations with his services to the state
is to preserve his home as a memorial,
and adorn Its walls with his portraits
and brief sketches of his career, to
gether with such other material that
may be secured relating to the city
which he founded, thus making it a
center of great Interest to every visi
tor to this region. '
Secretary Oregon Pioneer Association.
Mr. Hlmea last night said that h Hiri
not care to make public at this time
me plans for saving the McLoughlin
house; but he said that f..n, .
being subscribed by pioneers and oth-
oregon city and throughout
the state. Enough raonev wa. no in
ight. he said, to 9nr.t.. .i. .x. .
building would be removed to a place
of safety, and it is expected that the
contract for that purpose will be let
Immediately.
LIGHT OTT PRIMARY ELECTIONS
Small Interest at CnJcavo In the Moat
important of Office..
. ChlrtAfl-o tntorW..
The Judicial primary on Tuesday shed
.jb"!. uu me direct popular"
method of making nominations for pub
lic office.
The claims for the direct primary were
that It would induce a larger number
or citizens to enter politics, would make
machine" nnminRtlnnn t. ;ki . .
w-. viiiuoBiUn, WUU1U
paralyse the "bosses' and "give the peo-
The iudffPM Af tViAit.
are tar and- a.wn.v th ,-..,- mn
public officials whom the people of Cook
J "e io select, xhls Is so uni
versally admitted that no argument in
SUDDOrt Of t h r. ,taf,mAn, f ... - i
- - ........ .a uorucu.
Yet fewer than 70,000 of the voters of
Cook County, or less than one In six
could be nArflnfliiA t-n A-.-, !
m jv coo o-uy sort
of. opinion at Tuesday's primary. So much
uiq vupuiar interest" that the di
reel nrima tv vro
-M j vi ca 10.
Furthermore, never before was Cook
tpibucntea witn Judicial candl
dates so exclusively
chine made." This is said without the
slightest Implication of criticism on the
quality of the product. It Is said simply
because it is the fact.
With the exception of one Democratic
candidate displacing another, to whom
the professional objections are well
known, the 30 men nominated on Tues
day were one and all selected by bosses.
This term la- also used without implica
tion , of censure and merely in recogni
tion of a known fact.
Jn,their aelecUon the"5 was not even
the form of consulting the wishes of the
Perr? ,rxepresentaavea of tha people.
, The 15 Republican candidates were se
lected virtually by three men in a pri
vate office, with whom the aspirants
had to make their terms and their peace
Fourteen of the Democratic candidates
were selected under similar conditions.
That is how the direct plurality pri
mary works in the choice of Judges. That
is how it enables three or four men to
pack the bench at will, without leaving
to the rest of us the machinery of ef
ficient protest.
SATS -OUR GEORGE?' IS CHEEKY
Prank: Davey Paper Declares Oregon's
Senator a "Gallery Player."
Harney News.
The new Oregon Senator, George E.
Chamberlain, has taken an early op
portunity to attempt a gallery play to
the people of this state by writing a
letter to Senator Bourne and the two
Corngressmen. asking them to Join
HIM in working for the interests
or Oregon, regardless of politics.
Did any one ever witness such
cheek? A man who but yesterday en
tered the Senate; a member of the mi
nority party, asks three members who
have been there for some years and
who belong to the majority party to
Join HIM in the shaping of legislation
and In securing administrative favors
for this state! Now, just take a few
minutes to think of this, and see If
the annals of politics ever furnished a
parallel to It for sheer gall. If Cham
berlain Is sincere in his assurance of a
willingness to work in Congress for
Oregon s interest, why does he not take
the usual modest and decent way of
doing It, by stepping up to his col
leagues and showing his readiness to
assist the successful conduct of every
move they make for Oregon's good'
Of course, this would not be in accord
ance with the grand-stand practices
ll Gtore-" but 11 wouli at least
save him from becoming the laughing
stock of the solid men of the Senate.
Fifty Symbol, on a Gravnlonr.
Baltimore News.
Hannibal Clark, a wealthy farmer in
Piatt County, 111., recently lost a fa
7r'te, daughter, and was so affected
that he determined to have cut on the
granite shaft erected over her arrave
the things the girl liked. The stone
masons have chiseled In high relief
no less than 50 symbols. They Include
a house, fence, plow, grain, cradle
rooster, hen. turkey, cow, horse, side
saddle, pair of scissors, thimble, violin,
copies of love letters, owl and fish.
Flrrmm Rncu Cat Up a Tree.
Nee.hank. N. J., Dispatch.
Responding to an alarm of fire in
Jersey City, N. J., the firemen could
discover no blaze or smoke. "There's
no fire," said a girl, "but there's a cat
UP that tall tree, and I want somebody
to get It down." "Well. I ll be durnedl"
said the captain of the fire company.
Kansas and Its High Winds.
Baltimore News.
Kansas is so noted for high winds
that the Eldorado Republican makes
this suggestion: "Should the wind
blow your hat off, don't chase it. Raise
your hand In the air and catch another."
Jefferson's Misfortune, Not Ills Fan It.
Brooklyn Standard-Union.
Richard Croker Is to preside at the
Jefferson's birthday dinner; but Jeffer
son can't help that. .
PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE SOUTH
Attitude oa the Tariff Modified, but No
Cbamte In Political Allirunut.
Baltimore Sun.
Secretary of War Dickinson made an
Impressive speech at the banquet of
the Southern club of Chicago on Sat-
lirdflv. TTo rrnnhuKlvArl Ana v. .. r- '
. . v 4 .iii.; menu-
j spirit oi rresiaent 1 art toward the
South and the President's desire to
bring about closer relations between
all geographical divisions of the coun
try. We directed atten-tlon recently to Mr.
Taffs Invitation to the South to take
us proper and rightful place in the
Councils Of thA YatUn l. . i.
abandonment of Its convictions, politl-
ti or oinerwise, but by a development
of a spirit of nationalism in its broad
est sense. Mr. Taffs attitude is abso
lutely correct. "Moreover, it is that of
a. uiuuu-itnniiea ana patriotic states
man who wishes to cIva v-a q..,v.
place in the Nation commensurate with
iiib patriotism or Its people and the
magnitude of Its resources. The South
is not likelv to beoomA ncnnKiinn.i a
by Mr Taffs policy, but he is arrousing
a. iiui oi gooa win in tne South with
a decree of stir-r-ss whUh nr.n i
predecessors attained, because they did
oc iuoui it wuti tne tact and
breadth and deference which charac
terizes President Toffs lo4lr,r,. i.w
his countrymen In all sections of the
United States.
Seeretarv lkivlri&r,n . i
opinion in his Chicago speech, that the
next four years would be a period of
great development in the South. He
also susrarested (hut "ivnnnmi.- i
dustrlal conditions will exert a more
jjroxouna innuence m shaping the des
tinies of the South than they have done
hitherto" W Hn dir. Tnta vl.m t I. .. 1
by a considerable number of southern
neceni declarations by certain
southern Democrats In Congress in fa
vor of protection for the South's Indus
tries and products have an Interesting
significance and justify the inference
that the South's attitude on the tariff
may be greatly modified. This does
not involve a change in political align
ment, however. Necessarily there can be
no such change so long as there is any
ground In the South for doubt as to the
stability, security and acceptableness
of the administration of local govern
ment according to the standard which
the South now maintains, and which
it is determined to perpetuate.
CARUSO'S THROAT IN BAD SHAPE
Great Tenor Must Submit to the Knife
as a Result of Dissipation.
New Tork Times.
Enrico Caruso, tenor of the Metropoli
tan Opera Company, sails for Europe to
day on the Mauretania, and there are
many rpatronB of grand opera in this
country and abroad who wonder if the
great singer will ever again appear on
the stage.
Cn.rilfl.-1 la 1-fTnrtnf, r.m n .
tack of rheumatism of the throat and
vocal cords. He will go direct to Milan,
w-here he will place himself under the
care of an eminent specialist, in the hope
that the climate and a series oi opera
tions will restore his throat to something
like its normal condition. Of the suc
cess of these operations there is grave
doubt, and friends of the tenor are great
ly alarmed.
The rheumatism which has caused the
breakdown of Caruso first made itself
felt three years ago. when It was found
by specialists who examined his throat
that he had several rheumatic growths
on the vocal chords.
He was told at the time that the
trouble was likely to return If he did not
take the best possible care of himself,
and he followed the physicians' directions
to the letter for a while. Then, feeling
that he had entirely recovered, he began
smoking cigarettes again and indulging
In late suppers of the richest kind of
fOOd. ThlS lndlllcenr-A ho rlat
teract by sleeping late in the morning
and resting throughout the day.- But the
cigarettes, of which he smoked dally
26 to 30, especially made for him, and the
lobsters and other rich food of which
he partook, began fo tell on him again,
and nis old trouble came back, at first
mildly, but now so severely that It Is
feared It Is beyond hope to restore his
voice to anything like its former vigor
In fast, it Is said. It Is doubtful If he
will ever care to sing in public again.
ADVOCATES FED ERA L INCOME TAX
President Schurman of Cornell Declares
It Just, If Fairly Levied.
At a dinner of the Saint Nicholas
Society In New York last week. Presi
dent Jacob G. Schurman of Cornell said
in part:
"Here in New Tork, the state, with
great Justice to its citizens and large
advantage to the public treasury, has
already utilized the inheritance tax
as a source of revenue. The same pol
icy has been adopted in many other
states, and is likely to be adopted in
all. And one can foresee that a tax
so Just, so convenient, so little felt,
will eventually be raised to the highest
limit It will stand without driving citi
zens out of the state to escape it.
"As the inheritance tax is peculiarly
adapted to the needs and circumstances
of the states. It would be a fiscal ca
lamity to them if the Federal Govern
ment should resort to it as an ordi
nary source of revenue. On the other
hand, the Income tax, to be effective,
should be a National factor rather than
a state levy, and . when governments
have learned to collect it fairly, no
tax Is more Just. It falls on those who
are able to pay; and it cannot be shift
ed upon others."
Gorgeously Oriental Eulogy.
Springfield Republican.
The new way of praising a national
hero Is coming rapidly Into general
use. Senator Cummins of Iowa has
already become adept at It. his perform
ance before a church club In Wash
ington the other evening being highly
finished. Having lauded Mr. Roosevelt
as a "stronger man than George Wash
ington." and having made other com
parisons which were too unimportant
to concern one, he ' topped off by re
marking that Mr. Taft, at the end of
his present term, "will be the greatest
man the United States has ever pro
duced." The rare excellence of this
method of laudation Is that the feel
ings of none are hurt, for the illus
trious dead are beyond caring for
praise or censure, while the illustrious
living are all placed on pinnacles of
superbly towering majesty. The finest
touch, of course, comes at last, in as
suming that the new President will ul
timately overshadow all of his prede
cessors, even the latest of them. There
Is something gorgeously Oriental in
this form of eulogy, but this country
undoubtedly has long been suffering
for a taste of it.
Openness ot Japanese Life.
Tokio Letter to Boston Transcript.
If one were to try to sum up the one
thing that most characterizes Japan It
would be the openness of Japanese
life, with Its open behavior, open air.
open window; it is a land whose every
family Is In a way part of every other.
In city and in country alike. No Jap
anese lives for or by himself. Never
was there such a socialistic communi
ty, such an anthill of human beings,
busy, contented, and all Interested in
each others' affairs.
Where 30 Makes K.TO.OOO Yearly.
Philadelphia Dispatch.
The carp sold in New York as an "im
ported German delicacy." a Chicago man
declares. Is nothing but the carp caught
every year In Jackson Park in that city,
where there is a clean-up which yields
about 80,000 pounds annually-. The Park
Commissioners give a firm 30 to clean
out the fish, and this firm, It is said,
makes J30.000 a year selling the Western
delicacy to New Yorkers.
AUTO CARS ARE STALKING DEATH
One ClUaea Demands That They Re
l'.dlr ,k Buslneaa District.
-Yor rXD' ApH1 19 -To the Editor.)
Portion ?nCe thiS coming to the
Portland autnninhiu. .. .
utese f.,i ? "U,te aPPPriate. but
custom of da 3ahB at thR Prevailing
w-t. J".V llriver3 to nand and
lo,.rTi ; :,..'' -0l:.way.. .on ur reets
,ur something besides crit
icismcaustic or otherwise!
It IE TYTtt a tfiUnr, ..
thr t M""lIon- 1 fact ici
oXVeTt Th ttrne"8 TlThe
riArilcr l"'ufin aense masses of
pedestrians anH tama k :
A nitj entire matter
thoS,irTrvins ,ifo be,nK thrut p"
i.t - k "l , u'Jon lne streets with
out a bodyguard, is simplv a -'fright "
set ,ar!mStvany time f an- da- "e mav
see these huge machines forcing thHr
way through innocent crowd of people
s'o?" 3atS f speed whil h ni-ans
absolute death to pedestrians unless thev
sliall take upon themselves the duty of
Setting UO defonsea .
- - - " i y .--ill-. . ,1
such caution or duty is assumed bv the
"" is presumed bv them
that a man or woman who Is on foot un
derstands that death is rushing along the
streets, dashing around the corners in
search of victims and that they will
govern themselves accordingly.
And why not? The auto driver repre
sents an 9tiiai i ... . - ,
""ii i. ti pernaps
.-xjiio, while the footman or woman Is a
pieoeian. uet out of the way'
Yesterday the writer was a passenger
on the Twenty-third street car and ob
served an auto containing two women
and a boy, the latter the "shoffer." which
was endeavoring to pass the car. hut
since the latter was obliged to stop at
each crossing to take on passengers the
auto was compelled to slow up and try
again. At the fourth crossing there were
no passengers waiting to board the car.
hut It stopped anyway. This was the
opportunity for the plainly impatient hoy.
and he made a da.-h to pass. At a furious
rate he rushed through the narrow pas
sage between the car and the curh just
as a woman and child stepped from the
platform, for whose accommodation the
car had stopped. With a scream the
woman grabbed her child and by less than
a foot of space between the streetcar
and the flying auto their lives were saved
through the working of a miracle
Hundreds, ofttimes every dav, antos
may be seen rushing around street cor
ners without having the slichtest assur
ance that another is not coming toward
It at a like speed, in which case nothing
known of men could prevent a most
shocking disaster.
Desperate chances are taken every day
by these constant menaces to life only
exceeded by the recklessness of those who
venture upon the streets as pedestrians.
To all this there are, to be sure, ex
ceptions, but these do not change the
fact that in Sr. r,oaA..1
peopled by those who support a more
or less expensive government for one
purpose, at least, of securing protec
tion, well-intentioned men and women
are constantly confronted by stalking
death and clothed usually In purple
and fine linen.
And, as was remarked at the begin
ning of this mild protest, so universal
has this condition and custom become,
that a man may be killed occasionally
and after the first excitement of the
occurrence has passed, nothing more is
thought of It. a Jury finds the victim
was to blame anyway for being in the
street going to his business and a
sorrowing wife and mother Is plunged
Into deepest grief, but the rnerrv "jug
gernauts" go furiously on In unabated
Joy." Is nothing to be done about
this?
This writer freely predicts that the
time is not far distant when all au
tomobiles will be ruled off every street
In the business district. That time
ought to be here now. It should have
been here before. The requirement
which rules all bicycles off all side
walks In the business district should
apply ten-fold to automobiles on the
streets. There Is no reason why they
should be permitted on certain sec
tions of our business streets at all.
Like David Harum's horse, they will
stand without hitching and their occu
pants should be required to leave them
in the suburbs of the business center
of the city. If their patrons have er
rands to look after they alight any
way and this should be made a duty
enforced by law. If going to distant
parts of the city there are other streets
which are always available. As It Is.
however, the leniency of the public In
this matter Is amazing and the -recklessness
of most automobile drivers, a
majority of whom seem to be mere
boys. Is positively criminal in Its In
difference to life and property.
, T. T. GEER.
Tariff and the Salaried Man.
Washington Post.
The situation in this country today
is causing anxiety to hundreds of
thousands of hard-working and deserv
ing people and their dependents, who.
find their wages the same as many
years ago and the cost of the neces
sities of life double and treble what
they were. They see bursting prosper
ity on every hand among . those who
have had the protective tariff as an
ally, and are told at every election
time of the manifold blessings which
the protection system brings to the
country. But their own incomes are
gradually growing less in purchasing
power, although the income in money
remains the same. They are
getting less to eat, less to wear and
less In comfort for their labors -than
ever before. The salaried people of
Washington, for example many thou
sands of them are working for pay
predicated on the cost of living a quar
ter of a century ago. and paying thrice
those rates for the things they have to
buy today. It Is time to heed the call
of the consumer.
Best Dreased Man In Congress.
Washington, D. C, Dispatch.
The best-dressed man- In the House Is
Representative Henry S. Boutell. of Illi
nois. Mr. Boutell's clothes are always of
the latest cit. with never a wrinkle. He
Is fond of colors, and his ties and shirts
are the marvel of his friends, but he has
the knack of harmonizing his wearing ap
parel to a remarkable decree.
Plow Land (or nnaband'a Whisky.
Indianapolis. Ind., Dispatch.
Mrs Essie Reece. suing her husband
for divorce In Oklahoma City, told the
court that she had been compelled to
plow and pick cotton to get money
with which to buy cigarettes and whis
ky for her husband.
SEWSPAPKR WAIFS.
"So you are an optimist?" "In a certain
cense." answered Mr. rmstln Stax. ""When
ever I ko Into a deal I hope for the best of
It." --Washington Star.
Little Gladys ton seeing- the pieces of
dilna oa the floor) Oh. mama! Just see
the lovely Jig-saw puzzle Mary's mmdo out
of one of the new plates! Puck.
Mabel My dolly cries if you punch her
In tha stomach. Tommie My little sit-ter
does de same thins They're a good di-al
alike, ain't they? I try It every day. Cleve
land Leader.
The new pastor It Is my desire to be
forever at the service of the members of
my flock. Blunonan Well, ou'll have xo
cut your sermons, dominie: they don't want
to be forever at yours. Life.
"Shadbolt, did you ever have a tnurh of
anything like the appendicitis?" "Once;
have you forgotten. EUnguss. that when
you were operated on for It you touched
me for an even hundred?" Chicago
Tribune.
Young Lady to Tommy, who has Just
announced that he Is engaged to a ladv
aged 12) -Why. I thought you always
promised to marry me! Tommy Yes. yes.
I know I did. I blame myself entirely.
Punch. -