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THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY. MAY 8, 1909.
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PORTLAND, SATURDAY. MAY 8.
TUB OXK STRAMJHT WAY.
There is Just one way, no second, to
cut out the abuses of protection and yet
obtain revenues for the Government.
All wrangling over "schedules" is
futile, while this one true and only way
is neglected. There can be no fiscal or
tariff reform bo long- as the false re
formers talk merely about reduction
of tariff rates, yet provide no way for
obtainment of revenues. Babblers like
Cummins, of Iowa, may "continue to
expend their vapid eloquence, but they
do not touch the heart of the subject,
nor come anywhere near it.
The right and true and only way to
get rid of the abuses of protection and
to cut off the monopolies It fosters is
to abolish all taxes on imported com
modities similar to those that -.ve pro
duce in quantities in our own country
and of universal use, and lay duties
on articles of general consumption
such as we do not produce In sufficient
quantities or not at all; together with
as heavy taxes as are practicable on all
imports that fall under the denomina
tion of luxuries and then make up
such further revenues as may be re
quired, by taxation of Incomes and in
heritances. A graduated income tax
alone, added to the tariff and excise
revenues obtainable under this plan
would probably suffice for supply of
the General Government's needs, leav
ing the inheritance tax and the direct
property tax to the states. But to
carry out this plan In a proper and
effectual way, it would be necessary to
eliminate every thought or feature of
protection. It would, however, be per
fectly fair; and only so can perfect
fairness and justice be obtained.
A full and steady tax on commod
ities that we must continue to import
in great quantities for general con
sumption would yield a large revenue;
and such tax would be the contribution
of the masses to support of the Gov
ernment. The contribution of the
wealthy or well-to-do classes would
come in some degree from their con
tribution as part of the' consumers, but
more epecially from high duties on
luxuries imported for their use duties
made as high as possible without de
feating the object; and then a gradu
ated income tax. The states would
obtain their revenues from their gen
eral property tax. with addition of the
tax on inheritances both taxes ad
justed by each state according to its
conditions and needs.
This would be the simple, direct and
fair way to all of dealing with our
tax and revenue questions, in their re
lation both to the General Govern
ment and to the government of the
states. There never will be fairness
and justice so long as we allow "pro
tection" to be a factor In It. For the
very nature and essence of protection
is inequality and privilege use. that
Is to say. of the power of the Govern
ment to favor and support certain par
ticular interests at the expense of oth
ers or of all the rest.
It is utterly useless to juggle with
the subject, by trying to "reduce
schedules," yet retaining protection,
more or less, and providing no
way to make up the deficits of
revenue. Taxes on sugar, coffee,
tea and all articles of general con
sumption which we import from other
countries; on luxuries of all descrip
tions in dress, food avd drink and on
articles of all kinds used mostly by
the rich; all possible taxes on liquor
and tobacco, whether imported or pro
duced at home, and an income tax
graduated or adjusted to fair con
ditions, would supply all the revenues
the Government would require: and
such settlement would put an end to
the continuous brawl in Congress and
throughout the country over the pro
tection of one set of interests at the
expense of others or at the expense
of consumers. Anything short of it
will leave the subject open to perpetual
contention and strife; for protection is
not an equal policy, never can be. Its
most direct consequence is creation of
monopolies and enrichment of a few
at the expense of the many.
JAPAN AS A NATION".
A writer in the Review of Reviews
for May says "it seems incredible that
a nation which in 187S had a debt of
$33,886,931. should find itself In 1908
(thirty years later), with one of $1.
120.000.000. Yet such is the plight of
Japan." The writer is Adachi Kin
nosuke, a Japanese financier. Most of
the Increase came, of course, through
the Chinese and . Russian . wars. An
essay on the sources of revenue fol
lows, in which It is stated that the
wealth of Japan is estimated at about
$10,000,000,000. The national debt,
therefore, amounts to one-eighth or
one-ninth of that sum. Sixty per cent
of the people are agriculturists, but in
all Japan there are no more than 26.
000 square miles to till. Most of the
country is rugged and unproductive
mountain land.
The tax system is very severe, but
it Is Imperative. "The greatest asset
of our Empire." the writer declares,
"is sentimental." That probably will
pull Japan through. For "the people
of Japan are performing the financial
miracle of giving up to the government
about 30 per cent of their income
every day, without saying a word about
it." This is a financial miracle indeed.
In other words. Japan's greatest asset
is the patriotism of her people. In a
way. it is a surer asset than money.
But at the present Japan can under
take no more warlike enterprises. Nor
probably does she wish to. Japan
Is looking to Asian continental progress
as a source of her own growth and
progress. For this she has waged her
wars, and has come oft victorious; and
her people believe the position their
country has gained is worth all it has
cost them and more.
"The state," says this writer, "to
the imagination of the people of Japan,
is greater than all the gods." In early
Rome all were for the state, but the
gods were an asset of the Roman
state, which the Japanese seem will
ing to do without. It is perhaps too
early to speculate on the result.
A FIT MAX FOR MAYOR.
Without slightest disparagement of
other candidates. The Oregonian thinks
Joseph Simon should be nominated for
Mayor today, on the ground of his fit
ness, experience and knowledge of our
municipal affairs, and his well-known
and proven ability in general business,
as well as in that of municipal gov
ernment. If elected. Mr. Simon will be an ef
ficient Mayor. Nobody can doubt it.
If elected, he will attend to the city's
business in its details. Nobody can
doubt it. Much will be expected of
him, and he cannot but know it.
There will be responsibility, then, at
the head of the municipal government.
If Mr. Simon is Mayor; and In any case
that may arise anybody or everybody
will know who is to be called on.
ENFORCEMENT OF A LESSON.
For discredit of "Statement One"
nothing more complete than the fiasco
of the Davis libel suit could happen.
The fellow took "Statement One" to
get into the Legislature. It didn't oc
cur to him at the time that he ever
would or could be bound by it, or
forced by it to vote for a Democratic
Senator. He simply wanted to get
into the Legislature. There he might
find distinction and advantage.
Not a few persons work and act and
direct their politics in this or simllaj
ways. They have no forecast. They
foresee nothing.
Now, hereafter, let it be understood
by candidates for the Legislature
whether Republicans or Democrats
that if they are unwilling to be forced
to vote for the candidate of the op
posite party for the Senate, they must
refuse "Statement One." No man is
obliged to take it. It is a silly fad,
engrafted on the primary law, to en
trap simpletons who overestimate
themselves.
Especially it hurts and defeats the
majority party in a state. It produces
upstarts for the Legislature, like Davis,
and the rest of those who last year
got in on the "Statement One" ticket
greatly to the delight of members of
the minority party, all of whom,
with a knowing wink, voted for them.
Not a few Republicans, in the elec
tion of last year, refused to vote for
any candidate for the Legislature who
had subscribed to "Statement One."
It will be universal henceforth, for
men who foresee consequences are not
likely to make fools of themselves.
Thus the foolish libel suit of Repre
sentative Davis tends to enforce an im
portant lesson. Throughout Oregon
hereafter, men who subscribe to
"Statement One" will be given the
taboo by Republican voters.
Foolish, therefore, as the Davis libel
suit was, it has an effect. It tends to
concentrate attention on a peculiar
folly. Many a shallow man, besides
Davis, who wanted to go to the Legis
lature, didn't care what promises he
made to get there, since he had no
idea he would be called, on to fulfill
them.
There will be caution hereafter, both
on the part of candidates and on the
part of electors.
SCHOOLS AXD THE SHOW BUSINESS.
In the opinion of The Oregonian, a
grave mistake and one that may
easily prove of lasting Injury to some,
at least, of those who are under its
shadow or its whip is being commit
ted In connection with the work of the
public schools. Our schools are main
tained at great expense to the taxpay
ers for a specific purpose. This pur
pose is plainly comprehended in a
carefully prepared and sufficiently
exacting course of study. Teachers
are given this curriculum and directed
to work it out in their "classes, cover
ing the whole with due regard to thor
oughness in a given period of time.
The exactions of this course are con
siderable, and lay sufficient tribute
upon the time and strength of the
teachers, and upon the time, strength
and capacity of the pupils. This is
right and proper. It is what teachers
are employed and children are sent
to school for.
All of this being true and If not
true, then the school authorities, in
cluding the teachers, are not doing
what they are trusted to do and paid
to do it is manifestly a grave mis
take to put the schools in the exposi
tion business and thus make addi
tional drain upon the already fully
engaged energies of both teachers and
pupils. For the past two weeks at
least the teachers and a very large
number of pupils have been driven
beyond all reason to compile "show
papers," which it Is mistakenly sup
posed will add to the fame of the pub
lic schools of Portland by being placed
upon exhibition at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
Fair. As high as two hundred
and fifty pages of this so-called educa
tional exhibit have been prepared un
der the supervision of a single teacher
she being in the meantime required
to keep the pupils up in their grade
work, and the latter Delng urged to
prepare faultless papers for the ex
hibit, and. in view of the near ap
proach of final examinations in the
term's work, to give special attention
to their studies. The constant super
vision that the first of these injunc
tions requires has worn many of the
more conscientious teachers and the
more ambitious pupils to the verge of
nervous and bodily exhaustion. And
for what? To compete for a prize
that, in the very nature of things, will
go to the Seattle schools, and to pre
pare an endless bulk of papers that
nobody, relatively speaking, will take
the trouble to scan.
But this work is practically over.
The fagged teachers are still on deck,
anxious to make up for the time lost
in the grade work; and the equally
weary pupils, whose minds have been
distracted from the course of study by
the "show business" in which they
have been engaged for a fortnight, had
Just begun drearily to think of mak
ing up for lost time with some hope of
passing creditable examinations a lit
tle more than a month hence, when
comes the announcement that, yield
ing to the urgent solicitations of push
clubs, "boosters" and various commit
tees, the School Board has consented
to permit the school children to pa
rade in the Rose Show early in June,
and that drill for this parade will be
gin at once. The children, it is said,
are eager for this drill, but what of
their studies? It . is urged further
that they will be drilled outside of
school hours, and that teachers will
not be required to assist in the work.
; But what does this signify? Does
not every teacher, every mother,
every observant person who has had
anything to do with the care and
training of children, know that in this
case "drill" will come first in the
minds of the children? That it will
be difficult to make them think of
anything else? That the excitement
incident to costuming and drilling, and
the fatigue that all this will impose
will render it next to Impossible for
teachers to drag and push and pull the
children over the course of study yet
uncompleted with any intelligent com
prehension of the subject matter?
Finally, are our public schools
maintained for show, or for useful
educational purposes? If for the for
mer, the course of study should be
shortened, so that it may. be covered
before the show season begins; if for
the latter, the show business should
be cut out.
THE RKCORD.
Neither the uncertainty of the tariff,
the prospect for high water, the boom
in wheat nor the turmoil of local poli
tics has any effect in checking the
splendid headway that Portland is
now making. For the first five busi
ness days of the month all records in
bank clearings for a corresponding
period were broken, with totals of
$7,396,169, while real estate transfers
for the five days reached a total of
$984,587, and building permits were
$227,587. On Thursday the real es
tate transfers numbered eighty-one,
with a total valuation of $493,566 in
cluded In the number being twenty
permits at nominal valuations of from
$1 to $10 each.
With these, figures for a starter for
the first five days of the month, and
with a large number of large building
and real estate deals that have al
ready been effected but not yet re
corded, the Spring -of 1909 bids fair to
break all existing records.
THE UNWRITTEN LAW AGAIN.
The expert who has invented "im
pulsive insanity" for the defense of
Captain Peter C. Hains cannot lay
claim to much originality. Of course,
it is ingenious to think of such a thing,
but it would be a great deal more in
genious if previous experts, in their
efforts to retrieve cold-blooded mur
derers from the meshes of the law, had
not gone almost as far. Our national
progress In the development of insanity
as a defense for crime is something to
be proud of or to mourn over, accord
ing to the point of view we take. As a
monument -to our genius for quibbling
and our lack of legal morality, it is,
perhaps, rather deplorable, but as a
logical structure without regard to the
harm it may do, it is greatly to be ad
mired, just as one may admire the In
genuity of Machiavelli while his de
pravity is condemned. Impulsive in
sanity means that kind of insanity
which a bad child experiences when it
is treated to the rod by its father and
murmurs that when it is big enough
It will return the treatment in kind.
The girl who killed herself the other
day because she could not go to a party
was impulsively insane, and so is the
street loafer when he swears that if
Jim doesn't shut his mouth he will
punch his head.
Impulsive insanity includes all those
little gusts of passion which everybody
feels a ttimes. To make it an excuse
for murder evidently extends the limits
of our National liberty very widely.
Whereas, we have not hitherto been
permitted to shoot or poison our neigh
bors unless we had a brain storm or
were melancholy, or Jealous, or "real
mad," we may now do It safely when
ever we feel the appropriate impulse.
Nothing that has recently been done in
court to make crime safe will prove
more efficacious than this new species
of insanity, if the jury accepts it, as it
probably will. The Indications from
past experience give little ground for
believing that the appetite of jurymen
for new varieties of insanity can ever
be satiated. Every new kind of murder
will continue to produce a new kind of
insanity in the future, as in the past.
If this did not happen, some murderer
might eventually be hanged, which
would be a calamity of the first magni
tude. Since the principal business of
a certain branch of the legal fraternity
has come to be the prevention of hang
ings, it would be a serious reproach to
the profession If any such judicial ac
cident should occur.
It is difficult to speak without mock
ery of the way murder is treated by
many of our tribunals, but the matter
is producing social 'effects which can
not be passed over lightly. The natural
result which we must always expect
when organized government fails of its
duty is coming upon us in the domain
of the law. Despairing of justice from
the criminal courts, individuals have
taken the business into their own
hands, and all over the country we
continually see evidence that the
masses have turned to the "unwritten
law" for that protection which the
written code no longer affords them.
It is more difficult every day to se
cure the conviction of an individual
who rights his own wrongs 'by violence
without resort to the regular tribunals.
Thus in Florida on the same day re
cently two murderers were released by
the grand jury on the strength of the
unwritten law. One of them was a
girl, Jessie Brown, who shot a faith
less lover. The other was a man named
Humphreys, who, finding Thomas Mc
Manus alone with the former's wife,
killed them both. The jury, composed
ot their neighbors, of course, as most
juries in ' such cases are, could
see nothing wrong in what they had
done. It is not to be supposed that the
jurymen in this somewhat remarkable
affair were less patriotic, less awake to
public duty and the obligation of their
oath than ordinary men are. Un
doubtedly they acted under the conviction'-
that both Jessie Brown and
Humphreys were entitled to Justice
and had taken the only practicable
way to obtain It. Theoretically, of
course, justice is to be obtained in
such emergencies through the crim
inal courts, but In actual life it is com
monly observed that the facts are oth
erwise. Complainants against criminals
obtain technicalities, syllogisms,
squabbles about evidence and delays
in any quantity which may be men
tioned, but of clean, unequivocal jus
tice little is to be discovered1:
The perfectly natural consequence is
resort to the unwritten law, which is
only another name for the dissolution
of society into its primitive elements
and each individual's quest for right
by personal violence. The first step
toward civilization was the relinquish
ment by the individual of his freedom
to return evil for .evil and the delega
tion to society of the duty of portion
ing out punishment to wrongdoers.
As long as this duty is performed rea
sonably well, civilization can progress,
because men live in peace; but when
society abrogates the duty of righting
wrongs, then individuals will by neces
sity try to do it themselves, and the
processes of the courts are supple
mented by lynch law. It is useless to
seek to evade the truth that the rea
son for our numerous American mobs
is the inadequacy of the criminal law
as it Is administered. The same rea
son explains the almost universal re
sort to the unwritten law both in the
East and the West, and the reluctance
of juries to convict those who apply It
to right their wrongs.
The old-age pensions of Great Brit
ain, which are blamed for so much of
the increase in the size of the British
budget, are in the "aggregate almost in
significant in comparison with the
Federal pension roll in this country.
This appropriation for the ensuing
year amounts to $161,000,000, and, al
though nearly forty-five years have
elapsed since the Civil War. there
were added to the pension roll in 190S
the names of 10,935 veterans who
fought in that war and had not previ
ously got on the pension roll. Not
only is there a steady increase in the
number of pensioners as the years roll
by, but there Is also an increase in the
average sum paid these pensioners.
There will never be any objection to
the pensioning of needy men who
have a claim on the Government for
services rendered during the war, but
there is a growing belief that a good
many of the millions paid out for pen
sions go to individuals whose names
have no proper place on the rolls.
The O. R. & N. will establish a local
service with gasoline cars between
Walla Walla and Milton, and also on
the Dayton branch of the road. In
no other part of Washington has fruit
growing, truck farming and dairying
made such progress as in the territory
that will be served by this new type of
carriers, and the inauguration of the
service is a tribute to the enterprise of
the people in the rich garden territory
of Washington. Twenty years ago,
when the localities mentioned pro
duced practically" nothing but wheat,
the population of the entire country
tributary to Walla Walla was insuffi
cient to supply passenger traffic for a
single car a day. Since the orchards
and gardens began producing heavily,
both freight and passenger traffic has
grown to enormous proportions, and is
still increasing.
The Seattle Times, ever to the fore
front as an exemplar of conservatism
in statement, has adopted a plan for
keeping a waiting world primed with
up-to-the-minute statistics on the
growth of Seattle's population, which
must commend itself to all admirers
of exact truth. A red-ink banner on
the Times newest office envelope bears
the legend "Seattle's population 260,
000." By the time one gets Inside and
unfolds the letter, another red-Ink
banner on the letter-head veraciously
proclaims "Seattle's population 285,
000." There was no second sheet to
the particular letter that came to
Portland.
A thirty days' march by officers of
the Army Is now in progress through
Virginia, from the Potomac to Appo
mattox, to study the problems of war
fare throughout the territory contested
between the Army of the Potomac and
the Army of Northern Virginia. About
one hundred officers of the general
staff are taking part in the survey.
Minute topographical charts will be
made from new observations.
Chairman Mack, of the Democratic
National Committee, has issued a new
magazine. Among the contributors to
the first number is Senator Chamber
lain, of Oregon. Press dispatches an
nouncing the event do not give the
topic on which the Oregon Senator
wrote, but it was probably on "The
Advantages of the Nonpartisan Brand
of Democracy." 1
Who, among the candidates, is best
fitted to be Mayor of Portland? To
whom, among them, would you en
trust your own business, especially if it
were a large. Intricate and complicate
business? Have this In mind when
you attend the primary- election today.
Arid don't fail to attend it. Remem
ber, moreover, that "this is no job for
a boy."
If you ask for a Democratic ballot
at the polls today, they will hand you
a piece of paper handsomely ruled,
but with the names of no candidates
thereon. There's the state to which
the once great Democratic party has
come. No candidates, no principles,
no organization, hardly a name just
a blank.
The man who has taxes to pay 20
mills this year will naturally give
some consideration to the question as
to who shall be the next Mayor.
Whom will he select among Simon,
Bailey, Rushlight and McDonell?
Why not unite in one grand scheme
to cover the entire river with one great
bridge of sufficient length and about
five miles wide? Then, and not till
then, will we have enough bridges to
suit everybody. .
How can Ferdinand Reed pay his
debts if he shall be beaten for the
Council? His creditors should unite
in his support, thus assuring a major
ity in the primary for that rising
statesman.
His creditors really ought not to
worry Ferdinand Reed until after he
shall be elected to the Council. Just
think what so thrifty a fellow as Reed
can do on a salary of $25 per month.
The proud father of thirty-five chil
dren a Spaniard, by the way In San
Francisco, Is grieving because he can
not buy a baby buggy. He is only 70
and the old buggy is worn out.
In the language of the National
game, it would be well for Republi
cans to keep their eye on the ball to
day. The "reformers" demand a "better"
Portland. Now wouldn't that jar you?
Better than the Lane administration?
There is little need to worry about
rain. The deficiency will be made up
Fourth of July afternoon.
Rushlight and redlight
have it.
There you
BRILLIANT WORK IN BASEBALL
Remarkable Half Issisg in Which the
Cabs Won New Honor.
Magazine Article by H. S. Fullerton.
Generalship by the manager is not all.
A good team needs the fewest orders,
and what perhaps was the most brilliant
half inning ever played in a ball game. '
from the standpoint of headwork and
perfect execution, was one in which the
managers had small part. That inning
was the last half of the fourth Inning
of the game between Detroit and Chicago
on October 13 the game that practically
decided the world's championship series.
Chicago had made two runs in the third
inning, and, with Brown pitching, ap
peared to be winning easily until O'Leary
and Crawford opened Detroit's half of
the fourth inning with line singles to left,
putting runners on first and second bases
with none out. and Cobb, the best batter
in the American League, at bat. O'Leary
is fast, Cobb is extremely fast, and Cobb
Is a natural and almost perfect bunter.
Everyone knew that Cobb intended to
bunt the ball, and that failure to either
retire him or one of the other runners
probably meant victory for Detroit. Jen
nings, Detroit's manager, sent Cobb to
bat with instructions to bunt toward
third base. They knew that Brown in
tended to make the play to third base to
force O'Leary. and the coachers were
signaled to make O'Leary take as much
lead toward third base as possible and to
start running as the ball was pitched.
Browjn, a past master in field general
ship, as well as execution, walked over
to Steinfeldt at tnird base and said: "An
chor yourself to that bag. the ball Is
coming there." Kling signaled for a fast
ball close to the batter at his waist. It
was his plan to have Cobb miss the ball
on his first attempt to bunt and then, by
a quick throw to Tinker on second, to
catch O'Leary on the 'base. Brown shook
his head and signaled Kling his inten
tion to pitch a curve ball low and at the
outside corner of the plate. Cobb was
hoping that Brown would pitch precisely
that kind of a ball, and Brown knew
that Cobb was hoping for it, and it was
Brown's plan to force Cobb to do exactly
what he was most anxious to do to
make a perfect bunt and toward third
base. Brown pitched perfectly, and Cobb
bunted perfectly, 30 feet toward third
base and aoout five feet Inside the foul
line. As Brown pitched he went forward
at top speed, "following the ball
through," and he was in front pt the ball
when it bounded along. Still running he
scooped the sphere, and, whirling, made
a terrific throw straignt to Steinfeldt and
O'Leary was forced out by 13 feet on a
seemingly impossible play, executed
chiefly because -Crown knew exactly
what Cobb would do.
Chance's magnificent machine was not
through. Knowing that the failure of
that play would "rattle" the Tigers they
Instantly seized the psychological situa
tion. Kling gave a quick signal for a
fast lnshoot across Rossman's shoulders,
and Brown, without waiting for Detroit
to rally and plan a play, drove the ball
fast and high. Bossman struck at the
ball and missed it. Like a flash Kling
hurled the sphere toward second base.
Tinker met it at top speed, touched Craw
ford three feet from the base and stand
ing still, and Detroit was beaten and in a
panic. An instant later as Rossman
struck out, Kling threw to second, and
Evers, leaping, stuck up one hand,
dragged dowu the ball, and while des
cending touched Cobb as he slid. The
big crowd, frenzied over the brilliant
series of plays, and only half understand
ing them, cheered for five minutes.
HOW TO HANDLE FLY NUISANCE.
Timely Hints to Dwellers of Cities and
the Country.
Keep the flies away from the ill, espe
cially those ill with contagious diseases.
Kill every fly that strays Into the sick
room. His body is covered with disease
germs.
Do not allow decaying material of any
sort to accumulate on or near your prem
ises. All refuse which tends in any way to
fermentation, such as bedding straw, pa
per waste and vegetable matter, should
be disposed of or covered with lime or
kerosene oil.
Screen all food.
Keep all receptacles for garbage care
fully covered and the cans covered or
sprinkled with oil or lime.
Keep all stable manure in vault or pit.
screened or sprinkled with lime, oil or
other cheap preparation.
See that your sewage system is in good
order; that it does not leak, is up to
date and not exposed to flies.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Cover food after a meal; burn or bury
all table refuse.
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors, especially
the kitchen and dining-room.
Burn pyrethrum powder in the house
to kill Ihe flies.
Don't forget if you see flies, their breed
ins place is in nearby filth. It may be
behind the door, under the table or in
the cuspidor.
If there Is no dirt and filth there will
be no flies.
If there is a nuisance in the neighbor
hood write or telephone at once to the
health aeparcment.
WASHINGTON'S ANTI-TIP LAW
It Is Based On the Broad American
principle of Fair F-Iay.
Ohio State Journal.
The State of Washington has abolished
the tip in hotels, dining cars and other
public places. The new law makes both
the giving and receiving of a tip a mis
demeanor and imposes a heavy fine. It
is sometimes a pleasant thing to give a
tip, where it amounts simply to an ap
preciation, but when one feels it to be
an exaction, which it has got to be, he
is very apt to be mad about it.
Analyzed, it Is simply contributing to
the proprietor to help him pay wages.
The tip always figures in the rate of
wages, whether it is mentioned or not.
It often happens that the customers pay
an employe more money than the pro
prietor does. And this tip never reduces
the price of the meal or whatnot a sin
gle penny. It serves rather to increase
it. The higher the price the surer the
tip.
But the law is based on a broader con
sideration than this, and that is fair
play. When a man pays 75 cents or $1
for a meal he is entitled to aa full and
agreeable service as any man, but he
doesn't get it if the other man tips the
servant. This is an invasion of the com
mon rights of citizenship. The law should
secure equal rights to every man with
out a cent additional cost. There is a
public function in a hotel and dining car,
which the law should be see is per
formed without discrimination for or
against any man. That is the doctrine
of a republic.
A FEW SQUTBS.
Many a girl thinks she has broken her
heart when she has only sprained her im
agination. Life.
"How much time do you spend in your
auto?" "About half as mucb as I spend
under it." Judge.
"No man should write poetry until he Is
fully matured." "Right. And after that
he'll be ashamed to." Cleveland Leader.
Barber (rather slow) Beg pardon, sir,
but your hair is turning a bit gray. Victim
Shouldn't wonder. Look at the time I've
been here. Chicago Daily News.
''It is said that those immense hanging
gardens In Babylon were really a myth."
"I can imagine how it started." "How?"
"Some visitor from Baalec probably saw
a woman with a new Spring hat."
He Tou remember the moon'lght night,
25 years ago, when I proposed? She Yes,
indeed. He We set there for more than
an ' hour and you never opened your iips.
She Tee. dear. He That was the hap
piest hour of my life. Cleveland Leader.
"Yes," said the suburbanite as he wield
ed a hoe, "I am fond of poultry dinners."
"Then it is a wonder you don't raise chick
ens intead of flowers?" remarked the mu
tual friend. "Oh. what's the use? My
neighbors raise the chickens." Cleveland
Xaily News. .
WHY POETS DON'T POETIZES
NotfalnnT In It, and So Pesasus la De
serted. ELMIRA. Or., May 7. (To the Edi
tor.) I saw an editorial in a recent is
sue of The Oregonian lamenting the
dearth of poets, and it asked if any
has the fire devine in him, why doesn't
it come out?
I think I can tell a few of the rea
sons. Poets nowadays are not appre
ciated. Many poems, I might say thou
sands, are written and put away and
never read only by a few special
friends. Why? For instance. I know a
woman who writes beautiful song
poems, and she answered an advertise
ment calling for such poems, and was '
told to send samples of her work. She I
did so. and her poems were accepted i
with enthusiasm, the critics saying they j
would set the poems to music at once,
as they were Just the kind they were
looking for. But the critics also re
marked that they ceuld not advance
any cash until they had seen more of
her work, etc. She sent other poems,
but was told that the first was not
quite ready for publication yet. and she
was put off from time to time and
never received a dime in payment for
her work.
Other firms "worked the same game"
and published these songs and made all
the profit themselves, while the author
received nothing. Then a flood of let
ters from other firms came, saying that
they were informed she was a writer of
very popular verses and that they
wished to engage her to write songs for
them, at a good salary. But it was the
same old story. Many others writers
are being served likewise, and the pub
lishers are reaping the profits. Natur
ally, the poets become discouraged; and
discouragement is not an aid to genius.
Poets flourish in a happy atmosphere,
not a saddened one. Some magazine
editors tell them that they are flooded
with so much "stuff" that it would
hardly be worth while to send it in,
and so on, until it is not any wonder
that few poets care much for their
genius. They have to lay it aside for
work that will bring them a living, and
are too busy and lacking in funds to at
tempt having books published.
GRACE WILSON.
REGULATING OPENING OF DRAWS.
Three Simple and Inexpensive Singf
tions That Will Work Reform.
PORTLAND, May 7. (To the Editor.)
Residents of the East Side will very
earnestly Indorse your editorial of this
morning, "Worse Than a Nuisance."
The present habits of steamboatmen
menace the convenience of 100,000 people.-
No sensible person will fail to
take into account the importance of
the river traffic. But no financial in
Jury would result to shipping interests
were some suitable regulations enacted
as to hours and conditions of opening
the draws and the like. The Burnside
bridge is bad enough, but the Steel
bridge is the limit. The bridge-keepers
seem to dwell in perpetual fear
that the master of some scow should be
obliged to wait a minute, while the car,
team and foot passengers who use the
bridge in such great numbers are re
garded as a barely necessary evil. The
nomads of the stream, in charge, per
haps, of a tub of mud, choose 6 o'clock
as a suitable time to carry their cargo
to its destination.
-The other evening the Steel bridge
was thrown open for an ordinary gaso
line launch, which happened to have a
mast. The mast could have been un
stepped in a minute by either of the
three occupants of the craft. But they
lolled in the boat and Jeered at the
large number of people kept waiting on
the bridge. The East Side people need
help in this matter, and if The Ore
gonian will take the lead, surely an un
derstanding fair and proper can be
reached. The main points would seem
to be:
First Closing the bridge in the busy
hours.
Second Requiring the smaller river
craft to have hinged smokestacks.
Third The employment of active
persons as bridge-tenders, instead of
making the bridge offices political
boneyards. E. SMITH.
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight."
This was a cry that concerned all
Oregon once, but it was a politician's
cry, because the Democratic party that
controlled the country then (1844-45)
was under direction ' of men who
cared more for slave territory then
than for free territory, and the cry of
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight" was merely
a political Juggle. However, the fol
lowing letter, by Mrs. S. J. Loupy, of
New York, published in the New York
Times of April 28, 1909, contains mat
ter of interest:
Owing- to the popularity of Mr. Emerson
Hough's semi-historical novel, "54-40 or
Fight," which has been recently published,
it will perhaps Interest many of his readers
to learn that the originator of that cry was
my grandfather. Governor Samuel Medary,
of Ohio, editor and statesman. I quote the
following from Llpplncott's Biographical
Dictionary: "Probably no man enjoyed the
confidence and warm personal esteem of the
President (Jackson) to a greater extent than
Mr. Medary. The political cry of '54-40 or
Fight,' relating to the Oregon boundary
line, is said to have been originated by
him, and he became the warm personal
friend of Stephen A. Douglas from his sup
port of that measure." Mr. Emerson is to
be praised for giving to the novel-reading
public bits of our country's history woven in
his romances. It is well to mak3 us fa
miliar with the great men who have pre
ceded us. .
Polk County Hills for Nut Trees.
DALLAS, Or., May 6. (To the Edi
tor.) The purpose of this letter is to
state a few facts concerning this por
tion of Oregon as a fruit and nut re
gion. It is a fact that the hills are the
home of the nut. While the bottom
lands will grow the tall hazel bush, it
is on the hills the nuts yield in abun
dance. The hill orchards never fail of
a crop. When frosts will kill in the
valley land, the hill orchards escape,
for they are above tine frost line.
Last Winter the cold killed many of
the young wainut and other trees In
many places in the valley, while the
young orchards in the hills escaped.
This portion of the valley is especially
adapted to prunes. cherries, grapes,
and in very many places peaches grow
to perfection. The prune industry is
growing all of the time, and ten acres
in prunes five years old is well worth
$500 an acre.
The boom prices have not hit us yet,
but the values are here. The fact that
very many of the old settlers are plant
ing new prune and filbert orchards is
proof that the industry pays. We have
the largest filbert orchard in the state.
Come up and we will show you the
walnuts, grapes, peaches, filberts, al
monds, apples and berries.
GLEN O. HOLMAN.
The Editor and Hia Position.
The States, New Orleans.
A rscent press dispatch announced that
Mr. Harvey W. Scott, editor of The Port
land Oregonian. who was appointed by
President Taft to be Ambassador to Mex
ico, has declined the honor after due con
sideration. It is well to remark that Mr.
Scott's decision is meeting with the hearty
approval of his professional brethren
throughout the country, among whom
there is a growing recognition of the fact
that the acceptance of a political office
by an editor is a serious mistake, unless
he has determined to permanently aban
don his calling.
Woman's New Hat luestion.
New York Morning Telegraph.
A few years ago they used to ask: "Is
my hat on straight?"
Now they inquire: "Is my hat on
crooked?"
Life's SunnySide
The young wife of a Kaslo, B. C, man.
who is not especially sweet-tempered, one
day approached her lord concerning the
matter of $100 or so.
"I'd !ike to lot you have it. my dear,"
began the husband, "but the fact is I
haven't that amount in the bank this
morning that is to say. I haven't that
amount to spare, inasmuch as I must
take up a note for $200 this afternoon."
"Oh, very well. James." said the wife,
with an ominous calmness, "if you think
the man who holds the note can make
things any hotter for you than I can
why, do as you say, James." Kaslo
Kootenain.
An Englishman had been to the Boer
war and lost an arm. a leg. an eye, an
ear, and his nose. He was sitting on
the pavement begging when an Irishman
came ilong. After looking at the Eng
lishman a few minutes, he firopped a
nickel Into the beggar's cup and walked
on. In a minute he was back and dropped
a dime into the cup; after starting away
again he returned and dropped a quar
ter Into the cup and without hesitation
dropped in a half dollar, which he fol
lowed by a dollar.
At this the Englishman said, "My
friend, why do you give me so much
monev V"
"Well, Oi'll tell yez," said the Irish
man. "Oi niver saw an Englishman
trimmed up to suit me before, and Ci'm
willin' to pay well for it." The House
keeper. They had their usual quarrel as they
sat by the hearth. On one side lay quiet
ly a blinking dog and on the other a
purring cat. The old woman pleaded
with ner growling husband: "Yust look
at dat gat und tog; dey never quarrels
and tights like us."
"Yah." said the old growler, "I know
dot; but yust tie dem together once, and
fien you see blazes." Exchange.
"How did the Queen of Sheba travel
when he went, to see Solomon?" asked
a Sunday school teacher.
No one ventured to answer.
"Could she have gone by the railway?"
"Yes'm," said a little -girl.
"Indeed! Well, we would like to know
how you found this out?"
"In the second verse," responded the
child, "it savs she came with a great
train." Tit-Bits.
This story is told of the late Robert
McTurk, who for many years was the
leading citizen of Williams Bridge, which
was a New York suburb:
At tho time of annexation Mr. McTurk
was treasurer of the town and ex-officio
treasurer of the sewer fund. The comp
troller of Greater New York sent the
police to Williams Bridge to get the
funds, but Mr. McTurk was at Hot
Springs Ark., at the time, and there was
no record of the $176,000 he held in his
custody. When he came back to the city,
a few months later, he went to the comp
troller's office one day m and handed to
Comptroller Fitch a draft for $176,000.
Comptroller Fitch was greatly surprised,
because, he said, he had found no record
of so much money being in the Williams
Bridge treasury.
"I can take the money," said he, "but
I cannot discharge your bondsmen."
Mr. McTurk replied that he had never
been required to give a bond.
"That's strange," replied the comp
troller. "They make me put up bends
aggregating nearly $1,000,000 here in the
city."
"Well." replied the grocer, "we elect
only honest men in Westchester County,
and we do not require any security from
them." New York Sun.
Sammy is a sturdy little chap of four,
whose father is a firm believer in open
air exercise. Recently he took the young
ster for a short walk in the suburbs that
is, short for the father, but a little stren
uous for Sammy. When they came home
his mother a'sked the boy if he were
tired.
"Not all over," said Sammy, with start
ling originality. "My legs are tired, so
I guess I'll put them to bed, but I'll stay
up myself." Baltimore American.
"I'm sure my daughter is going to
make a great singer some day."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, she's always quarreling with
her mother, who tells me It is abso
lutely impossible to manage her." De
troit Free Press.
"What became of that young man
who sought your hand in marriage at
the seashore last Summer?" asked the
dear girl who had been abroad.
"Oh." replied the fair one who had
remained at home. "I have him under
my thumb now." Chicago News.
Small Boy Mamma sent me to get a
hairbrush for her.
Druggist What kind does she want?
Small Boy I don't know; but I want
one with a soft back. Exchange.
Uncle Caleb Have you named your
dog yet, Clarence?
Little Clarence Yes, sir; I called
him after you.
Uncle Caleb That isn't complimen
tary. Little Clarence Oh, well, he hasn't
got sense enough to care. Exchange.
LATEST NOVELTY t THE 'TAFT II OS FT
It Is Made of Silk, for the Adornment
of Summer Dresses.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
There is a novelty in the market for all
feminine lovers of dress, which, aside
from its beauty and charm of adornment,
possesses an unusual interest in the fact
that it has been commented upon, ad
mired and, in fact, indorsed by no less a
personage than the President's wife, Mrs.
Taft.
A prominent society woman of this city
Invented the "Taft rose," for by this
name it will be known, Mrs. Taft gra
ciously giving the permission to have the
rose named after her, in a personally
written note to the inventor. The rose
itself is made of taffeta, the petals being
cut and shaped, wired, stitched and
turned. Most of them show two or three
shades of silk, blending in soft, beautiful
tones. Their instigator, who is an artist,
displays this fact in her selection of
colors and blending, and each is an ob
ject of beauty. The roses are about
eight inches in diameter.
The "Taft rose" makes its initial ap
pearance today, and it is expected that it
will then be one of the most popular hat
adornments of the Summer. Of course
there will be attempts to copy them, but
the inventor has had them patented, her
license covering every city in the United
States and- every feature of their make
up. Every rose shows the date of the
patent on the back of the last petal.
A Dividend Payer.
Chicago News.
1 own no blocks of bonds or stocks.
Of houses neither have I any.
My purse is fat I mean by that
I've dollars few, my bills are many.
Some plutocrats might call me poor;
Perhaps they'd jeer, perhaps ignore m;
And yet I feel that I have more
Than all their riches here before me.
My fine estate is far from great
In acreage, but rich and ample;
Of crops I've more than half a score.
Of others, too, at least a sample.
I have a Jungle that is rife
"With prowling monsters predators';
When I make war on them the strife
Might well be stigmatized as gory.
At 5 o'clock P. M. I lock
My office door and hasten hither.
With spade and hce to work I go
And make the weeds and cutworms
wither.
This farm Is but a backyard bed.
Yet here I grow a priceless measure
Of peaceful thought, clear heart, clear head.
Of hunger, health and harmless pleasure.