TIIE MORSIXO OREOOXIAX, FRIDAT, JUNE 4, 1909. PORTtAyP. OREGON. Entered at Portland, Oregon. PoitofOc as Becond-Clau Matter. Subscription Katra Invariably In Advanea. (Br Mall Pally. Sunday Included, ana year 8.00 lany. Sunday Included, six monthe 4.25 Ii y. Sunday Included, three months. . 8-25 pally. Sunday Included, one month 75 l'aily. without Sunday, one year 8 00 pa. y. without Sunday, six months 8 25 pa y. without Sunday, three months... 1.73 pally, without Sunday, one month 60 vlfcky, one year 1.50 Sunday, one year 2 SO Sunday and weekly, one year 8 00 (By Carrier.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year...... 9.00 Er.!iy. Sunday Included, one month... .75 How to Remit 6end poutofflce money rder. express order or personal check oa your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Give poetoffice ad dress In full, lncludlnc county and state. l'ostaae Rates 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent: lo to 28 pages, 2 cents; 80 to 44 pases, 8 centa; 4a to eo pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Hualnmg Office The S. C. Beck wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 go Tribune building. Chicago, rooms GlO-513 Tribune building. PORTLAND. nilDAY. JUNE i. 1BO0. HOLD DOWN THE DOXD ISSUES. Many worklngmen are inclined to vote for every sale of bonds, on the theory or supposition that sale of bonds will bring work to them at good wages. Yet, in fact, workingmen, and women, too, ought to know that any excess of bonds will not, in the long run, help them, but will add to their difficulties and burdens. Sale of bonds by a city, beyond the total amount that can easily be borne or carried, falls heavily on property, for property, through taxation, must meet the charge. Yet if the burden Is too great, and the moment it be gins to appear too great, improvement of property, erection of' buildings, ex tension of streets, will be arrested. Then men and women, whoso employ ment and wages depend on progress, growth and extension of the city, will find their opportunities checked. Ex cessive bond issues, therefore, though they may temporarily give employment and wages to labor will, in the ulti mate or result cut oft or reduce both. For our wage-working people, there fore, It is a matter of prudence and of economy to exercise care and judg ment in the matter of voting for new Issues of bonds. Herein, as in all other ways and concerns of life, the middle course is safest. Every municipality should be exceedingly careful about voting new and additional bonds. It concerns working people who don't I pay a dollar of taxes directly quite as much as it concerns the owner of lands and buildings, for if the pub- i lie burdens become too great to allow ' hope of profit, the owner of lands and buildings and the directors of indus trial activity must sit still. The Oregonian doesn't say to the electors of Portland that they should vote no more bonds; but it seems to The Oregonian that the only additional bonds that now should be voted are those proposed for the crematory and for the Broadway-Larrabee bridge. Above all. avoid plunging the city into the vast uncertainty of the expense that will attend and follow the starting of a municipal light plant. That un dertaking will always be an increasing burden to the city. That is, the city cannot supply light as cheaply as It can contract for it, for private enter prise can do this business better and cheaper than public undertaking can do it. Let no one be misled by any juggle of figures that purport to show results in other cities. This is busi ness of a kind that never can be done under the public direction as effect ively and cheaply as under private di rection. Political, not industrial, ad ministration is the end and object of our system of public and popular gov ernment. The rest is socialism; which the person whose capital is his labor should shun as much as the person shuns It whose capital is visible prop- , erty and direction of business, small or great. The final word: Be careful how vou vote on propositions for 1 SKI If- nf mr-A bonds. Let the good of the whole, as It appears at the present time, be con- Biuerea, ana be the guiding motive. Later, there will be new " situations, which may be considered. But the questions now presented are questions for today. Let us not now, or at any time, overwhelm the city with bonds. If we do, It will react on all of us jJid they who live by their labor will Jiave the hardest part of any. HOOD EXAMPLE OF 8JXF-HEI.P. The citizens of Weston, having at .last abandoned the hope of a High School supported by the state, under the name of a normal school, have ; voted to establish a regular four-year ; course High School upon their own responsibility. This is seemly. Self ( help, always a dependable force, has in icuuice quicKiy succeeded the withdrawal of state support for a local educaUonal institution. There is no reason why the people of Weston mould not establish and support a High School. There never has been a reason for their failure to do so, be yond the fact that the state, through means known to and practiced bv log rolling politicians, has long relieved them of this duty. The wholosomeness of self-dependence was made manifest in this case by the enthusiasm with which the quali fied voters. 1. e.. the property-holders of the W eston school district, received and Indorsed the proposition to govern and support their own High School. The Individual Is the eommunitv in concrete. As long as he Is carried he will not learn to walk, and quite nat urally he declines to make anv effort in that direction. In due time" he re sents any attempt to put him upon his Jeet and make him walk, protesting shamelessly or angrily his right to be carried. The duty of his self-constituted caretakers now becomes plain In fact, it has not from the first been obscure to any one who has taken In telligent cognizance of the situation In the decree "drop him and let him shift for himself," lies his salvation Left to face new conditions, he rises to meet them at first perhaps in angry or resentful mood, but soon with the grace of new-found strength and purpose. It is as natural that he should become enthusiastic as he pro ceeds as it was natural before that he should become inert, demanding, even imperious, in the presence of his care takers. Let him alone; he will quickly learn to help himself and feel the Pleasurable glow of Independence and fir-respect in so doing. Good for Weston. Its taxpayers are on their feet, able and willing to take care of themselves in educational as In other matters. The state's normal school property will probably soon be ' m the market. No doubt they can get it at a bargain, locate their Hie-h School therein, hire their own teachers, and in all respects shape and rule their own local educational affairs as becomes American citizens. THE NEEDED CHANGE. The people of Portland Intend to make Joseph Simon their Mayor, be cause they want judicious, quiet and efficient municipal government. There has been buncombe enough and too much. For years there has been utmost straining after effects, and little ac complishment. The like always hap pens when men are set to tasks too big for them. Results accomplished in such cases are almost always in Inverse ratio to the pretensions of the effort. Mayor Lane, so far as he could con trol It, has conducted an hysterical administration. No wonder, perhaps; for it was a product of hysteria on one side, supported by partisanship on the other. It has been so far as the Mayor could direct it an Obstructive government; the most obstructive the city ever has known. Note how the Madison-street bridge has been held up. What obstacles have been thrown in the path of the United Railways. How, in the name of reform, one kind of business or effort and another has been harried (no pun Intended) by his majesty. What litigation has arisen and at what cost to the city. Reform always is terrible, when let loose un der the direction of men to whom the word and the idea alike are new and strange. But it is a passing episode in the history of the city. The Oregonian believes that the city will be glad to turn from cranky government to rational, orderly and efficient govern ment. Judgment in Imnrnvumpnt nt the streets ought to be substituted for arbitrary ignorance and wasteful ex penditure. PeODle are tlrort nT Hairing the moral conduct of the city subject to the caprices of those who never could control their own. The neonle want atoQH(nnrn Judgment and business, in the govern ment or tne city and administration of its affairs, thev are tirod nf preposterous performances. What they want is straight, quiet, sensible and conservative administration. There has been Terformanc pnnnirh nt v dancing-bear variety. MORE TBOTBIE AT SEATTLE. It is difficult tn rpnrivoa o .lDt sense of irritation and indignation over me constant ana recurring troubles between the A-Y-P Pair Mnnnvamant and the Oregon Commission. Oregon has throughout manifested a most commendable spirit toward the Expo sition; but The Oregonian feels obliged to say that it has been most poorly re- (juneu. First came the nnfnrfiinnta inunn of the hotel placards, exploiting a silly and harmful lie about the Rose Fes tival, all at a sensitive time; then the sellers" booths were placed on the Oregon grounds where they do not be long; and now follows th aotj! conduct of a wooden-headed director of -morns wno summarily shuts off the ugnts irom the Oregon building. If mis upstart .&-a-month clerk, who has somehow fallen Into a $500-per-month job. acted with authority and support of the Fair Management when ii o exposea tne Oregon fruit exhibits to the dancers nf dpnau n .1 ,1 . . i. j ' J .,v. OU'MJCU all visitors to humiliation and annoy ance, tne t air is indeed in sorry hands. If he went ahead on his own initiative, then he is distinct v unfit tr.y v,t i,' He should be permitted no longer to ue in position where he can show either his malice toward Oregon or his bad Judgment toward pupf.-j,. j - - "v.nj auu everything else. But we shall hnnp io will get along somehow at Seattle. We must. Our presence there is an evi- uence or a friendly purpose and a friendly spirit. That we are there not wholly for Seattle's benefit does not lessen the obliratinn nf treat us with courtesy and fairness We shall hope to get along better hereafter, for all Oregon knows that the exposition is a really great affair 0.1m 11 is anxious to see Oregon credi tably and fully represented. DEMAND OVERTAKING SUPPLY. More than two i-cai-a .- t - " - sv iiaiucs J. Hill placed himself on record as pre dicting that the days of cheap wheat In this country were over and that we were rapidly approaching a point where the United States would cease iu tigure as an exporting country. The present remarkable strength In the market, due almost exclusively to scant supply, enables the great rail roader to say, with good grace, "I told so. in an interview in yes terday's Oree-onlnn Mr ttiii - - ' PlttlCU. in the last twenty-five years, six new wheat states have been opened, and there are no more new states. We are now arawing near the time when there will be no more new sod to turn to grain errowine- m thpU ... Ave years the wheat production of the country has Increased 25 per cent and mo population nas increased 65 per cent." While these percentage figures may not be strlctlv nccn far out of the way, and they show l'uuc enectiveiy mat the domestic sup ply, and demand are rapidly coming together. There is a sharp contrast between Mr. Hill's views of the wheat situation and those of the Eastern men who. under the leadership of the theoretical Secretary Wilson, have been persistently blaming Mr. Patten for present high prices. Even the president of the New York Produce Exchange, whose position should war rant a better knowledge of economic conditions, in his annual , sisted that "the speculative manlpulal tions of Western markets have operated against legitimate trade," and further deplored the fact that many mills had been obliged to close down because of their inability to secure ,r7'. f.r srindIn8T- The "legitimate trade in which the New York man takes such an interest seems to be that which centers around the East ern seaboard, for he complains that the operations of the Western specu lators have "prevented dealers and consumers from entering Into large transactions or carrying any large supply of cereals at this port." There is no denying the effect that the wheat scarcity is having on Uie New lork market, as well as all other markets, but the New Yorkers, Secre tary Wilson and all of the rest of the men who are crying "corner," "ille gitimate speculation," etc.. are wrong and Mr. Hill, Mr. Patten and other hard-headed, well-informed business men are right as to the cause of the trouble. Present prices for wheat are abnormally high and cannot be main- tained bevond the nrpspnt aaaann .m less there is a world-wide shortage in the crops that will be harvested in the next eight months. But there will be no recession to the low prices of-former years. The domestic demand has increased so much more rapidly than the production that we shall no longer have a large surplus on which the cheap wheat of India and the Argen tine will fix the price in foreign mar kets. vThis shifting from a foreign price basis to a domestic price basis will be so gradual as to prevent any violent fluctuations except-during such a crisis as a world-wide shortage has now pre cipitated. Improved methods of culti vation warranted by higher price and increasing values of land will result in larger yields, and there is also some new land that will yet be sown to wheat in this country. Prices for more than a year have been so high that with favorable conditions next year this country will probably produce a record crop; the maximum of produc tion, even under present slipshod, care less methods, has hardly been reached. FOREIGN TRADE PROBLEM. The foreign trade situation as re flected in the latest report of the Bu reau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor presents some interesting features for the student of political economy. It also offers a great field for speculation and theory as to the reason for and probable effect of some striking changes that appear in the report as compared with that for a year ago. That balance of trade, which represents the difference be tween what we buy and what we sell, shrank to such small proportions dur ing April that there was only $3,000, 000 to our credit. In the item of do mestic products, the excess of exports was less than $1,000,000 over the im ports. In April, 1908, our exports ex ceeded the imports by more than $50, 000,000. Of foodstuffs in crude condi tion, we imported . $6,000,000 worth more in April this year than in April, 1908, while our exports of the same class of commodities showed a de crease of nearly $500,000. Similar striking changes are shown in the figures for the entire ten months. In the item of crude food stuffs, our exports last season to April 30 were $50,000,000 in excess of our Imports, while for the ten months this season the imports have exceeded the exports by more than $16,000,000. On the theory that crude materials for use in manufacturing are an indication of increased industrial activity at home, there is some comfort in the state ment showing that the imports of this class of goods increased about $60 -000.000 for the ten months, as com pared with the previous season. High prices for wheat and other farm prod ucts at home are reflected in a heavy shrinkage in the exports of these com modities as compared with the previ ous year. Cause and effect are easily discernible here, however, and this feature of the situation is easily un derstood. The theory that the present tariff tinkering will result in notable reduc tions, or even that there will be no material changes in the duty, is in no manner reflected in the figures show ing imports of manufactured goods ready for consumption. Of this class there was an increase in April of more than $4,000,000, while exports of the same class showed a decrease of nearly the same amount. For the ten months there was a decrease of but $7,000,000 in imports, while exports for the same period decreased more than $50,000,000. There is nothing ominous in these figures as yet, but if they were to continue In this direction very long we would be facing an in debtedness abroad that would be far from satisfactory. With good crops and a maintenance of present prices it will not take long to wipe out this ac cumulating balance. It is of sufficient Importance, however, to produce con siderable food for thought as to what the ultimate result may be. LET TJS BE JUST. An esteemed contemporary-, dis coursing on what it calls "another era of good feeling," remarks that "if these United States are going in for the almighty dollar, why should we blink at the fact or try to hide it? The country has had trouble enough. It is entitled to all the money it can make." The country is entitled to all the money it can make honestly, but there Is some little doubt whether it will find the hoard a remedy for all its troubles. There are individuals now living upon earth who possess very large quantities of money, more than most of us can hope to make in a long life under conditions of the ut most good feeling, and yet troubles continue to come upon them. Di vorces, Insanity and even death seem to pursue them much the same as ir they were paupers. An era of good feeling in which rancor Is forgotten and questions are settled rationally is not necessarily an era of gross money madness. The contemporary from which this quotation is made speaks flatteringly of the contrast between present condi tions and those which prevailed dur ing the last Administration. It calls Mr. Roosevelt's efforts to enforce the law "the jehad of the mad mullah against business and wealth." It for gets that but for Mr. Roosevelt's cru sade against the big lawbreakers of the country the present era of calm would not have been possible. If he had not taken matters in hand and to some extent allayed the growing dis content of the country with corrupt commercial conditions by remedying what , was wrong, the murmurs of the public would have increased until they culminated in riot and bloodshed. Those who hate the I velt will see the day when they will realize mat ne was one of the greatest benefactors that wealth and business ever had. At present the quieting ef fects of his work are quoted against him. "Look at the turmoil he ex cited," it is said, "and compare it with the serenity which now prevails." But the serenity never would have come without the turmoil to clear the air. It would have grown worse and worse. Mr. Roosevelt gave expression to the Nation's just discontent with evil con ditions and removed the worse grounds for it. Now he is upbraided with the fruits of his own labors. Such is jus tice. 'Asvivld, vicious, yet vain, dispatch from its previously instructed corre spondent at Pullman," also "just an other inspired statement from The Oregonian, headed up and published as a feature, for the effect it may have, and not in the interests of truth, com mercial fact nor genuine news." Thus does our old friend Carker, of the As- torlan, refer to the 'Pullman, Wash., dispatch in The Oregonian stating that the Farmers' Union would decline to rake any chestnuts from the fire for Astoria. If the Astorian will refer to the Spokane Spokesman-Review of June 1, It will find on page 6, column 3, substantially the same story as was printed in The Oregonian. The mem bers of the union were bitterly opposed to the raw attempt to drae it into a awsuit in which Astoria alone was 1 concerned, and there could accordingly De no difference in any of the stories that gave a truthful account of the situation. The Oregonian is disposed to be amused at the charge that it had "previously instructed" either the Re view's or its own correspondent at Pullman. Filthy conditions prevail, according to Milk Inspector Mack, in many of the dairies from which the milk sup ply of the city is drawn. Let us hope that we have an inspector who will in spect, to the end that these "filthy conditions" be corrected before the heat of Summer comes, setting loose millions of flies and adding rottenness to filth. Next to the commercial mince pie, the milk pitcher can con ceal more abominations of the filthy and disgusting type than any other ar ticle or receptacle that finds its way to our table. Of dairymen and milk ers there are two distinct types one that does not know how to be clean and one who does not care. While the latter are in the majority, many speci mens of the former abound. The only hope of the public for a clean milk supply Is in a milk inspector who him self knows what he is appointed to teach and who will give his whole time and all the energy required to secure this end. May events prove that Mr. Mack is the right man in the right place. Stocks in the New York market soared skyward again yesterday, the Harriman issues and the steel stocks being particularly strong, with phe nomenal gains scored in both. It is. of course, very pleasing to note that money Is so plentiful that a 6 or 7 per cent stock, like the Harriman "Pa cifies," is in demand at only a very few points less than $2 00 per share. It should not be forgotten, however, that a considerable portion of this hilarious rise in New York has been accom plished.wlth call money that has been a drag on the market at 1 per cent and even less. So long as the owners of this money are willing to let the stock speculators have it at the abnormally low rate, there will be no material de cline in the price of stocks.- The first appearance of a stringency In the money market, however, Is likely to be attended with serious results, and there will be a great many people ex periencing regret that the advance had not been less pronounced. It was rather a mean trick on the part of the Prohibitionists, supporting Brother McDaniel, to go into a meet ing of Municipal Reformers called in the interest of Brother Albee, capture it, then down the Albee resolutions, substitute McDaniel resolutions, and put up high prohibition oratory in lieu of the commonplaces of reform of fered by the Municipal Association. But then observe that the Prohibition ists tolerate no half-way, or Laodicean, politics. Probably they wouldn't try to capture a meeting called by the Liquor Dealers' Association, but they have no kind of patience with any scheme of reform whose corner stone is not a fight, first and last, on "the insane juice that takes the reason prisoner." The principal of a country school in Clackamas County is in Jail in Port land in default of bail, to await the action of the grand jury on, the charge of wifebeating. What has become of the clause in the school law which re quires a candidate for a teacher's cer tificate to be of "good moral charac ter"? This is a qualification which, judging from this and similar cases that have been made public in the past few months, is too frequently overlooked by teachers' examining boards. The magic of Summer was made manifest in the first two days of June by the sudden burst of bloom, beauty and fragrance from the thousands of rose bushes throughout the city. The onset was so sudden and the result so gracious that the prophet of disaster to the Rose Festival from lack of roses was rendered dumb. Plenty of roses? Well, just walk abroad and read the story that Is printed In every dooryard in delicate and varied colors. The anarchists of Germany, in con ference at Leipsic, have adopted a resolution declaring that membership in any church or religious sect is con trary to the principles of anarchy. All anarchists are asked to cease their membership in churches. This should be very good news to a great many church members, and in a degree indi cates that the anarchists appreciate the fact that they are beyond the pale of respectable civilization. Willamette University has sent out a class of forty-two young doctors whose success in life depends upon the Ills of humanity and ability to relieve them. This does - not look like the Emmanuel movement. Christian Sci ence and "healers" who eschew medi cine &nd pin their faith to "sugges tion" are making any great headway among us in turning an ailing com munity from drug-cure to faith-cure. , The "Iron Chink," used in preparing salmon for canning, is one of the most wonderful inventions in use in the industrial world. Edmund A. Smtlh, the inventor, found his limita tions, however, in the automobile, and lies dead in Seattle as a result of an explosion of a gasoline tank. Judge McCredie's feelings appear to be very badly hurt over the require ment of an exacting Legislature that all Judges appear on the bench here after in silk gowns. We do not blame him. What the Judge ought to wear on such occasions is a baseball suit. Mayor Lane is not what you might call enthusaistic over Mr. Munly's candidacy, for Mayor. There cannot be two kings in the- Democratic Israel. Is Oregon a Republican state? Then are Senators Bourne and Chamberlain, products of "the new system," repre sentatives of Oregon? As we understand Mayor Lane he declines to be either the Democratic party or to let anyone else be the same. HOW TO REACH "500,000 IN 1912" Portland Must Exploit Her Advantage to Manufacturer. PORTLAND, June 3. (To the Edi tor.) Right in our midst we hae not only the greatest lumber market in the world but also have industries in sections tributary to Portland such as woolgrowlng, frultraising. productive wheat lands, besides other necessities, and what is most significant, water in abundance to transform into power. Next we have a Chamber of Com merce and a horde of private individ uals all having one aim In view the boosting of Portland and its vicinity, and the outcome to be "500,000 In 1912." This movement deserves encourage ment and aid, but Is it being under taken in the best and safest way to be a permanent increase? There are numerous tracts In the surrounding country platted and laid out for home-sites to provide homes for the new arrivals. This is foresight, but these must have employment to maintain homes and even have bread. Where Is that to come from? She has an immense amount of lum ber at hand, why transport it to foreign countries and Eastern states? Why have Grand Rapids be the greatest furniture city In the world? Are not the lum ber districts of Michigan becoming ex hausted? Well, it s up to Portland to offer manufacturing sites to furniture houses to locate here and make it an Important manufacturing city. The same with the wool interest knitting and yarn manufactures with the same proposition; also with every other in dustry and necessity produced and needed In the Northwest. By having these factories locate and established here, you not only have employment for all, but you interest a large amount of skilled labor to live In Oregon. Surely Oregon has an enviable climate, but these days people are forced to live on what they earn, not on good weather. Next to these factories um. manufac tures is a question of economy. Having the products right here, that is dis posed of. As to land sites, there are both sides of the Willamette, and, what Is of more use, the Columbia Slough. The Swift people are able to build there. Why not at small expense have this entire swamp eliminated or made use of and have for productive use more than five square miles of valuable country? What counts these days Is push. We have this illustrated In the case of Kansas City, Mo. Some two years ago this enterprising community Informed the world at large that It had sites to offer, for concerns to either establish main or branch factories there. It elegantly displayed the advantages of so doing. It used push to the fullest extent. What was the result? In an exceedingly short time 38 concerns availed themselves of this offer and to day Kansas City stands about sixth In bank clearings, far, far ahead of other cities of much larger population. Did not Dayton provide the National Cash Register Company with a site? The same with Battle Creek and Kala mazoo, Mich. The same enterprising movement is today being enacted in a dozen cities of the South, all with suc cess. Where is there more opportunity of its being realized than In Portland? That Is, you lead us Easterners to be lieve that everything is here. We do not doubt that, but why not make the most of it? There are cries here for more building material to give the city not only a more metropolitan appear ance, but as a precaution against de struction by fire. A hint is well worth considering, but a warning demands action. m. L. Humor of a Marble Battleship. Washington, D. C, Dispatch. Edward E. Coyle, prominent among the Washington correspondents, whose death has been a great shock to his friends here, was known along News paper Row as one having an Inexhaust ible fund of wit and humor. One of the best things Mr. Coyle ever got off. and one that will be long remembered about the press gallery, was his joke at the expense of Senator Redfleld Proctor, of It will be recalled, was heav ily interested In marble works in Ver mont, and was always on the lookout for business for the marble plant. One morning, In the Roosevelt regime, a group of newspaper men were stand ing outside the White House office building when the Vermont Senator hove in sight, . "Here's Proctor," said one. "Wonder what he's after?" "As I understand it," said Mr. Coyle, with an air of profundity, "the Senator from Vermont is here to see the Presi dent about building a marble battle ship." Traveling; In China by Wheelbarrow. Travel and Exploration. The Earl of Ronaldshay, M. P., says that In those parts of China to which the Pekln cart has not yet penetrated the wheelbarrow affords an agreeable substitute. In the province of Ssuch'uan he perceived the leisure classes who do not aspire to the dignity of a chair being trundled along on these vehicles, the rate of hire being two cash per 11, roughly two-thirds of a farthing per mile. Even in the coast towns, where many forms of conveyance are avail able, the wheelbarrow finds' favor among the lower classes, and in Shang hai he found factory hands wheeled daily to the scene of their labors on barrows of exaggerated size, six men to a barrow, at a contract price of 60 cents (say Is 2d) a man a month. Wireless Flashes Prom Sailboat. Belfast, Me.. Dispatch. Belfast has the honor of having built the first sailing vessel to be equipped with wireless telegraph The vessel is the four-masted schooner Pendleton Sisters. Captain Walter J. Small, of Islesboro, with his chief engineer, Ralph N. Seeley, Installed the apparat us. The apparatus for receiving and sending the messages is in the donkey engine-room, and the spark is furnished by dry cells, which later will be sup planted by a dynamo. The spark coil is the same as used by the Navy, and contains 7 miles -of the finest wire, wound In 100 parts. Nearly three months were required to effect the in stallation and perfect its workings. . It Was the Limit. From Judge. Rastus (exultlngly) Guess I kotched de finest 'possum In Georgy dls time. Better Half Golly, 'Rastus, yo' ortah send him to Mistah President Taft. 'Rastus Hannah, dah am a limit to pahty fealty. Sons; of the Spendthrift. Chicago News. For me Just a little Is never enough; I've only one speed that's the high. I can't eat a steak that Is gristly or tough The best, with fresh mushrooms, I buy. When short. I go hungry and tighten my belt. Saving up. for a provender spree. Some people may scrimp and may dine on a shrimp. But It's plenty or nothing for me. "When I've a few dollars to hang on some bells I don't hold them back for a minute. I get such as is worn by the swells And then a spark stickpin goes In it. The hunger I feel doesn't teach me to save Next time Just the same it will be ' Some people may stint, but my coin does a sprint - It Is plenty or nothing for me. If ever I have an account at the bank I'll check It all out in a chunk. I'll live like a duke or some other of rank Till all my dough has gone plunk. I'll hand my last Ave to a drug clerk and say; 1 "Some dope for my felo-de-se No poison that's cheap; here, the change you may keep It Is plenty or nothing for me. LIGHT ON THE SAN FRANCISCO TRIAL An Eastern Journal's View of It Business Rivalry at the Bottom of the Prosecution. New York Evening Post. Nobody believes that the United Rail ways of San Francisco has been superior in its morality to the average city transportation company, or that its feelings would have been much out raged if It deemed It wise to pay $200 -000 to secure certain favors. But even a railroad president Is entitled to jus tice in court, and the Impression is gaining ground that the effort is to railroad" Mr. Calhoun to prison at any cost, and that the daring procedure of Messrs. Heney and Burns In obtaining evidence such as entering Mr. Cal houn's office and blowing open his pri vate safe, under warrants of question able validity Is not justifiable even In the endeavor to free an utterly demor alized city from the tolls of scoundrels and blackmailers. For a couple of years San Francisco's destiny has lain in the hands of two men. Rudolph Spreckels has furnished the money and been characterized publicly by Mr. Roosevelt as one of the most patriotic and unselfish of citizens while James D. Phelan is credited with being the real power behind the throne. These men have decided who should and who should not be Mayor of San Francisco; which men should go to jail and which go free. They have been the despotic tyrants of the city, even if it be be lieved that they have always been wise and benevolent tyrants. For instance, it has recently been brought out In a letter of the late Chief of Police Biggy, originally appointed to that position by Mr. Spreckels. that, having been visited by Mr. Spreckels (on November 16, last), he was told to resign because he was "surrounded by crooks" and an "associate of dive keepers and brothel-keepers." Why shoulfa private citizen have the right to order a police chief to resign, or, for mat matter, to appoint him? Is there anyming in democratic government which recognizes such a privilege? But in .tsiggy s case, the demand was prac tically an ultimatum to be obeyed, and he so felt it. The reason is simply that Mr. Spreckels has financed the re form movement. Although Mr. Heney is a puduc otllclal, he has received, according to Mr. Spreckels' own testi mony, $23,828.22 from Spreckels for his office expenses, while $38,400 has been paid to Heney's law-partner and associ ate, and Burns is openly stated to have received no less than $132,446.05 from the Spreckels privy purse. Granting that this is pure civil phil anthropy. It was again brought out in Apostles of Self-Advertised Perfection Some Personal Remarks Concerning: Mr. Kellsber; Also Mr. Albeet Likewise -Mr. M mil y as Individually Selected Representatives of the Plain Peonle Together With Other Tire Punctures. 1 ' PORTLAND, June 3. (To the Editor.) Queer city campaign, this. Mr. Kellaher roars about the need of a business ad ministration, implying that unless he Is elected Mayor there will be no such guarding of the people's interests as they are entitled to. How does a man find out such a thing as this regarding his own self-recognized and self-exploited ability, honesty and all round superiority to other unfortunate mortals? And. having discovered it, how does he account for the singular phenom enon? Mr. Albee Is burdened with the same affliction self-admlratlon and a firm con viction that he alone sees things face to face, while other patriots are compelled to secure such visual results as may be obtained only through a glass, that Is, darkly. Where did Mr, Albee get his spe cial dispensation of miraculous power to shun the wrong, to embrace the right and to bask -in that beautiful realm where things of the earth earthy never enter in to harrow and to mar? Both these apo6tles of self-advertised perfection are in the present race en tirely against their " 'druthers" having been drafted into the contest only after seeing that the people had been tram pled under foot by the operation of the direct-primary law. The bosses just reached out and got a lead-pipe cinch on the people, as well as their law; and didn't nominate either Kellaher or Albee! In fact, the primary law was prostituted by the old-time machine men to base uses and "Simonism" was elevated to the head of the corner. And there are men who won't stand any foolishness even from the people or their law. Kellaher and Albee are Ju6t such men. They are men before they are politicians. If the people don't know enough to select them in preference to Simon, then the people need a guardian need a boss. And if a boss must needs be. then Kel laher would prefer Kellaher to the peo ple's choice, especially since the people don't know how to act under the pri mary law. And Albee has practically the same ex alted opinion of Albee that Kellaher has of Kellaher, except that Albee won't draw straws In order to see which way the wind blows. And then there is Munly, the , Demo- WRITES 13,170 WORDS OX POSTAL New fork Man Achieves a Xew Record on Microscopic Writing. Greenwich, Conn.. Dispatch to New York Times. A record for fine writing with a pen has Just been established by A. J. Farwell, a draftsman, of 142 Henry street, Brooklyn, N. Y., who in a local contest wrote 13,170 words, using 223 lines, on the back of an ordinary postal card. More than 100 other contestants tried their skill in the same contest, and second honors fell to James F. Lally, a hardware clerk of Greenwich, with about a third as many words. Mr. Farwell had previously entered two similar contests, missing first prize each time by a small margin. Learning of another contest advertised in the Greenwich News, he challenged the two previous winners, and sent them each a duplicate pen and some of the ink he was himself using, in order that the contest might be a perfectly fair one. Then he set to work transcribing over and over again the advertising phrase prescribed. The phrase of 16 words was written nearly 878 times The work took more than two weeks. In which 40 hours were used, five lines per hour being the fastest time made. He broke all previous records for the number of times the phrase could be written on a postal card and also for the largest number of words. Every word on the card is written- legibly and can be read with the naked eye when held close. Children of United States Senator Page. Washington, D. C, Dispatch. Senator Carroll S. Page, of Vermont, is on good terms with the Senate pages, all because his name is Page. Apropos of this, he tells the story that when he was Governor of Vermont he went to the chamber of the Senate of the State Legislature one day and about a dozen pages flocked around him just as a friend of his from the rural districts walked in. "Governor." inquired the friend from the country, "who are all these little boys?" "They are little pages." "Well, I'll be durned. Governor," ob served the rural visitor. "I never knew you had so many children." the examination of Mr. Spreckels him self that. Just prior to the fire. Mr. Phelan and Mr.- Spreckels had organ ized the Municipal Railways with a capitalization of $11,000,000 for the pur pose of building underground-trolley lines in competition with the United Railways.' It is this fact that lias led to the many reports that the real motive of Mr. Spreckels for his attack upon Calhoun was a business one, and the al legation that he expects to receive in return .three dollars for every one he is now investing in reform. On the other hand, so far as the trial of Cal houn has gone. Mr. Heney has appar ently woven a very strong chain of cir cumstantial evidence about him. There was a payment of $200,000 from the United Railways to somebody about the time the bribing was done, but no ex planatory entry was made, and there Is the usual profound official ignorance as to what use the money was put to. Now, the Evening Post has only the feeling which every lover of good gov ernment must have that It would wel come the conviction of Mr. Calhoun if the facts warrant it. The country would then be able to say that at least in one city the man "higher up" was reached; that in San Francisco Mr. Heney could do what Mr. Jerome failed, for one reason or another, to accom plish here. We should very much pre fer to believe that Messrs. Spreckels. Phelan, Heney and Burns are fighting the people's battle against the worst type of political corruption. But the point which we wish to make today is simply that even a reformer cannot turn despot and run the machinery of government himself without provoking an immediate reaction. The best kind of reform is that which comes from the people themselves by regular demo cratic means, and not that which emanates from a handful of men financed by the well-filled purse of a business rival of some of the men ac cused of wrong. Undoubtedly, we shall be told that this is a counsel of perfec tion; that to overthrow such a mon strous conspiracy as existed In San Francisco every possible means must be resorted to in order to ferret out the criminal; that to be practical in such matters one must not be thin-skinned, but utilize the power that falls Into one s hands. To this we would make the reply that It is nelt.ier desirable nor practical, when in the midst of so great a prosecution, to find that the enlightened public sentiment is becom ing suspicious both as to methods and motives. cratic candidate, who abhors a party ad ministration, though he deliberately chose to become a strictly party candidate. Mr Munly is afflicted with bossophobla. In a manifesto issued to the people fairly bristling with warnings of the impending dangers of bossiem he uses the phrase something like 337 times In a paragraph containing 362 words. Mr. Munly's day dream is bossism. and his song ia bose ism. Incidentally, his nightmare is Si monism. Also, in casting around, he has discovered that Kellaher is a fraud and Albee a pretender. The real thing Is the Democratic candidate who was nominated by Democratic votes in a Democratic pri mary in order that. If elected, he might give the people a "non-partisan" admin istration. And, as a sort of filler, the Taxpayers' League has examined the 35 proposed amendments to the city charter, et al., and pronounced 18 of them bastards, no good, unworthy of public approval, the offspring of a morganatic union between the elect and the machine. But since the league is an "assembly" of private citi zens, a "concentrated" body of interested people, has gotten Itself together and butted In for the purpose of "suggesting" to the masses what their duty is. it Is plain that its action is subversive of the public good, was intended to anticipate the popular verdict, was promulgated in order to "weed out the undesirables" and is violative of the fundamental principles of the direct-primary law and the in itiative. How can the Taxpayers' League pre tend to know more about matters which have been submitted to the people than the people themselves? There is no higher source than the people. The powers which they have reserved to themselves havo not been delegated elsewhere, and the , Impudent pretenders who get themselves into an "assembly" arid undertake to dic tate to the masses as to such men or measures which they should approve are but measly bosses bossing under a new guise of. bossism. Down with assemblies which undertake to dictate to the people! In the meantime, Mr. Simon, who Is making no vainglorious pretensions to sanctification. Is pursuing- the even tenor of his way, is not "slopping over," keeps a level head, understands the needs of the business interests of the city in which he has lived and been a prominent factor for 30 years, and will be chosen Mayor by the largest vote ever given a candidate for that office. The people have nomi nated him and will elect him. And It will be a good day's work. PIONEER REPUBLICAN. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN WILL THEY SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF MARS? In a few weeks the planet will be nearer the earth; then astrono mers 'will try to settle' disputort points. FIFTIETH YEAR OF ST MARY'S ACADEMY Human interest story attaching to the pioneer Oregon Catholic school for girls. OPENING DAY VIEWS OF THE SEATTLE FAIR Excellent photographic repro ductions of scenes last Tuesday at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition. LAST STAGE OF ROOSEVELT'S JOURNEY Trip down the White Nile to civilization ; but never out of dan ger from disease. ' SOME POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS This is not strictly biograph ical, but the Japanese schoolboy's idea of certain prominent Ameri- ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR NEWSDEALER