TIIE MORSIXO OREOOXIAX, FRIDAT, JUNE 4, 1909.
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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-
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