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PORTLAND. SATURDAY. JI NK , 10.
THE GREATEST FACT OF HISTORY.
In the Jewish Tribune (Portland)
we have, an article by Dr. Frederick
Cohn. Kabbl Temple Israel. Omaha,
bearing the title. "Why I Am a Jew."
He begins by saying-: "I am a Jew first
of all because I was born one." It la a
sufficient reason; there could be no
better reason. What one of us can be
other than-that which our race, our
ancestry, our education, our environ
ment, have made us? Rabbi Cohn
thus proceeds:
All atudenta of history know that Judaism
1 the mother-rajth. that Christianity and
Mohammedanism are the two daughter
religions, the one horn about 1800. the
other about 1300 years ao. Leaving now
Mohammedanism out of account, as not of
Im.e.1'au ,n,ere"t conslderlnK only
Christian ty. the dominant religion it must
t..wan? ly ""'"I th-1- my view. Chris
tianlty la but Imperfect Judaism. Judaism
l",,. , "nd a,laP'e1 by the heathen
world. Judaism with a vast mass of pagan
Chr7.eH.".,tra'Ted and "orted with. It
Christianity 1. actually and historically a
ArnoVr m ("Hebraism" Matthew
Arnold called It) and Hellenism, the latter
Of "he arTJyA ,de" a"d thS '"oSs
wlde.orJy PaKa" clvUIl"" that wa.
widespread over the ancient world Just be
fore, during and after the Roman Empire.
A world of historical truth here; and
yet some modification of Jewish par
ticularism was necessary, for the
trrowth of a world-wide religion. Upon
this necessity Christianity and Ma
hometanlsm have grown. and they
too. as well as the development of the
rationalistic spirit, have been Instru
ments In the progress or change of the
religion of. Israel, or rather of its adap
tions to the conditions of the newer or
modern world. Hebraism or Judaism
as the religion of a race. Is too ex
clusive for a world religion; hence Its
great offshoots, whose growth so much
exceeds that of the parent stock
It la not so much the barrier of
religion that separates th3 Jews from
other peoples. it 3 the racial and
social barriers which the Jews see fit
to maintain of which their religion
la a part. Thta exclu-siveness suits the
genius of the race; It is the basis of
Its life; It has come down from the
most ancient times; and because all
can't be Jews, the Jewish religion,
admirably as Its ethical content Is, and
adaptable as the kernel of Its spirit
ua Idea Is to propagation of other re
ligions, has failed to conquer the
world In itself or by itself, yet has
done so through its offshoots. But
Isn't it honor enough for Israel to be
yen if Indirectly, the greatest force of
all times? It Is the chiefest' fact of
human history.
THF8ES ARK COMMONPLACES.
Charles Bonaparte, father of the
Bonapartes known to history through
the extraordinary intellectual energy
of one of his descendants, seems not
to hav been a man of much account
himself. But Letltla Ramollno.
mother of the race of Bonapartes
known to history, was a woman of
extraordinary Judgment and force
though she didn't know it or realize It.
When her son was master of Europe
and other sons, through the extraordi
nary genius of one, and daughters who
were persons of the most common
place and vulgar description, occupied
half the thrones of Europe, Madame
Letttla's head was not turned. She re
mained the exemplar and embodiment
of good Judgment and common sense.
She always said. In effect. "Boys and
girls, this Isn't the regular and natural
and lasting thing. You would better
have an eye to the future, and lay up
something while you can." Madame
Mere herself, therefore, was prudent.
She had a small fortune left after all
was ever; and the house in which she
lived at Rome during her last years,
! and where she died, now bears an In
scription that reminds the traveler.
All this Is extraordinary, yet within
; the range of experience that nobody
can question. ,For It came in the reg
ular course of history nothing mirac
ulous about it nothing outside the
regular course of history, as presented
In preceding times say In the Uvea
of Alexander, of Caesar and of Charle
magne; and in smaller degree in the
lives of persons of less celebrity than
these, yet still distinguished. These
, resulta come about through the mys-
: terious movement of the general mind
In which special talents of the higher
or highest order, find their oppor
tunity. .But Madame Letitia, from the
beginning to the end of the drama
was not deceived by It.
The example is on a mighty histori
cal scale, and possibly may be re
peated on an equal scale or greater.
In some future age; for human con
ditions ,are in continual flux and
undergoing sincessant change. The
great historian Gibbon, after his com.
rrehhsive survey of human history
before his time, and the production of
his Immortal Decline and Fall of the
Rom,an Empire, said there never
would be another great upheaval and
change, or another great leader and
conqueror. Gibbon died at the age
of fifty-seven, but had he lived to the
Psalmist's three-score-and-ten he
would have seen Europe at the feet
of Napoleon.
But this wasn't the thought at the
outset of these remarks. We all take
Interest In great things, but most of
us live on the lower plane of practical
life. The prudence of Madame Letl
tla is a lesson to all ages. They who
suddenly come Into small fortunes,
' by the miracle of opportunity, are as
likely to have their heads turned as
those who attempt a Moscow cam
paign. Katharine Clemmons Gould
Isn't through with It yet. Possibly
Harry Lane Is; but his career has not
been very distinguished. Yet it has
been more so than anybody who has
known him from his beginning ever
could hav supposed. There Is. la-
deed, room for all ambitions, high and
low; yet there Is a lot of luck about
it; and for the larger number, for the
immense majority, prudence and
judgment are the only guides. In
private life they are all in all; and in
public life there are mighty few who
haven't found that "A habitation giddy
and unsure Hath he who bulldeth on
the vulgar heart."
PRINTING ALL THE NEWS.
The Oregonlan feels constrained, in
reply to its very earnest corre
spondent at Linnton who thinks
me press is not doing its duty in
printing the details of the Gould scan
dal, to retell the old story about the
young women who rebuked the famous
Dr. Johnson for putting so many nasty
words in his dictionary. "Ah, my
dears." replied the doctor. "I see that
you have been looking them up."
Of course no one need read the
Gould story, or the Thaw story, or any
other like it, unless he or she chooses.
But it is there to read, if any. one de
sires, and it ought to be there, in the
opinion of The Oregonlan.
The growing power and Influence of
the press of the country, to which the
Linnton correspondent refers, are
based on Its impartial and complete
publication day by day of every phase
and detail of all matters of current in
terest and importance. Is there a les
son in the Gould scandal for your son
or daughter? We think so. Is any
one benefited by keeping from public
knowledge the manner of living of the
Idle and profligate rich? Would the
Goulds and their kind keep the tale
from the papers if they could? And.
If they could, would they be encour
aged to go into greater excesses and
wilder dissipations? It is certain that
such people are restrained, if at all,
only by the danger or fear of exposure.
But if The Oregonlan, or any paper,
is to be a mere censor, and to exclude
from public view or knowledge all hap
penings it deems bad for its readers to
know about, and to print only those
things which it feels are good, what
a mighty power indeed It would as
sume. It cannot undertake the task,
for It would run counter at once to the
conflicting Judgments and opinions of
all its readers as to what is good and
what is bad. What it can do, or un
dertake to do, is to chronicle faith
fully all occurrences of moment or In
terest, keeping in mind certain recog
nized limitations of decency and pro
priety. It can see nothing indecent or
improper, for example, In printing the
accounts of Mrs. Gould's expenditures
in dress and in the amount, variety
and extravagance of her purchases;
and especially this is a sort of news
that every woman In the land wishes
to see, and In the circumstances has
a right to see.
Further, the extent of the circula
tion of a newspaper, and therefore of
Its opportunity to serve the public, de
pends on the variety and fullness of Its
publication of all the news that Is fit
to print. Should The Oregonian sub
side into the condition of a meager
and dull newspaper, very few people
would wish to read It. and it would
have no sufficient resources for obtain
ment and publication of the greatest
news.
HAYWOOD AND HIS CIGARETTES.
Twelve people attended the lecture
of W. D. Haywood at Davenport,
Wash.. Thursday night, and the So
cialist who so narrowly escaped the
noose in the Steunenberg murder case
proceeded to get gloriously drunk af
ter the lecture was over, later being
arrested for cigarette smoking.
To people familiar with Davenport,
Wash., and its surroundings, it is not
at all difficult to understand why any
preacher of the Haywood doctrines
should fail to attract a larger audience
than a dozen people. Davenport Is n
the heart of the rich Big Bend farm
ing country, which makes rich men
out of all the poor men who go there
and work hard and save their money.
Naturally, these men who have toiled
for years to accumulate a competence
do not take kindly to the theory that
they should divide It with some cigarette-smoking
loafer who has drifted
through life with nothing to his credit
except his ability to stir up trouble.
The twelve men who attended the
Haywood lecture were probably stran
gers In the city.
HANDICAP THAT HURTS.
In the midst of our rejoicing over
the completion of the North Bank
Railroad, the deepening of the bar and
the assurance that the pilotage and
towage service at the entrance of the
river will be satisfactorily handled by
the Port of Portland, it will not do to
overlook the fact that, both in cost
and efficiency of labor, Puget Sound has
a decided advantage over Portland.
Prior to completion of the North Bank
Railroad and the recent agreement by
which the Hill and Harirman forces
have equal facilities for reaching Pu
get Sound, this handicap was less no
ticeable than it will be during the
coming season. Under the old regime
the O. R. & N. pulled hard for Port
land because this was the only port to
which it could haul wheat for export.
The Hill lines, on the other hand, did
everything in their power to stop as
much of the wheat as possible at Ta
coma, and neither the exactions and
poor returns of Portland labor nor
other disabilities which afflicted iour
port could prevent some of the wheat
from being loaded at Portland.
The railroads now have a greater in
terest than ever In handling all of
the wheat possible at this port, and
will do what they can to avoid hauling
it past Portland. The exporters who
handle this wheat, however, have a
loud voice in the matter. The rates
on grain are exactly the, same from In
terior points both to Portland and to
Puget Sound, and it is optional with
the buyer or shipper whether the
wheat shall be hauled to Portland or
to the Puget Sound ports. ?If the
shipper demands that the wheat be
delivered at Puget Sound, the rail
roads must take It there. Two of the
largest wheat exporters on the Pacific
Coast, in closing up their season's
business a few days ago, made the un
pleasant discovery that it had cost
them a fraction over 10 cents per ton
more to handle grain at Portland last
season than it had cost at Tacoma, the
difference being traceable directly to
labor, which at Puget Sound cost less
and showed greater efficiency.
The large floating population and
abundance of idle men on Puget Sound
in a measure explains why the' em
ployers of waterfront labor secure all
of the help they need at lower rates
than are paid at Portland. It does
not explain, however, why a given
number of men at Tacoma can handle
from 5000 to 6000 sacks more grain
per day than the same number work
ing under identically similar circum
stances can " handle them in Port
land. This Is a matter which con
cerns waterfront labor Itself, for many'
THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY,
of the grainhandlers," stevedores and
longshoremen have permanent homes
in this city and are In degree as much
Interested as any others in keeping the
business here.
The Pacific Northwest now gives
promise of a large grain yield, and
there will be more than the usual
amount for export. It would be well,
before this grain begins moving, to
make an effort to equalize this differ
ential which now exists between Pu
get Sound ports and Portland In both
cost and efficiency of labor. Failing
to do this, Portland will lose much of
the prestige gained by the work of the
Port of Portland and by the coming
of increased railroad facilities.
FINANCIERS AND WAR.
J. Ogden Armour' Is back from
Europe with the very optimistic re
port that '"the business outlook both
in America and Europe never was so
bright as today." On this point, Mr.
Armour seems to be in line with
most of our distinguished commercial
authorities who have returned from
abroad, but his report on the outlook
for war will not be taken with the
same credence. He is quite positive
that there will be no war, because the
big financiers of the country will not
permit it.
The whole world would like to be
lieve that the interests of the great
financiers would force them to take a
united stand against war, but we are
forced to remember that it Is the
financiers of the world who are pro
viding the enormous and ever-increasing
sums consumed in preparing for
war.
If the financiers are so all-powerful,
they could effect an enormous eco
nomic saving by calling a halt on the
prodigal wastefulness now going on in
the purchase of battleships.
AMERICA'S VAST WEALTH.
The American Bankers' Association,
in a report recently issued, presents
some financial figures which tend to
disprove the generally accepted belief
that we are a nation of spendthrifts
and are not as a rule inclined to save
our money. They also show that E.
H. Harriman was speaking with a full
knowledge of the subject when, in In
dignantly denying that he was going to
Europe for a loan, he said that he
could raise the money in this country
in fifteen minutes without leaving his
office. For, while we talk about the
remarkable thrift and enormous sav
ings of France, which is not Infre
quently termed the world's banker, the
Bankers' Association reminds us that
the wealth of our own country is near
ly three times as great as that of
France, and the greater part of it Is in
plain sight.
To quote the figures, the visible sav
ings of the American people reach the
enormous total of $9,466,411,488, and
they are growing more rapidly than
those of any other people. The sav
ings bank deposits form the largest
single item of this vast total, with
$3,660,553,945 laid by for a rainy day,
while deposits in the savings depart
ments of state banks, trust companies
and National banks swell this total to
$5, 560, 83", 016. The assets of the life
insurance companies show $3,159,581,
074, and in the building and loan asso
ciations there is a total of $745,993,
398. It will be noted that this almost
incomprehensible sum represents the
savings of those who are sometimes
misnamed the common people. Our
millionaires and multi-millionaires do
not place their millions in: savings
banks, life Insurance policies and
building and loan associations, and
their part of the National wealth will
be found mostly in stocks and bonds,
which - in the aggregate probably
equals the total represented by the
people's savings.
It Is quite probable that the invisible
savings of the American people are
much smaller proportionately than
those of the French or any other Eu
ropean nation. The teapot and the
stocking seldom come Into use as re
ceptacles for money, except during
panics, and even then the hoards do
not remain long In hiding. In France
the contrary seems to be the favorite
practice, for nearly all of the big loans
that have made that country famous
in the financial world have been made
without appreciable effect on the visi
ble supply of money in the country.
The thrifty American seems to keep
his money working all the time, while
with the Frenchman it remains in hid
ing until a big loan which strikes pop
ular fancy is offered, and it is coaxed
out of hiding to the astonishment of
the world, which never seems to get
accustomed to the French habits of
thrift and the methods by which a
never-falling supply Is available if the
Inducements are satisfactory.
LOOTING THE FRENCH TREASURY.
According to cable advices the Par
liamentary investigating committee,
which has been probing the naval
scandals in France, has made "an
astounding exposure of the deplorable
condition of the fleet for which
France has spent $700,000,000 since
1899." The report finds that ineffi
ciency and red tape have caused
French naval construction to cost 25
per cent more than English or Ger
man, that some of the newest battle
ships were equipped with guns of 1885
model Instead of that of 1902, as the
specifications call for, that neither the
guns nor the ammunition for the ships
to be completed In 1911 will be ready
before 1914, and that there Is not a
drydock in France capable of accom
modating the vessels when they are
completed.
This report shows the French navy
to be strictly in keeping with the
French merchant marine. The ship
builders and shipowners who got a
strangle-hold on the French treasury
about a dozen years ago succeeded so
easily in wringing out vast subsidies
for construction and operation of a
merchant marine that there has since
been a remarkable incentive for any
one who is at all Interested in ship
ping to mulct the generous govern
ment on every turn. With such an
exhibition of graft, pure and simple,
ever before them as It is presented by
the French merchant marine, drawing
a tremendous subsidy for which no
service is rendered in return, It Is not
surprising that there should be plenty
of scandal in connection with naval
construction in the French yards.
The French government pays the
shipowner a subsidy sufficient to
cover all of the operating expense of
the ships while they are engaged al
most exclusively In carrying freight
for other nations. The proceeding is
indefensible, for by no conceivable way
can France profit by the transaction.
British and German vessels still carry
the greater part of the French traffic,
for. in order to secure the maximum
subsidy which is paid on a mileage
basis, the ships must not be bothered
with handling freight at low rates on
short routes. But it sets up an illus
tration of governmental stupidity, and
the men in charge of French naval
affairs, noting the ease with which
the shipowners are robbing the French
taxpayers, are naturally tempted to
follow suit.
The French as a people do not en
Joy being robbed any more than oth
ers, and now that this exposure has
been made in the navy they may carry
the matter a little farther and en
deavor to learn what they have re
ceived for the enormous sums paid
out for ship subsidies. When they
make the discovery the fresh-waier
patriots of the American Merchant
Marine League at Cleveland will no
longer hold France and her ship sub
sidy system before us as an example
to be followed by an enlightened na
tion. Speaking of the failure of the Jury
to agree in the Calhoun case at San
Francisco (ten for acquittal, two for
conviction). The Oregonlan gave the
reason that the Supervisors who had
"held up" the defendant and made
him pay an enormous sum of money
were to go free. The Hillsboro Inde
pendent says:
OrISor,ifiJPerrl."or" Probably all The
ureeonlan says, and more, but little harm
Sort hofV4eSU'd weI8 " lor ,
Mekar .anchla and "legal privilege
wl -o?. Ry th Price asked. Boih
punUheS gU y and both wuld be
The last remark is perfectly true.
But the Supervisors had been prom
ised immunity; and no Jury would con
vict the man whom they had robbed.
The Supervisors were public officials.
They had taken the oath to protect
the interests of the city. Yet they
used their position for robbery, for
their own advantage, and then were
to go free. What can it be expected
that a Jury will do in a case of this
kind? It cannot be supposed the de
fendant was "eager" to pay the great
price demanded. The passenger on
the road, compelled by robbers, deliv
ers "eagerly," on compulsion. There
could have been no. objection to send
ing all the parties to the penitentiary.
American aristocracy, mingling with
the foreign nobility, continues to prove
to the Old World that at least a por
tion of the American people are fools
Bachelors In Paris gave a ball to their
lady friends Thursday night, in which
the women appeared as birds and in
sects. Mrs. Hugh Tevis and her sis
ter, Miss Baxter, appeared as bees,
George Gould's daughter as a butter
fly, and Mrs. Bache, an American, as
a chanticleer. The men wore colored
evening dress. Cable advices do not
say what the men represented, but as
"Jimmy" Hyde is one of the most
prominent of the American bachelors
in Paris, they probably represented
monkeys. The strain on their intel
lect necessary to play the part of the
simian would be merely nominal.
Mr. Harriman is to build 1600 miles
of railroad into Mexico, and for this
purpose a $75,000,000 corporation has
been formed. It is perhaps needless
to mention that there are no obstacles,
such s power sites, irrigation schemes
of doubtful value, or anything else
which will force the railroad king to
elevato his line 100 feet higher than
the best grades obtainable. Not only
will ho hold-ups be attempted, but the
Mexican government has made liberal
concessions in order . to secure the
building of the line.
The Slgel horror moves the New
York Times to say, "Let men teach
the Chinese." Yes. if they are to be
taught at all.. And modern artillery
Is the stuff to do it with. The powder
cart will beat all hymnbooks and all
Biblical exegesis. The military expe
dition of the powers to Pekin did more
to Christianize and civilize the China
man than all other missionary influ
ences together.
Mrs. Howard Gould gets a divorce
with $36,000 per year alimony. Prob
ably she can manage to live in a hum
ble way on this meager sum, and in
dulge In an occasional cocktail, too.
But there cannot be so much high
flying as formerly. Tradespeople will
adjust their dealings with her on the
basis of the new limit. Many a pack
age will go C. O. D.
The remarkable growth of our near
est Washington neighbor, Clark Coun
ty, is shown in the statement that
there are 6411 children of school age
in the county. Figures of this charac
ter are indicative of a growth that can
be found only In regions of remarkable
prosperity.
Now the Mayor announces that the
City Water Department has been mis
managed. By the end of his hilarious
two terms, which comes next week,
the Mayor will doubtless be prepared
to admit that about everything in his
administration has been wrong or be
lated. The Water Board has exonerated its
employes for their mistake in turning
Willamette water into the city mains.
It ought now to make things easy
somehow for the doctors who predict
ed plague. Amnesty should follow all
round.
Over in Montana doctors are looking
for an arm to graft on a patient. It
would be unfortunate If the new arm
should come from one of the numer
ous species that let not the left hand
know what the- right hand doeth.
Hofer's prayer for rain in the Wil
lamette Valley seems to be answered.
But when It begins to rain in Oregon
it never, knows when to quit. Proba
bly Hofer will have to pray the Lord
not to overdo it.
In Seattle a dairyman saved a house
and its inmates with milk as a fire
extinguisher. If water had been kept
out of the milk by health officers,
perhaps several lives would have been
lost.
Mayor Lane's charge of attempted
bribery has fallen flat. Another in
famous effort to blacken the virtue of
the administration has failed.
Let us hope Dr. Brougher will not
neglect to call attention of our Bap
tist visitors to the excellent quality of
Bull Run water.
Kate Gould gets $36,000 a year ali
mony. It cost her $40,000 for gowns.
Does the Judge expect her to go bare
foot and more?
Not even the hot weather at the
East has expedited a conclusion of the
tariff squabble.
Wasn't Mayor Lane elected on a
pledge to prevent sewer scandals?.
JUNE
1909.
GEORGE) BFHXHAH POSTER.
Something: About the Man Who la Mnk
" a Stir la Religious circle
at Chicago.
George Burnham Foster, of Chicago.
Baptist by religious profession. Unitarian
preacher, and instructor in the history
and philosophy of religion at the Univer
sity of Chicago, has no settled pastorate,
but preaches or lectures at times in halls,
or in Unitarian pulpits. In .the Baptist
church there are no "higher ecclesiastical
authorities," but each congregation is a
law unto itself. It is hard to say, there
fore, how a man situated as Foster is
can- be "disciplined," for Baptists do not
have "heresy" trials. Probably Foster
will withdraw from, the denomination.
But what does Dr. Foster teach? Short
telegraphic statements about his preach
ing have come at intervals; and last Sun
day he delivered a sermon in a Unitarian
chhrch in Chicago. Among other things
he said were these:
"Modern man no longer believes in the
modern dogma of the trinity. He may
think he does, but he probably does not.
The teaching of the trinity is so rhet
orically Involved by modern churches that
Christ himself would not understand it
if he were on earth today. There is no
blasphemy in this statement. Jesus did
not have the opportunity of obtaining an
education along the lines of theology and
science which is accorded to many of the
leading minds of today.
"Though we reject the trinity, we be
lieve In the Heavenly. Father. We believe
in the filial relation between the human
spirit and the eternal spirit.
"Modern man does not believe in mir
acles. We do not believe in the church
dogma of the divinity of Christ. We do
not deny it, but you can't get us to af
firm it."
All reformers, he said, had been perse
cuted by their contemporaries, and in St.
Paul's time Christians were believed by
those who still held to the tenets of Ju
daism to be nihilists and agnostics. This
treatment has been accorded to all the
master minds and their followers in the
past centuries, and Jesus himself was
persecuted as a heretic, and crucified.
Reformers, he said, should not be too
much troubled when they are held up to
ridicule and persecution. He blamed not
the individual, but the system which
binds men's minds to the narrow paths
of ritual teaching.
Jesus Christ was a great leader and a
great reformer, according to Dr. Foster,
but not the greatest reformer. He taught
the people of his day simple truths in a
simple way. but his great sympathy for
men was what drew them to him. not
profound knowledge of the laws of sci
ence and nature.
"I do not think that Jesus had the
knowledge acquired by modern astron
omy," continued Dr. Foster. "If he did.
he did not preach it to the people, and
they would not have 'understood its truths
had he done so.
"The followers of Christ believed that
they were possessed of devils when sick
rfess overcame them. Christ drove the
demons out of bodies of the sick.
"Modern man does not, cannot, will not
adopt such views. I do not think that
anyone today would resort to the healing
of the sick by driving out devils.
"We believe In the Man of Galilee be
cause experience has taught us that no
where else do we find a son of man whose
beauty of inward life is so glorious.
"We do not believe in the blood atone
ment for sins. We do not believe in that
dogma of the substitution of sacrifice or
that Christ died on the cross for restitu
tion to the Almighty Father.
"We know that within us is the spirit
of self-sacrifice which every moment of
our lives atones for the sins we have
committed."
Baptists say that If Dr; Foster wishes
to quit the Baptist church and become an
apostle of rationalism no Baptist will
think of denying the privilege; but "he
ought to return to the Baptist position or
go to his own place." This Is altogether
right and reasonable. "The thelstic argu
ment," it is said, "by which he means the
argument of a personal God, he declares
has ever been dangerous to religion; in
other words. Christians are Idolaters,
like other pagans, who make their gods,
the main difference being that the pagan
makes his Ideal Into wood, stone, silver
or gold, while the Christian is content to
let his god remain in the realm of his
Imagination."
The Turtle's Cunning.
London Globe.
Although not credited with any high
degree of intelligence, the turtle, when
about to deposit Its eggs, exhibits con
siderable cunning.
It scoops out a hole, as If to prepare
a repository for its eggs, but in order
to delude the birds and other enemies
the turtle throws the sand again into
the hole, leaving the surface rough, and
waddles off to another spot, where it
repeats the process. Sometimes this is
done three times, and eventually the
eggs are laid in an excavation within
a few yards of the sham nest, the sur
face being smoothed and flattened
down.
When hunting . for the eggs the
Queensland blacks probe the sand in
the vicinity of one of the sham nests,
and are usually successful.
All Chinese Look Alike.
New York Sun.
In the Sigel case the nationality of
the suspect renders the search for him
particularly difficult. The Sicilians are
close-mouthed about wrongdoers of their
own race, but fhey are free and frank
In comparison with the Chinese. More
over, the "Americanized" Chinese re
lapses into native clothing, habit and ap
pearance with remarkable facility. The
man for whom the police are looking
seems to have been astute enough to
"work" the philanthropic missionaries
successfully for a number of years. It
need not be believed fhat he is so stupid
as to assist the authorities in their chase
for him.
Rheumatism Cured By Pasttng.
Buffalo, N. Y.. Dispatch.
Andrew Ford, of Rochester, N. Y., a
sufferer for years with rheumatism,
says he has been cured by fasting 32
days. He has had not a thing to eat,
he says, in this period, and feels no
desire to. eat. His weight has been re
duced 35 pounds.
Nothing; Wonderful.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Professor Miller, of Dayton, thinks he
can photograph sound. Of course. Excel
lent pictures have been made of Bryan.
Tillman and Senator Jeff Davis in the
act of delivering speeches.
Jellyfish and Starfish.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
If " Professor Foster's adherents are
"Jellyfish," as characterized by the Rev.
Johnston Myers, we presume that Pro
fessor Foster is a starfish.
Xhe Fourth In Africa.
Washington Star.
AH the materials are on hand for a
rousing Fourth of July celebration among
Americans la Africa.
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TAFT HAS A "BIG STICK" FOR CORPORATIONS
Two-Per-Ceat Tax Scheme Ha aa. Obnoxious Publicity and Detective Ft,
tore That Appear, to Be Effort of Government to Get Firm Grip oa
All Private Business.
Washington Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Every comoratA ntnmt,!.,
1 - - ... . 1'U I.1111CU
I States whether it be a transcontinental
l railroad n,- a .
""""J creamery, an inter
national steel trust or a village light
plant-tands tonight under the . shadow
or a Presidential demand for complete
Governmental control. But the Nation
seems to have learned of the dangers of
this project, and the plans to stampede
Congress into its hurried acceptance of
th.2l.PresldentiaI Programme are halting.
The members of the Senate finance com
mithenm tlis after"oon and tonight
President and the members of
his Cabinet at the White House, to put
the finishing touches on the President's
corporation tax project. The one fea
ture of that tax from which the President
refuses to recede is the Government su
pervision of corporations.
There Is no objection to a tax on cor
porations. Every one seems to admit that
there is a need for an increase in Gov
ernment revenues, and that the corpora
tions should help to pay it.
But the objection to the present pro
posal is not the tax. but the fact that
under the oloak of that tax th
v authorities are seeking to secure the
J power of life and death over every cor-
...... lo tjaiiiornla, no
matter what its size, its busines or its
purpose. They demand a tax which will
convert the tax-collecting authorities into
a National detective bureau to play the
sleuth upon corporate undertakings
They ask that the internal revenue
bureau of the Treasury Department shall
have the right to pry into every detail
or every business transaction of corpora
tions. They seek to put into the keeping
of Government clerks at $1200 and 16u0
a year every corporation secret.
It is not to be a question between legi
timate and Illegitimate businets' It will
not be a case of probing fraud and crime,
livery corporation with no pretext save
that of collecting a tax on its net earn
iuBS1must put u" books and business at
the disposal of Government inspectors.
.
The menace of such a demand, the
danger of euch a power, seems to have
awakened the Nation. Already, from the
Kast vigorous protests have been coming
to the ears of Congress. And the West
is being heard from. So far the fact that
the plan has not assumed final concrete
form seems to have held back much of
the storm. But when the project is
couched in the terms in which President
vn, fif8 to have 14 Placed in the tariff
bill the members of Congress believe
tne r constituents will be heard from in
decisive tones.
Enough, however, has already become
publlo property to make patent the
aangers which the plan has both for the
Nation and the corporations. Centralizing
in the National authorities a power over
the corporations of the states. It will
make amenable to Washington authori
ties thousands of corporations which so
far have been dealt with only by the
states and the municipalities corpora
tions in whom the Nation has little in
terest and will under the new law have
no real interest except as a source of
taxation.
But that is just the point. There Is no
plan to stop with the taxation. The taxa
tion might be achieved in a number of
other ways that would rot involve su-pervision-by
a dividend tax, by a capital
stock tax But President Taft wants a
tax which will require detective super
visionnot tnat the Nation may collect a
larger tax, but that It may secure with
tne tax th9 enormous power of control
over these undertakings.
, That this Is a menace to the sovereign
powers of the states Is but one phase of
GETTING READY FOR THE FOURTH
Growlna; Sentiment In Favor of Prohib
iting; Dangerous Explosives.
Utica (N. Y.) Press.
The State Health Department is getting
ready for the Fourth of July. Besides
the ordinary incidents and injuries to
fingers, arms, legs, eyes, etc.. there is
usually an epidemic of tetanus following
efn,.ay an,d unsafe "-"el unsanitary
celebration of the Nation's birthday.
There Is an antitoxin which is very val
uable in such cases and health officers
have usually been supplied with it in
advance, so as to have It on hand when
er.!"lBery occurs- A recent bulletin
IZ e "il offt!ers a over the state savs
IIJZ 1? any antlto'n dated "in
1908 they should retain it. but those
dated previous to that year should not
be relied on and a requisition made on
headquarters for a new supply. It is held
to be possible to avert and avoid the se
rious consequences of tetanus if taken in
time. This is a very thoughtful and
proper precaution . on the part of the
authorities but it does not go to the root
of the matter.
iThe bSt way to Pr"vent tetanus fol
lowing Fourth-of-July accidents is not to
lay in a stock of any kind of antitoxin,
but to prevent the use of explosives with
in cities and villages, and then therewiil
be no accidents of this sort to make
trouble. More than that, there will be no
lacerated hands, blind eyes, amputated
arms or legs as the result of premature
explosions of gunner In
fn th.J.-, U.VCa a year a Steps
t lrection, and only allowed the
sale of these explosives last Summer be
cause the merchants had laid In their
stocks and it would be a hardship to de
prive them of the opportunity to make
nowTt1- nWith a year'8 not1 " "not
Sf m a n.ecessary to have any such
twi1? km"1 CUy' and tnere can- a"d
there doubtless will be. a safe and sane
excuse or apology for these practices
which Invariably result in casualtiea
Very many cities are taking up this mat
ter and putting the cannon, torpedoes and
firecrackers out of business, and before
very long they will be everywhere dan
gers of the past.
John r-aul Jones' IzOK Found.
Boston Dispatch to New York Tribune
Quite by accident there has Just been
discovered among relics left by the late
Trastus Perry Jewel. a Laconla, N
H, lawyer, scholar, and collector, the
log of John Paul Jones' ship, the Ran.
Navy!6 flrSt VeSSel f the American
The find Is one of the greatest his
toric value. Ex-Senator Chandler has
taken steps to secure it for the archives
of the Navy Department.
Ki10 Jes'nning of the log appears to
be in the handwriting of Paul Jones
himself, and shows that before he went
to France he made several trips to
clear the northern Atlantic of British
privateersmen and to do a little Drl
vateering himself. Lieutenant Elijah
Hall, of the Ranger, in the log, gives
a graphic description of the remark
able Ranger.
A Will That Baffles Lawyers.
Kansas City Star.
"I hereby declare that I want Christ
Hillhouse to have all my property."
This will, written with a pencil, was
filed for probate in Kansas City, Kans.
and the judge holds that it is entirely
valid. A lawyer would have taken three
sheets of foolscap paper to say that,
and to leave enough loopholes in the
document to give the heirs a chance
to prove that the testator was not
of "sound mind and disposing mem
ory." Walking Trip of a 71-Year-Old.
Hartford,- Conn., Dispatch.
On a diet of a quarter of a pound
of peanut butter and a half pound of
crackers, George H. Ward, 71 years
old. walked from his home, in Middle
town. Conn., to New York City in 46 H
hours.
the complicated problem. That it threa- ;
tens to place in the National Government '
a temptation to despotic sway over the .
business and industrial world will also
cause trouble in the Senate's discus- '
sione.
But there is another point held far i
more vital to the Individual corporations !
than either of these. That is the fact !
that their llllftlruic. nlon. .! 1 a
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trial projects, their trade methods, their '
vj. uusiuijiera, tneir commercial
routes, their reaching out for new
markets, n-inst Vim i h k - . v. ,
eral authorities. Publicity is the key-
l vi me pian, ana. wniie it is not
policy to publish these secrets, the Gov
ernment inspectors, according to present -plans,
are to be given access to them.
The fingers of this National detective
bureau will be upon the books of every
Incorporated undertaking, n will have at
its disposal the books of these mammoth
concerns it will have at its mercy the
accounts of the smallest corporations of
the smallest village of every state. The
clerks of the internal revenue collector
at Peoria will rave access to the books
and the plans of the smallest incorporated '
grocery of that district, as well as the,
largest corporation. It is not necessary
to dwell upon the temptations which such
a range of power will be.
And the strangest feature of all this, '
the point which is causing the greatest
discussion just now. is the fact that all
of this is being brought in merely as an
Incident of a tarW revsion.
By this proposal I sought power un
precedented in the Nation's history yet It
is being sought as if it were the most
trifling detail of Governmental function.
Questions of constitutional power, grave'
doubts of fundamental law, seem scarce
ly to be considered, although there is
every prospect now that these would
thoroughly be threshed long before the
proposal is written Into the statute.
All of this far outshadows the present
tariff debate on the unfinished schedules,
and puts off into the realms of uncertain
augury all predictions of its close.
President Tart's corporation tax mes
sage, although it saved the Aldrich plans
on the income tax from certain defeat
has started a lot of trouble. And the '
debato over the corporation tax will eat
up more time than half of the rest of
the bill together.
When the Taft message came into the
Senate, everybocy sat up and listened as
though they heard in it the sweet strains
of "Home, Sweet Home." They had
visions of a steam roller passage of the
bill and all that Mr. Taft wanted, and
then scurrying off to Summer reeorte and
Chautauquas, But It was not to be
When they read the message a second
time they began to awaken, and by the
time they had studied it a bit, there was
trouble in the air.
Backed by Senator Aldrich and Speaker
Cannon, the President thought the bill
would jump through with a rush. But
this was just what killed the plan with
the insurgents." And even the most
fervent followers of Cannon and Aldrich
bgan to get worried. A corporation tax
wasn t such a bad thing, but the plans
for Government supervision and control
the indiscriminate burden upon stock
holders, large and small, all served to
start discussion.
Then, too, there was Just a little bit
too much of careless boasting from peo
Fi6W Dossess the ear of the President,
that the occupant of the White House
i. p one over on Congress."
They thought it a splendid joke that he
should slip into a tariff bill the very
bit of legislation that Theodore Roosevelt
struggled in vain through six years of
He rCnt WWte HouStt dragooning to
LIVELY CHAFF. THIS IS.
So We Give a Friend a Chance to Blow J
It About.
HOOD RIVER, Or., June 24.-(To the
Editor.) You print a devil-of-a-good pa
per, and to the devil you will go if you
don't repent His works you do. You
are prostituting your talents in his cause..
You are an anti-Christ. Everything that
is ridiculously foolish and "away back
in skepticism you print as though it were
a new discovery of great importance. It
makes you look like 30 cents to Chris
tian people. If it were not for the lit
erary excellence of your editorials we
should set you down as an Ignoramus.
The fact that you are not an Ignoramus
makes your sin all the more grievous.
If the light that is in you be darkness
how great is thaf darkness!" arKness-
xn selecting replies to any of your in
fidel gushes you pick out the wishy
washy scribbllngs of novitiates, who a-e
-V?Hndns "L the sha"ows of theologies!
and phUosophical waters, and who stir
Th.- ,mud of stagnant pools of thought
These lucubrations you present to your
intelligent readers as though they wera
the best Christian people can present!
are "tHcks that are vain.- and
gene" Seen tnrouh a en of intelU-
tite to rfi?, at you can be nos
thlnar tw tIanlty wnen " ia the only
hf Can do us any sood. We may
have many excellent things in this litl
Our lives may be sweetened with The
tn?n'nrS,,reSOnlan' to' but alas every!
ereth and "tW '"The
away but th! ""T tnereof falleth
away, but the word of God endureth
wmVlorse itfVn" The doming Oregon
ter tif h " power to charm and "flat
L Ln""' cold ear of death." Then
Th I1.1 rOU do? To sneer at Christ
.7, asp your life m
. 2vfr,a. -
thTrT otd'eta, Tffi
only by being a disciple of ChrS.
. JAMES DAVISON.
"Under Present Conditions."
laitor.) in a late number of The Ore
aPr.eare the lowing? "it ls
I UJZP the h08r' at 8 a hundred, is
T?f t mortgage-lifter. But it is
wni i? that the hos at 2 a hundred
win lift more mortgages than at $8 a
hundred. The reason is that the $8 Pe?
hundred means all sorts of extrava
gance among those who promote him."
?a J?..and 8el1'ns hogs under pres
ent conditions at $2 a hundred, would
lift no mortgages, but would speedily
ruin any farmer who attempted it. A
farmer is as well entitled to a reason
able compensation on his investment
as a merchant or even a publisher of a
newspaper. The many costly business
I? 5tS' es' even the building occupied
by The Dregonlan. show profits such as
no farmer has ever realized. The asser
tion that $8 per hundred means all
sorts of extravagance among the farm
ers may possibly apply to a few. but
is unjust and false as far as the ma
jority is concerned.
THOMAS PAULSEN.
Mr. Paulsen misunderstands. The par
agraph in The Oregonian was directed
against the general extravagance; not
against the hog at $8 a hundred.
Saya a . Pitcher Isn't s Ballplayer.
Everybody's.
Once I asked Mathewson why, gen
erally, pitchers cannot bat well.' "Be
cause a pitcher is not a ballplayer."
answered this unerring young man
swiftly. This is largely true, even
though epigrammatic. Pitching is an
art as subtle as fencing. The pitcher is
a specialist. Above all he is a pitcher.
He may be. in addition, a ballplayer,
but he may not be. If he is not. he has
to be made into one for pitchers do
not grow on avery tree.
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