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REFERENCE TO FIRST PRINCIPLES.
The Republican platform of 1908
(Republican official textbook, page
47), undertook to state the difference,
"as shown In history," between the
two parties Republican and Demo
cratic. We quote this paragraph, to
wit:
In history the difference between Democ
racy and Republicanism is that the one
stood for debased currency, the other for
honest currency: the one for free sliver, the
other for sound money, the one for free
trade, the other for protection: the one for
the contraction of American Influence, the
, other for Its expansion; the one has been
farced to abandon every position taken on
the great Issues before the peiple, the other
has hold and vindicated all.
Thia doesn't state the real difference
"In history," between the two parties.
These are only "the limbs and outward
flourishes." The difference between
the parties, hitherto, whatever It may
be hereafter, has consisted in efforts
to enforce by one side, against the op
. position of the other, the principles of
democratic nationalization.
These fifty years and more the Re
publican party has been the one na
tional party in opposition to the party
of local authority and disintegration
Believing that the United States is a
nation constitutes a nation the Re
publican party has stood against sec
tionalism and opposed to assertion of
local sovereignty against national au
thority. It opposed dissolution of the
Union, Insisted on a financial and
monetary policy that should be nation
al In its scope and suited to interna
tional conditions, pushed national ex
pansion and accepted extension of
naval power as its consequence. It
fought at every stage the opposition
that refused to accept the logic of our
national position, but obstructed It
with claims of state sovereignty, with
demand for debased money, and with
Insistence on restriction or limitation
of national sway and masterdom; it
brushed aside objection to retention of
the insular positions that have come
under our control and in general the
opposition to the vigorous and effi
cient national life that a great country
placed asours is placed, must pursue.
The status of the Republican party
was that pf a national party, against
the party or lax. and loose conceptions
of national life and of national policy,
entertained by its opponents. But It
has forgotten one duty of this policy,
which was its own and upon which
It was Invincible, ana has begun and
already has gone far in the direction
of compromise with its historic adver
sary. It forgets what the Democratic
party has been and by Its very nature
must continue to be. It abandons in
Oregon) .its own candidates and
elects those of its opponents, on the
plea that there is no longer a -difference
between parties. Yet the differ
ence remains as fundamental as at the
beginning. The Democratic party, by
Its very nature, Is the party ' that sets
up local feeling and desire and author
ity against national Ideas. It is op
posed to strong and efficient govern
ment. It is a breeder of local discon
tents. It is instinctively against all
measures and all policies that tend to
assertion and to evolution of national
life. Ours Is a democratic republic.
But the trouble from the first has been'
found in the nationalization of democ
racy. ."Hamilton" -is still the bug
bear of the Democratic party.
Now, protection, so-called, is not a
national policy, but a local policy. It
suits the constitution or general prm
clple of the Democratic party much
better than tho Republican. It lacks
breadth and scope and knowledge of
international relations. Hitherto the
Democratic party has favored free
trade, or near approach to it, because
the industrial condition of the South
ern States, where the party has its
chief effective strength, has required
It. But- now the scene shifts or changes.
The South, developing various indus
tries, is going over to protection over
to the idea of development and censer-
vation of local interests by protective
tariff, and as 'fast as the representa
tives of the great states of the North
and West break away from the narrow
policy and Insist on jutting a national
and international policy In its place,
the South furnishes the votes in Con
gress to defeat the proposition.
We have quoted from the Republi
can platform of 190S on the historic
difference between the parties, which
is not the historic difference at all,
but only some of the accidents of the
contest between them. We quote now
from the Democratic platform of 1908
vis:
We favor Immediate revision of the tar
iff by the reduction of import duties. Arti
cles entering Into competition with trust
controiled products should be placed upon
the free list, and material reduction should
be made In the tariff upon the necessaries
of life.
And yet. wnen the schedules have
been presented in Congress, represent
atives of Democratic states and dis
tricts have invariably joined hands
with the high protectionists. One
Democratic Senator says, with a sneer,
"Who cares what a platform commtt
tee, that agreed on its report between
night and morning, may have writ
ten?" Another, "What's the use to
bother with small fry politicians who
deride Senators because they do not
take- up the rejected platform (the
Denver platform) of 1908?" There,
now, you have it, the parties (both of
them) shifting from their natural and
historic positions and getting on false
ground. Protection is a local or state
issue, not a national policy. It is easy
to see what the tendency Is. As a
party devoted to local ideas and poli
cies, the Democratic party is becoming
a party of local protectionist schemes,
i As a party of national ideas, as a party
1 of national authority and purposes, the
i Uaoabllcan party will find, the-ideas
and purposes of the local protectionists
less and less suited-to the principles
o-iiu. puncies ior wntch it stands and
must stand.
It is a puzzle in politics; it portends
readjustment of parties on lines hith
erto unknown, conflicts involved in
contradictions, and confusing results.
But, behind all is the difference a
real difference, not an imaginary one
the broad growth or tendency to
wards nationalization, towards national
policy that shall require submission
to it of local and personal and private
monopoly Interests, as against the pol
icy that insists on "protection" of, this
thing or that, because a local or per
sonal interest demands It.
A LESSON IN VERACITY.
Since Pascal's day it is usual for
people of good Judgment to take their
lessons in veracity from sources with
which Father O'Hara seems to be un
familiar. If his letter in today's paper
is any sign. His statement that when
"Vesalius was persecuted "dissection
had been going on for hundreds of
years in the medical schools" is per
haps an unintentional oversight, but
it misleads just as badly as If It were
deliberately false. The Emperor
Frederick II, the arch enemy of the
papacy, granted permissions from
time to time to dissect the human
body. This was in the thirteenth cen
tury. In 1391 John of Aragon gave
the University of Lerida permission
to dissect one dead criminal every three
years. Similar privileges were granted
now and then by other monarchs, but
they were "rare and infrequent."
From the time of Augustine the
church "held anatomy in abhorrence."
Pope Boniface VIII issued a decretal
"which was universally construed as
forbidding all dissection and threaten
ing with excommunication those who
practiced it."
As to Vesalius, he published his
great work on anatomy when he was
28 years old, and, though' he was at
first threatened with persecution for
it, he was saved for the time by the
friendship of the Emperor Charles V.
When Philip II came to the throne
Vesalius was unable to carry on his
work in Spain, if wo may believe his
own words. The charge of dissecting
a living man was trumped up against
him as so many other false charges
have been trumped up against other
progressive men for similar reasons
and "either from direct persecution,"
as tho great majority of authors as
sert, or from indirect influences, as
the recent apologists for Philip II ad
mit, he became a wanderer. On a pil
grimage to the Holy Land, apparently
undertaken to atone for his sin, he
was shipwrecked and "In the prime
of his life and strength he was lost to
the world."
Persons who wish to inquire more
deeply into the persecution and un
doing of this great man, the father,
of modern anatomy, may And the facts
and authorities in Andrew D. White's
"History of the Warfare of Science
With Theology." Since the facts are
not stated by a member of Father
O'Hara's order we do not expect him
to accept them, but to people with
open minds they may prove instruc
tive. WHERE OUR WOSIEN DO NOT BELONG.
The police authorities of Chicago
have placed a ban upon so-called mis
sion schools in that city wherein Chi
nese men are pupils and young girls
are teachers. The very fact that in
the face of the late horrible develop
ments in connection with these schools
In New York the police find It neces
sary to interfere in this line of work in
another city establishes beyond doubt
the insidious dangef that lurks In this
association between white girls and
Chinamen. Were the maidenly sensi
bilities of these - girls not already in
eclipse of the dark shadow in which
Elsie Sigel's life went out, they would
have fled these schools as a pestilence
when the, tate-of- their co-worker
among Chinese was made known.
Who can doubt' that; it is the sex
principle instead- of religious zeal that
'binds these misguided young women to
this literal body of death the Chi
nese mission schools, of a great city
until beaten off by the police?
MOVING ON CENTRA I. . OREGON.
The decision of the Harriman system
to begin construction work on. the
Natron' cut-off is orieofthe most im
portant railroad announcements' made
In-Oregon this season. There are no
hampering dam ' sites of irrigation
schemes, to Interfere with early con
struction of-, the line aa soon as the
contracts are awarded. . That but sixty
miles out of a total of approximately
200 miles necessary to connect Natron
with Klamath Falls are Included In the
proposed -bids In -no. way. lessens the
Importance of the undertaking... This
can readily be' understood when it is
noted that the sixty miles on which
construction will soon begin can be of
only nominal value to the system until
the entire road is completed. Long
before the last spike is driven in this
new highway through the state the
Natron -extension will have penetrated
that land of isolation. Central Oregon.
The grade will be less satisfactory
than the water-level line which the
Harriman forces are seeking to estab
lish up the Deschutes Canyon, but for
many years it has been a matter of
small concern to the dwellers of Cen
tral Oregon whether the grade was
heavy or light. What that country
stands most in need of is any kind of
a railroad that will enable tho people
to ship their products to outside mar
kets. Further assurance that there
will be early construction of an east-and-west
line across the state is found
in the only local traffic of conse
quence which can be developed by that
portion of the Natron extension for
which bids have already been called.
This traffic, until the line is pushed
ahead into Central Oregon will consist
almost exclusively of lumber and
other timber products for which, aside
from a limited amount shipped to
California, the market is practically all
in the East.
To bring this traffic out from the
proposed extension would involve a
haul several hundred miles greater
than that across the state to Ontario,
and it Is doubtful if very much will be
done to develop this trafflc until an
east-and-west line makes it possible
for the railroads to shorten the haul
necessary to reach the Eastern mar
kets. But there is an incentive, prob
ably more powerful than all others, in
inducing the Harriman system to pene
trate the Central Oregon barrier. Un
til this extension is completed, there
will be a very heavy fixed charge
against the system for lifting trains
over the heavy grades of the Slski
yous and through Cow Creek Canyon,
with its many ineradicable curves. By
th easier grades of the new route an
enormous saving in operating ex
penses as well as in time will be ef
fected. This economic feature alone
THE MORNING
is of sufficient Importance to insure
early completion of the line.. AVith
the two great obstacles to speed and
economical operation removed, it is
not unreasonable to expect a twetity
hour train between Portland and San
Francisco soon after the new line is
completed.-
There are many reasons why Port
land would prefer the Deschutes route
to Central Oregon against all others,
and eventually that water-level road
will be the main traffic artery into
Central Oregon. Pending removal of
the numerous obstacles that have been
thrown in the way of the Deschutes
route, all Oregon will -welcome with
joy early construction of the Natron
branch of the Southern Pacific, which,
through traffic necessity, must be ac
companied by an- east and west feeder
that will open up the great country
capable of supporting many times the
number of people now dwelling in the
entire state.
THE RIGHT WOMAN AT EUGENE.
The board of regents of the Uni
versity of Oregon is confronted at this
time by the important and somewhat
perplexing question- of supplying the
place upon Its teaching and governing
force vacated by the resignation of
Professor Luella Clay Carson as dean
of women. Miss Carson retires after
a score of years given to the work.
Not only is it necessary to supply the
services that are thus withdrawn, but
it is necessary to consider the ques
tion of this supply in the broadest,
most catholic spirit. Everything worth
while in this world grows or dies.
Nothing remains, or should remain,
stationary.
The woman coming to this -work
should be one of broad culture and
wide experience along educational
lines, a woman of tact and Judgment,
sympathetic but in no sense weak and
one at least approaching the years of
middle life. The permanency of the
co-educatlonal feature In our State
University depends largely upon the
tactful vigilance, intelligent sympathy
and good Judgment of its dean of
women. A young woman, educated at
the university or in one of its auxiliary
schools and with no experience be
yond that which is thus acquired,
would not for plainly obvious reasons
be a suitable person for this very im
portant position. It is essential that
she have knowledge of the workings of
some one of the older institutions of
learning (preferably a co-educational
college), in order to bring to the serv
ice the understanding that can be
gained only by personal observation
of and experience in such matters.
The University of Oregon has passed
the time when it can afford when its
patrons can afford to train, under
pay, and place in positions of grave re
sponsibility and authority those who
serve it. A wider culture is needed
for those who fill these positions of
honor, emolument and trust than that
which its daily routine and the limi
tations of its village opportunities fur
nish. And in this connection it is not
amiss to say that not even the role of
president of the university is so diffi
cult to fill acceptably as is that of its
dean of women.
1 THE WAR ON TAMMANY.
Apparently New York is about to
enjoy - one of its periodical revolts
against Tammany. The various ele
ments which constitute the "good citi
zenship" of the city have slumbered
and slept as long as they could under
the domination of the Tammany
toughs and now they are bubbling over
with zeal for a great moral revolution.
There is no reason to believe that' this
upheaval will differ greatly from its
predecessors. Their course is pretty
uniform. First comes a period of from
six to a dozen years when Tammany
waxes fat on the proceeds of gam
bling, illicit liquor selling, tribute from
the scarlet woman and all sorts of
profitable lawbreaking. - The sale of
licenses to commit crime becomes a
regular business and the revenue from
tt is sufficient to build up great for
tunes for men .like Croker and Mur
phy. Encouraged by immunity and filled
with justified contempt for the stupid
sloth of the "better element," Tam
many finally pushes its outrages on
decency a step too far. A great awak
ening follows, such as we now behold
In the metropolis. Civic virtue fairly
blazes. Single-minded devotion to the
public welfare erupts like a . volcano.
The anti-Tammany factions, which are
as the sand of the sea for multitude,
forget momentarily their mutual jeal
ousies, their petty spites, their insane
ambitions. A short-lived truce is
patched up. Virtue ceases to fight vir
tue momentarily, and all her cohorts
are hurled, against the citadels of vice.
An easy viytory is gained, of course,
for Tammany is far from controlling a
majority of the votes in New York,
and the citv Rinp-s nnlma r v.ani..
Lgiving for her deliverance from the
xl.vh xnen straigntway the bet
ter element" divides into two contin
gents. One of them falls asleep for
another ten years' nap in the sweet
confidence that Tammany's cake is
forevermore dough. The other breaks
into a score of warring factions which
try their best to repeat the stunt of
the Kilkenny cats. In the meantime
Tammany, which never sleeps and has
no Internal disruptions, slips back into
power and the story begins all over
again.
This Summer, according to the re
ports, some thirteen more or less hos
tile societies, clubs and cliques have
buried the tomahawk, smoked the pipe
of peace and concluded an offensive
alliance agrainst Tammany. Some of
them are Democratic, some Republi
can, some; merely mugwump. -Their
various .appellations will not keep
them, asunder if they can compose
their more vital . differences, for party
names do not mean a great deal more
in New York than in the United States
Senate. They are ornamental merely,
and easily overlooked when matters of
real interest come up. Theoretically
New York is a Democratic city by a
majority of perhaps 100,000, but in
practice it goes one way or the other
as its mood happens to incline. In
1905 the city cast 450,000 non-Republican
votes, giving McClellan a few
more than Hearst: but in 1908 it cast
300,000 votes for Taft and not so many
for Bryarrby 16,000. So it has been
for many years. What sense is there
in calling a city "normally Democratic"
when it goes Republican as often as it
has a lucid interval?
Unhappily these intervals are both
rare and transient. New York vastly
resembles an annual convert at camp
meeting whose name was Pidcock.
"My experience, brethren," said he in
the single testimony which was all he
ever managed to give before he back
slid, "has been partly ups and partly
downs, but the downs Is a heap most
frequent and lasting." Thus It Is with
the metropolis of the Western Hemi
sphere. Its spasms of civic virtue are
OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY,
few and far between. No sooner is it
converted than it backslides. The
question whether. it is Democratic or
Republican misses the point. New
York has no politics in the genuine,
American sense of the word. Habitu
ally it lies, a helpless, semi-somnolent
victim at the feet of Tammany, and
Tammany is an outlaw. Hated and
feared by both parties. It belongs to
neither. The city has not the faintest
concept of constructive civic virtue.
Its highest ideal of municipal effort is
a spasmodic wriggle which invariably
ends as it began. For that long, pa
tient and tireless vigilance which is
the price not only of liberty but of
honest government, the average New
Yorker has neither capacity nor in
clination. We used the word semi-somnolent
advisedly a moment ago in describing
New York's habitual abjectness before
Tammany. The city is asleep only on
the side of civic pride and decency. On
the side of speculation it is wide
awake, nor is there any sign of slug
gishness in its scramble for what,
queerly enough, goes by the name of
pleasure. In greed, vanity and vice,
New York undoubtedly sets the pace
for the whole world, but the art of
self-government it has never learned,
or at any rate never applied. Ameri
cans boast a great deal of their self
government, but there Is no other
country where In the cities the-intelligent
and decent element is so com
pletely dominated by the criminally
vicious and in no other city is organ
ized crime so powerful as it is in New
York under tho title- of Tammany
Hall.
The man who thinks the "works" of
O. Henry whoever he may be and
of William Allen White, the sage of
Kansas, of higher quality than the
writings of Plutarch, MUton and Bun
yan and destined to outlast them
these last-mentioned authors being
too dull and too "antiquated" for any
body's reading doesn't, therefore, ap
prove even the poor little five feet of
books selected by Dr. Eliot. The lucu
brations of this critic shine through a
"news" paper at Pendleton. Of course,
he deems U'Ren and Bourne and
Chamberlain great thinkers and ideal
statesmen and holds Fym and Burke,
Hamilton, Webster and Gladstone in
as little esteem in statesmanship as he
holds Dryden, Johnson, Froude,
Thackeray and Hawthorne in litera
ture, or Bacon, Locke, Berkeley and
Hume in philosophy. George Ade's
Fables in Slang would seem to strike
him as about high-water mark in lit
erature. Never a season has passed since the
bold gill-net fishermen have gone
down to the mouth of the Columbia
and stared death in the face without
the cruel breakers claiming- some vic
tims. And while this "breed of the
oaken heart" who tempt fate where
the river and ocean meet have only a
mild fear of death, there is seldom
a fatality that fails to leave a life-long
sorrow in the heart of those rwho must
watch and weep "while the harbor bar
Is moaning." Among these tragedies
of the fishing fleet, few, if any, present
more of the elements of sorrow and
pathos - than that of Fisherman Bos
trom, who was drowned last Monday,
three days before his sister landed in
New York, en route from Finland to
meet him at a home he had prepared
for her. '. ,
Nine steamers with a, carrying ca
pacity of more :" than 20,000 tons
crossed into the Columbia River dur
ing the forty-eight hours ending last
evening. Six others with a carrying
capacity of lflf.OOO tons crossed out
during the same period. There was
no "bunching" of this fleet. The fif
teen vessels arrived and departed in
the regular order of business and at
tracted no attention along the water
front for the reason that traffic of this
nature is becoming so common that it
no longer excites comment. Com
pared with one lone steamer every
five days, which was about the aver
age less than a dozen years ago, the
showing reflects the great changes that
are taking place in Portland's mari
time commerce.
-''
Jikiri, the Moro bandit, who seems
to be a latter-day successor of
Aguinaldo, has again slipped through
the lines which the American troops
have thrown around him in the Philip
pines. Fortunately for the cause of
peace, within the past thirty days,
thirty-one of his band of bandits have
been killed or captured: If this record
can be maintained, it will not be long
before Jikiri will be without a follow
ing and he can then come in and take
the civil service examination and get
on the police force.
The latest bulletin from the Aus
trian doctors-, assures everybody that
Mr. Harriman "is improving." Follow
ing the recert. announcement from the
same, quarter that Mr. Harriman was
well, it: may be classed among those
things that rare interesting, 4f true.
Mr.1"- Aldrlch said the amendment
placing -wood pulp on the free list
would he acceptable to him and im
mediately' the Senate so voted. Is this
a mere coincidence, or a calamity to
the paper-makers?
Just a word of caution and advice
to Manager Lyons, of the Union Ter
minal Station, who is having trouble
with Lawgiver U'Ren about baggage:
The initiative will catch you, if you
don't look out.
Editor Hofer modestly disclaims re
sponsibility for bringing that rain
through prayer. But somebody did it
and the evidence points overwhelming
ly to Hofer. Now is the time to sub
scribe. Undoubtedly pur visiting friends
from the East and Middle West are
keeping posted on the sizzling hot
weather back there, with the empha
sis on the "back there."
, New Courthouse on Holladay ave
nue or Broadway? Does Mr. Kella
her think that St. John or Lents or
Sellwood has no rights that he is
bound to respect?
Count the fingers of your small son
some time within the next day or two.
Then you will be able-to check up in
the quiet days following the Fourth.
It will probably toe a long time be
fore any Teutonic song writer gives
birth to: "Germania Rules the Wave."
Even when an enterprising citizen
catches a pickpocket,, the police can't
hold him. What's the answer?
Visitors, -as well as old residents,
notice that Wrestern Oregon is having
a rather late Spring.
JUNE 29, 1909
THE TAX OF WEQriTT.
Consider the Case of These Tito Shoe
Factories The Taxed and the Tn
taxed; the Searchlight of Govern
ment Inquisition on One, the Other
In the Shadow.
New York Sun.
To the Editor Consider for a. moment the
effect or the proposed 2 per cent tax on the
surplus of corporations. Here are two shoe
factories Side h- Ulria In thia - W wAV.
ploying the same capital and both having
me same surplus. By the proposed act of
Congress the shoe factory which Is Incor
porated is selected by Congress to be taxed
to make un the deficiencies In Government
expenses caused by the voyage of our battle
ships around the world and other extrava
gances, while the neighboring shoe factory,
which Is not Incorporated. Is not called upon
to pay a. penny.
There may be 100 times as many fac
tories which are not Incorporated as there
are of those Incorporated: thus the gross
Injustice of this scheme may be seen at a
glance.
Furthermore, the factory which Is In
corporated Is taxed by the state each year
In addition to the tax paid by the corpora
tion when it Is Incorporated; thus the shoe
firm which Is Incorporated Is plucked on
every side, while Its competitor Is not
disturbed In the conduct of Its business.
The corporation on the other hand must
throw open Its books to the Inspection of
the Government authorities.
. While I speak particularly for the small
corporation having (50,000 or $100,000 capi
tal, I see Injustice In placing the 2 per cent
tax on a large corporation: If there Is a de
ficiency to be met by our Government, why
not tax all of our people rather than a.
specified few? If a specified few can be
called upon to make np this deficiency of
our Government, why could not the move
ment be carried to such an extreme as to
demand that some one rich Individual make
up tho deficiency?
CHARL.ES GREEK.
Rochester. X. Y.. June 22.
Editorial in New York Times.
There Is no principle of economics, no
Just principle or theory of taxation, that
warrants the singling out of Incorporated
business Interests .from the whole mass of
business Interests as the subject of this ex
action. Partnerships and individual con
cerns enjoy the same protection of the
laws, the same benefits of orderly govern
ment, that accrue to corporations. The
Federal Government can doubtless tax any
thing and anybody, but It cannot tax cor
porations because of the privilege they en
Joy of doing business aa corporations. Cor
porations are created by the states, not by
the Federal Government. That reason for
the tax has been wisely withdrawn because
of Its obvious unsoundness. . . . And
concurrently with the preparation of this
bill the Senate Is engaged in preparing a
tariff bill notoriously contrived to increase
and confirm the power of the protected cor
porate Interests to extort money from the
people.
Destined to Be Most Unpopular. '
New York Press.
At the very start it is obvious that
the proposed tax on the net earnings
of corporations is destined to be one
of the most unpopular measures ever
suggested. It is hateful to the cor
porations, not because they will pay
It for they will push it along, to the
public but because it is further Gov
ernmental interference with their af
fairs. It is hateful to the stockholders,
big- and little, because the tax applies
to the earnings available for dividends.
It can be shifted, but they will never
forgive its point of application. It
will be hateful to the general public -because
it cannot fail td see that, like
the price of coal, steel or anything else
used by corporations, the tax on earn
ings will be figured In the charge that
is to be made to those buying the prod
uct or using the service of the corpora
tion. ...
Nobody outside of the Federal offi
cials concerned about the Treasury re
ceipts will see anything to commend
in the measure. It does not satisfy the
strict income taxers. because it doesn't
tax the ones they want taxed. It does
not satisfy, the corporations, it does not
satisfy the stockholders, it will not
satisfy the general public. And as for
revenue, twice as much could be raised
with infinitely less difficulty and re
sentment, by a simple stamp tax such
as this country has used so often and
successfully for the raising of special
revenues.
It will be very remarkable if a meas
ure condemned by all parties, all inter
ests and all elements can become law.
Several Pointed Interrogatories.
Boston Herald.
The President draws the line of con
stitutionality carefully between the tax
on individual Incomes and the tax on
corporation incomes. He quotes an
opinion of the court to sustain his in
terpretation of the latter as a tax on
privilege, rather than on property. The
corporation charter is a franchise to do
business as an artificial entity, to enjoy
freedom from general partnership lia
bilities on the part of those who own
stock. Franchise taxation of that char
acter is generally recognized as legiti
mate. But the corporation charter Is a
privilege granted by the state. In nearly
all of the states that franchise already
is subject to specific taxation.
Why should the states abdicate to
the Federal Government this source of
revenue? Is it proposed to introduce
a system of Federal corporation char
ters, to be required for the transaction
of Interstate business, as an essential
preliminary to this scheme of taxation?
Is there any reason why that part of
the business of the country organized
under corporate charters should be sub
jected to further burdens of taxation,
from which individual enterprise and
general partnerships are exempt? What
will be the effect of such a tax? Will
It not tend to discourage corporate or
ganization? If it does it will tend to
check the distribution of ownership of
capital, which has been counted one of
the most encouraging developments of
recent years.
Does Not Consider Ability to Pay.
Cleveland Leader.
As a matter of fact, the corporation
income tax Is less considerate of the
ability of those who pay it ' to make
additional contributions to the support
of the Government than a graduated
Income tax upon individuals would be.
Hundreds of thousands of stockholders
In corporations are people of small
means. A multitude of them have total
incomes so modest that they would be
practically exempt -if a general income
tax were imposed by- the Federal Gov
ernment. A great number of women
whose husbands have died, leavfhg
them enough property to keep them
from want, and little more perhaps
with incomes of .$700 or $800 a year,
and ranging from that level up to $1500
or 12000, have nearly all that they
possess In the stock of corporations.
Out of the dividends they receive they
must support their cfiildren, as well as
themselves, in uncounted Instances.
The shares of corporations . are the sav
ings banks of a multitude of men whose
gross Incomes, including their earn
ings, are so small that they would
hardly be touched by any general In
come tax.
Market Price of Radium.'.
Kansas City Star.
Not only Is radium now selling at
8.000.000 a pound, but the food in
spectors should have their attention
called to the fact that the radium man
ufacturers sell only . 12 ounces for a
pound. -
DISSECTION 1ST THE DARK AGES
Father O'llnra Writes a Letter, Which
Is Duly Considered EUewkere.
PORTLAND, Or., June 28. (To the
Editor.) 1 read in The Oregonian, Sun
day, on the editorial page, the follow
ing; t
In the beginning the study of the human,
anatomy was carried on in secret nooks.
Surgeons were persecuted. Corpses were
deemed to be more or less sacred, and
anybody who ventured to dissect one was
impious. It detected he incurred not only
. oui-aiso religious penalties. The
rather of modern anatomy was hounded by
the inquisition.
I know its regard for the truth above
all else will make The Oregonian will
ing to consider a few facts which seem
to contradict the dicta quoted above.
Vesalius Is usually spoken of as the
Father of Modern Anatomy. It is not
proved that Vesalius was hounded by
the Inquisition. . Learned historians
doubt whether the Inquisition had any
thing to do with Vesalius case. A per
son, therefore, who is concerned for his
reputation for veracity should not write
as if there were no dispute as to the
facts. Moreover, your editorial writer
plainly suggests that the hounding was
done on account of Vesalius' illicit inter
est in dissection. But the charge- (prob
ably false) against Vesalius was not thai
he dissected a corpse (dissection had been
going on for hundreds of years in the
medical schools) but that he dissected a
living man; and even tn our enlightened
age homicide is looked upon as a crime
Your writer also has something to say
about the religious penalties attached to
dissection, and he makes It plain that he
refers to the time of Vesalius. Ve
salius got his early medical education at
Paris, where Sylvius (after whom the
sylvan fissure of the brain is named) was
teaching anatomy and directing the work
In dissection. When Vesalius wished
further to perfect himself he went to
Italy, where one would expect the ec
clesiastical penalties to be enforced if
anywhere. But Vesalius went there for
the same reason that our students flock
to the German universities for scientific
work. Italy was then recognized as the
place to go if one. wanted, to do post
graduate work under the masters of sur
gery and medicine. Over a quarter of a
century before Vesalius went to the Uni-
71 K ?f B?loPa the chair of anatomy
In that Institution had been held by Ber-'
engar -who dissected more than a hun
dred human bodies. Colombo was a con
temporary of Vesalius at Bologna. Of
ir- ?eree Jackson Fisher writes
(Annals of . Anatomy and Surgery. Brook
lyn. 1878-1880): "He dissectedextor
dinary number of human bodies. It must
nave been an age of remarkable toler
ance for scientific investigation, for in a
single year he dissected no less than
fourteen bodies." And where do you sun
pose was- the secret nook in which Co
lombo performed this great number of
?S n.S4n. a sInsIe year? It was at
b-?H ?.? University at Rome, where he
V1! halr f anatny and demon
strated to as many as three hundred stu
dents at a time.
W"ld be easy to fl many columns
with evidence to show that the alleged
religious penalties for dissection had no
ex.stence in fact; but you have more in
teresting matter to put in your columns.
JOHN O'HARA.
POLITICAL, PICKINGS OP TAMMANY
$500,000 a Year From Sales of Outing;
Tickets to City Employes.
New York World.
An assault on Tammany Hall In the
form of a bulletin under the title, "In
direct Cost of Tammany." has been is-in'part'-
:Democratlc Union. It says,
wi3hS 0!Un5 sason Political , harvest,
which yielded Tammany $500,000 last
year and cost small storekeepers,
e merc-ant. householders
shippers, grocers, milk dealers, livery
stable men, and builders $750,000 will
be inaugurated on July 1 by the first
sales of outing tickets. Through con
trol of the city departments large
blocks of outing tickets are sold to the
employes at $5 each.
"For one Tammany outing In the Bronx
last year 13,000 tickets were sold at $5
apiece, a total of $65,000. These tickets
are sent, with a request to "remit on
receipt, to those having business with
city departments controlled by Tammany
and are sold further to employes of all
city departments who may be removed
transferred or fined. street sweepers
get one, drivers In the street cleanins:
department two, assistant foremen in
any department five, and foremen ten
"Other sources of honest graft which
do not appear in the budget are found
available by Tammany. Water meters
in.otalJed by the city cost wholesale.
$32. The cost of installing is $9 addi
tional for plumber and helper. The
cqst to the householder . varies from
$150 to $250. The Astor estate pa
this year $226 for one meter. A James
street tenement paid $213. Over 16 000
meters were installed in Manhattan
and the Bronx last year by the 'Tam
many plumbers.' Though in five years
the city budget for current expenses
increased from $108,000,000 to $156 000 -000,
the collection of fines and penalties
in the various departments through the
ability to 'get things fixed' has dimin
ished and is less now than it was four
years ago."
XI. S. Senate Now Shy on Oratory.
Washington, D. C., Dispatch.
Nowadays when a Senator gets up
and shows the- symptoms of having a
long speech concealed on his person, his
colleagues get nervous and fidgety and
show a sudden yearning to go and get
a drink of lemonade. This was well Il
lustrated when Senator Paynter, of
Kentucky, got up to make some ob
servations. "In the first tariff bill a duty was
placed on iron ore," he began.
At once there were signs of panic
and signals of distress. Senators heard
C. Q. D.'s calling them elsewhere. In
three minutes an exodus had begun.
Senator Paynter proceeded to discuss
his vote on iron ore to vacant seats. He
spoke for about 10 minutes. Then the
Senators returned. But it was an ex
cellent illustration that the Senate is
getting gun shy on oratory.
Yes. We Used to Be "Webfeet."
NORTH POWDER, Or, June 26 (To
the Editor.) Will you please state in
your daily whether at any time in early
days the State of Oregon ever was
called the Webfoot State Instead of
Beaver State, as now?
, OLD SUBSCRIBER.
You are certainly not an "old sub
scriber" to The Oregonian. If you
were you would not ask this question.
Oregon's nickname was changed to
"Beaver" only four years ago.
One Penny Brings $1375 Value,
Baltimore News.
An English penny, dating fsom 825
A. D.. has just been sold in London
for $1375.
Like the Gay Butterfly.
Edith Macomber Hall. In the Nautilus.
All things do but seek completeness.
LlHe the gay butterfly's cocoon
Falling in dust, that it may give repleteness
Fairer, more perfect than Its own.
The dying night does but reveal the mora;
Its subtle mystery and glow.
The waning day bespeaks the stars are born;
The time for ocean's ebb and flow.
The fading rose gives place to brighter bloom
And Bweeter fragrance from Its heart.
The dead leaves warm the seeds beneath
the loam;
They too of nature are a p'art.
So one day we will cast the husks aside
And from our molderlng dust, great
thought
Reborn In Genius, rise and find a vantage
wide.
The heights, on earth we vainly sought.
NOT WHERE THEIR FATHERS DIED
Therefore, Anarchists Cannot sins; My
u-u-y, "lis of Thee." , .
Pocatello (Idaho) Trlbune.
My country, what of thee?
What hast thou done for me, '
That I may sing?
"nB certall anarchists or mal
?hei?"S diVe" designations at
R0w.tUn1,a?r mfUn New York s
Zl r' l, seems a Perfectly good
song. metrlrall-u- 1 j j ? .
uuoiueiru, QUI It
doesn t make sense. tne or two things
0,-1 " wiiu even trie short
sample quoted.
For one thing, this- Is not their
country They're here because they're
here, and not because they belong here
SLarLWa?ted here- ' The Government
does the best It can to prevent any
more of them coming here. Their num
ber is not increased by process of na
ture, for children bom in this country
do not become anarchists. Prettv
much all the. anarchists in America
W!Te .rn ln Eope. They cannot
1 L country as theirs by birth
right. They have not even availed them
selves of the opportunity, open to all
worthy men of whatever birth, to make
it theirs by adoption.
Again, their concern as. to what the
country has done for them seems un
duly keen. Do they expect the country
to support them ln idle ease? Being
too lazy to work and too proud to beg,
do they desire the Government to pay
them ample annuities that they may
spend their days and nights spouting
anarchy and silly parodies on respected
National songs?
As a matter of fact America has
done as much for these worthless agi
tators as for her desirable citizens.
the has given them a fredom that
they never knew ln their own countries
and do not appreciate now. She has
he"5 far more for them than they for
But there's no need o resenting
their mutilation of "America." Let
patience attend on realization of the
fact that they Couldn't very well sin
we .aS the rest of us sln It-
For this is not the land where their
fathers died and they do not love her
name.
SWAGGER SOCIETY HAS A NEW FAD
The Family Creat Has Been Supplanted
by Aboriginal Totem.
Washington Special to N. Y. World
"What Is your totem?" is the latest
question in swaggerdom. If vou can
not answer offhand, the inference is
you have been dead to the worid of
fashion for at least two weeks.
Nowadays, in lieu of the familiar
monogram and the banal crest and the
erstwhile much-coveted coat-of-arms
society dames and damsels, taking
the cue from the aboriginal natives of
the country, go out to the fields and.
selecting whatever bug or bird or beast
that strikes their fancy, promptly pre
empt it as their totem. The pendulum
has swung the other way, and society
with a big S, has elected to become
American of the Americans. If, for
Instance, a butterfly is chosen as the
totem, then milady proceeds to have it
embossed on her note paper and flut--teringly
embroidered on her dainty
lace-trlmmed lingerie. Delicately cut
out of silver, the emblem Is affixed
glltterlngly to her handbag and to her
card case, while a' whir of wings
flashes across the glittering surface of
her toilette silver.
Mrs. Perry Belmont's delicately per
fumed notes from Paris are surmount
ed by a great big buzzing bee of gold.
Its quivering wings poised for flight.
Miss Mathilde Townsend's totem looka
like a giant mosquito. Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Walsh have for their totem
a bird built on hieroglyphic lines. The
bird, which looks much like a young
robin, with bill tightly closed and neck
considerably longer than usual, perches
on the Walsh note paper and also on
the Walsh cards of Invitation. Some'
times it is In dull blue, sometimes gray
on gray paper, again it comes ln glow
ing gold, and again in gleaming silver.
Microphone, a New Speech-Transmitter.
Berlin, Germany, Dispatch.
The German postal authorities are
negotiating for the acquiring of a mar
velous new microphone, the invention
of two Swedish engineers named Egner
and Holmstroem. The Instrument Is so
sensitive that it enables telephonic com
munications to be made at twice the
distance now attainable. Experimenting
the other day, the inventors conversed
from Berlin with the superintendent of
telegraph at Stockholm; it was proved
that the new apparatus had the same
transmitting power over this distance
as the one now in service has be
tween Malmo and Stockholm.
"FlnlnK the Small Shareholders."
New York Sun.
We hear from Washington that a
tax on the net earnings of corporations
is regarded as a tax on "wealth," and
therefore desirable . and " acceptable
and a bond of union between conserva
tive and "progressive" Republicans.
Of course. anybody who knows
enough to dress himself ln the day
light, knows that there are hundreds
of thousands of small shareholders ln
corporations, and that the number has
been Increasing remarkably of late
years. We find nothing in the Repub
lican platform about fining these
people.
Congress, at Ol Degrees, Makes Laws.
Washington.- D. C. Dispatch.
Here are the costumes worn by some
members of the House ln Washington,
D. C, the thermometer registering 91
degrees at 4 P. M.: "Gussle". Gardner,
cute pair of white duck trunks, with
very broad cuffs; Adamson, of Georgia,
a gray chinchilla effect; Phil Campbell,
of Texas, a barber's uniform of pure
white, trimmed in starch; Garner, of
Texas, a dainty creation in elephant's
breath crepe de chine; Speaker Cannon,
Ice-cream suit, and Hayes, white flan
nel. Blind for Five Years; Can See Now.
Baltimore News.
The wonders of modern surgery were
never more apparent than in a case
which is at present attracting atten
tion at the Maryland General Hospital.
Mrs. John Snyders, 80 years old, wife
of a wealthy millowner of Germantown,
Montgomery County, Md., had been par
tially blind for five years and entirely
bllnd for two years. Today she can read
a newspaper plainly.
COYOTE SONG.
(From a selection of the "Best College
Poems" printed ln the Literary Digest. J.
S. Reed, the author. Is a son of C. J. Reed,
of Portland. He Is now at Harvard and is
one of the editors of th-3 Harvard Monthly,
in which the "Coyote Song" first appeared.)
A 00. my brothers, the moon Is red.
And the antelope starts from his prairie bed.
Then Join ye again ln the ancient threne.
For the day that's dead.
And the hunt that's lied.
And the terror of things unseen.
Afar, afar, on the star-lit plain.
Our fathers howled where the deer had lain.
And hung on the flanks of the bison-run.
For the bull that fell.
In that wild pell-mell.
Had died ere the night was done.
No more the warrior rides his raids.
And the hunting star of the prairie fades.
While a fiery comet tears the night
With a crimson streak.
And a demon's shriek.
All ablaze with the white man's light.
But oft when the Winter wind Is high.
We hear on the prairie the bellowed crv
And the rumbling hoofs of the blson-run.
But we seek ln vain.
Through the empty plain
For the buffalo days are done.
A 00. my brothers, the stars are red
And the lean coyote must mourn unfed.
Come Join ye again in the ancient croon.
For the dawn Is gray.
And another day
Has faded the red, red moon.