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J-ORTUVJin. IRIMV, JULY . 1909.
THE SOUL OF PARTY ACTION.
What's tlie use to reclaim against
, political parties, or against the party
I system, in our political life? The sys".
t.-m is the natural outgrowth of our
political and social organism. It Is a
. necessary method. Organization,
.-through political parties, for the pur
1 pose of carrying out policies of gov
i rnment. one way or another, is a
natural movement. So natural Is It
that the movement Is the product
i mostly of unconscious effort. Men take
i one side or another, according to the
bent of their variant prepossessions,
j Political parties in our country, and
! in every country where the people
have a paramount voice In the dlrec
J lion of government, grow out of the
, very nature of things in which hu-
man nature holds largest place. Differ-
ence of opinion, difference of environ
jment and of interest, produce the oppo
' fcltions and affirmations that find ex
! pression through political parties. The
j history of parties in our country and
j every country proves this to be true. It
' is more manifestly true in countries
I that are affected by the English parlla-
mentary system than in others. Our
; own country Is the one most conspicu-
ous In this list. In it, even more
; than In Kngland. parent of the system
, Hurke's classical definition of partv
, applies. "Party," says Burke, "Is a
; hody of men united for promoting by
their Joint endeavors the natural or
; general interest upon some principle
: vi which they are all agreed."
This, In very substance, has been
, the foundation of the party system In
, our own country, ever since the
' ".enlevement of our national Inde
pendence. Our parties have at times
approached each other, in a so-called
era of good feeling, only to fly violently
asunder soon again. During the Mon
roe administration parties apparently
; disappeared, only to be revived with
! greater animosity than ever during
succeeding administrations. At this
time the controversy between parties
seems nearly to have ceased; and the
observer can scarcely tell who is a
, Kepublican or who a Democrat. But
who doubts that within a few years
party strife will be renewed and party
divisions as sharply defined as ever?
Thus far. In our country, there has
been a contest between the spirit of
nationality and the spirit of a local
democracy. It controlled all political
. action down to the outbreak of the
Civil War, which was a consequence
of Jt, and till long afterwards. The
dogma of state sovereignty upheld
local institutions. Including slavery
p most powerful of all. Since the abo
r.ilon of slavery the negro question in
tfce South, In another phase, has been
the controlling factor of our national
politics, and still has enormous power.
; But this force now apparently is giving
Ml&y though not too much stress
' Fhould be laid on present appearances
( Question is whether another great ln
j terest, that of protective tariff, will not
iiumt or soon Decome a potent factor in
the politics of the South. Much will
depend on the wisdom of the North,
in letting the negro question alone'
That question in the South, if stirred at
all, will always be paramount.
But apart from this, which In its
various phases has furnished the great
. uu-uuroing question In our politics,
, the people usually called the democ
; racy, the people In the humbler -walks
j of life, are strongly attached to locali
ties. They are afraid of "centraliza-
tion." On the other hand, the people
. who give precedence to measures of
national import usually include the
; majority of the well-to-do and the ed
' Seated classes, or people who live
more In the larger world. From In-
terest, education and experience this
j portion of the people usually take
broader views of governmental c. op
tions, of national and international
questions,, than their opponents. This
appeared with great distinctness in the
contest in our country over- tv. cn.,
question.
I On such or similar questions men
,are sure to divide into parties. It re
: suits from the very nature of things.
. Doubtless soon there will be some
break-up of parties and some re-ar-
rangement. But. amid changing con
; ditlons these same lines, substantially,
will be followed. It will not be wholly
u conscious movement. These move
ments seldom are. They are largely
Instinctive; men act as they feel, with
out being able to give very clear reas
ons, yet are warm partisans on one
, Plde or the other. For many, perhaps,
for the majority, the real basis of party
action is in conditions of this descrip
tion. Yet somehow out of it all defli
nlte policies are evolved. It is one of
the mysteries of human society, but the
tendency of the conflict is alwavs to
wards definite ends even If the par
ticipant In the party conflict can't dis
cern the drift or the end. Tet the
soul of party action is always a defi
nite thing.
Positive economic results In the of
fice of the State Printer at Salem, ef
fected by the present Printer, W. S.
Duniway. ought to be called to notice!
The legislative printing of the session
of 1905. as done by a long-entrenched
combination, lost the taxpayers of
Oregon a total of $23,672 as appears
from the Secretary of State's report
for the years 1905-06. This and other
excessive costs of printing were criti
cised by the present Printer when a
candidate for the office in 1906. and he
was elected on his pledges of a square
deal and economical administration.
The cost of the legislative printing for
the next session after he was elected
showed a falling off to $12,356 a re
duction of $11,316, though there were
many more bills and resolutions than
at the previous session. Now, the
printing bills for the regular and pe-
c-Ial sessions of 1909, as measured by
the state's expert and audited by the
Secretary of State, amount'to J10.150
a reduction of $13,600 as compared
with the session before Duniway was
elected.
A TIMELY WARNING.
President Taffs warning to the Re
publican party at Yale was a good deal
like a vqice crying in the wilderness.
it may go unheeded, as such voices too
often do, but if it produces no effect
it win be the worse for the Rpnnhllcnn
! party. Rioting in the plenitude of
. their power, the Ken am 1
j fancy that things will remain as they
are iorever and that no d.-iv of rotri
butlon will dawn; but leaders have
thought so before, over and over again.
anu always they have been mistaken.
The day of retribution comes snreK-
and often swiftly, and men like
Aiarich, who imagined that they stood
on an everlasting rock, have found
themselves sinking in quicksands. It
is not safe to build too confidently on
the stupidity of the people nor on their
loyalty to party narrtes. The psychology
of masses ought to be warning enough
to AKlrich and his crowd without the
President's ominous words, but It is
one of the singular things about men
who are doomed to destruction that
they tirst go mad. Mr. Taffs pre
diction that infidelity to their prom
ises and neglect of thoir public duties
would relegate the Republicans to the
status of an opposition party, was as
urbane as his speeches commonly are,
but the taste of bitter in the cup he
offered was unmistakable.
The Aldrieh crowd, in the midst of
their frenzied orgy of power, should
not rely too much either upon the dis
organized and dismantled condition of
the Democratic party. To be sure.
this wretched simulacrum of a political
organization lias broken every promise
It ever made and betrayed every prin
ciple it pretended to cherish. Never
theless, it is possible for the AlHrlh
faction to excite popular indignation
to such a pitch of furv that it win
turn to the Democrats simply because
tney are not Republicans, and put
them in power merelv to nnnlsh tho
standpatters, even if it is certain that
no better results can be expected from
them. This has happened many times
in the course of political history, and
no party is insured aeralnst It. AT r
Aldrieh will probably not pay any more
attention to the President's warning
than he has paid to Mr. Taffs pledges
made before the election, but there
may be some among his supporters
wno are less stupid and iir-he.irieri
than their leader. Whether there are
or not, one thing is certain. . The
present course of the Republican
chiefs In the Senate is laid directly
toward shipwreck.
FLATS ANI CHILDREN.
Illinois has a new law that com
mands landlords riOt to rllccrlmlnafa
against flat tenants, who have children.
xi nat dwelling is a menace to orderly
family life, as some social reformers
have asserted, this law will go far to
ward forcinir a return to tho tt -
system. Not only flat owners, but flat
tenants, oDiect to children in miart.r.
so restricted as to make the halls
necessarily the rlavrroiinrl f k
tenement. While the landlord has no
oojection to housing well-conducted
children with their parents, 1. e., chil
dren who are taught not to tear the
paper or knock the plaster from the
walls, deface the paint, break the win
dows, etc. his "best tenants" frrm o
financial standpoint, are people with
out families and these naturally ob
ject to the noise and litter made by
children on the premises. Hence the
result or the law. if strictlv .nM
will be to drive childless married peo
ple and unmarried men or maidens
who, for economy's nnko fnm .i.,k
and dwell In flats, Into cottages, leaving
me uais to swarm with family life.
The law beine- a oireet intnrn...
with private property rights, will prob
ably not stand the strain of contest in
the courts, should it come to that. It
wni not De difficult to evade the law,
however, and this is what u-iii t.-k '
bly happen when a flat-owner, wishing
to retain very desirable tenants who
object to children in
to keep would-be tenants with children
out of the building.
NEW RECORDS FOR BUSINESS.
Real estate transfers In Pnrtlun
the month ending Wednesday were 50
per cent in excess of transfer.. fr tk.
corresponding month last year. ' Bank
clearings ror the month wei-o an re
cent greater, and postoffice receipts
were 18.79 per cent greater than for
June, 1908. Buildine- r.ermU u
month were also in excess, of June
iaus, and for the first half of th.
show a gain of 30 per cent over the
figures for the first six months of 1908.
The amount of permits lssni.it
six months was more, than $6,300,000
an average of mpre than a million a
month. This extraordinary activity
was in evidence in spite of a pro
nounced dullness in two i.f our root
est industries, lumber and shipping.
The former has not vet recovers
the slump due to the Eastern panic
tignteen months ago. Practically all
of the market for our timber lie
of the Rocky Mountains, and lumber
buyers in that region have not yet re
entered the lumber market on a scale
proportionate to the activity tr,
dence two years.
The temporary dullness in c)iinnin.
iS tO A. lflrPP rU.i'run tk . . 1
, . . i csuu ui x-
cesslvely high prices for grain early in
tne season. rnese prices had the ef-
ieci or dragging out the surplus much
earlier In the season than usual. For
the first time in many years, the Pa
cific Northwest enters a new grain sea
son with old stocks practically ex
hausted. The midsummer dullness
"twixt hay and grass" In shipping can
not last much longer. Already prep
arations are being made for handling a
big crop of wheat, which is conserva
tively estimated at 10,000,000 to 15,
000,000 bushels In excess of last year.
As the price is still hovering around $1
a bushel, it is apparent that we shall
have in the Pacific Northwest from
this industry alone approximately $15,
000,000 more than it produced last
year.
Our other great Industry, lumber, is
already showing signs of revival, and,
with the settlement of the tariff dis
putes, will undoubtedly make up for
lost time. Wool turned off -well and
sold for a good price. The salmon run
has been fully up to that of last year,
and the total pack will no doubt run
far ahead of last year's. Receipts of
butter, eggs and poultry are much
greater than usual, but the demand has
increased so rapidly that prices rule
higher than last year. In fruit the
outlook Is favorable for a big crop and
big prices. Hogs and sheep are selling
close to record prices, and there is a
big. demand at high prices for live
stock. These) are tha Influences that are
THE MOKXIXG-
responsible for the excellent showing
made by Portland bank clearings,
building permits, real estate transfers,
etc. All of this tangible evidence of
prosperity In the city is merely a re
flection of the condition of the coun
try which has made Portland great.
Portland is growing more rapidly than
ever, because the country for which
this city is the commercial headauar-
ters is also forging ahead at a record
rate. The Spring activity has been
prolonged further into the Summer
than was expected, and the outlook
for the future is so hright that the
figures in all branches of trade three
months hence, when the crops are
moving, will make the present satis
factory totals seem small.
Til K TArOMA A EASTERN.
Official confirmation of the purchase
of the Tacoma & Eastern Railroad by
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul
has not been made; -but there Is no
longer any doubt that the transfer of
the property has been effected. Were
It otherwise, the Portland owners r,r
he road would hardly elect high of-
fit
ciais oi tne .Milwaukee to the prest-
uencyand other Important executive
offices of the Tacoma & Eastern. In
taking over this highly profitable road
leadintr south from T:wrTYo tha r-v. t
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ap
proaches within about sixty miles of
Portland, a distance which can easily
be Covered throne-H a ,.(in f I-, l : ..
every acre will produce traffic for the
1H11I ou u.
When the ATllwAnka i r .i t
....... - - n . . v 1 1 1 j ia
extension 'to the Pacific rrnt if
announced that the wonderful' timber
oi tne Jacific Northwest was the prin
cipal magnet which attracted the at-
.emion oi tne railroad officials. In
.'iew of the fact that the Oriental busi
ness has practicnllv viinkhori
that the new road penetrates only a
verj nmicea territory In which wheat
is Produced, it Is nilito nnnovor.- .
the new line has made a highly valu-
"" acquisiuon in tne purchase of the
Portland road out of Tocmo t
only does the road already in opera
tion handle an immense traffic in
timber, but its extension to Vancouver
would pass through a country similar
to that already traversed, and every
mile of the road would be a heavy
producer of traffic. Perhaps the most
important nolnt e-aine Kvr r,.v.
of the road, however, is that it makes
t comparatively easy to reach Port
land. The ATilu-fai.vo u
-- ........ . , ..i.ii. IT il BLUlltU
for the Coast, has been rather guarded
in announcing its plans regarding this
city, and. as a result manv- Pnnion
shippers were inclined to be cautious
ouut giviuB any, oi ineir business to
the new road unfit it o-n-.ro ?
promise of building into this city.
r-oniana is no longer obliged to de
pend on anv one railmafl fnr- v. v.o
dling of its business. This independ
ence iias lanen such a hold on the
people recently that about the only
method by which the Milwaukee road
could expect to get any business out
of here would be by building into the
city. Coming in by way of the Cow
litz, it Will ODen H n for PnrHsn
considerable area of .new territory in
nuicn mucn local Duslness can be de
veloped. ONE OF MR. ALORICH'S FAVORITES.
The light which Senator Beveridire
has thrown upon the history and plans
01 me tooacco trust ought to shame
the Congressional tariff tinkers into
depriving it of whatever protection it
enjoys. Of this, however, there is no
hope. - The more scandalous a trust
has become the greater favor it may
expect from our marvelous Ssnaio
committee on finance. The privileges
which this committee sh ower nr. t Via
monopolies seem to be in direct pro
portion to their meanness and p-reoH
The tobacco trust has reached it ,r-Qt,
ent complete control of the trade in
mat product Dy a series of high-handed
maneuvers which defied th law
and outraged decency. Its capitaliza
tion, amounting to $317,000,000, is
mostly water and It has swindled Us
shareholders pitilessly to enrich v,o
inner circle, who manage its affairs.
-Neverineiess, this trust is one of the
particular Dets of the AiHriv. n,.
and is sure of favorable treatment in
tne new tariff.
During the Spanish Wai- onanii
tax was levied on tobacco as a military
jIC li u&i passed ine tax
on to the consumer by raising the
price of tobacco in rjacknc-es at tv.
close of the war the tax was repealed,
out tne trust did not lower the price of
packages. By this Drettv trick- it r,
enjoys an annual revenue of $21,000,-
uuu wnicn ought to go to the Gov
ernment and Which would maUo
large hole in the treasury deficit. Why
as tne tax on toDacco repealed? The
answer is plain enough. The Gov
ernment lost manv millions vsark. v.,.
the repeal. The consumer got not a
penny worth of benefit. The trust got
$21, 000.00C a year. That is why it
was repealed.
Now that the Gdvernment nod,,
money sadly, why is not the 'tobacco
tax restored? To do so wc.i
raise the price of the weed. The rise
came years ago. The reason why it
is not restored is Just as clear no tv.o
reason why it was removed. Ryan,
stilus ano ine other magnates of
the tobacco trust are close comrades
of Mr. Aldrieh, or rather he represents
them in the Senate, as he does other
rings of greedy monopolists. They do
not want an internal revenue tav t 1
levied on tobacco, because it would
come out or. their dishonest profits, and
as long as Mr. Aldrieh
finances of the Government there will
do no such tax.
Barge 91, which was sunk at the
mouth of the Columbia, is being towed
to San Francisco for repairs. The Port
of Portland, at heavy expense, built a
drydock for Just such emergencies as
were presented by Barge 91. In the
vessel's damaged condition, it was un
safe for her to attempt the long voy
age to San Francisco, but the owners
or underwriters, to avoid leaving one
dollar of their earnings with a Port
land institution, started her south for
docking in California. A valuable les
son might be taught if this disabled
barge should sink on the way south.
Not only do the California owners of
disabled vessels go to great lengths to
avoid patronizing the Port of Portland
drydock, but. if force of circumstances
compels them to make use of it, they
almost invariably demand rates far be
low the cost of service.
"Mr. Lawson's gift to the bride was
a check for a large sum, the amount
not being announced," saj-s the press
report of the wedding of the second
daughter of Thomas Lawson. There
must be a mistake somewhere, either
in the size of the check or the failure
to have it announcd. It is impossible
to imagine Mr. Lawson missing an op
portunity of this kind. An Individual
OKEGOMAX, FRIDAY,
zz .
who can hang his heart on his sleeve
where the public can see its every pul
sation is not the kind of a man to fail
to take the public into his confidence
on a little free advertising stunt of this
kind. Failure to state the amount of
the check may give rise to the suspi
cion that, instead of being a check, the
wedding gift was only a block of
"Yukon Gold" stock which had been
left over from the last onslaught made
on the "gelatine-spined shrimps" and
the "saffron-blooded apes."
Women asking the extension of the
franchise should conduct t).omo,.i,.
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1 In a dignified, orderly manner. Men
j associated together in conventions may
I quarrel with impunity; they may even
I HKht, if it comes to that, without being
I sneered at as unworthy to use the bal
lot. io so with women. Their fitness
for the exercise of the franchise is
quickly questioned by such lapse of
Judgment. The burden of proof rests
with them. Simply stated, they cannot
afford to give their opponents a club
with which to strike them. A very
small club, loaded with ridicule and
exaggeration, may easily prove an ef
fective weapon in the hands of an op
ponent. Not all of the thistles and other
healthy weeds have gone to seed on
the vacant lots in the city. For this
reason, a threatened enforcement of
the law regarding such nuisances will
be welcomed. Scattered all through
Portland's prettiest suburbs are vacant
lots which serve as seeding grounds
for thistles and weeds, and as a single
lot can produce enough seeds to blow
over several blocks of carefully tended
lawns, the householder who endeavors
to keep his lawn in good sha"pe has his
task very much increased by the fail
ure of the vacant lot owners to obey
the law.
Senator Bourne warmly supports
President Taffs corporation tax for
what could Bourne expect if he didn't
"stand in" with the President? He
predicts that "as people become better
acquainted with Taffs integrity, cour
age and ability, not only will they be
satisfied with his administration, but
rejoice in his firm, able, conservative
and progressive leadership." Very
likely; but only a year ago Bourne
held very different opinions about Taft,
and believed him too weak to inspire
the confidence of the country or win
the election. But that was when the
able Senator's fad was "a second elec
tive term" for Roosevelt.
The public schools of Oregon are
using as texts for reading and for in
troduction to literature all or nearly
all the books named by Dr. Eliot for
his five-foot shelf, but condemned
sad to say by the Pendleton East
Oregonlan; and the schools of Oregon
are using more besides, for which
Dr. Eliot could not find room on his
shelf. But in the whole list of the
books used In our schools we doubt
whether the "works" of the favorite
authors of the Pendleton paper O
Henry and George Ade are to be
found.
The Oregon Journal, simply because
The Oregonian pronounced the effort
to "convert" and to "Christianize" the
Chinese a misdirected . effort and - a
futile one, now has become an earnest
pro-Chinese organ. It finds the
Chinese in this country a most quiet,
inoffensive and notedly honest people,
and doubtless will soon be prepared!
therefore, to advocate repeal of the
immigration restriction acts. All
simply to be contrary to The Orego
nian. Hard-working loggers, sheepherders
or any other toilers who come to the
city with a pocket full of money would
be less likely to lose it if they kept
away from the North End dives and
refused to drink liquor, "doped" or
otherwise. This does not excuse the
harpies who prey on them, but, if there
were no victims offering, the harpies
themselves would soon be out herding
sheep or working a3 lumber jacks.
Senator Bourne makes a thirty-minute
speech at Washington, in the pres
ence of several Senators. A great ora
tor was lost to Oregon when Bourne
was sent to Washington. But it is not
too late to invite him to take the stump
or rostrum or platform for a fiery
Fourth of July oration or for a cam
paign speech. Don't overlook Bourne
when a spellbinder is wanted.
Over in Washington some of the
Judges won't wear the silk gowns re
quired by law, and other Judges will
not enforce the anti-cigarette law.
What has become of the old-time
maxim that the way to secure repeal
of an odious law is to enforce it?
Always .sensational and spectacular,
Tom Lawson allowed his daughter to
be married under the largest flag on
the tallest pole In the country. Even
in strictly domestic matters, Lawson is
consistent. He can't dispense with the
brass band.
Sell wood objects to the .scheme to
remove the Multnomah Courthouse to
the East Side. So will nthei-o nr. .t.
side of the river when they learn where
me acnemers purpose to fix the site.
Mr. TJ'Ren has ridden 60,000 miles,
and "Portland's system of baggage
checking the slowest," hje says. And
Oregon's system of Initiative legislation
the worst, he ought to have added.
At least 362 couples 1n Portland i-f
month testified before the County Clerk
mat tney oian t Delieve the pessimistic
utterance that marriage is a failure
Not yet.
Lord Beresford says John Bull must
raise $300,000,000 the next Ave years
for war safety. Uncle Sam might pay
him that for peaceful annexation of
Canada.
The lid will be kept down tight. But
there will be no brass bands playing
while the present Mayor is going
through the act of sitting on the lid.
No small part of Tennessee's popu
lation will regret that the legal dry pe
riod began Julv 1. the VP r V rlav n0 1
opening of the mint julep season.
Anybody can get suited in this -world
of contraries. Up at Salem they pray
for rain and get it. In Tennessee they
pray because the state is dry.
Heney has got a coat of tan from
his trip. Perhaps he plans to apply a
similar coat to the hide of Binger Her
mann. Postal receipts of more than two
thousand dollars a day show that Port
land is going some by mall.
JULY
BELIEVES rx CHINESE CONVERSION
Portland Minister Mentions Several
Caaea Within Ilia Knowledge.
1 PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Edi
i tor.) Permit me space to say a few
( words about Chinese Christians. I
, have among my acquaintances in China
ana the Lnited States many Chinese
who say they are Christians. They
were born and reared under the pre
vailing religious systems of China,
among which are Buddhism and Tao
ism, one imported from India and the
other Indigenous, in addition to these
two they were taught to worship an
cestors after they were dead. These
men and women say they have aban
doned the systems under which they
had their early training nnd have ac
cepted the religion of Jesus Chrlat.
How can one tell whether thev are
honest or not? The great founder of
the Christian svstem nai v.-.,
ilrus ye snail know them." Can thrf.
ntnese profoaaed Christians stand this
test? Mr. Tslang. whom I knew for
years, was a confirmed opium smoker.
He heard the gospel in a chapel and
became Interested. He was a man of
considerable scholarly ability and a
very shrewd man. He read the Ulble.
studied the Gospel under the help of
a missionary, and finally accepted it
It was a loss to him financially to be
a. Christian; he lost friends and money
but he never flinched: gave up the use
of opium entirely, as he must to be re
ceived Into a church, and gave every
evidence in changed life and purpose
that he was a different man. He was
abused by his own countrymen be
cause he was a Christian, lived like a
Christian, seemed to be a Christian, and
died in the Christian faith. He held
small rank as a Mandarin, and had no
reason why he should give up 'his old
religion or his old habits, except the
conviction that he was wrong before and
that Christianity was true and he
needed it. This is only a sample, but
It is a sample.
Butto come home. A Chinese man
came into the Presbyterian Mission
School in Portland for the express pur
pose of learning English. He made no
pretense of having any other reason.
The Bible is taught regularly in the
school. He was taught with the others
and the Gospel was explained to him.
as to all students. He accepted it and
professed to be a Christian. He was
married to a Chinese woman who had
come under the influence of the Rescue
Home, and had been led to accept
Christianity. He saved his money and
returned to China to a village in which
were no Christians. He erected a com
fortable home, and then invited his
friends to what we would call a house
warming. They congratulated him on
having made enough money In the Land
of the Flowery Flag to enable him to
have such a home. He was among his
own family and friends. When he
went away from China he was without
any knowledge of Christianity. He did
not need to say anything about it when
he got home. It would be easier for
him not to. But in reply to the con
gratulations of his friends he said:
"I thank you for your congratulations.
But I got something better than money
In the Country of the Flowery Flag.
I learned to be a Christian and I want
to teir you about that." He did so. He
and his wife go about the village
teaching the Gospel. He has no
pay for what he does. They suffered
persecution for being Christians, but
they stood up to trleir faith. Report of
this came to us not from themselves,
but from non-Christian neighbors who
came to the. United States. This is also
a sample, but it is a sample, and many
men sell goods on samples. Right here
in Portland today are quite a number
of men and women of the Chinese race
who are recognized by their own coun
trymen as Christians. They act like
It, they talk like it, they admit it. they
send money back to China regularly
to spread the Gospel among their own
people, and they keep away from all
idolatrous ceremonies, to which they
were fully committed before they be
came followers of Jesus of Nazareth
I have known them for years and un
der a variety of conditions, and have
no reason to doubt that they are real
Christians, as they profess to be. From
all standards with which I am familiar
they are Christians.
nfIfidmlt tn 1 take the viewpoint
of all evangelical Christians, and be
lieve that Christianity is. and Is In
tended to be. a world religion, and not
for any special or favored peoP;e.
Therefore. I believe that the Chinese
can be converted and Christianized, and
I know that when they are they make
fine specimens of what Jesus does for
those who trust in him.
W. S. -HOLT.
TOO MUCH SICKLY SENTIMENT.
Plain Words From an Oregon Minister
on Chinese Missions.
NEWBERG, Or., June 30. To the Edi
tor.) Your editorial in today's Oregon
lan on Chinese missions Is a nail driven
in a sure place. I became pastor of a
small church in Portland In 1901 my
salary being smaller than my needs. I
permitted one of my young daughters,
along with a niece, to become teachers In
the Methodist Chinese Mission until I
became convinced that the Chinaman
"as '"oie interested in his teacher than
In his text book. One husky fellow
was so much interested that when his
teacher no longer came to the mission
he suddenly developed a fondness for
music and wanted to come to the house
and learn to play the organ.
My opinion Is that a Chinaman will
at any time exchange his interest in the
white man's Christ for an interest in
a white man's daughter. But the thing
is wrong in principle. American young
men wishing to go to school pay their
own way or stay at home and go with
out schooling. For the Chinese we
start a mission school and appeal to the
already overburdened membership of
the church to come up a little on the
collection to help on the good work.
I can see no reason why a full grown
Chinaman should be given his educa
tion at other people's expense. If we
must have free schools supported by
the churches, let us take the sons of
American families and bestow our lib
erality upon them.
There is too much sickly sentimental
ism regarding missions and too much
time and money spent in a vain effort
to persuade people who already have
a religion hoary with age to accept our
conception of God. The Jap did the
sensible thing when he said, with a
thank you, to the Methodist Episcopal
Church, We ianage our own church
affairs. So keep on, Mr. Editor. Let
the slogan be no Chinese mission
schools in America in which white
girls are the teachers. In conclusion.
It seems to me it might be a good
thing if the churches would stop wor
rying about divorced people marrying
again and insert a new chapter on
church law prohibiting preachers from
marrying white women to Mongolians,
and then the clergymen whose moral
perceptions are clouded by the glitter
of a $5 gold piece would know that it
is wrong to have anything to do In
sending a white woman to a living
Chinese hell. F. L. YOUNG.
Chinese "Missions.
Oregon Observer, Grants Pass.
The fundamental root of the thing Is
that the races of men have entirely dif
ferent mental constitutions, and they all
have evolved religions that are satisfac
tory to themselves. Christianity is un
doubtedly the most advanced of all re
ligions, and it has the potential progres
siveness of the mental qualities of tha
race that accepted it and made it great.
That is the Aryan race, to whom the
warmth of the Christian conception was
sympathetic. Outside of the Aryan peo
ples, Christianity has made no progress,
and cannot because of the radically dif
ferent mental qualities of th other
races.
I r. .
Amazed at Walla
"0ThrrI.n,l"d CH!" 1"""
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Dollar in Unexpected Luxury at
R. H. Little in Chicago Record-Herald.
After Portland we rode all night to
wake up in Walla Walla, Wash. Back in
Chicago we had looked at the name
Walla Walla on the itinerary with some
misgivings. That is, those who wanted to
talk Chicago as the great central market
every waking minute had. Those who
wanted a chance to hunt and fish and
buy moccasins from the Indians decided
it would not be a bad idea to stop at
Walla Walla and rest up for a day. On
ordinary maps Walla Walla, the name
of which might easily be mistaken for a
patent gargle, had a round circle at the
end of the word showing that it was a
sure-enough town, but looked as though
it were located in the forest primeval, far
from the haunts of men.
It was a shock to find that Walla Walla
' was a city of 25.000 population. Before
anybody had a chance to cay anything
about hunting or fishing they put the
trade delegates in automobiles and took
them over to Whitman College and then
to the Y. M. C. A., and the Elks Lodge
and the Walla Walla Club and up and
down four miles of asphalt and around
to three daily newspaper offices. That
part of the delegation which showed no
interest except in the buying and selling
capacity of a community was almost be
side itself with Joy over Walla Walla,
but those who had expected a day in a
frontier town were deeply grieved. There
Is a military post at Walla Walla, where
four troops of United States cavalry are
quartered.
The Walla Walla committee had a citi
zen to meet each one of the Chicago par
ty and personally conduct him around the
town and show him those things in which
he would take the greatest interest Mv
guide took me to the new JSO.OiiO Y M C
A. bunding and the Washington State
Penitentiary winding up the tour with
the "Walla Walla police station. They
have a very nice police station as com
fortable as any in Chicago. In the police
station Is a very complete collection of re
volvers, knives. bras knuckles, skeleton
keys and other devices showing that the
criminal classes of Walla Walla and the
oSS a7 ,ully abrest of the times. The
uf. ?f Po,lce t00k especial delight in
exhibiting a very ingenious instrument for
unbolting the most up-to-date door locks
and he was so proud when I told him
that I had never seen anything like that
before and that I thought his crooks were
much more accomplished than the ones
we had back East, that I, believe if the
man had not unfortunately been sent to
the penitentiary, the Chief would have
given him a medal and turned him looe
as a reward of merit.
The Chief was very fond of his collec
tion, and I assured him that Walla Walla
was so far ahead of all Eastern towns In
this particular, as in every other, that he
Insisted on my taking any object that I
desired, and I hesitated between an opium
outfit with which three Chinese had com
mitted suicide, and a dagger made from
a file with which a sheepherder had
carved up four cowpunchers and two In
dians. I finally took the dagger, because the
Chief said that when the dried blood was
wiped off It would come in handy for
eating the apples which he was sure the
business men's committee would put on
the train, anel which were grown In the
Walla Walla "Valley and were as big as
my head. '
From Walla Walla the Chicago delega
tion traveled to Athena, where It stepped
aboard automobiles for a 25-mile drive
across country to Pendleton. We expect
ed our chauffeur to launch into the mer
its of dry-farming as we rode along, be
cause we passed great fields of wheat
and alfalfa on the way, all produced
through dry-farming, but the chauffeur
had his mind on something else.
"They say your alfalfa runs four tons
to the acre along here and sells at $6 a
ton In the stack," we said, so as to as
sure the chauffeur that he was among
friends and that he could go as far as
he liked.
"It sure does," said the chauffeur. "Do
you see any dust behind us?" How near
are the rest of the machines?"
THE PLAZA BLOCKS.
Picturesque Description of Day and
Nlght Conditions There.
PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Edi
tor.) Wouldn't the present change of
administration in city government be
a good time to inaugurate a reform in
conditions in the plaza blocks next
east of the Courthouse?
A brief stroll through this place will
show an aggregation of queer-looking
creatures wall-eyed, knock-kneed, half
baked, tobacco-eating fellows mostly, fill
ing every seat and stretched full length
on the worn-out grass, sleeping like an
old torn cat that has caroused and cater
wauled through the previous night.
Verily, the plaza block in front of
the Courthouse is an abomination.
Trash, cigarette stumps, scraps of pa
per, rags, spittle, and. worst of all, a
class of men in no wise benefited
themselves by being permitted to loaf
and despoil what ought to be a place
of delight and beauty. TAXPAYER.
Newspaper Man Edits a Town.
Des Moines. Ia., Cor. New York World.
W. J. Pilkington, of Des Moines, edi
tor of the Merchants' Trade Journal,
has taken absolute charge of every
business house In Dexter, la., a town of
800, for seven months for the purpose
of proving that city methods will bring
proseprity to the merchant in a country
town. Mr. Pilkington has placed the
town in the hands of Guy Pogus, who
Is personally conducting every business
from the bank to the lumber yard.
At the end of seven months he de
clares the profits will be doubled, trade
will be attracted to Dexter from other
points and the city will be metropoli
tan. As all the members of the City
Council are merchants who have placed
their business in Pilklngton's hands,
the latter is also controlling municipal
government and has cleaned streets and
adopted many new ordinances. Mr.
Pilkington believes in advertising, with
the result that the Dexter paper has
more advertisements than the editor
ever had before. The remarkable ex
periments is attracting attention of
business men all over the Middle West
Other Perfect Scores In Gunnery.
WALDPORT, Or., June 28. (To the Edi
tor.) I noticed in The Oregonian of a
few days since, that one Captain Gil
bert's six-inch guns at Fort Warden
had made a perfect score. In that
connection It may be of Interest to
you to know that 100 per cent of hits
was made by a six-inch gun at Fort
H. G. Wright, In New York harbor, in
the Summer of 1907, and also in 1908,
by cadets of the (then) first class at
West Point- The cadets had never fired
the guns before in actual target prac
tice, which makes the score all the bet
ter. In each case, the target was at
6000 yards, and of regulation size, be
ing towed by a tug past the battery.
. H. B. H.
Play Piano for Nana-hty Children.
Fort Worth (Texas) Record.
. Dr. Julia Seton Sears, the renowned
metaphysician, has done considerable
experimenting at her school in Osca
wanna, N. T., In correcting the faults
Walla and Pendleton
Chicago Visitor Antomoblle Ride
Strawberries That Yon Could Hide a
a Men's Club.
"Oh, they're way back." we said. "What
does your barley make?"
The chauffeur turned on a few more
notches and said that the barley ran
from 60 to 75 bushels an acre.
"You're going some," said the man on
the front seat, referring to the barley
"It's nothing to what this car can do "
said the chauffeur, not referring to the
barley at all. "It's the best car In the
valley. I can walk away from the rest
of em any time I feel like It."
e narrowly avoided knocking a
foothill off the map and flew like an
arrow along a steep declivity running
down to the river.
"Two cars pitched over here last
month," said the chaufreur. "This lit
tle old car of mine is sure-footed as a
mule. Anybody in sight behind?"
There was nobody in sight behind
and the man on the front seat held on
to the car with both hands and wanted
to know why Walla Walla wheat was
so much In demand in England.
"Best wheat." said the chauffeur. '
"What kind of a ottermoblle do you
use at home?"
This remark was apparently ad
dressed to me and I told him my favor
ite was either the Evanston avenue or
the Nofthwestern Elevated.
"Never heard of them cars." said the
chauffeur. "Most of the farmers out
here use an air-cooled car. but I sup
pose the other kind Is just as good
See that curve ahead? Thev say you
can't go around that at full speed
Watch me."
We went around the curve at full
speed. It was done principally on one
wheel, and the view down the cliff into
the river was not particularly attrac
tive. "There's a fine-looking farm house
up there," yelled the man on the front
seat with a hope of distracting the
chauffeur's attention.
"Yep." said the chauffeur.
"Who owns it?" we asked. Not that
we cared particularly, but we thought
the chauffeur might slow down while
he told us.
"I do," said the chauffeur. "Wife an"
kids on the porch. I got just enough
gasoline to land me in Pendleton ahead
of the rest of 'em."
We landed In Pendleton ahead of the
rest of them. Pendleton is a small
town and we hoped it would be Just a
little bit uncivilized.
But our gentleman driver took us
right up to the We-Na-Ha Club, where
a Japanese steward in immaculate
white linen bowed and smiled and
passed cooling drinks around. We had
thought Pendleton was pretty far out
West, yet here we were in a well
appointed club, with dark, cool parlors
and billiard-rooms and reception-rooms,
and every time one turned around Togo!
the Japanese steward, was smiling be
hind him and proffering a well-filled
tray. We picked up a copy of the con
stitution of the We-Na-Ha Club and
found that the membership fees were
$100 for initiation and $5 a month for
dues and that the club roster was full
and a large number on the waiting list.
Thote dues would be considered fairly
high even for a Chicago club. We de
cided that it must be all true about the
miracles worked on desert land by dry
farming and irrigation.
"They would have to work miracles,"
said the poet, "or they couldn't pay
those dues."
At Pendleton they brought the Chica
go delegation presents of strawberries
you could hide a silver dollar in, and
cherries.. and prunes and figs and plums
and pears and apples, all of which were
raised somewhere around Pendleton.
The poet In a fine joking humor asked
one of the Pendleton committeemen
why it was that they raised no bananas
or cocoanuts in the Walla Walla coun
try. "Why, I don't know," said the resident
of Pendleton reflectively, "I suppose It's
because we never tried to."
And the poet said that, after all the
wonderful things he had seen the State
of Oregon do, he was inclined to think
that was the reason after all.
of children without punishing them.
Her advice to mothers is to play on
the piano for their children when they
are disobedient instead of punishing
them. She says to play something the
children know, as their childish emo
tions are not so responsive to unfa-
wmK.M.1"- -She 18 convinced of the
infallibility of this cure, and says it
is equally effective in the case of
grown-ups. Worry, anxletv, care and
irritability may all be soothed by cer
tain classes of music, according to Dr
Sears- i JUBH
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
ALONG THE
DESCHUTES RIVER
A page of photographs showing
the beautiful scenery and the gen
eral topography of the Eastern
Oregon Empire, soon to be invad
ed by the Harriman lines.
JOURNAL OF A
NEGLECTED WIFE
First installment of Mabel Her
bert Timer's noted book, "The
Journal of a Neglected Vife,'T
for which The Sunday Oregoniaa
has just secured publication
rights. It will run for several
weeks. This is a fascinating
novel.
THE MAN WHO
SAVED GALVESTON
In the American Heroes series,
a human, red-blood sketch of
James M. Kirwin, a young Cath
olic clergyman, who prevented the
stricken city from a horror wors
than the storm.
QUADRI-CENTENARY
OF JOHN CALVIN
Four hundredth anniversary of
the "Giant Father of Presbyteri
anism" to be widely marked. In
this connection, his life and works
in a nutshell.
ETHEL GOES TO
A BALL GAME
And she breaks into the enjoy
ment of her escort, who tries to
instruct her at McCredie's
aughn-street park.
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