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rOKTIAND, FRIOAY. JCLY 9. 1909.
WKZJf "THE NATIONS SKAll LEARS
WAR NO MORE."
The prophet of Israel talked about
the time to come when men should
boat their swords Into ploughshares
and their spears Into pruning hooks.
This la Ideal. It is expressed in old
literature other than that of Israel. It
1 found In the delicate and clairvoy
ant Vergil. It Is a theme In Ovid and
later poets. Nevertheless, the time
has not yet come "when nation shall
not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any
more."
On the contrary, men now are de
voting more energy to the effort and
purpose to "learn war" than at any
Preceding time In the history of the
human race. The reason la that na
tional competitions are stronger. These
competitions spring from the new
forces of the present time. They con
stitute the fundamental condition of
man's life and progress upon the
earth. Every nation must be prepared
to defend itself, and to hold its own.
Some nations, indeed, are protected by
their own weakness and insignificance.
But there is one nation in the 'Western
Hemisphere, and five or six in the
Kastern, that do not claim this exemp
tion, and have no wish to claim it
Therefore, they feel and know they
must be ready to fight. Sea power, or
rower at sea, since development of
steam and electricity and gunnery
under control of the agencies of mod
ern Invention, Is more than ever rec
ognized as the means of attack and
defense. Therefore, every nation that
has the resources builds Dreadnoughts.
Before us Is a pamphlet containing
the address of Nicholas Murray But
ler, president of Columbia University,
at the Lake Mohonk, Conference on
International Arbitration. It Is a plea
for International peace, and Incident
ally an argument to prove that wars
are unnecessary. The appeal for peace
is sentimentally good; the argument
la fallacious since international jus
tice. President Butler tells us. should
be invoked to decide all international
differences. It is an Idle dream. It
presupposes fixed and permanent con
ditions in the life of nations and In
their relations with each other. It
cuts off possibility of change and
progress, that can come about only
through the rivalries and competitions
of nations. The ultimate would be one'
-China for all the world. But even
( China latterly has been getting her
ehaking-up through war. It is the one
and the only way.
President Butler argues that Eng
land, though an island nation, should
throw herself on the generosity of the
world and admit that she doesn't need
preparation for defense at sea. Her
moraf-'posttion would be her sufficient
defense. ; iFos Italy, says President
Butler, Is, safe; so are Holland and
Portugal and Mexico. It is their weak
ness, however, thatmaTtes them safe,
and England Is not willing to accept
the position of a state- that exists by
the sufferance of stronger nations.
Besides.. Italy and Holland and Mexi
co, all within a century have been
. under foreign domination and all are
protected now only" by the jealousies
of powerful rivals, which at any time
may subject any of them to invasion
as heretofore. Today, but for the
power of '.England and France, Ger
many would dominate Holland and
Belgium; but for the rivalry of Austria,
France and Prussia, Italy never would
have become a consolidated and inde
; pendent nation, but for fear of rupture
"with other powers. Germany would
wallow Denmark and Russia would
shark up Sweden ana Norway. It Is
armament and dread of war that pre
serve the peace. England can no more
afford to be unprepared at sea than
Germany can on land. International
justice, so-called, will always be inter
preted by each nation m the terms of
Its own Interest and power. Nor can It
possibly be otherwise. National and In
ternational boundaries cannot be
thrown down or removed, and no na
tion unless it is weak will permit oth
ers, or another, to interpret Its right
"To be weak." as the Mlltonlc phrase
has H. "Is to be miserable," or at least
j to be .weak Is to be humble. Moral
.force is much Indeed, but In emer
gency weapons of war must be at hand.
J ; These are the reasons why the na
'tlons that have the resources to main
tain armaments, and interests which
they must protect, will keep their
armaments In readiness for possible
or probable dangers. It Is a contest
of resources, therefore, for creation
and maintenance of armaments. The
richer Its resources, the larger Its In
terests and the more widely they ex
tend, the larger must be the nation's
preparations for defense. For ourselves,
we have no other reason for Increase of
our navy, and there is no party in our
country, no considerable body of citi
zens, that would tolerate the idea that
the nation should be without means
of defense, to be hectored and humili
ated perhaps even by Chili or Brazil.
"Neither shall the nations learn war
any more"- but only when there are
no nations, and consequently no com
petitions, no clash of Interests, no
pride of national spirit and no rival
ries. But the modern and only way to
avoid war Is to "learn .war" and be
prepared for It.
" The success that followed the en
deavor of the late Solomon Llpman is
a, fair presentment of the opportunities
.offered by the great Western world
'4pt men of energy, sagacity and hon
orable dealing In the mercantile pro
fession. Men of the Hebrew race have
-been especially noted for the. ability
to meet these opportunities, success
fully, and. of this type of business men
,Mr. Llpman was a conspicuous ex-
on the Pacific Coast for many
I yea"- He lived to the advanced age
j ut xour score- years and amassed a
luriune as tne rrults or his
legitimate endeavor. Benignant, kind
ly, generous, Mr. Liprnan will be
missed from the business and social
circles that have known him so long.
NO "RESTRICTED DISTRICT."
The Oregonian is told, and it be
lieves, that Mayor Simon has no Inten
tion of appointing or allowing any "re
stricted district" in the city, for "fallen
j women or for "fallen men." The
; laws will be enforced as fully as pos-
; sioie. .No part of the vicious or semi-
inminai classes .-will "get a tip" that
they can ply their vocation in any lo
cality. The laws will be enforced.
No one has occasion to tell the
Mayor how necessary this is. Now
will some one or any of our good peo
ple tell what is to be done with
"women of the town," and with the
vile male wretches who hang on
around them? Of course they are to
be suppressed, as far as possible.
They are to be forced Into the back
ground and out of sight. . Every nest
of gamblers is to be dispersed." But
how is the city to ' get rid of these
evils?
Are the women to be sewn up In
sacks and drowned, and the vile men
who consort with them to be stood
up against brick walls to be shot?
And has the Mayor authority of law
to do things in this thorough manner?
No Mayor of Portland hitherto has
done It.
To deal with vice, that doesn't run
into crime, always is a difficult problem-
But The Oregonian la told and
it believes that the present Mayor will
neither designate, appoint nor allow
any "restricted -district" where vice
may nourish with impunity.
THE CRITICISM IS (iEXERAU
Criticism of the corporation tax is
universal because of its inequality and
unfairness. Not that the corporations
of the country and their stockholders
are unwilling to pay the tax, but be
cause this system makes unequal con
ditions by having untaxed individuals,
firms, partnerships and persons of
large wealth, who ought also to pay,
but are not to pay.
This law violates the plain equities
of the case. Senatfw Root says an
income tax would be unwise, unjust
and unconstitutional, while the cor
poration tax is open to no valid objec
tion. Such opinion depends on the
point of view. But it will not be tol
erated that other incomes than those
to be reached by this partial measure
shall escape. All Incomes are to be
treated alike. As the Chicago Inter
Ocean puts it: "The spirit of Ameri
can institutions will not ermanently
tolerate Inequality of citizens or of
groups of citizens and their wealth
before the .law. A lawyer may be de
ceived by a label. A statesman would
not be so deceived and the American
people will not be so deceived."
It is regrettable, from every point
of view, that President Taft has hot
thrown his influence In favor of such
fair adjustments of the tariff as would
have provided revenue, at least till
an Income tax could have been put in
force, and averted thereby this special
ly unjust corporation tax.
PREPARING FOR THE FAMyitECTION.
New York is in some excitement
over the dismissal of Police Commis
sioner Bingham. . Mayo- McClelJan
discharged him peremptorily the other
day and appointed Willam F. Baker
in his place. Rumor Insists that-the
change is political and.-Mr. Bingham
agrees with rumor. In his opinion he
has been forced out to make -way for
a Tammany man to forward Mayor
McClellan's ambition, first to go to
Congress and. then to become Governor
of the state. It Is said that Pat Mc
Carren, the Tammany magnate, is be
hind the move. Baker avers that he
doesn't even know McCarren, but, as
the Tribune pertinently remarks, what
difference does that make? McCarren
knows him and that is enough for
Tammany purposes. The boss says
the new Police Commissioner is "a
grand, high-minded gent." From
Tammany's standpoint, nothing could
be more satisfactory. A high-minded
gent is one who will not interfere with
ballot-stuffing and repeating on elec
tion day and who will not be incon
siderate about enforcing the laws
against vice. Baker seems to be a
sort of nonentity who has been
shoved into Bingham's place to serve
as a figurehead while the Tammany
bosses will control the office in their
own interest.
After all of Mayor McClellan's high
professions it is depressing to see him
thus openly bargain with Tammany,
though that is what every Democratic
politician in New York comes to
sooner or later. There is no doubt
that the Mayor would like to be decent
if he dared, but between his ambitions
and his moral sense there Is a deep
gulf fixed which he cannot cross. Un
less he placates Tammany he cannot
hold another office. He became Mayor
through the good offices of Tammany's
repeaters, and the same power which
raised him can cast him down. Of
course he knows this, and, being wise
in his generation, he makes his peace
with the tiger by throwing Bingham
over.- The retiring Police Commis
sioner is an erratic man in some par
ticulars. Of his singularities the most
noticeable is his pugnacity; Ever
since he went into office he has said
what he liked and done as he pleased.
"When the politicians offended him he
berated them. When the public mis
liked his conduct he told it to go to the
dogs. The Immediate occasion for his
discharge was his flat refusal to dis
miss a subordinate whom the Mayor
had resolved to sacrifice. It is as
tonishing that such a man should have
become popular, but he did, at least
among thinking people. With all his
angularities he was known to be
thoroughly Incorruptible. Gambling
was fostered by the New York police
and worse wickedness connived at
during his term, but not with his con
sent. He did all he eould to enforce
the law and make the city clean. If
he failed. It was because In New York
Tammany politics is above the law.
It intrudes everywhere and poisons
everything.
The better class ' of newspapers
openly express their fear that the
new Police Commissioner will be noth
ing better than a tool of Tammany
and that the city will revert to wide
open conditions. In some respects
this could hardly be regretted. The
laws against vice in New York do not
fulfill their purpose by any means.
They are alternately enforced with a
sort of grotesque strictness and neg
lected altogether with Intervals when
the police use them openly for black
mail. What the community gains
from laws which are thus scouted it is
hard to understand. Apparently it
would be just as well to let Tammany
do what it wishes with them for a year
THE MORNING
or two. Then nprhan. t, -V,l
- - . .j . . i n uuic luaiss
could be repealed and sensible' legis
lation enacted in its place. One trouble
with New York is the deprivation of
local self-government. Nothing can
be done by the people of the city with
out the consent of the Legislature di
rectly or indirectly, and this consent is
never given except for. political rea
sons. The largest city in the country
is thus always at the mercy of the
politicians who make merchandise of
its welfare. The subjection of cities
to State Legislatures is a relic of feu
dalism which were better abolished
everywhere, but in New York its ef
fects are particularly bad. Between
the country districts and the metrop
olis there is little mutual understand
ing. The farmers could legislate for
themselves a great deal better If ques
tions concerning the city were not
forced upon them to decide, while the
city could manage Its affairs more
prosperously if the rural legislators
would let It entirely alone.
WHEAT IS STILL KING.
Preliminary estimates of the 1909
wheat crop in the Pacific Northwest,
as compiled from the most reliable
sources obtainable, indicate a yield of
65,000,000. bushels for the three states.
This figure has been excelled but once,
the bumper crop of 1907 reaching 60,
000,000 bushels. The crop, whlch is
now about ready for harvest, how
ever, means more to the growers and
to the Pacific Northwest, and especially
to Portland, than any of its predeces
sors. On account of the prevailing
high prices it will place In circulation
a larger amount of money than was
paid out for the record crop- two
years ago. Its exceptional Interest to
Portland lies in the fact that this is
the first year since the great Inland
Empire wheat territory was developed
when practically all of the wheat of
that great region has been tributary
to Portland. The North Bank road
m-as not completed In time last season
to enable It to take any part In mov
ing the wheat crop, but this year a
large amount of wheat from territory
that is new to Portland will follow
the water-level grade to tidewater.
Thei-e has been great development
in many different lines since wheat
was the one great factor in our com
mercial life, and it no longer monop
olizes the field. At the same time it
is difficult to overestimate its import
ance, when we consider that a crop
such as is now in sight will place in
circulation nearly $50,000,000 within
a few months and among a compara
tively small number of people. There
are other aspirants for the throne,
but wheat -will remain king In the Pa
cific Northwest, so long as the yield
goes over 50,000,000 bushels and the
price hovers so closely around $1 per
bushel.
WHERE IS THE 'EVIDENCE ?
Although the scattering charges
against the Supreme Court of Wash
ington are made with vigor, the evi
dence behind them does not look very
substantial. Still, something may come
out after -a while. The men who push
the accusations must be foolhardy- in
deed If they have nothing to stand on.
Perhaps they are keeping back their
strong points for strategic reasons, but
there is danger that they will be too
strategic and convince everybody that
they are accusing an innocent tribunal
but of spite. The charge that a court
is controlled by the corporations is
easy to make and not very difficult to
prove. If it Is well founded. All that
is necessary is to produce the record
of cases decided and show how they
run. A weekly paper did this last
week for the Supreme Court of Cali
fornia. No fuss and feathers were
necessary. One short item riirt thn
work. In so many years so many
cabes naa Deen decided, with a huge
preponderance in favor nf tv.. Rmitv.-
ern Pacific Railroad. Nothing more
was requirea. Tne ngures told the
tale.
Why cannot the Washington critics
of their Supreme Court do. the same
thing? The record is accessible. Let
them tabulate it. When they have
done so, their case will be proved or
disproved without further argument.
One Case will not be enough, nor will
two or half a dozen; but If they can
show that for a series of years the de
cisions of the court have been notably
favorable to the corporations, they will
win the verdict of the public, unless
explanations are . forthcoming. As
long as the accusers of the Supreme
Court neglect to do this simple and
easy bit of work, people will be In
clined to believe th
sound and fury, signifying nothing but
in-ieeiing. usuauy tne presumption is
in favor of the integrity of any court
which happens to be assailed. But In
Washington circumstances have some
what impaired the prestige of the su
preme tribunal. One or .two judges
have smirched the ermine. . What oth
ers may have done remains to be seen.
Matters of this Importance should not
be permitted to hang in the air. If
Teats, De Wolf and the rest of them
have evidence that amounts to any
thing, the sooner they produce It the
better for them and for the state.
PORT PRESTIGE VS JEOPARDY.
The Port of Portland has formally
taken over the tug and pilotage serv
ice between this city and the sea and
will endeavor to conduct the work for
the best interests of the port. It is
extremely doubtful if the work can be
made to show a profit. The business
will necessarily be conducted by. the
Portland taxpayers for the same rea
son that they are spending large, sums
oi money in deepening the channel and,
making the port attractive for ships.;
There is probably no branch of - the
public service for which the taxpayers
more cheerfully contribute than for
the Port of Portland work. Every
householder and every business man
in the city knows that Portland's pres
tige as a seaport is our greatest asset,
and each and all are willing to do their
part in maintaining this prestige.
Unfortunately for Portland this city
is now threatened with a blow against
its shipping that may be attended with
more serious results than any that fol
lowed the temporary handicaps we
have suffered in the past and may nul
lify all of the good that has been ac
complished by the Port of Portland.
There is a labor differential .of about
10 cents per ton against this port as
compared with the Puget Sound ports
and this year for the first time, it is in
the power of the exporters who in the
past have been obliged to bear this
differential to avoid paying it. Records
of two of the largest grain exporting
houses in the Northwest 'show that on
last season's business the difference
in cost and efficiency of Puget Sound
labor and Portlandlabor, was 10 cents
per ton in favor of Puget Sound. This
amounts to about $300 on the average
shipload of grain, and, as there will
be upwards of 200 shiploads of grain
cleared from Portland . and Puget
OREGONIAN, FRIDAY,
I Sound during the coming season! the 1
... .u..cu m hi me aggregate
quite large.
Under the new trackage agreement
between the Hill and the Harriman
lines, the exporters who will handle
the big crop of wheat that will begin
coming to tidewater within thirty days.
can nave tne wneat delivered at Puget
Sound at exactly the same rate as at
Portland. Naturally the exporters will
prefer Puget Sound. This is not a
matter in which sentiment, friendli
ness or unfriendliness for waterfront
labor plays any part. It is a simple
business proposition and its solution
rests solely with the people of Port
land. ?
It might be well for he Chamber of
Commerce to pay some attention to a
matter of such vitap-importance. That
body might also inquire into the causes
which induced the Farmers' Co-operative
Union to establish their Coast
selling agency at Tacoma instead of
Portland. These ;are matters of more
importance than 'any attempt to dis
turb the present satisfactory sailor
boarding-house matter, and should be
given immediate attention. In the past
the Chamber of Commerce has taken
an active part in matters of such vital
Importance and the present Is a most
Inopportune time for any indifference.
There is an argument against the
parks especially those down town.
They are loafing places, and the re
sorts of loafers, who flock there, ha
bitually, to the exclusion of quiet,
modest and decent people: But all
Portland is a park. The' amphitheater
of hills on the West Side Is matchless;
on the East Side is a vast open coun
try, and there are innumerable rest
ing spots, on either side. Perhaps in
deed too many; for people should
work, not rest. But reasonable space
devoted to parks is necessary for resi
dents and their children. If the loaf
ers who occupy the down-town parks
were out in the woods that surround
the town, clearing land or cutting
cordwood, they would have all the
woods and parks they need., and be the
better for the change.
- A 1 1 v icomcut iuauiaun, i lie
"Dolly Madison" -of history, was fa
mous for her beauty and her feminine
tact, which in the mind masculine is
called diplomacy, and for her social
attainments. The world has heard
much of this charming first lady of
the land during the fourth presidency
of the republic, folk-lore as well as
history having dealt graciously with
her .name and achievements in the
realm of which she was the social and
to a certain extent the diplomatic cen
ter. It was not until recently, how
ever, that the heralds1 of far-away
years have proclaimed the fact that
this gracious gentlewoman was the in
ventor of ice cream,, the first to serve
this National delicacy. It Is indeed
high time that this fact was made
known to a grateful world.
An Interesting relic of the battle of
Lake Champlain, fought October 13,
17 76, against General Guy Carleton, is
the hulk of the "Revenge," one of
Benedict Arnold's schooners. She was
burned to the water's edge and the
hulk had been at the , bottom of the
lake off Ticonderoga for a century. A
clumsy, unsightly thing, dark with
ooze, its gaunt frame exposed by de
cay, the old hulk is not a thing of
beauty but the memory of its achieve
ment of a century and a third ago as
a part of a flotilla that rriounted only
seventy guns, directed by the impetu
ous Arnold, it helped to defeat the
British 12.000 strong at Valcone Island,
making it an object of patriotic pride
that was worth going far by. rail and
automobile to see.
Charles Dickens failed to provide
for his daughters from the abundance
and strength of his intellect and these
elderly women have been granted each
a pension of $2.50 a week by the Brit
ish government as provision for their
daily necessities. The charity ' is a
gracious one and Its recipients are .no
doubt deserving gentlewomen. Their
poverty Is a sad commentary upon the
domestic life of the great novelist, who
was unable or utterly neglected to or
der It In accordance with the simple
rules of equity. v
President Taft has been passing the
"grand jolly" out to the. English and
the French at the same place and at
the same time. Once all hands would
not have been pleased. - But Emperor
William and his' Germany have cast
a large shadow both to the West and
the Southwest.
A Chicago divinity school professor
denounces woman as the root of all
evil. He perhaps means that without
woman the world would be too good
to live in. That's the way Adam
found It, yet wasn't content.
Curious crowds In Chicago attend
the GIngles trial to hear the unprint
able details of the young woman's
story. The musical comedies are
greatly, suffering from the competi
tion. ' '
Summer floods are causlngwreck,
ruin and death in portions of the Mis
sissippi Valley. The great valley of
the Columbia, more fortunate, escaped
wlth only the prophecy of disaster.
Senator Aldrlch will spend a few
days In vacation after his arduous tar
iff labors. Then he will return to
Washington and let the remainder of
the Senate go.
Senator Bourne has big income from
his father's estate, and, like other rich
members of Congress, urges corpora
tion tax as substitute for income tax.
Seattle Is looking for a water-level
line from Eastern Washington to tide
water. It cannot do better than ac
cept the Columbia River.
Farmers .whose new-mown hay lies
drenched In the fields will testify that
it Is risky in Oregon to implore divine
Providence for rain.
By the. time we are fairly beginning
to recover from one safe and sane
Fourth, another rolls around. We are
never out of trouble. r
Mr. Heney talks of going to Alaska
after big game. Is he weary of hunt
ing bigger game in-the wilds of San
Francisco? '
Heney will go after big game In
Alaska. In this -case the sympathy of
juries will not help his victims.
If suffragists in Washington should
get the ballot," then they would have
something to fight about.
JULY 9, 1909.
ONE FOOT OP BOOKS SUGGESTED
Plea Made for Hellenic Spirit, and Goe
the "Faut" and the Bible.
PORTLAND. July 8. (To the Edi
tor.) Anent the storm of criticism rag
ing around Dr. Eliot's "Ave feet of
books," it might seem presumptuous
for me to suggest that four feet of the
same could be cut off. and the list be
Just as good, or even better.
Dr. Eliot's array or books shows all
too plainly the tendency of the mind to
revert to the things of youth when
old age comes on and when the intel
lect, or rather mind, becomes more or
less unable to take on new impressions.
All the hooks recommended by Dr.
Eliot are good, but belong to past gen
erations of scholars and bookworms,
and very few of the present generation
will read them.
This congelation of the human mind
Is a strange thing. Old men and women
live in the past. Music, literature and
art of years long gone by have attrac
tions for them that modern thought
eonnot supply. I think that if one
were limited to a few books, I should
suggest . the Bible and the works of
Goethe and Shakespeare. Here four
languages are represented, Hebrew,
Greek, modern German and English.
Ar" man or woman who has these
great gems of literature and reads them
understanding will be educated in
a high degree. 1 do not Include the
Bible, for religious reasons, for, alas!
I mentally belong to Joyous and sunny
Hellas, but solely for its history and
noble style of expression, which Is of
the grandest.
"Who has ever covered as much
ground In such enchanting manner as
the deer-stealer Shakespeare? Every
list of books. I believe, includes Im
mortal William Bhakespeare. Where
has Goethe's "Faust" ever been ex
celled? Almost everything of the pres
ent day has been fresh adowed in this
great epic. The first part intensely
romantic and appealing, and the second
part nuptial, werid and noble. "Iphe
genla in Tauris," a translation from
Euripides, like a great, solid, beautifully-built
castle, contains thoughts for
a lifetime, and "Wilhelm Melster," and
the "Sorrows of Young Werther," the
latter being the most romantic andsad
dest of all books, are both diamonds of
the purest ray.
Difficult as it is for me to read a
book the second time, I plead guilty
of reading "Faust" 10 times in Ger
man and five or six times in translation,
and I never get tired of it. The Bible,
In its original Hebrew and Greek, is
doubtless very much superior to any
translation so far made. Of "Faust,"
Carl Shurtz says that Byard Taylor's
translation is . a masterpiece. I place
Anna Swanwick's metrical English ver
sion second. Now, I claim that with
these two authors and the Bible, and
the Hellenic spirit to go with them.
Just four feet could be sawed off Dr.
Eliot's bookshelf with profit to every
reader. I do not think the number of
books to be read, or studied, to make
an educated man, can be defined by
anyone, but I do claim that my one
foot of books will make the celebrated
five feet of Dr. Eliot's list look sick.
F. W. VAN DYKE. M. D.
SMALL TAXPAYER, FOR ECONOMY
Patronize Parka We Now Have and
Plant Home Garden, Is Advice.
PORTLAND, July 8. (To the Editor.)
I see by The Oregonian that a cor
respondent is complaining because Mayor
Simon is trying to economize and save
money for the taxpayer.
In regard to the purchase of parks, I
think that Mayor Simon is right. There
is entirely too much money spent on
parks and everything else in this beauti
ful city of ours. I 'am a small taxpayer.
Last year I paid J5.75 taxes; and this
year the same little home, cost me tl8
taxes.
We cannot all live in the center of some
park, but we can make our homes beauti
ful at little expense. A few seeds and
energy will make every little nook around
our homes beautiful. If we mothers
haven't time, the children can do the
garden work, and be happy to do so.
I have two children, a boy 8 years old
and baby 4 months. I give my boy a few
feet of our garden to plant strawberries
and cabbages, and then I teach him to
care for them. He is Just as happy as
though he were running away to some
park or learning to love any place better
than his home. .
It seems to me that if we could teach
our children to be more satisfied with
their homes and surroundings, we would
make better men and women of them
than if we begged the poor .taxpayer to
buy us each a park of our own. Pray,
how many children can reach our parks
at present without using streetcars? So
why not use the parks we now have and
take good care of them? The play
grounds downtown are all right, and I
am glad to pay taxes for such parks.. But
the suburbs of Portland are all a regular
park In themselves.
If the woman correspondent who lives
in Albina will hang the clothesline a lit
tle higher and give those five little chil
dren, say a 10-by-10-foot garden, and
teach them to grow things in it, she and
her children would be just as happy as
if they had all luxuries of the rich.
MRS. H. T.
OREGON AXD SINGLE TAX.
The Sort of Reputation We Are Getting
Abroad.
Eugene Register.
The single taxers are boosting what
they call the Joseph Fels Fund of
America for promotion of the single
tax theory. Joseph Fels Is giving $20,
000 a year for five years toward the
propoganda and using this as a stim
ulus the advisory committee of the or
ganization is sending out circular let
ters and pledge cards trying to swell
the fund. In the circular letter sent
out 'Oregon Is held up as a splendid
field for operation. Just why this is
so, we fail to understand. It is Re
membered that at the last general elec
tion, land tax, initiated by advocates,
was snowed under out of sight. ' It is
apparent, however, that the single
taxers base their hopes of ultimate
success upon the initiative and referen
dum. Judging from the following, which
Is found in the circular. It says:
Oreg-on has tha Initiative and referendum.
There the people have shown amazing ca
pacity and courage In favoring progressive
legislation. It Is the brat place in the world
for a nonpartisan, business-like and thor
ough campaign in behalf of he nest taxes.
Success In one such state would be worth
millions spent In diffusive propaganda.
If. as stated above, .-"the people have
shown amazing capacity and courage
In favoring progressive legislation,"
they have shown like courage and
conviction in wisely turning down the
land tax proposition and are liable to i
continue exerclsig the same degree of
wisdom in this respect for years to
come.
When Oregon first adopted the initia
tive and referendum, it was disposed to
make very foolish and indiscrete use
of it, but now, as the people become
more familiar with the use and abuse
to which it can be put, they are dis
posed to use it with a greater degree
of caution and Judgment. The time has
already' passed for. enactment of, fool
legislation under the people's law.
Cliseklng Girl's Chin, Crime In Iowa.
Des Moines, la., Dispatch.
You can't chuck an Iowa girl under the
chin without being guilty of an assault
if she takes offense at your chucking,
according to a decision of the Supreme
Court of the state. The Court says the
body is one's very own person- and may
not be touched without permission. So,
because Louise Kellor didn't like George
A. Rooney to tickle her under the chin
j he must pay damages for assault. -
HEALTHY CONDITION OF BUSINESS j
Plain Fncti That Escape Those Who
Watch the' Stock Exchange Ticker. j
New York Times. 1
The Statist, one of the most Judicious '
as well as one of the warmest friends of !
American securities, is not one of those i
who think that the quotations have out- I
stripped the improvement in intrinsic con-
dltions on this side of the ocean. Review- !
lng the bank clearings, it' remarks:
"From these figures it is very evident i
that in spite of the panic of a year and a
half ago the business of the United States
has expanded, so vastly that it is 13.3 per
cent larger than three years ago. and 8.7 1
per cent larger than four months before 1
the great panic. Is it wonderful that I
those who are well acquainted with what
le taking place around them are impressed 1
by the potentialities of every kind In the j
country? i
The Statist Is well within the facts.
which are reinforced by occurrences since 1
its publication. The panic threw 24 rail- !
ways into receiverships, involving $6,006,. '
OfK) of capital. It is the fewness of the re-
ceivershlps which Is imnressfve. r,rt k :
essential soundness which enables the
general railway fabric to withstand such
a shock is further attested by the news of
the last few days regarding the termina
tion of. several of them. The fewness of
the industrials embarrassed by the panic
Is a still more striking proof of the solid
ity of their organization. There were
hardly a half-dozen prominent industrials
embarrassed, and even they made money
during their receiverships, and are well on
their way toward taking charge of their
own affairs. Increases of wages, resump
tion of activity, longer hours, are an
nounced every day. The dividends, pav
ahle a week from tomorrow, are $S7,S5S,6M
against tS0.314.S29 last year.
These things, so obtrusive to observers
at a distance from the Stock Exchange,
escape the attention of the observers of
the fluctuations in quotations. It takes
money to "move the crops" and pay J200 -XX,000
of dividends, and when Wall street
wants money the time-honored way of
getting It Is to shake it out of the Stock
Exchange. The better the crops and the
larger the dividends the sharper the
spasm. One of the' questions now said to
be occupying the attention of the Admin
istration is how to provide the currency
necessary to accommodate the prosperity
which is seen approaching. But this is
one of the least of Wall street's worries
It is puzzled why prices have reacted to a
level above the anticipations of a few
months, or even weeks, ago. Meanwhile
the country goes about its business, indif
ferent alike to the politicians who make
the laws what they please instead of
what the voters decree, and to the margin
dealers who make prices what they please
so long as the market is left to them The
combination of a moist soil with Summer
heat is a hard one to beat, and the mil
lions of people who know that their ba
rometer is set fair have as good a right to
their opinion of the financial weather as
they whose sole knowledge is derived
from contemplation of the price ba
rometer. WHEN WILL OREGON COME TO THIS
New England TaklnK l Practically the
Creation of New Forests.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal. .
Vnder state direction, the time Is at hand
"f. T" wf H?1 reP"' forests carelessly
destroyed. The state can produce pine and
f?Ce eeB t0r a very Bm11 '"m per thou
m.iiA ""Vi water "PPly commission
naturally would co-operate with the Forest
and Game Commission to establish nurseries
uraf.ri9O0 trfs Govnor Fernald's inaug-
Governor Fernald was up to. if not
ahead of. th times In this, as In other
features of his lnaugrural address.' This
week Collier's Weekly presents an in
teresting plan to afforest over 800,000
acres of abandoned forestless land in
New Hampshire. It has been estimated
that if the state were to take this cheap
land and plant it with trees, meeting
the expense by a long-term bond issue,
the Investment would prove a profit
able one financially 30 ' or 40 years
hence. The state's timber resources
would be greatly increased and the
waste land would be put to excellent
use.
This proposal relative to New Hamp
shire is much akin to that of Governor
Fernald "to replant forests carelessly
destroyed." Great Britain's new budget
appropriates $1,000,000 to reforest great
portions of waste land in Scotland,
England and Ireland. This beats
building Dreadnoughts all hollow. Eng
land has ruthlpeslv n.wrl.w..n . . . .
Only 4 per cent of the United King
dom Is now wooded. Germany has long
had a forestry policy, sane and judi
cious. This gives Germany 25 per cent
of forests. .
Maine is better off than New Hamp
shire. New Hampshire has been largely
cleared of forests. Her work of re
forestation would help swell the volume
6f Maine lakes and streams, for we are
her neighbor and her rivers are in
some degree also ours.
Governor Fernald was prophetic In
his suggestion. New Hampshire will
be prophetic In her's. The balance be
tween forest and cleared land may be
forever sustained. Trees are a crop.
If we sow so also shall we reap.
If Mr. Taft Kalis to Keep Faith.
Chicago News.
Those persons who are pinning their
faith to the President naturally will
insist that Mr. Taft kept faith with
the country. If the corporation tax Is
his price for letting a bad tariff meas
ure become a law, there will be a lot
of political excitement in certain states
of the Central West. If he vetoes a
bad bill the public still will have the
old Dlngley tariff bill. to tax them In
the old familiar way and campaign
promises will be quoted cheap in the
market- Since Mr. Taft has chosen to
take a prominent part in the work of
Congress, he cannot be held blameless
if there Is a'failure to enact a distinctly
better tariff law than that now in existence.
"When I Was Your Age."
S. B. Kiser In Chicago Record-Herald.
When pa was my age there were few
Grown men who could do what he could do;
He didn't waste his time at play.
But did a man's work every day;
He'd muscles that were hard and strong;
He sought the right and shunned the wrong;
His parents never had to scold
Or fret when pa was twelve years old.
"When I was your age " Jlmmunnee!
How often pa says that to me!
At every meal I have to hear
The same old thing, or pretty near;
When he was my age he would eat
Just wholesome tilings and pass the sweet;
He wouldn't even taste oX cake.
And shunned pie for his stummick's sake.
When pa was my age he would save
Up every cent he got and brave?
If he'd of met a lion. It
Could not of frightened him a bit!
The thing he liked to do the best
Was good hard work, with little rest;
In school he stood above them all.
And he was nearly six feet tall.
"When I was your age -" Every day
Pa hands that out the same old way;
His head Is bald, his stummick's bad;
He's lost the muscle that he had;
Ma can't afford to keep a maid;
Pa's not a . great man. I'm afraid
At least no banners seem to fly.
And no bands play when he goes by.
Down where he labors, wet and dry.
They keep pa in a little cage;
I wonder why he wishes I
Would be like he was at my age 7
PARTY BADLY NEEDS LEADERSHIP
Call on Taft to Redeem Promises Made
br Republicans.
New York Journal of Commerce.
But what will be the President's po
sition? He has shown from time to time
a recognition of what the promises of
his party and the expectation of the
people are in this matter of tariff re
vision. He displayed a full apprecia
tion of it during the Presidential cam
paign, and it strengthened him with
the people. He exhibited it again in
his inaugural address and in calling a
special session of Congress to fulfill the
promises and satisfy the expectation.
In his New Haven speech he showed
that he had not lost his sense of what
the party ought to do; but what is he
doing about it. or going to do about it?
He has made his wishes known in
indirect and tentative ways, but no
heed has been paid to them. His di
rect and positive recommendations
have related, not to tariff rates, but to
special taxes for revenue to supply
there has been seized upon as an aid to
tariff deficiencies; and the latest of
carrying through the Aldrlch bill, which
Is worse than' a travesty of tariff re
vision. '
It is a revision in direct and con
temptuous conflict with party promises
and popular expectation, and for the
benefit of interests already overpro
tected. Its adoption will almost surely
result in the defeat of the party re
sponsible for it. for it is at least as
Important to have the party in power
able, patriotic and efficient as the one
in opposition, and it is essential that
it should be tolerably honest in keep
ing its word. The party needs a leader
whom the people can trust and to
whose support they will rally when
self-imposed leaders betray them.
Where is he?
Bailey Excoriated at Home.
Galveston (Tex.) News.
Senator Bailey has been claiming to
be a consistent party democrat all his
life. For more than 20 years he has
been the most bitter of all the public
men of Texas in his manipulation of
the party lash. . To show himself
fierce, he has called men like Senator
Aldrlch and others with whom he
now trains "radicals." He has defined
a Democrat as "a man who votes tha
ticket." No man has abused bolters,
renegades, independents and traitors to
the party more mercilessly than he has
abused them. Considering what he has
said in 'past years in his speeches to
his people, he is the very last man
whom these people would expect to
find lodged in royal state at the Waldorf-Astoria,
or at Stoneleigh Court,
ridiculing and abusing the Democratic
party in his daily speeches In the Sen
ate, or holding "seances" with radicals
like Senator Aldrlch. But there he
stands today, opposing his fellow-Senator
from, Texas and other loyal Demo
crats; opposing the party platform,
ridiculing "and condemning the party's
record, voting with the enemy In favor
of the trusts.
Pittsburg's Costly Tennis.
Pittsburg Cor. New York World.
Built on property valued at Jl.flOO.OOO,
three tennis courts, in the very heart of
Greater Pittsburg's business center, have
been opened. The ground is owned by
Henry Phipps and fronts on Duquesne
Way. Mr. Phipps, who once had plans
drawn for tennis courts on top of his
office buildings here, took a-great Interest
in the tennis idea here and leased to
the Ft. Pitt Athletic Club the ground
in question at a merely nominal cost. It
is said to be the most expensive tennis
court in the country. It was necessary
to tear down three building!- in order to
get enough ground for the three courts,
though the buildings demolished paid
about J50.000 a year in rent.
Some years since Mr. Phipps declared
there should be a place in downtown
Pittsburg where the business man could
go readily from his office and find soma
recreation in the afternoon.
John Gs Carlisle's Historic White Hat.
Washington. D. C-, Dispatch.
John G. Carlisle still wears that old
white stovepipe hat. He had it on when
he went to the White House to make
an argument before the President on
the subject of what Is whisky. It may
not be the same hat that Air. Carlisle
used to wear in the days when he was
a member of the Cleveland Cabinet and
when he was a familiar figure along
Pennsylvania avenue. But it is either
the same one or an exact duplicate.
Mr. Carlisle has worn a white tile for
so long he would feel lost without It.
His appearance at the White House,
sitting in the lobby of the executive
offices alongside of Joseph G. Choate,
the two being at the very top of the
American bar attracted much notice
from the crowd of callers, members of
Congress and others.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt's Generosity.
Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel show
plenty of common sense. The former de
clines to be interviewed, and the latter
when asked recently to pose for her
picture replied: "We have been in -the
public eye for seven years and have had
enough of it. Give somebody else a
chance."
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTIONS OF
The SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
FOUETH OF JULY
IN CENTRAL OREGON
Unusual celebration at Bend,
where one feature was a barbecue
of 700 pounds of fresh mountain
trout.
EUGENE'S ROMANTIC
MILL-RACE
Particular phase of University
life that lingers most fondly in
the memory of graduates of either
sex.
NOTED AMERICAN
MATRONS AND MAIDS
A page of striking photographs
of women prominent in social cir
cles on two continents.
JOURNAL OF A
NEGLECTED WIFE
Second chapter of one of the
most intense stories of American
life.
FROM THE JAPANESE
SCHOOLBOY
Hashimura Togo lets loose a col
lection of sunstruck thoughts in
his naive way.
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