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PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. JULY 14. 1909.
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CAN THK AMENDMENT BE BEATEN?
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, leader In
the Senate of those who oppose the
corporation tax and plead for an In
come tax, puts on record a prediction
that the income tax amendment "will
be defeated; that It la not the Inten
tion of those who have forced the
proposition for an amendment that it
hall he adopted, but that the project
Is merely an expedient to kill the in
come tax in this way. instead of frank
ly enacting such tax into law at the
present time. Of course. Senator Cum
mins holds that a statute that would
be legal, for taxation of incomes,
could be enacted without amendment
of the Constitution, but that this sim
ple method is to be side-tracked by
proposal or constitutional amendment,
which it is the intent to kill in a suf
ficient number of states to rrevent
ratification. "I know," said Senator
Cummins, "the) views of men too well
to believe that there are not twelve
states in the Vnion in which an alert
and vigilant minority can prevent the
adoption of this resolution by the Leg
islatures of those states. If I am liv
ing In the years to come, say Ave or six
years hence, and if I am then a mem
ber of this body, while I will not do It
with any pleasure, nevertheless. I will
not deny myself the satisfaction of
pointing. out the fate of the proposed
fniendment to the Constitution. In
my Judgment, yon will never hear from
it, or much of It. arter it has passed
this Congress. I say that in order that
It'may be understood that I vote for it
without any expectation that it will
yer be effective in sustaining an Income-tax
law." In orher words, the
Senator voted for submission of the
amendment that it might not be al
leged that he had opposed Income tax.
It will be pointed out that It prob
ably will not be difficult to prevent the
adoption of the amendment by one
branch or the other of the Legislatures
ef various states. Both branches of
ach Legislature must adopt the res
olution of ratification; and effort is
likely to be concentrated in the branch
Qf smallest number of members. In
many of the states the Senate is but a
pmall body: In all. It Is much smaller
iThan the other branch. It may be ex
' parted, of course, that concentrated
-aJth. that produces large Incomes
table to taxation, will exert itself
gurit.t the proposed amendment; and
to many cases it will Jiave the assist
'e and support of the people of
mBr incomes.
Ne-rerrnefess, it seems improbable
that the ratification can be prevented.
Th proposition has great force of
public opinion behind it; but there are
many states whose people have large
Investments of various kinds, at home
and abroad. In which strong opposition
may be made to this tax. The older
and riijher states or some of them
will bring strong opposition against
It. the newer and less wealthy states
will all ratify It. practically without
opposition. But we believe it will be
adopted and shall not expect to see
fulfilment of the Iowa Senator's pre
diction. Yet we believe the best judg
ment of the country is In substantial
agreement with his , opinion that the
amendment Is not necessary, and that
a statute could easily be drawn which
would not be open to the objection of
unconstitutionality. This last year
was President Taft's opinion, and prob
ably is his real opinion stilL
But, of course, if opponents of in
some tax can succeed in their efforts
to prevent ratification, they will assert
that the subject has finally been dis
posed of. Yet that, by no means,
would be the necessary consequence.
In their efforts against ratification of
the amendment they will be assisted,
however, by the extreme protection
ists, who do not desire the adoption of
a system of raising necessary revenue
without Intervention of the plea In
their- own behalf for "protection" out
of which they constantly heap up
splendid profits for themselves.
! " " : ' .
. . EASY MATRIMONY.
The accounts in the papers lately of
the gay Lotharios who have wooed
and won anywhere from half a dozen
t,o a score of wives, -do not make one
think that matrimony is such a diffi
cult thing to accomplish, after all. The
young man "who, complains that no
girl -will have him, must lack either
courage or some otner essential fac
ulty. - Perhaps what he really lacks Is
the wish to- take the responsibilities
or a family on his shoulders. The
facts show that it Is about the easiest
trick In r the world to win a woman's
heart and get possession of her money.
All the impostor need-do la to nut on
a bold face and tell, her some more or
lops .probable tale ofN lov,e. In a day
or -two sne is ready tr march to the
preacher with .htm. , ,
It is one of the most astonishing
i rungs in the world that any woman
should entrust her fortune, and her
happiness to a man of whom she
' knows nothing. Sensible people will
' not cas-h a ;heck for a stringer- They
liy.. not, ao Dustness with a person
ho has no credentials. But there
re women, multitudes of them, who,
'S soon as they hear a few flattering
: speeches" from a 'man, they have never
t seen before,- will put everything they
have, and h6pe for. Into hisands.
They do not stop to ask who' he Is,
; where he comes from, what has been
his past career. His habits may be
?ood or bad.- His character may be
that of a saint or a rapscallion. Noth
ing mkes any difference. On they rush
blindly and foolishly and the natural
consequence is misery. Of course,
th poor creatures deserve sympathy,
' but If the good Lord -would only give
them a little more sense It would be
better for them than all the sympathy
in' the universe. "
WATER FOR PORTLAND.
Portland receives from Bull Run
22.000.000 gallons of water a day. It
is more than 100. gallons a day for
each person within tne range or limit
of the service. Suburbs are now com
ing In, to be served.' whlch will some
what reduce this per caput supply. Of
course, much water is wasted. Few
of the great cities of the world receive
bo much, in proportion to their num
bers as Portland. None, perhaps, ex
cept in the United States.
About forty gallons a da- 13 the
average in London. Berlin has about
only one-half as much. Hamburg has
forty-seven gallons and Munich forty-
six gallons. In Paris the daily supply
is 52.8 gallons; and water, as every
traveler knows. Is often scarce in
Paris. Glasgow, with sixty gallons a
day, is the most liberally supplied city
in the United Kingdom. Zurich, in
Switzerland, is said to have the largest
rate of any city of Europe about
ninety gallons per caput. Zurich,
however, is exceptionally well situated
for abundant and cheap water supply.
Its population is about 150,000.
In the United States, as we find "from
examination of authorities. 100 gallons
a day seems to be in general the min
imum for the larger cities, but the
supply, especially for the smaller
cities. In many cases is above this fig
ure, aaid often reaches as high as 200
gallons. In his book on "Municipal
Activities," Professor Fairlie, of the
University of Michigan, explains truly
that this larger consumption of water
in the United States Is due to con
ditions here which favor Its more gen
eral use for beneficial ends. The dis
tribution of water into almost every
room promotes a larger use for do
mestic purposes; a larger amount is
utilized in water closets and bath
rooms, which are so much more
general in this country than elsewhere;
the amount used, for public purposes,
such as the extinction of fires and the
flushing of sewers and streets is also
greater In the United States than In
foreign countries though there are
exceptions. Nor is water used so cau
tiously or sparingly on private lawns
and gardens in the United States. Our
people do not like to stint the use of
water, nor indeed the use of anything
else they can get.
In Portland we have about 100 gal
lons per caput at present. Universal
use of meters undoubtedly would re
duce it. Their use seems necessary, to
compel those who require large quan
tities to pay for what they get; but the
question remains whether it Is wise at
this time to introduce them Into every
private dwelling. Cost 'to the city of
so many meters is a heavy item. And
pay of numerous Inspectors would beef
another heavy Item.
But we believe the growth of the
city will very soon, demand further
supply, and. therefore, an additional
pipe line. It will hardly be possible to
keep the consumption down to a limit
that will obviate the necessity of an
other tube from' Bull Run, without
enforcing short supply on those who
are above the lower levels. Question
is. ought we to take measures now to
keep the supply up to about 100 gal
lons for each dweller in the city, or let
it run down lower? Here is a. matter
for general discussion.
SHARP BUT FUTILE CRITICISM.
Those are pretty effective criticisms
as party . criticisms go which are
pressed in the Senate and House, from
the Democratic side, against their Re
publican opponents. "You denounce
Bryan," one Democratic brother ex
claims; "yet the man you elevated has
virtually repeated the very same words
that for twelve years the Democratic
party had uttered." This fine oratory
was Inspired by the debate on the in
come tax amendment.
Superficially, it is true. But the
people of the United States have not
cared what Bryan said about the in
come tax, or even about protective
tariff, or about Supreme Court decis
ions, or anti-corporation legislation.
Bryan burst on the world in 1896, as a
prophet, philosopher, priest and king
of the silver craze- the effort to upset
the law of values and the meaning of
money. The man who could have so
little sanity and sense never has been
trusted since; never will be. Nobody
minds Bryan's advocacy of anything
since. It almost discredits even the
sanest thing, when Bryan appears as
an advocate of it. Hence the tri
umphant clafm now that Bryan was an
advocate of income tax before Taft
was, loses its triumph.
Judgment of Bryan goes, and always
will go, on his supreme folly of trying
to make silver equal to gold, as money,
at sixteen to one, and on the disastrous
consequences witnessed In the panic of
1893-97.. After Bryan's "crown . of
thorns and cross or gold" speech in
1896, ana his reward of the nomina
tion for it on a platform suited to the
speech, it never has been more possible
to elect him to the Presidency of the'
United States than it would have been
possible to elect Jefferson Davis after
the fall of Richmond and down to his
death. These fifty years and more
the Democratic party, on great ques
tions, never has had (as a party) any
rational conception of National re
quirements. It won by accident with
Cleveland, but it failed to understand
him, and immediately repudiated him.
Bryan has been its Ideal and idol ever J
Party divisions in our politics, dur
ing the last fifty years, have turned on
two cardinal matters; one the asser
tion of National authority and main
tenance of the Union, including first,
restriction, and then abolition of slav
ery; the other, maintenance of the
National faith and National credit, In
cluding recognition and payment of
the National de"bt and other debts in
money of sound value; and to-this
end maintenance of the gold standard.
To these all other matters have been
subordinate even protective tariff
and Income tax. It will be said, of
course, that those leading subjects
of contention long ago disappeared.
Nevertheless, no man who was re
garded as a chief on the wrong side
of either of them ever has received
or ever will receive any consideration
at the hands of the majority of the
American people. Thefe are political
sins, as well as-other sins, that are
inexpiable. Men who have been so
wrong in great matters never will be
trusted in .great matters though at
times they may be trusted, or partially
trusiea, in smaller ones.
No matter how many things Bryan
might advocate, with which the people
in general might agree now. He has
been beaten steadily heretofore, and
will be beaten forever, on his record
on the money question. His was the
unpardonable sin of our later -time;
Just as devotion to slavery and sympal
thy with those who attempted dissolu
tion of the Union, was the unDardon-
able sin of the earlier time. Every
pro-slavery Democrat was beaten in
tlje earlier time for the Presidency;
every pro-silver Democrat .has been
doomed to defeat in the later.
THE COWARD'S RESOURCE.
The theory that depressing weather
and the reflection of the bodily dis
comfort that it casts upon the mind Is
especially conducive to suicide is not
borne out by the records of the past
few days in Portland. Five persons
have taken their own lives in this
city and immediate vicinity within a
week In fact within three days -Justifying
the belief that the- suicidal
mania is not a thermal malaflv.
The usual variety of means to this I
grewsome end were employed in these j
cases tne revolver, hanging, acid and
falling in the way of a moving train
each claiming a subject. The cause,
as far as it could be traced, of these
self-murders was, except in one case,
where the suicide was suffering from
tuberculosis, nothing that might not
have been overcome by the exercise
of ordinary fortitude. The vicissi
tudes of life bore no harder in either
of the cases than in thousands which
are met by men and women with tran
quillity if not with cheerfulness to the
end of a long life. .Grief, lack of em
ployment, ill health, domestic trouble,
these are the usual causes that lead up
to suicide, and all of these have been
and are constantly being met and
overcome as the common vicissitudes
of life before which only the coward
quails and voluntarily surrenders.
If there is any remedy for this lack
of courage for the cowardice that
weakly drops a burden without regard
to wnere or upon whom It falls no
such remedy has been discovered, and
it is probably not too much to say
that no such discovery will be made
while weaklings find it easier and
more suited to their inclination to lie
down than to stand up when the
storms of life assail. .
THE FALL OF THE BASTILLE.
The fall of the Bastille, on July 14,
1789. was one of those events which,
divide the history of the world into
strongly contrasting periods. Since it
happened, nothing in politics or re
ligion has been quite the same as It
was before. With the walls of the
ancient stronghold of tyranny in Paris
the whole fabric of superstition and
wrong, which priests and monarchs.
had been slowly building up for more
than a thousand years, tottered to de
struction. For seven weeks before
the Bastille was attacked there had
been fierce contention over the organi
zation of the National Assembly. .This
body was composed of three orders,
the nobility, the clergy and the renre-
sentatives of the masses, the famous
tiers etatf." It was the wish of the
court party that the two upper orders
should sit in a separate chamber.
while Mirabeau and the - other cham
pions of the people held out for a
united assembly. Matters were finally
brought to a head by Louis XVI, who
ordered each estate to sit by itself, tell
ing tne deputies that if they did not
obey, he would send them home and
right the wrongs of the country with
out their help.
This order the third estate ignored.
The deputies continued sitting and
declared themselves to be the National
Assembly. The pther two orders might
Join them or not, as they pleased- Their
act amounted to open rebellion against
the royal authority, but Louis lacked
the resolution to resent It. The peo
ple's delegates held their ground and
the nobility and clergy finally united
with them. While this contention was
going forward, the City of Paris was
furiously agitated. Naturallj-, the cit
izens sided with" their representatives
and did everything possible by pub
lic meetings, lurid speeches and pro
cessions to intimidate the court and its
allies. Meetings were especially fre
quent aid fiery In the Palais- Royal,
which belonged to the Duke of Orleans
a member fit the royal family, who
was fishing in troubled waters at that
time for whatever he might catch. The
citizens especially depended on Necker,
Minister of Finance, who was opposed
to" any attempt to intimidate the as
sembly and advised the King not to
employ force against the turbulent
city. Necker, however, made no head
way against the Queen, Marie Antoin
ette, and the King's relations. German
and Swiss mercenaries were stationed
at various points to overawe the people
and on July 11 Louis dismissed Necker
and ordered him out of the Kingdom.
The next day, Sunday, a tumultuous
multitude assembled at the Palais
Royal. The people were angry at
Necker's dismissal and frightened for
their own safety. Nobody knew what
the vacillating .King might do next.
Camille Desmoulins, a young man of
fiery temperament and a good orator,
jumped on a table and called the peo
ple to arms. "Citizens, they have
driven Necker from office. They are
preparing a St. Bartholomew for pat
riots," he shouted. The multitude
flew into a frenzy at his words,. Green
cockades, "the symbol of hope," were
procured by hook or crook, some us
ing leaves from the trees in the palace
garden, some taking ribbone from the
stores. A bust of Necker was seized
and the people began to march with
it through the streets, breathing out
threats and rebellion. A band of
German mercenaries foolishly fired on
the mob and afterwards attacked an
other gathering in the Tuilerles gar
dens, but nothing effectual was done
to check the growing insurrection. Per
haps nothing could have been done.
In the night the people built barri
cades out of paving stones. Arms
were seized wherever they could be
found and all the blacksmiths in the
city were set at work making pikes.
Almost 200,000 citizens were ready to
strike against the court, but compara
tively few of them had weapons, so
that even a small force of determined
troops might perhaps have restored
quiet. The trouble was that the .King
lacked the character On the one hand,
while, on the other, he had no troops
whom he could trust except the foreign
mercenaries. At 2 o'clock on the aft
ernoon of the thirteenth, 3600' of his
French guards deserted in a body and
went over to the people.
On the morning of Tuesday, the
fourteenth, the citizens obtained a
supply of : muskets toy breaking into
the King's arsenal at the Hotel des
Invalldes. The mob then directed its
course toward the Bastille. This an
cient fortress had been used for hun
dreds of years to punish persons who
showed signs of discontent, with the
established order. Priests, poets, poli
ticians, statesmen were immured in its
dungeons and many of them, not
knowing of what they were accused,
lay there all their lives, as much dead
to the world as if they had been in
their graves. To Paris, the fortress
was the symbol of all that- it- hated
and feared. ' It denoted tyranny, blind
injustice and bigoted power. On this
fateful day it was .commanded by a
veteran named De Launay. who had
eighty-two Invalldes and thirty-two
Swiss soldiens under Mm. He had
plenty of ammunition, but only one
day's provisions. The people began
their- assault at about 1 o'clock in
the afternoon. De Launay had raised
the drawbridges so that the assailants
could not even approach the walls at
first. They could only fire ineffectu
ally from a distance. But finally a
brave workman cut with his axe the
chains which suspended one of the
bridges, and then the crowd crossed
the moat. Still they seemed no nearer
the capture of the fortress than thev
were before, for the walls were all but
impregnable. It happened, however,
that De Launay was not a particularly
steadfast man. He had threatened at
first to blow up the Bastille rather
than surrender it. but after four
hours' fighting he changed his mind,
especially V-hen he found that his In
valldes half sympathized with the
ptopie. At 5 in the afternoon a white
flag was put out and the Bastille sur
rendered. The Duke of Liancourt took
the news to the King. "Why, this is a
revolt," exclaimed the bewllderel
Louis. "It is not revolt, sire." re
plied the Duke, "it is a revolution."
He was right. When the sun rose
the Text morning a new era had
dawned on France and the world.
The age of authority had passed away.
The age of free thought had begun.
"No rogue should enjoy his ill-gotten
plunder for the simple reason that
his victim is by chance a fool," says
the Washington Supreme Court In re
versing a case where a wildcat land
company had successfully defrauded
an "innocent purchaser." There is
something in this logic which must ap
peal to all lovers of fair play, but If
our courts should be called on to pro
tect all of the fools from the effects
of their own folly, they would be kept
very busy. At the same time it is
pleasing to note that it Is one of those
most despicable of all rogues, the
seller of wildcat real estate, that stands
a fair chance of being forced to dis
gorge his plunder. It Is difficult , to
draw any fine line of distinction be
tween the man who runs a bunco sav
ings bank and the purveyor of wildcat
property. Both depend for victims on
the ignorant people who can III afford
to lose their hard-earned savings, and
when their savings are lost, hope and
the incentive to save go with them.
The Upper Willamette is at an excel
lent boating stage a condition un
usual for midsummer. The Govern
ment dredge is doing good work in im
proving the channel, to the great sat
isfaction of farmers, who are loyal to
the river. Relatively a small part of
the crops of the Valley are moved by
water, but in keeping the waterway
open lies the hope of the farming com
munity against the freight exactions
of railroad traffic. While this feeling
is less strenuous and not so clearly
defined as in -former years. It still ex
ists, and through it the agricultural
population is loyal to the river.
Lake Nairasha, In British East Af
rica, where Roosevelt is shooting, is
a small lake lying directly east some
200 miles of Lake Victoria Nyanza,
main reservoir and chief source of the
Nile. The small lakes which the re
gion contains apparently have no out
let. Lake Nairasha Is about five de
gress south, of the equator, a latitude
of tropical conditions, modified, of
course, by the great elevations. The
country is subject to heavy rains.
Lord Roberts has introduced a bill
in the House of Lords providing for
compulsory service In the territorial
army of all male citizens between the
ages of 18. and 30- This ought to help
solve the problem of the unemployed
in Great Britain, but, unless the phys
ical requirements are easy, it is un
certain what kind of an army England
would get "by this method.
Good authority on electric lighting
tells us that tie possibility of electric
lighting was demonstrated in Paris in
1877; but the practical use of such
lighting dates from 18S0, when an
electric- arc plant was installed at
Wabash, lnd. Vienna was among the
first of large cities to make use of it.
on an extended scale. By 1882 it was
comina; -iTito general use.
The esteemed Tacoma Tribune be
lieves the products of the interior
never will be hauled down past Port
land, on water-level road, to Astoria,
for nothing, but thinks they may be
hauled past Portland 145 miles over
heavy grades to Tacoma for nothing.
You see. It's the standpoint, not the
logic or the facts.
"Storming of the Bastille" this day
one hundred and twenty years ago.
An affair little worthy of note, only
it has been made a symbol of all prog
ress of democracy since, by those who
conveniently disregard democracy's
follies and errors.
Bigamist Madson's gayest sojourn
was in Portland, where he married a
woman and with her money made love
to nine others. There never was any
other man so gay that he could dodge
that many women in Portland.
Portland Is to have a new garbage
burner, and the unusual part of the
plan la that the city has a Mayor who
is not trying to make out of it for
himself political advertising.
In Clark County, Washington, a man
committed suicide to escape mosqui
toes. Other places the victims gener
ally kill the mosquitoes.
i
The weather may have been fine for
potatoes, but it's a good thing for po
tato prices that the haygrowers didn't
raise potatoes instead. "
The strange part of Mr. Harriman's
paralysis of the legs Is that he hasn't
worn them out living over there in
Central Oregon.
With the suffragists who declare
they don't wish to marry until they
get the ballot, it's probably a case of
sour grapes. ,
The Colombian revolution is said to
be ended. That's hard on the "Gen
erals" who have no other means of
livelihood.-
Elsie Sigel, the New York police
learn, was victim : of poison. Her
mother sent ler to Chinese missions to
find it.
If the best talker is to win the Jeffries-Nelson
prizefight, it will take the
knockout to determine the best man.
CUSHMAX'S EPIGRAMMATIC WIT
Sample of Hie Humorous Remarks In
the House of Congress.
' -- - New York Amerlcan.
- There had long been the claim that
Frank Marion-Eddy, of -Minnesota, was.
the homltest man in the -hall. Walking
down the aisle one day, Cushman
claimed the Speakers attention, and
after a spread-eagle speech that might
have prefaced any subject, he turned
toward Eddy and said: "Look us over
compare this face with that (point-
lu8 1 Ed.dy ani tell me am I not
the homelier?"
Having succeeded to the seat made
vacant by James Hamilton Lewis, the
members were anxious . to see what
Jim Hams" successor was like. They
saw six feet of dangling, slim man-
,.Z'. a ober- gloom;- exterior, with
clothing hanging llmp and 111-flttlng.
They gazed at him for a moment and
f?' bUtinS lnto a laugh, some one
said: Great heavens, do they raise
anything but freaks In Washington?"
To which Cushman replied drawlingly
-J . 6 V TF. try to keeP Pace wlth the
rest of this great country, sir"
When the river ,and harbor bill was
being discussed, and most of the mem
bers had hidden themselves In the cloak
rooms. Cushman rose to speak. No one
paid much attention for awhile. Sud
denly some listener awoke the House
with a roar of laughter. Five min
utes later every seat was filled list
ening io one or the wittiest speeches
ever delivered there.
J. Adam Bede, who had a reputation
for humor, was once followed in one
of his wittiest speeches by Cushman,
who said: "After listening to Mr. Bedes
speech, I am forced to the conclusion
that my folks subscribed to the same
almanac that his did."
After Secretary Hitchcock resigned
from the Interior Department Cushman
made a speech in which he said: "When
the news of Mr. Hitchcock's retirement
was sent out there was not a dry throat
west of the Mississippi."
Telling of his going to Congress,
he said: "I crept noiselessly into the
hall, oppressed by the vast gobs of
statesmanship I knew were to be found
on every hand conscious of my own
unworthlness except as io the matter
of depulchritude. where I knew I was
supreme."
Now and then Cushman eisayed to
flay the methods of the House. On
one occasion-he said: "AT man who In
troduces a bill here puts his manhood
in his pocket and goes trotting down
the aisle to the Speaker's room or the
bill dies."
His pet aversion was Speaker Can
non, of whom he said: "All the glories
that clustered around the Holy of Ho
lies of King Solomon's Temple look
like 30 cents when compared to him
in his room."
Ohio once got so much in a river
and harbor appropriation that Cushman
said if he were asked to bound the
state he would say "It is bounded on
the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the
west by the Pacific, on the south by
the Gulf of Mexico, and on the north
by the chairman of the rivers and hax
bors committee."
Here are a few of Cushman's epi
grams: "The -only thing on earth that will
ever approach our rise . may be the
swiftness of our fall."
"A great many of our citizens' seem
to be possessed of the desire to live
on the installment plan too many live
swiftly; too few properly-"
"There are too many of us Ameri
cans who would rather ride in a mort
gaged automobile, run with borrowed
gasoline, than walk In the path. . of
honorable obscurity."
"The law-making machinery of this
Government cannot by any human in
genuity be enlarged or accelerated so
that it can move as quickly or in as
many directions as -unrestrained indi
vidual crookedness." . .. ,
Lt All Pay tor Water They Use.
PORTLAND, July 13. (To the Edi
tor.) I wish to suggest that If Mayor
Simon and his new regime intend to
yield to the pressure brought to bear
by the big water-users and abolish
meters from households, it wlil be bet
ter for them not to attempt to hide
behind a pretense of benefiting the
householder by "giving him plenty of
water," etc. I emphatically assert that
I have never used more water in a
given period than I have used in the
three months since my meter was in
stalled, both in the house and for ir
rigation, yet the cost to me has been
reduced to one-half that of the flat
rate system. The same is the exper
ience of all my neighbors and acquain
tances. We are all up In arms at
the mere suggestion of any policy that
will deprive us of. our meters, and if
Mayor Simon inaugurates such policyi
he will have to weather a storm that
will leave marks. Let every man pay
for the water he uses, but not one cent
for the water that another man uses,
and let the rate be fixed high enough
not only to pay for and maintain a
full system of meters, but to support
the whole water system of the city.
This sentiment is strong and univer
sal among householders.
C. B. MORGAN.
381 E. Eighth street, North.
Pastor's 60,000-Mile Drive.
Allentown. Pa Cor. Philadelphia Press.
At the Union Church, at Neffsville,
Dr. E. J. Fogel announced his reslg
nator as pastor of the Reformed Con
gregation at that place. Dr. Fogel has
served the Jordan charge, which In
cludes three churches besides Union,
for 42 years and 6 months, and during
this time he calculates that he has
driven 50,000 miles in attending to the
needs of the Union Church alone. He
has baptized over 800 children, con
firmed 900, officiated at 842 funerals
and preached over 1100 sermons at
this one church.
Two 'Speeches" In Six Years.
Eugene Register.
Bourne has just made his maiden
speech (from typewritten copy). Let's
see, how long has Bourne been Sena
tor, anyway? At the present ratio, he
ought to be able to spring another
speech before his present term expires.
THE VILLAIX.
BY T. T. G.
What man is this who spoils the crops
By sending rain in endless drops
Which never, never, never stops?
Hofer.
Who rots the hay in rounding cock
That's needed for the growing stock.
And gives us all a withering shock? ,
Hofer.
Who cracks the cherries for the fair
By sending up his thoughtless prayer.
And does It all without a care?
Hofer. . .
Who makes July so blooming cool
Upsetting Nature's well-known rule
And paints old Pluv a helpless fool?
Hofer.
Who roasts the crops on sage-brush plain
And gives the rancher an awful pain
By holding back the soaking rain?
Hofer.
Who views this waste without a tear.
E'en throws a smile from ear to ear, '
. And meets our protests with a Jeer?'
The same.
Who'll suffer In the by-and-bye, .
When comes the day that he must die,
. For all this monkeying with the sky
Unable to prove an alibi?
Ditto. . U--' v
TALKED WITH DR.
Professor James' Report o Cnirutin. niik tii- t-. . j .
World.
New York Times.
Professor William James of Harvard
has written a-long report on the alleged
communications of the spirit of the late
Dr. Richard Hodgson, who died on De
cember 20, 1905, to many persons, through
Mrs. Piper, the medium. The report takes
up more than a hundred pages of the
number of the "Proceedings of the Ameri
can society for Psychical Research." '
about to be Issued, and contains extensive
verbatim records of the communications.
One of the longer records is that of a
"conversation" carried on between Pro
fessor James himself and what is be
lieved by Dr. James H. Hyslop. secretary
of the society.- and others, to be the
spirit of Dr. Hodgson.
Professor James Is loath to commit
himself to a positive belief In this so
called spirit communication. He says:
"But If asked whether the will to com
municate be Hodgson's or be some mere
spirit counterfeit of Hodgson, I remain
uncertain and await more facts, facts
which may not point clearly to a conclu
sion for fifty or. a hundred years."
Earlier in -his chapter on conclusions
drawn from the .records, however, he
says:
"But it is possible to complicate the
hypothesis. Extraneous 'wills to com
municate' may contribute to the results
as well as a 'will to personate.' and thb
two kinds of will may be destined in
entity, though capable of helping each
other out. The will to communicate in
our present instance. would be. on the
prima facie view f it tho win r xt
son's surviving spirit; and a natural way
of representing the process would be 9
suppose the spirit to have found that by
pressing, so to speak, against 'the light,'
It can make fragmentary gleams and
flashes of what it wishes to say mix with
t ie rubbish of the trance-talk on this
side.
"The two wills might thus strike up
a sort of partnership and stir each other
up. It might even be that the 'will to
personate' would be Inert unless It were
aroused to activity by the other will.
Vve might Imagine the relation to be
analogous to that of two -physical bodies,
from neither of which, when alone, me
chanical, thermal, or electrical effects
can proceed; but If the other body be
present, and show a difference of 'po
tential, action starts up and goes on
apace.
"Conceptions such as - these seem to
connect in schematic form the various
elements in the case. Its essential fac
tors ara done justice to. and. by changing
the relative amounts In which the rubbish-making
and the truth-telling will
Sn "k," . th" reaulta"t, we can draw
ftttn'V" Wh ?,h every ty'P of manifestation-
from silly planchet-wrlting up
to Rectors best uterances, finds its
proper place.
T 'reJ"-,n"y must 8ay that- although
I have to confess that no crucial proof
t2le,i'reSe,lee f the 'w111 to communi
cate seems to me yielded by the Hodg
son control taken alone, and in the sit
tings to which I have had access, yet the
2htmvffVL,n th.e way f dramatic prob
ability of the whole mass of similar phe-
Ulen.t my mlnd ls to make "e be
1T h.at a W1U to communicate' is in
some shape there. I cannot demonstrate
t but practically I am inclined to 'go
risks?" ' t0 bCt 0n "' and take 8
oeS a,re ,ome 'actions from the Rich-ard-j??.lgs.0ncqntrorsiitterances
from
PLEA FOR. A BOULEVARD SYSTEM
Writer Suggests New Routes on Both
Sides of Willamette River.
PORTLAND. July 13. (To the Editor.)
I have heard much about the Portland
boulevard system but upon -investigation
find it is so ln name only. I am - also
much surprised to find that though Port
land boasts a large Automobile Club and
also a Driving Club, there seems to be
no effort made to take advantage of the
fine opportunity that exists to secure on
the Peninsula a tree-lined and oiled
thoroughfare that would bring as much
fame to Portland as the Rose Festival
does.
With the completion of the Broadway
high bridge across the Willamette River
I see the possibility of a splendid boule
vard system by the utilization of the
park blocks on the West Side, thence
crossing this bridge and widening some
street overlooking the waterfront to a
connection with Patton avenue at Fre
mont, thence north on Patton avenue to
Willamette boulevard; around the cres
cent passing the John Mock farm to Co
lumbia University: back along the John
Mock farm to Chautauqua boulevard
north on Chautauqua boulevard, passing
Columbia Park on the East Side to Co
lumbia boulevard where the north portal
of the Peninsula tunnel and station of
the Harriman system of Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific railroads will form
a junction; east on Columbia boulevard
to Patton avenue; south on Patton ave
nue, passing Kenton on the East Side to
Portland boulevard: east on Portland
boulevard, passing the Peninsula Park
to Vancouver road, which later should be
widened so as to give access going north
to Vancouver. Wash., south to the East
and West sides and to Ainsworth ave
nue. Ri-verside, Cal., is as famous for- its
magnolia drive as It is for its navel
oranges), and Redlands. Cal.. is equally
famous for Smiley Heights and Its beau
tiful homes among the orange groves.
Worcester. Mass., maintains Its tree
lined streets, but Portland. Or., with its
grand opportunity does nothing but talk
about its down-grade water route to the
sea, which seems to be characteristic of
Its attitude in regard to its boulevards
and streets.
Now that Mayor Simon has stopped
the craze for buying wild lands at
padded prices for park purposes, why do
not Portland's various business organiza
tions take up the work of really con
structing boulevards? It will take time
to Import trees and get them growing
but if the work is started now, there is
no reason why in 1912. when the city
may have 500,000 people that Portland
will point with pride to the day when
Its Park Board initiated the beginning of
improvement of a boulevard system on
both sides of the Willamette River
V. BOGUS CHANNIXG.
A Wife Who Is Sane Sometimes.
Boston. Mass., Dispatch.
Taken to the Worcester Insane Hos
pital for the 28th time in less than a
score of years, Mrs. Edna Thompson,
the wife of a Bay State farmer, is
looked upon as one of the most baf
fling cases of mental disorder known
to medical science. As often as she is
released, apparently well and sane, just
as often she shows up again at the hos
pital gates, once more afflicted with
her strange malady. When Mrs.
Thompson's disorder makes its appear
ance no one doubts her insanity. When
she is free from it, not even the most
skilled physicians cotlld pronounce her
deranged. Physicians are unable to
determine the causes of the strange
malady. .
Women Fight a Hatpin Duel.
Camden; N. J., Dispatch.
James Wood, steward of the Camden
Country Club, ls ln Cooper Hospital,
due to a. pistol wound in the head. Hla
wife, Louise, is locked up. She says it
was an accident. She had gone to the
club to upbraid her husband for a
friendliness with Mamie Warren, when
she spied the woman. A hatpin duel
followed, and both women were wound
ed. Then Mrs. Wood got the pistol and
the shooting followed.
HODGSON'S SPIRIT
one of two voice sittings which Professor
James had himself. The words In paren
theses are either the remarks by Pro
fessor James or Mrs. James, as indicat-e"l-
Those without parentheses . are th
so-called utterances of Dr. Hodgson:
thWe'' ,rell! Well. we!!., well,
J, ' here I am. Good morn
ta rooming. Alice.
.Hi-,, j.. aooa mornlnsr. Mr. Hodgson.)
ielifTlued' here" TVe"' Wel1, WeU: 1 am
By Professor T H,i-rK-
your hand!)
R. H ! Give ui
Hurrah. William
are you ?
God Mess you. How
iff Professor .T -
havV'vV,..1 delifh,ed to see you Well.
5 sf,lvi those problems vet?
you refer to J"' Prob"m d0
r'1 '"u Bet my messages '
.,1' Professor J. : j Bot some messaget
i your going to converture
fc.H v?U h'V "bout h;it argument that I
.,'l .hn.. !. k"1 m what I ""I been dotni
''i" 5ears- antd 'hat It amounted to?
(By Professor J.: Yes.)
v-"!?"," " 5al amounted to this that 1
.ar"ed experience that there la
I, ,han "ror ln wha' I have t
been studying.
(By Professor J. : Good )
woVdYal? me."8hte1 ,0 yOU ,oday th"
-
Following this rather tedious conversa
tion there was a long series of questions
and answers in the endeavor to get evi
dential material as to Dr. Hodgson's
Identity. Here is another sample:
By Professor J. : Why ean't you tell ma
more about the other life?
That ls part of my work. I intend to
flLl y.U a h.tteT idsa ' thls than has
ever been given.
(By Professor J. : I hope so )
It ls not a vague fantasy, but a reality
By Professor J.: Hodgson, do you live
as we do. as men do?)
What does she say?
do?V Professor X: Do J'0" llvs as men
(By Mrs. J. : Do you wear clothing and
l.ve in houses?)
Oh! yes. houses, but not clothing. No.
that is absurd.
(Py Professor J.: The clothing or the
statement made about it?)
cu'tUBt Watt moment I am going to get
By Professor J.: Tou will come back
again ?)
Yes.
When "R. H." did come back, how
ever, he at once began to talk of some
thing else.
Here is an Incident which Professor
James admits startled him:
By Professor J. : no you recall any in
cidents about your playing with the chil
dren up in the Adlrondacks at the Putnam
camp?
Do you remember what is that mmi
Elizabeth Putnam? She came ln and I
was sitting in a chair before the tire read
ing, crept up behind me. put her hands over
my ?ys and said. Who is it?" And do you
remember what my answer was?
By Professor J.: Let me see If you re
member It as I do.
I said: "well. It feels like Elizabeth.
Putnam, but it sounds like
By Professor J.: i Jnow who you mean.
Professor James then gives this ex
planation: .
R. H. quite startled me here becausa
what he said reminded me of an incident
which I well remembered. One day at
breakfast Martha Putnam (as I recall th.T
fact) had climbed, on Hodgson's back,
sitting on his shoulders, and clasped her
hands over his eyes, saying;: 'Who am 1
To which R. H., laughing, had responded:
'It sounds like Martha, but It feels like
Henry Bowditch' the said Henry Bow
ditch weighing nearly 2"io pounds: I find
that no one but myself of those who
probably were present remembers this in
cident." .. A m,ment later in the conversation..
R. H." gave the name Bowditch further
to identify the incident.
WILIi TAFT RISK TO OCCASION?
Tariff Bill Crisis Will Show Wlut
Manner of President He Is. .
PORTLAND. July 11. (To the EdUor
Fermit me to commend your editorial or
Saturday, appearing under the ' caption.
"Work for the Veto Pen." Thia la in
deed a crucial period ln the life of the
Administration. The occupant of the ex
ecutive chair at Washington was elected
because of the assurance of his predeces
sor ln that high office that under him
there would be no step backward, no re
actionary control of the Government, but
that the policies and purposes which the
last Administration signalized would b
continued. Prior to the nominating con
vention the country was first for Roose
velt, next for Hughes. Normal public
sentiment never was for Taft. and the
people have viewed him since his acces
sion to office with curiosity, mlnsled with
doubt, as to what sort of a man thev
elected. Candid analysis of the present
condition of the public mind indicates that
there is already extant a spirit of unrest
and dissatisfaction a feeling that the in
fluence of Aldrich and Cannon is too po
tent in the councils of state, that we are
drifting back to the laissez faire state of
McKlnley's time.
The action of the President upon the
tariff bill now in conference is likelv to
crystalize" public sentiment either in sup
port of - or in opposition to the man and
his policies. . The issue is one of principle
and of good faith. Were either Cleveland
or Roosevelt occupying the White House
there would be no doubt of the outcome.
"Upon the hustings and by his pen Mr.
Taft has placed himself upon record and
the world will now learn the sinceritv of
those pre-election utterances. The views
of the people upon the question at issue
have not changed.
The public has long demanded, and the
party in power promised in Its latent plat
form and through the lips of its leaders,
an honest revision of the tariff an ac
tual, not a. constructive revision. Appar
ently the majority of neither House nor
Senate regard the promises thus made as
of binding force, except so far as to con
strue the word revision to mean a change
of certain schedules: and the work of the
conference committee is not likely to be
an improvement upon cither of the meas
ures which the travail of months has
brought forth ln the respective chambers.
It must be remembered that Mr. Aldrich
is one of the Senate conferees and that
Mr. Cannon appointed those on the part
of the House.
The opportunity now presented to the
President comes to few rulers in timea of
peace. Will he rise to the occasion? A
message such as Lincoln or Jackson would
have penned under like circumstances will
come as a mistral, inspire with new hope
the plain people, and demonstrate to the
country that Roosevelt's judgment was
correct, and that there sits in the execu
tive chair a leader of men; and behind
the Administration will at once be ar
rayed that waiting force which alone can
assure successful government the moral
sentiment of the Nation.
The word of the President, and of the
party which elected him, is at stake, and
the public demands and has a right to
demand that faith be kept. Whether ths
Executive is in alignment with the peo
ple or the interests will soon be known.
If he faile in this crisis, his sun will be
gin its setting, and 1912 will witness the
revival of Rooseveltism. either in the per
son of the ex-President or that of G-over.
nor Hughes. STEPHEN A. LOW ELL.
Virtually Pro tret a Murder.
' New York Tribune.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
ordered a new trial for the Night Riders
who killed Captain Quentln Rankin, on
the ground that the defense waa entitled
to 192 peremptory challenges instead of
only 24. which the trial court allowed.
Under the Tennessee law any one who
has heard a case discussed or read of it
in the newspapers is ineligible for jurv
duty in that case. Under this rule, and
with 192 peremptory challenges to be ex
ercised. It will probably take 192 years U
obtain a new jucv-