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PORTLAND. TH1RSDAY. JULY . 1909.
TIIE QIESTION OF THE TIME.
The notton of a protective tariff has
virtually reached the stage of endeavor
to atop the importation of any article
or commodity that anyone produces,
or thinks he can produce, in our coun
try. This, of course, creates monopo
lies at home and if the commodities
are articles of very general use. It
leads to the formation of trusts, which
"hold up" all the consumers of the
United States for high prices.
This scheme of robbery Is now fight
ing: at Washington for maintenance of
its hold on the opportunities it has
seized. It is not yet Indeed attacked
in Its vitals, for the effort thus far is
dnly to abate some of its most patent
abuses. But it will yield nothing. The
wrangle in the conference committee
Is a spectacle for the country show
ing the tenacity with which the sys
tem contends for the plunder or booty
which it deems Its own. It would seem
that Aldrich and Cannon stand to win
lii" the conference. Even Payne refuses
to acquiesce In the results of the job
set up by the dominant forces In the
Senate and House. Possibly there may
be a report which will be turned down
by one house or the other. That would
be fine, indeed!
The game played by these robbers
of the people, covered by the name of
protection of American industry, at
last Is becoming well understood. They
admit free of duty commodities of
general use, not produced in the
United States, from which much rev
enue might be obtained by even a
light duty, and then, through pretense
of necessity of finding revenue, but
In reality for the purposes of monop
oly, they lay high duties on thousands
of articles, and make high prices, out
of which they profit exceedingly, at
the expense of consumers. For a like
reason they won't have . an income
tax, becf-use the. revenue then would
be ss abundant as to defeat the pre
tence under which their system of
tariiT robbery is maintained: and there
lc the additional reason that an in
come tax would be collected from mil
lionaires, who are able to escape most
taxes of other descriptions.
These abuses of the protective sys
tem cannot always continue. Duties
en imports must be collected, and tar
iff for revenue, not for protection
except In an incidental way must be
the final policy. The purpose of rob
ber" cannot stand forever as the mo
tive of our tariff laws. That was the
original motv'e, the piratical purpose,
at Tarifa, where we got the word.
, Modified cr sophisticated to the pre
tense of protection of American labor.
It is robbery still, and fiercer robbery
than the old hold-up at Tarifa. It
fights for Its life, of course. It is
Intrenched, in both parties. In the
Republican party it has Its chief
stronghold; but thus far. when it has
been pushed to extremity and needed
help, it got the help from the Demo
cratic party necessary to its salvation.
But it would not be wise for It to as
sume that this always will be the case.
The doctrine of protective robbery
got immense advantage some fifteen
years ago through the folly of the
silver advocates. Consequences of
that folly, and the financial depres
sion caused by it. enabled the protec
tionists to assume that the cause was
reduction of the tariff which in fact
had not been reduced at all, but only
slightly shifted. Yet It gave the pro
tectionists their opportunity, which
they have used to the utmost, to this
day. The work of the present session
of Congress shows that the tariff will
become and remain for a time the
leading question in our political life.
It will be the main factor, probably.
In rearrangement of party lines.
TALE OF THE SERPENT.
The sea serpent, like the salmon
run, the Summer boarder, the Hessian
fly and other subjects for Summer
literary exploitation, is late this sea
son. Our old friend from the vasty
deep has been so long In making his
appearance that for a time it was
feared that he Intended to lay off for
a year and permit the public to divide
its attention between the Wright
brothers and the tariff bill. But this
old, reliable stand-by of the Summer
resorts and the reporters apparently
had no such Intention. Last year the
trail of the serpent" began In the
Gulf of Mexico near Tabasco, the
place where the sauce docs not come
from, and it followed the usual course,
proceeding north as the Summer pop
ulation got the money ready to strike
out for the beach resorts.
The belated appearance of the ser
pent this year is probably due to the
fact that he has made a sortie into the
Pacific, and. while he Is a little late,
this stellar marine attraction had no
Intention of slighting us. To Captain
Ross, of the Standard OH tanker Da
kotah. which arrived at San Francisco
Sunday. Is due the honor of first sight
ing the 1903 sea serpent. Unlike
gome of the other sailor men who have
brought sea-serpent tales to port. Mr.
Rockefeller's hired man presents the
details. It was over in longitude 15:2
and latitude 45:30 west that the truth
ful Captain Ross spoke this well
known ocean traveler. As it was a
nenr place for sea serpents, a new sea
ton, and the reporters had become
tired of describing the regulation sea
serrent, "scaled and tailed," etc.. Cap
tain Ross has varied the description.
The 1909 style of sea serpent, ac
cording to the entry In the Dakotah's
logbook. Is "forty feet long, and ten
feet wide, with a cavernous mouth and
eyes as big as a locomotive head
light." These, however, are only a
portion of the details. The gallant
skipper of the oil tanker, knowing
that "Aggers" are dry reading, supple
ments them with the statement that
vbils a "near view showed Its face to
be most ferocious, yet it had a kindly
twinkle in its eyes."
Now where else except on the Pa
cific has there ever been reported a
sea serpent with "a kindly twinkle In
its eyes"? All previous descriptions
of this premier Summer resort attrac
tion have given it a terribly taciturn
disposition, but it is quite clear that
the 1909 Pacific edition of sea ser
pent Is something new. Now that we
are familiar with its disposition, it will
be a welcome guest and its picture
should occupy the front page on the
next batch of seaside resort advertis
ing. NEW ETHICS AS TO Pl'BLIC LANDS.
Now it Is said again that Binger
Hermann is to be tried in Oregon. It
is useless. Upon Indictment In Wash
ington and trial there, years ago,
everything was alleged against Her
mann that can be brought forward In
any trial in Oregon. Yet he was ac
quitted by a Washington Jury. There
is no possibility that any Jury in Ore
gon will ever convict him on the
charges that have been made, or may
be made, against his administration
of the General Land Office. The
Oregonian does not assert that there
were not irregularities of various
kinds growing out of the loose admin
istration of the looser laws that re
lated to the public lands. But that
Hermann, first or last, "was guilty of
corruption in his administration of the
laws. The Oregonian sees no reason
to believe.
The laws were framed loosely for
loose purposes. It was their purpose
or object to give lands to the people.
They were always administered for
fulfillment of their purpose. A time
came when it was perceived or con
cluded that the laws were too lax and
that the administration of them, in
accord with their spirit and purpose,
led to abuses and wrong. The laws
invited citizens of the United States,
men and women, to enter these lands,
even by fiction; and tens of thousands
of them did it then sold the lands
for what they could get. This policy
dissipated the public domain under
guise or pretense of serving the inter
est and welfare of the people.
Hermann interpreted and adminis
tered the law as he found it and as it
had been interpreted before his time.
It was the interpretation intended by
the law; for politicians who wanted to
get into Congress and stay there and
who used the advantages it gave them
to the utmost. But there is not the
slightest proof, nor, as The Oregonian
thinks, will there ever be, that Her
mann acted corruptly in any case that
came before him for determination.
But The Oregonian does not under
rate nor disparage in the least degree
the value of the services rendered by
Francis J. Honey In 'bringing into light
fraudulent methods used and em
ployed by one and another in obtaln
ment, Improperly or corruptly, of pub
lic lands under the laws, not only in
Oregon, but in other states. It was
high time to put an end to this busi
ness. Through Francis J. Heney,
more than through all others, this has
been done. Heney developed the an
cillary, resultant collateral and con
comitant abuses of the system and laid
the ground for the reformation of it.
There were loose laws, and there was
loose administration of the laws. What
is customary soon comes to be re
garded as right. Such fault as may
be attributed to Binger Hermann is
the fault of an official who did not
hold the law up to a higher standard
than its own, but was this his busi
ness? Was this the requirement of
his oath of office? It Is the belief of
The Oregonian that he is not, never
was, guilty of conspiracy or corrup
tion, or of knowledge of conspiracy or
corruption, to defraud the United
States. The old methods of adminis
tering the public lands have passed
with the old ideas which condoned
sham and fiction in taking up parts of
the public domain. Hermann's Jury
will be expected to adjudge him by
the standards of the closed period.
The reform has been accomplished.
OCR rNDIVIDrAL DIGNITY.
"We waste." says a recent writer,
"nine-tenths of our potential force by
the attrition of one intelligence against
another." Then the Inquiry comes,
"Why can't we agree?"
Well, we can't; and some think it
bv no means desirable that we should.
For. say they, all progress comes
iiohaiA nnrl difference. People
who agree stagnate. They never ac
complish anything.
r,A vat therA is another view. The
object of our primary law, and of the
Initiative In Oregon is to get nu m
t., nrt cf men asuirlnsr to leader
ship, and to stop "the attrition of one
Intelligence against anotner. irura
this point of view we don't want Iead
, in a ommiinitv where every man
is the equal of every other man and
knows it. Our Initiative and primary
laws were designed and adopted for
promotion or tne marviausj siuiy
. i .mn rr mnirlrtc an end of
in. nn'-' . . ..... . '
leaders, and of leadership, and of
bosses and of bossism. w no win j
they are not doing their work well?
. Let us hear no more, then, of lead
ers and leadership. It is an insult to
i4iin tr Kuzzest that there can
be any leadership wiser than that un
der his own hat. Our initiative ana
..na!-i.' inw were designed for repu
diation of this Insult, for assertion of
the dignity of our individual ana en
ijtn .irlTenshin. Aren't they do
ing it, all right? Isn't the community
split into its original units, without
possibility of co-operation? This is
independence. For this we repudiate
representative government. iiai
more can be wanted, in the way of in
dependent citizenship, when we have
reached a stage where no man is will
ing to follow anything that another -man
begins?
The notion that there is any dif
ference in the intellectual power and
general ability of men -is all bosh.
Oregon corrects It. Of course, there
isn't. The .idea of leadership is based
on the false notion that men are not
equal. Away with It.
A HOPELESS CASE.
The Los Angeles lawyer. Stephen L.
Sullivan, has accomplished, in a single
week, a feat which usually takes years.
In one prolonged debauch he has
ruined his own career, degraded his
wife and landed his children in a
house of refuge. A man who can do
all this In so short a time must
aMlftv tf some
possess . -vi . t.Li -.i... . - - - -
sort, though, perhaps, it is fortunate
that the gitt is not more common man
t . i- i QuiiK-nn seems to have been
11 la.
crazed with the foolish notion that a
man cannot have what is called "a
good time" without dosing himself
with whisky. Los Angeles was full of
visitors from all parts of the country
and to prove his appreciation of their
company this unhappy lawyer sent
himself and his family to perdition.
The visitors must feel highly honored
by the attention he showed them, but
would they not have felt still more
gratified if Mr. Sullivan had exhibited
his delight in a rational manner so
that after they departed he could go
on practicing law instead of languish
ing in Jail? Does it cause a guest to
feel any better to see nis host make a
fool of himself?
Less and less common becomes the
indulgence of tastes like those of Mr.
Sullivan. Less frequently now than
ever before do we hear excuses offered
for folly of that kind. "He Is a good
fellow in spite cf his failing. He is
his own worst enemy. He would be
a brilliant success If only he would
let drink alone." These palliative re
marks are still uttered, of course,
when some Sullivan plunges down the
broad and ample road, but not very
often nor very heartily. The common
opinion of enlightened people nowa
days is that society is better off with
out men of the Sullivan type. A per
son who cannot stand when he has
every inducement and aid, is not made
of the right stuff for life In this dan
gerous world. Down he must go, to
day or tomorrow, and the sooner he
falls the sooner the inevitable tragedy
is over. Such men ought to be pitied,
but, as a rule, they cannot be helped.
SPOKANE SEES THE LIGHT.
For the purpose of Illustrating a
point or proving a statement, a single
actual transaction is of more value
than all of the unsubstantiated
theories that can be promulgated. The
Oregonian has quite frequently called
attention to the reason why Spokane,
or any other Inland city, dependent
exclusively on rail transportation,
could not legitimately claim as low a
rail rate as a tidewater port, acces
sible to ships, which are the cheapest
carriers in the world. This "water
rate" was established long before any
railroads penetrated the interior, or
reached the Coast, ane when the rail
roads were built, they were' forced to
accept the water rate as a basis, not
only for their Coast rates, but for the
rates to the Interior. With the rail
roads crossing the continent, it was
simply a case of making the same rate
as was made by the water carriers or
failing to secure the business.
The rate to Spokane before the
railroads came, was the rate to the
Coast ports, plus the. local rate to the
Interior. That local rate in the be
ginning was paid to pack train pro
prietors, later to steamboats and
wagon freighters. Now It is paid to
the railroads. It Is lower than it was
when the pack trains ran, but It still
remains an undetachable portion of
the through' water rate from the East,
and it will so remain until there is
discovered some cheaper method of
moving freight than by ocean carriers.
The Oregonian has seldom mentioned
this matter without provoking a reply
from its old friend, the Spokane
Spokesman-Review. The Review, in
season and out of season, has denied
the advantages and at times the very
existence, of water transportation. It
chortled with glee when Charles Ed
ward Russell, the eminent muck-raker
termed water transportation a myth,
and warmly commended Brooks Ad
ams, the Boston attorney, who as
sured them that water transportation
could not, in the remotest degree, af
fect the Spokane rates.
' With the Review's consistent record
for non-belief in the existence of water
transportation. The. Oregonian. notes
with surprise that in the cargo arriv
ing on an American-Hawaiian liner In
this port a few days ago was a ship
ment of 54 barrels containing 30,807
pounds of printer's ink. consigned to
the Spokane Spokesman - Review,
from New York. As the Review has
made no mention of the transaction, it
Is hardly possible that the big ship
ment of ink was made for the purpose
of proving that Spokane rates are un
affected by water competition, and we
are reluctantly forced to believe that
the ink was shipped by water to Port
land and thence by rail to Spokane
because that was the cheapest route it
could take.
Aside from the consignee, there was
nothing about this shipment that dif
fers materially from other freight
shipments, that are passing through
Portland constantly. The American
Hawaiian liner Falcon, arriving yes
terday, brought a big shipment of
suitcases from New Y.ork for Spokane,
and as they are very bulky freight,
ii., .hinntr nn rlonbtedl v saved more In
shipping them by water than the Re
view saved on tne carioaa oi "..
More than 2000 tons of freight have
been landed In Portland by American
Hawaiian liners within the past week,
and among the consignments yester
day were substantial shipments from
Eastern points to Spokane, Walla
Walla, Pendleton, Moscow, Baker
City, and even as far east as Boise,
Idaho. Not all of this Spokane freight
goes through Portland, for the last
American-Hawaiian liner to discharge
at Seattle carried a big consignment
of liquors for a Spokane wholesaler.
In view of these specific cases, we
a-ain ennarrained to state that
theory is at a heavy discount when
plain facts are so pientuui. au mm
The Oregonian has ever printed re
garding the advantages of water trans
portation is confirmed In the fullest
degree by the Spokane Spokesman
Review's routing of its New York
freight.
EDUCATION OF YOUNG SUTTON.
t-i,. ovi dpnrft in the Sutton
' ..-
investigation takes a new turn before
long it must De saia. in in "'.
iv.rfi,;, fHonrla made a serious mis
take in stirring up the subject of his
death. Even lr ne aia nui wumu'
suicide, the light which has been
thrown upon his conduct is. by no
means, pleasing. According to the re
ports of his classmates, he was much
inclined to exhibit the less engaging
characteristics of the . typical "bad
man" of the West. Perhaps it was
mere boyish folly which impelled him
to draw his revolver on every occasion
and shoot up the camp for diversion,
but one would suppose that, in an
ancient seat of education like Annapo
lis, such follies would have been sup
pressed before they led to homicide.
It is a curious system of culture which
permits boys to drink liquor without
stint, fight at their own sweet will
about everything or nothing, and haze
...en n tViA no i 7i t of death.
U lUllllAUC, v'l-u v. . - - ,
Is there an unavoidable tendency in
military and naval scnoois to stimu
late the brutal side of their students?
Are drunkenness and bullying the only
means of training a youth to be a
soldier?
Some of the best soldiers who ever
lived have been nutured in peaceful
pursuits. Washington, who passed
his younger days as a surveyor, lacked
neither courage nor that fine sense of
discipline and honor which hazing Is
sometimes said to engender. There
have been few better soldiers, than
Oliver Cromwell, but he never attend
ed a military school. As a young" man
he seems to have studied law In the in
tervals when he was not in the throes
of a religious struggle. Later in life
he followed the career of Gustavus
Adolphus with attention, but neither
pugilism nor whisky contributed a
great deal to his education, unless all
the accounts are false.
Military and naval schools are pe
culiar, both in their curricula and in
the manner af selecting their teachers.
The branches taught at Annapolis and
West Point merit the epithet "canned"
if that vulgar term ought to be applied
to anything. "Dry-as-dust" hardly
suffices to describe their antiquity and
aridity. Knowledge is cut off in hunks
from an ancient log for the young ca
dets and each hunk Is carefully kiln
dried before It is offered for consump
tion. This may be necessary for young
Americans who are tor' be made into
soldiers ' but Europeans ' produce the
same- result by other means. The
French military schools - frequently
turn , out scientific men of distinction.
Some of the . best mathematicians
that country has produced in recent
years have been educated at St. Cyr.
If West Point has graduated any
scientists of eminence their fame has
been sedulously concealed from the
public.
The practice of assigning military
officers to teach the classes must have
a depressing effect upon the intellect
ual life at West Point. A similar re
mark holds true of Annapolis. It is
not likely that a man transferred from
a military post to the classroom can
teach with the best results, nor is it
credible that every officer who makes
a good field commander is adapted
for the headship of a great boys'
school. It would seem like a more sen
sible procedure to choose a faculty of
civilians to teach the cadets their lan
guages, science and mathematics while
military men were employed to impart
that specific branch of education. The
superstition that only officers ought
to teach in a military academy is akin
to the equally absurd one that only
priests or ministers ought to teach in
a theological school.
The fact that teaching is a difficult
art, based upon a profound science
and demanding years of special prep
aration, has not yet penetrated the
heads of those who manage the mili
tary and naval academies. The theory
prevailing there seems to be that
anybody can teach who can han
dle a gun. The error -is obvi
ous, and it may account for
some of the queer goings-on which
occasionally come to light at West
Point and Annapolis. But if the fac
ulties were ever so expert, the disci
pline .of these schools cannot be very
satisfactory so long as Congress con
tinually meddles with It. Although
there is a law which forbids hazing
under penalty of expulsion, everybody
knows what happens when a cadet is
convicted of it. He hies him to his
Congressman and forthwith a special
act is passed to clear his skirts. With
these conditions how can we expect
such a thing as good order or high
ideals of conduct among these young
men? The wonder is that they come
through the ordeal clean and, manly,
as most of them do. The result must
be credited to their Inborn character
and not to their education.
Chicago received nearly 100 car
loads of new wheat yesterday, and all
other markets were correspondingly
favored. Under the stress of this ava
lanche of new-crop wheat the price
broke more than .2 cents per bushel.'
This new-crop wheat that is coming
on the market has a decided advan
tage over that big surplus of wheat
that Secretary Wilson still has on his
books. The wheat now coming to
market can be used for making bread,
while that which Secretary Wilson has
on hand is useful only for making fig
ures. As . previously stated, the out
look for cheap wheat is not very
bright, but there is such', a gulf be
tween present prices and what Is
known as "cheap wheat" that the
farmer who is selling early may, in
the end, be much better off than the
grower who is holding for higher
prices.
There promises to be a big revival
of the shipping industry by- way of
Cape Horn. The Philadelphia Public
Ledger announces that a fleet of sail
ing vessels is to be assembled under
the name of the Shippers' Clipper
Line, which will carry general cargoes
from New York and Philadelphia to
San Francisco. All of the ships will
be over 5000 tons burden, built of
steel, square-rigged, and furnished
with steam devices for handling car
goes. They are expected to make the
voyage in from 106 to 180 days. It
does not appear whether the promot
ers of the new line intend to maintain
the Cape Horn route after the comple
tion of the Panama Canal; towage
charges may govern their future pol
icy. "With ceremonies marked by sim
plicity and in which only city officials
had a part," says a Chicago dispatch,
"the cornerstone of Chicago's new
$5,000,000 City Hall was laid yester
day." We all hope that when the
money is spent Chicago will have a
$5,000,000 building, and that none of
the city officials will have retained
a part of the money that was spent
in its construction.
The Spaniards are using Gatling
guns in repulsing the Moroccan
tribesmen, and meanwhile the war is
so unpopular in Spain that there is
rioting in the streets and it may be
come necessary to turn the same kind
of artillery on some of the Spanish
citizens.
Why should stockbrokers want in
surance against Harriman's death?
Value of Harriman holdings are based,
not on him, but on the natural re
sources of the United States.
Instead of hunting lions, Teddy
staved in camp one day and wrote a
boo'k. Nobody beats Teddy, not even
the most up-to-date literary artist.
Having learned Seattle's .way of do
ing things. Mayor Simon is now
equipped to go ahead here after the
Portland plan.
It appears that there were others
near the scene of the Brackett shoot
ing that night who were more lucky
than Brackett.
One cannot help a feeling of regret
that the Wrights' first great aerial
flight was not made in this country.
Next time Harry Thaw kills some
body he will be electrocuted. Per
haps, then, he ought to be released.
The Wright brothers are not able
truthfully to say an inventor Is with
out honor in his own country.
LIftl'OR IN GEORGIA.
Details of the Business in 'a Prohibi
tion Stale.
New York Evening Mail.
Whether the people of Georgia, at
whose command a prohibition law went
into effect in that state at the begin
ning of the year 1908. were seriously
resolved to suppress the liquor traffic
is a question which has been made in
creasingly prominent by subsequent
events. With the inauguration of the
new order of things the drinking places
throughout the state were all closed
with some show of newly acquired vir
tue, various public officials announced
that the rum power had been . de
throned, and the word was given that
the sovereign State of Georgia had be
come permanently and unanimously
sober.
Everybody hoped that such might
prove to be the case. Not that the
Georgians had been more addicted to
drink than the citizens of any other,
commonwealth: but they are progres
sive, intelligent and ambitious, and,
having discovered that the saloon busi
ness was prejudicial to their interests,
all hands wished them success in their
organized effort to throttle it.
in a month or two after prohibition
went into effect, however, somebody
suggested that maybe the thing was
done too suddenly; that the change was
too violent, and that out of considera
tion for those accustomed to an occa
sional glass it might be judicious to
permit the sale of beverages resembling
in appearance, at least, if not in com
position, those which had been placed
under the ban. The adoption- of that
crafty suggestion led to the introduc
tion of a mysterious concoction known
as "near beer." and it is now on sale
In licensed places in. Atlanta and other
communities in the state.
The name is extremely suggestive.
Nobody has explained what "near beer"
is composed of, nor just how near beer
it really is. Nor would it be fair to
charge it with the sole responsibility
for certain conditions which have since
arisen in Atlanta. The plain fact is,
however, that drunkenness in that city
is abotit as common under the new dis
pensation as it was under the old. The
police records show that . during the
finst six months of the present year
the arrrstn for drunkenness numbered
1875. as against 1123 for the corre
sponding period of 1908. Moreover, the
arrests so far this year are but few
less In number than those for the first
half of the year-1907, when the saloons
were wide open under the license sys
tem. Several Inferences .may be drawn
from these figures. One Is that "near
beer" is altogether too near for the'in
terests of sobriety in a prohibition
neighborhood. Another is that the pro
hibitory law is not enforced with the
rigor required to make it effective.-And
a third is that the people who enacted
the measure are either consciously or
ignorantly trifling with the liquor traf
fic in a-manner likely to bring dis
credit to the movement for temperance
so courageously undertaken.
TOO ' MANY SLICK PROMOTERS.
Public Is Tired of Oily Ways of Hot
Alr Peddlers.
Baker City Herald.
Did you ever stop to think regarding the
amount of salve that is used nowadays?
Hot air propels more transactions than
any other one force, but it is being over
worked, and the country at large has be
gun to cry, "give us a rest."
For Instance, a man comes Into Baker
County, obtains an option on a small min
ing prospect by paying a few hundred
dollars. With few exceptions he will strut
through the corridors of the hotel. look
wise, display a two-bit cigar with a band
on it to show its cost, and quickly an
swers to the title "mining man." He gets
a story in a local paper (used to get It
easier than he does now) and then he goes
to peddle the salve with hopes of rateing
money with which to mine.
Another man comes out and makes a
survey for a railroad. He Is a "captain
of industry" according to local ethics. His
manner is very aristocratic and he talks
of stocks and bonds galore. Finally he
returns to peddle the salve about a rail
road on paper which he hopes to obtain
capital for. And so it goes on down the
line.
But the country is getting tired of It.
Baker City and Baker County are growing
tired of the custom that has been prac
ticed so long. It is due to the infernal
salve peddlers that Baker County's min
ing resources are spurned by good people
because the peddlers have swindled so
many Investors. It is due to the salve
peddlers that there Is no railroad from
this city to Eagle Valley today. It Is due
to the salve peddlers that more land In
Baker County Is not under the ditch and
producing grain.
The promoter Is all right, if he is hon
est. But so many of them are not honest.
There is a legitimate field for the pro
moter. He is supposed to see opportuni
ties for investment of capital and pUce
those opportunities before men who have
capital to Invest. And that is all right.
But no man has any right to misrepresent
conditions: to capitalize a company for
several millions of dollars when .he has not
a dollar's worth of property in sight. It
is the latter class of peddlers who have
injured Baker County. Their dayls about
over. The curtain Is falling rapidly on
the unscrupulous mine promoter, the
dreamy railroad builder and the man who
sells stock in a J20.000.C00 company which
has never earned a dollar.
This country has no use for them. Bus
iness people are knocking their schemes
these days, and it Is raising a terrible
howl from the peddlers, but it is the right
thing to do. A thief Is no good, even if
he spends his money in your community,
for It Is money that will always hurt le
gitimate enterprises.
Five Feet of Selected Books.
Roy L. McCardell in New York World.
Mrs. Opie's works.
The six best sellers.
Cowper's poems.
Patent Office Reports (selected).
Bound volumes of the Congressional
Record (go as far as you like).
Ayer's and Hostetter's Almanacs for
1881.
Queen Victoria's "My Journal in the
Highlands."
New York, New Htven & Hartford
Railroad -time tables for 1908.
The Philadelphia City Directory.
Roosevelt's messages.
"Triumphant Democracy," by A. Car
negie. "Side Talks to Fair Fudge Makers,"
by Edward Bok.
Any or all of Dr. Eliot's list to
fill up.
The Moral In the Story.
Unidentified Exchange.
Here is a good story of the man
who was determined to commit suicide:
He went to a store and bought a rope,
a can of oil, a box of matches, a dose
of arsenic and a revolver. He went
down to the river and pushed the boat
from the shore and waded to where a
limb hung over: saturated his clothing
with the coal oil, lighted a match and
set fire to his clothing, took the dose
of arsenic, put the muzzle of the re
volver to his temple, pushed the boat
from under him and pulled the trigger.
The bullet glanced and cut the rope
above him and he fell kerflop into the
river: the water put the fire out, and
he got strangled And coughed up the
arsenic He arose 'and waded out and
declared himself a candidate for the
Legislature on the reform ticket. '
Philosophy of a Potato-Grower.
Salmen Statesman, 1
No matter If most of the unpicked cher
ries are cracked, the potatoes will be all
the larger and more clentlful for next
winter.
THEY ARE BETTER MIXED.
Remarks on the Co-Education of
the
Seies and tne Kesnita.
PORTLAND, July 20. (To the Edi
tor.) It is matter of doubt whether
one ambitious capable young woman
non h. toting Yc-illinsr of her own choice
to take a course in a female college
The reason is, the education obtai
in a female seminary carries with
nn.4 4. .a, It. nl r I On S Of Shall(
ned
it,
shallow-
auu juofc.j avi " '
ness. A young lady educated in
B-Irls" school has no just standard
a
of
self-measurement. She meets youn
g
men of sense, who praise her beau
her music, and pay condescending ho
age to her vivacious repartees, wh
at heart they regard her as nothi
ty,
m-
while
ling
In nerseir dui an mwrc.uuB
panion for a leisure hour.
. ... t, ...ad foahlnnnhlA smnne-
com.
edu-
cntnrs to draw out a long list of me
taJ differences between the sexe
making the female more vivacious
!... ,.iit(.tivA than man. according
but
her E-reater fondness for detail but 1
reasoning power, better taste, more
emotion, but less solidity of judg
ment: more sentiment, but less power
of control than man. The 500 colleg
and acaaemies suuib
their courses .on the same terms
jn .nt hnv,v.r recoirnize
an
intellectual sexhood requiring special
adaptation of work or studies between
miiA and female. Those who have
watched her work for a series of
. . 1 - i .1 I , V. ..mine. TT1 f Tl t
years
almost
nsr wo-
blue ij v Blue wilt. j l n .
without exception say the young
cholastio
man has maintained equo-i si.
i- j.i. n- H.tla IntarmnHnn
from
rallK Willi m . . i. i-i v, . - . , -
ill-health, and frequently with lncreas
lng pnysicai vigor.
Young men and young women a
also better moraiiy ior ttoou.-ia.iw
the school room. uccasionai
. -tAna n- a i,-i.0rkHf Innslv
visits
read
. 1 1 In n ,an,l. KftlClCtl
novel give me gin . .
an idea of the outer world and imagi
nation fills np the gap. These girls,
hampered unwisely, become dreamers
seeing life by moonshine, and often
these dreams are morbid and unreal
as those in one sick, with fever.
A teacher 30 years of age In a girls'
school once asked the writer, with a
book over her face, if he did not think
it' "impossible for a girl to study in
a class with a lot of boys?" Adding
with a nervous laugh that she just
knew Jthat she could not study, for
she would be looking at the boys all
the time. This teacher had been edu
cated in a female college.
Such morbid and unhealthy views of
human life are not entertained by the
young lady schooled in the ope- along
with a wholesome lot of young men
and women as God disposes them in the
family.
Who is so blind as not to see that
both sexes are benefited by taking on
the qualities of the other? The boys
the gentleness, carefulness, kindness
and patience of the girls: the girls
the energy, courage and wider views
that characterize the boys. Girls edu
cated in school of their own sex will
be found, with few exceptions, to lack
thoroughness, especially In mathemat
ics, mental science and logic deficient
both in accuracy and depth.
This writer is still old fogy enough
to think the education of women Is.
or should be, for the home; and men
and women the best men and women
knowing each other best, and respect
ing each other most, make the best
homes.
An affection ripening of pure friend
ship, supported by mutual respect born
of generous competition in study and
thorough acquaintance, is the sort that
makes a good and lasting home.
The presence of 'women throws a
refining Influence about men, improv
ing their manners, giving them higher
standards of purity and gentleness,
quickening their minds by association
with the magnetic, imaginative minds
of voung ladies, firing the intellect
by kindling the sensibilities. This
gives spontaneity and the brilliancy we
call genius. The combined vision of
the two sexes gives an Insight to al
most every phase of human life that
far surpasses the one-eyed vision. Nor
Is it good to put the meat in one
barrel and the salt in another.
C. E. CLINE.
LOW-BROWED MEN CA1S KEEP HAIR
Scientist Says Sole Cause of Baldness
Is Closely-Flrtlns Hatbands.
New York Times.
Surgeon J. O. Cobb, of the United States
Public Health and Marine Hospital Serv
ice, is of the opinion that baldness is
not congenital, excepting, possibly. In
cases where the son Inherits his father's
lofty brow; that it Is not due to dan
druff, to parasites, or to any skin disease,
and that the hair follicles, once atrophied,
cannot be restored. The sole cause of
baldness Is the constricting band of
hats. Men whose heads are of domelike
conformation are most subject to the
pressure of their hats, and, above the
zone of the hatband, are most afflicted
with calvities. In the New York Medical
Journal Dr. Cobb says:
If a man's head is very wide, or if he
is very prominent fore and aft, that man
will become bald In time, because such a
person, to make his hat tit snugly, Inva
riably pulls It down tight. The man with
low brow and thick, heavy hair rarely la
bald. If one wears the hair long and
thick it acts as a cushion and prevents
in a large measure the constriction caused
by the hatband.
The rlngletted cavali1, irnserine.
were not subject to this affection, and
the close-cropped roundheads who over
threw them were really responsible for
the modern fashion of baldness. Dr. Cobb
suggests that, in this age of contrivances
in shoes, suspenders and braces, some
body ought to be ingenious enough to
make a hat that will stay on in a breeze
without Impeding the circulation In the
scalp. Invention that takes the perverse
forms of hair tonics, restorers, and ap
paratus for electrical massage would thus
be forestalled. At present only low
browed gentlemen can wear hats and keep
their hair.
Electric Subway for Vienna Mail.
Vienna Cor. Pall Mall Gazette.
Plans are now under consideration
for an underground electric railway in
Vienna for the transmission of postal
matter. It is proposed to link together
the chief postoffice and 64 substations
and the nine railway stations In the
city. Letters, newspapers and parcels
will be carried over this line instead
of in wagons through the streets. It
is estimated that the line would take
the avlace of 450 mail wagons and 700
horses, which now make some 2500
Journeys through the city every day.
The railway will be built in a subway
five feet high and a little less in
width. Each car will carry 80 pack
ages, which is equal to the capacity
of a one-horse mall wagon. Trains
of eight cars will be run every 20 . min
utes from 5:30 A. M. until 10 o'clock
P. M. They will carry no motorman,
but will be operated from dispatch
stations, and will travel about 20 miles
an hour.
' Dashing for the Pole.
Walter Wellman is to do another
turn in starting for the pole on August
1. Walter is in a class by himself as a
starter, but he seems to be a stranger
to every form of terminal facilities.
Houston Post.
Polar exploration is being carried on
with an Industry which 4eads to re
newed hopes of Summer resorts with
guaranteed climatic conditions. Wash
ington Star.
Walter Wellman will not compete
with the astronomers in trying to dis
cover the polar caps of Mars. Atlanta
Constitution.
Walter Wellman, who will try a bal
loon trip to the pole again this Sum
mer, may feel reasonably secure from
one peril, namely, that of being shot at.
So far as known, there is no Brown
County among the icebergs. Indian
apolis Star.
Life's SunnySide
The clerk in the shoe store was tired.
The day was insufferably hot. The
customer who was trying to catch a
train was clamorous. Goaded to des
peration, the hard-driven clerk expos
tulated: "No. we don't have a salesman for
each customer. This ain't no Chinese
Sunday school." New York Globe.
"Well, gentlemen." said Tomkins to
a couple of his friends, "you can talk
as much as you please about the in
feriority of women, but there are lots
of them that can discount most of us
for brains. Take my wife, for instance;
she's got twice as much sense as I
have, and I ain't ashamed to acknowl
edge It. either."
"But. don't you think." said, one of
his auditors, "that you put rather a low
estimate of your wife's intellectual
powers T' Tit-Bits.
"Hear about Jimmy?" asked the
lanky youth with the bat and ball.
"No." responded his chum. "What's
happened to him?"
"Lots. He found a quarter in de
street, went to de ball game, got hit
wid a ball an' den got licked when he
got home."
"Gee whiz! I guess dat's what you'd
call trouble coming from an unex
pected quarter." Exchange.
Madge If he loved her for her
money, how is his marriage a failure?
Dolly He can't get hold of it Illus
trated Bits.
"Before we were married." sighed the
trusting wife, "you vowed that my
slightest wish should be law."
"Hah!" sniffed the brutal husband,
without looking up from the maga
zine. "If you read the papers you'd
know there isn't any respect for law
nowadays." Judge.
e
Mrs. Crawford Did you manage to
coax your physician to recommend a
trip to that mountain resort you wished
to visit?
Mrs. Crabshaw Yes; but I cant go.
for I couldn't get him to add that a
few new dresses would do me a world
of good. Puck.
T understand you tried to work the
third degree on a Chinaman?"
"Yes," answered the New York de
tective. "It was a fearful ordeal."
"Did the prisoner weaken?"
"No. But the police are on the verge
of insom.ila and nervous prostration."
Washington (D. C.) Star.
,
"What Is a hauteur?"
"That's what some salesladies dis
play when you ask to see something
cheaper." Louisville Courier-Journal.
' Little Willie Say. pa, what is the
meaning of premonition?
Pa Premonition, my son, is what
ails people who are afflicted with the
T told you so" habit. Chicago News.
"What! Your wife Is dead?"
"Yes; a year ago. And last week I
married again."
"My sincerest condolence and heart
iest congratulations." London Opinion.
e
"Please sir," said the new office boy,
"me gran-mudder's dead, an' I want
de afternoon off." "Johnny," exclaimed
his employer, severely, "do you know
where little boys go who tell lies?'
"Yes, sir; to de ball game," replied
Johnny, unblushlngly. Philadelphia
Record.
e
"Bliffers must be a poet and a so
cialistic reformer." "What makes you
think so?" "Why, I understand he
never pays any taxes." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
see
Housemaid Please, sir. will you
come at once, the drorin" room's on
fire. '
Man of the House Well, go and tell
your mistress; you know I never in
terfere in household matters. London
Punch.
Statesmanship of Our Jonathan.
Polk County Observer.
The Observer is pleased to acknowl
edge receipt of a copy of Senator
Bourne's speech touching certain phases
of the tariff question. It is a good
speech, as speeches go, and evidences
much study and careful preparation.
We are proud of our Jonathan, but
somehow, we would have grappled him
to our soul with stronger hoops of
steel if he hadn't voted for that $2
a ton raise on print paper. We can t
blame him for wanting to stand well
with the friends of his bosom from his
old stamping ground In New England;
and we also appreciate the fact that
it takes money to run this great and
glorious country, and that this revenue
must be raised either by a tariff on
Imports or by direct taxation. But
when Oregon's senior Senator deliber
ately votes to place a high tariff on
a staple which is not produced in suf
ficient quantities in the United States
to supply the home demand, right
then and there our faith in his states
manship begins to bog down.
For the truth is, the Senators who
voted for the $4 a ton rate on paper
did it to please a few Senators from
the New England states; did It, to be
exact, as a courtesy to two men Hale
and Frye, of Maine. It Is plainly evi
dent that many Senators were more
solicitous of the preservation of the
moldy traditions of that body than
they were of freeing the printers and
publishers of the United States from
the grasp of as merciless a trust as
ever closed its fingers on the throat
of an American industry. This pecu
liar form of "Senatorial courtesy" may
be a good thing, in Its way, but we can
not help wishing that Oregon's Jona
than hadn't been quite so courteous.
X post Divides France and Belgium.
London Globe.
About GOO yards from the station at
Herseaux, at the crossroads from
Oudenarde to Roubaix. on the way
from Tournal to Monseton. there Is a
directing post which, from a topo
graphical point of view. Is a curiosity.
This post marks the "separation between
two countries France and Belgium;
three provinces or departments, Le
Nord, Western Flanders and Halnault;
three bishoprics, Cambral. Burges and
Tournal. Three races dwell around it,
speaking three languages, French.
Flemish and Wallon. It is also in
three communes, Wattrelos, Herseaux
and Estalmplus.
Taking Things Home.
Chicago News.
A trinket of silver for Mary
Ah me. but the time has been long-!
Though love such as ours cannot vary.
Each absence seems cruelly wrong.
I could not return empty-handed.
Where eager eyes wordlessly coax
If It left roe financially stranded. --
I'd carry things home to the folks.
Borne hair ribbons they're forvLor't'-..
But whether they'll match. goauness
knows:
A sash for petite Henrietta
She's fond of such things. " suppose.
Though Mary, while dreading to pain me.
By saving. "That never will do "
Has tried her sweet best to restrain me
From buying such odd shades of blue.
A rabbit that Jumps for small Billy
I tread surer ground with the tots.
A ball for wee two-year-old Mllly
I'd save if I bought them In lots
Some bright beauty pins for the littlest
Too little to know they're a hoax.
Mv family ties are the brlttlest
When I'm picking out things for my folks
So. laden with off'rlnr". I l)ast5n
To mix with the loved ones once more.
To hear crltlclsn- that chasten
And make my fond hopes hit the floor.
I'm scared as the mischief to spring things
'Tls quite the most mournful of jokes
The modern man's effort to bring thlnns
To his pampered o'erpresented folks.