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rORTLAVD. FRIDAY, ACirST S7. 1909.
MR. TAFT AXn POST AT. BANKS:
It is pleasant to be assured that Mr.
Tnrt- has not abated a. Jot of his par
tiality for postal savings banks. If he
urges Congress to establish them, as
he says he will in his me.isafp next
December, it seems hardly possible
that this useful institution can be de
layed much longer. The reasons which
President Taft mentioned to his call
ers for establishing postal savings
banks are such as would naturally ap
peal to Congressmen and financiers,
but they are not the strongest ones
which can be advanced by any means.
It is perfectly true, as he says, that
postal banks would attract a great
deal of money that is now kept In
'secret places by persons who have no
confidence In other banks. Their lack
of confidence may be groundless and
foolish, but they do not think so, and
in any case it is a fact which states
men must reckon with. Some econo
mists compute at $500,000,000 the
sum of money which would be drawn
from hiding and put Into circulation
by opening postal savings banks.
A kindred fact which Is almost as
Important may be mentioned, though
Mr. Taft said nothing about it in his
casual talk with his visitors. The
foreign laborers In the United States,
who are numbered by the hundred
thousand, are as a clans economical
and thrifty. They come here with the
purpose to better tneir condition and
they save their wages with a. rigorous
determination which some of our
native workmen might imitate with
advantage, Still they do nOt trust our
banks, and Instead of depositing their
savings here they send them back to
Italy and elsewhere to be retained In
government savings banks. This is a
steady drain of capital and in the
course of a year It must amount to a
considerable sum. If we had postal
- savings banks It woald be deposited
In them. This Is known to be true,
because foreigners often seek to leave
their money at the postofflces under
the false Impression that the United
States has taken the same wise meas
ures as their home governments to
encourage thrift. Experience both here
and abroad has taught them that
money left with the government la
safe beyond peradventure. What may
happen to money left in ordinary
banks is to them a dark and dubious
question. Many native citizens feel
verv much the same way about the
matter.
As for competition between the
Government and private banks it Is out
of the question. For one thing- the
funds which would be deposited at
the postoffice are now either in con
cealment or else they are sent to
foreign countries. Xo bank gets any
benefit from them. ' In fact the way
they are handled Is a positive Injury,
not only to the banks but to trade in
general, because they are withdrawn
from use in great quantities for long
periods. Deposited with the govern
ment, this money would go into trade
at once. It might be used to reduce
the 2 per cent bonds which are
troubling financiers Just now by a
tendency to depreciate, or It might be
deposited in the ordinary banks where
the government keeps 113 funds. What
ever was done It would begin to cir
culate. While It lies In concealment
it might as well be annihilated so far
as Its effect on commerce is concerned.
The postal banks would practically add
half a billion dollars to the circulating
medium of the country at a stroke.
The low interest which the postoffice
would pay Is another reason why no
Xational banker need fear the com
petition of the Government. Ordinary
savings banks pay 3 per cent and some
of them 4 per cent. Xo one suggests
that the postal banks shall pay more
than 2 per cent. The Injury which
some bankers anticipate from them is
therefore pure hallucination. If they
had studied the subject with the facts
before them and minds free from
panicky Tear, their vusious of fright
would have faded away. Why should
postal banks Injure private banks here
any more than In the dozen European
countries where they have long been
established? It is nonsense to Imagine
such a thing. Poal banks would do
no harm whatever to any honest en
terprise. On the other hand they
would do all the good Mr, Taft re
counted In conversation and a great
deal more. No man Is so friendly to
a corporation as one who has money
Invested In it. The same Is true of
governments. The Inimitable patriot
ism of the French people is party ac
counted for by the fact that so many
of them own a share of the public
debt. Everv man who put money In
a postal bank would Immediately be
come a champion of the Government.
Whatever he had been before he
would now stand Inflexibly for law and
order. He would be transformed from
a sentimental to a practical patriot.
Xo better method could be desired
for making ardent. Americans out of
foreigners than for the Government to
take care of their savings. But the
best of all reasons for postal banks
Is "the Immense encouragement they
would offer to thrift. Waste and
heedlessness of the future are our Na
tional failings. We need lessons in
economy more than any other teach
ing. The postal banks would give
them, first by displaying everywhere
the opportunity to save, and secondly
by offering unquestionable security.
Mr. Taft can do nothing better for
the country than to contend for postal
banks until he gets them, and when
that great victory for the common
good Is won another awaits him In
the parcels post.
Eight of the largest armored cruis
ers In the Navy have been ordered to
sail from San Francisco September 4
for the Orient. A Washington dis
patch announcing the departure says
that the mission is a friendly one.
Nearly all cruises are undertaken in
similar peaceful circumstances. The
fact that eight of the largest and fast
est vessels in the American Navy are
hurried out on less than twq weeks
notice, at a time when political and
diplomatic relations between the prin
cipal Oriental powers are In a mud
dled condition, may have had nothing
to do with this hurried departure of
our big fighting machines. At the
same time. It might not come amiss for
us to be in position to look after our
Interests across the Pacific in case
something rough were started along
the Manchurian frontier. It required
more than six "months of newspaper
talk and posing to get the last Oriental
fleet out of this country, and; when
we hurry one out in ten days, comment
may be expected.
DR. JORDAN, SALMON PROPHET.
Salmon men of Puget Sound are
trying to find out what Dr. David Starr
Jordan actually said, as to their in
dustry a while ago. Several days be-
fore the "big run" he was quoted in
Bellingham as remarking that the sal
mon Industry was ruined and that
traps were to blame. This version of
Dr. Jordan's utterance is backed up
by a newspaper reporter and a high
fish authority of the State of Wash
ington. Then came so many fish that the
canneries couldn't pack them. As to Dr.
Jordan's remarks at that time, there
is no dispute. They were these: "I do
not advocate abolishing any kind of
gear, but regulation of all. The large
run this year is not surprising. It was
expected."
Since Dr. Jordan claims to be one
of the highest fish authorities in the
United States and is this country's
member of the international fisheries
commission, large Importance Is
ascribed to his opinion. A good many
salmon men think, however, that too
much importance Is attributed to him.
Others commend him as a big medicine
man In fish knowledge. Among the
latter are gill-netters of Astoria who
ouote him in advocacy of abolition
of upper Columbia River fishing and
of lower Columbia traps. Whenever
the Legislatures of two states debate
salmon. Dr. Jordan's name is tossed
around as if belonging on the one
hand to a very great personage and on
the other to a very Insignificant one.
Dr. Jordan is also an authority on
seal fishing In American waters of the'
Pacific. Although his itreas were
adopted as the United States policy
In dealing with this vexed matter, that
policy has proved a failure.
Is it possible that Dr. Jordan Is far
ing the same as most other men who
have posed as prophets of salmon?
Soon or late their pet Ideas are ex
ploded. Beyond protecting salmon by
limiting the open seasons and the
reach of gear and by hatching salmon
eggs articicially, little proved knowl
edge exists and even in those realms
It is small. An expert In salmon can
ill afford to say too much. Dr. Jordan
evidently has said a great deal.
DEMOCRATIC ROLL OF HONOR.
Queer Idea, Bryan's, that there
should be a roll of honor for the seven
"Progressive" Republican Senators
whose conduct accorded closest with
the Democratic National platform
Whom of his Democratic party would
he Inscribe upon the fame list? Are
there no true sons of Democratic
faith?
"We favor Immediate revision of the
tariff by- the reduction of Import
duties," says the Democratic Xational
platform. "Articles entering Into com
petition with trust-controlled products
should be placed upon the free list
and material reductions should be
made In the tariff on the necessaries of
life, especially upon articles compet
ing with such American manufactures
as are sold abroad more cheaply than
at home; and graduate reductions-
should be made In such other sched
ules as may be necessary to restore
the tariff on a revenue basis."
Mr. Bryan's Democratic compatriots
in Congress njmbly forgot their party's
pledge, when it came to making up
the tariff schedule. They were op
posed to putting articles of their own
states 'on "a revenue basis," and quite
overlooked their party promise and
Bryan. Just like Aldrich they were
In turn. In holding high the tariff on
their local home products. One of the
nimblest Democrats along this line was
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon. Little
would be said about them but for their
false posing. After they had boosted
high tariff, they remembered their
party platform and voted against the
bill because It was not on a "revenue
basis." The buncombe Is the sorry
part of it.
Wherefore, the question recurs,
whom of the Democratic party ought
Mr. Bryan to Inscribe on the roll of
honor?
WOHI.DK TROTTING RECORDS.
Two seconds was clipped from the
world's trottlng-race record at Cleve
land, Ohio, Wednesday, when Ham
burg Belle took the first heat in a
race In 2:01 M and followed It up with
a second heat In 2:01. The phe
nomenal nature of this performance
can be appreciated when it is re
membered that every trotting race
record broken since Xancy Hanks
trotted In 2:04 In 1892 has been made
by a mere fraction of a second. The
"two-minute trotter" has been with us
for several years, Lou Dillon having
circled the track In 1:58 Vi, while
Cresceus made an exhibition mile in
1:59 ahd Major Delmar lacked but
one-fourth of a second of making a
mile in two minutes flat. These three
performances, however, were made
against time, with running horses for
pace-makers, and In the case of Major
Delmar with a wind-shield preceding
the animal.
Such records are vastly different
from those which result from an actual
race, and, from the accounts of the
world-beating race at Cleveland, we
annarentlv have two two-minute rac
ing trotters near at hand. Uhlan,
New England gelding. wa beaten In
the first heat by Hamburg Belle by
only a fraction of a second, and, as
they meet again later In the season,
the world's record may rest with the
gelding. Hamburg Belle In bringing
the race record back into the camp
of her sex, has dethroned 'Cresceus,
a stallion that captured the record in
1901. A review of. the trotting-race
records reveals the fact that as record-
breakers the trotting mares outnumber
the opposite sex nearly two to one.
Highland Maid trotted a mile In 2:27
In 1853, and that was the record until
Flora Temple trotted In 2:24 H In
1856. Flora Temple trotted the first
mile that was made under 2:20 In
1858, and her record of 2:19 re
mained good until Dexter circled the
track In 2:18 In 1865.
Goldsmith Maid brought the record
back to her sex in 1871 and held It
until Ranis, an ex-cart horse, trotted
a mile In 2:13 in 1878. The glory
of Rarus was short-lived, for St.
Julian clipped half a second from his
record a year later. Maud S., Nancy
Hanks and Alix in turn between 1880
aTid 1S94 worked the record down te
2:033i. where it remained until
Cresceus beat The Abbott in 1901
There Is a long list of fast trotters all
the way down the list from Flora Tern
pie to Hamburg Belle, but as record
breakers the mares seem to have all
the best of it and the two-minute
race record may not be far away.
THE SHADOW ON THE MARKET.
Union Pacific sold below T198'ln
the New York stock market yesterday,
a loss of more than $20 per share
within a week. This stock led in the
recent advances in the market, and
yesterday It led In the declines. There
has been no material change In the
usual conditions which govern the
stock market that would warrant so
heavy a slump -In the Harriman stock.
Money is still comparatively easy and
the outlook for traffic Is exaellent, but
a power more 'potent, unchangeable
and certain than all other influences
which Wall street is ever obliged to
combat has thrown a shadow across
the Harriman securities. With the
command of more capital than has
ever been placed at the disposal of
any other lndividul on earth, Mr. Har
riman has built up a gigantic railroad
mac hlne without as yet training a
successor who can handle it.
The rehabilitation of Union Pacific
Intrenched Mr. Harriman so firmly In.
the confidence of his financial spon
sors that they have never since ques
tioned his independence of action. He
has. without consulting anyone; bor
rowed millions .and purchased roads or
control of roads without making his
plans known even to the directors until
the deal was consummated. Any
Jealousy or fear that - this one-man
power would become dangerous has
been sneedlly allayed by the remark
able results achieved results that pos
sibly might not have been so satis
factory had the secret plans been en
trusted to more than one man. So long
as everything which Mr. Harriman
touched turned Into gold, hl3 board of
directors was content to give him free
retn. and, as no failure'threw a cloud
across this shimmering sky, the Harri
man power increased amaelngly.
With good health and the ability
to handle this financial Frankenstein
which he builded. all would go well
with the Harriman properties; but
with failing, health and no successor
sufficiently well trained to grapple the
gigantic task, thera is naturally some
reason for these shivers that run
through Wall street whenever the Har
riman health shows a turn for the
worse. In building up his machine,
Mr. Harriman has gathered around
him the best railroad talent in the
United States, and to these able lieu
tenants he has always cheerfully given
due credit for the marvelous showing
made by the various properties of the
far-flung Harriman system. But no
single one of these lieutenants can
grasp all of the delicate and divergent
parts of this wonderful financial and
industrial machine. On this point the
New York Journal of Commerce,
which has never been very favorable
to Mr. Harriman or his methods, pays
the following tribute, to his remarkable
achievements:
The scope of the financier's plans. If they
could be laid bore, would slugger the na
tion. While he Is checkmating James J.
Hill here and the Ooulds there. pullli'-K the
teelh of the Vanderbilta one day and the
next bringing J. P. Morgan Into line, he
la conning over schemes at a hundred differ
ent points of the continent, seme of them
that to the layman would appear too paltry
for serious eonsld'eratlon. In the South
alnno ha has marked out developments
whose accomplishments any ordinary human
being would regard aa a brilliant life- work.
Mr. Harriman indeed Is as a stone rolling
down a hill, gathering momentum with
each bound forwsrd. But there Is a bottom
to even Mount Everest.
It will be noted that the bare ru
mors of Mr. Harriman's Ill-health were
sufficient to cause a. loss of $20 per
share In the market value of his prin
cipal railroad stock. This fact may
well cause one to wonder what may
happen if he should suddenly die.
A FORTUNE FOR SLEDICAX, RESEARCH.
If half the stories told about the
Chicago packing houses are true or
were true it seems marvelously ap
propriate to employ the fortunes they
create in medical research. It savors
keenly of a repentance and restitution.
Investigators In medical science can
make good use of all the money Mrs.
Nelson Morris, widow of the packer,
has left for their researches and a
great deal more besides. Although
medicine has advanced rapidly in the
last few years, it still has a plenty of
unsolved problems and they are of a
nature which requires long and ex
pensive experiment. Most of the
alleviation of human ills which has
been attained in the last quarter of a
century physicians . have reached
through experiments on living animals.
This work requires not only the most
exquisite technical skill and 'tact In
dealing with hostile sentimentality,
but it also consumes very large sums
of money.
The victories which the art of heal
ing may be expected to make in the
next decade or two will almost cer
tainly include a cure for cancers.
These frightful scourges of mankind
have hitherto dctied every remedy but
the knife, and even surgery Is not
always successful In treating them. A
person who is once attacked by a"
genuine cancer stands a pretty good
chance to perish by a lingering and
painful death. Radium and the X
ravs .have been used against It with
some effect, but physicians do not put
very extensive trust in either of these
agents, though great things were once
expected of them. Neither the cause
nor the cure of cancer is known, yet
in spite of this fact and the awful
misery it Inflicts on human beings,
there are people In the world who
would stop the cancer researches at
Buffalo and the Rockefeller hospital
because they cause some discomfort to
mice and cats. Mrs. Morris, who has
left a fortune for medical Investiga
tion, belongs to a saner order of be-
ngs than the antl-vivisectionlsts.
Grays Harbor has another ship
wreck, the steam schooner Fair Oaks
striking on the rocks at North Jetty.
By a coincidence, the gunboat York
town, which will have the distinction
of being the largest naval vessel to
enter Grays Harbor, had Just arrived
off the bar, when the accident hap
pened. If the usual Governmental ig
norance of harbors had been permitted
to prevail, $he Yorktown would prob
ably have been wanted not to enter
the harbor after the smaller craft was
wrecked inside. Fortunately for
Grays Harbor, she has no knockers Im
bued with the idea that one port can
be built up by pulling down another.
The Fair Oaks was wrecked because
she got out of the channel, and ves
sels of much greater size and draft en
ter and depart in safety, bec'ause they
keep in the channel. 1 Steamships, go
aground in New York harbor when
ever they leave the channel, and there
Is. more water there than there Is on
Grays Harbor bar.
' President Elliott, of the Northern
Pacific, in a speech at lAberdeen, pre
dieted that "thenext ten years would
witness greater railroad developmen
In Oregon and AVashington than any
one now dreamed of. He also said
his company has orderd 3o00 new
freight cars and is securing figures on
100 locomotives and 100 passenger
vcars. These orders indicate a. tangi
ble foundation for the optimism ex
pressed by Mr. Elliott. That the new
equipment will all be needed as soon
as it is ready, now seems a eertalnty
"Railroad development in Oregon and
Washington" covers a wjde range o
territory, but there is only one water
level outlet from all of that vast region
east of the Cascade Mountains in the
two states, and at that outlet is a city
which is growing more rapidly than
ever before in its history and which
will, to a greater extent than any other
city in the Pacific Northwest, enjoy
the benefits attendant on the fulfill
ment of Mr. Elliott's prophecy regard
ing railroad . development. That city
is Portland. 1
Some student of the salmon situa
tion at the entrance of the river, an
nounces a theory that the present
shortage in the pack is due to the re
cent killing of such large numbers of
sealions off the ocean shore, near! the
Columbia. According to this theory,
the salmon only come into the river to
avoid being eaten up by the sealions
The theory suggests the possibility of
taming a numoer oi me wis
eaters and sending them out to round
up a school of salmon and drive them
in, as a dog drives sheep. The sealion
is easily tamed, and. If this new
theory is correct, we may expec in the
future to witness the novel spectacle
of the gill-netter starting seaward
with his gasoline boat, accompanied
hv a counle of trained sealions to
round up the salmon. Or, better still
the big sealions could be taught to tow
the boat out to an advantageous lo
cation, and save the expense of the
gasoline.
It is said that Mrs. Nicholas Long-
worth has set the women and children
of the country a bad example in that
she. smokes cigarettes In public. If
she is guilty of this unseemly and. most
unwomanly habit, the charge is cer
tainly well based. For some reason
the consumption of cigarettes has in
creased enormously In the past five
years, the use of them extending In
very many instances to women, ana
even school girls. It Is only worse
for Mrs. Longworth to Indulge this
abmmlnahle habit than for Mrs. Jones
to do so because of the prominence of
her father and the influence that she
exerts bv reason of this. On this view
the charge lodged against her by a
California educator is a serious one.
The hop-harvest of the Willamette
Valley will be in full blast next week
With "favorable weather for picking
the crop promises to be one of the
most satisfactory in years. It Is said
by a man who has intimate knowledge
of the situation that fully eighty per
cent of growers failed to spray the
vines, and the large area thus rep
resented will be greatly damaged by
even one day of rain. Of course, every
body hopes for a warm, dry September
as the climax of a cool and most ae
lightful Summer.. There is no reason
to fear that this hope will De disap
pointed At all events it is yet too
early to assess any probable damage
to crops from unseasonable rains.
The Oregon State Agricultural Col
lege equipment was highly .commend
ed bv visiting agricultural college
presidents on a recent inspection or
the Oregon Agricultural college, tne
inspection of the college equipment.
Its student list and curriculum seemed
to surprise the deans of similar in
stitutions In the East and Middle West,
who were in the visiting party. Why.'
Because the habit of bounding the
Nation on the West by the Mississippi
River is one that is difficult to over
come that, inaeea, is never uvet
come except by personal observation.
Tasmania has proportional repre
sentation, we are told: therefore, we
should have it. Abysinnia, Uganda,
Swat and Liberia are about to"' adopt
it, we hear. We are too slow. Do
we Intend to let Abysinnia, Tasmania
and other great countries beat us?
We wot not. The prize for being the
fool of the family belongs here and
we are going to keep it by thoroughly
U'Renizing the entire state and all
its people. Perhaps.
Why not have a parade of school
children for Taft when he comes to
Portland? Not precisely a parade, but
a line-up of 25,000 or 30,000 young
sters who will be glad to see him, and
he no doubt glad to see them. The
President will be here on a Saturday,
so there will be no break-In on school
work. As an event to be remembered,
Taft's coming puts Into the shade any
other possible attraction.
Probably the Sutton family would
better let their unfortunate son rest in
his grave. It will avail nothing to dig
up his body. No matter what the
Annapolis board found, the public Is
now pretty well informed as to the
available facts of his killing.. Xo new
Inquiry bids fair to help his memory
or his assailants.
Fifty-seven experts In the National
Pure Food Congress at Denver say
benzoate of soda is all right and forty
two experts say it is Jiot. If all ex
perts thought alike, what would be the
use of experts ?
Another more or less perishable rec
ord has been made by a Frenchman
who stayed up in the air nearly three
hours. However, the birds are still
several laps ahead.
A man who tried to call on Mr.
Harriman to collect . several million
dollars of back interest on railroad
stock was arrested as being demented.
He was.
'Nor has the welkin been made to
ring by clamorous demands of our
BInger for a speedy trial. Roseburg
Is good enough place for him.
Why, indeed, should either Mr.
Pinchot or Mr. Ballinger attend the
Conservation Congress at Seattle?
Wasn't Joe Teal there?
President Taft's coming will be
synchronous with the mellowing of
the fruit that made(Oregon famous.
IN DEFENSE OF HUMBLE ONION.
It la the Friend of Man and the Enenry
of Disease.
Washington Post.
Doubtless God could have made a more
wholesome vegetable than the onion; but
doubtless God never did. to borrow the
thought of Isaak Walton on the straw
berry, and we put no credence in and
bear with litt'e patience the following
paragraph relating to a perversion said
to have een perpetrated by -a heathen in
California:
Aft who like onions will hone that the
odorless onion said to h-ive been rort"
by Wing Hop, a Chinese gardener llvin,
in California. ma,v soon be piareu u:wn
market. Wing Hop has for years been en
eaired in the philanthropic labor or tryin
to grow an onion that should have all th
virtues of the old familiar vegetable of that
name without the one. quality . that has
offended so many of the. fastidious. H
says now that hi3 efforts have been crowned
with suroess.
When you get an odorless onion yo
will have an onionless onion. Years ago
a man invented a pipe that gave you
smoke without the effect of the nicotin
in the tobacco, and another fellow in
vented a drunkless whisky, or pretended
to. Men had no use for either and re
jected both.
As for the onion, it is the friend of
man and the enemy of disease. It is
good for the stomach, for the liver, for
the kidneys, for the skin, and a delight
for the properly educated palate.
No ship's crew ever suffered from
scurvy that had a supply of onions. Gen
era! Grant refused to move rtls army one
campaign until he got a cargo of onions he
had ordered. Gen. Forrest, the Confed
erate chieftain, insisted on onions as
part of the ration of each of his troopers.
Anrl those of the "fastidious" who will
have none of the- onion because it is re
garded as a publican vegetable have no
business to go far from tlie home where
their bandboxes are kept.
The onion is best raw, but it is excellen
boiled, fried, or even roasted. It is fln
for flavoring, and for a turkey it beats
all creation when mingled .with the stuf
fing.
But an odorless onion? It will prove art
Insipid bulb lit for neither Christian no
pagan. Out with it!
SKTBOATS NOT NEW INVENTIONS.
Men Have Made Air Trlpa Often an
Even Crossed to Britain.
Chicago Journal.
The proud ambitions of variou
aeroplanlsts to emulate the perform
ance of Bleriot in crossing the English
Channel bring to mind the fact that
the same body of .water has been
crossed on other occasions by aerial
means.
January 7, 1785. Blanchard and Jef
fries sailed from Dover to Calais in
balloon. Earlier than that by almost
15 years Dup'oy Ve Lome Invented
steerable balloon which was used dur
ing the siege to carry messages be
tween the troops in Paris and outlay.
Ing points.
The flying machine itself is not by
any means new. In fact, considering
the very long time that men have been
building flying machines, the back
wardness of the science today is rather
remarkable. v
Away back -in 1273 Friar Bacon
built a flyer, and as long ago as 1651
Bishop Wilkin wrote that "It will be
as usual for a man to call for nis
wings when he is going on a journey
as it is now to call for his boots.
Before 1700 Borelli actually flew in
an airship of his own devising. In
1800 Sir George Caley performed mar
vels of aerial flight. Henson, 'Petti
grew and others added to the small
total of aerenautic knowledge. In 1S75
VonGroof, the famous flying Belgian,
attracted a great deal of attention,
and from that time forward interest
has steadily grown and inventions have
multiplied.
In France, Germany ana this coun
try hundreds of ambitious men are de
voting their skilled brains to solution
of the problem of human flight. The
promise for the next few months is
large. Perhaps It is not too much to
expect that before the first day of Jan
uary, 1910. the future of air naviga
tion shall have been assured.
Corporation Tax Dilemma.
New York Times.
After the United States has collected a
tax from- a corporation In respect to the
transaction of its business, will it guar
antee the privilege of doing the business
In respect to which the tax Is collected .'
If not, the United States is In the posi
tion of taking something for nothing, and
taking it from one who is allowed to do
business while another is forbidden.
For example, the business of guarantee
Ing bank deposits is both lawful and pop
ular, however it may be criticised from
some points of view. But the Attorney
General of Kansas has just ruled that a
company formed to guarantee bank de
posits at a higher rate of interest than
Kansas approves may be excluded from
doing business in Kansas for that reason
alone.
Would the United States collect the cor
poration tax in respect of business which
Kansas refuses to allow? Or, having col
lected the tax, would the United States
proceed to constrain Kansas to allow
what otherwise it would disallow?
Recent limitation has settled that It Is
unlawful for a state to cancel a license
to do business within a state because of
appeals Co Federal courts against state
legislation. The right to litigate could
not thus be restrained. But can the right
to do a lawful business in respect to
which the United States has collected a
tax be withdrawn?
The dilemma appears to possess embar-
rasssments for either the United States
or its component states. It was prudent
to arrange the enactment of such a stat
ute in such a manner mat debate was
impracticable.
French Dlallke New Tariff Rates.
' Springfield Republican.
The new American tariff, bears more
hardly upon France than any other na
tion, and much hitter feeling is repre
sented to exist there over the fact. That
country exports heavily to the United
States silks, fine cottons, wines and sirhl-
ar articles of nicety and luxury, and
these articles take the brunt of the tariff
increases made over the old Dingloy
rates. The French press Is quite excit
ed and the more radical newspapers are
counseling tariff reprisals. Should these
be resorted to. however. French exports
to this country would fall under 25 per
cent duties additional to those com
plained of, and this fact seems to be
having a sobering effect in France. But
that country may raise its minimum or
most-fayored-nation tariff rates, and thus
seek to' "get even" with the United
States without Incurring the application
of our maximum schedules. This course
may be followed. Minister of Commerce
Dupuy, however, is quoted as saving with
delphlc effect that "France will defend
her interests without recourse to the
tariff."
Scorned Flla Advice.
Cleveland PJain Dealer.
'Madam," said the medical man,
gravely, "you must practice filling your
ungs with deep breaths or pure air."
"An bust the smithereens out of my
ew direet'ry gown," sniffed the lady.
I think I see myself."
And turning on her high heels she
haughtily left the apartment.
A Parallel.
New' York- Poet.
Secretary Ballinger's denial that there
has ever been any controversy between
him and Mr. Pinchot' reminds one of
Crabbe's hero, who
Began his state with vigor to reform:
And made a calm by smjllng at the storm.
The Trouble With Too Many.
Charleston News and Courier.
Some people are so busy telling the Lord
his business that they have no time to at
tend to their own.
LARGE PRIZES FOR AVIATORS.
France and England Tempt Men Who
Operate Flying: Machines.
j London Cable to New York Sun.
Although M. Bleriot has won the dis
tinction of being the ttrst man to cross
the English Channel in a heavler-than-
air machine, enough prizes remain to
be won to make it worth while for
other aviators to persevere in their at
tempts to accomplish a flight over the
same course.'
The three bigges prizes are $20,000
offered by Baron de Forest for the
first Englishman- who succeeds in do
ing the trip in an English-made ma
chine, $5000 offered by Henri Deutsch
to the pilot who makes the same trip
carrying- one passenger before Decern
ber 31. 1903, and 12500 offered for the
first aeroplane to cross the Channel
before January 1 next, but in this com
petition attempts may be made only
on the second and fourth Sunday in
each month.
The following is a list of some of
the principal prizes to be won by
aviators:
Prize. Conditions. Closes.
00,000 London to Manchester In
14 hours . with cot more than,
two -stoppages
-'o.iMft 1 'i)iir4 nf 10 kilometers
- to be covered 10 times Sept., '09
2OO0 Aviator making record
fliffht from Brussels to Ostend )
and hack, or equivalent distance
- In BelKlum Oct. t, '09
.-somi One mile, all British flier
and pilot ....April 6, '10
S21J0 First worajn to fly a clr- j
cular kUometer
$f0m Ten annual prizes for
aviator hoLtlins record distance
flieht on December 31 each
vear Jan. 1, 'IS
S4W0 Three annual prizes for a
return . fllg-ht over a 100- kilo
meter straight course
$.o:Kl London Manchester. Pay
able at the rate of $5 per mile
for first attempt exceeding- '-'0
miles ; !
$10.000 London-Manchester. Ma
chine must be British built and .
have an Antoinette et-Klne
$2T.(.hj London-Manchester. Brit
ish bulit engine
$30'Kl First aviator to fly from
Milan to Turin. Distance
about 80 miles
$2100 First aviator to fly from
camp at Chalons to Essy pa
rade grounds
$2400 First aviator who follows
a specified route over Paris be
tween 10 A. M. and 3 P. M.
Aviators must previously have
accomplished 20 kilometers .. .....
$10.0i.10 First aviator to travel
i p the course of the Hudson
River between New York and
Albany. Distance 142 miles..
$5O00 First German aviator to
fly !n less than one hour from
Frankfort to RusseNheim and V
back, making a descent at the
latter r'ace Oct. '09
$20.000 First aviator who carries
a passenger from the Depart
ment of the Seine, or Seine-et-Olse
to the Puy-de-Dome lu
six hours ... Jan. 1, 'IS
$2010 For the first aviator who,
having stopped his engine,
Veepa aloft for five minutea
without descending . more than
SO meters
$oOK) For the first person who
makes flight In heavier than
air machine between Liverpool
and Manchester '.
M. Dujardin - Beaumetz. the French
Under Secretary of State for Fine
Arts, has given orders for a painting
to commemorate M. Bleriot's cross
Channel flight. The picture is to rep
resent M. Bleriot immediately after
landing, receiving the embrace of his
compatriot, M. Fontaine, and enveloped
in the folds of the French flag, which
had been used as a signal for Ills land
ing. The artist commissioned to paint
the picture la XI. Tlievenot.
Slang Well Horn.
Cleveland Leader.
Some diligent student contributes to
Puck a list of striking instances of the
use in famous books of slang phrasps
which came into vogue long after the
writers who fathered them, often, it is
true, in an entirely different sense, passed
away from earth. "Forget it cast it
away comes from Hawmornes Mamie
Faun and "It's a Sure Tiling is found
In Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer."
It appears that "Twenty-throe." signi
fying the last, is in that wonderful and
least Dickensesque of Dicker.' novels.
"A Tale of Two Cities." "Cut in and
win" is traced to Thackeray's "Vanity
Fair." e
Farther back. "Nothing doing" crops
out in Addison's Letters, and "Gone to
the wall" is found in. John Bunyan's
Immoiwl "Pilgrim's Progress." In "Love's
Labor Lost ' it is discovered that
Shakespeare says: "Give Hector a gift
a gilt nutmeg a lemon." So one of the
very best slang-born phrases of the day.
Slake good, can be located In Deu
teronomy.
The truth Is that many slang expres
sions are merely the popular discovery or
second birth of phrases and words of an
cient and excellent lineage. It is a groat
mistake to lump all slang together as of
like quality and justiflcation for its iex
istence. Another Climate Equal to Oregon's.
PORTLAND, Aug. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) In the first chapter of Justin H.
McCarthy's hook, "Needles and Pins,"
a sequel to "If 1 Were King," there is a
description of the climate of Poitou,
France, as viewed by the inhabitants of
the province, which so aptly describes
the climate of Portland, and so nearly
echoes the language often heard from
the lips of enthusiastic residents of
Portland, that one wonders if Mr. Mc
Carthy has not sometime encountered
Portlander in his travels and lis
tened to his praise of the Rose City.
He says: "No true Poitevin ever
tired of praising his country's cli
mate. It was brisk in Spring, suave in
Summer, calm in Autumn, mild in
Winter. When it rained the rain was
not like the rain of less-favored re
gions; it was good for man as well as
cabbages; you might walk abroad In
it and be not only none the worse, but,
rather, all the better. When It blew,
the hoarse winds hooted no dirges as
elsewhere, but were as cheerful trum
pets encouraging hunger and thirst
amk, the amiable appetites."
J. 5. IvlAItV l.N.
The Turn In Ibe I.nne.
Nashville American.
There are even signs now of a
breaking away from Bryanlsin and the
other "Isms" which have so distracted
and disturbed the Democratic party for
nearly 20 years. We think we
see signs of a return to reason in
some states which are Just now appar
ently beset with demagogues and
plapued by unwise legislative enact
ments. It is an old saying that it' Is
a long lane that has no turn. Even so.
he turn has been reached in the
Democratic lane, and from this time-
on the conservative, thinking men are
going to come to the front. It is high
time they were coming to the front.
It Is incumbent upon the party to put
aside the demagogues and the destruc
tives and make our fair land a land
of peace and plenty, and, above all, a
and where common sense rules, where
here shall be equal rights to all men.
special privileges to none.
Her Specially. .
New York Times.
ane doesn't boast tiirectolre shape,-
Her hairs not Psyche style.
As o'er the grass, at dewy morn.
he flits, with quip anri smile.
Her tidy skirt's of natty blue.
Her blouse short-sleeved and- white;
And every movement of our Jane
we watch with keen aengnt.
weet come that breath of murmuring pines
From river bank and hill.
The sky Is cloudless; myriad birds
Their matin chorus trill.
The bacon's sizzling In the pan.
The coffee scents the air.
Our table's spread beneath the oak;
We wait for Jane, the Fair.
Oh. Jennie isn't murh on fudge.
Nor yet with chafing dish.
But out here where our tent gleams white
No worthier cook you'd wish.
Rah! Here she cornea: Ho. breakfast, boys.
And then for forest tramp!
Ah, who can beat the Johnnycakes
Our Jennlemakes in campi
Life's SunnySide
Love of country is so fine a virtue
that it seems difficult to carry it to ex
cess. A resident of a small village in
the north pf Scotland paid a business
visit to London the other day. He hap
pened to call on a merchant who was
unknown to him, but had once made a
stay in his native place. . In the
course of conversation the visitor made
use .of an expression that led the
other to exclaim: "Surely, you como
from Glen McLuskie?" The assertion,'
however, was denied. Presently, to
the merchant's surprise, another Glen
McLuskie expression was heard. "My
dear Mr. AIcTavish, I feel convinced
that vou are a Glen McLuskie man
after all." insisted the merchant.
"Weel," returned the other, "I'll no'
deny it any longer."
"Then why didn't you say so at
first?' demanded the Englishman.
"Weel," was the calm response, "I
dlnna like to boast o' It in London."-
London Chronlcie.
Homer Cummlngs, the Connecticut
member of the Democratic National
- committee, who was In charge of the
Eastern spetfkers' bureau in the 3 908
campaign, is a rattling good story
teller, and one day at the Hoffman
House, with Senator Culberson, Colonel
Johnston, of the Houston Post; Rep
resentative John Wesley Gaine3, of
Tennessee, and several other well
known Democrats as listeners, he told
of a Celtic friend of his In Stamford
who came to him some years before
In a Presidential campaign and said:
"Homer, ,1'm 1 going to try voting
the Republican ticket this year."
"W ell, now, that's a surprise, Jerry,
for I ttiougnt you were a rock-ribbed
Democrat," said Cummlngs.
"And I am," said Jer.ry, "but I like
Jim Blaine, for he's part Irish, so I
want to do what I can for him. I'm
going to vote for Blaine all right, but '
whisper (us he got close up to Mr.
Lumming's ear) I'm going to cut the
divvle out of Logan." Washington
Star.
A kindly lady who lives in New
Jersey evinces great Interest in the
personal welfare of her servants, an
Interest which led her not long since
to make inquiry of a new maid-of-all-work
touching the latter's domestic
felicities.
"I understand, Nora," said she, "that
you have a model husband."
"Shure, mum: lie's the foinest a gyurl
could have," was the enthusiastic re
sponse. "If ye could see th" way he
trates me, mum, ye'd be after sayin'
he 'were a frind instid of a husband."
Harper's Weekly.
Ex-City Counsel Joseph Coult is an
enthusiastic angler and always has
a fund of fish stories on hand. The
best one of the collection, he frankly
admits,- was told him by a rank ama
teur, who lives in Montclair.
'Two weeks ago," recited the rank
amateur, while Mr. Coult listened at
tentively, "I lost a $" bill whtlo canoe
ing on Greonwood Lake. The bill fell
into the water and disappeared. Well,
I went fishing yesterday and caught V
big black bass. I took it home and
when it r as opened what do you think
I found?"
"The $5 bill," ventured Mr. Coult.
"Not en your life. I found $4.95 In
change and half a plug of chewing to
bacco." A.twark Star.
A young New York broker of con
vivial habits fell in with an old school
friend who had gone on the rond.
"Whenever you're in town come up
and hunk with me," urged his friend as
they separated. "No matter what obi
time it is. if I'm not there Just go
ahead anrl make yourself at home. I'll
be sure to turn up before daybreak."
Soon after this the salesman arrived
n town about midnight, and, remem
bering his friend s invitation, sought
out his boaruing-house. There was
only a dim light flickering in the hall,
but he gave the boll a manful pull.
Presently he found himself face to face
with a landlady of grim and terrible
aspect.
"Does Mr. Smith live here?"' he
faltered.
"He does," snapped the landlady.
"You can bring him right in!" Phila
delphia Reou-d.
Bryan's Share In the Fraud.
Nashville American.
Brvan is out in a statement in which
he not only flays the recent tariff en
actment, but blames the President for it.
He says that "the Aldrich lull is a con
summate fraud deliberately planned and
boldly executed." This to true, every
word of it, yet it doesn'uacqulre any par
ticular force coining from a man who lus
exploited the Democracy for personal
profit. Had' Bryan paraniounted genuine
tariff revision instead of economic fall
acies, the party might not today be dis
organized, dispirited, moribund, on the
outside looking In.
Insane Credulity.
Chicago News.
Another sign of Thaw's Insanity, the
Judge says, was that he believed all
his wife told him.
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,
GENIAL AUTOCRAT
This' man, lovetl of the people
he so loved, recalled on his cen
tenary in a specially well-written
id'etch which will appeal to every
American, young or old.
CHASING HENEY INTO
THE WILDS OF OREGON
Experience of nn Orcgonian cor
respondent fieltinir an interview
with the noted prosecutor miles
from civilization.
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN A BIG CIRCUS
Some inside facts of life in a
city of tents that the public does
not know, with fine illustrations
by staff photographers.
FRANCIS RICHTER'S
SUCCESS IN LONDON
Opinion of cold critics on his
remarkable musical insiirht, his
technique and driving force.
TAFT, CHAMPION
AMERICAN TRAVELER
His comingr trip will bring; his
mileage up to the moon's distance
from the earth.
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