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THE WORLD 19 GOVERNED TOO MICK.
Inquiry comes. "'Why doesn't The
Oregonlan Join In the demand for pure
milk?" It doea Join In the demand
for pure milk. But It doesn't believe
that the people at large, or Indi
vidually, should be taught to depend
on government or public authority for
Inspection, regulation and control of
the Quality of food and drink. It be
lieves that each family and each in
dividual ought to be expected to take
precaution, and learn and know about
Its food and drink. Families needn't
oat bad fish, consume bad meats or
vegetables, accept bad milk, unless
they are willing. Men needn't drink
Lad whisky, nor any, unless they want
It. Are families and Individuals to do
anything; for themselves? Or Is gov
ernment to do It all? If-the family
' doesn't know good fish or good milk
from bad. is government to take
charge of the family table? Have the
heads of the household any responsi
bility? Parents these times seem even
to deem It the duty of the state,
through Its police, to control their
children.
This tendency calls into existence
an Increasing swarm of officials. They
Nourish; they grow Into a multitude.
In every community. The more' they
Increase the more are wanted. Offices
, with new titles are Invented; and these
officials again must have assistants
and deputies and clerks and stenog
raphers and typewriters and office
boys and Janitors, more and more.
The public payroll becomes a house of
refuge, an eleemosynary home, and the
larger the payroll the greater the de
mand for Its Increase. Discovery of
new bacteria In nature, never known
before, demands new bacilli In office.
The system grows by what It feeds on,
and there Is no end of It.
The Oregonlan confesses that It has
some old-fashioned notions. It believes
It the duty of the .father and mother
of the family to know whether the
food is good or bad. Moreover, It
knows that government never can take
care of this business and relieve Indi
viduals and heads of families of their
responsibility for It. It can. Indeed,
create a horde of officials, pretending
to do It; but the responsibility will re
main where nature, human nature, and
the constitution of society, have placed
ft.
These are old fogy and mossback
Ideas, of course. So are all the ideas
of the conditions of human life as old
as the race. Just now, more than ever
before In modern Hfe though In
ancient life there were parallels the
disposition is to require and expect the
state to do everything for everybody.
Nor does dependence rest on local or
state authority alone. Increasing num
bers expect the General Government
to take hold of things, and regulation
of the woods and waters and milk of
Oregon is to Issuo from the National
Capital, either as auxiliary to the state
or suDerior to it. with more officials
on both sides. The Oregonlan's objec
tions are summed up In a phrase that
once was the motto of democracy In
America "The World Is Governed Too
Much." ' .
The Oregonlan protests against an
increasing army of officials, who ac
complish nothing, nor will nor can.
Dairy methods are dirty, indeed, be
cause the virtue of cleanliness is not
sufficiently known. Nor can this
virtue be enforced by law. It must
be taught and learned, and insisted
on by users of milk. It will be a
lfing process; and these occasional
rasm, with loud demand for more
vigorous official action, will simply
leave the subject where It was before.
COWARD OR HERO?
A few months ago a Pacific Mail
liner was wrecked in Magdalena Bay
during a thick fog. The vessel proved
a total loss, but all on board were
saved. A few days ago an Alaska
liner struck a rock during a thick fog,
and was totally wrecked, five people
losing their lives. When the master
of the Pacific Mall liner saw that
there was no hope for his ship, he
r-'tlred to his stateroom and de
liberately blew out his brains. When
the master of the Alaska liner found
his ship sinking under him, he hustled
the crew and passengers into boats,
and, when all were safely clear of the
settling wreck, he followed them.' Last
Tuesday In San Francisco the Govern
ment inspectors, after reviewing all
the evidence, decided that the master
of the Pacific Mall liner was blameless
for the disaster. At Seattle the master
of the lost Alaska liner was also ex
onerated from all blame for the loss
of his ship and was complimented for
his excellent conduct In disembarking
safely the 200 people who were In his
charge.
Attention Is frequently called to the
fact that a live coward has some ad-
. A .n h.M T)llt .thA
vunwtfcrea vvtra .
over-sensitive Captain Robinson, of
the Pacific Mall liner Indiana, iwould
not have been a coward had he lived,
and in committing suicide he hardly
placed himself In the ranks of the
dead heroes. Captain Johnson, of the
Alaska liner Ohio, lost his ship, but
he was not afflicted with any false
ideas of heroism and devotion to duty
that would demand the sacrifice of
life In atonement for the error or bad
luck which caused the disaster. The
varying conditions in Individual cases
may make It debatable whether a
suicide Is a coward or a brave man.
One writer takes the ground that
cowardice prevents many suicides,
"jdnce as many live because they are
afraid to die as die because, they are
afraid to live."
The numerous shipwreck suicides,
' however, are among an extraordinary
i class of men. When the steamship
1 City of Rio Janeiro, feeling her way
1 into ban Francisco during a- ihiak -fog
a few years ago, struck a rock and
carried more than 100 people Into
eternity. Captain Ward, technically
blameless, as the ship was in charge
of the pilot, put a bullet through his
head and followed his unfortunate
passengers into the Great Beyond.
Captain Doran, master of the Colum
bia, which received her death wound
while rushing full speed through a
fog In direct violation of one of the
best known rules of navigation, de
liberately gave up his UTe seemingly
in atonement for his error which had
cost so many other lives that had
been entrusted to his care. But not
a drop of cowardly blood' ran in the
veins of either Ward or Doran. Both
realized the awful results of their lack
of vigilance and each selected the
penalty h thought he should pay for
the one fatal lapse of Judgment.
In the face of this self-applied
penalty, criticism was softened and
the terror of the tragedies was light
ened by the almost sublime atonement
of the men responsible for them. The
decision of the inspeotors in the case
of the liner Indiana, however, would
Indicate that Captain Robinson died
'as the fool dleth," there being no
occasion or excuse whatever for such
a sacrifice
CXCLK JOE MAT TALK BACK.
The following Is published in a mul
titude of Eastern papers. It sounds
much like "Uncle Joe," yet possibly he
would say it misrepresents him:
When Congress eonrenes I Intend to. en.ll
a friend of mine to the chair and take the
tioor and speak aa long- aa I am allowed.
I'll tell you. my bor. the fur la olne; to
fly. Soma people who profea. to be Re
publicans will get tha severest castlgatlon
that you ever heard. -I Intend to call a
sr.nde a spade. Home of these people who
are rantlnn about the present tariff bill
supported and helped frame the Dlngley
bill Their present rampojee is hypocrisy,
pure and simple. Some of the men who talK
of lealslatlon being stiried will have their
records shown up at my hands. Jour old
I'nclo Joseph Is going to talk In language
that anybody can understand.
That would be a mighty Interesting
speech if delivered in the spirit in
which this purported interview is
given. Every Representative and every
Senator who has attacked Cannon and
protested against his methods In legis
lation has stood by Cannon when
necessary to do so, for obtalnment of
advantages for his own district or
state. It has been a grab game; never
can be anjthing elMa, In the Interest
of legislation their states wanted the
"insurgent" members have supported
"stifle" methods, - but have revolted
against the same methods when ap
plied to measures that other states
1 have wanted. Their course has been
more inconsistent than Cannon's own.
He can make the fur fly. If he shall
wish to try. But he may get over his
anger by December next.
AX OLD STORY OF POLITICS.
A book on the "Legal and Historical
Btatus of the Dred Scott Decision"
could scarcely be expected to find
many readers now. Tet the subject
Is one of great interest to the historical
student. Elbjfrt William R. Ewing, of
Virginia, has published a book carry
ing this title. It bears the Imprint of
the Cobden Publishing Company,
Washington, D. C. .
The writer very fairly states what
the Dred Scott decision was. But he
insists that it was repudiated by the
people of the Northern States, and
that this act of repudiation caused the
Civil War. Rejection of the decision,
he says, "became the most pronounced
nullification, more dangerous and more
far-reaching than anything of the kind
ever found In the South." Virtually
the opinion held that the Constitution
of the United States carried slavery
into the territories. This was rejected
by the free states. It was held by
them that slavery could exist only in
states or territories where It was recog
nized as existent at the time the Con
stitution w as adopted. Resistance 'to
the extension of slavery into new and
free territories was the principle upon
which the Republican party was or
ganized in 1854, and upon which It
won by the election of Lincoln in 1860.
It was held that the Supreme Court
had gone out of its way to assert the
right to hold slaves in the new and
hitherto free territories, and that its
decision, any way, was a mere obiter
dictum.
But this writer, holding tlvat the de
cision In the Dred Scott case should
have settled the question, asserts that
the political resolve of the North not
to accept this view, amounted to re
pudiation of the Constitution; and that
Southern secession therefore was fully
Justified by Northern nullification.
No book on such a subject can be
very useful. The triumph of the senti
ment of nationality and of freedom
over such disputes and recriminations
was inevitable. But the Southern view
of the controversy possesses an inter
est, even at this distance of time.
LESS WHEAT, MORE TEOPLK.
The passing forever of the great
wheat industry. whi.ih. a generation
ago made California famous the world
over, excites' no regret in California.
Comment in The Oregonlan on final
withdrawal of California wheat quo
tations from the foreign markets, has
moved the San Francisco Call to ac
knowledge that the wheat business
"is done with forever, and California
farmers have engaged in better busi
ness " The small farm has taken the
place of the big ranch in striking and
Impressive fashion. As proof of this
remarkable change for the better, the
Call prints some figures compiled by
the Stockton Mall, which quite forc
ibly Illustrate why the big wheat dis
tricts, which formerly made Califor
nia famous, have profited by the
change. These figures show that in
1900 there were only 699 farms of less
than 100 acres in San Joaquin County,
while in 1909 the number of such
holdings had increased to 3227.
Irrigation Is responsible for most of
the change, and it is welcomed be
cause, in the language of the Call. It
compels Intensified farming and makes
for the permanence of homes and
families. More than that, the products
of such farms are of -a higher grade
commercially than the great staples
like wheat, which must always be
comparatively cheap, - because they
must meet the competition of the
whole temperate sone." The situation
is especially Interesting to the Pacific
Northwest, because we are now mov
ing toward the same goal that has been
reached in California. In an answer
filed by the.O. R- & N.. In a wheat rate
reduction case, a few days ago, the
startling facts were set forth that in
eome of the beet wheatgrowing dis
tricts east of the Cascade Mountains
the population today is actually less
than It was a dozen years ago. This
very unsatisfactory economic condition
has been brought about by the gradual
absorption of small farms by big
wheat barons, some of . whom now
farm many thousand acres of land
with hired help, mostly of a nomadic
ClXh profit of, the. wheats-rowers
have been heavy, but the vast tracts
of land, which now support but few
families, are capable of maintaining
a great population as soon as wheat
growing is replaced by intensified
farming. The Willamette Valley of
fers plenty of examples of what can
be accomplished in this line. Lands
which could not possibly be worth
more than $40 to J50 per acre for
wheat growing, are now paying hand
some returns on valuations of .from
$200 to $500 and even more pef acre.
Round Milton and FTeewater, Or.,
and Walla AValla, Wash., in the heart
of what was once the best wheat dis
trict east of the Cascade Mountains,
fifty farmers are now making money
from . the same amount of land that
was formerly needed to produce
enough wheat to satisfy the require
ments of one man. ,
The leaven is working in dozens of
other localities throughout the North
west, and the time is approaching
when Oregon and Washington like
California, can no longer afford to
grow wheat on land that can produce
such wonderful crops, as are now
grown where wheat was formerly the
on and only product.
TTTE LATEST BCKBAXK TRIUMPHS.
The benefactions which Luther Bur
bank seems determined to confer upon
his kind grow more and more startling.
The spineless cactus was comparatively
tame. The miraculous "wonderberry"
was tamer still. But now comes the
watermelon with a handle to silence
ua .aw.no i n ri ahnmn thn cnrnful un
believer. This marvel is to be described
by a California professor at a teacners
institute In Vancouver before long, and
we must wait for his apocalyptic lec
ture for full particulars of the epoch
making melon; but some interesting
facts have leaked out already. For ex
ample, we know how the handle is
attached. '
One ought really to say "handles"
Instead of handle, since there are thir
teen on each melon situated at equal
intervals around it and midway be
tween the ends. They are very sub
stantial. In fact the design is to cut
the watermelon into 13 wedges so that
each can be held to the mouth by the
handle on Its back and comfortably
devoured. Mr. Burbank advises us to
use the dried rinds for waffle moulds.
The handles will make them-very con
venient for that purpose and he guar
antees them to stand baking, according
to the report we are following. . But
this is not all. Greater wonders are to
follow. Reliable information has been
received that Mr. Burbank has invent
ed a flat egg, one that you do not need
to burn your fingers with when you
try to open it. This egg will lie quietly
on a plate while the top is lifted off
and It will not wahble round when you
dip a spoon into- it.
A still greater marvel is the skinless
potato. This phenomenal vegeta-ble
comes out of the ground already
peeled. One can imagine what a boon
It will be to hired girls. You put ft
into the pot Just as It is dug, without
washing, and It comes out after twenty
minutes' boiling mashed and buttered.
It is said that Mr. Burbank wept for
Joy when he discovered it.
RAIN IX THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY.
The big stories one hears about the
quantity of rain that falls in Oregon
are not entirely fabulous. There Is a
thin substratum of truth for them to
rest on. but this slight foundation of
fact is perverted and exaggerated by
the myth-loving public until the result
is about as misleading as actual false
hood. How far from true it is to say
that It rains here all the time one may
Judge from the report of the Weather
Bureau that from September 1,- 1908.
to September 1. 1909, only 86.13 Inches
have fallen in Portland. It must be
confessed that this is below the aver
age, which runs up to 44 Inches and
a fraction, but even that quantity
Is not excessive. Compared with
Louisiana's 65 Inches it is rather
meager. It scarcely exceeds Mary
land's 43 inches, while it is distinctly
less than Tennessee's 48 Inches.
The only part of Oregon which en
Joys a superabundance of rain is the
narrow Btrlp between the Coast Range
and the Ocean. Here the annual pre
cipitation is almost 90 inches and in
Tillamook County it rises to 140 inches.
The Willamette Valley, on, -trie other
hand, has less than 51 inches, only a
little more than -the city of Portland.
It would be enough, however, tq sup
port agriculture abundantly if it were
evenly distributed through the grow
ing season. Wisconsin, enjoys only 31
Inches of average rainfall, but it comes
malnlv in Summer when the growing
crops can utilize it. Hence farming in
that state feels no need of irrigation
except in rare years' of drought. The
Willamette Valley's 50 inches and more
of rain would make the region a para
dise of greenery if it fell between
March and September. Three-fourths
of it, however, comes between October
and March when nothing Is growing.
In the Spring and Summer, the time
when crops particularly need moisture,
our precipitation is meager. For ex
ample, in April of this year Portland
had but .89 of an inch of rain. This
Is clearly insufficient for the needs of
the farmer. Taken with the startling
fact that June yielded only .17 of an
inch we can understand how crops
must have suffered. The July, down
pour of 2.26 inches did a little to re
trieve matters, but in most cases the
mischief was done before it came.
When we remember In the same con
nection that east of the Cascades the
normal annual rairfTall is but 12.7
Inches, while in the southeastern part
of the state it falls to 6.5 inches, we
perceive the absurdity of giving such a
title as "Webfoot State" to Oregon.
Upon the whole we have too little
moisture rather than too much.
The most Important problem which
confronts the Oregon farmer is how
to remedy the prodigal waste of rain
in Winter and apply M to the growing
crops in Summer. Nature has been
bounteous to this part of the world in
many ways, hut in this particular, she
has arranged things badly. Human in
telligence must improve upon her
plans, or the consequences will become
more disastrous every year. The sub
ject of irrigation is no less important
in the Willamette Valley than in
Malheur County, though it is not yet
quite so pressing. There no returns
are possible without it. Here it would
double or treble them. Farmers dwell
ing near streams can irrigate their
land by simple and primitive devices,
but to this plan there are two objec
tions and probably more. In the first
place there Is not enough water in
the streams to Irrigate a great deal of
land at the season when it is needed
most. In the second place isolated, in
dividual devices are apt to waste what
water there is. The Willamette River,
of course, provides an ample flow at
all times of the year, but the problem
of getting it out upon the land pre
sents many difficulties.
It may be predicted with some con
fidence that profitable Irrigation in the
Willamette Valley will ultimately de
pend upon storage reservoirs. Prop
erly situated these would place at the
farmers' disposal not only the slender
threads of water which flow from the
mountains In July and August, but the
vast resources of the Winter rains also.
Nor would they interfere at all with
the use of the Willamette River by
those who found it profitable. The
suggestion has been made by an en
lightened local newspaper that nothing
would be such a boon to Polk County
as a storage reservoir to retain the
waste waters of the Rickreal. No un
dertaking could be more Judicious. In
other counties of the Willamette Val
ley there are streams like the Rickreal
which carry off vast , quantities of
water uselessly while at small expense
they might be made to refresh and
fertilize great tracts of land. Oregon
needs some man of good ability and
statesmanlike qualities to take this
matter up and push it to practical re
sults. History would Include him
among the principal benefactors of the
state.
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"Opposition by the Coast cities,"
says the Spokane Spokesman-Review,
"to Just reduction of transcontinental
freight rates to the interior is Just -as
narrow, false, and shortsighted as it
would have been if the people of the
interior had fought the efforts of the
Coast cities to improve their rivers
and harbors and thus lower freight
rates by sea." But the Coast cities
are not opposing reductions on trans
continental rates to the Interior. They
are simply asking that there be no
discrimination and that the same re
duction that is made to the Interior
shall also apply to Coast points. Spo
kane and all other interior points are
today profiting by the "lower freight
rates by sea," made possible by river
and harbor improvement, the Spokesman-Review
in particular finding the
ocean route so advantageous that it
ships Its ink from New-York to Spo
kane by way of Portland.
Nearly all of the men who have had
actual experience hi polar exploration
give Dr. Cook full credit for his. great
discovery. The Chicago scientists,
however, are inclined to be skeptical
and permit their prejudice to go so
far as to state that" in the event of
the discovery being verified Dr. Cook's
observations would be valueless. An
other critic is so dissatisfied with the
result that he says Dr. Cook violated
the ethics of Arctic discovery by going
In over the best route available Instead
of searching for a new one which had
never been used. The American peo
ple, to whom Dr. Cook has brought
home the glory of the wonderful dis
cover'. "Will not have much time for
criticism of this nature, for, if the
story is true, and it is almost Incon
ceivable that it should be otherwise,
the glory of his great feat will last
until the end of time.
Jules Verne's trip around the world
in eighty days is steadily gaining more
of the aspects of a Journey by slow
freight or tramp steamer. The new
Fishguard route has brought New
York- and London within five days of
each other. An 18-hour train covers
the thousand miles between New York
and Chicago, and now we are to have
a 60-hour train between Chicago and
the Pacific Coast.. The airship of the
future may cut down the time across
the Atlantic, but the railroads are
setting a pace that it may bother them
to equal in a flight across the country.
From Portland to London in less than
nine days is now something more than
a possibility.
Interviewed in New York the day "he
returned, Harriman told a reporter:
"We must take advantage of these un
usually prosperous times to develop
more quickly. We will build new rail
roads In Idaho and Oregon, and In
other places; I won't tell where." If
he redeems his promise in the two
states named, we will waive our right
to plead for railroads in the regions he
doesn't mention.
How did Dr. Cook know when he
reached the North Pole ? Because when
he got there he discovered all the
parallels of longitude that he had ever
seen In the geographies converging to
a common point, and in whatever di
rection he looked it was south. So,
able to tell within an inch, of course
he knew.
Dr. Brougher wisely held off for a
while, after he had received the offer
from Los Angeles. That was right to
Impress his sense of his own value on
the new congregation. But finally,
after they had said to him a second
or third time. "Wilt thou?" he wilted.
Washing the tailings for profit has
Its -equal In the economy of the day.
A genius in the Touchet Valley is
reaping money by running other peo
ple's strawstacks through a fanning
mill.
The few incredulous folk who are in
clined to doubt the truth of Explorer
Cook's story should consider that a
man doesn't He to his wife? At least,
no one ever before told such a He to
his wife.
The area of the United States was
suddenly increased 30,000 square miles
on April 21, 1908; first, by right of dis
covery; second, by occupation for
forty-eight hours.
The latest man to be mistaken for
a deer and shot is a Umatilla sheep
herder. This offense is not so serious,
however, as killing a calf that way.
When a visitor asks concerning the
rainfall at Portland, tell him that for
the last "weather bureau" year which
ended August 81, It was 36.16 Inches.
No matter who entertains the Presi
dent, there is Mrs. Woodcock and the
revised version of her flag to be con
sidered. This is the season when most men
and all women who own canines wish
the dogcatcher could- be mistaken for
a deer. . '
Neither the Automobile Club, nor
Chief of Police Cox can get busy a day
too soon suppressing the Wild Indian
speed maniacs. '
That Pennsylvania trainrobber may
be a numismatist gone mad. His loot
was mostly Lincoln pennies.
The other explorers are all glad that
Dr. Cook found the pole. It saves
them a lot of trouble.
Dr. Brougher should insist on at
least a thousand for difference in
cUmate,
TAFT'S GREAT OPPOHTtMTV.
Place In HIatory May Be Determined
by What He Saya on Coming Trip.
Harper's Weekly.
It is our belief that the 7000-mile
Journey of President Taft through the
West and South will mark the begin
ning of a new era in the history of the
Republican party. The real control of
that mighty organization from the days
of Charles Sumner and Thad Stevens to
the present of Aldrich and Hale and
Lodge has rested in the East. Presi
dents have been elected from Ohio and
Indiana, one potential leadjr in the
Senate hailed from Iowa, Hanna came
out of Ohio and Cannon from Illinois,
but throughout the entire 50 years the
underlying dominance has been exer
cised with quiet effectiveness and a
firm hand from New York, Pennsyl
vania and . New England. . Apparent
leaders from west of theAUeghanles
have been but as pawns, restive at
times, but Invariably subservient in the
end to the stronger authority of a few
men capable of wielding with skill the
adhesive power of party unification.
The passage of the tariff bill, signal
ized the beginning of the end of that
control. For the first time in the his
tory of the party ten Republican Sen
ators broke the party chains and com
mitted party treason. Returning to
their homes, they received ovations,
while representatives of like communi
ties who had demonstrated their fealty
to the organization after the old man
ner met with sullen looks, boding ill
for their future political fortunes. But
It Is now plain that, while angered by
what they regard as betrayal of an ob
ligation, the Republicans of the West
place no part of the responsibility at
the door of President Taft. Him they
still regard as their sincere friend and
as the one man whose sympathies,
aspirations and official position equip
him pre-eminently for the assumption
of real leadership of a new and deter
mined movement within the party to
eliminate narrowness and install
breadth of authority In vital affairs of
government.
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This Is the situation which President
Taft is called upon to face, and he is
prepared to meet it with calmness and
courage. Nobody had a keener appre
ciation of the condition than he; few
understand it as well. While not seek
ing or craving great personal oppor
tunity, he realizes that great personal
opportunity has been forced upon him,
and he is ready. The true purpose of
President Taft's visit to the country is
to pave the way for signal accomplish
ment. His mission is to free the Re
publican party. It is a task of no mean
magnitude, as he well understands. To
succeed he must convince the people
of his own single mlndedness, he must
Indicate plainly his real Intent, he must
win their unqualified allegiance and
support. ,
Let him beware, then, not to mistake
hospitality for approval. The West is
open-hearted, generous and apprecia
tive of a President who pays it com
pliments. It will give no Indication of
dissent from whatever President Taft
may say or do. The reckoning will
come later. That is the fact that the
visitors will do well to keep In mind.
However favorable the Impression he
may realize he is making- while striving
to pacify and conciliate, he ought not to
forget for a moment that a great ma
jority of his fellow countrymen have
come to regard the tariff as a moral
issue. It is no longer a question of
protection vs. free trade, but of right
vs. wrong. And when that idea becomes
fixed in the minds of the American peo
ple It is there to stay until right has
triumphed.
m e e
Such a condition demands leadership,
not compromise. Lasting reconciliation
of the two wings of the Republican
party we regard now as impossible
through recourse to the familiar policy
of give and take. Temporizing will no
longer serve. -It Is the sense of not
only the West but, we firmly believe,
of the great mass of Republican con
sumers in the East, that the spirit of
greed personified by Aldrich and writ
ten by him upon the statute books must
be beaten to a pulp, and no man, how
ever popular, is strong enough to with
stand for Jons; the strength of that de
mand. The next House of Representatives,
whether Republican or Democratic, will
have new and enlightened leadership.
The Seriate should have. And over both,
guiding, directing, acting cautiously but
firmly, the people want a leader of
leaders in the White House, exercising
his mighty authority for what they be
lieve, and what they are convinced he
believes, to be simple righteousness.
The critical period in President Taft's
career confronts him. His place in his
tory may be determined by what he
says and promises or what he refrains
from saying and promising before ho
returns to Washington. We know that
he has understanding. We have faith
that he has courage. .May he heed the
one and exercise the other; else the
whirlwind of appeal to class, to the
spirit of envy, to personal hatred, and
to all vicious passions will sweep over
America like a simoon from Africa
before the time shall come for the elec
tion of a successor to William H. Taft.
Dr. Eliot's Fine Spirit.
New Bedford Standard.
Dr. Eliot, writing to an Indianapolis
attorney who had ventured to criticise
his "new religion," makes this statement:
"I venture to add that I am not at the
'hold of any proud world' whatever; sec
ond, that such little part of the world as
I am best acquainted with loves the
'lowly Nazarene' and does not hate him;
third, that I have met' during my life
most of the. sorrows which are accounted
heaviest; fourth, that Jesus will be In
the religion of the future not less but
more than In the Christianity of the
past." The spirit of this reply is more
to be commended than its clearness. So
far as a revelation of the temper of Dr.
Eliot goes, the statement is admirable
and beautiful. As an explanation of 'a
religion, new or old for even religion
needs some explanation It leaves consid
erable to be desired. Religion a real re
ligionis not a grouping of more or less
ghostly emotions and impressions. It is a
life furnished or an idea, and a definite
idea and a definite life, too.
Nuggets on Advertising.
Newspaperdom.
Free advertising is like most other free
things no good. If a thing Is worth ad
vertising it is worth advertising well, and
the modern, newspaper is or should be
too jealous of Its space to allow graft no
tices to crowd in on legitimate news.
T". 4 ,tia nasi flira VParfl thft FlttS-
JVUIIHB Itl M-- - - - - .
burg.
lrg. Pa., banks tnat aaverusea consisi
itly in newspapers show an increase in
en
as
de
assets of 3S per cent, and an increase in
posits of 86 per cent, while the conserv-
ative.
e. non-advertising DanKS sainea a
cent In assets and 11 per cent in de-
per
posits.
HARM VS THE TLBERCLLIX TEST
Writer Saya Thla Treatment, by Injec
tion, Spreads Dlaeaae Among; Cows,
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Sept. 1. (To the
Editor.) In the present agitation for pure
milk, consumers should not overlook a
source of grave danger in the medically
popular tuberculin test. This alleged
test is now the approved method of de
termining whether cows, are affected with
tuberculosis. There is no question that
it Is rapidly spreading the disease
through the dairy herds of the country.
Tuberculin Is a disease product and Is
obtained from tuberculous animals. The
"test" consists of injecting this morbid
substance into the blood of the cow.
If there is no reaction, (certain amount
'of fever) the animal Is declared healthy,
although it Is admitted by retterinarians
that cows In advanced stage of the dis
ease do not react.
Any sane person not obsessed with the
present medical mania for "disease Inocu
lations, cannot but know that disease and
not health is propagated by such means.
In all things the sowing determines the
reaping.
Results show that tuberculin Inocula
tions are no exception. Repeated "tests"
end in the development of tuberculosis.
The fancy herds of wealthy men, housed
In clean, ventilated stables, and fed and
cared for In the most approved manner,
become affected with tuberculosis and
have to be slaughtered under the decree
of the Health Board that infected them.
This is what happened to the cows of J.
Pierpont Morgan, three or four years
ago. It is happening frequently to com
mercial dairy herds which have the best
care. It must discourage dairymen who
make every effort to. keep tfcelr cows In
good condition, only to have them suc
cumb to the disease-grafting ill-health
officials.
As fast as dairymen get their eyes
open, they are uniting to oppose this
practice. But so long as the public is
hoodwinked into the belief that the test
is a safeguard, the dairymen make lit
tle headway toward having it abolished.
The first question of every milk con
sumer to his dairyman should be "Are
your cows subjected to the tuberculin
test?" And if they are, the milk should
be rejected.
While tuberculosis may or may not be
communicable through the milk of - In
fected cows, yet.lt Is not an appetizing
thought that th tnilk one buys comes
from animals undergoing these dlsease
mongering experiments. And such milk
must inevitably partake to some extent
of the condition of the cows producing
It. LORA C. LITTLE.
AUTO SPEEDING PERILS LIFE.
Dost From Fast Machine Hurt Prop
erty $100 Yearly License Lrged.
PORTLAND, Sept. 2. (To the Ed
itor.) I note in The Oregonlan that the
Portland Automobile Club proposes to
do something, to abate the speed
nuisance, which Just now is so serious
and dangerous to footmen and drivers
in the City of Portland, and especially
on the roads of Multnomah County.
This thing is so bad that if it gets
worse the auto people will find before
long an Initiative law regulating their
movements.
Instead of going along quietly at 10
or 1Z miles an hour, which is fast
enough to enjoy a ride through our
beautiful county, these autos tear along
at from 30 miles per hour and upward.
The riders usually wear a pained ex
pression, except, when they narrowly
miss a pedestrian or a buggy, and then
they proceed to look Indignant and
usually threaten their intended victim
with violence. These auto owners ought
to be taxed at least $100 a year to pay
for the damage they do the roads. The
Sandy road, for instance, used to be one
of the best roads tn the state. Now,
the machines have sucked out the dirt
and left it a rocky, jagged road, not
pleasant t drive on. The dust arising
from the fast autos spoils' clover fields,
orchards and gardens, yet injured own
ers have no recourse.
The Oregonlan daily records some
fatal automobile accident. It is now a
fact that the auto is a feature of most
Journeys along the red-light way.
Wine, women and automobiles are the
ruin of many young men. A sane pub
lic Bentiment is willing to bear a cer
tain amount of the auto nuisance, but it
is getting too dangerous to avoid regu
lation. The dust from the autds, their
smell and the overbearing manners of
the average autoist will bring about
suitable and probably stringent regula
tions in a short time. E. S.
Why Not Work In Harmonyf
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
President Taft found Mr. Ballinger good
enough to succeed James R. Garfield as
Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Taft
Is pledged up to his eyebrows in support
of the conservation policy. We have
read considerable, first and last, about
the "controversy" that has arisen be
tween the Secretary and the Chief For
ester, but there Is still mystery In It
Why cannot men so sincerely devoted to
the public good work in harmony? Why
should one side or the other think it
necessary to drive the other out of the
Federal service? If Mr. Ballinger merely
insists upon his acts conforming to the
laws, and upon having weak or inade
quate laws strengthened by congressional
enactment before tailing drastic action
under them, why cannot Mr. Pinchot
and his allies possess themselves in pa
tience and await the slower-moving Sec
retary's arrival on the scene?
Wonderful Growth In Germany.
New York Tribune.
Statistics compiled by the British
consul-general at Berlin throw an In
structive light upon the industrial and
social conditions and progress of the
German empire. It has long been
known that the empire is growing rap
idly in population, wealth and com
merce, but these figures Indicate that
its progresses being made at a steadily
and, indeed, rapidly Increasing rate.
The population in 1882 was 45.222.113,
in 1895 it was 51,770,284 and in 1907 it
was 61,720,529. Thus in the former
period of 13 years the increase was
14.48 per cent, and in the later period
of 12 years It was 19.22 per cent. This
Increase was due not so much to a
growing birth rate as to the lessening
of the death rate through Improved
sanitation . and advanced medical and
surgical knowledge.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
New York Press.
There's . a heap owed to a good
woman in the next world for what she
never gets In this.
A man can grumble around the house
more than the cook, because she has a
better reason to.
What a girl likos about the moon is
how she can make It enjoy itself being
out under it with a man.
The average shirtwaist a woman
wears in Summer is so queer it seems
as if she might be more dressed by
Generally when a child Is Irritating
to you it's because it dosen't like you
and dosen't care whether you know it
or not.
Two Vlewa of the Prince of Walea.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Some curiously diverse views of the
Prince of Wales have been met with by
American tourists in England this Sum
mer. Editor William Allen White, of Em
poria, Kan., writes home that ' "the
King's son, the Prince of Wales, Is a
strictly -moral man. which is a new thing
in monarchs." Another American in
London, on the contrary, was told by a
"lower class" radical that the Prince
was everywhere known as a "hard drink
er," and that the people were Inclined to
view his accession to the throne with apprehension.
How the Preaent Law Clnchea Hnyera
of Wearing Apparel.
Dry Goods Guide of NewVork.
After Senator Aldrich has departed to
that bourne where tariffs are not needed,
the Nation may keep his memory green
by some such epitaph as this, a para
phrase, by the way, of a loving tribute
to another man who also failed to grasp
his opportunity:
Here lies Aldrich
He done his damndest.
He also done 00 millions
of his followmen.
Here are some consolations of the new
tariff. Laces are to cost more but then
the Go-through lace machine will come
in free for the benefit of Messrs. Aldrich,
Goft and a few other Rhode Island favor- (
ites- . . w ,
Foreign velvets are barred out Dut
Bwano Tumbo will be able to get his zoo
logical specimens in without cost.
Hosiery has been boosted so that the
poor may have to go barefooted but Joss
sticks may still be entered free.
Though when you buy cotton cloth you
are forced to pay extra tribute to the
greedy Rhode Island gang, remember that
by the grace of Aldrich and his friends
you may import your ashes free.
While you may not be able to pay the
new high tariff prices for linoleum, you
have the satisfaction of knowing that nat
ural teeth will come in without cost
Silk goods have been so tangled up by
the schedule Jugglers of the tariff that no
man knows how much more they will
cost but there Is no doubt that pig iron
is to be cheaper.
You had a narrow escape in the mat
ter of gloves but your friend, the under
taker, will have to pay more for hls'n
when he comes around.
Woolen cloth is taxed up to 250 per
cent but if you can't buy a new gown
for your wife or new panties for your
children, rest content because J. Pierpont
Morgan can now bring in his works of
art without annoyance from rude customs
men.
Lemons are up 1H cents but then the
whole bill is a lemon anyway.
INDIAN MAIDENS SEE PARIS GOWNS
Oklahoma Aborigines "Just Dying" to
Look at Fashionable Millinery.
New York World.
Twenty-three .maidens from Oklahoma,
several with Indian blood In their veins,
invaded the metropolis yesterday when
the Mallory liner Sabine arrived here
from Galveston. They came to spend a
week Inspecting the city.
Many of them answered to Indian
names. Among them are Misses Sha
panashee, Pa-hus-ka, Chufttk Chumba
and others descended from the Cherokee,
Osiige, Chickasaw and other nations.
But they came undocorated with paint,
and they wore no feathers. Instead,
they were attired in gowns of the latest
modes, and they were fully acquainted
with all the latest styles of dress. They
also had read of the coming Paris fash
Ions and were "Just dying," as one of
them said,' to take a look Inside some
fashionable millinery stores.
Shapanashee, who is bettor known as
Miss Elizabeth Orme, was the life of
the party on the way up. She managed
to send Miss Besslo Bell on a search
throughout the ship for an Imaginary
telephone, as she told Miss Bell she had
been "called up."
The entire party is under the chaper
onage of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Sturm.
They will visit Coney Island, Ellis Is
land, -Central Park, the Bronx Zoo and
many other points, devoting a day to
each. One day will be spent In the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art.
Sir Wnltrr Scott's Hebecca.
Philadelphia Press.
"That book ought to have a peculiar
interest for Philadelphia people," said
a bookseller at a well-known second
hand bookstore to a prospective cus
tomer who Idly thumbed a copy of
Scott's Ivanhoe.
"One of the charaoters in that book.
Rebecca," he continued, "was drawn
by Sir Walter Srott about a young
Philadelphia girl, Miss Rebecca Gratz.
I remember her mysnlf. I lived near
her when I was a boy, and I well re
member the kind, unpretentious work
she did among the poor. There must
be a number of people who. like me,
have seen and talked to Miss Gratz,
for 50 years ago there wasn't a school
teacher anywhere within a radius of
50 miles who did not know that a de
scription of Miss Gratz by Irving in
spired the 'Rebecca' of Sir AValter
Scott. But I dare say few local readers
of 'Ivanhoe' today know It."
Taft Tariff Tnlk In Iowa.
Des Moines' Register and Leader.
The President would serve no good
cause by coming to Iowa to reopen the
tariff debate. Nothing he could say would
modify the indorsement the state has
given its Senators, and there are other
matters Iowa Is Interested in hearing
about from him.
What Doca It Profit!
New York Journal of Commerce.
What does it profit a man If he gain a
railroad empire such as the world has
never before known U thereby he wrecks
his own health?
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
FOUE LIEUTENANTS
OF HARRIMAN
Qunrtet upon whom he relies,
including Judge Robert S. Lovett,
who is mentioned as his probable
successor. ,
PORTLAND'S UNION
' STOCKYARDS
"What the new market for cattle
means to the Taeifio Northwest
and its commercial center.
ENORMOUS WEALTH OF
ROGUE RIVER ORCHARDS
Bough land that has been made
to produce $1000 per acre per
vear.
SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE
ALONG THE DESCHUTES
Favorite region for large and
small game and Dolly Yarden
trout.
SWIFT & CO.'S
PACKING PLANT
Comprehensive view of the
colossal concern soon to establish
itself in Portland.
FOUR TENDERFEET
IN THE CASCADES
Story of an Oregon outing, with
sundry sad experiences in getting
ready.
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