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PORTLAND, THURSDAY. OCT. 7. 190ft.
THE ORIENTAL FR0BXX3C.
"While the full text of the instrument
Jiaa not yet been received in this coun
try, evidence accumulates that Japan
has -wrung: from China a treaty that
may prove highly detrimental to
American trade interests In the Orient.
It need not be assumed, however, that
the United States wil sit idly by and
permit the ratification or enforcement
of any such treaty. The diplomacy of
Minister Crane, even without the as
sistance of the Pacific fleet now hurry
ing: toward the Far East, should be
sufficient to Impress upon the minds
of the Orientals, both Japanese and
Chinese, that there are treaties existing-
between China and other coun
tries. The provisions of these pre
existing treaties must of necessity be
considered before China can deliver
over to Japan, bound hard and fast,
the absolute political and commercial
authority in a territory in which near
ly all the big-powers of the earth have
an Interest that must be respected.
Long before Mr. Taft became Presi
dent ' he announced In a speech at
Shanghai that China had no territory
Americans desire, no prosperity Amer
icans begrudge, and no political power
or Independence, Justly exercised,
Americans would resent. But the
United States, with good reason there
tor, views with misgivings the rapid
ascendency of the Manchu influence in
Chinese politics. This feeling of un
easiness will be increased by the death
of Chang Chih Tung, reported In yes
terday's cables from Pekln. Chang
Chih Tung, as Grand Councillor of the
Empire,, despite his anti-foreign tend
encies, was. sufficiently Intelligent and
diplomatic to recognize the advantages
of being on good terms with foreign
powers in maintaining the integrity of
China. With his firm hand removed
from the control of the rising Man
chu influence, an already complicated
situation becomes further Involved In
doubt and perplexity.
That the new treaty, which Is in
tended to convey to Japan exclusive
rights In Manchuria, was framed up
ty the Manchus and the Japanese for
the purpose of eliminating foreign
competition or interference In that
territory seems certain. It seems
'equally reasonable to. believe that in
: securing the vast . concessions carried
toy this treaty Japan, with a higher
. degree of diplomacy and finesse than
i was possessed by the Chinese, may
have deceived China as to the ultimate
; effect of this far-reaching instrument.
China, Just awakening from its sleep
of centuries. Is sadly in need of capital
and advice. By neither experience
xor temperament Is China able to cope
with those who -re seeking advantage
"of exploitation of Its resources. Its
finances are muddled. Its system Is at
the mercy of hordes- of rapacious
grafters, and honesty and efficiency in
any branch of the government seem
to be negligible factors.
For all that, the United (States will
ot remain passive and permit the
: country to pass completely under the
sway of Japan or any other Individual
power. The open door In China must
be kept open, even if it requires the
presence of half the fleets of the world
VAon 4 4Vrm flnnlne-. Some hiffhlv
Interesting developments in the ques
tion are almost certain to come to
light within a short time, and it Is not
,teyond the range of possibilities that
the death of Chang Chh Tung may
' hasten the climax.
1HE UEGAX. ASPECT OF COOK VS.
PEARS'.
In the current number of "Bench
and Bar".ls an interesting examination,
' from a legal point of -new, of the evt
' dence which Cook and Peary present
I of their having reached the North
ipole. After a very fair discussion of
f the'1 subject the writer concludes that
f neither claimant has made out a case
which would be worth anything In
court. Seeing that the world of com
.gnon men has been convinced that
both Cook and Peary have told the
' truth about their discovery, one nat
urally Jumps to the conclusion that
legal proof is something very exacting
and rigorous. It must require vastly
better evidence to gain credence for
a story in court than in the outer
world. Perhaps this Is so. and per
haps it isn't. We should not Jump to
conclusions of this kind too hastily.
Theoretically legal evidence Is ad
mirably exact and scientific. Practic-
1 1 n tn Ha a. llttlA VfLSTUe and
. elusive. The lawyers themselves sel
dom seem to know whether they have
- uaH o nrtTirutlHrm or not. for they
are perpetually going back to the be
ginning of a suit and trying It all over
again. Sometimes they do this half
a dozen times without making up
their minds whether or not they have
proved anything. Their rules of evi
dence, therefore, however beautiful as
matters of theory, do not produce very
satisfactory results In practice and it
Is quite possible that the common
sense of mankind has hit about as
near the truth In the North Pole con
troversy as the lawyers would with all
their paraphernalia of principles and
exceptions if the matter had been left
to them to decide. If they got along
with it no better than they do with
ordinary lawsuits, Peary and Cook
would both be dead half a century be
fore we should know which of them
told the truth.
In applying the rules of evidence to
- suits in court, lawyers or course snui
UUl Kb KlCttfc UD. " . fc.w.w..
would merely obscure the truth, but
at the same time they exclude habitu
ally a body of evidence which bears
vitally on the Issue. The opinions of
the witness, his feelings.what he heard
third 'persons say, and so on, are all
. . 1 IkT nnilc, MIP T"l 1 1 Of AVl-
uiaumjaBiuio uuu.
dence as a general thing. Often they
are of no consequence, but sometimes
they go to the very heart of the dis
puted subject. French law permits
the examining Judge to listen to all
these apparently Irrelevant wanderings
of the witness and give them whatever
weight they deserve. . This may have
some bearing on the fact that crimes
of violence are not nearly so frequent
In Trance as here.
Th writer In "Bench and Bar" makes
much of the point that Cook's Eskimo
witnesses were "his servants." A rule
of evidence warns us that a servant
testifying in behalf of his master Is
likely to lie. The reason for this rule
goes back to the time when a British
servant was virtually a slave. If he
disobeyed his master he could be
beaten half to death. If he ran away
he could be -indicted for the felony of
stealing the clothes he -had on his
back. In those days, the above rule
of evidence was perfectly sound. In
these times when most servants are as
independent as their masters it smacks
of follv. Many other much vaunted
rules of evidence are Just as Irrational
as this one. The fact that lawyers still
cling to them as if they were sacred is
one among many reasons why we see
so much verbal wrangling and so little
Justice In the courts.
PKEMTCM ON -WILDCAT BANKING.
In the midst of the most prosperous
tlniM Imaginable, with enormous crops
selling at high prices, and practically
every branch of Industry tnnving,
Oklahoma la overwhelmed with a
J3.000.000 bank failure. Owing to Its
being the first big failure that has
taken place under the comparatively
nw rnuik-BTiarantF system, this finan
cial fiasco is of exceptional interest.
It has not only, wiped out an or ins
guarantee that has been raised by tax
ing all banks, alike, but makes neces
sary, before liquidating the Indebted
ness to depositors, a very heavy as
sessment on the banks which are solv
ent. This case makes a complete and
warning example of the fallacies of
bank guarantee. The foolish scheme
Jin thrown the Oklahoma banking
system Into confusion unlimited.
In this case we find the prudent,
conservative banker, who has safe
guarded the Interests of his deposit
ors, by investing funds only in col
lateral possessing real" merit, severely
penalized by a system which offers a
premium on wildcat banking. The
Oklahoma bank-guaranty law was
supposed to make all banks and
bankers equally responsible for losses
through bank failures. No distinction
or preference was shown the conserva
tive, careful banker. He had abso
lutely no protection against the reck
less, illegitimate methods of wildcat
bankers, and, now that the work of
the latter has borne fruit, the safe and
sane banker must devote a portion of
his own savings to liquidate the debts
of the wildcatter.
While the defunct Columbia Bank &
Trust Company of Oklahoma City Is
the first big Institution to go to the
wall since the guarantee law became
effective, this test fully proves its
weakness. The depositor under this
law is supposed to be-, and up to a cer
tain limit actually is. protected against
loss by failure. This protection, to a
degree, obviates the necesity of his
making any inquiries or even caring
anything about the banking ability of
the men with whom he has deposited
his money. As a result, small bankers
of limited capital and poor Judgment
as to security values have Invaded Ok
lahoma In large numbers. In other
states depositors must use discern
ment and sense in choosing bankers.
In Oklahoma It is unnecessary that the
banker have his depositors' confidence.
Ho can invest. If he so desires, de
positors' money in collateral that Is
absolutely worthless, and if the guar
antee fund is large enough and the
safe and sane bankers pay their as
sessments, the depositor is no wores
off than he would be had he patronized
a good bank conducted on sound prin
ciples. . It is neither Justice nor sound policy
to make honest bankers pay for the
defaults of dishonest ones. This Ok
lahoma system puts premium on reck
less finance and penalty on careful
' business. It lifts from men who prac
tice wild banking, like Ross, and
Cnnner Morris In Portland, responsi
bility and concern for their misdeeds.
Inspection of banks and prosecution
and punishment of lawless bankers are
the right functions of government.
If those functions were properly ex
ercised, there would be few failures
and no big losses. When government
goes Into the guarantee business It
makes big mistake.
rr true, wire "too true"?
Now again comes Secretary Wilson,
the optimistic head of the National
Department of Agriculture, drawing
somewhat upon his Imagination and
declaring: "Folks In the East do not
know what luxuries are; they must
go West to find out." Upon being
asked upon his return from hi3 recent
trip "out home," 1. e. to Iowa, if the
farmers out that way are really invest
ing big money in automobiles, he
arose (according to the Pittsburg Dis
patch) with uplifted hand and de
clared, "There Is too much truth in
it," adding: "The farmers are out of
debt, have money in their pockets and
big crops continue to come on." If
this is true, and If it applies In a gen
eral sense to Western farmers, why
should they not own automobiles, put
pianos in their homes, establish acety
lene gas plants In their basements, put
in bathtubs and install running water
in' their houses and barns? So long
as they can pay for luxuries, why not
have them? Is there any reason why
a prosperous farmer should ride In a
dilapidated buggy, read the agricul
tural reports by a coal oil lamp, draw
water from a deep, old well by means
of a stiff windlass, an perform his
dally ablutions in a tin pan at a bench
on the back stoop?
This official assertion of bulging
prosperity and- lavish luxury on the
farm leaving out mention of the
twelve hours a day labor for long
years that was necessary to secure it.
Is likely to inaugurate a "back-to-the-farm
movement" that can only end In
disappointment for the unfit. Modern
farming is not a simple vocation, in
the successful pursuit of which only
main strength and persistent plodding
are required. It has risen to the dig
nity of a profession, else are our finely
equipped agricultural colleges and ex
periment stations useless. The "know
ing how"; the knowledge of "when and
why and wherefore," Is essential In
everything pertaining to diversified ag
riculture today.
Main strength and persistence will
suffice up to the point where the land
is cleared and put under the plow.
After that, knowledge gained either by
a long course of experiment on the
farm or by a diligent course of study
In conjunction with a shorter course
In xperlment, must precede any con
TIIE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY,
siderable degree of success In agricul
tural pursuits. If a bare living as
represented by Insufficient housing.
cheap clothing, abundant food and
absence of luxuries will fill the meas
ure of the farmer's ambition and keep
his family contented on the farm,
this type of prosperity can be accom
plished readily, though by no means
easily.
But the farmer of today, who wants
luxuries, and the farmer's family that
will have them on the farm or leave It,
axe factors in rural life. . They must
work their brain, as well as their
hands, and working these in conjunc
tion, why should not they toe entitled
to every luxury that Intelligent en
deavor can wrest from the soil? If
true that Western farmers are out of
debt, have money in their pockets,
pianos In their homes and ride in au
tomobiles, why Is this "too true"?
A SALMOX PRINCIPLE VINDICATED.
Oregon's Master Fish Warden re
ports large Increase of salmon at the
hatcheries this year. The obvious
reason for this increase is diminished
destruction of salmon by the various
kinds of fishing gear. Excessive ac
tivity of gillnets, traps, seines and
wheels la the sole cause of seed-fish
scarcity at hatcheries. Restrictive laws,
enacted last Winter by two states,
have accomplished Just wnat xneir ad
vocates predicted for them.
Yet, strange as It may now seem,
short-sighted fishery Influences at As
toria did their utmost to defeat enact
ment of these laws. Their selfish remedy-was
abolition of other kinds of
gear to make their own more profit
able. it Is not necessary to abolish any
gear for benefit of others. Best way
Is to regulate all. This solution of a
vexed problem is vindicating itself af
ter long, obstinate struggle. Hatcher
ies have had too few salmon In past
years because too many were caught
for packing. It Is a simple problem.
Fish caught won't reach hatcheries.
Fish canned won't spawn.
The new laws have curtailed open
season and instituted closed Sunday;
that is practically all. They removed
net and trap barriers one day out of
every seven and kept them out of the
river until a later season in the Spring.
They prohibited neither gillnets on Co
lumbia bar nor .wheels at the narrows.
They simply restricted greed and na
ture took care of the rest.
RELIGION AT THE T. M. O. A.
The complaint that the Young Men's
Christian Association Is rot so re
ligious s It ought to be does not ap
pear to be very well grounded. There
are two sides to religion, the formal
and the practical. To the formal side
the churches attend and they assur
edly give It all the time and money It
deserves. The Young Men's Christian
Association was organized to promote
practical religion. It adopts the prin
ciple that :.ealthy souls thrive best In
healthy bodies with good, vigorous
minds to look after the welfare of
both tenement and tenant. Hence it
leaves formal worship largely, to the
churches and cultivates active worship
In the gymnasium, the bath and the
schoolroom.
Members of the Y. M. C. A. glorify
God by training their bodies to be
strong and graceful and by keeping
them clean. They seek to make their
physical structure a fit temple for the
Indwelling of the Spirit. They praise
the Lord by learning such things as
trigonometry, which, properly consid
ered. Is Just as pious an act as to learn
a hymn.
Th la more than one way to wor
ship the Creator. Coleridge tells us
in the "Ancient Mariner" that "he
prayeth best who loveth best all things
both great and small" and that Is true;
but he also prayeth fairly well who
takes care of his body and cultivates
his Intelligence. There are people
who can discern quite as much re
ligion in the night classes at the
Y. M. C. A. as In the ordinary prayer
meeting. Some worship with the
tongue, some with the biceps and some
-rrrftv. tYi a Ht-bIti Perhaos one way is
Just as acceptable to the Lord as an
other.
END OF THE WORLD.
The expectations that some day the
world will come to an end should not
be dismissed as an idle superstition.
The subject deserves more respectful
attention. Science, as well as Hebrew
literature, 'affords grounds for believ
ing that the earth will be destroyed
sooner or later. Just when the catas
trophe will happen nobody except a
few fanatics pretend to know, nor Is
the manner of It at all certain.
H. G. Wells, In one of his famous
speculations, foretells a time when the
workers of the world will dwell under
ground. The Idlers will linger upon
the surface among the ruins of our
cities and will be butchered for their
flesh by the more energetic toilers as
cattle are now. This pleasing state of
things will be followed by the extinc
tion of the sun and a general freeze
up. Anatole France gives a vivid de
scription in "The Garden of Epicurus"
of the earth after life has disappeared
and everything Is congealed. Most
speculators In fact agree that we shall
all be dead either by starvation or
cold long before the end of the world,
so that the' final smash up need not
worry us a great deal. It is bound to
occur, however. Most likely it will
be brought to pass by the earth's
crashing into the sun, but before that
happens some wandering planet may
strike our sphere. In either event all
that would be left of man and his
world would be a small cloud of
faintly luminous vapor.
But let us not worry. The end of
the world Is too far oft to concern
the human race. Man will probably
not inhabit the planet when It comes;
he will have vanished with the kindly
conditions that give him life and earth
for many aeons will be, as Tennyson
tells us, "Childless and forlorn."
A BROADER CONSERVATION VIEW.
Conservationists are missing a glori
ous opportunity of storing up timber
and water and soil resources In a part
of the United States that needs these
efforts most. , On the Atlantic slope,
they could use the power of con
demnation to secure private prop
erty for public use and spread the
National authority over water power
streams and big areas suitable for
planting forests. Thus they could
conserve resources , close at home.
This might have the additional ad
vantage of lessening their eagerness
for fencing in vast tracts of Western
states. They could depopulate the
lands thus preserved, thereby depriv
ing tvicmsplves of bis: tax-paying and
wealth-producing tracts. .They could
pay Uncle earn ror me use 01 me
streams and the trees, after the for
ests matured, two or three generations
hence, and Uncle Sam could devote the
proceeds to paying rural mailcarriers
ar I Indian War fighters in Oregon.
In this way the Eastern folk would
conserve water- power and forests of
their own and not be worried by al
leged wastefulness of upbuilding
communities of the West.
Of course, it is not expected -that
Atlantic folk will fall In with this
Idea, They will not Invoke the sov
ereign power of their state govern
ments to accomplished this laudable
purpose. But their unwillingness to
do it, should open their eyes to the
aversion In Western states against ex
cessive extensions of forest reserves
and of land withdrawals along water
power streams. It should give them
a new . appreciation of conservation.
Oregon and Washington would wel
come any willingness of Eastern
states .to pay tribute to the National
Government for water powers and
forests.
Western states have a high appre
ciation of the conservation policy.
That Is the reason most of their peo
ple have welcomed National protec
tion of forests and streams. It is the
wholesale, unnecessary withdrawals of
land from settlement that they resent.
People of the State of Washington
have a special grievance in the usur
pation by the National Government of
school land sections within limits of
forest reserves and Indian reserva
tions. People of these far Western
states want their resources conserved,
but they do not like to be wholly Ig
nored In the process.
Portland property has a deserved
reputation for Its Intrinsic value, but a
transfer made yesterday, together with
a mortgage filed, makes an exception
ally fine showing. The Laurelhurst
tract, which is easily worth more than
$1,250,000, was transferred by deed,
the consideration named being only
$100, and a mortgage for $1,073,288
on the same property was also filed
for record. Enterprising neighbors on
Puget Sound may think thereby that
they can allege that, while Portland
Is very heavily mortgaged, its actual
real estate sales are of very small con
sequence. Frequent attempts have
been made to secure something ap
proaching accuracy in the recording of
real estate transfers, in order that the
figures would be of value for compari
son with those of other cities, or with
the previous growth of our own city.
Unfortunately, Portland Is still making
a poor showing with its $100 deeds
for $1,000,000 sales, $1 deeds for
$100,000 sales, etc. This is a matter
that should be taken up by our en
terprising real estate firms.
The Spanish government continues
to drift steadily toward that unpleas
ant position sometimes described as
"between the devil and the deep blue
sea." While the Moors are steadily
boring in on the soldiers at the front,
the dissatisfied citizens at home are
abusing the government for getting
into the scrape and are making per
sistent demands that a halt be called.
The situation at Madrid has become so
acute that the entire editions of five
Republican newspapers have been con
fiscated by the authorities for publish
ing an article criticising the govern
ment. Unless Spain soon makes a bet
ter showing in Morocco than it has
made up to date, it might not be but
of place for some of the European
powers to take charge of both Mo
rocco and Spain and. appoint receivers
to wind up their affairs.
One of the newspaper men in Pres
ident Taft's party, Bpeaking of Port
land's reception, pronounced it grati
fying in every way, except the decora
tions. These were shabby. To Port
land's discredit be It said that its citi
zens, loyal and public spirited as they
undoubtedly are, do not take kindly
to the idea of adding color to buildings
on big occasions. This Just criticism
was offered at our rose carnivals. The
President's eyes should have rested on
the American flag wherever he turned.
It was displayed on very few business
buildings and private residences. Re
spect for the office, if not for Its pres
ent incumbent, ought to have called
out the stars and stripes from every
abode, store and office.
The splitting of a frog, a landslide,
a thick fog and a head-on collision
were the respective causes, ascribed
for four railroad wrecks reported
yesterday. These wrecks occurred In
Illinois, Texas and Washington, and
while the loss of life was not large,
the disasters and their causes show
that railroading Is not yet a very safe
occupation to follow. There has been
a steady decrease In the number of
"preventable" accidents, but there still
remains the possible fatal flaw in. track
or in the Judgment of the operatives
which Is liable at any moment to prove
disastrous. Just at present, however,
the dangers of the rail are somewhat
small by comparison with those of
the automobile.
That Boston doctor, seeking notor
iety In denouncing the operation for
appendicitis and calling attention to
the list of deaths that follow it, over
looks the many times larger number
of people snatched from the grave
by means of that operation.
A wealthy Texan advocating Henry
George's single tax theory wants to
try It in Oregon where, according to
his view, the people are not hampered
by constitutional limitations. Thus
does our fame spread.
The question is not "Did George
Meyers kill Policeman Eckhart?" It
is, "Did Eckhart have a warrant duly
made out for Meyers' arrest when the
killing occurred?" This simplifies
matters.
An Eastern Oregon newspaper com
plains that the entertainment of Pres
ident Taft In Oregon was "practically
a Portland affair." But the President
was not the guest of Portland.
Dismissal of four sophomores from
the University of Oregon will put the
remainder on good behavior for a
while; possibly stop hazing for all
time. '
President Taft, after seeing Hofer
In Salem, thought most of the people
there Germans. He made the mistake
of talcing Hofer for the "whole show."
Mr. Jeffries and Mistah Johnson can
rejuvenate the vocabulary of their mu
tual disdain by studying the Peary
Cook imbroglio.
Mayor Simon hopes to run Port
land next year on less money than It
took this year. That's what hfi was
elected fop
OCTOBER 7, 1909.
WANTS WATER-POWER USED NOW
Not Kept Idles for Tlm Future, Since
monopoly Is Snre Anyway.
Bingen (Wash.) Observer.
The matter of withdrawing several
thousand acres of power sites along the
Klickitat River by the Secretary of the
Interior Is done, it is said, to preserve
the sites for the Government and to
prevent monopoly. This would be well
and good provided the Government
would go. ahead and Improve and use
them for the benefit of the people. The
monopoly, part of It cuts but little fig
ure, for we fail to see how these water-
powers are to be brought under sub
jection and the people to get the benefit
of them, without the combination of
capital to do the work, for certain It
is that no one man alone would under
take the great work, and even If he
did, he would be as great a monopoly
as a corporation consisting of many
men. The great trouble with monopo
lies is the lack of laws to control them;
and the laxity of the courts In being
unable, on account of legal points, to
enforce what law? there are. No mat
ter how plain, or how Just, a claim
may be against a corporation a rail
road for instance by the aid of its
miehty wealth it is enabled to appeal
Its case from court to court, until it
reaches the Supreme Court, where it
ay be settled in the next 20 years, in
the meantime the principals, having
been bled by court and lawyer fees,
have died in the poorhouse perhaps
or circumstances have bo changed as to
make a verdict In their favor a mock
ery.
But still we say. let a monopoly or
corporation take up these power-sites if
they want them, but under certain re
strictions, one or which snouia do tnat
they bring them into use in a certain
length of time under a forfeit bond to
the county, not to the United States;
restrict the fees for the service ren
dered, and In case of a law suit it can
not be taken from court' to court until
the complainant is frozen out. If the
Government withholds these lands in
reserve, it Is only a matter of time
when some one will get them, perhaps
by purchase at a high figure, and the
values of the Klickitat lands go to pay
for some Government work In the East.
In the meantime our people will be
without the benefit of whatever advan
tage these water-powers might give,
and in the end a monopoly would still
exist, whether of one or a dozen, the
one being the worse, as ne couia on
stinately obstruct all improvements if
he chose.
SALOON CURB IS LIQUOR REMEDY
Chicago Authority Says Dry Campaign
Will Injure City.
Chicago Post.
"Shall the City of Chicago become antl
saloon territory?" Chairman John H. Hill,
e tha nn.l ifATiRA committee of 100. an
nounces that steps will be taken at once
to compel the city to vote on this question
-. An,ll lolnn
We do not believe that the way to 6olve
the drink problem is tnrougn compulsory
n.nl,1,IHnn- wo Hn nnt hUlVfi that SUCh
- nmnnnal ra n o-of n TTinlnritV Of VOteS in
v 1' . n - - '
Chicago, nor do we believe that complete
prohibition is physically possioie m any
i.nm citv firnntprt that a no-license law
lessens the consumption of liquor which
It prohaDiy aoes in spue oi ma c-ajit
to the contrary yet we cannot see how
wm-oaefnn "n,l In a n V WAV DA &. CUTQ.
Were the committee's fight to be, not to
drive liquor out or Chicago, dut. to regu-
lota Mintrnl nnrt rfpflnfie the FR-lOOTl. W6
would have every sympathy with it. For
the saloon as It is conauctea tuuay iu uui
great municipalities Is one of the most In
sidiously sinister foes of public morals and
health as well of the great Democratic
experiment. It cannot be abolished by all
the "anti-saloon" votes In Cook County.
But It can be divorced from politics, it
can be cut on irom lis preueui iMmmucuwi
in the world of crime. It can be separated
As It is. instead of entering upon a fight
for so great a rerorm, we are iu u
plunged into a campaign that eeeks an
impossible thing and Is therefore doomed
to defeat. And the whole community
surely will lose thereby. For the fanatl-
.itv. mhinh tha ltntmr nuastkm is
surrounded on both sides will almost cer
tainly cause the great issues or tne lumi
comlngr election the subways, the direct
primary, the harbor, the waterways, and
so on to be neglected or wuuuy JB""
by the average cmcago voter,
AUTOS AND THE NEW JERUSALEM.
Writer Think Speed Laws Cant Be En
envMif A (1 t-tni-1 Season of Prayer.
PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) Doubtless there are those who will
say that Chief of Police Cox did very
wrong in setting a pace of 25 miles an
hour down East Morrison street in his
.Amnv.na Kut it 1 an Arror to sav that
he was specially out of the ordinary he
was merely doing mat wnicn ia uuuo m
Portland hundreds of times every day.
It is not often that an auto driver goes
along Morrison or Washington streets
at the gait mentioned, but it is really
fltnfir Alrtfir. Yamhill. Sixth.
and even on Morrison and Washington
anywhere west or eevenin. a man ;!'
walk four miles in an hour, and in all
..t. e fitv pwent on a few blocks
near Fifth and Washington, and it Is
the commonest sort or a common ex
perience to see an auto charge by and
"make" from seven to 10 blocks while
- nnn..lnn 1b mnktne one.
It will be of little use to expect
Chief Cox to be fined. He did only
what Is done a dozen times every day
In Portland, one or tnese uiura mcio
will be a collision here, in the middle
r j-,. on a downtown street, and
with a sober, though perhaps not a
sane, driver a collision tnar. win c""
,v. -...Kiln tn alt im And take notice.
That such a collision is not duplicated
here a dozen times every uoj
nhAnnmAnnn whose counter
part is found only In the marvelous
escape of so many men who stand in
the front ranks during a lerriiiu
a ,.mA lL-itiinnt a scratch.
But the speed laws will never be
enforced, unless the authorities detail
an officer with each driver, much as it
a BAnflratA vounir woman
teacher to convert and keep converted
each Chinaman who is seening- aiier
Krace Since, however, umei loi ush i
a sufficient force of men to do this,
. ., n h Wnmfn who are still com
pelled to depend on their legs to get
m . - ,nt in another should so
conduct their dally walk as to be ready
without warning to enter the gates of
the New Jerusalem. For the mission
! of the auto is to get tnere ana it nut
J only does fulfill its mission, but will
continue to ao so. -
The Great Hunt
Haverhill Gazette,
c t... officials are overtoyed
Ollll lil.lUlll..." - -
Their already noteworthy museum of
rare and interesting "remains" has
been largely increased by the hunting
. . . t ..ti n.a t? fof-wlt- a.nd the do-
partment of natural history has had a
fine boom at mm iiiuuiuliuu. ----early
as yet to compute accurately the
nf this, s-reat hunt: but In
proportion as there has been uproar and
hubbub in tne jungies ft
has been peace and calm in the domains
of uncle bam.
He Remembered.
Vhllgolnhln .Tnmllrer.
Be Do you remember the night I pro
posed to you?
O V. VnG A ab
He We sat for an hour, and you never
opened your moutn. i
i-i -Va T Mrnprnhnr. t r AT"
He Ah, that was the happiest hotrr of
my life.
SAYS JAPAN SEEKS FAIR PLAY.
Consul Numano AeT. Recent Treaties
No Menace to Open Door.
PORTLAND. Or.. Oct. S.-(To the Edi
tor.) That Japan is strictly adhering to
its long-established policy of the open
door" In China hardly needs any in
sistence at my hands, as it has been so
often reiterated by Japan. But as tne
ir.kitnn which aDPeared
Dfltin iiuiu r, el...... -
in The Oregonian for several days in
succession, persistently reported to the
effect that Japan is threatening to doss
the door by obtaining "Japanese monop
oly in (Manchuria, which will exclude
from that territory not only Amenuui
but European interests," a word or two
about the two treaties, recently conclud
ed between China and Japan, will not
be amiss, and, I hope will go far toward
dispelling all the lingering clouds of
doubt as to the fairness and sincerity of
Japan toward China, as well as to every
other country. I may add that the pro
visions of these two treaties nave
been published In the local papers.
(Both these treaties are dated Septem
ber 4, 1909. and promulgated on Septem
ber 8. One of them refers to the final
settlement as to the sovereignly ui
Chen-Tao, a territory long disputed be
tween China and Corea. and comprises
a short preamble and seven articles. By
this treaty China s sovereignty over the
' 1 0mA ita -fiiHRrilctlon over the
Coreans residing within the territory
have been recognized By japan, wmcii
must be considered a material concession
1- e Tnan TJL-111 KllfflC.ft In
on int. t vi i- u"i "-i " -
silencing nonsensical and sensational
stories concerning the territorial amoitmn
of Japan. At the same time, Japan re
tained the right to protect the Coreans
within the territory ana aiso to
Justice is aCministered over the Coreans
i . oair a tAvlsltin of verdict ren
dered by the Chinese court in some im
portant cases of litigation. Dour cities
V 1 1 11111 HI tJ mil nui j
once by the treaty for international
A 1 m n.V.1AV, n- 1 T nit Tfl 1 1 Tft IT1VH & (JU11-
siderable benefit to all the countries of
ho mi-M omnne- which. I' am Quite cer
tain. America will have a large share.
The other of the two treaties bdovo
.tnnA ;,vi frtn tho cAttlpment of sev-
sMitoanfUno- niinstlnns between Japan
and China concerning tne railway aim
mlhing enterprises in Manchuria.. Most
tviooa m-iviioirpq iiTA dcflnltelv Grant
ed to Japan by the treaty concluded be
tween the two countries at me cioso ui
the Russo-Japanese war. The present
treaty is simpiy mienaeu 10 iut n nv.
to unpleasant disputes which have been
raised subsequently on the part of China.
The construction of Shln-Min-Tun Faku
men Railway by China In contravention
to treaty provisions, and the working of
coal mines at Fu-Shun and Tuen-Tai by
the South Macchurian Railway may be
considered as the most Important of
them.
It is therefore a matter of congratula
tion that these questions have been am
icably settled. The conclusion of these
two treaties may be taken as a testi
mony that the sagacity and wisdom of
Chinese statesmen have prevailed upon
the radical anti-foreign elements of that
government, and that they are beginning
to recognize the sincerity and fair play
on the part of Japan, much to the dis
appointment of those who are trying to
create international ill-will.
On the whole, it will be seen that there
is nothing in these treaties to threaten
the "open door" in China or Manchuria.
On the contrary, they provide for the
opening of the hitherto closed territory
to international trade and for the eco
nomic development of Manchuria.
Y. NTJMANO, Japanese Consul.
FREE! SYNAGOGUE IS ATTACKED.
Writer Saya Dr. Stephen S. Wise Helps
Disappearance of Jewish Race.
PORTLAND, or., Oct. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) Permit me to say a few words
with regard to Dr. Stephen S. Wise's
predictions about the disappearance of
the Jewish race.
It is my opinion that Dr. Stephen
Wise, through his Free Synagogue, has
contributed towards the disappearance
of the Jewish race more than all the
-intermarriages in the world. When a
rabbi strips Judaism of all dogma and
almost of all ceremonies and rituals, and
reduces Its teachings to' a few broad
moral sentences, that could be easily
adopted by any church, a rabbi of such
a caliber certainly breaks away the
partitions that existed In religion be
tween Jew and Gentile, paves the way
for assimilation, and therefore for the
disappearance of the Jew.
Had Dr. Wise looked into the matter
a little deeper, he would have seen that
the same conditions that bring about
the existence of free synagogues, with
unmuzzled pulpits, bring about also the
existence of those frequent intermar
riages that cause the rabbi to become
bo anxious about the future of the Jew
ish race. One more word: Not that I
am against the activities of Dr. Wise in
his sphere, far be It from such, but I
do think that the rabbi mistook the
effect for the cause. LEO RICEN.
i
Tart's Most Serlons Problem
New York Post.
When Mr. Taft set out upon his 14,000
mile Journey, he knew well enough that
of the difficulties he would have to con
tend with, the three principal ones would
be tariff-revision sentiment, the flood of
oratory and Indigestion. Tariff and elo
quence he has breasted manfully, and
come out in pretty good condition; but
the French chef and the pastryman have)
been pressing nim hard. A request has
gone out for the curtailment and simpli
fication of Presidential lunches and ban
quets during the remainder of tha trip.
It must have been bad enough in the
Northern tier of states, where, presum
ably New England influence has estab
lished a certain uniformity and sobriety
of diets but the situation grew really se
rious when the President's orbit ap
proached California and the South, the
home of strange beasts and birds and
exotic sauces. Not even as the embodi
ment of the National Ideal is it Mr.
Taffs manifest destiny to go through the
entire range of local cuisine.
Information for Hollo.
Washington Star.
"Father," said little Rollo. "what Is
appendicitis?"
"My son." answered the cynical
parent, "appendicitis is something that
enables a good doctor to open up a
man's anatomy and remove his entire
bank account."
Suppose It were You!
If tou hud hunted for the Pole
For many, many year.
And walked through Arctic snow and lco.
And froze your nose and ears
And then some fellow came along
And beat you to the place
Don't you think, my dear old pal.
That It would freeze your face.
And mar you
And Jar you
And make you "leary,
Just like Peary?
And If von thought you had a cinch
To name and fame. Old Hoss.
And buUt your Igloos here and there.
Nor cared for a cold a toes
And then some chap would sledge right oy
Nor backward look.
Don't you think that yon would grouch
And say, "Confound that Cook!"
And swear some,
A foursome,
A salamander
Like the Commander?
If you were to the manor born.
And knew you were no dub
Wore the colors on your breast
Of the Peary Arctic Club
And tnen a chappy drove his dogs
Where south you always look
Don't yon think, kind reader, that
you'd say. " ' that Cook!"
And cry some
And lie some
Ewt&r on your soul
"Cook found no Pole-?
Xbe Deacon. HUUDoro, Or.
Life's Sunny Side
Proud Papa That boy of mine is a
wonder! Very smart child for his age.
Disgruntled Neighbor Haven't a doubt
of it. If we were living in old times, I j
am sure he would be holding an oince ior
which he seems eminently qualified.
Proud Papa (suspiciously) v nat oince
do you mean?
DisK-runtled Neighbor Town crier. Bal
timore American.
e
The airship hat had been Invented,
v-rti" pvnlfiinfrt th milliner. "It
doesn't look like an airship, but it costs
about the same." Philadelphia Ledger.
Doctor What seems to be the trouble?
Patient My train of thought keeps
Jumping the track.
Doctor Ah, a nervous wrecit: nawaa
City Times.
oh Thi. is thn candv store where we
first met. You took shelter hero from the
rain, do you remember?
fonvrill-l VH. DTI(i nOW I SC6 thflt
l""Bi'V T
there was a saloon next door, whicti i
must have run past. negenae maiin.
Knicker Time brings strange changes.
Bocker Yes; the boy whose mother
can't make hira wash his neck grows up
to be a rich man who goes abroad for
baths. Harper's Bazar.
Esmeralda How many times do you
make a young man propose to you before
you say yes?
Gwendolen If you have to make him
propose, you'd better say yes the first
time. Chicago Tribune.
"Man," she sighed, "is never interest
ing." "No?"
"No. In the Bummer time he talks
nothing but baseball; in the Winter noth
ing but politics." Detroit Free Press.
"I knew it had to come."
"How now?"
"That show at the town hall tonight has
an Eskimo quartet." Louisville Courier
Journal. e
Mot- TTather (sternly) Genevieve, you
1 . - .1 , wmryia . -m i n ir m n n
Herself O, father, how did you discover
my secret?
Her Father The gas Din ior mo
quarter Is suspiciously small. Judge.
Miss Antique Yce. ours is a very old
family; you know we came over in the
Mayflower.
'Miss Caustique Indeed; did you er
have a pleasant voyage? Philadelphia
Record.
A New Jersey farmer, whose farm Is
near a school for boys, was greatly an
noyed by the depredations of the young
sters. Finding two of the boys helping
themselves to his choice apples, he ush
ered them from his premises, ably as
sisted by the too of his boot.
The following day he found the same
boys loitering in tha vicinity of his
orchard fence.
"What you young scamps hanfiln round
here for?" he shouted. "I told you yes
terday what you'd git if I caught you- on
my land ag'ln."
"Yes, sir, we remember," explained the
spokesman. "We didn't come for applfs
this time. We came to ask you to join
our football eleven." Harper's Weekly.
Barber Massage ?
Victim No.
Barber Tonic?
Victim No.
Barber You ought to have something
on your hair.
Victim 1 know it. Hand me my hat,
please. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Tramp Ah, mister, what would you
do if you felt like you didn't hnve a friend
in the world?
The Rich Man What would I do? Why,
I'd apply for a Job as a baseball umpire,
of course. ChicaBO News. .
see
Harlem Do you know that Jones has
married his cook?
Bronx Just like him. He'd always rath
er fight than eat.
"Although he overcharged me terribly,"
says the returned traveler, "the cab-diiver
who took me over Paris was moBt polite."
"All Frenchmen are." we observe
"Yes, but this one got off his box and
helped me find the necessary profanity In
my French-English dictionary, so that I
miKht say what I thought of him."
Life.
URGES IJQUOR IJCENSE METHOD.
Writer Says It Is Better Than Boot
lrtrarerN nnd Blind Flam.
PRINEVILLE, Or., Oct. 6. To the
Editor: Permit me brielly to criticise
the article written by an Albany writer
to a Portland paper a few days ago
against the saloon as an Institution.
"Citizen" favors prohibition, not be
cause It does not prohibit, but appar
ently because, as he alleges, the sa
loons have violated the laws of the
state for the past SO years. "Cltizon"
loses sight of the fact that violations
then (because the laws were not en
forced) are no more an indication of
general rottenness of the whole saloon
system than is the prohibition law a
failure because treble the number of
violations are taking place every day
now. The liquor law could not be, or was
not. enforced then; the prohibition law
cannot, or will not, be enforced now.
If It be conceded that liquors will
always be sold. In either wot or dry
territory, and there is bound to be an
occasional violation under either sys
tem as "Citizen" admits is It not bet
ter 'to treat the liquor business as a
necessary evil and tax It accordingly,
than to have a vastly greater number
of bootleggers and blind plKS. neither
of whom contribute a cent toward city
or county government, go on violating
the laws indefinitely? Is not "Citi
zen" actuated by prejudice? And after
all Is not temperance a purely personal
question? A. H. KENNEDY.
Call tor Reformed Ietrliilator.
Astoria.ru
Whatever the State of Oregon may do
next year, her first duty is to redeem
the quality of her legislature, to rename
and reform and readjust the balances at
Salem so that the people may be enabled
to forget the disgraces, the blundering
stupidities, tho cheap chicane that
marked tha "last session as among the most
notoriously inept and ineffectual, (save
in the sum of its reckless appropriations)
in the history of the commonwealth.
No county in the state is exempt from
this duty; it falls peremptorily upon
every segment, Clatsop included, find It
is none too early to begm the work of
critical selection in order that when the
time arrives the public mind may be
charged with the faculty of making such
choice as shall do honor and credit to
the State at large and lend asHiirance
everywhere of business qualification and
trained fitneBS generally for the work
volvlng upon a really representative
group.
Rapid Growth In AVnllowa.
Joseph Herald.
' Joseph citizens feel Justly proud of
our excellent schools, which are pro
gressing in the most satisfactory man
ner under the supervision of six able
instructors. When a town the size of
Joseph requires half a dozen teachers
in its schools. It means that tho town
is "going some" as well as growing
some.