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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER o, 1909. 12 FOBTIAXD. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postoffics as Second-Class Matter. Subscription Bates Invariably tn Advanoe, (Br MalLl Dally. Sunday Included, on year $8.00 rt.nF Runriii Included. Hi r months.... 4.25 lallyr Sunday included, three months... ti.iIb Sundav Included, one month...... Ially. without Sunday, one year .... ffOO Ially. without Sunday, six months...... 3. T.all without Runilnv three months.... 1. Daily' without Sunday, on month...... .eo Weekly, one year........ Sunilnv nnR vfjtr 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one year. 3.0 fBy Carrier.! nalTx. Sunday Included, one year. ...... 9-00 Ial!y. Sunday Included, one month..... -70 How to Remit Send postoffics money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the senders risk, uive postomce iu dresa In full, lncludlna county ana state. Fostare Rate 10 to 14 pases. 1 cent; 16 to 28 paxes. 2 cents: 80 to 40 paws, 3 cents 44 to 60 paces. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C Beck virh Cn.Mal a ..nr. Mw Vcrk. rooms 48- 50 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610-512 Tribune building. rOBTXA'D. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1908. WE DON'T MEAN IT. The Oregonian has received a letter (not for publication), which, however, contains a passage which so well ex plains the purpose of the writer that compliance with his request will be easier if we allow him to put the re- quest In . own words; so we give this portion of his letter, to wit: In the name of the many Syrians, and American naturalized Syrians. I ask you write something on the subject, give us your personal opinion on the ruling of Chief Ca.npbell. of the Naturalization Bureau. In which he condemned the Syrians as banned from the right of being naturalized, simply because they art, Asians. Our naturalization laws are general in their terms and purposes; and they do, indeed, harbor absurdities. The people of the United States wish to keep out the races known to ethnolo gists as Turanian, but classed as "yel low" or "brown" or "black" by the great body of those who know nothing of ethnological distinctions. Of these races, the Chinese are the most ob jectionable of all, to our people, but all the rest are hated by our working or wage classes, because their habits of industry, their mode of living, their content with poor conditions, are be lieved to "degrade labor." If natural iued, they can vote; they can elect the officials who administer and enforce the laws. Hence the obstruction to their naturalization. The masses of the people who rule our country don't want Asians or Africans; the;- don't want Chinese, Japanese, Tartars, Turks, Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians or South Sea Islanders. They oven hate the Italians, whose country is the mother of all things that has lifted our own modern world out of savagery and barbarism and shown it the way to civilization. Our naturalization laws give the judges and commissioners the right and power to interpret, so as to keep out classes of Asians and Africans. The laws are so interpreted, generally, in the interest of peace among our own people. But the interpretation Involves many absurdities. There are many people from Asia and from Af rica whom no analysis of color or blood would separate from this boas: ed white race of ours. "Strange .i it," says the King in "All's Well" Strange Is it. that our bloods, of color, weight and heat, poured all tcgether. would quite confound distinction, yet stand off in differences so mighty. It occurs even among different branches of the white races, who hate eu oh .other most cordially and refuse to tolerate each other at all. Add the bar of color, even if the bar is only the slight tinge that climate and food and way of life have produced in par ticular situations during the course of ages, and prejudice raises its head. violently and at once. It is Intensified especially in the ranks of those classes among whom the struggle for life, through labor, is severest. These peo ple call Greeks and Syrians, and even Italians, "niggers." One may hear it every day, among the laborers, on the streets of all our principal cities. Between the principles of a humani . tarian and cosmopolitan civilization on one side and of this prejudice and ex eluslveness on the other, our country, devoted through its ideals t- freedom and opportunity for all. Is in a very difficult position. Realizing the em barrassment, it restricts. even prohib its, immigration of Asians and Af ricans, and narrows the interpretation of its naturalization laws. It forgets or slurs over Its own ideals, in the in terest of peace for itself, with its own people It has its politicians and newspapers that continually try, for objects of their own, to keep alive the prejudice against every class of for eigners against whom any shade in complexion of skin may be alleged, whether justly or not. Those of our own people whose sensibilities of right ard justice and humanity are wounded by it, must submit, because they can't change it. Foreigners who feel the wrong must submit, too.. Foreigners in our country who are refused naturalization may note, how ever, that their descendants born In our country are citizens, and have all the rights of citizenshjp, without need of naturalization. Probably this lim itation on the complete government of the country by our superior class will stand; and yet even it may be swept away. Our Syrian friend should not have too high an opinion of our mag nanimity, or of our devotion to our own professed ideals of freedom and of op portunity for all though we stand as an obelisk of liberty in the wilderness of the world, at whose feet kings shall perish and realms decay, and around whose head the suns of all ages are to roll and their satellites revolve. Ia other and plainer words, there is an immense amount of buncombe and balderdash in all our talk about the temple of liberty and the asylum of freedom, in this, our happy land. We don't mean it. The old steamship Montara is re ported a wreck at Eagle Harbor, on Puget Sound. Naturally, if this wreck had happened anywhere within a hun dred miles of the Columbia River, our fine waterway would have been blamed for the disaster. Happening on Puget Sound, the disaster will not occasion comment further than that which Is given any vessel wrecked when It K-aves safe water and gets on the rocks. For Portland the most inter esting feature of the Montara wreck is the fact that the steamer was a relic of the old days on the Portland water front. As the fine new steamship Willamette she spent the early years of her existence carrying coal from the Puget Sound and British Columbia col lieries for the O. R. & N. Co. Of the four steamers which for years were Quite- prominent In Portland harbor, the Columbia, Willamette and v alia ."alia have made their last port; but the Umatilla, with numerous narrow escapes to her credit, is still in service. THROUGH CEXTB.lt OREGON. The filing of new incorporation pa pers of the Oregon Trunk line, the Hill road through Central Oregon, discloses plans for a more extensive mileage than has previously been announced by the promoters of the road. With the announced intention of making its southern terminus at or near Klamath Falls. It may be regarded as a cer tainty that the line will continue south Into California. For obvious reasons, Portland would prefer that the line would end in the southern portion of the state, and be used as a feeder to the main lines of the Hill system. The importance of a California connection for the northern roads of the Hill sys tem Is so great, however, that the most emphatic denials of railroad officials have failed to convince the people that the Oregon- Trunk would not speedily be rushed into the stronghold of the Harriman system at the earliest oppor tunity. Not only is the traffic originating in Central Oregon of a character that finds a very advantageous market in California, but by making the Oregon Trunk a through line to California an enormous traffic which now flows south from the States of Washington and Idaho, and even Montana, can be handled without the necessity of paying tribute to a rival road. For a great many years after the opening of the Central Oregon country grain will be the principal product to be hauled to market, and it Is in California that the best market will be found for this product. -.Were the Hill line to stop at Klamath Falls or at any point in the southern part of the state, it would lose nearly all of this'traffic, or at the best would be forced to divide the charge for hauling with a water line from Portland to California ports. Any loss of business which Portland might suffer by diversion of this Cen tral Oregon grain to the consuming markets of California will be much more than offset by the great develop ment that will be made possible by completion of the road into a portion of the state which could be but little better than uninhabitable without proper facilities for reaching a market, It has been a long, hard struggle for the straggling settlers -in Central Ore gon, aided by the efforts of Portland, to secure any kind 'of recognition from even one railroad. Now, as has always been predicted, when one road sta-ts to enter the field there will be two. The territory involved Is of such vast extent, however, that there is plenty of business for both of these main lines to the south, and, as the country settles up, there will be business developed for numerous feeders into the many little valleys that open into the great Harney Valley and other big agricul tural districts through which the main lines of these roads will pass. Port land will care but little how far soufh the new roads go, providing they has ten the day when Central Oregon will come in for the recognition to which it Is properly entitled. FARM RECORDS. In pursuit of its commendable pur pose of spreading useful information among the farmers, the Oregon Agri cultural College has just published a pamphlet on "Farm Records." The author is Dean Bexell, of the college department of commerce, and it is printed on the college press. The pamphlet is the first part of a com prehensive work on "The Business Side of Farming." Subsequent sec tions will discuss "Rural Law" and Rural Economics." This is a timely enterprise, anr! it ought to prove of wide benefit to the agricultural classes. It aims to fortify them where they are weakest, for the farmer fails ten times on the business side to once on the industrial. Roughly speaking, he is now pretty well informed upon the scientific points of fruit, grain and stockgrowing. His disposition to work hard nobody has ever questioned. But in pure matters of business, he is too often at the mercy of the unprincipled sharper simply because he lacks in formation. Frequently, too, the farm er's mind Is in confusion about his own financial status. He resembles Mr. Rockefeller in the one respect at least that he does not know how much he Is worth. After planting, cultivating, digging and selling a crop of. potatoes, the changes are that he cannot tell whether 'upon the transaction as a whole he has gained or lost money, because he has kept no records. In five dairy herds out of every eight there are cows which return no profit whatever. Many of them do not pro duce butter fat enough to begin to pay for their feed and care. They are a steady drain on their owner's pocket. but he does not know it. He goes on serenely year after year supporting the parasites, not because he loves them, but because he has not mastered the art of keeping accounts with them. A wise dairyman can confront any cow n his herd with her record, whenever he likes, and if she does not make good the work of elimination begins. Dean Bexell thinks one reason why farmers have been negligent hereto fore in keeping accounts is the lack of a system of bookkeeping adapted to their peculiar needs. What they want is a method very simple on the one hand and very comprehensive on the other. It must be simple, because few farmers have either leisure or train- ng for keeping complicated accounts. The old subtleties of our school days which made bookkeeping a dark and mysterious science have no place On the farm. Everything must be clear, direct and facile. But the farmer's system of accounts must also be com prehensive, because his business falls nto many departments. He is capital ist, ' laborer, producer, manufacturer and merchant all at the same time. Hie fields are devoted to different en terprises, some of which may be mak ing money for him and -others losing concurrently. How about his horses? Does it pay him to keep them, or would he be better off to hire a team when he needs horsepower? Is his help a source of profit or loss to him? Questions like these will be answered n .the long run by the gradual accu mulation of wealth or by a slow de scent to poverty. It would be a fine thing for every farmer to know which way he Is going. As the foundation of farm book keeping. Dean Bexell recommends a day book, which is as much of a diary as a record of accounts. It contains items like this: - "April 4, attended concert of Boston Jubilee Singers with family, J2.00." Phrases of the type with family" are indispensably Im portant here, because they enable the farmer to look back through the year and judge of himself morally as well as financially. . They tell him what kind of a husband and father he has been, while the money Items inform him of his commercial thoroughness. With the day book the farmer needs a sort of scrap book in which to paste bills and receipts. Between this and the day book there should be a com plete set of cross-references, so that an item in the one will be an index to corresponding entries In the other. Dean Bexell has invented, or, at any rate, he recommends, the most In genious form of a cash book we have ever seen. To put the case briefly, it distributes accounts horizontally well as vertically,' and thus dispenses with posting Items into a ledger, while it secures the advantages of double entry. ' The dean, who appears to be a master -of his subject, does hot make the blunder of sacrificing the luminous accuracy of double entry for the sake of a- deceptive simplicity. Every farm er'in the state ought to obtain a copy of his pamphlet. THE FALL FRESHET. An early November freshet is one o the unusual things that' owners of log booms and cultivators of bottom lands in Western Oregon and Washington encounter now and then to their loss The heavy rains of the past five days have sent many of the smaller streams tributary to the Columbia, Grays Har bor and Puget Sound out of their banks, working disaster in the lines mentioned. Unlike the loss sustained from a September or October storm to a delayed grain harvest, the No vember loss in logs and crops is not the fault of those who sustain it. Up to the breaking of the storm and the ensuing freshet, the water in. the log ging streams was not high enough to float the log booms to the mills Hence the exposed condition of the logs. As to the late potatoks and other root crops, they had not yet come to maturity; hence were not ready for gathering. The losses suf fered, while not heavy enough to af fect the general prosperity of the sec tions visited, are yet heavy in indi vidual cases. As to the inconvenience caused by washing out or softening the roads, the case is different. It will continue in very many cases throughout the en tire Winter, and will furnish the best of all arguments in favor of substan tlally constructed public highways, The argument is an old one; It Is il lustrated by straining horses pulling half-mired wagons with light loads over roads that would be impassable but for the necessity of using them occasionally; by slack trade in village stores, slim attendarice upon rural churches and schools, and farmhouse Isolation that becomes exceedingly dreary and monotonous before the Winter Is over. It is doubtful, indeed whether any other argument would so emphasize the value of "good roadf J as ddes the freshet, coming be fore the Fall hauling of produce is fairly begun. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK SHOW. All things considered, the annual re port of the Portland Fair and Live stock Exposition may be considered satisfactory. In every new enterprise and the "newness" has not yet worn off this big show there is always some waste of money caused by ex-perimentinr- In the first year of the exposition, it was conducted by a num ber of public-spirited citizens who con tributed time and money to make it a success. In the belief that better re sults could be secured by employing a 'salaried manager who would give his entire attention to the business, a change was made this year. The un fortunate selection of a man whose time was occupied in a neighboring state not only cost the association a sum which would have been sufficient to transform the loss into a small profit, but the exposition was a distinct loser by the arrangement. The fair not only failed to receive the attention which the salary paid shouh' have guaranteed, but it also lost the personal assistance of the publiq-splrited men who gave their time and money the previous year. Financially and other- wise, the exposition would have been In much better shape had the direc tors and stockholders failed to place any dependence on the highosalarled manager. Another factor which con tributed to loss this year, as well as last, was the poor car service. Not only was there an insufficient number of cars to handle the crowd, but the operation of the cars in use was un satisfactory. One of the most neces sary factors in insuring the success of the exposition is extension, of the Mon- tavllla line to a point near the grounds or the double-tracking of the Rose City Park line. . ' - ' This big stock show is an enterprise of too great importance , to be aban doned when the showing is no worse than it is at this time, especially when It is considered that the comparatively small loss may be considered as pre ventable. The widespread interest and the increasing importance of the live stock industry in the Pacific North west have brought Portland into a po sition of great prominence as a live stock center, and the abandonment of this great stock show, which has never been excelled In the West, would mean a considerable loss of prestige. The support given the exposition un der the adverse circumstances that were so prominent this year is assur ance of Its eventually being a great success. A little assistance from every one who Is directly or indirectly Inter ested in the exploitation of the great stock industry can soon place it on a satisfactory financial basis. As it is an enterprise in which the entire state is interested, it would be eminently proper for the state to aid this great exposition, at least to the extent to which it has assisted some of the smaller fairs of only local importance. The State Dairymen's Association will meet In annual convention in this city December and 10. Some--400 delegates are expected to attend. It may be hoped that the proceedings of this convention .will disprove some of the appalling and disgusting state ments concerning tuberculous cows, filthy dairies and diseased milk upon which our citizens have been regaled lately. Some of these statements are enough to make one's gorge rise, and, after it is all over, to make one won der how it is that we still live. A party of Eastern capitalists have purchased two very important power sites on the Deschutes River. It is the Intention of the buyers to develop this power, now running to waste, and use it for operating mills, railways and for lighting purposes. This will, of course, be quite an important matter In a country where fuel for the crea tion of power and light Is none too plentiful. Not only will the buyers of the sites reap a profit on their invest ment but thousands of consumers of light and power will also be distinctly benefited by the improvement. The practice of permitting these power sites to fall Into the hands of men who have the money with which to develop them, however, has been ' severely frowned upon by the wealthy theorists of the Pinchot class. If such people had sufficient control of these power sites, they would remain undeveloped indefinitely. A letter to The Oregonian asserts that . Morrow County, Oregon, was named for General H. G. Morrow, a soldier of the Civil War, stationed later at Vancouver; and the writer desires to correct The Oregonian's statement that it was named for "an early pio neer." But The Oregonian's state ment was correct. The county was named for Jackson Lu Morrow, one of the very earliest settlers there. He first ..ettler' on Puget Sound, and Shel ton Bay, In 1S53; a few years later went to Eastern Oregon, and was a member of the Legislature from Umaj tilla when Morrow was formed out of a part of that county. In the debate about what the name of the new county should be, some one said "Let's call It for Jack Morrow; he is entitled to the honor." The late L. B. Cox was Morrow's colleague in the House, from Umatilla, when Morrow County was created. Jonathan Bdurne at the same time was one of the members from Multnomah. Joseph Simon was' a Senator from Multnomah the same year. This was the Legislature of 1884-85. Thomas E. Watson, who at times displays, all of the fire-eating charac teristics of that other eminent jaw smith, Eugene Debs, is talking again. Asserting that an armed clash between Federal and state courts "has got to come sooner or later," Mr. Watson ad vocates armed resistance on the part of the state authorities to a writ of habeas corpus, issued by a Federal Court fora prisoner in the custody of a state court. It has frequently been stated .that some of the old ladies in the back districts in the South are so far behind the times that they are still knitting socks for the soldiers whom they think are still fighting the North. It would seem from the advice given fcy Watson that he has not been in formed that that little difference be tween state and Federal governments was settled more than forty years ago. Some one should supply the great Pop ulist with a history of the Civil War. Tacoma is too fond of herself. To show how Important she is she made an effort to beat McCredie; and Pierce gave Lister the only majority he re ceived from any county in the district. Not a bit will that sort of politics pay. Tacoma is a fine town, by far the big ge.t . the idistrict, but her Influence will be greater if she works with oth ers than if she claims the whole cheese. From megalocephalitis the Lord preserve us all. ' Everybody in the Hill-Gadsby families tells the story that they all tried to prevent the separation, and the young husband and wife were equally anxious to prevent it. And there were no meddlesome outsiders. Now, who or what did cause this row? President Wehrung points out s number of things that caused the defi cit in the receipts of the recent county fair. The directors of the fair will be able to add one other reason that Mr. Wehrung, for reasons of personal mod esty, undoubtedly, overlooked. The families of the bride and the groom always bring discord by mixing up In the young couple's affairs. The lesson is as old as literature, and order yet. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto hJs wife." The Health Board might drop the milk problem, and Investigate this promised pellagra trouble. The de sire to lie abed when it is time to arise Is possibly a strong symptom. It is a popular one, anyway. ,The worst feature of the "industrial" trouble at Spokane lies in the danger of excesses on both sides. However, a bread and water diet has a quieting effect on the man who has little re spect for the law. One wonders that Jim Jeffries should hazard the pride of the white race with the uncertainty of "licking" the "nigger" with his fists, when he could make a sure job of it with a baseball bat. Columbia County remains "wet." This will last so long as the timber and logging and lumber business holds out vigorously. With its decline, Co lumbia probably .will go "dry." The little, town of Silverton has raised quite a few dollars for boosting purposes, iv.'hich will counteract .some of Homer Davenport's "impressions" and recollections. The National Geographic Society has awarded the North Pole to Com mander Peary, and will do the same perhaps for Dr. Cook, if he will please write. Many persons are ashamed to admit the eagerness with which they read news of prizefights and scandal, so of course must lay the blame on the newspaper. , The Adriatic was aground in New York harbor yesterday. That shows the difference between that harbor and Portland's channel to the sea. This rain is what keeps cold weather and snow and drouth away. 'Other countries don't have it, and that's what's the matter with them. A divorce was granted in St. Louis last Wednesday to a warring couple without a word spoken. How "nice." The principals were mutes. A fond mother is. recorded, who last month, during the milk scare, paid $17 for drugstore food. It's an ill wind that. blows nobody. good.' Health officials should not allow this newest milk crusade to succumb, like its predecessors. Germs still lurk and babies still die. Those Spokane agitators want the right to indulge in free speech. Noth ing else but talk for them, and plenty of It TREE SPEECH" AT SPOKANE The Present Situation tn That City - Explained. Spokesman-Review. Spokane. When the facts are considered, the contention of the Industrial Workers of the World, that they are fighting for the "right of free speech," is seen to be fallacious and wholly Sinfdunded. These misguided and contentious men are demanding privileges outside of the law that are not accorded to other citizens. 'They argue that they have the right to obstruct business streets and sidewalks to any extent that may suit their whim ot purpose to hold street meetings and harangue bystanders, regardless of the Incon venience that may be suffered by the general nubile. In pursuit of an Imaginary right they are eager to impose an obvious wrong upon the , people of this city, who want to use the streets for the clear purpose for which they were nrovided the movement of traffic and the free and obstructed passage of citizens bent upon pleasure or business. The ordinance which thero men are defying is a reasonable, necessary safeguarding of public convenience and public rights. It prohibits the holding of public meetings on any of the streets, sidewalks Or alleys within the fire limits. These men have an undis puted right, possessed by' all others, to hold street meetings outside the fire limits, or within the fire limits, pro vided they secure halls or go upon vacant lots or blocks. But they find that the public does not want to hear them to the extent of going to meet ings held under conditions that gov ern meetings held by other citizens and organizations, and in their eager de sire to force their doctrines upon the citizens of Spokane, they are defying the law by invading the business dis trict and shouting out their opinions in the expectation that their utterances will thus be forced upon unwilling ears. This is un-Americaj, unfair and in tolerant of the clear rights of others, and to contend that this contumacious conduct Is justified in the name of free speech is preposterous. A STORY ABOUT AMITY. That Is a Story Abont the Name of the Yamhill Town. HOOD RIVER. Or., Nov. 4. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian, November 3, regarding the nomenclature of Oregon towns, -you mention Amity, along with Bethel and Lebanon, as receiving its name from the devotion of the early mis sionary spirit. If it is desirable to main tain a historical record of the nomen- clature of these towns it should be, so far as possible, an accarate record. The facts in regard to the origin of the name of the town Amity, -are substantially these: A rivalry existed between factions among the early settlers of that com munity over the .location of the first school house. An amicable compromise located the school house at the site of the present town, and the school house and distriot was named Amity, in sug gestion of this friendly settlement by the young man engaged to teach the first school, the late Ahio S. Watt, whose family had located there in 1848. The building and naming the school house occurred probably in the Spring of 1849. There was nothing in the origin of this name relative to the early missionaries. J. F. WATT. A Humorous situation. ' New York World. Judge Gaynor's libel suit against the World for the publication In its even ing edition of one of Mr. Brisbane's entertaining articles in behalf of Mr. Hearst is to be accepted as further proof of the Democratic candidate's militant independence. If Judge Gaynor, in the midst of the campaign, brings suit .. against tne World, which is his chief newspaper supporter, we have high hope tha as Mayor he would" be equally courageous in starting litigation in the public in terest. - That kind of a man could bring all the tax-dodgers to time, collect the franchise taxes that the corporations have evaded for years, and compel the traction companies to fulfil their con tract obligations. That is what we want a mayor to do. ; New York needs, a mayor who is not afraid to start la'wsuits against any thing or anybody, and who will not be swerved by personal considerations of any sort. Hungary's One-Armed Pianist. Musical America. , Hungary's one - armed pianist and composer. Count Geza Zichy, reached recently his 60th birthday. As a boy of 14 he s6ffered the loss of his right arm through an accident he met with while hunting, but even without the, usual complement of fingers he was not to be deterred from devoting his life to music. With Liszt and Robert Volkmann as his teachers he developed an extraor dinary left-hand technic and gained a comprehensive knowledge of the art of composing. His principal work has been made in the domain of-opera. His "Alar" found its way to Berlin: both it and ','Meister Roland" have been performed f re auentlv in Hungary. He has also pro duced a large choral work, "Dolores," and a great many songs and piano pieces. A "Valse d'Adele" he wrote for the left hand iwas arranged by Liszt for two hands, bit thank goodness it is never played now. Abdul HnmldfBuilder of Palaces. London Telegraph. Abdul Hamid, like all his predeces sors, has a mania for building. The European visiting Turkey fo.- the first time is astounded at the number of white gleaming palaces which line either side of the Bosphorus. And in every city of the empire there Is a kiosk set apart for the sultan wnich ne never visited, all of them palatial abodes, fill ed with choice furniture, rare marbles, mirrors and lusters from Venice; mo saics from Florence and Rome, with deep-hued carpets, soft and velvety as fur. These magnificent residences are nominally guarded by major-domos, who live there with their families in comfortable drowsiness and ease, and with only one object in life that of maintaining their places. A Pension for Over 250 Years. Boston Transcripts There are many, good points about the British government. One is the entire good faith with which it lives up to a public obligation.' Though" it is more than two centuries and a half since Richard Penderell Hid Charles II In the royal oak at Boscobel, and thereby baffled the Cromwellian troopers, and though the House of Stuart in the male line is extinct and Hanoverians occupy the throne, the annuity, of 100 pounds which Charles decreed to Penderell and his heirs forever, is scrupulously paid. Just at present the government finds a good deal of difficulty in finding the heirs and in getting the money to them. The Proper Way of "Recall." Baker Herald. One man says the "recall" is the only protection people - have. He surely for gets that the only substantial recall ever known is impeachment of officials and that has been possible ever since the founding of the Government and is still possible. If an officer is corrupt enough to be recalled he is corrupt enough to be justly amenable to impeachment pro ceedings which ar far more effective. But impeachment -does not permit of spitework and the recall does. PERTINENT QUESTIONS ARE ASKED And They Who Have Got the Supreme Court In This Muddle Cant Answer. PORTLAND, Nov. 4. (To the Edi tor.) Thecourts of this state are or ganized under the sanction of Article VII of the constitution of Oregon en titled "The Judiciary Department." That article has thus far withstood all efforts to amend it unless an -exception is found in Senate Bill No. 23 intro duced at the 1909 session of the Legis lative Assembly by Senator Hart, of Baker County, and providing for two additional justices of the Supreme Court.- It Is said that many constitutional lawyers are to file briefs as friends of the Supreme Court opposing the Attorney-General in his proceeding which questions the right of Messrs. King and Slater to sit as members of that court. Perish the thought at theoutset that these learned members of the bar have ail to gain and nothing to lose in their efforts to keep in office pos sible members of the court wherein all their cases shall be heard on ap peal. But for the sake of learning in constitutional law let. us quote some of the sections of Article VII and ask the "friends of the court" some ques tions about them: Section 2. The Supreme Court shall con sist of four Justices, to be chosen in dis tricts by the electors . thereof. . . . and after their election to reside in their respec tive districts. The number of Justices and districts may be increased, but shall not ex ceed live, until the white population of the state shall amount to 100,000, and shall never exceed seven. ... Section 6. The supreme Court shall have jurisdiction only to revise the final decisions of the Circuit Courts; and every cause shall be tried ffnd every decision shall be made by those Judges only, or a majority of them, who did not try the cause or make the de cision in the Circuit Court. Section 8. The Circuit Court shall be held twicer at least, in each year, in each county organized tor judicial purposes, by one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at times to be appointed by law; and at sucnother times as may be appointed by the Judges severally In pursuance of law. Section 10. When the white population of the state shall amount to 200,000, the Leg islative Assembly may provide for the elec tion of Supreme' and Circuit Judges in dis tinct classes, one of which classes shall con sist of three Justices of the Supreme Court, who Bhall not perform circuit duty, and the other class shall consist of the necessary number of Circuit Judges, who shall hold full terms without allotment, and who shall take the same oath as the Supreme Judges. Section 21. Every Judge of the Supreme Court, "before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe and transmit to the Secretary of State the following oath: "1 do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Oregon; and that I will faith fully and impartially discharge the duties of a Judge of the Supreme and Circuit courts of said state, according to the best of my ability, and that I will not accept any other office, except judicial offices, during the term for which I have been elected." 1. What authority is there for call ing any of these sections obsolete, and not having been repealed or amended are they not still in force? 2. What does section 2 mean when it says "the number of justices and dis tricts may be increased, but . . shall never exceed seven?" 3. What importance is attached to the mandatory language of section 6 that "every cause shall be tried and every decision shall be made by those judges only, or a majority of thm, who did not try the cause or make de cision in the Circuit Court?" 4. What means that other mandatory language of section 8 that "the Cir cuit Court shall be held, twice at least, In each year, in each county . by one of the Justices of the Supreme Court?" , 5. Who else, but a justice of the Su preme Court who performs circuit duty, has authority to preside in the Circuit Court in any county? 6. When section 10 provides for one class of judges "who shall not perform Circuit duty," does it mean or require that the other class shall not perform Supreme Court duty as required by section 6? 7. If the class Of Judges, other than the three "who shall not perform Cir cuit duty" are to Vtake the same oath as the Supreme Judges" as required by the last clause of section 10, the form for which is nresnrihed in section i 21, why are they not to perform the duties of Supreme Judges under sec tion 6? ' ' 8. Ought sections 2 and 10 to be read and construed together so that the words "necessary number of Circuit Judges" in section 10 shall be limited by the language of section 2. saying "they shall never exceed seven?" 9. Or, in other phrase, does the word "necessary" in section 10 mean the number required to fill the maximum complement of seven limited In sec tion 2, or does it mean the constantly Increasing number "necessary" to pay political debts? 10. Ever since Cline vs. Greenwood, 10 Or. 230, the term has been ac quiesced in, but where is the warrant in the constitution for the so-called "separate Supreme Court?" 11. Does not the constitution, reading all its provisions together and con struing them all to stand, contemplate a Supreme Court composed of pos sibly 10 judges of whom one class of three shall not perform Circuit duty, and the other class, limited to seven, besides their duty to hold Circuit Court twice each, yer-r in each county under section 8, shall by virtue of section 6, act with the three and hear in the Su preme Court the cases they have not heard in the Circuit Courts? 12. Conceding that a superficial view of the term "necessary number of -Circuit Judges" influenced by the require ments of a growing state- as well as the necessities of political patronage, has resulted in a wide departure from the constitution as to the number of Circuit Judges so that confusion would result if all of them, de jure and de facto alike, were to sit in the Supreme Court at the same time, still may we not hope that the "friends of the court" to the contrary notwithstanding, the three judges of the Supreme Court who do not perform Circuit duty will have the courage to resist further encroach ment upon the constitution until the people shall amend it to meet present conditions? HUMBLE INQUIRER. Tribute to Grover Cleveland. Richard Watson Gilder in the November Century. It has come to this, that his fellow countrymen in general, even those that dissent from his political opinions, recog nizo in Grover Cleveland a . man who, being mortal, was not ' without fault and limitation, yet who stands pre-eminent for unfeigned purity of intention, for singular frankness, for scrupulous and unusual honesty, for faithfulness to duty, for resolution, for courage and, above all, for absorbing, dominating patriotism.. It is not strange that almost the last words that were heard to fall from his lips were these: "I have tried so hard to do right." Reds Hats Suggested for Hunters. Utica (N. Y.) Press. The deer hunting fatalities have com menced. There are always several such every season. It is dangerous business, the more so because the gray felt hat and corduroy or khaki clothes of the hunter are easily mistaken at a distance for a deer. It has been suggested that every person going about in the woods through the hupting season be compelled to wear a bright red hat, the color of which could be discerned for a long distance. Life's Sunny Side One of the charms of music is that the musically educated person does not have to "understand" it. With "lmitattve" music, however, the case is quite differ ent, and every passage has either an ob vious or a thinly-concealed meaning. Oc casionally it is hard to decipher certain unusual noises, as the following story indicates: The composer had just played his last piece to his friend, the critic. . "Very fine. Indeed," said the critic. "But what is that passage which makes the cold chills run down the back?" "Oh." returned the composer, "that is where the wanderer has the hotel bill brought to him." Fliegende Blaetter. A member of the faculty of the Co lumbia Medical College, of New York, was giving his students an oral quiz. "What quantity constitutes a dose of Oleum Tiglil?" he asked a student, giv ing the technical name for croton oil. "A tablespoonful, sir," was the reply. After the lapse of a half hour he hurried to the professor. "I should like to change my answer to the question you asked me in class," he said. "It is too late." re plied the professor, looking at his watch. "Your patient has been dead just 29 min utes and 30 seconds." "So you're on a diet, are you?" "Yes, my doctor has limited me to a few of the coarsest and simplest kinds of food." "It's about noon. Won't you go In and have lunch tyith me?" "It's very kind of you to invite me. I should enjoy it." "Very well. We'll go Into the grill room." After they had secured seats In a cosy corner the host asked: "Won't you look over the bill of fare and see whether there is anything on it that you can eat?" 4 "Thanks," said the 'man who was diet ting. "I think I'll have an oyster cock tail to begin with and some chicken okra. Let's see? I guess I'll not eat any fish yes, I believe I will, too. The broiled black bass will do very well. In addition to thatI'll- have some of the roast turkey, some New York -ettlad, and oh, well, never mind the dessert now, I'll decide on that later." Chicago Record-Herald. An East End small boy had some thing to say to his father at the din ner table the other night. "Papa," he said, "Johnnie Burton is going to have a party nex' week an' he said he'd invite me. An' I got to take a present." "A present? What's that for?" "It's for Johnnie's birthday. All the kids take presents." Things hadn't come just right during the day for the boy's father. He was not in an agreeable humor. "That? all nonsense," he replied. "Every day or two it's a present here or a present there. If you can't go to a party without taking a present you might as well stay at home." The boy's lip trembled but he made no reply. The next day the father regretted his hasty words and that night turned to the boy. "George," he said, "there are a couple of new books in my overcoat pocket. You can take them to your friend John ny's party." "It's too late," said George, gloomily. "I licked him today, so he wouldn't in vito me." Philadelphia Record. The vender of images, who had just been thrown out of a large office build ing, wept bitterly as he looked at his torn clothes and broken wares. "Who did this?' inquired the friendly cop. "I'll pinch 'em, if you say the word." ' "No, it was my fault," said the victim, gathering up the remains of a plaster image. "I insisted on trying to sell a bust of Noah Webster to a meeting of simplified spellers." Denver Republican. In Illinois there is an old law on the statute books to the effect that in crim inal cases the jury is "judge of the law as well as of the facts." Though not often quoted, once In a while a lawyer with a desperate case makes use of it. In one case, the judge instructed the jury that it was to judge of the law as well as the facts, but added that it was not to judge of the law unless it was fully satisfied that it knew more law than the judge. - An -outrageous verdict was brought in, contrary to all instruc tions of the court, who felt called upon to rebuke' the jury. At last one old farmer arose. "Jedge," said he, weren't we to jedge the law as well as the fact?" , "Cer tainly," was the response; "but I told you not to judge the law unless you were clearly satisfied that you knew the law better than I did." "Well, jedge," an swered the farmer, as he shifted his quid, "we considered that p'int." A Washington man, while visiting a friend's place in Virginia, became much interested in his experiments in fruit culture. One day the visitor was making . the rounds of the place, being in charge of the friend's young daughter of 10, who acted as guide. "This tree seems to be loaded with apples," observed the Washingtonian, in dicating a particularly fine specimen. "Yes, sir," assented the little girl; "father says this is a good year for ap ples." "I am glad to hear that," said the visi tor. "Are all your trees as full of apples as this one?" "No, sir," explained the girl, "only the apple trees." The Interior. IN THE MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN HUNTING A WOMAN'S JOB IN PORTLAND Miss Bond's happy experience at the Young Women's Christian Association and the city's free employment bureau. TALK WITH MRS. EMMELINE PANKHURST Ruth Cameron describes the motherly woman, twice' a jailbird, who has aroused the militant spirit. LAND OF THE NEW RAILROADS Inland Empire of Oregon, in cluding the most beautiful river of the West. OVER A CASCADE MOUNTAIN TRAIL Rough trip to the headwaters of the Mackenzie; maximum of joy with minimum of comfort. 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