THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER o, 1909.
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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(not for publication), which, however,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.
BUILDERS OF OUR NEW
PACIFIC HIGHWAYS
Four new railroads are the work
of men who started life in humble
positions.
ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR
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