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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1909.
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PORTLAND. TUESDAY. NOV. . 1W
SURVIVALS OF THE SILVER CRAZE.
There is a custom In Oregon and
other Pacific States which annoys,
disgusts and repels the tourist, the
visitor, the Immigrant. It ought to be
abandoned. This is our habit of giv
ing change for bills in coin; espe
cially silver coin.
A tourist, traveller, visitor or immi
grant offers for payment of some trifl
ing service a five, ten or twenty-dollar
bill. He gets back his change in a
load of stufT that disgusts him. There
may be a gold piece in it. If the
amount to be changed Is ten or twenty
dollars; but there is a mass or load
of silver dollars held over from the
silver craze, relics of Bryanism. Bags
and pockets of travelers women and
men bulge with this stuff. It of
fends sense and sensibilities. It is
regarded as an incident of Western
barbarism.
It is, in fact, a survival of the craze
for sliver, that dominated all states
west of the Missouri River, save Ore
gon, and nearly submerged Oregon
too. In an Eastern state, if you offer
a five, or ten, or twenty-dollar bill,
you get your change in smaller bills,
except a few odd cents in silver. But
the moment you enter the states west
of the Missouri River they shove on
you a load of Bryan silver dollars,
for change. It is because this part of
the country made such a fool of it
self about silver, and because it still
adheres to the notion that there can
be no value without this bogus evi
dence of tt. Hence the Bryan dollar
circulates exclusively in the West.
You never (or very rarely) will see
one in New York or Boston, In Phila
delphia or Cincinnati, or even in Chi
cago. It is enough for intelligent people
to know that gold Is the standard and
measure of value. Hence they don't
want gold itself, but its representative.
In redeemable currency. Seldom will
you see a gold piece, east of Omaha.
Still less frequently a silver dollar,
east of Chicago.
The absurdity of silver (except for
small change, in fractions of one dol
lar), is apparent to all who know
anything about money. The absurdity
of silver certificates is equally appar
ent; but silver certificates are toler
ated, because they are convenient
small bills whose value nevertheless
depends on maintenance of the gold
standard, the actual basis of money
values ami the measure of all others.
But our states, west of the Missouri
River. In which the sliver craze raged
most, have not yet gotten over It en
tirely. Hence, the people, or many
of them, still hold their partiality for
the bogus silver dollar, and desire to
see It and feel It with their fingers,
and to feel its weight in their pockets.
Hence this cumbrous and half fraudu
lent coin Is pushed off into the West,
where the people or many of them
welcome It. But It annoys and dis
gusts the traveler or immigrant from
Eastern or foreign states. Many of
them think it a sign of our status on
a level with semi-barbarians, or with
the native Indians, tricked out In
gew-gaws and red blankets. It Is
worth while to see the expression on
the traveler's face, on the car from
the East to the West, when a weight
avoirdupois in silver dollars, that
will load the woman's hand bag or
bulge out and weigh down the man's
pockets, is tendered in change. The
dining-car conductor is ashamed of it,
and even the porter will apologize.
But the stuff must be worked off.
They get it and must pass it on. The
West, where relics of the sliver craze
Hill linger. Is hospitable to it. A
multitude here still knows nothing
about money or money standard, or
use of paper, redeemable In gold, as
a substitute for money; hence these
silver dollars can still be used here
as money even in large sums be
cause they are visible, and to the
barbarian eye "look pretty" just as
glass beads did to the people whom
Captain Cook traded with at Noot
ka Sound, or the Astor people traded
with on the Columbia River.
It will take a good while yet to edu
cate our people out of these primitive
conceptions- Truth is. we of the West
are as yet only partially civilized; in
this matter of money and the use of
it not redeemed from barbarian con
ditions. Our adherence even to gold
coin. In use from hand to hand, is ir
rational: and if you send to your
bank for money they will load you up
with a sack of it unless you send a
request for notes. which probably
would be received with Ill-favor by
those whom you art; to pay. Multi
tudes yet can't conceive that checks
may be as good as 'coin even silver
coin with which a man loading him
self down, holds the comfortable feel
ing that he possesses money. There
was an old resident of Portland who
sold a tract of land for eighty thou
sand dollars. Asked what bank he
would have the money placed in, to
his credit, he said: "Just give me the
money now." "But how will you take
it with you?" was the next question.
"Oh. I'll just carry it In this," he
answered pulling out of his pocket
and laying down on the teller's coun
ter an old faded and decayed red
pocket handkerchief.
This is no Joke, either. Behind It
lies an ignorant sentiment or notion.
In the Rocky Mountain and Pacific
States, that annoys and disgusts East
ern people, when bulky coin es
pecially silver coin is forced on
them, aa change for notes known to
be good because secured on gold. We
shall pass out of this condition after
a while. Influx of Eastern and for
eign peoples tends steadily to en
lightenment, on money, of our Bryan
lzed enthusiasts for silver, of former
years. Gold, itself, ought practically
to disappear from circulation rep
resented by notes limited to deposits
of gold to secure them, the whole un
der strict governmental control. A
central bank of Issue would be the
proper agent for this work. But it
wtll not be adopted yet. because there
Is not yet sufficient diffusion of finan
cial and monetary knowledge.
THE GRAND ARMY AND PENSIONS.
The gentleman who contended In a
letter to The Oregonlan the other day
that the Grand Army is not responsible
for the burdensome pension list of the
United States has failed to l acquaint
himself with the facts of the subject.
The Grand Army no doubt makes a
feature of social enjoyment and
teaches excellent lessons of patriotism,
but one of its great purposes is to se
cure pensions for its members and their
families. This it has succeeded in
doing so well that the pension list has
grown larger year by year ever since
the society was organized. Thousands
of pensioners have died, but death has
no power to check the increase of the
burden. It is nw forty-five years
since the Civil War ended, but the
United States paid more for pensions
in the last fiscal year than ever before,
and It is Idle to deny that all but an
insignificant fraction went to members
of the Grand Army or their surviving
relations.
To be sure, the tie between the sol
dier and the relations who have sur
vived him and succeeded to his pen
sion is often almost invisibly slender.
The cases where bouncing young
girls have espoused aged veterans
with one foot in the grave in order to
live on the public as "soldiers' wid
ows" are disgracefully numerous. So
are other kinds of trickery and fraud.
The scandalous truth is that the pen
sion list has become anything but an
exclusive roll of honor.
PLEA OF THE POLTROON.
Now comes one Arthur J. Schure
man, of Chicago, and elsewhere, a
man who 'has long lived, undetected,
a wolf in sheep's clothing, and poses
as a lamb that had been led to the
slaughter. Here he is in Portland,
having been trailed by a deserted wife
who is the mother of his two fine,
manly-looking sons, and a winsome
little daughter, half way across the
continent. Here she found him,
snugly ensconced in comfortable quar
ters with "the woman in the case."
Having been at last run down by his
wife and run in by officers of the law,
this fellow turns a tear-seamed face
toward the public and whimperingly
says "the woman beguiled me."
"Duped by Miss Groves," his partner
In elopement, this irresponsible in
nocent "has been led to do things,"
that but far her seductive wiles "he
would never have considered for a
minute." Rising to the height of vir
tuous indignation . a letter further
on adds: "I think Miss Groves intends
to leave this city," and he further
voices the quality of high-minded
manhood which is characteristic of
men of his type, saying "She knows
I Intended to stay here, .that I have
a good position and am able to make
it hot for her.". Could poltroonery go
further than this? Yes, for the fel
low adds: "ghe duped me and I was
hardly conscious, of what I was do
ing." What words can sufficiently exe
crate such a reprobate as this?. A
faithless husband, a father without
responsibility or pride of paternity,
a sneak under cover, a poltroon when
unmasked; this man is xbeneath the
contempt of honorable men and utter
ly undeserving the forgiveness of the
wife and children whom he aban
doned. Yet he presumes to sit in
judgment upon the woman who ac
companied him in his flight from
home and wife and children, prates
of her hypnotic influence over him,
pleads his own helplessness in the
case and boasts of his ability "to make
it hot for her" if she does not leave
the city. It is difficult to decide
whether this fellow Is the more con
temptible in the attitude of the pol
troon or that of the bully. He cer
tainly shines In both, and in the pre
sentment of the tw in combination,
he is most contemptible "by merit
raised to that bad eminence."
THE GOLDEN RULE AND THE POLICE.
Among people who are Interested In
crimes and criminals a good deal of
a stir has been made by Police Chief
Kofcler's efforts V apply the golden
rule in handling the drunks, vagrants
and all sorts of lesser offenders against
the law in Cleveland, O. Without
taking the trouble to Inquire into the
results of his policy one would feel
prettv safe in pronouncing It prema
ture, "to say the least. Until we have
definitely settled what the golden rule
means we surely run more or less haz
ard in seeking to apply it In practice.
Until we have first seen it in opera
tion among the more docile and in
telligent members of society and found
that it works well with them, it seems
particularly foolhardy to try it on the
most stiff-necked and reckless. Who
is bold enough to pretend to know
what Jesus really meant by the golden
rule? Who has ever seen it In oper
ation? Yet Cleveland has a Chief of
Police who is so confident in his espe
cial elucidation- of this difficult text
that he unhesitatingly uses It in place
of the odler methods of dealing with
petty crime.
Let us grant for a moment that so
ciety ought to follow the golden rule
in dealing with criminals and that
some inspired genius has settled once
and forever what it means. A new
difficulty immediately intrudes.
Through what agency is society to ap
ply it? Society is unable to act ex
cept through Its servants or ministers
of some sort. Without them it is as
i i ..l otiu ftthpr disembodied en
tity. What ministers shall be selected !
to perform the novel, aencaie ana
difficult duty of applying the golden
rule to the criminal class? Chief
Kohler has answered this question
with characteristic boldness, not to
say rashness. He has imposed the duty
upon the police force. It is the es
sence of his policy to prevent offend
ers from appearing In court. Unless
the offense is distinctly serious and the
evidence appears conclusive to the pa
trolman who happens to observe It, no
arrest Is permitted. Drunks are dis
charged with an admonition from
Chief Kohler or one of his subordi
nates and vagrants are disposed of by
hustling them out of town. Now
. t . . ., r,r,u.'- nf treating: net tv of
fenders humanely we have not a word i
to say. Cruelty to tnem is oaa mor
als arid bad policy as well. In handling
them mercy has a valuable function,
and whatever punishment is adminis
tered should be with reformative in
tent. All this Is beyond dispute. We
contend, however, that common po
licemen are not suitable persons to
decide whether an offense is venial or
not. It is their business to preserve
order. Estimating the weight of evi
dence, the degree of guilt and deciding
upon proper measures to reform a
wrongdoer do not lie within the scope
of a patrolman's duty. He has nei
ther the gifts nor the training to at
tend to them properly. Few Chiefs
of Police could do anything of the
sort even passably well. Such mat
ters belong to courts and judges. To
hand them over to the police might
give criminals some temporary imi
munity from inconvenience, but In the
long run it would subject them to the
direst sort of tyranny and blackmail.
It is well known how susceptible
some police forces are to temptations
of this character. Chief Kohler's pro
posal to make patrolmen serve as
petty magistrates has not a considera
tion to recommend it, and there are a
multitude which condemn It.
To. be sure. It saves minor miscre
ants the "disgrace" of appearing in
court, but, after all, is it not well to
keep this disgrace as one of the de
terrents from misbehavior. - Experi
ence of thousands of years has
pretty clearly demonstrated that
judges administer Justice through the
machinery of the courts better than
any other agency can do it. We may
conclude without much danger of
error that any move to transfer this
business into other hands la ' retro
grade. The better pendency Is not to
deprive the. courts of their functions,
but to Improve their working. This
Is precisely what has been done by
the enactment of parole laws, the in
determinate sentence, the establish
ment of Juvenile courts, and the like,
and we feel confident that more will
be accomplished by carrying this
movement on to its logical limits than
by throwing overboard its results and
seeking better ones by making police
men follow the golden rule. The only
rule policemen can be safely trusted
to follow is the very simple one of
obeying orders. When they are asked
to exercise judicial discretion the de
mand exceeds their powers of compliance.
NORTH BANK FEEDERS.
President Stevens, of the Oregon
Trunk line, again announces that the
new road now building through Cen
tral Oregon will not be extended to
California. Portland would much
prefer to believe that this announce
ment were final and conclusive, but, as
has already been set forth, there are
so many reasons why the Hill system
should enter California that It is prob
able that the terminus of the new
line will not remain long in Oregon.
The California connection, however,
whether it is built by the Oregon
Trunk or by some line coming up
from the south, 'Will be of less impor
tance than the local lines to be used
as feeders for the Hill transconti
nental lines. On this point Mr. Ste
vens, In an Interview in yesterday's
Oregonian. stated that "the system
with which we are connected has
spent a large amount of money put
ting in the North Bank road, and we
are building into new territory to de
velop it, and not to make any other
outlet."
A pqllcy of development, as indicat
ed by President Stevens, will make
the Central Oregon feeder of the
North Bank line nearly aa important
a project for Portland as the North
Bank line will prove to be. After
leaving the Deschutes Canyon,
branches of this Central Oregon line
can swing southwest and cross the
Willamette Valley and thence to the
wonderfully rich coast regions, lying
just beyond. The Harriman system
has secured a foothold in the Tilla
mook country and at Yaquina Bay,
abut farther south is an unbroken
stretch of territory, rich in traffic pos-'
sibilities. That region would from
the beginning supply an immense
traffic in timber, and, as the facilities
for reaching market were provided,
there would be a rapid Increase in the
output of dairy and small farming
products as well as fruit and livestock.
Central Oregon will for many years
have the large farms, but the traffic
which will provcthe most remunera
tive for the railroads will be that
which pours out of tha small valleys
along the coast, where ten-acre farms
annually turn off incomes which ex
ceed those of the average professional
man in the city. The North Bank
line will find its main feeder through
Central Oregon an immense traffic
gatherer, but if It supplements this
line with branches running over to
the coast countrj-, the returns will be
of even greater proportionate advan
tage to the main line.
THE FLAG-FOLIXWrNG THEORY.
Another somewhat overworked the
ory of the ship subsidy artists has suf
fered an abrupt and fatal collision with
a cold, hard commercial fact. When
ever the promoters of this organized
raid on the Treasury have been de
tected in their work and obliged has
tily to drop the Jimmy, the dark lan
tern and the gumshoe methods, they
have come into the open with a plea
for the old flag and an appropriation.
This appropriation is demanded on the
ground that we are insufficiently sup
plied with shipping facilities with
which to reach the world's markets.
We are told that trade follows the flag,
and are naturally to infer that the
United States, being somewhat short
on flags of its own, suffers its trade to
linger on the dock, while that of other
nations engages in "flag-following."
Now we are informed in a dispatch
from Montreal that, "despite the large
increase in the grain output from the
Canadian West, Montreal is getting less
of the grain freight trade than it has
had in recent years." The explanation
of this decrease is that freight rates
from Boston to Liverpool are 1 Vi
cehts per bushel less than from Mon
treal to Liverpool. The additional
cost of rail transportation from the
Canadian West to Boston makes the
through freight rate exactly the same
from Montreal and Boston, but a safer
route to market makes the insurance
rate lower, and thus diverts tli-i grain
to Boston. Now, if this overworked
theory that out foreign trade is suffer
ing because of an insufficient amount
of deep-water tonnage to carry our
products abroad were valid, it is obvi
ous that there would be no freight
space on the Boston steamers avail
able at 1 H cents per bushel less than
on the Montreal steamers, Montreal
being a British and Boston an Ameri
can port.
In New York, the greatest port in
the new world. American shippers hold
a similar advantage, for there is oppor
tunity for our trade to follow the flags
of ail nations to every civilized coun
try on earth, and at rates so much
lower than those enjoyed by the Brit
ish merchants that the latter are con
tinually at war with the steamship
companies which make these favored
rates for American shippers.. Until
the subsidy-hunters can show a single
Instance where American trade has
suffered by lack of tonnage facilities
with which to reach the world's mar
kets there does not seem to be any
other excuse for a subsidy than that
the shipping trusts "need the money."
Destruction- by fire of the big plant
of the Centennial Milling Company,
at Spokane, following so closely thaj
of the great mill of the Portland
Flouring Mills Company, in this city,
makes a heavy reduction In the mill
ing facilities of the Pacific North
west. v So many small mills have been
built throughout Oregon, Washington
and Idaho in the past few years that
their output in the aggregate Is many
times greater than that of the two
mills destroyed by fire this season. The
heavy decrease in the demand for
flour for Oriental shipment last sea
son, and againthis season, has made
a decided change in the milling situ
ation on the Pacific Coast. If pres
ent high prices are to become perma
nent, the days of the big mill on the
Pacific Coast may be numbered, and
the trade supplied by numerous small
mills, scattered around at points con
venient for the marketing of the by
products as well as the flour.
"Discontent," says the Tacoma
Labor World, "pervades the whole so
cial atmosphere." You may bet it
does, and always will. Sancho Panza,
the great philosopher, described it as
a contention between the Have-nots
and the Haves. Whenever this strug
gle ceases you may depend there will
not be much doing in this world. But
as fast as men accumulate property,
as often as men pass from the Have
nots to the Haves, the situation, from
their point of view,, changes. Discon
tent, therefore, is a variable factor.
It is on one side today; on the other
side tomorrow. Besides, there is little
content among the Haves. Their vices
often bother them.. They get into the
divorce court. Discontent, in one way
or another, is a condition of human
existence. They have least of it who
milk their cows and hoe their cab
bages. With an Indicated total production
in this country of 2,767,316,000 bush
els of corn for the current year, hav
ing a rated quality of 84.2, it does nof
seem that anybody should go hungry
or contract pellagra from eating in
ferior corn products. The figures
given indicate a bulk so enormous as
to be practically Incomprehensible
and the food properties of which
would seem to be sufficient to sustain,
without fear of famine, a seven
years' shortage in production. Liter
ally speaking, the figures mean noth
ing to the average comprehension that
would not be more clearly conveyed
by the statement that the corn crop of
1909 is the largest in recent years
possibly the largest ever.
Fancy apples are fair to look upon
and are no doubt toothsome as well.
Loyal Oregonians look with pride upon
specimens exhibited, showing what
Oregon soil and climate and persistent
and intelligent efforts in horticulture
can produce in the way of Baldwins
and Spltzenbergs and red-cheeked
Pippins and the rest of the royal fam
ily of exclusive appledom. But there
Is an Insistent and growing demand
for apples that are not too big and
too fine and too high-priced for the
children to eat or for the frugal house
wife to bake for dessert.
The good roads problem can be
studied to advantage from the stand
point of the bad roads problem in
almost any part of the Willamette
Valley at the present time. Yet our
Fall weather, as measured by the rain
gauge, is barely two weeks old and
the Winter is still to come. All of
which goes to prove a fact that need
ed no proof, that hot air can only be
depended upon to make roads
passable in the Summer time.
Fancy chickens, pampered and kept
for show, are all right. They make
the annual state poultry show wonder
fully attractive. But what the house
wife sighs for in vain is for enough
people to go into the poultry business
with stocks of old-fashioned laying
hens sufficient to furnish eggs fresh
eggs the year round at prices at
which persons with a moderate in
come can afford an omelette for
breakfast now and then.
A man who had for years lived
apart from his fellow men a French
man by birth, on a ranch several
miles east of Bucoda, Wash., died
alone in the clearing, near his cabin,
a few days ago. His body was
found after it had lain two or .three
days exposed to the storm. A death
of this kind Is shocking; the life that
preceded it Is pathetic not only in Its
loneliness but in its utter lack of-purpose.
What would our friends of the
Labor Council have to say if the next
Republican assembly should adopt a
resolution denying to the Labor Coun
cil or the labor party the right to
name or indorse candidates for office
prior to any primary? Yet that is
precisely what the Labor Council has
endeavored to do for, or against, the
Republican party.
Four joy-riders ran their automo
bile iilto an open draw and were
drowned in the Chicago Rlver.'Provl
dence has so far been kind to Port
land joy-riders. Or has Joy-riding
across the river gone out of fashion?
It really isn't worth while for Secre
tary Ballinger to explain his position.
The muckraking periodicals like Col
lier's, are determined to "get" him,
and they will go on lying about him
Just the same.
Over in Canada Mr. Gompers may
say what he pleases In defiance of the
United States Supreme Court. But
It may be well for him to speak softly
while there about Canadian courts.
A Vancouver correspondent denies
that the G. A. R. is getting the bulk of
Government pensions, and wants to
know who is getting the $160,000,000
paid out annually? Who. indeed?
Another divorce in the Astor family.
Nobody knows why. The Astors, their
lawyers and "the courts say it is no
body's business but theirs. Is it?
Another reason for congratulating
Judge McCredie. As Congressman,
he doesn't have to wear that hated
gown.
PELLAGRA.
What the Disease la and What Is Snp-
poaed to Cause It.
OREGON C1TT. Or.. Nov. S. (To the
Editor.) Would you be ao kind aa to give
a description of the symptoms, character,
etc. of the pellagra disease, on your edi
torial page, for the benefit of myself and
readers aa Ignorant aa I am In th-a mat
ter, and who-probably constitute the greatest
majority of the whole number?
E. PINKUS.
The Oregonian has printed several
statements on this subject, made by
physicians of Portland. Of course, it can
add nothing to the weight of professional
opinion. The dictionaries, however, give
good definitions of the disease and its
causes. Pellagra is defined as a sort of
elephantiasis, or chronic disease of the
kin. characterized by enormous enlarge
ment of the parts affected; generally the
legs. The skin becomes thick, hardened
and discolored. It is characterized by
digestive derangements and nervous af
fections. It is said that in the maize
porridge, called "potenta," which is the
chief food of a certain class of workmen
in countries of the Northern Mediter
ranean, there is formed, by putrefaction
during the hot months, a poison which
causes pellagra. The following is from
the new Encyclopedia Americana:
Pellagra la a disease, or complication of
diseases, first observed about the beginning
of the llh century, and which alnce that
time haa been rapidly Increasing. It Is com
mon In Northern Italy, In the south of
France, In Spain, and In countriea further
east In Southern Europe. It begins with an
erysipelatous eruption on the akin, which
breaka'out In the Spring, continuea till the
Autumn, and diaappeara In the Winter,
chiefly affecting those parta of the aurface
which are habitually exposed to the sun
or air. The disease Is accompanied or pre
ceded by remarkabl-a lassitude, melancholy,
moroeeness. hypochondriasis, and. not sel
dom by suicidal mania. With lta progress
and duration the disorder becomes more ag
gravated, with ahorter and shorter inter
vals in the Winter. At length the sur
face oeases to clear itself, and becomes per
manently enveloped in a thick, livid, leprous
crust, somewhat resembling th dried and
black skin of a fish. By this time the vital
powers are reduced to a very low ebb, and
not seldom the intellectual functions as
well. Tha victim loses the use of his limbs,
especially of the legs, suffers with violent
colic, headache, nausea, flatulence and heart
burn, the appetite being variable. The
countenance becomes void of expression.
There la a sense of burning heat in tha
head and along th spine, whence it radiates
to other parts, especially to the palms and
soles, tormenting the victim day and night.
To these severe afflictions are often added
strango hallucinations. The disease, when
advanced, takes the form of many other
maladies, such aa tetanus, convulsions, epi
lepsy, dropsy, mania and marasmus, the
patient being at last reduced to the ap
pearance of a mummy. It Is mainly con
fined to the poor residing In tha country
districts, and is seldom seen in very young
children. The cause of this disease is traced
to th eating of altered maise, In which a
putrefaction occurs during th-e warm season.
WARNING TO PERCE COUNTY.
Southwest Will Not Forsret the Knif
Insr of McCredie.
Cathlamet Sun.
Pierce County has kicked over the
traces. Sore and disgruntled over the
nomination of. a Columbia River man for
Congress the voter of that rule or ruin
section of Puget Sound knifed McCredie
to a standstill. Poor losers, their knife
was not long enough to reach the vitals
of the upright candidate from Clark
County and today Pierce stands as a
bunch of defeated and dishonored sore
heads. They will be asking favors at
the next Senatorial election. The south
west will not forget.
Skamania County Pioneer.
Treachery always receives its reward,
and this case will prove no exception to
the rule. Pierce County wants a Senator
and-if she had stuck to her old traditions
and supported the man who received a
majority of votes in the convention, the
whole district would have been "behind
their candidate for Senator, but now they
might as well save the time and expense
of putting a candidate in the field for
that office. " .
The Discoverer of the Pole.
Saturday Evening Post.
And so this Cook-Peary controversy is
practically settled!- Up to the hour of
going to press the score stood as follows:
Cook. Peary.
Columns of newspaper notice 1T.6!
Times portrait was published 1,37 78.1
Dinners S0 "
Cash receipts 121,846 $.1,427
Commander Peary Is a good, deserving
man. but It seems quite impossible that
he should overcome this enormous lead.
Regretfully we consider him as good as
beaten. His expedition was well planned
and up to the very culminating point it
seems to have been conducted with ad
mirable ability. But in the final crucial
dash to the front page, the gTub and the
box office he played to borrow a sporting
phrase on a dead card; he got off on a
blind lead and marooned himself, while
his more fortunate competitor took pos
session of the goods.
As to which of the two discovered the
Pole, that, of course. Is immaterial. It
is generally conceded that several Scan
dinavians came to America long before
Columbus: that an Italian, and not Henry
Hudson, discovered the river which bears
the latter's name; that Fulton did not
Invent the steamboat. Probably the ver
dict of history will be that Swan John
son, of Minneapolis, discovered the
North Pole i 1914, while trying to find
his way home from a Sons of Thor lodge
meeting.
West and East.
New York Evening Post.
Then there is the question of West
against East. Briefly put. the West
wants to know how long shall the
5,000,000 people living west of the
Rocky Mountains be held In check by
the 60.000,000 people living east of the
Mississippi. In his character as Na
tional peacemaker Mr. Taft has assured
an infuriated mob of Oregon farmers
standing speechless with rage In their
automobiles that they shall no longer
be .forced to pay tribute to the pluto
crats who live east of the Bowery and
south of Houston street. Naturally re
sentful against Mr. Taft because he has
not prevented them from being robbed
by their elected representatives In Con
gress, the people of California are In
dignant that the wheels of progress
should be held bacK by the inveterate
conservatism and the aristocratic tra
ditions s,o characteristic of New York's
Irish and Italian population. The West
objects to being plundered by the East.
It is the West that has the mines, but
the controlling stock is held by East
ern investors, who bought it at 25 and
are now waiting till It rises to 2 be
fore they dispose of it.
Native Tribute to HaskelL
Charleston News and Courier.
The papers use elegant language In
Oklahoma. We quote from the Oklahoma
City Times:
"Governor HaskelUhas been lambasted
from soda to hpek, from. string beans to
hell-splits, and we'll swear it begins to
look like he was about the cleanest of
the bunch."
The Governor must be pleased with such
praise from an opposition paper.
Whr They Favor the Recall.
The Dalles Optimist.
From various parts of Oregon come
reports of prospective recall elections.
In Portland the soreheads talk of re
calling Mayor Simon. Remember these
recalls will be Invoked at the expense
of the taxpayers. But then perhaps
taxes are too low for those who do not
pay any, like most of those who voted
for this recall law.
"UNPLEASANTNESS" AT SPOKANE.
No Issue Against Labor Organisations
Involved. ;
Spokane Spokesman-Review.
In Justice to organized labor, as
pointed out by President C. R. Case,
of the State Federation of Labor, the
so-called "Industrial Workers of the
World" should not be confounded with
reputable and law-respectipg labor
unions. President Case points out
that "organised labor has its meetings
all over the state, and freely discusses
its affairs and the problems met by
labor. Free speech is enjoyed by these
regularly . organized workingmen."
The distinction is obvious. The so- i
called Industrial Workers are an an
archistic organisation, composed large
ly of hoboes and loafers. Their funda
mental doctrine is the repudiation of
law and all human authority, and their
purpose is to annoy and harass offi
cers of the law and interfere, as far as
they can, with the performance of offi
cial duties.
As President Case well says, there
is no issue of the right of free speech
between organized labor and the pub
lic. LaboY unions enjoy in that re
spect precisely the same rights that
are, enjoyed by other citizens and other
organizations. The right to hold or
derly public meetings on Spokane
streets,' outside of the fire limits ex
tends to all citizens and all organiza
tions alike, and the prohibition against
public meetings on streets within the
fire limits Is general against every
body. Under the law no body of men
has a right to engage in disorderly
meetings anywhere within the city.
The disorderly, stubborn and con
tentious men who have drifted in here
in an avowed conspiracy to violate the
ordinances and defy the officers of tha
law, are demanding privileges that are
not asked by lawful, reputable labor
organizations. Most of these defiant
men are vagrants who will not work at
honest- labor, and are attempting to
obstruct traffic, retard industry and in
terfere with the business and occupa
tion of the citizens of Spokane.
DIRECT PRIMARY AND ASSEMBLY.
The Situation In Oregon Under Obser
vation of Others.
Tacoma Ledger. ,
Students of the direct primary sys
tem are giving attention to the "as
sembly plan" as it is being worked out
is Oregon. It Is designed to preserve
party organization. The tendency of
the direct primary law in that state
has been to destroy the organization
of the majority party and put the
Democrats in office. The direct pri
mary law has also a tendency to re
place party candidates running on
party platforms with individual can
didates running on Individual plat
forms. Of this condition the Demo
crats have availed themselves with a
good deal of success. Mayor Simon,
of Portland, is a product of the as
sembly plan. Several candidates for
the nomination of Mayor appeared. A
conference of Republicans was called
to consider the situation and the in
dorsement was given to the candidacy
of Simon. He was nominated at the
regular primary and elected. The
forces that supported him are now be
hind a movement' for state and county
assemblies next year in advance of
the primary election.
The assembly plan of Oregon con
tains features Governor Hughes advo
cates -in his campaign for a primary
law in New York . state. Governor
Hughes would haye the party commit
tees put up the candidates for nomina
tions, but other members of the parties
could put up candidates, tco, and the
question at the primaries would be
whether the committee recommenda
tions should be indorsed or other can
didates chosen.
Hon We Treat Our Presidents.
New York Evening Sun.
They snatched him from a train and
rolled him away, through a cloud of dust
for hours and hours. They detached him
from all baggage and sent him off to bed
while his clothes dried. They fed him on
ducks and squabs and 'possum and bear
meat and all the while talked and talked
and talked after the manner of detectives
administering the third degree. They stood
him up; before 10 acres of Texans to de
liver a graceful little speech. It seemed
as if they had exhausted every known
means of killing a strong man.
But now comes the Missourlans with a
new test. They put him to sleep in the
small hours on a river boat. Then, with
the sun still below the horizon, they bang
on his stateroom door. "Get up! Get
up!" they cry. "You must dress in a
hurry and drive over to the State Nor
mal School, make a speech, inspect the
school and plant a tree. And don't fail
to be back by 7." And it all happened
just so not even forgetting the tree.
Why abuse a man thus, you ask? Well,
he's only the President; and, besides, no
body compels him to hop about the coun
try like a grasshopper. He goes volun
tarily. All of which, it is respectfully
submitted, goes to show thf there should
Indeed be a society for the protection of
our Presidents from their own amiability.
Traffic by Deep Water Way.
Railway and Engineering Review.
Ahnut the onlv traffic which the advo
cates of the deep waterway to the Gulf
can suggest as likely to use that route is
grain for. export. Only 17 per cent of our
last wheat crop was exported, as against
41 per cent in 1S94, and corn exports fell
from 11 per cent in 1S98 to 2 per cent. Ex.
ports of beef and pork and their products
have fallen off in the same way; and
the present high prices in this country are
leading to projects for Importing meats.
What would be the value of th entire
exports by way of water and New Orleans
in competition with all the other ports of
the country? The boomers must look for
some other possible traffic.
Halloween at Castle Rook.
Advocate. . .
Then-came a social time, interspersed
with discussing the abundant refresh
ments, consisting of doughnuts, apple
and pumpkin pies, such as the ladies of
Castle Rock can excel the world In
making, and cider delicious cider,
such as Fred Brewer can manufacture.
But, horrors! Tell It not in Gath,
whisper it not in the streets of Es
kilon! Several prohibitionists . and
members of the Good Templars were
actually seen drinking cider. Oh me,
oh my! But who can 'blame them,
when it was so good?
Ashamed of the Performance.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
" The president of the Great Northern
Railroad is1 free to say that his line got
its share of the $12,000,000 the people paid
in transportation who went out for the
Flathead and Coeur d'Alene land lotteries
Which were held under time-honored Gov
ernment auspices. But the point of it is
that the president of that railroad Is
ashamed of the whole performance and
wishes he could pay back their money to
the foolish unfortunates who were drawn
out to the region in question by the Gov
ernment land distribution.
Narrowest Street In the world.
Indianapolis News.
Kitty Witches row. In Great Yarmouth,
Great Britain, is said to be the narrowest
street in the world, its greatest width be
ing but 50 inches. The street is only 29
Inches wide at the entrance.
Raids on Mythology.
The Centaur would be, Just the thing
A runaway to stop;
Today he'd make and no mistake '
A handy mounted cop.
Kansas City Journal.
Old Argus In the baseball field
Would, surely be a peach;
Should thre men be on bases he
Could keep an eye on each.
Boston Transcript.
HOME TIES ARE GALLING
A. B. Y.'Idney Weds Another's Wife,
Then Gets Sorry.
Married to Maude Blinn In Seattle while
she was still the wife of H. M. Blinn. of
Los Angeles. A. B. Widney brought suit
in the Circuit Court here yesterday to
have the marriage annulled. Widney
says Mrs. Blinn secured an Interlocutory
decree of divorce from Blinn in the Su
perior Court, of Los Angeles. May 11,
1905, the final decree not being entered
until June 5. 1906. In the meantime, on
April 3. 1906. Widney says he went
through the marriage ceremony with her.
Both the woman and himself, he says,
were ignorant of their reespectlve rights
and liability.
Ruth G. Reeves brought suit yesterday
for a divorce from Clyde W illiam Reeves,
a carpenter. She says she married him in
Seattle. September 20. 19t. They have a
child 2 years old. Mrs. Reeves says her
husband ha3 deserted her, and is not now
providing for her wants and those of his
child. He has a legacy of $4000 from his
father, siie alleges, besides 279 acres of
land in Washington County. The wife
asks to be given one-third interest in
this property, and $50 a month alimony.
JURY CALENDAR WELL FILLED
November Grand Jury to Sit All
Monti) German Excused.
The November grand jury did not go
into seion yesterday morning as ex
pected. F. M. Peters, one of the jury
men, bains excused by Presiding Circuit
Judge Bronaugh. Peters is a Cerman,
does not understand Bnglish thoroughly,
and conducts a small bakery. He said
his businsss will suf3r if he is com
pelled to p?rve on the grand jury.
According to the Oretson statute it is
necessary for the clerk to have the
names of all jurymen in the box when h
draws the names of the grand jurymen.
It was not possible to draw another Jury
man yesterday n.orning to take Peters'
place, as some of the talesmen were
engaged in trials.
November is the longest jury month
known in the Circuit Court for more than
a year. Jury trials have accumulated,
until Judge Bronaugh thought best to
hold the November jury through) the
entire month instead of excusing the
talesmen on the 15th. Jury cases are set
on the calendar until November 26.
EXTENSION TAKEN INTO COURT
Amount Paid for Improving Oak
.Street to Be Settled.
Whether the city shall pay W, J.
Yore and R. E. Banske 12,546 for land
which will be needed for the extension
of Oak street is to be determined by a
Jury in Judge Cleland's department of
the Circuit Court. The appeal of Yore
and Banske- -from the report of the
viewers- to the City Council,' and the
latter's acceptance of the report, is
now being heard. It will probably be
in the jury's hands this mornong.
A part of block S6hi, and a portion
of block 66, Couch addition, comprise
the property affected. Attorneys John
H. Hall and Jesse Stearns appear for
the property owners.
BOY COMPROMISES DAMAGES
Youth Settles $2500 Claims lor
$137.50 Out of Court.
The damage suit of Edward E. Leonard
against the Independent Foundry Com-,
pany for the recovery of 12500, which went
to trial before a jury in Judge Ganten-:
bein's department of the Circuit Court
yesterday morning, was compromised for;
$137.50. When a part of the evidence had
been taken, it developed that Leonard!
is not of age, and not entitled to bring;
suit in his own name without the appoint-'.
ment of a guardian. This was impossible
in the midst of the trial, and rather than,
commence suit anew, Leonard decided on
the compromise.
Mrs. Simmons Insane, i
Mrs. Eva Simmons, wife of Samuel
W. Simmons, a wealthy rancher of St.
John, has been declared insane by
County Judge Webster. .She brought
suit to have her son. Hubert, removed
a's her guardian, alleging that he had
conspired with her husband to deprive
her of her property. Drs. Williamson,
House and Johnson testified they ex
amined the woman less than a month
ago, and found her Insane, with homi
cidal tendencies.
Courthouse Doors Faxed.
New swinging doors have been hung
at the entrance to the Courthouse cor
ridor to comply with a law which goes
into effect November 17, providing that
the doors of all public buildings,
churches, schoolhouses and other pub
lis buildings shall swing outward. A
fine of from $10 to $100, or imprisgn
ment of from 10 to 100 days in the
County Jail may be imposed for failure
to comply with the new law.
Victim Pioneer's Son.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Nov. 8. (Special.)
Ernest Cutlip. who, it is reported here
today, was killed accidentally on the gas
oline schooner Oshkosh at Astoria, is the
eldest son of Mark Cutlip, one of the old .
settlers of Coos Bay. He was a connec
tion of many -of the prominent families
and was probably as well known as any
young man on the bay. He was 21 years
of age. He left here as assistant engineer
on the Oshkosh about three weeks ago.
The body will be brought here on the
Breakwater for burial.
Horse Shies, Rider Stabbed.
BORING, Or.. Nov. 8. Harper Klock.
of Boring, a dealer in wood and tim
ber lands, met with an accident Sat
urday evening In the vicinity of Sandy
which came near ending his life. He
was riding one of his horses sideways
when the horse shied at a . piece of
paper and threw Klock off- He was
paring an apple at the time, and in
the effort to catch one of the names
Btabbed himself Just over the heart
with the knife.
O. R. & N. Leases Union Depot.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 8 (Special.)
The annual report of the t'nion Depot
Company of Spokane, filed with the State
Railroad Commission, shows the entira
capital stock of the company is owned by
the Union Pacific, and that the property,
was leased November 1. 1908. to the O. R.
& N. Company, which is to pay $15.0011 per
annum, and also to meet all taxes and
maintenance charge.
Bank Is Reorganized.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Nov. 8 (Spe
cial.) A reorganization of the affairs of
the First National Bank, of Klamath
Falls, has been made. Captain J. W.
Siemens retiring and L. F. Wittels suc
ceeding to the place as president of the
bank. W. A.. Delzell will remain as cash
ier. Captain Siemens retains his position
as president of the First Trust & Savings
Bank.
Jersey Cows Set Record.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 8. (Spe
cial.) The sum of $S4.75 for cream pro
duced by six Jersey cows during the
month of October was received by Roy
Daffs, a dairyman who lives near
Washougal. This is said to be a record,
as it is generally considered that $1 a
month per cow is a good income