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PORTLAND, FRIDAY, DEC. 8, 1909.
. SOUTHERN SUBSIDY SOPHISTRY.
Congressman Humphrey, of Seattle,
has been down in New Orleans ex
pounding: his peculiar views on the
ship subsidy. . Despite the fact that
Jir. Humphrey's attention has fre
quently been called, to some of the
most glaring of his misstatements, he
continues to present them as facts.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat, in
commenting on . Mr. Humphrey's
speech, says that "Mr. Humphrey sees
the question a little too much from the
Paclfii Coast point of view and it is
not surprising that he should exagger
ate the local end." As a sample of the
"exaggeration" indulged in, it is noted
that Mr. Humphrey repeated that oft
exposed invention about Pacific Coast
rates to Liverpool. According to the
reports of his speech in the New Or
leans papers, he boldly asserted that a
combination of foreign shipowners had
"raised the rate on wheat from Seattle
to Liverpool from $1.25 to $5.62, or
4 00 per cent."
A gifted predecessor of Mr. Hum
phrey, who represented the State of
Washington in a somewhat spectacular
manner, was noted for his penchant
for uttering glibly any kind of figures
which entered his mind. Whenever
taken to task for his inaccuracies, he
would assure the complainant that it
Mas "a slip of the tongue." This ex
cuse cannot be pleaded by Mr. Hum
phrey, for he has repeatedly used these
same figures, regardless of the fact
that there never was a $1.25 rate on
wheat from Seattle to Liverpool. Mr.
Humphrey also knows, or should know
before essaying to discuss the matter,
that even the cheaply-constructed,
cheaply-manned foreign ships owned
by this combination of shipowners are
unable to make any profit in carrying
wheat to Liverpool at $5.62, and,
rather than accept such a rate, their
ships have been lying idle in every
port on the Pacific Coast, some of
them for nearly two years.
The Times-Democrat is wrong in as
suming that Mr. Humphrey is speak
ing from the "Pacific Coast point of
view." The point of view out here,
where we produce a large over-sea
traffic, inclines to cheap freights and
the right to buy ships at as low a fig
ure as our trade competitors can buy
them. Mr. Frank .Vaterhouse, a Se
attle fellow-citizen of Mr. Humphrey,
and the largest operator of steamships
In the Pacific Northwest, after employ
ing both American and foreign-built
craft, makes the unqualified statement
that th. only practical method by
tvhlc!. we can secure a merchant ma
rine is to give to our people the right
to buy ships wherever they can be
bought the cheapest. He also states
that it would be impossible to grant a
subsidy large enough to offset the
greater cost of American vessels as
compared with the foreigners.
Mr. Humphrey at New Orleans also
rang the changes on that old chestnut
that "every twenty-four hours we are
paying half a million dollars to for
eign labor for carrying our products
on the high seas" Inasmuch as Mr.
Humphrey and his fellow subsidy
seekers can, and frequently do, show
that without a subsidy it would cost us
from $750,000 to $1,000,000 per day to
do the work with American ships, it is
not plain why we should relieve the
foreigner of the burden which he ac
cepts at such reasonable remuneration.
hPOKANE ST1M, FIGHTING.
Nothing could be more absurd than
the continued fight which Spokane is
making for "terminal rates." It was
the incessant beating of the terminal
rate tom-tom by a few small jobbers
at Spokane that attracted the attention
of the Eastern jobbers and mail-order
houses to the unwarranted favorable
rates which Spokane was enjoying
from the railroads. The testimony
introduced at the recent Interstate
Commerce Commission hearing at
Spokane was so overwhelmingly"
against the Spokane contention
that the only possible change
that could be made in rates ,wuld
necessarily be adverse to Spokane's
jobbing interests. In the face of that
testimony we find the Spokane head
still butting against the stone wall of
natural corditions. A dispatch in yes
terday's Oregonlan announced that At
torney Stephens, who is preparing a
brief to be submitted to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, "makes a
heated argument in his brief for incor
porating the terminal rate clause in
franchises issued by the city to the
railroads."
It is further announced that no
franchise will be given the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad until
it shall agree to give Spokane ter
minal rates. The absurdity of the
contention lies largely In the fact that
the terminal rate, being governed
strictly and exclusively by water com
petition, can never- be a fixed rate, but
Instead will be governed by the
amount of tonnage available. For ex
ample, the American-Hawaiian Steam
ship Company is today landing Eastern
freight at Pacific Coast ports at from
40 to 60 per pent of the rail rate on
the same commodities. A number of
round-the-Horn sailing vessels are car
rying similar freight at even less than
40 per cent of the rail rate. These
are the conditions that account for the
fact that the Spokane Spokesman-Review
saves a considerable sum on every
car of ink it uses by shipping it by
water to Portland and. thence inland
by rail, instead of shipping it the en
tire distance by rail.
These conditions are temporary, ho
ever. Conditions which are to follow
when the people become thoroughly
aroused to the situation will be still
more advantageous to the consumers
as well as the Coast Jobbers. The Gov
ernment has within the past thirty
days chartered, a large fleet of foreign
steamers to -carry cal from ports on
the Atlantic seaboard to San Francisco
and Puget Sound at rates ranging from
$2.83 to $3.25 per ton. When there
is a subsidence of that wave of idiocy
that demands a ship subsidy in lieu of
the right to charter and buy ships
where they can be bought or chartered
at the lowest rates, the private individ
uals and firms engaged in business
on both coasts can get their freight
over that 14.000-mile water course at
as low a rate as i now paid by the
Government. Sooner or later the
American people will demand such
cheap transportation facilities and will
have them.
It is impossible for any railroad en
tering Spokane to make terminal rates
in conpetition with the present class
of ocean carriers. The situation will
be intensified when we can secure ton
nage as it is now secured by the Gov
ernment. The plain duty, of Spokane,
to herself and to the consumers of the
Inland Empire, is to join with Port
land in a demand for lower distribu
tive rates that will enable her to make
the most of this water competition.
VTJIXJARmr AM) THE SALOON.
In defense of the rant and vulgarity
of sensational pulpiteers like Sam
Jones and Billy Sunday, Brother
Brougher recently declared that "no
language is vulgar enough to use
against the liquor traffic." This state
ment would indeed be surprising were
it voiced by a less sensational preacher
than Dr. Brougher. Even coming from
him it Is inconsistent, since he began
the temperance exhortation in which
this intemperate language was used
with a plea for the education of the
masses upon the topic under discus
sion. Does Dr. Brougher really believe
that the amenities of life, the virtue
of self-control and the teachings of
the golden rule can be promoted by
a torrent of vulgar abuse, whatever
its purpose may be, launched headlong
from the pulpit upon the startled ear
xit public decency? Does he believe
that the best interests of society will
be promoted by bringing the language
of the North End and the ribaldry of
the saloon into the pulpit? Can he sit
unashamed through one of the coarse,
vulgar harangues of an exhorter like
the late Sam Jones, or see Billy Sunday
strip himself as if for a prizefight in
the pulpit? Or for one moment does
he believe that temperance and mor
"ality can be born of intemperance and
vulgarity?
" THE FLAX OF A CITY.
San Francisco could not reconstruct
her plan or plot, as a city, even after
the main portion .of the city had been
destroyed, and the site was merely
a chaos of rubbish, which obliterated
even the outline of the streets. Then
was the time, if ever, for San Fran
cisco to change her plan. ' But she
could not. The ideal is one thing; the
practical necessity another.
If a plan could be made for a city,
at its beginning, and carried out, then
the natural features of a site would de
termine or fix the appearance of the
city. But at the beginning no city
knows what it is to be whether it
ever will become great; and it builds
by little and little, till the time arrives
when it is seen that the plan is not
ideal. Then it is too late to make the
change.
For 'the-sake of economy, most of
ojur cities are laid out on the "grid
iron" or "checker-board" plan. In the
case of our newer cities it is especially
so. The village idea was predominant,
and who can tell when a town is start
ed whether it ever will pass the vil
lage stage?
At Portland the bend of the "Wil
lamette River, taking effect at
the foot of Ankeny street, started
a series of diagonal streets that,
at a little . distance from the
river, -broke the parallelogram's reg
ularity. This is the only notice
able break in Portland. Its principal
effect is witnessed about the place of
junotlon of Stark a:.d Burnside streets,
and somewhat further out. Here
might have been an area for a radiat
ing center on a ground-plan; but there
is little reason to suppose it would be
practicable now. On the East Side,
the way the town has been laid out,
there is not even so good an oppor
tunity as this. Yet the two large
tracts preserved by the Ladd estate
have now been laid out so as to form
small local ' centers. Other suburban
areas have been bought by the acre,
to be sold by the lot. so as to produce
most money for those handling them.
What seems mogt available Port
land is the idea of roads on the West
Side, skirting the hills and rising by
easy grades to fine points of view,
with small parks here and there in the
various loops the whole connected
so as to make a continuous drive.
Since the East Side,- except Mount Ta
bor, is mostly a level plain, the treat
ment there would be different; yet a
parked way from Sell wood to the
Peninsula would probably be practi
cable following such contours as
might yield best effects.
It is worth while to make the effort
for an outline of this description, or
something resembling it. The cost
ought not be excessive. Beyond some
such plan as this, one can hardly see
what might be or could be attempted.
THE MONORAIL, CAR.
Some months ago The Oregonian
gave an account of the monorail car
which the British engineer, Louis
Brennan, has invented. At that time
he had constructed only a small model,
but now he has embodied his principle
in a car capable of carrying passen
gers. It runs on a single rail and
keeps its balance by means of a gyro
scope which spins 3000 times a minute.
This' device makes the car so stable
that it goes round curves safely at high
speed. The passengers can all sit on
the same side if they wish, for the
only effect of thelrweight is to tip the
car the other way.
Everybody is familiar with some of
the queer performances of the gyro
scope, but only the most adept mathe
matical physicists know all about
them. The common saying that it
baffles science Is not true. The equa
tions of its motion were written out
and solved long ago. It is true, how
ever, that the application of its strange
power to make vehicles stable has been
surprisingly delayed.
The main industrial use of its prin
ciple which was made before Bren
nan was in the bicycle. This is not a
gyroscope precisely, but it Is held erect
by its rotation, and all riders know
that the faster it runs the more force
is required to tip it over. Scientists
state the truth of the matter by saying
that a body rotating in a given plane
cannot be made to rotate in another
without consuming energy or 'power.
The more swiftly it spins the more
power you must apply to deflect it.
There is a rule for obtaining the re
sultant of two or more rotations which
closely resembles the parallelogram , of
forces given in children's textbooks.
The application of this rule explains
why the" passengers on Mr. Brennan's
car cannot tip it down by standing all
on the same side. His invention may
revolutionize the railroad business
when it is perfected, for it makes great
economies possible in construction and
operation
DISHONEST BANKING IS ROBBERY.
Twenty-two Portland lawyers have
petitioned the Supreme Court to re
open the case of Ross,' convicted and
under stay of five-year prslon sen
tence, for malappropriation of state
school funds in his 'Title Guarantee &
Trust Company bank, which collapsed
two years ago, in a" dizzy flight of high
finance. The purpose of the petition,
obviously. Is to let Ross go. .
The twenty-two lawyers aver that
the Legislature of 1907, in enacting the
bank law, Intended to authorize the
kind of deposit that was made in the
Ross bank by State Treasurer Steel
and accepted by the head of the bank,
and also to authorize the use that Ross
made of the funds. It will be remem
bered that large part of the school
funds so deposited - would have been
lost had not they been secured by bond
of a surety company, which promptly
acknowledged Its responsibility and
urged prosecution of Ross.
It will also be remembered that the
expert accountants who ferreted out
the affairs of the bank and the irre
sponsible subsidiary companies that
were nourished by Ross" high finance
found that the bank never was in solv
ent condition; as the head of the ac
countants expressed it, "The bank
never drew a solvent breath." Its
capital was watered and inflated, and
it had to show for the hard cash of its
depositors and the coin of the state,
bonds and stocks and notes of fake
companies. It was even discovered
that the head of the bank drew upon
the active 'funds of the institution
that is, on the school money--as if
they belonged to his personal account.
Now, whatever the Legislature in
tended, within the imagination of the
interceding lawyers, it certainly did
not intend to make it lawful for the
head of an insolvent bank one built
of wind, paper and water to receive
public funds and convert them to his
various wildcat schemes. Such a
proposition is preposterous. A person
who does that either converts to his
own use the funds intrusted to his care
or does something worse. There needs
to be a byword and a proverb in this
state for benefit of men and banks
who operate with other persons'
money without ability or expectation
of paying back, and promote their
deals with politics and pious seeming.
Bankers and all men need to learn
that dishonest banking is manicured
robbery, and not the less a crime be
cause it is polite. If cases are to be
reopened in the Supreme Court on pe
tition of lawyers "friends of the
court" many persons who have been
convicted or have lost in civil actions
would like to share the benefits of the
procedure.
FCGILJSM.
While there are many things which
may be said wisely and wittily against
prizefights, there are some that might
be said in their favor. It is admitted
that prizefights are wicked and brutal,
but not unmitigably so. Abhorrence
of ' them has become a fashion, and
therefore it will not listen to reason".
Nothing can be argued with while it
Is fashionable. Therefore, to say any
thing exculpatory of prizefights would
not, of course, be casting pearls before
swine, but it would be a voice crying
in the wilderness. Still the philoso
pher who confessed at prayer meeting
that he felt sinful admiration of John
L. Sullivan might have made some
thing of a' plea if his conscience had
permitted.
The most abandoned apostle of
feminism cannot deny that a prize
fighter Is an artist. What he does he
does in supreme perfection. In theory
and technic he has gone to the limit.
Now anybody who does a thing as well
as it can be done deserves credit for
his skill and the persevering diligence
which won the skill. But, frankly,
what is there so terribly bad in stand
ing up before another man as good as
yourself and hitting him if you can?
If you do hit him you will not hurt him
much. His nose will bleed a little.
His ear will swell, but the swelling
will go down. As for his ' body In
general, it is so hard and well knit
that no blow of a fist can really in
jure it.
Seeing how innocent their efforts
are, why not let the two worthies
whack away at each other? Is it not
true that the evil of prizefighting lies
mostly in the surroundings our effem
inate purltanism has forced upon it?
It is degraded because our erroneous
moral judgment has sentenced it to
degradation. The ten commandments
do not forbid prizefights. There is no
fulmlnation against them in the New
Testament. By what authority do our
moral guides condemn them?
THE BOYISH GERMANS.
In some respects Germany is the
most youthful nation in the world. It
has an enthusiasm which most other
nations have outgrown. Things and
events which look commonplace else
where furnish the Germans with occa
sions to celebrate. Americans would
not think of holding public rejoicings
over a college professor's birthday, but
the perennially boyish 'Germans would
feel ashamed if they did not. When
the Wright brothers made their flights
in this country our people were by no
means uninterested. - The newspapers
gave full accounts of the experiments
and everybody read them, but when
the accident happened which wounded
Wright, killed his companion and
wrecked his ship, nobody thought of
raising a fund to repair the damage.
Our -interest was intelligent and criti
cal. It was not enthusiastic.
Germany is different, People there
have developed something like a na
tional "frenzy over Zeppelin and his
dirigible balloons. When his first one
was wrecked in a storm, he was not
the only person who wept for the loss.
The whole nation grieved with him, and
their sympathy took the substantial
form of a large subscription to enable
-him to build another. The govern
ment has fostered his experiments in
many ways. The public has eagerly
purchased shares in the Zeppelin Di
rigible Manufacturing Company, and
finally, to cap the clmiax, Albert Bun
gert, the musician, has composed a
symphony which he calls "Zeppelin's
First Voyage." Nobody in the United
States has written so much as a poem
to commemorate Wright's first voyage.
Nor will historians forget to record
that the ingenious brothers received
their first financial encouragement in
France, and not at home. Have we
grown too old and world-weary to feel
jubilant over such things as airships,
or are we busy , with more important
matters? It la not a good sign for a
man or a nation to lose Interest in
great deeds. The youthful spirits of
the Germans may possibly indicate su
perior vitality and staying power in
the race for supremacy.
Recently the Walla Walla Bulletin,
which is not much of a newspaper, but
does loyal service as the organ of a
political faction, printed a long- arti
cle .in criticism of The Oregonian's ac
count of a football game at Walla
Walla between the teams of Whitman
College and the Washington State Col
lege. The OregonLvn's correspondent
was bitterly assailed because he de
scribed the game as a brutal exhibition
of passion and ill-feeling, resulting in
the painful injury of five players.
Whereas the Bulletin wanted it under
stood that it was all a very ladylike
affair, in which there was no injury,
not even -o any one's feelings. Now
Whitman College through its govern
ing board forbids football for all time
to come after this year unless mass
plays shall be abolished. The reason
for this decisive action was the casual
ties in the Thanksgiving gam 3. The
Bulletin would better confine itself ex
clusively to the Walla Walla political
situation. No one expects it to tell
the truth there, and no great harm is
done; but the constant practice of mis
representation, carried into other mat
ters, often leads to embarrassing re
sults. The purchase by T. B.' Wilcox and
associates of the Hammond Mills at
Seattle, gives the Portland firm a big
plant in each of the three Puget
Sound ports,. Seattle, Tacoma , and
Everett, although none of these mills
has a capacity as great as that of the
mill recently destroyed in Portland, or
of the mill now. building ,to replace It.
The purchase of this mill obviates the
necessity of the Portland firm building
in Seattle, as originally planned, and
there will accordingly be no increase
in the milling capacity on Puget
Sound. The advantage to a. port , of
a big milling plant such as that of the
Portland Fouring Mills Company,
which was destroyed by fire in this
city at the beginning of the season, is
strikingly reflected in theshipping
statistics. Last season, with . the mill
running full time, receipts of wheat
at Portland to November 1, were 1700
carloads greater than for the same
period this year, although the crop
this year was much larger. For the
same period, flour shipments from
Portland decreased 300.000 barrels, as
compared with. the first five months of
the season a year ago.
The discomfiture of the assailants of
Secretary Ballinger is made complete
and effectual by the elaborate and de
tailed legal opinion in which Attorney
General Wlckersham upholds Ballin
gers course in every particular. ' This
opinion, which has been submitted to
the President, Is a much stronger in
dorsement of Secretary Ballinger than
the very strong letter issued by the
President, and should have the effect
of silencing the traducers of Mr. Bal
linger, whose most grievous offense
seems to have been that he was and is
a Western man. The more light that
is thrown on this unseemly squabble,
brought on by Mr. Plnchot. and a few
kindred' faddists, the more apparent it
seems that colossal ignorance of the
facts in the case was responsible for
the trouble. The views of the Pinchot
contingent were all theoretical.' Tiiose
of Secretary Ballinger and his friends
were, practical, hence the trouble. The
apologies now due Secretary Ballin
ger from the muckraking friends of
Mr. Pinchot will be awaited with in
terest. Of the $18,000,000 worth of prop
erty exempt from taxation in Multno
mah County, more than $4,000,000 be
longs to churches. Since tax exemp
tion is, an indirect way of contribut
ing -to the support of the churches
some persons have questioned its con
stitutionality. It will probably con'
tinue, however, since what only, a few
object to might as well be constitu
tional, even if it is not.
The argument of twenty-two mem
bers of the Oregon bar, In the Ross
case, seems to be that It could not
have been the Intention of the Legisla
ture to forbid a banker to convert the
funds of the state to his own use. But
this does seem rather a forced con
struction. Can it be that the Legis
lature did intend and expect bankers
to convert state funds to their own
use?
The $100,000 which has been raised
to relieve the distress of the children
of the Cherry mine victims will be well
spent, no doubt, but neither is there
any doubt that it might have been
much better spent in purchasing mod
ern safety appliances before the disas
ter occurred. Charity can do much,
but justice can do more.
The Civil War veteran in Roseburg
who risked his life rather than sur
render his last dime to a footpad had
plenty of obstinacy. The wisdom of
his course is more questionable. Many
men of good Judgment think their lives
are worth more than 10 cents.
It is some consolation to know that
the new Winter streetcars will arrive
in time for service next Summer, when
they are not needed. v
Yes, there are many would-be
statesmen in America who also think
they know all about running the Brit
ish government.
President Taft began his message
only a few days ago. Roosevelt must
have begun his away back in vacation
time.
And still it is Impossible to know
whether Dr. Cook brought back his
nervous prostration from the North
Pole.
No demonstration is needed for
Nicaragua. A few "maneuvers" will
do the work.
There will be no' war with Nica
ragua. Zelaya gets into the discard,
that is all.
Persons who buy them early get the
newest ones and the widest choice..
This Zelaya incident will check any
aspirations for a rival canal.
" "USURPATION" OP OFFICES.
Perturbation of m Man Over si Woman
School Superintendent. .
WESTPORT. Or., Dec 2. (To the Edi
tor.) I shonld be pleased to see an edi
torial on the usurpation of offices in
Oregon.
Clatsop County haa a woman county
school superintendent. If she has no
right to the - office what can be done to
cause the District Attorney to make pro
ceedings to oust her?
Can the teachers of public schools teach
good citizenship when such conditions
exist and do you think it fair to the
teachers ?
T. W. TANDY.
Here are the facts in the case: Miss
Enuna C. Warren is school superintend
ent of Clatsop County and has been for
some time. She was appointed several
years ago by the County Court to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of the late
H. S. Lyman. At the last county elec
tion a Mr. Branstrator was a candidate,
but Mies Warren had given such general
satisfaction in the position, that E. L.
Keezel also became a candidate, announc
ing that if elected he would resign, so
that Miss Warren could be appointed.
Keezel was elected by a large majority.
He immediately named Miss Warren as
his deputy, and later resigned, whereupon
Miss Warren was again appointed by the
County Court. No one contends that she
could legally hold the position In face
of a contest, but the people apparently
want her there, as Is shown by the vote
at the last election."
In the face of these facts, teachers
are quite as able to teach good citizen
ship as if the man had been installed.
There is no unfairness to teachers.
If this correspondent is worried over
the matter of "usurpation," when Clatsop
County by a large majority voted indi
rectly for the present incumbent, what
-does he think of two additional Supreme
Judges bjj appointment when the citizens
of Oregon by a large majority declared
against more Supreme Judges?
MAYOR SIMON FOR GOVERNOR.
Here la an Admirer Wis Wants) Him
for the Place.
PORTLAND, Dec. 2. (To the Editor.)
I Having been a constant reader of The
Oregonlan for nearly 40 years (ever since
I was a small boy). I claim to know
something of the political history of the
state. Seeing ' a picture and paid adver
tisement of Grant Dlmick, of Clackamas
County, setting forth the reasons why he
should be nominated and elected Gov
ernor of the state, set me to thinking.
I ' have known Mr. Dimick for a good
many years, and, while 1 personally like
him very much, I would like any one
to say what qualifications on the face
of the earth lias he for Governor? He is
Just simply like all other little politicians
hunting for an office because he wants
it. '
Now as for DImick's opposition to the
assembly plan, any man with one parti
cle of brains who will look around and
see the result of the direct, primary in
the past few years, and not want a
change, surely has some kind of an ax
to grind. Does he want any more Sena
tors such as we have? or any more such
Legislatures as the last two? About one
more, and we will have the state going.
I have a man to propose for Governor
who is not hunting the job. He is a man
whom I believe a. Republican assembly
would nominate and the voters elect by
the largest majority ever given a candi
date for that office. He would make the
best Governor the State of Oregon ever
had. If there is any one in the outside
counties who does not know his qualifi
cations (no Portlander needs to be
shown), will just come down we will
make it mighty plain and show actual
results. I have figured it out that by
the time the next Governor takes his
seat, Joseph Simon will just about have
the City of Portland straightened out
so they can get along without him. Why
not send him up a little higher and let
him try- his hand at state affairs? The
Lord knows they need a little "fixing"
bad enough. If any man in the state has
a better man to propose for Governor,
would like to hear from him.
E. C. CHAPMAN.
221 Morrison street.
TSO MORE. OF I. W. XV. FOR HIM.
Mr. Kellar Withdraws. After Hearing
Oolonel Wood on Anarchy.
LENTS, Or.. Dec. 2. (To the Editor.)
Until last Sunday I thought that the I. W.
W. was a union of workingmen trying to
advance their own interests, and I joined
them on that account. But now, after
hearing them applaud Colonel Wood's
statement that he was an anarchist, I
will have nothing more to do with them.
There were, however, only about 50
I. W. W. men at that meeting last Sun
day, as most of them had quit their Jobs
and gone to Spokane to ja.ll. I think most
of the people In the hall were members
of the Socialist party, and I don't think
them very Intelligent, nor do I think they
understood just what Mr. Wood meant.
I am not an anarchist, don't care what
Mr. Wood is, and did not applaud. I
don't like the anti-military stereopticon
pictures they show at their hall, as they
are not patriotic, and they often speak
disrespectfully of our flag and public of
ficials. Their dishonesty is proved by the
fact that many of them are beating the
railroad companies out of the fare to
Spokane by stealing rides to get there.
They are not entitled to sympathy for
living on bread and water when, by going
to work, they could get regular meals.
They are right in fighting the employ
ment agents, as I have been robbed by
them and know them to be no good. 1
was much pleased with your editorial on
Mr. Wood. WILLIAM A. KELLAR.
Fame.
PORTLAND, Dec. 2. (To the Editor.)
"Rip Van Winkle" observes in The
Oregonian that "no matter how brilliant
a college professor is, he cannot attract
as much attention as his duller brother
who stirs up a stink on heresy." To
which It might be added, overlooking for
the time that all men are heretics from
somebody's standpoint, that no matter
how brilliant a college student may be
he cannot attract as much attention as
his duller brother who by his mere
avoirdupois caves in seven ribs and dis
locates a human neck, accompanied by
the "rah, "rah" of thousands of wild
admirers of his brute prowess.
AMERICUS.
A Father's Relationship.
New York Times.
A New York business man has a small
daughter who is extremely fond of her
mother. She likes her father well enough,
but does not go into raptures over him. A
caller at the house, knowing the situa
tion, askad the child why she didn't love
her father as she did her mother.
"Oh, you see," she explained, very evi
dently to her own satisfaction, "papa is
only related to us by marriage."
Reason for His Opinion.
Toledo Blade.
Judge Brewer Is In favor of woman
suffrage. It will be recalled that the
Judge recently explained that he couldn't
retire from the Supreme Bench because
hia wife wouldn't let him.
Being Translated.
New York Sun.
"Does "Veni, vidi, vlcl' mean
'I came, I saw, I won it? "
"Sometimes, but when you're wed it
means
'I've been and gone and done it." "
MR. WHEELWRIGHT RKJOIJf S.
Make Defense of Port Portland
From Dally News Banter.
PORTLAND, Dec 2. (To the Editor.)
I desire to protest against the reproduc
tion this morning in The Oregonlan of the
scurrilous article printed by the "Social
istic organ"t (as you call it), referring to
C. B. S. Wood and the Port of Portland
Commission in such manner as to give
said article the stamp of your approval,
while affording it the wide publicity that
the importance of your newspaper and its
large circulation insure.
I am not concerned for Mr. Wood, who
is my friend, but who la competent to
fight his own battles and no doubt to
defend (which I am not) his utterances
before certain anarchists and Socialists on
Sunday afternoon. But I am indignant at
being falsely called a "political capital
ist," the promoter of a "graft," or one of
the "higher-ups," the latter phrase. If It
means anything, meaning a criminal of
high position who allies himself with other
criminals for corrupt purposes; and I ask
you frankly, representing as you do large
property interests of your own and of
this community, whether you are aiding
the cause of good government in opening
your columns to malicious abuse of any
of your fellow-citizens who, having been
appointed to positions of trust, are doing
their best to serve the public Interest
without remuneration? Or whether such
course on your part is calculated to In
duce every public-spirited citizen who Is
sensitive, as all men should be, In the
matter of his honor, his character and
reputation, to refuse to do anything more
for a community In which such attacks
as those of the Dally News axe not only
tolerated, but encouraged and Indorsed?
And not only Is the abuse malicious, but
the statements are false, as you have
cause to know; notably that the Commis
sion Is laboring to "wrest the drydoek
from public control" and "hand It over
to the Coast dock trust." I quote from
your own columns (page 16 of Tuesday's
issue), referring to the hearing given by
the committee of the Port of Portland
Commission, of which committee , I am
the chairman:
The statement of Chairman Wheelwright
was as follows: "We believe it would be
contrary to the spirit of the charter for
the Commission to give up control of the
drydock. therefore, it will be stipulated in
the lease, if one be made, that the Com
mission shall always have full power to
regulate rates of dockage and fix the con
ditions on which the dock shall be used;
that the dock shall be open to all ships
and craft tt all descriptions, and to all
repairers, whether persons, firms or corpora
tions that shall wish to do any work there
in, on equal terms; that the Commission
shall retain the active- supervision of the
dock, so that It shall not be run In any
private interest, to the exclusion of other
private Interests, or to the injury of the
public welfare, and that it shall retain
authority over the lessees so that any one
else who shall wish to use the dock shall
be able to do so without hindrance or ob
struction." It was further stated that no lease
would be concluded without every oppor
tunity for competition, and I submit to
you that In view of the publicity that
has been given to the above facts, there
is no excuse for your admitting Xo your
columns a statement of the charge that
the Commission Is trying to give up its
control of the public dock In favor of a
private corporation which Is, or is to be
come, a member of "a -Coast dock trust."
I object also to the characterization as
"just plain politician" of John Drlscoll,
the faithful, hardworking and conscien
tious secretary of the Commission, who
was a veritable watchdog of its treasury,
who devoted himself assiduously to the
duties for a long period of years until
such time as his falling health has re
moved him from the- ranks of active
workers and left him in a position where
he Is powerless to defend himself against
such an unprovoked assault as this that
you have published. ,
I object to the false statement that
"Mr. A. I Pease Is generally not present
and that he doesn't count when he is."
There is no member of the Commission
who has been more faithful in attending
the meetings than Captain Pease, nor
one whose advice on matters connected
with the physical part of the Commis
sion's duties, is more sound or more
readily accepted by his associates.
It should be fully understood by the
public that, while the committee have
declared themselves as being in favor of
a lease of the dock, provided such lease
can be made on terms that are advan
tageous to the taxpayers and to the
public Interests, no lease will be consid
ered which is In any sense contrary to
the letter or the spirit of the charter, nor
one that In the opinion of the Commis
sion will not serve public Interests quite
as well as the continued operation of the
dock In the same manner as hitherto.
It is proper to call public attention to
the fact that, while the hearing on the
subject of the proposed lease was fully
advertised and very largely attended,
the only protests against said lease came
from men identified with the cause of
organized labor. By which statement I
mean no reflection on that cause, nor any
question of the right of organized labor
to protect itself, but it is certainly sig
nificant and worthy of notice that, if the
public interests are so severely threat
ened by the proposed lease, the said pub
lic Interests should not have been repre
sented as protestants at the hearing.
Beside which, It is to be observed that
Joseph Supple, a shipbuilder and repairer,
whose private Interests would naturally
lead him to oppose the lease of the
dock (if the contentions of organized
labor are correct), has publicly declared
himself in favor of such lease as being
for the public good, for which view he
gives very cogent reasons In a letter
dated November 27, published in The
Evening Telegram of November 29.
Asking that you accord the publicity to
this rejoinder that you gave to the orig
inal attack, I remain.
Tours respectfully,
, WILLIAM D. WHEELWRIGHT.
While The Oregonian most cheerfully
gives space and publication to Mr.
Wheelwright's letter, it must say that
it deems him quite too sensitive on the
subject ie discusses. The article com
plained of was reproduced by The Ore
gonlan chiefly, indeed wholly, for its
banter about Mr. Wood. No one, whose
opinion is worth consideration, desires
to reflect on the character of Mr. Wheel
wright, or of any other of the gentlemen
who are rendering their services (with
out remuneration, and simply from pub
lic spirit and sense of duty) to the Port
of Portland.
Value of Keligrioua Training?.
Omaha Bee.
Two notable lessons are taught by the
Episode at Cherry, the contrast between
melodrama and real life, and the person
al -value of religious training. Such a
rescue on the stage would be enacted full
of color and shouts. But what could be
more dramatic than the survivor's quiet
statement, "There was no cheering, no
body had voice enough: we just sat down
and let them take care of us." Such a
gray monotone of repression on the stage
would be characterized as overdrawn. Tho
men had simply and naturally relaxed,
the tension was ended. In that long siege
they had been well inspired by the un
wavering faith of the rugged Scotchman
whose religion was a lamp unto the feet
of his companions in calamity. His
hearty psalm-einging in the depths of
that utter darkness endowed the lagging
with new spirit, and his practical and
efficient application of the boyhood les
sons of a pfous mother had in them all
the qualities of the sublime.
The Same; "Yea, the Same.
Baker City Herald.
Colonel C. B. S. Wood announced with
considerable pride recently that he was
an anarchist. Is this the Colonel Wood
who wants the state to build the rail
roads? That sounds a little like anarchy
all right, all right.
Life's Sunny Side
Judge Smart told this stqry to some
Kansas lawyers recently. An attorney
was questioning an Irish Juror In a mur
der case.
"Know the defendant?"
"No, sqr."
"Know anything about the case?"
"No, sor."
Have you formed or expressed any
opinion as to the guilt or Innocence of
the defendant?"
"No, sor."
"Have you any conscientious scruples
against capital punishment?"
"No, sor: leastwise not In this case."
Kansas City Jonirnal.
During one of his Presidential trips, Mr.
Cleveland, accompanied by Secretary
Olney, arrived at a town in a heavy
storm, and they were driven from the
station with hailstones rattling on the
roof of their carriage. A brass band,
undismayed by the weather, bravely
stuck to its post and played the welcom
ing airs.
"That is the most realistic music I have
ever heard," remarked Mr. Cleveland.
"What are they playing?" asked the
Secretary of State.
" "Hall to the Chief. with real hail."
Success Magazine.
e
A pretty young sehoolmarm who
teaches. a first-grade class In a school of
the northeastern section of the city is
telling a funny story on herself that hap
pened Just before the close of the term.
She had some visitors on the afternoon
in question, and thought she would show
them what a good class, she had. Calling
on a bright little fellow at the rear of
the room, she said to him: "Johnnie, if
I gave you 2 cents and your father gave
you S cents, how much would you have?"
"Seven," replied Johnnie.
The teacher blushed painfully, but
thought that she would try again. "Ton
can't have understood me, Johnnie. Now
listen, and I will repeat the question.. If
I gave you 2 cents and your father gave
you 3, how much would you have?"
"Seven," said Johnnie again and with
the same promptness.
"I am surprised at you, Johnnie," said
the teacher. "How on earth would you
have 7?"
"I got 2 in me pocket," said Johnnie.
Philadelphia Times.
, Blankson's medical man had told him
that It would be necessary to consult a
nnrr1nliat hut Rlonkenn'a .mil B
with gloom at the prospect of parting
with the fee. "What do you think he'll
charge me?" he asked. "Five guineas
for the first visit and one guinea for
every subsequent one," was the reply.
Subsequently a happy idea by which he
might avoid the payment of the initial
five guineas struck Blankson. Dashing
into the specialist's consulting room, he
exclaimed breezily, as he held out his
hand. "Well, doctor, here we are agin!"
London Dally News.
.
The caddie followed him nrntmrt tht
course Bllentty, solemnly, but not unob
servant. Their wake behind was marked
by scars and gashes In the turf. At
length he ventured on a tentative remark,
"Ye'll be a stranger to these parts may
be?" "Well, not exactly a stranger." Whirr-whirr-swish.
. And one more gash ap
peared as a lump of turf soared aloft
and came down 50 yards away. "You
see," the golfer concluded, "I was born
here, but I have been away many years
now. All my folks are buried here
abouts." "I doot ye'll no' go deep eno' with
your driver," remarked the caddie: "ye'd
better tak' your iron." "Liverpool Post.
Sirs. Mackay's Jor"eoim onn.
New "York Press.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay appeared in one
of those novel creations at a private re
ception earlier in the week. The over
dress was of copper beech satin, bordered
with copper embroidery, which was pow
dered with jewels. The underdress was
made of bloom of apricot satin and over
all was a heavy stolelike effect of dull
copper embroidery, fringed with small
balls of bronze. Another gown that was
much remarked on the same occasion
especially as It was worn by a debutante
was made of satin of the color of ripe
corn, with a tunic of the opalesque-greenish
shade of iced absinthe. The front
consisted of a panel of embroidery, in
which gold, silver, colored beads and
pearls were worked into fanlike designs?
these, in turn, being embroidered with
dainty roses in white floss silk. Even the
ancient tabard, which dates back to Chau
cer's day, is being made to serve as a
model. The tabard originally was a loose,
short-sleeved garment, worn by knights
over their armor, and the fact that it
usually was emblazoned with the coat of
arms of the wearer brings it right up
to date in the present demand for em
broideries. England's Wind-Swift 3avy.
New York Tribune.
Much the swiftest vessels in the world
built for heavy fighting are England's
"battleship cruisers." The Indomitable,
the Invincible and the Inflexible have de
veloped a speed of from 25 to 27 knots and
are faster by several knots than the
Dreadnought. The Indefatigable, launched
the other day, will undoubtedly equal the
best of them, and it is now announced
that the Orion, the keel of which is about
to be laid,- is designed to show a speed of
28 knots. If this thing keeps on, King Ed
ward's "super-dreadnoughts" will be
traveling at the present rate of his finest
wi jeuu-uuttt aestroyers.
IN THE MAGAZINE
SECTION OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGOTNTIATST
ACHIEVEMENTS DURING
THE YEAR 1909
Accomplishments by expert skill,
coupled with brains, to forward
man's onward march.
OREGON OFFICERS IN
UNITED STATES ARMY
Twenty-six commissioned men
on the active list and nine who
have retired from service.
RICH MEN WHO ARE
ACTIVE CHURCH WORKERS
Multi-millionaires who devote
Sundays and some weekdays to in
stitutional and evangelistic work.
OREGON STEAMBOATS
THAT RAN AWAY
Humorous incidents connected
with navigation near Portland in
pre-railroad days.
CONFIDENTIAL CHATTER
WITH CZAR OF RUSSIA
The Japanese Schoolboy takes
awful liberties with the Hon. Nick.
ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR
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