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TIIE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1910.
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PORTLAND, 8ATCRDAY. FEB. 5, 1910.
A NECESSARY FUNCTION.
The voters of a party, without con
vention, cannot be expected to agree
on candidates -whom the party at large
rill support In the. election. It is
especially so as to the principal' of
fices. As a consequence of the scat
tered vote, one candidate will get a
plurality which represents but a small
fragment of his party. -Then the men
ivho compose the body of the party,
tr great numbers of them, will refuse
to vote for him'.' It is not because the
voters of a party "haven't sense
enough" to nominate, but because,
under the system, they cannot con
centrate. Not one-tenth of the voters
f Oregon will know anything, in per
son, about the man who will be nom
inated by either party for next Gov
ernor of Oregon. All that most can
do' Is to vote for their party's choice.
This they will do if the choice Is un
derstood to be a representative one
and they are not Inflamed against the
candidate by some prejudice that can
not 'be reasoned with. To start and
fan such prejudice will, of course,
always be the most eager purpose of
a minority opposition.
All know It is Impracticable to call
the entire body of the members pf a
party in the state into one mass meet
ing or council; but the plan by which
. the most general expression of the
TOters can be had Is through repre
sentatives from all the counties,- and
this appeals to all. as the fairest and
most effective way. .
Jt will be the policy of the 'oppo
sition to Insist on the method that
svill bring forth plurality nominations
for the Republican party and after
they are nominated to denounce them
as not representative and as wholly
unworthy of support.
I''rom the fact that It Is impossible
f 3r the electors in general to know the
candidates arises the need of conven
tions of the representative men of
a party. These representatives should
be chosen by the widest suffrages of
the members of the party. In every
county. The candidates recommend
ed will then go to the primary for
nomination. If not acceptable, they
will fall in the primary", and others
"IH be nominated.
It is a simple method, perfectly
reasonable, entirely in accord with the
spirit and method and purpose of the
primary law. In adopting it. the Re
publicans of the tatewlll do exactly
what the Democrats did. when they
assembled at Portland and put forth
a full ticket, led by Chamberlain for
Governor and Gearin for the Senate;
and later when Chamberlain was put
forward for the Senate in the same
way. Their course was perfectly legiti
mate; it was accepted by their party
and Republicans didn't complain about
It. Attending the Republican con
vention there is likely to be a great
number of voluntary members. The
more the better- the conference then
will partake of the nature of a mass
meeting as well as an assembly of
delegates. The one object will be tc
agree on candidates upon whom
concentration may be had for tho
purposes of nomination. The situa
tion will require unusual care and de
liberation. All know that men must
be selected who may be expected t:
unite their party, for only such can
be elected. Deliberation among mem
bers of a party from various portions
of the state Is a condition necessary
to the presentation of acceptable can
didates. The electors of a party can
not be expected to vote for the un
known candidate who may chance to
obtain a plurality consisting of a frac
tional and often of a local vote. There
should be deliberation about candi
dates who are to be named for the
whole state: but without conference,
that is through meetings, assemblies
cr conventions, there can be no gen
eral knowledge on the subject. All the
men of a great party cannot meet and
confer together; the representative
system must have some place and
function: there must be some basis
of agreement, or there can be no co
operation In or through party. Party
name can mean nothing unless a party
can organise for consultation on the
course to be pursued, and to talk over
the names deemed tit or ffttest for
presentaton in their party's name.
It Is the one and only way to obtain
candidates whom the electors wi'.l
deem worthy of support. A plurality
nomination by a small group, after
a contest, can have no assurance of
the support necessary to election.' In
the absence of conference, or of sug
gestion or guidance through represen
tative convention, the primary law
will always mean disintegration of
party especially the party of the ma
jority. OSE MORE NEW DISEASE.
The one thing lacking to assimilate
the automobile thoroughly to civili
sation has happened. It has gener
ated a disease. The new ailment may
be called automobilitis. or it may not.
That will be settled later. The dis
ease Itself is more important than :ts
name as yet. though the case may alter
In that respect- It is said to set up "in
Inflammation of the nose and throat,
like that in hay fever, but this could
t tolerated. Fains and aches are
not necessarily evil. At times they
re remedial. The really distressing
thing about the new disease is :ts
power to ruin women's complexions.
According to one account it changes
the finest rose and lily cheek to a
wan sea green.
It seems as if every human occu
pation must have Its accompanying
disease. Painters, blacksmiths an-.l
co.wboys all have, their peculiar ail
ments. Even, housemaids suffer from
a complaint in the knee caused by ex
rcsalve kneeling to scrub the floor.
Bicycles became propagators of tuber
culosis. Horseback-riding carried too
far produces a bow-legged population.
The only completely innocuous
practice which has ever been discov
ered thus far seems to be the habit of
devouring benzoate of sodium. Ac
cording to some great chemists. In
cluding Professor Remsen, this sub
stance is not only whplesome and re
freshing In Itself, but it transforms
garbage into the most delicious
viands.
WORK WI LI. DO IT.
The correspondent of The Orego
nian who says that the Introduction of
a million Chinese into the Pacific
States would be the most effective of
all methods of reducing the cost of
foodstuffs, reveals a great truth even
though there be those who don't like
truth in that form. The one way to
make food cheaper in these Pacific
States is to clear up the land. Irrigate
the land, cultivate the land, grow
wheat and fruits and pigs and poultry
and potatoes. But the great American
citizen never-will do it. If a working
man, he prefers the railroad or logging
camp to the- isolation of farm life and
to the wages that farmers, even with
high prices for their products, caa
pay. If a speculator, of any de
scription, he prefers to live in the
town. In genteel way, and yell about
the high cost of the foodstuffs he eats,
and the neat and fashionable gar
ments that his fastidious taste re
quires. His wife, even more so.
Meantime, the Chinaman, who could
and would produce cheap stuff. Is ex
cluded from the country. Tl'e are a
wonderful people. We expeet results
without exertion, and low prices for
what we want, by some miracle like
that of the loaves and fishes.
But Mr. William Hanley, of Harney
County, knows. All Oregon knows
Bill, and Bill knows all Oregon. He
is a producer a producer of the kind
that produces. He has been rearing
livestock on a great scale for many
years, and Isn't dissatisfied with the
price of beef. But he is a .practical
philosopher, of the Franklin school,
and he knows what Is the matter with
prices. The consumers, he says, over
balance the producers. This also is
worth a place among the maxims of
Poor Richard's Almanac, towit: "There
are too. many , men who walk around
the cities in good clothes and eat meat,
and too few who are out in the coun
try producing meat." But Bill has
been out there twenty-five years, liv
ing like a prince, and has made money.
He says people now are pouring in,
to settle up the country and live by
farming; and he is mighty glad 'of it.
A railroad is going through Central
Oregon now very soon; and there will
be more than one. The men who get
right to the front, get there first and
stay with' it, of course, will do the
business. But most of these probably
will come from the East. Descendants
from the primal stock of Old Oregon
are many of them too much set in
the old ways. They are inclined mere
ly to look on, while others launch
their barks, push off, pursue the
triumph and partake the gale.
There are uncultivated lands in Ore
gon of sufficient area and fertility to
feed five times the population of the
whole Pacific States. But it has been
so easy to get enough to live on in
Oregon that the habit of enterprising
Industry has been too little stimulate 1;
yet the change of conditions is now be
ginning to make necessary new effort
In new lines. Our fathers who did
eat manna In the wilderness are dead,
but the bread that cometh now, anj
is to come hereafter, their descendants
will find It necessary to work for.
Heretofore we have been unwilling
either to work on the land or to allow
Chinese to do it. Things were tjo
easy in that paradiso of pioneer life.
But man never did accomplish or
could accomplish anything, except
through loss of Paradise. The new
work may appropriately be called
Paradise Regained. There will be less
poetry In It, but more humility,
strength and soberness.
BUSINESS MEN AND ART.
It would be Idle to think of disput
ing Professor Munsterberg's statement
that American culture is controlled by
the women. Everybody who knows
anything about the subject is of tho
same opinion. Probably not an Indi
vidual at the Boost Club dinner, in
New York, where he made his re
mark, caw any reason for disputing
It. Shunning with his auditors any
such hopeless undertaking, we are
more inclinedto ask why Professor
Munsterberg's stricture is true. We
suppose it is a stricture. He clear'y
meant it to be one, for he added that
"it was unfortunate. Indeed," to see
culture abandoned by business men
and turned over to the women pre
sumably as a trivial affair, not worth
masculine attention.
The Harvard professor suggested
that our business men were too tire;.!
at the end of their day's work to relish
anything better than insipid vaude
ville, but there are other reasons for
the neglect he deplores. There are a
g- jd many men In this country who
do not care a fig for literature, art
or music, even when they are not
tired. Some of our direst barbarians
never have known what work means.
There are two directly contrary im
pulses inherited from pioneer times
J which are both inimical to lntellect-
um mu raineuc enjoyment. Tne first
and more important is the persistent
feeling that it is wicked not to be
doing something that pays. This feel
ing was ground Into the souls of tho
pioneers almost everywhere in the
United States by stern necessity. They
had to work hard and work all the
time or perish. When a day of relax-"-atlon
came, as it sometimes must, they
had no rational means of enjoyment
and such resources as they had their
miserable creeds banned as wicked.
Their preachers drew no distinction
between the most wholesome and the
most depraved recreations. All were
alike devilish. Thus pleasure was not
only condemned as idleness, but it
was Inseparably associated In their
minds with vice. They taught the
same hateful falsehood to their chil
dren and it persists to this day. It
is impossible for many business me;i
to get rid of the feeling that they are
doing something wicked when thej
go to the opera or look at a nud
statue. If art Is no better than vice,
then vice Is Just as good as art. Since
vice makes no intellectual demands,
while art makes many, and It is all
the same morally, the choice of the
former is natural enough.
The other inimical pioneer inheri
tance Is the vegetative tendency. This
was strong In localities like Oregon
where extremely, easy conditions of
life permitted soul and body to go to
sleep. Human beings who have sunK
into pervasive lethargy cannot be ex
pected to exert themselves sufficiently
to enjoy culture. A man who will live
like a savage rather than work, will
prefer vaudeville to Shakespeare. If
he care enough about either to maki
a choice.
Taken as a class, American business
men are idealists. The common say
ing that they are gross and greedv
dollar-hunters is a slander circulated
by people who cannot see beneath the
surface. No men in the world are
so dominated toy theories, watchwords.
Inherited ideals and fixed forms of
thought as Americans. As Idealists.
American men aspire high. They are
ashamed not to know the best, do the
best and like the best when they know
what it is. ' Unhappily, as a rule they
don't know. From boyhood to old
age there Is little or nothing in the
education and environment of the
American business man to teach him
that art is not foolish and literature
contemptible. The only bit of beauty
he ever sees in the schoolroom is the
teacher. In the city where he lives
the chances are that everything around
him is Intentionally ugly. The wonder
is that his taste is not worse than it Is.
TIIE SPOKANE ERROR.
' The Spokane Spokesman-Review Is
urging the City Council to refuse fran
chises to the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound Railroad and the Nortn
Coast. Railroad unless there is incor
porated in the franchises a provision
granting Spokane terminal rates. The
Spokesman-Review, In commenting on
the attitude of some of the members
of the Council, says:
Spokane's need la terminal rates, and
until it has them it must stand at a dis
advantage In competition with the Coast
cities. It would be today the largest city
in the Pacific Northwest- if It had enjoyed
terminal rates for the past ten or fifteen
years. Why not ? It has greater natural
resources. Is 400 miles nearer the Eastern
markets and centers of population, haa
more railroads and a better distributing sys
tem than any of the Coast cities, and stands
without a .rival in the Inland Empire, while
Seattle. Portland and Tacoma must divide
the business and industry of a region that
is relatively smaller than that surrounding
Spokane.
The Spokesman-P.eview is unques
tionably right In saying that Spokane
would be today the largest city on the
Pacific Coast "if It had enjoyed ter
minal' rates." But as terminal rates
are only possible where the railroads
meet the competition of ships, the
cheapest carriers on earth, It Is an
Impossibility for Spokane in her pres
ent location to enjoy such rates. The
Spokesman-Review Is not In Ignor
ance of the weakness of Its theory re
garding these rates, for it has repeat
edly acknowledged the existence of
this water competition, which is the
base and always will be the controlling
factor in making, terminal rates. The
knowledge of the Spokesman-Review
on this point is so plain that it takes
advantage of these low rates by water
and ships its Ink to Portland by
steamer, thence by rail to Spokane, at
a lower rate of freight than can be
met by the railroads at Spokane car
rying freight from the East to that
city.
The Review's Interviews show that
at least one Councilman in Spokane
thoroughly understands the situation,
for he is quoted as saying that he
"does not believe It Is possible for rail
roads to grant terminal rates to Sp t
kane." If any of the transcontinental
railroads were to grant Spokane ter
minal rates. It would be Impossible far
them to handle any business for poin 3
west of Spokane, as water competi
tion, even with high local rates back
from the coast, already enables the
coast Jobbers to send freight far inland
at much lower rates than can be made
by any all-rail route.
NO TRADE WAR WITH GERMANY.
Trade with Germany, amounting to
the very important figure of about
$400,000,000 annually, will not be dis
turbed for the present by any attempt
to force Germany to rereat from the
stand she has taken on meat inspec
tion. The United States had so little
to gain and so much to lose by insist
ing on a relaxation of the German in
spection methods, that it Is strange
that the question was permitted to as
sume the proportions it had reached
when the rumblings of a tariff war
were heard. Had the United States
been singled out and forced to accept
regulations from which other coun
tries were exempt, there would have
been somt cause for complaint, but
Germany has, to all appearances, been
fair and Impartial In enforcement of
her rules regarding importation of
stock.
' These regulations are ostensibly for
the purpose of safeguarding the health
of the German consumer, but they are
Incidentally intended to make importa
tion of meat so difficult that the Ger
man agrarians will have a better
market for their own products. If
this country could produce enough cat
tle to supply the home demand with
out forcing prices to their present un
reasonable heights, there would be
more of an excuse for our lawmakers
to stand pat and keep open the Ger
man markets.
So long, however, as we are unable
to produce a sufficient supply of meat
to satisfy the home demand, it would
be the height of folly to precipitate a
trade war In an effort to force Ger
many -to withdraw quarantine regula
tions which have for years been en
forced against, not only the United
States, but other countries as well. All
American consumers of meat will hope
to see the regulations maintained, to a
degree that will still further curtail
exports of meat needed at home.
Eventually we might be obliged to buy
It at as low a price as It commands
abroad.
SOWING THE WIND.
Mayor McCarthy, of San Francisco,
Is sowing the wind with a generous
hand, and San Francisco will reap the
whirlwind. The character and class
of men with whom Mayor McCarthy
Is filling the offices, from which he is
ousting good men, make It compara
tively easy to see the finish of this
remarkable transformation. To quote
from a news dispatch: "Saloonmeu,
members of the Royal Arch, a liquor-
dealers' organisation, and heads of
various union bodies of San Francisco,
make up, for the most part, the newly
appointed commissioners, so that it is
easy to see who is going to rule the
roost for the next two years." In
this list of new appointees appear the
names of a number of men who wera
prominent parts of that infamous
Ruef-Schmltz machine.
The McCarthy administration Is, ac
cordingly, impregnated with much of
the taint that arose from ; the Ruef
Schmltz regime, and to all intents and
purposes there 1s little or no prospect
for any Improvement over that admin
istration, . which was famous for Its
infamy. But Mayor McCarthy, appar
ently drunk with power, is inv-itins
trouble. Poor old San Francisco, not
yet too strong on her feet after her
fearful experience wfth earthquake,
fire and the Schmltz administration,
must and will fight against the fate tc
which the McCarthy policy is driving
her.- The attempt of Mayor McCarthy
and his friends to make the Bay City
the social outcast of the Nation will
meet with no greater favor from
thousands of the ill-advised men who
assisted in his election than it will
with those who opposed him.
Capital, still needed In San Fran
cisco, wijl shun the McCarthy-governed
city as people would shun a pes
tilence and in the crisis that Is rapid
ly approaching, the Calhoun faction,
the Spreckels faction and all other
factions that have caused dissensions
In the past, may unite under a banner
of decency, and line up against the
common enemy now seeking to de
bauch the beautiful city. In this fight,
respectable union labor ought to take
a position against the indecent fol
lowers of the black flag of Abe Ruef
and McCarthy.
The very methods which made many
of the older-states the great states
they are entry of lands, and develop
ment of resources newspapers and
politicians of those states now de
nounce as "robbery."- when the new
states of the mountain and Pacific
Coast regions desire to use them for
upbuilding. for settlement, for in
crease of wealth and of opportunities
for industry and progress. Kentucky,
Illinois and Missouri have become
great through the system which their
theorizing ranters now call "robber-."
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
Alaska. Without access to the lands
and to the resources permitted and en
couraged by law, Kentucky, Missouri
and Illinois would be, to this day.
little advanced from the state of
primitive nature. All their resources
having now been appropriated and
turned to use, these people now insist
on stopping, the development and use
of ours, on the plea that the policy
which has made them great and pow
erful Is "robbery," If we pursue it.
The Kentucky, a venerable wooden
steamship which was en route for
Puget Sound to enter the Alaska serv
ice, was reported in a sinking con
dition yesterday, ten davs out from
New York. Providing no lives- are
lost by the disaster, this will be a very
appropriate ending. The Pacific Coast
has for years been the dumping ground
for all kinds of ancient hulks that had
outlived their usefulness on the At
lantic routes and the timely end of the
Kentucky has possibly forestalled n
worse disaster after she had entered
the Pacific Coast service. For the
traveling public who use the water
routes along the coast, it is welcome
news that two new, first-class steam
ers, the Beaver and the Bear, are com
ing direct to the Pacific Coast before
they shall be worn out by service -n
the "East. If a number of the anelen:
craft still in use were replaced" by new
steamers of this type, traveling by Pa
cific Ocean routes would be less haz
ardous than it is at the present time.
Argentine wheat shipments for tho
week ending yesterday were 2.638,000
bushels, compared with 6,112,000
bushels for the same -week last year.
Even Australia, which is nearing the
high tide In shipments, cleared but
1,880,000 bushels, compared with 1.
960,000 bushels for the correspond
ing week a year ago. As these two
countries are expected to be the prin
cipal source of supply for the import-
ng countries of the Old World, pend
ing the coming of the new crop in the
United States and Russia, there may
be some cause for uneasiness in the
old world markets. If there is not an
early increase In these weekly ship
ments. Shipments from the United
States, which are about 30,000,000
bushels less than a year ago, show no
signs of improvement, and, if the
wheat is still In the country, it Is In
the hands of strong holders, who do
not care to relinquish it, even at pres
ent high prices.
Three cargoes of Oregon lumber
have cleared foreign from Portland
this month. One of the fleet goes to
North China, another to Sotith Africa
and he third to Australia. But little
more than a decade ago Portland was
known throughout the maritime world
as a shipper of wheat, flour and sal
mon, but so rapid has been develop
ment of the lumber business that to
day this great staple is easily at the
head of the list of commodities that
are making the port famous in lanes
beyond the seas. Any doubts that
may have existed as to the necessity
of maintaining a deep-water channel
to the sea will be dismissed in con
templating the enormous lumber
steamships that load at Portland
docks in ever-increasing numbers.
There is an opinion that the flood in
the Seine is a judgment sent upon the
City of Paris for its sins; and especial
ly as a warning to France,- for her
exclusion of ecclesiastical influence
from the schools. Such opinion ap
pears in various places; but it is not
supposed that it receives credit from
any considerable body of people!,
either In the Old World or In the New.
The Hlllsboro Independent r!ght!y
declares-that the headlight o-f a loco
motive, looming up over a billowy
landscape beats any and all of the
doubtful comets advertised this year.
That's what they think out In Middle
Oregon, too.
So BInger promised George Brown
ell a railroad corporation job under
C. P. Huntington, or some other"dis
tlngulshed recognition." And yet
some persons wonder where Georgo
learned the. "stringing" business.
Taxpayers by all means should go to
the Courthouse when they pay up,
otherwise they will miss the pleasure
of seeing the expensive new Court
house now building for the comfort
of county officials.
"Pants" are suggested for women as
a means of helping them cope with
high streetcar steps. That would
probably scare -car officials into lower
ing the steps.
The most terrible war that Halley's
comet has been able to bring this time
is that in Nicaragua. Which proves
that the power of superstition is wan
ing. Wireless telegraphy in the case of
the Kentucky reminds one of the ray
of hope shtning on the rock of ages.
Better improve the streets with
pavements than, with new names.
STATES PRESS OX TIM ELI TOPICS
Hardly!
Newberg Graphic.
Hofer of the Capital Journal con
tinues to assert that he is a Repub
lican, but it is notv likely that the
party will concede that one who must
be tagged to indicate which side of the
fence he is on will make satisfactory
timber for the nomination for Governor
on the party ticket.
Ah, Theresa the Rub!
The Dalles Optimist.
The Oregonian has been unkind
enough to show that the Democrats
actually fteld a convention In the Spring
of 1906 and nominated, or "suggested,"
candidates for about all of the offices
to be filled and the rank and file fol
lowed these "suggestions" by voting
almost as a unit for the men named.
Does The Oregonian not know that
such a procedure was legal and con
sistent? The Democrats have every
right to do as they please in such mat
ters. But the Republicans? Ah, there's
the rub! We have no such rights,
never can have according to the doc
trine of the opposition.
Innratttude.
Albany (Or.) -Herald.
The Corvallls Republican tells an un
pleanant truth when it says there Is
practically no such thing as gratitude
on the part of the public for any moral
service rendered by a newspaper. Tho
same is true of a favor done an Indi
vidual by a newspaper. To the aver
age citizen the newspaper Is impersonal
as a railroad corporation, and the atti
tude of the public is often to use it but
to beat it if it can. Every editor has
had good citizens urge him to attack
this or that evil, and probably within a
week after the battle was fought and
won, the . same man, for some purely
personal reason, would stop his paper
and advertisement.
Republican! Are Getting- Tosjether.
The Gervais Star.
The large attendance at the McKIn
ley banquet held In Portland recently
showed strongly the trend of Repub
licans to stand on the assembly propo
sition. The large number of out-of-town
people especially emphasized the
great interest In the movement. Hun
dreds more would gladly have attended
If they had only known of the meeting.
It was intended at first only to have
a quiet meeting of the club but it
turned out to be a gthering of much
greater proportions than its promoters
anticipated. There is a wonderful
change favorable to the Republican
plan of assemblies and It will grow still
more in the future. That Republicans
should protect their party Is now
assured.
Intolerable Borden of Taxes.
The Astorian.
There Is bitter, and presumably justi
fiable, complaint abroad In this city
and county just now on this vital sub
ject (the tax rate), of the fact that
nothing is done in the way of public
Increment for the big sums paid Into
the public treasuries here; no showing
made for the constant and irreduciable
expenditures; and while some are de
vising ways and means to exact and
spend more public money, others are
busy projecting protective measures
even to the invoking of the law's In
terference with the same. The situa
tion Is fast becoming intolerable, and
there need be no surprise at the sud
den raising of the standard of revolt
against the unbearable strain to which
the taxpayer has been and Is subjected.
Benefit of State Water Power Control.
The Kelsonian (Cowlitz County).
The Pacific Coast, the home of the
great water powers, is with Secretary
Balllnger's ideas of conservation. The
people here believe in developing the
fiatural resources of this section and
do not care to have the Government
supervise them on the scale that has
beer, advocated by Pinchot. Ballinger's
scheme is to give the man a chance
who will go into the wilderness and
discover the precious metals and not
weigh them down with a lot of red tape
from the - Government. State control,
after the Balllnger plan, would give
every man, be he ever so humble, an
opportunity .to develop a water power
to work his mine and also enough tim
ber to aid him in Its development with
out burdening him with an excessive
Gcvernment tax or Government super
vision until such time as it is known
that the mine or power was a success.
Every man who opens the country to
new development should be given the
greatest assistance that Is possible to
give him by the Government.
Cost of LI vlna: to Remain High.
Catholic Sentinel, Portland.
The high cost of living which causes
such grave concern East and West is a
matter that we shall have to get used
to. We have affected to despise the
effete nations of Europe, but when we
get hold of the fact that it is the high
cost of living that has made them
effete we are likely to be a little more
sympathetic towam them. We our
selves are rapidly nearing a time when
he high cost of living will become a
chronic complaint with us. Of course,
it will be a long time before the masses
of our people are forced to live as
cheaply as the European masses.
That standards of living in America
and Europe should tend to equaliza
tion is to be expected. The cost of
changing one's residence from Europe
to this country has fallen so low that
a few months of the higher wages to be
obtained here will make It up. News
of American conditions is widely dif
fused among European workingmen.
and they are led to take advantage of
the higher wages offered here. Here
tofore we have had no difficulty In
absorbing into our rapidly expanding
Industrial life all who offered them
selves. "Our marvelous and inexhausti
ble resources," which our orators love
to talk about, have lived up to their
name.
Of late, however, opportunities for
the man without capital have grown
fewer, with the result that a constantly
increasing proportion of the population
is congregating In the cities. As rela
tively fewer persons ara engaged in
agricultural pursuits, we are coming
nearer to the time when our own people
will consume all the foodstuffs raised
In this country. High cost of living,
consequently, will be the regular thing
hereafter.
t Epigrammatic Truth.
New York Journal of Commerce.
"The cost of high living," says James J.
Hill, "is playir.g the deuce with this coun
try, not the high cost of living." " There
is as much truth as epigram in the state
ment. . .
The Two Requisites.
Judge.
A bargain Is something you get for
less than you are accustomed to pay
and more than your friends usually
give.
Congressional Alliance Threatened.
Washington Post.
That alliance between the .House Demo
crats and Insurgents seems threatened
with a fatal attack of cholera infantum.
Dare-Devil San Francisco.
Atlanta Constitution.
San Francisco wants Roosevelt to come
home that way. And she has already had
one big earthquake.
A Few Years Hence.
Harper's Bazar.
. Knicker You look tired.
Booker Tea, I was up all night fly
Ins the baby. -
Ul IT DRING, FEARED DEATH.
Swope Mors Medicine, Yet
Doubted Carattve Power.
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Feb. 4. Court
action abruptly closed a day of warm
legal warfare in the Swope case when
Judge Herman Brumbach of the Circuit
Court yesterday enjoined attorneys rep
resenting Dr. B. C. Hyde and the per
sons against whom he has pending a
damage suit for $600,000 from taking
further depositions In the suits until
the court has determined the legal
status of the claims of each side.
Attorneys for both sides claim the
right of priority In taking depositions.
The court probably will dispose of the
question Saturday and Monday the con
flict that waged so fiercely yesterday
will be begun anew.
New facts regarding the life and habits
of the late Colonel Thomas H. Swope
were brought out when tho deposition of
S. W. Spangler. an, office partner, was
taken by Frank P. Walsh, representing
Dr. Hyde. Mr. Spangler told of the
visits of an unidentified woman to the
office and how she brought broth for
Colonel Swope to eat. Mr. Swope re
fused to eat the broth. Mr. Spangler said.
.The witness also testified that Colonel
Swope took medicine containing strych
nine. "A short time before his death. Colonel
8wope told me he did not believe ho had
long to live," testified Mr. Spangler. "It
was soon after he had quit drinking. Ha
said that he did not expect to live more
than. 90 days. I .pressed him for a rea
son for his. belief. . He said that an
uncle of his drank for many years and
when he quit his death followed soon.
"He did not have much confidence in
the average physician, nor did he have
much confidence in the curative powers
of medicine, although he took much.
When he took . a certain medicine that
contained elixir of Iron, quinine and
and strychnine, he usually took a tea
spoonful three times a day."
John G. Paxton, executor for the Swope
estate, was giving his deposition when
the order stopping the examinations
came. James E. Vince. ex-secretary of
the Police Board, was preparing to give
his deposition to the Swope attorneys
when the order was issued.
The decision of the court came as a
result of the application of Attorney John
M. Cleary, representing Dr. Hyde, for an
injunction restraining the firm of Reed,
At wood, Yates, Mastin & Harvey from
taking depositions.
COO ARB FOR A K X ATIO-.
Xorthera Clackamas People Want to
Come Into Multnomah.
OREGON CITY. Or., Feb. 4. (Spe
cial. ) Five hundred residents of North
ern Clackamas County, at a mass meet
ing at Oak Grove last night, unanimously
adopted a resolution favoring the an
nexation to Multnomah County of ter
ritory north of the Clackamas River.
A committee of 20 was appointed to
select the proposed boundary lines,
commencing at the mouth of the Clack
amas River and running east, follow
ing the course of the river, to a line
to be established, and also to change
the county line on the west side of
the Willamette River so as to include
Oswego.
The meeting was attended by people
from" Oak Grove. Mllwaukle, Gladstone,
Estacada, Boring, Sandy and other
Northern Clackamas points, and there
were several well-known Portland men
In the audience, notably Judge M. G.
Munly, who favors annexation.
The resolution initiates the Multnomah-Clackamas
Annexation Associa
tion, and is the first big gun to be
fired by men who would split Clacka
mas County in twain.
Henry Thiessen, president of the Oak
Grove Improvement Association, pre
sided at tonight's meeting. Munly ar
gued for better sanitation, better roads
and cheaper fares. B. Lee Paget re
hearsed the history of the movement
and introduced his resolution.
He was followed by County Judge
Grant B. Dimick and Gilbert I Hedges,
of Oregon City, who declared that the
whole meeting was a frame-up, and
Judge Dimick presented facts and fig
ures that were filed with the secretary
of the meeting to show that the north
end of Clackamas County has received,
in proportion to its assessed valuation,
nearly double the amount of road
money paid to most of the other sec
tions of the county. Mr. Hedges In
sisted that the whole matter had only
started and that he would be heard
from again before the proposition was
placed before the voters.
Attorney O. D. Eby and Judge Gordon
E. Hayes, of Oregon City, who antag
onized the division, and Charles F.
Clark, of Clackamas, and F. E. Mc
Gugin. of Sandy, both favoring annexa
tion, were among the speakers.
The meeting was attended,- with few
exceptions, by people who want to be
come a part of Multnomah County, and
the resolution of Paget was adopted
witnoui opportunity lor discussion.
PACE IS SET BY ROSEBURG
Myrtle Creek and Riddles Enthusi
astic fop Town and County.
MYRTLE CREEK, Or.. Feb. 4.
Myrtle Creek and vicinity, which in
cludes the territory embracing the
North and South Myrtle Creeks, two of
the lmportnat tributaries to the Ump
qua River, received the members of the
Roseburg Business Men's Excursion
yesterday, and . after taking them for
drives over the rich valleys, entertained
them at a banquet at the Central Hotel.
The Myrtle Creek people have joined
hands with the movement of "boosting"
Oregon and her resources, and more
particularly Douglas County.
At a mass meeting In the Town Hall
last night addresses were delivered by
Darby Richardson, the "booster" from
Roseburg. This was followed by short
addresses by several of the citizens of
Myrtle Creek. An organization was
formed and 35 citizens signed as mem
bers of a commercial club. The ex
cursion proceeded to Roseburg from
here.
The following officers were elected
for the new commercial club at Myrtle
Creek: S. S. Johns, president; Robert
A. Preston, secretary; C. O. Nelson,
treasurer; S. S. Johns, Nobel Andrews,
C. I. Leaven good. J. Harris, H. P. Rice,
J. 6. Galther, trustees.
Riddles and the Cow Creek . country
are to participate In the new publicity
movement. When the Roseburg
"booster" arrived in Riddles from Glen
dale, where enthusiastic co-operation
had also been secured. Riddles possessed
no commercial organization. Now It
boasts a well-organized, shouting com
mercial clubv one more to be added to
the long list of similar associations
pushing Oregon to the front.
MINE BOSS' BODY RECOVERED
Kelley Had Planned How He Would
Save Himself in Disaster.
DRAKESBORO, Ky.. Feb. 4. After 68
hours' search, the body of the last vic
tim In the explosion of the Browder
mine, which cost 34 llves on Tuesday,
was found last night.
This victim was Peter Kelley. mine
boss, who had often described to his
family how he would save himself in
Just such a catastrophe as that of Tues
day.' .
Many Miners Dead; None Americans.
EL PASO,' Tex., Feb. 4. A special from
Eagle Pass says: Seventy bodies have
been taken from the Paulau mine in Mex
ico. This represents the total list of the
dead. However, some of the 20 injured
who are now in the hospital may die.
The gas b all out of the mine and the
exploration has been thorough. Not an
American was hurt,
CAMPIXG GROUND TO BE GIVEN
Portland Fair and Livestoc k Exposi
tion Plans Well Under Way.
An old-fashioned camping ground will
be a feature of the annual Portland Fair
and Livestock Exposition to he held at
the Country Club grounds September 1 tc
10. Farmers coming with their families
ar-d stock from a distance will be given
space for tents and sheds for their horses
in a 10-acre plot of ground in the south
east corner of the lnelosure.
1 his suggestion was made in a letter
from an up-state farmer and was well
taken by the management.
I'rank Alley, the well-known Roseburg
horseman, visited E. L. Thompson, presi
dent of the exposition company, yester
day, and announced his intention "of en
tering more horses than ever In this
year's races, as well as a larger exhibi
tion cf troroughbred mares and colts.
D. O. Lively, manager of the Union
Stockyards, who has been appointed
manager of the fair, is expected home to
day from a trip through the Eastern and
Middle Western States. Mr. Lively has
been visiting stock shows to get pointers
on how to manage the Portland fair. He
Wi'l Immediately commence active ar
raiistn ents for the fair and livestock ex
hibition. FIRST BODY IS RECOVERED
Cherry Mine Gives Vp One of Dead
After Tliree Months.
' CHERRY. HI.. Feb. 4. The St. Paul
mine today yielded the first of its dead
since last November, when the shafts
were sealed to extinguish the fire tnat
killed nearly 300 miners. The body was
that of Maestro Llirio, 5 years of a Re.
He was identified by a wage receipt
found In his coat. Llirio was unmarried,
and his relatives are at Cardiff. 111.
The body was in good condition in
spite of its three months entombment.
The prospects for recovery of other bodies
Is none too promising, as a great deal of
pumping and mining must be done.
Taxpayers Would Oust Supervisor.
OREGON CITY. Or.. Feb. 4. (Spe
cial.) Seventy-ight of the residents
and taxpayers of Wiihoit Sprhiss
have petitioned the County Court for
the removal of Road Supervisor A. M.
Groshong. who was reappointed last .
month, and the court today appointed
W. H. Counsell and Charles R. Li e
say to go to Wiihoit and make
an inspection of tne work done
in that road district during the last
year and report February 19. when
the petition will be given a hearing.
J. E. Burnett was today appointed
road supervisor of the Eagle Creek
district, succeeding S. A. Douglas. J.
W. Smith was reappointed at Macks
burg and Thomas McCabe was named
at Cherryville. D. W. Douglas, the
ex-supervisor, and C. W. Harris, were
candidates for the place, and the court
solved the tangle by appointing a man
who was not an aspirant.
Catholic Church May Remove.
FOREST GROVE, Or.. Feb. 4.
(Special.) P'ans are being considered
for the removal of the Catholic Church
at Gales Spur, or Seghers, to Gaston, as
that point is more central to the com
municants residing in the Gaston
neighborhood. The church at Seghers
is In charge of Rev. Jacob It. Buck, rec
tor of St. Philip's Church at Forest
Grove. Father Buck also has charge of
the mission at Cornelius. where the
Catholics have Just completed a new
church building. Rev. Father Le Miller,
at Verboort, has issued a calendar and
year book of historical data and Infor
mation of value to Catholics. Father
Le Miller is pastor of the Verboort
Parish, where the settlers, are all of
Dutch origin.
Dice Decide Election Ties.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 4. Some stiff games
of poker dice decided several ties in the
various ward contests for School Direct
orship, and the games were sanctioned by
the County Commissioners. Commissioner
Campbell supplied the dice which lie used
as a paperweight, and in the case of the
old Second Ward on the north side, where
three men were tied for two nominations,
C. W. Jones threw a pair of aces, but
they could not beat a straight that James
McElroy threw. W. B. Alward also put
Jones out of the race with three aces. Four
other- contests were settlPd in a similar
manner, while several other districts, in
which only two men were tied, were, de
cided by the flip of a coin.
Funs to u Army Hero Resigns.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. Feb. 4.
First Lieutenant Burton J. Mitchell.
Twelfth Infantry, aide-de-camp on the
staff of Brigadier-General Frederick
Funston, forwarded his resignation
from the Army to President Taft to
day. Lieutenant Mitchell distinguished
himself as a soldier In the Twentieth
Kansas Regiment and participated with
General Funston in the capture of
Agulnaldo. He plans to engage in busi
ness at Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Girl Debater to Represent Raymond.
RAYMOND. Wash.. Feb. 4. (Special.)
The public schools of Raymond had their
local tryout on Wednesday evening to se
lect the pupil who will reprsnt Ray
mond in the Southwestern Washington
declamatory contest. The Judges selected
Miss Hope Graham as the one best qual
ified to represent the Raymond schools
in the group contest. The subject of the
selection on which she won this decision
was "Riley's Bear Story."
Oakland Harbor to Re Improved.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4. A radical en
largement of the Oakland (Cal.) harbor
facilities is contemplated In a progressive
project recommended to the Housj todav
by the War Department, involving a
purposed ultimate outlay of $1,100,000" and
$26,000 annual maintenance. Of this
$600,000 is to be spent in first constructing
a 30-foot channel to the drawbridges. The
project has been adopted by the House
committee on rivers and harbors.
Mrs. Helen M. Prosch Dies.
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 4. Mrs. Helen
M. Prosch, aged 61. widow of the iate .
Frederick Prosch. died here today. She
came across the plains to Oregon in 1849
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P.
Elder, of Springfield. 111. In 1S63 they
moved to Olympla, where Mr. Elder was
appointed Indian agent by his boyhood
friend, Abraham Lincoln.
Berth With Single Men Costs $370.
SEATTLE Feb. 4. The Japanese
Meamer Awa Maru on her arrival lv?ro
today was fined- $370 for violating the
American passenger laws by bringing two
married Japanese couples In a eteerase
compartment with two unmarried men.
A similar penalty was recently imposed
on the Japanese steamer Tacoma Maru.
Landslide Divides Yaquina.
NEWPORT. Or.. Feb. 4. (Special.) A
heavy landslide occurred in Yaquina yes
terday, cutting off the business section
from the residence district. The bluff
toppled over, sliding into the hay. No
buildings "were damaged. Just the land,
road and Newport phone and telegraph
wires being effected.
Five Hurt in Southern Wreck.
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Feb. 4 Five per
sons wero hurt, none - seriously, when
the second section of the Illinois Cen
tral passenger train No. 1 from Mem
phis to New Orleans was wrecked early
today, four miles south of Sardls. Miss.
The engine, tender and baggage cax
were turned over and ditched-