THE 3IOKXIXG OEEGONIAX, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1910. 6 PORTLAND. OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Postofflca as econd-Class Matter. Subscription Ratea Invariably in Advance. (BY MAIL..) Dally, Sunday Included. one year XoUy. Sunday Included, six montni. ... Hit Daily. Sunday Included, three montlu. . 2 Z Dally. Sunday Included, one month . . . . . .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 8 00 Daily, without Sunday, aix months 3 -5 Dally, without Sunday, three months. .. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month oo Weekly, one year nrin Sunday, one year --B0 Sunday and weekly, one year 3 30 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 8.00 Dally. Sunday Included, one month How to Remit Send Postofllce money order, express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postotllce ad dress In full, including county and state. Postage Rates to to 14 pages. 1 cent: 16 to 28 panes, 2 cents: 30 to 40 pages, 3 cents; 40 to 60 pates. 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office. The S. C. Beok 'lth Special Agency New York, rooms 4J-f-0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 610-513 tribune building. PORTLAND, MONDAY. FEB. 28, 1910. THE ATTACK ON M"R- BALLINGER. Mr. Pinchot's accusations against Secretary Ballinger are these, name ly: That Ballinger entered his office with clear determination to reverse the policy devised by the Roosevelt Administration for protecting the wa ter power sites on the public lands; that he did reverse that policy, and restored the power sites, or many of them, to entry, and lastly, that he de ceived the President by giving him an explanation of the matter that was essentially false. If these accusations are true, it should be possible to prove them. If they are true, undoubtedly it will be possible to prove them. Should they be proven, of course Mr. Ballinger will be a discredited man, and must be retired from office. The first question is, how does Pine-hot know, and how will he prove, that Ballinger entered his present of fice with determination to reverse the policy of withdrawal of power sites, and to surrender them to monopolis tic control? It would seem that, as an interpreter of Mr. Balllnger's in tention, Mr. Pinchot is very liable to error. Pinchofs own phrase discloses an animosity on his part towards Ballinger, conceived before the latter became Secretary of the Interior. How could Pinchot have known, or assumed to know, with what "deter mination" Ballinger entered his pres ent office? Here is a revelation of animosity on Pinchofs side against Ballinger, preceding the latter's ap pointment to the office of Secretary. A short review .will make the matter- clear. Garfield was Secretary of the In terior. Ballinger was Commissioner of the General Land Office. Pinchot was Chief of the Forest Service a division of the Department of Agricul ture. But Pinchot was continually intruding In the affairs of the General Land Office, and Garfield permitted him. In fact, Garfield was only in a nominal way the Secretary of the Interior. Pinchot's influence over him. in matters relating to lands and forests, -was great. Friction therefore naturally occurred between Ballinger and Pinchot: since Pinchot insisted on "running" the business of the Land Office. Neither of the Secre taries (Garfield and Wilson) required Pinchot to mind his' own - business and Ballinger declined to take or ders from him and resigned. Wilson was' continued In the office of Secre tary of Agriculture; but Garfield was not reappointed Secretary of the In terior, though the Pinchot clique ex erted itself to the utmost to that end. Taft, however, appointed Ballinger To Pinchot this was the most distaste ful of all things. Pinchot could not now intermeddle with the affairs of the Department of the Interior, or hector the officials of the General Land Office. So now Pinchot, by his line of in solent conduct, including hi3 insub ordinate letter read in the Senate having brought about his own dis missal from office asserts that Bal linger entered the office he now holds with Intention or determination to sacrifice the water power sites owned by the people to monopolistic con trol; that he has done so by restor ing former withdrawals to entry, and has lied to the President about what he has done. It Is true that since Ballinger be came Secretary very considerable arc as of public lands, withdrawn be cause of their adjacency to water power streams, have been restored; that is, the reservations have been partially withdrawn. But it is as serted in reply that only such lands as were not required for ' improve ment and use of water powers have been so restored; that, on the con trary, an increased number of actual water power sites have been reserved, and that the lands that have been restored to entry are not contiguous to power sites, but in most cases at distances from them. Diagrams of lands- and streams, recently drawn and published, show that many town ships, thousands of acres, were with drawn for water power conservation though miles away from the streams The Owyhee River in. Oregon pre Bents a. conspicuous example. The plats, printed in colors, show that the former reservations have been nar rowed in many localities by many miles, by withdrawal of broad reser vations, but that the stream and strips on either side are still re served throughout. Secretary Bal linger has professed his readiness to show that, though he has released much land, formerly- reserved, yet all water powers in those reservations have been retained, and more be sides. Recrimination by the parties or by their friends, in this matter, is use less. The Issue must be decided on the plain facts; and the country will Boon know them all. That Mr. Bal linger has taken. lawful and reason able care of the interests of the country all who know the man fully believe. He Is not a theorist, riding a hobby, but a man of sense and Judgment, who preserves a balance between an extreme sort of conserva tion on the one hand and . waste of resources on the other. Conserva tion of late has become a much abused word. ; As employed by ex tremists, it represents a policy that would lock up most of the great re sources of the newer states and re tard Indefinitely the general develop ment.' One thing the people of the newer states would like to know Is this, namely: How is it that the method of opening our part of the country to settlement, and to the development of an industrial activity that has been pursued elsewhere so long, and under which the -country has made an unparalleled progress, has now so recently been found in iquitous, unjust and destructive? The simple Interpretation is that the theorist and the faddist, borrow ing ideas from old countries, appli cable to their political and social condition, and to the stages of de velopment reached in the oldest of present civilizations, have brought their irrelevant bookishness to bear on a -wholly unlike situation here. The lands and timber and water pow ers of our country can be used with advantage in our further develop ment only on the same general plan and system as heretofore. Our great natural resources cannot be retained In ownership or control of the gen eral Government and yet developed and used with advantage to our states or their people. As to" Alaska's resources of coal and timber and metals, whatever they may be and their extent and- what real profit may be in them are yet unknown let the Government put them all under lock and key. If It will: for that great territory Is not an attractive place of residence, and nobody goes there ex cept to get at the natural resources, which, however, never will be worth anything unless they are opened and used. Yet if it will satisfy "the book ish theorlc of conservation" to shut that country up. so be it. But we want a chance In these undeveloped states of our Union to use the re sources for homes and families and industries, under the general policy thus far pursued in all the states. That is, the Government should continue to dispose of the lands, and to give the people a chance to build up industrial communities, under the laws of the states. Has the policy thus far been ruinous to the coun try? On the contrary, has it not been the very source of its life and growth? Had this new policy of re striction and false conservation been introduced at the first and pursued till now, there would not today be twenty' millions of people in the whole United States. At the mere suggestion of the word monopoly, even in a connection where the thing cannot exist, a lot of blath erskites pour out their torrent of rant, fudge and inanity. There is no more danger of a monopoly of the streams and water powers of Amer ica than of a monopoly of the air; and not a sign of movement or effort to create "a water power trust" has there ever been. Mr. Pinchot's per sistence on this subject reminds one of the continual recurrence of that mildly demented gentleman, Mr. Dick, to his memorial on King Charles's head. THE GOOD, KIND PLUMBERS, 'Twould be very fine news, and best proof that no trust exists, if wholesalers would sell plumbing sup plies to builders and owners of houses and plumbers would install the sup plies. That would be the acme of Joy and square deal. Now let the wholesalers and the master plumbers and the Journeymen plumbers pro ceed to show the public that no trust exists. Builders will buy supplies in wholesale quantities at wholesale prices; master plumbers will not put the ban on such goods; and Journey men will not refuse to handle mate rials that fail to bring big retail profits to the masters;, all hands, will go to the City Hall and induce the Council to repeal the ordinances that specify expensive requirements in plumbing; and the plumbers' union will not fight non-union men who can save builders money in cheaper wages. All these unselfish relinquishments of graft will ease the terrific burden of plumbing cost a burden that staggers everybody who putsr up a new building or improves an old one. AH citizens will then be happy and contented and it will not be necessary to sue for $75,000 worth of justice in the courts. Best of all, tongues that charge trust and graft will then be silenced. We implore the accused parties thus to clear themselves of all sem blance of greed. Just men certainly do not like to live under continu ous accusations of selfish intent to "squeeze," through concert of whole saler, master, plumber and City Council. We commend the evident desire of wholesalers, masters and plumbers for fair play for the "ulti mate consumer." It manifests a kindly human nature that we sup posed was wholly absent. OIR IMG BATTLESHIP. Secretary Meyer of the Navy De partment is not at all modest in his views as to what a navy should be. None of the ordinary Dreadnoughts, Invinclbles, Terrlbles, or other high sounding, far-shooting, and swift speeding battleships will meet the re quirements of the present Administra tion, in the Navy Department. For a beginning on a navy that will break world's .records unless the German, British or Japanese builders pay union rates and work nights and Sundays to beat us to it Secretary Meyer pro poses to build at a cost of $18,000, 000 a battleship of . 32,000 tons dis placement. Quite naturally a craft of this size and cost will be largely in the nature of an experiment. There is nothing to indicate that it would not keel over and sink under the puncture of a few well-directed tor pedoes .administered by a cheap torpedo-boat. Nor is there any accom panying guarantee that some other nation, more in need of battleships, would not build at 34,000-ton ship before the gun bearings should be worn smooth on our record-breaker. No serious objection might be entered to construction of this costly advertisement of our prestige as the greatest Nation on the earth. If the $18,000,000 represented approximately the amount that must be expended in order to make the rest of our naval equipment fit this standard. In order to prepare us for what may happen in this direction, Washington dis patches say that "The Secretary said that plans for enlargement of all the drydocks of the country, as outlined to the committee some weeks ago, were made in contemplation of the great enlargement of the battleships, and he wanted the docks built to ac commodate ships of great size." Any one at all familiar with the snail-like pace at which all kinds of Govern ment work proceeds can readily understand that, long before we shall have rebuilt our drydocks to fit the record-breaking battleship, some of the other nations that through neces sity make a specialty of costly Dread nought peace offerings to the. war god will have a larger, faster and more costly craft ready to reduce our $18, 000,000 record-breaker to sorap iron. . There Is another point to be con sidered before we invest the cost of 18,000 farms In a single ' battleship. This Nation is carrying no chip on its shoulder. It has no far-flung posses sions on which the sun never sets. The flag is quite freely furled on our domain and our morning drum does not beat half way round the world. We have heretofore been content to leave to the over-populated, fully de veloped countries of the old world the work of breaking records on ex penditures for war purposes. It Is, of course, well to be prepared for emergencies, but why abandon our time-honored policy of attending to our own business, and keeping the war chest well supplied with funds? Why not let the pace be set by some of the old-world countries instead of "butting in" and establishing a stand ard which will force them simply to go "one better"? Viewed from either a geographical or an economic standpoint, it is quite clear that, if a 32,000-ton battleship is a necessity for the United States, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and some of the other countries In which warfare is one of the industries of the people, must Immediately build some 34,000 to 36,000-ton ships. A Can adian patriot, when asked for his views on the propriety of Canada's building a battleship for England, said that what Canada needed was "boxcars, not battleships." Perhaps $18,000,000 worth of boxcars, or other Industrial appliances, might be corre spondingly useful in this country. THE LOGIC OF THE "EW MOVEMENT." The brethren who Issued the namDhlet containing proposals for revolutionizing the Constitution and I Government of Oregon, spoken of a few days ago by The Oregonian pro posals which they intend to submit to the electors In November were not careful to make their work con sistent in its various parts. "But that could hardly be expected in the pro duction of their socialistic crazy quilt. The "plan" proposes an entire revolution In the Government of Or egon a revolution in all its features, legislative, executive, administrative and judicial. If adopted it will prac tically wipe out the existing Consti tution altogether. Articles four, five, six and seven, containing all the vitals of the instrument, are to be cut out, and the vast vacuum is to be stuffed with populistlc bran and sawdust. It is curious, however, to note that, though these people propose to ex enterate the old Constitution com pletely, and to stuff its skin with contents as mixed and uncertain as those of a bologna sausage, they are greatly opposed to a constitutional convention; because a convention might make cjhanges that would raise new questions and disturb existing court decisions! The present Constitution, say these pleaders, "is well understood and has been construed by the Supreme Court as to substantially all the property and most of the political rights of citizens. Comparatively few cases in the Supreme Court now turn on constitutional questions." Again: "A new Constitution will be followed by many years of uncertainty as to the meaning of its provisions. The Judi cial settlement and the construction of these doubts will result in a great deal of protracted and costly litiga tion. The property and political rights of the citizens will be in a state of uncertainty for many years." And yet these people propose to annihilate this Constitution, in all it material features and functions, and to introduce changes, by substitution, more revolutionary than ever pro posed for any constitution In Amer ica, since constitutions began to be written! No man could tell what his rights were, under the new constitution of Babel and Bedlam; all or most of the existing decisions of the Supreme Court would be superseded and fifty years wouldn't suffice to bring order out of the chaos, unless what is most probable the people should much sooner repudiate the whole thing and go back to the principles of the old Constitution and common sense. THEORY AND FACT. "The truth is, the railroads can profitably put the ocean carriers out of business whenever they have the carrying facilities to do it," says the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Disre garding Spokane theories and opin ions on this matter, let us consider one plain fact: "Ocean carriers" are now bringing coal from points on the Atlantic seaboard to North Pa cific ports at $2.83 per ton. Years ago, before the railroads came, the old sailing vessels were satisfied with $6 per tori and not infrequently carried freight at $4 and $5 per ton. It would be interesting to know the dimensions of the "profits" which the railroads would make after putting the ocean carriers out of business at these rates. Naturally higher rates are being charged by the regular liners at this time, and the steamers are perhaps making more than a reasonable profit. They can, however, continue to make large profits 'at rates so low that it would be impossible for the railroads to meet them. CHANGING WOOL INDUSTRY. The Woolgrowers of Western Ore gon will meet at Corvallis next Friday for the purpose of organizing an as sociation of sheepgrowers in the Wil lamette Valley. The vast ranges of Eastern Oregon have for so long been the home and the headquarters of this great industry that the advantages of the Willamette Valley as a sheep country have been almost forgotten. That there can be a profitable revival of the industry west of the Cascade Mountains is a certainty. Sheepmen who have grown wealthy by running large bands of the wool-producers over the vast stretches .of Government land in the West profess to see in the breaking up of the great ranches the ruin of the industry. So far as the handling of Immense bands of sheep is concerned, it is quite probable that the end is. near at hand. Oregon, one of the greatest wool states in the Union, has probably wlt- l nessed in the passing of the Baldwin sheep and ranch property an end to the prestige we formerly enjoyed as having the largest sheep ranch in the world. The Increasing interest shown in the Industry in the Willamette Val ley, however, offers good reasons for believing that even the break-up of the big ranches and the lessening of the size of the herds will not mean that we have reached the maximum as a wool-producing state. The high prices of wool and mutton have made the sheep business much more profit able for the small farmer than it has ever been before. In time, it may no longer be possible to find one breeder with 10,000 sheep, but we may find the same number of sheep in the hands of a hundred or a thousand farmers. Thus in the care exercised j in breeding and in looking after the animal after it reaches a wool-producing age, there will be a decided improvement over the present meth ods on the range. Large bands of sheep disappeared from the Willamette "Valley many years ago, but there is an increasing number of small flocks, and, with a continuation of present high prices for sheep and wool, the number of these small bands may Increase throughout the state sufficiently to offset the loss by the disappearance of the big ranches in Eastern Oregon. An Interesting programme has been prepared for this week's meeting of the Western Oregon woolgrowers, and it Is expected that an organization may be effected that will be fully as important in this field as the original Oregon Woolgrowers Association has been in the field east of the Cascade Mountains. Governor Hay, of Washington, has been advised that the Industrial (Jaw) Workers of the World are arranging in the coming Spring to gather volun teers from all over the United States to resume their fight against Spo kane's laws. This is quite a tribute to the advantages of Spokane as a Summer resort. These industrious jaw-smiths, who toiled not, but talked much, and blockaded the streets of Spokane, ceased defying arrest last Fall and vanished before the chilly winds of Winter. In the Spring, to escape the heat of the Southern clime, they will come thronging back and make another attempt at the martyr game. Of course Spokane is not ex tending a "welcome to our beautiful city" to the Weary Willies, and there is no law compelling them to go to a city where the people insist on proper observance of the law. Still, if the army of Industrial Never-Works will return in force, Spokane should be provided with a plentiful supply of balls and chains, hard rock and ham mers, and continue the good roads movement. By this method, some good may come from an Industrial Worker of the World. A twelve-dollar-a-week bank clerk in Boston has succeeded in stealing about $160,000 from the institution by which he was employed. It is Incidents like this, together with the avidity with which Boston people hungrily grabbed the "Yukon Gold" brick offered them by Citizen Tom Lawson, that cause the great uncul tured West to entertain the treason able thought that perhaps the won derful Bostonese is a much easier proposition than he is generally sup posed to be. The wild and wooly West may lack some of the over-refined traits that have made Boston famous, but the business methods here are not so slack that twelve-dollar-per-week clerks can embezzle $160,000. At least not often. If any undue disturbance is noticed around the last resting-place of the late Marcus Daly, it might be due to some spiritual communication that may have reached the deceased cop per king, relative to the proposed marriage of his daughter to a fortune hunting Hungarian Count. The price Miss Daly is to pay for the Count Is not announced, but as a starter there are debts of $800,000 to be settled. As the "increased cost of living" has permeated all classes of society, it is not Improbable that even the prices of Hungarian noblemen have also adr vanced.. Pinchot, besides being a faddist, Is a sensationalist; and Just now he has the ear of the public through sensa tional journalism. When a man In high place is attacked this always occurs, whether the accusation is well-founded or not. President Taft has a judicial mind, and will sum this business up, when all is done.- Dr. Matthews knows Secretary Bal tnger and testifies that he is an up right man. So say all others who have had occasion or opportunity to observe the Secretary's career. But character and good name do not count with your muckraker. Will the people of Oregon accept the monarchical form of government proposed now by initiative, and allow the Governor to appoint the other state officers and most of the county officers, cutting off their own right to elect? Probably not. Those supply dealers and master plumbers will of course proVe to you that there is no combine among them If you will call around and try to buy a few plumbing accessories which y.u purpose yourself to put in your house. Because they needed some spending money those youthful taxicab high waymen went out and held up two road-houses. The state will now doubtless see for a 'number of years that they have no need of money. Promoter Garland's chief capital was several letters from Important financiers declining to take a yacht ing cruise with him. Garland had no yacht, but he had what served as well a dark blue oceanic nerve. The visit of the ex-President to Rome will differ somewhat from the visit of the ex-Vice-President. Mr. Roosevelt has a way of his own, which foreigners must, perforce, ac cept. Nobody in Oregon, so far as heard from, wants that extraordinary bill of Senator Bourne's, permitting ap propriation of arid lands by non-residents, to pass Congress. Now, who does want it to pass? After all, Mr. Carnegie was kind to that old friend In California, to whom he gave an eloquent pamphlet on economy. He might have given him a library. A ninety-foot whale Is ashore at Clatsop Beach. Ho for an off-shore breeze the coming Summer. There is one comfort. The ocean Is big enough to hold all of this rain the soil does not need. WORTH REPUBLICATION. Remarks by Rev. Dr. Matthews, of Se attle, on the Attack on Bnlllnjrer. Yesterday The Oregonian printed the fol lowing statement by Rev. Dr. Matthews, of Seattle, about the attack on Secretary Ballinger. No doubt the statement was read by thousands yesterday, but is worth re-reading today. I know Mr. Ballinger, and I know the man to be above the despicable ac tions now being charged against him. but aside from that interest, I heartily Indorse the fight The Oregonian is making on Plnchotism. . . . Ballinger Is above wrongdoing, and the men who have been attacked with him are far superior In every respect to their traducers. C. J. Smith, H. C. Henry, John H. McGraw, ex-Governor Moore and the others associated with them in this attack not only did no wrong, but would not countenance wrong in others. Their characters are unimpeachable. Laying aside the personal attacks that have been made and if there were no Individuals involved. Plnchotism means the stagnation of this country. If you are going to prevent men from harnessing the waters, opening the forests, developing the mines and bringing this entire country to a higher Btate of perfection, civilization and development, then It la impossible for us to Invite to this country men of brain, brawn and money. There I enough water power in Washington, if harnessed, to light the United States; but no individual can harness all the water, nor can any number of Individ uals exhaust the resources God - has stored away for the development and benefit of" mankind. It Is time the East was learning that the West is not filled with thieves, land-grabbers and mo nopolists. The men, who are here, are here for the purpose of building an empire and making the West con tribute to the welfare of the whole country. Let us encourage men" to come and aid them In every way pos Bible in the development of this great country. WANTS THE RECALL ABOLISHED This Correspondent Believes It to Be tlie Worst Law 'In Oregon. PORTLAND, Feb. 26. (To the Edi tor.) A recent editorial in. The Ore gonian, denominating the Oregon "re call" as a "tool of personal spite and political revenge," is worthy of the profoundest thought on the part of the people of Oregon. The recall, sup posed to be a remedial agency in ex treme cases of official crookedness, is destined to keep the State of Oregon in a state of political strife until the end of time, unless the recall law i repealed. The instances cited in The Oregonian are but the beginning of what is to follow. The editorial re ferred to, however, omitted the fact that the house of the Mayor of Union Or., was burned by incendiaries, as a fitting climax of the recall election in that town. The smaller cities will suffer most from the operation of this detestable piece of legal tinkering, as there are always two or three petty factions In small cities that will resort to almost any method of "down" the other fellow. The "recalling of the Mayor of Es- tacada was the result of a certain fac tion's ambition to dominate municipal aTfairs. Charges can be trumped up easily enough, and there is a certain element of humanity always looking for a "get back at him" either public or private. A. following Is usually ob tained from this class for "recall" .pur poses. The recall in Oregon is worse than a failure. It is an instrument of sedl tion and strife worthy of the Dark Ages. Under this law, a man isn't really elected for a term of office at all. He may be recalled at any time a few agitators may be able to get a sufficient following by malicious mis representation, to order a recall elec tion. Such measures as this tend only to keep the best class of citizenship out of public life. No man with a proper conception of his duty to him self and the public wishes to be the subject of eternal strife, and that's what an office-holder Is Oregon is get ting to be. The ret-all is to blame. I talked with W. S. U'Ren of Oregon City, at the time he was campaigning for the passage of this law. He thought it would be a remedial agency. doubled its expediency but did not ac tively oppose it. Experience has taught us that it is one of the worst pieces of legislation the people ever passed. Im mediate steps should be taken for Its repeal. GEORGE W. DIXON. Aiwa j a With the Democratic Party. PORTLAN jJ, Or., Feb. 26. (To the Editor.) I am surprised to learn from The Oregonian that any person who has been a member of the Grange does not know that the Grange of Oregon is now and always has been nothing but a sideshow for the Democratic party. They can meet in assembly, con demn the Republican party for con templating calling an assembly, and one that will differ from the Grange assembly for they always meet In se cret. The Republicans meet in open assembly, where their acts are an open book, but no matter what the Repub licans indorse or what principles are set forth, the Oregon Grangers would see some great and dangerous objec tion. It has ever been thus. The Grang ers always line up the same way, but strenuously deny any party affiliation Yet keep calamity howling, "resoloo- ten" against assembly, -Joe Cannon John D. and the cruel gold standard As proof of these statements. Just watch how these Grangers vote in the next Oregon election. C. B. LA FOLLETTE. ' High Heela Upheld In Court. Kansas City Journal. The Kansas City Court of Appeals re cently affirmed a judgment of $2500 given Emma N. Rose In the Jackson County Circuit Court against Kansas City. The woman sued for damages for injuries al leged to have been received when she stepped from a car Into a hole in the pavement. The city contended that the woman was careless In stepping from the car, and In wearing shoes described as being very high and tapering to only an I inch In width at the bottom. "We do not feel Justified, said Justice Allison, who wrote the opinion, in declaring that wearing such character of shoes was negligent as a matter of law." He said whether the shoes constituted negligence as a matter of fact was for a jury to determine. Lincoln's Limitation. Charleston News and Courier. Saturday was the birthday of Abra ham Lincoln, one of the most promi nent Southern men since the establish ment, of this Government, and barring his politics and his political associ ates and his political errors, one of the ablest and finest men the country has ever had. Connubial t ' o n Krrn t u I a t i o n. Corvallis Gazette-Times. It is something for a man to live 50 years with one woman, and it is even of arreater moment that a woman should have been able' to stand one man that long. Clergrymen Drop 'Reverend Title. Indianapolis Dispatch. Clergymen In one of the counties of Ohio have voted to drop the title of rev erend. They say that the title does not occur In the Bible, and that they can see no good reason why they should use it. BILL IS SIMPLY NO GOOD." General Denunciation of Bourne Pro posal to Grab Dry Lands. Portland Labor Press. All over the State, of Oregon the press Is publishing the proposed bill of Senator Bourne regulating homestead- Ing of Government lands, and provid ing that residence shall not be neces sary to acquire title. All that is re quired is cultivation, and during the five years that crops to the value of $1500 have been produced.' The bill is simply no good. It will never be enact ed while Bourne Is Senator, but if it was enacted It would simply enable the speculators to gobble up what remains of the public lands by dummy entry- men, the same as the timber lands have been sequestered by speculators. The sagbrush plains of Eastern Oregon have been overlooked by the speculators, and new railroads indicate that these lands will be valuable. There could easily be found thousands of men to file on homesteads they did not have to reside upon. Woodburn Independent. It looks to us as if residence is the essential part. What would become of a new section if the large majority of entrymen were living out of it? Such a section would need towns, but who would there be to support these towns If the entrymen lived, say, in Portland? It takes people to make a country. Cul tivation alone will not do it. All that cultivation would accomplish would be to give the holders a chance to specu late. The tracts or claims would not be homesteads, in the full meaning of the word, but speculative opportunities. There are about 100 men in Woodburn whom the passage of this bill would please. They prefer to remain In this city, but are anxious for homesteads, and such a snap as Senator Bourne proposes would be eagerly seized by them. The bona fide homesteaders make a new country, not Portland clerks proving up homesteads in East ern Oregon on a non-residence basis. People's Press (Portland). As for the People's Press, it feels, in common with some of the more sensible editors of the state, that the Bourne bill Is a menace. We feel that it is a measure of expatriation, so to speak. It will enable Mr. Weyerhaeuser, or any body else, to have a dummy "settle" upon any Oregon homesteads that he desires and put some pne in to improve the land. Presumably any income from the homestead will be taken out of the state, and will not do Oregon any good at all. Privileges of Friendship. Life. To be given the small room In the attic so that the spare chamber may be ready for possible but unexpected company. To hear the completion of the family quarrel that he wishes his arrival had Interrupted. To hear both sides of the family quarrel separately. To agree with both sides of the fam ily quarrel when heard separately. To walk from the station In rainy weather because It Is so bad for the family horses to be out in the rafn. To stay at home and take care of the children while the other guests are taken driving. To make himself t home in the library without having been given the key to the book shelves. To be joked about his personal ap pearance. To be reminded of his youthful flirta tions In the presence of new and en tertaining young women. To be told when to go home. To be told when to stay home. In short to be treated exactly like "one of the' family" without the in alienable family right to say what he thinks of it. Royal Kinship. CENTRALIA. Wash., Feb. 26. (To the Editor.) For the benefit of a class in history, kindly state in what manner Czar Nicholas is related to the royal family of Great Britain: also give name and family of the Czarina: and the names of the parents of the Queen of Spain. L. Edward VII, of Great Britain, mar ried Princess Alexandra, eldest daugh ter of King Christian IX of -Denmark. The present Russian Czar's mother is also a daughter of King Christian. Therefore, the Czar of Russia is nephew of the King of Great Britain. The Czarina's name is Alexandra Feodorov-na, and she is the daughter of Ludwlg IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. Princess Victoria Eugenie (now Queen of Spain) Is the daughter of the lite Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice (daughter of the late Queen Victoria of Great Britain). Palladino, the Medium, Breaks Contract Boston Herald, lime. Eusapia Palladino. the Italian medium, who has been receiving the at tention of the scientists and psychical research students of Europe and Amer ica, has broken away from her American managers and refuses to fulfill her part in the contracts they have arranged for her. That sums ranging from $1000 to $1750 have been paid for an evening of table-tipping, strange rappings, mystic communications from the spirit world and similar phenomena, under the direction and control of Mme. Palladino, is as serted by "Charles Stanton Hill, of Bos ton, lawyer, psychical student and In vestigator. It Is said that her share ranged from $125 to $150, leaving a com fortable margin as managerial commis sion. Finder of flSOO Gets a t'lKSr. Springfield, Mass., Dispatch. Joseph Mclnnis. driver of an ice wagon in Boston, received his first shock early in the day. when he found a wallet containing $1800 In cash. The second shock followed a few minutes later, when the owner of the wallet turned up, received his $1800 and, as a reward, gave Mclnnis a 5-cent cigar. CURRENT SMALL NOTES. Illiterate Nurse, Doctor, what must I do with a patient who is in a catamose condi tion? Humorous Doctor That calls for a dogmatic course of treatment. Baltimore American. Mrs. Backdoor If you 'chop that wood I'll Rive you your dinner. Rollingstene Nomoss I'm sorry, madam, but I've mis laid me card in de Woodchoppers' Union, and I don't wanter take no chance. Phila delphia Record. Ma. the critic in his account of the musicale you and pa went to night before last 'says the fiddler played with elan. Did you notice it?" "No unless that wu the name of the woman who accompanied him on the piano." Chicago Record-Herald. "It certainly is tough that we can't have beefsteak." sighed the man who was read ing about the cost of living; soaring higher every day. "Oh, cheer up." laughed the optimist, "it would be tough if we could have it. so what is the use to worry." Chicago Daily News. "What we want is harmony." said the statesman. "Yes." replied Senator Sorg hum, "it makes me think of a glee club I used to belong to. Every fellow's idea of harmony was to pick his own key and sing so loud nobody else could be noticed." Washington Star. Truth, crushed to earth, was rising, but with exceeding slowness. "Why should I hurry, anyhow?" said Truth. "The poet says the 'eternal years' are mine." "With which lame excuse she also justified her self for never quite catching up with a fugitive Lie. Chicago Trlbuns ASQUITH RECOILS. Tbe Difficulties of the Situation Too Great for His fours are. T. P. O'Connor's cable letter, in The Oregonian of yesterday, was interesting; to all who follow the course of British politics. The letter is a practical ad mission that Asquith is doomed to fail ure. He cannot unite the elements of a discordant majority. A test has come already before which he recoils. The New York Evening Mall gives the solu tion In the statement that he Is too much a Unionist at heart one may say he is too much an Englishman to adopt a parliamentary policy of which one of the earliest results will be home rule for iteland. If the truth be told, the English Lib erals axe glad now, and always have been glad, to have the Lords possess their legislative veto in order that with It they may block Irish home rule. The Liberals have been willing to play Irish home rule in the Commons, . and carry it right up to the gales of the House of Lords, feeling comfortably assured that the Lords will throw the bill out as often as it comes to them. That is as far as the old-fashioned Liberal cares to go in favor of granting legislative autonomy to Ireland. He docs not want it at all: but for purposes of politics, he is willing to offer it to the Irish party so long as the Lords are there to veto it. But if the Lords are deprived of .their veto, one of the earliest consequences will be Irish home rule. A Liberal ma Jot ity in the House of Commons cannot rciuse it long, because It cannot long operate with Irish opposition. Confronted with the demand of the Irish party to make the abolition of the Lords' veto his first and primary de mand before the new house, Mr. Asquith recoils and refuses. The Irish party withdraws its support. It is alto gether unlikely that Asquith will yield. His refusal to yield will mean a new election, and a second parliamentary campaign, fought much more distinctly along the line of national union. It may be too early to prophesy, but it is hard to see how the Liberals could welcome such an appeal to a wearied electorate, which would be quite disposed to charge up all Its troubles to the party In power, unless they were quite willing to accept defeat as a foregone conclusion, and leave the Tories to solve the difficulties of the preseut- situation. All this means that the successors of Charles Stewart Parnell. and the up holders of his policy, have driven an other governmental majority into a corner, and once more asserted their power to disorganize British politics. MERELY INTEMPERATE MOUTHING Itinerant Evngell" It Was Who Denounced the Unitarian Church. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Feb. 2. (To the Editor.) The man whom The Oregonian quotes as saying recently that he "would rather have a saloon come to town than to have a Unitarian church come," is not one of the ministers of Eugene, as has been said, but an evanselist who Is there today, and will be somewhere else to morrow. I doubt if any minister of any church in Eugene. Or., indorses the ut terances of Mr. Oliver, "the great evan gelist." Such a statement given above astounds men who think seriously, and the man who uttered it must have been under the "influence of some strange spirit" at the time. We. who are called "evangelical" and are rigidly orthodox, believe in the great, fundamental truths which the Unitarian church affirms in common with others: the fatherhood of God. the brotherhood of man. the highest culture of the mind and soul, the development of character, and Christian philanthropy. But we have no sympathy with the negations of Unita rian philosophy the denial of the divin ity of our Lord, the personality of the Holy Spirit, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the forgiveness of sins and sal vation through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ. We do not go to such lengths, however, in denouncing those men who do not think as we think, but who are "casting out some demons" as well as we. and I think we ought not to "forbid them." I know Mr. Sargent, who recently went to Eugene. Or., to take charge of the Unitarian Society, and lie is a gentleman above the average In intelligence, of kindly disposition, and industrious. Ha will visit the sick, the poor, and those in distress, and minister to their com fort, and those who associate themselves with him In philanthropic works will sup port him. Who will avow as much, or anything other than evil of the saloon? The people of Eugene, Or., have the same privilege in the matter of the Unitartan church which they have in other matters. They can let it alone, and if they do, it will soon "fold Its tent" and disappear. But the saloon, when voted out, will not let them alone. Evangelical Christianity is not helped, but hindered, by such extravagant state ments as those attributed to Mr. Oliver. T. to. FORD. The Proposed Hudson Klver Bridge. The Interstate Bridge Commission of the State of New York, appointed in 1906 to act jointly with a commission of the State of New Jersey, in consid ering the project for a bridge across the North River at New York City, has made its third annual report, recom mending that a bridge be built at One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street. This is about six miles north of Sixtieth street, the point which has been the New York" terminus most frequently considered In previous proposals. At One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street there Is high rooky land on both sides of the river. The main span would not have to be over 1400 feet long and no long approaches would be necessary. The estimated cost is $10,000,000 for a bridge to carry a highway and to carry trolley cars at high speed. It Is estimated that at any point farther south the cost would be three times aa much, and a crossing farther north would be out of the question on account of the increased width of the river. West One Hundred and Seventy-ninth street is near ly on a line with the Washington bridge across the Harlem River. Forefjcn Students Thronst to I'srla. Westminster Garette. The number of foreign students at the University of Paris increases by leaps and bounds. In 1SS9 there were only 4ST of them: in 1S99 there were 1174: now, accord ing to a return Just issued, there are no fewer than 3326. The Russians (135t) are the most numerous, and after them come the Roumanians (233). the Germans (231). the Egyptians (165), the Austrians (139). the English (115) and the Americans (107). There is also a sprinkling of stu dents from China, Japan, Mexico and the Republic of Panama. All together, in fact, the university seems to be becoming as cosmopolitan in its constitution as it was in the middle ages, when scholars wandered at their leisure from one seat of learning to another. Where to Apply for Wheat Lands. WOODMERE, Or.. Feb. 27. (To th Editor.) Please inform me how I can obtain information concerning wheat lands either in this state, or Alberta, Canada, either by homesteadlng or pur chase outright. H. HATTON. Write to the Registers of the Land Offices: at Burns, La Grande. Portland, Roseburg and The Dalles. Or. For information concerning Alberta lands probably the most direct and effective way would be to address Hon. G. 11. V. Bulyea, Lieutenant-Governor. Edmcnton, Alberta-