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6 THE . 3IORXIXG OREGOXTAX, 3IOXDAY, APRIL 11, 1910. PORTLAND, OREGON. Bn tared at Portland. Oregon. Postofflce aa Ssoond-Class Matur. Subscription Kates Invariiibly In Advance. . IBY MAIL..) Thty. Sunday Included, one year. . . . .$8.00 rlly, Sunday Included, six months... 4.25 Lft!y. Sunday Included, three months.. 2.-5 Tjflly, Sunday Included, one month.... -75 I.'aily. without Sunday, cne year..... 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months.... 8.25 I-y. without Sunday, three months 1.75 afly. without Sunday, one month GO Weekly, one year 1.T,i Sunday, one year...-. 2.50 Sycday and weekly, one year... 3-50 ' (By Carrier.) !!y, Punday Included, one year 8 2 Lally. Sunday Included, one month "5 JIow to Remit Send Postoffice money owler. express order or personal check on yeur local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postotfice ad dress In full. Including county and state. .Postage Rates lo to 14 pases. 1 cent; 16 to. 28 puses. 2 cents; 30 to 40 papes, 3 cents; 4ft to 60 paees. 4 cents. Foreign postage Cauble rate. -Eastern -Business Office The S. C. Peck-w5-,.h Special Agency New York, rooms 48 6Q Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510-iil2 Tribune building. lisRTLNO, MOMMV, APRIL, 11, 1910. i GOLD, CREDIT AND PRICKS. The Independent (New York) has bfetn publishing a series of articles on "The Cost of Living," each article by a Separate author, the series in its entirety covering a very wide range of inquiry, suggestion and argument. "Oie several writers are men of dis tinction in economic science, some ofi them specialists in industry and ftriance. The article in the number of March 24 deals with the question, "tloes Gold Production Increase Prices?" It is written by Stewart Brown, a banker of wide experience, hifh in Europe and in the United SJates. His contention is that the world's vpjume of gold in circulation or in storage must be eliminated entirely BS,a factor affecting prices, and must hj; treated as a part of the world's banking credit or capital only. He olfers these reasons: Gold is little used as actual cur rency. Its use for such purpose shows aft; annual increase of less than 5 per cant, which is infinitesimal when com. pitted with the world's increase in commerce and in commercial and f&tanctal transactions. But the in crease of commerce represents stored labor, as stored labor is the source oji the increase of commerce. In crease of gold has, however, enlarged sphere of credit; but bank credits simply stored labor, used altern alely for payment of other labor. The gj-eater the aggregate credit paid to labor the more the recipients have to exchange for existing commodities, tfreby forcing up prices and at the same time attracting more persons to t(Je pursuits that banking credits are developing. ' a This argument, standing alone, wjould seem a fanciful one very much like reasoning in a circle, in fact; shi,ce bank credits in the ultimate de pend on fold, or its movement, and increase of gold becomes an additional bfesis or supply of credit. But the wa-iter endeavors to fortify the argu njent by saying that too much of the world's capital and too many of the world's workers are ' at present em ployed in Industrial, transportation and commercial development and too little, of the world's capital and too few of the world's workers are, em ployed in producing foodstuffs; and until this condition rights Itself, prices, especially of foodstuffs, must rise, and will rise higher and higher. Why this tendency is greater in the United States than in other countries is'thus. accounted for: During a long period American syndicates have been borrowing billions of capital from the rest of the world and pouring it into rebuilding old and building new enter prises of every kind and nature, ex. cept in foodstuffs production. "We have had a financial debauch of the worst kind, but the entire American people got their share of the proceeds, with the result that the entire Nation has become extravagant, luxuries have become necessities, and with increased demand therefor prices for everything have been forced up. The writer con cludes that development work will soon receive a check in fact it has begun already: and that the American people must produce more foodstuffs and come down to a lower plane of living. Which most probably is true. MAKlMi 1AMAL TRAFFIC. It was many years after the Harri man house-flag waved over practically all of the rail lines in the state of Oregon that Mr. James J. Hill entered the field as an active competitor. In the brief period that has elapsed since the first North Bank train rumbled into Portland, the Hill projects have developed and expanded so rapidly that today the state of Oregon is the scene of more 'live" railroad projects than In any other state in the union. The close relations which Mr. Hill has established with the Spokane Ac In land Electric line, which radiates through the best traffic-producing field in Eastern Washington, the own ership of the United Railways and apparent control of the Oregon Elec tric' give the Hill interests several hundred miles of highly profitable electric feeders to the steam lines. The greatest traffic that will -be developed, however, will come from the opening up of the new territory In Central and Southeastern Oregon and in the coast regions. The activity now displayed by both the Hill and the Harriman forces in Oregon is such that it is a certainty that within five years nearly every locality in the rich field will be reached by either steam or electric transportation. This trans portation development will enorm ously increase the population of the state, and will provide the railroads with a profitable traffic that can never be wrested from them. Substitution of big freight steamers for the slow moving old sailing ships on the round-the-Horn route materially in creased the shipments which the water route took away from the railroads. Amuch greater deflection was notice able when the Tehuantepec Railroad, In connection with steamers, brought freight from coast to coast in practi cally the same time that was made by the railroads. Completion of the. Panama Canal will not only still further reduce the tifne for transcontinental and trans oceanic freight, but it will also reduce tnie rates. The increasing diversion of trjifric to the water route will then have such an appreciable effect on tt&ns-eontinental business that the de velopment of local traffic on the Pa cific Coast will be an imperative neces sity. The extreme length of the main line or any of the branches of the New Y6rk, Xtw Haven & Hartford Railroad Is very small ia comparison with any of the transcontinental railroads, but the New England road, with main line and branches of 2000 miles, -for the first six months of the current fiscal year showed gross earnings of $31,081,064, compared with 134,898,064 - for the Great Northern with more than 7000 miles of road. The lines now building and project ed in Oregon will eventually handle between the interior and tidewater a traffic of greater proportions, return ing greater profits, than that which is handled over the long transcontinental route. The resources of the new ter ritory on which this transportation in vasion is planned are of wonderful proportions, and the railroads and the people have a mutual interest in their development. We cannot well get along without the transcontinental railroad, but the roads which -will bring us the greatest prosperity are those which are now opening up new regions almost at our doors. TAI-T-S TALK. President Taft in his speech-making shows great good humor. His court esy and suavity do him credit. "We are reading nobody out of the party," he said in his talk at Washington City on Saturday night. But a time has come when things should be done. Bills have been formulated for carry ing out the pledges of the Republican platform, but Congress doesn't get on with them. The reminder was Put in mild language, but it was in the na ture of a rebuke The tone of the speech indicates that the President expects the oppo site party to gain control of the House. But he" is unable to believe that party can accomplish anything. It is obvi ous, indeed, that it cannot. Its dissen sions and divisions will be greater than those even of the Republican party. It has no record of achieve ment, and even as a minority it is un able to agree. It might have beaten Cannon for the Speakership in March of last year but a lot of its members were afraid the "interests" of their districts would "suffer," and let the chance go by. A Democratic House never can agree on a tariff policy. Should it win the next House it won't even try, for fear of the effect on the Presidential election. "CON-SFRVI.-G" JACKASS MOUNTAIN. Near Burns, in Harney County, is a juniper-covered. Government-owned hill, called Jackass Mountain. Below Is a swamp. Both the mountain and the juniper trees and the swamp are counted worthless in their present con dition, and indeed are of rational ben efit neither to man nor beast, nor even to special agents. But because Bill Hanley undertook a plan for digging trenches, by means of a machine that used the Government's juniper trees for fuel, so as to drain the swamp and redeem land from water waste, special agents had him indicted; and now Mr. Hanley must stand trial for an alleged crime whoso maximum, punishment would be twelve months' imprison ment. Now here is "jackass" conservation with a vengeance. Most persons of the vicinity regard the Hanley project as highly benelicial to the region and Mr. Hanley as an enterprising citizen. The trees never have been classed as a forest; nor as timber in any commer cial sense, nor even as fit for cordwood in any other usq than Mc: .H.ailjey's. Since if seized 750 cords of the wood, the Government finds nobody will buy it. -Meanwhile a worthy, project is stopped and progress of the Burns re gion is that much arrested. It may be that Mr. Hanley could have saved all this trouble Xiy obtain ing .permit from the Government to use the Juniper trees. Probably this would have been his proper course. But, the trees not being classed as tim ber or valued as such, he thought he could cause them to be cut and burned in his dredger without violating the law. It is a case wherein criminal in tent is wholly lacking and wherein trouble comes of definitions merely. Conservation agents call the trees tim ber and start prosecution. Yet that definition never held in the Burns country till they brought it there. This business renews a warning, which the experience of all kingdoms and republics has declared, time out of mind, against government by rul ings and decrees instead of by laws. Too many edicts of conservation offi cials have the force of law. That has made no end of trouble in this West ern country lately. It is at the bot tom of all the row between Ballinger and Pinchot. The case of Jackass Mountain is one in which the Government should deal kindly with the alleged offender. RItiHT KIM) OK FOURTH. Mayor Gaynor. of New York,, has taken time by the forelock in the promotion of measures that will in duce a safe, sane and quiet Fourth of July in the great city. He announced on the first of this month that the city government would refuse to issue permits for the sale of fireworks and firecrackers for use on that day. There will be no permits whatever issued to retail dealers for tiie sale of these explosives, notice being given thus far in advance to let the wholesale trade and manufacturers know just what to expect, and thus forestall loss in their business. It has been found by costly experi ence that explosives in the hands of children and other irresponsible per sons are "a menace to life and prop erty. It has been found.' also, that mild restrictions, dependent upon in dividual carefulness and conscience, have little or no effect upon the gen eral results. Hence the sweeping in terdiction of the retail trade in fire works and explosives for the so-called celebration of the Fourth of July in New York City. STEADY MONEY MARKET. The New York bank statement, printed in .The Oregonian yesterday, show-s the surplus reserve of the clearing-housa banks to be at pretty low ebb. The fact that there was also a heavy decrease in loans and that, de spite the heavy exports of gold, the re serve still stands mere than $6,000,000 above the requirements of the 25 per cent rule, to a great extent removes cause for apprehension. Only once since last October has this surplus re serve fallen below $6,000,000. On April 10. 1909, it stood at $10.03S.OOO. That the New York financiers are not taking any chances on trouble is shown by the limits to which loans are held down. During March and April last year the loans of the clearing house banks did not fall below $1,300, 000.000. while this year high-water mark for loans for the same months has been Jl. 251. 000, 000. The loan item reported ia the state ment Saturday was $1,242,27S,000, which compares with $1,320,945,000 for the same- period last year. The heavy balance of trade now running against us, in the way of imports greatly in excess of exports, is to a cer tain extent an unfavorable trade fac tor. At the same time it should be remembered that we are presumably buying these imports because we need them in our business. There has never been a time in the history of the coun try when there were insufficient funds for carrying on legitimate business, although-not infrequently these funds have been temporarily frightened into hiding. The West is not feeling the effects of a tightening money market in the East. Thus far the only out ward sign of the hardening of the money rates is a slackening in stock speculation. After all, the true measure of pros perity is not so much the size of the surplus reserves held by the banks as it is the confidence of the public. We get along better in all lines of indus try and trade when the funds of the banks are all out working and aiding in creation of new wealth. Neither idle dollars nor idle men are good for a country, and. the two seem to be in evidence simultaneously. CO-AS-YOl'-PLKASE ORIENTAL LINE. Fifty carloads of Oriental merchan dise were received in Portland last week by way of Puget Sound ports. This is somewhat above' the average weekly business diverted from the line of steamers running to this port, but it is probable that at least one full ship load per month is received at Portland by way of Tacoma and Seattle. Meanwhile the Portland line is car rying light cargoes and delivering them any old time within two weeks to six weeks of the time they are ex pected. We seem to be suffering from a strange deadlock. The steamship people refuse to give-us a service with regular sailings for the alleged reason that the business does not warrant it. The Portland importers then meet them on their own grounds, and re fuse to ship freight by Portland steam ers because the service is poor. There is business enough "between this port and the Orient to support a line of steamers, but it cannot be made to pay unless it is operated properly and in such a manner that it will se cure all of the business. STRONG MEDICINE NEEDED. The hysterical captains of industry who . buy and sell wheat, corn and the like on the Chicago Board of Trade are this year making a strange de parture from the time-honored prac tice of rigging the market with be whiskered rumors. In former seasons it has been the rule to distribute the price-affecting "dope" in such a man ner that, when the effect of one ru mor was exhausted, there would be another to. take its place. For example, frost, heat, rain, dry weather, the green bug, the aphis, the chinchbug, the Hessian fly and other factors in the market situation were brought in one at a time, thus dis tributing the excitement over a consid erable period. This year not any one or two of these factors in the game is sufficient to start anything, or there has been a change in the system, for last Saturday it required the presence of the chinchbug in Kansas, the Hes sian fly in Missouri and dry weather throughout most of the Southwest to inject even a moderate amount of "ginger" into a tame market. MAYOR GAYNOR AND THE POLICE. There are two or three points of more than local importance in Mayor Gaynor's recent revolutionary orders to the New York police force. Among other things he lays down the rule that a policeman's official authority is not to be exercised when and where his private judgment may dictate, but is to be kept in strict subordination to the orders of his superiors. Two high ly moral New York policemen appear to have sallied forth of their own ac cord on a recent Sunday and raided certain saloons which were violating the excise law. Without condemning their motives, which were no doubt excellent. Mayor Gaynor points out that, in the case of men less morally fortified, such raids would open the way to extortion and blackmail. His superiors ought to know at all times where a patrolman is and what he is doing in his official capacity. He is not a potentate endowed with abso lute authority but merely a wheel in a machine whose workings he may as sist but is not supposed to direct. The courts have always held, as Mayor Gaynor points out, that the right of a policeman to make an ar rest without a warrant Is very limited. If a person w-ho is likely to run away Is caught committing an offense he should be arrested on the' spot, but such contingencies are rare.. As a common rule policemen are bound to obtain a warrant from a magistrate and let the law take its regular course with criminals. This is sometimes a trial to the patience, but it avoids sub stantial evils. An officer who is al lowed to arrest persons at his own arbitrary volition may also at his own volition let them go again, and in re turn for his kindness he may exact money. In fact. Judge Gaynor em phasizes the circumstance that the power of arbitrary arrest implies the power of extortion and . blackmail. This power has been exercised in New York to a scandalous extent, so that the excise law has been converted mainly into an instrument of robbery. It is reasonable to suppose that the same course is pursued in every other city where arbitrary arrests are al lowed, though perhaps not to the same degree. The Mayor of New York orders the police to look for violations of the law outside the saloons. They are to no tice whether forbidden screens appear and the like, but they are not to go inside and threaten to arrest the bar tender after tempting him to break the law. No more wholesome regula tion was ever made. The more the police come into direct contact with vice the" more likely they are to be come blackmailers, if they have the power to make arrests. The tempta tion to sell immunity is almost irresis tible. At any' rate it has always been found irresistible in practice. The ideal method of dealing with vice of all sorts would be to make it the duty of the, police to obtain evidence but let arrests be made by other officials. In general it would be an excellent thing if the police forces of most of our cities gave less of their time and attention to vice and more to the pro tection of the community from major crimes. It is not well to permit any man to become too familiar with vice. The monster is of hideous mien but seen too oft, familiar with her face our policemen first endure, tten pity. then altogether too frequently embrace. The Allds-Conger episode in the legislature of New York was this: Conger wished to prevent further honor or place or power from coming to Allds. So he told in a party caucus how Allds had taken a bribe. Conger himself, though not supplying the money, was an intermediary through whom it was conveyed to Allds. But Conger didn't expect 'the caucus mem bers to reveal it, and didn't tell them of course he didn't his own con nection with It. But the bribe story, as to Allds, leaked out from mem bers of the caucus. Then Allds de nied; but Conger, driven into a corner, was forced to confess the whole, in cluding his own connection with the transaction. Then both had to get out. Of course Conger didn't expect any such result from his confidential communication to the caucus. But at last he endeavored to pose as a moral hero, adding hypocrisy to his original sin as a bribe-giver and to his indiscre tion in launching exposure. John Hailey, well known through out the Pacific Northwest since 1853, has published a "History of Idaho." Since 1862 he has been a resident of that territory and state. 'He was Idaho's delegate in Congress from 1873 to 1875. John Hailey was an active pioneer and has been a notable figure wherever he has resided. His History of Idaho preserves not only many records scattered widely hitherto and scarcely accessible, but a mass of materials gathered by his personal experience or supplied by his recollec tion. He has not made pretension to literary form, but has produced an excellent book, which will preserve many things of interest that other wise would have been lost. It is a large book, brimful of personal, as well as historical Incident, and will be a source of information about early affairs in Idaho to all future writers. It is published by the Syras-Tork Company, Boise City. Had the Harriman lines used their opportunities, these last twenty years, the Hill lines would not be in Oregon at all. Now it seems the Hill lines are to be quite as extensive and important in Oregon as the Harriman lines. Everybody in Oregon strove to get the Harriman lines to move, throughout Oregon. It was unavailing; there were bad advisers, who said the country was barren and desert. They wouldn't move. Yet here is a state of great ex tent that the original railroad might have covered completely with its lines. It didn't; though we all begged and beseeched and prayed. But now the. result comes about only Oregon .is twenty-five years in arrear. But per haps in the long run it will get an ad vantage from the competition that will in time compensate the delay. David Rankin, of Tarkio, Mo., tells in the April number of "Country Life in America" how he, "a plain farmer," began in 1850 with eighty acres of land, bought with savings from his wages, has followed the life of a plain farmer ever since, and now has prop erty shown by his latest schedule to be worth $3,237,490. He has avoided all speculation. He has many farms, varying in size from 700 acres upward, the largest containing SOOO acres, and uses every year from 4000 to 6000 bushels of corn for seed. He grows forage crops, and turns off cattle and hogs for market. In this way, from smallest beginnings, he has made all his wealth. Is Mr. Rankin the farmer responsible for the high prices of meats? A great deal is said about the decli nation of President Taft to speak in. Indiana. He doesn't want to add any thing to differences existing in that state, but he might as well go and speak there anyway, for the Republi cans have no chance whatever to carry Indiana. Two years ago Republican prohibitionists turned the whole liquor interests of the state against the Re publican party, and now the insurgents have turned the entire body of protec tive tariff men against.it. Indiana will go Democratic overwhelmingly. Taft stays away so he can answer "Thou canst not say I did it." What's all this noise and fuss about what Roosevelt will do for the people when he comes home? Can't the peo ple rule themselves? Must they have a master mind, a boss, a programme? The people-fearing foes of Taft and Cannon and Ballinger, who are asking "what would Teddy do?" should be ashamed of themselves. Rather they should ask, "Whet will the people do?" Well, the weather yesterday was a sort of drawn battle between the sci entific weather prophets and those who believe the legend of clear Sun days after Easter. It was a kind of "square deal," that gave satisfaction to neither side and jarred the postu lates of both. Representative Gillett, of Massa chusetts, infers from the action of his fellow representatives at Washington that the people are less interested in public economy than in appropriations for their districts. Here is disen chantment, indeed! About the best thing that could happen to the Republican party would be a Democratic majority in the next House. It would speedily show it couldn't do anything. This might save the Presidential election of 1912 to the Republicans. Some patriots find America too dimly illuminated when the limelight emerged from the jungle, so they post off o'er land and ocean to shine in its effulgence. A comet is something always put off till the morrow and the morrow never comes. With some persons of good intentions this Is a typical comet sea son. Thieves broke in" and stole $13 from two Lebanon editors. It is not lucky for editors to have that much money, however incredible it may be. Car steps are to be fifteen and one half inches from the ground. The bantam must take up physical cul ture. We are loath to suggest it, but a person who boasts of having seen the comet may not be an early riser. A new- Jersey girl has asked Mr. Taft to put a limit on big" hats. Sit ting on them will do. Mr. Heney seems to be needed north of the, - Columbia. LIFE IX THE OREGON COOTRY. There's No Lap Like Mother's. Condon Globe. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hess narrowly escaped serious injury the first of the week when he railed from the lap of a little g;irl end fell to the Fifty Thousand. Shingle In si Tree. Lincoln County Leader. Ira Everson and W. M. Brooks of Waldport have made 30.000 shingles from one tree and enough of the tree Is left to make over 20.000 more. With shingles at $3 per thousand these trees are help ing to develop the country. Fldo and Boss. Stay ton Mall. We understand that we have been called a "pup" the past week; in fact, it has been said of us that "the 'pup' is beginning to sit up." Well, if we are the "pup," the man who made the growl must be the old dog himself. Fame in a Flower (Not a Rose). Geo. M. Miller in Florence West. The rhododendron flower seems to be dpKfine tn miilr. L'1 , . . .. . , ... . . . . .. ciivc jauiuua. X 1118 beautiful shrub and flower is in almost umveraai demand lor lawn and garden decorations, so much so that it retails In the nurseries at $1.75 per plant- Now, Why Did John Get Hiiffrt Mitchell Sentinel. John Evans was In our office last Sun day. His hohhv In nnv Unlln alw,,-. hoe a hobby) the killing of all the sage rata. r.aii is to omiK mem to death witn some kind of a mixture he has got up. "We riii' t i,i... i. . i 1 n . - v. ' mac lie yiuuuie material from the Democratic party and no got nuiiy as usual and left the house. AH In a Dsfs "Work. Sumpter American. "What constitutes a day's work?" We figure it out that it depends altogether on your occupation. If you lay brick, eight hours; if you keep house, 16 hours; if you preach the gospel, two hours; if you are a porter in a sleeping-car, 20 hours; if you serve the Government, one hour; and if you ere a newspaper man, 24 hours. Gardiner's Newest Honor. Gardiner Correspondent Roseburg Review. April 6 was a great day for Gardiner, as we had two pretty baby boys arrive, one at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clif ford Benson, giving Gardiner the honor of being the birthplace of the youngest governor. We surely congratulate Clif ford, and also Governor Benson. The other baby arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Daly. Cnpid In Kernvllle. Correspondence Toledo Leader. Our new postmaster, George Wood, thought he needed a helpmate, so he be gan to look around for a good cook, a neat housekeeper and a pleasant girl to make his home happy. When he saw Miss Nora Fitzpatrick he Just thought "that is the one for me"; then he set about in his pleasant way, wooed and won her and made her his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Wood, all of us extend to you our hearty congratulations for your future happiness. Our Lock of Humor. New York Post. Artemus Ward said that a comic pa per was no worse for having a Joke in It now and then, and his words have ever since been quoted as embodying the gospel of wit and humor. The great form of American mirth Is the joke. "It is to laugh" that's our creed- in a sen tence. Misplaced capitals, awkward spelling, impossible grammar, infinite incongruity of situation, endless word play, grotesquery of action and charac ter, heightened by pictures equally funny, these are the things that make us laugh. We are quick to catch the point of a cartoon, to enjoy the ex aggeration of a caricature. But to smile at the mock-serious, to be amused by satire, is a refinement as yet beyond us. Hogrs and Breakfast Food. Providence Journal. Hogs are high because "feed" is high. Feed is high because of the large con sumption of breakfast foods. Breakfast foods are high, too, because of the fancy pasteboard which goes into the packages. To secure cheaper pork there must be Induced a restraint on the consumption of breakfast foods, in order that the hogs can have cheaper feed; or the con sumption of pasteboard must be reduced so that the consumer can save money on his breakfast foods and put it into pork. At least, that is one way a critical economic problem seems to work out. When We Fifth! Japan. Boston Advertiser. Admiral Fournier, commander of the French Mediterranean fleet, follows the old-fashioned and blundering method of reasoning in terms of war when he urges greater naval strength for France and an associated greater military strength for Kngland, to be ready to combat the forces of the triple alliance in' the event of war between the United States and Japan, or war provoked by German na tional tactics. Wasting His Time. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ex-Secretary of the Interior James A. Garfield, who was left out of the Taft Cabinet, proposes to do 'a little insurging in Ohio. Since everything that can happen to Taft has already happened, Mr. Garfield is wasting his time. A Case In Point. Philadelphia Record. Cynicus It is impossible for a wo man to keep a secret. Henpeckke I don't know about that: my wife and I were engaged for sev eral weeks before she said anything to me about it- Do Like Wise. ' Salt Lake Tribune. Stephen Samuel Wise was a Jewish clergyman who did great things for humanity. In view of his good works, it will be appropriate to urge, "Go thou and do like Wise." Correct Answer. Manchester Guardian. The class was being questioned on the cardinal points of the ' compass. "If I turn to the east and look at the rising sun, what is behind me?" Boy Yer shadder. Doing Nothing and Nothing; Doing. New Bedford Standard. The suggestion that the Republicans rest a bit and let the Democrats show what they can ' do is not so bad. seeing that the Democrats will probably show what; they cannot do t ' Arlxona Sure. Arizona Republican. . The passage of the statehood bill and its approval by the President before the first of next July are as certain as anything in human affairs can be. Also Electrioitjr and Gas. Salt Lake Tribune. Added to the other items making up the present high cost of living is "the charge of the light brigade." Not Submitting; Records. Baltimore Sun. Mr. Gifford Pinchot is not submitting any records to the University of Co penhagen, is her NO PI BL1C DOCKS RETIRED HERE. Private Ownership Best for Peculiar -Conditions of Portland Trade. WOODSTOCK, Or.. April 9. (To the Editor.) The present agitation for public ownership of waterfront dockage seems to be on in full force, ostensibly for fear that whan the Panama Canal Is an accomplished fact we shall have no adequate facilities to handle the enor mous traffic entering our port, and that the charges levied by private dock or wharf-owners will militate against the best interests of our industries. For one who has for many years been in close touch with matters relat ing to shipping in Oregon, these fears are groundless. Portland, with Its sub urbs, has over six miles of waterfront dockage in actual use today. That is, if we figure in the dockage front of the great sawmills. This is far in excess of many seaports twice the size of Port land. The reason we have so much quayage is- because the nature of our importing and exporting business ab solutely demanded private ownership docks and warehouses, and for thes reasons: Our staple imports by water are 90 per cent dead weight cargoes; our exports by water are and will be for the next 6d years 95 per cent lum ber and cereals. Neither our Incoming nor outgoing products can stand more than one handling, and as both our import and export business is still in private hands (we not having carried our municipal socialisms so far yet as to break into these Industries), it is likely to be handled in the accustomed way. Portland, by. reason of Its privately owned wharfs and warehouses, is en abled to undersell either San Francisco, Tacoma or Seattle. For no other rea son our magnificent river and harbor lend themselves to the unique system in use here, but our conditions cannot be adopted by the above-named ports for the simple fact that they have not got the river harbor. Of course, one or two publicly owned wharfs for the discharge of ballast or transient river freight might be useful or even become imperative, but a wholesale absorption of all- the dock age seems to me not only absurd but positively vicious. . Before entering oa a scheme of this nature, would it not be well to see how the case stands as regards the rights which riparian owners of land have for extending the wharfs beyond high-water mark into the stream? In early days docks and wharfs were put up without consulting any one. LateY it became the fashion to consult the War Department. Whether the. War Department was em powered by act of Congress to make rulings on questions affecting ripa rian rights, I know not, but have al ways understood that all navigable streams belonged to the people up to high'-water mark. That is, as far as the tide affects the water at the nor mal stage. If I am correct in this, would It be too much to say that thia may ac count for the fact that we have such a miserably unsanitary waterfront? GEORGE POPE. ! Pointed PararTaphs. Chicago News. No, Cordelia, vain checks never check the rain. And much is done in the name of charity also many. He Is a cheap man who lets his actions give him away. The smaller the man the bigger the horn, he tries to blow. The proper place for low-cut gowns is on the bargain counter. A fool and his money are seldom parted by the same method twice. Some people try to demonstrate their intelligence by finding fault. Men love goodness, but marry beauty and the divorce mill continues to grind overtime. Women like to do things out of the ordinary, but they never hold their tongues for that reason. Even the girl who gets angry because a young man tries to kiss her can't help but admire his excellent taste. Pessimists tell us the world isn't growing better even though the "coon-song" craze has bumped the bumps. Oregon News Away From Home. New York Morning Telegraph. "The West is for Champ Clark for President because he has always stood for the rights of Caucasian labor on the Pacific Coast and opposed the im portation of Chinese coolies, and If he is nominated on the Democratic ticket many Republicans will vote for him," declared Captain A. W. Lafferty, an attorney, of Portland, Or., who . is In the city. "In Oregon," he continued, "one often hears Mr. Clark named as the next Democratic nominee for President 'Pike' Davis, a leading lawyer of the Pacific Coast, who is president of the Missouri Society, in Portland, has al ready started to campaign for him, not withstanding .the fact that Mr. Davis is a Republican." The Franking Privilege. . PORTLAND. April 9. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian of April S there was an article on "the franking privilege of ex-Presidents and their widows." Will you kindly explain more fully Just what thos? privileges include and why they are given? F. S., JR. The franking privilege permits mem bers of both houses of Congress to send mail matter of all kinds, in any quan tity tons on tons of it free. Our Gov ernment gives this privilege through gen erosity, the same as it allows a member of Congress mileage of 20 cents a mile when his ticket costs him only two cents a mile. Psychology in "Ad" Writing. Philadelphia Record. Psychology has been put to many uses in its day. but seemingly has no limitations. Professor Charles Sher wood Ricker, chief assistant to Pro fessor Hugo Munsterburg, asserts that psychology can teach a business man. to write an advertisement so as to pro duce the best 'results. "Every advertisement makes a. cer tain Impression upon the eye," says the professor, "and this is conveyed to the mind. The will power 'is swayed and governed by these sensory impressions. If these sensory impressions are vivid and compelling enough, they cause the will center of the brain to act in turn, thus forcing the reader of the adver tisement to write in answer." Vanity of Criticism. E. V. Lucas in the Atlantic Monthly. I remember . hearing an ingenious journalist remark that if ever he were appointed editor of a literary paper he would now and then devote a whole number to reviews of one book only, each review to be the work of a critic of eminence who was unaware that his verdict was not (as is usual) the only one that would be printed. "Thus " he added, "I should make an interesting numoer oi my paper, wmie tne differ ences of opinion in the reviews would healthily illustrate the vanity of crit icism." A Fervent and Timely Prayer. Houston (Tex.) Post. Oh, Lord, now that everything is coming our way, purge every Demo cratic soul of hot air and vainglory and insert large installments of common sense in every Democratic cranium, and oh, remember. Lord, our proneness to make fools of ourselves Just when we have the world by the tail and a down hill pull, and see that we don't get in bad this time! COXCRESs' TALKS ON HORSESHOES. Debate Wnere Statesmen Show Learn ing On Farm Matters. Debate 'upon an appropriation ot $8000 for the stable of the State De partment. Mr. Clark (Mo.) I know this about shoeing horses. Where I live we have fine gravel roads; 200 miles of the finest gravel roads in the world are n the county in which I live, and two run out of my town; and these gravel roads wear out shoes on horses pretty fast, a great deal faster than these smooth asphalt streets in Washington. When I am at home and use my buppy horse nearly every day, I have him shod once a month. He can get along, I think, with about six or eight shoe- ings in a year if there wa;. no nnr- tlcular endeavor to save his- feet. One- nair or the time the man simply resets his shoes, and when he lines th.it i-. charges a dollar. Well, now. if out in me country it only costs a dollar to reset a set of shoes on a horse, in Washington it ought not to cost more than $2. and then you can cut this down still more. Now. thev run these horses part of the time out to pasture. A man who has any sense when he turns a horse out to pasturo pulls his shoes off . him. and he isjiot shod at all, so as to rive ills hoofs . chance to get back into prime condi tion, and I undertake to say that unless iney ouy a new set of carriage horses and a new set of wagon horses every year, then this appropriation ought to do cut down to $4000, and I will so move. Mr. Gillett (Mass.) As to' the crlti- . fism on horseshoeing, it strikes me, as it does the gentleman, that it is extremely large, although ho has very much exaggerated the excess, because norseshoelng is expensive. I had a horse here at one time, and I remem ber you have to put pads on a horse here in Washington on these hard as phalt streets, and it is expensive busi ness; much more so, I discovered, than it was at home. But it does strike me that this sum for horseshoeing is very large, and I am glad the criti cism has been made on it. There are going to be outrageous extravagances until we get some system. Until it is somebody's business to go into all these details and keep watch on them all the time extravagance will creep in. And I am Inclined to think it is inevit able in the public Government, and we cannot and will not be able to stop it. , Mr. Keifer (O.) I want to testify a little myself on the subject of shoeing horses. In the last Winter 1 have seen a number of splendid horses fall because of ice and slippery streets, thereby being injured or destroyed, and as a blacksmith I would say that those horses ought to have had sharp ened calks, steel toes and frost nails in their shoes every day of that sort of weather, notwithstanding the gen tleman claims that they shou'd be shod only once a month, as he would shoe his horse out on a gravel or dirt road in Missouri. I am not very well ac quainted with the district of the gen tleman from Missouri (Mr. Clark), but I know that a majority of the horses in that region in former times, at least, were never shod at all. Beyond that, many farmers drive their horses to market and plow their corn and never shoe them at all. Mr. Clark A horse on a farm that is being used for plowing and all that ought not to be shod. Mr. Keifer I thought you were a farmer. Mr. Clark I used to be a farmer, and I say this, that a farm horse whose work is confined to the duties of the farm is better off not shod than he is shod. ' Mr. Keifer I guess you are right about that. Mr. Clark But if you are going to . drive a horse on the road, he ought to be shod. Mr. Keifer. Yes. Some of the horses in the gentleman's district are shod on their fore feet and not on their hind feet. Mr. Clark That is true. Mr. Keifer Now, w-e are ia the city of Washington, with paved streets, the capital of the Republic, and the Secre tary of State is looking after foreign affairs', to see whether he can extend commerce or the influence of the Re public In the far Orient, and he is looking after a multitude of important things. Mr. Clark When the House under takes to help the appropriation com mittee discharge Its functions, what makes you get mad about it? Mr. Keifer In the first place I did not get mad. The only thing. I was doing was criticising the effort of the gentleman when he failed to help us. He was talking about horseshoeing out in Missouri, when we ought to talk about shoeing horses on the smooth, icy paved streets of Washington. Mr. Clark You live out in the coun try yourself? Mr. Keifer Yes. Mr. Clark Do not you know that a gravel road will wear a horse's shoes out more quickly than these smooth asphalt streets in Washington? Mr. Keifer Not in wet and icy weather. Mr. Clark They will not? Mr. Keifer No, sir. .Mr. Clark Now, one other question: Suppose the Secretary of State does concern himself with great questions in the Far East, is that any reason why he should pay two prices for shoe ing a horse in Washington? Mr. Keifer Not at all. Nobody ever thought that would be a reason. True Enough But Then Whatf New York Tribune. There is a coterie of . Republicans who have served under or were closely affiliated with the last Administration and who have grossly exaggerated their importance in the order of na ture, and politics. They are now self ishly distressed at the loss of author ity and significance, which they hope to recover by undermining the present Administration. These men would have been equally resentful against any new regime in which they were not per mitted to play conspicuous parts. They secretly encourage depreciation of President Taft even when they do not openly engage in it. Bryan Will Shape the Inane. Bristol (Tenn.) News. But they maysneer at and ridicule Mr. Bryan as much as they choose, yet there is no question that today he is the most Influential man by far in the Democratic party, and while he may voluntarily decline to lead his party to a fourth defeat, still he will be all powerful in shaping the issues upon which it will appeal to the people in the next National contest. Neeesstary Delay. Washington Star. "Why did you postpone your divorce proceedings?" "It was absolutely necessary to do so." replied Mrs. Flimgilt, "until I could consul t with my photographer. I haven't a picture that I 'would be willing to see in print." Sympathy. Philadelphia Public Ledger. "A Cleveland girl claims to have fasted 45 days." "Poor thing! Why doesn't she quit boarding?" Mr. Sherman in the Llmellsut.- Charleston News and Courier. The Vice-President caused a sensa tion In the Senate the other day. He sneezed so loudly that people knew just where he stood.