10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAT 4, 1910. PORTLAND, OREGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon, Fostofxlcs as Peoond-Clasa Matter. rjubscriptlom Kates Invariably In Advance (BT MAIL) ftlr. Sunday Included.: on year. ..... $8.00 uatly, Buodar Included, six months.... 4.zo Ially, Sunday Included, three montbl. .. 2.25 Iaily, Sunday included, one month. .... .75 taly, without Sunday, one year QX0 Dally, without Sunday, ' six months.... 8.23 2e41y, without Sunday, three month. 1.75 Dally, without Sunday, one month. . . . .60 Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year... 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one y eex ........ . 8.50 (By Carrier). Daily, Sunday Included, one year. ..... 9.00 iiaiiy, aunaay lncluoea, one month.... . lo How to Remit Send Postoffice money order, express order or personal check on ur local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postoffice ad dress In full. Including county and state. Postage Kates 10 to 14 pages, 1 cent; 16 to 28 pages, 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages, 8 cents; 40 to 60 pages, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. Eastern Business Office The S. C Beeh wlth Special Agency New York, rooms 48 f0 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510 612 Tribune building. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY. MAY 4. 1910. OTSTTRGENT9 PIATOTO TO IVEMOCItATS The unsatisfactory situation In Con gress as to' measures -which the coun try plainly -wants enacted Is the log ical outcome of Republican dissen sions.. New railroad legislation, postal savings banks and conservation re forms are demanded by the country, but the party that is pledged to carry them into effect is as a house divided against Itself and the prospect prom ises nothing successful. Democrats are acting solely (with a purpose to widen the gaps between their Repub lican opponents and to go 'before the country with an exhibit of Republican pledges unkept. It is plain that there is no party In Congress strong enough to carry out constructive policies. TJ regular or Administration forces are not in con trol, nor are the smaller group of in surgents, nor are the Democrats. It would seem, therefore, that little leg islation of the kind the public -wants can be expected from the present Con gress. In an obstructive sense. Demo crats and Insurgents combined are masters of) the situation, and obstruc tion Is the sum total of achievement Just now. This outcome results, in some de gree, from adherence of a few insur gents to commendable reform princi ples, but in larger degree from polit ical self-importance and demagogy of men of the La Follette-Beveridge stamp. They are risking the disrup tion of their National party in order to make themselves Important for home consumption. Their Insistence lor the Cummins amendment to the railroad rate ibill, so a3 to require ap proval of any advance In rates by the Interstate Commission before it shall be enforced is partly -worthy, but not "to the extent that their stubbornness on the matter may defeat all legisla tion on the subject and estop fulfill ment of party promises. This princi ple of ratemaklng appeals to fair onlnded citizens and its enactment Into the powers of the Commission "will be effected in due time, but man ifestly It cannot be accomplished now and stubborn adherence to it in the Cummins amendment has made dead Jock of legislative programme. Men who "won't play" unless they get -what they -want are not the kind that make governments great or sustain a serv iceable party organization or have abiding success in statesmanship. That spirit -would have made the or ganization of this Government Impos sible and now would split the Gov ernment and the Nation into frag ments. The proper place to fight out the Issues of Insurgents against regulars Is before the people in the several Btates. That would keep Democratic rivals from meddling in the contest or profiting from the Issues. The pres ent Insurgent method Is bringing Democrats directly into the fight, and giving them the Issue, of a small fac tion of the Republican party, to use against the entire Republican party. This may be well enough; it may now toe the right time to turn the Govern ment over to the Democratic party, e-nd perhaps a majority of the people of the United States will have in mind to do this thing. But insurgents will ero down with their party (wreckage, as affairs in Indiana and Ohio give ffiromlse. So that the present session of Con rress looks as if it would turn out a "failure, so far as Important legislative measures are concerned. The blame will attach properly to a small group of the Republican members of Con fess who have insisted upon making the much larger Republican member ship conform to its ideas. This is not possible, and attempts at it have pro duced turmoil that is pleasing to Dem ocrats, and that is likely to give Democrats control of the next House of Representatives, and perhaps of the Presidency in 1912. IjOXO IHSXAJTCE ZjOVE. It would be- hazardous to prophesy Just how far science can go in pro moting matrimony. The news that a couple has managed to become en gaged by wireless telegraphy opens an Inviting field for speculation and tempts one to imagine further im provements, but the engaging reality when it comes may surpass all the dreams of the most luxuriant fancy Of course the apparatus for transmit ting pictures of living scenes has not yet been perfected, but thre is no doubt that it will "be- before a great while. Persons of wealth and taste will then be provided with screens on which the panorama of the entire world will be spread without intermis sion. Among other delightful specta cles the most charming women in ex istence win be portrayed and naturally he beholders will take their choice. Thus a man may fall in love with a Hindoo belle without ever having seen her, and if by a lucky chance the wme belie should behold the man on her screen and experience the same emotion, what is- to hinder them from carrying on an entire courtship and finally being married without taking the trouble to -visit one another? The approaching perfection of the long-distance telephone will enable lovers to converse though hemispheres intrude between them, and thus for all practical purposes they will be to gether, no matter how far apart their bodies may be. Love messages will flit through the air on angels wings, as t were. Rapturous visions of adored ones will fill the hitherto va cant gulf 3 of space 'and the Joys of courtship will pervade the entire uni verse Instead of being confined, as heretofore, to secluded nooks and dark corners. Better still. It-will-be .possible for-all j mankind to renew the delights of youthful love, since all that will be necessary for that rapturous purpose will be to provide oneself with a wireless receiver and a photographic transmitter. Couples will not need to come within actual sight of each other until they are ready to set up a home and perhaps not then. Why may not family life be carried on by some wire less process? Who shall limit the triumphs of human ingenuity? ALABAMA AND OREGON. The Oregonian had ' an interesting statement Sunday from Rev. W. C. Halt, an Anti-Saloon League worker, as to the results of an investigation he had made in the South. Dr. Helt was reluctantly convinced that state wide prohibition is a failure, since K cannot be enforced in the larger cen ters of population or in any com munity against the sentiment of its residents. In Montgomery, Ala., he found that "there is not a more wide open city in the country. Every room which was used for a saloon under license law is preserved Intact with bar and furnishings." The explana tion is easy of course. Montgomery doesn't want the law enforced and will not elect officers to enforce it. State prohibition was enacted by the Alabama Legislature in 1908. In November, 1909, after some months' experience with the law, and after the passage at a special session of the Legislature of sundry rigorous sup plementary acts, the state voted on a prohibitory constitutional amendment, defeating it. On Monday last the issue in the Demooratlc primaries was prohibition. The Prohibition candidate for Governor was defeated by Governor O'Neal, anti-prohibition, by about 10,000. Now of course O'Neal will be elected and an effort made to place on the statute-books an enforcible local option law. Prohibition prohibits whenever a city or community desires that it prohibit; not otherwise. What will be the situation in Oregon, for ex ample, if the voters in November shall undertake to impose prohibition throughout the state? It will be ef fective wherever it is effective now under local option; it will not e effec tive in Portland, for it cannot be. The sure way for the prohibition and anti-saloon propagandists to move on to disaster with the movement is to insist on prohibition for Oregon. This, very simply and calmly stated, is the situation. AMAIAAMATIDN m possible. Samuel Gompers advocates amalga mation of union farmers with union laborers. He predicts that "the grow ing together of organized labor and farmers means the end of the battle between dollars and humanity and the end of the struggle of ages to free the industrial worker from 'being bound to the soil." Air. Gompers asserts "the farmers do not get too much for their products nor wage earners too much for their labor." Much as we might desire this Utopian condition by which there is an "end of the bat tle," it is extremely difficult to under stand how it can be brought about. The farmer, being only human and en dowed with natural business instincts. Will always endeavor to sell his prod ucts at the highest price which he can force the consumer to pay and he will also pay his -labor the lowest wages at which it is obtainable. Labor, on the other hand, as the largest con sumer of the farmer's products, will do everything in its power to cheapen their cost and will use similar effort to make employers pay the maximum of wages. ' Computations made by the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor show that the price of fifty raw commodi ties, most of which were farm prod ucts, increased 26.9 per cent between 1899 and 1907, while retail prices in creased but 21.2 per cent. In 1899 the consumers paid nearly 5 9 per .oent more than the farmer received, while last year they paid but 47 per cent more than the farmer received. These figures, which are official, would in dicate that neither the middlemen nor the consumer was receiving benefits proportionate to those of the farmer. If Mr. Gompers can get the labor lion and the agricultural lamb to work in harmony he will accomplish a marvel that would have made Aladdin and his lamp tricks seem commonplace by comparison. 6POKANX7S RAILROAD ROW. The Impossibility of securing term inal rates without first securing water terminals is well enough understood In Spokane. A remarkable protest is now being made by the people of Spo kane aerainRt triA tw-t w-i n n-e v. Council in refusing to grant franchises to two new railroads unless the lat ter agree to give Spokane terminal rates. The Oregonian's contention that the railroads havA nlwnvn wfw., Spokane is fully borne out by the tes timony or some or the men who have been the most active workers in de velopment of Spokane and the Inland EmDlre. Their- Vlpira nn . are pointedly voiced by E. T. Coman, for many years a prominent figure in banking circles In Eastern WmshinD-- ton, who says: "In spite of all that has been said and done, and In spite of an unfriendlv new5nnTifiT thA Mu roads have oroteoted. riorto veloped Spokane." J. J. Browne, who has been a resi dent of the citv tained but fifty people, asserts that "every railroad which has come into Spokane has contributed to the wealth of the coimnunitr " A a in which the railroads favored Spo kane at tne expense of the coast regions, Mr. Browne cites the Spokane & Palouse. "SunnnoA core, v ti. . Palouse Railroad had been built to vvaaia wana, Pasco or Ainsworth, Which could have been done as well as or better than to build here. That was the natural way to go down hill to the ocean. If it hadn't been for fifty pioneers of Sroksn in , oo-i,. days who got the road built here. oponane would not have been the city it is today. But the Palouse country Is ours, because the X'nrtho r built into Spokane." Mr. Browne also menuons tne Washington Central and the Lake Shore & Eastern, and com menting on these lines, says: ' "The natural course was to drain the other way, but they came to Spokane." It is not alone in building these branches, which should have followed the gravity routs westward, that the railroads favored Spokane, but that city built up a magnificent wholesale trade almost exclusively through rail road favoritism, and the roads manv years ago carved out an arbitrary and unwarranted Inhhinc oon ;i - . r. . v. . - . vr nines in diameter. In which Spokane was pro tectee against all comers. That the people of Spokane are not unmindful of these favors and are anxious to increase the number of roads entering the city, is quite apparent by the en thusiasm shown at the meeting Fri day night. A petition presented to the City Council asking that a franchise be granted without the terminal rate clause was signed by 14,505 voters, while 532 petitions from women tax payers were received but were not presented. IOOKTN-G TO THE NEXT PRESIDENT. Give Democrats New York, Indiana and Ohio in 1912 and they think they will elect the next President. The electoral votes of these three states, 77, added to those of the solid South, 166, would make the total for a Demo cratic President 243, or one more than a majority of the electoral college un der the present apportionment. The solid states include Kentucky, Mis souri and Oklahoma. This repeats the mathematical ef forts of Democrats before the 1908 election of President, but looks easier than it did then. At that time can didate Bryan received in the electoral college but 162 votes, or 80 short of the number necessary to elect. But now, with upheavals threatening in New York, Ohio and Indiana, and with Missouri apparently won back (It cast its 18 electoral votes for Taft), the way is open again for figuring and campaigning. The h peful brethren are quite sure in those states that Mr. Bryan could not t-Jce the trick, but Governor Harmon, of Ohio, or Mayor Gaynor, of New York, "looks good" to them. These three great states in the Dem ocratic column in 1912 would proba bly elect a Democrat President. With them would probably go other states hitherto Republican sufficient to give a safe margin for the Democratic can didate. This, then, is the new task Demo crats are working on. In Nev York, the man who stands strongest in the path of their hopes is Roosevelt, who, it is acknowledged, is now the dictator of the state as well as of the Repub lican party. What Roosevelt says in the State of New York is likely to be decisive. In Indiana and Ohio Re publican insurgents have made a party disruption, which, in addition to growing Democratic strength. Demo crats think will turn those states over to their party. So that the big man. in all these cal culations appears to be Roosevelt. Can the Colonel bolster up the Repub lloan party in New York, and also in Indiana and Ohio, sufficiently to over come the effects of insurgency and etandpatlsm ? XOTABLB POLAB PLNh! A noteworthy announcement last week in polar exploration was that made from Captain Roald Amundsen of tois purpose to drift across the North Pole in Nansen's ship "Fram," in which he will sail from San Fran cisco early next year for the north. Amundsen is the Norse explorer who traversed the northwest passage from Greenland to Behrlng Strait, aoroes northern boundary waters of North America, in 1905-6. The Fram is the vessel which Nansen used in his dar ing drift from, the north shores of Si beria across the polar ice In 1893-96, a drift Which brought him within four decrreea of thA Trl an-ma o r. n n , ' WW .111 and his ship under Sverdrup to the' coast or Greenland. Later Sverdrup spent four years in the Fram explor ing the region across which Dr. Cook said ho made his way to the Pole in 1908. This is" a daring task to which Amundsen has set himself. Norwe gian explorers of the icy north have accomplished great things in explora tion, one of which was Nansen's and Sverdrup's demonstration of the ice drift across the Pole. Amundsen plans to repeat this feat and to visit the Pole Itself, if opportunity shall offer. He will enter the ice pack at New Siberia Islands, 14 0 degrees east longitude, which is the longitude of Japan, and hopes to make the transit across to Greenland, closer to the Pole than the Nansen-Sverdrup expe dition. New Siberia Islands are near the place where the American ship Jeannette, in 1881, was wrecked under command of De Long -.and Melville. De Long subsequently lost his life through starvation, but Melville and others of the party made their way to the mouth of Lena River in Rihorta and to safety. Remnants of the jeannette, tnree years after the wreck, were found on the coast of Greenland! whither they had drifted, probably very near the Pole, from the north of Siberia.- This new expedition will receive the attention of the entire world, and its emergence from the north, after the seven-year period which Amundsen is planning, will be awaited with inter est. MR. HTLXS WORK IV OREGON. II; has been less than two years since the coming of the North Bank Railroad gave James J. Hill direct in terest in Portland and the rich region which has enabled this city to grow to greatness. Since that time Mr. Hili and his associates have expended mil lions in this city and state and are carrying out industrial and transpor tation enterprises on a scale never be fore attempted in Oregon. Purchase of the Oregon Electric and the United Railways system of feeders prepares for the massing of an frnmnn qh tity of traffic to be hauled east over the water level grades up the Columbia. Building of the line into Central Ore gon opens up what is practically a virgin field of wonderfully rich natural resources. Buying of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad and improv ing the service' so that the Oregon beaches are attracting thousands of pleasure-seekers indicates quite clearly that Mr. Hill is determined to do as much for Oregon -as he ever did for Washington. Improved train service to be in augurated this month will ci thio city a more frequent and shorter service between the Pacific Coast and tne ast than any other Coast city has. The new train tv h w-Vi o-rwc Intn service May 15 will enable Great Northern passengers to reach Port land several hours earlier than they can reach Puget Sound. The Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific al ready land their overland passengers in this CitV Several hours earli,, iq they can reach Puget Sound. It would De impossiDie.to estimate the benefits that would have resulted had Mr. Hill r)irTtvTnd" flrpimn -n- Vi nr f. . built the Great Northern through to feeattle, Dut in the interval of about twenty years this city and state have gained heavily in population and wealth, and are now undoubtedly in a nosition to rean rrpnp i .- I ate rewards than would have been possible with the scanty population of two decades ago. With the line into Central Oregon still lacking several months of com pletion, the Hill interests are already engaged in the most extensive public ity campaign that has ever been planned in the interest of the new empire which is about; to be opened up by the railroad. The growth of that portion cf the state has been re tarded in the past by the refusal of railroad men to provide transporta tion facilities until business had de veloped. As it was impossible to de velop traffic without the aid of a railroad. Central Oregon has been lying dormant In a commercial dead look. As a deliverer of the state from this bondage, Mr. Hill has won a p'ace in the confidence and esteem of Ore- gonians from which he will not easily be dislodged. Vancouver, B. C, is threatened with a bread famine. Not from scarcity of flour, however, since it is the gateway to the great Canadian wheat belt, but because the takers of the city are about to go on a strike. What has become of the good Eng lish housewifery - with which Amer ican women have been confronted in reproachful tones for so long? Is it possible that British-Canadian women cannot bake bread? Or that a strike of bakers would cause a bread famine in a British-Canadian city of a hun dred thousand people a city where the finest hard wheat in the world is marketed and milled in inexhaustible supply? Is bread-making a lost art In Canadian as well as in American cities, except among professional bakers ? An increase of 45 per cent in the April postoffice receipts at Medford. Or., as compared with those for the preceding year, is an excellent illus tration of the manner in which the present prosperity of the country is being distributed. The remarkable in crease in the thriving fruit center in Southern Oregon is the result of a healthy natural growth due to the development of the surrounding ter ritory. Similar satisfactory gains are reported quite generally throughout the Pacific Northwest, and so long as they are maintained there will be no necessity for worrying about the fu ture of Portland. The gain in re ceipts in Portland was not quite 45 per cent, but it averaged more than J 3 00 per day throughout the month of April, as ompared with the same month last year. Lord Lonsdale and a party of wealthy Englishmen are coming all the way from "dear old Lunnon" to see the fight between Jeffries and Johnson. The fight which a few mil lion contributors to the wealth of these "Lords" are continually making against death by starvation will con tinue during their absence. The un equal contest is going on every day in the year and can be witnessed right up near the palace doors in nearly every big city in the British Isles. The contest which the poor are ever waging against death is so un equal that it does not even interest the Lords and Ladies. For that rea son it is necessary to cross an ocean and a continent to witness a real struggle between a couple of human brutes. The "folding bed" got its work in on a wealthy man in New York the other night by folding up on him with a snap that proved fatal, while his wife barely escaped with her life from the clutch of the machine. Some Some years ago, when the folding bed was first devised as a space-accommodating trap for the unwary sleeper, accidents from its use were not in frequent. Later, the habits of the creature being better known, these casualties have been relatively fewer. Still one is quite enough for the vic tim caught, and should be enough to relegate this treacherous, unsanitary device to the realm of things that were. A Lane County farm was bought this week by an Alberta, Canada, farmer for a consideration of J47.000. The buyer, who comes from a region that has attracted a large number of American farmers, secured only 200 acres of land, but he of course dis played rare judgment in preferring a tract of this size in the Willamette Valley to the several sections or town ships which he could secure with that amount of money in Alberta. An enthusiastic meeting of the Portland Cat Club is announced. It is also stated that the president re-, ported progress on the work for the "Cats' Refuge Home," but the re quired J 500 had not been secured. It is dreadful to think that Portland cats may be left without a refuge home, but in case the fund falls short it might be diver" .d to the Children's Home. Some orphans are worth more to society than cats. "Idle men and busy children is a sufficient indictment of our pres ent day conditions," declares Mr. Gompers. Probably he meant io say that this spectacle, at once deplorable and revolting, is a sufficient indict ment of parental irresponsibility, the major curse of the age, the underly ing cause of nine-tenths of the poverty and wretchedness that abound. . Mr. G. W. Bates, head of the clay sewer pipe trust, that charges double prices and makes its owners rich, doesn't like competition of cheaper, but Just as good, cement pipe, and tella Mayor Simon so. The Journal newspaper, of which Mr. Bates is chief creditor and owner, hears its mas ter's voice and "fights" cement pipe. Heyday, a riddle! Mr. Bryan likes the convention method of naming United States Sen ators in Indiana, instead of the direct primary method. This is a hard blow to Democrats in Oregon who are fight ing convention and boosting direct primaries. Note that 22 per oent more beer was sold by breweries in the United States last March than in the same month year before in spite of ex tended prohibition. The gain was nearly 1,000,000 barrels. Census Man Beach thinks the vol unteer counters' rllrln't fis.Am,.1c.K much. But thev worn h.-. ed up thousands that the census men naven i succeeaea m finding yet. It is not. however, heennsn nriyo. fighters cannot be spared that indig nation 'has been death of the one in San Francisco. T. R. WAS XO TARIFF REFORMER For Taklnsr ts -Kl--ed Work He O Loyalty to Tart. Harper's "Weekly. It is not merely that Taft and Roosevelt have so long been comrades, personally and politically; but that is much. Ameri cans understand such friendships, and re spect them, and do not hold them lightly, or take it lightly when they are violated. If in the history of that friendship Taft has once been wanting, or has failed to serve and help Roosevelt faithfully in subordinate places, or has spoken a diB loyal word about him, the country does not know it. That, however, is not all or the main thing. The main thing is that Roosevelt deliberately and openly chose Taft for the succession, vouched for him to the party and the country, became, in the fullest possible sense, responsible for him. To say that Roosevelt made Taft President is hardly putting the case too strongly. For Roosevelt now to pull Taft down and climb into his place would be a thing that no man could pronounce, just to Taft or honorable in Roosevelt unless It is decided both that Taft deserves ig nominy and that Roosevelt, of all men, is the right man to inflict It. The only possible Justification for such a course would therefore seem to be that President Taft has in some way basely betrayed some cause or principle Intrusted to him. We do not understand that he was left in the White House merely as Mr. Roosevelt's deputy. When the Ameri can people elect a President, they pre empt his services for themselves. The of fic cannot be farmed out or put in com mission. Neither do we understand that Mr. Taft. in accepting it. surrendered his Independence of Judgment. To have done so would have been to act in bad faith with the people, with the country. His only commitments were to Certain lines of public policy, and these he has pur sued In the ways he has himself thought best. Any other course would have been pusillanimous. Those policies are for the most part such as Roosevelt 'himself pro claimed, but left to be caw-led out by his successor. Carrying them out is a very different business from proclaiming them. It is harder work. It takes patience. It takes tact. It takes constructive ability. It does not appeal to the grandstand or win applause and popularity. President Taft has, however, accepted his task as he found it. His sticking to such work, and trying to get the policies in question expressed in laws, is certainly not less loyal to them than what his predecessor did. Of course there is the tariff. Taft is blamed because he did not accomplish more for reform and reduction than he did accomplish. We are of those who hold that by different tactics he might have accomplished more, and we think it Just that he and his party should suffer for the lame performance. iBut something he did accomplish, and therefore the one man who can have nothing to say against his performance is Roosevelt. On that subject, at any rate, his lips should be sealed. For what he himself accomplished on this line during his two administrations was precisely nothing. The Republican movement for tariff revision began with McKinley. It stopped with Roosevelt. It began again with Taft. Roosevelt, who-' abandoned tariff reform at the outset of his career because it seemed that he could not be both a tariff reformer and a Re publican, is of all Republicans the one who has the least right to profit by any unpopularity that has come to Taft be cause of the tariff. On the contrary, his strongest loyalty is due to Taft both for going on with what he himself began and for beginning what he himself never risked his popularity to undertake. That he will give it unqualifiedly, even vociferously, we have not the slightest doubt. Watlenwn'i Paper on Cannon. . Louisville Courier-Journal. The outlook is for the election of a Democratic House. The Republicans will make as much capital as they can of the retirement of Mr. Hale and Mr. Aldrich, and they may scalp Mr. Can non at the end of the session and drag him in the dust in the hope of aug menting their ammunition, but so long as there is a Republican majority in Congress there will be no radical de parture from the policies for which Mr. Cannon has stood. If Mr. Cannon un scalped would mean hundreds of thou sands of votes for the Democrats, or scalped would mean as many to the Kepuoiicans, would Indicate that the voters are much more impressed by a scarecrow on a pole loan by a shotgun in the inclosure. Attempts have been made by Republicans for some time to make issues of individuals who have been nothing more and nothing less than faithful party servants. "Uncle Joe" was the goat in the last Congres sional election, and there exists a sen timent to resort to heroic action to make him so again. Census Disappointment In Seattle. ' Seattle Argus. We might Just as well get down to brass tacks and be honest with our selves. The fault of the whole busi ness lies not with Supervisor Hill, but partially with the authorities at Wash ington, and mostly with the daily newspapers. Men who have known all along where we stood have pleaded with the newspapers to be honest, and to give the population as it existed, but these newspapers started in several years ago to lie, and in order to make good they have been compelled to keep or lying, each story being a little stronger than the other. And the people have believed what th ey have printed, and are now pre pared to lay the blame for any short age which may occur to the census enumerators, and prouably later to the committee of citizens that has been boosting the work of counting noses. Wouldn't Have Stopped T. R. Chicago Interocean. We note the headlines: "Storm Stops King's Visit to Roosevelt." And the thought rises unbidden that no storm could have stopped Roosevelt's visit to the King. Hitting- It Up. Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Western editor has offered a prize of 150 to the first baseball player who bats a ball over the tail of the comet. T. Cobb, H. Wagner and N. Jajole please write. . - The Facts Hurt. Houston (Tex.) Post. The New York Sun is publishing a series of articles on "The Theory of High Prices," but it is not the theory so much as the fact that hurts. Has Been Educated Washington Post. The doctor that charged a $100,000 fee knows how to interpret the Scrmtural injunction, "Physician, heel thyself." Practical Investments. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bring us your children in the . they should go, and in the end they will support you. - Stodeled After a Fable. Boston Transcript. Exit coal man. also wood man. Ice must tak the place rf these. We must pay to thaw In Winter And in Summer nay to freeze. . WATTERSOX JABS " PROHIBITION Kentucky Editor Unloads Ills Wrath Against "Trading; Politicians." Louisville Courier-Journal. A movement is forming among Re publicans to turn the devil of intoler ance and hatred loose in Kentucky upon the line of prohibition, expecting to fool enough Democrats to tip the beam iu the general election of next year and carry the state. There are even a few so-called Democrats who, for purposes of their own, are playing to this Repub lican lead. They swear they are not Prohibitionists. They declare them selves in favor of local option.. They are, in point of fact, simply trading politicians, selfish and unprincipled, who propose to confuse and deceive the people! Such men would sell their souls every day in the year for a mess of pottage. The Courier-Journal would save the Democratic party of Kentucky from the destruction and corruption which have overtaken the Democratic party In Ten nessee, to go no farther. South into Ala bama and Georgia for horrid examples. It would save Kentuoky from mongrel religion, bastard politics and the spy system. It plants itself upon the broad JefTersonian gospel of no sumptuary laws, no church and state, every man to worship God according to his con science and to regulate his personal conduct to suit himself. He who re fuses to subscribe to mat gospel is m Democrat. The most drastic legislation has shown Itself impotent to promote tem perance. The inquisition did not pro mote religion. The Christian virtues must grow from within, not be forced from without. Sumptuary 1 aws snrv. only the purpose of rogue politicians who play upon the ignorance and scru ples of religious people and fan the fury of fanatics. In Tennessee, in Alabama and in Georgia, there has been no diminution of drink; but as following In the wake of fanaticism, we behold adulteration, extortion and violation of law. That feeds rascally politics. It is precisely what prohibition, has effected during the last 60 years in the State of Maine. We are quite sure that Kentucky is a Democrat, not a Republican, and we look confidently to sweep the combina tion of rant and cant and graft, pro scription and venality, which is pre paring to take the field next year, from the face of the earth. FIN'B SOUND OF "CONSERVATIOX" But May It Not Mean Too Mucn Fed eral Bureaucracy? New Tork Sun. The word conservation has a pleasant, mouth-filling sound and rolls out upon the tongue with all the grandeur of a great idea. That it does, in fact, stand for a great idea, we have the word of many able citizens. Lest, however, our notions of its meaning become clouded in generalities it is profitable occasion ally to hearken to those critics of con servation who conceive that there is such a thing as having too much of this es timable policy. There Is the Honorable Edward T. Taylor, of Glenwood Springs, Colo., for example. He is a Democrat, a lawyer of years and experience, and holds the distinction of having been elected as a epresentatlve-at-large from his state. He has lately been declaiming in the House against what he terms a policy of Federal landlordism, which he - considers must result and assume large nroDor- tions if the wishes of the extreme con servationists obtain. Let us pass by his characterization of the "most energetic, ingenious and marvelous press bureau that this age has ever known." His esti mate of the advertising abilities of the conservationists may be exaggerated or it may not. But let us rather note these assertions as to the aims of the ultras conservationists: Disguise it or sugar coat it as you will, cover It all over by plausible and high sounding names as is being done in every issue of this press bureau, the fact re mains that it is intended to put the west ern third of the United States under the control of Federal bureaus and to estab lish a permanent Bystem of bureaucracy to provide offices for Federal employes, and to collect Federal royalties. That is not conservation. It is legalized grand and petit larceny. I think that is a libel on conservation. We understand, of course, that Mr. Tay lor is the representative of Mammon and other undesirables. But the condition which he describes is an interesting one, a striking one. After all, everything is not necessarily desirable simply because some one has tagged it "conservation." Is it too much to expect that the coun try will ultimately sit down quietly and, banishing the. hypnotic influence of a word, determine soberly and rationally whether or not it wishes to expand the Federal Government into a huge bureau cracy, and establish thereunder a system of Federal landlordism upon a stupendous scale? Hughes and the Plain People. Philadelphia Record. Governor Hughes has made his way to the front of affairs by sturdy and courageous opposition to the corrupt ing tendencies of his own party. It will be a great Telief to the small fry who float about in the sea of politics to have this leviathan bottled up on the bench of the Supreme Court. There is, however, amid the general approval of the people and the press of the country here and there a. note of doubt or dis pleasure. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Hearst both think that Governor Hughes has a too tender solicitude for the welfare of the great corporate interests. So far as the Record has observed, the cor porate interests have never shown any responsive affection for Governor Hughes. It Is the common people who have sturdily carried him along on their shoulders. They are not often mistaken in their judgment. A Letter From Mark: Twain. Grants Pass Observer. The editor of this paper once thought he should write to Mark Twain in re gard to the question of plagiarism in literature. That was in 1887. We can not give the reply in facsimile, but the text is as follows: Hartford, Apl. 2, 1887. Dear. Sir: It didn't come, and like as not I shouldn't ever get time to look at it. anyway; but lemme correct you in one thing I mean soothe you with one fact: a considerable part of every book is ah unconscious plagiarism of some previous book. There is no sin about it. -if there were, and it were of the deadly sort, it would eventually be nec essary to restrict hell to authors and then enlarge it. Truly yours. S. L. CLEMENS. Theodore Should Reslgm. Atchison Globe. Colonel Roosevelt should resign his po sition as assistant editor of the Outlook. There isn't a newspaper in New Tork that hasn't on its staff a better writer than Roosevelt; the Sun has three or four who can make the entire circuit of the dia mond while Roosevelt is getting away to first base. Therefore he cannot hope to attract attention by being assistant edi tor of a New Tork publication we never heard of until the ex-President's name was connected with it. There is no pop ularity in journalism, Theodore, even for the good ones, and you are not one of the good ones when it comes to the writ ing game. Not Surprised. Chicago Journal. Real Estate Agent I tell you, sir. the death rate in this suburb is lower than in any other part of the county. Near Victim I believe you. I wouldn't be found dead here myself. LIFE SUNNY SIDE President Taft has at last found some one willing to sail away to Argentine, as the envoy from the United States to President Alcorda on the occasion cf th centenary of the Argentine Republlc"s movement for independence. This is the mission which the President offered to several distinguished statesmen, includ ing ex-Vlce-President Fairbanks. For one reason or another they all declined. Then the President notified General Wood that the honor would be conferred upon him. "Will he accept?'; the President was asked. "Well, I guess he will." replied the President emphatically and with a twin kle in his eye. "There is some advantage in being President of the United States when you want an Army officer to do something." Philadelphia Record. The magnate looked up impatiently from his work. "Well, my good man," he snapped at the diffident and rural person who stood twirling his rusty hat, "what can I do for you?" "I guess ye don't remember me. Hank," faltered the caller. "But you an' me use ter go swlmmin 'together in th' ol' town. Then you got a job in th' bank, an' I got a job in the grocery store." "This is all very interesting, and I seem to remember your face. But come to the point my time is valuable." "Yes, Hank. Tou got a better offer an' left the old village. I stayed a pluggin' along In th' grocery store." "Well well?" "Well. Hank, when you left you owed H3.62 on a grocery bill. Here's where you pay up!" Cleveland Leader. Apropos of Speaker Cannon and his dif ficulties in the House, Jerome S. McWade, at a dinner at the New Willard, said: "Speaker Cannon is crafty. He gets his own way. He reminds me of a deacon in my native Duluth. "The deacon was notorious for being long-winded. If he rose to speak, at prayer meeting, or revival, or love feast, he was sure to keep the floor half an hour. It was on the deacon's account, when a tremendous conflict rose over the building of a new wing to the church, that a rule was made that no speaker, at the final building discussion, should take longer than five minutes. "At the final discussion, held in thrv Sunday school, a half-dozen speakers had expressed their views, and had sat down promptly when a tap of the bell an nounced that time was up, and then the deacon rose. "The deacon droned on in his old fa miliar way, and when the bell rang he had not even got to his subject. The bell's sharp tinkle caused him to start and frown. " "Am I to understand," he said, 'that my five minutes have expired?' " "Yes, deacon, said the pastor, and the audience tittered slightly. " 'Then, brethren,' said the deacon, 'I will throw the rest of my remarks into the form of a prayer.' " Washington Star. An eminent . speaker at the . Con gregationalist meeting in the ' First Congregational Church, East Orange, was telling the other day of a Westerner's opinion of the East. "This man," said the speaker, "was a prominent churchman and had occasion to visit New York, where he remained for a few days. In writing of his ex periences to his wife in the West he had this to say: 'New York is a great city, but I do wish I had come here before I was converted. "Newark Star. "When I was a youngster," said J. M. Nation, State Auditor, the other day, "I was poisoned by an ivy vine. My nosa got. very red and swelled up twice its natural size. The infection spread to my cheeks, and they were all covered with blotches. "1 was told to use buttermilk. I bought a gallon and drank it. I bought another gallon the next day and got outside of that. In fact, I drank so much butter milk that the price went up about 15 cents a gallon in that community within a very few days. But the poisoning was not getting any better. It was not im proving one bit, and I couldn't under stand it. "I told the people who had recommend ed the buttermilk that it was not help ing me. 'Why, I bet I have swallowed a barrel of buttermilk within the past week,' I told them. " 'You drank it?' they shouted back at me. " 'Of course,' I replied, "what did you expect me to do with it?" " 'Why, we meant for you to bathe your face with buttermilk not drink it," was the answer. "I pretty nearly collapsed. To this day I can't look buttermilk in the face." Kansas City Journal. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. Make the most of yourself or you will not amount to much. Are your friends the kind you need or the kind that need you? Money may make the .mare go, but it will not banish the nightmare. Boasting of what you have done doesn't knock down the persimmons. A fat man never seems to realize how much room he takes up in an elevator. The bachelor who is afraid of falling In love should take . out an accident policy. Did you ever meet a spinster who would admit that she never had a pro posal? The average man feels slighted when he gets into trouble and the world doesn't stop to notice. And if some people didn't think they knew quite so much they would prob ably know a lot more. It's the same with women who fish for compliments as it is with other anglers. The big ones always getaway. Perhaps you have noticed how s-ome men hurry to get nowhere in order to do something they have no excuse for doing. Betrothal Announcement. San Francisco Chronicle. It is announced that William Randolph Hearst has decided at last to take back Miss Democracy to his bosom, that erratic and somewhat shopworn spinster having finally reached the point where she is ready to accept him as her prophet and prince. The wooing lias been long and stormy, but the ending is to be happy. It is true that the announcement comes from the Hearst side rather than from the qther party to the treaty, but since Mr. Hearst professes to be willing to for give and forget and to take back the for lorn and shelterless wanderer to his pro tecting arms, one may be very well as sured that there will be no coyness or delay in accepting the invitation. Mr. Bryan's Dissatisfaction. New York Sun. The Hon. William J. Bryan does not approve of Governor Hughes as a member of the Supreme Court. Those who remember the speech in which Governor Hughes paid his respects to Mr. Bryan and Bryanlsm in 1908, a speech that Mr. Bryan did not even at tempt to answer, will perceive good reasons for the Nebraskan's personal dissatisfaction. Country Without Ideals. New York World. France can now appreciate the kind of moral exhortation that the United States has been experiencing for the last 15 years. If it does not feel ur lifted it remains a country without ideals.