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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAT 4, 1910.
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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
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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.