THE.MORNIX6 OREGOXIAN. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1910.
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PORTLAND. MONDAY, MAY 30. 1810.
PKIMAJU.ES I" NEW YOBK ASD OREGON.
Directprlmarles are the issue of a
bitter fight in the New York Legisla
ture. But unlike the present squabble
in Oregon, no demand is heard in that
state for abolition of the recommend
ing assembly or the convention; no
faction asserts that assembly or con
vention will "boss" the people in the
subsequent primaries, nor does any
body of direct primary advocates in
sist upon free-for-all primaries that
hitherto have prevailed in Oregon.
These contentions are too absurd for
credence in the Empire State. The
wonder is that any group of citizens
in Oregon has the boldness to assert
them. ' ;
Governor Hughes' measure, the Hin-man-Green
bill, providing for a state
.committee o( 150 members .to recom
mend candidates for nomination in
primaries, has been defeated in the
lower house of the Legislature. A ri
val measure, the Phillips-Meade bill,
providing for primary election of dele
gates to nominating conventions and
allowing direct primary nominations
in any county, city or borough, whose
central (nmmitt(io tti -.1 r u'l npfi nn that
method of nomination, has passed
both houses. The Hughes party,
holding out threat of ;veto and extra
session, was laboring all last week with
supporters of the Phillips-Meade bill,
on a compromise measure. The com
promise retains state, judicial, city,
town and village conventions, but re
quires nominations in direct primaries.
Therefore candidates recommended by
conventions must be passed upon by
party voters in the primaries, and
party voters may accept those candi
dates or nominate others.
This would.be bringing the proposed
System of nominations in the State of
New York very close to the plan that
was followed last year in Portland in
the election of the present city- gov
ernment and that will be followed this
year through the state in election of
officers of state and county govern
ment. But the compromise bill is
violently assailed by politicians and
bosses of both parties and its success
is yet doubtful. Governor Hughes' in
fluence has been weakened somewhat
by his appointment as Justice of the
ilupiCUtC V. - Ul L, V 11 1 1. II, nCXL r it 1 1 , Will
remove him from activity in the poli
tics of his state.
The wide-open primary, with its un
bidden, go-as-you-please candidates,
results in minority nominations and
refusal of the affected party to sup
port the nominees; in disruption of
party and in consequent defeat of the
popular will. So clear is this to Gov
ernor Hughes, that he insisted .upon a
recommending assembly of 150 mem
bers, while the framers of the Phillips
Meade bill, who were the committee
of the Legislature that investigated
primary systems of other states, re
tained the old-time conventions. Ken
find it essential to deliberate together
in assembly and convention as to mat
ters 01 many amerent Kinds, and poll
tics is no exception to this rule. Citi
zens are confronted with necessity of
conventions in mercantile and com
mercial affairs; also in religious and
fraternal affairs; and granges, bar as
sociations and labor unions have . re
cently asserted the assembly practice
in this state.
The Republican State Convention
that will meet in Portland next July
will not menace the people nor take
from the people any part of their
privilege of nominating candidates in
primaries in the following September.
Between the assembly and the pri
maries will be an interval of two
months, during - which voters can
closely scrutinize the works of the
assembly and its recommended candi
dates for office.
Anybody who asserts that the peo
ple will be "driven like cattle" during
these two months, by "convention
bosses," either insults the intelligence
of the electorate or is trying for self
ish ends to mislead the people with
bogey and buncomre. The people will
have a long period of time in which
to make up their, minds whether to
accept the candidates of the assembly
or to nominate others in their places.
' 1 CORN AND HOGS.
Experiments in raising corn' have
been successful in several locations in
the. Willamette Valley, as wen as" in
parts of Eastern Oregon and -Washington.
We are familiar with the ex
cuse given by early settlers of the
Pacific Northwest for importing their
bacon, hams and lard from the Middle
West. Hogs, so they said, could, not
be raised without corn, and corn would
not mature in this region. Neither
assumption in this case is correct: 'in
the days of cheap wheat i. e., wheat
at 50 cents a bushel fine pork was
made by some of the more thrifty
farmers from "chaff" made of second
grade wheat fed four or six weeks be
Tore slaughter to hogs that had been
kept in good condition through the
Bummer on orchard, garden, field and
lairy waste.
Then some farmer with jnitiativn
(practical, not political) concluded to
try a patch of corn, and to his surprise
round that it thrived moderately, and
, In favorable locations very well, and
matured a good crop. Of course, no
one will assert that corn is as depend
able a forage or food crop in the Wil
lamette Valley as it is in the states of
the Middle West, where sultry nights
tucceed hot days for a number of
H-eeks during the growing season. But
In ordinary seasons and in sunny loca
tions it has produced a good auxiliary
forage and fattening crop for many
years.
Our farmers cannot afford to slight
pork raising. There is good money in
It. for the local market. It is also an
important part or tne ramlly mainte
' nance on the farm. Think of farmers
of years' experience all around about
buying bacon to feed their families and
hired men at 25 and even 28 cents a
liound! And this when the culls and
windfalls in their orchards, and the
small potatoes and surplus root crops
of their gardens literally went to waste
last year; and when perhaps an acre
or half acre of ground grew up to
weeds that would have produced a
good crop of artichokes!
Manifestly the failure to raise at
least, a supply of pork for home use
irisuch cases was not due to climatic
conditions unfavorable to growing
corn, but to mismanagement on the
part of the farmer himself.x Farmers
of the Pacific Northwest cannot expect
to compete in pork raising for an ex
tended market with the farmers of
the great corn belt, but they can raise
their own pork, besides a profitable
surplus for the home market, if they
will utilize the waste products of their
orchards, gardens and fields for that
purpose and plant special crops to fin
ish the process of fattening hogs at
the proper time.
No farming community can be pros
perous to a degree that could readily
be reached where all of its energies
are bent toward the production of a
single staple. The Willamette Valley
had its exclusive wheat-producing era.
For this there was some excuse in the
fact that there was for many years no
market here for perishable farm prod
ucts. Later prunegrowlng forged to
the front, and now apple-growing has
taken first rank. It is well to remem
ber that the prosperity of a farming
community, year in and year out, de
pends not on a single crop, but in a
diversity that produces something to
sell from the farm every month in
the year, and the greater variety of
products for which there is a demand
the better.
SPOKANE AND TERMINAL RATES.
Some persons of Spokane imagine
their City' has grown so great that it
can - compel new railroads- to grant
"terminal rates" or to stay out. Such
citizens are foolhardy. They cannot
settle at their own doors a question
that involves every other inland city
of the country, and that even Congress
and the Interstate Commission have
practically confessed themselves un
able to settle in accordance with the
"Spokaneidea"; nor can they exact
from new railroads terms that would
upset the relations of those roads with
other lines the country over. More
over, they will not accomplish their
purpose by exacting conditions that
will compel new roads either to stay
out of Spokane or to enter that city
on tracks of other transportation com
panies. These .ould seem to be primer
truths of city-building, but a certain
element of the people of Spokane can
not learn them. However, most other
citizens of Spokane seem to realize the
true situation because tl.e Council re
cently backed down from its terminal
rate demands on the North Coast and
the Milwaukee Railroads and it seems
likely that voters of that city will up
hold the Council, should the question
be submitted to referendum.
Spokane is a thriving city and is
pressing forward to larger greatness.
It is well enough for that city to re
quire reasonable concessions from
railroads for convenience of its citi
zens. But this long-and-short-haul
question is much too big for Spokane
to handle alone. When Spokane at
tempts to do this it brings forces in
opposition to its progress that are
spread all over the Nation. That Is
too big a job, even for the energetic
City of Spokane.
Besides, there are other cities -within
Spokane's "trade zone" that are enti
tled to equal treatment as t- terminal
rates. Those cities are bound to make
themselves heard in distribution of
terminal-rate benefits.
PORTLAND'S RECORD GROWTH.
Portland again -led every large city
in the United States in the percentage
of gain in bank clearings reported by
Bradstreet's last week. The gain over
the corresponding week last year was
46.6 per cent, the nearest approach to
this figure made by any of the cities
in Portland's class being Cleveland,
O., with 38.8 per cent. Of the large
cities on the. Pacific Coast, San Fran
cisco showed a gain of 24.7 per cent
and Los Angeles 2 3.5 per cent. Seattle
suffered a loss of 15 per cent. Oak
land, Cat., had a gain of 50.3 per cent;
but, as the total clearings for the week
were less than one-twelfth as great as
for Portland, they w-ere valueless for
the purpose of comparison with Port
land. It is by thus comparing the
trade statistics of Portland with other
cities that we are enabled to deter
mine more accurately the extent of
the record-breaking growth of the
city.
Even more striking evidence of this
growth is noticeable in the returns on
building permits and real estate trans
fers. The figures for the month of
May are, of course, not yet complete;
but the building permits have already
reached a figure where a single per
mit for any one of a dozen large
structures which will be under con
struction this Summer would send the
month's total over the 2,000,000
mark. Seattle building permits, as
reported by the Daily Bulletin of that
city, are available to May 24. They
show a total for that period of
$906,805. Portland permits for the
same period, as reported by the Daily
Abstract of this city, were Jl, 589, 033.
Real estate transfers reported by the
same publications are: ' Seattle $2 -159,327;
Portland, $2,448,672; the lat
ter including at least one $300,000
transaction that appears on the rec
ords and -in these figures at the nomi
nal consideration of $1.
It is not alone in the total amount
of these building permits that Port
land makes an exceptionally strong
showing, but it is in the character of
the buildings being erected. In Seat
tle we find the $906,805 valuation of
the permits to May 24 to represent 932
separate permits, an average per build
ing of $962. In -Portland there are
represented ' in the $1,589,033 valua
tion for the same period but 451 struc
tures, an average per building of
$3523. This is nearly four times as
great as the average of the Seattle per
mits, and is a fine tribute to the high
class of buildings being erected in this
city.
There were but few large buildings
represented in the Portland totals for
May, the -great demand for buildings
at the present time being for a class
that can be used to house the thou
sands of newcomers who are pouring
in, not only from all parts of the
United States, but from Europe. Port
land has never-profited very much by
the Alaska mines, but in the new
North Bank Railroad, the lines to Cen
tral Oregon, to Tillamook, and with
electric lines branching out in all di
rections, the city has struck a pay
streak that will never be worked out
and will yield steadily through all
seasons.
INSURGENTS AND THE PARTY.
Mr. Brown, in his always interesting
and reliable Washington correspond
ence, discusses the insurgent move
ment and describes the reckless and
defiant attitude of the insurgent lead
ers. They are fatuously bent on
wrecking the Republican party in the
astonishing conviction that they may
thus save themselves. They put "prin
ciples above party." They care not
what becomes of the Administration
measures or the party pledges. They
acknowledge no loyalty to the Repub
lican organization, and will not yield
to party authority. They are obsessed
with the craze against Cannonism and
Aldrichism. They insist on paddling
their own little canoes, and on letting
the old Republican hulk go to the bot
tom. Evidently there is just where the
Republican ship .is going this Fall.
The scuttlers are likely to have their
way, and there is to be a Democratic
House of Representatives.
Very well. But what claim have
the men who boastingly put "princi
ples above party" upon party to return
them to Congress? There is the justly
celebrated Poindexter, for example.
He has wrought so much mischief
upon the Republican party in the
House that he loudly demands as his
reward that this same Republican
party send him to the Senate. Or
nominally, he calls upon the Republi
can party. Actually he knows that he
will not get a majority or plurality of
Republican votes. What will happen
will be that the InsUrgtmt Republicans
'(Republicans with a prefix, who al
ways attach an "If to their party loy
alty), the Populists, the Democrats and
the discontented and dissatisfied ele
ments of all parties will unite on Poin
dexter at the Republican primary and
probably nominate him for Senator.
But will the Washington Legislature
then elect Poindexter? It will not,
unless a majority of the Legislature
shall hare foolishly and needlessly
signed the equivalent in Washington
for the Oregon Statement One. Will
they sign it, with their eyes wide
open?
THE FARMERS' FRANKNESS.
The moral issue involved in the
temperance question has changed but
little since the first drunkard "took
the pledge." The economic phase of
the problem has appealed to the peo
ple with steadily increasing force. The
cause of temperance is making great
progress in great part because drunk
enness has becoml unpopular with the
respectable element in society. There
are enough sober men for most of the
positions which the country has to
offer, and it is unnecessary to waste
time with the man who drinks whisky.
Not all of the people who are support
ing the cause of temperance deem it
necessary, however, to admit that it
is the economic more than the moral
side of the question that appeals to
them.
The-local Farmers' Union at Lind,
Washington, makes no false pretense
about its reasons for demanding re
striction on the sale of liquor. Lind
local No. 20 urges "the elimination of
intoxicating drinks from our fair land"
for the reason that: "We, as farmers,
in this immediate community have ex
perienced serious and expensive re
sults to the loss and damage to our
crops from the unreliability of harvest
hands on account of a too free use of
intoxicating liquors during the har
vest season."
There is good common sense as well
as candor in this resolution. The
farmers are aiding the cause of tem
perance because they want sober men
of good habits to perform their work,
just as the railroads are aiding it be
cause It is unsafe to trust their prop
erty in the hands of" men who dally
with the -wine. There is of course
much earnest work being done in the
cause by enthusiasts who regard only
the moral aspects of the case, but the
great pressure for restricting or elimi
nating the evil is coming from the
employers of labor, to whom the eco
nomic feature of the question has ap
pealed in a forcible manner.
SHIFTING THE BURDEN.
A New York letter in The Oregonian
yesterday offered an interesting side
light on the much-discussed higher-cost-of-livlng
problem. Many of the
Eastern railroads have recently ad
vanced wages of their employes, and
new laws governing railroad operation,
taxation and so forth have greatly in
creased the cost of operation. To get
even on this increased expense, the
railroads have arranged to increase
commuters' fares to the extent of $1
per month. This does not seem like a
large sum, but as it Is estimated that
400,000 commuters will be affected by
the raise, it becomes an affair of conr
siderable magnitude. In round num
bers it will cost the New York com
muters about $5,000,000 per year.
In an attempt to avoid paying the
increased cost of railroad operation,
some of these people will move back
to New York. The city is already
overcrowded and a return of any con
siderable number of commuters would
result in an advance in rents not only
for the people who were driven back,
to the city by the increased rates, but
for the unfortunates who stayed in
the city. It would be difficult for
anyone but the railroad people to de
termine the exact relation this increase
in fare bears to the increase in cost
of wages and other items of opera
tion. The incident demonstrates quite
effectively, however, that any addi
tional burdens .placed on the large
employers are quite easily passed on
to the small consumers, even when
railroad transportation Is the com
modity consumed.
Not all of this $5,000,000 that is to
be wrung from the New York com
muter, will go to the railroad em
ployes or to increased taxes. The
"higher cost of living" has been the
lever which many coal miners used to
pry advances out of mine owners. The
latter "passed the buck" by advancing
the price of coal to the railroads. The
railroads now get even by caUing on
the commuters to pay the bill. In
this shifting of the burden from one
to another there must of course be
an end somewhere, and as usual the
small consumer and wage-earner is
found on the "end" with no one be
yond him to whom he can pass on the
increased cost of living. Just at pres
ent there is some sunshirjfe for the
commuter in the heavy decline in
wheat, pork and other farm products.
If these staples go much lower, he can
in this way recoup for the lost $12
per year.
Now that the energetic bears have
knocked about 20 cents per bushel off
the price of wheat, we may expect to
note in the farm journals and on the
minutes .of the American Society of
Equity meetings resolutions denounc
ing Board of Trade gambling in wheat.
So long as that high-minded and gen
erous philanthropist; Mr. Patten, kept
prices well above the dollar level, as
he has done for the past two years,
there did not really seem to be any
thing wrong with the operations of
the Board of Trade. It is a serlctus
matter, however, when a lot of pfain
gamblers, with utter disregard for the
feelings or interests of the farmer, de
liberately sell so much wheat that the
supply of buyers is exhausted. It is
now stated that J. P. Morgan is inter
ested in the recent- raid on Patten.
There's a line-up that promises sport.
With the embattled farmers and Pat
ten resisting the onslaughts of the
money trust, the great army of con
sumers are actually threatened with a
larger loaf or a smaller price for
bread. v
Another line of steamers is con
tending for Portland business between
the Atlantic seaboard and the Pacific
Coast ports. The first carrier of this
new line, which is to compete with
the American-Hawaiian fleet, has se
cured 3000 tons of freight for Port
land. This freight was taken at a
rate so low that the Portland impor
ters can unload the cargo at Portland,
and, after paying full local rates back
from the coast, can deliver it in
Spokane territory at lower rates than
the railroads can possibly make for
the expensive all-rail haul across the
continent. Spokane will never have
any trouble in forcing the railroads to
grant terminal rates, if it will -construct
a waterway by which these"
-eheap ocean-carriers can reach the
warehouses of the Spokane jobbers as
easily as they reach Portland.
In honoring the soldiers who fought
and died for their country, eulogy may
fitly be included for the pioneer men
and women who first settled the West
ern wilderness and who fought and
wore their lives away and died to save
this land from wilderness and savage.
Our early settlers performed deeds of
daring and suffering equal to those of
our brave soldiers in uniform. Pioneer
wives and daughters are especially de
serving of a thought and a flower to
day. Among those who marched in
the front rank of heroism are the men
and the women who started the begin
nings of present-day fields and cities
between Atlantic and Pacific. ' They
were courageous flag-bearers. The
Spring has blossomed for these, also,
of the Nation's honored dead.
Ano'ther boy has lost his life with a
.22, this time in Lincoln County. He
was 12 years old. As the ambition of
the country boy, from the time he
emerges into pants, is to own a gun,
there is no moral in this accident, for
some boys of that age, even less, are
better fitted to handle a weapon than
others much older. This is a fighting
Nation, and it appears to be impera
tive that the boy who wants a gun
should have it. Discretionary meas
ures are best left with his parent, who
is fitted to judge the age of the youth
ful nimrod.' Loss of life is to be de
plored, of course, and sympathy ex
tended to the family, but the hunting
lust is a National disease that always
will exist, despite examples and warn
ings. ;.
Senator Lorlmer, a Republican, was
elected by the aid of Democratic votes,
and now he hurls back with indigna
tion the charge that he bought the
Democrats, or anybody. True, true, no
doubt. Here in Oregon we know that
the Democrats do dearly love to vote
for a Republican, whenever there is no
Democrat to vote for.
There are two Connollys, and Assist
ant Attorney-General Lawler got the'm
mixed. Connolly didn't act the cow
ard on board a sinking ship. What
one Connolly did was to write a lot of
muckraking articles for a sensational
weekly journal. He is merely another
kind of coward.
The two young women of Lake
County, California, who are leading a
"strenuous" life in the mountains peel
ing tanbark and -wearing men's cloth
ing will find the lessons of value in
later years when they have to "rustle"
the family living.
The television is a new device by
which you can see what your friend
or enemy is doing miles and miles
away. Just think what a lot of news
paper space might have been saved
last year, if some one had been able
to keep his eye on Dr. Cook.
No one will be sorry except those
unselfish patriots who have their own
reasons to lament that Colonel Dunne
will remain as Collector of Internal
Revenue. He is a good officer and a
good man. and the Government is wise
to retain him in its service.
It is time to call a halt in these in
ventions, now that a photograph can
be taken and transmitted by wire.
Next it will be by wireless and the man
out late at night will have no place to
hide from kodak and phone.
Mr. Corbett, through his great love
for the white race, is going to show
Mr. Jeffries how to lick the "nigger."
All fixed now.' There Is no time up to
July 4 when the "nigger" need be
taken into consideration.
Rose Festival too late this year, say
the wise ones. Are they able in ad
vance to fix a better date? Perhaps
we should have the Festival In mid
winter, and celebrate with paper roses.
Why didn't Senator Lorlmer adopt
for his vindication the argument of
that great Illinois lawyer that It is no
crime to buy a legislator's vote, and
let it go at that?
Now we shall have an illuminating
series of articles in a Salem paper on
the mistakes of the Republican Ad
ministration. Hofer didn't get the job.
Senator Lorimer's supporters seem
to be in a stampede to confess. Lori
mer's election" was the result of sys
tem the Lorimer system.
Don't forget the day. Possibly there
may be no particular grave on which
.you care to place flowers; but some
day there will be.
Plunger Patten may get out of his
demoralized wheat corner all right.
He has a nicely padded cotton corner
to fall back on.
Theft may seem safe and easy to a
railway postal clerk in financial disor
der, yet the thief never escapes from
Uncle Sanv
NON-PARTISAN JUDGE FAKERT.
Scheme
of LBwyera to Control
the
People's Judiciary.
Burns. Harney County. News.
The News does not see anything very
charming in the insistent demand from
certain quarters for a "nonpartisan
judiciary" in this state, in the sense
in which it is advocated. There Is
nothing in the record of the Judiciary
of this state for the past 20 years
w-hich Justifies a claim that partisan
control of the nomination and election
of Judges has been harmful, nor have
we ever noticed any evidence that the
Judges were governed by political
bias in their work on the bench. The
fact is. the whole thing Is a subterfuge
by which to give honors and emolu
ments to Democrats at the expense of
Republicans and Is not in the true
sense a "nonpartisan" move at all.
Another false proposition in this
connection is the assumption that the
lawyers of the state shall have the
right to nominate the Judges. This
would be wrong in principle and prac
tice. Give the lawyers control In this
respect and the Judges would be abso
lutely at their mercy. Then would be
named only the class of men who would
"be nice" to the lawyers, allow dila
tory motions, wink at technical delays
and obstacles, be slow to declare non
suits upon carelessly constructed
papers, etc., etc., thus making civil
litigation costly and tiresome to the
litigants and criminal actions exceed
ingly expensive to the taxpayers.
We have known some excellent
Judges who are much desired by the
people who would have been long since
sacrificed if the lawyers could have
dictated. We believe the responsibility
of a strong political party . behind a
Judge is a good thing and we believe
the Judge made exclusively by the in
fluence of the lawyers would be a bad
thing for the people. We also believe
the voters of Oregon will not stand for
either the "nonpartisan" or the hand
made judiciary.
DIRECT LEGISLATION EXCESSES.
Voter Are Asked to Pass Judgment on
Measures They Do Not Understand.
Grants Pass Observer.
Direct legislation has run to abuse,
and the voters are asked to pass judg
ment upon measures that they have no
proper understanding of- Not one in a
hundred voters had any intelligent con
ception of the provisions contained in
that Insane measure known as the "Cor
rupt Practice Act." Yet the voters
passed it, and it is safe to say that
there is not a deliberative body, in the
world that would have enacted such a
bill without extensive amendments. It
is making endless trouble, and needs the
interpretation of skilled legal training.
Then there were the two opposing sal
mon bills, which were submitted to the
people two years ago, and the people
made both of them law. It was a flag
rant absurdity. So with the division of
Wasco County. The people in this end
of the state did not have the remotest
idea "Of the rights in the case, but they
voted it Just the same. Three or four
new counties are up for the approval of
the voters next November, and they are
pretty sure to be approved, though some
of these new counties overlap each other,
and 90 per cent of the voters have no
knowledge of the rights. Within proper
limits, direct legislation by the people
is highly desirable, but it is an abuse
to ask the people to pass judgment upon
measures that they do not understand.
The State Grange is acquiring a realiz
ing sense of these abuses of direct legis
lation, and may be a power to correct
them, notwithstanding all the blather of
Senator Jonathan Bourne and his faker
associates. . .
Effects of Plnch'otUm.
The Dalles Optimist.
What do you think of "Pinehotism"
anyhow? One-third of Oregon is locked up
in forest reserves three-quarters of all
the immigrants coming West from New
York are going up into Canada, where
there is no Pinehotism." livery Juniper
tree in Central Oregon is "Immune" from
the touch of the settler, save after the
unravelling of a lot of red tape, and at
the whim of the Government hireling,
hence thousands of intending settlers are
hitting the trail for the North. We would
rather see all of the junipers in the state
used by the present generation and the
country settled up than to see them "Pin
choted" and "conserved"' for our succes
sors and the settlers driven to Canada.
What say you? ,
Land Resources Should Be opened.
Albany Citizen.
Pinehotism Is not the policy for the
West. It may be valuable as a means
whereby an Eastern millionaire can in
dulge his taste for the aesthetic, but it
does not bring us the people we need.
Our forests would make beautiful Na
tional parks in which tourists from New
England would find much pleasiire, but
we really need them to build homes for
those humbler people who come to abide
with us. Our Western streams would fur
nish delightful places for rowing and
trout fishing if they could only be pro
tected from the hands of base men who
seek to commercialize them. But we need
them for very practical purposes in the
development of our resources, of which
they form a part.
Colonel Dunne, IlepubliCnn.
Eugene Register.
The re-appointment of David M. Dunne
as Collector of Internal Revenue for Ore
gon over the recommendation of Colonel
E. Hofer for the place by Senator Bourne
clearly indicates that President Taft is
getting wise to the political situation in
this state and is not disposed to aid and
abet political mugwumpery in Oregon.
Bourne has yet to learn that he cannot
pose -as a Republican in Washington and
as a Nonpartisan, or Independent, at
home. He must be either a man or a
mouse or a long-tailed rat, politically as
well as otherwise.
Mr. Poindexter, Anti-Republican.
Yakima Republic.
Mr. Poindexter is not only an "in
surgent," in the ordinarily accepted
sense of the word, but he is apparently
in open rebellion against everything the
Republican party has been trying to
do or expects to do. He has not sup
ported the Administration, and if ap
pearances count for anything, does not
expect to do so if he 13 elected to the
Senate. The State of Washington is
a Republican state, and It should put
none but Republicans on guard. This
man Poindexter isn't the right kind.
Oratorical Presidents.
Washington Herald.
"The really great Presidents of the
United States never did much talking
while in office," observes the New York
World. The World, however, has long
been Identified with the amen corner of
the Ananias Club.
Grentest of All Dams.
Kansas City Star.
Mr. Roosevelt has lately visited Am
sterdam, Rotterdam and Potsdam, and
can point with pride to the fact that
the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona is the
biggest in the world.
a Down to the Fighting; Edge.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Both Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Johnson seem
to agree with the Colonel In his remark
concerning "the fighting edge." They are,
both doing their best in grinding down
to it. .
Absolutism; Tiidori Theodore.
Washington Herald.
Absolutism reached its zenith in Eng
land under the Tudors. And Tudor, it
seems, is merely Welsh for Theodore.
Hum I Anybody smell a mouse?
"KIXG EDWARD HATED TEST OATH f
He Liked His Catholic Subjects and
Treated Them With L'tmost Respect.
London Letter, New York Post.
King Edward endeared himself to his
Irish subjects not only by his sympathy
with them in their political struggles,
but also by his absolute freedom from
prejudice against them on the score of
their religion. When he was a young
officer serving on the Curragh of Kildare,
he had shocked Protestant Ireland to
the very marrow of its bones by visiting
Maynooth College and calling on the
Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin.
At Cannes, when the famous Jesuit
preacher. Father Vaughan. was deliver
ing a course of lectures there, the prince
was to be seen daily for weeks walking
arm-in-arm with that urbane clergyman
along the sea-front. He also called on
the Pope, and never 'made any objection
to a princess of his royal house embrac
ing Catholicity on her marriage with a
Roman Catholic potentate.
King Edward visited Plus IX once and
Leo XIII three times. His recommenda
tion of the Irish Dominicans at San
ClementI In Rome to Sir A. Paget saved
them from extinction when the Pope lost
his temporal power. On landing in Ire
land, in 1903. he condoled with the people
on the death of Leo XIII, and wrote a
special letter of condolence to Cardinal
Logue. His intimacy with his Catholic
nobility was very great. He invited the
Abbot of Tepl, Marienbad. to stay with
him at Buckingham Palace. He was the
first British prince to visit the Pope since
the time of the Plantagenets. the first
British sovereign who went to mass, since
the time of James II. He frequently at
tended nuptial masses when Catholic
friends of his were being married, first
in the pro-Cathedral at Kensington, then
at the Brompton Oratory, then at St.
James. Spanish Place, then at Marienbad.
He made the Cistercian Abbot of Tepl
(Praelet Helmer) a knight commander of
the Victorian Order. Once during a Cowes
week he called on the reverend mother
at the Convent of Sainte Cecile, and, in
Rome, he saw much of Monsignor Stoner.
and visited many convents and other
places of ecclesiastical interest.
When Lord Russell of Killowen, an
Irish Roman Catholic, was Lord Chief
Justice of England, the King, then Prince
of Wales, frequently took advantage of
the opportunity which chance meetings
on the racecourse or elsewhere afforded "to
elicit (says a correspondent, probably Lord
Russell's son, of the very restrained and
accurate Tablet) his views upon the burn
ing question of the situation in Ireland.
He knew that the lord chief was an
earnest Catholic and a warm supporter
of home rule, but these things only
seemed to recommend him the more as a
man who was capable of introducing him
to a view of this delicate subject un
eolored by English tradition or anti
Catholic prejudices.
As a matter of fact, if King Edward
hated any section of his subjects, that
section Was not the Catholics, but the
Orangemen and the Puritan Noncon
formists. The only occasion on which he
spoke his mind on this point with any
approach of violence, heat and indigna
tioin was when, after the notorious Tran
by Croft case, he wrote to the then Arch
bishop (Benson) of Canterbury, speaking
bitterly of "the painful subject which
brought about such a torrent of abuse
on me, not only by the press, but by the
Low Church, and especially by the Non
conformists." That abuse was poured, it
will be remembered, on a man whose
position closed his mouth, tied his hands,
and forbade him to reply or to defend
himself. Ever since that time King Er
ward hated the "unco guid" of his own
communion, the hypocrites whose fore
bears had framed the disgraceful coro
nation oath and who raise a howl of
protest if their sovereign, while travel
ing on the Continent, ventures to look,
through a telescope even, at any old
ecclesiastical ruin of the Roman Catho
lics. That King Edward could be accused, as
poor Samuel Pepys was so persistently
accused, of being "a Papist or pop'ishly
Inclined." is, of course, out of the ques
tion. Ho was simply without the faint
est tinge of intolerance, that. Is all. . The
Prime Minister expressed It exceedingly
well last Wednesday in the House when
he declared that "the King was wholly
free from prejudice and narrow rules of
caste. He was at home In all company,
he was an enfranchised citizen of the
world."
PINCHOT'S LAMBS AND GOATS.
Array of Saints nnd Sinners Teaches
Several Lessons.
Tacoma Tribune.
The Glavis-Pinchot investigation
dragged along through three months,
giving the stenographers a chance to
make a few thousand dollars, and
about all the result 1-. the lining up
of a noble array of high-browed pat
riots: Pinchot, Kerby, Glavis, Newell,
Jones, Hapgood, Connolly, Brandels,
Garfield and a few more.
Arrayed against this noble bunch of
white-robed saints are lined up the
hordes of the wicked: John H. Mc
Graw, C. J. Smith, R. A. Ballinger,
William H. Taft. Charles Sweeney,
Miles C. Moore. Frank T. Post, Harry
White, John P. Hartman. H. C. Henry,
A. G. Avery. Sam Piles. Charles B.
Hopkins. John P. Gray, and more of the
same stamp, mostly rude, rough-necks
of the rowdy West.
There is another lesson taught by
the investigation: That is that while
tha high-browed New England con
servationists may work for years, bull
dozing and browbeating settlers and
driving them out of the public lands,
while the "interests" pick up every
thing that is worth taking title to, they
ran up against the wrong bunch when
they undertook to scare them, as they
had successfully done with other people
for years.
Never.
Chicago Post.
"Sic transit gloria mundf" was never
more sic-transity than In the matter of
mentioning gentlemen for the Demo
cratic nomination for President.
No Soliloquy for T. It.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Colonel Roosqvelt indulged in no so
liloquy at Elsinore, but we feel certain
that he hasn't decided "not to be."
Where T. R. Shines.
Meridian Dispatch.
Anyway, Teddy's the first man to have
Kings and Queens running down to the
depot to meet him.
CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS.
She: "What was that noise I heard in
the hall last night?" He: "I guess, my dear,
it was the day breaking." Baltimore Amer
ican. "Johnnie, do you understand what is
meanjt by a crisis?" "Yes, mum." "Tell us.
Johnnie." "Two out an' the bases full,'
mum' Buffalo Express.
Hank Stubbs: "The ministers are blamin'
automobiles 'cuz folks don't come to
church." Bige Miller: "Pshaw! Autymobiles
don't preach, do they?" Boston Herald.
Younglelgh: "Which is the better way to
propose, orally or by letter?" Cynlcus ""By
letter, certainly. There's a chance that you
might forget to mail It." Boston Transcript.
.- "Won't you be gald to get back to your
native shores once more?" "How do I
know." replied the nervous man, "until my
family has gotten past the customs Inspec
tors?" Washington Star.
Borus (struggling author): "Say, Naggus.
why did you make such a merciless, cutting
analysts of that last book of mine? I tell
you, that hurt!" Naggus (literary editor). -"Certainly;
. vivisection always hurts. But
look at the benefits it confers upon human
ity." Chicago Tribune. ;
It was down In the market district. "What
this country needs is plenty of bone and
.sinew." said the tall one. "Yes, and plenty
or grit and sand." echoed the short one
"By the way, what business are you In'"
"Oh, I'm a butcher, and You?" "Why er
I distribute strawberries when they a'rrlve
from the Southern markets." Chicago Daily
Kaciw
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
The late Justice Brewer was noted to:
his tolerant and broad-minded views. A
Washington diplomat recalled the othei
day a story told by Justice - Brewer in
illustration of the need for tolerance.
"We should respect the views of others"
so the story ran "for morality itseli
is only a matter of environment.
"A missionary in the South seas waf
distressed because his dusky parishioners
were- nude. He decided to try delicately
to get them to wear at lnast a little cloth
ing, and to this end he left a great many
pieces of scarlet and green and yellow
calico lying about his hut.
"An elderly dame called one afternoon
for . spiritual advice. The missionary
noted how enviously her eyes rested on
the calico. . and he took up a two-yard
piece of the yellow, saying:
" 'I'll give you this if you'll wear it."
"The female draped the calico about
her like a skirt and departed in great
glee.
"But the next day. nude, as before, she
returned with the fabric under her arm.
Handing it sadly to the missionary, eh
said:
" "Me no can wear It. missy. Me too
shy.' "Washington (D.) C.) Post.
"The train crews of the Southwest, from
sheer necessity are made up of men able
to take and appreciate a joke," says ex
Councilman L C. Carran. "Otherwise,
the dreariness and monotony of their
lives might kill them.
"I was on a train in Arkansas recently,
when the brakeman came through the car
and bawled out some sort of gibberish as
we came to a stop.
" 'What place Is this, please?" I asked
the conductor.
" 'Place? , this ain't no place.' he"
sald, and good naturedly, too, at that.
"This Is just one of the habits of the
engineer. Whenever he goes so many
yards, he stops just from force of habit.' "
Exchange.
A young man of the colored persuasiion.
had promised his girl a pair of long white
gloves for a gift. Entering a large de
partment store, he at last found the coun
ter where these goods were displayed,
and, approaching rather hesitatingly, re
marked, "Ah want a pair ob gloves."
"How long do you want them?" in
quired the business-like clerk.
"Ah doesn't want fo' to rent 'cm: ah
wants fo' to buy 'em," replied the other
indignantly. Harper's Weekly.
Senator Beverldge, discussing a certain
monopoly, raid with a smile:
"This company reminds me of the old
man in the train who said to his neigh
bor: " 'Wbuld you mind lending me yowir
specs, sir?"
" 'Why, certainly,' the neighbor
answered, and he took off his spectacles
and surrendered them with a courteous
gesture.
" 'And now,' said the old man, 'since
you can no longer see to read your news
paper, I'm sure you'll be willing to let me
run my eye over the sporting pages.' "
Kansas Cily Star.
Will Freeman tells a story upon Sydney
Hedges, of Clark County, elected road
supervisor for Monroe township at the
last election. Hedges ran for road super
visor the first time the year that the
cross of gold speech won William Jen
nings Bryan his first Democratic nomi
nation for President. Hedges figures that
he and Bryan were running mates. At
the last election Hedges went into office
by one vote, and wrote to Mr. Bryan:
"Keep at it, Mr. Bryan; I commenced
running the same time you did and I
landed this time by one vote." Indian
apolis Star.
Dr. Wood, the popular head master of
Harrow School, once told a capital story
of a boy who missed a battalion drill,
which is considered a somewhat serious
offense at the famous school .The doctor
summmoned the lad, an American, to his
study and thus addressed him:
"Do you know, as the honorary colonel
of the cadet corps, I can have you shot
and as the head master I can have you
birched? Now, which sentence do you
prefer?"
The humor of the situation overcame
the culprit's nervousness and with a smile
he replied:
"I prefer to be shot, sir, because then
you'll be hanged." London Tit-Bits.
Need of Political Assembly.
Amity Standard.
That the state assembly plan of rec
ommending candidates for the Republican
party nominations is favored by a large
majority of the members of the party is
apparent, and the call issued Saturday
by Chairman George, of the State Central
Committee, will undoubtedly meet with
a cordial reception from the rank and
file of the party. To all appearance such
a move Is contemplated by the law to
enable parties better to determine who
their candidates shall be. While an en
dorsement by the assembly will in no
was' insure the nomination to the one en
dorsed, it will cut out much of the doubt
and perplexity that confronts the voter in
having a long list of candidates, many of
whom are practically unknown to him,
to make a wise selection from.
THE BLtE AND THE GRAY.
By the flow of the inland river.
Whence the fleets of iron have fled.
Where the blades of the grass-green
quiver.
Asleep are the ranks of the dead;
Under the sod and the dew
Waiting the judgment day:
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray.
These in the robings of glory.
Those in the gloom of defeat.
All with the battle-blood gory.
In the dusk of eternity meet;
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go.
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew.
Watting the Judgment day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So, with an equal splendor
The morning sun-rays fall,
Witli a touch, impartially tender.
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting the judgment day;
'Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So, when the Summer calleth.
On forest and field of grain.
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew.
Waiting tha judgment day;
Wet with the rain, the Blue.
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding.
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of years that are fading.
No braver battle was won;
Under the sod and the dew,
WRitlnff thP illl0-mon Q -r - -
-- o , w
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray.
No more shall the war-cry sever.
Or the winding river be red;
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our
dead;
Under the sod and the dew.
vvuiLing- tne juagment aay;
Love and tears, for the Blue,
Tears and love, for the Gray.
e Frances Miles Finch,
t