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POBTLAND, FRIDAY, JVSE 10, 1910.
PROPERTY AND SOCIALISM.
A man at Tacoma, E. F. Baldwin,
dissents from recent comment of The
Oregonian on President Taft's speech
against Socialism. The particular re
mark of this paper that displeases Mr.
Baldwin was: "In its finality. So
cialism supplants individual effort and
enterprise with Government owner
ship and exploitation of the means of
production and distribution and sup
plants even private ownership of the
common comforts and possessions of
life."
There are many kinds and condi
tions of socialistic ideas and they nat
urally are in frequent conflict with
each other. Socialism is a vague, neb
ulous theory, poorly defined by so
called authorities on the subject. - It
aims at abolition of competition in in
dustry and of private ownership of the
means of production and distribution.
It aims also at abolition of private
property, since it wishes Government
to appropriate all means of production
and renewal of property. In such a
status of society the only goods in pri
vate ownership would be surviving
family relics and heirlooms. There
would be no more fine cookstoves,
rocking-chairs or automobiles as pri
vate property, because all citizens
"would be reduced to equal level of
poverty. .
"Collective ownership of everything
that is collectively used" is a catch
phrase of certain Socilaists. But
everything worth having belongs to a
class of things that are collectively
used. Land, bread, furniture, capital
and all instrumentalities of produc
tion and distribution are collectively
used, or would be in the Socialistic
state. And when capital, land, food,
and those instrumentalities were oper
ated for public use, there would be no
private property remaining, except the
citizen's daily dole of cheap goods
from the collective store. No man
would be better off than another;
everybody would be on one equal level
of cheap articles and common living.
No individual would possess produc
tive capital, or land or machinery.
Nobody would engage in business
for his own profit, for the stat3 would
carry on all 'business and absorb the
proceeds while every person would be
but an employe at wages fixed by the
government. Every person, iwho by
skill or intelligence, contributed more
than the average product to the col
lective store, would be paid only the
average wage and neither he nor his
wife nor his children would benefit
from his unusual efficiency. Not even
would he draw "his share" in money,
because there would be no money.
Government, as producer and distribu
tor of goods, would pay the workers
in the products of their awn hands.
Any person who asserted right to
higher reward than another above
the average would be an enemy of
the people. Right now he is a pluto
crat and Socialists demand that he be
pulled down. He would not be al
lowed to accumulate property for his
own or his family's enrichment. He
could not pile up store for his wife's
or his children's comfort. For, then
he would be a plutocrat; he ' would
possess more than the average person.
Socialists of the radical type do not
look to the "finality" of their scheme.
They do not comprehend its purposes
nor its consequences; they do not
know what they want, only that 'they
wish to "pull down" the man who
makes more than the average wage or
profit. They wish to have collective
use of all capital, food, land and
means of comfort. Loose thinking is
a habit of this kind of Socialist theor
Izers. Their doctrine of social regener.
ation is the deadly enemy of independ
ence and progress of the thrifty work
ing man, because It is the friend and
solace of the unthrifty.
THK U'BE OF GOLD.
Another shipment of gold amount
ing to $450,000 has left Fairbanks.
Alaska, for Seattle, making a total of
$1,500,000 which has 'been started
from the Tanana district since the
opening of navigation on the Tukon.
Estimates as to the output of the dis.
trlct this year run all the waxfrom
$2,500,000 to $8,000,000. with some
optimistic Alaskans predicting even
greater shipments from the district.
Any figure between these two extremes
would make a very good sum for a dis
trict that last year began showing
signs of having "pinched out," and as
most of the output fell into the hands
of a comparatively few lucky individ
uals, much more will be heard of the
fortunate few than will be heard of
those who failed to make expenses.
The world soon gets acquainted with
the man who gains possession of $10 -000.000,
but it pays only slight atten
tion to the million men who have dif
ficulty in getting $10 each.
The lure of the mining district is
such, however, that if there were only
one lucky man who succeeded in se
curing a fortune, that individual piece
of luck would be everything neces
sary to keep the unfortunate thou
sands who had failed from losing their
faith in the great game. All of the
gold that has ever come out of-Alaska
would not equal the value of one good
crop of agricultural products in the
three North Pacific States, and the
same amount of energy and money
that is expended on mining in Alaska
if devoted to general industrial exploi
tation would make vastly greater re
turns. The lure of gold, however, has
caused men to wander far and to suf
fer privation and even death in all
lands and among nearly all peoples. .
Flocking to every new district in
Alaska can be found unlucky miners
who have spent all of their lives since
boyhood In the pursuit of the elusive
"stake" that Nature gives up to the
fortunate few. And yet the world
welcomes the output of these mines
and could not get along without them.
It was the gold digger that led the
vanguard of civilization on the west
ern shores of the Nation, and in Alas
ka as in California andj every other,
land, where the prospector has drifted
the miner has blazed trails over which
the farmer, the tradesman and the
professional man have marched to
success in many a new country. In
cidentally the Alaskan gold discover
ies have built a very fine city on the
shores of Puget Sound, many miles
from the place where the gold was
taken from the ground.
HOTELS AM) PROHIBITION.
First-class hotels are injured by pro
hibition perhaps more than any other
kind of business. Keepers of high
grade . hostelrie3 . know that use of
liquors in their establishments at
tracts the trade that is willing to pay
for their superior service.- Not drunk
enness does this, but temperate, rea
sonable use of liquors. For this rea
son hotel men have banded together
to fight prohibition.
Hotels will continue to do business
even if prohibition should carry the
state election next November. But
they would not keep up the quality of
their service to' present grade. Pro
hibitionists do not patronize the kind
of hotels that spend money for fine
service. They go to second-class es
tablishments, where they can buy a
meal or rent a bed at cheap price.
Theirs, is not the kind of trade that
maintains the fine hotels of Portland
or that makes profitable the business
of the small-town hotel-keeper. Nor
is theirs the kind of trade that makes
profitable the best class of restaurant
business.
No hotel nor restaurant of the first
class can be maintained in any city
or important town without sale of li
quors. Hotel and restaurant-keepers
know that by selling liquors they can
attract the class of trade that pays for
high-class service, and for fine furni
ture. This Is a legitimate, orderly, de
cent class of trade. It is well enough,
perhaps, that hotel men have taken
the lead In fighting state-wide prohi
bition; they are immediately con
cerned, but so also are all citizens who
like high-class servico in hotels and
the community name that goes with it.
Citizens are concerned in the prohi
bition question for other reasons, too.
One of these reasons is the narrow,
petty provincialism of prohibition. It
would put Oregon in the class of fa
natical. Intolerant states,- like Kansas
and Maine. Another reason is the hy
pocrisy of prohibition enforcement.
Still another is the sneaky, spying and
prying that prohibition engenders. One
more reason is the secret liquor trade
more injurious than the open kind
that goes on under prohibition. Again,
prohibition Imposes unjust restric
tions upon personal conduct and pri
vate right.
Oregon .should not be singled out
among its thriving neighbors as a
commonwealth of prohibition fanati
cism, wrangling and intolerance.
OUR MOST EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING.
Detailed statistics on bank clearings
as presented in the current number of
the New York Financial Chronicle
show the Pacific group of cities to lead
all others in percentage of gains for
the first Ave months of the year. Of
the Pacific cities, Portland leads all
others in its class among the big cities.
In the Pacific group there were four
cities with clearings in excess of $200,-
000,000 for the five months, and
of these Portland showed 39.4 per cent
gain, Los Angeles coming next with
26.7 per cent. San Francisco 22.6 per
cent and Seattle 22 per cent. The av
erage gain for the eighteen cities in
cluded in the group was 24.6 per cent.
The "Wesetrn" cities, including Kan
sas City, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Den
ver, St. Joseph, etc., were next in point
of gain to the Pacific group, with 18.8
per cent to their credit, but no city
showed as large a percentage of gain
as was reported by Portland.
The New England group made the
poorest showing with a gain of 4.3 per
cent, while the average for all Ameri-'
can cities was 12.1 per cent. Port
land's gain for the month of May was
36.5 per cent, thus showing the uni
formity with which the gains have
been piling up since the opening of the
new year. This financial showing is
in keeping with the remarkable gain
made in building permits, postoffice
receipts, real estate transfers and
other features of the city's growth.
For the first five months of the year
but three cities New Tork, Chicago
and Philadelphia have had a greater
total than Portland in the value of
building permits Issued.
That Portland is in but small dan
ger of losing her important place so
near the head of the list is disclosed by
the fact that while this city registered
a very heavy gain for May. the three
big Eastern cities all had decreases
and most of the other cities remained
about stationary. This city just at
present is receiving through the fig
ures for its bank clearings, building
permits, etc.. more effective advertis
ing than has ever been accomplished
In any other direction.
THE KAISER'S WEALTH.
With his income from the public
of $22.50 a minute the Kaiser ought
to feel reasonably secure - from want
in his declining years. We dare say
he saves a goodly fraction of it, for
he belongs to a thrifty stock which
never has countenanced waste. In
addition to what the country which
he rules bestows upon him, Wilhelm
enjoys -the income from numerous
quasi private estates which he would
perhaps retain in the improbable con
tingency of losing his office. The pril
vate property of monarchs has not
always been respected by revolution
ists, but sometimes it has been, and
the Kaiser might turn out to be one
of the fortunate exceptions.
However, it Is idle to speculate upon
his treatment if there should be a
social overturn in Germany, for no
such event is likely -to happen. The
only cloud on the " political horizon
there Is caused by the socialists, but
even they have laid aside methods of
violence and have learned to trust in
the power of -facts and argument.
Their late demonstrations against a
reactionary suffrage bill were entirely
peacea'ble, and yet fo- all that they
were rather effective. At any rate the
bill did not escape defeat.
The German socialists receive much
sympathy from men who do not agree
with their economic tenets because
the election laws treat them unjustly.
In Germany it is property which votesi
not men. - The government adheres to
the nrinrlnla u- V, i,-V, M t
1 lin ridiculed in his story of the mule
and the man. A certain Pennsylvanian
1 could not vote under the old election
laws of the state because he owned!
no property. Being Industrious, he !
went to work and presently had money
enough to buy a mule. Then the law
accepted his vote. Franklin asked the
pertinent question whether it was
really-the man. or the mule who cast
the ballot.
Not only do the German laws give
property a. heavy preponderance over
intelligence in elections, but they also
pay a great deal of respect to ancestry.
When the privileges of the ' nobility
and the capitalists are duly weighed,
it is seen that the plain people are at
a serious disadvantage at the polls
and their rights are bound to suffer.
This fact lies at the root of a great
deal of the socialist agitation in
Germany.
BANK RATE AGAIN DECLINES.
The Bank of England's official dis
count rate was reduced to three per
cent yesterday, being the second re
duction within the past ten- days.
W'lth the rate again down to a reason
able figure it is apparent that the for
eign financial market has at last 1
steered clear of the many obstructions ,
that seemed to confront it a few
weeks ago.
- One year ago the bank rate dropped
to 2 per cent in June, and even at
that low rate, there was sufficient gold
attracted to prevent any uneasiness,
but with the maturing of a number
of foreign credits in Autumn, the rate
went up with a rush to 5 per cent.
This figure drew gold from all parts
of the world, and the rate again de
clined to 3 per cent, but in March was
advanced to 4 per cent. It remained
at that figure until June 2, when a
34 per cent rate -wa3 announced. At
that time the reserves of gold had
accumulated so rapidly that, the Bank
of England held $30,000,000 more
than it held when the rate was ad
vanced to 4 per cent in March.
The holdings of the Bank of Eng
land at the end of May had reached
the enormous total of $220,000,000,
the largest held at a . corresponding
date since 1896. With such an. accu
mulation of gold that had been poured
in from all parts of the world, it is
not at all surprising that the rate has
declined to 3 per cent and it will not
be surprising to note a further decline
to 2 M per cent. The change is very
satisfactory for American financiers,
for with the balance of trade threat
ening to run heavily against us, it had
already become neecssary for this
country to ship large quantities of the
yellow metal to England. This reduc
tion in the bank rate will check the
flow of gold and have a tendency to
ease the strain in this country.
REFORMING LEGAL PROCEDURE.
Two important committees have
lately been appointed to help forward
the good work of reforming our judi
cial procedure. One of them was ap
pointed by the American Bar Associa
tion, the other by the National Civic
Federation. Both are composed of
first-rate men and their recommenda
tions will command attention. A state
ment of their joint purpose by Everett
P. Wheeler emphasizes the point that
they seek no modification of the law
itself, but only of its administration.
The trial of equity suits in the Fed
eral courts is Instanced as an excellent
subject for reform. In these the pro
cedure is as antiquated as it can be
and everything is contrived apparently
for the sake of delay and expense.
The whole machinery is so cumbrous
that it can hardly be made to work at
an. men, in ordinary lawsuits, there
are the costs and delays arising from
technicalities, the errors of lawyers,
the meticulousness of judges. Leg
islation is sought by "the committees
to improve the administration of the
law in all these departments.
There ought not to be any opposi
tion to this progressive legislation, but
it is too -much to expect that every
body will favor it. Mr. Wheeler's re
mark that "it is to everybody's inter
est to have lawsuits quickly and
cheaply disposed of must be taken
with a grain or two of salt. The law
yers who draw fees from dilatory pro
ceedings may desire to have their op
portunities curtailed, and they may
not. Certainly, so far as their finan
cial interest is concerned, the law's
delays are a source of rich income to
them. We ought not to hope that
they will be unselfish enough to work
against their own pockets. Few men
are capable of such disinterestedness.
If the law's procedure is ever reformed
it will be done against the wishes and
the more or less active opposition of
a large fraction of the legal profes
sion. What would become of the
masters in chancery and their pick
ings, for example, if Federal equity
suits were tried in a sensible way ?
The same question applies to a host
of other parasites.
CORPORATION TAX DOUBT.
Validity of the corporation tax will
not be decided by the Supreme Court
of the United States, probably before
si:: months hence. The court last
week ordered the sixteen suits against
the tax to be reargued in the next term
of cq,urt, beginning in October. They
were argued March 17-18, and it was
supposed then that by this time the
rate or this inequitable new tax would
have been decided one way or the
other.
it is understood that out of the nine
members of the court the seven who
endeavored to pass on the question dis
agreed so closely as to make a decision
inadvisable without the full tribunal.
Justice Moody has been incapacitated
by sickness and Justice Hughes has
notyet taken his seat in the court. Com
mon report has it that the seven Jus
tices stood 4 to 3, but on which side
the majority was the. report does not
say. In such an important matter the
Justices evidently believe that the de
cision should have the support of at
least five of the members.
The delay is unfortunate, because it
was supposed that the validity of the
tax would be determined before the
final day allowed for payment, June
30. About $500,000 has already been
paid, and the total revenue expected
from this source is $26,000,000. This
money in the Treasury will await the
uncertainty of the Supreme Court
opinion, during a period when the
Government will urgently need it.
But it is at least gratifying to know
that this unjust tax is opposed in the
Supreme Court. It may be that the
influence of President Taft will secure
an affirmative decision, but there U lit
tle room for doubt that the tax would I
' i 1 I . o ... A
i-w iu me supreme uourt without this
influence. The tax discriminates most
unfairly against corporation methods
of doing business; as an excise it fails
to meet the constitutional requirement
of uniformity; as an income tax It en
counters objections previously declared
by the Supreme Court against tax on
incomes; moreover, it extends the tax-
ing power, and therefore the control
of the General Government, over 1m-
porta nt instrumentalities of state gov
ernment corporations created by the
states.
The corporation tax has alienated
tens of thousands of President Taft's
friends from his Administration. Aside
from all legal questions and techni
calities, this tax imposes burdens on
business conducted under one form of
ownership and omits business of per
sons and partnerships. It subjects one
class of business to scrutiny of inner
secrets and exempts others. Such a
tax is wrong in principle and should be
unconstitutional. One of the storms
now raging about President Taft has
come from this inequitable tax.
According to Washington (D. C.)
dispatches, the return movement from
Canada to the United States has set in,
and with the irrigation development
now under way in the Pacific North
west, as well as in Montana, it is ex
pected that the attractions of cheap
land in Canada will be less alluriner.
In order to win back the best of the
mH .v. ,.
Canada f o develop land which is no
better than millions of acres that are
locked up in "reserves" In this coun
try, it will be necessary to release some
of this land and make it as accessible
as that which is proving so attractive
in Canada. The evidence of a return
movement from Canada is-still lacking,
however, and it may be possible that it
is confined to the "weaklings": who
preferred to become homesick and
leave a land of milk and honey unless
the output was delivered to them on a
golden platter.
Steamers rushing through the water
at a fair rate of speed stir up a swell
which causes small craft venturing
near" to toss about and frequently to
capsize. In this respect the currents
of air are not unlike those of the
water. A Kansas-aviator, while mak
ing an exhibition yesterday, was cap
sized by an air current caused by a
flying . railroad train. Boat-builders
guard against accidents of this kind
by shaping the hulls to meet such
emergencies. Aerial navigation, how
ever, has not yet' reached a stage
where It is possible to take such pre
cautions. Eventually we may have
great airships whose flight will create
such currents that the small airships
will be forced to giye them a wide
berth in passing. It is still too early
to predict what may happen when
some fool In the. airboat starts to rock
ing it in order to frighten the timid
passenger. '
H. M. Adams, at present traffic chief
of the North Bank Railroad, has been
selected by the Gould interests to take
charge of the traffic of the Western
Pacific. Mr. Adams is one of a stead
ily growing number of expert railroad
ers who have risen from the ranks in
Portland and who have climbed to
high places in the service on some of
the largest roads In the United States.
The fine recognition of his talents
which is shown in the offer of the new
position is very pleasing to a wide
circle of friends and business associ
ates in this city; but Mr. Adams was
so familiar with Portland territory and
of all conditions affecting traffic in the
Pacific Northwest that his departure
will be regretted by all who have ever
had any dealings with him. As a
graduating school for high-grade rail
road men, Portland is gaining quite a
reputation. .
The conscience-stricken Illinois
bribetakers who "don't know why
they took" the Lorimer money can
easily ne enlightened. They took It
Decause it looked good to them and
they felt sure they would never be
found out. Now thfags atmear in a
different light and most of the poor
wretches make a cowardly as well as
a contemptible spectacle of them
selves as they blubber out their tardy
penitence.
It must be a comfort to the Presi
dent to find that there Is one town in
the United States which would wel
come the negro regiment. Fort Lo
gan, Colorado, is the singular city.
There is a good deal of make believe.
no doubt, in Seattle's hysteria over
the negro troops, but still race antag
onism is real even when it is silly, and
the authorities must reckon with it.
we near or a number of pretty
plays at the college commencements
In Oregon, "Esmeralda" at Forest
Grove and so on, but none of them
seem to be staged out of doors. Why
not? They do it in the East with
beautiful effect and their sky. moun
tain backgrounds and climate do not
oner nair the Inducements we have
nere.
If Portland entertains 100,000 Rose
Festival visitors and each visitor
spends $25 for his fun, the total
amount left here will be rery, pretty
to uream aDOut. ir it were all in sil
ver dollars and. each were the si--.
teenth of an inch thick and- thev
all in a cylindrical pile, it would be
more than 13,000 feet high.
The National Association of 'Brew
ers, in session at Washington, declare
themselves ready to work for true
temperance. "True temperance" might
mean stopping just short of capacity.
ui ewers are irresistible jokers..
xnat man living, on Knott street
wno went home the other night and
fired three shots in the air when he
found an intruder working the affin
ity stunt overtime is very peaceable
or very considerate.
Reformer Spreckels is now at work
on an organization for the suppression
of graft. - Let us see, wasn't it Mr.
Spreckels -who hired Mr. Heney to
scour San Francisco? .
Pinchot and Jimmy Garfield had a
conference at Mentor yesterday. The
matter of paying for crene was nmh.
ably not one of me subjects discussed.
It has been nicely figured that Em.
peror William gets $22.60 a minute,
which is very good pay for the job.
Just keep good-natured and move
forward. A trolley car built for sixty
nas aouDie capacity these nights.
Minister Crum can hardly be satis
fied In Liberia. The Liberians are all
cullud folkses."
Everybody could not get a prize, but
everybody can feel proud.
Did you get home last night, or was
it this morning?
We love our goose eggs.
Beavers.
but O.you
WATER POWER IX COLORADO.
"Interests" Don't Prefer Coal Emerary,
Vet Pi sw-hot Talks "Trust."
Letter to New Tork Sun.
A year or two ago Mr. Pinchot began
a sort of crusade to prevent citizens
of the Far Western states from con
trolling the water power of the rivers
of those states. In order to excite the
prejudices and fears of the people, he
asserted that "the interests" were try
ing to establish a water power trust.
It seems to me that time has- come to
have attention called to the facts. As
Colorado is one of the states whose
water power "the interests" are trying
to control, and as I have lived in Colo
rado 30 years I think that I can present
the facts so that there can be no mis
understanding. .,
The power constantly wasted in the
State of Colorado is enormous. , With
the Arkansas River flowing through
the City of Pueblo, the power used for
the steel works, smelters, street rail
roads and electric light plants, is all
obtained by burning coal. The City of
Grand Junction, through which flow
the waters of the Grand and Gunnison
Rivers, uses coal for its power plants,
and farmers along those streams who
obtain by pumprng the water to irri
gate their orchards, use coal power, to
operate their pumps. Canyon City is
located at the lower end of the Grand
Canyon of the Arkansas River, and the
City of Salida at the upper end of the
canyon. The fall of the river between
these two points is about 2000 feet, yet
both cities burn coal for power, while
the water power runs to waste. The
same condition is true of the cities of
Denver, Leadvllle, Cripple Creek, Colo
rado Springs, Montrose and other
smaller towns. The reason is as' well
known to Pinchot and Garfield as to
everyone else; coal is cheap and the
coal mines are near at hand. The
power companies all through Colorado
prefer to use coal power. There are a
number of water power plants in dif
ferent parts of the state, but I think
that without exception they are located
on smaller streams In the mountains
where transportation charges make
coal cost from $5 to $10 a ton.
The large water power streams are
as yet undeveloped, because the first
cost of the water power plants is very
great and capitalists cannot see any
profit in making water-power plants
compete with cheap coal. The time will
come when the water power of the
streams will be developed, but there is
no one at present trying to do this, and
there is plenty of time for Congress to
change the classification of the lands
if it so desires. It is not necessary
for the President to do this in violation
of law. Garfield .and Pinchot know
perfectly well that there is no water
power trust and that there is no possi
bility of a monopoly of the water power
when the large rivers of the state have
within reasonable limits falls of from
4000 to 6000 feet each, so that the water
can be used over and over again. They
know that the real trouble is that capi
talists cannot be induced to build water
power plants. - .
The people ought to see that this
whole crusade seems to have been un
dertaken in order to keep the' public in
a state of frenzy forborne political pur
pose. Up to the present time their
success in fooling the people has been
phenomenal, but common sense ought
to teach people that the "interests" do
not want the water power. At least 95
per cent of the power used in Colo
rado is obtained by burning coal, and
the coal could be saved if the water
power were used. To encourage the
development of the water power is
therefore the wise policy. ,
H. W. REED.
Salt Lake City, May 27.
' 30.4c EGGS COST PUBLIC 38.1c.
Government Report on Pood Margins
Between Farmers and Consumers.
Washington Dispatch New York Herald.
What the farmer gets for his butter,
eggs and chickens and 'the price which
the consumer pays to the retailer for them
In 75 cities of the United States are con
tained in a report sent by Mr. Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture, to Senator
Lodge. The figures are the result of in
vestigations made by the agents of the
department in January.
The average price the farmer received
for eggs, as ascertained by the Bureau of
Statistics, was 2S.9 cents, and for live
chickens 11.1 cents. The following shows
the general conclusion 'of the investiga
tion. of the department:
Paid by Paid by Rec'd
Con- Re- by Pro
Burner, taller, ducer.
Fresh eggs 38.1 32 30.4
Dressed hens -. 23 18.1 15.3
Roosters 16.S 13 ' 12.7
Chickens 23.6 18.7 17.5
"Butter, cream, tub 35.5 3t.8
Butter, prints 38.1 33.4
Butter, renovated 32.4 27.8
Milk, quart 8.5 4.7 4.5
The highest average price paid for milk
was in the South Central States, where it
cost the retailer 9.6 cents a quart and the
producer was paid but 5 cents.
Western States paid the highest aver
age price for butter, 37.9 cents, for which
the dealer paid 32.9 cents. Eggs were
highest " in the North Atlantic States
where they sold at 42.5 cents, producer
getting 35.1 cents, and lowest in South
Central States, where they sold at 35.2
cents and brought the owners of the hens
27.1 cents.
Mr. Bryan, Gravedlsjrscr.
- - ' -New Tork. World.
When the late. Governor- Johnson, of
Minnesota, was in the flesh, Mr. Bryan
held him in high-regard," tempered only
by a gnawing fear that he might have
some plutocratic friends.
Governor Harmon, of Ohio, is now
conspicuous enough to merit and re
celve the .same distinguished attention.
Mr. Bryan looks with favor upon this
great Democrat also, hut he entertains
a sickening doubt of his courage.
One . of these days - the painful dl
covery will: be made at Lincoln, Neb.,
that Mayor Gaynor, although a great
and good man, has his faulty. - Any
ocner gentleman oi jenersonian ten
dencies -who chances to be elected to
high office will be -likely also to fall a
few Inches short-of tne tsryan stand
ards. . ,
In this fashion are the hopes of De
mocracy blighted as they bloom. The
eagle eye of the Western klll'-joy is
upon them. . Like death, the reaper, he
cuts them down; like, the gravedlgger,
he gathers them in. -
Comet Failed In 1664.
Philadelphia Ledger.
It seems that Pepys. in 1664, was as
much disappointed 'as some of the peo
pie who are complaining today of Hal
ley's comet, because, after all the free
advertising it received, it failed to
have a more brilliantly iridescent tail
of poisonous cyanogen gas. . Pepys
writes in his diary for December 21
1664, that he finally, after much wait
ing and watching. saw the comet.
"which now, whether worn away or
no, I know not. appears not with a tail,
but only is larger and duller than any
other star.
Superiority of the Irish.
Springfield Republican.
The question of self-government is
quite as lively 'and Important in Ireland
as in Egypt. " Yet the Colonel remains
dumb concerning Irish home rule, not
withstanding that he dined yesterday
with John Redmond and his Nationalist
liutenants. Does the Colonel think the
Irish as incapable of home rule as the
Egyptians?
Kinds Many Tklass to Do.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
It isn't that the Colonel does with his
might what his hands find to do that stirs
our--Interest so much as the fact that he
finds so many things to do.
BEVERIDGE'S RHETORICAL. GEMS.
"Could Any Speech Wine Hisher, Fare
Part her and Say Lessr"
New York Sun.
Every now and then, and not so rare
ly at that, the weary eye glancing over
the pages of the Congressional Record
suddenly falls upon words of such
poignant beauty as to cause a gasp of
glad surprise. Noble. magnificent.
swelling words, arranged In wonderful
patterns uninhabited by any meaning,
to be sure but flawless in their per
fect beauty. And then, necessarily, one
exclaims joyfully, "Ah! our Beverldge
is at it again!"
So let us reverently contemplate the
latest work of art from the proud lips
of the Hon. Albert Jeremiah. Lest any
flash of color or glint' of glory escape,
we present the sentences one by one.
pearl by pearl, in isolated beauty and
tne happy reader can consider them as
he will, beginning at the beginning or
at the end or in the middle, and find
ing equal delight and sense, which
ever separate gem he first reviews:
It seems unfair that all one's days should
be spent in combat and struggle.
Kate, alter ail. Is a curious arranger of
destinies.
Clotho. Lacbests and Atronos work out
strange patterns in tbeir spinning, weaving
sua severing. -
No human being asked to be born, nons
ask to die.
Yet coming hither and going hence with
out our consent, one man is born with the
advantage of wealth without having earned
It and another is born to starving poverty
without having deserved it.
fctut it is useless to question, impossible to
explain.
It is a part of the insoluble mystery of
human life and destiny.
It may be, after ali. that the man who
himself with hand and brain has personally
earned everything in life, earned everv
mouthful of food and every thread of cloth
ing, earned every Honor and worked out
every achievement perhaps, after all, such
a man's soul knows a rejoicing a deep and
calm and real that his apparently more for
tunate brother never possibly can know.
Could anything be grander! Could
any speech wing higher, fare farther
and say less! We confidently assert,
no. In truth, here is clearly a case
where it is useless to question, impos
sible to explain. We are glad rather to
let the rushing waters sweep past, car
rying us on their crest to the unavoid
able truth that the Beveridglan
beauty is part of the insoluble mystery
of human life.
CORPORATIOX TAX, STATE MENACE
Alma at Federal Supervision of All
Intra-State Business.
New York Post.
Disappointing in a way as is the post
ponement of the corporation tax case,
its enormous importance to the country
dictates all prudence in reaching a de
cision. No action should have been
taken by a weakened bench there are
but seven active judges now sitting as
the Supreme Court. Few people yet
realize just what the tax means. The
unthinking rejoice at another slap at
the corporations, another effort "to
make them pay up as. they ought to."
The thoughtful discern what the Re
publican leaders are quite ready when
pressed to admit as President Taft
has often done that the income from
the tax itself is of little importance;
that the taxing of the corporations It
self is a secondary purpose, the real
object being to drive in an ntrln
wedge which shall permit, within a
iow years, tne federal Government's
taking oversight of business in the
United States. Not merely interstate
business, but all business is involved.
Above all, the object Is to break down
state supervision of the cornnratlnn.
created by the states. When it is con
sidered that the Nation broke in two
over this question of state rights in
volved, it is true, with one of human
rights the apathy of the country as a
whole, and particularly of the South
as to the vital importance of the cor
poration tax, is much to be wondered
at.
What Is a Democrat f
New York World.
At about this time, as the almanacs say.
look out for definitions of a Democrat. In
London, after reaching the extreme Tory
doctrine that the Nationalist movement
in Egypt should be stopped with fire and
sword. Mr. Roosevelt exclaimed: "I am
not only an American, but a radical a
real, not a mock democrat!"
On the same day Thomas E. Watson, of
Georgia, long en extreme Populist an
nounced that he had discovered In his
own person true Democracy. Henceforth
he is to strive with all his might to "ele
vate the old Southern ideals of statesman
ship" and to "place ante-bellum Demo
cratic principles once more In the creed of
the party."
After such an opening as this there Is
every prospect that the conundrum season
of 1910 will be a brilliant one.
Palladium of Republicanism.
New York Sun.
The Republican is the best of all par
ties: it has saved everything worth sav
ing, and there is no true goodness outside
of it, and the protective tariff is the
sole source of prosperity, but when the
Republican party is divided against It
self and prosperity means a larger drain
upon the pocket of the wage earner and
the salary owner who can tell what to
expect of the weak and the wicked?
After all, we can't believe that the Re
publicans will care to stand upon even
the best of tariffs. More likely they will
depend upon the imputed righteousness
which they will derive from a celebrated
article of virtue which is to be reimported
this month.
Fire Department Aeroplanes.
New York Sun.
Glenn Curtlss' idea of using the "aero
plane for dropping chemicals on high
buildings in flames to put out fire is the
most fantastic we have heard from the
aeronauts. If the swift-flying aeroplane
could be stopped with a brake like an au
tomobile, and, stationary in midair, pour
out the extinguishing chemical, it would
of course be indispensable to modern fire
departments.
Cleaning a Rasor Hone.
Indianapolis News.
A razor hone which has been spoiled
by steel particles filling the pores can
be made as good as new by washing in
hydrochloric acid and then in water.
Concedes His Liking.
Springfield (Mass.) Union. .
Latest reports from Washington indi
cate that Champ Clark Is willing to con
cede that he would like to be Speaker of
the House.
. The American "Kid."
New York tiun.
Scene Any public park In any American
city.
The park is a babel of babies
Of varying nations and bloods.
All racial connections, all shades of com
plexions. All styles and conditions of duds;
The place Is a riot of races
That know where the stork's nest is hid;
h, every known breed from the Slav - to
the Swede r
But Where's the American "kid"?
The park is a babel of babies
The Gentile Is here and the Jew;
Italian and Spanish and Irish and Danish.
The Turk and Armenian, too.
The place is a riot of races
Who will not from trouble be rid.
Such old-fashioned ways aren't "classy"
inese aiiyB
But where's ths American "kid"?
The park is a babel of babies.
And every babe in the place.
Or crying or crowing, is part of the grow
ing. The coming American race.
Hurrah for the many-tongued people
Who do as their forefathers did!
Our country will take all their babies and
make
Each one an American "kid!
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
The boys of a local day school ap
plied to the town's education commit
tee for an allowance of money toward
the expenses of their cricket ground,
and a small amount was. after some
discussion, granted them. At once
there came along a letter of thanks
from the juvenile secretary, who cor
dially invited all the members of the
committee, "with the exception of Mr.
Smith, the provision dealer." to be
present on the occasion of the first
match.
"But why should poor Mr. Smith be
left out?" the cleric solemnly inquired.
"Has he done anything wrong?"
- "Oh, no sir." was the uneasy reply.
"But we'd rather he didn't come. You
see, we made our pavilion out of old
bacon boxes we borrowed from his
back yard, and we're a bit afraid he
mig..t recognise them." Tit-Bits.
When Brittenham, of the Twentieth
police district, hears "the cry of "Help!"
ring out on that particular section of
the night air incident to his beat, he
naturally bends his footsteps toward
"the big ' noise." The cry rang out
late last night, and Brittenham bent
his footsteps" noiseward.
Just where the Market street bridge
begins to keep pedestrians from drop
ping into the Schuylkill a hatless. coat
less, shoeless individual, with a nose
only a few shades less red than the
danger lamp, was squirming about in
the dust, shooting forth hia arms and
legs like a man in deep water for
the first time in his life.
"Help! Help! I'm sinking for the
third time."
"Britt" grabbed a handful of neck
and yanked him to his feet. The man
in need of assistance shivered a while,
shook himself like a terrier fresh from
a bath, and then pulled two dimes from
his pocket.
"They're all I've got, pard." he told
the copper, "but one of 'em's yours.
You saved my life, and I'm grateful."
Britt. like a real hero, explained
that bravery, like virtue, is its own
reward, and the rescued man departed
on his wabbling pins. Philadelphia
Times.
-
A man went into a druggist's shop
and asked for something to cure a
headache. The druggist held a bottle
of hartshorn to his nose, and ha was
nearly overpowered by its pungency.
As soon as he recovered he began to
rail at the druggist, and threatened to
punch his head.
"But didn't It ease your headache?"
asked the apothecary.
"Ease my headache!" gasped the man.
"I haven't got any headache. It's my
wife that's got the headache." Tit
Bits. e
A new boy had made his appearance
in the schoolroom, and Miss Adair,
the teacher, summoned him to her desk.
"Do you expect to come to school here
regularly?"
"Yes'm."
Where do you live? Are you in this
district?"
"I guess so: I live down this street,
about four blocks."
"What is your name"
"Martin Luther Hicks?"
"Martin Luther?" said the teacher. "I
presume, Martin, you know for whom
you were named?"
"Yes'm," answered the boy. brighten
ing up. "I' was named after me uncle on
me mother's side. He keeps a llv'ry
stable." Youth's Companion.
"Mark Twain," said a magazine editor,
"liked to tell, as an illlustration of per
sistence and push, a story about e. Sheeps-
neaa tiay race. He said that at the end
of an important race a young man shout
ed so savagely, 'Hats off! hats off, there!'
that everyone in hearing distance obeyed
him and stood bareheaded. A moment
later the young man hastened towards an
elderly gentleman, shouting as he ran,
You can put your hat on again now. It's
all right.' Someone asked him later why
he had made all the people take their
hats off. 'Well,' he replied, 'I'd bet $50
with a bald-headed man, and I had to
find him, hadn't IT "
"The Devil's Dance."
New York Mail.
No larger problem awaits the conscience
and sanity of the world than that of
ending by limitation of armament the
devil's dance of preparation which is
drawing all the resources of the nations
into its fatal whirl and is headed toward
the goal of "Billions for defense, but not
one cent for anything else."
IN THE
MAGAZINE SECTION
OF THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
R2VIEW OF THIS YEAR'S
GREAT ROSE FESTIVAL
Special edition to meet the de
mands of thousands who wish to
send copies to distant friends. It
will be profusely illustrated with
views made by Oregonian staff
photographers.
IDEAL TROUT STREAMS
CLOSE TO PORTLAND
Together with valuable hints to
beginners and to new residents,
by a man who knows the fishing
game from A to Izzard.
AN OUTING IN THE
MOUNTAINS OF OREGON
Enthusiastic Californian relates
some experiences which include a
bear and a mountain lion.
JTM JEFFRIES' CAREER
UP TO THE PRESENT TIME
The greatest of all fighters tells
of his last battles, and speaks en
thusiastically of Oregon as a
huntsman's paradise.
T. R.'S MEMORABLE RECEP
TION IN NEW YORK CITY
The Japanese Schoolboy, in his
own original style, tells what hap
pened next week on the arrival of
the steamer.
ORDER EARLY FROM YOUR
NEWSDEALER
am.