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6 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1910. PORTLAND, OBEGON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Fostoffice aa , Second-Class Matter. v Subscription Hate Invariably In Advance. CBY MAID. - Sunday included, one year ?-S2 1 5Mly' Sunday Included, six months -25 P11- Sunday Included, three months... - lly. Sunday Included, one month - ' w'thout Sunday, one year B-2 ' Sa! y- without Sunday, six months 8.25 ' J?-1 y. without Sunday, three months.... 1-J5 gaily, without Sunday, one month ? weekly, one year Eunday, one year 2-50 , Eunday and weekly, one year a-50 (By Carrier). ' 5!:J, Sunday Included, one year 9.0ft al;y, Sunday included, one month..... - a How to Remit Send Postofflce money or der, express order or personal cheek on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at the sender's risk. Give postofflce address in 'ull. Including- county and state. , Postage Kates 10 to 14 pases, 1 cent; 18 i to 28 paces, 2 cents; 30 to 40 pages. 3 cents; 40 to 60 pages. 4 cents. . Foreign postage double rate. , Eastern Business Office The 6 C. Beclt t with Special Agency New York, rooms 48- 80 Tribune building. Chicago, rooms 510 i 612 Tribune .building. PORTLAND, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1910. 1 'DEMOCRATS STILL, "PLAYING THE I GAME." S Democrats are making ready again J to take a h,and in nomination of Ke i publican candidates in primaries. Their participation In the nominating J primaries of the majority party has ' turned out to be highly successful for them in elections hitherto, and it is natural for them to desire to repeat 'the feat. So far in Multnomah County this year only 658 men have registered as Democrats. But a total of 3898 have registered as Republicans, ' among whom, of course, are large numbers of Democratic liars, who have registered as Republicans, in order to be in posi tion on primary day to . "play the game." This is obviously false division of parties. The true division was Indi cated a year and a half ago, when Taft received IT, 819 votes for President and Bryan 9870 votes. At that time the Republican registration was 29,106; the Democratic, 7053. That registra tion was also false, as to division of parties, but this year the perjury of Democrats In registration is far worse. The new registration shows six Re publicans to one Democrat. But the true statement of the Presidential elec tion shows less than two Republicans to one Democrat a fairly accurate in dex of relative party membership. The last preceding registration scored four Republicans to one Democrat. That was considered a shocking exposure of Democratic mendacity. According to fair estimate of true party member ship, as based on party vote for Presi dent and members of Congress, some 5000 electors registered as Republicans who belonged to the Democratic party. But it is not necessary to resort to specific figures; the evidence Is plain of fraud and perjury again committed by Democrats, in order that they may in vade Republican primaries and take a hand in "nomination of Republican candidates. The fraud and perjury are more glaring this year than ever before. All over the state Democrats are thus lying as to their true party affili ation. They call themselves Republic ans on primary day, but on election day they turn out full-fledged Demo crats. This is one of the basic evils of direct primaries. Wherever direct pri maries are used the same fraud is committed, but most extensively in Oregon, owing to the great numerical ascendancy here of the Republican party. Participation of Democrats in Republican primaries, coupled . with the plurality system of nomination, makes concert of Republicans impossi ble. The only possible rectifier at present available is the party assembly, which will largely eliminate plurality faction alism. But presence in Republican primaries of this state of large num bers of Democrats "playing the game" is sure to continue troublesome Democrats in 19Q8, throwing thou sands of their perjured votes into a Ditter factional right in the Republican primaries, nominated Cake for United States Senator and then the Repub lican majority, refusing to accept Cake as the nominee, allowed Chamberlain to be designated the so-called "people's choice." But Chamberlain was not the people's choice, nor was Cake the choice of the Republican party. Thus the people of this state are represent- ra in me unitea estates senate by a man whose political allegiance is at variance with that of the majority of Its citizens. This is why Statement One, the demagogic Instrument of this fakery, purporting to afford the means of direct election of United States Sen ators, is a fraud and a delusion, and cannot be a method of effective party action. INCONSISTENT OPPOSITION. The Eastern mnrk-rakpra are aalA to be preparing a broadside to be fired at Western reclamation projects ror tne purpose of causing an aban donment of this branch of Govern merit work. Like the conservation question, the merits of the case do not seem to nave Deen considered, but in- ' Ktenri tho fan thot Vi Wo tand actually needs this Government reclamation worK seems to be suffi cient reason to bring about Eastern 'antagonism. There hav hun iD takes in the reclamation work as well 'as in other branches of the Govern ment service. But it is hardly fair that jthe whole) 'broad general scheme of re clamation and irrigation should be retarded or hAmnfrpd. ofmnlv kw. , . , 1- ' J vca.u90 .of an error of judgment in some part pi it. Opposition to the bond issue of J30.000.000 also disclose nni lar Inconsistency on the part of those who are standing in tne way. The stereo tVDed riretext of thn wVia a.A ..t . he withdrawal of Government land "and its addition to forest reserves that already lock up such a large portion of the public domain, is that the land must be held for the use of the small settler. Accepting at face value this claim of paternalism on the part of the Government, it becomes all the more necessary that the various irri gatlon schemes for which tte $30,000, 000 bond issue is needed should b carried to com nletion Th nnu.n ment has promised these small settlers that It ,would place the lands in the various reclamation districts in condi tion xor growing crops, and abandon ment at this time, when thnncanHo ettlers have located on tho Innria an have, in good faith, made their homes mere, would cause a heavy loss to re thousands of honest settlers. The Is no conceivable method bv wl.Irh the Government could abandon thn wnrb on endeavor to get along with a limited bond Issue, without displaying evi dence of bad faith. The reclamation work makes lands that are now valueless worth millions, and admits of great development which would be absolutely Impossible without Irrigation. It would appear to be nearly time for the East to un derstand that the West Is no longer In that infantile stage where we do not know what we want or what we should have. THE RECORD. Congress will adjourn in a few days. and it will then be seen that the Taft Administration has for the most part fulfilled its promises to put through definite legislative psogramme. The Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was passed at the special session last year. The record of the regular session shows that much attention was given to . the Administration plans. The schedule of principal measures to which President Taft stands commit ted before the country and now en acted or to be enacted into .law in cludes: Tariff. ' Conservation. Statehood. Amendment to interstate commerce law. Postal savings banks. It would seem that President Taft has made good. All of these measures are of far-reaching importance, and most of them have now been framed into law after years of agitation and discussion. It would appear that the President ought to have a right to be proud of his achievements; and doubt less he is. But he knows that the country is not in a mood to give him credit for the great things he has done. Next it may be hoped that the Pres ident will set about to bring about the most-needed- reform of the time an effective method for the reform of our courts for a speedy and economical ad ministration of justice. IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY. Now Clackamas County is going to hold a Republican assembly. It is a remarkable testimonial to the power and popularity of the assembly idea that it has invaded successfully the stronghold of Statement No. 1 and other isms and notions that have car ried many Republicans far awayfrom sound party doctrine. There is a clique of politicians at Oregon City who have long been Re publicans for what there is. in it, and for nothing else. They would be Dem ocrats, or Populists, or Mohammedans, or Holy Rollers, for exactly the same reason. They have no political princi ple but thrift, no policy but to find out what will win, no conscience but to accommodate themselves to any pre vailing popular whim or fancy. The Republican machine has long been in the hands of this self-seeking clique. which accounts for the low estate of the party in Clackamas. But now the Republican sky is brighter. It has occurred to the Re publicans In Clackamas who are Re publicans on principle and there are many indeed that the time has come to place the organization in accord with the general sentiment and pur poses of the party. Therefore they have decided through the central com miftee to hold a county assembly July 16. This plan does not suit the noisy Populist faction that has long con trolled the party machine, and it vo ciferates its disapproval. If the county assembly should name a ticket, this crowd and its followers 'would op pose it. But what of it? The Re publicans of Clackamas must take a stand some time if they are to redeem the party The result may be Demo cratic success. -But is Democratic suc cess in electing a county ticket worse than continued Populist control ana usurpation? ' MR. PTNCHOrS NEW PARTY. Plnchot and his followers are said to be planning a conservation party. But they need no new party; one suitable for them already exists. It is the So cialist party. Extreme conservationists of the Plnchot type want the Government to retain ownership of all unappropriated resources in the public domain. This means that they would have the Gov ernment enter the business of coal mining, timber-cutting, railroad-building and other numerous activities now engaged in by private capital for de velopment of new regions. Their the ory is that any profit private capital would make out of undeveloped re sources would be "robbery of the peo ple." But what Is this if not Socialist lingo? Socialists want private exploitation of lands, resources and goods of all kinds supplanted with Government ownership of these things and with Government ownership of the means of production and distribution. Pln chot should move over, therefore, to the camp of the Socialists, where he will hear preachments about robbery of the people Just like his own. He will hear something there also about the injustice of inheritance that has been wrung from the people by selfish capitalism. Mr. Plnchot is a rich man by inheritance. His wealth came from private appropriation of the "people's resources" in New England. In the Socialist party the newcomer may find little or no indignation at the spectacle of the Pacific Coast import ing hundreds of thousands of tons of costly coal from foreign lands, while American coal in Alaska lies conserved Just as it has ever lain since the morn ing stars first sang together. PROSPERITY UNABATED. Neither the fear of hostile railroad leglslaticj the home-coming of Roose velt, nor ;ycatened crop scares, has had the effect C5 checking the general prosperity of the c?-a-rrrr?. CN rtXp 3 tcre and there and much unwarranted murmuring over the outlook for the future have had a tendency to cause distrust in some quarters; but the situation on the whole is remarkably favorable for the Summer season. Bradstreet's report on business fail ures for the week ending" last Friday presents some very satisfactory com parisons. There were 178 failures during the week, compared with 213 in the same week last year, 245 in 1908, 265 in 1907 and 216 in 1906. It will be noted by these figures that the business situation makes a more satisfactory showing than it made in the same period preceding the panic of 1907, which up to that time was the most prosperous year the country had ever known. Naturally, a considerable portion of the optimistic tone of the situation is due to a subsidence of the bad crop news and the excellent prospect for at least a good average crop of all of our greet farm staples. This means more money for the railroads, which will haul the stuff to market, and It means a continuation of good times in the rural districts, on whose pros perity the cities are dependent. But, aside from the influence on the gen eral situation of the coming crops there are many signs to show that the situation is already highly satis factory. The New York bank state ment for the week ending last Satur day disclosed a liberal Increase in cash reserves, and an easier money market prevailed throughout the week. The railroad net earnings, despite an enor mous increase in the operating ex penses over the corresponding month last year, continue to show gains, and in nearly all branches of business con siderable activity is reported. As to the Pacific Northwest,,, there is no checking in the steady forward movement that has been under way for the past two years, and there is so much new capital coming into the country that anything like a serious lull, even in the midsummer season. seems a very remote possibility. A LOGICAL SELECTION. The selection of Nevada as the scene of the great prizefight is eminently proper. Just why that admirable lo cation for an affair of this nature should have been overlooked in the first place is not at. all clear. There are certain necessary evils for which people at all times have been obliged to make provision, and the promised contest between Jeffries and Johnson seems to be one of them. World-old experience has taught mankind that we cannot eliminate the doggeries that make drunkards or the. institutions that traffic In physical charms. We have succeeded fairly well, however, in placing restrictions on these pre sumably necessary evils, and gener ally manage to keep them "below the dead line." Now there seems to be a consuming .desire to learn whether Jeffries can lick Johnson .or the con trary. There are disgusting features in an affair of this kind which cause people to object to its taking place in a re spectable part of our domain, so what could be more natural than the se lection of Nevada, the National sewer, for such an affair? It may be true, and undoubtJly Is true, that even In Nevada there are certain people who object to making that state the sewer catch-basin for refuse that cannot find a dumping ground - elsewhere. Even the building up of a National reputation as a resort where divorce is made easy has not served to quiet the objections of these people. At that, Nevada remains the one state in the Union wherein civilization has not yet rubbed off the rough corners, and to this free-and-easy sentiment and general disregard of the formal ities of decent society is due the 'ease with which everything from a prize fight to a. nasty divorce case can be brought about under the protection of the authorities. If we must have such affairs as the big fistic contest, by all means let them 'be handled in Nevada. Do not build a second pigpen on the front lawn while we already have one be hind the bushes in the back lot. There are not many, if any, other states that would make such a sacrifice of de cency as Nevada seems willing to make. So If we must have the prize fight, let us keep it In the backyard or down in the sewer instead of pa rading it before the people in a re spectable portion of our country. NORMAL SCHOOL SCHEMES AGAIN? Acting Governor Bowerman is brought into public gaze among "pos sibilities" for Governor by unusual cir cumstances that have caused duties of the executive to, devolve upon him temporarily as President of the State Senate. This, in turn, has caused normal school centers to set up an out cry about Mr. Bowerman's hostility to' the old normal school system of log rolling in the Legislature, and they are doing what they can-to eliminate him from the "possibilities." Thus the electorate sees normal schools resum ing politics and endeavoring to perpet uate their hold on the state treasury. If taxpayers of this state are to con tinue paying for normal education, their money ought to be spent in ac cord with their best interest. That means, their money should go into an efficient normal school system. It has long been a scandal in Oregon that normal appropriations have not been so spent and that supplies have been voted for the four schools, for benefit of political localities and legislative log-rolling, Instead of for that of tax payers and public. Mr. Bowerman was leader of the normal school reform in the last ' legislative session, which sought creation of one, or at most two standard normal schools near centers of population, in place of the four in stltutions which have been dissipating appropriations. The result of that contest was deadlock between Senate and House and failure of all appropYl- ations lor support of normal schools The Oregonlan will not undertake to defend Mr. Bowerman's action; it de sires only to cite that taxpayers want abuses abolished and a new regime be gun. It goes without saying that normal school education in Oregon should be lifted out of politics and put on an en during, useful basis. The next Legis lature should make proper disposition of this long-fought matter. This is undoubtedly what taxpayers desire. The old normal lobby, which has be sieged the Legislature for years, will find the people In no mood for renewal of the old system. Constructive poll tics is needed to build up normal school education. Efforts along old lines are sure to lead to destructive or obstructive results. The local newspaper apologist for Senator Chamberlain finds fault be cause the Washington correspondent of The Oregonlan has failed to dis cover wherein that eminent statesman has contributed in any marked degree to the success of the irrigation bond issue. This is distressing; yet it seems hardly fair to single out The Oregon lan corresponaent wniie there are hundreds of other correspondents and writers even those who compile copy for the Congressional Record who have failed to detect the powerful in fluence that we are told Senator Chamberlain has brought to bear in support of the issue. To read the newspaper accounts, east, west, north and south, Senator Borah and Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, and Senator Jones, of Washington, seem to be the only Western members In the Upper House who are paying much attention to Irrigation or to anything else of a puh 11c nature. The House committee on foreign af fairs has put a rather heavy burden on San Francisco and New Orleans in de manding -that both of the cities raise $7,500,000 efore the Government will invite foreign nations to participate. If San Francisco could keep up the gait she struck in the initial movement toward the exposition, the raising of a sum of this size would not be serious. Since the first outburst of enthusiasm, however, it is probable that progress would be slower. Aside from the ne cessity of having such a big fund as a guarantee of good faith, it will require that amount and much more to get up an exposition in keeping with the event. The Californians are rustlers, and, if they can keep Ms.:-r McCarthy muzzled, they can probably raise the money. With New Orleans, the case Is different and J7.500.000 is a lot of money even for a Panama Canal celebration. A slight bruise on the left leg of one of the occupants of a big touring car was the only injury caused when the automobile failed to make a quick dash between two streetcars .ing in opposite directions, Saturday. As ac cidents of this nature are so narrowly averted nearly every hour In the day, it Is pleasing to note that, when the inevitable appeared, the machine was smashed to pieces without loss of life. Automobiles cost money. While there may be 13000 worth of fun in trying to see how close one can be run be tween passing streetcars or over pass ing pedestrians, the number of auto mobilists who can afford this class of sport is somewhat limited, f and there will probably be nothing worse than a "close call" on Washington street for at least two days. Changes in Portland's growth are well illustrated by the announcement that a new location for St. Helen's Hall has been bought six miles north west of the city on the hills back of Linnton. This institution is and has been for more than half a century the leading boarding school for girls un der the auspices of the Episcopal church. - , It was first established at Milwaukle, then a rival of Portland. The building still stands. When Mil waukle went down the hall was estab lished on the block now occupied by the city hall. This site was abandoned about twenty years ago for the present site, which the late Bishop Morris considered the center , of town. How long will It be before Linnton is' not regarded as "away out of town" ? A wireless message from the editor of the Boston Post notes the presence on shipboard of Mrs. Alice Longworth and states that "In her hand was a cigarette. From her lips she blew a faint smoke wreath around her father's head." She Is the Colonel's daughter, and probably she took this method of attracting attention. Had it failed to cause some comment, the young matron might have been obliged to climb up in the "crow's nest," or take a. high dive over the side of the ship. Clackamas is for assembly,- but Brownell, U'Ren and the like are against it. Has the time come when the Republicans of Clackamas are go ing to take their affairs in their own hands? It would appear so. Itls long overdue. Does any person what soever believe in Brownell's good faith, when he wars on the assembly as the device of the "machine"? A political machine without Brownell in it? It is not possible, if there is a way for Brownell to get in. What's all this " noise of "Non Partisans" insisting that the Demo crats shall . be re-elected Supreme Judges of Oregon and that various Democrats shall be elected Circuit Judges? Non-Partisans clamor for election of judges irrespective of party. and always, at the same time, boost Democrats. Great is liumbug, and in politics;, greater still. - There is no occasion for fear that either of the two southern territories will put stumbling-blocks in the way of statehood. They are certain to frame and adopt a constitution not repugnant to the fundamental law of the land, and that, too, without delay. Arizona and New Mexico will be on hand In 1912. You may have observed that, while President Taft did not go down to the wharf to welcome Colonel Roosevelt home, Archie Butt and a few others from the Inside circle at Washington were on hand and took a prominent part in the services. There will be no "repudiating" just yet. A certain newspaper in Portland never omits opportunity to bolster up the clay sewer-pipe trust's high-price monopoly. But the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib. The head owner of the trust is also head creditor and owner of the afore said newspaper. Any man who knows anything about irrigation, from measuring a miner's inch of water to compounding a mint Julep,' can secure credentials to repre sent this great state at Pueblo in Sep tember by applying to Governor Bow erman, provided he will travel at his own expense. It may have been observed by those who have followed the ex-champion's hebdomadal contributions to the com ing prizefight prognostications that Mr. Corbett does not consider himself a negligible quantity. Doubtless Mrs. Longworth merely took that wedding ring off to smoke the cigarette. But she appears to have made a lot of lovely smoke rings about her father's devoted head. If a tube under the Willamette is necessary now for streetcar traffic, Portland to a man will consent, pro vlded the concern which uses it exclu sively. will pay for It. Two hours .after Roosevelt got back from Elba (revised from Africa) New York was visited by a great deluge of wind and water. Let his enemies make the most of it. The dispatcher who keeps thirty. four trains moving daily between Portland and Puget Sound may be said to have a grasp on the situation. This is the 'best week of all. for it Is to be devoted to the people who began the making of Oregon. Promotion of prize fights is a haz ardous business in every state outside of Nevada. Jeff Myers Is out In the open, loaded for bear, but satisfied to bag an ele phant. Well, he's home. What next? NO BUGABOO IN ASSEMBLY. Rational Method of Deliberating I" pom Qualifications of oKlee-Seekers. Harris-burg Bulletin. The. assembly plan as proposed by the Republican party in Oregon to select men to be suggested to the primaries for nom ination certainly strikes an opportune con dition at this time. The necessity for better organization is keenly felt and this plan should appeal to the rank and file of the party in no uncertain way. The in itiative work will be done in the precinct assemblies. There the people will come together and be well known to each other. This circumstance will enable them to try out and appoint their most loyal, capable and trustworthy members as delegates -to the county assembly, thus giving them full control in the formulatlve stages of the assembly plan. The county assembly being made up from this plan of selection, and coming from every precinct in the county will in sure it to be evenly balanced, conserva tive. When a would-be-candidate shall have parsed the inspection of this body and received Its sanction as eligible to be suggested to the primaries, we will have a man who has been chosen on ac count of his honesty and adaptability. and who is backed by a representative majority of his party in the county where he lives. If under these circumstances a .man shall gain a place on the ballot his'sup port would be certain, because he was the choice of the assembly of his peers who were selected and delegated to sug gest him to the primary. The same plan extends to the state assembly. It Is made up from all the county assemblies and is composed of 1200 delegates. With this number of members, and selected as they shall have been, the bugaboo of the Dem ocratic papers, to wit, a return to the savage , methods of the old-time conven tion, will not be realized. It would be more reasonable to expect reinforcement of the principles of the party which go to protect and support the producer men who do things to build a greater Oregon. But of course it is expected that attacks will be made upon the assembly plan. and to be forewarned is to be forearmed. One of their most vicious assertions is that the assembly is aimed to Invalidate the primary law. The utter untruthful ness of this assertion is readily found in the fact that the primaries make final decision on all suggestions coming from the assemblies. To sum the matter up, it is contended that the right of assem bly to the members of the Republican party is as clear as it is to the church, grange or any other representative body and that to discuss in assembly who of their party is best suited to be trusted to the duties of office and suggested to the primaries for nomination is right, legiti mate and necessary to the best Interests or tne people. MAKING IT EASY FOR LIBRARIAN Mow the Young Lady Got the Boole She Wai Looklag For. Philadelphia Ledger. She tripped Into the Public Library and vigorously poked over the Index cards. She floated up to the Informa tion clerk, and, peeling off her suedes, murmured: "Won't you please get a book called 'Here and There' for me? I can't find It anywhere." The clerk ran a practiced finger through the card flies. There doesn t seem to be such a book here," she said.' "Who is the au thor?" "I don't know," responded the girl. "But I'm going to the country for the Summer, and Electra told me to read It said it was all about nature. Elec tra's awfully smart, you know. No such book, you say? Well, now, maybe It was 'Up and Down' Electra said. Look for that, please." The clerk searched the files without success. "It's awfully funny," exclaimed the girl. "Perhaps it's named "In and Out,' Won't you please look for that?" Again the patient clerk ran through the index cards. "There's no such book here," she said at length. "I declare! It's awfully funny," ejac ulated the girl. "Oh, I know now what it must have been! l-ook for "Back and Forth.' please." The weary woman was making a vain search for "Back and Forth" when an other clerk, who had overheard part of the conversation, returned from the book shelves. "This is what you. want, I think, she said, handing the girl a volume. It was John Burroughs' "Far and Near"! EGYPT'S FURY AT ROOSEVELT Nationalist Paper Calls Him Itnorant, Savage and Faker. London Dispatch, New York Times. A telegram to the Dally Mall from Cairo says that the newspaper El Alam. which has replaced Al Lewa as the offi cial organ of the Nationalist party, is unable to contain its fury and to await the full text of Mr. Roosevelt's Guild hall speech as it promised to do before commenting on it. The Journal published an editorial yes terday saying: "'He has buried himself alive, has proved his ignorance of history by say ing that Egypt has not seen the like of the present government since 2000 years. His statements show his love of despotism and his Bavage nature, which led him to visit his brethren, the beasts in Africa." The newspaper subsequently exclaims contemptuously : "Poor Roosevelt! He was deceived by some individuals since he was on the White Nile. They lied and misrepre sented things and he following them blindly, they hurled him Into the abyss which has ruined his life. Again, poor Roosevelt! He has proclaimed to the world his ignorance, feeble judgment and lack of manliness." Al Lewa on Friday published an ar ticle comparing Mr. Roosevelt with Dr. Cook, the polar Impostor, saying that Cook based his pretensions on other ex plorers' statements, and Roosevelt read the writings of the Imperialists about Egypt, Lord Cromer's reports, and Eng lish newspapers, and pretended to under stand the Egyptian question. Still a Constructive Nation. New York Evening Post. As long as England remains capable of such feats in nation building as the Australian Commonwealth and the South African Union it Is impossible to believe that at home the English capacity for constructive political and social progress has died out. . CURRENT NEWSPAPER JESTS. Truth is the shortest distance between two arguments. J.ife. "I suppose you're one of those Idiots that touch wet paint to see if it's dry?" 'No, I'm not. I touch it to see if it's wet." Punch. Teacher (of night school) What do you understand by the term, "life sentence?" Give an example of one. Shaggy-Haired Pupil "I pronounce you husband and wife." Chicago Tribune. "My son." said Brother Williams, "ef you makes up yo' mind ter preewh on de highway of life, take yo' text, but don't take nuthln else you ain't entitled to. Wld dat sort er schedule you'll pull through all right." Atlanta. Constitution. "Yo" isn't stopped at de f Palace Hotel befo'. Is yo boss?" inquirea the colored man who was piloting a Just-arrived trav eler from the railway station to the hos telry. "No. But what makes you sure of it?" "Uh-kase yo' gwlne dar now, .sah." -Puck. j "Now, Jim. I want you to go to Mrs. Gadsbys bridge party this evening and play with her as long as she wants you to" "But I detest Mrs. "Tadnby and her chatter. Besides, she cheats." "No matter. You stay." "That's hard. Isn't It to be a case of can't-I-leave)er bridge?" Balti more American. "In this country." said the man who was promoting the big irrigation project, "water Is the most valuable asset we have." "That settles it, suh," replied the gentleman from Kentucky. "I will noveh invest a dollah, suh. In any place wheh such tntollehable conditions prevail." Chicago Record, POINDEXTER NOT A REPUBLICAN Therefore Senator Roth Will Not Sup port Him for Senator. The following correspondence between Rufus R. Wilson, manager of the Polndexter campaign for Senator in Washington, and A. S. Ruth. President of the State Senate. hold-over Senator and an influential Re publican, is worth reading: SPOKANE, June 9 1910. Hon. A. S. Ruth. Olympia. Wash. Dear Sir: Your attention is called to the inclosed cir cular letter, with the respectful sug gestion that without delay you again declare your purpose to vote in the Legislature for the Republican candi date for United Staes Senator who shall receive the largest number of votes at the primary election. The pledge taken by you two years ago showed your con cern for the faithful observance of our direct primary law. and no doubt a like motive will govern your course -of action in the next Legislature. An an nouncement at this time that such is your intention would contribute power- xuuy to tne right shaping of public dpinion on what many regard as the most Important phase of the Senatorial campaign now in progress in this state. soliciting tne favor of an early reply, I am, yours very truly. RUFUS R. WILSON. OLYMPIA, June 13. 1910. Mr. Rufus R. Wilson, Spokane, Wash. My Dear Rufus: If you are In search of comfort you're barking ud the wronsr tree. I have carefully perused "the Inclbsed circular letter" and find that it con tains just exactly the "lame duck" platitudes and bombastic appeals to prejudice always to be found In the ut terances of those who howl for the peepul," and wink the other eye. I stand ready to vote for the nartv choice for United States Senator, but that party choice, in order to get my vote, must himself be a Republican. His Republicanism must be shown by his acts, and since I have watched the acts of Miles Polndexter in Congress it won t do you or anyone else any good to protest to me that he is a Republi can. You may tell me that a skunk is a new brand of dog and I may be fooled into believing you until I get close enough to smell the d thing. You cannot fool me even to that ex tent about Polndexter. You and every other Polndexter worker in the State of Washington know that, so far as the Republicans of this state are concerned, Poindexter stands about the same show of getting an Indorsement that a bucket of water would of becoming a chunk of ice in hell. You expect to get an indorsement for your man by inducing Democrats to call for Republican ballots at the pri mary and vote for Polndexter because he is ajjemocrat in everything but the party designation. If I vote for a Democrat for United States Senator, I assure you it will be for a Democrat who Is man enough to acknowledge his party affiliation and not for a man who covers a Democratic hide with the mantle of Republicanism. Limited to a choice between Poin dexter and a Democrat who acknowl edges that he is a Democrat, I will vote without a moment's hesitation for the man with principle enough to stay In the minority party instead of the man who Joined the majority party for the sake of office without having changed his political beliefs. I will not vote for Miles Polndexter even If he gets the Republican Indorsement of every Democrat, Socialist and Populist in the state. I never have been able to see "horns' on a regular nor a "halo" on an ins-ur gent, and I'll never stand for award ing the first prize In a bench show to any canine that has bitten the hand that fed it. Hoping this Is under standable, I am" very truly yours, A. S. RUTH. WANTS MUNICIPAL DANCE HALLS Mrs. Charles Israels Advocates Harm less Recreation for Working Girls. New York Evening Mall. "We don't want fewer dancehalls, On the contrary, we want more. Young people need enjoyment ' and should have the opportunity. . "But we don't want such dancehalls as are now in 'existence, where liq uor Is sold and where girls are led astray." Mrs. Charles H. Israels, big-hearted and brilliant, chairman of the com mittee on amusements and vacation re sources of working girls, spoke her mind at her home in Park Hill. For years Mrs. Israels has been in terested in the problem of the young girls. It is her ambition to establish municipal dancehalls. ' She will ask Calvin Tompkins, commissioner of docks and ferries, to permit dancing on one of the recreation piers, to be supervised by an excellent dancing master. A social committee, consist ing of women from the Immediate neighborhood, to introduce the young people at the pier and help make thines pleasant. "Work does not mold a girl's char acter," said Mrs. Israels, "it only tires her and weakens her nerves. "What she does in her idle time when she is not working, when she does as she pleases, is what counts. Of course, they ought to have some pleasure. For this purpose we want to have municipal dancehalls which will be real factors In the recreation of young people, not dangerous places." Learn to Swim Now. New York. World. Yachting has begun. The motorboat season Is on. Soon the Summer excur sions will -start. In a few weeks the bathing season will be at its height. Already an occasional drowning is re corded. Before the Summer is over death by drowning wll have claimed many a pleasure seeker. Yet most deaths by drowning are unnecessary. Here, where boating and bathing are such popular pastimes, everybody ought to learn to swim. It Is true that many swimmers are drowned, but ability to swim is irreat precaution. It lessens the llkell hood of panic in peril and takes away the senseless dread or tne water. Swimming is easily learned. It ought to be learned now. Whisky Saved His Life. . Prairie City Miner. Ben Hinton has been found guilty of murder In the second degree. The Jury did Its duty as It saw It. The people of the county approve the verdict. It came very nearly being first degree, We believe the only thing that saved Hlnton's life was whisky. "Conservation" In Bad Company. Cathlamet Sun. Weyerhaeuser's Indorsement of the con servation programme of the Government may convince some of the Eastern fanat ics that large reserves are not desired by the masses of the Western people. Prej udice argument is about all these East erners understand. 4 Sphinx and Oracle. Washington Post. Mr. Roosevelt's determination to maintain silence on American topics brings up the question of whether a man can be a sphinx and an oracle at the same time. Fine Chance to Advertise It. Denver Republican. Jeffries and Johnson must find place to fight. Why not rent the new international peace palace, which Isn1 being used very much these days? Modern Day Egotist. Detroit Free Press. Our idea of an egotist is a man who thinks he Is as good as Colonel Roose velt says a man ought to be COL. WATTERSON ON PROHIBITION Scores Fanatics and Politicians and "Sideboard Inquisition." - Louisville Courier-Journal. The essential difference between the . chameleon and the politician who is a prohibitionist for revenue only Is that tne cnameieon changes color as a rro- tectlon from his enemies and that he may quietly and unostentatiously get his living by honestly toiling in search of those things which Providence has provided as his food, or to express elemental and honest emotions. The political prohibitionist changes color ss the gambler switches from black to red or green seeking a change of luck, and hoping to get a living without the dis agreeable effort of honest labor in legitimate industry. The chameleon is inoffensive and respectable. The politi cal adventurer who has no convictions. but attempts to ride a prohibition wave into office, is offensive and disreputable. mis, comparison between reptiles Is provoked by consideration of -the situa tion in Alabama, where the Repub licans are said to be considering the advisability of linking their fortunes with prohibition in an effort to take advantage of the dissatisfaction of certain former Democrats who. riven from the party by the thunderbolt that struck state-wide and "constitutional" prohibition, are dissatisfied with the candidates nominated and the platform adopted by the Democratic party in Alabama. Very probably persons fanatical enough to advocate the abolition of constitutions for the exercise of an Inquisitorial supervision of sideboards are sufficiently unbalanced to desert the faith of their fathers and become Alabama Republicans. By adopting prohibition the Republicans may win to their standards the minority that espoused insanity and tyranny as a pro moter of total abstinence. There are hardly enough lunatics and Republic ans In Alabama for a coalition of thev iniquitous and the incompetent to con stitute a majority. The question of what course the Alabama Republican adopt Is, therefore, negligible from a partisan point of view. But as showing the transparency of the fraud perpe trated where politicians attempt to us prohibition as a political issue, the in-' cldent might be illuminating to unso phisticated prohibitionists whose men tal opaqueness does not prevent them from learning anything from observa tion. Persons who approve prohibition ars often sincere advocates of temperance, although, as experience and experi ments show, mistaken as to the value of the remedy they would apply. But political parties do not espouse prohi bition in the hope of eliminating intem perance. The personally intemperatt and wholly cynical prohibition candi date is certainly as common a flgura in politics as a candidate who is a total abstainer and an honest advocate of the abolition of drink. Prohibitionists have been repudiated by Alabama Democrats. Of course, they would be glad to ally themselves With Alabama Republicans. Their hops cannot be less forlorn when they are adopted by a minority than it is when they have been kicked out by a ma jority. They have nothing to loss where they have lost everything. The rumored development probably amuses more Alabama Democrats than it alarms. BRUTAL OUTRAGE IS THREATENED Clerks at Washington May Have to Work Eight IloVrs a Day. New York Sun. The Washington Star gives wings to a rumor that President Taft and his Cabinet have under consideration a scheme for requiring the department clerks in that city to work eight hours a day. The clerks protest, the, Star protests, and it says that the businesj men of Washington propose to bring the matter " before the local Board of Trade and the Chambtj of Commerce. An 8-hour day for these overworked and underpaid employes is utterly In defensible. The scheme Ignores entirely the nervous and physical strain of try ing to keep awake for eight weary hours on a stretch, broken only by an Interval for lunch. It Is true that a very large majority of the workers of the United States, whether their labor is clerical or manual, have to work eight hours or more, but that is n rea son why a Government clerk should be obliged by hard-hearted taskmasters to do likewise. It is perhaps fortunate for them that the alleged woes and the vigorous wail lngs of the 30,000 Government emploj-s In Washington are not broadly paraded outside that city. Wider advertising of their alleged grievances and their de mands for shorter hours, mora pay and a civil pension list might lead to arpub 11c demand that their hours and their remuneration be brought to the level of conditions prevailing in commercial and professional circles. There are many faithful clerks In Washington and there are those whose pay is not fairly ad justed to their abilities and their serv ices, but the body of employes as a whole makes Itself ridiculous by its clamor. It may be that the diligent and faith ful toilers in the National vineyard are needlessly alarmed. Should their fears of a compulsory 8-hour day be realised they will get little sympathy from the millions of workers whose days are even longer and to whom -iere come l.o 30 days of vacation plus 30 days sick leave every year. Ay Bane a Sncker. Hillsboro Argus. A couple of Swedes from the "front" afforded a great deal of amusement the other day while in town, en route to Portland. Each was rather above the average in intellect, and their conver sation was more or less controversial. The word "sucker" was finally called Into question, and one said: "Ay bet you a Uo-ler you can't tal wat a sucker bane!" His companion took up the wager and his answer was a revela tion to the bystanders. "Ay sucker bane a fule who bane more simpler minded as Oder faller." And he won his bet without any quibble. Inaccessible Rights. Life. The American people undoubtedly are entitled to a great many rights, and. If the truth were known. It would show these rights to be worth having. But the trouble with these rights Is that they are never around when they are needed. They are either In cold storage or in safe deposit boxes or In litigation or in some ward heeler's vest pocket. Inaccessible rights are worse than no rights at all. Exit Reciprocity. Toronto Mall and Empire. Canada is going to develop her own country In a homogeneous way, and with particular reference to her place In the empire. Our friends next door are beginning to understand the situa tion better than they once did. We are not applicants for trade favors at their hands, and are quite happy as we are, without any commercial bargain with them. Keeping the Doctor Busy. Silvertonlan-Appeal. Dr. Wrlghtman took Gustav Ander son to the hospital at Portland yester day, where he will undergo an opera tion for appendicitis. This makes eight patients the doctor has in the hospital this week. How to Salute a Fiancee. Kansas City Post. It is not good form to congratulate a girl upon her engagement. Simply remark, "So you've landed him at last.