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Foreign postage double rate. m,?n,J?ra Business Office The S- C Beck r."11, Special Arency New York, rooms 4S r,ZS?n building. Chicago, rooms 510 S12 Tribune building. PORTLAND, MOMIAV, Jl'LY 18, 1910. CXABOTIXO POIJTIOS BY MEANS OP The vigor of the Republican assem bly movement throughout Oregon will not be successfully belittled by Demo cratic politicians and their small group of so-called Republican allies. The movement is so widespread and so strong that it cannot be mistaken for a minority effort within the party. It Is obviously an expression of the spirit and the conscience of citizens who compose two-thirds of the voting population of the state and who de sire a purposeful and effective Repub lican organization, as Roosevelt, Taft and Hughes have declared necessary , to the political well-being of the people. Most counties of Oregon have held party assembly and probably everyone will be represented in the state gather ing in Portland next Thursday. Many of the county conferences have recom mended candidates for nomination by party voters in the primaries. Despite false assertions of Democrats, the county meetings have been largely at tended. Such a movement could not take hold as it has done, nor attain Its present impetus, unless the spirit of the people is supporting it. No question that the two-thirds citizen ship of Oregon, as represented in the Republican "party, wants assembly de liberation upon principles and candi dates and that it has faith in the wholesome result. But if now there are enough men, calling themselves Republicans, fond of Democratic alliances and of acting with the Democratic party who think they can leave the Republican party to a minority, let them go ahead with their chosen purpose. Whether they or the remaining members of the Republican party shall win, the result will tend greatly to simplification of political issues, and men and parties will know where they stand. However, there are not enough such so called Republicans to control the ex pressions of the Rpublican party. This is plain from the overwhelming suc cess of that which they have been re sisting assembly. Nor is there any probable danger that their alliance with the Democrats will defeat the great mass of the Republican citizens of this state. The citizenship of Oregon will gladly accept from the assembly the rational enunciations of principle and policy and recommenda tions of worthy candidates for office. THIKTWXMrT RIVER CHAWEL. The annual report of Major Mcln doe, a synopsis of which appeared In yesterday's Oregonlan, is the most en couraging contribution to the river and harbor literature that has yet been made from this district. Results al ready secured have been so satisfac tory that the matter of securing a channel of any desired depth is no longer a source of anxiety. Major Mclndoe recommends that the chan nel In the river be improved to a depth of thirty feet, and expresses his confidence in easily securing that depth as soon as funds for the prose cution of the work are available. His opinion on the possibility for the thirty-foot channel is based on the comparative ease with which the pres ent twenty-six-foot channel has been secured. On this feature the report states that "the channel in the Lower Co lumbia and Willamette Rivers Is grad ually improving, so that in order to obtain the same depth less dredging is required each year. The Port of Portland is systematically dredging to a greater depth each year it cuts through the bars and the river ap pears to adapt itself to the new depths, which do not seem to deterior ate any faster than the old ones." In many places along the river the chan nel has been deepened more than ten feet since the work of improving the river began. Most of this increased depth has been due to the effective work of the Port of Portland, and, while some money has been wasted by bad Judgment, the returns on the in vestment as a whole are In every way satisfactory to the taxpayers. Of even more importance than his recommendations for digging a thirty foot channel In the river is Major Mc Indoe's recommendation for the early constructlon of a north jetty. The great depth of water and the swift current at the end of the present Jetty show quite plainly that there is noth ing to be gained by . carrying that structure much farther seaward, caus ing the breaking out of another chan nel to the north. This can be pre vented by the construction of a north jetty, which can be carried out to any desired length necessary to keep the water confined from both sides. It is pleasing to note that the big dredge Chinook is expected to be ready for work by the middle of Au gust. Much valuable time in which It might have been working on the smooth bar during the Summer has already been lost, but there is still ample time for a large amount of good work to be done before the Autumn gales make it more difficult. It has been pretty well demonstrated in all of the bar harbors of the world that dredging is a necessity, and. no mat ter how many Jetties or what their length may be. it will be necessary to keep a dredge in service at intervals throughout the year. This is done In all of the big bar harbors of the world, and the growing commerce of the Columbia demands that the port be provided with the best possi ble facilities for the economical han dling of ships of all sizes. A Chicago dispatch says that the Harriman line, the San Pedro & Salt Lake road and the Western Pacific are considering the experiment of charg ing a higher passenger rate In Pull man cars than In day -coaches. This is to offset a recent reduction ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion in fares between Salt Lake, Ogden and California points. As a means for advancing fares where a reduction is ordered, this plan of the railroads seems to preesnt great possibilities. It is a poor rule that does not work both ways, however, and there is a certain class of travel which will be willing to have the rates scaled down and to accept the conveniences and comforts of a gondola or a boxcar. Some people do not care for elegance, but are fond of money. MORTGAGE TAX FOR OREGON? The state tax commission of Oregon has suddenly decided that a law of 1907 requires taxation of mortgages and has instructed county assessors to list them on the rolls of taxable property. It has been generally real ized in this state that the law could be applied to this extremity, but it has been supposed that tax officials had too much . regard for borrowers and for Oregon's needs of money in vestment to attempt it. This tax on mortgage notes, if col lected as proposed by the commission, will be very injurious to activities that borrow capital. It will turn away from this state for Investment else where, both outside and domestic funds. It will raise the interest rate to persons who would borrow in spite of the tax. It will make Oregon a state to be shunned by Investors. It will heighten the reputation of Oregon as a home of fool and fad legislation. It will put this state in the category of Populistic and cranky common wealths. Perhaps it is natural, however, to expect a tax commission that is in league-with Democratic-Populistic fac tions, to demand collection of tax on mortgages. These factions have repu diated, so many lessons of experience in matters of government that prob ably their tax commission is acting consistently in repudiating the lessons of Oregon's old mortgage tax law, which was repealed by the Legislature after it had added heavily to the in terest burdens of borrowers and driven investments out of the state, without collecting the tax from the owners of capital. Oregon has learned once the bitter fallacy of mortgage tax. Must it learn all ever again? NATIONAL EXTRA VAGANCE.I At the session of 1910 Congress ap propriated $136,935,199 for the Navy. This is more than five times the sum devoted to the same purpose in 1895 when Cleveland was President. Other appropriations show the same diver gence. In Cleveland's time only $87, 000,000 was spent on the Post Office. Now we spend $234,000,000 a year. In his day of Catonian simplicity the Army cost but $23,000,000 a year. Now we manage to spend $101,000,000 on it. The story is the same with al most every other Item in the general appropriation bill. Most of them have doubled. Some have increased several times over. The total of expenditures by the Government this year is to be $884,000,000, while under Cleveland in 1895 it was no more than $391,000,000. As anybody can figure out, it has much more than doubled. The New York Sun, from which these significant items are culled, seeks, with its usual amiable intent to ward Mr. Roosevelt, to hold him re sponsible for the extravagance of the Congress which has just bid this vain world adieu. The reckless appropria tions were caused, it maintains, by "the momentum of extravagance ac quired during the Roosevelt period." Perhaps they were, but it seems a trifle disproportionate to attribute the colossal effect to the influence of any single person, no matter how strenu ously wasteful his tastes may have been. President Taft has done his best to stem the tide of extravagance without much more notable result than Mrs. Partington achieved when she went out against the sea with her broom. After all it is Congress which makes appropriations and its extrava gance corresponds not to what any in dividual likes or dislikes, but to the prevalent taste of the country. When the people of the United Statesecome economical with their cash Congress will follow suit. Before that happens It is rather useless to look for any great change. The appropriations for the Army, Navy and Post Office, which have in creased more startlingly than most others, could not have been kept at the Cleveland level by any Presidential effort, because the public irresistibly demanded what nothing but huge sums of money could procure in those departments. This is particularly true of the Postoffice. The American people would not tolerate the curtail ment of the work of this department In any particular. On the contrary, a wide extension is demanded and the public which makes the demand is ready to contribute the funds to pay for it. No grumbling has ever been heard from the taxpayers over the cost of the Postoffice, or the Navy either for that matter. Since the United States ceased to be a strictly home keeping country it has naturally be gun to spend money on an extensive scale. No doubt the scale is too ex tensive and must be reduced sooner or later, but It will not return to the Cleveland figure. The conveniences of modern civilization are. most of them, expensive, but it is usually conceded by people of sound sense that they are worth all they cost. AN EKROXEOIS ARREST. The Pennsylvania policeman who arrested a tramp for taking a. bath the other day may have belonged to the sect of Mennonites who believe that more or less sanctity attaches to dirt. This was also the faith of many of the early Christians who felt holy in proportion to the amount of earth accumulated on their persons. St. Simeon Stylites, as we know from very high authority, did not wash himself for twenty years and during all that time he constantly became more and more desirable as a dis penser of sacred influence. Whether our modern faith healers deem It an advantage to shun the bath tub is uncertain. Some of them carry evidence of that article of faith on their outer persons, but others look as if they washed themselves at least every Fourth of July. Practice. If not belief, probably differs on this impor tant point. So far as tramps are con cerned, one of the principal reproaches against them In polite circles is their dislike or water and soap. It is pa thetic that the first dawn of better things in the soul of the Pennsylvania specimen should have been beclouded by the erring zeal of a policeman. The officer should be instructed to reward the next tramp he sees bathing ln stead of haling him to a. dungeon. If the habit of bathing should ever grow common among tramps perhaps it will show infectious qualities and spread to the guardians of city jails. There are no spots on earth where a quantity of soap and water could be applied to greater advantage. MR. BRYAN, ISR3IAELITE. Mr. Bryan, erstwhile apostle of free silver, anti-expansion. Government ownership and what not else, is cer tainly "getting in bad" with the pow ers of his party. In his own State of Nebraska a frost of public apathy has blighted his aspirations for the United States Senatorship and he has with drawn his "petitions" from the people. Every big leader of his party, from Governor Shallenberger down, includ ing the ruling -members of the state committee, is fighting the Peerless One and his works. Over in the State of Indiana Demo crats have forbidden the Commoner to stump the state in the coming cam paign for Kern and for a Democratic Legislature, and for his county "unit" in regulation of the liquor traffic. In the neighboring State of Ohio the silver prophet was put down and out in the recent state convention, when Harmon was Indorsed for the Presi dency against Bryan's endeavor to control the convention in the Interest of Tom Johnson for Senator and somebody else than Harmon for Pres ident. ' The thrice Peerless One of Lincoln, Neb., Is adding "lost causes" to his record. In addition to losing in the face of the foe, he Is now losing in the face of his brethren. After digging graves for rivals in his own party these many years and holding the mastery of his party in Nebraska for a decade and a half, he encounters new rulers who are making progress toward putting him under the sod. The prospect for the Commoner is not that of the rosy idawn of his early career. THE LIGHT-DRAFT RIVER BOAT. The day of the river steamboat, built to run "in a heavy dew," has returned; or, more strictly speaking the return of the light-draft boat is at hand. Such a craft is building at Corvallis. Needs of farmers along the river at various points and on both banks have called earnestly for the construction of this boat. It will draw two feet of water when loaded to full capacity. Upon the United States engineers will devolve the duty of pro viding this depth of water next season, whenever dredging and other devices shall be necessary. It Is the extreme of negligence to allow navigation on the Willamette to lapse during the months In which the farmers most need river transporta tion In order that they may promptly and regularly reach local markets with perishable products. There Is a con stantly increasing market for early fruits, vegetables, creamery supplies, poultry and poultry products, not only In this city, but in other cities and towns that can readily be supplied by means of river transportation. It is a hardship upon both -the producer and the. consumer when steamboating on the Willamette is closed, as was the case this year early in the Spring, because of a low stage of water at various points in the channelj There is hope that this condition will not again prevail. It is certain that it should not be allowed to recur next season nor again. The Corvallis boat can hardly fall to prove a boon to farmers and small merchants up and down the valley. Railway equipment in service in this section is wholly inadequate to the needs of the farmers. , Electric lines cannot furnish all the relief needed, though they are -doing good service on the north side of the river. Hasten, therefore, the return of the steamboat as auxiliary to these forces in the movement of perishable freight. BAN UPON TUBERCULAR PATIENTS. The fact that patients suffering from tuberculosis have come to be shunned almost as lepers are shunned is a distinct discredit to any en lightened community. Consumption, like other diseases of which hu man beings grow sick and die, was not until within relatively recent years considered even communicable from one person to another. It was simply known as a wasting sickness and was supposedly confined to the lungs of the patient. In a general way it was thought to be hereditary and it was diagnosed as fatal, though in a blind way relief was hoped for in medi cines given for the purpose of reliev ing the cough that was a distressing adjunct and was supposed to be the cause of the disease. This view represented ignorance of the nature and origin of the . disease and of course it leaned far to one side In Its estimate of the case. Within late years, or since the discovery of the germ of this disease, and the es tablishment, beyond doubt' of its com munlcabllity, under certain conditions, the pendulum of opinion has swung as far the other way. Medical and sanitary science teaches and has demonstrated the fact of the com municability of tuberculosis. It also teaches that by proper care all dan ger from associating with a consump tive person is entirely removed; and further that by proper treatment as regards exercise, sunlight, fresh air and nourishing food a consumptive patient, in the earlier stages may throw off the germs of the disease and be fully restored to health and use fulness. Possessed by unreasoning fear, how ever, a large majority of the residents of any community have placed the ban of seclusion upon persons of tubercular tendencies and this same unreasoning fear has refused this distressed legion an asylum. In this city, for example, there is practically no place to which a homeless person suffering from tuberculosis can find entrance and thus far every attempt that has been made to secure such a retreat has been blocked by protest from residents in the vicinity of the place sought.' Man's inhumanity to man could hardly find a stronger il lustration than is here given. It is in vain that physicians and specialists give assurances of safety the guar antee of which Is In the strict super vision maintained over patients who. are being treated in these asylums. It is in vain also that these patients are taught for their own sakes as well as for the safety of others to observe the simple rules necessary to render In nocuous the disease from which thev are suffering. New York has such a long lead over all other ports as the one big port of the New World that it Is doubtful If Ms prestige in this respect will ever be Jeopardized. Official figures on the immigration for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, show the extent to which the big Atlantic port outdis tances all rivals. Of the 1.041.570 im migrants admitted to the United States 786,094 came through the port of New York. Boston, in second place, re ceived but 53.617. Philadelphia was third with 37,641, and Baltimore was a close fourth with 30,563. The build ing of the Panama Canal and the es tablishment of low immigrant rates from the Old World to the Pacific Coast undoubtedly will divert a great many immigrants to this Coast, but there will always be thousands more than can be absorbed to advantage in the congested tenement quarters of New York, for the average emigrant never gets very far away from the ship landing where he is dumped .on ar rival. Undoubtedly Mr. Malarkey or any other man who desires to run for office on any platform has a right to do so. It is not impossible that amid present factional divisions Mr. Malarkey might be elected. His mainstay for the nomination, clearly, is the false and perjured Democratic vote, registered as Republican, assisted by various malcontents who" haven't support enough in the Republican party to go it alone. In the final election there is hope, too, of drawing a considerable part of the Democratic vote honestly registered in its own party name. It Is this abominable kind of business, confusing and defeating all honest party effort, , that the Republican party must bring to an end. Better take the position of minority party than allow these dishonest courses to be pursued without protest. Party is sues have been made clear by the course of our political history since the beginning of the Government, and especially during the last sixty years. The issues lie in the character of the parties, and they are substantially the same as they have ever been. Portland, for the first time in its history, stands in second place among the big wheat-shipping ports of the country. Exports from this city for the fiscal year ending June 30 are ex ceeded only by those of New York. The burning of the Portland Flouring Mills Company's plant- in this city early in the season cut down the flour exports from this port quite materi ally, but with this plant rebuilt and one, and perhaps two, other new mills to be ready for grinding during the present season, the prestige of the port as a flour-exporting point will be greatly increased. Portland's fine showing as a wheat-exporting port was made with a small crop in "Port land territory, nearly all of the big yields last season being in territory tributary to Puget Sound. This year the largest yields in the Pacific North west are in Portland territory, and the available acreage is increased by the North Bank Railroad and its connec tions. The expected batch of lies about the assembly's being controlled by-corporations and machine politicians ap pears, of course. The assemblies of Saturday were the work of bodies of citizens in all parts of the state, whose object is no other than the public wel fare. This is attested by the general character of the men who attended the assemblies. A great many of them are men prominent in business and affairs. The candidates suggested by the assemblies for nomination are not drawn from those who deliver harangues or listen to harangues in the public parks. The men who should direct the affairs of Oregon ought not to be selected from or de pend for their chief support on an ir responsible loaferism. The notorious Mr. Glavis, hero of Pinchot and Garfield in their war on Ballinger, has tired of his wife and seeks divorce. As an inducement to quit him, he offered her a' Government Job, taxpayers to pay the salary all this notwithstanding that she appears to have been a faithful spouse and to have desired to keep the place of Mrs. Glavis. The whole scheme of Pinchot, Garfield, Glavis & Co. is that of con serving things at expense of the peo ple. Mr. Glavis has proved himself a worthy disciple of his masters, by en deavoring to conserve his wife in that manner. Conservation is a big sub ject, and as President Taft recently re marked, everybody favors conserva tion, whatever it may mean. Few men have done such bad work in politics as McGinn, Brownell, Bourne and other "reformers" confess themselves to have done. They are holding up to reprobation their own past conduct in politics as a means of deterring decent and honorable men from participation in assembly and in party organization. It seems a non sequitur. President of Princeton University Woodrow Wilson, though not a can didate, will not refuse the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jer sey should it be tendered him. Here is another politician, neither willing nor reluctant, who leans with great confidence upon his friends. They say some of the old Repub lican wheelhorses were present at the assembly meetings Saturday, and hys terical exclamation is the consequence. Are we to understand that Democratic wheelhorses Chamberlain, Jeff My ers and Harry Lane are to partici pate no .more in politics? The Los Angelan who has discov ered in alfalfa a cure for delirium tre mens and other ills is somewhat late, for it is of record that once upon a time one Nebuchadnezzar ate grass for that tired feeling. , The trouble with the petitions ask ing Mr Bryan to run for Senatdr is probably that the name-getters did not draw pay enough per head. The Oregon plan is different. Seeking to disfigure his wife's affin ity, a Philadelphia waiter cut the man's throat and killed him. His aim was bad. The Colonel spent Saturday after noon chopping trees, possibly to get Ideas for his conservation talk at Den ver. One of the recent wife-slayers is dy ing in a local hospital. That is the better way. Uncle Joe was an old smooth-bore overheated in the Kansas sun. That was all. TRUE REPUBLICANS UNITING. Others Belong to the Rival Party aad Should Seek Berth There. Hood River News. The showing made at the primary meetings demonstrates that all real Republicans are ready for a reorgani zation of the party in the county, and a like showing made in all other coun ties likewise demonstrates that mem bers of the party in Oregon have gone a long way toward its complete re organization in all parts of the state. A united stand of . Republicans was never more important than in the com ing election in November, when state. Congressional and Senatorial candi dates are to be chosen. The recent session of Congress, where the state's delegation was divided In politics and policy in which the Senators from this state were at variance with the Administration and unable to secure its needed public benefits and prestige, is a case in point. The time has come to define the standing of a Republican and what he represents, and for him either to be with his party or against it. MEN FOR DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT Harmon, Gaynor, Dlx, Hoodroir Mil on, et nl-, but not Bryan. . Harper's Weekly. The renomination of Governor Har mon in Ohio is a step toward perfecting the qualification of an admirable man and Democrat to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. If Governor Harmon can carry Ohio again, his friends will be abundantly warranted in trying to send him to the White House. Whether he carries Ohio again or not, he is a man the Democrats must consider. i We should like to see a group of such candidates under consideration by. the Democrats two years from now. Whom will New York offer? A first class man from this state, who can carry the state, would be a man to whom the delegates would pay most careful at tention. A Democratic Governor of New York of the dimensions and character of Mr. Osborne or Mr. Shepard would belong in the group that will include Governor Harmon. We would like to see in the same group Dr. Woodrow Wilson representing New Jersey and perhaps with a demonstrated capacity to carry that state. The group ought to be fairly large, and it will be. Dem ocrats of real quality are undoubtedly coming to the front. Mr. Dix, the new Democratic state chairman in this state, looks promising. Mayor Gaynor shows a wise disposition to cleave to his present job and see what he can do at thatsbefore considering anything else. There are others; we have spo ken mainly of the neighbors here abouts, but ail over the country the Democrats are taking politics seriously a eriin, and heads are rising above the crowd. - BRYAN, PERPETUAL PARTY BOSS. Refnaea Back Seat, Tries to Drive Ohio and Trains for "Next Time. Brooklyn Eagle. There is assurance of a great Demo-, cratlc victory in 1912, according to Uni ted States Senator Rayner, if Mr. Bryan will permit the party to nominate the candidate and to present to the people a platform of its own construction. If he won't, then the party must "rise in its might." Just, what is meant by rising in Its might the Senator does not explain. However, It is immaterial. The back seat it was hoped Mr. Bryan would take long ago is still unoccupied. Quite recently he asserted his, unalterable preference for the front of the Demo cratic stage. Witness his letter to Harmon, die tatlng terms to the Ohio convention and threatening the Governor with re tirement in case the terms were not complied with. True, the convention snubbed Mr. Bryan, but that does not alter the fact that he dictated. And as it was in Ohio, so will it be at the National convention. Mr. Bryan will be there or thereabouts. Also, his frame of mind will be dictatorial. Ac cording to his own account he is in politics for life, and he is particularly active in Presidential years. He will permit the convention to do as he pleases. Politics In Indiana. Indianapolis News. It appears from the gatherings and discussions of the candidates of both parties here in Indiana that (1) the Democrats are going to sweep the state; and (2) that the Republicans are sure of a substantial victory. This would seem to show that politics is in a normal condition in Indiana. Each side, to make assurance doubly sure, is going to establish a press bureau as usual in Indianapolis. The . partisan papers of the state will thus be able to rejoice in the customary amount of hand-me-down, confidence - inspiring pabulum direct from party headquar ters, accompanied by those altogether delightful predigested editorials. This system ' has given the country papers that cheerful sameness of political ex pression which has long been a joy to the reader of many of them. Literary Tastes of the Poor. Leslie's. The "five best sellers" may interest Fifth Avenue, but on New York's East Side the English classics are tne great er attraction. In the first place, the East Side reads more than other, sec tions do. There were more applica tions for the privilege of taking out books from the circulation departments of the five East Side branches of the New York Public Library last year than in any eight of the other 38 branches. Not only does the East Side read, but it Is choice in what it reads. New, ephemeral novels get little at tention; but Dickens, Thackeray and Scott are worn threadbare in the tena ment districts. Shakespeare and the Bible are prime favorites. Among ju veniles, fairy stories lead here, as they do everywhere else, but the Bible ranks among the five most popular books in the children's department. The Malodorous Cigar Bntt. Boston Herald. Magistrate Krotel, of the Yorkville Court of New York City, is indeed a worthy Judge. "What do you mean. Sir, by coming into this Court with a cigar butt in your hand?" he demanded of a defendant. And the assertion of the accused that he had carefully ex tinguished the burning weed before he entered the courtroom did not avert arraignment for disorderly conducti May the new interpretation of the law spread. A smoking cigar is more fit for society than a cold butt. If due re gard for the principles of economy for bids -the waste of the half-consumed cigar, let us have air-tight receptacles wherein the malodorous butt may be placed in retirement when occasion re quires. Spemkttnar of Lansrwidge. Arlington (Til.) Argus. Miss Etta Mohler, with her mother", sisters,, brother and his family, will en jo a two weeks' outing among the bluffs and dingles of the Mississippi River. They have rented a cottage eligible to the river zephyrs and amply barricaded against mosquitoes. Miss Mohler has been faithful to her typo graphical task and loyal to her lino type lucubrations, and therefore is richly deserving of this interval of in vigorating diversion. War With Poison Bugs. Pittsburg Gazette. The farmers of Accomao and North hampton Counties, Va., spend $150,000 each year for poison in their w,. with 1 potato bugs. CJ'REN'S "BEST GOVERNMENT" FAD A Neighbor Quotes Governor Hay and Cites Polly of "System." Aberdeen (Wash.) World. Governor Hay entered office an un tried man. He knew little of the busi ness of government. He floundered about for a while, but he has long since regained his feet, and he has grown with his office and with new conditions. To business ability and common sense he has now added an understanding of government, and by just so much has his administration improved. No clearer exposition of gov ernmental fallacies has been given than the Governor gave in his speech at the Pierce County Pioneers' Association, when he went on record as opposed to the initiative and allied sophistries. "When we analyse our political svstem." tie said, "we find that Its basic principle. Its essence, the. very warp and woof of tne whole fabric. Is representative govern ment. Now If we change from the prin ciple of representation to any other we change the whole form, appearance and spirit of our system. "We have no ruling class, no political aris tocracy to whom we delegate the adminis tration of our laws. Here we have no worn doctrine of divine right or hereditary priv ilege. On the contrary, we have a govern ment of and by the people, and wherever it fails to be entirely and solely for the people It is simply because of the lack of vigilance or discrimination on the part of the people." That's plain, practical and old-fashioned, but it is intensely true. It is true despite all the theorists, and de spite the Bournes and the U'Rens that make government a Jumble, and then tell you that their "plan" is the "best In the world." Evils we have, certainly; always shall have, so long as man is not omniscient or angelic; but the rem edy for evils rests in the hands of the people. Need of direct primary nom inations arises only because of the in difference or the refusal of the voters to take part in their own affairs. For most purposes, the convention system Is better fitted for the selection of can didates for office than the direct method. It does not throw down the bars to the unfit, it does "not make politics merely a scramble for office, and it curbs the self-seekers, the un worthily ambitious. But the people surrendered control of their affairs and control of conven tions and caucuses and primaries to a few self-constituted bosses and then cried out for relief. Until the abuses that greAr around the convention method shall have been abolished, we shall perhaps be wise to retain the direct method. But we must at the same time retain parties and party or ganization, or else devise something new in government. Concerted action by men who think alike is the only possible excuse for existence of parties, and we shall not do away with them until the fabric of government disinte grates. And just as the remedy for nomina tions for office rests in the hands of the people, so Governor Hay thinks, does the remedy for' bad laws and bad legislators. He refuses to believe, how ever, that people that have shown themselves so indifferent to political affairs, can profit by a system that places on them the burden of propos ing and enacting legislation. The com mon sense in that is too plain- to admit of argument. , Oregon has been experimenting with all these fool things for some time. They have resulted in disorganization of "parties, in election of nondescript non-part'sans who could not have gained recognition otherwise, and in the enactment of a lot of fool legisla tion all of which, by the way, has been lauded by Senator Bourne, who strives to gain influence, first by truckling and then by golf playing, as the "best government in the world." But there are those who doubt. Since Oregon Is willing to experiment, let It continue. Washington can profit by the lessons taught by our neighbor, and one of these will be to leave fool fads alone. CRITIC OP NATIONAL BOSS." New York Writer Thinks Washington State Will Refuse "Dictation." New York Globe. As an airship would fly it is approxi mately 3000 miles from Oyster Bay to the northwestern corner of the country where is the State of Washington. In view of this distance it is difficult to credit the report that a distinguished citizen of Oyster Bay has taken on himself the duty and obligation of giv ing advice as to who should be Wash ington's next United States Senator. For an outsider to Interfere in do mestic matters is generally not wel come and seldom is helpful to the per son in behalf of whom interference is attempted. Congressman Polndexter, who cherishes a desire to wear a Sena torial toga, left the Presence appar ently much pleased, but as he journeys across the continent and reflects on how the home folks are likely to view presumptuous guidance his smile will probably ooze away. The State of Washington is a self-governing com monwealth, jealous of its independence, and it will not look with favor. It may be assumed, on alien dictation. Trickery of Statement One. Bingen (Wash.) Observer. Through Statement One, Republican Oregon sent a Democrat to the United States Senate. Senator Chamberlain Is undoubtedly an able man, and one that could do a vast amount of leading in a Democratic Congress and Administra tion, but in a large Republican major ity, and out of touch with the princi ples of the Administration, he is so largely in the minority that the state of Oregon suffers for his election. We trust that the State of Washington will learn a lesson and set down heavily on any attempt to adopt Statement One. The United States Senator should he nominated by the people instead of the Legislature, but the method of State ment One is all wrong. Under the Ore gon Statement One is Just as much chance for political trickery and boss ism as in the old convention method, and the Republicans of Oregon found it out. ' Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. If a girl is all the world to a man he should marry her and engage in th real estate business. You may be able to give a good imi tation of a man thinking, but can you deliver the goods? Once there was a woman who ad mitted that she talked too much and most of the time she was kept In a padded cell. You will never succeed if you spend half your time telling what you are going to do and the other half In ex plaining why you didn't do it. Neuresthenla. John had neuresthenla Cannot tell you why Knew there was no hope for him' And so went home to die. ' John announced his tragic fate. And said unto his chums. ' "I might as well enjoy myself Until the summons comes." And then he went a-flshlng Every morning for a week. Took a swim each afternoon And then, in manner meek. Began to take an Interest In work heard nature's call; But. instead of mooning around. He whitewashed the house, the Barn, the garage, the chicken House and the corn crib; hauled Gravel from a gravel pit In The woods and made paths Where paths were necessary; Chopped wood, carried water; End more fishing, more swimming; More driving; ate large Quantities of plain food; . Drank large Quantities of water and -Buttermilk; And didn't die at aUl' "SYSTEM" FOILS PEOPLE'S WILL Oregon "Improvements" as Viewed fcy California Observer. Ban Francisco Argonaut. In Oregon the "new system" has now been on trial for something like five years. It has in - v. .. . . j imu im ssuu- !e"h. UV U haa not been -observed . . lea lo anything worth commending, t t .. . , " uvancea one step towards direct government. It . - fviuacnea as nearly to direct government as the old system, since not one man elected to important office under it has ever received so much as a majority of aU the votes. It makes government less popular, in truth, than the old system, for inevit ably it tends to election by pluralities as distinct from elections by majorities. Under this system the public service of Oregon, including its representation at Washington, is made up of officials nominated by minorities, elected by minorities. It has given a" state over whelmingly attached to Republican principles a Democrat In the Governor's chair, and a Populist and a Democrat in the United States Senate. But even this is not the whole story, for the men chosen under the system have not in any sense represented "the people." They have essentially been men self selected, men who have turned the ma chinery of the new system to sulfish political advantage. 4What tne PePle of Oregon think of this new system after five years of tfal ls now a matter of demonstration. The burning political question in that state is how to correct a svstem which tends at every point to thwart rather iv!fn promote the public will. Under this motive there has been devised a system of party "conferences," to be at tended by delegates chosen under an extra-legal scheme of party representa tion. Conferences are now being held in the several counties to recommend candidates for the coming nominations. Later on a state "conference" will bo held to recommend candidates for state offices. Delegated In other words, repre sentative government is the only practicable or possible scheme. It is a scheme founded in the genius of our people, defined in our Constitution and statutes, and fixed in our political habit. To change all this, even if it were possible or desirable, would in a practical sense be out of the question. Those who prate about it do not seri ously propose it. Even Mr. Bourne, in stating his case, seeks re-election under the plan of "delegated" powers. Nobody who has observed men and' things, nobody who has read anvthlns; of the history 5f the race, nobodv with a grain of common sense, expects to see government now or at any future time popularized in keeping with Mr. Bourne's intimations. Mr. Bourne him self does not expect It and would not consent to it. It serves his purpose to prate about it to the end that he mav stand as a representative or delegate of the State of Oregon in the United States Senate. He is willing, for the sake of a cheap personal success, to preach any doctrine which has any chance to "go down" with that ele ment which in Its chase after political novelty has wrought political confu sion In Oregon even such confusion as is manifest in Mr. Bourne's own selection for the Senate by less than one-third of a full poll pf the Oregon electors. , MOTOK OWNERS PAY FOR ROADS Suggestion That Toll Gates Be Estab lished to Bring; in a Revenue. Los Angeles Examiner. According to the suggestion of Cooper it is "up" to the auto drivers to main tain the highways that they use on their runs to the beach and the mountains or to the adjacent tdwns. Toll gates, he de clares, would bring sufficient revenue to maintain the roadways of the county. "I would propose," declared Cooper, that on every recognized highway, the automoblllst pay a certain small sum to a toll gate keeper. Let this money be used for the improvement of the road bed. I would not put a tax of this kind on the bicycle rider, or the teamster, but every autolst is amply able to ex pend a few cents per trip, and especially if that money is known to be invested in better roads. "There is a Michigan road, with which I am familiar, and every man who passes over it pays an average of 7 cents for a 30-mile- run. This money is sufficient to keep the road as smooth as a billiard table and the smoother it is the more toll there Is to be collected." Outside View of Oregon. Yakima Republic. Under the initiative and referendum system in Oregon 32 measures will be submitted to the people at the general election. Sixteen of these measures are constitutional amendments. This is carrying the "rule of the people" idea to a point where it becomes ridiculous. The idea that the average voter can go Into the booth on election day and in telligently reorganize the constitution of his state in 30 seconds is absurd. Some day Oregon will pay dearly for harboring this fool notion. Making constitutions and laws is something to which an amount of care and study should be given which the average voter has not time to give, and. Indeed, is a task with which he does not want to be burdened. When he finds how slowly he makes progress toward good government by this system, how little he can accomplish, and how easy it is for the demagogues to mislead him, he will take the back track toward 'tha representative system. Moral Victory for the Negro. Portland Advocate (Colored). The Advocate spoke in its last issue of the mental bravery of Jack Johnson, and hinted that perhaps even a fabu lous sum had been offered him to "lay down.'.' Of course we knew nothing about this, but only intimated it in speaking of the mental bravery as well as the physical prowess of the cham pion. Yet somehow the Intimation was the "real dope," for those who read the papers saw the statement made by Johnson that he had been offered $350, 000 to lose the fight. Since this was published and since we have carefully watched for some denial from the other side, and since no denial has been given, there must be some truth in it. And such being the case, then Johnson Is a double champion champion physically as well as champion morally. , And yet the crackers say the Afro-American race has no sense of honor. Pits and Misfits in Oregon. Weston Leader. Despite the political fits and misfits that Oregon ls throwing and creating, we venture to hope that some sem blance of sanity remains. Voters should reflect that we now have enough poli tical experiments to digest without at tempting more. Especially should they vote down the proposed amendment au thorizing state-owned railroads. It is fatuous bosh,, and deserves the kibosh. Democrat Assemblies Secret. Roseburg News. That was a striking cartoon in this morning's Oregonlan "sizing up" - the assembly and anti-assembly followers. It's all right for three or four Demo crats to get together and slate a ticket, but what a horrible howl goes up when the Republicans come out In the open and in a free-for-all gathering select suitable men to represent the taxpay ers and people generally.. War-Dogs as Carriers. London Telegraph. At the approaching French maneurers a severe test is to be made of the value of dogs as carriers.