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PORT I. A TV I. TUESDAY, JUIY, 19, 1910.
STTLi, ANOTHER tHEN FBEiK.
The lawgiver at Oregon City now
turn from his erstwhile fad oj plu
rality primaries and advises the people
of Oregon to accept as substitute his
new revelation "preference voting."
"The chief cause of dissatisfaction
now," says Mr. U'Ren, "Is the nomina
tion, as well as the election, of impor
tant officers by a plurality, which is
often less than half, and hardly more
than one-fourth of the electors vot
ing." Now, at last, this apostle of "prog
ress" admits the evils of plurality pri
maries and minority nominations
this after having led the van of the
direct primary cause. There is prom
ise, however, that evils of minority
nominations can be largely corrected
through party assembly. Yet this ra
tional remedy Mr. ITRen and all his
satellites are resisting.
Instead, Mr. U'Ren comes forth with
the most hair-brained scheme yet pro
duced by his "reforming" intellect. It
would dispense with nominating elec
tions and would attempt election of
officers at the one polling time, by
causing voters to mark ballots as to
their diminishing preference for can
didates; thus several choices for Gov
orner: First, Jones; second, Smith;
third. Brown; fourth. Black. Then by
a hocus-pocus of adding together the
several choices for the respective can
didates, Mr. U'Ren plans at last to
secure a "majority" election.
This arrangement would complete
the disruption of political parties in
this state beyond any repair of assem
bly. Its so-called "majority rule"
would be an empty phrase. Political
parties would find their purposes
foiled at every turn far worse than
under the hitherto prevailing system
of plurality primaries. In the State
of Washington the primary law allows
for nominations .by first and second
choices and the law worked out In
the last state primaries with some
degree of success. But this fresh
freak of ITRen's eliminates nomina
tions altogether, adds third and fourth
choices and proposes criss-cross voting
between the parties that would make
Impotent the purposes of political
organization.
It marks genuine progress, however,
that the Oregon City lawgiver admits
the evils of plurality primaries. The
rational remedy of assembly he rejects
and proposes instead this other vision
ary scheme. But the people of this
state are coming fast to the realization
of "the U'Ren fallacies. Abolition of
representative constitutional govern
ment is his goal, but he will never
reach it in Oregon.
TirjB IX-HiB OF VANITY.
W. G. McLaren, of the Portland
Commons Settlement, drew a painfully
lurid picture last Sunday of the lure
by which young girls are -won from
lives of modesty and virtue to shame
and ruin. He spoke of young girls,
who. upon one flimsy pretext and an
other, remain away from their homes
over night; going in some instances
from work in which they are earning
good wages to accompany men to
places of low resort or to private
rooms, presumably, at least, to possess
themselves of more money than their
legitimate earning capacity furnishes.
That it Is the lure of vanity that draws
such young girls on can scarcely be
doubted. The "desire for fine clothes
Is a contagion and Just now it is raging
as an epidemic among the vain and
thoughtless. It is Tint pnnftwaj" rt
those who can afford to buy what
they want, though It Is rampant In the
ranks of these: but It spreads from
mistress to maid, from the young wife
who is still reveling in the beauty of a
wedding outfit that sadly overtaxed
her father's means, to the young girl
Just across the way, who goes daily to
her work In store or shop or office,
, leaving her overtaxed mother to do the
work at home, for the sole purpose
of earning money wherewith to buy
the fine apparel for which she longs.
Perhaps the mothers are to blame
in the latter case; it is commonly sup
posed that they are. ' Perhaps the
father has undertaken to bring up a
larger family than his earning capac
ity warrants, thus forcing his young
daughters out into the ranks of wage
earners all too soon. There Is reason
in many cases to support this assump
tion. Perhaps the church is to blame
in that It does not enter Into the lives
of these young girls and establish,
principles of morality and Christianity
therein that will be to them shield and
buckler wherewith to ward off tempta
tion. The settlement iworker men
tioned more than hinted of delin
quency in duty here. But after all
is said and done, it Is the lure of van
ity that leads these weaklings on.
We hear of the "white slave traf
fic" in places high and low. Con
gress has taken cognizance of it and
attempted to stamp it out by stringent
wide-reaching laws. Rescue workers
tell of the" traffic in shuddering de
tail; the public Is notified that it is
going on in every community urban,
suburban and rural. Everywhere the
lure of vanity is held out: the foolish
and the unwary take the bait and are
lost to home and friends and hope.
The story is an old one, so old that
Its awful details can hardly recite any
thing that is new. Any headway that
Is made against the horrors with
which it is reflected in dally life must
be made through home-life, the first
principles of which are those of obedi
ence, modesty and self-respect.
Without this basis settlement -workers
can do no more than pluck occa
sional brands from the burning. With
It. there will be no need, relatively
speaking, of what is popularly known
as rescue work. The love of vanity,
elitterlrur and entlcins- if o n
prevail; at least it seldom prevails
against the womanly virtues inculcated
and fostered in the home. "Every
young daughter should have the
watchful care of her parents, at all
times," said Mr. McLaren in sum
ming up his presentment of the white
slave traffic as he declares that it
exslts in Portland. This is as complete
a summing up of a many-sided case
as could be made. If the advice thus
given were followed, if it "were pos
sible in all instances to follow it, the
occupation of the rescue worker would
be gone and the abhorent traffic
would cease to exist and the lure of
vanity would become innocuous.
OREGON'S ASSEMBLY SPIRIT.
Of course, foes of the Multnomah
Republican Assembly and of Ub can
didates assert "slate" and "machine"
and "corporation influence." Sub
stantial, prominent citizens could not
be named for office without starting
their opponents clamoring in this fash
ion. It is the universal opinion, how
ever, that the recommendations of the
assembly make up an- uncommonly
good list of candidates. Had such
lists been offered the voters in pre
ceding elections there would have been
no such political turmoil as has dis
rupted the Republican party in the
last several years. This signifies an
awakened public conscience in matters
political. i
If the people demand right things
from political assemblies and insist
upon getting them, there will be no
bad politics. That is the solution of
evil conditions in public affairs. And
the solution is working out in Oregon
in satisfactory manner. Corporations
and "machines" are not running the
Republican assemblies. An unbiased
glimpse of the membership of the one
in Portland last Saturday and of its
candidates convinces that this Is true.
These assemblies represent the best
spirit of the citizenship of Oregon.
PACKED CONSERVATION' CONGRESS.
The desire of Mr. James J. Hill to
speak at Portland in September will
probably prevent his attendance at the
conservation congress at St. Paul.
Portland naturally prefers to have Mr.
Hill in this city for the September
meeting of the Livestock Association,
yet it will be a matter of regret that
he cannot be present at the conserva
tion congress. His announced inten
tion of not mincing matters, in case he
should speak at St. Paul, is a guar
antee that the proceedings would be
greatly enlivened. There are few, if
any, men in all the West who have a
more thorough knowledge of conser
vation than Mr. Hill. It is on the
conservation of the natural resources
of the- country that he must depend
for the prosperity of his great railroad
system.
But Mr. Hill has always preached
the doctrine of development. To a
greater extent, probably, than any
other living man, he has aided in
bringing about the -great economic
change which through transportation
"has drawn the world together, and
spread the race apart." He has pro
tested against the conservation policy
which has forced 100,000 American
citizens to leave this country and make
homes in Canada, while millions of
acres, on which smiling homes and
prosperous cities and towns should be
builded, are locked up in forest re
serves. Mr. Hill knows that the mil
lions of acres of ripening timber,
which Is fast losing its marketable
value, and much of which is ravaged
by forest fires, should be contributing
something to the public good before it
is too late. He knows that nothing
but loss can result from such a false
and pernicious policy of conservation
as is preached toy Millionaire Pinchot
and his wealthy Eastern associates,
whq are crying loudest for adoption
of the old European feudal system of
withdrawing vast tracts of land from
use of the people.
Mr. Hill is not the only one who has
a fairly accurate idea of what will
take place if the conservation con
gress is thoroughly Pinchotized. Gov
ernor Hay, of Washington, is still firm
in his determination not to appoint
delegates until he is assured that they
will be accorded the fair and cour
teous treatment that was denied Judge
Hanford, who read a paper at last
year's meeting criticising the Pinchot
policy. Eventually, the honest and
practical people of the East will un
derstand the Western view of conser
vation, but they will never learn it if
they persist in "packing" their con
servation congresses with delegates
who think only as Pinchot thinks.
MR. ROCKEFELLEK'B DEVOTIONS.
John D. Rockefeller must "spend
almost as much time composing his
prayers as he did in former years de
vising ways to rob his competitors.
In his last reported address to the
Almighty the ancient humbug begins
by telling the Lord: "This is thy most
beautiful world." How does Mr.
Rockefeller know that this informa
tion is correct? Unintentionally, he
may be deceiving the Creator. There
may be worlds a great deal more
beautiful than this one and far better
adapted to the happiness of their in
habitants. If that Is the case, the
angels must have had some difficulty
in keeping their faces straight while
the saintly oil magnate put up his
petition.
But when the conclusion of the
prayer was wafted heavenward cer
tainly a broad grin must have per
vaded the regions of bliss. "May we
not mar" this most beautiful of worlds
"by our selfishness" pleaded benevo
lent John, "but by the gentleness and
sweetness of our lives make it more
beautiful. Is it possible that Mr.
Rockefeller attaches any meaning
whatever to the words he addresses to
the Lord? Or does he believe that it
is as easy to fool the Almighty as it
is to bamboozle the ordfnary Legis
lator? There is a little text of Scrip
ture which it might be weli enough for
this sincere and humble Christian to
remember once in a while in the fervor
of his devotions: "For -it is written,
vengeance is mine, salth the Lord, I
will repay."
CONTEMPT ItB SPEED LAW.
An automobile driver was arrested
twice Sunday afternoon in different
parts of the city for exceeding the
speed limit. The incident discloses the
contempt which many reckless chauf
feurs have for the law and the rights
of other people who make use of the
public highways. It also reveals the
fact that moderate fines or warnings
are totally inadequate to check this
dangerous form of lawbreaking. Port
land, with its short blocks and nar
row streets, is not well adapted for
speeding automobile drivers. In not a
single accident that has -yet been re
ported was there necessity for the
haste displayed by the drivers.
Frequently injured or dying persons
are rushed to the hospital at a high
rate of speed, and physicians drive fast
in answer to emergency calls. In none
of these cases, however, have accidents
occurred. As it is impossible to keep
a police officer at every crossing, the
speed limit is violated with impunity
every hour in the day in many crowded
places. The average . . lawbreaking
chauffeur, like the one- arrested twice
on . Sunday, figures that the chances
are against his being caught in the
first place, and also that after he is
caught the worst he can get will be a
reprimand or a moderate fine.
Perhaps a stiff fine for the first
offense, with a doubling of that fine
'for each subsequent offence, and im
prisonment for a few weeks might
check this evil before there shall be
greater loss of life..
The better class of automobile
drivers and owners no more desire this
reckless driving than the citizens on
foot, whose lives are Jeopardized, and
a movement for more drastic punish
ment would meet with their approval.
Unless something more serious than a
reprimand or a slight fine is admin
istered to these lawbreakers, the mat
ter will culminate in corrective
measures more severe than is actually
necessary. The public is becoming
weary of dodging speed fiends.
If some of these reckless chauffeurs,
who break the law twice in one day,
should pound rock at Kelly Butte a
few weeks they might have more
wholesome respect for the law and the
rights of the unfortunates who are
obliged to use the streets for other
purposes than automobile speedways.
AS TO MORTGAGE TAX.
The Oregon Tax Commission plans
to Include mortgage notes in its
"equalization" of state taxes.. This,
its members say. Such business will
not serve well the Interests of Mult
nomah County, where most of Ore
gon's mortgage notes are held. It
can have no other purpose than taxa
tion of mortgage notes in one method
or another. . It is to be expected that
this scheme-of "equalization" aims in
directly for increase of Multnomah's
contribution to state revenues. r
This in , turn means that visible
property in this county will have to
pay the increased increment because
mortgage notes will generally elude
the assessor. When they shall be oc
casionally - detected by that official
the tax will be at once added to the
interest rate exacted of borrowers.
These are primer lessons of taxa
tion. It cannot be believed that in
telligent officials are ignorant of
them. It is absurd to tax loans of
borrowed capital. The person who
pays such tax is not the owner of the
money, but the user of it. Yet the
one argument Justifying mortgage tax
is that wealth in money should pay
tax the same way as does wealth In
land or buildings. Thus mortgage tax
defeats Its own purposes.
The State Commission, while deny
ing that it has ordered taxation of
mortgage notes, has launched upon a
policy which appears intended to force
Multnomah County to include money
loans in its county assessment. The
effect will be both restrictive to in
vestments and burdensome to borrow
ers. Most mortgages require borrow
ers to pay any tax that may be levied
on the note, this being one of the in
demnities for prevailing low rates of
interest. It is safe to predict that
every loan hereafter will impose that
requirement on the borrower. It will
be Impossible . for users of capital to
obtain loans without such guaranty.
When selecting the members of the
present Tax Commission last year,
Governor Benson refused to appoint a
Multnomah man, on the ground that
this county already had enough power
in the state government. But evi
dently this .county could fitly be rep
resented commensurately with its in
terests. IRELAND.
Thus far in its history the mission
of Ireland has been to inspire and
civilize the rest of the world. Living
under severe oppression for many cen
turies Ireland has sent- her sons to al
most every nation on the globe. Exiles
and wanderers in strange lands, they
have been foremost as military com
manders, as orators, as poets and as
statesmen. Members of Irish fami
lies settled . on the continent of
Europe have commanded armies
and won victories. The Emerald
Isle has invaded England with
forces more effectual than armed
soldiers and won honors in fair intel
lectual fight with the men (who re
fused them common Justice at home
The poet who touched nothing that he
did not adorn was an Irishman.
Burke, the only British statesman who
ranks high as a philosopher, migrated
to England from the Island which
England's agents had reduced to mis
ery. The greatest satirist who ever
wrote in English was an Irishman. As
long as politicians are venal and fool
ish, as long as churchmen are bigoted
and fanatical, so long will the keen
wit of Dean Swift amuse and instruct
the Intelligence of the world.
In the past the Irish have been the
most unselfish people on earth. They
have won glory for every country ex
cept their own. In our day this spirit
is changing somewhat, and the sons
of the Green Isle, while they confer
as many benefits as they ever did upon
other countries, are beginning to gain
substantial benefits for the home that
none of them ever forgets. Irish in
dustry is reviving. Agriculture begins
to -bring comfort Into the homes of
men who have known all too well the
dire stress of want through the effect
of political tyranny. Irish literature
now wins credit for Dublin instead of
London. It is no longer necessary for
poets and satirists to migrate from the
island where they were born in order
to find publishers and readers. Irish
exports once more cut a figure in the
commerce of the British Isles. Per
haps the time is not far distant when
-Ireland will resume the pre-eminence
it held in the older world and the
country of Irishmen will enjoy the
same proud rank among the nations
as they themselves hold among the
citizens of the lands where they reside.
THE MONORAIL ACCIDENT.
The monorail car to which the acci
dent happened on July 17, not far
from Long Island City bridge in New
Tork. is not to be confused with the
invention which employs the gyroscope
to maintain stability.' Mr. Tunis' car,
which left its track and was wrecked
used some other device. Just what
it was the brief accounts do not make
entirely clear, but it was not a gyro
scope. A vehicle which contains a
gyroscope in rapid motion could not
possibly- be overturned by the mere
irregularity of a roadbed, aa was the
case with Mr. Tunis' invention.
The gyroscopic car has been made to
follow a track so irregular that it was
almost literally knotted, but it ran
smoothly around the sharp curves and
showed not the slightest disposition
to jump from the rail. It is a British
invention and has not yet, so far as
the public is informed, been applied
commercially. There Is no doubt.
however, that this will soon be done
and both the speed and the safety of
transportation will probably be in
creased by it. The promoters also
predict substantial economies from its
use. I
It has been suggested that the ulti
mate solution of the problem of sta
bility for the flying machine will be
found in the gyroscope. Of course, the
difficulty lies in the weight. The
machine must be constructed of heavy
material and the .very thing which
makes it stable its moment of mo
mentum requires a considerable mass
in the rotating part. This complicates
the task of adapting the gyroscope to
flying machines, but other problems
Just as perplexing have been solved
in the past and there is no reason to
despair of this one.
The Jubilation of Springfield, Or.,
over the anticipated completion of its
electric railway and the bridge con
necting the town with Eugene is fully
Justified by the improvement. Years
ago, when Springfield was a remote
rural hamlet, it would have taken a
bold prophet to foresee its present
flourishing condition. The change from
isolation and stagnation to a bustling
center of progress has been rapid and
no doubt it is due largely to the ener
getic exertions of the citizens of the
town. People usually get what they
strive for if they strive hard enough,
and they seldom get much else. The
rapidly extending electric railways
mean civilization, wealth and happi
ness to the country districts of Oregon.
They increase the value of land, make
it easy and cheap to market crops
and, above all, they promote the inter
change of thought and information
among the people. v
A Husum, "Wash., dispatch says:
"The Mount Adams Orchard Company
has recently added another large gang
of Japs to help clear its 1,000-acre
tract. Nearly 600 acres have been
cleared and 400 acres are planted to
leading varieties of apples.' This is a
grievous offence that should not be
overlooked nor condoned by the Indus
trial Workers of. the World. Why
should employment toe given to these
Japs when our parks and North-End
saloons are filled with idle white men.
industriously dodging work of this
kind? Another feature of the outrage
lies in the fact that a few years hence
these hundreds of acres of apples will
be bearing fruit, and further insult will
be offered the Neverworks by asking
them to go out to pick apples, and get
them ready for market. The Pacific
Northwest is becoming a very unpleas
ant place for a lazy man to live.
Some Canadians are disposed to take
the marriage contract' more seriously
than some Americans do. At any rate,
one might safely draw that conclusion
from the hubbub which has arisen in
the domains of our Northern neighbor
over the twenty divorces which were
obtained there last year. Twenty di
vorces, or even forty, would not make
much stir in one of our states. There
are single cities which would look with
serenity upon sixty or seventy each
year; Not only do the Canadians take
their marriages more awesomely than
we, but they make divorces vastly
more difficult to obtain. Here, any
Judge of almost any court is author
ized to sever the bonds of matrimony
and set the emancipated pair upon the
quest of new soulmates. Over the line
it requires an act of Parliament to
turn the trick.
Democrats are planning to make
their votes felt in the next Republican
primaries. They are busily prompting
Republican malcontents to "fight" the
assembly candidates and promising
them aid. Such malcontents as aspire
for seats In the Legislature they are
alluring with Statement One. This Is
dishonest and lying business, from
first to last. So-called Republicans
who lend themselves to it may think
their party impotent without them,
tout even if they should defeat their
party organization and quit its. mem
bership, that will Improve the bad
political mess hitherto prevailing. The
Republican party needs to be cleared
of half-baked and spineless members
and of a good many angel-faced dema
gogues. Otherwise it will stand for
nothing and accomplish nothing.
Whilom we were treated in an at
tractively written lesson in a school
reader to the wondrous beauty and
delicacy of. construction of the house
fly under the title: "How a Fly Walks
on the Ceiling." That was the day
before the microscope was perfected
and photography became a fine art.
Now we are shown in alarming detail
how a fly walks on our food, what he
leaves there and what he carries to the
next plate. When science, especially
sanitary science, draws the veil of
enchantment aside what lovely visions
give place to wretched, crawling, dis
gusting realities. Ugh!
Beware of the evangelist who
boasts that he has been "converted"
after having committed every sin in
the calendar, and is therefore compe
tent to denounce sin in others and
point men to the way of all virtue. Be
ware also of politicians who have been
ringleaders and bellwethers In all
legislative and official crookedness
and now proclaim their conversion to
the principles of good government as
based upon the rights of the people.
Such men , are not to be trusted either
as spiritual adviBers or political re
formers. ' -
Let Oregon be hospitable to Dr.
Boggild, .the Danish dairy expert, now
inspecting Its industries. We would
welcome 50,000 of his fellow country
men within the state's borders. The
financial betterment would prove
mutual.
While . President Taft will make
three speeches this week away up in
the Northeast corner of the United
States, he will cut out politics. His
determination to keep cool is com
mendable. Development of monorailroading ia
not likely to be so dangerous to life
as aeroplanes, and far more useful to
the world.
After all Is said, when mortgages
are assessed the borrower pays the
tax. Oregon proved this years ago.
Portland'is sustaining its reputation
as one of the finest Summer resorts
in, the United States.
For this week, Portland is the
Emerald City of the United States.
STATISTICS OUT OS" "WHO'S WHO."
Interesting; Summary of Facts About
America's Lenders.
New York World.
Of the 17,546 persons whose names
are in Who's Who in America for 1910
11, Just Issued, 15,518 give general edu
cational data concerning themselves. It
appears that 8529 of this latter number,
or 54.96 per cent, are college graduates,
while 476 are graduates of the United
States Military and Naval Academies.
Those who- attended college but were
not graduated were 2049. Only 209
were educated privately; 67 were self-taught-Lawyers
are 30S1 of the grand total
in the book: physicians, 1345; clergy
men, 2035; artists, 623; musicians, 283:
persons in technical pursuits. 1124. It
is a striking fact that, of the physi
cians 49.36 per cent, just under half,
are college graduates. In the ministry
the per cent is 81.23; in the law, 52.2S;
among the workers in technical profes
sions, 45.82; among musicians, 12.36;
among artists, 8.38.
Of the 17,546 persons listed, 15.361
are natives of the United States, 379 of
England, 333 of Germany, 331 of
Canada. 172 of Ireland, 121 of Scot
land. New York furnished 2970 of the
native born; Massachusetts, 1769: Penn
sylvania, 1516: Ohio, 1274; Illinois, 744;
Connecticut. 532: Maine, 526; Indiana,
517. Virginia, New Jersey, Vermont,
Michigan, Maryland, Wisconsin, New
Hampshire, Missouri and Kentucky are
the other states contributing more
than 300 natives each.
In present residents as listed New
York leads with 3931. which is 191
less than last year. Massachusetts has
1771 listed residents; Pennsylvania,
1296; Illinois, 1159; District of Co
lumbia, 1107.
The editors of the work call atten
tion to the westward movement, indi
cated by such facts as that Colorado,
with only five natives in the book, has
199 residents, while Montana, with one
native, has 46 residents. They might
well quote California, with 141 natives
and 583 residents. In some Eastern
and Southern States the conditions of
migration are reversed. Even Penn
sylvania shows 1516. natives, aganst
1269 residents, while for Ohio the fig
vires are 1275 and 648 the wrong way.
Illinois, with Chicago's aid, balances
for the residents by 744 to 1159. New
York State, holding New York City,
presents 8931 residents to 2970 natives.
JAPAN'S NAVY TEN YEARS HENCE
Tabulation Showhqr Weakness In First
Line Fighting Ships.
Tokio Correspondence London Times.
Between 1913 and 1916 Japan's fleet
is to be augmented by seven battle
ships and seven armored cruisers, of
which there remain to be constructed
three of the former and three of the
latter, the total expenditure on the
whole programme being $150,000,000,
which is provided for already.
Two questions present themselves.
The first Is: What diminution of
strength must be anticipated from
superannuation? the second: What
may be regarded as the minimum naval
force necessary to secure Japan's
safety? As to the first question, it is
considered axiomatic that the really
effective life of a battleshtp is limited
to fifteen years. Calculating on that
basis, and taking into account the
building programmes of the various
powers, the Japanese find, that the
great navies of the world present them
selves at the dates given in the follow
ing order, so far as first line fighting
ships are concerned:
. - 1909. 191. 1020.
England ,.gi 7s 74
France 2S 7 40
Germany .....3' 40 87
United States 37 38 26
Japan 23 14 8
In this tabulation Japan's weakness
in first line battleships' in 1920 (only
eight) is strikingly shown. The out
look is very disquieting, and it is nlain
Japan must lose -no time in making
provision to keep up the strength of
her navy. She should assure herself of
competence to encounter any force
which any power, England excluded,
will be capable of massing in Far East
ern waters ten years hence, and for
the purposes of that calculation she as
sumes that In view of the Baltio
squadron's feat in reaching Far East
ern waters a European power must be
regarded as able to send out the whole
of Its navy.
Even if It is reckoned that suDeran
nuated ships possesss 25 per cent of
the strength of first-class1 ships the
case Is not Improved for Japan. The
minimum addition to her navy in the
next ten years should be twenty-five
ships of the first fighting line, which
would involve an outlay of S225.000.000.
Japan would have the great advantage
of fighting near home and supplies,
but on the other hand the quality of
the ships built in her own yards is still
unproved.
Feminine Beauty in the Morning.
Jean Carrington in July Columbian.
The morning hours at a Summer re
sort are surely the most trying of the
day. It is so easy to be lovely In the
soft glow of candle light, but the girl
who can achieve the distinction of be
ing beautiful In the morning is a posi
tive genius before whom mere man
bows in abject homage. Therefore, my
sisters, if behooves you to think long
and deeply upon your morning toilette.
Simple it must be, but, oh. the elasticity
of that word, for how often is it ap
plied, and not Inappropriately, to the
all but priceless lingerie dresses one
wears to the casino to watch the
bathers when It is one's whim not to
join the throng. Nothing more be
witching in the line of a hat was ever
evolved than a sunbonnet. It implies
such youth and bloom asd simplic'ty
that -can you wonder that the maid
who ties the black velvet strings of a
frilly lace buttercup - trimmed bonnet
under her chin ties a young man's
heart within? It is the old. well-beloved
sunbonnet with modern improve
ments a sunbonnet de luxe, and It
would take a homely woman Indeed
whom it did not soften and beautify by
its contact.
- Irrigation In the Willamette.
Eugene Register.
No other valley in the country has a
greater supply of water underneath and
close to the surface. As valley farms be
come smaller and the production in
tensified accordingly, irrigation will be
come general. Another decade will find
a surprising number of farmers in this
valley operating their own irrigation
plants and raising double the crop they
are now getting and it will be the
dawn of the greatest era of prosperity
ever known to the Willamette Valley
farmers.
SohooU in 19SO.
Nw Tork Times.
At 9 o'clock each morning
He left his parents' cot
And hastening to the schoolhouse
A city breakfast sot.
Past speed the morning- session
And scholarly It proven
While skillful city surgeons
His adenoids removed.
A manicure and masseur.
All by the city paid,
A barber and a valet
Each plied on him his trade.
When thns the hours of study
Had gone their way unchecked.
" A flve-cou'rse city dinner
His path of knowledge decked.
The city dentist's mercies
"Wound up the afternoon.
And then a city tiffin
Came not a whit too soon.
The city left his parent
One duty to do well.
And so at night pa labored'
To teach him how to spell.
GARFIELD'S "LOOSE THINKING"
His Comlnsr-Ont Speech Abounds With
Inconsistency and Emptiness.
(Washington Post)
Former Secretary Garfield bares his
brow to the brand "insurgent" and
pridefully throws down the gauntlet In
the President's state. Rather surpris
ingly, albeit the insurgent Is nothing if
not a free lance. Mr. Garfield first of all
the party without whose aid and votes
pounces upon the Democratic party,
the insurgents, in Congress must have
come oil empty-handed. The Demo
cratic party Is all to the bad. It Is the
tool of special interests, its leadership
Is vitiated by the same agency, and he
sees no hope for better things. Democ
racy is worse than the Republican party,
which has among its leaders some who
are tarred with the same special inter
ests stick, "but. on the other hand, it
has progressive, aggressive leaders,
who are the people's representatives."
To these and their "progressive allies"
oon i call mem JJemocrats, please
country owes a debt of -gratitude."
This Is the first Intimation the Demo
crats in Congress, all of whom at one
time or another voted with the insur
gents for the reasons of party, not
principle, are to be classed with the in
surgents, or, rather, claimed as such.
As Democrats they are without hope,
as "progressive allies" they hold the
major interest in that debt of gratitude.
just now air. Garfield reconciles his
radically opposite estimates of Champ
Clark and his followers we are not per
mitted to see. But what he says is cap
able of the construction that he reads the
Democratic party out of existence and
resurrects it as an arjunct of the new
party whose keynote he sounds.
Mr. Crarfield s coming-out speech fairly
abounds with loose thinking, of which
the foregoing is a fair sample. Thus,
"the nation stands today in a critical
situation," confronted with the problem
whether the progressives win or "sur
render and admit that government for
ana Dy the people is & failure." This is
orthodox Pinchotism. and if true would
stand alone; but Mr. Garfield goes on to
say: 'fortunately, we have realized the
need of radical changes in time to save
ourselves." Now, having saved our
selves, why is the situation still critical?
Having saved the country from the peril
of "domination by special interests," why
organize a new party and set forth a
platform in advocacy of a false cry?
wny cry won after the wolf has been
caugnt with the bare hands and Aber
nathycated? U'REN REPITDIATES PRIMARIES
Now He Adda "Preference Voting" to
His Political Curios.
Eugene Register. '
Time seems to have demonstrated
even to U'Ren, that the primary law as
it stands is full of defects that aggra
vate instead of cure the very nolitical
evil sought to be remedied, and some
thing must be done to pull the state
out of the deeper rut into which it
seems to have . fallen. To do this Mr.
u Ken now proposes to do awav en
tirely with the direct primary law and
enact. In its stead, the preferential vot
ing system which, he says, will give us
true majority rule and which we do not
nave under the present law. He ei
plains, in support of his new measure
to be offered to the Legislature next
Winter Instead of by initiative netition.
that "The chief cause of dissatisfaction
now is the nomination, as well as the
election, of important officers by the
plurality, whicn I often less than one
half and sometimes less than one-fourth
of the electors voting."
U'Ren further shows that his nro
posed new law would . make primary
elections unnecessary, thereby saving
the people the expense of two elections;
it would also prevent voters of one
party meddling In the nominatinr; elec
tions of another party and would pre
serve party entity.
It may Just be possible that U'Ren
having led the people of Oregon Into
the wilderness, is willing and anxious
to lead them out again. It will.be a
gladsome day when we can look over
into the promised land and see party
peace and plenty ahead of us after the
weary years of trudging in the etesert
wastes of poor political picking.
WOMEN EAT TOO MUCH CANDY.
American Girls Consume More Sweets
Than Any Other.
New York American.
Temptation is conspicuous in the
windows of the bonbon shop, and it is
but too easy to succumb. Some of us
are munching almost all day long. Not
girls only, but their mothers as well.
Dentists could tell tales about them.
Doctors,, too, would have much to say.
"How many pounds of chocolate
creams do you eat in a week?' asked
one of these of a fair patient. "About
a pound a day," was the answer, and
then, as if in excuse, "but mother eats
nearly as many as I do." It is fatally
easy to set a bad example. Seven
pouds of sweets a week bring their
own penalties upon the consumer, and
especially if but little i exercise be
taken. The confirmed sweet eater Is
not fond of walking. She likes to sit
in a comfortable chair and read a
novel while she discusses the contents
of her carton.
It is a universal fashion now for
young men to give boxes of sweets to
girls they admire, to daughters of
kindly hosts and hostesses from whom
they have received hospitality, also to
the said girls after they have married.
A very pleasant custom, too, but let
each recipient see to it that her con
sumption of these nice things be far
below the supply.
Otherwise she will lose much of that
bright gayety that is one of the most
attractive attributes of girlhood, will
sink Into a sort of leaden dullness.
Often very often she does not know
what causes this. "I feel horrid," she
says, "but can't think why." Sweets
are very well in moderation. More,
they are very good, particularly for
young people, who have a natural crav
ing for sugar. But in moderation only.
The Oreg-onlan's Course Is Commended.
PORTLAND, July 18. (To the Ed
itor.) Aside from the political aspect,
the action of last Saturday's Republican
assembly recommending to the suffrage
of the people such leading men of
business as L. G. Clarke, J. R. Wether
bee, A. S. Farrell and others, should re
ceive the hearty response and approval
of the citizens by a decisive vote at
the polls. The very fact that men of
such undisputed business qualifica
tions have consented to take a hand in
the management of the state's affairs
is a healthy sign of higher political
purposes and ideals. The City of Port
land and Oregon are to be congratu
lated upon this further evidence of
progress which pervades every branch
of our activity. The Oregonian de
serves credit for Its share in the work.
FRED MULLER.
They Say
Boston Transcript.
That a. little pepper in a man makes
him worth his salt.
That the person who lives on hope is
seldom troubled with obesity.
That eye-openers won't make a man
see his own faults.
That there are many large tales con
nected with Small fish.
That a man who hunts for an easy
berth generally gets a wide one.
That many a man who can find fault
Is unable to locate work.
That it takes a man with sand to
leave footprints on the sands of time.
That very few people have weak eyes
from looking on the bright side of life.
Doesn't Cost a Cent.
New Tork Sun.
While millions of . dollars
For rivers outroll.
Fond memory deepens
The old swimmln' hole.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
Senator Aldrich. of Rhode Island.
rarely tells a story, but the nosition
of the insurgent Republican Senators
in nnaiiy voting tor some of the Ad
ministration bills, and their attitude
toward the regulars when so doing, re- I
minded him of a thin, hatchet-faced
woman he saw once in a streetcar
in Providence.
She stood in the rear doorwav of the
car and refused to move up. although
several times asked to do so by the
conductor.
'Move up." the conductor shouted.
pushing her ahead.
I sha n't do it," she said. "I sha'n't
move a peg."
"Move up, insisted the conductor;
"plenty of room la the middle of the
car."
I shan't do it." said the woman.
clinging to her strap."
Just then a man ran across the track
in front of the car and the motorman
put on his brakes hard. The car
stopped very suddenly. The woman
was pulled from her strap .and sent
skittering up to the front end, where
she banged against the door. From"
that position she glared back at the
conductor and shouted:
"Well, I'm here; but you didn't make
me come!" Saturday Evening Post.
"James A. Patten has a fine house In
Chicago." said a New York broker. "I
dined with him there one night last
month.
"After dinner I admired a superb
statue in the drawing-room.
" "Splendid statue. that.' I said.
What's it made out of bronze or cop
per?" -
"' 'I made it out of cotton." said Mr.
Patten." New York Tribune.
"I see you claim one hour's overtime.
Bill," said the master of the mill. "How's
that? I thought no one worked overtime
last week."
Bill passed a horny hand across his
mouth. .
Quite right, guv'nor," he replied. "One
hour's me due."
The master regarded him suspiciously
"Come, when was it?" he inquired.
"Last Thursday," responded Bill. "I
was sent up to your own 'ouse to 'elp
shake the carpets."
"Yes; 1 remember that distinctly.'!, cut
in the "boss." "But you got off at 6
sharp."
"Ah, that's true, guv'nor, as far as it
goes," assented the man. But your
missus give me arf a meaUpie to take
'ome, an", that there hour is for bringtn
the dish back!" Answers.
Judge Alvin Duvall (while Judge of the
Kentucky Court of Appeals), in company
with Squire Johnson, a very large man
the Judge being much smaller once called
a political meeting in Lexington, which
for lack of adequate advertisement was
attended by themselves only. The dis
tinguished Judge, possessing a fund of
quiet humor, finally began to wrtte a
notice, reading aloud as he wrote: "At
a large and respectable meeting held In
this city yesterday " i
""Stop there a minute, Judge!" exclaimed
the suuire in surorise. "von wonWn't t.hh
Ilsh a notice that this was sa' large and
respectable meeting."
"Why not?" quickly rejoined the Judge.
"Are not you large and am I not re
spectable?" Nashville Banner.
m m m
This story is told of a New York
teacher who recently escorted a party of
children to the Zoo:, She came to a stop
in front of the savage little peccaries,
the South American wild hogs that often
chase the unwary traveler up a tree
or else make him over into a nutritious
lunch. She couldn't nnd the sign on the
cage. "These, children," said she im
pressively, "are mustangs."
A bystander overheard her, and "sought
to put her right, for the children's sake.
Jr'araon me, said he, ""but you have
the name a little wrong. These -are wild
hogs." . , -
Evidently some faint recollection - of
those arboreal adventures referred to in
which travelers are sometimes engaged
when they fuss with the peccaries floated
throuarh her mind. She eav the rtelnfiil
Btranger a bright look of thanks. "I am
so-o grateful," said she. "I knew it was
something that climbs a tree." Cincinnati
Times-Star.
The. Superior Sex.
Chicago Post .
There is a lot of vainglorious expres
sion on the part of the men about their
being the superior sex. .We hear too
much of man's endurance, of his intel
lect, of his executive ability and.all that
sort of thing.
Take a man and make him wear a
spotted veil and he will be nearly blind
within a year. -'
Pinch a man into corsets and within a
week he will have heart trouble, chronic
pleurisy, acute indigestion, appendicitis
and a funeral.
Pile a few pounds of false hair o:i a
man's head and he will succumb - to
brain fever within a month.
Tie a man's ankles in a hopple skirt
and he will have rheumatism, followed
by paralysis of the legs from lack -of
exercise. - .'
Clamp a man's feet in tight shoes and
make him toddle about on high heels
and he will die of the charleyhorse.
Man loses on the score of endurance
alone. Intellect and executive ability
are argued by the capacity to combat
these tortures and trials. Man is un
doubtedly the Inferior-sex .and should
retire to the last row -of seats and be
quiet.
Policy of Obstruction.
New York Journal of Commerce.
If we are- to compete with European
countries in supplying the markets or
South America, or Asia, or any country
that does not manufacture for itself,
with manufactured goods, it Is certain
that we must produce and sell them as
cheaply as our competitors do. We can
not do this with high prices and high
cost of living for our own producers,
and unless we do it in some way it Is
useless to talk about promoting trade
by subsidizing ships or- establishing
banks or expediting malls. It is the
cost of the goods that will determine
the trade. If we are to reduce that
cost without lowering our- "standard
of living," which is a different thing
from cost of living as determined by
prices, we must remove taxes from. ma
terials and obstacles from- the. inter
change of products with other nations.
We must abandon the policy bf obstruc
tion. Why
New York Sun.
The Sphinx propounded a riddle.
"Since each tariff is an improvement
on perfection, why does any one object
to more revision?" she asked.
Vainly she awaited an answer.
The Carpenter.
J. I M-, In London Chronicle.
When Jesus paused amid his work, and
leaning
Upon his plane to take a moment s breath.
Did he. like me, thus ponder o'er the mean
ing Of birth, and life, and death?
Or. when his work was done and in th
gloaming - .
He put his tools back In the wooden
ch est ;
I wonder if, like mine, when he was homing
Deep sadness filled his breast?
If In the red defeat of day' retreating.
He saw a symbol of his calvary
Or If. like me, he saw how life was fleet
ing. And wept that it must be?
If when i I. U hi. i. :
With duteous toll, upon his humhle bed:
He closed his eyes, nor thought upen tnt
waking.
And lost, like me, his dread?