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8 THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, JTjXY 20, 1910. POKTLAXD. UEEGOX. Entered at Portland, Oregon. Postoffles mm .Beeocd-Class Matter. BobacrlpUoa Bates Invariably I" Advance. (BY MAID. pally, Sunday Included, one year 8.(H Pally. Sunday Included, alx months.... 4.2S Pally, Sunday Included, three months.. 2.23 gaily. Sunday Included, one month 75 Dally, without Sunday, one- year 6.00 iJally. without Sunday, alx monthf. ... S.25 ?' V. without Sunday, three months... 1.7.1 gaily, without Sunday, one month 80 Weekly, one year J. 50 Sunday, one year 2.50 Sunday and weekly, one year 8.50 (By Carrier). ; gl!y. Sunday Included, one year ft.W Oally. Sunday Included, one month 75 . How to Remit Send Postofflce money or , r- express order or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at y sender's risk. Qlve Postoffloe address In xull. Including county and state. . R"tee 10 to 14 pages. 1 cent: 1 to xa pa sea. 2 cents; 30 to AO pares. cents: o to 60 paces, 4 cents. Foreign postage double rate. w,1V'"rn Business Office The 8. C Becfc T'ltL Special Armey .New Tork. rooms 4S S?o'", ""Hdlng. Chicago, rooms BIO 012 Tribune building tORTLAXD, WEDNESDAY, JCI.Y tO, 1910. FUEE WOOL FOK THE WOOLEN TBCSI. In. manufacturing New England, de mand goes up for lower tariff on wool tor the benefit of factories there. But wool Is already down in price. In Oregon the flockmasters get between 6 and 7 cents a pound less than two years ago. Tariff, then, has failed to keep up the price of raw wool. How ever, It seems to keep up the price of the finished product, for wearers of suits and underwear in Oregon per ceive no reduction at the clothing store, although woolen goods are uni versally cheaper made than formerly. "Free wool," says the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, "would enable the manufacturers to offer better goods at lower prices, which would mean a larger and more stable market than can ever be hoped for on the present basis of high-taxed raw material." But if 25 per cent reduction in the price of raw product does not help manu facturers to offer better goods at lower prices, where is the valid argument for free wool or low tariff on wool? Tar iff on wool and woolens is exactly the same in the new law as in the old; price of wool is lower; price of wool ens is higher or quality is cheaper; manufacturers are making huge prof its, and woolgrowers and consumers are getting the worst of the business. States of the West and the South that produce raw products will never consent to removal of tariff on their goods, while districts of New England wax fat and rich from tariff on man ufactures. What is needed, obviously, In tariff revision, is lower duty on the factory output of the big Eastern com binations that manipulate prices both of raw goods and finished products. Manufacturers of woolens desire free wool, for the same reason that manufacturers of shoes desired and got free hides bo that they can de press prices of raw articles and put the spoils in their pockets. Woolen men have put down prices of wool 25 per cent in two years, and boosted prices at the clothing store. With free woo! they would put down prices of wool still more and doubtless follow the example of the shoemakers. It would be more to the point for the esteemed Springfield Republican, to urge low-tariff or free trade on manufactures. That authority could be consistent by adhering strictly to the doctrine of tariff for revenue only. The effect on sheepmen of free trade would be injurious in soVne respects, but they would find ways to make up for it in others. LAWYER AND Til KIR SLATE. Democrats abhor representative par ty assembly for nomination of can didates for office, yet flock to lawyers' assembly of self-invited members to pick candidates for the people's Judge ships. Together with so-called Repub lican enemies of party assembly, they frame a non-partisan ticket and pro claim a non-partisan party. . Such non-partisanship works for the interest of its designing promoters. In stead of for that of the people to whom belongs the Justice and the Judicial service that is meted out from court houses. It is a scheme of selfish law yers to curry favor with Judges to put members of the bench under obli gation to certain busy lawyers, so that when the latter speak in court, the judges will know the voice. If there has been any slate-making, the "lawyers' machine" has done the most finished Job. It has named ex actly the "ticket" that was planned during many weeks for Multnomah's Circuit Judges and for Oregon's Su preme Court. The "frame-up" has been carried through without a hitch up to the present time. The slate contains four Republicans and three Democrats, said to be non-partisans, yet selected with especial reference to their well-known party affiliation. Presently, Democrats may carry the Governorship again and they hope to name the third majority member of the State Supreme Court. They have two members already and want them re-elected through this non-partisan trick. Along with them go so-called Republicans who have been acting "non-partisan" throughout the Cham berlain regime in this state. Here is a small clique composed of lawyers planning to put this game through for its own particular benefit. It is sheer impudence that men who make their living out of' litigation at the people's expense should thus con trive to direct or control the workings of Justice. Their very act gives the lie to their "non-partisan" professions. They are partisans of the extremist type and appearing the worst because striving for their own particular ag grandizement under pretense of "help ing" the people. The lawyers' machine is In full op eration. Its bosses have made the slate. It is for the people to determine whether they want Judges directed by purposes of lawyers or by interests of people. The lawyers contriving this business have refused to act with party assembly representing all groups of citizens and localities of the state. They have preferred their own clique an their own selfish ends. There can be no "special interest" more glaring or impudent than this of the self seeking lawyers. Patrick Henry once said that he had no way of Judging the future except by the past. If the late Mr. Henry were living in the present day and age and attempted to apply that system of his to the Chicago wheat market, he would be "left at the post." Monday there was an advance of three cents per bushel; yesterday there was a de cline of similar proportions. These successive advances and declines for the past two months have kept the world's markets la a turmoil so much of the time that the actual conditions which govern wheat prices have been to a considerable extent lost sight of. Having exhausted the possibilities of the weather in this country, the nimble thimble-riggers who- Inaugurate crop scares are now turning their attention to Europe. A considerable portion of the French and Russian crop was killed off Monday, only to be restored yesterday. Unless the system is changed, there should be some more crop-killing and higher prices today. THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FICTION. Hitherto it has been proclaimed that Chamberlain was elected Senator be cause he was the free and overwhelm ing choice of the people. The right of government by the people was splendidly vindicated by his election. So the Democratic and Statement One organs have constantly told us. Now the fiction sails on a new tack. In hysterical tones the country is as sured that the election of Chamberlain was due to the use of "the knife" on Cake by rule-or-ruin Republicans. So Chamberlain didn't owe his elec tion to the popular will, after all? He wasn't wanted for Senator by the ma jority of the people of Oregon, but there were Republican differences that caused his election. The differences were mainly over Statement One. It will be necessary to eliminate this abominable thing if the Republicans of Oregon are ever to elect another Sen ator. But The Oregonian did not, as has been asserted, support Chamberlain nor oppose Cake. Its people desired Cake's election and voted for him, but it was apparent that he could not pos isbly win. Fight of Republican factions made the conditions tremendously against him. The editor, meeting Mr. Cake before the election, said to him plainly that he had small chance or none at all to win, and begged him not to be disappointed with a result which could not be controlled. Party differences among Republi cans had been so accentuated by the Bourne-U'Ren methods, including Statement One, and by open participa tion of multitudes of Democrats in the Republican primaries, invited by the Bourne-U'Ren system, that there was not the smallest chance for party agreement. Nor can there ever be while this source of discord actively lasts. Assembly is an effort towards har mony and unity of action. The em phatic response to it of Republicans in all parts of the state shows that" as a tentative effort it meets the approval of the Judgment and conscience of the Republican masses. THE FA(TS THAT HURT. The Multnomah County Republican assembly was the largest and- most representative body of Republicans ever gathered together in Portland. Of this fact there is no question whatever in the mind of any person who at tended former conventions and who saw the assembly last Saturday. So the Republican state assembly Thursday will be the largest, most rep resentative and most Important gath ering of Republicans ever held in the state. No old-time convention ever at tracted the numbers or possessed the widespread interest of the forthcoming assembly. These things all are, or soon will be, matters of general knowledge. It can be understood why opponents of the assembly, who are now chiefly Demo crats or are acting under Democratic inspiration, should be alarmed over the obvious overwhelming success of the assembly movement. It might not be so easy to understand why their newspaper should be engaged in the frantic dissemination of falsehoods about "corporation control," "slate" and so on, all of which are universally known to be both baseless and silly, ,1 It were not clear that there is noth ing else left for the paper to do. THE EW POSTAL BANKS. The National City Bank of New York comments favorably on the new project of postal savings banks In its July circular. This is the "largest bank ing institution in the country and en Joys a certain prestige from being the institution particularly favored by the Rockefeller Interests. Hence its opin ions upon postal banks or any other financial subject naturally receive wide attention. Speaking of the sums which the pe-stal banks may be expected to draw out of hoarding and turn into circula tion, the National City's circular re marks that "there Is every reason to believe that the aggregate of such sums reaches well into the millions." Some writers interpret this to mean that the money which will pass from hiding into the postal banks cannot amount to more than $100,000,000. One paper declares that the estimate which Mr. Meyer, the ex-Postmaster-General, made was "ridiculous ly high." This estimate was $500,000, 000. Of course there is no way of tell ing how much cash the postal banks will attract from the various lurking places where timid owners have laid it away, but Mr. Meyer was a compe tent student of " the matter and his opinion is quite as likely to be correct as anybody's. It stands to reason that the amount of deposits iwhich the postal banks can attract will depend more or less upon the places where they are situ ated and the rules by which they are governed. If they are mainly estab lished in places which are already fully supplied with banking facilities, no very large sums will be received by them. If they are opened, like those of Canada, in numerous little country postoffices which are remote from es tablished banks, money will flow Into them like the rain from heaven In overwhelming floods unless the rules are made so complicated and repellant to the public that depositors are vir tually driven away. The Canadian rules are notably simple and not excessively numerous. The only one which'is not likely to be popular Is a requirement that any depositor who wishes to make a withdrawal must send his passbook to the Postmaster-General, who will return him a check. This necessitates delay and smacks of ceremonious of ficialdom, but on the other hand it favors the habit of reflecting before money is spent. In this country, for good or 111, we are so firmly attached to checks and balances of all sorts that it is to be feared the rules of the postal banks will not be made so simple as they might. If that happens, their success will be postponed, which would be a misfortune to the country. Wrere pos tal banks to start out with brilliant success and prove a popular measure from the beginning. Congress might then be encouraged to lay aside its timid misgivings concerning postal re form and proceed to establish the par cels post. This country is far behind the rest of the world in the postal fa cilities which the Government supplies to the public, and it is time that our ancient methods were revised and our crying deficiencies remedied. CAMS EST CAN EM. The Oregonian has received a typi cal letter from an idolator of dogs which is printed today to show how far the strange aberrations of these people can go. 'The writer, who sage ly conceals his name, speaks of men and dogs as if they were precisely on a level. ' Dogs are admittedly useless, but so are some men. Ergo, if we kill the good-for-nothing curs we must also kill the human ne'er-do-wells. The logic of our correspondent is a lamentable exhibition of the effect (which dog worship may have on a mind once no doubt fairly intelligent. The fact that howling dogs injure the sick does not disturb his serenity at all. He has discovered that birds do the same. Hence we must not get rid of the dog nuisance unless we kill all the birds too. His argument amounts to saying that the world must submit patiently to all its nuisances till the time comes when they can all be abated In a bunch. It would never do to take them up one by one and rem edy them. But our dog devotee rises to his 8Ublimest height in his reflections upon evolution. "If the dog descend ed from the wolf man descended from the monkey," he says In effect, "hence man has no right to rid himself of pestiferous ours." We have not the slightest doubt that he believes this sort of reasoning has some weight, but to one whose Intelligence has not been impaired by too intimate association with dogs it will not appear very for cible. Cruelty apart, man has the right to do with the lower animals whatever suits his interest. If they Interfere with his pleasure, and especially with his health, he is a simpleton if he does not exterminate them. This is a man's world, not a dog's. As for the stories our correspondent tells about the dog's affection and in telligence, as the French say, "chan-1 sons, or in plain English, nonsense. We have heard them before and know Just how much there is in them. The dog in the city is an unadulterated misery to himself and everybody else, and the sooner he is mercifully sent to another world the better for all concerned. IMMENSITY OF THE RAILROADS. The tremendous Importance of the railroads in the economic system of the country Is shown in the Inter state Commerce Commission statistics printed in The Oregonian yesterday. On the 234, 868 miles of road in the country are 1,502,823 employes. The par value of the railway property is $17,487,868,935, and duijing the last fiscal year there were carried 891,472, 425 passengers and 1,556,559,7 ii tons of freight. The gross earnings of all the roads for the year ending June 30, 1809, were approximately $2,400, 000,000. Of this immense sum 41 per cent was paid out for labor. Fuel, oil, materials and supplies took up 17.3 per cent, while 4.25 per cent was used for betterments and Improvements. Dividends absorbed 7.23 per cent, or less than one-fifth the amount that was paid for labor. In connection with the expenditures of the roads, it is stated that they consume approximately 50 per cent of all steel manufactured in the United States and a very large percentage of the lumber. As many of the 1,500,000 employes of the railroads have fam ilies, the number of people actually dependent on. the roads for a liveli hood must reach nearly 5,000,000, per haps more. Indirectly there aje thou sands and hundreds of thousands of people In the steel mills, mines, lumber mills and in other industries which provide employment that would not be obtainable' were it not for the mag nitude of the railroad' business. It is the immensity of these figures and the great influence the railroads have on the development of the country that has caused a slight reversal of opinion regarding the railroad companies. At no time in the past twenty years has there foeen more of a disposition to extend to them fair treatment than at present. If a thorough, investigation shall dis close the fact that advances in rates are actually needed, . to enable the roads to make the necessary improve ments and maintain a high standard of efficiency, the objection to such an ad vance will speedily vanish. BETTER PROTECTION NEEDED. The latest of the big forest fires reported in the Pacific Northwest has broken out in the Mount Rainier For est Reserve and the government rang ers have been obliged to call on the state fire wardens to assist in extin guishing it. In dry weather the care lessness of campers or settlers who are burning slashings is liable to cause frequent forest fires, but most of these take place where there is no organized Are patrol. Since the government tim ber land passed so largely Into the hands of private persons much greater care is exercised to prevent the heavy losses that In the past have swept out of existence timber valued at millions. But the conservation system which is responsible for such large areas of for est reserves, and which has provided soft snaps for hundreds of forest rang ers, does not seem to afford very good protection for the timber. Tears ago, when stumpage was plen tiful at from 25 cents to 50 cents per thousand and was unsalable even at these figures unless it was handy to a stream, less attention was paid to pro tection against fires. Timber is now too valuable for the private owners, either large or small, to permit its ruthless destruction by fire; but in the forest reserves, of course, the timber is held only for ornamental purposes and the "rangers" are paid good salaries whether the timTber burns or remains standing. . The destruction of a few billions of feet of - forest reserve tim ber, as now seems probable, may call attention to the impossibility of true conservation under existing methods of PInchotism. The Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, In which a big fire Is raging, is thou sands of miles away from Washing ton, where the policies governing its management are formulated, and the rangers themselves, being well pro tected in their positions, have no in centive for displaying great energy in discovering fires or fighting them after they are discovered. The Mount Rainier Forest - Reserve fire Is being fought by Washington state wardens, and in a number of other localities owners of timber have large numbers of men In the woods patrolling the tracts most susceptible to fire. The situation suggests the thought that if a mistaken policy of conserva- tion demands that we keep such large areas of forest wealth In reserves and exposed to danger by fire, the author ity over these tracts should be vested in the respective states in which the reserves are located. The state gov ernment could certainly maintain bet ter supervision over the rangers than the government; and, as the state will eventually be the loser by the destruc tion of the timber, it should have the right to protect it until such time as we can demonstrate to the Eastern theorists and faddists that It is wrong to leave such valuable raw material exposed to forest fires and the ravages of time. The Republican state assembly should renominate Frank W. Benson for Secretary of State and Willis S. Duniway for State Printer. The Ore gonian is not inclined to urge the personal merits of one candidate against another; yet the reasons why these two should be renominated are so obvious and compelling that it feels justified in urging that it be done. One great purpose of the assembly is to select suitable candidates for office and recommend them to the Republican primary. Renomination of Mr. Ben son and Mr. Duniway will be every where accepted as evidence that the assembly Is guided ly a desire to make the best possible choice irrespective of any other consideration except that the nominee be a Republican, and the ticket will hus be much strength ened. This is not an occasion when the mere aspirations of candidates are to be furthered, of differences between them settled. The good of the party as a whole and of the state should be the first consideration. Whenever an effort was made In the past to cut down the pilotage fees at the entrance of the Columbia to a fig ure approximately those In effect at rival ports, there was always a vigor ous protest from the men engaged in the pilotage service. Now, with the rates cut in half by the Port of Port land, an Astoria dispatch says that the Independent pilots will not only meet the new rate, but that they will continue to go to San Francisco and other ports hundreds of miles away to meet incoming ships. So far as the pilotage servicers concerned, the Port of Portland has certainly accomplished what it set out to do. It has reduced the rates one-half and has Improved the service to a degree never before attained. Compared with the interest at stake in the matter, the cost of the service Is so small that if necessary it would pay the Port of Portland to make the pilotage free. Even this might excite hostility in Astoria. Christian Science seems to be fol lowing the path taken by all other religions since the world began. When ever a new creed attains sufficient prominence to attract attention and converts, internal dissensions and dif ferences of opinion enter and the in evitable split takes place. A Boston dis patch. In The Oregonian the other day, announces that sixteen of the practi tioners who had followed Mrs. Stetson In her revolt from the domination of Mrs. Eddy had been dropped from the church by the board of directors of the mother church at Boston. Sixteen "insurgents" do not make a very large party for the founding of a new church, but If they all possess the abil ity of Mrs. Stetson, they may establish a growing opposition to the mother church that in " time will materially reduce the emoluments which have made-Mrs. Eddy famous. Muckraking as a profession does not seem to pay as well as it did a few years ago, when a number of yellow magazines and lurid weeklies paid large sums to ' writers who could crowd the greatest amount of misrep resentation Into the . smallest possible space. The decline of the muckraker is noted in an item in the news col umns yesterday stating that Broughten Brandenburg had been sentenced to six months on Blackwell's island for failing to pay his abandoned wife $5 per week. Brandenburg- was also held on a charge of passing a worth less check for $50. These traits in the Brandenburg character, which are now officially made public, account in a large degree for the fluency with which the writer dallied with the truth while engaged In "exposing" some of the malefactors of great wealth, etc. Many of the Eastern magazines are now printing stories written by the late "O. Henry," and some of them are very poor stories when compared with the matchless productions which made "O. Henry" famous. While success came quickly to that droll writer, his experience probably differed little from that of many others who had their early efforts returned iwith thanks, only to find in later life that the same critics who rejected the early produc tions readily accepted them after the public welcomed anything to whicTi the famous name was appended. "O. Henry" was an artist In depicting hu man nature, and the present wide spread interest In anything that was written by him, good, bad or Indif ferent, would, if he "were alive, offer an admirable subject for his keen satire. Eastern apple buyers are already in the White Salmon district for the 1910 crop of fruit that has made the Pa cific Northwest famous. So long as there is a demand for the apples so soon after the bloom departs there Is not much liability of the Industry be ing overdone. Oregon, Washington and Idaho apples have set a new standard in the world's fruit markets and it will be many years before the supply will get close enough to the demand to reduce prices materially. To the man In the East it must seem that the entire Pacific Northwest Is ablaze, yet these forest fires are an annual occurrence because this is a timbered region. You can always depend upon your uncle Milt Miller to be the committee of reception for Democratic statesmen visiting Oregon. To get an Idea how Ireland would look as a nation, just glance at the brainy strangers on Portland streets these days. Make an example of that negro por ter, Reynolds, that all others may be taught to keep away from little white girls. A local youth named Kidder is suing a girl to recover a ring. There may or may not be nothing in a name. Gentlemen of the Republican party of Oregon, make yourselves at home. This is the proper time-to stampede people Into buying Winter fuel. 6HEOJf IX THE RILE OP CHAOS 1 Voting on 32 Initiative Mr as area Esti mated as Muddle-Headed' Plan. New York Times. Oregon Is the paradise of the believ ers in "the rule of the people" through the fashionable devices of the "initi ative" and the "referendum." On the 7th of this month the time closed for filing initiative, petitions, that is, peti tions for submitting to popular vote measures which the signers desire to have enacted into law. It was found that there were in all 32 of these pe titions, on which the people of the state will be called upon to vote at the approaching election. The law re quires that each petition shall have at least 8000 signatures, so that the total number of signatures must be 256,000. or more. Of course many of the sign ers must have affixed their names to more than one petition, for there are less than 150,000 males of voting age in the state. Making due allowance for repetitions, it Is still probable that a half or two-thirds of the voters have been engaged in this curious phase of political activity. From this it might be Inferred that a multitude of exceedingly important matters had arisen in Oregon during the year, calling for immediate atten tion from so large a proportion of the electorate. But when the list Is exam ined we find that It contains such petty propositions as the change of county borders, the increase of a single Judge's salary, support of existing nor mal school, and the regulation of fish ing in Rogue River. The only meas ures of intrinsic Importance are amend ments to the Constitution prohibiting the sale of liquor and giving the suf frage to women who pay taxes. Now It would seem plain to observers of common sense that the action of the voters on these two considerable, ques tions would be much more likely to be sober, intelligent, and deliberate if these and these only were submitted to their judgment. But when questions of some moment are thrown down before the voter in a pile with two or three dozen others, and he is called on to give his vote for or against every one of them, unless he prefer to turn aside from all, what outcome can be ex pected? Such a muddle-headed arrangement is not a means to promote, but to pre vent the effective expression of popu lar Judgment and sentiment. It im poses In the way of political action, a brutal physical obstacle which It Is simply impossible to overcome. It prac tically destroys the value of the vote because It makes any attempt to use the vote wisely nearly futile. Nine tenths of all the evils and difficulties that have arisen in our democracy have been due to the gradual overloading of the individual voter, as our affairs have become more complex. These evils are aggravated a hundred-fold by the queer Oregonian experiment. "Don'ts" tor Horse Drivers, Youth's Companion. Don't trot a horse up hill. It -weakens the hip joints and strains the pasterns (ankles). Don't trot a horse down hill. It In evitably wrenches the shoulders and 'springs" the knees in time. Don't strike a horse without first speaking to him. An unexpected blow is a cruelty, while if he obeys your voice, no blow is needed. Don't strike a balking horse. He will never go forward for whipping, and to strike him may cause him to back, and thus get you into serious danger. Don't strike a horse after he has shied. If you think that he is going to shy, take your whip and tap him gently. He is accustomed to obey the whip, and it will usually distract his mind from the object of .his suspicion. ' Don't say "whoa" to a horse unless you wish him to stop; then say it de cidedly. Many drivers use this word merely to slacken speed, but it is our word of final command to a horse, and fife itself may sometimes depend upon his prompt response to it, so we should be careful how we use It. Old Congress Hall. Philadelphia Ledger. Philadelphia has a double reason for gratification at the turn which events have taken in connection with the con templated restoration of Congress Hall. The long neglect of this fine old colonial building, around which cluster so many memories of the days when this Nation was in making, has been a source of regret and mortification. This source is soon to be removed, action to that end already having been taken by the City Councils, and the Mayor is to be congratulated upon placing the supervision of the work in hands so competent- The restoration Is to be carried out in accordance with carefully drawn plans based upon a painstaking study of the history of the building and the uses to which It was put. When the restoration shall have been completed it is to be hoped that its care and maintenance will be intrusted to those who will appreciate the value to the city of the few remaining relics of the days that are past. Complaint Against Sawmills. PORTLAND, July 19. (To -the Edi tor.) Could you kindly Inform me, as well as several hundred others living in South Portland, what can "be done to get rid of a public nuisance, and a menace to health? There is a law com pelling sawmill owners to erect screens over their sawdust burners, but none have screens.. The half burned smell ing stuff files over our part of town, settles in gutters and down spouts, and dirties porches. When it rains these gutters and spouts are choked up and the water flows through the ceiling and walls. The stuff lies over four inches deep on some flat tin roofs, and the only remedy Is to have all gutters and spouts taken down and cleaned, every few weeks. .Why is the law not en forced? Also who has the authority to enforce it? K. S. Take this matter up with Mayor Si mon. He has authority to enforce the law, and what is more the willingness to do so. Nullifying the Laws of Supply. New York Mail. Consumers might Just as well prepare for higher prices on butter and eggs. The advance is bound to come, not be cause of any decrease in the output, but because somewhere between the point of production and the point of consumption there is an influence or a combination of influences strong enough to nullify the law of supply and demand. It is one of the most mysterious factors In the whole prob lem of subsistence. Team Work Needed. Chicago Post. There is still need of the spirit of mutual fair play and forbearance which has so far averted a deadlock between those who use the railroads and those who run them. Nor can we believe that this spirit will be lost at this stage of proceedings by either side. This Head Lies Easy. Chicago Post. George V will not be crowned until June 22, 1911. His head has 11 months to lie easy. "JUXK MEXT FOOLING THE PEOPLE Scheming "Prophets" Urge Them to " Discard Government of Forefathers. Tacoma Ledger. Governor Hay merits commendation for coming out courageously against the "crop of political junkmen" and "self-professed prophets" that point out real and imaginary defects in gov ernment and offer "strange remedies founded on false promises and devoid of the essential elements of common sense and practical utility." The Gov ernor thus describes the efforts under way to do away with the representa tive system of government by substi tuting various schemes usually de scribed as "people's rule." His not able defense of representative govern ment was made in an address Wednes day at the Pierce County pioneers' pic nic It was an appropriate occasion. Pioneers have respect for the past and a natural desire that the work they did in laying the foundations of this com monwealth shall be recognized in times to come. Radicals that are trying to do away with the representative system or greatly weaken it by introducing what they call the "people's rule" and "peo ple's power" measures are lacking In respect for the judgment of men who drew the United States Constitution and state constitutions. The radicals assume that they have something much better than was conceived by the founders of the Government. The Con stitution of the United States, which provides for a representative system, was characterized by Gladstone as "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of men." It has only been a little more than 100 years since the Consti tution was adopted. In that time the country has prospered and grown strong and great The desires of the people have been fulfilled through the representative system. There have been delays, but in the end the wishes of the people have been carried out. With the exposure in recent years of official corruption, there has arisen a school of politicians whose theory is that corruption can be abolished by doing away with or. placing numer ous restrictions on the representa tive system. They say the people should rule, .and who can gainsay It? But how shall the people rule and how can they best effectuate their wishes in regard to the government? In Ore gon we see the faddists getting half baked measures before the voters by means of the initiative, and indiffer ence of the electorate generally per mits the faddists, constituting a small percentage of the electorate, to enact their schemes Into law. Scores of propositions are submitted, each sup ported by a small percentage of the electorate. Indifference lets them slip through and they go through without amendment, for there Is no opportunity to strengthen the measures in commit tee or in debate on the floor of an as sembly. "People's rule," then, means that measures become laws without ma ture consideration. It means adoption of measures conceived and considered by a very small class or group. Does somebody say that the people have an opportunity to vote the Initi ative fads down If they choose, and that it is. the people's fault If they do not vote them down? The question admits .the defects of the system. Governor Hay expresses his convic tion that whatever evils may have crept Into the conduct of this Government may be remedied without changing the form of government and wrecking the fabric handed down to us by our fore fathers. The Governor has done well to direct attention to the danger of an appeal enticingly labeled "people's pow er," and designed to- change our form of government. FOINDEXTER ECHOING PIXCHOT. ' Tells Obvious Untruths About Locking Up Resources From Western People. Yakima Republic. "If the people of the West want to use the forest reserves," said Poindex ter the other night at Spokane, "all they have to do is to go out and use them under the law. If they want to graze on the reserves all they have to do is to turn their sheep or cattle loose on-them." People who have watched the sheep industry of these valleys slowly stran gled by the satrap who has charge of the grazing on the Rainier Reserve wUl know just how much these remarks are worth. The people of the West cannot use the forest reserves under the law, for there Is no law governing them only an arbitrary set of regulations pre scribed by an Eastern crank who prob ably never set foot on the reserve, and administered by a band of civil service employes It is absolutely untrue that the forest reserve are for the use of the people to any practicablo extent for any useful purpose. That Is not, however, the complaint of the West against the forest reserves. The principal objection to the system Is that vast tracts of land are locked up in these reserves which ought not to be there. Millions of acres which ought to be open for settlement, which ought to -furnish homes to people who need them, and whose development ought to be contributing to the pros perity and upbuilding of the West, have been arbitrarily, and without warrant of law or for any good reason, taken from the public domain and put beyond the reach of settlers and homebuilders apparently for all time. The use of the reserves matters but little, except to the stockmen. Robbing the Western people of their right to take advantage of God-given oppor tunities is what matters. Degrees for Brides. London Punch. A curriculum of household manage ment for married women was advocated by Mrs. St- Loe Strachey in a discus sion upon a "University Standard in Home Science" at the Women's Con gress at the White City. We are left In the dark as to the syllabus, and as to whether the fair aspirant for matri monial honors will try it on the dog or a dummy husband. Should degrees be conferred on successful candidates, we hasten to enter a caveat against some familiar Initials obtaining the follow ing acceptation. B. A. Blatantly Argumentative. M. A. Moderately Affectionate. B. C. Barely Connubial. Sc. D Scarifier of Domestics. Litt. D. Litter Distributer. LL. B. Loves Lots of Bridge. Mus. D. Musically Defective. Democratic'AVhlnes and Hon In. Tillamook Headlight. The Democratic anti-assembly howl doesn't amount to much after all. for the Republican party is going to run Its own affairs in future, the same as any other organization. But we suppose a few Democratic newspapers like the Portland Journal and some of our country newspapers -will continue to whine because Republicans are get ting together to defeat the Democratic howlers at the next state election. Love a la Baseball. Judge. Sacrifice hit Cutting out the dessert to save money for theater tickets. Shut-out When her father orders you to stay away from the house. Called on account of darkness When her mother turns on the porch light Out at home When her father says no after she has said yes. The Annual Worry. , Wall 8treet Journal. It is safe to assume that the average Individual s worrying more at present over financing the Summer vacation than over the general financial situation. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE The Scotchman could not find his' ticket. On the conductor's second round it was still missing. "What's that in your mouth?" he asked. Sure enough, there was the missing ticket. The conductor punched it and went his way. "Ah, weel," said Sandy, in reply to his fellow passengers' banter, "I'm nae absent-minded as ye wad think. Yon was a very auld ticket, and 1 was jist sucken aft the date." Success Maga zine. Jim McDermlt. the lawyer, has a great fund of "darky" dialect stories. The one he most delights to tell fol lows: "A traveling salesman In a Southern town came to a small pond. An old negro was lolling contentedly in the sun with fishing rod in hand. The salesman paused and watched the fishing. After watching for half an hour without seeing the least sign of a bite he asked how the fish were bit ing. The fisher looked surprised. " 'Why, boss, he exclaimed, 'dere ain't no fish in dis yere pond. Dere never was a fish in it.'- " 'Well, what do you fish for?" the salesman wanted to know. " 'So's my old woman can see dat I ain't got no time to chop wood fer de fire,' the negro answered." Newark Star. - J. McGinnis. a contractor of the Northwest, met his friend Donovan on the pier of the American Line the other day. Donovan had just landed from the old country, and it was his first visit to this country. Stopping at the hotel where the bartender In ques tion holds forth, McGinnis said: "Now, Donovan, my boy, I'll give you a taste of liquor that will make you think the ancient kings left Ambrosia for ye. Bartender, give us a couple of drinks of that ' 40-year-old Bourbon ye have in the private bottle fer me." The bartender placed the "private bottle" on the bar with two very small glasses, which he half filled with the precious fluid. Donovan lifted the pony daintily to the light, and then turning to McGinnis said: "How old did ye say this Is, Mac?" "Forty years If It's a day." "Be jabers," said Donovan, with an other critical look at the glass. "It's small for Its age, ain't It?" Philadel phia Times. "Tell me." said the cannibal king to the Scotsman who had all unwittingly strayed into his land "tell me, before I eat you, of the wondrous new things you have In your native country of the carts that go without horses, and the letters that go without postmen telegrams, I think you call them. What are telegrams?" Sandy ran his fingers through his upright hair. "It's a deeficult thing to explain," he an swered. "You see " "Tell me!" roared the king. Sandy made a dash for it. "Well," he began, hurriedly, "it's like this. If you stretch my ter rier pup frae Oban to Tobermory, an if you was to slap its head- in Oban an' It wiggit its tail in Tobermory an' it bit someone in Oban well, your ma jesty, that's Just what a telegraph Is like!" "Popper," said little Willie Blllups, "what does the paper mean when it says that when it comes to getting next to the people Colonel Blnks has all the other candidates lashed to the mast?" "That is the slang way of saying, my son," returned Billups, "that for keeping his eye peeled old man Binka has his oppenents skinned a mile. "There are people in this world for whom the English language Is ndt good enough when they come to the ex pression of what few ideas they have in their mental garages." Harpers' Weekly. Making a City's History. Boston Transcript. The public library of every town, ac cording to Josiah If. Benton, whose ex perience in library management gives him a right to speak, should contain a town scrapbook, in which every article, paragraph and item that appears in any newspaper In regard to that mu nicipality should be carefully gathered. In that way a surprisingly good local history will gradually grow up. When the time comes for an actual written history this material will be of great direct and suggestive value. He would have the librarian keep a scrapbook and either through an ar rangement with a press clippings bu reau or by personal attention to it .see that every such allusion to the town finds Its way Into the reservoir. This is a suggestion of very large merit. Those who adopt It will have occasion to congratulate themselves In the future upon their foresight, and they will make many Inquirers and in vestigators of coming years their debtors. Bait. Silent Partner. Genius Is the ability to make friends with your work. When a man goes out to hunt a repu tation all he gets is notoriety: Luck Is something we blame when we fail and deny when we succeed. When you are spreading the salve look out that you don't slip up on it yourself. It has been truthfully said that a man who needs a monument should not have one. One good way to keep your helpers Interested is to let them share some of the credit. The business of legislators seems to be that of putting new patches upon the social pants. Some people's idea of economy Is using a 2-inch lead pencil and getting writers' cramp. Oratorical Suffocation.' Providence Bulletin. The Hon. James R. Garfield is a bold reformer, indeed. He would abolish "truisms and platitudes" from political declarations and, as Colonel Watterson would put it, get down to brass tacks. So restrained, the average spellbinder would be in constant danger of chok ing for words. Garfield's Case Hopeless. Cincinnati Times-Star. Rep. Garfield Is the one Republican In the state for whom Colonel Roosevelt could take the stump every morning and every night during the campaign with out giving him the slightest chance for victory. Unanswerable Questions. Carolyn Wells. A switch, a puff, a bird, a curl. Of ladles who are dead? "Why doth the little busy girl Pile on her pretty head Why doth she then with calm delight Perch on the top of that A most absurd bombastic fright, A horror of a hat? Why does she then her pretty shape Hide in a luckless sown That hath no graceful curves to draps? It's only up and down. Why doth she hie herself to lunch. Study the bill of fare, And then proceed to buy and munch One chocolate eclair? Why doth she softly murmur no. When what she means Is yes? And when she knows it Isn't so. Why does she acquiesce ? Why doth she dance us round in glee Like puppets tied to strings? And yet. In secret, why do we Love her for Just these things?