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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?