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WHZU PROHIBITION PROHIBITS.
, The editor of the North Yakima Re
public a competent obeerver and an
Intelligent critic write In hi paper
an article on county option, saying
mon( other thing's:
No thoughtful man who want food OT"
rnment and a decent nelhborhood to lire
In need mo farther away from home than
the nele-hhortns State of Oregon for object
leaaona which will conrtoce him that the
county anlt la no panacea for the Ilia of
'the liquor traffic If ha doesn't want
to trarel over that atate. aa thU writer
baa dona twice In the laat few month a. It
ought to be enough for him to read In the
newspapers of the frultleaa efforta which
are being made In all of the larger town
f "dry" eountlee to enforce a law not
kecked up by public sentiment. Only tnle
ee, m a town not ao large aa North Tas
Ima. made "dry" agaln the will of It.
people, over 4 Illicit whiskey dealers were
irreeted. and yet the authorltlea confeae
they are making not the .lightest headway
Igaic.t the anlawful business.
The conclusion of the North Yakima
editor, based on what he' saw In Ore
gon and what he has learned other
wise from the lessons of experience. Is
that he "believes In local option under
provisions for unit In which prohibi
tion can be made to prohibit." A
View eminently sane and reasonable.
If the Republic editor had traveled
through every do county of Oregon,
his sensible opinion would have been
adequately confirmed. Prohibition
prohibits in communities towns, cit
ies or counties -where it Is desired by
Ihe residents that it shall prohibit. It
does not prohibit otherwise, cannot
prohibit, and never will prohibit.
What can now be said of the good
faith of those active supporters of
county prohibition six years ago who
were loud for local option and de
clared everywhere the right of every
community to say for Itself whether
It should or should not have saloons .
Now they have wholly abandoned that
contention. They are for state prohi
bition. The protest of a great com
munity like Portland Is not to be
heard, but is to be Ignored, derided
and overridden. Is that local opUon?
It Is not. Nor ts It county option.
THE LOGICAL HMJlF.NtE.
Consolidation of the Second and
Central Baptist Churches of the East
Bide marks the end of a feud be
tween members of the Second Church
In a past decade waited along personal
lines. It could not be called an eccle
siastical row. since no question of doc
trine was Involved: nor a Christian
dissension, since the Christian grace
were not brought to bear or in any
way Involved In the contest that split
the church asunder and sent the pas
tor, who was the bone of contention,
and a few of his followers, skurrylng
tip the street to establish a new
church. It was the simple and very
nuroan expression of the desire of a
few members of an organized body to
have things their own way or quit.
Such dissension Is not uncommon in
fraternal circles. It occurs In the
ranks of temperance workers, in edu
cational bodies. In philanthropic soci
eties, churchea and political parties,
making noise for a time out of all pro
portion to the Importance of any real
Issue Involved. It represents an ele
ment of strife that Is always liable to
be engendered In organizations, be
tween persons who "do things" and
persons who stand back In the role
of the critic. Jealous of the achieve
ment of others.
The charge of trying to "run things"
Is a serious one to prefer against the
working members of any organization.
It is usually lodged by would-be lead
ers and managers who have failed to
grasp the situation and to do their
share of the work at the right time.
When the situation Involved Is simply
brooded over In wrathful silence, re
lieved by occasional outbursts of ill
. nature, this charge is as an eating
canker that undermines the force
which hold the body together. And
when the time comes, a come It sure
ly will, when wrathful silence breaks
out In open revolt tending toward de
fiance, the church or party or frater
nal organization la broken up into fac
tions and the Influence of the organi
sation Is weakened. After crippling
along for a few years, more or less,
the counsels of common sense gen
erally prevail and the two factions
come together again as one body, re
joicing once more in the strength to
accomplish that for which organiza
tion stands.
The East Fide Baptist churches that
have been eyeing each other askance
at the distance of a quarter of a mile
or thereabouts upon the same street
for the past dozen years or more have
reached the end of the personal feel
ing that drove them apart and have
come together with thanksgiving.
Death has been busy In the ranks of
both factions during the years of sep
aration; young people In the church
have grown to years of accountability,
and. taking a calm and candid re
view of the situation, find nothing in
It to generate serious dissension. The
personal element In the strife has been
.eliminated by death and time the
great disseminators of peace and
good will and under a new name and
with a clean conscience-slate the re
united church will begin anew the
work for which it stands.
Political dissensions are healed by
the same forces. The petty ambitions
and Jealousies that rend party organi
sations now and then make loud boast
of their determination to "do things."
Utven time and death aa working
agencies and the breach Is healed.
This is the certain result if the organ
isation stands for any principle or
even any tradition, political, ecclesi
astical or fraternal that Is worthy of
preservation. This 1 a logical se
quence. It Is the solution of a vexa-
the personal equation, through the
placid, unceasing movement called
"the course of events." .
NEW-STYLE PATRIOTS.
About this time look out for a rush
of candidates, hitherto unknown to
fame, who view with alarm the "effort
to discredit, evade, overthrow and
destroy the primary law." They see
in the nomination by the assembly
of such obscure citizens as L. G.
Clarke. C. N. McArthur. Charles B.
Moores. Peter Hume. Peter Hohklrk.
George W. Stapleton and others a
deep. dark, foul conspiracy to de
feat the people and to overthrow the
republic and set up a monarchy.
Such candidates will sign State
ment No. 1 and they wiU calm the
rising fears of the people about the
treasonable - Invasion of their rights
by persons hitherto thought to be re
spectable and patriotic with the as
surance that if elected they I. e. the
Statement No. 1 candidates will Jeal
ously preserve their rights and for
ever guard the true principles of the
primary law. whatever they are.
They will do it by agreeing in ad
vance to ignore any of the claims of
the party that elected them.
Did any one ever before hear of
the candidates now coming forward
for the Lower House? Does anyone
believe they care anything whatever
about any principle or feature of the
primary law. except as It may help
them to get office?
EFFECT OF PTNCHOTIS.H.
No more striking arraignment of
the development-stifling policy of the
Plnchot faddists can be made than
that presented by the official figures
showing the present status or the
public lands. These figures, printed
In detail in The Oregonian yesterday,
show that practically one-third of all
the public domain has been with
drawn from settlement and is beyond
the reach of the home-builder and
the bona fide settler. The injustice
of this policy, which has bottled up
many rich regions In the West, is.
perhaps, best illustrated In the Pa
cific Northwest. In the three states
of Oregon. Washington and Idaho,
there have been withdrawn 54. 808. 000
acres of land of which 48.000.000
acres are tied up In forest reserves.
In these three states, there still re
main but 44.544,000 acres of unap
propriated and unreserved lands.
It would have been a far less seri
ous matter for the Pacific Northwest,
had the Government given the set
tlers something approaching an even
chance in these withdrawals. But
the land which has been withdrawn
from settlement Is nearly all good
land, while that which is left avail
able Is not at all attractive to set
tlers. Much of It can never be used
for any purpose. These figures offer
ample explanation for the emigration
to Canada; they show that this coun
try Is following a policy which dis
courages Instead of encourages de
velopment. There are still some large
holdings of undeveloped land in the
three states, but practically all of the
best of that Is owned by big capital
ists, who. taking advantage of the
Government-created scarcity of good
land, are holding it at almost pro
hibitory price.
The big capitalist and land-grabber
In the West never had a better friend
than Plnchot with his theoretical con
servation fads. As every acre of land
withdrawn by the Government In
creases the value of the holdings of
the big owners, it will be no easy
task to reverse the present policy and
get rid of these false conservationists
and their wild theories that are cost
ing the West so much in the way of
restricted development and loss of
good citizens and home-builders.
THE ASSEMBLY'S SEW SUPPORTER.
If representative Republicans chosen by
the people rather than by star chamber pro
cesses bad met. deliberated in a spirit or
fairness, made a platform, and adjourned
no fault would have been found. There are
many Republlcana who would even have
consented to a suggestion of candidates.
This Is the newest view on the as
sembly from the Portland Democratic
paper. It is a definite declaration of
the right of assembly. What shall be
said now of the integrity of the cam
paign made by that paper against the
assembly on the ground that It was
unlawful, being violative of both the
spirit and letter of the primary law,
and that Its great purpose was to de
stroy the law? It was, of course, a
position utterly untenable. It could
not be maintained and has now thus
been abandoned.
The next effort of this utterly dis
honest and Insincere Democratic
newspaper toward disruption and dis
organization of the Republican party
will be to voice the supposed indigna
tion of those assembly Republicans
who did not get what they wanted In
the assembly and are presumably
"sore." The tearful consideration
now shown to a "good man like Dr.
Wlthycombe." who was defeated in
the state assembly, is a sample of
the latest hypocricy of this little
paper. Probably Dr. Wlthycombe
has not forgotten the nasty personal
campaign made on him by this same
paper four years ago.
HOME SIMPLE REASON'S.
Portland bank clearings for last
week showed a gain of 3,1 7 5.51 J
over the corresponding week last year.
Clearings for Seattle for the same
week showed a decrease of $1,204,797
from the corresponding week last
year. Contemporaneous with the ap
pearance of these figures comes the
Seattle Times with some Interesting
comment on the Impossibility of Port
land ever amounting to much in a
commercial way. "It is hard work,
as well as an expensive process," says
the Times, "to make an Inland .city
a seaport, Portland has not a thirty
foot channel, nor is It likely ever to
attain It. A first-class battleship to
day would not dare enter the Colum
bia River, for the simple reason that
It would be likely to hit bottom on
Peacock Spit or Sand Island."
I This is. Indeed, a "simple reason"
for the timidity of our battleships.
In order to reach Peacock Spit, It
would be necessary for the craft to
wander out of the channel about a
mile, and Just why a respectable, well
behaved battleship would desire to go
cavorting away from a good deep
channel In order to "hit bottom on
Peacock Spit" Is a mystery explain
able only In the puzzle column of our
esteemed Seattle contemporary. The
"simple reason," as applied to Sand
Island, presents even greater diffl
culty. While a fleet of airships with
sufficient lifting capacity might drag
the battleship tar enough out of the
channel to enable It to "hit bottom
on Peacock Spit." the feat would be
far more difficult on Sand Island.
This landmark Is more than two miles
'' 1 ' i'i fv". I'-'-nr'.r-fth river.
TIIE MOIWIXG OREGOXIAy; tFESD AY. AUGUST 2, 1910.
and at the point nearest approached
by a battleship entering me river,
there are from sixty to eighty feet of
water. To enable the battleship to
"hit bottom" on the island, it would
be necessary that the craft be lifted
bodily and dropped on the Island.
Perusal of the Joke column of the
Times discloses the fact that Ignor
ance of actual conditions on the Co
lumbia River is somewhat dense in
Seattle. In order that the unin
formed Seattle people may understand
the accuracy of the Times' statement
regarding the entrance to the Colum
bia River, it could be stated with a
similar degree of truthfulness that "A
first-class battleship today would not
dare enter Seattle harbor, for the
simple reason that it would be likely
to hit bottom o'n Alki Point or Smith's
Cove tide flats." A disaster of such
a nature would be much more liable
to happen at Seattle than that pre
dicted for Peacock Spit or Sand Island
near the mouth of the Columbia
River. A return of the Seattle bank
clearings from the decrease column
to the increase may result in a re
sumption of the patronizing air which
the' Times formerly displayed toward
Portland. Still, the "simple reasons"
advanced by. the Times for Portland's
inability ever to amount to much as
a seaport provoke mirth. Mirth is
said to be conducive to long life.
INDIANS AND AGRICULTURE.
F. H. Abbott, Assistant Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs, is right when
he says that the solution of the Indian
problem is to teach the Indians to
farm their lands, make them thus self
supporting, and get them off the Gov
ernment rolls. Booker T. Washing
ton Is right when he advocates agricul
tural and trades Industry aa the logi
cal solution of the negro problem. Let
these people able-bodied and capable
of learning to till the soil be taught
the simple lessons of agriculture, be
encouraged to posses land for farm
ing and to cultivate the soil for their
own support.
Industrial trades auxiliary to agri
culture may also be taught with profit
to these wards of civilization. Coun
try blacksmlthlng and carpentry are
vocations well suUed to the capabili
ties of these people of either race, and
they are among the most useful of
the trades in rural communities.
Farming and the use of tools in con
nection with farms, as In repairing
farming machinery, horseshoeing, etc
represent both the Ideal and the
practical training for Indian boys in
the Government schools, while house
keeping with special stress upon good
cookery and laundry work are what
Indian girls should, first of all, be
taught.
Dabbling in or at the arts and sci
ences Is foreign to the true purpose of
Indian education. Any knowledge that
can be acquired by Indians along
these line will at present, and for
several generations to come, be prac
tically useless to them, -inasmuch aa
a large percentage of the Indian pu
pils have land allotments. It follows
that they should be taught to use this
land aa a means of self and family
support. The frills may be put on
Indian education later, but at the
present stage it is evident that what is
needed is solid, substantial instruc
tion in the way and means by which
the Indians lands may be made pro
ductive and the Indiana themselves
become self-supporting, and to this
extent responsible.
A PLEASING PROSPECT.
Local posts of the Grand Army of
the Republic have inaugurated a
movement to bring the National en
campment of that organization to
Portland In 1912. The only obstacle
in the way of this purpose Is the long
distance that very many of the 'dele
gates, "many of whom are enfeebled
by age and the disabilities for which
their pensions speak, will have to
travel from their homes to the Pa
cific slope. This objection is, how
ever, answered by the assurance that
travel has been reduced to a science,
the leading features of which are
the safety and comfort of it votaries.
While, of course. It is not wise for aged
and Infirm people to start on a long
Journey in midsummer, the delegates
in this instance (every member of the
Grand Army representing in age, ex
perience and loyalty that for which
. v. a nnrnnlzntlnn stands) should be
chosen with reference to their physi
cal ability to stana wimoui unuuo
strain upon their waning powers, the
fatigue incident to the long Journey.
As to the rest, Portland Is prover
bially hospitable in the entertainment
of the strangers within its gates. If
Its citizen make any distinction be
tween their guests, it is In favor of
those who are, because of age and
achievement, entitled to veneration.
The cordiality with which the Pioneer
Association Is received in June of each
year Is In evidence of this statement.
If the Grand Encampment of the G.
A. R. meets In this city In 1912, as
members of local posts of that body
hope It will, the veterans composing
that organization will be enthusiasti
cally received and royally entertained.
Furthermore, the heat of Summer,
even when Summer is hot, in Port
land Is not prostrating and such dis
comfort as occasionally rises from it
is greatly mitigated by the cool nights
that succeed even the hottest days.
A meeting of the Grand Encamp
ment here would be in the nature of a
grand reunion a well to thousands of
old soldiers whose homes are upon the
Pacific slope. The commercial spirit
that ts the deciding force lnrdalnlng
a place of meeting for any one of the
large fraternal bodies that come to
gether annually for purposes of pleas
ure and further to strengthen frater
nal bonds, may well Indulge in a little
sentiment In regard to these old sol
diers and to the profit that will accrue
from the coming hither of a large
number of men and the pleasure that
result from being a party to the per
sonal enjoyment of guests whose lives
are, on the most part, behind them.
The prospect that this veteran body of
one-time fighting men may assemble
here two years hence is one that It I
pleasant to entertain. . .
To Insure that the form and feat
ures of General O. O. Howard shall
not be forgotten In the great Army
school at West Point, whfch he served
so faithfully and well, a strong com
mittee, headed by General Frederick
D. Grant, ha been formed to give the
friends and comrades of the hero of
Fair Oaks and Gettysburg the chance
of subscribing towards the $3000
necessary that a portrait of the Gen
eral may be painted by Charles Mel
ville Dewey and hung in the memor
ial hall of the Academy. It Is well
remembered here that General How
ard commanded In the Nez Perce
campaign of 1877 and the Bannock
war of 1878. There doubtless are
among the readers of The Oregonian
those who may desire to send contri
butions to this fund to Thomas
Conyngton. secretary. 229 Broadway.
N. Y., checks being payable to
Henry Clews, treasurer. General
Howard's name and services through
the agony of the great war are on the
front page of the list of those whose
memory the Nation will not let die.
The attention of the alleged humor
ists who repeat that ancient joke to
the effect that It rains 13 months in
the year in Oregon is called the
July weather report, Throughont
thirty-one days of warm, pleasant
sunshine and cool, refreshing nights,
there was only the smallest trace of
rain. The true Oregonian, who fully
appreciates and understands the ad
vantages of the health-giving rain
that has made the country famous,
will hardly recognize In thi long dry
spell any special occasion for favor
able comment, although no damage
has resulted from the protracted dry
season. We have had enough sun
shine, however, to demonstrate to the
many thousand tourists who have vis
ited Portland this Summer that Ore
gon's climate has been misrepresented.
The reports of dissatisfied croakers
to the contrary notwithstanding. Ore
gonians are, as a rule, favored with
about the finest assortment of weather
that could be alloted to any people on
earth.
The American visible wheat supply
yesterday showed an increase of more
than 2,200,000 bushels, the largest in
crease reported on a corresponding
week in more than ten years. Despite
a number of moderately small crops
wo must go hack to the famine year
of 1904 to find a decrease in the visi
ble supply for the last week in July.
From this date forward the stocks will
probably show a steady increase until
hlghwater mark is reached, about the
turn of the year. The big increase In
the visible and liberal world's ship
ments yesterday, combined to make a
weak market, although prices are
still hovering above the dollar mark.
If the surplus from this year's crop
and the carry-over from last year can
be marketed at these figures, there
will still be new automobiles and pi
anos at many a farmhouse in the
wheat districts.
Violations of speed regulation in
crease, notwithstanding the vigilance
of the police and the prompt assess
ment of fines upon culprits when
haled Into court. Men who not only
know better, but who may be reason
ably expected to respect the law doc
tors, lawyers and even county and
city officials, are In the unlawful speed
llHt pay their fines and speed away.
The menaced public is assured that
this form of mania will abate after a
time a rather doubtful consolation Xo
parents whose children have been
killed and to people who have been
maimed by the lawless act of the
speed maniac.
The Clackamas County assembly
nominated a very good man for Sena
tor In the person of L. D. Walker, of
Canby. He Is a business man of
standing, a student of affairs, and a
neighbor who has the regard and re
spect of all who know him. He is
going to run against the unspeakable
Brownell, and the people of Clacka
mas County, who know both men, are
to have a chance to decide between
them. By the result we shall be able
to see Just what sort of State Senator
the Republicans of Clackamas really
want. 1
Alfred Sorenson, a former news
paperman of Portland and now editor
of an excellent weekly publication in
Omaha, has filed an application to
become the Republican candidate for
United States Senator from Nebraska.
That state is flirting with direct nom
ination. At first thought, Mr. Soren
son's candidacy would seem to belong
to the humorous department of things
political, yet he lives in a "funny"
state, where lightning strikes Indis
criminate The County Court is going to close
the draws at certain periods or try
to close them. We shall soon learn
how much of serious effort there is
in thi plan and how much politics.
It is not a thing to make a stiff bluff
for before election with a weak back
down after election.
A Marion County candidate has the
proper slogan for his kind, viz.: "Op
pose assembly; favor Statement One.
That means he opposes the Republican
party, though he solicits its votes, and
he pledges himself to give away the
fruits of victory to the common enemy
if elected. '
Signs multiply that the backroom
slate-makers the secret, assembly
are busy pounding together their
Statement No. 1 ticket. Then the
people will get a chance to rule per
haps. In announcing there will - be no
wounded If rioting ensues. General
Weyler is working for peace, for the
Spaniard should know his blood
thirsty propensities by this time. ,
Secretary Wilson say when the
Panama Canal is done, Oregon apple
growers will have the world's market
at their feet. No need to wait.
Brother Wilson; we've got' em there
now. .
If a few Oregon housewives are per
turbed by nocturnal visits to their
pantries by two escaped convicts, let
them remember Harry Traeey and be
exceeding glad. .
Mr. Rockefeller Is taking whisky
baths. Being a weaUhy man he can
afford to absorb more than the ordi
nary mortal, but It seems wasteful.
Portland Is practically free of con
tagious disease, with a notable excep
tion. Too many little creatures have
the big head.
In davs of cables and wireless com
munication, the wide world is too
small a place for a murderer to hide.
After all, the way to do a thing Is
to do it. Ask H. W. Goddard, County
Commissioner, If this Is not true.
The horror of a general strike is
Intensified by the fact that all the
saloons are unionized.
Wouldn't it be cheerful if closing
the draws by the County Court also
closed the discussion?
Has anybody a fault to find with
August weather In this latitude and
longitude?
REPUBLICAN PRESS ON THE TICKET
Oae Iadorsed; the Other Secretly Se
lected. Lebanon Criterion.
The chief difrerence between the can
didates recommended last week by the
Republican assembly in Portland and
those to run against them later is that
the first named were selected by more
than 1000 men chosen by a popular
vote in ths counties trom which they
came, and the latter will be chosen by
about a score to meet in secret at a
time and place and to be composed of
whom these few will determine.
Hope.
Albany Citizen.
Colonel Hofer is a candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor.
He defends rerorm government on the
one hand and the greatest toe of re
form government on the other. Ana
yet he desires the people to regard
him as sincere.
Whit Are the FactsT
Harrisburg Bulletin.
The Albany Democrat says the Re
publican party or Oregon is divided,
split into splinters, worse than ever
before in Its history.
If this is the case the good little man
of the Democrat should tell us where
he gets his information. Surely the
Republicans are not saying so. WIai
party is It. we are wondering, that 1
benefited? Why doesn't Brother Nut
ting remark on the tremendous growth
of the Democratic party if he would
clinch the assertion?
Only a Recommendation,
Clatskanle Chief.
The men who were recommended for
the state ticket are, as a whole, repre
sentative men of the state. These men
are not as yet nominated by the Ke
publlcans. but only recommended for
nomination. The Republican voters will
yet have an opportunity, at the nom
inating elections, to say who shall be
the candidates ror xne vm uu.
No one will contend mat. tne
llcan voters are bound 10 suv""
assembly recommendations: these are
only suggested candidates. The people
still have the right, and will have the
opportunity, to indorse or reject tne
recommendations of the assembly.
Republicans Again United.
Hood River News.
The selection of a Republican ticket
to go before the people was not. how
ever, the most important result to the
party in the state. More far-reaching
and of greater benefit was the re
organization effected of its elements
from east to west and from north to
south. The great movement that mani
fested itself in bringing together over
1200 Republicans selected at open meet
ings to represent the voters of the
party at the state assembly and the
unanimous accord with which they
worked In re-unitlng demonstrated that
It only required the fusing of its var
ious elements to Insure Its former In
fluence coupled with renewed vigor and
harmony. Atter a lapse of six years
the Republicans of Oregon are again
united for the principles that have won
prosperity for It at home and abroad.
Returning to the Fold.
Independence Enterprise.
It Is encouraging to note that most
all recognized straight Republican pa
pers of the state are Indorsing the rec
ommendations of candidates which
were made at the assembly which was
held in Portland last week. The strength
of the ticket is generally admitted. The
head of the ticket is solid as adamant
and true as bessemer. The wisdom of
the choice becomes more and more ap
parent as Republicans come-to recog
nize the importance ot a complete vic
tory this year. A strong ticket is of
more vital importance this year than
would at first appear. It means the
indorsement or a principle. The proph
ecy that there would be some insur
gency among the newspapers or the
state finds little foundation and is gen
erally admitted that in most of the
cases which have come to light it is a
display of feathers which shows not so
much a betrayal of party as a disposi
tion to return to the fold of the other
house."
Will Conserve the, Primary Law.
Forest Grove Press.
There is a fear expressed that if the
-candidates indorsed by the Repub lean
party assemblies are elected it will be
the beginning or the end for the direct
primary law. We think not. The pri
mary law was born when most needed,
and will remain as a deterrent force
against party corruption, unless the
ptop?e become careless and if,es
when they will have only themselves
to blame. Eternal vigilance on the
part of the people as a whole must be
the price or good government, and it
the leaders or a party attempt the old
"slate" method ot nominating its can
didates. It will be a simple matter ror
those ot the party opposed to such
methods to put a spoke In their wheel
by candidates coming before the party
bv the direct primary.
We believe In political parties, as we
believe that the Interests of good gov
ernment will best be served by having
opposition parties, the day of the non
partisan party being not yet at hand.
Democrats and Certain Republican.
Vale Oriano.
It is amusing to see the Democratic
nress and the Democratic sympathy in
?h7s state and even in thi county cry
Ine ring politicians again In control
when the Republicans begin to system
atize a party that means good men for
office. The one man rule Is bad In
politics and the assembly is
the power or the one man. U Ren and
his associates are loosing power and
with their downtall comes the routing
Tr the worst set f pontician, Oregon
has ever seen. - - Tne anti-assembly
men are an organization, they
have their satellites working In. every
community. .They are locked in .
with the Democratlo and antl-RepuD-licaris.
in every community. They use
the primary law as a mean to destroy
narty unity and claim there should be
So party organization. They are as
sisted by the Republicans who cannot
trust their ambitions to representatives
elected by the party. Those Repub
flcans who believe in party success in
Republican principles In the P-Pl
rule, will support those Republicans
who have gone before the assembly
for state ofrices and who abide by the
results of their party representatives.
Memorial to Gutenberg. .
Westminster Gazette. 1
A literary memorial to the memory
of Gutenberg, the founder of the print
ing industry, is about to be published,
after ten years of strenuous labor on
the part of the artistic scientific and
publishing industries of Germany. It
takes the form of a new edition of
the so-called 42-line Gutenberg edi
tion of the Bible. This work is still
not only one of the greatest monu
ment of the printer' art, but also
marks the close of the first period of
the Gutenberg era. Gutenberg's 42
lln Bible contains nearly 1300 pages,
some hundred of which are decorated
Is miniatures in color and gold.
. r .
A True Conception.
Springfield Republican.
Tes, Mr. President, as you so well
said at Rockland, it Is your duty to be
President of the whole country, not
only when a political campaign is on,
but everywhere and all the time. That
Is the big and true conception of the
office, too often overlooked and forgot
ten by all Presidents,- '
SHOULD BE LEFT TO LEGISLATURE 1
Citizens Cannot Vote Intelligently on
County Division.
Albany Herald.
. There are no less than eight appli
cations for the creation of new coun
ties to be voted upon by the people of
Oregon at this Fall's election. Though
there may be one or more of these new
county schemes' possessing some degree
of merit and are promoted by good
faith. It would appear that In the main
they are not entitled to the favorable
consideration of the people at large,
and as a matter of expedition and
good public policy all of them should
be defeated.
In the first place, the Herald be
lieves that the creation of a new coun
ty is a matter devolving upon the Leg
islature and should not be submitted to
a vote of the people at large, who can
not possibly have any Intelligent Idea
of the demand for such proposed new
counties and are, therefore, in no sense
competent to vote upon the measures.
What does the average voter of the
northeastern part of the state know
about the practicability or wisdom of
the clamor of the southwestern portion
of the state ror the creation of a new
county? Certainly, In the majority of
cases, he would not be able to cast an
Intelligent vote on the proposition.
The submission to a vote of the peo-
pie of the whole state of these various
county division schemes, therefore,
would seem highly Impracticable, if
not unwise. Moreover, the success of
these various division schemes would
establish a bad precedent, which might
tend to retard the healthy growth and
reasonable prosperity of many counties
of the state.
There are doubtless counties in Ore
gon which should be divided into two
separate county organizations, but
these, the Herald believes, should be
taken care of by the Legislature and
not voted upon by .the people of the
state at large, who cannot possibly
Judge of the merits or wisdom of the
proposed division of a remote section
of the state, and In which the voters
at large can have no reasonable Inter
est. Many of the county schemes up for
consideration this Fall are without
question ill-advised, and the Herald
suggests a negative vote on all county
measures as the most practict.1 rem
edy for the present county division epi
demic WHERE THE PEOPLE DO RULE.
More Gentle Sarcasm From a New York
Source.
New York Sun.
The .best rapid occasional thinkers
and "publicists" regard representative
government as played out. They howl
for government which is nearer to the
people, more immediately saturated
with popular emotion. It seems that
the beloved people are too roolish to
elect tit men to represent them, and
yet are tull or Infallible wisdom. Ore
gon is the paradise of direct govern
ment, v perpetual town meeting, con
tinued appeals to the people. Bear
with us and the Oregonian a moment
as we take from it a brief account of
the activity of direct legislation In that
favored state:
Under the Initiative and referendum next
November voters of Oregon will attempt law
making; functions ot the Legislature by di
rect voting on 32 measures. Seven .ot these
measures come from the Legislature for ref
erendum. Twenty-five others come, In
nearly every case, from innovators, agita
tors or self-seeking groups of citizens. Nona
of the 25 Initiative bills has been framed by
a representative body of citizens, with regard
to substantial Justice for Interests Involved
or lo adjustment ot conflicting needs of the
body politic.
These Initiative and referendum excesses
have surprised Oregon's voting populat.on.
Defenders of the system vainly endeavored
to curtail them this year by reducing the
number of Initiative bills. Each group of
Innovators Insisted on exercising its full
privilege under the constitution. The result
Is an impossible task for voters. It is a
task that only delegated members of the
body politic In parliamentary assembly have
time and opportunity to dispose of. The
average voter is not as well qualified aii the
average legislator to act on matters of leg
islation, and it la absurd to deny this obvious
truth.
This is either the prejudice of a
bunker or the corrupt view of a parti
san of the "interests." No decent citi
zen will lose raith In the all-saving
virtues or initiative and referendum,
the very sound of which is lulling,
sanative and edifying. The people of
Oregon must conquer sloth and show
themselves equal to their duties and
privileges.
Even if "direct" legislation proves
less healing in Oregon and elsewhere
than the good have hoped there Is no
need or dolerul dumps. For ourselves
we nourish the hope or seeing the deci
sions ot the Supreme Court Teterred to
the peopl for approval or rejection:
and even if the people could prove un
worthy or fallible, the country will
have in the uplifting monthly or week
ly newspapers a final and unerring au
thority. Out of the mouth of babes!
Church With a Grocery Shop.
New York Evening Sun.
A congregation in Washington, Ind.,
with a view to raising funds for the
buiiaing of a new church in another
part of the city, has decided to start a
shop to be called"The Square Deal Gro
cery," and put -the pastor in charge or
'Imagine, if you please, the possibili
ties for clerical unpopularity that the
enterprise suggests explanations from
the pulpit on the rise in prices and
angry protests from the pews against
the increase in the cost of living.
Still there is nothing illogical in the
Innovation. There was a time when
clerical duties were strictly clerical.
Now the head of a successful parish
must be a financier, a diplomatist, a
preacher, a janitor, an athletic expert
and what not all rolled into one.
A new clergyman threw up his
charge the other day not because of
the salary, which was ample, but be
cause he realized that he did not begin
to be so many sided as the place made
necessary. '
The apartment church has arrived.
Why not the church with a market at
tached? Thus by degrees many needs
spiritual and temporal might be attend
ed to. And the weights and measures
would be all right, ot courBe.
Wisdom of a Woman.
Atchison Globe.
A wise woman once said that there
were three follies of men which al
ways amused her. The nrst was
climbing trees to shake the truit down,
when ir they would wait long enough,
the truit would rail itseir. The sec
ond was going to war to kill each
other, when, ir they only waited, they
would die naturally, and the third
was that they should run after women,
when, U they did not do so, the women
would be sure to run after them.
Religious Bodies of London.
London Globe.
London has at least 45 different de
nominations of ' Christians, Glasgow
boasts its 34 religious bodies, and
Edinburgh its 25. In spite of the
Methodist union three years ago, there
are still five or six varieties of Meth
odist societies in London, whilo there
are two other "retormed" orrshoots
from the Church or England, three dir
ferent Baptist bodies, and three kinds
of Presbyterians English, Scotch and
Welsh.
LIFE'S SONNY SIDE
"Humor saves many a situation," says
a Kansas City lawyer, "as a small Smith .
Center boy, who Is about all his parents
can manage, can testify. The youngster
had done something for which his mother (
determined to punish him. The lad
promptly hied himself under the porch
out of his mother's reach and remained
there. His father came home in the
evening and was told of the status of
affairs. He waxed wroth and made up
his mind to see that the boy- got his
licking, and. promptly shedding his coat,
crawled under the porch after his young
hopeful.
"The lad saw his dad coming and sang
out: -Hello, pa, is she after you too?'
"You can just bet that pa didn't usa
the strap that evening." Kansas City
Journal.
The story that Sir John Fisher, of the
British admiralty, tells with the greatest
enjoyment and he tells many, and all
with zest is of an old boatswain on his
flagship who fell into a little money and
retired. One day the admiral visited him
at his country box, to find the old sailor
possessed of an apparently useless man
servant. "What do you want with him?" asked
Fisher.
"Hevery morning." exclaimed the old
sailor, "'e comes to me 'ammock and .
tells me to roll hout. 'The hadmiral
wants to see you.' 'e says to me. Hand
I say to 'ira,' 'e says to roe. Hand
ell,' says HI."
Dr. Eva Harding, a Topeka physician,
is a great advocate of the children's
1 .. . mn.,An,Ant' Th, nrliBr Aav Dr.
Jiftjfiiuuiiu "" " - -"- .
Harding called up H. B. Howard, an elec
trical dealer, and learning mat ne was
out of town, left a call for him to attend
ii..T.. hie Mtnrn Afr. How
ard got back about midnight and found
the call. Thinning mat soraeuims
rible had gone wrong with the electric
n.t s ,V,A Anninr'a VtOIIKA hn tried tO
call her by phone. Unsuccessful in this.
he jumped into nis Duggy ana arove
to College avenue In the small wee hours,
and after some difficulty managed to
rouse the doctor and tell her who he was.
"Oh, yes," said Dr. Harding. "I want a
dollar for the playground fund!"
She got the .dollar. Kansas City Jour
nal. a e
The members of the Cumberland Club
in Portland tell this story about Tom
Reed:
Reed and a companion went to the club
one evening, hung their coats in the
cloak room, and spent the evening talk
ing politics. When they went to get their
overcoats on leaving. Reed's friend thrust
his hand In the pocket for his gloves and
pulled out a pocketbook that was not his
and which some one had put In there by
mistake.
"What shall I dor' he asked. Reed. If
I go around the club with a pocketbook
in my hand it will look strange."
"That's all right." said Reed. "Keep
the pocketbook and set the coat again;
we'll go back in the smoking-room."
Boston Transcript.
RHODE ISLAND IN THE CENSUS
Southern New England Growing la
Manufacturing importance.
Springfield. Mass., Republican.
The first state to hear from the Federal
enumeration of 1910 is Rhode Island,
which is given a population of 642.674, '
representing an absolute increase of 114,
118 for the past decade and a relatlv
increase or 26.6 per cent-
It is not to be interred, however, that
the recent growth or the state has been
disappointingly small. Quite the contrary
Is the ract, as may be judged, by the fol
lowing comparison:
Increast
Population. Increase, percent.
1910 542,674 114.118 26.4
1909 428.556 83.050 24.0 '
1890 345.506 68,975 24.3
lg80 276,531 59,178 2.S
1870 217,853
The relative growth or the state hat
thus been the largest in the past decade
or any like period since 1870-80.
Nearly one-half of the state's popula
tion increase in 10 years has been ab
sorbed by Providence, which is now given
224.326, an increase of 27.8 per cent. com-,
pared with an increase of 32.9 per cent
In the previous decade and 26 per cent
from 1880 to 1890. , .
It is evident from, this Rhode Island
exhibit that at least Southern New Eng
land Is easily maintaining its prominence
and growth in manufacturing, trade and
iteneral industry. The great tide of immi
gration still sets largely in this direction
and. heavy as it has been in recent years.
It has not yet succeeded in glutting the
labor market. This gives an advantage
to manufacturing New England which
overcomes In great measure the disad
vantage of remoteness from raw "late
rial supplies. The beginning of the de
cline and fall of New England as a great
manufacturing region is yet to come
within reach even of the most penetrat
ing vision.
Worse and Then Some.
Houston (Tex.) Chronicle. .
t-nneress was assembled in special
essiofeand Tt revised the tariff, .but
In the wrong way. . Instead of tariff
revision downward, we were given tar
Trr revision upward. The pledge was
broken. President Taft signed the bad
bill. In his astonishing speech at Win
ona he admitted the wool trust dic
tated the schedules. It is notorious that
other trusts issued their orders and
'ThuTwe0 the McKinley tariff,
which was bad, tollowed by the Dingley
tariff, which was worse, . followed by
the Aldrich - Payne tariff, which is
worst. What next? Democratic tar
iff reform.
Writing Too Muck.
Charleston News and Courier,
ir Mr. Roosevelt continues to write .
he will find himself in the position ot
an ordinary mortal before very long.
He does not express himself any better
than scores of other writers, if as well,
and his original thoughts were known
to philosophers and others many cen
turies ago. His facile pen opens no
unexplored countries nor does it Il
luminate the dark caverns. His work
unsigned would not be quoted in a
single metropolitan paper, and prob
ably by but few country weeklies. He
must be a greater politician than he Is
an editor. Otherwise, he will soon rest
in the political graveyard with other
paragons who have gone before
She Knew.
Catholic Standard.
"Now" said Mr. Bunker, who was
instructing her in the mysteries of
goir, "you know what a 'tee is. Now,
then, the duties or a caddie -'
"Oh, or course," she interrupted, the
caddy's what you put the tea in. I
know what a tea caddie Is.
Woman's Weapon.
Tit-Bits.
The Teacher (reading) "Then the
srirl warrior raced the mocking roe and
unsheathed her deadly weapon." What
unsneatnea r ? w ., Elgie?
aoes u" .fci-v 1 it
TJionse. ma am. I think it
means she stuck out her tongue.
A Man' Memory.
naiia News.
A man is a person who can remsm
ber a bottle ot beer in the rerrigerttor
a lang time after he has forgotten his
wife's good-bye kiss. '
She Paid for It.
Dallas News.
The reason a chorus girl can afford
to be a chronic kicker is because ihe
get 115 a week for it