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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1910)
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Foreign postage .".tii. rata Eaafaaa Rnaloeaa OffVe Verree at Co itn New Tork. Brunswick building, tags. taar building. Chi rflllTUNn THI KSDAY. SKIT. 1. rorir.xTEK. No ona can be surprised at the weeping triumph of Miles Poindexter for the Washington Senatorshlp. It Is In strict accord with the common Impulse everywhere to turn the Re publican party Inside out and upside down by Fryanliing all its doctrines and Rooeeveltlzing lis leadership and orr.tnlzatlnn. The old things are passing: the near things are beginning; or are begun. On the one hand there Is a large number of Republicans who believe sincerely that the party has been in grave need of renovation and re organixation and its leadership of repudiation; on the other hand there is a profound conviction that the end of responsible party control has come and the new era of Irresponsible party government Is under way. To bring about the wrecking of old methods and the ruin of long-entrenched or ganization the "progressives" have raited t their aid vast numbers of Democrats who have entered the di rer! primary and aided In the rejec tion of the "old guard." The term oir guard" has indeed with many ccme to be a term of reproach, con tumely and contempt: but with mtiny others it has a wholly different sig nificance, since all the great Republi can names that have added luster and renown to the party and glory to the Nation were indeed of the "old guard." Undoubtedly the Republican party has many sins to atone for. and un doubtedly long-continued dominance In affairs has made It in great part Insensible to some of the rights of the people, and non-responsive In proper degree to the spirit of prog rets. Those things may be confessed and ought not to be condoned. But la the proper solution for the ills of the country" and the correct remedy for the arrogance and misdeeds of the Republican party lis utter ruin? For It would seem that Its paralysis, lemoralizatlon and disintegration are mell-nlgh complete 'throughout the Nation. We refer to the Republican party as it has been and as it has been known for fifty years. That there may be a new Republican party, in the hands of the "progressives." is likely enough. It will take over great numbers of Democrats and other rest less and uncertain political elements ihat will Just as readily In an emer-" gency turn upon the new party as hey have Joined in the enterprise of Overthrowing the old. There is very little effective denial row of the declaration that there Is no difference between a Democrat and an "Insurgent." for they openly boast everywhere that they stand for the same principles and are Inspired by the same purposes. It Is true. The union of the "Insurgents" and the Democrats In the Republican pri mary's everywhere proves that it is true. It will continue to be true until some issue arises to divide them: and then we rosy expect the hills and vales to resound with "In surgent" denunciations of Democrats who have dared to Invade the sacred precincts of a Republican primary: for such a place will again be ground hallowed to Republicans when the insurgent" are running the machine. Polndexter has won a great victory. He would have won on the sole issue of Insurgency and all Its attendant hell-to-pay specialties of antl-Can-nonirm. anti-tariff, antl-thls and sovti that. The over-sufficiency of his suc cess was emphasized by the glaring Ineffectiveness of the opposition. It possessed neither political vision nor elementary strength. It was dominat ed primarily by the personal ambi tions of four or five quarreling candi dates, who lt entirely any suitable, perspective of a situation certainly fata to each and all of them whlie ther persisted in feudal conflicts with one another In full sight of the com mon enemy. When they realized that the cause which they together repre aented. or ought to have represented, was irretrievably doomed unless a heroic process of elimination were employed. It was already too late. King County, with three or four can didates, being unable to unite on either, threw itself almost en masse Into the hands of a rank outsider. This, In the face of a great political peril, was the latest astounding mani festation of the famous Seattle spirit. L'nable longer to find a refuge in the outraged bosom of King County, It fled in panic to Spokane. Shades of the brilliant Haines and the match less MrGraw! But let us cheer up if we can. The worst is by no means over. The "insurgents" will continue to rout the old guard everywhere In the primaries, or nearly everywhere: and -wherever they may fail at any primary they will again Join hands with the Democrats at the election and defeat the regulars there. That Is the method. We see It in Oregon. In Washington. In Idaho, and throughout the country- The "progressives" will rule the party, or ruin it and abandon the wreck to the buzzards. If they shall rule It and it is probable that they will what are they going to do with It? Can the New Nationalism be made a bea con light of hope and faith and ulti mate victory 'or the people when It signalizes a more or less perfect union of a part of the Republican party with a part of the Democratic party T Shall the stone which the builders rejected become the head of the corner? Mr. La Kollette. who captured the primary nomination for Congress in Washington, dyes bis whiskers and wears a celluloid collar. In the whiskers there are germs of possibility for a fame as great as that which cat a - halo around the celebrated pink whiskers of J. Hamilton Lewis, who was also honored by the State of Washington with a seat In Congress. Shining In the reflected glory of Cousin Bob. the original Insurgent, the new Congressman with the celluloid collar and whiskers dyed say a deep crimson would attract National at tention to the state from which he halls. By careful press Work this col lar might rank with the socks that were not on the late Jerry Simpson, and the .whiskers might win laurels equal to those which distinguished the late Mr. Peffer, of Kansas, and J. Hamilton Lewis from the common herd of Congressmen who never cul tivated the "brush." CONSERVATION OF COMMON hENSE. Wall Street seems to have been pretty well braced for the shock oc casioned by the recent political up heavals; the unusual beating of tom toms has as yet caused no stampede of consequence. It Is reassuring at such a time to note that James J. Hill, who as a student and a demon strator of economics has few equals, comes to the front with a plea for the exercise of common sense and confi dence. "Money and business." says Mr. Hill, "are. of course, very careful, and It la right they should be. but not to the extent or cutting off their own noses to spite their faces, especially when It is so unnecessary and they need the noses, too." Mr. Hill admits that business is suffering because of fears which many men have, but he emphatically asserts that these fears are entirely unwarranted. Mr. Mill says he is trying to conserve his com mon sense In these trying times when the spirit of unrest is abroad In the land. The example he sets Is one that can be followed to advantage by everyone. There U. of course, considerable In cendiarism in some of tho doctrine that has been worked Into the argu ment which has caused the political upheaval, but most of this has been Injected for the same reason that the dope fiend Infects morphine or co caine more stimulant is neeoea. u Wall Street succeeds In holding Its head through the trying times that ensue whenever there is a disturbance In the political world, there Is abso lutely no reason why there should be any uncertainty elsewhere, for New York as the money headquarters 01 the United States, is the nerve center at which the trouble would strike first. Here In the West in spite of conserva tion fads and other Isms, there are present all of the elements of prosper ity and good times.- We are marketing a big grain crop at high prices. There Is a good de mand for the big fruit crop.- -I ne nop yield Is breaking records and prices are high. The lumber manufacturers are shipping in record-breaking quan tities and on every hand is abundant evidence of real prosperity. All that is needed is confidence, and In the language of Mr. Hill, a "conservation of common sense." too Brar TO WORK. Th. Willamette Valley hOD crop Is a record-breaker for size and the quality could not well be Improved. The price Is high enougn to insure a mnnA rrvm fnr th rTOWCri. With SUCtl conditions, it Is regrettable in the ex treme to read in tne news coiumna ih.i varHtr of labor will result in a large part of the crop being lost. In a single yard near cugene. iov ni.k.r n ro needed, and it Is - stated that "unless some unforeseen circumstance relieves the situation, some of the hops in this yard cannot be harvested. TKr. a re mim'erous other indus tries throughout the state suffering from lack of labor. Kven In this city, it in not an easv matter to secure competent help. It Is noticeable, how r that there Is no apparent de crease in the number of men who nightly drift along the free luncn rontea. of the North Knd and discuss the great questions of state. THE UNREAMVN'.ABLF. EAfT. The Spokane speech of Governor Hay. of Washington, as printed In The Oregonlan, Is an able presentation of the wrong that Is Inflicted on the West by the Plnchotian conservation ists of the East. News dispatches have told the story of the unfair treatment given the Western men at the St. Paul convention, but the speech of Governor Hay goes more Into detail. "It wu very edifying. Indeed." says Governor Hay, "to lis ten to the members of the timber trust telling us how we should stand for conserving our timber for unborn generations while they were piously adding SO cents per thousand to their stum page price, knowing that every tract of timber kept In cold storage Increased the value of their holdings and gave them greater opportunity to gouge our customers." Governor 'Hay is right In his state ment that the conservation problem Is an economic, not a political one. and yet every move that has been made by the Plnchotian rorces has been for political purposes. This at tack on the resources and develop ment of the West Is so distinctly po litical and the alignment of the Ea; against the West is so perfectly drawn that It seems remarkable the move ment should have the support of a single Western man. This studied misrepresentation of the situation has been so thoroughly carried out by the PInchot forces that throughout the East there are thousands of peo ple who believe that they have a per sonal Interest in these vast tracts that have been .withdrawn from settlement. Governor Hay voices the sentiment of tho West when he states that we have no objection to these Eastern people coming out here and sharing in the benefits of these resources by aiding in the development and bearing a portion of the cost of the state government. The area of land withdrawn from settlement In Washington Is smaller than that which has been locked up In Oregon, but -it Is shown .that the 7 Va per cent of the total area of Washington that Is locked up in for est reserves is larger than the com bined area of the State of Rhode Island. Delaware, Connecticut and Maryland and the District of Colum bia. This vast area of Idle land In the past four years has contributed to the cost of running the Washington State government less than (36.000. In that period the state has appro priated nearly 1300.000 for road building through the reserves. In commenting on these facts. Governor Hay pertinently asks: "If the East ern people are so anxious for us to give up the control and profits accru ing from our natural resources, why do they not turn'over to the Federal Government the revenue they receive from direct taxation from the natural resources in their section and let the profit of their natural resources ac crue to the benefit of the Federal Treasury?" . . The more light" that is shed on the conservation problem the less It ap peals to any fair-minded individual. Eventually the policy of PInchot will be so thoroughly understood" that" it will be completely discredited. A FEMALK PAT ROLMA X . In Its order that Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells shall be called a "pa trolman" and not a "patrolwoman" the Los Angeles Police Commission ers have followed the .best English usage. The old habit of dividing peo ple who write into' authors and au thoresses has long been abandoned. Nobody now speaks of a "poetess" unless he wishes to raise a smile. The case of the presiding officer at A woman's meeting Is a little more perplexing. It would not do to ad dress the stately dame who occupies the chair as "Mr. Chairman." All minds would be impressed with a certain Incongruity in the application bf this title. So the fair parliamen tarians compromise on "Madame Chairman." To a delicate ear the in congruity does not appear to have been wholly eliminated here, but the title is well enough. It serves its pur pose, like Antonio's bond. We are prone to forget that the word "man" does not apply to one sex more than, the other. When the preacher de clares that man Is mortal he does not Imply that woman enjoys eternal life op earth. The whole human race Is denoted by the word man. Similar remarks apply to the pro noun "he." In the early days 01 teachers' Institutes the lecturers were greatly troubled by the lack of a pro noun that would denote both sexes. They met the difficulty by painfully repeating "he or she" dozens of times over in their speeches. They had for gotten that good English usage makes "he" mean both men and women. It Is merely the unwarranted' arrogance of the male which has sought to ap propriate It to a single faction of humanity and that not by any means the most charming one. The, point Is that as woman takes a more active part In the Industry and scholarship of the world w-e tend less and less to throw emphasis upon her physical accidents. The person who works or achieves Is looked upon as a human being simply. The question of sex is relegated to private life where it belongs. Tint CAISB OF INEBRIETY. The Oregonlan's attention has been pointedly called to the .following clipping, which seems to have reached Oregon by way of the Brownsville Times: Hr la the picture drawn from a state ment mado by a member of the Britiah parliament: "I met tha flniahed product of th liquor traffic. He waa lylna In tlie rut tor. Ho had no hat. Tho hat trada waa aufferlns. Hla coat waa full of holes. Tb tailor trade waa stiffrrlnK- Ha had hnlaa In hta boon. Tho shoe trade wm aurrertna;. Ho had no socks. Tho hoalery trado waa aulTorlnu. Ho had no ehlrt. The Mnon trade was auffrrlnr. Ho waa dirty. Tha aoap trada waa suffering. I could hardly mention a uaefnl Industry In tha country that waa not a free ted by that man's Inebriety." With the clipping comes a request for this paper to answer It and also the question, "Why does your great paper take the side of tho brewer, the home destroyer?" So far as the clipping itself is concerned The Ore gonlan is not disposed to quarrel with it very much. It Is undoubtedly true that every "useful Industry In the country was affected injuriously by the man's inebriety." No sane person would think of disputing that fact. Our only criticism would be directed toward the unqualified statement that the poor sot was "the finished product of the liquor traffic." Even this we do not wish to contradict so much a" to question Its adequacy. The liquor traffic certainly played a part In re ducing the wretch to the gutter. Had there been -no liquor for sale he could not have consumed any. .Thus much must be conceded, but It does not fol low that' he would not have availed himself of some substitute like co caine or chloral. The Oregonlan has heard of a lawyer who unfortunately became addicted to strong drink and lost his practice In consequence. From time to time he took the pledge and "reformed," but his periods of reform were brief. He usually backslid In a month or so. and In the meantime he mitigated the agonies of abstinence with Injections of morphine. His friends were not convinced that the change of drugs helped him a great deal. The point we wish to make is that the sot's own want of will power co operates with the liquor traffic to ruin him. Were he a man of normal reso lution. It would not make any differ ence how many open saloons there might be. they would not harm him in the least. It Is also to be taken Into consideration that the liquor traffic Is not accountable for his lack of will power. His defect arises from causes with which strong drink has nothing whatever to do. Hereditary blemishes in the man's character, im proper discipline In his boyhood. In sufficient nourishment, all these and many other causes are responsible for tho craving which the liquor traffic gratifies. If the causes were abated there would be no call for prohibitory legislation, for there would be no sots. In all our righteous rage with the saloons we must not permit ourselves to forget that they are powerless to Injure a man who keeps away from them. Strong drink differs from many other evil things In this respect. It does not run after Its victims. In order to be harmed by It they must first seek It. Hence It is not perfectly fair to call this human ruin ''the fin ished product of the liquor traffic." He is the product of that traffic in connection with his own .defective character and perhaps also In connec tion with debasing social Influences. Scientific investigation does not warrant the bold assertion that the liquor habit is the main cause of pov erty and that the brewer is "the home destroyer." Our prohibition friends In their commendable zeal for reform place the cart before the horse. It is poverty which produces the crav ing: for drink In the vast majority of cases, if by "poverty" we may be per mitted to designate both the want of money and the lack of nourishment, shelter and comfort which results from It. Of course we do not over look the fact that a great many wealthy people are sots, but their case need not be discussed here since they do not obtain their liquor in saloons and the traffic does not affect them either for good or evil. In most in stances the home has been virtually destroyed before the breadwinner ever becomes a drunkard. There are exceptions to this statement, but Its substantial truthfulness Is beyond dis pute. If the prohibitionists, would give proper weight to facts of this nature they would perceive that The Oregonlan Is not necessarily "on the side of the brewer" because it has no faith in prohibitory liquor laws. Our objection to legislation of that sort has no reference to the brewers. It Is based on the fact that prohibi tory laws attack external symptoms and ignore causes. Prohibition acts precisely like a doctor who in treat ing a cancer should clap a plaster over it and placidly tell his patient that he was cured. It does no more than cover up the evil and does not even accomplish that. There is plenty of evidence that in most places It fails to diminish the quantity of liquor sold and consumed, but even- If it stopped the traffic entirely it would not solve the problem of the sot. He would simply turn to some other stimulant and his later state would be worse than his former. The habit of consuming deleterious drugs can be abolished in one way only, and that Is by abating the causes which under lie it. To ignore the existence of these causes and trust In pigheaded legis lation is sheer quackerj'. Our prohi bitionist brethren have yet to learn the sad lesson that mere good Inten tions do not suffice to accomplish de sirable results in human affairs. The road to hell Is paved with them, ac cording to high religious authority. To attain substantial betterment in our conditions we must force our selves, however painful It may be, to study causes and take account of In evitable consequences. AmonK those who gave pieces of their skin to plaster up Frank Weeks' wound was the proprietor of the Van couver soap vat in which the poor fel low was scalded. The principle of this good deed admits of wide exten sion as surgery progresses. When a man loses a finger or an eye In a mill the proprietor may perhaps step for ward and repair the accident from his own body. It Is safe to predict that the demand for employers' liability laws will abate when this beautiful custom has been commonly adopted. The. shipload of marriageable young women who sailed for Australia from England early this month deserves the best husttands in the colony as the re ward of their enterprise. Their native Isle has too many women, Australia too few. Ob'eylng the great law of supply and demand surplus beauty flows, or sails, to the market which needs It. Our Virginia ancestors got their wives by this method. The old Roman bachelors adopted ft in a mod ified form. They did not wait for the Sabine women to offer themselves but took them by force and arms. What will become of the telegraph monopoly when every family has Its own wireless apparatus? Air is so much cheaper than copper wire that messages will be flying everywhere. Mr. Bates, of White Salmon, can talk with people 600 miles away by means of his home-made machine. What one man has done others can do. The whole world Is shrinking Into one lit tle neighborhood. Nothing will please Portland better than to have the Southwestern Wash ington Development Association play the Oregon metropolis and Seattle against each other. Except on elec-. tion day, Portland's relations are closer. Geographically and commer cially Portland is tied to Southwestern Washington as well as to. Oregon Of the 20.000 children enrolled in the P.ortland schools this Fall, how many will prove lo be Edisons? How many incipient Shakespeares are there? A colt which gives promise of speed is trained for speed. If an Edi son were discovered in one or tne schools what ' would he be trained for? It is nobody's particular business but the persons Interested, yet jjeople with sl nroner sense of delicacy would rejoice to hear that - County Clerk Fields had refused to issue a license for the marriage of a white girl to a Chinese, scheduled for a feature of the pure food show The action of the Democratic minor ity of the Ballinger committee In get ting their "findings" now repudiated by the whole committee Into the newspapers Is strictly in keeping with all the attacks made on the Secretary of the Interior. It waa very dirty poli tics. va nhWtlnn should be raised to the demand of the Postoffice Depart ment that receptacles oe provi aea at trnnt Hnnn fnr mail matter. Carriers should not be kept waiting while door bells are answered. - Candidate Abraham says that unless the Republican party is united, its disruption Is a certainty. Now will any of you anti-assembly fellows dare dispute that? When the two Republican factions in New Tork get done with the pre liminary scrap at the state convention, keep your eye on William Randolph Hearst. Either the Progressives or the old guard will control the New Tork con vention. Then there will be harmony with a capital H. Next Week Prince Tsat Hsun. Min ister of the Chinese Navy, will be "In our midst." You don't have to pro nounce his: name. Punishment of a Portland coal dealer who sold short weight tons holds out hope to the ultimate con sumer. Thomas F. Walsh died a compara tively poor man. for his estate fall $93,000,000 short of the popular esti mate. Perhaps Portland will be able to Include completion of the Hawthorne bridge in its Christmas celebration. The Columbia River Is In the in surgent camp, for it Is trying to go dry in spots. Fred Merril pleaded guilty like a gentleman to save the reputation of a "lady." Colonel Hofer has opened head quarters in Portland. Is that all? The Federal grand Jury I to make bats of the brick trust of Chicago. Warburton's warbonnet was too much for the baseball magnate. Gaynor for Governor Is an allitera tive slogan that sounds good. BR VAX POLICIES ARE NOW "MIJiE." Intercatloa; Parallel Between Ideaa of Two Stateamen. Springfield Union. At Osawatomie, Kan., on Wednesday Mr. Roosevelt replied to those who have been asking that he more clearly define his policies, the policies that he Intrusted to Mr. Taft's keeping, the policies upon the carrying out of which the present Administration is to be judged. Mr. Roosevelt may have thought that the country was suffi ciently well acquainted with what his seven years in the White House stood for to make it unnecessary that he should at this time specifically enum erate and categorically define the things that In a general way have be come known as "my policies." Never theless there has been a demand, which the Union, among other newspapers, has voiced, that he should succinctly declare his platform In order that the public should be enabled to decide whether Mr. Taft, as the residuary legatee, has been faithful to his trust. And so Mr. Roosevelt has met this pub lic demand by announcing his political creed, which comprises 18 command ments. It Is said that this is the creed of progressive Republicanism, and no doubt It is. But does progressive Re publicanism owe Its whole Inspiration to Theodore Roosevelt? Is it not true that the originator of "my policies," the real author of the so-called new creed, is none other than our old friend, William Jennings Bryan? We leave this question for the reader to decide, giving herewith the essential features of the Roosevelt creed, together with quotations from Mr. Bryan's speeches, or from the platforms of the Demo cratic party In 1896, 1900 and 1908, the years In which Mr. Bryan was a candi date for the Presidency: MR. ROOSEVELT. MR. BRYAN. Elimination of apeciallThe real question Is interests from political whether the Govern ment shall remain a Imere business asset of i favor-seeking corpor ations, or be an in strument In the hands I of the people for tho i advancement of tue common weal. - Complete and effectual aPubllclty concerning publicity of corpora tion affairs. oornoration afiairu as sured by compeJing; corporations engaea in Interstate eommerco to take out Federal li cense. Pasttae-e o? laws oro We pledge the Demo cratic party to the en Mbittna- the use of corporate funds di- actment or a law pro rectiv or Indirectly hthitina anv corpora for political purposes, i tion from contributing Ito a campaign xunu. Government aupervls-lExlBtlnir laws against Inn of the capitatlsa trnsta must be en tion not only of the public acrvlce corpor ations, but of all cor-i forced and more strln rent ones muat be en acted, providing for poratlons doing an In terstate buslnesa. publicity as to corpor ations engaged in m- iterstate commerce, re- iq Hiring ail corp'ira.- lliona to aiiow mm llhey have no water lln their stocks, i Personal reponFlhll- we demand the pass- Itv of officers ald oi-n-e of a statute pun rectors of the coroor- i.hKiif hv ltrDrison- ations that break thejment any officer of a Increased power ofl We favor the vigor Federal Bureau of corporations and the Interstate Commerce oue enforcement of the criminal law asuinst euiltv trust Commission to con trol Industry more ef fectlvely. magnat-B and offi cials and demand the enactment of such additional legislation aa may be necessary to make It impossible for a private, monop oly to exiat in the United States. rcranuate Income tax We favor an income and graduated Inher tax as a part of our itance tax. Use of natural re aources for tha bene fit of all tha people. revenue system. We Insist upon the nreservatlon. protec tion and replacement of needed forests, tho preservation of tho ouhllc domain for I homo aeekers. tho I protection of the Na itional resources ii timber, coal, iron and loll against monopolis "tic control. Clear division of au- There s no twilight thorlty between the- zone between the .a National and the var-ltion and the states in lous state govern- which exploiting in ments. Iteret can take ref- iuge from both; and It ' is aa necessary that the Federal Govern - 'ment shall exercise I the power delegated to It as It Is that tne ts t a t e governments shall use the authority (reserved to them. 1 Publicity nf campaignl This is not a new contributions not onlyi question: It la a qucs after election, but be- tion that has been fore election as well.lagltated namely, leg islation requiring pub ilicatlon before the leleetlon. It is a distinct advantage to have Mr. Roosevelt thus clearly define his position. Let him now express his Judgment as to whether the things that President Taft has done and the things In which Mr. Taft believes accord with this declaration of political principles. In other words, let him say whether he regards President Taft as a Pro gressive or as a Reactionary. And then let us hear from the father of all this present trouble. Old Dr. Bryan him self. Declines a Candidacy. PORTLAND. Sept 14. (To the Edi tor.) My. name is mentioned In the ticket suggested by the Kentucky Kllck for the Democratic primary for the office of Circuit Judge, Depart ment No. 1. and I deem it proper to say that under the circumstances I could not qualify for the candidacy If selected. I very fully sympathize with any effort to secure a ticket to be voted for by the Democrats at the coming election, but there is a tven deflned and general movement to take the judiciary out of politics and the Democrats should support that move ment by giving their support to the non-partisan nominees. Every loyal Democrat should be willing to accept the candidacy of his party for any of fice which he could fill with credit, and the more especially In view of the overwhelming vote of the adverse par ty; but under the conditions the Judi ciary nominations ought to be made an exception at the coming election, and the more especially as our party has an equitable representation on the non partisan ticket. E. H. PEERY. Not Piecemeal But All Together. New York World. Mr. Taffs Idea of tariff revision hereafter is to take up the matter piecemeal, to subject one plutocratic combination to the ax at a time, to smash one privileged head today and another one tomorrow. It is a great scheme. It seems to be reasonable. It may be a success, Mr. Taft has wonderful powers of per suasion. He also knows how to yield. But the first tariff-protected monop oly that is assailed by Mr. Taft on his one-at-a-time policy will send up such a wail that every other trust and com bination will be at its side in a minute. Plutocracy and privilege must go at once and together. Tney came hand in hand. 'They must go in the same way. It Waa Started In Oregon. Boston Herald. Eternal vigilance is the price of se curity In making and carrying out pri mary election laws. The Detroit method by which the Democrats have helped to nominate a weak Republican candi date has its suggestion for other cities. As the Game Is Played. St. Louis Post Dispatch. Political leaders confine themselves to moral Issues In the West and talk business with Wall street later in the campaign. DIFFICULTIES OF LOCAL OPTION. Unwelcome Ltwi Mar Be Imposed and These Never Enforced. Homiletlc Review for September. The savage outbreak of the mob that lynched a detective In Newark, O., fol lowed by the defeat of Mr. Bryan in the Nebraska Democratic primaries and state convention on the county option question, calls attention to ome of the difficulties of that kind of pro hibition. Iu New York, Massachusetts and some other regions, the unit for local option is the township or munici pality. In this system a unity is reached between the law and the offi cial machinery on which the law de pends for its enforcement. The major ity that votes "dry" alo elects the offi cials charged with the execution of the law. In county option, on- the other hand, which has been on the whole eminently successful, the county goes dry, but each town or city elects its own offi cials. Newark is a case in point; Jack son, Mich., is another. These "wet" towns in a "dry" county are typical of many where county option is tried. The latter is a town of about 30.000 people. It cast a large majority against prohi bition, but the county option prevailed by a bare margin. The county, how ever, has no power to enforce prohibi tion in Jackson. That city elects Its own officers. In view of the actual sentiment of the city it would be useless to expect that the majority would elect men In tent on enforcing a law that the city has emphatically repudiated. It is, cf course, easy to condemn recreant offi cials, and they should be condemned, but the practical situation ie the thing that must be faced. If local option were left to the vote of this and many other cities similarly situated, prohibi tion would be longer in coming, no doubt, but if ever attained it would have a majority of the votes and might have a board of enforcing officials that would favor and enforce the law. There Is another difficulty with coun ty option quite as serious as the one we have named. To" cite' Jackson again as a typical instance the majority against prohibition in that city almost defeated the proposition. There must be many counties in which saloons have been saddled upon hamlets and rural dis tricts, purely because the county has some large town that defeats prohibi tion in the county. On the other hand we have rural populations imposing an unwelcome law on cities, and, on the other hand, cities forcing saloons on people who have voted against them. With those who rightly believe that county option has met with great suc cess, such conditions neverthelesss are known to work demoralization In pro hibition sentiment. A central city, where the law is despised or neglected, becomes a powerful argument in the hands of the opposition against the law itself. There are probably many Demo crate In Nebraska who agree with Mr. Bryan as to the baleful nature of the liquor traffic, who do not see, in coun ty option, the best method of dealing with It. Option for townships, and In cities, for wards or precincts, is prob ably a better plan, if actual prohibition Is the thing sought. OXE FRUIT OF RADICALISM. Oregon's Proposed Official Gazette Would Defeat Its Own Purpose. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Many strange Ideas some of them good come out of Oregon in these days of economic and governmental experi mentation. Thev are trying out ther to displace representative government with real popular government, in tnei anxiety to assure to the people thei every right, these Oregonians are ii some danger of making themselves ab snrrl. There is at present before the Oregon voters' by Initiative petition a bill to authorize tne puDiication at state e npnm of an "official srazette." Till publication, to be issued by officials first appointed by the Governor and later elected by popular vote, would nntnin nil official news of the state official reports of legislative sessions and other information that the regular ly established Oregon newspapers, i appears, cannot be trusted to print ae nratelv. It would be something like the North German Gazette, the Emperor's person ul nrmn which has become the laugh ing stock of the German states, because of Its hldebouna suDserviency. i ne ur egon official prazette would have Im mense power of oppression and misrep meoTitatinn and abuse of DODUlar rights It would defeat the very purpose it is nrnnnsed to accomplish. It is only an other of the manifestations of the movement to rob Legislatures of their usefulness and give the public duties It has neither time nor inclination to perform. Who Is Taft, Anyway New York World. Mr. Roosevelt yesterday calmly ap propriated Mr. Taffs plan of tariff re vision, one schedule at a time, and formallv annexed it to My Policies. But Mr. Taft's name was not mentioned. Mr. Taft's administration was not re ferred to. There was no hint in the Osawatomie speech that the President had Just presented this plan as tne policy of the Republican party. But Mr. Roosevelt was talking in a state where the Republican organiza tion has etven a trudging Indorsement of the Taft administration and greeted Mr. Roosevelt as "the New World's champion of the rights of man." under whose banner "we stand ready to en list." In those circumstances it is elorv enough for an unimportant per son like the President of the United States to have his tariff policy appro priated without credit by the Colonel. Who is he tnat his name should be mentioned by such an exalted person age to such exalted company? Facts In the Caae. Chicago Evening Post. Mary had a lamb that she spoiled bv overfeeding and cuddling. She took it to school with her one day and the lamb bothered the spelling class, so the teacher kicked it out of the front door. Not having any sense of direc tion It blatted around the schoolyard until finally the teacher sent Mary home with it and told her If she ever brought it again there would be trou ble. Next Spring Mary's father sold the lamb on the rising market. Domestle Problema. Houston Post. "Everv man with a family has a problem to solve." says a Baltimore preacher. Undoubtedly true, but if his wife is not daffy on bridge, his daugh ter on feathers and his son on poker he will get along very well if he doesn't own an automobile. , Stage Note. A Chicago minister has deserted his pulpit to become an actor, leading a string of chorus girls in a musical comedy, and now his parishioners are wondering if the church and stage are growing closer apart or wider together. Boston Herald. A Little Ahead. Louisville Courier-Journal. 'Are we keeping abreast of the times?" Oh, yes. The 1911 models in auto mobiles are on the market and the Christmas magazines will be out next week. I uais i aumo ur nun unu.i ie,-' Cardinal Glbbona on the I nreat Be tween Employer and Employed. Brooklyn Eagle. Very few students of social condi tions In America will be inclined to doubt the Judgment of Cardinal Gib bons in ascribing much of the discon tent to the effect of squandering the resources of the individual or family on luxuries which could be dispensed with as well as not. We suppose, how ever, that many pessimists will differ with the cardinal in his idea that the conflict between employer and employe Is not Irrepressible. He said in his in terview, before starting for Montreal: There Is continued unrest between the em ployed and the employer, and it would be most beneficial If this condition could b overcome. There should not be any need of conflict between labor and capital, since both are necessary for the public good, and the one depends on the co-operation of the other. Whoever strives to Improve th friendly relations between the proprietors and the laboring men. by suggesting the most effectual means of diminishing and even re moving the cause of the dlsc-jntent. is a benefactor to the community. The cause of the discontent ts uni versal selfishness. To diminish and even to remove It is the function of the church, which teaches that it is mora blessed to give than to receive. Op timists persist in believing that, gov erned by the Golden Ruie. workmen and captains of industry would produce such results that the markets of tho world would belong to the United States. It la pleasant to note that Car dinal Gibbons rather favors the optim ists. GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE. President Tatt Able to Carry Out Policies. Columbus State Journal. The clear contention is seen through out the entire speech, and, in fact, in all of Colonel Roosevelt's speeches, thttt no man, company or corporation shall hold a privilege from the Government that will make him rich or give hiin an advantage over his felloJw citizens. There is no doubt but tills is to he .the doctrine of the-future, not in an academic sense, but in a thoroughly practical sense. The fact is to be realized that no wealth is to be made off of the people: that If the Govern ment has anything to give it shall give it to all the people: if it has a duty to levy it shall be levied in the interest of the people and not for trusts or combinations; if it has mines or forest to dispose of, it shall be to the people and not to corporations or speculating combines: If it lias a franchise to dis pose of the people must participate in the profits and earnings of tiiat fran chise. This is the sort of doctrine tlie Colonel is spreading among the people and the kind they are cheering. No man who understands democratic institutions will fall to see that tliey are working out these very Issues. Along with this solution of economic, problems will go the purification of politics and the elevation of civic ideals. If politics Is to be exploited for prtvate gain, so might tlie forest, the mine, the franchise and the tariff. In pushing his propaganda. Colonel Roosevelt is being charged with a po litical purpose, to divide the Repub lican party, start a new one or nom inate himself for President. We hope this is not so. The Republican party is amply fitted to put the doctrine into effect, and President Taft may be safe ly Intrusted with the duty. AS REPORTED AND AS SPOKEN. Two Version of Roosevelt's Speech -at Sioux City, Iowa. New York Globe. To travel around and be saluted ai grand panjandrum and to bo about with a free circus is doubtless pleas ant to those whose tasto lies in this direction, but as Vesta Victoria savs: "'Taln't all honey and 'tain't all jam." Responsibilities are placed on a uni versal boss and director. The school master's arm grows weary from cuf fing and the schoolmaster's voice tirPd from shouting. Witness how tho Colonel was put to It Uie other day at Sioux City to compel the quiet atten tion that he felt due to the weight and importance of his message. As the speech was sent out by the Associated Press It read smoothly. The inconsequential had been edited out of It. It was good-humored and straight forward. But what actually was said and heard is thus given verbatim by the Sioux City Journal: Mr. Chairman and you my fellow ritixens: Now, I wish to ask you to ha as quiet as possible, so that as many as pnSHlble can hear. Sit down! Keep that man down! My friend Get down there! Now get down! Put him down! I will get tlie square deal even If I have to make them take it. Now. koep every men from climb ing up here. He prevents 30 men from see ing when he gets up. Have you no ade quate police forco here He is down now. 1 believe in benevolence but not in weak ness. This was tlie placid exordium to the great speech. While It was being delivered the speaker was wrapped in what Mark Twain called a French calm. .shame of the Collegrea. Richmond Times-Dispatch. There was a pathetic story in one f the magazines not long aero about a college professor and the learned his tory he was writing, but could not fin ish, because his salary was so small that he could not, with the cost of liv ing so high, hire a nurse for his little child. On his slim salary It was all he could do to make ends meet. He had no time to devote to scholarly research: between the demands of his class room and his home there was no opportunity for anything else. This is the true story of many col lege professors all over this country. They are patient men, loath to com plain, and that is why so little protest is heard from them. As a rule they are underpaid. Most of them are in the profession with the purpose or doing real service. Few of them are in it for money, for those who know are aware that there is no money in the profession of teaching. Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. Marriage is also paved with good in tentions. A good talker is one who knows when to quit. A man doesn t mind being abused be cause of his wealth. The rights of busy people are not recognized by loafers. Few things are as expensive as those we try to get for nothing. It s awfully hard for some people to be both good and Interesting. A man is apt to be either his own best friend of his own worst enemy. Marriage teaches a man lots of things he wouldn't have believed from hearsay'. The difference between lame ana no toriety is that notoriety commonly lasts longer. Mitigating Chriatmaa Horrors. Houston Post. We are so full of glorious .anticipa tions involving the result of the No vember elections that we refuse to con sider the Christmas shopping horror at 11. Stirring Up Sectional Feeling. Philadelphia Inquirer. A New York newspaper Includes, in its recipe for mint Juleps one pint of grace juice, looks iiKe an attempt to stir up trouble with the South again. Negative Virtues. Washington Post. Colonel Roosevelt gets no credit among his critics, for the numerous speechmakinr uvxJta.uona he has de clined )