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It Is a pity that tha shrewd farmers
of Maine cannot have the privilege of
reading the- various hypotheses which
have been offered by the Eastern
xwpapers to explain their behavior
n election day. They would find the
!!p!ay diverting. The downfall of
the Republican party In one of its
Ctbraltars has excited emotions rang
ing from despair to rapture In edi
torial bosoms. The wildest Imagina
tion could hardly conjure up any
thing which has not been brought
forward to account for It. Some
papers declare that the overturn hap
pened because there were no Insur
gent candidates running in Maine.
Hence the voters chose Democrats for
lack of something better. Between
the two evils of stand pat Republican
Ism and asinine Democracy accord
ing to this interpretation they chose
what seemed to them for the time
being the lesser. Other papers, like
the New Tork World, apply to the
.Maine cataclysm the general explana-
tory principle that every event of re
cent times depends in some way more
or less occult on the hatred of the
American people for Theodore Roose
velt. The World exclaims with an
astuteness which seems little short of
miraculous that "Maine read the
Owiwotamle speech with Its declara
tlon for the new nationalism, and
went Democratic."
L'nhapplly, the World leaves us in
the dark as to whether the farmers
way down In Maine meant to accept
or condemn the new nationalism by
voting Democratic. Had they cast
their ballots In favor of the- Hale re
gime, would It have been because they
agreed with the ideas of the Osawot
smle speech? The New Tork World
also nnds in Roosevelt s misdoings a
sufficient reason for many untoward
political events. "Are Roosevelt and
his attacks responsible," it Inquires,
"or does Maine's vote mean that this
is a Democratic year?" The Herald
does not explicitly answer, but it
leaves us in no doubt as to Its genu
ine opinion. The too active Colonel
Is the evil genius who Is responsible
for the calamity In Maine. But the
Herald discerns occasion for comfort
In the depth of its sorrow. The Demo
cratic victory was not followed by a
panic, and why not? Because, gentle
reader, while a Republican success In
Maine would have been construed
within the precincts of Wall street as
an indorsement of Roosevelt and
would have caused such a financial
earthquake as modern times have not
yet beheld, when the news came that
the Democrats had won an immense
calm ensued. The perturbed breasts
of the bulls and bears yielded to the
soft impulsions of confidence and the
Impending panic was, heaven be
thanked, averted. That is. It was
averted for the moment, but who shall
say What horrors may follow a Re
publican victory In some other; state?
The Springfield Republican con
fesses that It does not know "how
much Mr. Roosevelt's uproarious
plunge Into a campaign of obvious
hostility to the Taft regime has had
to do with" the result in Maine, but
It Intimates that it was an important
factor. Mr. Taft, says the Republican,
has done all he could to prevent a
party split, while Roosevelt "has done
all he could to disorganize and divide
the party forces." Hence the fearful
debacle in Maine. Obviously, the
Springfield Republican keeps no ac
count of the state of Mr. Roosevelt's
party when he returned from killing
lions and skinning hippopotami in
Africa. The Cumminses. Brlstows.
La Follettes and Beveridges have all
sprung into noxious existence since
that day of evil portent.
There is another group of papers
which does not And the Rooseveltian
hypothesis sufficient to account for
what happened In Maine. Some of
them attach great Importance to pro
hibition. The) New Tork Tribune, for
example, informs us that "dissatisfac
tion with the prohibition amendment
to the state constitution and with the
methods used In enforcing the prohi
bition laws has been growing stead
ily." It told heavily against the Re
publicans in 190S and 1908 and now
it has compassed their ruin. The
Democrats have won the battle be
cause they are pledged to submit the
prohibition question to a referendum
vote of the people and upon the tide
of this purely local success their can
didates for Congress were Incidentally
carried along to the glorious goal. The
Tribune may be mistaken or it may
be right, but Its hypothesis has at
least the merit of appearing plausible.
It does not outrage common sense
quite so flagrantly as some of the
others.
Then there Is a group of papers
which Interprets the result in Maine
a little more broadly. While they
admit that prohibition played a part
and that differences in the Repub
lican party no doubt helped the trouble
along, still the essential cause of the
Democratic victory was "dissatisfac
tion with the old bosses and the old
system of political dictatorship," to
quote the New Tork Evening Mail.
The Boston Herald Is another paper
which attributes the result in Maine
to general dissatisfaction w1th recent
Republican policies, particularly the
late revision of the tariff. The Con
gressional commlteee. It says, has sub
mitted Its defense of the Payne-AJd-rlch
tariff to the people and the Maine
election shows what the people think
of it. "It Is an unmistakable rejec
tion of" Republican revision. So the
doctors disagree while the suffering
patient slowly and painfully works
out his own cure.
Poor old Count Zeppelin! After
making a stronger pull on the) German
treasury than was ever before at
tempted by any kind of an Inventor,
his airship has been rejected, and in
the future,, when the government has
any flying to be done, it will pin Its
faith to the aeroplane. Abandonment
of the Zeppelin dirigible balloons was
due to the numerous mishaps which
have befallen them. Tet the future
may deal more kindly than the pres
ent with the name of Zeppelin. The
German Inventor has to his credit the
first flight ever made with an airship
carrying passengers for hire. Devel
opment and Improvement of the type
of vessel to which he has remained
loyal may yet enable It to attain a
high degree of utility. The world
Jeered and ridiculed Langley. the in
ventor of the aeroplane, but for all that
time proved that the world lost a great
Inventor when Langley died. As long
as the world endures his name will
hold a prominent place among the
great inventors.
SLATE-MAKJXG.
There are big assemblies and tittle
assemblies. The big assemblies are
held in broad daylight and do their
work and recommend their candidates
where all may see them. The little as
semblies meet behind closed doors;
peer behind chairs and under tables to
discover any Intruders; have no roll-
call or known list of those present;
keep no record of their proceedings;
speak in whispers: permit no sugges
tions from any rank outsiders and
close the night's work by a solemn
agreement all around to deny that any
living being was there.
That Is your anti-assembly assembly.
Tou don't hear the footfall of your
stealthy and lurking anti-assembly
sembly boss, but luckily you can see
the footprints and you can smell the
odor of the Bourne incense.
Now they come out into the light
and openly proclaim their legislative
slate for Multnomah County. The
task la easy for the State Senate for
there Is a single candidate for the Joint
Senatorship and a single candidate for
the unexpired term of Mr. Coffey. But
Boon Cason Is in the way of the chosen
and anointed Joseph, and so young Ca
son. who had thought he heard a call
to duty for the people by signing State
ment One and running for office, is
ruthlessly wiped off.
For the House in Multnomah there
are twenty anti-assembly Statement
One candidates. But the slate-makers
eliminate six and reduce the slate to
fourteen. Then they boldly and
frankly publish them.
It's a very good Job of slate-making.
But who are the slate-makers? Why
are the six anti-assembly candidates
left off. kicked out. Jumped on, spat
on. mashed up, ostracised? Why, un
der a free-for-all primary, are they
not entitled to run for office without
going counter to the Intrigues and.
machinations of any machine?
J1ST A rOUTICAL JOB.
This humbug non-partisan lawyers"
assembly enterprise deserves another
word. There is loud outcry from anti-
assembly sources that the state as
sembly and other assemblies were
controlled" by sinister corporation
and corrupt machine influences. Not
true. But look at the lawyers' as
sembly. The state lawyers' assembly
a poor affair with only a small frac
tion of the 1500 odd Oregon lawyers
in It was worked up from the out
set to keep Judges King and Slater
on the Supreme Bench. Except for
their ambition to keep their Jobs and
the active, persistent and capable ef
fort In their behalf, the state assembly
would never have been heard of.
Controlled? The lawyers' . assem
bly was controlled all tbe time
at every point and through every dif
ficulty by the King and Slater Inter
est. No others had a look-in. No
others tried. The nomination of two
Republican Judges was only an Inci
dent to the success of the plan. Their
places were assured anyway. Some
plan had to be devised to save King
and Slater, and the state assembly
was the plan.
The lawyers assembly project a
purely political movement for the
benefit of two office-hungry Demo
crats fits well In with tho general
Democratic record as to the Supreme
Bench. The first scheme was to
cajole the people Into Increasing the
Supreme Bench from three to five so
that Judges King and Slater then
court commissioners could continue
to hang on.' It failed, for the people
refused to be fooled. Then the King
and Slater machine lobbied a bill
through the Legislature In open de- I
fiance of the people's will even add
ing with unblushing coolness an
emergency clause, and Governor
Chamberlain completed the Job by
signing the bill, and saving the Judi
cial necks of the two fellow Demo
crats. Now It's the lawyers" assembly for
King and Slater. What next?
IMPROVrXO TILLAMOOK HARBOR.
Major Morrow, of the Corps of En
gineers, accompanied by Senator
Bourne and Russell Hawkins, of the
Whitney Lumber Company, is at Tilla
mook Investigating the possibilities of
that harbor for becoming a first-class
seaport. There Is plenty of land there
for building a city and plenty of water
outside the bar to float the ships. The
problem now to be settled Is the re
moval of enough sand and debris from
the channel to admit the sea water
In sufficient depth to float larger ves
sels than can now enter the port. The
present depth of water Is insufficient
for vessels of more than 13 feet draft
To secure tonnage that can be econom
ically used, it Is necessary to have at
least twenty feet of water on the bar.
If the Government takes into consid
eration the immensity of the traffic
that could be developed by a deeper
channel Into Tillamook, there is hard
ly any doubt about the necessary ap
propriation being secured.
There Is not only more standing
timher than is tributary to any other
port on the Pacific Coast, but the
dairying and small farming industries
are of great value and are rapidly
growing. This proposed Improvement
of Tillamook bar Is of nearly as much
Interest to Portland as it Is to Tilla
mook. It will be Impossible for the
timber owners and other residents of
that region ever to get the best re
turns from their holdings except by
water shipment. As Tillamook grows
through this Improvement Portland
will share In the prosperity thus made
possible and the trade of this city with
the Tillamook county seat will double
and treble as the development of the
country progresses.
With a twenty-foot channel out of
Tillamook and two railroads leading
across the Coast Range to Portland,
timber owners can ship the low-grade
lumber by water and the better quali
ties by rail. The wonderfully produc
tive soil that has made Tillamook fa
mous will attract thousands of thrifty
small farmers. As fast as the Umber
Is removed, farms, orchards and gar
dens will take the place of the forests.
Tillamook or any other coast port sim
ilarly situated can always call on Port
land for assistance in any public work
that will In the slightest degree en
large the markets and Increase the ex
ports of the territory.
TRCSTIX THE, rvxtPVB.
Senaor Bourne represents faith
fully the spirit and ideas of the neck-
or-nothlng allies behind the anti-as
sembly movement. He Is a fit leader.
for he plays the game all the time
and for all It Is worth and more.
Not long ago the Senator Issued an
Imperial proclamation In which he re
pudiated in advance the possible, or
probable, action of the primary J
nominating assembly candidates, say
ing:
11 1 am nara at me lima 01 tno feiwrai
'action and anr as.eml.lv men hav. been
. ..
any assembly men
nominated and thara ere no antl-aasembly
candidate from tha Rxubllcn party op
posing thaxn. 1 will vote for tha Democratlo
candidate, provided ho Is opposed to the
assembly and Is a competent man.
No uncertain sound about that. Do
the people rule? Hardly, unless they
rule the way their self-anointed rulers
would have them rule. Now comes
another ukase from the Bourne throne
room. In which the former plain de
fiance of the people's will (unless they
should abide by Bourne's will) Is em
phasized, as follows:
I hava tba utmost confidence In the In
telligence, honaaly and Independence
of the people of Oregon and belleva
they win defeat, either in tha primaries or
tha gonrral election, every candldata who has
allied hlmseit with The assembly movement
and assisted tha effort to restore the political
machine.
Every candidate of the Republican
assembly county, district, state
must be beaten at all hazards
at the primaries, or later at
the election. No matter If the Re
publican primary shall nominate the
assembly candidates, or any of them
Senator Bourne distinctly declares and
repeats that no Republican candidate
that may be good enough for a Re
publican primary Is good enough for
him, unless the candidate shall es
pouse his particular and peculiar per
sonal views of the assembly. Tet how
could Bourne have been elected in
June, 1906, except through a persist
ent, repeated and Irresistible appeal
to party loyalty? It was party spirit
the desire for party harmony, the rec
ognizo'd need of party regularity alone
that saved Bourne. Nothing else.
But Bourne Is not alone in hia re
jection thus early of the expected ac
tion of any Republican primary. He
speaks not only for himself, but for
his Democratic and Statement One
following. If they cannot run the
Republican primaries they will go
Democratic. "Trust the people, of
course; but not unless 'e are tne
people," Is the real anti-assembly
Bourne slogan
WILL. WORK AGAINST POKTLAXl.
The annual waterfront labor trouble
is with us again, and, as usual, It
threatens to cut down the volume of
the shipping business from the port.
Grainhandlers are asking from 5 cents
to 10 cents per hour more than is paid
for the same class of work on Puget
Sound. Some criticism Is heard be
cause the exporters will not grant the
increase. Other criticism is heard be
cause the exporters will not fight the
unions and force them to accept the
same wages as prevail on Puget Sound
The exporters are not entitled to ad
verse criticism in either case. It is un
necessary for wheat or at the most
more than a small portion of it to be
handled in this city; tha exporters all
have facilities for handling it on Puget
Sound," where freight rates are the
same as to and from Portland and
where labor Is cheaper. For the same
reason it is unnecessary for exporters
to go to any trouble in fighting the
labor unions, which have decreed that
It must cost more to ship wheat from
Portland than from Puget Sound.
The City of Portland will lose in
business and prestige by the diversion
of this business, but It does not seem
to be a case where any blame can at
tach to the exporters, who this year
find h unnecessary either to pay the
higher wages demanded or to go to the
trouble of righting for an open shop
along the waterfront. If the embargo
against Portland's -wheat export trade
Is not lifted soon, we will probably
witness the departure of a number of
prominent grainhandlers for Puget
Sound, where moderate wages and
plenty of work are regarded more fa-
vorably than big wages and no work.
No permanent or satisfactory settle
ment of this annual trouble can ever
be effected so long as this city Is put
at a disadvantage with the ports with
I which we must compete.
OREGON SHORT I-INE PROJECTS.
Not all of that $72,000,000 Increase
In stocjt which the Oregon Short Line
will issue in tne near xuture win oe
needed to build a line across Central
Oregon. According to press dispatches
It will be held for emergency pur
poses, but the activity displayed in
the Pacific Northwest by the Hill
lines makes It reasonably certain that
some of the "emergencies'" which are
likely to arise will be the necessity
for hurried construction of now lines
in strategic territory- The Harriman
Interests, by their great activity in the
Central Oregon field as well as in the
Coast country, from the Columbia
River south to the California line.
show due appreciation of the traffic
of the field, and local officials are
doing everything in their power to
hasten construction of roads where
they are needed the most. It is not
Improbable that one or the Dig "emer
gencies" which the directors had in
view is the construction of the much-
discussed line down the Salmon River
canyon.
This line through the canyon would
be a very expensive project for the
greater part of the distance, but as a
connecting link in the great water
level system' operated by the union
Pacific-Oregon Short Llne-O. R. & N.
It would be -worth all that it cost.
This project provides for the exten
sion to the mouth of the Salmon River
of the Oregon Short Line branch now
completed from Blackfoot, Idaho, to
Mackay. Much of the distance along
the river would be through the deep
est canyons to be found on the Ameri
can continent, tne river lor many
miles running at the bottom of can
yons -from 4000 to 6000 feet deep.
There are, of course, wonderful scenic
attractions on a route like this, but
It will not be natural beauties nor
passenger travel that will Justify ex
penditure of so large a sum.
The road when it Is built -will be
constructed for the purpose of extend
ing the water-level lines of the Hani
man system farther Into the Interior
than any other railroad system has
penetrated with 'a continuous water
level line from tidewater. With this
road through Salmon River canyon,
freight can be hauled along the banks
of the Columbia, Snake, Salmon and
Lost rivers for a distance of more
than 800 miles from the ocean. This
natural advantage over any line which
Is obliged to climb mountains has an
economic value that -will recompense
the builders for the heavy cost. It
may also have a very important bear
ing on the changed conditions In dis
tribution which are sure to follow the
completion of the Panama Canal,
With a water-grade route from the
Pacific Coast to a point more than
800 miles inland, a railroad can han
die the freight which is brought
around from the Atlantic by steamer
at a cost so low that the trans-conti
nental rail business will be far from
attractive to any point west of the
Rocky Mountains. Whether the Short
Line spends Its money In developing
Central Oregon or in building a line
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' down the Salmon River, Portland, at
tne root or the down-bin nam irom
the Deschutes, the Salmon, Snake and
Columbia rivers, will come in for the
lion's share of the benefits.
The pride of the white race having
suffered total eclipse when a black
cloud arose at Reno, the black race
will now have everything Its own way
for a while. There being "no more
white worlds to conquer, Mistah John
son, the champion slugger of the
world. Is now browsing around - the
black belt. He met Sam Langford. an
other gentleman of color. In Boston
Tuesday and both agreed to meet in a
boxing contest for the world's cham
plonshlp. While the necessity fop
keeping pace with Jeffries and Cor
bett developed "Ll'l Arthah" Into quite
a voluble talker, it is hardly probable
that a prospective match between the
two blacks would make such a heavy
drain on the English language as was
occasioned by the Jeffries-Johnson
fight. There ought to.be less talk and
more fight when these dusky descend
ants of Darwin's original prizefighters
finish signing up the articles.
A Medford man was stabbed to
death by another man who became an
gry because he was under the impres
sion that an effort was being made to
steal his dog. The punishment failed
to fit the crime; there was too much
of it. Something nearer to an even
break would be the official execution of
the dog-owner. If Mr. Mock, the man
who did the stabbing, is arrested and
placed in Jail, he will have plenty of
time In which to reflect on the value
of dogs. Sober reflection can hardly
fail to convince him that he overrated
the Dartlcular dog in question. While
Mr. Mock demonstrated to the world
that he is a man of strong convic
tions, he will hardly be In a position
to enjoy the society of the dog for
which he risked so much. As the
haneman's noose dangles above his
head it is highly probable that he will
feel keen regret at ever having owned
a dog.
The limited train service which has
been a source of satisfaction and
pleasure to thousands "of Oregon beach
visitors this season has been with
drawn. Travel Is still unusually heavy
but the season is waning. No better
evidence of the growing popularity of
the Oree-on seaside resorts could be
shown than in the fact that the limited
train service, which Is usually aban
doned nearly a month earlier, has this
year been extended to near the end of
September. The beach season, in
length and In the number of visitors
at the resorts, this season broke an
previous records by a wide margin.
With the Improvements planned in
hotel and train facilities, next season
will surely be a better one than that
which has just closed.
In the First Congressional District
every Republican newspaper, with no
exception, so far as The Oregonlan
has observed, is urging the renoml-
natlon of Representative Hawley
every newspaper behind Mr. Mulkey,
the over-night insurgent, without ex
ception Is a Democratic newspaper
with "independent" pretensions. Now
there is the line-up. The Republican
newspapers, regular and progressive,
are satisfied with Hawley; the opposi
tion in the. Republican primary has
for Its Impulse and basis Democratic
Interference In Republican party af
fairs. The fact that Senator Bourne
Is actively with Mulkey does not alter
the significance of the facts. There is
his natural alliance.
They who favor statewide prohibi
tion should read again the news from
Umatilla County (dry), where whisky
and beer have been sold openly for
months past. In that county as well
as every other county in Oregon, pub
lic sentiment is not strong enough to
stop the unlawful sale of intoxicants.
And it is so wherever in the United
States prohibitory laws have been en
acted. Why have a law that universal
experience teaches cannot be en
forced ?
Of course there is no disposition to
question the honesty of Senator La
Follette's motives. He Is an honest
man. He is no doubt even honest in
his opinion that there are no other
honest men. But there may be.
The Colonel is trying to down the
New Tork bosses. Commendable war
fare, truly. Still it is to be remem
bered that a typical boss made him
Governor of New Tork and secured hi3
nomination for Vice-President. .
Note that Taft, while favoring direct
primaries, is not opposed to party con-
entlons. Tet you hear in Oregon the
curious charge that indorsement by an
assembly puts the bar sinister on a
candidate.
Precisely how many colonists are
coming to Oregon this Fall cannot now
be estimated, but whatever the-num
ber, we wish It were doubled.
Continuous baseball is once more the
talk. Based on the record for 1909
and 1910, Portland prefers one win
ning team to a pair of losers.
In view of the latest political news
from Nebraska, almost any one can
guess the Prohibition candidate for
President in 1912.
After reading Lillian Russell's first
page free reading notice, what press
agent dare say there is nothing new
under the sun?
There can be but one comment on
General Funston's ordering banishment
of all felines from Fort Leavenworth.
Scat!
It has been a great many years
since a New York state convention
loomed so large in National politics.
There are strong symptoms of In
surgencltis in Minnesota.
CONGRESSMAN HAHLEY'S RECORD
Service In Connection With Appropria
tions for Oregon.
SALEM, Or., Sept. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Friday evening in his address in
this city. Hon. B. F. Mulkey, who is
contesting with Congressman Hawley
for the nomination as Representative
in Congress from the First District,
made some statements that appear far
from the facts, as reference to news
paper files, letter files, committee flies
and the Congressional record demon
strates. He labored hard to prove that
Mr. Hawley was not Instrumental in
securing the appropriations for the Ore
gon City locks and the Sluslaw water
way, and claimed that he had proven
this because the items were in italics
in the bill as reported by the confer
ees.
Mr. Mulkey was exceedingly ill-ad
vised relative to these appropriations
and the manner in which they were
secured, or he willfully sought to mis
lead his audience. A brief reference to
facts will show Mr. Hawley's hand in
these matters, and Mr. Mulkey could
have so informed himself had he the in
clination and industry, with the requi
site fairness.
First, Mr. Hawley has never made
the statement that unassisted and alone
he secure! the enactment of any legis
lation. With two branches of Congress,
the House of Representatives and the
Senate, through which such legislation
must pass, claims of this nature could
properly be called egotistical. But what
he can claim, and what the facts show,
he was instrumental in securing both
the appropriations for the Willamette
Locks at Oregon City, and the improve
ment of the Sluslaw waterway.
The House of Representatives is by
custom and constitutional designation
that branch of the National Legislature
which makes appropriations for Nation
al uses. All such bills originate there,
and when the Senate makes any amend
ments, the House must pass upon them
and concur before the bill is enacted
into law, and as the House is the
watchdog of the treasury, large num
bers of Senate amendments are re
jected annually.
During the 60th Congress Mr. Haw
ley took up with the Portland Cham
ber of Commerce, the various commer
cial bodies of the Willamette Valley,
the State Railroad Commission, and the
Secretary of State, the matter of secur
ing facts and figures upon which he
could secure an appropriation of $300,-
000 to accompany a like appropriation
by the State of Oregon for the pur
chase or construction of locks at Ore
gon City. His requests were compiled
with and he received a large mass of
valuable and very Important data which
so far as known were the only data col
lected by any member of the Oregon
delegation.
In order to secure an appropriation
it is first necessary to secure a favor
able report of the United States En
gineers, and this he set about to do.
The survey was in due course author
ized by his efforts and based on the
facts above referred to, but up to the
time the river and-harbor bill of last
session -had passed the House, no report
had been received from Major Mc
Indoe, the local engineer, although are-
port had been called for several times.
This was in part due to the bad health
of the engineer and lack of help, and
tne Sluslaw waterway, as well as a
portion of the Coquille waterway were
likewise without reports. However, Mr.
Hawley had filed arguments In each of
the cases, as well as made numerous
oral presentations of the facts, and up
to the time the bill left the House
had securel appropriations for every
project favorably reported in the First
District, Including Coos Bay, the Will
amette River, a portion of the Coquille
waterway, Tillamook Bay and Coos
River almost 600.000 In all.
He also had the assurance of the
House Committee on Rivers and Har
bors that should the reports on the
above . projects be received before the
bill left, the Senate that no objection
would be made to amendments and such
would be concurred In. The reports hav
ing been received, the amendments were
made and no further difficulty was ex
perienced, although a number of Sen
ate amendments were rejected. Chair
man Alexander stated when the bill
passed the House, which statement Is
to be found In the Congressional Rec
ord of June 10, that all amendments
had the hearty support of the House
committee and showed that they , had
met the House committee requirements,
as stated above In his assurances to Mr.
Hawley.
As a further evidence that Mr. Haw
ley was in tne lead in this matter, the
Portland Journal no later than last Fall
contained at attack on him for not
giving the data he had collected from
the above sources to the other members
of the Oregon delegation. This goes
to show that they were without any
at that time. The data had been on
file with the House Committee on
Rivers and Harbors and the United
States Engineers for several months.
and were open to inspection.
Mr. Hawley secured the survey for
the Sluslaw and the appropriation fol
lowed as In the above course. The
Port of Sluslaw, organized under the
laws of the State of Oregon, upon Mr.
Hawley's advice, the president of which
is Hon. I. B. Cushman, of Acme. Or,
and the people of Lane County know
the facts, and are appreciative of the
services rendered them as many letters
and telegrams on file in Mr. Hawley's
office indicate.
JAMES G. HELTZEL.
Grammar,
W. D. Nesbitt in St. Louis Times.
Grammar Is an invention to make
conversation difficult.
It is an ever present aid to the comic
critic and slight criterion of social stand
ing.
If a man have cash and no grammar
he can get through, but if he have
neither cash nor grammar he is im
possible. And yet when a man says to you, "If
I had have knowed that you would have
came I wouldn't have went till I seen
you," you understand him perfectly.
If you ask him to lend yon $10. and
he says to you simply. "I hain't got no
money nohow," you do not require a
diagram.
Even when some one splits an In
finitive and confuses his "wills" and
"shalls" his meaning is clear even to
the most cultured mind.
Speech Is the vehicle of thought, and
grammar is merely the gilt on the
wheels.
Bad grammar, like bad language, is
always learned from the Neighbor's
Children.
Addisonian construction and Chester-
fieldian elegance is always Inherited
from Your Side of the Family.
one rorm.of grammar was invented
by a man named Harvey. The Harvey
who invented the Sauce
But sauce may, at times, be good
grammar.
Grammar was hammered Into vou at
school, until now you can shudder when
some one says "had saw," but off-hand
could you name the elsht Darts of
speech?
Nine, Indeed?
We might have knew
that.
First Catch Your Republican.
Kansas City Journal.
Colonel Roosevelt will next make
series of speeches In the Sunny
South. The "regulars" will not grudge
him all the disruption of the Republi
can party he can cause in that section.
One Important Point.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Well, have you learned anything
from your -experiment at making a
garden?"
Yes; 1 have learned not to promise
I anyone any vegetables."
IXTEMPERAXCE AD ITS CAUSES
Difference of Opinion as to Which Are
Primary and Which Secondary.
PORTLAND, Sept 20. (To the Edi
tor.) I certainly most 'heartily agree
with The Oregonian in some things In
Its editorial entitled "Intemperance
and Its Causes." For Instance, that
"the American saloon in Its present
condition is indefensible," and that to
speak fruitfully we must speak dispas
sionately. It was farthest from my In
tention to Inject anything like sarcasm
Into my former communication, and I
shall certainly not do so in this. Tou
say that "perhaps I will agree with
you that Intemperance ' arises from
three sources social habits, disease
and poverty." Partially I do agree
with this diagnosis, but my own study
of this has convinced me that neither
of these is the chief cause. In my
humble opinion the causes should stand
in about this order of relative impor
tance: Aggressive saloon business methods.
Social customs and habits.
Improper education.
Improper discipline In the home.
Hereditary blemish In cell life.
There Is such a preponderance of
opinion of investigators and of evi
dence that "Insufficient nutrition, dis
ease and poverty" are both the imme
diate and secondary effects of alcol-
lsm. that I am compelled to put them
in that category and not regard them
as primary causes. The larger per
centage of drunkenness among that
class which some call the proletariat
(I don't like the word In America) is
largely accounted for by the operation
of prohibitory laws as enacted and en
forced by big business and industrial
corporations. My reasons for putting
the saloon first as a cause are:
The known effects of vigorous ad
vertising upon any business.
The presence of so many restrictive
laws upon the business.
The rapid reduction of drinking un
der even imperfect prohibition.
The effect of the American saloon
upon newly-arrived foreigners.
The first two are evment. Tne proors
are at hand for the last two.
WILLIAM PARSONS.
BRYAN FOR HOKE SMITH.
Thinks He Should Be Given Chance for
Presidency In 1012.
Last Week's Commoner.
The Georgia convention in ratifying
the nomination of ex-Governor Hoke
Smith, who recently won the guberna
torial nomination at the primary, sug
gested him for the Presidency. And
why not? In 1900 and 1908, whenever
Mr. Bryan's nomination was suggested.
the corporation papers of the East in
sisted that the nomination ought to go to
the South. Why not give the South a
chance now? Hoke Smith is from the
South. He is a big man, too. He was
in the Cabinet.
Spirit of the Boy.
Ohio State Journal.
It Is the spirit of a boy that deter
mines whether he should go to college
or not. If he has not spirit, "get up.
gumption or active ambition, college
will do him more harm than good. So
every boy that goes to college should
nqulre dally, "Am I that sort of
chap?" If he isn't, it may nudge him
up and lead him to take on a resolu
tion that will win.
This Is very important. We know
two boys whom a father sent to the
best colleges; he spent lots of money
on them; they fared fairly well at
school; they are now loafing around
home, waiting for the silver spoon to
come their way. Having no impulse.
no initiative, no spirit, their education
doesn't amount to a flying straw. Still
this thing goes on and on, and the fan
cy keeps dazzling before the eyes that
education is a nest of eggs to bring in
from the haymow.
It is not so. Education is in getting
the hens and starting the haymow.
The chore boy can gather the eggs.
Aero-Cowboy Next.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A letter from Valentine, Tex., quotes
a herdsman who has proposed to his
chief the purchase of an aeroplane as
saying:
"If the old man carries out my plan
of using one of their outfits. It'll come
in mighty handy tallying up the herd
and will do away with a lot of work
that is now done on cow ponies. It'll
be necessary, though, for the cattle to
be branded on their backs Instead of
their sides. That ain't much of
change, for it's about as easy to slap
the Iron on the top of a calf as it is
on Its side. By placln' the brand on
their top side it will be made plain to
the aer'plane man, and as he soars
around over the ranch he can take
note of every brand and tally up the
herd in no time. It is now a hard
thing to locate every brand in the pas
ture, particularly if the country is
rough. But with the air outfit it
would be no trouble at all to find every
animal and get down Its brand."
Pen Portrait of Helen Taft.
New York American.
Miss Taft is a splendid type of the
American girl. She is extremely pret
ty, ' with great masses of brown hair
and big blue eyes, clean-cut features.
with a slightly tip-tilted nose and up
turned mouth. She is free of affecta
tion a perfectly natural girl. Last
season she appeared occasionally at in
formal functions at the White House
and won hosts of friends by her quiet.
unostentatious demeanor. On the
north shore she has been a favorite for
the last two seasons. She excels at
tennis; plays a good game of golf, is
an accomplished horsewoman, a grace
ful dancer and has shared the honors
at all the functions at Beverly at which
the Junior set gathered during the sea
son. Moreover, she is an accomplished
linguist.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Chicago News.
Jealousy indicates misplaced affec
tion.
Wise is the man who doesn't know
more than he should.
It takes a widow to flirt and make
a man believe that she doesn't.
Smiles cost less than electric lights
and they make the home brighter.
Too often the supposedly dead past
Is merely a case of suspended anima
tion.
A quick way to remove the taint from
other people's money is to get your
own hands on it.
A woman may not have faith in a
physician, but she believes everything
the beauty doctor tells her.
It's surprising how many things a
girl can learn at a boarding school
that will never be of any use to her.
Mrs. Belmont's Hobble Skirt.
New York World.
Mrs. Belmont wore one of the new
Paris creations, a black silk hobble
gown and a long black silk hobble coat.
Miss Ine Milholland, who accompanied
Mrs. Belmont, attracted attention by
her Parisian millinery a round black
velvet hat of Turkish mode with
gold embroidered crown, attached from
the side of which and falling to the
bottom of her gown, was a bizarre
looking Persian veil of blue and gold.
Miss Milholland's smart blue gown was
of the hobbled fashion, but not her
suffrage views.
Life's Continual Warfare.
Judge.
A patriot Is a man who successfully
hooks his wife s clothes.
A martyr is a man who makes the
endeavor and falls.
A hero is the man who refuses to try.
A coward Is a man who remains sin
gle to avoid it.
LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE
They were very young and very hap-,
py, and very foolish, and very newly '
wed.
And they kept a kitchen garden.
"Angelina, darling," said the youthful I
husband, "as I was passing through the
garden I saw some asparagus ready for !
cooking. Perhaps you'd like to go and j
gather the first fruit of the season i
yourself?"
She would love to, but she wasn't j
expert in horticulture and didn't want
to "let on." If she went alone, she '
might commit some egregious blunder.
"I tell you what, Edwin," exclaimed
the girl wife enthusiastically, "we'll go :
out together. You shall pluck it, and
I will hold the ladder!" Answers.
a
Years ago Justice William H. Moody
was attending a caucus in Haverhill,
Mass., where, as usual, the slate had
been made out In advance.
The slate had been given to one Bill
Jeffers to nominate, and Bill, being new
at the game, halted and stammered,
after he had addressed the chair, until
the situation became embarrassing.
Mr. Moody promptly relieved the situa
tion. "Mr. Chairman," he said, "I move 1
that the list of names in Bill Jeffer's !
hat be nominated." and the motion pre- :
vailed. Chicago Evening Post.
Abernethy was supposed to ifluenee ;
people by a brusqueness amounting to !
absolute rudeness. It is related that
one day a very voluble lady took her 1
daughter, who was ill, to see him.
"Which of you wants to consult me?" '
said Abernethy. '
"My daughter," replied the elder I
woman. I
Abernethy then put a question to the i
girl. Before she had a chance to reply I
her mother began a long story. Aber
nethy told her to be quiet and repeated
his question to the girl. A second time
the woman began a story, and a second '
time he told her to be quiet. Then she '
interrupted him a third time.
"Put your tongue out," he said to 1
the mother.
'But there's nothing the matter with
me. she exclaimed.
"Never mind; put your tongue out,"
he commanded. ,
Thoroughly overawed, the woman
obeyed.
"Now Veep it out," said Abernethv. '
And he proceeded to examine the girl.
Ladies' Home Journal.
"Mark Twain hated a gloomy man,"
said a New York editor. "Once, at a
banquet, a gloomy man sat opposite
him. This man would not smile at
the most amusing jokes.
"What's the matter with you?" cried
Mark Twain. "The stories are all good.
Why don't you laugh?"
" 'Ah, sir,' said the gloomy man, Tiow .
can I laugh when I remember that
every time I breathe a soul passes into '
the great beyond?"
" 'Good gracious,' said the humorist. '
did you every try cloves'?" Washing
ton Star.
The remarkable resemblance of Vic
tor Herbert and William Lackaye has
often been the subject of comment. It
also happens that both gentlemen pos
sess decided opinions, are not averse
to airing them, and rigidly refuse to
yield a point taken in argument. The
other day they were standing on the
pavement in front of the Lambs' Club, 1
loudly discussing some matter of im
mediate Interest. Another member of
the Lambs' stepped out, looked at them,
and then retreated to the club's In
terior. He went to the telephone' and
called up William Muldoon, the rest
cure man.
'Come get me, Billy," said he. "I
need a rest. I know I've been hitting
it up lately, but I didn't think I was
that bad. What's the matter? Why,
I just saw Victor Herbert standing in
front of himself quarreling with him
self." Cincinnati Times Star.
Economy at Washington.
Boston Globe.
If President Taft follows his pro
posed plan and asks the subordinates
in the Government service for their
Ideas on how to decrease the expenses
of the departments, he may obtain val
uable information. Every one who has
been connected with the Federal offices.
particularly in Washington, knows
there is much unnecessary labor, dupli
cation of duties and numerous petty
bureaus which waste more money than
the services rendered are worth.
There can be a large saving in the
running expenses of the Federal serv
ice throughout the country if the au
thorities have the courage to institute
the proper methods of retrenchment.
The question is, will they do it? It
has often been proposed, but no Ad
ministration has ever had the pluck to
undertake the task.
Steadying Public Opinion.
Washington Star.
James J. Hill, who ought to know
something about business, thinks there
is no occasion for alarm. He is an
optimist. With a large knowledge of
business credits, he gives his voice for
confidence. It is a good note to sound
Just now, when the strident tones of
spellbinders, whooping It up for votes
regardless of consequences, are having
effect. For seven weeks wr. shall
have a great political tullaboo, and a
word now and then from business
sources giving the business view of
things will be of service in steadying
paubllc opinion.
Dubious Testimonial.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"I don't know whether to accept this
testimonial or not," mused the hair re
storer man.
What's the matter with it?" de
manded the advertising manager.
Well," explained the boss, "the man
writes: 'I used to have three bald spots
on the top of my head, but since using
one bottle of your hair restorer I have
only one." "
Vacation Souvenirs.
Buffalo Express.
"Derbsy brought back a bear's head
and a lynx, both mounted, as souvenirs
of his vacation In the mountains. Have
you any such fearful reminders?"
"Well, I have my weekly receipts for
board and extras."
Logical.
Omaha Bee.
Mr. Bryan insists that Democratic
prospects were never better. Then adds
he will not be a candidate In 1912. That
sounds more rational.
The Secret Brew.
Exchange.
rve heard about the perfumes that from
Arabr arise
Llka subtle soothing shadows on a Journey
to the skies;
Likewise about the sslces of the Indlaa far
away.
I'll wager that we have them beat right
here at home today.
The treasures o the garden 'round the
place have been outsoured.
The grocer has delivered sundry packets
from his hoard.
And the traveler at a distance sniffs and
pauses to admire.
Aunt Hajina's in the kitchen with a kettle
on the fire.
You see, the careless witches once mislaid
their cauldron strango
With ajl Its posslbiltles o,f swift and mys
tic change;
A kindly fairy found It and reformed it or,
the spot.
Although Its might in magic has abated
not a Jot.
And now the incantations take a more pro
saic tone;
Now, boys, you keep away from here and
let those things alone!"
The household waits in wonder and imps-
Aunt Banna's In the kitchen with a ksttle
on we are.