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Cfcl- caa-o. 6ier building. - PORTLAND, MTVRnAr. sr.rr. U. Ml. THE PRIMARIES. This Is primary day in Oregon. There Is to b an election In every county for state. Congressional, dis trict, legislative, county and precinct cfflces. Full lists of candidate have been recommended by Republican assemblies for state. Congressional and Judicial places, and In most of .he. counties for local and legislative offices. War has waged about the assem bly on one hand and Statement No. 1 on the other. Tet Statement No. 1 has had no proper place In the campaign except as to holdover etate Senatorial candidates. The Oregonlan hopes and expects to see the work of the assembly ap proved on the state ticket, and in many. If not most, of the counties. In a few of the counties, Multnomah among them, there has been savage war upon the nominees for local of fices. Whether It will be effective or not remains to be seen. It may be said now that the elements and forces opposing the assembly cannot be reconciled with any efficient ef fort to harmonize or unite the Re publican party for the purposes of properly directed party action. The men leading the anti-assembly move ment have with scarcely an excep tion their own political purposes to subserve. The Democrats who have Joined with them In the enterprise of disrupting or disorganizing the Re publican party likewise are looking out for their own welfare. But the purpose to make the Re publican party a forceful and potent ntlty will not cease. REMARKABLE RAILROAD EARNINGS. The cause of the railroads now tieeklng to charge higher rates was not advanced by the testimony of fered by the officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St. Paul at Chicago Thursday. This testimony showed that the Milwaukee road had succeed ed In making a paying proposition of 1400 miles of new road in the first year of Its operation. It was not the ordinary first-year - of - a - new - road profit, but a handsome dividend of such generous proportions that, after providing for taxes and accrued In terest on the funded debt for the eleven months, it left a profit of more than 11. 000.000. This unique figure in the railroad world is the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound line, and It made so much money for Its owners that they were enabled heavily to Increase the dividends on the parent road, the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul. The new road began operation August. 1909. and In the eleven months ending with, June 30. U10. It rarned I10."S,704 gross and SS.490.- S43 net. From these net earnings all Interest charges were paid, and there remained a surplus of I2.19S.20S. That the new road must be exception silly well equipped for the economical handling of traffic Is further shown !n the July report on earnings. Pas penger business has not yet been thor oughly established, but In July the a-rosa earnings for freight were II. 001. 105 and from passengers $118,347. The total expenditure for equipment, maintenance, operating expenses and taxes was. but $$72,764. leaving net earnings of $534,836. This for the Ilrst month of the second year of the new line promises, to show even arrester profits than were exhibited to the Interstate Commerce Commission. That the new road Is destined to be av very formidable competitor of the Northern Pacific Is shown by a segre gation of the freight from the pas senger earnings. For the first eleven months in which the road was oper ated It received from freight earnings 39.582.S69 and from passenger earn ings $1,183,134. The Northern Pa cific, operating In practically the same territory, earned $48,758,736 from Jrelght and $21,333,312 from passen gers. It Is .reasonable to assume that when the new road begins a complete passenger service, its earnings from that source will show relatively the same as those of the Northern Pacific. Further evidence tTiat the Milwau kee's prosperity has been at the ex pense of the older road Is shown In the statement that while the freight earnings of that road have Increased but 2 per cent In three years the pas senger earnings, being unaffected by the new competition, had Increased more than 30 per cent. The flattering showing made by the Chicago, Mil waukee & Puget Sound is hardly con ducive to the cause of higher rates, but the statement of the Northern Pacific for the same period throws a different light on the problem. When one road running through a country returns a large surplus after paying fixed charges and a paralleling road Is barely able to pay expenses and In terest and has no surplus, an adjust ment of rates that would be fair and satisfactory to both and to the shippers as well, will be very difficult to arrive at. After ten years' work and the ex penditure of many millions, the Gov ernment has at last completed Its big breakwater at San Pedro. The breakwater Is nearly two miles long and has a width of 200 feet at the bottom and twenty feet at the top. Its construction has given the har bor at San Pedro a protection that brings It into the list of first-class ports along the Coast. It will be surmounted by a permanent light and fog station built at the sea end of the structure. When the Columbia River Jetty is completed It Is proba ble that a lighthouse will adorn that structure. The Government work at an Pedro. like that at the mouth of die Columbia, is of the highest lxn- portance. not only to the ports where the work Is performed, but to the en tire country that seeks an ocean out let through these ports. It ws Los Angeles Influence that secured the (Treat Improvement at San Pedro, and that city has profited greatly by the Improvement In the outlet to the sea. Tlte 8 LATE OR THE ASSEMBLY? The legislative ticket of twelve names for Multnomah . County was recommended by an assembly of 700 delegates, who also selected candi dates for State Senator and for vari ous county, judicial and other places. Everybody had opportunity to know the names of these delegates- and to observe all tha proceedings of the as sembly. Their work stands on Its mer its. There was no secrecy, no subter fuge, no mystery, no deception of any kind about the assembly. That Its work was performed wisely In all par ticulate Th OrrronUn does not de clare; but that the selections were for the most part Judiciously made It is quite willing to say. There has been a noisy stream of assertion throughout the campaign that the assembly was controlled by the corporations. That the corpora tions would be glad to control an as sembly as they would a primary Is doubtless true, but that they succeeded In controlling the Multnomah County assembly Is false on its face. Would am- man ahn has resnect for his word or for the public esteem venture to say that ehe twelve names selected d.v the assembly for the lower house of the Legislature are creatures of the corporations, who will go to Salem, if elected, to do the bidding of the cor .nniiina r.r nf anv Interest ODDOSed to the general public Interest? Here are the names or the twelve men. Angell. Homer D. McCue. John C. Beverldge, Jos. W. Moores, Charles B. Collier. Henry E. Northrup, H. H. Farrell. Robert S. Rayburn. E. I. Hobklrk. Peter. Stapleton. Geo. W. Hume, Peter. Wetherbee, J. R. They are good citizens. Most of them are well known. Against the character and record of not a single one of them has any one undertaken in anv nvthlnr. The Oregonian de sires to make no Invidious compari sons, but It does not hesitate to ae that If Multnomah County de sires to be efficiently represented at Salem. It ought to nominate ana elect these twelve. It will say. too, that It hopes to see Mr. McArthur. an active, vigorous, intelligent, straight forward and capable young man. tha stata Senate, as It un hesitatingly recommends likewise to the voters for Joint Senator wun. ngrimn and Columbia Dr. Era- melt Drake. There Is no humbug or false pretense about Dr. Drake s can du.... win not subscribe to Statement No. 1, but unquestionably. If the peoples cnoice ior tnum States Senator shall be Republican In 1912. Dr. Drake will support their choice In the Legislature. Opposed to the Multnomah assem Ki ticket for the House of Repre sentatives are some twenty gentlemen who started out to mane a great ..mniirrn for themselves on the catch-penny issue of Statement No. 1. They say tney are Kepuuucauo. and they declare they are going to Salem as Republicans: but they en tirely abandon in advance any oppor tunity to do anything for the Repub lican party in the one supreme polit ical service for the party that, as leg islators, they might be called on to perform. True, there Is no Senator to elect at the forthcoming session of the Legislature, and In a proper sense Statement No. 1 cannot for them be an Issue at all. Yet they, are anxious to have It known that In event they might be called upon to elect a Senator they would name the people's choice, whether Democrat. Republican, Populist or Socialist. Yet there Is no way now for the people to express a choice for Sena tor before the 1911 Legislature, so that Statement No. 1 members of the coming Legislature would be quite as free to exercise Individual prefer ences as the members who had made at all. Therefore State ment No. 1 has no validity whatever as to the House members of 1911. The only question that remains, or that should remain. Is as to the merit of Individual candidates. The Ore gonlan will say that, without refer- t th. faka (mm dividing these two tickets, the assembly nominees give much the better promise oi genuine service for Multnomah and for the state at Salem. AN OLD-FASHIONED CI R (TIT. The fifty-eighth annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Is In session at Hillsboro. This simple announcement recalls the early days of Methodism in Oregon and sadly emphasizes the fact that of the min isters who comprised the early con ferences but two remain. Rev. John Flynn and Rev. C. O. Hosford. Slow of step, with shoulders bent and brows whitened by the frost rime of time, these ministers of the early church now for many years upon the superannuated list represent all that is left, save memory, of the days when an assignment to a charge meant cov ering a circuit of many miles, preach ing and baptizing In cabin homes fn the wilderness; all night rides over blind trails to give comfort to the dying and to bury the dead and the occasional performance of a marriage ceremony that dedicated another prim itive home to the services and tradi tions of Methodism. An interesting disclosure of this con ference Is the fact, almost inconceiv able at the present day, that there Is still one minister within Its Jurisdiction whose duties cover a range of country, about sixty miles wide and 100 miles long, in which there are but two church hnllrilnra. This circuit Is In Curry and Josephine Counties and the preacher is Rev. R. D. Cady. He covers his route with a horse and cart, hold ing services at any time during the week that he happens to reach one of his meeting points. No 6unday Christians are the de voted followers of John Wesley, who keep up the customs and maintain the spirit of Methodism In these Southern Oregon wilds. They are ready to go to church or "preaching" when op portunity offers, and "opportunity" is when the preacher arrives. Simplicity Is the leading feature In religious worship In these primitive settlements. The people are picturesque, but they do not know It. Their earnestness commands respect; their hunger for a message from the world beyond their ken material and celestial Is written upon their faces. They appre ciate the effort that is being made In their spiritual behalf and meet It with grateful return In such as they have to offer the hospitality of bed and board and the good cheer of a kindly TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAN. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1910. spirit. The energies of Brother Cady are taxed to fill the charge which Is given him by his church, but the tax Is a kindly one, and one which- the good man pays cheerfully. His report of his work is Interesting, harking back as It does to the days wherein the bridle paths of civilization were worn by the tireless feet of ministers of the Methodist Itinerancy, expanding into broad highways as the years went on. Brother Cady rides a circuit of which few. Indeed, are left. The records of myriads of others are transcribed in faded Ink upon pa per yellow with the touch of time and given to the archives of long past conferences. . TODAY. There" Is an assembly ticket to be voted on In Multnomah County today, and there Is an opposing Statement One anti-assembly ticket. Here is an Issue that ought to be plain, direct and clear. But It is entirely too obvious to suit the anti-assembly oligarchy. The assembly candidates were chosen openly; the opposing candidates were either self-nominated or their candi dacies were Inspired or procured by unseen forces. The anti-assembly cam paign has not moved along by Its own weight: it has had behind It a power ful propelling hand, and a systema tized and harmonized political plan. These are Bourne and the other cap tains of political industry who have chosen to sail under his flag. Some are Democrats, some Statement Oners, and others are mere political adventur ers of the moment; but all are to gether now. The reply of this aggregated associa tion of political opportunists, made to the assembly movement, has been nominally a denial of the right of as sembly under the primary law: actu ally It has been the putting forth of a slate of Its own. a selected, tested and tried few. Observe the legisla tive slate. See how at the last mo ment, by a process of cancellation, elimination, rejection and expulsion, the ring within a' ring was organized; and its product was the Statement One close corporation. The Issue In Multnomah Is today the "assembly" versus the "slate." Is the voter. In an effort to break up one po litical machine, going to do worse by enthroning a selfish political oligarchy? FRUITGROWERS COMING. Twenty families, all living In one good street In Minneapolis, are com ing1 to White Salmon to plant or chards and devote themselves to hor ticulture. Their advance agent, who will be one of the twenty, has bought 800 acres of the rich lands which will be divided to suit. All of them pre sumably are well-to-do. They are seeking a milder, more genial climate than Minnesota, and at the same time an investment that will furnish not only a very handsome annual Income, but a field for outdoor activity of the pleasantest character. Oregon needs and can make homes for thousands of such families. Though a river divides us, we regard White Salmon and all of Southern Washington as part of Oregon. These good Eastern folk who have succeed ed In their various vocations to the point of competency are most desira ble neighbors. Southern California attracted more than half a million of them "in the past twenty years, the lure being climate and the cultiva tion of citrus fruits. While we must admit that midwin ter in Southern California has incom parable climatic charm, our weather In late Spring, Summer and Fall, any way you take It, is far more agree able than the sunny southland. As for steadily profitable results In hor ticulture, apples, pears, peaches and prunes, to say nothing of small fruits, will bring better results year after year than oranges. The labor and In tellect necessary for success In either line of fruitgrowing are about the same. Both have the distinct advan tage attaching to open-air employ ment. PORTLAND BANKS PROSPEROUS. The remarkable prosperity enjoyed by Portland as well aa by the entire region for which this city la the com mercial and financial headqaurters Is again shown In the local bank state ment printed In The Oregonlan yes terday. A gain of more than $5,300, 000. or approximately 15 per cent. In resources In a single year Is suffi ciently cheering and encouraging to offset a large share of the pessimism that Is heard over the Eastern finan cial situation. The statement of the Portland National banks and It Is no more flattering than that of the private banks Is exceptionally re assuring at this time, when an at tempt is being made to show that nothing short of. a political revolution will prevent the country from rush ing headlong to financial ruin. In cash and collateral our banks hold ample supplies for all of the legiti mate needs of the community. There may not be a surplus at the disposal of every Colonel Sellers who comes along, and the promoter who wishes to finance graded streets, ce ment sidewalks and other unneces sary Improvements In some outside real estate proposition may get turned down: but Portland never gained her enviable reputation for conservatism by reckless banking. That the banks have shown this re markable Increase In resources during a year of the greatest activity the city has ever known, when the demands for money were exceptionally heavy, offers evidence of the enormous amount of new capital that has been flowing Into Portland and Oregon. The city can never prosper while the country languishes, and for that rea son we find throughout the country tributary to this city the same pleas ing conditions that are reflected in the Portland National banks' state ments. Newly arrived labor and capital in nearly every corner of the state are converting the long-dormant re sources of the country Into tangible, usable wealth. Portland, as the me tropolis of the big country In which prosperity and progress are so pro nounced, is not at all concerned as to the development In any particular part of the state, for, no matter where It occurs, this city shares In the bene fits. There are so many Important factors. combining to bring about this healthy financial .situation that It Is difficult to determine their relative Im portance. For 1910, however, rail Toad building and the development of the lumber Industry undoubtedly leads all others. The railroads are disbursing vast sums of money In the city and state, and, while these dis bursements will naturally cease with completion of the roads, development, of new territory and new industries along the new routes will more than make up for cessation of the flow of railroad funds. With such conditions prevailing throughout the Portland trade field and with labor and capital busy all the time, any fears that Portland has been going too fast or that there la danger of a pause may as well be for gotten. Portland has struck her gait, and it will require something more serious than the yowling of political mountebanks and chronic pessimists to cause any slackening In the pace. Boon Cason Is worrying the anti-assembly ring. He insists that he has as much flcrht fn run 'fnr nffipA as anV other; and the gang Insists that he has not. Me is tnereiore maae me victim nat.' Inaimtsl tint! And anCTV Vllifl- catlon and ugly threats because he Is moving ahead In his own way to DreaK the anti-assembly slate. They even publicly notified Cason that they would have "the law" on him. Why don't they? Then perhaps there might be an nfnvioi exposure of the utterly groundless statements that Cason has been put up as a "stalking norse. ine arar nn faaon la nubile notice to every body that he cannot run for office or subscribe to Statement No. 1 unless he first sees the bosses. Cason wouldn't do It. What Is the necessary Inference in tha memhpra of the legislative slate, whom the anti-assembly news papers (Democratic) and the anti-assembly orators are slobbering over with their frotny praise? A retired Army chaplain has dis covered that Intoxicating liquors are being sold at the canteens in a South ern California military camp, under the usual thin guise of temperance drinks. Ae a result. Intoxication among the soldiers Is not unusual. This Is one of the natural results' of the abolishment of the regular Army canteen, where liquor was sold under such restrictions and supervision that drunkenness was unknown. The Government under pressure abol ished the canteen, but as yet has been unable to discover any method for abolishing the desire which some of the 'men have for liquor. Being deprived of good liquor sold under close restrictions Inside the Govern ment grounds, the men now drink the vile stuff sold in the deadfalls adjoin ing the garrisons or smuggle In similar stuff to be sold secretly in the tem perance canteen. "I will," declares Mr. Fields in his campaign literature, "pursue hereaf ter the same policy In the administra tion of the office of County Clerk." Noble sentiment; also highly Instruc tive. That means, of course, that he will put Into his own capacious pocket (not the county's) the little petty drlbbllngs that the law intended should never be his perquisites such as 4 per cent Interest on certain county balances, a large, fat slice from naturalization and declaration fees, and so on and so on. Under some other the county might get its proper due from such moneys and fees, but not from Fields. If he shall be re-elected, he will be "vindicated"; and what then? The 4 per cent policy will continue to be the hallmark of the Fields regime. George W. McMillan, assembly nominee for Sheriff, has made a clean, hard, effective campaign for the Re publican primary nomination. When George McMillan goes after anything or anybody he bucks the line hard and gets there. McMillan is a man of Judgment, character, dependability and excellent business qualities, and has all the needed qualifications for a good Sheriff. He deserves the sup port of Republicans. . It appears again to be necessary to remind voters that Henry J. Bean, candidate for the Supreme Bench, is not Robert S. Bean, formerly of the State Supreme Court and now a Fed eral Judge. Henry Bean lives at Pen dleton. Robert 8. Bean comes from Eugene, and has a state-wide reputa tion as a highly efficient Jurist. All Nature Is preparing for a hard Winter. Hair Is growing thicker and longer on the furry animals, muskrats are building higher, chip munks and gophers are laying by food, all anticipating heavy snows. Many office-holders even dread an early frost tonight. "At the start, I "was opposed to the assembly ticket." remarked an old time Portlander yesterday. "But when I saw the self-nominated bunch I decided that I would rather trust the ticket that has Indorsement. I shall put a cross In front of every as sembly man." While It Is rather late to talk poll tics, this is a fair question: Whom would you rather trust, a man com mended by 1200 representative party men or a man who commends himself or Is commended by a closed-door co terie? When Thomas F. Ryan's boy of fered to furnish Uncle Sam with aero planes, up to a thousand, you didn't hear the Army and Navy Departments protesting against tainted money. Those Portland people who cast their bread upon the murky waters years ago bear a ghastly smjle to find It returning as pie from San Fran cisco. Portland will have three Irish lead ers next month: T. P. O'Connor and Daniel Boyle, both members of Par liament, and Dan McAllen. Coos County will expend $200,000 this year on roads. Better roads, mora people; more people, the earlier will come the railroad. Oregon registration shows a ratio of four to one, but, sad to say, ofttlmes the one holds the pole that knocks off the persimmon. Tomorrow morning an admiring constituency will learn that several office-seekers have been four-flushing. These milk and cream people will never cease their wrangling until all the cows are dead of tuberculosis. It will be a great day for Judge Hennessey Murphy when "Tay Pay" comes to Portland. Another score of people killed In a tralnwreck. Reckless aviation could not be worse. Employers may with profit let their men quit work early this after no, s.. FISH AS A FARMING INDUSTRY. Kansas Worklna; on a Scheme to Lea ned Coat of Livlnar. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The state of Kansas Is working vigor ously on what It believes is a great scheme to decrease the cost of living. It alms to have every farmer In the state make a pond and raips enough fish for his own needs and some to ship to mar ket. Kansas has been interested in fish cul ture for several years. It has a fine hatchery at Pratt, and from now on will be able to distribute 500,000 bass and cropple minnows every Fall- The state has its own car specially designed for transporting fish. Professor L. L. Dyche. who Is head of the natural history department of the University of Kansas has been appointed chief fish and game warden. He Is writ ing a pamphlet on how to build fish ponds and care for fish, and this pam phlet will be sent to every fanner in Kansas. Discussing the state's new scheme. Professor Dyche says: Half an acre of ground and a wk' worff with a team and scraper and two men will build a flh oond largo enough to grow all tha nh any family In Kanaaa can eat, and the farmer can aell !W0 pounds of bass, orop ple and cattish every year. If the farmers will do this the meat bills will be cut one third In a year. Every farmer ought to have a small fisn pond. The state Is willing to show him how to build the pond, and then. If he will do tha work, tha state will furnish him with enough fish to stock the pond. The state will teach him how to feed the fish and csre for them, and In a year every farmer that opens a fish pond this Pall can be eat Inr as fine fish as ever grew, direct from his own pond. The excellence of fish as food is be yond question. It would be well if every frt ate would follow the example of Kan sas In encouraging farmers to have fish ponds. Illinois, for example, maintains fish hatcheries at a large expense, and could stock every fish pond which might be constructed in the state. There are already a few private fish ponds In the state, but where there Is one there should be 100. There are many things to indicate that the price of meat never will be much lower In this country than It Is today. It seems inevitable that It will even be higher in future, unless there is a great increase in the use of substitutes for meat. There Is no better substitute than fish. RUBBER-CLAD SHOES FOR HORSES Owners Should Protect Them From Danger From Slippery Pavements. PORTLAND, Sept. 23. (To the Ed itor.) With the annual recurrence of Autumn rains, the too frequent sight of horses floundering upon the slip-, pery pavements or lying bleeding in the gutters, leads to the Inquiry, why Is this needless slaughter of the noble beast permitted in Portland? There is a simple safeguard. The problem has been solved in other cities, and it seems unaccountable . that the cruel abuse of our friend, the horse, should go on here. In Seattle, for instance, where the grade of many paved streets is very much steeper than here, the entire fire department and the leading transfer companies get over the difficulty by us ing rubber-clad shoes on their horses. Thus shod, horses have no difficulty In keeping their footing on the steepest and most slippery grades. The reason why horses are not thus protected in Portland can be ascribed only to a lack of information, or a woe ful absence of humane considerations. A very common sight, on most any wet morning, in Portland, is some poor, hard worked horse, prostrate on the slippery pavement, bleeding from his wbunds and, perhaps being extricated with the aid of a kind-hearted policeman, while the stream of traffic awaits the breaking of the blockade in the street. If the Humane Society wishes really to do some good, let them take up the cause of the patient horse and make his toilsome pathway a little less painful, his -services more efficient, and a little more In keeping with advanced ideas, by seeing to it that he Is provided with modern safeguards against our slippery streets. C. A. GRAY. The Good Old Hymns. Philadelphia Ledger. The proposal to eliminate ' From Greenland's Icy Mountains" from the list of hymns to appear In a new mis sionary hymnal has aroused both clergymen and laymen to whom the old hymns represent a wealth of tender sen timent and associations, whlcR means to them a great deal more than con siderations of rhetoric metrical struc ture or musical se'ence. The objec tion appears to have been made that Bishop Heber"s famous missionary hymn "apostrophizes mountains and winds and rivers" but so does "America," with Its frank references to rocks and rills and templed hills. If those who object to the hymn on the ground that It "emphasizes natural rather than re vealed religion" are unable to look through nature up to natnre's God, to be consistent they should deprecate the Inclusion In their manual of wor ship of Addison's magnificent hymn, "The Spacious Firmament on High." Good Advioo, But Tit-Bits'. A traveler entered a railway carriage at a wayside station. The sole occu pants of the compartment consisted of an old lady and her son, about 12 years old. Nothing of note occurred until the train steamed into the station at which tickets were collected. The wom an, not having a ticket for the boy, re quested him to "corrle doon." The traveler intervened and suggested putting him under the seat. "Man," said the excited woman. "It's shair as daith; but there's twa under the salt already!" Food Importance. Rev. Mr. Frank Crane in Chicago Post. "Why Is it," asks a modern novel ist, "that a woman always says She Isn't hungry and that a man never be lieves her?" Which brings us to tha question of food and its rational appre ciation. Not to care about what we eat is either genuine or hyprocrltlc. If genuine, it betokens a defect of which we ought to be ashamed: for surely the stomach Is as noble sn organ as the face, and deserves as much earnest attention. If hypocrltlc. it is a most absurd affectation. Prosperity Mlased These. PORTLAND, Sept. 19. (To the Edi tor.) You ask "Has prosperity become Irksome?" No, not to the millions whom you mention as having only scanty stores. This great wave of dis content passing over our country Is caused by prosperity having missed them. It Is not a prosperity wave for the grafter, but sound business will be helped by it. The poet has well said: Til fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth Increases and men decay. E. B. H. Freak Election Story. Washington Star. The report that Champ Clark will drive a team of mules dowi,' Pennsyl vania avenue if he Is made Speaker is the very first In the field of freak election-bet stories. Classifying the Kewi. Kansas City Star. Standpatters have about decided that discriminating editors ought to print the election news In the "Lost" col umn. Not Paid For. Detroit Free Press. Many a man who has a prosperous appearance still owes for the appear KEEPING THE WHEELS IX MOTION Ordinary Business Acumen Mixed With Couraare Will Do It. Christian Science Monitor. Never was the opportunity greater nor the need more pressing for the ex ercise of good common sense and cour age In business affairs than is the case today. Notwithstanding the sound fun damental conditions and the acknowl edged fact that the wealth of the coun try this year will be enormously aug mented by a bountiful harvest, there is a hesitation and fear attendant upon business enterprise that Is acting as a serious handicap. In fact, the indus trial activity that is enjoyed today is due mostly to urgent requirements rather than to the natural development of trade, which would be very much greater If the minds of men were not so harassed by the fear of untoward events that are not likely ever to oc cur. For some time past business has been going forward spasmodically. Stocks of raw materials In manufac turers' hands are generally low. Buy ing Is from hand to mouth. When it is considered that this sort of industrial activity prevails It is. Indeed, amazing that the volume of business Is as large as It Is. A recent canvass of some of the most Important industries of the country re vealed the fact that they are running from 70 to 100 per cent of capacity, a remarkable showing in view of the un rest prevailing and particularly when It Is remembered that most of the larg er corporations have greatly increased their capacity during the past few years. Inquiries for pig iron and steel products of large volume are reported this week, but new business in these lines Is not important. The railways are reporting larger gross earnings than for August, but are holding back orders for equipment and rails until they know definitely what freight rates they will be permitted to charge. . It Is believed that politics will in time dwindle as a disturbing factor, but at present business Interests view the political turmoil as having but one out come a revision of the tariff. Conse quently, they do not believe in ventur ing far in new enterprise until they know what the new schedules are to be. According to the expressed views of many large interests they are more apprehensive of the results of a new tariff than they are of a change in ad ministration. But business is bound to thrive, more or less, notwithstanding turbulent political conditions. Many large undertakings have been pending several years. Some will be pushed through by force of necessity, despite prevailing handicaps. This country is too prosperous, and her people too pro gressive, to permit bus,, ess stagnation. The exercise of ordinary business acu men, mixed with a little courage, will do wonders toward keeping the wheels of progress in motion. REVENUES OF WALL STREET. Conditions of the Times Cause a Marked Diminution. New York Financier. .We venture to say that on no form of investment in the United States Is the present rate of return so low as on what may be termed "Wall Street." By this we mean the Income derived from commissions on current transactions In stocks and bonds. Nobody has ever cal culated how many millions of dollars are represented in the costs of 6eats on the Stock Exchange, or in the expensive of fice plants, heavy rentals, etc., but the total must be enormous, and the fixed charges In proportion. The office or ganizations of the majority of Stock Exchange firms represent years of pa tient and persistent work, and the ex penditure of heavy sums In attracting a clientele. If we Include as ramifications, the subsidiary concerns, and in fact the whole Wall Street fabric and what is de pendent on It, we have a sum which conservatively might run into the hun dreds of millions. Hence when we begin to figure that the whole source of profit on which this huge branch of modern business rests Is from commissions or the profits derived from the sale of securities, and that for months past the commissions earned on the Stock Exchange fell far short of paying a minimum interest on the cost of seats) to say nothing of the running expenses, we begin to realize what a dull stock market means. Day after day the sales on the Exchange fall below the half million mark. Even with this ruinously diminutive total a large proportion at least represents mere professional trading, without tangible profit. The public Is in the habit of clamoring against Wall Street and its Influences, but Wall Street for the last year has been a mighty small factor In the life of the United States. If spec ulation and legitimate trading do not revive soon the map of the greatest financial center In the country is bound to undergo significant changes. Keep Women Ont of Saloons. DURKEE. Or., Sept, 23. (To the Edi tor.) The police department will meet with the commendation of all de cent people In their endeavors to purge the city of the very serious con ditions incident to the cafe life of the downtown district. Only those who are acquainted with the existing state of affairs can attest the awful conditions that exist. But, while they are en gaged In the cleaning-up process, why not take a stand on the question of al lowing religious organizations to send their women solicitors dally and nightly Into these dens? Not only In the cafe, but in the lowest stamp of saloon in and through the North End do these women go soliciting the nickel or dime from the drunken, carousing crowds. In my frequent visits to Portland I have met them, going from saloon to saloon, meeting with ribald sugges tion and drunken insult on every hand, bringing the blush of shame to the cheek. Surely any organization worthy of the public's support can find other ways of raising their revenue than this. If they cannot, then they ought to go out of business. The police department can do no greater good than to issue the order prohibiting these people from entering the saloon to solicit. Denver has done this, and even liberal Seattle has seen the same necessity of action. In common decency, these people should be Instructed that the practice must cease. JAS. BLOMQUIST. Reflections of Bachelor. Reputations are made on billposters' boards. A late repentance saves a lot of dull ness up till then. Man works for woman so as to make her work twice as hard for him. Everything In life is a gamble, ex cept that you will lose, which Is a sura thing. A costly thing about getting married Is putting It off and spending more be ing engaged. Programme Changed Nightly. New York World. One reason why the Colonel is popu lar on circuit Is because he always gives a snappy, entertaining show with frequent changes of bill. The unheralded Lorlmer knockabout spe cialty was worth a score of advance agents. Wben They Got To Rome. Washington Star. "I suppose you found Rome very In teresting?" "I'm not sure yet." replied the re turned tourist. "'Our party was tired when we got to Rome and we had to send out for our picture cards instead of buying them ourselves." Useless Reform. Chicago Record-Herald. It Is useless to overcome a fault if you are going to spend the rest of your time ooasung aooui. xy Life's Sunny Side Lee Wyman is an earnest advocate of some plan under which the sayings of children shall be preserved for future generations to read. "The other day. for instance." says Wyman, "my little boy was called be fore the tribunal over which his fond mother presides. " 'You've broken one of the precious commandments,' she said. " 'Did IT asked the boy carelessly like. " 'Yes. my boy, I've said to you over and over the 10 commandments.' said Mrs. Wyman, 'and now you've broken one of them.' " 'Dear, dear,' my boy said, 'there' only nine left now.' And Mrs. Wyman let it go at that. Luther Burbank. the plant wizard, at a dinner at Santa Rosa, praised Cal ifornia as a Winter and Summer, re sort. "Besides our superb climate and our superb scenery," ended Mr. Burbank. "there is the further advantage of our reasonable prices. There are no Monte Carlo prices here. "At a Monte Carlo hotel the proprietor said one day to the clerk: " "Has Lord Loftus, room 373, re ceived his bill yet?' " 'Yes, sir.' said the clerk. 'I sent H up to him on hour ago." " 'Stranee!' mused the proprietor. 'As I passed his door just nom I heard him singing.' " Washington Star. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor of the Boston Transcript, is a great admirer of the thrift of the Vermonters, but thinks sometimes they carry it too far. O'Brien was up In Vermont last Summer and went to dinner with a friend. who has some political aspira tions. As they came In the door he heard the lady of the house say to the hired girl: "I see Mr. Jones has somebody with him to dinner. Take these two big pota toes down to the cellar and bring up three small ones." New York Sun. It was during the Parnell agitations in Ireland that an antl-Parnejlite, criti cising the ways of tenants in treating absentee landlords, exclaimed to Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia: "Why. It looks very much like trea son." Instantly came the answer in the archbishop's best brogue: "Sure trea son is reason when there's an absent 't.' ' Everybody's. One of the foremost lawyers in Eng land is Lord Halsbury, who was Lord Chancellor of the Balfour ministry. A friend tells this story of his career, at the bar: He was once argulntf a case on be half of a Welshman, and showed great knowledge of the principality and its people. "Come, come," said the Judge at last, "you know you cannot make your self out to be a Welshman." "Perhaps not," replied the barrister, "but I have made a great deal of money out of Welshmen In my time." "Well, then," replied the Judge, "sup pose we call you a Welshman by ex traction?" London Times. BEFORE ELECTION AND AFTER. Even Down fn Australia Patriots Fail to Receive Reward. American Industries. As this is the time for political prom ises, the following letter written by an indulgent constituent to an Australian member of Parliament may prove both Interesting and profitable: Dear Sur--You're a d fraud, and you know It. I don't care a rap for the blllft or for the muncy either, but you could have got it for me If you wasn't a mean as muk. Two pounds a week ain't any moar to me than 40 shillln's is to you, but 1 object to bein" made an internil tool of. Soon as you was elected by my hard-working friends a feller wanted to het me that vou wouldn't be In the house moren a week . before you made a ass of. yourself. I het him a Cow on that, as I thought you was worth It then. After I got your note eayin' you deklined to ackt In the matter 1 druv tha Cow over to the Felltr's place an' tole him he had won her. That's or! I got by howlln' meself horse for vou on election day. and months befoar. Tou not only hurt a man's Pride, but you injure him in blzness. I believe you think you'll get In agen. I don't. An' what I don't think Is of moar konsequlnce than you Imajin. I believe you take a pleslilr in cutln' your best friends, but wate till the clouds roll by an they'll cut you Just behind the Ear. where the butcher cuts the pig. Yura no man. Yure only a tule. Go to hel. I lowers meself rltin- to a skunk. evn Iho I med him a member of Parliament. The Man Before the Dollar. Lynn Item. Abraham Lincoln, writing to a Bos ton party, under date of April 6, 1S59, said: "The Democracy of today holds the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are both for the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict, the man before the dollar." Half a century later, Mr. Bryan said: "I will not put the dollar above the man." Colonel Roosevelt, speaking at Osa watomle, said: "I rank dividends be low human character." The three statements are substantially alike, but the first one to enunciate them, so far as we are aware, was Abraham Lin coln. It has been said that there is no new thing under the sun, and probably any saying uttered by a public speak er may have its counterpart In some thing that had been said years before by another. Men think their own thoughts and give them utterance, and they wonder when they discover that other minds had had similar inspira tions and placed them on record. There Is a good deal of unconscious plaglar-. ism. Most of It is allowed to pass un noticed, but occasionally, as in the cases above cited, the prominence of the parties quoted makes the remarks noticeable. In Eden. TIt-BIts. Lady (to her gardener) "John, I won der you don't get married. You've got a fine house and a good wage. All you need is a wife. You know the first gardener that ever lived had a wife?" John "Yes'n; but he didn't keep his Job long after he got her." Post-Graduate Education. Louisville Courier-Journal. Miss Helen Taft, who is to give up college for Washington society, will find that there's a liberal education in studying the types of socially ambitious Americans contributed to the capital by the various states. Evidently Beyond Words. Chicago Record-Herald. Chancellor Day doesn't seem to be talking either yet or again. Running for Office. Detroit Free Press. Kunnlng for office. This la the game. Handing our cards With your face and name. Making bum speeches, t Spending your elf. Wearing your lunirs out Boosting yourself. Shouting your virtues To one and to all; Citing your fitness Fnr what may befall. Telling the votera Lined up at the bar Just what a splendid Good fellow you are. Running for office And losing your rest. Sawing the air And beating your breast, . Pounding the table And yelling like thunder. Trying to make 'em Seuave your a .wonder