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THE KXVOLCTION IX FOBTCOAI.
American are accustomed to see
reform In religion and politics pro
ceed peacefully, even If a little more
lowly than some would prefer. Ar
gument often becomes heated and re
crimination is common, but as a rule
we avoid violence. This makes it
somewhat difficult for us to under
stand the recent occurrences in 6 pain
and Portugal, where nothing more
startling is desired by the liberals
than republican Institutions and re
ligious liberty; and yet every day
brings news of some fresh outburst of
disorder. Events In Portugal have
culminated in the dethronement of
King Manuel and the temporary, per
haps permanent, triumph of the
Republicans.
People who are well Informed
would not be surprised to receive sim
ilar tidings from Spain any morning.
The reason for this felicitous process
of advancement lies in a very simple
fact. In both Spain and Portugal the
clerical forces and the monarchy co
operating for centuries have so cement
ed their Joint power that scarcely any
freedom of opinion or action is left
to the people. On the other hand,
educated men In both countries have
caught the Infection of modern ideas
very strongly, and since they cannot
express themselves legally they resort
to violence. This la the invariable re
sult of too much suppression.
The example of France may be
deemed the prime cause of the unrest
throughout Latin Europe. Spain and
her neighbors have always followed
the Intellectual leadership of France
and usually imitated her politics. The
establishment of the French Republic
therefore, in its successful career for
almost half a century and its deter
mined hostility to clerical Influence,
have stirred up the Spaniards, the
Portuguese and many of the Italians
to try to accomplish something simi
lar. Modernism has undermined the
dogmatic basis of clerical authority
everywhere. It has impeached the
veracity of ecclesiastical history and
emphasized the unscientific preten
sions of the clergy. The fruits of this
spirit have spread among the common
people as well as the educated. Be
. aides that, there has been an unwel
come Influx of monks and nuns Into
, both Spain and Portuiral since they
were expelled from France. These
. Immigrants are exempt Trom taxes
! while at the same time they compete
with secular labor. Hence they have
1 Incurred the bitter hostility of the
wage-earners.
i The clericals on their part have not
fought their battles with much astute
ness. "When they had the opportunity
they have applied the methods of the
middle ages to suppress their oppo-
neat. Last year the, execution of
Ferrer In Spain set the liberal world
aflame. We may attribute to this 111
advised action a large part of the
present bitterness of anti-clericalism
throughout the Latin world. The
i Portuguese clericals, learning nothing
i from experience, repeated the folly of
i their 6panlsh brethren by putting to
I death Dr. Bombarda. a scientist, a
liberal and a progressive politician.
He was very much such a man as
; Ferrer. The King of Portugal.
I Manuel. Is a rather simple young man.
not too rrefle in his morals and far
from a Richelieu in politics. He was
too reactionary for the liberals and
too advanced for the clerical. The
unhappy result was that when the
i crisis came he had no friends. He
has fallen between two stools.
rXCKEASTVO the farmfb-s profit.
Concerted effort which Is being
made by the Faclne Coast cities to
force the Government to abandon the
Idiotic practice of bringing Eastern
coal to this Coast for the warships is
not aided by ruch arguments as are
put forward y the Seattle Railway
and Marine News. That raper has
made this remarkable discovery:
-Aside from the injustice done by the
Navy Department to Pacific Coast coal
in shipping Atlantic range fuel In such
large quantities In foreign bottoms, a
still greater Injustice hit been done
for Ave years to American shipping on
this Coast." This "still greater lnjus
tl" consists in "lowering rates" and
"causing an oversupply of tonnage and
the consequent fall In rates to a point
at which It Is unprofitable to operate
American tonnage."
What a calamity this lowering of
rates is for the Pacific Coast! Let us.
to illustrate, take a specific case and
determine how the Coast Is being in
jured by the presence cf this foreign
tonnage. The British steamship Ugan
a - i. ,,-, t.tixt of the foreign vessels
to bring coal to the Pacific Coast.
After discharging her coal at Fremer
ton. on Puset Sound, the Uganda came
to Tortland. where she Is now receiv
ing a cargo of wheat. The vessel will
carry approximately 550.000 bushels of
wheat, the total product of more than
100 farms. Admitting for argument's
sake that there was American tonnage
to handle this wheat, which there Is
not. there would be not to exceed two
cr three shipowners benefited by the
higher rates that could be charged If
the foreigners were driven from the
field. In other words, more than 100
Oregon fanners would be taxed to In
crease the profits of one or two ship
owners. The Pacific Northwest produces
ocean-going trafSc In enormous quan
tities. This traffic require cheap
" freights. There axe more than a thou
and producers for every shipowner.
so any cause that would tend to ln-
crease freights would be a tax on the
many for the benefit of the few. There
Is no logical excuse that can be of
fered for discriminating against Pa
1 rifle Coast coal for use In the Navy,
,ut the weakest argument against the
practice la that which, attempts to show
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that the cheapening of freights by
these foreign coal carriers Is a detri
ment to the Pacific Coast.
PROHIBITION AND LIQUOR EVU-S.
Prohibition was one of the Issues of
the recent political upheaval In Maine,
in which Democrats carried the state.
Democrats will at once repeal the
Sturgis law, which authorized the Gov
ernor to send commissioners into any
county to ferret out prohibition law
offenders. It was natural, of course,
for prohibition enthusiasts to demand
enforcement of the law by that
method, against the apathy of the
states ordinary officials of prosecu
tion. In Oregon the demand hasf een
made frequently that the Governor or
the Attorney-General be empowered to
force prosecuting officials to ferret out
liquor offenders. But In Maine it was
found that the Sturgis law Is an Imple
ment of political tyranny and of out
rageous inquisition and Is no remedy
for abatement of liquor evils.
So that the Sturgis law "will be re
pealed: and- if Democrats can muster
two-thirds the Legislature, with aid of
a few Republican votes, they will sub
mit the prohibition clause of the state
constitution for repeal by popular
vote. That vote. If taken now. would
evidently repeal the prohibition law.
tt.ii- . tinimr traffic or rather of
liquor drinking are self-evident and
no right-thinking person denies them.
If It Is the duty of the state to guard
i,- .,-.,.n fmm llnuor. that duty it
can most effectually carry out by din
ning Into their ears rrom tenuer yuui.ii.
-Shun liquor: It mal-ns and debauches
and corrupts: avoid this danger as you
would any that "would destroy you."
Man or woman or child who fully
knows the devil will not receive him
as guest. The average person who
,i ih. iinuor Dolson will sel
dom take it into his stomach as bever
age. Prohibition law teacnes no sucn
ir,.- whv. wherever It Is enact
ed, doe's consumption of liquor fall to
diminish, and why does u even m-
1VHT THEY ARE INTERESTED.
"Under our form of government."
AjwIoj-m the Oregon primary low in
Its preamble, political parties are
useful and necessary at me pri
time. . . . The purpose of this law
! hottAr to aeenre and to preserve the
rights of political parties and volun
tary political organizations, tun w"
members and candidates."
Kin in Orft-oD a coterie of
Democratic and near-Democratic poli
ticians, constituting a Democratic ma
chine, who are boldly undertaking to
run the Republican party, or rather to
. !. pnnhiiian oflrtv. by desig
nating certain Republican candidates
whom Republicans shall support, and
cortaln others whom Republicans may
not support. Frocl.-jming inennma
everywhere as the friends, guardians,
supporters and defenders of the pri
mary and of the right of the people to
choose their own candidates at tho pri
mary, they set up their own Judgment
a-nirMit the neoDle's Judg
ment and desires expressed through
the primary.
Political parties cannot be pre
served. In accordance with the plainly
declared and denned purpose of the
primary law. If political parties are not
supported and their candidates elect
ed. Much less may any political party
live If Its control and direction shall be
turned over to its opponents.
Who will have the temerity to say
that Mr. Botime or Mr. Chamberlain
desire RepublU-an success In Oregon T
Who does not know that their interest
is In Republican disaster and demor
alization, and therefore their counsel
and their effort are to be on that aide?
TTO5 SOCLKMAX AXD THIS PTBUC.
Evenbody will feol sorry for those
Impoverished and despairing milkmen.
They pay less than 6 cents per quart
for milk to the producer, and they re
ceive an average of about 10 cents.
From this 100 per cent Increase they
must pay the cost of distribution. That
la all.
Is 100 per cent fair profit for a mM
dleman. less his own expenses and his
Incidental losses in depreciation, bad
collections, and so on! Ten years ago
the cost of milk In Portland was barely
more than half the present rates.
What has brought about the advance?
Who la getting It? Is it all to be ex
plained and dismissed by crediting it
to the "higher cost of living"? Where
is It all to end ? Will It help for every
body to move to the country and keep
a cow and chickens and have a gar
den? Or will It be better to stay In
the city and keep a goat In the back
yard?
How much of this advance is due to
the greater cost of milk Inspection?
How much to the necessary elimina
tion of tubercular cows? How much
to higher cost of feed and of labor?
How much to greater disinclination for
the family to do for themselves, but
to hire It done? How much to the
greater consumption per capita of the
richer milk and less consumption of
"skimmed" milk? Can the responsi
bility be fixed on one class, or must it
be distributed rretty much around
among all concerned?
We hesitate to defend the rapacious
milkman and we will not. Send him
to Jail. But we really think a better
remedy for the evils of more costly
and less desirable milk will be a gen
eral determination to drink nothing
but canned milk.
BARKK CITY'S EXPEKEireXT.
Baker City Is the first municipality
In Oregon to place itself under the
commission form of government. Al
though details of Its new charter are
lacking, one may gather that the com
mission pUn has been adopted in Its
full rigor, much as it was In Des
Moines. In fict. the capital of Iowa
is serving more and more as a model
for those cities throughout the coun
try which hope to better condition
by changes In their form of govern
ment. Baker City's venture Into this
new political experiment will be
watched with interest. If the antici
pated benefits ensue other towns will
no doubt follow its example. There
are now some seventy cities In the
United States which have adopted ths
commls!don system with modifications
more or less extensive. Most of them
report favorably upon the results, but
the question Is still debatable whether
or not a mere charter amendment can
really make fundamental" betterments
In social conditions.
The fundamental merit claimed for
the commission system is that It
places every public official la a glare
of publicity, fixes his responsibility
accurately and permits no evasion of
duty. The ticket presented to the
electors Is much shorter than under
the ordinary plan cf city government
and this is held to be another advan
tage Students are of the opinion that
It Is unwise for the voters to under
XTTE aiOIKOXG OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1910.
take the choice of a host of petty of
ficials at every election. It confuses
them and gives the political manipu
lator an opportunity to play his subtle
game. A society has been founded in
the East called "The Short Ballot
Society," which believes that politics
can ba purified by the simple process
of placing only three or four import
ant candidates' names on the ballot
and making all other offices ap
pointive. All these schemes are interesting
because they are signs of the struggle
going on everywhere for better polit
ical conditions. Some of them may
and doubtless will disappoint their ad
vocates when they are actually tried
In practice, but in this country we
are free to change and keep on chang
ing until we get what we really want
If we ever do.
XEW NATIONALISM DANGERS.
"Now Nationalism." thus far de
fined, means vast extension of gov
ernmental functions and wholesale in
crease of already large swarms of offi
cials. Functionaries who live at the
public crib universally approve the
many proposed additions to officialdom
and taxation. They make "reports"
and file recommendation, ail with the
Idea of "new Nationalism" in mind.
It will not be denied that authority
of the General Government should be
extended In certain directions: as for
example for more comprehensive con
trol of corporations and monopolies
that engage In Interstate business. But
the schema easily goes too far. Its
sponsors propose enormous extensions
of Federal authority over actions of
individual citizens; all this In limita
tion also of local state authority. The
public health they want nationalized;
also the matrimonial relation. They
would take from the states taxation of
Inheritances and corporations. They
would make the Federal power su
preme In taxation of Incomes though
in this matter there Is not so much
valid objection. They would deprive
the people's state governments of
control of Umber, water and mineral
resources.
Ail this and much more is contained
In the programme of new Nationalism.
It means enormous multiplication of
officials and of taxes. Already the Na
tional Government spends more than a
billion dollars a year, while local gov
ernments bring the people's burden
close to three billions. This Is worse
extravagance than in any other coun
try on earth. "New Nationalism" has
made the most of It. Tet it Is not con
tent. It proposes to pile the load
higher. Swarms of officials hie hither
and yon over this Pacific Northwest
"conserving" resources, yet devouring
more than they conserve.
This business should make the peo
ple of this country who pay taxes
stop, look and listen. New National
ism, unless severely pruned, will make
surfeit of government.
Least possible legal interference
with the course of industry and of
commerce, least possible obstruction
by law, least possible number of polit
ical Jobs, is the policy suggested by
reason and approved by experience.
This does not mean that private and
corporate greed or political corruption
shall go unrestrained: but It does
mean that these needs of regulation
shall not be made pretexts for bureau
cratic hordes or for abolition of com
monwealth home rule.
6IOTCNT FRANK
The career of the late Slgmund
Frank, president of the Meier & Frank
Company, affords a signal example of
what a young man of ability and en
ergy can accomplish under the protec
tion of American institutions. -Mr.
Frank began lire with no particular
advantages of birth or fortune. He
came from Germany to New York at
the age of 20 years, with no prospect
before him but that of earning his liv
ing by his own Industry. How he
transformed his youthful poverty and
obscurity Into the headship of a great
commercial enterprise and the posses
sion of a large fortune Is one of those
tales which would excite our astonish
ment if they were not so numerous in
our history. Perhaps the most signifi
cant Incident In Mr. Frank's career was
his meeting with Aaron Meier in San
Francisco. This meeting, which may
have been accidental, though some
would call it providential, decided Mr.
Frank to try his fortunes in Portland,
first as Mr. Meier's clerk, afterward
as his partner. Portland was then lit
tle more than a village, and the Meier
& Frank store In those pioneer times
gave few indications of the mammoth
establishment It was to develop into
within the next fifty years.
Mr. Frank was a born merchant.
His mind was singularly adapted to
grasp the problems of business on a
large scale and solve them in the best
possible manner. He seems to have
carried In his mind a complete picture
of the great store he presided over,
and at any Instant he could turn his
attention to any of tlje numerous de
partments with full knowledge of its
details. His career Illustrates the
harpy lot of the man who Is exactly
adapted by nature to the work ho has
chosen, and the brilliant success which
he attained Is an Inspiration and ex
ample to young men for whom the fu
ture Is still an open field of adven
ture. Opportunities are as numerous in
the United States today as they were
when young Sigmund Frank arrived
from Germany. They are not quite of
the same kind as they were then, but
they exist, and it requires nothing
more than determination and ability
to seize upon them and profit by them.
Conditions have changed since those
days, and the path to success docs not
lie In the same direction, perhaps, but
that is no reason for discouragement.
Mr. Frank had to exercise his Judg
ment and select from many Inviting
fields the one best adapted to his na
ture. The youth of our day must do
the same. The world always has en
viable rewards for the man who serves
Its new needs as they arise. Mr.
Frank had the sight to perceive ex
actly what was demanded of a suc
cessful merchant forty years ago.
Achievements as honorable as his
await the young man who will ecxrclse
similar faculties upon the commercial
problems of today. ,.
FOREIGN CROP SCARES.
Having exhausted ail of the possibil
ities of the "crop dairfage" scare In
this country, the speculative grain
trade now turns to the Argentine for
weather news that will Inject a little
ginger into a situation which of late
has been rather quiet. The Chicago
market. In response to a slight advance
In Europe, yesterday moved up 1 'A
cents per bushel after receiving the
Argentine report second hand. While
the Argentine crop is the nearest to
hand of any of the big wheat countries
of the world, there is still ample time
for all kinds of good and bad reports
before the harvest is actually under
way and before it Is possible to de
termine whether the crop is short or
otherwise. With Russia and the Dan
ubian provinces pouring out more than
10.000,000 bushels of wheat per week,
the Argentine crop scare will be
obliged to work overtime for several
weeks in order to keep much strength
In a sagging market, such as has been
In evidence for the past month.
One of tha most significant features
of the foreign wheat situation Is the
large weekly shipments of old-crop
wheat from both the Argentine and
Australia. It seems hardly probable
that this wheat would come out in
such large quantities unless the grow
ing crop gave unusually good promise.
The United States, with a crop well
above the average, has cut but an in
significant figure In the export trade
this season, and unless something hap
pens to check the flood of Argentine
and Australian wheat that will begin
moving in December and January, the
Old World will get along very well
without any contributions of conse
quence from this side of the water,
Russia, of course, filling in until the
new crop begins moving la the south
era hemisphere.
According to the editor of the Scan
dinavian, a newspaper published in
Chicago. Scandinavians are skeptical
about irrigation projects that require
millions of dollars to perfect, but they
have the brains. Industry, perseverance
and money necessary for successful
dry farming and are anxious to learn
all they can about It. This suggests a
rare opportunity to this thrifty class
of the adopted citizens of the United
States to attach themselves to the soil
and bring up families in ways of in
dusry and abundance by filing on dry
lands and learning how to make them
productive. That way lies Independ
ence, health and ultimate success for
a multitude that works literally in tha
shambles in great, overcrowded cities.
Upton Sinclair doubtless drew an ex
aggerated picture of the lives of
workers In Packingtown, but if one
tenth of what he wrote was true, a
sturdy Scandinavian or ' Lithuanian
would be far better off on the dryest
land Into which industry forced a plow
and where thrift in hope trod the
dusty furrow with a promise of two
years' crop in three, than in the stress
and stench and brutality of this suburb
of a great city.
The Harriman system has mate
rially shortened the distance and re
duced the grades and curves between
Portland and Pug-et Sound by boring
a mile-long tunnel through the pen
insula at Portsmouth. The original
en. r.t .nini. t Vi m : i h a hill is gener
ally much greater than going over It
or around It, but modern rajiroaumu
demands better construction, than was
carried on In the old days when most
of the roads were built at the lowest
possible cost, regardless of the heavy
expense of operation, which could not
be avoided. The time between Port
land and Puget Sound has been mate
rially lessened since the rivalry began
between the two great systems; still,
compared with the speed that is main
tained" on roads in other parts of the
country, there is abundant room for
improvement here. With the new tun
nel and tho double track to Puget
Sound completed, Portland and the
Washington cities will be thrown very
close together.
Three frightful accidents on lnter
urban electric lines In the Middle West
within a few weeks, entailing loss of
more than a hundred Uvea, emphasize
the danger attending travel where
trains are in the hands of careless or
Incompetent employes. In each case
the cause was disobedience of orders.
The crow did not wait at the switch
for the opposite train to pass. Cir
cumstances surrounding tha collisions
were precisely the same the train in
fault proceeded, attained a high rate
of speed and at a curve crashed Into
the train that had the right of way.
These accidents were wholesale man
slaughter. Lives of persons ought
never to be Jeoparded by being placed
In the hands of a man who cannot
obey orders.
Advancing civilization brings penal
ties as well as pleasures. The elec
trical washing machine will save
hours of toil to thousands of house
wives, but to a Utah man who han
dled it carelessly it brought speedy
death the other day. Ages of experi
ence have taught us to avoid Instinct
ively a multitude of perils which sur
round us night and day. but these are
ancient perils. The modern ones
which arise from the progress of sci
ence will no doubt continue to slay
their victims until a defensive Instinct
has been evolved In the race.
Douglas County falls promptly into
Une with a fruitgrowers' union. The
one way to get a reputation is never
to ship unsound fruit. Follow the
Hood River plan. There Is an ample
market here at home for culls. Indeed
Imperfect fruit is the only kind that
t Vimi-sanda of wage earners can afford
to buy and at that it is a luxury. Fifty
cents a box for apples that won't pass
muster is not bad for the grower.
Professor Harry Thurston Peck,
who has been dismissed from Colum
bia University, is a difficult man in
many ways. Besides his matrimonial
singularities he has a Jaunty and
bumptious literary style which makes
his readers want to kick him. His
erudition In Latin is profound, but
something more is needed in a college
teacher. A little common morality Is
not out of place.
If It can be shown that pure milk
cannot be furnished to Portland con
sumers for less than 10 cents a quart
except at a loss, perhaps the public
will stand for the latest gougo. But it
demands to be shown. A mere state
ment from Interested concerns on the
gouging side will not suffice. Furnish
the proof.
This time the great K. & E. con
cern will have a real, not a paper
theater. It has already been named
tho Columbia. Hall. Columblal
Naturally, several Eastern newspa
pers In grouping comment on the New
Tork Republican convention, headed
the stuff Saratoga. Chips.
Roosevelt may succeed to the posi
tion once held by Mark Hanna, but
it Is dead certain he will never make
like combinations.
Let the convention bureau of the
Commercial Club get busy on the Y.
M. C. A. National gathering in 1913.
What an epidemic of insureencltls
broke out In Portugal.
MORE HOME STUDY BY PUPILS.
Overaisht Needed In Work of Steady
and Sustained Effort.
Washington Post.
The plans offered by the school au
thorities for a limited amount of home
study by pupils ought to bring very
satisfactory results. The graduation of
the hours of study so that the task
will be fitted to. the age and progress
of the pupils is a very necessary ar
rangement, and one that will call for
very wise and Judicious adjustment
There have been very serious com
plaints made by responsible and right
thinking parents that their children
have had to carry an improperly ad
justed load at school which has gen
erally been ascribed to the highly di
versified and overloaded curriculum.
Especially is this condition brought
about in the cases of ambltous pupils
who conscientiously try to advance
their work at home, and who In a few
cases require to be repressed. , But
with the great majority of children
the regulation and oversight of their
work must be along the lines of steady
and sustained effort. In such cases
the discipline, which follows upon the
performance of a task at stated times
every evening, will often count for
much In the development of desirable
habits than will the scholastic at
tainments. Much has been said of the boys and
girls who have been permanently in
jured by overstudy. Often the ill
health that is ascribed to too close ap
plication to school duties may be traced
to other causes, chief among which Is
the overindulgence In social entertain
ment. The number of hours devoted
by school children la the United States
to study is trivial when compared to
the work done by students of the same
age In Germany and other Old World
countries. But the essential thing is
that it ba systematized and regularly
performed.
This Is a direction in which the co
operation of parents and schools is
most called for, and in which great and
permanent results may be easily se
cured. The hours as prescribed by the
school authorities do not appear to be
in any sense a hardship, and are, in
fact, little enough If children are to
derive any adequate return from the
years, spent in school. Where there
are individual cases, in which the pre
scribed home studies cannot be per
formed with satisfaction within the
period named, there is then need for
readjustment, and this is best secured
by consultation. Experience has shown
that In this direction the mutual help
of parent and teacher, without which
no system can possibly be most ef
fective, can be best and most easily ap
plied. The same valuable teacher of all
has also shown that without home
study of some nature It Is folly to at
tempt satisfactorily to secure that
combination of education and instruc
tion which the world Is today demand
ing of Its schools.
BtASQX-ERASINO PURS EXPOSED.
VUElIanee Committee to Investigate
Selling; of Fnra by Wrong; Namea.
Philadelphia Record.
Most women know the most out
rageous kinds of Imitation furs, but
not everyone is equal to the detection
of the really skillful frauds that are
perpetrated on the fur buyer. With a
view to protecting the purchaser, the
fur and skin trade section of the Lon
don Chamber of Commerce has been
considering the matter, and has ap
pointed a special vigilance committee
in the hope of being able to arrest or
diminish the illegal practice of misnam
ing furs.
The following Is a list of the most
common misdescriptions of manufac
tured furs:
American sable, sold as real Russian
sable.
Goats, dyed, sold as bear.
Hare dyed, sold as sable or fox.
Kids, sold as lamb or broadtail.
Marmot dyed, sold as mink, sable or
skunk.
Musquash dyed, sold as mink or sa
ble. Opossum sheared and dyed, sold as
Otter pulled and dyed, sold as seal.
Rabbit dyed, sold as sable or French
sable.
Rabbit sheared and dyed, sold as
seal, electric seal. Red River seal,
Hudson seal, seal musquash.
Rabbit, white, sold as ermine.
Rabbit, white, dyed, sold as chin
chilla. , .
White hare, sold as fox and other
similar names. ,.,
Dyed furs of all kinds sold as Natu
ral "
If purchasers have any doubt as to
whether any furs bought by tham are
correctly described, the vigilance com
mittee will be pleased to give free
expert opinion if the articles are sent
"the offices of the London Chamber
ot Commerce. Oxford Court, Cannon
Street. E. C.
World'" Largeirt Cities.
"N-ew York Journal of Commerce.
A Philadelphia statistician, who has
been endeavoring to give a list of the
IS largest cities In the world, arranges
them as follows:
. . a T.TBO.O0O
1. London .(, (
2. New York a0IM00
3. Paris ........... ......... .o 04 tfQ
e,r'm 2:5o;oo
6- Toklo 180 ?S3
S. Chicago -2 0O0.O'
7. Vienna - i pun 000
8. Pt. Petersburg 1 Si-Joels
9. Philadelphia .i'. fino
11. Constantlnopla .... iso 009
12. Osaka - l'liO.Ouo
la. Buenoa Ayrea - w ' "
Estimated.
He points out that the reason London
surpasses New York In population is
because London Includes 700 square mi es
in her area, while New York only in
cludes 320i . .
Medicinal Value of Grapes.
Detroit News.
Genuine cream of tartar is the natural
salt of the grape. They also contain
much tartaric acid, and of all the fruits
composed of these minerals they are the
best to take Into the system. They are
always to be recommended for persons
whose digestive organs are out of order.
" Grapes are a perfect conveyance for
the Introduction into the system of pot
ash salts, and through their use wonder
ful results not at ail surprising to the
learned have been achieved In cases of
Illness. Both the water and sugar of
the grapes are taken at once into the
blood, requiring virtually no digestion.
The kidneys, liver, intestines and other
organs are cleared and strengthened by
the mineral elements of the fruit.
Shall Demoentfle Donkey Rule.
La Grande Observer, Rep.
The fight in November is for Bower
man and the ticket named. If those who
opposed Bowerman for nomination see fit
to continue the fight to the polls, naturally
Bowerman men will feel like retaliating,
end through it all Democratic leaders
will sit on the fence and laugh a hearty
laugh. This is a time when Republicans
can make good, or they can be captured
body, soul and spurs by the Democratic
donkey. Which shall It be?
Drawn Battle.
Woodburn Independent, Rep.
It was a victory for the assembly and
a victory for the anti-assembly. Bower
xnan, the assembly choice, is the nominee
by the grace of the minority. One as
sembly Congressional candidate won and
another was defeated. Men. not factions,
got there. In short, it was defeat for
neither side. The issue of assembly and
anti-assembly came up at the direct pri
mary. Statement No. 1 Issue will be tried
out November &
f HEXRT LEWIS STIMSOJT.
Republican Candidate for Governor of
New York.
New York Sun.
Henry Lewis Stimson, nominated for
Governor, is 47 years old. Ha was
graduated from Yale as an honor man
in 1SSS and studied law at Harvard. He
became a law clerk for Senator Root in
the firm of Root & Clarke in 1891 and
two years later became a member of
the firm. Mr. Stimson was in tha firm
of Winthrop & Stimson in 1906, when
Senator Root brought him tt the atten
tion of President Roosevelt as sood
material for United States District At
torney in this district. Mr. Stimson
married Mabel Wellington White, of
New Haven. In 1S93. He lives at 275
Lexington avenue.
Mr. Stimson was appointed District
Attorney in January, 1906. He resigned
soon after President Taft was inaugu
rated, but agreed to prosecute the cus
toms frauds against the sugar trust
as special counsel after he retired. He
had not been In office more than a
month when the payment of rebates to
the sugar trust by the New York Cen
tral and other railroad companies was
brought to his attention and he began
prosecution. Mr. Stimson proceeded
both against the railroads and the
trust. The New York Central, the
Great Northern, the Rock Island, the
St. Paul and the Central Vermont
roads were all either convicted or
pleaded guilty and the fines amounted
to $400,000. The sugar trust was fined
$150,000, in 1S06, for accepting the re
bates. Early in 1907 Mr. Stimson began his
Investigation into the sugar under
weighing frauds, and this resulted In a
suit in which a Judgment for $184,411
was recovered based on frauds be
tween 1901 and 1907. The Government
then started out after extensive frauds
revealed by the evidence in the suit
tried, and the sugar trust compro
mised ail of its civil liabilities to the
Government by the payment ot $2,000,
000. In addition the Government got
$695,000 from the Arbuckles and $60.
000 from the National Sugar Refining
Company. It was in Mr. Stlmson's
term that the Philadelphia Sugar Re
fining Company's suit against t-e sugar
trust for damages under the Sherman
law was tried, and on the evidence
in this case he obtained the indictment
of the sugar directors and their coun
sel, John E. Parsons. Attorney-General
Bonaparte had previously refused
to act on the same evidence. For under
weighing frauds the secretary of the
trust and a number of employes and
customs men have been committed. Mr.
Stimson also conducted the prosecu
Uon of Charles W. Morse.
WANTS TO BE OREGON'S SENATOR
Private Citizen Who Thinks It a Step
ping Stone to tbe Presidency.
THE DALLES. Or.. Oct. 4. (To the
Editor.) I have at length convinced
myself against my will that my really
superior ability requires that I should
run for some good paying public of
fice, and after looking over the field
carefully, have finally decided that the
office of United States Senator really
offers the best inducements in the way
of pull, and pull means money. Also
I am thoroughly convinced that no
man who ever expects to be President
should begin higher up the ladder than
that.
My political creed Is "Got the
Money." and I never change It what
ever party I adopt. I believe in any
proposition of any kind with money in
tt, provided the money comes my way
or to my friends, but not if it goes to
my political enemies. I now promise,
if elected to the Senate, never to be
caught doing anything for which I
may be sent to the penitentiary.
I believe that the easiest and most
practical way to obtain this office is
through Statement One, so I shall now
boost for it for all I am worth. I was
formerly opposed to it. but I have since
seen the error of my ways and have
been converted to the only true faith
which will now elect a man to the Sen
ate. I would like to admonish all er
ring politicians that the assembly Is a
delusion and a snare for the unwary
and is not the real thing. The only
way to be elected to the Legislature
or any other office is to boost for State
ment One. Upon this we must all stand
together, and when we get in office,
insist upon cash in advance in all cases
except where the salary is fixed by law.
A great many people think we are
in politics for our health, but it la the
fate of politicians the world over to
be maligned by the newspapers and
have their motives questioned, and If
we ail pull together we may sleep well
with a clear conscience, knowing that
no good graft Is being overlooked, and
that after we retire from office and the
people finally realize that their money
is really gone, they will then know
that we have been actuated by the sin
cerest motives. Z. M. CHASE.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Chicago News.
A cheerful man 13 a pessimist's idea
of a fool.
Life is a grind, but the world is full
of cranks.
The next best thing to being rich is to
have people think you are.
A man makes his mark and then his
wife is apt to make him toe it
Today is the time to do things; tomor
row is the time to do nothing.
Throw on the emergency brake when
you find yourself talking too much.
Be sure your sins will find you out
but If they don't your neighbors will.
Some men expect others to agree with
them even when they don't agree with
themselves.
We once heard of a man who loved to
pay his debts, but we have forgotten his
address.
Fooliab Question.
Chicago Journal.
"Were you ever arrested before?" asked
the magistrate, whose principal business
is Imposing fines for speeding.
"What do you think I've been doing all
these years?" said the chauffeur, "push
ing a wheelbarrow?"
Kelgnbor'a Baby Is Useful.
Louisville Courier Journal.
"You watch your neighbor's baby with
considerable interest."
"Yes," said Mrs. De Style. "When the
wrather turns her baby blue I don't let
Fido out."
Timely Advice.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Advice to alleged millionaires with fi
nancial guardans: Don't marry a pro
fessional entertainer until you are quite
sure you won't have to ask her for the
car fare.
Rational War Correspondent.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Theodore is a contributing editor who
Is "good for a column" in all the other
papers every day.
Life and Death Per Minute.
Baltimore American. .
It Is computed that 67 people die and
TO are born every minute.
She Poured the Tea.
Puck.
Erie poured tbe tea. Ah, she was fair
Am, urn in band, aha nearad my chair
And stooped my waiting cup to nil.
The while I sensed a wond'rous thrill
For suca fragrance filled tha air.
Twaa not tha tea; her wayward hair
Just brushed my cheek and lingered there.
How could I calmly wait until
She soured tha teaf
To steal a kisa who would not dare?
If one, who would not steal a pair?
I stole them, as a fellow will.
And sensed a warmer feeling still.
ThV not of heart, for that's not where
She poured the teal - - -
Life's Sunny Side
Little Lawrence's grandfather was
very ill and a trained nurse had been
employed to care for hlrn, When ne
became convalescent a young woman,
who had studied In a hospital for a
short time, was secured in her place.
A sympathetic neighbor meeting Law
rence, the following conversation took
place.
"How Is your dear grandpa this
morning, Lawrence?"
"He is better."
"Have you the trained nurse still?"
"No. the trained nurse has goua away
and the one we have now is half
trained and half wild.'' nonia.ua
Home Companion.
"Lysander," said
"do you know what
the wife sweetly,
day this Is?"
"Of course," said
to have remembered
the anniversary of
dear."
"No such thlnpr!"
the wife. "It's the
to nail the lejr on
table." Tit-Bits.
hubby, pretendlnsc
all the time, 'it's
our wedding day,
frigidly answered
day you promised
that old kitchen
The story is told that Judge Story
and Edward Everett were once the
prominent personages at a public din
ner in Boston. The former, as a vol
untary toast, gave: "Fame follows
merit where Everett goes." The gen
tleman thus delicately complimented at
once arose, and replied with this equal
ly felicitous impromptu: "To whatever
height Judicial learning may attain In
this country, there will always be one
Story higher."
a a a
Mark Twain always took a keen de
light in scoring off pomposity. While
dining in a restaurant one day he sat
next table to a couple of airy young
men who were giving the waiter an
unusual amount of trouble. One of
them gave an order, and then, in a
commanding voice, asked the waiter to
tell the cook whom it was for; the
other followed suit. Presently came
Twain's chance, and he directed the
waiter in a loud voice to "Bring la
a dozen oysters, and whisper my name
to each of them to be sure it's all
right." Buffalo Commercial.
a a
There's a certain minister whose du
ties sometimes call him out of the city.
He has always arranged for some one
of his parishioners to keep company
with his wife and little daughter dur
ing these absences. Recently, how
ever, he was cailed away so suddenly
that he had no opportunity of providing
a guardian.
The wife was very brave during the
early evening; but after dark had fallen
her courage besran to fall. She stayed
up with her little girl till there was no
excuse for staying any longer, and
then took her upstairs to bed.
"Xow, go to sleep, dearie," she said.
"Don't be afraid. God will protect
you."
"Yes, mother," answered the little girl,
"that'll be all rlgcht tonight: but the
next time let's make better arrange
ments." Human Life.
APPLES STOW ARE JAG CURB.
They Are Found to Abate the Appetite
tor Strong Drink.
New York World.
The W. C. T. U. of Cook County
(Chicago) is going to fight drink with
apples. It has discovered that .the
agent which caused the fall of the
human race may now regenerate lt-
Dr. Samuel Bailey, of Mount Ayr. Ia.,
has been experimenting on the antl
booze qualities of apples. He has
cured hundreds of drinkers by feeding
them apples when they wanted to drink.
The women are sending out thousands
of leaflets, which read:
"The use of apples as an article of
diet will very much diminish, decrease
and ultimately abate the appetite for
alcoholic stimulants.
"That this Is a fact could be proved
in many instances if a little care, cau
tion, and vigilance taken to investi
gate conditions. As a rule the habitual
user of alchollc stimulants is rarely a
consumer of apples. There seems to
be a peculiar combination in apples
that allays the Irritation, or so-called
appetite produced by the use of liquor."
Some Facta About Catching; Cold.
Medical Record.
Dr. William Brady. Elmira, N. Y,
ridicules the general Impression that
almost any disease may be brought
about by catching cold. He refers the
symptoms of cold to errors la diet
producing autointoxication. He says
that no matter what position we take
in a room we cannot dodge drafts. Ap
plications of cold less severe than
enough to produce frost-bite have been
shown to be harmless. The tonic effect
of porch bedrooms Is acknowledged.
Dietetic errors, unhygienic living, ex
cessive heat and defective ventilation
are the causes of the "so-called" cold.
Fuel economy and free ventilation ara
opposed to Bteam heating, and tempera
ture in the averapre modern building is
too high. Sixty-five degrees is plenty
for any house. The value of a saline
cathartic in a cold Is due to unloading
the portal circulation and the venous
plexuses of the esophagus, nose and
throat. Overheating and alcohol are
predisposing factors' to respiratory dif
ficulties. The wearing of improper
clothing is another factor in predispo
sition. A suit of woolen underwear
acts as the hair of an animal does; it
is comfortable and keeps out cold,
being a slow conductor of heat Cot
ton conducts off the heat quickly, and
dissipates it rapidly and the blood is
driven to the great Sphalanohnio areas,
causing active congestion.
Hard Workers of History.
. Busy Man's Magazine.
When we read the lives of distinguished
men in any department, we find them
almost always celebrated for the amount
of labor they could perform. Demos
thenes. Julius Caesar, Henry IV of
France, Francis Bacon. Sir Isaac New
ton, Franklin. Washington, Napoleon
different as they were in their intellectual
and moral qualities were all renowned
as hard workers. We read how many
days they could support the fatigues of
a march; how early they rose; how lata
they watched; how many hours they
spent la the field. In the cabinet. In the
court- how many secretaries they kept
employed; la short, how hard they
worked.
Tendency of the Times.
"Atchison Globe.
There seeme to be a very general dis
position this year to raise h 1. What's
the matter with introducing smallpox
la the public schools?
. m
Easy Task.
Detroit Free Press.
"Pa, what is a philosopher?"
"A philosopher, my boy. is one who
tells other people that their troubles
don't amount to much."
IMgfrtniC at Home.
Washington Herald.
President Taft will not go to Panama,
but will stay right at home and watch
his party dig. '
Octoberesqne.
New York Times.
Ho, brine the fcrown October ale
And fill a foaming beaker!
(That "beaker" seemeth somewhat stala,
yet "dlpner" ooundeth weaker.)
Now hands to cup. come, stand ya up.
Make ring the oaken rafter I
(In thus inciting you to sup
Tla Scott I model after.)
Quaff every Jaek and toast his Jill.
Till not a man be sober!
(rm strictly prohibition, still
One baa to rhnna "October.