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No doubt many of our clerical friends and others who are strong ad vocate of prohibition would agre tHat. In theory at least. Clarenc Dax row's remedy for th drink evil la the right one. "The aolutlon of the liquor problem." he a-. "Is to develop character and Individuality, to educate mu to control himself." Mr. Iarrow ba been a student of social questional for a loo time, and nla ability to ob serve, facts and reason upon them cor rectly has been demonstrated In many different fields, lie la also known a person of extreme, mental Independ ence. It Is difficult to suspect that his opinions upon prohibition, as upon every other subject, are. not entirely free from mercenary motives. Even If they are wrong-, they are. at least honest. But concerning prohibitory laws tt would not be, easy to show that he Is wrong. How to develop that -i-Mrariw and individuality" for which he, speaks Is, of course, a ques tion 'DDcn which views may vary. Some may suppose) that tt will come through legislation more rapwiy man In airy other -way. but In our opinion this Is an error. MM student of society are agreed that legislation as a rule register the progr which society has already ac complished. It des not of Itself pro mot progress. To this statement there are exceptions, of course. The law may remove an impediment to progress or It may remodel old and worn-out governmental machinery and. by providing better, aid the for ward march of mankind materially. But this Is something far different from unrlertaklr to upbuild individ ual stamina. Without a substantial foundation of character. It is out of th qoestion to expect any roan to re sist temptation, and to provide that roqulsKa we must look to something e!se besides the taw. Just what means Mr. Darrow would employ to establish the solid sub-stratum of manhood which he depends on for the solution of th liquor question he may specify more, elaborately hereafter. At pres ent he ha left us somewhat In the dark, but It msy be nunwd pretty plausibly that be would pay a great deal of attention to economic reform. He has often said in public addresses that the most efficient factor In the causation of vice Is poverty. If It were possible to remove poverty It would scarce :y be necessary to worry our selves more about bad habits of Bfe. At least the vices of the poor would be largely remedied, since In the ma jority of cases they are the direct con sequences of Insufficient food and bad home surroundings. The appetite for drink, when It appears In a hard working man. arises in nine cases out ef ten from the lack of proper nutri ment. The tissues of the body, crav ing food which cannot be supplied. And for the moment an effective re lief In strong drink. The relief Is transient and It leaves the body In worse condition than before, but white It lasts It la satisfying. Xo wonder the half-starved laborer learns to be lieve that liquor is hi best friend. Nothing could convince him of his mistake except a supply of really nu tritious food. He could then compare his working power under the two regi mens and see which made him truly the stronger. We must therefore rec oncile ourselves to the use of liquor by worklngmen until we discover some way to abate their poverty, for they would eat proper food If they had the means to obtain It. Clarence Darrow has himself pub lished much Instructive matter upon the subject of poverty and its relation to the bad habits of the poor. Those who Ignore this factor In discussing the temperance problem simply skim the surface of the subject. They do not plunge Into the depths where their thought might throw real light upon Its difficulties. It Is fatuous to reiter ate, as our reformers do Insistently, that strong drink causes per cent of the crime and misery In the world." The figures are not correct, but if they were must still ask what lie at the root of the appetite for strong drink. Many answers will be forth coming, naturally. We shall hear that it is hereditary, that it is a dis ease, that It Is fostered by the saloon, that It arises from bad social cus tom, and much more of the larai sort, all of which are true, but all of which evade the root of the question. W must ask again whence arise this appetite and what so knead It Into the system that It becomes hered itary? The saloons could not make men drunkards unless the craving for liquor were already felt in their bod ies. Social custom would be pow erless to establish alcoholic slavery unless the tissue of the physical frame were crying out for nutriment which they could not obtain. Liquor does not supply the lacking nutriment, but It seems to do so. and that Is suffi cient to deceive the patient to his ruin. At the bottom the liquor question, then, like most others. Is economic, rir.d some way to give all men good living conditions and you have virtu ally solved It. Permit the bad condi tions to continue and you may legis late to the end of time without getting much "forwarder." By "had condi tion" we do not mean merely poverty. Too much wealth la fully as destruc tive to character as economic misery, but It Is. fortunately, far lea common. So wo still Insist that the crux of the liquor problem I the, more funda mental problem of poverty. Blame for the egg-throwing episode at Pendleton ha not been definitely fixed. The "wets" assert the attack was planned by the "drys" for the purpose of making capital. This charge shows that at least a portion of the avntl-tempera.no force appre- data that violence and hoodlumlsm always recoil on the beads of those who attempt It. All of the laws which the temperance people could pass would not prevent a certain element In Pendleton and vicinity from securing as much whisky a they had money to pay for. It might be poorer whisky, under a "dry" administration, thai, would be sold under proper regula tions, but there would be plenty of it. For all that, the "drys" have a right to sins- their songs and speak their speeches without becoming the target for eggs. nO GETS TflK BENEFIT? If West shall be elected Governor, what will the Democratic party get out of It? Naturally, the Democracy, which supplies most of the votes, wants to know. There will bo the Governor, with the patronage, pres tige and Influence that goes with the Governorship. There will be a few Jobs, They will be disposed and ped died out to do the most good for the Bourne and Chamberlain partnership. No Democrat who will not be willing to "play the game" need hope for anything from West as Governor. The game Is. of course, to re-elect Bourn Senator. Everything must give way before that great aim of the Bourne - Chamberlain -West machine. Watch out for a deep-laid scheme to give Bourne not only the Republican nomination for Senator, but the Dem ocratlc nomination a well. How will the Democrats who do not worship the Chamberlain fetich Bke that? Not much, we think. But Bourne must bo re-elected at all hazards and at any cost. It win be a "cinch" If he can tie op. through Chamberlain, the Democratic nomination for Senator, and throuch his own resources and ingenuity the Republican nomination. Friends of the primary law indeed are Rnurn and Chamberlain. But better friend of themselves. How do other friends of the primary law. who have no Interest but the public good. like the looks of the great coup d'etat for Bourne by Bourne A Chamber lain, partners, running both Repub- ttran and Democratic parties? rXDEJI WHICH IXAO? Ne man who onpoaad Mr. Rowei-man In tha primary election ran conaiaumtlr rap port him now. No man who araa agalnat Kim tbea can, srltlwtul etalflfyin hlmaelf. ba for him now. Krora a Democratic cam- palm axrvraeat. The men who opposed Bowerman in the primary and who, in the vlw of this Inspired and dishonest publi cation, have stultified themselves by accepting the decision of the people In the pslnvary. Include Dlmick. Abraham. Hofcr. Lowell. Selling. Mi tarkey, McGinn. Logon. Mulkey. Lnf- ferty. Kay, Dunlway and all the long list of so-called anti-assembly leaders. voters and candidates, with a single Important exception. The exception 1 Bourne. The one guide, voice and apostle of the true faith Is Bourne: all the others are spurious, bogus and faithless, according to this specious Democratic manifesto, because they chose to consider that the Republi can primary was the only tribunal for settlement of party questions and for selection of Republican candidates. Bourne show his loyalty to the primary by repudiating and rejecting Its reanilta. He supports Republican principles and uphold Republican policies by making an open alliance with a Democrat, Senator Chamber- Iain. He defies and opposes every Republican of note and Influence In Oregon. It Is Bourne (with Cham berlain a his accredited sponsor, ally and partner) on the one hand, and the Republican party of Oregon and all factions of the Republican party, except Bourne's, on the other. The Republican of Oregon have the Issue clearly before them. They have the option of following the black flag of Bourne Into the Demo cratic camp, or of remaining with all other Republicans in their desire and determination to uphold the primary by accepting it Judgment. Under Which flog. Bexonlan? rnujc docks cxxecessart. All sort of wild, unreasonable, il logical and idiotic arguments are ad vanced to show why Portland, already something more than comfortably burdened with debt, should spend mil lions on a public dock system. The bogle man that is most frequently brought out to frighten the timid tax payer la railroad ownership of docks. We are gravely Informed by the public dock boosters that, unless this city shall spend several million dollar In building docks, to be operated in competition with private docks, the railroads will prevent Portland from participating in the transportation ad vantage which will follow the open Ing of the Panama Canal. Of course, the railroads do not now, and probably never will, control more than a small portion of the waterfront available for Portland shipping. Admitting, however, the Improb able w might almost say the im possible what would be the effect of this railroad ownership? The rail roads, by granting to the water line via Tehuantepec and Panama a 40 per cent differential, publicly acknowl edge their Inability to meet water competition. Independent steamers are today bringing Atlantic Coast freight Into Portland, passing It over private docks Into Harrlman-llne cars, and delivering it at points as far east a Spokane, at 154 per car less than the all-rail rate. Harrlman steamers, connecting with the Pacific Mail' Panama route, are doing the same thing, with the exception that no wharfage charge is made on freight passing over their docks. About the lowest rate named by the railroads to the Pacific Coast is 110 per ton. On such low-grade freight the steam ship tariff, at the regular differential, which is frequently cut. would be J J per ton. Only an Insignificant amount of freight moves at these low rates, enlarge percentage of the traffic roov- Ing at rates around $20 per ton It Is thus apparent that the rail roads concede an advantage of ii per ton on low-grade freight, and $8 per ton on much that takes a higher clas sification. The opening of the Pan ama Canal will, of course, give the water carriers a still greater advan tage. Waiving at this time the In creased advantage that will follow the opening of the canal, we have the wa ter carrier delivering freight at Port land from 14 to II under the rail road rate. The only thing that now stands in the way of delivery of thla freight In th Interior Is a charge of Zi cents per ton. The shouters for public docks Insist that, unless we spend a few millions for public docks, reducing this 25 cents per ton charge, we will lose all of the advantage of water transportation. We are asked to believe that the railroads, owning a few docks, will be permitud to charge from It to tS per ton for handling the freight over their dock. Such at least would be the only method by which they could "bottle up" the port, a the public dock booster assert will be done. We are told tloat unless we provide public docks we cannot participate In the large trade that will follow the opening of the Panama .Canal. Tet there 1 no other route to the Inland Empire over which this traffic can pass as economically a by way of the Columbia River. The best railroad traffic men in the country admit that readjustment of rates that will be made necessary by completion ojf the Canal will show greater profits for the railroads In an eastward haul of this Panama route freight from the Pacific Coast to the Rocky Mountain than can be secured' by the long all- rail haul across the continent. Port economiee) will thus be as essential to the railroads a they are to the peo ple. BOCKNE'S IJTTLE BIXU "Before leaving." says Senator Bourne, in the most recent of hi de servedly famous farewell addresses. "I wish to urge upon the attention of voters of Oregon th importance of thd adoption of my bill, proposed un der the Initiative providing that the voters In the party primaries may express their preference for candi dates for President and Vloe-Presl-dont. elect their delegate to National convention, and select their party candidates for Presidential electors. This is the measure maaqueradlng under the guardianship and author ship of that virtuous organization, the Poople's Power League. But the People' Power League, with Its long list of names, "both respectable and coiry we say easy because these gen tlemen cheerfully acknowledge pa ternity for any legislative orphan that may be left on their doorstep hod nothing to do with the making of this ingenious measure. Bourne say it is MY bill. It is. It certainly is. The main purpose of this bill is to make It possible for all sort of dele gate to jro to any kind of a National convention of any old political party at public expense. Fine Job, that. But the blil doe more. It has an Innocent little provision that no voter may vote for more than ONE dele gate to a convention. Beautiful. Now you see why it Is MI Mil. Bourne wanted to go as a delegate to the National Republican convention In 1J08. and failed overwhelmingly nd lgnomlnlously. But this scheme will fix It. Th Bourne clique may concentrate It vote on one candi date under the Bourne bill. Besides, the corrupt practices act cannot ap ply, since the delegate get no pay (only expenses) and a candidate tor delegate may spend all he pl Great scheme. VAJtlSHTNO TITLE!. Quite likely Portugal has don wisely to abolish title of nobility. They are so deeply tainted with the evil memories of feudal privilege that no good signification ever could at tach to them. Any person who re tained one of them would almost In evitably believe himself entitled to some of tho rights which once be longed with It, and naturally he would be ready to work or fight for the good old regime when an oppor tunity offered. When a title, or any word, in fact, once starts upon the downward way it la seldom reformed and restored to high standing. Mar cus Aurelius Justly remarks In his Meditations" that man is the only creature In the universe who can be restored to perfect condition after once lapsing. Certainly word cannot. Th English language is full of words once highly respectable, or even beau tiful, which are now vulgar and unlit for utterance In decent society. Such word never regain their lost glory. It 1 their unhappy destiny to be come worse and worse until final ly they fall out of usage altogether. They grow too vile even for the mouths of the vile. Titles of nobility have not become terms of opprobrium a yet in any of the republican nations, but they have become a little ridiculous in France, at least. Nor is th market value of Italian counts very high. One i-nr foresee a time when it will make man angry to call him a duke. though we do not mean to say that It la dangerously nenr. When title of nobility go for good and all, as they will ultimately. It will be a mis take to provide something to take their place and perform a better service. France has found that it Is an ex cellent Idea to bestow titles of honor upon her citizens. They are not mili tary titles and have nothing to do with pontic. They testify that the bearer has done some worthy serv ice to his country or to the world and they are highly valued. Prob ably no moderate sum of money would convey as much satisfaction to a Frenchmsn a the ribbon of the Legion of Honor. Wise governments And it useful to stimulate the loyalty of their subjects by appeals to harm less vanity. A TRAXSPORTATIO IXJT9TICE. A an example of the interdepen dent relations existing between a transportation company and the peo ple It serves, the present fight be tween the Puget Sound Electric Com pany and its Duwamish Valley pa tron Is Interesting. By construct ing th line and establishing a mod erate rat for passengers, the electric road Induced large numbers of peo ple to settle along the route. Without cheap fares, there would have been no business of consequence for the transportation company, for there would have been no incentive for these people to move out Into the country. The rate of fare thus becomes practically the sole point at Issue. By fixing these rates at a moderate fig ure, when the road wan first built. It would be very unreasonable to as sume that an advance would be made after the business .had grown. The natural supposition would be that, if any change were made, it would be a reduction. Instead of an advance. Whatever may be the motive that prompted this increase of mor than 100 per cent. It can have but one ef fect, and that Is greatly to depreciate th valu of property In the territory concerned and to cause th return to the city, or its low-fare limits, of hundreds of people lured to the coun try by tne original cheap fares of the electric line. The damage being wrought by this unfortunate con troversy is not confined to the loss of business which th road will suf fer and the inconvenience and ex pense undergone . by the duped set tler. It ha created a feeling of re- unlm.nl and hoatlllrv which cannot f easily be eradicated. This feeling will find expression In a demand fo laws which In some cases might prove very unjust to roads that have played fair with their patrons. The action of th Puget Sound Electric Company in making thla drastic advance in rates, with it at tendont depopulation of much local territory, would Indicate that the road doe not care for the business. Tet It is altogether probable that ap pearance of a rival line In the terri tory would be th signal for a fierce rate war. It 1 fortunate for the Duwamish Valley suburbanites that their fight has been taken up by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. There are few if any cltie in the United States where the city limits extend as far into the country as they do In Seat tle, and In thl particular case the ad vantage of almost "unlimited limits" Is obvious. If Seattle can force the electric line to carry passenger on a clty-limlt fare as far out Into the country as the new limits provided for census purposes extend, the rest ought to be easy. Duwamish val ley people could either walk home or pay a small aum for the short re maining distance outside of the city limits. Viewed from almost any angle, the position of the Puget Sound Elec tric Company la for from invulnerable. One does not need to be a prohibi tionist to reprobate utterly the form that opposition to prohibition tooK at Pendleton recently. Of all the cowardly method of the ruffian, that which take tho form of egg-throw lng 1 the moat despicable. Cham pion of any cause could not take more docided and effective mean to discredit themselves and the cause for which they stand than by resort Ing to acts of ruffianism in Its be half. The episode at Pendleton, in which dignified and orderly Cham plon of prohibition were greeted with hisses, cat-calls and egg-throw ing, cannot be too strongly repro-. bated. These are the methods of the coward and the blackguard. They stand for no principle. They eimply mock at reason, dignity and common sense, and are a disgrace to any com munity In so far as they are tolerated without rebuke by Its decent law abiding citizens. The gallery of family portraits will In time be succeeded by the hail of family statuary, altogether and other wise. In tho circles where possession of money obscures the intellect. Life- kiss marble, however, cannot appeal to popular favor. It lacks warmth and color. Perhaps the Idea can be better expressed by recalling the tour of tho Middle West farmer and his estimable wife through Europe. One object seen was the statue of Apollo Betvidere. "So that's "Apollo, is it?" said the wife, with a sniff. "Well, I've seen Apollo and I've seen John, and I say give me John every time." Resolutions passed at a- mas meet ing at Milwaukee, presided over by Mayor Soldel. indicate that law and Justice had been temporarily absent from the Badger State. The resolu tions "demand that John Deltz, of Sawyer County, In the State of Wis consin, be given a fair trial, and that the same opportunities that are. ex tended to predatory wealth be given John DelU to clear himself of all un just charges." There are very few states in the Union in Which an inno cent man, or even a guilty man. can not secure a fair trial without the aid of resolutions passed at a mass meet ing. In olden day physicians were al lowed to trot across the bridges and speed their horses to the limit on the streets. The animal that could do a mil in three minutes was a rarity, and leas speed covered all tho emer gency needed. Why should theso professional men and women be al lowed to exceed it because they have the means to do so? Th single ex ception in breaking the law should be the fire chief, who can give warning of his approach In a noise that will stampede stock In adjoining counties. The most noticeable trait of the numerous fruit ehowB and iairs tms Fall is their common sense. Tho horse race falls more and more Into the background. The apple, the bushel of Dent corn, the bunch of al falfa, come to the front. The asso ciation which gave a cow as a prize for the best-kept farm showed a typi cal spirit. Gradually the farmers are eschewing humbug and hitching their wagons to the noble old engine named 'Intelligence. A matter of course, valuations are higher. Think of interest and sink ing-fund moneys to be. raised and the additional help needed to handle the fund. Yet why should anybody com plain of a little more taxes In a city where there are a hundred more or less amusement houses of varied de gree running all the time? Pile up the bonds and pile on the taxes and let the individual charge it to the higher cost of living. Major-General Grant is determined to keep his department In condition. His latest order to officers on special detail la to walk three miles within an hour each day or its equivalent in athletics. Disregarding discipline and forgetting for the time that an officer Is a gentleman, some of the more ponderously built can do some vigor ous calisthenics of the lungs In dis cussing the order. The . Pittsburg demonstration against profanity may possibly cause fewer oaths to be uttered there next year. Fifty thousand persons march ing In protest against almost s.ny bad habit would cast some odium upon it. still a good home and the right kind of a father would be more efficacious so far as hoys are concerned. For sane and up-to-date considera tion of the Blhie. the Iiev. w. a. Eliot's sermon of last Sunday can dou able discount Dr. Henry Van Dyke's Century article and still win. That couple at Dayton, V ash, who were remarried Sunday after a sepa ration of two months, did simple jus tice to their four small children who witnessed the ceremony. The false note in a parade of 60,000 neonle In a war on profanity Is the failure to reach the people who use it. Her "eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." If vTalter Wellman succeeds, he is in lln for th Nortli Pole. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM MEASURES Bill Providing for Voterg' Expression of Choice of Presidential Candidates Unfair to Minority Parties Amend ments of Two Separate Acts Sought in One Measure Act Would Impose Burdens on Certain Taxpayers. ARTICLE NO. 5. A bill for a law to amend tha dtract pri ma r-r law by xtenJlns lta provision to Pres idential nomination, aHowfn vol era to dea ltnata thalr choice for their party candidate for Prealdant and Vlca-Prrtrtent : for dtreot nomination of party candidate for Presiden tial elector: for election by party voter of delegate to their party National nomlnatlns convention each voter votlns for one delo irata; for payment of delegate' actual t ravel ing expense, not exceeding 200 for each del egate, and extending publicity rig-hts of can didates In tha ovate nominating ana general election campaign. The foregoing Is the title of a bill the submission of which to the voters at the general election has been "arranged" by Senator Jonathan Bourne. The chief characteristic of the measure Is the expense it seeks to impose on the taxpayers of the state In return for a wholly useless prerogative. The title of the bill sets forth clearly the purpose of the act except in one par ticular, and that particular is In the extension of publicity rights of candi dates. The measure offers the free use to each candidate for President and Vice President of the Republican and Demo cratlo parties of four pages in the gen eral election campaign book published by the state, in which such candidate may set forth the reasons why he should be elected. The Oregon! an has carefully gone over the argument submitted In favor of this bill by the People's Power League, which Is the medium through which 8enator Bourne arranged to submit the measure, and finds no reason at all assigned why a candidate for the office of President or Vice-President of the United States should have the use free of space In the campaign book that would cost any other state candidate for office the sum of fiOO. Neither Is any reason given why the Republican and Democratic candi dates for President and Vice-President should be given free use of the pamphlet while the Prohibition and Socialist can didates should not even have the right to use the pamphlet by paying for space. For a proper consideration of the bill it should be noticed that it attempts to amend two separate and distinct acts, one of which is the direct primary nominat ing election law and the other the cor rupt practices act. Throughout the bill the provisions made for paying expenses of delegates to National conventions and enlarging in other matters the two acts apply to political parties recognized as such by the primary election law. This limits the operations of the act to those parties whiah at the preceding election cast for Representative in Congress 25 per cent 'of the total vote cast for all candidates for Representative in Con gress. Only the Republican and Demo cratic parties are now recognized by the primary election law as political parties. SEW YORK STATE POLITICS. Prediction Favor a Republic Vic tory, bat What Will the Colonel Dot Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The early Interest in the campaign in New York State is sure to deepen as election day draws near. Experienced politicians there are puzzled by the sit uation as between Candidates btimson and Dlx, and are not disposed to make predictions until the popular temper has had more time in which to develop. The Republicans, of course, rely on Colonel Roosevelt to pull their ticket through, and it is not yet clear how commanding his Influence may prove to be. Among the men or business in cew York City and beyond there is a dispo sition to welcome the nomination or I business man rather than that of a law yer, upon the ground that the expend! tures of the state have mounted to 40, 000,000 a year and the situation calls for trained business oversight and re pression. It Is said that the business men. banners ana nnanciai interests generally are deeply impressed with the view that It is high time lor tne appii cation of economy by someone whose training fits him for the intelligent ac tion which such figures call lor The hoDe of direct support for the te- publicans from William R. Hearst has of course, passed, now that he has iden tified himself unreservedly with the In- denendence League ticket by accepting the nomination for Lieutenant-Governor and Indorsing the action of the league's convention in placing a full state ticket in the field. This definitely draws tne lines of the campaign, so far as Hearst Is concerned. The consolation wnicn tne Republicans have in the present line-up Ilea in their expectation tnat tne inui- pendence League ticket will draw more heavily from tn Democrats man irora the Republicans. At the same time it is manifest that there is Republican dis affection of a quiet sort that is liKely to make Itself felt on election day. unere are Republicans, whose number it is Impossible to measure, who do not care to have Mr. Roosevelt in the White House again, and are convinced that he i. chArlKhlnc- Presidential aspirations. and that the demonstration of his abil ity to save New York to tne rtepuDii- cans would be of great assistance the onnntrv over to that amDition. The betting in Kw ora tiiy in favor of Mr. Dlx, but tnose iamuiar with Emolre State politics believe that Roosevelt will be found much stronger with the masses norm or tne nanem River than the politicians in Greater vaw York susDect. Therefore, most nrrvnhats are ready to wait until tne n into full action before ven turlng to say what tne resun is uaoiy i. k At the same time, the feeling grows that the Dlx chances -are better han they were estimateu i m mui im. rr H la seen to oe a Clean mnu of established business ability and line public spirit. There is no discount to be placed upon tne iiruujooimmi '"i'""' and high personal character of the Re publican nominee, but it remains to be seen how general is to be the convic tion that a lawyer does not so well fit the needs of tha state at this time as an efficient and forceful man of business. Little Thing and Big Prices. Ohio State Journal. Looking over a Ne York market report and seeing tomatoes quoted at 15 cent a pound. wet potaloea at 10 centa a. quart, pumpkin at 10 cent a pound, and o on. then a a behold how the cornucopia of life la beginning to thrive! up. Potatoes by the Quart and pumpkin by the pound! Varlly. life Is gttlr.B penned up in too narrow Quarter. It uaed to be potatoe by the hu.hel and pumpkin by the !2. a the fond eye view It but now we hava fallen upon evil time and the goodnea of thla world 1 P1U up Into pllniera, in obedience to the debilitating Influence of the commer cial aplrll. After awhile we fear wo chat! get to the beggarly level of the roor denl- ena of ft. Thnma. who ll their fuel by the cent' worth and nibble about oil day to get a anuare men!. These are the rfaya for little thing and big prices, and they do not go well together. Lovaly CeurM at Dinner. Tit Bit. A boy wa ona day telling his companion about a great dinner at which he wa pres ent. He told them about tha lovely things he had to eat. . "And suppoee y had napkins, said a "We had. of course." ha answered; finest you. aver taatad."- "tha All Settled hut the Maine. Lowell Courier-Citizen. Divers report that the wreck of the bat tleship Maine has not settled since the night that tt went down in Havana har bor. But Spain settled long ago, ana so did we to the tune of several millions. It Is within the range of possibilities that In the next Presidential election the Democratic party in Oregon will not be subject to the provisions of. the primary law nor to tho provisions of the measure under discussion if it carries. In 1908. the Democrats had about 8000 votes more than were required to give the party recognition. In the Second District this year Democratic lack of Interest indi cates that the members of that party will be about as contented In seeing an Insurgent Republican elected as in elect ing a member of their own party. Under the terms of the Bourne law the Prohibition and Socialist taxpay ers and possibly those who are Demo crats would have to contribute toward the expense of the Republican delegates to the National convention, and also toward the expense of publishing a state pamphlet open only to candi dates for President and Vice-President, who are Republicans. It may be suggested that such a bill is antagonistic to the constitutional provision that all elections shall be free and equal, but in view of the decision of the State Supreme Court in the test of the primary law. In which a sim ilar issue was raised, it is probable that such an act. although morally un just, may be enacted and enforced. The proposed law materially amends the sections of the corrupt practices act relating to space in the general campaign book. Section 6 of the corrupt practices act provides that the state executive com mittee or the managing officers of any political party or organization, hav ing nominated candidates, but no others except independent candidates, may have space in the book for portraits or arguments at the rate of 50 per page. Parties may purchase up to 24 pages and independent candidates up to two pages. The corrupt practices act now, apparently, recognizes all political or ganizations. The amendment proposed in the bill submitted thla year extends the use of the pamphlet at the rate of 100 per page for not more than four pages, to the Individual candidates of political parties, provided they are to be voted for by the electors of the state at large and have been nominated by a "political party, recognized as such by the laws -of Oregon." The intent of the act plainly ig this: The Prohibition or Socialist campaign committee or party managers may con tinue to buy space in the book, but the individual candidates of those parties may not. The Republican and the Dem ocratic managers, as they represent HELPING THE MAN OUT OP A JOB. Salt Lake Pastor Will Eatabllah Em. ployment Agency In Ilia Church. Salt Lake Herald-Republican. , An employment bureau conducted In a church and by the pastor! This Is the latest departure in the field of religious work In Salt Lake, and. If the plans of its originator carry through successfully, a fully equipped bureau will be in operation in one of the leading houses of worship In the city before the end of this week. The idea originated with the Rev. Elmer I. Goshen, pastor of the First Congregational Church. And, with this minister, to conceive a worthy idea is to Immediately act upon it. So he has plans already almost completed for the establishment and operation of his church free employment bureau. He proposes to establish headquar terse in the Congregational Church building, and will have the office open from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. It is his pur pose, as announced to his congregation at the regular services, to keep some one at the church during these hours, and provide them with every facility possible for bringing Job seekers In touch with those who need help and find employes for those who need workmen. Mr. Goshen has spent some time studying free employment bureaus that are In operation in Eastern states, un der municipal and state direction, and it is his idea to follow methods em ployed in operating these bureaus. The pastor feels that conditions ex lsting in connection with many employ ment agencies now operating leave a field open for such a bureau as he pro poses to Install, and It Is his desire and hope that the church bureau may grow into an institution that will eventually be taken over by the city and operated as a municipal bureau. Food for the Goanips. Chicago News. Mrs. Tattles All sorts of stories are going around about the Nucumbs. Mrs. Snooper No wonder. They have bean living in the neighborhood six weeks and nobody knows anything about them. A Strange Animal. Circus Man (hunting for a stray elephant) Hava you seen a strange animal around here ? Irlahman Begorra, Ol- hev that! There was an lnjunrubber bull around here pulling carrot wia its iau: BATTLE HVM OF THE REPUBLIC. By Julia Ward Howe. Born May 27, 1819; died October 17, 1910. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory. halleluiah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on! I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps. I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in bur nished rows of steel; As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the hero, born of woman, crush the sement with his heel. Since God is marching on." He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He Is sifting out tne nearts or men before his Judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer mm. be jubilant, my feet Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the ulies, unrisi was born across the sea; With a glory In his bosom that trans figures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let ua die to make men free. While God 1 marching on. Glory, glory, etc. - ' recognized political parties, may buy space for their candidates and the in dividual candidates of such parties may buy space also. Campaign expenditures of all candi dates are limited by the corrupt prac tices act. but the proposed amendment provides that payment for space in the campaign book shall be counted as a part of the 10 per cent of one year's salary each candidate may expend. Thus we have it that Senator Bourne proposes that a Republican candidate for state office may expend $400 more to insure election than may a Prohibi tion or Socialist candidate. As heretofore stated it may even transpire in 1912 that the Democrats will not have a legal standing as a political party in' Oregon, and it may transpire then that the mocratio candidate for President will have a reasonable chance of election, yet the Republican candidates will be enabled to reach every voter in Oregon with his lltsrature at a nominal expense, while the Democratic candidates will have to resort to more costly means. In addition to its unfairness the use lessness of the bill is patent. Out of 7,678,908 votes cast for Tat in 190S the Republicans of Oregon cast 62,530. Out of a total of 9S0 delegates in the con vention that nominated him Oregon had but eight. A direct expression by less than 1 per cent of the Republican voters of their choice for Presidental candidate could not affect the result in any way. The bill would wholly eliminate tho holding of party conventions in Ore gon and the delegates would go to the convention without any expression from the people of this state on the issues of the day. It is a bill that seeKs to sink the importance of party principles beneath that of popularity of candi dates. It is a measure that would permit a self-advertising man in Ore gon, by simply securing a few hun dred signatures to a petition, to pose as a candidate for President or Vice President of the United States. Two years ago Senator Chamberlain was suggested as Vice-Prealdential timber by a few overwrought Democratic en thusiasts in Oregon. Had this bill been In effect then it is possble, even prob able that these enthusiasts would have secured the party vote for Chamberlain as an aspirant for the Democratic nom ination for' Vice-President. The measure is not only useless and unfair, but opens the way for making Oregon an object of ridicule throughout the Union. . Life's Sunny Side The death of the widow of Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist, recalls an inci dent which took place In her presence many years ago. There had been a monster revival meet ing planned for women only at Madison. Square Garden. Men were to be rigidly excluded, but on the day of the meeting one young man managed to slip in un observed and scampered to tha top gal lery, from which he watched the pro ceedings. Later, In the hearing of a number of woman, of whom Mrs. Sankey was one. he related his experience, and was asked if he had enjoyed the meeting. "What struck ma most," he said, "was looking down upon 10,000 bonnets, no two alike." Philadelphia Record. ' At a conference a young minister said to Henry Ward Beecher: '"Mr. Beecher, my congregation has delegated me to ask this question of you: We have in our congregation on of the purest and most lovable men you ever saw. He Is upright, honest, generous, the heartiest supporter of the church wo have the friend of the poor, the beloved of little children, a veritable saint but he does not believe in some of the gen erally accepted dogmas. Now where do you think he will go after death?" Mr. Beecher was equal to the occasion. Hesitating a moment, he said: "I never dare say where any roan will go after death, but wherever this man goes he certainly has my best wishes." Exchange. Mark Twain was a firm believer in tho National movement for good roads, and had many a tale to tell about tha in credibly bad roads of some sections. A Hartford man recalled the other day this experience of the famous humorist: "I once had 30 miles" so Mark Twain began "to go by stage in Mississippi. The roads were terrible, for it was early Spring. The passengers consisted of five men and three women three large, well developed women, swathed in shawls and veils, who kept to themselves, talking in low tones on the rear seat. "Well, we hadn't gone a mile before the stage got stuck two feet in the black mud. Down jumped every man of us, and for 10 minutes we tugged and jerked and pulled till we got the stage out of the h'We had hardly got our breath back when the stage got stuck again, and again we had to strain out very heart out to release her. "In covering 15 miles we stuck eight times: and in going the whole 20 we lifted that old stage out of the mud 17 times by actual count. "We five male passengers were wet. Hred and filthy when we reached our destination: and so you can Imagine our feelings when we saw the three women passengers remove, as iney oiamouuitu, their veils, their shawls and their skirts, and lo, and behold they were three big, hearty, robust men. Aa we stared at them with bulging ana ferocious eyes, one of them said: " "Thanks for your labor, gents. We knowed this road and prepared for It- Will you licker? "Minneapolis journal. Cnma tlma hefore Judce S. S. Ford was elected to the common pleas bench he was employed as attorney for the defense in a raw In Criminal Court. The jury was out three hours, but finally brought In a verdict of "not guilty." Nex tday Judge r ora met one ui uio jurors In the case. Well, we set your man nt, ujc Juror said. "He was as Innocent as a new-born baDj.. Certainly he was. remarnea ouase Ford "I was a little surpnsea at tne length of your deliberations." I'll tell you aoout mat, aaia me Juror. If you had rested your case wnpn the state got tnrougn, we wouia navo acquitted your man in a second. That testimony you put in for the defense sort of rattled us. I'm an old juror. Judge, and I want to give you a word of advice, wnen in a trial by jury you are defending an In nocent man, keep him off the witness stand." Cleveland Leader. Reglanlng Early. Boston Transcript. Caller (viewing new baby) Do you think he is going to resemble his father? Mother I shouldn't be surprised. Ha keeps me up nights even -