TTTi: MOlivTN'O OTCEfiOXIAN, TnTTKHDAY, OCTOBEIt 20. 1910. 13 . . m - mmMm a ' ,-V I m Mail-. Aa 1ST 1LAJLK Teitr. r4av tnero4e Tr :!.. fuolr InctudvU. sm month... fiiodar Included, threo month... :!!. Sunosr Included on montB..... :!. without suadsjr, ere year. :;. without Sundnr. sis IS 4.SS tJ J COO I IS 1.71 vunni pjnuaf. - peUr. without SuaLjr. . & Uuadar aal Wkl7. on rear., ... (fit CAJUtIEK. Taf. inflr rnetude. TOO. ... ixu.j. Sundsr Included. o ibbohb.. Haw ! HasnJt Saad Pootofnc SM .11 DOT a local. fcank. fctamp-. oin or fBco re at I :a onaro - . uliM la foil, Including oountr and ""Tr to. 1 limn aslea 1 to Jt p V..o. to ti p.. s mu; t b 10 to o paea, ceata. rria posts ttn rroniaeaa W-Vtm C?r, ." J-Oa.rLAD. THrB-HDAi'. OCT. . I ms IWCXaJUTT OOf THB WAXW Tha romnun ludrment of the muinirr urjoa Mr. liooaovelfe tariff loicursioos la that la Ala oca u F he Apostolic precept anil Do ail hings to all men he has overreached Mmatlt Kfforta made by his ene mies to reconcile his tariff speech at Sioux Falls with what ho said after ward st Syracuse sad (Saratoga bar lsaaOy ruled. Even his friends And ha tak DerDlexing. Tho Sioux. Fall Address was perhaps , trie nrst v Thkh Mr. Roosevelt has Baa any thing Importance to say about the -axtif. Ilia persistent suencw that vital subject was extraordinary - man artio DOfjas as a moral ana economic guide la sil directions, tut at Sioux Fa2s lis made P for past ?iasloiia. Colonel RcaeTeIt said thers that -the system" oa which tne rnoe-at flru-H tariff was mads "encourages a cramble of seiflah Interests to which he alMmporlant general miexeax ti Jjs pubUo is naceaaarlly mors or leas subordinated." Us added in anotner lentancs that the tariff utfht to be merely a "material." or economic. sue. but If tn maalcr it sec a rreoked deaX then It becomes very tmphatlcally a moral Issue." Mr. RooeeTelt knew that most of his auditors b oiler ed they had (ot "a crooked daaT' in tha Payno-Aldrlch tariff and he could have had no other purpose in What hs said than, to make them thlnlc he aareea wi them. But at Syracuse and Saratoga, where hs supposed the lata revision ia more acceptable. his tons changed strikingly. He made speeches it both places, but In neither of hem did he Intimate that the lanxi was among the moral Issues so dear to his heart, nor did ho refer to me 'crooked deal" again. That reXIec lon upon the new tariff law was made to pieaao toe iw muu u Sioux Falls. For his mora poUta New Tork audiencea hs waa content to TraLae Mr. Taf t a tarur commission end commend the notion of raising worklngmen's wags by taxing their food and clothing. It was Esau's voice that Mr. Roosevelt used In the West, but In the East It was Jacob's. At least his enemlvs jubilantly say so and his friends find tho accusation embarrassing to dl-poso of. But this Is not the worst. Mr. Hooaevelt has been asked to account for tho ridWlous laudation ' of tho Payne-Aldxlch tariff in the Saratoga platform, where, among other aston ishing statements. It was asserted that he new law reduced duties 11 per rent. This was doubly difficult to wallow when readers remembered that the -statistics prepared for Mr. Taft'a use in his Winona speech only made the reduction between one) and two per cent. Confronted with this discrepancy. Mr. Roosevelt replied that In the first place ha was not responsible for tha Saratoga plat form, and In tha second place that his views upon tha tariff ronat be looked for In his own speeches. He sdded that la his speeches at Sara toga and Syracuse ha had repeated "exactly what ha said" In the West. This gave fresh material to his eager critics. They wanted to know who was responsible for tha Saratoga platform If Mr. Roosevelt was not. Ia tha convention ha was undisputed master. His enemlea were) "beaten to a frazale," to use his favorite phrase. He struck off names from the plat form committee and put on new ones. When tho platform was reported he did not breathe a syllable against 1L Who could have suspected, that ha lid not Ilka ltr His conduct on that occasion was very strange in a man who makes It a point to speak his mind freely everywhere If tha tariff plank displeased him. Whether Mr. Roosevelt's New Tork tariff doctrine a "exactly the same" as ha preached In the West every man who an read may Judg-a for himself. Un kind critics draw tha Inference that Mr. Roosevelt has been trying to make his doctrine suit his congrega tions without much regard for con- Iststency. This may be unwarranted loy tha real facts of th case, but It chimes pretty re!l with tha appear- . Soma go so far as to say that ha has been playlna; "a shifty game" and point out tha danger of such a oursa In times like these, when the voters demand candor and sincerity above all things. It la possible that Mr. Roosevelt, by his tariff Inccmsls- e tides, has committed tha first se rious blunder of his political life. His course has conciliated none of his Eastern foes, while it has alienated ome of his Western worshipers. sooner or later every career passes its 'Umax. To this rule Mr. Roosevelt an hardly expect to be an exception and If his prestige ehould wane here after without recovery it may com. ort him to remember that tha same thing happened ' to Napoleon and Hannibal. 4. recent decision of Judg-a Whltna n New Tork seems- likely to blur the attractiveness of "mlgTatory divorces," as they are called. In this . case a married couple first lived in New Jersey and then moved to New Tork. Somewhat later tha wife want to Reno. Nevada, and after the statu- ory residence of six months obtained a divorce. Tha ground was desertion. Tha Nevada court allowed her tha custody of tha children and she brought suit In New Tork to enforce the' decree against her former hus-' bsnd. This threw the divorce under Ju4ge Whitney's Jurisdiction. If It had not been properly obtained, of course, tha children belonged to the husband. Tho Judge decided that a divorce vp legal unless It la obtained, la the 'state where the couple had their last matrimonial residence," In other words, where they last lived togeth er as a family. This opinion is rorun ed tv tha citation ef a flve-to-tour Su- preme Court decision, and If it were followed everywhere we enouia nave no more Nevada divorces. Neither mum could break up the marriage tiv minr for a divorce In a state where the family had never lived. ru.c-ra nhtnln.rl In that War WOUld be valid In the state where they were obtained and nowsere eise. But Judge Whitney's opinion Is not liiriv tn ha followed la many states. The tendency Is to accept the validity Of decrees without mucn inquiry in txnwr thev ware obtained and may ba that this la for tha best. Tha opposite course would Introduce great perplexity into the relations 01 r imi'ioa and make many exist! unions Illegal. Thus far most efforts to restrict divorces have simply im paired tha stability of tha family. BOW GEO HOB WDJ. DO IT. Candidate West told at Pendleton the story of his intimate friendship for Senator Chamberlain. Dynamite power, honors, nothing, would serve to sever those tender relations. "If." cried tha candidate tearfully, "my op ponent should come to me and offer to writhdraw and thereby tender ma tha Oovemorehlp on a silver platter If I should renounce my friendship for George K. Chamberlain. I would say to him that I would a thousand times rather go down to defeat with Oeorge Chamberlain's friendship than to vic tory without it." Clearly everything continues to b lovely between Damon Wsst and Pythias Chamberlain. But there Is mora to tell. "I have never seen Sen ator Bourns but once In over two years." declared tha Impeccable Mr, West. "I have received no wtrd from him by letter or otherwise, directly or Indlractlv. about my candidacy or this campaign." Na doubt. No one has said that ha did or assumed that It would ba necea- sary that ha should, for tho whole plan of campaign, ao far as fixing West for future favors Is concerned, has been to let George do It. And George has dona It. If West aball ba elected Governor, watch tha adroit man-handling of "West by Senator Chamberlain for tha benefit of Part ner Bourne. rcBuo dock uocia. One of those dreadful railroads that la seeking to control the dock facilities of Portland Tor tha purpose of ruining tha trade of tha city and causing Portland to revert to Its original condition of a howling wll derneas is now endeavoring to secure a franchise for Its passenger cars. In order that Portland's customers from Willamette Valley points may reach the downtown district without walk ing or paying- an extra fare. Perhaps the strangest part ef tha. proceeding Is that there Is no concerted opposi tion to tha granting of tha franchise. Soma of our heaviest taxpayers and most patriotic citizens have actually got the impression that soma things that are good for tha railroad may also ba good for tha city. They are urging that tha franchise be speedily granted, and it probably will ba. Meanwhile tha purveyors of publle dock sites are doing their best to con vince tha public that Mr. Hill, after spending tfiO.000,000 on his North Bank road to Portland. Intends to ruin tha business of this city, so that there will ba nothing to haul over his costly road. Those awful railroads, which actually control somewhere be tween a twentieth and a fiftieth of tha available waterfront which could be used by Portland, will not let up on the fight until Portland Is a ruined city, with naught but the bats and the owls to supply freight for the $200,- 000.000 worth of railroads centering here. As an example of logic, the antl-rallroad feature of tha publto dock boosters' argument is In a class by Itself. weeks iMaitoxAJrra ark veeied. President Taft has been securing soma first-hand information on tha Immigrant problem by a visit to the Ellis Island Immigration station. As a result of this visit the President is of the opinion that a strong- effort should be made to distribute the In flux of foreigners and stop the pres ent congestion of population In New Tork. He also believes that heavier penalties should ba exacted against steamship companies for infractions of the Immigration rules. Relief of tha labor congestion caused by thine Immigrants has for many years been one of the most serious problems in connection with the service. That any change can be made under existing- circumstances, however. Is doubtful. That there mill be a change as -soon as the Panama Canal la completed Is almost a cer tainty. New Tork is the most con gested labor center In the United States, because it Is the point easiest reached . in tha New World by the millions of foreigners who are dumped on our shores by tho trans Atlantic steamers. A few of tha most prosperous and energetlo of these newcomers work their way Westward, and become an economic advantage to the land of their adoption. An overwhelming majority of tha arrivals, however, re- main as close as possible to the shore on which they were landed, and eka out a ratserable existence la competi tion with thousands, even millions, who have preceded them. The com pletion of the Panama Canal will quite naturally bring about a more satisfactory distribution of this labor. A regular steamship service between En rope and Pacific Coast ports will admit of passenger rates via tha Panama Canal nearly as low as those which are in effect between European and American ports on the Atlantic The. greatly superior Inducements which tho Pacific Coast can offer labor will mora than offset the slight difference, if there Is any, in tha fare. hlle It will be of Immense advan tage to this European labor to land on the Paciflo Coast where It Is needed. Instead of on the Atlantic Coast, where It Is not needed. It will also prove beneficial to the people now here and aufferlna; for lack of lsbor. Tha Paciflo Coast has already an ample supply of professional men. It has mora street corner agitators than are needed, and the number of for eign Jawsmlths of tha Andrew Fure- seth type Is out of all proportion to tho requirements. We do need a good many thousand hard-working, thrifty men who are willing to go out into the wilderness and clear land and ret It In shape to produce something. Every working day In the year, an average of mora than 100 acres ef Umber land is denuded of its trees alone to supply Portland sawmills. Fully as many mora are cut over to supply logs for ttie lower river mills. Multiplying this acreage to conform with the output of hundreds of other mills from British Columbia to Cali fornia, there is a daily addition to the area of logged-off lands of many thousand acres. ' These lands when cleared are un surpassed for all kinds of farming, but until the Pacific Coast has a labor supply that will engage In work of this kind, very little clearing will be done, and the lands will He idle. With the Panama Canal opening up new markets for the lumber of the Pacific Northwest, and at the same time bringing In a labor supply to clear up the vast tracts of logged-off lands, this country can afford to loss the Oriental trade which the canal will divert to the Southern routes. The United States can still make use of several million good, European workers of tha right sort, but they must be sent to the Paciflo and not tha Atlantic Coast. BOWZBMAX AKD THH NORMALS. Some one, describing himself as a "good Republican." writes . to The Oregonian from Ashland, saying that ha is going to "oppose Mr, Bowerman for Governor, because Bowerman fought the normal schools." The first error our grieved correspondent makes Is In describing himself as a "good Republican." He la not. The second Is In assuming that the normal school at Ashland is the mere con cern of Ashland and not of tne'antire state. The third is In assuming that thf opposition of Mr. Bowerman was to the normal schools as such. It was to the normal school combine, which had Interfered most perni ciously with tha orderly and proper progress of legislation at every recent legislature and which had grown into a great political machine, threaten lng every other legitimate legislative interest. It was high time for the welfare of the state that something should be done to stop the costly logrolling of the normal school promoters. Bower man as Senator helped to break up tho machine. He ought to have done It, and he need not, and doubtless will not, apologize for performing his clear duty. Tet It seems that there Is a little factitious opposition to him tn the normal school towns because of his straightforward course and outright methods as Senator. Evi dently these short-sighted friends of tha normal schools prefer to take a' chance with a governor who will parley and deal with them on the old basis of give and take. They are not wise. The state at large will not permit a return to old methods In the resumption of busi ness by the normal school steam roller. Bowerman has- acquiesced In tha present proposed arrangement by which tha people are to decide what to do with tha schools. If tha bills pass, under tha Initiative, moderate appropriations are to ba given eaeh school. It Is well enough for the people In the normal school towns to be reminded that. If Bowerman shall not be Governor, he will continue to ba atata senator, and Is likely to be re-elected. But It would be both a gracious and commendable thing if they would give him a full vote in each of the three normal towns. Meanwhile, all know that Bower man Is a man of deeds, with an open public record. His record on normal schools ought to make him many votes among people who know their history and who recognize and desire to reward manliness. Independence and real devotion to duty. DRA-STIO RKHEDY NKEIKI. Portland ,automobllists seem to have suffered a bad attack of tha speed mania this year. A death roil of eight and a much larger list of serlounly Injured are not pleasant to contemplate, especially when it is re membered that not a. single one of these accidents could be - classed In any other manner than as "prevent able." Automobile accidents are usually the result of sheer careless ness end failure to obey the laws of the city or the dictates of common sense. There are, of course, many careful drivers Involved In these accU dents. It usually happens that when the careless fool runs Into the care ful driver. It Is the latter who Is In jured. There ought to be some meth od by which this slaughter could be checked, and In the effort, law abiding automobile owners should assist the authorities. Tha ordinance of June 4. 1904, pro vides speed fines of from 125 to $600 or 90 days imprisonment. Tha Im position of tha maximum fine on a few of tha high-speed maniacs might have a tendency to reduce the num ber of automobile accidents. Most of the speeding Is done by people with whom time is not of such priceless value that life and limb must be rlskad In efforts to break records. Tha automobile has come to stay. both for utility and pleasure, and it must ba accepted and regulated In accordance with the necessities which Its Indiscriminate use has disclosed. FOR THB TtMB BEING. Tha Port of Portland commission urges upon the city authorities the postponement of further activity In tha matter of the Broadway bridge, "for the time being." All that has ever been accomplished by the Klem ans and other bridge obstructionists, and al that they ever expect to ac complish, la a delay "for the time being." That uncertain, Indefinite term may mean lasting opposition to. the bridge, or it may mean that when few short-sighted West Side prop erty owners awake to tha fact that they have driven business into per manent locations on the East Bide, they will hasten to withdraw their opposition to facilities that will per mit the East Side population to do business on tho West Side ef tha Wil lamette River. All bridges are to a certain extent an obstruction to navigation. Were they otherwise, there would be no necessity for securing permission from the United States Government to build them. There eomes s, time, however. In the life of every commu nity situated on both sides of a river when land traffic must receive aome consideration and some concessions from water traffic. Then the bridge Is built not to obstruct water traffic but to facilitate land traffic, with out which there would be no water traffic. The men ashore have right to be guarded and respected. Just the same as those afloat. Steamships could be moved up and down Port land's harbor much easier if there ware no bridges, but there would ba little er nothing to attract them to the port. Neither the Port of Port land ner others whose cause it Is aiding can prevent construction of the Broadway bridge, although Its construction may be delayed "for the time being." ' Meanwhile a new business district Is springing up oh the East Side, to handle tha trade that is denied easy access to the older business district on the West Side. This Is a matter In iwhlch tho West Side has much greater financial Interests than the East Side, and the delays will prqva much more costly to the West Side. v The longest trip ever made by a bal loon is something less than 1000 miles. Voyages of several hundred miles were made, mora than thirty years ago, and progres In the dirigi ble line has been, much slower than with the aeroplane. In the face of this record, few. If any one, expected the Wellman balloon to get much far ther than the point at which it was abandoned. The experience of dec ades of ballooning had taught men that a thousand-mile flight across tha country had never been accomplished, and that the chances for. a sustained flight would ba no better over h sea than over the land. The sea flight, however, was so much more spectac ular tha.n that over the land that it Lwas attempted. In the time of Co lumbus, or even when the Montgolfier brothers were ballooning, there would have been greater risk in the experi ment than in a land flight. Today, with hundreds of steamers crossing the Atlantic, the chances of being picked up were bo good that the peri ccntage of safety In favor of the land flight, if any, was very small. The Farmers' Educational and Co operative Union Is to hold a meeting with the officials of the O. R. & N. Company and the Northern Pacific at Walla Walla, October 21, to discuss freight rates on wheat to the East. It Is stated that. If they are unsuccessful with the railroad men, the farmers will carry the matter to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Wheat In Chicago, 2000 miles from the Wash ington wheat belt, iwas quoted Satur day at 98 cents per bushel. In Port land, less than 300 miles from the wheat district, it waa quoted 85 to 89 cents. If the railroads were to put In a rate that would admit of shipping wheat East, at present prices, the Iru terstata Commerce Commission woula Immediately have another case to in vestigate. Until consumption over takes production and the eastern part of the United States is dependent on the Paeifto Coast for wheat supplies, the natural route to market for Ore gon, Washington and Idaho wheat will ba by way of the Paciflo ports to Eu rope. There is nothing lowly about tho ambitions and purposes of the Pacific Highway Association. A road from the State of Washington to Mexico, following tha coast line, represents these at present. The association has enlisted tha enthusiasm of the officers of the Oregon State Automobile Asso ciation with headquarters at Salem. Nothing Is impossible to engineering skill, pluck, audacity and money. Nevertheless the proposed- coastwise highway will probably not be com pleted during the first half of the twentieth century, by which time rapid transit, scorning tha ground, will take to itself wings; the flying ma chine will supersede the automobile, and tunneling and blasting and grad ing and such other drudgery as is In cident to roadbulldlng will give place to the delights of "winnowing th buxom air." Perhaps. How does it seem to become rich all of a sudden? Perhaps soma kindly reader can tell us from his ex perience. The California man who woke up and found a check for 52. 000 awaiting him ia not a millionaire by a long shot, .but he has money enough to change all his old habits and ways of thought. Henceforth this will be a new world to him, but it may not be a better one. That will depend on his lnnato strength of Charaoter. . Stevenson's old ' farm may be among the places overwhelmed by the recent voleanlc eruption In Samoa. The tropical islands are charming to read about, and it is agreeable to live for a while upon some of them, but they have their drawbacks, insects, volcanoes and naked savages, for ex ample. Taken for all in all, Oregon is about as good a place to inhabit as earth affords. The visit of Portlanders at Golden dale last week and the return visit were events significant of tha social and commercial Inter-dependence of the two cities. Goldendale Is an im portant' and thriving center, destined to be even more conspicuous in the upbuilding of this Northwest country. These visits' will be more frequent as tra,do relations expand. The fate of W. 8. Whltmore, In ventor of stereotyping, la not unlike many other men of similar gifts. Now and then an inventor makes a fortune, as Edison has, but as a rule they die poor. like Whltmore. Our patent laws are supposed to secure substantial re wards to Inventive genius, but they do not always succeed. The dwellers of tha Centennial state, shivering under their blanket of snow, are naked to turn this way and con template arrangements being made for Portland's annual Christmas swim In the Willamette. Let it be said of O'Donovan Rossa, now about to be translated to the kingdom where the British cease from troubling and the Irish are at rest, that he made a brave fight to the best Of his light. Tacoma Is said to have been the worst offender. Nobody would sus pect her of such work, for Tacoma was always held to be honest and slow. If It Is to -be such a prolonged job to mark the ticket. Just cast a- tear for the boards of election who will have to count the votes. The Port of Portland Commission is a mighty body, as the Taxpayers' League was la days past, but It is not bigger than the people. That Tacoma centenarian Is old enough to be counted twice, and per haps he was. Wellman will try again. He Is a trying man. Rhode Island Indorses Taft. That Is certainly a drop in the bucket. DR. MOlOtlSON EXPLAI.VS HIS TALK Dealoa He Said Bible la Not Word of God! What He Does Mean. ROUSE OF BISHOPS. Cincinnati, O.. Oct 12. (To the Editor.)--From Associated Press reports and from sensational headlines in newspapers here The Oregonian will have been in formed of Dr. A. A. Morrison's ad dress before the general convention (of the Episcopal Church) now assem bled. 1 As Dr. Morrison has been placed in a wrong position and has been mis understood, which is unjust to him, and will be a cause of sorrow to his friends and parishioners, I ask The Oregonian to print In full the official statement Whloh he has made, CHARLES SCADDINO, ' Bishop of Oregon. Statement by Rev." A. A. Morrison, Ph. D made at General Convention Of the Episcopal Church. Mr. President and gentlemen of the convention, In justice to this conven tion and myself, permit me to correct a serious and painful misunderstand ing. In the course of a three-minute ad dress, when the matter of the preamble was under discussion, I was reported by the publlo press as haf lng made the declaration that the Bible Is not the word of God, and thh.t the Scriptures are full of-, inaccuracies. As well known to the members of this house, I made no such statements. My use of the term "inaccuracies had refer ence to the historical data concern log the foundation of the church. - If I had hud more time to amplify my remarks, there could not have been a misunderstanding. I wish to affirm my belief la the sixth article of the religion in our prayer book concerning holy Scripture, I do further believe the declaration In article eight of the constitution understanding by the use of ward of God a sacred and reverend title for the holy Scripture, containing all things necessary for salvation. In this under standing I feel that I am in accord with the members of this house and in harmony with the spirit of the church. There "is purely no peed for further discussion. I thank you for your consideration A. A. MORRISON. Rector Trinity Church, Portland. Or, SLAP-DASH LEGISLATION' DAD r'AD, Imposalblltly' of Passing on Thlrty tno Initiative Meaaares Shown. . New York Times, Ind. Dem. The direct rule of the people seems to have reached Its climax in Oregon. We referred the other day to one of the S3 Initiative measures on which it will be the privilege and the implied duty of each voter in that state to express his wish. This we took from The Oregonian. It's accuracy was dis puted by friends of the "reform." and The Oregonian now repeats it in the Official form. It i interesting enough to give In full: For an amendment to Article IV., Con stitution of Oregon, Increasing initiative, referendum, and recall powers of the Deo. pie; restricting use of emergency clause and veto power on state and municipal legisla tion; requiring; proportional election of mem bers of the Legislative Assembly from the state at large; annual sessions ana increas ing: members' salaries and terms of office: providing for elections ef Speaker of House and freslaent or Eenate outside of members; restricting corporate franchises to -0 years; providing ten-dollar penalty for unexcused sbsenoes from any roll call, and changing the form of oath of office to provide against so-callea legislative log-rolling. Any one who cares to read this pro posed amendment to the constitution a little carefully will see that it really Includes nine measures, and the voter iias to vote for or against every one of them by a single cross "at the designated place on the wagon-bed ballot." He may wont to vote for five of them and against four, but to get the five he must take the four, or to reject the four he must abandon the five.- -He may want annual sessions of the Legislature and not want more legislators or higher pay for them. He must take them all or none. He may think well of proportional election of legislators and think ill of 30-year franchises for corporations; he must approve both or neither. And so on, Aqd this is called extending the con trol of the people over their affairs. It la really denying them the power to control. We assume that this is an extreme ease; at least we know of no other so ridiculous. But It is the log ical outoome ef the mad, bad fad which at the moment Mr. Roosevejt is urg ing. HIGH RETAIL. PRICE OF APPLES Complaints of Rust and San Joae Scale la New England Orchards. Northampton (Mass.) Gazette. Tha price obtained by the grower for Winter apples is about $2.50 a bar rel for number ones. Some apples, bet ter than the average, like those in the best districts of New York and those along the eastern shore of Lake Cham plain, are selling for a greater price. Buyers who have made extensive tours of the apple regions say that the crop is proving larger than was expected. and .that the rust is very extensive on the fruit. This is a brownish rough nesa of the skin, which seems to pre vent its ready expansion, and thus checks the growth of the fruit, or else this roughness permits the freer evap oration of the water. It is not other wise a serious loss to the grower. Bor deaux mixture is said to cause it, but the rust appears this year on many unsprayed orchards. Except for tha rust, apples are generally smooth and free from fungoid discoioratlona. Th retail price of apples will be high. The risks and cost of cold storage are so great that the Fall buyers are Inclined to get more for their risk than in for mer years. We asked a man well in formed of the state of apple tree plant ing In New England if the number of trees Increased or decreased, and he said the number was decreasing. The Ban Jose scalo Is killing more than are planted. In time all the trees will be in large orchards whose owners make a business of apple-growing. A Delicate Point. Kansas City Journal. ' "What shall we do with Senator Smugg?" 'Just say he was always faithful to his trust." "And shall we mention the name of the trust?" ? , Rich In a nay. Chlcaro Hewa Are you plugging day In, day out, for a very scanty wage. Envying the rich and haughty? Put a puno tura In your rage. It you're poorer than Job's turkey, if you haven't got a bone. There's a way to mend yaur fortunes, to make all the world your own. Dent be weeping, don't ba sorry, don't be grieving any more; There's a plutocratic fortune humbly knock ing at jour door. I can tell you hew to get it la a J Iffy. I have seen What a fellow wrsta about it in a recent magaslne. Fix- aome shelves up in year cellar. In tha dark and dank and gloom; Raise the toothsome agarlcus. cultivate the gla4 mivhrooml Ifs a wlnnerl It's a daisy! It's a gem without a flaw! Ton can make a fortune. What's thatT Haven't got a cellar? Pshaw! Oh. well, do not be discouraged. Mush rooms might have failed, you know. But here-s one you cannot lose on, one 'that's bound to be a go I Hera's a fellow tells about It chickens! Got It? Got It down? Ton can make a fortune at It In your back lot, here In town! (Jet a hatcher and ae brooder; they will make you rich and glad. ' What? Y" haven't got a back let? Living la a flat? Too badl . INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUMTMEASURES Memphis, Tennessee, Under Prohibition "Law Such as Ia Proposed In Oregon, Has Two Husdred SI Pre Open Saloons Than During- License Regulation, brand Juries Refuse, ta Indict on Prima facie tjvidenee snd Pertde Vit-neaaea. .ARTICLE o. a. , An amendment of Section 35, of Article II,' of the Constitution of Oregon, prohibiting tha manufacture and sale o,f intoxicating liquor and the traffic therein within the State of Oregon, on and after the first day of July, A. D. 1911, excepting for medicinal, scientific, sacramental and mechanical pus poses. 842 Yes. ' 343 No. A bzill for a law to prohibit, prevent and suppress the manufacture, sale, possession, exchange or giving away ' of intoxicating liquors within the State ef Oregon, except for specific purposes; to govern the arlp ment of the same, deolarlng what is Intoxi cating Uquor within the State of Oregon, and providing penalty for violations of the act 844 Yes. 345 NO. There are two initiative measures to be approved or rejected by the voters In the general election both of which provide for state-wide prohibition. One measure Is In the form of an amend ment of the Constitution. The Oregonian has repeatedly de clared that prohibition is not a proper or effective means of curing the evils of intemperance.. Prohibition results in the substitution of the blind PK for the regulated saloon; In turning what were formerly license revenues into graft for city officers; ia breeding vice; in contempt for law and order and In lowering the moral tone gener ally of the densely-populated commu nities. State-wide prohibition so Fesults be cause the state ia the unit of enact ment and the county the unit of en forcement; because counties that do not want prohibition have prohibition forced upon them and because, in the face of opposing public sentiment, the enforcing power of the county is I powerless. In Tennessee the last Legislature amended the prohibition law to include all cities and towns and It went Into effect la that form-July 1, 1903. The result of forcing a prohibitory liquor -law upon the City of Memphis provides an object lesspn for the people of Oregon. On October 2, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a full-page article de scribing present conditions in Memphis after the law had been In effect one year and three months. The article is a plain recital of conditions, written by a staff correspondent, in which photographs of saloons running openly and in defiance of law are shown and in which the locations of numerous open saloons, dives, gambling resorts and the names of their proprietors are given. This article gives the follow ing Information: Memphis In 1908 had 763 saloons and none of the places now known as "beer joints" or places where beer alone is sold, making a total of 613, or an In crease of more than 200. The saloons iq 1908 were closed Sun days although some kept pide and rear doors open. The hotels sold drinks only with caution. Today the saloons frankly ignore the laws Sundays as on week days. The hotel bars are open and drinks are served with meals as on other days. In 1908 gambling in saloons was pros ecuted when known. Gambling now goes on In saloons with little pretense as to secreoy. In 1903 policemen were rarely seen In saloons. Policemen now enter saloons openly. Prior to the enactment of the prohi bition law the greatest number of un tried murder cases on the court dockets at one time was estimated at $0. On tha first of the current month there were 116 untried murder cases oa tha Memphis court dockets. Memphis Is a city but little smaller than Portland. An estimate, probably excessive, places its population at 211, 000, or a figure near Portland's ac tual population. Memphis has an area of about , half that ef Portland, ia therefore more compact and more eas ily patrolled than Portland. There are 190 men In the Memphis police depart ment and about 200 in Portland's. Tha Memphis postoffice .receipts in 1909 were 1584,200. Portland's postofflca re ceipts In that year were $691,730. e e The prohibition law proposed for Oregoa makes issuance of a Govern ment revenue lloense to any person Or firm, not excepted by statute, prima facie evidence that such person or firm is violating the law. Under the Tennessee law a Federal license is suf ficient evidence on which to base an indictment, but not to convict. In Tennessee Indictments are supposed to be issued by grand juries upon evi dence submitted by the Attorney-General. Recently, a law enforcement league, with a membership ef 1500, prepared a complaint in an action In which It was sought to abate 12 sa loons in Memphis on the ground that they were ' publlo nuisances. This complaint was supported by affidavits of detectives and sworn to by officers of the league. The bill In this case, gays the cor respondent of the Post-Plspatch, sets forth that Illegal drinking saloons are being openly, publicly, continuously and notoriously conducted both dally and on Sundays, Some close their doors on Sundays, the bill recites, but on that day their trade is larger than during the week, and Is composed of a lower elass of persons. Reference Is made in the complaint to the electric signs n front of sa loons, and It is stated that some of them have representatives in tha streets asking passersby to step in side. They are publlo resorts, the pe tition says, for drunkards, gamblers and vjcloug women. Gambling goes on In all the 126 places. It is charged. The petition continues: Complainant is further informed A MAN WHO 1EI.I"ERS THfi GOODS' Frank Estimate of Oswald West, Demo crat who wants o Be Governor. FORTLANP, Oct, 19.(To the Edi tor.). While tha people of Oregon ara smiling at the publicity of Oswald West's little mileage garner-wherein he extracted from the United States Treas ury the sum -of $31b, which, after be coming frightened at the possible ex posure ef the "graft," he turned into the State .treasury, ine state naving earned no part of it, as Mr. West had not the fact is recalled as stated yes terday by one of the most prominent Democrats In Oregon, that probably no person has ever attempted to fly so high with so little actual investment of merit as this same Mr. West. This Democrat said that in the primary campaign wh'ch selected Mr. West over Mr. Meyers as the result ef orders pre viously sent out by his owner, Senator Chamberlain, that every local jaarri- that in all of these rooms, where tables are so provided, disorderly women and even society ladles go for the purpose either of gambling, eatipg or buyln&T and drinking intoxicating liquors. "Grand jurors have flagrantly vio lated the lawa themselves by abso lutely refusing to return Indictments, although 500 or mora official copies of said' revenue license were presented to then) by the Attorpey-Geperl, and af ter they were specially and thorough ly charged by the court as to the ef fect such licenses should have on them In this respect. "Not only this, but pther clear and conclusive evidence was presented to said grand Juries of the sale of intoxi cating liquors, but they have utterly Ignored such, evidence and laughed at. Joked and made fun of the vritneasea who appeared before them to submit evidence." Mark this: The three foregoing par agraphs were copied from a bill of complaint supported by affidavits and prepared by the officers of a law en forcement league, which desired to elose the saloons. The attempt to abate the saloons as nuisances also failed, for the complaint required the signature of the Attorney-General and he refused to sign it on the ground that proper procedure against the sa loons was by criminal and not civil action. Before the prohibition law went into effeot in Memphis, the revenue to the City from the 763 saloons was $190, 75p a year. The 972 saloons now In Mem phis pay nothing to the city, but it is charged in the complaint of the Law Enforcement League that policemen get free drinks in the saloons and re ceive pay for protecting the gambling games. The 150 beer licenses are now held principally by corner groceries that prior to the enactment of the pro hibition law could not afford to pay the 3250 yearly beer license imposed by the city. They now pay the Gov ernment $25 a year each. The following Is a part of what the Post-Dispatch correspondent says he saw in Memphis: "In the districts where vice flour- . ishes openly, along Gayosa street, from Third to'Welllngton streets, and along Rayburne boulevard from Beale to Linden avenues, I saw policemen enter saloons with -women and saw women, stand with them at bars and drink. It a the boast of soma of the saloon pro prietors that tbey never close their doors.. One man who made this boast to me was Rowe (Deacon) Jones, whose place Is at Third and Gayoso streets. "A stout blonde woman walked 'Into Persica'a dancehaU (Third and Gayoso) while I was there, holding the tassle cord Of a policeman's stick. The stick was over her shoulder and the police man held the other end, the woman leading him captive to a table amid the laughter and jests of the others. Drinks were served but the policeman paid nothing. , . . "At Ike Bernstein's White House Bar, 113 Monroe street, there la a poolroom and no effort made to conceal the fact that customers are gambling on horse races." e This Is what the Attorney-General of Tennessee says about the prohibi tion law! "Whenever the state pasaes a law unpopular in certain counties it cannot be enforced In them. This is illus trated by the fact that I can and do get convictions against disorderly roadhouses around Memphis for selling liquor, but the same juries would re fuse to convict a Memphis saloon keeper even if I could get an indictment- "I stand ready at any time to pros ecute any man In Memphis who sells liquor Illegally and I am ready to do all in my power to get indictments, but I can't get them. You cacnot en force an unpopular law." ess Opposed to the two prohibition measures submitted lo Oregon Is the constitutional amendment submitted by the Greater Oregon Home Rule Asso ciation, under the following title: "For constitutional amendment giv ing cities and towns exclusive power to license, regulate, control, suppress or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within the municipality." Yes! 328. No. 329. The purport of the home-rule amend ment Is clearly indicated in the title. It Is Intended by Its adoption to give Port land and other cities and towns the power to regulate the liquor traffic within their limits ae they saw fit or abolish it alto- . gather, but still subject them to the provisions of the local option law. This ia the situation in Oregon:' Port land as a city does not desire prohibi tion and there are aome otlier towns and citiea in the state in the same class. If they did want prohibition the present local option law would provide a medium for closing ' the saloons, and, supported by public sentiment, the law could ba enforced. Had such sentiment existed no state wide prohibition laws or constitutional amendments would have been submitted in the coming election. But as public, sentiment in Portland favors regulation and not suppression of the liquor traffic, the Prohibitionists are endeavoring by force of numbers in other portions of tha state to compel Portland to ocoept measures, that if enacted, will not be enforced, because the senti ment In the enforcing unit la opposed to them. Tha question isi "Does Oregon Want to . Make of Portland Another Memphis?" man attorney in the state who is a Demo crat, and there are several of them, not only voted for Mr. West, but put forth extra efforts in that direction. Being known as tha man who deliv ers the goods, even though he gets them from the Federal Treasury for making a trip to Washington. D. C which he didn't make, the railroad companies, when they instructed their attorneys to work for Mr. West, were probably sowing goods to the wind ward for future delivery. ONLOOKER. Waste of Blaterlal. Saturday Evening Post, Whenever Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon, steps into the limellght.'lie ' prepares a typewritten interview pre vious to the step and hands it out after he emerges. Sometimes there are no reporters around to take the inter views, whloh -a. waste ef soed material.