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M. nKIA"I.
Tha French Premier. M. Briand.
presents a notable example of the
sobering Influence of power upon an
Impetuous man of profound intelli
gence. He began life as a lawyer and
editor In a French provincial town,
but he (rave more time to his news
paper than to his profession. The
paper was of tho radical-socialist
variety and in its flaming columns
young Briand poured forth the indig
nation of his soul against the wrongs,
real and Imaginary, of the French
workingmen. Naturally this did not
foster his law business, which must
come from the so-called bourgeoisie If
from anybody. No doubt it was an
Immense satisfaction to Briand to
express his mind without reserve, but
before a great while hunger began to
clamor rft his office door and he
found it expedient to go to Parts, the
center which ultimately attracts to
Itself everything good or bad In
France.
In Paris he came to the front as
a champion of the proletariat or
militant working class. He pub
lished Incendiary articles in the
papers advocating their cause, and
soon. by their votes, was sent
to Parliament. Once in politics,
his directness, intelligence and force
of character made his rise rapid. M.
Briand w-as Minister of Kducatlon at
the critical time when the French
public schools "were struggling for
existence against the virulent attacks
of the ultramontaincs. Terhaps thcls
success and complete secularization Is
more his worV than any other man's.
Besides that, ho was the author of
the bill which finally severed church
and state in France and gave religion
a frea hand to work out lis destiny
unincumbered by politics.
Biiand's Inst notable achievement
was the settlement of the great rail
road strike which threatened to par
alyse the industries of France not
long ago. This he accomplished by
consummate stratey and not by
bloodshed. He used the resources of
the law to support the law. No extra
constitutional measures were em
ployed, although the crisis "was peril
ous. Fortunately for France, all Its
able-bodied citizens. Including the
striking workmen, are enrolled in the
national army. When the laborers
quit work as employes of the rail
roads Briand ordered them to man
the trains as soldiers of France.
There was hesitation before they
obeyed, but not much. In a day or
two the strike was over and every
thing peaceful again. It is worth
remarking, however, that Briand did
not break the strike with the Inten
tion of compelling the workmen to
forego redress for the wrongs they
complained of. They had a hearing
and obtained Justice. Thus the astute
Minister kept the peace and retained
the loyalty of .the men to whom he
owed his political life, while he
showed by his action that he had
parted company with the revolution
ary socialists. It was Jaurez. the
leader of this faction, who had stirred
tip the strike. Briand. who formerly
fought side by side with Jaurez, now
appeared as the champion of law and
order, but be has not abandoned his
principles.
Naturally the Intransigent radicals
attacked him in Parliament for
breaking the strike, but he had won
the support of the majority and his
defense was easy. The debate nded
with a vote of confidence In the Min
istry to which Briand belonged and
he now felt strong enough to take
the step which has plared him at the
climax of his political career. The
Cabinet, no doubt by Briand's per
suasion, resigned. Logical necessity
obliged President Falllores to invito
him. as the strongest -man in France,
to form a new one. He has done so
with the avowed purpose of proposing
legislation to settle the troubles be
tween capital and labor. What M.
Briand's solution of this harassing
problem will be Is known so far only
to himself, but there Is reason to
ttelleve that he will deal with It as
radically and effectually as he han
dled the relations between church
and state. His motto still Is that
labor Is entitled to what it produces.
It Is suggested that he hopes to at
tain this end by some system of co
operation on a national scale. A
more radical conjecture Is that he
will proceed to "socialize" productive
capital. This dors not mean plunder
of the present owners. They would
receive full compensation, but indus
try would be taken under the direc
tion of the state. This Is a mere con
jecture, but If there Is any truth In
It. France will again appear In that
role of pioneer which she has so
often and so brilliantly played for
the instruction and warning of the
world.
AX IRRErKEAUBlX COMUfT.
The harmony between the British
Lords and Commons, which was
patched up after King Edward's
death, was too artificial to last long.
It has now disappeared in an open
breach and the old fight will go mer
rily on. Other truces may be con
trived before It is over, but it Is idle
to expect a lusting peace until one
body or the other has been substan
tially modified. The House of Lords
subsists upon the principle of heredi
tary, or divine, right. The Commons
represent democracy. The fact that
they often represent It badly does
rot alter the principle involved. Be
tween these Ideals there is what Lin
coln called an Irrepressible conflict
which cannot end until one has been
extirpated.
Which of the opposing principles
will be victorious does not seem dif
ficult to predict. Democracy has been
graining ground la Europe for a long
time. Its progress In England has not
been so spectacular as in some other
countries, but it has been steady and
almost without reaction for a hun
dred years. Even when the Tories are
in power they dp not dare to take
the back track openly. Often they
try to make capital by enacting radi
cal measures proposed by the Liberals.
Still the House of Lords stands as
an Impassable obstacle In the way
of the Liberal party. It dejaya and
thwarts their measures. It acts In
cessantly to hold power in hereditary
bands against the popular will and
to foster a monopoly of landed prop
erty. The course of recent event
shows pretty clearly that England has
come to the point where this must
end. The vast state purchases of land
In Ireland probably foretell what we
shall see In England before long, but
the indispensable preliminary is the
downfall of the hereditary chamber.
CHAMP CLARK AND CANNOXISM.
If Champ Clark. Democrat, is to be
Speaker of the next House of Repre
sentatives, he will have opportunity
to carry out the "reforms" which he
and fellow Democrats and Insurgents
Instituted against the reign of Joe
Cannon. But we shall hardly expect
Champ's viewpoint to be the same as
It was then. His followers are pant
ing for the power which they could
not get hold of these many years, and
they will desire all the means of ex
ercising that power that they can
possibly get. So will Champ.
The truth is that control of such a
bear-garden as the House of Repre
sentatives is reaulres centralization of
power in a strong hand. The Demo
cratic party is now responsible to the
country for fulfillment of legislative
programme and leaders of the party
will desire full opportunity to direct
and control committees and legisla
tion In the lower house. Cannon re
peatedly declared thlit he had exer
cised no more power than had the
Speakers. Republican and Demo
cratic, who had preceded him. There
was substantial truth In that asser
tion. Now we shall see whether
Champ Clark, the probable leader of
the new hopes of Democrats, will con
sent to be shorn of power In the
Speaker's seat.
The country is In for old-time les
sons In partylsm. It will learn anew
some of the ancient facts of partisan
ship. The make-believe of Democratic
'non-partlanhtp" will be revealed,
for example, when Democrats come to
fill Federal offices in the State of Ore
gon. WATER CONSUMERS AXD LAND
OWNERS. Water consumers In Portland, here
after, will have to pay for the pipes of
landowners. Such is to be the effect
of the new charter amendment. Great
many persons voted for the amend
ment, desiring to compel non-propertied
consumers thus to ease the tax
burdens of landowners.
The next effort in this water busi
ness will be that of consumers, seek
ing to shift the burden of laying mains
and maintaining the water system to
taxpayers that is. "free" water for
consumers. This issue will come up
In due time, and The Oregonian. along
with citizens who oppose "free" things
for those who use them and benefit
from them, will Insist that persons and
families that use water shall pay a
fair price for It, Just as this paper
has Insisted that landowners who
benefit from new mains shall pay
fairly for the Improvement.
The one merit of the new amend
ment is that it will compel many per
sons who pay no taxes and owe no
responsibility to property and care lit
tle or nothing for tax burdens It will
compel them now, as water consum
ers, to contribute to the benefit and
ease of landowners. It was this con
sideration of the question that gave
the amendment many votes, perhaps
enough to enact It.
It is obvious that the new amend
ment means high monthly rates for
water In Portland. It makes Impossl.
ble any substatnial reduction In those
rates.
THK MONMOCTH STATE NORMAL.
The bll providing for the rehabili
tation and maintenance of the State
Normal School at Monmouth has been
indorsed by the voters. The vote le
doubtless In part an expression for a
single normal in Oregon, directed
toward Monmouth largely for senti
mental reasons. For many years,
coveting a full half century of the
educational life of the state. Mon
mouth has been an accredited seat
of learning. From the old Christian
college, there established in the rela
tively early years, earnest men and
capable women have gone out into the
life of the state, filling many of its
most honorable pursuits. Teachers,
lawyers and ministers - are ameng
those who have made their way in
the community to Its advancement in
ways of honor and usefulness. In
like measure, through eschewing ec
clesiastical instruction, the Monmouth
State Normal has added Its quota to
the useful citizenship of the state.
The oldest normal, and by Its partial
graduates and local friends hailed as
the "best." the Monmouth school has
In a degree escaped the criticism that
beat fiercely for many legislative ses
s'ons about the normal schools of the
state, in the general defeat of this
disturbing force the Monmouth nor
mal went down; now It seems to have
been resurrected by a very decided
though not by any means an over
whelming majority.
The pMltlon of The Oregonian upon
the state normal school question is
well known. It has for years voiced
a protest against the wastefulness of
maintaining at state expense three
schools nominally for the education
of teachers, but In effect state high
schools serving in the main purely
local Interests.- This, In addition to
the State University, the State. Agri
cultural College and the high schools
that are maintained throughout the
state at public expense, has been
sharply arraigned not only for the
manifest wastefulness of a divided
and useless multiplied education ef
fort, but as unfair to the wider com
munity of taxpayers.
It has often been stated in these
columns that one good, fully equipped
normal school In the state would be
quite sufficient' for all legitimate re
quirements. This belief, founded on
economics and experience, that this
school should be an adjunct of the
State University has also been ex
pressed and that without prejudice
against either one of the three locali
ties where were state normals.
The i Oregonian's chief criticism
upon tnis matter, however, was di
rected against the methods employed
during many successive legislative
sessions to keep these schools alive
through state appropriation of funds.
'Log-rolling" in this Interest has been
open and shameless and it finally
reached the point where the common
welfare demanded that all of the
schools be cut off. This demand was
finally acceded to and appeal was
made to voters for reinstatement of
the schools, with the result above
noted.
Since proper and economic concen
tration of public educational effort by
the. state, in an- institution under one
management, each department of
which would supplement the work of
the other Instead of duplicating much
of this work, is Impracticable under
existing conditions, the rehabilitation
of the normal school at Monmouth
will meet the passive Indorsement of
the people. Thus the public may
hope that contentions upon this point
that have been a legislative ' scandal
for years will now cease. The ques
tion now is, will there be cheerful
acquiescence In the will of the people
made manifest at the polls last Tues
day upon this point and the Mon
mouth Normal be accepted as a con
cesslonand a boon?
WHAT XEaTf
On the face of the returns the pro
hibitionists have lost ground In Ore
gon. State-wide prohibition is beaten
decisively. Five or six- counties, pre
viously dry, have gone wet. The dry
area has been much reduced. The
prohibitionists have received a severe
setback, apparently.
But have they? The substantial
results of the recent agitation the
grand culmination of a movement be
gun some years ago with the enact
ment of the local option law has
been a quickened public sensitiveness
as to the saloon and its evils and a
widespread recognition of the fact
that there should be and must be
sensible and practical reform.
Prohibition as a movement In the
counties of Oregon Is apparently at a
standstill, because the prohibitionists
attempted the impossible task of im
posing it on the state In advance of
a favorable public sentiment. But
the public is ready for and will sup
port a practicable plan to control the
saloon through the Impartial and se
vere enforcement of enforceable law.
Will the prohibitionists help?
' HOW TO MAKE NEW fOrXTrEST
It was clearly demonstrated last
Tuesday that the electorate will not
approve any of a miscellaneous lot of
county-division bills submitted to the
state at large- Yet It must be ac
knowledged that some of the counties
of Oregon, because of their great area
and recent growth in population,
should be divided. Lawyers are prac
tically agreed thar the constitution
prohibits the Legislative Assembly
from changing county boundaries,
and the voters, according to Incom
plete returns, have rejected the bill
providing a method for local deter
mination of county-division matters.
What is to he done?
Although a well-defined sentiment
has existed In recent legislative ses
sions against enactment of laws that
have been rejected under the Initia
tive, the defeat of the last-named bill
need not necessarily te ascribed to
the existence of a general opinion that
no method should exist for changing
county boundaries. Rather, it may
be logically supposed that the bill was
defeated because of its manifest un
fairness In not giving the whole ter
ritory affected by a proposed change
In boundaries a voice in the final de
termination of the question. Perhaps,
too, some voters indicated disapproval
of the bill under the belief that the
law now, although Indefinite, pro
vides a method for settling such local
questions by a local vote, and that
therefore the general division bills
were Invalid.
Under either theory no hesitation
need properly be exhibited by the
Legislature in the formulation of a
definite law providing a means for
changing county boundaries or creat
ing new counties, and there could now
be no legitimate criticism of a move
ment on the part of those who are
Interested in county divisions for the
drafting of a bill, fair to all sides In
such controversies, for presentation
at Salem.
nrEAP stars the remedy.
Among other topics to be discussed
at the Pacific Coast Congress, sched
uled to meet In San Francisco, next
week, is the American merchant ma
rlne. In view of the early comple
tion of the Panama Canal, this Is a
live topic, but If any endeavor shall
be made to indorse the discarded pol
icy of ship subsidies, nothing will be
gained by the discussion.
What Is needed after completion of
the canal, and before Its completion.
Is a plentiful supply of cheap ships
which can be placed under the Amer
ican flag with no greater difficulty and
expense than are encountered in en
rolling ships under British, German,
French, Norwegian or any other flag.
Irrespective .of where they were built.
It is time to abandon the ancient and
dishonorable practice of sacrificing
our Immense ocean carrying trade for
no other purpose than to avoid any
disturbance that might affect our sa
cred Idol of protection. The proper
way to secure a merchant marine Is
to follow the example of the countries
that have been most successful In the
business.
RETATNTJffG REAPORT PRESTIGE.
The New York Journal of Com
merce waxes Indignant over the "spec
tral scheme for transferring the ter
minals of Atlantic steamship lines to
the Up end of Long Island, separated
by a hundred miles of railroad from
the real destination of their passen
gers and freight." Commenting on
the features that have made New
York the great port of the country,
the Journal of Commerce expresses
the opinion that "so long as water
transportation has an economic ad
vantage over land transportation, the
shipping will come to New York and
not stop a hundred miles away." The
reason given for the possible change
In the New York terminals of the big
ocean ferries was that the Immense
size of the new liners now building
and planned would overtax the size of
the piers. The War Department es
tablished a pier head line many years
ago, when the ships were much
smaller. The size of the ships has In
creased to such an extent that either
the harbor line must be extended or
the vessels must seek dockage else
where. The Journal of Commerce does not
believe that the latter alternative is
worthy of consideration and confi
dently states that "the necessary chan
nel and piers will be. must be. pro-
vided, and nowhere else can they be
provided to such advantage." This
policy of protecting the port is the
same as that which has made Port
land one of the greatest seaports on
the Pacific Coast. Instead of wasting
their time and efforts on rainbow
chasing fads like public docks, the
people who thoroughly understood the
needs of Portland devoted their ef
forts to Improving the channel and
keeping down port expenses, so that
today this city is one of the cheapest
ports In the country.
Portland, like New York, will con
tinue to make her harbor so attractive
for ships that they will not be obliged
to stop 100 miles nearer deep water or
suffer for lack of dockage facilities
Thi-clty has met every emergency as
it has arisen, and will continue to do
so in the future. Ships will come to
Portland because this city Is the nat
ural entrepot of the great Columbia
Basin. At no other point on the Pa
cific Coast can the great traffic of
that basin,, with its 200,000 square
miles of territory, be handled to such
good advantage as through Portland.
This port is known the world over for
Its record cargoes of lumber, flour and
wheat. If the Port of Portland con
tinues to increase the depth in the
channel to the sea, there will never
again be a pause In the gTowth of the
maritime commerce of the port.
It is not every man who gets mixed
up in a saloon brawl and is knocked
down and dragged out who can coin
the incident into money; but Jack
London seems to have turned the
trick. Last July London "mixed"
with a San Francisco saloon-keeper,
receiving a pair of black eyes, sundry
bruises, etc. An appeal to the courts
resulted In dismissal of the case.
Thereupon the warlike London ad
dressed a letter to the Judge, in which
he promised to get even "some time,
somewhere and in some way." In the
current numebr of the Saturday Even
ing Post London gives a very realistic
accpunt of a socialistic author named
Carter Watson engaging in a fight
with a Frisco saloon-keeper in which
the injuries Inflicted on the author
were exactly similar to those received
by London last July. As a sequel to
the story, the author (Carter Watson)
accidentally meets the Judge at a se
cluded place In the country, and, af
ter thrashing him more thoroughly
than London was thrashed, has him
haled before the local Justice of the
peace, who of course discharges him,
even as London's assailant was dis
charged. After reading the story the
Pan Francisco Judge will probably
steer clear of the London country
place. .
Turkey has finally succeeded in
placing her $30,000,000 loan; Ger
many and Austria will supply the
money. That the Germans have mads
a good bargain Is apparent from the
fact that the loan was placed at 84.
This 1 6 per cent discount, however, is
not the only advantage that Germany
has gained in tho transaction, for Tur
key Is to use the greater part of the
loan to pay for second-hand battle
ships which have outlived their use
fulness in the German navy. She Is
also to increase the strength and effi
ciency of her army. As France and
England declined the Turkish loan be
cause of the favoritism that was being
shown Germany by Turkey, It Is not
improbable that the Kaiser has other
designs on the land which is now
being exploited to the limit by the
Young Turksx In case of a European
war, Germany would find Turkey
most admirably situated for purposes
of strategy,
Every one knows that Los Angeles
has added more population the past
ten years than any other Pacific Coast
City, but they don't all live "in town."
For example, a seaport fourteen miles
away, connected with the orange belt
metropolis bv a narrow strip, figures
In the 319.198 Inhabitants. However.
Los Angeles Is a dick nallin' smart
place, collecting heavy tolls all Winter
from evert- state in the Union, includ
ing Oregon. Through development of
oil It has established a considerable
manufacturing Industry and its pres
ent growth is quite as large as at any
time the past decade. There will be
no surprise if Los Angeles passes San
Francisco before 1920, but the popu
lation Is not likely to exceed the popu
lation around the Bay of San Fran
cisco. Pudd'nhead Wilson's famous method
for Identifying criminals has at last
Ween taken out of fiction and given a
place in the criminal history of the
country. A Chicago Jury has convict
ed a negTO on the evidence offered by
three finger marks on a freshly
painted porch railing. While Mark
Twain never followed crime detection
by remarkable methods as far as A.
Conan ' Doyle, the recognition by a
Jury of the infallibility of the evidence
leads one to believe that we may yet
hear of some of the remarkable meth
ods employed by Sherlock Holmes
finding a place as far outside the
realm of fiction as the wonderful dis
covery of Pudd'nhead Wilson has been
placed. '
"Assembly" Is said by some persons
to have defeated Bowerman for Gov
ernor. Then what elected the Demo
cratic assembly candidate In 1906
Chamberlain and defeated the Re
publican primary candidate Withy
combe? Or what defeated the Repub
lican primary candidate Cake for
United States Senator? Or the Re
publican primary candidate for Mayor
of Portland in 1907?
The claim agent of the Milwaukee
road retires on a pension of J10.000
after forty-seven years' service. He
was what may be called a specialty
man. for it takes two to fill his place.
So perhaps he Is worth the ten thou
sand. The Seattle thief who grabbed and
got away with a bag of 2000 nickels
was the victim of great hopea blasted.
Finding his trail ought to be easy, by
tho way he will throw them away.
Giving woman the right to vote will
add to the complications in Washing
ton, not the least of which is the reg
ulation of vice In Seattle.
A reduction of 15 per cent in cost of
automobile tires is announced In time
to offset the 30 cents a pound for tur
key; Svpn hundred boxes of mixed ap
ples from 1 U acres Is the limit n this
year's record In this region.
The Colonel is overhauling his
equlllbrator and sawing wood.
Paris went wet yesterday.
f CREATION OF VEW COUNTIES,
j The OreaonJaa'e Interpretation of
Annanmti so. so " "
PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Will you kindly pass your opin
ion on the following question in the
colums of The Oregonian? The ques
tion was brought up in an argument
over the bill to propose a law to pro
vide methods for the creation of new
counties, etc., and Is known on the of
ficial ballot as No. 352 and No. 353.
This bill states In part: "Or clriing
Ing the boundaries of existing counties
by a majority vote of the legal voters
of the territory within the boundaries
of the proposed municipalities, etc."
The natural Inference to the average
reader would be that the legal voters
of the interested counties from which
the territory on the new county would
be taken would constitute the legal
voters on the question however, a
strict literal reading would Intimate
that this bill allow only the legal vot
ers of the proposed municipality to
vote on the question, otherwise It
would have stated the "legal voters of
the present municipality." If It Is a cor
rect Inference that only the voters of the
"proposed municipality" are allowed to
vote on the question, then it looks as
though If this bill carried that Oregon
would soon divide all its oounties, ac
cording to the desires of a few voters
within any given municipality, and there
are many who are liable to take advan
tage of the apparent "Joker" -In that
bill, although It Is hardly presumed
that the author really desired that end.
W. M. HAYTEK-
The bill bears but one construction.
The final determination of the question
of creating a new county would he sub
ject to the vote only of the voters re
siding within the proposed new county.
The voters In other portions of the
parent county or counties would have
no vote on the subject. The Oregonian
called attention to this unfair feature
of the bill before election and opposed
its approval solely on the ground that
the bill should have provided for a
vote in all the territory directly In
terested. ORF.GO.f BANK EXAMINER SCOLDED
He Is Aaked for Information as to Fall
. are of Bank at Seaside.
ST. JOHNS, Or., Nov. 10. (To the
Editor.) News reports in The Oregon
ian Inform us there ha been another
bank failure, this time at Seaside, Or.
The usual unfortunate details are of
course being recounted.
, In view of the fact that "guarantee
of bank deposits" has been persistent
ly ridiculed by our leading publica
tions, we must table that idea as a
popullstlc vision and trim our quest for
remedy In other directions. Can we not
provide against such by creation of the
office of "bank examiner?" But woe
betide! On reference to record, we
find that we already have a bank ex
aminer. We are justified in -assuming
that In qualifying for the duties of said
office, said official has taken an oath
to do certain things; and judging from
results, we presume the prescribed
duties are: that when -said 'bank ex
aminer is informed by the news re
ports that a bank has failed, he will
secure the services of an assistant and
betake himself to the scene of financial
tradegy, in due time to announce
(what all are aware of) that the bank
has failed, and that eventually deposi
tors will receivePerhaps cents on
the dollar, etc.
Now, in all candor is this all we have
a right to expect? We, as a free peo
ple, are about as tax-ridden as any on
earth, pay a rate of taxation that could
mora properly be called rent, and for
what? Government of course, and no
ground for complaint if we receive
value. Do any of those who have lost
their all in the Seaside Bank feel that
in this line they have received value
for taxation? Had this bank been ex
amined as railroad auditors examine
the railroad line offices, this calamity
might have been avoided. For conso
lation in this dilemma, we cast a longing
look toward the promised postal sav
ings banks, so decried by the recent
bankers' convention at Los Angeles,
and which Is yet denied us because
"postmasters cannot count the money.
Yet. our faith in humanity must not
fail, for some time, somehow, the hon
est dollar of the poor man, saved by
his thrift and self-denial when placed
on deposit, will be made secure. In
the meantime, it seems pertinent to
inquire: did the bank examiner know
there was a bank at Seaside until he
read of Its failure?
A. M. ESSON,
City Recorder, St. Johns.
ENTIRELY TOO MUCH AGITATION
Vlcrrra of a Timber Land Bayer 4n
Business Conditions.
PORTLAND. Nov. 11. (To the Edi
tor.) The subjoined copy of a letter to me
from a very enterprising and prominent
buyer of timber lands should be a prac
tical object lesson. The members of the
general public encouraging radical meas
ures of oppression do not really appre
ciate that the damage falls eventually
upon themselves.
CLAUDE MIAYER.
With refarenc to th btmtnes outlook,
will aay that 1 have never aeen the timber
and lumber bualnesa ao quiet as it haa been
during the paat year, and. In fact. It aeema
to be getting worse all the time. The nat
ural conditlona throughout the country never
were better, but we have too much poli
tical agitation and unrest, too many of our
large concerns are being Indicted and hound
ed from morning to nisht by detectives, and
future work Is hampered thereby. There is
no new business being taken on anywhere.
The business men throughout the country
are limply worried and tired of this con
tinual agitation brought about by a lot of
theorists and political agitators. There Is no
other reason in the world for conditions
being aa they are. I do not look for a
change to take place for at least eighteen
months, and In the opinion of many It will
be three years before the business condi
tions throughout tie country become nor
mal again; that la to aay. It may carry on
over the next Presidential election.
The great trouble with our country la that
there haa been too long a period of pros
perity. When this happens people as a rule
become dissatisfied. Nothing will satisfy
them and that's what we are up against
now Men who have an income of $6 a
day are spending 115. and they are led to
believe by agltatora and political grafter
that If conditions were right they could
make ends moet by working along these
UBIdo not think that there will be any
movement in Oregon for any large blocks of
timber Inside of eighteen months. There
may be some (mall sales next Spring, and
I would not be at all surprised if there were
considerable looking and estimating the
tracts, but the time of taking over large
bodies is quite remote. Money has been
extremely tight all over the country, but
bankers, as a role, look for easy money
after the first of the year.
The great trouble is with our railroads.
They do not know where they are at, and
th constant political agitation and news
nsner talk haa had a tendency to.nitn the
standing and the credit of the railroads
abroad. It la difficult for them to borrow
money ' With the Canadian railroads It Is
entirely the opposite. They seem to hav a
aane and stable policy and can get all the
money they need at a lower rate of Interest
than our railroads can. When this condition
exists there Is something radically wrong In
Denmark.
F-U Particulars Later.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Dorkins Maria, do you call that
thing a hat?
Mrs. Dorklns (in a clear, metallic
voice) I think that's what the mil
liner will call It in the bill you will
get next week.'
Chamberlain's Plurality 240.
INDEPENDENCE, Or., Nov. t. (To
the Editor.) To settle a dispute, kind
ly Inform us through your columns
what Chamberlain's plurality over Fur
nish was in 1S02? S. A.
Yes. at Salem.
LA GRANDE. Or., Nov. 8. (To the
Editor.) Will you please Inform me
v.-ri Th. Drearonian if there is a
school for the blind In this staM? If so
where is it located. d. b.
COLLEGE GRINDS AND "SPORTS."
Neither of These Make Good la- .the
World After Graduation.
Detroit News.
Dr. AtSbott Lawrence has had con
siderable experience as a student and
as a teacher. He Is the president of
Harvard ITnlversity. Therefore, when
he says that the apprectatlon-of schol
arship among students at the present
day is very low, there Is hardly room
for dissenting opinion. He is minded to
support his statement with the observa
tions of those authorities known in
every college as "the campus sports."
to the effect that "the 'grinds' seldom
make good in the world after gradua
tion." Undoubtedly, there is little sympathy
exchanged between the "grind." who
spends whatever time he le seen on the
campus in rushing from the classroom
to the library, and "the sport," who
drinks much beer, owes his tailor, ex
erts himself to no literary endeavor
other than creating a new rooting song,
and rests confident in the knowledge
that father's business Has a place for
him when his college days are o'er.
The viewpoints of the two are widely
different. Yet neither "sport" nor
"grind" is the substance of the Ameri
can university. Both are lopsided in
tellectually. The average happy, fairly-Industrious
youngster Is no foe to
scholarship. The fact is, he has a
sound regard for It, providing scholar
ship does Just one thing; furnish evi
dence of its close correlation with life.
MEN ABOUT TOWN AND DRINK.
Lena Liquor Used Now Than Five or
Ten Years Ago.
Dr. Henry Williams In November Cen
tury. It is, I think, a common experience of
the man about town that his associate
in general drink less than they did five
or ten years ago. Go into any restaurant,
in New York where business men con
gregate at the lunch hour, and you
wiljnote that a large number of tables,
often the majority, have no beverage
but water. As a general rule the waiter
will not thrust the wine card before you
with old-time insistence, knowing from
experience that you probably do not
want it. Even at dinner time. In these
same restaurants, many tables sho' no
wine glasses, whereas formerly they
were all but general. Moreover, it is
distinctly the rule, even at private din
ner parties of gome formality, to serve
a single wine, following the English
custom, whereas until recently New
Yorkers were notorious for "mixing"
their drinks.
Of course I do not mean to Imply that
wines are not still served In conven
tional sequence, from cocktail and sherry
to port and liquor, at formal banquets
and many bons vivants: but I speak of
the prevailing custom, and this assured
ly has altered very decidedly within the
last decade. Clearly, then, the temper
ance spirit is abroad in metropolitan no
less than In rural districts.
Poker Aa Test of Sanity.
Chicago Post.
Without attempting to speak as a
professional, we would yet question
the advisability of seeking to establish
a testator's sanity on the ground that
he played a good game of poker. This
effort, now being made In a disputed
will case in Philadelphia, seems to have
been inconclusive, and we must Indorse
the referee's cautious attitude. For ex
cellence at poker ts by no means a
trait of commonplace everyday sanity.
The ability to tell whether an oppo
nent has four kings or a four-flush Is
something supernatural. It is eerie,
weird, creepy. It does not make its
possessor stand out as "of sound
mind," but rather as of mind that Is
beyond the comprehension of ordinary
mortals. Were evidence being offered
as to excellence in the coldly intellec
tual game of bridge, the Court might
listen with respect, but as to poker
the case Is far different. Genius is al
ways too near akin to insanity to fig
ure as a test of reason.
Working It Out.
Tit-Bits.
The following note was delivered to
a Brhool mistress recently:
"Dear Mum I am sorry that Johnny
won't be able to come to school today.
He has gone with his father to act as
timekeeper. The sum you gave Johnny
last night was: 'If the embankment
is one and one-fourth miles in length,
how long will it take -a man to walk
that distance 26 times, his average
rate of progress being three and three
quarters miles an hour?" Johnny ain't
a man yet, so as dad's the . only man
in this house he had to go.
"They started at 4 o'clock this morn
ing and dad said he'd finish the sum in
one day If he could manage it, though
It would mean hard going. Dear mum,
next time you want any information,
please make It 'woman,' then I can
do the sum and dad can go to his
work."
Do Women Love to Look Wicked f
. New York Evening Sun.
Hats are posed down on the bead,
over the right eye. Of course, such a
style makes almost any woman look
wicked, but apparently that is what
women are aiming at these days. The
more brigandish and the more question
able their air, the better pleased with
themselves they are. So much for
styles, which, to all intents and pur
poses, have a demoralizing effect on the
wearers. But no matter If the shapes
and trimmings do take the saintly air
away from a woman, they make her
attractive and elegant, for the styles
call for neatness and severity above
all things.
Muscles Breathe and Eat.
New York Press.
Our muscles are like a sponge except
they are just the opposite. When you
squeeze a sponge our runs all the wet
it has In It, but when you squeeze up
and shorten your muscle, then all the
blood it can hold soaks into it from ev
ery blood pipe, big and little, running
into It. so that every tiny cell in the big
muscle is fed full of rich beefsteak
juices, oxygen and all other kinds of
dinner that healthy muscle cells crave
and hunger for. This squeezing up and
lengthening out Is the Way muscles
breathe and eat.
Suggestions for Sir. Morgan.
Pasadena News.
J. Pierpont Morgan has given $100.
000 for the promotion of church unity.
If Mr. Morgan can get the churches to
consolidate and can organize a big
"holding company," It might give him
quite a start toward the general con
solidation of the hereafter.
Same Sort of Language.
Washington Star.
Tm afraid we'll have to cut that
man's acquaintance." said the woman
of strictly correct ideas. '
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne; "He
uses the same sort of language that we
pay two or three dollars a seat to
hear at the theater."
Left for Posterity.
Washington Star.
"Did any of your ancestors do things
to cause posterity to remember them?"
asked the haughty woman.
"I reckon they did," replied Farmer
Corntossel. "My grandfather put mort
gages on this place that ain't paid off
yet." .
Trying; to Console.
Washington Star.
"My son," remarked the stern parent,
"when I was your age I had very little
time for frivolous diversions."
"Well." replied the young man. "you
didn't miss much. Believe me, this gay
life isn't what it looks to be."
Life's Sunny Side
As is well known. Woodrow Wilson
has a clean shaven face. But it was not
always thus. Once when Dr. Wilson was
a young lawyer, pleading a case In a
North Carolina court, he perceived that
his most attentive listener was the Sheriff
of the county, who sat with his feet on
the stove and with his eyes on the at
torney. The young advocate was greatly
encouraged by the interest manifested
by so distinguished an officer, and was
encouraged to increase his efforts still
further to enchain the attention of that
auditor. When he had finished his ad
dress with a rounded period of glowin
eloquence, he stepped toward the Sheriff
to receive his encomiums. It was a
dreadful shock to him when that official
drawled out: "Say, Wilson, do you
know that one of your side whiskers Is
shorter than the other?" The future
president of Princeton was so disgusted
that he shaved off his beard.
A young man went into a store to buy
a fountain pen. The young saleswoman
gave him one to try, and he covered
several sheets of paper with the words
"Tempus Fuglt"
The obliging vendeuse offered him an
other pen. "Perhaps," she said, "you'd
like one of these stubs better. Mr. Fugit-"
Everybody's Magazine.
Scottish humor is dry rather than bois
terous, and I always think, says Harry
Lauder, there is exquisite drollery in
the story of the Stonehaven railway por
ter and the Salvation Army captain. To
catch the hang of the little yarn readers
must remember that Stonehaven lies to
the south of Aberdeen. The London
train had drawn up at Stonehaven on
account of a slight mishap a mile or
two ahead, and Andra, the old porter,
had got Into conversation with a Salva
tion Army officer, who had popped h.s
head out of the compartment to ask the
reason for the delay. . .
"Aye, aye." mused Andra. after gmng
the desired information, "ye'll be for
Aiberdeen. I'm thinkin'?"
"Tee, my man." was the reply: In
bound for Aberdeen-a very" wicked place,
l!"What micht ye be goin' to dae there,
sir. i it's as bad as a' that? aske'l
Andra, rather amused at the visitors
words.
"Ah," was the pious answer. T o gr -ing
to drive the devil out of Aberdeen.
Like lightning came from the old por
ter the parley reply:
"See an' drive hm north, chlel, haul
hint well to the north!" Tit-Bits.
, ...
The Rev. Mr. Henry Haslam. pastor
of Gethsernane . Baptist Church, at
Eighteenth street and the Columbia
avenue, was delivering an adress the
other day at a minister's meeting.
"I once knew a Baptist, an old man
of the hard shell order. To him the
Baptist religion was the only one.
"One day a friend of his, who was a
Methodist, stopped him on the street.
" 'You know there are other ways be
sides the Baptist way of getting to
heaven." he said.
"Mv Baptist friend drew himself up.
" 'That's true, there may be,' he said
with withering scorn, 'but no gentle
man would take advantage of tlv;ra.
Philadelphia Times
What In a Three-fifths Majority t
CATHLAMET. Wash.. Nov. 10. (To
the Editor.) We have had an election
here for a bond Issue, which would
take three-fifths majority to carry.
The vote on same was 184 for and a
against. Some claim that same carried
by 61 majority, others by 40, others 2o.
Would you kindly advise pARKER
It depends upon the construction you
place on the word "majority." This co
nundrum was submitted independently
to the members of the staff whose
"flggerlng" capacity Is unquestioned.
One gave this positive answer: The
natural majority Is 102; but it takes
169 to carry the election. The legal
majority is, therefore, SB.
The other declared: It takes three
fifths of all the votes in order to car
ry the measure: the majority therefore
means the excess above three-fifths of
the total vote. Total vote 266; three
fifths of the total Is 169; the measure
received 184 votes; hence it has a ma
jority (excess) of 25.
A Few Things Wanted.
Boston Transcript.
An insect powder for humbugs.
A flannel shirt that does not make us
think of the Duke of Argyle.
A telegram envelope that will calm
a woman's terror before she opens it.
An alarm clock that will not only
wake us up, but make us feel like get
ting up.
Can Now Reat Easy In His Grave.
Springfield Union.
Now that Edgar Allan Poo has been
admitted to the Hall of Fame, it is
regarded as quite proper to mention hi3
name in polite Boston society.
Standing; Fat.
Virginian Pilot.
There's nothing new about Uncle
Sam's battleships not being able to gel
ipto Charleston harbor. We heard the
same story 49 years ago.
Yep! Out of Sight!
Eugene Register. ,
Shall Tuesday, November . 1310.
mark the upward trend of the Republi
can party In Oregon.'
FEATURES IN THE
SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
THE PASSING- OF .
BLACK EAGLE
Story by that prince of story
tellers, the late 0. Henry. A red
Wood story from the Texas fron
tier, full of queer adventure and
the richest humor. Nine other
stories by this most popular short
story writer will follow one in
each issue of The Sunday Ore
gonian, every story complete in
itself.
"MR. DOOLEY" ON THE
AET OF FLYING
He isn't overly enthusiastic on
aviation, as the following extracts
show:
"All that's needed to devllop flyin
Is to thrain our people In a circus."
"All ye have to do to be a pas
senger on th' thranscontynlntal ex
press that soon will be lavln" Chi
cago f'r San Francisco is to qualify
as a thrlck bicycle rider, larn th'
thrapeze an" acquire a scorn iv life,
an' anny agent'll sell ye a ticket-
"If anny man wud come along that
could show a man how he cud go up
lookin' like a bur-rd an' not come
down like a colored supplement
that's been left out In th' rain he'd
make his forchune. But nobody
does or will." .....
"Well." said Mr. Hennessy, "ltd
be something to say ye'd been up in
a. flvin' masheen."
"Thin say it." said Mr. Dooley,
"an' let it go at that."
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