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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1010- rOHTLA'D. OUXGOX. Erl-J at fxrtlanl. Or !". roatnfnea lnr'l r.i:i Vattar. . . tkewviua Kataa Invariably AS"""- BT HAIL). farTr. -jr4T tr.enfad. ent Tr - Daily. fur.r Inclid-C sr. """. I., r-allT. Simla IncluWd. tlraa no"'- ..a... Da.ly. S-nday tc'I j.4. n m tia ,OJ ra:.v. ant'tit SunT. na " - , 1 a .T. w.tttsut Sunday. . month ; t:l. wttnout Furrtay. lira- month.. -M I ai r. .t.iout Smdjiy. ona montn wSy. er-.a yar a 30 f JBfitT. aea yr . au&lay aai wa:7. aea ar. - BT CARr.IEIl). rafTv lnK4. i?i-UiAA ana T Ia?'y! Sunda !n:u':d. ar mcr-tll ... IC u. Ka-ut-f.r.,1 itir law.,1 kirk. &3!C. coin ar cm : -r-. ry i .. . . . i::n roj i.-f-!ca c iq rj-t. :r. -luair.ir ta : . t cat. 1 to t pa.a. ""a 4 p4. a caaia. f-r.-.o po. jt.!a r . r. rrm liipjifM .til ' . k aas. atagar t.il.dlr.g. rRTUn. monpt. nov. mi. ITRODTCITtG THR MNGLE TAX. The people cf Oregon at the recent election adopted through the l.uua Uve. by a narrow plurality, the follow ing constitutional amendment. No p-li cr fcaad tax t ieJ or "! !--... n... no 1.1.1 rarulmr. t3ia-.'."l r niB-!oa throughout tn a-ita cam a law un:li ino'M " " " ', " tha at a a-r.araj ai-:iin. n-.i- . ar-.-f.r mi con:itiitln a'-a! Pi 1 irnTl hr tha naojiie dcii.ar- in -Bt n.i " r a..rY.i.:,o ant how tt 'h-vll ba tax'.! or . r..( n.:h..r nroo.-l Mr 1 f. l.'t-- tiva A-"rr.h:y or ty inituti r't"n' '' tn. n.:t: of th vi; foi'rt'" ...... 'i'hir:i"l to rrcult taji tl'o'o nd tt.ri tt:. .v.-l t . ,ut'.-t to ar.r 'ntrJ Uw which m.y h.rrtr .nact'd. Trina w. nmr have the ln- gle tax In Orpon umler n In genious ystem of hime rule ry coun ties In the Important function of tax ation. The rle tax as a ,;at?- Mo policy as rej-cted two years aen by n emphatic vote, but J'j persistt-nt and adroit propagandists d?vi-..l this deft and pUunible scheme by which Jie ainirle tax miirht be Introduce!, either lor purposes of experlmenta ilon or as a permanent syatem. In the varloua counUes. The hands of the Legislature are tied so that there my be no Interference from 5alem. The hlsforic requirement of the constitu tion of all constitutions that taxa tion shaU be equal and uniform Is boldly wiped out. alon? wl'h very other conftltu'lonal limitation thit might have bn Invoked to defeat so novel and revolutionary an Innova tion. No measure In future concern ing taxation may b enacted excrpt on the express approval of the people. The plana of the IrRle-taxers were well-laid and completely reall-.ed. for they hare been crowned with a re markable success. It Is not possible, of course, thnt the people Ct Oregon Intended to re verse their verdict of 190S as to the Klngle tax. They are not for the Ingle tax. and the slngle-taxera know It. Xo measure, definitely and clearly proposing sina-Ie tax wpuld or could have the slightest chance of enactment. How. then, could this extraordinary measure be so framed as to find favor with the electorate? By the eay and simple device of adding a catch line abolishing the poll tax. The. Ore gonlaa does not hesitate to declare that the majority of the voters of Ore gon who permitted themselves to be trapped Into approval of this amend ment were Influenced chiefly by a purpose to do away with the odious head tax. It made no difference that there Is no poll tax In Oregon, and has not been since 107, when It was abolished by atatute. There it was on the ballot, and the voter struck at It. He killed forever, as ho thought. "the unpopular head tax and by the erne stroke of the pen Inadvertently opened the gates to the triumphant r vast on of Oregon by the single tak ers. Tet The Oregontan would not have It appear that single tax as an insti tution Is Imminent throughout Ore gon. This measure, so far as that abominable device Is concerned. Is only the Initial step, though so far as it removes all legislative checks on constitutional restraints, it is complete enough. What county is now to be ' selected for exploitation and experi mentation by the single taxers? Mult nomah? It la incredible, for the over powering sentiment of the community will be found to be against It, though the Tote here two years ago against the single tax was far less over whelming" than might have been sup - posed. The majority against the . measure was Indeed small. It carried tn only a single county (Coos). Yet it is not to be assumed that Coos County will offer a more attractive field for Innovators and experimenters than any other. Here we have the constitution fixed, nevertheless, so that any county may Impose all l'-a taxes on real estate If It desires, or on any other class of property. The next move undoubtedly will be to select some community, or group of commu nities, for the perfect crystallisation of the single tax Idea Into a tangible and productive reality. But there la a way to escape, and one way only. It Is through the Ini tiative. That the people of Oregon will take the back track through that avenue to safe and reliable ground The Oregonlan has no doubt whatever If the Issue shall be presented to them fully and fairly and not complicated by other questions. Another consti tutional amendment will do the work. If the measure for the repeal of the present amendment (except as to the poll tax) shall be submitted by the Legislature or through the initiative It will doubtless be carried by a large vote. The abolition of the head tax should stand; but the single tax must go. nsciruNCNO the bund ru.s. Klamath County Is now wet. It was dry. Being wet the City Council of Klamath Kails has set about to grant saloon licenses. It is said to have refused to' Issue licenses to sev eral applicants who have bn owners of "blind pigs." Several former sa loonkeepers who obeyed the prohi bition law and remained dry were granted licenses at once. The Klamath Fal'.s Council pro ceeded on the theory that the dive keeper who broke the prohibition law would also on any provocation vio late the license law. He would bring the attempt to regulate saloons Into contempt as he brought disrepute on the prohibition law. Tet blind pigs and kitchen saloons and bootlegging are not necessarily exclusive phenomena of the dry town. The dive may thrive under license. too. 1 the police authorities wink at the law. Are the name officers who failed to enforce the prohibition law at Klamath Kails, and shut their eyes to the b'ind pig, now going to enforce th ll'-pr.se law and open their eyes to the blind pigs? AX ROOSEVM.T COME BACK? The only contribution of Theodore Roosevelt to the flood of campaign comment following th elections is the gay apothegm that "Every dog has h.s day. but the rights belong to the cats." The exact bearing of this 'ere r.rr.ark. as tie famous Bunaby would have said. lis In the application of It. Tou can make your own appli cation. Yet for a statesman who is sup posed to he dead the Colonel is strangely lively. True, he has had very little to say, and that little has be n altogether delphlc; but he hns moved around at his usual lively gait. and has -indicated that there are a million or more things he might say. If ho would; hut he will not. This unprecedented silence. Instead of con firming the hopeful opinion of his eremies that he must be dead, ap r.ears on thm contrary to Inspire them with an uneasy dread that he Is still alive and that It will not be long before-he will be kicking, as usual. I'r.doubtedly Roosevelt is not a deal one." Fllwhtly disfigured and temporarily out of the ring he may be. indeed: but that he will "come back" or try to "corne back." there is no doult. It may well be ques tioned if a majority of those Repub licans who oted against Stlmson be cause they, felt that it was a vote aa1nt Roosevelt desired thus to dis pose of Roosevelt finally. They only wanted to 'trim" him. But the Re publicans will doubtless: need him In 1912 to help out. Then, there will be aloud and anxious call for Roose velt to "come back." THIS TlfKIVIVG nr.fT. This raciftc Northwest can beat the East and the Middle West In many thinrs: climate, soli fertility, scenery, rapid progress and energy of its cltl iciu some of them. But It cannot beat the East and the Middle West In production of ergs, butter, pork, poultry and such like. Every oppor tunity Is here to give this part of the rounvy superiority in these respects, but the people are too busy "building up the country." Such is really the reason for short age of food production In this coun try. Population Is Increasing faster than any other part of the Vnlted States. Later the equilibrium will be restored, so that the disparity between consumers and producers of food will not bo so great. Also, the hard les sons of politics may reduce the num ber of statesmen and patriots, who are trying to make a living off taxpay ers. Instead of plying productive vocations. This raclflc Northwest is truly a blr country. It growa and thrive and waxes great, it import prodigi ous food supply and sends away enor mous treasure therefor. Too many of Its citizens are trying to get rich out of real estate. Too few are en deavoring to Increase the number of blades of irrass where the rroverhlal one blade now grows. But many oth ers are turning their hand to tnta duty: also to the business or ine ia-ln- hen. The readjustment will come after a while. And the readjustment will bring more hay. more garden produce, more pork, mere cabDagea and lower cost ef 'living. THE K-trlB FKOGREM Of SOCIALISM. Socialistic agitators show them selves very impatient with what they consider the slow progress or .tneir rironairanda. But in truth, their scheme ar making tremendous headway in this country and through out the world. Many citizens who op- rose covernmental ownership of the means of production and distribution and the collective ownership of prop erty yet mr unconsciously Joining forces with the movement mat is subordinating the individual, elimi nating personal responsibility and adding burdens to the atate. This is particularly obvloua in af fairs pertaining to public school and colleges. Children, as hostages to for tune, ar regarded a entitled to the best there is. Unless the children ar educated ar4 properly reared and rightly fed and clothed; unless they are kept in proper health, their de fects of vision corrected, their teeth saved from decay, and their hands trained to Industrial crafts, as well a their minds to lessons of arithmetic and grammar, unless they ar cared for m these respects, they ar HKeiy to grow up undesirable citizen and to be burdens upon society. On thl argument, enlarging and widening functions are added continually to the public educational system. Thes services are "free"; that Is. they are paid for by taxpayers, while parents are spared the expense of these sev eral cares for their offspring. School children of Portland ar found to have defective teeth to an alarming degree. The School Board has appropriated Jiooo to equip a room in the city hall for free "clin ics." More than 100 dentists of the city are said to have promised to lend their time "free" to the clinic busi ness. It is believed that this care will protect children from many diseases. It will be a short step to demand that the whole community shall un dertake this work. Instead of the hun dred odd dentists. This demand will be in keeping with the whole scheme of public education. It will relieve parents from the duty of caring for th teeth of their children and will adJ to the tax burdens of other par ents who would look after their own children. This Is one example of the tremen dous movement of socialism. The movement is going forward stronger han most persons know. It is taking from citizens and parents responsi bilities that always heretofore nave been theirs. It is making officials, instead of fathers and mothers, re sponsible for the health, the educa tion, the J-.oral welfare and the up- keep of il Ir children. It is teach ing an Increasing quota of citizens hat nroperty owners ana taxpayer owe increasing favors to the unem ployed, the poor and the slcK. This Is a big subject that will not be summed up In written articles nor In volumes. It Is th greatest ques tion of Dolltlc today. Nearly every sub'ect of government Involves this question one way or another. The man and the woman who by frugality or self-denial acquire property for themselves and their children. And other men and women, not possessed ' of the virtue of savin c and economr. I taking from their collected store through the vote power of taxation. It Is a situation against which pro test avails little. The people are said to need the things which they are obtaining at public expense and through multiplication of officials. The people are adding to their equip ment of public utilities. In Portland they have Just voted for public docks and for water mains paid for by con sumers. Next election a plan will bo ! presented for free water. And these are but Incidents and small details In the general movement. Certainly a big transformation Is In progress. No person can see the end and but few realize the trend. "ARS! tVE CONSERVATION MAD"? -This question is the title of an ar ticle In a recent number of Leslie's Weekly. "Nearly 30n.000.000 acres are now out of settlers" reach," says the author, "and the end does not seem near." If-this article Indicates a reaction from the craze of so-called conserva tion. It Is a welcome sign. The pent up acres exceed the combined areas of Germany and France; or Spain, Italy and Great Britain. They are more than double the area of France or Germany and nearly four times the area of Great Britain. "The growth of population in the, several Western States (where the 100.000.000 acres are reserved) is dangerously retarded," says the writer. "There Is the prospect of more roal In many of these Western states than even Pennsylvania has yielded. The withdrawn! of these coal lands stops the development of any mines upon them. So it Is with the other natural resources minerals, water power and reservoir sites, timber lands, etc." All which is true. unfortunately true. Yet Eastern voters and politi cians have known little about It. and cared less. The renrtion from "land grabbing" has created this craze. Eastern folk have acquired the ex treme Idea that It Is necessary to withdraw" everything In order to keep It from being "grabbed." Reason and common sense will cor rect the excess of conservation. But meanwhile the progress of the West, the settlement of lands and the devel opment of mines and water powers are arrested. TRF.N DEMOCRATS WILL RULE. Democrats of Oregon are prepar ing to doff the garb of non-partisanship. Two years hence they expect tn win the Senate of the United States and the Presidency, as they have Just won the House of Representatives and the Governorships and the Legisla tures of numerous states hitherto Re publican. After that non-partisanship will be out of vogue in the Demo cratic party, because the faithful will Insist on filling the offices of United States Marshal and Attorney, of Col lector .of Customs and Internal Reve nue, and other choice places In this atate. with Democrats. That will be the time for Republi can who have been parading with George Chamberlain. Oswald West, John Manning. Harry Lane .and others, as non-partisans, to taste the gall and -wormwood of the business. That is the time they will find George and Oswald and John and Harry gaz ing at them with the glassy eye. These Democratic chiefs are Democrats bred In the bone. They have used no partylsm as a method of temporary success, until the time should come when the strength of their party would make It possible for them to change back the method to the ."real thing." How will It look for Alex Sweek to be United States Attorney? And John Ryan United Stutes Marshal? And George II. Thomas Collector of Customs? This or something similar will be the outcome, should Demo crats win the Presidency and the Sen ate two years hence. It will be nat ural and proper for them to have the high offices when the party gains ascendancy. Non-partisanship will be then as a worn-out gnrment. REFORMING OREOX COURTS. The Oregon Legislature, at Its next session, may. If it aees fit, abolish the offices of County Clerk, County Judge, Sheriff and District Attorney. The removal of the restriction In the constitution on the power of the people or the Legislative Assembly to provide some other form of county government or to transfer probate procedure and other matters now un der the Jurisdiction of the County Judge direct to the Circuit Court is but one of numerous important fea tures of the constitutional amend ment commonly termed the "three fourths Jury amendment," adopted in the recent election. It is not even required by the new Article VII of the constitution that there be a Circuit Court. The new article simply vests the Judicial power of the atate la "one Supreme Court and In such other . courts as may from tlm to time bo created by law." Th way will be open, after the amendment has been proclaimed by the Governor, for an entire re-estab-llshment of the Judicial system of Oregon outside of the Supreme Court. The Legislature may, if It shall seem wise, create superior courts, such as now exist in the other Pacific Coast States of Washington and California, and it may create an appellate court, having final appellate Jurisdiction in certain cases. Washington has no Intermediary appellate court, but Its supreme court is composed of nine members, while five constitute the Oregon Surreme bench. Appellate courts are usually created to reliove the stress of work on the supreme court. As the new amendment Is written. it seems more Important that some action should be taken by the Legis lature to relieve a threatened over burdening of the Supreme Court than that there should be an experiment ing with new county government plans. Under section 3 of the new measure the whole testimony In cases appealed to the Supreme Court, to gether with the instructions of the court and any other matter material to the decision of the appeal, may be attached to the bill of exceptions. Under the present law only so much of the record as shall suffice to show the Supreme Court the question in volved may be taken up. The method of formulating bills of exceptions as contemplated by the new amendment may be changed by law, but until It Is changed the records In appealed cases are likely to be made extreme ly voluminous, imposing thereby much more work than now devolves on the Sunrem Court In determining what questions are involved in the appeal. Numerous alternative means of overcoming this difficulty are permit ted. As herein indicated, an appellate court may be created which would take part of the burden from the Su preme Court. The amendment also removes all restriction on the number of members of the Supreme Court, and other Justices may therefore be added to the bench. The Legislature may also limit the matters that may be contained in the record of each case appealed. The chief difficulty likely to be en countered la the adoption of a reform of the Judicial system that will receive the approval of the majority of the reople. The way has been left broad ly open for a revolutionizing of the Judicial system at every session of the Legislature and it is obvious that the change must be so soundly for the general welfare that it will be a per manent one. Projects for new river bridges at Oregon and Broadway streets are go ing forward and all attempts to stop them have failed. It is Just and proper that people of this city should have all the river spans that they wish and are willing to pay for. Clearly their Interests are rightly su perior to those of wharf owners or steamboat men or land speculators. More than half a century ago the principle was enunciated by Lincoln that it Is Just as proper for people to cross a river on a bridge as to sail up and down In a boat. There were obstructionists in his day, also. That was at the outset of railroad devel opment, which ever since has been spanning rivers. In the case of Port land, the persons who need ' river bridges so largely exceed those who oppose them that the right course is obvious and clear. The ' bridges at Oregon and Broadway streets are bound to be built. After them. In due time, others will be built. In no case, now or In Cuture. will the opposition of disgruntled factions avail to keep from rltlrens of Portland the bridges that they wish to place across the river. In his annual report. Secretary Ballinger will recommend that Con gress should transfor the Cunningham coal land cases to the United States Court of Claims. That he will favor this course Indicates that the law of ficers of the Interior Department have concluded that the Cunningham claimants, under the law, are en titled to the lands. Concerning this recommendation, the. Springfield Re publican says: "Such a decision by the- Interior Department, however, would cause a great outcry and corruption would undoubtedly be charged. Under thAse circumstances, it is not surprising that the Interior Department officials should prefer to unload the ca.es upon the United States Court of Claims for final de cision." So vicious and unreasoning have been the attacks by certain widely circulated newspapers upon Secrets ry Ballinger in connection . vaa innri that a decision In favor of the Cunningham claims by the court would call down upon the court's head much of the mordant criticism and like bitter assaults that have made Balllnger's life a burden. Cotton exports last month exceeded in value those for any previous Oc tober. They exceeded 392,500,000, against an October average for ten years of $60,000,000. In point of quantity, however, the outgoing move ment has been exceeded several time. Prices are not quite so high as they were at this time a year ago, but with that exception our friends across the Atlantic are paying us more for the staple than any time since shortly v.. r-iO-ii Wur. Incidentally it may be remarked that the price for home consumption is not tens. Perhaps the pointed hints from Washington that the official figures on Portland's population will be about 209.000 may be accepted as fact. What then? Ten years ago we num bered 90,000; increase about 119,000, or more than 130 per cent. While certain enthusiasts may have a feel ing of disappointment. It Bhould be remembered that not to exceed four or five cities in the United States have exceeded this percentage. Secretary Wilson, of the Depart ment of Agriculture, showed neither wisdom nor common sense when he predicted a return of hard times un Tmr.rntlc. control of Congress. Legislation adverse to the interests of the Nation Is not to oe mous-m oi. ii is practically Impossible. A more sane view is that the country is likely to have two years of rest the very best thing for all concerned. If when Director Durand announces the populations, Seattle shall appear , Pnrtianil. let no one feel lit I K l uiau , sick over It. Since 1900 Seattle an nexed suburbs whose combined popu lation is 33,400. Portland suburbs are still suburbs, though really a part of the metropolitan district and reached by me irteiv.i fare. Kff ort now put forth to organize ton nnft workinir airls of New York City Into a trade union league forcibly illustrates the tendency of the times. If it succeeds, we may look for similar organizations In every large city in the United States. c.oi.n- Wilson Is right about more irrigation and more intensive farming beingnecessary to me saiva f the country, but his pessi mistic prophecy is better referred t6 the corner orator ioreiuciuiiuii. Tttv the noor mariner, who is a gTeat deal safer and much more com f.i,hia in these slxtv-mile (tales than his brother ashore, who has to "slosh around" In muddy discomfort, with topsy-turvy umbrellas. The Elgin people who won first prize on apples grown "without lri gation" know how to grow fruit, if they or some of them cannot spell. Modern sanitary methods get credit for reduction of the Philippine death rate, when everybody was ready to believe it was less use of the 30-30. Business in that line is so good this Fall that a third municipal rockpile is necessary. Not a sound from Oyster Bay. The deeps are dumb or the dumps are deep. Dr. Crippen knows how the turkey feels about it thes dav. IS ROOSEVELT A DEAD 0Ef Just a Little Premature Now to Bury Him. Boston Globe. It would be well not to step .up and view the political remains of Theo dore Roosevelt until sufficient time has elapsed for the complete demonstration of his political demise. He would not like anything better than to create an unseemly scene at the burial which his foes are confidently preparing for him. ij.Ke Judge rtoar on me any ui tn dell Phillips' funeral, there are not a few who are ready to approve of his funeral. But they must not reckon without their corpse. k.hlnil .Via Ore. curt.r fl i II I Vl of th. returns and where do you find any other Republican leader who fared better than Roosevelt In the lnnrlslirin of Tuesdav? You find La toilette, of Wisconsin. and a few others who saved themselves only b: ojitdolntr Roosevelt in insurgency. Am how large would have been the Ne? York majority against a Sherman Barnes-Woodruff standpat ticket? Sir. Dix" majority is not very larg hv the New York standard of nieas- nr.mf.nt fnr piovaIi nri hart nearly 200 000 on a former Democratic tidal wave and i,evl P. Morton received mora than 150,000 on the Republican tidal wave or 184. conslciermg tne errem- ni IfiQl rnr tMorlrtr th. firreat Size the electorate, Roosevelt lost the state by much less than the ftepuoucans to Massachusetts, New Jersey and M Toft' irat. of Ohio Tha Kew Turk Times recalls that it was unbelievable In the Autumn that .V.. Tf.n.ihli,.anB nf Vaw York COllld be rilll.il a nri It aar-rlhes to the CX-Presi dent the energy and vitality that were put Into the campaign. ine imo nnmiia, Hioonntent ran swift and stron and no defender of the Republican party could stop it. Tne patent innDiuiy v the ex-FresIdent to sway the peopl away from their just chastisement o -..r-Asnt "R.nnhllran legislators I: Washington and at Albany is a tribute to our institutions and to ine peupio who upnold them. --.. , hie ftnmlrers must adm it that as a campaigner he did not in hi method of attack imitate his great pre Al-trahflm T.itieoln. whom hi so often' invoked as the guiding genius of the new Nationalism. BOl'GHT WITH AMERICA.V GOLDf Irish-American Humorist on Phanea of British Politics. PORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Edl . t K. V. n(j noru thnt the dol lars of the American millionaires are being sent "over acrost to aesiroy the British constitution. ny can these big plutocrats attend to the! .....r-ri nhvsifal. Constitution it t tr. ( ihn fiimdnWH In that .hereditary bunch, I'd boycott their blooming daughters. 'loo long nnv the noble ones, so generously and gal lantly pawned their certificates of gen .111... n AnnAhi. im.rtran woman hood, and so considerately remembered a grateful posterity Dy lauins w n.nliii.n tt hi 1 1-n t -Ol 1 1 RDecieS. First, It was the servant girls; but now It is the millionaires who are bombarding with American aouars me -r .hat. t ( r i o H misnomers and li. ri 3 ' i i-ii ' . - - vulgarizing the garters of their knighthood tne Duiwams ol men constitution. a nnn mv SOill. look at them,' the American millionaires of Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, w innepeg, Calgarv, Vancouver and Victoria and the 27.000 American dollars recently v. iv.n.1 r rf., rnv Tne rintisn CUJ1- stltutlon; the hundreds of thousands of dollars subscribed In the past years from Australia and New Zealand and from the democracy of England itself for the same purpose, wnn um mu comfort of the tlntlnnabulary aristo cracy of wealth hereabouts His Se rene Russian Highness Larryovitsky Shanahan. His Gracious Mynheership Dr. Antroo Schmidt. Slgnor CTShea, Senoras O'Neill, Brady and o;Connell, their Cockade Worships Steve Collins and Jack Kennedy and His Lordships Dinny Lane and Mealy Murther? So the British House of Lords is wobbling? "Mike," yelled his bunky . . -.'..--a atnrm fit sea. "Mike. the ship is going down." "What the divil do you carer it aoesn i nciuus to us." said Mike. J. H. MURPHY. Obey the Command And Itegln Now. New York Evening Mail. The Republican party has untl March 4 next to respond to the demand upon it made by the people Tuesday. It must not stand hesitatingly In the middle of the road during these few remaining months of Its undivided con trol of legislation. It must make the most of its brief power to adjust its policies to the evident determination of the country. That determination includes, first of all, a change In such tariff schedules as cotton, wool and rubber. Stay-at-Home Voters. New York Tribune The stay-at-home voters were the extraordinary feature of the state elec tion. Dix received 75,000 fewer votes than Chanler received in 1908, yet the majority for Dix is almost as big as was the majority against Chanler. The stay-at-home element was more than twioe as numerous up the state as it was in this city. That tells the story of what became of the old-fashioned Republican majorities above the Bronx. Which r Chicago Tribune. Yesterday's result in New York makes or unmakes Theodore Roosevelt. Which? The West, not the East, will answer this question, and no one knows the answer today. One Serene Republican. Brooklyn Eagle. And serene above the stress of par ties and the strifes of partisans, gowned and grand and unperturbed, alts Charles E. Hughes. Nothing; for Bryan. Chicago Tribune. Viewing the result in general and in particular, we entreat Mr. Bryan to be calm. There is nothing in it for him. At the Bridge WhUt club. Judfte. I playfd on the bridge at midnight. Though my bank account ran low. And a warning volca within ma Said I'd better quit and go. A moment s calm reflection Might have saved me from such fate. But the lust of bridge had gripped me. And. alas, it was too late. And aver the cards before ma Seemed luring me on to play. And ine currenry. gleaming and going. Seemed to lift and bear ma away. And I bid when I should have bridged it. And bridged when I might have bid. And only the god of the foolish Knows the mad, sad things I did. ' And ever tho play went wilder. And the cards still wilder went. And I the wildest of any For I risked my last red cent. How often, oh, how often. In the good old days long put, I had plavcd on at bridge at midnight. And raked in tha pile at last. How often, oh, how often, I prayed in a tense aside. I might bear away In my pocket That pile so deep and wide. But tha game was dead against me; I'd lost my luck at the play. And the debts there laid upon ma teemed greater than 1 could pay. With my coin all fallen from ree, I left In the cold gray dawn. Deep cursing tha bridge at midnight, ia woAJiariixst wtaax X could pawn. BAD COLLEGE SOCIAL DISSIPATION Protest Ajcalnst Elevation of Pbyalcal Over Intellectual Effort. TORTLAND, Nov. 20. (To the Edi tor.) I noticed in The Oregonlan of last Thursday the statement that S3 "flunks" were recorded at the state university In Seattle. The ' article stated that among these were students prominent in social life and many "frat" members. We, who are taxpayers In Washing ton, have the right to enquire Into the mess, and ask that the allure ments fostered and bred at the insti tution referred to be removed. The question In my mind is: What is a university? We know what it should be, and as taxpayers ought to demand that If attractions exist in Its every day affairs that tend to draw the minds of our boys from their studies, either the institution should be made to suf fer or their hobbies, of vain char acter, kicked out. It seems to me that attending the "varsity" is becoming today a fad among the "young bloods." It also ap pears that the standard of the "var sity" is measured to a great extent by the variety of attractions, vain in nature, that exist there and hailed throughout the state as "the only school." I have often noticed In the news papers praise most high heaped upon some heavy "pug" for excellence done along athletic lines, excellence which requires merely brute strength. If that same enerjry were, applied In the harvest field or blacksmith shop the real quiet contest of life, the shouts that send Sally, the sorority queen, home with a bad cold a "week before exams" the mad, frenzied riot that cracks Jack's head would not occur. It seems that this heroic stunt of ani mal strength Is not lasting, yet Its devotees are made the Idols of their school for it. How about the boy who uses his In tellectual strength and contests with his classmates each day in oratory, de bate, mathematics, and Is each victory, each poal met with the same tumult as that which characterizes the "fatty" on the 10-yard gain? If praise should tell upon members of such an Institu tion, let It be cast upon the ones most deserving. As the university stands for Intellectual attainments, let praisn be directed upon those who have at tained' such, and not diverted into paths which lead away into the ani mal world. L. R. W. KISSES FOR EfGESE'S "RAH" BOYS Old Malda' Ciab, ol Sandy, Sends Its Sarcastic Sympathy. SANDY, Or., Nov. 19. (To the Edi tor.) At our last meeting of the Old Maids' Club I was reading The Ore Konian to the sisters, when I ran across that horrid account of how the rough farmers at Corvallls hurt those sweet rah-rah boys from Eugene, af ter the football game. We sisters of the Old Maids' Club want to extend our sympathies to the "deah" boys of Eugene, excepting the football team who have "red blood" in their veins and can take care of themselves. We are mamby pamby old maids just like those Eu gene boys, and we want them to know that there are some people in the state who sympathize with them. We know they, did nothing and said nothing to provoke those farmers and that the latter Just pitched on them and "hurted" their frail little bodies and aristocratic dignity, and possibly stole their powder puffs and rouge and chrysanthemums. Possibly, those farmers also stole a few corsets from the little dears, and we old mald3 Just want to squeal, through the col umns of The Oregonlan, along with them. ' We hope The Orefronian will print this, so that the poor dear innocents will Know tney nave tne sympatny oi their fellow men. GUNHILDA SKINBONES. St'CCESS DIE TO SPECIALIZING It Isn't What Your Work Is, but How You Do It, That Counts. Washington Times. E. H. Harriman won fame and fortune because he specialized on railroads. Great surgeons are those who special ized upon one given branch of surgery. Great physicians specialize upon certain diseases, and the world, recognizing their superiority, accepts their words as final and absolute. So if women want to succeed. In busl ness or the arts, they must first learn to specialize. Most women, however, who are clever, flit from one "fad" to another, and while they may gather a lot of hetero geneous matter, success and fame pass them by and go to the girl who has put heart and soul into one thing, which she does better than any other. It isn't what your work Is. you know, but how you do It that counts. It's better to be a good cook or an ex cellent housekeeper than a poor artist or writer, and it's a lot finer and a lot harder to be a good wife than to be a good stenographer. But, however, your talents run, in whatever path of life your feet are set, specialize. Do a few things well and let the others go. No Back Step In Real Reform. New York Journal of Commerce. It was a necessary part of a process of transition and possible regenera tion. The day of Aldrlch and Hale, of Cannon and his obsequious adherents, Is past: but La Follette and Bristow, even Cummins and Beveridge, are hardly the men to take direction of an organized progressive movement. They are too much of the radical type, lead ers of Insurrection and fighters for a change, rather than wise guides. Dol liver was a sad loss, but there are others 'of like temperament and many of a new generation ready for the ad vance on lines of safety. There is nothing in the exhibition of political sentiment, resulting in a decisive party overturn, that denotes a backward step. In real reform. Motor Car Maxima. December Smart Set. A chauffeur at the wheel is worth two under the machine. It's a rough lane that has no scorch ing. Be sure there's no policeman In sight, then go ahead. By their "toots" ye shall know them. A fool and his machine are soon started. The slowest way round is the cheap est way home. An ounce of gasoline 13 worth a pound of push. Resourceful Community. Washington Star. Tu. didn't know what to do about Piute Pete." said the Crimson GuLvh citizen. He was a real gooa ieuer, Dut he would be careless about shootin' up the populace." "Did you straignten out tne matter; "r mmmA v t p n T We elected him Sheriff, thereby makin' It look a little more legal. Hancock President f BIGGS, Or., Nov. 10. (To the Editor.) -Was General Hancock ever President of the United States? If so in what year was he elected? SUBSCRIBER. wouldn't this make you. wish for a waatA basket? ( 1 o n p r w i t r u n cock was a candidate for President in loov, ana aeieatcu uj uauitiiu. See Whnt the Democrats Do. Wall Street Journal. vield of 3,121,000,000 bushels of corn means cheaper hops; cheaper hogs means a reduction In the price of pork and bacon. See what a Dem ocratic Congress does to the cost of living before it meets. Life's Sunny Side When charged with being drur.k and disorderly and asked what he had to say for himself the prisoner gazed pensively at the magistrate, smoothed down a rem nant of gray hair and said: "Your honor, man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn. I'm not as debased as Swift, as profligate as Byron, as dissipated as Poe, as de bauched a " "That will do!" thundered the magis trate. "Ten days! And. officer, take a list of those names and run 'em in. They're as bad a lot as he is!" London Mail. a a a A traveler going through Breathitt County, Kentucky, in IS!;, found a mar. sitting on the side of the road with a gun across his knees. "Belong here?" he asked the man with tho gun. "Yes." "Hows politics?" "Tol'able." "Who you going to vote for?" "Well, stranger," said the man wilS the gun. peering down the road, "if I see Bill Smith before he sees me I'm goln' to vote for MoKinley." Philadel phia Saturday Evening Post. Professor Hugh W. Ransom, of Har vard, was describing, at a dinner in Cambridge, his experience as a subway workman experience undergone iu the cause of science. "One thing that Impressed me," he said, "was; the happy home life of these hard-workfng men. It Is a far happier home life than that of the id'e rioh. And yet, the ( way people talk, you'd think it was a wretched and squalid home life. "The waypeople talk, you'd think Jim Jackson's was a typical poor man's home. "Jim. very pale and shaky, stopped at the butchers on morning and said: " "Give me a piece of raw beef for a black eye. please.' " 'Who's got a black eye, Jim?' asked the butcher, curiously. " 'Nobody ain't yet,' Jim answered. 'But I've been on a bust for the last three days, and now I'm on my way home to the old woman.' " St. Louis Globe-Democrat. a a At the entertainment on Monday night Miss Bessie Browning recited that soft-talk poem: "I Will Choose a Sweetheart From the Crowd Tonight." with such earnestness and emotion that all the young men made their getaway before the show was half over. Bessie has never won a medal for looks, but she can recite to beat the band. . . . Mamie Snitz Is cut ting quite a swath on Arapahoe street because she won the prize at the elo cution contest on Tuesday night. She stuttered so painfully that everybody wondered what she was saying her piece twice for. Her father was the Judse of the contest. Big Bend News Notes, in Itiverton, Wyo., News. GOETHE A'D FRAU VOX STEIX. Another Idol Shattered as the Outcome of Modern Research. November Current Literature. And now, latest of all the Iconoclasts, a German writer conies to undo the fair name and character of a woman who has commanded admiration almost un challenged for nearly a century and a half Charlotte von Stein, commonly known as Frau von Stein, the object of enduring of the many fervent loves of Goethe, the heroine of a romance that ranks among the classic love stories in history. Irr a certain respect it is the most remarkable love story of all, for though the love between Goethe and Charlotte occurred In that notorious age of loose morality, the Eighteenth Cen tury, the rococo period, and though their love was of that wild and passionate nature which, as a rule, brooks no re straint, it remained a pure love.- Of this there Is no doubt even to this day. Bui a woman may be outwardly vir tuous and Inwardly full of sin. Sha may be loved by a genius and yet be un worthy the ove of a valet. This is one of the things that Eduard Engel tries to prove in his hew work on Goethe. It is true that Frau von Stein has had earlier detractors. One of Goethe's first and best biographers, George Henry Lewes, called her a coquette. But none of the important biographers be fore Engel ever doubted that she was a woman of high mental attainments and a lit intellectual companion for Goethe. Eduard Engel strongly not doubts but denies this. Both mentally and morally, he asserts, she was not what she is com monly considered to be. Ho bases his opinion upon a mass of damaging evi dence, such as has not been similarly collected and co-ordinated. Pointed Paragraphs. The Chicago News. The echo of a kind word goes on for ever. Some women are too slow to keep up with the neighborhood gossip. Which bores .you more listening to people's troubles or their jokes? If a. man is troubled with pipa dreams hf should consult a plumber. Marriage is a lottery and the prize is often drawn ill a perambulator. What passes for sympathy Is often like women's hair; a lot of it is false. If a woman isn't ashamed to wear her old clothes it's a sign that she. is rich. A man who speaks from experience de fines matrimony as the first step to alimony. Tho top notch of politeness has been attained when a man asks a bill col lector to call again. It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to convince a woman that he is In the wrong. Not Democratic Discontented. New York Evening Mail. The country is not Democratic it la discontented. It has entered a protest against things as they are. but the pro test embodies so many and such widely .J-- , amnhntifi HS it is. it dlliering viena mai. - gives neither direction to new policies nor inspiration to any forward move ment in government. It is as chaotic, and to our mind unjustified, as the equally erratic and overwhelming vic tory of the uemoaiiio m j.- Sitting-Down Aid for the Colonel. Harper's Weekly.. ; -.-1. 1 T I n,1, t a Credit our neignwui, unc, ...... f.r .1. fanlnnnl'a 1 1 IY1 1 t tM best oerinuion ui tions. "Enopnous," says Life, "as are his powers of locomotion and exhorta tion, he cannot sit down without as sistance. Ana ijiiH i come to the conclusion that his fellow . nlin-ht n Hiinnlv the assist- ance. One Relief, Anywny. New York Sun. The Shade stood before Peter. "Does it cost anything to get in?" Ve asked. "Not a cent, was ine ii"j Thank goodness!" commented the Shade, "I'm at last free from the pay-as-you-enter nuisance." Self-Sacrifice. Washington Star, -von manage to keep your husband home at nights," said one woman. .Yea " replied tne otntr; 1 am tut nf Tila ainiialntanpn ax'hri nn r neraun ., .. will listen patiently and respectfully hlle he tells exactly now me election happened." Ouch. Washington Star v! "Is this a real 'strlch feather?" asked one shopper. "No." replied the other; "ostrich is merely its nom de plume." f
