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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 "!
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r niB-!oa throughout tn a-ita
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a..rY.i.:,o ant how tt 'h-vll ba tax'.! or
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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..
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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."
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