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HITS ML'- '- Verjr likely fur persuns txcept stu dents o: m'oliC a.':alr will have the time or the inclination to read the whole of Fro.-iarui Ta'i long mes sage to Coore.-., but there w some parta of It to which cvrry Intelligent per.n will t-jrn with Interest and iu.-ioit7. and uther. part with genu ine approbation. Since Hi" tariff nf.'- t the po. kcts of the entiro pvpuUte-n. w h it Taft has to say en that uLJ-it itl b at ten:lv.:y p.Tuwil. Naturally ho lt: rnil thn Allri, h rfVL"l "fi In . far s It aUr:ilts cf C- im'-. tat tli u matter li"T.J to tho urih:;( l H'l- Th trouble h! fl It roni.nnU f"r tho rourtry ar.a the K. i'ut;:can party ha 'j.-a -lo t-lt-ar ! rvt-rNJy an J th p-- i'l- nr r.t row ji.-'Kiiiic ao n u.-n to blani urur. for the pa.t aa to l.-arn what r.-mclr U promw-l for th- future. Mr. Tj.'i a,:rnit. at I-at h- i;npll'-atl.n. that In lae Al drKh revision t!io campalsn promls cf the Iti-publU-.m Pr-.y w.-ro broicrn. nd he Ji-Iy ai that thL -aa one jrounJ for tho univi rat romplalnt hith aroe hea the measure r.ut he f rrv wry likrly. In thlrklne that th!a a the principal f round of comprint. Ilia worJa are: The bal of the crl'.lc!.m of this tariff Li that In r.-P'-ct to a numh r ef the nohrj-ila" tho promise to make tho now datira conform to tho ii!f:Yr ence beto n the cot of priulu. tton h-re and ahroa.t "-a not foltoweil. b it a blither difference rotalnul or lnertU." TM spread beli-f that a pl-iUo had been broken ctrtajiily excited bitter rrwntracnt which hoed Iti rffe. ta In eplna; Iomoerat:c vic tortes, but there vn. a di-eper and trior potent cause f.'r tho popular discontent. Tho notorious fact that .me at least of the near tariff ached u!e were arrange,! at the dictation of ape.-UU Interesta whhh thua used the lawmaking power of the Uovern nient to levy tribute upon the people causej moro hostility to the AMrlch tariff than tho violated campaign promise tlld. It U tho d"s;re of the oun'r' to rcap from tariff makltis kr deala and intrlirutea which lends wide favor to V.r. Taff plan for a permanent tariff commission. Kor thla pJect he ronewa uiid emphasizes hla recom.T.eniUtlon In the present message; but there will be. disappoint ment, but no stirprL-e. over his ad mission thlt the board as It t.tnds will not bo ntd- to r- port to Coi.tfress upon any echeduio this W inter. Tho country had hoped that the work of honest and unpartisain revision by ainrle ache,tu!. mUM be b.'Ktin al most Immediately. There are several part'm'ir duties which are unlv. rsnl U known ar.d acknowledged to be far hlhcr than they oucht. Mr. Taft himself l as mentioned some of thi-m on previous occasions. Tho wool and cotton acrudule are Instances, anil, notoriously, ti-.c tlu:i on t pro.l- -ta of the steel tru it. Nothlmr would do more to restore the Itcpuhiican party to ppiilnr confld-nre than nn ttenipt nt least to reduce some of these exorbitant ties without delay. Tho oplnl'-n li.ia been h-ar.l from niuir q'larters that tho tariff cnmrnls ei. n nuvi: t show Its k o.l wl l and J'l.-tlfy its existeme bv reportii- to 1'oni.ress up 'n ore hidule If no m re this W in:, r. What Mr. Ta.' has to say about the reform of )udlct..l procedure will al:-a be read wlta universal attention. Tho d.lavs and Indirections la trylric law iit whicri of. n amount to a denial of Justice he iiu-;ti ses with lr and rardor. Mr. T.ift Is n h.s best in bar j:!r: this sub)ect. f .r his Informa tion Is f.rt h:ma arid his coiiratc is evident. "fr.vT r.-.ent cotoiitions. o sas. "the poor man Is at n woeful d sadv.int lite In a 1-L.a! contest wltll a cor;ratlon or a rich orponcxt. The necessity f.r r form exists both la the I'nltcd Stai.-s c-Mirts ar.d in all the atate courts." but In his oplr .-n the H o. work cMcht t. becin In the l'e,l cral court , sit-.ce thi;r examplo will be moro Impressive. Like miv.t per sons who renlly wLlx to Ket ahi-ad In this business, he lo.-ks to KnKlan.l for f it.lnnce. "The :tnpilcity and expe dition of procedure In the Kuit'is! court today make a no-lei for the reform of other sst. m." This is h:s la::s-uaure. and the facts fully Justify It. The major rnrt of the suits in the Federal couru fall under the head of "equity," and here tho (jucstion of reform Is very" snip. for tho taw p aces t!io ho'.o matter in the con'.rcl cf the Supr:ue Court. That tribunal fixed a plan cf procedure In 17"i whlca hna hot be n alterej aince. la volte of all the chancsi In commerce and social conditions. This Is carry Ir.C conservatism to an unpardonable extrme. It causes one to hesitate a little over Mr. Taft's plan of put: In the reform of Judicial "procedure at Jaw Into the hands of the Supreme Court. WouU It accomplish any more than It has with equity pro cesses ? t'.ll aomethlitie must be done uniessj we w ish to the country lose Its confidence In the courts, and per haps It is Jtst as well to leave It to the Justices cf the Supreme Court. If they fall to act acceptably, then some other plan mut he thought out. There Is a notable tendency Just mr to hand almost every perplexlr.c ilif flv'uliy over to th Judges as If they were necessarily wiser than other n:ro. Perhaps they are wiser, but It should not to forgotten that there are ilrr.I's to thlr time ar4 er.ercy. Tho rumor that Mr. Taft would recommend rhar.iu in the postal law to the ilLadvantane of the magazine! 1 confirmed by his message. He thinks they onrht to pay a hiRher r-te on alvertisinc matter than on literary art.cUJ. In Its, last lssae the widely-read Saturday Evening Tost said editorially that It did not believe Mr. Taft would make thla auagestlon because "It svould not be the rlht thing." but he has. and now the next step Is for Congress to take. With the strong Insurgent influence at work In both houses we do not Imagine that there U any danger of the new Idea prevailing. It I much more likely that the Presidmfe recommendation for a parcel! post will be taken up and passed Into law. He confines the project to the rural free delivery route and the weight of parcels to eleven pounds. Hut It Is pretty cer tain that If the parcels post Is ever Installed, no matter how limited and Imperfect tho beginning .may be. It w ill prove so Instantly ' and widely popular that Congress will be com pelled to carry it to completion. It 1 the first step which Is difficult. The others follow naturally. THE COl NttlS) BriNMUII.ITY. The public regards with only a pas sive interest the activity of the City Council in I's endeavor to devise a saloon ordinance that will bo as one ontlmlstlc Councilman savs "the best rRulatory measure - . V. kind Perhaps; but In tho rnlteu States. no measure Is self-regulatory. Thel effectlvenesi of any law depends en- tlrrly upon the spirit, purpose anX energy or the onion ing aumoi "j. Tho Ti-rtlana public is not much excited over the question as to wheth er tho saloon shu.ll close at 12 P. M or 1 A. M.; or whether the licenses shall be $S00 or 1000 per year: or whoth.-r free lunches shall 1o burred; or whether powers of attorney shall be made unlaw ful afli r IMS. AH decent ami law-abiding citizens ex pect and dvmand that the saloon shall be made to be a quiet, orderly. Incon spicuous and . inoffensive place, and that the saloon-keeper shall obey the law. There must b no Illicit partner ship with the criminal or scml-crlm-Inal classes on tho one hund nor with the police authorities on the other. There must be no alliancea w Ith po litical mt'chines and no Interference with public affairs. The saloon will be conducted as the respectable law abiding citizenship permits It to be conducted, anil not on conditions made or Imposed by the saloon. If the City Council enacts a reason able saloon ordinance, and sees to Its enforcement, there will be no com plaint. If the Council enacts a good law. and fails to enforce It through weakness, or Indifference, or pnrtinl Ity. or favor. In the matter of granting and revoking licenses, there will be no end of complaint and a renewal of the general outcry against tho saloon. Ar.d ngnlr.st the Council, too. The Council should not. nnd cainor. here after, wvade Its responsibility. (,liniKI AXO TIIKOIMHtK. The Chicago Tribune gives up first column, page 1. to the startling story that "differences havo arisen between Glfford Plnchot, former Chief Forest er, and former President Hooscvilt." We read on with bated breath that "Mr. Plnchot didn't like the hearty manner In which Colonel Ko.isovcU greeted nnd consorted with Secretary I'alllnger recently at n reception at tho residence of Congressman Iins worlh." Tho pangs of Jealousy tore asunder the very vitals of the Hache lor tiifi'ord we hear he Is a bachelor nhow first and only love was tho great Theodore. Hut this Is not all of the painful narrative. Clifford was mightily of fended with Theodore when that gal lant warrior marched up the hill at Saratoga to the Republican convention and marched down again flying the white flag of Indorsement for the Payno-AUIrlch act and all the works of tho regulars In that Justly famous platform. No wonder Clfford was peeved. The story Is too terrible to he true. Tet If the worst should happen, and the parting should reully have come between tsifford and Theodore, we should endeavor somehow to bear up. Put It Is tough on Clifford the Pln chot to bo passed along on the toe cf one great patron's foot to another. Tho only constant and reliable friend of Clifford appears to be posterity. If a way could be devised to turn over the activities of Glfford. and the rewards duo him. to remote generations, it would help out all around. Meanwhile the West, which Is be ing conserved to the jiolnt of paraly sis, would like to see, tho front door of the White House closed on Pln chotlsm as the back door was long ago slammed on GlffonL ll Tit ACTIO All I.K ntssVHIMISATINd llfTY. In the current number of the At lantic Monthly. Fraud T. Bowie dis cusses "One Way to an American Merchant Marino." The plan pro posed by Mr. ISowlcs) Is not a new one. It Is a revised form of the old dls criminating dutie that has been o often suggested and so often rejected as a substitute for a direct subsidy for shipping. Mr. Howie suggest a law "providing that on all goods Imported In American vessel on which the ad valorem duty exceeds 41 per cent there should be a reduction of duty of i per cent, and on all goods on which the ad valorem duty Is 41 per cent or less, or which are non-dutiable, the Importer should receive an Import r"s certificate available only for the payment of duties at the Custom rage ad valorem duty ard 2.06 per cent of the value of goods so Im ported."" These figures are arrived at by considering 41 fptr cent the av erage ad valorem duty and 2.03 per cent is 5 per cent of the 41 per cent duty. To secure for the American hlp the valuable Immigrant traffic Mr. Howies recommends a remission of the head tax of SI on Immigrants ar riving in American vessels.- ignoring the very essential point that foreign ers with whom we are doing business would most certainly be inclined to sulistltute retaliation for reciprocity, tho discriminating duty plan remains in most respects fully as objectionable as the direct subsidy. Both schemes provide for the levying of a tribute on profitable Industries for the pur pose of securing funds to make prof itable a business which our antiquated navigation laws and hide-bound, trade-stifling poller of protection have rendered unprofitable. Neither of them offers the slightest assurance that the foreigner with his economic ally constructed and still more eco nomically operated ships will not meet the $4 cut on passenger rate and the o per cent discrimination on freight. Mr: Howies confidently assures us that "Free ships for ocean commerce nobody wants, as American shipown ers cannot afford to operate them at the American acsJe of wagos." And THE MOnMNT. OREfiOXIAX. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1910- yet until we are permitted to buy free ships as the foreigners are permitted to buy them and thus get on even term! with them as to first cost, there Is no fixed point or base from which we can determine how much of a bonus It will be necessary to present the shipowner. Mr. Bowles admits "If the Fnited States should resort again to discriminating duties to re establish our shipping In the foreign trade. It would bo not only a radical change In policy but a reversion to a method or protection of National ship ping which has passed out of open use by foreign nation.' No one denies that the foreign na tions that have abandoned the dis criminating duties have greatly In creased their prestige on the ocean. The same Is true of subsidies and it Is also true of free ships. Let us abandon the forced attempts to cre ate a merchant marine by artificial methods and a.lopt tho policies that have proved so successful In other countries. If we must hew our own wood, draw our own water and carry our freight to nnd from the world's market, give us ns near as possible an even' chance w Ith our competitors. In no other way can we determine the J"t of our handicap I THK Br..T IX TUB WORLD, some friend sent to the New Tork Tribune an Oregon ballot Tor ire clnct No. 76, Multnomah County, Ore gon, November 8. 110." It was two feet long by a foot and a half wide. The Tribune confesses that it "has Just recovered Its breath." It was not the size of the ballot, however, that raused the suspension of the New York paper's normal respiratory func tion, but tho fact that "thei voter who did his full duty was compelled to make no fewer than seventy-seven crosses on it." After some observa tions on the Oregon plan, the Tribune is kind enough to remark that "on the whole we cannot escape the con clusion that the Oergon voter passed his examination In good citizenship nnd deserves a degree summa cum laude." The Oregon voter always does his best: angels could do no more. Yet he knows when he has enough or more than enough. As the Tribune did not fall to note, he quietly but firmly declined to add to hts heavy burden by taking on that grotesque C'Hen measure C proportional repre sentation) "increasing the Initiative, referendum and recall powers of the people." "Oregon, says Senator Jonathan Bourne, "has evolved the best sys tem of popular government in the world-. Jonathan ought to know, for a largo part of It Ls til-:. Tet one is prone to wonder if nator Bourne, with all his vaVt public experience, his wide knowledge of affairs and his long and honorable connection with every worthy and- uplifting move ment for the benefit of the human race, would recognize the worst sys tem of government In the world If he saw it Km THE STATE CENsl'K. e official count has credited Ore gon with a population of 7Z.7o, a gain of -'.7 per cent In the past dec ade. Notwithstanding the much greater number of people now In the stato. this la a heavier percentage of gain than has been scored in any previous decade since ISiSO-70 when the population Increased from 61,215 to H0.S2S. The population of the state quadrupled In 10 years between ISnO and 160, but numerically the gain was only about ore-seventh of that for the decade now closing. The showing Is an extremely gratifying one for the percentage of gain is 2.6 greater than that of California, which has been enjoying a period of great prosperity and increase In population. This remarkable percentage of gain cani hardly fall to attract the atten tion of the Fast to the great advant age of the state, for even In the most prosperous portions of the Middle West nothing approaching it has been recorded. We note, for example, that Kansas has Increased but 15 per cent and that Minnesota, with one of the best gattis In that portion of the West, has but 1.6 per cent more population than 10 years ago. In the Fast. New Tork with 25.4 per cent and Rhode Island with 26.6 per cent show well, but those figures do not reflect the prosperity that Is reflected In the Ore gon gains. Both New Kngland states have been the dumping ground for millions of foreigners who have drift ed in from Europe and been unable to get away from the original port of entry'- The population of Oregon, In the main, has been high grade, for it requires men of nerve and Industry to "bluze trails" and open the new regions in this state In the past 10 years. This remarkable gain in popu lation was made when railroad build ing was practically at a standstill. In the year 1909 there was actually be gun in, Oregon railway projects in which more mileage w-as Involved than was constructed In the preceding 10 years, and the actual projects now under way will more than double the transportation' facilities of the state. Any one at all familiar with the influences that caused the growth In the past 10 years, or to be more spe cific the growth In the past five years, will not be surprised to see the popu lation of the state doubled In the next 10 years and there are conservative men w ho predict a gain of more than 100.000 per year for the next decade. Oregon was a long time In coming Into her own. but there la plenty of evidence that she has at Inst gathered headway that cannot be checked and it is a certainty that the 1920 census returns will be even more flattering proportionately than those for 1910. reRWANENT RIVER I-MTROVT.MEXT. The Columbia River with Its tribu taries draining over 250,000 square miles of -territory, carries an Immense amount of sediment to the sea. More than 100 miles from Its mouth this sediment causes a shifting of chan nels, and necessitates frequent work for dredges. With this characteristic of the great stream so well known and understood, no difficulty has been ex perienced by the Port of Portland in maintaining a permanent channel of gradually increasing depth. For this reason the report of a shoal forming near the mouth of the river, well In side the bar, will cause no concern. It has been demonstrated by every conceivable test that the Immense vol ume of water that, sweeps seaward from the Columbia Is sufficient when properly confined or guided- to scour out any de.ired depth of channel. The Port of Portland after years of effort has the sediment problem pretty well solved along the river, and with the dredge Chinook In service at 1 the entrance where the current is much swifter, no difficulty will be ex- nerleneeii In keening the Channel St a proper depth for any shipping. The Importance of the Jetty as a perma nent Improvement at the mouth of the river cannot be over-estimated but actual experience on both river and bar proves that it will be necessary to do a certain amount of dredging every year. In this respect, Portland 1st not at all different from other great ports In the world. In Liverpool and London, two of the world's greatest ports, dredging never ceases although the amount of water passing out of the Thames and Mersey is insignifi cant in comparison with that which sweeps seaward from the Columbia. The shipping interests of the port are increasing so rapidly- that the work carried on by the Port of Port land will never be abandoned. It Is Important, however, that there should be a more equitable distribution of the burden. The deepening and main tenance of this channel which enables Immense ocean freighters' to come to Portland directly affects the prices of every commodity produced in the Co lumbia basin, it Is but fair that the communities which share in this ad vantage should contribute to the cost of the Improvement The "non-partisan" Democratic pa pers, who opposed Mr. Benson for Secretary of State are a good deal excited over the suggestion that, he mav see fit to resign because of ill health, and they insist that inasmuch a.s It was the overwhelming desire of the people that he be elected to the offflce. therefore he ought not to re-eig-n now. It Is a delicate subject, which ought not to be discussed from any standpoint of partisanship or prospective party or political advantage. It is to be assumed that Mr. Benson's advisers, who have a natural and proper concern for his health, have likewise a due con sideration for the public Interest, and that they know what ought to be done and will see that It Is done at the right time and In the right manner. The people of Oregon re elected Mr. Benson, knowing that he was In frail health: and they were nnd are willing undoubtedly that ha be given full opportunity to be fully restored. The apparent effort to get him to resign now is no more unseemly than the effort to have him resign later, when his new term shall have begun. The Oregoninn doesn t care, and the public dqe-sn't care, whether his successor In the unhappy con tingency that there must be a suc cessor shall be appointed by the Acting Governor or the new Governor. Meanwhile, everybody wishes Mr. Benson well, and hopes his long and troublesome quest for health may end successfully. When the returns are all In for the year, it will be noted that bank clear lnu h,,il,1lrifr permits, nostal receipts and real estate transfers are not the only branches of Portland trade in w hich records w ere broken. The Nor wegian steamship Bjornstjerne Bjorn sen sailed yesterday with a cargo of 305, 066 bushels (more than 9000 tons) of wheat, the largest cargo ever shipped out of the Columbia. A few weeks earlier the British steamship Knight of the Garter cleared for the Far East with a cargo of 5.000.000 feet of lumber, a world's record for that kind of a cargo. Aside from these Individual records, the tonnage In and out of Portland for the year will be far In excess of any previous year and domestic exports and Imports will ex ceed by a large percentage, those of Bny previous year ' Common sense and ordinary pru dence mark the rule established by the County Court, which requires that bridge-tenders abstain from alcoholic liquors. Your "moderate", drinker la always In danger of taking a drop too much, and that sort of a man ought never to be entrusted with human life. Argument against the Invasion of personal liberty does not fit this case. If a man cannot consent to be a teetotaler, he needn't take the Job. There la other work he can find that does not Jeopard the lives of others when he falls down. "What legislatures have the face to do." remarks Collier's Weekly, "Is in dicated by the mere fact that John R. McLean is looked upon even as possibly the Democratic Senator from Ohio." Legislatures do queer things. Yet In Oregon however, we refrain. If that's the sort of thing the people want, the people want that sort of thing. Judge Lovett having decided to de vote much time to travel may con sider that he will be welcome In Ore gon. If he happens to fill his pockets with maps of new branch lines for the Harriman system, so much the better. By the w-ay. Judge, Coos Bay would like to have a heart to heart talk with you on a topic of mutual In terest. It U but natural to comment on railway expansion In the Pacific Northwest and to contrast the new O. & W. with the small beginnings In the early 60's. Compare The Orego nlan today with Its first number and you have another measure of the steady growth of this great empire. Abbreviation of the new name Is dead easy. Repeat "O. & W." a few times and It rolls' off more smoothly and one-fourth more speedily than O. R. 4 NJ Municipal elections this week In various neighboring cities of Oregon and Washington indicate clearly that the keynote I progress, not politics. Naturally any transcontinental rail road wants to get where it will have a large freight traffic; therefore, the Milwaukee comes to Portland. Poultry shows, such as Portland has this week, go far toward educat ing the people in effective warfare against "canned" eggs. How very embarrassing it must be to Madame Tetrazzinl, just on the eve of an American tour, to be the object of first-page publicity. About the time they close the Post office against delivery on Sunday, they will be hauling off streetcars on that day. Wonder If Wall Street has prepared Itself for the shock of T. R.'s speech scheduled for next Tuesday. Probably they'll change It now to the Chicago, Milwaukee & Pacific. IJrVEIvTIOJI OF FEDERAL POWER states Omlr Are Equipped to Control the coIomun of Business. (From "Woodrow Wilson's Address Before y the Conference of Governors.) Corporations have come to cover great er areas than states, have come to live under a greater variety of laws than the citizen himself, have excelled states in their budgets and loomed bigger than whole commonwealths in their Influence over the lives and fortunes of entire communities of men. Centralized busi ness has built up vast structures of or ganization and equipment which over top all states and seem to have no match or competitor except the Federal Government Itself, which was not In tended for such competitions. Amidst a confused variety of states and statutes stands now the colossus of business- uniform, conoemraicu. pwiccw - i -single plan, governed not by votes, but by commands, seeking not service but profits. No wonder we began to turn to the National Government to cope with it. to regulate In the name of the sovereign Nation Itself what had become a force as great as the Nation In its scope and consequence. The Influence to be dealt with extended from one end of the country to the other. The great or ganisations of business seemed to play with the states, to take advantage of the variety of the laws, to make terms of their own with one state at a time, and by one device of control or another to dominate wherever they chose be cause too big to be dominated by the small process-of local legislation. No machinery seemed to stretch to the size of the task of regulation except the machinery, of National legislation at Washington, the long arm of the Jvxecu tlve that could be stretched forth from a National capital to every remotest nook and corner of the land. No won der the Instinct and inclination were to resort to Washington for relief and pro .,in The need was great and tne Government was powerful. But this intimate w oi im-.-.- was not one tor which its Constitution had furnished It with actually suitable or entirely adequate powers and author ity Only the states were fully equipped with the legislative and executive power to handle at will, and as they pleased, this new organization of business and manufacture. A new problem was pre sented to us. We still did not aes.re rigid uniformity ot law. tiei f .mmnn concern. It was sun desirable that tho states should adapt their regulation ana resir...L -force, to their own conditions of life and circumstance. To put .federal law back of the great corpor.L.ow. - -- ihsm tho right to nave peon iu ,.,, dominate and override local conditions. to equip them wltll ino majesu premacy of tho law which created and regulated them, and to level the w e') of communities before tl'en-10,abs,0'ut,f' uniform set of rules are likely to fit the Infinitely various circumstances ot the states and thulr People- Hence this conference. We have no foollsTor pedantic Jealousy of Federal power. We believe In tho exercise of the Federal powers to the utmost extent wherever It Is necessary that they should be brought Into action for the common benefit. But we c.o not believe the ln venrion of Federal powers cither neces sary or desirable. ALASKAN'S VIEVVOF P1SCHOTISM T. S. Ilppy Aert One of Richest por tions of Globe Is Being- Retarded. Baltimore American. T. S. Llppy, who is at the Belvedere U a wealthy young resident of Seattle who cheHshe a fondness for Baltimore where he passed his boyhood days. He has " niece at Oourher College and a ncohew at the United States Naval A-ademy. to visit whom Is his present mission yin the East. Mr. Llppy went to the Klondike at the outset o the , rubh for that great discovery and staked one It the richest claims on fcl Dorado Creek He sold out for a big. sum of Sow and invested in real .state in Seattle, which has brought him 100O per cent profit in the past 10 yfa"- Alaskan "1 am no longer interested In Alaskan mid ventures," said Mr. Lippv. but we constable Interests in the coal Eelnvfsrpuruanort-lu advised and unbusinesslike programme It Gifford Plnchot. The Plnchot policies have been a positive curse to Alaska, .Ji to nersist in them means the per- n, today for even though they raveuredtheir' tlnSI receipts for pay ments they can gain no patents to their Sowings: and for lack of them can raise no money for development. ew Diseases at he Farm. Kansas City Star. .u ii,n" cried the farmers wife, .IVram"; I've taken that dreadful new disease." ,ij .n rtear'" Kfa-Kot- mnVn VOU thlrist SO, dear. he. asked, "urmed. gathering the .frail mtle woman into his arms and s rok ni the thinalng hair, as she sobbed out tho story of her fears upon his broad Bh-'Wedr.' she explained, "after I have gotten up, dressed myself and the : c: .1 dren. cooked breakfast, washed the mshes. prepared the children for scho strained the new milk and set it ay to cSol. churned and worked Mt. swept and dusted, done the Ironing. g7ven the baby his bath, cooked dinner fnd washed the dishes, ""dressed the children and put them to bed, and sat Sown for the evening. I am too tired to do my darning! I never used to feel so. It must be hookworm. . Brave pnrnell. Recollections of Mrs. T. P. O'Connor. I never eaw a braver man than Par nell. That story of his downfall ie one of the most pathetic in history. There 1 a rumor that Captain O Shea said to Gambettat "What are we going to do with Parnell? He Is getting to be a great danger to the country. ' And Gambetta replied: "Set a wo man on his track." And the woman, n S of betraying him. fell in love with this patriot, and that was his undoing. Quick Work. Washington Star. "Did you get your Interview- with the distinguished personage?" asked the d"Yes" replied the alert scribe; "here It is And here's his denial of it, ready to be printed the day following." Didn't Need a Gun. Toledo Blade. "Let get some luncheon and a bottlo of whisky and take a day off squirrel hunting. We'll go to Thompson's wooda "I haven't got any gun." "That won't matter there am t any squirrel In Thompson's woods." Epigrammatic Tendency. Washington Star. Dr Woodrow Wilson's reference to "the American appetite for legisla tion" shows the tendency to epigram which marks the true modern states man. Described. New York Sun. ' Knicker I love the good, the true, the beautiful. Stella This Is so sudden, but I am sure father will consent.- LAWS AGAINST MALPRACTICE Call for More Drastic Statutes and Then Their Enforcement PORTLAND. Dec. 6. (To the Editor.) Referring to the Elsen case. The Oregonlan blames the medical profes sion for failure to convict In malprac tice cases. ' If the District Attorney, with all the legal machinery at his command, can not, or at least does not, convict, or even secure an indictment, pray tell how- can the doctors help matters, for in everv case the Prosecuting Attor ney's office is the' only place where effective work can be done. Some attorneys in this city state that there Is no law In Oregon to convict for performing an abortion unless the woman uies, biiu irn... - seemed to Indicate that even when the woman dies tne law iaus iu case. The doctors did not make the law, and are certainly not responsible for the law- being non-effective. Two things are needed: honest pub lic opinion for an effective and dras tic law, and an earnest and well directed effort to enforce the law after It Is enacted. If the public is compla cent and there Is no insistent demand for a new- law nothing will be done. Other states have drastic laws on mal practice and they are enforced. If The Oregonian is honest in this matter get down to tacks and start a crusade for a drastic law-, and rigid, unrelenting prosecution, especially the latter. But do not make the medical profession your goat, and pound tne empty air. ' ' The State Medical Examining Board had no police or legal powers, and It would be a monstrous wrong If it had. Medical examining boards are a nuisance as it Is: do not ask for In creased powers for them. I am a Prac ticing physician, a university and med ical graduate, and passed the Oregon board. 1 speaa auviseuiy who,. .- a i . : 1 - l.r...v,lr VlftVA failed 11 T - -'i&i eAtuiiiiuii ....... terly to weed out quacks and crooKs. ..... . A i tj-AAn r,,,t man All tney nave usee is w " - - . . - - , .hillltf n ii find It or exiieriencc ,..... - hard to pass highly technical examina-" llons plus caicn iiuesuun hers of examining boards get their ap pointment through a political pull. Why not have a nerce exammaLi.. v. - i n Vioi-nm a medical IOUSO WIIU n""" tw . examiners, otherwise how do we Know they have sufficient aouixy ment for such a position? It is a safe guess that if any ex tension or enlargement of the powers of the medical examining board Is souKht the whole law will be killed. I will trim my big stick for it. Here is a chance for The Oregonian to get right on two questions. , AN INSURGENT PHYSICIAN. Ed Hovre"a Philosophy. Atchison Globe. Any man will claim a good stray umbrella. If a woman has whiskers, you are no gentleman if you see them. A woman's scream frightens a burglar worse than a man s pistol. If there Is any one thing a man should do In private it is his loving. If your average isn't the best you can do, it is at least the best you will do. The man who can tell you all about the problem of life, can't work It him self. ... Leave something on your plate for the cat, and your stomach will do better. The only time men take real Interest in church work is when there is a big row on. It is all right for you to have en thusiasm .but don't devote it to bor ing vour friends. When you are in trouble, people, who call to sympathize are really look ing for the particulars. There is an unwritten law among women that no woman should go far ther than two blocks from home with a shawl over her head - One Kind of CbrUrtmaa Spirit. Life. See the Christmas spirit! Ah, what a beautiful sight. "Tell me O Sage, what is a Christmas Spirit?" "It depends on the point of view. "That is a trite remark. Can you not be more specific?" "I can. A Christmas Spirit, when viewed by the tradesman, is to sell a great quantity of stuff at top-notch prices in order that it will not have to be sacrificed In January." "That is perhaps a bit unkind, but what other point of view do you think of?" "To the children, the Christmas Spirit is the right to have much more than they need and much more than is good for them." .,,, "That may be true. What elser "To the shop girl the Cnristmas Spirit is but little more than a tremen dously trying' period of overwork." "Tell me no more. You are too cyn ical." "Not infrequently does the truth sound cynical." Origin of the Handkerchief. London Globe. A writer in a French review points out that the handkerchief does not come to us from China, aa has been generally re ceived, but from Italy. It if only 360 years ago that the handkerchief of a Venetian lady was considered a great curiosity. The handkerchief crossed the Alpn and was received with great favor at the court of France. -Handkerchiefs were then made of cam bric or lawn and bordered with Venetian or Alencon lace. Under Henry HI of France the sachet was introduced. The handkerchief was taken into Germany a little later and was known as the "fazel letln," after Its Italian name. Only per eons of quality used it, and an edict in loW was published at Dresden interdicting the use of the handkerchief among the trading classes. American Children In Canadian Schools. PORTLAND, Dec. 5. (To the Editor). A short time ago I noticed where some American children objected to the Brit ish national airs being sung' in the Canadian schools. I thought Canada was a part of the British Empire; therefore, why should American children object when tho Canadian children here there are three In my class don't say a word when the American songs are sung, but instead Join us heartily. Please explain this to about half a dozen of American school girls who all are sub scribers to your paper. The public schools in Western Canada are attended by the children of thou sands of American farmers who have settled there. Democratic Breeches. Houston Post. The Chicago Record-Herald says the Democrats of the town have patched up a breech of seven years. The truth of the matter Is the Democratic breeches are becoming so well patched everywhere that ' the country is want ing to wear them again. Serve One Good Purpose. Chicago Tribune. Caller Do you allow your husband to smoke In the house? Mrs. Hewllgus O, yea; when he' smok ing that old pipe of his it makes me for get my neuralgia. , In One Piece. I do not care to learn to fly. I'd sooner stick to cosy nooks; Then, when my time shall come to die, 21y friends can whisper, with a sigh: "How natural he looks!" SINGLE TAX PERMITS EVASION Advocates Might Well Plan te I.lgnten Instead of Shift Burdens. ALBANY, Or., Dec. . (To the Edi tor.) It seems to be generally con ceded now by all sides that at the re cent election we passed a tax amend ment that opens the way to the single tax in Oregon. (This fact has called forth some very able articles from The Oregonian of late on the subject, which we were glad to see, as we think it now time the taxpeyers of thestate should "sit up and take notice." To use a slang but expressive phrase, they are "up against the real thing." Let us imagine, gentle taxpayer, what the result would be should the entire burden of taxation at the pres ent time be thrown on the tillable land of the state. But few, we think, real ize how the tax burden of Oregon has grown in recent years. The state with in the last two years has expended nearly seven million dollars and coun ties, cities, road and school districts are going at the same rapid pace. The boosting, booming, bonding system has had the result, generally speaking, of creating all over Oregon the heavy tax burden of today. From hitherto unseen sources the Assessors have been throwUig on the assessment rolls millions of dollars the last few years, a fact which has concealed from us the enormous growth of the tax burden. There can be but little doubt that If tho present load were let fall on the farmers and city lot owners alone It would put them out of business. At one time they might have borne the entire load but the strain would be too heavy now. It is asserted by advocates of single tax that under its operation the tax on the vast tracts of timber through out the state would be made so heavy that the owners would be compelled to let loose of their holdings. Let us not worry, however, about the timber under this system. As it is not uncom mon now for the timber and the sand on which it stands to be owned by- different Individuals is It not reason able to suppose that with the adoption of single tax this custom would be come more prevalent for the reason that when w-e segregate the timber from the land it must be classed as personal property, and, therefore, un der the single tax would become ex empt? Likewise there seems to be some avenue of escape (as with timber) for all forms of property except the farm and city lot. It has always seemed to the writer that if these tax theorists would ex pend half the energy in devising means to lighten the burden that they do In scheming to shift the load to the other fellow they would render a great service to the country. For example, time and energy must have been spent on the cunningly devised pamphlet that came forth last Summer bearing on its outside cover the picture of Lincoln and the flag. It was pre sumably sent to every registered voter In the state and possibly had Its effect in helping carry this measure through. In the pamphVet were comparative tables clearly demonstrating the ad vantage of being not confined to any fixed principle in assessment and tax matters. By a clever manipulation of figures to suit different conditions and different counties everybody was saved money but the wicked speculator. The Oregonian Is right when it says that to assess and levy on all property equitably and with uniformity is the best svstenv that has yet been devised by man. This is the system that has been followed, with more or less suc cess, from the time Stonehammer, the first Assessor, lost his life In trying to assess and collect a tax. It is a matter for regret that mora of our theorists were not working on some plan to reduce the burden to the lowest possible point and at the same time .encouraging the multitudes, by precept and example, to share it alike. The great River Expense is running fast in Oregon at the present time. Shall we now launch on this swift rolling stream our frail bark Single Tax' We hope not. As we are thinking, very manv will hesitate to take paps age, imagining, perhaps, they can al ready hear the roar of the falls at Oregon City. Of the 32 measures submitted at the recent election, we have the satisfac tion of knowing that possibly the worst passed. Therefore, let us not be cast down. We can at least feel as did the poet Byron, who, toward the close of his stormy career, when every thing had happened to him which he thought possibly could, said, "I fain would for a time survive to see what next could well arrive." D. B. M'KNIGHT. Poe'a Short Stories. From Brander Matthew's "Poe's Cos mopolitan Fame" in Century. There is in the best of Poe's brief tales a constructive skill, a command of design and a gift of decoration, rare in any literature and almost unknown In English, which is ever unduly neg ligent of form. And no one need won der that Poe's short stories wandered sw-iftlv out of our language into French and Italian and Spanish, into German and Scandinavian and Bohemian, into strange tongues, where no other Amer ican authors, except Fenlmore Cooper, had ever before penetrated. His weird psychologic studies have Influenced later writers as unlike as Maupassant and Richcpln, Fitzjames, O'Brien. Rob ert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kip ling. His tales of mystery solved at last bv observat'on and deduction have been imitated by Dumas and Sardou, by Gaboriau and Boisgobey, by Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle. And Sher lock Holmes, the only fictitious charac ter to wfn international recognition in the final years of the lfth century, is the reincarnation of a figure first pro jected by Poe. The Antl-Treatlng- Movement. Indianapolis News. An anti-treating club has been or ganized out in Oregon, so an exchange Informs us. The members have pledged themselves to endeavor to break the custom of buying for others and ac cepting things themselves to the detri ment of their friends' pocket&ooks. Here's success to the organization! It has a noble mission to fulfill, but t will have a rough road to travel. There are two practices In this country that are beSng justly condemned. One is tipping and the other treating. To be sure, we are not responsible for originating either. Away back in the days of Queen Elizabeth every coffee house had a box bearing the inscrip tion "To Insure Promptness," hence T 'l' P Neither Is treating an innova tion. Some of the Caesars, so says history, used to get huffy when their guests could not see the bottom of the glass often enough. But both have got such a hold on Americans that they have come to be recognized as National habits, and the latter some times as a National evil. Wiser and More Practical. Raleigh News and Observer. In old times men crowded to see the prizes presented at Olympian games. Later in the south at this season the big sport was to see the knight at the tournament crown the queen of love and beauty. Today the youth who raises the most corn to the acre Is thi hero of his county, and prizes aie awarded to him with all the honors of the winner in the Grecian games. We are becoming wiser and more prac tical. Literary Tendency. Minneapolis journal. The trend of literary people is to New York and London. Fifty-six In diana counties have lost in population since the 1900 census.