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PORTLAVD. MONDAY. JANUARY S.
fK.UF CLARK'S TARIFF PROMISE.
Now that " Champ Clark, of the
how-me" state. Is to be Speaker, he
will be expected to "ranke good" aa
to a certain pledge made by him In
the Tammany Hall celebration in
New York City. Independence day,
tlx months ago. towit:
U th. next ." l.bJi'"
. will ha.e. will honratly and
airaoualy r-Prt a MM t revlae the tariff
aoTTio , r.vnue baala. para It through u
How and e-nd .t ow to the f'Tl
bap. by that tin., the Sonata. "'" "
th. public demand, will -Jo " "
9na.nf.t- wa wtu so to tha ptople on that
ami In is II
Here Is a promise from Champ,
plain, clear and 'binding, of tariff for
revenue only. But latterly. Champ
has been painfully client on .this sub
ject. Does he have a haunting fear
that unless he shall be-mighty careful
In steering past Fcylla and Charybdis
be may be loot to the one monster or
Ihe other like tho greatest of the tar
iff politicians who have gone before T
Many of us would like to hear
rrom Chair p. particularly about pro
tected articles of Southern State,
whose votes are to be his mainstay
for Joe Cannon's Joh. If these articles
are to be put on "revenue bnsls" In
the new Democratic tarirf bill, there
will be walling and gnashing of teeth
south of Mason and Dixon's line. The
big products of the South are "pro
tected" by the present law, as com
pared with the Dingley law. as
follows:
Sugar, mnlaaaaa and manufacturers of
Sam aa I'lnt rf ratra.
Tobacco, and manuacturara of Kama aa
Dlnalry ratea.
ftiro Saraa aa Plnaley ratea.
Cotton manufacture" Same Dlniy
rataa.
Hemp Kataa advanced.
Whlekr Ratra advan. d.
Peml-tropltal f rulta Html aa Dlnsley
ratra.
Wool Sum aa Plnsley rate.
Here are places for the new
Speaker to employ his talents for
"revenue basis" tariff. The people
would dearly like to buy cheaper
lugar. cotton goods and tobacco.
We should mi)- that It Is up to
i'hamp to make good or to Join the
Jown-and-out club of tariff tinkers.
rArfTAt. ANI -OXUF.NtE.
The remarkable nhowing v which
Portland made In all branches of In
dustrial activity in the year Just cloKed
will attract nation-wide attention. We
have received some splendid results
from the extensive advertising of our
great resources, but ail other forms
of advertising fall short by comparison
with the presentation of olllclal sta
tistics. Portland has accomplished the
wonderful results which are shown In
the annual stallatic without any spe
cial effort and without straining her
credit or depleting the cash reserves.
As pointed out In a review of the
year's business in The Oregonlan yes
terday, the advent of new capital in
the state and Northwest was largely
responsible for the great prosperity
with which we were favored last year.
There was another very Important
factor in bringing about the pleasing
results noted. Confidence was the si
lent partner of capital In breaking all
kinds of industrial records last year,
and this year, to a greater extent per
haps than last, confidence Is needed to
produce equivalent records.
The situation in Portland at this
time is strikingly similar, except In de
rree. to that which confronted us In
!he closing days of 1905. AVe were
breaking records then, although the
figures of that period now seem small
Indeed when compared with those for
the year Just cload. The 1903 fair
had attracted to Portland thousands of
visitors and had given us an oppor
tunity to show our goods and invite
capital. The newcomers were pleased
with the outlook and sent for their
money and friends, but our own peo
ple to a largo extent were skeptical.
They lacked the confidence In the city
and state that was shown by the new
comers, and many f them have been
waiting for five years for the "slump"
that was to follow thr fair. Those
who did have confidence kept their
money In circulation and by buying
and building to meet the demands of
the growing city became wealthy.
Through the example the latter set.
thousands of others were induced to
some here.
But the Portland which was break
ing records In 1903 had no North Bank
road by which this el ild reach
the Immense territory east of the Cas
cade Mountains, then paying tribute
exclusively to Puget Sound. We had
no roads and no Immediate prospect
of any into Central Oregon, a region
which alone will support a larger city
than the Portland of the present day.
We had no railroads reaching out to
the Tillamook and Nehalem country:
no electric lines opening up the richest
portions of the Willamette Valley. All
these and more we now have, and In
every possible feature of Industrial or
commercial endeavor the opportuni
ties are Infinitely superior to those
which existed when we were breaking
records five years ago.
There can be no slackening of im
portance In the strong movement to
higher levels of prosperity if we can
Hence the croakers who are still
waiting for the slump that failed to
follow the Lewis and Clark Fair.
There will be no slump, and there is
every reason for believing that the
business of 1911 will be even more
prosperous and satisfactory than that
of 1110. But to secure the maximum
of benefits from our matchless oppor
tunity, there should be ' unbounded
confidence In the future of the city
and state. Capital and confidence
form a combination that can work
wonders.
The names "New Tork" and
Texas." chosen for the two large
Dreadnoughts authorised some months
ago by Congress, are fitting, as repre
senting the two states each of which
U greatest In Its own way one in
population, the other in eminent do
main: and again as representing two
ships of the "new Navy." so-called.
now the "old Navy" that proved the
fighting quality of the American Navy
when put to the test of battle. New
Tork. as shown by the late census, has
one-tenth of the entire population of
the Union, while Texas contains 265,
000 square miles, an empire In Itself
in area sutlicient to give every one of
New York's 9.000.000 people a piece
of ground large enough. If intensively
cultivated, to furnish food sufficient
for a living. The latest and largest
Dreadnoughts of the American Navy
will represent big things, and their
names will accord with their prowess.
A.-K1NU I-OIMJE.
The Oregon Senators blame it all on
Senator Lodge. The Massachusetts
Senator. It appears, assured the Ore
gon Senators that the KO.000,000 rec
lamation bill was all right, and of
course they supposed It was their first
duty to accept the word of a fellow
Senator; so they voted for the bill
without the slightest personal scru
tiny or examination or Investigation.
Thus section 9 of the original recla
mation bill, so vital and necessary to
the interests of Oregon, was repealed.
Senatorial courtesy, combined with
Senatorial complacency or verdancy or
laziness, has cost Oregon many million
dollars.
The Oregon Senatorial method at
Washington Is to find out what some
Senatorial boss thinks the Oregon
Senators ought to do and then for
them to do it blindly and unquestlon
lngly. "Senator Aldrlch knows all
about the tarlft," said Senator Bourne,
on another momentous occasion. "I
vote with Aldrlch." He did. Now he
votes with Lodge. So does Chamber
lain. They are a confiding and easy
going pair.
Thus while Lodge takes charge of
legislation for the West, and engineers
through the Senate a measure of great
and Immediate concern to Oregon,
Bourne and Chamberlain deem It quite
unnecessary even to examine the bill.
All they do, according to their own
explanation and apology. Is to ask
Lodge. Lodge tells them to vote for
a measure expressly doing away with
an Invaluable concession or right of
the State of Oregon. They obey. It
Is all very childish.
MrCKRAKJNO ROOSFVEtT.
The most unkindest cut of all Is
threat against Roosevelt of the muck
rake. Politician have been Impreg
nable until put on the run by this
patriotic Implement. In fact, many a
politician who could never be chased
out of the people's favor any other
wny has been thrust Into outer dark
ness by this method.
The Colonel Is accused of squander
ing In Africa funds of tha Smithsonian
Institution. A large part of Roose
velt's lion-hunting expedition waa
borne by that institution. Represent
ative Ralney. of Illinois, recently In
troduced a resolution to probe this
business and also Roosevelt's use of
public funds for his Presidential trips
over the country-
However. Roosevelt has been muck
raked before without lasting injury,
and we shall expect him to emerge
from the ordeal this time aLo un
harmed. Be it remembered that he
was used sorely by this method after
purchase of the Panama Canal from
the French company. His Indignation
was kindled to such heat thereby that
he endeavored to send the muckrakers
to Jail. But while he was absent In
Africa the muckrake was forgotten.
That Roosevelt, whose honesty and
honor thus far have been flawless,
should be asalled thus wise Is certain
ly the most unkindest cut of all. It
goes to show that his homilies and
platitudes about honesty and virtue
have not convinced all his fellow-cltl-zens
that he who talks In such wise
is above criticism.
THE rSFKRIKTro AEROPLANE.
The fame of Professor Langley as
the original aeroplane operator will
probably endure for all time, aa many
years elapsed between his fatal flight
and the appearance of what may be
termed the first successful heavler-than-alr
machine. But the death list
of the champions and record-breakers
Is Increasing so rapidly that fame is
more than fleeting for the blrdmen of
the present day. The nnmes of John
B. Motssant and Archie Hoxsey, two of
the best-known and most daring of the
American aviators, were added Sat
urday to the long list of those who
have given up their lives In the pur
suit of the apparently fascinating
sport.
These tragedies will be followed
tomorrow or next week, or at
the most in a few days, by others of a
similar nature, for, despite the success
which has attended the operation of
aeroplanes since the Wright brothers
startled the world with a perfected
heavlcr-than-alr flyer, the element of
danger Is fearfully In evidence at all
meetings where the blrdmen aasemblo.
On land a break In the machinery of
an automobile going at high speed Is
not necessarily followed by fatalities,
for the machine may be partly con
trolled until It loses some of Its head
way or comes to a full stop. On water
the occupant of a sinking boat may
swim or hang to a life-preserver until
rescued. But from disaster tn the air
there now Is no opportunity for escape,
nor has the aeroplane reached a degree
of perfection In construction where It
can be depended on. The appalling
death list quite clearly Indicates that
there still remains a wide field for the
Inventor in perfecting the machines so
that the operator will have at least a
fighting chance for his life when any
thing brenks or goes wrong.
TTlXAMOOK KKI-K-HKl.r.
It U doubtful If any other commu
nity of similar size In the United States
has ever made such a liberal contri
bution for waterways improvement as
that pledged In aid of the proposed
tSovernment work which Is necessary
to put Tillamook and Bay City on
the list of deep-water ports. Making
a comparison from a population stand
point, the SS50.000 guaranteed by
these two ports for a twenty-foot
channel on the bar and a 16-foot
channel inside is about the same as a
120.000.000 fund for Portland. This
city has never balked at any expendi
ture for Improving the highway to the
sea. but a 120.000.000 fund for such
a purpose might make our citizens
study over the matter longer than the
people of Bay City and Tillamook con
sidered their proposition.
As an example of self-help in the
matter of river and harbor appropria
tions. Tillamook and Bay City have es
THE MORXIXG OUEGOXIAX, MONDAY. JANUARY 2, 1911.
tablished a bright and shining prece
dent, which. If followed by communi
ties in other parts of the United States,
would serve to remove any remaining
traces of the "pork barrel" odium
which has so long rested cn rivers and
harbors bills. It is eminently proper
that this faith which the Tillamook
people have shown In their port
should be appreciated nd recognised
by the Government with an appropri
ation sufficient to complete the neces
sary channel. There are few, if any.
regions in Oregon where Nature has
been more lavish In distributing lu
favors than In the Tillamook country,
but without an outlet to the sea great
difficulty w-111 be encountered in eon
Verting these latent resources Into tan
gible wealth.
There are billions of feet of the fin
est lumber In the world which will be
of little use to Its owners until it can
reach the world's markets by way of
the economical water routes. It is
from the marketing of this timber and
the direct benefits that will result that
Tillamook will recoup for the very
heavy expenditure she Is about to
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maae iu aevuio j
The matter is one that is of direct In
terest to Portland, "for whatever con
tributes to the prosperity of Tillamook
also aids this city. Portland is also
pleased to note that our Port of Port
land plan for Improving waterways
where the Government IS slow In tak
ing hold la finding favor elsewhere in
the state.
IlAS THE rtBIJC NO REMEDY?
The City of Portland is not only har
assed, but its property Is damaged, by
t Frank Klernans. Here are these
obstructionists, headed by a pachy
derm lawyer, using every aeiay ana
technicality they can devise against
the desires of the great mass of the
people of the city; and rot only that,
but impairing the credit of the public,
resorting to every possible trick to de
preciate the value of the public bonds,
forcing taxpayers to pay an additional
high rate of Interest for borrowed
mnnev and an extra high price for
contract work on the Broadway
bridge.
The Frank Klernana are protected
In their obstructive and destructive
work by the institutions of orderly so
ciety and these very institutions they
are employing to the public Injury.
There ought to be a way to end this
business. The community is exasper
ated to the near limit of endurance.
Tt i tn outrage unon the community
that a few selfish individuals 6houId
continue to thwart the needs of the
people of this city.
TUB CUNNINGHAM CLAIMS AGAIN.
Cold facta should be the evidence In
Judging the Cunningham claims In
Alaska. But a clique of shrleky patri
ots has preferred heated partisanship
to cold facts.
Secretary Balllnger wishes to refer
the claims to the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia for decision
whether they are fraudulent Or honeiit.
Garfield. Pinchot, G la vis & Co. de
mand that Balllnger pass on tho
claims himself. During a long time
they have been working up prejudice
throughout the country against the
Cunningham claimants, through false
assertions and fancied assumptions.
Therefore they wish to compel the Sec
retary to make decision while facing
this prejudice a prejudice, by the
way, that also prevails against him
self. The Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia would be In free position
to decide the claims according to
their merits. Its opinion, moreover,
would be accepted by people and poli
ticians. There Is good ground for
believing that the court would find It
self constrained to hold the claimants
blameless, therefore to cast implied
Imputations of malignity and slander
upon the Glavis partisans. These
claimants are all reputable men, many
in high station; they filed on coal
claims In Alaska in accordance with
the law and paid the price the law re
quired. $52,000, to the Government.
Though having complied with the law
In every particular and having paid
that sum to the Government, they
have been denied patent, on the
ground that they "conspired" to obtain
the land for syndicate uses, which is
alleged to be a wrongful and fraudu
lent purpose.
The din of falsehood about the Cun
ningham claims and Balllnger's rela
tion to them has continued too long.
These claims -should be decided by
some coolheaded authority and be got
ten -out of the way. The have been
the Inspiration of enormous quantity
of blatant rhetoric. The country hns
been wearied by the rhetoric, and In
jured, too. Had It been squelched
long time ago, these Pacific States
would now be in fair way to obtain
cheap coal from Alaska, instead of
paying high prices for fuel imported
from Australia.
a niiAi issrE.
Judging from the prominence given
the Mormon question by recital of al
leged facts bearing upon it running
in two popular magazines at the pres
ent time, one would Imagine that
something entirely new and pertinent
to present conditions had been discov
ered in regard to the religion and
practices of the members and disciples
of tho Church of the Latter-Day
Saints.
Both of these recitals, each from a
different standpoint and entirely dif
ferent In tone," proclaim the actual
truth about the practice of polygamy
among these people, their long defi
ance of the United States Government
in the name of the Lord, and thehyl
snam acquiescence in uie rrurmi
of 1890, which paved the way to the
admission of Utah as a state. Neither
writer concedes that he is telling a
truth or a part of a truth, but each
emphasizes the declaration that he is
telling the truth without variableness
or shadow of turning.
This difference In estimate may, to
some extent, be excused on the ground
that one writes from an Intynate do
mestic relationship with Moifnon cus
tom which causes his story to as
sume at times a pathetic note; the
other from a political standpoint that
deals harshly with the ugly facts In
the case and reverts to the duplicity
of leading Mormons, and especially of
President -Joseph F. Smith and the
apostles In regard to the pretended re
nunciation of polygamy. In compliance
with the Woodruff manifesto.
The simultaneous publication of
these recitals has brought up nothing
new on the subject under discussion.
It Is the same old slobbered tale of
strenuous opposition to the law of the
land upon the point at which society
In its domestic relations took Issue
with the Mormon Church: of earnest
effort on the part of the Federal Gov
ernment to force obedience to the law
against plural marriage, and of dou
ble dealing upon this point in order
to Insure the admission of Utah as a
sovereign state of the Union.
Why should the story be rehearsed
at this time? The Mormon question
Is not at present a live issue. Out
wardly, at least, the law against plural
marriage is being obeyed in Utah.
There Is no question of statehood or
of any other political advantage either
to Mormon or Gentile now before Con
gress. The Mormon Church Is going
on' its way, after the old fashion
making proselytes wherever it can, but
keeping the question of polygamy well
oat of sight. So long as this church
Is. law-abiding and goes Its own way
In religious matters, without more
exhibition of zeal or more effrontery
of belief than characterizes most other
church organizations, why descant
upon its peculiar idiosyncrasies and re
cite in bold-faced type the sins of Its
leaders? Are these self-proclaimed,
veracious chroniclers of past practices,
methods and events in the history of
Mormonlsm under pay of periodicals
merely for the stories that they write?
Or Is that sinuous, crafty, subtly mili
tant body, the Church of the Latter
Day Saints, whose stronghold is in Salt
Lake City and the Inner workings of
which none but the oath-bound faith
ful know, sponsor for the publicity
campaign that is thus being conducted
In its behalf? To a disinterested ob
server It would seem that the open
ing of this subject at this time was
undertaken as a means of galvanizing.
into new life a dead Issue between the
Federal Government and the Mormon
Church.
Battleship builders and dealers in
Army and Navy equipment will prob
ably note with pleasure the revival of
the war ecare between Germany and
Great Britain, due to England's inter
vention in Persia. There may not be
real prospect for a war between the
two big powers, but any little rumor
is sufficient to cauae one or the other
of the "skeery" overlords of the Old
World to order more fighting equip
ment. The silliest feature of this aw
ful expenditure that is made In the al
leged cause of peace is that the rela
tive strength of the two countries is
not materially changed for any great
length of time. Germany, with fifty
battleships fighting England with
fifty battleships would not have any
advantage that she would not possess
had the conflict been precipitated
when each of the contestants had one
fifth that number. Latest tonnage
statistics show that Germany has
been making some slight gains iri her
relative strength, but she will never be
permitted to get far enough ahead in
the race to place England at any great
disadvantage when the clash comes,
providing It does come, before one or
both of them become bankrupt
through excessive purchases of war
equipment and battleships.
This Is a big world, and they grow
wheat In all parts of it. For that rea
son the "crop scare" artist Is never
without an opportunity for exercising
his ability. A few weeks ago dry
weather was damaging the crop In the
Argentine. Then wet weather was
damaging the same crop at harvest
time. Meanwhile some Antipodean
crop-scare man sent out a report that
the bugs were working overtime in
the Australian wheat fields. Satur
day there was a variation from the
usual routine in the Chicago markets
by a report from India that severe
cold in- the Punjab district was dam
aging the grain. The Indian crop
damage, with an occasional rumor
from Australia and the Argentine, will
tide the market over until the Spring
frosts can nip the uncovered grain in
this country, and from that period
until the appearance of the chinch
bug, the Hessian fly or some other of
the old standbys of the crop killers.
Interested parties will manage to keep
the market In a fairly active turmoil.
A company has been, formed at Eu
gene for the purpose of reclaiming
tldelands at Yaqulna Bay. There Is a
large area of very rich land along Ya
quina Bay and river, which, If prop
erly diked and cultivated, would pro
duce immense crops of almost any
thing planted. Similar reclamation
work Is In progress along the Lower
Columbia and at Tfilamook and Neha
lem. At numerous other points where
the tide runs inland along the Oregon
coast there are great opportunities
Tor Industrial effort of this nature.
The soil along these bays and rivers
Is of unknown depth and richness, and
the output of a single acre properly
tilled Is astonishingly large in com
parison with that of even moderately
rich upland
Portland handled more than 2.000,
000 tons net register of deep-water
shipping in 1910 and yesterday made a
fine start towards breaking the record
In 1911. During the ten hours ending
at 6 o'clock last evening seven steam
ers and two sailing vessels crossed out
of the river and seven steamers and
one sailing vessel arrived. This did
not Include a "lame duck" towed In
by an oil tanker after a tussle with
Saturday's storm. This fleet regis
tered more than 22.000 tons net and
had a carrying capacity of more than
B0, 000 tons. As a seaport, Portland Is
on the map in large letters.
If it be true, and statistics seem to
bear out the assertion, that S000 peo
ple were brought to Eugene and Lane
County during the past year, the
112.000 provided by the Eugene Com
mercial Club for promoting publicity
was an excellent Investment.
Only S90B babies were born in
Oregon last yenr, and nearly half are
credited to Portland. This is a phase
of country life not considered by Mr.
Roosevelt's Commission, but it should
have been.
The scheme of creation as given In
the first chapter of Genesis did ifbt
consider aviation and any human Im
provement of that plan must be
fraught with danger.
The Humane Society, or similar
body should Intervene to forbid cruel
and Inhuman punishment after death
in the case of Senator "Billy" Lorimer.
The watch meetings of good people
will do much to leaven the punishment
of the wicked revelers of New Year's
eve. ' '
The announcement that rebel pris
oners will be "tried" will bring a
smile on the shade of old Santa Ana.
Mr. Carnegie's hero fund will get
better results than his peace fund.
The country responded in like terms
to President Taft's good wishes.
TEACHER'S PROBLEM OK LIVING
School Instructors CInsneo With Idla
hirn at Taxpayers' Meennjs.
PORTLAND. Dec. 30. (To the Editor.)
Some weeks ago the teachers of St.
Tnhn. m-AnantAj n tiMitlnn for Hti in
crease In salary. The petition was not
. , - .4 Kilt
acted upon uy me dchuui xsum, -was
referred to a taxpayers' meeting
which occurred last night:
I took it upon myself to attend that
meeting, read tho petition and gave some
i i i tnr- th increase
reasons wny we mcu -" '
and showed the "inadequacy of the pres
ent salaries to meet mo asu""
by the cost of living.
The salaries of grade teachers in St.
Johns range from $550 to $800 a year or
$42.0 to $66.56 2-3 a month.
a..it.i.i. Vi.au rnnnot be
had in Portland for lees than $30 or $35
a month, and In St. Johns cannot do nu.u
.t c. n v n1if Tlio nponle of St. Johns
may take exception to this statement
but I know it to De a iaci. nuc v
teacher does board out there, but the
landlady told me that every room she
had was taken. Two other teachers
"batch." Last year several others tried
to live out there. For'a while they were
fortunate enough to get some one to
give them their dinner, the other meals
they got the best way they could.
The people In whose homes one would
care to live, as a rule, don't want to be
bothered, especially by a woman, who
must wash out handkerchiefs or press a
skirt occasionally. It rains occasionally
In Oregon and skirts must be pressed
and $42.60 or even $66.60 a month will
not permit many trips to the preesers.
Then there Is laundry, which some folk
think the-y must have. We cannot get
the material for clothes for nothing even
if we were our own dressmakers, and
necessity, if not convention, requires
that we wear hats, shoes and gloves.
I permit myself tho untold extrava
gance of The Oregonlan and am unrea
sonable enough to consider it a neces
sity. I like to buy a book or magazine
once In awhile, and think it not unrea
sonable that I should expect to be able
to afford the pleasure and profit to be
derived from hearing good music or see
ing a good play at least a few times in
the year.
Now will some kind friend tell me how
we are going to live as we should and
save enough for the proverbial "rainy
day," or fort inevitable old age?
Some one suggested that we get mar
ried. Well, it Is polite to wait until you
are asked. I can only speak for myself,
but not more .an a dozen or so really
"nice" men have, asked me to confer
that honor upon them.
The man who voiced the sentiment of
the taxpayers' meeting said "that we
had no right." mark no right, "to ask
even for a raise, that we are too well
paid as it is. and that salaries should
be lowered rather than raised; the man
working with the pick and shovel In the
street does far harder work and for le6s
pay; that teachers had an entirely too
easy life, dressed too well and were too
fashionable."
It was just such a speech as one
should expect to hear from a soap-box
orator on Burnslde street, who hates
every man who wears a "boiled shirt"
and is guilty of a bath.
I always knew that people of that
class hated the rich and prosperous for
the mere fact that they are rich and
prosperous, no matter how well-earned
their competency, but I did not know
that the humble school teacher was
classed by them with the millionaires
as the arch enemy of the laboring man.
I suppose if I did my duty I should
leave the "easy" life of a school teacher,
marry one of the "men in the street."
provide him with a pipe and a mug of
beer and take in washing for his main
tenance. ANNA QUIGLEY.
ECONOMICS AT TUB UNIVERSITY.
Work of Value to Legislators Begun at
Ftagrcne Inatltntlon.
MEDFORD. Or., Dec. 30. (To 'the
Editor.) The sympathetic expounding
of The Oregonian in last Thursday's
edition upon "Governor TVoodrow Wil
son's proposal of an alliance between
students of politics and practical states
men" is especially pleasing to those
Interested In the senior theses research
work now being carried on at the Uni
versity of Oregon by seniors In the de
partment of economics. Vital questions
confronting the people of Oregon are
delved into by the students each year
under the direction of Professor F. G.
Young, dean of the department. Such
subjects as "State Aid to Roads," "Rail
road Regulation." "Road Building."
"The Initiative and Referendum" and
"Water Laws" have been studied by in
dividual students, data prepared and
conclusions drawn.
The conclusions reached by the schol
ars in their theses are, of course, only
as valuable as the aptness of their
reasoning- warrants, but the data gath
ered should be of real value, especially
to legislators. Through the use of a
card system up-to-date statistics and
knowledge gathered by a year's study
are placed at the disposal of any Inter
ested person.
This work which Professor Young
has begun as offering a means of direct
service to the state as well as valu
able to the students engaged, Is still in
its Infancy. Noticeable results, how
ever, have already been its outcome.
Earl Kllpatrlck, now principal of the
Oakland High School, In his thesis two
years ago, prepared a system of water
laws modeled after the early Roman
code, which with a few minor changes
was presented the same year at Salem
by Allen H. Eaton, of Lane County,
and passed by the state Legislature.
The room in which the research work
Is carried on by the students at pres
ent is small and Inadequate, offering
no shelving space and cramping them
In their work. It is to be sincerely
hoped that the Legislature in its ap
proaching session will provide funds
needed to make this departure of uni
versity activity of practical value to
the legislators in gathering statistics
concerning proposed laws and reforms.
A. M. G.
Ola "Will Read Too Often.
Case and Comment.
The Supreme Court of the United
States will be appealed to by officers of
the Dutch Reformed Church of America
to relieve that body from reading the
tedious will of the Rev. Mr. Van Bun
schooten at every official meeting of the
church corporation. For 75 years the
reading of the will has constituted a
routine part of the business of every
meeting of any corporate body of the
Reformed Church In thiB country.
It appears that the church 75 years ago
accepted a legacy of $20.1)00 from the Rev.
Mr. Van Bunsrhooten, who made his gift
conditional, requiring that his will be
read at every session of the church offi
ciary forever. The money has long since
been spent, but the duty of reading the
Irksome testament still hangs over tho
church.
Envy Prevnlle.
Baltimore Sun.
He'a tint to much a neighbor as he ued to
ha, but atill
Hail . smile and speak In passing from
And ao you aolva th problem though It
eeema a bitter pill
As you realize ho g got a motor-car.
The Lion Is Cat.
TANGENT, Or., Dec. 26. (To the
Editor.) Am I correct In saying that
the lion belongs to the dog family In
stead of the cat family? G. H. M.
Exasgeratlon.
- Richmond Virginian.
Now that It is all over acaln, it Is
stated that tne Mexican revolution was
greatly exaggerated
Rig Game.
' London Opinion.
"A penny mousetrap, please; and let
me have It quickly, as I want to catch
a train." -
EFFECT OF HOME RULE MEASURES
Argument la Offered Asvainat Attorney
General's Opinion.
SILVERTON, Or., Dec. 29. (To the
Editor.) If I am not mistaken, an
article appeared in The Oregonian
about a month ago purporting to be an
opinion of the Attorney-General of Ore
gon on the "Home Rule Amendment"
proposed by the people and approved
by them at the general election held
November 8, 1910. The opinion ex
pressed was that in counties where the
question of prohibition was voted on
according to the local option law and
the county as a whole voted in favor
of prohibition, but some municipality
within that county (counting the votes
of the municipality separately) re
turned a majority against prohibition
(Hood River, I believe, was taken as
an example), in such municipalities
licenses might be granted and liquor
sold without taking another vote on
the question.
I fail to see on what law that opin
ion is based. On November 8, 1910,
when the question of prohibition was
voted on by these counties, the local
option law as approved by the people
of Oregon on June 6, 1904, and pro
claimed by the Governor on June 24,
1904, was in force, except as amended
by the session laws of 1909, and this
local option law provides what the ef
fect of voting for prohibition shall be,
and when the question may again be
brought before the people. It was
under this law that the question was
voted on, and I do not see why this
law should not control the results. I
do not believe the voters at the time
nor anyone else thought that any other
law was to govern the outcome of that
election. It seems to me that the most
reasonable interpretation would be that
the whole county, municipalities In
cluded, should be under the prohibitory
law until the next general election,
unlesB we say that the "home rule
amendment" is retroactive, and since
the courts are not Inclined to favor
such construction as will make a law
retroactive and will not hold a law to
be such unless it was clearly so Intend
ed, I see no reason why we should say
this law is retroactive.
It is generally accepted, as a rule of
interpretation, by the best courts of
the country, our Supreme Court among
others, that a statute or law does not
repeal any-other statute or law unless
it Is expressly so stated, or the law
most recently enacted is such that a
former law eannot st the same time
be in force and the object of the most
recently-enacted or approved law ac
complished. Now I wish someone
would be kind enough to point out how
these two laws are inconsistent In any
other respect than that the local option
law makes the county the unit In cer
tain cases while the "home rule
amendment" provides that a municipal
ity shall have power to regulate the
sale of Intoxicating liquors within its
limits. It seems to me when tho "home
rule amendment'' in its last clause ex
pressly states "such municipality shall
within its limits be subject to the pro
visions of the local option law of the
State of .Oregon" It signifies that the
local option law of the state then in
existence was meant, and not as the
local option law will be after thi
amendment Is adopted. The amend
ment in that it makes an organic law
depend upon a general statutory law
Is sufficiently anomalous without giv
ing It a strained and unnatural in
terpretation and , making it retroac
tive as the opinion spoken of would
necessitate.
Up to the time the Governor pro
claimed the passing or adoption of the
"home rule amendment" the citizens
of a municipality within a county,
that as a unit voted on the question of
prohibition, had no power to say that
even if the county as a whole does vote
In favor of prohibition, we as a muni
cipality will license the sale of intoxi
cating liquors, and since they have had
that right the citizens have not voted
to grant licenses, nor will they have
the opportunity to do so until
two calendar years have passed since
the last general election, for the
amendment provides that "such muni
cipalities shall within their limits be
subject to the provisions of the local
option law of the State of Oregon," and
one of these Is that the liquor question
cannot be voted on again until two cal
endar years have passed.
It is Immaterial to me whether Intox
icating liquors are sold in these muni
cipalities, but I think it is for the good
of the citizens of the state that the pro
visions of this law and its effects be
properly understood and enforced. Sin
cerely yours,
GUSTAV A. BUHROW.
LACK OF CLOTHES FOR CONVICTS
Hardablpa In and Out of Penitentiary
Told by Former Prisoner.
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 28. (To the
Editor.) In a short editorial In The Ore
gonian, anent the lockstep, you use the
following expression: "In a century
which professes to be Christian the lock
step is as anomalous as the refusal to
provide convicts with underclothing and
socks."
One naturally Infers, from that state
ment, that the writer of that editorial
Is not aware that the convicts at Salem
are furnished neither underclothing
nor socks. The best any convict could
do during the regime of Lord and
Geer was to wrap some rags about his
feet for socks. His nether limbs were
protected from the cold by a single
garment of thinly-woven stuff through
which the Winter winds whistled right
merrily.
The custom of turning men lose on
the world, at the expiration of their
term, without the price of a square
meal, was another Christian act of
those days. The poor devil went out
to face a .pitiless world, branded with
the prison pallor; clothed in garments
which said loudly, "I am an ex-con,
just out," and he went out without a
cent to buy food or a night's lodging.
Is It any wonder that so many are
sent back to prison in a short time?
Shelterless, homeless, broke, the man
who. lying locked In his lonely cell
during many a long night, had fully
resolved to redeem himself when free,
is confronted with starvation and
cold. Every door is closed against
him. His appearance advertises his
last dwelling place, and doors are shut
In his face when he begs for just a
morsel of food to keep him from
starving.
If he succeeds in getting far away
and secures work, 'some man appears
who knows his history, and he is told
to move on.
In a moment of passion, greed, or
malice, he incurred a debt to the state.
He thought he paid it when he "did
time." Instead of paying it, he simply
added to the principal, and, like Sisy
phus, must forever roll up the stone
that constantly rolls back upon him.
No one but an "ex-con" can have any
conception of what It means to have
that title attached to him. and the utter
hopelessness of ever getting back to
the loBt Alden of tho long ago.
Strive as he may. he manly and atronir.
The taint of the "pen" still follows alung.
AN EX-COX.
C'arncKje and Flaarler.
CHEHAL1S. Wash.. Dec. 30. (To the
Editor.) Will you please give the ad
dress of Andrew Carnegie and of Henry
M. Flagler (the Standard Oil man)?
F. G. .
Andrew Carnegie's address Is 2 East
Ninety-first street, New York.
Henry F. Flagler's office addreRS is
26 Broadway. New York: home ad
dresses. 685 Fifth avenu-. New York,
and "Whitehall," Palm Beach, Florida.
The Maiden's Bonnet.
Chicago Journal.
My bonnet spreads over the ocean.
My bonnet spreads over the eea;
To merely spread over the sidewalk
la not enough for mi
MORE OF "TUB SOUL OF A GREEK"
Story Told by Correspondent of Re
appearance of Departed Itelatlv.
PORTLAND, Dec. 27.-(To the Editor.)
Actuated by reading the article in The
Oregonlan regarding the spirit sleeping
In the grave till Judgment day, written
by Alice Faus. I will give an experience
of my own which causes me to think
that the spirits of many of the departed
are still on this earth and that soma
remain in their former homes, see and
know the things of this earth and are
silent witnesses to what is going on in
this planet.
I have ample proof of this In my pos
session. My mother had been dead a
year and a half when I returned home
two or three different Sunday evenings.
The other members of the family had
gone out and I was alone at home. As
twilight approached 1 felt my mother .
was in the sitting room when I was. I
felt her presence there and felt that I
knew the exact spot where she was
standing. I felt that she would reveal
herself to me It I remained where I was.
so quickly arose, left the room and pnt
out on the porch till the family returned.
One evening, some months after this, I
was pitting rocking my baby to sleep in
this same room when I heard a woman's
voice crying loudly and sadly upstairs
In the room above where I was sitting.
I was mystified and could not imagine
what it could be. Tho crying was very
loud and I thought everyone in the house
must have heard it as there were other
members of the family in the next rooms.
I knew there was no one upstairs at the
time as the stairway led from the room
where I was sitting. The crying stopped
end just then one of my brothers entered
from the street. I spoke low and told
him of the occurrence that had just hap
pened. "Nonsense, Lizzie," he said.
"You are just nervous ond Imagined it."
Just then the crying commenced as loud
and lasted just the seme length of time
as before. "That is my mother." he m'.d.
"That's just the way she used to cry
after you, sister, when you left. Do not
tell the other members of the family.
It might make them afreld and worry
them."
So we never told anyone. About eJjrnt
months after this, my father came home
from work 'n the mines about a mile
away from where we lived and told my
sister and me that my mother appeared
to him in the mines, apparently in the
flesh and as real as In life. He was
sitting down resting. She looked at him
for some minutes and then turned her
gaze to my brother, who was drilling
a hole in the coal near by. My father
followed her saze to my brother, elso.
and when he looked toward her she was
"one. My father and this brother were
both killed the same day In this same
pla-e one year afterward by en expio
eion that killed 11 men.
I have had many experiences that
prove that mv theory is correct and that
there are many spirits of the departed on
this earth, whilo some return as mes
sengers in ease of death of friends or
relatives. How long they remain on this
earth or where they go afterwards I sup
pose no one knows, but I have absolute
proof n my possession that messages
are given us here by our departed frionds;
also that they ere ruled as we are by
tho unseen, supreme power that rules
the universe and all it contains. .
SUBSCRIBER AND READER.
Man Xot Immortal f
VANCOUVER. Wash., Dec. 28. (To
the Editor.) Noting Mrs. Portia Mur
ray's letter of the :4th Inst, regarding
the actual location and condition of
the soul of the Greek who was In a
state of coma for 18 month, I notice
that after she comments on the ques
tion she summarizes by stating that
"the soul of the Greek was. during the
18 months of coma, ever near, and in
connection with, his physical body. etc.
May 1 ask her and any reader this
question, What is the soul?
Also she says that the 11th and 14th
verse of St. John. 11th chapter, con
tradict each other. Now as few Bible
scholars believe these Epistles are not
Inspired, may I ask her my second
question, Is God a liar?
Alice Faus thinks the soul of the
Greek, had he been dead, slept. So do
I because the Old and New Testament
are freighted with such teaching. But
she clinns to the first falsehood which
ever soiled God's best product, man,
when she speaks of man being immor
tal. May I kindly ask her the questions:
First. If man Is immortal, why did
God station the angel at the entrance
to the Garden of Eden, "lest Adam and
Eve return and eat of the Tree of Life
and live forever"? ,,,
Second. Does not immortality mean
death proof? If not why J)"1? 4
. JAMES E. KERSHAW.
A Doctor's Solution.
PORTLAND. Or., Dec. 30. (To the
Editor.) Would you kindly allow me
space In The Oregonlan, with due re
spect to the Greek laborer who, from
the effects of a blow upon the cranium,
lay in a comatose state for some 18
months or so and who regained his
faculties through an operation at St.
Vincent's Hospital, to offer my ser
vices as mediator, if possible. In the
controversy of the vital question which
seems paramount among our literary
Students: "Where was the soul of the
Greek7"
The following explanation will ren
der it very plain, I hope, at least, as
I see it.
Soul, breath, breath of life. The
child becomes a living soul when it
breathes the breath of life. (not before).
The soul or breath is the connecting
link, as It were, between the spirit and
bodj-. Spirit, innate intelligence: or
the personified portion of universal In
telligence that manifests itself in the
animal, vegetable and ethereal king
doms and which creates life.
Mind, educated intelligence; life, ac
tion. For example, death enters. Exit
soul, breath. Spirit, innate intelligence.
Mind, educated intelligence. Life, ac
tion: and the body is laid In the grave.
' A DOCTOR.
Knlaer Haa Sixty Jnlno.
Munsey's Magazine.
The number of the Kaiser's palaces
is largely due to the fact that the
Pussian monarchy has absorbed many
minor German states, including the
kingdom of Hanover, the duchy of
Nassau and the electorate of Hesse
Cabsel. All the palaces and castles of
the rulers of these states thus passed
into tho possession of the reigning
house of Prussia, as it was considered
Injudicious either to destroy or to sell
them, for fear of impairing the popu
larity of Hohenzollern rule. Thus it
is that the Emperor is burdened with
the possession of more than three score
residences, some of which he has never
seen, and many of which are totally
unsuited for royal habitation. Al
though their maintenance entails a
heavy drain upon his exchequer they
can not, for political reasons, be either,
sold or leased.
A Burden to Himself.
National Monthly.
A young man, taking a walking trip
through the North Carolina mountains,
stopped for the night at the cabin of a
native. In the morning, with the moun
taineer and his family, the guest
availed himself of the only lavatory
privileges the place afforded, dipping
the water from a gourd from a basin on
the bench at the end of the little porch.
A grimy towel did service for everyone.
It took the host about two seconds to
make his morning ablutions, and the op
eration was over for the day.
He looked on with an interest thnt
grew as the traveler crushed his teeth
and used his. nail brush. But when 1
began to shave in front of the cloudy
little mlTor, the mountaineer could con
tain himself no longer. "Does yourself
give you that much trouble every morn
ln'?" he asked In astonishment