TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAX. TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1911. lO roRTLAVD. OREtiOX. Enteral at Portland. Oregon. Poatofftce a NcoedVl Matter. subscription Rat, Invariably la Advance. (BT MAIL) rally. Bandar Included. oa yar . . .. l'e;:. Sunday tnclurt-U. s:a months . Ta.tr. Bungay Included, trtrea months la:iy. flucdif Included. on month... 11'7, !' hoot bun4ay. on, year. ...... Pal'v. without Sunday, w.x months. ... .$. . Ms . .71 SO) 3 15 I'i;r. wicttoat Sua.iar. tvM months . 1.73 Ially. ntout Sunday, oot moatb vaiy. one yar... .............. Sunday, ona year 2- fcanday k1 ekly. en year.......... a.10 (BT CARRIER) ZVT. 'ueCay Included, ona year . ...... ft.'" le;y fludir Included, ona mootb..... .73 Hots Kaaal--4an4 poatoffic money erdr. express order or parsonal check oa your local bank. stamps, coin or currency ar at tba erader'a rik. CJIv poelofflce d4ra la full. Inrludna county aad stata. J'? Paa KaU 1 to 14 rain. 1 cent: 14 t 24 p-xaa. 3 rants; so to pases, s rants: jo passs. cams. mr.iu poaiasa double rata. tLmmtmrm Ifnalaeas OffUee Terra Conk lln .N-w Vara, rtruasajlea. building. Chi cago, sieger building. rOKTLUO, TVZSDAY. APRIL. S3. 1IL XOT A POLITICAL PARTY. There Is little ground for recognition of the "progressive" wing of the Re publican party as a distinct political organization by the United States Kenate. Just at this time. We cannot wholly agree with Senator La Follette that there la a division among Repub licans "well recognized In the Senate and throughout the country as based on clearly defined differences on Im portant luad-lative measures and ques tion of great public Interest." There Is a division among Republicans In the Senate, founded on a basis of par liamentary procedure, and practically that alone. The term "proeres-Jve" is one that Js preferred by the supporters of La Follette and Cummins to the older title, "Insurgents." These Insurgents sure agreed on but few National Issues. Contemporary historians rind difficulty In defining their principles. One of the latest contributions on the sub ject has been prepared by Albert Bushnell Hart, professor of sci ence of government. Harvard Univer sity, for the 1319 American Tear Book. Speaking of the activities of the In surgents in 1910. Mr. Hart declares: "The Insurgents had not a common body of principles and had somewhat differed among themselves in the de bate In Congress. In general they Considered the Payne-Aldricb tariff unreasonably high and Insisted that It exas not nn-Republlcan to have voted against that tariff.' to be In favor of modifying It. or to stand fons general lower level of the tariff." Events In 1911 have not aligned the Insurgents any more definitely on Is sues of National Importance. In the House they divided on reciprocity and it is forecasted that they will do like wise In the Senate. On popular elec tion of United States Senators they perhaps stand together, but popular election was also supported by most of the regular In the House, and by I the Democrats also. The free Hat Is ! distinctly a Democratic measure, and whether the Insurgents will take a united stand thereon has not yet been foretold. These are the real National issues before Congress and the people today. The majority of Bourne's "fundamen tals of government." as enunciated In the platform of the Progressive Re publican League, deal In state Issues. The league's platform Is not a charac teristic National party platform. It advocates direct primaries, amendment of stata constitutions providing for di rect legislation and the recall, corrupt practices acts. Presidential primaries and direct election of United States Senator. Only two of the Ave planks may be considered as touching ques tion pertaining to National govern ment and one of these not necessarily so. It has been noted that Theodore Roosevelt, who count himself among the progressives, ha not subscribed to the declarations of the Progressive League. Colonel Roosevelt has sub mitted his Idea of the progressive Re publicanism arM termed It "new na tionalism." New nationalism enunci ate numerous planks not found In the Bourns "fundamental of govern ment." Possibly some day progressiva senti ment will crystallize Into something more tangible and definite than revolt against parliamentary procedure in Congress. The party, to organize ef fectually, must be In accord with Burke' classic definition: "A party Is a body of men united for promoting by their Joint endeavors the national Interest upon some principle on which they are all agreed." FARAfEJtS AVD GASOLINE. The farmers In the vicinity of Walla Walla axe not exceptional In the use they are making of gasoline engines. This comparatively recent source of power ha been adopted throughout the country by agriculturist who wish to save labor and Increase profits. With an engine of three or four horse power, costing less than a good horse, an Ingenious man can pump water for Ms household and stock. Irrigate his garden, saw all the wood he needs, grind feed and do a hundred other thing which 'save strength, time and money. Not everybody can accomplish feats f this kind. It takes some ''gump tion." of course, and there are farmers who have no mechanical gift what ever. They cannot touch a bolt with out crushing the thread, nor come within ten feet of a mowing machine without breaking the sickle. Much less could they set up or rnn a gaso line engine. But the farmer who can use his hands deftly and his brain a little can remove half the hardships cf his lot by employing this modern Invention. It Is said that here and there a farmer can he found who has done really marvelous things with a amall gasoline engine. An arrangement has been devised which applies the power of the engine to a farm wagon, thus dispensing with horses on the road. Of course an automobile Is prefer able, but wealthy as most 'farmer have become there are still some of them who do not feel quite able to purchase automobiles yet. There are plenty of trucks, too. by which a gang plow can be handled, or a long string of harrow dragged across the field. Indeed with a modern farm truck It Is possible to prepare a good many acre for seeding by a single opera tion. Instead of following the plow today, the harrow tomorrow and scattering the grain by hand the next day the farmer can sit on his truck and do It all at once. He certainly can If he ha land enough to make ucb a large and expensive machine worth while. But apparently the gasoline engine has not been put into traction form (or the small farmer. What he aatl U something with about the power of a good span' of horses, of small com pass, and easily managed. Here la an opportunity still open to Inventors. omwsnc mjl hjiaman. Millionaire Hlllman. the Seattle pro. rooter of wildcat real estate schemes, has completed a 20 days' Jail sentence for attempting to Influence Jurors. He Is still under sentence to serve two and one-half years In the Federal Pen- Itentlary for using the mails to de fraud, but predict that he will never serve a day of that sentence. 'The time will come." says the confident Mr. Hlllman. "when Seattle will erect a monument to my memory. I have done more to develop this town than any other man." Mr. Hlllmirn Is somewhat careless In I his language. What he meant to say waa triat he had done more than any other man to "extend" the town. Mr. Hlllman was so thoroughly Imbued with the Seattle spirit that he placed no limit on the growth. His Imagina tion was so vivid that he spoiled good farms and cut down nice trees In or der to build Imaginary cities In which he sold lots. If Seattle could have expanded enough to take in the Hlllman "devel- i opment,' she would have made the landed area of New York, London and other cities look like a garden patch on a bonanza wheat farm. MR. nOLrnKHT'S LATEST. In another of those wild flights of the imagination which have made Congressman Humphrey's ship-subsidy emanations both famous and ridicu lous, the Washington Congressman. In the current number of Pearson's Mag azine, again "view with alarm" the control of the world's shipping trade by European nations. Mr. Humphrey lugs In that venerable statement that we are paying foreign shipowner 1:00.000.000 per year for earning our freight to market. It has never yet been definitely determined by what system of estimating this $200,000,000 total was reached, but as the ship-subsidy people have used it for years. It Is probably as nearly right as any of the figures they present. "Two hun dred millions of dollars a year paid to these foreign shipping combines for carrying our commerce." say Mr. Humphrey. "Is the greatest prize of all the seas. These foreign vessel have struggled for many years to secure It They have spent millions for this pur pose and are spending millions to re tain It." Of course. It ha not occurred to Mr. Humphrey that these foreign ship owners. In return for the alleged 1200. 000.000. may be moving freight which It would cost us 1250.000.000 to move In our own ships. It also may have escaped his attention that the foreign er who have bought this freight from us and paid for it may elect to send their own ships for It. Mr. Humphrey becomes needlessly alarmed about the effect hi alleged shipping trust may have on our foreign trade. "It la ab surd and ridiculous." say he. "to talk about capturing foreign market as long as these condition exist. Tariff reform or other legislation is powerless to help us as long a these foreign steamship combine completely control the carrying trade upon the seas." The natural Inference to be drawn from this tIe of woe la that the for eign markets have eluded us and that our foreign trade Is rapidly falling into decay. Unfortunately for Mr. Hum phrey and the touching argument which he put up. for an American merchant marine, the foreign trade of the United States Is today growing more rapidly than ever before. There la also a growing supply of tonnage whose owner are begging the privi lege of carrying our ware to market at lower rates than are enjoyed by any other country on earth. There I not a port of any Importance In the known world to which there la any trouble In securing ships to carry destined freight at lowest living rates. On the Pacific, where Mr. Humphrey ha al ways found alleged evidence oftrlngs and combines. It has been possible for months to ship freight from Seattle or Portland to the Oriental ports. 4000 mile away, at from $1.50 to $3 per ton. For year the rate fixed by an other of those awful combines for ear ning wheat 14.000 miles around Cape Horn to Europe ha been less than $ per ton. There Is today, roaming the seven seas, an enormous fleet of ships of all nations. All these ships are looking for business. Their tonnage space is a marketable commodity available to any one who cares to use It. The men who surply the freight care not a rap what flag the vessel Is sailing under, so long as the rate Is low enough and the service satisfactory. As suggested be fore to Mr. Humphrey, however. If It Is necessary for Americans to own ships, by all mean permit them to buy In the same markets to which their competitors have access. If we do otherwise, it will cost us so much more than the $100,000,000 which It is al leged we are now paying the foreign ers that w shall be sorry we paid any attention to the ship-subsidy seekers and shrlekers. OrR DEMOCRATIC A RMTOCRACT. The social ruction at the Naval Academy is far too significant of the snobbery that Is being maintained there at the public expense to be dis missed as the tempest in a teapot. which at first glance it seemed to be. Here we find a number of young men who are being educated at the public expense, for an honorable pro fession, few of whom have yet proved capacity to earn their living if thrown absolutely upon their own resources, but who assume social superiority over a refined, educated young worn- an who makes her own living in an honorable vocation In the family of an offtcer of the Navy! , Of course w cannot at least we are loath to believe that all of the cadets at the United States Naval Academy are cads and snobs of this type, but certainly enough has transpired In re rent year to show that some of these bumptious young prigs smoke to stu pidity, drink to excess and sometime carouse far Into the night with fatal results. Are these the fellows who assume superiority over a modest, refined and useful young woman, simply because she la useful In her walk In life? Are these the men who are In training at the public expense for the honorable and patriotic vocation of officers in the United States Navy? Clearly there Is something wrong in an educational system that breeds snobs when It Is supposed to be pre paring men for an honorable profes sion. The secret of this is probably lodged In the statement that "high official' are likely, if pushed to con clusions, to defend the caste principle as manifestly existing in the Naval Academy. In other words It 1 mani fest that these. young snobs are the product of a system of democratic aristocracy, If such antipodal term may be used, which 1 encouraged by the officers and is directly opposed to the independent principle that under lie a republican form of government. It is Intimated that we shall hear .from the "plain people" through their representative in Congress upon this matter of a democratic aristocracy, created, perpetuated and defended by the Naval Academy. Truly it Is time for some champion of the plain people and their rights to demand the why and wherefore and call for the ayes and noes upon the question. . CASH AND COiSTTDEN'CE. A steadily increasing surplus of cash and a decided shortage in confidence seem to be the predominating features of the financial situation in theEast, Money continues to pour into the vault of the big financial institutions. The weekly bank statement, appearing last Saturday, shows that the banks of New York hold larger surplus re serves, with the single exception of 1908, than have been piled up there since 1898. In the statement there was a heavy increase shown In nearly every item on the list. The surplus over and above the requirements of the 25 per cent reserve rule was $36, 298.000; deposits, for the first time since 1908. exceeded $1,409,543,(100. compared with $1,204,660,000 for the same week last year. The loan account, which under nor mal conditions varies trfct slightly from the proportionate Increases and de creases of the deposit account, ha failed to keep pace with this Increase of more than $200,000,000 In deposits. for It shows an increase of but $142, 000.000 over the figures for the same week a year ago. The showing made by the New York state banks and trust companies is much similar to that of the clearing-house banks, their figure last week Indicating a gain of $5,500, 000 In deposits and an Increase in loans of but $2,000,000. Meanwhile call money was In poor demand at 2 per cent, and sixty and ninety-day loan were 2 Si to 2 34 per cent, "with prime commercial paper being sought at 8 and 4 per cent. These rate show a decline of 25 per cent to 40 per cent since last Fall, when the crop movement was on. Viewed from almost any standpoint, it seems quite clear that there is a great abundance of money and that those who have it are shownlg a de- I elded preference for keeping it on hand instead of Investing it or loaning it for industrial purposes. MORE ABOrT RACE SCICIXE. ' Some Important item of fact bear ing on the race suicide problem have been abstracted from the twelfth cen sus report by Dr. J. A. Hill, a compe tent statistician, for the Immigration Commission. In a general way this new Information confirms the com mon belief that American marriages are comparatively sterile. It is com piled from the census returns of rural district In .Ohio, Minnesota and Rhode Island, with those from such cities as Cleveland and Minneapolis. Striking an average for the entire population of these sections, the birth rate Is 4.1 per family, which Is not discouraging on it face. It Is when we look into the particular that un pleasant disclosures appear. The average birth rate is brought up to the figure of 4.1 by foreigner. If native American families alone were taken Into account it would be no more than 2.7. In other word the birth rate In native American families has fallen 1.4, or about one-third, be low the average for the whole country. A Mr. Roosevelt has pointed out re peatedly, this can lead apparently to but one consequence: The good old American stock by which the country was originally settled, the War of the Revolution fought and the Constitu tion adopted will disappear and its place will be taken by the children of foreign Immigrants. What foreign Immigrants? The figure of the census abstract answer this question unmistakably. While the number of children produced in the average native family is but 2.7, the Canadian French immigrant fam ily produces 5.6. The difference Is great enough to deliver the United States to these prolific foreigners In course of time If they had no com petitors. But they have competitors, some of them even more prolific. The Polish immigrants, for instance, have 6.2 children to the family, .while the Russians have 5.4, but slightly fewer than the Canadian French. .All our foreign immigrants, according to this abstract from the census, bring more children Into the world per family than Aa the native Americans. Even those from France produce 4.3, which exceeds the native figure by 1.6 and is a little above the average for the country. To facts of this kind the citizen who takes no thought or the morrow and who cares little for the welfare of his country will pay no attention. He will pass them over with a weary glance and hasten on to the account of the last baseball game. Baseball is all right In Its place, but there Is a place In thoughtful minds for questions of public Interest als and men of this stamp cannot help asking themselves what sort of a population will ulti mately exist on this side of the Atlan tic If the native whites continue to die out and whites of Canadian, Russian and Italian birth take their places? The obvious reply, but for one startling fact, would be that which Mr. Roosevelt offer. The so-called Anglo-Saxon race must disappear from the land And the more fruitful immigrants from southern and eastern Europe will seize the Inheritance which It was not virile enough to keep. The fact which stands In the way of this conclusion Is brought Into clear light by the census abstaact to which we have already referred. It Is only the first generation of foreigner which maintains a high birth rate.' In the second generation it begins to decline and In the third and fourth It sinks to the common American level. When the) Immigrant family from Poland or Norway reaches the United States it is free from the disease of sterility, but after remaining here for a serlt of years It Is almost Invar iably attacked and ceases to help much In replenishing the population. Hence there la little danger that the foreign element will displace the per ishing Anglo-Saxon stock. It seems to be far more likely that both will decline together a time passes. Per haps then the negro race Is destined to possess and inhabit the United States? We used to hear many tales about the astonishing fertility of the negroes, but the new census dispose of them peremptorily. The blacks are not nearly so prolific a has been imagined. Their birth rate is only 3.1 per family, on the average, , which Is but .4 more than that of the native whites, and it is said to be steadily declining. So we need dread negro domination no more than that of the Polack and Italians. If present conditions remain un changed It is pretty certain that the population of this country will come to a stationary figure within a few years. Instead of doubling itself every twenty-five years, as our., statesmen used to predict In the buoyant days of our National youth, it will reach a dead level and stay there, neither in creasing nor decreasing. It would de crease if foreign Immigration were to cease, but that is not likely to happen 9 for a long time to come. As Mr. - """" tx I y pujJuiHiiun meatus at si&Biiaiii. tiv lzatlon. It is therefore of some in- terest to inquire what the cause may be of this disease of sterility which blights the fertility both of the native stock and of the foreign also a soon ... . . . " . , M . . as it has dwelt, here for thirty or forty years. . J.B . vu.u highly complex, if anybody could be found sufficiently wise to make one, but even tAe simplest can discern one .l.rMv ,et f It Th. folHna- birth. V , . ' . . . . rate in me unucu Dimea is guiuuucut with a tidal movement of the people from the land to the clHes. Those who remain in the country- are the least adventurous of the population and the i and was quick to manifest its approba lea ilkalv not to have larra families. t'n. There was no going out between Those who migrate to town fall un der Industrial conditions which in all countries have proved to be fatal to human fertility. Our foreign Immi grants dwelt close to the soil In their old home. Here they remain in the cities and soon succumb to the same malady of sterility which is tending to destroy the native stock. So it would seem that one of the first steps to be taken in retrieving J me Dircn rate in mis country is i discover some method of enticing the population back to the soil. How can it be done? The citizen of Prineville and other Crook County cities are certainly Jus tified In their demand that mall be brought a far as possible into Cen tral Oregon by rail. They have wait ed more than forty years for the com ing of the railroad, and, now that it has been constructed far enough to cut down the time between the outside world and Prineville about twenty-four hours, the old stage mall route should certainly be abandoned. There Is something radically wrong when a passenger from Portland can beat a letter Into Central Oregon fully twenty-four hours. Shanlko ha been the "front" on the route to the interior for many years, but It must now give way to some of the railroad towns on the lines which enter by way of the Deschutes. Dr. Clara E. Smith, of Wellesley, seem to be one of the few women who have a real genius for the higher mathematics. Her application of Abel's theorems to Bessel's functions Is no doubt a feat of'the first Impor tance. Abel waa a Norwegian mathe matician who died in 1829 when he was 27 years old but the development of his famous "theorem" has exercised the highest abilities of mathematicians ever since. Even if it Is something of a nov elty for a court to hold that a rail road is bound by its contract with the Government, the ordinary citizen will discern at least a glimmer of Justice In It. We all admit that the bigger a corporation is the less It is bound by the moral law or any other law; still, we ail take a secret, though proba bly wicked, delight in seeing the big gest of them brought to book once in a while. Mr. Jack Johnson, colored, who changed the white man's hope into despair, has completed his protracted visit in the San Francisco Jail. On his departure for the East he announces that he is done with the West for ever. This Is certainly good news for the West, but it is correspondingly hard on the communities which will in the future be compelled to bear all of the affliction of the Johnson pres ence. The Nebraska Justice of the peace who fined a woman for wearing a harem skirt suay flirt and flutter In the heyday of his power, but his time Is brief. Unless the sign are decep tive, Nebraska will soon have women Justices of the peace and then his turn will come. He will be fined for wear ing streaks of tobacco Juice on his chin whiskers. We have mothers' meetings and mothers' circles and mothers con gresses at every turn, yet the ruthless statisticians tell us that we are short on mothers. Are modern women too busy telling mothers how to perform their duties acceptably to society to stay at home and be mothers of the dear, old-fashioned type? The best thing that could happen to the little Jail-born babe In Vancouver would be for everybody to foVget that he was born in Jail. It will be a sor ry way to make a hero of the child by keeping the place of his birth con stantly In evidence. Miss MacConnell, of Lincoln High School, should be given hearty support by the mothers of pupils in her en deavor to suppress the wearing of Im proper clothing. A public school Is no place for,dlsplay of extreme fash Ions in apparel. Now that Burns has captured some body, the statement Is made at Los Angeles that the posting of the fabu lous sum as reward waa "not offi cial." Vapor down that way seems very thin and very hot. Oregon goatmen can thank the en ergy that started the local mills for the competition that has raised the price of the clip to the ruling figure, 37 cents. Mohair has it all 'over wool this Spring. Who wouldn't be a stray dog In Portland, now that he can go through the new lethal chamber at the pound and wrap the drapery of his tall about him and pass on to pleasant dreams? Only one candidate Is too sick to talk, but all will have more or less to say in a fortnight. The reciprocity measure is In the Senate at last, "where reciprocity In all Job thrives. MOVING PICTURES FOR IX S AXE. Successful aad Beneficial Results From Am Experiment In Kentucky, Louisville Courier-Journal. The superintendent of the Western Kentucky Asylum for the Insane has rigged up a moving picture outfit a that institution, and the other night he tried It on 200 of his patients. The ef fect was altogether satisfactory. The Inmates enjoyed the show Immensely and expressed their pleasure in much the same manner as do ordinarily sane Kentucklans under similar clrcum stances. They laughed uproariously and they applauded vociferously. in fact, they were just as "crazy about the pictures" as is the average young American who is running at large in cities where picture shows abound. Henceforth the picture entertainment is to be a part of the regular pro gramme at the Hopklnsville asylum. - . i . ' ms7 p?u. ls ... .u! .marvelous films. There are some 1300 altogether, and there is no hall at the I institution blsr enough to accomodate them. The superintendent will take them in relays, and he proposes to give shows at frequent Intervals and to ! ange tl he pictures as o ne8" sary. No one of the 300 first nignters ha ever 8een a lcture 8how. It was a "select audience." The superinten . UCUV UIU illO OCICLHIS, mill b ' ! fully, for it was a test performance. He didn't know wnether there would De an encore, a riot or a stampede He had . orce of husky guards ambushed on the outside in case trouble should arise, but there was no trouble. In the lan guage of the rural correspondents everything passed of harmoniously. The audience "caught on" from the start the acts. There were no catcalls from the gallery. Not a spectator left his seat until the curtain went dark to slow music and to Interrogatories from the ambushed guards of "Who's looney now?" The superintendent anticipates that the show will have good effect in mak ing his patients forget their real or imaginary troubles. In consequence he believes they will be more tractable In future, more amenable to treatmnt and more likely to recover their mental balance. It is to be hoped he is right. and so far as he has gone the theory seems to be working out. The world Is full of paradoxical things. It seems easily susceptible of proof that a lot ol otherwise sane people are daft about moving pltcures. It is not Impossible that the fascinating films should have a reverse effect on persons who are not sane. COMPASSION FOR' SYBIL WOLFE. Question Raised aa to Her Accounta bility for Crime. ELMA, Wash.. April 22. (To the Ed Itor.) I wish, through the columns of The Oregonian, to exprees an opinion on a case recently tried in the Clark County Court, this state. The case is that of Sybil Wolfe, who was convicted of grand larceny, and sentenced to sn Indefinite term In the Walla. Walla Penitentiary. Crime has to be Investigated and crim inals have to be punished, but it often happens that crimes are committed by people who cannot be called criminals in the strictest sense of the word; such I believe to have been true In the cage of a-bll Wolfe. I am a mother and my heart goes out to a poor girl who, possibly, ha no home or friends, and who Is in the con dition that has been proven 6 he was In at the time she committed the crime. Doubtless if two or three physicians had been called to testify in her trial, each would have testified that there are .1 V. . wilt Am. IUIIIBB TV uau nuuicu ill uv humb v arhlrh thev are not accountable. This fact has been proven hundreds of times. Unnstural feelings and desires sre very common even finding expres sion in theft and worse. Is there not a possibility that the crime which that desperate girl com mitted would not look to us like a crime If we could but know all? Might it not be possible that the poor girl's mind waa a little affected from the awful cir cumstances under which she was forced to live? Numbers of mothers, even un der favorable circumstances, have en tirely lost their minds at such times. One Hillsboro mother even tried to kill her own baby. It is to be hoped that the complaint made against wretched Sybil Wolfe was not made by a woman especially one who had ever been a mother. If it was. It Is to be hoped that the next time she has an occasion to accuse a girl In such a condition, she will at least wait until the poor thing Is well, that she may be better able to stand such an ordeal, and thue give the unborn child a fair chance. MRS. LORA PIZER. Questions for Single Taxers. PORTLAND, April 21 (To the Editor.) Some of the large landowners who are selling their holdings as expeditiously as possible favor the single tax they get your money then are ardent supporters of "tax on land only." Some of the enthusiastic ones, whom the writer has talked with, wave their arms In windmill fashion and exclaim: "The land belongs to no one It is free and Is intended for the use of all man kind." All of the above may be true. It may be right and proper to "relieve" you of your hard-earned dollars and then ad vocate tax on land only. But to be con sistent, the land should revert to the Indians from whom the Government stole it in the first Instance. The writer would like to know several thlnss: First If single tax is adopted, how much land will be confiscated and revert back to the Government or state? Second Who will make up the "de ficlt" In taxation on land lost through confiscation? Third Will not the enactment of such a law be a boon to the long-euffering capitalist whom our sincere and mis guided socialist so constantly hammers? Fourth The enactment or sucn a law will most certainly cause land values (the unearned Increment) to drop. There will be no bottom to the drop. In this event, will not the person who hae lm proved his land be the main and only source from wnicn revenue (taxes) can be derived? And will not this Individ ual wish he were dead instead of a tax payer? Fifth Will not rents and cost of liv ing be advanced in price because of the Increased tax on Improved land? Sixth Then, after all the fuss and trouble, what Is the reeult? Will it not be depreciation of land values, the source of all wealth, and a consequent Increase in cost of living? ' Seventh Will not. the wage-earner pay for .the experiment and the holder of bonds and mortgages reap the most benefit? Eighth To sum It all up: A certain amount of money is required to run our Government. Then why not everybody pay for its maintenance? R. H. BLOSSOM. Profitable Sideline. Enterprise Chieftain. L. 3. Selby, of West Grossman, was In Friday to collect the bounty on three lynxes and three bob cats he had killed. The bounty is $2 per head, but the skins sell for far more the eats bringing from $S to $7 each, and the lynxes $25 each. Mr. Selby had already disposed of one lynx and one cat ekin this Winter, besides collect ing the bounty and selling the skins Of seven coyotes at $6.50 each. So Mr. Selby's trapping has brought him in nearly $200 this Winter, besides the fun he has had. Mr. Selby says the lynxes travel In families, the family that took up Its residence near his homestead number ing six, and he got four of them. Timely Tales of the Day Nobody will say that H. C. McAllister, ex-Master Fish Warden, is not a good fellow, but at that he does not like to be "worked." But that is Just what happened to him the other day. Enter ing his office, "a well-dressed and prosperous-looking woman Introduced her self and explained that she was desirous of renting a house for herself and hus band. Mr. McAllister immediately called an automobile and spent the next four hours escorting his prospective customer throughout the city in an inspection of residences he had listed for rental. In all, about 20 residences were visited and the woman made a critical inspec tion of each from basement to garret, paying particular attention to the ar rangement of the rooms. But it was not until the 20th residence was being inspected that McAllister so much as surmised that he was being "worked." While looking through this house, the woman made a remark which led the real estate dealer to conclude that her mission was merely to sfudy out plans for building a home of her own. McAllister said nothing, but later, when he discharged the .chauffeur, ob tained a receipted bill for $16 covering the toll on the machine for the after noon. He called the next day at the of fice of the woman's husband, and, after briefly r;elp.Ti ing the circumstances, said he expected the husband to pay the bill. "Here's the money," sa'cl the husband with a smile as he handed McAllister $16, "and there is no question but that I should pay for the automobile. The truth of it Is my wife had no Idea of renting any of your houses. She was merely studying out plans for a resi dence we expect soon to construct on the suburban lot we bought last week." This one is told on Postmaster Mer rick, but in sooth he strenuously denies the impeachment. Merrick has a rising young hopeful whose name is Patrick, and the other day on the streetcar the conductor called off a lot of names Fuch as Glisan, Hoyt, Johnson, Lovejoy, Pettigrove, etc, "Papa, where did they get all those funny names? asked "Pat." "They're named after old pioneers. exclaimed Pater Merrick. "When some big man dies, they name some street after him to remember him by." "Well, papa, you're a big man, aren't your' Being both Postmaster and weighing well up in avoirdupois, father had to sit in modest silence. "Say, papa," went on the irrepressible young Patrick, "have you got any streets named alter you 7 "No, I haven't, Pat," replied C. B. sternly," and "well, why don t you die and get one? was Patrick's final shot before he was threatened with personal violence from the head of the family. There is a Rose City Park housewife who doesn't know whether it is al ways a good rule to be kind and pa tient to the streetcar men. She had made it a practice to do so with good success until the other afternoon, when she made a number of purchases down town and was pretty well encumbered with bundles. She rang the bell nearly a block before reaching her street, and the conductor, who was talking to a passenger on the back platform, failed to give the stop signal and carried the passenger on to the next block. Aa the woman got off from the car she remarked to the conductor: I rang the bell for the last street back. In a surly tons he retorted: 'Well, you're strong enough to walk one block, aren t you? The woman was furious but made no reply to his Impudence. The next day she went to town and it so happened the same conductor was on the car, and what was the woman's utter amaze ment when the carman epoke up as he took her rare: 'I hope you are better natured this morning than you were last night." She said nothing, but called up her nusoand s oriice when she reached town. He in turn notified the street car company and the conductor was called into headquarters, given a repri mand and ten days' layoff to think it over. John C. McCue tells this one on friend of his whom he helped home by the taxlcab route a few nights ago after the eald friend had counted the bubbles in so many wine bottles that his brain, tongue and feet were af fected. "The old boy sure had a cargo on. In fact he was so plumb loaded that if he had taken Just one more drink the underwriters would have raised the rate on him. I got him home all right, but when he went to search himself for the fare he apologized several times to the front wheel of the taxicab and every now and then to the driver, all the time fumbling in hie pockets. finally he confessed to the driver that he would have to write out a check for the bill. 'Haven't you got the change?" asked the norseless Jehu. vnange, my iriena r and with a tragic pose he pu!led both his pockets wrong side out and exclaimed: 'Change! Why, young man. I'm as changeless as the eternal stars.' "The driver wouldn't take the check. and I knew my friend had plenty of money, so I helped him search, and we finally unearthed the price of the cab. "After paying the chauffeur, my friend embraced a young maple tree which he saw going by just at that moment, and, with a wobbly shake of his finger in the approximate direction wnere I stood, he chuckled: Shay, J-John, thash pretty good wnai i said aDout the everlashing stars being broke, wasn't it?' " LOIVDOX'S ODD FIRST THEATERS. Early. Playhouses Were Modeled After the Courtyard of An Inn. New York Sun. The second in the series of current lectures on the development of the English drama on which Brander Matthews and the forces of the New Theater are at present collaborating- iook piace tne otner afternoon. The scenes were taken from a play In the repertory of the New Theater, "The Winter's Tale." But it proved to be one of its most distinguished successes last season and was acted in part yes terday for one of the few times it has been seen this year. Professor Matthews' task was to trace the progress of the English drama from the period of the morality down to the days of Shakespeare. He sketched the steps by which the actors, gradually be coming professional entertainers, took to acting In the Inns under the protection of some noble, were later banished from the city of London and then built their first theaters, taking as their model the courtyard of the inn, which was the only kind of a playhouse ever known to them. London s great Interest In the drama In those early days was shown by the ex istence of seven theaters, which meant in relation to the population more than New York possesses today. Only three exist ed a century later in Paris. Earth Is Enouch. Edwin Markham In tha Nautilus. We men of Garth have here the stuff Of Paradise we have enough ! We need no other ,thing to build Tha stairs Into the Unfulfilled No other ivory for the doors No tther marble for the floors No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Hera on the paths of everyday Hera an tha common human way Is all the stuff the Rods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and mat New Edens. Ours tha stuff sublime To build Eternity in time! Advertising Talks By William C. Freeman. I saw a remarkable advertisement In a recent Issue of the Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock). It was an advertisement of the O. K. Hooek Piano Co, beaded "I'P With the Standard of Honeatyi Down With, the Shield of Deception." After an Introduction defining the policy of the firm, the following rea sons were printed. They are so lull of sound common sense that they are a guide to the beginner in advertising and to some advertisers as well: "We conduct no fake prlae contest for the following reasons: "Goods that have a value will sell at that value. "Shrewd buyers do not expect to purchase at less than rightful value. - "The house that fixes prices and ad heres consistently to them must of ne cessity fix conservative prices. "Standard values insure regnia prices. When there is no regularity of price there is no certainty of value. "It does not require an expert to buy from a one-price no-commission house. In the multi-price house it requires skillfulness of the buyer to insure cor rectness of price. "If too much is asked to start with, how are you to judge what Is really correct? Can you depend on the man who confessedly tried to get too much in the beginning? "If you know piano value well enough to protect yourself against the multi-price plan, why not fix the rtbt price in the beginning? "When a salesman asks $400 for a piano and then takes $300 he confesses a willingness to get $100 of your money which does not belong to him." Here is another phrase that is sound: "Value represents the cost of produc tion, plus a reasonable profit. That Is aa It should be, and Is fair to all." Many advertisers throughout the United States using local newspapers are taking a decided stand for the one-price system. They are not putting fictitious val ues on their merchandise. They buy it as reasonably as they can and add a legitimate profit to the cost and then sell it. That's all there is to conducting a good, reputable, reliable business. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyrigh. 1911, by George Matthaw Adams.) Ever notice, when a man Is hurt who carries an accident policy, how long he Is hurt? The world Is full of men who want better Jobs, who are not willing to do better work. No good-ldoklng man likes to work. Witnesses usually refer to it as "that fool lawsuit." Do you remember any particular say ing of your father's? My father was always saying, "That abominable boy," meaning me. The world feels sorry for the man in continual bad luck, but it has no re spect for him. Ever notice, when a dog follows a woman, how she stamps her foot an grily and says. "Go home, sir!" And the dog pays no more attention than do her husband and boys. In seven cases out of ten, when a woman goes into a dry goods store, she does not want to buy; she goes in to iook around. In looking back over his past every man must admit that the sun was often bright when he made no hay. I have remarked that a good many people get along pretty well without my approval. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonian April 23, 1S61. The property known as the Linn City Works, or Mills, was destroyed by nre on Tuesday night. The fire was dis covered in the sawmill about twenty minutes before twelve, and spread with such rapidity that the lives of those asleep about the mills were endan gered. The steamers Relief and Clin ton were lying above the Falls by the warehouse, and the latter was totally consumed. The Relief was towed up out of danger and was only slightly damaged by the flames. Her upper works took fire but were easily extin guished. Thi destruction of the Linn City warehouses has placed the trade of the Willamette in a very ugly predicament. There are no houses for storage, and the machinery for sending freight over the Falls is entirely destroyed. The news of the destruction of property there was scarcely reported on the streets, before the old idea of a rail road from Canemah to Oregon City was revived, and excited much inter est. At a meeting of the "Pioneer Boat Club," at the Commercial Room, Tues day night, the following officers were elected: President, J. W. Vanschuyver; secretary, B. G. Whltehouse; treasurer. C. P. Ferry; coxwain, R. C. Hallock. ST. LOUIS, April 6. P. M. A dis patch from Charleston says that Charleston has today been In a state of excitement unequalled since the first secession movements. A crisis Is at hand. The appearance of a schooner off the harbor yesterday evening, her attempt to pass the batteries here, and her subsequent mysterious disappear ance all have aroused apprehensions of the most serious character. The mili tary leaders have been unusually act ive all day, and members of the con vention now in session belonging to the several fortifications have been ordered on their stations. A thousand rumors are In circulation, the principal of which indicates that Fort Sumpter will be attacked in the course ot a few days. Over the Asphalt Sea. New York Times. Oh. sail with me o'er the asphalt sea. The tide doth favor us; Though the waves beat high, both snug and dry , la tba good ship Motor Bus. X.lke a racer brave she takes the wave That would her course disturb. From her upper deck we count each wreck A-rottlng on tha curb! Aa down she sinks from the billows' brinks She Quivers to tne Keel; Thank God for the hand that's In command And the stout heart at the wheel! There's many a shoal to try the soul And many a depth unplumbed: Our course we mark by the noble bark That to the sea succumbed! Oh. sail with ma o'er the asphalt sea In this gallant craft of mine; The bravest choose the avenues. Let cowards sail the brine. ' , i