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Her la a solid block of contry with navlsabW water on tare aides, inter sected by many rich. alluvial valleys and dotted with fertile pralclr. prac tically closed to Hi:lunent at the dic tation of tb Forest Servk.-. It la point! to reply that tha agricultural land tm been thrown open to settle ment. Befor thl concession made, thousands of aetHer bad been driven out by th blur.ders of tha Cleveland nmaMxii In scaling up tha penlnula in Tha action of that conmlslon lllua tratea tha hiK with nUh Govern ment offlrlaia maka blunders and thrir astrravatlng nlacunn to repair tllo.. blunder. Tha CITland Forestry Commission was composed entirely of Eastern men unfamiliar with Western conditions and unwilling to andura tha bardahlpa of Western methods of IraTeL Their Inspection of the Olym pic peninsula consisted In taklns; a s:as rida to Lake Crescent, on the edits ' of tha mountains, and ridlnc thenca on horseback to Sole-dark Sprtnsa. steal or tea ml lea wet. They became chafed by tha nnacciurtomed eserclaa and refused to continue tha tourney westward. If they "had dnna so they would bar foand a Urge, rich prairie with many settlers and a dozen poet o f rices, wralttnc for ure- to en able them to tret patent to their claims. Hut on tha strencth of this peep Into tha ronntrr ther reserved tha whole peninsula. It ntllea aquare. sellle aasnta Included. Tha settlers bad (lone Into that country In tha hopa of aeeln all It resource deTclnped and of aeelna; waaon roads and railroads built, lor-a-ina- cam re and sawmllla established and a market created fur their prod uces. Instead, they found themselves as men marooned. They could con tlnue to bold their claims and to exist on thete Broducau but their one outlet to market was orer a Untie road which Clallam County had built, but arhlch was Impassable for wajtons In Winter, and this many of thrm must reach ever trails on which the Winter mud was bottomless. They appealed for relief and at last an attempt was made to repair the Injustlca by arrre-rauna- tha Forks Prairie from the re serve. This raa partial relief for tha future- but tha wrong- already done was beyond repair. Hosts of settlers, seems- B hop ahead, abandoned their claims and moved away, leaving other to profit by their work and the tardy concessions made by the uor rnmsat- A similar blunder was made In th Methow Valley In Eastern Washing ton. This Is a bunchcraa and sage brush alley ten miles wide between the bavie of the foothills, devoid of timber, far above the mouth of the Twtsp, which enters th Mcthow thirty miles above th latter mouth. Ths-r were scattered alona It at internals farmers who were succeeding; by Irri gation, but posjofnees and store were far a Dart and their perfectly reason able bop of Improved conditions of livina- was that Increased settieroeni would come. Tet th commission Included this whole valler. which had not a stick of timber, except th narrow fringe along- the river bank. In a forest reserve and thereby stopped settlement until Ion vears of protest and lnventlra;ion nau convinced aueceedin cftU-Ul of the facts and Congress at Its I.Uur bad Ta.ad remedial Je;Wlatlon. (torn of the blunders have been re paired, so far as It was powible. but tha general policy remains me same to aotrust work of this kind to men from remote states, with heads packed attrh theory and hands unfsmlllar with the as and brush-hook. Such men are entirely out of sympathy with th men amon whom they are aent te work and regard with suspicion a settler or timber cruiser. Tet a com mission of limber cruisers could local forest reeerv s that It would in clude only forest and coutd administer tB reaerv a" that a logger rouia out reserved timber without unwinding; mile of red tap. A homesteader cld Im prove and patent a claim In uareaerved valley with reserved timber on th bills on "h aide of Mm. In which loggers wer cuttlec tha rip timber and tarntanicg a mar ket foe hi produce. Cn the recent chacc la th law allowing settlers to patent tracts of agricultural land Included in forest re aervs has been mad Ineffective In raaev lnaiance by th Forrat Service, whKh procure th withdrawal of a lskely claim a a rang stauou wnea B getter appears on th honxon. Th National forests ehou'.J b ad mtalatered by Weatem men. The sxn rej axlley fore preservation esauld then b carried out without hardship t lbs settler or obstruction tv dev;opment- Th OUrmrk coun try Is a glrla exami 1 of th meth ef rtern men. .-v a-w wHih PreeJdent Taft ha vndertahaa t th cleartna- up of tha fliaaneia! tronbles of th Centra! . i.-. m etuMu-a caused by revola ti ins. reckless borrowing and grantins; of eonceaston. ansa m e-u i v . w . . w tie Kaa alrear settled tb aiTaira of Itooduras and ha aow r.grwlated a similar treaiy in vi,.rri. whereby Americana will . . w K - M..ne ia refund Its debts. iirnif n 1 ' - i r .... n .uimi ant to can- 1 - paj ret aom of the cooceeeior granted wits lavtsh baaa try rr in. . .,e lnr.e-standirc l.nrrr clalns M4 aal grewlag ut of th eaeeattoa f Cann"- and Uroo by Zelaya wlU b settled. This will b th third tropical republic whoa n nance -mm ne helped to adjust. Santo Domingo be ing th first, wnll Cub is still under our protection. Uncle Ham's nephews are causicg him endless trouble. ockc co-mnuJa xahos. m. .Hjn..ni la dealsTned An new uw..vit.w chioXiy to b a great meeting plac - i .t- mA ejthar big big UI Wf assets bi-a or men ana . ... ..im.rUv fne us It or S il l K ' - - J occupatlm by Portland or th poopi - i . . 1 It le tar the UumUM Ui M V. I l.ll W- " . . dation of such Important bodies a the Nallohai urana uougw w which wrlll com next year, the Bap tist Toon- Peoples Union, tb Pres byterian General Assembly. tba alnights of Colambua. th Christian Endaavorers, th Christian Church, and tha like. Stat featherings requiring; larrs seating; capacity will o auditorium. iuciueni.ij - b local public aaemblaa. entertain ments, concerts and so" on; but at .v.. -ii rnr tha auditorium In such, cases will b only occasional. A controlling; reason wny me -torium should be must be at or . i im ita eonveniencs near iu . and utility for ths delegates and oth ers who com from abroad to meet ther. They will stop at hotels. They will expect to oe m in WlU expeci w mti thing.. They should not b required . wA14 ih.li meatinrs. would b Ultl short of folly to expect them to do n. i ney Th auditorium Is to b built to sup ply a special public need, and to b a .n..n.it to ths taste, hospitality and enterprise of Portland. No sectional prld or ambition or strife or Intarwt should b permitted to interfere with a plan that concerns all Portland and means much to tha city as a whol.j. rr ixio ax-oNO bis rajur. t. i. rurtoui to find a powerful Pemocratlc Bwsppr lik th Nw Tork World roundly beraUnr in pro- irresatvrs becaus they "las; bshlnd" and euloglilng President Tart as "genuine proirreaalv- who desenre better of them and of th country, bays th World: a .t ' - - Kae Mi t S 3ie but ih.re Is sol tut ef '"J Dae 04 in nwM" " . - . . imri h rfnrin- Tn nae amm. it - w - aare t w.ll as proails. He le the flrt oi ... ... . K.Mnt anur! Htnucu m e SMasvre ef tariff reSeela as avareel ea paeMe. tie is Mie ' ' Seal eeid eseusk la a4slt thai the tanrr meae ax speeches ea raoedlae rart- seovlt he baa Kia-d Itims r ir WaJ of his vrty asa aOaaod greua4 long held t7 a I ergaaiaauea "" aouga aateoahle. rw. ei mnA IK. boldness With ha teeaident has IOD ahead with hi reciprocity programme com- . . . i -it . h urIT pel aamiraiiosi anu - -promts of an Administration pursuln hieh alma without regard to par- tout, politics, or parties. Reciprocity has been in fnai w mi iwk"""-" .m.-a tt was headed In that dl- rartmn bv Plain and MrKlnley. It i. - uaanbik-aa Drlnclnl. Indorsed In u. nu hi loan nlat form, but not . -II. k-.ku nt the Indurated yn iT.im u " - OBDoaiUon of local Interests expressed . . A -Ml through stana-pai anu iim--.... kti.- rnneeeaamen. Now the Pres ident openly commits his Administra tion to a real reciprocity ireau. .i. rtv nrueyesslv and reg ular would defeat him. Ths Demo crats auDDort him In a body bcaue ther la nothing- els to do. t- d.n.iur o r eleven states -ew tr.mn.hire Vermont. Michigan. Min nesota. North Dakota. South Dakota. Idaho. Wyomln-. Clan, ivansavs anu I-1 - a aaId to DO all oppoavu i. raiiru-ation of th treaty. Thalr kirim ar based entirely on local STounds. showlps; that with them recl- nro-lty. Ilk prolecuon. ia a yuiw in.-ai auestlon. Thes Senators ar an Banuhiiran. They ar ncaiij ' - mostly border states stait-a suu. .ii. .w-. .ka mi. en to amity with muia ina. - - a neighbor and prosperity for oneself la to build a hlgn-ooaru icmv arv.-- t . era. commercial inter' course and social Interchange and driving the neignoor 10 seea . a i. annraa ef tunolv elsewbere. Ths fat of reciprocity will have . -vtifiri eonsenuencea to th Re publican party and to th Individual Congressional units oi in ii j -to the heaJ of th party. Ther la a strange Jumbl and mlxtur of mo tive urging Its consummation or It defeat. Tb Democrat. lor retiprw; i . ... . man will rleariv oen -,. 1 1 reoinrocltv shall b defeated; . i n - m n i n 1 v airalnst recl ine mvuuiii""!". ... j , proclty. will assureaiy o auvu"B .. i-.i..- .Kail fall in Its nuroos. II me ranjvi .j - ' - . Tet when reciprocity shall be ratified - i. win Ka the President, and not his party, arlll be entitled to credit for . at T lil.nl it Next year wnen m shall be renominated it is likely that th party, and not the President, will be runlahed for what th party re- i . an hut th President did; and In order to punish th party th people will aeteai in - masterly and statesmanlike project a popular and beneficial negotiation ..w - . ...untrv that will bring ro popular rewards to th man en titled to tha whole creuiu LOiBUB AftD sUXirtMKTTT. v....vir aeiatnrrallr. erudlt Senator I-odge has been compelled to eat trumo: pie. r.rra n. a .w-. v.. kn.v better than any common mortal what was good for Massachusetts In particular and th Nation la general has been compelled . th. will of his constituents. ti haoDened In this wis: Lodg i .n.nrfment to th rCl nviara - procity bill relailng to th fishery pro. a.L-i. n mi l .1 have leopardlxed ia " .... &re-nk4 at. am.ntlment tna Dill- n1""1 v. . . . In regard to pulp-wood and paper to which Lodge pleurea me mitvu. " is said that President Taft approved .... . --.im-nt . a nro Der ln- in aim - - t.rrretaUon of th agreement, but -. . . V. lln.i.. MIMlM when assurea inav me - - revert th bill with any such provision. . . . . k- Vlua. Kill w-- y Kaean to hear from horn. 11 was reminded by Hreaker Walker, of ths Massachusetts House, who was himself a strong poseiblllty for Senator auwi " - which preceded his re-election, of th reasons which prompted Walker to withdraw and us his strong Influenc In supoprt of Lodge. Th asm rea la u..e U VThltner. who son m" . va - r velel.Js mora Inruenc than any other Republican IB lav . -Lodge. Walker telle Uodjr that he was supported by Whitney and hlm--,-ei. kauai thev believed he as earnestly In favor of reciprocity ... ... feaa -kl.ln.il and the hicn po-;ion n. ... In the -Senate would help the cause. Mr. Walker quote him as saving in a speech before hi eiecuc... - l.a a' a - faer-ZlaatsarTiaaily 4e- w. araiaar eeauaesec la slew aC fmmt nip mtuintvo onrnoviAN. TITFTTSDAY, JUNE 15, 1911. toait oa an this oasi!fn at ths time of your ra-.l.ctloo to tha benala. have B2' nsht to expect you to staad by the Prel aent at mis cml.-ai time? Tex. aihao the tt cmaa. lo.fai of uprmidlag the treJir aa fht:ai hoatlle atn-nlin'ii-J. wa you ointn with other e-nators la the suo aiiaaloa ot aroeDlaierna wblt.li the Prasidaat aiinouoces wl.l j-ot-arillBe ha ireaty. tK you conSoiar this sttuaae on your art aa artllraiy frank and fair? IB It a a'n cece taltiunitnt ot yjur pre-aiectloa plesT Lodge humbly replied that be was in favor of reciprocity, despite appear ances, and that. If his amendments should b considered to endanger in , -. .. . v. - ... A Heon them. Let Massachusetts tell him his duty, and he would do It. He withdrew nis amcna menta and voted In committee to re port ths bill favorably, nui per sisted In his support of the Root amendment, despite the complications It will caase. He eats humble pie, but th last mouthful sticks In his throat. Th trouble with Lodge, as with many other old-style Senators. Is that they hav no sens of responsibility to their constituents- ih J"'"' v -direct election encourages In them a belief that they are superior beings, sent by a higher power to the earth to leeialite for Deople who don't know what Is good for them, it is a moameu -. form ot the divine rignt ot sung i ih..rr I. which Emturor William and ! th Czar of Russia ar almost the oniy auarvtvlcg bellevara among monarens. Lodge's abandonment of his amend ment and his vol lor a tavoraoie report on reciprocity Indie t that he Kaa kanJnii.il ih theory, but his adherence to th Root amendment in dicates that he has dona so under protest. The next step Is to abandon the protest- rAVt0 FOR THE ROSE rwnvAi. The annual Roee Festival will, of course, not b abandoned, or its man agement and direction subjected to temporary conditions or the Imme diate advantage and convenience of any interest or society. The Elks ar th best people on earth, no doubt; but they ar to have their own show in Portland next year, and they should be left free to give It and the Rose Festi val should, as usual, proceed on the even tenor of lis beautiful way. The suggestion that ths Festival be turned over to the Elks for that year was no doubt Inspired by concern for Port land's pocket; but it was nevermeiess not wis or necessary and will not And cordial public response. Tha Roe Festival ought to made a permanent annual event, with a fixed annual revenue. Voluntary obscrlp tlon for so valuable an Institution ar precarious and unsatisfactory; there should b stability, certainty and prog ress. Th burden of expense born by a few should b born by th city as a whole, sine th Festlvsl Is all Port land's. Th opportunity for th city to make tb Festival In fact Ita own will come ith th adoption of th proposed new charter. If the charter shall contain provision for a small annual tax to sus tain ths Rose Festival, to oe expenaeo under proper safeguards, the public will be plessed and th future or tne Fes Uval assured. . CASH TAUT. OF PILI Tna TV.mtfw.eata are flndlne rraat an. im-mant in hnntine- un acts of Presi dent Roosevelt as subjects for Inves tigation. Ths Istest is tne w ara claim -, iiuAAA ...ln.f China which was paid out of th Boxer Indemnity fund1 and of which John w. r oster recetvea I1S0.009 as his fee for putting it through. The claim was over 60 years old and had been disallowed by Secretary Bayard under President Cleveland and condemned by Colonel Denby as minister to China. It was revived by Mr. Foster after he had aided Mr. Conger In procuring ap pointment aa minister to China. With some difficulty he Induced Secretary Hay to vrrt to Mr. Conger snout in claim. Hay only did so, admits Fos ter, after Senator Lodge had persuad ed Roosevelt 10 suggesx 10 nay mi such a letter might well be sent wl'h propriety. Having Just received back 111.000. 000 of the Boxer Indemnity through the good will of the United 8tates and desiring to retain that good will, China was not In the mood to refuse hirmmi of this SO-Year-old claim. especially as th money for Its pa- ment was to be laiten irom ui 12.000.000 withheld by the United States for payment of unsettled Boxer claims. Th affair has th appearance of a Judlcloua us of "political pull." Fos ter had a pull with Lodge, who was Roosevelt's spokesman In th Senate and whom It was necessary, therefore, to oblige where possible. By this msana the hint to Hay to write to Conger waa procured. Conger wa under obligations to Foster for nla ap pointment and used his position with seal to Induce China to allow the claim. Foster's political pull In Ihla Instsnr netted him $180,000. He Is a thrifty cltixen. DMCEKOC GAFOB FOB LAWS. Ther is an anomaly In th position of Portland single taxers who. In sup port of their Ideas, refer to single tax In Alberta and Edmonton, but when defects In the application of the sys tem there ar pointed out. declare that th Canadian provlnc and city do not hav single tax. Thus, w Infer from Mr. Cridge'e communication, published In another column, that Edmonton does not ap ply the real single tax Idea. Mr. in d re's letter is no doubt a reply to aa article In The Oregonlan pointing out the discrepancies In th state ments written by Mr. Nock for aa Eastern magaxine. Th fact remains, however, that Mr. Nock asserts that the Edmonton system, be tt single tsx or near-single tax. taxes vacant lands Into us and then proceds to detail a circumstance where It failed to tax vacant land Into use. "What wrong or Injury will b don Portland by taking more of th land valuea and less of ths Improvement and labor values?" aska Mr. Cridge. Thls question, h aaya. ts now before th house. Mr. Crl.lga and his col laborators propos that Multnomah County shsll step In under r over th charter of the City of Portland and say what shsll be taxed or exempted la th raising of city, county, state and other revenue. This Is th real Issue presented. The plan seeks to abohah for ona thing the saloon license. It would also so reduc the as i surd valuation In th city of Port land that th levies as now limited and fixed by city charter would not b sufficient to provide the necessary city revenues. Her ar two Injurle that would be don. But as Id from tb matter of spaclSe wrongs. the question as Mr Crldg puts it bears an insidious and vll Influenc wher ever It is accepted as th gauge of in Itlativ measures. It I an expression 0e a stal cat mind which Th Orego nlan has long and consistently con demned. Xo proposed law should be measured by propounding such a query. Any man who votes for a measure simply because he can see no harm or Injury In It does not have the proper conoeption of his duties as a cltixen of Oregon. It Is his duty to seek the good In a measure, and if he falls to find It to vote "no." Concerning the latter portion of the communication The Oregonlan con cedes that the divorcing of state and local taxation is a wise provision. It would depend, however, on the ex tent of complications created by tli presentation of other tax measures whether Th Oregonlan would support a law of that character. A companion cas to that of Abe Hummel is that of Daniel O'Reilly, convicted of receiving part of the SiS.000 worth of securities stolen from Aaron Bancroft In New York City and sentenced to five months in the penitentiary. Both are lawyers who had built up large practices, and O'Reilly had been assistant district at torney and one of the attorneys for the. defense of Harry Tnaw. aii im. experience and skill." said District At torney Whitman, "he has used to pro tect and shield robbers and to share In their plunder." The prison sen-' tence was made light becaus O'Reilly was deprived of the right to pracuco law. That is a happy escape for those, on whom he might have practiced. A record corn crop In th Upper Mississippi Valley is promised this year and th United States .will strengthen its hold on the position of helna- the greatest corn-growing coun try in the world. The value of our crop last year was 100 times that of the boasted gold output of Alaska, ten time that of th South African Rand, and would pay for duplication of the entire railroad system of the United States, Including terminals. Other corn-growing countries are insig nificant in comparison. Argentina, the only large one In South America, falls behind Indiana alone. Russia has great possibilities, but has only made a fair beginning. "In the name of reform." says th Commercial and Financial Chronic!, "they tthe politicians) are. by most Insidious methods, making assaults on the very foundations of society." It Instances the Investigation of the United States Steel Corporation, which it calls "the world's greatest Indus trial undertaking." and tha depression of the steel business. The inference is that the Steel Trust is th founda tion of society. But there is evidence that the Steel Trust was well watered when the foundation was laid, and water Is considered a source of weak ness In a foundation. Popular sale of Government bonds will draw much money out of hoard ing and will to that extent relieve the heavy drain on the banks for money to handle the crop. Had the Panama Canal bonds been sold in a block, they would hav drawn money out of circulation until the bonds were mar keted and th proceeds expended by th Government. The sale direct to Individuals will bring info circulation much money that waa hoarded. Th experience of France with the German war Indemnity Is apt to b repeated on a smaller scale. Representative Underwood says ths House leaders will not b through with tariff revision by schedules when the wool bill la passed. The House will revise the cotton, sugar and steel schedules before Congress adjourns. That will furnish Democratic members a fine opportunity to make campaign speeches and hav them printed and circulated at public expense. The Senate finance committee has some pigeonholes gaping wide td receive those bills, though some of them may be desirable. The Eastern papers are commenting with surprise and more or less ap proval on th announcement of Sen ator Bourne that he "proposes to offer himself as a. candidate for re-election ..H conduct no campaign, spend no money, make no speeches and solicit i." A moneyless Bourne cam paign? Bourne has been misquoted, of course. He Is too considerate a producer to run the risk of causing heart failure to a large fraction of his few followers. In combining with other Pacific Coast cities to establish an exhibit of the products of this section In Lon don for th purpose of attracting for eign Investors, tourists and settlers, the Portland Chamber of Commercd has acted none too soon. They will com In a flood when the completion of the Panama Canal opens the direct sea route. The Democrats on the Steel Trust Investigation committee are rubbing their hands with glee In anticipation of grilling ex-President Roosevelt. The Colonel Is doubtless eager for the frav. for the Joy of battle is as great with him. whether the battle be with an African lion or a committee of Democrats. Governor Marshall of Indiana Is boomed for President by the Demo cratic editors of his state, who- con demn those who boom Senator Kern for that office against his wishes. Three governors will be favorite sons, unless "Jim" Smith defeats Wilson. Governor Woodrow Wilson Is play ing In luck. No man seeking a nomi nation for President could desire a better' recommendation than to be at tacked by Representative Dalxell. champion of Pittsburg's protected In dustrie. An Inland Empire eheepman had his toes cut off by a carwheel and every cowman who hears of It will wonder It was not his head, such Is the lack of brotherly feeling among these users of the range. Life Insurance to nearly IJ.000.000.. 900 was written last year, showing continued prosperity In this Nation, for It represents Investment of sur plus Income. Mr. Holbrook la a man of action and did well to take th masher to Jail, but It is a pity he did not mistake th route and land him in th hospital. Seattl and local eanners clesned th market of strawbenies yesterdsy and upatat ahlppers ar assured of a fair price for som dsys. The first boat Into Dawson sine last Fall carried 10 sacks of me f.g.. from, the outer world. PROTEST FROW EASTER OREO!f. i Pradletoa Paper Vlee Emphatic Vtewa Hold-a ml X alveralty Puada. Pendleton East Oregonlan. Every person who is a friend of the University of Oregon and higher edu cation, every person who is a supporter of the referendum and the Oregon sys tem and vry person who believes In honor snd Justice will condemn, un equivocably and emphatically, the methods employed to invoke the refer endum on the appropriations granted by the Legislature for the extension of the Stat University at Eugene. It has been found that a large number of the names to the petitions filed with the Secretary of Stat are bogus and it is asserted by no less a personage than ex-Supreme Judge Slater that 20 men were emplored for the purpose of se curing fictitious signatures. On some of the petitions, he declares. Indications are that fraudulent names and ad dresses were affixed wholesale Such a crime, for crime it is snd a damnable one too. should be followed by drastic punishment. The law pro vides a heavy fine or a term In the penitentiary as penalty and both should be Inflicted upon tne muoi-K -sponsible. No practice can so easily bring disrepute 10 cue vnsu It is a telling-blow to popular gov ernment, such criminal abuse of the right of the referendum. .Just now the eyes of the Nation are directed to Ore gon, pioneer In the field of progres sive legislation, and the success or failure which attends her venture will be a great factor in determining whether or not her sisters shall follow the trail she has biased. The man. therefore, who deliberately undertakes to beset her path with traps and pit falls, to encompass her In her uncertain steps with lurking dangers is a foe that should be dealt with severely In the beginning. The guilt of the perpetrators of this outrage la only tne more reiirtunu..- ble because It was ciicui.i . prlve one of the worthiest Institutions in the state of needed financial aid. There were - men. undoubtedly, who signed those petitions in good faith, who were conscientious in their en deavors to hold up the needed appro priations, snd, however much they may be criticised for their Judgment, honesty was at least their portion. But the men who stooped to practice fraud In their efforts to hamper an institution of higher learning are robbed of this redeeming cloth and brand themselves not only aa habitual crooka and Insidious foes of popular government but as dastardly enemies It Question as well. And. what ever the motive that Impelled them to their underhanded practicea. whether they did so to discredit the progressive laws of the state or to Impede the Tjnl verslty of Oregon or for any other pur pose, they should be made to know that The people of the state will not tolerate such criminal conduct and can and will protect their lawe and their institu tions. . LEGAL l RVEILLAXCB OF TRAMPS Writer Soars-eats Adoptloa Here f Earopean Caatem t Prevent Crime. MONTESANO. Wash., June 13. (To the Editor.) The terrible murder of the Hill family should call us to our selves In regard to the laxity of our criminal laws. i. In some countries of Europe people are not allowed to roam about from one city to another without occupation ana regardless of any records by the au thorities. In some particulars th s sys tem is correct. In others it Is arbitrary. It Is Inconvenient to the well disposed, but can do them no particular harm, while to the criminally disposed it la a great check upon their doings. Our criminale should be rounded op and put under a auspended sentence by the courts. . , Let every city aee to It that this criminal product be covered by a sus pended .entence by the courts and not allowed to leave any town without permission of the courts and that the place they design to go to be notified and a record of their arrival be made at that place. A regular system should be inaugurated and the surveillance should be so close that when crimes are committed or being committed the police can go to the quarters of the suspect, call for him. and make his absence a link In the probability of guilt- He should be made to show where he was, to give account of him Telf at any time. This would make the various "businesses" of the criminal exceedingly unattractive and, reduce tbTo rsaany""the least, this allowing characterless wretches who are making their living in no other way than by crfme. to go at will about the country and prey upon innocent families, with out any record to restrain their trade, ta a dangerously crude business The writer Is mciineu vu , Z, the right sentiment can be stirred in Portland by mass meetings in various parts of the city callitvg on the people to put their wits together and trace the whereabouts of doubtful characters on the night the Hill family was mur dered" The result would be the "fees sary arrest of many of the ilks. but if the criminal were not caught, it would be warm In places whew it should b. hot andhavedffect. So Both Twin Went Free. -NTa-or Vnrk Sun. When a dosen witnesses In the Tombs V.a cvmrt awore that Christopher Cunningham, of 849 Sackett street, a bartender In a saloon at 184 Greenwich sweet had played ball In Bayonne on "e Sunday Pof May 14 and Bernard Holier, agent for the Solely tor th prevention of Crime, swore that this -n Cunningham served drinks that same afternoon on G""'0!? t. ; Magistrate Steinert scratched his head and seld there must be more to the case "an appeared on the surface. Three witnes-es for Holzer positively identi fied Cunningham aa the man who had served them. ..... Then Cunningham nodded to a man in tha rear of the courtroom, who walked forward to hla side. The two men could not be told apart, and it was Holser turn to look pulled. Cunning ham said the other was his twin brother, also a bartender In the same saloon. As Holzer had sworn that Christopher Cunningham was the man who hsd served him with drinks he could not change his testimony, al though the twin admitted having been in the saloon when Holier said he bought the drinks. He said he was only cleaning out snd wasn't tending bar. Magistrate Steinert dismissed the case. Graat's Delicate Geaernatty. Youth's Companion. one of the many stories of Grant which grip the hearts and minds of the people was told by General Simon B. Buckner st a meeting of Confed erate veterans. "Grant and I were chums at West Point." beasn General Buckner. "I had befriended him at one time, and tt can Justly be said of him that he never forgot a kindness. "After the Union victories at Henry and Donelson. I met Grant on the boat at the surrender, and he followed me when I went to headquarters. "He left the officers of his own army and followed me. with that modest manner peculiar to him. Into the shadow, and there tendered me his puree pressed It Into my hsnd. with out a word. It seems to me." concluded General Buckner. "that In the marvelous mod esty of his nature he was afraid tha Ita-ht would witness that act of gen erosity, and sought to hide it from the world, almost from his own souL" SIXGLB AXll JSEAK-SIXGLK TAX Edmnta ! Hot Apply Real Henry Gears , Says Writes. PORTLAND. June 12. (To the Edi tor.) It is true that they have in Ed monton land value taxation for part of the public revenues, and also land val uea increase and speculation in them exists. If a community creates land values which are only taken In part, the other part remains for the specula tors. If the increase in population adds land values more rapidly than the com munity treasury calls for them, then certainly somebody Is going to get them. That sqmebody will be the land owners. If a community could have an Income of half a miUlon a year from its land values and only takes J50.0QO a year, the persons scrambling for the 8450,000 will be those having tickets to the scramble; and they are the owners of land. Naturally .there will be some high prices paid for those tickets, or deeds to land. The more the community takes of those annually created values the less room for lottery drawings of real estate apeculators. Portland takes less than Edraoston of the land values created by the peo ple. A great many who ar not Single Taxers think it would be a good thing to take taxes from improvements and collect it from land values. Nobody who has any Idea of the Slngl Tax considers this as the application of the Idea In full. Edmonton may take more in the future than she does now. The principle as far as applied in that and nih.r cities works out like a problem in mathematica according to the ideas aivancao bv the "ProDhet of San Fran cisco, Henry George. Portland will not stop all land speculation by exempt ing improvements from local taxation. It will be a gradual matter, attained as the tsx levy on land values approaches the total, annual rental values. If population and capital are attracted there will continue to be great margins, for the speculators, which margins will be smaller as the community learns to convert to its own uses its own creations. The question before the house Is now: "What wrong or Injury will be done Portland by taking. more of the land values and less of the Improvement and labor values?" Portland already takes some. Other cities have aemonstraieu that improvements can be easily and advantageously exemptea irora tion altogether. w ny not. rui na-u- Our process of collecting a state tax la a v.rv DAor one. Some oi tne aiui- cultiee arising in endeavoring to adjust eauntv taxes and assessment me u- gonian has ably pointed out. I under stand that Wisconsin cannula " -riiaMncHva atata revenues from taxes levied on inheritances and corporations, returning a considerable surplus to the school funds of tne counties. . Oregon should collect revenues mo same way. Our water powers -mous and could be taxed suficlently to derive all the expenses of the state government, at the same time driving Into use water power now held for speculation. A tax on rallroada levied and collected by th state could do the same, especially If levied on irancmso valuea . The difficulties spoken of as regards the collection of state taxes from the counties exist now, and would exist under any form or method, whether im provements were exempted or not, so long aa human nature ia encouraged to shift Its Just burdens on other shoulders. In the country Portland Is accused of doing this very thing. No doubt there is some ground for it. Be all this as It may, absolutely re gardless of the pro and con of the sin gle or any other tax, why should not the state collect its revenues Indepen dently of the counties by some general form of taxation upon special privi leges? ALFRED D. C RIDGE. WHO GETS UNEARNED INCREMENT? Doctors Now Claiming It Aa Their Own, Aasarts Correspondent. PORTLAND, May 13. (To the Edi tor ) Two things the medical profes sion has been charged with utterly lacking; namely, logic and a sense of humor. Not to discuss the first. I merely wish to call attention to the fact that they are fast establishing a reputation for humor humor of a rich, unpreme ditated kind. The instance I would mention is found in an editorial In a medloal publication, an editorial that Is quoted approvingly by the tax-reform press. American medicine has discovered the single tax. and evidently has been worried over the proper disposition of the "unearned inorement" after it has been wrested from its present posses sors and securely lodged in the public treasury. This big sum. it feels, can not but embarrass our chancellors of the exchequer, who already have their hands more than full. After a little scratching of the medical head an idea is stirred up. Who, in all this big, un evenly rich country, needs eleemosy nary aid more than the poor doctors? What with the ever-Increasing output of the ever-multlplylng medloaLschools and tha growth of quackery strangely coupled with a lessening morbidity the doctors are In a bad way. and getting In worse every year. The Jobs they have sought and obtalnea as health officers and medical inspec tors do not (yet) begin to take care of a fraction of the impecunious por- ,i At the fraternity. "The unearned Increment, .- m.atnal ertitOT. "why. mused the very thing! I wonder I did not think of it K.fnre It belongs to us! It was made before. He takes much Ink to explain Just rhat the unearned increment is, and then he maps out a plan for taking tare of it. He mentions the coincidence, nd evidently thinks It arranged by Vrovidence, that the congestion of pop ulation of the last few decades has tffected medical practice, and this same congestion has produced the unearned increment. Therefore, etc. His last paragraph contains the nub of the mat ter. "The tremendous modern concentra tion of population Is responsible for those remakabl Increases of wealth, and it is not at all unlikely that the proposed new taxation, if it is ever levied will be used to pay physicians for curing the diseases the sanitariums fail to prevent. It all depends upon whether or not It Is decided that society owns what It creates." There's an airy ending for you! And the single taxers have been pretending this unearned Increment would run the rather expensive government we already have,, and give us besides free art galleriea and theaters and plays-rounds and the time to play In them. B KERN PARKER. Major Sear worked for Oregroa. LTLE. Wash.. June 14. (To the Edi tor.) The death of Major Alfred F. Sears, engineer and railroad builder, on last Wednesday morning in Port land removes another one of those sturdy and aorlflciDg pioneers who as sisted in an industrial way laying the foundation for greater Oregon. Par ticularly I should recall that It was Major Sears' visit to Heppner, Or., and careful Inspection, followed by a Strong report in 1880, that attracted the Oregon Railway Navigation Company so much that the company broke its record In Oregon up to that time by building the first branch from the main line In the state In 1SS9 from Arlington to Heppner. The Ma jor wa a loyal friend to the young man and he lived to see part of his pr.d.ctio, of O'S Advertising Talks By William C Freeman. The basis of all successful advertis ing is reRulariry and persistency. Spasmodic advertisements advertise ments run now and then without any definite plan of campaign very rarely bring results. It is a mistake for any merchant or manufacturer to run one or two, or even a dozen, advertisements and ex pect to get business as a result of them he might Just as well throw the money away for all the good it will do him. It 4s constant repetition that counts In advertising keeping one'a name be fore the public all of the time. No matter how small the announce ment, if it is run regularly, it will make an impression on the public people will get in the habit of looking for it, and when they heed the article advertised, they will respond to the advertisement There are times, of course, when a single advertisement is all that Is necessary to attain the result desired but that is only In special cases. To develop a regular, consistent busi ness, regular, consistent advertising ia necessary. The merchant or manufacturer who runs only one or two advertisements in any publication and aspects results from them, is not only unfair to him self, but Is unfair to the publication as well. There is no publication big enough or strong enough to pay any advertiser on a few insertions. That is the rea son "test" advertisements are practical ly useless in determining any publica tion's value as an advertising medium. And that is why publications should refuse to print single advertisements, when such advertisements are to be used to "try out" the publication. (To be continued.) Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe (Copyrlxht. 1911, br Geo rare Matthew Adams) There never was a girl so honest that she was not willing to deceive a little aa to her waist measure. There never was a man, probably, who did not read a complimentary letter at least twice. The people who have most charity for the erring are usually those who refuse to give honest men the credit they de serve. I should like to Know a man who feels rested on Monday because of a rest on Sunday. If your 'opponent in business does not hate you, you do not amount to much. If a burglar enters your house at night, and you hear him In your room, turn over and yawn, and give him a chance to escape before you awaken and shoot him. Don't say "don't" to others as often aa you say "do" to yourself. When a man goes to call on a friend, he doesn't enjoy talking in a loud voice, in order that he may be heard above the noise made by the children; but a woman doesn't mind it. A man who is ashamed when . l;e does wrong, will finally do better. We all know human nature so well that usually we become suspicious soon ef than we should. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan June 15, 1861. Acting Governor McGill of Washing ton Territory has refused permission to the librarian to remove the library of the territory from Olympla to Vancou ver on the ground that the law author izing an election on the location of the seat of government was passed subse quently to that transferring the capi tal from Olympia to Vancouver. Late on Thursday night We received our regular dispatch from the states. The dispatch seems to be an imperfect one. -It loses sight of the advance of troops into Virginia. No decisive move ment had been made. The Govern ment was keeping its own counsel. The Virginians had given up the idea of taking Washington at present and for fear of an advance on Richmond they had destroyed the railroad bridges. The Unionists are running the seces sionists out of West Virginia. We bear nothing of an . intended, attack upon Cairo from Memphis, but there is talk of attacking Memphis from the former place. The greatness of the revolution requires utmost care in military operations designed to crush it. We are creditably informed that Col onel Wright has made Inquiry, of prominent citizens of this place as re gards the probabilities of being able to procure the services of some of our military companies in case of need. Dog Licensing Problem. PORTLAND. June 13. (To the Edi tor.) I read in the papers a few days ago of the Humane Society's request to the public to save the poor dbgs now in the city pound and I am writing to suggest a remedy for the present con ditions. . In the first place the license on our pets is entirly too high and again we have no half-year license. . Although people love their pets they cannot al ways be ready to pay SS or $3.50 for a dog whichever it may be. In a little town of 25.000 inhabitants, in California, where I lived, our pound was called "animal home" and no ani mals were taken there that had a home and were cared for. Most people had back yards and kept the dogs at home. These animals were not sought by the poundmaster. Of course if the dogs were allowed to run in the streets the poundmaster took them. But he did not line people for keeping a pet. . One simply took out a license for one year. In Portland our poundmaster busies himself finding out who have a dogs worth licenses and If they refuse to get licenses takes the animals away. This is why the pound is full of good dogs. In the meanwhile he allows the streets to run full of mongrel dogs. This I know for a fact. If the Humane So city would busy itself to lower the license and make it payable by half the year the poor animals might have a chance for their lives. , A SUBSCRIBER. When the Kaiser Was a Prince. London Chronicle. The scene at Lansdowne House must have brought back to the minds of their German majesties another still more brilliant entertainment at which tney made their first appearance as guests in that palatial mansion. This was when. In 1887. as Prince and Princess William of Prussia they attended the grand ball given in honor of Queen Victorias first jubilee by the Earl and Countess of Rosebery. to whom the Marquis of Lansdowne,- then acting as Governor Qeneral of Canada, had lent his palace for th purpose.