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Cl'GCENHElM OBESeION.
It la probable that the readers of
Colliers' Weekly and of the league of
yellow Journals that have followed its
load hold the opinion that in the can
cellation of the Cunningham coal
claims In Alaska a great victory has
been won over a voracious and un
principled trust. The ominous word
"Guggenheim" has been megaphoned
at the public so often in the attacks
on ex-Secretary Balllnger and on
the men who have sought to develop
Alaska that belief undoubtedly has
gained a strong foothold that the
thirty-three reputable and enterpris
ing citizens who had filings in the
Cunningham group were in secret
league with the Guggenheim money
power from the very date of their
original entries; that these men, who
axe of prominence and recognized in
tegrity in their own community, were
the dummies of Guggenheim, were
supplied with the funds of Gugaen
Tleim and were ready to retire from
the field and leave all to Guggenheim
at the bidding of Guggenheim, when
ever it came.
it ought now to be of Interest to
those ohaessed by the 'bogy of Gug
genheim io know Just how much the
Uuggenheims had to do with the can
cellation 4)f the Cunningham claims.
The statement that the Gdggenhelm
operations In Aluska or the attempt
of the Guggenheim syndicate In 1907
to gain an Interest in the Cunningham
claims ha no direct legal bearing on
the final outcome of the Investigation,
we venture to say is Irrefutable. In
the text of the decision in the Cun
ningham case, which is now at hand,
the Guggenheim factor receives but
casual mention. The Cunningham
group of claims were first entered
upon In 1903. yet in Commissioner
Dennett's review of the evidence we
find no reference to Guggenheim ne
gotiations until 1907 It Is the Com
missioner's assumption, and it Is one
of the charges against the claimants,
that "prior to location" they entered
lnto an agreement to combine the
claims for the Joint use and benefit
of alL In the decision the Guggen
heim negotiations, which took place
after final certificates were issued to
the claimants, and what was said and
done In the attempt to deal with Gug
genheim are used only for building up
the construction that a previous agree
ment had been entered Into from
which the Guggenheim proposition
was a departure. Says the decision
with reference to the first Guggen
heim conference In May. 1907:
So derided waa tha oppoettlon to a de
parture from tha original plan and alvlnr
coetrl of tha property to the Guccenhetma
that the propoeltlon wae withdrawn and tha
Ouacenh-tma were notified that tha mem
bers would not deal with them at that time.
Referring- to a later conference held
by a committee of claimants with Gug
genheim representatives In Salt Lake,
the decision says:
Tha proposition made to the Gusftenhelma
waa at utter variance from tha terms of the
lareement under which three men aeoctated
IhemeelTee and no wonder that many ot
them proteeted against It.
On another pace of the decision it
Is slated that "tue contract entered
Into between the committee repre
senting the members of the associa
tion was not satisfactory to a large
majority of the members and many
of them upon learning the terms of
the .contract withdrew their deeds
from Wakefield." (Deeds had pre
viously been deposited with W. J. C.
Wakefield, an attorney for Cinch &
Campbell of Spokane.)
Aside from simply forming a basis
or the assumption that an association
of claimants had been organized for
mutual benefit prior to location,
the Guggenheim transaction was used
by Agents Glavis and Love to obsess
the miruU of the claimants, as it has
been used to obsess the mind of the
public. liy raising the Guggenheim
bogy Glavl and Love were enabled to
Induce numerous claimants to sign
affidavits dictated by Glavls so adroit
ly that they could be construed.' not as
an admission that the Guggcnhelms
had anything to do with the locations,
but as an acknowledgment that an as
sociation or agreement existed for an
other purpose.
It was the Guggenheim bogy that
caused Cunningham to submit his
journal to Glavls and Love. Prom
this Journal terrrut have been ex
tracted which to the lay mind have
a meaning different from the strictly
legal interpretation, and these terms
or expressions have been given a
strictly legal construction In arriving
at the final decision. And yet Cun
r.lngham was not a lawyer.
This is testimony given on cross
examination by Mr. Love and taken
from the record In the case:
Q. And your purpoae there was to ohseaa
lila iCnnnlr.gham el mind with tha Idea that
tha Ouggenhelm transaction waa the bttga
feoo whlcn had to be explained and stood as
the obstacle In tha way of their passage?
A. Tea.
Special Agent Glavis In testifying
why reference to the Guggenheim
matter was left out of some of the
affidavits he prepared for claimants to
sign, testified:
Wa did not. onreelvea. lay any stress wa
were satisfied tnat when that agreement
waa entered Into ther had a perfect right
to do It. and that Information, wouid not In
any way tend to cancel tha clatma aa wa
figured It out.
While, as Mr. Glavis admits, the
Guggenheim negotiations had no legal
bearing In themselves- on the case,
they offered the one effective means
that cotId be used to accomplish the
purpose of those who seized It
whether that purpose was primarily
to discredit the President, hound Sec
retary Ealllnger out of office, or
Plnchotlze Alaska. It was used to
Inflame public sentiment. It as em
ployed In "obsessing" the mind of the
claimants so. that they could be
trapped Into unguarded and unin
tended statements. It mattered not
that the claimants thereafter swore
positively that there had never been
an agreement or conspiracy. Public
sentiment, particularly In the East,
van "ohsesjed" with the Guggenheim
bugaboo, so any ambiguous turn that
could be Riven the Glavls affidavits
was employed In preference to posi
tive sworn statements to the contrary
In order that tho public wrath might
he appeased. In the interest of a
Kreat and criminally neglecte"d coun-
try and In behalf of the progress and
prosperity of the Pacific Coast, it is to
be hoped the Guggenheim bogy man
thus slain Is now very dead.
REC.ILMNO THE HCPREM15 BENCH.
There Is a son of James A. Garfield
who Is president of Williams College,
the alma mater of his father. He.has
iews on public questions that he Is
able to express clearly and forcefully
Addressing the graduating class of
Williams College, President Harry
Garfield said:
if our T-eriaJature moves too slowly, wa
prod It with tha Inltatlve: If It pursueg a
course contrsry to axpectatlon we curb It
with the referendum. In our impatience wa
recall executive and even propose to vio
late the sanrtuary of Justice and drag
judges from tha bench because, daring to
consider and to know, they render deci
sions contrary to popular feeing.
If a Legislature moves too slowly, it
ought to be prodded with something:
If it disappoints public expectation, the
people have a right to make them
selves heard.
Tet not even the most ardent spon
sor of the Initiative has proposed that
the people take In their own handa
the Initiative of a bill for Canadian
reciprocity." or the wool tariff, or a
general tariff bill, about which Con
gress moves too slowly; nor for a ref
erendum on anything Congress has
done, for Congress has never been ac
cused of moving too fast.
A National Initiative and a Na
tional referendum Is the logical and
necessary sequel of a state Initiative
and a state referendum. A recall for
a Judge of the United States Supreme
Court or for the entire bench would
be a dignified and impressive specta
cle for all the nations.
TRCST3 BECOME PIIIUASTIlROriC.
The lumber trust and the paper
trust have engaged In a work of pure
philanthropy. Love of the American
farmer has moved them to take up
his cause and fight reciprocity on his
behalf at their own expense. Their
literary bureau, built up at great ex
pense through years of war on tariff
revision and tried In many a hard
fought battle with the Ways and
Means Committee, has been placed
at the farmers' service In a war on
President Taft, reciprocity and the
plain truth.
It matters not to these trusts that
the facts. If all told, are against them.
They select the half of the facts which,
with the right twist, will help their
cause and ignore the other half. They
select their statistics with great care
and suppress all which are not suited
to their purpose. They are experts
with statistics, made so by long years
of practice In making; figures He.
though their knowledge of farming
Is negligible. What they have la de
rived from a firm of lobbyists and
from N. J. Bachelder, whose plowing
Is done In congressional committee
rooms and whose harvesting Is at bank
tellers' windows.
The trusts wish the farmer to be
lieve that reciprocity will reduce the
price of grain. To prove this they say
that since reciprocity agitation began,
the price of wheat has fallen. They
wish the reader to infer that reciproc
ity was the cause; the cause really
was the large surplus of last year's
crop carried over. The price of bar
ley, which is subject to the same del
eterious effects from reciprocity agi
tation as wheat and Is put on the
free list by the Canadian agreement,
perversely advanced, while that of
wheat fell, but this fact did not suit
the purpose of the trusts and they cast
It aside as Immaterial and irrelevant.
They have worked themselves Into
high Indignation over the wrongs of
the American cow and American hen.
These Industrious animals are to be
put entirely out of business by the
devastating competition of their Ca
nadian sisters when reciprocity enters.
The truth Is that In the whole of
1910 Canada produced 4. 000. 000
pounds, or less than half a pound
apiece for the whole population of the
1-nited States. The latest figures for
the United States available are those
for 1900. when the total was 1.491.
912.602 pounds, or thirty-three times
as much. The great American cow Is
warned to be afraid of the Canadian
pigmy. The disproportion In the pro
duction of eggs la equally great.
A large part of the money derived
by the manufacturers from protec
tion Is spent In circulating this kind
of fiction, which Is now being circu
lated, in order to deceive the people
into continuing the protection they
have and accepting more of it.
AX EARLY OlTrTT OF CIVILIZATION.
Tho Sunday edition of the Boise
Statesman of June 25 prints a picture
of Old Port Boise, Idaho, a rambling
adobe structure with a central watch
tower and low, heavily stanchioned
windows and doors, that was made by
the Governor in 1849 and was re
produced and enlarged by the States
man. In a sketch accompanying the pic
ture, written by Rev. James Bowen
Kunsten. Bishop of Idaho. It is noted
that this historic fort was built In
ls33 for a trading post by the Hud
son Bay Company, but more for stor
age of furs and as a rendezvous for
their trappers in Winter than for pro
tection from the Indians or for a mili
tary post as It might, in case of need,
become.
The very name Port BoUe causes
the memory bells of the dim years of
a pust century to ring faintly out with
Increasing volume and pathos, as the
history of this old trading post, that
was set In a solemn wilderness. Is re
called and the fact that Its exact site
Is not now easy to locate la brought
'out. This much, however, la noted:
Port Boise was located Just north of
the Junction of the Boise River with
the Snake and almost opposite the
mouth of the Owyhee River In Ore
gon. The Boise River has In recent
years cut out a channel making the
spot where the' old abutments rose an
Island of some sixty-five acres. Say
Bishop Kunsten:
A beautiful and plctureso.ua spot wag thla
ancient and memorable atta of Old Fort
Ho tee. What atranga scenes occurred hare,
trappers coming In from their Ions and
weary Journers. Indiana gathering In great
n ambers with their pella and noreea for
trade, emigrants on the old Oregon trail
emerging tired of the dual and waarlneaa of
their long trip finding a few days ot rest
and recreation before they passed on to
make their homa on the Western Coast. No
one thought in thoea days of settling la
1 Idaho, which seemed to tha great company
of emigrants a vast and perhaps unredeem
able dcaert. Now we are standing on thla
ppot. once so busy with Ufa and motion, but
at present silent except for our own volcea
and tha sound of tha watera rolling on to
wards the great aea.
The place was well known to those
who passed over the Oregon trail in
the years .between 1846 and 1854.
Though still far from the Mecca of
their dreams, the coming upon or
close to a place in the vast sage brush
wilderness that had a name, and, in
deed, a location upon the indistinct
map of the "Great American Desert,"
gave cheer to the weary, dust-begrimed
travelers who had for months
toiled slowly and painfully across the.
.(treat wastes. . Fort Boise was a verita
ble outpost of civilization, and to pass
without even seeing It, on the south
side of the Snake River, presaged the
end of the Journey if all went well
before the snows of Winter blotted out
the trail and made further travel by
the primitive means at hand possible.
Successive freshets In the Snake
River have practically obliterated the
site of the main part of the old fort,
but the past, as a dream, hovers over
the entire locality. As a spur to flag
ging memory and as a contribution
to history. Bishop J"unsten's narra
tion of his recent visit to the old fort
Is worthy of note, while his sugges
tion that others make a pilgrimage
to this spot, and' that an effort be at
once made to erect a simple but per
manent monument to mark the gen
eral locality of "Old Fort Boise" Is
worthy of consideration. The great
State of Idaho in which this outpost of
civilization lies would do well to make
suitable provision for this purpose.
WHERE DISCIPLINE IS NEEDED.
Incompetence and cowardice marked
the conduct of the crew ot the
steamer Spokane. The only people on
board the vessel who kept their heads
when she struck tfle rock appear to
have been the passengers. Sailors and
stokers, crazy with fear. Jumped Into
a boat already loaded with women
and almost swamped It and It was the
passengers who righted It. No effort
was made by the crew to awaken the
sleeping passengers and volunteers
performed this duty and insisted that
all wear life-belts. The lives of ail
except two were saved In spite of, not
because of. the conduct of the officers
and crew. With discipline and cool
courage, all could have been landed
safely, for the ship was afloat for forty
minutes after she struck. A captain
who knew his business andJiad con
trol of his crew could have had all his
passengers awakened, dressed, provid
ed with lifebelts and assembled on
deck. He could have had men as
signed to each boat to see that women
and children had precedence In land
ing. sAll could have been away before
the ship sank.
As It was, only the coolness of the
passengers averted a catastrophe rival
ing; those which befell the Valencia,
the Chehalls. and many other steamers
on the Puget Sound and Alaska routes,
which the memory would be taxed to
recall. There must be a lack of care
by the inspectors on Puget Sound, or
such officers would not be licensed.
There must be a lack of discipline
among the crews, or the officers could
control them.
There may occasionally be some ex
cuse for a steamer striking a rock
and going to pieces, but there Is no ex
cuse for the captain and crew going to
pieces when they most need to keep
their heads. It Is time somebody was
severely punished for one of these
shameful Incidents, Just as a warning
to the others. Officials who have to
dispense Justice to men to whose care
hundreds of lives are consigned should
be very sparing with mercy.
A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
The Oregon Association for High
way Improvement has done well to
Join the Oregon Development League
and the State Grange In the good roads
movement. Scattering effort in road
building Is largely wasted energy. It
savors too much of the old familiar
and practically useless method of
working the roads by "warning tax
payers out" to work for a stated time,
according to the tax paid by each upon
the proeprty abutting: under the direc
tion of men chosen at random by the
County Court.
According to this method there was
one day's work levied for poll-tax
and one for each thousand dollar's
worth of assessable property owned
by each taxpayer of the district, as di
rected by the supervisor who called
the men out to work the roads. By
this meana of working the roads some
mudhoies were filled "with earth or
gravel If the latter was handy, some
ditching was done with a plow on
either side of a swampy piece of road,
some brush laid ' across the deepest
mudhoies and topped with loose earth
and In the very worst places new cord
uroy replaced that which had been
worn to splinters or buried beyond
ressurectlon during the Wlnter.'Need
less to say the worst roads possible
followed this system of road building.
A number of the older settlers or
residents of Portland may recall hav
ing passed over the road between For
est Grove and Portland in the stage
that carried passengers and mail be
tween those two points in the '70s.
This road waa the main thoroughfare
by which the epople of Tualatin Plains
and beyond reached Portland. It was
"worked" sedulously every Summer
according to the old system, but so
clumsily and with such utter lack of
comprehension of the first principles
of road building that the same old
mudhoies were encountered year after
year; the muddy, denuded fir branches
that had been freshly buried therein
during the road-working season of the
past Summer, bent and threw mud
and water under the pressure of the
wheels of the lurching, swaying stage
or farmer's wagon over passengers,
driver and pitifully toiling team and it
was only after from six to eight and
even ten hours of this truly primitive
"Joyriding" that the Journey of twenty-five
miles was completed.
Of course, all of this Is of the past.
The stretch of public road between
Forest Grove and this city was not
worse In the Winter and early Spring
months than were the roads of many
other sections of the state over which
traffic was as heavy. Reference is here
made to it to show the folly and waste
fulness of unintelligent road build
ing. Concentrated effort intelligent
ly planned; consecutive effort ener
getically carried to the completion of
the mlieago undertaken; suitable ma
terial and money enough to carry the
work forward without scrimping or
waste, these are the essential elements
In building good roads, whether In the
Willamette Valley or elsewhere. And.
again, it may be said that the co-operation
of organizations In the state that
are Interested in the good roads move
ment Is wise and promises the best re
sults. In -conclusion it may be said that
every man in this state who can afford
to own an automobile can well afford
to take, as suggested, an annual mem
bership of 110 in the federated organ
izations of the state for the promotion
of good roads.
orrORTCNITV TO INVESTIGATE.
If Mr. Kitching. whose letter Is given
space In The Oregonlan today, would
rely more on plain facts and plain
statements, and less on inferences, he
might In time change his views on the
subject of vaccination. The Orego
nlan did not imply that all those who
are opposed to vaccination are fools.
If It believes anybody is a fool and
desires to say so, it will not say it by
Inference.
Nor does The Oregonlan indorse ab
solute reliance on drugs for the cure
of all Ills. Fasting, dieting, fresh air,
sunshine, exercise, cleanliness will
often cure or prevent ailments against
which drugs are little more than pow
erless. Nor does it assert that vac
cination Is an absolute preventive
against virulent smallpox, or that a
person who has once had smallpox is
forever Immune from attacks by the
disease. Yet reports of unquestion
able authenticity proclaim beyond
cavil that successful vaccination in a
great majority of cases either renders
a person immune or minimizes the
severity of the attack.
If Mr. Kitching or other antl-vac-cinatlonlsts
desire evidence so near
home that they can Investigate Its
verity, they are recommended to
peruse the Bulletin of the Oregon
State Board of Health, Volume 4. No.
4, page 1.
This bulletin recounts an outbreak
of virulent smallpox which was car
died to Sllverton by a family that had
been touring Mexico. There were nine
cases and four deaths. None of the
four who died had been vaccinated.
All who recovered, except one, had
been vaccinated.
In 1903 there was an outbreak of a
virulent type in Crook County. Of the
persons who contracted the disease
seventeen had been vaccinated, ana
these seventeen recovered. Of the
twelve who had never been vaccinated
nine died.
If everybody lived at life of perfect
habits, very likely germ diseases would
ultimately disappear from the face of
the earth. But so long as everybody
does not. or will not. It is necessary to
fortify people against epidemics that
may, as in the Sllverton case, te trace
able to the "unsanitary condition" and
"low level of intelligence" of the peo
ple of another nation.
Will the day ever tome when a Se
attle Mayor will not have the voice of
the recall dinning in his ears? No
body seems willing to admit nowadays
that a decision decides. Elective offi
cials are recalled, lawyers appeal, ask
rehearlngs and new trials, convicts ask
pardons and governors parole them,
baseball umpires are "roasted" and
mobbed. It Is about time we got back
to the good old days when a criminal
convicted took his medicine, a litigant
beaten paid like a man, and a ball
player called out stayed out. It used
to be considered unmanly to "squeal"
on a decision.
A naval coal land reserve is the lat
est scheme for dealing with the "agi
tation over the inroads of private en
terprise on the big coal fields of
Alaska." "Inroads of private enter
prise" Is a new name for the develop
ment of the resources of the country.
There was a time when men who
opened up a new country were called
argonauts, pioneers, pathfinders, con
querors of the West, the vanguard of
civilization. Now their deeds are de
scribed disparagingly as "the inroads
of private enterprise."
T.o irniiAfte'a fleht on reciprocity has
checked the inflation of his Presiden
tial boom. It was inflating rapidly
when he was fighting for a lower
tariff against Aldrich. The inflation
has ceased and the deflation has begun
slrur he has been fighting against a
icwee tariff and against Taft. It is
true that the people have short mem
ories, but La Follette has overesti
mated their shortness.
Let us hope that, with her last
earthquake. California Is finally
shaken down Into place and will "stay
put." In view of the fact that every
now and then, when they get up In
the morning, the Callfornlans find
they must buy new crockery before
they can have breakfast, the Callfor
nlans have been wonderfully patient.
By pleading guilty, the teller of a
Cleveland National bank, who embez
zled $960,000, received sentence of
seven years In the Leavenworth prison.
A common horsethlef would get more.
The old boys who had to be content
with a few bunches of firecrackers
half a century ago can contribute to
the sanity of the day tomorrow by
artistic prevarication.
In naming the delegation from "Ore
gon to the meeting of the American
Prison Association, Governor West
was altogether too modest.
Mrs. McGreevy, the amazon of the
baseball ground, enters the ranks of
heroines with Queen Boadicea, Joan of
Arc and Barbara Frletchie.
Another Columbia River log-raft
has gone to pieces, to make fuel for
the beachcombers and trouble for the
mariner.
When the Governor of Missouri
visits the Governor of Oregon, he will
be shown how to temper Justice with
mercy.
A Hood River hog eats money and
chews tobacco, but he positively will
not endanger his digestive organs with
a pipe.
Marrying a centenarian is the latest
amusement among the women of Ev
erett, with divorce as a variation.
The features in the portrait of the
father of the Merrill quadruplets show
resignation to the inevitable.
The train robber is 'as hard to catch
In the wilds of Pennsylvania as in the
valleys of Oregon.
Who will first explode a lawless
bomb tomorrow morning?
Perhaps, in time, the ground hog
may be trained to foretell earthquakes.
The rains cracked a few cherries,
but filled thousands of granaries.
Gleanings of the Day
Hawaiian suger planters will invest
about 11.000,000 in a sugar mill .at
San Carlos. Occidental Negros,' Philip
pine Islands, with 20 miles of railroad
and an ocean wharf. .
Free trade between the United States
andthe Philippines has caused an im
mense increase in the imports of
American cement Into the islands and
has caused the Hong Kong cement plant,
which has hitherto controlled the
trade in the Orient, to pass a divi
dend. American logging engines cannot
compete with the elephant in the for
ests of Burma. The cutting of a large
number of trees in any one place is
not permitted and the moving of log
ging engines through ' the heavy,
swampy Jungle would be expensive.
The Philippines will oon be ahead
of the United States in postal service.
Within six months the islands will
have complete parcels-post and money
order arrangements with all countries
and colonies in the Far Bast.
The number of vessels passing the
Suez Canal in 1910 wa 4533, with a
tonnage of 23.054.901, as compared
with 4239 vessels, with a tonnage of
21,500,847. in 1909. The earnings ot the
canal in 1910 were $25,174,254, as com
pared with $23,284,037 in 1909 and $20,
926,070 In 1908.
Motors for liquid fuel . are coming
Into general use In Germany, not only
for automobiles, motorcvcles and auto
trucks but for factory engines, nflnes
and for all purposes on the farm.
New Zealand's preferential 'tariff of
20 per cent against countries oilier
than Great Britain and her colonies
has taken practically the whole paper
trade away from the United States and
given it to Canada.
American plows won the first prize
at the Siamese Exhibition of Agricul
ture and Commerce and large orders
for them are expected to be given.
Vice - Consul - General Hansen says
women and children were able to plow
with thera. He does not say whether
the men looked on and applauded.
Until ' recently neither the principal
city on the Atlantic nor the principal
city on the Paclflo Coast had direct
communication with main lines of rail
road. Both were reached by ferry.
New York has changed this since the
completion of the Pennsylvania Rail
road tunnels and terminals. To a new
city such an obstacle would be a hopeless
handicap.
Senator Works, of California, has in
troduced a bill to limit the number of
saloons in the District of Columbia,
which is described by the Army and
Navy Magazine as "a mean, slimy, slip
pery way of bringing about prohlbl
tlon." He would reduce the number
from 500 to 100, allow saloons only
on business streets and not within
three blocks of an alley used for rest
dence purposes.
Theodore P. Shonts has ascended to
the pinnacle of fame. He first attract
ed notice as a successful railroad
builder, then as a railroad president
As head of the Panama Canal Com
mission he came before the eyes of
the Nation and of the financiers, who
gave him a better railroad presidency
and induced him to desert the canal.
The talents of his daughters won the
admiration of the late King Edward,
which brought him before the eyes of
Europe and secured one of his daugh
ters a French Duke for a husband. The
climax to all this fame is his wife's
suit for separation after he hae been
accused of alienating the affections of
a distiller's wife.
The secret of Governor Deneen's
success is out. He has a voice so at
tractive that Hines' telephone girl re
membered the honeyed words he spoke
over the wire, though she forgot all
other phone conversations heard in 10
years.
California's progress in 1910 is re
viewed in the annual report of the
California Development Board, which
has a tasteful cover bearing a colored
map of the state. This shows San
Francisco as the "Exposition City,
1915." Population, products of all
kinds, banking business, exports and
Imports, real estate transactions, taxa
tion are. discussed in the greatest
statistical detail with illustrations. The
appendix includes articles on the cli
mate irrigation, educational facilities,
and ."The Call to the Immigrant," and
a large map of the state.
Those who are alarmed over the
prospective exhaustion of the fuel sup
ply in the coal mines, forest and oil
wells of the United States can comfort
themselves with the thought that there
are 12.888,000,000 tons of peat in reserve
in the bogs.
Sir Almroth Wright, an Irish phy
sician, has begun a campaign against
every modern idea of hygienic cleanli
ness and he has found a follower in
George Bernard Shaw, who revels in
eccentricity. At a recent meeting,
Shaw proclaimed his objection to wash
ing all over, though he takes cold
baths as a stimulant. As an argument
for abatement of the smoke nuisance,
he is won by escape from necessity of
bathing. If it were possible that
Shaw's ideas could win, the bathtub
trust would break, but the doctors and
druggists would win what it lost.
The Wisconsin Senate has hurt the
tender sensibilities of United States
Senator Stephenson by refusing a sub
scription of $25,000 for state parks, and
by refusing to name a park after him.
It is coming to a pretty pass when a
rich man cannot use his money to per
petuate his name. What is the poor
man to do with his money? This re
form wave is destroying the main in
ducements to get rich.
Vice-President Sherman will go down
in history as the presiding officer of
the Senate who has decided more tied
questions than any official In his line.
He broke the record last session, when
on three successive roll calls his vote
was the deciding factor, the principal
measure being the mail subsidy bill.
Students of statesmanship then racked
their memories to recall when a Vice
President previously had been called
upon to exercise his particular vote
casting prerogative on an important
question.
VACCINATION AND l:SE OF DRUGS.
Writer Classifies Them Together and
Condemns Both.
PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Edi
tor.) I want to make a few remarks
on the editorial entitled "Efficiency of
Vaccinations." I realize that the
weight of so-called "authority" is with
The Oregonian, since he quotes Govern
men statistics and few people have the
temerity to doubt these, especially
since the majority of the readers of
The Oregonlan are as rock-ribbed as it
is and haven't the least bit of use for
"cranks" and "visionaries."
However, I must take exception to
the inference that all those who are
opposed to vaccination are fools. If
The Oregonian doesn't know it. I would
like to inform it that there is a very
considerable number of people who
have evolved away from drug super
stitions, of which vaccination, inocula-.
tlon, etc., are but logical sequences. Do
drugs cure disease? If so why should
any one die from any of the-so-called
"common" diseases? Does vaccination
really prevent smallpox? Or does the
cleaning up of the filth that caused It
stop the spread of it? If a person's
vital resistance Is strong will he not
throw off the germs not only of small
pox, but of tuberculosis or any other
so-called germ disease?
The Oregonlan has so long enunci
ated its beliefs with so much assurance
that one must assume that it has in
vestigated all of the questions it dis
poses of and its dictum must of neces
sity be correct. I beg to submit the
following quotation from the June is
sue of the American Journal of Clinical
Medicine:
"Many a physician is thoroughly dis
gusted with drug medication. So is the
public It Is not necessary to expati
ate. Stripped of their mystery. Judged
by the standards of modern times, the
old drugs are trash."
And again let me quote from the
same authority: "Diphtheria is a dis
ease of houses. It clings to those where
the hygenic conditions are especially
bad, and no precautions will avail to
prevent ' it in such localities.. It de
mands that the premises be put in an
absolutely hygeinlc condition, and if
this were done the disease would be
come extinct."
Very good. I submit that smallpox
is also a filth disease, finding its origin
and doing its greatest damage in lo
calities where sanitary conditions are
bad and the general level of intelli
gence low. The term filth does not
apply simply to outside conditions. I
mean internal filth as well as external.
Individuals whose intestinal canal is
a mass of decaying filth are the ones
who contract not only smallpox but
fevers as well. Now I contend that it
is better to clean up. Inside and out.
stop the manufacture of the bugs, than
to inoculate the people with a differ
ent kind, but no less deadly, filth.
Just a word in regard to the Gov
ernment statistics. It is quite signifi
cant that these are always taken from
some distant point where it would be
almost impossible to question them.
Figures do not lie. but liars are always
figuring. The Oregonian quotes the
Government Marine Hospital service
with the same unction that the Christian
quotes his Bible. Let me ask if The
Oregonian recalls the matter of the
quarantine of the whole State of Cali
fornia some 10 year3 ago by this same
agency?'
Old superstitions die hard, and the
old line M. D.s don't propose to let
their gTaft get away from them if
possible. If the people don't wake up
they will find themselves bound hand
and foot with a National Health Bu
reau. That word bureau reminds me ot
Russia. CHARLES E. KITCHING.
7111 E. Foster, Portland.
CRIMINAL ENERGIES NEED VENT
Writer Would Give Murderers Life of
Hard Enbor In Eleu ot Nooae.
PORTLAND. June 30. (To the Edi
torsIt has not been many years
since old England had the death pen
alty for a score or more crimes, even
theft among these. But since science's
strides toward popular enlightenment
and the upsetting of old, dogmatic re
ligious notions of "fire and brimstone,
punishment and placing in its stead the
fact that both heaven and , hell must
be here and now and of our own mak
ing, we have awakened from a long,
lethargic sleep of ignorance and super
stition to a realization that man has
a spark of Divinity, and that even
in the murderer there lies dormant the
brotherly love motive. Therefore, we
as Jurors cannot sit in Judgment upon
an erring man, knowing It means an
other crime legal taking of life and
pronounce that man guilty when there
Is the slightest shade of innocence in
his behalf.
No. the time is near at hand when
we will take all that crime, which is
only "misguided energy," and through
compassion and severe discipline guide
it Into channels of usefulness.
Governor Oswald West is right In
motive and he will be the pivotal point
of a great reform of our penal institu
tions, which today are bent upon keep,
lng the erring one on the "torture
rack" of no outlet for his great pent
up energies and at the day of "free
dom" (?) branding him with the scarlet
letter.
What the public mind demands Is
less crime, and we will not sit in
Judgment of one to send him to death.
The murderer must have a vent for
his passionate energy. A "life of hard
labor" under proper surveillance would
make him a better man, a producer,
and help the general mental atmos
phere of the Nation and hasten broth
erhood. Crime engenders and begets crime.
Compassion and wise guidance make
of us all useful men and women.
A JUROR.
Judite, Not Criminal.
M'MINNVILLE. Or., July 1. (To the
Editor.) On page 3 of The Oregonlan
of July 1, a news item dated at Sheri
dan savs that the circuit court at aic
Minnville had Imposed a fine of $200 on
William D. Easter and L. VI Hoptieia.
T am not a criminal nor has anyone by
my name ever been convicted of a
crime, so I thererore Kinaiy asK mat
the error in the item be corrected.
The conviction referred to was in the
Justice Court over which I preside and
I imDOsed a fine of $200 and a Jail
sentence on one William D. Easter and
also on John D. Belt, of W illamlna,
which is quite another matter from be
ing convicted of being a bootlegger my
self. The Initials given in the name -are
my brother's, but they were evidently
meant for me, as I am the only Hopfield
who had any part in the case. This
appears to be a huge joke to some of
my friends, but I fall to see the point.
L. S. HOPFIELD.
Salesman Stlrfcn to for "Lovely."
Cherryvale (Kan.) Journal.
A young woman In Cherryvale asked
the polite salesman if he had good
cheese. "We have some lovely cheese,"
was the smiling answer. "You should
not say lovely cheese." she corrected.
"Why not? It Is," he declared. "Be
cause" with a boarding-school dignity
"lovely should be used to qualify only
something that is alive." "Well," he
said, "I'll stick to lovely."
Paris to Have Duellists' Banquet.
London Echo.
A banquet Is being arranged in Paris
in honor of the 250 duels in which M.
Rouzler Dorcleres has had a share,
either as principal or as second. M.
Dorcleres. who is a Paris journalist,
has made dueling a speciality. No
one will be admitted to the banquet
who has not crossed swords with him,
or who has not employed him as a
second.
Advertising Talks
Br William C. Freemai
E. P. Jones, of Bristol. Tenn.. at a
recent annual meeting of the National
Association of Hosiery Manufacturers,
held in Philadelphia, said:
-Trademark Good which are adver
tised are selling well, wbile those man
ufactured and sold through general
trade are not."
"It looks," he continued, "as if man
ufacturers who hoped to establish and
retain trade would have to specialize,
brand their product and advertise it."
Mr. Jones is right.
This is the age of specialization.
People want to know what they are
buying. They want what they buy to
be stamped O. K. by an O. K. manufac
turer who is willing to back up what
he manufactures.
The people want fixed prices, too
rea-sonable prices, of course, but they
want to feel that they can bank on
both the article and the stability of
Its price.
The only way a manufacturer will
be able to build and hold a business is
to produce a reliable article, advertise
it as such, and do the advertising In
the community where dealers are either
handling or can be Induced to handle
his producta.
The consumer is naturally the one
to appeal to with advertising, and the
shortest route to satisfactory results is
advertising in the cities and small
towns and villages where the home
newspapers are carefully read by the
people naming the dealer in the ad
vertisement in that people will know
where to buy the article advertised.
Why the circuitous route?
Why not get right down to bnalneaa
In the first place? Advertise to the
consumer throufrh the nevrspaper and
get his or her trade without much
fuss about It.
(To be continued.)
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe
(Copyright. 1011, by George Matthew
Adams.)
You no doubt have tried many "rem
edies." Ever find one that was a rem
edy? I longed for a certain thing 20 years.
Finally I got it; as good as I had
dreamed of. and better. Was I satis
fied? No: I at once began looking for
something else.
If I knew a man who loves his en
emy, I should despise him. That's ask
ing too much.
You hear of such things, but I don't
believe there ever was a girl who mar
ried a man she disliked, to please her
parents.
Any man who believes that In a few
years people will travel everywhere in
airships, is generally regarded a Pro
gressive. A rebel can always justify rebellion.
There are two classes of people
newspaper reporters are compelled to
deal with: people who have really in
teresting items, and have a stubborn
ambition to keep them out of the paper,
and people who have uninteresting
items, and who are determined to have
them printed.
A country town man who is at the
seashore refuses to go bathing In the
ocean, saying It looks too much Ilka a
lot of people using the same tub.
Every man who does political work,
does it with the hope of securing a job
for which the people will pay extrava
gant wages. ,
Ever remark how cash customers
are admired? You can save money,
and at the same time be popular by be
ing a cash customer. No man's credit
is as good as his money.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonlan July 3, 1861.
A comet, of whose name we are at
present Ignorant, made its appearance
on the Northwestern horizon on Sunday
night. From the appearance of its rays
its course 13 evidently northwest. .
The committee of Clackamas County
have selected the grounds for the state
fair. They are about a mile north of
Oregon City and on the north bank ot
the Clackamas. They are said to be
beautiful grounds, possessing all the
advantages of shade, water and con
venience to the city desired.
Yesterday Messrs. King and Knott,
with the aid of some convicts, by means
of a large capstan, removed several
large snags from the river which hart
been for a long time a great annoyance
to vessels and steamers.
A Walla Walla correspondent of the
Christian Advocate states that a party
of California miners from Washoe had
arrived at that place. They came by
the way of the City of Rocks, Fort Hall
and the emigrant road down the Snake
River. When near the place of massa
cre last vear they had a fight with In
dians, killing four, which they sa-y they
"stacked up dry."
The Fasting Cure.
PORTLAND, July 1. (To the Edi
tor.) Of the many good things that
one reads on the editorial page of
The Oregonian, the article on "The
Fasting Cure" that appeared Friday,
June 30, was one that many readers
were glad to see. Wo feel sure the
publishing of this will call forth the
profound thanks of hundreds of its
readers, if they will but express them
selves. There are many people in this 19th
century who believe that Nature's laws
should be respected when it comes to
the care of the human body, as well as
In matters of less Importance, and
who fully realize that fasting and
scientific feeding are as valuable to a
man as they are to his high-bred horse,
and know that these are some of the
most potent agencies employed In cure
and prevention of disease. In tact, it
is one of God's implied commands that
Dr. Gassier and many others who wish
to claim his proitilses seem to have
overlooked.
There are several organizations in
Portland that have been trying for
some time to disseminate just such
principles. Their 'flourishing growth
shows that people are outgrowing
medical superstition and looking to the
true source of help.
Dr. Gassier foresees that "happy
day" when the medical profession will
dictate, etc. The answer following
this statement expresses the sentiment
not only of the lay mind but also of
many of our noted physicians, whose
visions are perhaps a little clearer than
Dr. Gassler's and who foresee that the
sane principles advocated by Upton
Sinclair and others along this line will
govern the health of this Nation. Then
it will indeed be a "happy day."
IDA B. HUMPHREY.
383 East Forty-fifth street, North.