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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1911.
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JVwT BECACSB.
Soma of the, rtuom why Canada
rejected reciprocity will be found to
bo Included In the following:
Because Champ Clark mado a fool
Uh speech about annexation.
Because President Tart la not popu
lar lu Canada.
Because Canada thought reciprocity
wou.d benefit the United States more
than Canada.
iiectuM Canada feared that any
manifestation of friendliness to the
United tttate would be a "demonstra
tion of disloyalty to Great Britain.
Because reciprocity was seen to be
widely popular In the United Stater
Because the manufacturers of Can
ada believed their Industries vi(t In
great pern.
Because Canada could not see how
both parties to a trade bargain could
profit.
Because of the purpose of a rival
leader of the French element to up
set Laurier.
Because political thought and action
la Canada are provincial, prejudiced
and all'SUfnciant.
Because a political reaction In Can
a la was about due.
Because Canada does not like us.
CHAMP CLARK'S ACIIIETIMFNT.
Through the valuable assistance of
Champ Clark, the Canadian Conser
vative have won the elections by a
d-cL-lve majority. Reciprocity Is
b-atrn. The vote was taken not so
much on the question of reciprocity
u on that of annexation. When the
trrwnwnl was first Introduced In the
H uw at the session which ended
list March. Mr. Clark allowed his en
thusla.wn to get the better of his
Judgment. Ite said:
t ia frf II. aarauae I hope to lha dav
Bo lha Amtricti f!e will fol a.r
.--- .14 -ar fit af ttia Xlrillari Nfrtfl
American poaMMlnaa. claer lo lha North
V l- Th-y ara pup of aur loo4. Thar
our lanauas- Thalr iniiiruitcna r
n:-:-i Ilk ourm. Tbay era IrslnaS la lha
Stfu-ull art of aair-covarnmaat.
at- )j.ln .nt u thai ir lha Ir.alr of
sal a--r b- sbro-ata4. tha chancaa a
(ia .iiatiin ot tha la cwuatn.a vwuid
lia.a h.a murh sraatar tkaa thay ere soar.
When reminded that these remarks
might gtve offense to the Canadians,
air. Clark said they were "semi-Jocular."
but the majority of Americans
fail.'d to see the Joke, although they
are credited with as keen appreciation
of a Joke as any nation on earth. The
Canadians not only failed to see the
Joke, but took the speech In desiiy
earnest, and voted "no" to Its senti
ments with grest vehemence.
It Is urn-leas for Mr. Clark to plraj
In his defense that President Tarts
speeches had as much effect on Ca
nadian opinion as his own and that
corruption funds sent from abroad
hsd more effect than both combined. 1
Those who know Canada and the Ca- I
Those who know Canada and the Ca
nadlana know better. As It was said
of the second grneratlon of English
settlors In Irrlen.l. that they would
"out-Iri-h the Irish." It may be said
of the Canadians that they "o'ut-Brlt-Uh
the Brltl-h" In loyalty to the flag.
Thmjth Mr. Clark proved his sym
pathy with reciprocity by lining up
his party In Its support, despite the
fact that by doing aw he gave aid to
a po!ltir-al enemy, he dealt It a most
oVeJty blow by the bare mention of
annexation. Kvery loyal Urlton In
Canada wouM no sooner read that
speech than he would Interpret reci
procity as a first step towards annex
ation, sing "Ood save the King" and
"Rule. Britannia." and vote the Con
servative ticket.
There are three principal elements
In Canadsj the descendants of early
Kngllsh and riootch settlers, many of
whoru migrated from south of the
border rather than Join In the revo
lution or forswear allegiance to King
Oeorge III: the French. hj are con
tented and loyal so long as their pe
culiar customs and prtvlieavs are left
untouched; and the reecnt Immi
grants, who are almost ail English
and Scotch and many of whom have
chosen Canada In preference to the
United 8'ates through loyalty to the
British f'.ag. They believe they have
the beet government on earth and are
proud of being subject of the great
est empire In the world. They regard
a Tankee." as they rail all Ameri
cana, with contempt an.) suspicion
and eur National policy In regard to
Canada Is Uoked upon also Uh the
feeling which a amalt nation always
has towards a big neighbor.
The feeltng of ultra-British loyal'y
caused Laurier to abandon the tradi
tional Liberal policy of free trade
whea he attained power in 11)1 an
p vaa the British preferential tariff
Laurier" s change of policy made the
contest between parties a s truss: I a to
outdo each other In cultivating both
the national ar.d pro-British senti
ments of the people. Borden was
wal'.lnx fT Laurier to give him an
opening that he might accuse Laurier
of being false to Canada as a nation
and to the empire. Reciprocity of
fered him the opening, for It gave him
an excuse to say that Laurier was
turning aside from Ecg'and to seek
rloeer alliance with the United States.
Champ Clark's speech was his best
ca.-npe.lm material. It appeared to
Justify him la saying that reciprocity
was but a preliminary C annexation,
and he used It without stint.
The reeult shows how this appeal
to sentiment, passion and the vague
fear ef annexation worked upon the
Canadian people. They were deaf to
all the reassuring speeches of Presi
dent Taft and Secretary Knox about
annexation and they ra'lled to the
banner of Canadian nationalism and
the close British connection. Mr.
Clark might have known that the
lewst tint at annexation at any stage
of the negotiations or debate on reel
proclty wouid act violently on Cra
dlan puhlUi opinion, uoraen ana nj
Torle.r, with a f:f'cen-year hunger for
office, were wal'-in? for Just such a
campaign cry It is a sad thing when
a man like Mr. Clark Is so enamored
of his powers as an orator that he
djes not kmw when not to exercise
them.
The d-J.'eai of Ca.-ad.an reciprocity
means that the opportunity is lost for
many years to come. The difficulty
has always been to find both countries
In the mood to make a treaty at the
same time. From 1S64 to 18(1 we
had free trade In many natural prod,
ucts. but In the latter year the treaty
was annulled by the United States.
Canada was wining to make a new
treaty any time In the ensuing thirty
year and at one time a lively agita
tion to that end was kept up in this
country, but the standpat element
was supreme and was deaf to the
pleadings of Plains and McKInlsy to
cultivate the foreign market. Weary
of waiting. Canada sought an outlet
In British preferential trade. It
seemed that the happy conjunction of
such men as TaXt and Laurier would
bring about the long-desired end, but
the Canadians say they will have none
of it. The Imaginary line which con
stitutes the boundary must remain a
real barrier.
as orroRTi-yiTT.
The Medford traffic bureau (a
newspaper creation) appears to think
It cught to Try the fat out of the
Portland hog. To be sure, the trafflo
bureau lf there Is a traffic bureau) Is
not on record as u.!ng such an unpleas
ant epithet; but the phrase Is quite
common In Medford newspsper par
lance when the rate situation Is dis
cussed. We suspect therefore that
the trafflo bureau entertains - like
sentiments toward the Portland com
mercial Interests that are thought
there to be feeding well at the trans
portation trouarh. The traffic bureau
seems to be Imbued evth the Idea that
It has a mission to perform In dis
ciplining and rebuking effectively sec
tional selfishness, commercial exclu-Ivtne-s
and metropolitan aggrand
izement. We do not object to any fair or
rational presentation of the Medford
contention. Fixing rates through
the Initiative upon the bals of the
Medford complaint Is. however, absurd
and unthinkable. The stale will take
the same view unquestionably when
the time oomee if It comes.
But we would not have the energies
of thst traffic bureau wasted, nor Its
trnjpathies with any nt-clected and
Injured community In Oregon lrnor-.
There Is a field wherein the traffic
bureau can do nohie work. It Is In
Curry County. Let the MoUford traf
fic bureau make a visit there en
masse and discover the draol-ulon and
stagnation wrought upon a wormy
and Industrious people throueh trie
operation of a selfish and ruino
law prohibiting fishing In the Rogue
River "except with hook and line.
commonly called angling." (See lnltl.
atlve law No. 148-14). enacted 1)10)
It was proposed solely In the Inter
est of one element of the population
ef one part of Oregon and enacted
Isrgely as a result of their ceaseless
agitation. It has done Incalculable
harm to Curry County and has been
of little benefit to Jackson. Josephine
er Douglas.
The Medford traffic bureau has a
treat rportunl'y to rlirht a wrong,
revive an Important Indus'ry and give
employment to many deserving people
ty devising a reasonable, measure for
regulation of fishing on the Kocue
River that will be fair to the lower
river anl h upper river.
rrvnLiTtoN or a rounnAM.
The evolution of Woodrow Wilson
from a college professors opposition
to the Initiative and refi renJura Into
a politicians aavocacy oi popular
legislation Is being traced In Its usual
joyful style by the New York Sun. The
Sun has been looking ud the record.
following thai Governors meeting
when the Governor of New Jersey had
a lively tilt with the Governor of Ala
bama over modern Democratic ooc
trtne. Governor O'Neal was against
the Initiative and the recall and Gov.
ernor Wilson, being now a Democrat
with a little d. was for the Initiative
and for the recall for administration
offices. All of which, being brought
to the notice of the Sun. caused that
knowing Journal to produce a para
graph from a speech by the New
Jersey apostle of popular reform be
fore the City Club at Philadelphia,
November IS. 190. wherein he spoke
slightingly of the primary, the Initia
tive and the recall as follows:
Our attacks u-on tha machlna are for
tha moat part roil'-, hecaoaa tfcav ar1lnartlT
take lha l"rm of stlil furth-r e.ahcratlon of
procaea. V a Invent some now form of prl
mai l. we Introduce ths fructlf ot "inlt.a
liva end rofarar.dum." eraate tha privl
l.a f "recall," and bfor wo are throush
mm have ffvan tha votars o many thine- to
S that th-y aaad tha aaaUitanca of prof-a-ator.aj
sdvlaars In dclng tnera. and oan easily
be outwt'.tad hy thse vary advisers In tha
--rv yrca.aaa which w-ra meant to frae
tharn from eontreL
Soon the professor became a Gov
ernor and then he had the Inestimable
privilege of a call from our own Mr.
CRen a visit thst was rich In re
sults for Wilson and ITRen, for the
Governor then and there saw what a
great sinner against the people he
had been and the Oregon lawgiver
later had the pleasure ef entertaining
his ready pupil In Oregon, Having
now seen the light through the eyes of
a real politician and candidate for the
Prejldcncy, Governor Wilson made
confession of his previous grave errors
as a college profeseor, occupying the
chair of political economy and govern
ment, for on April 21. he told
the Pewter Flatter Club at Nor-follc.
Va.:
FMr iwaety years I presrhM to the stu
dr.ts ef rnnectrs that lha raferrrlMm e.n-1
r-ll vti nosh. I have sine lnv-Mr:-d
and t want 10 ari;niri to thnae studn:a.
It is lha safeuArd nf r-Altt.ra. It tak-a
powar from tha koaeae ar.4 p:acs It In th
hands af ihe r-ple- I want le say with ail
my powar that I favor it.
Being headed now exactly right.
Oovernor Wilson came directly to
Oregon to return the call of Mr.
tTRen and to eo a few others. Some
how he escaped while here the maiic
ITRen Influence, for he began to hede
and dodge and ralter about the recall,
saying In Portland In May. mi. rela
tive to the recall of Judpcs:
I do n arprwve af It. os the thAory that
or.a of tha frtael danyars with wh.ch wa
ara bal in eur efforta to sacura fett-r sev-
rastrnl Is lmr-tine-. Wa ara prone to u-a
too -sack baste, la take loo many short Co J.
1 admit thai, leslosilv. It la unanowerahle
that If wa alert Judy's wa hava tha rtrht
ta r-cafl I nam. hut X tfaa't ear a pvpparcora
tor loete.
Nor consistency. Though perhaps
eort-lsteney Is not worth a peppercorn.
But why did not Mr. CRen. who is
the great mentor of the New Jersey
norit ate and the guardian angel of
the Wilson movement In Oregon, stand
around where Dr. Wilson could note
and remember while the orator was
en the platform? Then the Oovernor
might never have slipped the recall
leash.
j v ix-k oRoescrr nmn nu.
Judge Grosscup Is the victim of cir
cumstantial evidence. When a Judge
has been called upon to decide a num
ber of a certain class of cases and
the trend of his decisions has been
uniformly in one direction, the pub
lic Is to be excused for believing that
he has a bias In that direction.
Judge Grosscup has been called
upon to decide a large number of Im
portant cases In which the Interests of
large corporations and the people
were In oonfllct. His decisions have
almost always been in favor of the
corporations. How can people help
beltevtr.g that he U biased In that di
rection T All the facts tend to con
Arm the suspicion. Judge Grosscup
may honestly believe that he has been
Impartial, according to his lights. Tha
trouble with him is that his lights are
dim. His legal training and practice
had led him to give the first place In
the order of Importance to property,
though the Declaration of Independ
ence puts life first. That Is the criti
cism to be made on too many Judges
and they can only ellenoe It by hav
ing their mental vision corrected.
Judge Grosscup denies that Wall
street knew his Standard OH decision
twenty-four hours before It was ren
dered. Perhaps not, but It knew the
general trend of his decisions and
knowing that, considered it a safe bet
that he would decide In favor of the
Standard. When oiu. is familiar with
the workings of a man's mind, one oaa
forecast his actions In a certain con
tlngency with reasonable accuracy. In
that sense Wall street knew.
eHAlX THK OREGOX LEAD?
A copy of a letter whloh we have
received from A. W. Neale seems to
Indicate that he la much disturbed at
the thought of the battleship Oregon
leading the procession through the
Panama Canal on the day of Its open
ing. The original of the letter Is to
go to the Secretary of tho Navy, we
apprehend. We cannot for our part
think of ary.more harmless and Inno
cent employment for a battleship than
to lead a peaceful procession. The
prophet tei:s vlth Joy of a time when
swords shall be beaten Into plow
shsres. He sees nothing wrong in
making an agricultural use of the Iron
which has once been devoted to
slaughter. How then can It possibly
be wrong to consecrate a battleship
to the opening of the canal? It would
be one of the most signal triumphs
ever beheld of the rplrit of peace over
the fiend of combat.
Happy Indeed would It be for the
world If nil the battleships of all the
nations were used for heading pro
cessions and nothing else. There is
Mr.jjulur propriety in chooslr.g the
Oregon for this purpose Inasmuch as
It once made the perilous trip around
the Horn at unrivaled speed. Why
not permit It to be the first vessel to
experience a trip through the canal?
Mr. Neale goes on to quote from
Bernard Shaw some observations
about the slowness of our progress in
everything but the military art. "In
the arts of life man Invents nothing,
but In the arts of death he outdoes
Nature herself. The peasant of today
eats and drinks the same things as
the peasant of 10.000 years ago. The
house he lives in has not altered
much In a thousand centuries," and
so on.
Thts sort of rsvlng Is easy enough.
but It Is obviously mendacious. Man
l continuously Improving the arts of
llfo. To show that he Is not Shaw
has to docry everything that we use
In the modern world. It Is a simple
trick Jo begin by denying that Inven
tions ore of any une and then proceed
to rail because we have made no use
ful Inventions, but It is Rio profitless.
The peasant of today neither eats nor
drinks the snme things as the peasant
of 10.000 years agt. His diet has al
tered In almost every particular. Po
tatoes, tea. peaches, apples, are but
a few of the articles which have been
added to It within 1000 or J000 years.
Nor are houses today built as they
were "a thousand centuries ago," or
even 3000 or 4000 years ago. The
change has been complete.
Shaw can talk brilliantly about
these subjects, because he has the gift
of gab combined with colossal Ignor
ance, but an Intelligent American cltl
ten ought to know better than to take
his rattle at Its face value.
THE TAKla Or THE PASS.
The Oregon Press Association has
been In semelon In this city for the
past two days. Truth to tell, there
was not a very large number of mem
bers of the press In attendance, for
the mainstay of such meetings, the
country editor, was conspicuous by
his atsenoe. We use the term coun
try editor In the sense of esteem and
honor, for If there Is any one person
on earth who la deserving the praise
of his fellowmen It Is the country
editor.
We speak now of this great man In
the concrete, not as an Individual, for
there are so-called country editors
who are not worthy to fill the high
positions they occupy, men who are
in the business as a business, as a
means of making money (usually to
fail), or to gain some selfish end. The
real country editor the man who has
done more for this country than any
other, the man who has formed pub
lic opinion, elected Presidents, made
and unmade reputations and fortunes
without end held his position be
cause he loved the work and was fit
ted for It. If he was not fitted for It
he did not long survive. He loved the
click of the type, for he was a handy
man at the case, more than likely a
skilled compositor. As a rule he
could take a couple of fonts of gothle
typo, a worn-out press, some home
made Ink. a few sheets of coarse pa
per and turn out a Job that would put
some of the learned compositors ot
toIay to shame.
He could produce a sheet on his
old Washington hand press that was a
marvel of neatness, accuracy and
clean printing. He could, and did,
make his own rollers, do a fairly
good Job of binding, ruling or engrav
ing. Too would find half of his wood
letters with a. letter cut on the ob
verse end of the block. He never ran
completely "out of sorts." for he was
ready with Jack knife and file to meet
any emergency. He could not buy
brass rule, but he could make it If he
could find a sheet of worn-out slno
taken from under some set-aside
stove, and there were always plenty
of "leads" If there was an old tin pail
or milk pan to draw upon.
In a mechanical way the country
editor or are we speaking now of
lbs country editor of the old school?
well, the editor of the old school .
was a genius, and he Is by no means
extlnot. There are many of him right
here In Oregon. May his tribe in
crease! May he. multiply, for. after
all, the great strength and power of
tho country editor lay still lies in
his numbers. There are so many of
him! His issue Is only perhaps six
or bight quires, perhaps an average
of say twenty tokens (some of the
so-called editors may not even know
how many a token is): but he Issued
fifty-two times a year, and his ten
thousand associates were doing the
same thing. He was right close down
to the people, with his ear to the
ground. He caught every change
In public sentiment before, long be-,
fore. It reached the great papers of
the city. If In his mind change was
proper he fostered It; If he thought
It not proper, he thwarted It. It was
his duty to mould public thought, but
he first got his Ideas from the oracle
on the store box or the philosopher
on his cobbler's bench.
There are not many of him In Port
land today. There were not yesterday;
and why? Do you ask that as a ques
tion to be answered? Well, what was
It that made, after all was said and
done, the country editor a man apart,
a man equaling the high and mighty,
a man envied of all? The railway
pass! The little piece of pasteboard
that came to him regularly every
three months permitting him to travel
free over the railway (and If more
than one road came near him he had
passes on them all).
Now his pass Is gone. An unfeeling
Congress took It away from him. re
duced him In rank, placed him on the
same basis as the banker, the mer
chant and the manufacturer on the
same basis with his readers! For this
base act all must suffer. Very, very
soop the country editor, as we know
him and love and esteem him, will
pass away, for he can no longer go
Junketing around to get the feeling
and not the beating of the public
pulso. He has been sentenced to re
main at home; for surely no self-
respecting country editor would slnK
so low as to pay railroad fare.
Hence the editorial meeting was not
largely attended. No such meeting
will be until different alignments are
made, until the newer members of
the craft get used to the new ways.
Time will come, no doubt, when those
who conduct our country papers will
see the benefits of such metlngs and
attend as a means of furthering their
business. But the old editorial meet
lncs and editorial Junkets will pass
with the old-time country editors
will pass with the taking of the pass.
William Hanley's plan practically to
spread the Agricultural College all
over the state by the planting of stu
dente on demonstration farms An the
Summer looks practical In the inter
est of good farming. Let the students
load up with book and laboratory
and classroom knowledge In the Win
ter and go out Into the state and ap
ply It on demonstration farms in the
Summer. Then let the farmers of the
neighboring country visit the demon
stration farm, learn how to farm scien
tifically and apply the - knowledge
themselves. The best advertisement
for Oregon is successful farmers. Rich
soil Is not enough. Its richness must
be transmuted by skilled farming lr to
good crops.
The East Is hopelessly colonial.
Not only Is It barren of Ideas In poll
tics, but It cannot even contrive an
original architecture. It has to ga
to France and England for the plans
of Its houses. The Long Island mil
lionaire who Is going to tear down
Tattersall Castle bring over the stones
and reconstruct the building Just as
It stood In England Is typical of his
kind. The more servilely he can Imi
tate the better he Is satisfied.
It is not likely that Mr. Justice
Hughes will ever be nominated for
Prosldent. When he entered the Su
preme Court he probably laid aside
all his political ambitious and will not
wish to resume them. We suppose he
might have been "President If he had
taken the tide of his political prestige
at the flood, but he did not, and now
It has ebbed too far to lead him on to
fortune.
The providing of dredges to deepen
the channel of the Willamette and Co
lumbia livers Is necessary to accom
modate the deeper draft vessels which
yearly come to this port. The action
of the Port of Portland Commission
In this regard Is to be commended.
There is something pathetic In the
dilemma of a man of 70, who cannot
remarry because the Interval since di
vorce Is two weeks short of the neces
sary six months. It Is the beginning
of the bad luck that follows postpone
ment of the ceremony.
The electric line up the Lewis River
will bring another rich section Into
touch with Portland. With such lines
radiating Into the country In all di
rections, he back-to-the-farm move
ment ought to seize hold of the Idle
rich and idle poor of the city.
The thief who can steal ninety
chickens and get away with them
without disturbing the owner will not
be caught. Such work must be
classed with fine arts and hypnotism.
The number of students excluded
from the University of Washington la
an Index to the high standard of those
admitted. A university should aim at
quality rather than numbers.
The place for the Municipal Labor
Bureau Is In the City Hall, not -In
tenta Winter Is coming and Portland
does not want an official pneumonia
bureau.
There is enough sugar In sight for
world's requirements for a year, so the
rise In price of 20 cents a hundred yes
terday Is Just another squeeze.
James J. Hill will drive the last
pike In the Oregon Trunk. Mr. Hill
has been much of a driver of spikes
In the past fifty years.
The girl who received a 120,000 es
tate because her name is Jane can
now change It to anything from Jen
nie to Jeanette.
The little county fair, with neigh
bors In friendly rivalry. Is as good for
the country as the big shows.
When Pat Crowe got religion. It
didn't take or he would not Indulge
In "strong-arm" flirtation.
Defeat of reciprocity will not affect
marrying across the border.
Charge It to the account of Champ
Clark
MILITANT METHODS DRFEXDED.
Wanklulaa Womaa uf fracint Tells
What Hoa Fight.
SEATTLE, Wash, Sept, 22. (To the
Editor.) I thoroughly agree with Gov
ernor Shafroth. of Colorado, in his
declaration that the Governors of Utah,
Idaho and Washington "did not know
what they were talking about when
they condemned the methods of mili
tant suffragists." Those three gentle
men evidently share the lamentable Ig
norance of the term "militant suffrag
ist" that is deplorably prevalent
throughout the United States, which
has been caused by garbled or untrue
English newspaper accounts of the
militant movement in England.
"Coercion and force" are no more
analagous to suffrage militancy than
to church militancy, to those having
any knowledge whatever of real suf
frage militancy. As a matter of fact,
all American suffragists concede to the
Pankhursts and their oo-workers most
of the credit for the marvelous growth
of the suffrage movement in our coun
try within the last four or five years.
If Governor Hay. of Washington,
really approves of and believes in equal
suffrage, and desires its adoption
throughout the United States, he will
not criticise the methods adopted by
Washington suffragists, as he surely
does when he attacks militant meth
ods. Most of the suffragists In the Wash
ington campaigns used so-called mili
tant methods. Mrs. Hutton's Political
Equality League in Eastern Washing
ton, and the Washington Alkl Suffrage
Club In Western Washington, the two
largest organizations in the state, were
both known as militant, and usually
so designated.
The warfare we waged against Ig
norance and prejudice and corrupt op
position was aggressive, constant and
persistent. We used not bullets, how
ever, but arguments; publicity and ad
vertising, were our guns, and political
maneuvering our tactics.
However, as liovernor Hay was at no
time identified with the suffrage -campaign
In Washington, and In no way
aided us, his lgnorancs of the methods
adopted by us Is perhaps excusable,
though deplorable when thus publicly
displayed. So much misinformation
has been disseminated concerning the
Washington campaign, so many false,
distorted and ridioulous accounts have
been published of the way suffrage was
won in Washington that outraged truth
demands 'Justice.
The real story is soon to be written
by those who know the facts. Our
methods were certainly militant, ac
cording to the definition of militancy
recognized among suffragists, and the
two-to-one majority In favor proved
the effectiveness of those methods, de
spite Governor Hay's criticism.
California suffragists have adopted
our methods, at our advice, and are
going to win. By the real militant
methods adopted by American suf
fragists. National suffrage Is to be ac
complished In less than half the fifty
years prescribed by Governor Hawley
and concurred in by Governor Spry and
Governor Hay.
We-expect criticism from anti-suf-fraglsts.
end bear it with fortitude,
but we resent condemnation from those
who claim to be our friends, yet damn
us with faint praise. The Governors
of Idaho end Utah may be excused on
the score of Ignorance of the methods
so recently used in Washington, but
militant suffragists who won the cam-'
paltrn in Washington will not aocept
such a plea from Governor Hay. ,
' MRS. OEOltOE A. SMITH.
PRCIAL SESSION
19
OPPOSED
Sir
Morton Gives Several Reasons Why
He Deems It Ill-Advlsed.
HOOD RIVER. Or, Sept. 21. (To the
Editor.) There appears to be quite an
agitation at this tune as to the calling
of a special session of the Legislature,
more particularly for the purpose of
enacting good roads legislation.
Let us make some Investigations
along this line: It has been about seven
months since the Oregon Legislature
adjourned, having passed some good
roads bills' and that, too, after a bitter
and acrimonious fight among the legis
lators. Have we any assurance that
there would not be a bitter contest at
this time over this subject when we
consider that the same body of men
are to be called on to act on the same
subject? Have we any certain, knowl
edge that a majority of these men have
changed their views and will agree or
that they do agree before being called
In special session? Would It not seem
a little presumptous for the Governor
to call the members or the Legislature
In special session to act on matters
vetoed by him only last February?
There are many questions entering
Into this matter of good roads legis
lation. How many counties are there
In this state that desire to bond for
the purpose of building good roads?
Not many. I believe.
The matter of bonding a county
heavily Is a serious thing to do and
should not be done except In cases or
great emergency, such as suppressing
an Insurrection or repelling an In
vasion, or matters of that character.
Let us remember that If a county is
henvily bonded, say for J500.000 or Jl,-
SoOO.000, and this money is put into the
hands of three men to spend, two of
them a majority in saying where it
shall be spent, there is grave danger
of a great waste being Inaugurated in
its expenditure.
Three men with a barrel of money to
spend; three men with the county by
the throat ceiling on taxpayers to
"caugh up" to the tune of a million
or njpre! Does this look good to you,
Mr. Taxpayer? Will we ever learn
that we cannot tax ourselves rich 7
I am In favor of good roads, as I
believe all other fair-minded men are
In favor of better highways, but I am
not In favor of good roads at a maxi
mum cost.
Our good roads should be constructed
at the. least possible expense to the
taxpayer and all money appropriated
for such purposes should be properly
safeguarded in every form.
I believe the majority of the coun
ties of this state are able to construct
their own roads without bonding them
selves individually or collectively, now
or at any other time.
Ppeaklng for myself as a resident
and taxpsyer of this state. I am op
posed to the ealllng of a special session
of the Legislature at present and there
by allow the subject to come up In due
course at the next regular session.
J. W. MORTON.
Governor George L. Curry.
PORTLAND, Sept 22. (To tho
Editor.) In The Oregonlan re
cently under the caption of
"Fifty Tears Ago Today" Governor
Curry is referred to as being the Gov
ernor of Oregon. In a map I have
which contains portraits of all the Gov
ernors from Whlteaker to Chamber
lain I do not find said Curry's, but
Whlteaker la mentioned as the Gov
ernor 60 years ago today and he is
succeeded by Addison C. GIbbs. Where
and how did Curry come in? He had
a county named after him and besides
that a street here, H. L. SMITH.
Oovernor Curry was the fifth terri
torial Governor of Oregon (1854-188.)
Paris Professional Dinner Tasters.
London Tit-Bits.
Paris has a corps of professional din
ner tasters, whose function it is to test
and pass Judgment upon all food pre
pared for banquets and similar oc
casions of state. When they "O. K," a
I dish It may be set before a king.
IS MURDER TRADE TO FLOURISH f
If Webb Case Oallesl for Mercy, What
of Others) Asks Writer.
PORTLAND, Sept 81. (To the Edi
tor.) Many seem to see a meritorious
act in the commutation of Webb's sen
tence. Such persons would have us be
lieve that "humanity" means tender
ness, wall wishing, disposed to do good.
But human beings have other feelings
mare important than those. A feeling
of the first magnitude is the desire for
protection from Dlunder and- muraer.
Many love an idea In the abstract, but
get quickly over it when they them
selves are the victims of its mater
lallsation.
Webb and his paramour, Mrs. Carrie
Kersh. abandoned their homes and. for
sook their marital responsibilities to
become denizens ef the underworld.
Mrs. Kersh had a room over a saloon
and made men's acquaintance in the
hallway as they passed to and from
the bar. Webb was a frequenter of
bars and anVobserver of men with
monev. To use his own expression.
when one displayed much money, - he
was "fat." He was contented to have
his paramour consort with Johnson
while he kept out of sight and thought
out the murder scheme. While Webb
plied the victim with the bottle, his
paramour went in search of chloroform
and a trunk. No time was lost- What
of a human life when it stood in tho
r at J20007 With brutal haste they
battered and crushed and stuffed John
son in the trunk, dead, and had the
trunk taken to the depot for shipment.
The talr of vampires, well pleased
with their sucoess, went Joy-riding,
flashing their victim's coin to com
mand attention and make a sensation
and rioted In a drunken revelry.
T T tt manv more deserving of grace
than Webb and Kersh hai the State of
Oregon hung? Will the state hang no
more murderers? ir tne state n uu
will continue to hang persons more de
serving of mercy than these, why this
partiality for Webb and Kersh? There
are many duties far from pleasant. The
hangman, no doubt, finds it an un
pleasant duty to adjust the noose. That
would not relieve him of his duty. If
It hurt his oonsclencs he should have
thought of that before accepting the
office. Tears of the widow and the
fatherless never cease. Hearts are ever
breaking, but the works of Providence
and of nature go on regaraiess. ai our
Governor could not find it in his heart
i..rmit OTehh to suffer under the
law, he never can consistantly permit
anyone to hang while he is Governor.
There never will be a caBe more deserv
ing of the hangman's art and there
always will be some mother, some wife,
Liio-hter or other relative broken
hAortod to mead lor mercy.
rt th wav of the transgressor Is to
be made pleasant and the wages of sin
to be an easy life; If murderers are to be
marla heroes, their necks never in
danger, but be petted and fought over
and become the oojecr. er muon aun..i
.ln tt rim the fair sex. It stands to
reason the trade of murder must
ein.,w.h anrl their breed multiply. It
would appear to be the logic of our
Governor that It Is prereranie ior
nnci nrnhinl to lament ana w
h hearthroken over the murder or
husbands and parents for plunder than
that the family or relatives of murder
ers should have cause to grieve. That
is the way it looks to me anyway.
What Is the use ot trying a person
for murder in the nrst aegree n mo
findings of the Jury and the court are
. b,maT We also hear so much
nowadays about the law being enforoed
and yet so many persoas. good souls
that they are, cannot bear to see the
law of their own state enforced. No
doubt this expression of opinion will
csuse many to call me a blood-thirsty
scoundrel. DONALD ALLISON.
7?1 Alberta etreet.
MeanriBg Star Distances.
DUFUR, Or., Sept. 19. (To the Edi
tor.) Could you please publish in The
Oregonlan how astronomers measure
distances to the moon .and stars?
C E. COLLINS.
It Is done by taking the parallax of
the object This Is the angle at the
vertex of a triangle whose base Is
the earth's diameter or the major
diameter of the earth's orbit and whose
apex Is the star In question. When
this Is known we have the base and
one angle of a right angled triangle.
The perpendicular distance can then
be computed. There are other methods
also used more difficult to understand.
The parallax would always be suffi
cient If It were always measurable, but
for the fixed stars It Is often too min
ute to be detected by the most accurate
observations.
Brooks' Comet In Sight.
LINNTON, Or, Sept. 18. (To the
Editor.) In an article in The Orego
nlan today there is the headline, "Sky
Search Futile." The statement is made
that Brooks' comet has not yet been
seen by anyone In Portland. With the
aid of an operaglass it has been visi
ble here any night during the past
two weeks, when the clouds had drifted
by Tonight at 8 o'clock the north
star, the comet and the star on tha
outter end of the handle of the big
dipper form practically a right-angled
triangle, the comet being in the angle,
almost due west of the north star.
While visible to the unaided eye, its
ar.r.ea.ranca is that of a rather dim
star. It shows no tall of light either
with or without the aid of a glass,
and Is not llkeljs to be recignlzed until
a glass is used; it is then readily dis
cernible from Its nebulous or hazy ap
pearance. , E. C. M'DQWELL.
Buyers of Colas.
MADRAS, Or., Sept. 20. (To the Edi
tor.) Please Inform me of the name
and address of a reliable firm or party
who buys old coins. I havs some old
coins that belong to Europe, Asia and
South Ameilca. SUBSCRIBER.
Try Soott Stamp A Coin Company,
New York.
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe
(Copyright. 1911. by Gaorge Matthew Adams)
A woman who claims that strange
men try to flirt with her will sue a
man for breach of promise, if given
half a chance.
Every time a story Is circulated that
a man has whipped his wife, the
women say, "Oh, I'd like to see a man
strike me Just once!"
The sweet gets out of so many things
as you get older.
Are you as careful as you should be
about bothering other people? A great
many men willing to work are greatly
annoyed by Idlers,
Ever know a man so mean you was
not willing he should admire you?
In one of the theatrical lithographs
now In the windows, a contrite man is
shown on his knees, taking an oath.
"By the memory of my sainted mother,"
he says. "I will never drink again." A
saloonkeeper looking on Is so mad
that green smoke emerges from his
nostrils.
The smaller the town, the more its
leading citizen struts.
Every shiftless man is a liar; he ac
quired the habit in giving excuses.
After a man has been employed in
the postotflce three or four years, he
thinks he Is the Government
FOOLISH SXEER AT TOE OREGON
This Writer Objects to Battleship a
Panama Canal.
The Oregonlan has received the fol
lowing letter, with the statement that
it is a copy of a letter sent to the Sec
retary of the Navy:
"Dear Sir By the inclosed cutting
from The Oregonlan this date it is
stated" that the Navy Department
wishes to test public opinion in re
gard to the battleship Oregon leading
the procession through the Panama
Canal.
"To be frank about the matter, L for
one, am heartily in disfavor of a grim,
murderous battleship leading the pro
cession. In the new cycle that we are
entering a battleship will be an ob
ject of derision, irrefutable evidence of
the base uses we made of our time,
energy and substance in this passing
barbaric age. In the new age, instead
of building hideous vessels to fight
imaginary foes, we will bend our ener
gies toward conquering the real foes
of mankind, ignorance, disease, pov
erty, vice, superstition.
'I write these sentiments to satisfy
you that the unwholesome clamor for
a warship is not entirely unanimous;
that there is at least ons dissenting
bass voice. Where is the need of a
battleship on a 'pacific ocean? How
ever, if there must be a battleship In
the procession, let It be placed at the
end of the procession, where It will
pass by after the tumult and the shout
ing has died. It has been suggested
that a white dove and Mr. T. R. Roose
velt lead the procession.
"A brief passage from G. B. Shaw's
Man and Superman.' quoted herewith,
is a strong argument against a war
ship leading;
" 'And is man any the less destroying
himself for all this boasted brain of
his? Have you walked up and down
the earth lately? I have; and I have
examined man's wonderful inventions,
and I tell you that In the arts of life
man invents nothing, but in the arts
of death he outdoes Nature herself,
and produces by chemistry and ma
chinery all the slaughter of plague,
pestilence and famine. The peasant
today eats and drinks what was eaten
and drunk by the peasant of 10,000
years ago, and the house he lives In
has not altered as much In 1000 cen
turies as the fashion of a ladies' bonnet
in a score of weeks. But when he
goes out to slay he carries a marvel
of mechanism that lets loose at the
touch of his finger all the hidden mole
cular energies, and leaves the Javelin,
the arrow and the blowpipe of his
fathers far behind.
" 'In the arts of peace man Is a
bungler. I have seen his cotton fac
tory and the like machinery that a
greedy dog could have Invented if it
had wanted money instead of food. I
know his clumsy typewriters and
bungling locomotives, and tedious bi
cycles; they are toys compared to the
Maxim gun, the submarine torpedo-boat-
There is nothing In man's indus
trial machinery but his greed and
sloth; his heart is In his weapons.
Man measures his strength by his de
structions. What is his religion? An
excuse for hating me. What Is his
law? An exouse for hanging you,
What is his morality, gentility? An
excuse for consuming without produc
ing. What are his politics? Either the
worship of a despot, because a despot
can kill, or parliamentary cock-fighting.'
" A. W. NEALE.
Earth's Orbit and Star Composition.
DUFUR, Or, Sept 19. (To the Edi
tor.) (1) Why is the sun not In the
center of the earth's orbit- instead of
being a little to one side? (2) Why are
the orbits of the planets oblong instead
of an exaot circle? (8) What sub
stances are the stars composed of?
M. J, WIN SLOW.
(1) It Is not. (8) Because New
ton's law of gravitation makes an ex-,
act circle Impossible. (S) The same
as the earth In the past There are
also unknown elements.
GEORGE ADE'S
LATEST HUMOR
and
Sir A. Conan Doyle's
Deepest Mystery
will be features In
THE SUNDAY
OREGONIAN
Fables in Slang In "The
1911 Fable of the Treasure
Locked in the Strong Box,"
Oeorge Ade reaches his climax
in humor.
Sherlock Holmes "The Ad
ventures of the Stock Broker's
Clerk," is an interesting story
full of mystery at the beginning
but very clear after Sherlock
Holmes does some probing. This
is one of Sir A. Conan Doyle's
best.
News SnapshotsThe camera
tells interesting stories of tha
world's recent important happen
ings. The Last Trail A brisk tale of
frontier life told by men who
have been there.
Buying Hats A story of how
American women are beginning
to give practical Paris the go-by.
Crown Prince Rudolf's Death
Long silenced story of ho the
Prince met a tragic death, tcld
by Franz Josef of Austria, who
has the secret which puzzled
Europe for years. s
Music "Goo-goo Land," a
popular song hit from "The Mid
night Sons"; music and -words.
Arming to Fight Air Dread
noughts How the Government
is building new style guns to cope
with the development of aerial
craft. A half page of interest
ing descriptions and pictures.
The Reading Public A tale
replete with 'humor written by a
librarian showing the peculiar
literary tastes of frequenters of
public reading rooms.
Compensation Another chap
ter of that interesting novel of
Washington society.
The Funny Men A half page
of the latest wit and humor.
Also the adventures of the
Widow Wise and the comie sec
tion with more fun by Mr. Twee
Deedle, Sambo and others.
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