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m TASOOfTTBH WX(iIi-TAI HI BHI--At
th meutlr.g of the Portland
Realty Hoard th other day Mr. F. W.
llulity perunently called attention to
th fact that the "slnglo tax" In Van
couver. B. C hlch e hear so much
about. 1 unlike the "single ta" pro
rosed by Mr. U"Ken for Clackamas
and other counties. Vancouver's
buliJir.f record. Vontouvir'i prosper
I'y and Vancouver's hapjine has j
r4tn ran tlnuallr dinned In our cars. If
on exprees doubt as to the outcome
of Mr. VRen's scheme, one la advised
t look at Vancouver. If some Port
land property-owner emits a trroan
over hlica taxes, some Kels asrent Is
lmot sare to arise and point t Van
couver. If som Oregon family de
cides to pick up Its personal belong
ings and emtrrate to Iirlt!sh Columbia
there Is a chorus of CrlJges. Wagnons,
JUmese and LRcn shouting. "Look
what Vancouver slngl tax has
don."
Why doe not th Fels bureau pro
pose. Vancouver's scheme of taxation.
If It Is urh a good thlrg? The way
Is open. W can now have any klnj
of tax system w want, simply by vot
ing tt Into effect. But there Is rre
aected to us a thing that Is not single
tax nor Vancouver tax a mongrel, a
nightmare, a system never tried any
where um!er the sun.
Vancouver's prosperity may as well
be ascribed to tho separation of the
sources of state and local revenues as
to single tx and can be honestly as
cribed to neither on nor the. other.
Vancouver Is th Western terminus of
Taut rsulwaf system. It 1 at th
foot of a water-level arraJe. It has a
rreat harbor. It Is th natural West
ern metropolis of a wealthy nation
and It has as tributary country a re
gion of enormou resources now be
ing developed. These are the thtnxs
that are making Vancouver, and sin
gle tax ha not boomed Vancouver be
cause Vancouver ha not a'.ncle tax.
tiingl tax contemplates th taxing
of no other thing but land. In Van
couver Improvements on land. If Income-producing,
pay a tax direct to
th province. Personal property pay a
tax to the province. t-very osnn.
every Insurance, company, every guar
antee company, loan company and
tniat company, every tnlecraph com
pany, teiephon company and express
.emoAnv. every g.t.a company, water
works company, electric? lighting com
r.t n r eloctric Bower company and
street railway company pays a gross
Income tax to the province, Ther Is
even In effect In Vancouver th hated
poll tax which Mr. Vlten found nec
aasary to repeal the third tlm In or
der to -pav th way for sins! tax.
In short. British Columbia has what
th voter of Oregon turned down In
th last elation In the grange amend
ments separation of source of
tat and local revenue. Vancouver
exclude from local taxation Improve
ments on land and personal property,
but the province goes over Vancou
ver head and taxe both, th on
through ao In com tax and th other
direct.
Oreerx) Joe not Impo an Ineom
tax. Through licensing. It taxes cor
porator, but In an amount nominal
compared with British Columbia's
corporation tax. Oregon lmp' an
eartilnxs tax on expreas. telepnone,
telegraph. sieeplr.g-oAr, ref rifraior
ea.r and oil companies'. The state has
and oil compax.U . The state lux has
a direct tax on Inheritances and so
ha British Columbia, Oregon llcenie
fish canneries. British Col-imbla lev
ies A direct tax on their output. Put
the mala tax revenues of Oregon ar
collected throuyh th counties. Ore
gon, la effect, tells each county how
much money dollars and cent
tbe county must conlribut toward
th :to' yearly expenditure and
th county raise the money by add
ing A ufnclent levy to the rate fixed
for local purposes. Brtttsh Columbia
doea cot collect Its main tax revenues
from th municipalities, but from th
property Itself.
Th ITRea measure would put th
burden of state and local taxation
largely upon land.
Vancouver puts
local taxation
onlv th burden of local taxation
largely on land. This U the chief die-
tlcctlon. Th VRen bl'.l 1 not true i but commended A tariff-general re
slng'.e tax. It preserves inheritance j vt,ion, fh, various protected Inter-
taxe ana corpora. ma mn-a '-''
and proviJe for franchise taxation.
True aing.e tax contemplate none or
these.
co-esirxvai nnr mtjijc irr alttt.
rr. Wiley Argument to th Conser
vation Congress in favor of A National
Department of Health la strong and
m , .t m .trm ailftit'fin aa
coming from A man who bsa fought so
,.!,:, fo, th public health. Of
what use ta It to preserve our natural
rxsources If w neglect that for which
thay are preserved to sustain the life
and health of the Nat'onT
rtt what
us to pre-erve the fertility of the .oil. ! It 1 a essential a part of the Pre
U are i;:ow It. products to be mad . Idenf. plan a. 1 tt work of th Tariff
nto poleonou compounds for human
consumption? Of what use to con -
oar forests. If w ailow their
use.
should to It that, when used, they
shonld not be used o that they breed
and apreaj de.
Thfr are several actlvttie of th
Oovercment which could well be com.
tired 13 A fep-irtn-.ent cf Health. I
. i a VOU 1 DS in I 'ii:iv
products to be used In erecting bulM- wnicn nm. ""''-- V ' i, , .tT
"ng wh-ch harbor th. ,-rm. of dl- equitable revision hherto It b. the
s!.e? W. should cot stop with th. only hope of tariff reduction short of
co-serration, or rather economical ' such an Irresistible, clamorous public
c ' . . k, '.mm' as would be Almost revolu-
cr our na-i , -
ana V rin. Hospital rV-vl,e. To this threat of tariff revision ha. don. great
rhnu'd b 1lel those bureau, whl.h Injury to th. business, for th. wool-d.re!-'r.y
deal w:h the pubMc hlh. I grower, and woolen m.nufac urer. ar.
rhem'strr and Meet Insr-c- In a chronic stst. of uncertainty a to
" U. E.- i WH-.. Axa without
partment. Th latter department
hould limit lt activity to production
from th o!L while, the. Health De
partment could deal with the proper
me of product with relation to health.
Just a the Agricultural Department
carries on valuable research work In
the discovery of new plant adapted to
certain soil and climate, th Health
Department could carry on research
a to th causes of and cur for dis
ease, and a to th nutrltlv power and
effect of -arlou food product on th
human fram. Th former worlt ha
been carried on with valuable results
by the Rockefeller Instltut of Medical
Research, th latter to som xtent
by Dr- Wiley In th Chmltry Bureau.
Th rood already accomplished by
th Public Health Serrlc Is an earnest
of what might b oon wnu
power and resource. Th last yliow
fever epidemic In th. South wa
.tamped out by It. th tat of Loul-
slana -olunlartiy urrenderln tt pow-
r In thl parUcular to th Govern
ment. It exterminated bubonic plague
In Ban Francisco whn local gencie
had failed. Let the work thus done
by extended and th los through sick
ness will bo so gTeatly reduced a to
return manifold th sum expended.
STRANG B BCSIXESS.
Th following statement appear.
prominently in on of th procured
organs of Bourn publicity:
pn!r unrtlD, but tnat
Improbable.
' Anything that 1 "reasonably Im
probable" must b cult lmprobabl
indeed. But Is It?
Of course a 1 Intelligent ooservers
know that tho Taft renomlnatlon U
aasur.!. Why tha Im pudeni assump
tion that It Is noiT hy the curious
pretense that the La Follett cam
paign has the slightest slnoeiity or
good faith? Why th propaganda for
La Kollt-tte by Interests that hav sl
it ays hated and opposed th Republi
can party and !) wlUT
It Is queer business. What would
they do with La Follett if they got
him nominated? Republican would
not ot for him. Democrats -would
not vol for him. Who would?
mi- rower vispicat-ch.
Th Orcgonlan nnili thl HJum'.na
tlve Item stowed modestly away
among th various Interesting new
feature of th Salem Dolly Statesman
Ooramor WVat yaatrrrfar waa Jortma ov.T
XlSrZ'VZ'Z:'
V.ctfc u sat tani ail in tin...'
r..t dal ot mon-T. either, to bring thrm
?o th. rr.aoi if to -ill r, .!. . .
.rrr tin-.. I lea.e Salem for inr it;' :
:';mA.VVa;Xr;'; is2
i.l iKa ilnrairnnp lia 11 Wn I V "- v ea
any bear'.rtc spin tha conduct ot in, i '.
ara or not. but eanr aaiaaa that haa Xtr-'n
n aJa took place hlla I haa baen eut of
tha cut. I am lad ll.a maa who raa
tha laat tlma ar.ra lo. atal mm undar tha
n .a of tha prlaa author. ilea, aa mj pollay
la Dot Injurad undar auctt olreumnsance.
Runaway convicts! What runaway
convicts? Do convict run away?
Honor convicts? Parole convicts?
Trusty convicts? Convict who hav
given their word to our confiding Gov
ernor that they would never, no. never,
violate thuir parol, their sacred word
of honor, th olemn trust reposed In
them when he released them from
prison and turned them out on the
uneasy peopl about Salem, taking to
their heels? Convict who hav been
sentenced to th penitentiary for grave
offense actually taking advantage of
their opportunity to leave beblnd
them prison rules, prison food, prison
confinement, prison sentence? It ti
Incredible. Only bd men would breRk
th!r pledges in that way. There are
no bad convict. In th West lexicon.
Juet convict who lor to go back to
prison at night and pray for the good
Governor who turns them loose by
day and for many dy at a time.
Yet we hear on the Oovernofg au
thority that convicts do run away. But
not far. Convicts who run away and
are "located right under th nose of
th prison authorltlo" do not injure
the Governor's turn-'em-loos policy.
Not at AIL They vindicate It. no
doubt. The convict who run, but who
doesn't run fast or far. doesn't count.
After A whll w hall probably find
th Governor explaining that th con
vict who doe run fast and far. and
get auay, 1 a good rtddanc. Th
knave would contamlnat the con
vict who ar glad to tay.
When w get the records of the
honor convicts and parol convict who
hav com and gone especially gone
under the Governor' benellcent
prison policy, w hH wondr more
than ever what a prison I for.
TAFT CONLSTE-T OX TARIFF.
President Taft defense of his veto
of the Democratic-Insurgent wool tar
iff doe not plt aso the Springfield Re
publican. It -tys that th los of
progress toward clentlfio revision
! would not have been great; that eci-
ntlrto revision l a oreara jmpoaoium
of realization: that th President la
mistaken In saying that he had to be
gin with wool In applying hi new pol
icy; and tht if there wa to be no re
vision until after the Tariff Board re
ported, then there should hav been no
Canadian rec'proclty bill.
Th Republican assume A great.deal
v.... tt tx-iB.res scientific revision 1m-
! roM)Dl, for that method ha never
K Th Tariff Commission ef
4. ot collected Information.
i ,,rs united their force ana tor mai
bill to piece. So they would ao again
If general revision were proposed. Th
present Tariff Board la to collect th
fact, but Congrts Is to d raft a bill
based on It own conclusion from
thos facts. The Prealdent doe not
propose general revision, but revision
on schedule at A time as tbe board
report. A Tariff Commission ha ben
I tried before, but not or. with uch
funrUon as th prnt board xr-
cue.
Schedule revision
haa never been
tried, therefore we have no experience
, on which to base prediction of failure.
noara. it -i.i .
t unity to legislate on th merit of
each schedule without th. log rolling
tonary.
Ther I vry reason why th wool
tariff hould first be revised. It haa
been picked eut for year as th moat
iniquitous by political orator, news
paper and magaxin writer and by th
Vradirt himself. Th continued
Tart's -.nomination la not only une-rain.
I la reaeonably Improbable. . . . To
d.T the aituetlon baa eucn aa entirely ii
(rant aaf.Mt that It la probeolr -Ithin tria
ta,-ia 1 a-y that Tilt nmlnatloa. la rot
la rtiHaiBir
suffer m
any of th consequences of re
That Industry ha been e-
vision.
dared tho citadel of high, protection
and If th citadel wr taken, th
mailer forts would aoon follow.
But th President I accused of de
parting from hi own theory l mak
ing th reciprocity agreement with
Canada. The fncta In regard to Can
ada wer already well known and
needed no Tariff Board Inquiry. In
dustrial conditions ther and In th
United States are substantially th
am. Knowing this to be th case,
th President offered Canada fre
trad. When Canada declined this
offer, there was nothing to do but
mak th best bargain poslsble. The
offer of fre trad showed Mr. Taffg
conviction that any tariff against Can
ada was net too low and hi purpose
In retaining any tariff was to retain
something to bargain with.
It I purely an assumption that reci
procity was adopted to repair th
blunder of th Payne-Aldrich bill.
The agreement was mad when th
opportunity arose In accordance "with
th policy Mr. Taft ha advocated
ever since he became President. Mr.
Taft secured the insertion in the
Payne-Aldrlch bill Itself of provision
for the repair of It blunder by se
curing the creation of the Tariff
Board. He has pursued A consistent
policy throughout since he proved -by
experience tho hopelessness of general
tariff revision scientific revision
based on facts; schedule revuion as
fast as th fact are ascertained; rcl
nrocitv. and as close an approach to
free trade as possible with countrle
of like conditions, such as Canada,
THE TKOI'BIX 1J THaTOU.
It Is quite natural that trouble
should have broken out between the
Turk and Italian In Tripoli. The
region merges on the West rather
vaguely into Tunis, which has long
been an Italian colony. The boundary
Is merely an imaginary line which has
not been delimited and tne unsemou
tribes which inhabit the country carry
thnlr deoredatlons back ana lorin
uithn.it Tniich rrstrnlnt. Italy, like
France, seeks to set up A civilised
rovernment In her African posses
ions, building roads, erecting engl
neerlng works for Irrigation and en
.nuniririr n irrlcu 1 1 ti re. The wander
ing habit of the natives from Tripoli,
of course, interfere more or less with
these undertaking-! and In the effort
to repel them Italian troops can hard
iv tnin ni.iklna; their way into -the do
minions of the Turk. The only lasting
r(..T,r'y for the' barbarism Which has
".! even grown wor.. under
Turkish role l.s for Italy to take pos-
- . , . .rlnn nTU'PIn
session OI in. ein.. -"" "
AlBlers and Kuvpt and no doubt she
j., d so before A great while. No
other European nation ha. conflicting
Interest In that part of Africa except
Turkey, and the lack of a navy pre
vent effectual resistance from that
quarter.
American have some faint histori
cal connection with this region, inas
much as Tripoli furnished a contin
gent to those rlrate fleets which rav
aged commerce In the Mediterranean
toward the close of the eighteenth
century and at the beginning of the
nineteenth. Most of the European
power ubmlttd meekly to hav
their ship captured by th pirates
and number of their subjects sold
Into slavery. Reader of Don Quixote
will remember what A flgur th Af
rican corsair cut in th action of that
tory. In the elcht year between
1785 and K 'I 1 reported that 110
American seamen and officer wr
captured by the Parbary pirate, a
they were rnlled, and doomed to lav
ery. The Government paid $1,000,000
to ransom them. Thl ort of thing
continued until the year 1816. when
it occurred to our tatemn that It
would be cheaper and better to de
stroy the pirates than to pay them
ransom. Accordingly Commodore De
catur was sert to the Mediterranean
and soon brought them to term.
Since that event there ha been little
trouble from the Barbery pirate.
The Turks got possession of the In
definite region known as Tripoli In
th sixteenth century, taking It from
the Arabs. Here, as everywhere else,
their rule has been a detriment to the
land. Under the Arabs there had not
been very much commerce or produc
tive Industry, but work Wa not en
tir.i abandoned. Sine th Turkish
conquest many oases which formerly
grew date and alfa-grss have been
dtstrted. Tribes which were then
settled on farm hav taken to A wan
dering life. In fact, th general con
dition of the region ha deteriorated.
The Italian could not make matter
worse and would be reasonably cer
tain to make them better. It 1 note
worthy that the native Inhabitant
Mf.t. to take si-lea with the Turk
In the present difficulty. The chance
are that they prefer to pass under the
control of Italy, which ha aone so
nrh t Imorove condition In Tunl.
Ther 1 no natural reason for th
desolate tate of TripolL Although
th climat I notably drir now than
it was in ancient time, there Is tlll
subterranean water enough to Irrigate
extensive treat and In many section
of the western part living streams are
to be found. In the eastern half of
Tripoli the desert occasionally reaches
the Mediterranean hore and agricul
ture la out of th question, but ther
im a litrra area bordering upon Egypt,
known as Cyrenalca from the ancient
city of Cyrene. which Is very fertile
and would produce abundant crops If
it could be tilled under clvlllxed con
dition. All this wrritory formerly
K.iontrpfl to Carthage. In those time
it anr.norted a very large population
though now It ha only two or thre
.. .i.are mil. The remains of
great Irrigation work constructed by
the Carthaginians are to be found
..-.uhere. while the eeacoast 1
strewn with th ruin of th cities
thev built.
i-v.- nama, Trino'.l come from A
-triplet" of large town which existed
in the western part In Carthaginian
time. The city of Tripoli stlU occupies
the site of on of them. This place 1
imnnri.ni at present because it I th
outfitting point for caravan crossing
the desert to Lake Tcnao. mere u
- .i.a nf "Chinook Jargon or
itna-iia franca which Is understood all
the way from the Mediterranean to
the Interior of tne r.ouuan inn im
may hear It commonly spoken on the
streets of Tripoli. Since French Influ
( nredomlnant around Lake
T.-had It Is Important to their Inter
that the caravan route should be
urur. from savagery. Hence Franc
r-mx- h rxnected to favor Italian rule
in -rvin.ii' Of court) Oermany. If it
has anything to say, will Incline to
ward the Turk rartiy because of op-
nosltien to Prance, but more because
of Its gr-at investments In Western
Asia. Still there Is little reason to
look for German intervention to stay
th l-piln Advance la xnpou. t-ng
land would naturally prefer to see the )
a
region rtvllUed. since It merge Into
Egypt on the ast without any nat
ural boundaries.
There La A story afloat that Engiana
will permit Turkish troops to pass
through Egypt into Tripoli, out mis
Is Incredible. For one thing there is
A warm friendship between Italy and
Great Britain, while we cannot be-
Ue-r. that anv move would be wel
comed by the latter which would tend
to rvlv dormant Ottoman claims In ,
Egypt. Th probability is mat j. npou
will pasa Into th possession or Italy.
Bine Franc now ha A free hand In
Morocco, this will bring the whole of
Northern Africa under civilixed Influ
ence and perhaps restore to that
long-suffering region something of the
prosperity It enjoyed In Roman and
Carthaginian times.
Defeat cf reciprocity In Canada
doea not necessarily mean that the
grip of the paper trust In the United
State will be tightened. The second
section of the reciprocity Act passed
by Congress is still in effect admitting
free of duty Canadian wood, pulp and
pulp paper, which Is not taxed for
export This admits free of duty all
Canadian wood, pulp and pulp paper
which Is not grown on crown land.
Paper from wood grown on crown
land I taxed by the provinces and
therefore subject to duty in the United
States. Pressure may now be expect
ed In Canada to induce the provinces
to remove the tax on the one hand
and to continue It on the other, as
large American Investment ar being
made in Canadian wood land and the
whole paper industry 'n that cntry
is being stimulated. In the United
State there will be pressure to repeal
the section as a retaliation for Can
ada's rejection of reciprocity, but the
section was adopted in our own inter-,
est and Its repeal would injure us by
hastening the depletion of our own
wood supply.
Plnchot, like Fisher, has discovered
by experience the beauties or con
troller Bay as a harbor. He Is having
borne In on him the truth of Mark
Twain's saying: "Dont prophesy un
less you know." If he had gone to
iiaakA. hefora denouncing President
Taft for letting Ryan take part of the
waterfront of Controller Bay which
is not a bay ha might have indorsed
the sentiment that. If. Ryan wanted the
plagued mud fiats, he was welcome to
them. The chief difficulty about the
Alaska question Is that two many opin
ions are based on Ignorance and mis
information. K-raetlv what amount of cantanker-
ousness, or general cussedness, makes
man a public nuisance juage .;-
Ginn does not unaertane to uetiutr.
but when the condition ha been at
tained he takes Judicial cognizance oi
It. He discards technloal distinctions
and makes directly for the substance.
It stretches the law a little, pernaps,
to order a man not to make an ass
of himself, but certainly the Intention
Is laudable.
To the lay mind it doe not appear
to be a serious crime for A nurse to
rise at 1:80 A. M. when the rules say-
she must rU at 4 sharp. Discipline is
an excellent thing, but perhaps It Is
earning severity too far to oeoar a
young woman from earning a liveli
hood for a mere formal offense. In
our opinion there Is as much room for
common sense In a nurses' training
school as there I anywhere else.
Their la.t chanc. to reap A harvest
1 season being near. th. Yukon
rnin ibudii wm.a i -
transportation compaiiios "
another "great discovery" and started
another stampede. It easy to
Into th Yukon Valley thl time of
year, but hard to get out again when
fact hav coolea tne siampeaers en
thusiasm. Tn..,h Director Newell complain.
that not .nough farmer, ar taking
U land on Government : Irrigation
project, a new compinvj. oo.r-
to Invest minions in irnnuii .o....
tv, T-)..chutea and COlumoia
Rivers In confidence that buyer will
take and cultivate 1L
General good nature 1 a TaluaMe
asset to Dr. Grant Lyman. It not only
enabled him to separate investors from
ISO. 000 of their money, but to win the
confidence of the hospital attendants
to uch an extent that escape was easy.
While Portland shall oontlnue In the
manufacture of lumber, the river must
be the economic highway for the raw
material A great river la an adjunct
of a great city.
Ultimatum are in fashion. The
hopmen of the Harriman road send
one to the management, Italy sends
on to Turkey and Mr. Epaulding de
liver on in person to th Nurses'
Association.
-Restoration to entry of nearly 1,
000.000 acres of alleged coal land In
three of the best counties of Idaho in
dicates that some departmental peo
ple are resuming use of their senses.
There ought to b Another depart
ment of the Municipal Court, rather
than compel the Judge to work over
time. Falling thl. how would tt do
to put him under a piece scale?
It 1 terrible to contemplate what
might happen to Harold Vanderbilt If
domestic discord should break out be
tween him and the athletic Eleanor
Sear after they are married.
A chauffeur is dying in San Fran
cisco, the result of a hot from A
drunken clubman. Why a olubman,
drunk or sober, should be a gun-totr
1 beyond comprehension.
This 1 an activ community, with
It Acting Chief of Police, an Acting
Captain of Police, an Acting Fire
Chief, and so on. That la how we get
Into action .ometlm.
A Umatilla Jury mad orn law
Wednesday when it declared A rail
way company la not llabl for fir
caused by sparks from It locomotive.
The promoters of the Pendleton
Round-Up not only gave a great show,
but mad big profit a well, which U
matter of impl equation.
A strike In the dull season la a fool
ish a a lockout when buslnes 1
booming. The only difference is that
the latter never happen
Toung Gate ha a way of his own,
like his father. To not many men is
given tho privilege of a house made to
order for hi wedding.
of the Day
Major John R- Lynch, the ranking
negro officer of the Army, who has
just been retired on reaching the age
limit of Si years, was the center of
storm in the Republican National con
vention pf 1884. Th organisation pro
posed Pewell Clayton, of Arkansas, as
t.mnn.aru rhalrmgn. but Tflenrr Cabot
Lodge, now Benator, proposed Lynch.
A terrible battle on the race lssu rol
lowed. Clayton being a Southern while
and Lynch a Southern negro, but Lynch
won by a majority of 40. Lynch wa
supported by Theodor Roosev.lt.
How subtly th automobile ha In
vaded th field of commercial transpor
tation is shown by the announcement
that within a few days a caravan of
touring ears will start on a trans-continental
Journey from New York to Los
Angeles, carrying twoscore passengers
who have no Interest In the machines
but who have paid their fare for the
Journey In exactly the same way as
they would buy a railroad or a steam
ship ticket. While It Is tru that coast-to-ooast
Journeys have been made be
fore, they were private enterprises.
But tho coming tour is conducted by .
a touring agency and the participants I
will neither be chosen by Invitation
nor will they go to earn their salary.
Three young men In a boat, to say
nothing of the rest of th eutnt, are
floating down the Mississippi River on
a month's Journey to St. Louis, where
they will enter Washington University
when the Fall term opens a little more
than a week hence, says the St. Louis
Republic A L. Partrlde. A Sldler and
E. Dixon hsve made the trip before
and they think tbe rigors of a" 1000
mile trip by canoe Is Just the sort of
thing to train them for a Winter's
study. It wss in the middle of Au
aust that the students began their
long Journey near the headwaters of
the Wisconsin River. Their canoe was
fitted out with everything needed on
the long and ardous trip and experi
ence had taught them that their larder
needed to be well stocked.
Railroads are urged byHce Bennett,
In the Railway Age Gazette, to encour
age the creation of small Italian farm
colonies along their lines, where labor
ers on th. road can Invest In small
farms and continue to work on the
..tirnari ch brvs that In many In
stances Italians have worked In this
way until the farms were paid for and
then gave-up work on th. railroad, but
they attracted others to begin In the
same way. She says: "Not Infrequent
ly has It be'en true that a whole town
In Italy was evacuated as the result of
a letter from a fellow townsman, who
had sent back a glowing account of
his axDerlences In this country." She
says that the railroads already begin
to feel the danger of a labor famine,
and suggests that they choose an Ital
ian of practical farm experience, who
will choose a gang from his own com
munity. They will establish a farm
colony which will draw others from the
old world.
The hurricane of August 17 and 18
off the South Carolina and Georgia
coast Is takeh by Walter L. Moore,
chief of the Weather Service, a the
text of a bulletin calling attention to
the need of wireless weather reports
from ooastlng steamers. These would
make posslbl. reports of a hurricane
three or four days before it "reached
f which would save much
P property. The Atlantic hurri-
the ooast ana ename people o
. . .
observed to be forming aa
can. o cooraln to .ntrie.
" ..... ...... .,t. iv
aaaala' ton. but these reports only
reached the Weather Bureau by malL
No wireless report, were received from
vessel, at sea In the region traversed
all
by the storm, although a number of
, .. A I ai.V, Fi.
W..pp. "
port- "" ' " t
storm , '
, ,ea. No lnformatlon
j ,
wnaievr
Is at hand until t.ne mu
stations are within the Influence oi
th storm. Mr. Moor says In his bul
letin: .
That this storm In It. full intensity shonld
..ft'Sff th. Bouth Atlantic Coast or four
iPp,,n.
orti been
i.v-atrraDh from V-MI1
outhrn
wHL-ii. tifta Bucn rv
has teen In operation alnce July . V'1'-'-
Soma raluabl. reports have been received
but neceaearily this service Is not as af-
...;.. . it. would be were obaorven em
ployed rexulsrly aboard a number of our
coait-wlae veeaal. at rail salary who would
reoort twice dally to this office. Prelimi
nary invaatlsallons looking to tne eatabllsh
mant of auch a aarvlca are undar way and.
If arrange men tl can be made, auch a aerv
lce will be out Into operation.
The same dlffloultioe are encountered
tn forecasting storms on the Paclfla ,
Coast and it is to be hoped that. If
arrangement, ar. made for wireless
weather resorts from vessels at sea.
they will extend to th Paolflo . well
as the Atlantlo Coast. It Is to th
mutual Interest of shipowner, and hip
captain to hav for.oaat.
Senator La Follette begin hi auto
biography In the October number of
the American Magaxlne. He deals with
the most interesting pert of a man's
life who has filled a large plac. In the
publlo eye hi early .trugglea. He
tell, of hi. labor to gain an educa
tion, hi. beginning law practlo., his
lection a. District Attorney and Rep
resentative In Congress, La Follette
was evidently a politician and an In
surgent by instinct, for it wa. only
flv. month, aft.r h. left college that
he ran for office. In so doing he
"bucked th. machine" and beat it and
he did th. .am. when he ran for Con
fraes. A man of auch posltlv. char
acter naturally won as warm friend,
a. he mad. bitter enemle. and a fin.
trait of th. Senator. 1 hi. frank
acknowledgment of th. debt he owe.
bl. friend, and th. unstinted praise h.
glv. them. One need not b. a fol
lower of La Follette'. to admlr. him
. a man of strong convictions snd a
gam. fighter and th. remaining chap
ter, of hi. autoblogrophy will be read
with Interest
Of th. vast fors.t of cedar that
one clothed the mountain of Leban
on. .In tb Holy Land, only too remain.
They are 'carefully . enclosed and
watched over to prevent their destruc
tion Ilk all tbe rest.
Of the 415,520 emigrants from tha
British Isles in 1909, 233.2SS came to
the United States; of these 141,681 were
nil. and, L5I Xemales.
Gleanings
Writer Believes It Deterrent ef Orime
and Morally Right.
PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 26. (To the
Editor.) A short time ago I listened
to a discussion in regard to capital
punishment. There were three In the
party, yet it was not a three-cornered
argument, as one seemed to be neutral.
One was in favor of, tbe other opposed
to capital punishment for the reason,
he said, that It did not do any good,
and that the man who sprang the trap
was as guilty of murder as the man
who committed the crime.
Just why any one who has given the
question serious thought could say
that capital punishment Is not a deter
rent of crime Is more than I can well
make out. Can any country abolish
capital punishment and keep down
crime. If Denitentiaries such as we
have In the States, where the Inmates
are well fed and the work no more
arduous than falls to the lot of the
ordinary day laborer are maintained?
There is also at any time the proba
bility of their being paroled or par
doned. Another good turn done that
down-trodden, long-suffering class Is
tho large portion of the time off for
good behavior as though the people In
charge of those institutions were not
there for tha express purpose of see
ing that they did behave. True,
they do have to work, but that seems
to be the failing of the great majority
of us outside of those institutions.
But, said one, they have abolished
capital punishment In some of the
states and It seems to have maae no
difference. The answer to that would
seem superfluous. Governor West's
action In the Webb case would seem
to be sufficient answer. The law Is
so eeldom enforced that it becomes a
Joke. True, seven of the states
abolished capital punishment, but two
of them, Colorado and Iowa, rein
stated it after a short period, evidently
finding by a little experience that it
was not best to abolish the measure.
But let us Bee if Oregon, or any
other state for that matter, has capital
punishment as one of the retributions
for crime. The average number of
murders committed for the 20 years
from 1885 to 1905 was 6597.' That Is
equal to one homicide victim to every
14.400 of population. Oregon has ap
proximately 700,000 souls and at that
ratio there would be 48 murders In this
state annually. What per cent of that
number Is executed during the year
for their crimes? Statistics show that
we convict 1.8 for cent of these cases.
So with that showing and with the
record of our present tender-hearted
Governor, we have evidently abolished
capital punishment and It Is up to us
to wake up to that laot,
Italy is the only country of Im
portance that has abolished capital
punishment, and that, I think, would
exolaln au!te clearly why she tried
over S600 homicide cases In 1906, while
England tried 818 and Germany 667 for
the same year. Was It because Italy's
population was greater than those
countries? No, it Is less. Then why?
The only logical conclusion which I
could reach was because that any one
who wished could take life at will and
live. We would Just as well erase from
the statute books laws that are un
used as we would drop from our dic
tionaries words that have become ob
solete. When the law becomes too lax
It Is only a question of time when the
good cltisens are stirred to action and
they rise in a body and Judge Lynch
Is placed on the bench.
In 18S there were 8667 convicted
murderers in the States. Ninety-eight
of that number were executed. In .
states the people saw there was a
laxity of ths law and so they lynched
176 more of them. It Is good to know
that only a small proportion of the
population of a country is born with
criminal Inclinations. It Is this class
that do crlm. stealthily and for per
sonal gain in some form. It Is for thl.
class That the law must be enforced
to the letter, and no punishment meted
out today by clvlllxed countries Is too
drastic when dealing wtlh capital of
fenses. the
Another class commit. '
. t e th
moment or
Jnn. them.
a real or lmaginaiy "'"" - - -This
class do a violent act openly, and
as a rule go and surrender themselves
"d a?, willing to take the conse
quences. But th. great majority need
no law to P; T grelt law
c apltal " everyon. the
e, 4-1 IT-St. WtllCn K1VOB OVWXw"-
ability to distinguish right from wrong.
One', whol. being shrinks from taking
. h,o crime has been com-
mitted such "a. th. W.rhman murder
at Scappoose. 'men it "'
duty to see that swift Justice Is dealt
the perpetrator. It Is a duty he owes
to himself and his fellowman to rid
" world of a menace to humanity
Th. conscience will be at . rest, for to
do one's duty la to do right, and to do
iVnyonTwho ha. given gjj-
"iht - that it would make no
' . . ,h number of homicide
punishmei
difference
;"'" , ,,hn caoltal offense
France again Pun'sneB r!mber aown
Lb d8ath and keeps the timber aowu
to 19.
iiiau. .
ROCK OB MOSES
FOTJIfD
Anttanur 8r " "tlT
One Prophet Struck.
cii.awrt Tribune.
Preaching today at Westminster Ab
Deyt Arohdeacon Wllberforce astonished
the congregation by fl"0"n" T-V,,
known anuqu-' "
studied stones, aa
.. . daatinv."
saying that the
hlch for. slx cen-
v.. .-nn.n beneath the corona-
.. .i.o the rock from which
Mo... truck water for th. thlr.tlng
children of Israel.
The name of the antiquarian was i not
-,? a k- archdeacon Wllberforce.
UltDLIvUCU jw . . .
but he was quoted a saying that he
i,i that the stone was
w" J" t" " h.. r.mow. After it use
such It was considered sacred and was
carried from place to place by the
Israelites In their wandering In th
w"?en.!".!- ...-A- .bowed to the Arch
deacon a cleft In th back of th rock
from which b said he believed that
the water had gushed after Moses had
Btruck the stone with his staff. ,
The stons. it Is believed, was takeq
to the' temple of Solomon, and, after
its destruction, to Jerusalem
From
Jerusalem it was
n.nn it reached
Titus to
- Ireland,
later 'was taken to Bcotland and was
brought to London by Edward L
Negro Fighter 1st England. .
PORTLAND. Sept. Z7. (To the Edl
to; observe the criticism in The
Oregonlan today relative to the law in
terfering with the Johnson and Wells
fight in London. In the Interest of
fair play. I think It only right to say
that It is more likely the Judges of law
and order are following the example
of this country In preventing the fight
than through fear of black supremacy.
J am prompted to say this, as some
years ago. Just after the fight between
Peter Jackson and Slavln. I was In
London and- saw the black man who
won the fight, occupying a place of
honor the box seat of the National
Sporting Club coach, going to the derby.
This always struck me as being Prt8;
manlike, and hardly bears out the
theory of British fear of black supremacy.
N. Nitts on Game Birds
By Dean Collins.
Nescius Nitts, sage, scholar and wit
Of Punklndorf Station, a fresh mouth
ful bit
From his plug of tobacco; a fly that
had lit
On the toe of his boot, with great deft
ness he hit
With a nicotine stream, and discoursed
for a bit
On the game bird, and things that re
late unto It,
Tm minded how we had an argumen
tation On buying of gam birds, in Punkln
dorf station.
When Pamuel SprouL for his fust oousin
Pete,
Jest come from the city, wa plannln"
a treat.
And was goln' to buy mallards from
Romulus Pickens,
Who raised 'em at home, right along
of his ohlckensr
"Wen, one Zenas Smathers, he argued
with Sproul
Twas wrong he should purchase them
mallards at all,
Since they was game creatures; and
he plumb forgot
Them mallards was hatched right In
Perkinse's lot
By an old Plymouth Rook, to be peddled
some day
To some of the meat markets up city
way."
"Well, Sam fln'ly give In, to -rave belir
'noyed.
Whereat Zenas Smather wa plumb
overjoyed;'
But several nights Jater an uddlny,
Pickens
Heared quite a commot'on out mere
'mongst his chickens.
And rushln' outside the fust thing that
- he seen was,
Ketohed fast by his coat to A paling
. point. Zenas."
"And half of his mallard wa hung In
a sack
That Zenas was oarryln" over his back.
You have foul suspicions "gin me. I
regrets.' ,
Say Zenas, T wanted them mallards
for pets,
But I would have paid." And Sam
Sproul's cousin Pete.
When corned from the city, got corned
beef to eat."
Portland, September 17.
Conntry Town Sayings by Ed Howe
When ambition beckons to me, I
say to It: "I have ambition; send ge
nius.
A reader asks what I think of Can
adian reciprocity. I have ohanged my
mind about that three times, ana am
again on the fence.
T sutjDose she Is as happy as other
people," a woman said, speaking of a
friend. How happy are people gener
ally? Ever think about It? Are the
people generally tolerably miserable?
Or do they have a pretty good time?
w-n.n a. wife says: "Sshl The chil
dren Wirt hear," occasionally the hus
band replies: "I don't care if they do;
the truth will do them good."
when Borne women "entertain" they
work so hard that you can x enjoy
yourself for being sorry for them. .
The neobl often accomplish thing
for themselv.. and give "leader, the
credit.
No hu.band hear, half hi. wife .ay!
that's on. rea.on ne aoesu s
more by her good advice.
Some people think it 1 all right to
ask for anything they ean get.
A roan suddenly beoornes mighty po
lite and considerate tor the publlo
when an opposition buslnes Is started
In his town.
K After a man tells A woman no -
her, she thinks she pug" to
W. Shakespeare Pare Db
Nobody knows what Lord Baoon
would have done if he had been con
fronted by the necessity of settling
with the driver of a New York cab.
but what William Shakespeare did In
such an emergency was discovered the
other night, when he arrived from Eng
land. -The Mr. Shakespeare who has
come to town l a singing teacher of
LThe'nflrst intimation of Mr. Shakes
peare's arrival came in conversation
wafted through the entranoe and up
the stairway Into the lobby.
"I shan't, I won't, I'll be demmed If
I shall. I shan't pay It. I won't pay
If it's a er what do you call It?
holdup!" And Mr. Shakespeare burst
Into the hotel and hurried up to h
desk, looking as nearly apopleetlo as
might be expected of a Briton asked
to pay for what In "London Is less
than a H-s hilling fare. He was told
that the regular fare la 8.
"Oh!" said Mr. Shakespeare solemnly.
"Oh! Why, they told me on the boat
It would be only $2
Foreign View of American.
London Chronlole.
Will th. Americans make us revert
to pegtops?
Anyone standing at Charing Cross
can deteot the American men by their
trousers. They ar. made very wide
and come down on the top of the shoes
to absolute tightness at the ankle.
Armed with side whiskers, these Amer
icans would look exactly like one of
Keene's early Punch drawings come
to life.
The costume has beoome a sort of
uniform shoes, pegtop trousers, loose
Jacket, straw hat with turned up brim
and a camera slung from the 'shoulder.
That Is the American of the present
season, and he wonder, why the news- -paper
sellers at Charing Cross when
he passes call out the name of a New
York paper.
a
Land Grant Cane.
VANCOUVER, B. C Sept, 26. (To
tha Editor.) Will you kindly Inform
me what was ths outcome of the ap
peal in the case of the people vs. South
ern Pacific Railroad? The last Infor
mation I had was the decision nanaeo
down by Judge Wolverton giving ths
railroad 90 days to appeal. By giv
ing me th. desired Information, you
will confer a favor. H. GRAHAM.
Judge Wolverton's decision wa. on a
demur. The company had 90 day. In
which to appeal or answer. It elected
to answer on the merit, and th. case
1. tlll pending.
Balatrlea of Governor and Postmaster.
PORTLAND, Sept. J7. (To the Edi
tor.) Pleaso state . what salary tha
Governor of Oregon receives; also the
Postmaster of Portland, and whether
there Is any commission on the sale of
stamps. A READER.
The salary of the Governor is $5000
per annum; Portland Postmaster. $6000.
There Is no commission on' the sale of
stamps.
Not a Full Day.
New York Sun.
Knicker Is Jones a gentleman of
the old school? '
Bocker No. a gentleman of the part
time school. .