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John Arhuckle's a:t.-tk on the raw rjear tariff L w-h-me because It -ik. ri the n h 'le structure of rs'irt'ltnnl pr : ctl'n. Ai he says, Jt Is a "li-ke.l m on a f.od reecs slty of !1 our popi.'," but Is the M;h duty un rfind s'ic.ir. The du'y in N'tli raw i nd ro'inr 1 suar shoul I run l' n to a revenue b.i-Ls. mhl.h would j rohat ly offer ul .ni.ite pro-.-ji'tin !; both K'vir and rf f i tr, If thi y t,--d any rr tion. CI lniu!ry by the Tariff Hoard may r 'iivirit-e xiiiy un;'rt-j i'.icfd mir.d tiiut th r.i'tJ nor.v. Kpr-:n:nUve ".irburion hns pre--.-.:-J a rrc-4it nrr.'v il figarn to Hon th.it the tariff on c:..ir nni uni t. ;i-h nn inormoii tax that It would t- ont.jrr for the A.-n-riian jx-oole t. liy the but jui;;ir Kronen arol ri'f'.n ra t K out of bri.-lru .-. Kwry ;)o..nful of jitic.ir U.urd to set.n one's r- ffi-e or muh. In rrs rvlr.K frrjtt. In niaXui; car-ly. t-otji one tr.lrd more bn-ause of thU t-ix. We re oractii'.tl'.y hUtns nu n ut on er.or mou.t ct to tr aril refine rufiT within nur borders. Kven If the re moval of the djty v re to extlr.snlsh V:t lndmiry, hl.:h lj very doubtful. Is It north while to nuiiiitiln It at The rr.ly hope of ejKapo from this l:npM'.!on Is t have Cinsrif deal Uh the stiar tnriff It-.tiioend-nt of nil other tariff srhedulos. The cane isar refiners if Koj-t and W et. the beet nu.-nr refiners of the West, the beet irrowers -f the West nn.l the ane growers of the Somii control ) many vot.s In loi:rt.s that, on any n-ral tariff fM.-nm. the tra.hrs vTue of thes vttt. would be suffi cient t def at r-dui-ton of the duty. If thr" vote stood alone, even by a b'..n the dinilr Ishlr ir body of t.in'1 joitters who yn'.l vide against any ro il jetb-n wh.itevtr. they cutd not dic tate the Hi-lion of tVitucres. After the io..l an 1 cottfn srhi-lnles ur" i!is p....d of. the Turlff li.ird hoU:.l t.'.kf up th f 'o l n.-hedulia and It out. I i.ot d better than b-r!n with "ir. MUHM AM IHK: r I K.M Anov Whl'e the women of ('.'il'fornla nre r J !.'Iitc 'vrr iin unexpected reveral In returns hb li ulio them suffrnce rlshts. the ardent friends of the Ini tiative, refere ndum and n call of Cal ifornia mo- properly irrteve. We do not wlh nnvbn.lv t. Infer hastllyth.it e believe women nre not capable of appblnir the Initiative. nferndum and reenll n IntelMtfentlv as men. The n.-ht of the pror.se ioe.il rrlends of the popular leKisl.itloii t- irrleve reJts upon anothir foundation. KnthtisliLsts measure the success of the three Innruments if popular r v ernmTt In irecon bv the lare num ber of l.iwa pr-sent. d and the several xenstons on which minor officers hive been subj-cted t the recall. Ar 1 one creat cortribu'lns rails to the succs-. as th.v imasare It. has h.-cn the low percent iv-' s of the total vote nccc:iry to val'date petitions for suburtlnic row law, referrlr.it b cUtatlve nets or bouncing the pe p.e's servants o?it ff office. i!lfor ma a ioptrd the Oreon percent.ik-es, but to ai! Intents nnd purtoses doti bled them when the state uas ywur.i; Into the woman suffrav-e column. Some of the U.til'mc ndvocates of d'rect Ierl:.itlon aririe that fr smch nn.l proper norMcs of the people' b vUlat'v machinery fixed percenter" cannot be appli.d In ewry CHsf. It l nt-Ti.!e that :is poptil i tton Increa. s the p- rc. rtiiKe neces sary to I'titl.i'e or refer a in.nsure SIloilM .l.tiiltrj.'!. l'..:'forr.:.i did not accord this ihorv trti. h ronid. ra tion, apparer.t'y. for rh more than three t.m.s the V"tn v pc,i:!itl n of Oregon, s per cert i f th. toi.il vote was Jral.Tnt. .! f r InitVi'lve p. titioi s ar.d S per c r.t f- r reform duni peti tion the same as In Oregon. The udoption of woman suffraee bxs aut "matlca'v In re.i. d the votiriir j.opu'atlort of CaV.forrl.i i.pprox'.tnate lv i0 per cent ar.d therefore doubad th number of names that would bo ii.ccs-.arv to Initiate or refer a meas ure If women dt I not participate lu elections. In the n. xt election, and In thnt one oril. the a I m nt i ir b.ov ever. will be lit fsvor tf ! r. t legis lation The basis for detcrmltilnit the rttmb.r of r .m. s re -, i!r. .1 on peti tions lh. n wi.l lo t).c t. M'. v ca-l f r O. rnor in 1S1". ut which time women were lot v. .tire In California. Women wil be -i.io'le.i to em pell ti I's ar 1 there i'l be more voters t the .U ire m.ie or cr.y block to s ''lei: from thin there wuill have teen ba 1 women be n ilertb d the rVht to vef. If women t..r.e ns much inler.-st in te co-.o.on of ;.vernor as do rnen. the r. rnb. r v r, cast f T Covmor It. l la C.i'c'oriia K1 lu about 7T0 iH"V The tot it was .tvOOO It 11". Taeref.i r It i:i re.ri're 1.( 0) frrttur.s to iO.Miit :i law to the je. pie and 4'. ' ifat'.ms to ref. r en. In tr.-n al'o.it t.ae rame are r. . ;lred "n n o; it'.ve petitions nr. I !. on ref.-ren.'jm petflons. It m :(M b lrferrrd fr.n ca,su.l .-onsl leratlon that w h n the votlr.a popul.nt'on Is d.t.:Mel the eese of oltalt-.lr. sicr.at-.ires !s in. rea.d In the same proportion. This mlht le true If the a 1 led i. t- rs were men and If ail dire, t ;.t:lon and ail r.cal's were founded on wi.le-rre.id public demand. Tut bard cesh l the mo tive power that turns the petition niachln. ry f t!.ee newly-adopted prlncipb s of t v. rnnirt In I'rt icon. nnd H will be hard cash In Cali fornia. The p ttion circuiator Is paid by the name. He Ret the namea In the ban-ooms. cltar tore. on the treet comers and at the noon hour near Ihe lurge factories. He operate where men corsrefate. Where du women tonrreirate? At any place where a paid petition circulator caa approach them? Doubling1 the voting population by fdvlna- otea to women will not double the number of loafera In the aaloona. Increase the. crowds In the riKar atorea or augment the pe destrians on the street. A male so licitor would not have much succesa In stopping women on th street. A female solicitor mlnht meet with a small measure, though we doubt It. About the oniy additions to th so licitor's prey will be In the factories, where women are employed. But In return for this small help he must jet double the number of names. To obtain il.000 names for a proposed hw will likely be a wearisome and ex pensive task. To win 1 per cent of the vyters for the recall of a state oiflcer, or S2.I00 names, will Ukely be Impossible, The promoters In each Instance must supply the money to pay the circulators. At 10 centa a name, which is perhaps the average total cost of petition circulating in Orepon. the Initiative law In California wlil cost Its sponsors more than $6000 and the recall will cost Its backers mere than $000. Particularly as to new laws, so Iartre a sum la not likely to be forthcoming unless the promot ers have heavy financial Interests In the proposed lecls'-iiUon. Truly the adoption of woman's suf fniK" ha altered materially the as pects of the California case. The people of Oklahoma, where prohibi tive percentiig-s and other restric tions are- Imposed on direct legislation, are now said to be annoyed over see ing so much governmental machinery llng around unused and unusable. California In a few years Is likely, too, to beirin wondering what all that ex citement In 111 was about. lililt.tT t'OR THE OHARTKR? Sir. Cri.lRO and Mr. Parsons may as sume that no others views on charter revision are s. good as their own: but they are alone in that opinion. Char-ter-muklng la not a function for the display of prejudice, or conceit, or b.s phiy. or ill feeling: but It calls for a dispassionate and careful con si. leratlon of all suCk-rstlona and de termination of all interests. A peo ples charter ounht not to be made for the promotion of a mere political notion or economic fad. It should be no mere experiment founded on guesswork or based on wholesale re pudiation of pa.st experience. Other charter-maker knew something: other charters have served, useful purposes. There ought to be some thti.g in. them worth embodiment In the new charter, even a commission chnrter. which everybody wants. The public want and sooner or later will get a commission charter for Portland. There are two charter com. mis-ion, working to the same end. but along different roads. If two charters shall be submitted to the people, the favorable commission gov ernment vote will be divided and b"th are likely to be defeated. If one charter shall be submitted. It will surely be adopted. It Is the duty of the two commis sions to get together and agree on a charter. It 1 the duty of the City Council to devise ways and mean to get them together. It Is the duty of the members of both bodies to accept In good faith any reasonable plan of consolidation or of conference and agreement. Are Crldge and Taraons willing to assume the responsibility of bringing about defeat of the commission plan? l.r.r wte xr;et. Senator Itourne. as president of the National Republican Progressive Lijrue the ISourne Salvation Army u.blresses a letter to the National Republican committee advising that important body to arrange for Presi dential preference primaries In the various states. Senator Hpurne as pres ident of the National Republican Pro gressive "league also Issue a statement proposing a legislative or governmental "standard for a business yardstick" whatever that is. These Incident are important only as showing that Sena tor r.ourne chooses yet to regard him self nominally as a Republican, thotitth he distinctly repudiates any obligation to act a a Republican in the Senate or elsewhere, and an nounces now that he will not support the Republican nominee for President of the I'nited States If he shall be Mr. Tafl, as of course he will be. As a reminder to tho public In iren eral and to interested Individuals In particular that Mr. Bourne has reason to remember with gratitude the Re publican party, which he now aban dons, and would destroy. The Orego ni.in cites the Oregon election of 190i. In tho primary election of that year there wa re live candidates for I'nltcd states Senator. Tho vote resulted: Tl...i-n 1?'TT "Tilth SS Ck- r' "."J V:son -4.1 l., M .. : 7.t'.'.i Mr. Hourne was thus nominated by the narrow plurality of 615. having less than one-third of the total vote. On this slender margin he became the Republican candidate for I'nited States Senator. In the ensuing popu lar election In June the result was: Hourne. Kp. . -43.MS CJrln. Dera SS.41T Helng the popular choice, though he had a plurality of only SI II In a state thnt gave I'r .'blent Roosevelt a plur ality of and President Taft a r'urality of :4.41. the ensuing Leg-L-liii'tre elected Mr. Pourne Senator. Why did the Insignificant vote -of i:.x77 for Mr. Roume In the Repub lican (j-imary grow In the election to the respectable and u!!lclent propor tions of 4I.&3S? Here wo an addition to the Itourne vote of 19. SSI vote, given for the Republican nominee for Senator. There was thus a gnln of about J.'O per rent between April and June in the Hourne totals. In the Jjr.e election Mr. Pourne got three and or.e-hulf times a manv votes as he g 't In April. What was the rea son? The reason was that Mr. Rourne was the Republican nominee for I'nited State S nator. There was no other reason. He owe his election ns I'nited States Senator solely to party regularity, party spirit, party loyaitr. Nothing else: absolutely noth ing else. Senator Rourne will appeal again to the Republicans of Oregon In 1911 for nomination a United States Senator. If he shall be) successful and It is credible that he may be successful through a confused and divided oppo sition, a In 190 he will also appeal to the people to elect him In Novem ber because he Is the Republican nom inee, a In 190: and to the Legisla ture to ratify the choice of the pePl as in 1907. Can the miracle of 190-T be repeated In Oregon, with a candi date who boldly and emphatically re pudiates In advance any duty towards the Republican party to support at the polls or on the platform Its choice for President or to support a. Repub lican National Administration, or any of the principles enumerated In the National Republican platform? klTlOUTlON IS CHINA. Local revolt have so often flamed up suddenly In China, only to die out aa quickly, that the world has been prone to discredit reports of revolu tion, but the extent and circum stanceti of the preant rebellion seem to justify the belief that the Manchu government is really In danger and that democratic ideas have gained a strong hold on the masses of the peo ple. The, participation of the entire provincial assembly of Hu-Peh, w hich was recently created aa a concession to the progressive: the mutiny of thousands of imperial troops and capture of many cannon; spread of the revolt to neighboring provinces; massacre of Manchus; announced In tention to organise a republic and se lection of It first president, system atic organlxatlon of a new government aa Indicated by Issue of money all forecast a rebellion of no mean proportions. A wave of democracy la spreading over the Orient, similar to that which swept from America over Europe In the latter part of the, 18th century and which, after receding for a time, rose again In 1848. The seeds of freedom sown In England and trans planted to America grew Into a 'lg orous plant In our revolution and were again transplanted In France with the result that Europe was con vulsed. Seed from the same source were carried to Japan and trans formed the despotism Into a constitu tional monarchy. The ability of this new-born people to humiliate Russia startled the Oriental world and i caused Persia and Turkey to adopt democratic government after revolu tionary storms. There have been rumblings of revolt In India, having their outward manifestation In assas sination of British official, riots and demands from young Hindu Journal ists educated In England, that Great Hrltaln practice In India the princi ples It teaches In its universities. Hu miliated by the lmfotenco of their own government In the war with Japan. Inspired by Japan's victory over Russia, and stirred- to seek a remedy In revolution by their com patriots who have studied In Ameri can and European universities or have lived under Democratic rule, the Chinese, too, have been seized with the same spirit and have Joined the universal movement. As Louis XVI really set the French revolution In motion by convoking the State General, the Chinese gov ernment ha hastened the revolution by summoning an Imperial congress and provincial assemblies. These con cessions to popular unrest, which were Intended to avert the revolution, have only given It momentum. The present revolt may sweep all before It and create a modern China com pared with which modern Japan will prove but a pigmy. IIK. ELIOT. Dr. Ellofs 70th birthday gives his friends pleasant occasion to look back over the event of his exceptionally useful career. It would be hard to name a man who ha done more for human worth and all that Is true and beautiful In life than he has during the forty-four year of his ministry In the Church of Our Father In Port land. Perhaps It waa the spirit of missionary adventure that first brought him here. The day before he decided to come he received a call from Portland, Me., and another from Portland. Or. The old East and the new West were bidding against each other for the young minis ter who had already given promise of his future In Louisville. St. Louis and New Orleans. By good luck the West won. No doubt he had heard stories of the new paradise on the Pacific Coast. There were plenty of them afloat around St. Louts where the Lewis and Clark expedition was fitted out and where most of the trappers and missionaries took their leave of civilisation when they struck the Oregon trail. Toung Eliot was not without his own quiet fondness for the waste and wild. Had he not nailed around the Horn and all the wny to China to cure his weak eyes? Nobody but a born missionary' t tn0 old heroic stock would have thought of such a remedy. The Eliot family has been Intimate ly concerned In the higher aspects of American civilization from the be ginning. John Eliot, the famous Apostle to the Indians who translated the Bible Into their unmanageable tongue. Is said to have been the an cestor of the tribe, and It has scarcely failed in any generation to produce men who were his equnls In ability and seal for the public welfare. Har vard University seems to have been their fountain head and Maasachu setu Is no doubt looked upon by all of them as their ancestral home, but long before our Dr. T. L. Eliot came Into the world they had established an Intellectual colony at St. Louis and made themselves leaders in education and every other sort of good work In that city. The St. Lout branch camps around Washington University Just as the old Boston chieftain of the tribe do around Harvard. In time they will make another Harvard out of the St. Louts college. It seems to be a habit of the Ellots to found uni versities, or at least remake them. What they did In Boston and St. Louis they are repeating In Portland, and the last experiment bids fair to be the most successful of the series. In thl community Dr. Eliot stands for Christian culture. The small dis harmonies of sect and creed have never Interested him a great deal, but he has been profoundly Interested In making genuine Christianity the rule of personal and civic life. In pursuit of thl purpose he has not been averse to taking a hand in 'politics. More than one beneficent law on our stat ute book owes Its existence to the se rene sunshine of hi presence at Sa lem. What' malignant opposition could thrive In that pure light? More than one evil cause has perished be fore the sword of his logic, for Dr. Eliot, with all his mildness, I one of the Lord's warriors, and he has never feared to face Apollyon when he met the demon In the way. Inasmuch as the denomination to which he belongs Is not "evangelical," there have been plenty of opportuni ties for controversial bitterness dur ing his long ministry in Portland, but he has let them pass, finding many better way to employ his energy. It is a beautiful thing for a minister to live long enough at the head of a sin gle church, as Dr. Eliot has lived, to see a generation grow up around him from childhood to maturity, to marry them, to christen their children, to fol low them to the grave with words of gracious hope, and year after year to feel the love of. his people growing stronger. In the golden October of his life Dr. Eliot is reaping the har vest he began sowing and cultivating half a century ago. The kindly coun sel that he has given so abundantly In public and private returns now in tho affection of a whole city. The good deeds he has done shine like stars In a thousand memories. Dr. Eliot's career exemplifies the power that a man may exercise In a community by living a Christian life. Ills life has been Christian in no nar row sense, but rather In the wide meaning that it hej touched all the noble Interests ot mankind and al ways for their good. Charity ha found in him a friend who understood the causes of misery and labored with Inflexible purpose for their cure. In education he has paid Uttlo attention to the fashion which change and vanish, but has held steadfastly to the purpose of making men noble by In forming their minds with truth and beauty. Dr. Eliot has cherished art, not for art's sake, but for the joy there Is In form and color speaking from the soul of genius. Ho loves pictures because he loves humanity more. And he has consecrated his long and happy life to religion be cause he believes that God who is the Father of us all has some sweet and infinitely blessed purpose far ahead toward which he will lead his flock with tender patience and let not a lamb be lost. "HKAUTin L, ISLE OF SOMEWHERE. Those who look for sense and po etry In a hymn will agree with Gov ernor Woodrow Wilson's judgment of "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and disagree with John D. Rockefeller's church. Dr. Wilson calls It "silly and meaningless." but John D.'s church votes It approval. Here is a speci men of the inane drool: Somewhere the sun Is shlnlnfr, Somewhere the aniiels wail. Somewhere the clouds are rifted Close by an open gate. (Refrain.) 8nmewhere. somewhere, Beauliful Isle of Somewhere. lnd of the true where we live anew Beautiful leieeof Somewhere. If a person were to take that old Jingle, "Eny, meny, mmy, mo." and set It to a pretty air, some people who would rather have their ears tickled than use their brains would go Into ecstacles over it and pro nounce It "lovely," "charming," "sweet" and so on. There Is no more sense in "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" than there would be in such a Jingle. Stuff passes muster a poetry when called hymns which could not gain admission to the poet's corner of the most obscure country paper on its merits. Many hymn-writers appear to think the sole requisites of a hymn are a string of worda more or less associated with religious feeling ar ranged In rhyming lines and set to an air marked by subdued solemnity, prayerful appeal or sentimental gush. It will go down with religious people. It does with some of them, who re gard a hymn only aa a lullaby for their souls, but It alienates many who are the thinking people of the churches. If the churches- will re quire that, their hymns shall really mean something, express a definite Idea belief, prayer, hope, sentiment of some kind which Is worth cloth ing In poetic languago and shall so clothe It, they will not lose their hold on so many of the young generation. "Tag day," perhaps the logical suc cessor to "rummage sales," Is being overworked In this and other urban communities. Its passing la fore shadowed by the impatience with which many Importuned citizens have come to regard It. As a rep resentative of the ways and means which humane women on charitable thoughts Intent seek to maintain In stitutional work which has out grown (as such work Is apt to do) the resources that are behind it, tag day was at first and for several years quite popular and hence very success ful. So also were the rummage sales that annually for a time emptied the garrets and cellars of the well-to-do upon the needy for a price. They had their busy, bustling day and passed. The public, at first Indulgent, grew tired of them 'and turned aside from their tawdry, out-dated, moth eaten wares. Signs of weariness are discernible over the Importunities of "tag day," which, after all, like solic iting for advertising In year books of churches and benevolent societies. Is a form of begging that Is In a sense humiliating to those who engage In It. The title of queen for her daughter Is not bait enough to draw American millions Into the service of Portu guese royalists. Dom Miguel and his American wife might be chased out of Lisbon, as were King Manuel and his mother. If tho convulsions off the coast of Alaska continue, the whole country may be torn up and made over again before we liave decided whether to develop or conserve It. Clackamas County Is in healthy condition, with a debt of $100,000. The semi-annual report shows that $147,085.09 was spent on roads, and was a good investment. Who would have thought, not a great many years ago, when It was yet in the big timber, that the site of the public library would one day sell for $400,000? Plnchot will hit the United States shortly, but there will be no seismic disturbance. The former Forester Jars the atmosphere, that Is all. Having put coffee higher than It should go, Mr. Arbuckle would cheapen the sugar to sweeten It. Those teams of hens at the Co nectlcut experiment station will be en tered for a relay race. The Chinaman steering an auto ap pears as fearsome as his brother driv ing a horse. Interest in the bie s-ames will not prevent a yell for th Eeavers. Now is the time to, use the drag on country roads and lanes. Rnla and Mat rtaaoay. Princeton Tiger. Mr. Clererton Y'ou saw some old ruins In England this Summer, I sup pose? Miss Struckett-Rich Yes, and one of them wanted to marry me. Gleanings of the Day What American intervention has done for Santo Domingo Is told by Dr. Will iam A, Morris, brother of the Premier of Newfoundland, la the New York Evening Sun; Rehabilitation of the republic's finances has made investment safe and Americans are investing ex tensively in the lumber and cotton In dustries. The United States gold dol lar has been substituted for the Mex ican dollar as the basis of value of Dominion money. American adminis tration of the customs revenue has been so successful that the 45 per cent allotted to pay government expenses exceeds tjie total amount collected In the days of smuggling and Juggling. The government Is no longer short of funds and was able to have the har bor of Santo Domingo City dredged and will dredge that of Puerto Plata, the principal port of the Island. Drought has aggravated hard times in Austria, according to Consul-General Denby, of Vienna. The price of meat has been so high as toj-ause agitation for free admission of Argentine beef, but It has now gone higher and horse flesh, which Is dearer than beef was some years ago, is becoming a luxury to the poor. Yet, with meat beyond their reach, they find that crop failures are making vegetables too dear for them. The dry weather has not only diminished the product of the soil, but by lowering the water In the streams has made them less navigable, and has hindered the bringing of goods to mar ket. This has Increased the price of fuel, adding still further to the general hardship. Potatoes have doubled In price in five years and other vegetables have advanced 50 to 100 per cent. In Prague all household expenses have in creased, not only groceries and provi sions, but rent. Within 14 months rent has Increased an average of 30 per cent. When a family is out until after the street door to the apartment-house is locked, usually at 9:30 or 10 P. M., each member Is obliged to pay the janitor 4 cents for unlocking the street door. The call of the West to Eastern apple-growers has proved so strong that the Eastern states are making ef forts to keep their people at home by telling them what fortunes there are in apples without coming West. The State Inspector of Orchards and Nur series of Ohio cites his own experience, he and his brother having recently di vided $2000 in profits. He says one man in Ohio cleared $1000 above all expenses on one acre, and another sold 525.000 worth of fruit from 60 acres last year and cleared $15,000. He says there are fortunes In the (business in Ohio with only a small necessary out lay, and that some of the best apple land In Ohio can be brought for from $10 to $50 an acre in Southern Ohio among the hills. Twelve million bush els were growh in Ohio this year, and their market value Is more than $7,000,000. The Courier-Journal urges Kentucklans to take the Ohloan's ad vice, saying some of thera make hand some profits from apple-growing, w hile othrtrs neglect their trees and get only nominal returns. As the United States Inspects meat and other food and certifies to Its purity, the State of Kansas now In spects corporation stock and certifies to Its representing real value. The operations of fake promoters, who have capitalized everything up to the blue sky. have swindled the unsophis ticated Kansans of sums estimated by the Bank Commissioner at $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 a year and caused .the last Legislature to pass what ,1s popularly called the "blue sky" law. Thl act requires all companies offering stocks, bonds and other securities for saie within the State of Kansas to secure formal permission of the banking de partment. A comprehensive report as to finan cial standing, plan of operation, organi zation, etc.. Is required. The depart ment aloo investigates the reputation and financial standing of the directors and others associated with the enter prise. If It Is deemed necessary, expert opinion as to physical valuation of properties and other data Is secured from disinterested sources. This law has been in force about seven months, during which time over 500 companies have asked permission to offer their securities to the people of Kansas. But 44 of these have met the rigid require ments of the department. Many fake promoters did not file applications, but, like the Arab, "folded their tents and silently stole away." One concern went as far as Winnipeg, Canada, to escape the Jurisdiction of the depart ment. A Utah mining promoter is now languishing In a county jail andxfaces long imprisonment and a heavy fine for selling stock without a-permit. The administratior, of the law by J. N. Dolley. the Bank Commissioner, and.F. J. Partridge, special deputy in charge of Investment companies, has been such that the Kansas people accept their certificate In lieu of a personal Investi gation. Especially Is this true in the smaller towns and In the country. Kansas Is the first state to supervise the sale of stocks and bonds, and the law has attracted attention in practi cally every state in the Union and In foreign countries. The trouble In the Chemistry Bureau of the Agricultural Department is not ended by the reorganization, of the Food and Drug Board so as to give Dr. Wiley a majority. Solicitor Mc Cabe will still have power to recom mend when prosecutions shall be begun by the Attorney-General, though he 1s no longer a member of the Board. Friends of Wiley say that when the President returns to Washington he will see to it that the Food and Drug Board is not dependent on the recom mendations of the solicitor for the de partment, or will provide solicitor who Is In sympathy with the Food and Drug Board as. reorganized by Secre tary Wilson, The New York Evening Poet correspondent further says: There are numerous Indications that the anti-Wiley crowd in the department haa no thouKbt of glvinp up lis OKlrt against the chief or the Bureau of Chemistry. The statement is made that within the last few weeki. attempts have been made to harass l)r. yl!ey. Dr. Ruehfoy. of New York and other employes of the department who land by the chief of the Bureau of Chem istry. It is asserted thai some one has been employtr.K secret agents to investigate the private affairs of Ir. Wiley and ttr. Kushby. One of the MeCat.e partisans is quoted aa aylnp privately as late -as yesterday that the ntrht on Dr. Wiley had only bepun. The anti-Wiley men In the department have been savins; that they expect the Moss investl-a-Htlng; committee to resume hearings in December, and that they will at that time renew the flirht against Ir. Wiley. 1T. Kushby and Dr. Kebler. TII.DE AXD BLAI.XE ELECTIONS Writer Thinks Greater Injustice Done Plumed Knight Than Hayes' Opponent PORTLAND, Oct. 12. (To the Edi tor.) I had the pleasure of reading In The Oregonian the article by Addison Bennett relative to our Presidents from Pierce to Taft and notice that Mr. Bennett takes the position that Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic can didate, was elected President in 187S. Of course, I am aware of the fact that a great many people believe that Tilden was really elected, but if they will take the trouble to look up the record they will find that Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina all voted for Hayes and for the Democratic state ticket. Those votes were hon estly cast for Hayes and Wheeler, which elected them by one electoral vote. But whether it was right or not to count those votes for Hayes and Wheeler, it Is a fact that many peo ple thought at that time that there was a good chance for a war unless the matter was settled amicably. Therefore, the ' Electoral Commission of fifteen was selected and it was agreed by all parties to submit the question to such commission. That Commission decided In favor of Hayes and Wheeler and that settled it. There was another time when the man elected President was cheated out of It by fraud and repeating of the very worst character. It Is a well known fact in New York City and Is admitted by the Democrats of that city that Blaine carried New York State in 1SS4, but that he was cheated out of the vote by John Y. McKane and his co-consplrators In the following man ner: McKane organized a gang of repeat ers in Coney Island and had four elec tion booths erected adjoining each other and had his repeaters assume names taken from the carcass of a beef, commencing with John Nose, Bill Nose, Sam Nose, etc., John Teeth, Bill Teeth, Sam Teeth, etc.. clear through the body of the annlmal to the tail, ending with John Tall, Bill Tall, Sam Ta'l, etc. He marched those repeaters into the voting booths and marched them around from one to- the other a sufficient number of times to have their votes overbalance Blaine's majority in the state and to make Cleveland apparently have 1037 plural ity. Of course, that vote ought to have been contested -but a great hullahoo was raised at the time and the Re publicans were accused of trying to steal the election. For fear of creat ing another war the thing was dropped and Blaine was cheated out of the Presidency. I am tired of hearing people discourse upon TilJen's loss of the Presidency but say noth ing about Blaine's loss, espe cially in the view of the fact that Tilden's was Imaginary and Blaine's real and I only write this article be cause Mr. Bennett ignored the Blaine episode but was so familiar with Til den's loss. To substantiate the truth of my statements, I refer any person desir ous of knowing the truth to the rec ords of the criminal courts of Kings County,' New York, wherein John Y. McKane was prosecuted, convicted and sent to the penitentiary for the acts of repeating hereinbefore mentioned. D. J. HAYNES. The controversy over the right or wrong of the seating of Hayes Is a fruitless one and it was not Mr. Ben nett's intention to reopen it. He sim ply related matters of history that Tilden was elected "on the face of the returns," .had the larger popular vote and was believed by many to have been wrongfully deprived of the Presi dency. IRRIGATION IX WESTERX OREGO.V Ut. J. I. re First to Apply Waters to Willamette Valley Lands. PORTLAND, Oct 12. (To. the Ed itor.) An article appeared in The Ore gonian of recent date giving credit to the promoters of the West Stayton Irrigation project as the pioneers of Irrigation In the Willamette Valley. Had the person who wrote that article taken the trouble to look further or make inquiries he would have found that the pioneer movement in this mat ter of so much importance to the Wil lamette Valley was fathered and fos tered in the mind of one of Oregon's captains of industry, M. J. Lee, of Canby, who, after years of study and hard work, finally secured the capital to go on with the project. Involving the expenditure of upwards of $100,000 to bring water upon Canby lands. It was only through his unconquerable energy and untiring efforts that this was accomplished. After meeting the most exasperating obstacles almost at every step, he has finally had the great pleasure and satisfaction of seeing water flow In great abundance over the remarkably fertile acres which re spond at once to irrigation. Mr. Lee has maintained a demonstra tion farm at Canby of 20 acres for the last three years. This is one of the most beautiful sights imaginable and shows and demonstrates thoroughly the great advantage of water upon the lands of the Willamette Valley. While It Is true that this portion of our great valley .only needs water for probably three months of the year, yet to most crops they are the most essential three months of the growing season. Mr. Leo is maintaining, at a large expenditure, an engineering force pre liminary to coistruction of a dam 400 feet wide and about 250 feet high vor storage purposes that will make pos Eible tire irrigation of about 50,000 acres In the Molalla Valley country. That Irrigation is needed in this valley has bean demonstrated the pa.st four months by the great demand for water. Or ehardiets. truck gardeners and others have made a constant and steady de mand for water. Mr. Lee, in his modest and retiring manner, has said little about this and less has been known of this great project outside of the imme diate vicinity of Canby. I believe that the Canby Canal Company is the father of irrigation in the Willamette Valley, and should be entitled to the credit. F. M. ROTH. Conntry Town Sayings by Ed Howe I know a business man who has no opposition, and he seems to have about as much trouble as anybody. In nearly every conversation some thing Is said about "finding out" people. The only really valuable advice I can give a wife for the management of her husband, is to feed him well, treat him well, and trust to luck. When two friends have a quarrel, each begins to tell how much he has done for the other. When a man longs for a "congenial soul," he means someone who will compliment him. No man ever loved a woman after quarreling with her. - The boys' say that if anyone gives a circus elephant tobacco, it will al ways remember him. The boy may be a man grown, have whiskers and chil dren, and move to a strange town, but the next time the elephant sees him, it will pick him out and grab him, and step on him, and get even. A man may not know much in other ways, but he always has a very clear notion of what a woman's duties are. A boy Is proud of his mother when she is dressed up, but he doesn't dare touch her: she will scream about his dirty hands. NITTS ON RHETORIC By Dean Colllna. Nesclus Nitts, of whose wisdom and brain All Punkindorf rotation for ?ears had been vain. Adorning the floor with a nicotine stain. Delivered a speech, to a chewing re frain. On the late trip of Taft, in the follow ing vein: "When we knowed that Taft was a- comin through here. We hung round toe station to watch him -appear: And loyal sons of Punkindorf planned an ovation To spring when he come on the head of our Nation; We had Marshal Conner lock up Hiram Brown, Which same was the only Insurgent' in town. "Perhaps Taft had missed the perltte invitation We writ him to stop off at Punkindorf Station- His train never slacked on that mem 'rable day, But-jest went a-puffin' on down Port land way: Then Philomel Love says, "To show Tm a sport, I'll go down to Portland and bring a re port." "Well, Philomel went, and the day he come back All Punkindorf Station surrounded the track. And there was a big flood of checrin' broke loose When Philomel stepped from the freight train's cabot.se. We rushed him right down here to Hig- ginses. each A-roarin' "Now tell us the President's speech!' " "Say, what did he say?" we inquires, "Did he tell How Rome lost her empire and Babylon fell? Did spread eacles soar? Did he tell you about Them' . tan tacle arms of the trusts, reachin' out?" Thus questions we Phil, all preparln' to . gloat O'er the rhet'ric that comes from the President's throat. "SI Spriggs says, 'I bet he fair out- holiered Bryan!" But Phil shook his head, and jest set there a-sighin". 'No down-trod oppressed?" we exclaims all aghast, 'Well, what did he talk on?" And Phil sighs at last, 'There wasn't no rhet'ric, ner language intense: He didn't talk nothln' but jest com mon sense." " Tortland, October 13. Half a Century Ago From The Orejronlan, Oct. 14, 1SU1. On Thursday night after the salutes were fired In honor of the intended departure of Captain G. W. Staples, a difficulty occurred In the Bank . Ex change which was continued at the Pioneer Hotel, and ended in the Bhoot ing of Captain Staples by F. Patterson. Captain fcstaples died at the Pioneer Hotel yesterday morning. The accused is in Jail. The new steamer Enterprise is now carrying the malls to Puget Sound. They receive them semi-weekly. Farther Point Oct L The Great Eastern has arrived. The gale she en countered was fearful. Over 25 pas sengers sustained fractures from the tremendous rolling of the ship. Daniel S. Dickenson, Democrat, leads the Union ticket of New York for Gov ernor. The New York Tribune says of the candidates upon this ticket: "They should be borne into power by such an outburst of enthusiasm as has no parallel in the annals of American politics." Identity ol Horns Clothes., London Tit-Bits. "Are these your clothes or miner' asked the athletic man of his athletlo wife. "Look in the pockets," was the reply. "If you find smelling salts they're mine; if it's a whisky flask they're yours." New Color Comics Fables in Slang and . Sherlock Holmes in Tomorrow's Oregonian Several new characters of the comic supplement realm will make their first appearance' in tomor row's Oregonian. The list in cludes Mr. Boss, the barnyard bully; Hairbreadth F.arry, the man of harrowing adventures and marvelous escapes; Mrs. Time Killer, the woman who hasn't anything' much to do, and Slim Jim, the circus acrobat, who has the police on his trail. In addition, there will be two clever and entertaining "cut-out" features, in four colors, for the children Anna .Belle, the little girl with the pretty clothes, and new "cut-out" toys and games. George Ade's 1911 fable of how Albert first endured, then pitied and then set in, is another of the famous humorist 's best in his new series. The Adventure of the Reyjate Puzzle is the mystery case taken up and solved by Sherlock Holmes. . City Men Who Have Made Fanning Pay is a page record of the achievements of men who have gone from city to country and made good. China's New Army is described in an illustrated article which tells of a military organization that is great on dress parade but poor in the field. The Marionettes An 0. Ilenry short story dealing with a bur glar and a spendthrift. Nothing Bothers Me, song hit of the inimitable Eva Tauguay. Old Zing Sport An interest ing article on sporting activities in England. MANY OTHER FEATURES