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OC. 1. 1ML &xaix CKocvn i ob r.icxTnxDLa The Oregonlan finds this keen com ment In that most excellent newspa per, the Medford Sua: Pro.ld.nt Tart m!ct as w.ll quit. It haa la aanouncd that h baa don. nothing la hi Admlniatratlon but cur tht paata- of tl. -an-A;irtca bilL wn.t . th u? In tabllaamanl oC poatai aln(a banaa I nothing. Th erat:oa of a court of commarc la Boir.lt. T b. it llsri m.ni of a tariff board Is nota- n(. Th publicity of campaign xp.na.. tr-.a National Uittion of corporations, th dlaanlutlon of th Standard OH aud tn barco truat. th arbitration treaty wttb Grvat Britain, th procrtM toward Hi. wa- rl.tlon of tb I'ar.am 1'anai, th pmirie iward th Mtabli.nmcn of th. world pa:. th aavlng of tbouaitncla of dollar ty th. Introduction of economical bu.ln... m.thoda la atlosal admlnl.tratlon-v all thta I. Botnlnc Th. only thins u .t la aom thlns la th Taft Admlntatralioa la th. I'an tariff bUL Her Is a reasonably complete ummarr of a remarkable, record of achievement by President Taft and his Administration. It takes no ac count of the President's safe and sane views and plans on conservation, nor his active Interest In Alaska, nor his material aid In retting- an additional t20.OO0.O0O for reclamation, nor his courageous: opposition to the political machinations of a irroup of lnsurg-ent self-eeekers in combination with an other group of Democratic opportun ists. President Taft haa had very little to say about race suicide or phonstlo psllinr. or the simple life, and has done very little preaching or morai lxlng or dogmatising; but he has given to the world more than one great state paper, notably his discus sion of the Judicial recall In his Art-aona-New Mexico veto message. - President Roosevelt performed a wonderful service In arousing the public conscience and In launching teversJ mighty progressive moral tnd political movements. President Taft has brought some of them from Che difficult domain of agitation and discussion Into the form of fixed And practical policies. Others he Is striv ing bravely to frame Into law or ac tual and serviceable practice. He will go on serenely to the end doing his est. whether he shall or shall not receive the appreciative consideration he deserves from his country. MR. BOCRXK Ar THE II. SOS LIMIT. Pilot Rock la the banner Republi can precinct of Eastern Oregon, ac cording to the Record (newspaper); and therefore Pilot Rock feels that It Is entitled to say something about the availability of some few candi dates for office before the Republican primary. The Record announces that Judge Lowell haa declined to forego the honor of being a member of the Senate If he can be and wi'.l enter the race against Mr. Bourne, The Record accepts the Inevitable with what grace It can muster. Balancing the prospects of Mr. Lowell against Mr. Bourne, the Pilot Rock rper is moved to say: Mr. LowH 1 a poor man as compared wtia Bonrn. who I rated aa a millionaire, and money Is aa Important factor In th rao for a lt la th dlcnlaed and de lb.r ai UfH.ailr. body known aa lb l.'nltrd Hate fcenate. vD nnd.r tb "Oreson -tera." Handicapped as Mr. Low.:l will be. oa account of a lack of money, to making an areaatv campalcn. and both atandms IH-atiially for tb una K-cai:d reform, inou Inclined to luds th futur' by th put. in dipod to sraat to Mr. l.ouo. a decided advantas in a rac. aini kand4 against Sir. LovtU. The Record appears to take It for granted that Mr. Bourne will spend a vast amount of money to be re-elected. Others think so also. But pos sibly not: poitslbly not. There are new risks about flooding a state with corruption funds; Just as there are nowadays In buying, or trying to buy. spent $107,000 to be elected Senator a Legislature. Mr. Stephenson, who from Wisconsin, distributing cigars. beer, chewing gum and other dolec- tables to the electorate, finds that such entirely Innocent purchases, con ducted wholesale, are open to suspl- . clon and misconstruction. There are some people, too, who think and even say that Mr. Stephenson spent a much larger amount for other and more profitable purposes. There Is, or was, no law In Wisconsin to forbid the pur. chase of chewing gum and candy for an entire state; but Oregon has such a law; and so has the United States. The new Federal corrupt practices act permits a Senator to spend $10. 0 quite a tidy sum In his cam paign. The Oregon law allows only $750. but probably a candidate for Senator may be legally Justified to elect the larger amount. Senator Bourne has given to the world many noble thoughts about purity, honesty, virtue, manliness, .duty, honor and uprightness in our public affairs. Is It too much to hope that we may now record one noble deed to his credit. In his self-sacrificing and self-effacing refusasl to ex pend over $10,000 for his re-election? DARE XOT SHIRK. President Taft wisely told the women of California, now that they have been given the right to vote, that they should exercise It. The campaign and the closeness of the vote showed that many women were opposed to woman suffrage and bo doubt many more are Indifferent or passively opposed. But such women. In their own Interest, should exercise the franchise as freely as thoe who have been agitating for It. To ab stain from voting because they did not desire the franchise would be to etthose to who-e methods and opin ions they are opposed have things all their own way. Every anti-suffrage woman who abstains from . voting doubles the value of the vote of some suffragist. The vote of men on officials and measures expresses the opinion of the average man. Men of all oplnlona and characters go to make up that aver age. Now that the women of Cali fornia have been given the franchise, the result of elections will reflect the opinion and character of the average man and woman combined. If the quiet, domesticated. home-staying woman who shrinks from the hurly burly of politics abstains from vot ing, she allows the aveTSge to be lowered by Increasing the weight which the opposite type of woman will have In deciding public affairs. It will be with women as It has been with men. We hear much of the corruption of politics. -of Its de filing all who "participate. Whatever of corruption and defilement exists has been due no more to the activity of the baser element than to the Inac tion of the better element. The more politics Is abandoned to the "powers that prey." the more corrupt K will become, and those who refuse to fight against corruption must share the re sponsibility with those who fight for It. Just so far as the better element takes active part In public affairs. Im provement will come about and cor ruption be lessened. Under woman suffrage California will And the worst type of women lined up with the worst typ of men for corrupt government. Their In fluence can only be offset by equal activity on the part of the best type of women In behalf of clean govern ment. Exercise of the franchise, once conferred, la not only a privilege but a duty which each person owes to hlnuielf or herself. It Is an unwel come duty thrust upon many women who shrink from Its performance, but If they fall to do It, they will share the consequences of as well as the re sponsibility for public Ills. VACCINATION AND gMAIXTOX. r.irr. Morris writes to The Ore- gonlan today to explain what a boon to humanity the smallpox Is. In his opinion this malignant and loath some disease Is "a cleansing process. i--nntir-lm ran clav havoc with any man's wits, but it seems to have been singularly destructive to Mr. Morris. The -facts" which he discloses about the harmlessneas of smallpox and the virulence of vaccination neea a ume more evidence before they will be re .iv.H ,v.rvwhprfl it la easy to man ufacture statements of that sort and the Brigade ror trie rrorauuuu Death are only too ready to do it. The slight wound which vaccina tion makes in a man's arm may be poisoned by filthy habits and become dangerous but If he is cleanly In his person there Is not the slightest dan ger. When a tale Is told of the fear ful consequencea of vaccination It Is probably false. But If it la true, as sometimes happens, we may at once conclude that the patient was too slovenly to keep his body washed. Modern medicine presuppose that people will occasionally bathe. The virus of smallpox has been attenuated - by vaccination and the steady pursuit of physicians until It has apparently lost some of Its old time virulence. A genuine case of the horrible disease is- now seldom seen, but that Is true only because vaccination has won a partial victory. Cease to vaccinate for a few years and the good old. days of smallpox pestilence would be here again. v w-iah for the rood . of their souls and the Improvement of their sense that the antls wouia reaa me numerous descriptions of smallpox which abound tn the literature of the Ust century. The festering sores, the body stripped of skin from head to heel, the hideous deformities. the blindness and deafness even when patients were "cured." the putridity ho inruuinil In fatal cases while life still lingered, the perusal of these descriptions would be or lasting Den ant tn tha more rational of the sect. But there are others who are lnac- .nivu tn f.irt and reason both. The are Joined to their Idols and the best thing to do Is to let them alone as long as they are not perniciously ob structive to the public neaitn. THE IXn NOISE. In handing out verbal phantasma goria we sometimes think a turbulent Democrat can put It all over an Insur- rcnL But then, again,-we often think a rampant Insurgent can make a Democratic utterance seem aa peace ful as the water In a bathtub. There was Senator Clapp. of Minnesota, at the opening of the La Follette cam paign In Chicago Tuesday night. His remarks were typically Insurgent. It is to be presumed there were "ladles present." so the Senator did not dare to as far as he really could. He did not say anything more intemperate than that President Tafts action in the Arlxona statehood matter was the "blackest chapter In all tyranny out side the absolute despotism of an nn bridled King." Of -course, excepting the derootlsm of unbridled Kings takfs out of consideration great deal of historical tyranny. But It was skiu f.ii nu nf red-hot English, that. K.n.mr riaoD la not the only Minne sota insurgent statesman who paints tils eloauence with vermilion brusn. Mr. Sidney Anderson, who superseded standpat Tawney In the House, has that happy faculty. We find that In the last session Mr. Anderson, discuss ing the Arizona Issue, almost set fire to the staid old Congressional itecora with these beautiful and Impassioned words: a r.e d.v. ifo by an overwhelming ma Jorlty. both Hou.ea of Congre voted to alv to th peopl of Arizona, not th rlsht to rlac In ih-lr eon.tltutlon th recall of Jurixe. for that propoaltlon wn not In-voiv-d In that rmluuon. but to alv to th peopl of that Territory th rlht to vot i. fr. m-n. Now. w propu. to taka away that rlrht. and I auppoa w will Jutl fy it upon turn theory of mental irymnaa. tlca So far a -I am concerned the craaa and neak. and de-erl waat.B of Arlxona will fa.l In tb dim and far-reache of eetmlty befora 1 will vot to place thla Inault upon them. Tou mar crucify the popl of Ari zona upon a rrora of cowardice, but I thank (lod you cannot plu.-k from out their breaata the avlrlt of progreaa that haa placed ln ih. eonaittutlon which they adopted th Institution of a popular aovernmrnt. I do not doubt fha wNum or th loyalty of th Am.rlraa tonirm but i aomeiime. oouot Ita couraa.. fr aa I am concerned. I would a. aoon ctlmb to Jehovah's throne and piii'-k from -tlod'a diadem of Jewele Ma brtrhteat .tar as 1 would vot. for thla reo;utlon taking away aa It doea th right of th. peopl or Arlsona to staMiBh a con arltutlon according to the principle for which thy atand ana in wnicn tney believe. These are modern examples of In surgent oratory. Would we had room for more. But Democracy has spoken In Massachusetts, or at least George Fred Williams has spoken through the medium of the Bay State Democ racy. For sublime eloquence, the fol lowing Introduction from the Ma.tsa- chusetts Democratic platform does not match the fervid and pious re marks of Mr. Anderson. Still, It is gorgeous enough to command notice A wav of democracy I sweeping ov.r th world. Sultana, ahaha and klnga are driven Into exll and th republic 1 tb Ideal of earth, atrotrglfng peoplea Above th. amok, lng ruin of a feudal aristocracy appeara tha bow of promise r-r B-ir-government to th poil or t-ireat ttniun. a mumy move ment la our wa land is lor mors aemoc TITTJ racv. and It I fitting that It should be wel comed by the first Democratic slat, con vention la alaasacnua.ua 10 .. ... gate and canrti.latea come dlr.otly by th people's appointmeat. But Mr. Williams was Just getting started. What the Introduction lacked in extravagance Is found In the following extract from tne Douy 01 me platform: . -. e .rtvll... which In lb Massachusetta Republican convention stood dellant and unyielding, tolerating no Insurgency ana eupire.sii boundleee treaaurea are drawn from the toll ing millions held under the laah of aeces- oiuatrlal ruin too who question It. x- and menace Ita supremacy. a.ven I now. If need ho. there will be shut-down : . i . i - v . the toiler mav hi ballot through tearful and hungry ya. with snit-trt hia-h-SDeed eloquence ap- et-oelnv an enflv In th daV ffOm ln- r1 " j -- - surgent and Democratic sources, an must admit that the coming presiden tial campaign Is to be no ordinary one. The politician who can ao no better than "point with pnae or "view wlth'alarm" will not write the niatr.-irm nf 1812. The speaker who commands only facts and logic will not draw pay from tne rtaiioutu m state committee. Of all. pouucai propaganda in platform or in speech, the public with this preliminary taste will demand the kind that requires no n-iriimifnrinr. no capitalization, no red Ink to produco spine thrills, nervous spasms and an enthralling aesiry . mash something. We shall demand the kind of eloquence tnat reveaia an exclamation point In every word. Give us the loud noise. rmsT books. Me Rnhsrt Sterling Yard's article In The Saturday Evening Post which purports to reveal some of the deeper secrets of tho book publishing busi ness has been cnucisea on uw of inaccuracy. For example, Mr. Yard stAtea that James Whitcomb Riley's poems have not been espe cially profitable to their publisher. Those who know the facts dispute this. Certainly the sale or liners poems has been large enough to make o Tienflt for anmebodv. If the pub lisher did not get It perhaps the au thor did, so that, aner axi, mt prin ciples of Justice may not have been violated. Mr. Yard also seems to be Inaccurate . about the first hooks which various authors have puo llshed. Thus he sal's that "The House of a Thousand Candles" was Mr. Nicholson's first novel, wiucn is not the case, though we cannot Imagine why anybody should bother about It. Whether such a book was a man's first or ten thousandth Is not of the slightest Importance to literature. From Mr. Yard general oiscussion of the subject of book publishing mrsra the ' Interesting question whether a first book Is likely to make an Author famous or not. t-ertainiy it has In some Instances. "Waveriey. his first novel, did fairly well by Sir Walter Scott and Dickens "Pickwick Papers," his first- ambitious work, made a reputation for him which would be satisfactory to most aspi rants for fame. It Is true, however. that as a rule great literary repute has grown up gradually. Ibsen ac quired European renown only alter long years of work and many iaii uros. Shakespeare was not more famfliii thin Marlowe tn his own day. nor was he seated on the pinnacle of renown until Goethe began to oiscuss his plays for the German world. Au thors may be divided Into three classes those whose, repute begins grandly and soon' expires, those who riimk ainwiv but never go down again, and those who never climb at all. Such men as Fielding ana sucn women as Jane Austen cover a larger arc of the literary noriaon every year. Time merely brings out tneir magnitude without diminishing it. rttit th first books of many great authors have been sad failures. Even Tennyson did not leap Into fame. His first volume was not by any means an Impoflng affair as a revelation of genius. The verses were pretty but not gTeat. and the world smiled a sorene welromo to him without going into ecstnslrs. Keats fared much worse. His early poems were ridi culed so severely by tho critics that a fable arose telling how he died of a broken heart over it all. His heart was rot broken, but certainly the Kiintintlnn which srnawed at his vitals was not alleviated by the bru talities of the reviewers. At any rate he died after a little while and the world lost a poet before his prime who was worth all the critics and re viewers that ever lived. Everybody knows what a scant meed of glory Byron won by his boy ish book of verses. The Scotch critics a-hn then laid down the law for Eng lish literature made grotesquely eni-i-v ver hit weak sentimentality. No doubt A smaller man would have wn mramA into silence by their sneers and guffaws, but Byron was net timid. He retorted wltn a nne f entire. "Enellsh Bards and Scotch Reviewers." which was his eieat Mflllv vnorl nnem. It is com rin. know that in this bout the critic, crawled out at the little end of th horn. Byron became famous over night, as he himself relates, but it n nnt Viv file first hook. When "Chllde Harolde" was published the tide turned In an hour or two and "he awoke one morning and found himself famous. Poor Chatterton wrote as good poetry as any man of his day, but he never got any recognition anrj en.ii itarn' tn da&th- or commit ted suicide In the pangs of hunger. vt.,ee. wrnta the best lrrlcs that have ever been published, but all the re ward he received In his own lifetime was the condescending patronage of a fat Duchess and an appointment to gauge whisky barrels. The two best poets of the United States received scant recognition while they were alive and ' have been sadly abused since they died. America remem bered that Poe was a drunkard for many years before she learned from Germany that he was a gTeat poet. His contemporaries, humble echoes of English writers, patted him In sultingly on the back when they were not slandering him. With all his sur passing genius. Poe could not earn enough money by his pen to keep the wolf from tho door. All his life he was half beggar and half sot. to the everlasting disgrace of his generation. Walt Whitman, who stands next to Poe in the file of American poets, if not a step above him. had no repute until years after he was dead. In his lifetime even those who knew how great he was were prudishly ashamed to own it. Emerson at first praised him but he was noon silenced by the storm of oldmaidlshness which greet ed "Leaves of Grass." The students of Dartmouth College Invited Whit man to lecture to them. The fac ulty did not forbid It, but they took pains to Inform the world that the affair was unofficial. What would MORXIXG OREGOXIAN, TITTJITSDAY, Dartmouth not give now to be hon orably associated with the fame of the most original voice that ever spoke on this continent for human liberty. The hunger for fame has been one of the most potent factors In history. Its Influence has far surpassed the luste for money which some tell us now Is the only passion that moves men to action. One has earned fame by long and arduous toll, to another It haa come as a free gift from the wnAm Th a a-tti of renius are wild . . e frvrtiinn are distrib- - . ... . ml tTh twinna-of fortune) BJ uted without rule and often without apparent Justice. Work on the Clackamas Southern Railway, which Is being pushed out into a fertile and populous farming section of Clackamas County. Is pro gressing rapidly. From present Indi cations the road will be in operation from Oregon City to Molalla before the middle of next year. The road will be of Incalculable benefit to the section of the county which It taps. Some of the most fertile farming and dairy lands In the state -lie along the line of this railway lands that have been occupied for half a century and more, but which have languished In Isolation, their development handi capped by lack of transportation fa cilities. The enterprise mar. is peniuo thla railway Is commendable, rising as it does to meet the settlers' need. Thla a Ann lima for enthusiasts tO be abroad In the interest of the good roads movement. For one thing, they can get around in places Inaccessible In the Winter time, with automobiles, in buggies, on horseback or afoot, and note the possibilities in roadDuiiaing In Oregon under the most favorable rimnminni'Hi. There is no time like the present, especially If that be the present October, wltn. its Daimy air, bright skies and good roads that will ha hBrl maris two months hence and for every succeeding Winter until they are turned into good roads by lntelli- trent. concerted effort on tne pan oi good road enthusiasts. Th fhelftv nntato natch la Just now th farrnftr'a sourcs of DrOSDeritV. The area of potatoes in the Willamette Valley this year Is not large as mm- ..IM. with tha -increasing oemiuiu caused by a materially augmented population, but the quality of the product, so far as it has been tested, Is excellent and the yield rair. iiate po tafnoe van civnn a tremendous Im petus by the early September rains snrl spa attll srrnwinar vigorously. A killing frost will be necessary to stop this growth and give tne swelling tu bers a chance to mature. .Tohn Hivi Hammond would con vert American diplomats into a sort of grand foreign .sales manager ior American goods. 6uch, a suggestion must cause a shudder to the souls or enanv rtiniomat... "HvinsT and dead. who regarded a diplomatic post as an opportunity to mix in roreign art uu literarv circles- or to tnrow ineir wlvoa and daus-hters among the roy alty and nobility of Europe. . But that is one of the aiflictions or tnose wno hnvA an mnoh money that they can afford to despise money-making. 'Vnthlnir fnnvtnces like experience. The doctors have been telling us for years that public drinking cups were disseminators or disease ana me city assented Indifferently. It might be so or It might not. Now comes Walla Walla with the report that contagious diseases have disappeared irom me vhnnU alnrA (tin common cud was eliminated and no doubt parents will take a livelier interest in ino suojeci.. We venture to predict that the timber company which has provided baths for its lumber Jacks, will make money by It. Labor produces more and better results under comfortable conditions than when it is cold, hun gry and dirty. Give a man sunshine, pure air, good food and a decent place to sleep in and the bank account of his employer Immediately begins to swell. - It Is difficult to understand why a state official should not be subject to garnishment. If he owes an honest debt the state Is in small business when It uses Its power to help him escape payment. In old times gar nishment of his servants, as Judge McGinn says, impaired' the King's majesty, but the majesty of .the State of Oregon Is not such a flimsy fabric. Governor West's Idea of economy seems to be to spend more money in an effort to save money and then save nothing. This resembles the plan of one of Dickens' characters who denied himself a certain pleasure, then, con sidering the cost saved, spent that sum in some other way. ' If the gold output of South Africa should decrease as has that of Alaska, we should see what bearing It has on prices of food and raiment,- for the economists tell us these articles are not dearer, but gold Is cheaper. The Mayor of North Taklma be lieves In fostering' home product to the extent of drinking It exclusively. The Yakima hop has particular merit, and perhaps the finished product Jus tifies the Mayor's course. - - The care which both parties to the civil war In China are taking not to molest foreigners la an evidence that they have taken to heart the lesson of the Pekln expedition of 1900. If some of these people found guilty of securing money on' worthless checks were given the maximum pen alty, the practice would stop. Too many cases are settled. Yesterday's dispatches told of an earthquake along the Alaskan coast. Glfford Plnchot Is in Seattle. The ter ritory wis shaking hands with itself, that's all. John Hays Hammond says the Am bassador Ihould be a business man. Why not send hlmto St. James and prove the truth of it? Enforcement of the law against Ju venile chauffeurs Is proper, but some drivers are childlike at any age. White people may keep colored worshipers out of their neighborhood only to meet them all In heaven. Spokane's woman deputy sheriff will not need a gun or a club so long as she has a hatpin. That official kidnaper from Color ado has much respect for one Oregon plan. OCTOBER 19, 1911. Gleanings of the Day When Lord Strathcona, Canada's high commissioner In London, made a hurried trip across the Atlantic the ! other day. Intending to remain on this side of the water less than a week. people wondered how a ,man of 91 could maintain the pace set by this pioneer of Hudson's Bay. There are some Canadians, however, who do not believe that his age-has been cor-. rectly recorded. They say he Is nearer I 97 than 91, and believe that he expects I to live until he reaches HL They tell this story about him. at least: When, they say, he reached 94 years, he re newed the lease of his London house. He always attends to the details oi i such things personally, ana wnen no presented the lease to his secretary for filing the latter exclaimed: "Why. my lord, the lease runs for 17 years!" "Oh, that's all right," Strathcona re plied, with a smile; "we can easily re new It at the end of that time." Commenting on the President's dec laration of his purpose to continue en forcement of -the anti-trust law, the Chicago Tribune says: Ther 1 nothing In these view which threatens the fraedom of legitimate finance or the prosperity of law-abiding corpora tion. Th stock ticker may have palpita tion of the heart every tlm the President declares hla simple duty to enforce the law, but It la to be observed that there are men high in the business world who whole heartedly, indorse the President's position, and invite, aa to their own corporations, full Investigation and supervision. This ht strong evidence that clean business men are confident that clean business can proceed nrnsoeroual v. even on . the - largest scale. under th Sherman law as Interpreted In th light of reason. The selfish reaction aries of the "let ti alone" school would have us believe that th President and those who believe with him in both parties would tear down the great structure of busi ness ntrprlse which the genius of Ameri can men for commerce and organization has built up. The charge is preposterous, and th sooner th common aensw of the Ameri can people puncturea that folly the quicker the cloud of uncertainty and distrust will clear away and the tremendous natural ac tivities of the country reassert themselves. Saku Keljun. a member of the Shin gon sect of Buddhists in Japan, pro poses a complete union of the Chris tian and Buddhist religions. He pro poses to "Include in our galaxy the only true God whom the Christians worship," to make the person of Christ and God the "Great Mandars." and to adopt the cross, the Bible and the Christian 'doctrines of mercy and sal vation. He Bays: - Buddhism and Christianity In fundamen tals are the same, but if ws make minor distinction wo see Buddhism teaches we are related to the past; that la, all things ex isted In a former state, but Christianity ex plains exlstenc aooordlng to natural law. But progressiva Christianity has become pan theistic. Those who. entertain th idea that man may becom a god ar now found both In th West and In Japan. Thl idea I the same as that of being absorbed in and existing aa Buddha. Baltimore Is bidding for another monument. Senator Rayner proposes to introduce a bill in Congress appro priating $100,000 for a monument to Admiral Schley. A correspondent writes to the Baltimore Sun suggesting Fort McHenry as the fittest site, as that spot Is associated with the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."' Washington has a sharpshooter among its policemen named William H. Fugltt, who Is an old Indian fighter. Pigeons had become a nuisance at the new 15,000,000 Union Station, defiling the whiteness of its marble, and Fugltt was assigned to shoot them without damaging the marble. In the early morning ,he has shot all but three of the 200 pigeons without damaging the marble, and has rarely missed hla mark. Th. Trr nf Tinnnn Authority, which i. tha nfflnlnl nnme civen to the harbor and dock board of London, proposes to spend 19.4bb,ueu in enlargement, ui docks to aooommodate the larger ves sels now built. At the Victoria and a i t...t Anrtm thev nrooose to build, a new dock 800 feet long, 100 feet wide and 45 feet deep bb comparea wun tne Albert dock, which Is 660xS0 by 36 feet. This will cost 110,343.982. The lorweat nf the East India docks has a passage from the basin so small as to be limited to 1000-ton vessels, xnis is to be enlarged to accommodate ves sels of 8000 . or -9000 tons. The old London docks, which cannot now ac commodate vessels of over 2000 tons, are to be Improved to admit 4000-ton vessels. This work Is the first Install ment of a programme' which involves an expenditure of 170,207,000. The manufacture- of pottery of va rious kinds has grown to be an enor mous industry in the United States, and It was In a highly prosperous con dition in 1910. according' to a report by Jeff erson MIddTeton. Juat published by the United States Geological .Sur vey. The product was valued at J33. 784,678. a gain of 82.735.237. or 8.81 per cent, over the figures for 1909. Thla Is th greatest value ever reached, exceeding by' 82.843.794 the record fig ure for 1906. Compared with earlier years the increase is yet more strik ing. In 1899 the value of the pottery products of the United States was $17, 250.250. The product for ' 1910 was greater by $16,534,420," a gain of 95.85 per cent. During the same period the Imports Increased 40.78 per cent. The product of most Importance Is white ware, which Includes general household ware, though It Is produced In only eight states. This product was valued at $14,780,980 in 1910, compared with $13,728,316 in 1909. Ohio was the leading producer, reporting a value of $9,780,408 for-1910. West Virginia was second and New Jersey third. White ware composed 43.75 per cent of all pottery products. Qhlo Is the leading pottery-producing state in the Union, reporting a value la 1910 of $14,794,712, or 42.31 per cent of the whole. New Jersey was second with wares worth $8,588,455, or 45,42 per cent of the total. West Virginia, was third, with wares valued at $2,675,588. The five .leading, states Ohio, New Jersey, West Virginia. Pennsylvania and New York produced 88.60 per cent of the total. Japan- is becoming ' enfhuslastio in support of Lieutenant Shirase's expedi tion to the South Pole. Tne.Toklo news papers propose a campaign for the pur pose of raising funda and may peti tion the Government for aid. A mass meeting In behalf of Shirase packed a large hall at' Kanda. Japanese Interest Is stimulated by the rival expedition of Dr. Mawson, to which the South Australian Cabinet has given 6000. Money-lenders pronounce New York overbuilt, as to apartments, .hotels 'and offices and are refusing to make loane. As to apartments in particular, the Metropolitan Life has shut down t'ght. WHT TJTVEN'S SCHEME IS XTSFATR. Mr. Reed Takes I'P Concrete Example and Shows Injustice of Single Tax. PORTLAND, Oct. 18. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonlan of October 16. Mr. W. S. U"Ren, to Illustrate the "ben efit" of the so-called single tax. com pares the southwest corner of Fourth and Oak streeta, upon which stands the Henry building, with the northwest corner of Fourth and Stark streets, at present covered with ramshackle shan- Th. orCo nf onrh niece of ground Is 100x100 feet. The Fourth and Stark corner is the more valuable piece of ground, because Stark street Is a bet ter all-round business street than Oak, and Fourth Is better at Stark than it is at Oak. On the basis that $S000 of pub lic taxation would be needed tromt" two quarters. Mr. U'Ren suggests that Mr. Henry pay a $4000 tax on Ms ground, and the Fourth and Stark own ers an equal tax on their ground. The object of this scheme would be to re ward Mr. Henry for erecting the fine building now standing on u. and to penalise the Fourth and Stark owners for not better Improving their property. Mr. U'Ren asks if such a plan would be wrong. Let us see how it would work-out in practice. If Mr. Henry's tax is reduced to $4000. he will naturally save the difference between that amount and the current tax upon his land and Improvements. For,the sake of argument, suppose Mr. Henry's saving will be $1000 per year and that the tax of the Fourth and Stark owners will be $1000 additional per year. The Fourth and Stark own ers will, as soon as they can, shift their additional tax to the r tenants, and will not be out anything, aney will be able to do this, as everyone knows that for several years past there , . .i j.n,.nrl for business nas Deeu. kuio - . locations on the Fourth and btarK quarter, so mucn so nmv have found it far more profitable to maintain the present shacks than to build. Mr. U'Ren wants to know if this so-called equalization of taxfs would wrong Mr. Henry. It certainly .. a.k. v t -i onrv would to tne extent tu" - would be assessed equally with an ad joining . piece of property which is worth more, wnen jar. nr.iu r.t hi. tav hills from the tax collector he would naturally say: "The Fourth and StarK corner nas mum o.- . ... ..v,ii- traffic and more irau"-. " ....-. - streetcar traffic than my land, it is 100 feet closer to wasningiun o.... i -,i t. i0 thprafor more val- liian I ii J iiiwt w - , . . uable than my property, yet I am called upon to pay the same amount of taxes. Would not Mr. Henry nave j-" grievance under the circumstances f Assuredly he wouia. Mr. U'Ren would have us believe that the additional tax of say $1000 Im posed upon the Fourth and Stark cor ner would make the owners tear down the present shacks and put ub a better niirilne-. Now would It? When a land-owner decides to tear down an old building and erect a new one, mo principal things which ne consiucrs . the following: First The value of the ground. Second Loss of revenue from the hji whiia it to fetT0 torn down Old DUUU11I6 nuim i " 1 " ' " and the new one erected, Including a proportion of the annual taxes. Third Cost of tearing down the old building and cost of erecting the new building, including Interest on money borrowed or used. Fourth Will the new building, when completed be a more profitable invest ment than the old building, and if so, how much more profitable? In the final analysis. . the probable net revenue will govern the land owner's decision. If the revenue from . . . i . . . i . , J .. .Itqntlaa rtl 11 M tnO 1)111 lUIIIlllcu-uirnii t. -., i the estimated cost of the new building. can ne otnerwise ravratea m i"i a greater profit than the new building would, then the new building would not be erected. . If the capital at the land-owner's command can be better employed In the proposed new building than in any other way he knows about, then he will build and not otherwise. Taxes are factors which affect the pro ductivity of a real estate Investment, the same as light, iheat, water. Janitor's services and other charges. They will not compel an owner to build, nor pre vent him from building on his land if the Investment Is profitable. The Fourth and-Ptark location is an example of Mr. U'Ren's own choosing to prove the "benefits" of penalizing unenterprising land-owners. It Is an excellent piece of property in the heart of the administrative district, and only one block distant from the principal business street of the city, where traf fic is often as congested as it Is on n . X- . XT" 1. , ..11. DriidUWttJi nrw iuia. 11 tiio du-ixiiicu single tax will not compel such owners to Duna unless prom is in signt, wnat W . . . . , n.,n AA locations of the city, where no amount or money expenaea upon a piece ut . . . . T . - . ...... ..(..1,1 M- Kluuiiu wuuiu iicv aa mi go a. j irm ao it would even If invested in Portland's tnirij-year, per cent, uia uriugo Donas Dougnt at a premium.' - HENRY E. REED. SMALLPOX CLEANSING PROCESS f Mr. Morris Sees Bleaalnsr In Disease and Crime In Vaccination. PORTLAND, Oct. 18. (To the Edi tor.) Smallpox and vaccination, their merits and demerits, can be compared by visiting the Piedmont carbarns, says the committee or the Health Defense League which was appointed by that organization to investigate the vaccina tion crusade of Health Officer Wheeler. There were only four mild cases of smallpox found In the Piedmont district three men and one little frlrl J1 of whom felt benefited by the disease, as smallpox Is a -cleansing pris-ess. They were sick only two or three days, and one of the men said that he never missed- a 'meal. ...... Compare these smallpox cases with those of vaccination. In the Piedmont district alone there were 110 employes of the Portland Railway, Light & Pow er Company vaccinated, among whom over 70 were disabled, many having very sore arms and badly swollen from shoulder to wrist,, which -they were obliged to wear in slings. Two of the men were delirious. One of them had been alone in his room all night and part of a day when found In a serious condition. The vaccinating sore on one man's arm was fully two inches long and half an inch wide and tbe odor from it was very offensive. He had been unable to work for two weeks. One of the smallpox patients unwill lngly submitted to the vaccination of his bright and heauny uttie gin or zvt vears at the repeated demand xt Dr. Wheeler, who performed the operation himself. This child suffered more from the effects of vaccination than did the four smallpox patients combined. This was two months ago and she is not well i yet. Let mothers compare this unfor tunate little girl wltn tne nine gin of 314 years who had the smallpox . .u 111 V. .nmrlnoa Ihllt smnl). I ana nicy 1 ' a x.v.. . . ' 1 l.n... ,V.A VloaltVl of t Vl ft pUX 1113 lllil'i v " ' one child, while vaccination seriously injured the health of the other. GEORGE MORRIS. - '' " ' 60S Davenport Street. Special Session of 1RS1. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 16. (To the Ed itor.) Was a special session of the United States Senate called in October, 18gU . . IS. J. JAMES. - - President Arthur, who as Vice-rres. I ldent succeeded Garfield in September, ' 1881, summoned a special session of the '. Senate to meet-October 10. 1881, In or 1 der that a president pro tern, of that j body might be elected. The session I lasted until October 29. . The Dub's Awakening By Dean Collin. I met within a mixing Joint A sad and lonely one, Who labored long beside the bar. Developing a bun; m "Why consort you. O lonesome Slnk, Quoth I to him, "with demon drink?" He downed the tall one with a glub: "Remorse for I have been a dub." "Full oft," he sighed, "in early hours, When clanging cars were still, I leased the chugging taxicab And sought a high-priced grill. To taste the fancy line of bait They peddle at ten bones per plate. Stir In the bouillon with my knife. And murmur, "Ah, but this is Life! "And ever, when I fed my fllL And rose to get my hat. Although the footing of my bill Had well-nigh strapped me flat, Allons,' said I, 'let's be a sport And play it right at this resort? And so, to be like other gents, n I'd slip the waiter 30 cents. 'Ah, yester morn, without my door, Cnn.Hru In tnnpn of Erlee. I heard six cylinders belch forth Sounds of prosperity: The landlord's course was thither bent To stick me for the monthly rent: That face! That hand! I see them still It was the waiter at the grill. Portland, octoDer 10. WEST'S COURSE BAD PRECEDENT. Taxpayer Fears Evil Results From Gov ernor's Lenient Foiicy. PARTI. AND. Oct. 18. (To the Edl- tnr Tha lenient disposition of the Chief Executive toward those who have been found (runty of crime nas ncrn . commented on by many, but I think no one has fully realized that the result of precedent? set by him may Decome beyond control. Take for instance me comrnuiuimu of Webb. Tnis man was givon i" trial, and 12 men who had sworn to abide by the law and evidence found him guilty of murder in tne nrsi ue gree. These wen are probably as human as is the Governor, and prob Rhlv if thev had listened to the tender sentiments might have been swayed to another verdict. But the evidence was too strong. We all know there was no new evidence brought out, the Jury waa not asked to change its verdict, out the Governor was prevailed on by the wife who had been deserted and rhe little girl who had been robbed of a father's care to reduce tho punishment. What is a man's duty? Is the oath taken by the Governor any weaKer than that of a Juryman? Does the fact that the Governor referred to that jury as a few bloodthirsty men make them so? And will such actions make it easier to find and convict the fiends for whose capture and conviction there Is nn aggregate reward of over $30,000? Is is for the Governor to say that there shall be no capital punishment for the murderer, and then In the next breath connive with a few detectives to railroad a man out of the state be cause he is accused of a petty crime? It would appear to me that If Ore gon wants to continue to be consid ered conservative and sane some steps must be taken to control the power of the Governor. Tho precedents set by the present incumbent may lead to others Just as radical. No doubt many of the reforms In stituted are good and also a profit to the state, but is It fair for any one man to say that because a thing is more profitable in dollars. It is always better for the state? No doubt a great saving of money could be made by the state if Instead of a trial of men charged with crime In the regular way, the Governor could have the relatives of the accused say what punishment should be given. Knowinir, as I do, the men who were on the Webb Jury, I am sure that they did their duty, not because they were a bloodthirsty set, but because the evidence convinced them that it was the only thing to do and keep sacred the oath they had taken. If the plans that have been started by the present Governor, who Is un questionably honest In his Intentions, should be continued and the state should happen to fall into the hands of unscrupulous persons, what could the state do to prevent the criminal element from running the state to stilt themselves? Personally I do not favor capital punishment, but I don't think it should be within the power of any one per son to set aside the existing laws when they don't happen to be accord ing to his way of thinking. The dan ger to' the state Is not what has been done but what the precedent will lead to I think it time to cut out the sen timent and get down to facts as we have them. If the laws are not riprht. have them repealed In the proper way. and not leave it nil for one man to saynwh,ch is Just and ehnot Use of Words. PORTLAND. Oct. 17. (To the Edl tor.)Would you be kind enough to publish Infallible rules for the uses 01 the following words, in order to pre vent the wrong usage? Saw. seen; come, came; shall, win, don't, doesn't. H- I H. The Oregonlan will not devote space to discussion of subjects treated in ele mentary school books. - Journal for Lumbermen. BANKS, Or., Oct. 17. (To the Edi tor.) Is there a paper or magazine printed on the Pacific Coast expressly for lumber and sawmill men? If so, kindly give name and address of same. Kin y B JOHN GRIBNER. The LumbermanTunion block, Pert land. Or. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan, Oct. 19, 1861. Manufactures in Oregon We are for these all the time. Every article manu factured in Oregon saves money to Ore con Every broom made here; every boot and shoe made here; every plow made here; every yard ot woolen or other cloth made here, and so we might go on almost ad infinitum all these manufactures save money for Oregon. This morning a box .of soap was placed on our table with these marks: "A Merchant & Co., chemical olive soap. Portland, Oregon." The article appears to be a good one. We like the present, but we are more pleased with the profits which will accrue to Oregon and the owners of this establishment, . ; Shame that Oregon people should be tributary to San Francisco for an arti cle which can be made here and of such absolute necessity as common soap. The manufactory at present is In the north part of the city. Produce is rapidly coming in. Our streets are accordingly filled with wagons. Marketing is sold low, at wholesale from the wagons too low to pay the farmer, but by the time the consumers get hold of it, the price is high enough. Tracy & Co. brought down $20,000 in gold dust last night per steamer Julia. There was also a large amount In pri vate hands. The steamer ' Okanagan was considerably injured by striking a rock at the rapids in John Days River. Steamer Col. Wright went to her assist ance and took passengers (and freight safe to Walla Walla.