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TTTE MOKNFNG OREGON1AX. TITTJRSDAY, XOVEMBtR 2. 1911. 10 GJie (Drtmmimt CIRCV1.ATIO STATEMENT. During the month of October. 111. the ifon circulation of The Ore losUn as: Armn eay OrrUtlw....IMT() Antut Dally Clrwl"e Tha detailed statement for each dr during me month of October U aa tot- Orl'l ti -ni Oct IT ?.M0 Oft. ll.S Or I. z- .J0 su. e . r.f -1 ...... t -..' r-t Oct.: 55 ' Oct. 1 :.) Ot- J4 2.V Oct. 11 .S3.T0.J Oct. J7 6'. Cx-u it s:.;o Oct. st. OcC 11 1.1.450 0-t. ! J Oct. 14 e:..'o Oct. io 2 (vt. IS fo.'Z) Oct. Jl H.i'9 Oct. 14 (2.4:4 Total Circulation l.97.Il The aboTt circulation waa distributed a Xollowa: naiir. 43.1 IT 7.010 62.C85 nasay. H.Ol 3.125 Oregon Washington All other atatea . Totals. 6 5.4 7 O County of Multnomah. rHate of OrKn, I , , Thla U to certifithat tha actual cir culation of Tna Orronln for the month, of October wa ae above aet forth. E. 1. HOpWiOD. Circulation iianager. .ubscrlbed and iworn to before ma this first day of Soinbr. 1)11. W.tilAllTlllS It as. NotarrPubltc roBTUHD, iniuiUT, ar. s. iu. TAFT-S IyONO TYH'R. Tha recaption of President Taft on his tour of tha country. Just completed, has been a tribute to hie pcrsonul pop ularity. Irrespective of politics, and to tha esteem In which he Is held aa a man. for men and women of all par ties and claases Joined la It heartily. It waa to be expected t int he would be received with respect aa President, reaped that would be a tribute only to the office he holds, yet the welcome extended to him would have been very different had he not earned the affec tion and esteem of the people aa an Individual. Men of all . parties and all faction. Republicans. Democrats, Prohibitionists and Boclallste. regular Xtepunbllcana and Insurgent Republi cans, met him when he entered their states and cttlca. served on reception committees, sat with him at banqueta - and became hie guests on hta train. The Presidents whole course throughout hla tour haa been to ac cept the popular welcome In the spirit ,ln which It waa ln aa a tribute to t j;he high office ha holda and to hla personal qualities from all citixena ' alike, nor a a tribute to him aa a po- Utlcal leader. He haa ahown delight at being the host of the officials and leading men of every state, whether they were Republicans or Democrats, regulars or Insurgents. In so doing he has no more departed from hla own convictions than have they, for in his speeches he has unswervingly upheld the principles of his party and defend ed the acta of hla Administration. lust as some of them had Just come from criticising hla acta or were Just about to declare allegiance to h!o rivals. He came neither as the leader of a fac tion nor aa the leader of a party, but aa the head of the Nation, and In that capacity he was all the more honored that they with one consent honor him as a man. On his Journey across Michigan President Taft was accompanied by Senator Townsend, a near-Insurgent, who defeated the regular Burrows. At Peoria and Chicago he met the Re publican state leaders In council, the veteran regular Cullora Included, and was hailed In Chicago by the Demo cratic Way or. This did not prevent the Insurgent Governor Stubbs and the insurgent Senator Brlstow from Join ing the regular Senator Curtla. State Chairman Dolley and National Com mitteeman Mulvane In a welcome on the borders of- Kansas and being hla guests on the Journey through the state, though Mr. Brlstow engaged In a public debate with Secretary of the Interior Flaher on acme of his policies and announced continued opposition to Mm. nor did his differences or opin ion with the late Insurgent Repreeent. Stive Madison prevent htm from speaking a word In praise) of that gen tleman on the occasion of Mr. Madi son's death. i On entering Iowa he was welcome I tly the regular Republican Governor Varroll and the Insurgent Senator Kenyon and accompanied by them through the state. At Des Moines he vu met by the Insurgent Senator Cummins, whom he greeted with Joc ular familiarity and with whom he en gaged In friendly discussion. Ignoring the Senator's support of La Follette for President. In Missouri he played golf with the progressive Republican Governor HadTey. In Nebraska he met W. J. Bryan at Lincoln and had aa hla guest from Omaha to that cl'.y " the progressive Republican Governor Aldrlch. who. Immediately after the President's departure, announced his 'support of La Foliette. At Denv.r he addressed the republican leaders and told the Press Club he was glad to follow Roosevelt and hoped to con tinue doing so. Curry, the independ ent Governor of Wyoming, escorted him across that state and pledged him lis rote. At Salt Lake he rebuked the president of the Toung Men s Republi can League for making a bitter pnrtl san speech In support of his re-election nd emphasized the purpose cf his tour by saying: "I am here as President of the United States." Senator Borah. . Tjn,.Kt...n n 4 a. ire uuuriv , . trtvernor Brady (regular) rode with him across Idano. ana rx-oovernor Ooodiag (regular) would also have ac companied htm but for mlselng the train. Senator Oore. of Oklahoma, nd Governor Hawley, both Democrats, also gave him welcome In Idaho. In Washington Governor Hay escorted him on hla tour and pledged him sup port, but this did not cool his welcome to Warburton, the Insurgent Repre sentative, who with his regular col ;egue. Humphrey, and S. A. Perkins went through Mount Rainier National park with him. At Portland men of all parties and factions gathered around him in greet ing and sat at the banquet with him. Us vas received on the state line i f California by Governor Johnson, who accompanied hlra until he left that state. publU-ty welcomed him at Pan franclsco and only absented himself . . Kanmiet at that cltv to avoid 1 1 v.ii . - - . untoward incident, aa he could not sit ti:i if the president attacicec. tna jsll. an evidence of tact which no doubt Increased Mr. Taft's respect for him. In Montana the President's 'mitM oa the train Included the Demo cratic Oovernor Karris, the Democratic Senator Myers, the Insurgent Senator Dixon and the regulars Representa tive Pray and National Committeeman Marlow. No Senator la more outspoken In his Insurgency than Crawford, of Soutn Dakota, but he Joined his regular col league Gamble and the Insurgent Gov ernor Vessey In the welcome to the President at Aberdeen, after a trip across the state from Deadwood. where the regular Representative Martin was j his host. In Minnesota Senator Ciapp. who had Just accused Mr. Taft the -blackest act of tyranny." was his guest at dinner and toured the state with him. others of the party being Senator Nelson, who 1 undecided whether to support him for re-election; Repre sentatives Miller and Nye. regulars, and Anderson and Hammond. Insur gents, and Governor Eberhard, Insur gent. ' In Wisconsin, welcome was ex tended to him by the Socialist Mayor Sldel, of Milwaukee, equally with men of all parties and Republicans of botn factions. Whenever the President came in contact with extreme partisanship to himself, as at Salt Lake, he showed his disapproval. His hospitality was extended impartially to supporters and opponents In politics, and he accepted hospitality in the same spirit, which waa the spirit in which It was offered. He showed himself throughout to be a broad-minded, tactful opponent wher ever he met Democrats and insurgents. OETTTNO AI-0'0 WTTHOCT POUTIC8. The Salem Capital Journal proudly announces that It has "scored, a victory for the people by securing submission of a charter amendment for the non partisan primary on the Des Molnes Tacoma plan." The recent overwhelm ing defeat at Salem of the proposed commission government charter would appear to Indicate that the capital city Is not wholly receptive of new ldeaa in city government. Tet Editor Hofer Is not discouraged. The reforms and Innovations other cities have adopted, and found both beneficial xind prac ticable, are none too good for 8alem. though Salern may not now think so. After awhllo It may conclude that the fact that a city or a community has always conducted Its affairs In a cer tain way la not a sufficient reason why it always should. All that Is necessary la to show Pa lem. That la what Editor Hofer pur poses to do. If the town doesn't like one style of reform, the Colonel will be ready with another. He keeps up with the latest fashions In politics as well as In the best tailor-made suits. The Salem editor sees, and most other people know, that partisanship In local affairs Is a thing of the past. It adds little to the strength of a can didate for any municipal office that he is a Republican or a Democrat. It gives something, to be sure: Just enough to taint a non-political Job with a political flavor and to give an undesirable candidate an advantage he should not have and a desirable candi date a handicap he should not labor under. If politics is frankly eliminat ed from municipal and local affairs and the merits of a candidate or an Issue determined without political bias, doubtless the results will be nearer what the great mass of people now desire to achieve. rnorawoH M O XTOOMITB V"8 DEATH. Professor Montgomery's death was remarkable among aviation accidents because he fell so short a distance. He was experimenting with a "gilder" and fell but twenty feet SU11 It was sufficient to kill him. Just as a man may sometimes drown In three Inches of water and survive an Immersion In the depths of the Pacific, so an avia tor may live after he has fallen a thou sand feet and die from a drop of a yard. Most of the mortalities which have accompanied the development of fly ing have been traceable to foolhardl-nes- Some bird man wishes to attract attention by doing remarkable feats as high as be can be seen with a tele scope. The conditions of wind, eddies and whirlpools are quite unknown In the upper regions of the air and it fol lows Inevitably that he risks his life and often ' loses it. But Professor Montgomery was not making any foolhardy ventures. He was experi menting near the earth and using as much caution as the case seemed to require, and yet he waa killed. The truth of the matter is that it requires an almost superhuman alert ness of mtnd and quickness of muscle to manage a flying machine safely. The demands which It makes are far beyond what ordinary Individuals can hope to comply with. The case was much the same with the bicycle when It was first Invented. People who rode the machine on the highway were con tinually having accidents. The peril was so great that they acquired an agonized expression called the "bicy cle face." But this Is so no more. The human race has adapted luelf to the bicycle and It now causes no more accidents tnan a commonplace wagon. Our adaptability Is marvelous. We seem perfectly capable of developing whatever new powers new circum stances may demand of us, but the process takes time, and while It la under way Individuals are likely to be sacrificed. The right brothers are at work upon devices which, as they promise, will make flying less exacting to human facultlea Probably they will succeed. If they do not. then our faculties will enlarge until the re quirements become easy. - HOIJ-Alt DTP1-OMACT8 HAXTMCAF. "Dollar diplomacy" has had consid erable success In North. Central and South America, but little in Asia and Africa, according to figures given In an article in the London Times re viewing Its results. Our exports In th. ) ten vmps have increased 160 per cent to Tentral America and 150 ' per cent to South America. The per centage of our total exports going to Europe has decreased from 74.60 In I f0 to 65.10 In 1(10. The bulk of this difference la accounted for by an Increase In the percentage going to other North American countries from 11.45 to 12.09. Japan has greatly decreased her purchases from us since her war with Russia and threatens to capture our cotton trade unless our manufacturers can reduce their prices. Here Is where dollar diplomacy en counters Its moat serious obstacle our own tariff. Our home market ts so great and prices so good that man ufacturers make no serious effort to capture the foreign market, where they must compete with the world and accept reasonable profits. Not only are they directly benedted by the duty on cotton goods, but they gain In directly by the woolen duty, which drives the poor to wear cotton as a cheaper substitute for wooL If these manufacturers) were put on equal terms with the foreigner In their home market, they would become hardened to competition and moder ate pronta and would be equipped to retaliate on the foreign competitor by Invading his markets. Agents of dollar diplomacy are also hampered by Inadequate salaries. A naUon ought to be as ready as an exporter to give Its salesmen a liberal salary and expense allowance when It sends them abroad, for our dollar diplomats are after all simply sales men for the Nation as a whole. But thoy have to draw on their private fortunes to pay their way or fall to show the results for which the Gov ernment looks. WATT TOO FAB FROM ITS WORK. On the Pacific, where there may soon be work to do, the United States has twenty-four warships, which may be called Into hurried action by some serious development In the Chinese rebellion. On the Atlantic, beneath which the cables have carried pledges to arbitrate all disputes with two of the leading nations of Europe and of fers from a third to do the same, we have 102 warships, including nearly all the battleships, assembled mainly for display. Even after the Panama Canal la completed, several days will still be consumed in transferring the fleet from Atlantic to Paclflo, and those few days may be precious time lost In a crisis. The fleet must be ready to meet promptly a sudden emergency, and the probabilities are ten to one that such an emergency will develop on the Paclflo, not the Atlantic, Ocean. Therefore the conditions should be reversed. In dividing the fleet between the two coasts In the present proportion, statesmanship has been forced to yield to political and social pull. The Navy with all Its perquisites goes where there are most votes In Congress. It Is to be hoped that Eastern Congress men will take a less selfish and more patriotic view of the subject before some catastrophe gives them a severe attack of remorse. GOODBYE TO BIIAKESFEAKE. The confidence of young people In their own taste and Judgment Is a per ennial source of Joy to the world even If it is not entirely free from peril. The maiden graduate of a young ladles' academy who wondered how all her wisdom could be contained In one skull of moderate size Is hardly more amusing than the pupils of the Ham mond High School who have sat In Judgment on Shakespeare and con demned hlra. What boundless fields of knowledge these sapient boys and girls must have traversed. What wil dernesses of experience they must have threaded belore they felt capable of Issuing their final verdict. The fact that It reverses the opinion which all competent men have held for centuries Is of no consequence to these omni scient youths. They have seen a new light. To them have been revealed truths more profound than the world has ever heard of before, and they do not hesitate for a moment to publish their vision and proclaim their gospel. Shakespeare Is to give way to Ibsen and Bernard Shaw if these boys and girls can win the worU to their way of thinking. The accusations which these chil dren make against Shakespeare sound formidable. According to the ulti matum which they sent their teachers, the sweet Swan of Avon la "a cheap grandstand player." He Is an "Im moral 1st." His writings are "licen tious, inartistic and unworthy of study." Hla "Venus and Adonis" U declared to be "the most licentious lit erature in the English language." In view of these premises the boys and girls of Hammond, which Is a town In Indiana, require their teachers to drop Shakespeare from the English courses of the high school and their teachers have compiled. He Is to be replaced by Ibsen and Shaw, who, we are bound to believe, are more artistic and more moral. The wonder of all this la. not that a band of school children should have come to a ridiculous decision upon a question of literary Judgment, but that their teachers should have accepted It. This Is a real puzzle, and we can think of only one explanation for It. In fulminating against Shake speare the boys and girls of Hammond are not expressing their own opinions, for of course they have none. They are merely adopting those of their in structors who have taken this discreet method to acquaint the world with their disapproval of Shakespeare. But this solution does not forward matters much. We must still explain to ourselves how It happens that the faculty of a high school In a commu nity which presumably speaks English should have made up Its collective mind that Shakespeare Is Immoral and Inartistic The question of his moral delinquency does not perplex us so much as the accusation against his art because we understand that the precepts of prudery have been taught In some inland communities with ex treme diligence for many years, and Shakespeare, whatever his . other crimes may bo. Is not a prude. He Is much Inclined to call a spade a spade and there are certain fallings of hu man nature which he cannot be per suaded to gloss over with smooth men. dacltles. The consequence Is that his plays and poems are frightfully shock ing to those whom they shock. Per sona of normal Intelligence are not dis turbed by their "licentiousness," but the professors and others who have been swamped by the doctrines of prudery are not normal. They suffer from a sort of moral hyperesthesia, which is a .veritable disease. It la akin to hysteria. Everybody knows that a hysterical woman will often shriek with pain at a gentle touch on her hand or forehead which a healthy per son would not 'notice. It Is the same with our Hammond professors, only their affliction- lies In the moral sphere Instead of the physi cal. One of the strangest circum stances about this disease la that the patients who suffer from it are usual ly vain of their abnormality. They will be heard to boast of their "purity" and their "delicacy," which in reality are but symptoms of moral deficiency. A truly refined person does not find it necessary to quarrel with the physiol ogy of the human race. The charge that Shakespeare is Inartistic cannot be explained away on the ground of mental disease. The beat guess we can make as to Its origin Is that the Hammond professors caught it from Bernard Shaw. The chances are that the Hammond High School Is having a bad case of "Shavianlsm," as it is called, or ShawlMs. Toung people take this disorder I ke the whooping cough, which It res.-mbles, and ordi narily they get ove- it without bad sequelae. In Hammond It has evident ly spread to their teachers and the consequences mas be some form of permanent mental disability.' Bernard Shaw disapproves of Shakespeare. He does not think that the bard of Avon was "any great ahakes," to quote the Indiana vernacular. Shaw'a deliber ate verdict Is that Shaw Is a vastly greater dramatist, more moral and more artistic. To convince the world that h Is right about it he Invites critics to compare his Julius Caesar with Shakespeare's and see how the latter stands the test. In his opinion the Elizabethan giant shrinks to a tiny, tiny pigmy and the Hammond professors are clearly of the same mind. Literary Judgments of the Ham mond species will gradually accumu late In this country and no doubt they will ultimately be accepted every where. We can already cite several of great weight. There Is the opinion" ofvthe celibate, milliner who prevailed upon her village library board to lock up "Tom Jones." The Denver publlo library has set the seal of condemna tion on "Huckleberry Finn" and now .he Hammond High School consigns Shakespeare to oblivion. Verily we live In an age of revolutions. Nothing more terrible has been dis closed In the atrocities committed upon the Russian Jews than those to which the Arabs la Tripoli have been subjected by the -victorious Italian troopa These reports substantiate the world-old fact that every savage Instinct in human nature la uncovered and made rampant by war. Civiliza tion Is a thin veneer that is loosened by a call to arms and shaken oft by tha detonation of guns. While we are fain to believe that "warfare Is holy when waged for the right," we are, nevertheless, forced to coincide with the declaration of General Sherman that "war ts hell." As England has preserved her hero ship Victory as a monument of the battle of Trafalgar, the United States should preserve the battleship Oregon to commemorate the battle of San tiago and the great voyage which brought her to the scene. The Victory still lives, though 106 years have passed since Trafalgar; the Oregon should live still longer, being built of steel, and should take her place beside the Constitution aa a monument of the Nation's naval glory one to' repre sent the old wooden navy, the other the modern steel navy. The Brooklyn Eagle celebrated its 10th birthday anniversary on October 26 by publishing a special edition de voted to Its history and that of the city and to the men who have made the Eagle what It is one of the great newspapers of the United States. Al ways able, fearless and independent, the Eagle has grown and progressed with the growth and progress of Brooklyn. Its long and prosperous life are evidence that the qualities named are the essentials of success. A great deal Is said about football as an old to discipline in schools and colleges. The experience of Walla Walla scarcely bears out the common opinion. In the schools of that town football has set up a 'serious rebellion among the pupils. The teachers tried to restrain athletic excesses within de cent bounds. The "teams" retorted with insult. Evidently the young peo ple'of Walla Walla think, that their play Is a great deal more Important than their work. Port Orford's decision to create a port commission almost completes the chain of such commissions at the har bors on the Orejron coast. The Im provement In the harbors and the in creased size and number of ships which will enter them, which will re sult from the commission's work, will In a few years convince owners of in land property of their mistake in op posing the new organization. . After using tobacco for seventy years. Dr. D. K. Pearsons has "sworn off" at the age of 91. Verily there Is hope for the most Inveterate sinner. It la never too late to repent even of such a bad habit as that of "chawin" and burnln'." Dr. Pearsons has done much good by his donations to col leges, but he may do more by the ex ample he has set for the slaves of tobacco. . The discovery of " ultra-violet rays for the purification of drinking water will no doubt prove a boon in the Philippines. While rejoicing in this discovery let us not forget to be thankful for a water supply that does not need purifying by artlllclal means. Great Nature herself has attended to this matter for us in her grand reser voir and laboratory in the Cascade Mountains. . A farmer's wife, suffering from mel ancholia, took her life by swallowing concentrated lye. The isolation of lonely farm life predisposes to melan choly and there are many men in Ore gon to whom this case should be warn ing to take their wives along when they go to town. The horizon is lim ited pitifully to the wife of the hus band grown careless. The Mohammedans have not for gotten the days when their armies ovreran Europe and their scientific literature led the world. Another vic tory or two might set the passions of the Prophet's followers In a blaze which seas of blood could not extin guish.' Superficial thinkers pooh pooh religion, but it is still one of the great elemental forces of the world. If Postmaster-General Hltchoock should marry, the rule of the steam roller will cease and the rule of the rolllng-pln begin. - When the Turks retake Tripoli the entree will savor of macaroni and spa ghetti, but the Italians will come back a la gobbler. . We are certainly burning a lot of powder, but as It kills nobody there will be little objection. The 2800 people who will spend the Winter in Nome will be mighty civil to each other by Spring. Potato-growers, recalling the stir ring episodes In hops, are Inclined to hold their crops. The movement begun at Chicago to censor postcards Is overdue there and elsewhere. An actor has married a Standard Oil widow. Oh, the anpel! Mr. Olney is writing the Democratic platform "alretty yet." Tripoli threatens to beoome another Adowa for Italy. Gleanings of the Day The possible Increase in the popula tion of the United States Is to be meas ured by the available supply of water, according to an article by Professor McOee In Science. If this country were aa densely populated as Belgium, which has 640 people to the square mile. It would have somewhat less than 2,000, 000.000 people, but Professor McGee es tlmatea that the available supply ot water will limit it to l,000,00j.000. He says that It is found that five acre-feet of water a year used effectively In agriculture are required to sustain one human life, the best results being ob tained by the application Of water to an aggregate depth of five feet during the season, and In this way five acres will sustain a family of live for a year with the requisite surplus production for exchange. The requisite supply of water to sustain one adult la 4400 tons a year, disregarding the one 1 ton he actually drinks. ' Applying these fig ures, he estimates that the maximum population thla country can sustain la 600,000,000 in the humid East, 200,000,- 000 In the sub-humid middle section, and 200.000,000 in the arid West. Pro fessor McGee proceeds to whittle down, by estimate, the future Increase of population by shaving off one unit of percentage for each decade until he reaches zero. Thus It would decrease to 19 per cent at the next decade, 19 at the next, and so on. At this rate he calculates that It will take three centuries for the population to reach a billion. This leaves out of consider ation all the discoveries and Improve ments to be made In those three cen turies, hence we still may indulge hope of attaining the two billions. The total operating revenues of all railroads In the United States over B0 miles long in the year ending June 80, 1911. were $2,700,232,308, a decrease of .6 per cent; operating expenses, 11.855. 253.049, an Increase of 2.9 per sent; net operating revenue, 1844.979,259, a de crease of 7.5 per cent. In the Eastern group of roads, operating revenue in creased .7 per cent, operating expenses increased 5.6 per cent and net operat ing revenue decreased 9.2 per cent. The southern group made the best show, its operating revenue increasing 1.1 per cent, expenses increasing 6.4 per cent and net operating .revenue decreasing 2.8 per cent. The western group showed a decrease of 2.7 per cent in gross op erating revenue, a decrease of .6 per cent In operating expenses and a de crease of 6.7 per cent in net operating revenue. All these comparisons are with the year ending June SO. 1910. It Is estimated by"the railroads that the reductions ordered by the Inter state Commerce Commission on the Paclflo Coast rate cases would amount to $12,000,000 a year, which is 5 per cent on $240,000,000 capital. If the reductions are allowed by the Com merce Court, to which the cases have been appealed, further reductions to points east of Spokane and Bait Lake will be necessary. The commission has hinted that It may reduce rates from the Paclflo Coast eastward 20 per cent. Oregon appears on the list of states producing gypsum, which is given In a report of the United States Geological Survey. This mineral is produced In 16 states and territories, and la ground into plaster in 14 states. The value of gypsum products In 1910 was $6,574,478, and the quantity of gypsum mined was 1,175,894 tons. New York being the largest producer, Iowa second and Michigan third. The Imports in 1910 were worth only $502,111. or less than 1 per cent of the domestlo output. Governor Harmon's reply to President Taft's declaration for dissolution of trusts and Federal control of corpora tions is to hoist the standard of state rights in dealing with this subject. In a statement sent out from his head quarters he said: W muat make the state government mors broadly uaeful. Its powers art ample and undoubted to grapple with many things which havs been developed by new condi tions and which give general eonoern. For Instance, it has absolute control ot all cor porations of ita own creation and of the terms on which corporations of other etatee may do business here. Why, then, atand by and let the General Government ssaume to regulate state corpormtlona becauae they en gage In interstate commerce T . . . If Congress gets general Jurisdiction over us if we engage in commerce outalds the atats we may as well turn over the capital to a Federal commission and go home. Connecticut has created a public utilities commission with power to regulate rates and subject to the recall, as the result of. long agitation. It Is contended that the delegation of rate making power to the commission la unconstitutional and a test case ,1s to be made in court. The China Press, published at Shang hai by Thomas F. Willard, a well known magazine writer on Oriental af fairs, is muckraking the mixed court of that city. It has published charges of bribery made by Chinese coolies against the secretary of the court, which is composed of a Chinese magis trate and a foreign assessor and is threatened with a libel suit The Press says the Chinese take it for granted that the court is corrupt and credit the foreign officials with greater rapacity than the Chinese. . The Commercial and Financial Chronicle sees solicitude about busi ness depression In recent utterances of politicians. It quotes with unfavor able comment Governor Wilson's as sertion that "affairs should be taken charge of by some persons with definite opinions." Senator Bourne's advocacy of a business yardstick Is ap plicable to all corporations, the so called progressive Republican plat form declaration for trust regulation and Governor Dlx vague remarks in defense of trusts. It sees in these ut terances evidenoe that politicians have become convinced that business must be reckoned with and urges bus iness men to "press home the truth that politicians must desist from fur ther radical actions and radical endeav ors." It continues: There can be no doubt that the business man wlil hold the deciding vote In the com ing Pretldentlal campaign. That fact should be Impreesed upon the campaign managers of both partlea The mercantile community should not rest contented with a more or less perfunctory response from one or the other of the great political par ties, but make Its lmluence felt In both. Our business men should stand squarely upon their rights. Suggestions for tie crea tion of legis.atlve commltteea for dealing with tbelr grievances, thus prolonging the agony, or for the establishment of Govern ment bureaus to whom they must apply and who would hand out concessions tor doing business aa a gracious favor. ahou:d be in dignantly spurned. Where neither moral nor economic law Is violated, the right to carry on business, untiammeled by legisla tive edicts. Is an Inherent right, and It should not bs yielded up oa the specious plea tnat the labor element must be pla ca.d and politicians wheedled. PLAX AIMED AT THE FARMERS. Ashland Writer Thinks Single Tax Scheme to Help Moneyed Interests. ASHLAND. Oct 29. (To the Editor.) Single tax. if adopted in Oregon, will retard the development of the resources of the Et&tei The threat of it has al ready kept many land buyera from In vesting here ana its ultimate rtsuiu will add to the present non-taxable area in Oregon. In Pennsylvania there Is a good ex empts 0 1 LUCIUS, UWH-ilVMUH,, Many thousands of acres there were sold ror taxes alter tne nmuer cut the counties and the state being the only bidders. When this land went back to the commonwealth it ceased to pay any tax at all and as a result the taxes on other property had to be in creased. It will have the same, effect In Oregon, as there are millions of acres In this state 'that cannot for many years be made to produce enough in come to bear Increased taxation, hence will go back to the commonwealth and be exempted from taxes. Tho expanse of government should be borne by all, and It is better to collect It from lnoome-produclng property than to try to pile It all on land alone which will Increase. Instead of decrease the small land-owners' burden. It looks to me like a scheme to exempt the mil lions of dollars' worth of city improve ments and the manufacturing plants at the expense of the country. The very fact that It is being financed in Oregon by a wealthy Eastern soap - . -. 1 nrAn tha eves of the people. He no doubt Is only the . a . T F Mil MtAt instrument usea oy r.,iciu A r.,t.rn Kenlr asSOCla- association ;ILl v" " . . Hons in an effort to stop the flow ot Eastern money into iana ihys-uu""" in Oregon. If you think for a minute that the great amount of Eastern capital Invest ed in Oregon lands in recent years has . . .... i . In the East. not wen prt" you are not well posted. If you think there is oi a wou-uj cs"'- , .- trie jc-aut w cci; East you certainly do not know how thousands are trying to get rid of their mnhav thert lH Or- 5pw-west to iwe. But these people of small means are not deterred by the dangers of single tax; they are not as yet familiar with what it means, , ... v. vnnlrl otner- but tne money i ,- - wise locate here and invest In our lands - . ... v -i ,r , K means to Qe- IOr proilt U.UU uima "o . velop our great resources and create the needed employment, iui .. ---hesitating in many cases because we are threatened with a system oi vu bery that will upset our business sys torn ana coniisca.e ":" It Is a well-known fact that on tnis Coast nbn-produclng property must . . . , .... ..fATi nnrl a half aouDie in varna ovow . J7. .n-mA years or It does not equal th Income ;,-v, mnnpv at interest Disturb or threaten this long-established ratio , warv ?-.Tn InlV Wily ana you can bco ' r money la not flowing Into Oregon to be invested In lands, as it w , . . . -. i ih, vnnlfl OI Uanaaa, (.aiuuiiim w ----the Southwest Including the land oi the greaser. From interviews a had with Eastern men I want to say . - . - .. A vnaV Oreeron the mat mo Biieu'l' J ' . scapeeroat by saddling single tax on it Is a knock that has offset the many thousands of dollars expended in ad vertising to attract capital and ex perienced men to develop our great latent resources. Oregon should wake up to the Injury single-tax Socialists are committing. The mistakes by the Initiative in de stroying the normal schools In Oregon and the destruction of 'the commercial fishing business on Rogue River have had their effect in the East, where our system is closely studied by men of capital, but this single-tax graft le the worst of all. The special tax scheme whereby a few non-property owners levy a heavy tax on prupcriy mcj I can live off the tax under a bluff of building roaas is a iiisnwuy iuuci that beau the old toll roads of the East, a'nd amounts to the same thing as robbing the stage coach or railroad train, only it is a more up-to-date sys tem and is safer for the men who get the coin. The timber-land owner is the principal victim of this Oregon scheme, and certainly he. in 99 cases out of 100, has to earn the money in other states in order to pay It, as ship ping facilities and market conditions have not reached the stage where more lumber operations are profitable in thla state. Single tax is to force more building in our cities. If it does we can easily see the results by observing the pres ent conditions in a few places that have recently over-built. It Is not necessary to mention names. Moet people know of such places in the West. N. P. THRONE. SALOOlfS AND THE! COURTS. Brother McKereher Attain Returns to Prohibition Discussion. PORTLAND, Nov. 1. (To the Editor.) We have been having a "real good time" and many of your readers have signified appreciation, but personally I have no desire for the last word. I would like to say, however, that between us we have confused the peo ple touching the real question. In that lottery case quoted by me. Chief Justice Waite said much that, for brevity, I did not quote, and one thing was, "the police power extends to all matters affecting the publlo health or the publlo morals." I was simple enough to suppose that those words "all matters" Included the saloon, but now, viewing It from your standpoint, I Incline toward the opinion that the saloon includes "all matters" the President, his party and all. It would be wholesome reading, and acquaint your readers with the attitude of the U. S. Supreme Court toward the liquor traffic, if you would quote Jus tice Taney's decision in the "License Cases" (brewery cases of 1847), where in he literally hung the hides of Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate, the brew ery attorneys, on the fence. Also Jus tice Field's opinion In Crowley vs. Christensen (137 U. a 86), a genuine San Francisco saloon license case, and then I could cite many more, and State Supreme Court decisions to their hearts' content. We have the liquor trafflo "beaten to a fraizle" In all the courts of the land, and In tho Supreme Court the thresh ings have been the most drastic, and the things that tried most to keep the saloon alive are cowardly Presidents and corrupt political parties. F. M'KERCHER, If you have the courts, you ought certainly to have the last word, for courts Interpret the laws and, there fore, make or unmake them. Why do you not raise the Issue of the legality of the saloon in the courts aa being contrary to sound morals and public policy, and In that way destroy the saloon? But would you destroy the liquor traffic by eliminating the saloon? Walnuts Benree In Germany. Borlln Letter to the New York Sun. Various districts in Germany are pe titioning the forest department to res cue the walnut trees of the country from the gradual extinction which threatens them. In times when the land was less thickly populated It was customary for farmers and large land owners to plant walnut trees on their properties and along the roads, but modern science has taught that not only Is the shade thrown by the spread ing treetops unfavorable to profitable cultivation, but that a certain amount of tannic acid is contained in the nuts and injuriously affects the soil on which they fall. The natural result of . v, anAu In the . numher of walnut Ltrees is a rise in the price of timber. and whereas in tne ov s a tuuiu uioic of the wood cost from $7 to 112, It now costs from S50 to fsu. NITTS ON EDUCATION iTy Dean CoUlna. Nesclus Nltts, sage of Punklndorf Sta tion, Removed from his whiskers a brown percolation Of nicotine juice) then resumed masti cation And spake of the dangers besetting our Nation Especially those of advanced education. 'Jem Hug-gins' son Zeno each Winter nros Dnanrlln' Some months at a college that he was attendin'. And seemed to do well, 'spits of all them pitfalls That s said to be lurkln' around college halls. But fln'ly a letter come home to his A - A Whose contents made Jem plumb fero ciously ma a. "It seems Zeno failed In his study of Greek. Or some sort of lingo them furriners speak; And so his perfesser edlcted that he Had got to let work In tha fencln' class be; k Stay way from the gridiron, and, more over, shirk The discus and all of his other field work. 1 don't mind that grtdlron.' says Huggins. Tt looks Too much like a-tralnln' of men' folks fer cooks; But Tve thirty acres of good tater land Thafs got to be disced, and I shorely had planned To have Zeno do It. I ain't a-pretencin' That I objects either to son Zeno's fencln'. - 7jT hawg lot needs fencln', and Zeno could do it; t But this here perfesser comes mlxln' into It, A-stoppln' his studies, and workin' him harm In Jest what would make him of use on the farm. And why? 'Cause my Zeno ain't handy to speak Some durned furrln lingo, like Latin and Greek.' "We all 'greed with Jem, and with great Indignation, Prepared resolutions from Punklndorf - Station. Agin sech proceedings, for we all waa warm, Jedge Wiggs drawed It up In correct legal form. To show the advantage of fencln' and field O'er talk like that dago Demosthenes spieled. "We signed the thing here In the gro cery stores, With all its 'whereases and some furs thermores," To bid that perfesser of Greekology Jest let Zeno's fencln" and discus worst be. Perfessers who hampers correot educa tlon . . Don't get any sanction from Punkln dorf Station." Portland. November 1. Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe A man la abused so much that about half the time he feels like a cat whloa, has Just eaten a canary. There is less sense and more money in the world now than ever before In its history. Every time you look at a ten-year-old boy, he needs a new pair of shoes. Toung men would go In society more, if the girls didn't work them so hard. Eight hours' work a'day will not hurt any man; It's the light hours' work that follows at night that hurts. What the average town needs more than "Eastern capital" Is a disposition on the part of its own citizens to use their own money. I would like Jelly' better if newspa per accounts of accidents didn't use the -expression, "Crushed to Jelly." If I were a woman, I don't believe I know a man I'd marry. - People now live as long as they ever did, probably; I know lots of people who are as old as Methuselah, If they would admit it. A married man Is usually compelled to spend his evenings explaining Jokes to his wife, and their school lessons to his children. Half a Century Ago r rora xae urviumnu, i.w. e. Baltimore, Oct. 19. The Rev. Thomas Wildey, the founder of Oddfellowship In the United States, died suddenly thla morning. Washington, Oct. 20. Yesterday Mr. Seward said to a member of the diplo matic Body that the Southern insurrec tion would blow over in three months. The steamer Cortes on her next trip will land her goods on the wharf In front of this office. . . . , n 1GAI Rumors of a great naval expedition have been spread at the South and created great consternation. Charles ton is badly frightened and Is largely reinforcing Its forts and haa placed all lta citizens under dally drill. Savannah has also taken the alarm and ia strengthening its fortifications and erecting new batteries. A like feeling is manifested both at Mobile and New Orleans, where the most strenuous ex ertions are being put forth In the strengthening of those cities against attack by water. Laundry Prices In Russia. Brooklyn Eagle. If John H. Snodgrass, Consul-General at Moscow, ever kicked about his laun dry work while living in the United States, he begs the pardon of every steam cleaning establishment, every slant-eyed Celestial, and every colored washlady In this country. What they are (doing to his collars and shirts over there In the land of the Czar Is hor rible to relate. Besides that, the way they are soaking him In the matter of price Is enough to make any American oltlzen utter loud wails of distress. For Instance, they charge a nickel to do up a collar, and "the work is unsatisfac tory and the finishing Is crudely done," he asserts. Books Moat In Demand. At Newport: "Going Some;" "Keep ing Up With Lizzie." At Salt Lake: "Mary Jane's Pa," At Salem: "The Call of the Wilde; "One Way Out" (with portrait frontis piece of Governor West). At Washington, D. C: "To the High est Bidder." At Reno: "The Great Divide;" "Mrs. Maxon' Protests;" "Wedded and Parted." At Butte: "Making a Fortune;" "Rules of the Game." At San Francisco: "The Earth Trembled." .t Portlana: tose in uioom. Elizabeth Burrows, Walla Walla, Wash.