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TO VXZCTTOXS AS POUTICAI. ITBAWI
A review of the comment of tha
newspapers la to states wher the
a taction skirmishes of last work aver
fought conflrmj the conclusion of Tha
Oregoctan that tha general result baa
but slight bearing on the National
campaign of next year, and that, ao
far aa It haa any ruch bearing, neither
party haa any real advantage. The gains
of one party In one state are offset by
thoee of the other party In Another
etate. The average voter thought It
would not make much dllTeernce to hla
party which way he voted, and there
fore the Independent took delight In
aiming A blow at the party In control.
The conteat In Masnachuaette waa
fought more nearly on National lssuea
than that tn any other etate, for the
Republican machine made the tariff
the Issue, and. while It Adopted a
plank favoring schedule revision down,
ward, which, the Boston Tranacrlpt
says, "was enoach to hare eared the
party If that section had been empha
sised d uric a' the campaign." the aame
paper aaya: "Not A single Republican
orator or organ of the party took tip
thla note. Their war cry wee. 'Mwa
rhuaetta mllla will cloee if the Demo
cratlo tartlT prevail' and thla war cry
rang from every atump. But Foaa waa
popular both on account of hla person
ality and the meaeuree he adTocated or
vetoed, while Frothlngham waa han
dicapped, to quote the Lowell Courler
Cltlsen. by being "a wholly uninspir
ing And sron-magnetlc candidate and
the colossal Imbecility which made
the taiiff A paramount laaue."
The Maaaachoaetta reanlt la Attrfb
otad by the epiinjrneld RepubUcAn to
the aame cnuse eelectlon of the tariff
aa the laaue and ecrueee rrealdent
Taft of a part In the blunder by aay
lnc that Democratlo tariff rerlalon
would Imperil Maaaachuaetta Indua
trle. It aaya:
Tha anawar at dlauoniarttre. Tt aaaaaa,
yr proaldoal. that Maaaacbuaatta aaa aa
ng-r be mavad 1 1 auob aa appaal Fa
vlaloa of the tariff waa earning: and aow
tt ta eotnloa mora eur:jr Lbaa htor tola
alartloa waa
itevmor rMT TlctorT will atlll farthar
iartaa tha tjemecrate of the aouatrf and
Inrraeae tbolr coofljoaoa la tbolr ability ta
p ae a Drarrl Boat yoar at tha bead of
tha Nation. The ln maluply Uat the
ropabile la paaolaa through the Taxloua
ataee of a aoUtKal rarolullaa.
On the other band, the Chicago
Record-Herald aaya of the Maaeachu
eette reault that Xhe Independent,
thouchtful obeerrer will aee In It no
"rebuke to Taft.' nor A TtndtcAtlon for
the political tActlca And method of
Mr. Foaa. who haa loot thouaanda of
rotea tn the manufacturing: dlatrlcta,
where he waa particularly atronc when
he ran for Conrreae and later for Gov
ernor aa a champion of reciprocity arid
irenulne tariff rerlalon"; that Maaaa
chuaetta knowa that Taft la alncerely
for rT talon, an J that "what areAtly
helped Foaa waa the reactionary eplrtt
and tone of the Lodse-made platform
a-lTen rrothlnsham by the atAndpat
Republican convention."
The Chlcaa-o Tr'.bune, After aummlnc
up the reeulta. aAya:
Any attempt ta naa aaa roturna a trie
ba. for a rackonlag In Natloral po I'tca
would ba futtla la nr!y every Important
elo.-uoa thora waa aa Iaue of put!ta
and public doconey. The votora appUod
tbalr raaaoa ta U.
It admlta, however, that the re-eleo-tlon
of Foea "cornea more nearly hav
ln National lrnporlAnce than the re
cult, of any other election In the Eoat,
nnlees It were the failure of Governor
Wllaon. of New Jereoy. to retain a
rVmocratlo Lepti'lature. The reault
Indlcatra a peravnal victory aa much aa
It doea one of political principles."
The Washlrrton Post f!n!a that the
reeulta had "little, if any. bearing- upon
National heme or National flcurea."
It contlnuea:
aan ef National ataa waa aa any
tl.-'hot. 'o ram:a!n waa fought out rn
tirtr aa National !ue, Flat and lt!(fi-r,-al
quoottona. ium an4 d' tar wra
tnvnlTod to m.-ti an aatrnt aa to tnako It
tmpvoible ta d:-ora lo attitud vt any
ta - oactloa of tio country oa mttt.r of
fo,'tioa tho rtopub.t-an a--l r-moratlo
por'.ioa ta tha fcrti;eumlcc National etrug-I-a.
The reault of the lec1a!atlve election
In New Jersey la held to be next In
Importance to Foes aucceaa In MaaaA
rhusetta. The New Tork Times aa
of It:
In Hew Jora-y t"So aee etrrlena fa.-t la
tbat Ownov vi:n haa fai:d to ho 1 r'.a
caa etato. Ilia campaign fr tha Kroal
dontlaj aomnat.--n. tt la b-:teved. baa m-t
wtth a go"4 da: of au-caaa, llut ha baa
lnat bla awn a'ato of N(o Joraor It la
alwara a bal tMng. a vary bad thing, for
aa eaWrani ta tao t!coot bonora h-a party
ran botow ta liae tno conn4an-a an 3 tna
rnaJorTiy a'l r of hla homo people at tha
l.c eettoa prtor to to Nattonai Convon
tta If tjwrrof tn:sta'e rrw prtnolplaa
are eaatl. and If tha ad'nlnlalratMa la auo
eoaatul. ha e:cht to bate booa ab.a ta hold
Now Jervey t the Lmocracy.
Aa to the reault tn general It aaya:
tt may ba oai1 t3at tha popple did art by
trtr voto on Turkey air-lbt'. any uncon
tro:'ablo an,hiutrn f jr l;rr'l-aa po.t -'-a
or for tha ItvpuMlcaa AJiT.iniatrauoa. Nor
da wa dtarora any evl.1nre tbat a vanlict
cf aprrt'val of "prograaaiva pollclaa baa
bean rendered.
The Brooklyn Harle fa!7a to aee that
the outcome In New Jersey la A blow
to Wilson. attrlbuUr. the Republican
victory "laraviy to the fiercely bitter
feellrr between the Governor'a admir
ers and the Smith machinist. But
even thla la not ceceeaarlly a blow
to the Governor." It adda:
Ta q-jeefjow ta etllt epoa wltetber the
emttft man can make ai:y bead agal at
toe WUn toarn for rrootdant. Tba
rMBrfl aaat to favor the theory that tboy
wi.l t the dvatsn go to tha Governor
by dofanlt. ant t&at their fight will bo ma1e
In NaMonar rcavontlon throurh l-aJra
In athar atataa with whom Ja&aa amlto. Jr.,
baa kaot la aloao taweb,
MarylAnd's election of A Repub
can Governor la hailed aa a ml(hty
victory" by the Baltimore American,
also aa a vote of confidence In the Re
publican party, and that paper av
the new government In the state "must
be a grovernment cf the people, by the
people and for the people." It a!o
rejoice In a rebuke to "the domination
of a corrupt crranlratlon." The Fan
aaya Maryland la atlll lemocratlc. "and
the reault of the election la not only
a rebuke to the Democratic organise
Hon. but A warning to the Republican
manAg-era." It alao a&ya:
Tba a. action eat-ree notice noon the Dera
ecratla etty orgnnlxeUoa that the Domo
arauo party will not aocapt its dictation
and laadorohlp.
Mr. Oo.dat,ororgb. haa baaa elected 0v
ernor af Mary lane, but enr by Ivmocxatlo
aid. aotlve or paaalva. Thara ware not
enough Republlcane la the atata to elect
him. Vaxy liamocrmfo either voted for him
or rafuaed ta vote against aim and ha has
bean ejected.
TmmmAnya lose of tbe New Tork
AeeemDly. Its defeat In Brooklyn and
Its narrow escape from defeat In Man
hattan And the Bronx la Interpreted by
the New Tork papers In harmony with
their prejudice. The Tribune aaya:
Ttiat ta tha city's answer to Murphy
scandalous manlpu.atloa of tha Leg:a.ature,
ta hla attempt to lam tba ripper chart or
through at A.hany. to tha ahocalng trefflo
of h.e political agocts In Judicial nomlna
tlona and to bis Cap rival ef the Prooklytt
Democratto organisation of Its Independent
aiatas and bla reduction of It to vaaaaiaga.
Tba people have r1ea te expreee tbalr In
dignation at tba Tammany baaa and hi
methods as they have se,dom done before.
The World aakai "6 hail Murphy
eoat the PreatdencyT" and says:
The eejteeme of Taeeday election la da
eidd:y favorab.a ta tba elaotlon of a omo
craUc Praaidont aacapt In New Tork. Here
Vlr. Taft can find b:a brlgbteat ray of comfort-
How can a Iamo -ratio Proeldant be
eieeted without Now Tork e forty-Ove aloe
toral rotee? Wa do not aay that It Is Im
coaatble, but It la vary improbable. and
Tammany domination la a burden that on,y
a landallde can overcome. Demooratlo lan d -alldaa
la prealdentlal year are few and far
between. To leave the Democratto party
of Now Tork ta the handa af Murphy and
Tammany la to Invite defeat aad disaster la
lfcll .
What do tha Damaarats ef thla atata pre
poae to do asoat It? Are they willing that
Murphy ahould eost the DemocrmUo party
the i'realdonoyT
The Sun says that this year the
electors "have demonstrated plainly
that the association of Hon. William
Randolph Hearst with the Hon. Theo
dore Roosevelt'e agenta haa not made
Murphy by comparison Intolerable."
It Adde:
The defeat ef the to el en e-mnty
ticket reroala the familiar fact tbat a ma
jority ef tblo electorate endurea a etupld
boee mora patiently than aaif-convlrira
bypocrttaa and boMa the practlalr.g pollU-c-an
leaa odious lhaa the profeaaioaal re
former. The Indianapolis Btar sums up the
general reault thua:
The out noma, aa between the partlea. Is
a drawn battle, as tbe Hapubllcan papera
aay. tbe rroaident haa reason to be an-couraa-d
by tba reault In New Tork. Mary
land and New Jateey. As the p-mo-ratte
? opera eav. ha must be diaeppolnted with
lie nawa from Kentucky, ublo and Maeaa
chueatte. Tbe fact that In ataeaachu aatte
tha root of the ticket a. acted la KepubMran
and tbat Oovarr.or Foaa hlmatU raelvd
many tnouaahda fewer votaa than last tin.-,
abacas somewhat tbe force of the verdict
tn that atata We should aay that Ken
tucky la aafe'y Iemocratte fur 113. and
that New Tork, New Jereey and Maryland
are doubtful.
nun nuitrtM jceax ho crabtxs
Being unable to decide between two
propoeed commlasion charters, the
City of Eugene haa determined that It
would have no commlasion charter,
and haa rejected both. A single
charter proposal might not Indeed
have carried. The returns shed very
little light on that more or leaa Inter
esting apeculatlon. But It Is certain
that the citizen who deemed a change
advisable were unable to agree on any
commission plan, and the old order
triumphs.
"Why do not yon people escape
from thla Insane asylum T" aaked A
visitor once of an Ipmete, "There are
no guarda here and the doors are open,
and every facility for getting out la
afforded." "We've thought of that,"
waa the response. "But some want to
go out of the doors, some out of the
windows, others up over the roof, oth
ers by the fire escape, and still others
down through the cellar. We all want
to go, but ainc we can't agree how
why, here we are," So there the peo
ple of Eugene are and there the people
of Portland will be, and remain. If
they Insist on the ret-nowhere, stand
atXll plan of fighting It all out between
several charter proposala
There are three charters to be sub
mitted In February. They are (1) the
regular official" charter adapting the
present charter provlalona to the com
missalon government; and (1) the vol
unteer cltisens charter making several
radical departures from the present
charter; and (J) ths socialist charier
paralysing the police power and dedi
cating the streets to the mob.
That Is a fine bouquet of charters.
The voter who supports No. 1 will
doubtloss writ "no" against the two
others; and ao with the advocates of
No. 1 and No. t. Reinforced by the
large body of citizens who want no
commtslon charter, there Is A definite
And practically certain prospect for
difest of alL
There are entirely too many charter
cooka
A xrw coMa-i srrT or ixtttrk-t.
Community of Interest was a stock
phrase In this country a few yeara
ago. but It was then used In relation
to combinations of rallroada Hut
there la A community of Interest be
tween the farmer and the railroad,
which la brought out In forcible atyle
tn two addreaaes delivered In North
Dakota recently by Howard Elliott,
president of the Northern Pacific
Rnilway. Mr. Elliott laye before the
farmers the facts about the railroad,
the farm and tbe atore In auch term
as bring home to hla hearers some
simple truths which have been ob
scured In recent years of railroad
baiting. The comparative earnings of one
mile of branch railroad costing IJO.
000 and of a country store form on
Illustration. In order to earn 7 per
cent on Its cost above expense of op
eration, maintenance and taxes, thla
mile of railroad must earn S00 to
4800 A year, but will do well if It
earn 110 a day or $1110 a year. Com
pared with thla, a hardware More In
North Pakota, with a $30,000 stock,
earned 10 per cent net in 1910. a dry
goods firm SO per cent and two
smaller stores, each with a stock not
exceeding $10,000. made 4S and C5
per cent respectively. Statistics for
the whole country, compiled from
Government reports for the year 1S05,
ehowed that the average net profit
on capital lnveeted In manufacturing
were IS. 01 per cent; In agriculture
I.I per cent, after allowing 7 per cent
Interest on Invested capital; In rail
roading 4.4( per cent. Mr. Elliott
expreased the same Idea In Another
way by. saying that to produce $1 of
net returns It required lf.fl of capt
tal Invested in manufactures, tt.ii of
capital In the case of agriculture and
$21.40 In the case of railroads.
The branch railroad la built largely
on hope that the development of Its
tributary country will In a few years
make It A paying Investment. In the
meantime the main line and the older
branches whih have already become
eelf-suatalnlng carry It along by mak
ing up " denctt.
Oregon may well take a hint from
these f .gurea This state needs branch
railroads more than any other In the
West. It has Just begun to get wh it
It need, but the state will not le
fully opened up until the construction
of such rosds has gone on for several
yeara Branchoa cannot be secured un
less the state and all Its people pur-
I sue liberal policy towards the rall-
roaua. Xjb mem iroi wbuiwi , "
they may maintain rates which will
allow them a fair profit on their In
vestment and that the Railroad Com
mission will devote Its energies rather
to the removal of Inequalities than to
lashing reductions. The .railroads
then will be able to secure the neces
sary capital for the extensions which
the state so earnestly desires.
How quickly the farmers profit by
tho construction of a nsw railroad Is
Illustrated by Mr. Elliott by pointing
to a new branch of hla road Into Het
tinger County. N. D.. which was
opened A few months ago. The value
of land increased from $1 to IS an
acre before the railroad to it to $25
after Its oompletlon. Similar benefits
will accrue to Oregon from the aame
cause.
TRI COCWXXO 1XOOD OT EOnOKAJfTS.
Should President Oompers' forecast
be realized and 500.000 Immigrants a
year land from Europe on the Pacific
Coast after the Panama Canal la
opened, this section of the oouctry will
be called upon to face A condition sim
ilar to that which confronted the At
lantlo Coast In the middle of the nine
teenth century. That aectlon has been
hampered with A glut of labor for
which it could not provide the partic
ular form of employment to which It
waa trained. In consequence we find
farmers, fruitgrowers and market gar
deners from Southern Europe who
might restore the fertility of the wast
ed lnnd of New England and other
Eastern states, learning, after they
have reached manhood, to build rail
roads, sub way a dig dltchea and foun
dations, mine coal and Iron.
Had there been any adequate system
of distributing this flood of new labor
and putting It where It would do the
most good that la, at trades to which
It waa trained and In sections which
needed development, many evil
might have been avoided. The sweat
shop would not have become . fixed
fact In New Tork and Philadelphia
Industry, Ths padrone could not ao
easily have held banda of Italians tn
semi-servitude. Hosts of Poles, Slavs
and Bohemians have been put to work
In mlnee where they have blown up
themselves and many others through
sheer Ignorance. Had those men been
put to work on Western farms, they
would have carried development of
the country far beyond the point It has
now reached and would have been A
valuable addition to the citizenship of
the country.
That the Paclflo may not repeat the
blunders of the Atlantio Coast, the
Immigrants whose coming Mr. Com
pere foresees and which any man can
foreses should be taken In hand At
landing by men employed by the De
velopment League and who speak their
own language. These men should as
certain their trade and direct them to
the place and the man. If possible,
where they can work at that trade.
Men trained in the orcharda of Europe
ahould be sent to the orchards of Ore
gon, and ao with other trades. Above
all. Immigrants should be discouraged
from settling at the port of debarka
tion unless their trade la auch aa can
only Le followed there. Portland
wants no such slums and tenement
districts as disfigure the Atlantic Coast
cities.
It Is not too early to begin organis
ing for the distribution of Immigrants,
for In little more than eighteen
months they will begin to arrive.
iKtou) BO'N'rrrs views.
' To Americana Arnold Bennett's opin
ions on authors And literature
have at leaat the merit of sin
gularity. He says they are com
mon enough across the water,
but on this side we have been taught
to look upon Scott. Thackeray and
Dickens aa about the brightest stars
that ever rose In the heaven of books.
Arnold Bennett condemns all three of
them on the ground that they were
"sentimentalists." though he mitigates
his sentence by doling out a little faint
praise before be gets through. "Scott
turned fiction away from Its natural
chn::::M." which is realism, he says,
but still Mr. Bennett accords to the
author of "Waverly" the merit, such
as it may be, of "creating the art of
landscape In literature. Scott invent
ed It as far as the novel Is concerned,
and of course that Is a great thing."
We concur In the opinion that It is A
great thing to depict a landscape with
words, but we cannot conceive how
Mr. Bennett obtained the notion that
Sir Walter Invented it. "Tom Jones"
hue some perfect landscapea Nbthing
could be better done, for Instance,
than the description of the wilderness
In which the hermit's hut was situated
whom Tom rescued from the robbers.
What msy have misled Mr. Bennott
is the patent fact that Fielding can
paint a landscape with two or three
strokes cf the brush so that It is in
delibly tmprfssed on the Imagination.
Perhaps Scott really was the firs: to
revel in wordy labyrinths In the vain
effort to make lcavea and tree trunks
eland out rf the printed page. We do
rot rumler this attempt araeig
Scott's merits, though he had plunty
of others which Mr. Bennett seems not
to have retired. He is himself "some
pumpkins" m a novelit, if one may
resort to a classlo New England
phrase. Nobody in our day writes
more Interesting books or portrays
character with A livelier grace. It
surprises one, therefore, to read Mr.
Bennett's depreciatory remarks about
Scott's women. He aaya they aro all
alike and all almpletona. For our part
we think otherwise.
Nor can we accept Mr. Bennett's
Judgment, quoted In the Literary Di
gest, that Scott had but little influence
on the Continent. Somewhat grudging
ly he allows that tbe British genius
formed the method of the great Du
mas and his contemporaries, but there,
Mr. Bennett thinks, Scott's Influence
stopped. Even If it did stop there,
certainly It was worth while, but that
Is not the case. Scott had as much or
more Influence on German than on
French literature. Ooethe, who was
his devoted reader and admirer, names
him as the foremost literary man of
hla time. He waa widely read In Ger
many Just at the moment when Ger
man literary ldeaa were taking shape
and his powerful personality may still
be traced In- the literature of the
Fatherland, which la Innately roman
tic and could not be "realistic" to save
its soul. To be sure, there is plenty of
rvalUm In the modern German drama
and fiction, but even such A play as
"The Joy of Living" fairly bubbles
over with romance. Between the
realism of Ibsen and that of Haupt
mnnn the difference is too great to
measure, though both are go'od.
But Mr. I5onnett admires' Thackeray
still !- than he docs Scott, if one
may speak of differences among in
finitely smnll quantities. He rates th
auhor of "Vanity Fair" below Dick
ens, who, says Mr. Bennett, wa "very
much hla euperlor." One of the blowa
at Thackeray la distressingly cruel, in
asmuch aa It la aimed at a point where
he never haa been thought to need
any defence. Everybody concedes
that Dickens "has no style," but It is
oomraonly believed that Thackeray
was a master in that department, Mr.
Bennett boldly lumps him In with
Dickens and says neither of them had
anv. Many have suspected heretofore
that Thackeray's style was belauded a J
little more than it deserved, but no- (
body has uad the courage to come oat
openly and aay what he thought.
Hence Mr. Bennett'a Judgment will
conduce to frankness even If it is
wrong. What one respectable author
has said others may at least permit
themselves to repeat without shame.
Thackeray's style Is a palpable imita
tion of Fielding's, and perhaps the Im
itation might be better done. Fielding
relates everything Jestingly and with
& In r tlrn i,nnn man anrl thinffS
not too deeply hidden. To him human I
nature, though always lovable, needs J
many uluki auiu iioiuou, muwum
Thackeray tried to assume the same
Jesting attitude 'toward the world and
the conduct of his characters. And
sometimes he succeeded, but not
aiwaya
His Jests now And then turn out to
be little better than scurrility, while
his efforts to pursue the difficult path
of witty tenderness sometimes lead
him Into the swamp of sentimentality,
os Mr. Bennett truly says. In this path
Fielding's foot never slipped and he
always knew exactly where it was tak
ing him. Read his alluring descrip
tions of Sophia and the models upon
which Thackeray fashioned his para
graphs pn women are manifest, but
the pupil never rivaled his master. Of
course Mr. Bennett does not mean that
Dickens was any more a master of
style than Thackeray was. The truth
of the matter Is that Dickens' English
Is common to the last degree, but he
waa not an Imitator, we may say thus
much for him. If his style was a poor
thing it was at least his own. But his
"superiority" lay in other directions.
With all his proneness to "draw it
strong" in his characters and descrip
tion. Dickens was at bottom a realist
In the fine Ibsenlan sense of drawing
his water from the deep wells of hu
manity. He is often mawkish, but sel
dom sentimental. We mean by this
that he does not write falsehood for
the sake of making a pretty page in
his book. Sentimentality does not
mean the mere effort to make one's
readers weep. It means an effort to
make them comfortable by concealing
undeniable truths, and of this crime
Dickens never was guilty.
One W. L. Houser, who subscribes
himself as chairman of the Republi
can progressive campaign committee,
Introduces himself to the notice of the
people of the Northwest by wiring
from Washington an elaborate denial
of a recent news dispatch from the J
Washington news Dureau or ina vjre
gonian, printed November 7, which
gave detailed account of the method by
which Senator Bourne had been cold
shouldered out of the La Follette
campaign management. At the same
time Mr. Medlll McCormtck wires from
Chicago that It is not so. The La Fol
lette managers have never dreamed of
doing so shocking A thing. No, never.
"I believe," says the trusting McCor
mlck, "In Senator Bourne's absolute
sincerity and progressive republican
ism." He is due for a rude awaken
ing when Senator Bourne, as usual,
passes on and bestows the burden of
his ardent affections on some other
candidate. Wired last night that both
Houser and McCormlck had . . simul
taneously repudiated his statement,
the Washington correspondent of The
Oregonlan responded:
Medlll MeCormtek evidently rants one way
Eiivately and the oppealte for publication,
undoubtedly Bourne, through fa Follette.
procured both dan lata. Will wire statement
star.
Exactly. It is characteristic of
Bourne to force the two principals .to
the front to do the talking for him
on penalty, likely enough, of Instant
repudiation of La Follette. The pro
cured protests of Bourne's newest
voices are worth very little attention.
Why do we like to look at the bat
tered tin bucket In which a hero has
boiled his coffee?. Why do we gaze
fondly on his yellow slicker, his hob
nailed shoes, his rough and muddy
blanketsf Heaven knows, but the
crowd at tle corner of Morrison and '
Sixth, streets proves that we do.
There they stand looking all day at
the relics Just the same outnt as any
woodsman uses, and yet it Is not the
same. It helped a hero do his work
and thereby became worshipful.
There Is something enviably hardy In
a man's conscience who can enjoy a
house made gay with stolen holly. The
woods of Oregon and Washington are
full of Oregon grape, which Is almost
as pretty as holly and can be come by
honestly. Still, there are people who
prefer to steal their holiday decora
tiona rather than take a healthy tramp
through the woods to gather them.
There is no disputing about tastes, but
thla one strikes ua as a little odd.
Canadians are not so slow, after all,
and all the brightest have not come
across the border. Their latest propo
sition is to harness the rapids of the
St, Lawrence with $100,000,000 capi
tal and sell energy. By and by, if
Champ Clark only will cease, that will
be a grand "American" concern.
An ex-Governor of New Hampshire,
only 77, is on a honeymoon tour with
a youthful bride, formerly his book
keeper. It takes A smart woman to
draw a capital prize in that land of
feminine prodigality.
Judge Morrow was undoubtedly hu
morous when he sent a bad-check man
to the rockplle for six months rather
than expos him to contamination In
A state prison sentence.
One must look abroad for th real
thing in frenzied finance. For exam
ple, there is the Bank of Burma, which
has failed, with nearly four millions of
deposits.
Piittlra; the safecrackers to build
safes looks like facilitating their op
erations when they resume business
after a period of enforced retirement.
Being before the publlo will not
sera so greet fun to Miss Mabel Tay
lor If the muckrakera begin paying her
their malodorous attentions.
What matter if next year levy be
a little more. This is a big city and
paying taxes is a patriotic duty. So
is spending the money.
LA'Follette crowds the Colonel off
the record bench In use of the personal
pronoun la a current magazine.
EASTEIt OREGON VOICE FOR TAFT
Editor Davey Telia Way Ho saonleT
Be Re-EUeeted.
Harney County Newa
There never was a better sign of
desire to be fair and honest with a
publlo official than the declaration of
so many real progressive Republicans
of their Intention to support President
Taft for renomlnatlon. It indicates that
though men may differ with the Presi
dent on the detail of party manage
ment, they are ready to reoognlae the
wisdom of his general polloy In up
holding the laws and advocating the
class of legislation that is beet calcu
lated to safeguard the business In
terests of the entire Nation.
No progressive Republican who Is not
actuated by motives of faotional poli
tical advantage can find fault with the
position of President Taft on the great
questions of the day.
. In the matter of conservation of the
natural resource he takes a reason
able and moderate ground, advocating
the proteotion of such resources for
the benefit of the entire people, but
not locking them up from the present
generation; giving the people of this
age and opportunity to use and develop
them under proper restrictions and re?
ilevlng the consuming publlo from the
heavy tribute that would otherwise
have to be paid to the private Interests
and oorporatlons which have ownership
of such a large part of those resources
and could hold the people at their
mercy If they could close the door to
further development for some yeara
In the matter of tariff legislation he
has held that while reductions should
be made In order to relieve the con
sumer from unjust burdens, these re
ductions should be based upon statisti
cal Information and equitable adjust
ment, with the protection principle
maintained and no Industry aaorlfloed.
This Is a Just and courageous stand
to take and should appeal to every
cltlsen who desires a fair deal and the
maintenance of American prosperity.
In the matter of promoting uni
versal peace and eliminating as far as
possible the dreadful consequenoe of
war. President Taft haa challenged the
admiration of the civilized world and
there la no brighter gem In the diadem
of thla republic than the Jewel1 of
"peace on earth" which Mr. Taft Is
molding for lt.
In the matter of sustaining and en
forcing the laws for the protection of
the people against the avarice of big
corporations. President Taft has taken
a position of unswerving courage and
determination which should appeal
with lrrestable force to every citizen
In the common walka of life and give
them a pride In chief executive who
dares to do what he believes right in
the faoe of powers that are almost
Illimitable In tbelr Influence for his po
litical injury, whose propaganda is con
stantly at work with shrewd attacks
to weaken his Influence and discredit
his efforts in the hope of either driving
him from his purpose or driving him
from the White House.
In the application of the land laws,
the Administration of President Taft
the past two years haa been particular
ly favorable to the settler, cutting off
the army of scalp-hunting sleuths who
for A time assumed that every settler
was a thief and a perjurer. And now the
policy la helpful and reasonable to all
who are showing good faith and to give
them every encouragement In home
building.
These are a few of the reasons why
the fair minded progressives are giving
their support to President Taft for re
nomlnatlon and recognize In him the
only man for whose election next year
the Republican party can entertain any
hope. With Mr. Taft aa the standard
bearer, those facts and many othera of
similar import will be developed and
made plain before the publlo and the
Nation la not going to reject such a
man for one who Is untried, uncer
tain or dangerous.
Wkrn Gen, Miles SnmBdered.
Popular Magazine.
It was a bright Spring morning, and
while the buds burst into bloom and
the birds sang their songs. It did not
seem possible that there should be on
the earth any spirit of conflict or hos
tility. A big automobile drew up In
front of a pretty residence In the su
burbs of Washington, and out of the
machine sprang a tall, military-looking,
whlte-mustached man, who walked
up on the porch and rang the doorbell
viciously. When an old lady answered
the summons, the soldierly-looking
man said. In a stern voice:
"Madam. I have come to get my dog."
"Your dog Is not here," replied the
old lady. "Tbat dog you see In the
yard belongs to ma I have raised him
from a puppy." . m
The visitor snorted ln'dlsdaln, turned
on his heel, and went away: but the
next day he drew up before the house
In his carriage. As he stepped to the
ground, he was followed by a black
setter dog. As on the day before, he
rsng the bell and waa answered by
the old lady.
"Madam." he said, even more sternly
than before, "I have oome to get my
dog. This dog here with me Is a
brother of the dog In your yard, and I
want no denial of the fact that some
body has stolen a dog from me."
The old lady explained that the dog
in her yard had been given to her by
a friend, and that General Nelson A
Mlles had. In the first place, presented
the pet to her friend.
"Well," surrendered the visitor, "I
guess you are right."
"Who are you, anyway?" asked the
old lady. '
"I. madam." responded the military
looking man. "am General 'NelBon A.
Miles," and he strode away without
making any further comment on the
incident.
M train Goes Before a War.
London Chronicle.
How do statesmen get themselves
into the frame of mind to declare war?
According to a popular German story
the method In Bismarck's case In 1868
was one that would hardly be sus
pected. His subordinate Kendell was
an expert pianist and, as Sir Mount
stuart Grant Duff puts it, "used, it is
said, to fulfill toward him the func
tion which David fulfilled toward
Saul." On one evening Bismarck was
unusually moody and Kendell sur
passed himself at the piano. "Thank
you, my dear Kendell," said Bismarck,
finally, "you have aoothed me and done
me so much good; my mind la made
up. We shall declare war against Aus
tria." Microphone as Water Finder.
Baltimore American.
The microphone, in a modified form.
Is being used successfully by a French
Inventor to find springs of water and
they have been located aa far as E0
feet underground. It la expected that
the instrument will be of much value
to miners, prospectors and others In
similar occupations, as well as in lo
cating victims of mine accidents. A
tube Is thrust into the ground a few
feet and the Improved microphone at
tached to the upper end, when noise
mads by, flowing or XaUing water Is
plainly beard.
TWO MAIDENS AFTER UFSBAXDS
If Tew De ot Want One, Way. Ton
May Have Her Bister.
NEW TORK. Nov. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) I do not know what The Ore
gonlan will think of this unusual com
munication, but trust that the spirit
In which it la written will be under
stood, .
My sister and I have been orphans
for many years. We were born In
Savannah, Oa, but were carefully edu
cated In Boston, Mass. I have been
employed In the City of New Tork with
a business concern for three years In
the capacity of stenographer and clerk
at a salary of $75 per month, and it
Is probable that I shall remain here
the rest of my life at the same salary.
All the young men whom I have met
and who have asked me to marry them
are all clerks, aome of them not re
ceiving as large a salary, and with no
hope of ever being independent of
their positions or their own master
in the least sense of the word. They
all like cheap, city life, the cheap
pleasures and narrow views, ths kind
of views that every single person seems
to have.
They have never been anywhere out
side of thla city and never seem to
want to know anything different. Ths
cheaper and flashier and more extrava
gantly the young women dress, the
more these men like it, and books and
domesticity they do not seem to have
any time for.
I am 26 years old next March, plump
and healthy, reddish brown hair, brown
eyes, five feet five Inches tall. I think
that I ought to have a husband and
protector, but I can never reconcile
myself to accepting the thin, pale
faced, tired, cruel and weak men I see
all around me every day, and live in
the city besides. I should like to have
a husband who could take care of ma
Instead of my looking out for him,
one who Is a real man, owns his house
or ranch, is not physically or mentally
afraid of worried about facing life,
and haa In him tbe character and
strength which comes first In winning
the respect and devotion of good
women.
Besides my salary, I have a small
Income from a cottage in the suburbs
which I purchased, hoping to be able
to permit my sister to live in the coun
try, but the high gas rates, water rates
and extreme taxes made life such a
burden that we had to live In the city
to keep out of debt. I would gladly
sell this house and go out to the west
ern country. If I could feel sure of
safety and an honorable mode of liv
ing. I will be glad to give you as refer
ences my employer and my father's
lawyer, and the names of those who
know me socially. If you know of any
one who wants a wife and helpmate,
who Is an honorable gentleman at
heart, and, above all, his own master.
I shall be pleased to correspond with
such an one, and send my picture, but
I do not like to do this unless the
editor writes me that it will be in good
handa
I should also like a husband for my
sister. She is slender and fair1 very
different from me in every way but
much sweeter.
KATHER1NB MARSTON READ.
640 W. One Hundred and Fifty-eighth
street
Half a Century Ago
From Tbe Oregonlan. November 15. 1SGI.
(From our Correspondent.) The
Dalles, Nov. 10. We took a free gratis
walk upon that ticklish specimen of
art and monopoly, the wooden railway
around the portage, and finally found
ourselves safe upon the Idaho, where
we found the gentlemanly captain, the
good cook and the "devil of a fellow,"
who does the clerk. Kraggs fits the
bill and won't deny the items. I expect
the clerk of the Idaho Is honest. No
doubt of It, In fact. But the Carrie
Ladd has a clerk who will do to bet
on, for I heard him declare that, since
the company had been a little unfor
tunate on the upper river, he had given
them full half of the earnings of tha
boat.
They have added Powder River to
Salmon River and nobody can exag
gerate the stories that are true.For
tunes have been made. I heard a let
ter from Vic Trevltt read, which is in
teresting and reliable. A ha,lf day's
work of two men cleaned up two and
onevhalf pounds avoirdupois weight of
gold. One claim has paid $6000 in four
days. A young man from Portland,
who had taken up heavy amounts of
goods some time since, which many
expected would ruin him, had become
rich by the turn of affairs. Another,
who left The Dalles six weeks since,
had cleared $30,000 and everything
was true and more besides.
An assay of a specimen of silver ore
brought from the Blue Mountains by
Thomas Carter, Esq., it is said, yields
a handsome per cent of stiver. The
lead is reported to be very extensive.
We notice that In accordance with
our suggestions the other day In re
gard to the building of sewers, sev
eral of our property holders have al
ready commenced the good work In
front of their premises.
The (Victoria) Colonist of the 6th,
says: "Three Frenchmen (miners) ar
rived here on Monday on the Otter
from Cariboo, who give an extraordi
nary account of the gold taken from
their claim. Five of their partners and
there were eight In all, remain dur
ing the Winter at Cariboo. The sum
taken out was $105,000. The three
who arrived brought down the bags to
back up their assertions.
Thistledown aa Nature's Parachutes,
Sclentlflo American.
Careful examination has been made
of the heads of Canada thistledowns
In order to determine their effective
ness as parachutes carrying the seeds
of the plant to great distances through
the air. The results of this examina
tion are quite remarkable.
Calculation shows that a thistledown
starting from an elevation of 20 feet
in still air would require two-thirds
of a minute to reach the ground. With
a wind blowing 20 miles an hour it
would be carried on the average about
a fifth of a mile. The total surface
exposed to the air in an average this
tledown Is, on account of the great
number of hairlets. a little more than
one-third of a square foot.
Another well-known and very beau
tiful example of nature's parachutes
Is furnished by the light silken threads
with the aid of which the little gossa
mer spider makes long aerial voyages.
Anti-Plumage la Germany.
, Indianapolis Newa
Making mention of the "fashion
defying women of America," who
waged war on plumage decorations.
Professor Schillings has appealed to
the German women, through the Sud
deutsche Monatshlft, to wear no mil
linery which Includes plumes or feath
ers of any kind. The responses Indors
ing the call came more quickly than
Schillings expected they would, and the
first published list of "prominent
women who will not decorate them
selves with feathers" includes the
names of the Queen of Wurtemberg,
the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
Strelitz, the Crown Princess of Sach-sen-Meiningen.
the Princess Eitel
Frl'Hlrlch, of Prussia; the Princess Au
gusts Victoria, of Hohenzollern; the
Prlnoess of Sachaen-Meiningen: the
Princess Maria Alexandria, of Reuse,
and tha Baroness Hildburg.
N. NITTS ON MERCY
By Deaa Colllaa,
Nesclus Nltts, who In Punklndorf Sta
tion. Waa held as a shark by the whole
population.
Without even budging an inch from
' hi station.
Cut short with his ruld a black bug's
aviation.
Then spake upon convicts and safe
fabrication:
"I Iowa there's delight In the ranks
of them men
Thar locked In San Quentln for seven
or ten;
Sence wardens decided upon the crea
tlon,
Fer oonvlota, of somo useful, light oo"
cupatlon;
And now them pore chaps that the
prison bonds chafes
Will be put to work with a-buildin' of
safes.
"Them men that the law has long pes-i
tered and druv.
May now turn their bands to a labor
of love,
A-forgln' the plates and the levers and
crank
Fer doors to the vault of our Na
tional banks. '
Who knows but they may frame the
deep combination
To lock iip the wealth e'en of Punkln
dorf Station? x
"The hand that , got pinohed for
a-plckln' of locks
Shall turn to build many a heavy strong
box;
And If business is good, convict safes,
it appears.
Should fair flood the country in halt
dozen years;
All polished and furbished, from rivet
to knob.
By men who Is adepts, fer shore,, at the
Job.
"The laborln' convicts should sing and
rejoice.
Assured that each safe knows Its own
master's voice.
And knowin' there's several hundred
of sech
A-layln' around to respond to their
tech,
In banks and in groe'ry stores all
through the Nation
And maybe some even in Punklndorf
. Station.
"Jest think what delight should flow
over the soul
Of the safe-makln' convict, while swirt
seasons roll.
As he frames up the safes, and he merr
rily sings,
T shore hope some big bank will fancy
my things, ,,.
Fer I don't want no lean safe lyln
about
When. year after next, this here place
Jets me out.'
"We shore grows more merciful every
But thisl's the merclflest yet, I should
When "prisons provides fer their in
mates, the best
Of chances wherewith they can feather
their nest.
And 'lows them, though locked up. to
freely engage ,,
In layln' up somethin' agin' their old
Portland. November !
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe)
. . !.-, Iinnila with a little
von he nearly always gives you a
very hard grip, to show that while he
r8 small he has great physical strength.
Talk about some men being poor at
relating, an anecdote;, did you ever
hear a woman try H?
If a girl singer Is pretty good. It
hurts her feelings If you praise Melba
in iaT rtresence.
Know why widows are so attractive?
Life insurance.
The neighbors are mad at a woman,
about half the time because she does
not whip her children more.
The longer a marriage is put. off,
the less probability that It will ever
occur. , :
This is the way your friend usually
von when a controversy comes
up in which you are Interested, he
give you the worst of it. to show that
he is a Square Man.
Another surprising thing is the man
ner in which a popular young mans,
drops out of the social wunu " .
marries.
Every three years, A new play ap
pears based on a little, meek husband,
and a big bossy wife.
People never have as good a time on
a "big day" as they expect.
Cash Prizes
For Articles on
"How We Won Oar Home"
The Portland Realty Board in
vites the homeowners of Port
land and vicinity to enter an
essay contest for the best articles
on the general topic, "How We
Won' Onr Home," and offers the
following prizes each week:
First prize, $25.
Second prize, $10.
Third prize, $5.
The articles should deal with
actual, concrete personal expe
riences of home-winning and
home-building, setting forth, step
by step, the progress toward the
achievement, from the time of
making the first payment on a
lot or acreage to the realization
of the ambition. Articles will
appear in The Sunday Oregonian.
Photographs are desirable,, but
will not be considered in award
ing prizes. The right is reserved
of running in The Sunday Ore
gonian stories not awarded prizes.
The following 6imple directions
should be observed:
1. Articles should not be more1
than 500 words in length.
2. The writer should be a bona
fide homeowner, or the member
of a home-owner's family.
3. Write on one side of paper
only. '
4. Sign writer's correct name
and address. .
5. Mail articles to City Editor
of The Oregonian.