tjte jrcmxixo onEGomx, Monday, xotembei? 27. 1911.
roRixAn. outgo.
Eatar4 at lertlaa4. Oroa. FaateaTOoe
M-a4-CitM Wattar.
ttibecrtpuoa Ki Invariably ta
IBT ataJL.)
tailT. ! tarlndacl. '!?
La:.. Suaoar Inciudad. aim maatJis.... J"
Ie;jr. PiNir laeludad. tnrae anaatae.. a
I'm 17. laiidar Ineiuurd r meat...,
X . aitaoul Suada.. jn e-
t . - , . , . ..... .... a.a
fc
ll. without kutty, Ibw maa...
mK aee yar. rfj
Ivctir, ana yar
auadajr asd rVaaaly. ee .
.ai.T. aaasar ineiaavq, n j -
?. Baaoa la-iudai. aaa asaaia. ...
laatir inelada. aaa yaar VJ
Ilaar KaaaU died Poatofnaa ""T
arar. aapraaa order ar aaraoaal abarfc
trai lata! auk. Hiaata, eoia or urrr
ra at ma eaader-e ruk. ol "
addrasa la fail. ualdus aaaalr aaa
J'aacac Ralaa li la 14 paa. 1
ta la aasea. 1 eantai S ta o aa. eaeta;
so la paaaa, 4 casta, rama eetaa
alaiibla rata.
I ailaa Itaaiaaaa Praise Varra a Ov
Ha Mr Vera. in-anaaUk aUdJ. -"
aaia Siaa-ar bulldlaa. .
LAaaaav
-OHrLAIX. MOXIXAT. OT. M, 1SIV.
TUB LATEST WEST XOTtUI,
Lm than ytr tfo stranger ap
pearad at lodging-house la East
Portland and rented a room from the
landlady. That worthy woman re
marked that bis appearance wa
strange asd forbidding, but bad do
reason to refuae him accommodation
asd aocepted from him the custom
ary rental for a day or two. Next day.
notice that ber tenant bad been gone
tor several hours, aha entered the
room, and there. In the bed. carefully
corered by the clothing. he found
the dead and ravished body of little
Barbara Iloliman. an Innocent child
of tender years, who had fallen a
victim to the awful luat of a murder
ous monster.
Lut June there lived at Sellwood a
family named H11L One morning cu
rloua neighbors, entering the home,
found the entire family murdered with
an ax. being" cut. bruised and mutilat
ed in the most horrible manner. The
mother and young daughter had be
sides been subjected to the unspeak
able assaults of the terrible fiend who
had evidently exterminated the fam
ily in the most dreadful and merciless
manner to remora any living witness
of hi crime.
Now OoTemor Wert says there shall
be no mora hangings In Oregon not
while be Is In the executive chair. The
Oovernor thinks the state ought not
to "kilt" the man who kill, and he
utters other sentimental gibberish to
Justify him In his mistaken course.
The state doe not kill or murder. It
exterminates, and it should extermi
nate, for it own protection, auch mis
erable wretches a the more or less
sar.e pervert who violated and slew
Barbara Holxman and who violated
and slew Mrs. Hill and her daughter.
But Instead of returning to the vile
dirt where they belong, such worse
than worthless and more than danger
ous creatures a the Holxman and 11111
murderers or wa It murderer!" the
Governor of Oregon conceive It to b
hi duty to go to the extreme of setting
aside the rlgorou and Just operation
of law In order to protract their
vicious existences. He would take
such disgusting degenerates and put
them In a cell at Salem, fattening them
with wholesome food, ministering to
them when they are sick and offering
them on occasion spiritual and ether
consolation. Why? That they may
lire as long a poeslble. Why should
they live?
The apologists for the Governor de
fnd his "courage" In bluntly stating
l is views and shaping his coursa ac
cordingly. It la not courage. It Is In
part a aophomotic assumption that he
knows better about such things than
the thoughtful men who have for a
hundreJ years made the laws ef civi
lised states. In part mere boyish sentl
mentallsm. and In part a sensational
purpose to do something new and star
tling In order to keep the executive of
fice In the srot light. If the Oovernor
ha been subjected to the constant at
tacks of his "perennial critic" 1t Is
because he so Impudently and system
atically departs from the path of quiet
wisdom and sessoned experience. The
Governor's office In Oregon, or any
where, ought to be something mora
than a plaything.
The people who would hang nobody
for any cause treason, murder or
rape and who point out the Increas
ing number of homicide throughout
the United States in an effort to show
that capital punishment dors not de
crease the frequency or horror of
murder, totally mis the point. Mur
ders have not Increased because mur
derers are hanged, but because they
are not hanged. If Judges and Juries
would do their duty and punishment
wlft and certain should follow crime
of the blood, the hideous crime of
murder would bo far less common In
America.
If the law la not to hang, mob will
hang. Let us see the logical and In
evitable outcome of this latest novelty
n West policies.
KOOSETZXT A VD TA.FT OX TRCFT9.
Colonel Roosevelfs discussion of
trust ha been so generally received
a an attack on Taft's policy, and. by
Implication, as a bid for the Republi
can nomination for President, that It
Is well to compare the policy the ex
President recommends with that which
tha President Is pursuing. When we
have done so. It mill be found that the
two policies are much the aame,
though differing considerably In de
tail and degree. What cause there
can be for the shouts of Jubilation
which have gone up from Wall
street and the shout of execration
from ecetales of the traits 1 not clear
on the surface. A to the point of
difference. Roosevelt would go farther
than Taft In regulating the trusts, for
he would even have the Government
regulate prices, wages and hours of
labor. Whenever a corporation be
came) a pernicious monopoly, he would
have It dissolved so completely that It
parts could never come together again.
Roosevelt began the present series
of anti-trust suit: Taft carried them
to a successful conclusion. Roosevelt
rays these suits did good by making
the trust reailxe that they were sub
ject to the law and by convincing the
public that success wa possible.
Roosevelt aays Wall street fought both
wise and anwlse legislation and en
forcement of the law; Taft. by win
ding these suits, has made Wall street
accept the principle of the Sherman
law and to cry out for that supervision
which will put the principle In prac
tice and not cat the shadow of llle
gnl'.ry over every big corporation sim
ply because It. is big.
Roosevelt propose supervision and
regulation by an administrative body,
declaring the attempt to meet the
problem by lawsuit hopeless; Taft. by
enforcing the Uw a It stands, has
driven home to the minds of both the
trust chiefs and their enemies the ne
cessity for such supervision, making It
a live political question with which
the present Congress must deal. As
a first step he proposes to amend the
Bherman law by defining what can
legally be done; then to require Fed
eral incorporation of Interstate cor
poration. Thl Implies the creation
of Just such an administrative body a
Roosevelt recommends to grant char
ters, keep corporations within tho law
and prosecute those which violate it.
The greatest apparent difference of
pinion on matters of policy relates to
competition, but Ui difference la no
as great as H may seem. Taft says
competition Is the only system andec
which business can legally be dose,
and. however men may disagree as to
Its wisdom, there can ba no donbt
that that Is the meaning of the Sher
man law. Roosevelt declares impos
sible the restoration of the competi
tive conditions of sixty years ago, but
admits that competition will rwmaln
as a very Important factor when we
have destroyed unfair business meth
ods. Taft haa never made mere size
the test of whether a corporation is
legal or not. hence thera la no differ
ence between the two men on that
point. ,
On the subject of Government reg
ulation of prices, there is more differ
ence of opinion. Taft haa expressed
frank opposition to such a policy a
too long a step toward Socialism;
Roosevelt says: We should enter on
a- course of supervision, control and
regulation of great corporations. If
necessary to the point of control of
monopoly prloea." The proviso Indi
cate that he regard price control
only a a last resort when extinction
of a monopoly has been found Impos
sible. Thus he I only discussing a
contingency which has not yet arisen.
The criticism which Roosevelt
makes of the suit against the steel
trust relates mainly to the question
whether he was deceived by Oary and
Frlck as to the Tennessee deal. Even
If he were deceived as to that deal,
none but the rabid antl-Rooaevelt
men question that he acted In the best
Interest of the country. His denial
that the deal etrengthened the trust
to the monopoly point Is but a natural
ebullition of his customary xeal In
self-defense. His criticism of the re
organization decree In the tobacco
case Is aimed less at the Administra
tion than at the court which rendered
the decree and at the law which made
such a farcical proceeding possible.
It I an argument for the very meas
ures which both he and Taft
recommend.
murno Exoum,
One of our oonternporartea, , the
Idaho Statesman, relying upon the
great authority of Profeasor Louns
bury. valiantly attacks the English
courses In school and college. Pro
fessor tiounabury comes out with the
doctrine that the practlca of writing
esssays is of no practical value. It
does not make good English writers
cf students and It evokes no thought
of any consequence. Indeed he al
leges that professors of English dis
courage thinking on the part of their
students, and those who have any ac
quaintance with scholastic practlca
know that this is only too true.
What the professor wants Is com
pliance with artificial standards of
form and expreaslon. Everything
else may go hang and welcome. The
oretically the English training In our
schools both high and low ought to
be productive of good results, for It
costs a pot of money and occupies
some very able men and women. But,
like many other excellent plans of
mice and men. It has gone agley and
leaves us naught but disappointment
In place of brilliant authors.
Unpalatable as the fact may be to
professional educationists. It Is true
that moat eminent authors of either
prose or verse have trained them
selves. Many of them have told us
In plain terms that they owed noth
ing to the college. Benjamin Frank
lin, whose prose Is almost a good a
Swift's, relates In his autobiography
how he formed his style without a
teacher. It was by filling his mind
with fine paragraph's and then writing
them out In Ms own language. After
ward he compared hi productions
with the original and corrected them
as best he could. This wa not Imita
tion. It was a kind of emulation and
It produced excellent results.
No doubt the foundation of a good
style is the wish to say something
which strugsles for expression In the
mind. When Sheridan, afterward a
gTeat orator, forgot his first speech
and had to sit down In confusion, he
said to a friend: "It Is In me and it
shall come out." In due time It did
come out. The principal reason why
so little comes out of our college, stu
dents Is that the vessels are empty.
TAVrNO TUB WAT." AOAXX.
Mr. Cridge la very adroit. Borne
time ago, when Inequalities In appor
tionment of atate taxea were suggest
ed as Inevitable under varying county
tax systems, Mr. Cridge Informed us
that assessed valuations would be
returned on all property, even though
all but land were exempt In single tax
counties. Today he proposes "to got
around the law restricting the levy
by kiting land values. That In Itself
would create unfair apportionment of
state taxes. Thus we should be be
tween the devil and the deep sea If
single taxed. We could do without
needed city revenues or raise valua
tions and pay more than our share of
state revenues.
So. in spite of Mr. Crldge's denials,
the repeal of the charter limitation
on the city levy Is essential to the
adoption of county single tax In Mult
nomah. Moreover, The Oregonlan has
been informed by one who was con
sulted In the drafting of the short
charter that a main object of Its pro
moters was to pave the way for
county single tax.
The Oregonlan Is gratified that its
suggestion for reform In recall pro
cedure has been embodied In the short
charter. However, one virtue does
not hide a dozen evils. The Orego
nlan opposed several measures sub
mitted at the last state election, al
though It admitted they had desirable
features. The bad overbalanced the
good.
What Is the meaning of the clause
In the short charter specifically re
stricting the police power. If, as Mr.
Cridge says, the abort charter "pro
vides for all the powers that a city
can exerciser One would think that
the framers of a "short" charter
would leave out meaningless sections
and make It a shorter charter. But
perhaps It Is an Ineffective provision
Incorporated to capture the votes of
the lawless but Ignorant. Single taxers
deceived the unenlightened with a
poll tax bauble. Initiative vote get
ting 1 with them a fine art.
TUB KAVTS WORK FOR rEACTC
To those who Imagine the peaceful
disposition of the UnXed States to be
good cause for not maintaining a pow
erful navy, the work on which the
navy is now engaged Is a sufficient an
swer. We have a large force off the
coast and la the navigable rivers of
China to protect the lives and property
of Americans and to rescue our lega
tion at Pekln in case of need. We have
several ships off the coast of Tripoli
to fuard American Interests during
tho war la that country- Having made
ourselves responsible for the collec
tion of the customs revenue of Santo
Domingo and for tho application of a
part to the payment of that republic's
debts, we have dispatched two cruis
ers to prevent disorder from follow
ing the assassination of President
Caceres.
All of the missions are missions
of peace or of defense, not, of war.
They are unavoidable If we are to do
our duty among nation. When civil
war breaks out, as In China, the com
batants will pay scant attention to the
rights of a non-combatant unless the
latter has force at hand to back him
up. The same Is true In a war be
tween two nations, as In Tripoli,
where religious fanaticism add to tho
he'at of passion. Our Interference In
Bantu Domingo 1 neoessary to pre
vent any European power having
claim jt ftralnst that republic from
flndlufc- an excuse to Intervene In de
fiance 6f the Monroe doctrine.
Had we neglected any of these du
ties, all plainly Incumbent on us, we
should have made ourselves con
temptible In the eyes of the world and
Invited war by our apparent readiness
to submit unresistingly to wroog.
Such course would have been standing
notice to aggreaslve nations that we
would not resist encroachment. In
the outcome wo would probably ba
goaded Into war In order to maintain
our existence, or at least to demon
strate that we were not as meek as we
seomed.
The disturbed condition of the
world confirms the statement of
President Taft that we must main
tain our present rank as a naval
power at the same time that we do
our utmost to advance the cause ot
arbitration. Only when the latter
means of preserving peace haa been
generally adopted can we safely re
duce our naval armament.
MAKrxO THE KNIAU. FARM PAT.
The land owner who attempts to
raise wheat alone on less than 120
acres Is not wise, unless he 1 In an
especially favored section. Even then
he should have resources sufficient to
carry .him over one or two years,
made lean by total or partial crop
failure or abnormally low prices. It
la to bo presumed that the farmer
with more than half a section will also
be prepared for like periods, but un
less be Li In debt he ought to have
sufficient credit to carry him through.
Nor should tho orchardlat with
forty acres or leas rely upon any one
or two kinds of fruit. If he does he
Is taking a great risk. He Is as sure
to strike lean years as Is the wheat
grower. If upon his forty acres he
ha a variety of fruits, such as grapes,
berries, apples, pears, plums and
prunes, It Is not within a probability
that they will all fail In any one year.
But It. U unwise for any man of
ordinary means to rely upon any ono
crop, no matter what It may be. The
capitalist who has a large body of
land, orchard or agricultural, can af
ford to take the chance, but the
man expecting to make hlsllvlng each
year from his land cannot with safety
specialize so closely.
The best farmer 1 he who diversi
fies his Industries, crops his land In
telligently and takes, so far a pos
sible, the profits that the specialist
throws to the middleman. That Is, he
feeds as much as possible f his prod
ucts to livestock, turning It Into pork,
mutto-. poultry or beef, or preferably
into milk and cream.
Almost all of the good things open
to tho farmer will com through the
dairy cow. The landowner, be he
orchardlst or wheat grower, who does
not find that out early In his career
Is missing the one best bet open to
the agriculturist or horticulturist. It
Is true the proper handling of cows to
get the best results Is a business re
quiring close attention to details, and
there 1 work to do, work that must
be done, every morning and every
evening the year through. But there
Is no other work that brings surer re
ward than the work with the dairy
cow.
Any man with a tract of good land
of forty acres, or under the best con
ditions with twenty acres, and a dozen
good cows. Is better off than the spe
cialist with two or three time that
area and resource of $6000 to
110.000. For the dairyman who Is
fully taking advantage of his oppor
tunities Is not a specialist. He must,
if pursuing his. business with intelli
gence, maintain such a rotation of
crops a to have green food for his
cows all the year through. He will
raise root crops of various kinds, cab
bage and kale.
And as one of the most profitable
branches of the industry will come
the hog, that greatest of all money
makers In this section of the country.
And If wise, ho will pay a good deal
of attention to poultry, for where
there Is a good supply of green food
and skim milk the cost of keeping a
large flock of chickens Is scarcely ap
preciable. But the hogs should have
first call on the by-products from the
dairy.
These facts are as oil as the hills.
Tou may go to any dairy soctlon and
see them verified on all hands. And
when you get Into a dairy country
you will find the most prosperous of
all agricultural communities. Tou
will find the people well housed, the
children being brought up under the
very best conditions, good school and
church facilities, and the landowners
as a rule out of debt and with good
credit. Above all you will find the
farmers wive enjoying more of the
comforts of life than In any wheat
country on earth.
While these statements are true of
the country as a rule, they can be
emphasized In our own section. The
climatic and soil conditions here are
practically Ideal for the dairyman,
making the Industry not only more
profitable than anywhere else In the
country, but more pleasant. We have
seen It stated, and believe the state
ment to be true, that the same Intelli
gence displayed here as In the fa
vored dairy sections of New Tork and
Illinois will give returns of more than
twenty-five dollars per cow per year
In our favor.
One further thought: Tho dairy
business will not bo . overdone, at j
i 1 vt- - V. na,t 0-anerfl. '
tlon. It will grow more profitable
year after year. It will become less
drudging. With all of the Improve
ments, such as milking machines.
napatAra tha AVia.r) veneration of
power, the automobile truck and mul- I
tlpllcatlon of creameries, the future
dairyman may even do his work in his i
Sunday clothes without soiling his kid
gloves.
MAX-COXTENT9 AND STEDDUER8. '
The uprising in the name of labor
at Aberdeen, Wash., recalls. In a way,
the antl-Chineso labor riots In the
early elghtles,whlch caused such bitter
ness In the Industrial and political
world, of this region. Then tho
Knights of Labor, an organization of
which Terrene V. Powderly was pres
ident, was In the lead in the strife.
That organization exists now only In
memory but It was for some years a
militant body that In the name of
labor now and again worked mischief
to tho oause of the laboring man. Its
successor Is an organization, half anar
chistic, half socialistic and altogether
militant known as the Industrial
Workers of tho World, a body that
scouts tho laws which govern supply
and demand and seeks to dictate terms
to employers of labor under pain of
the wreck and ruin of their property.
The name of this organization la
first of all misleading. It is not an In
dustrial body of workera but of med
dlers rather, whoso dictates are per
haps enforced idleness, but more often
lndolenoe, laziness, discontent, envy,
or unwelcome but necessary employ
ment. Intelligent, self-respecting la
bor; labor that Is willing to lay hold of
opportunity; that goes cheerfully to Its
tasks and that Joins with economy,
thrift and sobriety In building In Its
effective years defenses against the
Winter of life lacks both time and In
clination to Join in or echo the clamor
of trouble-makers who decry tho ne
cessity of labor as a curse that has
been visited upon mankind by employ
ers of labor.
There are exceptions, of course, to
all general rules, and many worthy ex
ceptions to this rule have been caught
In the maelstrom of discontent, and
swept Into the current of violence. For
these and for all those who suffer pri
vation and want In homes through acts
that cut off their opportunity to la
bor deepest sympathy and willing aid
are due, though to all such as these
may help through the door of self
help speedily come. For the others
tho turbulent host of trouble-makers
who Inveigh against toll as a curse
and arraign with noisy mouthing em
ployers of labor as oppressors it can
only be said that In one way or another
society will and must protect Itself
against them according to conditions
that they themselves Impose.
Purchase of large tracts of Oregon
land by Eastern Investors Is the pre
cursor of extensive development of
three different sections. The sale of
Broadmead may be regarded as a
step toward Intensive farming, by
which the Willamette Valley will be
come ono of tho most densely popu
lated tracts of equal area In the
United States. The Klamath County
sale should extend the dairy and live
stock Industry In Southern Oregon.
Baker County's lime and gypsum de
posits will experience wider develop
ment through falling Into the hands
of a wealthy corporation.
The weakness about insurgents,
called by themselves progressives, is
that Insurrection breeds Insurrection
until the original Insurgent body be
come dissolved Into Its several atoms.
When Insurgency becomes Involved
with the rivalry of Seattle and Taco
ma, this process of dissolution Is
accelerated.
The men who tell tho stories of
"How We Won Our Homes" omit all
reference ' to cigars, theaters and ex
pensive vacations, for very good and
sufficient reasons.
The number of dead and injured In
the football field Is not quite up to
that in a battle In Tripoli, but about
matches many engagements In the
Mexican Civil War.
A girl who cannot find any better
means of gaining prominence than
Beulah Blnford found does wisely' to
choose "a quiet and Inconspicuous
existence."
As Diaz, in his retreat In Spain,
reads of anarchy In Mexico, he may
grimly remark: "I told you they did
not know how to govern themselves."
It is not that cars blockade the
streets so much as that Portland peo
ple have outgrown In numbers the
Ideas of the founders of the city.
Is it possible that Josephine Coun
ty's wild goat escaped from some
Rogue River lodge meeting after a
particularly hilarious initiation?
Back In poor old New England,
where they retail food by the mouth
ful, buyers are grumbling at 40 cents
a peck for potatoes.
The burning Issue this week Is not
tho trusts, the tariff, conservation or
any of those old shopworn topics, but
tho price of turkeys.
Problem for Judge Tazwell: If a
sack of potatoes must weigh 100
pounds, how much is there In a sack
of cool?
What matters It that tho revival bo
financial failure when 3000 brands
have been plucked from the burning?
Displays of Ill holiday toys make
a man wonder how he survived tho
lack of them In his youth.
Idaho Democrats still admire
Bryan, but they cannot forgive Mm
the stigma of triple defeat.
Sam " Gompers' re-election was
unanimous. Therein lies the strength
of tho Federation.
Local Jails and rockplles have
standing room only, so everybody
must bo good.
It Is easy to make a peeress of an
heiress when the father has millions.
Heney shows his adolescence when
he gets Into political prediction.
The "foot front" cuts a big figure In
Portland deals
Douglas Is tho turkey county of
Oregon,
f
PEOPLE APPIIOTE DEATH PETf ALTT
Foar Oppertnnirle ta Abolish It by
Popular Vfa slip By,
PORTLAND, Nov. 18. (To the Ed
itor.) Oovernor West's declaration
that the death penalty will not be en
forced during his administration is an
arrogant assumption of authority
which was not contemplated by the
framers of our state constitution. It
Is an Insult to the peace officers and
courta of the state, to the Legislature
and also to the people. The constitu
tion of Oregon provides that. the Gov
ernor shall have power to grant re
prieves, pardons and commutations for
all crimes except treason, but it was
never contemplated that the Chief
Executive should engage in the whole
sale business of setting aside the
Judgments of our courts of Justice
merely to gratify a personal whim, or
because of his own private views on
oapital punishment, etc.
The pardoning power Is vested In the
Governor In order that a criminal may
be pardoned or hie sentence commuted
if, after conviction, some extraordinary
faot or circumstance is brought to light
or newly-discovered evidence is ad
duced. No person of sound sense be
lieves that it Is the province of the
Governor to sit as a court of last resort
In criminal cases, for If such were the
intention, why not give the Oovernor
original Jurisdiction and let all such
cases be tried before him In the first
Instance, thus saving the county and
state the expense of a trial before a
court and Jury and a subsequent appeal
to the Supreme CourtT There Is no
warrant of authority for Governor
West's latest ultimatum, and. to a
casual observer. It looks as though our
Governor were trying to usurp the
functions of the courts. But this is not
all, for the Governor Is also endeavor
ing to set himself above the law-making
body of the state the Legislature
and the eoverelgn people.
In his inaugural message last Winter
Governor West recommended abolish
ment of the death penalty, and the
whole Influence of his administration
was exerted In support of a bill looking
to that end, yet the Legislature, by an
overwhelming vote, defeated the bill.
Now, the Governor slaps th"e Legisla
ture in the face by declaring that there
will be no executions during his term
of office, and he also Insults the intel
ligence of the people of whom he
talked in such heart-rending terms
during his campaign last year. The
people have had four opportunities to
abolish the death penalty since the
adoption of the Initiative In 1902, yet
no initiative measure loklng to that
end has ever been suggested or pro
posed, although some 64 measures have
been voted on by the electorate. Sure
ly, If there were an honest, widespread
demand for the abolishment of the
death penalty the people would have
been heard from during the past eight
yeara
When Governor West was campaign
ing for votes he did all in his power to
stir up class hatred, and announced that
all the crooks In the state would "take
to the woods" In the event of his eleo
tlon. - His prediction has been fulfilled
In a measure, for many of hie paroled
prisoners and honor convicts have
"taken to the woods." and it is ap
parent that numerous cold-blooded
murderers will escape the hangman's
noose.
It will be Interesting to watch the
effect of our Governor's latest mani
festo, and the prediction Is freely made
that Judge Lynch will dispense Justice
In murder cases in remote sections of
our state. Ike Harrell, the Lake Coun
ty murderer of last year, barely escaped
lynching, and It Is not Improbable that
future offenders of this character will
be dealt with in a summary way when
it is quite evident that the Governor
will not allow the law to take Its
course: and, perchance, an Innocent
man may be strung up now and then,
but this makes no difference, for the
policy of our Executive - Legislative
Judicial Governor must be vindicated
at any cost. The truth is that Oregon
has a Governor who Is not a big enough
man for his Job.
JOHN P. DARLINGTON.
GOVERNOR OVERSTEPPIJfa BOUNDS
Pardoning Power Given Exeentlv Only
for lae In Emergencies.
PORTLAND, Nov. 25. (To the Ed
itor.) Again Governor West has com
muted to life imprisonment the sen
tence of a man found guilty of murder
in the first degree, thereby setting at
naught one of the laws of this state
which Is of vital Interest to the people
a law ae much a law of the state to
day as it was when first enacted. I
still maintain that In the Hasslng and
Webb cases, and In all other cases
where there Is no lack of evidence to
prove the accused guilty, the Gov
ernor Is exceeding his authority In set
ting aside the decision of 12 men who
have heard the evidence.
I should Interpret the law as Vesting
In the Governor the power to use the
pardon or reprieve or to commute a
sentence only when there are mitigat
ing circumstances developing later, or
upon the discovery of new evidence
which proves that the accused was not
guilty as charged. I maintain that it la
In these cases and In these cases only
that he has a right to act. If the
chief executive la going to take the
law In his own hands, why take these
cases before a Jury? Hand the evi
dence to the Governor direct, dispense
with services of Jurors and lawyers,
and save the state these items of ex
pense. But critics of the Governor must be
ware. The great evangelist has
espoused his cause. I would like to
hear to what our friend Gipsy Smith
attributes the low criminal record of
England In comparison with the United
States and Italy. A comparison was
made only a short time ago of the
criminal record for last year. In Lon
don there were IS, in New Tork 119,
and Chicago 202 homicides for the year.
We are not guessing or surmising that
these are tho figures. Ghastly as they
may seem, they are facts given out by
the American Prison Association. How
is it that a great nation and some of
our states have abolished capital pun
ishment and again reinstated It? As
little as It is used In any of our states
we ever feel the need of it when
abolished. How much more would
England or the countries of Europe?
These are questions that I have been
trying to solve, and It Is Just possible
that I have gone into them as deeply
as Gipsy Smith or Oswald West, and
can come to but one conclusion: There
must be drastic laws covering this class
of crimes, and they must be rigidly
enforced. Fiften murders In the City
of London in a year, with Its 7,000,000
population and Its many more poor
than rn our own-large cities! What a
record! Is It because the English are
more law abiding by nature or In
clination? No. Adequate laws and
their prompt enforcement, as demon
strated In the Dr. Crippen case, com
pel them to be.
I am glad to be living In a state
where the making of the law la In the
hands of the people. This Is one ques
tion that should be left to the voters of
this state. It is the duty of every citi
zen to study these questions in a state
where the power of a vote not only ex
tends to the electing of officials, but to
the making of laws. Time tells and
tells the truth. So It Is well to follow
the administration of a high official
closely, and when any radical changes
are made to note their effect. But Just
now It Is not a question of whether
we want It or not, capital punishment
is one of the laws of this stato. Let us
enforce It, THEODORE ISLET.
Lode of the Happiest Man.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Happier than the man who thinks
that whatever 1 1 right, is he who
tKiriira that whatavar Is bis Is best.
PRIZE GRAPES GROW IN OREGON
Golden Opportunity Here for Culture
of Table and Wine Varieties.
HILLSDALE. Or, Nov. 25. (To the
Editor.) In the Chamber of Commerce
Bulletin for November 1 appears an
article which should create the widest
possible Interest for Its value to the
fruit Industry of Oregon. The article
bears the title "Wine Production in
Oregon," by Albert Angermayer, the
well-known European and American
wine expert. The question arises, why
is it that it always takes years of
preaching, writing and talking to con
vince our people that the soils of Ore
gon are capable of producing anything
In grain, grass, bops, flax, vegetable
and fruit, even to olives, figs and
lemons, especially when we have
passed the experimental stage In all
these lines?
It took over 40 years to bring the
apple Industry to Its present high
plane. The apple was followed by the
prune, which took 80 years, then the
pear about the same time; cherries 25
yeara It took me over 20 years to
prove that French walnut culture Is
a most profitable pursuit, which is also
established on a firm paying basis, and
now comes the grape and asks for that
recognition it so richly deserves. .As
stated, the experimental stage has been
passed years ago and the Industry only
awaits the enterprising vltlculturlst to
profit by the success of the pioneers
In grape culture
Grapes for table use, of the finest
quality, have been grown In limited
quantities all over Oregon for the past
SO years, the pioneer being Mr. Shipley,
who had a very fine vineyard near
Oswego, followed by W. K. Newell,
near Dilley. Wine grapes, such as
Riesling, Zinfandel. Muscat and Bur
gundy have been largely grown only In
two localities, by A. H. Carson, a few
miles south of Grants Pass on the
slopes of Rogue River and A. F. Rueter,
five miles west of Forest Grove, only
24 miles from Portland. To prove the
superiority of these wines, and that
they can be successfully grown In
Oregon, I beg to state that as far
back as the trans-Mississippi Exposi
tion, held at Omaha, In 189S. and three
years later at the Pan-American Expo
sition at Buffalo, the Jury on wines, of
which Dr. Watson, of the division of
viticulture,' Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C, who Is an authority
on wines, awarded us the highest gold
medal for their purity and fine flavor.
In competition with all other wines
produced in America, and pronounced
them equal. If not superior to, the Im
ported wines.
At the Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago In 1893 we also took the gold
medal on table grapes one bunch of
Flame Tokay, grown by A. Fleck on
his vineyard some miles above The
Dalles on the Columbia River, weight
7 pounds, which I preserved In
liquid and Is now In the horticultural
exhibit at the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce. And so it has been wher
ever we exhibited. Not to forget, Mr.
Mehlhorn, of Langlols, Coos County, has
successfully grown olives, figs and
lemons of the finest quality.
The follo-a-ing statistics on the im
portation of wines from Europe are
given in the year book. Depart
ment of Agriculture, Washington. D. C,
for 1910: Still wines, in bottles. $3.
177 140; still wines, In casks, $3,527,918;
champagnes and other sparkling wines,
$6,802,702. Total wines, $13,007,760.
Does It not seem Just and proper
that as long as we- Import so much
wine, not any better than we can
grow In Oregon, a large share of the
money should be kept at home, and a
good proportion in Oregon by opening
up a new avenue of industry giving
employment to thousands of skilled
and unskilled wage earners?
. HENRY E. DOSCH.
SINGLE TAX AND SHORT CHARTER
Mr. Cridge Denies Thnt the Two BIrda
Are Flocking Together."
PORTLAND, Nov. 25. (To the Edi
tor.) The slngle-taxers. as such, have
had nothing to do with any charter.
During the work of the people's charter
I never made any talk or effort to se
cure any tax measure in Its provisions,
for the reason that the county is the
unit and the city charter is secondary
thereto. It is well known that a limit
on city levy is a mockery and easily
obviated, because an Increase In valu
ation con easily secure additional total
amount- of tax money. The matter
came up In the people's charter com
mittee and was thoroughly discussed.
I made no effort whatever to change
it. for that reason.
While your contention as to the c'ty
having no power under the shorter
charter regarding sanitary and other
ordinance may be correct, some of the
best constitutional lawyers and stu
do.its of municipal government thlrk
that it fully provides for all powers
that a city can exercise.
So far as I know, Mr. Fels has noth
ing whatever to do with the "short
charter," and probably 's not aware of
its existence, or If so. In a merely
transient way through perusal of some
ne.vspaper. As a single-taxer he is
not Interested In It, because of the
fact that taxation is regulated by the
county and state.
The "short charter" has a better
show than any other, and Is the only
one worth considering. If the people's
charter is further weakened by being
forced to unite with the Simon charter,
and Is presented to the people shorn
of every particle of progressive pro
visions, as is more than likely, then
the "short charter" will be "it." As
th" two former will probably be sub
mitted at a special election and the
"short charter" may not be, its sup
porters believe that it has the start,
tn. strength and the spirit to win out.
Considering that tho "short charter"
provides for a form of recall advo
cated heretofore only by The Orego
nlan it has had as much to do wUh its
formation as any other one person, and
sometime may be rroud of that fact.
ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
Cure for Spinal Menlngltla.
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Nov. 24. (To
the Editor.) I notice an editorial in
The Oregonlan today," which says the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search has discovered a cure for spinal
meningitis. If such a discovery has
really been made, thousands of people
would be glad to know what It is. Just
a few months ago. Dr. Fl-exner. head
of the Institute, said that they had
been studying spinal meningitis, but
so far bad not discovered the cause
of the disease, let alone the cure for
It, In fact, ha said they had learned
very little about the disease. Please
give us the "cure."
CARTLL P. SMITH. D. O.
A statement by Dr. Flexner, concern
ing his serum for meningitis Is pub
lished on page 8 of The Ore-Ionian,
November 25. An extended article Is
printed in a recent number of Mo
Clure's. What of Murderer' Victims?
PORTLAND. Nov. 24. (To the Edi
tor.) Again the Governor "saves" an
other atrocious murderer, and says "no
criminal shall be hanged while I am
Governor." Like Louis XIV, he says:
"I am the state."
Why do not these bloomln' senti
mentalists get their tender sympathies
worked up over the fate of the Inno
cent victims of these degenerates?
What sensible citizens want in these
cases I. not a chance for these per
verts, they have forfeited all consider
ation but to get them out of the way,
10 feet under ground, so their relatives
may forget, and peaceable people not
fear them. Governor West should be
Impeached. CITIZEN.
ISHI'S CIVILIZATION
By Dean Collins.
List! The history of Ishl! It may sound
a trifle fishy.
When one reads of the adventures
that I may here Indite;
But, In epigrammlst's diction, "Truth
Is stranger than fiction";
And the fishy tale of Ishl proves the
eplgrammtst right.
Of the tribe of Deer Creek redmen,
most of whom were long since
deadmen,
Ishl was the last survivor from a
great and noble race.
When a band of hunters found him,
copped -him from the wilds and
bound him.
And bore him off to give his man
ners civilizing grace.
Came the Profs, from Berkeley Col
lege, with anthropologic knowl
edge. Filling ev'ry convolution In each
hyper-hefty mind;
"Ishl." thus they ruminated, "creature
uncontamlnated.
As a subject for experiment, Is cer
tainly a find."
"Stranger Is this man before us than
the fabled Dlnosaurus,
More a miracle than monkeys of the
misty Miocene.
Lo, his savage convolutions know not
our institutions;
Let's experiment, and put some cul
ture In his bean." . .
They began the task of shaping IsWs
Jhablts, first by draping
Round his modest frame a simple
suit of denim overalls;
And, his appetite to quiet, fed him on
the white man's diet.
And he heard the speech of white
men, as 'tis spoke in college
balls.
Ishl, uncontamlnated. with the white
man's diet sated.
Waxed fatter than when, erstwhile,
he subsisted by the hunt;
And the civilizing forces of a dinner
of three courses
Ere long were manifested In a cor
poration front.
"Soon he'll learn to talk," they rea
soned, "and his language will be
seasoned
With the classic line of diction we
professors use, you bet."
Ishl spake. They were mistaken. It
was not the talk of Bacon.
"Have you got," he asked, "the mak
in's?" And he rolled a cigarette.
Thus was clearly demonstrated that
the uncontamlnated
Ishl was a facile learner of what
white men have devised;
And the savants said, "No Joking; by
his "front" and by his smoking.
It Is evident that Ishl is becoming
civilized."
Portland. November 23.
Conntiy Town Sayings by Ed Howe
The Brazilian coffee growers are
about the most unblushing rascals.
They have not only combined to raise
v, n.i.i nf cnf'en hut the Brazilian
J government is helping them. We "talk
! about" such selfishness as that in this
country.
You can avoid a good deal of bad luck
by working steadily during the day,
behaving yourself, and going to bed
early.
It is a rare man who will not lie
about his age after passing 80.
What has become of the old-fashioned
active man who was always
about to be rich, but who kept his
home in his wife's name?
When a man takes bitter medicine,
he usually leaves a little in the spoon.
The. quiet man Is rarely quoted to
his discredit.
A man is sometimes so busy making
money that he neglects to take care of
that he has already made.
We are all inclined to waste too
much powder when the enemy is not
in sight.
I know a man whose Idea of chivalry
is to protect women against every man
except himself.
Half a Century Ago
From Tho Oregonlan, November 27, 1801.
If Washington Territory Is to be di
vided, we suggest that the oountry
west of the Cascades be annexed to
Oregon.
It is well understood that Givln was
privy to the plot, happily thwarted, to
plunge California Into rebellion. In
arresting him General Sumner per
formed a good deed.
Federal Finances These seem to be
all right. The second fifty millions
were taken by the ianks. Ten mil
lions of the National loan was taken
in Baltimore. There must be some
Union feeling there.
We are informed that Dr. J. Stein
berger. who claimed to be a repre
sentative of the Oregon Democracy at
the Charleston National Convention
when the Oregon delegates went out
and stood, received an appointment as
colonel of cavalry, with power to raise
a regiment on the Pacific Coast for
duty in Washington Territory.
JUDAS NOT ONE WHO OBJECTED.
Mr. Priently Catches Ip Writer In
Quotation From the Scrlptnre.
PORTLAND, Nov. 25. (To the Edi
tor.) I have not taken a retaining fee
to defend Judas Iscariot, but I do not
like to se him misrepresented Just be
cause he has no friends. A. J. Butter
worth, In The Oregonlan, November 23,
credits Judas with the suggestion that
It would have been better to have sold
the ointment and given the money to
th poor than to have poured it on
Jesus. The accounts say nothing about
Judas. Matt xxvl:7-8-9, reads:
Now when Jesus was in Bethany In th
house of Elmon the leper, there came unto
him a woman having an alabaster box of
very precious ointment and poured It on hla
head as he sat at meat. But when hla dis
ciples saw It they had Indignation, saying.
To what purpose Is this waste? For this
ointment might have been sold for much
and given to the poor.
Mark xlv:3-4-5, reads:
And being In Bethany, In the house of
Elmon the leper, as he sat at meat, there
came a woman havins an alabaster box of
ointment of spiknard. very precious; snd
the brake the box and poured on his head.
And there were some that had Indignation
within themselves, and said. Why was this
waste of ointment made? For It mlfjht
have been sold tor more than three hundred
pence and have been irlven to the poor, and
they murmured against her.
Luke vll:36 to 39, reads:
And one of the Pharisees desired him
that ho would eat with him. And he went
Into the Pharisee's house and eat down to
meat. And behold a woman In the city,
which was a sinner, when she knew that
Jesus sat at meat. In the Pharisee's house,
brought an alabaster box of ointment, and
stood at his feet, behind, weeplns, and be
gan to wash bis feet with tuars and did
wipe them with the hairs of her head and
kissed his feet and annolntcd them with the
ointment. Now when the Pharisee which
had bidden him saw it he spake within
himself, saying. This man. If he were a
prophet, would have known who and what
manner of woman this is that touched him
tor she is a sinner.
Where does Judas come In?
D. PRIESTLET.