INQUIRY INTO COST
OF LIVING ADVISED
Taft Would Call Conference of
Nations; Also Sends Mes
sage on Alaska.
FEDERAL RAILWAY URGED
Lrayinc of Coal and rhophato Po
poolts Proposal Xattonal
Policy Would Sfodlfy
Reclamation Laws.
irmiT of otsmcm t
PRESIDO'T TAIT.
Xntarnatlonal Inquiry Into high eot
of living propol a ntll to st
at tram uun sad avoir mdy.
rdarl railway end oonunUaioa
gevariiinaat. half elective, for Alaska.
Inquiry Into coadlttoa of labor u--(Mt4,
on la-a-lttraat object being to
nll-hta and Inform public opinion.
Louis of eool and pnoapbato
land la UnStod Stata and Alaka
faTorod.
Laniaoey to homootoadcra on roo
lamatloa project adTlaad.
Control of wator powr hould ro
mala wltn Nation, atatoa to ngulata
National Park Buraaa ohoald o-
tasllahod.
Lav abould bo mad to punUh
aovoraly thoo who !! artlclo pur
porting to bo mad la oountir not
trao place of manufacture.
WASHINGTON. Feb. i. President
Taft gent three, messages, ail relatively
brief, to Congress today. In one he
urged an International conference to
dlKDM the high coat of living; and ob
tain Information on how It may be re
duced. A aecond recommend Investi
gation by the Federal Government of
the Question of Industrial relations.
The third deals with Alaska and the
public domain In general.
The President deems the high and
eeedlly Increasing; cost of living
worthy of aa International confer
ence." and adds:
"There la no doubt that a commis
sion rould be appointed of such un
prejudiced and Impartial persons, ex
perts In Investigation of economic
facts, that a great deal of very valu
able light could be shed upon the rea
son for the high prices that have so
distressed the people of the world, and
Information given upon which action
might be taken to reduce the cost of
living-.
lIlaTker nl-o lateTMtlaaaL
"Those who have conducted Inves
tigations have found that the phenom
enon of rlstns; prices is almost, if not
nulte. general throughout the world:
but they are baffled In the attempt to
trace the causes by the Impossibility
if making any accurate international
comparisons. This I because. In spite
of the number of Investigations al
ready made, we are still without ade
quate data and because as yet no two
countries estimate their price levels on
t.-.e same basts or by the same meth
ods. Of the aubject of the condition ot
labor, the president says the time is
opportune for an Investigation, which
"should be non-partisan, comprehen
sive, thorough, patient and courage
ous. He says of it:
"One legtlmate object of such an of
ficial Investigation and report la to
enlighten and Inform public opinion,
which of Itself will often Induce or
compel the reform of unjust condi
tions or the abatement ot unreasonable
demand."
In his Alaska message he urres the
construction of a Government railway
and a commission form of government,
one-haif the commission to be elected
and the other half appointed by the
President. He proposes a leasing- sys
tem for coal and phosphate lands In
the United States, as well as In Alaska.
He would modify the fnlted states
reclamation laws, concurring; In Secre
tary Flshera views. The message
avs:
"I concur with the Secretary of the
7nt-for In ri. re-nmmenntlfn that
Every Picture
Tells a Story
i L T
n n mr
after entry la made opon land being
reclaimed, actual occupation as a home
stead of the same be not required un
til two years after entry, but that cul
tivation of the same shall be required,
and that the present provision under
which the land la to be paid for in ten
annual Installments shall be so modi
fled a to allow a patent to Issue for
the land at the end of five years' cul
tivation and. three years' occupation,
with a reservation of a Government
Hen for the amount of tha unpaid pur
chase money.
Leniency W ill Be Rewarded.
"This leniency to the reclamation
homesteader will relieve him from oc
cupation at a time when the condition
of the land makes It most burdensome
and difficult, and" at the end of five
years will furnish him with a title
upon which he can borrow money and
continue the Improvement of his hold
ing." He believes the control of water
power sites should remain with the
National Government rather than the
states, to be disposed of by direct
leases, the rental to be used In Im
provement of the stream and for the
benefit of tho local community where
the power site was located. He would
give to the atatea the right to regulate
the rates at which the converted power
was sold.
President Taft earnestly advises tha
establishment of a National Park Bu
reau, saying that "every consideration
of patriotism and the love of nature
and of beauty and of art requires us
to expend money enough to bring all
these natural wonders within easy
reach of our people."
The President concludes his message
with a recommendation that a law be
enacted "making it a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine or Imprisonment, to
use the malls or to put Into Interstate
commerce any articles of merchandise
which bear upon their face a statement
that they have been manufactured In
some particular country when the fact
is otherwise." The particular violation
to which the attention of the President
baa been brought was the sale of ar
ticles In the United 6tatea wrongly
purporting to have been made In Ireland."
A IS
IEPARTrEVr FINDS INFANTRY
OCT OF FKOPORTION.
States Will Be Encouraged to Build
TTp Cavalry and Artillery Arms,
Xow Most Desired.
WASHINGTON. Feb. Serious con
cern In the War Department over the
scarcity of cavalry and field artillery
organisations In the National Guard
has led to a formal announcement that
it Is the policy of the department to
encourage these branches, and that
unallotted funda from Federal mllltla
maintenance approprlatione will be
naed for that surpose. The state sol
diery Is top-heavy with Infantry.
probably because it is so mucn
and cheaper to organise and maintain.
The attention of the department baa
been directed also to the fact that
many state Infantry regiments are not
fully recruited. This 1 regarded as
false economy, as the same number of
expensive officers is required for a
regiment of eight companlea aa for one
with the full quota.
Consequently, the mllltla division
has Issued a circular bulletin warning
state authorities against authorising
any additional Infantry regiments un
til those already In existence are com
plete as to organization, arms and
equipment.
"TRUST" IS NEGOTIATING
.Shoe Machinery Official" Confer
With Federal Officials.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. Negotiations
for a friendly settlement of the Govern,
ment's anti-trust suit against the
United Shoe Machinery Company were
resumed today at the Department of
Justice.
It has not yet developed whether the
company will endeavor to Include tha
criminal suit as well aa the civil action
in the attempt to reach a settlement.
Masters Candidate for Judgeship.
SALEM. Or.. Feb. . (Special.) Wil
liam Y. Masters. Republican, filed his
petition for nomination today as Judge
of the Fourth Judicial District, depart
ment No. 4. this district being Mult
nomah County. He files aa a Repub
lican and haa aa his slogan. "Justice
and equity to every person.
TlfE MO K XI ISO UKEUUNIAN, SATURDAY, rKBKUAKIT S. 191Z.
T. ft FOR SUFFRAGE
IF WOMEN WANT IT
Colonel Would Not Force Bal
lot Upon Sex, but Favors
Special Referendum.
EQUALITY SURE TO COME
3Ien and Women, Says Onilook Edi
tor, in Ixng Bun "Will Go TTp
and Pawn Together Jnlla,
Ward Howe Ideal Type.
NEW YORK. Feb. 2. Theodore
Roosevelt discusses "Women's Rights,
and the Duties of Both Men and Wo
men." in an editorial In the current Is
sue of The Outlook. He says. In part:
"Much. Indeed, has America owed to
the fact that her two greatest men.
Washington and Lincoln, though they
did not neglect rights, were even more
concerned with duties.
"I believe In woman's rights. I be
lieve even more earnestly In the per
formance of duty by both men and wo
men; for unless the average man and
the average woman live lives of duty,
not only our democracy, but civilization
Itself, will perish. I heartily believe
In equality of rights as between man
and woman, but also In full and em
phatic recognition of the fact that
normally there cannot be Identity of
function. Indeed, there must normally
be complete .dissimilarity of function
between then!, and the effort to Ignore
this patent fact Is silly.
Weald Let Wessen Tbeaaaelvea Decide.
"I believe In weman's suffrage wher
ever the women want It. Where they
don't want It, the suffrage should not
be forced on them. I think that it
would be well to let the women them
selves, and only the women, vote at
some special election as to whether they
do or not wish the vote as a, permanent
possession. In other words, this la pe
culiarly a case for the referendum to
those most directly affected that la,
the women themselves. I should be en
tirely content to abide by the decision,
either way; for, though I don't think
that the damage prophesied from wo
men's voting would come, or bas come,
where It has been tried; I also think
that very much less effect would be
produced, one way or the other, than
the enthusiaats believe. In other words,
I don't regard the movement as any
thing like Us extreme friends or ex
treme opponents think. It Is so much
less Important than many other reforms
that I have never been able to take a
very heated Interest In It.
SanTruretteai Not Typical.
"If the woman suffrage movement
were to be Judged only by those advo
cates of It who would discredit them
selves and their sex by disorderly an
tics In public, and who assail the foun
dations of private and publlo morality
In their endeavor, not to raise the
sense of moral duty In man, but to
lower the sense of moral duty In
women. I should certainly oppose the
movement. But I don't believe these
undesirable apostles are In any way to
be accepted aa exponents of the cause,
and I call attention to the fact that
they are prominent, not In the region
where woman suffrage does exist, but
In regions where It does not exist.
"I pin my faith to woman suffrs
glsts of the type of the late Julia Ward
Howe. Julia Ward Howe was one ot
the foremost cltisens of this Republic;
she rendered service to the people such
aa few men In any generation render;
and yet she did. first of all. her full
duty In tbe Intimate home relations
that must ever take precedence of all
other relatione.
"In our Western states, where the
suffrage has been given to women, I
am unable to see that any great dif
ference has been caused, as compared
with neighboring states of similar so
cial and industrial conditions, where
women bava not the suffrage. Tet
what slight changes have occurred have
been for tbe better and not tbe worse
Other Qaeetloaa of Greater Momeat.
"I most earnestly desire to empha
sise my feeling that the question of
woman suffrsge Is unimportant com
nared to the great fundamental ques
tions that go to the root of right con-
PORTLAND
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UM iwlY Art Portland. Oregon, says: I re
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rD AWT Mr- A- M. Hollabaugh, 2S A. Grant
J IV V IN X St.. Portland.. Oregon, says: 'For
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RE-EXDORSKMEJIT.
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J10. and she added to the above: "My health baa
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TTJTI T T?f Philip 3. Henneman, B8S Nehalem
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ST T? IT V? T eays: "Off and on for some time)
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TTKea-V?
A PIPE DREAM
"He who sits down and waits for
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to failure."
Here's an "occasion
as
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You can save $5 to $15 on
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lilUll GusKuhn Prop.
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duct as regards both men and women.
There should be equality of rights and
duties, but not Identity of functions;
and with the man, aa with the woman,
the prime duties are those related to
tbe home and tbe family.
"The supreme Importance and high
position of the woman of the type of
Julia Ward Howe cannot be Increased
materially by the possession of the
ballot. I am glad that the good, wise
and brave mother should have the bal
lot. I am especially glad If Its posses
sion will add to the high dignity of her
poaition In the eyes of men. But I
cannot conceive of any man's now fall
ing to hold such a mother as more
worthy of respeot than any1 man or
than any other woman.
"In the long run. and taken as a
whole, men and women will go up or
go down together, and all reforms ot
first-class importance must look
toward raising both men and women
to a higher level, alike as regards the
things of the body and as regards tha
things of the souL"
WATER FIGHT IS BIHER
CONTEST FOR MOSES LIKE
RIGHTS ON IX EARNEST.
Former Senator Fettlgrevr, of South
Dakota, Loses Advantage In Ac
tion in Washington State.
SEATTLE, Wash- Feb. 2. Ex-Senator
R. F. Pettlgrew, ot South Dakota,
who Is fighting with the H. L. Hollls
ter Interest for the right to use the
waters of Moses Lake. Grant County.
Washington, for irrigation purposes,
lost an advantage today, when the State
Supreme Court granted a petition for a
writ of review of the decision of Su
perior Judge R. S. Stelner. of Douglas
County, who held that the owners of
the shore lands of the lake had first
-i i n , Vi a n-.t.r Argument in the
case were set for a hearing at the May
term of the Superior Court.
Mr. Pettlgrew obtained from the
Northern Pacific 38,000 acres of land
cnrroundlng the lake, including the ri
parian rights, and proceeded to build
a dam at the crib rock outlet of the
lake to gather water to be pumped to
the land. The Holllster Interests
sought to Impound and use the waters
of the lake In order to Irrigate 30.000
acres of land south of the lake. Both
Improvements were held up by injunc
tions. Moses Lake Is long and narrow and
lies In an abandoned channel of the Co
lumbia River. Its waters rise and fall
with tne oiumoia. n is pun ny r-
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This week is devoted to a special campaign ,
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DURING SPECIAL CAMPAIGN WEEK
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tion that stands so much for clean, vigorous manhood.
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A $500,000 Club Building Employment Department
Swimming Pool Gymnasium
Handball Court ' Shower Baths , ,
Large Library Reading Rooms
Educational Classes
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tiers that there Is water enough In the
lake for both irrigation projects. Tho
Moses Lake country lies between the
transcontinental lines of the Great
Northern and Milwaukee railroads, and
the Und-Ellensburg cutoff, to shorten
the main line of the Northern Pacific,
will run near the lake.
Woodland Bridge Contract Let.
"WOODLAND. Wash.. Feb. 2. (Spe
cial.) The contract for the approaches
and the piers for the 60,000 bridge
across Lewis River at this point was
awarded to the Jahn Construction
TESTIMOM.Y,
Company, of Seattle, when the bids
were opened yesterday, the contract
price being J18.000. It is expected that
work will begin at once, as the con
tract work Is to be completed by Octo
ber 1. 1912. Bids for the steel work
probably will be let soon, so that the
successful bidder may be able to as
semble the material In a short time
after the approaches and piers are com
pleted. Montesano to Get Xew Newspaper.
MOXTESANO. Wash., Feb. 2. (Spe
cial Montesano
to have
. s
All Over Portland
CLACKAMAS 8?V?;5,
a-w T" t- T np
I K. Cj Ht
recommending Doan's Kidney Pills still holds good.
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prevent kidney disorders to which elderly folks are
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N?4TTT -e-n10" Spreltzer, 407 N. Twenty-
1 " fourth St., Portland, Oregon, says:
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health. I recommend Doan's Kidney Pills highly
to other kidney sufferers."
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newspaper to be called the Chehalis
County Call, the first issue will bo
published next Tuesday. In politics
the Call will be progressive Republi
can. A. C. Veatch, who formerly con
ducted a paper In the eastern part of
this state, will be editor and pro
prietor. Lwiston to Work for Taft and T. It.
LEWISTON, Idaho, Feb. 2. (Spe
cial.) Plans are being made here for
the formation of both Taft and Rootic
velt clubs, and work for both candi
dates will be started Immediately.
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land.
X Oregon, says:
"The public
Ktatpmpnt I gave in 1903,
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