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THE AXTt-THIRD TEM TRAIUTIO.
The tradition that no President of
Ifce United States ought to have a third
term run bck to Washington. To
ward the dose of bis atcond term he
announced In the most positive man
ner that he would not again be a can
didate and published his decision wide
ly In his farewell address, leaving the
matter open to no poaslblo question or
Jotibt. His Immediate successor was
John Adams, who had no occasion to
decline a third term, or even a second
one. for he waa not a popular man.
Next came Jefferson, who went Into
office aa the choice of a Urge major
ity of the peopte and won more favor
continually until the end of his second
term. When the time came for him
to think of retiring to his estate at
Monttcello an agitation waa set going
to elect him a third time. Some of
the state lertoltures formally request
ed him to permit his name to go be
fore the people, but he resolutely de
clined. To the Legislature of Vermont,
which had made such a request, he
Tp tied that. Inasmuch aa the Consti
tution had fixed no limit to the num
ber of terms a President might serve.
It must be done by custom. Other
wise "his office, nominally for years,
will In fact become for life." Jeffer
son had In mind the example of Po
und and some other countries where
kings chosen for life had precipitated
endless dissensions by trying- to make
their dynasties perpetual.
After Jefferson's time the subject of
a third term waa not revived until the
end of Grant'a second Administration.
It -waa proposed to elect him again and
he did not peremptorily decline to be
come a candidate. Perhaps he would
have been nominated and might have
been elected had It not been for a res
olution adopted by the House of Rep
resentatives strongly condemning the
project. The resolution declared that
the precedent established by Washing
ton and Jefferson In retiring at the
close of their second terms had be
come by universal consent a part of our
system of republican government, "and
that any departure from this time
honored custom would be unwise, un
patriotic and fraught with peril to onr
free Institutions." The resolution, of
fered by Mr. Springer of Illinois, was
passed by a vote of 23 J to IS and ef
fectually quieted the third-term
movement so far as Grant was con-tc-rned.
Mr. Roosevelt became President
upon the death of McKlnley and
served three and a half years before
I.e was chosen In his own right. As
soon as he received the news of his
election In the Fall of l0f he declared
emphatically that he regarded this
period aa his first term. It was sub
stantially If not formally such, and
he observed that the "wise custom'
established by Washington and Jef
ferson "regards the substance and not
the form." Therefore he went on to
say positively that "under no circum
stances will I be a candidate for or
accept another nomination." Whether
Mr. Roosevelt would now look upon
this announcement as premature and
wish to revise it a little the public has
no way of finding out. Circumstances
often change men's views and the
world Is not in the habit of blaming
statesmen very severely for Inconsis
tencies which appear to be Justified
Toy time and chance. Fixed as the op
position to a third terra has seemed to
I In our polity there Is nothing sa
cred in it. and if NattonnI advantage
should require the adoption of a new
plan doubtless the people would con
sent. After all, the only Important
question Is, how it would work in prac
tice. The only serious argument
against a third term or a dozen terms
that has ever been offered Is the dan
ger that the Incumbent might make
himself perpetual dictator or king and
establish a dynasty at Washington.
Of course this objection Is not
groundless. The public has seen a
retiring President virtually name his
successor and he might name himself
as easily as anybody else. With the
immense control over the nominating
machinery which his office gives he
might perhaps obtain one nomination
after another and thus become the
perpetual incumbent. If he had a son
of an ambitious) torn why should he
not pass the Presidency over to him
lo good time as we have seen one
President pass it on to another, and
thus make it hereditary? Jefferson
feared that something of this sort
might happen. It was his main rea
son for declining a third election. Very
likely the nominating convention will
not last much longer. According to
the signs of the times the people may
nominate candidates for the Presi
dency directly before a great while. In
that case the Incumbent will lose his
hold upon the election machinery and
the danger which Jefferson foresaw
will not look so threatening. Still we
have to face the question whether a
popular President might not succeed
In making himself dictator by favor
of the voters as easily as through nom
inating conventions. The trick has
been turned by both methods In other
countries. Many writers believe that
the Constitution ought to be amend
ed by providing for a term of
seven or eight years and prohibiting
a re-election.
The advantages of such an "arrange
ment are fairly obvious. For one
thing, the President would be disen
cumbered of partisan politics at one
stroke and could give all his attention
to the duties of his office. He would
not feel obliged to spend the four years
of bis first term laying the pins for a
second. But It will be a long time
before any change of this kind Is made
in the Constitution. Indeed, the ten
dency Is In the opposite direction. The
voters prefer to shorten the terms of
their officials instead of extending
them.
THE JirtnOMAH COAT.
Multnomah Is the "wealthiest and
most populous county in Oregon, as
everyone knows. Naturally Multno
mah will bear the heaviest portion of
the proposed tar for the J20.000.000
tood roads bonds. The taxpayers of
Multnomah have-no special reason to
comfclaln about that. If they get pro
portional benefit. But let us see how
Multnomah fares under the distribu
tion of the IIO.OOO.OOO to the various
counxles in Oregon.
shall not give the process of the
following precise mathematical state
ment, since It Is complicated and dif
ficult: but It Is conclusive, and we In
vite the West road projectors to cor
rect the figures if they are wrong.
Multnomah alone will pay out In
principal and Interest for the 120.000.
00 thirty-year bonds (on the basis of
the present equalization) as its pro
portion the stupendous sum of II".
S05.100. Hear that sum in mind
$17,806,100. It Is to be paid out by
the taxpayers of Multnomah alone as
their contribution toward the 120.000.
000 principal and 130.000.000 Inter
est. How much does Multnomah ret of
the 120.000.000? A third? It pays
out about one-third, and naturally you
would think that It would receive In
return for good roads a like propor
tion. But does It? Not by a Jugfull.
It g"ts back H64.761. To get this piti
ful fraction from the state tt has be
sides to rut up an additional J464.7S1.
making a total of 1929.523 for good
roads In Multnomah for which It will
have paid out $18,270,865. Grand
scheme. Wonderful finance through
which Multnomah gets In good roads
about one-twentieth mark you, one
twentieth of the good roads It pays
for through this $20,000,000 good
roads high finance.
Marlon. Umatilla, Jackson and prob
ably several other counties will pay
out much more than they receive. It
would be well for taxpayers there to
sit down, take a pencil and do a little
figuring. They will be astounded at
results. But with Multnomah poor
Multnomah It is a case of everything
going out and nothing, or very little,
coming In.
FORTY MEASUKKH.
Dr. Wilson ascertained, on that fa
mous visit to Oregon, at the Invitation
of Lawgiver ITRen. that the Initiative
was a perfect marvel of practicable
legislative mechanism. The plastic
mind of the scholarly visitor was eas
ily molded to the t7"Ren view. Since
then the Oregon system has had a firm
friend and eloqaent advocate- in Dr.
Wilson. His previous Ideas. . taught
through many profitless years to the
students of Princeton, that legislation
is. or should be, the product of con
sultation, deliberation, compromise,
discussion, revision, correction and
modification, were cheerfully aban
doned, for they were wrong, and the
doctor found it ont at that auspicious
hour when he became a candidate for
President.
We invite Dr. Wilson's perspicacious
atttentlon to the fact that under the
Initiative and referendum Oregon will
next November pass on at least forty
measures. The largest number here
fore waa thirty-two; but as we grow
older we get bolder and more wise. It
would be pleasant to have Dr. Wilson's
renewed assurance that the people of
Oregon know exactly what they are
doing and can make no mistakes.
Forty measures! We are getting
along.
TIIK GREAT RECLAMATTOX JOKE.
A friend writes to ask why The Ore
gon Ian did not print Senator Bourne's
platform at the time he filed Ms dec
laration of candidacy for re-election at
Salem. The Oregonlan duly printed it
then, we believe, but in order to re
assure our correspondent that there
was no intentional discrimination, we
reprint It In full. The Senator says he
stands for the following:
Ornron system, of popular OTrnmt. ris
ing equal opportunities to all with prlvtle
to none; popular clretlon of I'nlttd states
rnatora: parrels post. Including rural de
livery; Federal control of lnterata com
merce; rlfftd xcluelon of coolie labor: per
manent non-purtiimn tariff rommMilon; lib
oral appropriating for rlvere and harbors
Improvement; free tone for American ship
ping through the F-anama Canal; enfoce
mrnl of the pnre food lawe; liberal penelons
for deeervlng reterene; fair share of Imita
tion funda for Oregon: Increased efficiency
rather than false economy In Governmental
operations; National good roads legislation k
use of pubttc resources ertth Intelligent con
serration; honest government, service and
business.
A comprehensive programme. In
deed, and mighty Interesting, too. Tet
we miss the single tax and woman suf.
frage. They are not there. Over
sight, doubtless. But we find the ex
plicit expression for a "fair share of
Irrigation funds for Oregon."
Is the man who Is chiefly respons
ible for the state's failure to get a fair
share of the great Government rec
lamation fund trying to play a grim
Joke on the people of Oregon?
THE BOY STOUTS.
The organization of Boy Scouts is
designed to counteract the effects of
artificial conditions of life peculiar to
civilization and to preserve what Is
good of barbarous conditions. A boy
born and . brought up In a city, who
has never lived In the country, much
less In the wilderness, is the most help
less creature alive. He cannot light a
campflre, cook a meal, improvise bed
and shelter, secure food by hunting or
fashing, find his way in the woods or
the desert, trail and catch a stray
horse or saddle him, place and secure
a pack on a horse or do any of the
things which are necessary In .the
wilds. Comparatively few American
boys are so helpless, but there are mil
lions of such boys In Europe, and their
number In this country grows as cities
grow and the wilderness becomes
tamed.
Tet it Is not only necessary In a
boy's own Interest that he should learn
all these things In boyhood. In order
that he may be equipped to cope with
any emergency he may meet, but It is
most beneficial to him In the develop
ment of manliness, self-reliance and
mutual helpfulness, as well as in phy
sical development. The Boy Scouts
are trained not only to take Tare of
themselves tinder any conditions, but
to help each other. If two boys go
hunting together and one oft them is
wounded, breaks a bone or is in dan
ger of drowning, his companion should
be able to stop the flow of blood and
bind the wound; to make a splint for
the broken bone; to help his comrade
out of the stream and clear the lungs
of water. Such simple, necessary things,
as well as those already enumerated,
the Boy Scout learns, and be is a bet
ter, more useful citizen for knowing
them.
The Boy Scouts are not a military
organization, but they learn many
things which are of value to a soldier
and which enhance their value as sol
diers. Discipline, co-operation, ability
and willingness to help contribute to
the making not only of a good soldier
but of a good citizen. All the things
which equip a boy for a ramble in the
forest and mountains are of value to
the soldier. By learning them he does
not Imbibe the military spirit, so ab
horred by peace advocates, but he ac
quires knowledge which will stand
him in good stead In war as In peace.
Imagine a cockney recruit in the Brit
ish army during the Boer war, who
had never before been outside of a
town, separated from his command on
the South African veldt. He would
have wandered until he starved to
death through sheer Ignorance. The
same man with the training of a Boy
Scout would know precisely what to
do In such an emergency.
The Boy Scout is trained In the
healthy. Invigorating ways of outdoor
life without any Intent to train him for
war. but. if war should come, he will
be all the better as a soldier for hav
ing had this training.
. CL.tWIIAntErt COATS.
Not very long ago we took notice of
a psychic storm at Kugene set going
by the clawhammer coat. The objec
tionable garment was thought to be
out of place at some of the college
functions and students were adjured
not to don It lest democratic Institu
tions suffer by Its unholy presence. The
storm appears to be more than a mere
local disturbance, for It has now made
Its appearance at Stanford. From
that excessively proletarian seat of
learning word comes that the claw
hammer coat Is exciting perturbations
at the college theater.
A youth who has money enough to
purchase one of the trouble-breeding
garments puts It on and plants him
self In one of the best seats at the
theater. Naturally no true democrat
will sit anywhere near him. The con
sequence is that expensive seats are
sold only to the aristocratic few, while
the Impecunious and proletarian many
perch in the gallery and the box office
has to face impending bankruptcy.
This is melancholy In the extreme and
we would fain offer some good advice
which may perhaps help to heal dis
sension both at Eugene and Stanford.
Our first observation Is that true
democracy Is not so much a matter of
clothes as of mind and heart. It is
Just as easy to love your fellowman In
a clawhammer coat as in a knit sweat
er, and sometimes far easier for him
to love you If your attire conforms to
the customs of time and place. Dirt
and squalor are not essential factors
in democracy, nor need a man be
clownish in manner or dress In order
to feel the movlngs of humanity in his
spirit.
The reason why the genuine "demo
crats" at Stanford will not sit near a
clawhammer coat Is not assigned In
the report we have read, but it Is eas
ily guessed. The young man In a
sweater feels ashamed of himself and
dreads comparison with his comrade
In a neat evening suit. If he were not
guiltily self-conscious, neither the
other man's coat nor his own would
worry him for an Instant. It Is only
an inner sense of unfitness in himself
which drives a man to pay excessive
attention to clothes.
CANAL BCUT FOK THE FORKIGXEK.
The Pacific Coast will gain most of
the benefits to be derived by the
United States from cdnstructlon of
the Panama Canal, but foreign nations
will derive far more benefit than all
of the United States, unless we repeal
our pbsolete shipping laws and allow
our shipowners to compete on equal
terms with those of other nations.
This is the opinion of John F. Wallace,
former chief engineer of the canal,
expressed In an article In the New
York Times.
Of the two sections of the United
States, the Atlantic Coast will benefit
but little In foreign commerce. The
only parts of the world which will be
brought closer are the west coast of
South America, which has only 10 per
cent of the entire exports of South
America; Australia and New Zealand;
and that part of the Orient east of
the Straits of Singapore. The advan
tage In distance of the Panama over
the Suez route from the Atlantic
Ocean to the last-named section of the
world will be largely offset by the fact
that Hawaii is the only Intermediate
trading port on the way across the
Pacific, while ships "using the Suez
route tonch at many large and im
portant trading ports on the voyage to
the Orient.
But Mr. Wallace, while generally
discouraging the expectation of great
benefits to the United States as a
whole from the canal, says this:
The only section of the United States that
will recetva an Immediate and direct benefit
from tha construction of the Panama canal,
and which has made comparatively little ef
fort to prepare for the pttUxatlOQ of its ad
vantages. Is tha Pacific Coast.
The Panama Canal route will bring this
coast Into closer contact with Europe, and
on account of the short distance from the
Pacific Coast ta the Orient, traffic will natur
ally follow this coast Una from tha Panama
Canal to Vancouver.
This section, however. In the opin
ion of Mr. Wallace, will not gain the
full advantage of the canal "until our
Nation wipes from its books obsolete
laws and restrictions, the enforcement
of which has eliminated our commerce
from the high seas."
He points out how visionary Is the
hope that exemption of American foreign-going
ships from canal tolls
would overcome the handicap of our
tariff and shipping laws. This handi
cap makes the cost of carrying a ton
of freight In American bottoms two
or three times as much as in foreign
bottoms and is too great to be over
come by discrimination In canal tolls.
Since Congress cannot be Induced to
grant subsidies to fast mail lines, no
shipowner need hope to secure a sub
sidy for slow freighters sufficient to
overcome this enormous handicap.
Hence Mr. Wallace concludes that
foreign nations will derive the greatest
benefit from the enterprise In which
we have Invested $375,000,000 and in
support of this opinion he quotes the
following remark made to him by a
high official in the British admiralty:
Wallace, civilisation Is to ba congratulated
that the United States is constructing tha
Panama Canal for tha benefit of British com
merce. He believes that, of Pacific Coast
ports, Vancouver, B. C, will derive the
greatest benefit, since it is a British
port, free from restrictions, at the
gateway to the Orient and the Pacific,
and the trade of the Northwest and
of Europe will flow thither. He adds
this remark, most mortifying to the
pride of Vancouver's neighbors In the
United States:
Unless our shipping laws are changed a
large amount of the business of the United
States will be handled by the railroads which
now or may hereafter center at Vanoouver.
Not only have we handicapped our
foreign trade to such a degree that we
cannot prevent foreign nations from
being the chief beneficiaries of our
huge Investment, but we have also
handicapped our coastwise trade by
excluding foreign-built ships. Since
freight on American-built ships is two
or three times as high as on those of
foreign build, we are imposing on wa
ter transportation a tax to this extent
for the benefit of the transcontinental
railroads with which coastwise vessels
compete. We built the canal to re
duce transportation cost between our
two seaboards, but, even after It Is
opened, we shall not secure the full
reduction Justified by the changed con
ditions until we allow forelgn-bullt
ships to enter the coastwise trade.
When we fully realize this fact and
apply the only effective remedy, we
shall have fulfilled this prediction of
Mr. Wallace as to the benefits of the
canal:
The great benefit to the country will be tn
the way of awakening and stimulating our
people with progressive Ideas In Increasing
the efficiency of our merchant marine, and
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tlons In order to properly compete with other
nationa
The near completion of the canal
should be made the occasion of a cam
paign of education on the pernicious
effect of our shipping laws.
An outgrowth of the construction
of the Panama Canal Is a recommenda
tion to be made by Colonel Grunsky,
the noted engineer, at the Interna
tional Congress of Navigation, which
meets in Philadelphia in May, that an
international agreement fix a standard
depth of water in harbors and conse
quently fix a limit to the size of ocean
going vessels. He contends that the
size or the canal and locks practically
fix a limit to the size of ships, as they
cost too much to be changed easily
and maintains that no government
aid should be given to vessels too large
to enter a harbor of the standard
depth. Noted harbor authorities as
sert that shipowners must consider the
technical and financial difficulties of
deepening harbors. Mr. Grunsky con
tends that, even with a limit on the
size of ships, there would still be room
for improvement in engines and speed.
Oregon's smallest county In area is
Multnomah. The wealthiest county in
Oregon is Multnomah. It Is proposed
to Issue $20,000,000 In bonds for roads
and apportion $16,000,000 equally
among the counties and $5,000,000 ac
cording to area. The result would be
that In paying off the debt Multnomah
would have the greatest burden, while
In apportionment of funds Multnomah
would receive the least direct benefit
of any county. Toward the $5,000,000
apportioned to area Multnomah would
contribute more than one-third and
would receive back less than one two
hundredth. In other words, Multno
mah would pay to the state more than
$1,650,000 (no accounting being made
of Interest) to obtain less than $25,000
of state money to Invest In roads.
We drove Spain out of Cuba because
the chronic state of revolt due to her
misgovernment made Cuba a public
nuisance. We may yet find It easier to
set up a stable government in Mexico
by armed force and maintain It by a
protectorate for the same reason.
Nations have no more right tljan Indi
viduals to disturb their neighbors with
their quarrels. The United States does
not relish police work among her can
tankerous neighbors, but we may de
cide that It is cheaper In the long run
to cross the border and stop the dis
turbance than to keep a large army on
guard.
The T. M. C. A., (which Is an author
ity on young men, estimates "the cap
ital value of the average young man
or older boy" at $15,000, though It Is
admitted that here and there one Is
found who is "worth about 15 cents."
The $15,000 boy appears to be an ob
ject of sufficient value to be worth
some care and attention. The more
we put into him In the way of good
food, wholesome exercise, education
and high Ideals the more we are likely
to get out of him later on. He la Just
about the best Investment the world
offers at present.
W. Bayard Hale did not miss the
head of the nail very far when he said
that Dickins could portray "only hon
est, simple women." He described
some others, but not very convincingly.
To Dickens a woman In literature or
politics was a ludicrous figure. He
could only appreciate her as a wife
and mother. Had he lived In our day
very likely his Ideals would have
broadened, for Dickens was a pro
gressive genius In full sympathy with
all forward movements.
When the capital stock of one sub
sidiary of the Standard Oil Company
can be multiplied by four and that of
another by thirty, in order to make
their capitalization correspond with
their assets. It does not appear that
dissolution of the trust has had any
Injurious effect on the value of the
stock. The operations of the several
units of the former trust will bear
watching by the Government.
The Mayor of Hoqulam believes that
"the Lord called him from the pulpit
Into politics." Perhaps he might more
accurately have said that he was called
from a pulpit where he preached In
terms of outworn symbols to one
where the symbols are full of life and
promise. We can think of no field
where a man of prophetic gifts who
craves martyrdom can do and get what
he wants so satisfactorily as in politics.
Sam Gompers Insists he had no In
tent to show contempt to the Supreme
Court and Sam will do well to make
the court believe him. Otherwise only
Omnipotence can save him.
If you ever bought any dynamite and
now find you are "shadowed" arrange
quickly for a ball bond, for the sleuths
are after you. -
The Old Hen has the asylum In the
air. There is nothing "Just as good
as," hence eggs are cut oft the menu.
Arresting the owner rather than the
unlicensed canine eases the burden of
the poundmaster.
' Nome Is suffering, while Alaska Is
full of coal. This Is an age of absurdi
ties. Another burglar has been scared
away by a baby. The moral Is obvious.
San Francisco is cleaning house a
long time ahead of the big show.
Portland's new hotel Is some "swell
tenti
Stars and Star-Makers
By Leone Cass Baer.
Marie Flynn, who was here a few
days ago with "Madame Sherry," says
In a San Francisco Interview she's
playing there now that to her positive
knowledge she is the youngest prima
donna on the stage. Which remark,
tn print, will no doubt cause many
another who lays claim to the distinc
tion to go on a still hunt for little
Miss Flynn's family Bible.
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Just as soon as Its highly successful
engagement at the Republic Theater,
In New York, is over, "Rebecca of
Sunny Brook Farm," which Is not, as
many surmise, an antl-prohlbltion play,
will be sent on tour by Klaw & Er-
langer, and In the late Spring will get
to Portland. v
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Joseph Hart's symbolic playlet, "Ev
erywlfe," which must not be confound
ed with Walter Brown's "Every Wo
man," Is a soon-to-come-about-booking
over the Orpheum circuit. The com
pany required to produce It numbers 21
players.
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This week the Burbank Stock Com
pany, In Los Angeles. Is putting on
George Broadhurst's popular play. "The
Dollar Mark," which George L. Baker's
stock company introduced to Portland
last season with J. Frank Burke in the
big role. Last season the Burbank folk
had a tremendous run with this piece,
and are now, by request of patrons,
having a revival of It, Instead of "Mrs.
Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch," which
they had advertised. Our old friend,
Henry Stockbrldge, familiarly known
as "Heinle," is appearing in the role
of young Bayllss.
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Uiilnma Schumann - Helnk. whose
marital woes have lately been freely
lred for nubile discussion, sang at a
concert in Los Angeles on the 6th and
7th. and gives another appearance on
Saturday afternoon.
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Ferris Hartman, who came up to
Portland last Fall to give us his origi
nal version of "The Toymaker," Is
rounding out his fourth week at the
f!rand Onora-House in Los Angeles He
still has his "original" company, In
cluding waiter De Lean ana Mrs. wai
ter, who professionally Is known as
Miss "Muggins" Davis. They are pre
senting "The Campusj" a musical com
edy set about college life.
James O'Nell has started out again in
"Monte Crlsto," which he has been
playing almost continuously for 25
years, and In which he is remembered
by folk in Portland, who saw him when
he first began touring In it.
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When Anna Held was at Pasadena,
on her way up here in "Miss Inno
cence," she did the usual and expected
thing and visited the ostrich farm. Also
Madame Anna had her photograph
taken riding on an animated willow
nluma. The oress agent account of it
says that "it Is no easy thing to at
tain a correct poise upon an ostrich,
ar.A h, ivtrnea tourist uDon the back
6f a live ostrich resembles nothing
so much as a tree-climber. But Madame
Held succeeded In obtaining the most
nerfect rjosition of anyone who ever
sat for their photo at the farm." From
which. It would appear that Madame
Anna hits the superlative degree In
about everything she attempts. At any
rate, Anna Held the pose.
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Booked for early engagements at
the Hellig are William Faversham.in
Edward Knoblauch's comedy, "The
Faun"; the merry Pullman farce, "Ex
cuse Me," written by Rupert Hughes,
another of whose plays, "Two Wom
en," will soon be brought here by
Mrs. Leslie Carter. A return visit of
"Madame X" Is scheduled also.
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And the list of stars that will shine
here before the season ends augurs
well for our entertainment. For In
stance, there are Maude Adams, John
Drew, and later his niece, Ethel Bar
rymore, Elsie Janls, who regretfully
lays claim to being the youngest star
in theatrical captivity; Blanche Bates,
who will have to voice her sentiments
about her "home town" when she ar- i
rives in Portland; BilUe Burke. Lulu
Glaser, William Gillette, who did not
Invent safety razors, and last, but by
no stretch of Imagination least, Mizzl
Hajos.
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In Sacramento the lease of the Em
press Theater, which was formerly the
Grand, Just as our Empress was at
one time- the Grand, has been bought
by "Jim" Post, the millionaire come
dian, who will take charge Septem
ber 1. He will play a season of his
own musical comedies, afterward al
ternating with other actor-managers
who have their own houses on the
Pacific Coast. The Sullivan & Conci
dine people, present tenants at the
Empress, will erect a new theater.
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Henry W. Savage's opera production
of "The Girl of the Golden West."
played In Denver, Col., last night. '
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Robert Hood Bowers, the composer
of the musio of "The Red Rose," which
opens at the Hellig this evening, used
to be a professor of Latin at the State
University of Pennsylvania. , He wrote
also the music for Elsie Janls' play,
"The Vanderbtlt Cup," composed most
of the score of the Follies Bergere en
tertainment, and all of the score for
Mabel Hite's vehicle. "A Certain
Party." The two Smiths, Harry B.
and Robert B., wrote the book and
lyrics of "The Red Rose." The for
mer, by the way. Is owner of the fin
est Dickens collection In existence. His
private library Is valued at $250,000.
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The Seattle Elks have broken out
with an attack of histrionics and on
February 21 and 22 will stake an am
bitious theatrical spectacle called "The
Elk's Tooth." It's a three act musical
comedy, and the proceeds will be de
voted to a building fund now being
raised. A director, L H. Brown, from
Denver, has been employed to stage
the production.
After many days of persuasion, by
letter, telephone and telegraph. Man
ager Ed Drew, of the Seattle Theater
In the Sound City, has been able to
Induce the temperamental Sis Hopkins
to come back to his town and play
two return performances at his thea
ter next Sunday afternoon and night,
when she passes through Seattle en
route East from British Columbia. At
first Miss Melville demurred, saying
that she wanted to rest on that day,
and that she had all the money she
needed anyway. On Mr. Drew's earn
est representation that he didn't have,
however, she relented.
GET IIV AND DIG, SAYS LABORER
Knocks and Street-Corner Tails Don't
Make Prostrerlty.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) I noticed In The Morning Ore
gonlan, February 5, a letter from the
Central Labor Council of Portland con
cerning the welfare of this city and
state. I would like to know If north,
south, east and west are not conditions
the same? The poor are always with
us. The trouble with the majority is
too much pleasure and too much city.
I tm well aware farming for the be
ginner Is hard work. What about the
pioneers who faced death and had to
struggle to exist no markets, no
roads simply nothing but the tall tim
ber. Supposing we divided the wealth or
our rich Nation equally among us all,
how Ions would It be before a few be
came rich again? We notice European
countries have the same conditions,
only worse. The trouble is the United
States some years ago was too good in
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at home. What are the results? Our
prisons and poorfarms and asylums
show.
I am a poor man with a family, too,
and I have had to get in and dig, and I
thank my superiors in mind and wealth
for my prosperity. I was in California
over 20 years ago, when what little I
had I lost. I had no time to; cry over
spilled milk, and I was notf the only
one. But something had to be done
and done quickly, and many of us
came this way. and it didn't look any
too encouraging. But we had to dig
and we did dig until a home was real
ized, and there was no charity or any
thing else.
I cannot understand why labor lead
ers do not have an emergency fund for
the working class bo when times are
bad they needn't call on the city. How
quickly unions all over the country col
lected thousands of dollars to defend
the labor leaders when in trouble! Just
think. Mr. Darrow's allowance was ,50,
000 : What a wonderful relief there
could have been given here to their
fellow-worklngmen. Why don't labor
leaders go into the real estate business?
The money collected could be well in
vested in a colony for only the working
class. What a monument to the cause
of labor!
Sickness is a misfortune with a poor
man and his family, and I have had a
taste of that. During the hard times
my wife was sick; It was the birth of
my third child, tut a doctor took care
of my case and I was to pay him each
month. When I had paid three months
or more he gave me a receipt In full.
Why? Because I was a hard-working
man. and I asked for nothing. Ho is
dead now, and this secret went to the
grave with him. He was very rich,
and there are many more rich like him
yet on earth. In conclusion let me say
that all the street-corner agitation and
knocking does not get Jobs, but we
have to get In and dig.
CHARLES CUMMINGS,
A Laboring Man.
Consignee Is Not Liable.
MOHAWK, Or., Feb. 4. (To the Edi
tor.) A 50-pound box was sent by
freight, prepaid, from Los Angeles, Cal.,
to a point in Oregon. By some chance
a storage house in San Francisco got
hold of the box and kept it three or
four weeks, then reshipped it to des
tination. The agent at said destination
refuses to deliver same until said stor
age company Is paid storage charges.
Is consignee liable for mistakes of rail
road company? A SUBSCRIBER.
' No.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) A man and wife have Joint deed
in a piece of property. Could the wife
will her interest in said property
without her husband's consent?
SUBSCRIBER.
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe
People say for awhile that a promi
nent man was made by his wife; but
they soon change their tune, and say
the devil had a hand In It.
Women live longer than men be
cause they do not worry so much If
they fall to become famous. It JuBt
about kills a man if he doesn't attract
attention.
When a business man has had a good
many partners it is a bad sign.
A school teacher never seems to run
things a great deal except with the
children in his room.
When a schemer visits a town, and
his scheme fafls to go, he says It is the
dullest town he ever visited in the
course of his business career.
I have never been able to understand
why photographers are not heroes in
novels, rather than painters; they make
better pictures.
A compliment is never as great as it
might be.
Some young women buy drygoods
so steadily and liberally that the store
clerks can never tell when they buy
a trousseau.
Everybody Is willing to impose on a
good cook.
A man doesn't dread becoming bald
as much as a woman dreads becoming
fat. .
Your friends ask you every
day: Did you see this in The
Oregonian? Did you see that
in The Oregonian? Did you
notice so-and-so's ad in this
morning's Oregonian?
Why do you suppose they always refer to The Ore
gonian? You know why. But you have never thought
very much about it The morning paper is the only daily
paper that could tell you something President Taft said
in an interview last night.
Only in the morning paper can you find the grand
total of the happenings of the past twenty-four hours. You
.want the news when it is news. Why wait until the
evening of the next day? The same with your advertis
ing. The homekeeper wants your store news in the
morning. The very last thing before she starts on her
shopping tour.
Ask yourself this question : Do you not get hold of
an Oregonian the first possible minute every morning?
Do you not look at the headlines with a keen interest?
Do you not delay coming to breakfast because you are
deeply absorbed in some news item? Now, ask yourself
if this state of affairs holds true as regards the evening
papers.
Half a Century Ago
From Tho Oregonlan of February 8, 1S62.
From The Oregonlan of Feb. 8, 1862.
We have already stated that a num
ber of the Knights of the Golden Cir
cle were arrested In Ohio. Their rit
uals, mode of operations, grips, a large
list of members and places of meeting
were discovered. Several individuals
had managed to be present at one of
their meetings, who disclosed all the
facts necessary to secure their arrest.
It will be seen by the operations of the
society in Ohio that the Knights do not
confine their operations to the rebel
states. Their field of operation is wide
spread. Their aims are to paSalyze all
efforts to raise men in the free states
to carry on war against rebellion ef
fectually; to resist the collection of the
war tax and' in every way possible to
embarrass and. if possible, break up
the Government.
We present the oaths which are ex
acted from all the members of the
lodges of the Golden Circle:
First oath "I do truly and solemnly
promise and swear that I will not re
veal any word, either directly or Indi
rectly, of what I am about to receive,
except It be to some true and faithful
brother of the order, and not unto him
or them until after strict examina
tion I shall have found him or them
as Justly entitled to the same as I
myself am about to be, under the no
less penalty of having my body severed
into four parts, the first part cast out
at the north gate, the second part at
the south, the third part at the east
and the fourth part at the west gate.
I furthermore promise that I will al
ways hail and answer all signs and
signals that are given to me by a broth
er of this order if in my power to do
so; and I furthermore promise and
swear that I will protect and defend
all Constitutional Democrats, their
lives, property and personal liberty,
from mob violence during this South
ern Insurrection, so long as they obey
the laws of the U. S. A., let it come
from whatever source It may; this ob
ligation to be binding on me as long as
the war shall last.
Second oath "And I further promise
and swear, In the presence of Almighty
God and the members of the Golden
Circle, that I will not rest or sleep un
til Abraham Lincoln, now President,
shall be removed out of the Presiden
tial chair, and I will wade In blood up
to my knees, as soon as Jefferson Da
vis sees proper to march with his army
to take the City of Washington and the
White House, to do the same. 8o help
me God, and keep me steadfast to do
the same."
Samuel Cheney, a citizen of Ohio, on
whose affidavit the arrests were made,
swore in proper form that the above
were the oaths administered to all the
Knights. Four other citizens also made
oath to the same effect.
We have strong means to believe
that the Knlg-hts of the Golden Circle
are leaders, indeed the master spirits,
of the secession party in Oregon.
Anti-Coolie Association of San Fran
cisco We have received a lengthy cir
cular from the institution above named
setting forth the ends which have re
sulted to white labor in California from
the Introduction of Chinese coolies.
. . . and that for these and many
other reasons measures should be
adopted to put a stop to their further
Immigration. The measures recom
mended are:
"The passage of an act providing for
a gradually Increasing license tax upon
all Mongolians in this state."
California is suffering from the in
troduction . of Chinese coolies. The
Anti-Coolie Association has for its ob
ject the putting a stop to such immigra
tion. It may succeed by the adoption
of the measures proposed. They are
worth trying. We have but few Chi
nese among us; some of them are ap
parently respectable and others belong
to the lowest grade of humanity.
We are informed that some one cut
the halyards of the city flagstaff one
night this week. The topmast will have
to be lowered in order to reef them
again. A rope's end would be too good
for one so evil-disposed.
The house of Mr. Giles, about three
miles north of town, is a place of fre
quent resort by some of our young
people, parties being held there two or
three evenings of each week. The fine
sleighing and pleasant moonlight nights
make it a splendid drive down there.
The steamer "Vancouver is now able
to reach the northern bank of the
Columbia River, opposite the mouth of
the Willamette.
TTevr Names for All Peaks.
PORTLAND, Feb. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) I noticed in The Oregonlan an
article on changing the name of Mount
Rainier to Mount Jim HU1. If such a
change Is made, I as a regular reader
suggest other changes to be made,
through falmeas to other controlling
interests, such as Mount St. Helens to
Mount Weyerhaeuser, Mount McKlnley
to Mount Guggenheim, Mount Hood to
Mount J. P. Morgan, Mount Jefferson
to Mount Rockefeller, Mount Adams to
Mount Andrew Carnegie. I think it
only fair and Just, if one is changed, to
go in and do the square thing and
change them all. Hoping this will
meet with approval. I remain In favor
nf "Rainier." FAIR PLAY.
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