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1 AX ETTICTrMT JtTLTTABT rOLICT.
The subject of pension I. After all.
a question of economy and efficiency.
. This i howu br Major Dentler In hi
Illuminating article, printed Sunday.
. Our Army t bow limited to a email
. force oq the theory that, when mer
: rwcy require a Urger force. ITeen
; men can be enrolled aa volunteer and
j by the mule effect of a uniform And
a rifle, can Inetantly become "Idler.
They cannot. A man muat learn the
trade of a soldier. he mu.t learn
every other trade. So Ions aa he la
.. merely aervir. hie apprenticeship In
. an Inetructlon camp, he la a liability,
r.ot an al. to the Government.
A man taken from dvU lit, with no
, prevloua military tralnin and pltch-
forked into an Army camp l the tnoet
. h!ple. u ) IndlTldual Imafiln-
ahl-. He needa r.rt to learn to obey.
then he must learn to care for hi
. oirn health and not to endanrer the
' health of his comradfa. Marine learned
t!vat. he ha the drat rudiments of
. military tralnln. Without thai knowl-
edge he Is Ukrly to become a corpee
' or a pensioner before he ever becomes
a aoldler. This " know from our ex.
perlence durlnc the Spanish war. Wo
had JIO.OOO volunteer In camp, nono
of whom left American eoll. but thou
sand of these are pensioner, because
they made plague-spota of the camp
' through iheer Ignorance.
It ha been often said that mora
men dl of dlaeaae durln; war than
of wound received In battle. The
deadllnesa of war durln; the Middle
Ages wa due lees to the loss of life
In battle than to la-norance of sanlta-
, tlon. The siege of Nuerember; In the
thirty years' war wa rained because
both artr.le were committing suicide
through the spread of petllene.
In order to Judge of the cost of our
' Army, we must add to the annual coat
of maintenance the um paid In pen
sions. By maintaining a small army
' with little or no trained reserve we
nave for the time, but a war la fol
lowed by a sudden increase la pension
i payment. which devour several
time th amount ved. Trained sol-
, rilers can keep down the percentage
of pearlon to active soldier to about
11, per cent. A sudden Influx of
i .raw recruit at the outbreak of war U
". followed by a sudden rl) In the per
centage of penjUon. Further, modern
wars are o short and decisive that
they may be ended before those re-
1 rruits who survive dleao In camp are
, trained for ervlce.
Ey Increasing our Army, a Major
Pen tier suggests, keeping the term of
" fw-rvlce at three year and passing
. man on .to the reserve, at the same
time Increasing the numbers of effl-
ciency of the National Guard, we
hould gain the end desired. When
' ar came, we could summon to th
; color ready-trained soldiers who
could be quickly organized for active
. rervlee, and we should escape the
enormous loss through sickness among
raw men. Whatever additional tura
u spent on. maintenance of the larger
iinn over In pensions. Our Army also
. oiilJ be ready when it wa needed
:hat Is. w hen war began, not several
months' later, after the enemy bad
Jon Incalculable Injury.
crxjaxs orcnox or trcstts.
Senator Cummins. Insurgent leader,
expounds in the Saturday Evening Post
his views of how to deal with the
:rut. and expresses opinions which
ill receive the more hearty Indorse-
ment from the great body of Kepub-
i ucaca. since tney are almost identi
cally the same aa those expressed by
President Taft. He cannot withhold
pproval of Taft'a vigorous enforcem
ent of the Sherman law. and taro-
i jsfs the same plan to strengthen that
' ..it ar.d cl irlfy Ita meaning as 1 pro-
;o.tect by the President. The question
naturally asked: Why doe Cum
mins Insurge?
The. only feature of Taft'a policy re
'.Atlng to the trusts of which Cummin
r;ir?sK-a disapproval la the manner In
Jtlrh the tobacco trust wa dissolved.
He r Kar.L th splitting of that trust
tit) fourteen corporations, the stock
"f which Is owned by the same men,
as farcical, and aay so. He condemn
Attorney-General Wicket-sham for net
spreaUr.g from the decree approving
t'.ij plan of dissolution. He accuses,
'vVtckersham of leaving the trust still
In control by letting it hold the bulk
"T the business and taking away only
-m -ill part to be given to separate
companies.
Th docree divide each branch of
th business between two or more com.
rr.ie with such a division of the
prominent brands aa to make compe
ujm not only possible but necessary."
.i-cijolo Tift's word. The American
ToVacco Company th trust) retain
33.4 per cent of th smoking tobacco
business, while three of the companies
plit from It get 20. OS, :x.3 and S (
r'r cent, respectively, and the inde
pendent get 21.3 per cent. Control
wa formerly held by mean of owner
Mp of the common stock, which alone
had voting power, but the preferred
took in each constituent company now
;..ts that power. A there are 71 share
of preferred to each 40 share of com
mon stock, th old trust element 1
utvoted. Th largest interest this
l'-ment now has In any of the new
companies is 41 per cent, and Its In
tTwt ranges from that amount down
to lit, per cent. The Individual de
fendants are also enjoined for three
years from buying any stock except
from each other. All partie to the salt
and the new companies are perpetually
enjoined from combining. The new
companies are perpetually enjoined
from having common director, offic
ers, agents or office and from lending
money to each other, a well as from
buying each other' stock. Violation
of this decree Is punishable a con
tempt of court.
The Inevitable result of tfcls dissolu
tion of the tru-t will be that U several
parts will grow farther and farther
apart, for ownership of their stock will
become more scattered with time.
Before the trust was dissolved, sale of
100 shares by the holder of 1000 share
did not affect the Integrity of the com
bination. Now the sale by one man of
his holdings In one of the new com
panies will give the buyer an Interest
In that one company, but no interest In
any of the other. Under the opera
tion of the injunction the 29 magnate
cannot legally buy tock except from
each other, but may sell to anybody.
The ordinary course of business will
produce so wide a division of Interest
that a revival of the trust will be a
practical Impossibility by the time the
expiration of the Injunction make It
legally possible.
Men like Cummin who condemn
this decree are not familiar with It
term ai.d have not studied It effect.
m-hool mnRMnrj cx-ajf eiucax.
In comparing their Greek-letter fra
ternities with other secret societies," the
California high school students who
are resisting the law against s,uch fra
ternities, overlook a few point of dif
ference. On U that they are chil
dren, wall th Natlv Son and like
societies are composed of adult. As
children, they are aubject to the gov
ernment of their parent and teacher.
Another point Is that, as tudent of
the high schools, they ar enjoying ed
ucational privilege freely provided by
the state and must therefore comply
with the condition laid down by th
fate. The high achoots were created
for purpose of education, not to pro
mote social intercourse and the deci
sion of th state that fraternities In
terfere with the purpose of the. school
should be accepted a final.
Aside from their Interference with
the work of the schools In Imparting
knowledge, fraternities also interfere
with another Important purpose of the
entire American school system. That
la, to teach by dally practice the prin
ciple of democracy. Fraternities vlo-L-te
those principle by creating class
distinction and thus train up their
member as snob, not clttiena.
The law says. In effect, that. If cer
tain men and women choose, aJ"ter at
taining their majority, to herd by
themselves on the assumption that
they are better than others, they are
at liberty to do so. but that boy and
girl who receive, their education from
the state shall learn to practice the
principle of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and shall do nothing In their
character as students at variance with
that principle. The schools exist to
train up Americans.
cciBiujxo orxft rcAra rxr.ixsH.
Tresldent Frail, of the Ilighway Im
provement Association, has again
quoted In a lettor printed today the
"on man power" provision of th
state-wide highway bills, but we fall
to see where he ha mad a better
caj than Mr. Albert, rialnly and In
disputably the Highway Commission,
appointed by the Governor, may veto
any road Improvement proposed by a
County Court.
He "shall examine Into the dm, lo
cation and situation of said road or
highway, and if th Stat Highway
Commissioner shall approve the same,
he shall prepare plana." Here 1 power
conferred upon the Governor through
an appointee to say to a County Court
"you shall build your road when I
want them or I ahall disapprove them."
In the event of a deadlock the rebelling
county's proportion of the year's allot
ment of state fund would revert to
the treasury and be divided among all
counties In the following year. With
the, exception of a small fraction the
county would lose on year' road
money 'irrevocably.
If the 'Highway Commissioner ap
prove th location of road proposed
for Improvement by th county, th
contract for their construction, which
is to be met by use of both county
and atate money, must pass the censor
ship of th Governor and hi High
way Commissioner. The Attorney
General passes only on the form and
legality of the contract. A neighboring
state now buy school district bonds
with school funds. A board passes on
the advisability of buying a particu
lar issue. Th Attorney-General passe
on th "form and legality" of th
bond. He Is solely a legal adviser
without power to stop a bond Issue ex
cept on the one ground of illegality.
The same power and no greater on
is to be conferred on the Attorney
General In approving road contracts
by th proposed bill. Jhe discretion
ary power to reject or approve con
tracts Is conferred solely upon the Gov
ernor or men he puts In office.
The undoubted Intent of the bills
is to glv a state officer full power to
say- what roads shall be built or im
proved, what materials shall be used
and wnat grade ahall be the maximum-It
may hav been unintentional to
give the Governor th power to say
'That contractors shall do the work,
hut that power Is nevertheless con
ferred if plain English ha any mean-'
lng. To construe the bills In a way
different from that conveyed by their
wording t- the ordinary understanding
Is to condemn them. To concede that
there Is even a doubt as to their mean
ing forecasts a prolonged legal test
and a delay In road-building pending
court construction. If the Oregon As
sociation for Highway Improvement
wishes to give, th counties home nil
In road-bulldlng. Its attention Is di
rected to the two measures prepared
by the State Orange.
The sugar trust report says that the
men who organized the trust In defi
ance of law have sold out to It, 000 in
nocent purchasers and that the Gov
ern m e n t cannot proceed against the
trust without Injuring them. That
shows up the game of the trust pro
moter, who. like mere vulgar crim
inal. Is careful not to be found "with
the goods on him." But the country
has been full of the misdeeds of the
sugar trust for 20 years and the pres
ent holders of it stock must have
known that it was a trust and there
fore liable to attack in court. They
took the risks of this attack when they
bought th stock and they must take
the consequences. The law win only
destroy that part of the stock's value
which was created by Illegal acta, don
on the assumption that the law was a
dead letter. That part of the value
was the spoils of crime and the lono-
f cent holders must pay the penalty of
th crime which produced It.
THE KNOCKER IX THE FAMILY.
Bryan's course may soon cause him
to be relegated to the class of common
scolds. He suffers from the general
falling of the politically "unco gutd
and rigidly righteous." It Is peculiar
to men of this type that they regard
any man who disagrees with them in
opinion as necessarily dishonest or at
least governed by suspicious motives
or evell Influences.
The Democrats would be restive tin
, der Bryan's scolding, even If he were a
successful leader, but coming from
a man who ha thrice led It to
! defeat, hi censure arouse them to
i . ..
indignation. ile mreanens m
the party and again cheat It of any
chance of victory when its leaders be
lieve ita chance to be better than at
any time since li92. Whether he
leads or not. Bryan threatens to be
the cause of successive Democratic
disasters.
In attacking th leaders of his par
ty In the House, Brysn Is attacking th
only recognized National leaders De
mocracy has. hence he attack th
party itself. His strictures are more
injurious than those of the Republic
ans, for they sre not discounted by
partisan bias, but are presumed to be
prompted by sincere desire for the
party to make a clean record and earn
public confidence.
The temper In which the House re
ceive Bryan's reflections on Under
wood msy forecast th treatment h
will receive at Baltimore. The con
vention at th city of monument may
dispose of him a unceremoniously as
th convention at Denver disposed of
Guffey at his dictation.
RADICALS COMIXO INTO CONTROL.
The most significant feature of Brit
ish politic these days Is the steady
rise of the radical element to control
of the Liberal party. This tendency Is
now evinced by persistent and appar
ently authentic reports that Premier
A-squlth is soon to be retired to an of
fice of great dignity but llttl activity.
J that Lord Morley Is to become Premier
and that Lloyd-George la to be made
' leader of the party in the House of
Commons as a stepping stone to th
Premiership.
If the predicted change should come,
the brunt of the fight for Irish home
rule will fall on Lloyd-George. There
will be stormy days and nlghta In the
House of Commons, In which he will
have to face the fury of the Orange
Ul.itermen and of the old true-blue
Tories. The fesrs of Catholic domina
tion in Ireland which Protestant Non
conformists among his followers har
bor will be played upon by the Union
ist In an effort to split the Liberals,
and Lloyd-George will have a difficult
part to play In conciliating the Non
conformist without antagonizing th
Nationalists.
With Lloyd-George as leader the de
mand of Wales for home rule will be
come louder and more insistent. Dif
ferent in race from th English and
with a National history extending
down to the close of the 12th century,
the Welsh have always preserved their
separate Identity and the English
church ha but a corporal' guard of
adherents among them. No sooner
will Irish home rule be out of the way
than Wales will make her claim
heard. If Wales should gain this con
cession. Scotland also is likely to
clslm U. With the other kingdom
enjoying autonomy, England would not
long brook being ruled by a parlia
ment in which they had a voice In her
separate affairs while England had no
voice In theirs. The logical outcome
would be th transformation of the
United Kingdom Into a federation, in
which the Imperial parliament corre
sponded to our Congress and each
kingdom had a local parliament cor
responding to our State Legislatures.
This may seem a long look ahead,
but Lloyd-George, who is the author
of the land tax and of the bill for In
surance of sick and unemployed work,
men, does not flinch at daring Innova
tions. Morley Is growing old and the
Liberals will not long submit to be led
by a man who Is removed from the
actual scene of political combat. If
Lloyd-George should retain his health
he will ere long push aside Morley as
he Is now about to push aside Asqulth,
and become the titular as well a the
actual leader of hla party. Then we
shall see an era of daring political and
economical experiment.
T1TB StrRCEOX'S DILEMMA.
Th risk which surgeons often run
in performing their duties to their pa
tients is illustrated by two recent in
cidents. The first occurred in this
country. A woman engaged a surgeon
to operate upon her for appendicitis.
When the necessary incision had been
made it appeared that there were other
troubles which required more exten
sive us of the knife. The surgeon did
what th case demanded and th
woman recovered. To show her grati
tude to the man who had saved her
life she sued him for J 10.000 damages.
Happily the case was a clear one and
the Judge ordered a verdict In the sur
geon' favor. Th other incident oo
curred in London. The patient wa a
boy. He seemed to be at the point of
death, but th physicians saw soma
chance to save his life by an opera
tion. It was performed and he died
on th table. Had he been permitted
to die without an effort to save him
there would have been no trouble. But
because the physicians made an un
usual exertion In hi behalf they were
brought before the Coroner at an In
quest and a great scandal was stirred
up. Because the operation failed to
save the boy's life it was assumed that
i the physician wer criminally rash to
have tried It.
The surgeon often finds himself be
tween a deep ditch on one side and a
quagmire on the thcr. If he does not
operate he knows that the patient will
die and his conscience will not forgive
him. .If he doe operate th patient
may still die and then the hord of
enemies of medical science will set up
a shriek. "Behold another victim of
th knife." Even If th patient re
covers after an unauthorized operation
which saved hi life the surgeon Is by
no means sure of his gratitude. He
may be sued for damage because the
patient did not order him to do what
he did. Like a traveler passing
through the street of a strange village,
the surgeon's step are beset by a mob
of howling curs whose noise is trouble
some at best and may become danger
ous. The malignity of the human
heart takes many curious forms, but
the strangest of all Is its enmity to the
science and art of healing. There are
people In the world who hate a physi
cian much worse than they do a bur
glar. It sometimes seems as if all the
old odium theologtcum which used to
be spent in battle between th sect
had now gone Into the fight upon
medical science.
Emergencies often arise In which a
surgeon Is compelled to make a swift
decision. If he declines to operate
death will be the unavoidable conse
quence. If he doe operate he Imperils
his reputation and subjects himself to
all sorts of misrepresentation and cal
umny. It la a great wonder that medi
cal men so often assume this peril
when they might escape It by allowing
the patient to pass quietly out of the
world. Their conduct shows a degree
of devotion to science and human wel
fare which may well excite admiration.
There la hardly any other profession
In which the same qualities are exhib
ited to anything like the same extent.
As an English medical man has put the
case, the surgeon Is frequently in the
situation of one who stands on the
shore and watches a man struggling
In deep water. Shall he swim to his
rescue? Perhaps the struggler .wants
to dlo and interference with his plan
will be resented. Perhaps the water
Is not nearly so deep as it appears and
the man may get out alone. Perhaps
a big fish win happen along and pro
pel him ashore with his fins. While
th observer stands pondering these
various possibilities the unhappy strag
gler drowns and there Is an end of the
matter. Is this the way we wish our
medical attendants to act when they
find us In deadly peril? Or do we pre
fer to have them assume the responsi
bility of giving us all the help science
suggests without waiting for strict au
thority to do It? If they wait for au
thorization we may perish when a lit
tle boldness would have saved the day.
Is not boldness preferabl to vacil
lation? A wise man when h employs a law
yer to conduct his case In court fol
lows the professional man's advice Im
plicitly. He will give all possible aid
by securing evidence and looking up
facta, but he will not question the law
yer's Judgment. There may be better
lawyer In trje world. Mistakes may
be made. But no matter about that.
For this case the die Is cast and the
litigant lies quietly in the bed he has
made for himself if he Is a wise liti
gant. The same rule applies to our
attitude toward medical men. only to
a far greater degree. Once a doctor Is
chosen the patient's fate Is in his
hands. The Issue of life and death
depends upon the exercise of his Judg
ment and skill. Is not a roan a fool
to do or say anything which may tend
to Impair the doctor's skill or shake
the firmness of his Judgment? What
we want In the moment of dire peril
Is absolutely unhampered courage In
the surgeon to do the very best for u
that he know how. Without that
courage he will debate instead of act
ing. He will deliberate instead of
striking at the crucial Instant. He will
look at possible dangers to his reputa
tion Instead of seeing only the pa
tient's danger. He will take no chances
which involve risk to himself. The
moment when life hangs in the balance
will pass and death will gain the
victory.
This Is what medical men may be
brought to by petty persecution. That
they have not been brought to it al
ready speaks marvels for their charac
ter. No surgeon can always succeed.
Some operations must fall. But is it
not better, far better, to encourage
medical men to employ the last re
sources of their art for the sake of
their patient than It is to worry them
into timid adherence to convention
and precedent?
What a splendid plot for a novel has
been woven in his own life by the ec
centricities cf a rich man in the his
tory of Samuel E. Hazlett. But had
some novelist written such a novel, we
should have been Inclined to stamp
It aa fantastic, improbable, untrue to
life.
The mother of the young man killed
on the roof of a car In Northern Cali
fornia, having secured conviction of
the murderer, Is not satisfied, and
would run her desire for vengeance
Into five figures. Money may be a
balm to assuage grief and It may not.
Professor Jenkins' pupils at the Jef
ferson high school threaten to appear
In garb of spectacular plainness In re
sponse to his pleas for simplicity of
dress. The professor might prepare
for the demonstration by ordering a
consignment of thick paddle.
It has become customary for Mexi
co to have both an actual and a pro
visional president. "Provisional" in
thi case means: Provided the holder
of the title can drive out the actual
president before he himself Is killed in
battle or assassinated.
Man and wife who have lived to
gether to enjoy a golden wedding
should in all reason be able to over
come th tendency to part at that late
neriod. but the mvsterlea of old a era
are not possible of solution.
Peach tree blooming' already in
Portland. Yea, and we'll be eating
strawberries while part of the country
is sUIl digging snow paths.
Th long season for seeding last Fall
and these continued rains assure Port
land's supremacy as the big grain
shipping port for 1912.
Caruso has made so much money
that he Is kept busy denying matri
monial engagements and defending
breach of promise cases.
Clnclnnatus Yuan prefers his cab
bage patch to the presidency. Even
Bryan may some time retire to hla
Texas onion field.
Familiar faces reappear In the polit
ical new of the day. The lust for -office
la abiding aa well as Infectious and
contagious.
With th dictagraph playing eaves
rirnnner. th onlv safe Dlace for a con
fidential conversation seem to be a 40-
acre field.
Reeking an office that Is full of
strife and bickering, many brave men
would be Food and Dairy Commis
sioner. Yuan Shi Kai and Sun Yat Sen are
giving th most remarkable presenta
tion th world has seen of "after you."
The West Virginia may be going to
Palmyra Island to give Great Britain
a quit claim deed.
It would not be a bad idea to spe
cialize sweet pea blooms in white and
purple this year.
Where did that Sllets Indian woman
get the liquor 7
VP-STATE YIEWS OX ROAD BILLS
Prra and Taxpayer Oplttctota Quoted
ou High Finance Meaanrra.
The Dalles Optimist.
There Is such a thing as reaching
the, bottom of the pork barrel.
I CoTfntir Conslatentt
Independence Enterprise.
Governor West is opposing the one
mao system of politics, but he seems to
be satisfied with on-man power in the
construction of good roads.
Grantee Plan Beat.
Gresham Outlook.
We are glad this good-roads agita
tion is on any kind of a movement Is
better than none, but we believe that
of all those proposed the plan being
advocated by the Grange Is th best
and most feasible in the end.
Oae Favorable View.
Baker Herald. .
All of the bills are meritorious and
their adoption will solve the good
roads problem In Oregon. The one
Baker County Is most interested in,
however. Is the enabling act, enabling
counties to avail themselves of the
provisions of the constitutional amend
ment passed In 1910.
Lvt Sentiment With County Bonds.
Albany Herald.
The.re Is effort In this state to ge.t
the people together In the considera
tion of the value of good roads and of
the ways and means by which they
may be built. In a statewide sense It
seems difficult to carry that effort be
yond the academic stage. There is need
of a stimulant, which a little good
road building on the basis of county
bond issues will supply.
Bills Are Vnfalr.
St. Helens Mist.
We have not taken the time to fig
ure out Just how this proposed law will
work In Columbia County, but would
urge upon every property owner to do
so before casting a vote on the ques
tion. In any event. It does seem that a
law which wfll require one county to
pay $17,000,000 more Into a fund than
It will receive is not a fair law and
one that should be carefully avoided.
Great Debt Contemplated.
Lents Herald.
To meet the requirements the coun
ties would be compelled, in most In
stances, to levy bonds, or else get Tione
of the state fund. But they would be
taxed to pay the bonds off whether or
not they participated In the financial
game. Thus with the state's 120,000,
000 and the counties aggregate !0.
000,000, th people would soon Und
themselves loaded down with a debt
of HO. 000, 000. a sum unequaled by only
on or two states In the Union.
Fork Barrel Toe Lor;.
Eugene Register.
Sole power to spend 120.000.000 is
too great a temptation to build up a
political machine to be put Into the
hands of any official. The Register
does rot wish to say that Governor
West Is planning to use the power that
these bills would place in his hands to
build up a machine that will maintain
him In the office that he now holds,
or that will advance him to a higher
office. It does not think that he is.
It does believe, however, that the un
restricted spending of 120,000,000
should not be placed In the hands of
a single state official. Twenty million
dollars Is too large a pork barrel.
One-Man Power Not Popular.
Amity Standard.
Governor West became real vexed
last week and gave utterance to some
natty sayings In response to the criti
cisms offered by Attorney-General
Crawford to his one-man good roads
scheme. Before the battle Is over
Governor West will have many oppor
tunities to give veat to his pent up
feelings over adverse criticism of his
one-man Ideas. If there Is no mistake
in the signs of the times there are a
great many more In Oregon who are
not favorably Impressed by this pro
posed one-man legislation to create a
one-man power to expend some $40,
000,000 In public funds. There might
not be so much distrust, however. If
the finger on the dial did not indicate
Our Boy Governor was the one man.
FaMtern Oroajon Opponed.
La Grande Observer.
We have but to call attention in this
issue of the Eevening Observer to an
article from the pen of E. S. Norris.
of this county, on the good roads
question, to show every reader where
sentiment rests regarding the boy Gov
ernor and his pet theories. Mr. Nor
ris writes as an Individual, but we
who know him personally realize that
In those words he speaks there is re
flected the feeling and decision of a
goodly part of the farmers of Union,
Wallowa and Baker counties. This
means that Eastern Oregon does not
favor rock roads at the price named
and It means that any Governor who
works night and day to chain this
state to a bonded indebtedness will be
dealt with In the manner that he
should be.
Farmer Wonld Par aa They Go.
E. S. Norris, in La Grande Observer.
The farmer wants good roads and
he wants to pay for them as he goes.
The same levy for tax sufficient to
pay the Interest on the bonds will
build all the road of any kind and
will have the road buIWed and paid
for before the bonds would come due
and not have the bonds to pay at all,
and the strange part of it is anyone
who can figure at all knows that.
Well, then, who Is the agitator? The
comp'any that wants to buy the bonds
co-operates with the road machinery
man and the automobile man In put
ting up an agitation that molds the
public opinion. They hire space in
Influential papers. They send good
speakers to every good roads meeting.
They have laid out a campaign that is
a peach, but with the hearty co-operation
of our city cousins, we will cause
the peach to be a dry affair. In fact,
only a seed and that not capable of
germination.
Counties Know Best. -
Watervllle "Farmer" In Eugene' Reg
ister. While I give the Governor every
credit, I am not in favor of the state
taking up road building, for that Is a
matter that should be left to the re
spective counties to take care of. Each
county knows Its trade center and the
roads that lead to If much better than
it Is possible for the Governor or any
man he may appoint,.to know the mer
its of roads that should be built. There
isn't a ounty in the state w-hich isn't
able to build Its own roads by bond
Issues, and thus do away with the
possible grafts that are almost sure to
come If the Governor's policy Is en
acted. I have no fear as far as Gov
ernor West is concerned, as long as
he would have Jurisdiction over the
expenditure of money. But his policy
for expenditure of $20,000,000 In 10
years is strictly one-man Jurisdiction.
Who can say how long West will be
our Governor. Who can say what kind
of Governors we will have for 10 years
to come? That the people would have
confidence enough to place $20,000,000
at their disposal. We know that we
have had Governors In the past who
would have liked very well to have
the people give them that much money
to spend. It would be a great wrong
for the people to place such a tempta
tion in the way of comics Governors.
m J f I 1
II III
Half a Century Ago
From The Oreffonlan of February 18. 1882.
The Red Bluff Independent says that
Mr. Stark wants to swear to support
the Constitution, and we believe that
this is the same gentleman who stated
in this city that we had no government
but the confederated government and
that the South Carolina flag was his
flag. If the Independent is correct. Mr.
Stark must be anxious to take the back
track.
Late news from Salt Lake gives ac
counts of recent outbreaks committed
by the Mormons against the Federal
officers located among them. It seems
that the Saints, taking advantage of
the embarrassment of the Government
of the United States, are determined on
Immediate application for admission
into the Union as a state. To this end
the Legislature has called a convention
to form a constitution to be submitted
to Congress. The act calling the con
vention was vetoed by Governor Daw
son, but the Legislature passed it by
a two-thirds vote over his veto. The
Governor's conduct thus became ob
noxious to the Mormons, who assailed
him through their press and, to make
his position as uncomfortable as pos
sible, bullies and blackguards Insulted
him on the streets. Not wishint? to re
main lonarer among people who thu3
treated him, his excellency hired four
Mormon pilots to lead him out of the
city on his way to other quarters. They
took his liberal pay, but when they
got him on the road and out of sight
from wlfn.sses, they set upon and beat
the Governor most shamefully. They
are evidently intent on forcing either
another difficulty with the Governor
or a polygamlst constitution through
Congress. Marysville Appeal.
Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, whose
term would have expired on March 4,
1S63, has been expelled from the United
States Senate. Among the 14 who voted
against the expulsion were Latham of
California and Nesmitb of Oregon, the
Senators from Maryland. Virginia and
New Jersey, and Ira Harris, of New
York.
The peace offering to England of
closer commercial relations with Can
ada rather than any movement toward
abrogating the reciprocity treaty, has
been recommended to the House by the
committee on commerce.
There is to be no trouble at all about
the expedition from Kansas. Lane holds
onto his seat in Conjrress, and Hunter
Is to command the expedition, which
was recruited none the less rapidly and
deemed all the more formidable from
the popular name it has acquired of
"Jim Lane's expedition."
From Southern Oregon From the
Sentinel of the 8th we loam that Cap
tain Truax" cavalry company is fully
officered and was christened the "Jack
son Rangers" on the 31st ulL
At the February term of the Circuit
Court there was not a single criminal
in the county Jail.
On the 23d ult, at Llsle's Ferry, on
Rogue River, the ferryboat was upset
by the current and three Chinamen
drowned. The ferryman was saved.
Josephine County has suffered heav
ily by the late flood, bridges, mills and
private property being swept away.
It Is reported that Rev. Glenn O. Bur
nett and family, lately of Polk County,
Or., were all drowned during the re
cent flood In California; that they were
upon an island in the Sacramento and
unable to get off. Oregon Statesman.
The legal voters of Multnomah Coun
ty who are in favor of electing men to
office .who are pledged to sustain the
Government in its efforts to suppress
the rebellion, . . . are invited to
meet in their several precincts at 1
o'clock on Saturday, the 22d day of
March, 1862, and elect delegates to a
Union County convention, to be held at
the Courthouse in Portland, on Satur
day, the 23th day of March, 1862. for
the purpose of electing eight dele
gates to the Union state convention, to
be held in Eugene City on the 9th of
April, 1862. The precincts are entitled
upon the basis of the popular vote, to
delegates as follows: North Portland,
19; South Portland. 20; Multnomah, 2;
Powells Valley, 3; Willamette, 2; Sandy,
I; St. Johns, 1; Sanvles Island, 1.
G. COLLIER ROBBINS.
ISRAEL MITCH EL,
L. H. WAKEFIELD,
Republican County Committee.
John McCraken, Thomas Fraser, S. J.
McCormick. A. C. Gibbs, R. J. Ladd,
A. M. Starr, J. C. Alnsworth, T. Robert
son, Levi Anderson, George H. Wil
liams, II. W. Corbett, Henry Falling,
William H. Watklns. J. J. Hoffman, A,
Leland, Alex Dodge.
It Is with deep sorrow that we an
nounce the death of Captain Richmond
lloyt. He breathed his last yesterday
noon at his residence in this city after
a brief illness. Captain Hoyt came to
Oregon In 1849, at which time he com
manded a vessel running between San
Francisco and this place. The year
following he ran a Bteamer (we be
lieve the first that navigated the Wil
lamette) between Portland and Oregon
City, and for the past several years ran
the steamer Multnomah between this
city and Astoria.
Iljornxoa'a Dramas.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Will It be possible for you to in
form me regarding the dramas of
BJornson?. Is there an English trans
lation in either an English or Ameri
can edition, and where can they be ob
tained? MEMBER MODERN DRAMA CLASS.
There is no complete edition of the
plays In English. Some have been
translated, but they are published by
various firms. BJornson novels are
published in English by Macmlllan at
$1.25 per volume.
Advertise in The Oregonian
if You Want to Reach the
Greatest Number of Homes
in One Medium.
i
Ycu have a good reason for so doing. The Oregonian
is delivered into the most of Portland's homes every morn
ing of the year. The Oregonian covers Portland territory
thoroughly.
The Oregonian is delivered by apt army of 150 car
riers every morning. No other Portland newspaper has
as large a circulation as The Oregonian. No other Port
land newspaper carries the amount of advertising The
Oregonian does.
Advertisers know these facts. That is why The Ore
gonian is favored with more advertising business than any
other Portland paper. It will pay any prospective adver
tiser to talk with our circulation manager. He will point
out, block by block, on the city map, and tell you exactly
how many copies of The Oregonian are delivered in each
block, every morning..
The Chinese Calendar
By Dean Collin.
A tar went ashore to the City of Pekln.
A rest from his seafarin' hardships
a-seekin';
Three days and three nights of excite
ment he led.
And painted the town a hilarious red.
As I have been- told that a tar on va
cation, May do when he's seekln' of some re
laxation: And finally, when the excitement was
o'er,
He sank into slumber and slept three
days more.
Full dry was his mouth, and his head
in a clamor
The day he awoke, and the fierce kat-
xenjammer
Convinced him, beyond the least
shadow of doubt.
That he must have had a grand festo
while out.
He hied to a chophouse and ordered a
"ham-and."
He gazed at the grub that was brought
at command.
"Hurroo!" At the waiter a signal he
made;
"And when, may I ask, were these
bloomin' eggs laid?"
"Not long," quoth the waiter, his eyes
turned to heaven;
"The year of four thousand six hun
dred and seven."
The tar gave a gasp at the Chinaman's
guile.
"Now blow me." he said, "have I slept
all that while?" .
But feeling the pangs of his appetite
quicken.
He ordered the waiter to bring him
some chicken.
The chicken's tough carcass his knife
scarcely scratched.
"And when," he Inquired, "was this
here chicken hatched?"
"Not long," quoth the crafty Celestial
once more.
"Him hatchee year forty-six hundred
and four."
"Now blow me." the tar said, "I've
slumbered a heap.
Twas nineteen and twelve when they
put me to sleep.
This beats," and his eyes with delight
'gan to twinkle,
"The sleep that was slept by that lub
ber Van .Winkle."
Excuse," said the waiter, with a
courteous bow,
"This year 1912 we are living in now."
The tar gave a groan, "Look my
friends up and spot 'em.
And say' 'Hurry quick, for the bosun
has got 'em.
He's eatln' of eggs in a restaurant
here.
Which same won't be hatched for nigh
2000 year."
They led him away to a padded cell's
haven.
Wherein to this day, he is Tagin" and
ravin,"
A victim of what the Celestials put
through
By their calendar's change from the
old to the new.
Portland, Feb. 18.
Country Town Sayings by Ed Howe
Think well of yourself, of course; but
don't make a hog of yourself In that
particular.
Certain questions have been dis
cussed thousands of years, although
the answers are known absolutely.
We are all rendered uncomfortable
unnecessarily by those dismal persons
who habitually View With Alarm.
People are always selfish. If not al
ways fatr and intelligent; and when
they hesitate for years about accepting
a doctrine said to be for their good,
they hesitate because they fear muybe
It isn't.
Criticism loses much of Its force be
cause it la usually either untrue, ex
aggerated. Ill-natured, or comes from
jealous rivals.
When I write for the papers. I do
not desire to say anything that will
cause "Citisen" or "Taxpayer" to come
back at me in a card. But I have al
ways wanted to express the opinion
that citizens are extremely liberal in
the rates they propose for street rail
way, gas and water companies.
After a man has owned an automo
bile a year, he hasn't the high opinion
of It that a man has who Is thinking of
buying.
Nearly every big row is simply
jockeying for a compromise.
If men should live a hundred years,
why don't doctors do It? Doctors do
not live as long as several classes of
men who know nothing about physi
ology, anatomy or hygiene. The fact
seems to be that we are wound up for
about so long, and run down around
seventy, the date set as long ago as
Bible times.
The man who is always rushing, and
making hard work of earning a dollar.
Is apt to neglect a good many dimes.
Locating Sprlngs
APPLEGATE. Or., Feb. 15. (To the
Editor.) Wishing to locate the water
of a spring for use on my premises,
how should I proceed and who would
be the proper person to inform me in
case you cannot?
M- A. VANGORDER.
If the spring is on Government land
write to Register United States Land
Office, Roseburg, for Information.