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rORTLASD. TBXR8DAT. AFBIL 4.
THE CUT Or FRAII.
Anti-Taft leaders are trying to take
a ay the stln. of defeat In New York
by raisin; the cry of 'raud and by
vague talk of a bolt at the National
convention. Roosevelt denies any In
tention to bolt, but continues his
charire that the news of his campaign
has been suppressed by the New York
paper, and charges that "the men who
had Mr. Taffs Interests In New York
In their keeping In the most barefaced
manner, cheated the people out of
their right to as. honest vote.
What basis is there for this cr) or
suppression of news? Simply the fact
that as much space was not given to
the Colonel s speeches as he desired.
He became accustomed to verbatim
reports when he was President and
expects as much attention now that
he Is a private cltlsen.
What basis is there for the charge
of fraud at the primaries? Only the
fact that the law proved unworkable
and that In some precincts the ballots
did not reach the polling places In
time for an election, while In others
they did not arrive until near the time
of closing and that In those districts
rto persons had an opportunity to
vote except those who happened to be
present -when the ballots arrived. This
blundering shut out Taft votes as well
as Roosevelt votes. The Taft major
ity was so overwhelming In districts
w here there was a full vote that there
Is no reason to believe the result would
have been materially different In the
districts where this blundering pre
vented a full vote.
Even the New York Globe, a ram
pint Roosevelt sheet, concedes that
Taft has a fair majority In New York
Cliy. saying:
In th circumstances th return or not
rf rreat value. There Is no doubt. however,
that In Manhattan and tb Bronx, whrr
n.arlv half the enrolled Republican ot
th-irvote recorded In th pnmarM. a very
flridd leaning to President Taft wa
mown. Th fart that th organisation l
fr Mm account for some part of thla
Th half that voted do not neceeearlly apeak
f..r th baif that aLayed away. Th new
irtmary law cornea far ohort of opening
th way to a fro eapreaelon of opinion.
verthela. making due allowance for ll
tliee clrcumstancea. It mall now be con
reded that a majority of th strictly party
r.-n on Manhattan Ialaad prefer Taft to
Kooeevelt.
The actual conditions are well
eummed up by the Boston Transcript
in these words, which are in harmony
with the facts as stated In a special
dispatch from New York to the Bittl
more American:
Wherever th people not th ballot,
wherever th machinery of election worked
amoothly. th will of th Republican vot
er waa aa a who! unmlatakably recorded
In favor of th renomlnatlon of the Preat
dent. rjlaadvantaaea worked against on
Id aa well aa th other. Taft men. Ilk
Itoovlt men. had to go ballotlea In pre
rlncta wher delivery of tb official bal
lot did not take place or waa greatly de
layed. But. after all allowance! ar made.
It era a af to aay that In Greater New
York, of tb vot caat. Taft sot two to
very on thrown for Roosevelt, and up
tat th ratio waa ven larger. Th aentl
ment of New York waa expressed very
plainly, for It la highly Improbable that
enough prclncta war overlooked In th
li.trlbntlon of tb ballot to bar materially
affected th general reaolt.
The only conclusion to be drawn
from the cry of fraud is that despite
his fame as a sportsman. Roosevelt is
poor loser. The Brooklyn Eagle hits
hhTt off to a "t" when it says:
Of course, the Colonel ha beeo tricked,
told out. betrayed, bambooxled and black
larked by th organlxed gangatera In atat
JtapobllcanUnn. We know thla muat b o
becaua he paid aa much hlmeelf on leav
ing for Chicago yeaterday before th reault
at th poll could b announced, but when
dlaaater aa already evident to himaslf and
to hla campaign manager. Wherever a
tato fight la loat tb defeat In Itaelf la
yrima farl .vldene of fraud and violence.
The New York Evening- Sun thus
disposes of the Roosevelt cry of fraud:
Aa to th -wicked fare" in thl city yea
terday. th erte of fraud began long before
tb dlaaatar and ar now. of eoure. at
their height. No on I deslrou of defend
ing th direct primary law under which th
vot vraa taken, and nobody pretenda that
th handful of voter who voted yeaterday
wa th Dttr Republican electoral of th
city. Bat there la on fact standing forth
tn yaterdr fix urea which no on can
eecap. That la that th great popular up
rtetng ta thl city new budged an lncn.
Only 16.000 patriot and freemen In a
county of million! A d knowing. Indeed,
and only tb Inpadence of deanatr could
maintain the prevent groteqn talk of "rob
berv" and "fraud."
The Indianapolis News expresses
the same opinion of Roosevelt's crv of
fraud when it ra:
Of eoure h dlapute the 'Verdict, aa h
would dteput any verdict that a aa not la
hla favor. But It will aland, aa It dreenre
to atand.
This disposition to c't-spute the popu.
lar verdict when it goes against him
was displayed by Roosevelt at Chicago
th day after the New York primaries
and the Indianapolis convention and
hla perch In that city was generally
interpreted by the Chicago newspa
pers as a threat to bolt. That Roose
velt's backers are disposed to bolt and
organise a new party under his lead
ership Is recognized at political head
Quarters in Washington, for the cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript
eas:
Thee men. bv vupportlng Rooeevelt In
the preeent campaign, have rauavd a break
In the Republican party which will b hard
to mend. Th tacUca of the Rooeevelt roan -agr
have mad It evident that thy d
p"t want thla break mended. They bellev
Rooeevelt to be ac great a personality that
once he la toot fre of th obligation of
party and of party diaclplln h will rally to
himself the radleala of both part lea. along
lth enough Rooeevelt conservative t leav
en the a hole lump and that out of thla
conglomeration will come a new move
Such statements as this and Roose
velt's Chicago speech caused the ques
tion to be put to him point blank at
St. Louis whether he would bolt If not
nominated. He replied:
Any atatement Ilk that (that he would
bolt l la untrue. Any tlrn 1 bar anything
to aay on that subject. I will aay It myself,
and anvthlng purporting to come from me.
vnlea I aay It myself, la a fake.
But the same men who Induced htm
to become a candidate after he had
repeatedly protested that he would
not be one are now trying to Instill
the third party Idea Into him. He
may yield to them again.
THE OVERXOBJ).
The overlord of the Oreon people
addresses them In an Imperial speech
from the throne:
You arc now on trial, not I.
It Is up to you to dcmonielrate whether
joa have) the lntdllirencc to rwognlie
and appreciate fc-ood public service by
retaining public wrvants who make
good.
I am sure of myself, says Senator
Bourne In effect, but I am mighty
doubtful about you. I place you on
trial. I am Judge. Jury the whole
court. If you find for me, you are
intelligent; If you find against me, you
are not Intelligent. You are fit to
rule if you re-elect Bourne; you are
not fit to rule If you do not re-elect
Bourne. The Oregon system is all
right, so long as its perfect product Is
Bourne; It is not all right when it
exercises Its option to choose some
other than Bourne.
Does Bourne own the Oregon
system ?
REFORMED BCT OT REPENTANT.
Again, this time In the official pam
phlet, compiled under authority of the
corrupt practices act. Senator Bourne
claims to have originated the Idea of a
Presidential primary. Again, he tells
what caused him to devote the power
of his fertile brain to devising this
bulwark of liberty. It was the suc
cessful machinations of one T. Roose
velt that harrowed the pure and sensl.
tive nature of Oregon's Senator.
"Having seen the manner In which
the President was able to dictate the
nomination of his successor, by the
control of Southern delegates through
the influence of Federal patronage, I
originated the idea of a Presidential
primary." says the "Information fur
nished by Jonathan Bourne. Jr.," In
the aforementioned pamphlet.
There Is an old axiom about politics
and strange bedfellows. . Everybody
has heard It. Roosevelt, whose domi
nation of the South through Federal
officeholders so shocked Senator
Bourne that he devised a preventative
against repetition, now seeks space on
the Bourne couch. He even seems to
be trying to grab for himself the whole
primary coverlet. In this connection
we find these stirring words, written
for Colonel Roosevelt by Senator Mul
key. In the same pamphlet:
"The rebellion of a boss-ridden con
stituency against the dictatorship of a
few Individuals has resulted In a pro
gressive movement for" popular gov
ernment. Freedom of choice through
the direct primaries will bring about
representative government, and will
sound the death knell of the present
convention system, where everything
is cut and dried and the strings are
pulled by political bosses."
Of course nobody wants to deny the
Colonel the right to reform his-ivays.
but In the circumstances It does seem
that either a denial of Senator
BouKne's charges or a contrite admis
sion of their truth embellished by a
few words of repentance would be
most appropriate.
KHAIX OR EOfCATlON?
In the course of an article on "The
Courts and the New Social Questions"
in the Green Bag for March, Edward
Q. Keasbey, of the New Jersey bar.
makes some pertinent observations on
the recall of Judges. After noticing
that the recall would unavoidably im
pair the respect of the people for the
courts, he goes on to say that the plan,
as Its advocates admit. "Is only a last
resort and only to be Insisted upon be
cause the judges by their training and
tradition cannot accept the new con
ceptions of liberty and property and
the power of the majority to make the
laws."
Mr. Keasbey believes that the prop
er remedy for this incongruity Is a
change In the state of mind of the
Judges Instead of the recall. Give the
judiciary a psychology .which Is in
harmony with the spirit of the times
and who would ever want to recall
them? "The true remedy." In Mr.
Keasbey's own words, "Is rather for
courts and lawyers to keep themselves
In touch with the facts of life as they
are." This would Indeed cure every
thing that Is complained of If it could
only be done, but can It?
Can lawyers keep themselves In
touch with the facts of life as they
are? Perhaps they can, but it is quite
certain that they never have. Wher
ever In the course of history we come
upon lawyers we find them the same
traditional, reactionary, blindly grop
ing body that they are now. Their
eyes are fixed upon the past and their
ears are closed to the call of the fu
ture. Precedent was Just as dear to
the pupils of Lycurgus at ancient
Sparta as it Is to our American trust
attorneys. When Justinian set his
committee at work to get the laws of
Rome In decent order, the lawyers had
plied up whole palaces full of prece
dents and every one of them staggered
under a burden of dead and gone
formulas. Shallow technicality de
frauded the Romans. of justice exact
ly as It does us. Bacon fought out the
battle for reform with Coke, the dis
ciple of tradition, and lost it.
Almost every statesman of genius
who had the pwer to do it has under
taken to revise the law, no matter
what country he happened to live in,
and the law has always needed revi
sion. No doubt It always will until we
discover some way to give Its practi
tioners a living education instead of a
dead one.
kri:r a.wxrican in the i mted
KTATEJ.
Congress has at last awakened to
the necessity of taking some steps to
check the tide of emigration from the
United States to Canada. The argu
ment in favor of the three-year home
stead bill which appealed most for
cibly to Eastern members was the fact
that In the year 1910 this migration
totaled 125.000 and that the emigrants
took with them about 1 125,000.000 to
start their new homes In Canada. That
country Is gaining population at the
rate of 1000 a day. while the border
states are yearly losing thousands of
people and Iowa has had a net loss
of population In the last census period.
The explanation is the difference In
the treatment accorded settlers on
Government land in the two coun
tries. Canada holds out the hand of
welcome to them, has liberal land laws
and gives them every aid and encour
agement In making a start. The
United States Imposes on homestead
ers arduous conditions which exclude
practically all except small capitalists,
regards them with suspicion and has
special agents dogging their steps.
Settlers are likely to have their claims
contested and to be kept in Ignorance
of the grounds of the contest until too
late to make an adequate defense.
This condition exists, too, at a time
when the whale Nation has become
alive to the necessity of turning the
tide of population back from the cities
to the farms and of Increasing the
proportion of food-producers to food
consumers. By reducing the period of residence
on a homestead from five to three
years and by granting the settler five
months' leave of absence each year,
the three-year homestead bill will In
crease the Inducement to settle on the
public domain and stay the migra
tion to Canada., A change In the Land
Office regulations whereby a settler
will have the same chance to know
the charges and the witnesses against
him as has a defendant In a court of
justice in fact a change In the entire
attitude of the Land Office to the set
tle! will still further aid In keeping
Americans In the United States.
KOCIAUSM AND ITS AXTIDOTE.
The best cure for Socialism Is to try
It. Milwaukee, has tried It for two
years and emphatically says It wants
no more. The Montana cities have
done likewise. The Socialist party has
grown and thriven on the beauteous
perfection of Its theories and the loud
ness of Its voice. When the theories
are applied to the practical affairs of
life they evaporate into the superheat
ed atmosphere of which they are com
posed, and the voice Is lost. Mayor
Seidel promises to recover the voice,
but he cannot recover the, confidence
in . his theories that has been de
stroyed. Whenever in future people
are in danger of becoming inoculated
with the Socialist delusion, it will be
necessary only to say, "Remember
Milwaukee." and the Imperiled mental
balance will be restored.
But the sane voters must adopt not
only curative, but preventive measures
against Socialism. That theory owes
Its vogue to the inequity of existing
laws. or. when laws are Just, to the
Impotence or indolence of the officials
entrusted with their enforcement. The
exactions of the exorbitant tariff, the
supineness with which great monopo
lies have been allowed to grow up In
defiance of . law. the squandering of
the public domain, the reckless giving
away of franchises, and the perversion
of the Governmental machinery to the
service of these Interests instead of
that of the people have bred discon
tent. Socialism is mainly this discon
tent organized. It has thriven and
flourished on the wrongs which it
professes to be able to redress.
The task to which the Republican
party has set itself Is the removal of
the excuse for socialism by bringing
back the law and Its administration
Into harmony with Justice and equality
of opportunity. The abuses which
have recruited the socialist party are
all departures from that principle of
Individualism on which the American
republic Is founded. The completion
of the work of reform which was be
gun by President Roosevelt and which
has been continued and expanded with
redonbled vigor by President Taft.
will bring us back to that principle,
and will dissipate the forces of social
ism by depriving them of the food
they feed on.
JOHN ARnUCKLK.
The death of John Arbuckle re
moves from the world a picturesque
and significant figure. He died the
other day full of years and honors and
worth Just how many millions nobody
knows exactly, but It was a good
many. The beauty of his career Is
that pretty nearly all his money was
made honestly as trade goes. Very
little of it comparatively was actually
s'nlen and that little waa lifted from
the Government, which can well af
ford to contribute some small pick
ings to the fortunes of Its great Indus
trial captains. Arbuckle's trifling pec
cadilloes pertained to the sugar Indus
try. He became an importer of this
staple In competition with the Have
meyer Trust and was almost as a
matter of necessity led to follow trust
methods In dealing with the Govern
ment. A neat little device had been
arranged at the New York Custom
House, as the reader will remember,
whereby It was simple and easy tjO
underwelgh sacks of sugar from for
eign parts. With the connivance of
th customs officials the trust gar
rered a comfortable harvest by this
trick. Ultimately it was found out
and the thieves were obliged to dis
gorge a small part of their thrift, some
$2, 000, 000, but a mysterious rise in
the price of sugar to the consumer fol
lowed hard upon this calamity and the
persecuted trust was thus provlderri
tially enabled to replenish Its coffers.
The Arbuckle firm were Innocently
caught In the wiles of the knaves at
the New York Custom-House and
wealth to the amount of some $600,
000 waa thrust upon them without
their knowledge or consent. At least
this was the sum they turned over to
the Government when the exposure
was made. How much more they
blindly accumulated through the sins
of their wicked subordinates nobody
will ever know. Let us hope for the
sake of John's soul that it was not
very much because the Judges In the
next world are apt, ss some say, to
neglect the fine distinction between
agent and principal which is so Impor
tant here. Qui faclt per a! him faclt
rer se Is said to be applied far more
rigorously In the courts of heaven
than In our terrestrial tribunals. But
It Is ungracious to dwell too emphati
cally upon the one conspicuous short
coming of so good a man as John Ar
buckle. If he defrauded the Govern
ment he defrauded nobody else, so far
as the records show, while he did val
orous service in many a righteous
cause.
For example, he brought the great
Sugar Trust to its knees and made the
omnipotent Havemeyers beg roundly
for mercy. St. George's slaughter of
the dragon was a petty feat compared
with this. The tale ought to be told
In lofty rhyme for the consolation of
future generations who will no doubt
look back to the days when there were
no trusts to rob them as we regard the
vanished Eden of Adam and Eve. In
modest prose we may say that the
glorious struggle began over sugar In
five-pound packages. From such
small sources flow mighty rivers. Ar
buckle had out of the wealth of his
fertile genius invented a machine for
putting up coffee In packages for sale
to the bibulous public. Coffee was his
Joy and pride. He had already grown
opulent importing and selling it at
that time, but he naturally desired to
become more opulent. Hence the
packages, warranted to be up to the
mark in every respect and seductive
beyond all description to the house
wives of America. Why not use the
same machine to dole out sugar? No
sooner said than done, and In a short
time behold the Arbuckle firm flood
ing the land with sealed paralleloplp
edons of sugar, whose contents of
course they had to buy of the trust.
Naturally the trust looked wiLh en
vious gaze upon the Arbuckles' sugar
business. It waa nothing less than a
lawless invasion of a field which had
been pre-empted by the Havemeyers
and something had to be done to pun
ish the trespassers. The punishment
took the form of a sally Into the do
main of coffee by the Havemeyers.
They began to import the fragrant
berry and sell It at prices which cut
the profit terribly low. Arbuckle re
taliated by erecting a sugar refinery
and offering the product at half a
cent above the cost of raw sugar. In
the course of the war It is said that
the .combatants spent some 125,000,
000, or appeared to spend It. It stands
to reason that they presently took an
opportunity to assess the expense of
the war upon the meek public, but
whoever paid the bill the size of it
1s imposing. The strife ended, as most
strife does. In a compromise. Ar
buckle received from the trust per
mission to refine 6000 barrels of sugar
a day, while the Havemeyers with
drew from the coffee business. White
winged peace reigned once more In
th: world of high finance and the
great industry of plundering the con
sumer was quietly resumed by both
parties to the conflict.
There are other achievements to
Arbuckle's credit besides the conquest
of the sugar trust. He had a heart as
big as his bank account. It is said
that one snowy day in January when
he was about to ride home from his
office sumptuously In his carriage he
saw a group of weary women leaving
his mill door to plod knee deep
through the drifts to their hovels.
Soft-eyed Pity took possession of his
soul and he sent the carriage to carry
them to their dwellings one after the
other while he waited in his office.
It was an hour and a half before he
got away. We dare say the recording
angel dropped a tear on the story of
the customs frauds when he heard of
this deed and blotted It out forever,
as he did Uncle Toby's oath long be
fore. . John Arbuckle bought a farm
to which he Invited worn working peo
ple from the cities to disport them
selves on the grass and pluck flowers
in the dewy twilight. He had a ship
on which he took working girls sail
ing when the vigor of life had been
squeezed out of them In the New York
sweat shops. He did many other deeds
of this kind which turn Into diamonds
and pearls when the news of them
reaches the sky. He was one of those
Scotch-Irish boys who have done so
much to make America a tjountry
worth living In. Pittsburg was the
town where he settled In his boyhood
and went to school and Andrew Car
negie was one of his schoolmates, but
Pittsburg and Carnegie combined
could not spoil him and he lived to
become a benefactor of his kind of
the grand old-fashioned sort. He was
not too good to sin. but he loved vlr
ture. There never was a better fighter,
but he preferred peace and the great
est of his Joys was doing good.
Roosevelt Is not Indorsed even by
the university from which he gradu
ated Harvard. The Boston Globe,
expecting a result favorable to him,
took a straw vote, which gave Taft a
large plurality and almost a majority
over all other Republicans. The re
sult was:
First Second
Candldale Cbolce. choice. Total.
1 W. H. Taft 7X3 SSH 1.1 1
2 W. yilson '- 18
3 T. Roosevelt efS 27H 7tW
4 R. M. La Follette.. r2 IMS 'JB5
6 J. Harmon S3 INI
6 O. W. Underwood.. 87 IBS 2'IU
7 C. E. Hughes 43 112
C. Clark - - 18
B E. V. Deba ON 2. S3
It) A. B. Cummins ... T 22 2
11 W. J. Bryan 7 12 1
12 E. N. Koss 5 0 10
The water which Is now devastat
ing the Mississippi Valley will be
needed next Summer, long after it has
been swallowed in the ocean, to Irri
gate the farms of the arid West. Con
servation would Impound these flood
waters In the mountains, prevent or
minimize the floods and turn the wa
ter loose as it is needed. Not only Is
the water worse than wasted while
scattering ruin, but it carries away
with it a great part of the most fertile
soil, never to be recovered. Probably
Just such Improvidence has made a
desert of the once fertile and populous
valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris.
Roosevelt's cry of fraud In the New
York primaries has provoked the
usual scorn for a poor loser in the
Eastern papers. The following from
the Worcester, Mass., Telegram Is a
sample of their comment:
If the people but get a chance to vote
for delegates at primaries upon a ballot
14 feet long, they were sure to vote for
Teddy. It was said. Th people did vote
the 14-footer and they voted eight to one
for Taft. The people ar unfriendly to th
people. The people were bought by malefac
tors. The people will now b recalled, along
with the Judges. Indiana and New York
people ar Mollycoddles, but they know how
to hammer braes.
The frequent deaths which have
heretofore been attributed to over
worked brains must now be accounted
for In some other way If we may trust
Professor Mills, of Pennsylvania.
"Brain work does no harm," he de
clares. No doubt it is overworked
stomachs which do a good deal of the
mischief. This abused organ, laboring
hand In hand with an underworked
conscience, will bring almost any man
to an untimely grave.
The "Men and Religion" movement
Is about the most practical undertak
ing In the religious world that mod
ern times have seen. Its admirable
freedom from tradition and theory is
apparent everywhere. It strikes bold
ly Into practical life. In Denver It Is
agitating for eugenic marriage. Verily
in the religious world some of the
former things re passing- away.
Mr. Bryan emphatically tells his
friends his name must not go on the
primary ballot; but about the fourth
day at Baltimore well, that will make
another story.
The Scott expedition has found two
kinds of wingless Insects In the Ant
arctic. The old-tlmj whaler always
found 'em In the Arctic.
A Callfornian has found dog oil a
genuine cure for consumption. It j
might loosen a barking cougn.
Wisconsin stood pat for her favorite
son. It would be a mighty poor com
monwealth to do otherwise. .
Two super-dreadnoughts of the Ca
nadian navy will be great help when
the time comes.
A man has found a way to grow
four-leaf clover, and the charm is dis
pelled. The "honor" man who escapes Is al
ways a "good dog" after recapture.
Let us hope the rain will have run
j out before Easter Sunday.
Stars and Star-Makers
By Leone Cam Baer.
Larry Keating, of Keating & Flood's
Musical Comedy Company, leaves Port
land for Spokane on Saturday, to be
present at the opening of his company
in the American Theater In that city.
This organization is Identically the
same in principals that has played since
the opening of the season at the Lyric
Theater here. They call the Spokane
company the Number 1 not so named
In point of excellence, but to distin
guish it from the Rice & Cady com
pany, now on its second week at the
Lyric, and which is called the Number
2 company.
e e e
Ida Adair, who was leading woman
with the Baker Stock Company last
season, closes her present engagement
In leads with Thurston Hall at the
Garrlck Stock Theater In Salt Lake
next week. Miss Adair's husband, Wal
ter Gilbert, is light comedian with the
new B-Ver Stock Company.
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Bennett Southern, who took neneral.
character roles in George L. Baker's
first stock company in Portland, will
be with Katherlne Grey and company
in "Above the Law" at the Orpheura in
a fortnight. Mr. Southern remained
with the Baker Stock Company for
three seasons. A peculiar gift that
adapts him particularly for character
roles Is that he has three voices. Mr.
Southern changes his speaking voice
from basso to two higher ranges at
will. His ordinary speaking voice is
shrill.
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The Ferris Hartman Company closes
Its engagement In Los Angeles on
April 6, and begins a tour of the Pa
cific Coast late In the season, paying a
lengthy visit to Portland via the Bak
er Theater, after the stock season is
ended.
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Next Monday the Armstrong Musical
Comedy Company, once of Portland,
will begin an indefinite engagement at
the Grand Theater in Los Angeles.
Principals of the organization are Ed
Armstrong, Will Armstrong, Ethel
Davis, Gus "Leonard, Eddie Mitchell,
Clara Howard, Hazel Wilson and
Minnie Rhoades.
eve
William C. Dowlan, who played a
brief season as leading man at the old
Portland Theater here when Dad Rus
sell, of Seattle, had a stock company
there three years ago, has opened with
the Belasco players In Los Angeles as
leading man, replacing William Gibson,
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Max Flgman. who played a season of
stock at the Helllg last Summer, and
who Is now in the role of a heroic
journalist in Oliver Morosco's play,
"The Truth Wagon," has now appeared
in a new role, according to his sworn
and attested statement In last week's
Dramatic Mirror. Here It is in all Its
startling effect.
For three days last Summer Mr.
Flprman asserts that he enjoyed the
distinction of being held prisoner by
Floyd -Allen, who curiously enough
transported him to Sldna Allen's home
and to Devil's Den. the very places
which were destined to have even
greater fame thrust upon them. A con
densed version of Mr. Flgman's thrill
ing narrative is appended.
"In Roanoke last year a gentleman
told me there was very good hnunting
In the Blue Ridge Mountains and sug
gested he and 1 take a two weeks
outing after my season closed, fao. in
Julv, we entered the quiet, peaceful
little town of Hillsvllle, at the foot of
the Blue Ridge Mountains. My friend,
being well known there, had a letter
to Sheriff Lewis Webb, who was very
kind to us; he showed us through the
jail and courthouse. Although Sheriff
Webb and others warned us that we
might be mistaken for Internal reve
nue officers by members of the Allen
family and that it was possible they
would deal harshlv with us until they
found out our Identity, we left Hills
vllle the next day in good spirits.
About noon at the house of Floyd Allen
we stopped to ask if we could get some
dinner. Floyd Allen himself put our
horses In the stable and then accom
panied us to the house. After a good
dinner, we asked for the bill, and were
told there was nothing due. Thanking
our host, I asked him where we could
find the best hunting. He answered all
of my questions courteously, so you can
Judge of our surprise, when, as we
turned to go, Floyd Allen picked up a
Winchester rifle, leveled It at us, and
said, "Throw up your hands, you
hounds!" .
"Up went our hands. Then bldna
Allen and his sons, Victor and Claude
Swanson Allen, and his nephews, Iriel
Allen. Sidna Edwards and Wesley Allen
rode up. It seems Floyd Allen had sent
for them soon after we arrived. To
them Floyd Allen remarked he had two
Internal revenue officers whom he
thought It best to kill on the spot.
"After a conference, the Allen boys
set out for Hillsvllle to investigate the
story we told, while we were put on
our horses and taken to a large mansion
some distance away, which was the
home of Sidna Allen. In the house,
which is really a beautiful three-story
structure, we had to stand while the
Aliens and their friends ate supper.
After they had finished, we were
marched to a corn crib, where we slept
on bare boards all night. Early the
next morning we were again ordered to
mount our horses and, after a three
hours" ride, came to a large cave which
we afterwards learned was called
Devil's Den. ,
"The cave Is really a natural fortress,
well guarded by huge and Insurmount
able rocks. From its mouth, a large
corridor extends some distance Into the
mountains to an opening which forms
a room containing a spring of water.
Here we were kept for two days under
?-URrd, until word was received from
illlsville that we were not Internal
revenue officers. At the point of rifles
we were ordered out of the mountains,
and we went." . , , ,
Were Mr. Flgman not a truthful Jour
nalist on the stage, one might almost
but then, truth is said to be stranger
than fiction, and sometimes is as en
tertaining. ,
A diminutive beauty Is Eugenie Le
Blanc real, not stage name who is
soubrette with the Lyric Musical Com
edy Company. This is her fist visit
Coastward, and she gave up a place
with one of Joseph Gaite"s Broadway
productions to make the trip. She's
such a tiny little maid It s difficult to
imagine she has big ambitions, but she
has. She "wants a company all her
own some day."
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As one of the attractions next month
at the Helllg will come Margaret
Anglln. She recently appeared In the
Henry Arthur Jones play, "Lydla Gil
more." but It scored a failure in New
York. Therefore she revived her suc
cessful comedy of the previous season,
"Green Stockings." and It Is In that
play that she will come here. H. Reeves
Smith will be her leading man.
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William Faversham, accompanied by
his wife. Julie Opp. will play a brief
engagement at the Helllg Theater next
month in "The Faun." a comedy satire
by Edward Knoblouch. author of Otis
bKlnner's play, "Kismet." The author
has lifted his leading character, the
faun, from the very cradle of nature
and placed It In the lap of modern
civilization. The faun then rebels at
the artificiality around him and begins
a campaign to revolutionize things.
STEAM AXD ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
Cost of Two la Not Comparable, De
clares Correspondent.
PORTLAND, Or., April 3. (To the
Editor.) Some of our fellow citizens
seem very much wrought up because
Mr. C. M. Clark, chairman of the board
of directors of the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Company, was good
enough at a recent dinner given him
by his friends at the Arlington Club,
to divulge some interesting lpforma
tion regarding his company; and be
cause he was wise enough to with
hold other facts which belonged to
him and his business associates, and
were none of our business.
I quote the following from a recent
communication in The Oregonian:
From a published atatement made three
days ago, Mr. Clark admits that his com
pany has Issued and there is now outstand
ing a bonded indebtedness on his property
of S34.0O0.OOO and that the stockholder have
paid 1.25,000 on their $25,000,000 of stock
and that this stock la receiving from tho
people of Portland per cent annual divl
denda on water and all. There la ther, ac
cording to this statement, a stock: and bond
Hen against the property of this company
of .-9.000,000, for which the people of Port
land have" to dig up dividends upon. That
la a big pile of money and goes farther in
explaining the high cost of living than the
monthly grocery bill. But is Mr. Clark's
statement reasonable? A railroad for all
the usea and trade of Central Oregon can
be constructed and equipped all over Cen
tral Oregon for 30,000 a mile. At that
price the outatanding stocks and bonds of
trie Portland Railway. Light A Power Com
pany will build, equip and put in operation
a nrst-clasa railroad from Portland, Oregon,
to Kansas City. Missouri. Is Mr. Clark's
statement believable ?
The writer seems to me to have
made a ridiculous comparison. Sup
pose a railroad can be constructed
and equipped all over Central Ore
gon for $30,000 a mile, and allow
that the $59,000,000 Invested in the
Portland Railway, Light & Power
Company would build and equip a
railroad from Portland, Or., to Kan
sas City, Mo., our good roads enthu
siasts will tell us that very few miles
of this distance is hard surfaced; and
there is a marked difference be
tween the cost of laying a few ties
and stringing a couple of rails over a
prairie country and building a road
bed along' city streets and paying one
half of the cost of the street improve
ments. There is a difference too be
tween operating a few trains daily
over several thousand miles of road
and maintaining a five to 10-minute
service over 40 or more lines all cen
tering in a small radius in the busi
est section of the city; avoiding con
gestion and catering to fully 100,000
people a day. ,
This correspondent says, referring
to Mr. Clark's address:
It would have been far more sstisfactory
to the readers of The Oregonian, his pa
trons and supporters. If he had given the
public some Information, some real facts
about the cost of electric light and power
at Portland.
I suppose if I were employed to
audit the city or county books it
would be very satisfactory to the pub
lic If I should publish Just what it
cost me to perform the work, and how
much money I made on the Job. What
the public is Interested in Is what the
work costs them and no: what I made
on it. The power and light using pub
lic the traveling public, is interest
ed in what it costs them for power
and light, in what It costs to ride
In a streetcar from their home to the
office. It is Interested in knowing
that when it rides three to six miles
to the office for 5 cents, when 6
o'clock comes they can get back home
on payment of 5 cents more. It Is
none of their business whether the
company pays 2 cents or 4T cents to
supply this service.
"If power for manufacturing pur
poses can be supplied tn Ottawa, Can
ada, at $10.40 per horse power per
annum, and the local company pro
poses to furnish it at a higher rate,
why don't some of these dissatisfied
members of our community organize a
company and enter Into competition
with them; or why does not the munic
ipality operate its own plant? Surely
either of these propositions would, be
a big money maker because this cots
respondent shows what an enormous
profit there is in the business.
Now as to the "stealing" all the elec
tric energy and the water power of
the Sandy and Clackamas Rivers; this
electric energy and water power has
been here for centuries, in fact has
been going to waste for centuries, and
the laws of our Government have pro
vided that you could file upon It, or I
could file upon it. or anyone else could
have It, by simply going through the
necessary formalities. Who Is to blame,
then. If the public goes to sleep and
stays, asleep while this corporation
steps In and files its claim and puts
millions of dollars into the develop
ment of power and turns around and
rouses the public from its nap, and of
fers to sell lts product to It. You and
I and the public at large who have
been asleep are to blame.
These gentlemen were clever enough
and far-sighted and awake enough to
see the value of this wasted energy,
and credit is due them for harnessing
this power and putting it Into market
able and serviceable condition.
"Give the devil his due."
GEO. T. MURTON.
Skyscrapers and Skyline.
PORTLAND, April 3. (To the Ed
itor.) It is a matter of gratification to
those who advocate skyscrapers to find
that question Is arousing public senti
ment and will become an Issue in the
city. I refer particularly to the arti
cle in The Oregonian, March 31.
Without repeating what was said
previously on this subject, I would still
beg the privilege of further comment.
Taking up the question of a uniform
sky line, it would appear very doubtful
if this matter would work out auto
matically In view of the present ordi
nance restricting, as it does, the height
to which a building may go. Rather It
would be better to revoke the ordi
nance, thus leaving a fair field to both
the opponent and friend of the high
structure.
To those who declare skyscrapers do
not bring the best returns on tlie In
vestment, I would present two items:
The most valuable parcel of ground In
New York City. Broadway, at Wall
street, 30x40 feet, improved with an 18
story structure. In Portland. Or., south
east corner of Washington, at Sixth
street. Improved with a 12-story build
ing. In regard to congestion, any one who
has given this subject study knows that
it is the soul of values. Therefore, re
voke the ordinance and remove the ban
on enterprise; then time would show
how capital and business would regard
this question. C. R. DANNELLS.
923 East Seventh street, North.
PORTLAND. April 3. (To the Edi
tor.) If dealer In bridge whist makes
clubs trump, opponent on left "is satis
fied." then dealer's partner makes
hearts trump, then opponent on right Is
also satisfied, can the dealer then an
nounce "no trump"?
A SUBSCRIBER.
Llcenses to Wed.
PORTLAND, April 3. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly tell me what age a girl
has to be to marry in the State of
Washington with the consent of both
parents. J- V.
The County Auditor' cannot Issue a
license to a child less than 15 years.
Coat of IJvlna; Thermometer.
New York Satire.
"The cost of living Is going up terri
bly; rents, market prices everything is
going up."
"Yes, we have a motorcar, too "
Reflections on the Jinx
By Dean Collins.
That jinx was on the job again:
But is there anyone who thinks
The first game hoodoo ever was. ,
At any time, the Beavers' jinx?
Nay, nay, 'tis not our jinx at all
That opes the season of baseball.
Look o'er' the record of the years.
And read about the rennant race;
And see who, at the season's close.
Have always held the topmost place.
Say was it ever yet the ginks
Who failed to meet the first game jlnxT
If I should dare to prophesy,
And play the part of baseball voodoo,
I should insist the first game jinx
Cannot be called the Beavers' hoodoo:
We've met him many times before.
But still we copped the season's score,
Ofttimes we've lost the op'ning game;
But then we'd win, and win again.
Till, when the season reached its cloi
We brought the pennant in again.
It always happened just the same.
When we dropped that initial game.
So hail the little first game jinx.
That wise, prophetic little elf.
Who gave the tip. in Tuesday's game.
That hist'ry will repeat itself.
In the bright annals of baseball.
That jinx is not our Jinx at all.
Portland. April 3.
Half a Century Ago
From The Orep;onlan of April 4, 1S2.
Floyd was compelled to leave the
Cabinet before the close of Buchanan's
Administration. Mr. Holt, who suc
ceeded him, ordered a thorough exam
ination to be made of the distribution
of arms by Floyd from the first of Jan
uary, 1860, to 18th of January, 1861. It
was found that arms had been taken
from the Springfield and Walensteel
Armories and distributed South. The
arms thus distributed were seized, as
they were intended to be. Floyd also
sold in the Southern States some 250,000
percussion muskets for $2.60 each,
which cost the Government an average
of $12. Large quantities of cannon,
powder and ball and shell were also
sent South, which were also seized. An
attempt was made to send South for
the use of the rebels 24 battering guns
from Pittsburg, an order of Floyd's,
which Holt countermanded.
The work on The Daftes & Deschutes
Railroad Is commenced in goodearnest.
The workmen are obtaining $60 a
month for their labor.
Hotels at The Dalles charge 75 cents
for meals, 50 cents for lodgings.
Letters from Powder River say that
the mines -are yielding $20 to $30 a
day to the hand.
From the Steilacoom Herald The
past severe Winter has destroyed most
of the fruit trees.
The Sound country now has no mails
by steamer. The mail contractor re
ceived notice from Washington that he
could not receive the mails any longer
or be paid for those he had carried
until he filed the required oona, wnere
upon he abandoned the contract.
Judge Ollphant, of Washington Ter
ritory, will leave this city in a few
days for the judicial circuit to which
he has been assigned east of the moun
tains. He will hold court in Walla
Walla, Colvllle. Oro Fino and Florence.
Next Monday the election for city of
ficers will be held. No call for a meet
ing has yet been made in which suitable
nominations and in accordance with
the wishes of our citizens could be
made. Our citizens should take the
matter in hand and see that good union
men are placed in nomination.
The theater was crowded last night
to witness the first appearance in this
city of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pope in
"Camille."
Several miners arrived on the Ex
press yesterday from Oregon City on
their way to Salmon River. .
Wells-Fargo & Company's express of
fice is being remodeled and fixed up
anew. The increasing business of this
firm requires some step of this kind.
The theatrical world of Portland fell
into a contagious excitement yesterday,
owing to the fact that Mr. and Mrs.
Pope were to appear last night in the
play of "Camille." Ninety tickets were
sold before 12 o'clock noon.
We understand that the gymnasium
Is to be opened again in this city.
Fountains and Other Need.
PORTLAND, April 2 (To the Edi
tor.) Anent the gift of the public
fountains to the City of Portland by
Mr S. Benson, writer wishes to call
the attention of the City of Portland
to the fact that it should provide pub
lic comfort stations throughout the
city. They would keep people out of
the saloons and preserve and conserve
the public health. The sanitary condi
tions of the city would be greatly iin
jroved as well. The writer has brought
this matter up before the Improvement
clubs. Civic Council and It has been bc
for the Common Council, and all
to no effect. If our fair city is ton
poor to put this matter through, let us
pray for some other public-spirited
philanthropist who will furnish the
means so to do. C. H. PIOGOTT.
(.ausrlnK a Flnbln: Supply.
Washington (D. C.) Star.
"Goin' flshin' next Summer?" asked
the man who tells tall stories.
"No" replied Mr. Growcher. "If you
caught all the fish you said you caught
last Summer, there won't be any use of
going fishing next Summer."
Husband as Boot Buttoner.
Harper's Bazar.
Mrs. Knicker Can you get your boots
buttoned without bending your knees?
Mrs. Bocker Certainly; I make my
husband do it.
A SOLILOQCY.
By Ralyf Rhoades.
I have met up in Nebraska that pro
gressive Billy B.
And they say back in Ohio lives pro
gressive Billy T.
And Teddy's thrown his hat in. and
he'll be with us all the while.
And I hear that Debs stills greets us
with his socialistic smile.
And there's Bobble from Wisconsin, a
progressive through and through.
And you hear them shouting Champ
"Clark. In Ozarks of Missu.
Every homestead In New Jersey has a
Woodrow on Its wall.
And they say that half the babies an
swer to the Woodrow call.
To a man who Is progressive this is
getting quite distresslve.
For each one comes howling loudly,
"I'm the one, I am progressive."
They have got me quite bewildered,
"tls true I will confess.
So I'm going to take a ramble and
leave it to the rest.
Yes. I'll roll my little bundle and grab
a pair of rods.
And beat It out in Kansas and go to
busting sods.
I'll get a drove of Jerseys and a dozen
Kansas hens.
And to the gods of nature I'll confess
my daily sins.
I'll beat it out in Kansas where they
still can meet their rents.
Where they're hatching blooded roost
ers, not progressive Presidents.