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too MrcH or a good thisg.
Enlightened opinion In the United
Stales baa begun to turn decidedly
against the unrestricted admission of
foreign Immigrant. Almoat every
person worth Hate nine to who apeak
or wrttea upon the aubject favora the
exclusion of the lesa desirable daase.
At one time It was agreeable, and mar
not have been dangerous, to look upon
this country a an asylum for the op
pressed of all lands. Our doors atood
open to everybody who chose to enter
and we felicitated oorselve upon a
benevolence which enlarged our aelf
t.taem while It provided hand to Im
prove an undeveloped continent. But
now the continent has been pretty
well developed In most parts and very
likely ail the hands who will be need
ed for that purpose are available. As
to our self-esteem. It has received
some rude shocks from recent occur
rence. We are learning that the
hordes of foreign Immigrants who
come to us of lute years are mor dis
posed to look upon the United States
as a Golconda to be stripped of Its
treasure and abandoned than as an
aaylum from oppression. A consider
able proportion of them come here
with the deliberate Intention of mak
ing their fortune and then going back
home.
While they are occupied In making
what seems to them to be a compe
tence they are willing to subsist In the
most degraded manner. Their stand
ard of living is but little above that
of dumb beast. What we call de
cency, comfort, the amenities of life,
have no existence for them. Aa long
as they can work and save money they
are satisfied. They strike only when
they are starving. The hope of re
turning to Portugal. Sicily, Hungary
or Syria, and posing as men of mean
compensates them for all they suffer
In America. It takes them only a lit
tle while to discover that they have
not escaped from oppression by mi
grating to the United States. The tyr
anny of the cotton mill owners, the
steel trust, the coal trust, is as bad aa
anything they have experienced In
the old despotism of Kurope. and it
pierces deeper because of the hypoc
risy which cloaks It. Many of these
undesirable Immigrant tome here
with full knowledge of the degraded
conditions In which they must live and
work. They know what to expect and
undergo It cheerfully because the pay
i..ko tar tn them. It Is far below
what an American workman ought to
receive in order to bring up a family
decently and educate hi children, but
still It Is so much above what they
can ever look for at home that it at
tracts them. '
Other Immigrants come -here In
complete ignorance of the debased
surroundings In which they are
obliged to live. They are entrapped
by the alluringly deceptive advertise
ments of steamship companies. Some
are enticed by the various concerns
which maintain Immigration agents In
foreign lands "in defiance of the law
and deliberately undertake to destroy
the American standard of living by
Importing the lowest of the low from
European slums. These same con
cerns while they are filling their
mills with degraded foreign labor con
stantly clamor for a high tAriff to
protect American labor. While they
take the bread out of the American
workman's mouth and drive hla chil
dren from the school to the sweatshop
then- hypocritical howls for a tariff to
protect their victims assault the walls
of heaven. Is It not a lovely
spectacle?
Our most tlghly protected trust are
the "worst sinners of this sort. The
steel trust, which Is sheltered by an
utrageous tariff, systematically ex
cludes Americans from many of its
mills and employs only slum-bred for
eigners who will work for half the pay
a native workman would demand.
The same ts true of the cotton trust
and the woolen trust. The woolen
mills at Lawrence are manned almost
wholly by uneducated foreigners with
whose degraded standards of living
Americans cannot compete. The cot
ton mill In which Senator Bourne Is
interested have virtually censed to hire
native hands.- Slum-bred foreigners
have taken their places because the
wages paid are such that an Ameri
can cannot live npon them and keep
his self-respect. And yet the cotton
mill owners enjoy Just about the high
est protection we give any manufac
nMM Tn aave the country frorh
nausea over their hypocrisy It were to
be wlnhed that they would either
cease to shriek for protection to the
American workman or else stop har
rying him to starvation by Importing
nanas rrom roreign siuma.
n,it wa know of ronrse that not?l-
i V, ( - rr la tn ria e-roertad-w A
i .... mm hvnninHv fa profitable to the
trusts they will continue to practice it
and tne counyy win tit raurt awm
more congested with Immigrants who
hlna- of American standards
and who want to know nothing of
them. Our acceptea way - to njm
wronrs Is by the ballot. Thee men
&. , hatter nt than violence
rkM kKH not tha rirht to vote and
tney will never acquire it sine -they
do not wish to be naturalised. Their
nhitinn la to so back " home and
smoke cigarettes In the sunshine while
their envious neignoors aamire tneir
frowsy opulence. Brought here at the
solicitation of various wealthy poten
tates without the slightest regard to
u-.ifra nt the rountrv ther have
begun to imperil our institutions by
their blind revolt tinunn gro's mjun
ih Tti man who ImDorted them
for conscienceless profit now wish to
get rid or them rrom cowaraiy irar
Tit i w.-a far easier for the fisher
man to let the Genl out of theJug
than to put him back Inside. These
foreigners who refuse to be assimilat
ed and who de not understand Amer
ican methods of adjusting difficulties
present a problem which It will tax
our best Ingenuity to solve. Mere rail
ing wlU not help. Mob law Is at best
a risky expedent. It teaches lessons
which both sides can' practice. The
tow-class foreigners from Eastern and
Southern Europe are here and we
must find out what to do with them
or suffer the consequences. How can
they be Americanised ? How shall we
teach them to depend upon the safe
and aure results of the ballot? How
break up the Ingrained habits of serv
ile souls and Instil the manly self-discipline
of freemen?
No nation ever had a more lormiaa-
ki. ta.ir Tt la hlch time that we
applied our minds to It. It is high
time, too, that we Began to "'
some plan for restricting the future
supply of Immigrants of this type.
KXAjiONS.
Th Orearonlan assumes that Mr.
Hall, who writes a letter today from
Weatnort. Is for representative govern
ment. It I Inconceivable that he, or
any Intelligent and patriotic Ameri
can, should advocate direct action In
. What Mr. Hall wants.
and what everyone should want, is a
representative government tnai repre
sents the will and welfare of the peo
ple as a whole.
it.. la the last to deny
the great service Theodore Roosevelt
as President and as tne voice crjim
In the wilderness hs done for sounder
in hnilnam. cleaner living in
society, greater fidelity In the family.
higher Ideals In tne nation, nut
we under any obligation to substitute
Mlnrl neraonal fidelity to Roosevelt
for acceptance of the correct princl-
nlaa he has taught or tne incorrect
principles he now teaches? The
countrty must consult its own mh
irate Interest without reference to the
past service or present ambition of
Colonel Roosevelt. What debt does
it owe to him that it must pay at any
sacrifice?
rninn.l Roosevelt broucht to tne
Vatlnn'a attention the eminent abili
ties and the exalted character of Mr.
T.ft Th. Nation took Mr. Taft at
Colonel Roosevelt's valuation. What
Imi Ttnnaavelt now owe the people
who accepted Mr. Taft aa President
largely because Mr. Kooseveu recom
mended him and who are sincerely
convinced that he has been a good
President? Ha owes them a candid
and honest statement of his reasons
for repudiation of Mr. Taft. and he
has never given it. He owes Taft a
square deal, and we thinK ne nas not
given It. He owes the third-term
precedent due respect and he has not
paid It. He owes a real duty to ob
serve the traditional position of an
ex-President to remain in the back
ground, and he has not observed it.
He has gone where many people can
not follow him. though they might
want to follow him, and they are
grieved and troubled that they can-nt-
knt thav feci that thev have some
thing of a duty to themselves and the
square deal for Taft; and they stay
with Taft because they cannot give to
their consciences a good reason for
leaving him.
Wa assure Mr. Hall that he Is quite
mistaken In his assertion that "com
munications favorable to Roosevelt"
have been Ignored by The Oregonlan.
Doe he know of any?
TEAM-NO DOWN T1IK IIOCSK.
We suppose that Astoria is under no
Illusions as to the basis or the recent
newspaper outbreak in Portland for
common terminal rates at Astoria.
Portland has no notion, through any
motivls of broad-gauge benevolence
or generosity, of moving1 Its mills,
warehouses, wharves, exporting es
tablishments and deep-sea business to
Astoria. Not at all. We hardly think
Astoria expects it. Here la a great
port, with a great harbor, and an open
channel to the sea. It Is the seat of
a mighty commerce, built up with un
ceasing industry, xeal and enterprise.
Are we to suspend our efforts to make
Portland the leading commercial and
maritime port of the Pacific? Cer
tainly not. The Port of Portland Is
not maintained for any sentimental
purpose, nor are the millions It has
expended to keep open the channel to
the sea to be now charged up to profit
and loss. '
The argument behind the little local
effort to surrender Portland's advan
tages and give them to Astoria runs
something like the following: If As
toria shall be given terminal rates It
must Inevitably follow that Portland
will be in position to demand less than
the Astoria rate; and therefore Port
land's railroad rates from the East
and the Columbia Basin will be lower
than Astoria' and consequently lower
than Puget Sound's. That is all there
is to It.
But the assumption that Portland
will ever win In a contest for lower
railroad rates than Seattle's 6r Ta
coma's Is based on complete contempt
and disregard of Actual conditions. If
Astoria shall have terminal rates, why
not Hoqulam, Aberdeen, South Bend
and ultimately Port Townsend and
Port Crescent? Seattle and Tacoma
would be In position to demand lower
rates as against these Pacific terminals
Just as Portland might be as against
Astoria. Portland's plight would then
be Irretrievable. It could never re
cover the ground It had itself volun
tarily surrendered.
The common point agitation is fan
tastic, and ill-considered. It Is a pro
posal to tear down the house In the
vague hope that a better one may be
built in Its place. hy first tear the
house down before you have the foun
dation or materials or real plan for a
new structure?
CANADA'S 8KTTU3W.
Thoughtful Americans will contrast
with msigivings the character of the
Immigrants who are coming to this
country and those who are going to
Canada. We have almost ceased to
receive Immigrants from Germany,
Ireland and England. The Scandina
vians are still coming, but In dimin
ished numbera. In the place of these
sturdy men and excellent citizens we
now Import a flood of Sicilians. Hun
garians, Syrians and other people from
Southern and Eastern Europe. They
come here literally by the million and
we find it harder and harder every
day to harmonise all of them with our
Institutions. Worse still.'they are driv
ing Americans out of many industries
and degrading the conditions of life.
Canada has a different story to tell.
The reader does not need to be re
minded of the thousands of American
farmers who have gone and are going,
there, leaving their fields to be tilled
by foreigners who cannot speak Eng
lish and will not learn It. Moreover,
the tide of desirable Immigration
TTTT! MOTIXTXO -OTtEGONIAX, FRIDAY, XmTL 5, 1912.
which formerly flowed to the United
States has been turned toward our
northern neighbor. Only the other
day Canada received 21.000 settlers in
one company, of the type who used to
seek the United States, but who come
here no more.
Ninety per cent of these settlers
came from England, and they were
the same kind of people who settled
New England and Virginia in our co
lonial days. There were Welsh and
Cornish miners among them, an ex
cellent Methodist breed of men who
make some of the best clUxens in the
world. Most of the settlers have
money and their purpose la to dwell
on farms. They present a marked
contrast with the hordes who flock
to the United States and huddle in
filthy slums or lead slaves' lives in
tha cotton and steel mills.
How does It happen "that Canada
gets the desirable Immigrants while
we get the dregs? Why are American
farmers forsaking their own country
to live under the British flag? A few
years ago we thought it sufficient to
smirk and . utter some complacent
Idiocy when a question like this was
asked. But smirks and Idiocies are
getting a little out of fashion. Is our
standard of citizenship to go steadily
downward while Canada's rises? How
long can we stand the process without
disruption of the country?
AFTER MXTY YEARS.
As against the changeling matri
monial plan as Introduced and active
ly worked by the modern divorce sys
tem, the record now and then of a
couple, who have passed fifty or sixty
years together, pulling evenly In the
matrimonial harness, or bending their
shoulder patiently to the matrimonial
yoke. Is gratifying to all who consider
marriage a sacred Institution and the
founding of home and bringing chil
dren up therein as man's and woman's
highest duty to society. The story of
such a couple, briefly told in outline,
which is the only way that It can be
told. Illustrated by the faces of a man
and woman who have grown old to
gether Inlaid by duty and softly chis
eled by time Is Interesting, partly be
cause of Its lnfrequency. but mainly
because of the life work that they
undertook together in their far-away
youth, pursued with unfaltering faith
In each other as tHey slowly climbed
the ladder of the years.
Ronald ' C. Crawford and his wife
TTitiahath. of Seattle, celebrated. April
1, the anniversary of a wedding that
occurred In Oregon City sixty years
ago. At ,the time they fared forth
. . v. n v. n . a 97 aha 17 vpara old.
h'tiii,i no " - ' -" -
Three 'score years found them glad.
with the added giaaness. or long nsu
clation, to be together, and looking
about them, he at 80, she at 70. they
counted their descendants to the third
generation. Their life together nas
han a lone one. whether gaujred by
years or by the measure set by Dr.
Edward Toung. the meditative poet
of "Night Thoughts." tn these words:
Tbat Ufa l Ion tbat snawra Ufa's great
end.
It Is not recorded that wealth came
to them, though plenty as compassed
Xy .Industry was their portion. Care
and' responsibility, attributes that are
necessary to the human development,
had attended them and no doubt they
had broken together the bitter ashen
crust of sorrow. But the essence of
bitterness separation from each other
by death or dissension had been
spared to them. Fortunate indeed
are they of whatever name and sta
tion in life who, -es sung by Bobble
Burns, have "clamb the hill thegither"
and passed hand in hand serenely
down the slope to "sleep thegither at
the foot."
M1TP SIBSIDY IX NEW Cl"IJK.
The minority of the House commit
tee on Interstate and foreign com
merce has made a report In favor of
exempting American vessels In coast
wise trade from Panama Canal tolls,
which makes a good case for the valid
ity of such action, but a poor case for
Its wisdom. It revives the argument
that, because no tolls are charged on
improved rivers and harbors, none
should be charged on the Panama Ca
nal, Ignoring the fact that the canal la
in a class by Itself. It also contends
that the tolls will ultimately be paid
by the consumer and will benefit the
railroads by enabling them to charge
proportionately higher rates. It la
in accordance with strict equity that
the consumers should pay the Interest
on the cost of construction of the ca
nal and Its operating expenses, each
In proportion to the benefit he derives
from it.
By paying a freight rate high
enough to cover the tolls the consum
ers will certainly enable the railroads
to charge rates proportionately higher,
but If we are going to club down rail
road rates, why stop here? The rail
roads which compete with coastwise
vessels now enjoy protection equal to
the Income -on the difference in cost
of construction between American and
foreig-n-bullt ships, which is 0 per
cent. Why not force down railroad
rates In competition with water lines
40 per cent instead of by the paltry
Jl to $1.25 a ton which will be the
amount of the canal tolls? That would
be something worth while. We can
do this by admitting to the coast
wise trade foreign-built ships owned
and operated by Americans. It would
be In accordance with the principle
which is now fast gaining favor, of let
ting every tub stand on Its own bot
tom. The committee shows that Professor
Emory R. Johnson estimates the ton
nage of ships using the canal In Us
opening year at 10.600,000, or wnicn
only 1,160,000 will be In coast-to-coast
traffic. It quotes Colonel Goethals as
estimating the annual cost of opera
tion and maintenance, less profit on
supplies sold by the Government, at
$3,500,000. which, on the basis or l
a ton toll, would leave a margin of
$7,000,000. Estimating the cost or the
canal at $400,000,000 and Interest on
the bonds at 3 per cent, this would
leave the canal $5,000,000 short or
paying Its way as a business Invest
ment. But the minority assumes that
no effort will be made to recoup inter
est out or tolls and professes to see a
margin which will allow free passage
to coastwise ships. With traffic In
creasing at the rate of 69 per cent per
decade, according to Professor John
son, and with a canal capable of pass
ing 8.000,000 tons a year without en
largement, according to Colonel Goe
thals. but few years would pass before
the canal would be earning a profit af.
ter paving interest on Its cost. We
could then reduce the tolls enough to
absorb this profit until they became a
mere bagatelle, having practically no
Influence on railroad rates.
The free tolls advocates are simply
the ship subsidy men In a new guise.
They have developed a sudden Interest
In the welfare of the consumer. If they
love the consumer so dearly, let them
fii In line for free fehips in both for
eign and coastwise trade and give him
the benefit of a 40 per cent reduction
in coastwise freight.
We may well rejoice with our two
sturdy pioneer citizens, F. X. Mathleu ,
and Thomas Mountain, tne urai i
whom celebrated his 84th. the latter
his 90th. birthday, one at the home
of his son. the other at the home or
his daughter In this city, on April 2.
The story of F. X. Mathieu In con
nection with the settlement of the Pa
cific Northwest, has often been told.
A late ract. brought out by the inde
fatigable leaders of the woman suf
frage campaign now In progress In
this state. Is that the venerable pio
neer Is not only a champion of the
political equality of woman, but that
he has believed in this principle from
his youthfup. As pictured on his 94th
birthday he stands erect holding a
large bouquet of daffodils, tneir goiaen
glow being the suffragist cdlor. and
f nil fftr anotfter decade of
looking good for anotner decade or i
life, at least, captain mouhuuuj na
tivities In this city, where he has re
sided rifty-two years, belong chiefly
tn tranannrtation interests. Not a
river man of the old water lines era ,
but knew "Tom Mountain.'
The few I
or these (comparatively speaking) who
remain regard him kindly and even
tenderly and will be pleased to know
that he has begun the ninety-first year
of his life with a fair chance of en
joying a number of added years.
The annual increase in amount of
railroad securities held by railroad
companies, either directly or through
holding companies, diminished more
than 50 per cent during- the latter half
of the decade ending in 1910. Thia
Is attributed partly to natural exhaust
ion of the movement towards control
of the smaller by the larger lines:
nartlv to the decline of the holding
company as a device for control, and
partly to the opposition or federal ana
state governments to conrol of one
road by another. The Railway Age
Gasette suggests that a new drift
towards leaseholds may set in, and
that a tendency against inter-corporate
holdings may diminish the argu
ment for Federal charters.
T vara of the rood old' Constitution
will read wit a shudder that the bill
for a child labor bureau only needs
the President's signature to become
law. Not since the days of secession
has the Constitution tottered as It did
when CongTes voted to inquire how
Florida's 6-year-olds were faring, at
the oyster wharves and Georgia's In
the cotton mills. Senator Bailey went
out of one conniption into another in
the debate on the bill, but it passed
and the country wa lost. If . little
boys and girls cannot be worked to
death by the cotton mill owners we
might as well give up the ghost and
be done with It. .
Roseburg no doubt shed some nat
ural tears over the wreck of her
brazen Hebe, but there is consolation
in the thought that the supply of god
desses is large and that they all look
a good deal alike when embodied. in
Imperishable metal. There ts .also
consolation In the thought that, dis
ciplinary as the contemplation of her
brazen beauty must have been to the
young, a cigar store Indian will serve
the same purpose until Hebe can be
recast. An all wise Providence has
mercifully arranged it so that no ca
lamity is utterly Irreparable.
"False In theory. Intolerable In prac
tice." This is what the Granger of
Douglas County think of the single
tax proposition. Holding this belier,
they are opposed to the Single tax In
every form, and they urge, not only
farmers, but all patriotic citizens, to
work against and vote against a sys
tem of class legislation which they
regard as detrimental o free Institu
tions. Sapient Grangers! They know
a thing or two where land values and
taxes are concerned. No exemption
of big city blocks and merchandise for
them.
The twenty drinking fountains
which S. Benson has given Portland
A-Ill promote temperance more effec
tually than a thousand prohibition
orators. Many men bny beer to drink
because water is not to bo had. ' Make
virtue aa easy as vice and all the world
will be virtuous. Perhaps Mr. Ben
son's noble gift will Inspire some man
of wealth to replenish our city with
other conveniences of civilization
whose lack is a direct source of cus
tom and profit to the saloon's.
.If all the Income on the Gould for
tune were as well spent a Helen
Gould's share, the public would be
well content to see the principal re
main intact instead of being dissi
pated In foolish railroad ventures and
marriage portions for French Counts.
The ease with which the Grays Har
bor cities disposed or the I. W. W.
agitators when they once became
aroused to action shows how much of
the agitation is mere "hot air." Our
timorous Maybr might take the hint
and pluck up courage.
By passing their wool bill without
regard to the Tarltt Board's report
the Democrats have made one or the
issues or the campaign TaTt's scien
tific versus their own unscientific
methods of tariff reduction.
The only excuse for the nomination
of a dark horse is a deadlock tn the
National convention. Taft ts already
so obviously the popular choice among
Republicans that no such excuse
exlsts'
Alexander Graham Bell must re
member that the absurdities and Idio
syncrasies of English spelling and
pronunciation make It a valuable as
set, not to be tampered with in the in-J
terest of folk too lazy to learn.
The opinion of Attorney-General
Crawford that a voter cannot register
a second time, changing party afrilia
tion, is sound. A man who desires to
do so is frivolous or evil-disposed.
The locomotive engineers will con
elder a long time before ordering a
strike, simply because they form a
powerful organization and never mis
use their strength.
There is aome consolation In know
ing no other country In the world can
send a transcontinental train of sev
enteen cars of mail.
In Nome, where only strenuous peo
ple can exist, the socialist Is defeated.
Tha Reavers are conspicuous any-
t way, atthe bottom of the table.
MYTHOLOGY IN SCHOOL READERS
Writer Condemns Tae of Impoaalbllltlew
tn Teaching the Toms.
WAMIC, Or.. April J. (To the Edl-A-
t f ttiA-A la nn m thine above an
other ,'of which the people of Oregon
nouI(J bo justiy proud, it is our school
system, containing as It does all the
true e4ements of the commonwealth,
and yet, with all these attainments,
after a careful survey of the educa
tional field of opportunity, we must
class it aa in its infancy, the embryo
stage, watting the time of persistent
effort that shall unlock the. door of
privilege to our Oregon school system,
making it one of the grandest sye
t.m in tha land. The oDDOrtunlty pre
sents itself to every loyal voter of the I
. .1 ! (. tnimnot ant In
state m ucukiv h luvumt..
its dealings, along the line of character
building, for It is right here that the
earlier home training, however well
and impartially administered. Is parti
ally or wholly eclipsed by our school
system's literature now in vogue for
better or for worse.
No system, however worthy, nas Deen
' lnc th ot "eation
u mlght
n so
been and probably was made better
with the one exception "The Word of
God," and no man nor set of men have
ever been able successfully . to prevail
against it. The truth as Implied and
aisseminateo inrougii uui .B"
rhool avstem will live, th
evii, u
any. ought to perish and be eradicated
from ofr its" record, lor It win certain
ly bear fruit, either for the mainten
ance of Justice and righteousness or
vice versa, to the contrary. "Truth
though crushed to earth shall rise
again." as a true saying, affords it
self as a convenient fulcrum upon
which to weigh the present status of
the system's teaching, for it la not the
system, but Its text books and Its
literature at which this article aims.
Neither would I especially designate
our Text Book Commissioners as
wholly at fault, for they have but
filled a demand as manifested by the
patrons of the public schools of the
state. I would not for one moment
Impugn the honorable motives of any
officer of the state in this connec
tion, but I would assign this disastrous
calamity as found In our educational
literature as directly traceable. to the
Individual homes of the Oregon
system's patrons, where it verily be
longs, for is it not a system within a
system, a wheel within a wheel and
Is not custom greatly responsible for
the law?
As an Illustration. I was on Wash
ington soil sometime back and saw
their school law set at naught, through
the introduction of divine worship In
their schools by the consent of the dis
trict patrons, virtually a law unto
themselves. The elimination of God's
Word, from our text books has not oc
curred all in a moment that the vast
army of believers in the state knew
nothing about it. Hence we are all
guilty in the eyes of the law "an ac
cessory after the fact." We have
helped to support a class of literature,
as I shall shortly prove, entirely in
adequate to meet the demands made
upon it. How? Simply by our silence.
If. on the other hand, by the taking
away of all direct or Indirect allu
sions to God's Word, or otherwise the
truth, there has been added something
of a more exalted nature upon which
to build a useful life, a destiny re
splendent through the imperishable
nature of good, revealed, kept, bearing
in mind this means eternity, then the
nature and source from whence it
came and where it led those who
adopted it must necessarily be estab
lished before it may be safely adopted.
Take It for granted, a child reared
under present conditions up to the age
of 10 years -and they bear the in
delible impressions whioh invariably
follow them through life.
On the first page of Wheeler's First
Reader I find the account of a little
boy trying to drive a bunch of goats
out of a. turnip patch. This little man
finds he cannot do it, but Just then
a rabbit happens along and says he
can do' it but falls after which a
wolf and a fox come along and likewise
fall, but not so the busy bee, (being
all miraculously gifted with speech).
He prevails over the goats and buzzes
them out of the patch.
Article 8. Only a morninglorjt seed,
but it Is enabled to address itself to
the sun, the ground and the rain.
Article 3. Ceres, the good Earth
Mother (from Greek mythology).
Article 4. Conversation among a nest
of little foxes.
Article 5. Two little kittens talking.
Article 6. Three little bugs talking
and quarreling.
Article 7. Three fairies under an oak.
Article 8. Iris (more of Greek myth
ology). Article 9. Little Red Riding Hood.
Article 10. Two cats talking.
Article 11. Five peas in a pod talk
ing. But why enumerate? Suffice it to
say, there are 20 articles covering
from two to ten pages each, along this
same line, in the First Reader alone
and the Second Reader contains 19
articles of the same character, 36 in
these two readers. Cyr's Fourth
Reader contains four objectionable
articles, entirely beyond the pale of
reason- and entirely lacking in reality.
Imagine If you please a child having
passed the gamut of public benefac
tions as found In the text, books enum
erated above, trying to demonstrate
before an Intelligent audience the great
source of knowledge derived there
from. Compare if you will the old
time readers with those of the present
It is not Grecian mythology which is
going to settle our sociological ques
tion. An education along fictitious
lines, is worthless. Our home land
with all its beautiful offerings Is
enough, upon which to enlarge, with Its
great fields of wheat, its boundless
forests, its great and unexplored
wealth in orchard and mine. Grand
old Oregon, the star of greatest magni
tude in the Union and its matchless
Governor! Last but not least, its
school system: May the God of the
universe sustain It.
W. D. MOREHOUSE.
All Cranberry Land Not Beiurht.
SEAV1EW, Wash., April 4. (To the
Editor.) I noticed in The Oregonlan
Sunday. March 24, an article purport
ing to be an interview, in which there
was an error I wish to have corrected.
The article stated that I bought 600
acres of good cranberry land In this
vicinity, which is a fact: but I did not
buy all the good cranberry land, as re
ported There are several hundred
acres of such lands . on the peninsula
apart from my holdings. If you will
kindly publish this correction, you will
oblige all Interested in the development
of this vicinity. H. M. WILLIAMS.
Polychrome and Manlton Blblea.
EUGENE, Or., April 3. (To the Ed
itor.) In The Portland Oregonlan,
March 31, is printed an editorial tell
ing about the famous Polychrome ver
slon of the Bible, which shows the
reader how various manuscript sources
were united to produce the text we now
have. You also tell about Professor
Moulton's Bible Edition. Where can I
get these Bibles? ,F' J'
The Polychrome Bible 'is published by
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
It Is expensive. Moulton's Bible may
be had of J. K. GUI & Co., Portland.
Chtldreii Born Abroad.
PORTLAND, Or., April 4. (To the
Editor.) Will you please inform me if
a person (male) born in a foreign coun
try can become President or the United
States, this question to Include children
of Ambassadors or traveling Ameri
cans? N. A. D.
Read section 5. article 11, Constitu
tion of the United States. Children of
citizens are Americans, If born abroad,
the same as ir born In this country.
ITS, I.VDEED, WE ARE ON TRIAL
Writer Pleads for Squarer Polities and
Leas Bnncombe.
PORTLAND, April 3. (To the Edi
torsThe Joke of the age! "Tou are
on trial, not I." Yes, the perpetuity of
the great commonwealth of Oregon de
pends upon the outcome of this in
dictment. Senator Bourne sitting in
his high place, . with his penetrating
vision, with his unspeakable personal
sacrifice of energy, time, and money
a martyr to the Interests of a more or
less heretic constituency has at last
delivered this remarkable declaration.
What forebodings possess us, while
we contemplate the great catastrophe
that must befall if Jonathan be dis
carded at the approaching election!
Not only this, but our "Intelligence."
or rather the lack of Intelligence, will
be published broadcast, to our shame,
throughout the whole Nation and the
uttermost parts of the earth. Banish
the possibility! Forbid such a con
summation! "You are on trial, not I!"
Verily we are on trial of our pa
tience. We have tested forbearance to
the limit. We were on trial for tolera
tion when Jonathan Bourne commanded
the forces which held up the Oregon
Legislature for 40 days in 1907.
We are now on trial for toleration
of the flagrant violation of the spirit
of the corrupt practices act under the
guise of the franking privilege, where
by the Senator has distributed over
1,000,000 copies of speeches on the Ore
gon system ostensibly in the Interest
of popular government, but really in
the interest of Jonathan Bourne's can
didacy to succeed himseir.
We are now on trial to discover
how long it . will take us to pay for
these tons ' of campaign matter
(speeches) at 5 cents per copy, includ
ing legitimate postage, probable cost
of $50,000. Should we pay $2.44 per
annum (Jonathan Bourne's annual con
tribution to our tax fund)? The figures
are approximate!' 25,000 years.
We were on trial last year when
the Republican party nominated by a
large majority at the popular primary
a candidate for Governor other than
Jonathan's. The distinguished Repub
lican Senator taxed his vigor to bring
about the defeat of this candidate, Mr.
Bowerman, and was instrumental in
electing a Democratic Governor. (Note
the dispensation of the rule of state
ment No. 1.)
We are tired in Oregon of being on
trial. We have been "monkled" with.
We have been fooled enough by this
political legerdemain. In behalf of
clean, fair and sauare politics I beg to
enter my protest against any more of
these "trials.
We have been "buncoed" heretofore,
and are now in the position of the pig,
who said, when the boy cut its tail off,
"You can't do It again."
J. E. EASTHAM.
WATER POWER IS OFFERED FREE.
r-hnrl. Sa-ra Ha Will Giva It If
lOat io uoilinfn ma ,-imiiru.
PORTLAND. Or., April 3. (To the
Editor.) Being one of the "beggarly
elements", referred to by Mr Gaston
and St. Paul, I am forced into the llme
lleht as an unwilling plutocrat by the
vehement Insistence of Mr. James
Cochrane. Mr. Cochrane's agitation
seems to arise over the suspicion that
I have something to sell. I know this
will be considered a crime, providing
It would at all interfere with the cinch
of the P. R., L. ft P. Company, even
though if it were true, and my pro
posal would reduce that prospective
lighting 'bill he refers to from $2.24 to
less than 50 cents, still leaving the
citv a large profit, but his love of mo
nopolistic conditions would prevent him
from embracing soch an opportunity.
Cochrane's letter is in line with that
of Clark, one of che owners of the elec
trie plant, who at the Commercial Club
the other night devoted himself, not to
answering pertinent complaint, as Mr,
Gaston very forcibly showed in his
communication of yesterday, but to call
on those who attended to frown on the
imnertlnence of crltlolsm. In order
that the unpardonable offense he at
tributes to me may be condoned, I will
now say that I will give outr'ght to tne
City of Portland 6000 horsepower of
water, conditioned that it at once move
to bring it to our city, putting its value
Into power at not in excess of a rental
of $30 per horsepower for constant use,
and for heat and lighting at not in
excess of $40 per horsepower, thus re
ducing the rates soon to be Imposed
from the equivalent of $160 to $30 and
$300 to $40. These rates will make a
splendid profit to the city, because It
can be brought and distributed at not
In excess of $10 per horsepower, as is
done in Ottawa, Canada.
And further' to calm Cochrane's per
turbed mind, after the city has in
stalled the 6000 horsepower as. named,
I will assign It another 6000 horsepower
of water as a free gift on 1- .e condi
tions. In order that the average citi
zen may be enlightened, will say that
the present lighting contracted by the
city does not amount to 1200 horse
power. I am so anxious to see the city be
come what it ought to be, one of the
most attractive manufacturing cities
on the face of the earth, instead of a
dwarfed, atrophied and palsied ap
pendage of the money power, nested in
Big Business, under thrall of absentee
landlordism, of which the P. R., L. &
P Company from the accusation of the
Government, not two weeks old, IS Its
representative, here, that I' would do
anything to break that absolutism pos
sible under my limitations.
CHARLES P. CHURCH.
Campaign for Good ETeslsrat.
Boston Globe.
The American Association for the
Conservation of Vision is starting a
widespread campaign of public educa
tion to call the attention of people to
the care and preservation of their eye
New Special Features
for
The Sunday Oregonian
A Royal Victim of Beauty Cures No less a person than the Ger
man Empress set out to combat age with beauty cures and now her
health is gone. The inside story is given by a writer who is in close
touch with the German court. .
In Darkest America A half-page about the strange 'people or
Southern mountains, where civilization is at a low ebb.
Famous Lovers Another of Laura Jean Libbey's interesting arti
cles, in which she takes up the world's most famous romances in
TheGame That Cost a Pennant Eleventh in the notable baseball
series prepared for The Oregonian by Christy Mathewson, the Giants'
star pitcher. . ...
Easter and the Butterfly An attractive article is presented by
Rene Bache on the story of the beautiful butterfly symbol.
Tables in Slang George Ade's fable for the coming Sunday
deals with "a family that jumped out of Class B into the King Row,"
and it leads to the moral: "Some achieve greatness and others have
it rubbed in." ,
Two Complete Short Stories "Just Like That," a tale of two
partners, a love affair' and a tragedy, and "The Magic Billiard Ball,"
a story of love and magic. .'
The Jumpups Mr. Jumpup reverts to type.
More adventures by Sambo, Hairbreadth Harry, Slim Jim, Mrs.
Time Killer, and Mr. Boss. Easter1 "cnt-out" clothes for little
Anna Belle. .
MANY OTHER
Order Today From
Our Day in Court
By Dean Collins.
"People of Oregon, hear m'cry!
You are the ones on trial; not I.
I bring you to court to the ejufense
Of all your claims to intelligence:
t en. ii,1o.a nnH the 1iirv. Lno-
And the prosecutor who's after yon:
You, oh people of Oregon, are . ...
Merely the prisoners at the Var";
said ne Jontuaii o. -Beware,
oh. Oregon people all. .
Of the heavy sentence that may befall;
For It should be plain to an. or some.
What a Daniel is to the Judgement come:
I am the Judge and the Jury stern
And the constable, too, as you will
learn.
Who brought you. a prisoner, to the bar
Where on trial tor your wits you are
BeTore me Jonathan B.
Speak with care, for you know I may
Use against you whate'er you say;
Answer correctly and don't make sport.
Or you'll be fined for contempt of court;
And I am the court, my wortny gents.
That Judges your claims to intelligence;
The august Judge and the Jury wise.
And e'en the lawyer who your case tries
Is me Jonathan B."
L'ENVOI.
Oh. wise young Judge; oh. excellent
man.
Touching on precedents, we can
Refer you only to 'Aesop, in re
The Bull and the Frog, wherein we see.
May it please the court, though the frog
essayed
To swell to superior bulk, he paid
The ultimate price ror his rund of crust
By disintegration in short, he bust.
(Not grammatic. perhaps, but clear.)
So we politely refer you here
To Aesop's fable, which same may be
Suggestive to thee Jonathan B.
Portland. April 4.
Half a Cehtury Ago
From the Oregonlan of April 6, 1862.
A treasonable secret society has been
exposed in Indiana. The society was
organized to oppose the war and resist
the collection of taxes. The flight of
that meanest of Indiana traitors, John
G. Davis, to Secession, is supposed to
have been occasioned by his knowledge
that his treachery would soon be made
manifest, and that he had to take his
chance between Richmond and Fort
Warren.
Dallas Citv election This resulted as
follows: J. S. Reynolds, Recorder; H.
W. Hedrlck, Marshal; P. Craig, Treas
urer; R. E. Miller. E. P. Fitzgerald, B.
J. Drew, F. Bolten and A. Clark,
trustees.
Shakespeare's great tragedy, "Mac
beth." will be presented with a strong
caste tonight. Mrs. Pope as Lady Mac
beth, Mr. Pope as Macbeth and Mr.
Beatty as Macduff.
A new ferryboat will shortly take the
place of the old tub. which for a long
while has been an eyesore to the peo
ple of Portland.
The Julia This steamer took up on
yesterday morning a large crowd of
passengers.
Our city has already begun to look
dull, at least our streets have not that
crowded appearance which they have
borne for the last month.
T h f. delegates to the state conven
tion from the lower counties leave this
morning on the steamer Express for
Oregon City, whence they will go up
on the Relief from Canemah direct to
Eugene.
Congress has appropriated $100,000
for the construction of a fort at the
mouth of the Columbia River.
John R. Foster & Co. have opened
at their store on Front street a large
stock of hardware, comprising various
articles demanded by miners, farm
ers, builders, housekeepers and others.
The Benton County Union convention
met at the Courthouse In Corvallis on
Saturday, March 29. The following
named persons were elected delegates
to attend the union state convention
at Eugene: A. G. Hovey, W. H.
Spencer, Martin Woodcock, A. J.
Thayer and J. R. Bayley. The follow
ing nominations were made for county
officers: Senator. A. G. Hovey; Rep
resentatives. C. P. Blair, A. M. Wltham;
County Judge, James R. Bagley; Com
missioners, James Gingles and James
Edwards; Assessor, Jesse Wood; Clerk,
Horace G. Burnett; Sheriff, J. C. Alex
ander; Treasurer, George Mercer; Su
perintendent of Common Schools. F. H.
Stilson; Coroner, J. C. Krieschbaum.
Reason for Criticising Roosevelt.
WESTPORT, Or., April 1. (To the
Editor.) In criticising Roosevelt's
speech at St. Louis, in which he ques
tions whether the people of the United
States rule, you use these words: "Rep
resentative government is government
for the people through their representa
tives." Yes, but does this please the
people the majority? Do the repre
sentatives represent the people? Sup
pose the people had the direct say as
to Lorimer and Stephenson would they
retain their seats still? It looks as
though The Oregonlan were criticising
Roosevelt simply because it's Its pol
icy to do so, regardless of sound prin
ciple. Why don't you give credit where
credit is due? Why doii't you publish
more communications favorable to
Roosevelt instead of ignoring them?
F. C. HALL.
' Average Telephone Call.
Indianapolis News.
The New York telephone call aver
ages a rn'nute and a half In length.
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