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10 TTTE aiORXTXG OREGOXTAX. TTTTJTJSDAY, MAY 2, 1912. rORTLANl. OBBfiOX. C1RCC1.ATIOX TTEMf:.XT. During the mnnih of April, 11I. the avrrtit circulation of The Oregonian was: A versa Suaaay rimlatlra.'. . . A6.H27 Arrriit Dally Ctrralaflva 33.505 The ttinv circulation was distributed aa follow: Daily. naday. 1 l.or.T 55.162 6.753 7.HTI li.titt.l 3.291 Oregon Washington Ail other states makers turned to account by using it In the manufacture of water gas be ginning In 1673. and of electric light ing, lot popularity as an illuminant has been aided by the reduction in price, which ha fallen in New York mm f 10 per 1000 feet In 1826 to SO cents In 1906. Its extensive use as fuel and power has so In creased the consumption that the total manufactured In this country Increased from IS billions of cubic feet In 1898 to 156 billions In 1908. This increase Is the more remarkable because It has been made In the face of severe com petition from electricity. 66.327 Total 53.505 Countv of Multnomah. ) State of Oregon. I This la to certify that the, actual cir culation of The Oregonian for the menta of April was as above set forth. Circulation ilunaaer. Fubacrlbed and sworn to before me this first day of Mar. I'll. W. E. HAKTMUS. firXAU) NotHTV Public. rORTLAMi. TIURSDAY. MAY t. WIS THE VOTK IN MA.HACirrr.TT:. MassufhusetLs voted for Taft as against Roosevelt for President, and Taft has thus scored a victory which wilt put heart Into his supporters throughout the country. This result In the first state where the President has made an open and aggressive fight gives a hint of what he might have accomplished had he camped on Roosevelt's trull In Illinois and Penn sylvania and promptly answered every speech attacking him. The time has evidently gone by when even a Presi dent tan remain In dignified seclusion and leave his lieutenants to conduct the campaign for him. That time passed when the Presidential prefer ence primary came in vogue and Roosevelt threw his hat Into the polit. leal ring. But the Presidential primary law of NOT ALLOWED TO DODfiK. Roosevelt's failure In Massachusetts may have been due to his dodging the tariff issue, which Is the burning one in the Bay State. Andrew J. Holla, a member of the executive committee of the "progressive" Republicans wrote an open letter t Roosevelt calling upon him to say where he stood on this question, which Soils call the I chief issue before the country- Soils tells him: We will certainty rleeerve the defeat thl waits us If we confine ourselves to plati tudes or to pollrlen such aa the reeall of JiMtHal det-tplnne. whk-h we. all know can not be settUd finally in leee than two (fen eration while evarttnr the queitlnn that affects all the. people and that ran be set tled now. the question of the tariff So Im port a t-urtnwr evaalnn of this question will leave, no eerape from the conviction that you ind thoae who slve rou their aiinport ara more anxious for offlr-e thaa to Rive Juntlca tne American people. If the Colonel wishes not to receive a few more letters such as this and de- xlres to avoid more defeats such as that in Massachusetts, he will find It necessary to evolve a tariff satisfactory to those who are In earnest In their demand for revision and to be pre pared to show wherein it is superior to the policy recommended by the President. built, water power developed, irriga tion works constructed throughout the Northwest, while in Portland homes by the thousand are building for the thousands of workers and business, buildings by the score are being erected for the Industries which em ploy those workers and for the stores which supply them. The figures which tell of Portland's prosperttly are subject to no discount for "hot air" or water. Every dollar represents a real dollar added to the existing stock of wealth. Such pros perity goes on growing from year to year and knows no setback. W'OH F.N AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Equal suffragists do not claim that Massachusetts has brought about tomt votes for women will cure every evil absurd results. The people have CJt pressed a preference for Taft, but on the face of the returns have elected eight delegate at large pledged to Roosevelt. The Colonel says the pop ular preference should prevail and ab solves the delegates from their pledge to him. but some of them refuse to vote for Taft tinder any conditions. The Taft managers contest the result, maintaining that those votes for their delegates, which were thrown out be cause the elector voted for nine can didates for delegate; when only eight were to he elected, should be counted. The contradictory result Is therefore to cause another quarrel similar to those In Indiana. Michigan and Missouri, and will contribute to embittermcnt of fac tional feeling at the National conven tion. The Presidential preference pri mary In Massachusetts, as in Oregon, needs much "fixing" before It will work smoothly. Massachusetts opinion Is probably fairly representative of that of the North Atlantic seaboard states, being In line with New Hampshire. Penn sylvania Is an exception, an uprising against Roes Penrose In the eastern section and a fight df Ross Fllnn against Penmes In the western section having mixed local Issues In the Pres idential fight and carried Taft down to defeat. There seems tn be a prohahll Ity. then, that the Republican party will divide on general sectional lint-. the East against the West. Colorado and perhap a few other states will prove exception lo the rule In the West by adhering to Taft. Just as Pennsylvania and Maine are excep tion. to the rule In the East, hut the Jangef of sectionalism In new and ag gravated form exists. tmk rAR.no in :i.iiou. Presidential primaries have a virtue of putting out in the first Innings lead, era who are headed In the wrong di rection. This Is the observation of the Saturday Evening Ton on the Illinois Republican primaries, where Taft Was defeated. Hut when it in spects results in the Illinois Dem ocratic primaries. where Wood row Wilson lost to Champ Clark, the same magazine discovers an enigma, a riddle without an answer, for It holds that the voters In both par ties; are trying to be progressive. It has but one possible solution to sug gest. Perhaps the Illinois voters do hot like 'academic' persons. A good way for a candidate to win In Illinois, It suggests. Is to shy a brick through a college window. The Saturday Evening post's contra dictory views are in separate articles and perhaps one nf them was Intended -to be more diverting than logical. Still, the results In Illinois are somewhat muddy. We are Inclined to agree with our Eastern contemporary that Re. publican arid Democrats -r now much alike that many of them can hardly tell which they are. It Ls also Irtje that progresslveness means much the same In both parties. Hut success of Roosevelt In one Illinois party and of Clark In the other may have several explanations. Perhaps Taffs conten tion that he is himself a progressive ls true. To admit this solves the prob. lent, tt was a progressive defeat In both hartles. tt mav be. however, that the Illinois voters did hot think so much of the issues represented as they did of the preeonalltles of the candidates. In atudtnusneea of mien, mlldneew of man ner and speech, and in several otheq characteristics, Taft and Wilson are much alike. Both lost. Roosevelt anil Clark both have a whang-bang; style of speech and a boisterous per sonality that please a great many peo ple. Both won. We like this solution better than either of the others. It has been demonstrated In the or. rilnary primary that the voters as a rule care more about the candidate himself than they do about his standi on political Issues. It ls hot honesty and worthiness that alwnjs turn the scale, either. A mediocre mixer can beat a dignified sage almost anywhere. The result In Massachusetts Is a rid dle of the earn order. The people at large declared for Taft and elected Roosevelt delegates. Pome day we may have a defeated candidate dictat ing the platform for his successful op , ponent tn stand on. There are many depths tn political psychology to fathom as we sail so rapidly forward with the Presidential primary. THE PARCELS POST AND TTTE COI NTKY STORE. A recent article In the Outlook on the parcels post by II. W. Gardner ought to be of particular Interest to country storekeepers. These men, as a rule, are opposed to the parcels post on the ground that It would build up the mail-order business at their ex pense. Mr. Gardner points out the fact that the mall-order business has grown to mammoth proportions with out a parcels post, and will continue to flourish whether we Improve our mail facilities or not. It la amazing that the country mer chants should have overlooked this fact. They write and talk exactly aa If the mall-order stores were Just be ginning to do business. The truth is that their trade Is colossal and that it Is almost entirely Independent of the mall service. Mr. Gardner says, re liably, that more than 99 per cent of the shipments from the mall-order stores are made by freight. This per centage ls estimated by weight. Ship ments would continue to be made In the same way if we had a parcels posh because it would be cheaper than mail. If the country merchants would pluck up courage to look ,the matter squarely in' the face they would per ceive that the parcels post cannot pos sibly Injure them and will probably benefit them In many ways. For one thing. It will enable them to serve their customers expeditiously and cheaply In case of emergencies. When a farmer breaks a casting In over night. Time will be required. Political and social conditions have oeen improving in an civinaea nations , ,,... , PnT,nnt send for It hv for many decades. In some places 1 ma bpcall,,, np naj account with they have advanced rapidly. In others , fn .. firm'wMch sells the machine. slowly. Woman suffrage would at- I nr,,s.ln ir fhrnuirh his local merchant. As things stand now It must come either by mail or express, and a casting which costs 10 cents may be burdened with a charge of vealed I ander- ; serve the technfeal accuracy revea In this description. I; it not wo ful? A person reading it can hardly help feeling himself In a seat on the bleachers eating peanut9 and yelling at the umpire. But accuracy of this sort is a qual ity common to British travelers. How they manage to acquire It In the short term of a human life seems unac countable. In our humble opinion, to confess the honest truth, they do not acquire It. It is born with them, a gift from heaven to its favprite sons. Americans might learri much from the language of British travelers if they would only Improve their numerous opportunities. The literary tongues of the two countries are not so very Stars and Star-Makers By Leone Cass Baer. Martin Beck has added Florence Roberts to the rapidly-growing list of distinguished players who will appear exclusively in the vaudeville theaters controlled by him. Miss Roberts, who toured this Coast in "Jim the Penman," and later played in stock in Philadel phia since her engagement at the Baker last season, has begun a tour of the Orpheum circuit. She is appearing in a one-act play by James H. Morri son, called "The Miracle." In her sup- different. Emerson and Bernard Shaw porting company are Charles Wingate, employ pretty nearly the same words and syntax in their books, but Mr. Butler-Stout, like his brethren Of the road, writes in a tongue of his own. and we commend It to the careful study of our Illiterate countrymen. At the "terminus." when he Was leaving Chicago, for example, his "luggage" was transported to the "luggage van" by a goods lift. He learned that many derailments of the trains were due to the fault of the men who "work the points." When a frelder nails a fly In the National game the spectators decorously shout: 'Well caught, indeed!" How often we have heard that pathetic cry from the bleachers. To an American ear It is like the Kuhreihen to a Swiss mer cenary. There Is ho reason why Amer icans should not Correct their manner of speech by the standards so kindly set up by Mr. Butler-Stout and others in their books. We might Just as well speak of a "terminus as of a "sta tion." and we should have consciences a great deal more at ease If we did so. Think how much more beautiful life "would be for us If we could only bring ourselves to quit saying "freight ele vator" and speak of a "goods lift. What sweetness It would instil Into our National existehce If we should cease to call the Boy Orator of the Platte Wandering Willie and give him the title which Mr. Butler-Stout finds be fitting "Jennings William Bryan.' It has a genuine flavor of blood and silver. celerate their advance, but it Would not work miracles. The rates of teach- i ere" wages In Denver and Portland have nothing to do with the suffrage question. Women have the same right as men to vote at school elec tions in Oregon. If suffrage causes low wages In Denver It causes high wages In Portland. Everybody knows that It does neither. Miss Martin's choice of Colorado, In her letter printed elsewhere, as nn ex ample of the failure of woman suffrage half a dollar for transportation twenty miles. This ls a wrong which the parcels post would correct. The mer chant would ohtaln the casting through the Postofflce at a cost of a few cents for carriage. He would oblige his customer more than he does under present conditions and lose 1 imfhinir Ti'halMTr. is not nappy, me punnc Knows per- ; Tnis cxampi i tvpleal of a thnu fectly well how extremely bad social ( onj her The rural tender could conditions were made there by the mining corporations and other Influ ences. The work of regeneration will be tedious and difficult. Woman suf frage is helping and will continue to help. Upon reflection. Miss Martin will prohnbly modify her rash state ment that "in the protection of wage- earning children the non-suffrage states are far ahead of the suffrage states." She means to say. perhaps, that some non-suffrage states are head of some suffrage, states. The worst states in this particular. Geor gia. Florida, and so on. are bitterly non-suffrage. But no matter about that. Women have not voted in any State long enough yet to show what the final effect of suffrage will be. To draw conclusions from the premises thus far available Is Very hazardous. As t what women will do with the suffrage in California we should ad vise Miss Martin to wait a while be fore she goes on record again. Iso lated Items from the papers are hardly a sufficient basis for sweeping state ments. It Is usually difficult to get men. as well as women, to register. If Miss Martin believes that the regula tions for the protection of children arc what they ought to be In Boston. New York, Cincinnati. Milwaukee ahU St. Louie, all we have to reply l that she Is easily satisfied. Jane Addams says that all they have yet done Is hut "n forecast" of what ought to be done. Jane Addams. by the way. Is a suffra gist. Can Miss Martin cite us to the passage where Miss Addams calls Si. I.ouls. or any of the others, "a model fltj"? The latest centennial to be celebrat ed ls that of the use of gas. This is assumed to date from the chartering of the first gas company In Lnndon In I Sit. though gas had been used in a small way at Newport. R. I as early as ISO. Gas was first used In New York lh 1S23. and from that time rap. Idly displaced whale oil as sn Illumi nant. It held its own in spite of the discovery of patrol turn, which as- soi.id rRosrr.RiTv. The prosperity of Portland is a re flection of prosperity throughout the whole Oregon country. Growth of bank clearings and deposits Is an evi dence of prosperity in the entire coun try, of which Portland ls the finan cial center. So are swelling postal re ceipts, livestock receipts, growing ex ports of lumber, flour, wheat and other commodities. These facts are the outward manifestations of pros perity, not only In Portland, but in the great stretch of country which pours Its commerce Into Portland. It cannot bo too often repeated that the prosperity of Portland rests on no speculative basis, but nn actual pro duction. Increased settlement of the country brings about cultivation of larger areas of farm and orchard, w hich brings larger shipments to Port land of all products of the soli for trans-shipment to other stales nnd other countries. So with extension of logging Into new tracts of timber, of mining into new fields of mineral wealth, and with increase In the catch and pack of fish, the money pouring Into Portland Is newly produced wealth, not wealth transferred In spec ulation from one man to another. Confirmation of this statement Is found In the fact that the greatest activity In the real estate market Is In sales of farms and agricultural land to men who will bring larger arras under cultivation or who will divide large farms Into small ones, which will be Intensively cultivated. Not only are new farms being created, but old farms are multiplying their pro duction by resort to modern methods. Thus prosperity Is the fruit of de velopment, of the exercise of more useful muscles than those of the Jaw. Nor does prosperity depend alone on Increased output of the raw prod ucts of the soil, it Is strengthened by the conversion of many of these raw products Into finished commodities ready for consumption. Portland yearly takes an Increasing proportion or raw material from the Oregon country, in the manufacturing dis tricts on the peninsula and in both north and south ends of the city It eon- verts cattle Into drejd beef, wheat Into flour, lumber into rurnltiire, hides Into all manner of leather goods and so on down the line. This substantial development brings about results In the expansion of all means for serving the producer. Rail roads ara being extended, trolley lines not by any possibility suffer loss of business through the parcels post. while he would gain In dozens of ways. All civilized countries except the I'nifed States have parcels posts and their rural merchants are fully as prosperous as ours are. AN KNr.l.ISfl TRAVFt.KR IN AMKftlCA. English books about the United States are always funny. They are funny even In those exceptional In stances when they are not stupid. The stupid ones are the occasion of more laughter to their readers than any other books in the world. Of course the English traveler who pours his fancies about the I'nlted States into song does not intend to make people laugh. Ills Intention Is profoundly L serious. He looks upon himself as , fatherly observer of our youthful faults and sn adviser whose preceptK we need only heed to become as great nnd glorious as any British oolony ought trt expect to become. By dili gently following all the good advice we receive from British travelers, wo may In course of time heain to shine like a star of the fifth or sixth mag nltude. England of course belhg the sun. One Of the latest Englishmen to "vrite a nook shout the I'nited States is the Honorable Chillingly Butler Stout. He was here, so It is sniit, three weeks and in that interval made complete Inspection of the country and Its people all the way from New York to San Francisco. Our politics, Constitution, railways, language and baseball leagues all received his atten tive and exhaustive consideration, and In his book, 'w hich he calls "Our Kin Beyond the Sea." he Imparts the ripe fruits of his studies The Federal Constitution and base ball seem to be the two pontes flsl norum of British travelers In this country. They can make nothing out of either of these mysteries. Put the Honorable Chillingly Putler-Stout is a brilliant exception to the rule. In his three weeks tour he did what Mr Bailey, or Texas, has Spent a lifetime in falling to do. He sounded the Con stitution to Its depths and resolved all of its complicated problems. This no tlon of studying a subject before at tempting to write upon It Is an explod ed piece of folly. No orthodox British traveler pays any attention to It. Mr. Butler-Stout exhibits an amaz tng knowledge of American public! men. Here are the names of some half a dozen with whom he became in tlmate In the course of his extensive perambulations: President Howard Taft. I nele J. Cannon, Allen White, Jennings William Rryan. Principal Hadley. of Yule: Principal Butler, of Columbia. How- did he manage lo ferret out nil these obscure notahlll ties? Did the reader ever hear of a solitary one of them? We Venture to say he never did. and yet Mr. Butler Stout discovered them in three brief weeks and listened to what they had to say about our Institutions, all of which he meticulously sets down In his book for the Instruction of the Americans will use no substitute for the potato. On many family tables it appears two and even three times a day. The rule in well-ordered homes of all classes ls "one fegetable besides potatoes for dinner." No two other vegetables supply the place of this favorite American vegetable. Of course It ls said that, as a people, we cat too many potatoes. But that is neither here nor there, since we will eat them even If we have to import them by the shipload. The high price now prevailing works a great hard ship upon people of limited means, and every encouragement should be given to Idle hands about cities to work Idle ground In the production of this valuable, and, according to the American estimate, necessary food crop. So Minded are the Irish Unionists by prejudice that they assume that sll t'lster and all Protestants are op posed to home rule. More than half of Ulster and many Protestants through out Ireland favor home rule. Should that measure bring bitter war, as Mr. Iong predicts, the war will.be due to the fanatical Orange minority, which Is satisfied with nothing but su premacy over the majority. If the Orangemen resort to rebellion against the commands of four-fifths of Ire land and a great majority of England, Scotland and Wales, they will feel the power of that law which they have so often used lo oppress their fellow- countrymen. Uncle Sam cah contribute to the restoration of order In Mexico with out sending h single soldier Into that country. let him aid the Madero party in Importing rapid-fire guns and am munition and prevent any such Imple ments of warfare from reaching tho rebels. Wo should then read of more such hattles as that at Teplc, where the rebels were mowed down and put to rout by artillery fire. W'bat Mex ico needs Is the modern equivalent of Napoleon's celebrated "whiff of grape- shot." Walter Green, J. H. "Morrison and Ethel Merrltt. This is Miss Roberts' initial vaudeville experience. Charles Win gate will be remembered as a former member of the Baker Stock Company 'here. They opened In Winnipeg last Monday and are coming direct to the Pacll'c Coast. Mabel Wllber Is going to do a single In vaudeville. In private life Mabel la Mrs. Madison P. Corey, having wed the manager of Henry p. Savage's produc tions In Seattle two years ago, when she was on her third visit out here as the "Merry Widow." Frank Denithorne, who cast his for tunes with the Baker players for a few weeks last season, is now playing with the O. D. Woodward Stock Company at the Willis Wood Theater In Kansas City. Eva Long and Elliott Dexter are playing leads. Mr. Denithorne has the juvenile roles. Will H. Armstrong and his wife, who is known professionally as Dorothy Dale, and who were both popular mem bers Of the Armstrong Musical Comedy Company last year at the Lyric, are re ceiving felicitations on the arrival of a little daughter, Billie Fay Armstrong She joined the company in Los Angeles, where the Armstrong Follies Company is playing at the Grand Theater. McKee Rankin, veteran actor of the Pacific Coast, has gathered together a coterie of performers and will play a special and limited engagement over the Bert Levey circuit. He opened at the Pintola Theater on Market street In San Francisco, last Sunday. we True Boardman, who played leads with "Dad" Russell's stock company at the old Haillg after he'd renamed It the Portland, is leading man with the World's Fair Stock Company in San Diego. At the Burbank in Los Angeles this week the stock company Is presenting "Madame X," with Donald Bowles in the role of the son. The rherrie month of May ignored the fact that May 1 Is Straw Hat day. May long since ceased to live up to Ha reputation, for It has become the wet test, cloudiest, coldest month of all the year. It is a blot on the Oregon Spring. Chauncey Depew's secret of success ns an after-dinner speaker la given to the public. He has been careful In his dloi, something remarkable in a m?n who has attended mo many banquets. Taft has again committed the un pardonable sin In the eyes of George W. Perkins. H has sued another trust In which that spostle of modern economic methods Is Interested. Through an error yesterday the statement was made that Mr. Lal- ferty's vote for Congress In the Repub lican primary was SKB. The correct figures are 9s. Just ft hint to Mr. McCredle: Invite all the cross-eyed people In the city to sit bear third base some afternoon and hoodoo" the other nine. 'A great deal of What t got out nf life. I got from other people." says Senator Depew. Yes, the "otner peo ple" are painfully aware of the fact. The integrity of the small boy of Cottage Grove will be put to a severe test when the circus band begins to play on 6nnday afternoon. Sympathy Is felt for the starving In Chlr.a. but the 160.000 destitute along the Lower Mississippi are home folk. Wallace Munro, who is married to Charlotte Tlttell One of the trio of famous Tlttell sisters who were mem bers of the early day John F. Cordray Stock Company, will arrive In Port land this week ahead of Blanche Bates whose publicity work he manages. Mr. Munro Is an old Multnomah Club man, and Invariably finds time to revisit all the haunts and friends made known to him in many visits to the Coast. Miss BateR' play ls a farce comedy. "No body's Widow" Is Its title. More than passing interest attaches to her visit Inasmuch as she was born In Portland end acted with Maude Adams in child roles at the old Newmarket Theater nc on First street. Later, Miss Bates appeared with the Frawiey Stock Com pany at the Marquam Theater. That Was IK years ago, and marked also Mr. Calvin Hellig'g first managerial experi ence with that theater. That same sea son Miss Bates went to San Fran cisco and Was chosen by David Belasco to create several roles. It was through her affiliation with Belasco that she was made a star In her famous creation The Girl of the Golden West" A pretty llttlo maid St the Empress this week Is Josle Barrows who was S dancer at the old Tlvoll In San Francisco Just prior to tho earthquake. This Is ber first trip out In this direc tion since; she's been kept busy with musical comedies In New York until this engagement. With her young brother Miw9 Barrows has a clever tt rpsichorean specialty. e When Margaret Artglln was out on the Coast two years ago in "The Awak ninsr of Helena Richie," In her sup porting cast was Howard Hull, a former newspaper man of San Francisco. This year Miss Anglln brings him along again, but In the capacity of husband manager. In her new play "Green Stockings" she opens at the Hellig to morrow night. a Mayo Metfiot, the talented little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Methot, of Portland, will play the little girl !n "Alias Jimmy Vslentlne" which opens at the Baker next week. WOMAN'S INFLUENCE IN- POLITICS lltas Martin Contends It Has Not Been for Betterment in Suffrage States. PORTLAND. May 1. (To the Edi tor.) Admitting, for the sake of argu ment, that all the brains, all the logic and ail the forces of righteousness, as suggested by your editorial this morn ing, are embodied in the workers for equal suffrage, and that only women of feeble Intellect are opposing the granting of the franchise to their sex, may I ask the courtesy of space in which to briefly present a few facts? According to the editorial in The Oregonian this morning, "In California they (the women) are registering for the Presidential primaries about as nu merously as the men." But, are they? According to the San Francisco Chron icle of April IS, less than 25.00U women have registered, the total registration being 137,021. The same paper, in its issue of April 13, calls upon the voters to register, warning them that the polls close at midnight, and warns the women that, "apparently, not one woman in three who might register has registered." The same paper tells of the work of the women politicians to bring out the woman vote, the presi dent of the various Taft clubs having a half a dozen motor cars in constant use, bringing the women workers from the department 6tores to the polls. Under date of April 16 the Sn Fran cisco Chronicle comments editorially upon the small registration of the women, Woman and the Suffrage," that tho situation raises an interesting question. The fact that only about 25,000 women in this city approximately one-quarter of those entitled to vote have regis tered for the primary election in May, would seem to indicate that the propor tion of women who really desire tho ballot is very small.' The editorial goes on to state that while the women who refrained from voting may con tend that the franchise was thrust upon them against their wish by the men voters of the state, who had been misled by the campaign of the suffra gists into believing that the majority of women desired the ballot, now, that suffrage is a reality In the state, the women should vote, even though per sonally opposed to suffrage; "that they should not permit the less intelligent of their members to vote, to the exclu sion of those better qualified to pass judgment on political affairs." It would seem, from the evidence of fered by the Chronicle, that women are "registering for the Presidential pri maries about as numerously as the men." The fact that a few women nave been named as delegates to county and state conventions, does not loom up as a very significant argument for suffraere. rjarticularly when the sut frage leaders are everywhere busily explaining that the ballot in the hands nf women does not mean woman in active oolitics, as those of the opposi tlon have always maintained. Not even the suffragists hae yet agreed that women delegates vo political conven tions will elevate woman, the home o the state. That woman suffrage has not accom plished what its advocates claim rot- n Haif a Century Ago Krom The Oregonian of May 2, 1S62. From the Dalles Mountainer: A gentleman just down from Lewiston informs us that the merchants of that town have raised a fund of $10,000, which they ofter as a bonus to any re sponsible party who will place a boat on the Upper Columbia suited to the requirements of the trade. The laying of the rails along Main street and for a mile and a half beyond the city limits is now- completed. The road is graded for six and one-half miles, more than half the whole dis tance. It is within the bounds of truth to say that 1000 persons have left The Dalles for the mines within the past week, most of them overland. Headquarters Army of the Potomac, Fairfax C. H., Va., March 14. 1S62. Sol diers of the Army of the Potomac: For a long time I have kept you inactive, but not without a purpose. You were to be disciplined, armed and instructed; the formidable artillery you now have had to be created: other armies were to move and accomplish certain results. I have held you back that you might give the death blow to the rebellion that has distracted our once happy country. The moment for action has now arrived and I know that I can trust in you to save our country. The saying, under the head of , period of inaction, has passed. I will now- Dring you taee to face witn the rebels, and only pray that God may de fend the right. GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN Major-General Commanding. The stage arrived at 6 o'clock last night in seven and one-half days from Sacramento. There is no news from the East. The Eastern wires were not working. Fears were expressed that the Indians are going to Interfere with the telepraph lines on the plains. The following items we clip from the Sac ramento Union of April 24: "A letter from E. D. Morrison, dated Susanville, Honey Lake Valley, April 14. has been received here by Governor Roop. On the 29th of March Captain Lathrop, with 57 men, left Susanville on foot, and at last accounts they had come upon Indians fortified at Painter Canon. Since the company left other Indians have run off stock, burned houses and murdered whites at Susan ville. The letter says: 'Your old friend, Captain Baied, was shot the other morning in the corral. Town send. Governor Roop's agent, was killed while taking a load of lumber from your mill to Haveland's, and his team was driven away. One of Rust's boys was shot with three balls yester day while out looking for their stock. Up to this time there have been five whites killed that we know of. Your ox team is also gope.' " Renewed activity In sales of farm lands of Yamhill County Indicates' preference for the best In the world. future nnd tho hilarity of the present It Is simply Incredible that a mere human being should so qulckl he mastered the Intricate secrets of bsc ball as .Mr. Butler-Stout did. We Should suspect that he had heen at. tending his grandmohrr funeral for years and years In order to acquire his extraordinary knewledge were we not fundamentally certain of the nn wavering veracity, as well as of the unparalleled wisdom, of all British travelers. His description of the game will o down to posterity as a master. piece. The "outs." he says, distribute Reinstatement on the eligible list is themselves about the field without any f" "r the reinstated, but distressing Arizona is utigallant In favoring a nine-hour day for women, when the male sex labors but eight. A parade of silent suffragettes in New York Is an Impossibility reach ing to sublime absurdity. particular plan. One of their number. Just as It happens, stands in the center to pitch: another, the one nearest the spot, steps behind the bat to catch. To play the game the pitcher tosses the ball to the catcher and the batN man swats It. After a successful swat he strolls to the "first sack" and thence makes his Msurely1 way around the, ring- to the "home, plate. Ob- to the near-appointees. Portland gets off easily with hut one May-day strike. Why not renal Major Butt? ie Ismay, Mont., for M a.ssaoh use tts wants. knows whom it PORTLAND'" HARBOR WILL GROW High School Boy Writes nn Need for Better Dock Facilities. PORTLAND, May t. (To the Editor.) --Aniong the, recent letters from the people published in The Oregonian, I have been much Interested in the ones directed at the future of our harbor, Some people seem to think that we will never have a better harbor. While oth ers think Instead of Improving, It will decline. t think differently. Many things are needed to build up our port. Foremost of these are the Installation of municipal docket And they should be well built, for a elty with a group of unsightly docks does not attract the attention of Our many visitors. Take, for Instance, the, Ainsworth dock, north west of the Steel bridge. Although one of the most used of the docks It is about the most dilapidated. The steam ers Beaver, Bear and Rose City con ! stantly use this dock, and they ara three of the finest passenger vessels on j the Coast. Therefore, wny snouid they not have a good, serviceable dock, of concrete, for Instance? At the southern end of the run of these steamers, San Fran cisco, a fine concrete dock is at their service. Of course, we must take into consideration the fact that San Fran cisco is an older and larger maritime city. We need not worry, about the depth of our channel, for if huge steamers like the Luceric and Kumerlc, of the Waterhouse fleet, can come up to Port land in the hands of an experienced pilot, the channel Is plenty deep enough for many other vessels that most peo ple believe could not ascend this far Inland. 'We also need not fear about the distance from the sea. Although little. more than 100 miles away from the Pacific Ocean, we nave the neces sary resources to load ships, both steam and sail, from all parts of the world. We may be compared to the City of Manchester, England, for that city ls situated much as we are. GEORCE PHELP. Jefferson High, School. is evidenced bv the statute books and by conditions in the suffrage states. The main cry of the sunragists is inL women need the oalioi inc wuci protect the ,wage-earning woman and the child. The wages of women have not been raised in the suffrage states, thore as elsewhere, they are regulated bv the laws of supply and demand. If the suffragists conscientiously main tain that fhe ballot In the hands of women will raise her wages, win tney evnlnln whv the school teacners oi Denver received less wages man mosu of Portland? Denver, with a popula tion of 213.000, with women voting for more than IB years, nays h e..n teachers a maximum salary of $960 per vear. Portland, with a population of 2(17.000. navs its school teachers a max Imnm salarv of S106U per year. in Portland the last increase In salaries was in 1910. while the wages oi tne ur-hnni tenrherx of Denver nave not. heen raised since 1907. In the protection or wage-earning hildren the non-suffrage states ai'o far ahead of the Suffrage states. In Colorado girls over 10 years of age are permitted to engage in sireei iraoi-f. and hoys over 16 to do nignt messenBn rork. In Oregon boys under 18 are not permitted to do night messenger work. .lane AQaanis, in ik.i - science and an Ancient evil, on paeo 25. says that "New lorK ana lscon- i ore the on v states wnicn navs raised the legal age of messenger ooys emploved late at night to -i yearn. On page. 126 of the same volume Miss ArtHams savs: "The regulations in Boston. New York, Cincinnati, Milwau kee and St. Louis for the safeguarding of these children may he but a fore cast of the care which the city will at last learn to devise for youth under special temptations." All of the mode elites named by Miss Addams are cities in non-suffrage states, vet the suffrage cry continues unabated that only with the ballot in the hands of women will the child workers of the Nation he protected! The Review of Labor Legislation for 111. published by the American Asso ciation for Labor Legislation, on page 144 under the caption "Woman's Work." reports that "eight-hour bills were also lost in other states, includ ing Colorado." In the three other non suffrage states where the bills were lost It Is noted that "compromises were effected bv which the application of previous laws is extended." No such compromise ls reported from Colorado. In the face of these facts It would seem that to be consistent, the suf fragists would need to change their campaign cry. H. MARTIN. "T. R.- Democracy's Best filfr." ROSEBURG. Or., April 29. (To the Editor Six months ago I predicted T. R. Would wreck the G. O. P. and the next President elected in the United States would be a Democrat. I am sorry to say, at this date, I fear more than ever It may come true. There Is ho doubt but there are hundreds of thousands of old-time Re publicans who will vote for almost any kind of a Democratic nominee next November rather than T. R., should he be nominated. The country will likely fare far better under a Democratic administration, for four years, than under a Mexican Diaz rule, for a life term, of any man that may seek for it. T. R. has not got the nomination yet, and may not get it this year, or ever, but. even if President Taft Is nomi nated, there 13 little hope of his being elected next Isovember. T. K. has done it. L. H. RHOADES. A new postofflce has heen established at Sandy, Multnomah County, James M. Statt, postmaster. Some 40 couples were present last night at the Turners' ball. Several picnic, excursions were made into the country yesterday. Miss Mary Newell has been induced to give another concert tonight at the Methodist Church. As "Ed" Howe Sees Life A man with a good Intention, but too weak to carry It out, is better than a man with a scheme so vicious he 13 afraid to risk it. As soon as a woman is actually In love with a man, she begins to wait On him. The more powerful a dally paper ls. the more people enjoy it when a little weekly roasts it. Baseball games aro decided by um pires as honest as can be found, and not by the crowd and the players; when the umpire makes a decision, there is no recall. If the recall were allowed In the decisions of umpires, We would not be able to see a game In two hours: that big game between Chicago and New York would probably be go ing yet. Abe Lincoln, a really great man. often laughed nt himself; hut Walt Whitman, the poet, was always in dead earnest. Youner people are always enthusi astic; especially about eating. Owning an automobile, and being asked to tell about its upkeep expense, will cause a man to be more unreliable than fishing. Daniel Boone is known as the great est Indian fighter, because his admirers invented big stories about him. The facts probably are that Boone ran as ten as other men, and missed as many shots. You know what women say privately about us men. It's a good thing that they don't run the newspapers, and make their charges in print. OBF.OOV MIXES NEED BOOSTING Not Purchasers of Whitney C'nmp. RAYMOND. Wash.. April 29. (To the Editor.) From letters we are getting from all the country around wantihg positions and to sell Us supplies for the Whitney Camp on the Columbia, it seems as if a news item had been pub lished that our company, Kalli & Lar kin Logging Co., had purchased the above-named outfit located at tho Blind Slough." However, it ls errone ous, but will add that same was pur chased by the Larkln Bros., of Aber deen, Wash. This we would like for you to Insert in The Oregonian as a correction. KALB ft LARKIN LOGGING CO. - Mints la United States. STAYTON, Or.. April 30. (To the Editor.) "-Please state how many mints there are In the United States and where located. GLADYS HILL. Mints are. located at New Orleans, Carson Citj-, Philadelphia, San Fran cisco and Den Correspondent Believes Too Little tention (s Paid Minerals. PORTLAND. April 30. (To the Edi tor.) A few days ago I happened to see. in spite of its Inconspicuousness, a very short notice of a gold strike pub- shed in The Oregonisn. The substance of the same was quite similar to tho following: 'Quartz assaving S0,0"0 to the ton has been recently found in Grant Coun- y. This would stampede the world if t were not so easily reached by rail road." Yes, it might, and furthermore may. f the news was a little more accurate as to geographical location, nature of find, etc. After reading the meager article t went to the Commercial Club for fur ther information and all that I learned was that Oregon has no state geologist and has compiled no statistics. It would seem that here is a fruitful field for "Oregon boosters." There ia no reason why Oregon should not be come a large producer of precious met als, but in order to do so she must first be explored and before she ls ex plored the attention of prospectors and other mining men must be attracted this way, and that can only be done by the exploitation of news of such strikes as are made. Being a mining man, I feel safe in saying that if there were as many pros pectors in this state as there were in Nevada a few years ago there would be strikes made that would surprise the world. A. R. LLOYD. Why, Stone Should Be Used. HOULTON, Or., April 30. (To the Editor.) I wish heartily to commend the stand taken by Mayor Rushlight in holding up the report of the sewer committee, wherein it had recommend ed vitrified brick for the trunks in the Sullivan Gulch sewer. His reasons for doing this seem to me just and ade quate, i. e., that stone blocks could bo had for the same price, or, at least, but a trifle more, and the blocks are made in the state. "Made in Oregon" should be the watchword of the state and con tractors with this specification "blown" into their contracts should be given the preference. When our workmen are busy the retail merchants are happy and when this condition exists the wholesalers and factories have nothing to kick about, because they're J busy, too, T. & WHITE, i