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THE MOKXIXG OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1912. Wit (ffregmnfi PORTLAND. OKEOON. Entered at Portland. Oregon. Poatofflca -a Second-Ciasa Matter. EubacrlbUon Rate Invariably In Advance. (BY UAIls. Daily. Sunday Included, one year. ... . ..$8.00 uauy, Esunoay lnciuaea. six montns... Daily. Sunday Included, three month. Pally. Sunday Included, on month... Daily, without Sunday, one year...... Daily, without Sunday, six month... Dally, without Sunday, three month. Dally, without Sunday, on month.... Weekly, on year Sunday, one year Sunday and Weekly, on yar......f (HI CARRIER. them, and they refused him the loan. I part of it, our pioneers have passed. Finally a day came when Mr. PliTnt I If the latorsof this era were at times must have 500,000 the next day to I arduous. Its compensations were gen- meet his obligations and needed $1,- I erous; if Its privations were many, ,the 000,000 in ail. lie failed in nis last years nave made restitution; it its sor- attempt to raise the money at 8 o'clock rows were heavy, joy followed and one evening, and . by 5 o'clock next lightened them. It is thus that our morning had closed a deal to sell his guests of the present week come to us entire shoe machinery system to the with hearts full of tender memories of trust for $5,000,000. the past, even while they enjoy the No regulation, supervision or con- I present, and look forward to a grand trol of the monopolies can prevent I future for their children and their them from thus blighting Industrial children's children in the continued progress. It 'pays them better to buy I growth of the commonwealth that a new Invention and kill It than to they themselves founded. rso buy It and substitute it for machinery ?huj i the work of the pioneer! a so l , - .. .... , , . . .... i treading tne way ior tn worms advance 1 in wnlph thv hjivf InvHSlpd million. I . .... j - i lci iBu uvrww u. via ' c The inventor is proverbially poor, and In full appreciation of this work- obtain the reward for his worker itself in the ranks almost from 4 25 3.23 .75 6.00 3.23 1.75 .60 1.50 Dally. Sunday Included, one year. ...... 9.00 can only How t. Ret-Send Pooffic TmOTeV or- Kenius by finding some capitalist who the beginning; tireless as they, earnest cer. exprea order or personal check on your win manufacture ana market nis ae- as tney, willing as tney ine urego- local bank. Stamps, coin or currency ar at the sender risk, git postof flc address in full. Including county and atmt. Postacw Bate 10 to 14 pasea. 1 cent: 10 to 2s pagea. 2 centa; SO to 40 pare, S eenta: 40 to SO pace. 4 centa. Forelsn postage, doubl rate. Eastern Booiness Offices VerT Conk Ito Kew Tork. Brunswick . building- Chi cago, fiteger building. Baa Francisco Office R. X Bldwoll Co., T42 atarket street. European Office No. t Regent street. 8. W., London. PORTLAND. TTESDAYT. JUNE IS, THE TWO PLATFORMS. Comparison of the forecasts of the Taft and Roosevelt platforms enables us to determine the Issues on which they are prepared to go to the people, should they become rivals for election, vice. Knowing that they would have I nlan now, as In the past, extends cor- to contend against the overwhelming dial welcome to the visiting pioneers. power of great masses of capital, men With full, appreciation for what they of money are more and more chary of I have done, because of a full knowledge exploiting new inventions. That In- I of it; with due reverence for the gray. Ventive genius which has been the ad- haired men and women who are softly miration of the world and which has descending the sunset slot of life and created the wonderful structure of I come hither to exchange at least one American Industry is thus put to sleep. I more greeting, friend with friend It. can only be 'awakened and kept 1 neighbor with neighbor of the long awake by a measure of competition, by ago; in the hope that each and every MIS. opportunity, to sell Its devices and to one of them may fully enjoy the re- drive the outdated and outworn Into I union of 112, and that as many of disuse. I them as are able. Btill to enjoy the things of this life may be present at SOMB CORRBCTTO'VS. I e reunion ana partaite or tne Ban quet spread ior mem oy tne citizens The Oregonian prints today a letter , Portland ln 1913. we haI1 thelr .ra from Christian Anderson, the secretary jng with pleasure and acknowledge of the Oregon branch of the .National their presence with reverence. On most points they disagree on mat- I League for Medical Freedom. Two or ters or aetaii ana metnoa ner mem three points in tne letter reauire a lit- ai to tt.it rriTmr on main principles. The most impor- Ue comment, perhaps, in order that Some interest is beine manifested In rpu.CrPule0.tt " d,reCt ,eBl8laUOn "d h reader btln "erfeC"y Roosevelt s declaration ln favor or " '-" state, mougn not nearly so mucn as Jir. Anaereoa say mat we nave sug. the Importance of flax trrowlna- both that the members of his ror 8eed aad flber seems to Just-fy. Initiative, referendum, recall and di rect primaries was to be expected, I gested' but his proposed admission that many league have "banded themselves to- Fear has been expressed that thIs ln We have made no such suggestion. We believe,' of course, .that the greater piSUUmi. Will UV, UJF Ulll.LO tlon, an admission that Taft does right to Ignore the Initiative and referen- number of the members of the league are perfectly sincere ln the conviction A Tit. il.ii..inl.llnii rt th i-.r-oll 1 "--J 'Vis - - , , . , sincere people are often mistaken. A aula oeieiue vl uiujuuiviwj , . l ;,. ,1 i a clear-cut Issue in relation to the courts. The differences between the two pro- I posed tariff planks are no greater than the difference between tweedledum and tweedledee. Both men favor a tariff board, but Roosevelt is dissatis fied with the present board. So is Taft. but he took it aa the best he could get, just as Roosevelt took the railroad rate law of 1906. Both men accept the cost of production, to be determined by the board, as the basis of duties. The necessary consequence dustry was dying out in this country. the basis of such apprehension being the shortage of the crop which was first manifested in 1909 and the in crease in. that deficit since."- Seeking for a reason for this it has been sur mlsed at least that this lies in the fact that flax has been raised almost en I sincere person who has enlisted ln a bad cause for lack of proper informa tion or for any other reason may be I tirely on the newly broken sod of the one of the most dangerous individuals frontier and that with the end of avail- in the world. Hence, while we Insist able new soil flax culture will naturally that the effect of Mr. Anderson's cease. I league is the propagation of death, I With the advent of high prices, how. inasmuch as it opposes the progress of ever, which in flax seed was repre- I scientific medicine, we none the less sented by the difference between $1.35 concede that most of the members are a bushel in the Fall of 1909 and $2.45 honest and Innocent of any evil pur- I in the Spring of the following year. i , . pose. "ax growing nas reappeared to some The relation between the league an! extent in localities where its cultlva- the patent medicine interests is per- tlon had long been abandoned, and . , ,, ., ... I fectly well understood and proof has witn gratifying success. This lndl Z?ZV'JJ?Z .: Al 'V.V. kI been given to the public of their inti- cates that flax growing followed th mo noo.ru a """'" """" " , j t- i (Xli. I frnndoi- r hs,D It , . vi.i, , .v,nM ha, rorlnrarl. A I iUrauci..ravo specific declaration for reduction of duties is, therefore, superfluous and it Is apt to raise expectations which in some instances might prove not to be Justified. - Most significant is the difference be tween the two planks dealing with the trusts. Taft will stand by the Sher man law. but recommend that It be clarified by definition. Although the rag'e ., . . . v., . I catio and speechei wVrnt tk; belief that carrying on according to his state- suitable Profe-or Walter Morris is hi. antl-rruat nlank will contain rec- ment, may be deduced from the next of the opinion that stock raising with ommendaTion of n execute bureau laue in hi. letter to 'the effect that a moderate amount of grain growing to administer the law. Roosevelt, vera' e," Bl" " r "l . T h..r lax-a most stress on the ne- Nay hve been put in irons for refus- will eventually prove profitable ln the ,. , .", ing to be Inoculated with a scientific Northwest. There is no reason to .in J .... .. . remedy 'of confessedly filthy origin." doubt that this combination will in central banking reserve. Roosevelt P06" Mr- Anderson happen -to know time extend to .the eastern sections of will corfine himself to condemnaUon origin or tne raoisnes on nis ora- "'" P nartlrnlar nlan which has been ner laDle nunj. u u nn .- i m j .uamCile It is idle lor irontier not because it was an un Mr. Anderson to deny that this con- profitable crop on older land, but be- nection exists. It is Just as idle for cause it could be grown with profit him to say that the .league only fights I more easily on freshly broken sod, and "compulsory vaccination." Vaccination I unui in relatively recent years this must be compulsory "In order to be ef- kind of land has been in supply suf- fectuai. As long as the right to en- nclent to meet the demand. " danger the health of the community is Agricultural stations throughout the I conceded to the ignorant and careless country cheerfully supply such infor diseases like smallpox will continue to I mation as is needed to make flax cul The sort of "campaign of edu- ture, either for seed or fiber, profit where flax growing as a side line in farming has now and again, for many years been tried, .but where market condi tions for the disposal of trie crop have not been favorable n t natlitnla, nlan wrhtt. tina hMll I wn. -nth th nam- of Airlrloh. fact that a remedy comes from a dla- That difference does not exclude the agreeable source has nothing whatever possibility of agreement. J. with Its efficacy. If the marines The difference between th two ,n the NaTy refused to obey regula- corservaUon planks is not likely to be tlon they f?ht to have been put In great if, as has been promised, tho 'rns. It stands to reason that the plank will have Borah's approval. But Pnywcians in cnarge Knew Dener tnan MTTOTATIONS ON GROWING OlJ. how it will be possible to please the tL 1. ..., In tho Juno number of E. W. Howe's ?!f BT Ah I J0,rnKhosn,tre womf "mire' Monthly, which U published at Potato ournir i n tne cuiniuciiv3 ui nwiweTcii i . .... . . ' 1 tthi om ... 11.1,1... v ai . , .3 v, T,t,, t, k slaughter-houses," Mr. Anderson pro- farm near Atchison, Kan, the edi. are also Roosevelt's supporters is not ceeds to boast that his league has sue- tor ' supplies an intimate discussion clear. The Taft plank, being satisfac- cessfully fought a National health de- of some of his personal peculiarities, tory to Pinchot's former chief lleuten- Partment A queer thing to boast of, rjko aIi revelations of that kind, the ant. Fisher, will satisfy all reasonable ' " not? Th poison trust has sue- artlclo te interesUng and from some conservauonists. ought to be instruc To sum up tne wnoie matter, noose- - - fiv. jja is 59 veirn nlrl h tolie . . i,..,. 1 , trnat naralvrerl It ln the execution. We UVB- aa 18 years Ola, as ne tells veirs one Daage 01 raaic&iism 19 nisi ' ' L 7 , advocacy of direct legislation and Ju- nope mr. Anoerson win not. oe nearu 1J puoiii ui tins iriuiupn. diclal recall, which he admits are not National Issues. The only other sub ject on which he seriously disagrees with Taft is the trusts. The issue between the two men Is us, and because of some changes he has made in his way of life he feels better than he did six years ago. He does not feel younger, he is care ful to explain. He does not be lieve old men when they say did THE PIOXEEB REUNION. Almost before we are aware June h n a nasAArl Atrnin Inrn Jrina anrl its 1 thav "fool vnim u-o than thm, really personal Had not Taft J-eTnoyeo overlapping days have brought us when they were boys.' His opinion is 1 """ again to the annual fete day of pio- that they either deceive themselves or meet trust, ni.11 no piblcii uU. .r neers as designated by the Oregon else "deliberately He," to quote a fa- u o. .ic.i a " Pioneer Association. The day of this mous political sage. Probably It is 1?h, R,008evelt ?yld have fo"na no reunion falls this year upon Thursday, the latter offense of which they are difficulty except his own ambition in Jlme , June ra.n, wcro need9d and ruilty. old men are notoriously men supporting Taft for a second term. the force8 of evldentiy ned dacious, especially in referring to the f, """"" a council and decided that the Rose days of their boyhood. "How we old blned with the reflections cast upon Festlval those who attended It men are given to lying," exclaims Fal- w.lfJ!" VL r?!'! could better "tand a netting down at staff. Both the joys and the troubles k.'V.,.. .. ! tBe benest or this neea tnan couia tne of boyhood are magnified in the mem vanity by Taft .refusal to place men ploneer reuion and the aged persons ory of the aged. The editor of Howe's of his choice in the Cabinet. The who come hlther to it; hence Month,y teU, us that he ,eft off husl. whole population of Adullams cave the skIe, red down at lntervaIs aI1 nes8 about elghteen montha ago, con. iVl .ZVMPjE la8t week and thl8 week hav0 bent trary'to the advlce f a his friends rlr IT ,,Ir! above blue and balmy- ADd physicians and has found idie- nfj? t hL , !. , wi. .1 The, programme for the entertain- ness agreeable. He prefers to rust out, called on him to save it. His present ment of our y and grizzled state- he explains. Instead of wearing out XfL S re-ofv?d tohor bul,der3 de DOt- and ,n tn8 nature 0f Wlse auihoriUes insist th.' "Xst- fter he resolved to be the savior. th,nrs cannoti vary p.eaty from year ing 0uf is apt to be a pretty expedi te year. Much of the pleasure of tne tlous process when a man has been A BLIGHT ON intention. . reunlcn, both in expectancy and real- closely tied to his business for manv The torpor which monopoly strikes Ization, centers ln and about the ar- years and suddenly leaves it, but Mr. into Inventive genius is well illustrated mory, wherein long tables are spread. Howe's case seems to be an exception, in the case of the shoe machinery These, flanked "by chairs and gay with There are exceptions to all rules, but trust, which is now under prosecution the sweetest and brightest flowers of they are not safe to depend on. What by the Government. The trust had June, laden with viands, dainty and ig good for our editorial friend may be bought up the patents for machines substantial, invite the pioneersold disastrous for the common run of used ln every step o shoe manufac- ana miaaie-agea, grave ana gay to mankind. It is perilous to break off ture and leased them to manufacturers come in and partake of the bounty of any long-continued habit suddenly, on condition that none of them should their generous hosts, the citizens of even when the. habit is a bad one. The be used ln conjunction with any non- Portland. best authorities insist that the use of trust machine. In order to secure any The occasion throughout is one to alcoholic beverages, ruinous as It Is, trust machine, one must lease all his which hundreds of men and women must cease gradually and not all at machines from the trust. who are passing down the sunset slope once If the patient wishes to escape Thomas G. Plant, a Massachusetts ' u'e loolc forward with pleasant an- serious trouble from his abstinence, shoe manufacturer, undertook to tlcipatlon throughout the year. Life Mr. Howe Just at present is struggling "buck the trust." He could not do so "as maae conquest or many tnings with the tobacco habit. When he was without machines for every process of tnat once were tneirs. as sung Dy the industry and he must avoid the Ella Wheeler Wilcox: least appearance of nfringing on any .VdTo'mJ? tn. year.: one Of the trusts patents. If any one I Bold, brigand heathen that broke of his machines should be held to ln- " 's ot reason recKiessiy ment to the intellectual life of ' the state, used in former years to smoke a dozen cigars a day, and strong ones at that. One morning as he was about to light the first of the series it sud denly occurred to him that he was smoking too much.' The thought stayed his match. He paused, delib erated, resolved. He did not throw away the cigar, but neither did he light It. In his pocket there were the daily dozen which he had been in the habit of consuming for the stupefac tion of his intelligence. ' He did not throw them away. Everything re mained exactly as it was with him except that hei did not light a cigar that morning, nor did he light one at any other time. A resolve with that man was a resolve. Once made,, it was kept. From that time to this he never has used tobacco again. What man has done, man can do, though we confess that it depends somewhat upon the man. Persons 01 mature years seldom really change any of their hab. its, either for good or bad. Most men crystallize at about the age of forty, and as they are then, so they remain to their death. They learn nothing new, though they forget much. Their beliefs are fixed. Their ideas are solidified. Their minds lose all plas ticity. To this rule there are excep tions, like Mr. Howe, but they are rare. Reformers and revivalists are well aware of this natural calcification of the mind, and therefore they seldom want to waste much energy upon adults. The age of adolescence is the proper period of reform and habit forming. Build up a series of good habits, then, says Dr. Stanley Hall, and they will be your friends through life. Build up bad ones and they will be your lifelong foes. Most men man age to form at least two or three hab its in their youth which follow them like St. Paul's body of death, as long as they live. If it is not tobacco, it Is drink, and in too many instances it is both, to say nothing of others as bad. Npbody can give any good rea son why men should infest their lives with" these ruinous habits. Mr. Howe truly says that most of them are troub lesome to acquire, they never cause any pleasure and they insidiously breach the fortress of health. Why do we so industriously acquire them? No doubt Diogenes would reply: "Because we are fools." Perhaps the new doc trine of efficiency will create ideals of life which will militate against the formation of destructive habits. The motto of youth nowadays is "fitness." The precept is "Always keep yourself up to your best." Something is Idst I out of life for every minute that we1 pass below our maximum efficiency, and the worst enemy of efficiency is vice. Labor wearies a man, but he can recover from it. "Vice wearies him and he cannot recover. He may think he can, but nature forgives no sin, and sooner or later she exacts her pound of flosh. POLITICAL SITUATION ... GRATE The Colonel's favor is capricious. Root was once the greatest of states- men; now he is a reactionary. Taft was the only man to carry on the Roosevelt policies; now the dictionary is gutted for opprobrious adjectives to describe him. Dixon was the great campaign manager; now that apostle of popular rule, "Bill" Fllnn, is the man. Lodge was once the chosen spokesman; now Borah is the only man whose eloquence can adequately describe the naked thefts committed by the steam roller. The only man ln whom the Colonel has thorough and continuous confidence is one T. Roosevelt. Miss Dessie Green, of L63 Angeles, and her lover made a tragic blunder by trying to elope on a train." - Of course - the police were nofetfled and caught them at the depot. . An elope ment being a medieval performance, must be carried out by medieval meth ods. The couple should shun rail roads, the telegraph and the telephone and betake themselves to the wild woods, where there are no policemen. Alas, how increasingly difficult It grows to play the lawless savage in our decadent modern world. We rejoice to see that there is one pastor who believes in paying a trib ute of honor and respect to "father" as well as "mother." The Rev. Mr. Berringer, of Vancouver, has celebrat ed a "fathers' day" with solemnly ap propriate festivities and we take this opportunity to praise him for it. Per haps we err ln believing that he got his Inspiration to this beautiful deed from The Oregonian. At any rate, we made the suggestion not long ago, and, until corrected, shall modestly claim the credit. Sw Says J. H. Wllaaw, "Who Specalate Party .Future. CORVALUS, Or., June (To the Editor.) I notice in an editorial in The Oregonian, the question "Can the Party Be Saved?" indicating that it seems to be more of a personal matter than one of principle. ' " I belong to that section of the Re publican party sometimes misnamed in dependents. We like to do our think ing but nevertheless when the time comes to vote we usually line up for the party candidates. In the case of Bowerman vs. West, quite a number of us supported West, not because there was anything in West to be sup- ported, but because the section of the Republican party usually denominated the "old guard" undertook to jam an unsatisfactory candidate down ur throats, and mud slinging in the cam paign became a bit too fierce for us to swallow. Piethlng wrong with Bower- man either, the modus operandi was wrong. The question you have asked in The Oregonian, Can the party be saved T goes deeper than the personal prefer ences of the several delegates at Chi cago. Doubtless the negro delegates. and possibly some of the whites also, would - incline towards the candidate whose supporters came through with thet most cash. Then the question Would be which side has the most cash? Mr. Taft is undoubtedly a man of great and unswerving fidelity to the cause he represents and I do not believe for a moment he would side-step, or allow his supporters to do so with money to buy a delegate. But can he control "v likewise, Mr. Roosevelt, who for a "quick-change artist" takes ... y thinks he believes the things he has. been- Saying and . uii. uui like lor his 'supporters to buy delegates.. Whatever may be their individual feelings on ' the subject, every man in the United States today has both eyes squarely on that proposi tion and the one of them who seems to be buying delegates will surely fall down ln the election next Fall, ir suc cessful now. ' La Follette is my Individual pref erence and likely he will not get a "look ln" at the convention, and if he did get the nomination, it is quite likely that the Democratic party could elect over him. La Follette would not arouse much enthusiasm among Taft and Roosevelt disappointed adherents. . The questions before the people of the United States -in this coming elec tion are more than personal prefer ences towards this or that candidate. I believe I voice aiarge sentiment among Republicans when I say that many of them have become weary of waiting for the Republican party to do radical things. As one prominent Republican, wh6 has always voted the Republican ticket straight, and is now a Soclal ist,expressed it to me recently. "They always talk right before election but don't do anything afterwards." Now the Democrats are no better. They always talk right but do nothing. What can they do? There is -nothing Re publicans cannot do that 'Democrats can do. If Bryan was elected what could he do? Just precisely as Mr. Taft has done and little or nothing more. Wilson the same. Clark, Underwood or Harmon about the same, only a little more so. The people know exactly where they stand with Mr. Taft at the head of the country. At the present writing there is no other candidate whom they think likely to be elected of whom this can be said. The Socialists are al together too radical. Their programme Is revolutionary. They have a splen did hope and clear -Idea of what they want to do. Uplift of the laboring man is the xnalnvtdea but their way of going about this is not adapted to conditions in the United States today. Whqther it will ever be possible for the Socialists to succeed in their plans is doubtful, unless they very much modify their plans; but their heart is right, - and 'that is something. The next logical ' step for Roosevelt would, seem to be a mild form of So cialism.. Because he is taking a large measure of the wind from their sails they call him the "Bait of wind f7-om Sagamore Hill." It is more or less apt, - too, considering the well-known char acter of his financial support. But, out of the whole mlxup, the probabilities are that Roosevelt will be the candi date and that Republicans generally and many Democrats will support him. For the very same reasons which are now at the front, I said last Decern ber that probably Roosevelt and Bryan would, be .the candidates, but no one took that seriously. They see the poin now. I - sincerely hope everyone is wrong and that both, parties will put up dark horses who can carry the party vote to each candidate and let the country continue along prosperous imes, ior there are many Blgns ln the sky of possible unsatisfactory nnanciai conditions. J. t. WILSON. POTENTIAL WEALTH IN HARNEY. Three thousand citizens of Cowlitz County purpose doing volunteer work on their roads today and the spirit in which they labor betokens much -re sult. Volunteers are better laborers than men "warned out" by the super visor under the old method. It Is to be hoped there will be a few drags and rollers to put a proper finish to the frolic. The Oregon hop market is sliding and growers who contracted at 25 cents are fortunate. Prospect of a large world crop forecasts a price un- er 20 cents for Oregons. Figuring on 8 cents for production, there will be enough profit "for the purchase of many automobiles in the Fall. fringe, his chain would be broken and iS Sat Joy of "t. Ttk.t write, worthless. He succeeded in having in. I Its music In th major key ,r,l.. .ft r.t -v,. . Ana will not usten to a minor strain. " J " " I These thins and many mora cninery, wntcn leading snoe manuiac- I . Ar spoils 01 time. I a boy he underwent infinite misery to learn the habit and now in his riper years he Is afflicting himself with greater misery to get rid of it. But he has his reasons. He finds that now and then there is a queer feeling at the base of his brain which might eas. Illy slip into paralysis. At any rate he believes it might When he does not turers pronounced equal to, and ln I But our dear and cheerful pioneers smoke this feeling does not trouble some cases better than, that of the yielded up these things so naturally; him. Again he has noticed a white trust. H offered it to the trade at a I the shadows of life's evening have spot on his lip. Just at the spot where - much lower cost than that of the gathered about them so softly and the cigar has been pressing year after trust a system. The trust s only ai- insensibly that the conquest made is year. This may not be the beginning tentative to defeat was to buy ilra out. I practically unf elt and unregretted. I of a cancer, and yet it may. When Mr. 11 couia not do mis at a smaii price 10 nave uvea in tne transition age nowe aoes not smoKe tne wnite spot unless it "put on the screws." Con- between savagery and civilization; to contracts and finally vanishes. He is trolling the money market, it put them have been moving factors ln the quitting the habit, he confesses, be on. Mr. Plant needed about $2,000,000 great" drama that has been so won- cause he "Is scared." Well he may be. to carry on his enterprise. On his derfully staged; to have witnessed A cancer of the Hp Is the smoker's merits he was entitled to this much the growth of a state in homes and heritage and it is not a pleasant corn credit. He had property worth $4,- schools, ln philanthropic institutions panlon to take with one to the grave. 000,000 to $5,000,000, and his shoe fac- and churches, in agriculture and com- Mr. Howe does not believe that tory was earning $500,000 to $600,000 merce. ln trade and Industry, ln trans- many men succeed in "quitting" the a year. But the bankers who were portation and invention, is to have tobacco or any other bad habit. Per able to give him credit did not judge been constant attendants upon a mov- haps not, and yet It is done every day. him on his merits as a substantial ing picture show, the stage of which While most of those who try fail and man, able to repay the loan with in- was the years, the themes of which go back to their wallows, there are terest. They were either controlled are summed up under the general some who persevere and recover from by or under the influence of the trust, terms, development and change. their slavery. A well-known citizen of which kept large sum on deposit with Throughout this era, themselves a Oregon, who has long been, as orna- j The new Snake River bridge an nexes Idaho to Oregon, Oregon to Idaho. In developing the country and business intercourse state boun daries are made only to be crossed. A Seattle dispatch recounts that a 4-year-old baby shot his brother. But shouldn't the tragedy tie accredited di, rectly to the peVson who permitted the child to reach a loaded rifle? - Whether local talent is rightly sus pected or not, tho forger who put over the Minneapolis deal could give lessons to a mere second-rater such as J. Rufus Wallingford. Ohio convicts differ from the Ore gon brand. They climb over the walls and are killed, while here they work the system and leave regrets. . No matter how busy the country may be with other affairs, the Colo rado River always claims attention by bursting its banks. Thirty-two years ago the doings of a Chicago convention ruptured the country for a week, but the wounds healed rapidly. Taft stands by. General Wood by ve toing the Army bill containing the rider. t The. naval militia gave "Captain" Shepherd the merry haw, haw! Easy money never sticks. died in poverty. De Larm "MEDICAL FREEDOM" IS DEFENDED Secretary of League Tells of Member- - hlp and Pnrpoiea. PORTLAND, June 16. (To the Edi- tor.) Your recent editorial reference to the National Leaeue for Mp.riiral Freectom is of such a nature that it should not go unchallenged. The league has; in the short space of less than two years, built up a bona fide mem barshlp in the United States of more than 300,000; ln Oregon alone more than 7000. This membership will com pare favorably ln intelligence and nor als with any other organization in existence. Have these people banded themselves together for the "propagu tlon of death" as you suggest? The charge that the league is backed by the patent medicine interests has been so often refuted that other fic titious sources of its existence have constantly had to be invented. The league does not fight vaccination; it fights compulsory vaccination. It has entered on a campaign of education; it furnishes information about such in cidents as the placing ln irons of sev eral hundred enlisted men ln the United States Navy for refusing to be in oculated with a so-called "scientific' remedy of confessedly filthy origin. The league is waking the people up, before such treatment becomes gener ally compulsory, a state of affairs open ly advocated by those now seeking the establishment of state medicine. "Com pulsion, not persuasion, is the keynote of state medicine," said Dr. Samuel Dixon. " The league also furnishes information about the growing abuse of surgery with its system of "split fees," which system has a tendency to diminish the respect for human life and to make -of the hospitals mere slaughter-houses. In addition to these things the league pleads guilty to fighting the estab lishment of a so-called department ot health." and what is more, it is doing so successfully. - The phenomenal sue cess of the league during its brief ex istence and the readiness with which people see the logic and justice of our position after an unprejudiced ex amination of our claims, promise much for the aceomplishment of the object of the league that each system of medicine or healing shall stand on its merits without Government assistance. CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, Secretary Oregon Branch National League for Meaicai f reedom. Seeking; Job on a Beat. OREGON CITY, Or., June 14. (To the Editor.)- When will the next Civil Service examination, be for policemen for the city of Portland? With whom must I file my application for police man and when? , A READER. ' No examination has been set. Ad dress Secretary Civil Service Commis sion, City Hall, Portland. All appli cants must have lived In, Portland one year before being eligible for examina tion. 'J- Visitor Prophealea Great Future for Bis Eastern Oregon County. BURNS, Or, June 14. (To the Ed itor.) Although I have seen most of Eastern Oregon, this is my first trip into Harney County, and after travel ing several hundred miles In an auto mobile ln company with County School Superintendent L M. Hamilton and then only seeing a small portion of the county, I am Impressed that it is great county of magnificent distances. It contains 10,000 square miles and is the largest counts ln the state. It Is a big county of big men and big op portunities. It is supposed to be one of the dry counties and a great many new settlers are coming in and devot ing some ot its. broad fertile acres to dry farming. But if they always have as much rain as they have had this season, es pecially since I have been here, when we have had anywhere from a light sprinkle to a good downpour every evening for supper, I should say dry xarmlnjr is a misnomer. When this valley is once put under water, there are thousands upon thou sands of acres that will grow the finest of alfalfa, and a large part of the val ley is well adapted to grain growing. Some of the higher lands are subject to late frosts, but it is generally be lieved that that will be, lessened when the country is put under cultivation. Much, too, can be done In the way or introducing hardy grains and alfalfas that are better adapted to these condi tions. To this end the local experiment station, four miles east of Burns, a branch of tfie Oregon Agricultural Col lege exneriment station of Corvallis, will aid very materially by the experi ments being conducted there by Super intendent Brelthaubt- Mr. Brelthaubt has Just selected an other ten-acre experimental plot near the new townslte of Harriman, which was donated by local enterprise. He is also doing a lot of co-operative experi mental work with the farmers in dif ferent parts of the county. Everyone seems to have unbounded faith ln Mr. Brelthaubt and he seems to be the right man in the right place ana- will no doubt accomplish a srreat deal of good for the agricultural interests of the county. When the Government develops the Silvies irrigation project, which it no doubt will before many years, Harney will produce a world of alfalfa, and from her immense ranges and her big hay stacks, will go to market more cattle and sheep, as well as hogs, tnan has ever been dreamed of by the most optimistic inhabitants of the county. The high price of cattle of last year and year before has depleted the cat tle population of the county one-hair, and now there are thousands of acres of the choicest range and worlds of natural meadow hay are going to waste for the want of something to eat It. It is really a stigma upon the fair name of this county that they are shipping n here annually about $25,000 worth of pork, when conditions are good for its production in many parts of the county. It is-very much to the credit of the Harney County National Bank that is undertaking to remedy this con dition by importing from the . East large numbers of brood sows to be supplied to the farmers at actual cost. Lack of transportation facilities and consequent Isolation are largely respon sible for these backward conditions, but with present active operations of both the Harriman and Hill lines, it appears that this will be remedied about as fast as capital can be con verted into railroads. On account of the sparse population and the great distances to be traversed to reach any central point, the School Children's Fair cannot be expected to make the showing here that it can ln the more densely populated parts of the country. Interest is good ln many places, and with the county fair at Burns, making the School Children's Fair a special feature for one day, a very creditable showing will be con fidently expected. Superintendent Hamilton and I trav eled several days- over the northern part of the county, holding a number of ptibllc meetings with good interest. Practically all of the schools are closed and ln all of our rounds we found only one school in session to talk to. Our work ln the county was brought to a close on the evening of the 11th at Burns, where quite a large public meeting was held, our lecture being illustrated by the moving picture of the Oregon State Fair livestock and the Portland Union Stockyards. One of the most interesting spectacles I have seen ln all my travels in this work I found at Harriman, in one of the new dry farming sage brush districts. There I found a nice garden made and culti vated by Eva Denman, a pretty little miss of 14 Summers. In the absence oftali the men folks from the place, she had hitched her team of Shetland polnee t a harrow and prepared and planted good-sized patch of ground to a varlet of garden vegetables and alialta. w. U. M-A-K1B. The Convention Cauldron By Dean Colllaa. (Scene: Chicago.) Curtain rising. Shows a turmoil most surprising; Taft and also Theodore And La Follette sweep and soar. Round the big convention pot, With confusion boiling hot. Mixing politics they go Whirling round the caldron so; . Brewing up a charm and mlxln' Dope McKlnley culled, or Dixon, Or some other gink who picks Herbs from fields of politics. Gen'ral Public, ln the right. Watches them with all his might. Wondering just what is doing, In the caldron where they're brewing.) Taft and also Theodore, And La Follette, sing and roar. While the fateful charms they mix In the pot of politics: "Double, double, toll and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble; In the fumes disintegrate The contested delegate. Rumble, rumble, crush and crumble. 'Neath the roller's wheel they tumble; All of this we've go to do, When convention charms we brew. Higher, higher fumes the fire; In the pot we cast a 'liar,' With some other epithets, That are old, stock campaign bets. Stir into the steaming mess. Dopesheets fresh from off the press. Each with the statistics in it Simmered right down to the minute. All of this, and more we've got In Chicago's campaign pot Fuss and worry, strife and doubt Are mixed in. What will come out?" General Public, in the right. Answers prompt, with all his might. In the meantime firmly looking At the dope that they are cooking; 1 "All that I can answer thee Is that it's too deep for me; But before this mystic riot Simmers into peace and quiet. There will be, I'm here to state. Something doing, sure as fate." Half a Century Ago ABOUT BUGS AND PINE TREES, Ashland Han Deplore Cutting. Do-em ef Infested Growth. ASHLAND, Or., June 15. (To the Ed ltor.) A local paper has an account ot the Hopkins Estate cutting down $00 of their largest sugar pine trees, east of Ashland, on the advice of a so-called expert in order to destroy the bugs and grubs under the bark. After felling these giants of the primitive woods men are put to work peeling them and the bark is burned. Isn t that simple The paper didn't say it was a Govern ment expert that advised such a rem edy, but it sounds like "burning the barn to kill the rats." Had the late A C. Hopkins lived he would never have consented to the destruction of about $16,000 worth of his largest pine trees on the advice of some so-called expert Had the younger Hopkins consulted with old timbermen in this vicinity, who secured this tract of timber for his father and looked after it for tho past 20 years, .he would know that there are bugs in every torost ana es pecially ln the old trees that are over ripe. It is a part or nature, xnese trees were not yet dead and had they been left standing would have remained sound for many years, even after the bark had all fallen off. Mere was ust as much reason for cutting down and destroying these forest giants as there would be to burn the hemlock lumber yards in the East because bed- buss breed in the piles 01 lumber. Bug hunting and taxes wilt soon eat jd anv tract of timber. Wouldn't it be better to raise woodpeckers to keep down the bug family? That would be a worthy occupation for those treasury sapping experts the Government has to keen. No cause tor alarm. wotning new or dangerous ln the bug world. Instances like the above remind me of the Dutch cop who ran into a store and borrowed H shotgun and began shoot ing at a wheelbarrow in the alley, and when a crowd was attracted and wanted an explanation, he said: "Mad os: run down alley; Bit wheelbarrow. and a mad wneeiDarrow oe a a oai ding." N. F. THRONE. Training for a Great Fa to re. . Washington (D. C.) Star. That boy of mine has a great fu ture." I understand he can ask more ques tions in a day than the whole family can answer in a week." "Yes. He's going to make a fine hand on an investigating committee one of these days." Position ln Geological Sarvey. HAMMOND, Or., June 15. (To the Editor.) Please advise me to whom I should apply for a position with a geological survey party. Yours respect fully, PRESTON KUHN. F. S. Henshaw, 209 Tilford building. iparuam. From The Oreffonian of June 18, 1862. The several Chinese organizations ln San Francisco and ln the state are making arrangements to test ln the Su preme Court the constitutionality of the Chinese tax law. .The Los Angeles News has a private letter from Tucson, dated May 25, which says: "By the 31st of May the Stars and Stripes will wave over Forts Stan ford, Tucson and Buchanan. Then off we go for the Rio Grande. Lieutenant Colonel West took possession of Tucson on the 20th Inst, without firing a shot. The Confederate troops stationed ln that city fled across the Rio Grande on our approach, and the citizens of Tuc son who were imbued with secession proclivities made tracks for Sonora." The Walla Walla Statesman is ad vocating the construction of a railroad from Wallula to Walla Walla, 81 miles, and estimates that the cost of the road complete and in running order would be about $600,000. , " The advance train of the Yreka emi gration arrived at Walla Walla about June 1. The earlier trains had a hard trip and lost most of their cattle by starvation. They were compelled to shovel the snow from the trail. They came by way of the head of Deschutes and the Warm Springs reservation. The route is only practicable for pack trains. From Lewiston We learn from men first down from this place that the water is from two to three feet deeper than was ever known before. In Trevitfs building the water is eight feet deep, and the greater part of the town is submerged. -Ross, Dempster & Co., a firm from San Francisco, have just completed a new building. , Four more convicts escaped nif.ht be fore last from the penitentiary at this place. , We notice "that Mr. Knott has made considerable improvement 'to his wharf at the foot of Taylor street, and that part of the city now presents quite a lively appearance, as all of the shipping and transportation of goods to and from the city is carried on ln that vicinity. Captain Spencer, assisted by Lieuten ant Halloran. has succeeded ln enlist ing quite a number of recruits for their company.. Their recruiting oince is in the uooer story of the postotnee Duiia- ing on Front street, between Alder and Morrison streets. The Postofflce has been temporarily removed to an upper story two doors south of the usual place, ln conse quence of high water. Won Id Improve Unalghtly Corner. PORTLAND, June 16. (To the Edi tor.) Will you kindly suggest to tho Health Department, Police Department, city beautiful committee and Inspector of Immigration that the quarter block on the southeast corner of fourth and Yamhill streets needs Immediate and active attention? It is too late to consider the Rose Festival for this year, but perhaps a decoration of bunting, flags and purple electric lights might make the corner more attractive to the Elks who will be here next month. Probably the city would be pardoned if it were to take enough of the "un earned Increment" of that corner to pay for having the burdock and other noxious weeds removed and the old rags that are there burned. If the Immigration Inspector should settle there a few families of Polish Jews or a decent Chinese laundry or two. It would help a whole lot. Please believe these suggestions are submitted by one who has Portland's best good very much at heart. Any change would be for the better. MRS. A B. WORTH. No Electioneering From Pulpit. PORTLAND, June 17. iTo the Edi tor.) Since Mr. Plummer has seen fit to accuse me of using my pulpit to down him, I will state that his charge that I made any such announcement as that attributed to me ln his news paper statement is absolutely false. It Is true that mention was made of the school electtion to be held Monday, the 17th Inst., But tne cnarge mat mere was any reference made to candidates, even by implication, is without founda tion. Mr. Beacn s cards were nanaeu around on the street after the serv ices and if Mr. Plummer s mends nad industrious enouKh. tbey might have exercised the same privilege. Like Mr. Plummer, i am not a politician, but I am a taxpayer, and as such I feel deeply concerned ln the men that are chosen to expend our taxes. J. U. HUUliiiB. Ksmbet of Votes Oregon Cast. PORTLAND, June 16. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me the number or votes cast 'in Oregon for Taft and Bryan ln the last Presidential election, . OSCAR LABWISUj, Salem, Or. Bryan, $8,049; Taft, 62,680. Information on Land Claims. PORTLAND,' Or., June 14. (To the Editor.) Please let me know where can find out about taking up land in Oregon. J. W. HA-LU Apply at Chamber of Commerce for I homestead bulletin.