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POKTXAM), THTBSDAY. -TTLY M. "1S
f tariff THE MAIN 1SSC1S.
For the first time since 1892 the
tariff la the leading issue in the rra.
e.iai .amnalen. There is a gen
eral condition ot discontent, due -to
the high cost of Uving. and the growth
of trusts. The man who chafes at this
Wden sees the owner oi a "
factory riding in an automobile and
attributes the contrast in condition to
the tariff, scoffing at the time-worn
argument that protection maintains
a high scale of wages and a high stand
ard of living. The tariff is held to be
intimately associated with the trust
end its reduction Is declared to be the
best means of tearing out wr a-.-
: The Democratic platform reaffirms
the doctrine which it has neio. wilu
greater or less consistency from the
first organization- of parties that a
-if fnr inv other purpose than to
raise revenue is unconstitutional. This
might be expected to scare away m
many Republicans who, inougn. ui--atlsfled
in general with the perfonn
r their own party and ready to
express their discontent by vetlng for
a Democrat, are sun pruiotu.,
hut it does not. Their dissatisfaction
wlth general political conditions causes
them to overlook the threat of the
Democrats to destroy the whole iao
ric of protection. The Democrats
isn in effect retract their denun
ciation of protection as unconstitu
tional bv saying:
Wa favor the ultimate attainment of the
principles we savoeaie oy itRii.w .
will not injure or destroy legitimate indus
try. This utterance is a cunningly veiled
Indorsement of incidental protection
and Js in line with the opinion ex
pressed by Wilson in November, 1910.
that "it seems a perfectly consistent
and legitimate principle to allow the
element of incidental protection i
nmn in."
i The Republican platform re-affirms
the doctrine of protection, Dut arjan
dons the difference in cost of pro
'nuottnn m the limit to be fixed. It
admits that some duties should be re
duced, but would base reductions on
findings of fact made by an expert
commission.
Although Roosevelt bids for the
votes of all the discontented, who are
making the .tariff the scapegoat of all
their ills, he is still a protectionist and
owes the bulk of his financial support
to beneficiaries of the tariff. He seeks
to win the discontented without
alarming his protected backers by
Bavins- that the tariff should be so
adjusted that labor will share its
benefits, though how this Is to De
done he does not attempt to explain.
The Democratic plank appears at first
to be a re-affirmation of the plank of
1892. but it is less positive. In. 1892
the party declared without qualifica-
tlon for a revenue-only tariff; in. 1912
It declares for a revenue-only tariff
with Incidental protection.
To put in practice any one of the
three tariff policies described is beset
with difficulties. The Republicans
cannot easily define the measure of
protection, even according to the
theory of difference in cost of pro
duction. and even if they attempt to
divide the protectionist forces by
pursuing Taft's policy of schedule re
vision, they will have a hard struggle
ahead within their own ranks. Roose-
.velfs hazy policy Is obviously fraught
with difficulties in the attainment of
Its purpose.
The Democrats must face the prob-
lem of raising about a billion dollars
a year revenue. If they should adopt
the English free trade policy of lm
posing duties only on commodities not
produced at home and on liquors
equal to the internal revenue tax.
they could not raise nearly enough
,We consume few articles which are
not produced to some extent in our
own country; England imports almost
all and produces but few of her
staples. England also has available
sources of revenue on which our
Federal Government cannot draw. If
we Increased our internal revenue
taxes, the result might be to deteri
orate the quality of liquor, beer and
tobacco and to decrease consumption
to such an extent that no larger rev
enue would be secured. We are then
driven to a choice between a revenue
tariff which would unavoidably afford
Incidental protection to some indus
tries; a purely free trade tariff ac
companied by imposition of new
direct taxes, which would provoke a
protest so vehement that the com
plaint against the tariff would sound
mild by contrast: and a wholesale re
duction in expenses by abolishing the
pension roll, reduction of the army
and navy to diminutive proportions
and restriction of such valuable ac
tivities of the Government as the
Agricultural Department work, river
and harbor Improvement, reclama
tion, control of railroad rates, trusts,
and protection to labor, children and
public health. Despite all that has
been said against the present tariff.
It certainly produces a revenue suffi
cient for the Government expenses,
including all these valuable activities.
There Is no escape from the con
clusion that a tariff which produces
adequate revenue cannot be devised
which does not at the same time pro
tect some industries. For example,
even 5 per cent, duty on sugar would
to that extent rrotect the cane sugar
growers of Louisiana and the beet
sugar growers of the West. The duty
may be the minimum capable of pro
ducing the necessary revenue, but
there will still be an element of pro
tection in It. This being so, there
rill continue to be a struggle among
divers industries for the benefits of
this protection, infinitesimal as it
may be.
The tariff as a political issue
threatens to be always with us. as It
has always been with us. It will con
tinue to bear the blame of all our
sufferings, but will remain . forever
unsettled, for apparently we cannot
e-et alone without a tariff and we can
nver reach a final agreement on
what it shall be.
PETTIFOGGERS E -POLITICS.
The National Republican Conven
tlon is the official voice and the high
and final authority of the Republican
party. It declares the party prlnci
pies and nominates to be President
the titular head of the party. From
Its decisions there Is no appeal on any
question of party procedure or action
from its conclusions on any matter
of party policy there can be no dis
sent by any one who professes himself
a Republican.
The National Republican Conven
tion is the Judge of its own member
ship. It prescribes the qualifications
of its delegates and determines their
eligibility. From its decisions there
is, for there can be, no appeal.
If the National convention elects to
seat one set of contesting- delegates
from a state, that Is the convention'
concern; for perfect title la given to
one delegate or another by. the con
vention itself and by no other.
A National convention may act with
prejudice, or Injustice, or unfairness,
or even with dishonesty. In determin
ing its own membership; . but that is
its own business, so far as the entire
validity or regularity of its proceed
ings is concerned. The right of the
convention to do what it may elect to
do as to its own composition is inde
feasible.
All these principles as to the make
up of a political party and its method
of carrying on its business are ele
mental. It Is childish and puerile,
therefore, to say that a candidate
nominated by a Republican conven
tion is not the nominee of the party.
It is presumptuous, audacious and In
defensible to the last degree for a can
dldate for Presidential elector to "re
pudiate" the nominee of his party and
to declare that he will use his office
to support a candidate who is not the
nominee of his party, but who openly
proclaims himself to be forming
third party so as to be the nominee
of another than the Republican party,
PR. WILSON OS OREGON SYSTEM.
The New York Times, a Democratic
newspaper which sometimes supports
the Democratic ticket, has been ex
amining the record of Dr. Wilson,
with the consoling result that it finds
the Democratic candidate to be en
tirely sane on such alarming pro
posals as the recall of Judges and the
Initiative and referendum. The Times
quotes Dr. Wilson's address at Kan
sas City, May 5, 1911, wherein he
strongly opposed the recall of judges.
for their "independence and freedom
and their sense of dignity are of first
consequence to the State," and "to
apply to them the principle of the re
call is to set up the idea that de
terminations of what the law Is must
respond to popular Impulse and
popular judgment." The Times also
quotes the Dabney letter (December
26, 1911) wherein Dr. Wilson declared
the judicial recall to be "a remedy for
a symptom and not a disease." The
Times overlooks another record re
mark of Governor Wilson, when, .in
Portland, Oregon, he admitted that
there was no logical reply to the argu
ment that . if the people were fit to
elect judges they were fit to recall
them; but he slid gracefully out of
the dilemma by saying that he "did
not care a peppercorn for logic.
There is therefore no satisfactory
answer to the question as to why the
recall should be applied to all public
officers except judges, and popular
elections should Include all, officers.
juaiciai, executive and legislative.
But the Times does not limit to the
recall its discussion of Dr. Wilson's
curious attitude toward the Oregon
system. It also repeats this para
graph from the Dabney letter:
It Interested me very much to And that
even In Oregon literally no one thought of
these new methods of action as a substi
tute for representative Institutions, but only
as s. mflui oi stimulation ana control.
They are as devoted to the Idea of out
representative Institutions as we are and
are bent upon realizing these Ideas in prac
tice, mat is meir conscious ODjeou
We leave for future discussion . the
interesting inquiry as to how far Dr.
Wilson's academic notions of an ideal
system of government have led him
astray as to the Oregon system
Meanwhile, it appears clear that Dr.
Wilson heartily approves the Oregon
system so long as no one uses it.
WORKING FOR HIGH FEES.
The noted alienists at the recent
hearing into the Insanity of Harry
Thaw were able to agree only as to
the approximate amount of their fees
and their duty to their respective em
ployers. The printed reports show
that the amounts charged by each of
these high-priced experts ranged
about 12000. The record shows also
that the scientists who were paid by
Thaw say that Thaw is sane and the
scientists who were paid by the State
declare that Thaw is Insane. It would
hardly be Just to say that these great
alienists gave their opinions solely
for pay; likely they would say that
they were paid because their opinions
were as they were. But in either case
they are equally worthless in indicat
ing a satisfactory Judgment as to
Thaw. These are the conclusions of
the alienists:
Dr. Austin Flint Thaw Is a true tsr-
anoiac ana mignt commit anotner nomiciae
ir given nis liberty.
Sr. Carlos F. Macdonald Thaw la a true
paranoiac with homicidal tendencies, and
wou:a ce a puoiic menace ir liberated.
Dr. John W. Russell Thaw Is conatltu-
tlonally Inferior, and under his former con
ditions of life might commit another mur
der. Dr. "William white Thaw Is not insane
and would do no harm If liberated.
Dr. Adolph Meyer Thaw Is not Insane
and never has been. He la a plain mur
derer. He should bo given his liberty.
If Thaw is insane, he should be
kept in an asylum. If he Is sane, he
should be sent to prison for murder.
If the law provided, and Judges and
Jury decreed, that any person who Is
guilty of homicide, and who makes
the plea of insanity, should auto
matically be sent to an asylum for
life or for a period of years, there
would be less scandal about the
prosecution of murderers, and fewer
murders.
Why should the law suffer the
thameful spectacle of having Thaw
proved insane so as to save his neck,
and in turn prove him sane so as to
restore to him his liberty?
THE FOLIOS AND CRIME.
If Rosenthal was murdered by his
fellow-gamblers alone the police of
New York are miserably inefficient.
If he was murdered by the police, as
some circumstances indicate, then the
police are the worst breakers of the
law they are sworn to defend. It is
sufficient shame to the police of New
York that such a crime should be
committed on Broadway, the Great
White Way, the boasted main thor-
ughfare of western civilization.
without the added shame of its being
committed by members of the .police
force themselves.
Such crimes and the charges and
counter-charges leading up to and
growing out of them prove that the
work of regeneration in our municipal
governments has but begun. It will not
be complete until the police force of
every city is Itself cleansed of crime
and collusion with crime, and con
verted into the army for prosecuting
the war on crime which the law In
tends. The existing evils are partly
due to divided responsibility which
can be alleviated, rf not cured, by the
commission form of government.
They are also due to the lack of dis
cipline, which can be secured only by
a semi-military form of administra
tion, conducted by officers of high
character and military training, but
with, the common sense to ' modify
military methods in accordance with
the peculiarities of the police service.
The police force, particularly the de
tectives, should be recruited . from a
higher type of men, who would not
yield to the temptations peculiar to
the service and whom ' lawbreakers
would be less disposed to approach
with corrupt proposals.
The evils upon which the Rosen
thal murder fastens attention are not
confined to New York, but the revela
tion of the extent to which they exist
there is most striking, because New
York is the largest and richest city in
the country and should be a model
municipality after which all others
should be proud to copy. We are
having in Portland an experience
growing out of unfaithfulness of -at
least some of the. police to their duty,
and it remains to be discovered
whether this unfaithfulness was not
at the dictation of the mayor and his
chief. Other cities have had like ex
periences, and only, after a political
upheaval did Seattle, send a criminal
chief of police to the penitentiary.
A CENSURE WHICH INDORSES.
No event of President Taft's Ad
ministration has been more fortunate
to him than the adoption by the Sen
ate of a resolution censuring him
for using his influence to bring abou
the unseating of Lorimer. That reso
lution Is an . advertisement to the
whole nation of Taft's opposition to
Lorimer; it is the strongest possible
refutation of the charge, often re
peated by Roosevelt, that Taft was
friendly to Lorimer and refused to use
his influence against the disgraced
Senator. This refutation is strength
ened by the fact that among those
who voted for it, and thereby ex
pressed their belief that Taft worked
against Lorimer, are the Insurgent
Senators Bourne, Clapp and Works,
and that all except six of the sup
porters of the resolution were Demo
crats.
The general proposition set forth In
the Senate resolution will not gain
much support among the people.
They regard the presence in the Sen
ate of a man elected by bribery as
a matter on which every citizen has
not only a right but a duty to ex
press his opinion, and to exercise his
influence that the Senate be purged
of the corrupt member. The Senate
is not a club; it is a representative
body created by the people to do some
of their work. The expulsion or re
tention of a member is truly within
the exclusive Jurisdiction of the Sen
ate, but it is within the province of
every citizen to call upon the Senate
to exercise that Jurisdiction and to
express an opinion how it should be
exercised.
This being the right of every Indi
vidual citizen, still more is It the right
of the President. He fills not only an
executive but a legislative office and
is at the head of both those depart
ments of the Government. He is the
direct representative of all the peo
pie, while the Senators and Repre
sentatives each represent only a frac
tion of the people. The people look
to him to take the initiative in every
movement to promote their interests
or to right a wrong. To this end, they
expect him to exert his influence on
Congress not only as a body by mes
sage but as Individuals by personal
solicitation. If he uses this influence
to bring about legislation desired by
the people he is rewarded by re
election as were McKinley in 1900
and Roosevelt in 1904. If he uses it
ill, he Is punished by defeat. If he
refrains from using It and bad laws
are passed, he is held responsible for
neglect. Public opinion as to the
functions of the President does not
regard the cold letter of the Consti
tution; it looks to him from the
nature of his office and the manner
of his election to champion the gen
eral interest against the particular,
local or personal interest.
Had Taft earlier in his Administra
tion exerted the same pressure, there
would have been a different story to
tell of the last three years. Had he
brought pressure to bear in favor of
a thorough revision of the tariff, the
Payne-Aldrich bill might have come
nearer satisfying the people, the
elections of 1910 might have been an
indorsement of his Administration
the insurgent movement might not
have gained such strength and there
might have been no Roosevelt can
didacy and no talk of a third party.
It will be counted to his credit that
he used his power In the Lorimer case
and it will be regretted that he al
lowed himself to be held back from
using it earlier by too narrow a con
ception of its limitations.
HOT WEATHER COUN'SET.8.
The Federal Bureau ' of Chemistry
has issued some hot weather counsels
to the public which might be useful if
they were dutifully followed. But we
fear they will not do a great deal of
good upon the whole because a per
son who has not native sense enough
to take care of himself Is not veiy
likely to heed good advice. The pre
cepts of the paternal bureau of chem
istry cover the important departments
of food, clothing and drink with a few
directions about the proper state of
mind to preserve when the thermom
eter Is high. To begin with, we are
admonished not to worry, and, having
attained to a serene calm, we are urged
to loaf and sleep at every opportunity.
A man who can keep from worrying
can probably sleep both day and night,
and It is needless to advise him to
loaf, since that Is about the only thing
he ever does when he is awake. Un
fortunately, worry and efficiency are
pretty closely united in this ill-con
trived world, while the only people
who are capable of loafing much are
those who are good for nothing else.
The habit of Indolence Is one which
ought to be diligently Inculcated at
Sunday school. Most Americans need
it far more than they do the example
of the overpraised ant.
With a benevolent air which Mr.
Pickwick might have envied, the bu
reau of chemistry advises everybody
to take a vacation while the weather
Is hot. Here again the advice is ex
cellent, and those who do not need it
will follow It. The people who want
vacations worst cannot afford them.
while those whose existence is one un
broken holiday will feel under no par.
ticular obligation to the Government
for commanding their ways. Happily
the practice of knocking off work for
a couple of weeks in Summer Is grow-
ing in this country. There are few
employers nowadays who do not rec
ognize the usefulness of it to them
selves as well as their workpeople.
But when the - weekly income Just
barely meets the needs of the family It
is a mere aggravation to advise a va
cation. The wolf must be kept from
the door when the thermometer is
high as well as when it is low. The
bureau's advice about clothing Is ad
mirable. "Wear the- lightest-weight
clothing.".- it tells us, "and avoid
woolen underwear."
Men employed at hard labor cherish
a curious superstition that heavy wool
underwear is good for their health in
hot weather. One may see them al
most anywhere toiling away in flannej
shirts an inch thick, with the sweat
running in rivulets down their faces,
Their belief is that if they do not wear
heavy wool they will catch cold when
they stop work at the end of the day,
Some of them are afraid to take a
bath for the same reason. If they
did not sweat the dirt from their bod
ies it would remain forever. Hence
the thick underwear, ridiculous as It
Is, serves a useful purpose after all.
There is a distinguished Swedish
health reformer who urges working-
men to go stark naked at their tasks.
If the tyrannical police forbid this hy-
glenic practice on the crowded streets
a strip of cloth about the middle is
permitted; but on farms where inde
pendence reigns, the reformer ion
cedes no relaxation of his strict rule.
When his precepts are adopted we
shall behold the Hood River orchard
ists pursuing their routine in the cos
tume of Adam before the Fall and no
man will dream of putting on a pair of
trousers to drive the mower or wield
the hoe. Whether It will ever become
the vogue for automobllists to follow
the example of the garden of Eden in
the matter of clothing It is Impossible
to predict, but It would be rash to try
to fix any limits to the power of fash
ion. .
In eating the bureau of chemistry
advises abstinence as far as meat Is
concerned. Once a day Is enough to
partake of It, and none at all would be
better. Rice and vegetables are excel
lent hot weather food. Fruit is de
sirable If It is ripe and clean, but upon
the whole fruit probably injures as
many persons as it benefits. It is
eaten too green on the one hand, and
too ripe on the other, while all sorts
of injurious germs are harbored on
the surface and within it. Nothing
uncooked should be eaten In warm
weather until it has been thoroughly
washed. This applies to cherries,
plums and peaches, as well as to let
tuce and radishes. Many a case of
typhoid fever could be traced back to
germs on some delicious fruit or salad.
Good white bread, if It can be ob
talned, Is the best possible Summer
food, but itds difficult to procure. The
restaurants serve more poor than
good bread. If it Is not soggy it is apt
to be scorched in baking.
There is scarcely any need to relter.
ate the well-known rules, for hygienic
drinking in hot weather. The first
and by far the most Important is "no
alcohol" in any disguise. The wise
man will shun beer and wine as well
as stronger beverages in Summer.
They only weaken the physical forces
and tend to shatter the inner citadels
of the body. Alcohol attacks the kid
neys, the ' liver and the brain, while
even a small amount of It taken habit
ually makes lung diseases doubly per
ilous. The belief that It helps with
stand the heat of dogdays is a popu
lar superstition whose origin may be
traced directly back to Satan. Next
to alcohol in its various Insidious
forms comes ice water as a cause of
Summer Ills. It Is a good practice to
drink plenty of water, but without Ice.
When water Is chilled too much it in
tensifies thirst instead of quenching it,
and at the same time upsets the stom
ach and wreaks havoc among the
other internal organs. The taste for
Ice water, like that for alcohol, is ac
quired. The natural, healthy appetite
rejects both with, equal dislike. "Be
sensible, be moderate and keep your
poise and the thermometer need not
trouble you," is the gist of the matter.
We should be predisposed to be
lieve that a dried strawberry would
not be much better than a smoked
kiss, but fact conquers prejudice and
we hall with suitable rejoicing the
genius of the Washington farmer who
has invented a dessicating process for
the most ethereal fruit that grows.
There cannot be much left of a straw
berry when it Is dried but seeds and
sapidity. We assume that the new
process preserves the latter. This
gives it all Its value. What happens
to the seeds we do not care.
Alfonso of Spain is not too much of
a King to be useful now and then.
In the older days of the Spanish mon
archy etiquette would have forbidden
him to spring to the aid of his gen
eral, no matter how serious the dan
ger. But common sense has begun to
triumph over forms and traditions
even in Spain. Perhaps the only
place In the world outside of Thibet
where etiquette is deemed more im
portant than utility is in some of our
American courtrooms.
The people at Wenatchee under
stand the importance of persevering
when they are trying to resuscitate a
person who has been under water for
long time. It required an hour's
work to restore the little Brown boy
to consciousness, but his' rescuers did
not give up and in the end they suc
ceeded. This is the season when
drowning accidents are frequent and
a full understanding of the possibili
ties of resuscitation may save many
lives.
Another Oregonian is suing for
$15,000 for alleged loss of wifely t."
faction. If men valued their wives as
highly before they lose them as they
assert afterward, there would be less
hilarity in the news columns.
One of the sensible things to Hey-
burn's cre'dit is his opposition to the
purchase of Montlcello, but he takes
his customary raw way to show it.
The unterrified, by parading to
night, have chosen an excellent time
to show how a few men make great
noise. Just count them.
The derelict husband who causes
suicide of his wife will have a big
bill for settlement.
From the vista of the dim past
comes news that the charter commis
sion will report next wnek.
A car without a fender caught the
Rudolph baby.
An interesting weather note is that
market reports say butter is firm.
Stars and Star-Makers
Br Leone Cms a Baer.
Denton Vane, who was juvenile last
season with Max Figman at the Helllg,
is playing; with a musical comedy com
pany in Minneapolis, and, with the be
ginning of the Fall season, will come
to this Coast with Rowland ana mil-
ford's "Fortune Hunter," playing the
leads. .
Maude Leone, who was to have played
a special stock engagement in Omaha,
and then Join her husband, Wlllard
Mack, at th Orpheum Theater, Salt
Lake City. Utah, has had to abandon
her plans for a short time. She Is at
the South Omaha Hospital, in Omaha.
Miss Leone, whose eoming was eagerly
awaited by Salt Lake theater-goers
will probably be well enough to rejoin
Mr. Mack in the middle of August.
Rumor say that Alice Fleming is
considering: vaudeville next season.
She is vacationing now, but in her leis
ure time is practicing on a half dozen
original "imitations" and character
songs that have been written for her.
These, strung together with patter and
oulDS. with Miss Fleming's own musi
cal interpolation, are to constitute the
piano talk-alogue which will introduce
another reg'lar actress to the realms of
vaudeville.
For a dansense to fall and sprain her
ankle, crawl off the stage in pain and
return in a few minutes to finish her
act is considered as most extraordinary
in vaudeville, as accidents, as a rule,
excuse a performer from at least one
performance Jennie Linden, of the
Sisters Linden, at the Empress Theater,
Is the little woman who suffered the
mishaD and went on with the dance do
spite the pain. She turned her ankle
on the Empress stage last Sunday night,
fell in a heap and literally crawled to a
Dlace behind the rues. Alter only
few minutes she was back limping and
.smllins;. Jennie Linden and her sister,
Ada, have been in America only since
last March, Joining Yankee vaudeville
after a tour of the London music halls.
Dave Lewis, who toured last season
In the farce. "Don't Lie to Your Wife,
appearing at the Baker, has accepted
another play from the pen of Campbell
B. Casad, entitled "The Butler's iaoy.'
An early production in Chicago is con
templated.
see
Cathrlne Countlss, now at the Helllg,
while touring rural England last Sum
mer, went, of course, to Stratrora-on
Avon. Like ail American visitors who
reverence Shakespeare, Miss Countias
was quite uplifted after she had wan
dered through the church-yard, ana
stood in the half twilight beside the
poet's grave in the quuint old chancul.
Shortly afterward she happened Into a
little notion shop opposite tne nouse
where Shakespeare was born. Miss
Countlss wanted some pioture post
cards, two spools of thread, an eating
apple and a curling Iron. A very stout,
lymphatic old lady was in charge. She
had all the necessities demanded and
many others, including butter, eggs,
cheese and souvenirs.
'"How delightful it must be," ex
claimed Miss Countlss ecstatically, "to
dwell in this beautiful English village,
within the very shadow of the vener
able structure where Shakespeare was
brought into being. " I suppose you
spend hours there?"
Bless your eart. Miss," saia tne
stcut old lady. "I was born under this
ere very roof, but I was never hlnslde
the Shakespeare ouse in my ole life.
e
Al Jolson is appearing in an entirely
new role. Starting last Sunday he be
ean a Coast to Coast tour In his new
automobile, being accompanlea tne en
tire distance by Julius scnwaD, tne
watch manufacturer, and two repre
sentatives from a motor company. The
car has been especially fitted out for
the long journey. Upon the hood Is
painted: "Al Jolson, of the Winter
Garden. Coast to Coast Tour." Varl
ous parts of the machine are decorated
with tags, most of them or a comic
nature.
Oliver Morosco, In taking charge of
the Kolb and Dill company lor tne
next three years, has arranged for a
new play for the comedians, to be pre
sented for the first time at the Savoy
Theater in San Francisco in Septem
ber. It Is the work of Frank Stammers.
Colfax. Wash., has Joined the Sun
day closing towns. Hereafter there
will be no more sunaay snows, ana
all acts, shows and movies will have
pass censorship before production.
Three members of the City Council
are to be the judges.
Franklyn Underwood and Frances
Slosson will stay another four weeks at
Ye Liberty Theater in Oakland. Harry
Bishop arranged the details by wire
from Santa Barbara last week. During
the worst season of the year Ye Liberty
has been playing to phenomenal bus!
ness, and Manager Jackson attributes
this success to the artistry or Mr.
Underwood and Miss Slosson. It was
a certainty that handsome Frank and
his charming wife would draw big
business, but the attendance since the
opening has been of the phenomenal
order.
e -. e
Mrs. Louis James now making her
first vaudeville tour appeared for the
first time in Portland with Louis James
in 1896 in Ingenue and little boy parts.
As she grew she was given stronger
roles with the Louis James company
and several years later she visited
Portland with James, then her husband.
In a starring tour In which they played
Virginius," "The Mercnant or Venice-
and "Richelieu." Still later she ap
peared here in "The Merry Wives - of
Windsor," "The Comedy of Errors" and
in "Peer Gynt." In the season of 1911
when Louis James played here ten
days before the trip East in which he
died Mrs. James took part in "Henry
VIII." Mrs. James was born In Bowl
ing Green, Kentucky.
Elwood Bostwlck, her leading man in
Holdlna- a Husband," at the Orpheum,
has a long Portland record. He starred
here twice in "Lost River," about ten
years ago and before that was lead
ing man nere ior xtose togian in ror-get-Me-Not"
and was featured here
with his brother, Herbert Bostwick,
In "The Heart of Maryland," with Elma
Cruger. "Girls" was produced in Port
land three seasons ago under the man
agement of Elwood Bostwick, who was
the first lieutenant of the Shuberts to
fly the independent flag on the Pa
cific Coast. Helen Wilton, who takes
the cart of the husband's affinity in
Mrs. James' Orpheum sketch, appeared
here three years ago with Frltzl Scheff
in "The Prima Donna" playing the part
of "Mlgnon," the soubrette.
Girls at the Seashore).
N. Y. Satire.
"Well, how . did you find the sei
shore?" .V
"Great!"
"And how did you find the girlsr"
"I didn't have to. They found me!"
. litw Points on Mexico.
Kansas City Journal.
"We call that girl Juarez."
"Why?"
"She's been captured six times
season."
Aa'Enemr'i Eavy.
NEWPORT, Or., July 14. (To the
Editor.) Kindly translate the follow
ing motto for me: "Hostis honori
lnvidla." F. PRIEST.
An enemy's envy is an honor.
Same Kind of Girl and Woman.
Philadelphia Record.
Wigg She's the sort of girl who
positively refuses to stay single.
Wagg That's the sort that also pos
itively refuses to stay married.
WHAT GOV. WILSON SAID OX LABOR
Trades Union Regulations Are Econom
ically Disastrous.
Congressional Record.
Representative Hill: I was exceed
ingly glad this morning to read in the
oaper where I saw Mr. Gompers and
Mr. Morrison and a number, of other
gentlemen were at Seagirt consulting
with the candidate for the Presidency
on the Democratic ticket, and I sin
cerely hope that they asked him to
explain some remarks made by him on
this great subject In 1909 in a bacca
laureate sermon delivered at Princeton
University, contained in the Trenton
True American, June 14, 1909. It was
delivered on Sunday, the day preced
ing. The text was from the seventeenth
chapter of Luke, tenth verse, which,
he says, reads as follows:
"We are unprofitable servants. We
have not done that which was our duty
to do."
Dr. Wilson treated this subject in
this way:
You know what the usual standard of the
employee is in our day. It is to give as
little aa he may for his wages. Labor is
standardized by the trades-union, and this
is the standard to which it is made to con
form. No one is suffered to do more than
the average workman can do. In some
trades and handicrafts no one is suffered to
do more than the least skillful of his fellows
can do within the hours allotted to a day's
labor, and no one may work out of hours
at all or volunteer anything beyond the
minimum.
And. gentlemen on the other side,
this is your candidate for President.
"I need not point out how econom
ically disastrous such a regulation of
labor is "
Let me Inject: Last night I rose
in my place and asked unanimous con
sent to publish a tariff address of Dr.
Wilson, delivered before a tariff com
mission holding a public hearing for
that purpose, held in Atlanta, Ga., In
which he aimed to give the official
authorities of the United States his
views on the tariff. To be sure, that
was 30 years old; but he has not
changed them since, for he said only a
few days ago, or a few weeks ago, in
New York that the whole Republican
position and platform was "ignorant
and preposterous." He appeared In At
lanta as a free trader, and, in my judg
ment, he Is a free trader today, and
yet a Democrat refused to allow me
to publish the remarks of his own
candidate for the Presidency on the
tariff question. I am giving you now
not an opinion 30 years old, but I am
giving you a baccalaureate sermon de
livered in Princeton three years ago,
and it is directly pertinent to this bill.
"I need not point cut how econom
ically disastrous such a regulation of
labor Is.
I commend that to my friend from
Pennsylvania, Mr. Wilson, and to my
friend from Illinois, Mr. Bucnanan
It Is so unprofitable to the employer that
In some trades It will presently not be worth
while to attempt anything at all. He had
k.i., aiMpAthur than onerate at an
Inevitable and Invariable loss. The labor of
America Is rapidly becoming unprofitable
under Its present regulation by those who
have determined to reduce It to a minimum.
Now. I do not believe that, gentle
men. I do not believe my friend from
Illinois, Mr. Buchanan, or my mena
from Pennsylvania. Mr. vv llson, are
"unprofitable servants" in this country.
I know that the men who live in my
district, and who are honest, straight
forward workingmen, members of labor
unions, are reputable, as high-toned, as
responsible, as IndustrlouB ana as laitn
ful as anv citizen (applause on the Re
publican side) in it, whether they be
lawyers, doctors, nresiaents or univer
sities, or men working as "unprofitable
servants." as he designates, simply be
cause they belong to a trade union.
Mr.- Moore of Pennsylvania. Do you
halieve that Mr. Gompers believes that
Mr. Hill No; I do not. And I think
it was high time for him as a Demo
crat to a-o to Seagirt yesterday and
try to reach a working compromise with
the candidate oi nis party.
Let me close this up.
riii,. M-nnnmlr auDremacv may be lost be
cause the country grows more and more
full of unprofitable servants.
SINGLB-TAXERS FAIL TO AGREE
Correspondent Accuses Mr. Crldge of
Squirming Out of a Hole.
PORTLAND, July 17. (To the Ed
itor.) A few days ago I read in The
Oregonian a communication written by
P. S. Guilford, of Westport, vvasn., in
which an attempt was made to define
"land value" and "community value,
as the terms are applied to taxable
Drooerty. Mr. Guilford argued that
gold has a "community value." He re
ferred to the lack of value ot goia
found by Robinson Crusoe on the
desert island ard its subsequent value
when transported to a settled com
munity to establish his point.
I presumed, of course, that Mr. tiun
ford was a student of single tax and
competent to write upon the subject.
But ammrentlv the way rne uregonian
turned his argument to show that Mr.
Guilford himself was arguing for the
taxation of gold or money, made tne
single-taxers squirm, for I note tnat in
an evenlns; newspaper Alfred u. criage,
who. I am informed, is paid to write in
favor of single tax, takes a view oppo
site from that announced by his fellow
sinele-taxer. Mr. Guilford. Mr. bridge
declares In effect that gold does not
have a community value.
A ton of gold would not Increase a
cent if held until a village grew up
around it into a city of a million in
habitants." says Mr. Cridge. What
about the gold on Robinson Crusoe's
island ?
Land is not created by labor," con
tlnues Mr. Cridge, "but its value is in
creased by the demand for it, and that
demand is increased as the population
around it increases. Nothing else does. '
Not very grammatical, but the mean
Ins: is clear, and again I am Inclined to
ask just what the influence is, tnat
causes a ton of gold on a desert island
to become of value when traisport-
ed to a city or when a city grows up
around it?
Personally, I am not in favor of the
present method of attempting to tax
moneys and credits, yet if we put taxa
tion solely on articles of value having
community value, it seems to me that
there Is as much reason lor taxing goia
and money and credits as there is for
taxing land. The principal objection to
taxing money at the full rate is the
ease with which it is sequestered. Some
states have tried taxing it a very low
rate, and that plan, it Is said, has
brought much property of this charac
ter out of hiding. It has greatly in
creased the tax revenues of those
states, If writers on the subject are to
be believed. But the man who believes
money 'should not be taxed does not
have to accept single tax in order to
put his views into farce. The State
Tax Commission has presented an
amendment to be voted on in November
which does it, and it is not single tax
either.
It occurs to me that it would be wise
for our single-tax teachers to get to
gether on what single-tax, land values
and community values really are The
twlstlngs and turnings of its supporters
certainly do not speak well for the
propaganda. STEDMAN SHORT.
Love's Young Dream, In Paris.
Le Souire, Paris.
Friend And you love your husband
as much as that?
Lady I should say sol When he
goes out well, some times I still think
of him for 20 minutes!
Doctoring- a Thirst.
Chicago Record-Herald.
"My husband cured himself by drink
ing buttermilk."
"What did he haver"
"A thirst"
The Age of Discretion.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Willie Paw, what is the
age of
discretion?
Paw The period when a man can't
have a good time without suffering for
it the next morning.
Lorimer' 8 Luck
By Dean Collins.
My friend pursues a simple life .
Of regularity; "
He adds up figures in a book
From nine o'clock to three:
A worthy task for him, for he
Is an A. and Ph. D..
And such a job requires, I find,
A stable, college-cultured mind.
He adds up figures In a book
Six days a week each year;
And sometimes pauses in his work.
With pen behind his ear.
To moralize on things that be.
For quite a high-brow chap is he
Therefore it did one day occur
To him to envy Lorimer.
'Twas after someone from the House
The whitewash pall had took.
And the grave Senate trotted out
That ta-ta curve, the hook:
My friend spake sadly, as it were,
"Gee, would that I were Lorimer!"
The sudden shock so Jarred my beaa
I added up two nines, fourteen.
Then, while I scratched my penknife
o'er
The error I had wrote
"How so?" I asked. "Mayhap the heat
Hath got your reason's goat:
For, ousted from his honored place.
He is at present In disgrace.
And what more greatly raises hob
He has no salary or Job,
"Oh, foolish gink," I thus went on.
Scrawling upon my blotter,
"To envy one thus in the shade.
Thou art an arrant rotter."
But still my friend sighed sadly, "Gee,
Would I were even such as he."
Until, to still his peevish cry.
I came right out and queried, "Why?'
"True," he replied. "He hath been
canned.
His prestige is a wreck.
And in the land he standeth Bcarce
Deuce high within the deck.
Yet, with no Job to hold him think
How much spare time the lucky gink
Hath got, to fish and hunt and swim:
Summer is sad would I were him."
July 17, Portland.
Half a Century Ago
From The Oregonian of July 18, 1SA2.
The correspondence of the New York
Herald says: Rebel prisoners say that
long before the excavation of Corinth
troops from ueauregara oegan w ar
rive at Richmond and continued to ar
rive steadily until the evacuation took
place, by which time 50,000 had ar
rived. Subsequent to that event, 25,000
more came. All these were the flower
of Beauregard's army. General Lee
had the chief command in the late bat
tles. The New York Herald's correspond
ence, dated James River, July 6. says:
"Our army is now massed on the left
bank of the James River, along a space
of five miles, where we are compara
tively safe. The rebels are massed be
tween the Chickahominy and the James
Rivers, their front toward and pressing
upon our rear, their right resting on
Richmond, where the main body of
their army remains."
The exhibition of the Portland
Academical School last evening in the
Methodist Episcopal Church proved
highly entertaining and creditable.
Building and refitting goes briskly
on. The addition to the Metropolis Ho
tel is rapidly progressing and, when
completed, will present quite an im
posing appearance.
Three hundred and fifty beef cattls
passed through this city yesterday for
the mines.
The ferryboat now lands at foot ol
Stark street and cross the river, land
ing on the opposite side at the bridge.
W. J. LOXG KNOCKS BILL MOOSE.
Animal Is Selnah and an Oppressor of
Its Weaker Fellows, He Says.
New York Cor. St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Even the nature fakir will turn!
For now comes Rev. William J. Long,
first and permanent president of the
Oyster Bay Ananias Club, with a piece
In this week's The Independent In
which he scurrilously attacks and de
fames the Bull Moose both as a beast
and a plain political emblem.
Long will ever be remembered as the
clergyman who invoked the Presiden
tial anger and as a natural conse
quence the Theodoric vocabulary, upon
his devoted head because he told how
a wolf killed a caribou fawn. In his
retreat at Stanford. Conn., Long has
suffered In comparative silence seven
voars. hut now he bursts out with
a paean of Joy because, as he hopes.
the party of xneoaore is to
party of the Bull Moose.
Encouraged by many letters from
"editors, lawyers and especially from
progressive statesmen," Long, with
tha hpin nf numerous extracts from a
book entitled "The Wilderness Hunter,"
written by one T. Kooseveit, years ana
years ago, nas written n"e.
For instance:
Th hull moose lives -on the publla
domain and is a very wasteful feeder.
He Is of a wandering ana ingniy
disposition. His flesh, moreover, is
coarse and stringy; his hide Is thick
and 'of very poor quality,' as T. Roose
velt says, and he ought to Know.
"The bull moose never steals; he sim
niv takes what he wants. He has fed
on public property so long that he con
siders it all rightfully nis.
'Our author declares (Page zoo) mat
the less of a bull moose are so long
and his neck so short that he must go
down on his knees to crop the tender
grass or to get a mouthful of snow
to quench his thirst, ine picturo m
hull mnou on his knees. In an attitude
of grace as he eats and drinks from
the public hand, is an aamnauio
tt will h asneelallv significant if the
new party has the wisdom to choose
a leader of almost monopolistic virtue.
who is more emphatic than aioses in
the matter of the commandments, and
who wrestles mightily in prayer before
, noo out with his Gideon band
of Flinns to fight the Lord s battle.
"In many other ways the bull moose
shows symptoms of a disordered in
tellect. .As T. Roosevelt says (Page
229), 'He frequently shows a clumsy
cinur'noae nf ap pre h e n s i o n which
amounts to down-right stupidity.'
Another noticeable cnaraciensuc ui
the bull moose Is his inordinate and
unchangeable selfishness. v notner
roaming the wooas in souiuae, ur teai
ing up the earth, or coming headlong
h r.all. he is thinking, first, last
and all the time of the safety of his
own skin and the fullness of his
stomach.
"Further indications of the bull's es
sential selfishness are found In his
fromient abuse and browbeating of all
other moose that are smaller than him
self. He cannot tolerate a rival, but
flies into a Jealous rage at the first
suggestion that there is any other bull
moose in the universe."
Thanks to Mr. Benson.
PORTLAND, July 17 (To the Edi
tor.) I have 'Just "had one" on Mr.
S. Benson. The antl-treating rule Is
certainly being Ignored by him in his
noble deed in placing free drinking
fountains throughout the city. It Is
doubtful if he fully appreciated the
genuine good to come of the act. St.
Peter should be fully apprised that he
receive full credit at the "laBt gate."
Thousands will dally accept treats of
fine Bull Run, made possible through
his thoughtful generosity. ,
. H. M. CARLOCK.